Every Liquid lineup for CS2 debuts successfully and then fails
The first map was played in round 42, where Liquid still managed to squeeze through and win with a score of 22-20. And on the second map without problems was able to win, all eyes on the debut of ultimate on dash 1 and the return of jks after 9 months of inactivity.
Both of them had a cool performance and a successful debut, but later on the community noticed an interesting pattern with every new Liquid lineup, starting with a lineup that included shox , nitr0 and oSee . This lineup fought FaZe in their first match, but lost with a score of 19-15, which was a pretty good result.
After Liquid's second lineup last year with patsi and Rainwaker made a successful debut with a 2-1 win over G2, but the lineup was also not successful, where they later removed after six months, where cadiaN , Twistzz and Skullz took their place. They made a successful debut in early 2024 as well, defeating Spirit as part of the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2024.
But the lineup also failed and flopped, after which cadiaN and Skullz left the team. This time the team again decided to surprise and sign an unknown ultimate , but despite this the debut of the team again went well and the team won.
As jks said in an interview before the match:
If ultimate continues on the same path he is on now, he will become one of the best players.
ultimate 's stats on the first map were amazing, he finished the first 24 rounds poorly, at 16-16 he had 16 kills. But after that he pulled himself together and had 32 kills before the end of the map, finishing the map 32-26. This was a shocking result for everyone, as no one expected this. The community reacted just as unexpectedly to the debut of ultimate , which performed perfectly.
Also the interest in the match was marked by the fact that for Twistzz , it was the first game as captain, many had doubts that he would lose form and stop playing. After all, he is in good shape now. But Liquid's play was good enough and he finished the map with a best of all ratings of 7.4.
The next match for the new Liquid squad will be today against NAVI, who are the tournament favorites. Whether they can break their losing streak and show decent results will be interesting to watch.
Now the team is on the 15th and 16th position of Valve's world ranking. The team can play in both the European and American regions due to the versatility of the players. Invitations to the RMR Closed Qualifiers will be issued on August 7, which is less than a week away, the team will have one more opportunity to compete at a world-class tournament, but whether they will be able to realize it remains a mystery.
