EPIC GRAND FINAL! - FaZe vs Complexity - HIGHLIGHTS - IEM Sydney 2023 l CS2 

The first ever CS2 LAN final was nothing short of incredible. Really sets the bar for all upcoming CS2 LAN events

Watching the final map live had me on the edge of my seat. What a final! I wish every crowd would go as hype as the aussies did! What a show!

Complexity wanted it bad and they put up a crazy fight. These games were insane. Was awesome to witness history.

Broky and Hallzerk owned that last game, a single missed shot from one of them could've swung the entire series. Godlike performance and courage from both Broky and Hallzerk, GG!

hands down the best match in cs2 so far! GG FaZe, Respect Complexity!

Karrigan has now won in 1.6, CSGO and CS 2. He has completed his quest in Counter Strike now. And big props to the Aussie crowd, the best I've seen so far!

Elige is in insane form rn. He’s looking like his 2019 self where he was one of the best in the world. He truly has made all the difference for Complexity

Watched this beauty live in Sydney. GG to both sides, what a game!

So happy for Faze, but also props to Complexity, their run through tournament was incredible

Heartbreaker for col, but proud of them nonetheless. That ancient looked doomed, but the composure to keep going, and bring it all the way to double OTs, showed resilience beyond their years. With THREE MEMBERS of Complexity (including their IGL JT!!) having never even been in a big arena before, let alone a GRAND FINALS, is insane. They were collectively one of the least experienced teams on the big stage facing against a squad infamous for their immense amount of experience in big time games, and yet today they stood as equals. I know these guys can get pretty emotional and down on themselves for choking games away, but save those tears because there was no shame in the way you played. I hope they can pick themselves up and climb back again, because NA needs a hopeful, and who doesn't love a good underdog story?

A historic final. First ever CS2 final delivered in spades. The absolute greatest esport and it's not even close.

Complexity is so much fun to watch. Hoping for them to keep this form and eventually get their name on some trophies 🏆

Happy for Neo winning his first Trophy as a coach . 👏 😊

I swear there SHOULD be a major in Australia. It was one of the best and amazing crowds in cs so far that made me enjoy watching this tournament. Thank you, Sydney ❤ p.s.: HUGE NT to Complexity, wp FaZe Clan!

Timestamps: Complexity Entrance - 0:05 Faze Entrance - 1:30 Game 1 Start - 2:47 Ropz 1v3 Pistol - 3:42 Broky Crazy 4k - 9:27 Game 1 Second Half Start - 10:05 Floppy 3k - 13:35 Crazy Karrigan Kill - 14:32 Chaotic Round - 18:05 Game 2 Start - 20:35 Rain & Grim 3k’s - 23:05 Fans Chant “p***y” - 25:08 Saved By The Flames - 27:35 Game 2 Second Half Start - 28:27 1v1 - 29:58 Niko Deagle Moment Almost - 30:56 Nice Camera Work - 33:45 Do Or Die Round For CoL - 34:33 Broky 3k - 35:30 Karrigan Sick Shot - 36:38 Game 3 Start - 38:00 Twistzz vs EliGE - 41:00 Rain A Hold - 42:10 Rain 4k Cave - 45:48 Game 3 Second Half Start - 47:50 Crucial Round - 48:35 Hallzerk Eco Ace - 49:56 Another Critical Round - 50:26 Rain Nice Deagle Shots - 52:17 Hallzerk crisp AWP shots - 54:06 Faze Force-Buy B Push - 54:53 Swing Round - 56:35 CoL Force-Buy - 57:37 Final Round of Regulation - 58:54 Game 3 OT Start - 59:52 Hallzerk 1v2? - 1:01:20 Faze Championship Point - 1:04:48 Game 3 Second OT Start - 1:06:30 Karrigan B Hold - 1:08:26 Faze Championship Point (take 2) - 1:09:40 Faze Championship Point (take 3) - 1:10:12 Faze Trophy Raise - 1:11:52

What an ABSOLUTE. GODDAMN. BANGER. Jeezus christ with all the blowouts and the 2-0's in the playoffs I was hoping for a good grand finals, at least a map 3. But 2OT in the final map? WHOOOO! I'm so glad I came into it neutral because I know fans of both teams were definitely losing their minds in a handful of rounds 😅. Massive respect to Hallzerk too, stepping up for COL in map 3 to at least push it to OT, but Faze and their experience was too much. Massive W and congrats 🎉🎉🎉

What a match! NEO's tactical pauses help Faze so much.

Hey, Brazillians. This is what a good crowd looks like. Not a single Australian player in the grand final. Stadium still overflowing and cheering for both teams and giving you the best final and vibes in years.

Complexity deserves respect after this tournament despite the result.

happy for Ropz, he deserves that

Watching it live first thing this morning was the best way to start a sunday. Pure excitement.

what a finals , ELiGE is so good , casting and crowd was amazing as well and ofc Ancient OT on last map , ggwp both teams!!

Damn hallzerk and elige were absolutely fucking sharp in that third map. Shame that twistzz was kinda quiet for the entire match Edit: he's leaving faze :(

Probably the best marketing CS2 could have had. Amazing grand final! WP Faze❤️

this was such an amazing final for the first tournament of cs2. so happy faze won but i would've been happy with complexity winning it too. both teams really wanted it especially complexity almost making a comeback on ancient, i was nervous the WHOLE time. gg's to complexity this team has a bright future for sure. congrats to faze!

Best match I’ve watched in a long time, glad I didn’t just wait for the highlights this time. Faze are scary man, their mental right now is levels above anyone.

GG Filip and Team! Good to see Neo in such role and level. Proud as always.

That was wild. Elige and twistzz really bringing it for NA. Rain is just truly the most underrated player.

Both teams absolutely deserved this trophy. They both played incredible!! Hats off and a bow to complexity, they played so well through this whole series and they should be very proud of themselves!

great to hear henryg on commentary again. the game always becomes better whenever i hear him.

Can't be upset with either team, every map was so close, every player played well. What a great final to kick off CS2!

CS2 will achieve the spot of GOAT FPS. Be patient fellas. We are seeing history.

Australia has an amazing crowd, thank you guys! ✊

I was there on the top seats during the finals, I had so much stress with overpass and ancient as a faze fan, I could feel my heart rushing throughout because of the intensity. Definitely felt relieved after they had won the 3 consecutive rounds in 2nd OT. The atmosphere was crazy loud and amazing. Props to complexity for taking down names on the way to the Grand Finals too as the underdogs. FaZe Up!

Heartbreaking!! COL put up such a good fight, FaZe was dominant this tournament and they still took it to OT on the final map. Amazing tourny

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One of the best matches of cs in recent history and an amazing tournament. I had stopped watching after Cologne ‘22. Hope to see more great tournaments like this. ESL please give us aussie major

Insane final in 2023 🔥 Who's thought mr12 bo3 at grandfinal would give this much excitement. Anyway Congrats Faze for the win. Congrats too to Complexity, for giving such a tough fight. And most of all CONGRATS Sydney crowd. You guys the actual MVP. match would be boring without you guys. Valve.. pls give Australia a Major. I insist. Again Congrats Faze, be the first team won cs2 at a big event. Another record had been carved in CS history book 👑

What an amazing start to CS2 LAN...the match was literally juggling with my emotions throughout the game. What an amazing Performa from both of the teams...but Faze just FAZED UP..Letss gooo FAZEEEE

Rain is such a beast! He's been playing for Faze for so many years and he's such a stable, cool, and solid player. It's a wonder how he has stayed at this level for so many years! I think he has almost no equal in terms of stability. Definitely deserves this victory and MVP. GJ Faze! NT Complexity!

Still super proud of the NA boys this tournament, and happy to see Faze yet again prove to their haters that they are top tier.

BROky can somehow see through smokes this guy is unreal. Considering they wanted to kick Rain, FaZe definetly is reconsidering this thought! GJ boys!!

11:35 Karrigan instakills JT while running. Ladies and gents, this is CS2.

They lost their first match against GL and they take a long and hard route around the tournament to make a comeback and win . Huge respect to their determination and team play. I've joined the Faze fan club today. Kudos to COL for making every map not easy at all for Faze.They fought hard. - G2 fan

Such a heartbreaking final for COL. I was really rooting for them but they should hold their heads up high. That was one hell of a series and they played remarkable.

3:51 next level of humiliating in the pistol round by ROPZZZ!!!

ropz so respectful, made sure he looked everyone in the eyes when he shook their hand

Jesus halzerk is a beast man , no wonder he Holds the FPL longest win streak

Man Complexity had rounds to win in Ancient, but uh got too Aggro and died when they didn’t need to 😅 also Brokey killing through the smoke doing just a random drive by with his pistol every time got me so mad.

Despite the defeat, complexity well done, they did a great job of correcting the mistakes. I've never seen such a game from them.

Faze won yes, but can we not give round of an applause for Complexity, I'm sure nobody including the pro team would have thought that they'd play this well or could push prime faze to the limit, when faze click none can stop them except from G2 or Cloud 9, what complexity has achieved was something splendid, at this point i am ok with G2 losing cuz they made a combck despite of pistol lose as well as made it competitive, Kudos to all players from complexity, Easily the best NA team, hopefully they can maintain their form, it was good to see them shine, but can't deny Elige cooked Twistzz in the finals.🎉

Big respect to Complexity. Gg FAZE Clan👍👍👍

the vein on EliGE's forehead gets larger as the games go on

With MR12 I think every big tournament needs to be BO5 grand finals. The rounds were flying by and that last map had me wanting so much more.

I love the energy of this arena !! Australians love a good Csgo match 🙏🏼

watching hallzerk awp can be so entertaining. sure he isn’t top 3 awp or anything but the way he lets momentum carry him is fun af to watch

Special props to the stage host guy. We're so used to OJ Borg level of stage hosting which is not easy to match but the guy managed to bring quite the hype.

I’ve watched a lot of CS but this one was nerve wrecking and sweaty. Love it, need more!

Idk what happened in the minute 52:16, play this part in 0.25x speed and look at rain's crosshair placement before the frag. He focused the aim to floppy first (who was hidden) and then changed to JT, the guy who rain firstly saw. It's LAN, I know, but that was very strange. I mean, the way he changed the placement.

"Rain is an immortal legend."

This feels like that Katowice Grand Final between NaVi v FaZe, this had everything and is worth watching again and again

wOw man Neo is just simply the best, he never changed, always remain humbled

Karrigan is always a great joy to watch with his audience engagements, almost feels like psychological warfare since the crowd cheers so loudly with him. what a great finale, and so close too. GG

My heart man, during all of the overtime. Very happy to see Faze back on track!

38:15 ropz 200iq trigger discipline play🐐

Happy for FaZe and Complexity can hold their Heads up High, what a perfect Grand Finals GG

Nice to see karrigan, a CS 1.6 legend playing on such a high level on CS2

Rain and Hallzerk going above and beyond for their respective teams. Such a great match to start off CS2, here's to hoping for more in the coming moths! 🥂

Complexity is now truly the best NA team, they have my respect and I wanted them to win a trophy so damn bad, hallzerk and floppy are always on fire. It's just something is still missing... Anyway congrat to Faze, they also fought hard

Damn FaZe choking in their opening game only to PREVENT the choke in the final is NOT on my CS2 bingo card lmao. Kudos to them they played great, especially against ENCE

I think just as great a highlight the match was the casters, they are absolutely losing their minds! I've never heard these guys this hyped, I love it!

Bro the double OT had me sitting at the edge of my chair watching it live, I remember the end was tense! Fantastic final, stuff was fucking awesome all round!

dawg the amount of run-and-gun pistol kills I've seen from Rain this tournament is INSANE

From this gameplay alone you can tell how poor the hitreg, delay, sprays etc are in this game. Like everything is so inconsistent and random in this game, valve please fix asap!

That was absolutely crazy. I wouldn't have thought it would get this competitive, nor hyped. I was working so I couldnt watch it live but im very grateful the games were bangers. 2 things: i hope Australia get a major, and i hope big tournaments become bo5. Gg to both teams

I think the real mvp is the whole faze team, you can see every highlight for the whole tourney from broky rain twistz and even karrigan, this is the reason they won final, if twistz could show up a bit more on this game, it would be a lot easier for them. btw gg to COL for giving us a heart attack game.

big gratz what a showing, even Karrigan. So happy for NEO to find stage success as a coach too

CS2 just looks amazing. So clean and bright. Much more enjoyable to follow the gameplay. Great !

CS2 is karrigans game man. his aim has been insane!. Elige sucking on his fingers the whole game was pretty weird. Rain was absolutely DOMINATING this bo3 R💔Z was on fire as well I'm surprised he got the MVP though because I personally thought Rain made more impactful plays. It was a great bo3 to watch live.

complexity played so well. def a top tier team rn

My gambling ass wish we had sticker capsules from that IEM, well played to all the teams, see you at the major!

I went into the weekend rooting for Faze and by the end I was heartbroken for COL. What a freaking amazing show from both teams and everyone should be proud. GG's!!!!! CS2's future feeling bright

After watching Faze manhandle almost every other team this tournament I was worried but Complexity showed their grit and gave Faze their hardest won match of CS2 so far. I can't wait for the future of Complexity with this championship-caliber roster they have.

Karrigan went hard this tournament. GG's!

What a game to hit it off. The rollercoaster of rounds from both camps was fun to watch.

What a great game! So much fun to watch this LIVE! Congrats to FAZE!

Rain is cold-blooded bro. So chill in clutch moments, idol

16:30 - I've never seen that done, that was so cool!

Australian crowd were the real MVP’s of the tournament ❤

Watching ELIGE's head get more read and vainy in the second game was so fun

28:24 was the best moment for live viewers 😅

Congrats Faze Clan, you JUST won the 1st CS2 Lan Event! May your first win in CS2 brings you momentum to win your FIRST CS2 Major at Copenhagen! GG!

I legit turned off the stream multiple times due to stress, game had my shit going up and down my bottom multiple times.

wow what an amazing final! especially the incredible comeback from COL into overtime.. i love it

5:24 lmfaoo those 2 guys

Best CS2 Match ever and one of the most exciting CS grand finals in a long time. As a Col fan my heart is broken, but what an amazing match. I really wanted NA to take the first CS2 LAN and put a good foot forward for the new game but hey, making a grand finals can be good enough rn. GG Faze.

Broky and Rain come thru everytime you need em, absolute beasts.

Broky flash in was insane 4k

Incredible final, so close and what a Fight back from COL! 3 8:4 Nuke T sides in a row for Faze!

i dont even play cs, but thoroughly enjoyed the final. Id maybe even go to the next aussie IEM just for the crowd, the hype and shenanigans. The commentators make it better when they interact with the crowd.