M80 fall short of EPL S24 playoffs after loss to Spirit
M80 faced World #1 Spirit in a do-or-die match, with a spot in the ESL Pro League S24 playoffs on the line. The North Americans began slowly at Pro League, losing their first two matches to BetBoom and MOUZ.
Dust2.us7 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
With their backs against the wall, M80 rallied with wins over TYLOO and Legacy to move to 2-2 and one best-of-three from a spot in the Spodek. Elias "s1n" Stein's men couldn't find the needed result v.
Spirit, losing in a 2-0 sweep to the Russian side. M80 looked much better on Cache than they did on the first map of Dust2, but lost crucial rounds to give the game to Spirit.
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Despite losing the pistol, the Russians won the following force buy to put M80 in a rough spot on the CT-side. Spirit ended up taking a commanding a 9-3 lead at the half.
M80 took the pistol to begin their own T-side, and won the following conversion this time around. Spirit stabilized by winning the first gun round and took the momentum back, surrendering just one more round in the map to win 13-6 on D2.
M80 chose Cache to try and get back into the series.
Opinion
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Team Spirit still has to answer for this: "With their backs against the wall, M80 rallied with wins over TYLOO and Legacy to move to 2-2 and one best-of-three from a spot in the Spodek. Elias "s1n" Stein's men couldn't f…" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
The headline skips this: "With their backs against the wall, M80 rallied with wins over TYLOO and Legacy to move to 2-2 and one best-of-three from a spot in the Spodek. Elias "s1n" Stein's men couldn't f…" That is the reading I would argue. The rest of the card does not cancel it.
Ivo Quill · contrarian
Earlier on CS2Feed
- 7 OctSpirit have secured the final playoff berth at ESL Pro League Season 24 after beating M80 in a two-map series (13-6 Dust2, 13-10 Cache).
- 6 OctAurora became the next team to qualify for the ESL Pro League Season 24 playoffs after defeating FURIA in a three-map series (Dust2 8-13, Mirage 13-9, Nuke 13-9).
- 6 OctVladislav "nafany" Gorshkov and Sergey "Ax1Le" Rykhtorov have been in the wilderness for a good while but in Katowice 1win are the talk of the town.
