HLTV.org live from Abu Dhabi

14-12-2022 07:13

We are live from Abu Dhabi, UAE, where the BLAST Premier World Final is underway.

The BLAST Premier World Final is set to begin with eight teams contending for the lion's share of the $1,000,000 prize pool. Outsiders and Liquid kick things off in the first day of action, in which four best-of-threes will be played, followed by FaZe vs. G2, HEROIC vs. OG and Natus Vincere vs. Vitality.

Outsiders open the tournament in Abu Dhabi against Liquid

Covering the event on behalf of HLTV are Radoslaw "MAKKU" Makuch and Lucas Aznar Miles, who will be shooting photos and conducting interviews from the Etihad Arena. Five interviews, which can be found below, were already taken during the media day ahead of the final event of the season with the likes of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke and Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif.

Media Day interviews:

huNter-: "We need to deal much better with pressure"

Magisk: "Winning one tournament is a good thing, but we also know that we can do better"

k0nfig: "It's been a long time since I had this fire inside of me"

s1mple: "We need to forget about old victories, we are not Major winners"

B1ad3: "If FaZe don't win this event you can say there's only a phantom left of their domination"

The opening day matches are:

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier World Final 2022
14/12/2022	Outsiders 07:00 Liquid	Match
14/12/2022	FaZe 11:20 G2	Match
14/12/2022	HEROIC 15:15 OG	Match
14/12/2022	Natus Vincere 19:25 Vitality	Match

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