Spirit beat FURIA to join G2 in Champions Cup grand final

Spirit have joined G2 in the grand final of the Champions Cup Finals after beating FURIA 2-0 (Mirage 16-4, Nuke 16-11).

The Brazilian squad didn't turn up until halfway through the second map, with Spirit picking up a convincing victory, looking much-improved from their early exit last week at the ESEA MDL Season 32 Global Challenge as they made their first grand final with the new roster featuring Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov and Boris "⁠magixx⁠" Vorobiev.

Although FURIA are still yet to play a third-place decider against ENCE, they will end the year without a grand final appearance in the lineup bolstered by Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles in September.

FURIA's pistol round win at the beginning of Mirage proved fruitless, as mir's 1v3 clutch in a second-round forcebuy turned the tables in favor of Spirit, who began mounting a dominant offensive half. The Brazilians stopped the streak at six in a row, but they couldn't string more together as their opponents were up 11-4 by halftime.

Spirit will take on G2 in the grand final in Malta

With another clutch situation going the Russians' way in the second pistol round, courtesy of Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov this time around, the opening map quickly came to a close, as Spirit claimed a 1-0 lead in the series at 16-4.

Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev's team's rampage continued when the series turned to Nuke, with a 1v2 from chopper helping Spirit get off to a dominant offensive start again. Down 1-7, Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato and HEN1 stepped up with some individual plays and Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan followed with a triple in a low buy, allowing FURIA to come back into contention with six out of the last seven rounds.

After Spirit clinched the second pistol round, they seemed to hit a snag as FURIA equalized things at 10-10, but triples from magixx in a 2v4 retake and sdy in a halfbuy swung the map back in their favor, with the Russians rallying to a 16-11 scoreline.

Champions Cup FinalsBest of 3 FURIAMatchpage 0 2 21st December 2019 Spirit 4Mirage 16 11Nuke 16

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Andrei 'arT' PiovezanarT	26 - 40	-14	70.7	0.82
Kaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoKSCERATO	26 - 33	-7	70.6	0.81
Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1	23 - 32	-9	48.9	0.78
Vinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoVINI	26 - 35	-9	58.4	0.73
Yuri 'yuurih' Santosyuurih	23 - 37	-14	64.8	0.65

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Artem 'iDISBALANCE' EgoroviDISBALANCE	38 - 26	+12	78.9	1.37
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukovmir	42 - 28	+14	86.6	1.35
Boris 'magixx' Vorobievmagixx	34 - 22	+12	89.1	1.32
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakovchopper	30 - 23	+7	65.8	1.21
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhevsdy	33 - 25	+8	71.7	1.16

ENCE #12 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaMiikka 'suNny' KemppiSami 'xseveN' LaasanenJere 'sergej' Salo Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov Age: 22 Team: Spirit Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 582 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.68 Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Age: 24 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 792 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.58 Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov Age: 23 Team: Spirit Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 540 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 Andrei 'arT' Piovezan Age: 23 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 565 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.69 Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev Age: 22 Team: Spirit Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 552 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 FURIA #13 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Spirit #29 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev Age: 16 Team: Spirit Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 115 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.64 G2 #11 Audric 'JACKZ' JugNemanja 'huNter-' KovačKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayNemanja 'nexa' Isaković Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Age: 20 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 488 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.57