RTP Arena Cup bracket and schedule revealed

4-5-2020 19:51

The RTP Arena Cup organizers have announced the Iberian BLAST Spring Showdown qualifier's team list, format and schedule.

RTP Arena Cup, which will run on May 9-24, will act as an Iberian qualifier for BLAST Premier Spring Europe Showdown, giving one of the region's teams the chance to face the likes of Astralis, Vitality and Ninjas in Pyjamas.

The tournament will start with an eight-team closed qualifier, which will be a best-of-three single-elimination bracket featuring Wizards, S2V, x6tence, FTW, KPI, eXploit, OFFSET and Wygers, and will give the four winning teams access to the main event.

Movistar Riders (above) and sAw are the two invited teams

Waiting for the four closed qualifier winners will be some of the region's biggest names in Movistar Riders and SAW, the two invited teams, as well as Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco's Giants and David "⁠Kairi⁠" de Miguel's Cream, who qualified thanks to victories in Master League Portugal Season 4 and the One Tap League play-in, respectively.

All match days will start at 15:00 and feature two best-of-three series, with the exception of the last day, May 24, which is reserved for the grand final.

The full tournament schedule is the following:

Saturday, May 9

15:00 - Wizards vs. S2V
18:00 - x6tence vs. FTW

Sunday, May 10

15:00 - KPI vs. eXploit
18:00 - OFFSET vs. Wygers

Saturday, May 16

15:00 - Movistar Riders vs. Wizards/ S2V
18:00 - Giants vs. x6tence/ FTW

Sunday, May 17

15:00 - SAW vs. KPI/ eXploit
18:00 - Cream vs. OFFSET/ Wygers

Saturday, May 23

15:00 - Semi-final #1
18:00 - Semi-final #2
Sunday, May 24

15:00 - Final

tier 99999

2020-05-04 19:51

26 replies

yea

2020-05-04 19:53

still qualifies for blast :)

2020-05-04 19:54

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wasted spots 0-32

2020-05-04 20:25

german cs

14 replies

portuguese cs?

2020-05-04 20:14

13 replies

2020-05-04 20:20

12 replies

ok kid

2020-05-04 20:24

11 replies

2020-05-04 20:48

10 replies

hltv.org/events/4868/dreamhack-open-leip..

2020-05-04 20:53

9 replies

2020-05-04 21:16

4 replies

When was the last time Portugal had even a player in the top 50 kekw

2020-05-04 21:41

3 replies

That does not matter for us, we just want to live and see some cs, watch Blast Pro Series Lisbon and you will see the best crowd ever.

2020-05-06 10:14

2 replies

i think any Aussie crowd trumps it sorry there, but Lisbon did have huge pops so props to those who can enjoy CS, i just wanna bully baiter kids B)

2020-05-06 10:19

Got it man, i understood, but we do really enjoy cs. Big up to you man

2020-05-06 10:31

why are you even saying "portugal cs" m8 portugals only achievements in cs are by winning spain-portugal only events, they dont let europeans in since we would crack their skulls xD

2020-05-04 21:31

BIG tier 222222

2020-05-04 21:34

Fan of OG

2020-05-04 22:22

nah, just for big boi

2020-05-06 16:26

and your real problem is? dont you think that is good that even tier 9999 get some notice too....if you dont like that scene , just stfu and dont watch it, idiot!! and come back when any german team make something good in cs

2020-05-04 20:51

damn, I thought people like this were extinct, cool

2020-05-04 21:10

Imagine getting baited on hltv

2020-05-04 21:27

maybe you´ve got baited, but this is no bait at all. Hes just an idiot like many others in hltv. Dont make me put you in "my list", hahaha ;)

2020-05-04 22:13

its because people like you that cs will never evolve. in your head only tier 1 and 2 should be invited, always the same ones, always the same players even if they are in bad moments. opportunities need to be given to smaller countries and scenes for their teams to try to prove that good cs is not only played by astralis, fnatic, navi, etc etc. Good initiative by rtp and blast, congrats and good luck for all the teams

2020-05-04 23:10

2020-05-05 11:32

hltv.org/matches/2332813/nip-vs-giants-b..

2020-05-05 01:40

read my name

2020-05-05 12:43

lets go saw

vroom vroom who cars

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lmao

Austria scene omegalul

2020-05-04 20:59

at least im not pretending to have a scene with tier 10 tournaments

2020-05-04 21:24

at least we are doing something.

2020-05-04 21:56

It's a blast showdown qualifier so...

2020-05-05 09:07

ez tier 6

who ?

ez for sAw

sAw vs 5 players?

I love wygers

why does giants get the easiest lul

they will lose anyway

2020-05-04 20:30

2020-05-04 22:20

Need more fixed leagues in the circuit

2020-05-04 19:56

this is a qualifier for Blast

2020-05-04 20:01

LETS GO sAw #sAwtouadar

2020-05-04 20:00

gonna be a good final between riders and sAw. GL hermanos

2020-05-04 20:11

+1 GL Hermanos

2020-05-05 08:26

1 team tier two (Movistar Riders) ,1 tier 3 (Saw), and the rest tier 4 (KPI,Wygers,Cream,x6tence,OFFSET) and three tier 5 (Wizards,eXploit,FTW). Couple teams on tier 4 can be maybe on tier 3

2020-05-04 20:15

offset are tier 5 giants probably tier 4.5

2020-05-04 20:55

2020-05-05 09:06

iberian qualifier but no balkan qualifier??? :/

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you guys have Vitality and G2 in every tier 1 tournament give other countries a chance Kappa

2020-05-04 20:22

im ok with iberian qualifier, but if you are gonna do regional qualifiers make it for every region

2020-05-04 20:33

yeah fair

2020-05-04 20:36

they're good, but the thing is iberia is more franchised than the balkans which makes it easier + tourney organisers loved blast madrid + what exactly can you consider the balkans? + or - hungary? not saying the region ain't good, but the scene has to mature a bit more

2020-05-04 21:04

im not saying -iberian +balkans, but also add balkan qualifier, #32

2020-05-04 22:31

I get what you meant, and I would support it, but I think the scene needs a little bit more investment to make it to a tourney like that. One thing people don't realise is that how good a team is isn't always the deciding factor, the franchising and brand also play a large role

2020-05-04 23:05

but they loved more the blast in Lisbon......

my point is they liked both, hence the iBERIAN qualifier haha

2020-05-04 23:23

Ez for saw

2020-05-04 20:19

EZ4RIDERS

2020-05-04 20:23

2020-05-04 21:11

ez for them

2020-05-04 20:31

lowelitooo ez carry

ez for finnish player Eetu "sAw" Saha

2020-05-04 21:28

ahah n1, original joke, ahah.

2020-05-05 14:03

U guys talk about tier 9999 scene but iberian scene have a really nice number of spectators (spanish and portuguese) watching and for that reason they can had some good sponsors that they can pay really nice prices

2020-05-04 21:59

Here, I found the right answer. If everyone look at the statistics, the Iberian games have a lot of viewers, and thats why a specific qualifier for them makes sense. Let's see how M.Riders and sAw perform on Blast Rising, I recommend you to see the viewers.

2020-05-05 10:05

nice

2020-05-04 22:53

report wygers for racist name, Valve should ban them all

2020-05-04 23:11

zorlakappa will play when?

2020-05-04 23:37

clash of trash

2020-05-05 06:29

Finally some tier 1 cs in hltv

2020-05-05 09:05

Ez riders

2020-05-05 10:45

What the hell 0 good teams? 0 even decent teams? sAw will take it i think.

go riders

2020-05-05 12:44

Why is this even on hltv

2020-05-05 14:33

maybe because it is a qualifier for blast spring showdown???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

2020-05-05 14:34