After forming only at the conclusion of this past 12 months, will this brand new BLAST tournament deliver a first important victory to OG's counterstrike: world wide Offensive squad?
Players, analysts and fans alike were shocked once the OG CS:GO roster was announced by the conclusion of this past calendar year. OG, made by Johan'N0tail' Sundstein, was known as a International winning Dota 2 team -- counter strike: world wide Offensive has been their first step out of their comfort zone. Most of us know that OG was able to form a championship-winning team in Dota2, the question on everyone else's mind was when they could do the same in Valve's other huge E-Sport. The competitive spectacle was dominated by teams and players who largely have not changed through the years.
Nearly 12 months from the statement, OG have not won an S-tier contest only yet, but would next week's BLAST Fall Finals be their first?
To fully grasp just how possible it's for OG to make a major dab in the Fall , we've to take a review of their current positions and, needless to say, their form.
Currently, OG are ranked the number eight team in the Earth, seventh in case we're just taking a look at European clubs. Five teams who are ranked higher than them (Team Vitality, G2 E-Sports, Natus Vincere, BIG and also Astralis) will also be attending the championship. Purely taking a see this look at the ranks, things look a little tough for the OG Squad, however OG are not almost every other counterstrike teams of course, in the event that you've seen Against The Odds, you are going to realize that OG positively flourish whilst the underdogs.
They have proven that often if a team is ranked a lot better than those they function better. For those who need proof, just take a peek at the way that they qualified for the major event. They overcome Natus Vincere within an 2--1 victory and also grabbed the higher seed. Coach Casper'ruggah' Due said:"We seem to perform really well against the best teams, so we don't use too much time thinking about which opponent would be good or bad."
To acquire from the best, this is the type of mindset a expert team needs. It's no good looking just at the positions, it always depends on which team is about to show up on your day of this game -- and OG appears to accomplish precisely that contrary to the best.
To get OG, the main hurdle they will have to over come is Astralis. Coach ruggah recently told us which they haven't managed to beat the team yet,"however, we haven't played them in a long time and we're a different team than last time we played, so it would be a good challenge for us regardless."
Since Astralis lost against G2 within their own group, there exists a possibility that both OG and Astralis will confront at the very first round. Still, a success over Astralis anywhere from the championship would be a indication of OG building a very profound run.
Construction up into the enormous finals weekend, even within the last year OG has focused on creating a few of those few truly international teams from professional counter strike. Generally in the majority of other teams, players speak their native language at the in-game channels: OG do things otherwise. Each of five players stem from a different nation, therefore English is the language that is in-game. Besides just tactics, shooting and strategy, that probably one of the most important facets to succeed for OG, says ruggah:"Synergy and teamwork are very big factors on our road to success. It doesn't matter if we can perfectly execute certain strategies if we don't play the situations that follow with synergy."