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Team Yandex vs Team Spirit 2:0: result and AI prediction
Team Yandex and Team Spirit played on 10 October — playoffs, upper bracket final, BLAST Slam Season 8 2026: the series ended 2:0. The AI models' bet: Over 2.5 maps at 1.96 — 8 of 16 models chose it; the bet lost.
- BLAST Slam Season 8 2026
- Playoffs, upper bracket final
- Best of three
- Stream
published · updated UTC
AI models' pick: Over 2.5 maps
1.96AI models' pick · 8 of 16 for this bet, 8 for others
What the odds were
Since the first snapshot Team Yandex have shortened: 1.79 → 1.55, Team Spirit — 2.22 → 2.48. The money is going on Team Yandex.
abbreviations
- 1, 2 — Team Yandex or Team Spirit wins the series
- H1, H2 — map handicap: −1.5 means winning the series without dropping a map, +1.5 means taking at least one map
- O, U — total maps over or under: over 2.5 means the series goes to a third map
How the series went
- map 1Team Yandex50 min
- map 2Team Yandex34 min
AI prediction and analysis
The largest group of AI models bet on over 2.5 maps — the bet lost. 3 more bet on a Team Spirit win — the bet lost. The other 5 chose other bets: a Team Spirit handicap, a Team Yandex win and a Team Yandex handicap.
- 8 of 16O 2.5our betodds 1.96ChatGPTClaudeDeepSeek
GeminiQwen
GLMMiniMax
Sonarlost - 3 of 162odds 2.22KimiXiaomi MiMoNemotron Ultralost
- 2 of 16H2 (+1.5)odds 1.45DeepSeek Flash
Dots3-Notelost - 2 of 161odds 1.79
GrokNemotron Superwon - 1 of 16H1 (−1.5)odds 2.86Mistralwon
Odds — the price at the moment the AI model answered.
Form gives nothing away: across the last ten series both teams have won nine. The prices read the same way, splitting the series 56% against 45%. Four of Team Spirit's last five series reached at least a third map, including a 3-2 with TEAM VISION and a 2-1 over Team Yandex back in October. Team Yandex have been going the distance over the same stretch, with a 2-1 against PARIVISION and a 2-1 against LGD Gaming.
Average map length tells a similar story — 41 min for Team Yandex and 45 min for Team Spirit — so quick, one-sided games look unlikely here. That habit of playing to a decider is what holds up over 2.5 maps at 1.96.
Where we could be wrong
The counter is that Team Yandex can finish a job in two, as they did against BETBOOM TEAM and MOUZ. Their head-to-heads across the past two years have often ended inside two maps as well: 0-2 at The International 2026, 2-0 at Esports World Cup 2026, 2-0 at BLAST SLAM VII. Both rosters played a day ago, Team Yandex have nine maps behind them in a week, and defeat in the upper bracket final knocks nobody out, so one map could go without much resistance.
- 8 of 16 AI models back this bet: it is the most common answer, but the other half chose something else.
Form, rosters and heroes
Team Yandex
roster
CHIRA_JUNIOR, Saksa, 医者watson`, Maladych, AMMAR_THE_F — together since 19 September
New in the five: AMMAR_THE_F
Left the starting five: DM
recent series · 9 wins, 1 loss
- W2-1PARIVISIONBLAST SLAM VIII08.10
- W2-1LGD GamingBLAST SLAM VIII08.10
- L1-2Team SpiritBLAST SLAM VIII03.10
- W2-0BETBOOM TEAMBLAST SLAM VIII01.10
- W2-0MOUZBLAST SLAM VIII30.09
- W3-0Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 927.09
- W2-0LGD GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 926.09
- W2-1Aurora GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 925.09
- W2-01winPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 924.09
- W2-0Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 921.09
maps in the last 60 days
38–19, average length 41 min; Radiant 14–7, Dire 24–12
1 day since the last series, 9 maps this week
most-played heroes, 60 days · games / wins
- Winter Wyvern15 / 14
- Nature's Prophet13 / 7
- Dark Willow11 / 9
- Earth Spirit11 / 7
- Kez10 / 8
- Invoker10 / 7
- Doom9 / 6
- Hoodwink9 / 4
Team Spirit
roster
Yatoro, Larl, rue, not_me, Batyuk — together since 13 May
Left the starting five: Collapse
recent series · 9 wins, 1 loss
- W2-1Aurora GamingBLAST SLAM VIII09.10
- W2-1Team YandexBLAST SLAM VIII03.10
- W2-01winBLAST SLAM VIII30.09
- W2-1Team NemesisBLAST SLAM VIII29.09
- W3-2TEAM VISIONThe International 202623.08
- W2-0Team YandexThe International 202623.08
- W1-0BETBOOM TEAMThe International 202622.08
- W2-0Team LiquidThe International 202622.08
- L1-2TEAM VISIONThe International 202621.08
- W1-0Iron WingThe International 202620.08
maps in the last 60 days
27–13, average length 45 min; Radiant 11–4, Dire 16–9
1 day since the last series, 6 maps this week
most-played heroes, 60 days · games / wins
- Winter Wyvern11 / 6
- Pangolier10 / 8
- Clockwerk10 / 7
- Dark Willow10 / 7
- Hoodwink10 / 6
- Nature's Prophet7 / 6
- Underlord6 / 5
- Undying6 / 4
head-to-head series, last two years
12 series: Team Yandex 8 wins, Team Spirit 4 wins · the last 5 below
- L1-2Team Yandex vs Team SpiritBLAST SLAM VIII03.10
- L0-2Team Yandex vs Team SpiritThe International 202623.08
- W2-0Team Yandex vs Team SpiritEsports World Cup 202616.07
- W2-0Team Yandex vs Team SpiritBLAST SLAM VII30.05
- W1-0Team Yandex vs Team SpiritBLAST SLAM VII26.05
