After watching this CS2 tournament from start to finish, I’m starting to think that we’re underestimating G2 Esports.
This team has a phenomenal roster that features two of the world’s top-five players: Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov and Nikola “NiKo” Kovac. When both of them are in great shape, G2 can easily pose serious challenges to any opponent.
At BLAST Premier Fall Final, we had the opportunity to watch them defeating all of the world’s top three teams: Team Spirit, Team Vitality, and Natus Vincere. The victories came in the playoffs, in three consecutive matches.
G2’s Road To The Trophy
G2 started the tournament with a 2 – 1 victory against FaZe Clan. Despite losing 6 – 13 on Inferno, the match looked easy for m0NESY’s team, largely thanks to his great performance: 53 – 35 with an ADR of 90.5.
In the winners’ match, G2 lost against Na’Vi but managed to win nine rounds on both maps.
In the playoffs, Spirit played well against them and nearly won both maps: 13 – 9 on Dust II, followed by 16 – 13 on Mirage. Once again, m0NESY was by far the best player on the server: 50 – 30 / 97.5.
Team Vitality should have won against G2. But after beating them on Anubis (13 – 9), they became a bit complacent. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut played well but his performance was not sufficient to carry his team. The scores on Dust II and Mirage were 7 – 13 and 14 – 16 respectively.
In the Grand Final, G2 were good but they were also lucky. On the first map, Na’Vi would have won in the absence of several low-probability clutches achieved by G2’s players in many of the most important rounds.
After winning 13 – 9 on Ancient and 13 – 11 on Dust II, G2 had a 9 – 1 advantage on Mirage. But they somehow lost that map 11 – 13. At that point, Na’Vi’s fans were confident that their team could make an epic comeback.
But on the fourth map, it quickly became clear that G2 were simply stronger. The match ended 3 – 1 and m0NESY won the MVP award for his entire BLAST Premier Fall Final performance.
