Washington, D.C. to host BLAST Premier Spring Final

27-1-2023 14:58

BLAST's first arena event of 2023 will be held in the United States capital.

The BLAST Premier Spring Final 2023 will be held in Washington, D.C., the tournament organizers have announced. The US capital's ~4,000-seater Entertainment & Sports Arena will play host to the $425,000 tournament from June 7-11.

The event will see BLAST return to North America for the first time in four years. The Copenhagen-based organizer previously held two Pro Series stops in the United States in 2019, in Miami and Los Angeles.

BLAST will return to the United States after four years

The Spring Final will boast eight teams, three of which have already been decided after they won their respective Spring Groups: Vitality, FaZe, and G2. Three more teams will qualify from the ongoing Knockout Stage of the Spring Groups, and two from the Spring Showdown.

The current team list looks as follows:

FaZe

Vitality

Spring Groups spot

Spring Showdown spot

Spring Groups spot

Spring Showdown spot

LETS GO NA

2023-01-27 14:59

13 replies

HY FICK YEA

2023-01-27 15:00

7 replies

pls no another all-stand in tournament like iem dallas

2023-01-27 16:35

6 replies

2023-01-27 18:13

2023-01-27 19:16

lmao that's because of visa issues. If orgs take their time to get it figured out this time they will be fine.

2023-01-27 19:45

3 replies

trace couldn't attend IEM dallas because he went to iran in 2012 How is the org gonna fix that?

2023-01-27 22:16

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Trace isn’t on a team so who cars

2023-01-28 15:13

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there could be more issues like this not just him..

2023-01-29 23:19

Poggers USA USA USA

2023-01-27 15:10

if you go to the event you'll get to meet me :)) wouldn't you love that?

2023-01-27 16:14

2023-01-27 17:36

SO HYPED FOR MORE NA EVENTS!!!!

2023-01-27 18:03

2023-01-27 18:24

But im considered a war criminal there ti will be difficult to attend >:(

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But you dont pro player in Blast Spring Finals. You no worry attending.

2023-01-27 15:03

I already bought tickets ???

2023-01-27 15:04

reported for low iq bait

2023-01-27 15:31

lesson learned don't talk to albanians

2023-01-27 15:44

based

2023-01-27 16:58

WTFFFF

o7 freedom final

hmm

pog

nice

LETS GOOOOOOOO NA I MIGHT MAKE THE DRIVE THERE

wdym you "might"? You'll have to to make the drive cuz you’re living in a highly car-dependent country

2023-01-27 16:56

what depended country are you living in then? walking?

2023-01-27 17:13

Skateboarding, because my country is COOL!

2023-01-27 18:40

I could fly, take train, or drive. I would most likely drive and make a vacation out of it

2023-01-27 17:18

2023-01-27 17:50

I like how this is suppose to be a "burn" but just makes you look bad. Every large country has cars as main transport sorry to say. All the original guy means is me might take a road trip down and attend. Road trips are fun cause you can make a vaca out of it cause the US is so big. If not he will fly or take a train pretty simple lol he is just having fun

2023-01-27 18:32

We finna get a Trump VS Biden Showmatch

4 replies

2023-01-27 15:13

Will biden be able to even climb the ladders to get on stage ?

2023-01-27 17:31

neither will, Joey will fall and Trump will have the ladder break under him

2023-01-27 17:40

No show match then

2023-01-27 18:23

nicee, maybe biden will come watch some cs?

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i would pay good money for a live audio feed of biden watching cs

2023-01-27 15:34

He would get confused and think that it was real life

2023-01-27 16:06

0/8

2023-01-27 17:15

biden sucks and everyone knows it. people just voted for him so they didn't have to hear about trump drama anymore.

2023-01-27 18:12

Biden sucks because tiktok clip of him being old I don’t know anything about legislation passed or the economy

2023-01-27 19:11

hes doing ok but they found classified docs at his house lol

2023-01-27 20:10

he isn't doing much of anything. Keeping the status quo of what trump had and even going harder in some areas like locking down travel to china. The economy is also kinds crap with high inflation and interest rates. Could be worse tho i could wake up and be french.

2023-01-27 20:27

Wait, the president is supposed to do things? I always thought they were just a dumb face attempting to read off a teleprompter as their expertly placed administration butt fucks the poor and middle class with no lube at behest of covert lobbyists. You know, how every president for the last 70 years has done.

2023-01-29 12:10

na cs wins again

Hype NA is back

F spinx i hope he will have a visa this time

L No NaVi, sadly

2023-01-27 15:01

yes, navi favorite russian team…

visa issues coming

2023-01-27 15:02

W Hopefully Liquid and EG/COL Qualifies for this Event.

2023-01-27 15:07

Liquid looks unlikely, they will have to play Heroic if they win versus BUG

2023-01-27 15:14

imagine not qualifying through NA showdown

2023-01-27 15:19

liquid always gets fucked in showdown wdym xddd

2023-01-27 15:23

if this liquid with yeki somehow wont qualify over eg and col bots then idk whats wrong with them. Elige, nitr0, naf and osee would be happy to play on home soil

Didn't think CS will be back in NA so soon in DC no less

30 minute drive from me :)

I live in Arlington VA which is literally former DC territory

2023-01-27 17:39

I’m down by Fredericksburg

2023-01-27 17:56

Me too 👀👀

2023-01-27 19:10

always liked NA events, let's go

+1 always enjoyed na events

2023-01-27 15:05

EZ for Liquid, just remember the name

USA! USA!

2023-01-27 15:06

oh tournament in US, denied visa stand-in tournamet incoming

4k audience only? ;_;

And games at 11pm

2023-01-27 15:11

not for me :)

2023-01-27 15:12

I don’t think it will matter if sound is handled properly and Americans are hella loud anyways.

incoming "lets go usa" chants

2023-01-27 16:19

Nope just USA

2023-01-27 17:34

POOOOG

yoo?

0 NA team + dead crowd inc

2023-01-27 15:08

storm the gabidal :DDDDD

Cloud9 better be there but prob won’t sadly cuz blast closed circuit system sucks! Excited for another NA event tho.

2023-01-27 15:18

4k audience? LUL I'm sure NA has a strong fanbase for csgo

expected cuz it's 2 days after dallas edit: "... host to the $425,000 tournament from July 7-11" There is a typo, should be June

2023-01-27 15:17

Biden to bring out the trophy?? POOOOOOG

lmaoo

2023-01-27 15:16

PepeLa

Obamna...

SODA!!!

2023-01-27 15:25

do not cum...

2023-01-28 22:13

NA crowd always Pog not like some other places we wont mention

2023-01-27 15:21

like american but south

2023-01-27 15:28

When do tickets generally go on sale for these events anybody know?

reply to me if you find out I'll do the same

2023-01-27 23:23

Pogggggg

pog pog na buff ez4 g2

2023-01-27 15:26

LOL. Not bad anyway

thats poggers right

2023-01-27 15:27

LETS GOOOOOOO

Something new for a change... gl

2023-01-27 15:29

Yes finally

2023-01-27 17:20

holy, nice announcement

2023-01-27 15:39

Need some NA teams to make it then, atleast TL!

2023-01-27 15:41

Pog trump rally inc

2023-01-27 15:47

why not in pentagon

2023-01-27 15:54

Time to deny visas to half the players, naiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Sadly there will be 0 NA teams there most likely

2023-01-27 15:55

Yess let's host it in a country where half the players will have visa issues

20 substitutes in this event in 3...2..1

2023-01-27 15:57

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS FGGFG FGOGOOGOGOG!

2023-01-27 15:58

why not

2023-01-27 16:02

real life CS Pog

2023-01-27 16:03

Hosted in Danish malls

2023-01-27 16:28

dead crowd? visa issues? hope not

2023-01-27 16:04

USA USA USA

2023-01-27 16:05

KKona damn right brudah

2023-01-27 16:11

This is joke right?

Visa issues go brrr

2023-01-27 16:09

stand-ins for every team incoming

2023-01-27 16:13

blast zZzZzZzZz let me guess, same teams battling for nothing and geting unlimited chances of being bad cause theres always a next blast confirmed for them

2023-01-27 16:20

there is around 1000 better places to host finals than dc

2023-01-27 16:18

maybe like,, 87. DC is large.

bruh finally NA event. I'll be there!

Biden to make a cameo :DDDDDD

i’ll be in washington that time so i might go :)

2023-01-27 16:22

competition aborded after russia declares war to occidental countries in 2months

2023-01-27 16:23

Why go to one of the worst cities in the country? There is only like 3 cities worse than D.C. Almost anywhere else would have been better.

DC isnt even the worst city in Maryland, they couldve done Baltimore. What city do you think they should have done?

2023-01-27 16:25

DC isn't in Maryland 💀💀

2023-01-27 17:37

What state is it in then? Lmfao

2023-01-27 17:47

fake flagger spotted LOL

2023-01-27 17:48

DC might as well be the St. Louis of Virginia/Maryland even if it technically isn't in either state

2023-01-27 17:59

As someone who is from St. Louis, you being serious? STL is in Missouri and DC is in Maryland, DMV is fake

2023-01-27 21:23

There are a bunch of cities that are nicer/safer. Raleigh, Miami, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin. Like literally anywhere. DC is in the bottom 20% of cities.

2023-01-27 20:33

DC has improved a lot over the years, its pretty decent/good now

2023-01-27 17:54

KKonaW

OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

2023-01-27 16:41

Lmao another ghost crowd

2023-01-27 16:44

Afganistan talking 💀💀💀💀💀

spring finals july…must be kidding me

2023-01-27 16:45

Believe it's a mistake in the article, the Blast Website says June (still late, but Blast also has the major the month before so I think it's understandable)

2023-01-27 16:46

i always think if u said spring then it should be before june at least xd since blast is doing major jobs i can understand them in this case ps:hint me anytime when es3tag or k0nfig finds a team

2023-01-27 18:21

July or June Striker? Your article says July 7th-11th, the Blast Website says June 7th-11th

finally I can attend

2023-01-27 16:52

Better fill the fucking arena NA

2023-01-27 17:08

why there maybe somewhere else

2023-01-27 17:12

when tickets

empty arena 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

2023-01-27 17:21

nah we fill it EZ

2023-01-27 17:35

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

2023-01-27 17:32

for the people saying no crowd if i were to try to attend it would be a 19 hour drive both ways 1,242 miles and im in Minnesota or i could take a buss that would take 1 day and 12 hours or fly for about $200+ each way then getting a hotel in that shit hole of a city, people would like to go its just pretty much unfeasible would take days just in travel and cost a fortune not as easy to go as in EU.

2023-01-27 17:38

Luckily pretty much the entirety of NA cs is on the east coast. The distance is 2700 miles for me one-way though.

USA USA USA! fans incoming.

2023-01-27 17:43

4k seats only kkkkkkkkkkkkk You could host a tournament in Lithuania and still get a bigger crowd.

2023-01-27 17:44

idk why they didn't go with Verizon Center in DC, its a proper stadium. They could have gotten a bigger one if wanted

That's what I'm sayin, they could definitely get a lot of people in Capital One Arena, especially considering there's nothing in the arena on the 10th and 11th

2023-01-27 18:02

Bro why dissink lithuania (tho i probaply habe mote seats in my back yard)

2023-01-27 19:14

Yay Are we gonna get random standins or even replaced teams because if Dallas taught me one thing , it's visa issues from 'Murica's side.

2023-01-27 17:55

+1 blast wat doink

2023-01-28 00:04

BIDEN to present the trophy

2023-01-27 18:15

nooo im from florida i cant get to dc :(

2023-01-27 18:54

Finaly joelz biden on lan

2023-01-27 19:13

Shouldve held this event on Jan. 6th

2023-01-27 19:39

No C9 russian team with us org in washington lull

2023-01-27 19:50

IEM Dallas has left the chat

2023-01-27 20:09

Dallas ain‘t the location where the white house is tho.

2023-01-27 20:23

wait till you find out where the embassy from Russia is !!!!

2023-01-27 20:24

I am aware of that, but thought they were declared persona non grata

2023-01-27 20:25

bro there are prolly hundreds of Russians in DC, a few more won't do anything

I am not aware of that. Okay then my statement made no sense, nevertheless c9 won‘t attend a blast event.

C9 is a US company tho and they attended Dallas, when the war was very much ongoing

2023-01-27 20:28

True

2023-01-27 20:29

Hypeee

2023-01-27 20:02

IT SHOULDA BEEN BOSTON!

2023-01-27 21:11

BOSTON MAKE SOME NOISE

2023-01-27 22:18

NA finals without NA teams

Will monesy get visa? What’s wrong with dc as a city?

2023-01-27 22:15

worst case, k0nfig will stand in for G2 at Blast NA

2023-01-27 22:44

Konfig, will play for NIP Maybe Es3tag can step in for any team with visa problems

2023-01-27 23:34

Who knows if hampus is back in 5 months, but if not then konfig will stand with nip yeah

2023-01-28 00:17

Arg… I really hope Liquid will make it through Showdown. Sad with a top tier NA event without them.

2023-01-27 22:48

visa issues inc

2023-01-27 23:13

why in DC though wtf...

2023-01-27 23:18

Fattest crowd of the year

2023-01-28 08:13

LMAO

Hopefully there's at least 1 American team lol

2023-01-28 08:44

As many as possible 😃

2023-01-28 18:34

If CoL don't beat NaVi rn, only 1 American team max can qualify through the showdown lol

2023-01-28 20:50

Pimp hinted this in the last hltv confirmed!

2023-01-28 18:04

Finally an event super close to me.

2023-01-28 22:12

2023-01-28 22:14

empyt arena OMG

2023-01-29 20:18

10hr drive fml

2023-01-30 00:10

2023-01-31 12:04

I hope for the best but the Entertainment & Sports Arena is in Southeast DC, basically right in the hood lol Although to be fair it's on the St. Elizabeth's Hospital grounds which has seen a ton of redevelopment recently, and there are lots of Federal fortresses nearby

2023-02-09 21:21