Winner and loser

ESL One New York ended with Faze dominating the tournament after beating Liquid 3-0 in Sunday’s final. Let’s take a look back at the tournament with HLTV and find out the winners and losers of the tournament.

ESL One New York kicked off with a group stage in the Gsl format, with the shock of Astralis being eliminated early from a tournament for the first time since Gla1ve joined, and even more surprisingly, they walked away at the hands of ESL One New York. team Liquid, the team then won tickets to the semi-finals despite only finishing second in the group.

In the same group, Faze easily overcame Virtus.Pro and Astralis to take first place, while SK and C9 in Group A advanced to the semi-finals, leaving disappointing Navi and Envyus with a place to go home. Soon.

In the semi-finals, Liquid continued to show impressive performance with their 2nd consecutive victory against SK, while Faze was easily crushing C9 to enter the first final with a new roster.

Faze started the finals with a 15-0 first half on Inferno and ended Liquid’s three-month unbeaten streak on this map. At that time, no team in this tournament had won more than 10 rounds on a map with Faze, and things looked to be easy for them after 11-4 on Overpass, but Nitr0’s army was against it. responded fiercely, and forced Faze to play until the last round to be able to finish the match.

Losing 0-2 in a bo5 match, Liquid was under tremendous pressure as they entered map 3 (Mirage), and ultimately couldn’t figure out how to defeat Karrigan’s army, who later became champions of the game. tournament with a 16-4 win.

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The winner

Faze

This would not be a list of winners without the Faze clan champion. They had one of the most overwhelming major event championships ever, probably in the entire 5 year history of Csgo.

To show this dominance: Not only did Faze not lose a single map in the tournament, they also lost an average of less than 6 rounds per map (5.57 rounds to be exact).

^#Fazeup

The first championship of karrigan and his teammates showed that Faze brought in very good rookies, moreover, the team played together extremely well.

Naturally, it’s hard to judge Faze’s future and their stability, as all five players have enjoyed a tournament with extremely good individual form, which is difficult to maintain on a regular basis. , but we’ve probably just seen the Faze clan “climb to the top”, and it’s terrifyingly tall.

This championship helps Faze return to the top 5 in the world. Now all we need to do is wait until the next event, the Eleague Premier qualifiers, and treat Faze as a team with high expectations, until other rising line-ups like North or G2 prove it to us. opposite.

Liquid

Liquid showed us a new face from before Esl one new york, as they advanced to their first finals in ESG Mykonos after defeating the giants SK, only to succumb to Mousesports in the end.

The 2nd time in a row to reach the final of a major tournament shows us that Liquid also has the ability to compete for the highest title, especially after they went on to beat SK for the 2nd time in a row, even also beat another top 5 team in the world, Astralis.

Liquid has never been better, at least not with this roster. We will have to go back to when S1mple was still playing for this team to be able to find a comparable achievement. Furthermore, they’ve also proven that they can take on the world’s top teams, and gain an edge in times of pressure, which, according to zews, is the fruit of their new psychiatrist. team.

Needless to say, Liquid has a very bright future. Their next appearance will be in Group D of the Eleague Premier, and they will once again face SK and Astralis, opponents that, as you can see, don’t faze them at all.

loser

Astralis

The biggest disappointment of this tournament is definitely the departure of astralis right from the group stage. With the rise of Faze and Liquid, Group B was seen from the start as a tough group, but the danish guys are still expected to make it through.

Astralis have been considered a very strong team for almost a year now, with 10 consecutive tournaments finishing in the top 4, but their recent achievements are quite worrying: the first was defeat to Gambit at Dreamhack. Malmo ended the impressive streak above, and is now eliminated right from the group stage of Esl one new york after losing to Liquid.

Gla1ve’s army is going downhill, which Device explained is due to “personal performance”, and this seems to be the case. Especially in New York, where Kjaerbye’s form was extremely disappointing, and the stability of Xyp9x, which contributed greatly to Astralis’ most recent title (IEM Katowice), was completely gone. .

Now, the Danes have a chance to get back on track with Group D Eleague Premier set to take place in 9 days. If they fail again, which is entirely possible when they are in the same group as both Liquid and SK, they will have 3 weeks to change before EPICENTER kicks off.

Natus Vincere

Navi entered the tournament with a lot of work to do, especially after leaving the Eleague Premier last week, but all they did was disappoint fans once again.

In previous tournaments, Navi had to face strong teams, like Astralis in DH Malmo, and Faze and g2 in Eleague Premier. This time, they only need to overcome 1 C9 who is confused with the new line-up to make it through to the group stage, but they can’t.

The return of Zeus so far has not shown anything positive.

Now, Navi will need a lot of time to discuss, exchange and practice for EPICENTER, the tournament they need to qualify for. Fortunately, they have a lot of time (1 month), unlike some other busy teams that have to play 1 or 2 tournaments during that time.

Virtus.Pro

VP returned to the losers list, shortly after appearing on that list by DH Master Malmo. In the interval between these two tournaments, they had a decent performance at Mykonos, but were by no means considered a title contender.

At NY, Taz and his teammates once again walked away with last place, the third of the last five LAN appearances. Moreover, they also lost a 3-year streak without losing to a North American team, after losing to Liquid.

It’s really hard not to mention just a few players, and it seems that Snax thinks so too, with his stormy status on Facebook. He also shared that he will give up tactical calls from now on. This is at least a start, because having to do IGL really affected VP’s superstar a lot.

With Group C of Eleague coming up this weekend (VP, C9, NiP and EnVyUs), the igl change above can be considered quite sudden, and things with VP can now be said to be at a high level. worst possible.

Source: HLTV