3DMAX and Legacy progress at CAC 2025

3DMAX and Legacy have progressed to the semi-finals of CAC 2025 after 2-1 victories against Fnatic and FUT.

The French and Brazilian rosters will take on Liquid and Heroic, respectively, in the Semi-Finals in Shanghai.

🔥 @legacyggbr take the series and secure their spot in the Semifinals vs. @heroicgg! 💪@FUTesportsgg was eliminated.#CAC2025 pic.twitter.com/qZi642JXK5

— PGL (@pglesports) October 17, 2025

3DMAX restrict Fnatic’s T-sides

Following the benching of Cai ‘CYPHER’ Watson on Fnatic in favour of Nikita ‘jackasmo’ Skyba, the question Fnatic had to answer was how their T-sides would work.

While Fnatic managed to function well enough in the group stage, their T-sides fell to nothing against 3DMAX in their stage debut with the new roster.

Four of Fnatic’s players dropped negative ratings on the T-side, ranging from 0.94-0.80. Only Benjamin ‘blameF’ Bremer had a positive rating, taking six opening engagements and winning three on the Terrorist side.

By contrast, Freddy ‘KRIMZ’ Johansson also took six opening engagements, losing them all, as he averaged 0.87 throughout the series as a whole.

With the opening responsibilities spread more throughout the Fnatic roster, they struggled to get those opening kills to get space on the maps.

They won only 11 T-side rounds in the series, with seven coming on Train alone. That is a good haul for the CT-sided map, but it was Fnatic’s map pick.

On Inferno, Fnatic managed only one round in six attempts, on Dust 2, only three rounds in 10.

For Rodion ‘fear’ Smyk, now back in a Ukrainian core roster, the solutions will have to come quickly if he wants this five to be the five for the upcoming CS2 major in Budapest.

Legacy outlast FUT’s young roster at CAC 2025

Legacy’s defeated FUT in an extremely close contest that tested Legacy’s experience.

Legacy had to claw back the series after losing FUT’s map pick of Mirage 13-8 before surviving the two-Overtime Inferno contest.

Dust 2 proved a map too far for FUT, who were overran on the CT-side with Bruno ‘latto’ Rebelatto providing huge impact for the Brazilian roster to open up the sites.

FUT, the previous core of the NaVi Junior roster, have played hundreds of officials online, but rarely played LANs at all.

The roster’s progression through the groups, defeating FaZe in the lower bracket, was a positive for the roster, who lack LAN experience.

That win brought them to the arena, albeit without a crowd on the Friday.

In the end, Legacy’s experience shone through with FUT running out of steam at the conclusion of the contest.