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Match preview · PGL Masters Bucharest 2026

Aurora vs The MongolZ — match preview

24 October at 09:00 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

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Best of 3 (LAN)

Aurora come in ranked #6 in the world, The MongolZ #21.

Aurora meet The MongolZ at PGL Masters Bucharest 2026. The model has not priced this one yet — it waits for the map veto, because which maps get played moves the number more than anything else on this page. What follows is what we already know about both teams.

Aurora — recent form

3 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

W vs Falcons — 2–1 18 October at 13:30

L vs FURIA — 0–2 17 October at 16:00

W vs 9z — 2–0 16 October at 16:00

W vs Ninjas in Pyjamas — 2–0 15 October at 10:35

L vs 9z — 0–2 14 October at 10:55

Across everything we have covered: Aurora won 15 of 24, and our own call was right in 17 of 24.

The MongolZ — recent form

1 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs 5star — 0–2 9 September at 05:00

L vs MIBR — 1–2 8 September at 07:30

L vs Falcons — 0–2 20 August at 13:00

W vs paiN — 2–0 16 August at 13:00

L vs Natus Vincere — 1–2 15 August at 13:00

Across everything we have covered: The MongolZ won 2 of 6, and our own call was right in 4 of 6.

Head to head

No meeting between Aurora and The MongolZ in our records yet — this is the first one we cover.

The map pool

Win, pick and ban rates over the last three months. This is where a series is often decided before it starts — a team can steer the veto onto a map the opponent rarely plays.

AuroraThe MongolZ
62%8 maps Cache -1 maps
67%9 maps Dust2 67%3 maps
64%14 maps Mirage 50%4 maps
50%10 maps Inferno 33%6 maps
71%7 maps Nuke 25%4 maps
-1 maps Ancient 67%3 maps
67%12 maps Anubis -0 maps

How they veto

The maps each side removes most often. Two teams that ban the same map hand the series to a third one neither wanted.

Aurora ban most often: Ancient 86%, Cache 29%, Inferno 28%

The MongolZ ban most often: Anubis 100%, Ancient 27%, Nuke 25%

Line-ups

Player rating: ★ top · high · average · low

Aurora
woxic woxic1.03
XANTARES XANTARES1.04
Wicadia Wicadia1.12
★ Jimpphat Jimpphat1.14
kyxsan kyxsan0.96
The MongolZ
nin9 nin91.07
bLitz bLitz1.04
Techno Techno0.89
910 9101.20
★ cobrazera cobrazera1.37

Also at PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 that day

FUT vs TYLOO 24 October at 09:00

When the prediction goes up

Our call publishes before kickoff, never after — that is the whole point of keeping a public record. When it does, this page fills in with the probability for each team, the per-map calls once the veto is done, and afterwards the result and whether we were right.

More on these teams

All Aurora predictions and results
All The MongolZ predictions and results

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