Blast.tv Austin Major 2025 was the first Major of CS2's year, held in Austin, Texas, USA from 3-22/6. The tournament is divided into 4 phases: Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 and Play-Off. Each Stage will have 16 competing teams for 8 goes to go on, all rounds apply the SWISS format to identify the teams to continue. Then at the play-off, 8 teams will play live to determine the champion.
In the stage 1, the names that are highly appreciated like Heroic, Betboom, OG are not facing many difficulties to continue, while Complexity, NRG or Imperial are suddenly eliminated early. Coming to Stage 2, the biggest surprise was the champion candidate – Falcons received 1 win – 3 loss results and was eliminated early. With Falcons leaving the tournament, there are names like Heroic, Mibr, B8.
At Stage 3, the first two teams were eliminated, Team Liquid and Nemiga. Next, many other names soon left the tournament such as Aurora (1 wins – 3 losses), Virtus Pro and G2 Esports (2 wins and 3 losses). Meanwhile, many surprises have appeared in groups of teams to continue. Brazilian representatives – Furia entered the branch quite easy to breathe and quickly won the right to qualify for the result of 3 wins – 0 losses. Accordingly, the defending champion Major – Team Spirit also did not face many difficulties to overcome Stage 3.
At the 3-1 branch is still familiar teams like team Vitality, Faze or Navi. Meanwhile, the last 3 names won tickets to the play-off are The Mongolz, Mouz and Pain. In particular, Mouz and Pain both from 0-2 branches and won 3 consecutive games to win the right to play-off. With this result, the host country did not have any representatives in the group of 8 strongest teams.
Blast.tv Austin Major 2025 matches:
– Furia vs Pain
– Faze vs the Mongolz
– Navi vs Team Vitality
– Team Spirit vs Mouz
