Discussion Megathread | BLAST Premier Spring Final 2023
Welcome to the discussion thread for the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2023, the last Big Event before the summer break. The event will feature eight of the world’s best CS:GO teams competing for a $425,000 prize pool and a spot at the BLAST Premier World Final 2023. The event will take place at the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington, D.C., from June 7-11.
The teams attending the event are:
- Heroic (From Spring Groups)
- G2 Esports (From Spring Groups)
- FaZe Clan (From Spring Groups)
- Natus Vincere (From Spring Groups)
- Vitality (From Spring Groups)
- Astralis (From Spring Groups)
- Cloud9 (From Spring Showdown – EU)
- Imperial (From Spring Showdown – NA)
The event will start with two double-elimination GSL groups, followed by a single-elimination playoff bracket. All matches will be best-of-three.
The event will also mark the return of Vitality to LAN for the first time since their Major triumph in Paris, where they won without dropping a single map. They will face Imperial in their opening match, who might be playing their last event with Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo as rumors of his move to FURIA are rampant.
Other interesting matchups include G2 vs Cloud9, who both had disappointing runs at IEM Dallas and the Major cycle, and Heroic vs Astralis, who will clash for the Danish supremacy.
You can follow the event on BLAST.tv, YouTube, or Twitch. The schedule and results can be found on HLTV or Liquipedia.
This is a bit of a test thread. I will try to post a comment for each match, under which you can share your thoughts and comments about each individual game. As such, it may be preferable to sort the thread by new, in order to see the most recent match-ups. Also, in case I miss any match feel free to post the results yourself!
Vitality 🇪🇺 0-2 🇧🇷 Imperial
Overpass: 3-16
Vertigo: 14-16
InfernoMap picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Overpass
Overpass detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Vertigo
Vertigo detailed stats and VOD
Highlights
M1 | chelo - ACE
M1 | ZywOo - 1vs2 AWP clutch
M2 | boltz - 1vs3 clutch
This thread was originally created by the Post-Match Reddit Team.
G2 🇪🇺 2-0 🇷🇺 Cloud9
Vertigo: 16-11
Inferno: 16-11
AnubisMap picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Vertigo
Vertigo detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Inferno
Inferno detailed stats and VOD
Highlights
M1 | m0NESY - 1vs3 clutch
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Heroic 🇩🇰 2-0 🌎 Complexity
Inferno: 16-7
Nuke: 16-6
OverpassMap picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Inferno
Inferno detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Nuke
Nuke detailed stats and VOD
Highlights
M1 | floppy - 1vs2 clutch
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FaZe 🇪🇺 2-0 🇩🇰 Astralis
Overpass: 16-5
Mirage: 16-6
InfernoMap picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Overpass
Overpass detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Mirage
Mirage detailed stats and VOD
This thread was originally created by the Reddit Post-Match Team.
Vitality 🇪🇺 2-0 🇷🇺 Cloud9
Overpass: 16-13
Anubis: 19-17
VertigoVitality advances to the quarter-finals
Cloud9 is eliminated.
Map picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Overpass
Overpass detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Anubis
Anubis detailed stats and VOD
Highlights
M2 | Ax1Le - 4 kills on the bombsite B offensive to set Cloud9 on map point
M2 | ZywOo - ACE to send the map into Overtime
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Imperial 🇧🇷 1-2 🇪🇺 G2
Ancient: 7-16
Inferno: 16-13
Nuke: 13-16
G2 advances to semi-finals
Imperial proceeds to the quarter-finals.
Map picks:
Full Match Stats:
Individual Map Stats:
Map 1: Ancient
Ancient detailed stats and VOD
Map 2: Inferno
Inferno detailed stats and VOD
Map 3: Nuke
Nuke detailed stats and VOD
Highlights
M1 | NiKo - 3 quick AK HS kills on the Mid defense
M2 | jks - 1vs2 clutch
M2 | HooXi - 1vs3 clutch
M2 | chelo - ACE to turn an initial 2vs5 situation in favor of Imperial
M3 | JOTA - 1vs2 clutch
This thread was originally created by the Reddit Post-Match Team.
Niko going absolutely nuclear on Ancient, 30 kills in a single half is the third highest any player has got (Flamie is the highest with 32). Still a close game however, G2 really struggled with keeping banana on Inferno.
Totally offtopic (so if you have comment labels unlocked already, please label this as such), but I just wanted so chime in and say how impressed I am with your comment formatting, @DMA. Awesome job! :)
p.s. But just a suggestion, if you want to make the comments a little easier to navigate, might I also suggest using the "Expandable sections" <details> and <summary> elements so that each individual comment doesn't take up as much vertical room? E.g.
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on my comment to see how I did it)Awesome, I didn't know about collapsable sections. I'll make sure to use them! Just to note though, I took the comment formatting from the post-match discussion threads that are posted to /r/GlobalOffensive and just made some slight tweaks where necessary to make it work here. I wasn't 100% sure whether that was OK, but I figured it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission ;)
This would be awesome if it was the standard for posting these type of updates, especially for people that might be looking for a specific match results midway through an event, but don't want to spoil the rest