With Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) events starting up again after "rostermania," there's a lot of excitement in the air. Not only will we see many new team setups in action, but the BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024 is undoubtedly an exciting, top-tier event. Let's jump in for all the important details.

The BLAST Fall Groups 2024 event takes place from 29 July to 4 August 2024. It is a LAN event held at the BLAST Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, where teams will compete for their share of the $190,000 prize pool. At the current Dollar to Rand exchange rate, that's roughly R3.4 million. The biggest prize for many teams, however, is the six spots at the BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2024 up for grabs.

The tournament format starts with four double-elimination groups, with the winning team from each group advancing to the Fall Final and the second-place team to the Play-In stage of the competition. During the Play-In stage, a single-elimination bracket will determine the two teams who make it to the Fall Final. All matches in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups event are best-of-three.

A total of 16 teams will compete for only six spots at the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2024, while the rest have one last shot at qualifying via the Fall Showdown. The groups and opening matchups have already been decided, as per a post from BLAST.tv. Check out the matchups with start times in SAST below.

• Spirit vs OG - 12:00 on 29 July
• HEROIC vs Complexity - 14:30 on 29 July

• Vitality vs GamerLegion - 17:00 on 19 July
• Astralis vs Falcons - 19:30 on 29 July

• FaZe vs Cloud9 - 12:00 on 31 July
• G2 vs NIP - 14:30 on 31 July

• NAVI vs BIG - 17:00 on 31 July
• Liquid vs Virtus.pro - 19:30 on 31 July

You can catch all the BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024 action via the official BLASTPremier Twitch channel. Enjoy!

Header image via BLAST.tv / Michal Konkol.