Gla1ve explains why G2 are CSGO\u2019s \u201cdark horse\u201d after IEM Katowice run ESLLukas \u201cgla1ve\u201d Rossander might be looking down the barrel of another title at IEM Katowice 2020, but the Astralis star is keeping his eyes on G2 Esports after the French team made an outstanding \u201cdark horse\u201d run in groups. Astralis have gotten through the IEM Katowice draw with minimal complaints so far. The Danish kings of Counter-Strike are yet to drop a map in Poland, running through Cloud9, Vitality, and fnatic with relative ease. However, as they start to approach the pointy end of the event, they\u2019ve got their eyes on one team in particular making a surprising run \u2014 G2 Esports. \u201cI see [G2] as a big dark horse,\u201d the Danish star said in an interview with HLTV at IEM Katowice. \u201cThey have been doing really well. It\u2019s crazy to see that when they got two new players in nexa and huNter-, even though they don\u2019t speak French the team dynamic just changed completely.\u201d G2 was an all-French roster before the Serbian IGL and Bosnian rifler joined the team, but while a language barrier might have arisen, it brought the team back to life. They had a similar run to Astralis, running through Group B with surprise wins over 100 Thieves, mousesports, and Team Liquid to get to the semi-finals of Katowice, only dropping one map on the way. IS YOUR WRIST OKAY? @G2kennyS #IEM https:\/\/t.co\/JCaCtOeg6K pic.twitter.com\/7TNlr9DHRn \u2014 ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) February 27, 2020 While they\u2019ve been flying under the radar for most, Astralis and gla1ve have been taking notice of the team\u2019s rise since picking up nexa and huNter-, and are looking forward to hopefully facing them in the final. \u201cJaCkz was was pretty good before, I think, but you see a player like kennyS who is just getting much better now that he has a really good, understanding in-game leader, it seems like. Read more: How to watch IEM Katowice 2020 – \u201cI feel really happy for them that they\u2019re getting some success again, and, hopefully, we\u2019ll play them this tournament.\u201d Astralis won\u2019t be back in action at IEM Katowice until February 29, when they\u2019ll play the winner of Natus Vincere and Team Liquid in the semi-final of the event. Be sure to keep up with all the action, including interviews with the best players and results as soon as they happen on our IEM Katowice hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gla1ve explains why G2 are CSGO\u2019s \u201cdark horse\u201d after IEM Katowice run ESLLukas \u201cgla1ve\u201d Rossander might be looking down the barrel of another title at IEM Katowice 2020, but the Astralis star is keeping his eyes on G2 Esports after the French team made an outstanding \u201cdark horse\u201d run in groups. Astralis have gotten through […]<\/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-38379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379","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=38379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}