🇫🇷 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

"We had about seven months. Someone will say that this is enough, someone will say that this is not enough, but I think that we showed good results, we just always lacked some one detail to win the trophy.

We showed ourselves as one of the best teams in the world, consistently entered the playoffs, were definitely the TOP-3 team in the world and even beat Vitality when no one else could do it. We just needed more time and for them to believe in us"

"When you play a team like the Falcons, you have to be prepared that people will eat you alive for your failures, but they won't say anything good if you achieve some results."

"On the day I arrived at IEM RIO, the manager wrote to me and said that I would quit.
I was shocked, because before that there were no discussions in the team about changes. We understood that we did not show the results we should have, but our project had to be long-term"

"My best friend invited me to his wedding in a few months... And I was like, "Bro, I don't even have a team right now, but if I find one, the season starts in July, so I have no idea if I'll be able to come." I said i'd answer the day before the event."

"The haters were writing insults and threats to us every day. Online, everyone hated us (Falcons), but in every arena, wherever we went, the crowd was passionately supporting us."