Aurora to Bucharest playoffs over Apogee

The Turks played a surprisingly shaky group stage but got the job done against a resilient Polish squad.

Aurora are the fifth team through to the playoffs at PGL Bucharest after locking down the third win in the Swiss group stage over Betclic, joining G2, 3DMAX, GamerLegion and Complexity in the bracket stage.

The Turks entered the tournament fresh off the transfer from Eternal Fire and got the job done so far despite looking shaky as one of the biggest favorites to win the whole thing.

After they barely squeezed past paiN in the opener and lost out on their first opportunity to make it to the playoffs after another close affair against 3DMAX, Betclic offered another big test.

The Poles had surprised The MongolZ and Astralis on the way to the qualification game and looked out of sorts on Mirage as Ali "⁠Wicadia⁠" Haydar Yalçın put on a 2.02-rated masterclass, but they brought the fight to Aurora on Anubis.

Clip: hypex 1v2s miliseconds before dying

Converting two pistol round wins this time around, as well as a crucial 1v2 clutch from Milan "⁠hypex⁠" Polowiec, completed miliseconds before he died to a grenade, meant it went all the way down to the wire. Aurora's blistering start on the T side gunrounds made it look like a foregone conclusion at first, but Betclic made a four-round run on the CT side at the final hour to get to map point.

It came down to a nail-biting final round in which Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş and Samet "⁠jottAAA⁠" Köklü turned an unfavorable situation around to push the game to overtime, where Aurora got the job done in a 4-0 sweep.

PGL Bucharest 2025Best of 3

Aurora

Matchpage

2

0

9th April 2025

Betclic

13

Mirage

6

16

Anubis

12

Aurora	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
Ali 'Wicadia' Haydar YalçınWicadia	47 - 31	+1.99%	98.9	76.6%	1.49
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşXANTARES	41 - 26	+3.78%	86.1	76.6%	1.40
Özgür 'woxic' Ekerwoxic	33 - 25	+4.08%	73.3	87.2%	1.19
Samet 'jottAAA' KöklüjottAAA	33 - 22	+0.50%	71.4	78.7%	1.10
Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliMAJ3R	17 - 27	-2.05%	52.3	68.1%	0.82

Betclic	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
Patryk 'Demho' TomaszewskiDemho	32 - 33	-0.34%	69.7	72.3%	1.04
Oskar 'hfah' Wrońskihfah	29 - 37	-1.45%	77.5	68.1%	0.94
Jakub 'jcobbb' Pietruszewskijcobbb	30 - 35	-3.61%	69.1	59.6%	0.83
Milan 'hypex' Polowiechypex	23 - 30	+0.62%	64.0	61.7%	0.79
Wojciech 'Prism' ZiębaPrism	16 - 36	-3.56%	53.2	55.3%	0.61