Vitality makes it through to the semi-finals of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023

Team Vitality beat Into the Breach 2-0 to advance to the 1/2 final of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. Here, Dan "apEX" Madeskler's squad will play the winner of tomorrow's quarter-final between Team Liquid and Apeks. After that defeat, the British squad was eliminated from the majors in 5-8th place for $45,000.

The Long Convergence series was on the Vertigo card, which was the British team's pick. In doing so, Into the Breach showed a confident Long Corner to close out the first half with a good lead given their initial outsider status of 9-6. However, after a change of sides, Vitality managed to show some excellent attacking play to quickly level the difference and take a 16-11 lead.

The teams then moved on to Anubis, Vitality's map of choice. Here the game followed a similar scenario, but the Danish-French team managed to take the initiative to win the first half offensively, 9-6. After the change of sides, Into the Breach players tried to fight back and even equalised. But in the end Vitality managed to build their economy and finally crush their opponent - 16:12.

The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 takes place from 8 to 21 May at the Accor Arena in France. The 24 participants from CIS, Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Oceania will compete for a combined prize money of $1,250,000 as well as entries to IEM Cologne 2023 and BLAST Premier World Final 2023.