Vitality and PARIVISION move on after thrilling BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026 Quarter-Finals

Vitality and PARIVISION have joined Falcons and FURIA in the Semi-Finals of BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026, after securing Quarter-Final wins over GamerLegion and Spirit. One win we saw coming, and one we certainly didn’t. It’s been another barn-burner day of action on the server, so let’s see how it all went down.

Vitality fend off brave GamerLegion

The best Counter-Strike teams are simply inevitable. Even when you think they’re going to lose, something tells you they’ll find a way to emerge victorious. In Vitality‘s case, this pretty much always rings true.

In both maps of this series, GamerLegion looked as though they had the potential to go all the way. A 9:7 lead on Inferno looked more than solid as they gained momentum, but six rounds in a row saw Vitality stem the bleeding, turn the tide, and see the first map home. The second map of Dust2 was a near-identical story, with Vitality having to battle back from 10:6 down to see it out 13:11. REZ, after a 19:5 first half, only managed a meager three kills in the second half, as Vitality continued to show why they remain the top dogs right now.

So, yeah, it’s business as usual for Vitality. But the event also showed some promising sparks for GamerLegion’s future, too. Considering their trouble finding an AWPer, hypex had a strong series, suggesting their troubles in this regard are over for now. They can consider themselves unfortunate to have been facing Vitality here – anyone else, and they may have been able to see out their leads.

zweih beats Spirit at the first time of asking

PARIVISION vs. Spirit. zweih vs. the team that just benched him. It’s too poetic that, at the first time of asking, the youngster has been able to dump the team that deemed him surplus to requirements from BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026 contention in their first clash since.

From the Overpass opening map, it looked as though we were in for one-way traffic in this series. Spirit brought it home 13:5, and things were all headed in the expected direction. But then we went to Mirage. Any CIS team are going to give you a tough time on Mirage, and PARIVISION were certainly no exception. Despite the best efforts of donk, a true team effort on the other side of the server meant PARIVISION were able to put up a convincing 13:9 win. All tied.

In a sense, Ancient was already decided before it began. The difference here was the fact that donk seemed tilted throughout the map, perhaps annoyed at the prospect of it taking three maps to put PARIVISION away. This tilt was evident, as Spirit’s star faced one frustrating death after another, never able to get a handle on things on the server. PARIVISION took advantage of this, with Jame’s young team again playing fundamentally strong Counter-Strike to take a 13:9 win, improving their scoreline from Mirage. The underdogs provided the only upset of the BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026 Quarter-Finals, and they picked a hell of a time to do it. The Semi-Finals await a PARIVISION side that has now been consistently producing impressive results against, on paper, superior opposition.

The BLAST Premier Bounty S1 is the second BLAST CS event hosted in Malta as part of their multi-year deal with GamingMalta.