Thunderpick World Championship 2025 NA Series #2 Playoffs Day 2: Wildcard, NRG earn place in semifinals
The second day of matches in Thunderpick World Championship 2025 NA S2 saw Wildcard need all three maps to beat LAG, while NRG handled Aether 2-0.
These results set up Wildcard v. NRG in the second semifinal, with the first semifinal matchup being M80 v. Getting Info.
Wildcard 2-1 
LAG
Wildcard started off hot, beginning 10-2 up on their T side on Nuke. They converted that advantage into a comfortable 13-5 win to give themselves a 1-0 advantage in the series.
LAG started the second map well, but Wildcard closed strong to take the lead 7-5 after the first half. LAG responded with a 7-5 half of their own to bring the map to OT. They took that momentum into the extra period and won 16-13 on Inferno to force a third and deciding map on Train.
The first half of the decider started evenly, with neither team able to take a lead into the second half. Wildcard broke the stalemate right away and only gave up two rounds in the second period to take the final map 13-8.
Jaxon "Peeping" Cornwell powered Wildcard to the victory with 67 kills in the series, ten more than the next closest player.
WildcardLAG| Wildcard |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaxon 'Peeping' Cornwell |
67 - 43 | +24 | 102.0 | 79.4% | 1.50 |
| Josh 'JBa' Barutt |
57 - 45 | +12 | 89.5 | 75.0% | 1.28 |
 Sebastian 'fr3nd' Kuśmierz |
55 - 41 | +14 | 77.4 | 76.5% | 1.25 |
 Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek |
43 - 52 | -9 | 70.6 | 75.0% | 0.99 |
 Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz |
28 - 44 | -16 | 53.3 | 72.1% | 0.93 |
| LAG |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason 'mason' Watkins |
46 - 51 | -5 | 85.8 | 75.0% | 1.11 |
| Justin 'Sandman' Saulle |
51 - 49 | +2 | 74.2 | 64.7% | 1.03 |
| Andrew 'Andrew' Burrell |
43 - 43 | +0 | 58.0 | 66.2% | 0.92 |
| Kyle 'Wolffe' Greenfield |
42 - 49 | -7 | 68.4 | 61.8% | 0.82 |
| Brett 'brett' Rhein |
40 - 60 | -20 | 70.8 | 58.8% | 0.80 |
NRG 2-0 Aether
Aether chose Inferno as the series' first map, but it was NRG that looked more comfortable on the map. NRG sprinted out to an 8-4 lead to end the first half, and only surrendered one round in the second half to take the advantage in the series 1-0.
NRG picked Mirage to try to close out the series. Aether found their footing on this map, going up 7-5 after the first period of play. NRG answered back, mirroring the first half to force overtime on the second map. NRG took the map 16-14 to book their spot in the semifinal.
Alexander "br0" Bro and Zack "XotiC" Elshani logged 41 frags apiece for NRG to put Aether out of the playoffs.
NRGAether| NRG |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alexander 'br0' Bro |
41 - 29 | +12 | 95.3 | 79.2% | 1.48 |
| Nick 'nitr0' Cannella |
37 - 23 | +14 | 81.6 | 85.4% | 1.39 |
| Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott |
38 - 28 | +10 | 87.6 | 77.1% | 1.31 |
| Zack 'XotiC' Elshani |
41 - 27 | +14 | 76.4 | 77.1% | 1.19 |
| Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly |
31 - 33 | -2 | 76.9 | 81.2% | 1.00 |
| Aether |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack 'micro' Ryan |
34 - 32 | +2 | 84.4 | 75.0% | 1.24 |
| Andrew 'Tender' Cote |
36 - 37 | -1 | 69.2 | 66.7% | 1.03 |
| Mike 'misha' Yelnikov |
33 - 41 | -8 | 74.9 | 62.5% | 0.81 |
| Aidan 'clipzera' Swark |
17 - 38 | -21 | 53.6 | 54.2% | 0.62 |
| Caden 'arias' Allison |
19 - 42 | -23 | 46.4 | 52.1% | 0.50 |
The semifinals begin tonight, M80 v. Getting Info starts at 05:30PM, and M80 v. NRG begins at 08:30PM.
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