LVP Unity Spring Cup 2021 - BLAST Premier Qualifier

SAW beat Movistar Riders to book BLAST Premier Spring Showdown spot

25-3-2021 02:08

The Portuguese squad prevailed in the Iberian qualifier after tough matches against OFFSET and Movistar Riders.

SAW have booked a spot in the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown, joining the likes of Astralis, Gambit, and Liquid, with a 2-1 victory over Movistar Riders in the grand final of the LVP Unity Spring Cup, a qualifier for teams based in the Iberian Peninsula.

One of the two teams invited to the tournament, SAW reached the grand final after dispatching Case and FTW in the group stage, and then edging past Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco's OFFSET in a three-map thriller that culminated in an overtime game on the decider map.

JUST powered SAW to victory with a great performance on Vertigo

SAW were leading 14-9 on Inferno when Movistar Riders came alive and managed to force overtime. The international team looked set to win the map, but Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor saved SAW from the jaws of defeat with a 1v2 clutch. With momentum behind them, the Portuguese side came out victorious in the second overtime, with Renato "⁠stadodo⁠" Gonçalves finishing the game with 45 kills to his name.

Movistar Riders hit back on Inferno - where team captain Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes posted a 1.40 rating - after another overtime affair, but a reverse sweep proved to be beyond them as SAW ran out comfortable winners on Vertigo in a game that they controlled from the start and that was decorated by an imperious display from Tiago "⁠JUST⁠" Moura (1.99 rating, 125 ADR).

LVP Unity Spring Cup 2021 - BLAST Premier QualifierBest of 3

Movistar Riders

Matchpage

24th March 2021

SAW

Inferno

Mirage

Vertigo

Movistar Riders	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano mopoz	69 - 70	-1	78.2	1.03
Kristjan 'shokz' Jakobson shokz	57 - 62	-5	71.3	1.02
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet alex	62 - 72	-10	78.3	0.96
Lucas 'steel' Lopes steel	66 - 68	-2	65.6	0.95
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield smooya	58 - 68	-10	61.5	0.83

SAW	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Renato 'stadodo' Gonçalves stadodo	81 - 61	+20	80.5	1.23
Tiago 'JUST' Moura JUST	74 - 64	+10	74.9	1.18
Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes MUTiRiS	74 - 68	+6	82.1	1.14
Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira roman	59 - 61	-2	66.1	1.02
Omar 'arki' Chakkor arki	51 - 60	-9	65.3	1.01

The BLAST Premier Spring Showdown will take place from April 13-16 and will have $162,500 on offer in addition to two spots in the $425,000 Spring Finals, scheduled for June 15-20.

With three qualifying spots still up for grabs, the team list for the Showdown tournament currently looks as follows:

Fantasyexpo Cup

VENN Invitational

Nordic Masters

ok CONGRATS :)

2021-03-25 02:10

VAMOSSSSS SAWWWWWWWWWWW

2021-03-25 02:09

PT cs pog

what a fucking final gg's

3 YEARS IN A ROW FOR THE BEST IBERIAN TEAM

BTW WHAT AN HELL OF A GAME THAT WAS

smooooooooooooyaaaa

gotta say it EZ4SAW

TAKIRIZE MY FRIENDS

bora saw

last place incoming

2021-03-25 02:11

21 replies

look to the other teams. do you really think that?

2021-03-25 10:32

17 replies

3rd to last is the same as last, they know they cant reach anything important

2021-03-25 10:40

16 replies

nice mentality you have there

2021-03-25 11:31

lol, offset mad fan? traitor

2021-03-25 12:17

12 replies

pt cs OMEGALUL

2021-03-25 16:16

11 replies

considering pt is a smaller country than most, for ex still ahead of spain by far right now...saw 16-5 imng movis smooya is a very big achievement, but what do you know kid

2021-03-25 19:36

10 replies

triggered fanboy OMEGALUL youre so proud of your country that u cant even use a real country flag, fuck outta here newfag

2021-03-26 03:11

9 replies

At least he doesn't cry in other teams forums xDDDD Are you a bettor or just mad? xD

2021-03-26 11:53

4 replies

hltv isn't a team forum, go back to zorlakoka's chat fanboy lmao

2021-03-26 14:28

3 replies

Bettor mad xDDDDD

2021-03-26 21:50

1 reply

imagine betting in cs in 2k21 lmao, bets were in 2015 not anymore kiddo kek

2021-03-28 01:20

cry is free :)

2021-03-27 20:40

loool youre the triggered one considering youre crying about saws win, and i watch cs since 2001

2021-03-26 16:35

>stating the fact that they will finish last >crying fuck outta here kid

2021-03-28 05:33

2 replies

exactly, youre crying about saw beeing there, lool i guess >you >brain cry is freerino traitor lol

2021-03-28 05:40

typical pt kid that thinks that every bad statement about their shitty national team means tears kek, gts

2021-03-28 06:31

man go to blast its already a victory. any win there is another victory. ur mentality is just stupid.

2021-03-25 13:01

its not stupid, fanboy, 3rd to last is basically the same, anything other than 6th is a big lose

2021-03-25 16:15

Single elimination, literally half the teams will be last place lol

2021-03-25 18:26

you will acomplish so much in life with that mentality... or maybe just a fox fanboy

2021-03-28 01:25

why didn’t hltv talked about the 45 bomb that stadodo did?

they did

2021-03-25 10:25

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-03-25 02:12

continue... SPAIN_

2021-03-25 02:14

GAVE_US_ARKI So don't be toxic :D

2021-03-25 02:19

We really are shit at cs Lmao

2021-03-25 15:29

i wanted saw to win only for you to keep that name haahaha

2021-03-25 18:23

ty bro ahhahaha

2021-03-25 19:29

that vertigo match was a massacre...

2021-03-25 02:18

Lets go Blast again after an amazing game #sAwtouadar

Let's gooooo #sawtouadar

The boys did it again! #sawtouadarcaralho

2021-03-25 02:20

EZ 4 SAW C A R A L H O

2021-03-25 02:21

gj saw!

C9 smooya please give him a chance, Clown9 are already a joke at this point

2021-03-25 02:22

I don't wanna say he is bad because he really isn't but he was the main reason movistar lost the game. He lost round after round because he wanted to knife the saw players. Whiffed some Important shots, pushed when he didn't need to. We can see that his mentality in game is far away from beeing good and unless he has a really good igl on his team he won't be a good adittion

2021-03-25 10:28

2021-03-25 15:31

#71

2021-03-25 18:25

lets goooo

2021-03-25 02:24

Best match this year so far! GGWP MRS. #sAwtouadar

2021-03-25 02:47

congrats irmãos <3

2021-03-25 03:42

2021-03-25 11:33

Hard4Smooya

2021-03-25 03:54

#SAWTOUADAR

2021-03-25 04:22

Came SAW Conquered

2021-03-25 06:27

#sAwtouadar #WeAresAw

2021-03-25 07:03

Smooooya???????

2021-03-25 07:10

Good luck in the blast!!

2021-03-25 07:20

<3, thx really appreciate it

2021-03-25 11:34

I'm actually surprised, I expected them not to make it through in the end, well again I was wrong. I expected Movistar Riders to make it through, they seem like a better team lately.

2021-03-25 08:00

EZ4SAW SPAIN IS PORTUGAL

2021-03-25 08:12

no smooya carry - no win

2021-03-25 08:20

Stadodo deserves a better team?

Let him stay a little longer with SAW. Give them a few Lans whenever possible and you'll see this team upseting t1/t2 teams there. Most people don't understand but this lineup is super used to lans and thrive there. Most times Saw plays with 50/60ms on german servers, even Arki in Spain is around 40's. Other teams normally play with 20's ms. This makes difference at this lvl. Hopefully SAW wins Esea Premier and go to EPL S14 on Lan to show the lan version of Saw But, anyways... meanwhile Stadodo will keep improving with Saw, getting better the more times he play against stronger teams. If he leaves, he will need better english and I believe it will be when Saw reaches the ultimate goal of our scene right now. A potential PT team qualifying for a Major.

2021-03-25 09:01

Nice comment!

2021-03-25 17:47

don't think so... he carried SAW on inferno against movi But against offset fox raped him big time on Dust 2...

2021-03-27 17:15

sPAIN :(

2021-03-25 08:22

You still have Arki there... although is half portuguese now We're going to clash again in October for RTP Arena Cup that will qualify for Blast Fall Showdown. So anything can happen between now and then... But SAW will still prevail ;)

2021-03-25 08:52