BLAST Premier Global Final opening matches and schedule revealed

Top flight Counter-Strikewill return to action in 2021 with the $1 million BLAST Premier Global Final, which kicks off on January 19.

Four BLAST Premier Series winners and four top teams from the BLAST Ranking will face off in the BLAST Premier Global Final, taking place online in Europe on January 19-24. The $1 million event will feature a double elimination bracket with all matches played in best-of-three series.

Astralis were seeded the highest by their peers

The opening match on January 19 will put the No. 1 ranked team in the world, Astralis, facing Evil Geniuses at 16:30 , followed by G2 vs. FURIA at 19:30 to close out the first day of play.

The second day will start three hours earlier, at 13:30 , with the first of three matches, which pairs the third best team of 2020, Vitality, up against Complexity.

The last of the four opening matches will then pit Natus Vincere and Liquid, now with Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo manning the AWP, at 16:30 . The lower bracket will then kick off at 19:30 , giving way to the rest of bracket play on subsequent days until the champion is crowned on January 24.

The full BLAST Global Final schedule is the following:

Tuesday, January 19

16:30 - Astralis vs. Evil Geniuses
19:30 - G2 vs. FURIA

Wednesday, January 20

13:30 - Vitality vs. Complexity
16:30 - Natus Vincere vs. Liquid
19:30 - Lower bracket round 1 #1

Thursday, January 21

13:30 - Lower bracket round 1 #2
16:30 - Upper bracket semi-final #1
19:30 - Upper bracket semi-final #2

Friday, January 22

16:30 - Lower bracket semi-final #1
19:30 - Lower bracket semi-final #2

Saturday, January 23

16:30 - Upper bracket final
19:30 - Lower bracket final

Sunday, January 24

16:30 - Consolidation final
20:30 - Grand final

Natus Vincere #3 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Vitality #2 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautKévin 'misutaaa' Rabier FURIA #6 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Evil Geniuses #18 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Complexity #12 Justin 'jks' SavageWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeValentin 'poizon' VasilevBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Age: 29 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 1340 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.60 G2 #8 Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNemanja 'huNter-' KovačKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayNemanja 'nexa' Isaković Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Liquid #9 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipMichael 'Grim' Wince