FaZe rain brushes off CS2 dynasty rumblings as team is still yet to hit their \u201cpeak\u201d ESLFaZe Clan has reached eight Grand Finals in a row, swiftly becoming the most dominant CS2 thus far. But as rain explained to Dexerto, the team is still just finding its footing, with the \u201cpeak\u201d still far in the distance. As FaZe Clan comes into ESL Pro League Season 19, they arrive in Malta with a jaw-dropping record of eight Grand Final appearances in a row, just coming off a trophy lift at IEM Chengdu. It\u2019s their first trophy of 2024 and fourth CS2 trophy overall, marking them as the best team in the relatively new game. Though with such an incredible streak, a period of near-dominance, the consistent performance comes with its drawbacks, particularly with how exhausting it is to go deep in every tournament. \u201cIt\u2019s been a very good streak, but the streak comes at some cost,\u201d FaZe Clan\u2019s H\u00e5vard \u201crain\u201d Nygaard said. \u201cYou go to every final and it\u2019s very little time to rest and reset for the next one. So it\u2019s been a little bit tough on the mental health side.\u201d As rain outlined, in the lead-up to the Major, FaZe \u201cbarely had a day off\u201d, going immediately from the Copenhagen Major straight to Chengdu. \u201cTwo weeks before the Major, up until Chengdu it was like full crazy mode,\u201d rain said. \u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s been pretty hectic. Before [ESL Pro League], we had five days off, we tried to full reset and come into the tournament with a bit of a fresh mind.\u201d But despite the exhaustion, rain isn\u2019t too worried about trying to make yet another Grand Finals in ESL Pro League, nor does he want to call this CS2 streak a dynasty just yet. As he argues, it\u2019s still early days yet with many more competitions to win. \u201cNo, not yet,\u201d rain said of the dynasty talks online. \u201cIf we won every final then maybe, but at the moment not really.\u201d So what other trophies would rain feel they need to cement this era as a dynasty? \u201cI need at least IEM Cologne, or some bigger ones,\u201d the veteran replied. In fact, rain doesn\u2019t believe this roster has even hit its ceiling just yet. \u201cI don\u2019t think this roster has peaked at all. We only had [frozen] for three, four, months, now. So I feel like this roster hasn\u2019t peaked yet and it\u2019s still a long way to go till we get to the peak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe rain brushes off CS2 dynasty rumblings as team is still yet to hit their \u201cpeak\u201d ESLFaZe Clan has reached eight Grand Finals in a row, swiftly becoming the most dominant CS2 thus far. But as rain explained to Dexerto, the team is still just finding its footing, with the \u201cpeak\u201d still far in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}