Legacy smash NAVI in packed day two of playoffs - EWC 2026

It's been a very busy day in Paris.

Five BO3s has exhausted us as viewers, never mind the poor production staff who had to be there all day. We'd do it all over again, mind you.

The stand-out result of the day was Legacy 2-0'ing NAVI, with an absolute smushing on Ancient, 13-2. n1ss1m went absolutely bananas. Like, 23-6, 150 ADR bananas. We can't wait to run the duel swing on that one. He was everywhere, summed up by him getting a 4k to turn a 3v5 on the pistol round straight after a 17 kill CT side.

NAVI looked like they could at least make the score look a bit less disastrous, and he wouldn't even let them do that.

Inferno was much more of a real game, with w0nderful holding down the fort with tape and safety pins. The AWPer was the best player in the server, but severely let down by his riflers who offered little resistance on the defence as Legacy grabbed 10 on the T side. It only got close because of w0nderful, and even then, it was off of a 10-2 start.

Legacy were not far off absolutely tonking NAVI here.

Worrying signs.

It proved too early for this new FaZe to be toppling giants like Vitality, but they gave a decent account of themselves nonetheless.

It's encouraging to see JBOEN and jcobbb at least capable of competing, with both doing okay in this game. Last season, jcobbb would have completely wilted and added nothing, but today he was arguably one of the bright spots for FaZe.

ZywOo was simply unstoppable on Cache, which is kind of a bummer. It's like when the tall, handsome, bearded-at-13 guy at your school is also the best footballer. Why do you get to be good at everything? Can't you just suck at Cache?

He dropped 17 in a brutal CT side defence, with only frozen getting much of note done in the early to mid-round - of FaZe's four T rounds, one came from an important (or so it seemed) and absolutely insane JBOEN clutch, making him the second most important FaZe member with just four kills in the half.

And, erm, count how many he gets in the clip.

It wasn't quite vintage Vitality, but it was closer to vintage Vitality than to losing-to-B8 Vitality.

FURIA won a game of back-and-forth spankings against G2 to seal their spot in the semi-finals.

This was, weirdly, the only quarter-final played today, and it saw some very silly Counter-Strike. Three 9-3 halves, two 13-3 closeouts and one 13-4 closeout. FURIA tore through G2 on the latter's map pick, before G2 returned the favour on Anubis. FURIA looked totally uncomfortable on Anubis, despite picking it, and one has to wonder if they'll do that again.

Fortunately, molodoy bailed them out with a 24-4 scoreline on Dust 2, including a perfect 12-0 in the five CT rounds played. Despite losing one of them. Fittingly, it was his triple down mid that sealed the deal and ended G2's misery.

B8 couldn't repeat their feat of tripping Goliath, as they fell short to donk and co.

Spirit's big problem is their overreliance on donk, but that only matters in so far as donk doesn't just win the game on his own, which he did today. He dropped 27 on Dust 2 in just 21 rounds, including an ace and a Deagle 4k. Just ludicrous stuff. zont1x was barely sentient on that map as well.

He did wake up on map two though, and he and tN1R helped contribute to a relatively routine win over a plucky underdog.

kyousuke and m0NESY put on a Harlem Globetrotters-esque show to obliterate The MongolZ and ease Falcons into the quarter-finals.

You can debate forever who was better; kyousuke's 26-7 in 16 rounds on Inferno takes some beating, but m0NESY ended the series 37-17 himself. It was total and utter domination from Falcons, despite The MongolZ getting nine on map two. It just never felt like kyousuke or m0NESY were capable of losing a map today.