Third-place decider spices up Cluj-Napoca playoffs Fantasy

Four teams are guaranteed three matches worth of points in the latest season Fantasy game.

All five FaZe players are among the most picked players

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 - Playoffs

Format

- You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here.
- Single-elimination eight-team bracket.
- Semi-final losers will play the third-place decider which is included in the game.
- Grand Final is BO5, all other matches are BO3.

Teams

Things to note


- Single-elimination means that you need to be bracket-aware. Make sure to check it out before making your team to see who has the easier draw (Spoiler: It's The MongolZ.)

- Due to the presence of a third-place decider, it might be beneficial to pick players from teams that you expect to win in the quarter-finals as semi-finalists are guaranteed to play three matches.

Player prices

- Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş and Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač are priced a bit lower than their actual value due to facing each other in the very first round.

- FaZe players are fairly affordable due to not being clear favorites at the event despite their high rank. Nevertheless, their quarter-final opponent, SAW, is a clear underdog with changes inbound after the event, making them a good choice to secure three matches worth of points.

Prizes


- The users can count on both Season points and skin prizes brought to you by Chicken.GG:

1. Hydra Gloves | Emerald (Field-Tested)
2. AWP | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
3. M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)

Turkey Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.16
Maps played:
2240
KPR:
0.81
DPR:
0.67
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.15
Maps played:
2030
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.66
#1
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United States TylerMerritt
Oh cool
2025-02-20 10:29
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interesting format, now 3rd place winner will get more points than final loser
2025-02-20 14:38
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not necessarily, it's always possible that the 3rd place decider is a close game while the final is a blowout
2025-02-20 19:01
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Where is the PGL Audio guy?
2025-02-20 10:31
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#6
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
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Denmark LuuL
Chicken booster would be great for -6 points
2025-02-20 10:36
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third place decider > showmatch with smooya
2025-02-20 10:31
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#4
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Moldova Kunfukoala
who asked
2025-02-20 10:31
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Me, I made a thread yesterday.
2025-02-20 10:51
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#5
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Netherlands Wimmie
mongolz vs ef final
2025-02-20 10:33
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2 replies
Whoever loses, racism wins
2025-02-20 10:46
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1 reply
shoutout @LAUNDERS one time
2025-02-20 19:02
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Nice, sadly they are keeping the bo5 final
2025-02-20 10:45
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#13
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Poland p00ther
I like bo5
2025-02-20 14:33
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I never watch them unless its aleksib, every map means so little and its almost always decided in the first 3 maps
2025-02-20 14:54
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2-1 is the most common state after 3 maps, so not decided
2025-02-20 19:03
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No i mean that even in the 2-1 cases, it almost never ends 2-3, so i might as well stop watching at that point. I dont know how to properly check the data on this but I looked at the past 5 years of 3star rated games on hltv and found only 2 games ending 2-3 after a team being down 2-1. Thats 2 times out of 20.
2025-02-20 19:44
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check the same stat for a bo3 grand final after 1-0
2025-02-20 19:48
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Way too time consuming. Its true that it might be similar, but i'd guess a 2-1 reverse sweep is a lot more likely than what i described. Also spending 2-3h watching a bo3 final go the way of the first maps winner is a lot more reasonable than 4-6h for the bo5 equivalent.
2025-02-20 20:12
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2 bo3 semifinals are usually longer than a bo5 final
2025-02-20 20:17
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Obviously, all i am saying is that i dont care to spend half a day watching cs. So i dont watch multiple games a day either
2025-02-20 20:27
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why do you want an mr12 bo3 grand final wtf
2025-02-20 15:10
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Bo5 is way too long so normal people dont have time for it and it makes no sense to change the game length during the tournament
2025-02-20 15:26
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Lol basically one dude made a thread about it and now it 'spices up Cluj-Napoca playoffs Fantasy'
2025-02-20 10:57
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Well tbh it does for fantasy, the strat for playoffs was pick 4 finalists and 1 person who's gonna get first rounded, now if you think that one side of the bracket teams will farm both finals and 3rd place it doesn't make picking both of them unreasonable
2025-02-20 12:04
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Yep. I changed almost my whole team after the info I got. Only one who was on both before and after iterations was Senzu.
2025-02-20 12:27
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honestly the top bracket feels insanely random, in theory it should be mongolz vs mouz, but I would not be too surprised if its pain vs astralis EDIT: I just saw Astralis play against Heroic, nvm. Astralis has no chance
2025-02-20 15:22
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dear lord, 5 rounds in the whole series XDDDDD
2025-02-20 19:07
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Ez Mongolz
2025-02-20 16:45
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#20
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
England MuziK
I look at that bracket and feel like faze will be disappointed with anything other than the trophy.
2025-02-20 18:41
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Mongolz win it, unluko
2025-02-20 19:07
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#27
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England MuziK
Yeh yeh I know what recent form suggests, just saying with their pedigree they’d be disappointed
2025-02-20 19:46
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#32
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England MuziK
Not normally one to come back and gloat, but my word that was a poor prediction, couldn’t win a map forget the tournament :D.
2025-02-21 14:48
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ok fair but when you said you think the bracket's free for FaZe, I don't think this is what you meant
2025-02-21 15:52
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#34
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England MuziK
lol I didn’t say the bracket was free for faze, just that I thought based on the bracket, faze themselves will look at it as one they should be coming out on top of and would probably see anything less as a failure. I could absolutely see why everyone saw the path for mongolz to win though, no animosity here I’m only teasing you off the back of that astralis result (I mean who was expecting that one…)
2025-02-21 17:23
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#35
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England MuziK
p.s watch faze get clapped too now :D
2025-02-21 17:31
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