FaZe and MOUZ to clash in CAC title match

A clutch-laden Anubis decider ended up going the way of FaZe in 24 rounds.

FaZe have the chance at become the first back-to-back Big Event winners on CS2 as the IEM Sydney champions are about to take on MOUZ for the CS Asia Championships trophy.

FaZe had to first make it through ENCE in a hard-fought semifinal series that featured an overtime and all 24 rounds of regulation in a decider-map littered with clutches.

ENCE were the first to strike, however, putting forth a strong showing on the CT side of Nuke, which was good enough to steal FaZe's map 13-8. Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer, with 21 kills in as many rounds, stepped up for his team to take the lead.

Going into their Ancient pick it appeared that ENCE were in a good place to fight for a 2-0 victory, and a 7-5 lead at the half after the attacking side kept their options open. The map eventually became a game of margins, but FaZe took it to overtime with Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool doing plenty of work occupying space and Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants winning a 1vs1 winning a crucial no-scope clutch in the 23rd round.

After losing the overtime in 30 rounds, ENCE started off Anubis on the right foot as Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García downed all five opponents, three of them in a clutch situation, to get his team off on the right foot in what ended up being an 8-4 half.

The final map had myriad clutches and exciting moments going both ways, but a weak defense by ENCE in which Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha's men only won one out of the last nine rounds was not enough to drag it through the finish line and FaZe pulled through to clinch it in the final round of regulation, 13-11.

Date	Matches
CS Asia Championships 2023
12/11/2023	MOUZ 14:20 FaZe	Match

FaZe will now face MOUZ, who made it to the final through the other side of the bracket by beating Lynn Vision and Astralis, in the title bout. This will be a rematch as the two teams already clashed in the Group B upper bracket final, which went the way of FaZe in three maps.