Karrigan explains why Team Liquid is a \u2018tougher challenge\u2019 than Astralis Astralis may be regarded as one of the best CSGO rosters in history, but veteran star Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen has revealed mousesport have a tougher time against NA heroes Team Liquid than the Danish superteam. Liquid and Astralis were two of the hottest topics across most of 2019, as the orgs battled for Counter-Strike supremacy. The North American roster held sway for most of the first half of the year, but was thwarted by their Danish rivals when it mattered most at the Berlin Major. As the year came to a close, however, mousesport emerged as a genuine threat. The new contenders even ousted Astralis personally, delivering the Pro League favorites a 2\u20131 defeat in the semifinal, and going on to win the whole event. In part due to their success against them in Odense, karrigan explained on the DDK Show, Astralis isn\u2019t the team mouz worries about in the bracket. Instead, that honor goes to NA\u2019s leading team right now, Liquid. That\u2019s not to say karrigan believes Liquid are simply a better team than Astralis \u2013 there\u2019s few that would echo that belief right now. What makes Liquid so great against Mouz specifically, however, is their \u201cexplosive\u201d individual prowess. \u201cI think Liquid are a very explosive team, they\u2019re really good in the scrappy rounds, and when it comes to us, we have an issue with these scrappy rounds, so they can really turn the momentum in the rounds because of that,\u201d he explained. Read more: Stuchiu: The Two Holes in Na`Vi\u2019s Death Star – \u201cThey win these small ecos, or have on AK and a few pistols. They\u2019re really good at winning those games with their individual skill. Liquid\u2019s play-style is based around their individual stars popping off, and I think they\u2019re the strong individual team.\u201d On the other side of the coin, Astralis are a known quantity. They may be near-unstoppable in their calculated, controlled playstyle, but you know what is coming. You can prepare for it, and build strategies against their plans. \u201cAstralis, I feel, are different [to Liquid\u2019s crazy style]\u2026 they\u2019re a different team,\u201d karrigan continued. \u201cThey don\u2019t suddenly go off, and someone is pushing randomly and kills three people in the back. That\u2019s why we might have issues with Liquid.\u201d That struggle against their North American rivals has been quite apparent as mousesports have made the bid to return to the upper echelons of the circuit. Their last two meetings at major events, in Odense for the Pro League, and Berlin for the last Major, saw Liquid towel mouz up. Both times, the NA squad was able to win 2\u20130, though three of the four maps went to overtime. For mobile readers, the related segment in the video below begins at 29:52. Overall, however, mouz have stormed back into the discussion as a leading team heading into 2020, and victories over the likes of Astralis, Evil Geniuses, and Fnatic \u2013 including their 3\u20130 EPL final win over Fnatic \u2013 have proven they\u2019re back. Mousesport\u2019s next chance to reverse their unwanted scorecard against TL may have to wait a little while too, as they head in different directions. While Liquid is competing in the BLAST Premier series in two weeks, Mouz are bound for the GG.Bet ICE Challenge, meaning it may be a month before the two could potentially meet in Katowice for the first Major of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karrigan explains why Team Liquid is a \u2018tougher challenge\u2019 than Astralis Astralis may be regarded as one of the best CSGO rosters in history, but veteran star Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen has revealed mousesport have a tougher time against NA heroes Team Liquid than the Danish superteam. Liquid and Astralis were two of the hottest topics […]<\/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-38539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38539","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=38539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}