Yesterday was wild in Austin where right from the start you just knew it was going to be one of those days.
Immediately when Vitality were losing so badly to Legacy, who infact stopped their unbeaten record since they had not lost a match back when Aurora were still Eternal Fire, for the opening match.
It just got worse from there with all favorites falling. That is when I stopped watching the Blast.tv tournament.
And yes the best of 1 are very unpredictable to place bets on. As this display of CounterStrike showed.

Later in the day, Lynn Vision lost and so did Legacy after tuning back several hours to witness the end of their matches later in the day.

Qyite the day of upsets if you had the guts to bet on the heavy underdogs to grab odds @7c & @11c.
That is for certain and some brave individuals infact did just that!

It's probably the better decision since there are no upcoming tournaments, and it's not sustainable for them to stay when they can't qualify.

Those two had an unlucky matchup meeting Spirit and VP in the second round. Later today, they'll face off in an elimination series to decide who'll advance to the final round.

I think yea but bringing back legends ly FY , Somnus and then just disband ? why not give them another chance because I'm sure they would have prove it that they still have it.

Regarding Blast Austin ...it will be a mess today and I personally cheer for VP even if they don't have big chances against Vitality.

I get your point, but as i've mentioned before, there are no other tournaments (after EWC and TI), and that next chance could take place six months from now or even next year.

I also heard they only played the qualifiers because Pyw encouraged them to go for it, and I guess they'd rather chill than burn themselves out throughout the season.

Big win for Wildcard. I thought Shopify had the NA slot locked in because they had a clean run in the EWC qualifiers, but Wildcard somehow flipped the switch and had the upper hand in the TI qualifiers.

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The fourth round of the Austin Major also wrapped up earlier, with Navi, Faze, and Vitality securing the next set of spots for the playoffs.



Out of all the series played today, i'd say the Navi vs. G2 series is worth looking back. After a close first map win for Navi, it felt like they were about to sweep G2, but they struggled in the CT side of Anubis. When it got to Inferno, things got dicey for Navi because they barely won the half on the T side and needed OT to close the series.

Mouz will try to seek a quarterfinal ticket against Legacy.Legacy made the surprise of this tournament in the first match and managed to defeat Vitality.Mouz stopped their bad run and managed to bring it to 2-2 in the tournament where they started 0-2.Both teams have a high potential to win and it is difficult to predict who will win.Although Mouz seems to be one step ahead, we can say that they also have a performance decline.
Mongolz and G2 will meet for the quarterfinal ticket.Although monesY and NiKo left in G2, we can say that the team still performed well.They were good throughout this tournament, except for 3DMAX.They narrowly lost to NaVi and obviously they should be the favorite against Mongolz.In the scenario where Snax and HeavyGod are a little better in firepower, they can beat Mongolz.

The first two series are already done with Mouz and MongolZ getting their third win and booking their spot for the playoffs.

VP vs. paiN is still ongoing with paiN currently in the lead after winning their map pick and leading by a round 5-4 in VP's map pick (Inferno). This should go to a third map, but if VP crumbles in the CT side then this could be a wrap for paiN.

VP actually almost made a come back on map 3. But unfortunately the way VP played was impatient and seemed too ambitious. And another mistake when VP has a position to be CT, it hunts more often. In fact, when being CT it would be better to maintain the position of A and B it is much better. And team communication seems very bad.

Meanwhile, when paiN became a terrorist, they were more skillful and had good communication. Every attack to plan B or A is always perfect.

(Sorry if I'm wrong in the mention because I just understood CS  )

Did anybody see that match last night with G2 going up against these MongolZ?
That was just an insane match were they finally ended the map with a 28-25 win for the mongolians.

That was a record for CS2 having 53 total rounds for a map.

I actually started watching it when they were 14-16 so that was alot of based CounterStrike played by MongolZ to 2-0 G2 Esports.

For their team, which I haven't watched them play since m0nsey left, I didn't recognize a single player on their roster expect for hunter when he was talking post match about the loss to a hot Mongolz team who many were saying before the tournament started were the favorites in taking this major in Austin for BLAST!

During the regulation time, I thought it was about to end 13-11 for the MongolZ, but G2 didn't want to let things end just yet and forced an OT that lasted for almost another map.

Also on the Dota side where the TI qualifiers are still ongoing, Team Nemesis knocked Talon Esports to the lower bracket and be the first SEA team to qualify for TI. I recall Nemesis was a big underdog since Talon had a match winner odds around 1.20 yesterday.