TYLOO were one best-of-three away from a strong position in the race for the PGL Major Singapore, and they never played it. The Chinese side forfeited their HyperX Retake Season 13 quarter-final against Metizport in Lisbon on 31 October so they could travel to IEM Beijing. That decision has all but handed the last Asian Major spot to Lynn Vision.
Before the quarter-final, HLTV’s invite prediction gave TYLOO a 68% chance of reaching Singapore. The forfeit cut that to 17%, and by the eve of the cutoff HLTV’s Asia tracker had TYLOO on 2.2% and Lynn Vision on 98.5%. Lynn Vision did not play a single match to get there. Invites come from the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) published on 2 November, so nothing is official until Valve’s numbers are out, but neither team has a match left that could change them.
How one forfeit flipped the Asian Major race
Asia has five places at the Singapore Major. Four of them were settled before the weekend: The MongolZ, BC.Game, FlyQuest and Chinggis Warriors had all clinched. That left one spot and two Chinese teams chasing it, TYLOO and Lynn Vision.
TYLOO’s route ran through Lisbon. Season 13 is the last VRS LAN on the HyperX Retake circuit this year, and registration was open to any team willing to pay the €1,000 entry fee. TYLOO signed up, made it out of the groups and drew Metizport in the quarter-finals. A win there, and a deeper run after it, would have given them the ranking points to stay ahead of Lynn Vision when the standings froze.
That is why Lisbon carried so much weight. Neither TYLOO nor Lynn Vision had another match scheduled before the cutoff, so Lynn Vision’s total was already fixed. TYLOO’s was the only number in the race that could still move, and the Retake playoffs were the last place it could move upwards.
The match never took place. On 31 October the organisers announced that TYLOO and Natus Vincere (NAVI) had both pulled out: “NAVI & TYLOO have decided to forfeit their upcoming matches due to scheduling conflicts. As a result, their respective opponents will advance directly to the semifinals.” Metizport went through on a 1-0 forfeit, and NAVI’s playoff opponents, WhiteBIT Academy, advanced the same way. NAVI’s Major place never depended on a Retake result, so their withdrawal changes nothing for them.
Lynn Vision spent the weekend at home and watched their chances climb from about one in five to near certainty. It is not the first time a TYLOO withdrawal has worked in their favour, either. The Yuqilin Pinnacle of Battle Season 3 title went to Lynn Vision after TYLOO pulled out of the final over medical issues.
For the full list of who is already in, see our PGL Major Singapore 2026 hub.
Why TYLOO picked Beijing over Lisbon
IEM Beijing runs from 2 to 8 November at the Bloomage Biotech Biohyalux ECM Arena, with 16 teams playing for a $1,250,000 prize pool. TYLOO are in Group B and open against MOUZ. For a Chinese organisation, a home IEM with a seven-figure prize pool is one of the biggest dates of the year, and the team could not play a quarter-final in Portugal on 31 October and still arrive in Beijing ready for MOUZ.
The calendar did TYLOO no favours. The VRS cutoff for Singapore falls on 2 November, the shortest gap yet between a cutoff and a Major. Earlier cutoffs came about two months before the event; this one lands roughly three weeks before Stage 1, and on the opening day of IEM Beijing. Any team entered in both events had to choose between a guaranteed big-stage appearance and a few more ranking points in Lisbon. TYLOO chose Beijing. We covered the new deadline when PGL confirmed it in our breakdown of the Singapore Major dates and VRS cutoff.
Going into the weekend, TYLOO were 32nd on HLTV and 59th in the global VRS. In a region where only five teams qualify, a handful of points separates a Major invite from watching it on stream, and Lynn Vision were close enough for one missed series to settle it.
There is a case for the trip. A good run in Beijing against MOUZ and the rest of Group B is worth real prize money, and it carries more weight with fans at home than a Retake playoff ever could. The cost is that a Major place cannot be won back once the standings lock. The PGL Major Singapore has 32 teams and a $1,250,000 prize pool, and TYLOO will most likely follow it from the outside.
HLTV already lists Lynn Vision among the five Asian teams expected in Singapore. Valve publishes the cutoff standings on 2 November, the same day TYLOO begin their IEM Beijing campaign.
