FACEIT Major New Legends stage first round matchups drawn

After the New Challengers came to a close with Vega Squadron rounding out the team list, FACEIT drew the first-round matchups of the New Legends stage.

The last day of FACEIT Major's first stage saw the final round of matches played, as teams of the 2-2 pool fought in best-of-three series for the last three spots in the New Legends stage.

Astralis will go up against Natus Vincere in one of the headliners of round one

TYLOO were the first team to go through from the fifth round, as they defeated Spirit 2-0 to advance to the top-16 team for the first time in the organization's history. BIG followed with a 2-0 triumph over OpTic, and Vega Squadron rounded out the New Legends stage team list after defeating the DreamHack Masters Stockholm champions, North, in a two-map series.

After the last day's matches came to a close, FACEIT did the draw of the next stage, in which there were five pools of teams:

Pool A: Cloud9, FaZe, Natus Vincere, MIBR
Pool B: mousesports, fnatic, Winstrike, G2
Pool C: NiP, Liquid
Pool D: Astralis, HellRaisers, Complexity
Pool E: TYLOO, BIG, Vega Squadron

The draw followed with these rules in place:

1. Three teams from Pool E will play against three teams from Pool A
2. One remaining Team from Pool A will play against one team from Pool D
3. Two remaining teams from Pool D will play against two teams from Pool B
4. Two remaining Teams from Pool B will play against the two teams from Pool C

The first-round matchups of the FACEIT New Legends stage, which will be played in a Swiss format, with the fifth round featuring best-of-three series once again, are the following:

Cloud9 vs. Vega Squadron
MIBR vs. TYLOO
FaZe vs. BIG
Natus Vincere vs. Astralis
G2 vs. HellRaisers
fnatic vs. Complexity
Winstrike vs. Liquid
mousesports vs. NiP