Blast Premier Fall Finals kickstarts with NAVI kicking Astralis to lower bracket

In the debut match of Valeriy "⁠B1T⁠" Vakhovskiy, who was the sixth payer for NAVI, took the seat of Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev in Inferno minutes before the game was scheduled to start. NAVI later was seen pushing Astralis down even with a 13-9 lead in the decider match to book their name on the match with mousesports in Blast Premier Fall Finals.

The CIS squad struggled initially but Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev led them through but Astralis was coming in strong and ultimately won the first map with 16-14. Flamie came back to play on Nuke while Astralis switched Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth for Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen. But s1mple pulled NAVI to a win with a mega-streak of six consecutive multi-kills forcing a decider map Dust2 where NAVI eventually picked up momentum and finished the series 2-1.