OG qualify for the organization's first-ever Major

8/10/2022 - 14:55

Outsiders have one last chance to qualify for IEM Rio through their final match at the Europe RMR.

OG are the latest team to qualify for the IEM Rio Major after they defeated Outsiders 2-1 at the Europe Regional Major Ranking tournament. After barely missing out on a spot at PGL Major Stockholm and PGL Major Antwerp, the organization is now set to attend its first-ever Major since its entry into CS:GO in late-2019.

In the spot-deciding match, the European mix fell short in their comeback attempt on Ancient and dropped their map pick 13-16, dominated on Dust2 16-5, and sealed the series on Inferno 16-13. Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan was consistently the top fragger on his team and finished the match with 62 kills and a 1.33 rating.

OG conclude their hunt for a Major spot with a 3-1 record but can still clinch a Legends stage spot should they triumph in the third-place decider bracket also featuring Heroic and Vitality.

NEOFRAG shed a tear after qualifying for his first Major

Outsiders kicked off the series with a 5-0 lead on Ancient as OG struggled to find kills. Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković's squad eventually got out of their early slump and won nine of the last ten rounds to give them a 9-6 advantage at halftime. Their troubles in the fragging department were completely overcome as the European mix's players put up multi-kill after multi-kill to take over the lead.

The CIS squad came out of the break with a ferocious flurry of attacks, which left OG's defenses helpless. The captain and AWPer, Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali, let his Big Green sing and even picked up a triple-kill in the 22nd. Maciej "⁠F1KU⁠" Miklas and Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov put an end to Outsiders' streak in the 25th, which sparked a comeback attempt from OG. It wasn't meant to be for nexa's men in the end, as the Russians denied the comeback in the penultimate round and sealed the map, 16-13.

As competitive as the first map was, the same couldn't be said for the battle on Dust2. OG annihilated Outsiders in the first half and stormed their way to an overwhelming 14-1 lead. Jame's squad tried to rally back in the second period, but their efforts ultimately just delayed the inevitable as OG took home the 16-5 victory and forced a decider on Inferno.

OG found success early on Inferno thanks to their ability to get the bomb down which turned into a swift 5-2 lead. Outsiders gave the European mix a taste of their own medicine and dominated the rest of the first half en route to a 9-6 lead at the switch. Evgenii "⁠FL1T⁠" Lebedev and Petr "⁠fame⁠" Bolyshev topped the scoreboard with 14 kills each, with both even scoring a triple-kill along the way.

A pistol quad-kill by F1KU followed by a triple-kill in the next round from Adam "⁠NEOFRAG⁠" Zouhar started a 6-0 run for OG in the second half. Outsiders finally scored after getting the bomb down in the 22nd and eventually levelled the game up at 12-12. Back-and-forth action ensued until the European mix hit map and series point at 15-13. The win wasn't too far away as nexa delivered the final blow and defused the bomb to give OG the organization's first-ever Major appearance in history.

IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR BBest of 3

Matchpage

8th October 2022

Outsiders

Ancient

Dust2

Inferno

OG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan flameZ	62 - 45	+17	91.5	1.33
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	54 - 47	+7	68.9	1.07
Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas F1KU	50 - 50	0	70.8	1.07
Abdul 'degster' Gasanov degster	46 - 48	-2	63.5	0.97
Adam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar NEOFRAG	43 - 55	-12	63.8	0.87

Outsiders	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	51 - 41	+10	66.5	1.12
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev FL1T	52 - 52	0	81.7	1.10
Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	47 - 52	-5	72.7	1.00
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev fame	52 - 55	-3	66.4	0.92
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan n0rb3r7	40 - 55	-15	54.3	0.77

The teams who qualified for the IEM Rio Major so far are:

Legends Stage

Challengers Stage

FURIA

00NATION

IHC

TBD*
Liquid
Evil Geniuses
Spirit
Cloud9
Sprout
Heroic
Vitality
OG

* Liquid vs. Evil Geniuses will decide one Legends spot

The highest seeded team between Spirit, Cloud9, and Sprout will secure a Legends spot automatically, and the other two teams will play for another

Heroic, Vitality, and OG will play in a third-place decider bracket for a Legends spot

first ever? wow

2022-10-08 14:55

3 replies

cant be, i have their stickers

2022-10-08 15:24

2 replies

RMR 2020 is not a Major

2022-10-08 15:28

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Sexa IGL diff, congratulations OG, looking forward to see you guys in rio

2022-10-08 16:30

Congrats nexa and aleksib! They might be IGLs who play a constructed system instead of the "I want to do what I want" attitude preferred by m0nesy and niKo but still nexa and aleksib made it to major with a lot "lesser" teams. Nexa and aleksib were the problems etc

2022-10-08 14:57

46 replies

2022-10-08 15:01

+11

2022-10-08 15:09

2022-10-08 15:16

nexa did not play with monesy and he was doing fine with niko on the team and he did carry og to first ever major which aleksib couldnt do, dont compare one with another when 1 is doing fine with both rosters and other fails twice

2022-10-08 15:18

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+1 nexa was a good igl on g2, made it to many playoffs and finals without a proper awper, while aleksi was only good for 1 event

2022-10-08 15:20

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I dont know if you are very smart but of course nexa took G2 to more events, he spent almost 3 years there. Aleksib was there for 8 months. aleksib hate is more cringe than GIGACHAD hooXi meme

2022-10-08 15:25

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lets say the last 8 months nexa was in g2 and compare g2 performance (1-4th tier 1 events) nexa: PGL major 2nd IEM cologne 2021 2nd IEM summer 2021 3-4th BLAST spring final 2021 3rd aleksib: IEM katowice 2022 2nd BLAST spring final 2022 3-4th overall better results with nexa with amanek as an awper so yes nexa is better than aleksi

2022-10-08 15:35

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Nexa had several years with the team tho, you ofc completely ignore this.

2022-10-08 15:39

not with NiKo? ofc you completely ignore this

2022-10-08 15:41

Atleast 2 years? Maybe im getting my dates wrong

2022-10-08 15:51

doesn't make sense to compare nexa's last 8 months after he has had 2 years to build chemistry and team strats etc. to alexsib's 8 months on the team flat

2022-10-08 17:33

Point being that both of them prefer a style where they have a lot of liberties to do as they wish. You can easily find the m0nesy interview here on hltv. I am still correct, m0nesy and niKo both want to play in a system that lets them do as they please and obviously it's not working. aleksib also took a FAR LESSER team to the major finals but because of obvious bias, you leave that one out. Both have led a team to major finals, nexa and aleksib.

2022-10-08 15:23

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but still u re incorrect, true both of them prefer a style where they have a lot of liberties, true that both aleksib and nexa have a system, but nexa did make it work in g2 unlike aleksib so he wasnt the problem in the first place and g2 didnt think of him as a problem, he just didnt want to igl in g2 anymore thats why they let him go, and i just compared that nexa did acomplish in og what aleksib couldnt, yes i left out nip of conversation, but how can i compare a team in which only aleksib did play and nexa didnt, what if u switched both atm and nexa would win t1 with nip, u never know

2022-10-08 15:27

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The major final that I spoke of was with the finnish ENCE back in 2018. They played in the finals against Astralis. What we can agree on is that aleksib and nexa are both good IGLs who can lead a team to majors.

2022-10-08 15:29

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yes they are but dont act like nexa couldnt make it work with "I want to do what I want" attitude, in that single comparasion u implied that he was a liability to g2 the same as aleksib was

2022-10-08 15:33

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The organizations make the call whether or not they believe that IGLs can make it work. Unfortunately G2 chose wrong both times. I also believe that maLek had a positive influence on the team. It's all water under the bridge now and we should be happy for nexa and aleksib who got their redemption arcs

2022-10-08 15:37

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wrong again, nexa didnt want to igl in g2(the real reason is not known, maybe he had personality clash with some1, maybe the coach, or niko like all haters prob gonna say, we cant know since ppl on the team dont talk about it or just maybe he had clash with the org, managment and thats why he didnt want to igl), he wasnt bench based of his performance he was bench because g2 needed the igl and he didnt want to be the one, so how is this a wrong call by the organization when he literally didnt want to do it? unless u wanna tell me g2 were doing fine with aleksib and had a shot with that lineup to win t1, then sure it was a bad call by g2 to bench aleksib, but thats not what i believe

2022-10-08 15:42

Reminder that at least G2 made it to major with aleksib but the major was cancelled because of corona

2022-10-08 15:43

first of all what that has to do with anything what i just said? and which major?

2022-10-08 15:46

Rmr2020

2022-10-08 16:00

yep, thats what i thought but he said it was the major when aleksib was on g2

2022-10-08 16:06

He miss wrote lol they never got tht far

2022-10-08 16:08

he miss wrote a lot then, since "at least" implies that aleksib was in that aspect somehow better than nexa and the result is literally the same(of course if you count lan performance same as online performance), both qualified to the major, both yet to play that major

2022-10-08 16:15

3 years ago omegalul

2022-10-08 15:36

The talk was about major finals and point that both have achieved it. You should really practise some self-reflection and think why aleksib causes so much seethe in you. Is it normal? No need to tell me and reply but something to think for yourself

2022-10-08 15:38

yeah and brazilian steel also achieved major finals

i got u a better one, devilwalk even won a major

2022-10-08 16:16

Nvm, that was uncalled for what I said

2022-10-08 15:26

Nexa wasnt doing fine, he had many years without a Trophy on g2 Nexas og isnt aleksibs og. Almost no players are the same, they also qualified with aleksib but the major was cancelled, also peaked at like #3-4 at some point with the squad

when did OG ever get #3-4? Their peak was #6 due to other teams' points decay, with their best tournament run being 3-4th at BLAST Spring Finals

2022-10-08 16:43

Are you sure? Didnt they make like Back to Back finals at one point?

2022-10-08 16:55

Almost. 2nd at IEM Summer and then 3-4th at Pro League 14

2022-10-08 17:10

but nexa didnt have m0nesy and jks he played with amanek a guy who isnt even an awp and jackz who wasnt the best anchor. i do think nexa with m0nesy and jks would be the best g2 but it doesnt matter now. aleksis og was also very different this is true. overall i think both aleksi and nexa are great igls. win for og and win for nip

2022-10-08 17:15

I think its all abouts fits my man, aleksis style fits in nip and stuff, would of loved to see nexa with jks and monesy

2022-10-08 17:19

yes exactly this is also why i think g2 would have been best with nexa and m0nesy because of his more loose style while aleksi likes to play way more strict and it seems like a perfect fit for nip. I wish them both playoffs!

2022-10-08 17:21

They qualified with Aleksi, but the major was cancelled due to corona. Also the OG roster Aleksi had was arguably much worse on paper. There were no 1.2 rated awper superstar, there was the guy who got kicked for him.

2022-10-08 15:40

fair play but the other point still stands and degster since he joined og doesnt play like a 1,2 rated awper, but still he was barely better than mantuu only based on rating of course, f1ku and neofrag are just bad u cant prove me otherwise, and aleksib had valde who coming to og was getting back to his prime position on which he was a beast in north and overall he did well for og and the last player worth mentioning was nbk, as much i dislike him, cmon he is one of the best players to finish ur lineup with, good at supporting, secondary igling, a lot of experience which btw new og seems to lack

2022-10-08 15:54

Nbk was shit and issa was dumb af

2022-10-08 16:02

ye sure issa was dumb af, but still if u compare all players on the lineup, excluding of course igls with each other, 2 worst players then on old og, any day i would take issa and nbk over neofrag and f1ku since even dumb issa is better rating wise than both neofrag and f1ku, and even nbk had better rating than neofrag on og, flamez and valde both have literally the same rating while being on og and degster has like 0,02 rating points higher than mantuu, so u have 2 players in old lineup better 1 tie and 1 worst, so how is the new lineup better

2022-10-08 16:10

Hmm yep i see your point, but maybe its just too hard to compare this and there are so many factors imo its not worth arguing about imo, but yep point noted

+11111111

2022-10-09 15:56

Agree with nbk being some kind of glue guy, even with the chemistry issues he seems to have in every lineup.

2022-10-08 16:37

Literally 2 of their player never played close to t1-t2 and are underperforming, degster not performing while still playing only for frags. And they still qualified. They have good igl and the chemistry isnt bad

2022-10-08 17:06

+11111

2022-10-08 17:28

+111111

2022-10-08 22:03

Deserved!

2022-10-08 14:59

FLAM EZ DESERVES TOP 20 AFTER OG GET TOP 8

2022-10-08 14:56

YES, NEXA STICKERS ARE BACK

og stickers pog

lets fking go flameZ NEOFRAG and f1ku

f1ku stickers Pog

nexa and Aleksib goes to Rio

What a rise of an OG, well f deserved!

flamez stickers will go hard

Malek in major Aleksi in major Nexa in major Jackz still has a chance Nikola in shambles

2022-10-08 15:03

heh

2022-10-08 17:25

nexa, aleksib, karrigan at major but NiKo no hahahah

2022-10-08 15:02

Lets gooooo

road to major: be in team with niko > leave > join any other team > profit

Nice for them. OG is a solid contender.

2022-10-08 15:08

why does NiKo live in heads of so many people lol

ppl feed on misery

The amount of losers on this website laughing at other people's demise is truly astonishing.

2022-10-08 15:44

Deserved. Outsiders can go back to russki

Yeah dirty baiter jame can bait his wife in home

First ever? Lmaoooo

2022-10-08 15:10

Formed in late 2019, they qualified for one but it was cancelled. Not that weird.

2022-10-08 17:12

nice

2022-10-08 15:11

Niko crying right now AHAHAHAHA both alesk and nexa in major 😅

2022-10-08 15:17

Ah yesh sweet tears

2022-10-08 15:58

They forgot about RMR 2020 while posting this. First ever, LMAO!

2022-10-08 15:21

That don't count as a major

2022-10-09 04:44

Flam ez too good

CG Neofrag, only the 2nd ever czech at the major

:( nah

nearly had 5 in the last major oof

2022-10-08 16:31

and in the one before

2022-10-09 15:17

congrats OG!

2022-10-08 16:24

OG beats Illuminar Falcons and Outsiders gets Legand Status lol. Really thats a flawed system.

2022-10-08 16:26

Finally, congrats!

2022-10-08 16:45

nexa plus 4 random players, ez major.. With degster, f1ku, neofrag and flamez, it may be even major playoffs

Let's go OG

2022-10-08 17:09

All the problems from nikos previous teams qualified to the major

2022-10-08 18:11

how org is around for 3 1/2 years or whatever and this is first major? wat fuk? good lord how does og ownership put up with that for so long lmao

2022-10-08 19:17

They were supposed to play in 2021 Rio Major but that event was cancelled

2022-10-09 03:58

Aleksib, Karrigan and Nexa all in the major. You couldn't write a better storyline than this.

2022-10-08 20:10

even coldzera is in the major

2022-10-09 05:58

Did NiKo kick Cold? I remember Cold left FaZe and ended up on CoL, but was that cause of NiKo kick? Can't remember.

2022-10-09 08:23

... but I think NiKo is less in their heads than in hltv experts. I'm also very happy to see valde in the major

2022-10-10 13:45

Mouz beating OG somehow extremely punishing

2022-10-09 03:54

gg OG! See you at major

2022-10-10 13:41

OG used to be great strats with questionable firepower, now they are decent strats with great firepower. Replacing mantuu with degster is just an insane upgrade, but also fiku and neofrag are great upgrade over the danes. Already good enough to be a dark horse in the major.

2022-10-10 13:52

But what was that Ancient?

2022-10-17 15:38