🇩🇰 HEROIC has been eliminated....

🏆 PGL Astana 2026 · Eliminated 1-3
📊 VRS: #20 → #21 (1485 → 1495 pts, +10 net but a rank slip)

🕹 The run:
R1 vs 🇷🇺Aurora 2-0 - xfl0ud 1.53
R2 vs 🇧🇷FURIA 0-2 - susp 0.96
R3 vs 🇪🇸Gentle Mates 0-2 - yxngstxr 0.93
R4 vs 🇷🇺magic 1-2 - nilo 1.20 (elimination....)

🧐 Worth knowing:
- 🇩🇰 HEROIC opened the tournament with maybe the cleanest Day 1 result - a 2-0 over Aurora (#11 going in), with xfl0ud at 1.53 looking like a top-15 AWPer.
- Three matches later they're out. The frustrating part isn't the 🇧🇷 FURIA loss (top-10 opponent, expected territory) — it's that after the collapses against Gentle Mates and the magic elimination, none of their MVPs cracked 1.25 across three series.

We genuinely had them on 3-2 in the bracket before the event. R1 backed that up. Then the floor fell out. Tough one to watch.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana #HEROIC

🔥 ANUBIS STREAK DEAD!

Pulling the receipts on a 🇪🇺 Vitality stat that's been quietly stacking up: 10 consecutive map wins on Anubis, going back to March 14, 2025. But today, the 🇷🇺 BetBoom team stopped this win streak, and it looks like the era of vitality is starting to show cracks...

📊 The full run:

12/05/26 - vs 🇷🇺 BetBoom 10-13 (BetBoom end it)
03/05/26 — vs 🇪🇺 NAVI 13-11 (BLAST Rivals GF)
29/03/26 — vs 🇪🇺 NAVI 13-10
14/02/26 — vs 🇪🇺 G2 13-8
24/01/26 — vs 🇩🇰 Falcons 13-4
18/01/26 — vs 🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS 19-16
21/04/25 — vs 🇦🇺 FlyQuest 13-2
29/03/25 — vs 🇷🇺 Spirit 13-6
21/03/25 — vs 🇷🇺 Virtuspro 13-6
15/03/25 — vs 🇲🇳 MongolZ 13-4
14/03/25 — vs 🌎 Liquid 13-9

🧐 Worth knowing:
🏜 Anubis spent six months out of the Active Duty pool (July 2025 → January 2026), and Vitality just picked the streak back up where they left off. The 19-16 vs 🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS is the only one that even went to overtime; the rest were straight closes. 🇪🇺NAVI got the closest crack at it — twice (13-10, then 13-11 in the BLAST Rivals GF after leading 11-9). Both times Vitality won the last stretch when it mattered.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Vitality

🇷🇺 BetBoomTeam became the second team to beat 🇪🇺 Vitality in 2026!

🇫🇷apEX said in an interview that they didn't prepare for the tournament, 🇬🇧mezii and 🇫🇷Apex were visiting Michelin-starred restaurants and the other players were busy traveling.

And 🇪🇺 natus vincere has never lost to #BetBoom - so 🇪🇺NaVi>🇪🇺Vitality?)

#VforVictory #navination

🔥 SICK BUT STILL COOKING!

🇺🇦 NAVI dropped a press blitz yesterday after taking down 🇩🇪 GamerLegion 2-1 - iM led the talking, makazze backed him up, and it turns out both played the series with a flu.

🇷🇴 iM on the Ancient blowout (1-13 on 🇪🇺NAVI's own pick): says 🇪🇺GamerLegion started on the T-side of NAVI's own map, NAVI won the opening buy round but dropped the pistol - and from there everything fell apart in mid-rounds. We where walk out one by one and just die.

🇷🇴iM on NAVI's biggest opponent: not 🇩🇰Astralis, not 🇧🇷Legacy, not even 🇪🇺Vitality. 🇪🇺NAVI themselves. The team that's been one mistake away from losing series all event can't afford another.

🇷🇴 iM on 🇪🇺 Vitality after the 🇷🇺BetBoom loss: the world #1 looks beatable now. Says NAVI have to use that opening if they want to win the tournament — and reckons NAVI will finally take at least one map off Vitality if they meet at Atlanta. (Reminder: NAVI haven't taken a map off Vitality in 12 straight.)

🇷🇴 iM to the haters: not perfect, but NAVI are in playoffs. Keep barking on 🕹 HLTV. (Original was less polite😅)

🇽🇰 makazze defending iM: told NAVI fans on Twitter that even sick, iM is still doing damage. When asked if he was sick too when played Ancient - "I'm also sick. But no excuses."

🕹 Worth knowing:
NAVI just climbed to world #2 in VRS (+6.9 pts), with w0nderful at #9 Player VRS (1,830 pts) and makazze at #6 (1,862 pts). iM is sitting #7 in Player VRS at 1,838 pts.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #IEMAtlanta

🇷🇺 Aurora ground their way through five rounds and into the 🏆 PGL Astana playoffs!

🏆 PGL Astana 2026 · Swiss closed · Qualified 3-2
📊 VRS: #9 → #8 (1743 → 1792 pts, +49 pts)

🕹 The run:
R1 vs 🇩🇰HEROIC 0-2 - Wicadia 1.13 (rough start, -16 pts)
R2 vs 🇲🇳 The Huns 2-0 - Wicadia 1.71 (the bounce-back)
R3 vs 🇷🇺 PARIVISION 2-0 - XANTARES 1.47
R4 vs 🇪🇺 MOUZ 0-2 - XANTARES 1.09
R5 vs 🇲🇳 MongolZ 2-0 - soulfly 1.38 (the qualifier)

🧐 Worth knowing:
The PARIVISION 2-0 in R3 was the swing match: knocked PARIVISION out of the world top 10 and pushed Aurora into the upper half of the bracket race. Tomorrow they're on the Astana stage.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana #Aurora

🏆 TOP players on PGL Astana 2026 group stage!

Top 5 by rating (Rating 3.0):
donk (🇷🇺Spirit) - 1.63
molodoy (🇧🇷FURIA) - 1.47
m0NESY (🇩🇰Falcons) - 1.35
luchov (🇺🇾9z) - 1.35
xertioN (🇪🇺MOUZ) - 1.34

donk was the best player of the Astana group stage by a meaningful margin - 0.16 rating above the second-best performer across the whole Swiss Group stage. He carried Spirit 3-0! and run through FURIA in R3 (1.49 on the 2-1 series win) and was the highest-rated player on every Spirit map of the event.

Who will take the MVP of the tournament?

🌍 Global Player VRS top 8!

🕹 Global Player VRS - Top 8 (May 13):
🇫🇷 ZywOo (🇪🇺Vitality) - 2023
🏴‍☠️ m0NESY (🇩🇰Falcons) - 1951
🇮🇱 flameZ (🇪🇺Vitality) - 1939
🇪🇪 ropz (🇪🇺Vitality) - 1938
🏴‍☠️ donk (🇷🇺Spirit) - 1917
🇽🇰 makazze (🇺🇦NAVI) - 1877
🇷🇴 iM (🇺🇦NAVI) - 1850
🇬🇧 mezii (🇪🇺Vitality) - 1848

Four Vitality players in the top 8. ZywOo's lead over m0NESY sits at 72 points.

🧐 Worth knowing:
1. donk sits #5 globally right now at 1917 pts. The four players above him are 🇫🇷ZywOo, m0NESY, 🇮🇱flameZ, 🇪🇪ropz - three 🇪🇺Vitality players and one 🇩🇰Falcons player. If donk keeps the Astana form through the playoffs and into Cologne, the top 3 conversation gets very live. m0NESY is 34 points ahead of donk for #2 (well within reach), and flameZ/ropz are within 22 points for #3/#4.

2. Vitality's lower bracket Atlanta run could erode their players' VRS just as Spirit's deep Astana run lifts donk's.

Does donk break into the global top 3 after Astana, or do ZywOo, m0NESY and flameZ hold the line?

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana #PlayerVRS

🇲🇳 The MongolZ has been eliminated.

🏆 PGL Astana 2026 · Eliminated 2-3
📊 VRS: #7 → #6 (1790 → 1812 pts, +22 net but still out)

🎯 The run:
R1 vs 🇷🇺magic 2-0 - 910 1.43 (+25 pts)
R2 vs 🇷🇺Spirit 0-2 - 910 1.39 (top of her side in loss)
R3 vs 🇪🇺G2 2-0 - 910 1.41 (+31 pts, peak of the run)
R4 vs 🇩🇰Falcons 1-2 - bLitz 1.25
R5 vs 🇷🇺Aurora 0-2 - mzinho 1.28 (elimination)

🧐 Worth knowing:
1. 910 was the highest-rated 🇲🇳 MongolZ player in three straight series and never below 1.39. When the MVP card moved off her in R4 and R5, the team's ceiling moved with it. Maybe that's what was missing in the finals matches.

2. Cologne Major in 20 days.🇲🇳 MongolZ already have their Stage 2 spot — Astana was a tune-up, not a must-win.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana #MongolZ

🇷🇺 The 2018 Boston Major-winning Cloud9 core is reportedly putting the band back together for CS2.

Per a leak from streamer Cooper during his IEM Atlanta co-stream - and confirmed in chat by Stewie2k himself - a five-man orgless stack is forming with:
🇺🇸 Stewie2k - ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 champion, first NA player to win both a Major and an Intel Grand Slam
🇺🇸 autimatic - ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 champion
🇺🇸 Skadoodle - ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 champion
🇺🇸 Brehze - ex-Evil Geniuse, Top-8 best player of 2019
🇺🇸 Victor also known as food - last competed in CS before 2020, has been in VALORANT since

Three Boston Major champions back on the same server eight years after that 2-1 vs FaZe in OT. Brehze and Victor fill out the five.

🕹 Worth knowing:
1. The project is intentionally orgless. Stewie2k said in Cooper's chat the goal is to "show yall we aint playin for no money" - a statement framed in direct contrast to the multi-million-dollar payrolls running the top of the scene right now.

2. Every USA representative except EliGE has already left the tournament and the field is being dominated by european players from Vitality, NAVI, FUT, Astralis, Falcons, etc.

3. A reunion stack of pre-VALORANT NA legends, playing for pride, is the kind of story the region hasn't had in years. HLTV.org

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NACSReturn #Stewie2k #CS2

🏆 PGL Astana playoffs open Friday - 8 teams, 4 quarter-finals!

🏆 PGL Astana 2026 · Quarter-finals · May 15
💰 $1,600,000 · BARYS Arena, Astana

🕹 Win probability by VRS - Friday's slate:
🇷🇺 Aurora 50% vs 🇪🇺 MOUZ 50% (#8 vs #5) - 05:00 AM UTC
🇪🇺 G2 37% vs 🇷🇺 Spirit 63% (#11 vs #2) - 08:00 AM UTC
🇺🇾 9z 67% vs 🇷🇺 magic 33% (#13 vs #24) - 11:00 AM UTC
🇩🇰 Falcons 56% vs 🇧🇷 FURIA 44% (#4 vs #10) - 14:00 UTC

🙇‍♂️ Worth knowing:

1.🇺🇾 9z come in on a perfect 3-0 Swiss from #20 going into the event - they're the only team here that climbed more than 100 VRS pts during groups.

2.🇧🇷 FURIA's quarter-final puts molodoy on a stage in his birth country for the second time at a Tier-S event (born in Kazakhstan, 21 yo, HLTV Rookie of the Year 2025).

3. 🇩🇰Falcons close out Day 1 with karrigan's first playoff series as IGL since the Falcons move.

4. Day 1's coinflip:🇷🇺 Aurora vs 🇪🇺MOUZ at 50/50 - MAJ3R against xertioN.

5. 🇪🇺 G2 meet in the first match with the main contenders for victory in the tournament - not very lucky with the opponent.

Who's your dark-horse pick from Friday's four?

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana

🇸🇦→🇫🇷 🙇‍♂️ The biggest event on the esports calendar might be changing countries - but nobody official is saying anything yet.

🏆 What's the EWC?
The Esports World Cup is the largest annual multi-game event in esports, run by the Saudi-backed Esports Foundation. EWC 2026 is scheduled July 6 – August 23, with $75M+ prize pool, 25 tournaments across 24 games, 2,000 players and 200 clubs from 100+ countries. CS2 is one of the headline titles. Originally set for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — same as the previous two.

💋 The Paris rumor:
Started May 8 with an X account (LPL Fanclub), echoed same day by a Russian-speaking insider (harumi). On May 10, Falcons content creator Falcon Abu Najd posted "2026 Esports World Cup will be held in France" to 1.3M views. May 13, Chinese journalist MELON posted "EWC: Saudi Arabia → Paris" on Weibo.

✅ What's confirmed:
Nothing! No city named beyond "France." No venue identified. The Esports Foundation has not commented. EWCcom still lists Riyadh. 🖥Liquipedia, 🕹 HLTV all show Riyadh.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. The rumor isn't coming from nowhere. The 2026 Iran conflict saw Iranian strikes target Riyadh and King Khalid Airport in late February and early March. A ceasefire was announced in April but is described as fragile.

2. Moving a $75M, 7-week, 200-club event 56 days out would be one of the biggest logistics calls in esports history — France has the infrastructure (Paris hosted 2024 Olympics), but the actual decision hasn't been made publicly.

3. For CS2 specifically, EWC has been one of the biggest non-Major events on the calendar two years running.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#EWC2026

NiKo BACKS FINN!

🤔 NiKo gave🇩🇰 karrigan (Finn Andersen) the public stamp of approval after Falcons closed Swiss 3-1 and locked their PGL Astana playoff spot - Finn's first playoff appearance in 2026.

The gist of NiKo's read:
Finn brought a different calling style. None of the current Falcons players had played under a captain like him before, so it's a learning process — but the team feels comfortable in-game when they're leading and have momentum. On the harder moments: when matches got tough, it became clear Finn's system needs 100% concentration every second. That's the gap they're closing.
There's a clear reason Falcons wanted him on the roster. NiKo believes Finn takes the team to the next level.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Falcons #karrigan #NiKo #PGLAstana #CS2

🇪🇺 NAVI 10, 🇪🇺 VITALITY 0

🇺🇦 Before Vitality became the team nobody beats - NAVI were the team that beat them. 10 series in a row, 2020 to 2022. Nobody else has matched it!

📊 Biggest H2H win streaks against Vitality (HLTV-tracked):

🇪🇺NAVI - 10 wins (2020–2022) ← all-time record
🇪🇺G2 - 3 wins (2024)
🇩🇰Falcons - 3 wins (2024–2025)
🇧🇷FURIA - 3 wins (2020)
🇹🇷Eternal Fire - 3 wins (2024–2025)
🇪🇺fnatic - 3 wins (2019)

🕹 Last time Vitality lost X matches in a row:

3 matches in a row - 2 years ago (October 2024):

0-2 vs 🇩🇰HEROIC at IEM Rio 2024 (09.10.2024)
1-2 vs 🇪🇺MOUZ at IEM Rio 2024 (11.10.2024)
0-2 vs 🇷🇺Spirit at BLAST World Final 2024 (30.10.2024)

4 matches in a row - 5 years ago (March-April 2021):

0-2 vs 🇵🇱ENCE at EPL S13
0-2 vs 🇸🇪NIP at EPL S13
1-2 vs 🇺🇾9z at BLAST Spring Showdown 2021
0-1 vs 🇺🇸Complexity at DH Masters Spring 2021

5+ matches in a row - never. Not once.

🧐 Worth knowing:

1. 🇪🇺 NAVI's 10-streak ran across an era when 🇪🇺 Vitality were ZywOo + apEX + a rotating cast. The current Vitality core (🇫🇷ZywOo + 🇫🇷apEX + 🇮🇱flameZ + 🇪🇪ropz + 🇬🇧mezii) has been almost untouchable since January 2026 - five tournament titles in a row, then the 🇷🇺BetBoom loss in Atlanta yesterday. Vitality have never lost 5 series in a row in the org's history.

2. 🇪🇺NAVI's bracket path in Atlanta could put them on a collision course with Vitality in the playoffs — they haven't taken a map off 🇪🇺 Vitality in 12 straight matches (current losing streak). The history says NAVI know how to do it.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #Vitality

🇺🇸 Liquid morale crisis...

🇺🇸 Liquid have stopped pretending. After 🇩🇪 GamerLegion sent them out of IEM Atlanta in the lower bracket - their third early exit in three weeks - three of the five players gave 🇩🇰 HLTV interviews that read more like a postmortem than a press hit.

🇵🇱 siuhy (IGL): "It's a very tough moment for the team." Said the squad came into Atlanta with three weeks of practice and felt initially confident — then lost their footing fast. Spoke openly about feeling helpless in the team's current situation and a confidence crater across the last couple of months.


🇭🇺 flashie (coach): the team is no longer playing to win - we're playing not to lose. Even on their own map picks we can't seize control early. Trying to find footing in the bad run, but new problems keep showing up.

🇺🇸 EliGe: the squad had different visions for how it wanted to play. The deeper they dug into discussions, the less synchronized they became. Even on pistol rounds, there isn't a single call on how to engage duels.

🕹 This is the worst Liquid year in recent memory. Honda sponsorship was terminated in 2025, ~6% staff layoffs followed, and the 2024 EBITDA-positive milestone hasn't carried into a strong 2025-26 competitive run.
🇸🇦 With Cologne Major Stage 1 just 19 days out, the public airing of internal dysfunction reads like a roster on borrowed time. The org has too much infrastructure (Alienware training centers in LA, Utrecht, São Paulo; analytics dept; Liquid Media B2B arm) to disappear, but the current five is in the deepest hole.

Source: HLTV interviews with siuhy.
👉 https://www.hltv.org/news/44601/siuhy-its-a-very-tough-moment-for-the-team

#Liquid #IEMAtlanta

🇫🇷 ropz - "WE ARE BEST IN HISTORY"

🇪🇪 ropz sat with HLTV after Vitality's 2-0 over B8 booked their Atlanta playoff spot.

The big line: "we are the best team in the world, we might be the best team in history."

🇪🇪 ropz:

- On the rough start: the team didn't practice between BLAST Rivals and Atlanta. Communication slipped. Energy is on the lower side - third week in the US. The BetBoom loss came down to rust, not regression. Lower bracket form (vs FaZe, vs B8) is closer to "the Vitality you've seen all year."

- On Atlanta priority: Atlanta isn't a priority event. The team didn't want to come home with regrets, but Cologne Major is the goal. They'll rest a few days after Atlanta, run a bootcamp, then full prep mode for the Major.

- On complacency: not an issue. The five constantly talk about it, the staff watches for it, the system catches it before it shows up.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. This 🇪🇺 Vitality core (🇫🇷ZywOo, 🇫🇷apEX, 🇪🇪ropz, 🇮🇱 flameZ, 🇬🇧 mezii) is on five consecutive trophies in 2026 (Kraków, Cluj, Rotterdam, Rio, BLAST Rivals).

2. ropz himself is the only player in CS history with three Grand Slam wins (one with FaZe, two with Vitality). The "best team in history" claim isn't from a fan account - it's from inside the locker room, with the receipts to make it a real conversation.

3. QF opponent: winner of 🇺🇦NAVI vs 🇧🇷Legacy. ropz said either is fine - Legacy beat them in a BO1 at Austin Major last year, so a rematch would be welcome.

❔ Aces count update from the two tournaments running side-by-side!

🇷🇴 PGL Astana 2026: 12 aces · 5 days of play
🇸🇦 IEM Atlanta 2026: 14 aces · 3 days of play

Atlanta passed Astana on aces in less than three full days of matches - running at roughly 2x Astana's rate.

The 2026 single-event record sits at 18 aces. Atlanta's playoffs start in this Friday. The record is well within reach!

🕹 Three quick stat reads from a busy day for NAVI and the Ukrainian sniper pool.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian AWPers at IEM Atlanta 2026 (HLTV Rating 3.0):

🇺🇦 w0nderful (🇺🇦NAVI) - 1.26
🇺🇦s1zzi (🇺🇦B8) - 1.12
🇺🇦cmtry (🇪🇺FUT) - 0.96
🇺🇦 s1mple (🇪🇺BC.Game) - 0.94

w0nderful is the standout, leading the UA AWP pool by a clear margin in a tournament.

❔ Longest 1.00+ rating streaks at MVP-eligible events in 2026 (via statsmeister1):

🇫🇷 ZywOo (🇪🇺Vitality) - 30 maps
🇮🇱 flameZ (🇪🇺Vitality) - 20 maps
🏴‍☠️ kyousuke (🇩🇰Falcons) - 17 maps
🏴‍☠️ m0NESY (🇩🇰Falcons) - 15 maps
🇽🇰 makazze (🇪🇺NAVI) - 13 maps

makazze closes the top 5 - his streak ran from Cluj-Napoca through Rotterdam before Falcons broke it. ZywOo's 30 is the ceiling; his streak ended vs Falcons at IEM Rio.

🇺🇦 Aleksib's night vs 🇧🇷Legacy:

Rating 3.0: 0.56
Round Swing: -5.60%
K/D: 18/47
Firepower score: 0/100 - (This indicator is not real - but based on the game from Legacy, it looks like this....)

NAVI's IGL on the worst single-series box score he's posted in 2026, in a series NAVI lost 1-2 to a #14 team.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #IEMAtlanta

Maps VRS Standings - Ancient 🏞

🏞 Ancient - the only map left where 🇫🇷 Vitality have a 100% 2026 winrate(because she almost always gets banned from them 😁), and the only top map where Vitality don't even crack the top 10 in Maps VRS.

🏆 Top 10 Ancient VRS Standings (May 14, 2026):
🇪🇺 G2 - 1966 pts (↑10)
🇺🇦 NAVI - 1952 (↑1)
🇩🇰 Astralis - 1888 (↑5)
🇪🇺 FUT - 1858 (↑6)
🇷🇺 PARIVISION - 1822 (↑7)
🇺🇦 B8 - 1766 (↑12)
🐲 Spirit - 1620 (↓5)
🇩🇪 GamerLegion - 1593 (↑6)
🇸🇦 Falcons - 1547 (↓5)
🇺🇾 9z - 1545 (↑5)

❔ The biggest movers:
🇺🇦B8 +12 spots - the largest climb in the entire pool.

🇪🇺G2 +10 to #1 - 🇮🇱HeavyGod-led squad takes the Ancient throne;

🇷🇺Spirit ↓5, 🇩🇰Falcons ↓5 - both drop hard out of the Ancient meta picture.

🕹 Worth knowing:

🇪🇺 Vitality, the world #1 team, sit outside this top 10 entirely. Their 2026 Ancient winrate is 100% - but that's a small-sample illusion. They permaban Ancient against almost everyone. Yesterday makazze publicly told Vitality to pick 🏞Ancient against 🇪🇺NAVI; that's the map where NAVI sit #2, Vitality sit (presumably) deep in the standings, and the matchup math actually flips.

If you wanted a map where Vitality look beatable - this is the one!

🇷🇴 The Astana crowd is showing up!

Fans at the arena in Astana helped the Spirits take an important round!

🏴‍☠️ donk after Spirit's match vs G2 described a situation where they was waiting on a rotation:
donk: "🏴‍☠️sh1ro waiting for 15 seconds, and then turned in the other direction, after which the arena began to shout and i say "behind, behind" and sh1ro scored a kill"

The crowd noise at Astana, he said, is loud enough that positional shouts read like coaching.

🕹 Worth knowing:
This is a tournament integrity issue, not a "throwing the match" allegation. Crowd influence happens at every venue - Rio, Cologne, Katowice, Antwerp - and PGL has historically used audio dampening in player booths to manage it. But in Astana, the X-rays on the big screens in the arena were not turned off, so Spirit fans constantly gave the team information about the opponent.
Whether the Astana setup is doing enough to isolate game-side audio is the open question.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PGLAstana

🏆 IEM Atlanta 2026 · group stage closed · Top 10 by Rating 3.0

Top 10 (Rating 3.0):

🇫🇷 ZywOo (🇪🇺Vitality) — 1.38
🇧🇷 dem0n (🇪🇺FUT) — 1.24
🇺🇦 Kvem (🇪🇺FUT) — 1.27
🇧🇷 arT (🇧🇷Legacy) — 1.24
🏴‍☠️ FL4MUS (🇷🇺BetBoom) — 1.26
🏴‍☠️ Magnojez (🇷🇺BetBoom) — 1.23
🇺🇦 w0nderful (🇪🇺NAVI) — 1.26
🇸🇪 PR (🇪🇺GamerLegion) — 1.21
🇨🇿 hypex (🇪🇺GamerLegion) — 1.20

🕹 The team-by-team MVPs at the top:

🇪🇺Vitality: ZywOo at 1.38 - clear gap over the rest of the field
🇪🇺FUT: Kvem 1.27, dem0n 1.24 - two players in the top 10 from the Bucharest champions
🇧🇷Legacy: arT 1.24 - the bracket run earned and his Best Player vs NAVI proven
🇪🇺NAVI: w0nderful 1.26 - UA AWP carrying the side
🇪🇺GamerLegion: PR 1.21, hypex 1.20 - depth across the roster

🧐 Worth knowing:

1. s1zzi (🇺🇦B8) — the youngest player at IEM Atlanta at 16 - closes outside the top 10 with a 1.12 rating as the highest-rated player on his side. B8 didn't make playoffs but s1zzi held his own against tier-1 opposition all groupstage.
2. ZywOo's 1.38 lead sits within reach of the playoff MVP race - the question is whether anyone in bracket play can climb past him.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#IEMAtlanta

🇹🇷 The 30-year-old XANTARES is literally crumbling in playoff matches.

🇷🇺Aurora group stage vs playoff rating split:
🇹🇷XANTARES - 1.18 / 0.91 (-0.27)
🇹🇷Wicadia - 1.14 / 1.08 (-0.06)
🇹🇷woxic - 1.05 / 1.07 (+0.02)
🇹🇷soulfly - 1.05 / 0.90 (-0.15)
🇹🇷MAJ3R - 0.91 / 0.97 (+0.06)

XANTARES's drop is more than 4x larger than Wicadia's. He goes from comfortably above 1.10 in groups to below 0.95 in bracket matches - the kind of split that flips a series.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. 🇹🇷 XANTARES is 30 years old, one of the most decorated veterans in Turkish CS.

2. The pattern of slumping in playoffs has been a theme of his 2026, and Aurora's bracket performances have correspondingly underwhelmed even after strong Swiss runs (their 3-2 qualifying campaign at Astana included only one match where XANTARES was MVP - and Aurora lost it).

3. 🇹🇷 MAJ3R (Aurora's IGL, 36 years old, oldest player with karrigan at PGL Astana 2026) is the only roster member who plays better in playoffs (+0.06). Calling under pressure is his thing.

4. 🇪🇺 There are rumors that the team will make reshuffles and Aurora will no longer be a Turkish team, but will play under the European flag.

👉 cs2analytics.com

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