PMGO Day 2: Wolves edge Vampire as defending champions 4Thrives go out

1.Introduction

Wolves Esports topped PMGO Group B on 21 October with 64 points, beating Vampire Esports by one. The tougher headline belongs to 4Thrives: the defending PMGO champion finished sixteenth with 11 points and was eliminated at its home event.3

2.Where Day 2 fits

PMGO Season 2 uses two six-match groups to award 12 direct Grand Finals places. Group A filled the first six yesterday; Group B filled the next six today. The teams ranked seventh through fourteenth from each group now meet in Survival tomorrow, 22 October, for the remaining four places. The final runs on 24–25 October.

3.Six winners take the six direct places

Every direct Group B finalist finished with one chicken dinner. ULF won the opening Rondo match, followed by Wolves, The MongolZ, Vampire, Regnum Carya and BUF across the remaining games. BUF’s reported 19-point final-match win mattered particularly: they ended sixth on 48, four points ahead of Alpha7.

The top-two gap came from placement. Vampire had 45 eliminations to Wolves’ 40, but Wolves collected 24 placement points against Vampire’s 18. That six-point placement advantage outweighed the five-elimination deficit, producing the 64–63 finish.

4.Day 2 Group B points table

5.Who impressed, and where were the upsets?

Vampire posted the group’s highest elimination total and still finished second. Their 45 eliminations make them one of the clearest teams to watch in the final. ULF combined 40 eliminations with 16 placement points for third on 56, followed by The MongolZ on 54 and Regnum Carya on 53.

Alpha7’s 44 points were not enough for the direct route, but they were comfortably inside Survival. Alter Ego had a much narrower escape: 14 points placed them fourteenth. They stay in the tournament with little evidence from this group that the next stage will be easy.

4Thrives and Team NEXT both finished on 11. The published board lists NEXT fifteenth and 4Thrives sixteenth, with six and eight eliminations respectively. Both are eliminated. For a defending champion, failing to reach even Survival is the day’s largest competitive upset; the board alone cannot explain what went wrong inside the matches.

6.Tomorrow: sixteen teams, four remaining places

4K deserve attention after missing the Group A top six by two points. Alpha7 bring the highest Group B total among the teams sent to Survival. AlUla need placement points to accompany their eliminations, while Alter Ego need a much stronger six-game return than today’s 14.

Only four of the 16 Survival teams advance. A previous win offers no protection, and totals from the two different group lobbies should not be treated as a single combined ranking. Today’s survivors must earn a fresh place in tomorrow’s board.