Best players with rating of 3.0 on Opening Round:
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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.
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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
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.
"He has the X-factor." - npl on s1zzi, to HLTV
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#B8 #s1zzi #npl
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Everything must go. Passion UA open the doors to offers for their players.
The roster:
🇺🇦 sdy
🇿🇦 JT
🇦🇷 try
🇺🇦 Kvem
🇺🇸 nicx
It's a quiet end to a loud year. The Ukrainian side were a top-15 feel-good story in February - RMR upsets over
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Best players with rating of 3.0 on Upper Semi-final at the CS Asia Championships 2026 tournament:
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Friday's(22 may) the battle in Upper Final will begin!
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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.😁
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#NAVI #w0nderful
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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.
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#NAVI #w0nderful
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The Esports World Cup Foundation has confirmed its $75M festival is moving from Riyadh to Paris.
📌 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.
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#EWC #Paris #CS2
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Player VRS Top 9-16 - May 21, 2026
🕹 Players:
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🇽🇰 #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
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Maps VRS Standings - Nuke 🎇
Top 10 Ancient VRS Standings (May 21, 2026):
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!
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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,
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For the first time in almost a year,
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#AmericasVRS #FURIA #Legacy #paiN
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🇧🇷 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!
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#MIBR #insani #CAC
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,
Tomorrow
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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?
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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?
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#MOUZ #Spinx #jL
"Not a lot of tier-one teams are winning tournaments at the moment." -
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The strength of the VRS rating that is not mentioned out loud🤫
Own Network - reflects this team's own network strength based on recent unique teams defeated. Opponents collect this value when they beat this team.
We finally broke the silence and now are showing Own Network in Detailed VRS Section on a team page.
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VRS impact: despite the loss,
Seven finals lost in a row (
The orgs that have beaten Falcons in grand finals:
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
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)😅
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#Falcons #karrigan #CAC
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A MONTH OF MOVEMENT
Global VRS standings, April 22 → May 25. The top is the same name - almost everything under it shuffled.
🇪🇺 Vitality still sit #1, untouchable at the top — but their lead actually shrank (−42 over the month) while everyone behind them gained ground.
The real story is🇷🇺 Spirit's surge: up from #5 to #2 (+192 over the window), now the closest thing to a 🇪🇺 Vitality challenger after their PGL Astana title. 🇩🇰 Falcons hold #3 through a runner-up run, and 🇺🇦 NAVI slipped from #2 to #4 despite their IEM Atlanta win - the field around them simply climbed faster.
Two giant movers off tournament runs:🇧🇷 Legacy rocketed +292 to #6 on their back-to-back CAC title (one of the biggest single-month leaps on the board), and 🇪🇺 MOUZ jumped to #5 on the back of a CAC final. 🇩🇰 Astralis, 🇪🇺 FUT and 🇷🇺 PARIVISION dropped out of the picture.
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Global VRS standings, April 22 → May 25. The top is the same name - almost everything under it shuffled.
The real story is
Two giant movers off tournament runs:
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VRS impact:
That's now two CAC titles for Legacy, while
"m0NESY is the best AWPer in the world but it's 5v5, it's about the best team." - saadzin
latto took his second straight CAC MVP, and Legacy's win means m0NESY's grand-final record falls to 0-8 across this stretch.
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#Legacy #CAC
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Their CT-side sits at 56.4% (good for 7th). A balanced, in-form champion heading into the Cologne Major.
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).
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#NAVI
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CS2Analytics is the home of the VRS in real time. We take Valve's official methodology, run it on live data, and build the tools around it, making it easy to follow competitive CS2 through the lens of the VRS. Whether you obsess over every point or just want to know what's going on, it's all here.
Let's walk through our main features:
The VRS, recalculated after every single match and faithful to Valve's official methodology, no more waiting for the monthly snapshot! Under the hood: we keep live data in memory and update the data payload with every new completed match. This gives us a unique advantage with sub 150ms full VRS recalculation time, yes, faster than an eye blink. Track every position shift in real time, 24/7.
We give you the full breakdown behind every team's rating. Each score rests on four base factors: Bounty Offered, Bounty Collected, Opponent Network and LAN Wins with Head-to-Head adjustments on top. We also surface Own Network, a factor that never enters the rating itself, but powers Opponent Network when they beat this team. For the team VRS, there's no black box - every point traces back to a real result.
A ranking built on the official VRS concept, calculated for each map in the active pool. We have isolated each individual map performance and rank each team in that environment. Exact same VRS mechanics, but only on per-map basis. As fans of the mechanics, we isolated each individual map result and ran a separate VRS rating for every map. These are fully independent rankings, one map has no effect on another. Now you can see each team's VRS strength on a specific map!
The VRS concept, but for individual players. Instead of ranking rosters we directly rank each individual player, while maintaining true VRS methodology. We transform each single match into a 5 by 5 matrix, where each player performance contribute to the match result.: using pure VRS formulas and mechanics, we break a single match into a 5x5 matrix - which gives each player's direct contribution to a team win, on an event or in a match. Access a clear view of how each player contributes to their team's overall VRS!
Every event gets its own impact view. In real time while it's running and once it's finished. We snapshot the standings right before the event starts, add ONLY the matches from that event, and recalculate it in a vacuum, with no other tournaments interfering. The result is the clean effect of this event alone: each team's old and new rank, the points gained, and how far they moved.
Every upcoming match comes with a prediction of each team's chance to win, derived purely from their VRS points. It relies on nothing but the ratings, and we validated it against historical match data to make it as accurate as possible.
Before a match is even played, see what a win would do to each team's VRS. We forecast the outcome factor by factor, every SEED factor and the Head-to-Head adjustment, and show exactly how each one moves, where the points come from, and where the team lands in the rankings.
Run any tournament from start to finish, the full bracket of a Major, from the opening stage to the playoffs, or any event you like. Click the winners yourself, or use “VRS Fill” to auto-pick the favorites when you're not sure who's stronger.
After every single match, the VRS is recalculated and the impact updates live on the panel. This isn't just a results simulator, it's a VRS simulator. See exactly how each team's points and ranking move in a vacuum under any scenario you build!
The Major Pick'Em you know but backed by real math. We run your picks through our VRS model and simulator to show your chances of getting them right, broken down for every level from a perfect 10/10 down to 0/10. Сheck your odds against the model before you commit!
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