FURIA see off Grayhound to start season with a win
The new-look FURIA under new captain FalleN started their season with a win as they took down Grayhound in their IEM Cologne Play-in matchup. It was a commendable performance from the Australian, who eventually just went down to what could become a very scary Brazilian line-up.
The new-look FURIA started their season on the T side on Ancient and a double INS opener helped Grayhound pick up the opening round. Grayhound scraped by against the force by from FURIA. FURIA's first came off the back of a mixed up as chelo and FalleN opened up the A site. Back-to-back A hits saw FURIA tie up the game and converted against the eco to take the lead at 3-2. Vexite's triple in middle saw Grayhound keep the scores tied. FURIA retook the lead but Grayhound stole away a round on an eco buy as the Australians invested nothing but a single deagle and Vexite opened up with a double deagle at B ramp. A Vexite ace kept Grayhound within two rounds of FURIA at 5-7. FURIA though ended the half with a 9-6 lead.
aliStair's quad kill which saw the Aussie clutch out a 1v3 saw Grayhound pick up the second pistol as well. FalleN's quad in the first gun round of the second half with a M4A1-s saw FURIA put up their 10th. Two back-to-back B hits saw Grayhound tie it up once again at 10-10. FURIA bounced back with nothing but pistols as yuurih and KSCERATO got doubles to see the Brazilians steal a round away on the B site. The rounds kept on tradings as aliStair came in with a crucial 1v1 against FalleN in an allout A site brawl to keep the Australians in the game.
FURIA finally made it two-in-a-row as they hung on against the eco from Grayhound and the Brazilians used that to close the map at 16-11. The top of the scoreboard for FURIA was neck-and-neck as yuurih, chelo and KSCERATO ended with 24, 23 and 22 kills respectively.
GrayhoundFURIA| Grayhound |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Declan 'Vexite' Portelli |
27 - 20 | +7 | 116.9 | 81.5% | 1.60 |
| Joshua 'INS' Potter |
21 - 20 | +1 | 71.9 | 70.4% | 0.98 |
| Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston |
17 - 21 | -4 | 68.4 | 63.0% | 0.88 |
 Simon 'Sico' Williams |
14 - 17 | -3 | 45.3 | 70.4% | 0.83 |
| Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas |
5 - 21 | -16 | 51.9 | 44.4% | 0.44 |
| FURIA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato |
22 - 14 | +8 | 96.5 | 81.5% | 1.47 |
| Yuri 'yuurih' Santos |
24 - 16 | +8 | 91.7 | 85.2% | 1.35 |
| Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes |
23 - 22 | +1 | 83.4 | 74.1% | 1.28 |
| Andrei 'arT' Piovezan |
12 - 16 | -4 | 73.0 | 63.0% | 0.92 |
| Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo |
16 - 16 | +0 | 48.5 | 66.7% | 0.82 |
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