{"id":26812,"date":"2025-06-23T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=26812"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:33:04","slug":"blast-tv-austin-major-2025-recap-everything-that-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/blast-tv-austin-major-2025-recap-everything-that-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Recap &#8211; Everything That Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <strong>more than two weeks of epic CS2 matches<\/strong>, the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 came to an end. In our <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/blast-tv-austin-major-2025-playoff-stage-overview\/\">Playoff Stage overview<\/a>, we talked about some of the hottest upcoming matches, and we were definitely not disappointed. Now that the dust has settled, <strong>let\u2019s dive in and see what actually happened<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team Vitalty\u2019s Triumph<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"910 ACE (Crowd POV) - The Mongolz vs Team Vitality - BLAST.tv Austin Major Grand Final\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12XYvC-FhHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the deadly Group Stage, it was time for the <strong>best CS2 teams to advance to the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025\u2019s Playoffs<\/strong>. Every single clash here was amazing to watch, but after the first 2 rounds, <strong>Team Vitality and The MongolZ<\/strong> defeated everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitality faced <strong>Natus Vincere and MOUZ<\/strong> prior to reaching the Grand Final, whereas The MongolZ played against <strong>FURIA and paiN Gaming<\/strong>. Interestingly, <strong>MongolZ did not lose a single map<\/strong> prior to the Final, whereas <strong>Vitality lost on Inferno against MOUZ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Grand Final<\/strong> between these two was a classic Bo3 deathmatch that started on <strong>Mirage<\/strong>. Surprisingly or not, <strong>MongolZ defeated Team Vitality fairly easily<\/strong>, which meant it was time for<strong> Dust 2.<\/strong> Most people expected Garidmagnai &#8220;bLitz&#8221; Byambasuren and the rest to do the same again, but <strong>Vitality ripped through their opponents<\/strong> and won with a score of 13-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>deciding match was on Inferno<\/strong>, the same map where <strong>Vitality lost against MOUZ<\/strong> in the Semifinals. Lucky for Mathieu &#8220;ZywOo&#8221; Herbaut and the rest, the same did not happen again. <strong>Team Vitality was way better than last time and defeated MongolZ with 13-6,<\/strong> claiming the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interesting Statistics &amp; Closing Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Every CS2 Major brings together millions from around the world, but some competitions attract more people than the rest. Well, it seems like BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 was one of them because the<strong> stats from <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/escharts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Escharts <\/strong><\/a><strong>show that it became the most-watched Counter-Strike tournament ever<\/strong>, at least in terms of total Hours Watched. What\u2019s even more impressive is that <strong>the event achieved this before the Grand Final<\/strong>. Prior to acquiring the record, this<strong> honor belonged to the PGL Major Stockholm 2021<\/strong>, which had<strong> 71.2M<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 is over, Counter-Strike 2 fans will have to <strong>prepare for the next big event &#8211; FISSURE Playground #1<\/strong>. This competition will take place between <strong>July 15 and 20 in Belgrade, Serbia<\/strong>. Don\u2019t forget to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/blix.gg\">Blix.gg<\/a> for more information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than two weeks of epic CS2 matches, the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 came to an end. In our Playoff Stage overview, we talked about some of the hottest upcoming matches, and we were definitely not disappointed. Now that the dust has settled, let\u2019s dive in and see what actually happened. Team Vitalty\u2019s Triumph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":26814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-26812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26815,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812\/revisions\/26815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}