{"id":6280,"date":"2024-03-07T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/blast-premier-spring-showdown-kicks-off-on-march-6"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:47:50","slug":"blast-premier-spring-showdown-kicks-off-on-march-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/blast-premier-spring-showdown-kicks-off-on-march-6\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAST Premier Spring Showdown Overview: Brackets, Schedule and Prize Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament will be held from\u00a0<strong>March 6<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>March 10<\/strong>. This is the last chance for\u00a0<strong>sixteen teams\u00a0<\/strong>to get two spots at the\u00a0<strong>BLAST Finals<\/strong>. Some teams didn&#8217;\u0099t make it through the\u00a0<strong>BLAST Spring Groups<\/strong>, and they will have a second chance here, as well as other teams who got here by qualifying from different tournaments.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Prize Pool:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"_44tKOV3EvA2Ivv21VkJmnQ==\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6c16f437741b98c4.png\"> <span><\/span><\/div>\n<h2><strong>BLAST Premier Spring Showdown Tournament Format:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Playoffs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Single-Elimination Bracket<\/li>\n<li>All matches are Bo3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Teams Participating:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Team Spirit<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Falcons<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud9<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complexity <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>HEROIC <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>GamerLegion<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>BIG <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liquid <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>OG <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>NiP<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through BLAST Spring Groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monte <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through RES EU Masters Spring Cup &#8216;\u009924<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAW <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through RTP Arena Spring Cup &#8216;\u009824<\/li>\n<li><strong>Imperial<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through ACE SA Master Spring &#8216;\u009824<\/li>\n<li><strong>Metizport <\/strong>&#8211; Qualified through RES WEST EU Masters Spring Cup &#8216;\u009824<\/li>\n<li><strong>ELEVATE<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through Ace NA Masters Spring &#8216;\u009824<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rare Atom<\/strong> &#8211; Qualified through SE Arena Asian Cup Spring &#8216;\u009824<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Main Favorites and Underdogs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The main favorites to win the last two spots at the BLAST Finals are all the teams who got here through\u00a0<strong>BLAST Spring Groups<\/strong>, and the rest are some dark horse teams. But if it has to be one team to name, it will be\u00a0<strong>Team Spirit<\/strong>\u00a0for one big reason &#8211; since they lost at\u00a0<strong>BLAST Spring Groups<\/strong>, where they played with two stand-ins, they showed us their actual level. At\u00a0<strong>IEM Katowice 2024<\/strong>, where they came with a full roster, they didn&#8217;\u0099t lose a single game and ended up winning the final match against one of the best teams in the world,\u00a0<strong>FaZe<\/strong>, with a confident\u00a0<strong>3-0 score<\/strong>\u00a0by the maps in a Best-Of-Five\u00a0<strong>Grand Final<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Schedule and Brackets<\/h2>\n<div class=\"_44tKOV3EvA2Ivv21VkJmnQ==\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6f6ec41d6a391795.png\"> <span><\/span><\/div>\n<h3>Day 1: March 6<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Round of 16:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cloud9 vs. Rare Atom starting at 15:30 CET,<\/p>\n<p>HEROIC vs. NiP starting at 18:00 CET<\/p>\n<p>Falcons vs. Metizport starting at 20:30 CET<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/blast-day-1-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blast Day 1 predictions<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Day 2: March 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Round of 16 Continues:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Liquid vs. SAW starting at 15:30 CET,<\/p>\n<p>Complexity vs. OG starting at 18:00 CET<\/p>\n<p>Monte vs. Imperial starting at 20:30 CET<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/blast-showdown-2024-day-2-overview-and-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blast Day 2 Predictions -&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Day 3: March 8<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Round of 16 Continues:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spirit vs. Elevate starting at 15:30 CET,<\/p>\n<p>GamerLegion vs. BIG starting at 18:00 CET<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quarter-Final #1 starting at 20:30 CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Day 4: March 9<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Quarter-Final #2 starting at 15:30 CET<\/li>\n<li>Quarter-Final #3 starting at 18:00 CET<\/li>\n<li>Quarter-Final #4 starting at 20:30 CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Day 4: March 10<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi-Final #1 starting at 18:00 CET<\/li>\n<li>Semi-Final #2 starting at 20:30 CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No Grand Final will be played since both 1st and 2nd places get the same amount of money and spot at the <strong>BLAST Spring Final<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament will be held from\u00a0March 6\u00a0to\u00a0March 10. This is the last chance for\u00a0sixteen teams\u00a0to get two spots at the\u00a0BLAST Finals. Some teams didn&#8217;\u0099t make it through the\u00a0BLAST Spring Groups, and they will have a second chance here, as well as other teams who got here by qualifying from different tournaments. Prize Pool: BLAST Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":6281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-6280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}