RESULTS: AVANGAR Are Your IEM Katowice 2018 PUBG Champions

The second day of compeition for the $50,000 IEM Katowice 2018 Player Unknowns Battlebgrounds (PUBG) Invitational saw OpTic Gaming come into the day at the top of the leaderboards. With four games left to decide who will be crowned champions at the end of the day, there was still a great deal of PUBG action left for fans to watch. Here is a short breakdown of how the day went. 

Our first match of the day would see Ghost Gaming secure the chicken dinner with score of 520 points (400 placement points and 120 kill points). FaZe Clan, Team SoloMid, and AVANGAR would round out the top four for the first match. OpTic Gaming was still at the top of the leaderboards after the first match, but their lead shrunk, as they would only be ahead of second place team AVANGAR by 103 points. 

Seeing a chance to pass OpTic Gaming in the standings, the Russian roster of AVANGAR would grab 16 kills in the second match to grab their first chicken dinner of the day. They woudl finish with a score of 560 points (400 placement points and 160 kill points). Tempo Storm, SunSister and Noble esports woudl round out the top four for the second match. With the win, AVANGAR would take over the top spot on the leaderboards with a score of 1,763, pushing OpTic Gaming into second place. 

Cloud9 would make the necessary plays to achieve victory in the third map of the day. They would finish with a score of 520 points (400 placement points and 120 kill points). Rogue, Team Kinguin and Noble esports would round out the top four for the third match. At the end of the third match, AVANGAR would hold a very strong lead over OpTic Gaming for first place in the standings, with a score of 1,933 compared to OpTic's score of 1,521.

The final match of the day saw some OpTic Gaming go on a exciting killing spree to fight towards the very end to catch AVANGAR. It would not be enough, as FaZe Clan would be able to secure the chicken dinner for the final match of the day. They would finish with a score of 480 points (400 placement points and 80 kill points). OpTic Gaming, Ghost Gaming and Cloud9 would round out the top four for Game 4. 

After the dust had settled, it was announced that AVANGAR held on to their top spot on the leaderboards after the last match, and thus were crowned the champions of the IEM Katowice 2018 PUBG Invitational. They would finish with a total score of 1,956, which was only 75 points ahead of OpTic Gaming, who finished in 2nd place. Cloud9 and FaZe Clan would round out the top four of the final standings for the event. 

With such an exciting event in the books, the esports scene for PUBG is looking to continue growing for the future.