Blast Fall Groups 2023

Join the tournament here: Fall Groups Fantasy

Important changes

This tournament will see a whole new point system which you can explore further in this article. This change will Nerf AWP players. 

This is the first tournament after the Summer pause, which means there have been a lot of roster changes. 

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Format

Group Stage:

• Three double-elimination (GSL) format groups

• Each group has 4 teams

• All matches are Bo3
• The winner from each group advances to the Fall Final
• Remaining teams advance to the seeded Play-In Stage

Play-In Stage:

• Three Single-Elimination gauntlets

• All matches are Bo3
• The winner from each gauntlet advances to the Fall Final
• Remaining teams advance to the EU or AM Fall Showdowns
  

There will be a wipe period after the Group Stage.

Fantasy Prizes 

This tournament's prizes are brought to you by Tradeit.gg and CherryXtrfy. With a total value of $550+!

1st place: 🏆

• ★ Shadow Daggers | Urban Masked (FT)
• CherryXtrfy M4 WL RGB
  

2nd place: 🥈

• StatTrak™ M4A4 | Temukau (FT)
• CherryXtrfy H2
  

3rd place: 🥉

• StatTrak™ M4A1-S | Mecha Industries (FT)
• CherryXtrfy GP4 Abstract Retro

4th place: 

• StatTrak™ FAMAS | Mecha Industries (FN)

Ensure your country is included in our participation rules to qualify for prizes.

Point Padding & Stages

The winner of each group will recieve average point padding. There will be no static point padding and the sell token will refresh during the game phase of 20th of July. Your player most have atleast played 1 match in your roster before being able to recieve point padding from that player.

• Point padding Group A winner: 19th of July
• Point padding Group B-C winner: 20th of July.

Play-in Stage

• Point padding Group A 1st and 2nd place: 21st of July
• Point padding Group B 1st and 2nd place: 22nd of July
• Point padding Group C 1st and 2nd place: 21st of July
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• Point padding Group A 1st place: 23rd of July
• Point padding Group B 1st: 23rd of July
• Point padding Group C 1st: 22nd of July

Point System

Tournament timezone: UTC+1

Kills: (Total / number of rounds) x 10

Assist: (Total / number of rounds) x 6

Deaths: (Total / number of rounds) x -4

KD-rating = 0-4 points

• KD-rating: 0.8< 1 point
• KD-rating: 1 < 2 points
• KD-rating: 1.25 < 3 points
• KD-rating: 1.5 < 4 points

HS %: Headshots / Kills .

• 0.5p >0,25%
• 1p >0,35%
• 2p, >0,5%

Winning a match series = 2 points

Losing a match series = 0 points

The point system in practice:

Every player in your "active roster" will receive points per series rather than per map. See a BO3 example below.

Map 1 = 11 points, map 2 = 12 points & map 3 = 9 points. In this case, that player would receive 32/3 = 10.7 points. Of course + the average KD rating in that series and the extra 2 points if that player's team won.

Fantasy Phases

Building phase

Welcome to the build phase, where you create your entire roster for the upcoming stage. If the tournament is short, there might only be 1 build phase which is the one at the start. If the tournament is longer with different stages, you might have the option to enter the build phase before the next stage. For example, you start by creating a team for the group stage. Then there is a pause before the playoffs. During this time, you will enter a new build phase where you can create a team for the playoffs. Read the info blog for the tournament to see if there are multiple build phases.

Edit phase

In the editing phase, you can change your Captain and use your sell tokens. This phase takes place when no matches are playing during the day. It starts at 03:00 (Tournament timezone) and ends 1 hour before the day's first match.

Game Phase

During this phase, your lineup is locked, and you can't make any more changes. So sit back and cheer on your players. Hopefully, they will do well!

Captain Feature

The captain feature gives a 50% point bonus to the player you have assigned as your Captain. If you want, you can set a Captain before the league starts, and the captain booster will stay on that player until you actively change it to another player. You have one Captain swap every day, but you will lose your Captain swap for the day if your Captain has started a match series. You can only swap Captain during the Edit phase!

Captain = 1.5x bonus points

Selling a player

The SELL token enables participants to sell a player in their lineup and buy a new one. This action can only be performed during the EDIT phases and will consume your SELL token. When selling a player, you will be refunded the same amount of money as previously paid when you purchased the player. You will keep the points of your sold players for the remainder of the tournament, and they will be displayed in the section "Sold players". We encourage you to be strategic with your SELL tokens since you only have 1 for every tournament stage. Your sell token will "refresh" at every building stage. The sell token now respects the max 2 per team limitation.

Player-transactions = 1

End Notes

The Organizer reserves the right to change the above Point System and described features at its sole discretion. We will inform users of significant changes, publicly announcing them on the website or our Discord server.

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