With the Spring Groups now completed, OG, BIG, FaZe, Vitality, Natus Vincere & G2 have stamped themselves tickets for the Spring Final by BLAST later in the year. However, for Liquid, NIP, Astralis, Complexity, MIBR & Evil Geniuses, they'll need to go through all this trouble again later on at the Spring Showdown, scheduled for mid-April of this year.

With the tl;dr over, here's how everyone got into those precious Finals. We'll start with the last to qualify, BIG, who had a few troubles along the way. Firstly they sank Evil Geniuses (2-1), then took on the might of Astralis (2-0), although were put in their place by a strong performing FaZe (2-1), before earlier today managing to repeat their 2-0 victory against Astralis, sending themselves to the Finals, and Astralis to the Showdown. Speaking of FaZe, they themselves needed just one win here to cement themselves into the Finals, which is what they did with BIG, much to their relief after the calamitous early stages where they let Vitality come back from a 3-12 deficit to take one of their matches 19-15 and smash down FaZe's confidence. After that dream performance though, Vitality needed just two wins to ticket themselves ahead, which they did with ease over MIBR (2-0) and G2 (2-1). G2 came on to recover from the setback and took down MIBR themselves (2-0) for their own fast pass. Moving to Natus Vincere, they were a little out of practice it seems, during their entire Groups run, they won just 40% (or 2 out of 5) of their matches, but luckily for them, it was all they needed. 2 early defeats in the early Group stages to Astralis & MIBR,  were recovered by a win against Liquid (2-0), and a win against NIP (2-0), which saw them get revenge for a previous 2-0 loss with NIP. Next up G2, after a 100% win record in the early rounds, G2 suffered an early defeat to Vitality (2-1), but then won 2-0 against MIBR to book a ticket, whilst simultaneously booking MIBR into the Showdown. Lastly, we have OG, who had a 100% (4 out of 4) win rate at Spring Groups, winning all 3 of their early group stages against MIBR, and Astralis. All they needed to do then was down NIP (2-1) to organize themselves into a free flight to the finals. 

Looking ahead, there is IEM Katowice, with the early play-in stages due to start in just 9 days, on 15th February, they'll run for 2 days. After which, we'll be jumping straight into the main IEM Katowice event, which on 27th February, will have injected $400.000 into the winners bank accounts. After Katowice, is ESL Pro League Season 15, starting 9th March. When all that is over, we finally jump back into the BLAST Spring events, with the Spring Showdown on April 20th to the 24th, and then the Finals on June 14th to the 19th, which means the next 3 months of Counter-Strike esports is looking well stacked in the calendar!