FalleN has had a legendary career, but he has never lifted a trophy in the Spodek.

And after that abysmal showing against MOUZ, he never will, either.

We’ve been pretty critical of FURIA recently, but this performance really took the cake for us. A dead team walking FalleN to the grave, even if their replacement for the Professor has wall hacks, they still won’t manage to be competitive against the other top teams.

On the other hand, MOUZ look great, and it seems like Spinx has actually met his match in terms of a bombsite partner that won’t let him send them to the cuck chair. PR is looking very solid now, and that’s exactly what they needed after a bleak 2025 from Jimpphat.

Shoutout to xelex, too. He’s fantastic. He moves us in a way makazze and kyousuke just can’t We love xelex.

Oh, and shoutout to Falcons, who have just been plain disappointing since winning Cologne.

We really thought they’d cracked it at the Major, that karrigan still has life in him. He doesn’t. They hadn’t. Falcons are now having an incredibly disappointing second half of the year, and the battering Spirit gave them has really sunk them even lower in our estimations.

The rest of the games went pretty much as you’d expect them to. Big leads meant that Aurora and Vitality didn’t need to rush to close out their games versus 1win and PARIVISION, but they also didn’t need to exert themselves when the pressure was on, either.

Vitality are Vitality, and Aurora are fast become an elite-level team. We’re looking forward to seeing them lock horns again in the semis.

Let’s just hope the games are a little bit more exciting than the quarters.

And that four BO3 quarter-final days die a swift death. Horrible.