FalleN went 22-13 on Mirage in one of his last events before retirement, and KSCERATO led the server as the defending champions began with a 13-10, 13-7 win.
FURIA are into the playoffs of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 after a 2-0 win over Legacy in Wednesday’s opening match in Hong Kong. The defending champions took their own Inferno pick 13-10 and then won Legacy’s Mirage 13-7, and they now play for a direct semi-final place in the Group A upper final on .
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LegacyStatsInferno 13-10, Mirage 13-7
tryVintage FalleN on Legacy’s map
Mirage was Legacy’s pick, and it was over as a contest before they won a round. FURIA started on the CT side and went 9-0 up, with Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo at the centre of it. He opened the map with four kills on B in the pistol round and kept going: by the break he had 18 kills, a first half he had not produced since August 2024, according to BLAST’s broadcast. The organiser posted his numbers with a simple question.
It was a fitting map for it. FalleN is retiring at the end of the year, and his aggressive AWP setups on the Mirage CT side a decade ago are still part of how the map is played. On Wednesday he did most of his damage with rifles, and late in the second half with a Desert Eagle, finishing Mirage 22-13 with 95.7 ADR.
Legacy did get something out of the half. try held on in a 1v3 at 9-1, and Legacy took the last round of the half as well.
They also won the second pistol round, and the second half finished 4-4, but from 3-9 the gap never closed. FURIA outmanoeuvred ksloks in a late B split to reach map point, and needed only one more round to close the series.
FURIA let Inferno slip, then took it back
The series could have been even shorter. FURIA led their Inferno pick 6-1 on the T side, with FalleN’s calling and YEKINDAR’s entries giving Legacy no read, before Eduardo “dumau” Wolkmer and latto held B and dragged their side back to 7-5 at the half and 8-8 after it.
The answer came from molodoy, with four kills in one round on A, and from yuurih, who left the setup to flank and leave arT in a 1v4 at 12-9. Legacy still won one more round despite a KSCERATO spray transfer that caught arT before he knew what was happening.
YEKINDAR ended the map with four kills on banana. Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato finished Inferno 19-9 and the series 35-20 with 87.8 ADR and 90.7% KAST, the best line on the server.
Legacy’s new shape is not working yet
Legacy have now won three of their last 14 series. They came to Hong Kong two weeks after benching n1ssim for ksloks, with roles moved around to fit the new rifler in. On Mirage that meant arT, usually the connector player, anchoring B, and the in-game leader had a rough morning: 4-18 on Inferno and 9-36 over the series. try, with 34 kills, was the only Legacy player clearly in the positive.
It is a quick turn for a team that beat FURIA 2-0 on the way to the FISSURE Playground 3 title in September. FURIA have now won the last two meetings.
Vitality or Falcons next
FURIA meet the winner of Vitality against Falcons on , with a place in Saturday’s semi-finals at stake. Legacy face the loser in the lower final at , and another defeat would send them home from their last event before Stage 3 of the PGL Major Singapore.
