First matchups set for Stage 3 of Austin Major

11-6-2025 00:47

Heavy-hitters like Vitality, MOUZ, and Spirit will finally be making their Austin Major debut.

Legacy face a daunting opening match against Vitality after their 3-0 run through Stage 2

With Stage 2 of the BLAST.tv Austin Major drawn to a close, the opening matches for Stage 3 have been determined.

Headlining the high-stakes best-of-ones is a matchup between Aurora and FaZe, the latter of whom scraped into Stage 3 after enduring tough losses to Legacy and 3DMAX.

FaZe lock in final Stage 3 spot over MIBR

Vitality, the clear favorites following the early elimination of Falcons, will be looking to put a damper on the Cinderella run of Legacy, who marched through Stage 2-0 with an unblemished record. Other top sides MOUZ and Spirit will be facing off against Virtus.pro and paiN in their respective opening games.

The remaining best-of-ones will feature G2 taking on 3DMAX, The MongolZ facing FURIA in their third event in a row, Natus Vincere squaring off against Nemiga, and Liquid matching into Lynn Vision.

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
12/06/2025	Vitality 17:00 Legacy	Match
12/06/2025	MOUZ 17:00 Virtus.pro	Match
12/06/2025	Spirit 17:55 paiN	Match
12/06/2025	G2 18:10 3DMAX	Match
12/06/2025	Aurora 18:45 FaZe	Match
12/06/2025	The MongolZ 19:00 FURIA	Match
12/06/2025	Natus Vincere 19:45 Nemiga	Match
12/06/2025	Liquid 20:05 Lynn Vision	Match

the best teams must face each other, what a joke

2025-06-11 00:48

18 replies

Blind?

2025-06-11 00:51

2 replies

i guess you are, both 3:0 teams face two the best teams

2025-06-11 00:52

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trolling why?

2025-06-11 00:53

It's seeds 1vs9, 2vs10 ,3vs11 etc basically. Seeds 9&10 are the 3:0s, 11,12,13 are 3:1 Etc

10 replies

i know, still its stupid. The reward for going 3:0 is the worst nightmare

2025-06-11 00:54

9 replies

it actually makes it so they vs easiest teams at later stages

2025-06-11 01:08

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This right here.

2025-06-11 07:34

I was thinking about it too, but im not sure it 100% work like that. The team that will win everything will face the best teams in 2:0 anyway, and the team that might lose still can face hard team in 0:1

2025-06-11 11:51

yeah so easy, right? amazing system

2025-06-12 17:45

if it was first 1v16 and so forth, if the best seeded team won every match-up, the top 8 in the seeding wouldn't make the playoffs. that's why they made this change

2025-06-11 01:39

They could just randomly draw the matchups after round 1. also, the notion that upsets never happen is just insane. Did you watch falcons?

2025-06-11 01:53

Yeah meeting the best teams on bo1 first rounds is a blessing, you can't meet them again later and they fly up and away while you can clear up the lower stages. Sucks if you lose 2 bo1 in a row tho

2025-06-11 02:00

Not exactly, you start hard and then it gets easier... imaging stage 2 team 3:0 facing the likes of vitality or spirit if they end up 2:2... thats way worse

2025-06-11 01:40

its to prevent them having to face the best teams in potential bo3/elimination matches. this seeding is very good.

2025-06-11 02:02

Lynn Vision and Liquid? I agree, this is an OUTRAGE.

2025-06-11 00:57

why should they care who they face? If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best

2025-06-11 02:26

Yes its a joke 1st VS 9th is a joke, 1st seed should always play 16th

2025-06-11 09:11

Because of Buchholz, if 9th seed loses their first game then they get an easy matchup for the second. So it's still fair and in some ways even a good thing since facing 1st seed in the first round means there's no possibility of facing them in a Bo3 later

2025-06-11 13:05

2025-06-11 00:49

Vitality is so cooked

lets go lynn vision!

Vitality Virtus.pro Spirit 3DMAX The MongolZ Aurora Nemiga Lynn Vision

2025-06-11 00:55

mouz free 3:0, studio gamers

2025-06-11 01:23

gl mouz

2025-06-11 01:48

so? 5/8 correct mouz free 0:2, studio gamers

2025-06-13 00:34

Do we really think that that 1vs9 2vs10 seeding is better? You are literally being punished for playing a good first stage. Can somebody explain me the benefits of this instead of typical 1vs16 etc?

2025-06-11 01:05

Basically the system used to determin matchups is shit and instead of coming up with a better one they use this to mitigate it's problems (in the past when it was 1v16, sometimes seed 1 and 2 faced each other in the 2-0 game which is also completely bs)

2025-06-11 01:18

Buchholz system is kinda like Elo, you get less punished for losing to a better team (ie. a team with a higher seed) and more punished for losing to a worse team (ie. a team with a lower seed). So it works out to more fair matchups in later rounds

2025-06-11 13:19