The BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 playoff bracket is now set, with Team Vitality, Team Falcons, FaZe Clan, MOUZ, Team Spirit and Wildcard advancing.
The BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 playoff bracket is now set, with Team Vitality, Team Falcons, FaZe Clan, MOUZ, Team Spirit and Wildcard advancing.
The playoff picture at BLAST Rivals Spring is now locked in, with Team Vitality and Team Falcons booking semifinal spots following commanding group stage performances, while Wildcard, FaZe Clan, MOUZ and Team Spirit prepare for high-stakes quarter-final clashes.
Wildcard secured their quarterfinal berth with a confident 2-0 win over a struggling paiN Gaming lineup that is still finding their footing with new recruit Franco “dgt” Garcia.
The North American Counter-Strike 2 side looked sharp from the outset, jumping out to a 7-1 lead on the terrorist side of Inferno before weathering a chaotic second half.
Despite a heroic 1v4 clutch by Rodrigo “biguzera” Bittencourt and a tight final stretch, it was Aran “Sonic” Groesbeek’s own clutch that sealed the opener.
Anubis was one-way traffic. Love “phzy” Smidebrant led the charge with a dominant 17-2 performance on the counter-terrorist side as paiN failed to register a single round in the first half.
Though the Brazilians rallied briefly on offence, Josh “JBa” Barutt shut the door with a 1v2 clutch to wrap up the series.
PaiN’s campaign ends in last place, winless and clearly undercooked after just one day of practice with dgt.
Still, the return of biguzera and flashes of brilliance from João “snow” Vinicius, who finished the series with a 1.32 rating, offer some hope ahead of their next test at PGL Astana.
Team Vitality continued their unstoppable run, dispatching MOUZ 2-1 in the Group A upper bracket final to record their 23rd consecutive series win—equalling Team Liquid’s all-time record from 2019.
MOUZ struck first with a hard-fought win on Mirage, capitalising on standout moments like a four-kill Scout round from Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás.
But Vitality bounced back on Inferno, their signature map, building an 8-4 terrorist-side and closing out 13-9 behind the steady leadership of Dan “apEX” Madesclaire.
Train proved decisive. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut delivered yet another masterclass, combining with apEX for 21 kills on the terrorist side and closing with 10 more on the counter-terrorist half.
With a 13-8 finish, Vitality now eye the all-time streak record when they return on Saturday to play in their semifinal fixture.
FaZe Clan narrowly avoided an early exit, outlasting FlyQuest 2-0 in a tense lower bracket series.
The European side took Inferno 13-11 after a solid counter-terrorist half was nearly undone by a spirited FlyQuest comeback.
Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski’s late-round entries and a low-buy conversion proved decisive.
Nuke went the distance, finishing 22-18 after three overtimes.
FaZe looked composed early, dissecting FlyQuest’s defence with well-timed fakes, but the Aussies clawed back through grouped pushes and a clutch 1v3 from Iulian “regali” Harjău.
In overtime, it was EliGE who stepped up, helping FaZe over the line in a messy but crucial win.
Despite advancing, FaZe remain unconvincing, often disjointed and heavily reliant on individual plays to bail them out of tough spots.
Team Falcons edged out Team Spirit 2-1 in the Group B upper bracket final, locking in a semifinal slot and a valuable day of rest.
After dropping the opener on Mirage, the European superteam — powered by a monstrous Nikola “NiKo” Kovač performance on Ancient — roared back to take the final two maps.
NiKo was electric, stringing together five multi-kill rounds, a quad, and a clutch in a stretch that flipped a 4-6 deficit into a nine-round streak.
His duel with Danil “donk” Kryshkovets lived up to the hype, but it was NiKo’s unmatched consistency across the board that proved decisive.
Dust2 was a brawl. Myroslav “zont1x” Plakhotia dominated early from catwalk, but Falcons responded with key rounds from Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, including a stunning three-kill round.
Spirit pushed to 10 rounds and reached map point, but Falcons rallied to force overtime and then swept through the extra rounds with back-to-back round wins.
The BLAST Rivals Spring playoffs will kick off on Friday, May 2, with the first two quarterfinals scheduled to take place inside the BLAST Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark.
FaZe Clan will face MOUZ in a mouthwatering best-of-three series before Spirit clash with Wildcard in a ‘David vs Goliath’ series, with each of the four teams seeking a semifinal berth against either Falcons or Vitality.