Karrigan's squad was only a big victory away from the stage.

Faze eliminated 3DMAX from IEM Melbourne with an overwhelming victory in the semi-finals to lose to Group A, only for the French opponent to win a total of 8 rounds on two Dust2 maps (13-1) and Nuke (13-7).

This was the second consecutive one-sided match between the two teams within two weeks, after FAZE "destroyed" 3DMAX in the quarterfinals of PGL Bucharest with a score of 13-0 and 13-5 on Anubis and Nuke. This victory brought Faze approaching the ticket to Rod Laver Arena, where they will confront the team winning the match between Complexity and Gamerlegion.

If confronted with Complexity, it would be the third time Jonathan "⁠elige⁠" Jablonowski reunited the old team, after two encounters in Bucharest: Complexity winning in the group stage, but Faze successfully took revenge in the third match.

On the side of 3DMax, they left Melbourne with a weak image, almost not showing anything to an extremely high form from the beginning of the match. Karrigan led the whole team with an impressive personal performance, almost at the top of the Series rankings with 1.55 rating.

FaZe completely overwhelmed 3DMax thanks to the "inviolable" defense on Dust2, with the "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard, Karrigan and Elige trio to play extremely sublime, helping the team to lead 11-1 in the first half before closing the map right after changing the side.

On Nuke, 3DMAX also has no chance to breathe when he cannot win two consecutive rooms in the first half. FAZE creates a gap 8-4 and also increases pressure by 2V5 phase to the eye of Karrigan and Helvijs "⁠BroKy⁠" Saukants. They quickly achieved the 12-5 series in the second half before 3DMAX removed two more rounds just to reduce the score to reduce the shame-then officially leave the tournament.