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Team Spirit Dominates The MongolZ to Win Blast Bounty Season 2

  • Writer: Danyal Arabi
    Danyal Arabi
  • 1 hour ago
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A resurgent Team Spirit has solidified another S-tier CS2 championship victory with a dominant 3-0 win over The MongolZ at the Blast Bounty Season 2 LAN final. With top dog, Vitality, eliminated in the Semi-finals by The MongolZ, Team Spirit recreated their IEM Cologne 2025 run by trouncing their competitor in the best-of-five Grand Final. Here's how the fast S-tier CS2 event before the Esports World Cup played out.



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Map veto for Team Spirit vs. The MongolZ's Grand Final game:

  • Nuke - Team Spirit pick

  • Mirage - The MongolZ pick

  • Ancient - Team Spirit pick

  • Dust 2 - The MongolZ pick

  • Overpass - Decider


While the 3-0 scoreline seems totally one-sided, it doesn't tell the full story. At multiple points in the series, The MongolZ looked in prime position to take the lead and win both of the opening maps, but a brilliant series by donk sealed the win for Team Spirit.


Starting off on Nuke, Spirit kicked things off with a strong T side. By winning the pistol and subsequent conversion, Spirit got off to a strong 3-0 start before The MongolZ found their footing to string four rounds together and take the lead.

By the end of the half, Team Spirit held a 7-5 lead going into their CT side. Once again, The MongolZ failed to secure the pistol and subsequent conversions, which ultimately proved costly against an in-form donk that shut them out at 13-11.


Despite the narrow loss on Nuke, the series was headed to The MongolZ's stomping ground of Mirage, a battlefield that's arguably their strongest in the map pool. After successfully beating Vitality on the map and having a solid 75% win rate on it in the last three months, things weren't looking so grim for the Mongolian squad.


However, their poor pistol performance returned to haunt them on Mirage, dropping both and the subsequent conversions on each half. The MongolZ was arguably the better team on Mirage with phenomenal reads and calling by bLitz across the map, often catching Chopper and co. off guard to close out rounds they had no business winning.

After a phenomenal clutch by bLitz with a handful of rounds left in his magazine, The MongolZ ended the half with a two-round lead at 7-5. But another poor pistol threw a wrench in the works, absolutely shattering The MongolZ's momentum and putting them on the back foot at 11-9. Despite a valiant effort by the Mongolians to bring things to overtime, Team Spirit found that extra gear in OT1 to close things out 16-13.


Now two maps down in the series, the odds were looking grim for the eastern challengers. Moving to Ancient, Team Spirit was in pole position to take the series. With a strong 88.9% win rate in the last three months, the odds of The MongolZ stealing this map were low.

Adding insult to injury, The MongolZ once again dropped both pistols on Ancient, exposing a huge flaw in their game plan that gifts early leads to their opponents. That's six lost pistol rounds and multiple conversions across the entire series. Costly mistakes considering how close the scorelines were on maps one and two.


On Ancient, The MongolZ looked like they were running on empty, and despite a great clutch by Techno4K, the Asian squad didn't really put up too much of a fight against a confident Team Spirit.

With a sub-par CT half of just four rounds, The MongolZ had quite the mountain to climb if they had any intention of bringing this game back. Rearing its head again was a poor pistol round performance that allowed Team Spirit to springboard into a commanding lead. With just one T side round to their name, The MongolZ crashed out of the Grand Final of Blast Bounty Season 2 without a single map or pistol win.


Here are the final standings and winnings for the teams that made it to the LAN finals of Blast Bounty Season 2:

  • 1st - Team Spirit ($287,813)

  • 2nd - The MongolZ ($68,438)

  • 3-4th - Team Vitality ($25,625)

  • 3-4th - MOUZ ($28,125)

  • 5-8th - Virtus.pro ($18,750)

  • 5-8th - Team Liquid ($18,750)

  • 5-8th - Aurora ($13,750)

  • 5-8th - Astralis ($18,750)

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