Falcons, MongolZ move to semis at IEM Melbourne

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