FURIA are in trouble. Again.

The squad finally – and we mean finally – won their most notable trophy to date at Elisa Espoo in late 2023. They also fought off interest from Liquid in KSCERATO, stepping into 2024 with a settled roster at full strength.

That was the theory, anyway.

What has happened in practice is more alike a car crash.

FURIA took a longer winter break than most, and created space for FalleN’s high production live-streamed wedding. However, neither of those excuse a last-placed exit from Katowice’s play-in (not even the real event) after losses to TheMongolz and Apeks.

One silver lining of their early exit was that they had time to try qualifying for BLAST Showdown, but even there they were bounced out by ‘Phantom Troupe’ in the open qualifier.

A fitting name, since nobody has seen FURIA since they cut HEN1 in the online era.

At Katowice, KSCERATO told Dust 2 that “he wasn’t making the right decisions” in-game.

But that seems true out of game too.

As much as we love skullz, that should be KSCERATO in Liquid right now. He’s got a Percy Jackson level “I love my friends” fatal flaw at this point.

A jail with all your mates, gold windows, and Guga making you steaks every day, is still a jail.

Enough with the Stockholm syndrome — get our boy out of this marketing project!