kyousuke went 24-12 on Mirage with four kills in both pistol rounds, a day after Falcons had lost all four pistols to Vitality.
Legacy are the first team out of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2. Team Falcons beat them 2-0 in Thursday morning’s Group A elimination match in Hong Kong, 13-8 on Dust2 and 13-6 on Mirage, and the reigning Major champions are into Friday’s quarter-finals.
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Before the match, Maksim “kyousuke” Lukin was the Falcons player BLAST’s analysts spent the most time on. One of them called him part of the biggest problems behind the team’s slump since the Major, pointing to his numbers against top-five teams and his form at recent events. Mirage had been one of his weakest maps, under a 1.0 rating over the last three months.
On Legacy’s own Mirage pick, he was the best player on the server by a distance. He opened the map with four headshots in the pistol round as Legacy tried to push B.
He did the same after the switch, with four more kills in the second pistol round, and finished Mirage 24-12 with 128.5 ADR. Over the series he went 40-27, eight kills more than anyone else.
Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov added 20-10 on Mirage. His flick from B across to A in the 11th round put Falcons 9-2 up, and Legacy went into the break with three rounds.
Falcons get the start they asked for
On Wednesday, Falcons lost all four pistol rounds against Team Vitality, the same weakness their coach had pointed to after IEM Beijing. Danny “zonic” Sørensen told HLTV that “when we get off to a bad start, it can destroy our entire game.” Against Legacy, they won three of the four pistols and were 5-0 up on their own Dust2 pick before Legacy had a round.
Finn “karrigan” Andersen, whose fragging has been under as much scrutiny as kyousuke’s, found three kills around CT spawn in the fourth round, and nearly won the seventh on his own with the bomb down on B.
Legacy fought back to 6-5, with dumau taking fights on long round after round, but Falcons led 7-5 at the break. After Legacy took the second pistol, Falcons won the force buy straight away and closed out the map 13-8. René “TeSeS” Madsen led Dust2 with 16-10 and 90.6 ADR.
Legacy go home before the Major
Andrei “arT” Piovezan had 12 kills on Dust2 alone, three more than in the whole series against FURIA a day earlier, but he went 8-17 on Mirage. latto was Legacy’s best player, 30-28 over the series and 101.5 ADR on Mirage.
The slow starts decided it again. Legacy were 5-0 and 3-0 down on Thursday’s two maps, after trailing FURIA 9-0 on Mirage on Wednesday. They leave Hong Kong in seventh to eighth place with $60,000, still 14th in the VRS on HLTV’s calculator, and with three weeks to settle the lineup that brought in ksloks for n1ssim before the PGL Major Singapore.
Falcons climb two places to seventh with 27 VRS points from the win. They play again on Friday in the quarter-finals, where a win sends them to Saturday’s semi-finals and keeps alive their first chance at a final since they lifted the Major trophy in Cologne in June.
