Aurora finally made the leap and won a big event.

*touches finger to ear*

Ah. We’re getting word that it was a final against Legacy at an event where SAW made the semi-finals. Never mind, then.

All jokes aside, it’s good to see Aurora finally win. They have threatened for way, way too long and until now they were hollow threats. This mightn’t be the marquee trophy they looked like they might eventually build to, but a trophy is a trophy. They’ve won more than you, dear reader.

Don’t you feel silly.

It took all five maps, and Legacy put up one hell of a fight coming back from 0-2 down to a force a decider, but in the end it was woxic’s experience and guile that got them over the line on map five - but it was the power of XANTARES that got them there.

Not only did Turkey’s GOAT drop 103 kills in the 126 rounds of the BO5, he also was the topfragger in all three maps Aurora won. No statpadding in lost maps here - well, except for the fact he was also Aurora’s topfragger on Train, too.

Fair to say he was the best player in the series, we reckon.

And the tournament, as it turns out, as he deservedly won MVP. Well, we say deservedly - he wasn’t actually even the highest rated Turkish player, with xfl0ud finishing above him, as well as blameF, but they both lost because they’re losers and they stink so no MVP for them.

We do implore you to have a click around his stats from the event, because they are nasty.

For Legacy, their performance was admirable and just more proof that they are not just a flash in the pan fluke team but actually pretty damn good. We have some concerns over how well saadzin and n1ssim can ‘scale up’, but as a team they’re super solid.

Brazil might be back. At least sort of.