Team Vitality and FaZe Clan each recorded a sweep on Saturday to advance to the grand final of the BLAST Premier: World Final 2023.
Vitality dispatched Natus Vincere following a 13-5 win on Anubis and 13-9 victory on Inferno.
Dan “apEX” Madesclaire had 36 kills and fellow Frenchman Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut had a plus-17 kills-to-death differential for Vitality, who will square off against FaZe Clan in a bid for the $500,000 first prize at the $1 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Natus Vincere was paced by the Ukraine’s Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy (28 kills) and Finland’s Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen (plus-1 kills-to-death differential).
FaZe Clan toppled MOUZ by posting 13-11 wins on both Mirage and Overpass.
Norway’s Havard “rain” Nygaard notched 37 kills and Slovakia’s David “frozen” Cernansky had a plus-10 kills-to-death differential for FaZe.
MOUZ was paced by Israel’s Dorian “xertioN” Berman (37 kills) and Hungary’s Adam “torzsi” Torzsas (plus-7 kills-to-death differential.
BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 prize pool:
1. $500,000 — TBD
2. $250,000 — TBD
3-4. $85,000 — Natus Vincere, MOUZ
5-6. $25,000 — G2 Esports, Cloud9
7-8. $15,000 — ENCE, Heroic
–Field Level Media
