Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut has been named the HLTV x 1XBET Most Valuable Player of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 1 after topping the charts in Vitality 's fifth consecutive tournament victory.
The Frenchman has seen his teammates challenge him more and more in Vitality 's run of dominance in the past half a year, and this time was no different, as Shahar "flameZ" Shushan made a great case for himself ever since he got off to a slow start against FUT in the opener.
But ever the epitome of consistency, ZywOo kept delivering solid performances throughout the tournament and topped it off with superb peak in a 2.18-rated Dust2 on the final map against Natus Vincere .
That allowed the 25-year-old to equal flameZ 's impressive output in the playoffs (1.32 vs. 1.33), and though it was still shy of Robin "ropz" Kool 's (1.42), the Estonian's slow group stage meant he was a little too far behind to catch up to his two teammates.
After all, ZywOo 's overall case easily prevailed as he ended up topping the event charts by some distance in rating (1.34) and within his team in map wins (1.31), as well as in kills per round win outside of the two last-placed teams (1.09).