The Rise of Na Vi and Vitality s Turn Towards Cheating
BLAST Premier Global Finals recently ended with an amazing face-off between Na’Vi and Astralis, a fine for Team Vitality, and amazing performances from all kinds of professional players. Today we’ll be going over some of the
highlights, out comes, and what else is coming for the world of CS:GO esports.
RESULTS
The first day of the finals we saw Astralis swiftly shut down Evil Geniuses followed by G2’s smackdown of Furia. Day two was when things really got interesting though. Aside from Evil Geniuses beating G2 and Vitality beating complexity, we also got to be surprised when Team Liquid sent Na’Vi straight to the losers’ bracket. In the Liquid v. Na’Vi game, we got to see great performances by all players involved; however, Team Liquids recent addition of FalleN seems to have paid off. The third day saw Complexity v. Navi (1-2), Astralis v. G2 (2-1), and Vitality v. Team Liquid (2-0). On the fourth day it was Evi
BLAST Premier Global account gave fans information about the upcoming broadcast team that will be working on the BLAST Premier Global Finals coming up on the 19th of January (be sure to check out our coverage so far).
This year, a total of eight casters will be on the broadcast team, bringing fans all the action and helping to break it down. James “Banks” Banks will head up the desk, which will include Mathieu “Maniac” Quiquerez and Jacob “Pimp” Winneche as analysts in addition to Freya Spiers who will handle interviews. In the roles of caster, we’ll see the return of the duo of Conner “Scrawny” Girvan and Mohan “Launders” Govindasamy as well as Anders “Anders” Blume and Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat to help get the fans excited and keep them engaged in the action.