TYLOO gave up their HyperX Retake quarter-final to reach IEM Beijing in time, and the walkover now looks likely to cost them a place at PGL Major Singapore 2026.
TYLOO and NAVI have both withdrawn from the playoffs of HyperX Retake Season 13 in Lisbon, and HLTV reports that TYLOO are now expected to miss the Singapore Major. Their chance of an invite was 68% before the quarter-final and 17% after the forfeit to Metizport, in HLTV’s invite prediction. For NAVI, the withdrawal changes nothing.
The organisers announced the news on X on Saturday morning. NAVI and TYLOO “have decided to forfeit their upcoming matches due to scheduling conflicts”, HyperX Retake wrote, and their opponents, WBT Academy and Metizport, go straight to the semi-finals. NAVI said they had pulled out “to ensure we can arrive in time for IEM Beijing 2026”.
TYLOO had not commented on their own X account by Saturday morning.
Lisbon to Beijing in a day
The schedule was tight from the start. HyperX Retake runs in Lisbon from 29 October to 1 November, and IEM Beijing begins on 2 November. Both teams play on the opening day in China: NAVI meet Team Falcons and TYLOO face MOUZ, both at , which is 17:30 in Beijing. The Retake final is on Sunday, the day before. HLTV pointed out on 20 October that NAVI had stayed signed up for Lisbon after the deadline to pull out, even though the event ended less than a day before Beijing.
The organisers gave the schedule as the only reason, and neither team has said more than that. TYLOO played the group stage in Lisbon without their AWPer Jee, who was ruled out of PGL Masters Bucharest with chickenpox on Monday. Head coach zhokiNg again stood in. Whether Jee’s absence played any part in the decision has not been stated.
TYLOO2-0ZOTIXAnubis 13-3, Mirage 13-5TYLOONuke 16-14, Inferno 8-13, Ancient 13-5How a walkover costs a Major place
Valve hands out the Major invitations from its Valve Regional Standings (VRS) on 2 November. Asia has five places: the top team goes straight to Stage 2, and the next four start in Stage 1. The model looks back six months, and results lose weight as they age, so a team that stops collecting wins slides while others hold their ground.
A forfeit is the worst of both. In HLTV’s version of Valve’s model, the walkover counts as a loss to Metizport. TYLOO went from 1,275 points on 30 October to 1,248 on 31 October, while Metizport climbed from 1,231 to 1,254. Lynn Vision and Chinggis Warriors dropped only seven and six points over the same day. On Friday TYLOO were above both of them. On Saturday they were below.
| # | Team | VRS points | Invite chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The MongolZ | 1,552 | Clinched (Stage 2) |
| 2 |  BC.Game | 1,323 | Clinched |
| 3 |  FlyQuest | 1,298 | Clinched |
| 4 |  Lynn Vision | 1,262 | 93.3% |
| 5 |  Chinggis Warriors | 1,258 | Clinched |
| 6 | TYLOO | 1,248 | 5.5% |
| 7 | 5star | 1,177 | 2.4% |
The fall has been quick. In Valve’s last published standings, from 5 October, TYLOO were first in Asia with 1,340 points. Since then they went 1-3 at PGL Masters Bucharest, where a 2-1 win over 9z was followed by a 2-0 defeat to FURIA, and then lost to Iberian Soul in their opening match in Lisbon.
Lynn Vision the likely beneficiaries
The place TYLOO are set to lose most likely goes to Lynn Vision, who sit 14 points ahead of them and have no more matches before the cutoff. Neither do TYLOO, according to HLTV, which means the order is unlikely to change. That would give Asia’s five places to The MongolZ, BC.Game, FlyQuest, Chinggis Warriors and Lynn Vision. 5star keep a small outside chance in the simulator.
BC.Game had a poor week in Lisbon too, with a 1-2 loss to Metizport and a 0-2 quarter-final defeat to OG, but they had built up enough of a cushion to stay safe.
None of this is final. HLTV’s figures are a simulation of Valve’s model, and the places are only settled when Valve publishes its standings for 2 November and the invitations for Singapore are confirmed.
NAVI were already safe
NAVI’s walkover against WBT Academy carries no such risk. They have 1,593 points and sit tenth in Europe, which has 18 places, and HLTV’s simulator has them clinched, with a 98.8% chance of starting in Stage 2. Ten days ago their place was far from certain: HLTV noted then that the team had slipped to 30th in the VRS, and Lisbon was meant as a safety net.
Since then NAVI have reached the quarter-finals in Bucharest, where Vitality knocked them out, and beat Toobisie 2-0 in Lisbon on Friday. Aleksib said in Bucharest that NAVI never celebrated their Singapore place, and in Beijing on Monday they play without anything left to prove on the VRS.
