MOUZ and Natus Vincere punched their tickets to the BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 semifinals.
MOUZ swept Cloud9 and NAVI rallied for a 2-1 victory against G2 Esports in Friday’s quarterfinal action.
MOUZ will face FaZe Clan and NAVI will meet Team Vitality on Saturday, chasing the $500,000 first prize at the $1 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament in Abu Dhabi.
G2 opened with a 16-13 overtime victory on Anubis but NAVI responded with 13-11 and 13-6 wins on Inferno and Nuke, respectively. Ukraine’s Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy led NAVI with 57 kills and a plus-15 kills-deaths differential.
MOUZ steamrolled Cloud9, winning 13-1 on Mirage and 13-7 on Ancient. Poland’s Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek led MOUZ with 32 kills and a plus-16 kills-deaths differential.
–BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 prize pool:
1. $500,000 — TBD
2. $250,000 — TBD
3-4. $85,000 — TBD, TBD
5-6. $25,000 — G2 Esports, Cloud9
7-8. $15,000 — ENCE, Heroic
–Field Level Media