The last ESL Challenger event of 2024 has come and gone, and one team has stamped its quality to win the event after beating a young B8 team. The SAW and B8 teams reached the finals against all odds in a competition with strong contenders like Eternal Fire and Team Falcons.
Interestingly, SAW went into the competition low on expectations especially after they lost their star rifler arrozdoce and coach BERRY few days before the event. In fact those optics didn’t look for SAW and they were not considered as good enough for ESL Challenger Katowice 2024.
However, in an interesting turn of things, the team has managed to emerged victorious in an impressive fashion. Three of their key players roman, story, and ewjerkz raked in massive numbers all through the entirety of this CS2 event.
Even under the biggest pressure in the Grand Final, they dropped B8 in an impressive way, as they only dropped eight rounds overall across two maps. The performance made it a totally deserved win for the SAW team, and they did their bit to be crowned champions.
B8 themselves were not expected to get that far and being a young team, they had done beyond their weights having ran a fairytale trip to the Final of the international LAN. Apparently, they have not done enough to be strong to be an international LAN winner. Whatever hopes the likes of npl and headtr1ck may have had was dashed and their experiences from their time in NAVI and NIP respectively weren’t enough.
Nevertheless, the defeat doesn’t throw out B8 totally as the team still has the potential to be a big roster to contend with in the future and as young as they are, the Grand Final at ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 could be the beginning of something great.
