Liquid beat FaZe for FPG2 playoffs and enter Major contention in the process

Twistzz was a key reason why Liquid beat his future employers despite conflict of interest concerns before the match.

Liquid have completed a run from 0-2 to 3-2 in FISSURE Playground 2's group stage to complete a monumental comeback with Major ramifications.

The Kamil "⁠siuhy⁠" Szkaradek-led squad were 31st in the VRS after day two in Serbia, but have climbed up to 16th with three hugely significant LAN victories (+89 points vs HEROIC, +100 points vs TYLOO, and +79 points vs FaZe).

That puts them 12th in the European prediction for the Major invites, a comfortable 171 points clear of BetBoom at the cutoff point in 17th.

Date Matches
FISSURE Playground 2
15/09/2025
Finished
2:1
Match
16/09/2025
Finished
1:2
Match
17/09/2025
Finished
0:2
Match

Doing so under heavy Major pressure and the cloud of Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken's impending return to FaZe, a transfer announced mid-event, makes the feat even more impressive.

"The whole thing was scripted," Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen joked to Anastasija "⁠Heccu⁠" Tolmačeva pre-game, with fate putting FaZe and Liquid together for a 2-2 match.

"The story couldn't get more exciting than this," siuhy said post-match. "These games were really important for us. We took a different approach to these games, there's a lot more energy. It's making a big impact."

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Twistzz makes shock FaZe return

Fears were raised pre-match around the conflict of interest present, with one interpretation of the Major rulebook meaning that FaZe might not be allowed to use Twistzz in Budapest while he is on Liquid's core roster.

But in the event, the Canadian was the model professional despite the situation he was put in, putting in a solid performance on Ancient and being Liquid's key man on Dust2 alongside Roland "⁠ultimate⁠" Tomkowiak.

Clip: NertZ lets FaZe know after ultimate 1v2

Twistzz's impending departure could have crushed Liquid, but the pressure relief has been a godsend for the team: Their quiet, subdued, team atmosphere has been a talking point throughout 2025 but they were practically jubilant in today's series.

Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz was in particularly good form, shouting 'Boom' five times after most of Liquid's round wins.

"NertZ has that energy inside of him," siuhy said. "He's not shown it with us, but you saw it in HEROIC, standing up and shouting. Seeing him do that is good for the team."

And NertZ had plenty to be cheery about. After being in the duldrums for so long, Liquid are back in an arena playoffs for the first time since April.

FaZe collapse from 2-0 to 2-3

After the honeymoon at BLAST London, this was a harsh clap back to reality for FaZe.

None of Falcons, The MongolZ, or an amped up Liquid were easy opponents but three losses in a row were still confirmation of why FaZe are in the market for Twistzz in the first place.

David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský, so good for most of 2025, had an Ancient to forget and there were no Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants highlights to speak of.

In the three series that led to elimination, only Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard — the player Aleksei "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov reported is set to be removed for Twistzz — was above a 1.00 rating. If this is the end, it is a sad way for ten years of service to come to a close.

More highlights from FaZe-Liquid:

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17th September 2025
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Ancient
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Dust2
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 FaZe K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating3.0
25 - 27 -0.98% 66.7 61.5% 0.92
21 - 30 -1.37% 55.9 74.4% 0.85
24 - 27 -3.25% 64.4 69.2% 0.81
19 - 32 -2.03% 69.7 61.5% 0.79
13 - 32 -5.09% 48.1 51.3% 0.53
 Liquid K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating3.0
40 - 21 +5.84% 96.4 92.3% 1.67
36 - 17 +5.75% 94.7 87.2% 1.62
25 - 16 +4.34% 75.8 84.6% 1.30
29 - 26 -2.18% 74.7 74.4% 0.99
18 - 24 -1.15% 61.0 66.7% 0.88
Russia Aleksei 'OverDrive' Birukov
Aleksei 'OverDrive' Birukov
Age:
39
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.68
Maps played:
151
KPR:
0.46
DPR:
0.73
Latvia Anastasija 'Heccu' Tolmačeva
Anastasija 'Heccu' Tolmačeva
Age:
32
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
-
Maps played:
0
KPR:
-
DPR:
-
Poland Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak
Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
441
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.65
Latvia Helvijs 'broky' Saukants
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
1244
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.61
Slovakia David 'frozen' Čerňanský
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
1738
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.63
Denmark Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Age:
35
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.89
Maps played:
2578
KPR:
0.61
DPR:
0.69
Poland Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
1004
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.69
Norway Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Age:
31
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
2162
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.69
Canada Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
1924
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.62
Israel Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
792
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.68
#1
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Latvia Anthony888
Hahaha
2025-09-17 13:07
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Twistzz transfer agreement had this scripted WIN agreed on surely
2025-09-17 13:14
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#110
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
Siuhy has now overtaken karrigan as the greatest IGL of all time
2025-09-17 22:26
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#2
ZywOo | 
Asia kaat1L
Alright, I wasn't familiar with your game LIQUID
2025-09-17 13:07
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10 replies
Liquid will win Fissure. After failing miserably on day 1, Twistzz gives his last speech "guys imma head out" and the sheer amount of confidence that gives to the teammates propels them to never before seen heights. - Nertz loses his mind and starts shouting references to Israel. - Ultimate starts playing good. - NAF smiles. - Siuhy realises that being an IGL was the friendsip he made along the way.
2025-09-17 13:17
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9 replies
3 BIG BOOMS
2025-09-17 13:30
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They won't lol
2025-09-17 13:36
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Stopped reading at NAF smiles
2025-09-17 13:52
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1 reply
you almost read the whole thing anyway :)
2025-09-17 14:47
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#60
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Belgium Mendibeer
top quality comment
2025-09-17 13:52
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#78
Faceit level 9 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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United States plsnopermaban
Fissure Playground 2 was promised to NertZ 3000 years ago
2025-09-17 15:07
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add EliGE after twistzz leaves and liquid is so back. role wise everything meshes together well, NertZ can go back to playing a more lurky playstyle and hopefully regain his form.
2025-09-17 18:17
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1 reply
With the Bald Eagle back in Liquid, Liquid will be unstoppable
2025-09-17 20:11
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#100
Faceit level 7  | 
Twistzz | 
India Gommala
Had us in the 1st line not gonna lie
2025-09-17 19:25
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#3
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Netherlands Lasarius
lets go liquid give us some hope and then take it away later in crushing fashion
2025-09-17 13:08
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5 replies
hey they reached playoffs that's a win now they are most probably going to get a direct invite to the major as well Liquid's job is done with this tourney
2025-09-17 13:11
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4 replies
every invite to the major is direct tho? no rmr or mrq
2025-09-17 17:10
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3 replies
yes a direct invite meant you skipped the MRQs, which with ll the cheating allegations with it being online and stuff meant it was treacherous waters. infact this is also why astralis will most likely also make the major this time.
2025-09-17 17:19
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2 replies
the MRQs no longer exist
2025-09-17 21:45
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1 reply
Oh wait true my bad. Which meant that if liquid failed here they won't even have the chance to go through the MRQ makes this even better imo
2025-09-17 23:00
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boom boom boom
2025-09-17 13:07
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#14
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Korea garukno
nertz grenade boom boom boom karrigan nuclear boom boom boom
2025-09-17 13:09
5
Goodbye bottigan
2025-09-17 13:08
4
there's no reason now to move to FaZe for Twistzz, no?
2025-09-17 13:08
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#7
EliGE | 
United States cha1ex
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
2025-09-17 13:08
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#8
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Croatia M_JovaN
Ultimate farming
2025-09-17 13:08
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FAZE UP
2025-09-17 13:08
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No s1mple, No Playoffs. Also fairwell rain good luck in your future endeavours :).
2025-09-17 13:08
38
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Most likely Karrigan thats being removed. No other logical option. Dude can barely shoot anymore and his igling is supbar at best nowadays. He is one of the top 3 best IGL's of all time, but his time is over.
2025-09-17 13:46
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8 replies
Yeah a team will get it's long active IGL replaced 2 months before the major. Seems logical :p
2025-09-17 13:54
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1 reply
Rather replace him now than after going out in stage 2 at the major inevitably
2025-09-17 16:22
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Unfortunately he won't be removed
2025-09-17 14:10
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I don't think they'll change IGL before the major, but they have to be looking for a replacement at this point.
2025-09-17 14:28
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4 replies
twistzz igl for liquid for about a year before siuhy joined. he could continue to rifle until after the major where he then takes Faze IGL role, karrigan moves to coach, and they sign magixx. No meds
2025-09-17 15:54
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#95
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Slovakia Psycho2k
Magixx?? Your not on meds sir,u are on HARDCORE DRUGS!!!
2025-09-17 17:59
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1 reply
im having visions mannnn
2025-09-18 16:40
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#86
Faceit premium user Faceit level 6  | 
Hungary He9Nsy
The worst shit they are doing for a whole year not changing Rain & Karrigan to start building a younger squad..
2025-09-17 16:23
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the era ends...
2025-09-17 13:08
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ahhahahahah
2025-09-17 13:08
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#13
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Poland P4wl1k
Roland Ultigod Tomkowiak farming vrs points on some bots
2025-09-17 13:08
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How Liquid can go from walkind dead squad to somewhat decent team in like 2 days?
2025-09-17 13:09
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1 reply
confidence and throwing out the playbook it sounds like. Shuiy said they decided to change up how they play the last few days, whatever that means its working
2025-09-17 16:49
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Breaking news: Twistzz having second thoughts about joining a roster with the Ghost of Broky and Karrigan, an overrated stats player and a t3 entry fragger.
2025-09-17 13:09
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#17
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Spain mavericko19
Twistzz leaving his team on Major spot and beating them again in Budapest What a plotwist
2025-09-17 13:09
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4 replies
Imagine Twistzz in Faze gets eliminated by Liquid at the major
2025-09-17 13:11
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3 replies
#29
Faceit level 7  | 
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Spain mavericko19
I arent think that But could be absolute cinema
2025-09-17 13:13
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2 replies
did you think Falcons could get eliminated by mibr with a generational throw? what about Pain being in the semi-finals? what about the shanghai major Faze playoff run? Majors carry an element of wonder and surprise. Who knows what happens.
2025-09-17 13:18
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1 reply
#42
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Spain mavericko19
I know, i know, anything can happen in Major.
2025-09-17 13:20
2
we replaced the awper, faze got to a major playoff, we replaced the rifler and faze can't beat liquid, maybe faze clan aren't onto something with benching their top player.
2025-09-17 13:09
6
o7 what a sad ending to an icon's career. Thanks for almost a decade in FaZe, rain!
2025-09-17 13:09
2
s1mple would not have let faze lose to liquid in 2025
2025-09-17 13:10
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3 replies
Liquid beat Faze with s1mple in Dallas...
2025-09-17 13:12
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2 replies
They beat Skullz not s1mple :)
2025-09-17 13:18
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1 reply
1.09 god s1mple, remember when he did worse than skulle against heroic
2025-09-17 14:07
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thankyou rain incoming
2025-09-17 13:10
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I dont know what I have been seeing the last 3 days. if only this Liquid would have shown up more before. Now lets crush the rest and get a trophy ))
2025-09-17 13:11
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>+89 points vs HEROIC, +100 points vs TYLOO, and +79 points vs FaZe WOW WHAT A FUCKING JOKE VRS IS
2025-09-17 13:11
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the only problem I see here is that tyloo seem to be overrated compared to heroic, but then I haven't been following either team's results closely. keep in mind VRS has an intentional huge recency bias. it's supposed to capture current form, not "how elite is this team over the last 4+ months" like HLTV ranking.
2025-09-17 14:23
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They are going to a tournament.. They play 3-4 games then go home waiting for paycheck and another tournament. Notice that when Vitality loses Apex is pissed and what does karrigan do when FaZe loses? He laughs... he is joyful. Unfortunately FaZe has become what the old VP (neo, taz, snax...) became.. survive until the next paycheck without any chance to win tier 1 tournament. -karrigan is the only thing that can save this team.
2025-09-17 13:12
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#28
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Nepal ekadeshma
broky is back !
2025-09-17 13:13
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2 replies
since his return, 4 out 5 groupstage exits, unreal how terrible of a player he is
2025-09-17 17:41
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1 reply
#93
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Nepal ekadeshma
Pro players said he is back ! youtube.com/shorts/SoP89ffR0p8
2025-09-17 17:46
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This MUST be limit for Faze. You cannot get dismantled against current Liquid.
2025-09-17 13:14
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#32
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Sweden Vrede
LMAO whelp! Choke Clan!
2025-09-17 13:15
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#33
donk | 
Argentina Aleeee
They need to rebuild asap. How the fuck an org with so much money is constantly struggling to get good results?
2025-09-17 13:15
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BOOM
2025-09-17 13:16
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#35
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
So Liquid can gel well as a team. Shame it comes from an eventual FaZe Clan exit.
2025-09-17 13:16
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Liquid from 0-2 to 3-2, while FaZe from 2-0 to 2-3 with Twistzz owning his future team. what a fucked up day, lol
2025-09-17 13:18
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#40
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Hungary Corc
Holy, this video from X is so good
2025-09-17 13:19
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Artistic
2025-09-17 14:18
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#41
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World Freyek
Faze almost beats mongolz 2-0 then loses to liquid like this
2025-09-17 13:19
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easiest major ever? playing like trash the whole year, then win 3 games against top10-20 teams and congrats! you are major participant
2025-09-17 13:20
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#73
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Finland Karppanator
That's their prize for staying in the circuit despite not having good results in it
2025-09-17 14:23
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Thanks for everything rain <3
2025-09-17 13:22
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EZZZZZ
2025-09-17 13:25
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karrigan 13-32 retire you bum
2025-09-17 13:27
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#48
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Sweden skorpan
frozen is just sooo bad. Hopefully it's finally -frozen +twistzz
2025-09-17 13:34
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1 reply
Final boss karrigan is there -karrigan first ffs please
2025-09-17 14:18
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absolute cinema by faze
2025-09-17 13:34
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On the eve of the cut for the Major... Liquid farmed +300 points starting 0-2 and finishing 3-2 in the Group Stage of a f...ing FISSURE P2... this is insanity from Valve and needs to be checked, this doesn't smell good
2025-09-17 13:38
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#52
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Philippines d4jhnfze
old man karrigan needs to step down fr.
2025-09-17 13:41
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#53
Faceit level 8  | 
DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
Unexpected AF
2025-09-17 13:43
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#54
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Lithuania zook
Karrigan what a performance
2025-09-17 13:45
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#55
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Brazil hugoooo
Wtf
2025-09-17 13:46
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+15 positions in 3 games, VRS, please...
2025-09-17 13:47
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#58
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Poland Astoner55
"David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský, so good for most of 2025, had an Ancient to forget and there were no Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants highlights to speak of. In the three series that led to elimination, only Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard — the player Aleksei "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov reported is set to be removed for Twistzz — was above a 1.00 rating. If this is the end, it is a sad way for ten years of service to come to a close for rain." Perhaps the saddest part of all this. Rain post-Ellige kick plays good, better than jcobbb and Broky, that's for sure. Karrigan should've went to coaching and Twistzz should've taken the IGL role... Now FaZe kicks their most reliable player who for about 13 years has been a stellar teamplayer and understood the micro and macro of the game on a level not reachable for most pros. FaZe should've been Rain, Ellige, Frozen, Twistzz and Broky...
2025-09-17 13:49
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twistzz igl is horrific
2025-09-17 14:31
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I can't believe faze lost on purpose specifically to hand liquid free vrs points in exchange for twistzz
2025-09-17 14:00
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great ouput Finn as per
2025-09-17 14:00
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damn nice video
2025-09-17 14:05
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Damn and twistzz wanna join this husk of a team?
2025-09-17 14:07
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Good job lads, stay true!
2025-09-17 14:10
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Please -karrigan +twsitzz
2025-09-17 14:16
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#76
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Spain baenaaaa
Rain being mirrored by twistzz in that clip hahaha 💀💀💀
2025-09-17 14:31
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#79
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Yugoslavia lapace
"But in the event, the Canadian was the model professional despite the situation he was put in" Damn, the punchline for m0nesy
2025-09-17 15:26
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#80
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Germany M1n1M3
FAZE from 2:0 to 2:3 Liquid from 0:2 to 3:2 ggs
2025-09-17 15:27
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Yeah it's definitely frozen out, he shat the bad firmly to fuck his ex
2025-09-17 15:50
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#83
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United States Zer0Smokes
First time Liquid has beaten faze since rainwaker was on the team BTW
2025-09-17 15:55
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#99
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jks | 
Poland maybeidk
no
2025-09-17 19:23
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5 replies
Wym no
2025-09-17 19:57
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Sorry technically you aren’t wrong, but when they won at Dallas it was with 2 standins
2025-09-17 19:59
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#104
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jks | 
Poland maybeidk
yeah sry mb i forgot about those 2 standins
2025-09-17 20:24
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2 replies
Fact of the matter is that faze has been kicking Liquids ass for years lmao
2025-09-17 20:56
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#106
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jks | 
Poland maybeidk
Thats why i support this team, i love being kicked in ass every game
2025-09-17 21:38
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Crazy stuff, cs nowdays are more random than casino
2025-09-17 16:11
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Casino is not random bro It is fixed 51% winrate
2025-09-17 17:40
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#87
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United States Reevengy
im not happy with ether team at the moment both got me feeling some type of way.
2025-09-17 16:24
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Goodbye jacobb
2025-09-17 17:58
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fraudzen playoffs ghost of slovakia, matys clears him
2025-09-17 18:26
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FaZe is dead team but still it is unbelieable how trash they are. And yet karrigan is still here.
2025-09-17 19:07
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#108
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Malaysia Rich1eG0h
Liquid 2 - 0 FaZe, is this match fixing??
2025-09-17 21:56
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can't make this shit up lmao
2025-09-17 22:19
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S1mple was the problem lmao
2025-09-17 23:43
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#113
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jackasmo | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
It is so weird in a way to see Liquid knocking out FaZe with Twistzz leaving Liquid to join FaZe... Paradox!
2025-09-18 00:21
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#114
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Vietnam DrParadox
Broky back to normal form, jcobbb being true to his tier 3 status, frozen doing typical star player stuffs , like getting a -13 kd, karrigan still paycheck stealin. Life's good.
2025-09-18 04:01
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