You wait eight years to win a trophy, and then two come along at once. FURIA took down Vitality to win IEM Chengdu, just two months after lifting their first tier one trophy at FISSURE Playground 2. 

In a dominant display, they defeated the best CS2 team of 2025 after a surprise veto set up what was to be an exciting grand final. 

FURIA Win First IEM Trophy

FURIA’s road to the grand final wasn’t clean; they lost 2-1 to MOUZ in the Group A final. That defeat booked them a place in the quarter-finals, where they overcame The MongolZ 2-0 thanks to a 13-5 on Mirage and a 13-10 on Overpass.

The semi-finals saw FUIRIA pitted against the firepower of Falcons, where they restricted Falcons star Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov to a 0 ADR T on Inferno side thanks to a punishing CT side. The match was another 2-0 win for the Brazilian organization, opening up with a 13-5 on Inferno before closing it out 13-11 on Mirage.

After Vitality beat MOUZ in the other semi-final, the captains of the two teams were set to face off against each other in a grand final for the first time in their lengthy careers, and it was Vitality’s IGL Dan “apEX” Madesclaire who threw the curveball as he banned Train instead of Ancient in the veto.

Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo accepted this challenge, though, picking the map and then leading his team to a 13-11 win in one of the puggiest maps of tier one CS you will ever see. FURIA then put themselves 2-0 up in the series with a 13-10 win on Inferno, bouncing back after falling 5-0 down at the start of their CT side. 

Sent to Overpass for the third map, it was looking good for FURIA as they already had a ten-game winning streak on the map. Things then looked even better as Vitality could only record eight rounds in their CT half, a reasonably poor performance considering how CT-sided the map is. 

FURIA wrapped up the series after a 9-3 CT half of their own saw them close out the map 13-11, with tournament MVP Danil “molodoy” Golubenko coming up with multiple big plays alongside fellow Eastern European import, Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis. 

The trophy is FURIA’s third of the year after FISSURE Playground 2 and the Thunderpick World Championships, setting them up as one of the favourites heading into BLAST Rivals Hong Kong and the StarLadder Budapest Major.