Renegades knock out Space Soldiers in overtime

Renegades live to fight another day at the FACEIT Major after edging past Space Soldiers 19-15 in the New Legends stage.

Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward opened up the action in the match - the first sending a team home in London - with a quad kill as Renegades pushed A to give his team the pistol round. The Australian team hardly broke a sweat to win the corresponding anti-ecos, but they lost control of the game once Space Soldiers had money in the bank.

Space Soldiers put together a string of rounds to take a 6-3 lead, not letting a long technical pause get to them. Renegades were determined to not let the game run away from them and responded on a shoddy buy. That round ended up turning the tide back in the favour of the Australians, who took an 8-7 lead.

The second half began with Space Soldiers taking the pistol round and the following anti-ecos to retake the lead. A triple-kill from AZR in the first gun round gave Renegades their first round of the half and marked the beginning of a great run from the Australian team, who brought the scoreline to 14-10.

It looked like Renegades had the game under control, but Space Soldiers added some life to this game by upping the pace, eventually hitting match point on the back of a triple-kill by Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş. It was certainly one of the most important rounds ever for Renegades' players, but they were able to keep their composure to force overtime, in which they would crush their opponents, winning four rounds without response.