Dune Cup to act as MENA qualifier for BLAST Premier Spring Showdown

3/3/2021 - 22:45

Middle Eastern and North African teams will have the chance to claim a spot at the BLAST event in April.

BLAST has teamed up with Calyx, an esports organizer and production company operating in the Middle East, to put together a MENA qualifier for BLAST Spring Showdown. Named Dune Cup, the qualifier will run on March 14-20 and see one team go through to the BLAST tournament.

The event will kick off with two open qualifiers, one for GCC countries and another for teams from Levant and North Africa, and will be played out in best-of-one brackets up until the semi-finals, when best-of-three series will take over.

Dune Cup will have $25,000 and a spot at BLAST Showdown up for grabs

The four open qualifier finalists will then join four invited teams in a three-day playoff on March 18-20, where they will fight for the coveted BLAST Premier Spring Showdown spot as well as a $25,000 participation fee.

To compete in the GCC qualifier, teams will be required to have at least three citizens/residents from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain or Kuwait, while the Levant and North Africa qualifier will serve teams and players from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, with the same three-player rule enforced.

The dates and sign-up links for the Dune Cup are:

GCC Qualifier - March 14 - 17
Levant and North Africa Qualifier - March 14 - 17

Nice

2021-03-03 22:45

blacke4gle's time to shine xDD

2021-03-03 22:47

Middle east first major 2021

nice

2021-03-03 22:49

Nice to see, I hope BLAST can organize a major soon

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+1 Blast has good production, entertaining formats and fun, not cringe content, everything we need. Only thing i dislike are the hud's color schemes

2021-03-03 23:00

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I definitely wasn't a fan of the huds when they first were on the scene but I've grown to like them. It makes Blast it's own unique thing while every single other TO has pretty much the same thing. Has a much more energetic and playful theming, not taking itself too seriously, and I think that's a pretty good way to appeal to audiences just getting into esports.

2021-03-03 23:22

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they're unique but i'd rather have them stick to the classic colors, i appreciate them trying something unique and i know there are a lot of viewers who prefer it over the traditional ones

2021-03-03 23:23

i wish they also had a record so they could play fire music

2021-03-04 00:12

+1 Blast amazing organizer. I wonder if they'd make a 1v1 (like those on their 3rd place team thing) tourney as showmatch, that would be so fun to watch

2021-03-04 05:13