BLAST ورلڈ فائنل کے افتتاحی میچ میں مائع باہر کے لوگوں کو نیچے لے جا رہا ہے۔

مائع kickstarted their BLAST Premier World Final campaign with a 2-1 group stage victory over باہر. نک "نائٹر0" کینالہ‘s men found themselves a map down after dropping their pick Inferno 10-16, but scored 16-8 wins on both Anubis and the decider, Mirage, to seal the match in their favor.

کیتھ "NAF" مارکووچ اور جوناتھن "ایلی جی" جبلونوسکی were their team’s heaviest hitters, finishing with 53 and 56 kills alongside 1.28 and 1.22 ratings, respectively. مائع progress to the Group A upper final while باہر fall to the lower final where they await the loser of their group’s second opener between فیجی اور G2.

باہر completely blew مائع‘s defense to shreds on the T side and finished the first half with a whopping 13-2 lead. The North Americans struggled immensely to break into either bomb site, with their two points on the board coming from a quick plant in the second and a NAF 1vs1 clutch right before halftime. مائع breathed new life into the game coming out of the break, winning five of the first six rounds behind جوش "oSee" OHM اور EliGE‘s nine and seven kills, respectively.

باہر clinched map point in the 22nd after a swift A push, but the NA squad kept fighting and chipped away at their opponents’ advantage each round. Back-to-back quad-kills for نائٹ0 اور مارکس۔ "ایکندر" گائلنسکس رکھی مائع‘s run alive, but the comeback would fall short in the end as Alexey "کیکرٹ" گولوبیف اور ڈیوڈ "n0rb3r7⁠" ڈینیلین delivered the final blows to wrap up Inferno 16-10.

The tables completely turned on Anubis as it was مائع who streaked to a 6-0 lead before باہر finally stopped the run in the seventh, capitalizing on a 5vs4 advantage due to NAF‘s technical issues. Both teams traded scores following a lengthy technical break as زہمی "جیم" علی‘s crew entered the switch down by three after winning five of the last six rounds. Even with باہر‘ late run, مائع were comfortably ahead on the fragging department as EliGE, osee اور NAF put up 15, 12, and 11 kills respectively in the first period alone.

Any momentum باہر gained late in the first half was completely shut down by مائع‘s offense as the North Americans plowed their way to a dominant 16-8 victory on Anubis. نائٹ0‘s men found a great deal of success with B hits and mid control which proved to be too much for باہر to handle in the end. مائع took home the 16-8 win after a near-flawless T side to send the series to a decider on Mirage.

باہر kicked off Mirage with the upper hand early on and garnered a 4-1 lead sparked by a quick triple-kill by Evgenii "FL1T" لیبیڈیو in round two. Their advantage would be short-lived, though, as مائع bagged nine out of the last ten to close out the first half with a 10-5 score. باہر kept things competitive at the beginning of the second, but their efforts merely delayed the inevitable as مائع won three in-a-row to close out the map 16-8 and series 2-1.