BLAST Premier Bounty Teams Invited
On Monday 16th December, as per the BLAST Premier 2025 handbook, invites were sent out for the inaugural BLAST Premier Bounty using the Valve Ranking System (VRS) as of Monday 2nd December. We are excited to announce that all teams have accepted their invitations.
As this is the first time seeing the new rules set out by Valve in action, it is important that we share some of the processes that have been undertaken.
Regarding Wildcards, a team is eligible for a Wildcard if they have a roster that complies with the following:
- It includes at least 3 players who individually were members of a top 8 Roster on the VRS at any time during the preceding 12 months or,
- It has won any Tier 1 event in the 12 months preceding the announcement of the Wildcard Invite.
Currently, only Team Falcons will meet this criteria. As a result and in accordance with Valve rules, we have invited the next available teams in the VRS in place of two of our planned Wildcard invites. We have one additional Wildcard selection to invite which we’ll confirm before the end of the year.
An organisation may only field one roster in a tournament. As FURIA had two rosters ranked in the top 28 of the VRS, an invitation was offered to both noting that they were only able to accept one invite - FURIA Fe’s invitation was declined.
The following 31 teams will be competing to become BLAST Bounty champions:
(N.B. Teams are listed as per the VRS)
1. G2
2. Natus Vincere
3. Vitality
4. Team Spirit
5. The MongolZ
6. MOUZ
7. FaZe
8. HEROIC
9. Team Liquid
10. FURIA
11. Eternal Fire
12. SAW
13. 3DMAX
14. paiN
15. Complexity
16. Astralis
17. FlyQuest
18. BIG
19. Virtus.pro
20. Sangal
21. Gamerlegion
22. MIBR
23. Nemiga
24. Wildcard
25. B8
26. ENCE
28. Imperial fe
29. Fluxo
30. 9 Pandas
31. M80
Wildcard:
Team Falcons
TBC
For more information on the Bounty, click here.