Esport MeTYLOO forfeit and Eternal Fire's comeback settle PGL Major Singapore qualifiers as betting firms pledge Rolls-Royces
A Lisbon walkover decided Asia's Singapore Major places and fnatic missed out in Europe, while Eternal Fire's late comeback reshaped the continental race and betting sponsors dangled extravagant prizes.
TYLOO's withdrawal from a HyperX Retake Season 13 quarter-final in Lisbon has effectively settled Asia's qualification picture for the PGL Major Singapore, while fnatic have been shut out of Europe's race after the final weekend of cutoff-day results, according to Esports Insider.
The Lisbon event was a Valve Tier 2 tournament organised by Hyped and PEW PEW, running from 29 October to 1 November with 13 teams competing for a €12,187.50 prize pool. Groups used GSL-format best-of-threes ahead of single-elimination best-of-three playoffs, and TYLOO finished joint fifth to eighth before pulling out.
Neither TYLOO nor Lynn Vision are expected to play again before the Singapore cutoff, leaving the Asian five-team allocation decided. TYLOO's attention had already turned to IEM Beijing, the $1,250,000 Valve Tier 1, S-Tier event ESL is staging from 2 to 8 November at the Bloomage Biotech Biohyalux ECM Arena with 16 teams.
Natus Vincere also withdrew from Lisbon, with organisers citing the same Beijing clash for both sides. The move leaves NAVI's own Major standing unaffected, since they missed the 19 October pull-out deadline but remained registered for the event regardless. TYLOO coach WeiJie "zhokiNg" Zhong said the team's points already looked sufficient after a win over 9z, leaving them with little option but to fulfil the Retake fixture before Beijing began less than a day after Lisbon finished.
Europe now carries 18 of the tournament's 32 invitations, one more than at Cologne, with the six highest-ranked eligible sides in the 2 November standings going straight into Stage 3. The fight for the final European berth ran to the last weekend, and the European VRS ultimately placed 100 Thieves eighteenth, leaving fnatic out of the last CS2 Major of 2026.
Esports.net reports that Eternal Fire's own route to a Stage 1 invite began separately, built on two October LAN titles that turned a position once thought out of reach into a confirmed place. The roster of MisteM, regali, soulfly, Kvem and jottAAA includes two former NA players in Kvem and MisteM.
The Turkish side won DraculaN Season 7 in Romania, a 19–23 October event with 24 teams and a $35,000 pool, beating SINNERS 2-1 in the final for a $14,000 cheque. A Major invite still looked distant until StarLadder's Stake Ranked Episode 5 in Barcelona, an A-Tier LAN for eight teams and a $100,000 pool from 27 to 30 October, where Eternal Fire opened with a loss to MIBR before beating Nemesis, BIG and an Astralis side fielding Jakob "jabbi" Nygaard as a stand-in, then beat MIBR again in the lower-bracket final.
The grand final against fnatic opened 13-8 and 13-2 in fnatic's favour before Eternal Fire won three straight maps, completing what HLTV's records list as only the 14th 0-2 comeback in a best-of-five LAN grand final. Samet "jottAAA" Köklü posted a 1.21 rating across the series. The defeat dropped fnatic's projected Major invite chance to 17.5%, a slide that preceded their eventual elimination from Europe's final-spot race.
Dust2.us reports that the owners of betting operators 1win and BC.Game have promised Rolls-Royces to players who win the Singapore Major, part of what the outlet describes as the two companies' ongoing push to entrench themselves in esports.