Heroic pulled out a 2-1 victory over Team Vitality on Sunday afternoon to win the grand final at the BLAST Premier Spring Final in Washington, D.C.
With the victory, Heroic took home $200,000 and qualified for the $1 million BLAST Premier World Final on Dec. 12-17 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Team Vitality earned $85,000 as the runner-up.
Heroic opened the match with a 16-9 win on Vertigo before falling 16-10 on Mirage. But Heroic recovered by claiming another 16-9 victory, this time on Inferno, to put Team Vitality away and clinch the title.
Jakob “jabbi” Nygaard led the all-Danish winners with 59 kills and a plus-14 kills-deaths ratio, while Israel’s Lotan “Spinx” Giladi finished with 55 kills and a plus-eight K-D for Vitality.
The eight-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with a double-elimination group stage, with the field split into two groups of four teams.
All matches were best-of-three as winners of each group advanced to the playoff semifinals. Runners-up of each group moved on to the quarterfinals of the playoffs as high seeds, while third-place finishers headed to the quarterfinals as low seeds. All playoff matches were also best-of-three in the single-elimination bracket.
BLAST Premier Spring Final prize pool and points distribution:
1. $200,000, 3,000 BLAST Premier points, berth in BLAST Premier World Final — Heroic
2. $85,000, 2,000 BLAST Premier points — Team Vitality
3-4. $40,000, 1,200 BLAST Premier points — G2 Esports, Imperial Esports
5-6. $20,000, 500 BLAST Premier points — FaZe Clan, Complexity
7-8. $10,000, 300 BLAST Premier points — Cloud9, Astralis
–Field Level Media
