BLAST Pro Series São Paulo viewer's guide

20/3/2019 - 12:05

As we approach the starting time of BLAST Pro Series São Paulo, we have put together a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know about the $250,000 event.

The first BLAST Pro Series tournament of 2019 will be held at the Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil, where six of the top eight teams in the world will be in action on March 22-23.

The competition will kick off with a best-of-one, round-robin group stage, with the top two sides advancing to the grand final to fight for the $125,000 first-place prize. The map vetoes for all the group stage games will be revealed on Thursday in a live stream session.

Hometown heroes MIBR will face ENCE in the first round

The first two group stage rounds will be played behind closed doors on Friday, while the remaining three rounds and the grand final will be held in front of a live audience on Saturday.

A bonus match called 'BLAST Pro Stand-off' will take place prior to the grand final, where the third-placed team in the group stage picks another side to play in a match featuring five 1vs1 aim duels for a chance to win a $20,000 prize.

Below you can find the six teams in attendance:

The complete schedule for this two-day event looks as follows:

Friday, March 22

Round one
23:00 - FaZe vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1
23:00 - MIBR vs. ENCE | BO1
23:00 - Astralis vs. Liquid | BO1

Round two
00:30 - Astralis vs. ENCE | BO1
00:30 - FaZe vs. MIBR | BO1
00:30 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Liquid | BO1

Saturday, March 23

Round three
17:00 - ENCE vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1
17:00 - Liquid vs. FaZe | BO1
17:00 - Astralis vs. MIBR | BO1

Round four
18:20 - MIBR vs. Liquid | BO1
18:20 - ENCE vs. FaZe | BO1
18:20 - Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1

Round five
19:40 - ENCE vs. Liquid | BO1
19:40 - MIBR vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | BO1
19:40 - Astralis vs. FaZe | BO1

21:00 - BLAST Pro Series Stand-off | five 1vs1 aim duels

22:00 - Grand final | BO3

Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere, who will make her first appearance at an international CS:GO event, headlines the talent list. The famous Belgian host will be joined by the analyst trio of Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi, and Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez, while three commentator duos will bring you the action live.

Below you can find the complete on-air team for the event:

Adam Savage - Stage Host

Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere - Desk Host

Frankie Ward - Interviewer

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Christine "potter" Chi - Analyst
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez - Analyst

Anders Blume - Commentator
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Commentator
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan - Commentator
Alex "Machine" Richardson - Commentator
Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl – Commentator

The prize distribution will be as follows:

1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3. $25,000
4. $15,000
5. $10,000
6. $5,000

BLAST Pro Stand-off winner: $20,000

I'd watch.

2019-03-20 12:06

8 replies

EZ4ENCE

2019-03-20 12:30

3 replies

EZ4MIBR

2019-03-20 14:45

EZ last place 4 ENCE

2019-03-20 15:29

1 reply

2019-03-20 19:20

F5?

2019-03-20 12:35

No, I don't have it on the phone...

2019-03-20 12:41

2 replies

F5 is in browser not on the phone

2019-03-20 13:42

I'd thought on the keyboard but no, it's not an F5.

2019-03-20 14:04

EZ4AST

20 replies

Not in Brazil, ma fren.

2019-03-20 12:07

6 replies

Make no difference where MiBR play, Astralis will still make them look silly.

2019-03-20 12:09

4 replies

2019-03-20 12:10

haha I kinda agree

2019-03-20 13:49

True, Astralis is really strong atm

2019-03-20 13:51

2019-03-20 14:55

ez for MiBr after gerilja kills all other teams

2019-03-20 12:49

How's the Nepalese CS scene?

2019-03-20 12:28

11 replies

Not that I know of.. :p

9 replies

Who would play CS when you have Nepal's nature anyway

2019-03-20 12:31

People do play, and there are a few decent players. But the society and all that stuff are just too complicated. Maybe, future generations will do better.

2019-03-20 12:32

I hear ya, i was travelling there about a year after the royal massacre.. Politics ruined life everywhere

2019-03-20 12:34

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Nah, that event has nothing to do with this. It's about people believing that playing games is childish! They need time to adjust that eSport is a thing and a good career can be built around it... Hope you had a good stay. ^_^

fucking loved it..was there for a month+- and went to India afterwards.. I thought you meant politics wise. eSport is making it's way to people's consciousness slowly

2019-03-20 12:37

I'm glad you did! :D ----------------------------------------- I am kind of the odd one out here and I love being that haha!

2019-03-20 12:43

I wouldn't say odd, just from an unexpected country :)

2019-03-20 13:25

What’s up, friendly neighbour!! The situation is slightly better here but still shitty lol

you have meizing mountains in andorra too :D Ive visited in grandvalira.

2019-03-20 13:40

Isnt that "monastery map" situated in Nepal?

2019-03-22 17:49

HLTV ADMIN PepeHands

2019-03-20 16:24

Very nice

ez4ence

fek

SJOKZ ♥

2019-03-20 14:12

SJOKZ LEGS ♥

2019-03-20 16:02

ast #1

thx 4 deleting my comment.

2019-03-20 12:39

I will be in Ibirapuera ginasium :)

I'd love to be there as well... That's gonna be awesome!

2019-03-20 14:39

2 But sad that i am the only one who plays and like CS nearby, then i will get alone.

2019-03-20 15:21

i will travel for 14 hours, from east of minas gerais to sao paulo

2019-03-21 15:46

At least i live in SP hahaha But welcome dude

2019-03-21 22:11

ty bro, see you there

2019-03-22 06:02

I will be there, boys!!!!! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the best ticket. Still, I hope it's gonna be as epic as Lisbon's one was.

2019-03-20 17:59

I'll be there

2019-03-20 12:08

This timetable sucks. 3:30am matches

That because you live in Asia, they can't play the matches at 7am to keep you happy.

2019-03-20 12:15

EU timings are nice

2019-03-20 12:27

Of course. I'm not a massive fan of NA/SA tournaments cos of the matches times, but this isn't that bad.

Well, Its Friday night, so everything is fine

2019-03-20 12:14

like every asia tournament for us

2019-03-20 12:48

Like 1 half-dead wesg in a year? TOP KEK. Meanwhile there is atleast 5-6 NA/SA/GB tournaments in a year, that eastern viewers cant watch.

2019-03-20 14:05

EU timings are not always good for us and we have to deal with it. I recommend you to do the same.

2019-03-20 14:36

Will forsaken watch this?

2019-03-20 14:33

I fear not but he will catch highlights

2019-03-20 14:59

NiP will not drop a map.

Lmao. Thanks for that buddy

2019-03-20 13:15

You're for sure the biggest Nip fan lmao

2019-03-20 13:50

Fnatic wont drop a map either

2019-03-20 14:06

So how many games will Ence forfeit this time?

0/8

1-4 probalby hahhaha lose 4 sprout dude

2019-03-20 19:15

Christine "potter" Chi - Analyst ????????????? i prefer fucking pimp over her why would you invite nova silver elite to fucking analyst

She's 200000000x better than you. Plus Pimp is the worst of the worst.

2019-03-20 12:13

if you say so

What's it like being a sad troll?

2019-03-20 12:16

She can at least talk English. Nobody can understand pimp.

2019-03-20 12:17

If you can't understand pimp's english you're either not 100% fluent (not his problem) or you're just dumb (not his problem either)

2019-03-20 16:33

INB4 CROWD HELPING MIBR

6° PLAYER

2019-03-20 12:23

Like happen against them at any tournament? I see

Lol no, mibr is just bad

2019-03-20 20:24

So you're blind not seeing crowd helping Fnatic, Cloud9, Liquid and so on...

2019-03-20 22:09

Stop blaming others and take responsability for the disgusting crowding!

2019-03-21 12:58

first match 00:00, are you serious

EU events on br time are like this as well

2019-03-20 12:18

Now Imagine Timings for India, or, even Worse, for Australia.

2019-03-20 12:57

What? EU/NA events are perfect to SA. EU +5/4 hours NA -3/4 hours I dunno why they gonna play so late here on friday (7 pm BRT).

2019-03-20 13:55

I guess they're considering the time time people and kids who study in the afternoon are confy back home.

2019-03-20 15:08

No they're not.

2019-03-20 15:52

Dude, starts 19:00 in brazil, wtf is wrong with you?! People have to leave their jobs to go to the stadium. WESG games were all on shitty clocks for america. Be more understanding.

2019-03-20 13:21

So. Opinions on Sjokz being a CS desk host?

Its nice girl?

2019-03-20 13:11

Some people just pay attention to her legs, anyway

she's done some serious research, watched vods and shit, I'm sure she's gonna do great

2019-03-20 23:05

i hope so.

2019-03-21 08:14

great tournament, trash format

2019-03-20 12:20

6 teams playing, what did u expect?

0/8. Obviously you have never been to live events.

2019-03-20 13:18

Tf do you mean? It is a shitty format

2019-03-20 15:00

ENCE will crash hard

2019-03-20 12:24

Where are the maps?

Rip Non brassilian players

rip eu viewers

2019-03-20 12:36

Anders? PogU also glad to see vendetta, is sjokz lol analyst i saw that name somewhere

2019-03-20 12:38

Sjokz is the desk host for LEC, EU league of legends. Her and Dash are probably the best desk hosts in that game.

2019-03-20 15:15

she is basically one of the faces of League EU pro scene for like 6 years now or something like that

2019-03-20 23:11

Go ENCE

nice event hope there wont be any problems

2019-03-20 12:40

If Astralis doesn't win, who else would?

I hope brazilians do NOT spit on asstralis players. I hope for this so much.

2019-03-20 12:42

The brazilian crowd is the best, i already went to a CSGO event. They're so loud, so full of energy. I'll watch just because of it. Note: MIBR will be eliminated easy

Yeah, the crowd is one of the best but we can't say the same for the teams sadly.

2019-03-20 22:10

+Pimp pls

2019-03-20 12:55

Adam Savage from Mythbusters BTW

2019-03-20 13:04

haha

2019-03-20 14:42

I think mibr will probably win the entire tournament

2019-03-20 13:09

Tutorial for understand the brazilians: 1 - We are a very loud crowd 2 - We're probably going to boo, but is not to disrespect the other team, its like a football match. I think i can't explain, but please believe me, its cultural thing... 3 - If you hear a chant "YOU GONNA DIE" o something similar, ITS NOT A DEATH THREAT (oh Lord, i don't believe you really think this ..../facepalm), its only a chant... 4 - The Brazilian Casters its loud too 5 - "GRINGO" its not a offense/insult, its only a word to "foreign"

2019-03-20 13:10

2019-03-20 13:33

Nice tutorial MY FRIEND(PAPA) Although "you gonna die" actually happen because of our soccer culture and some cases this almost happen so we should repel this kind of behaviour imo

2019-03-20 16:37

The cases where this almost happen are in soccer only. Where we have some crowds who get in stadium to fight against each others

2019-03-20 16:43

LESGO BOIS See you there brazilian brothas

2019-03-20 13:13

You lucky...

POTTER <3

2019-03-20 13:17

Sjokz <3

EZ!

2019-03-20 13:23

Missing Navi already

2019-03-20 13:27

Good teams, there will be plenty of good games to watch.

2019-03-20 13:48

Lets go Mibr. already my mother said, at home we will solve.

2019-03-20 13:52

XD this is so funny when u read on english

2019-03-20 16:46

+1 lol

2019-03-20 22:12

Hype is real

2019-03-20 13:58

nice EU friendly as fuck too bad the BLAST events absolutely suck with their shitty format

sjokz <3

2019-03-20 14:08

ez4astralis

2019-03-20 14:09

Ginásio do Ibirapuera means Gymnasium of iBuyPower in English Kappa

2019-03-20 14:31

No Machine? :(

2019-03-20 14:34

Nevermind, I hadn't read the full caster's list

2019-03-20 14:38

another 125k dollars to astralis

2019-03-20 14:41

No henryg? No sadokist? Shitty format? Matches start at 12pm? No ty

2019-03-20 14:58

Isn't sjokz from Romania?

2019-03-20 15:12

Belgium

2019-03-20 15:17

yeah looked it up. idk why i thought Romania

2019-03-20 15:31

Where is navi

2019-03-20 15:13

Astralis easy win

2019-03-20 15:16

Really nice Tournament, but we all know how this is gonna end Congrats Astralis! mvp dupreeh

2019-03-20 15:23

will MIBR suck again?

2019-03-20 15:41

Lol, no chance whatsoever for mibr. Watch out astralis.... Ez4ence

2019-03-20 15:44

Adam Savage (one of the Mythbuster guys) ?! Wow thats unexpected AF. Does anyone even know if he is into CSGO/e-sports?

2019-03-20 16:13

Tickets sold out just 4 hours after the release. Brazil is ez money.

2019-03-20 16:14

7PM Matches oh yeah thats hot

2019-03-20 16:20

1 Astralis 2 Liquid 3 Faze 4 ENCE 5 MIBR 6 NIP

2019-03-20 16:29

EZ $ ENCE

2019-03-20 16:34

So early on saturday wow

2019-03-20 17:05

lets go mibr

2019-03-20 17:39

I like BLAST format, but I'd love to see semis too

2019-03-20 17:42

Mythbuster stage host woot

2019-03-20 20:44

nice. must watch. good entertainment, yes? I expect!

2019-03-20 22:23

No bardolph ? Ok :/

2019-03-21 00:37

EZ4FAZE

2019-03-21 02:05

bo1s? boring event

2019-03-21 03:30

hype

2019-03-21 09:33

i think ENCE is going to suck - Astralis or Liquid FTW

2019-03-21 14:57

cool

2019-03-21 17:54

Just waiting to see Godstralis reck The favela Boyz 16 - 0 Gonna be epic AGAIN

2019-03-21 20:28

zzz

2019-03-21 21:34

Ezzz

2019-03-22 03:15

2019-03-22 03:17