K23 win Pinnacle Winter Series 1

The Russian squad secured a spot at the LAN Sweet LAN tournament in Belgrade, Serbia.

The Pinnacle Winter Series 1 has come to an end with K23 coming out victorious in the grand final, defeating the recently formed Apeks to take the $40,000 lion's share of the prize pool and securing a spot at LAN Sweet LAN 2022.

The final match came after a wild playoff in which the favorites were knocked out in the quarter-finals, as FURIA, HEROIC, fnatic and Eternal Fire were all eliminated at that point. In the semi-finals it was K23 and Apeks who made it all the way, leaving Copenhagen Flames and Wisla Krakow in their wakes.

xsepower and co. keep turning heads in the second tier

The grand final itself started off on Ancient, Apeks' map pick, but a strong CT side start by the Russian squad with a 10-5 half put the pressure on the international team, who weren't able to retaliate on their turn defending and lost their map 10-16.

Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk and company were then did the same exact thing they suffered in the first map, and took it to K23 on their pick, Nuke, winning the CT side 12-3. The Russians attempted a comeback on their own defense, but to no avail as Apeks brought the series even with a 16-12 victory.

Everything came down to Overpass, where the CT side once again ruled as K23 went up 11-4 on the defense. The switch put Apeks on the defense and a comeback attempt ensued, but having dropped the three first rounds of the half it was finally the Russians who were able to cross the finish line, 16-11, to secure victory.

Russia
Matchpage
2
1
2nd February 2022
16
Ancient
10
12
Nuke
16
16
Overpass
11
 K23 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
62 - 57 +5 94.1 80.2% 1.26
51 - 34 +17 63.8 80.2% 1.23
58 - 44 +14 64.6 77.8% 1.11
59 - 54 +5 76.4 67.9% 1.09
53 - 60 -7 78.1 66.7% 0.97
 Apeks K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
67 - 56 +11 91.0 64.2% 1.17
54 - 52 +2 66.6 75.3% 1.01
48 - 50 -2 58.8 63.0% 0.93
44 - 65 -21 65.9 64.2% 0.78
36 - 61 -25 59.4 64.2% 0.75

The tournament's final standings are:

1. Russia K23 - $40,000 + LAN Sweet LAN 2022
2. Europe Apeks - $4,000
3-4. Poland Wisla Krakow - $4,000
3-4. Denmark Copenhagen Flames
5-8. Brazil FURIA
5-8. United Kingdom fnatic
5-8. Denmark HEROIC
5-8. Turkey Eternal Fire - $4,000
9-12. Poland MOUZ NXT $3,000
9-12. Sweden Dignitas -$3,000
9-12. Europe Endpoint - $3,000
9-12. Europe Sprout - $3,000
13-15. Portugal SAW
13-15. Bulgaria SKADE
13-15. Denmark Tricked
16-18. Kazakhstan Unique
16-18. Russia 1win
16-18. Sweden GamerLegion
19-20. Kosovo BLINK
19-20. Sweden Savage

Slovakia Martin 'STYKO' Styk
Martin 'STYKO' Styk
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
1459
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.66
ez
2022-02-02 22:50
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4 replies
Cheater ECSTATIC didn’t need to win since they already qualified
2022-02-02 22:56
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3 replies
#60
jemi | 
Finland FISHEY
bro that isnt respect
2022-02-02 23:37
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Change your FAKE fflag youre shame of Japan, so disrespecting
2022-02-03 03:05
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1 reply
#94
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Australia frogskate
+1 cringe and unfunny
2022-02-03 13:48
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gg
2022-02-02 22:50
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#3
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Europe Juuzou_
GG NOOBLER
2022-02-02 22:50
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#4
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Brazil KingDaviiii
Congrats guys. Jkaem and Norber7 so stronk btw
2022-02-02 22:51
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WHO!?
2022-02-02 22:50
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hltv event icon when
2022-02-02 22:50
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#8
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Turkey edsvi
Better than copenhagen flames. Congrats to k23
2022-02-02 22:51
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forze kicking xsepower kekw
2022-02-02 22:51
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9 replies
2022-02-02 22:52
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8 replies
based on 12 maps nice hltv.org/stats/players/compare/15662/zor.. this comparison seems more accurate to you
2022-02-02 22:55
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1 reply
and still proves that zorte is better considering he rifles way more and doesnt bait as much
2022-02-02 22:55
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#29
Faceit level 10  | 
frozen | 
Slovakia RetardedCat
I dont want to say that neither zorte or xsepower is better, I dont know them very well I dont follow those team, Im simply reacting to your comparision. You compared them with their stats from 2022. Now if we look at how many maps they played, you will see that xsepower played 3x more maps this year, with zorte only having 12 maps in the record where he played well, but thats still not comparable to xsepower because thats just not enough data to do good comparision, we will have to was at least 3 months to see how well they do
2022-02-02 22:59
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5 replies
yeah, I just showed 2022 because the pinnacle cup is in 2022, couldnt sort out specific time. 3 months and 2021 filter prove that xsepower is worse anyway
2022-02-02 23:02
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4 replies
#40
Faceit level 10  | 
frozen | 
Slovakia RetardedCat
well, did you take in accout what roles these players play / rank and skill of the enemies / how many games did they actually win (because sometimes you can have better stats then your enemy but you still have much bigget lose rate) if you didnt include any of these things in your comparision, and you just simply went with the rating, than you dont really have any arguments to say that X is better than Y, also i dont really like xsepower so Im not defending him, just pointing things out, sometimes its hard to compare players in lower tiers
2022-02-02 23:07
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3 replies
both are AWPers and forZe played way better teams overall in 2021 than xsepower did
2022-02-02 23:13
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2 replies
#49
Faceit level 10  | 
frozen | 
Slovakia RetardedCat
Okay, I believe you, from now on I will remember zorte>xsepower
2022-02-02 23:16
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1 reply
B) mission accomplished
2022-02-02 23:17
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Invited teams sucked dick.
2022-02-02 22:51
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#11
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Sweden GabeeM
Invited teams always trash lol
2022-02-02 22:52
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K23 is on fire. We'll see if they can push further and follow Gambit and Entropiq's lead.
2022-02-02 22:53
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4 replies
#63
rain | 
Ukraine Raze49
surely not, not even reaching Entropiq's level
2022-02-02 23:44
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3 replies
Surely people were saying the same about Entropiq 1 year ago and about Gambit 2 years ago.
2022-02-03 02:58
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2 replies
#86
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Sweden Madrigals1
and Avangar 3 years ago
2022-02-03 08:47
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1 reply
And Gambit 2017 5 years ago
2022-02-04 06:59
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congrats
2022-02-02 22:53
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#15
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Mali mango_csgo
k23 top 10 maybe top 5 this year if they keep working hard
2022-02-02 22:53
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9 replies
#18
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Brazil ImReverx
bro chill KEK
2022-02-02 22:54
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7 replies
#32
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Mali mango_csgo
furia top 13 losing to wisla kekw and u want to say its unrealistic XDDD
2022-02-02 23:00
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6 replies
navi lost to mibr, fnatic lost to apeks and in a toruney with the "best of the best" the ones that played by far the best CS was OG......its called start of the season dude chill out. Wisla,K23 and those teams didnt even go on player break, no wonder they are playing better
2022-02-03 00:02
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5 replies
u compare bo1 and bo3? leave from chat with a shame silver4
2022-02-03 12:21
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4 replies
#99
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Brazil ImReverx
flair check
2022-02-03 21:51
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3 replies
flag
2022-02-04 00:21
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2 replies
#102
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Brazil ImReverx
fnx 6 mundial botnesy 0 /closed
2022-02-04 16:56
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1 reply
2015 year majors are tier3 tournaments now nt bra71l
2022-02-04 16:59
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Top 5 is difficult. Navi, Gambit, Valitality, G2, Faze - who do you think K23 can beat regularly? Top 10 is realistic though. Bottom is top 10 is not too strong and rotates frequently.
2022-02-03 03:03
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apeks not bad, maybe they can make a few T1 appearances going forward
2022-02-02 22:54
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2 replies
If they didnt pick ancient first map, they could've won that actually.
2022-02-02 23:10
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1 reply
#70
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Slovakia Daev0n
+1 They picked Ancient 2 times today and lost both lmao.
2022-02-03 00:26
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Ez clap
2022-02-02 22:54
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#20
Faceit level 10  | 
jcobbb | 
Poland Berbe123
Why did 5-8/9-12 teams get money?
2022-02-02 22:55
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2 replies
#39
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United Kingdom tomtom94
Teams that make it through the Regional Swiss get $1,000 each and teams who make it through Main Swiss get $2,000 each EDIT: correction - it's $2,000 for Regional Swiss, $3,000 for Main Swiss and an extra $1,000 for winning the first round of play-offs Apeks and Wisla both also got some money as a result but it wasn't listed in the article
2022-02-02 23:07
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#52
Faceit level 10  | 
jcobbb | 
Poland Berbe123
Okay, thank you very much for an answer Have a nice night!
2022-02-02 23:19
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Nawwk is new draken
2022-02-02 22:55
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nice
2022-02-02 22:57
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#26
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Russia Topper!
gg
2022-02-02 22:57
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Can someone explain me why 2-8th teams didn´t get money? They will have invite for another tournament by Pinnacle or?
2022-02-02 22:58
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5 replies
I think they will get 4k each later, not sure toh
2022-02-02 23:10
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#44
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United Kingdom tomtom94
Prize money is done a little bit differently here. You get $2,000 for making it through Regional Swiss, $3,000 for making it through Main Swiss and $1,000 for winning first round of play-offs. Then the winner gets $40k. Only one team can win the event, but the smaller teams that fought their way from the beginning get some consolation prizes (while the invited teams that lost get nothing). But some of them will probably get invited to the next tournament too.
2022-02-02 23:12
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Only 1st place gets "Prize pool money". Teams 2nd-12th get money based on how deep they got in the tournament. Apeks definitely got several thousand because they started in Swiss Stage. Heroic, for example, started and ended in Playoffs, so they got 0$
2022-02-02 23:15
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2 replies
Yes. I understand,. Thank you <3
2022-02-02 23:23
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1 reply
You should thank the tomtom guy
2022-02-03 11:42
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#28
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Ukraine Slavv_Boss
Let’s goooooooo
2022-02-02 22:58
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n0rbert and Nealan one of the biggest matchfixers in the world,gratz on winning shadiest of tournaments
2022-02-02 22:59
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well deserved, sad it wasn't with wisla in the final but we're not losing hope
2022-02-02 22:59
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322 tournament ;)
2022-02-02 23:00
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#34
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United States MAX___
I get not giving money to invited teams, but why do Apeks and Wisla not get any money?
2022-02-02 23:01
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#36
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United States MAX___
Never mind, HLTV just hasn't updated it yet
2022-02-02 23:03
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+1 stupid af
2022-02-02 23:03
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1 reply
#41
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Mali mango_csgo
+1
2022-02-02 23:09
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#38
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Poland bigmilk01
I guess it's bugged or smth and they;ve got a money
2022-02-02 23:03
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1 reply
#62
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United States MAX___
you are right, it's updated now
2022-02-02 23:40
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Tier 70 teams on HLTV news… wtfff
2022-02-02 23:14
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1 reply
Way are you say Kazakhstan 2030 now tier 1.5 teams
2022-02-03 14:13
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#48
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Estonia myrhh
gzzz xsepower maaa man
2022-02-02 23:16
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#51
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India Devil100
The prize distribution is so bad dude, like cmon Apeks came 2nd all the way from the Swiss stage and they get just 4000$ while Winner gets 10 times the amount? Shouldn't be this much of discrepancy. Imo 2nd should get atleast 15k$
2022-02-02 23:18
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#53
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Scotland Ludax
EZ for god nealan and steam authentication code
2022-02-02 23:19
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#54
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jackasmo | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
Expected from pros
2022-02-02 23:20
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#55
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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World streetson
will hltv give a MVP for this event? I mean, heroic and furia played in the playoffs and both are top 10 teams in the ranking
2022-02-02 23:22
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#57
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Nepal bet_goddor
rigged ass tournament lol
2022-02-02 23:26
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#58
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Georgia Megobari
CIS poggers
2022-02-02 23:31
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#59
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World CIS_ERA
EZ4CIS EU teams are filler
2022-02-02 23:33
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#61
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Europe Zwenix
Crazy run Gz and ggs
2022-02-02 23:37
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good first outing for apeks, interested to see how far they'll go this year
2022-02-02 23:47
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1 reply
#71
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Slovakia Daev0n
It's like a better version of FPX
2022-02-03 00:29
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online ez
2022-02-02 23:53
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gg now on lan
2022-02-03 00:04
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gg ez 4 n0rb3r7
2022-02-03 00:06
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#69
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Hungary szia
Well, at least sprout lost to the best then
2022-02-03 00:08
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#72
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Poland csRIOTgo
Dang... really want my boy Jkaem to win it!
2022-02-03 00:50
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Ggs! Still impressive performance by Apeks
2022-02-03 01:21
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4000 for 2nd but 40000 for first? Wow
2022-02-03 01:24
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Impressed by Apeks considering they've been together for what? 2-3weeks?
2022-02-03 01:32
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Winter Series 2, ez for 00Nation
2022-02-03 01:42
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Sexpower comin into you Wewo was is das apeks sqad looks cool
2022-02-03 01:54
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I don't know why CIS team like wisla , k23, apeks and other is tier 2 or 3 they says, but actually they are better than NA team and most of EU team tier 1
2022-02-03 02:26
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Rigged tournament , Apekz should have won but pinnacle dont want them to win lol...
2022-02-03 03:15
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Modafuka
2022-02-03 03:37
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k23 just needs lan experience and they can be top 15 in no time
2022-02-03 06:38
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#85
broky | 
Ukraine mosik
best 322 team wins
2022-02-03 08:04
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#88
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Russia mshkoda
Great progress from k23. Fame and x5 young talents, xsepower machine
2022-02-03 12:15
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#89
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Ukraine VoidWave
gg k23 seems to have a lot of potential
2022-02-03 12:20
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month ago everyone was hating k23. now changed ur shoes
2022-02-03 12:25
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#92
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Poland Ba5ter
deserved
2022-02-03 12:39
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5-8. FURIA 5-8. fnatic 5-8. Heroic lol
2022-02-03 13:45
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#98
Faceit premium user Faceit level 10  | 
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Poland Prince_PKS
yeah xD, lol AF and its called 2nd tier then xD
2022-02-03 18:22
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#96
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Peru god666
322 tournament eze
2022-02-03 16:31
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#97
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Russia 1hebest!
EZ4K23
2022-02-03 17:00
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