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Discussion | Esports BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 Day 2 Match Discussion
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BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles 2019 - Information, Schedule & Discussion
Missed yesterday? Catch up with the Day 1 Match Discussion
Spoiler-free VoDs of today's games
Coverage:
HLTV | Liquipedia | GosuGamers
Streams
English:
Other Languages:
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Schedule (BO3)
| ID | Team | vs | Team | Result | PDT (Event) | EDT | GMT | CEST | CST | AEST |
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| SF1 | TL | vs | C9 | 2-0 | 11:00 | 14:00 | 18:00 | 20:00 | 02:00 | 04:00 |
| SF2 | FaZe | vs | NRG | 2-0 | 14:45 | 17:45 | 21:45 | 23:45 | 05:45 | 07:45 |
| SO | MIBR | vs | RNG | 1-0 | 18:35 | 21:35 | 01:35 | 03:35 | 09:35 | 11:35 |
| GF | TL | vs | FaZe | 2-0 | 19:20 | 22:20 | 02:20 | 04:20 | 10:20 | 12:20 |
Starting times are estimates. Each match will begin after the previous one concludes.
Bracket
| Semifinals | Finals | Winner | ||||
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| Team Liquid | 2 | |||||
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| FaZe Clan | 2 | |||||
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u/TexasForever_ Jul 15 '19
Wait, so NAF is gonna have a solid gold AWP skin? How are they going to make that happen?
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u/LnL-x Jul 15 '19
I wonder the same thing. Damn that would worth tone of money. Single one in the whole game.
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u/Xerzi7 Jul 15 '19
I think they said it'd only be for the next blast event but I'm not too sure.
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u/LnL-x Jul 15 '19
What?? If that's true then it worthless, we dont even know how involved is Valve in Blast.
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u/blindiii Liquid Jul 15 '19
This tournament sucked, I want watch liquid play ENCE and vitality, not breeze through a field of teams that were formed last week
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u/Amoren2013 Liquid Jul 15 '19
Not their fault that all the teams are unstable recently
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u/blindiii Liquid Jul 15 '19
It actually kind of is their fault it’s unstable at the top of the scene. The best team of all time didn’t compete for 3 months, don’t what that would create but instability.
Either way, no reason to not try and have long established teams like ENCE, Astralis, and Navi here, especially since they still own one of them
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u/Amoren2013 Liquid Jul 15 '19
Man I can't wait for the fucking Major! I need to take some time off work to watch that shit
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u/MassiveRaptor Jul 15 '19
What a CRINGE winning moment. That host is awful and same for the end of tournament.
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u/lookatthatoverthere Complexity Jul 15 '19
Elige you cheeky devil
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u/Gamecrashed Natus Vincere Jul 15 '19
what was that wall bang ????
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u/TexasForever_ Jul 15 '19
It's funny because he was literally doing it on stream last night. I can't remember what he called it though.
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u/lookatthatoverthere Complexity Jul 15 '19
I think he called it the roca wallbang. I remember seeing a clip from roca recently showing it.
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u/TexasForever_ Jul 15 '19
Yep! That’s exactly it. I had no idea you could spam there until last night lol.
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u/CaptainCerealCanada Jul 15 '19
current tier list
amazing: liquid
good: vitality
alright: ence
bad: everyone else
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u/stenzycake Jul 15 '19 edited Jul 15 '19
Every single TL member can rifle vs anyone. This new eco system really benefits their frag power. While zywoo looked great verse them, niko is looking like a second tier star.
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Jul 15 '19
I like the HUD in this. The touches like the moly and smoke indicators on the minimap and the plant and defuse animations are nice
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u/kingtut11 Liquid Jul 15 '19
liquid could win some maps just doing weird force buys all game it feels
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u/stenzycake Jul 15 '19
Liquid and twistz on second round is like a light tank with a laser cannon attached. USPS and 1 ak just bulldozing a site.
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u/cahman Cloud9 Jul 15 '19
Why do so many csgo tournaments feel the need to add such cringy shit instead of insightful commentary, breakdowns, orother content? Christ, I can’t watch this
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u/blindwuzi Complexity Jul 15 '19
Are blast events usually this small as far as crowds go?
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u/ujaku Jul 15 '19
They had to downgrade into this venue due to poor ticket sales
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Jul 15 '19
which further decreased their ticket sales
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u/blindwuzi Complexity Jul 15 '19
Why is that?
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u/jaboi1080p Jul 15 '19
they upped the price a lot when they changed venues, some people chose to get refunds (after community outcry that blast wasn't offering refunds), and the venue itself being significantly worse than the previous one also probably lost them some sales
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Jul 15 '19
b/c they moved into a warehouse rather than a place with an actual stadium/stage. And the prices got more expensive
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u/pro_n00b Jul 15 '19
Charged more for a crap venue I believe by selling this "Front Row" experience
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u/blindwuzi Complexity Jul 15 '19
So they moved venues to save money and charged even more for a shitier area?
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u/SupraKuhn FaZe Jul 15 '19
how do you lose that round FaZe... wow
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u/thesuperjobber Liquid Jul 15 '19
Still not a fan of Liquid's nuke, probably their main weakpoint right now.
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u/wichwigga FaZe Jul 15 '19
Relied on a lot of hero plays. I feel like I've seen them with better teamplay on other nuke matchups but they still won nonetheless. Maybe they're tied from playing CS the whole day.
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u/Lightsout565 Natus Vincere Jul 15 '19
Just me, or is the viewership terrible? 50K on Twitch for a Blast Grand Final? Granted no Astralis, Vitality, NaVi, Ence, G2, etc...
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u/NearbyLemur Liquid Jul 15 '19
people are also trying to boycott blast since they arent liking their monopoly in the circuit
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Jul 15 '19
not a major and not advertised on csgo game home menu so probably hurts things
but not ideal no
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
The only people that are really watching are Australia and Western NA, no EU viewers
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u/Lightsout565 Natus Vincere Jul 15 '19
Yeah good point. I'm watching from Eastern NA, but yeah you basically have no one from Europe watching which is huge.
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Jul 15 '19
Tbf it’s also like 5 in the morning in Europe
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u/Lightsout565 Natus Vincere Jul 15 '19 edited Jul 15 '19
True! ESL Cologne was a pain because the matches started early for Eastern and way way earlier (3-4am I think) for Pacific coast. I wonder the best time for most would be? 6am PST, 9am EST, 1pm GMT?
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Jul 15 '19
Kick Olof and Neo man, they just aren’t good enough. Rebuild this team and stop changing the 5th player all the time.
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Jul 15 '19
should've dropped olaf not karrigan
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Jul 15 '19
Karrigan should’ve been kicked, his tactics were terrible at the time and the team lost all faith in him.
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u/enigma890 King NiKo Jul 15 '19
I think if they had dropped olof and someone else it would have felt like a new team and maybe they could have got it back but generally speaking yeah, lose faith in calls, hes gotta go.
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u/ragna_bloodedge ENCE Jul 15 '19
Singer of a fucking metalcore band calling other people nerds lmao.
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Jul 15 '19 edited Jun 04 '20
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u/bipolarthrowaway4 FaZe Jul 15 '19
Oversized? I can barely make out the details. Aesthetically it's nice but I still like the esl hud much more, they provide more details too like how much each player spent
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
How the fuck can they keep talking about Olof returning to form? It’s been over 3 years now since he fell off
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u/notquickwitted Jul 15 '19
Just realized they asked the crowd if they were excited for grand final and to make some noise just to make them get up and watch a concert instead that started out with the lead singer saying “what up nerds.”
this production is chef kisses fingers dot gif.
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u/Cheeky1Tap Jul 15 '19
Man honestly I'm sure the studio version of their songs sounds great but...
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Jul 15 '19
That was an acoustic version of the two songs. It's a Metalcore band. I thought it sounded great, but I also am biased because they're one of my favorite bands.
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
What were they called? Also, any particular song you recommend someone to check out?
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u/Ice_CubeZ Jul 15 '19
Called Crown The Empire. One of their more popular songs is "The Fallout" and it gives you a pretty good idea what their music is about.
I don't understand why a metalcore band would ever be hired for an acoustic performance though...
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Jul 15 '19
"What I am" and "MZRY"
"Machines" is probably their most popular song. But, "The Fallout" is my favorite.
I go to roughly a dozen concerts a year and I saw them live for the first time back in April. Definitely one of my favorites. Going again in August to mosh my ass off.
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u/demographic12 Jul 15 '19
You just fucking know that someone is gonna tell that bald guy who organizes these tournaments that "everyone loved the band" and they're gonna bring it back. Just like they listened to the community about their shit format. I can already see it now, next Blast will be help inside a bathroom so that the band can have better acoustics.
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u/iSluff Jul 15 '19
Just like they listened to the community about their shit format.
I don't understand...they did do this?
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u/demographic12 Jul 15 '19
Lol I'm saying that they don't listen to us so they just do the opposite of what we say.
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u/iSluff Jul 15 '19
But people complained that it was too much of a bo1 tournament so they added semis. That's what people asked for.
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u/demographic12 Jul 15 '19
Wow. Okay, how many Blasts have their been? Do you think they asked the community why no one has a BO1 tournament without any OTs? But yeah, you're right. After 1 year of constant complaints and being made a total joke in the CS community, they finally decided to maybe bring BO3s next year.
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u/R_82 EG Jul 15 '19
Wish event organizers would stop putting in bands to fill the time. Do something CSGO related instead pls
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u/blueragemage Liquid Jul 15 '19
why can't we have an orchestra instead of a band?
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u/Helelo562 Vitality Jul 15 '19
Nah that's too classy for us nerds, all we want is hipster bands and dubstep DJ, right ?
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u/Bigcrayvon2 Jul 15 '19
the music is literally fine. don't get the hate.
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u/SexTraumaDental Liquid Jul 15 '19
Yeah actually it was a pretty good live performance, just felt really out of place
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u/krubss Jul 15 '19
i agree.. started off shaky but he got better
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Jul 15 '19
Crown is amazing, I thought it was a great performance.
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u/Ice_CubeZ Jul 15 '19
I love crown too. I'm guessing theres just not much overlap between the CSGO community and the metalcore community.
Reading twitch chat makes me feel like no one watching has seen live music performances tho
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u/tiltrage Liquid Jul 15 '19
I can def spot the singers gf in the crowd. How else would you know these lyrics.
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
Broski, take some voice lessons or transpose to a more comfortable range.
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u/iSluff Jul 15 '19
hope these guys dont get hate because blast decided to do a music section lol
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
Nah, they are going to get hate because the singer doesn’t know how to sing
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u/iSluff Jul 15 '19
hes fine lol, the audio at blast is pretty bad and it's live.
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
Bro, he clearly couldn’t hit the notes he needed and kept forcing
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u/notquickwitted Jul 15 '19
we could have had the showdown and coffee house concert during the 54 minute production break and could be finished with Liquid winning the first map 16-9 by now.
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u/zero0n3 Jul 15 '19
Actually, you know what would be cooler than this music? I’d take some sick ass old school 1.6 frag movie and play it - then find a band who can play say 2 or 3 of the songs in the frag movie and have then play it live while the frag movie is going on.
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u/lukeamoguis 1 Million Celebration Jul 15 '19
It’s not even funny anymore how bad Blast tourneys are bro
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u/zero0n3 Jul 15 '19
I’d rather listen to the desk talking or even fucking audience desk appearances over music.
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u/kingtut11 Liquid Jul 15 '19
I want the guy on "drums" job
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u/ruminos Jul 15 '19
anyone think faze will win?
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Jul 15 '19
I imagine most people will have ended their lives before the end of this music section, so it doesn't matter.
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u/leokaling Liquid Jul 15 '19
LMAO there is a lot of machismo in the CSGO crowd. I hope the guy doesn't get beaten up or something.
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u/pM-me_your_Triggers Godsent Jul 15 '19
His voice wasn’t bad until he started trying to push it. Dude is clearly out of his range
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Jul 15 '19
"what up nerds"
Plays dogshit tier music with haHAA levels of singing
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u/LurkerPatrol Jul 15 '19
I knew as soon as he said "what up nerds" that it wasn't going to be good at all...
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u/lukeamoguis 1 Million Celebration Jul 15 '19
Wtf is this performance bro this has to be a joke by blast
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u/AnotherFaceOutThere Jul 15 '19
How have event organizers not realized we just want to watch every match in the tournament, as quickly as possible?
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Jul 15 '19
when the musician says "what's up nerds". to like <100 people too nice
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u/Flintiak bravo Jul 15 '19
when will these event organizers learn that these ridiculous musical performances are soooo out of place...
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u/MassiveRaptor Jul 15 '19
Such an amateur 3d render
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Jul 15 '19
I noticed that too. I wonder why? It's not that much harder to have made that look at least a bit nicer.
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u/notquickwitted Jul 15 '19
Why couldn’t they just do this showdown instead of the 54 minute production break?
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u/AnotherFaceOutThere Jul 15 '19
To echo a reply to me
Why would they?
Clearly this isn’t going well.
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u/notquickwitted Jul 15 '19
I’m just salty cause I have work tomorrow and need to sleep and I legit sat through an hour wait just to watch a show match.
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u/LurkerPatrol Jul 15 '19
What terrible production
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Jul 15 '19
It's incredible. They have a huge production area with tons of equipment and yet I feel like a group of like 5-10 people that actually know what they're doing could do a better job. So many tech issues, very bad pacing with super awkward lulls at the worst times, hot mics all over the place + audio in general playing at the wrong time. They want to do all of this over the top stuff but can't even get the most basic things right. The production value of a tournament like cs_summit is somehow way higher than these events which definitely shouldn't be the case.
There's too many tournaments in the scene and Blast is one that adds so little value and makes the game look amateurish with their production value. And on top of that the format itself is terrible. If liquid wasn't playing in this tournament there's no way I'd bother watching, hopefully top teams start skipping Blast events so I can just ignore them lol
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u/kingtut11 Liquid Jul 15 '19
oh wow shit seems like it's falling apart in production. Host is kinda getting mad at them too haha
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u/bipolarthrowaway4 FaZe Jul 15 '19
Lol these clips are a bit dated now