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PGL Masters Bucharest bracket set

MOUZ meeting with new lineups and a rematch between BETBOOM and FURIA headline the quarter-finals in Romania.

HLTV28 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

The single elimination bracket is headlined by a first-time meeting between MOUZ and Aurora 's new squads, which have established themselves in the world's top five following a string of deep runs with the freshened lineups this season.

BETBOOM and FURIA find themselves on that side of the bracket as well, set for a rematch after their five-map grand final affair at Thunderpick World Championship.

On the other side is the surprise of the tournament, Nemiga , taking on FUT , whom Astralis will be cheering on with hopes of freeing up Nikita "⁠cmtry⁠" Samolotov for the PGL SIngapore Major.

Teams Vitality FURIA MOUZ Aurora BETBOOM FUT Natus Vincere Nemiga Things to note The game was created with the first five playoff teams, meaning that the players might not be properly priced relative to each other. The prices didn't account for the bracket either.

Player prices & pick stats Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García is the most-picked player in the game with over half the teams after his 1.35-rated group stage performance. With a $188,000 price tag and underdog opponent in the quarter-finals, the Spanish AWP makes a no-brainer pick.

Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut is not far behind despite his usually heavy price tag of $240,000.

He's likely to pay off if he's to reach the semis and automatically play out the entire three rounds with either grand final or decider, but whether it's a safe bet or not with Vitality facing NAVI in the quarter-final is up to you.

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The second half of the day will feature Aurora vs. MOUZ before the last game of the day, BETBOOM vs.

NAVI came out with fire in their bellies and picked up a dominant win on Cache, snapping Vitality 's eight-game win streak on the map. They were left to rue some costly mistakes on Mirage before turning in a flat showing in the Dust2 decider.

Date Matches PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 30/10/2026 Nemiga 13:00 Vitality Match Natus Vincere went for a Cache pick, a surprise decision after first-banning the map in the previous series against Vitality , just two days earlier.

After a slow start to their T side, NAVI dictated the tempo with a prolific offense and went on a dominant 7-1 run, with Mihai "⁠iM⁠" Ivan leading the charge with a 1.89 rating and +7.67% round swing.

Aleksib 's troops carried that momentum into the second half, winning six rounds without response to close out the map and hand Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut his second-lowest Cache rating in CS2.

NAVI picked up where they left off, taking an early lead on Mirage behind a triple kill from Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy in the pistol round.

It looked like a copy-paste of the first half with BETBOOM sometimes attempting to open up both sides of the map, and did so successfully.

A 1v1 clutch into a quad-kill in a 3v5 and Aleksandr "⁠zorte⁠" Zagodyrenko has given BETBOOM a real chance to come back into this at 9-12.

BETBOOM surprised FURIA with a B split in the second round to prevent map point for a while, but now FURIA have found it anyway after a round that came down to the wire.

After the 1v2 in the first pistol, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo has ensured another successful start into the half. Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis has found several successful lurks out of long on unsuspecting BETBOOM players.

MOUZ continue to roll over Aurora , this time with Adrian "⁠xelex⁠" Vincze foiling a low-buy B pop.

There, the Brazilian-majority squad will face off against MOUZ for the fourth time in just over a month, having won on the first occasion at StarSeries Fall before suffering two convincing 0-2 losses at ESL Pro League S24.

Opinion

Fictional bylines. Each take uses a line above and adds no facts.

Team Vitality still has to answer for this: "The single elimination bracket is headlined by a first-time meeting between MOUZ and Aurora 's new squads, which have established themselves in the world's top five following a …" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.

Mara Voss · pessimist

FURIA can stand on this line: "BETBOOM and FURIA find themselves on that side of the bracket as well, set for a rematch after their five-map grand final affair at Thunderpick World Championship." It is already on the card, so the case does not need a streak or a roster rumor.

Leo Hart · optimist

CS2Team VitalityMOUZAuroraNatus VincereAstralisFURIAb1tSunPayusYEKINDARapEXAleksibFalleNxelexiMZywOo

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