FaZe Clan bomb out of ESL One NY in Coldzera\u2019s debut Epsilon Esports\/ DreamHackIn their first CSGO tournament after the highly anticipated acquisition of Marcelo \u2018coldzera\u2018 David, FaZe Clan played far below initial expectations for a roster of that amount of talent. Is it time to hit the panic button already? With their new additions of coldzera and Helvijs \u2018broky\u2019 Saukants, FaZe have set a high bar for themselves in the competitive CS:GO scene. But unfortunately, they have stumbled and tripped over the bar in their first tournament. With a 2-0 loss to the newly acquired Evil Geniuses roster (formerly NRG Esports), and then a 2-0 loss to OpTic Gaming, FaZe were the second team eliminated from the tournament and went home with an 0-4 record on maps. Their loss to Evil Geniuses can\u2019t be blamed on the new additions. Broky had a good series against EG, leading the FaZe team in KDA on both maps. His play on Nuke kept his team in the game, but even he couldn\u2019t stop a red hot Evil Geniuses team from rolling over FaZe on Vertigo. FaZe\u2019s star Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kovacs didn\u2019t fare well on the second map, as he had an abysmal game on Vertigo, only picking up three kills and dying eighteen times. But a team experimenting with a new roster playing against a red hot top-three-in-the-world squad energized by some shiny new blue uniforms? Evil Geniuses were heavily expected to take that series. However, the FaZe loss to OpTic, a team that didn\u2019t even qualify for the EU minor, let alone the the Berlin major, is surprising. Especially given how one-sided it was. OpTic had a terrific team performance on Nuke, while FaZe were reliant solely on Olof \u2018olofmeister\u2019 Kajbjer having a good game. While a breakout game from the veteran is good news for FaZe going forward, it\u2019s still a tough loss to swallow. FaZe suffered another tough loss on Dust II, again relying on olofmeister with some support from NiKo to generate all of their offense. For OpTic, it was a standout performance from Ren\u00e9 \u2018cajunb\u2019 Borg, who joined the team last month. That win has to feel good for cajunb, in his second stint with OpTic, who\u2019s struggled to find solid footing with any new team since leaving Astralis. Is it time to panic if you\u2019re FaZe? Is all that money spent on coldzera a waste? It\u2019s far too early to tell. It\u2019s only been four maps and it\u2019s only their first tournament. To have coldzera and NiKo both end up in the bottom three statistically of all the players at ESL One NY is a shock, but FaZe should only be concerned if these kind of results start to repeat. ENCE are in a similar boat, having finished fifth at BLAST Moscow in their first event with Miikka \u201csuNny\u201d Kemppi. For both ENCE and FaZe, it\u2019s best to avoid hitting the panic button too soon. Follow all the CS:GO action in New York by checking out Dexerto\u2019s ESL One NY hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Clan bomb out of ESL One NY in Coldzera\u2019s debut Epsilon Esports\/ DreamHackIn their first CSGO tournament after the highly anticipated acquisition of Marcelo \u2018coldzera\u2018 David, FaZe Clan played far below initial expectations for a roster of that amount of talent. Is it time to hit the panic button already? With their new additions […]<\/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-38229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229","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=38229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}