Team Spirit kick off 2025 in style to win the first notable CS2 event of the year
The Shanghai Major winners started their new campaign in perfect fashion with a simultaneously straightforward and impressive run through the BLAST Bounty gauntlet, defeating Eternal Fire in the grand final in a perfect prelude for IEM Katowice.
For once, it wasn’t the donk show, or at least not entirely. This time, it was sh1ro who put Team Spirit on his shoulders with a +39 KD performance in a four-map series where the CIS side always looked superior to their Turkish rivals, who couldn’t quite replicate their impressive form from the previous rounds in this most important matchup.