BLAST Premier 2025 Format Explainer

The new format of BLAST Premier in 2025 is unlike something ever seen before!

Three new and innovative formats spread over six tournament:
- The Bounty, online and studio event with cool new bounty prizes on the 32 attending teams
- The Open, the big arena tournament featuring 16 teams
- The Rivals, studio event for the 8 best teams on Valve's CS2 rankings

See you all in 2025! 🔥

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We’ll be streaming live from our CS2 tournaments around the world, featuring the world’s elite CS2 teams. Can’t catch it live? Don’t worry we’ll also be bringing you the best CS2 highlights and clips from our tournaments.

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About Counter-Strike 2 (from it's Steam page):
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter-Strike 2 features:

All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode
- Global and Regional leaderboards
- Upgraded and overhauled maps
- Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades
- Tick-rate-independent gameplay
- Redesigned visual effects and audio
- All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

The Counter-Strike esports scene is one of the biggest and most popular of them all, and have been for over 20 years! For CS2, BLAST Premier are dedicated to bringing you the most exciting and enjoyable viewing experience that the pro CS2 scene has to offer! 💥

[NVK-]

Finally a BO5 grand final again, its to quick for a final BO3

[Frog-]

Bounty system sounds insane I think it truly is innovative. Super excited for non franchize CS. I think it completely ruined valorant, and cs has tons of these horrible franchize teams stealing spots from deserved teams.

[nameonelast]

The bounty head hunting format seems interesting, still didn't like 6 team play offs in the "open" a fan of bo5 grand finals, rivals seems like the ideal format, and then paying teams to attend seems like it'll be a requirement next year with overlapping tournaments and the rise of Saudi and gambling sponsor funded events that could ruin the valve rankings

[edyslavico]

Nice format, lets hope valve manages their rankings well

[adjective]

You guys are amazing!!!
Cant wait to watch these new interesting formats!

[domesticalyx]

bounty is so sick. also im glad we have bo5 finals. it should have been that way ever since mr 12

[murad]

When you ask CHAT GPT to build a new system for a tournament

[Jenes]

Thanks for the background music blasting in my ears

[Petter_GM]

Tack you blast for investing in the pro scene aha coming with new awesome concepts like this

[juanme]

BO3 GSL?!?!?! GSL??!?!?!?! im TEARING UP, i've been begging ESL to bring back GSL for 6 years straight, Blast Rivals will be by far my favorite Blast Events ever, i can't believe this, i hope ESL considers this.

[Abstand]

Sounds Sick, dont really understand why the valve ranking is used though instead of hltv.

[prmn]

Still don't understand this but the bounty thing sounds sick

[LordOfThePotatoe]

No idea what this video said but I'm excited

[AstroSully]

Bounty system has me licking my lips. Thank you Blast 😂

[rafalg]

That is why blast always was and still is best

[ChrisChanSajelan]

We'll see about the bounty system

[adamrybny]

that is actually exciting, finally you cut off the invitation shit. I like blast more rn

[melodic_ez]

How does the gsl single elimination format works?

[xalunkx]

how they going to play quarterfinals (or in other words: top8) with only 6 teams in "open" will be interesting ;D