G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf has defeated BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #5 Crewen Ali Eren Sargin Lar0k Yusuf Kaan Kanber Loita Utku Kart Rosé Eren Erzan lovers rock Umut Pekdoğan in dominant fashion, using a sweeping 2-0 to eliminate EMEA's top seed from VCT Masters Santiago.

As EMEA's last stand, BBL's elimination makes the region the first to be completely eliminated from play in Santiago, while G2 continues to push on as one of two remaining Americas teams.

The series was played out on BBL's pick of Haven and G2's pick of Breeze. G2 won Haven 13-5, and then went on to win Breeze 13-8.

BBL's pick of Haven sparked interest, as the map has long been a strong one in G2's map pool, with the team's record in 2026 being 4-0. In wanting to prove its own Haven against G2's, BBL went with its usual double-Duelist comp of Neon and Yoru, with Cypher, Sova, and Omen. G2, meanwhile, continued with its reinvented Phoenix-centric comp, with Yoru, Chamber, and Fade while IGL valyn was on Astra.

From the get-go, picking Haven against G2 looked to be a mistake. G2 had no issues playing around the map, exploiting a weak A site that often relied on Rosé . 10 straight G2 rounds gave the North American team a near-perfect finish on a supreme attack side, which was only interrupted by BBL earning one consolation round.

One of three jawgemo 4Ks in the series.

G2 won the pistol round to start defense, resulting in BBL successfully converting a G2-like force buy with a handful of Stingers. The brief advantage in the economy earned BBL a run of four rounds, but map point was converted soon after by G2 for a dominant 13-5 win.

Breeze, G2's map pick, was a map that the team has looked good on, capturing 13-6 wins over MIBR MIBR Brazil Rank #4 zekken Zachary Patrone tex Ian Botsch Mazino Roberto Rivas Verno Andrew Maust aspas Erick Santos and T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) this year. Meanwhile, BBL has been a bit shaky on the map, with narrow wins over PCIFIC Esports PCIFIC Esports Europe Rank #310 al0rante Felix Brandl cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qpert Mateja Mijovic NINJA Patryk Koczyba seven Johann Hernandez and FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski CyvOph Clement Millard Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder and a similarly narrow loss to FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #2 nerve Michael Yerrow artzin Arthur Araujo eeiu Daniel Vucenovic koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio alym Torogul Baidyldaev .

G2 ran with a double-Controller comp, moving leaf from Yoru to Viper, while the Duelist duo became jawgemo and BABYBAY . BBL, as it does on seemingly every map in the pool except for Split, rolled with Cypher once again, and decided to run Viper as the solo Controller.

Opening the map with yet another pistol round, G2 claimed three of the first four rounds, but BBL responded this time. Bold play from the team, namely Jett player Lar0k , who finished the half with a game-high 12 kills, got the BBL players on their feet and confident, fueling a four-round run from the team to capture its first lead of the series. G2 recovered to go on a run of its own, managing to make the score an even 6-6 at halftime.

G2 opened its defense side with its fourth pistol of the series, but BBL stayed close, winning two rounds to tie up the score at 8 apiece. G2 used BABYBAY's Operator to carve up portions of the map in their favor, rolling towards match point with strong retakes and sharp shooting en route to a 13-8 win.

trent with a 4K on the retake to help G2 reach match point.

Despite heroics from Lar0k, BBL could not do enough to stop G2's momentum. The Duelist player ended the map with 22 kills, more than anybody else in the server, and ended the series with a team-high 28.

The match was a firing range for jawgemo , who finished with the highest rating and highest kill count with 1.42 and 43, respectively. He was the only player to finish with more than 30 kills. Playing Phoenix and Neon, he went 10-6 in first duels, opening up the map for his team as the primary entry Duelist.

While BBL heads home, G2 survives to fight another day in the lower bracket.