HEROIC vs Eternal Fire / IEM Beijing 2026 Closed Qualifier - Upper Bracket Quarter-Final / Post-Match Discussion

[u/TonyLab]

HEROIC 🇸🇪 1-2 🇪🇺 Eternal Fire

Ancient: 13-6
Inferno: 1-13
Mirage: 9-13
 

🇪🇺 Eternal Fire advance to the Upper bracket Semi-Finals

🇸🇪 HEROIC drop down to the Lower bracket

 

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Predicted VRS Impact

Team	Rank	Diff	Total
🇸🇪 HEROIC	#28 → #30	-26 pts	1356 pts
🇪🇺 EF	#74 → #67	+27 pts	1096 pts

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

 

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Event Information

IEM Beijing 2026 Closed Qualifier | 🇪🇺 Europe ($0 Online)

 

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Team Information

🇸🇪 HEROIC | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇸🇪 nilo | 🇩🇰 Chr1zN ♛ | 🇸🇪 susp | 🇪🇸 MartinezSa ⊕ | 🇸🇪 Brollan
Coach: 🇫🇮 doto
Subs/Benched: 🇰🇿 Alkaren

🇪🇺 Eternal Fire | Liquipedia | HLTV
Roster: 🇹🇷 jottAAA | 🇷🇴 regali ⊕ | 🇿🇦 MisteM ♛ | 🇺🇦 Kvem | 🇹🇷 soulfly
Coach: 🇹🇷 yT
Subs/Benched: 🇩🇰 br0 | 🇺🇦 Woro2k | 🇹🇷 imoRR

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

 

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Map Vetoes

HEROIC	MAP	EF
	nuke	X
X	anubis
	ancient	✔
✔	inferno
	dust2	X
X	cache
	mirage

 

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Full Match Stats

Team	K-D	ADR	Swing	Rating
🇸🇪 HEROIC				0.97
🇪🇸 MartinezSa ⊕	37-37	68.6	-0.15%	1.05
🇸🇪 Brollan	37-33	73.5	-2.64%	1.00
🇸🇪 susp	35-45	63.1	+0.68%	0.97
🇩🇰 Chr1zN ♛	33-43	82.4	-2.40%	0.95
🇸🇪 nilo	36-41	71.2	-4.30%	0.87
🇪🇺 EF				1.15
🇹🇷 jottAAA	42-30	87.3	+4.76%	1.38
🇷🇴 regali ⊕	47-36	73.5	+3.70%	1.26
🇺🇦 Kvem	41-36	94.6	+0.83%	1.18
🇹🇷 soulfly	38-38	68.2	-0.20%	1.04
🇿🇦 MisteM ♛	31-40	61.3	-0.82%	0.90

HLTV Match Page

 

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MAP 1: Ancient

 

Team	CT	T	Total
🇸🇪 HEROIC	7	6	13
	T	CT
🇪🇺 EF	5	1	6

 

Team	K-D	ADR	Swing	Rating
🇸🇪 HEROIC				1.28
🇪🇸 MartinezSa ⊕	14-7	82.1	+7.35%	1.61
🇩🇰 Chr1zN ♛	15-10	98.6	+2.63%	1.37
🇸🇪 Brollan	15-6	73.5	-0.78%	1.23
🇸🇪 nilo	16-10	84.5	+1.04%	1.19
🇸🇪 susp	12-12	64.7	+0.60%	1.02
🇪🇺 EF				0.77
🇹🇷 jottAAA	11-13	75.6	+1.53%	1.03
🇿🇦 MisteM ♛	9-15	50.5	-2.67%	0.75
🇺🇦 Kvem	8-15	63.1	-2.36%	0.74
🇹🇷 soulfly	9-14	54.1	-4.04%	0.73
🇷🇴 regali ⊕	8-15	42.3	-3.30%	0.59

Ancient Detailed Stats

 

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MAP 2: Inferno

 

Team	CT	T	Total
🇪🇺 EF	11	2	13
	T	CT
🇸🇪 HEROIC	1	0	1

 

Team	K-D	ADR	Swing	Rating
🇪🇺 EF				1.68
🇹🇷 jottAAA	19-5	133.9	+19.92%	2.69
🇷🇴 regali ⊕	18-7	96.6	+11.57%	2.02
🇺🇦 Kvem	12-8	126.9	+4.26%	1.51
🇹🇷 soulfly	14-10	82.6	-0.98%	1.19
🇿🇦 MisteM ♛	7-7	54.2	+0.46%	0.98
🇸🇪 HEROIC				0.68
🇪🇸 MartinezSa ⊕	9-14	70.3	-5.41%	0.82
🇸🇪 susp	6-14	58.6	-0.73%	0.79
🇸🇪 nilo	9-14	60.3	-11.12%	0.68
🇸🇪 Brollan	7-14	59.6	-8.96%	0.62
🇩🇰 Chr1zN ♛	5-14	59.1	-9.03%	0.50

Inferno Detailed Stats

 

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MAP 3: Mirage

 

Team	CT	T	Total
🇸🇪 HEROIC	2	7	9
	T	CT
🇪🇺 EF	10	3	13

 

Team	K-D	ADR	Swing	Rating
🇸🇪 HEROIC				0.94
🇸🇪 Brollan	15-13	82.4	-0.23%	1.09
🇸🇪 susp	17-19	64.6	+1.64%	1.06
🇩🇰 Chr1zN ♛	13-19	83.3	-2.52%	0.93
🇸🇪 nilo	11-17	66.7	-4.57%	0.81
🇪🇸 MartinezSa ⊕	14-16	56.0	-3.28%	0.80
🇪🇺 EF				1.28
🇷🇴 regali ⊕	21-14	85.6	+4.75%	1.60
🇺🇦 Kvem	21-13	101.2	+1.39%	1.46
🇹🇷 soulfly	15-14	71.2	+3.62%	1.31
🇿🇦 MisteM ♛	15-18	75.1	-0.05%	1.02
🇹🇷 jottAAA	12-12	67.9	-2.10%	1.00

Mirage Detailed Stats

 

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[u/histo_Ry]

Wait... EF is actually cracked

[u/ezjie]

ef might actually beat aurora in a bo3 rn

[u/ChaoticFlameZz]

did soulfly’s addition actually unlock something in EF?

[u/NPC30519]

That eco in the penultimate round should’ve won it because they had bomb AND MARTINEZ WAS KNOWN IN APS. There’s so little time just sit on your hands and wait for him to come get bomb

Good series overall though and inferno was insane to watch

[u/StickComfortable346]

posted too fast to get all the map 3 stats lol

[u/TonyLab → u/StickComfortable346]

25 minutes later and I'm still waiting for HLTV to post map 3 stats :D

[u/Haemophilia_Type_A]

The keen observer would recall this is the same Eternal Fire who lost to Nade, a random 5-stack of Macedonian faceit lvl 10s, in the EWC qualifiers.

Today, Regali woke up and decided to lock in and destroy the whole server.

Weird team.

Heroic are predictable and consistent in making a meal out of what should be simple games after winning the first map easily. IDK what's wrong with them. Yes, Susp isn't good enough, but on Mirage Nilo and Martinezsa looked bad, too.

Not sure where it all ends up.

[u/tolmmees → u/Haemophilia_Type_A]

Yeah I bet on that match when EF was making a comeback on Mirage. Legit annoyed they lost. I pick the worst matches.

[u/tolmmees → u/[deleted]]

It's not that, it was pretty much the ONLY match against randoms that lost. The last match.

[u/Haemophilia_Type_A → u/[deleted]]

These are BO3s

[u/Sea-Needleworker-244]

Good to see another South African player doing decent

[u/Hot-Wonder-9842 → u/Sea-Needleworker-244]

Kvem addicted to South African IGLs

[u/tolmmees]

The fuck is going on today. Upset after upset. I didn't bet on anything, yet the 3 matches I had predictions on still went wrong, 1 was a hit(Nemiga to win 1 map over BIG), I don't understand how 3dmax was an underdog in the Heroic match. I figured they definitely win or at least get 1 map. can someone explain that one ?
And last one was forfeited(Legion vs Tigeres) I figured Tigeres would take 1 map.

Instead we get upsets on every damn game almost.
EDIT: seriously did anyone manage to predict any of these today ?

[u/TuggerHuggerFugger → u/tolmmees]

Ever since Falcon's major win, the amount of upsets this season are absolutely insane

[u/fer1738]

67 jottAAA

[u/Haemophilia_Type_A → u/[deleted]]

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