Team Falcons, Team Liquid First to Reach BLAST R6 Major Osaka Playoffs
The two teams advanced with perfect 3-0 records in the Swiss Stage, while EDward Gaming and ENTERPRISE were eliminated.
Team Falcons and Team Liquid became the first rosters to advance to the playoffs of the BLAST R6 Major Osaka after completing 3-0 runs through the Swiss Stage.
Team Falcons secured their playoff spot first with a 2-0 dismantling of FaZe Clan.
The EML Stage 2 champions took Border 7-3, banking four attack rounds before a flawless defense.
On Fortress, it was a far more back-and-forth affair, as the two teams shared a shapeless 3-3 first half.
FaZe started their Defense with two rounds by elimination before Falcons delivered four rounds in a row to take the victory in the maximum rounds of normal time in a 7-5 win.
Long matches were no stranger to Falcons at the event so far, with both of the team’s Best of 1 wins coming in overtime, 8-7 against Fluxo and 8-6 against M80.
Team Liquid joined them after a 2-1 victory over Geekay that saw Liquid deliver two crushing map victories, with Geekay’s narrow map win sandwiched in between.
Team Liquid were imperious on Kafe Dostoyevsky, giving up only one round on their attack side before quickly converting the map.
Geekay fought back from a 3-4 deficit on Border to close out the map 7-5.
Liquid then put their foot on the accelerator on Lair, stomping Geekay out in 7-1 fashion.
The news was less good for Oceania and Chinese fans, who saw their greatest hopes deleted from the server as ENTERPRISE and EDward Gaming were both eliminated 0-3 in the Swiss Stage.
Respective losses to 100 Thieves and Fluxo meant a sad end for the two regions, somewhat alleviated by their confirmed placements at the Six Invitational 2027, with EDG’s place at the event mathematically guaranteed after their elimination.
Redington Cybersport reported in November that DarkZero and Virtus.pro were the first teams to secure their spots in the Swiss Stage from the play-in bracket.
