BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen 2018 viewer's guide

30-10-2018 10:09

With BLAST Pro Series returning to the Danish capital, we've collected all the information you'll need to enjoy the event.

BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen will take place from November 2-3 in the 16,000-seater Royal Arena with $250,000 on the line.

The event concept is constructed to compress tournament action into just one day of arena play, and as such, the format sees the six directly invited teams play each other in a round-robin format with three best-of-one matches running simultaneously.

The group stage will run on both tournament days, with nine total matches being played in the arena on Saturday. The top two teams will then face off in a best-of-three grand final in the early evening.

The Royal Arena in Copenhagen once again opens its doors for BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen

Before the grand final, a bonus match called 'BLAST Pro Stand-off' will take place, where the team placing 3rd in the group stage picks another remaining side to play in a match featuring five 1v1 aim duels for a chance to win the $20,000 cash prize.

Below is the full team list for the Copenhagen event:

As part of the BLAST Pro concept, the teams have already completed the map vetoes for the group stage best-of-ones matches. The full schedule for the event - with three matches being played at the same time in the group stage - can be found below:

Friday, November 2
19:00 - FaZe vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1 | Mirage
19:00 - MIBR vs. Astralis | BO1 | Inferno
19:00 - Natus Vincere vs. Cloud9 | BO1 | Mirage

20:30 - Cloud9 vs. MIBR | BO1 | Inferno
20:30 - Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1 | Overpass
20:30 - FaZe vs. Natus Vincere | BO1 | Overpass

Saturday, November 3
14:00 - Natus Vincere vs. Astralis | BO1 | Overpass
14:00 - Cloud9 vs. FaZe | BO1 | Overpass
14:00 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. MIBR | BO1 | Train

15:20 - FaZe vs. Astralis | BO1 | Overpass
15:20 - Cloud9 vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1 | Mirage
15:20 - Natus Vincere vs. MIBR | BO1 | Overpass

16:40 - Cloud9 vs. Astralis | BO1 | Inferno
16:40 - Natus Vincere vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1 | Inferno
16:40 - FaZe vs. MIBR | BO1 | Cache

18:00 - BLAST Pro Stand-off | five 1v1 aim duels

19:00 - Grand final | BO3

Guiding viewers through the action in Copenhagen will be a list of well-known faces and voices from the talent pool. On the desk and stage Adam Savage and Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner will be your hosts alongside analysts such as Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez. The commentary booth features well-known duos like Anders Blume and Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole as well as Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett and Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer.

The full talent list is as follows:

Hosts
Adam Savage
Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner

Analysts
Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill
Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez
Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson

Casters
Anders Blume
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan
Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer

Finally, here is how the $250,000 prize pool will be distributed among the competing squads:

1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3. $25,000
4. $15,000
5. $10,000
6. $5,000
BLAST Pro Stand-off winner: $20,000

lul Ez 1st. Good guide

2018-10-30 10:10

13 replies

You're reigns over lol

2018-10-30 10:38

11 replies

2018-10-30 10:59

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$125,000 - Astralis $50,000 - Faze $25,000 - NaVi $15,000 - Mibr $10,000 - NiP (Even though I am NiP Fan :(. I have to accept the Fact. ) $5,000 - Cloud9

2018-10-30 11:43

9 replies

2018-10-30 12:39

I'm a NIP fan too but sadly they can't do shit against these teams except for cloud9

2018-10-30 13:47

$125,000 - Mibr*

2018-10-30 14:05

2 replies

2018-10-30 14:59

did i saw correct flag which is before your Name ?

2018-10-31 09:26

2018-10-30 15:37

2018-10-30 22:13

Cry is free, bobs and vagene expert.

2018-11-04 02:53

1 reply

NaVi fan spotted

2018-11-05 11:08

ez faze

2018-10-30 12:03

Nice

4 replies

cry

2018-10-30 12:36

Cry

2018-10-30 14:44

2018-10-30 20:26

Here we go Astralis #ToTheStar

2018-10-30 10:11

#ToTheStars* you bandwagon

2018-10-30 21:07

Plástic fan can't even write the team's moto LUL

2018-10-31 03:52

Trash tournament

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Why?

2018-10-30 10:24

All the best teams are there. Less Liquid

2018-10-30 12:17

doesnt change the fact that its a trash tournament with a shitty format

2018-10-30 12:37

Ez NoVeY

2018-10-30 10:22

Being there in the arena with this type of format is cool. It is much more suited to an actual live audience than most other formats.

2018-10-30 10:29

How does it work in the arena, with 3 matches being played at the same time?

2018-10-30 12:46

noice i will be there

2018-10-30 10:34

More Overpass than Inferno? Wow, noice!

A pretty rough schedule, 3 games (granted, only BO1 but they can also be pretty draining) before the grand final in a few hour window.

2018-10-30 10:54

I wonder where will be the afterparty hmmm PogChamp

2018-10-30 11:21

talents waiting room ResidentSleeper

2018-10-30 11:23

So underrated tournament

2018-10-30 11:26

Their HUD and format suck bigo dicko. Also, turkish crowd was really bad. Danish crowd was kinda alive when Astralis were winning rounds.

2018-10-30 11:39

Turkish scene is bad, so the crowd gonna be the same. Their HUD for me, for my taste is the best what i ever saw, the colors fits in, also I like the music what they are using, the stage looks great. This year it seems that they dont have technical difficulties so the production looks professional. Of course this event is about Astralis but organizers picked the most popular and powerful teams against them, SK managed to stop them in the final last year, very tense match with crazy plays, so i expecting a good show this year.

2018-10-30 11:46

Indeed, stage is great. I like their music too. In terms of fun, that's best event. cs_summit was great but look at their 3rd season invites...tier-2 tournament :( I remember Cloud9 brax..what a great journey for him.

2018-10-30 11:51

only one bo3 ://

2018-10-30 11:42

Ez for Cloud9 to win this tournament

6th Cloud9 ok

2018-10-30 12:01

they might as well of given Astralis 5 Nuke maps. Overpass and Inferno would probably of been one of their picks anyway after Nuke. I think BO1 needs to be changed when you have an event with 4 of the top 5 ranked teams.

2018-10-30 12:10

Astralis currently dominating. Now with home-crowd power. wtf is this thing anymore

2018-10-30 12:43

Idk why they would put more series into the last day and so few at the first day. It's so fucked up. The players who get into finals and aim duel are gonna be really tired, especially since IEM Chicago is 3 days right after it.

2018-10-30 12:45

Ez for goat1mple

2018-10-30 12:51

Replace nip and c9 with mouz and liquid and this would be the best tournament of the year.

2018-10-30 13:19

I mean you can't look at blast for the best tournament because their thing just doesnt make sense. Matches are played to a tie? Sounds like a fresh idea, but still doesnt make any sense because it doesnt answer what team should have been the better one at the map.

2018-10-30 14:30

i dont like this format, visited all their events so far.. even in istanbul the crowd was 0,0 ... every game that was bein played was messy, and the crowd wasnt even cheering....... shitty venue rules, no food allowed so u have to eat rotten garbage, like foreal? my sandwiches were thrown away and why?! possible terrorist smugglers, like wtf?! another erdo rule i suppose? then at least provide decent meals, idgaf about the price, i'll pay for all, but this was soo stupid. best of all, casting was in ... turkish???!! what about international crowd? i didnt see anders nor blackddk, it feels like i was there for a turkish boring soccergame and nobody was hyped up, poor rly ps i paid over 200$ to sit in front of....pasza xD and mibr, cant change seats and the gamers always sit in the same place so gg, i couldnt even spectate astralis live in front of me, feels fuckin bad man.

2018-10-30 15:05