Legacy and Virtus.Pro qualify for BLAST.tv Austin Major Stage 3

Legacy and Virtus.professional have turn into the primary two groups to earn a spot within the third stage of the BLAST.tv Austin Main after scoring an unbeaten report in Stage 2.

While two groups have moved on to Stage 3, BetBoom Group and OG Esports have been eradicated after recording three losses.

Earlier than the Main, all eyes have been on FaZe Clan after the North American organisation recruited Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyljev as a stand-in. Regardless of recording spectacular victories in rounds one and two, the workforce was unable to beat Legacy‘s aggressive play type in spherical three,.

For the Brazilian facet, its spectacular run of type continues after being known as upon by match organiser BLAST on the final minute as a substitute for BESTIA. Because of the 2-0 win, FaZe Clan drops to a 2-1 report and continues to be just one victory away from securing qualification.

Virtus.professional turned the second workforce to earn a spot within the third stage after sweeping apart PaiN Gaming 2-0 in its third-round match. Along with beating PaiN, VP additionally defeated OG Esports and B8 to advance to the subsequent spherical. 

While it was a joyful event for Virtus.Professional and Legacy, two groups additionally confronted elimination from the BLAST.television Austin Main. Maybe the largest match of the Main to this point noticed an underperforming Group Falcons combat for survival towards OG Esports.

Previous to its spherical three match-up, Falcons suffered losses to B8 and Lynn Imaginative and prescient Gaming.

Group Falcons commenced its must-win sequence towards OG Esports on Mud II, securing a convincing 9-3 lead. Nonetheless, OG managed to overturn the deficit to grab the opening map 13-11, leaving the Saudi Arabian organisation needing two maps to remain in Austin for one more spherical. 

Nuke was one other shut contest between the 2 sides, with each buying and selling the lead forwards and backwards earlier than the Falcons scored its first map win of the match with a 13-10 rating line.

Group Falcons began to spread its wings on Mirage, flying to an 8-4 lead on the finish of the opening half. Regardless of just a few glimpses of a possible comeback from OG, the Falcons managed to wrap up the map 13-6 and the sequence, incomes one other likelihood to qualify for Stage 3.

In the meantime, MIBR (Made in Brazil) regarded to maintain its Main marketing campaign alive because the workforce took on BetBoom Group. With each side needing victory to remain within the match, the best-of-three sequence was all to play for. What ensued was a intently contested match-up between the 2 groups.

MIBR opened the sequence with a 13-11 win on Prepare earlier than rounding off the sequence with one other 13-11 win on Anubis to get rid of BetBoom from the Main.

Beneath are the next groups that stay in Stage 2 of the BLAST.tv Austin Major: 

The winners of those matches will advance to Stage 3, whereas the losers will transfer to spherical 5 of Stage 2 for one more likelihood to qualify.