BLAST PREMIER BLAST PREMIER 2020 2020 SEASON CALENDAR Spring Series - LAN Seeding and Draw 20 December 2019 Week 1: 30 January 2020 - 2 February 2020 Spring Series Dates Week 2: 6 February 2020 - 9 February 2020 Week 3: 13 February 2020 - 16 February 2020 Spring Showdown - Online Seeding 13 May 2020 Spring Showdown Dates 1 June 2020 - 7 June 2020 Spring Finals - Online Seeding 10 June 2020 Spring Finals Dates 15 June 2020 – 21 June 2020 Fall Series - LAN Seeding and Draw 4 September 2020 Week 1: 26 October 2020 – 28 October 2020 Fall Series Dates Week 2: 29 October 2020 – 31 October 2020 Week 3: 2 November 2020 – 4 November 2020 Fall Showdown - LAN BLAST Wildcard confirmed No later than 25 October 2020 Qualifier Teams confirmed No later than 1 November 2020 Seeding 18 November 2020 Fall Showdown Dates 24 November 2020 – 29 November 2020 Fall Finals - LAN Seeding 2 December 2020 Fall Finals Dates 8 December 2020 – 13 December 2020 Global Final - LAN Teams confirmed No later than 21 December 2020 Global Final Dates 18 January 2021 – 24 January 2021 1 BLAST PREMIER SPRING SERIES SPRING SERIES PARTICIPATING TEAMS The 12 BLAST Premier Member Teams shall automatically qualify for the Spring Series and Fall Series (together, the "Series"). Only Member Teams shall participate in the Series. Astralis Team Liquid Evil Geniuses Natus Vincere Team Vitality G2 Esports FaZe Clan 100 Theives Ninjas in Pyjamas MIBR OG Esports Complexity SEEDING The Member Teams shall independently rank the other Member Teams (excluding themselves) from #1 – #11, with #1 being the best. The Member Teams must base their rankings on genuinely held beliefs and, if requested by BLAST, must provide sufficient reasoning for their submitted rankings. Each Member Team shall keep all information relating to its seeding vote confidential (which includes the submis- sion itself as well as any decision making, thoughts or other pre-vote elements) and it shall not consult or discuss its seeding votes with any other Team, person or entity other than BLAST. Each Member Team must act reasonably and in good faith in respect of all matters concerning seeding. To the extent that BLAST has reason to believe any Member Team is, or seeks to, manipulate the seeding (either alone or in conjunction with other Member Teams and/or at the request of a third party or howsoever arising) BLAST shall be entit- led to investigate its concerns and where applicable apply sanctions. For the avoidance of doubt the ESIC Anti-Corruption Code applies to all matters concerning seeding. BLAST will calculate the average ranking of each Member Team in order to work out their seeding. BLAST reserves the right to remove any significantly deviating rankings from the calculation. The seeding provided by BLAST as a result of the above process shall be binding on all Member Teams and shall not be subject to appeal. The Member Teams will be divided into 4 pots (each a "Pot"): Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Seeds - 1 & 3 Seeds - 4 & 6 Seeds - 7 & 9 Seeds - 10 & 12 There will be 3 groups. Each Group shall consist of 4 Member Teams, with 1 Member Team drawn from each Pot. 2 BLAST PREMIER SPRING SERIES FORMAT • Playing Time: Each of the Spring Series and Fall Series is played out over three weeks, with 1 Group playing each week in accordance with the Match Schedule. • Matches: Best-of-Three (BO3). • Double Elimination: The 4 Member Teams in each Group will play out a double elimination bracket. • Qualification: The Member Teams which finish 1st and 2nd in their Group will automatically qualify for the applicable Season Finals. The Member Teams which finish 3rd and 4th in their Group will play in the applicable Showdown for a second chance at qualifying for the applicable Season Finals. Opening match 1 Upper Bracket Final Opening match 2 Group Final Consolidation Final Lower Bracket Round 1 PRIZE POOL The $300,000 prize pool for each Series will be divided into $100,000 per Group and distributed as follows: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Place Place Place Place $50,000 $35,000 $10,000 $5,000 3 BLAST PREMIER FALL SERIES FALL SERIES PARTICIPATING TEAMS 10 BLAST Premier Member Teams shall automatically qualify for the Fall Series (together, the “Series”). Team Liquid will join the Fall Season at the Showdown stage. The 10 Member teams will be joined by BIG & Furia to make the 12 teams competing in the Fall Series. Astralis FURIA Evil Geniuses Natus Vincere Team Vitality G2 Esports FaZe Clan BIG Ninjas in Pyjamas MIBR OG Esports Complexity The Fall Series will be played online in Europe with 3 groups of 4 teams playing a BO3 double elimination tournament. SEEDING & GROUP SETTING Given the process of getting teams to Europe and the necessity to redraw the groups a different approach has been taken to setting the groups to previous BLAST Premier events. The teams will be separated into pots based on their HLTV ranking on the 14th October and placed into pots. Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Seeds 1 - 3 based Seeds 4 - 6 based Seed 7 - 9 based Seed 10 - 12 based on HLTV rankings on HLTV rankings on HLTV rankings on HLTV rankings Each group has been set with one team from each pot. 4 BLAST PREMIER FALL SERIES FORMAT • Playing Time: Each of the Fall Series is played out over three weeks, with 1 Group playing each week in accordance with the Match Schedule. • Matches: Best-of-Three (BO3). • Double Elimination: The 4 Member Teams in each Group will play out a double elimination bracket. • Qualification: The Member Teams which finish 1st and 2nd in their Group will automatically qualify for the applicable Season Finals. The Member Teams which finish 3rd and 4th in their Group will play in the applicable Showdown for a second chance at qualifying for the applicable Season Finals. Opening match 1 Upper Bracket Final Opening match 2 Group Final Consolidation Final Lower Bracket Round 1 PRIZE POOL The $150,000 USD prize pool for the Fall Series will be divided into $50,000 USD per Group and distributed as follows: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Place Place Place Place $25,000 $12,500 $7,500 $5,000 5 BLAST PREMIER SPRING SHOWDOWN SPRING SHOWDOWN PARTICIPATING TEAMS The Spring Showdown will happen online and will be split into a European & Americas Showdown; consisting of 10 teams in the European Showdown & 8 teams in the Americas Showdown, meaning 18 teams in total. EUROPEAN SPRING SHOWDOWN AMERICAS SPRING SHOWDOWN 10 Teams 8 Teams EUROPEAN SPRING SHOWDOWN Will comprise of 3 Member Teams (Astralis, NIP & Vitality) that dropped down from the Series and 7 Non-Member Teams. For the purposes hereof, the Member Teams and Non-Member Teams are referred to collectively as "Teams". The 7 Non-Member Teams will comprise of; Qualifying Teams will be awarded a slot by winning third Qualifying Teams will be awarded a slot by BLAST in its party tournaments or qualifiers identified by BLAST in sole discretion as a "BLAST Wildcard". BLAST will choose 4 advance. 3 any and all BLAST Wildcard picks in its sole discretion and its decision will be final. AMERICAS SPRING SHOWDOWN Will comprise of 3 Member Teams (Evil Geniuses, 100 Thieves & MIBR) that dropped down from the Series and 5 Non-Member Teams. For the purposes hereof, the Mem- ber Teams and Non-Member Teams are referred to collectively as "Teams". The 5 non-member teams will comprise of; Qualifying Teams will be awarded a slot by BLAST in its sole discretion as a "BLAST Wildcard". BLAST will choose any and all BLAST 5 Wildcard picks in its sole discretion and its decision will be final. 6 BLAST PREMIER SPRING SHOWDOWN EUROPEAN SEEDING The 10 Teams in each of the Showdowns shall independently rank the other Teams in their Showdown (excluding themselves) from #1 – #9, with #1 being the best. The Teams must base their rankings on genuinely held beliefs and, if requested by BLAST, must provide sufficient reasoning for their submitted rankings. Each Team shall keep all information relating to its seeding vote confidential (which inclu- des the submission itself as well as any decision making, thoughts or other pre-vote elements) and it shall not consult or discuss its seeding votes with any other Team, person or entity other than BLAST. Each Team must act reasonably and in good faith in respect of all matters concerning seeding. To the extent that BLAST has reason to believe any Team is, or seeks to, manipulate the seeding (either alone or in con- junction with other Teams and/or at the request of a third party or howsoever arising) BLAST shall be entitled to investigate its concerns and where applicable apply sanctions. For the avoidance of doubt the ESIC Anti-Corruption Code applies to all matters concerning seeding. BLAST will calculate the average ranking of each Team in order to work out their seeding. BLAST reserves the right to remove any significantly deviating rankings from the calculation. The seeding provided by BLAST as a result of the above process shall be binding on all Teams and shall not be subject to appeal. Based on their seeding, the Teams will be divided into 2 Groups: Group A Group B Seeds - 1, 4, 5, 7 & 10 Seeds - 2, 3, 6, 8 & 9 AMERICAN SEEDING The 8 Teams in each of the Showdowns shall independently rank the other Teams in their Showdown (excluding themselves) from #1 – #7, with #1 being the best. The Teams must base their rankings on genuinely held beliefs and, if requested by BLAST, must provide sufficient reasoning for their submitted rankings.