BLAST Premier Spring 2020: NAVI destroyed the contestants from Group B
Ihor MatusIn the first confrontation of Group B, “Born to Win” could not beat Team Vitality players, losing to them with a score of 0-2, and went down to the bottom bracket. There they were expected by Astralis , who in the previous match could not oppose anything to their opponents from Complexity Gaming .
The first relegation match in Group B turned out to be extremely difficult for both NAVI and Astralis. In addition, he became very interesting and heated. On Train, the map NAVI chose, Astralis scored a fairly easy victory with a score of 16-6. After that, s1mple with his teammates was not at a loss and took their favorite Nuke card from the Danes with a score of 16-9. The teams went to find out the winner of the meeting at Inferno. At first, Natus Vincere lost with a score of 1-5 and brought the game in a draw, but after that Astralis tensed up and brought the first half to a score of 9-6, playing for the side of defense. After the transition, “Born to Win” showed the art of comeback and from the score 6-13 they designed the comeback. After NAVI reduced the distance by 4 rounds and the score was 10-13, Astralis took another round. Natus Vincere rethought some of their moments and took the 6 remaining rounds, winning in the end with a score of 16-14.
Before this interesting match, Complexity Gaming gave us another unexpected turn of events, beating Team Vitality with a score of 2-0. Thus, COL together with NAVI escorted the output of two favorites. In the last battle, the victory was won without much difficulty by Natus Vincere. The meeting ended with a score of 2-0.
As a result, NAVI and COL took 1-3 and 4-6 places in the standings, respectively. They received $ 50,000 and $ 35,000 in reward, as well as an invitation to the BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Finals with a prize pool of $ 750,000. The winner of the LAN finals will receive $ 500,000 and access to the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 with a prize pool of $ 1,500,000. Team Vitality and Astralis, in turn, took 7th-9th and 10th-12th places, respectively, receiving $ 10,000 and $ 5,000 as a reward and a miss to BLAST Premier Showdown 2020.
Now in the BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 there are only matches of group C. There are 100 Thieves , G2 Esports , Evil Geniuses and OG fighting each other.
Matches history: BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 Americas Finals
BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 started on January 31 and will end on February 16. The total prize pool for the regular season is $ 300,000. The top six teams that take the first two places in their groups enter the BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Finals with a prize pool of $ 750,000, while the worst six go to the BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Showdown. There will be two additional invites for the BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Finals, and a total prize of $ 325,000 will be distributed.