BLAST SLAM VIII — Dota 2
finishedWon by Team Yandex, runner-up Team Spirit.
- game
Dota 2- dates
- Sep 29 – Oct 11 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Europe
- teams
- 16
Against the season
4 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: PARIVISION — 3, Team Yandex — 1, Aurora Gaming — 4, Team Spirit — 2
4.8
average season-table rank of Team Yandex’s opponents
the 1st hardest path of 28 season events; 5 of 7 series against table clubs
table favourite PARIVISION (1st): finished 3
+6
OG: 11th in the field by the table, finished 7–8
biggest climb of 12 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 12 of 16 field clubs, of 17median 8.5
The thick mark is Team Yandex, 3rd in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Champion
$270,000
first-place prize
14–5
Team Yandex maps here, won–lost
73.7% of maps here, 61.1% over the season
9.8% of Team Yandex’s season prize money: its 5th-largest payout of 16; the biggest: BLAST SLAM VII ($400,000)
On the roster at the start: watson, CHIRA_JUNIOR, ATF, Saksa, Malady
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
36.0%
first place
$270,000 of the $750,000 allocated
90.1%
top half of the rows
top 8 rows of 16 · $676,000
×2.0
first place to second
$270,000 against $135,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 14 of 47 events; median 46.5%.
The same pool is announced for 2 other events this season, so all 3 share rank 20.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
- beforePGL Wallachia Season 9
- after1win Streamers League #3
Facts and records
Team Yandex defended its title: it had also won the previous edition, BLAST SLAM VII. The club won its 5th title of the season here, its 2nd in a row after PGL Wallachia Season 9; no club has won more this season. In our season table of 17 clubs, it ranks 3rd by win rate; from this field only PARIVISION ranks higher, and it finished 3rd here.
Maps played
87 maps · as of Oct 17, 2026, 06:44 UTC
43 min
median map, Radiant 48.3%
season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps
The 10 latest of 87 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 87 min;
Maps as of Oct 17, 2026. 70 maps have a per-player breakdown — those are the linked rows.
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Team Yandex kept the BLAST SLAM title it had won at the seventh edition, and it did so by the hardest route of any Dota 2 champion this season: its opponents averaged 4.8 in our table, and five of its seven series were against table clubs. It won 14 of its 19 maps.
The final on October 11 was a rematch with Team Spirit, which Yandex had already beaten the day before. Spirit won the first map in 40 minutes, then lost the next three; earlier that day it had come back from a map down against PARIVISION to reach the final.
All four table favourites finished in the top four, and the event was the fifth title of Yandex’s season, and no club has more. The pool, though, fell by a quarter from the previous edition, so the $270,000 for first place was well short of the $400,000 Yandex took at SLAM VII.