Liquid-FaZe thriller headlines final FISSURE Playground 2 group stage matchups

16-9-2025 22:34

Twistzz will face the team he is bound for in a do-or-die match.

The final matchups for FISSURE Playground 2's Swiss group stage are set following the conclusion of round four, which saw G2, The MongolZ, and FURIA secure playoff berths while 3DMAX, TYLOO, and Legacy were sent home.

Three matches are left to determine the final teams that will head to the Belgrade Arena, headlined by a mouth-watering battle between Liquid and FaZe.

Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken is poised to reunite with Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen and company after the event in Serbia concludes, meaning the do-or-die match against FaZe could either be the Canadian's last in a Liquid jersey, or he could see to the elimination of the team he is about to join.

Twistzz makes shock FaZe return

The second matchup will see Astralis take on GamerLegion, with the latter set to replace Jeremy "⁠Kursy⁠" Gast with Milan "⁠hypex⁠" Polowiec after the event and the former on the hunt for their first playoff appearance with Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif back in the fold.

Virtus.pro will end the day looking to complete a recovery from a trip to the 0-2 pool against paiN, who faltered to FURIA in the 2-1 qualifying round and will hope to get the job done at the second time of asking.

The final group stage matchups and schedule can be found below:

Date	Matches
FISSURE Playground 2
17/09/2025	FaZe 11:20 Liquid	Match
17/09/2025	Astralis 14:00 GamerLegion	Match
17/09/2025	paiN 17:05 Virtus.pro	Match

Conflict of interest. Twistzz who will you let win?

2025-09-16 22:34

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Twisted Faze/Fate

2025-09-16 22:35

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Elite referance

2025-09-16 22:58

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Hehe yea ;)

2025-09-17 07:12

I’m very curious about the competitive integrity of this.

2025-09-16 22:36

Even when Twistzz tried his hardest Liquid werent able to beat Faze😔

2025-09-16 22:43

NAF will give twistzz one more trophy 🐐18/19 NAF is in Belgrade for the win

2025-09-16 22:45

Even if Liquid beat faze somehow i dont see them beating mighty Falcons, but all other teams seem beatable😊

2025-09-16 22:47

forget about the twistzz storyline the real storyline is karrigan vs siuhy goat igl vs new goat igl who will use their genius mastermind tactics to win? nobody knows

2025-09-17 00:53

siuhy aint no new goat igl

2025-09-17 08:30

dahng

Winner gets twistzz

agreed

2025-09-16 23:40

The only thrilling thing is that this match is allowed to happen.

Make them do the transfer right now, tonight. lol

rip lulquid

volvo should've stepped in after G2&Falcons fiasco but apparently integrity isn't important for a competitive tactical shooter

2025-09-16 22:44

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Exactly, it's insane that this kind of shit is still allowed

2025-09-16 22:46

but what can you do, forcing the team to play with a substitute/coach won't make them better

2025-09-16 22:49

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transfer windows, player locks, non-compete clause until move materialize, not allowing orgs involved to partake in same tournament just to name a few

2025-09-16 22:51

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but yeah knowing valve they'll probably ban steel again and introduce major wildcard invite for senza

2025-09-16 22:54

good one lol

2025-09-16 23:21

the thing is you don't know when a player is negotiating with an org anyway. remember Niko and falcons, he negotiated with them for a year before signing the contract.

2025-09-16 22:56

transfer windows: will not work. nothing more to be said, you're old enough to think. player locks: i don't get this. non-compete clauses until move materalizes: some players have instant buyout clauses in their contracts. some teams can buy that player whenever they want if they pay that price. will you kick teams out of tournaments because their player was bought? no. will you change contracts? no. not allowing orgs involved to partake in same tournament: ok, let's say the move happened during this FPG. this means that FaZe and TL would be disqualified, what now? FF every one of their future games? play the tournament with 2 less teams and what about the teams that lost to FaZe? invite other 2 random teams with 0 notice? as a GAME COMPANY you can not impose anything to the ORGANIZATIONS that compete in your game. yes, you can make a system and have contracts with TOs so they will host your biggest event of the season and things like that, but you can not tell ORGANIZATIONS what to do.

2025-09-16 23:04

>ok, let's say the move happened during this FPG. this means that FaZe and TL would be disqualified, what now? FF every one of their future games? play the tournament with 2 less teams and what about the teams that lost to FaZe? invite other 2 random teams with 0 notice? WAOW based.

2025-09-16 23:18

actually this kind of stuff is exactly why liquid made this announcement so soon; they had to announce it in time for roster submissions for next tournament

2025-09-16 23:05

Unfortunately can't happen without a union and CBA.

2025-09-17 07:15

All that would make the situation already way better would be that finished moves where the player has signed a contract are forcibly sent to valve or hltv or anyone willing to verify, and then they cannot play in games against their new team

2025-09-16 22:53

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Ok, as I asked, would Liquid have a better chance of winning with Twistzz or with a random sub/coach? 4v5?

2025-09-16 22:59

No, but the conflict of interest makes the game moot, twistzz is free to troll in favor of his new team and he has an incentive to throw because of the vrs.

2025-09-16 23:03

Well he can if he wants to. Just make it seem not to obvious. I mean what can anyone do anything about it.

2025-09-17 07:05

In this case, quite simple, reshuffle the matches. Make faze play GL And liquid VP for example.

2025-09-16 23:17

Not possible since Astralis would have a rematch with Pain. I'm also pretty sure that the teams facing have to come from different brackets (2-1 and 1-2). In order to respect everything, there is one other possible situation: FaZe/VP, Liquid/Pain and Astralis/GL. However, there probably is some seeding in play and this would be "unfair" for FaZe getting a "stronger" opponent (based on VRS from July 7th) or an unfair advantage for Pain in a similar fashion. It's true that such a conflict of interest would be bad if both of the teams were on the verge of missing the major, but in this particular case, I see Twistzz playing slightly better than usual from a mental aspect.

2025-09-17 05:50

Absolute cinema of a match, Twistzz and Frozen seeing who will throw more to screw his ex

2025-09-16 22:38

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Frozen is the one twistzz is going to replace? I thought it was going to be rain?

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It's probably him, but idk, people were saying leaks pointed towards frozen in talks with navi, really not that trusty

apparently... navi -iM +frozen

IM still plays good. It's wonderful who disappears when the team needs him. It's hero or zero for him.

2025-09-17 07:07

Everyone's gone crazy over b1ad3 following frozen on Instagram. It's still most probably rain getting replaced.

2025-09-17 01:40

Hltv restards keep pushing frozen to navi narrative when it literally makes no sense since there are role clashes with bit and not only that navi is one of the few teams that is worse than faze rn

2025-09-17 07:57

Liquid win for more chaos

2025-09-16 22:39

Well is match is more important for Liquid Major and VRS Standings Faze is pretty save even if they lose......

2025-09-16 22:41

It's so stupid that players are allowed to play in these games and no one is watching over if twistzz has already signed a contract or not. inb4 another "totally not a conflict of interest" game where the player that's transfering over will smile and greet his new team as his loses like m0nesy did against falcons.

Twistzz gonna throw

2025-09-16 22:50

frozen to navi junior

2025-09-16 22:52

POG

CINEMA MATCHUPS

uwu

2025-09-16 23:35

be a damn shame if faze were to lose the match giving valuable vrs points to liquid in their pursuit of major qualification and twistzz just subsequently happened to have his buyout reduced.

2025-09-17 00:09

Liquid can get 80 pts if they win. Can somebody explain to me the VRS math for Liquid?

2025-09-17 00:34

the smallest conflict of interest issue in cs

2025-09-17 01:16

Baiting so hard with that photo lmao

2025-09-17 01:39

Winner keeps twistzz

2025-09-17 02:03

choke clan or lulquid?

2025-09-17 02:19

karma cs

2025-09-17 02:26

Twitzz must win this so he prove to FAZE that he's the good addition.

2025-09-17 04:05

what no one is really talking about is Faze's bench heading into a major. Potentially you have 2 good players sitting out a major on this bench. Can a team grab the bench and improve? I would most certainly say yes! Is it to late for VRS to qual I say no. So where is Faze's bench going.

2025-09-17 05:09