FURIA defeat Grayhound
Coming into the match, FURIA had troublesome T-sides regularly but starting off on the T-side of Ancient, FURIA seemed to have remedied their problematic T-side. After initial back and forth trades till 3-2, FURIA toppled Grayhound's defense, putting up a 10 round winning streak to seal the half 12-3, massively in their favor. FalleN's AWP found form and so did chelo's T-side aggression.
Conceding the pistol, Grayhound put up a 3 round winning streak off of bomb plants, but the climb ahead was too steep, as FURIA stabilized their CT-economy and closed out Ancient quickly with a 16-6 score line, going 1-0 up in the series.
On Vertigo, FURIA once again got off to a stellar start on their T-side, putting Grayhound at an 8-1 disadvantage. Grayhound finally started getting good reads on FURIA, stringing up 3 in a row to somewhat close the gap at 4-8 but back and forth trades for the remainder of the half, saw FURIA run away with a 10-5 T-half in their favor.
The second half started out with rounds being traded back and forth but FURIA's 10-5 advantage was paying off, inching closer to the match point, round by round. Dropping 3 rounds, FURIA reached match point at 15-8, within touching distance of closing out the series. Grayhound were fighting with their backs against match point and series point, with a couple of rifles and upgraded pistols. Ultimately, FURIA encapsulated Grayhound on the B-site and then defused the C4 on B, to close out Vertigo 16-8 and the series 2-0.
FURIAGrayhound| FURIA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato |
43 - 22 | +21 | 91.1 | 87.0% | 1.58 |
| Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes |
38 - 25 | +13 | 91.1 | 87.0% | 1.44 |
| Yuri 'yuurih' Santos |
36 - 25 | +11 | 79.4 | 80.4% | 1.36 |
| Andrei 'arT' Piovezan |
34 - 26 | +8 | 76.9 | 78.3% | 1.26 |
| Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo |
27 - 22 | +5 | 64.2 | 82.6% | 1.20 |
| Grayhound |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joshua 'INS' Potter |
27 - 38 | -11 | 81.7 | 60.9% | 0.91 |
| Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas |
26 - 36 | -10 | 76.2 | 63.0% | 0.83 |
| Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston |
23 - 33 | -10 | 48.2 | 52.2% | 0.67 |
 Simon 'Sico' Williams |
22 - 36 | -14 | 51.8 | 54.3% | 0.66 |
| Declan 'Vexite' Portelli |
20 - 35 | -15 | 58.5 | 58.7% | 0.66 |
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