With EPL Season 21 nearing its conclusion, the semifinals gave us a glimpse of what the final might look like… at least for one of the teams.

The first semifinal saw Spirit face off against MOUZ, and we can confidently say that 95% of the community expected Spirit to take this one. Sure, they might drop a map, but this one is in the bag, right? Well, wrong.

MOUZ put up a fight, taking Nuke in overtime, followed by a 13-7 win for Spirit on Dust 2 on the back of donk’s usual antics. Surprisingly, the series ended with a tightly contested Ancient, where MOUZ triumphed 13-10.

What’s truly remarkable is that despite donk posting a solid 1.33 rating for the series, we can still say it was a relatively tame performance by his standards. It seems that Spirit needs their star to deliver a 1.60 rating every game to stand a chance.

On the flip side, MOUZ’s momentum from their championship run at Cluj carried into EPL, with their only losses coming at the hands of Vitality, which is starting to make us question just how much of an impact siuhy had on the team.

The second semifinal played out quite differently, as The MongolZ only showed up on the second map of Nuke, managing to close it out in overtime 16-14 after getting crushed 13-4 on Anubis and then even worse 13-2 on Inferno.

There’s not much to say here.

This Vitality team is looking very scary with everyone stepping up - especially ZywOo and flameZ in this series - so the fact that The MongolZ managed to take a map off them is a feat.

Given that few teams have even come close to challenging apEX and the boys, The MongolZ are definitely a team to watch moving forward. We already knew they were good, but it will be exciting to see just how high they can climb.

A couple of exciting semis set the stage for what everyone hoped would be an interesting final, and you will not believe what happened…