The final CS:GO Major via the BLAST Paris Major will be a historic one, but history has already been made during the qualifier RMR tournament. For the first time ever, the reigning champion will not return to defend their title.
The Virtus Pro roster that stunned so many CS:GO fans with their miraculous title run at the IEM Rio Major in 2022 did something even more shocking today, losing in decisive fashion to mousesports in an elimination best-of-three that ended their chances of making it to Paris. How VP lost was most surprising; they found almost no success on their T-sides on both Mirage and Ancient, and had no answer for the blisteringly hot mousesports duo of torzsi and frozen.