The champion of PGL Copenhagen Major returned to Major's playoff round after missing in Shanghai.

Natus Vincere is the fifth team that won the right to play the playoff round of Blast.tv Austin Major, defeated G2 with a score of 2-1 in the decisive match to ensure the position in the top eight.

The squad of Aleksi "⁠aleksib⁠" Virolainen had the privilege of starting the Major campaign in phase 3, and they took advantage of immediately, defeated Nemiga and 3DMAX in the first day of Bo1 matches. A difficult defeat against Spirit prevented Natus Vincere from achieving the victory, but the team recovered in the 2-1 match against G2 to win tickets to the Playoff.

Although Natus Vincere frequently reached the playoff in 2025, the team has not reached its peak as 2024 with four event championships, including PGL Major Copenhagen.

Natus Vincere will be directed to a deeper journey at the playoff, seeking to escape the shadow of rivals like Vitality and Spirit, and ending the first half of the 2025 in the 2025 way.

The victory over G2 to gain Natus Vincere's right to go is not easy; Aleksib's squad continuously tased with G2 on Map Mirage, just in time to lead 7-5 on the CT side thanks to Justinas's personal processing "⁠jl⁠" Lekavicius and Mihai "⁠im⁠" Ivan.

Natus Vincere increased the gap from the victory in Round Pistol, but almost let G2 equalize on Mirage, before closing his map picking map with a score of 13-10.

After the unstable starting performance of the star Rifler on the G2 side, Mario "⁠malbsmd⁠" Samayoa, the young Guatemala player regained his form on the map pick anubis, brought the score with the 1V2 clutch phase and maintained the competitive position throughout the first half, ending with the score of 5-7.

A Quad-Kill in Pistol Round from IM helped Natus Vincere to expand the gap when defending, but Aleksib's squad could not maintain the advantage on the CT side, so that G2 won eight rounds thanks to MalbsMD's great work, closing Anubis with a score of 13-9.

The first half of Inferno was a tension struggle; No team has created a clear distance, with Natus Vincere just passed 7-5 when exchanging sides after winning the last three round on T.

Natus Vincere's advantage began to shake when he reached CT, while G2 retired control by winning Round Pistol. IM's outstanding personal processing helped Natus Vincere prevent the momentum of G2's point, but Janusz's lineup "⁠snax⁠" Pogorzelski still pulled the match into the Overtime series.

G2 had the opportunity to end the match right in the first overtime series thanks to Double Kill with a bullet from Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz, but Natus Vincere got up to drag the game to Overtime Monday. This time, Natus Vincere did better than the G2, finally closed Inferno with a score of 19-16 after turning the situation in a 3v5 situation.