With the winter player break soon to be over, top tier Counter Strike will shortly return on through BLAST Premier Global Finals on January 19th, with a prize pot of $1,000,000, getting straight back into the prize pool for some teams.

Eight teams will attend, half got here through winning previous events, and the other half from their BLAST Rankings. Competing in a double elimination bracket, all matches are due to be best of 3, including the finals.

The teams are Astralis, Vitality, Natus Vincere, FURIA, Complexity, Liquid, Evil Geniuses & G2.

Here's the plan of action so far, from the initial draws of the tournament;

It all kicks off at 15:30 on 19th January, with the #1 side Astralis taking on Evil Geniuses. Following on from that, FURIA & G2 Esports will do battle to wrap up the first action packed day.

Day 2 will take us to Complexity vs Vitality at the earlier start of 12:30. Followed by Na'Vi & Liquid doing the rounds 3 hours after at 15:30. Ending the day, will be the first of the lower bracket matches at 18:30.

The full schedules released by BLAST on their recent tweet reveals the following. Note that the times in this article are GMT, while the BLAST tweet lists the times in CET timezone. 

The full BLAST Global Final schedule is the following:

Tuesday January 19th, 2021

15:30 - Astralis vs Evil Geniuses

18:30 - G2 vs FURIA

Wednesday January 20th, 2021

12:30 - Complexity vs Vitality

15:30 - Natus Vincere vs Liquid

18:30 - Lower bracket round 1

Thursday January 21st, 2021

12:30 - Lower bracket round 1

15:30 - Upper bracket semi-final

18:30 - Upper bracket semi-final

Friday January 22nd, 2021

15:30 - Lower bracket semi-final

18:30 - Lower bracket semi-final

Saturday January 23rd, 2021

15:30 - Upper bracket final

18:30 - Lower bracket final

Sunday January 24th, 2021

15:30 - Consolidation final

19:30 - Grand final