New Legends Stage Recap: Top 10 Facts
We did our best to find out the most fascinating bits of information about the teams in the New Legends Stage. And now we’re revealing them to you. The worst Berlin Major player so far, the longest Major map ever, the strangest way to lose a match, and more. Check it out!
Top 10 Facts About The New Legends Stage Of The StarLadder Berlin Major
A New Legends Stage Pick’ems recap
Firstly, we’ll briefly talk about the group stage results.
Here’s how our Pick’Ems went, and a short recap of the teams’ performances before the playoffs.
ENCE
Unexpectedly awesome! A flawless 3–0 run with the confident win over Team Vitality. It brings up conflicting feelings — my mind simply refuses to acknowledge the fact that Aleksib won’t be a part of ENCE after the Major.
NRG
Beat Team Liquid — ✅
Beat Astralis — ✅
Champions Stage with a 3–0 record — ✅.
After the Legends Stage, I’ve started believing that they’ll win the title.
Astralis
On paper, their bracket wasn’t that hard, but despite their 3–1 record, they gave their fans some reasons to worry (watch Train vs NRG and Dust2 vs CR4ZY). They’re still yet to get to their peak form.
Team Vitality
Luckily for ZywOo and co, the New Challengers Stage was a wake-up call for the team. ZywOo didn’t need it (1.51 K/D in the first stage), but it worked for apEX and ALEX. However, in my opinion, the semi-final is as far as the French side will go at the StarLadder Berlin Major.
AVANGAR
Team Liquid never saw it coming. 3–1. BRAVO!
Na’Vi, Team Liquid
Titans struggling and just making it to the final stage after being down 1–2. These playoffs are going to be tough.
Renegades
Started off poorly (0–2) but still managed to reach the New Champions Stage by winning three bo3 matches in a row (vs DreamEaters, FaZe Clan, and G2). We all know what happened the last time a team made that kind of comeback in the New Legends Stage #EZ4ENCE :) However, I don’t think the story will be repeated for RNG.
G2, CR4ZY, Mousesports
Though they went from 2–1 to being busted out of the tournament, these three deserved to make it to the top 8. It was so unfortunate for them to get into the grinder deciders. We’re all waiting for some big performances from them in the near future.
The best way to overcome defeat
Straight after their loss in their Champions Stage Spot decider to Renegades, G2 sat down to write out their mistakes. That’s what they always do after their matches.
Also, they were joined by apEX from Team Vitality who came to commiserate with his compatriots. That’s just another reason we love CS:GO.
Family matters at the Major
Round 3 of the New Legends Stage gave us something rare (had it happened before, hm?). In the CR4ZY vs FaZe Clan matchup Nemanja “huNter-” Kovač faced his star cousin, Nikola “NiKo” Kovač. In his interview after the match, huNter said that everyone was excited for the matchup, except for him and NiKo. Eventually, one of the cousins had to fall, and it was NiKo, as CR4ZY beat FaZe on Mirage 16:9.
Observers issue partially resolved
We’ve already highlighted the fact that StarLadder Berlin Major viewers were not too happy with the observers’ work at the tournament. StarLadder took all the complaints and comments into account and hired the tier-1 observer, Connor “Sliggy” Blomfield. He announced it on his twitter.
Though he was the only addition to the observers’ roster, there were no issues raised after.
Besides that, the analytics desk member, Sean “seang@res” Gares, expressed his support of StarLadder on his twitter.
The greatest test, The New Champions Stage, is still ahead. We’ll see if everything goes smoothly.
The worst player of the Major
NiP were busted out of the tournament with an 0–3 record, as we predicted in our Pick’Ems. Thorin gave some harsh comments on the team’s performance in his post-match analytics.
Read more on our blog…
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