NAVI advance to the semifinals of BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, defeating paiN in a tense match. The team demonstrated incredible resilience, making a comeback on Mirage and finishing the series 2:1. For paiN, the tournament ended at the quarterfinals.

Match Details

The first map was Dust2, where the game was just incredibly intense. The first half ended in favor of NAVI with a score of 7:5, but the game was very close. The second half was a mirror, where paiN also managed to win 7:5, thus taking the game to overtime. However, in overtime, NAVI looked stronger and managed to take the map, although it was challenging. 

The second was Nuke, where paiN won many clutches, allowing the team to pull ahead of NAVI by 4 rounds in the first half. In the second half, they simply finished the map and unexpectedly for everyone, won 13:7.

On the third map Mirage, the battle was just incredible. The first half ended with a score of 7:5 in favor of paiN. But the second half was full of drama, where paiN showed confident play and managed to reach match point, but NAVI made a comeback, which was very dramatic. After that, in the additional rounds, they almost effortlessly defeated paiN and advanced to the semifinals.

Match MVP

The MVP title of the match went to Mihai "iM" Ivan, who showed good play on Mirage, and not only there. It is also worth mentioning João "Snow" Vinicius, who played incredible in this match.

BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 takes place from January 23 to 26 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Eight teams will compete for a prize pool of $500,000. You can follow the schedule and results of the event via the link.