FURIA rallied to beat BetBoom Team on Sunday in the grand final of the Thunderpick World Championship in Attard, Malta.
FURIA pulled out a 3-2 win to repeat as the champion of the event, taking home a $500,000 prize split in half between the club and players, after winning the 2025 Thunderpick title.
The $1 million Counter-Strike 2 event began with eight teams divided into two groups for the double-elimination opening round. All group-stage matches were best-of-three, and the top two teams from each group earned berths in the single-elimination playoffs.
Playoff matches were best-of-three until the grand final, which was best-of-five. BetBoom Team takes home $250,000 for its second-place finish.
FURIA opened with a 13-6 win on Dust II before BetBoom clawed ahead behind a 19-16 overtime win on Ancient and a 13-9 win on Nuke. FURIA forced the decisive fifth game with a 13-11 win on Mirage and won the final game 13-6 on Cache.
Danil “molodoy” Golubenko of Kazakhstan posted a team-high 85 kills for FURIA, while teammate Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato of Brazil had a team-best plus-10 kills-deaths differential (82-72).
Kirill “Magnojez” Rodnov and Aleksandr “zorte” Zagodyrenko had the most kills and best K-D differentials of the match for the all-Russian BetBoom at 90/plus-11 and 88/plus-14, respectively.
Aurora Gaming, which lost to FURIA in a semifinal Saturday, beat Team Falcons 2-1 in the third-place match on Sunday. Falcons opened with a 13-8 win on Anubis before Aurora rallied with a 19-17 overtime win on Dust II and a 13-9 clincher on Nuke.
Finland’s Jimi “Jimpphat” Salo comfortably led Aurora with 69 kills and a plus-25 K-D differential. Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov of Russia also was far and away Falcons’ best player with a 68-50 kills-deaths ratio.
Thunderpick World Championship prize pool (all money evenly divided between player prize money and team share)
1. $500,000 — FURIA
2. $250,000 — BetBoom Team
3. $100,000 — Aurora Gaming
4. $50,000 — Team Falcons
5-6. $30,000 — 9z Team, Legacy
7-8. $20,000 — Ninjas in Pyjamas, PARIVISION
–Field Level Media
