If MOUZ aren’t even winning every game in the group stages at a studio event, what’s even the point any more?

They got tonked on map two by The MongolZ, who, admittedly, looked exceptionally good on the day. Techno4k was in a MOOD, dancing around Inferno, looking like he had God mode on.

Maybe they’re in their FaZe era now and they’ve all of a sudden become rubbish in group stages and clutch in playoffs. Maybe they think that there’s a causation there, rather than a correlation.

Whatever happened, it doesn’t look good for MOUZ. This used to be their bread and butter.

Speaking of FaZe, they, remarkably, weren’t completely horrendous. jcobbb was absolutely frying for a few maps, Twistzz achieved nirvana on the third (albeit at the expense of everyone else) and even karriga-

Okay, he was still terrible. But he tried really, really hard.

None of it mattered, of course, as they did eventually fall in three to Aurora, but for a whole series, we genuinely believed that all five FaZe players were professional Counter-Strike players again.

If the bar were any lower, it’d be buried deeper than chrisJ’s career.

NIP similarly continue to underwhelm. Poor xKacpersky dropped a highlight reel-filling 31 kills in regulation on Ancient and still lost. In regulation. What else can he even do?

They lost 2-1 to PARIVISION, as they withered in the sixth half of the series - though losing a long game to a Jame team is par for the course for pretty much everyone. xKacpersky went 5-16 on the final map, but to be completely honest, we’d probably give up as well.

There were so many comedic rounds in this game. Just basic stuff going wrong. NIP lost a 2v5 because they left one guy on his own on A (Mirage), he got killed, and PARIVISION won on time after killing only one other player.

Awful.

Vitality obviously cleanly beat 9z, Spirit put Liquid away because donk got 55 kills in two maps (no overtimes), pretty standard stuff.

FURIA needed an eco round win with a bit of a dodgy boost just to not lose on Overpass to TYLOO, but at least they won, and Falcons without kyousuke beat NRG despite a ridiculous performance from Sonic.

At some point, NAVI and B8 played a marathon game with NAVI winning, but it was a very forgettable game. We cannot remember anything that happened from that game, and it happened two days ago.

Today has two less interesting games in the morning (NRG vs B8 is an insomnia cure, FaZe vs TYLOO will likely be poor quality) and two bangers (Falcons vs NAVI is always good, Aurora are playing decently while FURIA are in a weird spot) in the evening.

We’ll be watching every minute, obviously.