Donk leads Spirit to 3-0 win over Falcons in Astana

Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets finished the PGL Astana grand final with a 62-46 kill-death line and a 1.52 rating as Spirit beat Falcons 3-0 on Saturday in Astana, Kazakhstan. The map scores were Dust2 16-12, Mirage 13-7 and Ancient 13-10. The win gives Spirit a second Astana title and ends a nine-month run without a tournament trophy for the organization.

On Dust2, donk began the match 0-6 in regulation but turned the map in overtime, going 7-2 in the extra rounds. Spirit led 12-9 in regulation, missed three match points, then used overtime to take the opening map and set the tone for the series.

Mirage was one-sided in Spirit’s favor. Falcons managed only a pistol-round win and a 1v3 from Maksim ‘kyousuke’ Lukin on their T side. Spirit controlled the CT half and closed the map 13-7.

On Ancient, Spirit raced to an 8-1 lead and limited Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov to no frags in the first nine rounds. Spirit converted one of six tournament points and finished the map 13-10 to complete the sweep.

Andrey ‘tN1R’ Tatarinovich posted a 56-44 line with a 1.29 rating. Boris ‘magixx’ Vorobiev and Dmitry ‘sh1ro’ Sokolov each posted KAST figures of 78.9 percent. For Falcons, kyousuke led with 58-53 and a 1.18 rating, while m0NESY finished 55-48 with a 1.00 rating. Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen recorded a 32-56 line and a 0.66 rating.

Falcons have now finished second six times since signing m0NESY. Andersen acknowledged the roster had limited time to prepare a full five-map pool for a best-of-five series and described his role with the team as part of a longer-term project.

Match highlights included a four-kill round from tN1R, an anti-eco ace by magixx, multi-kills from donk on the AWP and kyousuke’s 1v3 on Mirage. Spirit previously won the event in its debut in Astana in 2025 and later claimed IEM Cologne and BLAST Bounty titles that season. Spirit will continue its competitive schedule after the Astana event while Falcons return to competition with another runner-up finish.