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BLAST Bounty teams revealed: Falcons only Wildcard announced

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Here are the teams for the BLAST Bounty 2025.

The BLAST Bounty Counter-Strike 2 event brings a unique format for CS2 fans at the start of the new year. Today, BLAST revealed the teams that will participate in the BLAST Bounty 2025. The list involves some of the top teams in the scene and it definitely makes for an interesting tournament to kick off the season.

Which teams are taking part in the BLAST Bounty 2025?

Here are the teams that will take part in the BLAST Bounty 2025:

  1. G2 esports
  2. NAVI
  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
  27. Imperial fe
  28. Fluxo
  29. 9 Pandas
  30. M80

Wildcard:

  • Team Falcons
  • TBC

FURIA had two rosters in the top 28 of the Valve Regional Standings and as such only one team received an invite to the event. FURIA Fe’s invitation was declined as per the rules. 

BLAST Bounty is a unique event with a dynamic prize pool that the organizer will hand out based on seeding and individual match results. Teams have to continue to perform at an optimal level to ensure they are taking home their full bounty. 

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What are the Criteria for a Wildcard team selection?

BLAST had some set rules for the selection of a Wildcard team. A team is eligible for a Wildcard slot if they comply 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.

The announcement post acknowledges that only Team Falcons satisfies these criteria at the moment. The next available teams in the VRS have received an invite to the planned Wildcard invites. 

What is the BLAST Bounty Tournament all about?

<em>Team Spirit won the Perfect World Shanghai Major. Image Credit: BLAST Premier</em>
Team Spirit won the Perfect World Shanghai Major. Image Credit: BLAST Premier

The BLAST Bounty Qualifiers will have 32 teams which includes 28 of the top-ranked teams (as per Valve Global Ranking). These 28 teams will be accompanied by the 4 BLAST-selected wildcard teams. These teams have a bounty on their head. 

The unique format of the event means that the highest-seeded teams become the biggest targets and have more to lose when the matches get underway. The teams will play in a bo3 single elimination bracket with the first two rounds played online in week one from the European servers.

The top eight teams from these 32 will qualify for the main event in Copenhagen. Taking place in the BLAST Studios, this will be a LAN setting and teams will play single-elimination matches until the Grand Finals. The Grand Finals will be a best-of-five affair.