Team Vitality and MOUZ advanced to the grand final with victories on Saturday in the semifinals of the BLAST Open Spring at Lisbon, Portugal.
The clash on Sunday will be a rematch of the Group A upper-bracket final, won by Vitality 2-0 in the tournament’s opening stage on March 24.
Vitality defeated Team Spirit 2-1 in Saturday’s semifinal playoffs, while MOUZ posted a 2-0 sweep of Eternal Fire, which had won the Group B upper-bracket final opening stage on March 24.
The $400,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with the 16 teams divided into two groups for double-elimination play. All group-stage matches were best-of-three.
In the single-elimination playoffs, all matches are best-of-three until the grand final, which will be best-of-five. The team that wins the Sunday final will pocket $150,000.
On Saturday, Team Vitality topped Team Spirit 13-6 on Anubis, then fell 13-6 on Nuke before emerging with a 13-10 win on Mirage. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut of France was the only player 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 Eternal Fire in a tight battle, 13-11 on Nuke and 13-10 on Dust II. Adam “torzi” Torzsas of Hungary led MOUZ with a plus-17 K-D differential (40 kills) and Lotan “Spinx” Giladi of Israel had a plus-7 (36 kills).
Ozgur “woxic” Eker of the all-Turkish Eternal Fire was the lone player with a plus differential at plus-7 (37 kills).
BLAST Open Spring prize pool
1. $150,000
2. $60,000
3-4. $40,000 — Team Spirit, Eternal Fire
5-6. $20,000 — Natus Vincere, G2 Esports
7-8. $10,000 — Virtus.pro, The MongolZ
9-12. $7,500 — Team Falcons, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, M80
13-16. $5,000 — The Huns Esports, Astralis, Imperial Esports, FURIA
–Field Level Media