BLAST Pro Series Global Final viewer's guide
With the start of the BLAST Pro Series Global Final closing in, we bring you the most important information about the tournament in the form of a viewer's guide.
BLAST Pro Series Global Final will take place in Riffa, Bahrain, on December 12-14. The three-day event will feature four teams that earned the most points at BLAST tournaments throughout the year: Astralis, Liquid, FaZe, and Ninjas in Pyjamas.
The squads will face off in a double-elimination BO3 bracket, with $500,000 on the line. The first day, Thursday, is reserved for the semi-finals, the upper and lower bracket finals will follow on Friday, and the consolidation final, grand final, and BLAST Stand-off will finish off the action on Saturday.
Being the only team to secure two BLAST Pro Series wins in 2019, FaZe finished the season with the highest number of points, 30, which sees them open up the tournament against Ninjas in Pyjamas, while the two main favorites, Liquid and Astralis, will square off on the stage after them.
The full schedule for the tournament is available below:
Thursday, December 12
13:00 -FaZe vs.
Ninjas in Pyjamas
17:00 -Liquid vs.
Astralis
Friday, December 13
13:00 - Upper bracket final
17:00 - Lower bracket final
Saturday, December 14
13:00 - Consolidation final
16:45 - BLAST Stand-off
18:00 - Grand final
The on-air team for the event will feature Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat in a desk host role, while Anders "Anders" Blume and Jason "moses" O'Toole are set to cast the matches. The full talent lineup is available below:
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez - Analyst
Frankie "Frankie" Ward - Interviewer
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan - Commentator
Frankie 'Frankie' Ward 
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Auguste 'Semmler' Massonnat 
Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche 
Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 976 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.64 Jason 'moses' O'Toole 
Age: 32 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.93 Maps played: 18 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.71 
FaZe #7 Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Marcelo 'coldzera' David
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants Conner 'Scrawny' Girvan 
Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez 
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 830 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.67 
Liquid #4 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Mohan 'launders' Govindasamy 
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.76 Maps played: 3 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.76 
Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Anders 'Anders' Blume 
Age: 34 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.53 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.19 DPR: 0.58 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #10 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergSimon 'twist' EliassonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' SternerNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora