ropz, flameZ, w0nderful, and makazze earned EVP medals at BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 1 in Fort Worth, with ZywOo taking his 32nd career MVP. HLTV published the full All-Star lineup after Vitality’s fifth consecutive title of the year, a 3:0 sweep of NAVI in the grand final.

The EVP rankings tell the story of a tournament shaped by Vitality’s depth and one NAVI player who refused to go quietly.

flameZ topped the EVP list with a 1.29 rating in map wins, trailing ZywOo by just 0.02. Two dominant maps against GamerLegion in the semi-final and a Player of the Map showing on Nuke in the grand final earned him his fourth EVP of 2026. Four events, four EVP medals, zero MVPs. The Israeli rifler’s output would win him the top award on almost any other CS2 roster, but ZywOo keeps closing the door. In the playoffs, flameZ posted a 1.33 rating to ZywOo’s 1.32; the Frenchman’s higher group-stage floor and a 2.18-rated Dust2 tipped the scale once again.

ropz ranked second among EVPs after a grand final that no box score fully captures. Across three maps against NAVI: 1.55 rating, 60 kills, 38 deaths, 81.6 ADR. He won seven clutches in a single Bo5. The round where he denied makazze an ace attempt to seal Anubis at 13:11 will headline every Fort Worth recap. His playoff rating of 1.42 led all Vitality players, but a 0.98 group stage kept him out of the MVP conversation entirely. That gap between ropz’s group-stage floor and his playoff ceiling keeps widening: 1.22 in playoffs versus 1.08 in groups across all of 2026. No other player on this roster shifts gears like that.

w0nderful Delivers His Best 2026 Numbers in a Loss

w0nderful grabbed his second EVP of the year as NAVI’s standout performer. His overall 1.27 rating and 1.41 in map wins were backed by three maps above a 1.78 rating and a kill differential per round of +0.25, second only to ZywOo at the entire tournament. The Ukrainian AWPer peaked at BLAST Rivals, and the gap between his stats and the team’s 0:3 scoreline says more about NAVI’s structural issues against Vitality than about any individual failing.

makazze rounded out the EVP quartet. A 1.40 median map rating, top-three in the server on six of nine maps, and a 27-kill Anubis performance that deserved better than a loss. His 10:25 K-D on Nuke dragged the floor, but the rest of the tournament held strong enough for HLTV’s panel.

All-Star Lineup Mirrors Vitality’s Stranglehold

The BLAST Rivals 2026 All-Stars: ZywOo, flameZ, ropz, Aleksib (IGL, 69.2% offensive win rate with NAVI), and HeavyGod (G2, minimum map rating 0.96, +2.59% swing). Three Vitality players filled the five-man roster, and HLTV noted their self-imposed three-per-team cap was the only thing keeping apEX and mezii off the list.

Aleksib beat out Twistzz for the IGL spot on the strength of back-to-back head-to-head wins and a higher offensive conversion rate heading into the final. HeavyGod earned his first All-Star nod since BLAST London with a consistently high floor across G2’s run to the quarterfinals.

The 2026 individual awards table now reads: ZywOo at 4 MVPs, 1 EVP; ropz at 1 MVP, 3 EVPs; flameZ at 4 EVPs; w0nderful at 2 EVPs. Vitality have turned the awards race into an internal competition. The rest of the scene is left chasing a team whose third-best player in any given week would be the best on most other rosters.

Vitality’s 27-map playoff win streak keeps climbing toward NiP’s 36-map record from 2012-13. The Cologne Major and IEM Atlanta are next. The question is whether anyone can crack the system before the record falls, or whether the BLAST Rivals 2026 stats become another footnote in a season Vitality already own.