BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR Open Qualifier 2

HEET, Eternal Fire headline final eight teams to advance to BLAST.tv EU RMR closed qualifiers

15-2-2023 19:32

Three French teams came through the bracket after a regional failure in the first online qualifier.

The second BLAST.tv Paris Europe RMR open qualifier reached its qualification round on Wednesday, and eight teams have secured their spots in the upcoming closed qualifiers taking place between February 16-19.

The qualifiers opened up on Tuesday with nearly 1000 teams taking part in the notoriously unforgiving single-elimination knockout bracket. The first six rounds of play were decided by best-of-one fixtures before a best-of-three qualifying match. Two additional BO1 rounds and a 5-6th place decider will also be played later on Wednesday for seeding purposes.

HEET, Mixfits, and LDLC all advanced from the second qualifier

The first open qualifier was one to forget for French teams as none managed to reach the BO3 phase, meaning today was the last chance for local teams to reach the closed qualifiers for the first-ever French CS:GO Major. HEET, GenOne, Mixfits, and LDLC all managed to redeem themselves and reach the round of 16, while Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon's Nakama project fell to Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski's Let us cook in the RO128, marking France's most notable absence today.

For a detailed recap and breakdown of how the matches up until the round of 64 unfolded, you can take a look back through our live post. You can also check out the remaining seeding matches and their results on the event page.

Both HEET and LDLC won their matches over Nexus and SINNERS, respectively, guaranteeing at least four French squads in the two closed qualifiers. GenOne and Mixfits played each other for a spot, while Falcons received a direct invite due to their position in the Valve Regional Rankings.

shox to miss BLAST.tv Paris Major as day one of EU RMR open qualifier 2 concludes

The Polish squad of PGE Turow were the first team to advance from today's matches after taking down Dripmen 2-0 on the back of great performances from Kacper "⁠gRuChA⁠" Gruszeczka and Maciej "⁠b1elany⁠" Biliński. Their compatriots from Anonymo joined them in the closed qualifiers shortly after thanks to their win over Partizan.

JANO became the second Finnish team to reach the closed qualifiers, joining HAVU following a 2-1 victory over FTW delivered by Lasse "⁠ZOREE⁠" Uronen and Olli "⁠sLowi⁠" Pitkänen. They were followed by Eternal Fire as the Turkish squad defeated Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim's GODSENT with wins on Inferno and Mirage.

Valve Regional Ranking list locked ahead of RMR closed qualifier invites

The last two spots in the closed qualifiers were taken by ECSTATIC and Mixfits. David "⁠devoduvek⁠" Dobrosavljevic's side came back against GenOne after losing their map pick to take Inferno (16-4) and edge out Anubis in overtime (19-17), while the Danes took down the K23 in a 2-1 series.

Teams that qualified for the closed qualifier over the last two days will have to wait for all seeding matches to be resolved before they are assigned to their respective closed qualifiers.

The teams who have advanced to the BLAST.tv Paris EU RMR closed qualifiers are:

Open Qualifier 1

Open Qualifier 2

While the invites and distribution of teams already set for the EU closed qualifiers are as follows:

EU RMR A closed qualifier

EU RMR B closed qualifier

baguette

2023-02-15 19:32

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god allu

2023-02-15 19:42

2023-02-15 19:34

Le baguette

2023-02-15 23:11

Yo les noobs, Thank god a few French teams made it through to the next stage, it’s not a complete disaster except for GenOne (Nakama was an expected failure). But damn this was the worst open qualifier level-wise for a Major since at least 2018.

2023-02-15 19:35

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This is open qualifier to a closed qualifier, which qualifies to an RMR, which is qualifier to Challengers stage, which used to be qualifier to a regular stage of the major. And even then the regular stage is 16 teams

2023-02-15 22:30

Most of the good teams had already qualfied for the closed qualifier. So, the level was low for a good reason. Nakama was a shit show, I knew it. Smitzzz the bartender.

2023-02-15 23:05

Hopefully LDLC qualify to represent France

I hope Falcons do it, Kennys NBK bodyy and misutaa are on the team. i also hope Heet and ldlc make it but we can only hope

2023-02-15 21:24

not mentioned about ef .. hltv is racist

2023-02-15 19:33

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no they just aint really that relevant XD

2023-02-15 19:38

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Said nip fan 🤣

2023-02-15 19:55

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If you would even look 5s at my profile you would see that I have been a NiP fan since 2014. Futhermore this team archived more than Eternal Fire ever will. My guy your team wont be T1 regardless of what they will try

2023-02-15 19:56

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You talk like nip is tier 1 hahahahhahahahahshahha Who cares nips successes in 2014 lol dinosaurs time xdd

2023-02-15 19:59

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Nip 17, Eternal fire 31 who? talk again mr Turk. Also Imagine you are shit talking a team with a standin lmao. Still doing better then your turkish "super team"

2023-02-15 20:04

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Imagine care about hltv ranking. Only nip fans would care.So pathetic. Imagine lose to finished sprout in legends stage and go 0-3 🤣🤣🤣. Shameful for a considered "BIG" org .

2023-02-15 20:23

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With a short term stand-in lol. Your team usually doesnt even make it through the qualifier most of the times so maybe look at your own team before talking lmao Imagine loosing 0:2 to Heet and 500 LOL

2023-02-15 20:36

Imagine lose to sprout 0:2 in legends with full roster 🤣🤣🤣 500 > nip btw

2023-02-15 20:48

Ah yes go 4 months back to when they just had gotten their new IGL. Makes sense. Solid argument. Not like Eternal Fire who doesnt even have a real IGL and just keeps shifting players because lol Also 500 is legit shit. Not even on an offday would they win against NiP XD Classical bulgarian onliners

2023-02-15 20:51

jerman being racist, how surprising

2023-02-15 22:34

Since when is refering someones Nationality racist lol. Thats like saying Mr Swede or Mr German is racist

2023-02-15 23:28

Based

2023-02-16 01:22

GODTARES

ez for heet falcons ldlc mixtfits

Poland returning on a map. Finally is this 2013?

Perhaps Taz scraped his Mercedes?

2023-02-16 08:59

EZ4iNation

2023-02-15 19:37

GOD ALLU

FRENCH CS BACK ON TOP BABY

bro i had no idea that closed quals will be that soon wtf

2023-02-15 19:39

woah me neither

2023-02-15 20:07

Sad for genOne, super hype derby, hope at least one french team at major

2023-02-15 19:41

anyone know how far boomerdemons made it in the 2nd open quals?

2023-02-15 19:48

round of 128, lost 12-16

2023-02-15 20:00

sadge :' (

2023-02-15 20:09

Nice to see some old legends playing like taz, allu and senor vac etc.

2023-02-15 19:53

LDLC pls qualify

Allu gonna smurf his way to major winner

lets go

2023-02-15 20:11

Shox left Apeks and wanted badly to reach the major. Now he wont be there at all, but Apeks might.

2023-02-15 20:43

"Shox left Apeks and wanted badly to reach the major. "Hum, that's why he decided to play with smitzz a.k.a the bartender and with rejects from t3 french cs. Shox was trying, but not badly. Shox is not hungry to win like before. He wants to qualify like snax, getright or other mix like that. He will commit for few months.

2023-02-15 23:20