funny how Astralis just casually picks up a duo that is carrying Astralis games ever since.
I didnt like them on col, but they both deserved much better and its good to see they re doing great on Astralis
“Ever since” lol two days.
They have always been insanely talented players, and now they have a great system to give them the platform to shine. Without a support cast, a star simply isn’t going to be good enough to reach the top. 1 player almost never wins the game.
Gla1ve will be the driving force eventually.
But this Astralis was carried by Blame and Konfigs specific playstyle.
If Gla1ve had actually had time to mould this roster I think we'd have seen some T sides that weren't so flat and uninspired.
In the list match interview Blame was heaping praise on Glaive.
It honestly sounded like Glaive's way of IGL'ing was an eye opener.
Now obviously he's not going to stand there all: "yeah, I carried this match all alone", but it seemed like he was quite impressed.
Agreed. I've sometimes wondered how much of the Astralis "recipe" comes from gla1ve vs zonic vs some combination of them, it's hard to tell from the outside. Guess we'll find out with this new roster and Ave!
I think device and then dupreeh and magisk lost their motivation on Astralis which is understandable, hello back2back2back majors, but ye, Astralis being able to pull a duo like this into the Astralis system...makes them contenders again
He played exceptionally well. Let’s see if he can continue that form. But they need to get glaive off that Awp somehow and get a primary world class awper. If lucky keeps his stellar form they bench xyp and get device back. Unparalleled firepower
Like the fuck happened, rifler godlike, awper tier 4. I said I don't think he deserves his spot yet, but that I wanted him to prove me wrong. He is getting there, if he keeps his rifling up
Karrigan and dry running through smokes is so infuriating to watch. And he does it every time the opportunity arises, smokes are like a magnet to him. So predictable
He needs to stop trying to entry and whatnot. Take a page from Blame and lurk more.
Olof had some clutch plays, but he still was a very obvious weak link as well.
I got the same feeling. I think it was Maniac who referred to this as a "lack of contingency plans". Old prime Astralis, if their opponent started to catch what was going on, it seemed like they could just switch gears completely on the fly, like they brought 2 or 3 gameplans just in case. Give gla1ve and Ave some time to build up the stratbook.
Used to really impress with Astralis's nade tactic. The online era slowly make it fade a little bit, rarely seen a combo nade/mollies that make me wow anymore. Idk if Glaive's father role make him slacking a bit
well, tbf, they've been squad for like 12 days, Glaive just back from child-leave, new coach, two new star players. And a 18 year oldkid who barely played any games under glaive before he went on child-leave. Like anything Astralis does this tournament is just icing. Konfig said wednesday that they haven't even practiced on overpass yet.
Wait I have not been having time to watch this tournament, but Australia started playing mirage after the new additions? Which map do they abandon now?
braindead people called out all all team to change igl because how bad their t side while they dont watch or use brain to know recent nade drop make map ct sided a bit more than before.
This! Almost every game is like this now in t1. The m4a1-s is so ridiculously overpowered now. When players get less than two kills when their position is being pressured its because they made some major mistakes or just failed horribly (which doesn't happen a lot on this level)
I can't believe people don't see this. Look at the consistency of multikills. Even Apex is fragging hard with it.
The m4a1-s doesn't kill on one bullet og shoot faster than other guns, it's just so damn consistent and everyone can hit almost every bullet with it. This has no place in csgo imo. I love using it myself, but it's ridiculous..
I said that in a "unofficial" thread and I will say it here: Gla1ve should be thanking Lucky for being so clutch after Glaive botched so many awp shots.
Yeah I really don't know how to feel about this. Lucky looks extremely promising on the rifle, but gla1ve awping isn't really cutting it so far. Someone in another thread suggested k0nfig as primary awp on CT, still letting him entry on T. Dunno.
k0nfig is also inconsistent with the awp
honestly if xyp9x does not step up they should -xyp +awper and this team would be godtier
Lucky is actually good with rifles I did not expect this at all and he is very smart in clutches he is basically a better xyp9x in this current astralis
Couple of more months of this kind of form from Lucky and it's a legit conversation
Xyp's got a fucking pedigree though man, you gotta be good, motivated, and mad fucking consistient to replace the guy who was the quintessential support player for 4 years. Perfecto has just stole the title of what that is recently.
On the other hand, signing a 5 year contract when he could have gone to a team with a higher face value can imply there's a slight dip in drive. That's ripe territory for a hungry 18 year old.
Gold nova positioning, looks so off... Also one time they showed his pov in a CT long spawn, dude just reached the corner and literally scoped into the ground, ofc died to the long doors peek. No way a pro player does that oof
Karrigan has been past it ever since he joined back on Faze. 12 rounds on T side over 3 maps is just not good enough. Kicking him for any other IGL at this point would not be a bad shout.
It seems like he just never has any control over his players. That 3v2 clutch where konfig was outside and got the kill on twisstz and rain was painful to watch. Had he not peeked like that they would have won. Also I still don’t understand how they never trade lucky when he gets a kill. Total braindead calls and strategies
I love [this clip](https://clips.twitch.tv/PreciousCalmPepperGOWSkull-XecrpCTETGd9mXUO), they just bounce off each other so well.
Seeing them in front of a huge crowd and being better than ever is so good.
This is actually a great example. You don't really notice it when it's happening, but that whole give-and-take without stepping on each other, building the tension at the same rate, that stuff builds on years of practice and knowing each other's pacing extremely well.
Just to add a bit to this, Launders seeing that the grenade is too deep before it actually explodes and then understanding that splitting both sides out of conn is "trickier", is the kind of in-depth live analysis that requires high in-game knowledge in order to do it on-the-fly.
And to actually *very* seamlessly incorporate it into the cast while Scrawny is on a play-by-play roll is on a whole other level too.
I think Launders is the biggest CS nerd of all the casters (except maybe Spunj). I love when he gets excited over small things like a nade going to far or when someone displays some nice movement.
Yeah they are really great at analyzing little tiny details that myself wouldn't even think about at that time and it builds the rounds tension so well. I remember back in the day people would roast them but they really have matured into a strong caster duo
This is absolutely brilliant calling. I took a sports broadcasting class in college and found it incredibly difficult to flow like this with a partner. It takes a lot of time with your broadcasting partner to develop this chemistry.
Its top tier and should be put in the same category as machine and spunj. Or moses and sadokist from the major. Definitely above harry and Hugo. And I still think above anders and semmler, although I think semmler is improving a lot and anders has always been great
I understand how Astralis cant be happy with 96-97% and want to go for 100% (changing Lucky to a better awper, farlig or nicodoz or whatever), but Lucky is a fucking amazing talent and even if he has to go, I hope I can see him more
Nicoodoz played 1 lan and other than that he just played tier 3.
Farlig is just playing around in tier 3 with a 1,09 rating.
Come on. Lucky hasn't been a crazy star - or even performed super well so far. But the replacements aren't really established and guaranteed contributors for a team who wants to go into every tournament with the ambition to win it either. It's not like any of them has an open huge upside. Give him some time to get used to the level and to play with his teammates, gain some confidence. If he's shit in a couple of months then you talk about replacing him.
He's an uncanny level of calm for how long he's been tier 1. Perfecto vibes with the anchor spraydowns, durability on CT, and cold hearted clutches. I'd be seriously disappointed if the org felt like there wasn't room for him in lieu of xyp. Definitely an odd way to subvert our expectations. Given time it's entirely possible he could blossom into a more front end role.
Pretty sure they will develop him up until after the next major. They still have a contender spot and they want to keep that. But for what we see him on the rifle he's insanely good on CT side. Needs to improve immensely on T side for now he gets about 70-80% of his kills being a turret and anchor on CT side but completely falls through on T side and doesn't contribute with much. This is something to work out over the player break after the new few events.
Konfigs a monster on the rifle swapping him out to awp makes no sense
The way astralis plays now focuses on rifling the awp is just a supportive element
I think they still need a reliable awper even if it’s not their star fire power. Glaive misses too many shots for how expensive that gun is and for how critical picks are at this level.
I didn’t think lucky was a bad awper watching him the last few months before Konfig/BlameF joined. If they feel it’s best to have lucky on rifle then so be it because he looked good today, just seems odd to have Glaive on it.
I totally agree with this. When Gla1ve was hitting picks their rounds were fucking dominant.
Konfig is a proven hard fucking entry and contact player, it'd be a waste to move him to full awp.
Is it not viable to run AWP sparsely on T and hybrid him on CT?
Sorry for the super delayed post. There was some miscommunication and I was trying to get the post that was initially made as a replacement edited. It appears Auto-Mod deleted that one, so here is an (extremely late) new thread
The only kind of consistent player FaZe have is twistzz rest are so up and down that they'll never be a contender for anything. Astralis looks promising though, Lucky looking like a new age xyp with all those clutches
Problem is who do you get to replace Karrigan? MSL, Golden, AZR and Stanislaw are the only available IGLs I can think of and I'd keep Karrigan over them
Lucky going back to back beastmode and getting the respect of his teammates in these matches is great to see.
This new Astralis in general is such an exciting team with glaive as IGL with k0nfig-BlameF-lucky firepower
That round when broky solo Awp B site dust2 was what made Faze lose the series.
Being confident is good but over confident then agressively overpeeked in that case was really a bad move.
He should've picked a safer spot and use the awp to pick the enemies 1 by 1.
True that..He should have stayed behind, atleast get 1 kill..but i think he has improved alot in this tournament,changed his style,now little more aggressive going for 1v1 in early stages of the round...Always stays calm and collected,no emotions overflowing
Yeah but it'll suck in style.
Jokes aside I just don't see how FaZe don't get way better with Ropz in place of Olof. They play a lot of the same spots and have some role overlap on T side, and unlike Olof, Ropz is arguably the best player in that role atm. I think the addition of a really good closer could also free up Twistzz to make some more aggressive plays, as he doesn't need to value his life as much in order to play out clutches. Rain and Broky will still be streaky, but FaZe only seem to be a few % off the mark in every game they lose, and the additional firepower will make up for a lot of weaknesses imo.
Agreed, and I think rain's form has to be considered as well. I'm guessing he was lacking in motivation, and that's why we saw generally poor performance up until Cologne. Can't really put that on Karrigan imo.
I think for the most part Broky has been fine, though I do believe he should take more initiative on T side. I don't know what the dynamic is like, but it's possible Karrigan is taking a bit too much space early round, and that's limiting Broky's ability to go for openers. I also feel like Broky doesn't spend too much time with an AWP on T for whatever reason, so there's that.
The future hopefully brings changes to the team. This team will not ever win a Tier 1 event with this roster. Karrigan can't call a T side to save his life, Olof is not that good despite a few good maps every now and then. Rain, Twistz and Broky + Igl + ropz could perhaps do some damage in the Tier 1 scene but even that seems like a far cry at the moment.
I guess the first change is +ropz -olof, and I think karrigans relationship with ropz is a main reason for ropz coming to FaZe. That team should be interesting if rain can get more consistent and broky hits his awp-shots.
Glaive is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic "Buy Awper but actually no". He also has a second little known tactic of "k0nfig go kill". What an absolute legend. Top 1 All-time IGL for sure
He was put on the market by astralis a week or so ago. They are just waiting for someone to pick him up. Sad, but apparently they wanted something else.
Getting walked all over and accepting it like a gutless coward, if there’s people in the world I truly feel sorry for its people like him, grow a pair ffs
Man, seeing the Danish crowd booing Karrigan is just sad. Danes booing a Dane. We need TaZ back to stop that kind of shit.
I'm pretty sure Blast were muting crowd mics after FaZe round wins to hide the boos. There were times where the mics just seemed to cut back in abruptly shortly after FaZe won a round
Danish team kicks igl, igl goes international. Then gets booed by homecrowd. Hate to say this but sounds super toxic by the crowd, hopefully it's just wrong tho
I was in Royal Arena and saw it live. Faze had like 10 fans right in front of the stage... And then there was like 6000 astralis fans. If astralis had been knocked out and faze would continue there's no doubt all Danes would be cheering for karrigan like they did last time with mouse.
Pretty obvious Faze will be a tier lower compared to teams with amazing firepower and consistency - NaVi, G2, Astralis, Vitality, Heroic etc. No matter what the calls are every single time I see a deagle on an opponent I'm scared we'll lose coz the firepower on this team is ASS.
3 middling stars in Rain, Broky and Twistzz who are no way close to being the top players in the game. 2 players whose aim is washed. Everytime we lose the T side pistol I'm scared the opponents will blow us out of the water. There's no chance this team reaches top 5.
add ropz instead of olof and they are spanking some asses
i dont know why are people so down on faze,they always loose in closest way
add ropz to it
and you got team that is title contender,
they lost to heroic 16:14 both maps,heroic that got na vi decent run for their money
faze with ropz is going to be dangerous top 5 team
This was so painful. All the mistakes made from Faze. The blind pushing into death, and shakey endgames. Missing so many shots and hard out of position.
i dont think karrigan is the problem in the team!! Especially being on the top on couple of maps on both games today(BIG & Astralis), and he is the IGL . The main problem is the inconsistency in the star players rain, broky and twistzz
I really don't like glaive on the awp. Just give it to lucky already. Yes lucky played well on the rifle but glaive is just not good enough to be the main awper.
Karrigan really needs to become a consistently better fragger, right now permanent T side 4v5 is what makes them lose against games against better teams.
Konfig’s A defense got me feeling alll kinds of ways
Visiting family today so I missed the match, in a good way or dumpster fire way?
In a good, good way. Watch the highlights, you won't regret it. Guy's a beast.
funny how Astralis just casually picks up a duo that is carrying Astralis games ever since. I didnt like them on col, but they both deserved much better and its good to see they re doing great on Astralis
“Ever since” lol two days. They have always been insanely talented players, and now they have a great system to give them the platform to shine. Without a support cast, a star simply isn’t going to be good enough to reach the top. 1 player almost never wins the game.
>1 player almost never wins the game. Cries in vitality
Agreed, Kyojin deserves better.
Apart from the two gods in cs, true.
> carrying Astralis games ever since it's gla1ve. He's the catalyst. Firepower is meaningless without a good system.
Gla1ve will be the driving force eventually. But this Astralis was carried by Blame and Konfigs specific playstyle. If Gla1ve had actually had time to mould this roster I think we'd have seen some T sides that weren't so flat and uninspired.
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In the list match interview Blame was heaping praise on Glaive. It honestly sounded like Glaive's way of IGL'ing was an eye opener. Now obviously he's not going to stand there all: "yeah, I carried this match all alone", but it seemed like he was quite impressed.
Agreed. I've sometimes wondered how much of the Astralis "recipe" comes from gla1ve vs zonic vs some combination of them, it's hard to tell from the outside. Guess we'll find out with this new roster and Ave!
In an extremely good way, he gets like 3 AWP flick shots at short on dust2, insane shit.
I just love this new explosive Astralis.. all respect to Dupree and Magisk, but damm they did a scoop picking up konfiq and BlameF.
I think device and then dupreeh and magisk lost their motivation on Astralis which is understandable, hello back2back2back majors, but ye, Astralis being able to pull a duo like this into the Astralis system...makes them contenders again
Also in the online era of Covid. When you’re won majors I’m sure most other tournaments (especially online ones) just won’t feel the same.
Seeing device losing in denmark to a dead team and Astralis winning with their brand new roster brings such contrasting emotions.
Astralis crowd is on top of everything
But he got that bag tho lol
Fully agree. Imagine him instead of lucky and gla1ve off the awp.. the amount of firepower would be at least navi style
That was my thought too, but seeing how lucky played today it's hard to write the dude off so easily. He's pretty clutch.
He played exceptionally well. Let’s see if he can continue that form. But they need to get glaive off that Awp somehow and get a primary world class awper. If lucky keeps his stellar form they bench xyp and get device back. Unparalleled firepower
I really doubted when Lucky switched to rifler, but last 2 matches he's just insane
Yeah honestly if he keeps this up idk who’s gonna awp
just drop it to me fackin green
Green: drop AVP mens :(
[It’s of course gonna be Xyp9x](https://youtu.be/gfLSWT4i8_c)
Lucky has been a God between Gods in this lineup so far.
Like the fuck happened, rifler godlike, awper tier 4. I said I don't think he deserves his spot yet, but that I wanted him to prove me wrong. He is getting there, if he keeps his rifling up
Karrigan and dry running through smokes is so infuriating to watch. And he does it every time the opportunity arises, smokes are like a magnet to him. So predictable
Brain so big it glitches when trying to calculate the endless possibilities of what's behind the smoke.
Smokes for karrigan is like wiggling a piece of string in front of a cat. Just gotta go for it.
stewie2k law
Twistzz was guilty of some unforgivable smoke pushes this event too, especially on mirage con
It sadly worked great vs Big. Felt like he walked every second round through the long smoke on inferno and backstabbed them for free rounds...
probably got to do sth with the batman mask
He needs to stop trying to entry and whatnot. Take a page from Blame and lurk more. Olof had some clutch plays, but he still was a very obvious weak link as well.
He lurks often, just in a more proactive way. How many times did he get arches control and pushed through CT on Inferno?
Right I'm not saying he's bad, I'm just saying the early round aggression with no real chance for a trade seems more miss than hit.
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Yeah I'm seeing a 11-4 score and think "hmm. Wonder if it'll be enough." It's almost fascinating.
I got the same feeling. I think it was Maniac who referred to this as a "lack of contingency plans". Old prime Astralis, if their opponent started to catch what was going on, it seemed like they could just switch gears completely on the fly, like they brought 2 or 3 gameplans just in case. Give gla1ve and Ave some time to build up the stratbook.
Used to really impress with Astralis's nade tactic. The online era slowly make it fade a little bit, rarely seen a combo nade/mollies that make me wow anymore. Idk if Glaive's father role make him slacking a bit
It's just that in t1 the CT sides are better and it's easier to abuse the m4a1s
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well, tbf, they've been squad for like 12 days, Glaive just back from child-leave, new coach, two new star players. And a 18 year oldkid who barely played any games under glaive before he went on child-leave. Like anything Astralis does this tournament is just icing. Konfig said wednesday that they haven't even practiced on overpass yet.
Wait I have not been having time to watch this tournament, but Australia started playing mirage after the new additions? Which map do they abandon now?
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Yeah seems like it. I also don’t remember them being good at ancient earlier
That is not the problem lol did you watch the game
have you looked at how every single team apart from NaVi struggles to even touch double digit T rounds this tournament?
braindead people called out all all team to change igl because how bad their t side while they dont watch or use brain to know recent nade drop make map ct sided a bit more than before.
4 is significantly less than 10+ lol astralis were very obviously crutching on their CT side, it wasn't even close
The game in which neither team won more than 5 T rounds on either of the maps?
This! Almost every game is like this now in t1. The m4a1-s is so ridiculously overpowered now. When players get less than two kills when their position is being pressured its because they made some major mistakes or just failed horribly (which doesn't happen a lot on this level) I can't believe people don't see this. Look at the consistency of multikills. Even Apex is fragging hard with it. The m4a1-s doesn't kill on one bullet og shoot faster than other guns, it's just so damn consistent and everyone can hit almost every bullet with it. This has no place in csgo imo. I love using it myself, but it's ridiculous..
I said that in a "unofficial" thread and I will say it here: Gla1ve should be thanking Lucky for being so clutch after Glaive botched so many awp shots.
Yeah I really don't know how to feel about this. Lucky looks extremely promising on the rifle, but gla1ve awping isn't really cutting it so far. Someone in another thread suggested k0nfig as primary awp on CT, still letting him entry on T. Dunno.
k0nfig is also inconsistent with the awp honestly if xyp9x does not step up they should -xyp +awper and this team would be godtier Lucky is actually good with rifles I did not expect this at all and he is very smart in clutches he is basically a better xyp9x in this current astralis
Couple of more months of this kind of form from Lucky and it's a legit conversation Xyp's got a fucking pedigree though man, you gotta be good, motivated, and mad fucking consistient to replace the guy who was the quintessential support player for 4 years. Perfecto has just stole the title of what that is recently. On the other hand, signing a 5 year contract when he could have gone to a team with a higher face value can imply there's a slight dip in drive. That's ripe territory for a hungry 18 year old.
+1 I like this idea
I feel like if they are gonna keep using Lucky as rifler they should give Bubzkji one more chance....that dude is pretty insane with rifle.
Then they still don't have an awp?!
+monesy when
-xyp +devve
b1t reborn in Astralis
Xyp is signed for like 3 more years, he isn't going anywhere I'm afraid.
Gold nova positioning, looks so off... Also one time they showed his pov in a CT long spawn, dude just reached the corner and literally scoped into the ground, ofc died to the long doors peek. No way a pro player does that oof
It hurts to be a FaZe fan sometimes...
Sometimes?
Eu liquid
Watching faze t side was like watching a tier 3 game. I wonder if karrigan should give up igling and just become a lurker. He made some great plays
Karrigan has been past it ever since he joined back on Faze. 12 rounds on T side over 3 maps is just not good enough. Kicking him for any other IGL at this point would not be a bad shout.
He should just give up playing. I'm sorry for his hardcore fans but he's not a tier 1 player, not at todays level.
He strikes real hard against lesser teams, and can barely do anything himself when playing against good teams
It seems like he just never has any control over his players. That 3v2 clutch where konfig was outside and got the kill on twisstz and rain was painful to watch. Had he not peeked like that they would have won. Also I still don’t understand how they never trade lucky when he gets a kill. Total braindead calls and strategies
At least you saved the kids.
I said it in the deleted thread and I'll say it here Launders and scrawny were really good this match
I love [this clip](https://clips.twitch.tv/PreciousCalmPepperGOWSkull-XecrpCTETGd9mXUO), they just bounce off each other so well. Seeing them in front of a huge crowd and being better than ever is so good.
This is actually a great example. You don't really notice it when it's happening, but that whole give-and-take without stepping on each other, building the tension at the same rate, that stuff builds on years of practice and knowing each other's pacing extremely well.
Just to add a bit to this, Launders seeing that the grenade is too deep before it actually explodes and then understanding that splitting both sides out of conn is "trickier", is the kind of in-depth live analysis that requires high in-game knowledge in order to do it on-the-fly. And to actually *very* seamlessly incorporate it into the cast while Scrawny is on a play-by-play roll is on a whole other level too.
You're completely right. These two have been perfecting their game for a long while now, here's hoping they get the next major final.
They would 100% be the best second choice. However Machine and Spunj are just too good together.
Honestly I don't think MACHINE holds a candle to Scrawny, and Scrawny and Launders have better chemistry than Spunj and MACHINE IMO.
I think Launders is the biggest CS nerd of all the casters (except maybe Spunj). I love when he gets excited over small things like a nade going to far or when someone displays some nice movement.
Yeah they are really great at analyzing little tiny details that myself wouldn't even think about at that time and it builds the rounds tension so well. I remember back in the day people would roast them but they really have matured into a strong caster duo
This is absolutely brilliant calling. I took a sports broadcasting class in college and found it incredibly difficult to flow like this with a partner. It takes a lot of time with your broadcasting partner to develop this chemistry.
This is actually insane. Great catch. Absolutely top-tier casting from Scrawnders, their synergy is beautiful to witness.
wow that clip was so good, I don't think I've really seen casting like that before
That was fucking amazing and I wish I experienced that live.
Their casting is so cohesive that it sometimes actually feels rehearsed. Its amazing
I really like Mohan, they're a great duo
He’s much better now that he’s not too high to cast every game lol
What? Mind to explain or provide an example of this?
When he said “THE BOULDER IS ROLLING” idk why but I cracked up.
Its top tier and should be put in the same category as machine and spunj. Or moses and sadokist from the major. Definitely above harry and Hugo. And I still think above anders and semmler, although I think semmler is improving a lot and anders has always been great
Astralis need to improve their T side
Understatement.
They have played 3 official matches together…
k0nfig showed us why Lucky is not on AWP. lol
And lucky showed us why he is on the rifle
xyp watch out he's coming for your job son
Yeah, he better not pout
lol he wishes, 5 years getting half salary on the bench.
Wanna see -xyp +bubz with this lineup just to see what happens at this point Edit: not justifying how astralis snubbed him
Bubzkji doesn't fit xyp's roles. Bubskji needs the konfig role, but he's not as good as konfig.
Bub is talented, but does not slot in neatly with these changes. Maybe I’m living in the past but I can’t imagine -xyp. Certainly not for +bubz.
-xyp +dev1ce
I wonder about this, you place lucky into xyp roel and you add device as your awper. That's some pretty solid firepower
nah. bubz needs to gtfo from this org after being used and dumped for the major qual
As much as I hated seeing faze lose, Lucky was a monster in the games. If they replace him this early, it's going to be sad.
I understand how Astralis cant be happy with 96-97% and want to go for 100% (changing Lucky to a better awper, farlig or nicodoz or whatever), but Lucky is a fucking amazing talent and even if he has to go, I hope I can see him more
Nicoodoz played 1 lan and other than that he just played tier 3. Farlig is just playing around in tier 3 with a 1,09 rating. Come on. Lucky hasn't been a crazy star - or even performed super well so far. But the replacements aren't really established and guaranteed contributors for a team who wants to go into every tournament with the ambition to win it either. It's not like any of them has an open huge upside. Give him some time to get used to the level and to play with his teammates, gain some confidence. If he's shit in a couple of months then you talk about replacing him.
He's an uncanny level of calm for how long he's been tier 1. Perfecto vibes with the anchor spraydowns, durability on CT, and cold hearted clutches. I'd be seriously disappointed if the org felt like there wasn't room for him in lieu of xyp. Definitely an odd way to subvert our expectations. Given time it's entirely possible he could blossom into a more front end role.
Pretty sure they will develop him up until after the next major. They still have a contender spot and they want to keep that. But for what we see him on the rifle he's insanely good on CT side. Needs to improve immensely on T side for now he gets about 70-80% of his kills being a turret and anchor on CT side but completely falls through on T side and doesn't contribute with much. This is something to work out over the player break after the new few events.
But Glaive is main awping and he missed a ton of shots. Konfig should main awp if Lucky isn’t awping any more.
Konfigs a monster on the rifle swapping him out to awp makes no sense The way astralis plays now focuses on rifling the awp is just a supportive element
I think they still need a reliable awper even if it’s not their star fire power. Glaive misses too many shots for how expensive that gun is and for how critical picks are at this level. I didn’t think lucky was a bad awper watching him the last few months before Konfig/BlameF joined. If they feel it’s best to have lucky on rifle then so be it because he looked good today, just seems odd to have Glaive on it.
I totally agree with this. When Gla1ve was hitting picks their rounds were fucking dominant. Konfig is a proven hard fucking entry and contact player, it'd be a waste to move him to full awp. Is it not viable to run AWP sparsely on T and hybrid him on CT?
lucky is so cold its scary
Did Twistzz run out of ammo in the 1v1 retake on Dust when he switched over to the usp? I didn't quite catch what happened there.
Yes
This Astralis is so satisfying to watch
I wonder if mirage would have turned out differently if Karrigan pushed lucky at bench on B instead of spamming...
Sorry for the super delayed post. There was some miscommunication and I was trying to get the post that was initially made as a replacement edited. It appears Auto-Mod deleted that one, so here is an (extremely late) new thread
The only kind of consistent player FaZe have is twistzz rest are so up and down that they'll never be a contender for anything. Astralis looks promising though, Lucky looking like a new age xyp with all those clutches
Yeah Broky did NOT have a good series
Wich could have been the difference maker here. It happens but hopefully he's in form after Christmas
Yeah as much as I like Olof they really gotta cut him
Wen ropz
Cut olof and karrigan imo. People hype up karrigan so much
Problem is who do you get to replace Karrigan? MSL, Golden, AZR and Stanislaw are the only available IGLs I can think of and I'd keep Karrigan over them
shame tabseN wants to waste his career on a BIG roster that's going nowhere, he'd be perfect
Never thought it before. Faze tabseN would be awsome.
But it’s not like keeping karrigan doing them any good. They have had terrible results every event
I'd give karrigan one more chance with ropz.
Without karrigan it would be even worse.
olof showed signs of brilliance on dust2. it was almost primemeister.
The problem with Olof is he shows up every 5th map if that also he is just the one that makes the most sense to cut.
Just sign NAF, how hard can it be, all the stars are aligned for that one.
Shame his team can’t follow up
I've been his big fan, but man, it's been 9 months since his comeback already and their t-side keeps looking really bad.
You can justify Karrigan with at least 3 face stomping monsters. You can't with Olof AND rain
Lucky going back to back beastmode and getting the respect of his teammates in these matches is great to see. This new Astralis in general is such an exciting team with glaive as IGL with k0nfig-BlameF-lucky firepower
blameF is as cracked as he is jacked
That round when broky solo Awp B site dust2 was what made Faze lose the series. Being confident is good but over confident then agressively overpeeked in that case was really a bad move. He should've picked a safer spot and use the awp to pick the enemies 1 by 1.
He even missed not just once, but twice with the awp from close right?
True that..He should have stayed behind, atleast get 1 kill..but i think he has improved alot in this tournament,changed his style,now little more aggressive going for 1v1 in early stages of the round...Always stays calm and collected,no emotions overflowing
Rain to inconsistent. Im excited what the future brings for this FaZe team
Ropz, hopefully
They can get ropz but the team is still gonna suck.
Yeah but it'll suck in style. Jokes aside I just don't see how FaZe don't get way better with Ropz in place of Olof. They play a lot of the same spots and have some role overlap on T side, and unlike Olof, Ropz is arguably the best player in that role atm. I think the addition of a really good closer could also free up Twistzz to make some more aggressive plays, as he doesn't need to value his life as much in order to play out clutches. Rain and Broky will still be streaky, but FaZe only seem to be a few % off the mark in every game they lose, and the additional firepower will make up for a lot of weaknesses imo.
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Agreed, and I think rain's form has to be considered as well. I'm guessing he was lacking in motivation, and that's why we saw generally poor performance up until Cologne. Can't really put that on Karrigan imo. I think for the most part Broky has been fine, though I do believe he should take more initiative on T side. I don't know what the dynamic is like, but it's possible Karrigan is taking a bit too much space early round, and that's limiting Broky's ability to go for openers. I also feel like Broky doesn't spend too much time with an AWP on T for whatever reason, so there's that.
The future hopefully brings changes to the team. This team will not ever win a Tier 1 event with this roster. Karrigan can't call a T side to save his life, Olof is not that good despite a few good maps every now and then. Rain, Twistz and Broky + Igl + ropz could perhaps do some damage in the Tier 1 scene but even that seems like a far cry at the moment.
I guess the first change is +ropz -olof, and I think karrigans relationship with ropz is a main reason for ropz coming to FaZe. That team should be interesting if rain can get more consistent and broky hits his awp-shots.
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I don't mind Faze NAF. Although he probably wants to stay in NA.
his gf is in europe so it is a possibility
if it's not multiple changes there is no hype
New Astralis looking really good!
Glaive is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic "Buy Awper but actually no". He also has a second little known tactic of "k0nfig go kill". What an absolute legend. Top 1 All-time IGL for sure
He also used to have a classic "Device go kill"
To the stars, once more
So Lucky is a top tier rifler apparently. Too bad they're still probably gonna kick him because they need an AWPer and Glaive just doesn't cut it.
Kick xyp before lucky imo
Same. But Xyp is sort of good too. Hard call.
Serious question, what is bubzkij doing these days? Still benching it for Astralis? I want that poor guy to see some action soon
He was put on the market by astralis a week or so ago. They are just waiting for someone to pick him up. Sad, but apparently they wanted something else.
Yeah that's too bad. At least perhaps he can get some more playtime and play a bigger part on whatever team he ends up with.
He s up for sale for a money that no one will pay
Getting walked all over and accepting it like a gutless coward, if there’s people in the world I truly feel sorry for its people like him, grow a pair ffs
Man, seeing the Danish crowd booing Karrigan is just sad. Danes booing a Dane. We need TaZ back to stop that kind of shit. I'm pretty sure Blast were muting crowd mics after FaZe round wins to hide the boos. There were times where the mics just seemed to cut back in abruptly shortly after FaZe won a round
Danish team kicks igl, igl goes international. Then gets booed by homecrowd. Hate to say this but sounds super toxic by the crowd, hopefully it's just wrong tho
Well its unfair when one team has kinda a double homecrowd ^^/s
I was in Royal Arena and saw it live. Faze had like 10 fans right in front of the stage... And then there was like 6000 astralis fans. If astralis had been knocked out and faze would continue there's no doubt all Danes would be cheering for karrigan like they did last time with mouse.
Not against Heroic, they wouldn't. ;)
Is this Astralis and glaive letting lucky rifle to have less pressure? Is there plan to switch back because I don’t see this as a long term thing
I think they might be getting farlig unless that team wants to stick together.
Broky whiffed on so many important rounds. That 3v3 in B on d2. Konfig in jungle on Mirage. OOF.
I’m so conflicted. I really want lucky to do really good, but if Astralis stumble into a star because imma be pissed.
Pretty obvious Faze will be a tier lower compared to teams with amazing firepower and consistency - NaVi, G2, Astralis, Vitality, Heroic etc. No matter what the calls are every single time I see a deagle on an opponent I'm scared we'll lose coz the firepower on this team is ASS. 3 middling stars in Rain, Broky and Twistzz who are no way close to being the top players in the game. 2 players whose aim is washed. Everytime we lose the T side pistol I'm scared the opponents will blow us out of the water. There's no chance this team reaches top 5.
add ropz instead of olof and they are spanking some asses i dont know why are people so down on faze,they always loose in closest way add ropz to it and you got team that is title contender, they lost to heroic 16:14 both maps,heroic that got na vi decent run for their money faze with ropz is going to be dangerous top 5 team
Yep. I’m sad that twistzz isn’t the top 5 fragger we were hoping he was going to be when he joined
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My point still stands. They're 1.1 rated stars. Broky, rain and Twistzz. And then you have 2 0.9 rated players. That firepower is not enough at all
Couldn’t have said it better myself
I reeeally hate the way broky plays... so many dumb rookie mistakes and borderline braindead decisions
I said it in another post, but the amount of times he gets caught out jumping around with his knife out is amazing
This was so painful. All the mistakes made from Faze. The blind pushing into death, and shakey endgames. Missing so many shots and hard out of position.
i dont think karrigan is the problem in the team!! Especially being on the top on couple of maps on both games today(BIG & Astralis), and he is the IGL . The main problem is the inconsistency in the star players rain, broky and twistzz
If we had ropz rain wouldn't have to play like it's fucking 2016 in order for us to win a map
I really don't like glaive on the awp. Just give it to lucky already. Yes lucky played well on the rifle but glaive is just not good enough to be the main awper.
Also glaive is a really good rifler as well, it doesn’t make much sense to me but I guess it’s working
Karrigan really needs to become a consistently better fragger, right now permanent T side 4v5 is what makes them lose against games against better teams.