Virtus.pro Outplayed by Mousesports in Grand Finals of V4 Future Sports Festival
Virtus.pro Outplayed by Mousesports in Grand Finals of V4 Future Sports Festival
This weekend Budapest, the capital of Hungary hosted V4 Future Sports Festival, which was open for players from Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Among others, there was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition which featured some of the top-tier teams competing for a € 500,000 prize pool.
Esportmilla, the company which organized this event, invited four teams to take part in it: FaZe Clan, HellRaisers, mousesports and Virtus.pro. The other four teams advanced from the regional qualifiers – eXtatus and Dark Tigers from Czech and Slovak Qualifier, x-kom Team from Polish Qualifier, and GameAgents from Hungarian Qualifier.
The teams were seeded into two round-robin groups, where they played two consecutive best-of-one matches with every other team in the group. Top two teams from each group qualified for the playoffs. Naturally the invited teams were much stronger than the ones that qualified for this event from the regional qualifiers – none of the qualified teams managed to advance to the second stage of the tournament.
Group Stage Results:
| Group A | Group B | ||||||||
| 1. | FaZe Clan | 5-0-1 | 88-56 | 10p | 1. | mousesports | 5-0-1 | 93-60 | 10p |
| 2. | HellRaisers | 4-1-1 | 89-61 | 9p | 2. | Virtus.pro | 4-0-2 | 77-69 | 8p |
| 3. | GameAgents | 2-0-4 | 65-82 | 4p | 3. | eXtatus | 2-0-4 | 81-86 | 4p |
| 4. | Dark Tiger | 0-1-5 | 52-95 | 1p | 4. | x-kom Team | 1-0-5 | 58-94 | 2p |
While it was expected that mousesports would defeat HellRaisers, Virtus.pro managed to surprise everyone – although the game was close, they outplayed FaZe Clan 2-0 in the semifinals. In the final series, which format was reduced from Bo5 to Bo3, both team showed a great performance, but ultimately it finished with the 2-1 score in favour of mousesports, who received almost $250,000 in prize money.
Tournament Results:
| Place | Prize money | Team |
| 1st | € 200,000 | mousesports |
| 2nd | € 100,000 | Virtus.pro |
| 3rd-4th | € 50,000 | FaZe Clan, HellRaisers |
| 5th-6th | € 25,000 | GameAgents, eXtatus |
| 7th-8th | € 25,000 | Dark Tigers, x-kom Team |