Group Liquid's offseason reconstruct has actually stopped working to ignite in time for Counter-Strike 2's Significant, with the North American-based global team falling at the last obstacle in the American RMR last today.
Intricacy got rid of a loss in map one to sweep the best-of-three versus Liquid, hence making sure North America would be represented in Denmark after the very first 4 areas were snatched by Brazilian groups discomfort, Imperial, FURIA, and Legacy. The loss indicates Liquid's streak of 8 Major presences in a row has actually been stopped.
Skullz was troubled following Liquid's day 4 defeat. Image through PGL
It's a terrible blow to the young lineup which just formed 3 months earlier throughout among the most troubled offseasons in Counter-Strike history. Led by ex-Heroic's Casper “cadiaN” Møller, the Liquid lineup was greatly hyped following its development however had a hard time to fight its method through early local qualifiers. The group has just went to one offline competition given that the restore at BLAST Premier Spring Groups and apart from the odd online qualifier has actually had actually restricted time on the server to actually start.
It was anticipated Liquid would certify for the Danish Major with relative ease. With 5 slots up for grabs and an extremely strong lineup on paper versus lower-tiered teams from the Americas, it came as a shock then to see Liquid requirement to return on day 4 on the verge of catastrophe. A lot more unexpected was their challenger: Complexity, the NA beloveds who had actually taken the CS2 scene by storm and were just recently reacquired by owner Jason Lake.
Both lost a single series to FURIA at the RMR, however due to the Swiss format and the reality just 5 teams would certify, they met a 2-1 record in the removal video game– something Complexity's Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski wished to advise audiences about. “I feel actually bad for them: it's a lousy format and regrettable that we both needed to play FURIA and take on versus each other here,” EliGE stated in his post-match interview.
It's hard to state where Liquid goes from here. The group has actually had little experience in offline CS2 Far and lots of might argue the team requires more time to gel, particularly provided the group's development from 4 different CS: GO lineups of varying qualities. At the very same time, stopping working to make the Copenhagen Major has actually suggested sweeping modifications for groups and Liquid might be too huge of a company to enable such a missed out on chance.
Liquid will likely be sticking in the interim offered they are anticipated to play the BLAST Spring Showdown later on today. Their next anticipated offline look is early April's Skyesports Masters in India.
