It’s not every day the god of death personally sends you down the underworld Lower Bracket.

Despite coming into IEM Katowice with BDE, Vitality has started their run in Group B by being knocked down a bracket thanks to ENCE and hades. Fantasy players with ZywOo might be cheering as their crutch player gets to farm more points, but for Vitality, this is mildly concerning.

The team is now facing Heroic, who have something to prove after being m0NESY’d straight into the LB. Sure, we still fancy Vitality in this matchup, but they have very little room for error.

Even after beating Heroic, the next game won’t be a pushover either.

Either MOUZ or GamerLegion will stand to prove their mettle against the reigning CS2 kings, and we’re sure they’ll be eager to send Vitality down to the count.

MOUZ started off hot beating C9, a good result despite the obvious issues on C9. Please sign an AWPer guys. As for GamerLegion, they’ve honestly been incredibly impressive with Snax at the helm. We had our questions about the old-timer’s return, but it seems to be paying off.

As for Group A we’ve already covered Spirit’s run to the Upper Final where they’ll meet FaZe tomorrow in a match to see who qualifies directly to the semis.

But the stories of Rebels and Falcons deserve some attention too. Each team arrived with their own set of expectations. The Rebels managed to meet some of them by making it through the play-in stage but then stood to face the real test.

Both teams were 2-0’d in near identical score-lines, and played each other in the LB, where Falcons came out on top. It’s a little sad to not have the plucky Polish underdogs make it to the Spodek arena, or even a run past day 2, but such is life.

See all the results from Group A and B here.