FaZe take down Envy, advance to upper bracket finals

The first upper bracket semifinal in North America matched Envy up against FaZe Clan. Envy came in as the higher seed, and both teams came in lightning-hot, having each won a Challengers event to qualify themselves. In the match of styles, it was FaZe’s pace that won the day, helping them dominate Icebox and pull out the win as well. Envy will now match up against Luminosity Gaming in the lower bracket, while FaZe have advanced to the upper bracket finals.

Starting out on one of FaZe’s favourite maps, Icebox, we saw Envy come out with a Sage-less composition, always difficult to make work on the map. Throughout the half, FaZe would repeatedly hit the A site, with their aggression and knowledge of the map paying off. They didn’t plant B a single round, forcing things on A and making it work nearly all the time. Killjoy lockdowns from Pujan "FNS" Mehta provided essentially Envy’s only win condition, and the half ended 9-3.

Envy would manage to make some things happen on their attacking side, faking FaZe out nicely to secure a few free A sites and rounds. Ultimately, though, the difference was too much to make up, and FaZe took the big 13-6 victory to start off the match.

Bind was next up, and things started out very well for Envy, taking all momentum after losing the pistol and follow-up. But some great individual plays from Andrej "babybay" Francisty and Jimmy "Marved" Nguyen stabilized things, and rounds would continue to go back in forth in tremendously fast-paced and exciting fashion. A few more plays from babybay would close the half out at 7-5 FaZe.

FaZe moved onto the attack, and kept things at their signature lightning-quick pace. Envy controlled them relatively well, keeping themselves in it, but a single win from FaZe meant they had no money to contest the match point. FaZe took the map 13-8 to pull off the victory, advancing themselves to an upper bracket date with Sentinels or 100 Thieves.

VCT 2021 - Stage 1 - North America Masters

Envy

0

X

2

FaZe Clan

Upper Bracket Semi Final, Best of 3 - March 14, 2021 - 7:00PM

6

Icebox

13

8

Bind

13

Envy

player

Rating

ACS

K/D/A

+/-

K/D

KAST

ADR

HS%

FBSR

FB

FD

kaboose

1.03

245

32/33/2

-1

0.97

0.0%

148.7

27%

67%

8

4

crashies

0.93

214

25/32/13

-7

0.78

0.0%

142.4

27%

50%

3

3

mummAy

0.69

156

22/31/5

-9

0.71

0.0%

113.3

18%

0%

0

4

Victor

0.54

133

17/38/6

-21

0.45

0.0%

73.4

11%

38%

5

8

FNS

0.46

126

15/32/5

-17

0.47

0.0%

83.7

13%

40%

2

3

FaZe Clan

player

Rating

ACS

K/D/A

+/-

K/D

KAST

ADR

HS%

FBSR

FB

FD

babybay

1.47

296

43/23/10

+20

1.87

0.0%

182.2

16%

64%

9

5

Marved

1.45

273

41/25/12

+16

1.64

0.0%

143.2

31%

70%

7

3

corey

1.38

297

41/20/10

+21

2.05

0.0%

174.9

20%

40%

4

6

Rawkus

0.81

162

22/19/13

+3

1.16

0.0%

102.7

24%

20%

1

4

ZachaREEE

0.74

136

19/24/16

-5

0.79

0.0%

87.3

36%

100%

1

0