FaZe, G2, and NAVI complete list of PGL Major Copenhagen 2025 Playoff teams

The PGL Major Copenhagen 2025 Elimination Stage is complete. There has been drama, upsets, twists, and turns, but we’ve finally whittled down the best eight Counter-Strike teams in Copenhagen at the moment.

The final day lived up to expectations, with some nail-biting matches as well as a few blow-outs. We’ve got all the highlights from the final day of the PGL Major Copenhagen 2025 Elimination Stage for you right here.

FaZe conquer Complexity

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If any game today was an anti-climax, it was this one. FaZe vs Complexity should have been a barn-burner, but the NA team never really got going on the server. As a result, FaZe were able to coast into the Playoffs with no trouble at all, leaving karrigan with a shot at becoming a two-time Major winner. Here, frozen was the star of the series, dominating Complexity on both Nuke and Overpass.

FaZe’s win sets up a mouth-watering clash in the Quarter-Finals against Team Spirit. Both of these teams are probably considered to be the overall favorite to win the PGL Major Copenhagen 2025, and we’re set to lose one so early in the Playoffs. With donk continuing his immense form, Spirit will take some stopping, and it’s fair to say that the team that emerges on top here will be odds-on to take home the trophy.

G2 receive divine intervention against Virtus.pro

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Divine intervention truly is the only way to describe what happened in G2‘s win against Virtus.pro. With the scores tied at 11:11 and VP a map up, G2 needed a round win. There was one issue – Virtus.pro had the bomb down, and a 4v4 retake seemed impossible. With G2 set to save and fight for their tournament lives one last time, a miracle occurred – Jame’s CS2 crashed, leaving him with his knife out, wide in the open. G2 were then invited back by the free kill, winning the round, as well as eventually winning the map and series.

It was later confirmed by PGL that the crash was the result of NVIDIA drivers in CS2. Considering the likelihood of a Virtus.pro win without this crash, it will go down as one of the most controversial moments in competitive CS history. Even if G2 go on to win the Major now, there will always be people who place an asterisk next to the victory, with them seemingly only still in the tournament thanks to a crash.

The bigger picture of this incident is that CS2 is in an unacceptable state right now. We’ve been among the biggest defenders of the game, but the PGL Major Copenhagen 2025 has seen so many mid-round crashes that it was only a matter of time before one had very real consequences. A Playoff team being decided by a game crash is beyond farcical, especially in the biggest CS2 tournament of the year.

NAVI take down paiN

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On paper, NAVI vs paiN should have been a straightforward affair. The Brazilian team had already massively overperformed expectations, but their time had probably come. But paiN managed to bring both maps incredibly close, giving NAVI the fear at times that something special was about to happen. Again, we’ve got to give massive props to jL for his performance again here. He’s been the star for NAVI throughout the Copenhagen Major, and they’d already be watching from home without him. It’s his frags that again saw NAVI over the line against paiN.

Next up for NAVI is Eternal Fire in the Quarter-Finals. The Turkish squad looks like a deadly well-oiled machine, and they’ll need more than just jL’s heroics if they’re to go any further in this Major.