Pleasant Campers replaces NRG at BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026

BLAST has introduced that Polish Counter-Strike 2 crew Pleasant Campers will substitute NRG at BLAST Bounty Season 1, the primary Tier 1 match of the 2026 season.

On account of the change, Pleasant Campers will take the slot vacated by the North American organisation and play towards HEROIC within the spherical of 32.

Introduced on January twelfth, Pleasant Campers’ look at BLAST Bounty is the crew’s second occasion of the 2026 season. Earlier this month, on January 4th, the squad was one in all 12 to compete at City Riga Open 2, the place it scored a top-six end.

Notably, neither BLAST nor NRG has disclosed the rationale behind withdrawal. As a substitute, the North American organisation said that its ‘full focus might be on IEM Kraków 2026,’ which the crew earned qualification for after securing victory at Fragadelphia’s Frag Miami 2 earlier this month.

At the moment ranked forty third within the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), Pleasant Campers has a chance to trigger an upset if it might probably defeat HEROIC in its round-of-32 match. Furthermore, in case the roster advances to the spherical of 16, it might enter the second spherical because the lowest seed.

A complete of 32 groups from internationally will compete in closed qualifiers from January thirteenth to 18th for an opportunity to safe one in all eight spots on the LAN finals going down from January twenty second to twenty fifth in Malta.

With NRG not competing, the ultimate checklist of BLAST Bounty Season 1 groups is as follows:

All of the BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026 matches might be streamed reside on BLAST Premier’s Twitch and YouTube channels.