BLAST reveals invited teams for upcoming Rivals Hong Kong event
14 October 2025
With the BLAST Open Fall 2025 in London well behind us by now, there is just one more official BLAST event on the Counter-Strike 2 calendar for 2025. From Wednesday, November 12, to Sunday, November 16, the BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 event will be played in Hong Kong and it looks like it is going to be a good one. After announcing the dates and location for the long-awaited international esports event, BLAST has now also revealed which teams have been invited to compete. Combined with the four wildcard picks which were already revealed by the organizer, we now know which eight teams will be facing off on Chek Lap Kok during the prestigious 2025 AsiaWorld Expo.
4 invited teams
The upcoming BLAST Open Fall 2025 Hong Kong might be the last BLAST event of the year, but it will definitely not be the least. The organizer made sure of that by extending special invites to the four best Counter-Strike 2 teams on the planet: FURIA, Team Spirit, Team Vitality and The Mongolz. These four teams currently make up the global Counter-Strike 2 top four.
- FURIA
The famous Brazilian esports organization that recently won FISSURE Playground #2 in the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the accompanying cash prize worth $ 200.000.
- Team Spirit
Russian esports organization Team Spirit has already won various important tournaments and events this year, including the BLAST Bounty Fall 2025 on Malta and Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2025.
- Team Vitality
Team Vitality is coming into the BLAST Open Fall 2025 as the reigning BLAST Rivals champion after winning BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 in Copenhagen (Denmark) earlier this year and the French organization is widely considered as one of the most successful organizations in Counter-Strike history.
- The Mongolz
The Mongolz is a well-known esports organization from Mongolia who grabbed headlines around the world this summer after winning the Counter-Strike 2 tournament at the Esports World Cup.
4 wildcard picks
Before BLAST revealed the four invited teams, the organization had already made public who the other four teams would be. These are the so-called BLAST wildcard picks: special invites for teams that managed to book particularly big and impressive victories so far this year. That way, paiN Gaming, Passion UA, Team Falcons and TYLOO were invited to join the upcoming BLAST Rivals event in Hong Kong.
- paiN Gaming
PaiN Gaming is the second Brazilian esports organization on the team sheet for BLAST Open Fall 2025, in great parts thanks to them reaching the LAN Finals of BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 earlier this year.
- Passion UA
This Ukrainian esports organization, founded by Arsenal footballer Oleksandr Zinchenko in 2023, won various Counter-Strike 2 tournaments in 2025, including the Urban Riga Open and the Glitched Masters 2025.
- Team Falcons
Team Falcons is a Saudi Arabian esports organization that consists mainly of European and Russian players and staff, and who impressed this year by winning PGL Bucharest 2025 while also recording several other impressive tournament runs.
- TYLOO
Considered as one of the pioneers of the Counter-Strike scene in China, TYLOO was invited by BLAST after clinching various events and titles this year, including FISSURE Playground #1 and the Asian Champions League 2025.