CS:GO Paris Major 2023: FaZe, Apeks, and NiP reserve their berths on the bus to the Legends stage

The stage is about. On the penultimate day of the Challengers stage of the BLAST.television Paris Main 2023, we noticed three extra groups be a part of G2 and ENCE on the prepare to the Legends stage of the last-ever Counter-Strike: International Offensive Main. A complete of seven best-of-three matches have been performed through the day, and when the mud (RIP Mud 2) had settled, we had 5 bands of CS gamers making their solution to the subsequent stage of the event.

Paris Main 2023 Challengers Stage – Day 3 – FaZe, NiP, and Apeks make the lower. paiN and Crew Liquid left hanging

Issues kicked off with Fluxo battling it out with Crew Liquid, who’re there on the Main with all of the hopes and desires of North American CS followers. Coming into this match, they have been 1-2 down of their tally of wins, and issues have been trying bleak for them. However, they beat Fluxo 2-1 and evened out their rating line. Because it stands, Crew Liquid sits on the cusp of qualification for the Legends stage.

The second match of the day noticed Monte, who’re but to make the lower, face off in opposition to TheMongolz, who, after getting crushed 0-2 by the Ukrainian crew, got a trip to de_airport. Gamer Legion then again, stored their qualification hopes alive by beating OG of their best-of-three match. Liquid additionally continued their run of kind into their second match of the day once they beat their North American counterparts, Complexity, sending them again house.

FaZe rekindled the title desires of their followers once they convincingly beat FORZE, who don’t appear to have discovered their footing as a roster. They’ve had their share of ups and downs and regarded unsettled all through the Challengers stage.

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The happiest shock for the European CS followers was the qualification of Apeks. The crew had had an excellent begin to their Challengers stage journey however hit a few bumps on the best way to the closing levels of this leg of the event. At the beginning of Day 3 of the Challengers stage of the BLAST.television Paris Main 2023, they’d two wins to their identify within the three matches that they performed. All of it rested on their match in opposition to paiN, who have been on the third spot within the desk, with the identical variety of wins underneath their belt, by advantage of their superior spherical win-to-loss ratio.

Each groups duked it out in a three-map epic battle which noticed the groups play on Historic (received by Apeks, 16-11), Vertigo (received by paiN, 16-13), and Anubis (received by Apeks, 16-9). Whereas it was all smiles for the Apeks gamers, the hopes of the followers and gamers of paiN, now’s hanging by a string as they’re set to face Monte, who’ve proven potential and will forged a darkish shadow on the plans of paiN.

Ninjas in Pyjamas, in thier sport of the day in opposition to Grayhound, beat the Aussie roster 2-0. And, on the finish of all of it, they have been additionally handed their tickets to the Legends stage.

On the time of writing, the factors desk of the Challengers stage of the BLAST.television Paris Main 2023 seems like this –

On the final day of the Challengers stage, with three spots to spare, it is going to be fascinating to see which crew will get entry into the Legends stage, and which one will get despatched again house. Right here’s a have a look at Day 4 of the Challengers stage –