I'm glad I stayed away from any of the favorites yesterday because the other underdogs were also on fire as FURIA and FaZe lost their qualification match.



With all those upsets, the remaining qualifier matches should be straightforward for the legit top teams (Vitality, Mouz, MongolZ, Aurora) unless another underdog puts up a lifegame.

Saw some new rumor about faze and liquid switching elige and twistzz

However its from overdrive who has been known to be a little clout chaser

Yes @ralle14 all favorites won yesterday because after that complete collapse from Faze over the weekend that seemed to wake up the rest of the top tiered team to shape up through out to the rest of the tournament.
So these remaining teams move on to the showdown in Malta.
Know when this BLAST Premier tournament is going to wrap up?
They did mention on the promotional banner it ended on the 10th so yesterday the bounty part I can see that ending.

In other news around CounterStrike, S1mple had his first match yesterday since joining his new team and they won against Cyberstroke.

With the qualifiers already over, it's probably worth betting the tournament now because the qualified teams will be playing on LAN, and I assume it'll be similar to the previous bounty tournament without any crowd.

That banner was probably for the qualifiers, while the actual tournament kicks off this Thursday and runs until Sunday.

Yes, I'm still having hopes for BLG to get in worlds, they have a lot of things to show and a good revenge to T1 is a good narrative for this upcoming worlds 2025.

The sure slots (except GEN.G) are; T1, HLE, maybe BLG (7-0) atm.

for LEC maybe FNC? because Poby who's under T1 academy recently, is on their team right now and they're performing really well.

The MongolZ also skipped the Blast Open, and Team Liquid is the lucky team to be the next in line to secure the next invite via VRS.

Another interesting news I saw earlier was Team Spirit potentially picking up tn1r from Heroic after they announced the buyout.

It's too early to say for the LEC since we've seen G2, MKOI, and KC play better in the playoffs.

Saw this today too, and this change just after winning a major LAN

Donk might be getting more help finally, although zontix is pretty good too, just maybe inconsistent

Heroic making cash past couple years, amazingly run business

MIBR is currently ranked 28 in valve rankings, if that stands they will get to stage 1 of major

They do need to show some decent performances to stay at that rank however

The team is still very much living up to its successful past. But they're currently struggling to find a team, like Pain and Furia did, for example. I think this has a lot to do with betting on players who are just starting out. Just look, Pain did it and made the playoffs, and Furia did the same, and they're doing the same in Cologne.

True. Team Spirit needed another solid player, rather than a rifler that rarely steps up, because most top teams have insane individual firepower and can always cover each other when one of them underperforms.

Also, yesterday's Blast Bounty matches ended with both MongolZ and Mouz advancing after a 2-0 win. Astralis barely made it interesting against Mouz, while Aurora had a disaster of a series, losing Mirage after racking up an 11-0 lead.