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The last matches in group B were played today in the recent BLAST Premier series CS: GO event, the BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2021.
Group A
During the group A matches of the online tournament, the ending moment was the finals of the championship’s first group, where the French team Vitality ended up stronger than the Danish CS: GO legends, Astralis.
Both top teams are through to the next event of the series, the BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021.
Group B
The opening matches of the BLAST Fall Groups 2021 championship’s second group B were played on September 20.
In the first match, French G2 Esports team outplayed MIBR squad from Brazil with the 2:0 score
In the second game of the opening day of the group, Sweden‘s NIP were stronger than team BIG from Germany, 2:0.
This game day was previously covered here.
G2 Esports vs Ninjas in Pyjamas
Yesterday’s games started with the upper bracket finals of the group B, where team G2 Esports managed to outplay NIP roster in a full Bo3 series.
The first map of the series was Ancient and it was picked by NIP. G2 started on the safety side, and the first half ended with the 10:5 score in their favor. 6:2 after the switch — G2 win the first map with the 16:7 score.
Mirage, the second map of the match, was team G2’s pick. 7:8 and 7:8, close game and NIP take it with the 16:14 score.
Even though almost all the highlights of the map belong to the G2 players, the Swedish team managed to score 20 entry frags against the two times less number by their opponents.
Inferno was played as the third and final map of the series, after teams banned Dust2 and Nuke. 11:4 in favor of the NIP team playing T side on the first half, and 5:5 after the switch — 16:9. The final score of the match was 1:2 in favor of the Swedish CS: GO organization.
MIBR vs BIG
The second game of the day was when MIBR were fighting for their survival in the lower bracket against BIG team. The losing squad missed the prestigious Fall Finals event.
The official video feed captured on camera multiple moments of the players and coaches of the Brazilians reacting very emotionally, in the typical manner, during almost every moment in the game which ended up in their favor.
MIBR fought well, but the Brazilian team played this tournament with two substitutes, because of the recent roster’s turmoil. These events negatively impacted the results of the team in this tournament.
In the end, the German squad managed to figure out the weaknesses of their opponents and defeat them with the 16:4 score on Mirage and 16:9 on Nuke. 2:0 — BIG moved on to the lower bracket finals, and the Brazilians entered the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 event.
G2 Esports vs BIG
Today, in the first match of the day, team G2 Esports faced German BIG squad in the lower bracket finals of the BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2021 group B.
Team BIG ended up stronger than their opponents, winning the match in two sets, with the 16:12 score on Dust2 and 19:17 on Inferno, finishing the second and final game of the match in the overtime.
BIG qualified for the next BLAST tournament, the Fall Finals 2021 event and G2 Esports are out, as they follow MIBR and move on to the Fall Showdown tournament.
NIP vs BIG
In the final match of group B, team NIP, coming from the upper bracket, played versus BIG, the recent winners of the LB finals.
First game of the final match was played on Dust2, which was picked by BIG. 4:11 during the first half and 10:5 after the switch, a close set finished with the 16:14 score in favor of the German multigaming esports organization.
Both teams had a comparable amount of entries and clutches, but the highlight player of the first map was Nils “k1to” Gruhne. The 22-year-old German Counter-Strike talent managed to clutch and almost ace the opposing team in two of his best moments on the first map.
The second map of the match was Mirage and it was picked by NIP, who started on the T side. The first half ended with the close score between the two opposing teams — 7:8. In the second half, the score was 9:5 in favor of the Swedes. Even though BIG had more entries than their opponents on Mirage, their collective rating was lower. 16:13, NIP took Mirage and equalized the score of the series.
On the second map of the match, Danish Nicolai “device” Reedtz managed to top the scoreboard with 29 kills, but the other NIP member, the in-game leader, Hampus “hampus” Poser became the real man of the map. Poser won important 1v2 clutch and also secured the first round of the second half for his team, killing four opponents with headshots on A plant location.
The third map was Inferno, and BIG could not do much on this map against the opposition. The second map was crucial for the NIP, as they managed to break their opponents mentally. The Swedish defense on the third map secured them 13 rounds against 2 wins from the Germans.
After the switch, BIG team managed to win pistol round and take a few rounds, before the Swedes finally finished the game and the match with the 16:5 score in their favor. 2:1 — NIP secure the $25,000 prize along with 1600 BLAST premier points and move on to the Fall Finals event. German CS: GO team place 4th-6th and get $12,500 with 800 points.
BLAST Premier continues
NIP finished first in the group B of BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2021, and team BIG are the second team of the group. Both teams advance to the next BLAST event — the BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021, a $425,000 offline event where 8 teams will play at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first games of the LAN tournament start on November 24.
MIBR and G2 Esports will compete in the BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2021 with other CS: GO organizations, including top teams such as US’ Team Liquid, originating from Netherlands, and Evil Geniuses from the United States.
The BLAST Fall Groups 2021 continues shortly, on September 24, when the first matches commence in group C. In the opening game of the group, CIS team Natus Vincere from Ukraine face EU‘ OG squad, while two US teams, FaZe Clan and Complexity Gaming meet each other in the second match of the group.