FURIA’s first trophy of 2026 arrived with a familiar finish: another Thunderpick World Championship crown. The Brazilian side beat BetBoom Team in Sunday’s grand final in Attard, Malta, defending the title they won last year and making it back-to-back championships, according to the result reported by The Lufkin News.
That turns a long wait for silverware into a title defence, with BetBoom pushing the final all the way to a deciding map. Supplementary match reports from Strafe and Dust2.us give the series score as 3-2 to FURIA in a best-of-five. The win is the headline; the route there was anything but a quiet stroll through the bracket.
Both reports describe a final that swung back and forth. FURIA took Dust2, but BetBoom answered by winning Ancient and Nuke to move ahead 2-1. FURIA then stayed alive with a narrow Mirage victory before closing out the championship on Cache.
The map scores reported by Strafe and Dust2.us underline how differently the rounds played out. FURIA’s opener and decider were more comfortable; in between, BetBoom dragged the series into a proper test of nerve.
Strafe also reports that FURIA reached the final after a 2-0 semifinal win over Aurora. That put them in position to meet BetBoom again after beating the same opponent earlier in the event, turning the final into a rematch rather than a fresh matchup.
The result adds a second straight Thunderpick title to FURIA’s record and gives the team its first tournament trophy of the year. According to Strafe, the 2026 championship ran in Malta from October 14 to 18, featured eight teams and carried a $1 million prize pool.
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