HEROIC smash Astralis for final Dallas spot

cadiaN and company slumped to an aggregate score of 5-26 against their former organization.

xfl0ud recorded his highest ever rating with a 2.63 on Mirage

HEROIC have completed the IEM Dallas 2025 team list after battering Astralis 13-3 and 13-2 in the lower bracket final of Europe's closed qualifier.

Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha's troops did come in with the benefit of extra preparation time given Astralis's attendance of PGL Cluj-Napoca, but even the Finnish coach would have been surprised just how easy his team found proceedings.

Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç recorded his best-ever map with a whopping 2.63 rating on Mirage as HEROIC became the latest in a string of squads to pick and win the map against the Danes.

That was then matched by Simon "⁠yxngstxr⁠" Boije, who got a 2.63 of his own on Nuke to break his personal record too.

But as impressive as HEROIC were, it must be said that Astralis were poor throughout — four two-man advantages were thrown across the two maps, the worst of which we have included above.

HEROIC thus become the fifth European team to progress out of the qualifiers, bouncing back from a loss to 3DMAX to round out the team list for the $300,000 LAN.

With this result, the team list for Dallas is:

Invites
Vitality
G2
Eternal Fire
FaZe
The MongolZ
MOUZ
Liquid
FURIA

Qualifiers
GamerLegion
Falcons
3DMAX
BC.Game
Lynn Vision
NRG
Legacy
HEROIC

IEM Dallas 2025 Europe Closed QualifierBest of 3

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20th February 2025

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Nuke

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HEROIC	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
Yasin 'xfl0ud' Koçxfl0ud	34 - 11	+7.31%	109.0	80.6%	1.93
Simon 'yxngstxr' Boijeyxngstxr	35 - 13	+8.39%	108.7	90.3%	1.88
Andrey 'tN1R' TatarinovichtN1R	27 - 12	+6.82%	86.8	83.9%	1.58
Álvaro 'SunPayus' GarcíaSunPayus	25 - 14	+6.01%	81.1	87.1%	1.42
Linus 'LNZ' HoltängLNZ	13 - 17	-2.01%	57.9	74.2%	0.94

Astralis	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaardjabbi	17 - 26	-2.09%	57.5	58.1%	0.66
Martin 'stavn' Lundstavn	16 - 27	-4.48%	66.1	54.8%	0.66
Victor 'Staehr' StaehrStaehr	13 - 27	-4.88%	46.5	51.6%	0.48
Casper 'cadiaN' MøllercadiaN	11 - 26	-6.55%	49.0	38.7%	0.43
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	9 - 28	-8.54%	56.0	35.5%	0.41