BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 2 FinalsSpirit sweep The MongolZ to win BLAST Bounty Season 2 Finals
The Russian team starts the Fall season with back-to-back trophies.
Spirit have been crowned champions of BLAST Bounty Season 2 Finals after sweeping The MongolZ 3-0 in Malta, securing their second consecutive trophy after starting the season with a victory at IEM Cologne.
It is an extended swan song for Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia — who was given the chance to lift the trophy first and is reportedly set to be replaced by Andrey "tN1R" Tatarinovich after Esports World Cup — and a glorious start to a regular tier-one career for Ivan "zweih" Gogin.
The 17-year-old had superb impact on Mirage, where a somewhat muted showing from Danil "donk" Kryshkovets put the onus on the rest of Spirit to dig deep and saw Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov and zweih step up to the plate.
The MongolZ couldn't tally a single pistol win over the three-map series, which came back to bite them in narrow losses on Nuke and Mirage and gave them no chance to get into the fight on Ancient.
A pistol win — and knife kill by Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov — helped Spirit get the ball rolling on Nuke, but their 3-0 start was soon squandered after Sodbayar "Techno" Munkhbold and Ayush "mzinho" Batbold combined to pull back a 3v5.
The MongolZ briefly took the lead with additional multi-kills from Azbayar "Senzu" Munkhbold and Usukhbayar "910" Banzragch, but double openers from a trio of Spirit members stopped the rot and gave the Cologne champions the lead heading into the break.
Spirit converted the second pistol and were cruising toward victory, going up 11-5 before a few well-contructed rounds from The MongolZ and openers from Garidmagnai "bLitz" Byambasuren and mzinho closed the gap. Frustration was starting to set in for Spirit as the only round they tallied during that spree from The MongolZ came off the back of a triple kill from donk, and it was the Russian phenom who stepped up again when it mattered most, denying the Mongolians overtime by standing in a Molly at J Hall to gun down three.
Spirit added a third pistol victory to their tally to kick off Mirage, and a heavy A lean on the defense initially paid off for a four-round head start. That was turned on its head again as The MongolZ repeatedly abused B to get back into the game, finding success splitting from Middle and from straight-up executes as donk went quiet.
Instead, it was sh1ro who stood tall on Mirage, halting The MongolZ's string of six in a row with a hero M4A1-S quad kill for Spirit's fifth. He overplayed his hand in the final round of the half, however, missing a crucial no scope on bLitz that let the Mongolian captain hit a last-bullet one tap to convert an unbelievable 1v3 clutch.
A fourth pistol victory for Spirit added another miserable start to the half for The MongolZ, with sh1ro and zweih finding phenomenal impact with late-round entries and clutches to give their side the edge again.
A few mistakes against a haphazard buy from The MongolZ proved costly, though, and despite zweih bagging a triple kill — two with an AWP — to set Spirit on map point, overtime was needed to decide the victor. Another clutch by bLitz gave The MongolZ a lifeline in overtime, but the extra rounds also bought time for donk to come online, and the phenom closed out for Spirit to go up 2-0.
After two tense battles, Ancient marked a deflated end to the series. Spirit won both pistols to go six for six while donk proved a complete menace. The 18-year-old went 7:2 in openers, tallied nine multi-kills, and finished the map with a 23-12 K-D and 143.4 ADR, giving The MongolZ no chance to get into the fight.
  Spirit |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 - 48 | +4.87% | 106.7 | 83.1% | 1.50 | |
| 60 - 38 | +1.51% | 79.8 | 73.2% | 1.27 | |
| 47 - 42 | +0.62% | 73.6 | 73.2% | 1.14 | |
| 43 - 40 | -1.26% | 77.1 | 77.5% | 1.12 | |
| 44 - 40 | +1.30% | 63.1 | 73.2% | 1.03 |
 The MongolZ |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 - 54 | -1.67% | 76.4 | 69.0% | 0.93 | |
| 45 - 47 | -0.70% | 66.3 | 74.6% | 0.93 | |
| 42 - 57 | -2.84% | 70.2 | 69.0% | 0.86 | |
| 39 - 52 | -0.41% | 66.4 | 56.3% | 0.80 | |
| 34 - 51 | -1.56% | 48.0 | 59.2% | 0.67 |
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