After a day of play at the YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025, Natus Vincere Junior and BetBoom Team emerged Thursday at the top of their respective groups with matching 3-0 records.
NAVI Junior leads Group A by a half-game over Dynamo Eclot, also undefeated at 2-0. BetBoom has a full game advantage in Group B, with Nexus Gaming in second place at 2-1.
The YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 is a 12-team event with a $150,0000 prize pool ($75,000 for first place). All teams compete in two round-robin format groups, comprised of six teams apiece, who play each other once (for five matches total) with all matches being best-of-one.
The winners of each group advance to the semifinals, with the group stage runners-up moving to the quarterfinals as the high seeds. The third-place teams in each group go to the quarterfinals as the lower seeds.
Playoffs are a single-elimination bracket, with all matches being best-of-three.
NAVI enjoyed wins over 9Pandas (13-8 on Mirage), GUN5 (13-2 on Ancient) and Nemiga (13-9 on Mirage) to stake their early lead in Group A. Eclot took down Partizan 13-10 on Ancient and edged Nemiga 16-14 on Ancient.
In other Group A action, GUN5 defeated Nemiga 13-7 on Dust II and 9Pandas beat Partizan 13-11 on Dust II.
BetBoom got to 3-0 by downing Nexus (13-10 on Nuke), MZP (13-10 on Nuke) and Spirit.A (13-10 on Inferno). Nexus rebounded from that loss to beat Spirit.A (13-11 on Nuke) and ENCE (13-7 on Anubis).
Other Group B results included GTZ defeating MZP 16-14 on Anubis and ENCE hammering GTZ 13-5 on Anubis.
Matches continue Friday with a full slate.
Friday schedule:
Group A
9Pandas vs. Eclot
Partizan vs. GUN5
NAVI Jr. vs. Eclot
Nemiga vs. Partizan
9Pandas vs. GUN5
Partizan vs. NAVI Jr.
Eclot vs. GUN5
Nemiga vs. 9Pandas
Group B
ENCE vs. Spirit.A
BetBoom vs. GTZ
MZP vs. Spirit.A
ENCE vs. MZP
Nexus vs. GTZ
ENCE vs. BetBoom
MZP vs. Nexus
GTZ vs. Spirit.A
Group Stage standings:
Group A
NAVI Junior 3-0, +20
Dynamo Eclot 2-0, +5
9Pandas 1-1, -3
GUN5 Esports 1-1, -5
Partizan Esports 0-2, -5
Nemiga Gaming 0-3, -12
Group B
BetBoom Team 3-0, +9
Nexus Gaming 2-1, +5
ENCE 1-1, +2
GTZ.ESPORTS 1-1, -6
Metizport 0-2, -5
Spirit Academy 0-2, -5
–Field Level Media
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