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But probably not how you think.
Don’t worry, though. Team Liquid will definitely be at the Major. They’ve got only got to beat one more team, and they’re an NA team after all.
It’s not like it matters - no org is going to go under by not qualifying…
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You know when they tell you that a puppy isn’t just for Christmas?
Grayhound staff have told their players that their dog was just for the Majors.
After dexter and company failed miserably in the Asia RMR, the company has ceased operations.
Just like that; no sticker money, no party, we guess.
Oceanic CS is in a hell of a (20-year-long) slump, but they always had the ‘easy’ Asia RMR to rely on to get five players some sticker money at the very least. Plus, they had jks getting carried to trophies by NiKo and m0NESY.
Now, they have neither.
When Grayhound, who dominated back home in Australia, can be made to look so amateur by Lynn Vision and TheMongolz it spells real trouble for the scene as a whole.
There’s plenty of reasons for the decline. ESIC, for wrongful bans, and ESL, for pulling out of some regional cups, get plenty of blame but the talent and local competition just isn’t there.
Grayhound’s roster will stick together, for what it’s worth. And SPUNJ posted this cryptic tweet in the aftermath — Vox Eminor, inc? — but there’s no denying Australian CS is deep into it’s dark age.
Hopefully there’s some light at the end of the beer snake.
NA might be in trouble, lads and lasses.
Well, obviously - but it’s being laid bare here in Monterrey, Mexico. Actually, we’re not in Mexico. We would like to be, though.
So would NRG.
Of the eight teams already eliminated from contention in the Americas RMR, five of them are NA teams. Nouns, who in fairness played FURIA and Legacy, Elevate, BOSS - who lost to Complexity and Liquid, which doesn’t seem like their fault - NRG (who were embarrassingly bad) and Wildcard.
Wildcard at least did NA proud, in that their reaction to losing was to throw water at an opposition player.
We know NA is good at throwing, but that’s taking the Mickey.
We sort of glossed over NRG, but if you want some stats on how bad they were: They won 28.8% of their rounds, had a player multi-kill less than once every two rounds, had a negative win rate in five vs fours and have three of the four lowest rated players at the event.
On the other side, Imperial breezed through 3-0 with HEN1 going crazy, and FURIA pushed Complexity into an elimination game (which in NA is a 2-1 game, because only five teams go through) in a pulsating series.
We were worried about FURIA, but we needn’t have been.
That leaves M80, who were the recipients of Wildcard’s water assault, paiN, ODDIK (WOOD7’s team), Legacy (who had vintage coldzera on the server as they wiped out MIBR), Complexity and Team Liquid.
Don’t worry though, there’s seeding.
There’s no way Liquid will be playing Complexity…
(we lied lol)
Team Liquid decided not to commit to a European roster, and part of that was probably so they could get into the easier Americas RMR over the scary European RMR.
Yeah, that worked.
Liquid muscled past BESTIA but fell to the hands of FURIA - before bouncing back with a quick 2-0 over BOSS. Nothing too unexpected, and until now, quite simple.
The issue is that 3-2 isn’t good enough in NA - so they need to beat Complexity or this experiment has failed. Team Liquid cannot afford to not qualify out of North America.
But North America can’t afford to not have Complexity, either.
Team Liquid betrayed NA. NA fans will claim Liquid to hang on to the past, but this is civil war, and it’s time to back your men. Complexity stood tall in times of need and went back to North America, as Liquid jumped ship.
Complexity are North America’s greatest, all-American heroes. They have to qualify from the Americas RMR just to give NA fans some hope.
They will put on a brave face if Liquid qualify and pretend they’re just as loyal to NA as Complexity. Liquid won’t care; they did what they had to stay afloat, but in a civil war, there’s only one NA team.
Which is exactly why us Europeans want Team Liquid to win, right?
Do you see the issue? The Americas isn’t big enough for the both of ‘em, and neither has failure as an option.
This is one of the highest stakes games you can watch this year. Get strapped in.
ODDIK take on paiN in a Brazil-only clash (and you are probably now seeing why we took Liquid vs Complexity as a full story and had this mentioned off-hand) and Legacy take on M80.
Here’s another helpful overview from u/PicnickTP:
Years after selling off part of the org, Jason Lake has reacquired Complexity! For the second time.
After rumours emerged of GameSquare – Complexity’s (ex-)majority owner – being interested in buying FaZe, alarm bells went off in the scene. One of the two teams would most likely have to cut their CS team to avoid a conflict of interest, so the American side must’ve started sweating.
Fortunately for them, shortly after hearing the news, Jason Lake started looking for investors to buy Complexity back. And now, a little over two months later, that deal is done for a casual ~$10 Million.
And it was right on time as well.
The GameSquare FaZe Clan deal is just a few weeks away from completion. That deal would also put one of FaZe’s founding members in charge as its CEO, FaZe Banks. For context as to how that’s going: he’s already fired everyone (and he’s not joking). We just hope it doesn’t include the CS2 team.
This is probably the best-case scenario for both sides. Complexity gets to stay around with an owner who cares about the team and not purely profit. FaZe gets to try and fix its image and become a real company that doesn’t look like a meme stock. For 18 cents a share, we’re pretty sure we could’ve bought the company.
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