Astralis and Aurora collapse on Mirage: BLAST Bounty Season 2 qaurter-finals recap

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January 01, 1970

12:00 AM

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We're down to our final four teams at BLAST Bounty Season 2 after two days of incredible CS action.

Aurora, Astralis, Liquid, and Virtus.pro were all eliminated this round, meaning that we're left with the top four invited teams in the competition.

Let's go back over the action.

Day one

The quarter-finals kicked off with MOUZ vs Astralis, a game that looked to be quite competitive as MOUZ went into the second half of map one, Nuke, with a slim 7-5 lead.

However, Brollan and Jimpphat took over in the second half, both players picked up eight kills to help push their team to the six rounds they needed to win 13-8.

Heading into Mirage, MOUZ continued strong on their T side as they went into the break with an 8-4 lead thanks to 11 kills from torzsi.

They then picked up a five-round sweep on the CT side as Astralis floundered, with HooXi and stavn both failign to get a kill for the remainder of the 13-4 loss.

We then were treated to the latest edition of The MongolZ vs Aurora, where once again it was the Mongolians who came out on top.

We needed all 24 rounds to decide a victor on Dust2, with The MongolZ picking up a crucial final two rounds after the game was tied at 11-11.

The series then seemed destined to go three maps as Aurora built up a massive 11-0 lead on the CT side of Mirage, but it all fell apart for them in the second half.

Soon find themselves themselves all square at 12-12, The MongolZ kept pushing in overtime, securing their 2-0 win with the score 16-13.

Day two

Day two was another day of 2-0s, but Vitality needed three overtimes in order to secure their victory over a Team Liquid that showed huge improvements during their time in Bounty.

16-13 on Train, it was the ropz and ZywOo show, the duo combined for 50 kills to keep Vitality consistently ahead of the heroics coming out of the Liquid squad.

Nuke was a similar story, with more hero plays out of the Liquid boys pushing the game to double OT despite ropz and ZywOo's 61 kills.

Vitality just proved to overall be the stronger team, securing the series 2-0 as they clutched up in both OTs.

The final quarter-final saw Spirit take on Virtus.pro, as well as the most dominant map win as Spirit continued to assert their strength on Overpass now that it has returned to the map pool.

The series kicked off on Ancient and it was VP who looked to be on top going into the second half as FL1T and fame combined for 25 kills on the CT side to secure a 9-3 lead.

However, donk and sh1ro took over in the second half, picking up 30 kills between them to flatten VP's attack and pick up a 13-10 win and a 1-0 advantage in the series.

Overpass was then one-sided throughout, with donk and sh1ro continuing their CT side reign of terror on the A bombsite. The T side was then a formality as Spirit converted their 10-2 lead into a 13-3 win.