The BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 2 Playoffs went more or less the way you’d expect. Well, aside from Passion UA sneaking in. If you called it… well, you might want to get that checked out.

Still, with six Playoff spots in an eight-team event, you practically had to try not to make it.

In the first quarterfinal, Passion UA fully lived up to the three-letter word that follows the ‘P’ in their name. They got destroyed by paiN in two maps that ended faster than your average B-rush on Dust2. All the paiN boys came ready to swing, but it was dgt who stole the spotlight with an especially nasty performance.

But it was in the second quarter that the real teams took to the stage. Well, the real team. We’re not sure what Spirit are right now, but it certainly isn’t pretty. Something else that wasn’t pretty was zweih’s showing in Vitality’s 2-1 victory, as he dropped an absolute 0.84 stinker that had Spirit fans begging for magixx’s return.

The battle of the ‘c-ralho’ in the semis went FURIA’s way, as paiN simply couldn’t stop the freightrain that was KSCERATO, who closed out the 2-0 sweep with a crazy 2.10 rating and an even crazier +11.70% round swing (we have no clue what this swing sh-t means, we just like big green numbers).

In the big green number department, m0NESY also stole the show in the semifinal against Vitality, singlehandedly sweeping them with a 1.56 rating and way too many highlights to list. But the gold medal definitely goes to this ace clutch.

Fun fact: this Falcons victory effectively destroys Vitality’s chances of matching Astralis’ 2018 record of ten trophies in a single year. Close, but no cigar.

Serviceable of a recap for ya? Good. Now if you’ll excuse us, it’s time to get some sleep. God knows we haven’t seen much of that lately.