FURIA have been in unimaginable type in Counter-Strike 2 because the arrivals of Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis and Danil “molodoy” Golubenko, and after successful FISSURE Playground 2 they’ve now claimed their second trophy of the yr on the Thunderpick World Championships, doing so in historic style.
It took a Herculean effort to ensure that the Brazilian group to tug the win off. NAVI opened the sequence with two map wins, paving the best way for FURIA to tug off one thing that had solely ever been completed as soon as earlier than in CS historical past.
Furia pulled off an extremely feat of their victory in Malta. Picture Credit score: Thunderpick
Furia Pull Off the Reverse Sweep
NAVI got here into the ultimate sizzling off the again of taking down Esports World Cup winners The MongolZ within the semi-finals, and that confidence confirmed as they dominated Mirage 13-6. Their two stars Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy and Mihai “iM” Ivan have been the principle driving forces behind that dominance, they every picked up 19 kills to assist restrict FURIA to only two rounds from their CT aspect.
The Ukrainian group then carried that momentum even additional, securing Inferno with one other snug scoreline, this time 13-9. iM continued to fireplace on all cylinders, however was joined by NAVI’s latest addition Drin “makazze” Shaqiri because the duo mixed for 34 frags.
FURIA lastly got here alive on Nuke. Their captain Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo led by instance, racking up 20 kills to pull his crew again into the sport as FURIA transformed a stable 8-4 CT half right into a 13-8 win.
FalleN was rolling again the years on the Thunderpick World Championship. Picture Credit score: Thunderpick
Jap European imports YEKINDAR and molodoy then picked up the slack on Dust2. The Kazakh AWPer was notably spectacular on the T aspect, going 15-8 with 4 multi-kills to maintain NAVI restricted to only 4 CT rounds. YEKINDAR then confirmed the map win on the CT aspect, his 168 ADR saved NAVI’s HP low in order that the remainder of his crew might mop up the kills and shut it out 13-5.
Despatched to Prepare for the decider, it ended up being probably the most dominant map of all. Prepare grew to become the molodoy present as soon as extra, the AWPer went completely nuclear on the CT aspect as he discovered 4 opening kills in a half that noticed him finish with a 17-2 statline.
NAVI’s notorious mastermind Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy known as timeout after timeout to attempt to cease the dominance, however FURIA’s armour proved to be impenetrable, they usually rounded out the reverse sweep with a 13-1 win off the again of an 11-1 CT aspect.
FURIA took residence $200,000 for successful the event in addition to $300,000 in membership share. Nonetheless, and maybe extra importantly by way of CS historical past, Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato was granted his first MVP award, one thing he has been chasing ever since bursting into the highlight in 2018.
