NAVI outlasted G2 in a wild game that fluctuated from the sublime to the ridiculous in equal measure.

m0NESY's 1v5 in map one was a reminder of just how high the ceiling of this team can be, but a heartbreaking 4v1 loss to Aleksi crushed the good mood on map two and changed the trajectory of the game.

iM lit up the server on Nuke to ruin G2's dreams and send them home earlier than they would have hoped, and push NAVI into the semi-finals.

"I feel like we had both games in our hands" told a disappointed Swani to BLAST.tv.

jL is very excited for the rematch with Team Vitality tomorrow: "They ran us over, but I think if we learn from the mistakes we made, improve our game and play as we did today, we're going to get the game".

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m0NESY makes the world go round

This game flipped on its head when m0NESY single-handedly forced G2 into the conversation.

They were yet to record a round and a B hit was cut desperately short, and found themselves starting down an 0-6 start - 'til m0NESY pulled off something incredible.

Ripping the head off of w0nderful and following it up through the smoke onto jL, m0NESY turned a 1v5 into a 1v3, but found himself on 27 HP. He repositioned through mid and found himself a third in CT spawn, before piecing together a wonderful 1v2 to complete a crazy round.

It rejuvenated G2, who recovered to post a 6-6 half, but w0nderful had something to say in return. He had an excellent map, and was a large part of the reason NAVI found themselves with three map points.

HooXi called for some aggression in a crucial round 24 that paid off in dividends and ensured that m0NESY's clutch wasn't in vain, as G2 pushed NAVI to overtime and won it quite cleanly.

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The other side of the coin

G2 were slicing through NAVI's defence early on on Inferno, and looked like they'd win at a canter.

NiKo found both kills in banana early on to win G2 a free round, and hit a filthy spray transfer to crack open the whole map once more just after NAVI had gotten their first round.

G2 were in cruise control; apart from the fact they allowed Aleksi to walk out of library, kill two and defuse before the hunting pack could get back to site.

jL enjoyed it, anyway: "It was fucking crazy. It just helped us a lot".

"Your morale goes down a bit, and you're not the same team for a little bit afterwards", Swani told us.

This seemed to rattle G2 and gave NAVI a way back into the game, and if you give b1t an inch, he'll take a mile.

He was instrumental in NAVI's T side both in opening up rounds and closing them down - and his nasty 1v3 pretty much changed the game.

His brazen reswing onto NiKo with the sidearm after finding a kill around the smoke onto m0NESY took the Bosnian by surprise, and the headshot machine found two more heads to re-write the script.

He was also key in the final round of the half, buying space for jL to take the fight and spray down two G2 players to close out Inferno, and make G2 pay for their insolence.

Swani had quite a damning indictment of his team: "I feel like on Inferno we had perfect reads, we knew what they were doing, and we still lose".

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iM rises to sink G2

Welcome back, Paris Major iM.

The Romanian hadn't had the best series of his life, but on map three iM went absolutely crazy.

Few get the better of NiKo outside, but iM rolled it back to earlier this year and did to G2 what he did to so many in Paris. Probing outside often on his own, iM found NiKo wanting multiple times and forced G2 to adjust.

m0NESY crafted another highlight when he scythed down three towards the ramp, including skewering Aleksib and b1t with one bullet, to make sure G2 were still in the game.

NAVI picked up seven rounds at the half, with iM on 16 kills - and he immediately brought that to 20 as he single-handedly (or perhaps double-handedly) wiped out four with the Dual Berettas from the top of hut.

G2 seemed to get nothing going on their T side, though, and forged only one round.

"Sometimes you get snowballed, and sometimes you snowball them", a beaming jL explained to BLAST.tv.