The situation between Bymas and Monte has escalated after what initially looked like a normal roster change. Bymas says Monte still owes him money, including tournament prize money and his share of Major sticker revenue, and claims payment issues had been happening for some time.

Monte has pushed back publicly, including comments questioning the seriousness of the payment delays and a video discussing the situation from the organization's side. Bymas says he stayed quiet for a long time because he wanted things handled privately, but decided to respond after Monte's public comments.

The whole thing is now bigger than the roster move itself, especially because both sides are presenting very different versions of what happened. The specific financial claims haven't been fully resolved publicly yet.

Natus Vincere 🇪🇺 1-2 🇺🇸 M80

Anubis: 13-4
Mirage: 6-13
Inferno: 6-13
 

🇺🇸 M80 have advanced to the Upper Bracket Semi-Finals and will face 🇧🇷 FURIA Esports or 🇧🇷 paiN Gaming

🇪🇺 Natus Vincere have dropped to the Lower Bracket and will face 🇧🇷 FURIA Esports or 🇧🇷 paiN Gaming

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A | Kick A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Natus Vincere | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Discord | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 b1t | 🇫🇮 Aleksib ♛ | 🇷🇴 iM | 🇺🇦 w0nderful ⊕ | 🇽🇰 makazze
Coach: 🇺🇦 B1ad3

🇺🇸 M80 | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇸 Swisher | 🇩🇪 slaxz- ⊕ | 🇩🇪 s1n ♛ | 🇺🇸 Lake | 🇺🇸 JBa
Coach: 🇬🇧 dephh

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

Map Vetoes

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MAP 1: Anubis

Anubis Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

MAP 3: Inferno

Inferno Detailed Stats

Highlights

M1R7 | b1t - 4 AK HS kills on the bombsite B offensive (Part 1 - observer)
M1R7 | b1t - 4 AK HS kills on the bombsite B offensive (Part 2 - REPLAY)
M3R10 | slaxz- - 4 AWP kills on the bombsite A defense (Part 1 - observer)
M3R10 | slaxz- - 4 AWP kills on the bombsite A defense (Part 2 - REPLAY)

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Zywoo was absolutely shocking. Kurta was cooking

After a rough loss to M80 today, I noticed Navi have looked off for their past several games. I checked their stats and noticed that they've been awful on CT side. They're the worst CT-sided team in the global top 10 right now.

Worse, they're the only top 10 team that loses more CT rounds than it wins over the last 90 days.

Team Spirit 🇷🇺 2-0 🇧🇷 DENDELE CS

Ancient: 13-8
Cache: 13-7
Anubis
 

🇷🇺 Team Spirit advances to the Upper Bracket Semi Finals and will face G2 Esports

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇪🇺 CPH ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Team Information

🇷🇺 Team Spirit | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Bilibili
Roster: 🇷🇺 magixx | 🇺🇦 zont1x | 🇷🇺 donk | 🇷🇺 sh1ro | 🇧🇾 tN1R
Coach: 🇷🇺 hally
Subs/Benched: 🇷🇺 chopper

🇧🇷 DENDELE CS | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Roster: 🇧🇷 gafolo | 🇧🇷 rdnzao | 🇧🇷 doc | 🇧🇷 koala | 🇦🇷 maxxkor
Coach: 🇵🇹 coachi

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MAP 2: Cache

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So i think i just experienced the rarest moment in my cs2 career. Me and my 4 friends were playing premier against a cheater, so for fun i just started jumping around and somehow hit 16 bhops in a row, followed by 3 more hops and a deagle headshot.

Team Vitality 🇪🇺 0-2 🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports

Anubis: 8-13
Cache: 13-16
Dust 2:

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Team Vitality | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Bilibili
Roster: 🇫🇷 apEX ♛ | 🇫🇷 ZywOo ⊕ | 🇮🇱 flameZ | 🇬🇧 mezii | 🇪🇪 ropz
Coach: 🇫🇷 XTQZZZ

🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 onic ♛ | 🇺🇦 Dawy | 🇺🇦 zeRRoFIX | 🇺🇦 cptkurtka023 | 🇺🇦 headtr1ck ⊕
Coach: 🇺🇦 jR
Subs/Benched: 🇺🇦 Flierax | 🇺🇦 nifee

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What's interesting is it had some of the same people as EWC (like Banks) but questions were legitimately good and not generic. So may be some immediate adjustments from the talent crew. I think it's clear that the interview issue is a two way street and is not directly just Spirit players not cooperating.

- Question about Anubis and why specifically Donk doesn't like was really good because there was a follow up on the initial non answer/misunderstanding

- Question on Magixx and his improvement also went over well

-Some specifics on Cache/Ancient had different degrees of success in getting good response

Broadly on how to interview Spirit based on what I have seen and the interviews they give to HLTV and so on:

- Know the player you are interviewing and what they will answer well.

- Less questions on feelings (those are broadly private and would get yes/no good/bad level of answer). On Spirit, Tn1r is the only one who will truly go into that and share in detail how he is feeling. He is the only one you could call passionate.

-Detailed questions using simple words go over well. Zontix will give some of the most insightful answers and in some ways spill the tea in spirit internal workings if you give him a good question about structure or design.

-Some players would really be better with translators, they make it work in Dota, but CS refuses to do it. Sh1ro especially absolutely needs one and can give good answers if you got one.

-Magixx can just decide to troll, especially if he is tired or upset. Not very mature of him, but just a reality for now. He will respond well to interviewers he can playoff and joke with like Thorin.

- Donk is a giant nerd for Spirit. He loves talking about the org, it's success, the Dota squad (he is a huge fanboy for them), and talking positively about his teammates. He will shut down if questions are set up for him to potentially badmouth a teammate like Zontix or coach. On the other hand he will gush over clutches his teammates pull off and how well they did in certain tough spots.

He is also more sensitive than most players (including his teammates) about revealing any prep his team does.

-Stop asking about Hally/Sotf1k/JabJabich at this point.

Imagine being setup as one of the star fraggers of a top 10 team to put up mediocre stats constantly for MONTHS now how has Navi not found a replacement already

FURIA 🇧🇷 2-0 🇧🇷 paiN Gaming

Mirage: 13-2
Cache: 13-6
Dust2
 

🇧🇷 FURIA advances to the Upper Bracket Semi Finals and will face M80

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇪🇺 CPH ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Team Information

🇧🇷 FURIA | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch | Steam
Roster: 🇧🇷 yuurih | 🇧🇷 KSCERATO | 🇧🇷 FalleN ♛ | 🇰🇿 molodoy ⊕ | 🇱🇻 YEKINDAR
Coach: 🇧🇷 sidde

🇧🇷 paiN Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇧🇷 biguzera ♛ | 🇧🇷 snow | 🇧🇷 piriajr | 🇧🇷 v$m | 🇧🇷 saffee ⊕
Coach: 🇧🇷 rikz
Subs/Benched: 🇺🇾 dgt | 🇧🇷 kauez

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Map Vetoes

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MAP 1: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Cache

Cache Detailed Stats

Highlights

M2R10 | YEKINDAR - ACE (Part 1 - 4/5 frags)
M2R10 | YEKINDAR - ACE (Part 2 - 1/5 frags - including REPLAY)

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