The second week of EMEA Stage 2 is in the books, and a new top team appears to be emerging. Surprisingly, GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #9 Cloud Kirill Nehozhin grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko westside Miłosz Duda Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh ara Hanceriuc Eduard-George is currently sitting atop Group Alpha, showing drastic improvement from their Stage 1 performance.

The week's results are as follows:

The biggest result of the week came from GIANTX's upset win over BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #1 Crewen Ali Eren Sargin Lar0k Yusuf Kaan Kanber Loita Utku Kart Rosé Eren Erzan lovers rock Umut Pekdoğan . After their big week one win over Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #6 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu , they continued that momentum to take down the previously top four team in the league. Their duelist ara , who was particularly quiet against Vitality, showed up massively this week. He dominated the defense half of Icebox and nearly carried Lotus across the finish line, but BBL's own duelist LewN bested him on the final round to bring about map three. Corrode started out as a wash for BBL, getting up to a 9-3 scoreline on the first half. However, GIANTX held strong and made the comeback, going 10-2 on the second half to snatch the win 13-11. This match puts GIANTX at 2-0 in the stage, while BBL are currently winless, having just narrowly lost their past two matches.

What could've been the biggest upset of the week was Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #4 starxo Patryk Kopczynski bipo Taranvir Singh marteen Martin Pátek GLYPH Conner Garcia Minny Patrik Hušek against Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #7 Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish ComeBack Berkcan Şentürk Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius . The M8s, being the most inexperienced team in the league, have lost massive series-costing leads for the second week in a row . Last week, they lost from being up 12-6 against FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #12 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam qRaxs Doğukan Balaban . This week, they took a 12-4 lead against Heretics on map one of Corrode, then lost 10 rounds in a row to lose 14-12. The M8s had opportunities to close out the map, but Heretics won out in the clutch more than three times to keep themselves alive.

Wo0t 's Waylay setup that started it all.

Gentle Mates also almost squandered a 10-2 lead on Ascent, but barely clutched it out in overtime. Heretics then proceeded to stomp map three. In the whole series, Gentle Mates only won only nine attack rounds across the three maps, a glaring weakness for the team. They currently sit at a 0-2 record, but could have easily been 2-0 had they closed out these matches.

Veqaj had an insane performance throughout the series despite the loss.

Another near upset came from Apeks Apeks Inactive ' match against Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #52 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan sheydos Bogdan Naumov Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin . The match was a sloppy mess throughout, but it looked like Apeks were about to find their first win of the year. However, up 11-7 on the final map, they couldn't quite close it out, as Karmine Corp clutched up six rounds in a row to take the win.

marteen makes a crazy clutch to keep Karmine Corp alive.

The biggest stomp this week came from Team Vitality, who bounced back massively this week after their loss to GIANTX. They tore apart FUT to the tune of a 13-2 and 13-5 flattening of the Turkish team. Their two rookies, KovaQ and UNFAKE were in stellar form this week after having a rough debut. Vitality currently sit with the fourth most championship points in EMEA, but will have to keep up this form if they want to compete in front of their home crowd in Champions Paris.

Vitality is looking back in form.

Rounding out the week, Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #8 purp0 Semyon Borchev wayne Wayne Chang MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin kamo Kamil Frąckowiak and FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder remain undefeated in Group Omega, both with quick 2-0 wins. Team Liquid made effortless work of Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #16 sociablEE Volkan Yonal Filu Dawid Czarnecki Shao Andrey Kiprsky Ruxic Uğur Güç hiro Emirhan Kat , with keiko keeping up monstrous form and stands as the clear top performer in EMEA at the moment. FNATIC, on the other hand, took down KOI and baddyG, a player that had never lost a map to FNATIC prior.

Alfajer delivers the death blow.

Next week will feature the following matchups: