BLAST release World Final opening matchups

6/12/2022 - 16:21

The action starts on Wednesday, December 14 with the first two matches of the group phase.

BLAST have announced the initial matchups for BLAST Premier World Final 2022, the tournament which will bring their 2022 circuit to a close. The event will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and will host eight teams competing for the lion's share of $1,000,000 between December 14-18.

The opening matchups were based on teams' seeding, which was determined by teams ranking each other ahead of the tournament.

BLAST Premier World Final will be the last big event of 2022

The eight teams will be evenly divided into two double-elimination groups from which three teams will advance to the playoffs. The unbeaten squads from each group will earn a ticket directly to the semi-finals, while the second and third-placed participants will battle it out in the first round of the knockout stage.

Group A

Group B

BLAST confirmed that the World Final will be played on CS:GO's latest patch, meaning that spectators will see the effects of the changes to the M4A1-S and AWP in tier-one Counter-Strike, as well as the new active duty map, Anubis.

Anubis and weapon changes to feature at BLAST Premier World Final

The first match will see Liquid take on current Major champions Outsiders, setting up the first-ever matchup between Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis and his old teammates. FaZe vs G2 will be the second fixture from Group A, with Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's men looking to continue their resurgence after a grand final appearance at BLAST Premier Fall Finals.

Heroic will take on OG in Group B's first match. The Danish squad will play the event without their star player Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund as the 20-year-old takes some extra time off and will be substituted by Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke.

k0nfig to stand in for Heroic at BLAST World Final

The day will end with Natus Vincere's matchup against Vitality, and everyone's eyes will be focused on the Ukrainian core's use of substitute player Andrii "⁠npl⁠" Kukharskyi as an active sixth member of the squad.

The opening matchups for BLAST Premier World Final 2022 are:

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier World Final 2022
14/12/2022	Outsiders 07:00 Liquid	Match
14/12/2022	FaZe 11:20 G2	Match
14/12/2022	Heroic 15:15 OG	Match
14/12/2022	Natus Vincere 19:25 Vitality	Match

another ez event win for heroic

2022-12-06 16:22

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G2 finna win

11 replies

who?

2022-12-06 16:23

1 reply

2022-12-07 18:01

Navi get the worst team in the tournament as a starting match, nice

6 replies

Navi isn't playing G2

2022-12-06 17:38

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He means the hardest team, not the weakest

2022-12-06 18:59

POG

2022-12-08 15:48

Og is objectively the worst team, not vitality

2022-12-06 17:44

#104

2022-12-06 19:00

OG at least was at the major

2022-12-07 23:47

G2 and winning tournaments kekw

2022-12-06 16:33

let's hope

2022-12-06 16:34

Nothing is ever “easy” for heroic 😂 they have a chance and that’s it. Nothing more.

2022-12-06 17:20

EZ for G2

Liquid win it all

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2022-12-06 16:28

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2022-12-06 17:05

3 replies

Name 😂

2022-12-06 17:23

Are u still mad

2022-12-06 18:12

At what? 😂

2022-12-06 18:17

2022-12-06 19:32

ez 4 outsiders

2022-12-06 16:24

cool

I get to watch one match per day because of these times

2022-12-06 16:26

Vods are your friend

2022-12-06 17:26

Why is G2 in the hard group? Switch them to group b please!

2022-12-06 16:27

ok now open fantasy

faze to win it all

2022-12-06 16:29

Worst match times ever, even China had better times.

2022-12-06 16:31

2022-12-06 16:32

really bad times, wtf...

2022-12-06 16:36

It's in Abu Dhabi what do u expect?

2022-12-07 13:26

WTF OG is doing there?

To farm stats

2022-12-06 16:41

G2 and Og last place incoming

2022-12-06 16:37

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2022-12-06 16:38

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They are worse than every team in their group Niko haters always win

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honestly tthey are not worse than outsiders and faze didnt won a signle bo3 gainst niko this year, g2 is faze kryptonite

2022-12-06 16:51

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FAZe kryptonite JajajJkaajJJajJjaJjaJjaJjajqjjajjakaajaJajajajaj

2022-12-06 16:58

yes just like liquid is cloud9's kryptonite

2022-12-06 16:59

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hi jonty

2022-12-06 17:43

go to sleep

10 replies

gyazo.com/d334cbd10db0dd725245fab91253a2.. i will when sharks take a map

people lowkey commit suicide after losing a bet on t3, good luck

2022-12-06 17:47

8 replies

i am so good at betting and u know it

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yes i remeber how you were malding after 9z 00nation game at the major

2022-12-06 17:49

no way

2022-12-06 17:48

hltv.org/matches/2360556/the-union-vs-fu.. yesterday won easy +1.5 also waiting for BJ today at night at 1.26 when odds already 1.01

4 replies

BJ from who?

2022-12-06 17:54

what u mean

kkkkkkkkkkkkkk i misunderstood i thought bj = otsoso

2022-12-06 17:55

lmao

Should be a great tournament, let’s hope cheatroic gets eliminated early without stavn!

-2

2022-12-06 17:27

FaZe will win

2022-12-06 16:50

8:00 what a pleasure^^

Ez for hooxi

OPEN FANTASY PLEASE

2022-12-06 16:53

the tournament will be in the arena from QFs, right?

So many Europeans crying bc of time zones lmfaoooo

2022-12-06 17:06

Hahahaha

i mean Europe kinda carries the scene, i think its justified even tho idk why people care so much about a outsiders liquid game, acting like Americans wouldn't complain if the nba playoffs were held in Europe and the matches started at 7am or 11 on a working day lol

2022-12-06 17:34

"Europe carries the scene" but the best tournaments are always outside Europe KKKKK

2022-12-06 17:51

what best tournaments i know ur not trying slip the rio major in there lmao,afaik cologne,katowice and blast lans are mostly in EU, and you didn't seem to understand i was not even talking about crowd but viewership but ok kkkkk

0/8

2022-12-06 17:57

2022-12-06 18:09

Will check the vods like any tournament that is held in timezones whicu are hard to follow

Got to love the s1mple vs ZywOo opener. ^^

2022-12-06 17:11

faze with another easy groups as always, its hilarious

2022-12-06 17:16

poor time zones aswell as having the event in a sportwashing-country. Real highpoint to end the year

Death group for g2 💀

Group A looks stacked af

2022-12-06 17:31

OG are to EU what EG are to NA. Waste of spot, shouldn't be in most of the tournaments they are due to the level of play they show, but €€€€€€€. Other than that, banger tournament inc

2022-12-06 17:35

Banger tournament that no one is going to watch because of the times XD

2022-12-06 19:02

true xD

2022-12-06 20:00

whos gonna bet that OG is out first?

2022-12-06 17:36

Outsiders and Lulquid 3AM choke clan vs 1 bot, two good players and a retired player 6AM nice tournament to watch on YouTube highlights

rip g2

2022-12-06 18:04

No amount of money should incite TO's to host tournaments in nations where it starts at 07:00 CET, and the second bo3 starting at 10:00 CET. Especially on a random Wednesday in the middle of the week. The viewership for those games are gonna be absolutely dogshit.

2022-12-06 18:05

15k max

2022-12-06 21:17

EZ4NAVI

2022-12-06 18:14

What are these for times?? Well... At least I don't have to watch any CS because of work...

2022-12-06 19:01

O-3G

2022-12-06 20:20

yawn

2022-12-06 20:32

Outsiders Final for sure dude !

2022-12-06 21:01

some good openers!

2022-12-06 21:39

Vita vs NAVI to fight for the worse team with the best player award

2022-12-06 22:23

FInally, Good timezones for us aussies!

2022-12-07 01:27

FInally G2 will win something...

2022-12-07 02:54

bad times

2022-12-07 03:16

probably will be the best event of the year

2022-12-07 04:54

Finally some good viewing time

2022-12-07 05:32

yes finally no need to sacrifice sleeping time to watch

2022-12-07 09:03

thats craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy

2022-12-07 07:10

Probably a Heroic win but should be very interesting

2022-12-07 07:42

Not sure who wins this but OG sure as hell is in last place.

2022-12-07 09:27

They will compete with g2 for the last place

2022-12-07 09:33

Let's see if outsiders can prove that their win was not a fluke

2022-12-07 11:10

KEKW why is G2 even qualified? They could find random 100 elo players and get better results.

2022-12-07 12:48

Matches are so early wtf

2022-12-07 13:51

7 AM games are gonna be a pain in the ass to follow but it is what it is

2022-12-07 23:51

Awful matches start times for NA, pretty much matches are going to be played while NA is going to be asleep. 1st match is at 1AM, 2nd at 4AM... But good for EU I guess... GL

2022-12-13 15:40