FaZe made up for their group stage loss to Astralis with an impressive 2-1 victory in the IEM Chengdu semifinals to maintain their 100 percent grand final appearance rate in the CS2 era.

Repeating their map pick from the group stage match, FaZe were able to close out Nuke this time before falling short on Ancient 13-5 to set up Inferno as the decider, which also turned out to be a one-sided affair, with clutch plays from rain and broky propelling the international side to victory. The Latvian AWPer was the star of the series with a 1.27 HLTV 2.0 rating, while device, still adjusting to the IGL role, bottom-fragged on Astralis.