Twistzz goes down to former teammates

The final quarter-final of the IEM Chengdu 2024 saw FaZe go up against Liquid with FaZe looking to continue their incredible CS2 run while Liquid were trying to find their footing with the new roster.

FaZe's pick of Nuke was the series opener and it was a 6-0 start from karrigan and his squad on the T side. It took a couple of skullz multi-kill rounds to keep Liquid afloat but FaZe started with 9 rounds. After a quite first half, Twistzz finally woke up with a triple kill in the second half pistol to get Liquid back in the game. Liquid brought it to a three-round game before FaZe's defensive side got going with ropz on the AUG coming in with impact.

karrigan and broky turned around a 2v4 to put FaZe on map point. cadiaN with an incredible triple kill in a 2v4 powered Liquid to overtime. After dropping the ball multiple times on their CT-side in regulation, FaZe finally pulled up their socks in overtime to pick up Nuke at 16-13.

Source: ESL

Anubis saw FaZe start with a two round lead but Liquid fought back on their T side, to pip FaZe 13-11 to keep the series alive. Mirage was a similar story as FaZe started 7-5 once again and ran away to an 11-5 lead. Clutch rounds from Skullz and cadiaN kept Liquid in the game. It seemed like we were headed for overtime but FaZe shut down a quick B hit to secure the map 13-10.

The win now puts FaZe in the semi-final and they will have a rematch against Astralis, who had handed karrigan and co. quite a beating earlier in the event.

IEM Chengdu 2024

Bo3

Liquid

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FaZe

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Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.1
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller	53 - 48	+5	76.6	77.6%	1.09
Keith 'NAF' Markovic	55 - 54	+1	72.4	76.3%	1.06
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis	44 - 55	-11	70.5	65.8%	0.97
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken	40 - 52	-12	64.7	72.4%	0.93
Felipe 'skullz' Medeiros	48 - 51	-3	66.2	61.8%	0.89

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.1
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants	66 - 41	+25	84.9	80.3%	1.31
David 'frozen' Čerňanský	61 - 44	+17	82.5	73.7%	1.19
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard	48 - 54	-6	75.1	73.7%	1.06
Robin 'ropz' Kool	52 - 45	+7	71.6	72.4%	1.02
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen	29 - 58	-29	50.4	56.6%	0.59