Flashpoint Season 3: What you need to know
With DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 finishing up on 9 May 2021, Flashpoint Season 3 is scheduled to bring you even more top tier CS:GO action starting on 10 May. As a European RMR event, Flashpoint Season 3 gives teams from the region a shot at a good first step to qualify for the Stockholm Major.
The tournament promises some exciting action, with top tier teams like Heroic, Vitality and Astralis competing. Here’s what you need to know about Flashpoint Season 3, including all the teams, the schedule, format and how to watch all the CS:GO esports action live.
Flashpoint Season 3 important details
Flashpoint Season 3 is an online tournament featuring 16 CS:GO teams from Europe, who’ve either qualified via smaller tournaments or ranked high enough in the RMR points system to get invited. The tournament will run from 10 to 30 May 2021 and has a tonne of RMR points on the line.
Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, the VP of organizer B Site, explained that: “We’re thrilled to be working with Valve as an RMR event as we approach the Stockholm Major. And we’re excited to increase the quality of competition in Flashpoint while continuing our high standards for production and content. We think that Flashpoint 3 will offer fans a thrilling kick-off to the Major cycle and give brands significant exposure to the CSGO audience.”
Flashpoint Season 3 teams are:
- Astralis
- Heroic
- OG
- Vitality
- NIP
- BIG
- Fnatic
- G2 Esports
- FunPlus Pheonix
- FaZe Clan
- ex-North
- Complexity
- Mousesports
- Anonymo Esports
- Sprout
- Double Poney
The tournament will feature a double-elimination bracket format, with all matches being best-of-three. Each day, matches will start at 18:00 SAST until 30 May 2021 when the grand final will take place at 21:00 SAST.
You can catch all the Flashpoint Season 3 CS:GO esports action on the official Flashpoint Twitch channel, as well as on YouTube. Remember, the tournament, as one of the first RMR events, will still feature the old Active Duty map pool, so you won’t see any matches take place on Ancient.
Header image via Flashpoint.
