The strong teams showed his bravery on the first day of competition in Bucharest.

🔥 Niko destroyed Flyquest on Dust2

The first PGL tournament of 2025 officially started with the first round of Swiss Group Stage in the event worth 1.25 million USD.

Most of the matches took place quickly when 6/8 matches ended after only two maps, but some matches were evaluated to be extremely attractive.

Mouz shows the power of firepower
The opening day with Lotan's debut "⁠spinx⁠" Giladi in the Mouz squad, after he was brought back to replace the surprise for Kamil "⁠siihy⁠" Szkaradek.

Mouz had many difficulties before Big, when the opponent took ahead of July 12 on Ancient but still successfully flipped in extra time. This is also the first time Spinx has played Ancient after many years, but he has shown well, especially on Mirage, where he led the personal ranking.

Spinx took on a more active role in T side, while Jimi "Jimpphat" Salo still plays the main role of Lurker. However, Spinx is still familiar with this change.

"I think sometimes I will be more proactive," he shared with HLTV. "I feel that I can help the team more in this role. Up to now, everything is fine, but practicing and competing is officially two completely different things."

Falcons won the first Lan
Falcons had a difficult start at Blast Bounty and Iem Katowice, suffering two defeats against Eternal Fire (an online match) and a defeat against G2.

But at Cluj-Napoca, they have the opportunity to accumulate confidence in the weaker opponents-and that happened with a 2-0 victory over Flyquest.

🌟 Nikola "Niko" Kovač shines on Dust2, overwhelm the Australian team with 2.04 rating - not even his best match in Falcons.

"I feel very good about how we are playing," Niko said. "Before Katowice, we also felt quite good, but the pressure was great. We were just a new squad on LAN, not knowing how to react in specific situations. After Katowice, I think we were already already learn a lot of things. "

The close matches bring a small surprise
🛡️ FAZE easily beat Saw, but the most notable point is Jonathan "⁠ELIGE⁠" Jablonowski still has difficulty taking new roles on Nuke.

🛡️ The Mongolz and Eternal Fire also do not face many obstacles when passing the Complexity and Imperial Valkyries.

But the horizontal matches really took place extremely attractive:

3Dmax won a dramatic victory against Virtus.pro, with Alexandre "Bodyy" Pianaro-no longer carrying the role of IGL-there were breakthrough handling at T Side Dust2 to help the home team win 13-11.
Pain and Astralis had a tense confrontation, in which Pain turned the flag on Nuke from 1-5. Astralis made many mistakes when losing 5v3 situations and the result was a defeat.
Wildcard shocked to defeat Mibr in 2-0, especially the spectacular backwards on the Train and the overwhelming victory on Nuke, with the shine of Love "Phzy" Smitebrant and Peter "Stanislaw" Jarguz.