donk Scores Two Aces as Spirit Beat DENDELE

Team Spirit began their BLAST Open Porto 2026 campaign with a confident 2:0 victory over DENDELE. The team won Ancient 13:8 and Cache 13:7, with Danil “donk” Kryshkovets becoming the main hero of the series.

donk was especially impressive on Cache, where he recorded two aces. One of them came in the first pistol round: he dealt all 500 points of damage to the opponents without taking a single hit himself.

Thanks to those two rounds, donk became the first CS2 player to reach 20 aces at HLTV MVP-level tournaments. In this metric, he moved ahead of Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut and Nikola “NiKo” Kovač, who each have 18 such rounds.

At the same time, donk dominated not only in individual highlights. On Ancient, he recorded 24 kills, 125.1 ADR, and finished the map with a 1.97 rating. On Cache, his numbers were even higher - again 24 kills, 133.9 ADR, and a 2.34 rating.

Spirit returned to official matches just three days after winning Esports World Cup 2026, where the team claimed the championship title.

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Spirit’s next opponent will be G2 in the upper-bracket semifinal of Group A. The winner will continue the fight for a BLAST Open Porto playoff spot, while DENDELE have dropped to the lower bracket and will face Aurora to keep their tournament hopes alive.