FURIA the only top 10 team to attend FISSURE Playground 1 as invites are announced

27-6-2025 15:51

The Austin Major quarter-finalists will be the highest-ranked team in attendance at the season-opening event.

FISSURE has announced the list of 16 teams that have accepted invites for its $1,000,000 event in Belgrade, Serbia, which will run from July 15-20 and be the first notable LAN after the summer tournament break.

GamerLegion and 3DMAX were the only top 10-ranked teams, based on the VRS ranking on May 5 from which invites were sent out, to accept invitations to the tier-one event, with the list including several notable names below them including Astralis, Virtus.pro, paiN, and HEROIC.

FURIA are the only team in the current VRS and HLTV top 10 that accepted an invite, with the likes of Vitality, Falcons, Spirit, and FaZe all set to miss out on a significant share of VRS points before their appearances at IEM Cologne the following week.

The Brazilian team ended the season with a quarter-final finish at the Austin Major. It remains unclear if FURIA will hold on to Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis, who joined the team on a short-term loan from Liquid until the summer break.

How YEKINDAR is rediscovering his best form with FURIA

FISSURE Playground 1 will utilize four GSL groups to advance eight teams to a single-elimination playoff bracket, with all matches being best-of-threes until the best-of-five grand final.

The complete list of teams set to attend the $1,000,000 LAN is as follows:

free for moloboy

2025-06-27 15:52

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Might get humbled by the fresh major EVP nqz.

2025-06-27 15:55

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EZ for EmiliaQAQ

2025-06-27 16:07

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Hooxi clears

2025-06-27 20:04

GamerLegion will humble FURIA, REZ MVP of Babylon and Belgrade

2025-06-27 17:12

yes

2025-06-27 18:20

Funniest thing I've ever heard.

2025-06-28 06:49

ok w0nderbotEnjoyer

2025-06-27 17:14

What an easy lineup for Astralis to Start the new ERA. hoped for some good Teams there #ToTheStars. EASY WIN! GIGACHAD 200iq move incomming

2025-06-27 17:56

good job ESL

2025-06-27 18:56

still a stacked tournament with great teams

2025-06-27 19:57

pretty good lineup even tho there are no top teams.

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This is a tournament with Arena in the Playoffs. It's going to be interesting

2025-06-27 15:58

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Arena with 50 people yeah. It's not going to be anything big lmao.

2025-06-27 17:22

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I think there are quite a few CS fans in Serbia. It might not be a lot of people, but it's enough

2025-06-27 17:24

Canadian cs XD

2025-06-27 17:38

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least schizo pole

2025-06-27 18:29

If CS events where ever to come to Canada, it would sell out just like Austin & or Dallas does. We have money to spend. We aren't poor like Serbians. That's my point. I'd say the same thing about Poland but Polish people would make them selves broke the entire year to attend 1 tournament. AND Poland has one of the biggest CS tournaments. Cleary polish people show up for CS.

2025-07-12 19:21

Typical NA brain, lets hope Your gov won't block your bank account for thinking differently from the guideline.

2025-07-12 20:00

"A significant portion of Canadians are struggling with housing affordability. Approximately 67% of Canadian households cannot comfortably afford housing costs above $1,749 per month, according to a survey cited by EveryRate. Additionally, nearly half (45%) of Canadians are very concerned about their ability to afford housing due to rising costs. " Good luck

2025-07-12 20:01

so?

2025-06-27 19:13

4050 seats lil bro

2025-06-28 05:26

1M prize pool as well with arena playoffs, this is a golden opportunity for all these tier 1.5 and 2 teams like Furia, Vp, Astralis and Pain to win an actual big tournament

2025-06-27 17:43

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I'm really more hyped about this one than Cologne, watching vita clapping eveyone these past six months hasn't been very fun

2025-06-27 20:31

it has been fun watching the soon to be best team of all time play

2025-06-28 12:07

Bro crying because NaVi is trash

2025-06-28 20:15

yeah, and they will boost the winner into the top 10, and we can actually have a different set of invites instead of dead g2, astralis, gl, 3dmax that somehow are still that high i feel vrs ranking is too much stagnated because of the lack of these type of tournaments

2025-06-29 14:39

This is a really good point.

2025-06-30 07:01

enjoyable to watch such, still I'd wish to have fnatic/nip/ence in but this is fun too

2025-06-27 19:06

major stage 2 rematch event lmao

2025-06-27 20:06

Good for t2 scene

2025-06-27 15:53

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tier1.5 yes i think

2025-06-27 17:34

Stop right there. Thank you very much. I need somebody with a human touch.

2025-06-27 17:45

hey you always on the run. gotta slow it down baby. gotta have some fun.

2025-06-27 19:18

three chinese teams cinema

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I will be there (by there I mean twitch chat).

2025-06-27 15:56

EZ for Jee

2025-06-27 17:46

need more asian representation in cs

2025-06-28 05:34

ez for yekindar

Vamos, first real S tier tournament win incoming. GODKINDAR ERA STARTS IN 2 WEEKS.

2025-06-27 15:54

so happy he's back

Tier 2.5 you mean

2025-06-27 16:06

Why does hltv show the predicted teams by default? If you click on the event right now it shows the teams in order of VRS, kinda weird to show teams on an event's page who aren't gonna be there... I'm sure it will be updated with the real teams, but my problem is the design of showing predicted teams instead of just no teams at all in an era where teams will always skip events, its just misleading.

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Life is easier if you read

You don't think it's misleading, especially for newer users? Everyone knows a lot of the teams shown on that page will skip the event anyways, so its kinda stupid for hltv to even show it at all and generate fake hype for a t2 event.

2025-06-27 16:01

yeah but ignorance is a bliss, so...

2025-06-27 19:14

Potential

2025-06-27 16:00

Agree. They should just put the VRS ranking from the date invites will be sent like liquipedia does.

2025-06-27 16:03

bro let the mods sort that out, because all the teams for the tournaments are manually added to each tournament.. Those are only predictions bro..

2025-06-27 16:04

but why do they show those predictions in the first place if its completely uncertain if theyre even 10% accurate lmao

2025-06-27 20:10

So free for EmiliaQAQ

its insane that we have $1mil tier2 events now

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I'm pretty sure they did invite more T1 teams, but they declined to get ready for IEM Cologne.. but afterall, they need only 1 Top 10 team to have an actual HLTV MVP award and trophey shown on the team/player profile.

im sure it's 2 top 10 teams no? hltv.org/events/7603/esl-challenger-kato.. for example this

2025-06-27 15:59

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as far as I know it's 1, unless they changed something.. but I think the prize pool comes in a clutch as well, as I haven't seen a T2 tournament with the prize pool of $1M

i don't think that the prize pool matters on hltv, but we will see ig

I think you might be right, but I'm pretty sure they will still have it as the prize pool is $1M

2025-06-27 16:02

This is considered a qualifier.

i thought that it was just an additional that you get the epl spot from esl challengers like getting an iem katowice spot from cologne before

ECL is a qualifier specifically for EPL.

isnt this also sponsored by some russian oligarch bookie or something? iirc i read something like this

2025-06-27 16:30

idk tbh, never heard anything like this.. But it's same tournament as BetBoom Dacha, organized by the same people, just different name..

2025-06-27 16:48

t1.5

2025-06-28 05:35

didnt NIP accept their invite or why aren't they playing?

may 5th invites

2025-06-28 06:06

HAHA nice

where spirit, i am surprised that they are not there

Me too, planned to go to arena now probably skip it

2025-06-27 20:52

I literally saw ads on Instagram saying something like "you seriously wont go to see donk perform IRL" fucking scammers

2025-06-27 21:32

the tickets are rather cheap

2025-06-28 06:08

FURIA ERA start here

Liquid skipping this event is crazy. They are going to be out of the top 30 by the end of the summer if they are not careful

They will seriously regret skipping this if they don't perform at Cologne or EWC. They're due to drop off a cliff soon.

2025-06-27 16:09

not make it through Cologne Stage 1 and lose the first single elimination game at EWC is not out of the realm of possibility

2025-06-27 16:24

maybe thats what they need. so they can build a roster from scratch keeping some players maybe, and climb the vrs on their own so they can have a momentum best way in my opinion lol they need some ego touch

2025-06-29 14:42

About to be the biggest prize pool for a tier-2/3 event lol (except the WESG or whatever these were called back in the day)

there is no universe where this can be called a tier 3 event

2025-06-27 21:44

Why failclowns decline the invite? It should be easy win for them, or they afraid against mibr?

Because top teams want to practice for Cologne

2025-06-27 15:57

Playing the tournament does not count as practice somehow in 2025?..

2025-06-27 16:59

tournaments will have travel, media day etc which will take time away from practice. also unless they completely don't care about winning, they have to analyze the opponents and adapt their game to exploit possible openings or take care of their own eventual mismatches - less opportunity to work on specific stuff that teams could focus on during an actual practice. vetos might also mean they don't get to work as much on a specific map that could be a point of emphasis.

2025-06-27 17:23

Im assuming Lars asked Falcons for more time to make kyousuke a morning person and give Zonic the freedom and time to truly implement his 5 time csgo major winning stratbook into cs2

2025-06-27 16:26

Pretty good tournament. Interesting teams like Furia, VP with Perfecto, the new IGL Astralis, 3DMAX, Pain, MiBr. Looks promising. Way better without Vita and Spirit.

Packed T2 tournament, will be interesting to follow, gogo 3d

liquid you guys are no top team, why would u skip this event?

It's the summer break, let the guys enjoy their vacation.

2025-06-27 16:29

u think they deserve a break for the way they've played these last 6 months?

2025-06-27 16:32

Yeah, they do. It was an exhausting first half of the year with numerous tournaments.

2025-06-27 16:34

They literally skipped 3 S-tier LANs (Cluj, Rivals Copenhagen, Astana) on purpose. Now they are refusing to play in this event. I’d totally understand it if they went deep into tournaments like Aurora did, made playoffs and all. But they didn’t. Also they didn't even have to play early stages like Austin Stages 1–2 or EPL Stage 1 (maybe except for Kato Play-ins). So I really don’t get how they’re so exhausted when they often exit relatively early and choose to skip multiple events. Also, I’m not specifically blaming the players here for skipping events. Anyone with a functioning brain knows Liquid is a scum org and is deliberately pulling out of mostly non-ESL events.

2025-06-27 18:11

emilia and jee. let's go

bruh

No Legacy with Dumau :(

invites were send like in may

Ez for Hooxi

kinda exciting ngl, hooxi on astralis, heroic new roster, GL new guy, and first time back since major dissapointment

Why did so many T2 teams decline a 1 mil Lan event? Like if SAW is invited there'd be a ton of teams above them skipping no?

Outside of the top 10 on the May ranking, only NAVI, Liquid, and B8 skipped. Everyone else accepted all the way down to Wildcard at 27th: hltv.org/valve-ranking/teams/2025/may/5

Ah my bad for being dumb and not reading that it was the may invites. Was just assuming it's the most recent one considering they only revealed the invites now

2025-06-27 16:11

Yes, it was a very long delay in getting the list finalized and announced.

2025-06-27 16:12

Flyquest trolling for not joining this

They missed the cutoff, Wildcard ranked at 27th on the May VRS are the lowest ranked team that were offered an invite: hltv.org/valve-ranking/teams/2025/may/5

Hopefully they come back into the cutoff. One of the potential teams there is

rare flair

2025-06-28 05:36

wdym?

2025-06-28 13:22

which part didn't you understand?

2025-06-28 19:31

everything

2025-06-29 14:18

"with all matches being best-of-threes until the best-of-five grand final" Finally

wdym finally, all tournaments already do that except for major

2025-06-27 16:40

PGL events?

2025-06-27 17:07

?? the last PGL tournament - PGL Astana, had this same format

2025-06-27 17:28

bruh, PGL catching strays😭

2025-06-27 21:49

I'm glad to see a bunch of teams skip actually, this looks like a fun lineup of teams.

Spirit... skipped the rebranded BBD ?

Their sponsor wont be happy

2025-06-27 16:28

SAW there means Parivision should have gotten an invite, why would they decline? Smh

the invites are from may 5th pari was 50th at the time

still nice teams, gonna be a good tournament

ez fake mvp for molodoy

Well that got boring quickly

ez for china

new tournament for BIG to bomb out in 2 days

Will be be interesting to watch.

3 Chinese teams 😭

Thisbis actually more interesting than watching tournaments vitality plays in

Cannot wait for this tbf, anyone else going?

Absolutely, can't miss the Astralis comeback

2025-06-27 19:21

no bakin sadge

TYLOO or LV will win that tournament. We will be there

2025-06-27 16:08

goat Emilia about to secure the big bag

Well Cologne is in 3 days after that, so expected, overall T3 tournament

Tournaments like these succeeding impacts the esports scene more than IEM cologne or majors succeeding. If this tournament generates enough profit to have them every 6 months or smth. More tier 1.5 ,2 ,3 teams will get a chance to play in tournaments like these where you have crowds in the playoffs, LAN in group stage , instead of online tournaments like CCT. Basically means counter strike can be worked like normal sports having most games with crowds

2025-06-27 16:45

A tournament that is going to be played on half july takes the VRS from 5th may, its terrible…

2025-06-27 16:10

Surprises to see both Spirit and Liquid skipped. Spirit farms tournament like these and they already have been skipping the tournis. Liquid needs events like these, their VRS is gonna go down hard soon. Why they acting like they tough shits Overall, actual good lineups ?!?

spirit never "farmed" anything. they attended dachas because of the sponsor BB and they attended astana to play in front of cis crowd

Does BB still sponsor the team ? I think the reported changes in the lineup might be playing it's part too.

2025-06-27 16:50

nilo and gr1ks's tier 1 debuts woohoo

You know this is better than I expected for attending teams. Actually an event that's watchable as long as they don't have annoying production.

Actually nice lineup, not always the same teams

If Brazil don't win this event, there will be no better chance.

2025-06-27 16:13

mickey mouse event

2025-06-27 16:14

VP pls disband if you don't win this

3 chinese team participating is good for asian Cs. Bunch of teams looking to get a head start, try their new squads and get some games under their belts. Looking forward for GL, VP, Heroic, Astralis. Lets see if Furia, Pain and Lyn Vision can retain their form from the major or was it just a "fluke"

2025-06-27 16:20

GO HOOXI MY MAN!!!

2025-06-27 16:21

Love these tier 1.5 LANs

kinda cool 0 top teams

ez 4 brazil

Two or three poop stains but overall the team list is nice

Tier 1.5 tournaments that include crowd playoffs like these succeeding is really important for the future of counter strike. It's way more important than people think.

2025-06-27 16:35

Banger lineup with 0 real favorite. Trash will farm

3 br teams, 3 china teams and only 1 NA, lets go!

Free money lol. Tier 1.5 is actually nice to watch

2025-06-27 16:37

makes sense VIT, Mouz and mongolz vacation spirit changing and they are awesome at skipping tournaments Aurora big ego Navi, Falcons and G2 are changing and avoiding the embarassment Faze dont play tier 2

2025-06-27 16:38

i forgot aurora exists. back when they were ef they used to love not skipping tourneys. i guess now that they are under 1xbet theyre not gonna play in their rival bookie tourney.

2025-06-27 18:59

they dont really need the money now so why play t2?

2025-06-27 19:25

free for 3D #delusion

EZ FOR CHINA

2025-06-27 16:39

JAMYOUNG FIRST EVER MVP

2025-06-27 16:44

Honestly, has the potential to be a really exciting event.

2025-06-27 16:46

Actually a good t2 event, great oppurtunity for t2/t3 teams to get a good placing here and secure invites for bigger events!

LOL

2025-06-27 16:51

WHERE IS NIP??

2025-06-27 16:57

No kyousuke? Banana cup.

Crazy that 11 teams declined. Navi and B8 I understand, but I'm surprised that teams that are partnered with fissure like Spirit and Mouz aren't going. What a golden opportunity for all these 16 teams to rise up the rankings, especially those currently outside the top 30 after the major ended. Is it weird to think that all 16 teams actually have a chance to win? All 16 teams have shown the capacity to beat one another in these last few months, and thus I truly believe that this tournament could be won by any of these 16 teams. Maybe not SAW, but we haven't seen this new roster yet, even if they heavily downgraded.

2025-06-27 17:15

Probably because top teams are focused on Cologne

2025-06-27 17:11

Perhaps, makes sense, but still a surprise that even teams like Liquid are willing to skip despite being out of top 16. Theres a good chance they dont get invites to EPL, or Starladder Budapest. Going even further, if they cant recover, they won't get an IEM Chengdu, and with their distinction as an EU team now, they probably miss the Major if they keep missing out on events.

2025-06-27 17:19

do we know the deadline to decline the invite? might be they just skipped the tournament before those changes happened

The invite process started may 5th, teams get 48 hours to decline and then the next team in line gets invited. I'm assuming thats what made this process so long. They mightve declined before or after the major with how long this has lasted.

2025-06-27 20:24

how are spirit and mouz "partnered" with fissure?

2025-06-28 06:47

Fissure ran every Betboom event of the past 2 years. So Betboom Playlists and Betboom Dacha, stuff like that, all run by Fissure. Mouz either jad its main team or academy team at every event except Betboom Dubai 2023, and thats because they were playing in both Espoo and Blast World Finals. Meanwhile, Spirit or its academy team, has played literally every BetBoom event apart from the first BetBoom Playlist, and back in february 2023, probably when they didnt have a partnership with the organizer yet. That and Spirit were literally sponsored by BetBoom and Fissure were in charge of those BetBoom events. Mouz I'm not so sure why, but it was clear they were going to every Betboom event except Dubai when they played Blast World Final instead. All this to say they were affiliated with Fissure at the very least from 2023 to late 2024. Falcons also made many appearances, but not as many as these 2 teams, and were probably also affiliated in some way.

2025-06-28 12:17

spirit are partnered with bb but not fissure. mouz are unrelated to bb

2025-06-28 12:26

Molodoy 250k price fantasy incoming

2025-06-27 17:02

Easy for Astralis + Gigachad

2025-06-27 17:09

At least we got something to watch

why wasn’t NiP invited?

VRS cutoff for this event was around 5th of May, NIP were top40 back then, I guess they only invited top30 teams

2025-06-27 18:04

lol gamerlegion and heroic better hurry up and fill their rosters :p

EZ 4 MOLODOY

good for the sport

lol so this event is dogshit

2025-06-27 17:27

attending this and Cologne stage 1 immediately the week after is gonna be brutal

Cologne St. 1 starts 3 days after this event ends... and Serbia is close to Germany, there's no problem playing both in fact it could even be a good warm-up for Cologne

2025-06-27 18:23

could be

depends on the placements as well though and teams usually attends an event like 2 days before event start anyway if not in bootcamp.

2025-06-27 19:01

Finally NiP can win something

2025-06-27 17:58

We might actually win this,first trophy with Hooxi incoming?

2025-06-27 18:00

Kursy gonna humble everybody

2025-06-27 18:17

Really stupid of G2 to decline the invite here, they really just gonna rawdog Cologne, the top 3 most important tournament of the year alongside Kato and Majors rather than take that event and break sunpayus and antivirus(or whoever tf) in.