Indeed, in the coming month, the CS:GO community will be enjoying the BLAST Premier Fall Finals. However, before this anticipated event, we have two regional qualifiers – read on as discuss how to watch the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown for both Europe and American regions.
Event Background
As we’ll iterate, the BLAST Premier Showdown will be taking place in both Europe and America. Specifically, prior to the $425,000 main event, each region will be compete to earn the final two seeds – one for each region.
Taking place online, BLAST is providing one final showdown for teams to earn a spot. Each region will enjoy a $67,500 prize pool, with both events taking place between 19th and 23rd October.
Accordingly, let’s take a look at the 8 competing teams from each region:
European Showdown 2022
- Astralis
- Team Vitality
- Heroic
- BIG
- TYLOO
- ECSTATIC
- Sangal Esports
- Eternal Fire
North American Showdown 2022
- Complexity Gaming
- Evil Geniuses
- 00 Nation
- MIBR
- Sharks Esports
- VERTEX Esports Club
- LOS + oNe
- Fluxo
Read on as we dive deeper into the event structure below.
Format
At every turn, these two qualifiers are similar and this extends to the format.
Furthermore, each event format will involve all 8 teams fighting through an 8 team single elimination bracket. With only one lifeline in the competition, the BO3 matches will determine which teams progress deeper into the event. Finally, the winner from each region will earn the coveted spot in the Fall Finals.
Here’s a look at the Quarterfinal matches from both regions:
North American Showdown
- Complexity vs Sharks Esports
- LOS + oNe vs MIBR
- Evil Geniuses vs Fluxo
- VERTEX ESC vs 00 Nation
Europe Showdown
- Team Vitality vs TYLOO
- Eternal Fire vs Astralis
- BIG vs Sangal Esports
- ECSTATIC vs Heroic
Only one team from each region will earn the coveted seed for the Fall Finals!
Schedule for the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown
With regards to the schedule for each event, we highly recommend visiting the official BLAST Premier Twitter page in order to view an updated schedule.
Watch the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown on esportsguide
You can also watch the event live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Predictions
With predictions, we’ll be taking a look at each region.
Starting with Europe, the favourite here should be clear. Considering the recent downfall of Astralis, Team Vitality is the favourite especially after placing 1st at the ESL Pro League Season 16. However, the Showdown does include Asian teams such as TYLOO which can make things hard to predict.
Over for North America, the most recent regional event here was the IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR. Over at this event, the likes of Evil Geniuses managed to place 2nd here in an impressive feat for this developing roster. Otherwise, their closest competition is likely Complexity Gaming, who placed higher than EG at ESL Pro League Season 16.
Again, while we may make these predictions, the single-elimination bracket means that anything can happen. Basically, each match could mean elimination for each team.
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