FaZe make it to Legends

FaZe have finally made it to the Legends Stage of the Paris Major 2023 after taking down FORZE 2-0. FaZe had to see off a valiant comeback attempt from FORZE on Overpass before they comprehensively beat FORZE on Nuke to secure a spot in the Legends Stage.

The opening map was FORZE's pick of Overpass and it was FaZe on the defensive side who picked up the pistol. karrigan came in with a 1v2 on A site to give FaZe the 3-0 lead. rain's early shutdown of FORZE, gave FaZe an early 5-0 lead before FORZE put up their first T sided round. rain's dominant defensive hold saw the Norwegian end the first half with 22 kills and a 1v3 in the final round that saw FaZe take a 12-3 lead.

rain's triple kill on the second half pistol saw FaZe secure 13 as FORZE were all but down. Jerry, zorte and r3salt made sure FORZE didn't give up with a fight as they managed to hit double digits following nine straight rounds on the defensive half. FaZe eventually closed out the map at 16-12, shutting out any possibility of a comeback from FORZE.

rain shut down FORZE on Overpass with 32 kills

FaZe started on the T side of their own map pick of Nuke and Twistzz's 1v2 gave FaZe the first pistol. FORZE took the first gun around as they put up a clean defence with five alive. Krad's impactful defensive holds made sure FORZE tied up the game early on at 4-4 before ropz's lurking found FaZe their fifth on the B site. A broky 1v2 eventually swung the tide in FaZe's favour as they ended the first half with 9-6 lead.

FORZE won the second half pistol and hung on against the force-buy but karrigan called another force-buy which saw FaZe completely shut down FORCE with a couple of MP9s. FORZE answered back with their own force buy as zorte came in with a 1v2 clutch to give FORZE their ninth. FaZe closed out the map at 16-11 with Twistzz topping Nuke with 25 kills.

The Magician stepped up for FaZe on Nuke

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FaZe

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FORZE

All maps

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard	46 - 40	+6	95.7	67.3%	1.31
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken	38 - 34	+4	69.4	72.7%	1.12
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants	38 - 34	+4	64.6	76.4%	1.02
Robin 'ropz' Kool	31 - 38	-7	74.6	65.5%	0.90
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen	29 - 37	-8	57.9	65.5%	0.86

FORZE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko	42 - 31	+11	81.3	76.4%	1.26
Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko	39 - 37	+2	72.9	72.7%	1.05
Aleksandr 'shalfey' Marenov	31 - 32	-1	68.3	69.1%	1.00
Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov	34 - 41	-7	71.5	76.4%	0.99
Evgeny 'r3salt' Frolov	35 - 43	-8	70.6	67.3%	0.86