broky and FaZe pull an unexpected ace of trumps and advance to the semi-finals of the Major

On Thursday, in the quarterfinals, FaZe took revenge on Spirit for the loss in the Katowice final in February and won 2:1, and the decisive card was Vertigo, which FaZe had never played before.

“broky” has reached the semi-finals of the “Major”, which is held only 1-2 times a year, for the second time in his career. Previously, together with FaZe, he triumphed at the Antwerp Major tournament in 2022.

In the semi-finals, FaZe will play against France’s Vitality. The semi-final will be held on Saturday evening at 18:00. By entering the semifinals, “FaZe” has guaranteed a bonus of 80 thousand dollars and continues the fight for the main prize – half a million dollars, which will be awarded to the champion of the tournament.

FaZe’s win today was special because the third part of the game was played on Vertigo, a map they had always excluded from the available map list in tournaments until now. (There are seven maps in the CS2 game, and teams can choose which maps to play on before the match. Each team always has the option to exclude at least one map, that is, put it on their blacklist).

But this time, this unexpected choice worked in FaZe’s favor, as it also surprised the opponents in Team Spirit, because if FaZe had never played this map at all, then the opponents also had no research material to know what to expect. FaZe started the third map with a 7-0 run and took a comfortable 11-4 lead.

After that, FaZe went on a 12-5 run and won seven match points. However, the last nail in the opponent’s coffin could not be hammered for a long time, and “Spirit”, a team made up of four Russians and one Ukrainian player, who moved to Serbia after the start of the war, took the initiative, achieving 12:12 and overtime.

In this situation, there was the potential to continue the downward trend taken on a wave of emotions, but FaZe rallied and won 16-14 in extra time, enjoying the victory at the Copenhagen Arena.

Before that, Mirage had unexpectedly dominated FaZe’s first map, winning 13-7. The second map was FaZe’s favorite Nuke, and Saukants played great there, standing out with a statistical 28-20, but Spirit still won 19:16 in overtime.

“broky” also excelled in the third map after that with great stats and several excellent episodes. His overall match statistics were 71-48 and rating 1.32.

In both indicators, he was by far the best in the game and was recognized as the MVP of the game by the fans’ vote, as well as applying for the title of MVP of the entire “Major” with his statistics throughout the tournament.

“Spirit” thus ended the streak of seven victories. Although FaZe is currently the world leader, Spirit was considered the main favorite for the Major.

With the stop of “Spirit” in the quarter-finals of the “Major”, the tournament is over for the new esports star donkwho was the best of his team in today’s match with a 76-67 record and a 1.26 rating, but “broky” and company did not let him dominate this time like he did in other games, including the final in Katowice.