The Blast Premier Spring Final 2024 teams line-up has been officially confirmed, after two qualified from the Spring Showdown yesterday.
16 teams took part in the qualifier overall, including BIG, Liquid, Cloud9, OG, NiP, Complexity and Falcons, who had s1mple with them on a one-month loan deal.
This wasn’t enough for Falcons, however, who lost to Metizport 2-1 in the first round of 16.
SAW’s Portuguese roster defeated Liquid 2-1, Cloud9 2-0 and OG 2-0 to qualify.
And Team Spirit beat Elevate 2-0, BIG 2-0 and Metizport 2-1 to become the other team to make it through to the Spring Final.
The news comes one month after Team Spirit won IEM Katowice 2024, with their young Russian rifler Donk making a name for himself.
Yesterday’s results of course mean we have the full list of eight teams set to compete at Wembley this summer (see below).
Blast announced back in October 2023 that the Wembley Arena in London will host the Blast Premier Spring Final 2024 from June 12th to 16th.
Blast’s Andrew Haworth previously said of the Blast Premier Spring Final 2024: “The OVO Arena Wembley is a state-of-the-art facility and will provide fans with the perfect setting to witness the most talented Counter-Strike and esports players go head-to-head for a $425,000 total prize pool and chance to qualify for the highly-anticipated World Final in December 2024.”
The Wembley event isn’t the only Blast esports event in the UK this year. There’s also the Blast Rainbow Six Siege Manchester Major taking place in May.
Blast Premier Spring Final 2024 teams
The full confirmed list Blast Premier Spring Final 2024 teams are as follows:
- Team Vitality
- Faze Clan
- Navi
- Virtus Pro
- Astralis
- G2 Esports
- SAW
- Team Spirit
The first six came from Spring Groups, while SAW and Team Spirit qualified through the Blast Premier Spring Final.
William ‘mezii’ Merriman is the only UK player set to play at the Wembley Blast event. He recently told Esports News UK’s Reece Barrett that the atmosphere in London ‘will be something special’.
See our full interview with mezii on UK CS here.
Blast announces 2025 tournament schedule
Blast also revealed the following 2025 CS2 season dates:
- January 12th to 26th
- March 17th to 30th
- April 28th to May 4th
- August 4th to 17th
- August 25th to September 7th
- November 10th to 16th
More info including prize pools, formats and locations will be revealed at a later date, with Blast saying more info is coming at the Blast Premier Spring Final.
Andrew Haworth, VP of Ecosystems, Valve & Riot Games, said: “2025 is the start of a new period for Counter-Strike, one that we are really excited about at Blast.
“Valve’s changes to an open ecosystem provide opportunities to create new and dynamic additions to our tournaments. Fans can expect an innovative and improved format that will keep the community on the edge of their seats, in the process creating more events, broadcast hours, matches and opportunities for more teams than ever before.
“We look forward to revealing further details in June.”
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
