Workforce Vitality and MOUZ superior to the grand closing with victories on Saturday within the semifinals of the BLAST Open Spring at Lisbon, Portugal.
The conflict on Sunday will probably be a rematch of the Group A upper-bracket closing, gained by Vitality 2-0 within the event’s opening stage on March 24.
Vitality defeated Workforce Spirit 2-1 in Saturday’s semifinal playoffs, whereas MOUZ posted a 2-0 sweep of Everlasting Hearth, which had gained the Group B upper-bracket closing 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 have been best-of-three.
Within the single-elimination playoffs, all matches are best-of-three till the grand closing, which will probably be best-of-five. The workforce that wins the Sunday closing will pocket $150,000.
On Saturday, Workforce Vitality topped Workforce 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 Hearth 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 Okay-D differential (40 kills) and Lotan “Spinx” Giladi of Israel had a plus-7 (36 kills).
Ozgur “woxic” Eker of the all-Turkish Everlasting Hearth 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 — Workforce Spirit, Everlasting Hearth
5-6. $20,000 — Natus Vincere, G2 Esports
7-8. $10,000 — Virtus.professional, The MongolZ
9-12. $7,500 — Workforce Falcons, FaZe Clan, Workforce Liquid, M80
13-16. $5,000 — The Huns Esports, Astralis, Imperial Esports, FURIA
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