🇪🇺 NAVI close out 🇪🇺 FaZe 2-0 to take Group B's opening match.

Anubis went 13-7, Ancient was tighter at 13-11. The 93/7 forecast played out clean - even with FaZe debuting their new Twistzz-led, neityu-stand-in lineup, they couldn't take a map.

🇽🇰 makazze 1.46 — top of the server. frozen 1.07 the lone bright spot for 🇪🇺 FaZe.

NAVI move on through the upper bracket. FaZe head to the lower side.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #NAVI #FaZe

🔥 First map for 🇧🇷 FURIA- next Nuke

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Wwkt6b9GU

#BLASTRivals #FURIA #GamerLegion

🇩🇪 GamerLegion drag the defending Rivals champs to a decider - Mirage to settle it.

FURIA took Inferno 13-5, but GL flipped it hard on Nuke 13-5. The 80/20 forecast just got a lot tighter.

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Wwkt6b9GU

#BLASTRivals #FURIA #GamerLegion

🔥 Upset of Day 1 - 🇩🇪 GamerLegion (#22) take down defending Rivals champs 🇧🇷 FURIA (#8) 2-1!

The 80/20 forecast flipped. After dropping Inferno 5-13, GL ran Nuke 13-5 and closed it on Mirage 13-10 in regulation.

🌟 PR top of the server with 1.31 - KSCERATO led 🇧🇷 FURIA at 1.22 but couldn't carry it alone.

🇩🇪 GL move on through Group B winners' bracket. FURIA's title defense already on the ropes.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #GamerLegion #FURIA

🇺🇦 Aleksib drew a clear line ahead of 🇺🇦 NAVI's 🏆 BLAST Rivals run.

"We're contenders for the grand final at every tournament. The real test is always 🇪🇺 Vitality — we can beat any other team, and honestly we already have."

He went further on the trophy question:
"We'd be glad to lift one, but I don't think any trophy without beating Vitality would feel fully deserved. We want to feel we earned it."

🕹 Worth knowing:
1. 🇺🇦 NAVI have faced 🇪🇺 Vitality twice at recent big events — the BLAST Open Rotterdam grand final and the IEM Rio QF — and lost both.

2. NAVI opened BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 with a 2-0 over 🇪🇺 FaZe earlier today.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #BLASTRivals #Aleksib

🇺🇦 Cache is back, and someone has been waiting longer than the rest of us.

Among players from 🕹 HLTV's current top-20 teams, 🇫🇷 apEX has played Cache more than anyone — 205 maps. 🇩🇰 Karrigan and 🇧🇷 XANTARES are the closest at 174 and 152.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. Cache was first added to Active Duty in 2014 as the very first community-made map ever to make the pool. It got cycled out for Vertigo on March 28, 2019 - and stayed out for 7 years.

2. Valve bought the rights from FMPONE in May 2025 and added it back to CS2 on April 28, 2026.

3. So far it's only in Competitive, Casual, DM, and Retakes — not in Active Duty yet.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#CS2 #Cache #apEX

🏆 Day 1 of BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 is in the books - and the brackets shifted hard.

🕹 What happened

🇪🇺 Vitality 2-1 🇹🇷FUT (won the streak-snapper)

🇪🇺G2 2-0 🇩🇰Astralis (one of two clean upsets)

🇺🇦NAVI 2-0 🇪🇺FaZe (form held)

🇩🇪 GamerLegion 2-1 🇧🇷FURIA (Day 1's biggest shock - defending Rivals champs out of the upper bracket)

📅 Today's matches (UTC)
- 18:00 - Vitality vs G2
- 20:30 - FUT vs Astralis
- 23:00 - FURIA vs FaZe
- 01:30 AM (01.05.26) - Navi vs GamerLegion

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #CS2

🇺🇦 NAVI's 🗺 Ancient strength isn't just 🇽🇰 makazze - 🇺🇦 b1t is the best B-anchor in the world on this map.

He holds B around 6.6% more efficiently than the average anchor in comparable situations — top of the global list for tier - "+1.5" events in 2026.

🕹 Worth knowing:
At the other end of the same metric, xiELO is bottom of the chart at -14.48% - losing the plant or failing to stack damage before it lands far more often than peers.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#NAVI #Ancient

🔥 First match on today - 🇪🇺FUT (#4) vs 🇩🇰 Astralis (#7)!

🏆 Tournament info
BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 · Group A · Lower Bracket Quarter-final
Apr 30 · 18:00 UTC | BO3

📊 Win chance by the VRS model
🇪🇺FUT — 51%
🇩🇰Astralis — 49%

🕹 Worth knowing

1. 🇪🇺FUT come in off pushing world #1 Vitality to three maps yesterday — with their head coach coolio still standing in for IGL lauNX, who's out for health reasons.

2. 🇩🇰 Astralis dropped a clean 0-2 to G2 in their Day 1 opener. Fresh off a deep run at PGL Bucharest 2026, where they reached the grand final before falling 1-3 to FUT.

The risk math: this match is a do-or-die for both — loser is out of BLAST Rivals.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #FUT #Astralis

🔥 First map for 🇩🇰 Astralis- next Nuke

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdktWpFb6C4

#BLASTRivals #FUT #Astralis

🕹 Top 8 by Player VRS - and the leaderboard is dominated by two teams.

3× 🇪🇺 Vitality: ZywOo (#1, 2024 pts) - flameZ (#2, 1900 pts) - ropz (#4, 1898 pts)
3× 🇺🇦 NAVI: makazze (#3, 1903 pts) - iM (#6, 1872 pts) - b1t (#8, 1827 pts)

mONESY (#5, Falcons) and donk (#7, Spirit) are the only two players in the top 8 not from those two rosters.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. Player VRS decomposes a team's rating into individual contributions — so a top-8 player isn't just a fragger, it's someone whose impact across maps and rounds lifts the whole team's VRS.

2. ZywOo at 2024 pts is currently the only player above 2000.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#VRS

🇪🇺 G2 (#12) vs 🇪🇺 Vitality (#1)!

🏆 Tournament info
BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 · Group A · UB SF
Apr 30 · 20:00 UTC | BO3

📊 Win chance by VRS model
Vitality - 79%
G2 - 21%

🕹 Worth knowing

1. 🇪🇺 Vitality's three-Big-Event streak in 2026 is on the line - Kraków, Cluj-Napoca, Rotterdam. They opened the tournament with a tight 2-1 over FUT, surviving a Dust 2 streak break in the process.
2. 🇪🇺 G2 took down Astralis 2-0 to even reach this match - the same Astralis core that pushed FUT to a 5-map grand final at PGL Bucharest 2026. Last trophy lifted at BLAST Open Fall 2025 with the current core (huNter, malbsMd, MATYS, HeavyGod, SunPayus).

A win for G2 moves them up to #11 — and books the upper-bracket final against the Group B winner.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #Vitality #G2

🇩🇰 Astralis bounce back hard - 2-0 over 🇪🇺 FUT to send the Bucharest grand finalists out of 🏆 BLAST Rivals.

The 51/49 forecast played out clean. Astralis took Mirage 13-5 and closed it on Nuke 13-11 - Ancient never came up.

📊 VRS impact
🇩🇰 Astralis +34.7, jumping #7 → #4.
🇪🇺 FUT drop -11.5, falling #4 → #6.

🕹 Worth knowing

- This is Astralis's revenge for the 1-3 PGL Bucharest 2026 grand final loss to FUT - same matchup, opposite result.

- FUT exit Fort Worth without lauNX (out for health reasons), with head coach coolio still IGL stand-in.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #Astralis #FUT

🔥 First map for 🇪🇺 Vitality - next Overpass

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdktWpFb6C4

#BLASTRivals #Vitality #G2

🇪🇺 FaZe (#38) vs defending Rivals champs 🇧🇷 FURIA (#8)

🏆 Tournament info
BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 · Group B · LB QF
Apr 30 · 23:00 UTC | BO3

📊 Win chance by VRS model
🇪🇺 FaZe — 14%
🇧🇷 FURIA — 86%

🕹 Worth knowing

1. 🇧🇷 FURIA come in stinging — they were tournament favourites in Group B and got upset 2-1 by GamerLegion in their opener. KSCERATO led the team with a 1.22 rating, but couldn't carry it alone. Their title defence is on the brink.

2. 🇪🇺 FaZe lost their opener to NAVI 0-2 — debut series with the new Twistzz-led, neityu-stand-in lineup. New head coach enkay J onboard. frozen at 1.07 was the only player above 1.00 across the match.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #FURIA #FaZe

🇺🇦 NAVI (#2) vs 🇩🇪 GamerLegion (#19)

🏆 Tournament info
BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 · Group B · UB SF
Apr 30 · 23:00 UTC | BO3

📊 Win chance by VRS model
🇺🇦 NAVI — 80%
🇩🇪 GamerLegion — 20%

🕹 Worth knowing

1. 🇺🇦 NAVI rolled FaZe 2-0 in their opener with makazze on a 1.46 rating — currently #3 globally by Player VRS. They're chasing the trophy that, by Aleksib's own words, would still feel "not fully deserved" without beating 🇪🇺 Vitality.

2. 🇩🇪 GamerLegion just took out defending Rivals champs 🇧🇷 FURIA 2-1 — the upset of Day 1. PR led the server with a 1.31 rating in that match.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #NAVI #GamerLegion

🇧🇷 FURIA equalized the score - now we are waiting for D-sider Nuke!

👉 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bdktWpFb6C4

#Furia #Faze

🇪🇺 FaZe (#38) take down defending Rivals champs 🇧🇷 FURIA 2-1 to send the title holders home!

The 14/86 forecast flipped hard.
FaZe took Dust 2 13-4, FURIA answered on Mirage 13-7, and FaZe closed it on Nuke 13-3 - the most one-sided map of the series.

🏆 frozen 1.34 led the way for the new-look 🇪🇺 FaZe - first big result with Twistzz at IGL and neityu standing in. molodoy 1.18 the only FURIA player above 1.00.

🕹 VRS impact:
🇪🇺FaZe +34.7, jumping #38 → #27.
🇧🇷FURIA drop -22.0, falling #8 → #10 and out of the tournament.

FURIA's title defence is over. FaZe's debut series with the new lineup ends 0-1, but the second one - against the actual Rivals champs - is a 2-1.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #FaZe #FURIA

🇺🇦 NAVI close out Group B with a clean 2-0 over 🇩🇪 GamerLegion to book the upper bracket final.

Mirage went 13-10, Ancient was a stomp at 13-4. The 80/20 forecast played out - though Mirage was tighter than the gap suggested.

🇺🇦 w0nderful 1.97 - absolutely unreal performance, top of the server by a mile.
🇩🇪 REZ 1.10 the lone bright spot for GL.

🇺🇦 NAVI +6.5, holding #2. 🇩🇪 GL drop -4.8 but stay at #19.

GamerLegion drop to the lower bracket. NAVI move on.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #NAVI #GamerLegion

🎙 frozen on whether he'd have followed 🇩🇰 karrigan to 🇩🇰 Falcons

"Nah, come on, bro. Come on!"

In the same interview he also pushed back on the way the exit went down - frozen suggested karrigan signed a big new contract and then walked.

🕹 Worth knowing:
Karrigan officially left FaZe for Falcons on April 20, 2026 after a 5-year spell that brought the org its first Major (Antwerp 2022). FaZe missed IEM Cologne Major after a poor qualifying campaign — which directly preceded karrigan's exit.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#FaZe #frozen #karrigan