Short news: Week 34

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The groups for the Betclic Clash Summer open qualifier have been announced, with 32 teams split into eight groups.

The top two of each will qualify for the Play-In, which is set to award four LAN spots. The offline tournament will be then played from September 13-14, with fnatic, Iberian Soul, ECSTATIC, and TNL already confirmed to attend.

The organizers of Draculan have announced their return for a second series. The LAN tournament will be played at the end of September and feature 16-32 teams, depending on the amount of interest, with sign-ins opening today.

Valve have pushed out an update to CS2 that notably returns the ability to wallbang the plywood in cave on Ancient, and features several bug fixes.

The full patchnotes are:

[ MAPS ]
Ancient

• Reverted "house" roof decorations near CT spawn.

• Restored the ability to wallbang the plywood in "cave".

• Various changes to the daytime soundscape.

• Fixed items getting stuck behind the rubble pile on T side of B.

• Player clipping adjustments.

Shoots

• Player clipping adjustments.

Ancient and Shoots

• More Ancient and Shoots source content is now available for community map makers in maps/editor/zoo/ancient_zoo.vmap.

[ MISC ]

• Fixed knife slashes applying a 'dry' attack decal on wet surfaces.

• Fixed a case where clients would mispredict shots if the attack button was held across round respawn.

• Fixed a case where the viewmodel would stick to the camera when cl_lock_camera was set.

• Fixed a case where fullscreen windowed mode wasn't offering resolutions with extreme aspect ratios.

• Fixed a case where fullscreen windowed mode wasn't actually stretching to fill the screen.

• Fixed a case where relative mouse motion was incorrect on Linux.

• Various stability improvements.

Eternal Fire have announced the return of Berat "⁠jresy⁠" Özcan to their active roster in place of Martin "⁠maaryy⁠" Nakonieczny to once again give their squad a Turkish majority.

MOUZ have announced that their academy team finally has a full roster following the signing of Tiago "⁠opdust⁠" Simão, a former member of SAW Youngsters and Leça.

MOUZ NXT have:

Adrian "⁠xelex⁠" Vincze
Yeray "⁠Joey⁠" Serrano Pérez
Maksims "⁠ay0k⁠" Beloglazovs
Nikolai "⁠Nikodeon⁠" Sørensen
Tiago "⁠opdust⁠" Simão

Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov (coach)

According to data firm Esports Charts, peak viewership for Mongolian streams during BLAST Bounty hit 114,500, setting a new record for Mongolian-language streams in esports.

The tournament had an overall peak of 800,284 concurrent viewers. It's only the ninth-highest peak viewership for a Counter-Strike 2 tournament in 2025.

Top 5 highest peak viewerships in 2025:

• BLAST Austin Major - 1,789,313

• IEM Katowice - 1,299,747

• IEM Melbourne - 1,253,999

• IEM Cologne - 1,139,440

• BLAST Rivals Spring - 1,037,291