BLAST SLAM VII — Dota 2
finishedWon by Team Yandex, runner-up LGD Gaming.
- game
Dota 2- dates
- May 26 – Jun 7 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- teams
- 12
Against the season
2 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: PARIVISION — 7–8, Team Falcons — 5–6, Team Yandex — 1, Aurora Gaming — 4
6.5
average season-table rank of Team Yandex’s opponents
the 11th hardest path of 28 season events; 11 of 16 series against table clubs
table favourite PARIVISION (1st): finished 7–8
+6
BetBoom Team: 8th in the field by the table, finished 3
biggest climb of 10 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 10 of 12 field clubs, of 17median 5.5
The thick mark is Team Yandex, 3rd in the table.
Record places
of 51 by prize pool, shared by 15
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Champion
18–7
Team Yandex maps here, won–lost
72.0% of maps here, 61.1% over the season
14.6% of Team Yandex’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 16
On the roster at the start: watson, CHIRA_JUNIOR, DM, Saksa, Malady
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
40.0%
first place
$400,000 of the $1,000,000 allocated
86.5%
top half of the rows
top 6 rows of 12 · $865,000
×2.1
first place to second
$400,000 against $195,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 17 of 47 events; median 46.5%.
The same pool is announced for 14 other events this season, so all 15 share rank 5.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
This was Team Yandex’s 3rd of 5 titles this season, between PGL Wallachia Season 7 and PGL Wallachia Season 9; no club has won more this season. The field had all 5 top clubs of our season table by win rate; the club ranks 3rd among them, behind PARIVISION and Team Falcons; they finished 7th–8th and 5th–6th here. Team Liquid, winner of the previous edition (BLAST SLAM VI), finished 5th–6th this time.
Maps played
102 maps · as of Oct 18, 2026, 06:44 UTC
42 min
median map, Radiant 50.0%
season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps
The 10 latest of 102 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 112 min;
Maps as of Oct 18, 2026. No map of this tournament has a per-player breakdown.
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Team Yandex won BLAST SLAM VII in Copenhagen against a field with all five top clubs of our season table, beating LGD Gaming in the final and going 18–7 in maps. The $400,000 first prize is the largest payout of its season, and the title was the third of its five, more than any other Dota 2 club.
The two clubs above Yandex in the table both fell short: PARIVISION, the leader, finished seventh to eighth and Team Falcons fifth to sixth. BetBoom Team made the longest climb, from eighth of the field to third, and Team Liquid, champion of BLAST SLAM VI, finished fifth to sixth.
LGD Gaming took $195,000 for second place, while the last two clubs, Xtreme Gaming and GLYPH, still left with $12,500 each.