We... we might have been too early on the ZywOo ending his Katowice curse call.
Just before we get into that, if you want more details on any game in particular - here’s a link to HLTV’s results page for the event.
He put up his worst map of his LAN career as Gambit cruised past Vitality, thanks to one of the best performances of the last few years from Ax1Le. The teenager waltzed into Inferno taking every aim duel he could find, and winning his fair share.
That put Vitality out, who shared the ignominy of being ousted by the CIS onliners with NiP. The Swedes might have beaten Gambit earlier on, but Gambit won it when it mattered to send NiP home, and move on to the arena.
Astralis nicked a win off of resident scone-munchers fnatic to send the English back home early, but fell short as they had to play NiKo with tournament life on the line. In a game that had multiple amazing rounds on Dust 2 alone, G2 outlasted Astralis to inflict a 16-1 on them on the decider.
That’s a paddlin’.
NiKo has been absolutely cooking, and is currently averaging a 1.5 rating at the event. The second highest is stavn at 1.35, for reference. He’s even able to clutch from heaven nowadays.
MOUZ were slapped out of contention by NiP, while FURIA ran G2 close, but without a big round smoking thing.
Heroic are immediately in the semi-finals, after they smashed Virtus.pro in the seeding game. We’d be lying if we said we were overjoyed to see one of the rosters with minimal changes in the top four instead of one of the new, flashy ones.
Joining them is... actually, you know what. We’re not going to spoil this one for you, because NaVi vs FaZe was a classic. If you’ve been unable to catch much CS this week for whatever reason, we’ve linked the VOD for the game here.
Grab a drink, some snacks and enjoy it. If you really want to know the result, you can click the link at the start of the article.
If you’re wondering who went out last, it was of course Team Liquid (NA), OG (cursed) and Copenhagen Flames (we had them in the name of the podcast episode). After all that talk of CPH Flames being a LAN team, and nexa having an instant impact, everything went wrong.
For Team Liquid, nothing went wrong. This is exactly what you expect when you pick up shox to an NA team.