Danil "donk" Kryshkovets is back in the limelight after posting a 1.55 rating in the online portion of the tournament and leading Spirit in Malta at the Bounty Finals with a 1.23 rating in his five maps played.
The LAN's stats leader, however, is MOUZ's Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás, who posted 1.38 and 1.29 ratings to help put 3DMAX and Astralis to the sword across the six maps, and holds a tournament-leading 1.32 rating.
The question now is whether the Hungarian AWPer will be able to continue playing at this standard being the underdog rather than the favorite, as MOUZ will go from facing teams outside the top 10 to a team in the top three.
The AWPer torzsi will be up against, Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov, has been no slouch in Malta, averaging a 1.17 rating, including topping the board against FaZe in the semis with a 1.24.
Spirit and MOUZ have faced off on three occasions in 2026, and all three times in the playoffs. The Russian squad has dominated the match-up with 2-0 victories in the IEM Krakow third-place decider, the IEM Rio quarter-finals, and the PGL Astana semi-finals.
MOUZ have renewed hopes of becoming more competitive after bringing Oldřich "PR" Nový back in the off-season after he left the Hamburg-based organization's youth squad to continue his progression in GamerLegion at the beginning of January 2025.
Adrian "xelex" Vincze suffered his first playoff loss with MOUZ to Spirit in Astana, but has now had more time to adjust in the big leagues under Dorian "xertioN" Berman. Will it all be enough to compete against a surging Spirit in the best-of-five grand final?
3DMAX
Bryan 'Maka' Canda
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier
Jeremy 'Kursy' Gast
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic
Damien 'wasiNk' Dufour
Astralis
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Love 'phzy' Smidebrant
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard
Victor 'Staehr' Staehr
Gytis 'ryu' Glušauskas
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
Oldřich 'PR' Nový
FaZe
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Jakub 'jcobbb' Pietruszewski
Jason 'JBOEN' Boe Nielsen
Niclas 'enkay J' Krumhorn
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Adrian 'xelex' Vincze
MOUZ
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Oldřich 'PR' Nový
Adrian 'xelex' Vincze
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
Spirit
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Sergey 'hally' Shavaev
GamerLegion
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner
Sebastian 'Tauson' Tauson Lindelof
Timur 'FL4MUS' Marev
Milan 'hypex' Polowiec
Adrian 'imd' Pieper
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets