Eternal Fire Wins Stake Ranked and Moves Closer to the Major

Eternal Fire won the Stake Ranked Episode 5 tournament final, beating fnatic 3:2 to take the title. The team lost the first two maps of the series, then came back to lift the trophy. With this win, the team's chance of qualifying for the Major rose from below 5% a week earlier to 87.9%.

Samet 'jottAAA' Köklü's performance was decisive in the final. The player stood out with a series rating of 1.21. Taking the lower bracket route, the team beat Nemesis, BIG, Astralis and MIBR on the way to the trophy. Eternal Fire CEO Furkan Güven shared via X that he could not fully express his feelings and that everything felt like a dream.

The final was played between two teams that wanted to stay in the Major race. The winner's chances are expected to rise to around 90%, while the losing team is likely to fall off the Major path. After the tournament, the number of teams competing for the three remaining Major spots in Europe dropped to five.

Eternal Fire became the biggest winner of this period by winning its third tournament in a month and a half. fnatic's Major chances fell to 17.5%.