BLAST Rivals Grand Final Preview: Spirit vs FURIA Best-of-Five
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Spirit and FURIA meet in the BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 grand final on Sunday, November 15, at 9:00 AM Paris time (3:00 AM ET). The best-of-five in Hong Kong pays $125,000 plus a $125,000 club share, and both finalists reached it without losing a series.
Saturday’s semifinals
Spirit beat MOUZ 2-0. Mirage finished 13-7 after a 9:3 first half, and magixx opened the series with an ace in round 8. Ancient was tighter at 13-11. Spirit led 8:4 at the half, MOUZ took seven of the next twelve rounds, and Spirit still closed it out. tN1R went 37-26 over the two maps with a 1.47 rating.
FURIA needed overtime to get past Falcons. Ancient ended 16-14 (7:5 and 5:7 in regulation, 4:2 in overtime), and Dust2 became a 13-5 win built on a 6:0 second half. KSCERATO went 47-28 with a 1.69 rating and molodoy added 43-24 at 1.59.
| Date (Paris) | Semifinal | Maps (first-named team first) |
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| Nov 14, 9:00 AM | Spirit 2-0 MOUZ | Mirage 13-7, Ancient 13-11 |
| Nov 14, 11:35 AM | FURIA 2-0 Falcons | Ancient 16-14 (overtime), Dust2 13-5 |
Two paths to the final
Spirit dropped two maps on the way, including a 0-13 on Nuke against FUT, the first 13-0 in CS2 for Spirit according to HLTV. FURIA dropped one, Inferno 5-13 against Vitality, and then won Mirage 13-0, the first 13-0 defeat in Vitality’s history according to HLTV.
| Team | Series won | Maps lost |
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| Spirit | FUT 2-1, G2 2-1, MOUZ 2-0 | Nuke 0-13 (FUT), Mirage 9-13 (G2) |
| FURIA | Legacy 2-0, Vitality 2-1, Falcons 2-0 | Inferno 5-13 (Vitality) |
Head-to-head and the veto
HLTV ranks FURIA second and Spirit fourth, and Valve’s VRS shows the same order. The map history points the other way: HLTV’s head-to-head page lists 17 map wins for Spirit against 8 for FURIA, and three of those maps went to overtime. The latest meeting was at PGL Masters Bucharest on October 26, where Spirit took Mirage 13-11 and Nuke 13-7 and FURIA won Ancient 13-8.
HLTV’s veto simulation is a projection, not a result. It has Spirit removing Inferno (76% likely) and FURIA removing Anubis (68%). Dust2 and Mirage sit at 99% to be played, Nuke and Cache at 98%, and Ancient at 90%.
What the final pays
The winner takes $125,000 plus a $125,000 club share, and the runner-up $75,000 plus $125,000. MOUZ and Falcons, the beaten semifinalists, take $40,000 plus a $90,000 club share each. Every result sits in the BLAST Rivals tracker, and the semifinal preview covers the round before.
Road ahead: the PGL Major Singapore tracker picks up from November 24, and the esports calendar lists the dates after that. All scores, rankings and records above come from HLTV. The header image is a file photo of the Dreamhack Winter 2018 mainstage, not from this event, by Edvard Hansson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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