Four times they could have gone home. Four times they did not.
Team Vitality refuse to be finished. The French roster came through their fourth consecutive elimination match on Saturday morning at BLAST Open Fall 2026 in Porto.
FURIA took the opening map of the quarter-final, 13-6 on Nuke. Vitality answered 13-11 on Cache and then took Dust II apart 13-4 to close the series out.
Robin “ropz” Kool finished with 44 kills. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut added 39. Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis put up 41 for FURIA and died 47 times, the worst number on either side.
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MOUZ have been resting while Vitality kept playing
The reward for surviving is MOUZ on Saturday. The Group B winners skipped the quarter-finals entirely and walked straight into the last four.
Team Spirit, who topped Group A, meet Team Falcons in the other semi. Falcons swept G2 Esports 2-0, taking Inferno 13-6 and Dust II 13-9. Nikola “NiKo” Kovac top-fragged that series with 37 kills, ahead of Maksim “kyousuke” Lukin on 36 and Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov on 32.
Semi-finals are best-of-three. Sunday’s final is best-of-five.
$1.1 million, and a bracket built to punish anyone who slips
The Counter-Strike 2 event opened with 16 teams in two double-elimination groups. Group winners went to the semi-finals, runners-up dropped into the quarter-finals as seeds, third-placed teams came through the lower bracket. Everyone else flew home early.
The champions collect $250,000, split $150,000 to the players and $100,000 to the club, plus three BLAST Frequent Flyer Tokens. The losing finalist gets $160,000.
G2 and FURIA split fifth place and $75,000 each. Vitality are still in it, on a route nobody would have chosen, and MOUZ are next.
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