FURIA vs. MOUZ headlines Round of 16 of the single elimination bracket.
Four weeks of group stage action at ESL Pro League has concluded and the 16 playoff participants now know the path they must take to fight for the trophy.
The four teams that topped their group with a 3-0 record — Vitality, Natus Vincere, ENCE and G2 — skip straight to the quarter-finals, and only need three more wins to become champions.
The losers of the upper bracket finals start one stage back in the round of 12, where the likes of BIG, Complexity and Movistar Riders will look to continue their underdog runs after strong group stage form.
In the round of 16, fnatic and Monte are just two ranks apart, while 9z will face Virtus.pro in a repeat of the FiReLEAGUE Battle show match. Meanwhile, Group D upstarts Eternal Fire will have to upset the odds once more against #5-ranked Astralis.
These opening matches should provide stern tests for each side, though an upset-heavy group stage means a slight lack of heavyweight clashes from the get-go.
The earliest chance for that sort of affair will be in the lower of the four brackets, where FURIA and MOUZ will fight off in a non-Gamers8 playoff debut for the two new rosters.
The reward for the victor of that bout is a chance to face FaZe, before the winner of that game faces G2 in the quarter-finals.
The complete playoff draw and schedule can be found below:
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| ESL Pro League Season 18 | ||
| 26/09/2023 | fnatic 15:30  Monte | Match |
| 26/09/2023 | Astralis 15:30  Eternal Fire | Match |
| 26/09/2023 | MOUZ 19:00  FURIA | Match |
| 26/09/2023 | Virtus.pro 19:30   9z | Match |
| 27/09/2023 | BIG  15:30 Eternal Fire | Match |
| 27/09/2023 | Movistar Riders 15:30 9z | Match |
| 27/09/2023 | FaZe 19:00 MOUZ | Match |
| 27/09/2023 | Complexity  19:50 Monte | Match |
| 28/09/2023 | Vitality  15:45 Monte | Match |
| 28/09/2023 | Natus Vincere 19:00 Eternal Fire | Match |
| 29/09/2023 | ENCE 15:30 Movistar Riders | Match |
| 29/09/2023 | G2 19:00 MOUZ | Match |
Virtus.pro #11 Nikolay 'mir' BityukovEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev 
Dastan 'dastan' Akbayev 
Natus Vincere #8 
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' IvanValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy 
BIG #21 Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz
Mateusz 'mantuu' WilczewskiDavid 'prosus' HesseKarim 'Krimbo' MoussaElias 's1n' Stein Fatih 'gob b' Dayik FaZe #6 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants Filip 'NEO' Kubski 
Complexity #25 Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Johnny 'JT' TheodosiouRicky 'floppy' KemeryHåkon 'hallzerk' FjærliMichael 'Grim' Wince Tiaan 'T.c' Coertzen 
Movistar Riders #27 Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Tiago 'JUST' MouraAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoAdam 'adamS' MarianAntonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez Galder 'bladE' Barcena 
MOUZ #10 
David 'frozen' ČerňanskýKamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Ádám 'torzsi' TorzsásJimi 'Jimpphat' Salo
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen 
FURIA #18 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Nicholas 'guerri' Nogueira Astralis #5 Nicolai 'device' ReedtzJohannes 'b0RUP' BorupBenjamin 'blameF' BremerVictor 'Staehr' StaehrChristian 'Buzz' Andersen Peter 'casle' Ardenskjold 
Eternal Fire #34 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAli 'Wicadia' Haydar Yalçın Sezgin 'Fabre' Kalaycı ENCE #2 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferGuy 'NertZ' Iluz
Pavle 'Maden' BoškovićPaweł 'dycha' DychaÁlvaro 'SunPayus' García Eetu 'sAw' Saha fnatic #14 
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Christopher 'dexter' NongFredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
William 'mezii' Merriman
Aurélien 'afro' Drapier Jamie 'keita' Hall 
9z #22 
Maximiliano 'max' GonzalezFranco 'dgt' Garcia
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado
Santino 'try' RigalNicolás 'buda' Kramer Gustavo 'tge' Motta 
Monte #12 Viktor 'sdy' OrudzhevAlexander 'br0' BroVolodymyr 'Woro2k' VeletniukSergiy 'DemQQ' DemchenkoSzymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek Sergey 'lmbt' Bezhanov 
G2 #3 
Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNemanja 'huNter-' KovačJustin 'jks' SavageRasmus 'HooXi' NielsenIlya 'm0NESY' Osipov Jan 'Swani' Müller 
Vitality #1 Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautShahar 'flameZ' ShushanLotan 'Spinx' Giladi Danny 'zonic' Sørensen (责任编辑：csgo crates)
