BLAST Bounty Season 1 Team Invites Accounts, Including Female Squad Imperial Fe

The 2025 season of Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) is packed with huge events from the biggest tournament organizers, including BLAST, known for their high-quality events and production value. With significant changes to the BLAST format, the organizer also uses the Valve Ranking System (VRS) to invite teams to their events.

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The BLAST Bounty Season 1 tournament is the first big S-Tier event of 2025, and we are excited to report that for the first time ever, an all-female team will attend one of BLAST's Tier 1 events! You've definitely seen them at ESL Impact League events, lifting trophy after trophy. Yes, we are talking about Imperial Fe!

BLAST Bounty Season 1 Teams & Wildcard

Before we discuss the explanations in BLAST's announcement, let's review the ranking of all the directly invited teams below.

1. G2 Esports
2. Natus Vincere
3. Team Vitality
4. Team Spirit
5. The MongolZ
6. MOUZ
7. FaZe Clan
8. HEROIC
9. Team Liquid
10. FURIA
11. Eternal Fire
12. SAW
13. 3DMAX
14. paiN
15. Complexity
16. Astralis
17. FlyQuest
18. BIG
19. Virtus.pro
20. Sangal
21. Gamerlegion
22. MIBR
23. Nemiga
24. Wildcard
25. B8
26. ENCE
27. Imperial fe
28. Fluxo
29. 9 Pandas
30. M80

This is the first time Valve's rules are in action, and as such, fans need to know some things. First, BLAST has invited 31 teams based on their VRS standings. The last spot goes to the team that wins the Wildcard spot. Thus far, only Team Falcons has received a Wildcard invite.

To be eligible for a Wildcard spot, the roster that comply with the following:

• ⁠It includes at least 3 players who individually were members of a top 8 Roster on the VRS at any time during the preceding 12 months or,
• It has won any Tier 1 event in the 12 months preceding the announcement of the Wildcard Invite.

BLAST has one more Wildcard invite planned, and explained that they invited more teams on the VRS instead of Wildcard slots:

Currently, only Team Falcons will meet this criteria. As a result and in accordance with Valve rules, we have invited the next available teams in the VRS in place of two of our planned Wildcard invites. We have one additional Wildcard selection to invite which we’ll confirm before the end of the year.

Lastly, you might wonder where FURIA Fe is since they also rank in the top 28. The rules indicate that an organization may only field one roster per tournament. BLAST sent out invitations to both the FURIA and FURIA Fe rosters, explaining that they could only accept one invitation, but the FURIA Fe invitation was declined.

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