BLAST Premier Fall organizers have confirmed that the tournament will be held in an online format, but without a split into regional divisions. At the same time, the composition of the participants has changed. Instead of 100 Thieves and Liquid, who were supposed to participate in one stage of the tournament, it will feature BIG and FURIA.
Earlier, the cybersports organization 100 Thieves, which is based in the United States and is one of twelve long-term partners of BLAST announced that it is disbanding its CS:GO lineup. The last match for the team will be the IEM New York tournament, which concludes this week. Liquid, meanwhile, will take part in the other part of the tournament. It will skip the first stage and will only begin play at the Showdown stage in late November.
The decision to hold the tournament without regionalization makes the BLAST Premier Fall Series the first major event since the start of the pandemic in which the strongest American teams will face off against European teams. They will feature ten teams currently in the top 15 of the HLTV rankings, as well as NiP (ranked 16th) and MIBR (currently not officially ranked as its roster is incomplete).
