Inner Circle dumped Vitality 2-0 in the BLAST Open Fall Group B opener in Copenhagen. HLTV had Inner Circle at #34, Vitality at #4. jL stood in for mezii (paternity leave). Prize pool is $1.1 million. Groups run through 31 August at BLAST Studios; playoffs are in Porto, 4-6 September.

Anubis 13-8, Inner Circle's pick. Vitality's T half was 5-7; ZywOo went 0-7 to start. Cache, Vitality's pick, went to OT. Vitality led 6-0 then 12-7 and still lost 13-16. cptkurtka023 was 43-30 (1.58), headtr1ck 42-24 (1.37). ZywOo finished 27-36 (0.78).

Today we were mentally much, much stronger.

onic, to HLTV.

Same event, Group A (26 August): M80 2-1 NaVi (NaVi took Anubis 13-4, then 6-13 Mirage, 6-13 Inferno), G2 2-0 Aurora, Spirit 2-0 DENDELE, FURIA 2-0 paiN.

Inner Circle play MOUZ next in the Group B upper semi. Vitality drop to 9z in the lower bracket. Three teams per group make Porto.

Streams: BLASTPremier

Source: HLTV