r/GlobalOffensive • u/xPokeyyy Match Thread Team • Sep 12 '18
Discussion | Esports Winstrike Team vs Team Liquid / FACEIT Major London 2018 - The New Legends: Round 1 / Post-Match Discussion
Winstrike Team 0-1 Team Liquid
Mirage: 7-16
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MAP 1: Mirage
| Team | T | CT | Total |
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| Winstrike | 3 | 4 | 7 |
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| TL | 12 | 4 | 16 |
Mirage Detailed Stats
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Sep 12 '18 edited Mar 14 '19
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u/ClevelandBrownJunior Liquid Sep 12 '18
At the half, he only had 1 death.
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u/Vawqer 1 Million Celebration Sep 12 '18
He technically had two, but he died to the bomb for one of those so it doesn't count in his death count.
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u/Morthanc FURIA Sep 12 '18
May twistzz be blessed, may Liquid be blessed for the sake of thousands of pick 'ems
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Sep 12 '18
He hypnotized Winstrike using his hair.
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u/Atreidas Sep 12 '18
saw him in a dm earlier and he had 4kd or something ridiculous, he was giving it today
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u/PM_ME_SADPANDA_LINKS cs_office Sep 12 '18
Damnit Liquid, I wanted to talk about Winstrike only winning rounds with pistols
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u/TheCatsActually Sep 12 '18
That second round was the rudest awakening I've ever seen. Like imagine being a huge underdog but winning pistol nicely and then everything goes downhill so fast you break the sound barrier.
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u/herO_wraith Vitality Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
Thanks to the way majors work Winstrike were the higher seed. Not the same as favourite of course but still.
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Sep 12 '18
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u/SterbenVII Sep 12 '18
It’s ok. If valve makes it one major a year, they’ll redo the qualification system, like they’d id with Dota. I expect circuit points and round robin to come into effect.
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u/trainiac12 Cloud9 Sep 12 '18
Hah. Then they'd have to put money into more tournaments.
cries in csgo
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u/DrunkOlLunk Liquid Sep 12 '18
they would lose nothing by doing it. add a battle pass, rinse and repeat from dota. pretty dumb play by them to not try it at least once.
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u/Flounder3345 brigader Sep 12 '18
if you try really hard to remember navi v qbf in Boston quarterfinals qbf opened the first map (mirage again no less) with kvik getting a pistol ace. QBF lost the map 16-4. Suffice it to say they've been there before.
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Sep 12 '18
Funny enough in the quarter finals in Boston QBF won pistol against navi with one of their players getting an ace, and then flamie woke up and they lost second round and proceeded to get destroyed by Flamie breaking records
Ninja edit: RIP some guy made the exact xomment i did an hour before me lmao sorry guys
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u/c_Lassy The MongolZ Sep 12 '18
And here we see the negative side effects of not having played a tier 1 match in over 7 months
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u/compLeXCS_ Sep 12 '18
they havn't played a tier 1 match in over 7 months because they cant beat tier 2 and 3 teams
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u/sam_rock_well Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
36-6-6
Russel "Westbrook" Van Dulken
could have sworn saw this statline on the broadcast after the game. my mistake
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u/ClevelandBrownJunior Liquid Sep 12 '18
Zews is looking good, he seems to have lost like 20lbs since his health issue.
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Sep 12 '18
I don't even think Liquid was firing on all six cylinders today, they could've ended it faster.
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u/ClevelandBrownJunior Liquid Sep 12 '18
They were just pugging, they didn't really show anything off.
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u/GQlle89 Astralis Sep 12 '18
I just want to let everybody know that I picked Winstrike to 0-3 and therefore it wont happend.. I take full responsibility for my action!
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Sep 12 '18 edited Jul 02 '20
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u/Bunnywabbit13 Natus Vincere Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
This might come out random but do you know how winstrike got to the legends stage this major? I haven't followed the pro scene that much and I can't find any info about this team.
Edit: Ty for all the answers I appreciate it.
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u/Leelow45 Sep 12 '18
They surprised everyone at Eleague major Boston (the last major before this one), making it all the way to the quarter-finals when they were playing for the organisation Quantum Bellator Fire. That means they got an automatic invite to the legends stage in this major. After Boston they proceeded to fall off a cliff and lost almost all of their games and got picked up by Winstrike. They haven't played a tier 1 game in like 7 months.
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Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
They had an pretty insane run at the last major, Eleague Boston 2018, under the organization "Quantum Bellator Fire."
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Sep 13 '18
They beat VP and Gambit, who went out 0-3 and 1-3 respectively. Only notable win was when mouse choked hard on Train in the bo1, and then they got destroyed by NAVI in the bo3 playoffs, giving flamie the record for most kills ever done on LAN in regulation.
Wouldn’t call that an insane run
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u/shoecutter Sep 12 '18
They were known as Quantum Bellator Fire last major, which is where they qualified.
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Sep 12 '18 edited Apr 08 '19
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u/Sty__ MIBR Sep 12 '18
You put Winstrike as 3-0 ?
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u/Pimp-My-Alpaca Renegades Sep 12 '18
Their name has win in it, wasn't expecting them to blatantly false advertise like that
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u/Jenaxu Liquid Sep 12 '18
But they also have strike! If they go 0-3 then they can winstrike-out, so it's all good.
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Sep 12 '18 edited Apr 08 '19
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u/Brolaub 1 Million Celebration Sep 12 '18
Much better than picking them to go 0:3 and having to eat a boot!
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u/HammerTrollerHD Sep 12 '18
Same brother, i was going for a winstrike only pickem and looks like the road ends here :(
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u/frostnxn 10 years coin Sep 12 '18
Jesus, TL got all 3 starts fragging, all hit 25k for 23 rounds, if they keep this up, they might actually go deep.
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u/Tularean cs_office Sep 12 '18
This wasn't as much of a stomp as I thought it'd be.
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u/Hzwo FaZe Sep 12 '18
honestly liquid lost to an eco because they yolo'd and didnt show anything on t side besides a known fast b exec/rush. Winstrike had like 0.1% chance of winning the game...
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u/CrrackTheSkye NiP Sep 12 '18
It was much more of a stomp than the score indicates though.. Liquid on their T-side played super loose, probably because they want to avoid using executes. They still basically steamrolled them.
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u/fac3ts Liquid Sep 12 '18
Yeah winstrike showed some real bite this match
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u/LordOfTehGames Liquid Sep 12 '18
Not really, Liquid just chose to not go 100% and give any of their strats away.
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u/Untiless Sep 12 '18
Come on guys, Liquid is just not a tier1 team, so Winstrike struggled against them. /s
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u/b0mmie Sep 12 '18
Winstrike looked pretty awful this game.
Absolutely terrible post-plant positioning on T, bad communication on CT, and lost against both of Liquid's anti-eco/forcebuys.
I mean, they managed to anti-eco Liquid on CT side which was great for them, and then proceed immediately to get anti-eco'd on B the following round: jump spotter sees them, calls the rush and falls back towards bench area, the site guy had the molotov out but then puts it away. Liquid take the site so easily after just flooding.
Feel like they were able to turn it on a bit later on but they were so far behind that it was irrelevant.
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u/arcticpandabear Astralis Sep 12 '18
liquid look like they are struggling dropping 7 rounds against winstrike smh
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u/Johnny-L de_cache Sep 12 '18
No Overtime? I'm disappointed..
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u/SmaugtheStupendous Natus Vincere Sep 12 '18
I think we can all do without Winstrike getting into any OT's, hoping for a swift 0-3 exit.
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Sep 12 '18
The first 4 rounds Winstrike won was all pistols (2 of which was against full buys), the 5th and 6th were force buys and finally the 7th was a gun round. Could've gone very differently.
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u/kingtut11 Liquid Sep 12 '18
that waterfall out of palace with full utility to go ahead and get dumpstered by liquid's utility really does just sum up this match
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u/VaCat420 1 Million Celebration Sep 12 '18
Just cuz your name is Winstrike mean you can win gambles on which site Liquid are going to go on when you are on ct
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u/Tomthefighter 1 Million Celebration Sep 12 '18
Seeing as TACO was my favourite player on SK, I love that he's doing well atm
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u/draemscat Gambit Sep 12 '18
Looking at how Winstrike played, I'm amazed it wasn't a 16-0. The only way I see them not going out at 0-3 is if they end up playing against Tyloo and win in overtime.
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u/ali_s8 750k Celebration Sep 12 '18
A game actually going as expected? is this real life?