RMR dates create scheduling clash with BLAST World Final

31-5-2024 18:24

The TO may be forced to bring the event forward following Perfect World's announcement.

The BLAST World Final is scheduled for November 13-17

The qualifying process for the Perfect World Shanghai Major has created a scheduling clash that sees three Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournaments overlap with the BLAST Premier World Final.

The BLAST World Final is set to be played from November 13 to 17 — a direct clash with the Asia, Americas and Europe A RMR events, which were announced by Perfect World earlier on Friday.

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With the Shanghai Major ending the season, BLAST could be left with no option other than to move the event forward by a few weeks. There is an available window during the second half of October, after IEM Rio.

Below you can find the current November schedule:

Asia RMR - November 11-14
Americas RMR - November 12-15
BLAST Premier World Final - November 13-17
Europe RMR A - November 17-20
Europe RMR B - November 21-24
Major Opening Stage - November 30-December 3

BLAST has not yet announced the location for the World Final. The last two editions were held in Abu Dhabi as part of a three-year partnership with AD Gaming.

HLTV has asked BLAST for comment.

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2024-05-31 18:25

Damn

2024-05-31 18:24

No way they did that

damn

PerfectWorld be trolling

womp womp

2024-05-31 18:26

Yikes

2024-05-31 18:27

They can rename the whole thing since it is de facto not the “world final” anymore. The major has effectively replaced it as that.

2024-05-31 18:28

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The way I see it, blast could remove world finals all together, take the operating costs to fall finals event, the prize pool too, since it is basically their best event of the year. Go back to royal arena, and make sure you start cementing it's place alongside Kato and Cologne in terms of the quality of the event

2024-05-31 18:40

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pretty sure they have to reserve the arena ahead of time in order to use it. And we're not going back to the Royal Arena due to it already being occupied.

2024-05-31 18:45

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I'm pretty sure the reason it's not in the royal arena is because we already had the royal arena used in the major this year and also Blast never fills all the seats, with most being empty

2024-05-31 19:48

8 teams is not enough to be a good event :)

2024-05-31 21:08

im talking about the event being good in terms of the arena, the crowd, the production. the partner league is going away soon so there's no point bringing up this whole 8 team thing. people talk about blast having good production but i'd argue ESL has far surpassed them

2024-05-31 21:22

Has it ever warranted the name of "world final"?

2024-06-01 19:54

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Yes because it was literally the last big tournament of the year for years before Valve changed it so the major now is.

2024-06-01 20:04

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Tbh I haven't watched as much CS in the last years but when I used to watch more Blast tournament was always the joke BO1 tournaments. But I guess you can make a case for it being a de facto "world final" before. Still I would argue that the name suggests more significance that it actually was. Most players would definitely prefer winning a Cologne, Katowice before a Blast

2024-06-01 20:10

They can do whatever they want with the name, I realized later that it’s called “world final” because multiple winners only come together there to play a “decider final” tournament, just it’s not the last big tournament anymore, before this gave the tournament more credit, this credit is now gone. And yes Kato Cologne are easily worth more, they are way bigger tournaments with actual tradition.

2024-06-01 23:47

Rekt

LULZ but eh who cares, RMRs > BLAST World Final.

Cancel rmr

Shit rules Shit schedule The new major season off to a good start

ain't no one give a fuck about blast if it's major

2024-05-31 18:29

Should make final at China after RMR end.

the major starts in a week after rmr? this is insane

2024-05-31 18:30

all my homies hate banana cups, get rekt

Absolutely the worst Major of all time. And we are over 5 months before it.

2024-05-31 18:32

sadly valve did it again, destroys everything that is good

2024-05-31 18:44

This is strange, Blast WF has been a December event recently, no? They host it on November this year?

2024-05-31 18:46

They wanted to host it before Major, that's why it's in November

2024-05-31 19:17

Majors are supposed to be the final event of the season from now on. Blast circuit on the other hand will likely lose most of its significance anyway starting next year.

2024-05-31 19:38

OK, this looks reasonable explanation thanks

2024-05-31 19:56

loool wtf valve? blast announce the world finals ages ago and probably moved it forward so it wouldn't clash with the major

2024-05-31 18:48

W fuck blast and their pay to attend league

2024-05-31 18:49

Blast is banana cup

valve not even trying

2024-05-31 18:52

m8, why should anyone care about BLAST World Finals lmao

2024-05-31 18:55

Volovov not giben a single fuck

2024-05-31 18:56

L Major already

2024-05-31 18:57

nah, fuck the World Finals, literally the last "S-Tier" event that anyone should care about

2024-05-31 19:46

what did you smoke

2024-05-31 20:45

Blast should transfer their world final into beginning of next year. Like they had before.

2024-05-31 19:14

worst major ever

Teams going to Throw Blast to get out earlier. lol

2024-05-31 19:18

It would be funny to see them try to lose in order to play in RMR.

2024-05-31 21:52

best major

2024-05-31 19:35

yikes

who cares about blast??

2024-05-31 19:53

valve trying to change the competitive scene for better (as they might think) or to make even more money (somehow its not enough for them💀) by taking pro circuit under their control?

2024-05-31 20:16