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A Katowice final rematch kicks-off Saturday, though not for gold this time. Vitality don’t look as invincible as they did in the first half of the year, and this version of Team Spirit have two entirely different players. That said, both teams can be considered favourites for the whole event.

Spirit have looked the better team so far, having a flawless run in Stage 3, and a pretty impressive 2-0 over their rivals Falcons - largely in part to a great Nuke and even greater performance from rookie zweih. We’ll be calling him zwei-ce from now on.

Vitality are still an incredible team though, and dispatched The Mongolz without even giving them double digit rounds in the entire series. That was mostly down to ZywOo going crazy, dropping a 2.18 in the series. Nuts.

apEX’s unit have beaten Spirit in every one of their matches this year - which doesn’t give us a load of confidence for Spirit - but they did take down their kryptonite-team on Thursday.

Perhaps history doesn’t matter when it’s a Major.

B1ad3 & Bullsh-t

Copenhagen. Is it happening again?

We knew NAVI looked good in Stage 2 and 3, but dismantling FURIA the way they did is seriously scary.

They’ve had a tumultuous 2025 but now are heading into the semis to face a familiar foe in FaZe. The last time these two clashed at a Major was in Copenhagen, and we all remember how that ended.

Both teams have been on a downward trend, and both teams have reinvented themselves through the course of the Major, and both are in with a chance of winning it. These semi-finals are SO stacked we can’t pick a favourite (well, I can, but I’m not allowed).

The combination of FaZe bullsh-t up against Aleksi-ball with w0nderful in prime form is setting us up for an incredible series, and we really hope it delivers.

Veto wise, NAVI have the stronger map pool, but does that matter when Frozen and Twistzz are ripping heads before you get a chance to execute? Even then, broky has hands again and jcobbb is actually good now?!

This is too tough to call, so we aren’t going to. No logic or analysis can account for the things Karrigan makes happen at Majors - they were half a second away from being knocked out in Stage 1 for God’s sake!

The only prediction we’ll make is that Saturday will be a day of brilliant Counter-Strike, and one of the semi-final winners will win the final as well! That’s usually how it works!