PGL are heavily winning the race against BLAST, and soon the Danish company won't be able to catch up. Do BLAST have anything left to fight with, or will this spend the end of their time as a Counter-Strike tournament organiser?
If the entirety of tier one choosing PGL Bucharest over BLAST Bounty Seasson 1 wasn’t enough, PGL have now decided to steal BLAST’s “First TO to host a tier one event in Mongolia” crown.
Tallest midget, but still.
Given the fact that BLAST were marketing their entire BLAST Open Ulaanbaatar event around being the first, PGL moving their Chinese event there is a real kicker for them in a race that was already long lost for the Danish company.
Way to kick them whilst they’re down, PGL.
Now, we don’t have the best view of PGL - they paint media as entirely unnecessary when it is a fundamental part of an economically succesful ecosystem and don’t have a PR department - but doing this is just really f-cking funny. Seriously, it’s a level of hating that even we couldn’t dream of achieving, and we salute them for doing it.
BLAST must be absolutely sh-tting themselves right now.
Between the allegations of people going unpaid, the horrible teamlist they’ll likely end up with at Bounty, and the fact that it looks like tier one has turned their back on them - nothing is going right for them right now.
Maybe they’ll be able to turn it around, but when fewer people watch the streams and the sponsor money goes down…. well, you could be seeing BLAST events coming to a CCT stream near you soon.
