GamerLegion, fnatic, BC.Game out of MRQ

ash and GamerLegion will miss their first Major since Antwerp 2022.

fnatic, BC.Game, and world number 12 GamerLegion will not attend the Austin Major after being eliminated from the MRQ with 1-3 records.

GamerLegion were the highest ranked team in the qualifier, just missing out on an automatic invite, but put themselves in trouble with day one losses to fnatic and Nemiga.

Having dug themselves out of similar 0-2 situations in Major cycles before — both at Shanghai and at Paris —, there was a chance GL could do the same only for SAW to dash those hopes in a convincing Anubis map three.

Youngster Oldřich "⁠PR⁠" Nový, a contender for Rookie of the Year, had a tournament to forget with a 0.99 rating and 6-14 K-D, 0.61 rating decider.

"We weren't good enough," coach ash said on X. "We didn't adapt to being back online."

"Super disappointing, top 10 at every LAN event this year to fall flat at this moment."

BC.Game fail to recover from day 2 choke

BC.Game started the MRQ well with a 13-2 win over fnatic, and could have moved to the 2-1 pool if they had converted a 10-2 lead in their third BO1 against BIG.

Instead, they lost that map 16-14 and barely turned up to the server against a resurgent B8.

FNATIC's big money move isn't enough

fnatic may have had a stand-in but failure here is a tough blow for a team that spent big money on starlet AWPer Dmytro "⁠jambo⁠" Semera in March.

Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson's absence through personal issues was a tough blow, with stand-in Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup struggling individually, but you would expect a team with a firepower trio of jambo, Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer, and Matúš "⁠MATYS⁠" Šimko to performed better than they have this week.