BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier

GamerLegion, PARIVISION in trouble after Europe MRQ day one

14-4-2025 22:13

The two squads are joined by 500 and B8 in the 0-2 pool.

The first day of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier came to an end with BetBoom and GamerLegion suffering losses in the final matches of the second round.

The latter's struggles have been especially surprising, as Ashley "⁠ash⁠" Battye's men came into the tournament as one of the favorites to cruise to the Major. That was far from what happened, however, as they lost their opener against Nemiga (7-13 on Mirage) before suffering defeat against fnatic.

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier
14/04/2025	GamerLegion Finished 7:13 Nemiga	Match
14/04/2025	GamerLegion Finished 8:13 fnatic	Match

While no team has been eliminated or secured their spot at the Major, the standings are beginning to take shape after today's matches.

HEROIC and Metizport sit pretty in the 2-0 pool and now move to play best-of-three matches for qualification.

Joining them in the 2-0 bracket are OG, who defeated Astralis and 9 Pandas, and Nemiga, who breezed past GamerLegion and BetBoom.

The 1-1 pool, which will be played in a best-of-one format, features the likes of BIG and Astralis, who recovered from their round-one losses to steer clear of the danger zone.

GamerLegion and PARIVISION are among the teams set to fight in the elimination 0-2 pool. The latter were given a tough draw and lost to HEROIC and Astralis to stare down the barrel of elimination, with B8 and 500 the other two teams in immediate trouble.

Tuesday's matches look as follows:

2-0 pool

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier
15/04/2025	OG 16:00 Metizport	Match
15/04/2025	HEROIC 16:15 Nemiga	Match

1-1 pool

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier
15/04/2025	BC.Game 13:00 BIG	Match
15/04/2025	BetBoom 13:45 fnatic	Match
15/04/2025	9 Pandas 14:35 SAW	Match
15/04/2025	Astralis 15:20 ENCE	Match

0-2 pool

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Europe Regional Qualifier
15/04/2025	GamerLegion 10:00 500	Match
15/04/2025	B8 10:00 PARIVISION	Match

we love online bo1 it's such a great and reliable way of determining who goes to the biggest tournament of the year

2025-04-14 22:15

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14 replies

Honestly, I don't know why they don't do something like 2 bo3. If you lose 2 bo3, you don't deserve to go to the majors anyway. It would take roughly the same amount of time.

2025-04-14 22:18

11 replies

The worst scenario is u losing one bo3 and two bo1, most other case u lose at least two bo3, they would've lost anyway

2025-04-14 22:20

9 replies

but the difference is you lose 1 bo1 mr12 online, the 0-1 or 1-1 match-ups are filled with "good teams" who would probably win in a bo3.

2025-04-14 22:22

8 replies

it was proven many times based on stats and underdog winning does not increase much in bo1s comparing to bo3

7 replies

on LAN, not online. Those stats were not made with ro128 or qualifiers.

2025-04-14 22:24

6 replies

generally, people overrate bo3, league of legend where match can end in 20 minutes on the biggest tournament in esports- Worlds, playing the same swiss with bo1s as on the major, and I don't see many people complaining

2025-04-14 22:23

5 replies

I don't mind bo1 for seeding purpose, but I feel the best format would like 1 bo1 for "seeding" then two bo3.

2025-04-14 22:25

4 replies

it would increase major time by 3-5 days and those matches don't really interesting that much anyways and as I said with bo1 there is not a lot of upsets as people would think, they just listen to what talent says and repeat, the same story was with pistol, they would cry about it for year or so, and recently stop a bit, and all the time statistic said and the difference between pistol in mr12 and m13 did not increase a lot

2025-04-14 22:29

3 replies

Wrong. Bo 1 is about who have best map pool. Bo 3 is about who actually is the better team

2025-04-15 06:57

2 replies

1 map win > 2 maps win in terms of map pool?

2025-04-15 10:01

1 reply

With bo1 you never play maps you would pick first. Neither teams. Its "reserve maps"

2025-04-15 10:42

Lan bo1's are fine, the problem of this shit was the retarded who had an idea to make mrq online.

2025-04-15 02:45

+1, this is fucking ridiculous

2025-04-14 22:45

valve doesnt care they only watch the playoffs

2025-04-15 03:09

embarassing parivision this results wont be tolerated, i smashed my tv and changed flair, cya

2025-04-14 22:16

why would u cheer for a gambling team, I would rather support org that support healthy scene

2025-04-14 22:21

i have bad news for you then, every team is sponsored by a gambling company.

2025-04-15 09:44

being sponsored by bookie and being a bookie team is a huge difference

2025-04-15 21:49

the most % of the ordinary team sponsor money comes from bookies, who cares

2025-04-15 22:43

gamerlegion caused me braindamage today, I have gone crazy

they always start 0-2 xd the question is if they can bounce back again for a fourth major in a row

2025-04-14 22:50

They will need to win 5 BO3 in a row to still qualify. I'm not optimistic.

2025-04-14 23:21

they will NOT do it.

wow its like i read the future!

2025-04-17 01:48

Major are ridiculous... BO1 online qual... BO3 lan finals...

Not like we’re losing a team that was gonna be in the last stage or final anyway

2025-04-14 22:51

Its a team that deserves to make the major AT LEAST... ?

2025-04-15 01:19

Should’ve vetoed better I mean Russians on mirage and Anubis where they suck

2025-04-15 08:06

Praying oxygeN has some good reads tomorrow to eliminate GL

He is known for good reads

2025-04-14 23:13

Major BO1 qualifications PGL closed qualifier final BO5 :))) Put Valve in recycling bin with their major set up ....

2025-04-15 01:11

but ash such a goat and underrated coach hltv yappers said....

2025-04-14 22:28

He isn’t with a team, shut up if you don’t know a thing

2025-04-14 22:39

the said yapper:

2025-04-14 22:46

Flair

2025-04-14 22:59

solid 1-3 series by the goat!!! Tier 3 was too strong today...

2025-04-16 13:19

Stop yapping No shame losing mr12 bo1 Im pretty sure they gonna climb in bo3

2025-04-14 23:15

Don't remember when GL won anything since their Paris run

2025-04-15 09:43

they qualified last rmr after fl4mus dropped: 1.21 1.31 1.2 1.33

2025-04-15 09:47

goat performance from ash!!

2025-04-15 11:52

ash went into his body and played the lifegamed every bo3 after going 0-2 into the rmr. idk, ash goat whatsoever, but they will miss this one. 4 more bo3s to qual? crazy shit

2025-04-15 22:45

imagine that stavn is right about this being online = shit

2025-04-14 22:37

Why do I have to imagine? Everyone and their mouths had been saying online matches for the major are Moroni for ages now

2025-04-15 00:48

GL the best team playing in this qualifier but they have to start from 0-2 thanks to online bo1 ... on the other hand Nemiga, OG, Metizsport 2-0

2025-04-14 22:38

GL should've won then

update for you: OG is 3-0 currently with stage 1 of the major secured. Nemiga, Metiz in the 2-1 bracket. i dont think it is the format problem. if you manage to lose 2 bo1 in same day on different maps vs worse teams on paper while not even making it competitive, you dont deserve to play in the biggest event of the season.

2025-04-15 22:48

Best of ones should have died with CSGO.

its online and it still cant be full BO3, like why?

Having it be full bo3 would've added like 1 or 2 days. It's the qualifier for the biggest tournament of the season, no team would mind spending a little longer playing it out. Just beyond stupid by Valve.

2025-04-14 22:49

Yeah because everyone wants to watch more of 9pandas vs saw B8 vs parivision Gl vs 500 Nemiga vs metziport Sign me up for that

2025-04-14 23:16

It's not about watching the qualifiers. I rather watch a major with the actual best teams present instead of some random radar team getting pummeled out of the tournament while a promising dark horse team is forced to watch from home.

2025-04-14 23:47

there are NO random radar teams in the european MRQ. there are only the best EU teams that did not make the direct invites.

2025-04-15 22:49

signed

2025-04-15 01:12

Signed

2025-04-15 09:34

implemented mr12 and we're STILL USING BO1s in major quals??? not to mention online and without coaches. laughably unbelievable

My goat Jame will turn it around

2025-04-14 23:02

Who do people always mald about the same stuff every single year? If you can't beat a team in a best of you one you don't deserve a spot, simple as. You need to play your best against all teams

people mald, because its stupid and so easy to fix, yet they dont do it "every single year". Whats so hard to understand?

2025-04-14 23:51

What's to fix? Just get good

2025-04-15 06:55

how do you live with one braincell

2025-04-15 07:46

I genuinely don't know if you are baiting or not, but the fix is to make all the matches BO3, since it's online its pretty easy to do.

2025-04-15 08:23

Why tho, if you can't win one or two bo1s then you don't deserve to be at the major.

2025-04-15 09:05

Because we want the best teams at the major and BO1 increases the randomness of the outcome, we would like the most accurate outcome regarding to skill of the teams, which BO3 provides. If the team deserved to win in a BO1, they will deserve to win in a BO3 aswell.

2025-04-15 09:07

Oh, so you want the same 32 teams? Why not just make it invitational at this point then. The "randomness" you talk about can be fought against if top teams actually prepped the best way they can. CS2 these days it's not about who has the best aim or movement, its about being able to read the opponent and have good strats/counter strats.

2025-04-15 09:36

why would it be the same 32 teams?

2025-04-15 11:59

online bo1 for major hhahahahAHAHAHAHHAHAhahHAHAHH good one valve

2025-04-14 23:20

bo1 and no coach is ridicules for the qualifier to the most important event

2025-04-14 23:52

bo1 is complete RNG coinflip for decent/good teams

2025-04-15 00:28

BO1 clownfiesta

2025-04-15 01:06

and I picked 2 GL players + 2 Parivision players lol

2025-04-15 05:38

Top 97% OMEGALUL hltv.org/fantasy/524/league/189590/team/.. Every time I play tier 2 fantasy I pick all the teams that don't do anything.

2025-04-15 06:49

This means that at least one of these teams wont qualify already. Just one of the three 3:2 teams makes it.

2025-04-15 06:27

Why BO1??? In MR12 it make no sense

2025-04-15 06:42

BO1 is some bs fr

2025-04-15 06:48

Gamerlegion such a disspointment. Loosing to Fnatic is unacceptable. Nemiga is a decent team, who might be cheating (eastern europe, online....) but fnatic... cmon. Unfortunately it says a lot about the problem with GL. So much talent but so inconsistent..

2025-04-15 07:00