EG, Cloud9 reach playoffs at cs_summit 6 NA

Evil Geniuses and 100 Thieves each swept their winners' matches on Saturday to secure playoff spots at the cs_summit 6 Online: North America event. EG dispatched Team Liquid to win Group A, and 100 Thieves took down Cloud9 in the Group B winners' match. cs_summit 6: Online North America prize pool (with money and Regional Major Rankings points) 1.

Evil Geniuses and 100 Thieves each swept their winners' matches on Saturday to secure playoff spots at the cs_summit 6 Online: North America event. EG dispatched Team Liquid to win Group A, and 100 Thieves took down Cloud9 in the Group B winners' match. Both EG and 100 Thieves head to the upper bracket of the double-elimination playoffs, which start Tuesday.

The final two playoff spots will be determined in Sunday's decider matches, with FURIA Esports battling Liquid and Gen.G Esports taking on Cloud9. The cs_summit 6 online Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event is broken into two regions, Europe and North America. The North American competition began with 13 teams playing for $75,000 over three stages. Five teams were eliminated in Stage 1, and Stage 2 will eliminate four more before Stage 3, which comprises the playoff bracket.

All matches are best-of-three except for the best-of-five grand final on July 5, in which the upper-bracket victor will start with a one-map advantage. The tournament champion will earn $22,000 and 2,000 Regional Major Ranking points, while the runner-up will get $16,000 and 1,875 RMR points. Liquid got the early edge Saturday against EG, jumping out to a 7-3 lead on Nuke, but EG ripped off nine of the next 10 rounds and ultimately took the map 16-13. The second map, Inferno, was not nearly as close, as EG cruised 16-6 to wrap up the series.

Tarik "tarik" Celik was dominant, racking up a kill-death differential of plus-27 to lead all players. Three other EG players finished plus-nine or better. 100 Thieves were in control the whole way against Cloud9, taking Vertigo 16-7 and Train 16-6. Starting with halftime on the first map and extending into the second, 100 Thieves ran off 11 straight rounds as part of an 18-2 run.

Three players for 100 Thieves finished plus-17 or better: Jay "Liazz" Tregillgas (plus-18), Sean "Gratisfaction" Kaiwai (plus-17) and Justin "jks" Savage (plus-17). cs_summit 6: Online North America prize pool (with money and Regional Major Rankings points)

1. $22,000, 2,000 2. $16,000, 1,875

3. $12,000, 1,750 4. $9,000, 1,625

5. $6,500, 1,500 6. $4,500, 1,375

7-8. $2,500, 1,187.50 -- MIBR, Chaos Esports Club 9. no money, 1,000 -- Triumph

10. no money, 875 -- Team One 11. no money, no points -- Yeah Gaming

12-13. no money, no points -- New England Whalers, Team Envy --Field Level Media