BLAST Open Fall 2025 Power Rankings: Anyone’s to win

BLAST Open Fall 2025 arrives at a curious time for competitive Counter-Strike. Vitality’s recent struggles mean that it feels as though there’s no definitive number one team. Rather, the best CS2 team in any given moment can only be determined by the most recent results at the top.

By that metric, The MongolZ would be the best CS2 team in the world right now after winning EWC 2025, and I’m not sure that’s quite accurate. But it really feels as though the BLAST Open Fall 2025 title is anyone’s to win, the London event without a clear favorite for the first time in a while. Let’s do some CS2 Power Rankings, shall we?

Spirit still favorites despite disappointing Esports World Cup

At the time of writing, Spirit have still not announced tN1R for their active roster. However, it’s presumed that the Russian team will enter BLAST Open Fall 2025 with the HEROIC rifler replacing zont1x, offering what is (on paper) a firepower upgrade. Although Spirit had a shocking showing at EWC 2025, their back-to-back wins at IEM Cologne and BLAST Bounty have given them enough credit in my mind to just pip Vitality to the top spot in these Power Rankings.

Vitality’s enduring poor form has a big impact on this, of course. They don’t look like themselves, and only cling onto 2nd place here on account of The MongolZ’s non-attendance. It’s time to see if Vitality can bounce back when the going gets tough, like the truly great teams before them.

FURIA have a golden opportunity

With no MongolZ and Falcons, the team list at BLAST Open Fall 2025 is missing a few heavy hitters. Of the big teams there, you’d be hard-pressed to say any of them are in good form. Step up, FURIA. This is a lineup that has been making steady progress over the last few months, even if there have been a couple of stumbles along the way.

But with this slate of teams, FURIA needs to bring their best face to London. If this lineup is ever going to realistically challenge for trophies (and I do believe it could under the right circumstances), we need to see glimpses of that potential shining through at BLAST Open Fall 2025. I have them down as the fourth-best team at the event, and I want to see them outperform expectations.

Potential BLAST Open Fall 2025 underdogs

The fragile nature of teams at the top of CS is a perfect environment for underdogs to thrive. Oftentimes, the dark horses get their upsets by playing a style of Counter-Strike that the best teams simply aren’t used to playing against too often, but who at BLAST Open London 2025 has that potential this time around?

First up is GamerLegion. This team always feels on the precipice of being very, very good, but can’t quite piece it together when push comes to shove. Still, I like this lineup, even if AWPer Kursy stands out as a particular weak link. They have the overall quality to beat anyone if they play to the best of their abilities, so let’s see if they can give us a shock or two at BLAST Open London.

I’m going to highlight Fnatic, too. The legacy organization has been missing for a while now, their last Tier 1 LAN being the PW Shanghai Major last year. But they’ve been grinding away behind the scenes, putting in the reps in the brutal online Counter-Strike circuit to get back on LAN. They have blameF, who we all know can frag with the best of them in Tier 1. Former Passion UA duo fear and jambo are solid players, while CYPHER is a recent addition with high highs and low lows. It’s always good to see KRIMZ pop up, too. Maybe Fnatic will bomb out, but my hopes are high that they can do something interesting at BLAST Open Fall 2025.