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ZywOo made FURIA regret picking Cache with a 2.24 rating and +15.41% Swing 💀

🇫🇷 Vitality dominate the opening map of StarSeries Consolidation Final

The best of Brazilian CS 🤝🇧🇷

🇧🇷 FURIA beat 🇧🇷 MIBR in the derby and advance to the Consolidation final at StarSeries

Defeated but not out of it yet 😓🇫🇷

First time in finals with Aurora 🧠🇲🇰

📸🇷🇺 Aurora react to beating Vitality and becoming the first team to reach the Grand Final

🇷🇺 Aurora pass through the upper bracket to reach StarSeries Grand Final

KSCERATO delivered on every single map 🔥

🇧🇷 FURIA take the series to knock 🐭 MOUZ out of StarSeries Fall

🇧🇷 MIBR dominate 🇺🇸 NRG to continue the lower bracket run

Despite the recent struggles, Vitality and mezii believe one good tournament run could be enough to get them back on the winning track 🙏

It's just important that these events, where we are the full five, the full team... first off, we want to get back to winning trophies. That's the main goal, but also I think it's important that we secure good points VRS and also just secure the confidence that we know we can still win trophies, because I think it's still there — that winning mentality and the way of winning trophies doesn't just disappear over a few events. It's still there in our DNA, so we know exactly what we need to do. We just need to get that one win, and hopefully it'll be here. But yeah, that's our main goal at the moment, just whenever we're as a five, get back to winning trophies.

Two of the game's biggest legends 🇫🇷🤝🇧🇷

🇫🇷 Vitality make light work of 🇧🇷 FURIA to advance in the StarSeries upper bracket

FURIA wasn't ready for this version of ZywOo to show up 🫣

🌎 Wildcard have announced the signing of Sebastian "⁠fr3nd⁠" Kuśmierz to replace Miłosz "⁠mhL⁠" Knasiak, who has been moved to the bench.

It will be fr3nd's second stint with Wildcard after he played for the organization's academy team in the first half of 2025 before briefly getting called up to the main roster from July to September.

Wildcard now have:

🇺🇸 Ethan "⁠reck⁠" Serrano
🇨🇦 Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma
🇷🇸 Nemanja "⁠nEMANHA⁠" Đukić
🇺🇸 Danny "⁠Cxzi⁠" Strzelczyk
🇵🇱 Sebastian "⁠fr3nd⁠" Kuśmierz
🇵🇱 Łukasz "⁠splawik⁠" Jahns (coach)

🇷🇺 Aurora keep the momentum going with a win over 🇺🇸 NRG

🇧🇷 MIBR get the job done and knock 🇪🇺 magic out of StarLadder

🐭 MOUZ survive the elimination battle and send 🇺🇦 NAVI packing from StarSeries

🎤 In a post-match interview with James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks after FURIA beat MIBR at StarSeries Fall, Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis revealed he has relinquished calling duties to Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo.

FURIA had been testing YEKINDAR as a caller partly in preparation for FalleN's impending retirement at the end of the year, with the Latvian calling T sides on Anubis, Cache, and Ancient. However, he has since repeatedly stated in interviews that he wants to explore in-game leading later in his career, not now while he still feels he can perform as a role player.

"Credit where it's due: I'm not calling anymore, and hopefully I'm not going to be anymore in the future," he said when asked about FURIA's Cache T side after the match. "Because you know, we tried it, we tried it to understand like, is this something I want to pursue? Is this something the team needs?

"And I came to the conclusion that this is too much cortisol, I don't want to IGL, and I was like, 'FalleN, you need to take these maps back,' (laughs) and he was like, 'Of course I'm going to take it back, no problem.'"