FaZe Clan - Champions of the ThunderPick World Championship 2023

On October 5, 2023, the North American organization FaZe Clan became the champion of the ThunderPick World Championship 2023, defeating the Virtus.pro team in the finals. For FaZe Clan, this is their second consecutive victory in the Counter-Strike 2 era.

FaZe Clan beat Virtus.pro with a score of 2:0 (Ancient 13:10, Vertigo 19:17) on the maps. The champions earned $250,000, while Virtus.pro received $100,000 for second place.

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Earlier in the playoffs, FaZe Clan beat team MOUZ (2:1), Cloud9 (2:1). And in Group B, the guys beat all their opponents with a score of 2:0 - these were SAW and Monte.

FaZe Clan currently has a streak of 2 victories in Counter-Strike 2 championships, having previously become champions at the first ever LAN championship in the new version of the game - Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023.

Players' comments after winning the championship

Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken:

First online event win in my career lets fucking go, gg's virtuspro!Ropz - MVP

 

Helvijs "broky" Saukants:

i might be the best vertigo player won thunderpick tournament, travel to china tomorrow.
#FaZeUp

  

Robin "ropz" Kool:

Online g0ds! We won the 500k$ Thunderpick World Championship, great final to top it off. GG's VP. #fazeup

   

The distribution of the prize pool looks like this:

The final playoff grid looks like this:

The Thunderpick World Championship 2023 took place from October 27 to November 5 online. The teams competed for a prize pool of $500,000. You can follow the schedule, news, and results of the tournament by following the link.