G2 huNter- on 13-1 demolition of Spirit in BLAST London: ‘We don’t care who we play’

G2 Esports knocked Team Spirit out of the CS2 BLAST Open London and zoomed into the LAN Finals through a dominant performance in the deciding map of their lower bracket showdown.

While Spirit won 13-11 in the first map of Mirage, G2 evened out the series with a 16-13 overtime win on Dust 2 before shocking the CS2 Shanghai Major winners with a lopsided 13-1 victory on Ancient to secure the quarterfinal slot.

IGL Nemanja “huNter-” Kovač and his team jumped to a scorching start on Ancient T-side with an 11-1 scoreline. They didn’t let the momentum slip away and went on to win the pistol and anti-eco rounds on CT to clinch the victory.

Nikita “HeavyGod” Martynenko was the player of the match, but it was the Guatemalan star, Mario “malbsMd” Samayoa, who emerged as the top fragger on the deciding map, posting a whopping 1.96 rating with 19 kills against seven deaths. Matúš “MATYS” Šimko came in second for G2 with a 13-6 K/D and 1.90 rating.

G2 contained Spirit’s star rifle Danil “donk” Kryshkovets, limiting him to only seven kills and a poor 0.56 rating after 14 deaths. “Spirit is not only donk. He’s a great player, he’s amazing, but Spirit is a whole team, and that’s why they won what they won,” huNter- said in the post-match interview.

The G2 IGL also shared the mindset that propelled them to such an explosive showing against a high-caliber squad like Spirit: “We don’t prepare for donk or some other players. We prepare for ourselves, we play as a team,” he said. “We don’t care who we play. We’re trying to prepare the same way against any player or team.”

HuNter- also commended malbsMd for his superb performance on the final map: “We have malbs as well, who is a great aimer, and I know that if I send malbs to kill donk, he will do it like 50 percent of the time at least. And especially on Ancient, because malbs is really confident on that map.”

G2 was sent to the lower bracket by MOUZ from the Group B upper bracket semifinals in the CS2 BLAST Open London, but they bounced back big against Spirit to be one of the six teams heading to the Wembley Arena in the U.K. capital this week. This is the first time since PGL Bucharest that G2 are heading to LAN playoffs, and the IGL feels great to finally make it happen.

“I think we are improving from event to event. Of course, we could have done better in some things on some events, but for now I’m really happy with the progress, and I’m happy that it’s going this way, that we didn’t show up really good CS in Cologne for the first event, and then bad, then good, then bad, inconsistency, yes. But now it’s going better and better, and that’s what I like to see: progress,” huNter- said.

G2 joined MOUZ, M80, FaZe, Vitality, and FURIA in the LAN Finals. Since they’ve qualified from the lower bracket, they will have to grind it out starting in the quarterfinals against FaZe Clan. The BLAST Open London playoffs feature a single-elimination bracket, so G2 need to carry their momentum versus FaZe for a chance to face FURIA in the semis.