BLAST Rivals Hong Kong’s Playoff bracket is set after Falcons and MOUZ advanced to the playoffs on the final day of the group stage.
The Counter-Strike event now moves to the AsiaWorld-Expo Arena for Playoffs, where FURIA and Spirit will start in the semi-finals after topping their groups.
The BLAST Rivals Hong Kong 2026 Playoff bracket is:
Quarter-Finals:
- Vitality vs MOUZ
- G2 vs Falcons
Semi-Finals:
- Winner of QF1 vs Team Spirit
- Winner of QF2 vs FURIA
Falcons and MOUZ secure final BLAST Rivals Hong Kong Playoff spots
Thursday’s action started with Team Falcons taking on Legacy in the Group A elimination match. Team Falcons desperately needed the win after a painful exit in IEM Beijing saw the Asian swing of the year suffer a false start.
Thankfully for Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen’s men, Legacy’s freefall shows no signs of stopping after the Brazilian roster suffered successive early exits leading to the removal of Vinicius ‘n1ssim’ Pereira.
Legacy haven’t won a single series since n1ssim’s departure, and that did not change against Falcons, who easily dispatched Legacy 13-8, 13-6 on Dust 2 and Mirage.
Falcons’ progression meant only one spot was left in the playoffs, and that was between FUT playing with their coach as a stand-in and MOUZ, who had just won IEM Beijing 2026.
In theory, the contest should have been a straightforward win for MOUZ against an understrength FUT, but it was anything but. FUT took the first map in double overtime behind Head Coach stand-in András ‘coolio’ Fercsák’s clutch, before FUT stormed to a 12-6 lead on Map 2, or Mirage.
MOUZ clawed the map back round after round as FUT could not break MOUZ’s defence, leading to Overtime, where MOUZ converted the map 16-13.
Normalcy resumed on Map 3 of Nuke, where a decisive MOUZ T-side put them well on their way to a 13-4 victory and progression out of the group.
FURIA and Spirit advance directly to semi-finals as Vitality are 13-0’d
Team Vitality and FURIA faced each other in the winners’ match in Group A, with the winner advancing straight to the semis. Vitality and FURIA traded each other’s map picks of Inferno and Dust 2 before FURIA stunningly 13-0’d Vitality on Mirage to clinch the series.
The 13-0 was the first time Vitality AWPer Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut had been on the wrong side of a 0-13 in his entire career. Vitality will therefore start in the quarters, with FURIA directly advancing ot the semis.
In Group B, Spirit and G2 fought for the last semi-finals spot in a frankly bizarre contest that exemplified Spirit’s regression from their EWC and BLAST Porto tournament wins earlier in the season.
Spirit seemed to laugh off their own inepitude on Mirage, falling to a 9-13 defeat, before rallying on Nuke and Ancient to convert the series 2-1, 9-13, 13-6, 13-9.
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Darragh is an Esports Journalist for Insider Gaming specialising in Counter-Strike. He loves to explore how esports teams work, or why they very often do not.
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