Into the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 - The Defenders [OPINION]

 

Cloud9 is a very popular team and they have been on great form last year, it looks like the team still can't find the way to beat some of the favorite teams in the scene, but that doesn't mean they can't do it. All five players from this team are very good and with the correct motivation they could easily end up on the top eight and have a great showing on the final stage. This is the biggest hope for USA to have a great run and with the crowd support we know they can get fired up. Lets hope they are hungry to show us what they have prepared for this major.

 

First match against: EnVyUs

 

Opinion: Cloud9 will qualify with a 3:1 win/loss score.

 

Last three tournament standings:
ECS Season 4 Finals - 5/6th
CyberPowerPC Extreme Gaming Series Winter 2017 - 1st
IEM Oakland 2017 - 1st

 

 

Håvard "rain" Nygaard 
Finn "karrigan" Andersen
Nikola "NiKo" Kova?
Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács
Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer

 

Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström - Coach

 

FaZe is undoubtedly one of the most talented lineups we have seen playing together, for those who have been seeing CS:GO we know the talent and skills that players like NiKo, GuardiaN, olofmeister, rain can show us. Those players are all lead by karrigan who is known by his great team leading and skills. This is a dangerous mix and they have all on their favor to reach the next stage of this major. One thing that goes against FaZe is that sometimes they have a slow start to tournaments but I am sure they have worked this out and they are ready to avoid 0:3 win/loss score like happened on the last major. On our recent quickpoll 90% said FaZe roster is ready for 2018 and we will confirm if this is correct very shortly. 

 

 

 

Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodensky
Georgy "WorldEdit" Yaskin
Yegor "markeloff" Markelov
Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen
Denis "seized" Kostin

 

In all CS:GO major history FlipSid3 Tactics has not missed one single event and now that all 24 teams at this stage are officially part of the major it means they have kept their status of participating in all editions. FlipSid3 is a team that takes a different approach to the game, they are methodical, they play slow, they play to force you to make a mistake, they play to win, they don't want to deliver the best CS in the world and it works perfectly for them. All players from the team are very experienced and despite having a very quiet 2017 they should compensate it delevering us some of their CS play style. 

 

 

 

The best squad of France, this is the weight G2 will carry, and to prove this is right the entire team will need to play their best at this major. G2 had a rough 2017 with some ups but lots of downs and this is the time to start delivering and forget about last year, specially the second semester. Many of the team hopes will rest on the talents of shox and kennyS but the entire team can play great CS. The biggest problem for G2 is that sometimes they look frustated during a match and when they finally get reorganized, it is already to late to recover from a big disadvantage, if they are capable of dealing with that they will have no problems to reach the next stage.