🕹 Top VRS gainers - last 30 days (Apr 5 → May 5, 2026)

🇪🇺 FUT - +190 pts (#12 → #4)
🇩🇰 Astralis - +111 pts (#10 → #6)
🇫🇷 3DMAX - +96 pts (#24 → #15)

📌 The story behind the numbers:
- FUT broke Vitality's 16-map LAN Dust 2 win streak in the BLAST Rivals opener.
- Astralis quietly stacked points all month and now place three players in the global VRS Top 16 (phzy, jabbi, Staehr).
- 3DMAX climbed nine ranks in 30 days.

🕹 Worth knowing
VRS rolls on a 6-month window, so a +190 swing in a single month means a team is converting at a rate that reshapes their entire half-year picture.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#VRS #FUT #Astralis #3DMAX

🇫🇷 3DMAX are the most-talked-about roster of the off-season!

📣 Reported buyout interest, per KRL via Hotspawn and Dust2us:

- Heretics - rumored deal, reportedly fell through
- Envy (ex-EnVyUs) - currently making inquiries to return to CS
- Karmine Corp - mentioned in talks
- VP - mentioned in talks
- Gentle Mates - mentioned in talks
- TSM - mentioned in talks
- Luminosity - mentioned in talks

🧐 Why everyone wants in:

- 3DMAX gained +96 VRS pts in 30 days, climbing from #24 to #15
- All-French roster with NBK- as assistant coach
- Active Tier-1 invites from VRS positioning, despite missing the Cologne Major
- Buying them is buying market access, not just a team

A roster that didn't make the Major has become the most contested asset on the market. Two French orgs, two American orgs one Canadian org, one Spain org and one Armenian all chasing the same squad. None of it is signed yet.

🧐 Worth knowing
Envy last played CS in 2017, but their roots run deep. Their 2015 DreamHack Cluj-Napoca Major was won with kennyS, NBK-, and a 22-year-old apEX. Eleven years on, apEX is captain of Vitality. Envy might be returning through the same French scene that gave them that Major in the first place.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#3DMAX

🕹 On HLTV , Professeur said "yuurih had dogshit form" and FURIA should bring in insani.

Two weeks earlier, HLTV named yuurih All-Star anchor of IEM Rio. The room is split.

🕹 The case for replacement (Professeur's argument):
- FURIA's downward trend continued at BLAST Rivals - out in the opener
- Recent map ratings have dropped vs Tier-1 opposition
- insani is available, FURIA needs a shake-up

🕹 The case against (the numbers):
- yuurih: HLTV All-Star anchor of IEM Rio 2026, called "by far his best event of 2026"
- 3-year contract signed July 2025, locked through 2028
- Vitality's playoff path went through stopping him specifically

The verdict depends on which yuurih you watched last — the Rio anchor, or the Fort Worth opener. Probably both are real. Which one is "current form" is the actual question.

🧐 Worth knowing
Professeur is a French scene voice and HLTV Confirmed co-host. His takes set agendas, but yuurih's contract through 2028 says FURIA management isn't reading the same trend.

#yuurih #FURIA

🕹 CS2's monthly peak fell by 149,019 players in April — an 8.7% drop, the worst since the summer.

🕹 Steam concurrent player peak, last 6 months (per SteamDB):

- April 2026 - 1,573,122 (−8.7%)
- March 2026 - 1,722,141 (+5.7%)
- February 2026 - 1,629,389 (−1.7%)
- January 2026 - 1,657,189 (Premier Season 4 launched Jan 21)
- December 2025 - 1,630,561
- November 2025 - 1,624,130

🕹 Year-over-year:
- April 2025 peak: 1,862,531
- April 2026 peak: 1,573,122
Drop: 289,409 - about 15.5%

Cache returned on April 28 after seven years away. With only two days left in the month, it didn't have time to reverse the trend — and the early "Last 30 days" reading (−1.1%) suggests the bump hasn't been dramatic either.

🧐 Worth knowing
March 2026 was the only CS2 month above 1.7M peak this year. The peak landed during BLAST Open Rotterdam, which Vitality won at the end of March. Big tournaments and player counts move together.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#SteamDB #Cache

🕹 Maps VRS - Dust 2 standings, May 6, 2026

🇪🇺 Vitality - 2024
🇪🇺 NAVI - 1903
🇷🇺 Spirit - 1811
🇷🇺 PARIVISION - 1712
🇷🇺 Aurora - 1706
🇧🇷 FURIA - 1702
🇪🇺 FUT - 1699
🇪🇺 FaZe - 1602
🇪🇺 G2 - 1544
🇺🇦 Monte - 1543

🙇‍♂️ The shape of the list:

- Vitality lead by 120 points — the largest map-specific gap they hold across the active pool.
- Spirit climb to #3, sliding past PARIVISION. The donk-magixx-sh1ro-tN1R-zont1x five remain Dust 2's third-best lineup despite missing BLAST Rivals.
- Aurora and FURIA both jump 4 ranks - the biggest movers on Dust 2 this update.
- G2 and Monte jump 3 and 8, leaving G2 just 1 point above Monte at the bottom of the Top 10.

🕹 Worth knowing
Vitality's Dust 2 record on LAN since the Austin Major: 17 wins in a row before FUT broke the streak at BLAST Rivals (opener), followed up by two flawless sweeps 13-3 against G2 and NAVI.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#MapsVRS #Dust2

🕹 Premier players still pick the same maps, no matter who's on top of the pro scene.

Most-played maps in Premier — March 2026 (per Leetify, 5.2M matches):

🕌 Mirage - 25.5%
🌅 Dust 2 - 23.1%
⛪️ Inferno - 14.5%
🎇 Nuke - 12.1%
🏞 Ancient - 12.1%
🏜 Anubis - 7.4%
🚅 Overpass - 5.3%

What this tells us:
- Nearly half of all Premier matches (48.6%) are played on just two maps - Mirage and Dust 2.
- Overpass is now the least-picked map in the active pool - chosen 5x less often than Mirage.
- Despite Cache return to CS2 on April 28 it is not on this chart yet, since its not added to official Map Pool.

🧐 Worth knowing:
At the pro level, Mirage was the most-played series at BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 (8 series). At Premier level, it's the most-played map full stop. The community and the pros agree on Mirage.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Mirage #Dust2

🕹 CS2 Premier match volume just jumped 38% in one quarter - AND IT'S NOT EVEN RELATED TO THE CACHE!

🕹 Premier match count, per Leetify:
- Q3 2025 - 10.82M matches
- Q4 2025 - 11.16M matches (+3.2%)
- Q1 2026 - 15.39M matches (+37.9%)

🇺🇦 Then Cache returned on April 28:
- That's more than Dust 2 and Mirage combined on the same day
- Cache held above Dust 2 and Mirage for about four days after release, then started settling back toward the pack
- By May 3 it was around 20% — still active, but no longer dominating

🧐 Worth knowing:
Premier volume was already climbing hard before April 28. The Q1 surge happened on the existing seven-map pool. Whatever Q2 looks like, the baseline was already set high.

The +37.9% jump came before Cache existed. cache can affect overall online, returning old players to all modes.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Premier #Cache #Leetify

🔥 flameZ, ropz, w0nderful & makazze got EVP for 🏆 BLAST Rivals Season 1

📺 EVPs:

🇮🇱 flameZ - (Major EVPs 1, Total EVPs 17)
🇪🇪 ropz - (Major EVPs 4, Total EVPs 37)
🇺🇦 w0nderful - (Major EVPs 3, Total EVPs 8)
🇽🇰 makazze - (Major EVPs 1, Total EVPs 4)


🕹 HLTV's All-Star team for BLAST Rivals 2026 S1 is out. Three Vitality, one NAVI, one G2.

⭐️ The All-Star five:
🇫🇮 Aleksib (NAVI) - IGL
🇫🇷 ZywOo (Vitality) - AWPer
🇮🇱 flameZ (Vitality) - Opener
🇪🇪 ropz (Vitality) - Closer
🇮🇱 HeavyGod (G2) - Anchor

🧐 Worth knowing:
🇪🇺 NAVI placed Aleksib in the All-Star, w0nderful and makazze in the EVPs. Three of NAVI's five made HLTV's individual awards from a tournament they lost 0-3 in the final.
🇺🇦 Aleksib's All-Star spot came with a 90.0% Win After Opening Kill rate at the event.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BLASTRivals #AllStar #NAVI #Vitality

🇧🇿 BC.Game are bootcamping for 🏆 IEM Atlanta. Their opening match is in 5 days - against the world's #1.

🕹 What's lined up:
- May 11, 18:00 UTC - Vitality vs BC.Game (BO3, IEM Atlanta Group A opener)
- Senzu makes his BC.Game debut on this match
- ScrunK steps in as stand-in IGL for Atlanta and CAC 2026
- BC.Game roster: s1mple, electroNic, krazy, Senzu, ScrunK

🧐 Worth knowing
- For BC.Game, this is the first proper test of the new shape. For Vitality, it's a warm-up before IEM Cologne Major.
- 🇺🇦 s1mple vs 🇫🇷 ZywOo headlines the entire IEM Atlanta opening day. They last met at IEM Kraków in January, where Vitality took the series 2-0 on Dust 2 and Overpass.
- Vitality #1 in VRS, on a five-trophy streak. BC.Game #78. But Vitality is tired and BC Game has been practicing, maybe there are chances

👉 cs2analytics.com

#BCGame #Vitality #IEMAtlanta

🏆 PGL Astana opens with an 18-year age gap between its youngest and oldest players on stage.

👴 The numbers (per Esports Charts, coaches excluded):
- Event average age - 24.1 years old
- Oldest player - 🇩🇰karrigan (🇩🇰Falcons), 36
- Youngest - qw1nk1 (🇷🇺K27), 18

📌 The age stack:
- Oldest team - Aurora at 27.4 average
- Youngest team - K27 sits at 20.6, four more teams under 22(HEROIC, The MongolZ, magic, PARIVISION)
- Monte at 23.9, Fisher College at 24.3 - this is event median

🧐 Worth knowing
1. karrigan is twice as old as qw1nk1. They will meet on opening day -🇩🇰 Falcons vs 🇷🇺K27, May 9.
The 36-year-old player begins his era with Falcons after a record-breaking stay with FaZe. In turn, 18-year-old player qw1nk1 starts his first major event in history.

2. 🇪🇺Vitality, the #1 team in the world that rolled over through every big event in 2026, is skipping PGL Astana. Also, 🇪🇺NaVi, the #2 team in the world, will not be coming - so it's not so obvious who will take the trophy here)

3. Age math reflects the composition of the participants - old squads are mixed with promising academy-level players. This is probably what exactly works - 🇪🇺Vitality is therefore an indicator, Apex drilled young Zaywoo so maybe that work...

📎 Source: Esports Charts - https://x.com/EsportsCharts/status/2052072450851008552

#PGLAstana #karrigan

🕹 Americas Team VRS - May 7, 2026

Teams:

🇧🇷 #1 FURIA (1728 pts) - Global #10
🇧🇷 #2 Legacy (1566 pts) - Global #14
🇧🇷 #3 paiN (1531 pts) - Global #17
🇦🇷 #4 9z (1507 pts) - Global #19
🌎 #5 M80 (1408 pts) - Global #26
🇧🇷 #6 MIBR (1404 pts) - Global #27
🌎 #7 Wildcard (1373 pts) - Global #32
🇺🇸 #8 NRG (1368 pts) - Global #33
🇧🇷 #9 Sharks (1334 pts) - Global #37
🇨🇦 #10 Gaimin Gladiators (1321 pts) - Global #39

🙇‍♂️ The shape of the region:

- FURIA lead by 162 points - a wide margin at the top of the AM region.
- Legacy keep climbing — the arT-led project is the biggest riser, +4 ranks.
- M80 dropped 9 in one update, the steepest fall on the board. NRG followed with −7.
- MIBR sit just 4 points behind M80 — the gap between #5 and #6 is essentially nothing.
- Gaimin Gladiators climb into the top 10 with a refreshed Brazilian core. fer is 34, returning to a Tier-1 LAN after over 2 years away.

🧐 Worth knowing:
1. 🇧🇷 six of the top 10 are Brazilian organizations.
2. 🇦🇷 Argentinian representation comes through 9z.
3. 🇺🇸 North America holds three slots - M80, Wildcard, NRG.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#AmericasVRS #FURIA #Legacy #paiN