Sangal made their debut on the big LAN stage with a 2-1 win against the favored FaZe Clan and are now just one win away from making the playoffs.
For a long time now, Sangal has been showing really great games in online tournaments, which they crowned with a perfect 3-0 performance at the EU RMR qualifiers, as well as placing in the top 30 teams in the world.
Excellent games led them to their first big tier 1 LAN tournament, and already at the start they showed that they are ready for the challenges ahead.
The awesome Samet "jottAAA" Koklu led Sangal with 57 frags and a 1.38 rating in a match where Sangal brought FaZe to its knees on the first map, winning Anubis 13-2 in a landslide. FaZe only managed to take two rounds on the T side, while they were completely powerless on the CT side.
On the Ancient map, the teams entered the finals evenly matched, and FaZe did better and managed to even the overall score with a 13-11 victory. Nuke decided the winner and on it FaZe gambled away a big 8-4 from half time. Both teams made mistakes in the end, but Sangal was more efficient and this time they won 13-11.
They will fight for a place in the finals of Group A against Eternal Fire, who earlier defeated FlyQuest 2-0. In the second part of the draw, Na'Vi defeated Lynn Vision 2-0, while Ninjas in Pajamas defeated Heroic 2-1 thanks to the fact that Heroic was stripped of their first map victory due to the use of Snap Tap technology and instead NiP took a 1-0 lead. by automatically winning Ancient.
