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]]>The Croatian organisation had not fielded a CS:GO team since selling their entire squad to c0ntact Gaming in January. That changed on Tuesday, when CR4ZY announced a new lineup and declared their intentions to win a CS:GO Major title.
Replacing Nestor “LETN1” Tani?, Rokas “EspiranTo” Milasauskas, Otto “ottoNd” Sihvo, Georgi “SHiPZ” Grigorov, Luka “emi” Vukovi? and coach Neil “NeiL_M” Murphy will be Igor “dERZKIY” Radosavlevich, Roma “dOBRIY” Rusak, Sergey “Sergiz” Atamanchuk, Alexandr “Psycho” Zlobin, Dmitry “SENSEi” Shvorak and coach Johnta, all formerly of PROJECT X.
Johnta has also led FlipSid3 Tactics, Arcade eSports, Worst Players, HellRaisers, TYLOO and Winstrike Team during his five-year coaching career. The 32-year-old Ukrainian is regarded as a skilled mentor, due largely to his success while leading HellRaisers.
Johnta steered the CIS squad to a fifth-eighth finish at FACEIT Major: London 2018, earning the team a Legends Status entry for IEM Katowice Major 2019. Although he has never won a Major, the former Counter-Strike 1.6 pro has seen success in several A-Tier tournaments, including silver medals at Moche XL Esports 2018 and DreamHack Open Tours 2018.
CR4ZY’s Ukrainian contingent consists of former Windigo Academy duo Sergiz and Psycho as well as SENSEi, who previously played for NorBant and OneWay. Joining them will be former 97club, Nemiga and Se7en player dERZKIY and former Goodjob and Monolith player dOBRIY, both from Belarus.
Although the new CR4ZY roster features unproven talent who have yet to leave a mark in the top-level of CS:GO competitive play, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the future of this team.
Project X finished ninth-16th at the DreamHack Open Leipzig European Qualifiers and pocketed a fifth-eighth finish at ESL One Rio 2020 CIS Minor Open Qualifier #3 earlier this month. What’s more, the average age of the newly formed roster is only 21.2, with dERZKIY the oldest player on the team at 23 and Sergiz the youngest at 19.
Johnta said, “I’m very happy to start this new journey with CR4ZY! We share the same vision on how a CS team should be run and I’m sure we will build a successful team with the players we signed. Hard work has already started for us and I’m looking forward to our future.”
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]]>CR4ZY established themselves as a real contender for a Berlin Major spot following their perfect run in the group stage, where they took down Sprout 16-13 and then beat NoChance 2-0 in the winners’ game. They met their match in the semi-finals, however, falling to North on both Inferno (12-16) and Train (9-16).
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That defeat put CR4ZY into the losers’ bracket, where they faced Fnatic in the first round. The Serbs came out with all guns blazing and dismantled their North American opponents with a 16-13 score on both Train and Dust II to advance to the losers’ final.
There, they renewed hostilities with North, who had suffered a 2-0 defeat to mousesports in the winners’ final the day before. Tensions were high, as the match would not only decide which team joined mousesports in the Berlin Major, it would also give CR4ZY a chance to make North taste their own medicine.
The losers’ finals took off on Mirage, where North jumped out to a 3-0 lead due to their seemingly impenetrable defence on the CT side. However, it did not take long for CR4ZY to break the Danish defence with a streak of great individual skill from Nemanja ��nexa�� Isakovic and Otto ��ottoNd�� Sihvo, who propelled their team into a dominant 10-5 lead before the teams switched sides.
The second half did not produce any surprises. CR4ZY maintained their momentum and proved they can defend just as well as they can attack, securing a 16-7 win only eight rounds after the break.
The second map of the series, Dust II, produced a back-and-forth fight between the two sides for the opening few rounds, but it was CR4ZY grabbed a 9-6 lead before the teams switched sides. Much of their success was due to the impressive performance of Nemanja ��huNter�� Kovac, who made sure he joined nexa and ottoNd as one of the key players that helped CR4ZY through the Berlin Major qualifiers.
With a smaller lead compared to that on Mirage, CR4ZY produced just as dominant a display as they did in the second half of the first map. Taking advantage of any mistake North made, CR4ZY won seven straight rounds to seal a 16-7 win and take the series 2-0.
With that, CR4ZY got not only a spot at the Berlin Major and $15,000 in prize money, they also got to avenge their defeat to North in the first round of playoffs. It��s also worth noting that nexa ended the finals as MVP with 46 kills, 20 deaths and 1.74 rating, which is well over his 1.14 rating average for 2019.
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]]>CR4ZY defeated Sprout 16-13 in the opening round to advance to the Group A winner’s match, where they were expected to take on mousesports for a place in the final four. However, mouz were forced to walk the long road to the playoffs after NoChance shocked the competition with a 16-14 win over the pre-tournament favourites on Inferno.
The winner’s match took off on Dust2, with NoChance taking the reins on the T side and winning the first three rounds. However, CR4ZY tightened their defence and started reeling off wins to take a 10-5 lead into the break. The Serbs carried that momentum into the second half, winning the pistol round and completing a flawless 6-0 run to take the map 16-5.
CR4ZY started Nuke on the T side and picked up where they left off, bolting out to a 4-0 lead. At that point they met some resistance from NoChance, but not nearly enough to stop the Serbs from taking a 9-6 advantage into the interval. The underdogs fought back after the break, winning three straight rounds to tie the game at 9-9, but CR4ZY’s defence lifted again and they won seven of the last eight rounds to seal a 2-0 whitewash.
MVP of the match was Nestor “LETN1” Tanic, who improved drastically from his 1.06 rating in the match against Sprout and ended the series with an incredible 1.60 rating, 46 kills and only 24 deaths. A lot of credit also goes to Otto “ottoNd” Sihvo (1.38 rating) and Nemanja “huNter” Kovac (1.33 rating), who both performed admirably and played crucial roles in the success of their team.
CR4ZY now advance to the semi-finals, while NoChance will play the winner of the elimination match between mousesports and Sprout.
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