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+1 hes basically the face of fps games
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(you carried) FURIA to the semis and elimination either the same day/following day.
goat navi team
CSGO dead game etc
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Valve destroyed not Russians. Only reason cs is even this popular still its just GOAT fps game. So easy and satisfying to play, has legacy about 23-24 years.
name and flair made me legit lol
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ESL is hands down the airbus TO in cs
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Their events tend to be after player breaks.
The reason that 2021 had super high numbers was because of new g2, new faze, new vitality, new liquid.
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And spinx :)
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doubt spinx played in spring groups mate
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He did
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not in 2022 bruh
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I think that the format and lack of huge roster moves played its part as well. Year ago during blast we had monesy debut, ropz on faze, danish trio on vitality etc and thats what blast lacked this year.
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Yeah i guess numbers will go back to normal soon but i must admit that i dont feel sorry for blast after the faze/konfig drama. People criticising them, including pros, are more and more vocal i feel
blast.tv chat was dead most of the time i was in there so i highly doubt it
People don't want to watch the same teams playing vs each other a million times with low stakes making games not matter.
no SA teams to ofc viewership drops, wait till furia come back
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I wish that Blast had planned ahead and given a SA team a partner slot. I'm sure that whatever team they gave the slot to wouldn't sell it to a European team after building the 5th or 6th best South American roster.
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They dont "give" but sell the partner spots. Apparently brazilians teams are either not interested or too poor to afford one
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I sure wish that Blast had *sold* a partner slot to an SA team. I'm sure that team would be fully devoted to the Blast circuit, and not sell the slot to Heroic after making the 5th or 6th best South American roster.
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Wouldnt change much tho. Most brazilians dont watch an official stream so no much profit for blast anyway.
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Okay. I can't tell if you don't get it or not, but MIBR sold their Blast Partnership Slot to Heroic.
hltv.org/news/33653/heroic-acquire-partn..
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I dont know what is your point. Why would blast sell a spot to "devoted" furia instead of mibr for example.
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Because they already sold a spot to MIBR. And then MIBR sold it away.
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Mibr has much bigger financial backing + had one of the most popular csgo teams at that time while all other brazilians orgs were poorer and had worse players. Selling it to any other SA team than mibr would be stupid
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Orgs get a little % of tournament prize pool/ sticker money and blast spot is surely worth millions.
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FURIA surelly has the money, their operations is in USA Akkari and Jaime (FURIA owners) live in the USA.
They have a rocket league in USA, an Apex team that is NA, not only this but they also have the Valorant and LOL franchise.
Other brazilian csgo orgs that probably have the money(Not sure) are paiN(Most likely to have), Fluxo and then Team One because the team is backed by Los Grandes.
There is also 00Nation, but they only have brazilian players while the org itself is from Norway.
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Well flashpoint spot was worth 2kk i think so blast is surely more expensive but if brazilians think that brazilian orgs could afford it, im not arguing against that
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Lucaozy buyout from Sharks to Fluxo was 329000 dolars, do you really think that if an org paid this for a player they couldn't rise 5000000 to 10000000 to a Blast slot that isn't even paid upfront and is paid by year?
Sometimes you guys forget that Brazil has a large economy in GDP terms.
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You learn something new every day
Partner teams are a shitty format especially when the teams suck
There were like, maybe about 6-7 games that were memorable otherwise all other games were boring as fuck
The group with Astralis heroic and vitality was the best group imo..
The G2 NaVi group was boring G2 were hardly challenged
The NIP and Faze group was just utter garbage
Then the playoffs were shit...Astralis OG being the best game in all of the 6 matches
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what are you talking about, nip was with g2 and navi in group. This tournament was just a playground - navi with new player, nip with new player + with sudden hampus leave ergo 2 new players in team mid tournament, faze with es3tag as a standin. Nobody really cared for this tournament, as aleksi said - they were here to have fun and make mistakes to learn from them.
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So you agree on his point
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They did it to themselves with their dogshit format.. No one even cared about their fucking 'world finals', which is supposed to be their most hyped event.
Because of the most boring format known to man. people always critisize blast formats but this has got to be some of the most uninteresting matches of all time. way too many repeated matchups, a million chances to go through (like many pros pointed out)
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+imperial even tho they probably wont win a game
its csgo in general
dead game
ofc, 100 blast events per year, I don't even understand what was the point of the last one.
quali for another pointless tournament? just do 1 big blast event per year.
Absolute garbage format. The group stage had absolutely 0 stakes on the line. And play-in matches where it counted, had garbage matchups.
Literally, the only good series were Navi:G2 (because of the teams playing, even tho both ended in more or less of a stump) and Vitality:Herioc. And those were in the group stage where nothing mattered anyway.
Cs too saturated, we don't have 3 day weekends yet. bring back CPL style, 2 big majors per year summer/winter , gaming isn't a sustainable career/professionalism as we are seeing, lets get back to bragging rights and love for the game with the money being the icing on the cake
to be real who cares about Blast except for world finals?? their own tournaments are meaningless.
That is the curse when you built your own big event on other tournaments.
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G2 acted as they won the major
Because people are finally realizing that blast has the most boring circuit in the world
Partner teams play a quadruple elimination and other teams have to play a qualifier for a qualifier for a qualifier for an event in which they fight for 1 spot in the finals
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agreed the old one was better
not to mention the rematches lmao
navi beats nip, loses to g2, then beats nip and then loses to g2.. how is that better than swiss groups? they're just having their partners play against each other over and over and expecting people to watch it
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Blast tournaments feel completely pointless. Everything just seems like another qualifier
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qualifier for the least relevant tournament of the year along with fall finals, expected
not really worrying in terms of viewership as there's no crowd, no huge stakes, no real pride from winning this event. It's just a tournament to get to the next BLAST tournament
in terms of format it's more worrying.
as the article highlights, we have to wait for Kato. Blast spring groups has clown format
"This represents a decline of 110,000 viewers (42 percent) when compared to the 2022 Spring Groups"
well, lets look at the 2022 spring groups. it was the premier of:
-m0nesy in G2
-ropz in faze
-the new international vitality roster
-the new liquid roster (nitr0 return to csgo + shox)
-the new EG roster (with the core of major winners)
-the new complexity roster
comparing it to the 2023 spring groups with
-npl in navi
-headtrick in nip
-es3tag standing in for faze
there was simply more exciting roster moves thatd be premiering at the event, so naturally more viewers. not blasts fault that not as many teams wanted to make big roster moves this winter
Watching the same partner teams is boring af. Katowice will be much more interesting even if ESL production isn't as good.
For me personally most of blast matchups were very predictable so even being totally free I prefered to go touch grass instead of watching either total trashing or trash vs garbage matchups (hi liquid eg)
I watched NIP (flair) and Heroic (second fav team) and thats it, if they werent in the tournament, I wouldnt have watched it at all probably
This is kinda like basing major viewership off of the rmr
Well of course, its deserved and makes sense. They either have low-importance closed-circuit qualifiers, or their big arena tournaments, which is actually just some mid 8 team events with the same old matches as their qualifiers. And yes, 8 team events are mediocre, there are so few matches that they can't be on the same level as a 12 or 16 team event. Blast doesn't deserve good viewership quite frankly, their tournaments are just so sub-par and meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Whenever they have proper 16-team tournaments with the REAL top teams in attendance rather than just their partners I'll give them the respect they will have earned.
IMO the world final is the only blast event which is actually good since it actually has a good qualification system that doesn't favor partnered teams too much.
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