Mads Wildenhoff

Vitality have not lifted a trophy since the summer player break. In the Blast Open London, they survived a scare, defeating M80 2–1 after dropping the opener in horrific fashion.

A light CS2 update delivers a handful of quality tweaks across maps, animations, and networking.

ESL confirms 16 invited teams for IEM Chengdu 2025, the final IEM of the year in China this November, with 1,000,000 dollars and Grand Slam points at stake.

MIBR has benched Rafael “saffee” Costa after a difficult 2025, he averaged a 0.96 rating. No replacement is announced yet, but the team is expected to secure a new primary AWPer soon to build chemistry and settle roles before the StarLadder Budapest Major later this year.

The MongolZ surprised everyone by beating Vitality in the semi finals and then Aurora in the finals to take their first S-tier trophy. Today we'll take a look at the standout performers from the event sorted by rating.

Vitality, Spirit, MOUZ, and FaZe headline a 16-team BLAST Open London battle, with only six tickets to Wembley up for grabs.

Shortly after announcing the benching of EliGe, FaZe has announced Polish rifler jcobbb as his replacement. Earlier today Betclic, jcobbb's former team, announced he had been bought out by a tier 1 team.

EliGe and FaZe have, by mutual decision, benched him. He has now reacted on X writing: "Thank you for ride from everyone at FaZe! End of a chapter now and will be starting a new one coming soon."

FaZe has announced on X that they have benched Elige after mutual consent. This comes after the team lost 2-1 to Aurora at the Esports World Cup. Where EliGe is going is still unknown.

Day 2 at the Esports World Cup 2025 went to the favorites, as Falcons swept G2, MOUZ outlasted Virtus.pro, The MongolZ edged 3DMAX, and Vitality cruised past TYLOO with a monster ZywOo showing.

donk and ZywOo falls in rating, as we compare rating 2.1 and the new HLTV rating 3.0

The MongolZ dominate the list of the with three players and bLitz topping the list with a crazy 1.68 rating.