RES Eastern European Masters Spring 2024 - BLAST Premier Qualifier

Monte secure final BLAST Spring Showdown spot

19-2-2024 00:09

Woro2k's team earned a spot in the Showdown just ahead of their RMR appearance.

Woro2k helped take things over the line in the grand final

Monte have qualified for BLAST Premier Spring Showdown following a 2-1 victory over Aurora in RES Eastern European Masters Spring, beating Viktor "⁠Lack1⁠" Boldyrev's side on Mirage (13-10) and Ancient (13-9) on either side of a loss on Nuke (6-13).

The Ukrainian-majority roster are the 16th and final team to secure a spot in the online tournament, which will run from March 6-10 and utilize a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket to determine the final two teams to qualify for BLAST Premier Spring Final.

Monte were the favorites coming into the eight-team Eastern Europe qualifier and lived up to that reputation, surviving a close shave against The Chosen Few in their opening game before beating Aurora to make the playoffs.

A phenomenal performance from Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev (1.47 rating, 0.90 KPR, 1.37 impact, and 100.6 ADR) then powered Monte past SINNERS in the semi-finals, with Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk stepping up in his team's qualifying match against Aurora to secure advancement to the Showdown.

Date	Matches
RES Eastern European Masters Spring 2024 - BLAST Premier Qualifier
17/02/2024	Monte Finished 13:11 The Chosen Few	Match
17/02/2024	Monte Finished 13:6 Aurora	Match
18/02/2024	SINNERS Finished 1:2 Monte	Match
18/02/2024	Aurora Finished 1:2 Monte	Match

The successful qualifier bid comes just ahead of Monte's opening game of PGL Major Copenhagen Europe RMR B, where they will face ECSTATIC in their opening match.

The Ukrainian organization revealed on Saturday that sdy would miss at least the first day of the RMR due to illness and that they would use Monte Gen member Jack "⁠Gizmy⁠" von Spreckelsen as a stand-in until sdy was ready to return to action. The 26-year-old's absence comes as a huge blow given his stellar level in recent months and his secondary voice on the team, illustrated further by his impact in this qualifier.

sdy sidelined from Europe RMR B by illness

Following Monte's qualification, the complete team list for the Showdown is:

2024-02-19 00:09

who even cares about this, it's just likely going to be Spirit and one other team that no one cares about.

2024-02-19 00:10

7 replies

Who cares about spirit?

2024-02-19 00:15

5 replies

People who want to see if donk can continue playing good, which is everyone

2024-02-19 00:31

2 replies

2024-02-19 06:14

Not everyone.

2024-02-19 11:21

Name, flag and flair checks out

2024-02-19 02:02

the guy in your flair definitely cares about spirit

2024-02-19 14:39

Spirit wont win plus spirit will go 3-1 in this major qualifier

2024-02-19 05:52

bet house on monte to not qualify hopefully 0-2 tmrw

2024-02-19 00:17

4 replies

so sorry for lost bet(

2024-02-19 00:21

-house, if monte win ECSTATIC they will with 80% play versus Cloud9 without sniper, if they will lose to ECSTATIC they will with 80% play with Nexus. Monte have luck to have a good ranking, they will always have low ranking teams to play.

2024-02-19 06:27

Monte have a good chance to play Spirit or Astralis if they win

2024-02-19 08:10

if preasy win now, heroic will put monte 0-2 :) but if they get nexus then i doubt they will lose xd

2024-02-19 16:01

Nice, Monte cementing more and more their place in tier1 events

2024-02-19 00:22

3 replies

monte are tier 1 dont get me wrong but i dont think beating current aurora really proves anything lmao

2024-02-19 01:24

I'm not saying it proves something, I'm saying that it's making Monte's place in tier1 events more solid instead of a fluke as ITB was, or rather without a doubt that they deserve it whereas the likes of Apeks and GamerLegion are struggling to maintain relevance

2024-02-19 02:59

1 reply

eh itb immediately fell off, monte stayed solid them getting to the showdown against teams ranked 30 places lower than them is expected, they are one of the favourites to win showdown after all however in the sense of not losing to top40 teams you are right a real tier 1 team cannot afford to lose game like these also dont sleep on gl while they are not going to major finals or smth like that they are doing so much better than one would expect considering they lost their 2 most important players after the major (also applies to monte and boros to a lesser extent because he turned out to be... not good)

2024-02-19 03:18