Regarding the best IGL, the favorites are Fallen, for the turnaround he made with Fury, taking them to the top – a team that was far behind and without much prospect. And Apex, for his consistency; he knows how to guide the team even when it's at a disadvantage and knows how to lead it to the top. I didn't quite understand Blitz.

Really good to hear that there is tournament even though a qualifier ready to begin now that we are in 2026!
But you were saying next week after the New Year, so just from that I am thinking we need to wait until the weekend for this Blast Slam VI to kick-off.

@ralle14 @Pumared @rohang

Just finished checking to see if they had the winners of the awards for the year finalists yet.
https://www.hltv.org/news/43516/hltv-awards-finalists-locked-in-by-expert-panel-tc
But they haven't declared the winners from each category as of now.

Although they had added more players for this list of top 20 from last year:
https://www.hltv.org/news/43492/top-20-players-of-2025-introduction

Surprised to see the player from the Mongolz make it on the list of hltv.org's top 20 players of 2025!
Senzu is #13 but he left the team due to mental fatigue from what some others were discussing when asked about what happened to him after they replaced him.

https://www.hltv.org/news/43528/top-20-players-of-2025-senzu-13-tc

Yea nobody liked that roster change
Controlez played well but mongolz atill changed him , i am sad they had to change the roster so quickly it was the first ever asian #1 rank team 😓😓

I wanted to comment on KSCERATO. He came in 9th place, an individual ranking he only achieved once before, in 2022. Since then, he'd only been outside the top 10. A great year for him, and I believe he's the only Brazilian representative on the list.

Is there still room for Molodoy on this list?

It has started already and I've forgotten that one of my bet in the SEA has won for this qualifier. It's not from the grand finals but it's with the team that's considered a dark horse and that's the Rekonix. It was a bet of mine against Execration that I wasn't able to post but the other bet I've made with parivision and cheeki breeki to win at least 1 map has lost.

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I've also made a bet today with the South American match with two good teams but with unofficial names. I've known the supports of the team that I've bet and on the other side, it's with a good carry. Let's see which diff is going to win.

Thats a nice odds bet/win on Rekonix , congrats!
i would bet on the better supports too, pro dota is snowbally these days and good supports can shut down the carry much easily, never give him time to recover the game for his team
I think the qualifers are already over now, with 4 more teams to be invited direct to the main event on February 3


No doubt molodoy will be on the list, maybe even top 5

First big tourn is starting next monday, Blast Bounty 2026 stage 1

Then the LAN event will start from Jan 22 with the qualified teams.

CS tournaments always keep coming, one new big tourn every 2 weeks or so, its insane!  

Thanks! it's a good team and they're also going to participate in the Predator league.

Usually, when players have formed a team, they don't have a team name and it's just a random call for an org to take them over. They're just built for this tournament and fortunately, they've qualified and so as my bet has won too.

Thank you. 
The supports of the looking for org were experienced, although the opponent has got an experienced carry but the supports are more impactful as always and I was right on that analysis for that bet. There's still the open qualifiers #2 for most regions before the closed qualifier for the main event.

They are doing well, they're now in the upper bracket finals and if they win against Myth Avenue Gaming then it moves them to the grand finals.
And only three teams left on this predator league but these games are only resuming on January 11.

I haven't checked this but these partnerships are usual now in the scene, for esports and even in the usual sports like basketball, football and the other common sports that everyone loves to play with. I hope we get more of these partnerships that have announcement threads here in the forum too.