Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 1

Looking4Org eliminate Virtus.pro from Thunderpick World Championship Europe Series 1

10-8-2023 21:18

The majority-Russian squad have one more chance to make it to the $500,000 Thunderpick World Championship.

Jame's Virtus.pro suffered an upset against Looking4Org

Looking4Org have defeated Virtus.pro in the quarter-final of Thunderpick World Championship Europe Series 1, doing so in two overtime affairs (Vertigo 22-20, Overpass 19-17).

The French team is now poised for a head-on collision with BIG in their upcoming semi-final. The winner of the match is set to secure a spot at the Thunderpick World Championship, and Looking4Org will once again assume the role of underdog.

This clash with the German team presents Looking4Org with a valuable opportunity to secure a qualifying spot following their recent setbacks in the ESL Pro League Season 18 NC Europe Qualifier and Gamers8 Europe Open Qualifier 2.

On the other side of the server, the loss marks a big disappointment for Virtus.pro. The majority-Russian squad were among the favorites to qualify for the main event, particularly given that Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali and company had clinched victory in the CCT 2023 Online Finals 2 just a few hours prior to their encounter with the French lineup.

Virtus.pro defeat Spirit to win CCT Online Finals 2

Virtus.pro have been playing with transfer-listed Alexey "⁠Qikert⁠" Golubev after coming back from the summer break, as their roster looks to exit a period of instability started by the replacement of Aleksandr "⁠KaiR0N-⁠" Anashkin during the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR.

The team then completed a long-term signing of Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov in July which put their roster up to six players, with Qikert substituting David "⁠n0rb3r7⁠" Danielyan due to injury at the FiReLEAGUE Battle 2023. Nikolai Petrossian, CEO of Virtus.pro, said that the Kazakhstani player will remain in the team at upcoming tournaments, seemingly until n0rb3r7 is fit to return to competition.

Virtus.pro fielding offers for Qikert

The quarter-final match-up featuring Looking4Org and Virtus.pro kicked off on Vertigo. Despite dropping the initial pistol, Virtus.pro showcased a strong start, securing ten rounds on the attacking side. Looking4Org came into their own on the offensive half, however, as they raced away to a 15-12 lead only to lose three map points. That meant that overtime was needed to decide the victor, and while the first was a stalemate, the French squad edged ahead in the second and took the lead in the series.

Looking4Org took the momentum of their Vertigo win to Overpass, where they looked dominant and found themselves 13-5 up after winning the second-half pistol round. Virtus.pro didn't throw in the towel and started reducing the deficit, as Jame found impact on the AWP and eventually helped his team force out another overtime. In a repeat scenario of the first map, Looking4Org were once again the better team in the closing moments, as they secured a 19-17 victory and put themselves one win away from qualification for the Thunderpick World Championship.

Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 1Best of 3

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

10th August 2023

Looking4Org

Vertigo

Overpass

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	64 - 47	+17	78.2	1.25
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev fame	53 - 49	+4	78.5	1.09
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	51 - 52	-1	76.9	1.06
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev FL1T	49 - 50	-1	77.5	1.04
Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	41 - 48	-7	55.2	0.92

Looking4Org	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Thomas 'Djoko' Pavoni Djoko	56 - 54	+2	81.5	1.10
Bryan 'Maka' Canda Maka	47 - 46	+1	65.8	1.04
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang Lucky	48 - 49	-1	66.8	1.00
Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss hAdji	44 - 52	-8	65.9	0.95
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge Ex3rcice	49 - 57	-8	70.4	0.94

Ouch

2023-08-10 21:18

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Vp should hire this guys

2023-08-10 21:31

Hahahaha

2023-08-10 21:19

embarassing

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how they had to play this match literally MINUTES after WINNING ANOTHER TOURNAMENT, 100k for first place how can u expect them to go right back to some meaningless match and care about it

2023-08-11 12:19

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major champions (fluke tho) losing to an orgless team, yes its embarassing in every single way possible

2023-08-11 17:55

major wasnt a fluke also they dont even have their full lineup, norbert still not recovered

2023-08-11 18:11

As fast as lightning, from winners of CCT online tournament to bottoming out versus the French.

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Our guys are good. They need an org :(

2023-08-10 22:02

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hadji goat org incoming. if i win millonbuucks i buy them with org dw

2023-08-10 22:28

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You are a godsend :)) Allah bears witness

2023-08-10 23:12

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Wtf bro

2023-08-11 07:57

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Am not even muslim lol, just enjoy using the name of Allah

2023-08-11 16:28

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idk how to feel about that, bruh

2023-08-11 18:57

cultural exchange <3

2023-08-11 21:15

no lol, xd maybe study islam. thanks

2023-08-13 11:33

hello ! no thanks ! have a good day

2023-08-14 05:00

+1 this is pretty much the best French roster possible if you exclude zywoo

2023-08-10 23:57

afro also a better awper but 3rd best awper and the other 4 are probably the best in their roles decent argument for apex though

2023-08-11 00:19

ZywOo bodyy JACKZ NBK apEX

2023-08-11 05:54

ZywOo rifle afro AWP apEX IGL bodyyy rifle JACKZ entry

2023-08-11 08:42

Now we talking ! ... man, if we ever have the equivalent of a world cup in cs with countries this should be the french team.

2023-08-11 13:30

ZywOo is wasted being a rifler when he is easily the best awper in the world, much rather have NBK or Djoko

2023-08-11 13:38

yeah think so too but ZywOo + afro >>>>>>>>>>>> ZywOo + NBK

2023-08-11 14:07

Djoko maybe? i just dont want to take ZywOo off the AWP

2023-08-11 14:21

how tf did these guys beat Spirit and then proceed to choke against 5 randomass french rejects, not once but twice

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saving strats for bigger event maybe? I mean there are way too many matches, I too would throw and get out of there as soon as possible

This is a qualifier to a bigger tournament and its not like vp gets to play many tournaments

2023-08-10 21:44

next 2 tournaments are bigger, winning this one wouldn't do any good for them. I mean prize money isn't big enough for tier 1 team like them, and there is no guarantee this tournament's organizers will host another tournament next year, and viewership is questionable. But epl and saudi tours are different if you win epl you'll get spot for another big tour and big bucks, and if u manage to make good run(even if you lose) it'll benefit your esl ranking and help you to get invitations, for saudi most top teams will be there viewership will be decent and catching attention of big dudes? what could be better?

2023-08-10 22:10

No need to save strategies as CS GO is near its end

2023-08-10 22:49

CS2 is literally the same game. They're not switching to Dota bro

2023-08-11 12:26

*Brain has left this thread*

2023-08-11 08:24

??? Content

2023-08-11 15:25

"randomass french rejects" -- tell me you know nothing about cs without saying it

2023-08-10 21:55

except they are french rejects? Dont try to fking say otherwise.

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2023-08-10 22:01

disband this team

2023-08-10 21:20

not an upset btw

vp casually playing 2 matches a day and crumbling against one of the weakest teams they faced

TSM sign the frenchies

2023-08-10 21:22

Bringing in Jackz and benching Lucky. Oh wait....

2023-08-10 21:54

Cant see that going wrong

2023-08-11 14:53

Classic Jame 1.25 in defeat

2023-08-10 21:24

suffering from success

2023-08-10 22:15

jame actually played good this series, minimal baiting/saving from him.

I think he just too tired to play as usual and just going aggro more. Things happen if you play almost 6 hours of cs consecutively But the economy decision is still as usual(maybe ingrained subconsciously)

2023-08-11 02:51

rofl won vs spirit lost vs lucky in 2023 lol

Lucky stronk

2023-08-10 21:29

Lucky lucky

2023-08-11 09:14

win spirit 2-0 lose 0-2 to team looking for org

2023-08-10 21:26

hilarious

2023-08-10 21:48

french cs still beating and breathing, lovely to see someone should sign them

2023-08-10 21:27

KCorp should consider it, can't be worse than their VAL team :v

2023-08-10 21:59

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I literally have no idea why that hasn’t happened yet. It’s their golden ticket, but maybe they’ve already abandonned the idea of single nationality rosters seeing the recent success of the int ones. Still, should be a good place to start. Like Falcons have done

2023-08-10 22:04

based on what I could find in regards to KCorp and CS, they're absolutely looking into jumping into the scene. Have been for the past few months now. Most recently for CS talk was when I think...one of the CEOs(?) reacted to the announcement of Valve forcing the abolition of current partnership and franchising systems and banning any of that outright starting in 2025. I'm guessing they're stalling for any potential new french talent since they seem to prefer wanting to keep shit national, in contrast to Vitality. Or at least stall until CS2 officially debuts since that's when we should be seeing an influx of new potential talent, whether they're debuting in CS directly or even migrants from tier 2 VALORANT if possible, or from other FPS esports. Along with orgs potentially jumping in or returning.

2023-08-10 22:25

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You don't know shit about the french cs scene nor french esport in general, please stop typing useless bullshit.

2023-08-10 22:26

Lmao relax bagel

2023-08-10 22:33

then why dont you tell me some insight on the contrary instead of being triggered. Cause as far as I know and practically alot of others, the french CS scene is fucking dead af for example. Like every other national scene that isn't Danish, Ukrainian, or Russian.

2023-08-10 22:35

I would take the time to enlighten you if it wasn't for shitty messages like #5.

L4O actually better than any NA team so ur kinda argumentless

2023-08-11 14:06

Their official statement I've heard from clips from their streams was that they assessed the price was too high because those idiots factored in the tremendous prices of Blast and ESL slots. Seemingly they know nothing about CS and they don't want to dive into it neither, inasmuch they want to be the best from the get go which is stupid

Im gonna guess this is due to VALORANT from its franchising system where they currently hold a spot. Thinking this is like in VAL, but not exactly.

2023-08-10 22:38

i think the real reason is that their sponsor dont want to be associated with a game with the name "terrorists", in valo its attackers

2023-08-11 14:44

their loss then, they’ll be missing out on some good shit instead of thinking long term, especially when 2025 arrives when that would be a prime time to debut. And naively not thinking about if VALORANT’s franchising system will be stable in the future, which right now doesn’t seem like it.

2023-08-11 15:05

Parce que c'est des baltringues qui sucent Riot jusqu'à la mort. Comme leur pote Gotaga et Zerator qui passent leur temps à chier sur la scène CS en suçant valo et leur circuit Ça préfère payer Scream alors que son salaire à lui seul paye Looking4Org, c'est des baltringues c'est tout

2023-08-11 13:44

Effectivement, vu comme ça c’est très clair

2023-08-11 16:44

Zerator c'est le plus décevant, le mec aimait CS, il y jouait souvent, il est très pote avec des anciens de la scène, voir même avec des joueurs actuels (NBK), mais il s'est tellement vendu à Riot que maintenant il passe son temps à cracher sur le jeu et sur la scène.

2023-08-11 16:49

Déçu de fou alors que je l'apprécie en dehors de ça. Je me souviens quand il a dit chez Zack Nani "les orgs CS avec la crypto chelou et les sponsors de site de Q" littéralement de la Fake news, par contre quand Riot était sponso par FTX on l'a pas entendu bizarrement Par contre pour dire que le roster Vita CS coûte 5 million par an (ce qui est faux) il est la ce tocard Surtout comme t'as dit il kiffait le jeu, il avait fait la lan avec NBK et Body et se retrouver à chier constamment sur le jeu je comprends pas c'est décevant de ouf

2023-08-11 17:19

it's about time to admit Jame is such an overhyped player and IGL .. "major winner" lol biggest fluke ever

2023-08-10 22:00

+100

bruh... name checks out

2023-08-10 22:13

lmao

2023-08-10 22:09

who cares about this shitty tournament

2023-08-10 22:37

french cs on top

2023-08-10 23:14

Just hope they don’t gonna make change this roster is working. Just need to be signed by true org and not fucking dumb ass paychecker making team by money without soul

2023-08-10 23:40

What the actual

2023-08-11 02:20