Cloud9 came back despite being a map down to win the Brazy Party over Astralis.
Cloud9 vs Astralis Brazy Party 2023 Match Recap
- Cloud9 Vs Astralis
- Brazy Party Grand Final
- Match Type: Best of 3 Online
Map Veto
- Astralis removed Anubis
- Cloud9 removed Nuke
- Astralis picked Overpass
- Cloud9 picked Vertigo
- Astralis removed Mirage
- Cloud9 removed Ancient
- Inferno was left over
Map 1: Overpass (Pick: Astralis, Winner: Astralis, Final Score: 16:5)
Astralis got off to a flying start on Overpass, taking a comfortable lead of 5-0 over Cloud9 until it was Abay ‘HObbit’ Khassenov who locked out the Danes from the B bombsite with a 3K.
Cloud9 tried to claw their way back in their opponents map pick which saw Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov and Dmitriy “sh1ro” Sokolov scramble for some last-minute duels to keep the ball rolling for the NA-based organization. The first half ended 10-5 in favor of Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and company.
Coming from the break, things just crippled further for Cloud9 as they just couldn’t pierce in through the reinforcements set up by Astralis as the latter ran away with a dominant second half and claimed Overpass under their name. The final score read 16:5 as Astralis went 1-0 up.
Map 2: Vertigo (Pick: Cloud9, Winner: Cloud9, Final Score: 16:7)
Cloud9 on Vertigo started off the right foot only to trade rounds back and forth with Astralis who tried to recover after C9’s early lead of 4-1. But the Danes were just unable to check everything off their Strat list as the Russian lineup secured the first half, 9-6.
The second half was a pure carbon copy of what happened on Overpass with Cloud9 leaving no stone unturned as H0bbit and his men claimed the pistol round to enter the double-digit scoreline. Cloud9 seemed to easily cruise into their map pick as they further continued to glare prominence, conceding just one round on their defense. It was sh1ro and Ax1Le all along who kept the Danes in check, helping their team to bag Vertigo 16-11.
Map 3: Ancient (Ancient was left over in the Veto, Winner: Cloud9, Final Score: 16:12)
The final map of the series saw Cloud9 recovering from the pistol loss to rack up 5 straight rounds on their attack. Sh1ro’s 4k post-plant clutch saw Cloud9 go 8-4 up with Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz losing to his sniper counterpart while attempting to trick his way. A quick aggressive play from the duo of Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and Alexander “Altekz” Givskov saw Astralis consolidate their grip towards the end of the first half which read 6-9 on the scoreboard.
Astralis were quickly able to square off the 3-round deficit coming into the second half. But it was once again Cloud9 who left no room for errors as they were spotted running away with a 5-round lead, tallying the score to matchpoint before Benjamin “blameF” Bremer and gla1ve managed to put Astralis in a double-digit scoreline and putting up quite a show before Cloud9’s collective effort shut down their opponents as the former were declared champions of the Brazy Party 2023 and taking away the lion’s share of $130,000 USD from the prize pool.
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