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MOUZ defeated Team Falcons 3-1 to win the $1.25 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 title in Romania on Sunday.

MOUZ claimed the event's top prize of $400,000, while the Falcons settled for $187,500.

Earlier in the day, Astralis defeated FaZe Clan 2-1 in the third-place match.

Sixteen teams started the competition on Feb. 14. The top eight teams advanced through the group stage to a single-elimination playoff bracket. All matches were best-of-three until Sunday's best-of-five grand final.

MOUZ and the Falcons split the first two maps. MOUZ won 13-6 on Dust II, but the Falcons took Mirage 13-4. The next two maps were closer calls, with MOUZ winning 13-11 on Nuke and 13-9 on Ancient.

Dorian 'xertioN' Berman of Israel led the winner with 64 kills and a plus-13 in kills vs. deaths. Teammate and countryman Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi was at 61 and plus-12. Rene 'TeSeS' Madsen of Denmark paced the Falcons with 63 kills and a plus-10.

The earlier match began with high drama as FaZe Clan won the first map, Mirage, 28-24 in quintuple overtime. Astralis recovered to win 13-8 on Inferno and clinch on Ancient 13-9.

Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard led the all-Danish Astralis squad with a whopping 82 kills and a plus-27. Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski of the U.S. led FaZe with 73 kills, and David 'frozen' Cernansky of Slovakia was the only team member to have a plus figure at plus-1.

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 prize pool:

1. $400,000 -- MOUZ

2. $187,500 -- Team Falcons

3. $150,000 -- Astralis

4. $87,500 -- FaZe Clan

5-8. $62,500 -- SAW, Eternal Fire, paiN Gaming, The MongolZ

9-11. $31,250 -- 3DMAX, BIG, Virtus.pro

12-14. $18,750 -- Complexity, Wildcard, MIBR

15-16. $12,500 - FlyQuest, Imperial Female

--Field Level Media