NAVI qualify for BLAST Premier World Final

20-6-2022 17:47

The Ukrainian-Russian squad become the second team to reach the million-dollar competition.

Natus Vincere took home the top prize in Lisbon after a triumphant BLAST Premier Spring Final campaign, which also guarantees them a spot in the BLAST World Final to be held at the end of the year, where eight teams will battle it out from December 14-18 for the $1,000,000 prize pool.

Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov's side join ESL Pro League Season 15 winners FaZe in the list of teams that have already clinched their spot, and will ultimately be looking to defend their title from last year's iteration of the tournament.

Can NAVI secure back-to-back World Final victories?

Half of the six remaining spots will be filled by the winners of the upcoming BLAST Fall Final, ESL Pro League Season 16, and IEM Rio. The BLAST World Final Leaderboard will determine the final three teams based on the points they garnered throughout the year.

After 2021's competition was held behind closed doors due to a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's BLAST World Final's location and venue is yet to be revealed.

Currently, the list of participating teams is as follows:

FaZe

ESL Pro League S16

World Final leaderboard

Natus Vincere

BLAST Fall Final

IEM Rio Major

World Final leaderboard

EZ + First

2022-06-20 17:48

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Undeserved

2022-06-20 17:50

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Navi won the easiest final of the year, pffft.

2022-06-20 17:57

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man said easy finals like this game didnt happen hltv.org/matches/2356641/faze-vs-natus-v..

2022-06-20 18:15

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I said FINAL, meaning Navi vs Vitality

2022-06-20 18:22

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yeah but who cares if the final was easy if they beat the best team in the world on the way there. Still deserve the spot for beating faze

2022-06-20 19:04

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True

2022-06-20 20:39

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looking forward to the rematch. FaZe will be motivated since they got crushed. It will be a very close rematch. Im a neutral so idc who wins

2022-06-20 20:40

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I dunno, i am concerned for Faze after these past performances.

2022-06-20 20:48

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2022-06-20 17:59

jealous much? leave the mens alone!

2022-06-20 19:30

first post hunters is a bannable offence

2022-06-20 19:44

how dare you?!?!?!

2022-06-20 21:18

nice

expected

WHAT A SURPRISE

EZ for the goats

2022-06-20 17:49

Ez for boombla

What annoyed me about the Blast World Final last year was that it barely less important and grandiose than the Fall Finals in every aspect but the prize pool.

2022-06-20 17:51

Yeah it felt like a money farm tournament for everyone, didnt seem very hype from players perspective and I think its gonna be the same this time with a huge amount of tournaments throughout the year diminishing the importance of this one

2022-06-20 19:01

For me all blast tournaments feel like money farming and 0 fucks given by the teams/players since they are partners anyway.

2022-06-20 19:43

this gave me the chills

Let's say Faze/Navi win EPL 16 or Fall Final, will the second place get the spot or how it works?

2022-06-20 17:53

i think yes

or blast ranking

2022-06-20 17:55

no, they get points towards a leaderboard and top 3 from that gets to the BLAST World Finals

Thanks

2022-06-20 17:54

no, if that happens then there will be more spots decided by blast ranking

It's still a long time. Out of interest: what would happen, if a team chose to collectively go to another org? As a totally random example faze players go to dignitas and faze gets a completely new roster. Will the new roster of faze play the event (undeserved) or will dignitas get the spot?

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I would say FaZe. The org qualified.

2022-06-20 18:00

People qualified, not org

2022-06-20 18:02

Yeah but it would not make sense for the players to get there. Let's say Real Madrid wins the La Liga. Then, all the players are going to Valladolid. Then Valladolid should play in the Champions League? Would not make sense

2022-06-20 18:08

in cs for the team to keep a spot in some tournament where they qualified as a full team, i think they need 3 players from the old core

2022-06-20 18:14

This would make sense

Cs is not football, players take spots, not orgs

2022-06-20 18:41

Always will be the roster of 3 or more of the roster that had moved to a new org.

2022-06-21 06:39

Just proves how trash the hltv ranking is

2022-06-20 17:58

Old one with boombl4 ;-; Feels bad for him , I hope his wife goes to jail after what she has done with him

She had segs with him. Really now, with all the love in the world for boombl4, great guy, how would you fall in love with that bici man...feels sad..

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Didn't Na'Vi win BLAST Premier World Final 2020 too? So, if they win this one in 2022 it'll be back-to-back-to-back.

2022-06-20 18:01

yup.

Yeah, the only difference being that back then it was called Global Final instead, And fun fact, they won BLAST Global Final 2020 in 2021 :D

2022-06-20 18:31

It's not even a difference in my opinion, it's like saying that IEM Cologne and ESL One Cologne are different tournaments.

2022-06-20 18:36

I agree, it's just a name change, perhaps they forgot to mention that one in the article.

2022-06-20 18:39

Why is booomblaaa in the video?? hmmm SUS

SDY NOT IN VIDEO

2022-06-20 18:07

So winning the Rio Major qualifies you for a Blast Finals, just as winning a previous, easier Blast Finals and just as being below the top already qualified teams in the leaderboard? Is it just me or the system is weird? I mean, Blast production, talent, team, everybody is great, but something doesn't add up with the qualifying system

2022-06-20 18:11