BLAST Fall Showdown schedule announced

21-9-2023 19:00

G2, ENCE, and Cloud9 will all compete for just one spot at the Fall Final.

The IEM Cologne champions face some stiff competition in the Showdown

BLAST has revealed the schedule for their upcoming Showdown events, which will be split between the Americas and Europe, take place online from October 4-8, and feature a total of 16 teams competing for two spots at the BLAST Premier Fall Final.

The two Showdowns will play out concurrently on a rolling schedule, with three matches taking place each day. The European tournament will kick off things with BIG vs. 9INE and ENCE vs. Victory Zigzag back-to-back, followed by a game between Imperial and The MongolZ in the Americas.

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The remaining two EU quarter-finals, Cloud9 vs. Movistar Riders and G2 vs. OG, take place the following day, with Liquid vs. Forsaken closing out the day.

An all-American brawl between Complexity and Evil Geniuses and an all-Brazilian battle between FURIA and Fake Natty round out the opening Americas matches, with both games following after the first EU quarter-final.

The second EU semi-final and both Americas semi-finals will play out on October 7, with the final day of the event being reserved for the grand final of both Showdowns.

You can see the complete schedule and opening matchups for both Showdowns below:

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2023 Europe
04/10/2023	9INE 15:00 BIG	Match
04/10/2023	ENCE 17:20 Alliance	Match
05/10/2023	Cloud9 15:00 Movistar Riders	Match
05/10/2023	G2 17:35 OG	Match
06/10/2023	BIG 15:00 ENCE	Match
07/10/2023	Cloud9 15:00 G2	Match
08/10/2023	BIG 18:00 Cloud9	Match

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2023 Americas
04/10/2023	Imperial 19:45 Party Astronauts	Match
05/10/2023	Liquid 21:10 Forsaken	Match
06/10/2023	Complexity 17:50 Evil Geniuses	Match
06/10/2023	FURIA 20:45 Legacy	Match
07/10/2023	Party Astronauts 18:45 Liquid	Match
07/10/2023	Complexity 22:30 FURIA	Match
08/10/2023	Liquid 20:50 Complexity	Match

nice

2023-09-21 19:01

Eg vs complexity and furia vs fake natty lol what a coinci-dance

2023-09-21 19:02

why do they separate them when most teams are in malta to play epl ?

5 replies

The showdown starts 3 day after EPL ends and it's online.

2023-09-21 19:07

4 replies

non EU teams can stay in europe for weeks for epl but not 3 more days for a blast qualifier ?

2023-09-21 19:35

3 replies

they qualified for an American Showdown they are allowed to only play American showdown, unless they want 150ping they should go back to USA

2023-09-21 21:17

2 replies

most of them didn't qualify for it and out of them only one did from a NA qualifier

2023-09-22 07:33

1 reply

Doesn't matter, all the teams in the Americas qualifier are from America besides themongolz. you can't just let them participate in the European qualifier just cuz they happen to be in EU in that time... Qualifiers are Regional and as I said, all teams are from America besides TheMongolz

2023-09-22 11:48