Exciting first matchups: BLAST Premier Spring Groups revealed
Welcome to 2024, Counter-Strike fans.
We hope you achieved everything you wanted last year and are coming into BLAST Spring Groups full of new hopes, expectations, and dreams.
This year promises to be one of the most intriguing, historical and crazy years in all of CS' illustrious history, and we're honoured to kick it off here in Copenhagen.
Spicy opening games
After your half-hour pre-show at 11:30 CET, we'll kick off on Monday, the 22nd of January, with G2 Esports against NIP at midday.
NIP bring their interesting new roster to Denmark and find themselves tasked with toppling one of the best teams in the world to kick off BLAST Spring Groups.
Their fellow Group A competitors are NAVI and Complexity, who face off at 14:30 CET. Complexity have been early front-runners in CS2, but NAVI offer a pretty unique threat.
Matches three and four - beginning at 17:00 and 19:30 CET, respectively - are both from Group B, with world champs Team Vitality facing OG before a pretty spicy one.
Credit: Stephanie LindgrenAstralis vs. Falcons
The newly-made Falcons line-up square up to the newly-augmented Astralis team in a game that can set the narrative early for both new sides.
Tuesday, the 23rd, will see the winners' game from Group A, followed by the losers' game before Group B commences in the same way.
Groups C and D begin on the 24th, with FaZe vs GamerLegion and new partners Team Spirit starting life off against Team Liquid.
14:30 on the 24th January - set your alarms. donk at a big event against a top team.
Virtus.pro face a BIG challenge
Virtus.pro start their campaign against BIG at 17:00 CET, before the day closes with Cloud9 against Heroic, which promises to be a banger.
Groups C and D find their winners and losers on Thursday the 25th, with the winners' and losers' matches in the same order as the previous two groups.
The four elimination games begin on Friday, the 26th, with Group A, then C, then B, then D, at 12:00, 14:30, 17:00 and 19:30 respectively, with the loser of the winners' game taking on the winner of the losers' game.
The remaining teams play on the 27th, in the same order at the same time.
The remaining playoffs will be the third-place team from Group A and D clashing at 14:30 CET on Sunday, and B and C meeting at 17:00 CET.
Join us on BLAST.tv for all of the action, and kick off 2024 in the right way.