Replay-verified FNCS 2026 Major 2 · Grand Finals
The Duo Desk
Replay-verified duo reports from the ELITE data desk. Every number below was parsed from Epic's server-side tournament replays of the Grand Finals — 24 games, both regions — and checked against the official leaderboard. No estimates, no vibes.
01// Featured duels
Two duos, one verdict
Head-to-head reports: same lobby or same drop, two duos, and the replays deciding who actually played it better.
The Shaken Sanctuary duel · NAC vs EU
Eomzo + Josh vs Fredoxie + Marius
Two duos, one per region, dropped the same Shaken Sanctuary spot in all 12 of their games — a natural experiment in what a drop is worth. Elite EomzoӜ + elite josh 19ǃ turned it into 509 points, a 14.3 average placement, and an 11-elim Game 7 Victory Royale. Fredoxie0452 + M8 MariusCOW left with 150 points, a 26.3 average, and a best finish of 15th.
509 vs 150
14.3 vs 26.3
1 vs 0
One win each, opposite builds · NAC
VictеrV + queasy444 vs Curve + Higgsǃ
Two one-win NAC duos built the opposite way: the low-mileage damage duo around DIG VictеrV against the highest-mileage grind duo in the event. KoS Curve + XSET Higgsǃ opened with a 12-elim Victory Royale — the highest-elim win of all 12 NAC games — and finished 4th on 525. VictеrV + queasy444 won Game 2 and landed 11th on 405.
4th vs 11th
525 vs 405
12 vs 7
02// The dossiers
Six duos, fully audited
One report per duo: every game, every drop, every elimination — with the standings verified against Epic's official leaderboard.
AG Scroll 10ǃ + AG Sky.
Four wins, all with the Victory Crown, a 158-point margin — and the #1 and #2 survival clocks in the entire 200-player field.
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twis acоrn + twis boltzZzero0
NAC champions by 33 — field-best 9.0 average placement, and the endgame literally came home to their POI for the title-sealing G11 win.
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GEN ritualx 9ǃ + twis cold 11ǃ
Second in NAC without winning a game — the biggest winless points haul in either region, carried 67/33 by cold and the cheapest rotation POI on the map.
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GEN aj + XSET veno5x
veno5x led the GF with 35 elims and the duo’s 64 team elims topped both regions — a podium built almost half out of elim points.
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KoS Curve + XSET Higgsǃ
Opened with the biggest single game of the whole GF — a 12-elim, 113-point win — then fought the worst storm luck in NAC while walking a field top-4 67km/65km.
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falcon peterbotǃ + falcon pollo 10ǃ
pollo won the GF damage crown (10,814) and the duo out-damaged everyone by 2,700+ — and still finished 7th after a Day-2 collapse.
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Every stat from every angle — both regions, all 24 games, from elim leaders to storm luck.
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The Frosted Flats paradox
One POI, four duos, 732 / 617 / 138 / 38 points — both regional champions and the two winless duos at the other end of the ledger came out of the same flats.
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Plan your drop and your exit — the part of the strategy these reports keep proving actually scores points.
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The ELITE data desk parses Epic's public server-side tournament replays — movement traces, zone telemetry, the kill feed, and a replay-derived damage model. Players are tracked by account id, because display names change mid-event. As a sanity check, computed series points were verified against Epic's official leaderboard and matched for all 100 duos.
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