The playoffs are set: BLAST Open Lisbon day six recap

It's taken six days at BLAST Open Lisbon, but we now know the six teams who will be jetting over to Portugal's capital to battle it out for the trophy.

Day six featured four more exciting games, including a rematch of the ESL Pro League Season 21 final, as well as an underdog victory to decided one of our semi-finalists.

Let's get into the action.

Vitality continue run with win over MOUZ

Vitality are the team to beat right now, and they showed why once again as they pushed past MOUZ in two closely contested maps.

A rematch of the Pro League final, MOUZ fared far better this time around, but they still couldn't do enough to even secure themselves a map against the might of ropz and ZywOo.

ZywOo topped the scoreboard for Vitality in both games, however, it was Jimpphat who topped the server on map one. Fought on Mirage, the Finnish stars 21 kills was just better than the 20 on ZywOo, but it wasn't enough to see MOUZ take the advantage as they fell 13-11.

Map two, Dust2, was another 13-11 win in favour of Vitality. All tied up 6-6 at the break, ropz and ZywOo took over in the second half, combining for 26 kills to help Vitality secure the series.

Photo: Stephanie Lindgren

Spirit brush off Virtus.pro to qualify for playoffs

Spirit found themselves in the lower bracket thanks to a defeat at the hands of MOUZ earlier in the competition, but that won't stop them from being present in the playoffs as they took down Virtus.pro with a decisive 2-0 scoreline.

As is usually the case, donk was on top form, he picked up 22 on Ancient to help Spirit take the map 13-9.

He then kept going on Anubis, adding a further 21 kills as well as an amusing ace to his list of highlights for the event.

Despite that second strong performance from last year's player of the year, it was zont1x who top-fragged. The Ukrainian helped himself to 22 kills as Spirit eliminated VP thanks to another 13-9 scoreline.

Eternal Fire upset NAVI to qualify for semi-finals

Although they may have been the team of the year in 2024, NAVI's start to 2025 has been far slower. The second upper bracket final was a continuation of that, the PGL Major Copenhagen winners slumped to a disappointing 2-0 defeat at the hands of Eternal Fire.

NAVI were the team hottest out of the gates, opening the series with a pistol round win on Inferno. However, they were quickly pinned back thanks to an Eternal Fire force buy, and Eternal Fire used the momentum gained to deliver a 7-5 T half.

The second half looked like it might get dicey for the Turks as NAVI took the advantage with a string of rounds to make it 8-7, but Wicadia soon came online with 13 kills in the half to shut NAVI down and secure the map 13-9 for his team.

The young star kept going on CT side of Dust2, helping his team to a sizeable 9-3 lead at halftime on map two. He didn't stop on T side either, picking up a further 9 kills to quickly close out the series with a 13-5 scoreline.

Photo: Stephanie Lindgren

G2 comfortable on map two to secure playoffs over The MongolZ

The MongolZ have been in stellar form so far in 2025, but that form wasn't enough to see them book a spot in Lisbon over G2.

A game in which G2's stars thrived as the Mongolian team faltered, HeavyGod and m0NESY both fried on map one. The duo combined for 47 kills on Ancient, helping their team to a narrow 13-11 victory.

Dust2 was nowhere near as close, G2 halted nearly every bit of offense from The MongolZ as they took a 9-3 lead from their CT side. Their T side was even more dominant, they quickly got the four rounds required to see themselves off to Lisbon thanks to a 13-5 win.