The SC2Improve Team League Season 4 (SC2ITL) group stage has been taking place since the start of Febraury. Through qualifiers and invites twenty teams entered the First Division all looking to claim some portion of the €2000 prize pool as their own, a prize pool which attracted some of the strongest teams in Starcraft. This made the competition fiercer and tougher than ever before, leading to many upsets and tense series throughout the weeks. As the final group stage matches get played out the final standings begin to solidify, confirming which teams made the top-4 cut off point for who will be playing in the single-elimination playoffs. At the time of writing over half of the playoff spots have been filled, but for this first article we focus on the first two teams which secured their position in the final eight, Axiom-Acer and Team Liquid.