KSCERATO went 47-28 as FURIA climbed out of early holes on both maps to beat Falcons for the first time in a year.
FURIA beat Team Falcons 2-0 (Ancient 16-14, Dust2 13-5) in the first semi-final of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 in Hong Kong on Saturday and will defend their title against Spirit in the Bo5 Grand Final on . It ends a run of five straight series wins for Falcons in the matchup, which included the 3-0 in the IEM Cologne Major final in June. Falcons go out in 3rd-4th place.
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FalconsStatsAncient 16-14, Dust2 13-5
Falcons had won every series between the teams since February, five in a row, and FURIA’s last series win in the matchup was the 3-1 in the final of this event in Hong Kong a year ago. FURIA ended that run on the same stage, and on both maps they did it after Falcons had started faster.
Six rounds that changed Ancient
Ancient was Falcons’ pick, and for six rounds it looked like the right one. Falcons won the pistol round and led 5-1, and FURIA’s only round in that spell came from a four-kill round by Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo.
The turn came on a half-buy. FURIA won the seventh round without full rifles, and Falcons never found their footing on the T side again. FURIA took six in a row to lead 7-5 at the break, won the second pistol round with three kills from yuurih and kept going to 10-5. That was nine rounds in a row, built on mid control and quick rotations.
Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato was the best player on the server. He finished the map 28-17 with 100.1 ADR and 86.7% KAST. On the other side, Finn “karrigan” Andersen went 9-23 with 38.7 ADR on his own team’s pick. Falcons have now lost their map pick in both of their playoff series in Hong Kong, after G2 took their Dust2 in the quarter-final.
kyousuke’s hold, molodoy’s finish
Falcons did come back. After a tactical timeout, Maksim “kyousuke” Lukin held the A site almost on his own, taking four kills as FURIA came at him from several angles. It started a run of five rounds that levelled the map at 10-10.
Mareks “YEKINDAR” Gaļinskis answered. With Falcons trying a run boost out of mid, he was already aimed at the spot and took the headshot, and FURIA reached 12-10. Falcons won the last two rounds of regulation to force overtime.
In overtime, Nikola “NiKo” Kovač stuck a defuse with KSCERATO a few metres away to level it at 13-13, but FURIA won three of the next four. Danil “molodoy” Golubenko won the AWP duel in the decisive overtime round and finished it with a wallbang headshot on the Falcons player planting the bomb. He ended the map 25-16, level with Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, Falcons’ best player on 86.7% KAST.
A 4-0 start that meant nothing
Dust2 was FURIA’s pick, but it was also the map Falcons had picked against G2 a day earlier, and for four rounds it looked like theirs again. Falcons won the pistol round on the CT side and went 4-0 up.
Then the game stopped. Falcons had won a round to go 5-2 up when it was replayed from 4-2, after yuurih dropped out of the server and karrigan picked up a USP kill. Both teams agreed to the reset, the crowd booed karrigan anyway, and FURIA came back from the technical pause looking like a different team. They took the next five rounds to lead 7-4, reading Falcons’ aggression through long and tunnels, and led 7-5 at the break.
molodoy set the tone in the AWP duels. In one post-plant he missed his first shot, KSCERATO took the next fight for him, and when m0NESY came for the site, molodoy predicted the peak and won the duel. He finished Dust2 18-8 with 94.4% KAST.
KSCERATO and YEKINDAR close it out
FURIA won the second pistol round, and the round after it belonged to KSCERATO. Falcons came at the site with rifles, and he held the door for a quad kill, the last of them on a NiKo left with 1 HP. He finished the map 19-11 with 119.4 ADR and the series 47-28, the best numbers on the server across both maps.
YEKINDAR, 15-20 on Ancient, was the other half of the CT side. He went 11-3 with 169.5 ADR in the six rounds after the switch, including a four-kill round off catwalk, and FURIA did not drop a round in the second half. From 0-4, they won 13 of the last 14 rounds.
FalleN finished Dust2 5-12 with 31.6 ADR, but his calls carried the map, and his comms showed how much he was enjoying it.
Falcons had no answer. kyousuke, 25-23 on Ancient, went 5-12 with 32.8 ADR on Dust2, and NiKo was the only Falcons player above 63 ADR on the map.
A Bucharest rematch on Sunday
FURIA play Spirit, who beat MOUZ 2-0 in the other semi-final on Saturday. It is a rematch from PGL Masters Bucharest, where Spirit beat FURIA 2-1 before FURIA went on to win the event with a 3-2 over Nemiga in the final. FalleN, who retires at the end of the year, has one more final with the team before the PGL Major Singapore, where FURIA and Falcons both start in Stage 3 on 2 December.
