FaZe to Major semis over mouz

MOUZ and FaZe squared off in the first quarter-final match at the ELEAGUE Major's New Champions Stage. The series kicked off on Nuke which was picked by MOUZ. FaZe started on the CT-side and picked up the first three rounds. MOUZ won the following two weapon rounds with Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong and Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool's opening kills (3-2).

MOUZ tied the game but couldn't take the lead as FaZe won a 3vs4 with Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač's triple kill. ropz got two entry kills on the A-site in the following round and reset FaZe's economy (4-4). Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný's team won the next weapon round to make it 7-4 and went on to win the half 9-6.

FaZe are in the semi-finals

Just like they did in the first half, FaZe won the first three rounds in the second half but lost the first weapon round as MOUZ led 10-9. FaZe grabbed three more rounds to lead 12-10 but MOUZ' defense tightened up and they managed to get two map points.

FaZe won 2vs4s in the last two rounds to take the map to overtime. NiKo & company lost the first round of overtime but responded with four rounds in a row to wrap up the first map 19-16.

mouz are out of the Major

FaZe's map pick was Cache and Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács's team started on the T-side. Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen & company won the first five rounds but couldn't make it 6-0 as ropz and Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi's kills put MOUZ on the board (5-1). Even though FaZe responded in the next round, they couldn't start a streak as mouz got their second round (6-2).

MOUZ came close to tying the game but NiKo got an opening kill in the twelfth round, paving the way for FaZe to make it 7-5. NiKo finished the half with an ace as his team led 10-5.

ropz got a quad kill in the second half pistol round and another one in the following round where MOUZ were in a 2vs5 situation (10-7). After losing another round, FaZe recovered in the weapon round thanks to NiKo's triple kill (11-8). FaZe closed out the map 16-9 and won the series 2-0 to advance to semi-finals at the ELEAGUE Major 2018.

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FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNiKo	60 - 36	+24	107.1	70.0%	1.52
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister	46 - 35	+11	79.8	75.0%	1.22
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN	40 - 31	+9	63.2	75.0%	1.15
Håvard 'rain' Nygaardrain	43 - 42	+1	79.6	71.7%	1.12
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	28 - 40	-12	54.0	68.3%	0.79

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny	55 - 40	+15	88.0	70.0%	1.27
Robin 'ropz' Koolropz	45 - 43	+2	86.2	60.0%	1.09
Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO	34 - 47	-13	62.8	61.7%	0.80
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar	26 - 43	-17	53.4	66.7%	0.74
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	24 - 45	-21	52.1	55.0%	0.66