Английская Википедия:Blast Premier
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox sports league
Blast Premier (stylized as BLAST Premier) is a Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) (previously Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) professional esports league launched in 2020. It is primarily based in two regions: North America and Europe.
The Danish esports organisation, RFRSH Entertainment, announced the series as a successor to the BLAST Pro Series in 2019.[1] The 2020 Blast Premier Series experienced disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the transition of all events except the Spring regular season online and reduced prize pools for many of the events. This disruption continued into the 2021 season, with both the Spring Groups and Spring Showdown occurring online.[2]
Format
The Blast Premier series is divided into two seasons per year: Spring and Fall. Each season lasts around four months with 16 regular season partnered teams participating in the Group stage, ending with a season finals for the 6 top teams from the group stage.[3] The season finals are also open to two teams from each season's Showdown events, which are open to a much broader array of organizations, including those that did not advance in the regular season. Non-partnered teams usually qualify for the Showdown events via invites or via regional tournaments (One such example being the ACE North American Masters for teams from North America). The winner of each season's finals goes on to participate the Global Finals at the end of the year, as well as winners of other prestigious non-BLAST Premier events and those that rank highest in the BLAST Premier Global Leaderboard, a standings of the top events of the year from multiple leagues and tournaments.[4]
In August 2023, Counter-Strike developer Valve announced that the partnership system that Blast Premier used would be abolished in 2025, forcing all tournament organizers to pivot to an open circuit or an invitational system using Valve's rankings.[5] In order to prepare for the change to an open circuit, Blast announced that the 2024 Blast Premier season would feature 16 partnered teams: the previous 12 partnered teams that, with the exceptions of 100 Thieves, Mibr and Evil Geniuses (who had their spots sold to BIG, Heroic and Cloud9 in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively),[6][7][8] had been partnered since Blast Premier's inception, and four one-year affiliate teams, those being GamerLegion, Team Falcons, Team Spirit and Virtus.pro.[9]
Partnered teams
Current partnered teams
Team | Year joined |
---|---|
Astralis | 2020 |
BIG | 2021 |
Cloud9 | 2023 |
Complexity | 2020 |
Team Falcons | 2024 (Affiliate) |
FaZe Clan | 2020 |
GamerLegion | 2024 (Affiliate) |
G2 Esports | 2020 |
Heroic | 2022 |
Team Liquid | 2020 |
Natus Vincere | 2020 |
Ninjas in Pyjamas | 2020 |
OG Esports | 2020 |
Team Spirit | 2024 (Affiliate) |
Virtus.pro | 2024 (Affiliate) |
Team Vitality | 2020 |
Former partnered teams
Team | Year joined | Year left |
---|---|---|
100 Thieves | 2020 | 2021 |
Evil Geniuses | 2020 | 2023 |
Mibr | 2020 | 2022 |
Editions
Edition | Date | Venue, Host city | Champions | Runners-up | Prize pool | MVP | Шаблон:Abbr |
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Spring 2020: Regular Season | Шаблон:Dts–February 16, 2020 | 3 Mills Studio, London | FaZe Clan Natus Vincere G2 Esports |
OG Esports Complexity Gaming Team Liquid |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="3" Шаблон:N/A | [10] |
Spring 2020 Europe Showdown | Шаблон:Dts–15, 2020 | Europe / Online | Vitality ENCE |
Ninjas in Pyjamas | Шаблон:Usd | [11] | |
Spring 2020 Americas Showdown | Шаблон:Dts–7, 2020 | North America / Online | MiBR Furia Esports |
Evil Geniuses | Шаблон:Usd | [12] | |
Spring 2020 Europe Finals | Шаблон:Dts–21, 2020 | Europe / Online | Complexity Gaming | Team Vitality | Шаблон:Usd | Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut | [13] |
Spring 2020 Americas Finals | Шаблон:Dts–21, 2020 | North America / Online | Evil Geniuses | MiBR | Шаблон:Usd | Tsvetelin "CeRq" Dimitrov | [14] |
Fall Series 2020 | Шаблон:Dts–31, 2020 | Europe / Online | OG Esports Team Vitality G2 Esports |
Natus Vincere BIG Clan Astralis |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="2" Шаблон:N/A | [15] |
Fall Showdown 2020 | Шаблон:Dts–29, 2020 | Furia Esports mousesports |
Cloud9 Team Liquid |
Шаблон:Usd | [16] | ||
Fall 2020 Finals | Шаблон:Dts–13, 2020 | Team Vitality | Astralis | Шаблон:Usd | Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut | [17] | |
Global Final 2020 | Шаблон:Dts–24, 2021 | Natus Vincere | Astralis | Шаблон:Usd | Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev | [18] | |
Spring Groups 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–14, 2021 | BIG Clan Complexity Gaming Natus Vincere |
Ninjas in Pyjamas Evil Geniuses FaZe Clan |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="2" Шаблон:N/A | [19] | |
Spring Showdown 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–18, 2021 | G2 Esports Gambit Esports |
Team Spirit Heroic |
Шаблон:Usd | [20] | ||
Spring Finals 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–20, 2021 | Gambit Esports | Natus Vincere | Шаблон:Usd | Abay "Hobbit" Khassenov | [21] | |
Fall Groups 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–26, 2021 | Natus Vincere Ninjas in Pyjamas Team Vitality |
FaZe Clan BIG Clan Astralis |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="2" Шаблон:N/A | [22] | |
Fall Showdown 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–17, 2021 | Heroic Team Liquid |
OG Esports MAD Lions |
Шаблон:Usd | [23] | ||
Fall Finals 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–28, 2021 | Royal Arena, Copenhagen | Natus Vincere | Team Vitality | Шаблон:Usd | Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev | [24] |
World Final 2021 | Шаблон:Dts–19, 2021 | BLAST Studio, Copenhagen | Gambit Esports | Шаблон:Usd | [25] | ||
Spring Groups 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–Шаблон:Dts, 2022 | Europe / Online | Team Vitality OG Esports Faze Clan |
G2 Esports Natus Vincere BIG Clan |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="3" Шаблон:N/A | [26] |
Spring Showdown Europe 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–Шаблон:Dts, 2022 | Europe / Online | ENCE | Astralis | Шаблон:Usd | [27] | |
Spring Showdown North America 2022 | North America / Online | PaiN Gaming | Furia Esports | Шаблон:Usd | [28] | ||
Spring Finals 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–19, 2022 | Altice Arena, Lisbon | Natus Vincere | Team Vitality | Шаблон:Usd | Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev | [29] |
Fall Groups 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–28, 2022 | BLAST Studio, Copenhagen | OG Esports Natus Vincere Team Liquid |
FaZe Clan Ninjas in Pyjamas G2 Esports |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="3" Шаблон:N/A | [30] |
Fall Showdown Europe 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–23, 2022 | Europe / Online | Heroic | Astralis | Шаблон:Usd | [31] | |
Fall Showdown North America 2022 | North America / Online | Fluxo | MiBR | Шаблон:Usd | [32] | ||
Fall Finals 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–27, 2022 | Royal Arena, Copenhagen | Heroic | FaZe Clan | Шаблон:Usd | Helvijs "broky" Saukants | [33] |
World Final 2022 | Шаблон:Dts–18, 2022 | Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi | G2 Esports | Team Liquid | Шаблон:Usd | Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov | [34] |
Spring Groups 2023 | Шаблон:Dts–29, 2023 | BLAST Studio, Copenhagen | Team Vitality Faze Clan G2 Esports |
Natus Vincere Heroic Astralis |
Шаблон:Usd | rowspan="3" Шаблон:N/A | [35] |
Spring Showdown Europe 2023 | March 29–April 2, 2023 | Europe/Online | Cloud9 | BIG Clan | US$67,500 | [36] | |
Spring Showdown North America 2023 | March 29–April 2, 2023 | North America/Online | Imperial Esports | PaiN Gaming | US$67,500 | [37] | |
Spring Final 2023 | June 7–11, 2023 | Entertainment and Sports Arena, Washington D.C. | Heroic | Team Vitality | US$425,000 | Casper "cadiaN" Møller | [38] |
Fall Groups 2023 | July 13–23, 2023 | Copenhagen | FaZe Clan Heroic Ninjas in Pyjamas |
Natus Vincere Team Vitality Astralis |
US$177,500 | rowspan="3"Шаблон:N/A | [39] |
Fall Showdown 2023 Europe | October 4–8, 2023 | Europe/Online | Cloud9 | BIG Clan | US$67,500 | [40] | |
Fall Showdown 2023 Americas | October 4–8, 2023 | North America/Online | Complexity Gaming | Team Liquid | US$67,500 | [41] | |
Fall Final 2023 | November 22–26, 2023 | Royal Arena, Copenhagen | Team Vitality | FaZe Clan | US$425,000 | Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut | [42] |
World Final 2023 | December 13–17, 2023 | Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi | US$1,000,000 | [43] | |||
Spring Groups 2024 | January 22–28, 2024 | Copenhagen | Virtus.pro FaZe Clan Natus Vincere Team Vitality |
Astralis G2 Esports |
US$190,000 | Шаблон:N/A | [44] |
World Team Of The Year
Year | Role | ID | Name | Team |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021[45] | IGL | apEX | Dan Madesclaire | Team Vitality |
AWP | s1mple | Oleksandr Kostyliev | Natus Vincere | |
Entry | NiKo | Nikola Kovač | G2 Esports | |
Support | Perfecto | Ilya Zalutskiy | Natus Vincere | |
Lurker | Hobbit | Abai Hasenov | Gambit Esports | |
Coach | B1ad3 | Andrii Horodenskyi | Natus Vincere |
Year | Role | ID | Name | Team |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | IGL | karrigan | Finn Andersen | FaZe Clan |
AWP | s1mple | Oleksandr Kostyliev | Natus Vincere | |
Entry | YEKINDAR | Mareks Gaļinskis | Team Liquid | |
Support | Perfecto | Ilya Zalutskiy | Natus Vincere | |
Lurker | ropz | Robin Kool | Faze Clan | |
Coach | B1ad3 | Andrii Horodenskyi | Natus Vincere |
References
External links
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