What awaits FaZe Clan after winning IEM Chengdu 2024? Possible future of the team
FaZe Clan is an amazing team. The team manages to dominate the professional Counter-Strike 2 scene, despite huge competition and having two older players. These factors do not prevent the team from showing the highest level of play and getting out of the most difficult situations. FaZe has held the first place in the HLTV ratings since November 2023 and clearly has no intention of giving it up. However, any era of dominance is coming to an end, the team has already been in this position and knows about it, but it will be almost impossible to do anything in such a situation. While it’s too early to think about it, FaZe Clan has not failed in any CS2 tournament, and if it does, it’s only in the group stage or grand finals. In this material we will discuss the possible future of the team, as well as options for its development in case of failures.
Reasons for FaZe Clan's continued dominance
FaZe Clan’s vacation after IEM Chengdu 2024 should not be considered as a weakening. A reboot is necessary for any esports team, with such a busy tournament schedule. If you don’t rest, the quality of performances will drop exponentially and will lead the team to natural failure. FaZe will definitely return from vacation with new strength and fresh ideas, which will allow him to continue to dominate the professional scene.
Finn karrigan Andersen’s motivation to continue performing on the professional stage will also have a positive impact on the team’s further success. The legendary captain is not going to hang up his mouse and is still burning with the game and passion for winning championships. At 34 years old, of course, he sometimes fails statistically, but he still surpasses many tier-1 leaders. He will remain on the team as long as he can be useful and be one of the reasons for the success of FaZe Clan.
One of the success factors for FaZe Clan is also stability in the composition of the roster. The team’s roster has not changed significantly for more than two years, which means that all the players are used to each other and the team is doing great with teamwork and communication within the team. During this time, they became a second family for each other and go through any difficulties together.
The latest update to FaZe Clan was the transfer of David frozen Chernyansky from MOUZ. On the roster, he replaced Russell Twistzz Van Dulken, who left for Team Liquid. Twistzz looked like the more star player and at first it seemed like it would be a big loss for the club, but the team’s newcomer fit in nicely. David frozen Chernyansky shows an excellent game for FaZe, and he has been playing in it for only four months. The club became his first truly big team on the tier-1 stage and he has not yet fully revealed his potential. When frozen finishes the process of adapting to the team, he has the opportunity to become one of the best players on the roster at his peak.
Future FaZe Clan tournaments
After the break, FaZe Clan will again face a busy tournament schedule and there will be no time to relax. The team will play at ESL Pro League Season 19 in April, and then await IEM Dallas 2024, BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024 and Esports World Cup 2024, which received the largest prize fund in the history of esports – more than 60 million dollars. But even this will not be the end of a long journey for the team; then they will take part in BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024 and IEM Cologne 2024.
FaZe Clan is also the leader in the current Intel Grand Slam season. The team only needs to win two major tournaments from ESL to once again earn a million dollar prize. This adds unnecessary pressure to FaZe and increases the value of victories.
What reshuffles await FaZe Clan in case of failures?
Even in the event of a total failure, FaZe Clan is unlikely to make drastic changes. The only players who can be changed in the lineup are Howard rain Nygaard and Helvijs broky Saukants. Finn karrigan Andersen, despite his age, is an untouchable member of the team and will not leave it until he wants to end his career as an esports player. And there is no particular point in changing the young and promising David frozen Chernyansky and Robin ropz Kool, the players can perform at the highest level for a long time and it will be very difficult for them to find a suitable replacement.
Howard rain Nygaard has been playing for FaZe Clan for more than eight years, during which time many members of the organization have changed, but representing the same tag sometimes gets boring. Also, he is already 29 years old and does not fulfill the role of captain, which could justify his decline in individual form. If the team fails, he, unfortunately, will be the first to leave it. At this point, his career will come to an end: he can try his hand at tier-2 level, but he is unlikely to be able to return to the same level.
Despite FaZe Clan’s total dominance, it’s hard to say that this is mainly due to their sniper. Helvijs broky Saukants plays with AWP quite consistently, but he cannot be noted as a top-level sniper who is capable of carrying a team alone. As long as FaZe manages to win, there is no problem with it. But when a crisis occurs in the team, the organization will clearly want to take a closer look at more interesting options on the market. Almost any top sniper will want to join such a team, even Oleksandr s1mple Kostyliev.
At the moment, there are no prerequisites that after the rest FaZe Clan will perform worse. As long as Finn karrigan Andersen is in this lineup, and his players are passionate about the game, they have everything to continue to dominate the professional scene. It is difficult to say how many more successful tournaments we will see from this organization, but in order to knock FaZe off the top, their opponents will have to try hard. Even failure in a couple of tournaments will not be the end for such a team; it is ready to accept defeats and work on them. And team reshuffles are unlikely to happen until the next major, which will be held in Shanghai in December.