FURIA defeated Falcons 3–1 in the BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 2 grand final to claim the title in Hong Kong. After the match, kyotostxr spoke with Mareks YEKINDAR Gaļinskis about his emotions after the victory, the team’s current status, molodoy’s potential, the Chinese fans, and preparations for the upcoming Major.
Congratulations! Another victory for your team. Are you happy, and what does this result mean to you?
Honestly, we approached this game without feeling that it carried some extraordinary significance for us. We had already achieved a good result at this tournament and understood that we were gradually running out of energy.
— YEKINDAR
We had a very long tournament in China before this. Here, we simply tried to show our best Counter-Strike, but we started very slowly. From the beginning of the day, you could feel that our energy had dropped because everyone was extremely tired. Now we can finally go home, and everyone is very happy about that.
Falcons genuinely played very well, but in certain moments our players simply went into god mode. I am very happy that we won.
Can you confidently say that FURIA are the number one team in the world right now?
Yes, I think so.
— YEKINDAR
What do you think about molodoy? He burst onto the tier-one scene very quickly. Does he have everything required to represent the CIS region alongside you and donk in the future?
Yes, he has everything he needs to become the best player in the world. He simply needs a little more time and experience to keep learning.
KSCERATO, yuurih, and I are all around 26 now, and FalleN always says that 26 is the real prime. Danya still has roughly six years before reaching that age, so I think he will only reach his peak then.
