16-year-old Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) participant Liam ‘MaiL09‘ Tügel is on monitor to turn out to be the youngest FACEIT champion within the historical past of the platform.
On September 2nd, 2025, the Metizport rifler climbed to the highest of the worldwide leaderboards with an ELO ranking of 4,860.
MaiL09 is extensively thought to be a Counter-Strike prodigy, having represented the likes of GODSENT and Johnny Speeds in a number of regional competitions.
In June, the participant was a part of the roster that achieved victory at Svenska Elitserien Spring 2025, cementing his title as one in every of Sweden’s most fun younger skills.
The participant has performed over 3,500 FACEIT matches, incomes a win price of 57% to safe the highest spot on the platform’s international leaderboard, which options a number of skilled gamers, together with Crew Spirit rifler Ivan ‘zweih‘ Gogin.
In response to a FACEIT social media publish, MaiL09 is about to turn out to be the platform’s youngest-ever champion if he can keep his place on the high of the leaderboard till the top of the present season.
If he manages to realize the feat, the participant will break the report at present held by Danil ‘Donk’ Kryshkovets, who topped the Season 5 leaderboards with an ELO whole of 5,283 to beat the likes of Maksim ‘kyousuke‘ and Ilya ‘m0NESY‘ Osipov.
What Subsequent For MaiL09?
Whereas he’s not topping the FACEIT leaderboards, MaiL09 continues to compete in a number of on-line and offline CS2 tournaments beneath the Metizport banner.
Presently ranked 79th within the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), the group faces an upward climb to earn a spot within the high 32 and qualify for November’s StarLadder Budapest Main. The Norwegian organisation beforehand competed on the BLAST.television Austin Main, scoring a top-32 placement after being eradicated in Stage 1.
Metizport is about to compete in a number of Tier 2 occasions all through September, beginning with European Professional League Season 2 on the sixth and the second cup of ESL Challenger League Season 50, starting on the eighth.
