Falcons and Tundra secure playoffs semifinals slots at BLAST Slam IV

BLAST Slam IV group stage is done and dusted, with both Falcons and Tundra making a splash in the best-of-one round robin marathon.

Both teams finished the group stage with a 9-2 record and will advance directly to the playoffs semifinals, which are scheduled for next month in front of a live audience at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. For Tundra, this means returning to the venue where they lifted the Aegis over three years ago, when they became The International 2022 Champions.

However, much has changed within the team since Tundra’s dominant TI run in the Singapore Indoor Stadium. It’s only Neta "33" Shapira still fighting under the Tundra banner three years later. Some of his former teammates are now at Falcons, the fresh TI 2025 champions who seem to be just as motivated at the start of the new season as they were at The International only a month ago.

Although they made no roster changes after their TI victory in September, Falcons’ nearly flawless group stage performance at BLAST Slam IV is impressive considering that their carry player, Oliver "skiter" Lepko, suffered an elbow fracture just before the tournament was set to start. He missed the first round of matches in the group stage, yet Falcons still went 3-0 on the opening day with Alan "Satanic" Gallyamov standing in for them at the last minute.

BLAST Slam IV group stage results

While Falcons and Tundra get to now rest and focus on FISSURE Playground 2, another one million dollars LAN tournament which will kick off next week, for the rest of the teams at BLAST Slam IV, elimination is on the line in the next two stages of the competition.**

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Both Last Chance Playoffs and Play-In stages at BLAST Slam IV are set to unfold this Sunday, October 19, 2025, in a best-of-three series format. Four teams are seeded in the Last Chance Playoffs series, with the winner of each advancing to the Play-ins.

Last Chance Playoffs

• 13:00 CEST: Team Liquid vs Yakult Brothers
• 13:00 CEST: BetBoom Team vs Execration

Play-In

• 15:30 CEST: MOUZ vs Team Aureus
• 15:30 CEST: Aurora Gaming vs NAVI
• 18:00 CEST: Heroic vs TBD (winner of Team Liquid vs Yakult Brothers)
• 18:00 CEST: Team Spirit vs TBD (winner of BetBoom Team vs Execration)

A total of six teams will see their tournament run cut short today, while four winners will advance further and secure a seed in the playoffs quarterfinals. After today’s matches, BLAST Slam IV enters a break until November 7, 202,5 when the playoffs are scheduled to kick off in Singapore.