Blast Premier is a worldwide esports professional league for Counter-Strike: Global Offense pro gamers and teams launched in 2020. The game caters to players in two regions: Europe and North America. This championship game series is divided into two seasons, Spring and Fall seasons. Each season lasts around four months and consists of 12 regular season teams which will participate during the Group stage, which would end with a season final for the top six teams from the group stage. The season finals are also open to two teams from Showdown events during each season which includes teams that did not advance in the regular season.
More About BLAST Premier World Final 2023
BLAST Premier is the successor of the BLAST Pro Series which was a well-known live Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tournament and was created in 2017. The discontinuance was made in order to make way to BLAST Premier which is a league-style game and more popular in the current esports community. It is one of the elite-level Counter-Strike events for esports fanatics. It is where the best of the best teams would gather together to showcase who amongst them is the best in the whole world.
Moreover, the tournament will showcase the twelve teams who are drawn all over the world, which consists of famous organizations, rosters, and new faces in the esports community. BLAST Premier World Final 2023 is scheduled to start this December 14 to December 19. The prize pool for this year’s tournament is $1,000,000. It is set to be held on LAN, allowing fans to go back to CS:GO events through Europe. The LAN live event will be held at Blasts Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. BLAST Esports is duly-registered in the UK and has actual offices in London and Denmark.
Game Format
The game format of BLAST Premier World Final 2023 will showcase eight teams that will be playing for double-elimination finals that will be done through a variety of different events. Here are some key points regarding the gaming format of the finals.
- Playing Time: The World Final will be played out for five (5) days as provided by the Match Schedule.
- The matches will be Best-of-Three (BO3).
- Double-Elimination: Eight (8) Teams of the World Finals will play in a double-elimination bracket.
Prize Pool
The prize pool for BLAST Premier World Final 2023 is $1,000,000 that will be distributed in the following manner:
- Grand Winner: $500,000
- Second Place: $250,000
- Third Place: $120,000
- Fourth Place: $50,000
- Fifth Place and Sixth Place: $25,000
- Seventh Place and Eight Place: $15,000
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Teams Participating
It should be noted that the teams PGL Major Stockholm and BLAST Fall championships NAVI were already qualified for the World Final, the event organizers then added two more leaderboard spots. The BLAST Global Leaderboard is a ranking based on the scores accumulated in account results from the series of top events during the year. Here are the lists of eight (8) teams and their players that will be participating for the World Finals.
| Team | Players | Basis of Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Gambit Esports | nafany, sh1ro, interz, Ax1Le, Hobbit | BLAST Spring Final |
| Heroic | stavn, cadiaN, TeSeS, refrezh, sjuush | ESL Pro League Season 13 |
| Natus Vincere | s1mple, electronic, Boombl4, Perfecto, b1t | ESL Pro League Season 14 |
| Astralis | Xyp9x, gla1ve, Lucky, blameF, k0nfig | BLAST Global Leaderboard |
| G2 Esports | AmaNEk, NiKo, huNter, nexa, JaCkz | BLAST Global Leaderboard |
| NIP | REZ, Plopski, hampus, dev1ce, es3tag | BLAST Global Leaderboard |
| Vitality | apEX, ZywOo, shox, misutaaa, Kyojin | BLAST Global Leaderboard |
| Team Liquid | EliGE, NAF, Stewie2k, Grim, FalleN | BLAST Global Leaderboard |
BLAST World Leaderboard
BLAST Premier gives an opportunity to all teams to have a chance to secure a spot for the world final in a form of the World Leaderboard. It is where teams will be competing in an applicable tournament that will give points that will be accumulated to the World Leaderboard. Here is the breakdown of the teams in the Global Leaderboard. It should be noted that teams ranking 1 to 5 are qualified, while ranks 6 to 8 are missed qualification.
| Ranking | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | G2 Esports | 7950 |
| 2 | Team Vitality | 6225 |
| 3 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 4912 |
| 4 | Astralis | 4462 |
| 5 | Team Liquid | 4050 |
| 6 | OG | 3687 |
| 7 | Complexity | 3387 |
| 8 | FaZe | 3350 |
| 8 | BIG | 3350 |
Other Information for BLAST Premier World Finals 2023
Stream
The World Final can be watched live by fans who cannot physically attend the LAN event in the designated location. For Spanish speaking language, the game will be streamed via Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. While for Brazil, France and other English speaking countries, the game will be streamed only via Twitch.
Sponsors
Just like in any other BLAST esports competitive game, it will have some major sponsors to fund the tournament. For the BLAST Premier World Finals 2023 sponsor, it has the following major sponsors: Betway, EPOS and Betway.
Maps Used During the Tournament
Teams will have the following maps to choose from during the game: Inferno, Ancient, Dust II, Vertigo, Overpass, Mirage and Nuke. Mastering each of these maps’ geographical features will help the team lead its victory.
