Counter-Strike 2
HEROIC smash Astralis for final Dallas spot
HEROIC have completed the IEM Dallas 2025 team list after battering Astralis 13-3 and 13-2 in the lower bracket final of Europe's closed qualifier.
Eetu "sAw" Saha's troops did come in with the benefit of extra preparation time given Astralis's attendance of PGL Cluj-Napoca, but even the Finnish coach would have been surprised just how easy his team found proceedings.
Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç recorded his best-ever map with a whopping 2.63 rating on Mirage as HEROIC became the latest in a string of squads to pick and win the map against the Danes.
That was then matched by Simon "yxngstxr" Boije, who got a 2.63 of his own on Nuke to break his personal record too.
But as impressive as HEROIC were, it must be said that Astralis were poor throughout — four two-man advantages were thrown across the two maps, the worst of which we have included above.
HEROIC thus become the fifth European team to progress out of the qualifiers, bouncing back from a loss to 3DMAX to round out the team list for the $300,000 LAN.
With this result, the team list for Dallas is:
Invites
Europe - Vitality
Europe - G2
Turkey - Eternal Fire
Europe - FaZe
Mongolia - The MongolZ
Europe - MOUZ
Other - Liquid
Brazil - FURIA
Qualifiers
Europe - GamerLegion
Europe - Falcons
France - 3DMAX
Europe - BC.Game
China - Lynn Vision
United States - NRG
Brazil - Legacy
Europe - HEROIC
Eetu "sAw" Saha's troops did come in with the benefit of extra preparation time given Astralis's attendance of PGL Cluj-Napoca, but even the Finnish coach would have been surprised just how easy his team found proceedings.
Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç recorded his best-ever map with a whopping 2.63 rating on Mirage as HEROIC became the latest in a string of squads to pick and win the map against the Danes.
That was then matched by Simon "yxngstxr" Boije, who got a 2.63 of his own on Nuke to break his personal record too.
But as impressive as HEROIC were, it must be said that Astralis were poor throughout — four two-man advantages were thrown across the two maps, the worst of which we have included above.
HEROIC thus become the fifth European team to progress out of the qualifiers, bouncing back from a loss to 3DMAX to round out the team list for the $300,000 LAN.
With this result, the team list for Dallas is:
Invites
Europe - Vitality
Europe - G2
Turkey - Eternal Fire
Europe - FaZe
Mongolia - The MongolZ
Europe - MOUZ
Other - Liquid
Brazil - FURIA
Qualifiers
Europe - GamerLegion
Europe - Falcons
France - 3DMAX
Europe - BC.Game
China - Lynn Vision
United States - NRG
Brazil - Legacy
Europe - HEROIC
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