kyousuke's golden card features in now-complete Cologne Stage 2 Fantasy

25-7-2025 22:30

The second game of the season is going live soon.

kyousuke debuts as a gold card at his first event

Fall Season 2025

The $10,000 Fantasy Season is already ongoing! Make sure to play every game in the season as part of HLTV x Skin.Club league and compete for the prizes by Skin.Club pool as follows:

1. $5,000
2. $2,000
3. $1,000
4-10. $300

As usual, individual games offer skin prizes. But you have to make sure to take part in every single game to maximize your chances of getting the main cash prizes!

IEM Cologne - Stage 2

Format

You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here.
Two eight-team double-elimination groups.
All games are BO3.

Teams

Things to note 

Teams that make it to the upper bracket final receive padding for LB Semi-finals.
The final teams were only added after Stage 1 was completed, meaning there will be players who had made their teams without having those options before them. Consider that when making your team to use it to your advantage.

Player prices & pick stats

This game features multiple tier-one newcomers. Most prominent of them, Maxim "⁠kyousuke⁠" Lukin, goes as a "golden card” at $215k despite it being his first tier-one LAN. Nevertheless, it didn’t scare the players off, with the Russian prodigy being present on 28% of all teams in HLTV x Skin.Club league.

Among other prominent new additions, the prices look as follows:

Most of them were manually adjusted for a change in the level of competition. Find which one of these is undervalued to take a gamble against your competition or play conservatively — this is your call to make!