The BLAST Premier Spring 2024 series is set to get underway in January, kicking off the 2022 CS2 season in style. Up first is the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2024, where sixteen teams will compete for their place in the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024.
There has only been one major change to the BLAST Premier Spring 2024 format. This time around, the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown has been reverted back to one singular 16-team event, as opposed to two regional Showdowns across Europe and the Americas.
This should result in a more competitive Showdown, with teams from all regions fighting for those last places in the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024.
Completing the BLAST Premier Spring circuit for 2024 is the BLAST Premier Spring Final, which is set to take place in London from June 12th to 16th. There, 8 of the best CS2 teams in the world will face off to win the lion’s share of a cool $425,000 prize pool.
It promises to be one of the most prestigious CS2 events of the year, with the UK a rare host of Tier 1 tournaments in recent times. Here are the eight teams you’ll find at the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024:
Credit: BLAST
Similarly to the earlier BLAST Premier Spring Groups, the Spring Final has been split into two groups. These are said groups:
Group A
Group B
These groups set up a banger first set of matches, which are as follows:
As you can see, with teams of this quality, there’s no such thing as a bad match on paper.
The first event of the year is the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2024. This will pit the sixteen BLAST partner teams against each other, in four groups of four using double-elimination (GSL) rulesets. The winner of each group instantly qualifies for the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024, while the four runners-up move to a Play-In Stage using two single-elimination brackets.
The two winners of these gauntlets move to the Spring Final too, while the rest of the teams head to the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2024, where they’ll get their last chance to qualify for the big tournament.
These are the sixteen teams you’ll see at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2024:
Credit: BLAST
The teams have already been assigned their Groups, which are as follows:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Each Group has its own potential storylines that add an extra layer of spice to the tournament. In Group A, Astralis face Falcons in the opener, a tie that brings the Danes face-to-face with their former coach zonic as he embarks on his biggest challenge yet. Then, Group B opens with Spirt vs Liquid, with prodigy donk looking to announce himself against the all-star Liquid team.
Group C is probably the most stacked, with all of G2, NAVI, and Complexity fancying their chances in what should be a barn-burner group. Finally, Group D is arguably the weakest here. The new-look Heroic are the ones to watch, with the chance to progress against three teams you’d give them a strong chance to defeat.
The dates and locations for the BLAST Premier Spring 2024 have already been announced, with details confirmed on the three upcoming tournaments. Here they are in full:
Throughout the BLAST Premier Spring 2024 season, you can expect similar prize pools to those found in previous years. It’s one of the most competitive prize pools in esports, which is why the BLAST series is considered prestigious among top teams.
For those keeping count, that’s a total prize pool of $750,000 for the entire BLAST Premier Spring 2024 series.
BLAST Premier Spring Archive:
BLAST Premier Spring is one of the two seasonal CS:GO competitive events in the BLAST ecosystem. The entire circuit is getting a step up in prize money this time around, with a combined prize pool of $2,475,000. The format for the event this year is pretty close to the format from the year before.
If you’re hoping to follow along though, there are some key differences to how things work to be aware of.
This year the BLAST Premier event is going to be played online in some stages. This is coming with a regional split for that stage of the event. This event is one of the biggest for CS:GO. Teams are competing for prize money alongside a seeding into the Global Finals for the winner. As is tradition with all BLAST Events, the best teams also get awarded points toward the BLAST Leaderboard.
The BLAST Premier event has been expanded for the Spring and Fall Showdowns. There will now be more teams in competition, giving even more players the chance to make it all the way through. The format has also been changed to limit the number of games each team play per day, to limit the toll on players a little bit.
There were some changes to the BLAST Rulebook as well:
The BLAST Premier Spring 2022 event will start with the Spring Groups, followed by the Showdowns, and eventually the Finals. The Groups and Showdowns have seen some format changes from previous years though.
Teams will play in three groups of four in a best-of-1 double-elimination group stage. This will decide which place they sit in for the stage. Only the winners of this long Gauntlet will move into the finals. The second and third will have to enter into a play-off match to compete for their seed.
The Spring groups are going to be taking place online in 2022. However, it does look like this will change for further tournaments in the Premier Series over the year. Six teams will move from the premier Spring Groups stage onto the Showdowns.
- GROUP A – January 28th
G2 Esports vs Complexity – 3PM CET
BIG Clan vs Ninjas in Pyjamas 4PM CET
- Group B – January 29th
Natus Vincere vs mibr – 3PM CET
Astralis vs OG – 4PM CET
- Group C – January 30th
Vitality vs Evil Geniuses – 3PM CET
FaZe Clan vs Team Liquid – 4PM CET
For a full match breakdown and predictions, check out our CS2 News section.
The Spring Showdowns is the next stage from the initial groups. Here, the top 6 teams from Spring groups enter into a bigger bracket. This is alongside teams that have qualified separately.
This time around, the Spring Showdown is going to be split up a bit more. The Showdown is now going to be in two regions. There will be Europe and North America then everywhere else. This opens up the Showdown and gives more teams a shot here. The Spring Showdown will be taking place online too.
The BLAST Premier Spring Final is going to be the final stage for this part of the year. The Spring finals will have an individual prize pool of $425,000. This is going to be the first Arena event on a major scale for the year.
This stage of the event will be running in a double-elimination bracket, to find the top team of the Spring season.
The BLAST Premier Spring event has a slightly different format this time around with more events taking place for different regions. However, the schedule for the tournament isn’t that much longer than previously. Different regions will be running concurrently rather than being divided up. These are all of the dates when you can tune in to the BLAST Premier Spring:
- Spring Groups – January 28th – February 6th
- Spring Showdown – April 20 – 24th
- BLAST Spring Finals – June 14 – 19th
The full prize pool for the Blast Premier events other the course of the year is huge. However, each of the individual tournaments has a decent payout too. This is how it splits up for the BLAST Premier Spring prize pool:
- Spring Groups – $177,500
- Spring Showdown – $135,000
- BLAST Spring Finals – $425,000
The BLAST Premier Spring 2021 Group stage was played between the 4th-14th of February 2021. The twelve partner teams were divided into three groups, with each group winner and runner up dvancing into the Spring Finals.
Here are our past predictions and breakdown for the BLAST Group Stage while it was happening. The results at the end of the competition are in the picture below.
Based on the format illustrated above, 16 teams are seeded into a single elimination bracket for the Spring Showdown. The 6 “losers” from the Group Stage and 10 teams qualifying with either an invite or through a qualifier event. The event takes place between the 13th-18th of April 2021. Matches are played daily at roughly 12:00, 15:30 and 18:00 CET.
The teams participating or earning an invite are: Astralis, OG, Endpoint, G2 Esports, Team Spirit, Extra Salt, Dignitas, Team Liquid, Team Vitality, 9z Team, SAW, Heroic, FURIA Esports, MIBR, NASR Esports and Gambit.
Speaking of brackets, here’s the BLAST Spring Showdown 2021 bracket.
With the first results in and also looking at the bracket, we can make our new set of predictions for the event favorites. We expect Heroic and Gambit to make it to the decider on the right hand side, while G2 Esports and Team Spirit are expected to make it into the left hand side decider. In a decider we have to give it to Gambit and G2 Esports to make it into the Spring Finals.
Update April 19, 2021: Our predictions were correct and G2 Esports and Gambit ultimately qualified for the Blast Premier Spring Finals. Look at the Finals section for specific predictions.
Coming into the 2021 Spring Season, the CS:GO scene witnesses a surge in CIS teams’ perfomance at IEM Katowice 2021, BLAST Global Finals and Flashpoint Season 2. Additionally, Heroic stormed the ESL Pro League, shifting the momentum even further from all the partner teams.
The Spring Finals are taking place between 15-20 of June, 2021. All eight finalists are already bracketed, which means we can set our initial predictions and look at potential CS2 Odds for the opening matches.
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Based on the initial bracket setup, Natus Vincere and Gambit are set up for an easy clash toward in the winners bracket finals. This means we expect both teams to easily advance over their opponents. The closest contender in this bracket to both CIS powerhouses are G2 Esports, who are on an absolute tear in the weeks leading up to the event.
In the final opener between NiP and Complexity, we can expect the Ninjas to finally start delivering some results. Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz is finally coming into his own on the roster and we can expect them to roll over Complexity and and potentially give Gambit a run for their money.
All the teams we favor are also considered odds favorites among betting providers, meaning you can expect fairly low odds for outright bets. The best opportunity here is to go for correct score predictions to maximize your winnings. It’s expected that all matches go to 3 games.
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