Evil Geniuses eliminate FURIA from BLAST Premier Global Final

20-1-2021 23:06

Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov and co. won the crucial series 2-1, bouncing back from a poor opening map.

Evil Geniuses stay alive in the $1 million BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 with a victory over FURIA, who were playing with their newly-announced sixth player Lucas "⁠honda⁠" Cano.

The North American team has been out of the spotlight since their last tournament in Europe, when losses to Ninjas in Pyjamas and OG cut their BLAST Premier Fall Series campaign short. Today's victory ensured they don't suffer back-to-back last-place finishes on the Old Continent.

The lower-bracket match started with Inferno, which FURIA won, but Evil Geniuses turned it around after a tight Mirage and a blowout on Nuke. Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's men will continue the event in the lower bracket, where they will face the loser of Vitality and Liquid next.

Evil Geniuses finally turned things around

The action started on Inferno, Evil Geniuses' map pick and the same map they defeated Astralis on the previous day, but the game was a quite different one this time around. Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan and his team dominated things from start to finish, with the FURIA in-game leader standing out individually with a 1.66 rating in a 16-9 win.

On Mirage, Evil Geniuses managed to stabilize, winning seven CT rounds in a row after losing the opening three, but FURIA pulled back for an 8-7 half. The back-and-forth continued until the end of the map, but after FURIA brought it to 14-14, Evil Geniuses managed to pull across the line.

The conclusion was reached on Nuke, where Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte and Ethan "⁠Ethan⁠" Arnold were rock-solid, leading their team to a comfortable 11-4 CT half which they converted on for a 16-6 victory.

BLAST Premier Global Final 2020Best of 3

Evil Geniuses

Matchpage

20th January 2021

FURIA

Inferno

Mirage

Nuke

Evil Geniuses	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	59 - 51	+8	80.6	76.6%	1.18
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov CeRq	51 - 45	+6	71.6	74.0%	1.07
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Ethan	49 - 57	-8	75.6	75.3%	1.02
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	48 - 50	-2	69.6	67.5%	1.01
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	49 - 56	-7	74.2	71.4%	0.98

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato KSCERATO	61 - 47	+14	86.3	75.3%	1.22
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos yuurih	57 - 46	+11	83.1	71.4%	1.19
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan arT	54 - 52	+2	73.5	68.8%	1.13
Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo VINI	47 - 54	-7	70.0	68.8%	0.95
Lucas 'honda' Cano honda	40 - 59	-19	55.6	54.5%	0.71

Honda is very talented but still has a lot to learn!

2021-01-20 23:06

8 replies

YESH

2021-01-20 23:07

1 reply

arT said honda is arT 2.0, well said

2021-01-21 08:23

+1 hope they keep him

3 replies

dont think they will, they’re probably only using him cuz he’s from the academy team.

2021-01-20 23:10

2 replies

hltv.org/news/30981/furia-add-honda-as-s.. ? FURIA said before they want a 6man roster so this could be it with changing out junior/honda

2021-01-20 23:14

Guerri said in his twitter that Honda is a 6 player only until junior arrives

2021-01-21 00:47

true, finally good to see EG playing solid

2021-01-20 23:08

agree they'll probably keep him for several matches at least

2021-01-21 16:23

KKKKKKKKKKKK HONDAAAA...

lucky

Pog

Honda lol All aim no brain just like Tenzera!!

2021-01-22 02:29

FLUKIA Flukes again

GG EG

2021-01-20 23:09

French cs lul

Honda`s like Flamie and ChrisJ i.e getting highlights but shit in other rounds. Problem is Flamie and BongJ were actually good before they went to shit. Kid`s impressive but lacks apparent experience.

This is his first tournament m8 Give him some time and he will probably be a beast

2021-01-21 00:41

That's what basically I implied.

2021-01-21 00:54

GG!

2021-01-20 23:12

EBIC fail

2021-01-20 23:13

Thats a good experience for honda, but vini have to perform better and art stop to lose every round

I agree, good take. With junior taking over main awp and if Vini can start playing better, this could be a good lineup for Furia

2021-01-21 03:08

Get a Toyota

2021-01-20 23:15

KSCERATO saving just for stats was the worst thing on that match

2021-01-20 23:20

4 replies

KSCERATO baits even more than blameF and Yuurih still is a better player...

2021-01-20 23:33

+1 yuurih is a beast

2021-01-21 06:18

In yuurih we trust

2021-01-21 14:20

2021-01-21 15:32

honda lmao better be car than being a player

2021-01-20 23:23

0/8

2021-01-21 21:20

Expected against 0 iq team

2021-01-20 23:24

CeRq and co.

2021-01-20 23:25

EG is Brazil!!!!!

2021-01-20 23:39

I miss hen1

2021-01-20 23:40

worse than 7-1

2021-01-20 23:41

Lets go NA!

2021-01-20 23:42

Good fucking day for NA.

2021-01-20 23:52

Thank god brehze woke up

2021-01-20 23:53

<3 gj turok

2021-01-21 00:19

kia cerato and honda are natural enemies.

2021-01-21 00:57

No hen1 no win...

2021-01-21 01:41

Seriously? No...... Novelty

2021-01-21 02:20

At least no more stupid cs incoming. 0 tactics and lucky kill = that's all about furia

2021-01-21 04:29

Do I spy a fake flag?

2021-01-21 10:26

Gj 007

2021-01-21 15:35

I'm not saying Furia was overrated but it makes a big difference when EG and Liquid are back together in the same room and playing on 5 ping rather then scattered across a continent playing in their rooms versus a Furia team that was always together. Think Furia is solid but I also think these performances are a regression to the mean. They have some crutches that don't work when the playing field is leveled. Still think it's a top 10 roster but just kind of borderline.

2021-01-21 04:35

Tbh EG only had a chance because they didn't have HEN1, they would have lost mirage as well if he had been there.

2021-01-21 09:04

Their relentless aggression just looks mediocre on low ping IMO. It'll catch teams by surprise but they need more depth. They have the riflers to be good so I hope they can develop that.

2021-01-21 10:14

Furia back to being t2. Nothing special. Just that Eg and liquid are coming back to their old self.

2021-01-21 04:58

They just lost their awper man, chill. We don't know yet how they will be with Junior

2021-01-21 05:10

It's not about that. Once their rushing strat fails they look really mediocre. That's what happened in blast and iem global's last year. Even in nuke again eg last match. It's clearly visible

2021-01-21 06:48

I agree it isn't a sustainable strat.I absolutely despise their playstyle, but they took a map off Eg and G2. If Heni was there instead of Honda there is a real possibility they would win at least one of those series.

2021-01-21 11:51

In T2 furia will be strong because of their fast pace. In tier 1 they are a joke. How can you be overpushing, overagressing, overpeeking, overextending everything?? Doesn't matter T or CT just very stupid plays. Glad they got put in their place.

2021-01-21 10:27

Honda waste of Furias time. Another wasted year for br cs it seems.

2021-01-21 05:43

Art 2.0 as Braindead as art 1.0

2021-01-21 07:55

not today toddynhos. furia super overated, had a good run in the online era, thats it. they kicked their best player, without hen1 the team will go full trash. I wonder if the toddynho kids will keep cheering for furia, or will jump ship, as they always do hahahaha #artOVERATED

2021-01-21 08:01

Learn to read, they didn't kick him, he benched himself.

2021-01-21 09:05

+1 guy just throwing shit from his mouth

2021-01-21 14:18

Evil Geniuses is looking really good. And FURIA is looking dead with honda, hopefully it will be better with junior.

2021-01-21 09:35

FURIA with junior would be scary AF

2021-01-21 11:04

nice

2021-01-21 13:35

Art is a good awper we saw some sick plays in recent matches, but his agression is just too much, you cant spend 4750$ just to kill one guy, and them give the other team an awp, art will always be agressive so we need junior asap, the only one who is consistent in the team is yuurih but its not enough to win games.

2021-01-21 14:17