BLAST Premier World Final 2024Spirit secure semi-final spot over FaZe after Anubis thriller
The second map of the series ended after two hard fought overtimes.
Spirit are through to the BLAST Premier World Final 2024, where they will face Astralis, after defeating FaZe in a two-map series.
The Russian squad's core of Danil "donk" Kryshkovets, Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov and Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia all shone throughout, while FaZe's players had more ups and downs throughout the bout.
Spirit first took FaZe's Mirage pick, 13-10, and then outlasted Finn "karrigan" Andersen and his men in a thriller that went all the way to double-overtime and delivered the most entertaining map of the tournament so far.
Spirit got the best of FaZe on the T side of Mirage after a 6-6 stalemate on the defense. donk had made a statement early on with a Desert Eagle triple on the defense, but it was on the attack that he set the pace for Spirit with seven first kills to take FaZe's pick 13-10.
Anubis was a gem, with 7-5 and 5-7 halves giving way to two overtimes. Back-and-forth play with great individualities on both sides abounded, such as a 1vs2 clutch by sh1ro which kept Spirit alive in a run from 9-12 to a tie after 24 rounds.
Three straight rounds in the second overtime, two on the CT side and one on the T side, put Spirit on match point, 18-16, and it proved enough for them to go on and close out the map and series two rounds later.
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| BLAST Premier World Final 2024 | ||
| 02/11/2024 |
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Match |
FaZe will look at this match as progress towards their upcoming RMR campaign, while Spirit will be focusing on the coming semi-final bout coming up against Astralis on Saturday.
The two teams last met at the Fall Final, where Spirit got the best of Astralis in three maps eliminating the Danes in the group stage lower bracket.
 FaZe |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 45 - 43 | -0.15% | 75.6 | 67.8% | 1.03 | |
| 38 - 38 | +0.55% | 67.4 | 69.5% | 0.99 | |
| 31 - 38 | +0.40% | 65.6 | 69.5% | 0.92 | |
| 34 - 44 | -0.09% | 73.2 | 64.4% | 0.86 | |
| 34 - 46 | -2.65% | 70.5 | 67.8% | 0.84 |
  Spirit |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 48 - 36 | +2.53% | 90.1 | 78.0% | 1.33 | |
| 53 - 32 | +2.93% | 86.9 | 83.1% | 1.33 | |
| 48 - 43 | -1.43% | 88.1 | 78.0% | 1.22 | |
| 33 - 35 | +0.17% | 60.9 | 72.9% | 1.00 | |
| 27 - 37 | -2.27% | 58.5 | 78.0% | 0.92 |
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