Staff Vitality and MOUZ superior to the grand remaining with victories on Saturday within the semifinals of the BLAST Open Spring at Lisbon, Portugal.
The conflict on Sunday shall be a rematch of the Group A upper-bracket remaining, gained by Vitality 2-0 within the match’s opening stage on March 24.
Vitality defeated Staff Spirit 2-1 in Saturday’s semifinal playoffs, whereas MOUZ posted a 2-0 sweep of Everlasting Fireplace, which had gained the Group B upper-bracket remaining opening stage on March 24.
The $400,000 Counter-Strike: World Offensive occasion started with the 16 groups divided into two teams for double-elimination play. All group-stage matches had been best-of-three.
Within the single-elimination playoffs, all matches are best-of-three till the grand remaining, which shall be best-of-five. The crew that wins the Sunday remaining will pocket $150,000.
On Saturday, Staff Vitality topped Staff Spirit 13-6 on Anubis, then fell 13-6 on Nuke earlier than rising with a 13-10 win on Mirage. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut of France was the one participant for Vitality with a plus kill-death differential (plus-12 with 53 kills). Spirit was led by Russians Danil “donk” Kryshkovets with a plus-20 (56 kills) and Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov with a plus-11 differential (46 kills).
MOUZ knocked off Everlasting Fireplace in a good battle, 13-11 on Nuke and 13-10 on Mud II. Adam “torzi” Torzsas of Hungary led MOUZ with a plus-17 Ok-D differential (40 kills) and Lotan “Spinx” Giladi of Israel had a plus-7 (36 kills).
Ozgur “woxic” Eker of the all-Turkish Everlasting Fireplace was the lone participant with a plus differential at plus-7 (37 kills).
BLAST Open Spring prize pool
1. $150,000
2. $60,000
3-4. $40,000 — Staff Spirit, Everlasting Fireplace
5-6. $20,000 — Natus Vincere, G2 Esports
7-8. $10,000 — Virtus.professional, The MongolZ
9-12. $7,500 — Staff Falcons, FaZe Clan, Staff Liquid, M80
13-16. $5,000 — The Huns Esports, Astralis, Imperial Esports, FURIA
–Subject Degree Media
