The BLAST Premier World Final line-up is packed with a selection of the strongest teams that the current CS:GO scene offers. This means picking a favourite of the event might be a bit of a tough nut.
And while quite a few of our competitors are going in with pretty high chances of winning, the squad to beat at this tournament are none other than FaZe Clan, and they seem to be back in hot form to finish their year of domination!
FaZe kicked off 2022 in an explosive fashion, winning everything they took part in, starting with BLAST Premier Spring Groups, and following up with trophies from IEM Katowice, ESL Pro League Season 15, and PGL Major in Antwerp. With such a stellar start to the season, their spot in the World Final was ensured.
However, the summer took a bit of steam from FaZe’s Counter-Strike machine, with early exits from IEM Dallas and Spring Final showing the first signs of cracks in their unbreakable form.
They refilled the fuel to win IEM in Cologne, but it wasn’t enough to keep the momentum in the following Fall Groups and ESL Pro League Season 16. Nevertheless, the biggest upset came during the highly-anticipated Major in Rio, when FaZe shocked the whole community by getting 0-3’d in Legends Stage.
Following the underwhelming Major performance, karrigan and his boys had quite some time to recover and regain their shooting skills, which they seem to have used profoundly. Blasting through the Fall Final group stage without losing a single map to meet Heroic in the Grand Final, the international mix finally showed the form we’ve all been longing to see and proved that the result from Rio was just a bump on the road.
And although they didn’t manage to overcome the Danish power this time, their matches weren’t short of impressive plays, high frag counts, and clutches; that’s why we expect the same level of the finest Counter-Strike from them in the upcoming World Final.
Representing mighty FaZe at the season-concluding finale of BLAST Premier’s amazing season 2022 will be:
●Finn “karrigan” Andersen (IGL)
●Håvard “rain” Nygaard
●Helvijs “broky” Saukants
●Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulke
●Robin “ropz” Kool
●Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (Coach)
Ahead of the tournament, rain spoke to BLAST.tv about FaZe’s 2022:
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