BLAST returns to Lisbon after 1276 days

It was peak Astralis time with the Danes destroying all opposition left and right. Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund was still playing for NIP, while MIBR fielded more Americans than Cloud9! Do you remember December 2018?

It's 1276 days ago, since the BLAST circuit visited Lisbon for the BLAST Pro Series Lisbon event. Here Astralis ended up winning the event after making a flawless run in the group stage, where all six teams faced each other. In the Grand Final Astralis defeated NAVI 2-1 to take home another title and a $125.000 paycheck.

At this year's event, Astralis is not even qualified. But that is not the only thing, that has changed. Just take a look at the lineups of the six teams, that took part in the tournament.

Astralis (1st):

Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen

Emil 'Magisk' Reif

Nicolai 'device' Reedtz

Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander

Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth

NAVI (2nd):

Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev

Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov

Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev

Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko

Cloud9 (3rd):

William 'RUSH' Wierzba

Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey

Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist

Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Ismail 'refrezh' Ali

MIBR (4th):

Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Braxton 'swag' Pierce

Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip

Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Tarik 'tarik' Celik

FaZe (5th):

Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač

Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács

Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer

Håvard 'rain' Nygaard

Ninjas in Pyjamas (6th):

Dennis 'dennis' Edman

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner

Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund

Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson

Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

This year's edition will start on Wednesday when the tournament favorites from FaZe will take on paiN. There is $425,000 in prize pool with $200,000 going for the winner.