Banger final: Shanghai Major playoffs day four recap

It's Major final day and the final was an absolute banger.

A 2-1 win by Spirit, it could have easily gone the other way, FaZe were looking likely to mount an incredible comeback on map three.

Let's go back over the action.

Spirit open with comfortable map win

The final kicked off on Nuke, which resulted in a 13-8 win for Spirit.

Spirit kicked off the map with a 7-5 lead on their CT side, magixx pulled off an incredible 16-kill, 1.99 rated CT side.

He kept going on the T side too, adding a further nine kills to his tally to end the map on a 1.80 rating.

donk also began the series strong, his 20-14 statline was key to preventing magixx from having to do it all on his own in map one.

Photo: Michal Konkol

FaZe bounce back on Ancient

With their backs against the wall, FaZe responded in the way that only FaZe can, with a dominant map win.

13-6 on Ancient, the Spirit scoreboard ended up being one of the strangest we've ever seen as donk and magixx combined for 41 kills and the res of the team combined for 17.

As for FaZe, four of their players went positive in a map that gave them some much needed confidence in the final. ropz was the star, he went 25-12 to continue what has been a very strong Major playoffs.

Photo: Michal Konkol

Spirit clutch up on Dust2

With the final map set for Dust2, Spirit looked like they'd take the trophy with another dominant map win as they lead the tie 8-4 at half time.

Things got even worse for FaZe as they then lost the first three rounds of the second half, but they clawed their way back to 12-11 thanks to some absolutely insane plays from everyone on the team.

As Spirit looked to be crumbling under the pressure of the biggest moment of their lives, they found their way into the B site on round 24 and clutched up in the 3v3 to claim their first Major trophy.

As he has been for the whole tournament, donk was the star, he pulled off an incredible 30-14 statline in his first ever Major final o ensure he left the arena as the youngest Major winner and youngest Major MVP.