BLAST Paris Major showmatch rosters revealed

21/5/2023 - 13:17

Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund, who participated in the IEM Rio Major showmatch in November, is set to join the server once more.

BLAST has announced the lineups for the upcoming showmatch between France and BLAST Dream Team, the latter of which was drafted by viewers at home.

Date	Matches
Showmatch CS
21/05/2023	France 15:00 BLAST Dream Team	Match

The two squads' best-of-one bout will be played on stage in front of the Accor Arena, with the fixture, set to take place on Nuke, scheduled to begin at 15:00 ahead of the grand final between Vitality and GamerLegion.

A notable feature of the showmatch is that viewers are able to directly influence in-game settings via an online voting system. This includes halving the bomb timer from 40 seconds to just 20 seconds, introducing infinite grenades, and forcing the players to play with an inverted mouse setting.

GeT_RiGhT will play for the BLAST Dream Team ahead of the grand final

Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy, who was announced as a member of France alongside Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon and Audric "⁠JACKZ⁠" Jug in a preview of the showmatch on BLAST's website, is set to return to the server for the first time in over two years. The Frenchman was benched from Vitality in April 2021, before going on to retire for the final time in September of that year.

Also joining the French-only roster is Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub, who announced his retirement from competition on stage just before Vitality's semi-final affair versus Apeks on Saturday. The Frenchman leaves Counter-Strike with 11 LAN victories and a Major trophy, as well as being recognized as a top-20 player on five separate occasions.

kennyS announces retirement from competition

Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev headlines the BLAST Dream Team, and the Ukrainian superstar was spotted in the crowd throughout Saturday's semi-finals. The 25-year-old narrowly missed out on a spot in the BLAST.tv Paris Major playoffs after Natus Vincere were defeated by FaZe in a hard-fought three-map series in the 2-2 pool of the Legends Stage.

GeT_RiGhT, who participated in the IEM Rio Major showmatch back in November, will once again take to the stage to help out the BLAST Dream Team. The international roster will be looking to upset the French crowd early ahead of Vitality and GamerLegion's grand final brawl at 17:00 .

France has the following roster:

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon
Audric "⁠JACKZ⁠" Jug
Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy
Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub
Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro

Whilst BLAST Dream Team consists of:

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield
Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson
Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund
Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev
Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk

mid smooya only exciting player there other than gtr and kenny

2023-05-21 13:19

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These rosters are usually just whatever sucker stuck around after being eliminated anyway

2023-05-21 13:27

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no NAF even though he was the in the crowd. I really thought he would be in it considering hes the 3rd highest rated player. Unlucky

2023-05-21 13:31

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maybe he didnt want to play but rather chill and watch :)

2023-05-21 13:55

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or maybe they didnt take him because they want french players to win

2023-05-21 13:56

I assume he turned it down yeah, still a shame.

2023-05-21 13:57

L take

2023-05-21 13:33

They stay because of the showmatch not other way around lmao

Imagine being stuck with get right in 2023 Even his Twitch viewership has dropped by 75% compared to 2020

2023-05-21 14:13

Who cares I'm happy to see getright on stage last major

2023-05-21 14:16

They don't find anyone to play CS:2 major and this blud is jobless anyway So you'll see him there

2023-05-21 14:27

2023-05-21 19:36

no way LE TANK is no exciting

2023-05-21 14:25

gl shox

2023-05-21 13:18

LETS GOO

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA

Pog

SMOOYA LMAOO

Smoooya

ez 4 goat cypher

Boring xd

Ayooo I was not expecting Smooya on here. He should have been against Simple instead lmao.

again s1mple xD im sad for his teammates

At least simple can top frag here

2023-05-21 13:30

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yeah, he is probably gonna tryharding there

2023-05-21 13:32

Pasha was literally right there and they choose fucking SMOOYA?

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should have kicked cypher, but wouldn't pasha be tired after cycling from Wawrsaw to Paris, I don't think he have the energy to play cs in front of 20k people

2023-05-21 13:21

2023-05-21 13:23

pasha went back to Poland bro

2023-05-21 13:24

Apparently papito went back to Poland for family celebrations, some things are more important than CS

2023-05-21 13:25

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Oh shit fuck I forgot, I did hear it was like his wife's bday coming up. Nah if that's the case that's way more important

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hes gonna miss his wifes birthday because it will take him 2 weeks to get back 😭

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Dw Papito will find a way

He went back by plane

2023-05-21 14:07

Well obviously. I was making a joke

2023-05-21 14:11

Missed it sry

2023-05-21 14:49

No worries man, enjoy the major

you too!

2023-05-21 17:02

So he cycled 1000 something km and didn't even attend?

2023-05-21 13:34

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Real Gigachad, doing it for the sport

2023-05-21 13:41

he probably would have stayed if 9ine were still in it

2023-05-21 14:02

9ine went out before he even began lol

2023-05-21 14:48

Yeah so? He already had it planned at that moment of course he would still do it then. But if they were still in it he would have a reason to stay in paris

2023-05-21 15:21

I'm joking, chill a little. But it's still stupid that he didn't attend the grand final

2023-05-21 15:31

2023-05-21 13:20

ez4french

G2 ????? Or france team

>smoya >dream team omegalul

They didn't say it was a good dream... :-D

2023-05-21 14:06

RpK is truly missed for the CS scene, best anchor to ever come out of france Gonna be hype watching this game!

Le Tank is back

Where is Pasha? btw happy to see Le Tank again

2023-05-21 13:22

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAA

why is it on csgo :(

where does it say that? i think they are showcasing CS2 nuke

They veto the map and I don’t think valve will release the same map pool on cs2

POG

I want to hear the comms between s1mple and smooya

KennyS will top frag who cares if he stopped competing

tf is s0mple doing here

Am I the only one getting tired of seeing GeT_RiGhT in every showmatch every tournament? I respect him and he is a legend of the game, but would much rather have forexample Pasha or any other player tbh

2023-05-21 13:26

pasha went back to Poland

Pasha was not able to stay in Paris.

2023-05-21 13:49

2023-05-21 13:53

my thoughts exactly,he's on every single showmatch

2023-05-21 14:04

Have same feel

2023-05-21 14:12

Why smooya? Lol

2023-05-21 13:28

smooya thinks he on the team

I hope this comes with a big announcement for cs2 or something cuz otherwise is pretty boring lol. Dreamteam with smooya, s1mple and getright play every showmatch anyway, cypher and styko while i respect their run and had insane performances for a showmatch doesnt feel right either, inwpuldnt call bodyy a legend at the calibre of the other 4 french either