Liquid war 68/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Team Liquid and FaZe wouldn’t start their war on Nuke, they’d open instead on Dust2. Going forward, keep this in mind: Twistzz might well know Team Liquid better than he knows FaZe, and better than FalleN knows Nuke. That’s out of over 35,000 total rounds played, adding up to a map that’s just about 2.5% of FalleN’s total rounds played. Over his long career, he’s played just 891 rounds on Nuke. For FalleN Nuke is more acquaintance than friend. This is one of the big joys in watching CS: it’s an old game where the strategy is both layered and personal.Īdding to those layers, players don’t only have these relationships with each other but with the maps themselves. Moreso, enough players rotate around that these kinds of rivalries and habit-reads aren’t uncommon. That’s not to say there are no franchise players and no stable rosters. Rosters can become revolving doors in the rapid world of Counter Strike, where even legendary players end up bouncing around teams. The casters and commentators will talk about the move in each of the matches, but it won’t completely take the narrative center because moves like these happen a lot in CS. This is all an oxymoron-a very average big deal. It’s a player going against a team that he knows and a team going against a player they know to respect. That breakup adds another layer to this Nuke saga: both emotion and strategy. In short, the breakup was mutual but it was a long-term relationship with deep roots that don’t pull easy. Twistzz was struggling to adapt to a changing Liquid lineup and the lineup was struggling to keep Twistzz happy. The move doesn’t come totally unprovoked. He’s one of the best aimers to play CS, the most lethal shooter in NA, and one of the biggest reasons that Team Liquid won the fastest grand slam in history and became the greatest NA team CS has ever seen. He’s played with Team Liquid since April 2017-nearly 4 years. This is a superstar CS player who went directly from Team Liquid to FaZe Clan about two weeks before this match. He’s a wild card in the matchup, his skills well-known and well-learned but possibly not as well-maintained.įor both teams, there’s the crux: Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken. Olof has one of the most decorated careers in CS but he’s solidly retired now and standing in partly as a favor for the team. ![]() Meanwhile, FaZe is bringing in another legend of the game: Olofmeister. It may be something both FalleN and Liquid need, given that in recent tournaments they’ve been breaking before they bend. One of the game’s legends Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo signs with Liquid as a voice of veteran leadership. If this sounds like a lot, that's because it is a lot.įaZe and Team Liquid come into their first bout at BLAST Spring with big roster shifts. More, in the sense of the personal dance that CS takes on as one of the oldest, most strategic, and most emotive esports titles in the world. These 3 games on Nuke felt like quintessential CS - but not necessarily in the sense of mastery or style. The back-and-forth battle over Nuke drew me in not as a TL fan but as a CS:GO fan. Completing the trilogy at IEM Katowice, Liquid found their wind and burned FaZe down in a strong 16-6 win. Team Liquid would rally in the lower bracket to nearly take Nuke off of FaZe in double-overtime only days after FaZe nearly shut them out. However, that beatdown sparked a wider Nuke war between the two teams. But the headwinds were so catastrophically bad that Team Liquid barely took a round. The FaZe squad strategically outplayed Team Liquid on Nuke, meaning it would’ve been hard for TL to find a win even if the winds were right that day. When it happens between two tier 1 teams, it’s often not an outclass and more a perfect storm.įaZe Clan’s brutal 16-1 Nuke shellacking against Team Liquid was that perfect storm. It’s such a beatdown that we normally see it in an outclass scenario-a tier 1 team against some upstart. In Counter Strike, if a team loses a map with less than 6 round wins, it’s a beatdown. ![]()
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