BLAST Pro Series: Los Angeles 2019

[e][h]BLAST Pro Series: Los Angeles 2019

League Information

Series:

BLAST Pro Series

Organizer:

RFRSH

Sponsor:

Betway
OMEN by HP
G FUEL
Twitch
Blokz by Zenni
Vertagear
N3rd Street Gamers
Strafe Esports
K-Swiss

Game:

Global Offensive

Type:

Offline

Location:

 Los Angeles

Venue:

HD Buttercup Building

Teams:

6

Prize Pool:

$250,000 USD

Start Date:

2019-07-13

End Date:

2019-07-14

Liquipedia Tier:

A-Tier

Links

Maps

Dust II • Inferno • Mirage • Nuke • Overpass • Train • Vertigo

About

Broadcast Talent

• Show Host:
  •  stunna (Tres Saranthus)

• Desk Host:
  •  Sjokz (Eefje Depoortere)

• Interviewer:
  •  Frankie (Frankie Ward)

• Analysts:
  •  SPUNJ (Chad Burchill)
  •  seang@res (Sean Gares)
  •  n0thing (Jordan Gilbert)
  •  potter (Christine Chi)

• Commentators:
  •  Anders (Anders Blume)
  •  moses (Jason O'Toole)
  •  James Bardolph (James Bardolph)
  •  ddk (Daniel Kapadia)
  •  launders (Mohan Govindasamy)
  •  Hugo Byron (Hugo Byron)

• Observers:
  •  prius (David "DJ" Kuntz)
  •  sapphiRe (Heather Garozzo)
  •  encg (Efren Chuong)

Format

• Group Stage:
  • Single Round-Robin format group
  • All matches are Bo1
  • Top four teams advance to the Playoffs

• Playoffs:
  • Single-Elimination bracket
  • All matches are Bo3

• BLAST Pro Standoff:
  • The BLAST Pro Standoff is a prize bonus showmatch, with five 1v1 aim duels.
  • The winner of the BLAST Pro Standoffs takes home a $20,000 USD bonus prize.

Prize Pool

$250,000 USD are spread among the teams as seen below:

Place	$ USD	BPS Points	Team
1st	$125,000	10 pts	Team Liquid
2nd	$50,000	8 pts	FaZe Clan
3rd	$25,000	6 pts	NRG Esports
4th	$15,000	4 pts	Cloud9
5th	$10,000	2 pts	MIBR
6th	$5,000	0 pts	Renegades

Participants

Cloud9⁴ 

1	autimatic
2	daps
3	mixwell
4	koosta
5	TenZ
C	JamezIRL

Circuit Invite

FaZe Clan¹ 

1	rain
2	NiKo
3	GuardiaN
4	olofmeister
5	NEO
C	YNk

Circuit Invite

Team Liquid 

1	nitr0
2	EliGE
3	Twistzz
4	NAF
5	Stewie2K
C	adreN

Circuit Invite

MIBR^{3, 5}

1	FalleN
2	fer
3	TACO
4	LUCAS1
5	zews
C	dead

Circuit Invite

NRG Esports² 

1	Brehze
2	CeRq
3	Ethan
4	tarik
5	stanislaw
C	ImAPet

Wild Card Invite

Renegades 

1	AZR
2	jks
3	jkaem
4	Liazz
5	Gratisfaction
C	kassad

Wild Card Invite

¹ May 13th - FaZe Clan replace  AdreN with  NEO, who is added on trial.

² June 11th - NRG Esports replace  daps with  stanislaw.

³ June 25th - MIBR loans  felps to Luminosity Gaming in exchange for  LUCAS1.

⁴ July 2nd - Cloud9 bench  RUSH, loan  Golden to Ninjas in Pyjamas, and release  vice and  cajunb. They then sign  daps from NRG Esports,  TenZ,  koosta, and  mixwell from Movistar Riders as replacements.  valens moves to an analyst position and  JamezIRL is signed as the new coach.

⁵ July 12th - MIBR bench  coldzera,  zews will stand-in.

Results

Group Stage

Standings Week 1 Week 1
1.	Team Liquid		5-0-0	80-43	+37	15p
2.	FaZe Clan		3-0-2	64-69	-5	9p
3.	NRG Esports		2-1-2	65-65	0	7p
4.	Cloud9		1-2-2	66-74	-8	5p
5.	MIBR		1-1-3	66-77	-11	4p
6.	Renegades		1-0-4	63-76	-13	3p

Legend
Proceed to the Playoffs
Eliminated

		16-12 Mirage	8-16 Inferno	15-15 Mirage	15-15 Nuke	12-16 Inferno
	12-16 Mirage		4-16 Nuke	16-14 Inferno	16-9 Nuke	16-14 Train
	16-8 Inferno	16-4 Nuke		16-11 Mirage	16-9 Overpass	16-11 Vertigo
	15-15 Mirage	14-16 Inferno	11-16 Mirage		10-16 Inferno	16-14 Mirage
	15-15 Nuke	9-16 Nuke	9-16 Overpass	16-10 Inferno		16-8 Dust II
	16-12 Inferno	14-16 Train	11-16 Vertigo	14-16 Mirage	8-16 Dust II

Detailed Results

Round 1

Round 1 Matches
MIBR	MIBR RNG July 13, 2019 - 11:00 PDT 16 8 8 7 14 7 Mirage ·  · 16	14	RNG
FaZe	FaZe NRG July 13, 2019 - 11:00 PDT 16 10 6 5 9 4 Nuke ·  · 16	9	NRG

Round 2

Round 2 Matches
Liquid	Liquid C9 July 13, 2019 - 12:30 PDT 16 9 7 6 8 2 Inferno ·  · 16	8	C9
FaZe	FaZe RNG July 13, 2019 - 12:30 PDT 16 5 11 10 14 4 Train ·  · 16	14	RNG

Round 3

Round 3 Matches
Liquid	Liquid NRG July 13, 2019 - 14:00 PDT 16 8 8 7 9 2 Overpass ·  · 16	9	NRG
MIBR	MIBR C9 July 13, 2019 - 14:00 PDT 15 6 9 9 15 6 Mirage (Draw) ·  · 15	15	C9

Round 4

Round 4 Matches
NRG	NRG RNG July 13, 2019 - 15:30 PDT 16 10 6 5 8 3 Dust II ·  · 16	8	RNG
FaZe	FaZe C9 July 13, 2019 - 15:30 PDT 12 7 5 8 16 8 Mirage ·  · 12	16	C9

Round 5

Round 5 Matches
MIBR	MIBR Liquid July 13, 2019 - 17:00 PDT 11 4 7 11 16 5 Mirage ·  · 11	16	Liquid
C9	C9 RNG July 13, 2019 - 17:00 PDT 12 3 9 12 16 4 Inferno ·  · 12	16	RNG

Round 6

Round 6 Matches
FaZe	FaZe Liquid July 13, 2019 - 18:30 PDT 4 4 0 11 16 5 Nuke ·  · 4	16	Liquid
MIBR	MIBR NRG July 13, 2019 - 18:30 PDT 10 4 6 11 16 5 Inferno ·  · 10	16	NRG

Round 7

Round 7 Matches
MIBR	MIBR FaZe July 13, 2019 - 20:00 PDT 14 7 7 8 16 8 Inferno ·  · 14	16	FaZe
Liquid	Liquid RNG July 13, 2019 - 20:00 PDT 16 9 7 6 11 5 Vertigo ·  · 16	11	RNG
C9	C9 NRG July 13, 2019 - 20:00 PDT 15 9 6 6 15 9 Nuke (Draw) ·  · 15	15	NRG

Pro Standoff

MIBR MIBR	2	3	Renegades RNG
July 14, 2019 - 18:30 PDT 7       2   TACO vs Liazz 7       3   LUCAS1 vs jkaem 6       7   fer vs jks 3       7   zews vs AZR 5       7   FalleN vs Gratisfaction ·

Team	Total Kills
MIBR	28
Renegades	26

Place	$ USD	Team
W	$20,000	MIBR
L	-	Renegades

Standoff Format

• Showmatch played on the new BLAST Standoff Aim Map.
• Five 1v1 aim duels, with different players for each match-up.
• Every match-up is played with a different weapon (in order):
  • M4A4/M4A1-S
  • Desert Eagle
  • AK47
  • CZ75
  • AWP
• First player to 7 kills wins their match-up.
• The team with the most kills wins (most match-up wins if a tie occurs).

Playoffs

Semifinals

Team Liquid

2

Liquid

C9

July 14, 2019 - 11:00 PDT

16	11
	5

4	8
4

Mirage

16	13
	3

2	14
12

Inferno

Dust II

·  ·

Cloud9

0

FaZe Clan

2

FaZe

NRG

July 14, 2019 - 14:45 PDT

16	14
	2

1	7
6

Train

16	8
	8

7	11
4

Nuke

Inferno

·  ·

NRG Esports

0

Grand Final

Team Liquid

2

Liquid

FaZe

July 14, 2019 - 19:00 PDT

16	11
	5

4	13
9

Nuke

16	9
	7

6	6
0

Inferno

Mirage

·  ·

FaZe Clan

0

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Previews

• 2019-07-12 | BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles viewer's guide by Aleksei "Aleksei.L" Louchnikov of HLTV.org

Conclusions

• 2019-07-15 | NAF wins BLAST Pro Series LA MVP award by Luis "MIRAA" Mira of HLTV.org

Interviews

• 2019-07-13 | daps: "I wasn't initially building the team for Cloud9" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-13 | autimatic: "I was going to take a break from the game until the major" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-13 | niko: "[coldzera?] there's nothing going on right now" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-14 | stanislaw: "A common element since I joined is that the CT sides have been pretty rough" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-14 | TenZ: "Back when I was playing in MDL, I would think that the top teams were unbeatable" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-14 | NAF: "We had the Miami loss in the back of our heads, but now we feel like we are above and beyond every other team" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org

Videos and Photos

Galleries

• 2019-07-13 | BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 - Day 1 by HLTV.org
• 2019-07-14 | BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 - Day 2 by HLTV.org

Highlights

• 2019-07-14 | nitr0 vs. NRG by Marcus "proutounz" Soares of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-15 | rain vs. Cloud9 by Filip "filq" Szatkowski of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-16 | NAF vs. FaZe by Filip "filq" Szatkowski of HLTV.org
• 2019-07-23 | NAF - HLTV MVP by betway of BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 by Rama "djuhana" Djuhana of HLTV.org
• 2019-08-04 | BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 highlights by Pablo "Nickos" Sanabria of HLTV.org