Following an unprecedented semi-final, ENCE accomplished the feat by defeating MOUZ in Counter Strike’s IEM Dallas. The details here!
madness in Dallas! The Texan city lived a weekend to pure Counter Strike with the definition of Playoffs of the IEM Dallas 2023. In this edition, the Finnish team of ON shouted champion after defeating MOUZ in the Grand finale. But without a doubt the fans of the CS:GO will remember the historic series vs. FaZe Clan in semis.
For now, the painting Playoffs started with matches quarter finalswhich had in the first place Astralis vs. MOUZ. The Germans won the fight for 2 to 0 hotly contested on the map #1: 22-20 in hell and 16-9 in Ancient. From the other key FaZe Clan left behind G2 under a 2 to 1 distributed as follows: 14-16 in Ancient, 16-6 in hell and 10-16 in Mirage.
Now the semifinals of IEM Dallas live plays in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center they saw how MOUZ took out the candidate heroic in a competitive series that ended 16-8 in Vertigo, 9-16 on the map of over pass and closed with a tight 16-14 in Ancient. With this result, MOUZ came to the Grand finale after being 4 games in a row on the verge of elimination.
However, if it is about a show, we cannot leave out of the review the duel between ENCE vs. FaZe Clan. Apart from the fact that they shared the domain of the 2 maps initials (16-8 in Mirage for FaZe and 16-8 in Anubis favorable to ON), all the flashes of ecosystem Counter Strike they were located in the third map from the series: Ancient.
.@ENCE ARE BACK IN THE #IEM DALLAS GRAND FINAL 1 YEAR LATER.
THEY TOPPLE @FaZeClan 2-1 IN THE SEMI-FINAL!
8-16 Mirage
16-6 Anubis
31-28 Ancient pic.twitter.com/7mmPRW1qxn— Intel® Extreme Masters (@IEM) June 4, 2023
Here they were necessary 5 overtimes! to meet the second finalist. hand in hand SunPayus and Maden (45 and 49 casualtiesrespectively) the squad of ON (Snappi, dycha, maden, SunPayus and NertZ) beat FaZe Clan by 31-28 in order to return to Grand finale just like he did in the edition of 2022where that time they were defeated by Cloud9.
For his part, the desire for revenge added to the intensity experienced in semis, ON faced the Grand Finale vs. MOUZ with category by closing the commitment with a solid 2 to 0 distributed in a 16-9 which took place in Mirage and then it was the turn of nuke by 10-16.
Thanks to obtaining IEM Dallas 2023the Scandinavians will play the IEM Cologne of Germany and also obtained the sum of USD$100,000. As a complement, TEAM USA (Skadoodle, nitr0, jdm64, grim, brehze) beat Team Universe (smooya, NAF, friberg, aliStair, Sonic) by 10-16 in Dust IIwithin the framework of a showmatch disputed in counter strike 2.