Monte beat FURIA to advance to IEM Cologne group stage

27-7-2023 23:27

The Brazilians will have another chance to qualify in a match against The MongolZ on Friday.

Monte did not let slow starts into Mirage and Ancient deter them

Monte have secured a spot in the IEM Cologne group stage after beating FURIA 2-1 (Mirage 16-13, Overpass 5-16, Ancient 16-7) in the upper bracket of the Play-in stage.

The Ukrainian-majority squad came into the event fresh off losing their main star, Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas, whom they replaced with former Astralis Talent member Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro. The ne squad has looked solid so far, albeit facing off against other teams who also underwent a couple of changes in Imperial and FURIA.

Overpass in the series against Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's new team was the only blip on the radar, something Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev explained was a result of lack of practice on the map with the new lineup on the analyst desk after the match.

"We didn't have enough time, we have only had five pracc days before this tournament," he said, setting expectations low for the upcoming group stage, where they will join many of the bigger names.

Monte started out slow on the other two maps, Mirage and Ancient, but once they got rolling they were difficult to stop for FURIA. The Brazilians gave up an 8-3 lead on the opener and started out 5-3 up on the Terrorist side on Ancient, only to get steamrolled 16-7 on the decider, unable to deal with Monte's quick pace.

Ever consistent, Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato had a rare disappearance in the series as the second-lowest fragger on the server.

IEM Cologne 2023 Play-inBest of 3

Monte

Matchpage

27th July 2023

FURIA

Mirage

Overpass

Ancient

Monte	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk Woro2k	55 - 38	+17	74.2	68.5%	1.16
Sergiy 'DemQQ' Demchenko DemQQ	41 - 43	-2	75.8	78.1%	1.10
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev sdy	54 - 44	+10	69.1	67.1%	1.05
Alexander 'br0' Bro br0	49 - 50	-1	78.0	72.6%	1.02
Szymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek kRaSnaL	36 - 55	-19	61.7	63.0%	0.74

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos yuurih	57 - 49	+8	90.6	71.2%	1.23
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	46 - 48	-2	70.2	71.2%	1.08
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes chelo	48 - 52	-4	66.4	63.0%	0.94
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato KSCERATO	38 - 39	-1	64.2	72.6%	0.93
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan arT	40 - 50	-10	58.3	58.9%	0.85

mid vs mid

2023-07-27 23:27

7 replies

Now imagine Monte with BOROS. Doesn't look like a major fluke anymore, huh?)

2023-07-28 02:04

6 replies

They had their chance at a major with boros. On another note, Furia is absolute shit. They lost like a 14-8 or 7 lead to B.I.G. in Rio on Vertigo. They seem to have the firepower but they simply can't win anything. So winning against Furia isn't something that gives you extreme chances at a major, if that is what you're saying

2023-07-28 03:30

1 reply

FURIA is far from perfect, but it is far from being a total crap as well. Solid team with a several world-class stars like Kaike and Yuri

2023-07-28 11:14

Why boros downgrade tho?

2023-07-28 06:38

3 replies

Better salary, better environment, and good looking roster(at least overall players have much higher ceiling)

2023-07-28 06:57

Arab money + higher potential of the organization (give Falcons 1-2 years and you will be surprised)

2023-07-28 11:15

surprise how shit they are or what

2023-07-28 13:57

1 round, 1 more round xd

2023-07-27 23:28

Monte still stronk

2023-07-28 00:31

-700k

Underperformance by KSCERATO hit FURIA hard...

2023-07-27 23:32

2 replies

More like baitcerato being exposed in a non-baity set-up-for-him environment

2023-07-28 10:29

He`s just lost his father recently. Obviously there will be ups and downs at the start of the season.

2023-07-28 12:54

(no jokes), br fans, just know, you are AWESOME and based, good luck to furia and imp, and vamooooooooooos

2023-07-27 23:34

True

2023-07-27 23:47

Monte Caralho

2023-07-27 23:36

please Mongolz, send them home tomorrow, you guys deserve to stay in Cologne longer (;_;)

2023-07-27 23:40

4 replies

In your dreams

2023-07-27 23:53

wouldn't be the first time FURIA loses to Mongolians.

2023-07-27 23:54

They have looked more impressive than Furia so far, so not impossible.

2023-07-28 12:49

imagine if fallen got the third colone for him and the team

2023-07-27 23:57

Fallen performing better than kscerato? what's going on here, haha.

nice performance

2023-07-27 23:55

Pathetic. And dont get me started on ffffffff arT

kscerato where? asleep?

2023-07-28 00:06

even without boros monte is strong

2023-07-28 00:19

It's like Mirage was their decider

2023-07-28 00:24

exactly 🎯

2023-07-28 00:35

Good to see Monte still up there

2023-07-28 00:39

GJ Monte. Unfortunately Bro is still worse than BOROS.

2023-07-28 00:42

Gg Monte you guys got a sick way to play haha For FURIA, well, underwhelming performance considering that KSCERATO is their star and he’s still recovering of the lost of his father. They will improve!

2023-07-28 00:55

i hope so! art and kaike still can show more than decent teamplay

2023-07-28 09:49

Fallen the washed up and overrated paycheck stealer ruining another team, who would have guessed? LMAO

2023-07-28 06:19

5 replies

Still salty about how he beat Vitality a month ago with a much worse team?

2023-07-28 08:47

You mean the event Vitality went to finals and Fallen didn’t?

2023-07-28 12:51

Yes I mean that event and we are talking about their matchups and not the whole event. learn to read

2023-07-28 13:32

So the first match after vitality’s major win. I’m sure they had been practicing really hard. Also why would a first matchup matter that much, clearly vitality went further anyway. Just needed to shake off some post major rust. That match is meaningless to look at tbh

2023-07-28 17:58