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.
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
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🏆 PGL Astana 2026 · Quarter-finals · May 15
💰 $1,600,000 · BARYS Arena, Astana
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
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🇸🇦→🇫🇷 🙇♂️ 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:
👉 cs2analytics.com
#EWC2026
🏆 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.
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.
Nothing! No city named beyond "France." No venue identified. The Esports Foundation has not commented. EWCcom still lists Riyadh.
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
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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
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
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🇺🇦 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)
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
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Source: HLTV interviews with siuhy.
👉 https://www.hltv.org/news/44601/siuhy-its-a-very-tough-moment-for-the-team
#Liquid #IEMAtlanta
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The big line: "we are the best team in the world, we might be the best team in history."
- 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.
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.
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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!
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🇺🇦 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.
🇫🇷 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.
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
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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!
🏆 Top 10 Ancient VRS Standings (May 14, 2026):
If you wanted a map where Vitality look beatable - this is the one!
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Fans at the arena in Astana helped the Spirits take an important round!
donk: "
The crowd noise at Astana, he said, is loud enough that positional shouts read like coaching.
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
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🏆 IEM Atlanta 2026 · group stage closed · Top 10 by Rating 3.0
Top 10 (Rating 3.0):
🕹 The team-by-team MVPs at the top:
🧐 Worth knowing:
👉 cs2analytics.com
#IEMAtlanta
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
🇪🇺 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
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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.
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
#PGLAstana #Aurora #XANTARES
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🏆 IEM Atlanta 2026 · Quarter-final · BO3
📅 May 15 · 20:30 UTC
This is the
Current map streak: Vitality 12-0 in maps over NAVI!
👉 cs2analytics.com
#IEMAtlanta #Vitality #NAVI
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Framing across the four aggregators: after the Dota exit and internal restructuring, the org no longer meets the program's requirements; HEROIC confirmed the voluntary withdrawal
🧐 Worth knowing:
On the CS2 side, the org just exited
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The first IEM Atlanta - 🇩🇪 GamerLegion vs🇧🇷 paiN
🏆 IEM Atlanta 2026 · Quarter-final · BO3 May 15 · 17:15 UTC
Win probability by VRS:
🇪🇺 GamerLegion (#14) — 52%
🇧🇷 paiN (#16) — 48%
🕹 Worth knowing:
Win probability by VRS:
1.🇧🇷 paiN dropped to🇷🇺 BetBoom on UB,🇪🇺 GL win 2-0 to🇩🇰 Astralis on LB.
2. saffeecsgo at 1.13 in the🇷🇺 BetBoom series was the highest-rated on paiN's side.
3.🇪🇺 GL come in with Snax leading the in-game side, fresh off taking Ancient 13-1 off🇪🇺 NAVI in the UB semi (NAVI's own pick - went catastrophically for the Yellow & Blacks). They showed they can punish top-3 sides on the right map.
4. Whoever wins will play with🇧🇷 Legacy on saturday at 20:30 UTC.
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🤔WHO WINS FIGHTS THEY "SHOULDN'T"
🇪🇺 FUT is a top 5 team for Duel Swing, they win an average of 18.4% more duels than they "should"!
❔ Team duel swing per map - 2026 notable events (rdy.gg / @LuzRaross):
🇫🇷 ZywOo leads all individuals near +190%. Vitality's team average is basically a different sport.
🇪🇺 G2 sits top-3 by team duel swing yet keeps dropping series to tier-1 - winning fights ≠ winning maps.
👉 https://x.com/LuzRaposa/status/2055280955066139008
🇫🇷 Vitality +72.1%🇸🇦 Falcons +45.6%🇪🇺 G2 +40.0%🇷🇺 Spirit +33.2%🇪🇺 FUT +18.4%
👉 https://x.com/LuzRaposa/status/2055280955066139008
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FALCONS' FURIA PROBLEM
Just a reminder:🇸🇦 Falcons ALWAYS lose to 🇧🇷 FURIA in the playoffs.
Current #Falcons roster has never beaten current #FURIA in a playoff - H2H 0-3.
In elimination matches specifically: 3-1 FURIA.
Can they close the gap today and advance to the semifinals?
🇷🇴 PGL Astana 2026 — Quarter-final | Falcons vs FURIA, live
❔ Win probability by VRS: Falcons 55% / FURIA 45%
👉 cs2analytics.com
Just a reminder:
Current #Falcons roster has never beaten current #FURIA in a playoff - H2H 0-3.
In elimination matches specifically: 3-1 FURIA.
Can they close the gap today and advance to the semifinals?
👉 cs2analytics.com
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👉 cs2analytics.com
#karrigan #Falcons
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Look at this scoreboard!
1.62 Rating 3.0
+7.40% Round Swing!
43-27 K-D
94.2 ADR
74% of his kills with the AWP - 32 of 43
Profile sniper isn't a description - it's a job title, and on Nuke today he did almost whole job himself. Cross from Heaven, hold on Outside, retakes from Ramp, late-round 1v2s on Lower.
m0NESY had a great game on
👉 cs2analytics.com
#m0NESY #Falcons
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Statistics table:
🇩🇰 Falcons (17) vs🇧🇷 FURIA (19) - 0.64🇩🇰 Falcons (22) vs🇧🇷 FURIA (20) - 0.56🇩🇰 Falcons (9) vs🇧🇷 FURIA (13) - 0.72🇪🇺 FaZe (2) vs🇪🇺 Vitality (13) - 0.62🇪🇺 FaZe (9) vs🇪🇺 Vitality (13) - 0.90🇪🇺 FaZe (3) vs🇪🇺 Vitality (13) - 0.27
Captain's duel on nuke vs FURIA:
🇩🇰 Karrigan vs🇧🇷 fallen❔ Score: 10 : 1
It's good that Karrigan has a great team!
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