The world-famous Eiffel Tower in Paris was the setting when BLAST Premier this Wednesday invited the esports press to a press conference about the upcoming BLAST.tv Paris Major this May.
Under the French monument, BLAST Premier CEO Robbie Douek and CIO Nicolas Estrup revealed several important pieces of information about the $1.25 Million CS:GO tournament. Here are some key takeaways.
The locations for the three regional qualifiers will take place in the following cities:
– Americas RMR – Monterrey, Mexico {cflag:MX}
– Asia RMR – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia {cflag:MN}
– European RMR – Copenhagen, Denmark {cflag:DK}
You heard it here first, the BLAST Paris TV Major will be cast in English. ?️
The show will be hosted in both French/English. ???? pic.twitter.com/epctnDxlK3
— BLAST.tv (@BLASTtv) January 11, 2023
English cast
Furthermore, BLAST confirmed that the audio commentary inside the Accor Arena will be cast in English, and that they haven’t figured out whether or not the Challengers and Legends stages will be played in front of a crowd.
Watch the press conference
You can watch the majority of the press conference in the video down below – Here Dan “apEX” Madesclaire, Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut and Richard “shox” Papillon chime in talking about the state of French CS, shox’s new project and much more.
*Disclaimer: The sound and visuals are not optimal due to us having to record the entire thing off-site via an online call. We hope it’s not too big of a problem.
