We’ve finally made it to the LAN stage of BLAST Bounty and we can’t wait to see Counter-Strike in front of a roaring crowd again.

Oh, it’s in the BLAST studio. Well, never mind then.

Either way, we got our first taste of LAN action in 2025 yesterday, and it went exactly how you’d expect it to, with victories for both G2 and Spirit.

The day began with Spirit vs. HEROIC, and the first map was another showing from HEROIC that actually gives us faith in the future of this team. Even with Maden as a stand-in, they kept Anubis close with a 13-11 scoreline, and SunPayus also continued his fragging from the previous round.

Sadly for them, they had to face donk on a T-side rampage, and that’s where their solid CS came to an end.

Spirit picked up 19 out of 24 T-side rounds they played, with donk and sh1ro combining for 23 kills apiece in those rounds.

Looks like they’ll be good again this year. How good for Spirit.

We then moved on to an absolute brutalisation of BetBoom at the hands of G2, but let’s be fair, what hope did BetBoom really have with nafany (their sub) back on the server?

It’s a shame, considering how strong they’d looked in their previous two matches. Perhaps they might have kept the game competitive had Boombl4 and zorte been there, but honestly, we doubt it.

Snax might have many (entirely reasonable) criticisms towards his IGLing, but do you even need an IGL if your stars play like that?

No seriously, we need to explain just how much the big man coasted through that series. Sure, the scores may have been 13-2, 13-2, but Snax put up 10 kills across the two maps. Two maps! The remaining members of the team got 27, 28, 28, and 36.

If only there was an IGL on the market that wouldn’t steal his pay cheque…

Possibly even another Polish one…