Into the Breach claim another upset to close Legends Stage 1-1 matches

The UK side have consigned yet another top-10 side to defeat, this time ENCE, in the Legends Stage.

The 1-1 pool matches have concluded at the BLAST Paris Major, and the biggest result was certainly Into the Breach’s 16-7 victory over ENCE on Vertigo. The other games saw Natus Vincere comfortably dispatch Ninjas in Pyjamas 16-9 on Overpass, GamerLegion ease past fnatic 16-11 on the same map, and Apeks crush Bad News Eagles 16-6 on Ancient.

In the headline result Into the Breach thoroughly outclassed ENCE on Vertigo, one of the European combine’s comfort picks. The UK squad’s offensive half was slick and well-coordinated, their excellent spacing and trading proving tough to handle for ENCE’s usually flank-heavy approach to defense. Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson and Thomas "⁠Thomas⁠" Utting provided the impact needed to ensure their team’s T-side efforts would net a strong scoreline.

Into the Breach are proving a dangerous opponent

Over on the CT half it was Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel who stepped up to the plate and delivered, time and time again stopping ENCE cold at ramp to ensure no comeback was possible for Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer’s troops.

Into the Breach came into this Major as the most popular 0-3 team in the community's pick’ems, but the British team have silenced all doubters by picking up two huge scalps. First came FaZe who Into the Breach shocked with a stellar 10-5 CT-side effort, one partially fueled by Thomas’ auto-sniper purchases. Next came this win over ENCE, and the only majority-UK team at the Major now find themselves in a promising position to qualify for the playoffs.

Elsewhere in the round Natus Vincere eased to victory over Ninjas in Pyjamas, the dynamic duo of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy proving too much for the Nordic squad to overcome, GamerLegion breezed past fnatic thanks to a stellar defensive performance from their IGL Kamil "⁠siuhy⁠" Szkaradek, whilst Apeks continued their excellent form in Paris by crushing Bad News Eagles with little effort.

Coming up next in the Legends Stage are the first qualification series, where HEROIC will do battle with a resurgent Liquid and powerful underdogs Monte will face off against the Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut-powered Vitality.

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023
14/05/2023	HEROIC 13:55 Liquid	Match
14/05/2023	Monte 14:00 Vitality	Match

Group Legends Stage

2W - 0L

HEROIC

Liquid

Monte

Vitality

2W - 1L

Apeks

Into the Breach

Natus Vincere

GamerLegion

1W - 2L

fnatic

Ninjas in Pyjamas

ENCE

Bad News Eagles

0W - 2L

G2

9INE

FaZe

FURIA