With less than a week left until the start of the Paris Major season, who do you most expect from these new Major players?
Recently, HLTV counted 25 professional players who participated in the Major event for the first time in BLAST Paris Major. The 9INE, Monte, and Into the Breach teams accounted for the majority.
It is worth mentioning that two of these contestants were the predicted future stars of the 2022 Top 20 contestants, namely Ninjas in Pyjamas contestant headtr1ck and Natus Vincere contestant npl. Headtr1ck was the star of tomorrow that was favored by the most players last year, while npl was the star of tomorrow in the eyes of s1mple. Unfortunately, KaiR0N -. If it weren’t for the VP’s sudden change of personnel in Copenhagen, KaiR0N – would actually have had the opportunity to participate in this Major. However, nqz’s 00ACTION team failed to advance to the Paris Major this time.
Among the 25 contestants, the youngest is the 17-year-old npl. Under the unfavorable circumstances, npl has gradually found his form now. At the same time, NaVi has successfully advanced to the legendary group of Major in Paris. Their 3-0 RMR group stage results have given them more time to prepare. Now NaVi has gone to Spain for training.
In addition to NPL, there are also five contestants who are only 18 years old. They are Mohammad Malhas | BOROS (Monte), Baatarkhuu Batbold | Bart4k (TheMongolz), Allan Lawrence | history (Fluxo), Evgeny Frolov | r3salt (FORZE), and headtr1ck (NIP).
There are both the youngest and the oldest contestants. The Dutch veteran Joey Steusel | CRUC1AL of the ITB team has received this special honor at the age of 26. After years of hard work at CSGO, CRUC1AL finally realized its dream in Paris. It is worth mentioning that the ITB team gained the qualification for the Major Legend group. In addition, second only to CRUC1AL in terms of seniority are two 25-year-old players, namely ITB player Thomas Utting | Thomas and Apeks player Tim Jonasson | nawwk. Nawwk used to be a sniper for the NIP team, but was later replaced by dev1ce.
BLAST Paris Major will be announced on May 8th, with a prize pool of $1.25 million. More importantly, this is the last CSGO Major competition.
