The Portuguese team will replace the Turkish representative in the $ 1 million tournament.

ESL has officially announced that SAW will attend IEM Melbourne 2025, replacing Eternal Fire, the team decided to withdraw from the tournament.

Although ESL does not disclose specific reasons, the dense schedule may be the main reason for Eternal Fire to make this decision. The Turkish team is in very high form after the joining of Samet "⁠jottaaa⁠" Köklü and has just had a successful blast Open Lisbon when reaching the semi -finals. They are also preparing to play at PGL Bucharest, Yalla Compass Qatar, PGL Astana, Iem Dallas, and finally blast.tv Austin Major.

Saw is the fourth team on the alternative list based on the VRS rankings in March, after G2, Astralis and Furia have refused to invites to attend the event in Australia, taking place from April 21-27.

This will be Saw's first LAN Since ESL Pro League 21, where they have surprised with the excellent performance when defeating Heroic, Furia, M80, and especially Natus Vincere in the second round. However, they could not go further after losing to Spirit, G2 and Gamerlegion.

Currently ranked 13th in Europe according to VRS, SAW will still have to compete at MRQ to win the attendance at Austin Major.

List of teams participating in IEM Melbourne 2025:

🇷🇺 Spirit

🌍 Vitality

🌍 Natus Vincere

🌍 FAZE

🇲🇳 The Mongolz

🌍 Mouz

🌍 Liquid

🇦🇺 Flyquest

🇷🇺 Virtus.pro

🌍 Gamerlegion

🌍 Falcons

🇧🇷 Pain

🇫🇷 3DMAX

🇧🇷 Mibra

🇩🇪 Big

🇵🇹 SAW