It’s not very often we get reverse sweeps in Counter-Strike, but you could smell this one from a mile away.

0-2 down after two strong maps from a NAVI side who had already dug deep to take down The MongolZ in the semis of the Thunderpick World Championship, FURIA proved why they’re the most exciting team to watch in CS right now.

And we f-cking loved it.

Seriously, we’ve ran out of superlatives for FURIA now. Their smoke is too tough. Their swag is too different. Their b-tches are too bad. We love them for it.

Coming back from 0-2 down in CS is borderline impossible, but the entire team pulled it out of the bag in order to get this one over the line. First it was FalleN on Nuke, then YEKINDAR and molodoy on Dust2. And if those performances weren’t enough for you, just look at what molodoy then did to NAVI on Train.

Map five. In a BO5. Where you started 0-2 down. 20 years old. Warra player.

Enough about FURIA, though, we already know they’re winning the Major. But what about NAVI? What about that team made up of four players that have more than enough experience to not get 13-1’d in map five on a BO5 that they once lead 2-0?

Yeah, we’re still not convinced by them.

Seriously, we know how good FURIA are nowadays, but this is just unacceptable. A team so far away from truly being able to compete at the top consistently again, they were getting put to the sword faster than Ned Stark even when B1ad3 was calling them every round.

It was shambolic, truly. Even whilst we were celebrating FURIA running away with it, we couldn’t help but feel sorry for them.

Let’s hope they can get on track in time for the Major.

Trivia

Who pulled off the first LAN reverse sweep in CS2 history and what tournament was it at?

Team Spirit against Virtus.pro at BetBoom Dacha 2023

Vitality against FaZe at BLAST World Final 2023

Team Spirit against NAVI at BLAST Spring Final 2024

Vitality against NAVI at IEM Cologne 2024

Find the answer at the end.