TYLOO, 9z, PARIVISION and Astralis were all eliminated from FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou on September 10, HLTV reported, with the biggest upset of the $1,000,000 tournament delivered by 5star, the world number 127 side from Mongolia.
5star send Astralis home
5star opened on Inferno with a 9-3 lead and closed the map out 13-10, with 29-year-old Dulguun "hoolig4n" Batsaikhan top-fragging. Astralis levelled the series on Ancient with a 13-5 win fueled by a Victor "Staehr" Staehr four-kill in the pistol round.
Cache went the distance. Gerelt-Od "clouden" Jargal won a 1v1 at the end of the first half to make it 7-5, and Astralis, ranked twelfth in the world, then took control for an 11-9 lead. clouden won another 1v1 in round 21, 5star broke the Astralis economy in round 22, and the Mongolians moved in front at 12-11 before Ariunjargal "ariucle" Yadam and Uuganbayar "NEUZ" Nyam-Otgon pieced together the clutch that ended the series. 5star had already beaten compatriots The MongolZ earlier in the event.
TYLOO, 9z and PARIVISION out
TYLOO finished 9-12th after two 13-11 defeats to Alliance. The Chinese team won both pistol rounds on Inferno and reached 9-9 before Alliance took the decisive gun rounds, with Qianhao "Moseyuh" Chen finishing 4-18. On Ancient, TYLOO again won both pistols and led 11-3, then failed to win a single gun round on the T side as Alliance won nine in a row to close the series 2-0 in front of the small group of home fans.
9z lost 2-1 to G2. The South Americans won both pistols on Dust2 and converted a 12-6 lead into a 13-11 map win, but G2 raced to an 8-4 lead on Ancient and took it 13-8, a Maximiliano "max" Gonzalez four-kill being one of few 9z highlights. G2 then built a 12-3 lead on Inferno, a map they had previously won eight times in a row, behind Nikita "HeavyGod" Martynenko's play in man-disadvantage rounds.
magic eliminated PARIVISION 2-0, 13-11 and 16-14. Abdurakhim "mo0N" Issa took a 1v3 with a four-kill in the final round of regulation on map one, where Nikita "tenzy" Kochenyuk killed Vladislav "xiELO" Lysov 11 times across 24 rounds. PARIVISION led 12-6 on Inferno and led again at 14-12 in overtime before losing the map 14-16, and also leave the tournament in 9-12th.
The result carried extra weight for magic's Andrey "AW" Anisimov, who was benched by PARIVISION at the end of 2025. In-game leader Vitaliy "sFade8" Marushka described managing him through the game afterwards.
I told AW, don't troll, you're playing insane, when you get entries don't troll. He had too many emotions because it was PARIVISION. But I was calm.