The Singapore seedings were fixed on 2 November, so this week is about form, a $250,000 first prize and new names settling in before the Major.
BLAST Rivals Season 2 starts in Hong Kong on Wednesday, and for all eight teams it is the final stop before the PGL Major Singapore. Six of them, MOUZ, Team Vitality, FURIA, Team Spirit, Team Falcons and Legacy, are invited straight to the Major’s Stage 3 on 2 December. G2 Esports and FUT Esports start in Stage 2 on 28 November.
The event runs from 11 to 15 November with $1,000,000 in prize money, $250,000 of it for the winners. The eight teams play in two groups of four, double elimination and Bo3. Group winners go straight to the semi-finals, the second and third-placed teams to the quarter-finals, and the fourth-placed teams go home. The playoffs are played in front of fans at AsiaWorld-Arena, and Sunday’s grand final is a Bo5. Groups, prize money and streams are on our tournament page.
Four openers on Wednesday
The first series starts on .
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G2Group B, Thursday follows the same rhythm: the two opening losers in each group meet in an elimination match, and the two winners play for a semi-final place. The quarter-finals start on , and the grand final on .
Two of the openers come with history. Vitality beat Falcons 3-2 in the first Rivals final in Copenhagen in May 2025, and Falcons lost the Hong Kong final a year ago as well, 3-1 to FURIA. Legacy against FURIA is a meeting of the top two teams in the Americas, and FURIA beat Legacy 2-1 at the Thunderpick World Championship in October.
The seeds are set, the form is not
Valve’s standings on 2 November decided both the Major field and the seeding inside each stage, so a title in Hong Kong will not move anyone up in Singapore. The results count in future standings, and they are the last proof of form any of these teams can bring to the Major.
The Rivals invites themselves were handed out on the October list, and a month has changed a lot.
| Team | VRS 5 October | VRS 2 November | Points | Major start |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOUZ | 4 | 1 | 1,960 | Stage 3 |
| Vitality | 3 | 2 | 1,922 | Stage 3 |
| FURIA | 7 | 3 | 1,912 | Stage 3 |
| Spirit | 1 | 5 | 1,842 | Stage 3 |
| Falcons | 6 | 7 | 1,764 | Stage 3 |
| FUT | 8 | 8 | 1,721 | Stage 2 |
| Legacy | 2 | 9 | 1,662 | Stage 3 |
| G2 | 5 | 11 | 1,616 | Stage 2 |
Spirit led the world on 5 October and are now fifth. Legacy have fallen from second to ninth and G2 from fifth to 11th, while MOUZ and FURIA have climbed to first and third.
MOUZ arrive as the team to beat
MOUZ come straight from the IEM Beijing title. They beat The MongolZ 3-0 in Sunday’s final, finished the event 11-0 in maps, and their in-game leader Dorian “xertioN” Berman was named MVP. It is their second trophy since he took over the calls in April, and the run took MOUZ from 11th in May to the top of the standings.
Their first opponents are the team in the worst shape of the eight. G2 have lost six series in a row, their last series win was a 2-0 over ShindeN on 5 October, and they left both Bucharest and Beijing without a series win.
Vitality get Dan “apEX” Madesclaire back after he missed PGL Masters Bucharest for the birth of his child. jL played there, and Vitality finished fourth after MOUZ swept them in the third-place match. That spell is why jL, not apEX, is on Vitality’s invited roster for Singapore, with apEX registered as the substitute who swaps in, as PGL’s locked lists showed on Monday. Hong Kong is the first chance for the five to play together again, and they won the previous Rivals, beating NAVI 3-0 in the Fort Worth final in May.
FURIA defend, Falcons search
FURIA won the Thunderpick World Championship and PGL Masters Bucharest in October, then went out of IEM Beijing in the quarter-finals, 2-1 to BetBoom. It is also one of the last events for Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo, who retires at the end of the year and passed ZywOo for the most clutches won on LAN in Beijing.
Falcons are the reigning Major champions after beating FURIA 3-0 in the Cologne final in June, but they have not won an event since. Beijing ended in the group stage, and coach zonic admitted afterwards that Dust2 is the only map they trust, and not even that one fully.
Spirit have not played since they went out of Bucharest in ninth to 11th place. They won BLAST Open Porto and the Esports World Cup earlier in the season, and donk and company start against a FUT side with a new face.
New names at FUT and Legacy
FUT play with Álvaro “SunPayus” García, who joined from G2 on 1 October. He played four matches before FUT’s quarter-final exit in Bucharest, one short of counting on their roster in Valve’s standings, so cmtry, now at Astralis, is still on FUT’s invited roster. PGL’s list has FUT playing the Major with SunPayus and cmtry as the substitute.
Legacy have ksloks, the 21-year-old who replaced n1ssim on 28 October and has never played a Major. Since beating G2 3-0 in the FISSURE Playground 3 final in September, Legacy have finished 12th to 14th in Bucharest and 13th to 16th in Beijing.
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