tN1R topped the server at 37-26 and killed MOUZ’s seven-round comeback on Ancient as Spirit reached their first final since beating MOUZ in Porto in September.
Team Spirit beat MOUZ 2-0 (Mirage 13-7, Ancient 13-11) in the semi-finals of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 in Hong Kong and play the winner of FURIA vs Falcons in the Bo5 Grand Final on . It is their first final since they beat MOUZ 3-1 to win BLAST Open Porto on 6 September, and MOUZ had won all three of their meetings since. MOUZ, first in the VRS and slight favourites, are out in 3rd-4th place.
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A counter for donk, not for the rest
MOUZ arrived with a plan for Danil “donk” Kryshkovets, and on Mirage it worked: he finished the map 13-13. It made no difference. Mirage was MOUZ’s pick, a map they had won 86% of the time over the last three months and four of the last five times they had played it against Spirit, and Spirit led 9-3 at the half on the CT side.
Boris “magixx” Vorobiev, Spirit’s in-game leader, was the best player on the map. He took the first kill on the site in the pistol round, aced MOUZ’s eco and went 18-10 with 101.5 ADR. Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov went 19-8, and early in the half the two of them won a 2v3 together, magixx holding one side of the site and sh1ro the other.
Oldřich “PR” Nový was the only MOUZ player who kept up. He took four kills in the third round and finished 16-16 with 94.8 ADR. Nobody else in the lineup came close to even, and Lotan “Spinx” Giladi ended on 4-18. In MOUZ’s comms, which BLAST published during the map, Dorian “xertioN” Berman did not dress it up.
MOUZ did fight back on their CT side. Spirit won the second pistol round for 10-3, but MOUZ won the force buy after it, with Andrey “tN1R” Tatarinovich losing a clutch on 25 HP with a MAC-10, and took four rounds in a row to cut it to 10-7. tN1R then broke their A-site setup through ramp in the 18th round and took Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás out on B in the next. torzsi was left in a 1v2 against sh1ro and zont1x in the last round and could not find the kills. Every Spirit player finished Mirage with a positive or even K-D.
Seven rounds in a row, then four for Spirit
Ancient was Spirit’s pick, a map they had won 13-5 against G2 on Thursday, and for a half it looked like a formality. MOUZ won the pistol round, but Spirit took mid control round after round on the T side and built an 8-4 lead. magixx won one of those rounds on his own, a 1v1 against torzsi in which he never showed himself.
Then MOUZ found the version of themselves that had beaten Vitality 2-0 the day before. They won the second pistol, hit fast timings on both sites and won seven rounds in a row to lead 11-8. xelex took three kills in one of them, and with close to $10,000 per player MOUZ could afford to keep buying.
Spirit stopped the run at 9-11. torzsi committed to a plant with zont1x waiting for him, and then donk shut MOUZ out of the A site to level at 11-11, leaving PR with a 1v3 he could not win.
With MOUZ’s money finally broken, tN1R ended it. He took all five kills in the 23rd round, the last of them with his final bullet, to give Spirit match point at 12-11.
He was in the middle of the last round as well, entering from ramp in a 2v2 as Spirit closed out the map 13-11. tN1R went 22-15 with 88.7 ADR on Ancient and finished the series as the top fragger on the server, ahead of sh1ro (35-22) and magixx (32-24).
One series from a trophy
Spirit have at least $200,000 secured and play the winner of FURIA vs Falcons in the Grand Final on Sunday at . HLTV’s VRS calculator gives them 36 points for the win, and they stay fourth. tN1R said on Wednesday that winning Rivals would send Spirit to the Major with confidence. They are one series away.
MOUZ leave Hong Kong with $130,000 and 17 fewer VRS points, still first in the rankings. They head to Singapore having lost to G2 and Spirit at this event, and both teams start the PGL Major Singapore in Stage 3 on 2 December.
