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BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 American Showdown
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BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 American Showdown
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Game:
Type:
Online
Location:
North America Teams:
8
Prize Pool:
$142,500 USD
Start Date:
2020-06-01
End Date:
2020-06-07
Liquipedia Tier:
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The BLAST Premier Spring Showdown was initially intended to be held on LAN in an unannounced location but was later moved online and regionalized due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. [1]
Contents
About[edit]
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Desk Host:
Semmler (Auguste Massonnat)
- Interviewer:
James Banks (James Banks)
- Observers:
- prius (David Kuntz)
UnknownFME (Bastian Faber)
Format[edit]
- Group Stage: June 1st - 4th, 2020
- Two round-robin format groups:
- Each group has 4 teams
- All matches are Bo1
- 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie
- Top three teams from each group advance to the Playoffs
- Two round-robin format groups:
- Playoffs: June 5th - 7th, 2020
- Two single-elimination gauntlets
- Teams are seeded using the Group Stage
- No Grand Final match is played
- All matches are Bo3
- A third-place match is played
- Top three teams proceed to the Americas Finals
- Two single-elimination gauntlets
Prize Pool[edit]
$142,500 USD are spread among the teams as seen below:
| Place | $ USD | Seed | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
 1st-2nd | $35,000 | American Finals |  MIBR |
 FURIA Esports | |||
 3rd | $20,000 | American Finals |  Evil Geniuses |
 4th | $17,500 | - |  Gen.G Esports |
| 5th-6th | $10,000 | - |  Cloud9 |
 Triumph | |||
| 7th-8th | $7,500 | - |  Chaos Esports Club |
 100 Thieves |
| Tournament Circuit Points | ||
|---|---|---|
| Place |  BLAST Premier
| |
| 1st - 2nd | 800 pts | |
| 3rd - 4th | 400 pts | |
| 5th - 6th | 300 pts | |
| 7th - 8th | 200 pts | |
Participants[edit]
- 1 April 4th - Evil Geniuses part ways with ImAPet. [2]
- 2 April 10th - Evil Geniuses sign
zews as the team's new coach. [3]
- 1 April 28th - 100 Thieves part ways with
kassad. [7] - 2 May 26th - 100 Thieves sign ImAPet as their new coach. [8]
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
[edit]
| Group A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| June 1st - 4th, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | FURIA Esports | 2-0-1 | 45-29 | +16 | 6p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | MIBR | 1-2-0 | 46-43 | +3 | 5p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | Gen.G Esports | 1-1-1 | 39-39 | 0 | 4p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. | Chaos Esports Club | 0-1-2 | 28-47 | -19 | 1p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Group A Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| FURIA | 13 | 16 | MIBR |
| Chaos | 8 | 16 | Gen.G |
| FURIA | 16 | 8 | Gen.G |
| MIBR | 15 | 15 | Chaos |
| MIBR | 15 | 15 | Gen.G |
| FURIA | 16 | 5 | Chaos |
Playoffs[edit]
Additional Content[edit]
Streams[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Spring Showdown and Final go online". BLAST. 2020-04-01.
- ↑ MIRAA (2020-04-04). "Official: ImAPet leaves Evil Geniuses". HLTV.
- ↑ Nohte (2020-04-10). "Official: zews joins Evil Geniuses as head coach". HLTV.
- ↑ Nohte (2020-03-25). "MIBR part ways with zews". HLTV.
- ↑ MIBR (2020-05-19). "Today we move our "manito" @meyern to the bench".
- ↑ MIBR (2020-05-19). "Welcome to the MIBR family @trkcsgo!".
- ↑ 100 Thieves (2020-04-28). "After extensive discussions, we’ve mutually agreed to part ways with our CS:GO Head Coach, Kassad.".
- ↑ 100 Thieves (2020-05-26). "Welcome @ImAPet1 as our new CS:GO Head Coach!".
- ↑ "CS:GO roster update - 06.04.20". Chaos Esports Club. 2020-06-04.