BLAST Premier Spring Groups Betting Guide 2024

The BLAST Premier Spring Groups kicks off the BLAST season for another year, with 16 BLAST partnered teams taking their place in Copenhagen when the event kicks off on January 22. The 16 teams will be battling it out for the US$190,000 prize pool, with the top six teams advancing to the BLAST Premier Spring Finals and the bottom six teams dropping into the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

Betting is now open for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups with many esports betting sites having markets for the first S-Tier CS2 event of the year. This BLAST Premier Spring Groups betting guide will feature team details, tournament information and format, prize pool distribution and odds courtesy of the best esports betting sites.

BLAST Premier Spring Groups betting is open now, with the top CS2 betting sites having odds live now:

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BLAST Premier Spring Groups Odds

Odds will be available closer to the start date of the BLAST Premier Spring Groups.

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BLAST Premier Spring Groups Teams

The 16 partnered teams will be separated into four groups in Copenhagen. ESB will update this page when the 2025 teams are announced.

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BLAST Premier Spring Groups Format

There will be three stages of the BLAST Premier Spring Groups with a Group Stage starting proceedings, followed by a Play-In Stage which will provide us with the first three teams that will advance to the Spring Finals. The remaining teams will drop into the Spring Showdown.

• GROUP STAGE FORMAT

  • Four groups with a double-elimination format
  • Each group has 4 teams and all matches are BO1
  • The winning team from each group advances to the Spring Final
  • The second place team proceeds to the Play-In Stage
  • Remaining teams will drop into the Spring Showdown

• PLAY-IN STAGE FORMAT

  • Single-elimination bracket with all matches being BO3
  • The two winning teams advance to the Spring Final

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BLAST Premier Spring Finals Prize Pool Distribution

The US$190,000 prize pool for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups will be distributed as the table shows below, along with the Qualifications and BLAST Premier Points.

Place	Prize Money ($USD)	Blast Premier	Seed
1st-4th	$22,500	2400 Points	Spring Finals
5th-6th	$12,500	1800 Points	Spring Finals
7th-8th	$12,500	1300 Points	Spring Showdown
9th-12th	$8,500	800 Points	Spring Showdown
13th-16th	$5,000	300 Points	Spring Showdown

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Betting On The BLAST Premier Spring Groups

Most esports betting sites will have similar markets for the Group Stage as all of the matches are best-of-one series. CS2 esports is a very popular esports at online betting sites with many different tournaments right around the world covered. Many of these Blast Premier Spring Groups betting sites also have downloadable esports betting apps available for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.

The markets that are available to wager on;

• Match winner
• Rounds line handicaps (+/-)
• Total rounds over/under (+/-)
• First half result
• First half rounds line handicaps (+/-)

When it comes to the Play-In Stage and Last Chance Stage most online betting sites will have a few extra markets for the best-of-three series, which are;

• Match winner
• Match line handicap (+/-)
• Total maps over/under
• Map 1 winner
• Map 1&2 rounds line (+/-)
• Map 1&2 total rounds (+/-)
• Map 1&2 first half winner (+/-)
• Map 1&2 first half rounds line (+/-)

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How To Watch The BLAST Premier Spring Groups

Every BLAST Premier series will be broadcast on the BLAST.tv app and the BLAST twitch channel, with highlights and replays posted on their YouTube channel after the days play.