G2 embarrass Spirit 13-1 on Ancient to secure BLAST London playoff berth

Disjointed play and sloppy Counter-Strike saw the Cologne champions miss out on an arena berth.

G2 are through to the quarter-finals of BLAST Open London after reverse-sweeping a lackluster Spirit in the final match of the group stage, recovering from a narrow loss on Mirage (11-13) with wins on Dust2 (16-13) and Ancient (13-1).

It will be the first arena appearance for G2 since March and since Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač took over leadership duties during the off-season, with the Bosnian in good spirits when talking to the analyst desk after the match.

"We changed a lot of players in the last six months, even TaZ got a chance to play," he laughed. "It wasn't easy and it's still not easy, but it feels really good because we've been working really hard lately since we got new players during the summer break.

"A lot of hard work paid off, for now at least, we are improving from event to event. Of course we could have done better at some events, but for now I'm really happy with the progress and I'm happy that it's going this way."

Spirit drew first blood in the series after G2 abused B early on Mirage for a 5-2 lead, with Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets and Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov combining to win out the half for their side before the Russian phenom took over in the second half.

G2 won the pistol and briefly took the lead, but were at the behest of phenomenal multi-fragging by donk, who opened up bombsites single-handedly, bailed Spirit out of a few disadvantages, and combined with Myroslav "⁠zont1x⁠" Plakhotia to recover a 3v5 in round 24 to lock in a narrow victory.

A far better start to Dust2 saw G2 up 6-0 before Spirit got a look in, and that lead was soon extended to 8-2 as sloppy mistakes, misplays, and missed grenades started stacking up for the Russian team.

A slight recovery at the end of the half did little to help Spirit after Nikita "⁠HeavyGod⁠" Martynenko won a 1v3 clutch to grab G2 their fourth pistol, and a subsequent conversion had them up 10-4 with Spirit visibly out of it and looking ready to throw in the towel. A late rally, again powered by individual heroics by donk and a few multi-kills by zont1x and Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov, saw Spirit take back control, but it was not a confident recovery as mistakes continued to plague the team and frustration was evident on both sides of the server.

sAw rallies the troops with timeout

The turning point for G2 came at 10-9, when Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha gave his team a reality check during a timeout.

"Guys, I don't know if your 'W' key is frozen or something, but we should play the game, no?" he said. After hearing assent from his team, he added: "Okay, can we fuck them now?"

Matúš "⁠MATYS⁠" Šimko came out of that timeout inspired, finding several impactful multi-kills on Catwalk and out Middle to revive G2 in overtime. Spirit looked checked out, both on camera and on the server, and it showed as G2 closed out Dust2 before stomping through the Ancient decider.

A single, triple kill round by zont1x is all that separated Spirit from losing the map 0-13, with G2 dominating en route to securing their LAN berth.

The end for zont1x?

Reports and rumors pointed to zont1x being out of Spirit after Esports World Cup with Andrey "⁠tN1R⁠" Tatarinovich set to replace him, but the team went into BLAST Open London with the same lineup.

Excellence from sh1ro and donk wasn't enough to net the team a playoff berth at the first point of asking against FURIA, but it seemed out of the question that the Cologne and BLAST Bounty Season 2 champions would miss out on the LAN stage entirely in what was likely their last ride.

It is the reality we live in now, however, with Spirit looking disjointed for large parts of the series and donk's best efforts not enough to make up for the number of sloppy errors made by the team ranked first in the world on the VRS. Whether this was truly zont1x's last ride in Spirit is left to be seen, but there is no doubt that if it was, this is not the way he wanted to go out.

More highights from G2 vs. Spirit:

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Mirage
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Dust2
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Ancient
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 Spirit K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating3.0
63 - 49 +2.49% 99.1 73.1% 1.32
38 - 49 -0.81% 69.4 71.6% 0.94
44 - 41 -2.02% 65.7 59.7% 0.93
36 - 50 -2.10% 67.3 64.2% 0.79
29 - 48 -3.74% 52.0 65.7% 0.70
 G2 K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating3.0
56 - 37 +3.82% 81.6 79.1% 1.39
54 - 47 +0.86% 85.8 73.1% 1.20
44 - 43 +0.54% 79.5 74.6% 1.10
42 - 44 +0.21% 76.9 76.1% 1.01
40 - 39 +0.75% 60.3 68.7% 1.00
Belarus Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
826
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.66
Russia Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.94
Maps played:
1601
KPR:
0.63
DPR:
0.66
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
1946
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.66
Slovakia Matúš 'MATYS' Šimko
Matúš 'MATYS' Šimko
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
918
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.71
Ukraine Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
746
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.64
Russia Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.22
Maps played:
1359
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.54
Finland Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Age:
33
Team:
Israel Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko
Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
655
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.64
Russia Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.25
Maps played:
638
KPR:
0.86
DPR:
0.67
If only donk had a good team...
2025-09-02 00:27
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#16
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Albania Navi_ivaN
Well, at least there's one good thing - that was zontix's last match for Spirit.
2025-09-02 00:31
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#25
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France vuelure
zweih on zont1x position will be 0.8 player enjoy
2025-09-02 00:35
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it will be tn1r tho??
2025-09-02 00:36
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#37
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France vuelure
they will for sure gives the better positions to tn1r
2025-09-02 00:37
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he had the worse ones for like 6 months in heroic anyways
2025-09-02 00:39
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#44
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France vuelure
i'm not worried that tn1r will be good in any position, but they bring him to get firepower and you can be sure he won’t be hard anchor like zont1x zweih will be even worse, that's for sure
2025-09-02 00:41
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its not he used to be hard anchor, xfl0ud had donk roles and yxngstxr had zweih roles...
2025-09-02 00:44
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#56
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France vuelure
it's not about what he was playing but what he will most likely play he will get some of the good roles of zweih since even in them he is garbage
2025-09-02 00:46
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idk man... why change tn1rs roles if hes used to them
2025-09-02 08:15
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Zont1x is not hard anchor lol
2025-09-02 01:45
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He had mixed positions for most of the time he was dominating on Heroic. When they tried to take him out of his lurker positions on T side and put him in star positions, his performance cratered. He's gonna be a perfect replacement for zontix so Spirit can find more impact from lurks.
2025-09-02 10:27
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Are you a genie?
2025-09-02 15:58
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#179
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Albania Navi_ivaN
Probably so. After all, those 127 people wouldn’t have liked his comment if they hadn’t been sure of his future-seeing abilities.
2025-09-02 16:43
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I'm not confident the replacement will be better.
2025-09-02 00:35
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Is that because you share the nationality of zontix ?
2025-09-02 12:12
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Because it's a fact. donk > zywoo and I don't share the nationality of donk .
2025-09-02 15:06
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Unrelated.. tn1r is way better than zontix
2025-09-02 20:02
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Good thing, enjoy carrying zweih on your backs till he get benched Lmao
2025-09-02 00:36
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what better team? he got a top5 player, top2 anchor this year a solid igl and future star, what else?
2025-09-02 00:35
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top 2 anchor is heavygod nt spirit should have gotten him super long time ago as well lol
2025-09-02 00:36
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"Top 5 player" - wouldn't say so. Top 5 awper - probably. "Top 2 anchor" - happens to depart from the team. "Solid IGL" - no. "Future star" - no.
2025-09-02 00:37
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he is a top10 player this year u will see. who cares if he depards HE was playing in the team. chopper is a good igl, stop telling otherwise, he proved his worth. ok mby zweih is shit.
2025-09-02 00:38
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While chopper does have flashes of brilliance — he legitimately outcalled Na`Vi at the major (although with how terrible Na`Vi have been this year, it isn't that much of an achievement), overall I just haven't seen Spirit performing many setup rounds — 90% of the time the call is simply "donk go kill".
2025-09-02 00:44
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thats just pure cope from you sh1ro is 3rd/4th this year against ropz zontix departs from the team and ? have you seen his stats at cologne, bounty and ewc ? why is it any different this tournament ? yes chopper is a solid igl, one of the best in tier 1, if he's not "solid" at all then I dare you to give me 6 better igls well maybe not but he's still an insane rifler, in bad positions, and had 1.11 rating at blast bounty finals against the best teams in the world
2025-09-02 00:49
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Better igls this year: Fallen, apex, blitz, brollan, maybe aleksi. For me, he's like karrigan, good calls but simply not good enough for tier1. Yes, he has his 1in100 games, where he goes godmode, but most of the time he is dead last with little to no participation. I agree with everything else you've said though
2025-09-02 12:18
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stopped reading after aleksi
2025-09-02 14:57
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You could even stop at botpex
2025-09-02 20:55
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#187
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France Telt
I reaaaally wonder why you hate Vitality. And I checked your profile, you seem to hate mouz as well, what a surprise. You know I'd be on your side if we weren't talking about CS, but if it happens you're hating teams/players for things they aren't responsible for, then it's a shame. Ok maybe except one player because of some tweets
2025-09-03 10:21
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#30
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
He does have a good team, they just didn't turn up against G2. Zont1x and sh1ro honestly did alright, it was mainly Zweih and Chopper that struggled + let's be honest, that Ancient game was abysmal from all players - nobody can be singled out there.
2025-09-02 00:36
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bro are you even listening to your own words? they just don't turn up against G2, they don't turn up against any top10 team when donk is not playing well, that dust2 was so winnable yet shiro 0 impact again, zweih is past radar user with 0 gamesense and chopper's calls were as usual, you act like donk has team when he makes them look decent by own impact, today proved it, they are just trash
2025-09-02 00:44
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#79
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
They literally won two tournaments back-to-back with this same team, including Cologne. That doesn't change just because the players aren't showing up, it's the overall consistency of the team isn't found yet because it's still a relatively new and untapped roster. Yeah, donk is donk but I love how the goalposts shift when they are now all of sudden beaten.
2025-09-02 01:21
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I mean he's not wrong, even if you watch Cologne they always had situations when they made lots of mistakes and were saved by donk going absolutely nuts to carry them. BLAST was more of entire team's work tho, but that happens so fucking rarely with Spirit, that's their problem.
2025-09-02 01:37
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#90
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
Sure, I'm not saying that this team isn't flawed but winning back-to-back tournaments and being a Top 3 team is still worth something. Chopper's system has always been to play around donk and if teams can abuse that, then that's a fatal flaw in Chopper's system, not the team itself. On paper, Spirit still have amazing individuals, and even the losses are still hard-fought, they just didn't turn up on Ancient today... That hit them as a shock more than anything else. To imply that this team can no longer win tournaments is not something I can agree with, they're just being studied and countered, like every other team on top right now.
2025-09-02 01:47
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he literally said "as soon as donk isnt playing well" which was the case for the whole tourney there plus it was kinda honeymoon as well....
2025-09-02 08:15
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Yeah because Chopper's system revolves around setting donk up.
2025-09-02 12:26
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#40
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
he has sh1ro the most clutch player ever top 5 awper of all time major winner cologne winner kato winner sh1ro is the one who needs help
2025-09-02 00:40
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sh1ro is most fraudelent awper ever
2025-09-02 00:42
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#48
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
but he is clutch he baits his whole team in a 1v3 situation waits till both team mates die he trades and its counted as "ANOTHER CLUTCH BY SH1RO, WHAT A CLUTCHMINISTER"
2025-09-02 00:43
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exactly lmao sooner people understand that the better
2025-09-02 00:44
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#80
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
people wont realize because its the commentators and analyst job to hype these guys up. make it seem like they are superstars so people follow and regurgitate the same narrative about them
2025-09-02 01:23
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"Top 5 AWPer of all time" No? s1mple, ZywOo, dev1ce, JW, markeloff, GuardiaN, FalleN, and arguably kennyS are all better.
2025-09-02 00:46
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#82
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
sh1ro has won more than kennys fallen guardian s1mple markellof in less time and the top 3 is monesy s1mple sh1ro
2025-09-02 01:32
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#94
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
KennyS is a Major MVP winner. So is JW and Device, who's a two-time Major MVP winner... sh1ro has 4 MVP's, 3 of them are bronze and one of them is a studio prestige MVP from 2021 COVID-19 times. sh1ro's primary merit in his insane consistency, numerous trophies (including the Major) and amazing Top 10 placements, but as an individual, KennyS, FalleN, JW and even GuardiaN absolutely dwarf sh1ro in that department. sh1ro dominates the other candidates in EVP's, but they also didn't exist until 2016... past the prime of the other candidates, so that's an unfair metric to go by.
2025-09-02 01:52
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#96
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
"KennyS is a Major MVP winner." and? like i said sh1ro has won more if having a major mvp is the only metric then jame is better than sh1ro monesy guardian fallen and Adren > niko, twistzz, ropz, electronic, rain because they dont have major mvps
2025-09-02 02:26
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#98
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
Trophies are also team achievements, whereas MVP's are individual achievements. Also Adren's only Major accomplishment is being a Major MVP + he doesn't AWP, so that comparison does not work.
2025-09-02 02:29
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#102
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
Also Adren's only Major accomplishment is being a Major MVP + he doesn't AWP, so that comparison does not work. notice how i didnt put any awpers while comparing adren
2025-09-02 03:27
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#151
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Ukraine spekotno
bro tried to sneak in rain even tho he has a major mvp
2025-09-02 11:43
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markeloff won 4 majors in 2 years, sh1ro won 1.
2025-09-02 10:49
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#150
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
He won at a time when 80 percent of pro players had a full time job and cs was their part time hobby
2025-09-02 11:41
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KennyS isn't arguably better, he's better, lol. Guy was a peak AWPer in his prime.
2025-09-02 01:39
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#95
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
+1 KennyS literally defined the blueprint for the AWP'ers we have now and broke the game with the AWP until he and the AWP itself was nerfed. So yeah... not including him in the GOAT AWP discussion is like not including GTR in the GOAT lurker discussion. EDIT: Forgot to +1.
2025-09-02 01:54
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#97
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
yes kennyS dominated when the big green was OP once it was nerfed he couldnt reach the same heights. some might say he is an OP weapon abuser. just like brollan with the SG/AUG when it was OP other awpers still had relevance once it was nerfed.
2025-09-02 02:27
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#99
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
KennyS made the big green OP... That's the point. He singlehandedly redefined the AWP meta. And you don't include him in the GOAT discussion and instead include m0NESY? Who's only been playing in tier 1 since 2022...? Sure, I'll give you s1mple but that's the only arguably credible candidate you have. It's an odd opinion to have that most definitely is not the majority.
2025-09-02 02:32
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#101
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
he did not make the big green OP he dominated with it while it was OP once it got nerfed he faded to oblivion
2025-09-02 03:26
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He literally won major after AWP nerf and became top 6 of 2015 and top 7 of 2017, long after the nerf.
2025-09-02 04:48
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#103
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France JayceCole
No GOAT walked in an EZ way. At least donkey has a top4 awper.
2025-09-02 03:30
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Sure. 0.56 rating on Ancient, all he needs is a good team, sure.
2025-09-02 06:41
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Netherlands Lasarius
#FreeDonk
2025-09-02 00:28
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MALB S AND MATY S FARMING DONK WHAT A DAY
2025-09-02 00:27
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MAD IS
2025-09-02 00:35
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#61
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Slovakia ryderawr
Slovak mentality bro Just look perma tilted on cam
2025-09-02 00:47
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yes yes thats what im saying man
2025-09-02 08:17
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bro only smiled when they were 12-1. Never let your guard down Ig
2025-09-02 16:33
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#180
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Slovakia ryderawr
Yeah hes been like that forever, i dont think hes like extremely tilted or something its probably his face, the funniest part was when he looked the most frustrated on dust 2 he actually started to frag his ass off xd
2025-09-02 16:53
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Honeymoon over?
2025-09-02 00:28
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#6
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Korea aespa
Unlucko
2025-09-02 00:28
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Scotland LinInABin
Magixx wouldn't have let this happen
2025-09-02 00:28
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Hunter masterclass Poor donk playing 1v9 just disband at this point
2025-09-02 00:28
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*huNter-/huNta-/huNter-
2025-09-02 00:29
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huNter- twice ok lol
2025-09-02 08:18
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I meant to write huNtah-
2025-09-02 08:56
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Europe kuu1
Removing Niko from the squad was a good move in the end?
2025-09-02 00:33
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not really if hunter went igl along with sAw joining like a year ago or whatev they prolly could have easily won a major already lol
2025-09-02 00:35
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They still were favourites in Shanghai regardless. It's just that Niko and m0nesy decided to not show up against FaZe or they'd have won it..
2025-09-02 00:58
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and that was SNAX igl lmao imagine hooxi (at best with confidence not self doubt cause community is ridiculing him for the perceived lack of fragging) with malbs or hunter igl they would have been so much less likely to choke and lose confidence mid game
2025-09-02 08:11
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No team with Choko is ever winning a major
2025-09-02 01:48
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atp mb not anymore yes
2025-09-02 08:11
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#65
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Australia Naigod
Ah hell nah, yo they were sooo dog water after removing NiKo, it felt like g2's soul was taken away. Now with a very good coach and hunter finally taking up igl and removing snax they are getting better.
2025-09-02 00:54
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well niko was super incredibly crucial for their ct sides apparently and snax obv was worse igl than hooxi or pretty much anyone if you combine his fragging and calling lolmao
2025-09-02 08:12
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IGL of the year
2025-09-02 00:29
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wrong, it's him:
2025-09-02 00:50
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i want kiss this man
2025-09-02 04:43
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Both are goated
2025-09-02 08:44
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#83
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Latvia OskarliNE
well sAw is just huge buff
2025-09-02 01:33
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Okay yeah maybe banning overpass wasn't the play
2025-09-02 00:29
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#11
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Russia TheThingIs
g2 thx for this slap take popcorn and see how many times hally bans overpass
2025-09-02 00:29
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If there is a chance to throw the veto, Hally will take it every time brother
2025-09-02 00:33
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#12
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Sweden Vrede
give donk a better team
2025-09-02 00:29
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what better team? he got a top5 player, top2 anchor this year a solid igl and future star, what else?
2025-09-02 00:34
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seek professional help
2025-09-02 00:45
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mad cus cant accept facts
2025-09-02 00:46
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more like farts
2025-09-02 00:46
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stats=facts
2025-09-02 00:47
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#135
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Russia RenTao
u are stupid
2025-09-02 09:50
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Top 5 player: Chokes in arenas and playoffs. 1.03 vs top 5 and 1.04 vs top 10 in playoffs, 0.98 vs top 5 and 0.99 vs top 10 in arena (sh1ro). Sh1ro is a tier 2 and group stage farmer who crumbles under pressure. If HLTV list would only be about playoffs and arena rating, sh1ro would at best be top 15-20 and that's generous. He'd probably have a lower rating without donk on his team and zont1x being a solid playoff performer. Top 2 anchor: Maybe. Zont1x is underrated but I think HeavyGod has a better case for top 2 anchor right now. Ropz #1, HeavyGod #2, and then #3 is between mezii and zont1x. However, zont1x is not a top 5 lurker. He does struggle some on the T side and half the game is played on that side. He did struggle at this event, but overall he is the only consistently solid player on donk's team. Solid IGL: Chopper defenders can never explain why he is "solid" and I am sure you are no different. His strats are bad and he gets exposed too easily in games with equal firepower. He is a tier 2 IGL at best. Future star: zweih has potential, but that future potential doesn't help donk right now, so how does his possible future potential matter now?
2025-09-02 15:36
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Then people will just say he only wins because of his team ;p
2025-09-02 11:54
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I mean, yeah. CS is still a team game afterall. Superstars like (prime) S1mple, Donk, Zywoo, (prime) NiKo might be able to win games alone, but that's mostly against weak opponents and also doesn't happen too often. Even as one of the best players in the world you're still dependent on your team to provide some kind of help to win.
2025-09-02 13:40
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Not according to donk glazers when zywoo wins
2025-09-02 13:53
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what a fluke cologne was, spirit only won cause mickey mouz in finals
2025-09-02 00:30
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to be honest spirit is so fckin lucky at all with their won tournaments
2025-09-02 00:59
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#15
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Brazil gu1zera
Spirit is a tier 3 team without donk
2025-09-02 00:30
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with
2025-09-02 01:49
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Both options might be true?
2025-09-02 13:02
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Meds
2025-09-02 11:54
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#17
Faceit level 10  | 
Jee | 
Slovakia shdw420
Once again shiro disappears in an important match
2025-09-02 00:31
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EZ
2025-09-02 00:33
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GG. Feel like they would of lost even if donk went 30-2 on ancient. Just dogshit teamplay and 80 thousand mistakes every round.
2025-09-02 00:35
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Hunter might be the best Kovac currently
2025-09-02 00:36
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I think it’s some bullshit that blast has players playing at 12am and expecting teams to perform the best, who expects a tournament to be at 12am horrible system they got going on.
2025-09-02 00:36
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Holy cope
2025-09-02 05:43
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1 reply
Cope with what they lost to G2 played better doesn’t change the fact that it’s a horrible system they got going on imagine working at 12am because you scheduling sucks many teams already agree hence why many aren’t attending because it’s mostly online the pay sucks and the scheduling sucks.
2025-09-02 12:53
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These guys are in their 20's lol or younger, don't act like playing at midnight matters in any way.
2025-09-02 18:45
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Donk, it is better learn a good english, time to move on.
2025-09-02 00:37
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Chopper career only exist because of donk
2025-09-02 00:41
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Spirit exist in tier 1 only because of donk
2025-09-02 07:00
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Magixx 1v4 vs FaZe
2025-09-02 11:56
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#156
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
Jame | 
United Kingdom sashat77
His current form aside, this is objectively wrong. Chopper made it to a major semi finals before donk
2025-09-02 12:07
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Back in 2022. Doesn't matter anymore. Shox was also a top 6 player in 2016, then 3 years later he was washed when he joined ZywOo. Chopper is no different. Without donk, chopper would still be playing in tier 2.
2025-09-02 15:39
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#174
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
Jame | 
United Kingdom sashat77
But to say his career only exists because of donk is wrong, no? He made hundreds of thousands of prize money before donk. Yeah he wouldn't be at the top of CS without him but I'm sure he would still have a well established career as a good CIS igl. Shoxies career doesn't "only" exist because of Zywoo!
2025-09-02 15:57
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#46
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
sunpayus vs sh1ro battle of the baitors to see who has lower dpr sh1ro with 41 deaths sunpayus with 39 victory goes to sunpayus!!!!!!!!!!!!
2025-09-02 00:42
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#66
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
Yeah, the Spanish sniper showed his class and prevailed over his foe.
2025-09-02 00:56
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#78
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
it was a close race. better time next time sh1ro
2025-09-02 01:20
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#60
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Other FGsouL
I still dont think G2 is strong as current team but Spirit is on way of Navi. They will be weaker after zontix's leave and will put more mass on donk's shoulders. The fall of Spirit.
2025-09-02 00:47
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#146
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Spain ousi
Nah adding TN1R gives more aggression and firepower to Spirit and another potential carry if donk ias having a off day, zontix this last year was very underwhelming compared to his first year, probably teams have a way better read on his playing style making him more predictable.
2025-09-02 11:20
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Love how the picture is just Saw. Fully embarked on the saw mastermind narrative. "Is your w key Frozen???(refers to frozen baiting)"
2025-09-02 00:57
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Absolute Cinema
2025-09-02 00:59
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#76
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Russia KopHuLLloH
daym
2025-09-02 01:02
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#77
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Brazil isbetter
Oh how the mighty have Fallen
2025-09-02 01:14
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#81
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Russia moonEEK!
that’s true yekidoy has fallen
2025-09-02 01:27
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1.3 with 13-1 i wonder how good of a person he was in his past life or what devils he worships
2025-09-02 01:40
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sunpayus 1.00 masterclass
2025-09-02 01:48
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my goat
2025-09-02 17:51
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#100
Faceit level 4  | 
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African Union mikecool
Whoa spirit capitulation in last game
2025-09-02 03:24
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#104
Faceit level 8  | 
DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
Cinema
2025-09-02 03:38
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Zweih is actually the most assest ass of asses in the ass world Absolute ass
2025-09-02 03:43
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1 reply
Calm down, it's a child.
2025-09-02 04:13
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#107
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Peru fr1daySzs
SUNPAGODYUS
2025-09-02 04:36
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#111
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United States beekatt
Fun fact! SunPayus had 0 AWP kills on Mirage, as opposed to sh1ro's 18 AWP kills.
2025-09-02 05:49
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Unexpected
2025-09-02 05:49
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really did not see this coming
2025-09-02 06:26
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sAw effect, you know. Tells a lot if he could igl HAVU to top20 back in the days with limited resources.
2025-09-02 10:58
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#116
Faceit plus user Faceit level 9  | 
Czech Republic maXX_CZ
hltv.org/stats/players/7716/chopper?star.. Many top teams have same problem. Who will solve it first, will probably "win a lottery". Because there are not infinite amount of decent IGLs that can also frag. Zweih has not prooved he can play T1 so far imo. He is not even as good as magixx imo.
2025-09-02 07:05
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sdy, but I doubt he wats to join Team Spirit
2025-09-02 11:00
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absolutely de_stroyed. sAw with the Gigachad timeout really turned the tides sad to see zont1x's last game be like this, but surely the decision on +tn1r is already done
2025-09-02 07:13
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Donk is washed lol Lost to Guatemala prodigy + 1.00 rating sniper with one of the Kovaches is crazy Russians cope more
2025-09-02 07:27
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look at DnaVi, losing against washed NA CS
2025-09-02 14:22
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and what? They are tier 2 since 2024 hltv awards
2025-09-02 14:34
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Damn that's even worse than NaVi's result. Well played Spirit🤭 Respectfully
2025-09-02 07:44
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Ohh yeah best team in the world guys
2025-09-02 08:05
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Will someone, an analyst or whatever, point out the fact that teams can use a very powerful tool against spirit (especially when they play ct) : making donk push and tilt? I feel like it's the umpteenth time they lose after he's being setup by his opponents and noone calls for an adaptation. Yesterday donk was having another brilliant BO3, until G2 came with a clear plan on ancient : take the fight to him. He became the main weak link because noone in Spirit decided it was worth adapting. Then it was too late : he was fully on tilt. Not only others have the step up, but the most important point for them as a team is that they have to manage him too. However congrats to G2, they played good even on the first two maps, and malbs was an absolute joy to watch on the third map.
2025-09-02 08:05
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sAw is pretty underrated With such shit AWPer too they managed to go 13-1
2025-09-02 08:06
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somebody upload ancient on p-hub lmao 13-1
2025-09-02 08:27
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#133
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Russia A1RMAN
It's been a while since Spirit fell apart like that during a match.
2025-09-02 09:04
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+sAw is the smartest move they've done in a while.
2025-09-02 11:38
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#134
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
graphic-- | 
Bulgaria graphic--
You're missing the point. They were obviously bugged by the departure of zont1x, they didn't want to play this game at all. No communication, no teamplay, it was a normal pug for them without using any strats. They just rushed to end it fast
2025-09-02 09:22
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Might as well forfeit the match or tournament no?
2025-09-02 11:08
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Cheap excuse. If that was the case it shows no respect to the fans and especially to the ones who pay their salary.
2025-09-02 11:48
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#160
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Russia A1RMAN
I think it's just an excuse to an awfully played game. Nothing to do with the roster change.
2025-09-02 12:30
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#188
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
graphic-- | 
Bulgaria graphic--
the ones that paid the salary maybe ordered it so they won't need to send them to a tournament in 2 days without a 5th player?
2025-09-03 12:54
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Gg
2025-09-02 09:54
0
-karrigan +donk +rain igl
2025-09-02 10:25
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saw effect
2025-09-02 10:36
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1 reply
ENCE players wanted sAw as a coach to ENCE because they knew his potential as a coach. And funniest thing is that he didn't really have experience from coaching when Twista got banned.
2025-09-02 10:54
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1.30 with 13-1 map this is crazy 1v9 all year
2025-09-02 11:00
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without donk absolute tier 5 team
2025-09-02 11:39
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Spirit is truly only good for Donk to farm KDR, cause no one in that team is doing shit except him.
2025-09-02 13:35
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#167
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Turkey ColdZer00
magixx was the problem
2025-09-02 14:30
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1 reply
He was a problem. Chopper is just a bigger problem and sh1ro's inconsistency as well.
2025-09-02 15:43
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G2 too good
2025-09-02 16:24
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You can see the progress G2 is making step by step.
2025-09-02 16:34
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#181
Faceit premium user Faceit level 10  | 
mazay | 
Japan makermeetsu
This ancient reminded me of Liquid's ancient vs Faze in Cologne. Huge red flag.
2025-09-02 16:54
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Donk without Boris yiiikes. Not a hater just joking. Zontix should've replaced chopper as igl and still get tn1r but don't trust me, I'm a moron.
2025-09-02 17:25
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