The following are the teams participating in BLAST Bounty 2025.

The BLAST Bounty Counter-Strike 2 event brings a unique format to CS2 fans at the start of the new year. Today, BLAST revealed the teams that will be participating in BLAST Bounty 2025. The list includes some of the top teams in the game and is sure to make for an exciting tournament to kick off the season.

Which teams will participate in BLAST Bounty 2025?

The following are the teams that will participate in BLAST Bounty 2025:

1. G2 esports

2. NAVI

3. Vitality

4. Team Spirit

5. The MongolZ

6. MOUZ

7. FaZe

8. HEROIC

9. Team Liquid

10. FURIA

11. Eternal Fire

12. SAW

13. 3DMAX

14. paiN

15. Complexity

16. Astralis

17. FlyQuest

18. BIG

19. Virtus.Pro

20. Sangal

21. GamerLegion

22. MIBR

23. Nemiga

24. Wildcard

25. B8

26. ENCE

27. Imperial fe

28. Fluxo

29. 9 Pandas

30. M80

31. Wildcard:

The Falcons

TBC

FURIA has two rosters in the top 28 of the Valve Regional Rankings and therefore only one team received an invitation to the event. FURIA Fe's invitation was rejected according to regulations.

BLAST Bounty is a unique event with dynamic prizes that the organizers will award based on seeding and individual match results. Teams must continue to perform at an optimal level to ensure they take home the full prize money.

What are the criteria for selecting Wildcard teams?

BLAST has some set rules for selecting Wildcard teams. A team is eligible for the Wildcard slot if they comply with the following conditions:

⁠Include at least 3 players who were members of one of the top 8 squads on VRS at any point in the previous 12 months or,
The team has won any Tier 1 event in the 12 months prior to the announcement of the Wildcard Invitation.

The announcement post acknowledges that only Team Falcons meets these criteria at the present time. The next teams available in the VRS have received invitations to the Wildcard round as planned.

What is BLAST Bounty Tournament?

Team Spirit won the Perfect World Shanghai Major. Image source: BLAST Premier

The BLAST Bounty qualifier will feature 32 teams, including the 28 highest ranked teams (according to Valve's Global Rankings). These 28 teams will be accompanied by 4 wildcard teams selected by BLAST. These teams will have bonuses.

The event's unique format means the highest-ranked teams will be the biggest targets and have more to lose as the matches progress. Teams will play in a bo3 knockout format with the first two rounds played online in the first week from European servers.

The top eight teams out of these 32 will qualify for the main event in Copenhagen. Taking place at BLAST Studios, this will be a LAN setting and teams will play single-elimination matches until the Grand Finals. The final round will be a best-of-five affair.