Gale wins again: EA FC Mobile closes out A1AL Weekly

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The A1 Adria League Weekly competitions are now officially behind us. In an intense playoff final over the weekend we concluded the Weekly series with another big final, thus rounding up the 10 weeks of play with the game we started out with almost 10 weeks ago: EA FC Mobile. In an interesting turn of events, the winner of the first Weekly of the year, Gale, also managed to win the last one, earning another €400 and cementing his name in the A1 Adria League history. So, how did it go down?

Group stage 

The format of the EA FC Mobile playoffs remained the same as it was the first time around, and many of the names qualified for the second stage of competitions were also very familiar. We saw two groups of eight players compete for points to get them a spot in the playoffs. Gale, Danci, Ciro and Lazar advanced from Group A and met with TaleTopG, Shaq, Nikolas and Somzi in the top 8 playoffs. 

In the first round, Gale, Danci, Tale and Nikolas won and moved to the upper bracket semis, while the remaining players needed to compete through the lower bracket to get another chance at the finals. Nikolas beat the first Weekly champion, Gale, in the first upper semi and secured a spot in the finals with relative ease. This meant that Gale needed to win big in the lower bracket to get a chance at redemption. 

Before that would happen, Tale beat Somzi and Lazar won against Danci in the lower bracket, and in the coming match Lazar won against Tale and earned a shot at Gale who waited for the lower bracket to unfold. In one of the most intense matches of the season, Gale managed to just barely win against Lazar after scoring a winning goal in the 94th minute of the fifth match, getting back on track to the grand finals. 

Grand finals

Nikolas and Gale clashed again in the big final, and Nikolas even had the advantage of one match due to him coming from the upper bracket. Still, after the first match ended in a draw, Gale dominated two games in a row and reset the bracket, which meant that it all came down to a single match.

In the last match of the grand final, both players played very carefully, and we did not have a winner after regulation, so we proceeded to the golden goal, which happened just before halftime in the golden goal match. Gale completed his revenge on Nikolas and secured another big win in the A1 Adria League weekly, making him the most dominant player of the entire season. 

With this last round recapped, we’re done with the Weekly tournaments! It was a blast watching players compete in various games, and we can’t wait to see more of them again very soon. We’re currently looking forward to the summer break and planning our return to competition very soon.

Keep an eye on our social media for a chance to win in giveaways hosted by our partners, and we’ll see you later this year!

EA FC Mobile finals to wrap up the Weekly Tournaments

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What a long road it’s been, but we are nearing the end, sadly. This weekend, we’ll watch the last matches of the A1 Adria League Weekly tournaments. The last game of the Weekly series is the one that started it all in April, EA FC Mobile. 

Last time, Gale was the player with the most skill (and a bit of luck), and managed to grab the number one spot in the grand finals in April. The qualifiers for the EA FC Mobile tournament were concluded over the past weekend, and there’s nothing left to do but to wait and find out who takes the trophy for the second time this year, and with it half of the €800 prize pool. The playoffs will conclude with the grand final on Sunday, June 15th.

The format will remain the same, which means that two groups of eight players will compete on Friday and Saturday, and the best players of each group will advance to the grand finals on Sunday. Some of the best players in the regions are here again, including Somzi, Shaq, Tale, and Gale, and a number of well-performing but perhaps lesser-known players from across the region. 

The last whistle of the virtual referee on Sunday will also bring with it the end of the Weekly tournaments, after 10 whole weeks of competition across CS2, EA FC 25 and EA FC Mobile, Brawl Stars, PUBG, League of Legends and eFootball. During the competitions, almost €14,000 was handed out to the best teams and players who went from open qualifiers to the grand finals of their games. 

Our eyes are now set on the new season, which will start in late summer and early fall and once again conclude with the Reboot InfoGamer gaming show in November. The A1 Adria League Weekly tournaments were a successful and interesting experiment for us, allowing us to host interesting matches across various games while still planning the biggest-ever A1AL LAN finals for November. 

In the meantime, we will host a series of giveaways and activations across our social media channels with our partners and sponsors, which means you can have a good chance of winning something exciting. 

Make sure to follow the action through our social media channels and enjoy the EA FC Mobile finals over the weekend! 

Entity are champions of the A1 Adria League CS2 Weekly 2025

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After several rounds of qualifiers and playoffs, our A1 Adria League Weekly tournament in Counter-Strike 2 is over. Our new champions and the only invited team, Entity, managed to keep their composure through the playoffs and beat the challengers over the weekend, securing the title and a €1,500 prize. But how did it all go down?

Last week we’ve talked about the intense qualifiers and the great games from the likes of Sangrija, PIG5 and ronin5 that allowed them to compete in the playoffs with Entity, our invited team. The weekend began with a direct elimination match in the lower bracket between Ronin5 and PIG5, in which Ronin5 won two matches and kicked PIG5 out of the tournament. In the upper bracket, Sangrija met Entity and put up a great fight but ultimately lost to Entity in both matches. The first map, Ancient, was close with a final score of 13:11 for Entity, but Sangrija performed much worse on Dust and lost 13:3, dropping into the lower bracket and allowing Entity to wait patiently in the grand finals.

In the lower bracket, Sangrija met Ronin5 after both teams lost to Entity on day one, making for an interesting clash. The first map, Ancient, went to overtime and was eventually won by Ronin5 with 16:13. However, Sangrija completed a reverse sweep and won on both Train (13:3) and Dust (13:2), qualifying for the final on Sunday where they were up against Entity, a team that beat them 2:0 just a day before.

In the end, Entity proved to be an obstacle that Sangrija could not get over. In the grand final, Entity had a one map advantage, but the first map was won by Sangrija, and the bracket was reset. On Inferno, Entity put up a dominant performance and won 13:3 only to lose to Sangrija on Dust 2. The Dust 2 match was one of the closest of the playoffs, going to Sangrija in the end after a 13:10 win.

This all meant that there’s a big decider match ahead, played on Anubis. After a tied first half (6:6), Entity found their rhythm and won the map 13:6, securing the number one spot after the playoffs.

 The conclusion of the CS2 Weekly brings us closer to the finish of our Weekly cups, with just the EA FC Mobile matches left before our summer break. Make sure to follow the action and prepare for the fall season!

Austin Major begins with upsets and record number of teams

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As of the time of writing this, the BLAST.tv Austin Major’s first stage is underway, and with it the largest-ever Counter-Strike Major tournament. It features the largest number of teams to date, 32 instead of 24, and is set in the United States. The tournament is the first time that the Major is coming to Austin, Texas, and the first Major in the United States since the ELEAGUE Boston Major in 2018. 

The tournament is divided into four segments, called stages, with the initial three stages being similar in format, followed by the playoffs. The first stage has 16 teams, out of which eight will continue to the second stage where they will meet eight previously qualified teams. The process then repeats itself in the third stage until we are left with the best eight teams. This means that the teams that start their journey in the first stage have a much harder time to get to the playoffs, but nothing is impossible. 

As of right now, the first rounds of matches in the first stage are behind us, with four teams having two wins and no losses, eight teams sitting at one win and one loss, and four teams with no wins. The best-performing teams at this stage are HEROIC, B8, WildCard and FlyQuest, and the unluckiest ones are Chinggis Warriors, Imperial Esports, Metizport and Fluxo. Of course, a lot can change in a day or two. 

The standout match of the first stage so far was the one between Complexity, the highest-seeded team in the stage, and OG (lowest seed). OG managed to dismantle Complexity due to a stellar performance by nicoodoz. The Danish player had a career-best map and a 33-6 score with a 3.08 rating, one of the highest ratings ever in a Major. Sadly, his fantastic form did not translate that well to the second match between OG and B8, where he had a 1.20 rating and a more realistic overall performance. OG lost that match due to a better team performance by B8.

This is just the first stage of the Major which will last for the better part of this month and conclude with the grand finals on June 22. In the meantime, you can watch the CS2 playoffs of the A1 Adria League Weekly this weekend! 

CS2 qualifiers done: sangrija, ronin5, and pig5 to playoffs

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We are done with the CS2 qualifiers for the A1 Adria League Weekly! 

In an action-packed weekend behind us, we watched three rounds of qualifiers for one of the most popular esports tournaments in the region, the A1 Adria League CS2 competition. We saw dozens of teams enter and compete during the qualifiers, but there was room for just one team in each qualifier round. In the end, three teams will join us in the playoffs: Sangrija, Ronin5, and PIG5. ENTiTY, our directly invited team, is already waiting in the bracket. 

An impressive number of teams applied for the first qualifier round, 40. This made the bracket very fast-paced and full of surprises, and also led to some of the favourites getting knocked out early in the first day, such as Ronin5 adn Pig5, together with SuperiorEsports and Diamant. With some of the more stacked rosters out of the way, Sangrija managed to make their way to the grand final, where they beat The Secret Club with a victory in overtime and a very close 13-11 win on Mirage. 

The second day of qualifiers saw Ronin5 come back around and put on a great performance after a sluggish first day. However, their path to the final included a win in double overtime against Neighbors and arguably easier games against Loodnica and CTRAXA_NET. In the finals, they faced Registry, where they won on Nuke, lost on Anubis and narrowly won on Dust2 with a 13-11 score at the end. Our admins and casters praised Ronin5 AWPer Georgiii, who was the key player for the qualifier victory.

With only one day and one spot left, the last round of qualifiers was nail-biting, exciting for some and disappointing for others. Day 1 finalists The Secret Club were eliminated by X Team early in the day, who were themselves beaten by eventual winners PIG5. The finals saw Superior Esports face PIG5, and Superior won the first map relatively easily. PIG5 regrouped and managed to tie the series in the second map. The team went on to win the third map and secure a spot in the playoffs. 

The three teams will now  have just a couple of days to practice and polish their skills before they compete in the playoff bracket over the weekend for a chance to earn up to €1,500 from a total prize pool of €3,000. 

Make sure to follow the action!

Only 3 weekends left; CS2 is only getting started

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We’re entering the final phase of this season’s A1 Adria League Weekly tournaments and the A1 Student eChallenge. With just three weekends to go, the attention now shifts to Counter-Strike 2, as the region’s best teams dive into the first round of qualifiers in one of the most popular games in the region.

This weekend will feature three rounds of CS2 qualifiers, with the top three teams earning a spot in the playoffs. There, they’ll meet three invited squads to decide who takes the CS2 Weekly title in a series of BO3 and BO5 matches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

After this, only a handful of matchdays remain. The Weekly series wraps up in early June before we take a short summer break and begin the road to the A1 Adria League LAN finals in November. With only CS2 and EA FC Mobile left in the rotation, we’re closing the season with two very different games. One is all about tactics and teamwork, the other all about precision and individual flair. It’s a great reflection of what the A1 Adria League is all about: giving as many chances possible for everyone interested in competing.

CS2 (and CS:GO before it) was always the go-to esports game for both the A1 Adria League and thousands of fans in the region, and is one of the games that started it all more than 10 seasons ago. Hosting another CS round of qualifiers and playoffs feels both right and emotional, because it is one of those games that really makes you appreciate esports to its fullest, so make sure not to miss the qualifiers over the weekend!

But the action isn’t done just yet, and neither is your chance to compete. Signups are still open for this weekend’s CS2 qualifiers, and also for next week’s EA FC Mobile event. Due to overwhelming demand, we’re featuring EA FC Mobile twice this season. Honestly, the interest has surprised even us. In the first round, we saw great matches from the likes of Gale and Somzi, with the former taking home the title of A1 Adria League Weekly champion and half of the €800 prize pool.

The second round of qualifiers will definitely attract more of the region’s best players, and if you are one of them, apply right away! 

Roksaa22 wins our eFootball Weekly tournament!

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Week 7 is behind us, and with it we are down to just two games left in the main A1 Adria League Weekly series of tournaments and the A1 Student eChallenge. Over the weekend, we saw the eFootball competition end, and awarded our first-ever A1 Adria League Weekly eFootball winner! 

As we look towards the CS2 and EA FC Mobile events that will take place in the following weeks, lets recap the eFootball action that unfolded over the weekend. Last week’s qualifiers seeded four players in two groups, for a total of eight players divided between groups A and B. In group A, Filip26 and Roksaa22 advanced to the finals on Sunday, and Group B unfolded in a different fashion. Football_Hunter4 won all of his matches in the group earlier due to him participating in a major international eFootball tournament organised by KONAMI. This saw him enter the final earlier than other players and he was joined by Boki_Todor in the playoffs.

The four players entered the double elimination bracket, and the first round saw Roksaaa and Football_hunter advance through, both upper bracket matches ended with clean 2:0 sweeps. In the lower bracket, Boki won his match against Filip. Hunter lost his second game of the tournament in the upper bracket final to Roksaaa22 and dropped to the lower bracket where he promptly made short work of Boki. 

This all made for an exciting final match between Hunter and Roksaa22. Hunter needed to reset the bracket with two wins, which he managed to easily do and made it 2:2 in the final match. However, the final match did not go his way, and he lost to Roksaa22 2:1, making Roksaa22 our new Weekly Champion! 

The action continues into this week, and will unfold over the next three weeks. We only have CS2 and EA FC Mobile remaining, and this week is all about the CS2 qualifiers. 

Make sure to follow the action!

eFootball’s journey from rock bottom

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Konami’s football series of games is interesting. In the Balkans, it’s hard to find a single person who had a PlayStation 1, and did not own PES (the predecessor to eFootball, to all of you kids). PES was, and still is, a cultural icon here, but eFootball has struggled to reach the level of fame that its competitor, EA FC or FIFA, as we still call it, has. So let’s talk PES, eFootball, and all in between.

eFootball was born in 2021 as a successor to the acclaimed Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series of games, which first launched in 1995. On launch, the game was terrible and universally hated for almost every feature, ranging from graphics to its newly introduced free-to-play model. Critics noted that it was “unplayable” and outright laughed at its sub-par graphics and overall presentation. Its Steam page had more than 11,000 reviews posted, and just 9% of them were positive. The launch was called the worst in history, and eFootball is still struggling to bounce back – its Steam reviews are now “mixed”, which is a significant improvement.

The only thing they did not criticise all that much was the actual gameplay, which, in traditional PES fashion, remained slower, more technical and complex than FIFA. Still, with everything else against it, that was just a silver lining.

With FIFA and later EA FC having a yearly release cycle that requires players to buy the game each year, eFootball’s creators decided on a different idea: making it free to play with yearly updates so that players don’t have to pay money to get the game. This starkly contrasts with EA FC, a game that needs to be bought, yet has layers upon layers of microtransactions. eFootball still has these microtransactions, but with the base being free, it’s an easier pill to stomach. 

Today, eFootball is still struggling financially, but it is a very interesting saga of trying to reinvent a franchise by making it something completely different. The free-to-play model is working well, but with Konami being a smaller developer than EA, there’s simply no competition here. 

When it comes to esports, the game is still well-loved by professional players; some even play both EA FC and eFootball professionally. It’s a more realistic approach, which makes it more rewarding, but again, the fewer tournaments make it more of a niche title than a real contender for the number one spot in football games. EA’s machinery is simply too strong for many of its contenders, even if they only successfully force customers to pay for features that should’ve been in the game for free. In 2025, Konami made moves to invest more into regional leagues for eFootball, which might prove to be a very good thing, but one that we’ll see the effects of later. 

All in all, eFootball is a Balkans icon still, and with almost 100 players in each qualifier for the A1 Adria League weekly tournaments it definitely has a lot going for it in the region. 

Make sure you watch the playoffs this weekend! 

CMM are the new (old) Brawl Stars champions!

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The weekend behind us was the biggest of the year so far, with three games, two rounds of qualifiers each and a big final to round it all up. We played and watched Brawl Stars qualifiers and finals, the qualifiers for the eFootball tournament, as well as the qualifiers for the A1 Student eChallenge in League of Legends. 

Brawl Stars unfolds without many surprises

Week six gave us the champions of the Weekly tournament in Brawl Stars, a very popular game for the A1AL. More than 50 teams competed in two rounds of qualifiers to find the best four teams in the region. On day one, CMM (formerly Salada de Frutas, the best team in the history of A1AL) dominated all the way through to the final, where they forfeited the match to La Passion, allowing the La Passion roster to have a better seed in the playoffs. An interesting move by CMM, and a bit of a cheeky idea that is not seen in many esports tournaments.

In the second day of the qualifiers, 33 teams competed for the remaining two spots in the finals. Delulu, the semifinalists who got knocked out by CMM in the first qualifier, ended up in the finals this time around against Crazy Bears, and qualified for the playoffs. The playoffs were very interesting to anyone but CMM, because the team’s looming presence meant that all intense matches happened before the finals themselves. We would like to point out an amazing match by Crazy Bears against Delulu which they almost managed to win by reverse sweeping Delulu, but the favourites still managed to win. The final match between CMM and Delulu provided little in the sense of drama, with CMM sweeping Delulu 3:0 easily and taking one more title of the best regional BS team.

EFootball and League of Legends

The eFootball tournament had more than 90 players participating in the first round of qualifiers, with some of the best regional names joining the tournament. eFootball is a very popular game in the region despite it falling off to EA FC lately, and we are very happy to have had the opportunity to host a tournament in the football game. The first round of qualifiers had seven Serbian players make it to the top 8, and in the end we had some of the best regional players, such as Hunterz10 and Roksaa22 joined by filip26 and hazard-BiH. 

The second qualifier had a total of 70 entries, with a large number of players from esports teams joining the competition as well. The favourites managed to earn their spots in the end, with Boki_todor, TommyShelby1987, SteelThunder_HR and Čiba making it. Interestingly, Čiba is one of the youngest players in the tournament and this was his first big esports tournament – a great achievement! 

The eFootball playoffs will take place over the upcoming weekend, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

In the A1 Student eChallenge, we saw four teams compete for the playoff spots. FER Nabadači, Niska Očekivanja, Smrljivi Sirevi i Štrukani Pelin. The qualifiers had two sweeps, with Nabadači and Štrukani Pelin advancing to the final stage of the bracket which will be played this Thursday. Niska Očekivanja and Smrdljivi Sirevi will have one more chance to make it to the finals via the lower bracket.

With week 6 wrapped up, we are entering Week 7 and there are not many rounds left to play. Make sure to follow the action!

The Biggest Weekend Yet in A1 Adria League: Brawl Stars, eFootball & LoL

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We’re getting close to the end of week six of the A1 Adria League Weekly tournaments and the A1 Student eChallenge, and the weekend ahead will be the biggest one yet in terms of players and games. We’ll be watching qualifiers for eFootball, the qualifiers and playoffs for Brawl Stars, and the qualifiers for the League of Legends tournament in the A1SeC. This is the first week with three games, so it’s bound to be interesting.

The Weekly events and the Student eChallenge have really ramped up, and we’re now approaching the final stages of the season. There are only five weekends of competition left (including this one), and the final three weeks will be focused exclusively on EA FC Mobile for students and pro players, and Counter-Strike 2. 

This weekend, we’re starting off with two rounds of Brawl Stars qualifiers, open to anyone interested, on Friday and Saturday. Brawl Stars teams of three players will compete in a single-elimination format, with two teams advancing to the finals from each qualifier. To make things more dramatic, the finals will also be held this Sunday, so don’t miss any of the action.

Our second main game for this week is eFootball, the football simulation that directly competes with EA FC. This season, we’ve decided to shuffle things around and offer even more football games to the fans, with two rounds of EA FC Mobile and the main EA FC event joined by eFootball. The eFootball Weekly will follow the same format as the EA FC weekly and have the same prize pool. This means that we’re heading towards two rounds of qualifiers, with the top four players from each round advancing. The best eight players will be combined into two groups of four for the second stage, with two out of each group advancing to the playoffs. The prize pool is also the same: €800 total, with €400 going to the winner. 

The weekend will be rounded up with the two-round qualifiers for the A1 SeC in League of Legends. Both qualifiers will have a single-elimination format, and the best two teams from each qualifier will compete in the playoffs next Thursday.

Interestingly, this is the first out of two “big weeks” for the season which will feature competitions in three games and two levels. Next week, apart from the playoffs in eFootball and League of Legends, we’re finally kicking off CS2 qualifiers which are bound to be more than interesting. 

Make sure to follow the action over the weekend!