Although they didn’t truly make it to tier one until their run at the StarLadder Budapest Major, PARIVISION have returned from BLAST Bounty Season 1 2026 as the worthy winners of the event.
The event saw them take on the first-, third-, and fourth-ranked teams in the world, taking them down and ultimately ascending to fourth themselves, announcing themselves as genuine trophy contenders in the process.
Dominant Underdogs
Despite beginning the event as a question mark, PARIVISION were dominant throughout their Bounty run. They lost just one map the entire time, coming to Danil “donk” Kryshkovet’s Team Spirit in the quarter-final.
No one was sure if they’d continue their Budapest form even in the online phase, but they ground out a win against ENCE in their opener and dominated Astralis in the follow-up, securing their playoffs birth as their new man, Ivan “zweih” Gogin closed out the four maps with a 1.61 rating.
They then faced zweih’s former team, Spirit, with their run expected to come to an understandable end at the hands of donk. Donk, however, was kept quiet in the three-mapper, with PARIVISION AWP IGL Dzhami “Jame” Ali going 14-6 against him across the series.
Next up was FURIA, who hadn’t looked their end-of-2025 selves so far during the event. A tough series for them, Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis managed a 1.18 rating, but the trio of Yuri “yuurih” Santos, Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo, and Danil “molodoy” Golubenko all languished between 0.81 and 0.76 as Vladislav “xiELO” Lysov shone at 1.31.
The final saw them take on Falcons, who also weren’t expected to be there following the absences of Maxim “kyousuke” Lukin and Danny “zonic” Sorensen. Falcons, despite their impressive win versus Vitality in the semis, fell apart during the final – they never felt competitive until the second half of Dust2, having fallen 13-9 on map one, Mirage.
Despite that resurgence on Dust2, though, PARIVISION managed to cling on for a 13-11 win, with two big retakes in the final four rounds securing a 2-0 lead in the series. Not that Jame wouldn’t have been too comfortable with that. The last time he went 2-0 up in a BO5 LAN final (way back at the end of 2023 at BetBoom Dacha Dubai), he saw the first-ever BO5 reverse sweep in CS history as donk announced himself to the world.
Inferno, like Dust2, ended 13-11, with event MVP Nikola “NiKo” Kovac and Emil “nota” Moskvitin going blow for blow throughout. One of the bigger difference makers was Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, who, despite typically having a 90% opening kill success rate on Inferno CT side, struggled and won just one of his four opening attempts as he continued to slump throughout the series.
As a result of their win, PARIVISION are now projected to rise all the way up to fourth in the VRS rankings, a 12-place climb from where they were when the event began. They now head into IEM Krakow $300,000 wealthier and will face HEROIC in their opener with more eyes on them than ever before.