BLAST Premier Spring Showdown schedule set

The BLAST Premier Spring Showdown schedule has been set for the two online tournaments in Europe and North America, which will run during the first week of June.

The $325,000 BLAST Premier Spring Showdown was supposed to take place on LAN during the first week of June, but due to the coronavirus pandemic was split into two tournaments to be played online: one in Europe, with ten teams and $182,500 in prizes; and one in North America, with eight teams and $142,500 on the line.

The events, which will run on June 1-7, will feature two-group round-robin stages with five teams per group in Europe and four teams per group in North America. All of the round-robin matches will be best-of-one, and only one team per group will be eliminated ahead of the best-of-three single-elimination playoffs.

Since the top three teams from each region move on to their respective BLAST Premier Spring Finals, the playoff brackets will not include a grand final, but will have a 3/4th place decider match instead.

Vitality have another shot at making the BLAST Premier Spring Finals

Astralis, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Vitality, who were unable to earn a spot for the Spring finals earlier in the year at the BLAST Premier Spring Series in London, will now have another chance. To do so, they will have to best the invited teams; fnatic, MOUZ and MAD Lions, as well as the teams hailing from qualifiers; ENCE, Dignitas, SAW and the CIS Cup champions, who will be known when the event ends on May 30.

MIBR, Evil Geniuses and 100 Thieves are the Americas region teams that didn't make it to the finals during BLAST Premier Spring Series and will now have a second shot in the Showdown, where they will go up against Cloud9, Gen.G, FURIA, Chaos and Triumph.

Monday, June 1

15:30 Vitality vs. ENCE
16:45 MOUZ vs. Dignitas
18:00 Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas
19:15 fnatic vs. MAD Lions
20:30 Astralis vs. SAW

22:30 FURIA vs. MIBR
23:45 Chaos vs. Gen.G
01:00 Evil Geniuses vs. 100 Thieves

Tuesday, June 2

15:30 fnatic vs. Unknown flag CIS CIS Cup Winner
16:45 Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. SAW
18:00 MAD Lions vs. Unknown flag CIS CIS Cup Winner
19:15 Vitality vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas
20:30 MAD Lions vs. Dignitas

22:30 Triumph vs. Cloud9
23:45 FURIA vs. Gen.G
01:00 MIBR vs. Chaos

Wednesday, June 3

15:30 ENCE vs. SAW
16:45 Dignitas vs. Unknown flag CIS CIS Cup Winner
18:00 Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. ENCE
19:15 fnatic vs. MOUZ
20:30 Astralis vs. Vitality

22:30 Evil Geniuses vs. Cloud9
23:45 100 Thieves vs. Triumph
01:00 MIBR vs. Gen.G

Thursday, June 4

15:30 MOUZ vs. MAD Lions
16:45 Vitality vs. SAW
18:00 MOUZ vs. Unknown flag CIS CIS Cup Winner
19:15 Astralis vs. ENCE
20:30 fnatic vs. Dignitas

22:30 FURIA vs. Chaos
23:45 100 Thieves vs. Cloud9
01:00 Evil Geniuses vs. Triumph

Friday, June 5

12:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - Playoff round 1
16:00 BLAST Spring Showdown - Playoff round 1

19:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - Quarter-final #1
23:00 BLAST Spring Showdown - Quarter-final #2

Saturday, June 6

12:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - Quarter-final #1
16:00 BLAST Spring Showdown - Quarter-final #2

19:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - Semi-final #1
23:00 BLAST Spring Showdown - Semi-final #2

Sunday, June 7

12:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - Semi-final #1
16:00 BLAST Spring Showdown - Semi-final #2

19:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - 3rd Place Decider

Monday, June 15

12:30 BLAST Spring Showdown - 3rd Place Decider

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