MOUZ Win BLAST Bounty Season 2 as Spinx’s Grand-Final Rampage Earns MVP

Damien Furey

Published: Aug 6, 2026

Lotan ‘Spinx’ Giladi claimed his first-ever HLTV x 1XBET MVP award after delivering a grand-final demolition of Spirit – 78 kills, three Player of the Map awards, and a 1.54 rating across four maps – to drive MOUZ to the BLAST Bounty Season 2 title.

The Israeli rifler entered the final trailing teammate Ádám ‘torzsi’ Torzsás in the MVP race. Torzsi had led the statistical table through earlier wins over 3DMAX and Astralis, but closed the final at a 1.05 rating, dropping him below Spinx despite a tournament-wide LAN rating advantage of just 1.22 to 1.20. HLTV’s tiebreaker came down to playoff depth: when two players sit within 0.02 of each other across the event, the one who delivers in the deepest rounds takes the medal.

A Long Time Coming

The award closes a notable gap in Spinx’s résumé. A four-time HLTV Top 20 player and 17-time EVP, he had never won an MVP – spending years as ZywOo’s supporting cast at Vitality, then contributing to a team-wide effort when MOUZ’s current roster took shape and won PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025. His form earlier in 2026 had been subdued: no EVPs since IEM Krakow and just a 1.01 rating over the three months preceding the event.

HLTV also reaffirmed its updated award policy: from 2026, online matches carry no weight toward MVP or EVP decisions, which amplifies the impact of performances like Spinx’s in this BLAST Bounty Season 2 Finals bracket.

What Bettors Should Track

Spinx’s map-by-map ratings against Spirit tell the clearest story: 1.41 on Nuke, 1.16 on Ancient, 1.86 on Mirage, 1.91 on Dust2. That kind of closing-map escalation is what separates a good tournament from an MVP run. Whether MOUZ – now structured around PR, torzsi, and a newly peaked Spinx – can sustain that output into the next LAN cycle is the key question for anyone pricing them in upcoming Tier 1 brackets. Coverage of how the roster performed through the earlier rounds of BLAST Bounty Season 2 shows this wasn’t a one-map fluke.

Source: HLTV.org

Damien Furey

Since: June 3, 2026

Damien Furey has been watching competitive gaming evolve from a niche hobby into a legitimate betting market for over a decade, and he has followed every twist of that journey with genuine enthusiasm. Growing up in Cork, Ireland, he picked up an early interest in both traditional sports betting and PC gaming, and it was only a matter of time before those two worlds collided for him. He now focuses specifically on how odds are shaped and moved in esports markets, why bookmakers price certain titles the way they do, and where sharp bettors can find value that casual punters tend to overlook.

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