Passion UA win Glitched Masters

The Ukrainian squad pipped the likes of fnatic, NIP and Metizport to the LAN trophy in Sweden.

Photo credit: Emisky Walker/Glitched

Passion UA have emerged as the winners of Glitched Masters 2025, making a lower bracket run to the title at the LAN event in Jönköping, Sweden.

Glitched Masters served as Passion UA's first LAN success since a revamp that saw the arrival of Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen, Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk, and Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko, but only the latest success in a good run of form that has accompanied the changes.

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The Ukrainian side had a long road to the trophy in Jönköping, playing eight series across three days after an early 2-0 loss to fnatic sent them down to the lower bracket.

Date	Matches
Glitched Masters 2025
13/06/2025	Passion UA Finished 2:1 Sangal	Match
14/06/2025	fnatic Finished 2:0 Passion UA	Match
14/06/2025	Preasy Finished 0:2 Passion UA	Match
14/06/2025	Passion UA Finished 2:0 Sashi	Match
15/06/2025	Alliance Finished 1:2 Passion UA	Match
15/06/2025	ECSTATIC Finished 1:2 Passion UA	Match
15/06/2025	9INE Finished 1:2 Passion UA	Match
15/06/2025	fnatic Finished 0:2 Passion UA	Match

After making their way through the gauntlet, Passion UA rematched fnatic in the final, with fnatic fresh off a recent LAN trophy win of their own at Tipsport Conquest of Prague finals.

Passion UA reversed the score from their earlier meeting to take the final in 2-0 fashion, strong performances by Woro2k and Vladyslav "⁠Kvem⁠" Korol clinching hard-fought victories on Dust2 and Train respectively.

Elsewhere in Glitched Masters Ninjas in Pyjamas had to settle for a disappointing 5-6th place finish, failing to deliver on their status as the top-ranked side in attendance after losses to fnatic and ECSTATIC. Part of the problem was a slow tournament by Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck, who posted a 0.97-rated event.

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adamb set to depart Metizport

Metizport, fresh from their last-place elimination at BLAST.tv Austin Major, also suffered an early exit, dropping out in 9-12th with Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson standing in for Adam "⁠adamb⁠" Ångström. The Swedes dropped to the lower bracket after a hard-fought loss against Ninjas in Pyjamas, before being eliminated with a whimper against Sashi.

The final standings at Glitched Masters were as follows:

1. Passion UA
2. fnatic
3. 9INE
4. ECSTATIC
5-6. Ninjas in Pyjamas
5-6. Alliance
7-8. TNL
7-8. Sashi
9-12. Metizport
9-12. Johnny Speeds
9-12. WildLotus
9-12. Preasy
13-16. Phantom
13-16. EYEBALLERS
13-16. Sangal
13-16. Tricked