The fact that Saw returned to the Portuguese squad brought the results right in the first tournament.

Saw has made a surprise when winning a playoff ticket at Fissure Playground 1 thanks to a 2-1 victory over Furia, with the scores of Ancient (22-19), losing to Train (8-13) and winning Inferno (13-10).

With this defeat, Furia was officially eliminated, and Saw entered the quarterfinals, where they would confront complexity.

The series between Saw and Furia was the reunion after the opening match of Group A, where Saw won 2-0. However, this time the two maps of Anubis and Dust2 were removed from the map, instead of Ancient and Train, and Inferno was the only Map to be repeated.

It seems that the prohibition of Anubis is a right decision for Furia when they lead 7-2 on Ancient thanks to the great work of Gabriel "⁠fallen⁠" Toledo, before Saw woke up and shortened the score to 5-7 in the first half.
Furia continued to start well on the side and had 5 map points, but the consecutive mistakes helped Saw bring the match to Overtime. The Portuguese squad continued to show his bravery when he held two more map points before winning the third extra time, ending the map with a score of 22-19.
João "⁠story⁠" Vieira and Adony "⁠krazy⁠" Nobre are bright stars with 34 and 32 kills respectively.

Map Hai is the catwalk of Kaike "⁠kscerato⁠" Cerato, when he reached rating 2.11, bringing Furia to an easy victory on the train.
He helped the team to lead 5-1 at T side, and continued to have high-class clutches in CT Side to control the game, especially a high disciplinary phase in the end of the match to bring the series to the balance.

On Inferno, Furia started extremely badly when losing to Pistol, and then SAW rose thanks to the standard hit site. They even lost two consecutive situations of 5V3 before ending the first half with the difference 4-8.
Saw was more active with the victory at Pistol Round on CT, but Furia rekindled with a victory Half-Buy and a 3V4 flip situation. However, this is only "makeup" when they continue to make mistakes, lost to Round because of the end of the hour, and then was beaten by another Half-Buy-Saw closed the 2-1 series.

Saw: Furia's carving

This is the third consecutive time Saw defeated Furia, and it is clear that Portugal's representative is grasping the "homework" of the opponent.
Furia was definitely disappointed when starting the season with such a fall, especially when they showed their potential with the new squad at the end of last season.

"They perform very standard tactics, Exec articles are extremely well -groomed," - Fallen shared after the match with HecCu, praising Saw.

"I think we should have done better, not completely out of the program, but to throw away the victory. But also to recognize Saw, they defeated us 3 times in a row - obviously they are catching us cards."

On the Saw side, they can be satisfied with the performance - a place in the playoff at the first big tournament with a new team is a very positive result.
In the immediate future they are the complexity challenge, and if they continue their current form, Saw can completely dream.