In the past three years, BLAST Premier World Final has become one of the most prestigious events of the year in Counter-Strike.
The culmination of the BLAST Premier calendar, it's where the biggest and baddest teams face off to become world champions and fight over a $1,000,000 prizepool.
An event that has seen some of the most exotic locations to ever host a Counter-Strike event, tomorrow will see the final ever World Final begin, so let's take a walk down history lane and relive the last three years of BLAST Premier World Final.
2021 was a strange year, but at least it saw Counter-Strike's long-awaited return to LAN - and we ended that return with a bang over in the BLAST Studios with the inaugural World Final event.
To sum up how much time flies in Counter-Strike, let's take a quick look at the teams that played the event.
es3tag had just joined NIP, Vitality were still French, G2 hadn't picked up m0NESY yet, b0RUP played for HEROIC, Gambit hadn't moved to C9, FalleN and Grim played for Liquid, Lucky played for Astralis, and NAVI were the best team in the world.
Well, at least one thing has stayed the same.
And it was NAVI who were the eventual winners, too. One of the greatest teams of all time who were fresh off a Major win at the PGL Major Stockholm 2021, NAVI were the dominant force in 2021 and they closed out the year with yet another tournament win.
That doesn't mean it was easy though, they had to bounce back from an opening game defeat to Liquid to go all the way through the lower bracket on their way to the final, where they faced Gambit.
2022 was the first year we took World Final global as we headed to the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.
A lot changed in the year between the two events, Vitality signed two Danes, G2 picked up the baby GOAT, and FaZe had gone on a dominant run in the first half of the year after the signing of ropz.
However, for all of FaZe's trophies in 2022, they didn't close out the year with a win in the U.A.E.
Instead, after facing disappointment as they missed out on the IEM Rio Major, G2 proved that they had what it takes with HooXi and jks as they won their first event together.
A run that would see them start their incredible map-winning streak that would then run all the way to their successful appearance in the grand final of IEM Katowice 2023, it was the first look at the true peak of a G2 team that combined one of the greatest of all time, NiKo, with a future icon in m0NESY.
With the release of Counter-Strike 2, 2023 was a year of change, but it was also the year of Vitality.
Victorious at IEM Rio, the BLAST.tv Paris Major, Gamers8, at BLAST Premier Fall Final, the French organisation would claim their fifth trophy of the year at World Final.
The third winner in as many years, Vitality were dominant on their road to the trophy, dropping just one map to G2 in the quarter-finals as they capped off one of the greatest years in Counter-Strike history.
A starring event for mezii, he ended his second event with Vitality on a 1.18 rating and with his second trophy, but that was nothing compared to ZywOo's incredible 1.38 rating as he picked up yet another MVP award.
From the past to the present, we come to BLAST Premier World Final 2024.
In an all new arena in Singapore for it's final year, BLAST Premier World Final 2024 is set to be one for the ages.
The final event before the Perfect World Shanghai Major, it features eight of the best teams in the world and you'll want to be right here on BLAST.tv when the action kicks off tomorrow.
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