FURIA vs Leviatán Result VCT Americas 2026 Stage 1 Playoffs

Leviatán defeated FURIA 2-1 on May 16, 2026, in the VCT Americas 2026 Stage 1 Upper Bracket Round 1 at Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles. The maps were Breeze 13-8 FURIA, Split 13-5 Leviatán, and Pearl 13-1 Leviatán. Leviatán advance to the upper bracket semifinals. FURIA drop to the lower bracket where they must win or be eliminated from the Stage 1 playoffs.

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Map results

Breeze

FURIA took Breeze 13-8 in a controlled opening map that gave no indication of what was coming next. artzin was the standout individual contributor, his 1.85 rating and 334 ACS on the map reflecting a player whose individual ceiling gave FURIA the platform their Breeze performance required. The 5-round winning margin reflected a map where FURIA's system found the execution quality their coaching staff had identified as the approach capable of taking an opening map advantage into the series.

Split

Leviatán's response on Split was total. After dropping Breeze, Leviatán came out on Split in a completely different mode, executing a tactical shutdown that reduced FURIA to 5 rounds across the entire map. The 13-5 scoreline reflected a team whose mid-series adjustment quality gave FURIA no viable answer across either half of the map. Leviatán built an 11-1 first half before closing the map with the same dominance their opening half had established, taking the series to a deciding third map.

Pearl

Pearl was where the series became historic. Leviatán executed a complete tactical lockout of FURIA that produced one of the most dominant single-map performances in VCT Americas 2026 Stage 1 playoff history. kiNgg shut down four players in a clean retake to lock in the map's direction and Leviatán built an 11-1 half before closing Pearl 13-1, one of the most comprehensive individual map scorelines of the Americas regional season. FURIA, who had taken Breeze convincingly, were held to a single round across Pearl's 14 played.

Standout performances

artzin posted a 1.85 rating and 334 ACS on Breeze and finished the series with a 1.41 match rating and 261 ACS as FURIA's top performer despite ending on the losing side. His Map 1 output was the highest individual ceiling activated by any player across the series, a performance whose quality gave FURIA the opening map advantage that Leviatán's tactical adjustments on Split and Pearl completely reversed.

kiNgg posted a 1.59 match rating, 215 ACS and plus 7 kill differential as Leviatán's series MVP, his contribution across Split and Pearl reflecting a player whose individual ceiling gave Leviatán the structural platform their comeback required after dropping Breeze. His four-player shutdown clutch on Pearl was the defining individual moment of the map.

Was EsportScanner AI correct?

EsportScanner free AI Valorant predictions gave FURIA a 51% win probability ahead of this match based on their group stage form and 1.08 team rating. The prediction did not land. Leviatán won 2-1 in the biggest result of the VCT Americas 2026 Stage 1 upper bracket opening round.

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