BLACKARXANGEL shared his thoughts on the final day of the European closed qualifiers for The International 2026
Commentator and analyst Vladislav “BLACKARXANGEL” Ivashchenko shared his predictions for the final matches of the closed European qualifiers for The International 2026 on his personal Telegram channel.
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Qualifier
Finals: 4 teams remain for 2 slots
—Nigma Galaxy, Yellow Submarine, Virtus.pro, and the Hooligans
Now, here’s my take
: Nigma Galaxy will definitely take Slot 1—Loric will dominate the young players on Yellow Submarine
For the second slot, I’d give the Hooligans a 60% chance—I know the guys personally; they practice really hard and have great discipline. They miraculously made it through this qualifier; I remember the first round of the losers’ bracket, it went like this: they got a mega-creep and tried to destroy the throne; they defended, bought a rapier, and turned the tide—it was a close call, but that game marked the start of their evolution; I believe they’ll win today
By the way, they still have a couple of cool strategies they haven’t shown us yet, and all the HULIGANI players get less than 1 SABERLIGHT
Earlier, commentator Dmitry “CrystalMay” Korchevinin assessed the chances of L1GA TEAM—competing under the tag HULIGANI—and Yellow Submarine to qualify for The International 2026: “Yellow Submarine and L1GA TEAM are underdogs today, but we could end up with two teams from the region at The International 2026!”
Photo by Vladislav “BLACKARXANGEL” Ivashchenko.
