Team Spirit coach Timur Ahilles Kulmukhametov has suggested that the club may have deliberately moved Denis 'Larl' Sigitov to the bench in order to try a starting lineup with Marat 'Mirele' Gazetdinov. On his Telegram channel the coach also conceded that Larl might indeed be dealing with personal matters that required him to take a break from competition.

FOKUS captured the Urban Riga Open Season 3 LAN title with a 2-0 victory over Phantom, prevailing in two tense maps that both required extra time: Ancient finished 22-20 and Nuke ended 16-13.

On January 3 at 20:49, it was reported that the iLTW team was defeated by 1win Team and consequently exited the BLAST Slam VI qualifying tournament.