We’re nearly on the end line of IEM Chengdu 2024 now, with the conclusion of the Semi-Finals. It’s been one other cracking day of Counter-Strike, with a bunch of attention-grabbing storylines to observe alongside an unbelievable crowd on China’s huge stage.
With MOUZ vs. G2 and Astralis vs. FaZe Clan taking part in for a spot within the Grand Ultimate of IEM Chengdu 2024, it was at all times going to be a ton of enjoyable – let’s have a look what really occurred on the server!
MOUZ overcome previous Playoff woes
The massive query mark over this MOUZ roster has persistently been their capacity to carry out on the large stage. It’s a degree that they nicely and really answered at IEM Chengdu 2024, beating G2 2:1 to take revenge from the PGL Main Copenhagen 2024, in addition to safe their first Grand Ultimate spot since CS Asia Championships 2023, when frozen was nonetheless on the roster.
This time, it was heroic performances throughout for MOUZ. Jimpphat was composed past his years, xertioN was again within the type we count on of him, and torzsi had tons of impression when selecting up the AWP. They could go into the Grand Ultimate as underdogs, however that would swimsuit MOUZ simply high quality in Chengdu.
FaZe attain one more CS2 Grand Ultimate
If FaZe Clan felt they had been nonetheless feeling any type of post-Main hangover at IEM Chengdu 2024, they actually didn’t present it within the Semi-Finals. It was an enormous day on the large stage, as FaZe overcame a seemingly invincible Astralis facet 2:1 to achieve their eighth Grand Ultimate in CS2.
Whereas karrigan‘s improved particular person type was notable, once more, it was the remainder of his stars who stepped as much as assist carry FaZe over the road, with broky and rain going lights-out throughout the sequence. Now, a Grand Ultimate with MOUZ awaits, they usually’ll really feel they’re huge favorites to carry one more trophy in CS2. On the Astralis facet, reaching the Semi-Finals within the debut of this lineup isn’t a foul efficiency total. For now, it’s again to the drafting board to iron out these small points on the server.