After forming just at the end of this past year, will this latest BLAST tournament deliver a first key victory to OG's Counter-Strike: world wide Offensive squad?
Players, analysts and fans alike were shocked when the OG CS:GO roster was announced at the end of last year. OG, made by Johan'N0tail' Sundstein, was known as an International winning Dota two team -- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was their first step out of their rut. All of us understand that OG had been able to produce a championship-winning team in Dota2, the question on everyone else's mind was when they can do the same from Valve's other big E-Sport. The competitive scene was dominated by teams and players that largely haven't changed through the years.
Almost 12 months from the announcement, OG have not won an S-tier competition only yet, but would next week's BLAST Fall will function their first?
To understand just how possible it's for OG to earn a major dab in the Fall Finals, we have to take a review of their current rankings and, needless to say, their own form.
Currently, OG are ranked the number eight team in the Earth, seventh if we're just taking a look at European clubs. Five teams that are ranked more than them find here (Team Vitality, G-2 E Sports, Natus Vincere, BIG and Astralis) are also attending to the championship. Purely looking at the positions, things look a little demanding for the OG Squad, however OG are not almost every other counterstrike teams and when you have seen Against The Odds, you are going to understand that OG favorably flourish since the underdogs.
They will have shown that usually in case your team is ranked better than those , they function better. For those who need proof, take a peek at exactly the way that they qualified for the major event. They beat Natus Vincere within an 2--inch success and also grabbed the greater 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 win from the very best, this may be actually the type of mindset that a professional team needs. There isn't any good looking at the rankings, it always depends upon which team is ready to show up on your day of the match -- also OG appears to do just that contrary to the ideal.
For OG, the biggest challenge they'll have to over come is Astralis.
Since Astralis lost against G-2 in their own group, there's a chance that both OG and Astralis will face off at the very first round. Nevertheless, a success over Astralis anywhere in the championship would be a indication of OG making an extremely profound run.
Construction up to the major finals weekend, within the past year OG has concentrated on creating one of the few truly international teams in professional counterstrike. Generally in the majority of other teams, players speak their native language from the in-game stations: OG do things differently. Each of five players stem from another nation, so English is the language that is in-game. Other than tactics, shooting and strategy, this certainly probably one of the main facets to triumph 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."