After scrapping to victory on Anubis, NAVI closed the deal with relative ease on Mirage. Natus Vincere have opened their account at BLAST Lisbon with a 2-0 victory, battling through overtime to win Anubis 16-12 before comfortably sealing the series with a 13-8 win on Mirage. Natus Vincere seemed to be in control of Anubis after a well-oiled T side produced eight rounds, but FURIA battled back in a scrappy second half to force OT. The Brazilian's offensive success was predicated more on succeeding through chaos than anything structured, however, and that success disappeared in OT, allowing Natus Vincere to close the map with ease. On Natus Vincere's home map of Mirage, things were more straightforward. Natus Vincere battered FURIA's poor CT side, even if Kaike "KSCERATO" Cerato solo-carried a few rounds, and got the job done on their own defensive effort, despite more KSCERATO heroics. Natus Vincere have earned themselves a bout with The MongolZ thanks to their efforts, and an early chance to avenge their EPL playoff defeat, whilst FURIA will face off against M80 in the lower bracket. FURIA have a decent T side in them, but their issues on defensive halves are simply too serious to ignore. The Brazilians now sport a 43.6% win rate on CT side across LAN in 2025, a number that is simply not sustainable if you want to win games and go deep in tournaments. There have been some adjustments in recent times, KSCERATO being moved to Catwalk on Mirage, for example, but it doesn't feel like small positional changes are going to be enough for FURIA to improve their fortunes.Date Matches BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 22/03/2025 M80 13:30
FURIA
Match 22/03/2025 The MongolZ 18:30
Natus Vincere
Match FURIA's CT woes continue
Natus Vincere
Matchpage 2 0 20th March 2025
FURIA 16Anubis 12 13Mirage 8
Natus Vincere
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.1 Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiyb1t
36 - 32 +4 78.3 1.12 Justinas 'jL' LekaviciusjL
30 - 32 -2 71.1 0.98 Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanovw0nderful
31 - 29 +2 59.0 0.95 Mihai 'iM' IvaniM
31 - 34 -3 74.9 0.95 Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenAleksib
28 - 31 -3 71.0 0.94 FURIA
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.1 Yuri 'yuurih' Santosyuurih
35 - 29 +6 85.3 1.18 Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedeschelo
34 - 36 -2 83.1 1.07 Kaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoKSCERATO
32 - 31 +1 79.6 1.07 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN
30 - 29 +1 53.3 0.89 Felipe 'skullz' Medeirosskullz
25 - 32 -7 57.6 0.85 FURIA #15
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Felipe 'skullz' Medeiros
Sid 'sidde' Macedo
Natus Vincere #3
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius
Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov
Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy
M80 #24
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich
Michael 'Swisher' Schmid
Ethan 'reck' Serrano
Elias 's1n' Stein
Mason 'Lake' Sanderson
Rory 'dephh' Jackson
The MongolZ #6
Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren
Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold
Munkhbold 'Senzu' Azbayar
Ayush 'mzinho' Batbold
Usukhbayar '910' Banzragch
Erdenedalai 'maaRaa' Bayanbat
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Age: 25 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 1306 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.58