Legacy, M80, FlyQuest, ECSTATIC complete BLAST Open London team list

3-8-2025 22:00

The four squads won their respective regional BLAST Rising competitions to earn a spot.

Legacy have carried their good from from BLAST.tv Austin Major into the new season

With the conclusion of the regional BLAST Premier Rising events in South America, North America, Europe and Asia, the team list for BLAST Open London 2025 is now complete.

Legacy, M80, FlyQuest and ECSTATIC will join a raft of the best sides in the world, including all of the current top four in HLTV's ranking, for the online portion of the event from August 27-September 1.

The 16 teams in attendance will be split across two groups of eight and play out a double-elimination BO3 bracket, with the top three teams from each group heading to London for the LAN final from September 5-7.

BLAST explains decision to run Open London groups online

Legacy enjoyed a clean run through their qualifying event, Ace SA Masters Season 2, taking down Galorys, Sharks and Imperial without dropping a map to secure their berth. This followed their qualification for ESL Pro League S22, continuing their good form since returning from the player break.

Date	Matches
Ace SA Masters 2025 Season 2 - BLAST Premier Rising Event
01/08/2025	Legacy Finished 2:0 Galorys	Match
02/08/2025	Legacy Finished 2:0 Sharks	Match
03/08/2025	Legacy Finished 2:0 Imperial	Match

Likewise M80 made short work of their qualification campaign, besting Supernova Comets, Marsborne and most notably NRG, all in 2-0 fashion. M80 have been in good form regionally since adding Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma in July, with this being their third online event in a row they have won without dropping a map.

Date	Matches
Ace NA Masters 2025 Season 2 - BLAST Premier Rising Event
01/08/2025	M80 Finished 2:0 Supernova Comets	Match
02/08/2025	Marsborne Finished 0:2 M80	Match
03/08/2025	NRG Finished 0:2 M80	Match

ECSTATIC had a far harder time of things in the European qualifier, RES Showdown 2, needing all three maps to take down Zero Tenacity, fnatic and VP.Prodigy to secure their BLAST Open spot.

Date	Matches
RES Showdown 2: BLAST Premier Rising Event
01/08/2025	ECSTATIC Finished 2:1 Zero Tenacity	Match
02/08/2025	fnatic Finished 1:2 ECSTATIC	Match
03/08/2025	VP.Prodigy Finished 1:2 ECSTATIC	Match

Finally, FlyQuest were another team to produce a flawless run to secure Open qualification, rolling over Alter Ego, Eruption and The Huns with relative ease.

Date	Matches
BLAST Rising Asia 2025 Season 2
01/08/2025	FlyQuest Finished 2:0 Alter Ego	Match
03/08/2025	Eruption Finished 0:2 FlyQuest	Match
03/08/2025	FlyQuest Finished 2:0 The Huns	Match

The full team list for BLAST Open London is as follows:

OK (BLAST no longer has a prestigious event after spending years trying to make Copenhagen work, only to give it up for whatever all of this is)

2025-08-03 22:04

9 replies

open could've been a legit s tier tournament along with cologne and kato/krakow but then they made it online

2025-08-03 22:13

1 reply

smelly BLAST as usual

Literally the big tournaments now are the Majors and all the ESL events. BLAST went from turning Copenhagen into a household name alongside Kato/Krakow and Cologne to being a second rate event like PGL ain'tnoway

2025-08-03 22:18

6 replies

actually below PGL for the most part

4 replies

Yeah because PGL has actually been cooking whenever their arena plans dont go up in smoke. I remember a Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo + another Belgrade. Where are they, PGL?

2025-08-03 22:58

3 replies

Usually not their fault those locations failed, just politics involved

2025-08-03 23:34

Ok in 2025, Many events have been changed, I will give you a rundown. PGL moved Buneos Aires to Cluj Napoca. Behind the scenes reason from what I remember was 1) when they went to check the venue, it was not up to par with was had been promised to them. 2) it was supposed to be hosted after katowice, so most people just wouldn't travel there. Reasonable because LAN games are still LAN BLAST Rivals was supposed to be hosted in Monetary, it was shifted to BLAST Copenhagen studios. Reasons: 1) Same Logistical difficulties as PGL Buneos Aires. 2) It was supposed to be held after Melbourne, so again travel issues. Reasonable, because LAN games are still LAN. BLAST changed group stage of BLAST Open London to be online instead of LAN at BLAST Copenhagen studios. Reason: Idk I heard somewhere that the top teams wanted it to be this way. This is bad because online games are useless for VRS especially if the group stage has LAN spots as prize money. ESL has made EPL group stages be online in the future in 2026, this is bad, but does not effect us in 2025. PGL moved Belgared to Bucharest studio. Reason: A tennis tournament was supposed to be held in the same arena where Belgared was supposed to be held, so it got cancelled. Atleast it is still a LAN event. These are the only moved events for 2025. There are some other VRS bs and exceptions from valve which are bad, but i won't get into those.

2025-08-04 04:09

In addition to what you stated, PGL were partnered with FiReLEAGUE for all of the SA events (Buenos Aires was the only one in 2025) and that partnership seems to have completely fallen apart.

2025-08-04 16:02

Copenhagen crowd has sucked for a few years tho. It was kinda up there the first years, but it's been a steep decline since then

2025-08-03 23:15

bitcoin

2025-08-03 22:00

BNB

2025-08-04 00:39

Nice

JKS: 1 BLAST OPEN LONDON QUALI LIQUID: 0 BLAST OPEN LONDON QUALI

7 replies

This is not really an achievement

2025-08-03 22:19

correct … but Liquid could never

2025-08-04 00:35

Liquid lost quickly to Jame's academy team, it's not even mentioned in the article. These kids don't even have enough cash to get a haircut: hltv.org/player/24951/triborgg1

2025-08-04 02:40

VP academy - 1 win over Liquid and 0 haircuts Liquid - 0 wins over VP academy and 5 haircuts

2025-08-04 03:17

2 replies

Does the racoon that twistz carry on his head count as a haircut? Is it specific to Canada?

2025-08-04 03:26

kinda … that raccoon is his pet but doubles as his hair and yes - we al have that haircut here in Canada!!!

2025-08-04 03:38

Tell that to a team that need VRS for the major

2025-08-03 22:01

goon

Solid article, only thing is in the subheading under the photo you put “carrying their good from from Blast.TV” which I guess is supposed to be form. Other than that, great article

2025-08-03 22:28

@king_dempz

2025-08-03 23:11

no way nut nut in a tier 1 event

2025-08-03 22:37

Job well done, looking forward to this one!

2025-08-03 23:06

m80 looking kinda good

2025-08-03 23:21

truth be told, they have. i skipped watching the grand final today to watch their grand final, and man did they stomp nrg. didn't feel like nrg had a chance even for a moment.

2025-08-04 06:35

theyve been grinding too. each of them has crazy hours this month

2025-08-04 17:30

absolutely. both hext and lake look rejuvenated on this current roster iteration. looking forward to seeing what they can do this season!

2025-08-05 06:26

Legacy is way to good to be playing in Brazil but not good enough to play the tier s tournaments, they are on a limbo.

2025-08-03 23:30

Imagine be in a limbo and still humble Vitality on inferno in a major lol

2025-08-04 00:13

Legacy is at least top 3 of brazillian teams, but the VRS system is trash

2025-08-04 01:38

jksex

2025-08-04 00:30

Ez for nutnut

2025-08-04 01:16

@king_dempz any update why NiP skip the qualifier?

2025-08-04 02:39

Maybe they took a nice break to get ready to make the final push for getting to number 1 in 2025 or they don't like London, this is also understandable: youtube.com/watch?v=bRBZw4IU8rg

2025-08-04 03:24