2023 season to kick off with BLAST Premier Spring Groups

3-1-2023 17:58

The opening of the BLAST circuit has been announced to start in the middle of January.

The dates for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups have been confirmed. The 12 BLAST partnered teams, which include five teams currently in the top 10, will compete from January 19-29 for a prize pool of $177,500. The tournament will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The start of the season is almost upon us

The announcement has not specified what the groups will be or the structure of the event, but what is known is that six BLAST Premier Spring Final spots are on offer. The event serves as an opportunity for teams to warm up to the year as IEM Katowice is just around the corner.

It will also give us the first look at Ninjas in Pyjamas' newest player, which is reported to be Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov. The event could serve as the young Ukrainian's debut and will also be the debut for Astralis' new rifler, Christian "⁠Buzz⁠" Andersen.

The teams for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups are as follows:

partner tourneys suck

2023-01-03 17:59

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Agreed, but at least this way we get to see how EG are getting on

2023-01-03 18:01

+11111

2023-01-03 18:05

Partner team 🤮🤮🤮.

2023-01-03 18:06

+1111

2023-01-03 18:19

2023-01-03 18:23

its sucks that there no open and closed qualifiers to get some fresh teams in tournaments like these its so boring that its always the same ones no matter how shit they are playing at the moment

2023-01-03 18:38

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there are qualifiers but it's super limited and a lot of 322 teams are competing

2023-01-03 18:52

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there are no qualifiers for most of the tourneys. you should qualify from 8324 qualifiers to get a slot from blast "showdown" meanwhile some top100 na team can get a slot for doing nothing

2023-01-03 19:23

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that's what i just said

2023-01-03 19:53

there is a reason, bcs these are the best. and if you wanna play against the best, you gotta be the best. its not like they dont have a chance its that they are not good enough

2023-01-05 12:08

tell that to C9

2023-01-09 12:42

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2023-01-03 19:00

like pro league

2023-01-03 19:06

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yea but now that the format is changing there will be more teams from open/closed qualifiers

2023-01-03 19:55

blast doesn’t have qualifiers? it’s weird that people hate on blast when pro league is pay to enter.

2023-01-04 19:16

I agree, but I just replied to the guy above. It's true though that pro league is also working the same way

2023-01-05 13:48

0/8 why not have both ?

2023-01-03 19:10

+1000

2023-01-03 19:12

+111 partner team system killed competetive cs

2023-01-03 19:19

plus 10000000000

2023-01-03 19:20

2023-01-03 19:33

Astralis, COL, EG, BIG 💀💀💀💀💀💀

2023-01-03 19:37

2023-01-03 19:40

usually they do but then again if it didn't some of these teams wouldve maybe left csgo long ago

2023-01-03 19:41

Indubitably

2023-01-03 21:24

+1 SO FK TRASH

2023-01-03 21:50

And then on majors , teams that "aren´t know" wins it and get good places and people doesn´t understand how. THATS HOW. this less known teams are only less known because of TOS such as blast who don´t give slots to teams that deserve them. Its the same as if in 2018 no one gave slots to ASTRALIS. Doesn´t matter if they are top1 if no one gave them tournaments to play on.

2023-01-03 21:51

outsiders are known though

2023-01-03 22:29

Very good point. Although this also may have to do with the format at majors (swiss system is pretty bad), it’s weird how teams like Copenhagen Flames and Spirit can have 2 really good consecutive major runs and still not manage to really accomplish anything in between.

2023-01-05 15:17

Kind of true but also not really Every single org that has won a major is well-known. The only exception is kind of outsiders because they "have no org". Outsiders are only out of the closed qualifiers because VP are owned by a russian oligarch. So kind of also not true. Why do "unknown teams" do well in majors has a lot to do with the format. Online, Bo1's and off-stage play will always favour the underdog team. The major qualifiers have in large parts all of these. The actual top 8 of majors aka the play-offs is always big teams. Yes CPH Flames might sneak in but they just get smashed in the first match. And the few times that an underdog team make a run they always do well afterwards. Look at where Ence is today or that old Avangar roster. The real joke is that Astralis, EG and Complexity get to play when better teams like Mouz, C9, Spirit, Fnatic and Ence don't. Who themselves are big orgs

2023-01-05 15:28

same old teams...

Nice flair

complexity lmfao

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you mean lmfao for EG

2023-01-03 18:00

EG >>> this coL

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You EU folk sure are funny

2023-01-03 18:10

he isnt wrong, if EG find better replacemnt for cerq it will be EG>>>>>>>>>>>>Complexity

2023-01-03 18:36

-cerq + h4rn

2023-01-03 18:51

wtf?

2023-01-03 18:27

EZ Final for Device and Liquid

yeah maybe if astralis got rid of 3/5 players you'd be right

2023-01-03 18:04

Why is it online? It says here on tournament page that it will be online : hltv.org/events/6970/blast-premier-sprin..

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irrelevant tournament

Online in 2023 is pretty cringe ngl

2023-01-03 18:02

OK wtf, mfs run an exhibition tournament and still can't keep it on LAN, smfh

2023-01-03 18:03

spring groups 2022 was an online even too

2023-01-03 18:28

"The tournament will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark."

2023-01-03 18:30

That wasn't in the original article.

2023-01-03 18:45

i see, but i hope its on lan..

2023-01-03 18:59

Col vs eg final

Faze Up ♥

Interesting (because of roster changes) and boring (because of format) at the same time.

Format where

Let’s go NA

Nice

Astralis, Complexity, Evil Geniuses and BIG instead of Cloud9 :clown:

There are some Russian players in the teams attending. Why would they allow a whole team full of Russians?

2023-01-03 18:14

Maybe because they are some of the best in the world, and can whoop Eg, Col, Og with their eyes closed, and then go head to head with navi g2 bit and beat them on a good day. Or just maybe because the org owning them is from NA idk

They can chill and prepare for the next event.

2023-01-03 18:21

why wouldnt they?

2023-01-03 18:25

Because they represent a country that invaded a neighbor? And Blast doesn't like them? They had to accept Outsiders in the World Final only because they won the Major.

2023-01-03 18:29

Players did not represent country in esports they represent themselves and org. C9 is NA org

But they are still Russians. And Blast doesn't like them. I think they will have their chance in the Showdown though.

2023-01-03 18:33

nice

Liquid WILL win

2023-01-03 18:08

Blast Winter Part 2 Groups

2023-01-03 18:11

cloud9(

Why don't more teams form blast partnerships??? Cloud9 for example, they have money

2023-01-03 18:12

no cloud9, boring event

2023-01-03 18:13

boring blast again where 4 current top10 teams missing (mouz, Outsiders, C9, fnatic). only half exciting

and furia**

2023-01-03 19:57

Ya forget about them, 5 of 10 missing is huge.

2023-01-03 20:18

Current* is the key word, but in reality those teams are not even top 10 apart from C9.

2023-01-03 21:39

How do u figure? Furia has been top10 basically whole 2022. Outsiders won the Major and clearly is a top 10 team. mouz has been top 10 since july aswell and got even better when xertiaN joined. So basically 4 top10 teams BOOKED, only fnatic can be considered below since they havent shown great success over longer period of time yet, but their curve is heading up aswell. But im still interested which teams are missing in the top10 outside Vitality who have shown to be better or equal than those mentioned teams. NiP? Astralis? ENCE? BIG? They can be in the future again, but surely not based on their results lately.

2023-01-03 22:03

Eg is wasted spot... eg black (the best na team) would literaly win this shit, but this shitty eg steal the spot

Is this tournament online or LAN? Should be a blast, though obviously it's a shame BLAST tournaments are partnered.

2023-01-03 18:20

It's online as stated on the tournament page. EG, coL and Astralis will probably bomb out almost immediately, as usually. Blast partnerships are a joke. It's like watching t1 mixed with t4.

2023-01-03 19:47

EZ 4 BIG <3

Group B sucks ass

groups are not announced yet...

I'll watch only last chance bo3s or matches that actually matter, ngl i have more interest towards epl conference

2023-01-03 18:32

faze will win, navi and astralis will fight for last place you heard it here first

No vitality will win

2023-01-03 18:34

EG STILL IN LMAO

stale ass teams

2023-01-03 18:41

karrigan - Finn Andersen Buzz - Christian Andersen rain - Håvard Nygaard jabbi - Jakob Nygaard wtf FaZe Clan!? Did they start to sent a relative to each team?

let's go coL!

WHERE is OUTSIDERS(VIRTUSPRO)?

2023-01-03 18:54

Online? I don't think even players gonna have the motivation to play some good cs

2023-01-03 19:24

-coL +c9

2023-01-03 19:26

2023-01-06 19:27

poggers

2023-01-03 19:36

the only tournament important in blast is the world finals

2023-01-03 19:43

World finals didn’t matter and is mostly a show tournament for pleasing the Arabs while Blast is selling out. Heard Blast was in bad standing as they are basically partly owned by Danish government fond through investments.

2023-01-03 20:17

OPEN FANTASY (no I'm not addicted)

2023-01-03 20:19

EZ4NAVI

2023-01-03 20:37

EZ4LIQUIDCOLOREG

2023-01-03 21:31

EZ4GOATVICEandGOATSTRALIS

2023-01-03 21:33

Will be interesting too see how TL and COL look, excited to see the teams come back after holidays.

2023-01-04 00:31

of all teams you choose liquid (who have been pretty consistent and there is nothing to see) and complexity? Not navi with npl not astralis with dev1ce and buzz against big dogs not nip with new player tf?

2023-01-04 08:03

As far as i know 19th of January is winter period. Still confused why they have only Spring & Fall edition.

2023-01-04 00:52

Liquid vs Astralis throwback final??

2023-01-04 01:04

Could happen but now liquid got the edge :)

2023-01-08 19:01

Who cares about blast?

2023-01-04 02:51

why is sdy listed for navi?

2023-01-04 03:02

Shit tourney with the exact same pack of teams paid to be there, the PRODUCTION of BLAST is amazing, but the tournament organizing is TERRIBLE

2023-01-04 05:55

2023-01-04 06:01

Spring January Pick one

2023-01-04 12:15

2023-01-04 20:11

Is C9 still not partnered with BLAST ?

2023-01-06 19:18

another tournament for G2 ez ez

2023-01-09 11:34

I wont be surprised if Astralis will win their group, its nothing new that im always cheering for Astralis and i think its time to shine ( even with Buzz ), they should easily win eg and vitality and danish derby will be excitin.

2023-01-09 12:35