{"id":34213,"date":"2024-02-11T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=34213"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:22:56","slug":"team-spirit-claim-iem-katowice-2024-cs2-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-spirit-claim-iem-katowice-2024-cs2-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Spirit claim IEM Katowice 2024 CS2 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outstanding run of Team Spirit at <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/cs2\/\" title=\"IEM Katowice betting guide\">IEM Katowice 2024<\/a> has concluded with them claiming the Counter-Strike title at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, after dominating FaZe Clan 3-0 (13-9, 13-11, 13-3) in the grand final.<\/p>\n<p>After entering the US$1 million tournament with the second-youngest roster, with only MOUZ featuring a squad with a lower average age, Team Spirit finished the event with a dominant clean sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit only dropped one map from 15 played across the IEM Katowice play-in stage, group stage, and playoffs, with their only defeat coming at the hands of Natus Vincere.<\/p>\n<p>At just 17 years of age, Danil \u201cdonk\u201d Kyrshkovets recorded one of the best debut performances ever witnessed in <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\">Counter-Strike esports<\/a>, and he was awarded the Most Valuable Player for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Donk finished his &#8216;Big Event&#8217; debut with a 1.70 rating and 110 ADR, equalling Nikola \u201cNiKo\u201d Kovac\u2019s record but with more maps played.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The youngest ever player to lift the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Katowice trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest ever player to win an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Katowice MVP.<\/p>\n<p>The highest rated player in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Katowice history.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donk1337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@donk1337<\/a> is here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nTb2BvBoaC\">pic.twitter.com\/nTb2BvBoaC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1756769711633633358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After winning IEM Katowice in 2022, one may have expected FaZe Clan to give Spirit headaches throughout the series, but after a close loss on Nuke, which was their opening map pick, it appeared as though FaZe were in for a gruelling series.<\/p>\n<p>Finn \u201ckarrigan\u201d Andersen and his team bounced back on the second map and started well on Mirage, taking a 7-5 lead into the halftime break; however, Leonid \u201cchopper\u201d Vishnyakov responded with some great calls in the second half as Spirit won seven of the next eight rounds to claim a 12-8 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Although David \u201cfrozen\u201d Cernansky helped FaZe rally to bring the score back to 12-11, Spirit would win an eco-round to close out the map and claim a 2-0 lead going onto Overpass for what would be the third and final map.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Nuke and Mirage, Overpass was not even close, with donk once again leading the way as Team Spirit wrapped up the series and tournament with a 13-3 demolition job.<\/p>\n<p>For a team that has only been together for two months, the sky is the limit for Team Spirit, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/pgl-major-copenhagen\/\" title=\"PGL Major Copenhagen betting guide\">PGL Major Copenhagen<\/a> just around the corner, there is no doubt they will be one of the favourites.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Team__Spirit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Team__Spirit<\/a> LIFT THE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> KATOWICE 2024 TROPHY<\/p>\n<p>AND THEY DO IT IN STYLE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/grEghKop0F\">pic.twitter.com\/grEghKop0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1756756791839338607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Spirit have completed their outstanding IEM Katowice 2024 run by defeating FaZe Clan 3-0 in the grand final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3111,3587,3586,127,1081,3585,1368,434],"class_list":["post-34213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-danil-donk-kyrshkovets","tag-david-frozen-cernansky","tag-faze-clan","tag-iem-katowice","tag-leonid-chopper-vishnyakov","tag-nikola-niko-kovac","tag-team-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34230,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34213\/revisions\/34230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}