{"id":28864,"date":"2023-03-09T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=28864"},"modified":"2023-03-09T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:47:53","slug":"faze-clan-and-team-vitality-to-clash-in-upper-final-of-group-c-at-esl-pro-league-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/faze-clan-and-team-vitality-to-clash-in-upper-final-of-group-c-at-esl-pro-league-17\/","title":{"rendered":"FaZe Clan, Team Vitality to clash in ESL Pro League 17 Group C final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After winning their respective semifinals against OG and Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team Vitality and FaZe Clan will face off in the upper-bracket final for Group C in <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League 17<\/a> this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The two finalists are yet to lose a single map through their first two series, with Vitality defeating Grayhound and OG 2-0, while FaZe defeated Rooster and NiP in the same fashion. <\/p>\n<p>Mathieu \u201cZywOo\u201d Herbaut from Vitality now has the second-highest rating in ESL Pro League 17, currently sitting at 1.79. <\/p>\n<p>ZywOo recorded a massive 1.90 rating in Vitality\u2019s first series against Grayhound, where he dropped server highs in kills (46) and kill\/death difference (+28), before dominating OG in their second series, recording server highs in kills (44), deaths (16), kill\/death difference (+28) and rating (1.71).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another day of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ESLProLeague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ESLProLeague<\/a> Season 17 has come to an end!<\/p>\n<p>Have there been any results you didn&#39;t expect in Group C so far? Check out the full bracket after 2 days of play \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1uL9g4NYbR\">pic.twitter.com\/1uL9g4NYbR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1633962114350972931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the bracket, FaZe Clan appear to be regaining their form with demolition jobs against Rooster and Ninjas in Pyjamas, with their 2-0 thrashing of NiP surprising many.<\/p>\n<p>FaZe has been led by Havard &#8220;rain&#8221; Nygaard and Robin &#8220;ropz&#8221; Kool, who are currently ranked third (1.45) and fourth (1.39), respectively, in overall ratings for ESL Pro League 17.<\/p>\n<p>Finn &#8220;karrigan&#8221; Andersen, the in-game leader of FaZe Clan, said &#8220;FaZe have practised for a month straight&#8221; and that he &#8220;can&#8217;t remember the last time we had so much practise in the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With both Team Vitality and FaZe Clan dominating their group, they would be putting a lot of other teams on notice, and it would be no surprise if the winner of Group C entered the playoffs as the tournament&#8217;s new favourite.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, FaZe and Vitality will have the day off, but OG, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Grayhound and paiN Gaming will have to play their lower-bracket semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of matches scheduled for Saturday, with odds provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/go\/ggbet-sport\/\"  title=\"Claim bonus at GG Bet\"  target=\"_blank\">GG Bet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>OG ($1.32) vs paiN Gaming ($3.26) @ 4pm CET<\/li>\n<li>Grayhound Gaming ($8.50) vs Ninjas in Pyjamas ($1.05) @ 7:30pm CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dominating each side of the group, FaZe Clan and Team Vitality will clash in the upper-bracket final of Group C at ESL Pro League 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,11,430,127,636,428,286,285,215],"class_list":["post-28864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-esl-pro-league","tag-faze-clan","tag-grayhound-gaming","tag-ninjas-in-pyjamas","tag-og","tag-pain-gaming","tag-team-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28874,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions\/28874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}