In the final first-round matchup at the Masters Santiago playoffs, G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf defeated All Gamers All Gamers China Rank #5 Septem7 Liu Zhening (刘哲宁) Shr1mp Yang Yong (杨勇) Youze K1ra Huang Zhihao (黄志豪) f4ngeer Roman Smirnov iamgrq Gao Ruiqi (高锐琦) 2-0 to progress further in the upper bracket. The top seed from China, making its international debut, chose to face an experienced G2 team and promptly got stomped and moved to the lower bracket.

Starting on Split, both teams stuck to double-Duelist, but AG ran Raze while G2 chose Neon. The series began with BABYBAY looking comfortable as G2 won the first pistol, and the entire team followed as the bonus round was also converted. AG managed to win a round thanks to Shr1mp , and despite the early 7-1 deficit, fought back with f4ngeer heating up on Waylay. G2 still entered the half up 8-4, needing to keep the momentum up on defense.

G2 earned the second pistol win, and even after the team lost the bonus, reached 11 round wins. AG only managed another round win before G2 closed the map out 13-6, starting the series strong.

Abyss was next, and G2 continued to run its Harbor composition with double-Duelist, as AG decided to match it with the only change of Yoru over Neon. G2 secured its third straight pistol win of the series and converted the bonus off of some poor post-plant positioning from AG, but AG quickly earned a 3-3 tie to prevent the first half from slipping away. Just as it looked like AG would take its first lead of the series, G2 won a chaotic post-plant with leaf using Astra ult and took another lead. G2 once again turned up the pressure, ending the half up 9-3 with an amazing, aggressive A main fight.

G2 executes a near-perfect A main fight on Abyss defense.

AG had to win the pistol, but G2 continued its pistol win streak to reach double-digit round wins quickly. G2 did not win the bonus round this time, but valyn did help shoot down four opponents to ruin the economy of AG. BABYBAY effectively ended the series, as G2 won Abyss 13-4 and swept the series.

With this win, G2 Esports will face off against Nongshim Redforce in the upper semifinals, while All Gamers will match up against Gentle Mates in the first round of the lower bracket.