The schedule for the third round of Challengers Stage matches in the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 CS:GO championship has been set. All eight games will be held on May 9.
Game day will begin at 12:30 GMT+3 with the confrontation between Grayhound and The MongolZ. At the same time paiN Gaming will face Complexity Gaming. FORZE vs Monte and Ninjas in Pyjamas vs OG will start at 14:00. All these matches will be held in bo1 format (up to one win), as the above teams have 1/1 stats.
After that, at 15:30 the same day, ENCE vs FaZe Clan and Apeks vs G2 Esports will start. These teams have two wins under their belt, so they will fight each other in the bo3 format (up to two wins) to advance to the Legends stage of the Berlin major. The losing teams will continue on to the challenger stage of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023.
Team Liquid will face Fluxo at 19:30 and GamerLegion will face MOUZ. These matches will be held in a bo3 format (up to two wins). All the four teams have a record of two losses. The squads that lose these matches will leave the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023.
On the first game day of the Challengers Stage at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, Ilya m0NESY Osipov's squad defeated The MongolZ and Complexity and Finn karrigan Andersen's team defeated Monte and paiN.
It should be noted that only the top eight teams out of the 16 squads taking part in the Challengers Stage will qualify for the Legends Stage. The rest will leave the championship.
The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 takes place May 8-21 in Paris, France. Twenty-four teams are playing for $1.25 million in prize money.