Danish team Heroic defeated ENCE and thus secured the top position in Group A at the ESL Pro League by winning four group stage matches in a row. Although it still has to play against the Astralis on Friday, it is in the playoffs regardless of the outcome. However, its results still have significance for the team: if Heroic wins this game, they will start the playoffs right from the quarterfinals.
After the match against ENCE, Kasper «cadiaN» Möller from Heroic was very optimistic about the mood of the team and its future prospects: «Now we feel great in this atmosphere and we managed to cope with a few tense situations. It would be delightful to win a Pro League trophy again – we could definitely use another one».
ENCE, meanwhile, also keep their chances of qualifying for the next stage of the tournament alive. It will fight for the top positions in the group primarily with Vitality and Astralis. But the chances of another participant of Group A, Russian Team Spirit, the prospects of being in the playoffs have been minimized: by this point in the tournament it was able to get only one victory – over the American Bad News Bears, who ended up in last place.