FaZe beat Cloud9; into ECS semi-finals

17-12-2017 01:27

FaZe are through to the semi-final stage at the ECS Season 4 Finals after defeating Cloud9 2-0 in Group B's decider match.

The battle for the last spot in the playoffs began on Mirage, where Cloud9 continued to show their dominant form in pistol rounds as they stormed their way through the B site thanks to three entry frags from William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba.

However, FaZe did not take too long to react. In fact, the Europeans rallied back on eco in the following round, and they took control of proceedings as Cloud9 simply could not find any openings.

It was only when the North Americans were down 2-8 that they finally managed to string two rounds together, but FaZe kept their defence very tight and took 11 rounds into the second half.

Cloud9 kept their hopes alive by taking the pistol round and the subsequent anti-ecos, bringing the scoreline to 7-11. But then they were put into double eco territory as FaZe picked up the first full gun round of the half off of three kills from Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer. After getting their economy back on track, Cloud9 still picked up a round, but back-to-back triple kills from olofmeister inspired FaZe to secure the map.

FaZe are through to the semi-finals

FaZe picked up where they had left off and got out to a quick 3-0 lead on Overpass, a map on which they are traditionally very strong. After winning the first full gun round, Cloud9 saw themselves on the verge of an economic reset, but RUSH saved the day with a fantastic 1v4 clutch, picking off his opponents one by one.

Cloud9 went on to win the following round, restoring parity at 3-3, but then the game turned into a one-sided affair as FaZe's defence simply left nothing through, with the half ending with an 11-4 advantage for the Europeans.

Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik came up huge in the following pistol round and picked up four kills during a B retake to keep his team in the game. After being held off in a third-round buy, FaZe were able to pick up their first round of the half on a shoddy buy. A hectic period of play ensued as the teams traded round for round, but, eventually, the European side locked down the map thanks to a 1v2 clutch from Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač, sealing passage to the semi-finals.

ECS Season 4 FinalsBest of 3

FaZe

Matchpage

16th December 2017

Cloud9

Mirage

Overpass

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	49 - 30	+19	100.4	78.4%	1.50
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	47 - 23	+24	89.8	82.4%	1.49
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	45 - 33	+12	107.4	78.4%	1.39
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	30 - 31	-1	61.5	72.5%	1.00
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	26 - 25	+1	52.8	72.5%	0.94

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	38 - 37	+1	77.1	56.9%	0.97
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	30 - 37	-7	74.9	66.7%	0.93
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	31 - 42	-11	65.7	62.7%	0.83
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	19 - 39	-20	57.0	58.8%	0.70
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	23 - 42	-19	55.8	52.9%	0.67

Good job faze!

2017-12-17 01:27

20 replies

last year for skadoodle on cloud9, bye bye!

2017-12-17 01:28

13 replies

I feel like adding Nifty would be wonders! :D

2017-12-17 01:47

7 replies

pls no Nifty is virtually one of the Aussie Bois now. We're getting Nifty and Noodle sigs anyway now so I'm happy to leave it there :)

2017-12-17 02:15

6 replies

Nifty is super inconsistent. Amazing but streaky.

2017-12-17 02:32

5 replies

Yeah honestly hes probably no better than skadoodle or JDM - thats why I dont see either of them getting dropped There was once a time when koosta was pretty good too, but now all NA awpers are pretty butt

2017-12-17 03:10

4 replies

You guys are right but it feels like Nifty in a better team could be even better. Since he is so good at some points but yeah consistency..

2017-12-17 04:01

give the awp to stewie and bring EliGE

2017-12-17 04:27

2 replies

I think any swaps between C9 and TL have to involve one of them bombing out of the major. If TL fuck it up and C9 don't then I reckon Twist or EliGE would switch. Other then that I don't reckon there will be swaps between the two.

2017-12-17 05:04

2017-12-17 13:09

Maybe FNS and stewie becomes main awper

2017-12-17 01:48

Stewie2k is a hybrid tho but possibly.

2017-12-17 04:02

1 reply

Skadoodle to Liquid over JDM

2017-12-17 20:16

should have been the last year for him 2 years ago.

2017-12-17 02:00

I think for him its just been downhill since the seangares era

ez 4 NiKo

Ez for Best igl in the world

2017-12-17 01:39

Ez vs tier 2 teams. Why vs astralis Niko don't do That?

2017-12-17 06:06

3 replies

Tier 2 team ?? Cloud is inhltv rating place 5 ...

2017-12-17 09:12

yeah and faze is second.They paid for their rank Captain believe it or not. Liquid achieved more than cloud9 this year and they are ranked 10th while fnatic is at 8th place

2017-12-17 21:17

Why should they oay money for a high rank ... it makes no sense to me...

2017-12-17 21:20

GG Niko is insane! Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

9 replies

+1 Glad that you've been unbanned btw, welcome back!

Thanks my friend! I wont post locker boy pictures again! Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

2017-12-17 01:32

I was wondering what came of you veryniceguy

2017-12-17 04:00

what? you got banned for posting locker boy Pictures?

2017-12-17 10:46

"Hello, you are currently banned due to trolling by posting a widely spammed picture in an unrelated forum thread. Regards SpainJonathan E." Yes :D Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

2017-12-17 14:42

lmao wtf

2017-12-17 14:47

And olof

2017-12-17 01:29

I'm insane when i play with lowplayers ... Why Niko don't do 50 frags vs astralis ir sk?

2017-12-17 06:07

Youre brazil shitbag nothing else

2017-12-17 07:33

I'm gay

heuheueheujeuejue

Ez for my boi Olof

stew blows

fak

Once again EU proves that it is the best region in CS, and that NA players (especially Stewie2k) only have good k/d ratio because they farm t3 NA teams.

2017-12-17 01:31

16 replies

EU dont have to prove anything in CS mate

2017-12-17 01:33

SK>EU t1>NA t1=EU t2>everything else

EU has more countries than NA. More players. More wider range. Tf u comparing?

2017-12-17 03:48

12 replies

The best comparison is EU country = NA State. Since the size of NA is so big.

2017-12-17 09:41

11 replies

Wtf?

2017-12-17 09:55

10 replies

The size of NA, or even just the US, is comparable to all of Europe. So if you want to make a fair comparison, it would be EU country vs US state. But the pathetic thing is that even if we count them as countries when US has of so much more ppl, they still get beaten by super small countries like Denmark or Sweden.

2017-12-17 10:07

Get this you stupid baboon, USA is pretty much all American people. EU has a huge variety of people of different cultures nationalities and traditions. Are you so retarded that you count countries as states? And a continent as a country? Really? Go back to bed kiddo the world doesn't work that way

2017-12-17 10:10

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So the thing with this is that they don't need that many teams to cheer for as in EU. They got Cloud9, they got Liquid. That's basically all they need. In EU there should be a French team or 2, 2 Denmark, 2 Sweden, and a lot of mixed teams for countries with smaller CS scenes.

2017-12-17 11:19

You said "EU has more countries than NA. More players. More wider range." in this comparison where you ONLY focus on population, a more realistic comparison is right country vs NA state. Of course I know there are more differences between EU countries than NA states, but that has no value when all you talked about was the amount of players. Chill with the profanity kid!

2017-12-17 11:28

By "more players" I meant a wider range of playstyles. Not my fault your head is too far up your ass to comprehend anything.

2017-12-17 11:32

So you are implying that cultural differences makes teams play in different ways? The cultural differences between Denmark and Sweden are basically nonexistent, but still Fnatic and Astralis hardly plays the same way. And an ESL/ECS league for only Sweden+Denmark would still be better than an NA one. And in that comparison NA has more in every way, more players and by that more different play styles. (If they can't manage more different play styles it is just an other testimony to how weak the NA scene really is).

2017-12-17 11:50

More different playstyles? Have you ever been to a lan centre in Denmark and then one in Sweden? You'll immediately notice the difference. But ofc you haven't. Every lan centre in na is basically the same. Different teams play the exact same way. Fnatic and Astralis hardly play the same way because they grew up playing in different conditions. Honestly it feels like I'm talking to some inbred brainless retard who doesn't know the first thing about how different countries have different CS scenes and styles. I'm done here. *drops mic*

2017-12-17 11:56

"If they can't manage more different play styles it is just an other testimony to how weak the NA scene really is" With a country that big and so much ppl, it is pathetic to not be able to develop more playstyles. The US is world leading in innovation in many fields, how can they be so braindead when it comes to CS?

2017-12-17 12:01

Berd, fix your phrasing before insulting others.

2017-12-17 17:20

Tell everybody else on hltv why don't you? You obviously have no meaningful thing to do in life since you go correcting some random comment on some random discussion board on some random forum.

2017-12-17 17:45

vs astralis 1.52, sk 1.8 and so many more hltv.org/stats/players/matches/8797/Stew..

2017-12-17 13:12

every single time cloud9 looks good and fanboys overhype them, then faze completly demolishes them. liquid would have put a better fight

2017-12-17 01:34

Both c9 and liquid just can´t fight against faze cause their pure skills But they play very good vs astralis and SK cause Sk and astralis doesn´t have that skills and it´s easier for c9 and liquid to play against them

But its pretty obvious liquid is the more sound team as far as strategies and mid-round calls

2017-12-17 03:08

"SK don't have that skills". rofl

2017-12-17 03:20

If u talk about pure raw aim sk is probably not even in top 10.. If u ask me whos the best team - sk obv and cold is the best player, they are really well organised with perfect undsrstanding of the game but about pure aim i can name more than 20 players with better aim and raw skill compared to Cold, that doesn't change the fact that hes the best player overall.

2017-12-17 07:15

name those 20

2017-12-17 08:48

rain, niko, scream, f0rest, tarik, shroud(when he used to compete), s1mple, flamie, byali, k0nfig, shox, apex, elige, twistzz, xantares, calyx, rpk, ropz, lekr0, xyp9x, dupreeh. Here u go all of them have better aim and raw skill, are they better players ? fuck no. Cold is the best, that doesnt mean hes the best aimer.

2017-12-17 09:34

Shrouds aim was ALWAYS shit at lan events. He goes from like 65-70% hs online to 30% offline lol. Aside from him, I disagree about ropz(he has godluke xhair placement, not godlike aim imo), flamie, tarik, elige, xyp9x, dupreeh, rpk, xantares, byali. Rest I agree Cold is better, but they have more "raw skill".

2017-12-17 09:50

Yes. Cold, Fallen, fer and Boltz not skilled at all. lol

2017-12-17 08:51

C9 is still pug strat team.

2017-12-17 12:09

#depressedstewie

What the hell is going on with skadoodle?

2017-12-17 02:31

Stewie should be thanking Skadoodle for giving him a free pass. 23 frags from Stewie over 2 maps is absolutely trash. He's not the IGL anymore and he is supposed to one of their best. His playstyle gets him killed alot for stupid peeks.

2017-12-17 03:02

stewie the americano s1mple overated, overagressive,allaim,nobrain

2017-12-17 03:21

Except that S1mple is actually good while stewie isn't, but nt though!

2017-12-17 09:45

-skadoodle

2017-12-17 03:03

good play from faze, im pleased NA needs to get some good awpers though because honestly its pretty embarrassing that JDM and skadoodle, the two best, suck dick 7/10 games

2017-12-17 03:07

Nifty best American awper, best NA region awper is Mixwell

2017-12-17 11:10

Stewie main awp bring in fns. As much as i hate ska to go and i didnt think he was the problem ever on c9, they dont need the awper. NA IS FIREPOWER. 1 igl makes a crazy difference, that was optics success.

2017-12-17 03:32

To all the -skadoodles, hey peanut brains, it's pretty well known for years now that skadoodle can't play well unless there is a good igl that uses him to the fullest. With tarik, don't think that's gonna happen. Skadoodle was at his peak with sgares. Think for once hltv think

2017-12-17 03:51

Excuses for a bad inconsistent player.

2017-12-17 04:33

"bad inconsistent player"? Skadoodle has the best pistols of anybody in na. Go watch older matches when Sean slemmy or Stewie were igl. Then your pathetic Finnish brain can come to terms with it. And skadoodle is leagues above Allu.

2017-12-17 04:48

So basically he is a peanut brain himself? If he can utilize his own strenghts as an awper he is not good enough.

2017-12-17 12:12

I mean that what his igl tells him to do doesn't let him utilize his strengths properly.

2017-12-17 12:43

He shouldnt need a puppet master. Thats why point. He has no mentality to try things himself. To make a play himself. Fucking beta male. And even IF they tell him, go make a play, it still looks half baked and insecure so he is just not good enough. This guy needs to feel 100% comfy in order to play well. So again, not good enough for tier 1.

2017-12-17 12:56

So who do you consider tier 1? And he has made plays by himself in the past. A lot of them. Vs g2 in Krakow on cobble, 10-9 to g2. He's holding long with automatic for support. Three push him, gets all three without breaking a sweat. If it was anybody else in that situation it would've been one and done. People forget that an awpers job is to provide support, not topfrag all the time. That's what makes kennyS so inconsistent and skadoodle so good. He rarely ever whiffs shots.

2017-12-17 13:01

Those “plays” are once every 5 games. Also, “skadoodle so good”. This guy LACKS and have been dropping the ball for quite some time now. Sorry to burst your bubble.

2017-12-17 13:14

Faze is so Lucky .... because SK isnt here :)..... and astralis without Dev1ce :(.... so lucky

2017-12-17 04:22

"so lucky" Astralis beat faze to go to semis lmao

2017-12-17 04:49

2017-12-17 06:10

Just disband these shit NA teams

2017-12-17 04:29

All 4 teams in the semis are from EU... Na cs lmao

2017-12-17 04:32

ALL 4 teams in semi Will Win because sk r not in this tournament.

2017-12-17 06:11

Stfu sk could not qualify from NA

2017-12-17 08:43

Playing with 4 players because one r playing from Brazil with 400 ping... Só why faze André astralis don't Win their finals agains sk? Cry is free

2017-12-17 21:53

Skadoodle so bad can't even frag with an aim key

2017-12-17 06:32

They could add rickeh instead of ska

2017-12-17 09:32

Skanoodle so bad. You can even see it on his face. When they are behind he starts crying and shit. No fucking balls or mentality this guy.

2017-12-17 12:13

He's literally the worlds most calm and composed awper. Also nice bandwagon.

2017-12-17 13:02

Bandwagon? It’s my opinion on the guy.

2017-12-17 13:15

No I mean your 100 thieves bandwagon. They literally haven't played yet, just hyped.

2017-12-17 13:21

Hahah, they have played with eachother except for bit. One way or another. I also like to support underdogs and im really curious to see how they perform. Tell me why you support c9?

2017-12-17 13:24

I've been supporting c9 since the complexity days. It's in my blood to cheer for them now.

2017-12-17 15:45

Boring match to watch though, never really had a chance.

2017-12-17 17:52

Kick sca and stewie. Stewies stupid plays and greed for eco frags hurt his team more then it helps. Sca pretty much has to have an awp and when he's not hitting anything with it then he's worthless and costing the team a ton of money. Grab two from liquid.

2017-12-17 18:09