Team Spirit won BLAST Open Porto 2026, beating MOUZ 3–1 in the CS2 grand final in Porto on Sunday 6 September to take the $250,000 top prize. Danil "donk" Kryshkovets was named MVP, his tenth Big Event MVP medal, which moves him past Nikola "NiKo" Kovač and into sole fourth place on the all-time Big Event list. It is Spirit's second straight trophy after the Esports World Cup, and it settles a score from five weeks ago, when MOUZ beat them by exactly the same scoreline in the BLAST Bounty Summer final.
How the grand final played out
The final was a best-of-five and it never quite turned into the classic the bracket promised. Spirit opened on Dust II and took it 13–8. MOUZ hit back on Mirage, winning 13–11 in the only genuinely close map of the night, and for a moment the series looked like it might go long.
It did not. Spirit answered with the most one-sided map of the playoffs, closing out Ancient 13–3, and then finished the job on Nuke 13–6. Cache, the fifth map of the veto, was never played.
That is a 3–1 series win built on two blowouts rather than a grind. Spirit's whole run had the same untroubled feel. They never lost a series at the event and never went to overtime: wins over DENDELE, G2 and FURIA in the Copenhagen group stage earned the semi-final bye, and they saw off Falcons 2–0 in Porto to reach the final.
donk overtakes NiKo on the all-time Big Event MVP list
donk finished the event with a 1.40 rating, according to HLTV's tournament figures. It is his tenth MVP at a Big Event, one clear of NiKo, who had been level with him on nine. That puts donk fourth on the all-time Big Event list — only ZywOo, s1mple and dev1ce have won more. Across all tiers of event, his total now stands at 13. He is 19 years old, and he has now taken back-to-back MVPs at two European events just two weeks apart — the EWC final was played in Paris on 23 August.
The Bounty Summer rematch, reversed
On 2 August, at BLAST Bounty Summer in Attard, Malta, MOUZ beat Spirit 3–1 in the grand final: Dust II 13–8 to MOUZ, Mirage 13–4 to MOUZ, Ancient 13–9 to Spirit, then Nuke 13–10 to MOUZ.
Five weeks later, in the same round of the same circuit, the scoreline is identical and the names have swapped. MOUZ have now met Spirit in two consecutive BLAST grand finals and split them one apiece.
MOUZ came into Porto with the roster they completed in mid-July, when they signed PR from GamerLegion to line up alongside torzsi, xertioN, Spinx and xelex under coach sycrone. A second straight BLAST final with that group is a real result, even if the trophy went the other way.
The route to the final
BLAST Open Porto ran two GSL groups of eight at BLAST Studios in Copenhagen from 26 to 31 August, with the top three from each group advancing to the Porto playoffs at the Super Bock Arena. Group winners went straight to the semi-finals; runners-up and third-placed teams filled the quarter-finals. We covered the moment the playoff field was set when Spirit and MOUZ locked in their byes.
In the quarter-finals on 4 September, Falcons beat G2 2–0 (Inferno 13–6, Dust II 13–9) and Vitality beat FURIA 2–1, losing Nuke 6–13 before taking Cache 13–11 and Dust II 13–4. Vitality played the event with jL standing in for mezii, who missed it for the birth of his second child.
The semi-finals on 5 September went to the two teams who had been sitting waiting. Spirit beat Falcons 2–0 (Nuke 13–8, Ancient 13–11) and MOUZ beat Vitality 2–0 (Dust II 13–11, Mirage 13–7), setting up the Spirit vs MOUZ grand final we previewed on Sunday morning.
What Porto was worth
Porto's prize pool was $1,100,000. The headline number is $250,000 for first place, of which $150,000 goes to the players as their share. MOUZ took $160,000 for second, with a $60,000 player share.
The part that matters over a season is the Frequent Flyers tokens. BLAST splits a $2,000,000 revenue-share pool across 2026 by token count, and winning a BLAST Open is worth three tokens against one for the runner-up. Teams must attend at least four BLAST Premier events in the year to redeem them at all, so the gap between winning a final and losing one compounds well beyond the cheque.
On the ranking side, the public snapshot has not caught up. Valve's regional standings repository still lists the 3 August global file as its newest release, so Porto's points are not visible there yet. The separate weekly world ranking is also pre-Porto — our last full breakdown of it is the 31 August world ranking.
What's next
Attention now shifts to FISSURE Playground 3, whose field locked on 3 September after 5star came through the Asia qualifier and cobrazera returned as a stand-in for The MongolZ. Spirit leave Portugal on a two-event winning streak, with donk holding back-to-back MVP medals.
FAQ
Who won BLAST Open Porto 2026? Spirit won, beating MOUZ 3–1 in the grand final on Sunday 6 September 2026.
What was the BLAST Open Porto 2026 final score? Spirit took it 3–1: Dust II 13–8 to Spirit, Mirage 13–11 to MOUZ, Ancient 13–3 to Spirit and Nuke 13–6 to Spirit. The fifth map, Cache, was not played.
Who was the BLAST Open Porto 2026 MVP? donk of Spirit, with a 1.40 rating across the event. It was his tenth Big Event MVP, moving him ahead of NiKo on nine and into fourth on the all-time Big Event list.
What was the BLAST Open Porto 2026 prize pool? $1,100,000 in total, with $250,000 to the winner. MOUZ took $160,000 for second. The champion also banks three BLAST Frequent Flyers tokens against one for the runner-up.
Had MOUZ and Spirit met in a final before? Yes. MOUZ beat Spirit 3–1 in the BLAST Bounty Summer grand final on 2 August 2026, five weeks before Porto.
Bracket, map scores and prize breakdown from Liquipedia's BLAST Open Fall 2026, BLAST Bounty Summer 2026 and BLAST Frequent Flyers Program 2026 pages, with HLTV's grand final and MVP reports. Retrieved 7 September 2026.
