{"id":27216,"date":"2023-01-03T22:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2023-01-03T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:47:53","slug":"2023-blast-season-will-kick-off-with-the-blast-premier-spring-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/2023-blast-season-will-kick-off-with-the-blast-premier-spring-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 BLAST season will kick off with the BLAST Premier Spring Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Strike event organiser and production company BLAST have announced the opening of the 2023 BLAST circuit, with the BLAST Premier Spring Groups kicking off in the middle of January. <\/p>\n<p>The dates have been confirmed for the Spring Groups, with the event set to begin on January 19 with the grand final to be held on January 29 in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First tournament of 2023<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc5 Spring Groups<br \/>\ud83d\udca5 12 teams<br \/>\ud83d\udcc5 19th &#8211; 29th January <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYff6vzy76\">pic.twitter.com\/VYff6vzy76<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BLAST Premier \ud83d\udca5 (@BLASTPremier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLASTPremier\/status\/1610281939696603139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 12 BLAST partnered teams will participate in the event, with five of the 12 teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\">CS:GO<\/a> ESL World Rankings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those 12 teams featuring in Copenhagen are;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=flexLists>\n<ul class=pageList>\n<li><strong>FaZe Clan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Team Liquid<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Team Vitality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Heroic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>G2 Esports<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=pageList>\n<li><strong>Ninjas in Pyjamas<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Complexity<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Astralis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Evil Geniuses<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>OG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BIG<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The specific groups and the tournament structure were not announced, but we do know that six BLAST Premier Spring Final spots will be up for grabs, along with the prize pool of $177,500.<\/p>\n<p>The BLAST Premier Spring Groups will also feature the debut for some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/bjorn-threat-pers-set-to-depart-ninjas-in-pyjamas\/\">off-season moves for Ninjas<\/a> in Pyjamas and Astralis. <\/p>\n<p>The Ninjas are reported to sign Daniil \u201cheadtr1ck\u201d Valitov as their fifth player on their roster after benching Patrick \u201ces3tag\u201d Hansen at the back end of 2022. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/astralis-completes-csgo-roster-with-new-talent\/\">Astralis\u2019 new rifler Christian \u201cBuzz\u201d Anderson<\/a> will make his debut for the Danish juggernaut and Nicolai \u201cdevice\u201d Reedtz will play his first series at an S-Tier event, since returning to the team that he won four Majors with. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLAST have announced the BLAST Premier Spring Groups will kick off the season in Copenhagen, with 12 of the top CS:GO teams participating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,941,2196,1957,2918,1532,11,262,127,103,235,132,428,286,128,215],"class_list":["post-27216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astralis","tag-big","tag-blast","tag-blast-premier","tag-blast-premier-spring-groups","tag-complexity","tag-csgo","tag-evil-geniuses","tag-faze-clan","tag-g2-esports","tag-heroic","tag-natus-vincere","tag-ninjas-in-pyjamas","tag-og","tag-team-liquid","tag-team-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27228,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions\/27228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}