G2 survive scare against CyberZen

13-1-2016 21:16

G2 came from behind to beat CyberZen 2-1 and advance to the Group A decider at the SL i-League StarSeries XIV Finals (6-16 on de_inferno, 16-14 on de_cache and 16-10 on de_mirage).

Group A's Lower Bracket match featured an interesting clash between G2, who had underperformed against Luminosity Gaming, and Chinese side CyberZen, who are still trying to find their way into the top tier.

No one certainly expected such a strong start to the series from CyberZen, who completely outplayed G2 on de_inferno, picking up a 16-6 win thanks to great performances from ZhiHong "⁠aumaN⁠" Liu and Zhuo "⁠advent⁠" Liang.

G2 will face Na`Vi tomorrow

Cache was highly contested from start to finish, but in the end G2 ran out 16-14 victorious despite a strong display from veteran Bin "⁠Savage⁠" Liu, who showed glimpses of his old self.

G2 got off to a great start on de_mirage and took a 10-5 halftime lead with Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill leading the charge. After losing the first three rounds in the second half, CyberZen strung a series of rounds together to put some pressure on their opponents, but G2 kept pushing on and closed out the map 16-11 to come through a difficult test.

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I was really hoping the Chinese would win :-(

2016-01-13 21:16

12 replies

same here :(

2016-01-13 21:17

if they had crazyguy they would have won

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hltv.org/news/16634-cyberzen-win-sostron.. "CyberZen beat Skyred in a one-sided grand final of SoStronk King Of The Hill Asia #2 3-1 (de_train 16-2, de_mirage 9-16, de_inferno 16-1, de_cache 16-3)"

2016-01-13 21:23

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y, he will win 1v5

2016-01-13 21:34

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He didn't play good in that match at all. Both Savage and AWPer from tyloo are much better AWPers.

2016-01-13 21:35

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anyway now cyberzen almost beat good tier2 team, and crazyguy team lost from tier3 2-0.

2016-01-13 21:41

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hltv.org/match/2298223-skyred-vexed-drea.. Also Crazyguy didn't play on god level in that match level at all. He just had few crazy 1v3, 1v2. Savage is overall much more important and experienced player.

2016-01-13 21:45

how is G2 a tier 2 team? showed up and performed well in the major, ranked no. 8 on hltv, being able to beat any team with higher ranking. what is your criteria?

2016-01-14 08:51

savage>crazyguy

2016-01-13 21:38

Do you even ET though

2016-01-13 21:19

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Of course my friend <3

2016-01-13 21:20

damn you!

2016-01-13 21:33

lol

nt cyberzen

ez tournament win now, best team is out

great game :D

Savage Rulez

g2 has no chance against real teams. sad

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na scene has no chance against europe teams.sad

couldn't agree more, just because im from NA doesn't mean i cheer them on 24/7.

2016-01-13 21:22

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2016-01-13 21:29

cuz they are bad, if they were good, u obv would.

2016-01-13 21:32

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not sure i would even if they 'were good'.

2016-01-13 21:47

Don't you cheer for C9 on summer?

2016-01-13 21:51

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meh no way, i cant stand c9.

2016-01-13 21:52

lol, c9 is the only good team NA ever, friendly persons, the rest of NA is all salty.

2016-01-13 22:02

id rather go for Liquid TBH.

2016-01-13 22:07

one of the salty ones lol, don't u heared what freakzoid said about what they do back stage

2016-01-13 22:15

What did freak say?

2016-01-14 01:21

That they could hear the guys from liquid talking about how bad the teams on a lan event were.

2016-01-14 02:06

Then you're an incredibly rare American holy shit PogChamp

2016-01-14 06:05

Cyberzen and tyloo would probably beat most NA teams

2016-01-13 21:21

once again this comment has nothing to do with NA at all, this is about how much g2 sucks and almost lost..

True, but saying that cyberzen is "not a real team" is just stupid, which is why i felt like taking a swing at NA. Did you watch the game? Cyberzen played well.

2016-01-13 21:25

cyberzen is very good i should re-phrase, g2 did not deserve the win and the way they played was terrible.

they won 1 map more than cyberzen, ofc they deserve the win in a bo3 :)

ez game didnt even sweat

2016-01-13 21:18

-fox +allu But allu joined ENCE :(

only god mutiris can save g2

who

2016-01-14 01:24

i was thinking that China is > EU but not yet i guess

when 4 out of 5 surnames begin with Li

The loss of their coach definitely had to have had an impact on them this match. Once they can get someone to lead them instead of being forced to rely on raw aim, I'm sure that the result will not be the same.

G2 still without IGL, no coach, no chance at all tomorrow

CyberZen literally 1 round away from 2-0'ing a top 10 team. They will definitely surprise more teams if they keep improving like this. Tyloo and cyberzen are pretty good teams already, and now big asian orgs want to invest in csgo. 2016 will be HUGE for cs..

top 10 kappa

Are you saying G2 is not a top 10 team?

Congrats your comment made it to the biggest CS news site in China. 5eplay.com/group/cs/topic/1194779

Ahah lol wtf xD awesome

2016-01-13 22:00

hahaha

2016-01-14 00:36

That article looks like a Chinese version of HLTV >.> Well, they seem pretty jubilant about the result have to give them that :)

2016-01-14 16:14

Cyberzen is good, but in this game it was obviously G2 having no tactics, and playing pretty bad for their standards. So idk Cyberzen is a top 25-20 team IMO

2016-01-13 21:59

Fox GODERINHO ?

Zhoking isreal

nt China, GL!

to bad cyberZen didnt win cache :( gg wp!

2016-01-13 21:24

G2 bores me to death. They seem so mediocre. Doubt they'll ever improve.

Many are saying this can be China's big year to get into CS:GO. If they build from a solid contention like this, it's very possible.

2016-01-13 21:27

Dangit rip skines

2016-01-13 21:28

ty to bot fox

specifically forced to sweat for their fans :D expected confirmed

2016-01-13 21:30

savage sadly wasn't savage enough to win cyberzen the game, although he tried

omg bot fox bottomfragging again

cyberzen just keep getting better and better. can't wait until the europeans are getting rekt by the asians

Weboo fantasies because NA fails too much?

2016-01-13 21:39

I don't play CS anymore, only watch some tournaments. My favorite team is VP and in Dota2, the game I play now, the best team has been and is NA

Well...that was true last year, but not anymore. They're failling hard since the return of babyrage...im kinda glad everyone can see how overrated he is. Just today i've "seen" him ragequit after a lost game. Also you must realize how bad NA Dota actually is. Before TI5 they hardly won anything and in original Dota it was even worst. You can say ppd and Fear saved the NA scene, but man i miss those old when everyone knew they would throw no matter how great was their advantage.

2016-01-13 21:54

good play CBZ. The asians teams need more slots in final of all events to get experience. Remember NA teams 1 year ago.

and remember NA teams 1 month ago with salaries and experience

What scare?

Article title- G2 survive scare against CyberZen

2016-01-13 22:17

cyberzen would have 2-0'd them if maikelele didn't pull out a triple with 1 hp kinda a scare my friend

2016-01-14 00:39

Savage please join TyLooo and be TOP20 player from 2016.

2016-01-13 21:58

-fox

2016-01-14 00:08

Lol isn't rain calling atm? He's still better than fox too XD.

2016-01-14 00:37

It is really a nice play for CyberZen ,a team that only lined up less than two mouths.Too shame that they didn't win the match. But CyberZen will certainly be better this year cuz they will began to train in Europe

2016-01-14 01:56