G2 move into playoffs over Complexity

m0NESY was at his exuberant best as G2 cruised past the North Americans.

G2 and Australian Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage will appear in the Aware Super Theatre for IEM Sydney's playoffs after cleaning up Complexity 2-0 (Anubis 13-7, Ancient 13-7).

In-form Complexity were looking for revenge after squandering five series points against G2 on Inferno at ESL Pro League, but will now drop to the lower bracket.

"Im happy that jks will play in front of his family," said Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač post-game, adding that G2's "prep was really good from our coach and HooXi."

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That preparation was evident from the get-go on Anubis, as the majority-European side disrupted Complexity time and time again. The super aggressive Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov was particularly important in stifling Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou's style, abusing his spawns to find crucial openers.

Much has been made of the difficulty around AWPing against peeker’s advantage in CS2, but m0NESY is turning the mechanic to his advantage with some ferocious form in Sydney. He has been involved in 28.1% of G2’s opening duels so far, combining his signature firing speed with new opening paths to a 72.2% success rate and a 1.49 rating overall.

Sound played a part, with Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery caught out on Ancient by ambiguous sound cues and failing to anticipate the onrushing m0NESY after telling HLTV.org that he "can't hear anything" on CS2 at the moment.

It was not just individual firepower and tempo that gave G2 the advantage, however. The tactical tone was also set on map one, as G2 limited Complexity to just one T round on the American's home map of Anubis to take it 13-7.

The map one defeat was only Complexity's second loss on Anubis in the last three months, a timespan where they picked up 11 wins before the transition to CS2.

G2's pick of Anubis featured much of the same, with m0NESY taking audacious opening paths into B Cave on multiple occasions to great effect.

The mental battle was then won for good after a ridiculous twirling no-scope on the AWP from Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač — who was, at that point, on a 1-6 K-D after 11 rounds — onto Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince, before G2 closed the map out with the same scoreline as Anubis, 13-7.

G2 can book a ticket to the semi-final by defeating the winner of ENCE-fnatic on October 18, while Complexity will now have to win two best-of-threes tomorrow to qualify.