Snax's team made 7-1 and 9-1 second-half scores of Dust2 and Mirage to win.

Snax has m0NESY to thank for his super-saiyan performance on Dust2

G2 extended their winning streak against FaZe to four consecutive matches without allowing their opponents to react, after a difficult opening match at the tournament in Copenhagen.

FaZe appeared to have control of the series after limiting G2 to just two gun rounds wins across Inferno and the first round of map 3, but Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski's team countered from score 4-8 and won 13-9 on the decisive Mirage map.

G2 had the economic advantage in all six rounds, winning five pistol rounds and one force-buy round in the remaining half, before they reached scores of 7-1 and 9-1 in the second half. of Dust2 and Mirage to confirm his victory.

It was an important win for Snax and co, but perhaps an even more important loss for FaZe, who were trying to regain form after a bootcamp in Malta but lost. both recent matches, first against Complexity and now against G2.

"We didn't show what we prepared [against Complexity]," Finn "karrigan" Andersen told James "Banks" Banks on stream before the match. He also elaborated on the team's style, as he has loosened his grip after admitting he felt the need to micromanage at Cologne.

"Sometimes a team doesn't realize how much freedom they have," karrigan said. "At Cologne we played without freedom and then in training everyone enjoyed when the freedom came back, they were more proactive. It was a situation where I went to the extreme, to say 'We could go in that direction, but that's not the way I want to lead.'"

That's still a work in progress, but there were moments when FaZe showed the form of the team that started the year with a string of consecutive finals appearances, with Helvijs "broky" Saukants pulling off impressive wallbangs and even The team won several 2v4 and 3v5 situations. G2's sloppiness contributed, but the 'FaZe miracle' returned as a win condition.

However, without a good start to the rounds and CT's poor performance in the few gun rounds they had, victory became out of reach for FaZe.

G2, meanwhile, can breathe a sigh of relief after promptly coming back to win the series.

Their famous power has come across in a number of moments, from Nemanja "huNter-" Kovač and Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov's performance on Dust2 to Mario "malbsMd" Samayoa's ace on Inferno or his triple kill. Nikola "NiKo" Kovač on Mirage. But in reality, it was Snax, who only had 10 kills in the first two maps, who created important kills to help G2 make a 9-1 comeback on Mirage with many important entries in the Connector area. and Short.

Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas strongly defended his captain in a pre-match interview on stream, saying: "You can't just measure Snax's contribution by kills, I'm not worried about that .We need to look at it from the perspective that we have malbsMd, Snax mainly helps his teammates rather than rushing in himself. Even when he has a good match, he only goes 9-8. He's not the type to chase eco frags to boost his ego. What's important is the team."

Questions remain over Snax's ability to glue its stars into a trophy-capable unit — there are times when the lack of cohesion in man-advantage situations is a concern. — but these second halves mean he and G2 can use this match as motivation to carry on through the rest of the tournament.