The end of the 18th season of the ESL Pro League brought us moreš three participants in the upcoming grand final of this year's BLAST Premier series tournament. In addition to the MOUZ team that won the title, the tickets were grabbed by još and Natus Vincere and ENCE, whose top 4 is fineš in Malta brought enough points in the global BLAST ranking list.
They joined previously qualified teams, namely Heroic who won the BLAST Spring Finals, Vitality - the current Major champions and FaZe Clan who triumphed in the previous edition of the ESL Pro League. Of course, we must not forget G2 Esports, the current BLAST Finals champion who was the first team to qualify based on the total number of points.
With the finals in the 18th season of the ESL Pro League Na'Vi reached 8500 points, while ENCE was just below them with 7512 points.
The last slot will go to the winner of the autumn BLAST tournament, and if the team that is already qualified triumphs, that place will go to the team with the most points on the BLAST ranking list, which is still is always not qualified. Currently, that position is occupied by Astralis with 5625 points, and the closest competitors are Cloud9 with 4137 points and Team Liquid with 3837.
Besides Ninjas in Pajamas who have 3375 points, no one else should have a real chance to threaten Astralis, unless one of the teams like Complexity, Imperial or BIG makes a big surprise in the tournament they added. They will first need to qualify through the EU and NA Blast Showdown qualifiers.
BIG will have an extremely difficult job, where if they pass 9INE, the second team in the world, ENCE, is waiting for them in the next round, and then potentially in the finals they will meet with the other part of the draw, where there are teams such as G2, Cloud9 and OG.
The EU Showdown matches are already on the program from Wednesday with a live broadcast on Arena Esports TV and the YouTube channel.
