BLAST Pro Series Madrid viewer's guide

9-5-2019 15:20

With BLAST Pro Series Madrid kicking off in 24 hours, we present a comprehensive viewer's guide for the $250,000 tournament.

The third BLAST Pro Series event of 2019 is set to kick off on Friday, May 10, taking place at the Madrid Arena, located in the heart of the Spanish capital. Over the next two days, six contestants will duke it out in looks to secure the grand prize of $125,000.

Consistent with previous events of the BLAST Pro circuit, the group stage will feature a best-of-one, round-robin format, with the top two sides advancing straight to the best-of-three grand final.

Astralis will look to cop their fourth BLAST title in Madrid

Currently only five contestants are known for the tournament, as the sixth will be decided in a best-of-three Iberian play-in, featuring Movistar Riders and Giants. The play-in will precede the first two rounds of the group stage, all of which will take place inside the Madrid Arena on Friday, May 10. The second, and final day of the tournament will also take place in front of a live audience on Saturday, May 11.

Prior to the start of the grand final, a bonus match called the 'BLAST Pro Stand-off' will take place, where the third-placed team of the group stage will pick another side to face in a showmatch featuring five 1vs1 aim duels. The subsequent victor of the match-up will secure an additional $20,000 in prize money.

Below are all currently-known participants of BLAST Pro Series Madrid:

Winner of Iberian play-in

The full tournament schedule can be found below:

Friday, May 10

Iberian play-in
16:15 - Movistar Riders vs. Giants | BO3

Round one
20:45 - Cloud9 vs. TBD | BO1
20:45 - ENCE vs. Natus Vincere| BO1
20:45 - Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1

Round two
22:15 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. ENCE | BO1
22:15 - Cloud9 vs. Natus Vincere| BO1
22:15 - Astralis vs. TBD | BO1

Saturday, May 11

Round three
15:00 - Astralis vs. Natus Vincere | BO1
15:00 - Cloud9 vs. ENCE| BO1
15:00 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. TBD | BO1

Round four
16:20 - Astralis vs. ENCE | BO1
16:20 - Cloud9 vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas| BO1
16:20 - Natus Vincere vs. TBD | BO1

Round five
17:40 - Astralis vs. Cloud9 | BO1
17:40 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Natus Vincere| BO1
17:40 - ENCE vs. TBD | BO1

19:00 - BLAST Pro Series Stand-off | Five 1vs1 aim duels

20:00 - Grand final | BO3

Adam Savage will once more be bringing the hype to the crowd in the capacity of stage host, while Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson will be hosting the desk. Analysis will be brought by a talented mix of former and active professional players in Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez, Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi and Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis, with three casting pairs describing in detail all the matches.

Below is the comprehensive on-air talent lineup:

Adam Savage - Stage Host

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk Host

Frankie Ward - Interviewer

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez - Analyst
Christine "potter" Chi - Analyst
Noah "Nifty" Francis - Analyst

Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Commentator
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan - Commentator
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator
Anders Blume - Commentator
James Bardolph - Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Commentator

The $250,000 prize pool will be distributed as per below:

1. $125,000 + 10 BPS Points
2. $50,000 + 8 BPS Points
3. $25,000 + 6 BPS Points
4. $15,000 + 4 BPS Points
5. $10,000 + 2 BPS Points
6. $5,000

BLAST Pro Stand-off winner: $20,000

lets go

2019-05-09 15:20

1 reply

No m16r, no 0-10 😎😎

2019-05-09 17:13

dank you

Ez4ence

EZ4ENCE

2019-05-09 15:22

ez Astralis and real csgod device

2019-05-09 15:33

0/8

2019-05-09 16:24

A BO3 play-in to qualify for a BO1 round robin event...?

2019-05-09 15:36

ikr

2019-05-09 18:31

So many deleted comments. Expected from young adult reddit community to write shit on HLTV. BLAST Pro Series is the best after Major.

2019-05-09 15:39

4 replies

2019-05-09 15:47

My F4 comment got deleted

2019-05-09 15:53

just slightly better than Dreamhack Open circuit lol

2019-05-09 16:15

Worstereded bait in the history of baits

2019-05-09 21:16

EZ4ENCE Fuck blast btw

2019-05-09 15:40

EZ4ENCE my dudes

2019-05-09 15:46

I'm glad Sadokist is not here

Sadokist won't be at any Blast events anytime soon

2019-05-09 21:13

Viewers guide to watch BO1 all day xaxaxax

6 replies

There will be two bo3 games. Otherwise it's almost the same as any other blast. Boring..

5 replies

A bunch of bo1's are pretty fun to watch ngl, but there shouldn't be 3 games at the same time live, and the format is still shit for the competition.

2019-05-09 18:33

Good points. I actually enjoyed 2-3 blasts in a row, but then I got bored. They are basically the same teams playing over and over again. Even if they are quite decent teams there is growing fatigue. The format also doesn't help. So I stopped watching. Few weeks ago I realised that there are 6 core teams that are here to stay till the end of the year. I have so little free time when I'm at home and huge backlog of things to watch/play/read that I'm not going to waste watching similar tournaments every few weeks. Though as I said first few editions were quite good, I just lost interest recently.

2019-05-09 19:02

2 replies

"I have so little free time, when I'm at home" , and you prioritize it with HLTV. Wtg

2019-05-10 15:39

Why not? Xd also reading in toilet is hardly free time.

2019-05-14 20:39

♥EZ4FRANKIE♥

2019-05-09 15:50

why give MVP for blastralis? so many bo1 and even if you watch event you will see 33% of bo1 unless you rewatch..

2019-05-09 15:52

never understood this tournament THREE matches at the same time, whole tournament is bo1's just a fan-service

2019-05-09 15:57

You answered it yourself lol

2019-05-09 21:14

Blast pro series lives up to it's name. It's just a 'blast'. There one moment, gone the next. I also hate the fact that teams are preferring to skip events for this firework of a show. But it could have a place. Kind of like 20/20 cricket vs one day/test cricket. Csgo could have different versions too.

2019-05-09 16:03