The tournament is a great way to witness top teams battling for the finals qualification and smaller organizations trying to prove themselves in tough matchups.
There will be 16 teams playing at CS2 BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024. For 10 of them, the tournament is kind of a bitter experience — an opportunity to recover after unsuccessful Fall Groups. But for the rest, it’s a reward for great runs in smaller leagues — with the hope to ignite the fire of a new big CS2 breakthrough.
Who will prevail? Everything about the BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024 matches is here.
Where to watch CS2 BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024
All of the BLAST events are available directly on the official site. Just head there to not miss the action. The BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024 stream is also embedded below so you can enjoy the matches when they are live.
BLAST Fall Showdown 2024: Schedule and format
The schedule of CS2 BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024 is in the table below. The tournament format is single-elimination best-of-three (Bo3) matches, so there is no second chance for the losers. Only two finals qualification spots are available, and 16 teams have to make it through three rounds to win one.
Round 1 (Bracket 1)
Even if the tournament has no groups, the competitive brackets are divided into two parts: eight teams in each proceed through stages playing against each other.
Matches Date and EU start time (CEST) Start time in NA | FaZe 2:0 Rare Atom Wednesday, Aug. 21, 3:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. ET / 6:30 a.m. PT | HEROIC 0:2 OG Wednesday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m. 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT | NiP 1:2 AMKAL Wednesday, Aug. 21, 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT | Virtus.Pro 2:0 Zero Tenacity Thursday, Aug. 22, 3:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. ET / 6:30 a.m. PT |
Round 1 (Bracket 2)
Matches Date and EU start time (CEST) Start time in NA | Complexity 2:0 Metizport Thursday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m. 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT | Team Falcons 2:0 M80 Thursday, Aug. 22, 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT | Cloud9 0:2 paiN Gaming Friday, Aug. 23, 3:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. ET / 6:30 a.m. PT | BIG 2:1 GamerLegion Friday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m. 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT |
Round 2 (Bracket 1)
Matches Date and EU start time (CEST) Start time in NA | OG 2:1 AMKAL Friday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT | Complexity 1:2 Team Falcons Saturday, Aug. 24, 3:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. ET / 6:30 a.m. PT |
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Round 2 (bracket 2)
Matches Date and EU start time (CEST) Start time in NA | FaZe 2:1 paiN Gaming Saturday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m. 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT | Virtus.Pro 2:1 BIG Saturday, Aug. 24, 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT |
Round 3 (Final matches)
This stage of CS2 BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024 has two matches — the last-standing teams in two groups battle for two finals spots.
Matches Date and EU start time (CEST) Start time in NA | FaZe 2:0 OG Sunday, Aug. 25, 6 p.m. 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT | Team Falcons 2:0 Virtus.Pro Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT |
FaZe Clan and Team Falcons qualify for BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2024 via Fall Showdown.
Matchups at CS2 BLAST Fall Showdown 2024
Seeding in the brackets is quite important at this CS2 esports tournament. First of all, six participating teams come from smaller leagues in their regions — who of the top-teams they face in Round 1? Then, the organizations from Fall Groups also may get tougher situations, like HEROIC and OG, who face each other in Round 1 instead of someone from a smaller league.
In Bracket 1, we have FaZe Clan and Ninjas in Pyjamas, who were in one group, and NiP eliminated FaZe from BLAST CS2 Fall Groups. OG and Cloud9 didn’t win a single match at that tournament. HEROIC were out after Round 2.
In Bracket 2, Complexity feels like a favorite. They reached the Play-In stage at Fall Groups, and they looked quite good against Spirit, the group winners. Team Falcons was stopped by Astralis back then in Round 2. BIG defeated Virtis.pro in their group, but were then eliminated by NAVI.
Can the underdog teams surprise the CS2 community? That is always a possibility, but the challenge for them is immense considering the experience and the previous results of their opponents.
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