FaZe could not crash their way to Stage 3 of CS2 BLAST Austin Major 2025

Fans should still be pretty happy about the start of the Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) Austin Major 2025 for FaZe Clan. Perhaps that tournament practice at BLAST Rivals Spring and some time in the boot camp were crucial for the team to find new synergy — with s1mple.

Having this CS2 legend on the roster, FaZe defeated two pretty strong opponents. On June 8, they could have had their last match in Stage 2 of this esports event. But their opponents, Legacy, had their own plans — eventually, it was this team who qualified for Stage 3 pretty quickly.

With this round, one more team advances to BLAST Austin Major 2025 Stage 3, where the best CS2 pros in the world will be battling for the Playoff spots. On the other side of this competition, two teams will be eliminated from the Major — and wow, Falcons are in the risk zone, too.

Two upper matches of this round are on parallel streams:

The same goes for the elimination matches, which close the tournament day. The planned start time for them is 3 p.m. CDT, which is 4 p.m. ET (U.S. East), 1 p.m. PT (U.S. West), and 10 p.m. CEST (Europe).

You didn’t need to be FaZe’s fan to feel how favorable such a matchup could be for this team. However, the first best-of-three (Bo3) match of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 event become very difficult for FaZe.

The details of this CS2 esports battle are here.

Legacy turned out to be a better team this time. They started with an amazing streak of seven won rounds on Mirage. When FaZe managed to respond, it already was pretty bad for them. After taking the CT side, Legacy lost the Pistols but then recovered and finished Map 1 with a four-round streak.

In the beginning of Map 2, it looked like FaZe were back. After their five rounds, Legacy delivered another series of seven wins. The rest of Dust II looked much more even. Legacy reached the match point early, but the hope of overtime was real. It did not happen, though.

Legacy advanced to Stage 3 of the CS2 Austin Major 2025. FaZe have two more chances to do the same: in the following rounds of Stage 2. Their next opponent is 3DMAX.

We’ve added paiN to our list of the top 5 teams to watch out for during Stage 2 of BLAST Austin Major 2025. They did not disappoint! Virtus.pro are not easy opponents, though. Only one qualifies for the next stage from this round.

Both games here featured close back-and-forth battle. On Dust II, paiN had a really good start, but closer to the side switch, VP made the score event. As CTs, Virtus.pro gained a crucial early advantage to seal the deal when paiN woke up closer to the end.

The exchange of rounds continued on Mirage. Both paiN Gaming and Virtus.pro demonstrated solid CS2, so no one really dominated the map.

Despite having a slight advantage on the T side, paiN let the opponents reach the game point. The Brazilian team still triggered overtime, but Virtus.pro were really determined to finish this match here.

Thanks to this victory, Virtus.pro advanced to Stage 3 of CS2 BLAST Austin Major 2025. paiN Gaming must face Lynn Vision Gaming in the upper matches of Stage 2 Round 4.

After winning a match against FlyQuest at BLAST Spring Rivals 2025, Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski talked a lot about how the team can’t properly recover from bad rounds. The player called that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which was a somewhat harsh description of what FaZe players come through — even in their winning matches.

The team added s1mple to the roster after that event, but the problems weren’t out during IEM Dallas 2025. FaZe lost to Team Liquid 0:2 and then were eliminated by HEROIC.

We can be cautious with the next assumption, but it kind of feels like FaZe may be over this. The first two matches went well for them.

Legacy is one of a few Brazilian teams at Stage 2 of the CS2 BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 event. It isn’t as big and well-known as MIBR, paiN, and FURIA, though. Can this be their breakthrough tournament?

Legacy won no matches at IEM Dallas 2025, but they faced Team Vitality to start that event. Their other loss was to 3DMAX.

The team went through all five rounds in Stage 1 of this CS2 Major to advance further. They eliminated Wildcard in the decisive match, which looked like a favorable matchup for the opponents. Will we be treated to more underdog surprises?

paiN Gaming is another CS2 team that creates emotional rollercoasters for their fans. They looked great in some games, like during the match start vs MOUZ at BLAST Rivals Spring, and then fell to the 0:13 abyss.

So far, paiN achieved two victories at the Austin Major, including a close one over FURIA.

Virtus.pro is generally considered one of the CS2 top teams, but they are not the most stable roster recently. They were eliminated super early from PGL Astana 2025 by MIBR and from IEM Melbourne 2025 by FlyQuest.

At the BLAST Austin Major 2025, Virtus.pro defeated OG and B8.

For two esports teams, the CS2 Austin Major 2025 ends with this round. Some of the teams at risk are not supposed to be here.

Team Falcons? They battled Vitality in recent grand finals, like at BLAST Rivals Spring 2025. But the team surprisingly lost to B8 in the opening match and then to Lynn Vision Gaming in Round 2.

MIBR? The team is no longer in its former glory, but MIBR finished PGL Astana 2025 in fifth. They already lost to Legacy and Nemiga in the early rounds of the Major.

There will be two more rounds of Stage 2 with advancement and elimination matches. Stage 3 will start on June 12, and eight more invited teams will join the party, including Vitality with their mind-blowing match and tournament win-streak.

The Playoffs of the CS2 BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 event will kick off on June 19.  For all CS2 news and updates, stick around on esports.gg.