FaZe Clan shut down critics to power past Cloud9 to win Pro League and claim the Intel Grand Slam

The international CS:GO team of karrigan has managed to secure their first trophy since the player break, with some of the strongest-ever individual performances on display by the squad’s young trio of ropz, broky and Twistzz. This victory, coupled with their triumphs at Katowice, Pro League season 15 and Cologne last year, makes them the fourth team to claim the Intel Grand Slam’s $1 million bonus prize in the competition’s history.

Though the recent months in elite-level competitive CS:GO were more about the emergence of G2 and Heroic as title contenders, FaZe could only fade into the background so much with the level of talent they had on display. As questions began to crop up about karrigan’s recurring “honeymoon periods” with his teams and the future prospects of an unchanged lineup that went nine months without winning a trophy, they silenced the doubters in style to become deserved winners of the seventeenth season of the ESL Pro League.