Wisla Krakow upset FURIA in saffee's debut; eliminate them from Pinnacle Winter Series

1-2-2022 21:44

The Brazilians go home with only 14 rounds across the series.

Wisla Krakow have advanced to the semi-finals of Pinnacle Winter Series 1 after defeating favorites FURIA 2-0. The match saw the Poles effortlessly defeat the Brazilian squad on Nuke and Inferno, securing a top-four finish with only Apeks standing between them and the finals.

The Brazilians started cold in their debut event of 2022, being invited straight into the quarter-finals and failing to get going on both maps. Wisla Krakow's victory concludes a day full of upsets at Pinnacle Winter Series, with both Apeks and K23 also winning their respective matches against fnatic and HEROIC.

Goofy ended the series with a 1.43 rating

Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa had a debut to forget. The Brazilian AWPer ended his first match sporting a FURIA jersey with a disappointing 0.64 rating across the two maps, severely trailing behind his counterpart on Wisla Krakow, Michał "⁠snatchie⁠" Rudzki, who notched a 1.34 rating.

Nuke saw FURIA struggle to find their rhythm on the defense, only stringing together a total of five rounds before switching sides at 5-10. Krzysztof "⁠Goofy⁠" Górski found his element on the offense, enabling his team to maintain their advantage in the first half. It did not take long for the Poles to close out the game, only conceding one more round before securing the first map of the series 16-6.

Inferno was even better for Grzegorz "⁠SZPERO⁠" Dziamałek's squad, locking down both bombsites from FURIA for 12 straight rounds before the Brazilians were able to respond. A halftime disadvantage of 1-14 was too much to overcome for FURIA, and despite a short resurgence from the Brazilians on the defense, Wisla Krakow eventually closed out the map 16-8 and the series 2-0.

Pinnacle Winter Series 1Best of 3

FURIA

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1st February 2022

Wisla Krakow

Nuke

Inferno

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan arT	33 - 36	-3	74.0	58.7%	0.98
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato KSCERATO	30 - 35	-5	81.0	65.2%	0.95
André 'drop' Abreu drop	29 - 37	-8	76.9	60.9%	0.87
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos yuurih	28 - 36	-8	65.1	65.2%	0.80
Rafael 'saffee' Costa saffee	19 - 37	-18	47.1	65.2%	0.64

Wisla Krakow	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Krzysztof 'Goofy' Górski Goofy	39 - 27	+12	94.7	80.4%	1.43
Michał 'snatchie' Rudzki snatchie	43 - 27	+16	83.0	76.1%	1.34
Grzegorz 'jedqr' Jędras jedqr	33 - 30	+3	88.0	76.1%	1.20
Kamil 'Sobol' Sobolewski Sobol	36 - 28	+8	81.8	71.7%	1.17
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek SZPERO	30 - 28	+2	69.0	69.6%	1.07

oof

2022-02-01 21:44

16 replies

gOOFy also shouldnt fnatic vs apeks deserve an article too?

2022-02-01 21:46

12 replies

both teams tier 2

2022-02-01 21:51

5 replies

same here

2022-02-01 21:58

4 replies

Brazilians and losing to wisla krakow- name a better duo

2022-02-01 22:03

3 replies

WE HAVE THIS LINE UP TO WIN TROPHIES HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

2022-02-02 00:50

2 replies

lmao what upset? expected result

2022-02-02 04:26

huehuehuehue

2022-02-02 07:18

fnatic apeks it was close bo3, furia wisla was one sided, so u have the answear here

2022-02-01 22:14

nah it doesnt feel right.

2022-02-01 23:31

Cry is free, last dance best brazillian team tn

2022-02-02 04:36

1 reply

You know they're not the best team, not now

2022-02-02 12:46

They also didn't just make a whole article about how the team is supposed to win titles just a day or two ago for fnatic/apeks. That being said, smooya did massively underperform lol.

2022-02-02 16:17

well this was FURIAs debut, thats the reason for the article. Not the fact that they lost

2022-02-02 07:17

Happy for my polish mens

2022-02-01 22:02

2022-02-01 22:39

just imagine, a dude spends half his life tryharding in Brazil to come to Europe and play his 1 official against a team with 0 obs on a bookmaker's tour, poor Saffee

2022-02-02 01:53

LOL

2022-02-01 21:45

Yikes, mibr moment

2022-02-02 05:20

Interesting

Jeez

ez for big Wisla

4 hours ago:saffe-We have this lineup to win trophies.

2022-02-01 21:47

Lmao

2022-02-01 22:45

saffe the ''late bloomer''

2022-02-02 10:14

OMEGALUL

not upset

2022-02-01 21:48

2022-02-01 21:55

2022-02-01 23:25

saffee : "WE HAVE THIS LINEUP TO WIN TROPHIES" OOOOMEGALUL

We HaVe tHiS LiNeUp tO WiN TrOpHiEs

2022-02-01 21:50

VINI WAS THE PROBLEM

Goofy TOP

2022-02-01 21:54

Rafael 'saffee' Costa 19 - 37 main awp kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

He is good vs tier 500 brasil but vs real tier 2 EU team he is vamos

2022-02-02 09:22

Upset??

Brazil cant keep their rosters relevant

poland is back

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

SAFFEE ON FURIA MOVE: "WE HAVE THIS LINEUP TO WIN TROPHIES"

2022-02-01 21:56

saffee best debut in 2022

wisla krakow and brazilian teams :)

great :D

2022-02-01 21:59

2022-02-01 22:00

I expected 16-0 but not bad.

saffee reality check

2022-02-01 22:01

I love you furia, but this is what you get for kicking vini Trading brotherly love for "firepower", very bad decision

13 replies

2022-02-01 23:51

wasnt his decision to leave the team? xd

2022-02-02 00:11

10 replies

no, he was kicked

2022-02-02 01:16

9 replies

No, he was not

2022-02-02 01:30

8 replies

well tbf it was not exactly clear if he was kicked or not, but in guerri's words it felt like he was kicked to make room to an dedicated awper (saffe). Also Vini said in twitter he made everything he could to mantain his place in the team. I think he actually had some market value that's why they kept drop instead of him.

2022-02-02 01:34

if by he you mean vini then i doubt furia got any money from that move. after all he is now linked to fallens team, which is just a team of free agents. doubt they've paid any buyout for vini. i think furia just terminated his contract straight away and let him go for free

2022-02-02 03:13

well Vini have a buyout, he's still in contract with Furia as far as i know

2022-02-02 17:08

hltv.org/news/33115/furia-bid-farewell-t..

2022-02-02 18:52

a day later: "Three of the team's players, FalleN, boltz, and VINI are still under contract to Liquid, MIBR, and FURIA, respectively." hltv.org/news/33119/last-dance-goes-offi.. I mean, i've watched a few fallen streams lately and he often said that they had the buyout issue with those players, idk

2022-02-03 04:38

oke 👍

2022-02-03 13:26

He was though? Lol

2022-02-02 03:58

No? Vini kicked furia?

2022-02-02 04:23

ENCE 2.0

2022-02-02 09:58

To be fair, Furia style might be the hardest one to implement to new players. But obviously this cannot continue too many weeks.

2022-02-01 22:06

That's one heck of a debut. The main AWPer bottom-fragged on Nuke and Inferno of all maps. Couldn't make to double-digit on either maps. Well-done FURIA.

2022-02-01 22:08

11 replies

inferno awp map???

2022-02-01 22:17

On CT side, you can certainly get a few kills on either bomb sites by just looking down mid or peak banana. Maybe, not top-frag with AWP but should be at least middle of the pack.

2022-02-01 22:26

In fairness they started inferno on T side and completely blew it. Sort of hard to present a solid CT showing when you only have 2 rounds and don't want to take as many risks.

2022-02-01 23:01

That's fair. Inferno is their pick so clearly this series was a disaster in all fronts.

2022-02-02 00:05

Oh yeah. Should never get 14-1'd on your pick. Pretty ridiculous frankly.

2022-02-02 02:37

ct awp is free real estate but they probably started ct side. and they were throwing because the match doesn't matter so meh

2022-02-01 23:00

Why are you making baseless assumptions (unless you're saying Wisla started CT???)? They started T and lost it 14-1. You can literally look at a match page to see what sides were played.

2022-02-01 23:05

shit bro u got br green card?

2022-02-02 01:43

I read that as "I sound like a dumbass so let me deflect and see how it works."

2022-02-02 02:36

This match doesn't matter? Winner of whole tournament gets 40k $ + invite to 250k $ prize pool lan XD

2022-02-01 23:45

furia are known to throw games they dont care about. just throwing that out there

2022-02-02 01:42

wouldnt really call it an upset

vini was the problem

2022-02-01 22:11

"We have this lineup for win trophies " - R.I.P Saffe

2022-02-01 22:15

19 - 37 Nice debut.

2022-02-01 22:16

2022-02-01 22:19

XDDD

Offff

2022-02-01 22:24

BR CS from tier 1 to tier 10 in 2 years

Furia tier3 Wisla tier2

2022-02-01 22:31

HAHAHHA

2022-02-01 22:33

2022-02-01 22:43

ez 322

Welcome to Europe

2022-02-01 22:46

POLISH MOUNTAIN

2022-02-01 22:55

-saffe +vini -drop +ableJ

ablej was not performing in the end drop is good but vini is amazing and no way he is going back from the opportunity to play with fln and fer, hen1 was the missing piece and saffee was there to replace, the move to getting rid of vini was the wrong one IMO but it is the start of the season, nothing to care that much, even navi is losing uglily

2022-02-01 23:15

None over 1.00, damn gj wisla

2022-02-01 22:58

no Furia players at 1.0 rating, all below. No Wisla players at 1.0 rating either, all above. that tells the whole story there, Furia got stomped into the ground today.

2022-02-01 23:11

Wisla got experience with playing against Brazilians in tier 2🤔

2022-02-01 23:18

Hard for Saffee Trophee

2022-02-01 23:02

well done from 27yo talent.

2022-02-01 23:06

I'm willing to give Saffee the benefit of the doubt, but I have said that I didn't think he was going to be a huge improvement for Furia. Still, one game doesn't prove anything, so time will tell if he can prove me wrong.

2022-02-01 23:07

Day of the underdogs, k23 win v Heroic, Apeks win v Fnatic and now Wisla win v Furia, love it!

CPH were underdog too according to betsites.

2022-02-01 23:46

totally forgot about them, ofc them aswell

2022-02-02 00:35

Usual pinnacle cup, nothing special

2022-02-02 00:17

Well that's just unlucky timing then huh Saffee.

2022-02-01 23:09

322

2022-02-01 23:20

Ez for Grzegorz "Szpero" Dziamałek

2022-02-01 23:21

Expected

expected

2022-02-01 23:23

LMAO where is all Brazilians in this topic?

2022-02-01 23:26

ez for former g2 player

ez for 2015 Gamers2 SZPERO

he was 24yo then, omg

2022-02-02 02:27

Lol

2022-02-01 23:29

ez for goofy

-vini its a good move they said

2022-02-01 23:36

saffee hate incoming

2022-02-01 23:43

goofy haircut KING

2022-02-01 23:55

"junior was the problem"

2022-02-02 00:03

junior was indeed a problem but "ablej was the problem" "HEN1 was the problem" lmao

2022-02-02 00:12

pineapple cup gettin interesting af

2022-02-02 00:08

snatchie is just too good

2022-02-02 00:09

tier 1 as i said

cry is free brasil.14-1 first half

2022-02-02 00:42

Furia ( Kscerato , Yurih , Art , vini , hen1 ) had great potential to win some trophies , those rosters now are shit ...

2022-02-02 00:51

Wisła gurom

2022-02-02 01:24

2022-02-02 01:32

VINI died for this LOL

2022-02-02 01:40

hltv.org/forums/threads/2578783/expectat.. expected sobol key factor

2022-02-02 02:02

Where did all the brazillians go... HELLO... are you guys there??

2022-02-02 02:30

U are here lol

2022-02-02 03:00

lol

2022-02-02 03:14

my boi goofy <3

2022-02-02 03:15

-18 OMEGALUL

2022-02-02 03:19

They didn't let saffee awp too much in this game and they want to play fast pace with him rifling. Not really a good idea since his impact comes mostly from awp... He is decent with AK, but he is way worse than hen1 with it.

2022-02-02 04:02