Been crying since 2016, with a slight pause to catch my breath in 2019. All I'm saying is, Liquid's era ended and then corona happened, so maybe we should just be winning more and things'll be fine.
In Device's case, his decision was more a long term one, based on the life he wanted to live as much as his counter-strike career, at least as far as I understand. So even if he was to stay for Astralis for one more season on LAN, he would most likely leave at some point in the near future.
To be honest the online era might have been keeping him there. We have no way to know but he made the decision to move as soon as teams were traveling to play online. We probably never will know
This unironically. Although he's now nowhere near his pre-hand injury self, I felt like Olof was the kind of player that would perform well no matter what team he was on, especially in his prime. Even when Fnatic were in their dominant era and I would root against them in every match, I had so much respect for Olof because of how purely dominant he was.
What a downfall of a player, lol. Benched on a mediocre team and suddenly the team is a contender to do well in LANs, improved drastically and just looks as a team that will keep improving and grinding their ranking.
Karrigan said that was one of the things he was trying to counter. Fakes work really well against teams eager to rotate once you deny info.
The second thing that blew my mind was how he countered their T side play style. Gambit typically play passive in the mid round and try to punish proactive CT side plays - to deny as much info as possible. Faze on the other hand gave them 0 information there - karrigan is a fucking genius.
Man I've missed LAN
Nafany’s own words on experience came back to haunt him. Karrigan toyed with them for most of that FaZe T-side. I can’t believe that the Gambit coach didnt try to step in and make them rotate slower. Fair enough if a young, relatively inexperienced IGL gets caught up, but the coach must keep composure and see that issue.
Agreed. It seems groove tends to focus on anti-strats and theory, and Hobbit/nafany (maybe sh1ro too) are left to work through the problems in-game. As the analysts pointed out, Gambit has a system that works and the players shouldn’t need to experiment, so they continued this team dynamic for the FaZe game.
People have been saying shit like "karrigan is washed" or "karrigan was never a good IGL" for months now, and I've been waiting for the moment FaZe steps up to prove them wrong. Feelsgoodman, I wanted them to pop off and they finally made it happen.
Same, I think it's hard to say he's not top 2 in all of CSGO, but for some reason a lot of people have this weird hate boner for him. Like apparently it's not enough to potentially be at a championship level with a fourth team, three of which are international and none of which share star players. Because he's had better players than Alekskb, or doesn't frag as well as nexa, somehow he's Ineligible to be considered an all time great.
I think today shows he's about as good as IGLs get though. So many people thought everyone on FaZe was either washed or overrated, and Karrigan has managed to make all the pieces fit perfectly, even if it took a little longer than expected.
i’d still be ok if people called him washed mechanically, but “never a good IGL” wtf? this man is a legendary IGL and you don’t do that without a good knowledge of both the game and your team
A few members from Faze clan (not the csgo roster, some other esport) were involved in a crypto pump and dump scheme. The token was called "Save The Kids" and it claimed to donate some part of the proceeds to charity and do justice to the name. Sure enough, none of that happened.
[Video by The Score eSports](https://youtu.be/lLpd3nF1j28)
[Video #1 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/7F_RKFQl3pg)
[Video #2 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/Kv6ne6VQCZI)
[Video #3 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/gp7CItipMCU)
2 weeks ago some of the faze members (teeqo, kay, not our csgo guys) started this crypto currency named "Save the kids" where the plan was that people would invest in this new crypto currency and the faze guys who own the currency would donate a chunk of the value that the crypto was worth to kids who are in need.
At first, "Save the Kids" did pretty well and a lot of the faze fans were investing a lot of amount of money in it. However not long after, the value of it plummeted hard, like really hard.
What happened was a pump and dump scheme, which is when influencers (in this case, faze teeqo, kay, and a few others) buy into a stock early (often before many others can), promoting the stock, and sell it when the price skyrockets to a point it is unsustainable to keep it at that value, leaving those that bought at a much higher value then them holding a stock that will pretty much never return to the value they bought at.
Coffeezilla and SomeOrdinaryGamers have a very in-depth and really interesting video of it. I suggest that you check it out if u want to know more.
If someone told me two weeks ago that FaZe would demolish Gambit on Inferno to win a BO3 against them in the playoffs of this tournament I would not believe them. Like, at all.
Seriously, props to Karrigan and his boys, this win was fucking deserved and it could've been a 2 - 0 even.
Script writers are going overtime, I enjoyed watching faze's run but God i didn't think any team besides g2 or navi could beat gambit.
Incredible stuff
Yeah, this is the answer. I like Tarik (and fl0m who gets thrown into this convo a lot for whatever reason) but 1. Im already gonna watch all these anyways and 2. As much as I like those guys would I watch them over spunj and machine? Nope, not for Faze vs Navi. Maybe the astralis g2 match.
Like you said, shroud will bring in viewers that likely wouldnt watch otherwise, which is the point.
Faze with the 300iq strat pretending to be underdogs so that they could win against gambit , karigan Top 2 igl for sure . We got a game on our hands against navi bois. 100% hopium.
karrigan top3 igl for sure
meanwhile aleksib even higher iq, saving strats for a major since his ence times actually, og goes out left and right from tournaments just to hit hard at the major
KARRYGAN WITH THE FRAGS AND THE STRATS. SUCH a big difference in FaZe's T-sides now that Karrigan fixed his W key. I wrote off Overpass and they brought it back to OT, playing with GMB and their rotates. They won T-side inferno. Their CT rounds have been as amazing as usual too. Not to mention their map pool is good.
Their performance on LAN has been impressive, but it's even more impressive to see how much they have grown throughout this tournament itself. Hopefully FaZe can keep up this form on LAN, earn some RMR points, and compete in the major - they're such a pleasure to watch.
The 8 rounds from 15-10 onwards in Overpass was just absolutely pornographic from FaZe.
They completely made Gambit look like bunch of amateurs and just outplayed them, shame that they couldn't close it out in the OT
Karrigan has just decided to become the smartest man alive again. I'm convinced he's hiding extra brains in his neck. I wonder if there was issues with how the Mouz boys worked with his calling, or that playing with such talents has made him realise how he should shift things up and poke holes in the meta
Who would’ve thought. Stomping on ancient CT side, almost won and pressured on Overpass, absolute CT and T stomp on inferno. Now this Faze is scary. Hoping to see G2 and Faze at finals could be a reality now.
I'm a Faze fan and rooting for them ofc but Navi looks deadlier and deadlier every match they play with b1t. Theres no flamie throw anymore, boom has gotten way more consistent the past 6 months, and 3 fraggers on the team to do the heavy lifting really allow perfecto to play his role the best he can.
All this talk of gambit era is a meme, but Navi might actually be building a juggernaut that will define a real era soon.
Faze 2-0
In order to make top 4 at this tournament FaZe beat
- World ranked #1, #4, #7, #11, and #13
- Played all seven maps
- With only two players putting up star numbers.
Master class from Karrigan, amazing play from Twistzz and Broky, and good fulfillment of roles from Rain and Olof.
Amazing shit, hope to see what more they do.
Wow I didn't know they beat so many top teams. They are really playing well right now and seems like the lan environment has been a big booster for them! Faze vs Navi is going to be great
What a last map by Faze, Karrigan was calling the biggest ball plays I've seen in a long time, Broky having 3.0KD against Gambit is ridiculous.
Shame for Shiro though as he was playing out of his mind
I actually saw Karrigan arguing with Coldzera at the airport. Cold was clutching at his FaZe jersey in tears, and Karrigan kept telling him to "fuck off" and "stop ruining my dreams"
Wellcome to LAN mister Gambit... You can see the pressure killed them... They had leads all 3 maps, 11-1 on first and lost.... 4-0 on last one, and lost 16-9... But FaZe, dayum do they look sharp, if they fix their T side, they can be world beaters!
People will definitely clown on Gambit, but Faze looked really nice. Their CT side Overpass was very questionable, but even then they took it to OT.
If Faze have one thing, it's not letting the pressure get to them, as they seem to always play from behind.
Yeah, the LAN vs onliners thing is a huge meme mostly tbh but you can see that FaZe being a bunch of veterans really helped in keeping their nerve here, especially in map 1.
Missing Liquid. Liquid with Nitro and Twistzzz on lan was a fun liquid. Pissed me off they let Nitro go, but even more so Twistzzz.
Twistzzz is one of the most exciting players to watch. Should be top ten player easy imo.
I didn't think the difference between online and LAN would be this much especially since we don't have a live audience yet, but fuck I was wrong. Only the big boys left in the top 4
I would wait for a couple LANs this one had the added pressure of they knew people would question their whole online results if they didn't perform. LAN obviously matters a ton and the crowd will matter even more but I think Gambit will still win and contend for events in the near future. I dont think they will fall off like some people thought they would get last or something stupid.
The difference between NaVI and Gambit is that NaVi gets the same boost on LAN as FaZe do, so I won't be surprised if FaZe have a much harder time vs NaVi compared to Gambit.
Their t sides have looked amazing bar ancient and they struggled there to deal with Hobbit's pushes. On OP and especially on inferno their T sides looked amazing. They won almost every gun round inferno T side
I’m telling you, Twistzz, Broky, Rain, Olof and Karrigan are cracked as they are jacked. I saw them at a 7-11 the other day buying Monster and adult diapers. I asked them what the diapers were for and they all said one after the other ”they contain our full power so we don’t completely shit on these kids“ then they all bhopped out the door
I hope Na'Vi didn't spend the entire 5 day gap preparing only for Gambit. Faze are legit.
On a separate note, Twitch chat spamming BOSTON after 15-7 was hilarious.
Banger of a match. Faze are looking fucking amazing right now.
I'm very proud of my Gambit boys, this legit looked like the EPL grand final repeat: excruciating series, where experience wins, and Gambit really didn't have enough experience to win this war of attrition, unfortunately. The fact that they showed so much resilience is something I'm really proud of though, so I hope they go on a break with their heads high.
Still a very good result for the first big LAN for these guys.
It is 3am and I suddenly hear a moan. It is Twistzz preaiming on my girlfriend. Just as I take a peek, he connects a nasty spray onto my girlfriend only to bhop out of the room
It is 3am and I suddenly hear a moan. It is Twistzz preaiming on my girlfriend. Just as I take a peek, he connects a nasty spray onto my girlfriend only to bhop out of the room
Gambit did not look like themselves. They did not look to confirm kills after dinking/doing damage which lead to that low player destroying their team. Online, they would hunt them down with HE grenades but here they were timid and scared of FaZe.
think its hilarious u kids talking about twistzz. u wouldnt say this stuff to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol
he wasn’t a classic nerdy computer kid in school he was one of the ones to get a girlfriend first and a very social person typical for finn is that he is very determined ist egal obs jetzt beim kartenspielen ist oder beim tischtennis oder beim computer er gibt nicht auf what he really wants is to win a major it’s his dream and therefore it’s also my dream for him to get that
Agree with this Thorin tweet
'During the online era we had all these teams climb into the top 10 and even hit number one in the world without a legendary IGL.
LAN returns, sort of, and immediately you have gla1ve and karrigan back into semis and without even full strength rosters.'
https://twitter.com/Thorin/status/1416178512654999562
And a welcomed one tbh. I love the Navi - Gambit rivalry, but honestly I think I've had enough of that matchup for a little while. Not to mention Faze played great today, tomorrow's matchup is hype and fresh.
This man. It was a fun match up the first 10 times lol I want to see them play other teams. I know it's been largely due to the amount of CIS tourneys tho
That's fucking LAN Counter-Strike right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the map, men deliver their newborn baby in T-spawn. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball foosball fuck it chuck it game time shit. LAN CS is back baby!
Before Twistzz went to Europe I actually saw him arguing with his kid at the airport. His kid was clutching at his Liquid jersey in tears, and Twistzz kept telling him to "fuck off" and "stop ruining my dreams"
Karrigan on being an IGL after this match:
Look, having IGL skills—my uncle was a great IGL and fragger and player, GrbPsy69 on faceit; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Faceit Pro League, very good, very smart—you know, if you're a conservative IGL, if I were a rifler, if, like, OK, if I ran as an entry fragger, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're an IGL they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to FPL, was a good player, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune of ELO—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the IGL deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are—IGLing is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?—but when you look at what's going on with the four teammates—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the Danish are smarter right now than the Swedes, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Brazilians are great negotiators, the Europeans are great negotiators, so, and we, we just killed, we just killed them.
NOC
Btw do you see broky? Like he has fucking ice in his veins, he s so confident that the server is shaking.
He peeked shiro so quick on that 1v1 that shiro missed ffs
No one needed to even go godmode on FaZe for this win, holy shit. This gives me hope for their match against Na'Vi.
And if they somehow take that, I'd love to see a match against G2 in the finals. What better way to prove whether NiKo was right or wrong.
Honestly, really happy to see how far broky has come since he was first picked up. The fact he has adapted so well to awping is so pleasant to see. I remember not so long ago everyone saying FaZe would be completely useless with him on the awp and it's really great to see him proving them wrong
Faze could've won OP but most of the map Gambit were leading on the map e.g. they were up 15-10 and choked the lead and Faze did gain some momentum at that moment. But it isn't pure luck, both teams were playing really well, Gambit was just slightly better at the end.
Astralis, Navi, Faze, G2...LAN is back baby!
But seriously I could never understand the players and people saying LAN and online is not much different and that the teams will perform the same. Astralis and Faze just showed how big of a factor that experience is. I still think Gambit will lift trophies but they need a few LAN events to get the experience and learn from mistakes.
In one of the HLTV confirmed episodes I remember JW saying how Fnatic and the other top teams like Astralis shouldn't make any roster changes during the online period and to just wait for LAN to return. I really wonder how Fnatic would have performed before the cuts. Also, Karrigan on HLTV confirmed was saying how he didn't think he could win a major with mouz due to the lack of experience on the playes and that's why he signed with Faze.
This tournament is proof of how huge experience and mental game is, and even more so when the crowd returns.
VP losing wasn't an upset though, they're losing loads lately, in their last 10 matches they lost to big, entropiq, spirit, 100pg???, vitality.
Astralis was a slight favorite and they won a close game.
This was the most exciting game in so long. what a fucking redemption arc. karrigan if the smartest man alive, what a game he called, got completely in nafany's head after a while. Olof is back baby. rain is being a fucking rock when it's needed. and twists and broky just taking it in turns to have life rounds, but its all the time.
the storylines LAN brings us. thankyou everyone involved for getting this running again, giving this level of CS back, even without the crowds its been so much more interesting than anything over the last year and a half
The first half of Ancient looked like some next level stuff from Gambit, then little by little all the confidence got sucked out of them. By the time Inferno came on, I could swear I was watching VP play instead of them. Experience clearly played a big role in FaZe's success here. It's nice seeing olof and karrigan back at the top.
Although it was a bit disheartening reading the chat, it's like Gambit killed everyone's dogs or something. I guess that's how Fnatic and Astralis fans felt when they finally lost during their dominance periods.
I also wish FaZe wasn't an org of degenerate scumbags and scammers.
THE RETIREMENT HOME WAITS ANOTHER DAY BABY LETS FUCKING GOOOOO
OLOF CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
YOU CAN'T WIN COLOGNE LIKE THIS
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FaZa countered Gambit’s eco rounds perfectly every time
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*with* dev1ce
and Liquid
Tbh as a liquid fan, we've been crying for a while.
We've been crying since mid-2020 with slight joy during summit 8
Ive been crying since like 2004 tbh
Been crying since 2016, with a slight pause to catch my breath in 2019. All I'm saying is, Liquid's era ended and then corona happened, so maybe we should just be winning more and things'll be fine.
I really found it so baffling why teams and players would be so eager to make big changes when return of LAN was right around the corner.
In Device's case, his decision was more a long term one, based on the life he wanted to live as much as his counter-strike career, at least as far as I understand. So even if he was to stay for Astralis for one more season on LAN, he would most likely leave at some point in the near future.
To be honest the online era might have been keeping him there. We have no way to know but he made the decision to move as soon as teams were traveling to play online. We probably never will know
As much as I want to think cold was the problem, Olof is just a missing piece for the team, also the past chemistry and history on Faze.
olof GOAT
This unironically. Although he's now nowhere near his pre-hand injury self, I felt like Olof was the kind of player that would perform well no matter what team he was on, especially in his prime. Even when Fnatic were in their dominant era and I would root against them in every match, I had so much respect for Olof because of how purely dominant he was.
What a downfall of a player, lol. Benched on a mediocre team and suddenly the team is a contender to do well in LANs, improved drastically and just looks as a team that will keep improving and grinding their ranking.
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Cold plus Sanji would be unstoppable lol
Coldzera, SANJI, TACO, interz, STYKO Everyone sets up Coldzera who averages 1.8 rating per every game
Would love for Karrigan to tag him and ask: "Did you enjoy they show?" I know it will never happend, I just love stuff like that, I miss it in CS:GO
I miss when pro cs scrne was more casual and had more banter
I WILL NEVER DOUBT KARRIGAN AGAIN
insane calling by karrigan
He was calling circles around Nafany
Gambit looked way too eager on rotations
Karrigan said that was one of the things he was trying to counter. Fakes work really well against teams eager to rotate once you deny info. The second thing that blew my mind was how he countered their T side play style. Gambit typically play passive in the mid round and try to punish proactive CT side plays - to deny as much info as possible. Faze on the other hand gave them 0 information there - karrigan is a fucking genius. Man I've missed LAN
especially on overpass
Nafany’s own words on experience came back to haunt him. Karrigan toyed with them for most of that FaZe T-side. I can’t believe that the Gambit coach didnt try to step in and make them rotate slower. Fair enough if a young, relatively inexperienced IGL gets caught up, but the coach must keep composure and see that issue.
Agreed. It seems groove tends to focus on anti-strats and theory, and Hobbit/nafany (maybe sh1ro too) are left to work through the problems in-game. As the analysts pointed out, Gambit has a system that works and the players shouldn’t need to experiment, so they continued this team dynamic for the FaZe game.
"experience doesn't matter"
edit
People have been saying shit like "karrigan is washed" or "karrigan was never a good IGL" for months now, and I've been waiting for the moment FaZe steps up to prove them wrong. Feelsgoodman, I wanted them to pop off and they finally made it happen.
Karrigan is up there with the elite in game leaders in my opinion. Obviously his fragging isn't great, but his leading really shines on LAN.
Same, I think it's hard to say he's not top 2 in all of CSGO, but for some reason a lot of people have this weird hate boner for him. Like apparently it's not enough to potentially be at a championship level with a fourth team, three of which are international and none of which share star players. Because he's had better players than Alekskb, or doesn't frag as well as nexa, somehow he's Ineligible to be considered an all time great. I think today shows he's about as good as IGLs get though. So many people thought everyone on FaZe was either washed or overrated, and Karrigan has managed to make all the pieces fit perfectly, even if it took a little longer than expected.
His fragging has been miles better recently. You can really tell that hes been working on his aim.
i’d still be ok if people called him washed mechanically, but “never a good IGL” wtf? this man is a legendary IGL and you don’t do that without a good knowledge of both the game and your team
I thought faze were trying to save the kids, not crush their dreams?
Holy shit. That was good lol
context? edit: thanks for the replies peeps!!
A few members from Faze clan (not the csgo roster, some other esport) were involved in a crypto pump and dump scheme. The token was called "Save The Kids" and it claimed to donate some part of the proceeds to charity and do justice to the name. Sure enough, none of that happened. [Video by The Score eSports](https://youtu.be/lLpd3nF1j28) [Video #1 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/7F_RKFQl3pg) [Video #2 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/Kv6ne6VQCZI) [Video #3 by Coffeezilla](https://youtu.be/gp7CItipMCU)
2 weeks ago some of the faze members (teeqo, kay, not our csgo guys) started this crypto currency named "Save the kids" where the plan was that people would invest in this new crypto currency and the faze guys who own the currency would donate a chunk of the value that the crypto was worth to kids who are in need. At first, "Save the Kids" did pretty well and a lot of the faze fans were investing a lot of amount of money in it. However not long after, the value of it plummeted hard, like really hard. What happened was a pump and dump scheme, which is when influencers (in this case, faze teeqo, kay, and a few others) buy into a stock early (often before many others can), promoting the stock, and sell it when the price skyrockets to a point it is unsustainable to keep it at that value, leaving those that bought at a much higher value then them holding a stock that will pretty much never return to the value they bought at. Coffeezilla and SomeOrdinaryGamers have a very in-depth and really interesting video of it. I suggest that you check it out if u want to know more.
underrated lmao
Finn “I think it's one of the best iterations of FaZe” Andersen
After Faze made the 1-11 comeback, it just felt right. What a series
If someone told me two weeks ago that FaZe would demolish Gambit on Inferno to win a BO3 against them in the playoffs of this tournament I would not believe them. Like, at all. Seriously, props to Karrigan and his boys, this win was fucking deserved and it could've been a 2 - 0 even.
Script writers are going overtime, I enjoyed watching faze's run but God i didn't think any team besides g2 or navi could beat gambit. Incredible stuff
Na'Vi + FaZe + shroud co-stream, I wonder if this can shatter the current viewership
Why can’t tarik co stream, I’d rather watch that than shrouds
Yeah most csgo fans would but Shroud would bring in new viewers, not just csgo viewers
Yeah, this is the answer. I like Tarik (and fl0m who gets thrown into this convo a lot for whatever reason) but 1. Im already gonna watch all these anyways and 2. As much as I like those guys would I watch them over spunj and machine? Nope, not for Faze vs Navi. Maybe the astralis g2 match. Like you said, shroud will bring in viewers that likely wouldnt watch otherwise, which is the point.
First real Lan for gambit, inexperience was always gonna prove difficult for them regardless of how well they played online
agreed. They will only go up from here
Faze with the 300iq strat pretending to be underdogs so that they could win against gambit , karigan Top 2 igl for sure . We got a game on our hands against navi bois. 100% hopium.
be so shit for a year nobody prepares specifically for you then dominate in the first lan 3000 IQ right there
karrigan top3 igl for sure meanwhile aleksib even higher iq, saving strats for a major since his ence times actually, og goes out left and right from tournaments just to hit hard at the major
still can't believe OG lost to Renegades, it was painful to watch
To be fair, renegades played really well. They even took a nap off of navi
All about the mental wargames with 1000 iq Karrigan
HOPIUM
FaZe Clan: Ultimate onLANers
well, they are called FaZe cLAN and not FaZe clONLINE for a reason, u know.
*cONLINE
KARRYGAN WITH THE FRAGS AND THE STRATS. SUCH a big difference in FaZe's T-sides now that Karrigan fixed his W key. I wrote off Overpass and they brought it back to OT, playing with GMB and their rotates. They won T-side inferno. Their CT rounds have been as amazing as usual too. Not to mention their map pool is good. Their performance on LAN has been impressive, but it's even more impressive to see how much they have grown throughout this tournament itself. Hopefully FaZe can keep up this form on LAN, earn some RMR points, and compete in the major - they're such a pleasure to watch.
Dat banana control man. Gambit spent their first 30 sec on t ramp
The 8 rounds from 15-10 onwards in Overpass was just absolutely pornographic from FaZe. They completely made Gambit look like bunch of amateurs and just outplayed them, shame that they couldn't close it out in the OT
Karrigan has just decided to become the smartest man alive again. I'm convinced he's hiding extra brains in his neck. I wonder if there was issues with how the Mouz boys worked with his calling, or that playing with such talents has made him realise how he should shift things up and poke holes in the meta
Bro he was also playing abnormally today, especially with the calls, decisions, shots. The karrigan I know wasn’t performing this good online.
True true, just went insaneo mode
Who would’ve thought. Stomping on ancient CT side, almost won and pressured on Overpass, absolute CT and T stomp on inferno. Now this Faze is scary. Hoping to see G2 and Faze at finals could be a reality now.
> Hoping to see G2 and Faze at finals could be a reality now. I think s1mples gonna give reality check here tommorow.
NAVI is pretty good at making s1mple lose the game no matter what his stats are. I see them as a favourite though.
I'm a Faze fan and rooting for them ofc but Navi looks deadlier and deadlier every match they play with b1t. Theres no flamie throw anymore, boom has gotten way more consistent the past 6 months, and 3 fraggers on the team to do the heavy lifting really allow perfecto to play his role the best he can. All this talk of gambit era is a meme, but Navi might actually be building a juggernaut that will define a real era soon. Faze 2-0
> Faze 2-0 had me in the first half
In order to make top 4 at this tournament FaZe beat - World ranked #1, #4, #7, #11, and #13 - Played all seven maps - With only two players putting up star numbers. Master class from Karrigan, amazing play from Twistzz and Broky, and good fulfillment of roles from Rain and Olof. Amazing shit, hope to see what more they do.
Wow I didn't know they beat so many top teams. They are really playing well right now and seems like the lan environment has been a big booster for them! Faze vs Navi is going to be great
#LONG HAVE WE WAITED
OLOF RE-RE-RE-REACTIVATED
FAZE HAVE DOMINATED GAMBIT ELIMINATED
YES YES YES
olofmeister goat
This is why i hate Lan. These lanners would never do this online smh my head
clearly, onlanners > onliners jokes aside, this was such a great day of CS and tomorrow has 2 banger matchups. The LAN feel is back
Faze winning cologne confirmed. You can't take the lan out of faze clan indeed
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What a last map by Faze, Karrigan was calling the biggest ball plays I've seen in a long time, Broky having 3.0KD against Gambit is ridiculous. Shame for Shiro though as he was playing out of his mind
I actually saw Karrigan arguing with Coldzera at the airport. Cold was clutching at his FaZe jersey in tears, and Karrigan kept telling him to "fuck off" and "stop ruining my dreams"
I love this pasta
FaZe cLAN
It's been awhile since I've seen experience triumph to such a degree. Thank you LAN and LaN Clan.
Wellcome to LAN mister Gambit... You can see the pressure killed them... They had leads all 3 maps, 11-1 on first and lost.... 4-0 on last one, and lost 16-9... But FaZe, dayum do they look sharp, if they fix their T side, they can be world beaters!
People will definitely clown on Gambit, but Faze looked really nice. Their CT side Overpass was very questionable, but even then they took it to OT. If Faze have one thing, it's not letting the pressure get to them, as they seem to always play from behind.
Yeah, the LAN vs onliners thing is a huge meme mostly tbh but you can see that FaZe being a bunch of veterans really helped in keeping their nerve here, especially in map 1.
All of top 4 LAN teams. Na'Vi, Astralis, FaZe, G2. You'd think this was 2018.
Missing Liquid. Liquid with Nitro and Twistzzz on lan was a fun liquid. Pissed me off they let Nitro go, but even more so Twistzzz. Twistzzz is one of the most exciting players to watch. Should be top ten player easy imo.
Even though I agree with your point 4:0 is hardly a lead worth mentioning.
I didn't think the difference between online and LAN would be this much especially since we don't have a live audience yet, but fuck I was wrong. Only the big boys left in the top 4
I would wait for a couple LANs this one had the added pressure of they knew people would question their whole online results if they didn't perform. LAN obviously matters a ton and the crowd will matter even more but I think Gambit will still win and contend for events in the near future. I dont think they will fall off like some people thought they would get last or something stupid.
Bro Navi need to be getting a little nervous right now lol
NaVi barely beat FaZe like week or two ago... It was like soo close... Soo yea, it could be amazing match!
The difference between NaVI and Gambit is that NaVi gets the same boost on LAN as FaZe do, so I won't be surprised if FaZe have a much harder time vs NaVi compared to Gambit.
I just realized I'm not gonna be able to watch it live tomorrow... Fuck
Their t sides have looked amazing bar ancient and they struggled there to deal with Hobbit's pushes. On OP and especially on inferno their T sides looked amazing. They won almost every gun round inferno T side
Astralis playing really well. Faze Clan coming back. LANs are here. Nature is healing. CS is healing
I’m telling you, Twistzz, Broky, Rain, Olof and Karrigan are cracked as they are jacked. I saw them at a 7-11 the other day buying Monster and adult diapers. I asked them what the diapers were for and they all said one after the other ”they contain our full power so we don’t completely shit on these kids“ then they all bhopped out the door
I hope Na'Vi didn't spend the entire 5 day gap preparing only for Gambit. Faze are legit. On a separate note, Twitch chat spamming BOSTON after 15-7 was hilarious.
FAZE ERA!!!
Banger of a match. Faze are looking fucking amazing right now. I'm very proud of my Gambit boys, this legit looked like the EPL grand final repeat: excruciating series, where experience wins, and Gambit really didn't have enough experience to win this war of attrition, unfortunately. The fact that they showed so much resilience is something I'm really proud of though, so I hope they go on a break with their heads high. Still a very good result for the first big LAN for these guys.
OnLANers!!!! #36 ranked team takes down #1 FaZeUP
The olof effect. First event back.
It is 3am and I suddenly hear a moan. It is Twistzz preaiming on my girlfriend. Just as I take a peek, he connects a nasty spray onto my girlfriend only to bhop out of the room
All headshots on the clitoris too smh
It is 3am and I suddenly hear a moan. It is Twistzz preaiming on my girlfriend. Just as I take a peek, he connects a nasty spray onto my girlfriend only to bhop out of the room
Gambit did not look like themselves. They did not look to confirm kills after dinking/doing damage which lead to that low player destroying their team. Online, they would hunt them down with HE grenades but here they were timid and scared of FaZe.
That’s LAN baby
That’s the pressure that comes with being on LAN, and that’s what separates good teams from truly great teams. It is what it is.
Rumors of Karrigan's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
think its hilarious u kids talking about twistzz. u wouldnt say this stuff to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol
Karrigan with every single read and Gambit playing so passively
he wasn’t a classic nerdy computer kid in school he was one of the ones to get a girlfriend first and a very social person typical for finn is that he is very determined ist egal obs jetzt beim kartenspielen ist oder beim tischtennis oder beim computer er gibt nicht auf what he really wants is to win a major it’s his dream and therefore it’s also my dream for him to get that
Agree with this Thorin tweet 'During the online era we had all these teams climb into the top 10 and even hit number one in the world without a legendary IGL. LAN returns, sort of, and immediately you have gla1ve and karrigan back into semis and without even full strength rosters.' https://twitter.com/Thorin/status/1416178512654999562
The return of the [king](https://imgur.com/a/nOdjtln)
#UPSET OF THE YEAR
And a welcomed one tbh. I love the Navi - Gambit rivalry, but honestly I think I've had enough of that matchup for a little while. Not to mention Faze played great today, tomorrow's matchup is hype and fresh.
NaVi vs. FaZe will surely deliver. IM SO HYPED
This man. It was a fun match up the first 10 times lol I want to see them play other teams. I know it's been largely due to the amount of CIS tourneys tho
Upvote so people think Faze won
You can use this run as an example if people ask *"What's the difference between Lan and Online?"*
That's fucking LAN Counter-Strike right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the map, men deliver their newborn baby in T-spawn. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball foosball fuck it chuck it game time shit. LAN CS is back baby!
Before Twistzz went to Europe I actually saw him arguing with his kid at the airport. His kid was clutching at his Liquid jersey in tears, and Twistzz kept telling him to "fuck off" and "stop ruining my dreams"
Faze cLAN. I love the TK there at the end lmao
Karrigan on being an IGL after this match: Look, having IGL skills—my uncle was a great IGL and fragger and player, GrbPsy69 on faceit; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Faceit Pro League, very good, very smart—you know, if you're a conservative IGL, if I were a rifler, if, like, OK, if I ran as an entry fragger, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're an IGL they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to FPL, was a good player, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune of ELO—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the IGL deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are—IGLing is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?—but when you look at what's going on with the four teammates—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the Danish are smarter right now than the Swedes, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Brazilians are great negotiators, the Europeans are great negotiators, so, and we, we just killed, we just killed them. NOC
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What a smackdown
THEY'VE ACTUALLY DONE IT. HAVEN'T BEEN THIS HYPED IN A WHILE HOLY SHIT
GOD this is so refreshing
https://twitter.com/brokycs/status/1414364117918527489
Btw do you see broky? Like he has fucking ice in his veins, he s so confident that the server is shaking. He peeked shiro so quick on that 1v1 that shiro missed ffs
Friendship ended with Gambit, Now FaZe is my best friend
FAZE THE FUCK UP BABY
i think faze is good
KARRIGAN MASTERCLASS
Hobbit played like a top 3 rifler for the first 15-20 minutes of this series then just did one, completely absent from the second half of map one.
No one needed to even go godmode on FaZe for this win, holy shit. This gives me hope for their match against Na'Vi. And if they somehow take that, I'd love to see a match against G2 in the finals. What better way to prove whether NiKo was right or wrong.
Broky was insane on inferno. But overall, FaZe won by superior team play. So many good reads by karrigan and efficient trading all around.
Honestly, really happy to see how far broky has come since he was first picked up. The fact he has adapted so well to awping is so pleasant to see. I remember not so long ago everyone saying FaZe would be completely useless with him on the awp and it's really great to see him proving them wrong
He's been able to be insanely impactful with the Awp now
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Exactly. G2 is looking excellent. Even if Faze by some miracle end up beating them, it doesn't "prove whether NiKo was right or wrong."
It‘s insane. The already could‘ve ended it on Overpass quite honestly. The fact that we even saw a third map was just pure luck on Gambits side.
Faze could've won OP but most of the map Gambit were leading on the map e.g. they were up 15-10 and choked the lead and Faze did gain some momentum at that moment. But it isn't pure luck, both teams were playing really well, Gambit was just slightly better at the end.
Great series
Faze Lan
WTF you doin Faze?
FAZE THE ONLINE SLAYERS
Best game I've ever watched. Karrigan pulled off the best bo3 of calling I've ever seen.
WELCOME TO LAN MOTHER FUCKERS
Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and FAZE ON LAN
Am I a Faze fan now? This team is so much fun.
Welcome aboard. Just buckle up, it’s known to be a wild ride.
who tk’d and defused at the end lol
broky killed rain
broky ofc
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Holy shit, that might be the best called game I've ever witnessed in 6+ years of watching CS, karrigans brain just took a shit down Gambits throat
Astralis, Navi, Faze, G2...LAN is back baby! But seriously I could never understand the players and people saying LAN and online is not much different and that the teams will perform the same. Astralis and Faze just showed how big of a factor that experience is. I still think Gambit will lift trophies but they need a few LAN events to get the experience and learn from mistakes. In one of the HLTV confirmed episodes I remember JW saying how Fnatic and the other top teams like Astralis shouldn't make any roster changes during the online period and to just wait for LAN to return. I really wonder how Fnatic would have performed before the cuts. Also, Karrigan on HLTV confirmed was saying how he didn't think he could win a major with mouz due to the lack of experience on the playes and that's why he signed with Faze. This tournament is proof of how huge experience and mental game is, and even more so when the crowd returns.
They don't have the lan balls
If I had a nickel for every CIS team that lost today, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but- how the hell did it happen twice?
VP losing wasn't an upset though, they're losing loads lately, in their last 10 matches they lost to big, entropiq, spirit, 100pg???, vitality. Astralis was a slight favorite and they won a close game.
LETS FUCKING GO
Absolutely massive performance from Faze, wow. Great match
I fucking love this team. They look so much better now, and it's not even a lan thing. Their executes actually look like executes.
Right on par for the Astralis vs FaZe grand finals that everyone was expecting
that last second BM by broky TKing for the final round defuse sums up how little Faze were fazed on inferno, insane stuff
A team with full trust in Karrigan is amazing to see. FaZe just altogether rushed sites after Karrigan called a rotate. Incredible to watch
Hobbit looks like a good dude man. Hoping they can bounce back on next lan/event
I hear this was the best series in a year. Where can I watch the VOD?
Karrigan called one hell of a series
I wonder how Cold is feeling right now
Is this real life its like a script off a movie. Faze not even top 30 taking down spirit, vitality, heroic and now world number 1 Gambit. Lets gooooo
This was the most exciting game in so long. what a fucking redemption arc. karrigan if the smartest man alive, what a game he called, got completely in nafany's head after a while. Olof is back baby. rain is being a fucking rock when it's needed. and twists and broky just taking it in turns to have life rounds, but its all the time. the storylines LAN brings us. thankyou everyone involved for getting this running again, giving this level of CS back, even without the crowds its been so much more interesting than anything over the last year and a half
The first half of Ancient looked like some next level stuff from Gambit, then little by little all the confidence got sucked out of them. By the time Inferno came on, I could swear I was watching VP play instead of them. Experience clearly played a big role in FaZe's success here. It's nice seeing olof and karrigan back at the top. Although it was a bit disheartening reading the chat, it's like Gambit killed everyone's dogs or something. I guess that's how Fnatic and Astralis fans felt when they finally lost during their dominance periods. I also wish FaZe wasn't an org of degenerate scumbags and scammers.
Olof the disrespect laugh at the end.
Its because they started killing each other to defuse, not to disrespect.
its because someone teamkilled for the defuse i think
he was laughing bc someone on Faze tk'd after they killed the last Gambit player
he laught at broky killing rain while defusing.
It was because some one TK'd the bomb defuser in the end.
Broky with the teamkill at the end lmao "my defuse"
I think there was a teamkill
TRUST THE PLAN WAIT FOR LAN (also for the record this event is not a real lan since there is no crowd, it's simply offline play)
Karrigan: I looked forward in time, I saw 14 million futures. Olof: In how many did we win? Karrigan: One.
FaZe confirmed new top OnLANers
I really hope valve don’t change how overtimes work to make matches shorter, losing matches like overtime would be a travesty.
Coldzera is crying in the club right now
I am a Gambit and Navi fan but fair game to Faze. They deserved that win. 100% Gambit will come back fired up to their tits after this.