Field Level Media
09 Nov 2025, 21:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: FURIA Esports | Twitter)
FURIA swept Team Vitality to win the $125,000 top prize Sunday at the Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2025 tournament in China.
FURIA won the best-of-five grand final at the $300,000 Counter-Strike 2 event with 13-11 victories on Ancient and Overpass, sandwiched around a 13-10 triumph on Overpass.
The team became the first majority Brazilian group in eight years to win an IEM title.
'World champions once again,' FURIA posted to X. 'We are living history: FURIA at the top of the world and no one can contest it! ... This is for the team, for you, and for all of Brazil.'Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko of Kazakhstan had 61 kills to pace FURIA. Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut of France had 52 for Vitality.
In the third-place match, Team Falcons defeated MOUZ 2-1. Falcons led MOUZ with a 13-5 victory on Ancient, and MOUZ rebounded with a 13-11 win on Inferno. Falcons sealed the best-of-three contest by winning 13-6 on Mirage.
Bosnian Nikola 'NiKo' Kovac led Falcons with 46 kills. Dorian 'xertioN' Berman of Brazil had 54 for MOUZ.
IEM Chengdu prize pool:
1. $125,000 -- FURIA
2. $50,000 --Team Vitality
3. $30,000 -- Team Falcons
4. $20,000 -- MOUZ
5-6. $12,500 -- The MongolZ, Astralis
7-8. $7,000 -- Team Spirit, G2 Esports
9-12. $5,000 -- paiN Gaming, Lynn Visiting Gaming, Virtus.pro, HEROIC
13-16. $4,000 -- Natus Vincere, TYLOO, 3DMAX, FaZe Clan
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