The Russian team started not smoothly on Kazakhstan.

Sjuush played sublimated when Nip joined the 1-0 group in Astana

Ninjas in Pyjamas passed the first test at PGL Astana 2025, beat Virtus.pro with a score of 2-1 to enter the 1-0 group of the Swiss round. This victory was adorned with the excellent performance of Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck, who achieved the highest rating of the series of 1.48 with extremely good performance in the second half of all three maps.

With this victory, Nip has taken an important step in the goal of improving the position on the rankings. They won 78 VRS points after this series, thereby dancing 12 steps to climb to 36th place in the world.

Failure was a strong blow with Virtus.pro, the team entered the match with the expectation to end the series of three consecutive defeats.
In the first official match under the guidance of the new coach Ivan "⁠f_1n⁠" Kochugov - the replacement of Pavel "⁠pashanoj⁠" Legostaev after IEM Melbourne - the Russian team still shows discrete and lack of vitality as before. Even the map they win is just a close victory in the last round of the official play time, after losing the 12-6 advantage.

The series begins with NIP's victory on the trained cabin with a perfect CT side, where Sjuush and Artem "⁠R1NKLE⁠" Moroz combines 18 networks in the 7-0 chain.

Kaisar "⁠ICY⁠" Faiznurov is the leader for Virtus.pro on the Dust2 map with a rating 1.73, but this is still a 13-11 victory full of hard and close, when they started with an outstanding ratio of 8-1 but then lost the game.

Nip leads the game throughout the game on Ancient, where Sjuush once again shines with important multi-kill phase on the CT side, helping the team to overcome the time Virtus.pro is only one round.