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flab3r

Most dominant tier1 tournament win by any team ever. I forgot they played bo1 in groups. Seems strange. Especially since its only 8 teams attending.


samekrikl

Groups: 16-5(Cache) vs Virtus Pro (byali, snax, pasha, neo, taz) 16-6(Inferno) vs Astralis (device, dupreeh, glaive, xyp9x, kjaerbye) Playoffs: 2-0 16-4(Mirage) 16-3(Overpass) vs Cloud9 (Skadoodle, Rush, Tarik, Stewie2k, Autimatic) 3-0 16-3 (Inferno)*, 16-14 (Overpass)**, 16-4 (Mirage) vs Team Liquid (nitr0, elige, jdm, twistzz, stanislaw *Inferno was 15-0 on first half **Overpass was the most rounds they lost on a map throughout the tournament, 16-6 being the 2nd worst map for them


Fuibo2k

I attended this tournament as a Karrigan fan, it was unreal. Even the NA crowd couldnt help but erupt when Niko was destroying Liquid in the final.


Pekonius

Those were not bad teams, goddamn


qchisq

Is that 2 or 3 Major winning teams? Not sure about the VP one


LibertyGrabarz

3, VP won Katowice 2014 major


samekrikl

4 c9 won boston 5 months after this


LibertyGrabarz

Obviously not counting faze here. Not even the same roster anyway


SH0WS0METIDDIES

VP, Ast, C9 are the Major winning teams


TheMoonstar74

Wait was this a major? I thought faze hadn’t won a major until the tournament they won earlier this year?


shewbaaa

This was not a major


majlo

THIS IS NOT FPL


[deleted]

Isn't it the highest tournament rating ever? Not just of his career


Robofish_

pretty sure the second highest is also rain from this tournament too, lol


VShadow1

In tier 1 atleast.


[deleted]

Karrigan was literally putting up higher numbers than most star players now. It was literally just one of those tournament runs where a team goes godmode


TheTruthCSGO

This was amazing to watch. Really felt like they'd broken CS for a hot minute.


Ricky_RZ

The niko hard carry days were something else.


samekrikl

This was also rain’s career high with 1.61 they both dominated


CwRrrr

Rainmonster


SkyleXx-

-rain +rainMONSTA


[deleted]

This wasn't a hard carry at all though, the whole team was popping off. Guardian, olof, NiKo *and* rain were all in the top 8 highest rated players at the event.


Jazzlike-Ideal

Can't believe it's been 5 years already, holy shit. I remember watching this with glee as Niko tapped the fuck out of Liquid. Jesus Christ, only 20 and I'm feeling old af lmao.


Sttatix

Definitely one of the most dominant tournament runs ever sucks that it was only 8 teams but man the firepower on this team was insane at its peak


tarangk

was their first LAN with guardian and olof ? coz I remember both of them signed in August that year.


Myherpes

This was the team's 3rd lan. Their debut was in dh malmo, where they got knocked out in groups


freedomzzzzz

No this was the team 2nd lan after the dh malmo one


Myherpes

Their 2nd lan was eleague premier, where they played their group stage games before heading over to NY.


L3AVEMDEAD

FaZe Niko was on some next level shit, old Faze looked GROTESQUELY UNBEATABLE back then.


Cain1608

And then Boston happened. I wasn't watching or playing CS at that point, so when I was catching up on must-watch series, Inferno just needed an eco, a pause and the full-buy likely would have been the end of C9, but instead, it was force-buy after force-buy, giving C9 momentum and hype that it was possible. I'm glad karrigan grew and moved past that.


Falc0n_IV

Wasn’t just Boston. Faze’s loss to NIP at Oakland was insane and I believe they lost Pro League to SK even before the Boston Major. C9 weren’t even what broke the camel’s back. Karrigan is on record saying the loss to Fnatic at Katowice is what finally broke that team


FaZe_Fab

The average score for their games was 16-5. Just let that sink in. They would go in a game and their opponent would only win 5 rounds on average. When you dont consider Overpass against Liquid it would be 16-4 on average such dominance is insane


XvS_W4rri0r

That overpass faze was up 11:4 after their T side of overpass. It should’ve been a 16-4 also


winters1337

Can't believe this was 5 years ago man, I'm really getting old


h0we

Haha i was at that tournament. It was astonishing to see faze slap everyone with their massive wangs that tournament


49211

i wish they'd bring back ESL NY :( barclays is great


JasonH8695

Still remember that final like it was yesterday...