French President: "Paris will host Counter Strike tournament in 2023"

Emmanuel Macron keeps his promise from last April, and announces that Major BLAST Premier will take place this year in the City of Lights.

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12/09/2022

Monday, September 12, 2022, 5:58 p.m

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The first BLAST Premier major tournament in the Counter Strike Global Offensive game for the 2023 season will take place this May in the city of Paris, and this news comes from a particularly surprising source: the President of France,

Macron was the first to announce the festive event on Twitter, and a few minutes later the official BLAST account also confirmed the news.

This will be the first major CS:GO event to be held in France, but will not be the first eSports event in the city of lights, which has already hosted the League of Legends or Dota 2 world championships.

"Next year in May, in less than ten months, Our country will host an event that celebrates a decade: the BLAST Major tournament in Counter Strike, the first CS:GO major that France will host,"

noted , adding that the event will take place in the Acor Hotel Arena - a hall with more than 20,000 seats, and the place where the World Championship was also hosted of LOL in 2019.

Macron announces: "Paris will host the BLAST tournament in 2023"

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Macron promised in April: "Esports world championships alongside the Olympic Games"

This is not the first statement of the French president regarding the world of esports and gaming.

Only last April Macron indicated that he was interested in making France a country associated with game development and flashy eSports events.

He also stated that in addition to the Major, he is interested in holding prestigious Esports events alongside the Olympic Games in 2024. Given the fact that the Major is going to be held in Paris, it seems that he intends to keep his election promise.

We here at the Gaming Channel system do not claim to understand French politics, but it seems that this is Macron's way of winking at the younger electorate.

The young people in France who see the huge potential that the world of competitive gaming brings with it.

During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, an official Esports tournament was held in collaboration with the Olympic Committee and the Intel company in the games Rocket League and Street Fighter V.

As mentioned, France itself is a powerhouse in the world of electronic sports and has already hosted the preparation and home stages of the League of Legends World Championship in 2015 in the city of Paris, and also 4 years later the final event for 2019 when the FunPlus Phoenix team defeated G2 Esports.

You can watch BLAST Premier broadcasts in full Hebrew on the gaming channel (61 on Partner, 63 on Cellcom, and 66 on HOT).

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