BLAST Open Spring 2026 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Vitality, runner-up Natus Vincere.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Mar 18 – Mar 29 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- teams
- 16
Against the season
1 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, Team Spirit — 7–8, Team Falcons — 5–6, FURIA — 7–8
17.2
average season-table rank of Team Vitality’s opponents
the 16th hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 5 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): won the event
+7
NRG: 16th in the field by the table, finished 9–12
biggest climb of 16 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 16 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 17.5
The thick mark is Team Vitality, 1st in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Champion
$250,000
first-place prize
11–0
Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost
series 5–0; 100.0% of maps here, 71.7% over the season
6.1% of Team Vitality’s season prize money: its 7th-largest payout of 22; the biggest: BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 ($500,000); the same at BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
On the roster at the start: apEX, flameZ, mezii, ropz, XTQZZZ, ZywOo
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
22.7%
first place
$250,000 of the $1,100,000 allocated
80.9%
top half of the rows
top 8 rows of 16 · $890,000
×1.6
first place to second
$250,000 against $160,000
Against the season: the lowest first-place share of 69 events, tied with 1 more; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 1 other event this season, so the two share rank 17.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
- beforeESL Pro League Season 23
- afterStake Ranked Episode 1
Facts and records
This was Team Vitality’s 6th of 10 titles this season and its 3rd in a row; the next came at Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2026; no club has won more this season. The club did not drop a single map here: 11 of 11 across 5 matches in our data. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks first by share of maps won: no one in this field ranked higher.
Matches played
29
matches
70
maps
16 of 16
placement-table teams in these matches
39.3%
bo3 to a third map: 11 of 28
more than 13 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 29 series are shown.
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Team Vitality won BLAST Open Spring 2026 in Rotterdam without dropping a map: 11–0 over five series, ending with a 3–0 over Natus Vincere in the final on March 29 on Inferno, Anubis and Dust II. It was the sixth of its ten titles this season and the third in a row.
The rest of the favourites struggled. Of the four best clubs of the field by our table only Vitality reached the top four: Team Falcons finished fifth to sixth, Team Spirit and FURIA seventh to eighth, and MOUZ, fifth by the table, went out in 13th to 16th.
The pool, $1,100,000, was more than three times that of BLAST Open Fall 2025, and it was spread unusually wide: the winner’s $250,000 was only 22.7% of it, the lowest first-place share of the season, shared with one other event.