TN1R is glad that the online stage of BLAST Bounty Summer 2026 has ended

Team Spirit CS2 member Andrey tN1R Tatarinovich spoke out after the victory over Team Liquid at BLAST Bounty Summer 2026. Tatarinovich shared his thoughts in a post-match interview on the official broadcast.

[Question: “You didn’t have the most consistent matches during the online stage, but now you have won a clean and comfortable victory. Do you feel like the team is returning to the level of play that is expected from Spirit?”] Right now we’re just playing on LAN. For us, the online stage... I don’t know. When you play Counter-Strike 2 online, it's very bad. [Question: “Yes, we understand that, but you still went through this stage and played well against Liquid. Even on Dust2, where you often lost the first duels, did it feel like you were losing control of the game?”] I don’t know. It felt like we were in complete control of the map. We understood that they would constantly do the same thing, and we simply waited for their aggression. They did a lot of aggression because I like to do a lot of action on the defensive side. We were ready for this, so it was a very comfortable game for us.

Team Spirit turned out to be stronger than Team Liquid in the quarterfinals of BLAST Bounty Summer 2026 in CS2. The match ended with a score of 2:0 - 13:4 on Dust2 and 13:5 on Anubis. It is unknown who will be the next opponent of Tatarinovich’s team. After the completion of the first round of the playoffs, another pairing draw will take place.

BLAST Bounty Summer 2026 will take place from July 30 to August 2 in Malta. Eight teams will compete for $740 thousand. You can follow the progress of the event in the report.