FISSURE Playground 2Liquid earn 90 VRS points and send HEROIC home from FISSURE Playground 2
Twistzz's swansong will include at least one crucial win for Liquid.
Liquid kept their cool in a series plagued by technical pauses to move into the 1-2 pool at FPG2, after they eliminated HEROIC from contention.
"Since map one I had an issue." Guy "NertZ" Iluz said to Pala "Pala" Gilroy Sen post-game. "We changed two or three PCs. In the last map, five rounds in a row, even xfl0ud's 2v1, the game was freezing. It's annoying."
The win jumps Liquid up a whopping seven places to 24th on the VRS, and prevents an embarrassing last-place finish in Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken's final event with the team.
The Belgrade event is do or die for Liquid when it comes to the Budapest Major, being their last opportunity at a tier one LAN before the invite cut off. Even with this win, Liquid sit out of the list with only an outsider's chance at securing a European invite.
Canadian star Twistzz, despite his impending departure, pledged to "get this roster some points before exiting" and he was in good form with a 1.44 rating on map one and 118 ADR in the first half on the decider. NertZ was also in great form despite those technical troubles.
But there was no magical turning point for the rest of the ailing Liquid roster. Roland "ultimate" Tomkowiak was off-color before Mirage, averaging a 0.78 rating on the first two maps, and Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek's troops were helpless as HEROIC smashed them on Liquid's Dust2 pick.
Racing to a 9-3 lead on Mirage, off of NertZ and Twistzz's work in Middle, left Liquid needing just four T side rounds, but it was not easy to get over the finishing line.
Winning an low-economy round at 7-9, however, broke HEROIC's streak and a late Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç 1v2 was for nought as Liquid closed the series out 2-1.
Toothless without tN1R?
HEROIC were always going to find it tough after the sale of Eetu "sAw" Saha and Álvaro "SunPayus" García, but Andrey "tN1R" Tatarinovich moving to Spirit has put them back into a full rebuild.
| Date | Matches | |
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| FISSURE Playground 2 | ||
| 13/09/2025 |
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| 14/09/2025 |
Finished
1:2 |
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Linus "nilo" Bergman has looked sharp in the new constellation but he is the only one. xfl0ud and Alimzhan "Alkaren" Bitimbai sit below 1.05 ratings over nine maps of the new roster, far below the output required for HEROIC to maintain their season one form.
Getting the young roster rolling will be a long-term task for Tobias "TOBIZ" Theo, the type of job he is used to, but, after succeeding against the odds so many times, the latest obstacle for HEROIC to hurdle might be its largest yet.
More highlights from Liquid-HEROIC:
 Liquid |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 57 - 41 | +3.91% | 98.3 | 78.5% | 1.45 | |
| 55 - 42 | +2.69% | 89.7 | 81.5% | 1.31 | |
| 42 - 41 | -1.61% | 71.8 | 72.3% | 0.99 | |
| 43 - 39 | -1.00% | 67.9 | 81.5% | 0.99 | |
| 42 - 44 | -3.78% | 75.2 | 75.4% | 0.88 |
 HEROIC |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 - 46 | +2.68% | 72.5 | 70.8% | 1.24 | |
| 49 - 48 | +2.07% | 94.7 | 64.6% | 1.19 | |
| 38 - 47 | +1.51% | 70.0 | 72.3% | 1.06 | |
| 33 - 47 | -2.17% | 60.1 | 61.5% | 0.78 | |
| 33 - 51 | -4.30% | 60.4 | 69.2% | 0.75 |
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