BLAST Open Fall 2026 hits higher audience peak than Spring edition as Team Spirit triumph

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BLAST Open Fall 2026 concluded on September 6 with 849K Peak Viewers, up 3.3% from the spring edition. Esports Charts and Hellcase present a recap of the event, including viewership statistics and final results.

BLAST Open Fall 2026 viewership statistics

  Viewership stats from the BLAST Open Fall 2026   

The latest BLAST Open event reached 849,574 Peak Viewers during the Grand Final between Team Spirit and MOUZ. This was a 3.3% rise over the previous BLAST Open held in March, as Team Spirit won 3:1 to clinch the trophy.

Team Spirit reached the grand final without dropping a map. MOUZ tied the series at 1:1 before Spirit won the next two maps to secure the title.

Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets earned his 10th Big Event MVP award after finishing the tournament with a 1.40 HLTV rating.

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The two BLAST Open editions recorded similar audience peaks and shared several leading co-streamers. Leonid "chopperinho" Vishnyakov, Max "shadowkekw" Pavlov, and Alexandre "Gaules" Borba remained among the most successful co-streamers, although official channels retained the bulk of the viewership share.

Russian-language broadcasts recorded 34% more Peak Viewers and 11.4% more Hours Watched than at BLAST Open Spring 2026, as Team Spirit went on to win the title.

Portuguese-language streams also enjoyed viewership rises as FURIA, who failed to make the Playoffs at the Spring edition, made it all the way to the Quarterfinals.

BLAST Open Fall 2026 ranked seventh among CS2 tournaments by Peak Viewers this year and recorded the highest peak of any BLAST event in 2026 so far.

The next big-ticket event in Counter-Strike 2 esports is the FISSURE Playground #3, which runs from September 8 to 13. Five top-ten teams in the VRS will be in attendance in Suzhou, China, with the 16 teams split into two double-elimination groups of eight each.