Spirit secure last spot in the Spodek over M80
Spirit 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).
HLTV7 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
It was Spirit 's third attempt at qualifying for the Spodek after faltering against MOUZ and 1win , and they finally got the job done despite facing some trouble on M80 's Cache pick.
Clip: magixx pulls off crazy 1v4 ace clutch Spirit steamrolled through Dust2, donk getting loud early and calling M80 "fucking bots" a few rounds in as he led the charge in a blowout first half.
M80 won the pistol off the back of a quad-kill from Josh "JBa" Barutt , but couldn't string together rounds until they converted their second pistol win.
Even that did little to stem the bleed as poor decision-making left them destitute in the late round, and Spirit wasted no time in closing out the map with donk , Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia , and sh1ro all performing well.
Cache could have been where M80 struck back, looking a cut above Spirit for much of the first half with some great preparation to counter some early moves.
They drummed up an 8-4 lead by the break, but the scoreline could have been far more of a blowout had the American-majority side not given away a 1v4 ace clutch to magixx and a 1v3 to sh1ro just two rounds later.
Opinion
Fictional bylines. Each take uses a line above and adds no facts.
Team Spirit still has to answer for this: "It was Spirit 's third attempt at qualifying for the Spodek after faltering against MOUZ and 1win , and they finally got the job done despite facing some trouble on M80 's Cache…" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
The headline skips this: "It was Spirit 's third attempt at qualifying for the Spodek after faltering against MOUZ and 1win , and they finally got the job done despite facing some trouble on M80 's Cache…" That is the reading I would argue. The rest of the card does not cancel it.
Ivo Quill · contrarian
CS2MOUZTeam Spiritzont1xdonksh1romagixx
Earlier on CS2Feed
- 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.
- 5 OctFollowing the second day of action of ESL Pro League Season 24, during which Vitality and MOUZ secured spots in the Spodek arena, ESL has announced the matchups for day three.
