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BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Stage 2 Day 1: Recap

Incredible day for Asian CS

The opening day of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Stage 2 was quite the eventful one as the day saw some of Counter-Strike's greatest names in action and we also got to see Asian Counter-Strike at its very best as Lynn Vision pulled out one of the all-time great upsets in Counter-Strike history. And all of that only on the opening day of Stage 2!

If you missed the action, here's a quick recap of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Stage 2 Day 1.

ROUND 1

s1mple's back; Falcons stunned by B8 as Pick 'Ems are ruined once more

FaZe started off their Austin Major 2025 campaign in Stage 2 in spectacular style as s1mple led from the front to see FaZe run through HEROIC 13-3 on Dust2 in a lopsided affair.

Falcons meanwhile, had a woeful start to their Austin Major campaign as B8, after going 3-0 in the opening stage, started in style on Ancient, going 9-3 up against Niko and co. before holding on for a 13-8 win.

Falcons
8 - 13
B8
All maps
Falcons K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač 16 - 14 +2 80.5 71.4% 1.06
Denmark René 'TeSeS' Madsen 15 - 13 +2 64.1 76.2% 0.98
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski 9 - 11 -2 46.5 85.7% 0.94
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov 8 - 14 -6 57.3 61.9% 0.70
Denmark Emil 'Magisk' Reif 5 - 17 -12 47.4 57.1% 0.49
B8 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Alexey 'alex666' Yarmoshchuk 19 - 11 +8 106.2 85.7% 1.45
Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov 19 - 8 +11 83.0 90.5% 1.43
Andrii 'npl' Kukharskyi 11 - 10 +1 60.5 85.7% 1.05
Dmytro 'esenthial' Tsvir 10 - 12 -2 49.6 81.0% 0.99
Artem 'kensizor' Kapran 9 - 12 -3 53.5 57.1% 0.89
FaZe
13 - 3
HEROIC
All maps
FaZe K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
David 'frozen' Čerňanský 21 - 5 +16 119.4 100.0% 2.14
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 17 - 5 +12 111.9 93.8% 2.03
United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 17 - 10 +7 106.3 87.5% 1.52
Denmark Finn 'karrigan' Andersen 10 - 7 +3 80.8 93.8% 1.39
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard 11 - 7 +4 71.0 75.0% 1.17
HEROIC K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich 12 - 14 -2 88.9 50.0% 1.05
Yasin 'xfl0ud' Koç 10 - 15 -5 74.2 43.8% 0.83
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García 7 - 16 -9 49.8 56.2% 0.51
Sweden Linus 'LNZ' Holtäng 4 - 15 -11 24.9 31.2% 0.24
Sweden Simon 'yxngstxr' Boije 1 - 16 -15 31.6 31.2% 0.16

3DMAX, VP run through their opponents

The second round of games were two complete blowouts as 3DMAX smashed BetBoom 13-4 on Anubis with their captain Makka leading from the front while Virtus.pro found some much needed form as electroNic turned back the clock which saw VP ease past OG, 13-2 on Inferno.

3DMAX
13 - 4
BetBoom
All maps
3DMAX K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Bryan 'Maka' Canda 18 - 8 +10 109.0 88.2% 1.82
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro 14 - 11 +3 96.3 88.2% 1.39
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic 12 - 11 +1 74.6 82.4% 1.24
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge 11 - 8 +3 67.1 82.4% 1.18
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang 10 - 7 +3 58.2 88.2% 1.15
BetBoom K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov 13 - 13 +0 78.2 58.8% 0.89
Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin 11 - 13 -2 76.6 64.7% 0.87
Kirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov 9 - 14 -5 75.9 70.6% 0.79
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko 7 - 11 -4 49.4 70.6% 0.63
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov 5 - 14 -9 42.8 41.2% 0.37
Virtus.pro
13 - 2
OG
All maps
Virtus.pro K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Kaisar 'ICY' Faiznurov 17 - 7 +10 114.9 100.0% 1.97
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov 16 - 4 +12 96.7 86.7% 1.74
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev 13 - 4 +9 79.5 93.3% 1.54
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev 10 - 9 +1 96.8 93.3% 1.31
Timur 'FL4MUS' Marev 9 - 10 -1 62.7 80.0% 1.03
OG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas 12 - 14 -2 73.8 86.7% 1.10
Sweden Olle 'spooke' Grundström 10 - 13 -3 81.3 66.7% 0.94
Denmark Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard 6 - 12 -6 68.8 53.3% 0.58
Denmark Christian 'Buzz' Andersen 2 - 13 -11 39.2 53.3% 0.38
Denmark Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi 4 - 13 -9 20.3 33.3% 0.29

Brazil on top in round 1

FURIA made sure Lynn Vision's strong run from the end of Stage 1 didn't continue into Stage 2 as FalleN and co. eased to a 13-4 win against a sloppy performance from the Chinese team on Nuke while paiN picked up convincing win over Nemiga on Dust2 to move into the 1-0 bracket.

paiN
13 - 7
Nemiga
All maps
paiN K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Lucas 'nqz' Soares 15 - 5 +10 80.0 100.0% 1.42
Brazil Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt 17 - 12 +5 84.8 75.0% 1.37
Franco 'dgt' Garcia 15 - 11 +4 89.6 90.0% 1.33
Brazil João 'snow' Vinicius 13 - 11 +2 85.3 70.0% 1.13
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado 13 - 12 +1 62.2 70.0% 0.96
Nemiga K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Kirill 'Xant3r' Kononov 11 - 13 -2 62.1 65.0% 0.88
Beksultan 'khaN' Ospan 8 - 11 -3 52.8 80.0% 0.84
Maksim 'riskyb0b' Churikov 14 - 16 -2 63.0 70.0% 0.84
Ivan 'zweih' Gogin 12 - 17 -5 57.5 55.0% 0.70
Aliaksandr '1eeR' Nahorny 6 - 16 -10 70.3 50.0% 0.62
FURIA
13 - 4
Lynn Vision
All maps
FURIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko 21 - 5 +16 102.6 94.1% 1.99
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 18 - 10 +8 115.4 82.4% 1.73
Brazil Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato 15 - 7 +8 92.2 82.4% 1.53
Brazil Yuri 'yuurih' Santos 11 - 9 +2 76.4 88.2% 1.22
Brazil Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo 9 - 8 +1 55.3 82.4% 1.02
Lynn Vision K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Junjie 'EmiliaQAQ' Tang 8 - 15 -7 53.9 64.7% 0.68
Qihao 'C4LLM3SU3' Su 8 - 16 -8 63.4 52.9% 0.61
Zhe 'Westmelon' Niu 7 - 14 -7 54.7 41.2% 0.58
Lizhi 'Starry' Ye 7 - 14 -7 50.1 35.3% 0.54
Sike 'z4kr' Zhang 8 - 16 -8 56.5 52.9% 0.47

TYLOO shock M80; Legacy continue to impress

A near flawless CT half on Train from TYLOO saw the Chinese team start their Stage 2 run with a massive win over M80 while Legacy continued their fairytale run as they took down compatriots MIBR 13-10 on Nuke.

MIBR
10 - 13
Legacy
All maps
MIBR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Breno 'brnz4n' Poletto 15 - 16 -1 66.9 78.3% 0.98
Brazil Felipe 'insani' Yuji 14 - 16 -2 68.1 52.2% 0.96
Brazil Raphael 'exit' Lacerda 16 - 15 +1 69.9 69.6% 0.89
Brazil Lucas 'Lucaozy' Neves 13 - 17 -4 63.9 69.6% 0.80
Brazil Rafael 'saffee' Costa 11 - 18 -7 61.6 78.3% 0.75
Legacy K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto 22 - 12 +10 95.0 69.6% 1.50
Brazil Guilherme 'saadzin' Pacheco 20 - 14 +6 87.3 82.6% 1.39
Brazil Vinicius 'n1ssim' Pereira 16 - 14 +2 64.7 82.6% 1.06
Brazil Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer 11 - 12 -1 56.0 73.9% 1.02
Brazil Lucas 'lux' Meneghini 12 - 18 -6 71.3 60.9% 0.88
M80
9 - 13
TYLOO
All maps
M80 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 19 - 14 +5 86.7 68.2% 1.24
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 16 - 15 +1 94.3 81.8% 1.13
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich 14 - 11 +3 52.5 72.7% 1.00
Elias 's1n' Stein 11 - 15 -4 69.6 63.6% 0.90
United States Mason 'Lake' Sanderson 7 - 19 -12 44.5 54.5% 0.55
TYLOO K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng 19 - 16 +3 92.0 72.7% 1.35
Yi 'JamYoung' Yang 14 - 12 +2 75.8 77.3% 1.20
Dongkai 'Jee' Ji 17 - 13 +4 66.0 72.7% 1.10
Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen 14 - 13 +1 71.5 86.4% 1.06
Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang 10 - 13 -3 63.8 72.7% 0.94

ROUND 2

paiN stun FURIA; VP continue to dominate

Despite being 2-5 down, a stellar T side from paiN led by snow, nqz and dgt saw paiN take a surprise 13-11 win on Dust2 against compatriots FURIA. Virtus.pro meanwhile continued to run through their opponents as electroNic and his boys finished the opening day going 2-0 after another massive 13-3 win over B8 on Inferno.

paiN
13 - 11
FURIA
All maps
paiN K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil João 'snow' Vinicius 20 - 13 +7 87.2 79.2% 1.24
Brazil Lucas 'nqz' Soares 20 - 14 +6 86.3 75.0% 1.23
Franco 'dgt' Garcia 17 - 16 +1 58.8 70.8% 0.94
Brazil Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt 7 - 15 -8 59.2 62.5% 0.65
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado 8 - 17 -9 38.0 54.2% 0.54
FURIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato 20 - 14 +6 79.5 83.3% 1.38
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 20 - 15 +5 86.4 70.8% 1.36
Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko 15 - 15 +0 68.7 75.0% 0.98
Brazil Yuri 'yuurih' Santos 12 - 13 -1 63.8 62.5% 0.90
Brazil Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo 8 - 15 -7 45.6 66.7% 0.65
Virtus.pro
13 - 3
B8
All maps
Virtus.pro K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev 20 - 5 +15 117.2 93.8% 2.15
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov 16 - 8 +8 112.1 93.8% 1.68
Kaisar 'ICY' Faiznurov 11 - 8 +3 64.2 75.0% 1.14
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev 6 - 7 -1 55.4 93.8% 0.97
Timur 'FL4MUS' Marev 6 - 8 -2 47.1 68.8% 0.81
B8 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Alexey 'alex666' Yarmoshchuk 10 - 10 +0 60.6 81.2% 0.88
Artem 'kensizor' Kapran 11 - 14 -3 69.7 56.2% 0.82
Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov 4 - 11 -7 49.0 75.0% 0.65
Andrii 'npl' Kukharskyi 7 - 12 -5 48.7 50.0% 0.59
Dmytro 'esenthial' Tsvir 4 - 12 -8 35.3 62.5% 0.42

FaZe smash TYLOO; Legacy unstoppable

FaZe continued to dominate in Austin as they ran through TYLOO, whose T-side woes continued as they fell 5-13 to karrigan and co. while Legacy put up yet another dominating performance, taking down 3DMAX 13-7 on Inferno to move into the 2-0 pool.

FaZe
13 - 5
TYLOO
All maps
FaZe K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard 19 - 9 +10 83.2 94.4% 1.57
David 'frozen' Čerňanský 15 - 7 +8 83.9 83.3% 1.54
United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 14 - 9 +5 91.2 83.3% 1.49
Denmark Finn 'karrigan' Andersen 10 - 11 -1 77.2 83.3% 1.20
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 9 - 7 +2 50.9 83.3% 1.18
TYLOO K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Dongkai 'Jee' Ji 12 - 10 +2 59.7 66.7% 0.88
Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen 7 - 13 -6 68.4 66.7% 0.65
Yi 'JamYoung' Yang 9 - 14 -5 52.7 66.7% 0.64
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng 9 - 15 -6 70.6 38.9% 0.60
Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang 6 - 15 -9 43.8 44.4% 0.42
3DMAX
7 - 13
Legacy
All maps
3DMAX K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Bryan 'Maka' Canda 11 - 12 -1 68.2 85.0% 0.93
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang 10 - 13 -3 64.5 75.0% 0.84
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro 10 - 14 -4 57.6 60.0% 0.65
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge 10 - 14 -4 56.5 60.0% 0.63
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic 7 - 13 -6 49.2 60.0% 0.59
Legacy K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto 16 - 9 +7 88.8 90.0% 1.47
Brazil Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer 19 - 13 +6 92.2 80.0% 1.43
Brazil Guilherme 'saadzin' Pacheco 13 - 10 +3 69.0 75.0% 1.12
Brazil Lucas 'lux' Meneghini 11 - 10 +1 62.8 70.0% 1.02
Brazil Vinicius 'n1ssim' Pereira 7 - 10 -3 40.7 70.0% 0.86

Lynn Vision stun Falcons; HEROIC get on the board

A Westmelon masterclass saw Lynn Vision put up the biggest surprise result of the year (most probably) as the Chinese team shocked Falcons 13-9 on Nuke while HEROIC, after their hammering at the hands of FaZe, picked up their first win, taking down BetBoom 13-9. BetBoom and Falcons are now both one loss away from being sent home from Austin.

Falcons
9 - 13
Lynn Vision
All maps
Falcons K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač 16 - 15 +1 85.5 63.6% 1.09
Denmark Emil 'Magisk' Reif 17 - 15 +2 68.1 63.6% 1.00
Denmark René 'TeSeS' Madsen 12 - 16 -4 73.2 68.2% 0.94
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski 12 - 17 -5 71.3 59.1% 0.77
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov 12 - 17 -5 51.5 54.5% 0.70
Lynn Vision K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Zhe 'Westmelon' Niu 25 - 14 +11 109.8 77.3% 1.62
Sike 'z4kr' Zhang 13 - 13 +0 65.0 68.2% 1.13
Junjie 'EmiliaQAQ' Tang 16 - 15 +1 77.4 77.3% 1.12
Lizhi 'Starry' Ye 16 - 13 +3 73.3 59.1% 1.07
Qihao 'C4LLM3SU3' Su 9 - 16 -7 51.5 81.8% 0.87
HEROIC
13 - 9
BetBoom
All maps
HEROIC K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García 20 - 10 +10 85.4 81.8% 1.47
Sweden Linus 'LNZ' Holtäng 19 - 14 +5 93.6 77.3% 1.33
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich 14 - 11 +3 68.1 72.7% 1.05
Yasin 'xfl0ud' Koç 14 - 14 +0 85.9 63.6% 1.04
Sweden Simon 'yxngstxr' Boije 11 - 15 -4 49.6 68.2% 0.77
BetBoom K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko 13 - 13 +0 75.5 81.8% 1.14
Kirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov 14 - 17 -3 85.1 72.7% 1.11
Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin 16 - 14 +2 66.6 68.2% 1.03
Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov 14 - 16 -2 61.9 63.6% 0.85
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov 7 - 18 -11 60.4 59.1% 0.67

Ancient overtimes round out the day

The final two games of the opening day, both headed to Ancient and both were overtime affairs as M80 saw off six match points to steal a 16-13 win while Nemiga picked up a 16-12 win over MIBR.

Nemiga and M80 moved into the 1-1 pool while MIBR and OG drop to the 0-2 pool.

MIBR
12 - 16
Nemiga
All maps
MIBR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Brazil Felipe 'insani' Yuji 29 - 18 +11 99.2 78.6% 1.52
Brazil Breno 'brnz4n' Poletto 26 - 17 +9 92.7 85.7% 1.32
Brazil Raphael 'exit' Lacerda 16 - 20 -4 76.9 67.9% 0.96
Brazil Lucas 'Lucaozy' Neves 13 - 21 -8 66.2 71.4% 0.80
Brazil Rafael 'saffee' Costa 8 - 18 -10 35.9 67.9% 0.55
Nemiga K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Kirill 'Xant3r' Kononov 22 - 18 +4 87.5 75.0% 1.31
Aliaksandr '1eeR' Nahorny 27 - 21 +6 91.5 71.4% 1.29
Ivan 'zweih' Gogin 20 - 17 +3 74.8 75.0% 1.10
Beksultan 'khaN' Ospan 17 - 18 -1 59.1 75.0% 0.88
Maksim 'riskyb0b' Churikov 7 - 20 -13 54.2 60.7% 0.66
M80
16 - 13
OG
All maps
M80 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich 29 - 14 +15 88.9 89.7% 1.54
United States Mason 'Lake' Sanderson 29 - 20 +9 89.8 75.9% 1.41
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 22 - 18 +4 84.8 82.8% 1.29
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 18 - 20 -2 82.1 72.4% 1.11
Elias 's1n' Stein 11 - 17 -6 60.4 82.8% 0.88
OG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Denmark Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi 26 - 19 +7 93.9 75.9% 1.20
Sweden Olle 'spooke' Grundström 18 - 24 -6 64.6 72.4% 0.88
Denmark Christian 'Buzz' Andersen 18 - 21 -3 68.6 55.2% 0.83
Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas 15 - 23 -8 64.1 58.6% 0.74
Denmark Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard 11 - 22 -11 49.4 62.1% 0.68

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