BLAST Open London 2025: format, schedule and groups

BLAST Open London 2025 is the most recent Counter-Strike 2 event operated by the event organiser and the world’s finest groups are set to battle it out as soon as extra.

Starting on August twenty seventh, 16 groups from the world over will compete on-line in a bid to safe one in all eight locations on the LAN playoffs going down at London’s OVO Enviornment Wembley.

Earlier than the motion begins, right here’s every little thing there’s to find out about BLAST Open London 2025, together with the taking part groups, format, and schedule.

The 16 groups competing have been cut up into two teams of eight that can use a double-elimination GSL format to find out which groups advance to the subsequent spherical. All group stage matches are best-of-three sequence.

The highest three groups from every group will safe a spot on the LAN finals, with the winners of the group advancing on to the semi-finals. The crew that locations second within the group will transfer to the quarter-finals as the upper seed, whereas the third-placed crew additionally qualifies for the quarter-finals with the decrease seed.

On-line matches run from August twenty seventh to September 1st, with the LAN finals going down from September fifth to seventh.

LAN finals will use a single-elimination bracket to find out the eventual winner.

Forward of the occasion, a number of groups withdrew from the occasion, leading to a number of unannounced groups receiving invites to compete. Fnatic has changed HEROIC, Imperial Esports has crammed the hole left by PaiN Gaming, whereas Group Liquid changed The MongolZ.

Following the entire modifications, the total crew checklist for the event is as follows:

A number of of the world’s finest groups will likely be in attendance, with Group Spirit seeking to knock Group Vitality off the highest spot of the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) with one other robust efficiency.

For FaZe Clan, the occasion will mark the debut of Jakub ‘jcobbb‘ Pietruszewski after becoming a member of instead of Jonathan ‘EliGE’ Jablonowski, who has been positioned on the bench.

For a number of groups in attendance, a great efficiency at BLAST Open London 2025 may spark a shift in September’s VRS, which is anticipated to be unveiled following the event.

With groups already positioned into their respective teams, the schedule for the opening day of on-line matches may be discovered under.

Followers can tune into the primary day of motion on BLAST’s YouTube and Twitch channels. For an alternate view of the motion, a number of content material creators will likely be co-streaming the matches.