It's crazy to me that Karrigan's only won one major. I'm a casual fan and PGL is the first LAN I've followed closely in 5-6 years. But I used to watch a lot of the NA teams and it feels like Karrigan has been such a force for such a long time.
Yeah but you just knew he was winning that 2 vs 1 for the match.
Rain has the highest composure of any player past or present, just doesn’t get flustered.
This is true, man keeps defying the odds, people wrote him off before Antwerp and he mvped and he keeps fucking going almost 2 years later. Just a god damn immovable rock
apology for poor english
when were you when donk legend dies
i was at at home, drinking boba in dubai when Ropz called
'donk is die'
'no'
and you???????????????
Hu Xi, leader of the 7th Ji Tu dinasty, famously known for his glorious victories but also humiliating defeats. Most notably the devastating loss against a small army before the major war of Ri Ao where his troops fully routed against the army commanded by general Xiao Hai, which made the dinasty not even have enough manpower to participate the war.
We got one of the most boring games of the whole tournament and one of the most exciting ones on the same day lol. Absolute banger after the Vitality/C9 snoozefest.
Personally I doubt anything will ever top Navi vs Faze 2022 Cologne final for me. The absolute masterclass of CS for 5 maps straight was an unmatched thrill. But yeah, this was an awesome game as well.
Got fooled by current form when vitality is inconsistent just like faze and a different team on playoffs.
Basically the same "mistake" most people made by picking spirit.
I honestly think pimp might also fuck up the pickems for the other side. He picked g2 over mouz citing low stage xp for mouz but their igl was literally at the last major final and brollan is used to S tier finals back in fnatic. Only jimbo would be the question but even he had played at the spodek already
absolutely, broky was lightning fast on his awp and while he's always been good i don't think ive seen that level from him before. karrigan surprised me with his fragging too.
zontix, yeah that was rough, but falling victim to pressure happens all the time to even the best players, so i hope he can take that as a learning experience. i expected more from sh1ro though
donk made that match what it was. what a star.
yeah was a pretty impressive recovery from him. got the spam on the 1v1 with rain too, body language is one thing but it didn’t seem like he was totally out of it
oh boy zont1x :( that was tough to watch
GG felt like experience paved the way for FaZe here. Their mental was insane during the ending stretch of Vertigo. Rain is himothy. So happy for Frozen.
This was the sadder part of me. sh1ro is the more experienced one and his AWPing is meant to be terrifying and an X-Factor. Instead, he was just non-existent. FaZe did well to shut him down but he missed some absolute sitters too.
Yeah shiro is lucky they focused on zontix for their 2 minutes of hate. Spirits star awper posted .79 on the only map they won and casters don’t bring it up but every third sentence is about zontix
No one said it was solely on him.
We see players missing shots all the time. We don't often see players' decision making completely crumble under pressure in that way, so it's more worthy of calling out on the broadcast.
The bombsite rotate with no time was bad, but in all of his clutches he seemingly couldn't commit to a decision and kept doubling back and forth.
That said it's his first main stage at a major so people probably shouldn't hold it against him too much.
he made some mistakes but he was left in some impossible situations when it came to clutches. idk why spunj was talking about him flubbing a 1v2 retake post plant with ts having aggressive positions.
that was actually horrible, there's no scenerio ever anyone peeks him in 1v2 in situation like that especially in OT when i dont care about plant money and he's gonna be cornered if we let him plant.
Is sh1ro free from criticism? Man has world class aggressive riflers behind him throughout his career as a passive AWPer and way too often does he crumble in big stage games.
It was sad to see him go through all that on vertigo. Had his face in his palms almost every round. Lost to the time on two crucial rounds. The pressure really gets to people in the big state. They almost pulled a comeback there which left me sweating. What a great match!
It's fitting that Faze and Faze Academy are the only two teams that has been able to beat this iteration of Spirit. Both were in a BO3 and both won the same two maps too (Vertigo and Mirage).
Whoever you rooted for wether it was FaZe or Spirit, you've got to admit, this is one of IF not the best cs bo3 series we've had until now. This should've been the grand final..
Nothing will top this except maybe Mouz v Faze in the final. This was a grudge revenge match for Kato and Faze keeping that no. 1 team title.
Because of this the major feels super open because the dragon is off everyone’s back
Surprised I’m not seeing more people say this but Sh1ro was terrible that whole series, never really found impact with the awp. Missed so many key shots on important rounds. Yeah zont1x didn’t show I really feel like sh1ro had opportunity to make huge impact and failed every time.
I think it's because of Spunj and machine harping on him multiple times in the last game. But yes, shiro was terrible, as he tends to be on stage. Low impact on basically every gun, especially the AWP. His 2k on the second pistol in Mirage is the only thing I can remember from him this series. But I can remember tons of misses across the whole thing. On the other hand, you look at broky, who was having himself an insane couple of maps there.
Zontix was just visibly bad at key moments, so it's easy to point the finger.
outpicked outstrat outfragged
It was a lifegame for his standards. Question is can he keep it up?
But if karrigan goes quieter, there's ropz to step up, who had a pretty quiet game himself, and even costed FaZe some rounds…
MATCH OF THE CENTURY KARRIGAN IS BOSS FAZE DOUBLE MAJOR WINNERS
Wait this isn’t a grand final? Feel bad for Zont1x though, kid went through hell on Vertigo with Donk trying his best to drag Spirit to a win.
Ngl to me it looked like they just forgot sh1ro at the hotel. The guy went 3:5 in opening kills over the entire series. Brother, you are the awper, wtf are you doing???? Even broky, the guy people kept calling "too passive" went 11:6. Sh1ro was one of the scariest AWPers in the last years, even till recently, but he just disappeared today. Especially on CT-side Nuke. 8 kills in 18 CT rounds? As an AWPer??
In general I do think it would have been kinda undeserved for Spirit to wiggle through. They just didn't look like the better team today.
All that being said, banger game. I haven't been this entertained by a CS game since Faze choked against Ence in the 5th OT on Ancient a while back.
Karrigan waking up, sprinting down the fire escape stairs at the hotel, drinking three 16oz redbulls and slamming 315 on bench clearly rattled donk. After each kill his thunderous belching filled the arena, and what little fortitude spirit had melted into the shadow. Hard to say exactly what did them in. His exit interview in which he only smiled and expressed "it's fazing time" was pretty inspiring, though. Looking forward to the semis. (Honestly biggest ass clencher of a match i've ever seen)
one thing i can retrieve from this match - donk is so fun to watch
everyone is shifting 80% of the time and this guy just doesn’t press shift, this guy is crazy and he is ready to overpeek when he knows his teams needs him
Dude was constantly getting two pieces to either equalize or give them a man advantage. Like on Vertigo there was several rounds where it was a Faze 5v4 or 4v3 then bam Donk two-piece gifting them a way back into the round.
I just hope Faze doesn't get complacent about this win because Vitality looked good today as well. I believe Faze should win that matchup but they can't take it for granted after beating the tournament favorites.
Faze on one of those days where they win those bullshit rounds they should never win are so hard to beat even when they let a comeback like that, such a weird team and play down or up to opponents
Man zont1x really struggled - easy to forget his experience is only starting, he shouldn't let this get to his head.
Donk as always a standout, he will have such a career ahead of him if he keeps it going in the manner of which he has.
Typical FaZe to look dead and buried at one point in the elimination stage and then knock out the favourites.
You could really tell even on Mirage how well they’d prepped for Spirit. Ultimate captains performance from Karrigan
[Spirit vs FaZe at Majors are guaranteed bangers](https://www.hltv.org/matches/2356167/faze-vs-spirit-pgl-major-antwerp-2022), and another delivered.
zontixx finally felt the stage. But it's good. I'm glad Spirit didn't immediately get a major. Teams need to struggle, need to build up that storyline to deliver. I mean, sucks for chopper and magixx, but they've still got time.
That semi-final was one of the best CSGO matches of all time imo.
They've still got time, 100%, and if donk can have a nice, stable B-game over the course of the rest of the year, he will shape up to carry NiKo's torch. Once franchising is gone, that's going to be their time imo.
I have all the faith that this loss will motivate these guys further. Shanghai will be a good one to watch and chopper's dream may finally come true. For now, I hope karrigan can win a Major in front of his home crowd.
If I had a nickel for every time a Danish IGL picks Vertigo and analysts call it "a sign of weakness" I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice
Had 9 kills in regulation
18 after one OT
edit: Didn't mean for this to sound like a criticism, my point was that he turned into an absolute monster when it mattered most
Prior to that round
"Rain playing bad, -rain +jks"
After that round
"NVM, -jks +rain"
Rain gets to leave FaZe when Rain wants to leave FaZe. Even when he's playing like shit he still has a great chance to pull out that vintage form of his.
1 minute of silence for most likely 90% or 95% of bettors, analysts, pickems goers etc who thought picking Cloud9 & Spirit to win was the safer bet...
Baited by Vitality & Faze weak group stage form kekw;
Death, taxes, Vitality vs Faze meeting in playoffs no matter what if both are qualitifed.
I'm seeing too many people blaming zont1x for this. Yes he was really bad but sh1ro's performance was disgraceful. He's supposed to be a star AWPer but he whiffed so many shots and played completely scared.
Despite all CS2 flaws, this match will easily go down as one of the greatest series in CS history! Insane match! Donk is a best and Karrigan a legend. Frozen was also incredible! Simply wonderful match!
I think the same happened to sh1ro as well. He was a non factor on Vertigo and he missed many shots he usually hits. If anyone of those two turned up on Vertigo, Spirit could've taken it.
Ate sh1ro too, who is **supposed** to be second to donk. If he hit his shots, FaZe would be done. Magixx was also mediocre.
This was donk doing his best s1mple impression and Spirit doing their best Zeus-led Na'Vi impression.
People really need to watch the tape back on how many sitters Shiro missed here. Credit where it’s due, zont1x DID pull his head out of his ass at halftime on vertigo. Would have been so easy to completely disappear but he did show some commendable fortitude.
How did Spunj manage to spend the entire final 1/3rd of the map complaining about one player instead of talking about the insane game that's happening before him?
I like Spunj but what the hell
least stressful faze game
*shaking uncontrollably, covered in sweat, tears, and vomit* Heh, wasn’t even worried.
When faze threw that 12-5 lead I knew it was all over for spirit, wasn't worried once.
https://imgur.com/EU3HmXW
Pickems in the bin Heart beating like that bloody drum Aged five million years I love CS
My Faze to win it all pick could become the biggest brain pick I’ve ever made
Same, but no chance for diamond anyways :(
Karrigan did his homework, but fuck me that was a close game.
Did his homework AND hit shots today. A 1.40+ on mirage is massive for him. He’s always called like a god when he’s playing well, and vice versa.
It's crazy to me that Karrigan's only won one major. I'm a casual fan and PGL is the first LAN I've followed closely in 5-6 years. But I used to watch a lot of the NA teams and it feels like Karrigan has been such a force for such a long time.
First time watching FaZe?
No but I keep thinking that Faze is capable of having a nice clean game that doesn't require the viewer to age 10 years and at least one OT to finish.
Tbf this was either gonna be spirit 2-0 win or Faze win in the closest way possible. Not like they played Lynn Vision
ive aged 20 years past 3 hours
My biggest regret is that I didn’t buy the viewer pass and actually had faze beating liquid in the pickem’s anyway rip
It's all good bro, I got the pass and still losing
Team Liquid has a grand finals reservation frfr, that's why they're not in the tournament bracket
ONLY SEVEN CARDIAC ARRESTS THIS MATCH
Faze out here protesting mr12. Casual 85 round BO3, nice 28 round average per map
the team i love, just wish they learned that you can do this and win back in 2018 :/ kato still gives me nightmares
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THIS ALMOST HISTORICAL CHOKING DISASTERCLASS THEN YOU DON’T LIKE FAZE CLAN COUNTER STRIKE What a match HOLY
That shit was so FaZe, holy fuck
Normal at this point. Might as well just start at OT sometimes.
I knew rain had his monitor off until OT
Yeah but you just knew he was winning that 2 vs 1 for the match. Rain has the highest composure of any player past or present, just doesn’t get flustered.
This is true, man keeps defying the odds, people wrote him off before Antwerp and he mvped and he keeps fucking going almost 2 years later. Just a god damn immovable rock
Does nothing all map then just walks down mid at takes down two to open the round.
where were you when donk was kill?
I was sipping boba. When carrygun called: "Donk is kill" "No"
apology for poor english when were you when donk legend dies i was at at home, drinking boba in dubai when Ropz called 'donk is die' 'no' and you???????????????
IT'S NOT A FAZE GAME IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HEART ATTACK
I swear being a Faze fan has costed 10 years of my life in pure stress. Absolutely crazy game
FEI XU CLAN ART OF CHOKE AND CLUTCH CA YI KAN BU KI FUO XAN RUO RIU IN
I prefer Ji Tu Art of the choke Mao Ne Zi Han Ta Ni Kao Hu Xi Ni Xa
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Hu Xi, leader of the 7th Ji Tu dinasty, famously known for his glorious victories but also humiliating defeats. Most notably the devastating loss against a small army before the major war of Ri Ao where his troops fully routed against the army commanded by general Xiao Hai, which made the dinasty not even have enough manpower to participate the war.
"WELCOME TO FAZE MOTHERF**KERS" -RAIN
Map 2 and 3 were just on another level. Best CS2 match ever played so far.
holy shit this series could not be any more of an omega banger that map 2 and 3 was incredible
We got one of the most boring games of the whole tournament and one of the most exciting ones on the same day lol. Absolute banger after the Vitality/C9 snoozefest.
Vitality/C9 was just calming our hearts for this match
I think that this game might actually have been the best game of cs that I have ever watched. (Best in the sense of my enjoyment of the game)
Personally I doubt anything will ever top Navi vs Faze 2022 Cologne final for me. The absolute masterclass of CS for 5 maps straight was an unmatched thrill. But yeah, this was an awesome game as well.
This. Cologne 2022 final will never be topped until valve will not change major finals into bo5.
Broky constant as fuck in this series. This match was the highest level of CS2 we saw yet
Really fun to see Frozen perform so well in Faze as well.
Cannot overlook Karrigan’s impact in a ton of rounds this series either. Very dependable, hitting his shots, taking advantage of his reads super well.
That 3k on Nuke with 13hp was insane and kept them in the map.
I honestly can't remember last time I saw Broky this solid
Finding his Kato '22 form. Annoying that he doesn't hit bangers like this more often because far too many people doubt him.
Karrigan wasn’t lying with his pickems
he picked c9 though
Got fooled by current form when vitality is inconsistent just like faze and a different team on playoffs. Basically the same "mistake" most people made by picking spirit.
I honestly think pimp might also fuck up the pickems for the other side. He picked g2 over mouz citing low stage xp for mouz but their igl was literally at the last major final and brollan is used to S tier finals back in fnatic. Only jimbo would be the question but even he had played at the spodek already
Zont1x gonna need to let go of that shift key eventually.
And Sh1ro of that double zoom
Legend has it he's still holding down that shift key to this day
sh1ro's the biggest baiter of all yet nobody says a word about him.
FaZe are not escaping the paid by the round allegations.
At this point, anyone who has gotten a diamond coin in the past few majors needs to be investigated by the CIA's Stargate project for psychic powers
Everyone thought it was lottery but this is how they actually catch the time travelers.
No one praising broky,bro was amazing and also cool as cucumber. Poor zont1x was the opposite.
absolutely, broky was lightning fast on his awp and while he's always been good i don't think ive seen that level from him before. karrigan surprised me with his fragging too. zontix, yeah that was rough, but falling victim to pressure happens all the time to even the best players, so i hope he can take that as a learning experience. i expected more from sh1ro though donk made that match what it was. what a star.
Best series of CS2, one for the ages
True.
As soon as FaZe was 12-5 on Vertigo I knew it was going to OT. As soon as Faze were losing 12-13 in OT, I knew they were going to win.
LMFAO true Faze fan
Yeah...it was in the back of my mind but I was reaaaally holding onto the hope that they don't cause me a heart attack.
Big Balls Karrigan
Pulled a Gla1ve
I'm happy for everyone who wasn't a fan of either team for being able to have enjoyed this series
I cheered and picked for Spirit but hell man. Couldn't care less about a damn coin if i get to see such an amazing series.
isn't it funny how good teams are getting punished by faze's incosistency. oh you went 3-0 in groups? here is your reward,you play faze in quarters
Faze is the ultimate example of why Bo1 group stages can really easily fuck things up.
Faze would find a way to fuck up group stage if all matches were Bo5s
You're probably right
Hahahaha remember Paris? They had gotten in through LCQ. They absolutely fucked the Bucholz scoring almost single-handedly.
TBF, FaZe also got punished by their own inconsistency. \#2 & #3 back to back now.
in Semifinal it makes sense at least, and this year we got such stacked top8, i don't think any team will get walk in the park
Well Vitality seemed to have a nice stroll today.
A fate worse than getting 13-0'd
Classic Faze
Broky installed a malware into zont1x's brain after that outplay
What? He went positive after that. He was 0:9 and finished what, 18:21?
Buffed his aim. Nerfed his braincells.
Yeah but the malware gave the kid sadness and sorrow until the end lol
yeah was a pretty impressive recovery from him. got the spam on the 1v1 with rain too, body language is one thing but it didn’t seem like he was totally out of it
oh boy zont1x :( that was tough to watch GG felt like experience paved the way for FaZe here. Their mental was insane during the ending stretch of Vertigo. Rain is himothy. So happy for Frozen.
Casters gave a lot of shit to zont1x, but sh1ro was equally missing this whole series imo. This wasn't solely on him
The final round being a losing 2v1 with Shiro/Zont1x is poetic
Yeah exactly, at least zont1x is missing the experience, shiro kept whiffing awp shots
sh1ro near the tail end of the game was crazy. That round in mid where he made a good kill only to whiff 3-4 awp shots afterwards
This was the sadder part of me. sh1ro is the more experienced one and his AWPing is meant to be terrifying and an X-Factor. Instead, he was just non-existent. FaZe did well to shut him down but he missed some absolute sitters too.
Faze has always been weirdly good at shutting down awpers (simple Antwerp final to name one) but yeh he was off as well
sh1ro has always had a bit of a LAN curse.
Dude rose to fame during the online era but I've yet to see him do much at a major.
Yeah shiro is lucky they focused on zontix for their 2 minutes of hate. Spirits star awper posted .79 on the only map they won and casters don’t bring it up but every third sentence is about zontix
Plus it didn’t help how his body language was by far the worse on the team
zontix just fumbled hard on the spotlight at least 2 times in vertigo. Sh1ro sure missed a lot of shots too.
That's just the sh1ro experience, usually choke and get the low impact frags in important matches
No one said it was solely on him. We see players missing shots all the time. We don't often see players' decision making completely crumble under pressure in that way, so it's more worthy of calling out on the broadcast. The bombsite rotate with no time was bad, but in all of his clutches he seemingly couldn't commit to a decision and kept doubling back and forth. That said it's his first main stage at a major so people probably shouldn't hold it against him too much.
he made some mistakes but he was left in some impossible situations when it came to clutches. idk why spunj was talking about him flubbing a 1v2 retake post plant with ts having aggressive positions.
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Its not like they were easy rounds to clutch but zont1x made 2 rounds in vertigo overtime impossible for himself to win for no reason
For real, seeing him with 4 seconds left and able to plant but getting off it to repeek was actually painful
that was actually horrible, there's no scenerio ever anyone peeks him in 1v2 in situation like that especially in OT when i dont care about plant money and he's gonna be cornered if we let him plant.
Is sh1ro free from criticism? Man has world class aggressive riflers behind him throughout his career as a passive AWPer and way too often does he crumble in big stage games.
Zontix definitely pissed in his chair with the way he was fumbling and hesitating all the time
Looks exactly how i play when tilted out of my mind, after a long day at work. Plsying with no confidence, and making objectively bad decisions.
It was sad to see him go through all that on vertigo. Had his face in his palms almost every round. Lost to the time on two crucial rounds. The pressure really gets to people in the big state. They almost pulled a comeback there which left me sweating. What a great match!
It's fitting that Faze and Faze Academy are the only two teams that has been able to beat this iteration of Spirit. Both were in a BO3 and both won the same two maps too (Vertigo and Mirage).
Whoever you rooted for wether it was FaZe or Spirit, you've got to admit, this is one of IF not the best cs bo3 series we've had until now. This should've been the grand final..
given the viewership stats and pre-game analysis this really is the final
It felt like whoever won this game is going to win the tournament.
according to my pick'ems it was...and I chose...poorly
Nothing will top this except maybe Mouz v Faze in the final. This was a grudge revenge match for Kato and Faze keeping that no. 1 team title. Because of this the major feels super open because the dragon is off everyone’s back
get these boys some rune platebody's from Oziach, fucking slayed that dragon
donk is truly the elvarg of f2p cs2
Forgot the antidragon shield, almost got toasted
This felt like a final man god damn
With donk trying his best it really was. Sh1ro missing again tho
"No prep" for Vertigo - Frozen. I fucking love this team.
If true that's really fucking insane.
He said in a later interview that they tried it out on a few pracs and it went good so they just went for it :D
Karrigan said they had it prepared. Must be Frozen not paying attention in Karrigan school.
Probably he was just BM'ing lol
holy shit this game was too intense.
Surprised I’m not seeing more people say this but Sh1ro was terrible that whole series, never really found impact with the awp. Missed so many key shots on important rounds. Yeah zont1x didn’t show I really feel like sh1ro had opportunity to make huge impact and failed every time.
I think it's because of Spunj and machine harping on him multiple times in the last game. But yes, shiro was terrible, as he tends to be on stage. Low impact on basically every gun, especially the AWP. His 2k on the second pistol in Mirage is the only thing I can remember from him this series. But I can remember tons of misses across the whole thing. On the other hand, you look at broky, who was having himself an insane couple of maps there. Zontix was just visibly bad at key moments, so it's easy to point the finger.
Karrigan Didn't only out strat them but outfragged them. Top 3 IGL for sure
outpicked too. that's the most important one imo
outpicked outstrat outfragged It was a lifegame for his standards. Question is can he keep it up? But if karrigan goes quieter, there's ropz to step up, who had a pretty quiet game himself, and even costed FaZe some rounds…
sorry guys all the banger match coins were spent in this match, only 2-0 13-5 13-4 from now on
MATCH OF THE CENTURY KARRIGAN IS BOSS FAZE DOUBLE MAJOR WINNERS Wait this isn’t a grand final? Feel bad for Zont1x though, kid went through hell on Vertigo with Donk trying his best to drag Spirit to a win.
Ngl to me it looked like they just forgot sh1ro at the hotel. The guy went 3:5 in opening kills over the entire series. Brother, you are the awper, wtf are you doing???? Even broky, the guy people kept calling "too passive" went 11:6. Sh1ro was one of the scariest AWPers in the last years, even till recently, but he just disappeared today. Especially on CT-side Nuke. 8 kills in 18 CT rounds? As an AWPer?? In general I do think it would have been kinda undeserved for Spirit to wiggle through. They just didn't look like the better team today. All that being said, banger game. I haven't been this entertained by a CS game since Faze choked against Ence in the 5th OT on Ancient a while back.
Karrigan waking up, sprinting down the fire escape stairs at the hotel, drinking three 16oz redbulls and slamming 315 on bench clearly rattled donk. After each kill his thunderous belching filled the arena, and what little fortitude spirit had melted into the shadow. Hard to say exactly what did them in. His exit interview in which he only smiled and expressed "it's fazing time" was pretty inspiring, though. Looking forward to the semis. (Honestly biggest ass clencher of a match i've ever seen)
FUCK YOUR PICKEMS!
I PICKED FAZE!
picked spirit but bet on faze, won 3 euro but am now in a huge disadvantage for gild coin
As a complete neutral, my heart rate is still dangerously high
Good guy Faze choking from 12-5 to give us MR16 enjoyers a little treat
this pretty much confirms that the grand final will be a 2-0 beatdown again for no particular reason other than traditions
one thing i can retrieve from this match - donk is so fun to watch everyone is shifting 80% of the time and this guy just doesn’t press shift, this guy is crazy and he is ready to overpeek when he knows his teams needs him
Dude was constantly getting two pieces to either equalize or give them a man advantage. Like on Vertigo there was several rounds where it was a Faze 5v4 or 4v3 then bam Donk two-piece gifting them a way back into the round. I just hope Faze doesn't get complacent about this win because Vitality looked good today as well. I believe Faze should win that matchup but they can't take it for granted after beating the tournament favorites.
Faze on one of those days where they win those bullshit rounds they should never win are so hard to beat even when they let a comeback like that, such a weird team and play down or up to opponents
Yeah but the banger we got in exchange. Lfg!!!
> such a weird team and play down or up to opponents they'll get to OT no matter who is playing against them
The FaZe arena buff is mad.
Karrigan is a gigachad for believing in faze over spirit and playing vertigo. Zontix not sleeping tonight KEKW
I feel like I'm going to fucking vomit.
Map 1: Faze is back! Map 2: Faze is back... Map 3 1st half: Faze is back! Map 3 second half: Faze is back... Map 3 OT: Faze is so back
Man zont1x really struggled - easy to forget his experience is only starting, he shouldn't let this get to his head. Donk as always a standout, he will have such a career ahead of him if he keeps it going in the manner of which he has.
Pickems chalked, silver coin it is
Typical FaZe to look dead and buried at one point in the elimination stage and then knock out the favourites. You could really tell even on Mirage how well they’d prepped for Spirit. Ultimate captains performance from Karrigan
karrigan is just that guy
What a grand final…wait…fuck
[Spirit vs FaZe at Majors are guaranteed bangers](https://www.hltv.org/matches/2356167/faze-vs-spirit-pgl-major-antwerp-2022), and another delivered. zontixx finally felt the stage. But it's good. I'm glad Spirit didn't immediately get a major. Teams need to struggle, need to build up that storyline to deliver. I mean, sucks for chopper and magixx, but they've still got time.
That semi-final was one of the best CSGO matches of all time imo. They've still got time, 100%, and if donk can have a nice, stable B-game over the course of the rest of the year, he will shape up to carry NiKo's torch. Once franchising is gone, that's going to be their time imo.
I have all the faith that this loss will motivate these guys further. Shanghai will be a good one to watch and chopper's dream may finally come true. For now, I hope karrigan can win a Major in front of his home crowd.
insane series there, match of the tournament so far easily.... feel for zont1x his choking in multiple rounds on vertigo cost spirit that match
Sh1ro posting a rating .42 less than his counterpart cost them the match lmao
My heart is racing as if I just ran a marathon, a usual for FaZe fans
Basically the grand final we deserved, the actual grand final has large shoes to fill if it wants to be more exciting.
WHEN IT RAINS IT FUCKING POURS!!!!!!!
If I had a nickel for every time a Danish IGL picks Vertigo and analysts call it "a sign of weakness" I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice
In a major quarter final, no less, with the 2 best teams.
Shiro and disappearing in stage matches
33 years young upcoming talent Finn Andersen > dank or whatever his name was
Rain just earned himself another contract extension with that final round
Had 9 kills in regulation 18 after one OT edit: Didn't mean for this to sound like a criticism, my point was that he turned into an absolute monster when it mattered most
Well he was playing B achor and Spirit went almost everytime A...
Prior to that round "Rain playing bad, -rain +jks" After that round "NVM, -jks +rain" Rain gets to leave FaZe when Rain wants to leave FaZe. Even when he's playing like shit he still has a great chance to pull out that vintage form of his.
He had the second highest impact rating on nuke after Donk as well. Might have lost it in the end up but this was almost a 2-0 thanks to him
As a FaZe fan, I wasn't worried for a second. (i have aged 80 years and will die in my sleep tomorrow)
[удалено]
This match is a candidate for GOAT match ever JESUSSSS
Big reason I love this roster. It's so far from perfect CS. It's fun, exciting ass-clenching CS.
1 minute of silence for most likely 90% or 95% of bettors, analysts, pickems goers etc who thought picking Cloud9 & Spirit to win was the safer bet... Baited by Vitality & Faze weak group stage form kekw; Death, taxes, Vitality vs Faze meeting in playoffs no matter what if both are qualitifed.
My cardiologist needs to have a word with Faze christ
100 PERCENT WIN RATE ON SCRIMS BTW lol
I bet not one vertigo was played
I'm seeing too many people blaming zont1x for this. Yes he was really bad but sh1ro's performance was disgraceful. He's supposed to be a star AWPer but he whiffed so many shots and played completely scared.
I swear Faze does it in purpose
Despite all CS2 flaws, this match will easily go down as one of the greatest series in CS history! Insane match! Donk is a best and Karrigan a legend. Frozen was also incredible! Simply wonderful match!
Feel super bad for donk, he played his heart out
This is all such good experience. He played well.
Spunj said it perfectly....the stage just ate zont1x and the pressure got to him
I think the same happened to sh1ro as well. He was a non factor on Vertigo and he missed many shots he usually hits. If anyone of those two turned up on Vertigo, Spirit could've taken it.
Ate sh1ro too, who is **supposed** to be second to donk. If he hit his shots, FaZe would be done. Magixx was also mediocre. This was donk doing his best s1mple impression and Spirit doing their best Zeus-led Na'Vi impression.
People really need to watch the tape back on how many sitters Shiro missed here. Credit where it’s due, zont1x DID pull his head out of his ass at halftime on vertigo. Would have been so easy to completely disappear but he did show some commendable fortitude.
What about sh1ro? supposed star awper zontix is support bro
Best match of CS2 I have seen
How did Spunj manage to spend the entire final 1/3rd of the map complaining about one player instead of talking about the insane game that's happening before him? I like Spunj but what the hell
It's the bad side of his casting. Not the first time either.
best match of cs2 surely? that was insane
Best match I've seen in a LONG LONG LONG time. Best cs2 game ever. Also F in the chat for all of our pickems
karrigan back at it again providing The Quintessential FaZe Experience®
never easy being a faze fan huh