FISSURE Universe: Episode 8 — Dota 2
finishedWon by Aurora Gaming, runner-up Team Spirit.
- game
Dota 2- dates
- Jan 29 – Feb 1 2026
- tier
- 2
- location
- Europe
- teams
- 8
Against the season
5.3
average season-table rank of Aurora Gaming’s opponents
the 4th hardest path of 28 season events; 4 of 4 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Yandex (3rd): finished 3
39 min
median map, Radiant 47.2%
season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps
Season-table ranks of 5 of 8 field clubs, of 17median 5
The thick mark is Aurora Gaming, 4th in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
$0 — the place pays nothing: 2 rows of 8.
Champion
$125,000
first-place prize
9–3
Aurora Gaming maps here, won–lost
75.0% of maps here, 60.7% over the season
9.6% of Aurora Gaming’s season prize money: its 4th-largest payout of 20; the biggest: PGL Wallachia Season 8 ($175,000); the same at Esports World Cup 2025
On the roster at the start: Nightfall, Mikoto, Ws, Mira, kaori
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
50.0%
first place
$125,000 of the $250,000 allocated
92.0%
top half of the rows
top 4 rows of 8 · $230,000
×2.1
first place to second
$125,000 against $60,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 24 of 47 events; median 46.5%.
The same pool is announced for 4 other events this season, so all 5 share rank 25.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
It is Aurora Gaming’s only title of the season, after 9 tournaments without one — the 5th-longest wait among the season’s 44 titles. In our season table of 17 clubs, it ranks 4th by win rate; from this field only Team Yandex ranks higher, and it finished 3rd here. The club won the series at its 4th edition this season, having finished 3rd at FISSURE Universe: Episode 5, 5th–6th at FISSURE Universe: Episode 6 and 5th–6th at FISSURE Universe: Episode 7.
Maps played
36 maps · as of Oct 18, 2026, 06:44 UTC
The 10 latest of 36 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 70 min;
Maps as of Oct 18, 2026. No map of this tournament has a per-player breakdown.
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Aurora Gaming won FISSURE Universe Episode 8 without losing a series, but the final was as close as it gets. Aurora had already beaten Team Spirit 2–0 on January 31; a day later Spirit came back through Team Yandex to meet them again and led the best-of-five 2–1 after winning two maps in a row.
Aurora answered with two wins, the deciding map in 32 minutes, and took the title 3–2 along with $125,000, half the pool. It was the club’s only title of the season — the start of a spring in which it went on to lose three big finals.
The event moved fast in places: Team Liquid closed one map against BetBoom Team in 19 minutes, the shortest game of the four days, while BetBoom needed 70 minutes for its decider against _PowerRangers.