BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles viewer's guide

12-7-2019 14:15

With BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles kicking off soon, we present a viewer's guide containing all the information you need to know about the $250,000 event.

BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles will take place at the HD Buttercup Building over the weekend and feature six contestants duking it out for the lion's share of a $250,000 prize pool.

Contrary to previous BLAST events, Los Angeles will see an adjusted playoff format. The group stage will once more witness a best-of-one, round-robin format, but a total of four teams will advance to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs on this occasion, instead of two.

The new Cloud9 squad is one of the biggest talking points ahead of BLAST Pro LA

The entirety of the event will be played out on-stage, with the round-robin stage being played out on Saturday, July 13. The playoffs and the BLAST Pro Stand-off will follow on Sunday, July 14, the latter taking place between the semi-finals and the title decider.

The following six teams will contend in California over the weekend:

Below is the full schedule for BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles:

Saturday, July 13
20:00 - MIBR vs. Renegades | BO1
20:00 - FaZe vs. NRG | BO1
21:30 - Liquid vs. Cloud9 | BO1
21:30 - FaZe vs. Renegades | BO1
23:00 - Liquid vs. NRG | BO1
23:00 - MIBR vs. Cloud9 | BO1
00:30 - NRG vs. Renegades | BO1
00:30 - FaZe vs. Cloud9 | BO1
02:00 - MIBR vs. Liquid | BO1
02:00 - Cloud9 vs. Renegades | BO1
03:30 - FaZe vs. Liquid | BO1
03:30 - MIBR vs. NRG | BO1
05:00 - MIBR vs. FaZe | BO1
05:00 - Liquid vs. Renegades | BO1
05:00 - Cloud9 vs. NRG | BO1

Sunday, July 14
20:00 - Semi-final #1 | BO3
23:45 - Semi-final #2 | BO3
03:30 - BLAST Stand-off
04:00 - Grand final | BO3

Hosting her second BLAST Pro Series event is Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere, previously seen behind the desk in São Paulo. The Belgian host will be joined by a rotation of analysts, namely Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi, Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert and Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares. Frankie Ward and Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus will be interviewing and hosting on stage, respectively, while three casting duos will be providing match commentary over the course of the weekend.

Following is the on-air talent list for the event hosted in California:

Tres "stunna" Saranthus - Stage Host

Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere - Desk Host

Frankie Ward - Interviewer

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Christine "potter" Chi - Analyst
Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert - Analyst
Sean "seang@res" Gares - Analyst

Anders Blume - Commentator
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Commentator
Hugo Byron – 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

In addition to prize winnings, the invited teams will be granted Blast Pro Series points depending on their tournament placement. Upon conclusion of the 2019 BPS circuit, points will be tallied, and the four teams with the most points will face off at the $500,000 BLAST Pro Series Global Finals, hosted at an as-of-yet undisclosed location.

Below are the current BPS point standings:

1. Astralis - 20
2. Liquid - 16
3. FaZe - 12
4. Ninjas in Pyjamas - 10
5. Natus Vincere - 8
6. MIBR - 6
7. Cloud9 - 2

GL to all teams

2019-07-12 14:16

7 replies

that was a fast edit

4 replies

Ez4FaZe

2019-07-12 14:21

3 replies

NohenryG((((

2019-07-12 14:33

RIP BLASTRALIS

2019-07-12 16:04

1 reply

ez4godTwistzz

2019-07-12 16:34

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2019-07-12 15:30

goof

2019-07-12 15:35

of course liquid

2019-07-12 14:17

100

Easy TenZ

why so many games on same day?

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Complaining about a lot of CS in one day?

Because it's a BLAST event, they tend to run 3 BO1's at the same time to cram it into the 2 day span

2019-07-12 15:33

+1 games at 5 am fucking genious

2019-07-12 15:44

11 replies

NA had to sit through shitting on EU plebs all through Cologne so you guys can fuck your sleep schedule now. Cry is expensive

2019-07-12 16:26

10 replies

Not gonna watch, wont support tournament in shit place

2019-07-12 17:00

9 replies

LA shit place? LOL I can smell the tears

2019-07-12 17:06

8 replies

Yeah, you're right. I wish I lived in LA

2019-07-12 17:13

Don't wish I lived there but definitely not a shit place to travel. Now Detroit or New York during the winter are shit places

2019-07-12 18:30

6 replies

I like usa overall (except for some politics) but just pissed at the time schedule but im waking up early anyways

2019-07-12 19:30

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Lol living in NA we have to fuck our schedules for most tournaments in EU. They’re all in the early morning through midday.

2019-07-12 19:38

2 replies

Better than during the entire night, and EU CS > NA cs according to Valve

2019-07-12 19:54

but NA top 1 tho

2019-07-13 03:55

How you think we feel we get the shit tournament crowds and have to spend $1-2k minimum to see good cs @ like cologne, katowice etc :'(

2019-07-12 23:46

I feel bad man, just go watch Blast tourney yes

2019-07-13 01:54

Let's see who went 0-0-5

Mibr or rng no doubt

2019-07-12 14:42

clown9 lul

2019-07-12 14:18

Liquid eZ

lul

2019-07-12 14:19

I wish they would’ve put 1. Blastralis- 20

2019-07-12 14:20

Viewers guide: dont watch it

Cant because 5 am

2019-07-12 15:45

2019-07-12 15:46

Let's see how NRG will perform. Probably Liquid is still the best among these teams.

2019-07-12 14:22

SPUNj....? At least it's not pimp, I guess

n0thing <3

2019-07-12 14:23

Why are they playing two games at a time? Wtf is the point of this trash TO when they change their only unique aspect?

2019-07-12 14:25

Two games at a time isnt bad

but every team playing at the same time on the same stage was THE ENTIRE POINT OF BLAST. and now they don't even do THAT anymore.

2019-07-12 18:11

might as well change it to Bo3's and make the shite tournament GOOD.

They used to do 3 at a time lmaoo

2019-07-12 15:48

Will cold play or is it going to be zews?

2019-07-12 14:26

"A source close to the team has told HLTV.org that the Brazilian star will play two more events with the squad, BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles and IEM Chicago" Cold.

2019-07-12 14:43

Well, apparently not. I knew it would probably happen cause zews is playing an lot of pugs and FPL recently, and if he's not playing the major, to train his players skills would probably mean he would play with them soon.

2019-07-12 18:21

ez for fazeeeeeee

2019-07-12 14:27

5 bo1s on one day??? wtf

2019-07-12 14:30

imagine playing first semi final 20:00 - Semi-final #1 | BO3 and then grand final 8 hours later. what a shit schedule wtf

Two bo3s could take up to 7 hours if it goes all 3 maps and almost all 30 rounds on each (not to mention OT). The schedule doesn't look that unreasonable...would rather have this then the grand finals alone the next day which is what many tournaments are doing now

2019-07-12 14:44

Yeah for u maybe, but fuck anyone who isnt american because 5 am

2019-07-12 15:47

Fuck blast

2019-07-12 14:37

MIBR 1W 4L

why isn't ence on the point board?

Liquid vs NRG final ???????

most likely? I hope so.

2019-07-12 15:08

who cares blast ??

2019-07-12 14:54

Damn they got to play 9 hours :( poor men

2019-07-12 15:00

BLAST Pro Series is made to lose a lot of bets cuz of bo1.. cash-time for bookmakers

2019-07-12 15:09

Does anyone know when will the backstage interviews will begin? Local time

2019-07-12 15:15

They are not doing that at this event

2019-07-12 16:39

That’s so bad tbh. One of my favorite parts of Blast.

2019-07-13 13:16

Will be at moscow :)

2019-07-14 23:57

I know. But i prefer when Astralis attends because it never gets awkward when they are in it. Compared to ENCE where none of them knows how to open their mouths.

2019-07-15 08:11