GamerLegion suffer last place exit; What is going wrong?
GamerLegion were eliminated in last place at the CS Asia Championships 2025 after a 2-1 defeat to Lynn Vision in the lower bracket.
The defeat comes after a loss to Liquid in the Best of 1 opener earlier in the day.
The swift exit underlies GamerLegion’s struggles in the second half of the year, after a consistently strong first season.
GamerLegion faces brutal reality
What perhaps is the most bitter pill to swallow for GamerLegion is that CAC 2025 is a Tier 2 tournament.
That’s not a subjective description either; the event is a codified Tier 2 event as per the definition created by Valve’s Tournament Operation Requirements.
That means that when invites were sent out to teams, only teams from position 13 and downwards in the VRS were invited.
GamerLegion, however, had to qualify for the event through the European Open Qualifier, as they sat above the global VRS boundary for the invites.
Now that their part has played out, the last-place finish at a Tier 2 event is a brutal reality to accept.
What’s going wrong at GamerLegion?
GamerLegion’s exit has exemplified that there is no honeymoon phase for British coach, Ashley ‘ash’ Battye, or his team after their recent roster change.
The replacement of French AWPer Jeremy ‘Kursy’ Gast with Milan ‘hypex’ Polowiec has so far solved no issues for the roster.
hypex is averaging only a 0.95 over 20 maps for GamerLegion, keeping him roughly in line with Kursy’s form as he struggled to adapt to Tier 1.
GL have been facing structural difficulties around AWPing since the regression of Henrich ‘sl3nd’ Hevesi saw the Hungarian benched in June.
The inability to embed an AWPer after sl3nd is becoming a concern beyond individual form, raising questions over GamerLegion’s overall system.
Without the backbone of a reliable AWPer, the roster has found difficulties in asserting themselves on the server and has been exposed by top opposition.
Yet while roster changes in 2025 revolve around the AWP, GamerLegion’s issues are not limited to the ‘big green.’
The roster has suffered a drop in form from the majority of its rifling core, with Mr Consistent himself Fredrik ‘REZ’ Sterner, being their top performer on the server.
While REZ is nicknamed Mr Consistent for a reason, he is by no means meant to be the fragging star of the roster.
REZ’s young teammates Sebastian ‘Tauson’ Tauson Lindelof and Oldřich ‘PR’ Nový, arguably the best rookie of the first half of the year, were contributing alongside the Swedish veteran.
Individually, their form has regressed, and good games have become far rarer.
To put it mildly, GamerLegion seriously lack firepower. Whether that comes down to innate ability, being countered, form, or confidence is arguable, but the reality is inescapable.
GamerLegion’s faltering form has seen them fall from a VRS peak of #9 in April and May to #15 in the latest snapshot.
After a series of early exits and losses to Liquid and Lynn Vision in Shanghai, the fear is that things may get worse before they get better.
GamerLegion’s second season of 2025:
- ESL Pro League: 15th-16th
- Fissure Playground 2: 9th-11th
- BLAST Open London: 9th-12th
- EWC: 9th-16th
- CAC EU Open Qualifier: 1st-4th
- IEM Cologne: 13th-16th
- Fissure Playground 1: 5th-8th
A microcosm of their year, the season’s best result was at the start, with a long period without a positive result in a main event.
The roster’s next outing will be PGL Masters Bucharest 2025, starting October 26.
The salve for GamerLegion is that they will be at the PGL Budapest Major 2025, starting in Stage 1.
Yet the roster seems to be in a weak position to progress, and is going into CS2’s most prestigious tournament with open wounds.
GamerLegion were unlucky to miss the Austin Major at a time when the roster was at its peak in form and confidence.
Now they may go into Austin without either.
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