s1mple goes for $202k in high-stakes Austin Stage 3 fantasy game

The game goes live in just a few hours with 50% increased season points on the line.

s1mple's price has gone down ahead of Stage 3

BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 - Stage 3

Season Points

With the season coming to an end the final two Major games, for Stage 3 and the playoffs, will receive increased Season points to account for the importance of the event and to give more players a chance to compete. All point tiers will reward roughly 50% more points as follows:

Top 1% - 38
Top 5% - 27
Top 10% - 23
Top 20% - 18
Top 30% - 15
Top 40% - 12
Top 50% - 9
Top 60% - 6
Top 70% - 3
Top 80% - 2

Format

• You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here.

• Sixteen-team Swiss group play.

• Advancement and elimination games are BO3, all other games are BO1.

Teams

Vitality
MOUZ
Spirit
The MongolZ
Aurora
Natus Vincere
G2
Liquid

FaZe
Virtus.pro
FURIA
3DMAX
Legacy
paiN
Lynn Vision
Nemiga

Things to note


• The game opened with ten teams, but now all teams are available for picks.

• The new HLTV Swiss simulator feature might come in handy if you're really willing to dive deep into the process.

• BO1s deliver only 50% rating points, but the regular amount of role, team, and booster points.

Player prices & pick stats

• Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, arguably the most followed player of the Major, goes back from being a “golden card” to a more modest $202k pricing, especially for an AWPer. His performance wasn’t as exciting against weaker opposition in Stage 2 with a 1.08 rating and a 3-2 match score, which justified a manual price adjustment. But if you believe that the high-octane games of the penultimate stage of the Major are where he is going to shine, then he's definitely worth considering.

• With Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov absent, Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut and Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets are by far the most expensive players of the game at $245k and $240k respectively. While ZywOo doesn't tend to farm as much, his team are a clear favorite to make it through, which is why he goes for a little more than donk. The latter, though, has found more popularity among the player base with almost twice as many picks.

Prizes


• Users can count on both Season points and skin prizes, sponsored by Skin.Club, as follows:

1. Navaja Knife | Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested)
2. Hydra Gloves | Emerald (Field-Tested)
3. Hydra Gloves | Mangrove (Field-Tested)