Red Bull GIBAWAY JOURNEY set to start

Twenty-four teams from across Europe will compete in this tier-two VRS LAN in Northern Sweden.

s1mple and electroNic will attend their first LAN with BC.Game

Red Bull GIBAWAY JOURNEY will kick off this Friday in Åre, a ski resort located in Northern Sweden. Organized by Black Molly Entertainment, which in June launched the Glitched Masters gaming festival, JOURNEY will be a fully open VRS Tier-2 competition with over $10,000 in prize money.

The event will feature almost all the big Swedish teams, with Metizport being the one that will certainly draw the most attention after it picked up Tim "⁠nawwk⁠" Jonasson, Nikola "⁠Dragon⁠" Boskovic and head coach Claude "⁠vins⁠" Mayorga as part of an international transition.

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Fans of Ninjas in Pyjamas's Major-winner roster will also have a reason to tune in as Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg, Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund and Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg are reuniting in a mix team called boomer demons alongside Tilde "⁠7licious⁠" Byström and Lina "⁠Lina⁠" Henriksson.

BetBoom, Inner Circle and ENCE are the highest-ranked teams per the VRS, but inevitably, all eyes will be on BC.Game, who will be attending their first LAN since the blockbuster signings of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov.

Date Matches
Red Bull GIBAWAY JOURNEY 2025
07/11/2025
12:00
Match
07/11/2025
13:30
Match
07/11/2025
14:55
Match
07/11/2025
16:00
Match
07/11/2025
17:20
Match

Other standout teams include Sashi, who will be playing with Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield as their AWPer, Betclic, the newly built Acend roster, and academy quartet MOUZ NXT, Young Ninjas, Falcons Force and FUT Academy.

JOURNEY will begin with a best-of-one round-robin group stage, with teams split into four groups. The group winners will head straight to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs, while the runners-up and third-placed teams will play a best-of-three knockout round for the last four quarter-final spots.

Below you can find the full groups:

The complete tournament schedule can be found here.

Philippines Claude 'vins' Mayorga
Claude 'vins' Mayorga
Age:
36
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.83
Maps played:
16
KPR:
0.59
DPR:
0.78
Sweden Lina 'Lina' Henriksson
Lina 'Lina' Henriksson
Age:
26
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
-
Maps played:
0
KPR:
-
DPR:
-
United Kingdom Owen 'smooya' Butterfield
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.17
Maps played:
1366
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.62
Sweden Tilde '7licious' Byström
Tilde '7licious' Byström
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
94
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.66
Russia Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1797
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.67
Sweden Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
Age:
37
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
2112
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.65
Serbia Nikola 'Dragon' Boskovic
Nikola 'Dragon' Boskovic
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
795
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.68
Sweden Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson
Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
1673
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.59
Sweden Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund
Age:
35
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
1765
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.64
Sweden Adam 'friberg' Friberg
Adam 'friberg' Friberg
Age:
34
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.95
Maps played:
1979
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.68
Ukraine Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.24
Maps played:
1826
KPR:
0.84
DPR:
0.63
#1
Faceit level 9  | 
Jesus | 
Kazakhstan yTuHbIe_ucTopuu
LAN so chopped we have a team with 2 players attending 😭
2025-11-06 11:47
26
2 replies
And one team with no players 🤣🤣🤣🤣
2025-11-06 12:00
8
#15
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Finland Owava
The players don't get their own site on here until they have played their first official, which means they don't show up on the tournament page; they do show up in match pages already :)
2025-11-06 12:12
10
The BC.Game to Tier 1 Journey starts NOW.
2025-11-06 11:48
28
4 replies
#5
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Ukraine mazaywOo
friberg about to humble botronic
2025-11-06 11:55
22
1 reply
Optic legend.
2025-11-06 14:54
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#16
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Latvia Al3xwh1t3
s0.48mple
2025-11-06 12:15
4
#59
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China RADNIKEY
gtr historically dominates s1mple
2025-11-07 06:54
0
ez 4 boys in da HUD
2025-11-06 11:47
4
3 replies
who are even the players ?
2025-11-06 17:40
0
2 replies
You would know if you were from Da HUD, but clearly you’re not from around there…
2025-11-06 20:55
2
they’re 2026 cologne major winners - thats who they are
2025-11-06 23:41
0
#4
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Poland Saruman69
can't wait to see boomer demons destroys s0mple
2025-11-06 11:48
6
boomer demons will win it all, you heard it here
2025-11-06 11:55
2
1 reply
#45
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Sweden albidalbi
they play with 2 girls... Would be fun if they actually took in 2 free agents that shoot really hard.
2025-11-06 15:43
1
but there is no snow yet
2025-11-06 11:56
1
Please add BOOMER DEMONS to the Fantasy Teams.
2025-11-06 11:56
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#9
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Brazil rafaelml
add boomer demons in the fantasy
2025-11-06 11:57
6
#10
REZ | 
Yugoslavia Xiraah
We will get f0rest vs. s1mple! Im tuning in for sure!
2025-11-06 11:57
2
ss
2025-11-06 11:57
0
I didn't know there are tier 5 LANs out there
2025-11-06 12:10
0
1 reply
#60
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Germany Sol1taire
Yes . Not every tournament is cologne and ewc and major . Some tournaments are like this in t3
2025-11-07 08:14
0
EZ for poiii
2025-11-06 12:12
2
always interesting this low tier LAN get full coverage simply because it's EU meanwhile if it's NA or ASIA nooo you only get playoffs at best
2025-11-06 12:26
8
13 replies
the power of having redbull as your title sponsor
2025-11-06 12:34
5
Well, EU being a more relevant region with better teams than both NA & Asia certainly helps.
2025-11-06 13:37
5
1 reply
#54
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United States Spageti
Doesn't matter. If events are VRS enabled, then HLTV shouldn't be arbitrarily choosing when the cutoff is for featured matches. It should be up to the TO's discretion (like by breaking up events into multiple stages) or the entire event should be featured. I know HLTV has limits on what they can cover, but Valve needs a better solution. Otherwise, these teams trying to break into T2 are gonna keep getting screwed.
2025-11-06 22:37
1
7x Major Winners (of them is a 3x Major Winner) 3x Major MVPs 2x Hall of Fame Player's plus the Player with the highest Faceit Elo ever/currently. Kinda understandable that the Lan gets coverage, people are interested in S1mple, Egotronic, Boombl4, F0rest, Get_Right, Friberg, JW and others. Plus a lot of rookies like Mail09 and Falcons / Mouz / FUT/ NIP Academy teams.
2025-11-06 14:07
7
9 replies
i see. so name recognition over competitive integrity.
2025-11-06 14:26
0
8 replies
nothing here is affecting competitive integrity
2025-11-06 14:33
4
#33
Faceit level 9  | 
Jesus | 
Kazakhstan yTuHbIe_ucTopuu
Coverage isnt competitive integrity in any way lol
2025-11-06 14:35
3
3 replies
it is when vrs is involved
2025-11-06 15:00
0
2 replies
I have a very strong feeling you don't know what the definition of competitive integrity is.
2025-11-06 15:14
4
That's only relevant for like top 16 global VRS that gets invited to everything. Otherwise all invites are local, even to the major, so if you are consistently better than other teams in your local scene it wouldn't matter. Then, if you are good enough, you play your IEMs and Blasts and maybe some PGLs and never look back. Unless you are not good enough to keep your position that you earned at the major. Case & point: after major Tyloo won Fissure 1 and were almost top 10 team in VRS, but failed at keeping that position, culminating in losses to Fnatic and Pain, or overtimes vs Fluxo, in their home tournaments. Unless they manage to do good at the major, they will have to play local chinese tournaments and qualifiers again. And the opposite example is Mongolz, I feel like there's no need to elaborate.
2025-11-06 18:37
0
So are you saying this Lan has no competitive integrity without any evidence, clue or understanding. Keep pulling you trash takes out of your ass and keep wondering why your ideas are so ass.
2025-11-06 14:38
2
2 replies
He doesnt understand lol. Oh well
2025-11-06 15:05
0
1 reply
No, I understood everything; you are so dumb that you are not able to explain the things you wrote earlier, or show evidence/sources of the trash you wrote.
2025-11-06 17:16
1
#19
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Sweden matte90
Nice, hope for a swedish team wins this.
2025-11-06 12:30
2
#20
Faceit level 8  | 
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United States sziasztok
64 matches in 1 day on LAN is some INSANE work 😭😭😭😭 but I guess thats just what happens when you run a 24 team event with a full group stage in just 2 days
2025-11-06 12:34
1
Why is HLTV covering the whole event when literally the first 5 matches are just bo1s and there's a lot of unknown/tier 4 teams? This is a LAN VRS points donation for top teams if I've ever seen one.
2025-11-06 12:37
6
4 replies
yeah that’s crazy. i just hope they will continue to do that for all the LANs from now on.
2025-11-06 12:47
2
this is the 3rd Lan from the Organizer. It has a venue with 350+ Fans. the Lans they made where pretty good, even the ones with other Games (LOL). They finally get the VRS rating from Valve just so some HLTV user can cry about it for free.
2025-11-06 14:44
3
1 reply
I am not whining about how they made it a VRS event - I am all for reviving small LANs like these to count for something so teams will be encouraged to compete in them. What scratches my head is how they made it a full coverage rather than only counting the later stages (see epicLAN, the frag events handled this season, XSE Pro League in China, etc.) when almost half of the teams in this event are either unranked or too low ranking. HLTV gotta be transparent about how they do coverage in these small LANs because if we can have this kind of full coverage to be ranked for an entire event then the succeeding Frag LANs and other small LANs should be treated the same. You cannot ignore the fact that the first time HLTV does this kind of coverage BC.Game is in it so that's a potential conflict of interest issue too lol
2025-11-07 04:17
1
mby cuz redbull pays for it? or the tournament pays hltv for coverage
2025-11-06 14:54
0
#24
Faceit premium user Faceit level 8  | 
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France EL_SANIN
how much BCGames paid HLTV for this?
2025-11-06 13:23
1
#26
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Sweden Qwark1
Nice to see that LAN tournaments matter again. Hopefully this brings other people to organize LAN tournaments so that aspiring teams can attend to bolster their ranking and not just play online tournaments.
2025-11-06 13:37
2
Bc game is going to start a era with this
2025-11-06 13:39
0
1 reply
#62
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Germany Sol1taire
Bro...
2025-11-08 00:13
0
#28
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Sweden Vrede
Welcome to Sweden
2025-11-06 13:40
1
#30
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Canada minibeech
aint anyone gonna say anything about f0rest and GeT_RiGhT in the same group as s0mpentronic
2025-11-06 14:10
0
5 b2b bo1s is kinda crazy
2025-11-06 14:56
1
Tier 2 more like tier infnty
2025-11-06 15:03
1
#42
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Lithuania onthemoon
why isn't og participating in this
2025-11-06 15:10
0
1 reply
Dont have a team
2025-11-06 15:12
2
simple for electronic and simple for simple although swedish legends will be playing (exciting)
2025-11-06 16:13
1
Weird to cover whole groupstage compared to the other LANs that were covered before major invite deadline
2025-11-06 16:34
1
boomer demons take the W ez, s0.67mple disaster class incoming
2025-11-06 18:53
0
Will winner get free ski pass?
2025-11-06 19:06
0
#56
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Finland Owava
wrong vinS tagged in the text for Metizport coach
2025-11-07 01:42
0
Since the BO1 round-robin group stage of this tournament can be included, even though half of the participating teams are unranked and some are ranked beyond 100th, why would an offline event like 'frag' only have its playoff stage recorded, or potentially not even the complete playoffs?
2025-11-07 06:32
0
#61
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Germany Sol1taire
Where is jijiehao?
2025-11-07 08:18
0
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