Blast.tv Austin Major 2025 preview and predictions

Lone Star LAN: what, where, when?

Mark the date in your calendar: June 3–22.2025. The first clashes of Stage one starts on the 3rd with some interesting games like Complexity vs. OG and B8 vs. Imperial.

The final eight will fight for the trophy under the lights of Austin’s 15,000-seat Moody Center - this will be the home of the top CS2 players and fans from June 19–22nd.

Austin is used to big crowds - Tyler, the Creator, Charli XCX and Wu-Tang Forever, just to name a few - even the NBA team San Antonio Spurs hosted games there in 2025.
Add a city that lives off food-truck brisket and back-porch guitar riffs and you get a Major atmosphere in the number #1 music venue in Austin, Texas.

Looking for tickets for the event? Good luck. The four-day playoff bundle was sold out in six hours, online you can find some tickets, but remember: no-transfer rules on the tickets - Even if the sellers fight the Blast.tv rules.

Who made it to Texas?

BLAST sticks to the Swiss format (three-steps). Eight teams enter at each stage; eight survive.

Stage 3 Legends
Vitality, MOUZ, Team Spirit, Aurora, NAVI, G2, Team Liquid, The MongolZ

Stage 2 Contenders
Falcons, FaZe Clan, 3DMAX, Virtus.pro, paiN, FURIA, MIBR, M80

Stage 1 Challengers (opens June 3)
OG, Heroic, Metizport, Nemiga, BetBoom, B8, Complexity, Wildcard, NRG, Imperial
Fluxo, Lynn Vision, TYLOO, Chinggis Warriors, FlyQuest, Legacy (called up after BESTIA’s visa woes)

Will Vitality’s streak finally snap?

Fresh off a 3-0 grand-final domination over MOUZ at IEM Dallas, ZywOo and friends park the buss into Austin riding a 30-series winning streak on LAN - six straight event trophies and an 83 % map win rate since February - quite impressing?

We will be covering Vitality and its top contenders in our next blog post at www.cs2bet.io - stay tuned.

Where can I watch the Austin Major online?

If you can’t make it to the Moody Center, don't worry - BLAST is streaming every game live on their official twitch.tv channels:

English A-stream - twitch.tv/BLASTPremier
English B-stream - twitch.tv/BLASTPremier2

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