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Falcons, FURIA to meet in BLAST Rivals Fall final
Team Falcons and FURIA continued their unbeaten march to Sunday's best-of-five grand final at the $350,000 BLAST Rivals Fall event in Hong Kong.,The two group stage winners swept their semifinal matches on Saturday, with Falcons eliminating Team Vitality and FURIA knocking out paiN Gaming.,Falcons w...
Vitality, paiN Gaming advance at BLAST Rivals Fall
Team Vitality and paiN Gaming won their quarterfinal clashes Friday to reach the final four at the $350,000 BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 event in Hong Kong.,Vitality rallied for a 2-1 win over Team Spirit and will face Team Falcons in the semifinals on Saturday. paiN Gaming swept Passion UA and will meet ...
Falcons, FURIA advance to BLAST Rivals Fall semifinals
Team Falcons and FURIA won their respective groups Thursday and advanced to the semifinals of the $350,000 BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 event in Hong Kong.,Four other teams advanced to Friday's single-elimination playoff quarterfinals while The MongolZ and TYLOO were both eliminated.,Falcons swept Group A...
Action begins at $350K BLAST Rivals Fall at Hong Kong
Group stage action got underway on Wednesday at the $350,000 BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 event in Hong Kong.,Eight Counter-Strike 2 teams are competing this week for a top prize of $125,000.,The double-elimination group stage will send the top three finishers from each group to the single-elimination pla...
4 teams advance to IEM Chengdu group finals
Four teams advanced to the upper-bracket finals on Tuesday as the group stage continued at the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2025 tournament in China.,Astralis and Team Falcons will meet in the Group A final and FURIA and MOUZ will square off in Group B.,Sixteen Counter-Strike 2 teams began...
Action gets underway at $300K IEM Chengdu event
Competition started Monday at the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 25 tournament in China.,Sixteen Counter-Strike 2 teams are competing in this week's competition for a top prize of $125,000.,The double-elimination group stage began Monday with two groups of eight teams, with all matches best-...
FaZe Clan benching 'rain' after decade-long run
FaZe Clan announced the benching of longtime rifler Havard "rain" Nygaard from its Counter-Strike 2 roster on Monday.,The 31-year-old Norwegian had been with the team since January 2016, collecting 19 trophies during that span and earning four tournament MVP awards. Notable championships included EL...
Virtus.pro out of ESL Pro League over immigration issue
Virtus.pro will miss the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 22 in Stockholm, Sweden, after running into visa problems at the border.,The Russian Counter-Strike 2 team said immigration officials raised concerns about the medical insurance for three of its players.,"While new insurance policies were promp...
EliGE rejoins Liquid's Counter-Strike 2 lineup
Team Liquid announced the return of Counter-Strike 2 rifler Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski on Thursday.,The 28-year-old American played for Liquid from March 2015 to June 2023 before stints with Complexity Gaming (June 2023 to January 2025) and FaZe Clan (January-September 2025).,EliGE's trophy haul d...
Astralis rally to stay alive at PGL Bucharest
Astralis rallied to stay alive with a 2-1 win against Legacy on Wednesday at the $625,000 PGL Bucharest 2025 event in Romania.,Legacy opened the Round 4 low match with a 13-7 win on Dust II but Astralis answered with a 13-7 win on Ancient and a marathon 19-16 victory on Nuke, eliminating Legacy.,The...
G2 Esports continue hot start at PGL Bucharest
G2 Esports recorded their second straight sweep Monday as the group stage of the $625,000 PGL Bucharest 2025 event continued in Romania.,Aurora Gaming, 3DMAX and Complexity also improved to 2-0 by winning their Round 2 high matches at the 16-team Counter-Strike 2 competition.,The group stage is oper...
Group stage underway at PGL Bucharest
Complexity, G2 Esports and FURIA were among six teams to record Round 1 sweeps Sunday as action began at the $625,000 PGL Bucharest 2025 event in Romania.,Sixteen teams are competing in the Counter-Strike 2 competition with the winner of next Sunday's grand final set to take home $200,000.,The group...
MOUZ wrap up PGL Cluj-Napoca title
MOUZ defeated Team Falcons 3-1 to win the $1.25 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 title in Romania on Sunday.,MOUZ claimed the event's top prize of $400,000, while the Falcons settled for $187,500. ,Earlier in the day, Astralis defeated FaZe Clan 2-1 in the third-place ma...
FaZe, Falcons, MOUZ, Astralis head to PGL Cluj-Napoca semis
FaZe Clan, Team Falcons, MOUZ and Astralis advanced to the semifinals of the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 event by winning their quarterfinal matches Friday in Romania.,It was nearly a clean sweep, with only one of the four best-of-three matches going the distance. FaZe swept SAW, MOUZ blanked...
Playoff bracket finalized at PGL Cluj-Napoca
Astralis, SAW and MOUZ claimed the final three playoff spots Tuesday at the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca event in Romania.,Astralis swept BIG, SAW did the same to 3DMAX and MOUZ eliminated Virtus.pro 2-1 in their respective Round 5 matches to finalize the eight-team, single-elimination playoff brac...
Action underway at $1.25M PGL Cluj-Napoca event
The MongolZ and FaZe Clan were among six teams recording Round 1 sweeps Friday as action began at the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca event in Romania.,Sixteen teams are competing in the Counter-Strike 2 competition, with the winner of the Feb. 23 grand final taking home $400,000.,MOUZ, Team Falcons, ...
Team Spirit fend off FaZe Clan to capture Shanghai major
Team Spirit outlasted FaZe Clan on Sunday to win the Perfect World Shanghai Major in China and the $500,000 first-place prize.,The teams split the first two rounds, with Spirit winning 13-8 on Nuke and FaZe Clan taking Ancient 13-6.,On Dust II, Spirit jumped out to an 8-4 lead but held off a surging...
G2, FaZe Clan advance in Shanghai Major playoffs
G2 Esports and FaZe Clan scored 2-1 wins Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Perfect World Shanghai Major in China.,G2 Esports knocked out HEROIC and FaZe Clan eliminated Team Vitality in the quarterfinals of the $1.25 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament.,After HEROIC opened with a 13-6 win o...
MOUZ, Spirit sweep into Shanghai Major semifinals
MOUZ and Team Spirit swept their way into the semifinals of the Perfect World Shanghai Major in China on Thursday.,MOUZ defeated The MongolZ and Team Spirit eliminated Team Liquid in the quarterfinals as the playoffs got underway for the $1.25 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament.,MOUZ won 16-14 on A...
MongolZ, Vitality advance to Shanghai playoff stage
The MongolZ and Team Vitality advanced to the champions stage at the Perfect World Shanghai Major with victories Friday in China.,Both teams improved to 3-0 in the elimination stage, with The Mongolz defeating Heroic 2-1 and Vitality sweeping MIBR 2-0 in their Round 3 high matches.,The elimination s...