MOUZ beat FaZe 2-0 in World Final opening round

FaZe will face NAVI in the lower bracket final decider series.

MOUZ have beaten FaZe now twice in a row after a 2-0 victory in the BLAST Premier World Final opening round. The last time this happened was at IEM Rio, where they got revenge from IEM Chengdu, where FaZe went 2-0 in the grand final.

This time around the match was closer, as it took an overtime on Inferno (16-13) and a full 24 rounds on Nuke (13-11) to tally the victory.

This loss now puts FaZe in the last chance saloon against Natus Vincere, while MOUZ will play Astralis in the upper bracket final seeding match.

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier World Final 2024
31/10/2024	Natus Vincere 07:00 FaZe	Match
31/10/2024	Astralis 10:15 MOUZ	Match

David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský did his best to get one on his former team, and got a 1.25 rating, but none of his teammates stepped up as it was in-game leader Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen with a 1.03 who was second on the scoreboard.

For MOUZ, it was Ludvig "⁠Brollan⁠" Brolin who had a day as he topped the board with a 1.33 rating with 23 kills to his name on both Inferno and Nuke.

It was Dorian "⁠xertioN⁠" Berman who drew first blood. He didn't wait long, as he took down four FaZe players in the opening pistol round after walking through a smoke with Dual Berettas.

The map stayed closed throughout, however, as it went to 10-10 in the final stretch and the two teams were at a stalemate after 24 rounds.

A fantastic quad-kill by Brollan tied things up 13-13 and MOUZ didn't look back, winning the three following rounds to secure FaZe's Inferno pick.

Parity continued on Nuke, and once again it was Brollan who led the way for his team. It wasn't his heroics that took FaZe down, however, with many star players struggling to find form.

In the end, it was a blunder on karrigan's side as they lost to a Lobby crunch in a crucial round to put themselves up against match point and then three rounds later failed to close out a 4vs2 situation against pistols to force overtime.