The Ukrainian team made a huge success by winning against Astralis in the fifth round of EU RMR B and secured the first participation in the history of the team at a CS Major.
Passion UA is the project of Arsenal football player Aleksander Zinehnko, who decided to form his own CS2 team in August of last year. In the period that followed, Passion UA fought through numerous smaller online tournaments, and they even spent nine months in boot camp, which further strengthened the bonds within this extremely young team whose average age of players is 19 years.
Passion UA showed a great game already during the closed qualifiers for EU RMR, but no one expected that at the EU RMR itself, they would repeatedly beat some of the best teams in the world.
Already at the start of the tournament, they defeated Virtus.pro, and then one of the two main favorites of Group B, Team Spirit, also fell. However, when the Bo3 matches began, Passion UA lost the fight against BIG in an uncertain ending for a 3-0 placement in the Major, and then they were also defeated by Heroic. Luck in the schedule did not follow Passion UA and they fell in the fifth round to the famous Astralis, who admittedly came to the Major without the star of team dev1ce, but they were still big favorites in today's match.">The Ukrainian team made a huge success by winning against Astralis in the fifth round of EU RMR B and secured the first participation in the history of the team at a CS Major.
Passion UA is the project of Arsenal football player Aleksander Zinehnko, who decided to form his own CS2 team in August of last year. In the period that followed, Passion UA fought through numerous smaller online tournaments, and they even spent nine months in boot camp, which further strengthened the bonds within this extremely young team whose average age of players is 19 years.
Passion UA showed a great game already during the closed qualifiers for EU RMR, but no one expected that at the EU RMR itself, they would repeatedly beat some of the best teams in the world.
Already at the start of the tournament, they defeated Virtus.pro, and then one of the two main favorites of Group B, Team Spirit, also fell. However, when the Bo3 matches began, Passion UA lost the fight against BIG in an uncertain ending for a 3-0 placement in the Major, and then they were also defeated by Heroic. Luck in the schedule did not follow Passion UA and they fell in the fifth round to the famous Astralis, who admittedly came to the Major without the star of team dev1ce, but they were still big favorites in today's match.
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On the Ancient map, IGL Rodion "fear" Smyk enters the scene and with an extremely calm game, he helps his team to preserve the minimal lead from the half and secure their first Tier 1 LAN with a 13-11 victory, and that's no less than the Major.">Instead, the fighting Passion UA bites from the very start on the opponent's peak Inferno and manage to rein in Astralis and draw a draw at halftime. In the continuation on the T side, they show an even better game and with a 7-3 series they come to a 13-9 victory, with several extremely important plays made by Dmytro "jambo" Semera in key moments.
On the Ancient map, IGL Rodion "fear" Smyk enters the scene and with an extremely calm game, he helps his team to preserve the minimal lead from the half and secure their first Tier 1 LAN with a 13-11 victory, and that's no less than the Major.
