Henco Venter showed why he'll be missed next season

Rory Darge, Kyle Rowe and Henco Venter went over for first-half tries for Warriors, with a Seabelo Senatla try and a conversion and two penalties from the boot of Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu kept the Stormers in touch at the interval.

Senatla struck again early in the second half but Glasgow responded with tries from George Horne and another from Rowe to see them take a comfortable win.

Warriors will now face either Leinster or Scarlets, who meet in Dublin on Saturday, in next weekend's semi-final.

Stormers started impressively and after a period of pressure they won a scrum penalty inside the opening six minutes with fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu making no mistake.

Stormers were reduced to 14 men when winger Seabelo Senatla was sent to the sin bin for killing the ball in the red zone after a great Glasgow move.

Stormers were duly punished from the clever lineout move with Darge powering over from close range after some nice hands from Euan Ferrie. The conversion from Horne put them 7-3 ahead.

Glasgow were breaking the line almost at will in the opening quarter with the Stormers defence looking porous.

A second try for the Warriors came when Tuipulotu dinked a clever kick in behind into the acres of space where Senatla should have been, for Rowe to eventually hoover up the ball and dot it down. Horne's conversion stretched the lead to 14-3.

Another penalty from Feinberg-Mngomezulu reduced the deficit, before Stormers scored their first try of the night on 26 minutes.

Having only just returned from his yellow card, it was Senatla who profited from Glasgow's failure to deal with a high ball to scamper in and score under the posts.

But the response from Warriors was immediate, as Venter peeled off the back of a ruck to dive over in the corner.

Warriors were enjoying the advantage on the scoreboard, but guilty of gifting Stormers an easy route back into the game.

Franco Smith's men gave away six penalties inside the opening 30 minutes and they were having problems up front, most notably in the scrum.

On his first start of the season, tighthead prop Murphy Walker was taken off and replaced by Sam Talakai after 32 minutes.

Meanwhile, after an injury in their backline, the Stormers could bring on World Cup winner Manie Libbok to pull the strings.

Leading 19-13 at the break, it was Glasgow's backline and ability to break from deep which had propelled them in front, despite their struggles up front.

A quicksilver line-break from Libbok created another try for Stormers early in the second half, with winger Senatla racing away down the touchline to score his second of the game.

But Glasgow roared back and Rowe also notched his second of the night when he applied the finish to some great work from Tom Jordan.

By this point, Glasgow were rampant. Some of their attacking rugby with ball in hand was sensational - and they scored another superb try on 52 minutes.

Tuipulotu looped a sublime pass out wide to Josh McKay and the ball was eventually fed back inside by Rowe for Horne to touch down and finish a wonderful team move.

The Warriors scrum-half converted his own try and added a penalty shortly after. Seemingly in the blink of an eye, Glasgow now led 36-18.

In the end, a chaotic game eventually petered out. For Glasgow, the hard work was done. They coasted home, safe in the knowledge that their quest for back-to-back titles goes on.

Head coach Franco Smith told Premier Sports: "We were a little bit off it [at the end of the regular season] but I'm glad we could bounce back.

"We speak the whole season about the quality of the competition and quality of the sides. There was no easy game, always tough.

"Rory Darge played well, Henco Venter and Tom Jordan were also excellent tonight.

"It's good to have played Friday night. We get to wait and see and whatever comes our way, we will make sure we recover well.

"Good people make good players. We tried too hard to finish second in the competition and the weight of playing the semi-finals at home became too much in the end.

"It's a different competition. It's knockout rugby. It brings more excitement. The boys have learned and adapted. They really work hard and they believe in what we do."

Glasgow flanker and player of the match Rory Darge told Premier Sports: "Class. Obviously it's potentially our last one at Scotstoun this season, so it's good to put on a performance we're happy with.

"It's fairly easy to get right when we're there physically and to a man, we were on it today.

"It's obviously the goal [to win the URC again], but we weren't looking past the Stormers."