MOUZ were a map down and six rounds from going home on their own Mirage pick before torzsi refused to let it happen.
MOUZ had a problem on Thursday that no team at the top of the VRS expects to have. A day after losing to G2, they trailed FUT Esports 1-0 and 12-6 on Mirage, the map they had picked themselves. MOUZ won the next six rounds, took Mirage 16-14 in overtime and then Nuke 13-4 to win the Group B elimination match 2-1 at BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2. FUT, who played with head coach coolio in place of their in-game leader, are out.
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FUTStatsCache 16-19, Mirage 16-14, Nuke 13-4
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dem0nA coach with a clutch habit
FUT came to Hong Kong without Aulon “Krabeni” Fazlija, who missed the event with visa problems, so András “coolio” Fercsák moved from the coach’s chair into the server. On Cache, FUT’s pick, he did not get his first kill until the tenth round, and MOUZ led 8-4 at the half. FUT came back on the CT side, and the map went to a second overtime, where coolio won a 1v2 with the last duel against Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás to close it 19-16. Džiugas “dziugss” Steponavičius did most of the work before that with 34-26 and 96.0 ADR.
The two Hungarians know each other well. In the post-match interview with BLAST, torzsi said the first-map 1v1 had felt “a little bit personal”.
It’s funny because in Hungary, back then we always named him the Clutch Minister.
Six rounds from going home
Mirage looked like the end for MOUZ. FUT held it 9-3 on the CT side at the half, with Yasin “xfl0ud” Koç picking up a quad kill from a catwalk flank along the way. He finished the map 27-22 with 87.6 ADR, the best on the server.
In the 18th round, coolio did it again. With the bomb planted, he took down xertioN and then torzsi in a 1v2 for a 12-6 lead.
MOUZ did not drop another round in regulation. As Mirage went to overtime, torzsi stood up in the booth and shouted to his team that they were not losing the map, and BLAST’s cameras caught it.
He told BLAST he had not felt well since Wednesday, when MOUZ lost to G2, and that his throat was still sore.
I really dislike when I let my teammates down and I didn’t want [it] to happen again and I just felt like I need to force my energy and yeah, it worked out and I’m really happy.
MOUZ won overtime 4-2 and never trailed in it.
Nuke was over by the half
On Nuke, MOUZ had the series won by the break. They led 11-1 after the first half on the T side, a day after FUT had beaten Spirit 13-0 on the same map. torzsi went 14-7 and Dorian “xertioN” Berman 14-10 with 91.3 ADR, and MOUZ closed it out 13-4.
torzsi finished the series 70-49, the most kills on either team. For MOUZ, it ends a run of four straight series defeats against FUT, a record we looked at before the match.
Vitality next, FUT on to Singapore
MOUZ, who won IEM Beijing on Sunday, play Vitality in Friday’s quarter-finals. The win is worth 4 VRS points on HLTV’s calculator and keeps them first. FUT leave with $60,000 for 7th-8th place and lose five VRS points. Their next event is the PGL Major Singapore, where they start in Stage 2 on 28 November.
