Valve hands out the PGL Major Singapore invitations from its Regional Standings on 2 November. Outside Bucharest, the last week of the race runs through Barcelona, Belgrade, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and a bring-your-own-computer hall in Kettering. Eternal Fire and Imperial arrive with fresh titles, while Luminosity have booked two events in four days.
Three teams have lifted trophies since Friday with a Major place in mind. Eternal Fire won DraculaN Season 7 in Bucharest, Imperial took Circuit X Curitiba Season 4 in Brazil, and Virtus.pro won the WINLINE MPKBK CIS LAN. Only one of them is now likely to travel to Singapore. In HLTV’s invite simulator, which plays out every remaining match up to the cut-off 1,500 times, Imperial stood at 85.0% on Monday morning, Eternal Fire at 6.3% and Virtus.pro at 1.1%.
The squeeze is hardest in Europe, where 14 of the 18 places are all but decided and 16 teams are fighting over the other four. In the Americas, six of the nine places are settled and seven teams chase the last three. The teams at PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 play for their own chances there this week. For the rest, these are the final stops.
| Team | Last event | Last stop before the cut-off | Invite chance |
|---|---|---|---|
 Imperial | Circuit X Curitiba S4, 1st | Gamers Club Masters VII, São Paulo | 85.0% |
 FaZe | DraculaN S7, 5th to 6th | RLG Tesla Cup, Belgrade | 74.9% |
 paiN | Circuit X Curitiba S4, 2nd | Gamers Club Masters VII, São Paulo | 22.7% |
 Luminosity | DraculaN S7, no series won | RLG Tesla Cup, Belgrade, and EPIC49, Kettering | 10.2% |
| Nemesis | WINLINE MPKBK CIS LAN S9, 2nd | Stake Ranked Episode 5, Barcelona | 10.0% |
 Eternal Fire | DraculaN S7, 1st | Stake Ranked Episode 5, Barcelona | 6.3% |
 Virtus.pro | WINLINE MPKBK CIS LAN S9, 1st | No event in the simulation | 1.1% |
Eternal Fire need a final in Barcelona
Eternal Fire came through the lower bracket at the Nexus Esports Hub and beat SINNERS 2-1 in a grand final that started on Friday evening and finished after midnight. SINNERS won their own pick, Mirage, 13-6. Eternal Fire answered with a 4-0 overtime on Cache for 16-12 and closed the series 16-14 on Ancient, again after 12-12 in regulation. Vladyslav “Kvem” Korol led the final with 62 kills and 89.7 ADR, and the title was worth $14,000.
Eternal Fire2-1SINNERSStatsMirage 6-13, Cache 16-12, Ancient 16-14
| Eternal Fire | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kvem | 62-47 | +15 | 89.7 | 80.5% |
 jottAAA | 57-50 | +7 | 76.6 | 70.1% |
 MisteM | 53-46 | +7 | 68.9 | 68.8% |
 regali | 38-46 | -8 | 57.4 | 67.5% |
| soulfly | 47-58 | -11 | 68.7 | 68.8% |
| SINNERS | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 kisserek | 61-51 | +10 | 85.8 | 72.7% |
| MoDo | 52-46 | +6 | 68.4 | 71.4% |
 stressarN | 46-52 | -6 | 66.8 | 72.7% |
 SHOCK | 45-54 | -9 | 70.1 | 71.4% |
| beastik | 42-56 | -14 | 59.5 | 62.3% |
DraculaN Season 7 also set a viewing mark. It peaked at 172,000 viewers, a record for the series, and the most watched match was FaZe against BC.Game.
The trophy moved Eternal Fire from 1% a week ago to 6.3% in HLTV’s simulator, but it still projects them to finish 25th in Europe. Their last chance is Stake Ranked Episode 5 in Barcelona from 27 to 30 October: eight teams, $100,000, double elimination and a best-of-five grand final. The simulator puts Eternal Fire at 48% if they reach that final, 6% with third place and below 1% with anything worse. They open against MIBR in the upper bracket quarter-final on .
VRS analyst Jesper “Udknud” Larsen is more optimistic. His model, published after the DraculaN final, had Eternal Fire at 10.9% before Barcelona and at 94.1% with the title. He also spelled out the maths of the event. Astralis and MIBR are already sure of their places, and “6 out of 8 teams at Stake Ranked would very likely take a major spot with an event win”. At most two of those six can reach the final.
Eternal Fire and Nemesis are the long shots among them. In HLTV’s numbers, a place in the grand final is worth 84.6% to Inner Circle, 79.9% to BIG, 78.4% to magic and 72.9% to fnatic, against 48.4% for Eternal Fire and 38.4% for Nemesis. BIG open against magic on .
Room for error in São Paulo
Imperial’s position is the opposite. They beat paiN 2-0 in the Curitiba final on Sunday night, and their in-game leader Vinicius “VINI” Figueiredo went 43-24 in a series that Pley covered in full. A week ago their chance was 54%. Now it is 85.0%, seventh on HLTV’s Americas list, where the top nine are invited.
Imperial2-0paiNStatsAnubis 13-7, Cache 13-9
| Imperial | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 VINI | 43-24 | +19 | 99.4 | 71.4% |
| saadzin | 25-21 | +4 | 64.0 | 76.2% |
| chelo | 29-27 | +2 | 82.4 | 71.4% |
| noway | 28-26 | +2 | 67.5 | 78.6% |
| decenty | 19-21 | -2 | 50.1 | 73.8% |
| paiN | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snow | 38-29 | +9 | 95.3 | 78.6% |
| saffee | 27-27 | 0 | 64.8 | 69.0% |
| biguzera | 26-31 | -5 | 74.5 | 69.0% |
| Rkzinho | 15-27 | -12 | 48.1 | 52.4% |
| Tatu | 13-30 | -17 | 40.9 | 61.9% |
Gamers Club Masters VII, an eight-team event in São Paulo from 29 October to 1 November with $30,000 on offer, is the last step. According to Dust2 Brasil, a top-three finish is all Imperial need. HLTV’s simulator is close to that reading: third place leaves them at 81%, a place in the final at 92% or more, and fourth place drops them to 53%.
paiN go to the same event at 22.7%. A title would take them to 65%, second place to 28%. DENDELE, the other Brazilian side in the fight, are in Bucharest. Further south, Wildcard (58.4%) and NRG (43.6%) play FiRe Last Chance in Buenos Aires, a 16-team, $75,000 event over the same four days. A top-four finish there is worth 80.6% to Wildcard and 61.1% to NRG.
Two events in four days for Luminosity
Luminosity have fallen the furthest. A week ago HLTV’s simulator gave them 44%. Now they are at 10.2%, as older results drop out of their six-month window and after a DraculaN campaign in which they lost both their series, 0-2 to BBL and 1-2 to Nexus. The international roster, led by Brazilian captain Lucas “lux” Meneghini, is ranked in Europe.
Their first chance is the RLG Tesla Cup in Belgrade from 27 to 29 October, an eight-team, $50,000 event with FaZe and B8 in the field. Luminosity open against HOTU on . A title would lift them to 61% in the simulator, while second place is worth only 5%.
On Saturday evening, Luminosity also appeared on the team list for EPIC49, the bring-your-own-computer LAN in Kettering from 30 October to 1 November, with one player registered so far. BIG did the same a day earlier. Thirty-two teams have signed up, which puts the prize pool at £5,250 with £2,750 for the winner. HLTV lists EPIC49 as a ranked event, but its teams are not yet confirmed, so the event is not part of the simulation. Udknud wrote about BIG’s sign-up that EPIC.LAN has low event weight and offers little more than points for LAN wins.
The calendar is tight. The Tesla Cup final is on Thursday, and EPIC49’s group stage starts on . As Dust2 Brasil points out, a run to the final in Belgrade would mean flying straight from Serbia to England.
A title too late for Virtus.pro
Virtus.pro beat Nemesis 3-2 in the WINLINE MPKBK CIS LAN final on Friday with Robert “Patsi” Isyanov as a stand-in. The win was worth 176 points and 25 places in HLTV’s estimate of Valve’s standings, but it came too late. The simulator has Virtus.pro at 1.1%, with no event left that can lift them much.
Virtus.pro3-2NemesisCache 7-13, Mirage 13-10, Ancient 7-13, Dust2 13-11, Nuke 13-8The defeat hurt Nemesis more. They had been one map from a title that would have kept them in the hunt, and they are now at 10.0%. Like Eternal Fire, they need a deep run in Barcelona, where they open against Inner Circle on Tuesday.
Asia’s last three places
In Asia, two of the five places are settled. Lynn Vision (93.4%) and Chinggis Warriors (80.7%) play the four-team MESA Pro Series Halloween Cup in Ulaanbaatar from Tuesday, where a title would also lift 5star from 24.0% to 88%. FlyQuest sit sixth in the region at 31.3% and need others to slip.
The invitations follow the standings on 2 November, and Stage 1 of the PGL Major Singapore 2026 begins on 24 November.
