Spirit and Aurora left BLAST Slam IV after the first day of Playoffs
The first day of the playoffs of Blast Slam IV has ended. Team Spirit and Aurora left the tournament, Heroic and MOUZ advanced to the semifinals. Recall, the group stage of Blast Slam IV took place from October 14-20, and there is no lower bracket in the playoffs.
In the first match, MOUZ sensationally defeated Team Spirit. On the first map, MOUZ came back from 15 thousand gold thanks to the excellent play of Seleri:
After a 4-for-1 trade, things got really bad for Team Spirit, and MOUZ managed to buy key artifacts. At the 47th minute, a decisive fight occurred where yamich showed a masterclass on Pudge:
By this point, Team Spirit had no Tier-4 towers left, allowing MOUZ to finish the game.
The second map was easy for Team Spirit and ended in 31 minutes. On the deciding map, MOUZ surprised their opponents during the draft stage, as admitted by Collapse after the match:
'On the third map, we encountered Venomancer. It was hard to do anything and kill him. We made several mistakes trying to kill him, which led to us losing the game.'
Moreover, Venomancer counters Medusa. Yatoro died from him in every fight in 2-3 seconds.'
In the second match, Heroic easily defeated Aurora. Interestingly, on the second map, Nightfall on Sven made a Rampage, but it wasn't enough for victory. The game was decided in a fight at the 38th minute, where the cores of Aurora got caught one by one and died without buyback money. Heroic realized this and went for the Throne.
The playoffs of Blast Slam IV are taking place from November 7 to 9 in Singapore. The tournament prize pool is 1 million dollars.