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The battles of PGL Bucharest 2025 are heating up. We are at the play-offs stage, where 8 teams are fighting for the main cash prize of $200,000.
Among the big money contenders are Complexity and Aurora. Between them they will play their way to the next round, where the winner will play against the loser of the G2/Vp pairing.
Let's try to find out who of the pair Aurora - Complexity will be stronger and go through to the next round, and who will have to say goodbye to the prospects of becoming the champion of PGL Bucharest 2025.
Let's go.
Aurora uniforms
Let's open the analysis of Aurora vs Complexity match with the analysis of Aurora's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.
Eternal Fire started actively making their way to the title tournaments since the 2023 season. Then the team won the ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thus securing a spot on the EPL S17. The Main Event ended miserably - only top 20 and not out of the group.
Participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. There they took TOP-14, which was not enough to reach the only Major of the season.
In the middle of the year, Eternal Fire showed their best form. The Turks finished in the top 4 twice, but did so at TIR-B tournaments. They broke into the top four at CCT North Europe Series #7 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.
- Eternal Fire roster: XANTARES, jottAAA, MAJ3R, Wicadia, woxic.
Before the ESL Pro League Season 8 Long Round, MAJ3R's team played at CCT Central Europe and Pinnacle Cup V. Both championships ended for them on top 8.
Eternal Fire played their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18 against Cloud9. They played as the number two and got a natural result: 0-2, but with 11 and 12 rounds respectively.
In the first match of the lower grid Eternal Fire played against 9INE. The Turks were clearly on form, as they managed to run over a pretty tough competitor without much difficulty. The match ended with a score of 2-0 in favour of Eternal Fire. As a result, the ESL Pro League Season 18 run ended very well: the team barely qualified for the play-offs of the tournament, where they managed to win two series. EF left Astralis and BIG behind, but Ledge and Natus Vincere.
EF later made the Top 16 at Roobet Cup 2023, where they finished Top 16 and Top 2 at PARI, Please. In 2024, Eternal Fire attended PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier B, where they finished in the Top 2, advancing to European RMR A.
IEM Katowice 2024 started with the Play-In stage. By the way, they passed it very easily: 13-1 against BB Team and 2-0 against Rebels Gaming allowed them to get into the group stage. In the first match of the group stage they also easily defeated Falcons (13-9; 13-6), and then showed a very cheerful CS in the match against the top-2 team of the world FaZe Clan, but Ledge were defeated on three maps (1-2). At the end of IEM Katowice 2024 Eternal Fire took the top 12, and then started to play at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A.
At the qualifying tournament, the Turks finished in the top 8, which gave them the opportunity to qualify for PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true in the first stage.
At PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Eternal Fire are feeling very good so far. The Turks have 2 wins and 1 loss: they beat Mongolz and Pain, but lost to Heroic 0-2 in the match for the next stage. However, they succeeded in their next attempt: they defeated GL with a score of 2-1.
Eternal Fire debuted in the legends stage with a surprise win against Vitality. However, in the second round they lost to MOUZ, which brought them to 1-1 score. And then there was a real sensation: 13-1 against FaZe Clan and 2-1 score for the Turks.
Eternal Fire got into the play-offs of the tournament after the victory over Vp. The match ended with the score 2-1. However, they failed to move beyond the first round, as NaVi were stronger than the Turks and closed the series with a score of 2-0.
They also attended ESL Pro League Season 19, where they failed, and quite seriously. The Turkish team took TOP-21-28. Then diametrically opposite situation at CCT Season 1: Global Finals and then - not leaving the group at YaLLa Compas 2024.
Eternal Fire got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to the ESL world ranking, but there they took the top 20, without having time to show anything. Then there were equally failed tournaments like IEM Rio 2024, with TOP-12 and failure at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B with TOP-14.
The 2025 Long Season was followed by qualifiers at BLAST Bounty Season 1. There EF beat ENCE and Falcons. At the final stage of BLAST Bounty Season 1 Eternal Fire beat Vitality. They went on to defeat G2 Esports and advance to the grand finals, but lost to Spirit 1-3.
Eternal Fire played at IEM Katowice 2025. The Turkish club managed to get to the play-offs stage, but failed to defeat MongolZ in the first round.
They also played at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, where they finished in the top 8, which is not a good result, but not a nightmare either.
Eternal Fire started ESL Pro League Season 21 with an appearance in the first round of the group stage: there the Turkish club played 3-1. Once in the "real" group stage Eternal Fire beat MIBR, but lost to 3DMax and Liquid. In the match for life they defeated paiN. They managed to get through to the play-offs after beating Falcons in the basket 2-2. In the play-offs Long Sogpeggo was up against Spirit, where they lost 1-2.
BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 Eternal Fire Long Sogpeg with a clean win over Liquid. Later, they beat G2 in a very tense game, although with a score of 2-0. In the next game Eternal Fire defeated NaVi to advance directly to the semi-finals of BLAST Open Lisbon 2025. However, they failed to move on, as MOUZ got in the way and knocked EF out at the Top 4 stage.
At PGL Bucharest 2025 Eternal Fire became Aurora. The new-old Eternal Fire played the group stage with a score of 3-1, Ledge only beating 3DMax.
Eternal Fire's mappool
The best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are very good. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.
Form Complexity
We continue our breakdown of the CoL - Eternal Fire match with an analysis of CoL's match form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win around 3.2.
Complexity played at IEM Masters Cologne 2023, where they finished early. CoL crashed out at the Long Island Play-In, losing to OG and finishing in the top 24.
- Complexity lineup: JT, Grim, hallzerk, cxzi, nicx.
Complexity partially overcame the failure by winning the local Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North America Series #2. Nouns were defeated in the grand finals.
In the first match at the EPL S18 Complexity faced 9INE. The Poles put up a good fight, but couldn't pull out a win - the result was 2-1 in favour of CoL. In the match to come here Complexity surprised perhaps everyone. They ran over Cloud9 with an ice rink, closing the series 2-0 in their favour. They didn't manage to play long in the play-offs. CoL went straight to the second round of the main stage, but there they lost to Monte with a 1-2 score, finishing in the top-12.
Before the IEM Sydney 2023 Long Convergence, Monte fuelled themselves with a win on American Blast. They defeated Team Liquid 2-0 in the grand final of the qualifier, thus earning themselves a place at the autumn finals.
In the first round of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL played against Monte. Ukrainian club gave a fight, but the forces were enough only for 9 rounds. Next, the Americans met with the "samurai" from G2 Esports. They gave a fight, but it was not enough: as a result, G2 closed the series with a score of 2-0, giving the Americans a total of 14 rounds. After the defeat from G2 in the group stage, Complexity seemed to go off the chain: the club started to gain momentum and go head-to-head: first 2-1 against Cloud9, then a confident 2-0 against Monte, and then - play-offs. In the main stage of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL ran over BB Team (2-0) in the first round, and in the semi-finals they avenged their group loss to G2 Esports by knocking M0nesy and company out of the tournament with a 2-0 win.
After a top performance at IEM Sydney 2023, CoL travelled to play Thunderpick World Championship 2023. There the result was more modest - now top 9 with a 1-2 loss to MOUZ.
At BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 Complexity got into Group A, where they played two matches. In the first, they beat Astralis 2-0, followed by Ledge and Vitality (1-2) in the play-offs seeding match. In the first round of play-offs Complexity played against Natus Vincere. The match ended in favour of the Americans, although the game was close (2-1).
CoL finished their way through BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 in the second round of play-offs, and fell out after a meeting with FaZe. As a result, CoL finished in the top 4 at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 and lost their chance to play at the World Final.
Next up was Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 and ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023. At the former CoL finished in the top 8, and at the latter they finished in the top 6.
The 2024 season started with a victory at the American PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: North American Qualifier, but then - failure. It happened at the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 tournament, where the Americans took TOP-16. In addition, they played at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where they finished in the top-11.
Before playing at IEM Dallas 2024 CoL visited ESL Pro League Season 19, where they reached TOP-4. At IEM Dallas 2024 Complexity made it to the Top 16, then made it to the Top 8 at YaLLa Compass 2024 and won ESL Challengers at DreamHack Summer 2024.
They also attended ESports World Cup 2024, where they failed to make it out of the Opening Stage. They got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to ESL NA rating. At the championship itself they played very "average", ranking TOP-9-12. In addition, they played at BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024, where they finished at TOP-8.
ESL Pro League S20 opened with a match against M80, where they lost 0-2 without a chance. They defeated Astralis and MOUZ in the middle set of their group, but lost to BIG in the last chance set. Already there the team beat MOUZ again, thus knocking out their place in the main stage. In the first round of play-offs CoL sensationally beat FaZe with the score 2-0. However, it was not possible to pass further, because Liquid got in the way, who knocked out CoL at the stage of TOP-12.
After a very cheerful ESL Pro League S20, CoL played at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024, where they finished in the top-12. At PW Shanghai Major 2024, CoL made it to the PW Shanghai Major 2024 thanks to a top-3-5 finish at American RMR (3-1 score).
Chinese Major CoL Long CoL started with a defeat by FlyQuest, which was the main sensation of the first round, and then lost to Passion UA. However, we managed to pull ourselves together in the following games and got two clean wins over Imperial and C9. In the match for life we lost, Ledgeiv BIG with the score 2-3.
We played BLAST Bounty Season 1. Well, as played, tried to play, but failed miserably, taking there the top-32.
At the IEM Katowice 2025 CoL Long Season 1 we played the expected defeat from Eternal Fire with the score 0-2. Next was a lower grid match against Liquid, a 0-2 loss and a final top-28 ranking.
They continued the 2025 season with a game at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, where they finished in the top-14, failing to advance past the group stage. After failing in Cluj-Napoca, CoL attended another PGL tournament - PGL Bucharest 2025. There they defeated FURIA and Falcons, but in the match for the play-offs Ledge and G2. However, at the second attempt they got into the main stage, beating FaZe 2-0.
Complexity's mappool
Complexity's mappool is quite sad. The most successful map is Overpass with 5 wins in 9 matches.
They can also play Nuke, Ancient and Anubis. But they have 33% wins each, with a very poor record of 6 and 3 maps respectively.
History of head-to-head meetings between Aurora and Complexity
Under the aegis of Aurora, the team will play against CoL for the first time.
Predicted result of Complexity vs Aurora at PGL Bucharest 2025
In this match I expect a close game from the two teams. In the group stage of PGL Bucharest 2025 both teams looked about equal, so I expect a full-fledged Bo3 in the match for the semi-finals of the tournament.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
