Complexity, FURIA move on in BLAST Showdown

Evil Geniuses and Legacy exit the competition in the quarter-finals.

The BLAST Premier Fall Showdown Americas quarter-final stage has concluded, with Complexity and FURIA joining Party Astronauts and Liquid in the semi-finals.

Complexity won their game against Evil Geniuses with two close-fought 16-14 victories, while Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's FURIA got the better of Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David's Legacy in the final game of the day.

Complexity vs. Evil Geniuses began the third day of the NA BLAST Showdown, with the match surprisingly being the first bout between these two cores. Evil Geniuses came out swinging on their map pick of Inferno and soon found themselves 6-2 up, but Complexity came back to go into the second half just one round behind. The scores remained close for the rest of the map before Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince and Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou closed out a 2vs4 situation in the 30th round to get their team over the line.

Overpass was the second map, where neither team put up much of a fight on their offensive half. Complexity found three after a back-and-forth opening but then lost nine rounds in a row to go into the second half 3-12 down.

Fortunately for them, Evil Geniuses struggled even more on their offense and allowed Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and company to get back to 11-12 before they won their first round. That did little to change Evil Geniuses' fortunes, however, as they eventually petered out in another 16-14 loss and exited the BLAST Showdown.

The final BLAST Showdown series of the day saw the Brazilian derby of FURIA vs. Legacy. Overpass was the map chosen by coldzera's troops, and they got off to a fantastic start on the T side before FURIA put together a small resurgence and reduced the deficit to 7-8 despite Eduardo "⁠dumau⁠" Wolkmer putting up 21 kills in the first half.

The 19-year-old's fragging cooled off somewhat in the second half, and none of his teammates were able to replace his impact, which helped FURIA secure a 16-13 victory despite losing the second-half pistol.

Legacy got another quick start on their pick of Mirage, stopping FURIA's consecutive A attacks to go up 8-3. It wasn't to last, however, FURIA were able to come back once again to go into the second half three rounds behind. FalleN's AWP warmed up in the dying stages of the map, but his 27 kills weren't enough for FURIA to complete the comeback, as they could only reach 14 before Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares clutched out a 1vs2 to secure a 16-14 victory.

Nuke was the final map of the series and proved to be the most one-sided. FURIA struggled on their defense and posted just eight rounds but found their groove when switching to the T side. They quickly negated Legacy's pistol-round conversion and ran away with the map to close out a 16-9 victory.

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2023 Americas
07/10/2023	Party Astronauts 18:45 Liquid	Match
07/10/2023	Complexity 22:30 FURIA	Match
08/10/2023	Liquid 20:50 Complexity	Match

Three more matches are set to be played in the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown Americas. The semi-finals between Party Astronauts vs. Liquid and Complexity vs. FURIA will happen on Saturday, with the winners of those two games set to battle for a spot at the BLAST Premier Fall Final on Sunday.