Americas BLAST Showdown preview, schedule, matchups

Yes, the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown is already live, but the Americas teams don't play until tomorrow because of a horrendous travel schedule following the PGL Copenhagen Major Americas RMR. With everyone's travel scheduled for the 5th, teams are just settling into Europe before playing the single-elimination BO3 competition.

Liquid, Complexity, Elevate, and Imperial have all flown out of Monterrey to Europe and will just be getting adjusted to their new spaces today before competing tomorrow afternoon, local time.

Liquid is first up in the day at 09:30AM to face the Portuguese SAW, who surprised everyone when they qualified for the Copenhagen Major, becoming the first team from their nation to do so. Complexity takes on OG right after at 12:00PM while Imperial will close out the day of games at 02:30PM when they play Monte.

As for Elevate, they will not have their Russian AWPer Deni "dea" Ediev who is stuck in the United States after his passport was stolen. Instead, the organization will be using German rifler Marc "MRC9" Philipp Jarke, who used to be part of BIG Academy.

Liquid and Elevate will be ruing their chances at the Americas RMR thanks to their crushing elimination. Liquid, especially, feel hard done by due to the seeding and double-elimination swiss bracket which saw them have to play FURIA and Complexity in the qualifier while other teams did not have nearly as difficult of a schedule. As for Complexity and Imperial, the latter qualified 3-0 while Complexity were able to earn the Legends spot thanks to their ranking in the Valve Standings.

Match Schedule