Gambit are your IEM Summer 2021 champions

Gambit have become the champions of IEM Summer 2021 tournament by clean sweeping their opponents. The CIS team have deleted OG with the minimum efforts, only giving some distant chances to their opponents on the first map, 3-0; 16-14 on Mirage, 16-11 on Dust2 and 16-7 on Overpass.

Sergey "⁠Ax1Le⁠" Rykhtorov has carried his great form into the grand final, posting the highest ratings on all three of the maps played and averaging a 1.49 rating throughout the series. The 19-year-old finished the tournament as the third-highest player with an average rating of 1.33 across the 15 maps Gambit played. He has also been awarded the MVP title for his efforts in the course of the event.

Vladislav "nafany" Gorshkov's squad has lost only to Vitality in the group stage in the course of the tournament. The team knocked out Evil Geniuses and G2 on their way to the decisive match in the playoffs.

Final playoff bracket:

Prize fund distribution:

1.  Gambit – $100 ,000
2.  OG – $42 ,000
3-4.  Vitality – $20 ,000
3-4.  G2 – $20 ,000
5-6.  Virtus.pro – $10 ,000
5-6.  Evil Geniuses – $10 ,000
7-8.  NIP – $6 ,000
7-8.  Complexity – $6 ,000
9-12.  Team Spirit – $5 ,000
9-12.  Heroic – $5 ,000
9-12.  Astralis – $5 ,000
9-12.  FunPlus Phoenix – $5 ,000
13-16.  fnatic – $4 ,000
13-16.  Imperial – $4 ,000
13-16.  Extra Salt – $4 ,000
13-16.  Sprout – $4 ,000