Changelog BLAST Premier Handbook 2026

A new competitive season is almost upon us, with the first invites for BLAST Bounty approaching. Read all the updates and changes to the handbook which is live here.

CHANGE LOG as of 01/12/2025

20/11/2025

• The following sections have been moved to the XX document
  • Commercial and promotional obligation
  • Deliverables
  • Financial distribution of funds
  • Participation fee
  • Prize money payment
  • FFP mechanics and breakdown
  • Intellectual property
  • Sponsor restrictions and blacklisted categories
  • Appearance and messaging obligations
  • Invitation and obligation templates
• Added rules to state what is needed for an Orgless team to accept an invitation to a BLAST tournament
  • Including a rule on payment terms
• Added a rule on player(s) regional assignment
• Added a rule on team regional assignment
• Added the ability for teams to request a temporary region change for open qualifiers
• Added a rule to restrict items in a tournament booth on a case by case basis
• Added rules on BLAST’s process of inviting teams when a Wildcard slot is not used (Bounty & Rivals)
• Removed all Bounty Wager rules
• Removed Regional Wildcard invites from Rivals

30/10/2025

• Addition of the Change Log
• Converted all timings to UTC
• Miscellaneous text updates
  • Correcting mistakes
• Removed 1 team per organisation for each event
• Added rules on organisations with multiple rosters
  • Teams still have restriction in order to stop two rosters competing in the same section of a tournament
• Added a conflict of interest clause
• Added roster restrictions for teams coming from a closed qualifier to the main event
• Added Failure to Arrive rules for open qualifiers
• Added replacement rules for any team that forfeits their slot post draft
• Added a rule regarding the draft when a team forfeits post Round 1
• Added a rule stating the punishment for a team who accept an invite to the Open closed qualifier and then forfeit
• Reduced teams minimum setup/warm up time on stage during a offline tournament Was 45 minutes, now 30 minutes in total
• Updated our warning rules to note verbal warnings
• Updated our rule on eligibility for online matches.
  • Teams must have 3 players playing from within the region
• Updated wording on coaches during online play
  • Made it more clear that coaches may speak during an online match
• Updated wording on how BLAST receives rosters from teams
  • Additionally adding wording on how BLAST treats roster information from teams
• Updated wording around Support Staff to reflect the intention of the rule