FURIA dominate Spirit to win ESEA S31 Global Challenge

15-7-2019 01:15

FURIA are the champions of ESEA Season 31 Global Challenge following a 2-0 victory over Spirit in the grand finals (16-10 Nuke, 16-5 Vertigo).

The second day saw FURIA conquer Vitality 2-0 in an opening semifinal matchup, with Spirit mirroring the result against the Germans from Sprout to meet the Brazilians in the grand final.

The series began on FURIA's pick of Nuke, with Spirit drawing first blood on the CT-side as they pushed up to a 3-0 lead off the back of an unsuccessful second-round forcebuy from FURIA. Once they returned to rifles, Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato and company quickly went on to win eight of the ensuing nine rounds, with a 3k from Pavlo "⁠COLDYY1⁠" Veklenko granting Spirit their only round for a 8-4 scoreline in FURIA's favour. The two teams traded blows as the half drew to a close, but it was FURIA who remained ahead by 9-6 as they swapped sides.

Three kills by Artem "⁠iDISBALANCE⁠" Egorov in the second pistol allowed for Spirit to reduce the scoreline deficit and tie up the match at 9-9, but FURIA repeated their efforts from the first half as they gave up only one additional round on the road to a 16-10 finish.

Despite coach guerri stepping in for ableJ, FURIA still manage to secure victory this weekend

Vertigo, Spirit's map pick, was next up, but it was FURIA who made it look their own. KSCERATO was deathless for the opening eight rounds of the map, initially mustering a 10-0 K-D while the team's coach and stand-in Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira secured an M4A4 ace to maintain momentum in FURIA's favour and take an uncontested twelve rounds in a row. Spirit edged out their first two rounds towards the end of the half, but another three kills by KSCERATO left his team heavily favored 13-2.

Spirit added three to their tally following the side swap, although two of those were only narrowly edged out in 1vs1 situations. Once a proper buy was in their hands, FURIA prolonged the match no longer as the final three rounds went their way for a 16-5 victory.

ESEA Season 31 Global ChallengeBest of 3

FURIA

Matchpage

14th July 2019

Spirit

Nuke

Vertigo

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato KSCERATO	46 - 24	+22	96.4	78.7%	1.47
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos yuurih	41 - 25	+16	85.6	76.6%	1.31
Nicholas 'guerri' Nogueira guerri	33 - 27	+6	74.4	76.6%	1.19
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan arT	34 - 32	+2	81.6	66.0%	1.16
Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo VINI	27 - 31	-4	72.7	74.5%	1.06

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov chopper	31 - 36	-5	78.9	68.1%	0.97
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev sdy	32 - 36	-4	69.3	61.7%	0.95
Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov iDISBALANCE	25 - 33	-8	57.8	68.1%	0.88
Pavlo 'COLDYY1' Veklenko COLDYY1	27 - 38	-11	62.9	61.7%	0.83
Dmitry 'S0tF1k' Forostyanko S0tF1k	24 - 38	-14	58.3	70.2%	0.77

The final standings for ESEA Season 31 Global Challenge are:

1. FURIA - $25,000
2. Spirit - $15,000
3-4. Vitality - $10,000
3-4. Sprout -$10,000
5-6. Singularity - $3,750
5-6. Chiefs - $3,750
7-8. Party Astronauts - $3,750
7-8. ATK - $3,750

2019-07-15 01:16

17 replies

Expected

13 replies

RUSKI CS KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2019-07-15 01:17

6 replies

expected quick win from winzil!

2019-07-15 02:06

5 replies

EZ top 5 Ranking!

2019-07-15 02:07

4 replies

max top6

2019-07-15 02:27

3 replies

KSCERATO MVP!?

2019-07-15 11:38

2 replies

what?

2019-07-16 05:27

1 reply

He dominated the event. He Just should win

2019-07-17 01:11

he isn't from Brazil, we love Austria/Russia, don't worry :)

2019-07-15 01:22

+1.

2019-07-15 01:36

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2019-07-15 03:19

+9999?

2019-07-15 05:18

Ez for brazil cs!

2019-07-15 01:20

2019-07-15 04:06

True

2019-07-15 01:35

guerri the best???

Sicko mode

That could've been vitality

2019-07-15 01:26

They beat vitality on semis

2019-07-15 04:11

Vitality threw

2019-07-15 04:13

Vitalit trolled the whole tournament

2019-07-15 10:35

Sdy to navi kappa

2019-07-15 01:25

+11111

2019-07-15 01:51

wow

Ez gary

jajajajajajaja

2019-07-15 02:33

EZ4GARRY

EOEOEOEOEOEOEO furia first team ever to win a tournament with coach as complete #EZ4FURIA #FURIATOP1

8 replies

What would you expect when he's putting up numbers like he is, much better than shitty zews, wouldn't have even thought he was a coach playing like he is.

2019-07-15 01:21

He used to be a pro in brazil but for sure he surprised a lot

Zews played against tier 1/2 opponents. Not tier 3

2019-07-15 01:32

name and flair checks out

2019-07-15 01:33

Vitality is TOP2 in world ranking

2019-07-15 01:52

before he become furia's coach, he was a part of furia's frist lineup... he and furia's ceo, started de project 2 years ago... so definetly he is better than zews.

2019-07-15 05:52

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2019-07-15 02:34

1.19 rating from a coach, what a beast xD

nice

2019-07-15 01:19

ez4garry

noice furia

this should be vitality if they didnt threw

2019-07-15 01:18

EOEOEOEOEOOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOOEOEOEO

guerri > ableJ lmao

EZ4GARY

#EZ4FURIA -Zywoo +Kscerato

Gary MVP

Guerri > disableJ lmao

Me>you lmao

GeT Right >Chockzz Imao

vitality > furia lmao

2019-07-15 02:03

zywoo>s1mple

2019-07-15 03:26

Ksceraaaaaaatooo > Vitality bro

2019-07-15 04:14

nt nt flag and flair checks out vitality #2 btw

2019-07-15 20:08

Fluke team

GUERRI MVP

Easiest match of GARY'S life.

Furia top 2! Furia > Vitality

guerri to mibr

Awesome event! Tier 2 - 5 major :D

2019-07-15 01:23

-coldzera +guerri

2019-07-15 01:24

Imagine Guerri and CZews together <3

2019-07-15 01:27

and valens, zonic and maybe ynk, that'd be a perfect team for a showmatch

2019-07-15 01:28

2019-07-15 01:45

+1 Valens play this game very impressive for a coach

2019-07-15 04:35

EZZZZ CYKAAAA

KSCERATO GOD EZ4GUERRI :D

Vitality threw 25k and why? Really weird.

2019-07-15 01:29

Arrogance, maybe?

don't want to show strats

2019-07-15 01:58

2 bo3's and vitality would have won 15k more They didn't need to tryhard, if they had played like if they were practicing in a pug they'd have decent chances of winning

2019-07-15 01:30

ez 10k$$ 4 Vita they not even trying 2 play on tier 5 tournaments. Congrats furia.

ez for furia , ez for guerri the new mibr 5th player

2019-07-15 01:31

NICE !!! ez4Guerri <3

eoeoeoeoeoeoeo amazing event from my boy KAIKE

GG furia. Bringing home the win for the America’s

i think after major kscerato or yuriih will go to mibr or both if lucas1 doesnt played a good major

9 replies

i think they will not risk going to mibr, why should they if they are nearly top 5 team and mibr tier 3

2019-07-15 01:47

money my boy, if furia doesnt made a good major + paying buyout they will go, noah need to open the wallet to made mibr a good team or they money goes to trash

2019-07-15 01:54

nah, its not only money when they are winning, you think taco left liquid to go back to mibr cuz mibr pays better than liquid? i dont think so, furia players knows that if they part away, they will never reach top 1

2019-07-15 01:56

with this lineup furia never goes to top 1. taco goes to mibr because they want to talk portuguese again and back to friends, and yes mibr pays better than liquid, they picked a player and coach of top 2 team of the world. if mibr doesnt made a change they will disband, furia with underdog mentality never will won a tier 1 championship, trade coldzera to furia and pick ksc yuriih send lucas 1 back to his brother and try another style with new blood

2019-07-15 02:01

2019-07-15 15:35

With furia contracts and furia being the better team, I dont really see why theyd go to mibr

2019-07-15 01:57

i think too in this moment furia is better than mibr, but furia or mibr dont have a top tier team. print this, Furia doesnt good on major and mibr will try pick they players after Berlim

2019-07-15 02:09

mibr won't pick FURIA players, they have enough budget to retain them, also FURIA is way more closer to reach TOP 3 in a consistent basis than mibr. FURIA just need replace ableJ for another good player and there are good options to replace him in a near future

2019-07-15 02:43

mibr will try pick furia players, immortals organization have more money than furia and if they didnt pick good brazilian players all investment of noah's group goes to trash. coldzera might be put in this trade + buyout of players and pick ksc+yuriih lets see it after major

2019-07-15 22:10

Ggwp

2019-07-15 01:41

tier0 event

Strange ... how about renegades at this event? haha ha

2019-07-15 04:30

Spirit never had a chance

LOL the coach played better than half the team

EOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEO

ez fury

2019-07-15 02:00

no one cares mate, cheers

2019-07-15 02:23

Even the coach playing is bether than the mibr coach playing

2019-07-15 02:26

guerri, the brazilian zews.

2019-07-15 03:37

2019-07-15 04:02

Ez for GUERRI, the best Brazilian coach to ever touch Counter Strike Global Offensive.

2019-07-15 03:55

gg spirit

2019-07-15 04:01

Ggwp! 1st complete coach tittle

EZ4FURIA EOEOEO

2019-07-15 04:12

winning LAN with coach OMEGALUL Vitality looks like earning 30K/month each if they dont wanna win free 25k$

2019-07-15 05:55

Furia fans is happy because of winning tier3 event

2019-07-15 07:10

Why not? Free 25$k baby

2019-07-15 15:12

Mvp Guerri

2019-07-15 08:03

Vitality 3-4 on a tier3 event lul

2019-07-15 08:53

a coach lol

2019-07-15 12:26

I think teams should start to have subs. Sometimes someone is not in a good day. And can be replaced as is in Basketball, soccer or volley. Collective teams need replacement. This create a competitive internal scenario and keeping things motivated. I dunno why this is not happening to CSGO.

2019-07-15 18:19