Favorites secure playoff spots at V4 Future Sports Festival

24-3-2018 01:48

FaZe, mousesports, HellRaisers, and Virtus.pro earned their spots in the playoffs on Sunday by placing top two in their respective groups at V4 Future Sports Festival.

Group A was the less stacked one of the tournament and kicked off with HellRaisers taking on Dark Tigers. The Czech team manage to surprise Kyrylo "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow and co. and take a tie on the second map, Inferno, but that would end up being their only positive result from the tournament. By taking two map wins over GameAgents shortly after, HellRaisers were set for a playoff appearance on Sunday.

FaZe started off their tournament run a bit later in the day and didn't really struggle much, cleaning up Dark Tigers 16-5, 16-5 and GameAgents 16-10, 16-10. The final match between FaZe and HellRaisers only decided seeding, and the European team claimed the first place into the playoffs with a 16-10 win on Inferno.

MICHU is currently the best-rated player of the tournament with 1.37 from six maps

MOUZ started off group B with a match against x-kom, who showed some good stuff at their first international tournament, but didn't really threaten Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong's team at any point. MOUZ split points with Virtus.pro later in the day, despite looking very dominant on Nuke (16-1) and starting well on Train, which ended 16-13 in favor of the Poles.

To secure playoffs, Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný and Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk had to deal with their Czech-Slovakian countrymen from eXtatus, managing a fairly contested 2-0, in the end, to take first seed in the playoffs. Due to a lost map to eXtatus earlier in the tournament, Virtus.pro had everything on the line in the last game against their countrymen x-kom.

Krzysztof "⁠stark⁠" Lewandrowski and co. were on fire during the first half of the first map, taking an 11-4 CT lead on Inferno, but couldn't close out the game and Virtus.pro made a comeback spearheaded by Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller. The final score was 16-14, and Virtus.pro followed that up with a 16-2 thrashing on Mirage to finish off the day.

Group A	Pts	Group B	Pts
FaZe	10	MOUZ	10
HellRaisers	9	Virtus.pro	8
GameAgents	4	eXtatus	4
Dark Tigers	1	x-kom	2

With these results, we will have the following semi-final matchups played on Sunday, after a day off tomorrow:

FaZe	vs. Virtus.pro
MOUZ	vs. HellRaisers

Nice

2018-03-24 01:49

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Not this time

2018-03-24 03:42

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Yeah, no 43rd for me

2018-03-24 09:57

2018-03-24 09:01

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doood, I got 40+ Stahp

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We all know ur using a bot, so don't try and act all cool

2018-03-24 10:46

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I wish I could program that well :/

2018-03-24 10:56

I'm just on the mobile app that delivers fast notifications, somehow. And I have a good LTE connection. Pair that up with me having my phone on me all the time and it's easy.

2018-03-24 10:57

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No way the app actually works that well I call bs

2018-03-24 11:00

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The app is literally just the website, it's just as fast.

2018-03-24 11:02

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yeah well I have mobile notifications on and I still don't get first so

2018-03-24 11:06

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T R I G G E R E D

Idk, good internet connection, type faster, react faster, it's all a matter of milliseconds in the top 5

2018-03-24 11:08

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2018-03-24 11:09

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I swear I don't bot :(

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I mean I write nice, gl and gg depending on the title, bot couldn't do that

2018-03-24 11:10

And if someone messages my #1 I reply fast too

2018-03-24 11:11

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Have a nice day

2018-03-24 11:12

Nice, gg etc are the most generic answers there are

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Well, gotta type something small to be fast

2018-03-24 11:48

2018-03-24 11:49

Rip vp?

They showed us a couple of times they can play against faze even when they're in slump, soooo i wouldn't be so sure :D

2018-03-24 01:52

At the time during Epicenter Rain was sick which was probably the main reason. Should be a good match to watch though!

2018-03-24 01:59

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Yes and SK was tired

2018-03-24 02:38

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And olofs hamster died just before the tournament

2018-03-24 02:49

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And dupreehs moms bestfriend’s cat’s sibling died ten minutes before the quarterfinal

2018-03-24 10:47

And Pasha had good gym at the hotel

2018-03-24 12:12

RIP dupreehs moms bestfriend’s cat’s sibling

2018-03-24 12:36

Rain is always sick

2018-03-24 03:41

How long does one have to be in a slump before considered a shit team?

2018-03-24 02:15

How long does one have to have good matches to finally be considered out of slump?

2018-03-24 02:40

Good matches? When?

2018-03-24 02:44

1410, 1683

2018-03-24 02:48

? what

2018-03-24 02:57

hahaha xD

2018-03-24 08:50

consistent results will show when a team is out of a slump. VP struggling in MDL league and lans alike.

2018-03-24 03:09

Yup true

2018-03-24 08:56

I think you remember it wrong, it’s rather: Faze always played well vs VP, even when VP was a good team and Faze had Maikelele, 16-0 two times if I don’t remember wrong.

2018-03-24 10:35

expected

gg HR! LezGO!

2018-03-24 01:50

Faze vs Mousesports in finals FaZe to win finals 2-1

NVM its bo5 final 3-2 for any team

Insane analysis, I’m gonna guess too hmmmm one team is going to win 3 maps any of them.

2018-03-24 04:08

+999 xD

2018-03-24 05:38

I think it will be 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 for any team tbh.

2018-03-24 10:36

b05 btw

2018-03-24 01:53

yeah dude #17 again

Nonon mouz 3-2 faze is destined for 2nd

2018-03-24 05:44

FaZe-mouz final nice

good luck HR!

liquid elige nitro twistzz naf auto

2018-03-24 10:59

Good

2018-03-24 01:51

FaZe vs Mouz in bo5 final.. thats gonna be sick showdown.

ez for godJ

2018-03-24 02:21

Easy for Sun King Sunny.

2018-03-24 13:46

Virtus.Pro will dominate FaZe

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Its what i hope happens anything wrong with that mr black?

2018-03-24 01:57

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hope and dreams if this happen - faze just dont care about this lan

2018-03-24 01:58

or faze just underestimate them or some shit or all vp players learn how to click on heads

i mean ofc if Virtus plow activated they can beat FaZe we saw this atleast 2 times but i think 75% of FaZe-Mouz

i am 95% sure if mouz faze final mouz take it UNLESS faze dont do usual choke

2018-03-24 02:01

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because Bo5 and Faze always choke in Bo5 LUL

iem oakland was probably the worst choke ever, that shouldve been their tournament every day of the week

2018-03-24 02:06

same with fnatic you remember 13-9 vs fnatic on inferno you remember 15-14 vs fnatic on de_train?

2018-03-24 02:08

the funniest thing is everyone says olof is best player and doesnt choke, he single handly gave fnatic that 15-14 round he let guardian play all by himself with like 19hp

2018-03-24 02:10

because they retarded and cant even win 3 vs 1 vs flusha

yup i hope faze lose

Olof is the one player that doesn’t choke in finals. He always has a stable rating. It’s Niko and Rain that are hit or miss in finals. They can be god tier on one map and then just disappear in the next.

2018-03-24 10:41

Olof mostly has the worst rating throughout the whole tournament though, and usually in the final as well. (Karrigan not included)

Not usually, but as I said he is a stable contributor. He always has positive rating, maybe not the same top performance as Niko, but he also doesn’t disappear like Niko and Rain does in some final maps. A player always giving you 1.05 rating is worth more than one that gives you 1.5 up to the final and then 0.7 in half of the final games. Considering Olof plays the roles/spots that no one else wants as well.

to be fair, Rain and NiKo don't give 0.70 ratings, its mostly 1.20 and sometimes 0.95. Olof can sometimes get 0.85 in finals as well, he has had negative rating in the past 3 finals they played.... I'm pretty sure that right now NiKo & Rain > olof

2018-03-24 11:25

Over whole events yes they are higher, but it’s one of them choking that is losing Faze finals, it’s hardly Olof! Look at last final vs Fnatic. In the maps that faze lost it was rain bottom two times 0,8 and 0,7 rating and Niko bottom in the last with 0.39. Olof was the one giving them a chance to win on inferno. Sure rain and Niko has huge numbers on the maps they win, but when they lose they are the players that disappears, cant blame Olof here.

NiKo didn't have 0.39 in the final map? NiKo played great that whole final.... Get your facts straight man, olof lowest rated, even under karrigan

2018-03-24 12:16

Please learn to read if you are going to be angry, I said that in the maps that they lost, Rain was bottom in two of them and Niko in the last one. It was the overpass map he had 0,39. Not in the last map. My point is that the two players who underperformed when faze lost maps was rain and Niko. Boosting average rating from going huge on the maps they are winning doesn’t mean much if they disappear on they don’t contribute when the team need them the most, in the maps faze lost. And Rain was lowest rated in the final vs Fnatic mr get facts straight.

2018-03-24 13:40

yea but Olof didn't perform good on the maps they won, and also not on the maps they lost... so still rain and niko better imo. edit: They lost those maps BECAUSE rain and niko didn't play well, shows that they are more important

2018-03-24 13:51

Since Rain was bottom rated in total, obviously he wasn’t better in that final even if he played great on one of the maps Faze won. I’m not arguing that Olof is a better player than Niko and Rain, I’m arguing that Olof isn’t the problem that causes them to lose finals. That problem is that one or both of the star players rain and Niko goes missing. That doesn’t mean they are bad, it’s probably a mental thing at this point. Olof isn’t there to be the star, he does his job and puts up a stable rating, Rain and Niko are ment to be stars but they don’t show up sometimes, that is the real problem for faze

2018-03-24 14:06

I guess, but I still feel like if anyone would be dropped from the FaZe roster, it has to be olof. GuardiaN NiKo and Rain are just too important, I know olof is very good at his role and everything, which is why I think that there won't be anyone kicked from the roster for a very long time. I still think olof is one of the weaker ones on the FaZe lineup. Everyone can have his own opinion though. Have a nice day :D

2018-03-24 14:08

Don't Care - 1st $238,000 Riiiiight. They Don't care.

30k a month for each one

2018-03-24 09:22

...and? Ca 240k/5=48k, let it be "just" 30 because (insert any reason here), so it's another 30k + you get to practice againts another team + you add another trophy to your list + you get bigger exposure for your brand/company, which results in better deals in the future. If they start ignoring lower tier tournaments, such "philosophy" may stay in their heads and they won't try at bigger tournaments as there is bigger pressure.

2018-03-29 21:34

Let's go Faze, rekt that toxic shit polacks.

Stfu italian dog.

2018-03-24 09:02

Reported

Xd dude He can say ,,toxic shit polacks" and that's ok? And when i say italian dog then i M reported?? Hahaha think about it tho

2018-03-24 09:35

What makes you think that i did not report him ?

2018-03-24 09:36

The fact you didn't reply 'Reported' to him :))))

2018-03-24 11:01

faze vs mouz gonna be sick but i hope for faze vs vp cuz the crowd will love vp

Faze vs VP can't be final.

i'm stupid af

2018-03-24 02:25

hellraisers vs vp incoming LUL

So basically confirmed Mouz > Faze in final.

no shitty NA teams feelsgoodman gonna watch some real cs

2018-03-24 01:54

Because they only invited teams from the area around. Read up on event before you comment please. Have a nice day

2018-03-24 01:55

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I didn't ask you that.

2018-03-24 01:56

I'm just simply stating why NA teams weren't there.

2018-03-24 02:00

I didn't ask you why shitty NA teams weren't there.

I just said it feels good to watch tournament without shitty NA teams. Have a nice day

2018-03-24 02:02

So watching a top heavy tourney where you know the winner before it starts because there are 2 T1 teams 1 T2 and a shit ton of t3-4 makes it real CS OMEGALUL. You get to call it shitty CS when you actually get a player out of NA MDL

Meanwhile, NA T1 teams are losing to their T3 T4 teams online

2018-03-24 02:07

ONLINE. We actually going to act like online matches matter now?

online, lan match is a match, more excuses please.

2018-03-24 02:09

Alright then, VP beat Faze online. Faze chokes every final. VP = Mythic

2018-03-24 02:11

Hes trying to bait dude :/

2018-03-24 10:54

Well NA teams in general and C9 in particular has been getting invites to events forever, even before they where actually remotely good, just to fill the “NA quota”. Sad how many free passes the NA scene has gotten on the expense of better EU teams.

2018-03-24 10:45

I thought wesg was a joke, but this shit hits another level. 600k tournament for 8 teams and 5 of them t4 garbage lmao.

Doesnt that honestly say more about the shit prices «big» stacked tournaments have?

2018-03-24 02:19

I agree that the 250k ones should be more but they are part of 1m grand slam. The grand slam tourneys are either 250k (too low but part of 1m if u win 4, 100k if u beat someone with 3 wins) or 500k (pre good)

2018-03-24 03:43

why is that a badthing though?

everything correct <3

these teams showed some good stuff and I hope they got something out of this event

Noice

ez 4 virtus.raisers

Basically like WESG with smaller prize pool and worse teams.

2018-03-24 02:04

Better hotels and computers as well.

2018-03-24 02:12

Thing that I hate about WESG is how shit their production is, players seem to really enjoy that tournament but as a viewer it was painful af trying to watch that piece of shit. This tournament sadly not even interested in it.

2018-03-24 02:14

Yea the HUD is the biggest problem at this event for me. WESG just had casters not casting and just talking about random shit the whole time lol

imo the schedule is the worst party,the only thing wrong with the HUD is the minimap.. And they've made live cam for players in game meanwhile so they might fix it for sunday

2018-03-24 02:24

16.12 btw *

2018-03-24 02:05

Yeah. Vp vs X-kom first match was 16-12 not 16-14

2018-03-24 03:10

16:12*

2018-03-24 03:31

And 16:13*

faze lose to vp and we all laugh

Time for mouz to get their revenge

2018-03-24 03:51

mouz vs faze grand final incoming

2018-03-24 04:03

Most predictable tournament ever.

2018-03-24 04:05

X-KOM ONLINERS hax0rs

2018-03-24 04:17

My money on VP

2018-03-24 04:38

Faze vs Hellraisers grand final Bookmark this. You first heard it from here boizzz.

2018-03-24 05:37

Not gonna happen.

2018-03-24 06:24

CS is so random these days. I won't be surprised

2018-03-24 06:28

Again lucky FaZe playing against easy opponent.... Even here

1st of one group vs 2nd of the other. That's the way it is. And most tournaments favour the top team anyway. Like Faze played all the easy teams till Katowice finals.

2018-03-24 06:29