Team Spirit wins BLAST Open Fall 2026 with 849,574 peak viewers

BLAST Open Fall 2026 reached a peak audience of 849,574 viewers during the Grand Final, a 3.3% increase compared with the spring edition. The event concluded on September 6 with Team Spirit defeating MOUZ 3-1 to claim the title.

Team Spirit advanced to the final without dropping a map. MOUZ leveled the series at 1-1 before Team Spirit won the next two maps to secure the trophy. Danil “donk” Kryshkovets received his tenth Big Event MVP award after finishing the tournament with a 1.40 HLTV rating.

Viewership was concentrated around the Grand Final, with official broadcast channels holding the largest share of the audience. Several prominent co-streamers, including Leonid “chopperinho” Vishnyakov, Max “shadowkekw” Pavlov and Alexandre “Gaules” Borba, retained strong individual audiences across both BLAST Open editions this year. Broadcasts in certain languages showed gains over the spring event, recording a 34% increase in peak viewers and an 11.4% rise in hours watched for those language streams.

Portuguese-language coverage increased after FURIA advanced to the Quarterfinals; the team had failed to reach the Playoffs at the spring edition. The two BLAST Open events this year posted similar peak figures and shared many of the same leading co-streamers, while the fall edition recorded the highest peak of any BLAST event in 2026 so far.

By peak viewers, BLAST Open Fall ranked seventh among Counter-Strike 2 tournaments in 2026. The next event on the CS2 calendar is FISSURE Playground #3, scheduled for September 8–13 in Suzhou, China, with five top-ten teams in the VRS set to compete across two double-elimination groups of eight.