BLAST Showdown bracket set as Heroic, Virtus.pro join team list

1-10-2021 14:22

The Fall season of BLAST Premier will not feature the second-best team in the world, Gambit.

BLAST has revealed HEROIC and Virtus.pro as their two direct invites to the Fall Showdown, taking place on October 12-17. The teams ranked sixth and eighth in the world will compete in the 16-team event, which decides the final two spots for the $425,000 Fall Final in November.

These two invites mean that Gambit, who won the BLAST Premier Spring Final in June after battling through the Showdown, will not be participating in the Fall season of the tournament. However, Gambit's win in Spring has already ensured them a spot at the $1,000,000 World Final in December.

Heroic are aiming to secure a spot at the Fall Finals in Copenhagen (Photo courtesy of Heroic)

Aside from HEROIC and Virtus.pro, the biggest favorites at the Showdown are G2, Liquid, and OG. However, only two teams will advance through the single-elimination BO3 gauntlet and secure spots at the LAN event which will take place in the Copenhagen Royal Arena.

The full team list is as follows:

The bracket for the event has been set as well, with the matchups and schedule available below:

Tuesday, October 12

12:30 HEROIC vs. POGGERZ
15:30 Dignitas vs. Fiend
18:30 Complexity vs. MIBR

Wednesday, October 13

12:30 G2 vs. Lynn Vision
15:30 OG vs. paiN
18:30 Evil Geniuses vs. MAD Lions

Thursday, October 14

15:30 Virtus.pro vs. Movistar Riders
18:30 Liquid vs. 9z

Cool, let's see if heroic are truly Tier 1 team or...

2021-10-01 14:24

9 replies

EZ4POGGERZ

2021-10-01 14:27

8 replies

Not without nawwk :(

2021-10-01 14:30

7 replies

NiP snake

why nawwk not playing?

2021-10-01 15:01

5 replies

Because he still is a nip player and could have conflit of interest

2021-10-01 15:56

4 replies

I think NIP should let him play loan him or something he deserves to play

2021-10-01 18:00

3 replies

I agree with you but im not the owner of nip ahah

2021-10-01 18:35

1 reply

hehe... we should tweet him now

2021-10-01 20:54

Might have to do with BLAST and not nip

2021-10-02 00:31

nice

2021-10-01 14:23

Ez liquid

Why no gambit?

Probably skipping an event.

2021-10-01 14:25

2 replies

yeah i think mainly for major

2021-10-01 14:26

Probably because it is right before the major. Makes sense.

2021-10-01 14:49

damn :(

2021-10-01 15:07

and they already have a spot fr blast december so ..

2021-10-01 15:44

Wow!!

nice no gambit lets go

LOBA AND DOCC HAHAHAHAHAHA

paiN > OG

saffee gonna doctrinate mantuu

2021-10-01 14:31

saffee Very god #GoPain

2021-10-01 18:31

Only 2 teams make it in. That sounds so bad, personally. The lower-Tier teams almost never get a chance to make it in, with so many strong teams around.

well, duh, they prefer partner teams. but at least there's a chance. sometimes non-partners even win the whole thing. that happened previously on the very last tournament in spring, when gambit placed 1-2th in the showdown and beat everyone in the finals.

2021-10-01 19:49

LUL Gambit onliners skipping a LAN event

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maybe focused in major

2021-10-01 14:43

they are already qualified for blast global finals 'cause they won the spring thingie so dunno

2021-10-01 19:46

Well Heroic got invited even though they are also qualified

2021-10-01 19:50

yeah so either gambit didn't get an invite or they want to focus on the major or something

2021-10-01 19:53

Definetly got an invite since they are the highest ranked team after Navi

yeah mabby. I bet they don't skip major

2021-10-01 20:01

#DreamOG

2021-10-01 14:29

Blast wtf

RIP VICI

2021-10-01 14:32

Major more important! Tylul can't be given a free pass!

2021-10-01 14:59

GOVP

Ez for loba young 30 yo talent

2021-10-01 14:33

so ez for paiN, OG don't have chance this game, Saffee future top 1 hltv 2022

2021-10-01 14:35

saffee> fallen

2021-10-01 18:32

Prejudice with Gambit. I will make negative propaganda to BLAST until my death.

2021-10-01 14:36

Why Heroic need to play that? Don't they have a spot at World Final already as EPL13 winners (according to Liquipedia)?

2021-10-01 14:37

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I am disgusted that Heroic is invited over teams that haven't qualified yet

2021-10-01 14:38

they want play in thier home

2021-10-01 14:44

+1 Considering the Showdown is REALLY stacked up with T1 teams, they could have invited FPX or Sinners, for example, whom yesterday won mouz and Heroic, respectively.

2021-10-01 14:54

because they are hihger in the rankings? and they are better??

2021-10-01 17:29

but Heroic qualified for World

2021-10-01 17:37

but not for spring final, which is one of the two seasonal tournmaments of blast sop why not try again EKS DE

2021-10-01 17:50

They are qualified for World Finals in December, not the Fall Finals in November

2021-10-01 15:54

Isn't the whole point of the Fall Finals trying to qualify for the World Finals? I am shocked that top teams like Furia or mousesports will miss out on the World Finals because they are not Blast partner teams and have to bank on getting invites to the showdown

2021-10-01 17:38

I mean, the fall finals also have 450k prize pool and are a LAN in Copenhagen Royal Arena. So still an important event. Yeah, BLAST's format is what it is, very partner-friendly

2021-10-01 17:42

They really should clean up the BLAST format to allow teams to be invited to the Fall/Spring groups. Teams like MIBR needs to be removed at some point but bureaucracy and 100 pages long rule books

2021-10-01 17:44

What about Gambit and Furia

Bro I can’t find the bracket anywhere tf

2021-10-01 14:42

Bc doesnt exist, they will sort after opening matchs

2021-10-01 15:47

why? for real - why? they'realready qualified to blast global finals

lost all respect for blast for inviting cheater team that should be disqualified from all cs events... omg wtf why

2021-10-01 14:51

Free money for G2 and Poggerz

2021-10-01 14:53

yes))))))

2021-10-01 15:09

We all know the 2 qualifying teams and the finalist of this event are gonna be Lynn Vision vs POGGERZ, why bother playing with other teams here?

why instead of vici lynn vision?

2021-10-01 15:04

hltv.org/news/32457/lynn-vision-replace-..

understood

2021-10-01 15:35

EZ4LOBA

2021-10-01 15:06

is it going to be online??

2021-10-01 15:23

Ez for EliGe

2021-10-01 15:45

Her OMEGALUL ic

2021-10-01 17:01

Oh no not the cheaters onliners again?

2021-10-01 17:24

lolwot

Fallen vs Bit POG

2021-10-01 19:34

+1 POG

2021-10-01 23:42

Fallen vs Bit, Boltz vs Coldzera blast really like to put the brazilians against themselves :(

2021-10-01 19:56

Heroic and Fiend will make it, mark those words Fiend will win this, I have a feeling from god they are going to do it, don't ask me why because it's unreasonable I know but I just feel it.

2021-10-01 20:07