Tundra became champions of three Blast tournaments in a row

Tundra Esports took their third consecutive trophy from the Blast Slam tournament, breaking the win streak of Team Falcons, who had won the last three tier-1 events. This is the first cup for Tundra Esports with the new roster, featuring Pure and Ari. By the way, the team now leads in the number of awards received this calendar year. Team Falcons have 3 trophies, while Tundra Esports have a total of four.

PLAYOFF BRACKET Blast Slam IV:

It should be noted that Tundra Esports have always been a tough opponent for Team Falcons, as they have always lost to the team of 33 in recent grand finals:

However, on the first map, Team Falcons managed to secure a victory, even with an adventurous draft: skiter picked Venomancer for himself, and his teammates supported his choice. Later, the coaches of both teams commented on the unconventional carry-character choice:

Aui_2000: "We just watch Topson's streams and take his ideas".

MoonMeander: "skiter is the weak link of this team. He drags the easy lane to the bottom and wants ATF to carry him. That's why he plays Venomancer".

The second map delighted with a comeback from Tundra Esports. The star of the match was 33 on Timbersaw, finishing the game with a score of 13/0/16.

Pure also stood out, although he made a few more mistakes. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his role in the game. The same cannot be said for Malr1ne, ATF, and skiter. The first two cores, who usually shine in matches and can even afford to trash talk and taunt opponents, unexpectedly quieted down. As for skiter, he ran into the Chronosphere from Pure a couple of times, and that's all that can be said about his form today.

Nevertheless, Team Falcons still looked formidable, as they are the reigning champions of The International 2025. The third map was completely under their control. Without giving Tundra Esports a chance, they demolished them in about twenty minutes. The only two kills in the game for Tundra Esports were made on the trading face of Cr1t-. In conclusion, it can be said that the right draft, designed to tempo and play from a large net worth with Lone Druid, turned out to be a failure: all lanes were lost, and in the midgame, the heroes of Team Falcons became even stronger due to the kills of Lycan's wolves and neutral creeps controlled by Tundra Esports players thanks to Helm of Dominator. It seemed that after such a rout, Tundra Esports would not mentally recover.

Surprisingly, the fourth match turned into an incredible comeback and victory for Tundra Esports. The game turned around several times. For example, in this fight, Tundra Esports regained four thousand advantages and won an important fight even without 33, Pure made a triple kill:

Later, Team Falcons managed to come back again and even enter the high ground, and Pure took a risky step to push T3 in response. This decision turned into death for him for one Hex without buyback. But the key mistake was made by Team Falcons when entering the high ground, losing Divine of Rapier and dying in fours:

So, the score was tied again, and we were in for a full BO5 final!

In the decisive map, a phenomenal event occurred: both teams repeated the drafts of the previous game one to one, all picks and bans, and even their order. From the wavy graph, you can see how tense the game was, with the favorite changing literally every five to ten minutes. However, one thing remained unchanged, and that was the winner, Tundra Esports. Despite another controversial decision by Pure to hit T4 instead of barracks, for which he paid with his life, Tundra Esports still managed to close it out: Morphling with Divine of Rapier finished the throne.

The playoffs of Blast Slam IV took place from November 7 to 9 in Singapore. The tournament's prize pool was 1 million dollars.