A 23-year-old from Chile just put South American Counter-Strike back on the map. Matías “HUASOPEEK” Ibañez Hernandez led 9z to a 5th-8th place finish at the IEM Cologne Major 2026, posting an individual rating of 1.04 across the tournament and collecting $45,000 in prize money for his squad.
The road through Cologne
9z’s path through the Major was anything but a cakewalk. The team navigated Stage 3 with a pair of hard-fought 2-1 victories over Vitality and PARIVISION. The run ended on June 18, 2026, when FURIA dispatched 9z with a 2-1 scoreline in the quarterfinals.
HUASOPEEK’s 1.04 rating might not look flashy on paper. But maintaining a rating above 1.00 at a Major, where every opponent is operating at peak performance, signals that a player is consistently winning more duels than they’re losing. For an entry fragger, the role most likely to die first in any given round, that number carries extra weight.
Who is HUASOPEEK?
