The much-anticipated opening match of the Stockholm Major Challenge came to FaZe against Spirit. Although the former fell into the 9-12th place ranking battle in the IEM Autumn European Division was once on the verge of being out, the Galactic Battleship of the Gods returned to the OG first and then won the big one, and won the qualification for the Major for himself. The latter finished fifth in the CIS division of the IEM Autumn Tournament, retaining his place in the Challenger Group. However, their form seems to have declined since then, and they nearly suffered an FPX clean sheet in the European closed qualifiers of the IEM Winter Championships. Now that the two meet, who can be better and advance to the 1-0 group first? And look at this showdown!
Figure 1 Overpass (FaZe 16-11 Spirit)
Figure 1 came to Overpass, and FaZe acted as the attacking party first. In the first half of the pistol round, FaZe planned to attack Zone A, and successfully put down the mine pack after getting the first kill with Brooky and entered the endgame stage. Although degster got the accurate three kills, broky used the advantage of the package position and the opponent to drag time, constantly harassing the former to be unable to remove the thunder package, and successfully won the pistol round. Spirit, who lost the first point, gave Mir the hero M4, and the rest of the people cooperated with half a point. At this time, the mir mixed smoke was not killed by the rain anti-mix, and then FaZe directly called out the tactics of attacking area B, and as a result, no one looked at the magixx of the construction site box, and he knocked the thunder bag off the road, and the time was close to insufficient. Fortunately, Twistzz cleared the magixx in the limit time, put down the thunder bag and retreated to the depths of the construction site with the help of timing, and finally won the endgame to avoid being overturned, and beat the opponent into the pure eco round, 3-0.
Coming to the first lance bureau, Karrigan called out the tactics of speeding up Zone A after getting the first kill in the A small, but FaZe had a big problem in the details of the offensive link, no one cleared the toilet, and also released the sewer mir and hit two backs, and the attack collapsed instantly. In the following round, FaZe forced two AKs, at which point Spirit's bandits threw fire, allowing Karrigan to get the first kill of the A-big front top CT at the amusement park, and then attack from A and A small simultaneously. At this time, degster released three empty guns, causing A's attack to enter zone A unimpeded and score this point. Spirit decided to re-control the sewers in the next round, sent mir to stand in an unconventional position, beat a person and then directly chased and killed Twistzz, which made FaZe face a 2V5 situation at the beginning, and finally could not return to the sky, 4-2.
In the seventh round, FaZe chose to be strong, and at this time, Spirit actually released A small, allowing Karrigan to touch the A bag point from A small all the way. At this time, he chose not to pack the degaster of the point gun, but instead touched the B area all the way and hit the back of the mir. FaZe, who got the first kill, rushed into the B package point like a thousand arrows in unison, using the gun to instantly clear all the CTs, and after putting down the thunder package, he also killed all the CTs that wanted to protect the gun, instantly destroying the opponent's economy. Although Spirit, who entered the pure eco bureau, got the first kill with the help of double racks and stole twistzz in the toilet, in the final offensive moment, the chopper sand eagle big horse gun that had been hiding in the oil barrel was also lost after being killed by the olofmeister. After raising his spear, Spirit called out unconventional again, and the double sewer front was cleared to acquiesce. FaZe, who had lost its numerical superiority, had to go all the way without vision, and eventually lost the point because he did not know the position of his opponent, 6-3.
Seeing that the default was not successful, FaZe decided to storm Area B. Although it was taken to the first kill, Twistzz got a double kill clean bag point when entering the package point. After putting down the thunder bag, olofmeister came to B1 with the help of the vision difference, and finally used the release decision to kill sdy first, and the chopper had no time to unpack after disposing of him, so that FaZe could get another point. The poor economy Of Spirit let the degster take off as a hero, and then they immediately returned to the heavy A position after figuring out Area B. At this time, FaZe directly came to the wave of doubts at the end: Broky directly cut into the bank, was killed by the chopper with USP, and olofmeister wanted to make up the gun and killed the bank, resulting in a successful reversal of The Spirit. FaZe then lost half of the game and eco innings in a row in case of a gun error, 7-6.
FaZe, who raised the spear, decided to re-control the construction site, speeding up Area B immediately after killing one person in the smoke and clearing the SC of the sewers to clean up the bag, and put down the mine bag with the probe point and the gun clearance point, and finally sdy was quickly shot off by the rain gun during the 1V2 endgame. In the last leg of the first half, FaZe directly accelerated the construction site to get a double kill, a wave of defeated Spirit's defensive default, and finally degster could only sigh in the face of the 1V5 endgame, and the first half ended 9-6.
In the second half of the pistol round, the Spirit four went to the A big, and then separated the two men to go to the toilet and attack separately. But they did not clear B's broky, causing him to quietly touch the toilet door after releasing people to get three instant kills, and killed Spirit in area A with his own strength. In the next round, olofmeister first killed one person in the long pipe mixed smoke, then released the person to catch two backs without the opponent cleaning the construction site, and then accepted two Ts that made up for the mistake of the gun, and played this beautiful five kills! Spirit, who entered the eco bureau, also failed to do a miracle, and was blasted by Rain with an MP9 standing on the 2nd floor, 12-6.
Coming to the first lance innings of the second half, Magixx scored his first kill in the sewers, before Spirit came to the construction site at about 35 seconds to prepare for a wave of attack. As a result, Karrigan, who had taken a detour all the way, came to the sewers and was killed by Mir turning around, causing Twistzz to be unable to return to the sky alone and being beaten into the eco bureau. In the case of the opponent's eco bureau itself suffered heavy losses, Spirit in this round planned to extinguish the long pipe fire to attack area B, but Twistzz reacted faster, immediately rushed to the front point after throwing the grenade to help Karrigan to collect the three people who came out of the smoke, directly breaking the opponent's attack, degster can only save the gun again at 1 minute and 30 seconds, 13-8.
Spirit, whose economy has collapsed again, intends to attack Zone A with the degster's sniper, and after a long default, the offensive motivation is recognized by the bank's jumping observation CT, which can only speed up Zone A. But their reload made a mistake, allowing broky at the front of the car to get a double kill to stand in zone A and beat the opponent into the half-start. However, Spirit first used three thunderbolts to kill the olofmeister who was watching from the double position at the half-start, and then directly attacked with the long tube, using a small gun to instantly disintegrate FaZe's defense, and also cleaned the opponent's gun, causing FaZe to lose the subsequent eco round, 14-10.
FaZe, who finally raised his spear, chose the three-man heavy B position, just when Spirit was planning to hit zone B again. At this time, the karrigan of the cylinder first pulled out to get a double kill, and then after disposing of the third person on the construction site, he used his position to control and kill the fourth person who was planning to make up the gun, and finally took the initiative to kill the long pipe overwhelmed degster and get another five kills! In the twenty-sixth round, Mir went directly to the construction site to come to a wave of silent contact, forcibly killing two people defending in area B, and the remaining three people in FaZe saw that there was no hope of returning to the defense and chose to protect the gun. Tasted the sweetness of Spirit and decided to mute contact to hit the B area, at this time the chopper did not know the point and wanted to clear the long pipe, dry pull sent out the first kill. Spirit finally decided to play Zone B, when Twistzz carried the sniper to the column known as the "FaZe Column", and used the position control like GuardianAN possession to quickly get four kills to end the game 16-11!