🇪🇺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)

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)

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

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.

- 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.

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

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

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....)

🇫🇷 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

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.

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.

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.

🇫🇷Vitality +72.1%
🇸🇦Falcons +45.6%
🇪🇺G2 +40.0%
🇷🇺Spirit +33.2%
🇪🇺FUT +18.4%

🇩🇰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

🇩🇰Karrigan vs 🇧🇷fallen

❔Score: 10 : 1

- 🇺🇦 NAVI's first 3-0 BO5 final win in ~1,764 days - last time was IEM Cologne 2021 vs G2!

- All 🇺🇦 NAVI players now have an MVP from HLTV - except for 🇺🇦 Aleksib.

- 🇫🇷 Vitality's 12-0 maps-over-NAVI streak (since 2022) ended in the QF.

-🇫🇷 Vitality's first playoff series loss of 2026 (after a 5-trophy run).

- 🇺🇦 b1t's playoff - best of his career on MVP-level events: 1.32 across 8 maps. Same rating as his 2021 BLAST Fall Final, but spread over more maps.

- 🇪🇺 GamerLegion's GF problem: lost both their tier-1 grand finals 0-X. BLAST Paris Major 2023 0-2 vs Vitality + IEM Atlanta 2026 0-3 vs 🇺🇦 NAVI. Combined: 0-5 in maps in GFs.

- 🇺🇦 NAVI's ESL Intel Grand Slam race has started: Atlanta = star #1 of 4 needed. Eligible events ahead: IEM Cologne Major 2026, IEM Katowice, IEM Chengdu 2026, IEM Krakow 2027, ESL Pro XXV (per ESL).

1. latto (🇧🇷Legacy) - 1.32 leads
2. w0nderful (🇪🇺NAVI) - 1.31 second.
3. KVEM (🛳Passion UA) - 1.27
4. Zywoo (🇪🇺Vitality) - 1.27
5. DEMON (🇪🇺FUT) - 1.24

4 🇺🇦Ukrainian players in the top 10 (w0nderful, Kvem, dem0n, b1t)

🇪🇺Vitality vs🇪🇺 BC.Game - 603,949 (the s1mple return — top of the event)
🇪🇺NAVI vs 🇪🇺GamerLegion - 601,434
🇪🇺NAVI vs 🇪🇺Vitality - 466,894

- 🇩🇰 karrigan's bracket debut for Falcons ended in a 3-0 GF loss. His tournament rating across 5 straight tier-1 playoff maps stays under 1.00.

- 30 ace rounds across both events: 16 in Atlanta + 14 in Astana. Tournaments leader: dumau (Legacy) with 3 aces across 2 matches.
The tournament with the highest number of aces was PGL Cluj-Napoca (18).

- 🏴‍☠️ sh1ro is the best clutch player at PGL Astana 2026, sh1ro won 10 1vX situations!

🇷🇺Spirit vs 🇩🇰Falcons (final) — 1,169,121
🇧🇷FURIA vs 🇩🇰Falcons — 1,077,469
🇷🇺Spirit vs 🇧🇷FURIA — 690,930

PGL Astana hit 1,169,210 at the final — nearly 2x IEM Atlanta's 630,960 peak.

🌅 Dust 2: 53.5% CT (38 plays)
🕌 Mirage: 56.7% CT (34 plays)
🎇 Nuke: 58.4% CT (27 plays) — strongest CT edge
🏞 Ancient: 50.4% CT (27 plays)
⛪️ Inferno: 52% CT (23 plays)
🚅 Overpass: 54.5% CT (13 plays)
🏜 Anubis: 47.8% CT (7 plays) — only T-sided map, also least played