BLAST Premier Fall Showdown teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent

2-10-2023 13:46

Here's everything you need to know about BLAST's two Fall Showdown events.

Two coveted Fall Final spots are up for grabs

The BLAST Premier Fall Showdown is set to take place online on October 4-8, with 16 teams ready to do battle for a place at the BLAST Premier Fall Final. The teams are split across two brackets, one European and one American.

The teams taking part are made up of those who failed to make it out of the BLAST Fall Groups, invited teams, and a raft that made their way through regional qualifiers.

Participating teams and format

Despite the recent release of Counter-Strike 2, BLAST Premier Fall Showdown will take place in CS:GO.

Each event grants a single spot at the Fall Final to the winner. Both events run the same format, a single-elimination best-of-three bracket.

Victory Zigzag and The MongolZ were originally supposed to attend the Europe and Americas events respectively, however the former were disqualified as a result of two of their members being suspended or banned, and the latter encountered visa issues. They have been replaced by Alliance and Party Astronauts.

The teams attending each Showdown event are as follows:

Europe

Americas

Schedule

Europe

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

Americas

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

Prize distribution

The $67,500 total prize purse will be distributed among all participating teams based on placement. Both tournaments feature the same distribution:

1. $20,000 (Fall Final berth)
2. $12,500
3-4. $7,500
5-8. $5,000

Important news

Media: Liquid bench Rainwaker, to use daps as IGL in BLAST Showdown

BLAST Fall Showdown to be played in CS:GO

BLAST disqualify Victory Zigzag; TheMongolz to miss Showdown

Kjaerbye, Bubzkji among BLAST Fall Showdown talent

Two notable new faces will be appearing on the broadcast as talent, Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye and Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen. Both have played professionally at tier one and have previously represented the likes of Astralis.

Talent lineup

Host

Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez

Analysts

Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen
Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye
Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche

Casters

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
Adam "⁠Dinko⁠" Hawthorne
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan

Interviewer

James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks

ok CSGO don't car

2023-10-02 12:52

4 replies

might as well play it on 1.6.

2023-10-02 13:00

3 replies

that would be ballin

2023-10-02 13:17

Honestly best idea I have seen on here for a long time

2023-10-02 22:27

that would have been more interesting tbh

2023-10-03 01:14

csgo dont car

2023-10-02 12:54

Is this played on 1.6?

will this be played on the half-life mod?

2023-10-02 13:10

fkn Liquid in NA what a joke

2023-10-02 13:12

5 replies

Why is Liquid listed as NA ?

2023-10-02 15:08

idk partner agreement or something i guess

2023-10-02 15:11

My guess is because daps is playing instead of rainwaker

2023-10-02 17:56

Daps playing for rainwaker 3 NA players

I think it's bc they qualified for this event as an na team and switched after. Could be bc daps is playing though.

2023-10-02 20:34

dead game who cares

Alliance wins 🥱

2023-10-02 13:22

Finally a css match

zZZzZzZzZz......

2023-10-02 13:35

So stupid For crying guys "it's not ready for competitive" Volvo literally forced everyone to switch to CS2 by deleting CS:GO

who on earth is gonna watch this micky mouse tourney. FFS a month of bloody EPL and now this bullshit

2023-10-02 13:36

2 replies

me :)

2023-10-02 13:51

me im gonna be bricked the whole time i love cs

2023-10-02 14:00

No one cares about Blast franchise + still cs:go lol Also mickey mouse tourney, qualifier with invited teams

2023-10-02 13:52

1 reply

Fortunately is still played in csgo

2023-10-02 14:43

Despite the recent release of Counter-Strike 2, BLAST Premier Fall Showdown will take place in CS:GO. This is fine for the showdown but everything after has to be CS2 or you are just bad at business, get your head straight wtf you can be the first CS2 event who cares about last that shit is OVER okay?

2023-10-02 13:59

I believe they have said fall finals will be in CS2. They were worried about the short changeover time between CS2's official release and this event.

2023-10-02 14:48

That makes no sense really, would only benefit them to let it be played in cs2 No one cares abt showdown but maybe if it was in cs2 they'd do

2023-10-02 15:10

you need to be really a loser with nothing else in your life to watch blast showdown, at least if it was cs2 people will watch it for the novelty. But this is like you watch a football match in a 3rd division. But as always blast sucks at business. Its crazy how ESL its better than Blast in any aspect.

2023-10-02 17:28