Falcons Beat Legacy 2-0 to Reach BLAST Rivals Playoffs in Hong Kong

Team Falcons beat Legacy 2-0 in the Group A elimination match at BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 in Hong Kong on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Falcons won 13-8 on Dust2 and 13-6 on Mirage. Legacy are the first team out of the tournament, and Falcons, the reigning Major champions, advance to the quarter-finals on Friday.

Dust2 goes to Falcons

Falcons picked Dust2 and started fast. They led 5-0 before Legacy scored a round. Legacy cut the gap to 6-5, but Falcons still led 7-5 at the break. Legacy took the second half pistol round, and Falcons answered at once by winning the force buy. From there Falcons closed the map 13-8.

Rene TeSeS Madsen led Falcons on Dust2. He finished the map 16-10 with 90.6 ADR. The map also marked a clear change from Wednesday, when Falcons had lost all four pistol rounds against Team Vitality. Against Legacy, Falcons won three of the four pistol rounds across the series.

Kyousuke takes over on Mirage

Maksim kyousuke Lukin was the top player in the series. He finished with 40 kills and 27 deaths, 96.5 ADR, an 82.5 percent KAST and a 1.67 Rating 3.0, on HLTV figures. Most of that damage came on Mirage, where Falcons won 13-6 to finish the series.

On Mirage, kyousuke went 24-12 with 128.5 ADR. He went 6-0 in opening duels and took four kills across the two pistol rounds. Ilya m0NESY Osipov backed him up with a 32-23 series line and 89.2 ADR, and TeSeS finished the series 28-21. Bruno latto Rebelatto led Legacy at 30-28 over the two maps, but Legacy never held a lead that lasted.

Before the match, Nikola NiKo Kovac had been blunt about the team's recent form in an interview with James BanKs Banks, reported by HLTV. "With the results we have had in the past three events, where we have lost the majority of our games, there are no comfortable wins for us anymore," he said. Thursday's result was the kind of clean win that answer pointed to, even if the slow starts remain a concern.

Legacy go home, Falcons move on

Legacy leave Hong Kong in seventh to eighth place with $60,000. They stay 14th in the VRS on the HLTV calculator. The early exit follows a slow pattern: Legacy also started badly against FURIA on Wednesday, trailing 9-0 on Mirage, and they were 5-0 and 3-0 down on Thursday's two maps. Legacy also went out early at IEM Beijing, so this is a second straight last place finish at a tournament for the team.

Falcons climb two places to seventh in the VRS, with 27 points from the win. A quarter-final win on Friday sends them to the semi-finals on Saturday. BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 is a $1,000,000 event at AsiaWorld-Expo with eight teams, and it is the final top tier Counter-Strike 2 event before the PGL Singapore Major begins on November 24.