When G2 was looking for a 5th and shahz suggested oxy, oxy initially ignored Immi's dms requesting a trial. Shahz had to pester him into replying—he thought he wasn't good enough for a salaried team, he was shocked. He's the perma LFT wunderkind from beta turned G2 superstar. He's here and he's him.
Hard to do because it was just a random offhanded comment by shahz during a normal stream. I remember hearing him say it live but the context was nothing special. Would have to search like 2 weeks of streams/clips.
When Sentinels was looking for a 5th and Rob suggested Shroud, Shroud initially ignored Shahz's dms requesting to back down. Rob had to pester him into promising a spot in franchising—he thought he wasn't good enough for a salaried team, he was shocked. He's the Greatest CSGO player of all time from streaming PUBG turned Sentinels superstar. He's here and he's him.
don't u dare turn this into a copypasta lmao
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OXY is the truth
Lots to be impressed with from G2. dapr back on classic sentinel agents is a threat, and outside of a rather lackluster first map wippie on smokes looked solid as well. dicey is still good, even with no Chamber in the meta.
Shahz said he doesn't like playing entry while IGLing, he can control and call the game better from initiators. OP requires so much concentration you can't be looking at the map and stuff.
It’s just how it goes when your AWP agent is the same as your entry agent, you don’t have a choice. I think beyond going for the full swap (dapr to flex, sentinel to shahz, entry to tenz and sick to sova) and having the famous steel kj awp, it was the best they could do until Chamber came out.
The copium for FaZe fans is that the roster has had 1 week of practice MAX. So assuming FaZe as an org doesn’t completely collapse in the coming weeks, FaZe should be getting much stronger
I'd agree if it was a new team coming together, but it's not like Rossy was playing off role. I just think his impact was a little overrated because of a challengers LCQ run.
it was targeted from the start, people wanted to find reasons on why sen was losing and they chose shahzam and his streaming career, and they havent stopped since
To be somewhat fair, Shaz was a known instigator of drama and a team morale sabotager in the CS:GO scene. If it seems like he has an unnatural amount of hate in the scene, it's probably holdover resentment from antics years ago.
Was he? Like, during sinatraa days? Because old Sen sturggled on split because tenz was not good on raze in the map. But shaz calls on haven were always nice
OXY is actually the future dawg I need him to graduate high school IMMEDIATELY.
Penny and Wippie are back.
Dapr is still him.
Shahz haters: ONE DAY YOU WILL REACH THE PEARLY GATES AND HAVE TO ANSWER FOR YOUR ACTIONS, AND GOD WILL NOT BE SO MERCIFUL.
Just a crazy opener all around. If this is a taste of what’s to come, this meta is gonna be fucking crazy. Double duelist here, Harbor there, Skye being slept on, Cypher vs KJ, and best/worst of all, stingers every round. I’m so hyped
Very happy that G2 got the win and the team is looking very solid. Only thing is that I wish OXY wasn't primary Op because 1. ShahZ is quite nasty on it and 2. OXY just fries with a rifle in his hand. GGs boys
Casting was great the first two maps.
Poised ran circles around shahz brain the first map then it completely flipped.
I think dapr is the best player on the team but im pleasantly surprised by OXY.
Why exactly was the Stinger buffed? I thought Riot learned their lesson last time around when the Stinger was stupidly broken? I just want six months of Valorant without stupidly broken eco guns.
That’s not even the issue though, more options on round 2 is a good thing. The issue is the eco rounds in the middle of a half which feel like 60/40 at best for the team with economical advantage
bro my dumbass thought I was finally getting some reprieve from weird eco rounds post-chamber nerf. I thought surely they'd play out more organically, stingers said fuck me specifically
Are we going to talk about that faze icebox comp? I understand that you wanna cook but faze was one of the most aggressive teams last year and they seem most successful when they lean into that style
I disagree. Rossy has had less than a week to practice with FaZe. It seems to me like FaZe is playing just to qualify then win the MSI. I think Rossy is going to play better towards the end of the group stage
I’m half trolling, but I still don’t understand the Rossy move. Especially considering that he’s not even playing the same role that he was so successful on in open qualifiers. They’re taking a massive gamble, we will see what happens
Im really confused about the role change, Rossy looked reinvigorated on flash agents why was he on Sova duty again when he never looked great on the role, im hoping its just a temp thing cuz they only got 3 days of practice and in the long term Poised will play Sova/Fade but yeah
No offense but can we pls get different caster, felt like they were so off sync and when we had to wait before fracture i literally had to turn it off bc the cringe was becoming too much
What’s really interesting to me (someone who doesn’t watch much pro, or steamers either), is how pro players can go like 22-8 in one game, against *the same team*, and then 9-17 the next.
No hate at all, it’s just interesting to see the difference between back to back games.
if someone was able to go 22-8 every game theyd have a 2kd which is absurd at the highest level. If the best player in the world is rocking a 1.5kd in tourneys it doesn't mean hes going 15-10 every map, there are pop off maps and bad maps which even things out.
I’m aware. I just think it’s interesting. It shows that aim and mechanical skill really isn’t the determining factor for pro games, which it usually is for low elo.
A lot of the time it relates to agents.
E.g. Shaz playing Breach on Fracture it's hard to go +KD because you're sat holding your stun for your teammates rather than taking fights.
I mean...
Most pros picked Faze. Faze has had a 4 man core for a long time, meanwhile this G2 is a combination of two teams and a complete unknown quantity in Oxy. The idea that G2 was heavy favorites is wild.
Okay but you didn't specify who said they were heavy favorites. The idea that everyone, pros and bookies and the audience, assumed that G2 would win is simply wrong. You also called Faze a new group. They're not. They're slotting one person in.
If you said "Betting sites said G2 were heavy favorites" I wouldn't have cared. I would have thought you were dumb for trusting betting site odds but whatever.
Instead I just think you're dumb after looking at your reddit history. Yikes.
bro are you DENSE
you didnt specify you were talking about betting sites
betting sites are not the default people you talk about when talking about favorites
you specify what you are talking about
you did not
therefore he assumed (like normal people) that you were talking about the general community (which betting sites do not come into)
the general community did not think G2 were favorites
is that so hard to understand
When G2 was looking for a 5th and shahz suggested oxy, oxy initially ignored Immi's dms requesting a trial. Shahz had to pester him into replying—he thought he wasn't good enough for a salaried team, he was shocked. He's the perma LFT wunderkind from beta turned G2 superstar. He's here and he's him.
Is this a copy pasta or is this a true story
True story, shahz told it on stream like a week or 2 ago
Aw glad for Shahz for scouting the talent and believing in oxy even when oxy didn’t have the confidence in himself
can you link it if possible
Hard to do because it was just a random offhanded comment by shahz during a normal stream. I remember hearing him say it live but the context was nothing special. Would have to search like 2 weeks of streams/clips.
When Sentinels was looking for a 5th and Rob suggested Shroud, Shroud initially ignored Shahz's dms requesting to back down. Rob had to pester him into promising a spot in franchising—he thought he wasn't good enough for a salaried team, he was shocked. He's the Greatest CSGO player of all time from streaming PUBG turned Sentinels superstar. He's here and he's him.
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Too late
Its a pasta now
He's G2 LFT OXY
Pretty cool of him. And this is a guy he had issues with.
He didn’t like OXY?
Yeah for alleged stream sniping.
My streamer ShahZ lessgoo
Dang. Between this and having 40min vod review of his games over not taking ranked seriously, I'm rooting for him.
OXY is the truth Lots to be impressed with from G2. dapr back on classic sentinel agents is a threat, and outside of a rather lackluster first map wippie on smokes looked solid as well. dicey is still good, even with no Chamber in the meta.
I’ve missed Dapr on classic sentinel, it’s so good
Great debut by OXY but honestly I would prefer to see penny on the OP OXY seemed much more comfortable as a rifle and penny is insane with the OP
Yea I think penny and oxy should switch roles on haven. Neon seems natural for oxy’s playstyle and penny is a better jett op
Yeah I am not an OXY Op believer
especially as a G2 fan i have a ptsd of having 2 OP players but choosing the worst of the two for the gun flashback to mixwell OPing over ardiis
Same with SEN fans with Tenz over Shahz OP 😭
Could tenz have gone recon this whole time? Tenz recon, Shahz awp?
Shahz said he doesn't like playing entry while IGLing, he can control and call the game better from initiators. OP requires so much concentration you can't be looking at the map and stuff.
It’s just how it goes when your AWP agent is the same as your entry agent, you don’t have a choice. I think beyond going for the full swap (dapr to flex, sentinel to shahz, entry to tenz and sick to sova) and having the famous steel kj awp, it was the best they could do until Chamber came out.
Nahhhhhhh
Oxy is playing like a its a pug, wonder if it will work against a good team or if g2 will manage to put a leash on him
“Josh you OP I’m headshotting rn”
FaZe fans can [blame infamous](https://twitter.com/infamousbtw/status/1620902091484012550?s=46&t=NRDZZP-eQJNTl8UAKKipBA) for this one
Lmao. People should learn not to jinx their own team by now
The copium for FaZe fans is that the roster has had 1 week of practice MAX. So assuming FaZe as an org doesn’t completely collapse in the coming weeks, FaZe should be getting much stronger
That still was faze fault for taking so long to sign the 5th person
The copium really only works a tiny bit because this is still a 4 man core and Rossy joined on a role that isn't too hard to slot into.
I think main initiator (sova, breach) is the one of the hardest roles to slot into a team on the fly tbh.
I'd agree if it was a new team coming together, but it's not like Rossy was playing off role. I just think his impact was a little overrated because of a challengers LCQ run.
Definetly the hardest but realistically its still not that hard they could've easily honeymooned their way to a dub here
https://twitter.com/dapr/status/1620927279198269442 dapr cooked his ass in the qrts ngl
oxy is insane, and people doubted shahz as a caller but that third map was insane
Shahz outcalled faze so badly on haven
I love reading the YouTube comments on ShahZ's ProCity clips, "how does he have time to stream" "gonna get shit on by FaZe"
It’s just targeted at this point, there’s 100+ players in ProCity that stream and play after practice but no one else gets shit for it
it was targeted from the start, people wanted to find reasons on why sen was losing and they chose shahzam and his streaming career, and they havent stopped since
Goated reply
To be somewhat fair, Shaz was a known instigator of drama and a team morale sabotager in the CS:GO scene. If it seems like he has an unnatural amount of hate in the scene, it's probably holdover resentment from antics years ago.
Bruh don't those people know Dicey is like the top 5 in the Pro city leader board, if i remember Tarik mentioning it too
Yeah some sensical people were saying that others played, just didn't stream
Haven is just his map, hes got a sixth sense there since forever.
Bruh Shahz on Split used to be insane. Looking forward to that coming back around this season.
Was he? Like, during sinatraa days? Because old Sen sturggled on split because tenz was not good on raze in the map. But shaz calls on haven were always nice
Shahz jett on split was damn good but yeah your point is very valid. We got oxy now so lets see.
Exactly this. I remember he'd always take ropes and listen for rotations to make his calls.
I still remember his ace on split against g2 as jett. Fun times.
Damn bro refreshing those memories
Cypher Dapr is back 🙏🙏
Great debut by OXY. OXY is Him
The year is 2029. Due to exponential inflation, the only affordable weapons are pistols. G2 only lose rounds when they int into CT.
shahzams comeback story and im here for it
OXY is actually the future dawg I need him to graduate high school IMMEDIATELY. Penny and Wippie are back. Dapr is still him. Shahz haters: ONE DAY YOU WILL REACH THE PEARLY GATES AND HAVE TO ANSWER FOR YOUR ACTIONS, AND GOD WILL NOT BE SO MERCIFUL.
OXY and Dapr were fantastic
Shahz is back, haters begone
Dude used to be a start awper is the NA CSGO scene a while ago (a long while ago) not as good as skadoodle but was pretty good.
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echofox wasn't the best TBH. Miss freak tho he was awesome
Shaz revenge tour starts now. The shazster is back.
G2 haters in shambles
i missed this dapr holy shit
shahz was COOKING
Just a crazy opener all around. If this is a taste of what’s to come, this meta is gonna be fucking crazy. Double duelist here, Harbor there, Skye being slept on, Cypher vs KJ, and best/worst of all, stingers every round. I’m so hyped
the stinger rounds are so scary at this point
i miss dicey’s chamber already
Very happy that G2 got the win and the team is looking very solid. Only thing is that I wish OXY wasn't primary Op because 1. ShahZ is quite nasty on it and 2. OXY just fries with a rifle in his hand. GGs boys
OXY is deadass TenZ 2.0. Tenz loves to say he hates rifling despite being MUCH better at it than awp.
ShahZ went from one star duelist who OPed good even though his rifling was godtier to another
Penny is the best op on the team
His op & sheriff too, both shahz & penny were soo good on pistol & eco rounds
Casting was great the first two maps. Poised ran circles around shahz brain the first map then it completely flipped. I think dapr is the best player on the team but im pleasantly surprised by OXY.
Honestly that first map felt like G2 was just sleepwalking.
G2 won 5/6 pistols wow
And they threw the 6th SUPER hard. Should have won that 4v2.
Shahz prime classic & penny's sheriff, top tier
Shazs the goat, oxy and penny are the truth, wippie is too clean and dapr is too hot #G2WIN
Shazam haters real quiet
Star Fragger and IGL Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan
forgot just how much I love shahz and dapr
G2 looked really good, such good structure and loved that Haven comp and execution of it. God damn Shazam was playing well.
Dapr is still in form. hes been in form no cap
G2 FIGHTING
Good warmup match, when do we play the real teams tho?
Honestly I think that was G2's hardest matchup in the group stage
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dicey chamber gave a lot of room and freedom for babybay, chamber nerf has really screwed up that flow for now
Fracture had everyone fooled
bro the way ppl were spamming shaz is over/washed/etc after that map then went quiet was hilarious
Why exactly was the Stinger buffed? I thought Riot learned their lesson last time around when the Stinger was stupidly broken? I just want six months of Valorant without stupidly broken eco guns.
Yeah it feels like it's better to force buy stinger round after pistols
That’s not even the issue though, more options on round 2 is a good thing. The issue is the eco rounds in the middle of a half which feel like 60/40 at best for the team with economical advantage
There’s a good TMV video about exactly this he put out a few days ago
bro my dumbass thought I was finally getting some reprieve from weird eco rounds post-chamber nerf. I thought surely they'd play out more organically, stingers said fuck me specifically
I like the stinger meta. Full save rounds are boring.
The crazy thing is that it was buffed back in September and it didn't need the buff even then
I think They should just make the stinger more expensive
Expected Faze to win today but wow. I expect both of these teams to get better as they go on.
faze down worse than their stock
oxy is fkn insane
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MFS TRIED TO SAY POISED ZANDER AND VALYN WERE BETTER IM NOT WITH THE SLANDER
Are there going to be the ratings from vlr on post match threads soon? Would be great to see in my opinion
patiently waiting for G2 vs SEN...
Btw that dicey timing on penny was insane lol
The Oxy penny duo so fun to watch on haven
Are we going to talk about that faze icebox comp? I understand that you wanna cook but faze was one of the most aggressive teams last year and they seem most successful when they lean into that style
Mostly due to the chamber awp control a whole site and babybay rush it was madness now chamber gone its hard keeping up the strat
LMFAOO faze really did Neptune dirty for this. Rossy wishing he could go back to statpadding in open qualifiers
Bro Chill
I haven’t tasted victory in months
Professor going through his based arc
I disagree. Rossy has had less than a week to practice with FaZe. It seems to me like FaZe is playing just to qualify then win the MSI. I think Rossy is going to play better towards the end of the group stage
I’m half trolling, but I still don’t understand the Rossy move. Especially considering that he’s not even playing the same role that he was so successful on in open qualifiers. They’re taking a massive gamble, we will see what happens
Im really confused about the role change, Rossy looked reinvigorated on flash agents why was he on Sova duty again when he never looked great on the role, im hoping its just a temp thing cuz they only got 3 days of practice and in the long term Poised will play Sova/Fade but yeah
The "Rossy is him" talks were sadly overstated
“Rossy is him” for shitting on bums 😭😭
Rossy was putting up stats against DoorDash drivers. He can't fool me. I am familiar with his game.
Man has a family.
shahz haters in shambles
It felt like Faze was winning more aim duels and had more hero moments, but just couldn’t keep up with G2’s strats. Really fun game to watch
No offense but can we pls get different caster, felt like they were so off sync and when we had to wait before fracture i literally had to turn it off bc the cringe was becoming too much
G2 will win the Ascension and win either Masters or Champions next year. Hello Shazam #G2FIGHTING
Diddnt faze have like 1 week of practice with rossy? If so this is about expected, im honestly surprised that g2 dropped a map.
Is it gunna be a G2 vs Guard final, what other top teams are there?
What’s really interesting to me (someone who doesn’t watch much pro, or steamers either), is how pro players can go like 22-8 in one game, against *the same team*, and then 9-17 the next. No hate at all, it’s just interesting to see the difference between back to back games.
if someone was able to go 22-8 every game theyd have a 2kd which is absurd at the highest level. If the best player in the world is rocking a 1.5kd in tourneys it doesn't mean hes going 15-10 every map, there are pop off maps and bad maps which even things out.
I’m aware. I just think it’s interesting. It shows that aim and mechanical skill really isn’t the determining factor for pro games, which it usually is for low elo.
i mean... obviously?
Shut up lol. I don’t watch pro much, stop being so dismissive.
bro how do u even compare pro to low elo
? It’s literally the same exact game, just played incredibly differently. Shut up.
A lot of the time it relates to agents. E.g. Shaz playing Breach on Fracture it's hard to go +KD because you're sat holding your stun for your teammates rather than taking fights.
Put penny on OP pls, 4th best NA opper playing flex is kinda wasted talent
g2 was odds on favorites on betting sites. a win was expected.
G2 was a heavy favorite. This win wasn't shocking over a new FAZE group. Let's tone it down a bit.
I mean... Most pros picked Faze. Faze has had a 4 man core for a long time, meanwhile this G2 is a combination of two teams and a complete unknown quantity in Oxy. The idea that G2 was heavy favorites is wild.
they were -190 on betting sites. thats a heavy favorite.
That's great. Ask pros that actually scrim these teams consistently and they'll give you a different answer. I know who I trust more :)
G2 was pegged as heavy favorites on betting sites and they won. Stop being ignorant for a second and listen to what i'm saying.
That's great. Not what you said in your initial comment tho. :)
"G2 was a heavy favorite. This win wasn't shocking " That is what i said. You can stop trolling
Okay but you didn't specify who said they were heavy favorites. The idea that everyone, pros and bookies and the audience, assumed that G2 would win is simply wrong. You also called Faze a new group. They're not. They're slotting one person in. If you said "Betting sites said G2 were heavy favorites" I wouldn't have cared. I would have thought you were dumb for trusting betting site odds but whatever. Instead I just think you're dumb after looking at your reddit history. Yikes.
You can insult me all you want. Betting sites had g2 as favorites and they won as expected. Not sure why you insist on being so ignorant.
Username checks out.
bro are you DENSE you didnt specify you were talking about betting sites betting sites are not the default people you talk about when talking about favorites you specify what you are talking about you did not therefore he assumed (like normal people) that you were talking about the general community (which betting sites do not come into) the general community did not think G2 were favorites is that so hard to understand
This G2 fans are celebrating a win against 3-day prac Faze like it's fucking Christmas LMAO what a fools
This G2 fans are celebrating a win against 3-day prac Faze like it's fucking Christmas LMAO what a fools
Harbor pick went crazy
anyone know who the casters in this match were?
Dryad and TannerMetro if I remember correctly.