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In the first round, the lower seeded teams are allowed to pick the opponents of their choice with a higher bounty.
The team who wins secures 50% of the bounty, and the rest is carried forward into the next match. This goes on all the way until the Quarter-Final. All the picks for the first stage has been done, which will be played online before rolling into the LAN matches from January 23rd to 26th.

The picks were announced by BLAST on X over the course of several hours. In case you missed them, we have made a list of all of them.
The most surprising and picks were made by Imperial Fe, who chose to play against NAVI, B8 who chose G2, fnatic who picked Spirit, and Metizport that decided to go against Vitality. Below are all the picks that happened today :
The matchups kick off in a RO32 bracket on Tuesday, January 14th with all of the Bounty madness running till 18th January. All of the matches during this stage will be BO3s and they will also be the first time we will see Train pro in CS2, as announced by BLAST earlier this week. So long story short, there’s a whole lot to be excited about!
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