How to Watch BLAST Rivals Fort Worth 2026

BLAST Premier Rivals Fort Worth 2026 is the first Rivals stop of the year and the biggest Counter-Strike 2 LAN to land in the United States this spring. Eight of the world's top CS2 rosters gather at Dickies Arena from April 29 to May 3, 2026 to fight for a $1,000,000 prize pool and early-season bragging rights in the race to the IEM Cologne Major later this summer. Every match is listed on our dedicated BLAST Rivals Fort Worth tournament page — and you can use the Esport Agenda CS2 hub to set reminders, export the schedule to your calendar, and lock in your Fort Worth Pick'em before the first map goes live.

Quick tip: Lock your Pick'em bracket before Wednesday, April 29 (the group-stage tip-off) to earn full points. Predictions locked mid-event only score on the matches that haven't started yet.

Schedule & Dates

The tournament runs across five days, opening with an online-to-studio group stage and finishing with three days of crowd matches inside Dickies Arena. All times below are local to Fort Worth (Central Time, UTC-5) — every match on the Esport Agenda CS2 page is auto-converted to your local timezone, so you never have to do the math.

• Wednesday, April 29 – Thursday, April 30: Group Stage (two GSL groups of four, best-of-threes). Opening match info lives on the match schedule.
• Friday, May 1: Quarterfinals (Bo3, live crowd) — view bracket
• Saturday, May 2: Semifinals (Bo3, live crowd) — view bracket
• Sunday, May 3: Grand Final (Bo5, live crowd) — set a reminder so you do not miss the trophy map.

Want the whole event in your calendar? Hit "Add to Calendar" on the Fort Worth event page to push the full series to Google / Apple / Outlook in one click.

Where to Watch

Every map will be broadcast in English on BLAST's official channels, with co-streams in several languages. All official streams are embedded on each individual match page on Esport Agenda, so you can hit a team's match page, see the stream, the odds, the head-to-head, and the live-updating bracket in one tab.

• Twitch: twitch.tv/blasttv (main), twitch.tv/blasttv2 (secondary stream)
• YouTube: youtube.com/@BLASTtv
• Co-streams: Russian, Portuguese, German, and French co-streams are typically cleared for BLAST Premier events; check each team's official channel for confirmation.
• On Esport Agenda: Open any match on our CS2 schedule to get the official stream, co-stream list, map veto, and live score in a single view.

If you would rather just get a ping the second a match starts instead of keeping a tab open all day, turn on browser notifications on the CS2 schedule page — you can filter by team so you only hear from us when Vitality, FaZe, or whoever you follow is about to step on server. You can also follow a team from its team page (e.g. Team Vitality, FaZe Clan) to get auto-alerts every time they play, at any event, forever.

Format & Structure

Eight teams are drawn into two groups of four using a GSL double-elimination structure. Matches are best-of-three throughout the group stage; the Grand Final is the only best-of-five of the event.

• Group Stage: Win two matches and you skip straight to the semifinals. Lose two and you're out. Teams that win one and lose one meet in decider matches that feed into the quarterfinals.
• Playoffs: Single-elimination bracket for quarters and semis, Bo3 throughout.
• Grand Final: Bo5, the only long-series test of the event.

The compressed format is Pick'em catnip — one upset in day one flips half the bracket. We refresh the BLAST Rivals Pick'em leaderboard live, so you can see where your bracket ranks against the global community after every series.

Teams to Watch

Eight invited rosters are confirmed for Fort Worth. Click any team to hit their Esport Agenda team page — you will find full schedules, recent results, roster history, and a one-click "Follow team" button that wires all their future matches into your notification feed.

• Vitality — The consensus world #1 heading into the event after a dominant start to 2026; all eyes on ZywOo.
• FaZe — Back in top-tier conversations after their last roster shuffle; karrigan's calling is still world-class.
• NAVI — The classic top-four floor, but they need a deep run here to stake a claim as genuine title contenders again.
• G2 — Historically a strong LAN team in North America; expectations are high after their Rotterdam performance.
• FURIA — The lone South American presence, always dangerous and always worth a tune-in for the pop-off potential.
• Astralis — Rebuilding, but with a veteran core that still shows up on stage.
• GamerLegion — The dark-horse pick of the event; punched well above their weight across 2025.
• FUT Esports — Turkey's flag-bearer in elite CS2. Underestimate them at your peril.

For live-updating standings, rosters (including any stand-ins), head-to-heads, and map pools, the Fort Worth tournament page is the single source of truth. Everything syncs with the CS2 hub and your Pick'em — so if a roster change hits, your alerts and predictions update automatically.

Play the Pick'em (and Climb the Leaderboard)

The BLAST Rivals Fort Worth Pick'em is free, takes 90 seconds to fill out, and runs right through the event:

• Predict the group-stage advancers (quarterfinalists vs. straight-to-semifinals).
• Lock in your Grand Final matchup and champion.
• Earn bonus points for correctly calling Bo3 / Bo5 scorelines.
• Compete against friends via the private league feature — create a league, share the link, trash-talk freely.

Pick'em answers lock per-match, not per-event, so you can still join after April 29 — you just miss the group-stage points.

How to Set Up Reminders

Dickies Arena play-days run long, and the main card often stretches past midnight in Europe. Instead of refreshing Twitter for a score, use Esport Agenda's built-in notification system:

1. Head to the CS2 page and open the Fort Worth event.
2. Click the bell icon on any match — or at the event level — to subscribe.
3. Allow browser notifications the first time you're prompted.
4. Apply filters (team, stage, match importance) so you only get alerts for the squads and moments you actually care about.
5. Optional but recommended: hit "Add to Calendar" to push the whole bracket into Google Calendar, iCal, or Outlook.

Notifications fire around 15 minutes before each series goes live, so you get enough runway to fire up the stream without being surprised by a map one that has already started.

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Track every Fort Worth match live on Esport Agenda. Set reminders, play the Pick'em, and follow your teams so alerts carry over to every CS2 event for the rest of 2026 — and use our homepage to pivot between Valorant, League of Legends, Dota 2 and more as the spring LAN season ramps up.