mousesports edge past FaZe in overtime

17-7-2017 13:35

mousesports have put FaZe on the brink of elimination at PGL Major Krakow after picking up a 19-15 victory on Train.

FaZe started out strongly on the CT side, picking up the pistol round without letting their opponents plant the bomb and following that up with both anti-ecos.

mousesports responded by winning the first gun round, leaving FaZe strapped for cash for two rounds in a row. The next full gun round went neck and neck, with Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool ultimately clutching a 1v2 to put his team in the lead for the first time in the game.

Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný's men refused to take their off the gas and increased their lead to 7-3. After losing the next two rounds, mousesports picked up their eighth round of the half and reset FaZe's economy. It looked like mousesports would secure a comfortable lead, but FaZe hit back on eco before Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač pulled off a tripe kill in the final round to keep the deficit to a minimum.

mousesports defeat FaZe in a nail-biting match

The second half began with mousesports taking the pistol round despite finding themselves with three heavily tagged players in a 3v3 situation. A third-round buy put FaZe back in the game, but they could not get enough rounds to equalise the score.

A scrappy period then followed as rounds went back and forth, with mousesports then gaining a firm grip on the game as they increased their lead to 13-10. FaZe's offense finally woke up, allowing them to bag five rounds in a row, but mousesports won the final two rounds of regulation to force overtime.

With Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong and Denis "⁠denis⁠" Howell stepping up, mousesports won all three rounds on the CT side to hit match point. FaZe now had no room for error, but they could do nothing against an A split from their opponents, suffering their second defeat of the tournament after just two matches.

PGL Major Krakow 2017Best of 1

MOUZ

Matchpage

17th July 2017

FaZe

Train

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Robin 'ropz' Kool ropz	24 - 17	+7	80.7	79.4%	1.28
Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran loWel	27 - 21	+6	82.3	79.4%	1.26
Denis 'denis' Howell denis	26 - 21	+5	75.5	79.4%	1.22
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný oskar	26 - 20	+6	87.5	70.6%	1.20
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	21 - 25	-4	67.6	67.6%	0.93

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	33 - 23	+10	103.8	79.4%	1.48
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	25 - 26	-1	83.8	58.8%	1.09
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	24 - 25	-1	73.6	73.5%	1.03
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey kioShiMa	10 - 23	-13	36.5	67.6%	0.63
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	12 - 27	-15	37.7	50.0%	0.48

Two matches into the second day of the Major, here is how the Swiss stage is looking:

1-0
Gambit	fnatic
Virtus.pro	SK
BIG	Cloud9
G2	Astralis
1-1
North	MOUZ
0-1
Natus Vincere	FlipSid3
Vega Squadron	Immortals
0-2
PENTA	FaZe

THE PROBLEM

2017-07-17 13:35

43 replies

disband

27 replies

Penta will make top 8 next major -innocent

2017-07-17 13:36

16 replies

Kio only 36 ADR -kio +hs

2017-07-17 13:38

15 replies

-kio +random eu supreme

2017-07-17 13:45

10 replies

-kio +anyone tbh

4 replies

-kio +spiidi

2017-07-17 15:42

3 replies

spiidi instead of kio you must be joking :D

2017-07-17 17:34

2 replies

he said anyone.

2017-07-17 17:35

1 reply

arh okay sorry then but I would say kio is still good FaZe is just playing bad at the moment :/

2017-07-18 16:50

-karrigay + some random nova

2017-07-17 14:21

carrygan best igl

2017-07-17 14:45

good joke

2017-07-17 15:19

well who would be good igl if not karrigan, i think he is a great fit rn

2017-07-18 16:59

i think fallen or msl

2017-07-18 17:00

-kio and do a swap with envyus for scream maybe

2017-07-17 14:07

Kio to NV

2017-07-17 14:40

+1 nice idea

2017-07-17 14:57

ScreaM is bad lol

2017-07-17 15:40

LUL Faze will end up 0-3 disband for sure

True

2017-07-17 13:37

Not disband but maybe roster changes... Kio bot only 10 kills

2017-07-17 13:39

Mouz taking revenge from NiKo... Showing it was his loss, not theirs :D

2017-07-17 13:41

6 replies

well, i think mouz wouldn't have improved to that degree without niko leaving

2017-07-17 14:10

5 replies

I agree, everyone, even Denis plays much better, Im not mouz fan but I enjoy watching their game actually

2017-07-17 14:44

exactly

2017-07-17 15:00

+1 Niko was the problem in mouz

I imagine motivation in the team was at an all time low. After all, when the team did good, people would just credit NiKo and call it his success. Plus, I don't think he was a good IGL

2017-07-17 15:29

I dont have a clue wether his strategies were actually good or not, but as an ingame leader you should definitely NOT be raging at your team. No wonder they lost motivation and yes he took all the credit.

2017-07-17 15:48

Loool faze 2-3

-kio +ropz

-allu ?

Finn 'karrigan' Andersen 12 - 27 -15 37.7 0.48 -allu XD

9 replies

-kio tbh, he has even less kills than karrigan

2017-07-17 13:40

The main reason of FaZe getting to several finals is karrigan's leadership, yet you want to ditch him.

brain dead swede

2017-07-17 13:42

+1 maybe the coach is the problem

well you can't compare the IGL stats with the main awp. Allu is supposed to do alot more and also misses some key shots. I would also consider k1o to be replaced more likely than karrigan...

2017-07-17 13:44

well yeah allu is supposed to be a bit better but their playing centers around rain and niko

2017-07-17 13:47

yeah I know.. I dont rly get the point of kicking karrigan though, every team needs a good IGL nowadays and only a few teams are lucky to have players like Fallen, who does the calling and is a beast with awp aswell. I think karrigan is doing allright, could frag more but he lead Faze to several finals...

2017-07-17 13:48

being IGL not mean you can play like shit. at least don't be burden to the team

2017-07-17 13:50

well I dont think karrigan is playing like shit, he's just worse than other players on his team, which is, from my point of view, completely okay. Especially considering he's sourrounded by star players

2017-07-17 19:12

get a life

same

FaZe favourites lul

FaZe 0-3 :/

sux :/ mejh

Disband

NikoSports

Nah, is more RaiN Clan

2017-07-17 13:53

agree

2017-07-17 14:19

2017-07-17 14:46

ez for allu

0- 3 FaZe ?????

1-3 because they won Penta F.3 or Vega

fck

Kio LUL

Kick the Problem ffs

+25$

Kioshima is the problem

expected =)

Kioshima is the problem 8)

SO EZ CRY NIKO

Niko was the problem

NiKo and Kio are the Problems c:

crouch jumb was the problem ahahahahh face karrigan shitters hahah delete your game pls noobi.

rekt

They are just all tired after all the tournaments and shit

11 replies

10/10 excuse...:DDD even better than "saving strats for major" lol

2017-07-17 14:34

dumb

2017-07-17 14:35

yea dumb excuse is just dumb...

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yea because when you're flying every week sleeping in other bed every week eating just restaurant food and playing the game most of the time for many hours isn't tiring, same was with SK and even FalleN said that: hltv.org/news/20991/fallen-starting-to-f.. a little bit of burnout because of playing all the tournaments and if you're not home for that long time or you just go there for some days and go back to tournament then you can feel tired, i didn't say they should play like shit because of that but you need to understand that they'll not play at 100% because of that

2017-07-17 14:38

and yet sk is the best team in the world and they won last tournament...what a flawless logic

2017-07-17 14:39

#123 The interview was after last won tournament :) faze also played good on every tournament but sk is the best

2017-07-17 14:41

faze wasnt good in cologne tbh

2017-07-17 14:43

too much tournaments ISNT an excuse for faze(2nd best team according to hltv ranking) loosing to big(17th) on freaking MAJOR... the most prestigious tournament.just no...and even if you will disagree(because you are probably their fan bcs of rain),its still their own fault that they want to attend every single event

Im a fan of sk XD ånd its major big isnt bad team so idk why you talk shit

big isnt even t1 team lol...please send me sample of your weed. faze is playing like trash this tournament so far and your excuse for it is pure bullcrap.bye...

2017-07-17 14:48

SK is better team and they got better psychics because of FalleN so they'll deal better with it :)

Welp that was unexpected

If lowel and denis play like this, mouz got absolutely no problem to beat pretty much anyone. Its still big IF tho...

Why are they playing train?? Fuck Karrigan

GG EZ

Crouch Jump was the Problem Lul

karrigan and kioshima combined 74 ADR lmao

lol this is outcome when u pick awp map against team with 2 strong awpers in a BO1, brain off

Like oskar and ChrisJ are best awpers? If so, I agree w/oskar, w/ChrisJ not that much but he is also beast (sometimes isn’t ofc)

i didnt say best, but both are strong, and to pick with one awper train in a very important BO1 match is just stupidity.

And faze has 3 good awpers?...

2017-07-17 14:59

yeah, so good they use only one AWP every train

2017-07-17 15:01

Sorry, my bad. I read it “strongest”. They’re good, I’d even say that oskar is the best. FaZe has Allu and sometimes karrigan plays w/AWP but he doesn’t seem like he is in some-kind-of great form for it (NiKo sometimes plays AWP as well). But oskar and ChrisJ are AWPers usually, so, it’s always better for mousesports to pick that map.

2017-07-17 16:44

Remove FaZe from the "Favorites" please. What a disappointment LOL

That was what everyone tought about c9 in colonge as well, they manage to comeback from 0-2 to 3-2 its not possible. But yea its kinda stupid. I would suggest -Kioshima +ScreaM

2017-07-17 20:43

RIP pickems xD LEL

I'm smart, i'm friendly, i'm loyal I picked SK 3-0 ez lel :D

2017-07-17 14:36

I'm rich I'm Royal I'm tallest buildings But you didn't pick 0-3 FaZe RIP in peperroni

I picked Vega 0-3 I'm still a smart boi :D

RIP money

rip pick'em

Kio and Karrigan having shockers

Why everyone is saying "-allu" ?!! look k1o.... karrigan.....

+1 But still, they should kick allu and add oskar

2017-07-17 13:46

why would oskar wanted to join a worse team? LUL

2017-07-17 14:00

Well faze is still a better Team imo and he Would earn much more money. Ofc i hope he's staying with mouz cuz theyre my 2nd fav Team.

2017-07-17 14:01

faze is not playing like a team when they are under pressure. that is their problem

loses one game vs an average team = the average team is better jurysLogic

2017-07-17 15:14

the lost two in one week also everybody figured out how to play vs faze so they are shit now

2017-07-17 15:23

Because allu missed two AWP shots. Obviously that's much worse than missing every single shot. In reality though it's because hltv.org is filled with 16 year olds who started playing in 2014 and now consider themselves experts, when in reality they don't understand the game at all and just tag along with the opinions of the ridiculously biased commentators, who were again riding allu all game long, even when kioshima had half as many frags.

have my like

2017-07-17 14:26

+1 nice explained

2017-07-17 16:57

nice

2017-07-17 13:43

crouch jump lul faze lulululul koi lul so bad delete hihihihi

Wp Mouz

Kio has been worst player in faze this major. It is truth and I ain't Kio hater. I hope the force is with him through the next matches of major.

he's been slumping ever since they won SLi S3 tbh I like kio aswell and I hope that he return to previous form. if not this tournament then the next, he is crucial to FaZe's success

2017-07-17 14:04

Well he didn't show up rip faze 0-3 :D

2017-07-18 15:24

yup :/ must be FaZe's worst tournament since NiKo joined. hope they can bounce back soon

2017-07-18 17:29

-kioShiMa +Edward -Edward +electronic -xms +kioShiMa

That's still reasonably well played by FaZe, considering how it was 4v5 for the first half and 3v5 for the second.

FaZe vs PENTA, it should be kinda interesting

2017-07-17 13:49

What the hell is going on lmaoo FaZe are 0-2 wow, if they actually get eliminated in the group stages there will have to be some changes to the roster. It's not like they are losing to tier 1 teams either.

Faze 0-3 after penta... German Nightmare

OMG FAZE what a shame rain is carrying his team for a long time... but wtf is karrigan and kio doing???

2017-07-17 13:52

-kio +fnx

go mousesports :D

2017-07-17 13:54

Faze to get 0-3ed by Penta next :DDD

kio is horrible at this tournament, but it would be weird to kick a guy after just 1 bad LAN, even if it's a major. Though it wasn't looking weird for shox to kick ScreaM after ELEAGUE, so everything is possible. Btw karrigan, is it that hard to spend more time on HS only deathmatch or on aim_botz?

2017-07-17 13:56

+1 Kio can be really good

2017-07-17 13:57

Rofl shox is a savage, kicking scream like he didn't carry G2 in ECS

2017-07-17 14:52

I'd say there were more than just 1 tournament

2017-07-17 15:34

Sadly yes, now look at where Scream is. Struggling in a team whithout any future :(

2017-07-17 19:46

I feel disappointed by his current situation too.

2017-07-17 20:49

Ropz just incredible, from a no namer, without a team, without any pro experience to posting a 1.28 ratio against faze. This guy is baffling.

yeah twitter.com/FACEIT/status/88446474288182..

NIKO WAS THE PROBLEM

The risk is ... FaZe advance to playoffs with 3-2 and because of this make a quarters against one team with 3-0, like SK, G2 or Astralis. WTF!

2017-07-17 13:58

I mean, provided they get to the playoff, it's only their fault if they lost two matches. It's not like neither Big or mouz were those "impossible teams to beat".

2017-07-17 14:03

Yep, of course. I´m not worried about FaZe. But it would be bad for us, viewers. It would be better these teams facing each other at least in semis, not quarters, that´s my point. But there´s nothing to do. FaZe makes this bullshit.

2017-07-17 14:13

Yeah I get your point, but this means that we will have very exciting quarters and semi finals. Anyway it's a major so in a sense it's always that way :D

2017-07-17 14:15

Major <3 Sk x Ast Big x c9 Fnatic x VP I´m excited with these matches today. Big and c9 are in a good form; about fnatic and VP, I want to see what the polish will show (good draw for them this moment).

I'm really hoping that VP plays well against Fnatic. Sk vs Ast is going to be sick and Big v C9 is going to be close but BIG have the upper edge imho (more structured, more consistent).

2017-07-17 15:45

Vega vs FaZe confirmed

haha ez mousetrap

2017-07-17 14:02

ez tournament for FaZe ;D

Tough games for FaZe. They really should have close it out when they had the match points. If someone can still make it back from 0-2, its them. Well played Mousesports!

Poor rain he played well

2017-07-17 14:12

as he always does he's the best player they have, he always have been.

2017-07-17 14:16

xyddddddddddddd

im really so sad for faze. karrigan is the bad player

faze losers crouch jump lul

ropz onliner or not?

2017-07-17 14:27

k1o is the problem?!?!

2017-07-17 14:28

Proud of mouz!

2017-07-17 14:33

really proud <3

No bugs - still lose

so happy :) really enjoying the salty FaZe fangirls tears , they are the best :)

2017-07-17 14:37

Kio is the problem

2017-07-17 15:16

What the fuck are you doing, Faze... Please. PLEASE. Get it the fuck together. #2 on HLTV and the team I'm rooting for, and you go 0-2 against BIG and Mousesports? What the shit? But yeah durr they're obviously throwing so they can go 3-2 and let somebody else take out SK hopefully before the final xdxddxd I wish, but FaZe is really getting me depressed, and it's the SECOND day of the major. Come on, guys.

2017-07-17 15:30

GG FAZE hope you won't fail against vega and not destroy my pick em

lol..so this time would Faze blame the crouch jump?

0-3 faze

2017-07-17 15:52

Kio so bad lately, kick him

2017-07-17 16:10

Faze will actually go 3-2, mark my words. They won't get to anything relevant in the playoffs though.

2017-07-17 16:15

Ez for Mann aus Stahl Denis

Doesn't matter honestly mouse haven't won anything and never will, people saying their better without NiKo... they had way more success with NiKo in the team stop being delusional.

2017-07-17 19:02