Animal Squad win FACEIT Oceania

18-10-2015 14:55

FACEIT League Stage 3's Oceanic division has come to an end, with Animal Squad qualifying for the season finals, at DreamHack Winter.

While the European and the North American divisions are still ongoing, the Oceanic division came to an end this Sunday, with the final match day featuring an exciting showdown between Renegades and Immunity.

However, neither of the Australian giants will be going to the season finals, at DreamHack Winter, as Animal Squad claimed bragging rights following a four-way tie at the top that also involved fSociety.

Renegades (pictured here) and Immunity left frustrated

Animal Squad, who consist of three Australian and two New Zealander players, beat all teams who finished level on points with them and thus had the best head-to-head record of the quartet.

The team will attend DreamHack Winter, from November 26-28, with the following roster:

Mike "⁠ap0c⁠" Aliferis
Sam "⁠mizu⁠" Richardson
Steve "⁠busta⁠" Brewer
Razmik "⁠RaZ⁠" Bastadjan
Chris "⁠ofnu⁠" Hanley

sick

2015-10-18 14:56

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16-0 inc for them, they will fly there to achieve nothing.

2015-10-19 03:36

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They may not win the tournament but it is definitely a good experience for them and they deserve it undoubtedly.

2015-10-19 04:09

Free Euro trip, you mad?

2015-10-23 09:08

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Nope, why would I care? I can go to europe any time I want. I don't live off centrelink...

2015-10-23 13:42

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you care, you really do care, you're just one big carebear

2015-10-23 13:47

Ive been to Europe and im going to the USA, i still would want a free trip. that's just silly to say you wouldnt.

2015-10-23 14:54

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Why get a free trip and be a pussy, when u can pay for your own shit like a man...

2015-10-23 15:08

what an upset

nice 1

great

noooice

yes ofc

tier1

nice

2015-10-18 14:57

So, there's only SIX teams in the league and you don't do double round robin? Seems kinds BS to me.

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I totally agree man... even from the first stage i thought it was bs

2015-10-18 14:58

that, and i don't think the head to head should be considered in bo1's.

2015-10-18 15:00

twitter.com/jamesbardolph/status/6557152..

2015-10-18 15:02

OCE and team stability.... Hahah nice one. Teams are constantly changing members.

2015-10-18 15:11

Maybe if they had decent qualification systems for big tournaments like this, they'd be more stable. James has it completely backwards.

2015-10-18 15:18

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Clearly you don't know the AU scene... It's always been unstable in terms of people sticking to a core roster besides the top 2 teams.

2015-10-18 15:32

Clearly you don't understand what I said. The point is that you don't say "we'll do better after your relatively small scene with almost no opportunity is more stable" because that shit doesn't work. You say "we're gonna give you good tournaments so you have incentive for stability."

2015-10-18 15:37

I agree with you. You need to give people motivation and hope in order to achive what they want, not "demands" and then leave them be.. That's never going to work and James doesn't know it :/

2015-10-18 16:23

2015-10-18 16:28

2015-10-18 19:27

dumbest shit i ever heard of, NOT EVEN BO3 LMAO

2015-10-18 15:55

expected

STRAYA M8

FUKIN HELL M9 ILL BE CELEBRATIN WITH A BARBIE M8 ITS A BARBIE DOLL M9

2015-10-19 00:11

this team won over renegades and immunity XD

bo1

2015-10-18 17:37

fucked

ez for tier1 team

They won't have a chance in the finals.. wasted spot.

Come on dude they need experience to grow and become a better team, why are you so mean Bangladesh? =P

2015-10-18 15:36

They just suck

2015-10-18 16:19

Because I want good finals. I would've understood it if they upset everyone and made it into the finals in a convincing fashion, but they had just as many wins as RNG and Immunity.

2015-10-18 16:37

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But they did beat both of them.

2015-10-18 21:46

Sure, one time each in BO1s. BO1 upsets happen all the time. Not to mention that they probably focused a lot on them and there was some counter-stratting going on. They also convincingly lost against Exile5 and didn't have it easy against fSociety, two teams they probably didn't research. RNG or Immunity would've had bigger chances in the finals.

2015-10-18 22:21

rip au cs [*]

"renegades has no competition in australia and will therefor move to NA"

"There was an upset in a format where 5 online bo1s decides who goes to LAN... Must be a lot of competition in AUS."

2015-10-18 16:30

"Renegades lost a couple BO1s because their internet is utter shite." Moving to NA will be great for them. More teams, more practice, more opportunity, better internet (as long as they don't use TWC).

2015-10-18 22:16

they're gonna win the tournament

Ez Money

GL to these guys, well deserved spot.

2015-10-18 15:01

EZ for Busta Rhymes :]

nice team gl guys :)

jw should be on animal squad

apoc strikes again

nice gl

2015-10-18 15:03

Ayy lmao. Renegades rekt Immunity for Animal Squad to qualify.

renegades are a joke, they are pros but they lose to amateurs form immunity and some animal squad

2015-10-18 15:04

Lmao, Immunity beat C9 and Liquid in a BO3, have taken maps of Dignitas, and are on par with Renegades..

2015-10-18 19:56

Immunity is one of the most underrated teams in all of CS.

2015-10-18 22:17

haha randoms all of em

I understand that AnimalSquad did work for this spot and I suppose deserve it, but there's no way that they're taking a map from any of the teams in dreamhack. Would've been better for au cs to have Immunity or Renegades playing.

2015-10-18 15:05

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Renegades lose to ezskins, they have no chance either. I guess immunity did aight this last tourney but the other team supposedly didn't prepare or care.

Renegades lost to EZSkins on a hard slump streak. After almost beating VP 2-1, I'd say Renegades stand a much bigger chance taking maps in this Dreamhack.

2015-10-18 15:51

I was just baiting on that part, sorry. But in the end they all stand no chance, yet. Hopefully Renegades will do aight in NA and then move to EU to actually get good.

2015-10-18 16:54

How many chances does RNG get? They haven't done shit in months, have they even won a match under the Renegades name against EU? I don't think so. Couldn't even beat liquid at DHS. I say let these 'new' guys have a go at the international stage. RNG are quickly becoming irrelevant, everyone knows how to play against them. AUS need a new top team. Cool to see that RNG is not everything that AUS has to offer, imho Immunity is the strongest AUS side, I'm gonna enjoy watching AnimalSquad at Faceit.

2015-10-18 15:15

+++

2015-10-18 15:20

Not saying RNG are Au's only hope, but they have a lot more to offer than Animal Squad. Even though we haven't seen much from the team, I doubt they'd be able to take maps off of high tier teams like Renegades did against VP almost making it a 2-1 game and tying games against fnatic and NiP under the vox name.

2015-10-18 15:52

well Renegades/Imm. never won a match against a top12 team either so...

2015-10-18 15:16

Cloud9 are a top 12 team... and although they haven't won a lot of the games against top na and eu teams, they have taken a lot of maps and had close games against those teams. Not to mention they tied games with NiP and fnatic a while back under the vox name.

2015-10-18 15:53

cloud9 is top12 team in the long run,but tbh thats really a shady statement.C9 has gone out in the groups in the last 4 tournaments so... and still Aussises never won a match against a top12 team ;).

2015-10-18 15:56

Fair point. But like I said, they've taken maps off of these top 12 teams and cutting games close against them. My point is, Animal-Squad certainly don't stand a chance in this event. AU is better off taking maps off of teams rather than getting thrashed by them. But let's hope they prove me wrong. ;)

2015-10-18 16:00

I think titan are a top 12 team... granted they lost a bo1 to renegades but still

2015-10-18 22:01

they are unknown lets see what they got , immunity got alot of hate before playing and every1 said waste of spot so lets see how it goes :DDDDD

Lmao, people said the same thing when iM first went overseas lol It's good we have another team going overseas. They will gain exp from this and improve if they stick together.

2015-10-19 10:55

u heard here first,they will dodge the LAN.

2015-10-18 15:07

Aussie joelz?

2015-10-18 15:08

no they will not.

2015-10-18 21:06

shit system

Really impressive, good luck guys!

Relocates

My boy Sam!

Shit system. AUS CS should stop being catered to. Only reason they have their own qualifier is because of the remnants of UK colonialism that are still in play. See FaceIT/Gfinity/ESL.

2015-10-18 15:22

ESL is German/polish

2015-10-18 15:30

Going to have to troll harder than that to get a response mate

2015-10-18 16:29

AUS > UK though

2015-10-18 17:16

as if a 4way tie was allowed to happen in a qualifier with so few teams.

+1 makes no sense at all

what the fuck

2015-10-18 15:31

dank meme

2015-10-18 15:33

I'm happy for them and wish them best of luck, however for the life of me do not understand why busta is part of this squad. Maybe he fits a role that others can't, but I can name a dozen players who have a higher skill ceiling. Sorry if you read this busta but you are sort of proof that Australian CS leans more towards "who you know" as opposed to "how good you are".

2015-10-18 15:35

This is adorable. Did you actually watch the game? He won them about 4-5 rounds solely by his individual plays which included a huge 2v1 in B and a 3k in middle. You can talk about skill ceiling all you want but at the end of the day there are very limited players in AUS (that aren't in a good team already) that can consistently play to their skill ceiling, Busta has played consistently well all season in both FACEIT and CG. He is in a team with 3 of the sharpest players in AUS and one of the best cs minds AUS has ever had, he doesn't need to be a superstar he just does his job and wins them rounds. In other words your whole "who you know" statement is a load of shit and you can go play hide and go fuck yourself. xoxo

2015-10-18 16:10

Hi busta :D

2015-10-18 22:20

I just don't rate him, sorry if that somehow affects you. My point is valid, I'm not the only one who thinks it, even on zewsys stream the other day there were statements by some people (I'm not sure who, don't know their voices) "is busta really div1, really" and I completely agree. As previously mentioned he might fit a role well and not have to be that fragger, but the matches I've seen he hasn't been impressive and bottomed. In fairness to him, I have only watched a handful of games, but this is my opinion on what I've seen.

2015-10-19 02:03

rip oceania

2015-10-18 15:38

6 teams, single round robin for bo1... totally bs

2015-10-18 15:46

lol that caption "renegades picture here"

2015-10-18 15:49

immunity have show alot more potienial vs RNG i guess AS giving them a chance

goodluck apoc and co

Thanks bro

2015-10-19 00:59

you're not actually apoc are you LOL

2015-10-21 18:15

:) Honestly I'm sick of explaining that i'm not so sometimes it's just easier to go along with it lol And no i'm not trying to impersonate him. I've used this Alias for more than 15 years, most likely he copied me :D

2015-10-22 00:21

'easier to go along with it' did anyone actually ask you to reply, 'thanks bro?' wtf?! 'no i'm not trying to impersonate him'

2015-10-22 07:45

lol Good Point, I can see how retarded that looks now. But no, On the same night I posted that there was stuff going on in other threads that I had actually posted in and people then replying to my posts saying "GL at DHW" etc etc and then when I came into this thread I just posted what is typed above as a chuckle to myself because of what had been going on previous. But yes 'touche' what I typed makes no sense in the context above no that I read it, but I was referring to what happened in other threads ;-)

2015-10-22 09:48

who? rip rng and imm

bs tbh since they had the same amount of wins/loses, a tiebreaker would be nice

-mizu +valkirye

2015-10-18 16:01

aids

2015-10-18 16:07

cancer

2015-10-18 17:15

STD

2015-10-19 00:03

ebola

2015-10-19 09:40

they will get 16-1'd 16-2'd at faceit lan u heard it here first

2015-10-18 16:02

2015-10-18 16:09

nt spunj

2015-10-18 17:26

honestly if you had the chance to watch this team they are really, really talented Lame way to decide who gets to go to DreamHack but still this team is pretty decent

2015-10-18 16:03

I agree, they have a lot of talent, but they are too raw. Too many small mistakes that just didn't happen to get punished in these qualifyers, if they pull some that stuff over in stockholm it will get punished very easily

2015-10-18 22:07

damn fsociety fucked up so badly in last 2 games

2015-10-18 16:08

Oceania should be played double-rounded like the other leagues, there's no reason why it isn't. Congrats to AS, will be interesting to see how they do against their first taste of international competition.

2015-10-18 16:12

I'm so glad these guys won. No joke :D

2015-10-18 16:26

good luck Animal Squad!!! =D

2015-10-18 16:33

wtf O.o

2015-10-18 16:35

finally no shitty immunity stickers

2015-10-18 16:52

This is not a major man..

2015-10-18 18:35

r u ok

2015-10-19 03:55

kiwi scene best scene

"there is no competition here in AUS" "we will have better pratice in NA" xddddddd

2015-10-18 17:09

Just excuses

2015-10-18 22:13

That's a fact though. They lost a BO1 with their bad internet and therefore they're a bad team? There is more opportunity to practice vs better teams in NA. Only two teams can challenge RNG as it is now.

2015-10-18 22:22

yay

2015-10-18 17:22

good to see ofnu get a shot at the big time

2015-10-18 17:46

lmao inb4 onliners

2015-10-18 18:01

renegades so bad,pls disband

2015-10-18 18:02

Aussie seen is hilarious

2015-10-18 18:05

good for them tired of seeing Renegades choke. Personally I would have preferred Immunity to win. But nice to see that there are more than 2 teams in AU.

2015-10-18 19:41

WHO?

2015-10-18 19:53

That's just ridiculous, a qualifier for a 250K tournament is being decided by a 4 way tie? What a joke.

2015-10-18 20:01

"Renegades (pictured here) and Immunity left frustrated " Nice touch MIRAA... don't turn into lurpPISS please!

2015-10-18 20:53

Didn't get to see this tournament or team but I'm hopeless over here so jumping on this random bandwagon with 278 Australians, ofnu new favorite player by lottery selection. LETS GO BOYS!