compLexity beat BIG; to New Champions Stage

14-9-2018 16:47

Complexity are the first team through to the New Champions Stage after beating BIG, 16-8, on Nuke.

Complexity kicked Nuke off with a good, clean, A rush, taking the site and winning the afterplant on the back of doubles by Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor and Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan. After winning the anti-ecos another A rush came from the North American side prompting BIG’s last two players to save their weapons. Complexity then found themselves on a 3vs3 afterplant on A with a 5-0 lead as ShahZaM got a double to close the round out and increase his team’s lead.

BIG were finally able to get on the board after losing the seven first rounds, but were instantly reset as Complexity once again hit the upper bombsite to keep wrecking their opposition. It was then that the Americans got completely blindsided as BIG won a full eco with a double by Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik and triple by Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz. The German-British side then stopped an A rush with four kills by gob b. Complexity were able to make it 9-3 to really hurt BIG’s economy, but three opening kills by the British AWPer around outer kept his team alive. Despite the weak start, BIG were able to bring it back to 6-9 before the half.

compLexity become Legends with a 3-0 record

The second half started with Complexity once again winning the pistol round, and although BIG won the forcebuy, a four-kill by Jaccob "⁠yay⁠" Whiteaker broke BIG’s economy as Complexity kept racking the rounds to 12-7 with BIG having to go on a full eco. Down 7-13, BIG were able to walk into B and after killing the only player defending planted the bomb and successfully defended it.

A huge double by Rory "⁠dephh⁠" Jackson to stop BIG from entering B following an opening frag from Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz then reset the German team. ANDROID then got a triple against the eco on the A site to get on match point. The American-British team then closed it out, 16-8, making dephh the first UK player to make it to the playoffs of a Major.

FACEIT Major 2018Best of 1

Complexity

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14th September 2018

BIG

Nuke

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jaccob 'yay' Whiteaker yay	26 - 15	+11	109.3	83.3%	1.70
Rory 'dephh' Jackson dephh	19 - 19	0	92.9	83.3%	1.33
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan ShahZaM	22 - 14	+8	85.7	70.8%	1.33
Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor ANDROID	15 - 10	+5	65.4	79.2%	1.21
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	16 - 11	+5	71.0	66.7%	1.12

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield smooya	20 - 19	+1	82.5	62.5%	1.00
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	16 - 19	-3	67.7	62.5%	0.93
Fatih 'gob b' Dayik gob b	14 - 21	-7	65.7	45.8%	0.70
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	11 - 19	-8	63.5	50.0%	0.70
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch tiziaN	8 - 20	-12	40.5	50.0%	0.46

With the first team through to the playoffs, the standings are as follows:

The New Legends stage

3W - 0L

Complexity

2W - 0L

Liquid

Astralis

2W - 1L

BIG

1W - 1L

1W - 2L

0W - 2L

0W - 3L

Well deserved for compLexity. Don't want to be mean or anything, but i kind of want to see mibr go 1:3 now. mibr is still better than VP but still....

2018-09-14 16:48

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FUCK YES GOOD SHIT NICE JOB ALL THE BOYS JASON LAKE YOU SEXY MOTHERFUCKER

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Expected

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The frick

2018-09-14 16:49

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BIG news to BIG fans now that they lost and they already played against the easiest teams, they are going to face the BIG ones RiP for them.

2018-09-14 16:51

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yes i mean Faze are just rubbish

2018-09-14 17:00

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yay

2018-09-14 17:08

Ggg

Legends

Germany 0 Majors Brazil 2

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7-1xDD

2018-09-14 16:54

7-1 on soccer LUL

2018-09-14 17:02

flag check on soccer man

2018-09-14 18:18

IQ Germany: 88 IQ Brazil: 5

2018-09-14 17:14

why 88 and why 5? I wanna see a great explanation

2018-09-14 18:12

lmao, you just brought it yourself

2018-09-14 18:30

+1 Also like coL. And K0nfig is crying :D

True

2018-09-14 17:35

Bug fans actually r bugs

2018-09-14 16:55

cry is free xD

BUG CLAN SO BAD kkkkkkkkkkkk

2018-09-14 16:56

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BUG 3 MIBR 0 BUG > MIBR 7 > 1 Cry is free kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

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Cry is free natsi. 16-7 to col LMAO

2018-09-14 16:58

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BIG 3 MIBR 0 CRY IS FREE!

2018-09-14 16:59

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Brazil 2 majors > Germany 0 majors Brazil 5 world cups > Germany 4 world cups yeah, cry is free :D

2018-09-14 17:05

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7-1 >> 5 WC 3-0 >> 2 major brazil 60k homicides >>> world cry is free :D

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Germany 2 world wars lost >> any loss and you know! ;D

2018-09-14 17:11

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we lost 2 world war = 1st world country brazil lost all drug wars = 3rd world country who is the real winner here? xD

2018-09-14 17:13

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for sure not you.

2018-09-14 17:20

for sure not brazil xDDD

2018-09-14 17:30

never said that.

Lets just agree that you’re both terrible

wtf swedistan talking?

2018-09-15 13:19

now i know why when ww2 no one on ur side

2018-09-14 17:29

or maybe it was because of a genocide? xD

Thanks for taking all the Nazis after WW2 and giving them a treat while we rebuilt our country.

conspiracy theory LMFAO

2018-09-14 17:50

Stay in denial. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamer..

2018-09-14 17:57

answer to #198

2018-09-14 18:33

lmao cry is free, keep crying

2018-09-14 17:04

is there a reason for wishing mibr to go 1:3?

2018-09-14 17:12

crying brazilians xD

Lol at optic kicking shazam/stanislaw, and not even making the major.. and they are 3:0.. Lol..

2018-09-14 17:33

Cry is free BOTsen fan

2018-09-14 18:14

Well deserved for compLexity. Don't want to be mean or anything, but i kind of want to see BIG go 2:3 now.

2018-09-14 16:47

+99

Why? ;(

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Cuz pgl i think.ppl dont like them

2018-09-14 16:53

Because most of the BIG fans are toxic af, spamming on everything and insulting other teams and they are not humble at all when winning.

Reason why I changed my BIG flair already. It's because our german stream (99Damage) has the most retarded fanbase. And then they swarm over to hltv.

2018-09-14 17:15

oh beware the hltv being flooded with retards or trolls ;-) and no, not all BIG fans are like that. I know many and we're all fans of their playing style and how they worked their way up the ladder by not being the craziest individual players, but perfectioning teamplay and pushing strats/antistrats/utility usage to a higher level than any german team in recent history has been able to :)

Fan of BIG since their first appearance. But yeah, that "BUG" thing is annoying af, so I too changed my flair.

2018-09-14 17:36

I kinda like too how BIG plays and their new strats....but I can't cheer for them because of the constant spam. I also hate idiot kids who are cheering only for the winning teams. Kids than change their "favorite" team every tournament.

2018-09-14 22:54

Yes i hate legija so much after he make a cocky statements yesterday

Yep, that's why I like karrigan, he rarely is cocky...and when he does, he is mostly joking

2018-09-14 23:01

2018-09-14 22:46

+9999 for all germain : Have a NA day

+111 Fuck big

I want BIG to go on, I want smooya to be on the stage

+11111111

OMEGALUL

wow

ez 3-0 pickem for CoL and 0-3 for LULstrike

OMG

Ez NA 2 majors

Shazam is powerful than superman

You mean "more powerful"?

2018-09-14 16:57

Yeah lol i was trying to come numba wan in the comments

The only way to do that is to write something very short then edit the comment. Everybody does that.

2018-09-14 17:03

But it was too late man

Writing "more" takes like a third of a second. It wouldn't have helped you.

2018-09-14 17:47

BIG 3 days era has ended :(

Niiiice

GOD I regret my 0-3 pick

Same LMAO

2018-09-14 20:06

respect col

Unexpected

no big no bug but no big so no bug

well deserves, great work

K0nfig xddddd

hes steaming right now LUL

2018-09-14 19:39

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY EAZYY

GGWP coL. Jason Lake gonna do backflips now :D Also yay lmao i.imgur.com/wapRrM2.jpg

2018-09-14 16:50

Bug clan was defeated 2 times

But never lost to MIBR on LAN :((((

I really want mibr vs bug

Waiting for tomorrow :)

2018-09-14 22:43

It's mibr vs astralis lul

2018-09-14 23:09

yayGOD

yayGOD TOP 1

YAYYYYYYYY

FAZE LOST TO THIS?

Faze is shit now, so..

Yea faze should really take a break and prepare themself instead of participating touraments and keep trying to get first ,they are just trying too hard,after esl one belo horzionte which olof came back,faze was completely worn out, they put too much effort in iem sydney and esl one belo,and as u can see during the navi vs faze match, all of them panic when navi make a comeback

2018-09-14 19:37

HISTORY WRITTEN

ggs, as much as i think col deserved a legend spot i think it goes to show how bad this seeding is that they played a lot easier teams than others to get a 3 - 0

g2, fnatic, big much rather they play good teams like c9, winstrike, vega of course

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they deserve a legend spot and had some great wins, but they shouldve got liquid or astralis, the visibly stronger teams, instead of those two going up against each other and col getting big. meanwhile, navi get astralis in round one then faze in round two, and now faze have had big, navi and will have mousesports, all teams in the top 10 and two in the top 5

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big are #9 and fnatic #11 so i do not understand your point... plus astralis and faze both looking shaky so probably still a 3-0 for col

2018-09-14 17:07

my point is, col would 9/10 times not win against either liquid or astralis, and dont try spin it another way. yet they get big, easily the objectively weakest team out of those three. in the exact same way, faze get mousesports in the 0 - 2 bracket, the obviously stronger team out of the 3 they could get, and c9 who have been god awful get freewinstrike. the seeding is messed up.

so if you look at it the other way, why should astralis or liquid be given a free win against col?

2018-09-14 17:18

because they have proven themselves much more, beating high tier opponents and being a consistent top ranked team in the world, which is why proper seeding should be done. if col or big are worthy of going 3 - 0, they should be able to prove it against the best teams at the tournament, rather than getting it against easily weaker opposition. instead, col got a much easier win, and on the other side, c9 got a free win over winstrike. what would you rather see, high tier competition in the higher parts of the biggest tournaments of the year, or more blowout games with barely any entertainment value? answers clear

2018-09-14 18:07

lul blowout games yet it's been mostly OT games nt anime fan

2018-09-14 18:10

lmao have you been paying attention? winstrike have shown no promise this entire tourney, neither have c9. all the ot games were in the challenger stage which im not even talking about. theres only been 3 in the legend stage and one was the first two teams i mentioned, probably the worse game in this stage too, neither team deserved a single win

the 2 worst teams have shown no promise... obviously....

2018-09-14 18:15

what does that even mean

2018-09-14 18:16

Col played very well(probably the best they've ever played) but yeah they got pretty lucky with the matchups. But hey, that's all a part of the random factor of the Swiss system. And on the other side of the coin, FaZe and Mous are playing for 0-2.

2018-09-14 18:13

exactly, faze and mous have had to play against much harder teams while c9 and winstrike both perform pretty bad, yet c9 get an autoqual off a free win, which they even nearly messed up still plus astralis will have to play much greater teams to get a 3 - 0 than col did. the seeding and system needs to be greatly improved for next major, we cant keep handing out free qualifications on 6 month old results and seeding teams based off a bo1 and ignoring any recent performances and consistency.

2018-09-14 18:22

lol they beat 2 legend teams from last year and the team that went 3-0 last week. .... u crazy

implying two legend teams means something winstrike were a legend team c9 were a legend team they were legit wins, but they have gotten much better seeds than most other teams in contention for a 3 - 0 (see #139 for some of the teams i mean)

2018-09-14 17:06

GO GO COMPLEXITY! TO WIN MAJOR!

UK DOMINATION

n1 k0nfig

YAY 4Head

PogChamp

ez coL vs Liquid Grand Finals called it here first noobs

expected

true, cause yayGOD > s1

Optic right now crying, toxic danish shitters

Karma

2018-09-14 16:52

konfig is probably crying right now xD

ahhaaha +1

What did k0nfig?

mobile.twitter.com/k0nfigcs/status/99000..

LOOOOOL. karma=real

2018-09-14 17:01

WHO?

LOL

deserved gg

1.6coL back? LuL

GL in the eu minor Optic.

Why do I have a feeling that complexity is just gonna do what winstrike did. They go to playoffs of a major and then do nothing for the remainder of the year?

Not feeling it is going to be a reality

theres nothing wrong with the auto qualification and seeding guys i swear : ))))))

2018-09-14 18:08

Not bad! Glad to see Stan making more NA shitters good :)

bo1 swiss in nutshell

k0nfig cry is free

Big needs to discuss new strategy , only smooya and tabsen are playing consistently

props to complexity, but I doubt they will go far in BO3s.

coL didnt qualify by beating lower teir teams coL didnt play easy teams like winstrike or vega or c9 THEY BEAT Fnatic, G2, and BIG !! THE RISE OF NA BABY

tier 3 fnatic, tier 2 g2, but big was impressive.

they get a 3 - 0 without having to play any team in the top tier of cs no astralis no liquid no navi etc i believe they would have earned a legend spot regardless, but they dont deserve a 3 - 0 while astralis have to play navi and liquid to get one, thats just bad seeding

very mad. EU cs LUL

2018-09-14 19:42

nice try baiting about being eu i am happy for col tho i just think they had it a lil too easy with that final draw

2018-09-14 20:16

THEY HAVE MADE HISTORY ONE MORE TIME! <3 Gratz to dephh and co.

UK CS UK CS UK CS

Now if G2 makes it, I'll be happy

2018-09-14 17:41

yep

2018-09-15 00:20

Congrats dephh!

BIG most inconsistent team here LUL.... CoL had pretty simple strats gg.

QBF all over again.

Who got comp as 3-0 pick em lmao

the most unexpected thing in major history

nah qbf was more unexpected

Rekt in quarter final inc. :3

Now Gade, Konfig and Cajun can eat their words

What did they said

Ward

Unexpected and gl

Is this real life?

CSGO nowadays is so unpredictable, insane

BIG matches is unpredictable *

Respect compLexity! For years they haven't achieved anything or even qualilfed for a major since Katowice 2014! This is a great thing for the org.

Expected XD

Unexpected. Well done col, against a good team

They'll get FaZe'd in the quaters tho :(

Omh hahahaha

YaY

just amazing... coL is such a legendary tag, it just feels right to see them playing decent

Respect to coL, congrats on making it to the next stage! Just happy for Shahzam, finally finding success in the major after all the shit he’s gone through.

Finally revenge on k0nfig

wth gj complexity

Btw why was keev kicked?

because he didn't play as good as he needed to

WTF NO ONE PICK COMPLEXITY 3-0...

Show respect to Legends pls they're WELL DESERVED

2ez for UK CS It's coming home!

This is the best day of my life

Izi for Usa beating nazis once again. xD kkkkkkkkkk Jokes a part, what a match by yay

ez for k0nfig oh wait

Anglo CS best CS. Dirty continentals should gtfo.

I'm done. Buchholz can't stop upset.

Yay is world-class material, god fucking damnit

whats going on in this major

unexpected

2018-09-14 17:09

col 3-0 faze/mouz 0-3 XD

"upgrade btw" really happy for complexity and especially for yay

They call Col a American-British team when there are more Canadian players than British.

canada is a more educated USA

2018-09-14 17:25

+1 XD

because america is a continent, not a country.

2018-09-14 18:19

North America is a continent, America is another name for USA

2018-09-14 18:35

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in that sense canadians are americans too imo

2018-09-14 18:54

Ew I'm offended xD

2018-09-14 19:02

Stfu leaf America The Americas (also collectively called AMERICA) comprise the totality of the continents of North and South America.

2018-09-14 19:09

"relating to or characteristic of the United-States or its inhabitants" -Google

2018-09-14 19:16

So the word has more than one meaning, it doesn't exclusively relate to just USA

2018-09-14 19:23

Should we just stop complaining about this, it was meant to be a joke but it's gone a little too far

2018-09-14 19:25

Sry

It's fine, I'm just referring to google in this and all the definitions point to American being a word to describe someone or something from the US.

2018-09-14 19:29

Ofc, you're right it's the more commonly used meaning :) was just angry cause I missed my bus so I had to pass 40 min of time lol

2018-09-14 19:54

I was angry because I'm in class

2018-09-14 19:58

I love upsets :D Gratz buois :) Stan showing his value again

yay shitting on BIG again lol

2018-09-14 17:16

UPGRADE BTW LMAO OPTIC That's karma for you, k0nfig & co... toxic danish cunts :>

Somewhere, over the rainbow, there are 3 crying danes, who kicked Peter and Shaz

2018-09-14 17:19

Why don't we have group stages?

COMPLEXITY V LIQUID FACEIT MAJOR FINALS. HATE ME OR SLUR AT ME. THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN

Second American Major?

2018-09-14 19:59

Idk but this is what my blind cst is predicting as of now. I'm gonna kill her if she's wrong (she'll die anyway)

2018-09-15 05:04

coL vs C9 major finals would be better but c9 is shit atm

2018-09-15 01:51

ShahZaM deserved it tho

BRING ME THE FCKNG PISTOLSS!!!!! Well deserved for complexity

And ofc coL will have 0 results rest of the year

luckys ez seedings play only vs trash 0-3 next major

next major QBF... :D ez 0:3...

like QBF half year ago

shitty bo1s. will get crushed on Bo3s :/

2018-09-14 17:40

less team only the "elite" and play more bo3... this noobs get rekt against any playoff team in bo3.. mark my words...

2018-09-14 17:44

man fuck this tournament

nice

2018-09-14 17:52

Like if you Think Astralis Worlds number 1 Will Join

2018-09-14 17:53

BIG surprise

coL is back! legendary tag!

2018-09-14 17:54

Complexity faced weak teams in general. They were lucky in general. Next major they will go 0 - 3, for sure! BO1 mechanism and weird raffles dont let the best teams move forward! Anyway congrats Complexity!

WE'RE HERE TO F****** WIN

2018-09-14 18:01

k0nfig on suicide watch

2018-09-14 18:06

i was gonna pick col for the 3-0 as a joke, shoulda done it now. i woulda looked like the biggest brained mfer alive

SUP K0NFIG

ez 4 yay

2018-09-14 18:17

just a bad day for BIG, shit happens. everything was running coL's way today. gl tomorrow!

2018-09-14 18:21

This is the news I love to see on my lunch break

Expected given WHO they played - But it ends here

2018-09-14 18:26

coL proceeds to win major and c9 buys them out

2018-09-15 01:50

stainslaw is the best NA IGL

2018-09-14 18:27

From nothing to 3-0 in a major, and then losing in the first BO3 where they go against a decent team in shape, just like QBF last major, and BIG in the other one. I guess something is just not right with this format...

2018-09-14 18:34

To be fair they went 3-0 , and this BIG is a pretty decent opponent. QBF had 2-1, then mouz choked massively on train.

2018-09-14 19:18

I do agree that nowadays BIG is a decent team, but they weren't back then when they went 3-0, QBF also not "worthy" of a Legend status due to teams playing bad, not because they played super well. The thing is BO1s are proven to be way too random and unpredictable to be used to define teams that stay in group stages and that goes through to the playoffs. Maybe in other (e)Sports they aren't, but at least in CS they are.

2018-09-14 19:32

Yeah totally that BIG 100% fluked the playoff I just wanted to say coL is a bit better than QBF. Yeah I agree it's random. I would like a classic system like in football, 4 groups of 4 (seeded ofc), round robin bo3, top 2 in group advance to playoff. Then quarterfinals and so on also bo3. People would complain about simultaneous matches then but I don't care that much, since I watch maybe 1 full game per day. And it would eliminate randomness by a lot.

The Round Robin BO3s are great, and deciding the groups with seeding would most probably avoid the group of death problem. Furthermore I think the best format in eSports I have seen is the one used in Dota2's The International. I don't care if it takes a week for teams to be placed in the brackets or that we have more than one game at the same time since we have 0 randomness and that the best teams are placed in the upper bracket and the worse in the lower.

2018-09-14 20:05

+1 If Valve cared more about CS they could easily do it, but here we are.

2018-09-14 20:22

Knowing Stanislaw, anything is possible.

2018-09-14 19:20

they were my 0-3 for the minor

2018-09-14 20:32

W H A T T H E F U C K

2018-09-14 20:47

inb4 C9 Buys out roster after major

I literally never heard of dephh, yay, and android before they joined complexity and now they are in a major playoff lol

2018-09-15 01:52

So happy that Complexity have made it this far. I really hope they place top 3 or top 5. Their tenacity to persevere through several losses and roster changes shows that they're in it for the long haul. Hopefully ShahZaM doesn't get screwed over like he has in the past, stanislaw doesn't kill the team like when he left OpTiC for Liquid only to be cut less than 6 months later, and that the other 3 players continue to grow.

2018-09-15 01:53