MOUZ and Workforce Spirit qualify for ESL Professional League Season 23 playoffs

MOUZ and Workforce Spirit have change into the primary groups to qualify for the ESL Professional League Season 23 playoffs after profitable three matches throughout the second on-line stage of the match.

The 2 groups will kind a part of an eight-team subject that can compete at Stockholm’s Annexet to be topped champion.

MOUZ continues its spectacular run of consistency with a 3rd playoff look of 2026, cementing its place as one of many world’s prime groups. The organisation navigated its well past HEROIC within the opening match with stellar showings from the pair of Jimi ‘Jimpphat‘ Salo and Lotan ‘Spinx’ Giladi, topping the scoreboards.

All three maps have been wanted to maneuver previous Astralis, with Spinx as soon as once more delivering loads of impression throughout Historic, Mirage, and Overpass to keep up its flawless Stage 2 document. Mirage and Overpass have been masterful shows of attacking and defensive technique, with MOUZ profitable Mirage 13-1 and Overpass 13-3, securing a 2-1 sequence victory.

Nonetheless, The MongolZ struggled to halt MOUZ’s momentum in spherical three. A dominant 13-1 win on Historic adopted by a 13-11 win on Overpass sealed a 2-0 sweep and a spot within the playoffs.

After lacking PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026, Workforce Spirit appeared to enhance on its third-place end at IEM Krakow 2026 with a powerful ESL Professional League marketing campaign.

Danil ‘donk‘ Kryskhovets spearheaded the crew to a fast 2-0 sweep of 3DMAX within the opening best-of-three, earlier than overcoming B8 2-1 in spherical two to arrange a conflict towards G2 Esports for an opportunity to safe a playoff place in spherical three.

Workforce Spirit struck first on Historic with a 13-9 scoreline earlier than opening Anubis with some early pistol precision from Dmitry ‘sh1ro’ Sokolov to safe early rounds. Regardless of G2 Esports holding agency within the opening half, Workforce Spirit managed to attain a slender 13-10 win to finish one other 2-0 sweep to qualify.

Day 9 of ESL Professional League Season 23 continues on March ninth, with the fourth spherical of matches deciding one other wave of groups qualifying for the principle occasion. Along with the qualifying matches, three extra groups can be eradicated.

Beneath is a listing of the six matches going down:

Followers can watch the matches on ESL’s Twitch and YouTube channels, with two broadcasts working concurrently.