BLAST Bounty Season 2 teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent, fantasy

4-8-2025 11:32

A whopping 32 teams are set to compete for the BLAST Bounty Season 2 trophy.

Teams and Format

BLAST Bounty Season 2 is split into two stages: an online stage played on Europe servers, and a LAN finals stage played in Malta. 32 teams will participate in the online stage, where two BO3s will be played out and the teams that win both series qualify for the LAN finals.

The twist to the BLAST Bounty format is that the teams with lower opening seeds (17-32) selected their opponents in a draft, with each higher-ranked squad having a designated cash reward placed on their heads.

BLAST Bounty S2 opening matchups set

The eight teams that qualify from the online stage will head to Malta for the LAN finals, where they will play out a single-elimination BO3 bracket, with BO5 grand final, to determine the winner of the event.

The team list is as follows:

Schedule and venue

The online portion of the event will take place August 5-10 in Europe, with the LAN finals going down August 14-17 in Malta. You can view the full schedule for the online portion or the LAN finals on our event pages.

BLAST to hold Bounty S2 in Malta following multi-year GamingMalta partnership

The schedule for the opening matchups is as follows:

Tuesday August 5

Date	Matches
BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 2
05/08/2025	FUT 12:00 B8	Match
05/08/2025	ECSTATIC 14:30 Liquid	Match
05/08/2025	Nemiga 17:35 G2	Match
05/08/2025	BetBoom 20:45 FaZe	Match

Wednesday August 6

Date	Matches
BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 2
06/08/2025	MIBR 12:00 Virtus.pro	Match
06/08/2025	TNL 15:00 Natus Vincere	Match
06/08/2025	Passion UA 18:15 Spirit	Match
06/08/2025	Rare Atom 21:25 Astralis	Match

Thursday August 7

Date	Matches
BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 2
07/08/2025	BIG 12:00 FURIA	Match
07/08/2025	OG 14:00 MOUZ	Match
07/08/2025	Ninjas in Pyjamas 17:15 paiN	Match
07/08/2025	fnatic 20:35 Legacy	Match

Friday August 8

Date	Matches
BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 2
08/08/2025	ENCE 11:00 The MongolZ	Match
08/08/2025	FlyQuest 14:00 Aurora	Match
08/08/2025	NRG 16:25 Vitality	Match
08/08/2025	Complexity 18:20 HEROIC	Match

Prizes

Instead of traditional prize money, teams can earn "bounties" by beating teams with assigned bounties. Each team in attendance will be assigned a "bounty" corresponding to their seeding in the event, with a winning team securing 50% of their opponent's bounty as a cash prize, while the remaining 50% is carried over to the next match and gets added to the winning team's total bounty.

To see how much prize money teams might earn, you can use BLAST's bounty simulator.

Talent

BLAST Bounty Season 2 talent announced

Hosts

Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers
Mike "⁠DarfMike⁠" Winnick

Analysts

Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg
Donald "⁠voo⁠" Parkhurst
Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche
Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen

Commentators

Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell
Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron

Fantasy

HLTV x Skin.Club are running a Fantasy game for the online stage of BLAST, with another game set to run for the LAN finals. The skin prizes for the first game are as follows:

1st: AWP | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
2nd: M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
3rd: AK-47 | Neon Revolution (Field-Tested)

OK (BLAST no longer has a prestigious event after spending years trying to make Copenhagen work, only to give it up for whatever all of this is)

2025-08-04 11:33

Online CS, mickey mouse teams gonna upset now

2025-08-04 11:38

a general question. Is playing online somehow more comfortable for players because they get to play from home/bootcamp or are these online portions only so the TO saves money?

2025-08-04 11:56

10 replies

i mean online is for sure more comfortable for the lower tier teams since they have 0 pressure from outside the game (crowd cheering/booing, new environment (LAN)), overall being in a comfortable environment for them at home which is why online there are more upsets usually about your other question whether to save money, no idea for this tournament tbh didnt follow much

2025-08-04 12:03

I think is because Cologne just end yesterday and this start tomorrow. Probably top teams will skip it if they need to travel

2025-08-04 12:04

2 replies

Travel from Cologne to Copenhagen would be easier than traveling to bootcamp/home for probably all teams in the tournament

2025-08-04 17:32

1 reply

Well falcons decline for kyousuke visa. Dk how that work tho

2025-08-04 17:39

Maybe considaration to orgs, imagine that underdogs like NRG and Passion UA would need to pay travel expanses, go through getting VISA, just to play 1 match to get f*cked by Top team and dont win any prize money.

2025-08-04 12:24

4 replies

fair enough, NRG need to travel to EU anyways but yea

2025-08-04 12:30

Pretty sure the TO pays for the travel expenses, and getting a visa would be needed anyways for some teams as they travel from a diffrent continent

2025-08-04 16:22

Yeah, but Blast wanted to cut corners even for Major, no way they would pay for 32 teams and for probably week stay, when 4 teams will drop out first day and could stay on this vacation for another 4days.

2025-08-04 17:02

Yh thats one of the reason blast have it online, but should it ever be LAN with these many teams they would pay for travel+hotel+food etc

2025-08-04 17:11

both actually. more comfortable for low tier teams

2025-08-05 04:50

Dont let that distract you from the fact that TabseN has been in BIG for 3,136 days and hasn't achieved anything during all that time. I'd say he's the biggest paycheck stealer in CS history.

2025-08-04 12:09

hltv.org/matches/2356891/big-vs-faze they won Roobet Major in 2022

2025-08-05 05:16

Voo and Dupreeh duo analysts let's go!!!

2025-08-04 12:15

Vitality's revenge brewing

Run two streams simultaneously and end the online stage asap pls. The schedule of teams are already packed as it is.

yeah that genuinely fucking sucks.

2025-08-04 12:41

Call me crazy, but the game version should be the same as in ESL IEM Cologne. The latest updates are not stable.

2025-08-04 12:45

hey crazy, they are not going to do this

2025-08-04 12:51

NASTY team list... I miss Lynn tho

2025-08-04 14:00

This format has so much potential, just wish it wasn't all online but I understand after Cologne

2025-08-04 14:12

Will this be played on the new update?

2025-08-04 15:00

very likely

2025-08-04 15:19

there aren't falcons on this one ?

2025-08-04 15:13

Lets go NAVI

2025-08-04 15:46

It's not even banana cup, it's something worse

2025-08-04 16:18

onliners incoming

2025-08-04 16:24

Where falcons

2025-08-04 19:29

afraid of mibr and mongolz

2025-08-05 05:11

There’s no excuse for online tier 1 CS anymore. Massive L from Blast.

2025-08-04 20:13

Dont really why ppl complaining so much about this format. Its a big season ahead. Blast trying to experiment with tournament format and coz of that running it in online But the main question for me - why fantasy is partners game, not seasonal?

2025-08-05 01:27