BLAST Premier World Final 2024: Teams, schedule, prize pool, and more
The BLAST Premier World Final 2024 tournament is set to kick off on October 30, 2024. It will be one of the last few S-tier Counter Strike 2 tournaments of this year, where eight teams will battle against each other for the trophy and the top prize of $500,000. Some of these teams qualified for the tournament by winning at other S-tier competitions while others got in through their Global Leaderboard rankings.
This article will list all the teams involved in the BLAST Premier World Final 2024 tournament and also explain the schedule, prize pool, and format of the event.
BLAST Premier World Final 2024: Teams, schedule, prize pool, and format
The BLAST Premier World Final 2024 provides teams with one of the most prestigious S-tier CS2 platforms. Here, a total of eight teams have qualified to compete against one another and the list goes as follows:
Schedule
As mentioned earlier, the BLAST Premier World Final 2024 will begin on October 30, 2024, with the Group Stage. The schedule for the opening matches has already been announced and it goes as follows:
October 30, 2024 - Group A
- Natus Vincere vs Astralis - 7:00 CET/14:00 SST/23:00 PT on October 29
- MOUZ vs FaZe - 09:30 CET / 16:30 SST/1:30 PT
October 30 - Group B
- G2 vs Liquid - 12:00 CET / 19:00 SST/ 4:00 PT
- Vitality vs Spirit - 14:30 CET / 21:30 SST/ 6:30 PT
This is the overall schedule for the opening matches for both of the groups at BLAST Premier World Final 2024. Let us now discuss what is at stake for the eight participating teams.
Prize Pool
The total prize pool of BLAST Premier World Final 2024 is $1,000,000 which will be distributed among the eight teams based on their standing at the tournament with the champions earning $500,000. Here is how the prize pool will be spread:
- First place: $500,000
- Second place: $250,000
- Third-fourth place: $85,000 each
- Fifth-Sixth place: $25,000 each
- Seventh-eight place: $15,000 each
The teams will have to fight a tough battle through the Group Stage to make it to the Playoffs and eventually, to the Grand Finals.
Format
The progression of the tournament will be the Group Stage followed by the Playoffs. The Group Stage will be played in a best-of-three format within a double-elimination bracket. Here, each group will consist of four teams.
From there, the top three teams will advance to the Playoffs. The Group Stage winners will advance directly to the Semi-Finals and the 2nd and 3rd ranking teams will advance to the Quarter Finals as the high and low seeds respectively.
Finally, the Playoffs will be played in a single elimination bracket where the Quarter and Semi-Finals will have a best-of-three format and the Grand Finals will have a best-of-five format.
Finally, the winner of the championship will be crowned on November 3, 2024, at the Resorts World Convention Centre in Sentosa, Singapore.