BLAST has officially released their schedule for the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) events including a first round that will showcase incredible matchups such as FaZe against OG in Europe RMR A and Vitality versus Astralis in the Europe RMR B bracket.
Outside of the Europe RMR B, all the other RMRs for the BLAST Paris Major will be played from April 6th to 9th. A total of 24 teams out of the 56 will manage to punch a ticket for the first Valve-sponsored competition of 2023. The European region has the highest attendance with Valve providing them 17 spots in the Major, while Americas has 5 spots, and Asia only 2 available.
Both the Europe RMRs and the Americas RMR will be played under the Swiss format, where teams need to accrue 3 wins to advance however if they lose 3 games they get eliminated. Only advancement or elimination matches will feature a best-of-threes series with the rest . As for the Asia RMR, BLAST will set up 8 squads in a double-elimination bracket.
The best 7 organizations from the Europe RMR will directly qualify to the Legends Stage of the BLAST Paris Major albeside the best American squad, while the other 16 teams who manage to qualify for the Paris Major will have to battle their way out of the Challengers Stage.
Let’s take a look at the schedule for the BLAST Paris Major RMR qualifiers.
Thursday, April 6
Europe RMR A first matchups:
- 4am CT: VP vs. SAW
- 4am CT: MOUZ vs. B8
- 5:30am CT: Fnatic vs. Viperio
- 5:30am CT: NAVI vs. Into the Breach
- 7am CT: Bad News Eagles vs. 1WIN
- 7am CT: Sprout vs. Falcons
- 8:30am CT: FaZe vs. OG
- 8:30am CT: Apeks vs. GamerLegion
Americas RMR first matchups:
- 2pm CT: FURIA vs. LOS + oNe
- 2pm CT: Liquid vs. 00 Nation
- 3:30pm CT: NOUNS vs. Bestia
- 3:30pm CT: Complexity vs. Team Solid
- 5pm CT: Imperial vs. Detonate
- 5pm CT: paiN vs. Paquetá
- 6:30pm CT: Fluxo vs. Yur
- 6:30pm CT: MIBR vs Flamengo
Asia RMR first matchups:
- 12:30am CT: IHC vs Twisted Minds
- 2am CT: Rare Atom vs Vertex
- 3:30am CT: Grayhound vs TYLOO
- 5am CT: Eruption vs INVICTUS
Tuesday, April 11
Europe RMR B first matchups:
- 3am CT: Heroic vs 500
- 3am CT: C9 vs FORZE
- 4:30am CT: Spirit vs Aurora
- 4:30am CT: BIG vs iNATION
- 6am CT: ENCE vs Monte
- 6am CT: Vitality vs Astralis
- 7:30am CT: NiP vs Eternal Fire
- 7:30am CT: G2 vs 9INE
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