🏆 CS Asia Championships 2026!

Tournament info:
🗓 May 20–24, 2026
📌 Shanghai, China
👥 16 teams
💰 $1M prize pool
The last Big Event before the Cologne Major!

❔ Group A - Day 1 matches (win probability by VRS):
🇸🇦Falcons 99% - 1% 🇪🇺BCGame
🇪🇺MOUZ 90% - 10% 🇨🇳TYLOO
🇧🇷Legacy 83% - 17% 🇺🇸NRG
🇧🇷paiN 67% - 33% 🌎M80

❔ Group B - Day 1 matches:
🇲🇳The MongolZ 80% - 20% 🇨🇳Lynn Vision
🇷🇺PARIVISION 86% - 14% 🌎Liquid
🇫🇷3DMAX 60% - 40% 🇧🇷MIBR
🇺🇦B8 61% - 39%🇸🇪 NIP

Win probability by VRS on every match!
👉 cs2analytics.com

#CACShanghai

🤩 TIKTOK JOINS THE FEED

ESL 🇬🇧 FACEIT Group is reportedly bringing its tournaments to TikTok in a mobile-first vertical format. Debut: IEM Atlanta.

📌 What's reported:
ESL FACEIT Group has entered a partnership with TikTok to stream its tournaments on the platform.
Broadcasts get a vertical mobile format with adapted graphics, overlays and exclusive backstage content. The collaboration debuted during IEM Atlanta 2026.
TikTok will also help promote ESL content and open access to its ad tools and its network of gaming creators for co-streams.
Reasoning cited: per SQ Magazine, ~56% of esports viewership happens on mobile devices.

🇸🇦 IEM Atlanta 2026 was indeed broadcast on TikTok - alongside Twitch, Kick, YouTube Live, Facebook Gaming and CHZZK.

🕹 Worth knowing:
This fits EFG's wider 2026 push. In April they signed a global partnership with Kick (debuting at IEM Rio), expanding distribution toward younger, mobile-native audiences. A TikTok vertical feed would be the next step in the same multi-platform strategy — meeting fans on the screen they already watch on, rather than pulling them to a desktop stream.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#ESL #TikTok #CS2 #Esports

🇲🇳 mzinho has the best rating of 3.0 on Opening Round at the CS Asia Championships 2026 tournament.

Best players with rating of 3.0 on Opening Round:
1. 🇲🇳mzinho - 2.04 (The Mongolz vs Lynn Vision)
2. 🇺🇦npl - 1.91 (B8 vs Ninjas in Pyjamas)
3. 🇷🇺Jame - 1.83 (PARIVISION vs Liquid)
4. 🇪🇺electroNic - 1.73 (BC.Game vs Falcons)
5. 🇺🇸Grim - 1.71 (NRG vs Legacy)
6. 🇨🇳Moseyuh - 1.65 (TYLOO vs MOUZ)
7. 🌎JBa - 1.60 (M80 vs pain)
8. 🇧🇷kl1m - 1.45 (MIBR vs 3DMAX)

Tomorrow the battle in the lower bracket for the last 2 spots in the playoffs will continue:

Lower Bracket Group A - NRG vs MOUZ and BC.Game vs pain, M80 and TYLOO will waiting someone of them in Lower Semi-final.

Lower Bracket Group B - Lynn Vision vs Ninjas in Pyjamas and 3DMAX vs Liquid. PARIVISION and The Mongolz will waiting someone of them in Lower Semi-final.

👉 cs2analytics.com

🇺🇦 B8 INTO THE CAC PLAYOFFS

🇺🇦npl talks up his young B8 side - and the AWPer everyone's watching, s1zzi.

🇺🇦B8 beat 🇲🇳The MongolZ to reach the playoffs at CS Asia Championships 2026 in Shanghai.
Their all 🇺🇦Ukrainian roster - alex666, npl, kensizor, esenthial, s1zzi!

🎙 What npl said about the run:
He hoped B8 would reach the playoffs and play good team CS — and believes they can genuinely win the event if they keep this level up.

🎙 On 🇺🇦 s1zzi's growth:
npl says the young AWPer has made significant progress and is taking big steps forward — though not yet a tier-1 sniper.
At earlier events s1zzi was playing at maybe half his ceiling; with the coach and team structure around him, npl sees him far more confident and unafraid now.

🇺🇦npl flagged s1zzi's upside earlier this year too. After B8's PGL Cluj-Napoca exit in February, he told HLTV (primary):

"He has the X-factor." - npl on s1zzi, to HLTV

👉 cs2analytics.com

#B8 #s1zzi #npl

🇺🇦 WHO WANTS TO BUY?

Everything must go. Passion UA open the doors to offers for their players.

🇩🇰 Per HLTV, Passion UA are ready to hear offers from orgs looking to sign their players.
The roster:

🇺🇦 sdy
🇿🇦 JT
🇦🇷 try
🇺🇦 Kvem
🇺🇸 nicx

🕹 Worth knowing:
It's a quiet end to a loud year. The Ukrainian side were a top-15 feel-good story in February - RMR upsets over 🐻Virtuspro, 🐲Spirit and 🇩🇰Astralis. Then an expensive try + Senzu rebuild misfired, they missed the Cologne Major, slid to #48 on the VRS, and ended their season early.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#PassionUA

🇧🇷 insani has the best rating 3.0 (by 🕹 HLTV) on Upper Semi-final!

Best players with rating of 3.0 on Upper Semi-final at the CS Asia Championships 2026 tournament:
1. 🇧🇷 insani - 1.80
2. 🇺🇦 npl - 1.50
3. 🇸🇦 m0NESY - 1.48
4. 🇧🇷 latto - 1.29

Friday's(22 may) the battle in Upper Final will begin!
- 🇸🇦 Falcons vs 🇧🇷 Legacy: 64% | 36% - probability to win by VRS.

- 🇧🇷 MIBR vs 🇺🇦 B8: 43% | 57% - probability to win by VRS.

More info!
👉 cs2analytics.com

URSULA'S 2000 IQ MOVE

🇪🇺 NAVI's team psychologist found a salt-water trick to fix players losing focus mid-match.

Per 🇺🇦 NAVI team psychologist Ursula Klimchak, 🇺🇦 w0nderful drinks deliberately salty water during matches - even though it tastes bad.

The reasoning she gave: players sometimes complained that matches felt "foggy" and they couldn't lock onto the screen properly. Her fix - sip something very salty or sour mid-game.
The idea: salt supports brain function, and the unpleasant sharp taste nudges the body to release dopamine, snapping focus back.

A small, weird, very on-brand performance hack from the IEM Atlanta MVP's support staff.😁

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #w0nderful

🇸🇦 EWC HEADS TO PARIS

The Esports World Cup Foundation has confirmed its $75M festival is moving from Riyadh to Paris.

🕹 Per HLTV, the EWC Foundation has confirmed the move of the $75M festival from Riyadh to💋 Paris, as first reported by GamesBeat. The CS2 portion was set for the final two weeks (Aug 12–23) with a $2M prize pool and 32 teams — double the 2025 edition. HLTV confirms the event was granted a Valve exception to relocate.

📌 One analyst's take (Lerich - secondary, opinion): the relocation could leave some teams struggling to secure French visas on a tight timeline, with players from sanctioned countries, the MENA region and parts of Asia potentially facing the toughest path. He also flagged a scheduling squeeze - some qualifiers finish close to the July 7 EWC start, leaving little room for visa processing.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#EWC #Paris #CS2

Player VRS Top 9-16 - May 21, 2026

🕹 Players:

🇽🇰 #9 makazze (NAVI) - 1890
🇧🇦 #10 NiKo (Falcons) - 1890
🏴‍☠️ #11 kyousuke (Falcons) - 1875
🇷🇴 #12 iM (NAVI) - 1871
🏴‍☠️ #13 tN1R (Spirit) - 1863
🏴‍☠️ #14 sh1ro (Spirit) - 1857
🇬🇧 #15 mezii (Vitality) - 1834
🇫🇷 #16 apEX (Vitality) - 1832

More info:
👉 cs2analytics.com

Maps VRS Standings - Nuke 🎇

Top 10 Ancient VRS Standings (May 21, 2026):

🇪🇺 Vitality - 1966 pts (↑10)
🇧🇷 paiN - 1952 (↑1)
🇲🇳The MongolZ - 1888 (↑5)
🇩🇪 GamerLegion - 1858 (↑6)
🇺🇾 9z - 1822 (↑7)
🇧🇷 FURIA - 1766 (↑12)
🇸🇪 NIP - 1620 (↓5)
🇪🇺 FaZe - 1593 (↑6)
🇸🇦 Falcons - 1547 (↓5)
🇧🇷 Legacy - 1545 (↑5)

As usual, 🇪🇺 Vitality is ahead of the rest, but 🇧🇷 PAIN did a good job on the 🎇 nuke, having already played 4 nukes in the last meetings - beating teams like 🇪🇺 FUT and BetBoom at IEM Atlanta, and showed themselves well against 🇩🇪 GamerLegion in Atlanta and against 🇨🇳 TYLOO at CS Asia Championships 2026!

More info:
👉 cs2analytics.com

🕹 Americas Team VRS - May 22, 2026

For the first time in almost a year,🇧🇷 Furia is no longer the best team in the American region - 🇧🇷Legacy took first place!

More info:
👉 cs2analytics.com

#AmericasVRS #FURIA #Legacy #paiN

🇧🇷 Felipe "insani" Yuji posted a 3.28 Rating 3.0(🕹HLTV) on 🏞 Ancient against 🇺🇦 B8 at CS Asia Championships 2026!

🇧🇷 insani Rating:
3.28 Rating 3.0
+16.64% Round Swing
3.12 K/D
1.67 KPR
163.6 ADR

Thanks to an incredible performance and victory against B8, 🇧🇷 MIBR earned themselves a +51.1 VRS and advanced straight to the semifinals.

Tomorrow 🇧🇷 MIBR will play 🇧🇷 Legacy in the semi finals!
🇧🇷 Legacy is currently dominating the Americas region, so it should be an interesting match.

More info!
👉 cs2analytics.com

#MIBR #insani #CAC

Four replacement players on the CS Asia Championships 2026 group stage, two coaches, one analyst, one loaned players:

jL (🇪🇺MOUZ) - 0.96 (on loan)
Scrunk (🇪🇺BCGame) - 0.77 (analyst)
flashie (🌎Liquid) - 0.71 (coach)
daps (🇺🇸NRG) - 0.66 (coach)

Only 🇱🇹 JL remains in the tournament - will he be able to reach the final tomorrow?
👉 cs2analytics.com

After 🇪🇺 MOUZ beat 🇧🇷 paiN and 🇺🇦 B8 back-to-back to reach the CAC semi-finals, Spinx spoke to HLTV about the rare window a weaker field offers:

"Not a lot of tier-one teams are winning tournaments at the moment." -🇮🇱 Spinx to 🕹HLTV

With 🇫🇷 Vitality absent from CAC, 🇪🇺 MOUZ see a real chance at silverware - and Spinx says every trophy you can grab right now is "super important"

On 🇱🇹 jL, whose trial run ends after the Shanghai Major: 🇮🇱 Spinx called him a very good player and a great guy, but stressed it isn't his call - the team and org decide

Will the 🇪🇺 MOUZ be able to reach the final tomorrow?
👉 cs2analytics.com

#MOUZ #Spinx #jL

🇨🇳 CS Asia Championships 2026 - Grand Final (May 24): 🇸🇦 Falcons 1-3 🇧🇷 Legacy

🇧🇷 Legacy defended their CAC title; 🇸🇦 Falcons settle for runner-up - their second straight final loss since signing 🇩🇰 karrigan.

VRS impact: despite the loss, 🇸🇦 Falcons earned +29 pts over the event and climbed to world #3 (1,954 pts).

Seven finals lost in a row (🕹HLTV).
The orgs that have beaten Falcons in grand finals: 🇧🇷 Legacy (CAC), 🇷🇺Spirit (PGL Astana),🇷🇺 PARIVISION (BLAST Bounty S1), 🇧🇷 FURIA (BLAST Rivals 2025 S2), 🇪🇺 Vitality (×3 — EPL S22, BLAST Rivals 2025 S1, Melbourne 2025), 🇪🇺 MOUZ (PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025).

🇩🇰Falcons playoff stats, 2026:

kyousuke - 1.16 Rating / 0.77 KPR / 85.5 ADR
m0NESY - 1.15 / 0.80 / 78.1
NiKo - 1.07 / 0.66 / 74.0
TeSeS - 0.98 / 0.55 / 65.5
karrigan - 0.75 / 0.48 / 55.1

💬 The analyst desk weighed in:

"To be one of the best IGLs, you also have to perform well individually. karrigan has a certain level of skill, but it's so poor that it's not enough to win at tier-1." - Mauisnake

"Does karrigan even play DM, or does he just sit around all day inventing new ways to rush B?" - Cooper

"karrigan is in the worst individual form of his entire career." - pimp

🕹 Worth knowing:
HLTV's own match report flagged NiKo "went missing in a bad way" in the final and m0NESY's impact fading as the series wore on, with only kyousuke leaving with real credit. The firepower's there - the finals conversion isn't.

P.S. - The loss is officially a meme now. After the final, an Aurora Dota 2 player who'd just lost his own ninth final changed his nickname to "m0NESY mode" / "falcons cs".
When rival scenes start borrowing your second-place curse as a punchline)😅

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Falcons #karrigan #CAC

🇧🇷 Legacy 3-1 🇩🇰 Falcons in the grand final, defending the CAC title they won in 2025.

VRS impact: 🇧🇷 Legacy banked +136 pts and rocketed from #12 → #6 in the world in a single event!

❔ The trophy math:
That's now two CAC titles for Legacy, while 🇩🇰Falcons - despite a reported $10M+ roster - still sit on one tier-1 trophy. But Legacy has 🇧🇷dumau and 🇧🇷latto)

🇧🇷 saadzin summed up the win on stage (🕹HLTV primary):
"m0NESY is the best AWPer in the world but it's 5v5, it's about the best team." - saadzin

🕹 Worth knowing:
latto took his second straight CAC MVP, and Legacy's win means m0NESY's grand-final record falls to 0-8 across this stretch.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Legacy #CAC

🇪🇺 NAVI hold a 52.7% T-side win rate over the last three months - the best mark of any team in the world on that side.

Their CT-side sits at 56.4% (good for 7th). A balanced, in-form champion heading into the Cologne Major.

❔ P.S. - And just for contrast: After 🇨🇳 CS Asia, he became the player with the worst K/D difference in CS:GO/CS2 history. 🇩🇰 Finn has 41,975 kills and 48,233 deaths - a difference of -6258.

He is also the worst player in this indicator on the T-side (-7524), while the worst indicator on the CT-side belongs to BTN - (-1399).

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI