BLAST Titans: Apex Legends Battle Royale event announced – Teams, Prize pool and more

Last updated: 2021/06/27 at 12:15 AM

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The Apex Legends Battle Royale event has been announced by tournament organizer BLAST. BLAST Titans will be the name of the competition. This was announced on the organizers’ official Twitter account.

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BLAST TITANS: SCHEDULE PRIZEPOOL

The top 10 teams in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) EMEA Division will compete in BLAST Titans, which will include some of Europe’s greatest teams. Big names like SCARZ Europe, Fire Beavers, SoloQgoats, Gambit, and Alliance are expected to compete for a piece of the prize pool.

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BLAST Titans – an Apex Legends tournament featuring 40 of the best teams in Europe 🔥

Battling it out LIVE on Twitch for a €40,000 prize pool over two weekends!#BLASTTitans | https://t.co/ZA9Wj3NrSd pic.twitter.com/q3ATpTQ2h0

— BLAST Titans (@BLASTApex) June 24, 2021

BLAST TITANS: SCHEDULE

On Friday, July 23, Titans will premiere on Twitch.tv/BLASTTV where the organizers will invite 30 teams, with 10 “wildcard” invites. The remaining 10 teams will be determined through open qualifiers, which begin on June 25, at 6 a.m. ET.

PRIZEPOOL

The prize money for the event will be 48K USD Approx., distributed evenly between the two weekends of action. On July 23-25, all 40 teams will participate in a “Battle Royale Double Elimination” format. In a “new structure that will be released closer to the time,” the top 20 teams from the bracket stage will compete for an additional 24000 USD, by July 31 through August 1 in a “interesting format that will be announced closer to the time.”

BLAST Titans will feature the BEST teams Europe has to offer!

Top 20 EMEA teams from recent form ✔
10 invited wildcard teams ✔
10 open qualifiers teams ✔#BLASTTitans pic.twitter.com/R54YGdx0rC

— BLAST Titans (@BLASTApex) June 24, 2021

This year, Apex Legends has seen a surge in popularity in esports. EA recently announced that the game had reached 100 million players and that its esports viewership had increased by more than 50%, with the Apex Legends Global Series playoffs breaking the previous record by more than 50 percent. So, this is the best times when BLAST came up with this event.

Titans will be BLAST’s first Apex Legends event, Previously, BLAST held only CS: GO championships. BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2021 is taking place online from June 15 to June 20. At the tournament, eight teams compete for $ 425,000 USD.