G2 edge out Virtus.pro after crucial Jame crash in Major playoffs decider

24-3-2024 19:12

A technical issue in a map-deciding situation put an asterisk next to G2's playoffs qualification.

G2 are through to the playoffs at PGL Major Copenhagen after a rollercoaster series against Virtus.pro. After being unable to close out a late lead on Overpass, the European side narrowly survived Inferno after "divine intervention" helped them close out the map, and won out the deciding Anubis with ease.

Virtus.pro exit the Major in harrowing fashion after Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali timed out in a crucial 4v4 retake scenario in the penultimate round of the second map in a malfunction that was caused by a driver crash, according to PGL.

Jame and company had won a chaotic opening map of Overpass after recovering from a 9-12 deficit, and the score on the second map was 11-11 when the crash took place.

Although it's impossible to tell what would have happened without it, it ultimately helped decide their fate as the Russian in-game leader drifted into open space and got killed from the CT spawn to make it a 3v4. G2 went on to retake the B bombsite to clinch map point and closed the map in the final round of regulation.

"With divine intervention comes G2's redemption," Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell called out after the second map came to a close.

If the situation was playing on Jame's mind after the match, he did not let it be known in the interview with Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen. The in-game leader only spoke of his disappointment with the level they showed. "I'm so disappointed in our game," he said. "It was maybe the best preparation we had in our team, but it wasn't enough for a win versus G2."

The unfortunate situation puts an asterisk next to G2's hard-fought playoffs qualification after they recovered from the overtime loss on Overpass and a horrid start to Inferno. Virtus.pro suffocated their offense on the second map and looked to be in the driving seat until G2's multiple low buy wins and a last-moment defuse put them back in contention.

A quick affair on Anubis followed, with G2 running rampant on the CT side, unanswered until the ninth round. A cosmetic comeback at the end of the first half changed nothing, as Rasmus "⁠HooXi⁠" Nielsen and company ran out victors with a comfortable Terrorist display, with Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov ending the map with a 2.06 rating and 124 ADR.

PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024Best of 3

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

24th March 2024

Overpass

Inferno

Anubis

Virtus.pro	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan n0rb3r7	58 - 48	+1.57%	88.2	72.6%	1.25
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	51 - 46	-1.70%	66.2	71.2%	1.02
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	41 - 46	-0.70%	69.2	69.9%	0.98
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev fame	39 - 51	-1.27%	57.6	69.9%	0.93
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev FL1T	32 - 46	-1.39%	62.3	69.9%	0.86

G2	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov m0NESY	65 - 42	+6.71%	90.5	75.3%	1.44
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	57 - 43	+2.50%	69.3	78.1%	1.12
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač huNter-	40 - 45	-0.96%	62.6	72.6%	1.00
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	40 - 47	-2.16%	65.2	68.5%	0.95
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen HooXi	34 - 45	-2.59%	59.8	72.6%	0.93

rip

2024-03-24 19:12

Undeserved win. Congratz to VP for qualifying to QF !

1 reply

Cry is free

2024-03-25 15:44

tragedy

Free Monesy

+1 he is under the niko major curse right now.

2024-03-24 19:53

undeserved, praying for MOUZ or EF to obliterate them.

14 replies

Maybe so, but the G2 is a CS team, not the graphic card manufacturers, so why blame them? Also, nexa had a crash yesterday vs ecstatic while they were struggling, no one were lamenting regarding that situation. Jame is a professional and he didn't wanna adress that issue with a single word, so it was a minor problem for him, much bigger problem was G2 anti-strating his calls which led to their demise.

2024-03-24 19:49

10 replies

A major difference is that this crash in particular likely decided the entire series. Nexa's crash was never going to make much difference.

2024-03-24 19:50

9 replies

Were you even watching those series?

2024-03-24 19:51

Common “Psychosocial” L You have to comment on everything with your garbage takes, probably didn’t even watched the match.

2024-03-24 20:01

Bro stop acting like this changed anything... even if they won this round that will be still 12-11 not won map...

2024-03-25 03:55

3 replies

G2 next round with no money

2024-03-25 12:54

2 replies

And three saved guns

2024-03-25 12:58

4 saved guns, hooxi called a save just before jame crashed

2024-03-26 17:57

Hey that guy that attempted to rob you at knife-point? We aren't going to try to apprehend him because he didn't take anything significant. That's a stretch, but you see where this kind of reasoning gets you? A shitty thing happening to anyone is still shitty no matter the circumstances. Crashes happen to everyone. Sorry for VP

2024-03-25 13:09

Yeah, but losing your father's watch instead of €20 is shittier. Don't try to make it out like they are equivalent.

2024-03-25 13:40

yes it would’ve made a difference they could go easy from 4-1 lead to 4-4 and lose momentum

2024-03-26 13:40

Fully deserved and your takes are as usual garbage. G2 was even unlucky, should’ve won the first map. Stay clueless

2024-03-24 20:02

Exactly what caused g2 to lose the first map that can be considered “unlucky”

2024-03-24 20:08

especially as opposed to a literal pc crash at 11-11 in a post plant, where the crash pushes him OUT of the cover

2024-03-25 01:22

G2 EDGING?!?!? 😨😨😨

2024-03-24 19:13

edge? 😳

2024-03-24 19:33

MOST UNDESERVED WIN ON THE PLANET

undeserved

2024-03-24 19:14

"With divine intervention comes G2's redemption" this goes really hard ngl

2024-03-24 19:15

+Nexa = instant playoffs, first time since Stockholm 2021.

22 replies

+crash = instant playoffs.

2024-03-24 19:21

20 replies

Cry for 1 round, I'm happy for a 2 maps win overall :D

2024-03-24 19:29

19 replies

would be 2:0 for vp if not that crash, g2 out in quarters, hope tehy get rekt

2024-03-24 19:37

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yea keep telling yourself that you also do not know if Jame not crashing would have impacted the round. Jame moved out of new box to avoid getting super damaged by an HE btw AFTER which he crashed. He probably dies because he moved out of newbox anyway even if he doesn't crash

2024-03-24 19:54

8 replies

Wow you’re just making shit up lmao

2024-03-24 19:56

5 replies

you clearly didn't see the round

2024-03-24 20:06

4 replies

It took Hooxi like 3 whole seconds to kill Jame after he moved out of newbox (because he’s ass). If Jame didn’t crash he would’ve easily killed hooxi there.

Like he easily missed mpnesy while defusing? Now, that shit wasn't made up! That would be a breaking point that would eventually led to VP's 2:0 and yet, it didn't played out. Nexa was a factor X in this series and well deserved, because he had a same crash vs Ecstaatic and not a single soul complained about that. When you compete in E-sports, you have to calculate the risk that "E" can cause an issue and affect your game.

2024-03-24 20:26

professional yapper holy

2024-03-24 20:52

still 3 saved guns for next round, so anything could happened

2024-03-26 17:58

we were watching same matches? Jame was going for triple, he moved out for he throw from ruins-sure. But then he got crash and cannot see anything, thats why he moved TO THE RIGHT, then got killed by hooxi after like 3 seconds If he wouldnt crash he would definitelly move back to triple hide, its normal reaction to hide back and play time as terro if u think that he would stay there trying to scope and kill botxi you are silver

2024-03-24 20:33

I was convinced you were talking to me up until that last sentence

2024-03-24 21:04

Jame was 13-17 with 50adr and your really THAT convinced he was gonna win that round for me? Gimme a break. G2 got robbed in the first map so I’d call it even g2 still had to win 12 other rounds and who knows how overtime would’ve gone. Sucks but is what it is. I feel worse for 9pandas

2024-03-24 20:38

As if k/d ever decided how many kills a single player is getting in one round. Nothing about this is fair and you just trying to justify worse team qualifying

2024-03-24 22:42

How is VP better then G2, everyone is happy we dont have to see their boring ass gameplay in another major playoffs, VP may be more consistent but no way they are stronger team give me a break

2024-03-25 07:04

>no way they are stronger >everyone is happy 0/8 levels of bait or rotting brain, pick one, mens

2024-03-25 08:19

If you play cs you should know how much one round can matter, economy swinging the opposite way can change loads for many rounds to come.

2024-03-24 19:42

Jame himself said G2 was the better team.

2024-03-24 19:57

what else to say? hes fair and sportsman, he wont tell bad word about enemy

Nexa also crashed yesterday, G2 lost the round and they kept playing...

2024-03-24 20:56

How is that relevant to what I said?

2024-03-25 08:46

nexa stockholm buff

2024-03-26 13:41

Unfortunate. VP looked the better team on thr 1st two maps. Doesn't really matter, Spirit Mouz finale.

not really first map was very close and second map g2 looked better towards the end they also clutched some good rounds and won with force buy against vp and on Anubis they levels above vp. even Jame said they were not good enough

2024-03-26 13:44

Sad

2024-03-24 19:16

Very sad

2024-03-24 19:17

that round .... why no reset?

2024-03-24 19:18

18 replies

AFAIK a reset is allowed only if no damage has been dealt in the round.

2024-03-24 19:25

17 replies

yes else you could just abuse round reset

16 replies

it was gpu driver crash i think it was hard to make it for jame and it was totally random, and even that-4v4 postplant 11-11 is not the time when you want to abuse this, believe me

2024-03-24 19:39

15 replies

still thats why the rule exists

2024-03-24 19:40

rule should be redefined, as driver crash is not user-fault, its not like u disconnect or plug out internet connection...what if vp pc's lost power? no replay?

idk im guessing you could even fake a driver crash with it skills or sth

2024-03-24 19:47

11 replies

In starcraft 2 you can resume the match from exactly where you want. Should be possible to do in cs2 as well so in this case replay the round from the moment jame crashed. A technical issue which most likely made VP loose the series and getting knocked out of one of the biggest tournaments of the year should never happen if you want the most fair outcome and the best teams to win. It's just incredibly unfair the way things are now. It's why they implemented VAR in sports so goals really are goals and not fully dependent on referee and something needs to be done about this in CS.

2024-03-24 20:05

i don't know how starcraft works, but that would be pretty weird to implement in cs, because you would then know the positions of all of the enemies

2024-03-24 20:37

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How would you know the positions of all of the enemies when you only see your own POV as player? Basically in a tournament, if a player crashes midgame or whatever. They create a new lobby with the replay(same as demo in cs), players join, then they choose at what time the game will continue and then start the game and everything continues as usual. I realize it might be difficult to implement something like this in CS but my point is something needs to be done so that unfair outcomes like this does not happen, whatever that solution is.

2024-03-24 20:46

Well, it depends on whether they'd be able to pause the game fast enough or not. In case that doesn't happen and the round plays out anyway, sharing all the information obtained by everyone makes it easy to know where all the enemies are about to come from. Replaying the round from the start would be a solution, albeit a debatable one.

2024-03-24 21:25

Replaying the round from start is a solution but a very bad one if one of the teams had an advantage prior to the crash.

2024-03-24 21:46

Exactly, that's what I was trying to imply.

2024-03-24 21:47

So what should be done, that is the question.

2024-03-24 21:51

A pause system that freezes the round as soon as the issue occurs. It's probably not feasible to create an automatic one, therefore it would require admins to be as quick as possible in their intervention. It's not perfect, but it's probably the closest thing to a fair solution. There's something similar in league.

2024-03-24 21:58

Similiar thing with league of legend's chronobreak. Brings everything back right where it's needed. volvo indie company, can't afford something similiar

2024-03-25 01:02

Not sure wtf they are doing, they still haven't fixed the fucking pixel jump bugs even tho it's been reported and known for a long time now. Not to mention the non existent anticheat...

2024-03-25 01:16

to be fair, it felt like half the time outs that COULD have been chronobroken were "unable to be resolved with a chronobreak"

2024-03-25 01:24

Restarting the round could be unfair to the other team in some cases, and it's not their fault either. Then you could imagine a rule like "Restart the round if the team which has the technical issue has the advantage", but you need to define "has the advantage" and you get into smoky territories. Anyway it happens so rarely that the current solution is still likely the best.

2024-03-24 22:21

LFG G2

this is so fckin sad dude

2024-03-24 19:20

Sad for VP

well well well NEXA & MAJOR storyline is real.

2024-03-24 19:22

nexa stockholm vibes he was a key factor back than and is now again. sad no one in community acknowledged his great performance when half the team was not showing up. at least casters were pointing out how much he stepped up for team

2024-03-26 13:46

2nd best in the group stages[G2], still no one is talking about him.

2024-03-27 19:55

As a G2 fan it's so unlucky for VP and not fair , i hope G2 will at least justify this by ending at least top 4 at major.

karma will be baqck, they think it was because they were good at retake on hooxi place, i would definitelly ask admins for replay-it should be all about FAIRNESS, and if my org would be amd at me i would definitelly leave it, as there are some LIFE RULES we shouldnt break

2024-03-24 19:43

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g2 admitted they wanted to save

2024-03-24 19:48

so why they did go for retake in first? they should ask for replay to be fairplay

2024-03-24 19:52

Because hooxi called to save but to first see if he could get a kill and right at that moment jame crashed and hooxi got a free kill and then the save was called off.

thats why they should ask for replay if admin knows it was crash

2024-03-24 20:29

I don't think it should be up to the opponent to ask for replay and show "good sportsmanship". There should be a system in place to help when things like this happens so it isn't unfair towards 1 team like it is now, where round will not be replayed due to player damage taking place. It's unacceptable for a team to loose and get knocked out of one of the biggest tournaments of the year due to a game crash.

2024-03-24 20:36

nexa crashed yesterday, lost the round, no one complained. Jame was right, they played bad, like a real pro he didn't wanna adress the issue with a crash.

were g2 through? and was it crucial round? afair it was not 11-11, 1:0 at maps and 4v4 postplant retake

2024-03-24 20:51

not even the lans that I used to run with friends had cs crashing...lol

Tell me, how many more fuck ups should PGL perform before Valve stops giving them majors to host??? Every time, every even this shit org touches has something along the lines of what happened yet they somehow still receiving work? How???

2024-03-24 19:23

please tell me how driver crashes, that happened during blast and esl event too, are pgl's fault

info=trust me bro?

2024-03-24 19:44

Their qualifiers to the major has been atrocious as well so I wouldn't be so quick to defend them.

I mean, ok, but how is this related to Jame crashing due to sth out of pgl's control

2024-03-24 20:09

players complained about their shit PCs even during RMRs which lead to them switching CPUs on all of their rigs, they wrote about that on twitter even. Should I mention the tech issues beyond that? I work as a video editor for a local esports channel so i have to watch this event start to finish Aside from multiple audio issues, because ofc PGL can't make audio work good to save their lives, here's what i encountered myself^ -RMRs - showed their console -RMRs - messed up the obvserver HUD -RMRs - shit rigs, CPU switch -Stage1- console again -Stage1 - image froze -Stage2 - this VP-G2 nonsense And that's me only able to watch the half of what was shown, and I had to miss multiple hours of 50% that i was physically able to watch. PGL is UNABLE to produce a good quality event no matter how you look at it. And that's only THIS TIME. Every event they host has some stuff no other host ever shows... EVER. Everyone shits on PGL, "PGL Audio" - is a common meme, yet somehow they still have events to host...

2024-03-24 20:19

you're acting like no other events have technical issues. Gamers8 (hosted by esl) had the longest tech pause in probably any tier1 event by a big margin. Blast manor the hud disappeared a good few times for the duration of a round Yes, the production of RMRs for this major was shit. But the major itself has a fairly acceptable amount of problems. 3 issues in the half of the tournament you watched (1 of which isn't their fault), so 4 issues in 8 10hour production days total is normal

2024-03-24 21:09

the 1st 2 paragraphs are fair points but the 3rd one requires clarification 3 issues of LESS than the half of the tournament. EXCLUDING like 8-10 audio glitches i've witnessed in that LESS than the half of the tournament. And I did miss some portions of RMRs too... That's way too much, don't you agree?

the only one edging is jame before the match

2024-03-24 19:24

G2 got lucky as hell.

Disgraceful from pgl

2024-03-24 19:26

G2 getting carried by Nvidia drivers

g2 fan but sad for vp, not fair.

2024-03-24 19:27

it's a shame, that round should have been replayed. But norbert lost game on inferno

2024-03-24 19:32

SAD, i wanted g2 to win but not like this

2024-03-24 19:31

so many mad people man. so mad.

i'm really frustrated because of that crash, but the atittude of some people is revolting

2024-03-24 19:35

cry is free boys

2024-03-24 19:30

this is heartbreaking, nice try Jame

hahah bluds are edging fr no cap

Undeserved.

Undeserved

2024-03-24 19:36

2024-03-24 19:38

wait, the round wasn't replayed?

Nvidia $2.36T USD market cap btw

2024-03-24 19:41

at least i sleep well knowing that no playoff team left will be bad enough to lose to G2 with 0-11 hooxi.

yes, G2 100% out in quarters unless m0nesy goes 80+kills

2024-03-24 19:45

unlucky for VP, G2 just did their jobs

Jame showing what it means to be a real leader! Congratulations VP

2024-03-24 19:46

my goat

Deserved for G2, im happy for them. It was meant to be.

deserved? niKo and hooxi both had like 0-12 score at one point, pc crash happening with jame crushing their morale... What exactly g2 did to call it "deserved"?

2024-03-24 20:10

They won. ggs

2024-03-24 21:19

They did... But was it deserved?

Yes. They won fair and square as proven on Anubis, they were also not the cause of the crash. Get over it.

2024-03-25 05:44

PGL 2-1 VP

cry is free

2024-03-24 20:20

2024-03-26 13:45

LETS GO G2 GET TO SEMIS BABEEEEE

Ez lose in quarter finals and disband

2024-03-24 20:55

So much for AMD drivers being bad. Ironic, that Nvidia drivers suck like this Anyway, we will never know what would’ve happened without the bug, don’t pretend as if it was VPs round 100% EZ Clap btw

But every sane person would have known the following for certain: Without that tech issue occurring, VP's morale would have been on entirely different level even if they'd lose the round and the map anyway

Nice delusion, how funny Jame didn’t talk about it at all and mentioned other problems instead

2024-03-24 20:28

the true delusion is to think that if he didn't talk about it - it meant nothing for them

2024-03-24 20:35

I didn’t say “nothing” but in his mind he blamed team performance for it and not 1 round for the entire game. You’re delusional. These are pro gamers they don’t throw a whole map because they lost 1 round on the previous map. They had time to reset but they sucked on Anubis, end of story

No one says they "threw", it was a devastating thing to happen. And the delusional one is in fact you, if you think that if they are pros they aren't human and can't succumb to emotions, especially you know that you are strong enough but the world itself is against you. Either your brain hasn't fully developed yet, no offense, so you don't quite understand how one event occurring leads to a series of reactions that affect your mind. Or you have never seen pros lose it for lesser reasons and in some cases still maintain composure... This is what makes them pros...

2024-03-24 20:48

No problem, stay delusional, your opinion is then that these guys are no pros and something which happened to them multiple times extremely affected them, even according to Jame you’re talking nonsense. He blamed team performance on 3rd map especially, so stay alone and delusional with your opinion, as the only opinion which matters here is of VP players not of delusional fanboys like yourself.

2024-03-25 08:06

You probably the type of guy who believes anything he reads/sees on internet/tv. -You assume that what he says in public true, as if no one (cadian) before him put on a mask for a press. -You assume im a VP fanboy, though I'm not. -You can't see past what is presented to you because you are too clueless to do so. -You assume I don't see them as pros because you think that i think they are the opposite when my point is that they are human beings first... Then again flair checks out, so the one delusional here is you.

2024-03-25 15:14

Didn’t read, the only thing which checks out is your flag, you’re mad your team lost and now you’re grasping for excuses / coping with dumb discussions on the internet. Take the L / take it like a man and be less pathetic.

2024-03-25 15:16

lol, kid. You "didn't read", yet wrote a paragraph as a reply... What, nothing of substance to say? Truly a delusional g2 fanboy

2024-03-25 16:20

More than enough substance for you, wannabe.

2024-03-25 17:01

"wannabe" who? or what? and where is the substance? all i hear from you "me right, you wronk" So i ask again: do you have anything substantial to say?

2024-03-25 17:15

That is absolutely insane wtf

2024-03-24 19:58

"Crucial game crash"... well, if we are being honest, more crucial was his miss on monesy while the kid was defusing on infamous B site

Most crucial thing is your flag

2024-03-25 00:43

And even more my flair, that doesn't change the fact that jame would reverse the match if he dropped monesy on defuse.

2024-03-28 20:17

I actually watched this game and saw it happen. It was absolutely horrible. Obviously talent it paid to cover the events reputation but the narrative of "divine intervention" "fate" et al was just sofa king stupid I couldn't believe it. Feel bad for VP. They deserved to win or lose without that happening.

2024-03-24 20:12

Crytus Pro. G2 was better (obviously) and deserved to win. Simple as that

2024-03-24 20:16

lol tell me you didn't watch the first two maps

2024-03-24 20:21

That was a sad crash situation, this roster needs to stay together, this could've got VP's way, but we cant know for sure, but ya, it s*cks, but it is what it is, keep the line up till next major and take it from there... gl

Stoic Jane not mentioning it

2024-03-24 20:57

hello this is Jame's mom, Jane. I would appreciate it if you would stop making fun of my son for saving. He grew up in a poor country and we never had awp. we couldn't afford awp, just p250 for our children to eat. if you would be so kind and not make fun of my son please, or I will report.

2024-03-24 21:27

Haha fuck mb mb

2024-03-24 21:57

How he F this round wasnt restarted? PGL is the worst TO Ive seen in a while...

save monesy

You’d be crazy to think that VP weren’t in an advantageous position when that crash happened. Also who ever was the guy that killed him there took forever to even kill him lol. Crazy thing is if he crashed but remained hidden behind new box, VP probably still could have won the round because g2 would be worrying about 4 players still instead of 3. Quite possibly would have played out different on that retake if new box didn’t get cleared so early. It’s sad to see. I know g2 could have also just won the round straight up even if Jame didn’t crash. But we will never know now. I know that shit will be eating him alive for a while. He’s being a professional about it which I respect. But I know that is probably bothering him a lot on the inside

2024-03-24 21:14

The amount of clipping issues is also staggering. I bet Valve are playing foosball while raking in the dough, the Valve guys earn more per employee than Apple, FB etc. Absurd a proper CS competitor hasn't arrived yet.

2024-03-24 21:29

This is terrible for the scene. They would lose anyways, but it is a disgrace.

2024-03-24 23:15

Jame da Legend youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSNWMsscq8

2024-03-24 23:36

When this happens in a major, its clearly a tier5 videogame.

2024-03-25 01:00

Niko my man, don’t choke in playoffs..

If God wills it then let it be so

2024-03-25 02:06

FRAUD

2024-03-25 02:11

WRONG AND UNFAIR, shame shame shame

2024-03-25 04:30

at least replay the round if you cant restart from the same positions, smh i wouldnt be so quick to blame valve though, gpu drivers are fickle things

2024-03-25 07:48

if G2 wins, it will be a NVIDIA sticker?

2024-03-25 14:22

Garbage shit major, this is an absolute joke.

2024-03-25 15:36

wait G2 did what now..?

2024-03-25 15:40

Conjured a ritual that crashed Jame's PC My favorite occult team

cry is free bots

2024-03-25 15:46

Yes, indeed it happens! Sadly it happens more than what should be expected from a "major" tournament and, above all, on a decisive game. It's just absolutely ridiculous that, unarguably the worse player ever to touch a keypad, ended up game shouting like it they achieve a big win, after not being able to have one single kill in 11 rounds... Hopefully, karma will catch up! GJ Virtus!

2024-03-25 18:01