Team Spirit have booked their spot in the BLAST Open Porto 2026 semifinals after a 2-0 series win over FURIA in the upper-bracket final. donk (39-26, 1.31 rating) and sh1ro (36-20, 1.33 rating) led the way; FURIA's KSCERATO — the tournament's best-rated player after Group B — collapsed to 18-33 (0.71).
Map-by-map
- Ancient — Spirit 13-10
- Cache — Spirit 13-5
How Spirit closed it out
On Ancient, donk collected 17 first-half kills to blunt FURIA's T-side push. The map remained tight until the late CT phase, where sh1ro converted three critical retakes.
Cache was over early. tN1R hit a 1v2 Tec-9 clutch in the second round of the T-side pistol setup, propelling Spirit to an 8-2 lead. Spirit finished the map at 97 ADR as a team.
FURIA's subdued day
YEKINDAR led FURIA at 25-31 (1.05); molodoy went 23-29 (0.85). KSCERATO — who logged a 1.86 T-side rating on Cache in the group-stage 2-1 vs M80 — was contained across both halves.
What's next
Spirit now have a four-day break before their semifinal on September 5. FURIA drop to the lower-bracket final and await the winner of Falcons vs MOUZ.
Source: HLTV.org — /news/45423/spirit-soar-into-semi-finals-over-furia
