G2 Esports and MIBR won Friday's quarter-finals at FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou, both without dropping a map, and the event is down to four teams. The semi-finals are played on Saturday 12 September: Legacy against MIBR at 14:00 China time (06:00 UTC), then BetBoom Team against G2 at 17:00 China time (09:00 UTC). The grand final follows on Sunday 13 September, a best-of-five for a $300,000 first prize.
The playoffs are single elimination — the group stage's second-chance bracket is gone. Here are the confirmed quarter-final scores, the bracket, the start times in China time and UTC, and where the English broadcast is.
Quarter-final results
G2 Esports 2-0 FURIA. G2 survived a 16-14 overtime finish on Ancient and then dismantled FURIA 13-3 on Dust II. Nikita "HeavyGod" Martynenko led the winners with 42 kills, according to a Field Level Media wire report.
MIBR 2-0 Alliance. MIBR took Inferno 13-4 and closed on Cache 13-9, with Lucas "nqz" Soares posting 35 kills in the same report.
FURIA's exit means Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo leaves Suzhou early in what he has said will be his last competitive year: the FURIA in-game leader announced on stage at IEM Rio 2026 that he will retire from playing at the end of the 2026 season.
FISSURE Playground 3 semi-final schedule
China Standard Time is UTC+8, and it is the local time in Suzhou. UTC is listed alongside it because "CST" is also used for North American Central time, which is a different clock entirely.
- Saturday 12 September — Legacy vs MIBR: 14:00 China time / 06:00 UTC. Best-of-three.
- Saturday 12 September — BetBoom Team vs G2 Esports: 17:00 China time / 09:00 UTC. Best-of-three.
- Sunday 13 September — grand final: 17:00 China time / 09:00 UTC. Best-of-five.
Legacy versus MIBR was scheduled to start at 06:00 UTC, minutes before this article was filed. As of 06:23 UTC on 12 September the event bracket recorded no completed map in either semi-final, so nothing here is reported as a final result. The map veto for that series is locked in, though: Nuke first, Ancient second, Inferno as the decider.
Those are the scheduled starts published on the bracket rather than guaranteed first-serve times. Both semi-finals run on the same stage, so a series that goes the distance pushes everything behind it.
How the bracket reached this point
The seeding was decided in the group stage, and it explains why two teams are two wins from the title while the other two had to play on Friday. Each group's winner went straight to the semi-finals. Each group's runner-up entered the quarter-finals as a high seed and each group's third-placed team as a low seed. In the bracket that produced, each runner-up drew the other group's third-placed team.
Legacy won Group B, beating FURIA 2-0 in the upper-bracket final. BetBoom Team won Group A by beating MIBR 2-0 in theirs. That gives Saturday a clear subplot: MIBR have already lost to BetBoom at this event, and with no third-place match in the format, the only way the two meet again is in Sunday's grand final.
G2 took the longest road of the four by either measure, series or maps played. They lost their opening group match to Astralis and then won three straight lower-bracket series — against BIG, 9z Team and 5star eSports — just to claim Group A's last playoff berth. Their reward was FURIA on Friday and BetBoom on Saturday.
The Legacy–MIBR semi-final is a tie between two Brazilian organisations, guaranteeing at least one of them a place in Sunday's final.
Prize pool
The published prize breakdown distributes $1,000,000 across all sixteen placements, split between a player prize and a team share at each one. The champion takes $300,000 ($165,000 to the players, $135,000 to the club), the runner-up $160,000, and the two losing semi-finalists $93,000 each. FURIA and Alliance, knocked out in the quarter-finals, place fifth-sixth for $65,000 apiece.
FISSURE's own broadcast channel advertises the pool as $1,250,000; the organiser has not published a breakdown reconciling the two figures, so we report both, as we did when the MongolZ were knocked out in the group stage.
One tier further down, 5star eSports and the CIS side magic took $42,000 each for seventh-eighth — ending, for 5star, a run that began when they came through the Asian qualifier to claim the final slot in the field.
How to watch FISSURE Playground 3
English-language coverage runs on FISSURE's own Kick channels — fissure_cs_a for the primary stage and fissure_cs_b for the secondary one. Both semi-finals and the grand final are listed on the primary stream.
Chinese-language coverage is distributed through Huya, Douyin and Douyu rather than any Western platform. Russian and Brazilian Portuguese broadcasts run on BetBoom's channels: Twitch, YouTube and VK for the Russian stream, Kick for the Brazilian one. Check the stream listing on the event page rather than an organisation's pinned social links, which frequently point at the wrong platform.
Away from Suzhou, Valve has kept shipping to the live game during the event — the most recent patch encrypted demo chat and fixed Cache spawns, including the map MIBR closed their quarter-final on.
FAQ
Who is in the FISSURE Playground 3 semi-finals? Legacy, MIBR, BetBoom Team and G2 Esports. Legacy play MIBR and BetBoom play G2, both on Saturday 12 September.
When is the FISSURE Playground 3 grand final? Sunday 13 September at 17:00 China time (09:00 UTC), played as a best-of-five.
Who won the FISSURE Playground 3 quarter-finals? G2 Esports beat FURIA 2-0 (16-14 Ancient, 13-3 Dust II) and MIBR beat Alliance 2-0 (13-4 Inferno, 13-9 Cache) on 11 September.
What is the FISSURE Playground 3 prize pool? The published breakdown distributes $1,000,000, with $300,000 to the champion. FISSURE advertises the event at $1,250,000 and has not published a reconciliation of the two figures.
Where is FISSURE Playground 3 being held? The SND Cultural and Sports Centre in Suzhou, China, from 8 to 13 September 2026.
Sources
FISSURE Playground 3 event bracket, prize table and stream listing via the Liquipedia MediaWiki API, and Field Level Media's 11 September wire report. Retrieved 12 September 2026, 06:23 UTC.
