Gentle Mates starts IstanbuLAN with a win; G2 Ares suffers early exit
The $25,000 LAN tournament in Istanbul, the IstanbuLAN 2026 kicked off earlier today with the round of 16 matches getting things going. The opening round of games saw Gentle Mates pick up a comfortable win while G2 Ares went down to home team Bushido Wildcats in their opening game.
Gentle Mates keeps it clean against gothboiclique
Spanish team Gentle Mates kicked off their game against Turkish team gothboiclique on the home team's pick of Anubis and after a tight opening half that saw Gentle Mates take a two round lead, it was a lopsided close to the map. A near flawless CT half from the Spanish team saw them race to a 13-6 win with MartinezSa and mopoz on top of the scoreboard with 20 and 19 kills respectively.
Inferno was a similar story as it was a tied opening half to get things going before a strong CT half, led by the trio of mopoz, MartinezSa and sausol, saw Gentle Mates close things out at 13-9.
Gentle Mates| Gentle Mates |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano |
37 - 21 | +16 | 91.7 | 80.5% | 1.57 |
| Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez |
35 - 17 | +18 | 81.3 | 78.0% | 1.34 |
| David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo |
29 - 20 | +9 | 78.6 | 82.9% | 1.29 |
| Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell |
33 - 23 | +10 | 81.4 | 90.2% | 1.26 |
| Alejandro 'alex' Masanet |
27 - 25 | +2 | 78.8 | 82.9% | 1.17 |
| K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cüneyd 'hatex' Baş |
27 - 30 | -3 | 74.9 | 63.4% | 1.07 |
| Alinur 'maxy0y0' Yurderi |
23 - 30 | -7 | 60.7 | 65.9% | 0.83 |
| Efe 'KatzRead' Seğmen |
19 - 31 | -12 | 59.3 | 61.0% | 0.80 |
| Emir 'hey' Erçelik |
19 - 34 | -15 | 57.7 | 58.5% | 0.60 |
| Emre 'SprinT' Ertürk Koca |
18 - 36 | -18 | 46.8 | 56.1% | 0.58 |
G2 Ares sent home early
G2 Ares, G2's Academy team, took on another Turkish team, Bushido Wildcats in their Round of 16 game with the Turkish team kicking things off with a strong T side on their pick of Mirage. A 9-3 lead on Mirage was not wasted as the Vej show on Mirage saw the Wildcats take a 13-6 win with Vej on top of the scoreboard with 25 kills.
Bushido Wildcats got off to another hot start, on G2 Ares' pick of Anubis and a four round lead at the break was enough as Vej topped the scoreboard again, this time for a 13-7 win to see Bushido Wildcats close the series in two.
Bushido WildcatsG2 Ares| Bushido Wildcats |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orhan 'Vej' Yunus Hamarat |
48 - 24 | +24 | 122.3 | 84.6% | 1.95 |
| Enes 'eNs' Göl |
27 - 20 | +7 | 66.9 | 76.9% | 1.31 |
| Tunahan 'scolleN' Coşkun |
26 - 24 | +2 | 77.7 | 82.1% | 1.18 |
| Ahmet 'Darendeli' Şengül |
26 - 27 | -1 | 72.7 | 69.2% | 0.98 |
| Kadir 'cadnyx' Tuncay |
24 - 22 | +2 | 66.4 | 84.6% | 0.95 |
| G2 Ares |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Artur 'hitori' Palyants |
32 - 30 | +2 | 89.8 | 71.8% | 1.30 |
 Vilius 'tAk' Keserauskas |
28 - 33 | -5 | 80.4 | 66.7% | 0.92 |
 Julius 'Junyme' Meyhoff |
26 - 29 | -3 | 69.0 | 56.4% | 0.82 |
 Juho 'yksjupe' Viitasalo |
15 - 31 | -16 | 52.3 | 61.5% | 0.63 |
 Casper 'SHiNE' Wennerberg |
16 - 30 | -14 | 48.1 | 61.5% | 0.61 |
The third game of the day, between Inner Circle and Misa saw Misa pick up a comfortable win as Inner Circle withdrew from the event due to travel constraints.
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