BLAST Bounty Season 2 2026 Runs July 21 to August 2 With 32 Teams and Malta LAN Finals

BLAST Bounty Season 2 2026 begins on July 21 with a 32-team online stage and concludes with a LAN final in Malta from July 30 to August 2, according to the tournament schedule published by Dot Esports.

The event is the first S-Tier Counter-Strike 2 tournament following the IEM Cologne 2026 Major and the subsequent player break, and it runs on Valve's new patch that returns Cache to the map pool and revises C4 explosion behavior. Team Falcons enters as the reigning Cologne Major champions. NAVI is not competing.

BLAST Bounty Season 2 2026 Schedule, Malta LAN, and Format

The tournament lasts for thirteen days. The online stage runs from July 21 to July 26, followed by a three-day break to give the top eight teams time to travel to Malta. The LAN finals are scheduled from July 30 to August 2 at BLAST Arena Studios in Malta.

During the online phase, four matches are played each day. According to Dot Esports, the schedule for the opening days includes:

Tuesday, July 21: M80 versus NIP at 12:00 CEST, Nemesis versus Astralis at 14:30 CEST, Nuclear TigeRES versus MOUZ at 17:00 CEST, and Alliance versus Wildcard at 19:30 CEST.

Wednesday, July 22: EYEBALLERS versus FaZe, Nemiga versus G2, HOTU versus GamerLegion, and 100 Thieves versus Falcons.

Thursday, July 23: Fokus versus Aurora, SINNERS versus FUT, Gentle Mates versus paiN, and OG versus Spirit.

Friday, July 24: 3DMAX versus magic, HEROIC versus TheMongolZ, Liquid versus Vitality, and Sharks versus FURIA.

Dot Esports notes that the schedule and results will be updated throughout the tournament.

BLAST Bounty Season 2 in 2026 follows a similar format to previous editions, with 32 teams competing for eight LAN playoff spots. The lowest 16 teams, often called underdogs, choose their opponents through BLAST's Draft Show.

Each of the top 16 teams begins the tournament with an attached bounty. When an underdog defeats a favorite, that team claims the bounty. Half of the bounty goes to the underdog's prize money, whi…