Spirit take down FaZe in DreamHack Masters Winter opener

30/11/2020 - 15:47

Spirit will play Heroic next in Group A's upper bracket semi-finals for a spot in the playoffs.

Spirit beat FaZe in a close two-map series to kick off their campaign at DreamHack Masters Winter - Europe successfully, moving on in Group A's upper bracket. FaZe have dropped to the group's lower bracket, where they will lock horns with c0ntact for their tournament life.

The loss sees Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David & co. continue to struggle with consistency ever since they brought back Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer to replace Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač. The European mixture previously fell in last place of BLAST Premier Fall Showdown after a loss to MIBR in the opening round.

Spirit move on in Group A

Spirit won the opening series of the tournament on two maps, Dust2 and Mirage. Dust2 saw the two teams trade blows early on before Spirit pulled away with a dominant run to pick up the first map 16-11.

On Mirage, FaZe looked poised to force the decider once they got off to a flying start on the offense without an answer from the CIS side, but Spirit went on to tighten up the defense to come back into contention for the second map. In the end, despite another slow start on the T side, they came back from a 9-12 deficit to close the series at 16-13.

DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 EuropeBest of 3

FaZe

Matchpage

30th November 2020

Spirit

Dust2

Mirage

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	38 - 40	-2	79.6	1.03
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	31 - 33	-2	62.8	0.93
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants broky	32 - 36	-4	61.0	0.91
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	30 - 38	-8	66.8	0.87
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	24 - 38	-14	45.2	0.71

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	45 - 35	+10	83.5	1.31
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev sdy	38 - 29	+9	71.1	1.16
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev magixx	35 - 29	+6	71.2	1.11
Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov iDISBALANCE	35 - 30	+5	64.6	1.10
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov chopper	32 - 33	-1	68.5	1.06

EZ FOR SPIRIT

2020-11-30 15:54

4 replies

+1 GO SPIRIT

2020-11-30 15:53

Why do even faze bother to pay them, just disband ffs

yep called it

2020-11-30 16:21

magixx sus aim locks

2020-11-30 17:43

LULZE

2020-11-30 15:47

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof Choke clan back at it

2020-11-30 15:49

Dignitas Olof?

2020-11-30 15:48

5 replies

Seriously?

Seriously

2020-11-30 15:50

Noooo

2 replies

seri OUSLY?

2020-11-30 17:04

krimz vac banned no no no no nooooonooono

2020-12-01 14:28

god mir

disband clan

Expected by God Mir

FaZe really need a good IGL, cuz cold better concentrate on his game, instead of control whole team

this is their last tournament of the year and this is the last tournament olof is a stand in :D they are trying to get IGl next year brother

1 reply

hope so, bro

2020-11-30 16:42

It’s really sad that roster karrigan, niko, olof, guardian and rain could not get their mentality fixed and never got over their 2nd place finishings especially Boston and Katowice. Getting from basically best team in the world to this team, which isn’t able to beat top 30 team? I feel like when olof leaves Faze for the final time I really might stop watching CS. Yeah rain is cool I always liked him, but he is gonna be last member and this new team just isn’t apealing to me at all. Kjaerbye and Cold are players I really don’t like at some point you could call it hate and Broky is probably good player but I barely know him. Started in early 2014 when I fell in love with old LGB, then Fnatic when olof and krimz transfer happened and in 2017 with olof and guardian coming to faze I switched team I support for the 3rd and most likely last time. Someone who feels same way?

6 replies

stay strong bro(

your team is trash.

2020-11-30 15:56

i like faze since kinguin but they really need to sort their shit out. Olof will leave, they will hopefully get a great igl and I hope in 2021 they will comeback stronger and so much better. AZR, dexter, I even read news where karrigan would rejoin, just get a freaking igl already so cold can shine instead of leading the entire team, now cold can be the star player after niko left

2020-11-30 15:57

It's hard to say what's happening with coldzera. It could be age, online CS or even IGLing. But IF he goes back to being his old self, dude. Believe me, you will start to love him lol

2020-11-30 17:13

NiKo and YNK fucked this team up. If CARRYgan comes back, you will maybe stay bro?

2020-11-30 18:32

Yeah if karrigan comes back would be much easier to keep supporting them.

2020-11-30 20:08

EZ4SPIRIT

2020-11-30 15:52

Disband already

that hurts

lol

2020-11-30 16:03

Spirit is looking great, TOP 15 team for me. And I'm really sad about FaZe, but it would be better for both players and org. to part ways.

2020-11-30 16:09

Noobs in FaZe

2020-11-30 16:22

Spirit rektered them a month ago here hltv.org/matches/2343665/faze-vs-spirit-.. and it was expected that spirit would end up rekting them today as well, expected 4:1 in maps for spirit in the past 2 months, cis too good for faze, wow, such unreal skill, unbelivable pro gaming, many wow, much pro :o

2020-11-30 16:23

your job was to win this faze wtf

2020-11-30 16:25

Not even close - Faze have no firepower without Niko.

2020-11-30 16:26

Mir to navi confirmed

2020-11-30 16:32

Niko wouldn't let this happen.

2020-11-30 16:36

expected from biggest bot team 2020

SAVE BROKY PLEASE

2020-11-30 17:29

He is shit and overrated too

2020-11-30 18:31

expected from floor shitting men

2020-11-30 18:34

3 replies

i live like royalty who tf are you

2020-11-30 18:41

I live 10000000x better than royalty. I'm the nephew of a rich narco and corrupt army general here. Also, stop shitting on ur streets boy.

2020-11-30 18:44

14 year kid flexing his dad's income Daddy buy me a computer lmao

2020-11-30 18:47

Ez for iDISBALANCE

2020-11-30 17:41

Kjaerbye top fragging shows everything whats wrong about faze clan

It's simple, FaZe is just gonna wait till 2021 to get a proper IGL and a coach. Anything that happens in the rest of 2020 doesn't matter. So FaZe supporters, just chill and enjoy matches and zip a coke. Let's wait for ropz and karrigan to come.

2020-11-30 18:37

Olof needs to retire for sure.

2020-11-30 18:43