Vitality win BLAST Paris CSGO Major: Final placements and recap

The BLAST Paris Major has come to a close, with Vitality winning the trophy after beating GamerLegion in convincing fashion. Here is everything you need to know about the final CS:GO Major, including all the results and the final standings.

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• Vitality win the last CS:GO Major in front of the French fans.
• GamerLegion still put up a fight on Nuke but couldn’t take it to a third map.
• It’s the fifth Major victory for dupreeh and zonic, the first for ZywOo.

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With Counter-Strike 2 set for a summer 2023 release, CS:GO had one final Major before the new game takes over Valve’s competitive circuit in 2024. Ten years after the first CS:GO Major, in Jönköping, BLAST organized in Paris an epic Major that brings the curtain down on an era in the storied FPS franchise.

Much like the Major before, the French event was filled with upsets. With heavy favorites like NAVI, G2 Esports and FURIA all missing the playoffs, much of the narrative heading into the playoffs was about the underdogs.

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The way the bracket was set, with Heroic and Vitality on opposite ends after going 3-0 in the Legends Stage, suggested that a rematch of last month’s IEM Rio was on the cards, but the upsets continued in the playoff stage. GamerLegion beat Heroic in three maps, continuing an unlikely run that began with the team bouncing back from a 0-2 start to the Challengers Stage, while Apeks defeated Team Liquid, making life easier for Vitality in the semi-finals.

Vitality, the only French organization represented at the event, didn’t crumble under the weight of the cheering fans and took care of business in the final, beating GamerLegion 2-0. The victory takes a huge weight off the back of the team’s shoulders and finally gives Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut the trophy he had been seeking. It also means that Peter ‘dupreeh’ Rasmussen winds up in a category of his own as the only player with five CS:GO Major titles.

Below is everything you need to know about the BLAST Paris Major, including the schedule, the latest results and the official stream.

BLAST.tv Paris CSGO Major: Prize and standings

BLAST.tv Paris CSGO Major: Bracket and results

The event took place between May 8 and 21 and followed the three-stage format that was introduced by Valve in 2018. The Accor Arena, an indoor sports arena and concert hall located in the neighborhood of Bercy, hosted the Champions Stage, with over 50,000 fans attending the event during the playoffs.

(Bracket by Liquipedia)

Champions Stage (May 18 — May 21)

Day 1: May 18

Day 2: May 19

Day 3: May 20

Day 4: May 21

Legends Stage (May 13 — May 16)

Day 1: May 13

Day 2: May 14

Day 3: May 15

Day 4: May 16

Note: The winner of a match with an asterisk qualifies for the Champions Stage.

Challengers Stage (May 8 — May 11)

Day 1: May 8

Day 2: May 9

Day 3: May 10

Day 4: May 11

Note: The winner of a match with an asterisk qualifies for the Legends Stage.

BLAST.tv Paris CSGO Major: Format

The Major began with the Challengers Stage, featuring 16 teams and a Swiss system. The early rounds were played in a best-of-one format before the best-of-three elimination and advancement matches.

The top eight teams progressed to the Legends Stage, where they joined the top-ranked teams determined by the Regional Major Qualifiers. This phase featured the same format as the Challengers Stage.

Only eight teams made it to the Champions Stage, a single-elimination bracket in which every match was played in a best-of-three format.

BLAST.tv Paris CSGO Major: Teams

The 24 teams attending the Paris Major were determined by the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournaments in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. These qualifying events took place between April 6 and 15 in Copenhagen (Europe), Monterrey (Americas) and Ulaanbaatar (Asia-Pacific).

Legends Stage:

Challengers Stage: