ZywOo — Best Player, Mirage — Most Popular Map: Key Statistics from StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026

The StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 tournament concluded yesterday. With the event over, the top teams and players have been determined, and the maps once again revealed an uneven balance between the sides. The key numbers and statistics are detailed below.

Mirage was the most frequently picked map, selected 9 times. Cache took second place in popularity (8 matches), while Inferno came in third, hosting 7 matches. The least popular maps for the teams were Nuke, Dust2, and Anubis—they were picked 5, 3, and 3 times, respectively. Ancient brought up the rear, with only 1 match played there. As for the balance between the sides, the defense proved stronger than the offense on almost all maps this time, with the exception of Dust2: on that map, the T-side dominated with a 57.1% win rate. The highest percentage of rounds won by the CTs was recorded on Nuke (66.3%) and Anubis (63.8%). On Ancient, the defense won 57.1% of the rounds; on Mirage, 56.1%; on Cache, 53.3%; and on Inferno, 52.3%.

Mathieu “ZywOo” Erbo led the tournament in individual statistics—the French esports player played 13 maps with an average rating of 1.5. In second place was Kaike “KSCERATO” Serato of FURIA Esports with a rating of 1.26. Next on the list were Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov of Natus Vincere (1.22), Felipe “insani” Yuji (1.21) and Martin “tomaszin” Korna of MIBR (1.18), Jimmy “Jimpphat” Salo of Aurora Gaming (1.15), and Abdurakhim “mo0N” Isa from magic (1.14). Rounding out the top eight was Robin “ropz” Kol from Team Vitality, whose final rating was 1.13 over 13 maps.

Team Vitality emerged as the most successful team of the championship, with an average team rating of 1.15. MIBR and FURIA Esports followed the event’s champions, each finishing the tournament with a rating of 1.03.

Today, Team Vitality defeated Aurora Gaming in the grand final of StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 with a score of 3–1 in a best-of-5 series. The French club claimed the event title and earned $200,000 in prize money. The tournament’s MVP award went to marksman Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbo.

Photo by Joao Ferreira, BLAST.