G2 ꦜEsports have come out victorious in the fi📖nal week of the BLAST Premier CS:GO Spring Series, defeating OG in the Group C 🐭Final. Both G2 and OG have secured their spots in the BLAST Spring Final taking place in Mosc🍒ow, Russia, in June. Additional group members Evil Geniuses and 100 Thieves have been knocked down to the BLAST Showdown, where only two teams will advance to the Spring Final.
Group C kicked off on 🥂Friday, the opening match pitting G2 against Australian side 100 Thieves. Dust2 and Vertigo served as the game’s battlegrounds, with in-game leader Nemanja “nexa” Isaković topping the scoreboard on both maps to bring G2 to a 2-0 victory. Day one continued with a classic Dota rivalry as OG Esports came up against Evil Geniuses. The game went the distance, each team securing a 16-14 win on the other’s map choice. Dust2 stood as the decider, Iss🍰a “ISSAA” Murad managing 31 kills to earn OG an upset victory in o🤡vertime.
Day two brought the first elimina🐲tion game as 100 Thieves took on Evil Geniuses in the lower bracket. EG quickly outclassed 100 Thieves on the Au𒁃ssies' own pick of Train, the North American team taking a dominant 16-4 win. The match then went to Nuke, 🍎where Evil Geniuses managed a three-round comeback to eventually win the map in overtime.
G2 next took on OG in the upper bracket final, with the winner claiming a spot in the Spring Final. OG ꦯappeared as a shadow of their day-one selves as their opponents took a strong 16-8 win on Nuke. G2’s dominance continued on Dust2, Nemanja “huNter-” Kovač leading the way for a 16-6 victory.
Day three brought a rematch for OG and Evil Geniuses, the latter hoping to get revenge for day one's result. The game kicked off on OG’s choice of Train, where EG completed a perfect 15-0 CT half. The multinational side held off the 16-0 loss, finding four rounds on their own defense before conceding defeat. OG answered back o𓆏n Mirage, destroying Evil Geniuses 16-3 to even up 💮the series score. Inferno served as the deciding map, another 30-round affair allowing OG to claim the 2-1 series victory.
Another rematch ensued as OG met G2 in the Group C Final. Mirroring OG’s prior match, Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen and co. suffered a 7-16 loss on their own map pick of Inferno. G2's choice took the match to Dust2, and O🦹G once again found a strong 16-5 win to force map three. Nuke stood as the final map of the season, G2's French-Serbian squad taking an 11-4 lead on the defense. OG managed a strong comeback in the second half, stringing five rounds together befo❀re G2 closed out the series 16-14.
G2 take home the $50,000 first-place as well as Group C’s top seed heading into the BLAST Premier Spring Final. G2 CS:GO will next compete in IEM Katowice 🌺later thi🐷s month.