PARIVISION win DreamLeague Season 29 over Aurora Gaming

PARIVISION are DreamLeague Season 29 champions. They beat regional rivals Aurora Gaming 3-2 in the grand final to close out the $1 million event, and they did it in the way fans have been starved for lately: a full best-of-five that went the distance. Game 5s in tier-one finals are rare. This one earned it.

The win is worth $290,000 to PARIVISION, split into $250,000 for the players and $40,000 for the org. More importantly, it is their first trophy of the 2025-2026 season. It is also their second DreamLeague title, after they won Season 26 last June.

PARIVISION’s near-flawless DreamLeague Season 29 run

PARIVISION dropped exactly one series all tournament, and it was not in the playoffs. Their only stumble came in the group stage against Peruvian side PlayTime, an upset that still left them second in Group B at 6-1.

From there it was clinical. They won three straight 2-1 series through the upper bracket: Team Liquid in the quarters, then defending TI champions Team Falcons in the semis, then Team Spirit in the upper bracket final. Beating Falcons and Spirit back to back ends any argument about whether this team is a real contender.

The Puppey factor

You cannot talk about this one without Clement “Puppey” Ivanov. He joined PARIVISION as coach back in January, after eleven years with Team Secret. A slow start to the season had people asking whether the move made sense. A DreamLeague trophy is a fairly direct answer.

How much of the playoff sharpness traces back to him is impossible to measure from the outside. Still, the team went from underwhelming to nearly untouchable in the upper bracket, and the timing lines up neatly with his arrival.

Aurora pushed them to the limit

Credit to Aurora Gaming, who came in as the fourth seed from Group A and had no business making the final this close. First, they swept Team Spirit in the lower bracket final. Then they stole games 2 and 4 off PARIVISION with a teamfight-heavy, HP-sustaining style.

Game 5 was where it slipped away. Aurora gambled on a Necrophos carry against PARIVISION’s Gyrocopter, Axe and Pangolier. However, PARIVISION refused to fight on Aurora’s terms. They picked off targets and let Satanic’s Gyrocopter come online, and he finished the decider 8-0-7. A clean sheet in a grand final is a statement.

The International is next

The bigger picture: this result all but guarantees PARIVISION a direct invite to The International 2026. The invites are coming, and they just made the loudest possible case to land near the top of the list.

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