FaZe Clan vs Team Liquid

FaZe Clan ranked #4 from Europe (MIX of players) are facing Team Liquid ranked #3 from North America in the IEM Chicago 2018 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $250,000. The tournament is held in Chicago, Illinois, USA and it is played on LAN.

This is a best of 3 * Semi-final type of match.

FaZe map performance in the previous three months: Train is at 77,8% win rate on nine played games, Dust2 62,5% on eight played maps, Mirage 59,1% on 22 played maps, Cache 50,0% on six played maps, Inferno 42,1% on 19 played maps, and Overpass 41,2% win rate on 17 played maps.

Liquid map highlights in the last three months: Inferno is at 76,2% win rate on 21 played maps, Cache 73,7% on 19 played maps, Nuke 66,7% on six played maps, Mirage 58,8% on 17 played maps, Dust2 37,5% on eight played maps, and Overpass 25,0% win rate on four played maps.

Pistol performance in the last 30 days only on offline events goes to Team Liquid who have 75,0% win rating over FaZe Clan who have 54,5% total.

FaZe played 13 maps in November and won nine considering one map went to draw/tie, converted, they played ten games and won seven with that one tied game. In October they played 50 maps and won 25, converted, they played 43 games and won 21. In September they played 19 maps and won nine, converted, they played 11 games and won five.

Liquid played 12 maps in November and won six, converted, they played six games and won three. In October they played 40 maps and won 26, converted, they played 37 games and won 24. In September they played 23 maps and won 16, converted, they played 12 games and won ten.

FaZe played against LDLC and won barely 16-14, then they defeated MIBR 2-1 and demolished Astralis 2-0, so they look very favorable entering this matchup. Liquid played against Luminosity and won 16-11, then they defeated mousesports 2-1 but surprisingly lost to fnatic 2-1. Then they defeated team LDLC 2-1 in quarter-finals. Stats say FaZe is the 4th TOP team with 1,08 rating on six played maps; their best player is NiKo with 1,26 rating on six played maps. Liquid is the 2nd TOP team with 1,11 rating on ten played maps, and their best players are twistzz with 1,23 rating on ten played maps and nahte with 1,22 rating on ten played maps. Most-played maps on this tournament so far are MIrage x11, Inferno x10, Train x9, Cache x8, Nuke x6, Overpass x5, and Dust2 x4.

FaZe had only one misfortune in 2018 when olofmeister had to leave the team, but he came back and is playing stable so far. They played five tournaments and won three, on other two, they were second.

Liquid also had small roster problems during this whole 2018 year, taco joined in April while steel left. From six tournaments this year, they won only one, and on others they were second, always being crushed by Astralis.

These two teams played a lot of head-to-head matches, and the score is 14 wins for FaZe and only three wins for Liquid with one game going to overtime and last three matches going to FaZe 2-1.

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