Falcons, MongolZ move to semis at IEM Melbourne

Field Level Media|published: Fri 25th April, 10:42 2025

A backlit keyboard is part of the gear online video game streamer Jordan Woodruff uses in his Gilbert home. Jordan Woodruff

Team Falcons and The MongolZ won on Friday to advance to the semifinals in the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Melbourne 2025 event in Australia.

Falcons swept GamerLegion in convincing fashion with a 13-3 win on Train and a 13-4 triumph on Nuke. Their semifinal opponent Saturday is MOUZ, who won the Group A upper-bracket final on Wednesday.

The MongolZ had a tougher time in their quarterfinal clash with Team Liquid in the Counter-Strike 2 competition.

Liquid opened with a 13-5 win on Anubis before The MongolZ responded with a 13-6 win on Ancient and a 13-10 triumph on Inferno. They moved to Saturday's semifinal versus Team Vitality, who won the Group B upper-bracket final on Wednesday.

The top three teams from each group advanced to the single-elimination playoffs, which began Friday. All matches are best-of-three until Sunday's best-of-five grand final, with the winner earning $125,000.

IEM Melbourne prize pool:

1. $125,000

2. $50,000

3-4. $25,000

5-6. $12,500 -- GamerLegion, Team Liquid

7-8. $7,000 - FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere

9-12. $5,000 -- 3DMAX, Complexity, FlyQuest, MIBR

13-16. $4,000 -- BIG, paiN Gaming, Virtus.pro, SAW

--Field Level Media