Recent results made people think FURIA might be back amongst the favourites for the PGL Major Singapore, however, their time at IEM Beijing is a stark reminder that this team is still a way off the top.
We f-cking knew it.
We knew that when FURIA won the Thunderpick World Championships and PGL Masters Bucharest in rather unconvincing fashions, that they weren’t the team that took late-2025 by storm.
And what do you know? We were right.
Sure, they’ve been better recently, but losing to BETBOOM in a quarter-final? zorte making molodoy look like SIXER? yuurih back to being hopeless? This still isn’t a team you can get your hopes up for in Singapore.
It’s also just quite sad to see FalleN’s final IEM end in such a lacklustre way, especially given their recent trophy wins and the fact he finished second in the two biggest IEMs of the year.
No disrespect to BETBOOM btw, they’re genuinely quite good. But FURIA should beat them everytime. Easily.
Speaking of games that should’ve been easy wins - what happened to NAVI against The MongolZ?
NAVI’s recent revivial has been pretty exciting to see, especially given that a large part of it has come from w0nderful and b1t playing out of their minds. So how did The MongolZ - with 910 sh-tting the bed, cobrazera as the most lacklustre star in tier one, and an AWP IGL who is doing neither of those jobs - take them down 2-0?
Credit where credit’s due to the Mongolians, and especially bLitz who had a stellar series, but NAVI… you can’t be doing this if you want us to believe you actually have an ounce of consistency.
At least they bounced back in the third-place game - they took down BETBOOM after two more stellar showings from b1t and w0nderful - but that was still overshadowed by iM getting ratioed by the Rainbow 6 Twitter account and made to look worse than when he takes a 50/50 duel as a result.
iM, mate, we think it might be time to pack it in after that one.
