BLUEJAYS win IESF World Championship

11/12/2022 - 13:19

The North Macedonian squad beat IHC 3-1 to defend their crown.

BLUEJAYS took home the gold at the IESF World Championship after scoring a dominant 3-1 win over Mongolian side IHC in the grand final. Damjan "⁠kyxsan⁠" Stoilkovski's men entered the championship-deciding series a map down after coming from the lower bracket, but it ultimately didn't pose any threat to their title defense as BLUEJAYS annihilated IHC in three swift maps with a 16-3 thrashing on Mirage followed by 16-8 and 16-7 victories on Inferno and Dust2.

IHC were denied a fairytale ending to their run at the competition, which started at the play-in stage where they placed in the top-two for a spot at the main event. Garidmagnai "⁠bLitz⁠" Byambasuren and company plowed through Vietnam and came back from a map down against both BIG Academy and QUAZAR to clinch a grand final spot, but were unable to deliver the same intensity in the final showdown.

CacaNito led BLUEJAYS to a second straight IESF title with a 1.32 rating

The North Macedonian crew qualified for the tournament after winning the European Championship where they went undefeated and bested Ukraine in the final. BLUEJAYS kicked off the IESF World Championship by comfortably taking down Indonesia 2-0 in their opening series before falling to QUAZAR 1-2 in the upper semi-final.

BLUEJAYS made a recovery run through the lower bracket and swept Argentina, before taking BIG Academy all the way to a decider on Inferno. They clinched the series over the Germans in the third and final map with a flawless CT side performance where they won all nine rounds as the defenders. kyxsan's side met QUAZAR once again in the consolidation final, but got the edge over their Russian opponents this time around with a 2-0 sweep after holding all five players to a negative rating by the end.

Aleksandar "⁠CacaNito⁠" Kjulukoski and Jane "⁠aidKiT⁠" Apostoloski finished the tournament as BLUEJAYS' two best performers with 1.32 and 1.31 ratings, respectively. The pair are also the second and third highest-rated players across all teams, only behind BIG Academy's Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa who racked up a 1.43 rating.

BLUEJAYS is the first group to emerge victorious at back-to-back IESF World Championship events after winning the title in 2021. The feat also makes North Macedonia the second country to win the tournament on multiple occasions after Finland won in 2016 with ENCE and again in 2018 with HAVU.

IESF World Championship 2022Best of 5

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IHC	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren bLitz	48 - 48	0	79.2	0.99
Tuvshintugs 'Annihilation' Nyamdorj Annihilation	44 - 51	-7	70.0	0.87
Tengis 'sk0R' Batjargal sk0R	37 - 55	-18	63.8	0.74
Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar kabal	25 - 58	-33	52.9	0.51
Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold Techno	24 - 58	-34	53.1	0.50

BLUEJAYS	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski CacaNito	74 - 34	+40	116.0	1.81
Jane 'aidKiT' Apostoloski aidKiT	69 - 32	+37	99.5	1.70
Daniel 'dan1' Gligorov dan1	50 - 39	+11	81.1	1.23
Pavle 'stYleEeZ' Stojanovski stYleEeZ	41 - 34	+7	69.0	1.19
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski kyxsan	33 - 40	-7	59.9	0.96

The IESF World Championship standings are:

1. BLUEJAYS - $50,000
2. IHC - $30,000
3. QUAZAR - $20,000
4. BIG Academy
5-6. Indonesia
5-6. Argentina
7-8. Algeria
7-8. Vietnam

easy 50k for bluejays

2022-12-11 13:21

2 replies

why are these 50k tourneys making these lower tier team fight tooth and now in a bo5. but Blast Finals are bo3. but Elisa Masters Espoo are bo3. but IEM Rio Major 2022 was a bo3 LOL

2022-12-11 18:34

1 reply

Major should be bo5 but Blast should stay that way. Also make EPL bo3 instead of 8 hour long bo5 snoozefest

2022-12-12 02:32

I knew it. :)

Cacanito smurf

2022-12-11 13:30

+40 k/d kekw

2022-12-11 16:53

So best country in csgo world champions Macedonia

4 replies

fr :100: :100: :100:

2022-12-11 13:23

yes

2022-12-11 13:24

ofcourse, 100%. Idk why they aren't still top 1 and getting invite on major...

True, they should definitely get a straight invite to rmr at least.

2022-12-11 17:25

i feel smt went wrong

So ez

2022-12-11 13:25

ezzzz

2022-12-11 13:29

Blitz carrying choking bots as usual

Where are these kiddos saying "BLUEjAYS on LAN" because they've lost a couple of skins due to irrational betting?

2022-12-11 13:42

15 replies

yeah but tbh they played vs bots. only "good" team has been big academy and sometimes IHC XD

2022-12-11 13:45

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That's the good old excuse, when a team is performing - they play against bots, even if they win a world championship on a LAN. There are obviously no top 10 teams here, but pinning Bjs success on the "botism" of other teams is just wrong. They've played this final perfectly and they didn't let a round slip. Your argument within itself tells you that BJs are higher than this level which I agree with. They are better than 90% of the teams that are in the top 20-30 basket on HLTV.

2022-12-11 13:51

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I cant decide if you are just trolling or you actually believe in what you are saying lmao, if you really believe that this tournament had good teams in it, please hltv.org/logout

2022-12-11 13:58

hey stoopid, read my comment and jump-start your brain because it seems that it doesn't work at the moment. I'm making a point that you are obviously not getting.

2022-12-11 14:07

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Bruh they played inflated IHC, one academy team and rest was random af some not even full faceit lvl10s, Bluejays was the sole competent team in this LAN, you cannot say anything about them for this one win, it was obviously extremly ez for them because guess what, they were like at least a level or two above this whole competition, but does that mean they are now super good LAN team and will rekt other t2/t3 teams in a normaln LANs? No that doesnt mean that, it doesnt mean anything

2022-12-11 14:11

,,They are better than 90% of the teams that are in the top 20-30 basket on HLTV" he said xD

2022-12-12 09:37

delusional what can I say, they are notoriously known for going to every low tier tournament they can just to grab money cuz they cant win in proper LANs

2022-12-12 15:17

There was no t2 teams as well, only two t3 teams in face of big ac and ihc, definetely a "world championship on a lan". If someone cared about this so-called world championship, then some t1 players would come and smoke everyone there 🤣

2022-12-11 15:08

There are plenty of haters across the world dude, they always find the reason to talk $h*t and hate a person/team without any particular reason. That's what you all do, when BJs are winning online you say that they will choke at LAN - when they destroy everyone at LAN then you say "yeah man look at these clowns in the competition". In your eyes BJs can never succeed, there's always a reason not to. Try to be a supporter for once in your life, or at least don't be a hater for no reason.

2022-12-11 19:54

Why would I support them? They're decent t3 team, that's it. I don't really know what you're talking about, bjs aren't even good online, they have some good periods sometimes, but that's it, not stable enough to be considered t2. With regards to lans, they can't even qualify to a normal lan, I won't even speculate about their results there, lol

2022-12-11 20:02