Play enough finals, you’ll win one eventually. That’s just maths.

FaZe came to China with a chip on their shoulder, they’ve just lost 4 finals in a row, and in case you missed it one of those was at the Major. But the FaZe that showed up at Chengdu wasn’t a motivated FaZe, it was an exhausted one. karrigan made that abundantly clear, saying to HLTV that this is the most drained he has been in his career. And he played on NA EnVyUs.

But playoffs came around, and FaZe did what FaZe do best, make another finals.

Thankfully for karrigan’s sanity, this time they were playing MOUZ, a team they’ve generally had the number of. MOUZ themselves had plenty of reason to come into this game motivated, they lost to FaZe in Shanghai only a few months ago. You might remember that final, because shortly after frozen left MOUZ to join the FaZe camp and win trophies himself.

Unfortunately, the game wasn’t as good as the story around it.

FaZe seemed pretty comfortable the whole time, they punished an overly passive MOUZ on their overpass CT side and closed out despite a fake comeback. Map two was even more straightforward, FaZe won 8 rounds on T-side Nuke, and there’s no coming back from that if you’re a map down. Broky was probably the star of the show, and took MVP because of it, but he barely got challenged. Torzi had a rough final, and his missed shots could almost directly be linked to MOUZ losing Overpass.

Though that is a little unfair, MOUZ simply don’t seem as comfortable on stage, in finals at least, as FaZe is. But who is, FaZe haven’t missed a damn final in CS2 yet, unprecedented dominance despite their last few losses

If this tournament propels FaZe to convert their next few finals, this might be an all-time era. Get your karrigan GOAT IGL cards out.

Final standings:

1st 🇪🇺 FaZe – $100.000
2nd 🇪🇺 MOUZ – $42.000
3-4th 🇩🇰 Astralis – $20.000
3-4th 🇪🇺 G2 Esports – $20.000
5-6th 🇺🇸 Liquid – $10.000
5-6th 🇷🇺 Virtus.pro – $10.000