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Reminder: Players controlez, tN1R, and Twistzz won't receive the Major playoffs participants' trophies because they're playing as "stand-in players."
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Reminder: Players controlez, tN1R, and Twistzz won’t receive the Major playoffs participants’ trophies because they’re playing as “stand-in players.”

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This means that even if they win the Major, their in-game winner trophies will go to other players:

  1. Senzu ← controlez
  2. zont1x ← tN1R
  3. rain ← Twistzz

This already happened at BLAST Austin Major 2025, when broky got the quarterfinalist trophy instead of s1mple, who actually played the entire tournament. Importantly: s1mple didn't get the trophy at all.

Though previously, the situation was different. For example, at ESL One: Cologne 2016, coach zonic urgently replaced dupreeh, helped the team reach the Major playoffs, and received the quarterfinalist trophy.

In my opinion, it's nonsense and stupid to give the winner's trophy to someone who sat at home picking their nose while the guy who played EVERY SINGLE MATCH with the team on the tournament gets nothing.