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BLAST Premier was BLAST's Counter-Strike league with partner teams from 2020 to 2024. Valve ended partner leagues from 2025, so BLAST now runs three open event types: Bounty (32 teams, with bounties on the top-rated teams), Open (16 teams) and Rivals (8 teams).
In 2026 PARIVISION, Team Vitality (twice), MOUZ and Team Spirit have won BLAST events, and Rivals Season 2 runs in Hong Kong from 9 to 15 November with $1,000,000 in prize money. Below: the 2026 results, how BLAST formats change the betting and every World Final winner.
Wikipedia: Blast Premier, editions (partner league 2020–2024, open circuit 2025–2026).
Short answer
BLAST matches carry the usual CS2 markets: series winner, map winner, map and round handicaps, total maps and total rounds. What changes is the field. Bounty events have 32 teams, so outsiders reach the playoffs more often; Rivals has only 8 teams, so fewer series stand between the favourite and the title and its outright price is shorter.
2026 calendar
Five events, four different winners. Only Team Vitality has won twice in 2026; MOUZ and Team Spirit met in two finals in a row.
| Event | Dates | Champion | Runner-up | Prize pool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bounty S1, Malta | 13–25 Jan | PARIVISION | Team Falcons | |
| Open Rotterdam | 18–29 Mar | Team Vitality | Natus Vincere | |
| Rivals S1, Fort Worth | 27 Apr–3 May | Team Vitality | Natus Vincere | $1,000,000 |
| Bounty S2, Malta | 20 Jul–2 Aug | MOUZ | Team Spirit | $1,050,000 |
| Open Porto | 24 Aug–6 Sep | Team Spirit | MOUZ | $1,100,000 |
| Rivals S2, Hong Kong | 9–15 Nov | To be played | $1,000,000 |
Wikipedia: Blast Premier, editions (partner league 2020–2024, open circuit 2025–2026). Bounty S1 and Open Rotterdam share one listed prize figure, so no separate amount is shown.
Outright vs match
Pick the winner of the event before or during it. Field size matters: an 8-team Rivals field leaves fewer series between a favourite and the trophy than a 32-team Bounty.
So what: bigger payout but a bigger margin, and your stake is locked until the trophy is lifted.
Pick the winner of one series. Most CS2 series are best-of-three, and the map veto shapes the price.
So what: the lowest margin on most books, and you can react to form, patches and roster news.
Total rounds on a map, pistol rounds, first to 10 rounds and overtime yes or no.
So what: thin markets with wide margins; compare two or three books before you bet.
Odds through the bracket Example odds
A worked example: a team with a 60% chance in every series and an example outright overround of 25%. Three series is the path through an 8-team single-elimination bracket.
Quarter-final
Semi-final
Grand final
Champion
Title chance = chance per series to the power of the series still to win. With 3 series left the chance is 21.6%, fair odds 4.63. Each series win removes one factor.
What it means: a price of 3.70 before the playoffs only pays if the team wins every series, so compare it with backing the team series by series.
Worked example, not a forecast. Book odds = fair odds ÷ (1 + overround).
Example odds Example odds
Example odds, not live prices. The sum of the implied probabilities shows the bookmaker's margin.
| Team | Example odds | Implied | Fair odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Vitality | 2.75 | 36.4% | 3.37 |
| Team Spirit | 5.00 | 20.0% | 6.12 |
| MOUZ | 6.00 | 16.7% | 7.35 |
| Natus Vincere | 7.00 | 14.3% | 8.57 |
| Team Falcons | 8.00 | 12.5% | 9.80 |
| FURIA | 11.00 | 9.1% | 13.47 |
| PARIVISION | 13.00 | 7.7% | 15.92 |
| G2 Esports | 17.00 | 5.9% | 20.82 |
| Sum | 122.5% | margin 18.4% |
Add up 1 ÷ odds for every runner. Here the sum is 122.5%, so the book keeps about 18.4% of outright stakes on average.
What it means: outrights suit a strong view on one team. The names show how the table works; they are not predictions. The table does not mean these teams are in the Rivals Hong Kong field.
Example odds set by esportranker. Not live, not a forecast.
Past winners
Natus Vincere and G2 Esports won two World Finals each. The World Final ended with the partner league in 2024; the 2020 Global Final was played online in January 2021.
| Year | City | Champion | Runner-up | Final | Prize pool |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Singapore | G2 Esports | Team Spirit | $1.00M | |
| 2023 | Abu Dhabi | Team Vitality | FaZe Clan | $1.00M | |
| 2022 | Abu Dhabi | G2 Esports | Team Liquid | $1.00M | |
| 2021 | Copenhagen | Natus Vincere | Gambit Esports | $1.00M | |
| 2020 | Natus Vincere | Astralis | $1.00M |
Wikipedia: Blast Premier, editions (partner league 2020–2024, open circuit 2025–2026).
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Not as a league. BLAST Premier ran with partner teams from 2020 to 2024. Since 2025 BLAST runs open events instead: Bounty, Open and Rivals.
BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 runs from 9 to 15 November 2026 at AsiaWorld-Arena in Hong Kong, with a $1,000,000 prize pool.
A 32-team invitational in which the 16 highest-rated teams carry a bounty. A team that beats a bounty holder claims part of that bounty on top of normal prize money.
PARIVISION (Bounty Season 1), Team Vitality (Open Rotterdam and Rivals Season 1), MOUZ (Bounty Season 2) and Team Spirit (Open Porto).
Series and map winner, map and round handicaps, total maps, total rounds and pistol rounds. Our CS2 betting page explains each market and ranks the bookmakers.
Neither is better by default. In an 8-team Rivals event fewer series stand between the favourite and the title, so its outright price is short; in a 32-team Bounty there are more rounds to survive, so longer prices on favourites can still be fair.
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