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BLAST Premier Bounty Season 1 2026 - Day 1 - FUT Esports vs OG, FaZe vs EYEBALLERS, Astralis vs Fnatic, Aurora vs HOTU
01-13-2026 · 13h 01m
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You are the first team to go so just tell us who are you picking where are we going
of this to stop off the Blast Bouncy season 1 for 2026.
But one team pick and team fight.
Woo!
Team?
Right, okay!
We have good match-slot, like time, I mean, because it's played game and we have more time
for preparation.
That's where we have a good time, like, for being with for us.
Which team is the not-it-going to pick as the second team to choose here in the
drop?
We're going to pick a straws.
Oh, yeah, I can't.
But they need to give them an early test.
They need to give them an early test for their new roster.
Yeah, so we got the gentimates.
They played only shortly before Christmas, so they haven't played in the new year.
So we just like hope to with our practice experience, like in the middle of the year games, that we can come out hot.
What are we going to get here from passion?
Alright, we're going to pick game leasing.
Honestly, I wanted to throw the moment where I wanted to pick and the other team that's a much higher ranked.
But we had a discussion with the team and we had a vote and we're going to pick the game with the team.
You have to have a team.
You can't see it.
You're going to tease us or you're going to kill me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, how to pick?
How about that?
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh.
Big one as well.
OK.
You're kicking.
How did this come together?
together. Like you know it's more about
the virus like imagine being them. They're number nine
if I'm not wrong in well-break rating. I mean of course
I mean it's not a bit of scarcity. It also has system
code and basically everyone right. I think it's quite
exciting. I mean we're going to pick team liquids.
Throw a couple of reasons. I mean they have a lot of
Bounty that we can collect and they also have a pretty decent nearest rank right?
Yeah, we're going to go ahead and select for Roach, which I believe is kind of a little bit just like.
Yes, that is still a value. Yeah, I'm over again that that's a good choice.
Well, I'm going off this little go-chip here, I've got like, you know, gentle maids in here,
something about a coughing baby and then her Roach.
Who is I bonus going for?
Yeah, I mean, I'm back, you know, I'm going to go with Fainz here.
Okay.
I've been out of the circle for way too long.
I felt like I wanted to do it with a bank as I said.
I also think they are on incredible team. I mean I feel very grateful to show that I'm with that legend and anyone's against.
So, did they decide to pick through the mugs?
Why 3D matches?
I mean, first time was so nice, so I hope we have to do it twice.
We will go for food.
Oh, okay.
Hmm.
To be honest, I know they are really eye-in to ranking.
They are like 70.
So it's also really important for us because we are really like in...
...actuation in the real ranking.
So I really think it's a good...
...a good one for us.
We take Furia.
Oh!
Oh!
Yeah.
That's all.
That's all.
We're still having a good chance against Furia to be honest,
and if we just come out the right way and they might feel pressured
because we want the talk to stuff like this, so yeah.
This was the right thing to pick most.
Talking about confidence, we are honestly
in some bunch of places, so we pick party vision more or less,
right?
Not big or bad.
Actually, I believe we've surprised that there's still left here.
We'll go for the vitality.
Ooh, okay.
Yeah, do you have the term information?
Yes, the term is pretty simple.
We have only super strong teams left,
and we played against Vitality in Chendu.
It was really hard matchup.
It was intersing, guys loved it.
And we just want to repeat it.
Yeah, we're going to pick Navey.
Yeah, lovely.
Makes sense.
How can this got monacy?
It's UK.
It's very Scott Donk.
And they've got a new roster.
So there might be some honeymoon stuff
for the Japanese shots.
Definitely know for sure.
We will go for Spirit.
Obviously, they have a new roster.
Of course, they have Donk.
But the other side, Falcons have kids who care, monos have to play Falcons, it's just given to you.
But did you expect it to be a different team?
Yeah, for sure, of course, we expect it by telling you, but luckily a lot of other teams had main character energy, so that's fine for us.
Hello everybody and welcome to the start of the Counter Strike season here from
our gaming multi studio. It is the blast bounty and we're kicking things off in Star
and this is what's beautiful when we get to do this because exciting things have happened
over the break. We're coming back in, we've freshed, we energised teams need to sharpen a
different face than a new level pin. Yeah, different teams you know, new faces and different
team's new expectations teams who maybe had a rough 20, 25 are coming in eager to show
that they can do better on 20, 26. So it's always a bit of a special feeling when you
have the first tournament of the year and that being the last bounce you couldn't be in a
better. It couldn't be any better. And this is my first time inside our gaming multi-studio.
That's big. Compared to what we saw it when I was like, what you're going to stream,
this is, if you're hearing person, it's wild. And we are going to have crowd in the later weeks.
When we get throughout the last bounce you've been hit before you've done this and you've been
out the tour, some of the beautiful sites of Malta.
It is a big and beautiful.
Let's put it that way, the studio of that is,
but also the city, as you can see,
a lot of sun on these pictures.
This time around there, we had doing a bit of a colder time.
It's like you walk into a room, and that's cold,
and you walk out to the sun on its warm,
so there's a bit with the climate that is different
compared to last time, but in terms of the scenery,
the studio, the sun out there, it looks like good or not.
Now, it's good or not, so it's good or counterstripe,
but there is some different look in overall,
the teams are what we're expecting,
and the expectations, right?
Because this is what always happens.
We went from 2025, the year of vitality,
we saw teams try and fight their way up,
and there we have the debate
of who is the greatest player right now.
We've had so many things going on,
which fence you're sitting on with it all.
This makes things more exciting
because when we come into it,
we've got so many questions that needs to be answered again
of who can hold onto it, pin.
So what are you most excited for coming into 2026?
I think there's a lot of different angles you can take
in that one.
If I had to pick one just on the top of my head right now,
I'd say spirit, you know, with okay, don't obviously not winning best play of the year.
That's a debate for itself.
But the roster change would end that team with metrics coming back.
What some takes coming back, chop up, lift out, you know, a little bit.
I'm getting really old in that team.
So I feel like for my money, the team that I look the most forward to see early on,
and this tournament is going to be Team Spirit.
And you know what, as well, just because you mentioned spirit,
that don't have been grind in face, it's life's crazy.
You know, he's not going to stop.
He wants to make sure that it can be turning around through an even better year in 26.
but we'll get into more of that across the whole of the Blast Bounty,
but for all of you, you might not be too familiar with this,
so take a look at the format and understand it all.
Welcome to the Bounty, a new, bold counterstrike format
where every round raises the stakes. Here's our works.
The prize pool isn't just special yet. It's distributing as bounties.
It's teams starts with a bounty based on their seed.
Lower seed begins with zero, but can still strike you big by hunting bounties from higher ranked teams.
When a match and you secure 50% of your opponent's bounty as a guarantee payout, the other 50%, it carries forward, growing its stakes for the next round.
After each round, below a seated teams pick their opponents from the highest seated pool.
This happens during the live draft shows, taking place before the tournament first begins, and after each round of play, bounty hunters can choose from the most wanted teams,
deciding if they want to choose their opponent based on strategy and past history or simply going for the biggest prize available.
This is Counter-Strike, like never before. Are you ready to go bounty hunting?
Well, Pimp for sure. I am ready to go bounty hunting, but for some of these teams maybe they are not. We have 32 teams here playing across these two weeks, right?
And then it's just so tough man, you look at how many matches the arts, not so many
with that many teams, because it's single elimination, everything gets at the highest
pressure.
I'll be honest, that's the thing I love the absolute most of our performance, the fact
that it's single elimination from the get go.
I love it.
Every game has stake, right?
You come into a game, you don't perform, you have a bad day, you're sick, your dog
is throwing up.
I don't care what the excuse may have may not be, but if you do not win the game, you
out of the tournament.
And I love that cut through for me.
You just evil.
That's what I'm going to say.
Yeah, you just want to see everyone suffer and have everything put to the map.
Yeah, do pressure on all of it.
We are starting off on the online side of it all at the same time as well.
And that does add a bit of a different caveat for some teams who may be
sure not playing online as much while there are others in there.
Who they live and they breathe online.
That's where they dominate.
Yeah, there's certain teams who obviously are trying to grind their way into
tier one tournaments and even some of the two lands as well.
And in order to do that, you've got to grind out online tournaments.
You've got to get some years points.
You've got to go through the online qualifiers.
So certain teams are I'm all accustomed to it.
but there's also a skill difference more
than they're not between Tier 1 and Tier 2.
So I don't think it's an excuse,
but it's definitely a different element.
Let's put it that way.
It is a different element.
And that element that we're looking at right now
is between our most wanted and our bounty hunters.
And you look at the bounty hunters in here.
They have nothing to lose, right?
They're just trying to prove themselves.
They're trying to throw some wild picks out there.
They try to use the pressure against the most wanted teams.
There's the thing, and especially with the online component,
as you said, you know, if you're one of the most wanted teams out there,
you have a bounty on your head.
It's very tempting to to go for some of the teams that is in that middle pack where you see,
okay, if you're number nine in the world, if you're number 13 in the world, there's not too much
of a big difference in that regard. So I feel like for some of these bound to hundreds out there,
they they're probably a season opportunity and they see potential in taking down some of these
teams, especially now that it is online and it is the beginning of the season where everyone
could come in, would have put up a fresh look. It is a bit of a fresh start and also I've
So I've got to mention that the wages are not going to be taking part within this format
anymore.
So the money will just go, if you get that win, you get half in your bank, you keep half
with the play with the rest of it as well, very important when it comes to the RS, but we do
have a little teaser for you of what is going to be added here.
Look at this.
What does this give you a thought of, Jim, but what's in your mind when you're looking
at this beautiful circle?
I'll be completely honest.
My first thought with giant slice of pity.
That's just the way my brain works, I guess.
It does look kind of interesting, though, and yeah, I'm not going to pretend I don't know what it is,
but let me just put it this way.
I think you guys at home should be excited for when we finally can.
We've all what is behind the curtain.
I think the great way to explain what people are going to see is going to be beautiful,
chaos, entertainment, but we can't show you any more of that.
You have to wait, not enough to wait until week two.
Then it's going to come in patience.
Patience is definitely key.
And patience is what we needed for a lot of our teams in there.
But there are more changes in there and some teams won't have a chance to have any patients because
Guess what? Train has gone a new business in and him for me when I look at this
I'm sad. I like train. I don't think the train should have been out because it just didn't get much time
I think the community mostly agrees with you
But I'm ready to start off 2020-26 what a bit of a hot take. I'm actually glad train has been removed and the reason why I'm glad is that I play train in
in source. I watched Train in 1.6. I think Train in C is go. To me, Train was the best map.
Train was undoubtedly the matter that I love the absolute most, but this C is
two version of Train was really on par. Yeah, I had potential by thinking needed rework. I
think it needed to to fulfill the potential. So if that means that Train goes out and it comes
back in a couple of years in a much better state, I'm willing to make that investment, but I know
people at home may not agree. And then the second part of that is a new perspective. Is that the
that we want back a lot. You said we work. A new miss hasn't been
re-worked as it will now. Maybe something else will happen right? But I
mean we're playing the same a new miss. The other thing that could change
slightly is that you've got the CT account. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know
man, we're in a wild world again. The style of 20, 20, sick. You know,
heavy. You are right. Okay. Yeah. Very heavy. That does benefit them. But
let's see it. They can still play to that same high level that we know and
love with it. But you know what time we could do right now? It's the gaming
multi-fantasy draft. You guys could do this at home as well. You've still got some time to do it.
Fantasy draft over on Blast.tv for slash fantasy. You get to pick out your players from
bronze all the way up to Diamond to build the best team, get some points and compete in the
leaderboard for some fantastic prizes. So get involved in this. Me and people are going to try and
agree together on all of this. So my eyesight is not as good as it used to be, babe. In bronze,
I can see we're going to have to zoom in for us. Please production. I need a little zoom in on that.
There we go. Okay. Where do you want to go with our first bronze? Because this is going to be probably some of the players were most likely to not make it too fast
You need to try and make a smarter choice within that true. I feel like VP is an interesting team and there's a lot of things
Well, and do I want to gamble a bit here? Do we want to go? You can see Shua is a very popular pick by a lot of people. I think what is going to do them?
They'll do better like well within the teams you can see there. So yeah, let's take a show. I don't think VP are going far at all
So at least this might, you might win a game.
Yeah.
OK.
Then silver, apex obviously very
probably because they're probably expecting
to make it to the finals.
Remember, this is for opening to opening weeks
of play before we get to the final.
So do we just agree on an apex?
That's too boring.
Let's go, Alex, it be.
I want to see Navi.
I think what they did at the major there was interesting.
So we so far have a team of in-game leaders.
Usually in that the best way to go.
But let's see what we can get from the gold section.
Oh, the gold.
OK, this is where it gets hard.
You could go foreign and just do a fool.
That's how I feel, I don't get a pretty point to them.
That's true.
True.
Okay, you know, on this, I might want to go in there.
Take Jacob.
Jacob's been on the right.
Let's put some stock into Jacob.
I'm down.
I'm down.
He showed some of some potential during the media.
Let's see if he can continue with that.
Now we get into the net equity.
Now we get into the good place.
Now we get into the the cast.
The British King, Mesey.
Ah, no, ah, it's a boring, it's a boring.
Okay.
Well, where should we go with this?
than a shoot care wonderful can wonderful continue to fall and we're gonna go all in on
Navier wonderful what's sick doing to make you hey he keeps it going up he's so happy
it's online player I don't mean he's gonna struggle there it's all he's not
a player that struggles but he goes online he can just do well I mean cue shoot could
would be obvious let's go wonderful wonderful that's the fun pick we've got two
Navier players no more Navier now no one you can't but I love all the two players on it
I mean it's it's pretty wonderful yeah we're taking one
Navier take one is wonderful so to me this is a no winner to me this is an absolute no
No, but no, you're doing a world don't.
A hundred percent. There's no doubt about it.
Yes, you can hack your servers up there.
Well, we choose who's the captain's going to be.
Are we going to let's do Jacob? Let's do Jacob.
Yeah, because he could get so many points.
Yeah. I'm agree with it.
Yeah. I think with that multiplier for him, people still underestimate him.
He showed up. He's showing better level.
And he came from online counter.
He's used to this environment, right?
Yeah. He's maybe a little bit more comfortable.
He's had a couple of months now.
We didn't face Glenn had a player break.
The nurse that he talked about, you know,
Cagan City has a lot of nerves.
Tinkham himself said that the nerves is a problem for me online shouldn't be an issue.
That's my captain.
That's my guy, you know, gathering points.
I'm agreeing with you.
I like it a lot, but we've got loads of counter strike to come your way today.
So let's take a look at the schedule for best off threes and it's so much exciting
action where we spoke about the pressure we spoke about what it means later today, Aurora
Hotu, Australia's fanatic, phase I ballers, but next, and the first game of the day, FUT,
taking on OG.
I'm straight into that straight into that.
So our FUT versus OG match up here.
This is people might look at this and think,
oh, they're both like teams who are not really on the highest level.
But I think people don't quite understand
that notice how good FUT is
and how this call has worked and grown that way up
from just being Nabi Jr into what we see today.
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna start off by flaming Tritchet,
but if you were to ask them,
who do you think is the bounty team
and who do you think is the most more like who do you think has the bounce on the head? Do you think
is the better ranked team of the two? Most people would probably think that there must be OGU,
Eccadian, and Flammers, but through this you said what they've done lately, what they've been
grinding through an online counter strike, what they did coming into the break was super super impressive.
Again, player name value, you may look at these guys and think to yourself, I don't know too many of
them, there's obviously long shoes had a pretty long career already, they're said,
what in counter strike has been on a couple of cool teams, you know, Falcons being one of them
proud, etc. or even a player that I think Navi at a certain point we're looking at thinking
maybe he could be interesting for us. But overall the name value of these players are
not necessarily that high, but what they deliver on the server gene for what they've been
able to grind through and deliver of counter-strike they're playing whatever you watch them.
It's up there, you know, I think 2026 is a year where they will do everything they can in their
power to break through as you can see in some of these tournaments as well, running Dracula and
going into Galaxy Battle winning as well. I'll tell you what James, the last 15 games they've played,
the last 15 serious death played the one 14 of those. They are owning it up and tear
two tear three right now. So if I'm old, I would be shaking a little bit.
Yeah, and this is it, right? This is a team where McCarthy came from them, right?
You got taken into the main roster. And many people were thinking, this team was going to
crumble. It's going to fall. But guess what? They played together. So well, they kept that
core. The same coach building them up. They're young. They're hungry. They've got this talent.
They actually might be better without him. It's just some degree in. And that's what
can happen sometimes. It's not to say anything away from my car. You know, he's doing a great job in Navi, obviously, and got that opportunity, but sometimes it leaves more space to some of the other players to explore themselves and express themselves. And I agree it's it's never been about to just in my car city, me even when they were Navi Junior, obviously he was the one to stood out.
But there's other players within this team who's done a tremendous job and have been able to step up to the location. And I think there's coming from from more funds. I'm not looking at a team where they have one big star play and then the other kind of like getting by a bit easy. It's a team that is well-jored. And then you can almost see like they came from that night.
you know where they're. The whole I guess philosophy is that we need to play team play
kind of like we need to enable each other when each other certain amount of synergy and
I feel like I said that on the server one of what's to play.
I'm one of the players we have to highlight here is Drugs. This guy has come through being
a standout player and he is taking that space and he's he's delivering for this team.
If I'm not mistaken he's 17 years of age right. Very, very young and as you said I player that
has been showing consistently and all these online games that he can hold up to zone and he can
can be the difference maker as well.
Juke's a guy that you gotta look out for for the future,
especially when you're considering his age.
Again, we are used to seeing players,
and I say used to it, and that's ridiculous,
but like don't coming in and then becoming the best player
in the early years, you have my class
coming in to Navi as well.
It's not normal.
I used to not normal that a guy that is 16,
a 17 years of age is playing at this level,
and that's where I wanna give Juke a bit of a leeway.
Give him maybe one more year,
give him a couple of these bigger tournaments
that gonna be a crack of his will
and see him unfold,
because I feel like whenever I watched him play,
whenever I look up on this team as well.
Again, as I said, name value, it doesn't spring into my eyes,
but I see certain elements and I see certain players
and I see a talent in jokes that could be
maybe potentially in the future
and other players that now we would be looking at thinking,
maybe maybe let's acquire one more time.
Well, on the other side of these matchups,
we've got to look at OG does have the name value.
They have the name value as they have now picked up
flammers and KD, right?
And they're trying to make a rebuild
to a completely different direction
and level that way up again.
Yeah, you know, it's an interesting lineup, but it's kind of like a weird section of name, right?
Because if you just rewrite it just a couple of years ago back, Cadian obviously are very
sought after in game leader up there with him before we transition into CS2.
You have Flammer's who for a long long time was rumored to a lot of the big teams he went to
VP, but if I'm not mistaken, D2 was very interesting in signing in as well.
You know, a player that really had a high stock value.
Now they find himself in OG in 2026, having to reunite that career.
And I think there's a different storyline for Cadian compared to Flemish, and if we start with Cadian, I feel like for him, it's, it's the last chance.
Right. If you look at Cadian right now, you look at his, I guess, team history as well, where he went from being part of heroic.
He was almost defining the way you're playing Carlos back then. Let's go with the correctiveness.
Went into liquid, didn't do much. There was not a great finding. Went into a style. It didn't do much. And now he finds himself in OG James.
If you're looking at that trajectory, if KGN is not finding any form of success right now,
I think that could be it for KGN.
So I'm super curious to see how motivated he is and what kind of work he can get done with OT
because you don't go from heroic to liquid to a stradist to OT and then continue the,
you know, but all the respect for OT, the downfall of what has been KGN's career
as of late.
Yeah, he needs to turn this around, but he might be able to do this with a player like Flamis
and I got the catch up with him.
How did this game? Let's have a word.
Join OG. Did you have some requirements of where you wanted to play,
what positions you wanted to play, how you would be used on the team?
I mean, we instantly discussed everything with the coach team,
with the cast bit, with the other team.
And we just found the best boss for me is I wanted,
and the team wanted me to play as well.
I think we're just acting that, like, in this scene, I just acted because I'm playing on the
where I need to play, and this is also a good position for myself.
And what does that do for you, like, as a player and how you feel and what you think, like,
does this give you more confidence to give us the flammest we know and love from before?
I mean, of course, I'm feeling more confidence on, like, I know that I, I don't know.
I'm just like happy to play on the positions that I love simply.
It's like it's going to strike, you know?
I'm going to strike that I want to play that I love.
And yeah, I'm feeling confident.
We're working a lot, I don't know.
I just don't know what's safe to notice.
Do you feel like you may have something to prove to yourself
and to the community after your time in VP?
Not for the community, but most of it's myself of course, I mean, there was a rough time, rough time, not gonna lie.
But I mean, don't just have to play, you could construct them this way, just don't think there is something more that I need to prove something to somebody.
Well, and you know what, for Flammer's right now, he was so amazing on game leading.
And then VP took him, Ashshed, he made it public.
I want to see them using him in the right way, and he can do well, but they didn't.
They just basically use this guy as a meat shield, and it didn't help him at all.
And they took his identity away.
He now has to rebuild.
And he has a chance to do that ROG and show us the real Flammer's.
That's the thing with Flammer's, I agree.
I think he's an exceptional talent.
I think people have forgotten how good he is and can be,
but we said that about a lot of players.
And some players are not able to be discovered
that little they once had,
once they come into a structure, some period.
It's a small sample size though, within OG
and for Flammer so far, but he's been looking great.
I think he's averaging a 1.18 rating
in the maps that play so far for OG,
which is only 12 maps over the course of four series.
So in terms of early science for Flammer,
he's seemingly getting back to it at 1.20 rating almost a set.
That's not too bad, especially when you consider OG
in those four series have lost quite a lot
of those maps, they're one six maps, they lost six maps,
yet you still have Flannis being your highest performer.
I think if you're Katie and your finest job
is to make sure that he's thriving,
that he's playing his absolute best brain
of Counter Strike, because if he's your guys,
if you start there, then you can definitely take on
seems like food and start to punch upwards.
So if you're Katie and you're putting it
a lot of focus in order to make Flannis comfortable,
which they didn't necessarily do in VP.
Yeah, this is the chance to use your pieces
the right way, which certainly Katie knows how to do this.
We're gonna get ourselves into the veto,
and see what maps these guys are going to be playing.
It should be fairly standard stuff though,
and you're right.
We don't expect this to be too crazy, too left field.
These guys know what should be happening.
OG, obviously, better playing in here, but yeah,
they say, that's not what we're going for.
Yeah, no one will be so unfortunate.
We'd love to see being played out soon enough.
No one's thrown us as well.
I mean, again, that's the cool thing about the video system.
When you come in after a break, certain teams
have probably updated a map pool a little bit.
If you're OG, you've already played a couple of official games
so far, you don't really have necessarily a set map pool.
You're coming in, you're picking ancient.
interesting in that regard, but overall it's more to say to the viewers at home, don't
be too surprised if you see teams go different directions during this tournament, because
when you've had a break of four, five, maybe even six weeks, there's that once change,
you know, during the season where you can actually update your map rule and you can maybe
start to practice a map that you'll beforehand, where constantly removing, or maybe you're
going different directions and then claim maps that you'll beforehand, weren't a fairly
comfortable playing. So I'm curious to see what's going to land? No, all parts obviously
known Nuke unfortunate as well, but it does feel like a middle in the Pac-Man pool, which
usually is the case when it's the 3 game between two teams, who have before this time played
an awful lot of Counter-Strike online.
It's a good middle ground for these guys. I want to just touch on the overview of these two
teams, right? You said it would be punching upwards for OG. It does look like that, especially
what it has. But is there some advantage you can expect OG to be able to find where they're
still figuring themselves out and they haven't shown too much yet?
I'll be honest, it's OGs and unknown quantity.
I'm not relying on the fact that, yeah, I expect OG to win,
because I have no data.
I have no base for saying that I haven't really seen them playmots,
I said they've only played 4 series so far,
and most of them are 8-9 weeks ago after the play-abway as well.
So it's very tough for me to have any expectations
to watch OG outside of the name value, Westford Street.
I feel like I know what I'm getting.
I'm getting a team that is constantly getting better,
I've seen that is constantly progressing,
and I feel like I'm getting a team that is,
you know, they don't have their sights on establishing themselves anymore.
They already stepped as the effect that they're one of the better tier 2 tier 3 teams.
They want to punch up once.
They want to stepped as themselves at the tier 1 tournaments and a great way of doing
that is by beating OG and going far in this tournament.
Well, let's find out what happens when we get into the game, the Counter Strike Season
for 2026 starts now.
It's OG taking on foot and it's you going to have.
Ooh.
Ooh, yes and the Blast Bounty season 1, the first day of Counter Strike live in 2026,
not to hurry up on my side as we get into another tasty bounty Harry.
This was always an exciting event for me, and it was always a cool format because we
have so many underdog teams that we don't often see taking on some top squads.
But today, OG haven't decided to do that.
They've gone for a low seed pick.
They picked the bottom of the barrel in the top 16 in foot, $15,000 on their head and
OG come hunting.
Are you excited?
Yeah, yeah, of course, man.
It's always nice as well to have, to have Katie and back in the mix.
We actually got to see him even, just after he kind of joined this OG squad and we were
talking a little bit about the plan for him coming back into the kind of vision he
sees for this OG, someone who has been good at building up projects, not ever reaching
necessarily the same success as his old heroic, but someone has been very, very good throughout
his time as a captain of kind of building the culture and the ideas around the team.
But I think for a team like OG, that's kind of perfect.
Well, that's fine now, what we've got here from this new look, OG, up against a foot
e-sport, a team we saw in the last bounty as well, but they fell in their first BO3 to bait.
OG is similar fate against mouths, but a hundred opponent, fast B place, and entry goes down,
and demons push back to play retake on this site. OG, get their smoke molly in, they should get a plant.
That's already a pretty rough retreat to try and begin. You've got to wait for these
folks to fade before you can even get going. And with it quiet all across the map, you've
had a lot of time to get set up in these post-plants if you're a G and you kind of
piece together where foot are coming from.
I'm walking now. They tend to close in. I'm flammering to the back of the side, but
cover there.
James might get one more, but promise is all the night down and it's all getting a little
bit wild around this smoke.
James is dead man and OG come through with the opening pistol.
The start off bounty.
They got a hairy.
Definitely your hairy.
Katie was playing Molly back at B door for the bomb, but they smoke it.
So he has to run, cancel the plan up the ramp.
Still gets two kills.
No knives needed there for OG.
A clean, considered pistol.
Bring in a nice set called here for our first round of the year.
Many more to come.
Four spy guns in, but it's OG you bring pace, and hey, we're talking about Kadeon on this OG team hay, but I'm just as excited for flammers.
Back in a squad, a huge piece of firepower when we saw him on VP Bench soon after.
his quick rise to the top from relative obscurity, prior to his major run in Shanghai,
definitely want to look out for here in these first couple of games.
I'll be leading the pack in this one.
That's why you can expect to find him, and they won't be going into this B stack.
three players here with more on the way.
Demon up close on this 5-7.
But a shot's gonna land.
KD and Tate won for the team, but then income to team.
And they're gonna get out with two quick kills.
That's cracked open to B-play.
And so OG looking at course correct in spite of that demon opener.
I'll captain my captain, jumping corners.
Let me get to the job done.
And they can't span this player out from behind D-Foss.
So if I don't know, this is a lost cause, I'm gonna have to walk it away and give OG that second round, OG very decisive rounds here being called in these first couple, knowing they're gonna have a strong game plan, right?
That's the benefit of picking your opponent, I'm being able to prep for those first few rounds, especially in a match, especially on your map pick.
So, OG, nice easy start to this game, we're going to get one more antico before things
get interesting for Fert.
This is a foot to bin on a hell of a run, so don't let these first couple of easy rounds
for OG, put you off, ended last year with multiple trophies, a hell of a series win streak.
a Dracula title as well. So I've still got a lot of expectation here for this
foot. A foot that had looked stronger since we lost sword than a bounty.
It should be too much to look forward to in this round for foot.
I've lost even early, they could have cut in two with this playout through mid.
Energy walking in through the red room.
I need to know, I think he's nearby, he's very, very low.
Trapped on the other side of that smoke for now and I just leave it to a timing push.
No one watching it right now.
I need a build on the play, but can't take it by out of any of them.
That's a quick turnaround, deal with them.
And that gold that opportunity to try and cause some chaos in this round is just got
on away from foot.
I've had it along, but he's very, very quickly left.
There's the last round standing.
They've got a box in here and they'll split him from both sides.
Donut and CT take the contact and there's nowhere left to go.
So, there's the conversions coming through 4 OG to open this one up.
Seeing a lot of trust in Cadence, calling here so far from the team.
And I think that's so important, right?
players who went to a Stralis after hits a rock venture and obviously not just giving up the
orb but joining a very experienced squad, I think, like you mentioned coming into this game
of the benefit of Cadian is having young players players who will trust everything you say and
I think they need to in order to buy into how Cadian's going to cool. So OG for control right now,
but his where things get interesting for coming with a buy sack cool from spawn,
and steps out A, they're rushing.
Seems like a tell then,
maybe realizing was heavy mid from certain utility,
change in mind, we're going slow.
Now, what do you have to say?
That smokes the block off, Doughna.
Bam, minimum here.
You should be looking at it,
it's one fun, if that's coming through there.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
It's an easy.
Can you maybe able to plug in those numbers
and says the watch artist is team,
try to get out of this situation,
they're getting closed in on now.
As Adam and Flamis arrest all back a couple of kills, it's down to these two.
Compound now, smokes have faded.
Times the only thing on their side and even then they're quickly running out of it under a minute left now.
And so he's trying to thin the herd, it's going to fall to Flamis, taking some space
away out towards Temple.
And they're hoping more than anything that foot-making a stake, this silence eventually
He peaks there, curie, obviously, and maybe they're giving a peek.
A chance to grind away back into this round.
Smoke picked up, will block off Donut.
I wish I had towards the spawn, and a chance to creep on board.
Try to put up an avenue to get this bomb closer.
And there's the kill to do exactly that.
Tap on the bomb later, spying out from Donut.
And there's the confirmation, both players on the other side of that smoke.
And he does damage out of swings in. One more to find juice pushing through, but they're
inside the smoke. Flashes about to walk in and finish what he started.
Juice turns back. One thing one with him trapped, he finds the round saving foot from a
devastating two and four that almost goes the other way.
A lot of it too close for comfort in that first gun round, but foot do pick it up.
I really like how OGP starts together nonetheless, slowing it down, using their
util perfectly, getting the info off of the spam on that fake font.
But a little bit too keen to fight in the postball, they get trapped out and
juinks to live as the round for foot.
All right, KV and AWP.
But need this round to maintain their economy.
Gaining this right out, it'll all fall blind.
I'm going to lift the teller tail, teaming, won't.
It's very aggressive around here for OG, but so far no one's been able to get the open
as their spooky finally providing it, but they've taken a lot of damage before this real
estate, before this space and suddenly spooky is trapped behind deep ball as the only man
actually in the sight, and get out with one more, he's done his part in the round, he's
got in a way with two, not that being up as once more, OG's stare, one of these
man disadvantages, dead in the face, while the smoke is nice and there's Katie and to fish
back this 2v2. I think you're ready to cave this late in the round, not this deep position,
but OG will avoid that problem walking back, even if they recommit to be, it's going to be later,
that in foot overcook, yet again freezing in one of these migraus situations,
You foot begin to doubt themselves.
They can afford to, with long-sleeved, steeping cave juices
need to stay here, but he's believing that OG will recommit.
For how long?
Fresh comes in, OG. Still waiting.
30 seconds.
Juice is very low, one bullet from arrows will finish him off.
Katie and comes in first.
It's a nice off-angle.
Feel like you'll be looking at long when you cross here, so this might be a kill for
jugs.
Oh, he swings.
Long's never moved, but my soul still sat back in cave, brings Katie and down low.
I'm not going to play for the kill.
Time's running out and wants closest in to mop that one up and one be to there.
And dealt with perfectly that whole time right, there's slow down in the mid-round.
that foot kind of overthink it, that they rotate a player out of position, they start
to get curious elsewhere, and they never moved to muscle.
They mean, tame that double beast set up longsway back in the cave, marches up with
the 1v2 and stops cation in the clutch.
Yeah, that's twice over.
OG of Frozen and recommitted to the same bomb site.
So there's already going to be a level of mind gaming in those mid-round moments here
in this matchup now.
Thought I've read it twice over another clutch up another 1v2 in fact back to backs.
four foot. And so again, same problem. There are economy barely hanging on, but enough to get
a full by enough to be controlling the CT side. This is where now, you know, I think like
these last two rounds actually kind of feel a little frustrating if you're OG, but as both
times, you've done everything right to claw back this advantage to get to a, you know, what
what kind of feels like it should be a winning position. You've ended up in a 2v1 twice over,
and both times it's gone against them. You know, you kind of do everything right, both times they
they slow it down, they take the pace out of it, they wait for the kills to come to them
to kind of give themselves away back into the round, and they do everything right all the way
up until that final step is, they've been clutched on once more by foot. Yeah, it's back to
back one. Me too, definitely. You leave the sourtasing your mouth. OG are going to buy up.
No, in just how susceptible this economy is. One AK though, it's not a lot.
Spooky found his double entry last round, going to need to do something similar.
but they can just cycle smokes here.
It's going to be a bit of a waiting game for OG right now.
And along with you, wait, the more obvious it is that you're behind this smoke.
A hall map quiet.
One place flash would go a long way. What's Katie and God for us?
Here we go.
Flip down over, commit.
I think one of you set up for the lane control I'd do.
I can always feel tempting to hang around and try and fight that first offensive, but I like
the route to just duck out of there straight away and just adjust to the info.
You don't give them a chance to fight on these tech nines on these SMGs.
Instead, they have to use what they have to actually go and take the space in the site.
they've wasted a lot of time.
So you'll end up in this four on four
with a trade-out towards the cave,
spooky on that one aka keeps it even.
But you can see our difference around is now,
right, there's 20 seconds left,
and you're still going into this stack.
A lot of players over the wall to be
a shot from the orbit.
He's gonna make up for it.
So you might need to accomplish something here,
as another shot sails on past.
It falls to jugs, playing it through the smoke
and behind them.
Caterin with the read.
And now it's longs.
He's trying to tell you he gets cut on down OG.
Lowey, Conround, they'll break through with it.
Yeah, I can't believe you can't read that gap hit.
I don't know if they go in for me.
He should be looking CT nine times out of ten,
and he just turns around and catches that trigger discipline play.
Well, perfect shot, but it'd even be around the spooky
who again finds a multi kill.
Did he see him?
Oh, he's stats, geez.
No rear there on that, big triple out of spooky, that's OG winning with 1 AK.
Pick up an orb, put it to use and put foot's money down.
It was back to back one B1 Clutch's costum.
This is an exciting T-side right now for OG, safe to say, on their map take.
the
okay it's got a trap so you
have a throw in but that's what this
thing happens flammers
to cover
it's going to be
getting way too close for comfort
but still O.G.
should be fine right like this though
right demon kind of
gets away from middle he
could die right now
with just the USP trying to fight this
Or he can loop back into me to a little bit late annoying that there's guns to pick up and then assess if you want to actually attempt this one be to well
They love a one be to
Me too, but I feel like you're just you're safe. Oh, yeah, you'll stop down there and move two times in Harry
Now today now to demon little devil
What's he got
Double long and he's shifting ramp is gonna take serious time, but
Maybe there's something to grab on the way out.
No.
I don't feel him pretty tempting once again in it.
Yeah.
It's walking right back.
Now I was always gonna save.
I've got to throw that one right?
It's like if they were rammed for whatever reason in a postpot,
you're gonna kill.
You can go for the one, be one.
You can give it a try.
It's nice.
No, it's went to throw in the towel.
Great eco.
But not enough.
This buy has to be everything here from foot.
The sleeves are firing.
Oh, the sleeve is all fine.
I never seen anyone take the sleeve off.
No, that's crazy.
One of these with even, and they just like the training weights.
So, wait, it's sleeve.
There's a kilogram in each arm.
Hold me back.
Alright, alright, alright.
OG 5-2.
And when you consider the two rounds they've lost,
it's even more impressive that they're in this position.
But this is the best by yes and I'm sure on the AWP everything they want.
I told you just for a rush triple mid they're going to hear this coming at least.
Quick rotates.
Do you really commit?
This thing which on the Molly they're going through, smoke dropped in, let's launch
cross a little deeper, get out with one, it's still being a nuisance around this smoke
doing a great job and just playing it for is not scared by this push out of OG.
That leaves it just on Flammer's now and they're closing it all around them.
They've got Flammer's trapped out over the wall to the temple to in at the site.
Home dropped as well. And a world of problems with Flammer's here.
There's a lot of things around it.
Place it through the smoke, he'll get shut down. That is a heads-up move from foot.
Getting ahead of that exact before it even takes shape.
Not sure, not opting to hang back.
You know, respect the U-TIL, try and make life awkward on the spams as we saw last time in that A-plate.
This time it's all about getting in the base of OG.
It's such a good answer to that mid-site smoke
removes so much just this should be OG and instead of playing for E-taken,
kind of gambling on whether you hit your smoke spams
and whether you get that advantage even then,
you let OG get into nice post-war positions,
use their utile cycle smokes, but just cause chaos.
They take their round dominantly,
four kills for long-seers feeling it up heaven at 13 in five.
I'm looking to get foot back in this game now
as you well and truly broken OG's money
and open four pistols
I've got a good job of cycling newton this game wasting a lot of time, some of these
the site hits coming down to the final 30 seconds.
The position is flashed to connect and shoots.
Don't let's get headshot, wow.
I'm on a bad trade at all from Katie and...
I'm gonna use that to reset around the world.
Does he really push elbow?
Are you really pushing through the elbow smoke right now?
Oh my, I'm gonna get this info.
I'm pretty gnarly cross-vide and break through here on the B here.
That's not a bad way to start. You ready for Crabenny?
Let them get up through the ramp.
Now hot on the heels with the backstab.
Not being held or being considered.
First kill comes with free. It's that Katie and Horde knocked out.
He killed followed up, Adam, be trying to chase over the wall,
saw have some support.
Longs now arrives in the back line, and so it's spooky.
I can off out towards the cave.
I can himself in and trying to figure out how we can win this one,
the two.
They've got that bomb to play around and attending to get the line on it.
He'll get chased down along to the great round there for foot.
He's gaming right now.
Fifteen five was that.
Just hitting every inch to headshot.
Also that's smoke push. It doesn't necessarily tell food anything because they already are double be on the crossfire
But it lets him double flying so you fall to that first play of gravity on the ramp you're not expecting a second that quick
Really nice timing play to find out him off the plant and
Yeah, now OG
I've to truly throw in the towel
Very close round, but just need to this one
I mean, even in around like this, we're OG didn't have a lot to play with, they're not
going super aggressive, it's slow, seeing if they're given anything to go off of, even with
just the pistols, careful and considered.
It's the true to the old internet adage
that you don't want to give foot picks for free.
Thank you, buddy, OG.
If you turn alive against this warp, but finally you find this actually double up the
7th tree.
That's the deal.
And longs though, he's the guy you kind of put on the job, but you really need it.
18 kills deep. He's living up to about right now.
Longs hitting hard in this opening game.
And looking to throw OG through a bit of a loop, right?
It's, uh, OG's map pick.
And with longs, playing like this.
The foot could look to come through with a bit of a surprise to open things up and...
...shows you down and what was supposed to be, a whole territory.
Fantastic star foji, but a matter of time for foot to warm in.
And longs is absolutely done that.
So OG just hemorrhaging climates right now second of three cool off the 10 rounds of play.
Okay, he's got 4800, so here's a decision to make, which means arm loss, and so he goes
for NATO-K.
They're all right, Rush. I know what's here for me. Oh, if only they wedged. Yeah. I don't
burn by this in the past, right? So I think now they're even realizing there's no one
And if I'm for I'm ready for OG to recommit.
Try to get all the util out of them, but the warp is ready.
Yeah, this is kind of brutal.
You've accidentally played right into their hands or just slowed down.
It's given foot a lot of time to bring extra bodies over.
And what was that?
A one man sight at a most right and rotates far away.
Now, short-up defense with three players here and two more on very, very quick flanks.
So the net is closing in over OG right now.
There, man, down already. And they are so boxed in, just look at that minimap.
They are sandwiched on both sides here.
If you try and go back, you're going to play right into the hands of Corbetti on this backstab.
And even if you deal with him, that's only the beginning of the problems.
the
choice. Trying it is bomb
planted. Plug in the numbers
at least find their way into a
three on five post-farp, but you're
really hoping for a lot of mileage out
of these individuals and with no
map control getting closed it on by
these flanks, but break through and
actually move into pole position right
at the tail end of this first arm. Yeah,
nice control for first slow and steady
here on this retake and they had all the
advantages to go their way. That sucks for OG because you understand that they don't want to just be
throwing their rounds in at as rushes, but in that instance it would have worked.
All likely they're not. There's only one player to close the bombsite with a foot starting for B.
So a misread as OG trying to get tricky with it. And now one final swing on this T side.
They control again back to the stand and take you for three players and let's just get
turned to mulch. Terminate it in middle.
Oh, a bit of a team flash didn't see how many players were there. I'm not coming in.
I'm just on the Crabetti Spam, and I feel get rewarded, Katie, and the feeling like
a reload was imminent tries to walk the timing forward on that smoke, and gives away
another.
And so, at 3v5, I mean OG, it goes like they're constantly trying to claw back to these
man-disadvantages, and even when they've managed to in the past, I don't feel like it's
safe to take the round over the line, well this time they might never get to claw in
It's just a relentless aggression out through the cage for many really taking this round by storm and there's that killing blow
foot
Stroll through and in spite of a slow start slow to get going. It's a strong finish at the end of the CT side with longs leading the charge for foot
.
in their lunch right now. You go OG on the back foot on that map pick. It's not the way they
want it to start, right? You open up things that go in good. You get those first couple of rounds
and hell the first few rounds you give away that clawed back close losses in admittedly two
v ones. You lose back to back clutches but likely still think you've got a good solid half ahead of
you and pass that point boy did foot go on one hell of a little tear down the end of that first
as tarbelly move over to the T side.
We're gonna see how that stacks up against OG.
Don't wanna feel like you came into this game,
firing on all cylinders, finding some good success
out of the gates only to have it grind
to a very jarring halt, but that's what currently
stands in front of OG.
Five straight rounds, four foot.
That's OG swapped the CT side.
That's very quiet game from Aristotle's right now.
Oh, headshot in middle, spooky, still considering it, but gonna grind in the passage.
And foot just walking up into red.
That was twenty and five.
I know, it's crazy.
Paying for an ender game, school, I'm that's crazy.
This is the start of the second half, plenty of bike.
You know, but yet, oh we saw it all lucky long, does catch a whip and he takes spooky's head off
I mean at this point you're just wondering like how how high can you go essentially?
That's there the question belongs we'll have to find out
Calm down. I don't know how you win this round. Go kid smoke
Okay
The chase and
I'm going to separate these fights, feels wild, but takes the mid-1, now doubles back
round to try and deal with that and be.
We'll get out with this one, but surely that's the end of the line.
He's ready to get tripled, swung here, the first contact, and as the killing blow pistol
picked up for foot, and that's going to put them on a real fast track to victory here on
ancient.
I love the Christmas tree man.
Look at the lights, glimmering, look at it, go and Harry, celebrate in the season, maybe
It's a success man. It's a Christmas tree.
If I could cut a milk and there it or something as well.
What? You see that? Oh, baby it's off now. The cookies moldy.
Like that famous song, Milk for Christmas.
Here is an every supermarket.
That's more like Harry, right? Yeah.
Okay, a late pop out med and spooky not ready, and that's probably the round here.
I have to save this force on OG.
Seasons beatings from longs.
Go ho ho ho.
Are you ready there?
Christmas is so, 2025, Harry.
Grab me!
Me, me, me, me, me!
Me, me, me, me!
Anyone.
I'm really just here for long.
I did just want to know, like, where is the limit?
What number can he get to?
30? You think?
Are you seeing at this point?
Like, that kind of feels like it would be a poor finish.
It's crazy as that sounds.
Yes, slow down.
Coming into the second off, 20 kills deep.
I'm pretty finished on there.
What are you doing in the second round?
He needs to get two kills.
If they went every round, he's get two kills around.
Yeah, but I hope that's a high team, like guys,
give me a couple more rounds.
I'll play Gladiator mode. You guys waiting spawn. Yeah, I never
like this. Everyone else would go wait and spawn. Let's let Lord go.
It's climbing heaven and he's going for a cave play.
Oh, I don't want to let him board down low but prevent he'd add it back him off.
You need still to kill. That's another way of looking at it. And then he's kind of what he did.
Okay, I mean, they had two chaos from the rest of the game here for foot.
Not gonna be easy.
But if there was a man for the job, it would be lost.
Add and push back by the Molly, USP tucked in the site.
You're not stopping this hit, you're only slowing it down.
Oh, look away, yeah.
Just pick the part and add them stepping, longs gets his two kills, Harry.
Three more, he climbing, he climbing all right.
24 and five.
See, look, no one else says the Christmas tree.
That's the problem.
Only this guy, only the guy, only the 30 kills deep.
What does that mean?
Let's still trying to figure it out.
The spirit of Christmas spurs him on.
Sure, have you ever seen Santa and Lorx in the same room?
Really makes you think, doesn't it?
I sat on a...
It had been a fake here.
Spurt try!
An exploitative, a twitchy nervous OG in this first rifle round.
They throw in a lot of a nades, they make noise back in main.
And they lobbed some utel on the other side of the map.
It still doesn't feel like they're committed to this year.
Double fake was that always the play and they're going to recommit through the cave.
Three CTs here, all playing the re-tech.
They don't know where this is going.
All they know is the foot have used a hell of a lot of utility in this round.
So back to be at least here for foot.
I don't need to put that poison.
Spooky finds demon in middle.
That's something to his to be here.
or at least in the tent at a adamant flammers, hold it down.
Oh, symmetry, okay, that's not bad.
But in playing it forward, they end up beating our off-doss.
Gonna fall onto Crabenny, but he's not been having a shy game, that's fog.
But 40 seconds left to work with, and he's gonna try and get tricky with it.
Out of there, real quick.
I heard it.
Okay, you can get set up out near towards Middall,
and plucks him out on the run across.
Gonna wear this from Cady and where he would be given the time taken a run back through cave
And he shuts down that mid crossing so all right been more fight out of O.G
And it's not an immediate pause I hit sounds like it. Yes, they do something Harry
They break the streak was about time
And when hell of a game here front foot
The team that came through last bounty had nothing to show for us, a team that had
missuter in the lineup, and well, with this change of longs, you're seeing the difference
shall we say.
I don't want to just reduce it down to a warm-out army, because I think they played some
really nice CT rounds and had some good retakes, but he is definitely taking the cake right
now.
As this is an OG that as a squad are inexperienced, are very new, with a new captain back
after seven months out of professional C.A.S.A.S. identified a handful of series versus
a foot that found four top four finishes including two trophies towards the end of 2025.
He hit coming in.
And I've got a lot of room double caves set up here for OG, so this has to net you something
One from demon, but now they know about Adam trap back here in the cave as they try and give Chase to him
He's able to get out with a second and it's on to long snow less. Oh no, do you see okay not ideal
Best time for it, but maybe and still a world here
The Jews in the cemetery, that's a good tap for Jews.
They pour down a 1-H-A, not long for this world, the chase given out of OG, and the gap continues to close here, down to just 3 rounds.
Did you bring out the guns and start finding some success to try and get this CT side going?
Rounds getting cleaner and cleaner as well.
And then these last couple, longs, hasn't even really been able to play into things.
They're at that round over the wards cave.
I don't know, one prior is they tried to get in to the site itself.
And so if you're able to slow his roll down a little bit, because that's beyond us, right?
That is the name that's caused you the most problems.
If you're even able to kind of get away at some of his output here, OG,
could still be in with a fighting chance.
Still, if yet to really be wowed by the rest of the foot in the same way outside of
from any you've had some nice moments over the wall at the cave side.
I feel like a pretty tall order for OG, let's see if they're up for it.
I hope paranoid right now, OG, so a weak B set aside defense playing, re-take now, in the count of the smokes.
I'm just going to give it over, smack, kill with really hell of an OP out on a post-party, a spook he's going to find it.
I just try to force any advantage they can, a little bit of luck, going a long way for OG, but bomb planted.
OG, it's all about synergy here, in this fight before.
trading their kills. They've every reason to win this round.
Good catch from Crabenny stops the backstab, but won't go any further as the rest.
OboG arrive out from the CT side, and that's the killing wall in the round.
Okay, Katie and Smoke Spam get a get the job done.
That could have been a stressful round when they lose the flank like that,
but it's solid reaction out of the guys to dressing through long and short.
you uh, stifle that postplan and lock in a third round in a row now, 4 OG.
And what was once a game that was very much slipping through their fingers, and how
back with in striking distance here.
and they're going to recreate into my next game.
And Bob is still stuck back in elbow, though.
So maybe not just yet here for a foot.
So OG tried to reclaim middle, four players coming in.
Marks in a great position, but they find a headshot
swiftly, no chance to react on that one.
24 and 9 is cool off.
But by choice, Cadian follows up, and now they can play.
Again, retake on this B-bombsite.
They have the advantage for it.
Foot plunge into a very difficult 3v5.
3 in?
Oh, that's a free kill out towards ramp.
Back turned on symmetry and cation.
You're prying in over the walls of the shore side gets rid of him.
But she could even send one of us through,
but tries to decide against it.
Steak, lost in that smoke, gets one away, hope that that's not a...
Okay, I'm sorry, round defining death. Still a 4B2 comfortable spot.
Yeah, but now they lose the K-Brapped Round as well. Pressure towards Rampall, get rid of demon,
and there's the Crusher, Arostos comes through with a blinding couple of kills.
Oh gee, get it down to one. I felt like a 2v5 was building there and of all people
the savers not ready for our usdoss are one tap on ram and the first bullet headshot
into the cave. Heroic moment here and absolutely required. Oh my goodness, pre-fires
across the board.
An OGA in this game I now.
It's not just a strong start, now they're pulling it
come back together.
And footprint through,
this feels feel unlikely
when they catch spooky alone in middle fort behind it.
As the back 10 goes, feasting forwards right through
and won't get out with a gun.
OGA breathe a sigh of relief,
not losing off of the open and gambit,
but it is the be-head head of the foot.
Oh, I'll make it in with a kill. They weren't ready for Adam. It's a third piece out here towards long
Smoke falls in and serve for Krabeni best play. I just need to try and get this bomb plot
And instead why do you intend them do it again now with juice
Karostoss needs a clutch
Was the start of once a claw back and rescue a
5v2 that was starting to get weird for OG in that last round
now we see if our arostars can do it twice over this time though the pressure
of far higher they're set up in these postplants and he's all alone in the
venture smoke on the bomb it leads to a tap hoping he can pay a peek out they
know he's not on that deep use anymore so going back for the commit plays
right into their hands it's a low-eacon round and put breakthrough with it
well crabbin he who crashed a few rounds ago comes through with a triple kill to save
the day even getting off that bomb inside of the smoke so just a sigh of
I've released the foot-really winning an eco like that, for me for provided a mid, and
great decision to fake the bomb as well, as OG played the smoke open and they get double
kill on on-site.
Finally, the retakes set up that they've been running all game long, gets punished.
I think foot just know they can charge into this B-bombside round
off to round and get bombed plants and get into blue, favorable positions.
So final timeout comes from the side of OG, as they try and save their map pick in this series.
Followed by a foot to tech.
it's fair enough. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think in the world we're able to make this kind of
grasp to stop the comeback, it's going to feel really frustrating for OG when you think about how they've lost this game.
Because it is still close, right? You're still within striking distance here opponent, but you just lose that low E come round and that stops your streak or this momentum that you were building up in the second half.
second half, but even thinking back to that first half, the couple of clawback rounds
for emoji that they couldn't convert and what ended up being 2v1s, you know, you've
actually a multiple moments where you could have had that game defining round come through.
Now none of that will matter if you keep things in check here, don't let that low-Econ
and loss get on the skin.
No matter what, this one is gonna come down to the wire.
And so someone's gonna feel robbed at the end of map one.
How much is for certain?
Definitely.
And OG needed more than foot.
This given, given that this is their map pick.
Underdog in this series,
picked foot, the bottom-seeded team, on the top-16, I can't say there were many better options.
Try to go for one of the lesser experienced squads, but a squad with a lot of firepower,
and a lot of recent, grind experience, and putting in whiteness shift towards the end of 2025.
Oh my goodness, a lot of you till damage push down the ramp and just fight lane and take it back
Luckily for them no one's here and so put up the pick up the pace.
I mean you spot that lane aggression come through you know there's going to be gaps elsewhere
it takes a lot of resources to go but that's face launch was hoping he found one but he
doesn't and plays right into the hands of our starts and Katie and he gets better kill
out towards the spawn. I mean this was a really really nice setup for OG and it's put them on a
a track to bring this game even closer.
Maybe two bombs still yet to go down, finally
gonna get that plug in, the net starts to tighten,
round foot, very, very quickly, OG arrive and lock in,
double digits, and I really like the ideas there,
the triple set up out towards the lane,
playing it through, taking away that map control.
That's how they get the opener onto Crabani.
You know that he's been playing over the wards cave,
And then what happens right like when you kind of spot that triple take over towards Lane
is it's very common to try and pick up the pace elsewhere, right?
And you saw that reaction from the side of the curve that he takes space out in red.
It takes space out towards A and both of these areas are just being held on our
fangles, long sight lines by the off over the old day.
And so that one kill so quickly spirals into three kills.
It bore OG, forces your hands so much, and OG know that, and so the second they get
that entry on Crabini, they're all leaving B. Yeah, completely abandoning the bombs
I rotating round, knowing for gunna speed of elsewhere. Some of the set plays in this game
for OG across both halves have looked well run, clearly been putting in the time on this
map.
Can they get them away and ride at the pits around? It's brutal towards B from Adam B,
up or kill down the ramp and another advantage for OG, it managed to lose his route
before.
But Adam right now is rivaling logs on this CT side.
Yeah, he really is.
I mean, you know, logs came into the second half, 20 and 5.
So in this whole second half of the play he's gone 5 and 6, he just sneaks out, spooky
just snuck out the smoke.
You needed the double there as they aggressive on to him. That's a wards cave
Take this back step belongs you've been trying to get away with the red room control
I love it this second hop
He's got two kills on a platter right here
Lux might be able to save the day. It's the lineup comes through
It's all eyes on spooky one versus two get past the AWP
So long sted it's spooky
I was thinking for the clutch, and that is devastating.
Wow, dude, highlight after highlight in this game right now.
Clutch after clutch, another one V2, this time for OG.
Unbelievable. That first headshot on the orb,
thing of beauty.
And it was a tiny timing hit there on the flank.
You felt like that was enough to win the round.
OG are now matching with the 11 of peace.
Who's going to make the difference if it's game deciding rounds?
The one bullet hit there, the cemetery would have won the round, really.
Burning in the Molotov.
Longs is 27th frag hall, he will need 30.
It's for the definition of frag.
Oh, gee, back to back aggressive round towards being, and I'm not going to do it now.
So can they trust again in their B-side hold, a side that has been hit more often than
not for foot in this T-side.
Three players come towards B-Cadion orbstone up, and foot take it low and slow as they walk
through the slope.
Still missed the chance of the open and the factor.
Oh, they're going to get out with one.
Like it would be fine, a line up for logs.
And this time he's got no intention of giving his life away.
Same can't be said for Katie on the other side of the map.
Not ready for power.
Last thing you're expecting is a guy laying in a vein in the open with needs out.
And that's going to hurt.
It's been a couple of walk-a-grounds for Katie and shot.
The back last time I bought you.
I can't believe that.
So the line up for logs.
Yeah, crazy work.
It's too really nice, sprays for him.
Like really thought, fireless, then a great job there.
You know, like they kind of missed the window to deal with him.
They catch him when he's out.
He's up to get back and away with the kill.
He's very much done his part in the rounds.
But then his teammates lined up by longs.
Wow.
Yeah, would you get a regret swinging into cave bat?
As, you know, 44 that they could maybe block,
try and play a bit slower.
They opt to play a good hit on.
Yeah, I think you did.
one of those rounds where it's like foot still had like more ideas they were
down to try and that round the only reason they go be is they're just handed it
on a plot to resensely when you get three kills in a second like that the round
is already over. But you know with a guy lurking back in Maine with still set up
that some room to try and develop I think if you do block them there that's where
you get the activation of the A player that's where you have a world to try and
and actually find the 4B3 and then play it out in the mid-round make-life, or quit for a foot
but that doesn't happen, it's such a convincing win, and it's so instantly on the back
of 3K fights in a second, and that's all you need.
Well you said a few rounds ago, whoever loses his game is going to feel a little bit robbed,
and it definitely feels like that's going to come through now, unless O.G.C.
in the track, it's into overtime with a glass org, and two rifles for an out-middle full
control.
The boost comes up, it is too late, looking long to do it.
He has walked through the red group.
You could call GG by looking at the map right now.
Can OG do anything to combat that?
I mean, long to go A for you, kill, at least, but once even more than that, I can
deal with one of these A side players and now things get real tough.
The two guys over at Wardstown are Kaydion.
Drone is Westman at choice here.
It needs to leave a big impression of OG.
Wanna try and claw this one into extra time.
Kaydion and Adam Boat dead.
Flamison spooky left in the hot sea and with the all bearing down upon CT.
But look to do it in the fall.
24 rounds every single one of them being needed.
But they will storm the court on OG's map pick.
It's spearheaded by strong performance from logs but by the end, everyone has their moments that's for a map up to open up bounty.
A map up for FUT, but OG. They look like they were trying to pull that way back into that.
It looked like they're mulled in some stumbles towards the end, and an exciting action to keep things off with it.
They give us good fight to give us a good map of Counter Strike. They're very exciting, and a lot of close moments,
especially in the later section of the game,
clutch after clutch, 10 situation after another 10 situation.
So in terms of the quality and the entertainment value of the game,
but there, but as you can see in this scoreboard,
there was a couple of players who stood out really
perform exceptionally well in the camp of football,
who made sure that they eventually would end up winning, which is epic.
I'm looking at norms, right?
Because you've got to touch them when he's dropping 30 kills like that.
This is the guy who's not part of the core of the team.
He's the new player coming in.
He's arguably the most experienced player on this team as well.
Dude, some of these spray transfers,
some of the way there's handling situations.
This was like, I don't know, I've ever seen him from him like this.
I was beautiful coming in from longs, right?
Obviously, I'm massive, massive game.
When you drop 30 kills in regulation,
it doesn't matter who you're playing, it doesn't matter whether it's online,
online, you're having a field day on the server.
And as you said, we saw that the impact he came in with,
you know, the fact that he's, you can see in this clip as well,
just charging every single duel that oozes of confidence.
That's the player right now that is feeling it.
That's the player who's willing to take every single fight he can find on the server.
Doesn't matter whether he's standing in the open.
Doesn't matter whether he's supported by flashes or not.
This play transfer right here is a very important moment in the game on Fortnite.
They didn't capitalize on winning round.
But overall, that was just a massive performance coming in for long.
So that's just it.
He's one of the more experienced players within the food camp.
So when you have a guy like that coming into an already well integrated team
and performing like that, that is a recipe for something interesting.
Let's put it away.
I think it's obviously very positive for them
that they were able to handle a situation
where it starts to go about it.
Like where you have a lead,
you're all of the games in your control,
still we're able to close out.
Not let his performance go to waste,
so to speak as well.
For the side of OG, there was many moments
where they were struggling,
they were getting owned in certain scenarios,
as well, it wasn't maybe they fought back into it,
but it wasn't pretty.
I think round and round and round and round
and round here is a great example of that.
It's an out of spawn call from Cadian,
and they just get trapped into this bomb site.
As you can see, they lose the opening pick.
They didn't stale a little bit.
They have nowhere to go.
They have nowhere to lose its work with.
You look at the minimum as well.
They've really single player from foot is now
centered towards this bombsite.
And it's just the question of time before OG will fall.
Now, I've got to necessarily point to what's
Cadient and seeing that's a bad call.
But it felt like that T-side outside of getting off
to a good start early on in the game.
Whenever they had to win by-rounds and gun rounds,
they would just completely outplayed by it.
So the fact that you get into a bombsite right here,
you, yes, you get the bomb down, but there's nowhere to go.
There's no space to take.
You can go into cave that's the only, I guess, space taking area that is available.
You're already getting flanked from behind.
You're getting flanked from the side.
You don't have donut as well control.
So it just felt like overall did the way footwork pushing this was.
They were willing to, I guess, allow you to give them a little bit of space, but not too much.
And then when they kind of honed in on it, and they had to retake, you could just see a team
that was in full control.
And I'm a little bit disappointed in OGC side that they were able to capitalize more
that space and maybe push the boundaries a little bit and maybe try to put a span
into the work.
It felt like they took whatever that was given to them by foot, but no more.
And this is the difference though where you have a team who is very well synergised and
have the play of each other, understand this communication, right?
Compared to OG who are more new to this, they're still learning each other, they're
feeling each other out, which is why they can get themselves in situations like that.
This is something that foot can use to their advantage, it all maps against all teams.
100% you know, it does it does feel like oldies is still in that learning phase, you know, with some of these players are
playing together and trying to figure out spooky was what's the one guy to me that stood out where a great individual
showing especially in the first half and as I said, they kept the game competitive in the first half by getting off to a good start by
having spooky during a lot of groundwork and a lot of fucking and in that department finished with 19 kills almost a hundred
idea he can individually be proud of his performance but in terms of the team aspect
in terms of how did OG look on their own map pick, by the way, the map that they choose
to come in in foot versus in this series, then I was left a little bit disappointed.
You kind of rely on a single player doing good for you occasionally in a couple of rounds
where I felt like a lot of the calling on the T-Site, a lot of the synergy on the T-Site
was a bit lackluster and again, I don't really want to point a finger towards Cadian
there's always so much you can do with a team that is so new together, but I guess deep
inside myself hoping that a long clear break maybe a couple of weeks of practice would
lead them to a position where they would look better. That being said though, it was one map,
it was just one half where it didn't look great on the T-Site, so we can't really make any
conclusions so far, but it wasn't a great start here for OG. Let's put it that way.
I don't want to take a moment because we highlighted it in quite positive fashion about looking
you know, he was not a player that was showing up within this map, you know, and that's
what we need to see, right? You want to see him at his best? We're talking about the solo.
Yeah, we want to see Flamisa at his best, and there's no doubt that the individual qualities
that he possesses, he can definitely do better than he did in this game, no doubt about it.
But again, there's so much you can do, especially when you're playing his position,
which is a bit more out there in the open way you rely on your teammates. Again, not every
the entry frug in the world of kind of strike is dark so he can't do it all by himself.
And you know what she said he didn't have a great game and we shouldn't praise him for not having
a great game, but I also will give him a little leeway that with the way I saw OG play
especially on that T-shirt, it just feels a bit out of synergy and for the YouTube and entry frug
on that department, sometimes you're overstepped if you're like, ah, it's not really feeling
well I have to do a little bit extra, but we do a bit extra that's when you get punished.
So I think it wasn't tough game for flammers and overall it's tough game for OG.
where I wouldn't wait them to play good counter strike yet you were still close forcing it
into overtime. So you can look at it from two different sides. You play a poor game of counter strike,
but that's still good enough to almost get it in over time. Oh, you can look at it the other way.
You lost your own map pick and now you're looking into a scenario where you're one map away from
getting eliminated against a team that unpea, that you should be able to compete with. On paper,
you should be able to compete with. But maybe they're not quite there yet, right? It's still very
early doors when it comes to this OG team. It wasn't incredibly close game with 60 to
rounds at the end, which could have given them chance coming to it. But do you see this is like a score that doesn't really show you the full picture, like it isn't actually as close as that shows.
I think it was that close. I think there was a lot of clutch moments back and forth around was a 22 or a 23 where longs comes in and it gets to flank.
He gets a double multi kill. It's technically a two B one for for the food guys and they loose that and it becomes 11 11. I think to myself at that point,
on all I OG, maybe you survived this scale,
maybe you survived the period of the game
where you didn't play well to make a football analogy.
Out of it, ride you, you often have sayings
from football coaches to say,
there will always be 10, 15 minutes in a game of football
where you're not playing well,
and you have to survive those 10, 15 minutes.
You cannot conceive two or three goals
and then lose the game.
The same could be said here for OG.
You had a moment in the game
and the mid portion right there,
especially in the first half where you didn't play well,
and you have to survive that by maybe winning
one or two rounds you weren't supposed to win.
They didn't do that, which meant that when we get into the latest stages of the game,
they're wasn't enough of a leeway, there wasn't enough of a cushion in order to survive.
Well, let's see what will be happening going into the second month.
Thank you for your thoughts there, Pimp.
It's Mirage that's coming up next.
This map ball is incredibly good for FUT, we're going to a quick break,
but when we come back, we'll be diving into all things Mirage and seeing how the series is going to go.
lead in the veto a lot of hype for FUT in important event for this team as they're making their way
and making steps towards being a tier one team. And they've been on this grind and this
map for right, it was already looking very good for them coming into this series. OG is learning
the ropes of what they want to do with these players, but now it gets even harder because
Mirage is where FUT is dominant. These are the type of players that just love to lead into it.
They're going to take all these fights and now their confidence is going to be sky high.
Yeah, the 78% win rate is obviously telling a story that that's from that they like to play and win and they played it an awful lot the last three months 18 times and that is included the play up where they didn't play for a month
So obviously a lot of official games on the map which tells me two things they're very comfortable on the map. It's a matter. They always go to it's about the off the win
But there's also a lot of data on it. There's a lot of demos and a lot of stuff that you couldn't watch if you're also the counter argument to that is that we just had a play up where so if your food
You could have changed a couple of things.
You could have changed the way you default.
You could have changed a couple of your stats.
And you had a chance of updating your playbook.
So we can't really put too much stuck into that.
Another notion in that we got just to build the picture
that food are the favorites in this game.
They won six out of the last seven times
they played on their map.
And they only have one loss against inner circle.
I believe that period.
And there was a 13 in living game.
Inner circle, a team that also has done kind of ways
in the second tier division right now.
So I do feel that as much as I want to say, O.G.
Yes, of course you stand at chance.
with Mirac, it's carless radio, everything is open.
There's a lot pointing in the direction of footwear.
What can KDN do to turn this around though,
because I was looking back and one of the games,
they played with KDN, okay, it was last year,
they lost 13, 1,500.
It's not pretty mad, is this, this is not a great look.
There's not a great look, and it hasn't been a great look
for KDN's OT so far.
Disamabilizes super small doses.
It's not gonna make any conclusions so far.
If there's anyone who have that
in a minute auto-turn a team around them
and get the most out of the PCS to work with,
that is Keaton. That's what he did in Iraq. The issue is that he's done it, you know,
three years ago. He hasn't done it as a recently and that's kind of what I want to see.
I'm not expecting OG to come out and be a full-force team right now, but at least I want to see
glimpses. I want to see, you know, science training in the right direction. Didn't saw a lot of that
on ancient and I would love to see them, or else, because I think that is the minimum. The bad
minimum needed if we need a competitive game. And even with maybe some lack of experience,
I know they had a boot camp at the start of the year, so they should have been able to work through
through their map a little bit on this, but do you think they have enough in them?
Like the protocols to go through this if it starts to look dark to the battle their way out
of this?
I mean, I think OG is still a team that has the individual qualities to make the game
competitive.
I can't count out of Katie and I can't count out Flemish as well.
I think Eros does as well as shown before that obviously this quality would end the team.
But do I believe that they're going to win against fruit who's playing well, who's been
trending upwards, who are showing all the positive signs then I would say no.
But I said, you know, I think for everyone out there,
even the OG fans and people watching at home,
disambulousized as so small that every time we watch OG play right now,
we're still learning, was still getting a sense of where they're heading,
is that a positive sense right now, am I, am I standing here,
would confidence thinking,
OG, you know, in two months, they're going to be a significantly better team.
I haven't seen enough to save that yet,
so I'm still a bit on the car's been, I'm still a bit worried.
And I think that's why I believe food are going to win this game.
How much is it important for OG to at least look what they can be
competitiveness, if you're already saying that
foot should be the winning at like, what do you want to see
as a minimum to say, okay, this OG roster has some potential.
I mean, if you're OG, I think a win is the bare minimum to be
completely honest. I don't think they'll be happy losing this game.
Whether that's true or true one that that is what it is.
And I think for OG, yes, you can argue for my point of view.
It's just to say that if you just remain competitive, if the show
was a bit of sign, then maybe next time we see them play, we're going
to build up a story that yeah, OG is getting better.
They're moving in the right direction, but that's for nerds like me to
follow. If your OG you want to win and exiting this tournament in the very first game, not giving
another chance to play another map or another serious, that will be disappointing. So to be completely honest,
it's everything right now for OG. They have to win in all the stellar. Well, it's everything and
they chose this battle. They decided to pick into FUT is a team they thought they could be.
Let's see if they can prove it on Mirage with you going, Harry.
Yeah, can they prove it? That's the, that's the big question Hugo, because for OG, they ended
last year that is the year that just happened to them.
They ended the year, you go.
On Mirage, the M1 by a couple of breeds.
Wow. Nobody wants that.
No.
It's like, it's not good anything.
Other than messy.
I mean, yeah, I was going to say you kind of missed a big one.
Well, he is the good.
But it's okay, Harry, because ultimately,
at least it's not like a single elimination format,
where if you lose one, be it three.
Oh, sorry, well, I'm getting word of my year.
it is a single elimination format. OG, they've got a step up now and save this series
or foot will be going through to the second stage as OG just full of their map pick.
I will say I like some of the things we saw from OG in that first game, but foot, they
have the tenure, they certainly have the players and they have the grind set that they've
been on. A lot of maps played in these last few months. I mean, with this lineup alone,
Just here since adding longs, there are 26 and 6 on Mirage, that's an unbelievable run for
30.
So let's see if they can do whatever one should expect of this point and eliminate OG from
the bounty.
Fast play out through Con, wrapping in towards his A site, Adam's got them looking
the wrong way, a free kill gifted to Adam B, and I think give Chase out towards CT spawn.
They get this real estate at least.
Rotate for OG is coming CT ways and so, how to be this clash for the spawn control.
You've got to flash to try and tee it up and flash dodged put the site in, you don't want
to play for it, get out with one more before Adam B and shut down and his
the retake and shape. From that farm hoping a force and
fight's knife pulled really does confirm it though deep use not being held and
long starts off map two with a knife kill in the pistol. Time running low for
all mate flammers. Wait, wait, no way, right?
He's holding this and he's walked to stop him with seconds remaining.
The smoke fade literally saves the round for foot.
That was the only way to win for Flammer's grab the kick, get on the bomb.
Hey, longs ended with 30 kills by the end of ancient Harry.
So we knew he had it in in the dog in the house.
And he doubles up in this pistol with a knife to boot.
I love that reaction for foot as well.
He's a bit scary because of where the bomb's part,
they realize with how quiet jungle is that OG are grouping 4CT with a flash and so instead of
the some CT setup where they're going to get overwhelmed they just walk towards jungle and take
back so much face it's very hard for OG to get back in that round and that's experience on a map right
realizing what retakes out of your up against and go in the other way
I'm walking into it, it's a force up here for OG, in King D'Purchase, has this young, plucky
underdog.
You know, I've been talking all about this grind for foot, and it really has been paying
off right now, VRS ranked number 17 in the world, they were seen number 16 in the
event as well. That's quite a quick rise for a squad that was under the Narby Academy just last year.
So they're really getting to, oh, okay, Ian. I'm getting to spread their wings as a young
team. Wait a second, they've been clipped. Oh, really? Five alive round.
4 OG? No way. No way.
Oh!
James is dead and everyone gets out on that 4 spy from the OG camp. That's pretty sick.
I feel like we all expected, I guess.
That is not normally.
crazy smoke shop for KD and then everyone its bangers spooky mid air D and
foot they don't have a choice at a half the mile
swambers looking keen oh dear give some back there okay
Go get it.
I mean, losing anti-Eco always feels rough, but you know what feels great?
Within your force by
Especially with this, this is such an ugly bi-deagle armor, that's all.
The technique never feels quite as good as these rounds.
It's true, down to the choice.
At AK puts a use on the entry.
3 now, 5v3, he goes.
Postal in this one, Harry.
Adam shut it down, he had a great ancient.
Oh, he calls it off.
Pardt's in with no snow, not easy.
I'm a spooky control in the spawn.
Yes, just given them a little smoke to play around.
But as they try and give chase, spooky,
able to get rid of another now has support.
And so, looking to keep this one in check after all, R-O-G.
Just getting the one B-1's really, and Fert had great advantage.
But giving them the fights they desire an O-G to pick it up,
swiftly, three on five, and they don't lose a player from that point.
It's a little awkward for foot, couldn't pick their poison, but it's very difficult, but no utility and around like that.
Just have to hope the deal's connect further.
Christmas. Yeah, kind of sounds like prison. Okay. Maybe. Lawrence is trying to get in the head of Cadian.
Okay. Cadian knows he has a prison tree up in his house. Oh, all right. I see where you go. Yeah. Maybe there's something there.
The prison tree is up. Yeah. Merry Christmas.
little play out towards a shot front and beat a padded stats.
My shots for a bomb block.
Oh, I know without any names raining in my god.
Have you seen this discourse around symmetry?
No.
resembling Molladoy. Okay, I need to look at him. I feel like I know what you mean, but
show me
Cemetery
Next round. That is
I see it. I do see it on the photo. Yeah, yeah a little bit
That's what everyone said. I keep my ear to the streets. Okay
on the right.
Oh, you're trapped,
gravity.
Well, he's still getting it.
That's unreal.
He gets his, all right.
Adam, careful there.
On people, right?
And I'm going to get yours,
buddy.
They're in this side.
They're right there alongside him.
It's just a contact walkout
into a, is enough for food.
It's a last thing that Adam was ready for.
He goes to help his teammate on the
bout player.
They're pushing him triple.
And I thought with some depth on this T side, it's OG left six feet deep, too much foot talk.
Ray, oh, I can't let you get that out there.
And I was a, that was a measurements pose and play whatever the other thing you said.
Well, that was measurement.
That wasn't feet.
A foot is a unit of measurement.
So shoot. Nice. Jay has quick to it. Is you have a shoot one foot long? Would you
say? Yeah. My shoes are. Wait, is that being big or small? I don't know, do you think
for you? I'm pretty average size. See, thanks is calling me an FUTE but I refuse to do that.
Well, also wasn't it maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was originally like footballist
Was the team? I'd be I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong there. No, I'm close
That sounds right
Anyway, I knew round approaches
That was a pretty seamless transition if you asked me mid control here for foot
quite short stop now you stop it
alright go on this rod walking through the consma kdn
waiting
that's what they've been to kdn the cave around from the palace and the coin and they're everywhere and they're coming out now
out.
Need to find Krabani.
Oh no one ever to get their kill. Yeah, finally one comes through.
It's got wasted.
And longs even get away with that fry got towards jungle.
Lovely shop from Katie and but just the one and done.
It leaves it all on our stoss.
control taken away. They're in good postplan here.
Set up to play around this bomb.
And our Skars doesn't even get a chance to play.
Delete it on that swing.
Jugs with a fantastic finish it to the round.
brings us back to a tie game.
Pup. And he's gone. Just like that.
Our Skars, in a many clutch this series.
The unsuccessful so far.
We'll find us through that smoke out, and the Molly came in.
So you couldn't survive in the corner and even Cadiens cross shop, actually preferred
not to see that player, because then he just gets peeked close with no way to escape.
So, Fert's have recovered here on this T-side, after losing to the force by flawlessly
So back to back on rounds. Yeah.
Let's recover it. They'll rest there. Where are you, Sol? You go. That's good. That's really good.
They are athletes after all. There's a joke there somewhere. Maybe you can find it.
You'd never want to find athletes but oh no. The real
And approaching the end of the money here, R-O-G, so this is one of these tipping
point rounds in the game, right?
If put her able to find this, suddenly they can start to run away with this T-Side,
and that's not a bad way to open things up.
The AWP secures the 5B4.
There was that that missed when there was smoke on purpose.
It actually might've been.
I felt like it.
And while actually, yes it was.
it was. So all entry here for Ferts. They get longs out under as well with that
kill OG. I have no idea what's going on in middle.
Well, the AX acute.
Coming in, blocks, kicking up a fuss in middle with a double smoke or a finish, more
you to Molly drop everything, the kitchen sink, the porcelain shatters, as they come through
ramp.
That re-smoke is really well-timed though from Adam there, about to just walk in, forget
the X-acute, out to longs to find that entry.
And then here they go.
Oh, a little ugly there for Adam B, but he will get the kill and that's what Matt is just to follow up as well.
And then closed in on and finally dealt with, it leaves it all on longs, playing it forward,
out towards the spawn, jump, jump.
It beats the shop, but there's layers to that deep end.
Alan CT.
Adam's put up so many nice rounds in and rough spots here in this series across both maps.
Here's really been a delight to watch.
Some excellent gills on round there. That was an ugly Bamas fray off the flash,
but he recovered there on the smoke they find too.
And so it's also his smoke on round that ruins that round for foot without the smoke,
Footages have the perfect split timing instead they get caught walking to his phone
OG
Fighting tooth and nail
Oh no
We'll win the boost, and that's right as spooky vacates the window.
I don't even hear this.
Try to get the crossing in now.
Talks himself in, but there's the swing out from Flammer's.
Now, it's just left to this B-play direct out through the apartments and into a stack.
Every player's here.
Lakeshot lands, support arrives, and very little room to grow in this round.
And it's symmetry, good for two.
Can't get past the WP.
Okay, do you want step too far?
I was wondering what we'd get from KDN, right?
I said, you know, it's one thing as a captain.
It's another thing to also still be able to, or at a high level.
And I think he's been pretty reliable in this series.
It's hit some difficult shots.
He's hit some necessary shots.
It's not taken over the game by any means, but right now, I'll see Tim
Raj, he's doing his job and you're seeing him still in supportive
conditions are in a lot of you tell on T-sides and so yeah nice game
out of KD and so far able to stop that clutch and coming through on the
B-bombsite.
OG 5-3 I won't get ahead of myself I know how much experience
but have on this map but it's a very good start for OG so they can keep it
Let's go, let's try and shoot me a gimme.
Gimme gimme gimme around after midnight.
Ooh, burn.
Ooh, okay, that's kind of nice.
A smoke is actually...
Oh, fire must don't die to the ground.
Try to get out of there.
Place to evade.
But before I'm for that felt done actually could have some legs on it here with some damage put down range
It's only glocks and there's one thing
How to get rewarded a kill if just a shy of the mark flammess one shot would have done him in
Blocked it that that yeah, he's been given the award
Not known to be an operator
I'm gonna get through this window room.
That's K-June until he lets him through this window room.
3 on 3.
Adam again, required here to put on a show.
It's only pistol short.
There's one M4 that's been picked up.
You don't even really want to give away the bomb plot.
He's 4 times 2 nights and well, that was...
There you go. I do respect it. You don't want to get killed after the time. Yeah, so just
But up. It's the hacker. That's what it is. Yeah, it's like the old Moldoiaer cut before you, you know
You knew he was that guy
When he realized he was like the main character. Yeah, he got it anyone. You see his grip of your wards
It's not, yes, actually, I did.
Yeah, as you're frantically gurgled.
No, no, no, I was just looking at a photo of it.
Just a picture of Volosal.
But, no, yeah, I saw it, did it, it was sick.
KDN, boosted up and do you know what I mean?
It's coming to Mirage here, right?
Probably feeling like this is one of the maps that OG
have got to put some more time and effort into improving.
And so he's like, you know what?
We're online.
For all time's sake, I'll do it myself.
Is it some good memories on this map as Katie?
Katie and you can't win Blast Bounty like this.
We're certainly trying to attend and forth,
topping the charts in the server.
I don't know what I hear in this very important round now.
That's a huge double for Jews out towards the ramp.
Katie and once again finds himself in the right position,
but with no shots landed,
It might finally be time for foot to put another on the board.
Seeing all these cheeky little plays for foot right, the contact walk, how are they in
the first gun round? The smoke caught in and they both pushed through it as soon as
the smoke lands, like they know they can rock off the feathers and catch over to
with some weird rounds and so far there's netted them a couple of gun rounds in this
T-side. Nice to see, but still I mean some of the individual moments coming from OG
definitely worth noting, there's kept a bit of this map, there's kept them in the bounty
for a single elimination format, but you need two wins to go to land.
32 teams in online play.
60 in the next stage and then the top eight come to Malta to battle it out.
Not a money on heads, OG come hunting in a 50,000-dollar bounty, missed window!
Hmm, what's not peaking?
Now is that one purpose.
Maybe they're faking the Orpids middle, Harry, so they can send it be.
Oh, it was.
That's the thing because you never know these days. You never know who's missing smokes, who's purposely missing smokes?
That's why you can just throw the smoke even if you don't know it.
Yeah, I mean, I'll see. I want this part of the purpose.
All part of the plan.
It's deeper than you think.
All right, there's going over the wall, it's B.
Contiming here for longs could be good, as he's been a squeak on past this player in connector.
It's up behind enemy lines, but his teammates try and get through this B site.
All the fight timing opens up.
That's really ugly at a longs.
What more there?
Star of the last game, but can't get it going in this map.
up and with him shut down, it's going to fall onto cemetery and jugs, but with this
backstop closing in, barrels spotted the orc knocked out and jugs, not able to survive
long enough with the apartments flying right there.
Oh gee, promptly back to their winning ways here in a bit minimum, I've secured a one
out CT half.
Yeah, kind of a frustrating game right now for food, because they're getting in good positions.
They're running set rounds, but they're just missing their shots, which is not what we saw
Last map especially for longs, right?
The castles of the connector flankers is team new short control double short spotted.
Comes up bench misses his full map!
He's the price for it.
There's a couple of kills like that you need to get if you want to win around like that,
which is essentially just three players walking out the apps.
But OG just have every position,
Kitchie's short and at the apps flank.
They find a seventh.
Feeling very good right now.
Getting a little bit eager, flammer's rushing top middle, inside of the smoke, call him
snacks.
Now, he knows he has won, tries to sweep in the deal, but they're going to weigh with
a second, a fast pop out through the apartments as once more, B is the endestination
for foot.
They're going to get in with a bomb plant, and this is one of the best situations they've
been in that spot, over the wards is B site at 3b3 and time to get set up in this post
plant.
It's going to be very late for spooky on this flank and he's going to have to run as well.
So they get further info.
No needs left to play with four foot will OG choose to throw their mollies in and try and
clear positions.
They are on the clock right now spooky has to hit that shot he does over the top of the
van dropped by Adam as crammy is left in the 1v3.
the time is the only thing on his side, but the U-TIL PERFECTION VOTE, as they come
through on an unlikely map and take an 8 round CT side against FUTT.
Hey guys, this is Mahon, and I'm going to break down on the Pro's Horde short on
Raj, so you can do it just like them too. Let's go.
At the side of the round, typically you'll want to throw a flash at the top of mid to push
the T's back. The slush hits anyone standing between top mid and the chair, ultimately creating
space for you to peek middle. The top mid flash creates an avenue to peek middle, but you also
have to worry about someone coming from underpass. To deny the possible T coming from underpass,
you can throw a mall top at the entrance to prevent them from getting to bench. This gives you
more safety when you fight top mid. The top mid flash and underpass small top are good tools
to help you fight, but before you reach that point, there's a chance AT could cross the initial
angle before you get to bricks. This is possible if the T has the best spawn, and your teammates
at window and connector gets smoked up. If this happens, you can mount up the bricks and progress
as the mount up. But if the T's don't push up, a great angle to hold is between the bricks and
the corner where you can't be seen from chair. This is strong because T's tend to clear the
the bricks angle on the right corner, but not exactly the spot in between.
This also allows it be close enough to spot if it achieves a connector.
Another spot you can use is on the ledge in front of ladder room, holding this specific
spot matches up with the right end to the bench, so if T's jump onto it you'll be able to catch
a mid-air.
Being up close also allows you to see the T even if they crouch, whereas if you stand for the back,
the T now has the option to crouch for cover.
If you want to get a deeper view into mid, you can get a boost onto the bricks.
From here, you can catch T's running down the slope of mid from an elevated position,
and even if the T's throw a smoke at cat like this, it'll still be able to see over it.
Now, these are some great positions to play on short, but you'll likely want some flexibility
to move to a ladder room.
The best way to do this is to throw a smoke at the front of catwalk.
Not only does this block the T's are pushing up, but now you can move to a ladder room
without being caught.
and later I'm allows you to defend against Tees coming up short and through window at the same time.
You also get access to this position on the cement blocks in window to spot the cross towards
connector. Tees often overlook this position since including the top of connector when they enter.
But holding short is just one part of being in this area. What are some other ways to help your teammates?
If you don't use his smoke for front cat, you can also use it to re-smoke the bottom connector,
which slows down the cheese map control.
If a bee push comes in, putting yourself right up to the brick gives you an isolated fight for the window.
The power behind this is that the bricks actually covers up many of the common flashes that pop towards the bee site.
For comparison, expose yourself to the site with the same flashes but look like this.
Now, despite everything you can do as the short player, don't forget you can start the round by going through window instead of bee site.
If you make the cat jump, you can contest mid-thaw earlier.
And instead of jumping on the cap, you can also go for the ladder room jump.
Being in the ladder allows you to cut off any T's you go fast so it's short.
But if you peek middle from the ladder room, keep your mind a T with the best spawn
can already make it to second chair.
And that was the last piece on how to hold Mirage short like the pros.
We've been impressed with what you're doing here on Mirage,
the year might have ended on this map pretty horribly getting 13 won on their last
outing, but far more successful campaign here on Foot's map pick, 8-4 up at the end of
that first half, Adrian putting in a mammoth shift, but everyone pulling their way, Adam
had some really crucial holds over here towards A and Spooky, he starts finding his
voices the game went on and all. So, who G, a strong start here in the pistol could put them
on a 5th track to make this a 3-map series after all.
Struggling without the 30-bomb from longs, but maybe it's a team acted on this CT side
as everyone punches forward and finds a kill in this pistol.
Four frags in just a second.
A spooky's left in an unlikely clutch.
Let's turn to form for thirds much required after pretty dismal, t-side.
And there's the shard teammates, in fact everyone gets it done there for foot in the
pistol round.
And we're back on.
Oh my goodness.
No wonder he's not dropping deadly kills, but in flashback it's a Christmas attack.
I wonder what you have the lights at the end.
Like I wonder what this is, everything more of noxious while you're trying to play.
But I already remember the changing Christmas lights.
It's a brand new and new in the background is already quite a lot for the human brain to handle.
But the again I put it on this strobe mode, and someone telling the turn of off for his own sake, I think.
It's getting... fully spam.
Outside of like starting a small fire in your waste paper bin, like that's one of the...
This is maybe the second most distracting thing.
And at least that's consistent light.
Yeah, well for a bit.
And then it gets bigger and bigger and...
Then we're gonna need a attack, OG of love forcing a new second rounds, the fact I remember
that makes me think they haven't won a pistol, I'm wrong they have they won one pistol, out of
All right, a lot of room, given away here, right, Clomp found, leaving it to the
retake, but it's a double-edged sword, it's also let these pistols close in.
Ooh, trying to play around the fade of these smokes, they're looking for real estate out
here towards the jungle, going into a crossfire, but you won't get out with a multitude
of kills instead, you end in this three on three now, a lot of damage done the other way,
But a dig back out over the stairs will serve to complicate that as here. You're constantly
looking over your shoulder. No, there's a player cut loose out towards Palace, but a good
catch down there in Con. Arrows got stopped in his tracks and with seconds remaining,
the fuse grabbed the foot. I'd to think that if Adam is turned a little bit more
into that corner, it is beyond showing his barrel isn't given away position. They probably
win that round. It is, in fact, a footshot that wins foot the round. Finding that last
Second, deep use, with no kit as well, against an OG who are making a 4.5.
I've got a way too close for comfort, but...
Great cover for longs.
Reins to smokes.
Anyone with Potophobia? This is the worst game for you?
Double-winders smoke and you still get to head of it.
I'm guessing that's fair of feet, yeah, fair of feet. That's a great pair.
Just a one foot, actually.
I'll plot a little bit more here for OG but for the most parts it's just flat pistols.
Oh good flash even better full blind shot.
Oh crazy little double down there in con just to stop the spill over and so can I get
this down to a warm round game now the B site is empty.
That I'm moving in.
Oh, here's that step back in the market.
There's this player nearby. That infor goes both ways, but still you've managed to lock in a bomb plant here.
That's already a nice feeling for OG. It's gonna go no further, but some extra money made just to leave them with more options in this first by-round.
Back to that bomb plant.
I'm kills in this one.
But enough to make the second half interesting now as foot trying pull the comeback and
2-0 this series definitely a shot at it now despite a really ugly looking T side with
a lot of cool ideas but none of the shot hitting.
A lot of to be honest, very off metal ideas I felt like this con smoke pushes contact
plays.
So here we go for a G.
Cadence A WP smoke early.
I like that OG of taking all the pace out of this return to rifles.
Because for work really short at the type of speed they were going to come through it in
this round they've already burned through a lot of that locking you till and now they
go and land down as well.
They control Taken and your eyes start to really shape up on their safe place.
That's a good shut down out towards the connected Juts with a double.
And that might have just saved the day for food.
It's only KD and Arostar's left and not for long.
It's just the all.
One before attempt for KD and he's got 30 seconds left and he might just commit to the safe here.
I'm coming for him.
Roughness and the moment you do so, I had all knocked out of play.
I'm picked up as well.
Duke's gets 4 kills saves that AWP huge round out of him.
I think OG can probably be all this one.
Starting to slip away with four round straight and then eco to follow
They could buy it's just gonna be lacking on a couple of players still get four eight days
Good you'll probably try to make this work
There's two very clean rounds back to back so
temptation of breaking for its money is not their OG burning time. That's the fact that
for having used any with how that first half win, they just brushed it off.
And with the amount of smoke pushes and almost random plays if I like it times,
maybe you're ready for things to go wrong. You're not too missed when it does.
It's a 1 AK here for spooky and a bunch of pistols.
what's demon gonna do and he spots him coming.
Another day, another demon behold.
Here's him closing in, gets out with the first,
but wrapped on over towards the bench.
And then he gets out with one,
and this behold crumbles in the face of these tech nines.
Right now for awkward decision here,
money's fine and you feel like you don't wanna give them
a route back in, but
And unlikely 2v4 ahead of foot, they find that first.
Duke's plays it forward out through the market, and we'll have four on its screen for free.
Oh, this is starting to get away from OG.
Damage connects on a flammer, softening him up at the back of the site.
Spooky committed to a wrap round in through the market.
We'll have the element of surprise, sure, but we're not running off.
Good enough, quickly now.
Technion up close from flammer's hopes to put a stop to this.
What would be time for the deep views and so OG by the skin of their teeth?
Welcome, Burr on that boss, man.
Oh my goodness, I can't believe spooky gets away with it.
I feel like he was going to hunt them on the exit,
strapped or shut the back door, but instead,
foot almost make a 2v4 happen.
MVP is flammers with the fearless push through the smoke.
Finding demon after just a single kill on the deep on the side.
Goes on the stool, I find so much time.
So, OG win it with one gun, that was an eco.
And around they could have even justified a buy, but a safe purchase, and now they get all
the reward.
OG first decide roundlocked in.
Kick the oven, Barcelona's beat bombsayers, flammers, and rushes short-siders, four players
here for Foto.
None of that mattering is they all get thrown to the wayside.
He's rotates cut off double for Adam and
Backsturn. I don't know how old you managed to fake that so well, but those short players not even looking at middle
And is is flawless out of oh, what a recovery. There's kind of no better feeling than playing into the stacked bombsite and getting out with a flawless around right like you
You're a opponent's idea right where they want it in, and you still dealt with them all.
That's just a huge confidence boost here for OG.
Massive surge in the right direction as this game was closing up.
Playing themselves back into the lead and doing it very, very convincingly across the last two rounds.
And finally, the time I was coming in, and I'm sure some frustration for thought with how these rounds have been going.
very much caught off guard by the pace of that one.
What a recovery from OG in this T-side ready to write them off.
I have a game and the strong track record on the rod for foot starting to dwindle.
Two rifles.
Oh, play out in the middle and it's a lot of aggression here, from foot, no G-mini, expecting a little more respect there on the mid play.
I'm expecting a little less money.
That's why the rifles would be found out there in middle.
And he put them to work.
Good position here for foot, just to keep this game competitive, leave themselves with a chance to close the series on Mirage.
They win this round.
The cast still within their grasp, but they will shut down this A play, the final two removed, back to a 1 round game after all, and up in their lucky stars, they get those midfights, they were looking for, they're teed up to play around that, it's where they put all their firepower in the round, and it works wonders.
really well played making the ladder jump to get a very quick swing off of
short game and lines up a lot of damage and gravity swings off them.
So I thought when I'm likely round and they do what KD was up to in that first half
or boost only a tag note.
Gravity blocked the window smoke and plays on the lip ahead of it.
Gee, I'll keep that be it's for boost up and with the 9th.
Oh, gravity just swings for both.
Again, back turned on short.
Flammers find a way.
Oh, they hear them, Molly, hear logs as well.
Spam will connect, something him up, but he won't get out with anything.
It's another kill from Blammer's.
He looks out towards the market and I start first point of rotation.
Three on five, now three on two.
I don't even know how Flammer's got up short.
Let's go.
We're taking it.
I got a three.
I plot A.
But if you plot...
Is this a...
It's a...
Plava short, and it's fine.
They can come back short, they can come to the plot.
I mean, it's smoke and I'm dealing.
But don't know.
Food and we'll have no idea, right?
Oh, it's dropped.
They didn't hit a bomb.
Now they know.
But again, it's a post-war position.
Demon's smoke on bomb is the only thing that
Yeah, and it's hits the Jews as well.
Oh, no.
I can know, man.
It's not that easy.
Oh, my God.
And they're playing around this.
They've got double hope to try and stop the deep views.
Or does not work out?
The wrong gun right now, because of that smoke being in play.
I mean, he can still just hit the shot.
It's a nice bomb for him.
They need to get on it.
They're playing very late. Oh, they're taking him dead. And they've soaked it really really wide
They know about this play around short. Oh, dear. He's been held in five stolen it right from under there
No, it's just you can almost see that happen from a mile away. Oh, that's oh, I like the idea
But yeah, they just take too long to come off the beast side like why both players committing short
You know, it was a spooker item also there would have loved to play it around and meet them in the middle
Come through connector
Officer help
That's a frustrating route to lose. They could have just plant a bee here. That's an overcook. That is an overcook. It's just a fire by the result, isn't it?
Because
They could just plant bee and they probably went three on two. It was three on five. You did the hard job
And that was all I know, and he takes the moment off.
And he said this story kind of a range.
You know where they kept it wrestling back.
These impossible rounds.
Well, essentially they done the hard part.
And it was tying it up.
It was the problem.
I'm just going to get up and show what in this round.
I don't know.
Well, I'm going to put their pieces out there.
Was it where the fuck are going to remember the short exist?
Screw it.
They keep dying.
They're just one guy running down short back to her every time.
Oh, everything about that round man, don't cheat that hurt.
It's good.
Let's see if they can compose themselves.
It's a really, really, really rough round.
A bit of a stomach journey to a given away.
And now they go a man down to open up this one.
It's chased through the connect.
It doesn't come through.
And it's kills all across the board at four foot.
End up in a 3v2.
And a chance to leap frog OG right at the final few rounds of play.
of play. No way. I'm never going to forget that 3v5 and how...foot with the game staring
and dead in a face, I was not a chutey for demon. Who will like Kadeon live?
So he can just walk that bomb back to us. I do like that he didn't over commit to that,
right? I think it would have been so easy when you get the first shot in the trying to hang
around and deal with him, but likewise if you give that killer way to Kadeon,
things could get real awkward instead it's pressure down towards ramp knowing that
at worst you've got to one be one there. Can't put a fine now it was
Corbetti and now it's smoke in it to stop Cady and in his tracks. If you wait for
that he's going to be left with about 15 seconds. Oh, but how about we walk
right through him? We meet inside of it, Cady and it's just looks good but it's
It's not because he's not ready on the smoke fade for Krabanae to be holding this.
Krabanae knows it is very likely, and so he's ready for Kadian in the site 11 to 10 now,
for take the lead back late in the day, and this 2-0 might be theirs in a stressful
mash foji where they have shown some tenacity. How can you not be thinking as well about
who 3d2 guys? Like if that if that around if that mistake comes through later in the game I think
you're well within the mindset to be able to turn it around but this that is like a game defining
loss and you know you'd like to think that for someone like Katie and me and so experience
he'll be able to brush that off but it's the rest of the team right that if that gets under their
skin in any metric really anything less than what they've been giving us won't really
get up to take this map. And so even a slight slow down just questioning decisions a little
bit more things not flowing it's all going to slow your roll very late in the day. It's just so
funnick is it such a classic Canadian move isn't it it's like a cane clutch play but but we also
So what happened?
Shutter's more I think because it was 3v5 and they did the hard job and then...
Snuck!
Under their noses.
I don't know if you've had some time to talk it over.
Coming up connected, me?
I'm fine goodness, not even looking.
They all rushed through con.
Juke's under balcony in the open cover.
No problem here for Fertz.
It's only pistols after all.
I've got a final ditch of tent nowhere.
And now O.G. this is it.
This is your bounty lifeline.
the ballons got to get two rounds, take it to O.T. close it out or it's foot going to stage 2.
There are a couple of chances to do so.
And this move from O.G.
picking the bottom seated at the top 16, 16 seed and foot is there
a opponent to try and take down in this opening stage.
I'm not a hand out.
The Gresh now here towards the Rampside OG at least find a 5B4.
And at 5H, a critical juncture in this game.
I'll be aggrined into over time for OG right there's no free path here it's not like you're going to break the money
of foot at any time on this two round streak that you need to lock in over time.
So if you want to long it out it's going to be rifles, be rifles and all of these rounds.
I'm going to stop by converting on the 5v4.
Katie and the trainer need a charge out towards short will get shut down.
But he was just a fake.
There's a time to try and misdirect foot.
Jokes had a stab there and a chance to react.
Springs out for one.
Now they know it's the A play.
Rotate start to come through.
Peaks from short could try and cut down the con component.
Spookies already dodge this.
Well, it's with 3p3, it's sharp from that orb and the plot will come through.
Knowing gets denied, Spam connects from Demon, and now time running low.
They get past the WP, but they never feel comfortable here in this 2v2.
Pick up, swing again from Demon gets put down.
10 seconds to try for Nagel of every year.
Long's creeping forward this star of ancient hope and a moving for this clutch.
Closed on the spot, but not meant to be as Adam be puts on the ace.
Unbelievable, round from Adam be the fake, the time, and time again, and even find
Steven on short, he was the fly in the ointment. He was the guy causing chaos, dropping
that bomb through the smoke, and Adam wins out there one be one. To finish it all off,
he has been the standout player Vogue across both maps of this series, and he just saved them
from elimination with an ace at the end of regulation.
OG are still here.
Unreal.
If that's not enough, what is?
Footer thinking.
there we go
I'm afraid I can't get a head of yourself, right?
It feels great, Adam's just ace to win that last round, but job is not done.
You can't come into this one, riding too much of a high, you've got to remain focused.
As we say, you know, they were going to be guns all the way to the end of this.
All the way to the end of regulation.
This is the grind never stops here 4 OG.
Nobody somewhat lucky to still be alive there.
Even though he's teet out with a flash, there were a lot of players ready to punish.
A connector peek.
a hit with the deadlock missed windows I don't know that one was purpose so break on
they won't know about spooky but this is still OG trapped out on ramp 4 players 40 seconds
smoke in the way.
It's a recent no-body down, even more time-borked as Spooky's getting closer.
30 seconds no room for error.
Ah, that's the, uh, opening kill from this all-up, and a second-found.
The Fabetree on a tear!
Patrick, from him, a fed these kills out of the rampside,
and the eighths are about to be.
Might just be a bit of sweet memory at the end of this one.
It's full pulling up with the opening round
We're here in Bounty, shutting it down, O.G.
In convincing, to an O-Fashion, end of the line,
the KV and O.G.
It might have been the end of the line for KDN's O.G.,
but first showed us that they are, maybe,
a chance of going for the future of this all,
because, this is a team, the looks girl,
they were in both maps 13 and 11,
they hold themselves strong in these poses and arrows,
in these difficult situations.
This was a novel decent win without just a hard carried performance.
A hundred percent we spoke about coming into this matchup that Furt, you know, leading up to the play at Wake,
where one of the teams that was under cusp of breaking through having won 14 out of the last 15 series,
the extent that street.
But I mean, won 15 out of the last 16 and they threw it as you say in a fashion where they had to fight for it.
It wasn't an easy game. It wasn't a game where all he didn't put up a fight.
Whether weren't moments where both teams probably could have done better could have done worse,
Very competitive game, very much back and forth.
Clutches require them both side, so a good hard thought went for foot, but at the end of the day,
continue that streak and continue the trending upward.
I like what I see, especially from some of the individuals, but most of them team themselves.
There are going to be some moments here, though, right where, I guess for OG, this is going to hurt more than you'd expect,
because they had chances in both games to win.
They had both chances to close it out.
They threw away some rounds you just shouldn't throw away.
and not the beginning of Mirage. You see this now. Flammer's Cadean playing so well looking
like the exact two players you want to see doing a good job.
There was the thing the first half was very promising for OTE. You see that here as well,
the up 63 are Flammer's playing well. You have Cadean playing well. It seems to be a team
and more or less control. I like the way they're playing on the CT side as well.
Gave me a bit of the sense that, oh, I can see Cadean being the in-game lead of this team.
Corrective on the CT side. Reading the situation's well, getting off to an eight-four first
just half but unfortunately for them, S&C games under T-Site, they weren't able to
capitalize their hat moments, their hat rounds where they probably should have one
should have gotten more out of it, but they couldn't get it over the finish line and
that obviously sucks, especially considering that you're playing a single elimination
tournament, you're done for, you're out, that's it for OG at this tournament, so that is
gonna sting a little bit for now. And it's a big opportunity to do this now gone away from
them at the same time and I just want to come back to that round where they plan on a,
the players at the world's beat, it all goes horribly wrong.
Little details like that is what they're going to look back on and go.
This isn't acceptable.
No, it's not acceptable and obviously that's going to start.
But if you take that round as an example, it was also a 5-3 for foot,
but then OG put into a 3-2 for themselves, right?
So that round itself had both teams kind of missing
of a situation you shouldn't mess up.
And then at the day, if you want to win close counter strike games,
if you want to win against the team that is very competitive against you,
you've got to convert in those rounds and SSR teams,
whether it's acceptable or not, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure, but it wasn't good enough for OG in order to get it over the Finch line.
Very well said, it certainly wasn't good enough, and that's the end of OG's run here at the bounty,
but foot, they are the future. And what's coming in the future is phase taking on eyeballs after this break.
15 to the clock. It's another close call coming out of fury. I'm round 11.
Upfines the pitkill. Somebody's got a clear bowl and out of this corner. And here comes search and
and sprinting into the motor smoke to set him the curve ball through the net again.
He can play again just enough time.
One, these three, cute up from all a doi.
Him versus Torsey.
And he looks the wrong direction.
Does he get wind of it?
Oh, it's a race down there.
The peak, but Mala doi still hiding in Torsey doesn't know.
He gives up.
No, no, no, takes the no scope to the chest.
And it's another clutch from all a doi, his second of this half alone.
Round number 18, Furia, five kills away from the big stage at the moody center.
They just need to complete this round and it starts, well, case a rattle.
A slaughtered flammers as he tries to burst of a smoke here.
Nice jump off, but case a rattle's still out there.
That end for doing all the work, it's a massive quad kill.
And he already had the over, almost had the 8th earlier.
I mean, he's gonna try and see if he can really complete it.
Yours be out and he gets it and he's to get to the playoffs.
You said Florence been quiet on in front of, well, he can't afford to be quiet here in round 22.
Do they do a contact with it? Is it really going to be destroyed?
It is into the York, can't know activates if he's necessary.
Now the need does chip damage, but still that ball is under their control and a fallen step up.
Delivers with his team need a most triple kill on the York.
Down goes Rekorn A and the job is done. The round is won 11, 11, 11.
I don't know what, Yuri, I wish him for another one of them from felon, four kills in the round.
Yuri has stacked those rounds.
Monacy uses that moment to establish an angle on hut, but for shot misses.
And there's a lot of movement for Yuri, I think they right off this track. It's hand-packed, it is.
This is your kindergarten trying to charge it down multiple bodies still.
But he doesn't give a damn, he's not gonna do it yet.
Oh, he's just tearing right through everyone.
He's a bulldozer.
Nico, last man standing here inside of the site.
It's a cool car.
He can't guard.
He will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
What a monster you can do.
Take a look.
Nothing that he can see.
But if you continue his on this journey,
you could have caught them off guard.
Molly, do I go?
Overwiser.
Magazine's here.
Training him.
You get mad.
I'm training him.
Some pious found a killer.
12 towards day.
Molly does.
able to get one.
Three on five.
Get the 4K.
There's one.
Makes it all the harder.
Four shots.
Four health.
This is a crazy play.
It's in place looking for him to go up above.
No kid here for some pious either.
He's wasting critical time on this.
But he does manage to get out another miss shot here
for Molly Joy.
The last shot closes pistol.
It almost looked like G2 would take it.
But the 5-B-3, Mollidoi the Soul Survivor!
Now, I want to come on to what this is like for you.
Because it's been five and a half years since you faced off against Carrigan in the server.
You told me before that this is going to be a great experience for the younger players on your teams.
But what is your feeling right now? Because you've won majors, you won the biggest tournaments in the world.
But what is it being in this situation going into this game for you personally?
It's a strange feeling. I like to feel it all. I mean bring in as a heavy and hard
underdog, of course. I think me and the team, we have nothing to lose. We're here to
have fun, we are here to prove ourselves. I think the pressure is mostly about to prove
that they are that much better than us, that they should be on paper. Other than the
I don't know, as you said, it was a long time since I played Cairigan, but also a long time,
like a tier 1 competition.
And yeah, it was a long time since I had that kind of nervous feeling going to enter again,
like the good kind.
And I had to experience that again.
And yeah, I just want to get into the server and show what me and the boys can do, you know.
JW is back with a bang and back on our screens after quite some time.
He has been quietly in the background, leveling up this eyeball as team, full Swedish,
national team, trying to find success and this is a golden opportunity.
A lot of the fact that we get to see TATW play at a tier 1 competition once more, but
people who may be new to Counter-Strike, it's a living legend of the game.
He said such a long tremendous career obviously two times in Connecticut where he was able
to win.
I believe it's 11 or 10 trophies, you know, some big wants as well in that regard.
So for him to be back and still playing competitive counter strike in 2026, all beat on
a team that we can't have too high expectations when you're considering the opposition
to go up against the face clan, but just the fact that he's still grinding, he's still
trying and he's helping out the Swedish scene, I can appreciate that and awful lot.
And you know, it's interesting because you get it from this interview there, like there
some other nerves now when you're back at this level it's been so long. That's a good sign
though, right? He's not just taking any strides like, okay, just a normal game, like he's feeling
it. It's a wonderful sign. It's a sign that he's still motivated, a sign that he's still
enjoying playing. Counter-strike and that there's another day, I know a lot of people are watching
at home thinking, yeah, it's the best job in the world playing computer, but it's tough to do it
for so many years, right? You have to dedicate your entire life to it. You have to say no to one
wedding after another after third wedding. You're never going to your parents birthday anymore,
there's always an event, et cetera, et cetera.
Obviously, it's a bit silly to say,
but when you dedicate your entire life to something,
it's only a good thing that you still feel a bit nervous
that you can almost sense that it means something to him.
So I'm very happy to see JW play
and I'm very happy to see Swedish kind of like
slowly but surely marking their way back under the tear.
Yeah, it's positive because it's been so long
and it's been a long time and coming.
And also, it's been five and a half years
since JW played off against Carragant.
So let's hear from him.
Carrigan, your wish came true. You wanted to work with this lineup of 2026. No changes.
What does that mean for you? It's a positive right?
Yeah, it's nice. I think we had a really good run at Budapest. Obviously last season was ups and downs.
But a really thing we found a way to play. So hopefully we can get a good start to the season here now.
It is a online game, but we will do our best to kind of get into the proof again.
See I'm glad you said it's an online game. I have to be honest with you, mate even though it's phase the magic doesn't seem to work on lines so much with that, right?
What does it worry you and so?
No, I mean, I think last time we did good for the last online tournament play was last online
We qualified really push that attitude to the to the edge and all times and
For the for playing spot in the semi finals, so I think last time played on I was pretty good
I hope for the weekend to the same
But there's a lot of loose here against a team like Highballers, so I'm just doing it for it to play JW after a minute, yes, I bet you say this with a small on your face
I have to ask you, there's a bit of a meme about you too, right?
And what are you thoughts on that?
Yeah, he's my brother, you know, my true brother my last brother from the last five years, it's good to see him under serve again
I like what he has done with Highballers, I think he's the owner himself and started with Flasher
Like for years ago, so it's good to see them having a scenario to prove to himself in this tournament.
And looking at one last player on your team is Jacob, he showed us such a good set of event and skills.
The ability that you guys have been seeing this whole time.
What are your expectations for him this year now considering all of that?
I expect him to grow more and more.
I think he really enjoyed playing the arena.
It is different in playing online to studio when I don't play in arena right?
Yeah, and so we just tried for the stage, but now it's the time to also perform when you need it the most in these online games in the early games of tournament right?
I'm so expecting to keep growing as a player, he is always listening to feedback and yeah, he's shooting really sharp, I didn't think, I don't think he took a break this vacation like the other stuff for the team.
So I hope you have a good start and if not then I think you'll grant this way back as always.
We just saw that at the Major, a bad start to the Major and really performing on a highest level in stage 3.
Well, let's see what I can do in this over again.
Thank you very much for your time, Carrigan, and good luck going into the game, mate.
Thank you very much.
Have a great day.
So if Carrigan right now, I'm for Jacob, right? This is about keeping that level we saw it better best.
because before that it was looking really bad for this team. We didn't know what was going on with them.
Now the expectations have changed again.
Yeah I say so it was looking bad for FaceCline obviously. As Kerrigan said, the season was not
one to be proud of. It was also looking bad for Jacob, but he stepped up massively.
As Kerrigan also said, states we're doing the media. Even states too as well.
He was coming in firing on all cylinders and he kind of ran his right for another shot right.
Now we can allow ourselves to have a bit of expectations for Jacob.
Because I think one of the things that was set by both himself but also Kerrigan was the
nerves he was feeling a little bit uncomfortable had to get into the tier one scene of
Counter Strike and play at that level. Now he's had some time to get a custom. He's at a
player break. It's carrying and said, seeming that he's grinding it out right there. I
thought once I've expectations for Jacob, I think he's going to do well. I think he's
going to do better and I'm super super curious to see if he can easily sway into it knowing
that it's online Counter Strike. Know you're playing against Eyeballers. What I saw during
stay three of the major was a very sharp aim coming out from Jacob as well. And in a game
like this against Eyeballers, that's exactly where you're expecting to shine. So I'm I'm
I'm a lot more positive on behalf of face plan that I've been in quite some time.
But again, many expectations are we talking about a future top three team?
Probably not.
Are we talking a team that's competitive and can be in the playoff at a tournament like this?
Shifting?
Sure, Fring.
Well, let's find out that they can do it.
They're going up against I ball as it should be an easier game on paper.
But it is online.
So let's see what happens if you go and have it.
I am very, very excited for this game.
Hugo.
I, uh, I don't know what it is.
maybe it's because of the the big title one which is just JW back in the server but
facing off against Carrigan 13. I don't know exactly but let's say almost 15 years since these
guys first played against each other and five years since they've lost played each other. That was
all the way back in 2020 when JW was still on fanatic. Carrigan was helping up Mares. Here we are,
you go. We arrive at the matching up again at JW in the eyeball as Jersey,
Carrigan with phase, fresh off the back of a run at the major.
It's so nice to see them not just reunited, but to see JW and eyeballers
for that matter, playing a top hero down there, playing, you know, some hopsquads.
Obviously, you're in straight for the phase, because it's only a making it more spicy here.
So, you know, I'm not sure what to expect from Iballers.
They only just made it in in contention for bounty,
but you know, they're gonna seize this opportunity.
There's also a couple of players on here.
I think I've worth talking about Bob Exty being one of them.
So, let's see if I ballers up for the task
of taking on a heavy hit or light face.
Jay freaking double you, man.
And the big 2026.
I can't believe it.
It's 2026, and we got Jay double you back on the menu.
That's crazy!
The turkey twizzler of counter strike, and it's back with vengeance.
That's like a bit of a niche UK school meal reference, but here we are.
Play out towards the spawn, you go.
They've got CT, they've taken that away, face,
respecting their smoke that's down over the wards, the red room,
finally come through, once it fades, and they get out with a kill.
Backstab closes in, pressure it out at sight itself,
itself the bomb left scrapping but don't not control him with JW dead. It's just maxed there.
That's a five-alive pistol for phase to open up on ancient. Yeah how to phase confident
at least in these games from in Tarragon said it yeah we have a pretty good track record online
we're not too worried about these kind of matches and to be fair lost bounty it didn't go too
great for the magic one stage one game and then they lost a VP to call up by for land so
However, in this kind of matchup, it is quite one side edge.
I think the difference is it's, you know, just your average day for phase, but it is a huge opportunity for eyeballers.
Well, if you remember, right?
They were nervous.
Do be a subat the fact that they would even get to play here.
After the R.S. point block, I think they were,
But something like points of a handful of points away from actually locking in an
invite, who's only because you know, other squads couldn't make it that eyeball is ended
up in this position.
The good to have them here, you saw their worry, feeling like a whole season's worth of
grinding could have gone to waste, so we aren't relieved to have them at the bounty.
And this round on their horse, they were standing a good chance of winning it.
The paragon is just called all that into question with a quick double out from CT.
It's gonna flash shake him in.
I don't know, he can just run temple side, so it's gonna take some time here for phase.
And JW is sitting back in the dough, no you man.
He's not got the gun for this though, and he's to help his teammate out.
He's got a face up against JW here, tap on the bomb, hoping that that sends a peek their way.
JW dead and the round picked up by Faze Clan as Carrigan puts on a clinic.
Big round-o'e of Carrigan on the Famas no less.
And Faze avoiding what looked like a devastating,
forced by win here for eyewallers.
I remember when eyewallers just missed the invite range for bounty there at you.
Thirty-third in the world then yeah.
one place away from making it to the van luckily, some teams didn't accept the invite,
so I bought us a look given the opportunity.
That's been a great amount for them 20 and 20 25, sort of expecting more things on this
He's side. Maybe not in this round, but I say that, they've walked out a.
Wow, it feels like it might just be a clean finish again.
It's back to back for the surrounds for phase glam.
Crazy to think you go, but it's basically half of our lives since these guys
first played each other say that. It's crazy. All right, I'm...
I'm status achieved. I mean you're the young. I'm young. I'd like six months
old with it. That's not true. How would I? Oh my god. You're Googling my birthday.
No, I know you're birthday. I can do. No, don't tell me. No, tell me. Hang on. I know it.
I'm telling you before I look at the screen. You can acknowledge I'm your
October, it is October, 997, that's the year obviously, and the day date, not day, there would be crazy if I knew this.
I know yours, this is rude. It's the third.
I got it right, dude.
It's not even more.
And where would I even?
All right there.
Biden, breathe that.
Okay, good.
I know yours, easy mode, bro.
Me and JW Harry, we're all on.
We all still got it. Phase definitely got it, shutting down these first three rounds of the game.
Here's the full bifur eye ballers. No warp just yet.
I'm a bit of a aggression, Carrigan.
He really wants to get stuck into this game.
He does get punished in that head there, Ch. W fed an opening.
And we're also able to keep it clean for the eyeball is a 43 promptly equaled out twists with aggression.
Wasn't ready for a player fast out through the cave and broke.
You surely get in the red room, unfortunate timing on that needball.
You're gonna see how frozen does, not well, they'll double back.
They'll find him out and mid and eyeball is get on the board here when the guns come out.
Just a quick aggressive B hit coming in confident.
and change of what you've made in 2026, change of you.
Oh, good catch.
Oh, that's deacressive, but there's more aggression from phase and they'll get back in
spades.
Three kills in an instant, Brokey's all firing off for one, frozen, hot on the trigger with
the M4 aggressive out here, and mid trades onto the AK and puts it to work.
and takes full control over this round and phase, storm the board in round 5.
I'm just gonna throw out a little bit of water.
I'm gonna throw out a little bit of water.
Magic in the smoke phase will not be fighting for this.
Each smoke to fake out, but this is not moving any of the setup twist gets that info
on the jump spot as well as it's too players, so we'll be ready for this A hit, I'll be ready
for the smoke push, twist tucks in.
That will complicate, but he's on his own.
Like the Carrigan doesn't over extend their realises that if they chase him down, suddenly
the opens up the route over the wards B.
That's just hangs back.
But now it's a split defense, two on either side of the map.
Phase a realising, they have to do something, so going to clear Red Room together,
Twister's even coming into help, Carrigan.
It means Brokey has a lot on his plate.
A whole time he's gonna be scared to do not need to be.
Miss shot, let's kick get weird now.
I don't know what does it exist, so face flood in is the bomb goes down.
The bomb is breaking on this smoke and carrying it's gonna best shade up you in that head
head once more.
There are trades back, but with maxed of falling, it's all eyes on decks, red room, flank
ground, trying to come through the back line here, but the twist gets on this bomb soon,
time might not be there for it.
longer they take the more powerful this wrap round is and with backsturned decks
bites his time plays for the double and knocks them both down the peg
That's a big clutch for decks. I bull is I've got him to thank as he collects that one be
too. That's sick as well. The holds the shot to get the double kill could have just gone for it
but sees that on the bottom
No rush.
Can I have anything sharp in this game, man?
He's got some nice shots right now on this CT side.
Still not enough to get face this round at the deco win, I ballers who...
Use the entire breadth of the clock there to get that eastward on.
Vade out white for middle, low money, lower investments.
The three pairs they do take it right back so I ballers realize a lot of you to a middle maybe there's a gap.
And they're pushed.
No one even close to stopping this.
Any drops too late, I ballers have A.
That's a good catch for Carrigan.
Oh, and it's so spammed downrange from Brokey.
I mean, now phase in a very, very good position.
Coming this round with lesser weaponry.
They give up a lot of room, but sniping a couple of players from this post plant.
Before it even takes shape, he's the man to come on.
They spot left to a push out through the spawn.
They try and swarm these rifles into the site.
GW, dealt with after one, leaves it just on decks.
on decks needs another clutch. All hands on decks, as Brokey chases him down, and
phase pull up, extending this lead onto a fifth.
I can see why phase come to point these online games, they're playing very fluid right now.
Season's just begun. Doesn't look like it ever ended off the back of a major final in Budapest.
That's so face trying to make this look like a walk in the park.
I'm always getting into some interesting spots, clothes.
It's a face full control.
I think in the real world, you always want to believe that if you just want something enough,
if you believe enough that you can do it, then you can.
That's not really like how it works.
It's all right.
I think all teams regard us to their level, players believe that they can make it to the
top.
And that's not the case for a lot of people, you know?
Where is leaving now?
What I was going to say is this phase team.
They actually are one of the teams that are just powered by belief.
that's why they're they're recent run at the major. I think actually makes them a pretty scary
team moving into the start of this new season. And so certainly a tricky one for eyeball
is to try and match up against. Yeah, I also think when a lot of we were expecting a big
roster manager, they didn't happen. And so I think actually benefit phase because a lot of teams,
you know, maybe weren't liking their roster and if you know, they want to make changes and they
could win or phase of the opposite, phase of just found the form with this roster and don't want
want to make changes, and so they did it, able to keep this for five.
Can't even set it, he had to put it first.
I don't want any changes.
And so, oh, yeah, Jacob's going.
They're seconding.
Jacob online, finish it off, Jacob.
Come on, you went for the tap.
I got to respect that.
You went for the style.
You went for the one tap down through ramp.
It's been a very tapy snappy round from Jacob.
And just to finish my point, yeah.
So other teams I think right now feel like, oh, you know, I want to get rid of this player or, you know, I don't like playing with these guys or whatever. I think phase of the opposite of that. I think there are team there are going to age quite well in this season.
You know, it's always a squad that we see. Can't count out the strategy in arena games.
As we clearly learned is still true off the end of 2025.
even with an unlikely roster.
But I think, hey, your phase, why click the lead?
It would be just no the floor can be lower at times, but...
Right now, no problem. 6-2.
Now the eco for eyewelins, this game is going by quickly, maybe quicker than they would
have wanted.
Broke is playing top big box on A, so...
It's not playing Skat.
No, it's, you know, Carrigan's playing like a star rifle right now, and these games
are always scary, because you know, you don't have to tell you, you don't get them
every day at a carigan, but whenever he is online, my god is such a crazy
x-factor that introduced into the game. You will get one of the use every
now in a game where he just pops off individually. Face the team that often
hit hard, even when carigan is having a very, very quiet game. So the moment
you have him with scorelines like this, it really leaves you feeling restricted
in terms of your options, that's gorgeous.
Take it, it's just been absolutely monster on these ramp fights.
Feel like you get one second to react and hit him.
And if you don't, you've been headshot out of the round,
giving in this AK might be a very, very rough spot
for eyeballs.
And maybe there's an element where it's like,
oh, you know, after this long play, after accomplishing
almost everything, you know, what is that still to play for?
But then you go up against an old friend, an old foe.
And I think that's an extra bit of motivation for Karagon
in a game like this.
JW slow to start, but it's not like O balls have had the money you really in this game.
There's been a lot of e-co rounds that he picked up one of them.
Frozen doesn't realize he's burning alive, but running through the body full blind gets
an up on heaven.
Phase full, make control, three strong.
I have to fill that void, broke you rotating no more on him though, just choosing to play rifle.
the
was there as well, because it was in the Mao's Jersey.
And it's those two alongside Brokey that are looking
lights out to open up this game.
Oh, frozen perfect timing. So much times the laps that you wouldn't be holding
for this. He's going to hear them running into response.
This could deliver a bit strange here.
Frozen takes the shot while he has it. Multiple players and
multiple kills. No, he takes them all. Three frags up roots this round and Bob's been spotted as well.
Brokey just goes for the throat. No giving this away you think. JW in the club.
There ever was a time. We could well one play in a existence. Let it be this one. JW.
Can he roll back the years here? Three kills deep but Bob out in no man's land and he will get
stop in his tracks, phase in a very very commanding spot right now.
An absolute runaway of an opening up in this series, and a chance to really swing for the
fences and make it so they can just win and shoot on the result of this pistol round
in the second half.
Not much time left here, rival is on the T-side, and looking worse for where...
I'm found first, the good little lost in Mido as I ballers look for a B hit.
Caragon still, committing behind the side right now, JW is very close to mind this
max 10 running down smoke lock that awkward
carrier just runs in and JW does find that kills that I bought was
need to make something of this if they want to have anything
of a tea side Jacob takes one with him twist swings out with his
one there's many for phase as they fight forward
back to back to W multi kills
I didn't even do something with it this time oh my goodness
crazy way to lose him and now he's been spammed on down and it
can't clutch up. Frozen closes in and finishes the job broke. He started you're on the
verge of double digits, Bayes clan. It's just so fearless. They're just running here. You
want to see. They're just constantly reaggressing. I think that's also the other thing that
makes the the the Carigan big performance games because he's always been like the the mad
dog and face clan in terms of being down to take some risk yearly fights being the guy to
try and get the round rolling. It was him playing through that smoke out towards cave and sure he did
but even him kind of making those plays, it's that's the tone for everyone else to follow along with.
And boy did that, that was a very aggressive round from phase.
Oh, the smoke didn't extinguish the whole thing, and so twists.
It's a little wrecked by that. There's a couple of openings handed to the eyeballers.
Oh, you need this, but there's no guarantees, low health on two players. 5-on-3, and under the scope,
So if he's still ready, quick swapping, be as open.
Can I pull us check in?
Popman's very late right now and phase don't realize
that regrouping on air, it's just broke your load
in this B-bombsite.
I need to wait, it gives away the plan here for eyeballers.
Caggan just walked through a smoke and a man by the way.
So you can see the game that phase are having.
JW, only knows about broke you.
So he'll stay.
tunnel vision on this angle. On the bomb comes up.
Good molly for love.
And a long plan gives a chance to eyeball as in this loss of the half.
What are you doing, Frankie?
No, you guys go first. I'll play trade.
I'll hold the flank.
A lot of time gone here.
Let's broke he cooking man flashing the ramp he's going to go.
Okay, it's on point one plan.
Oh, there's the opening up by Jacob.
Those fights going his way on both ends of the spectrum.
Get sit down in this one, be one.
KW, we're putting a choice.
The orp primed and ready to clutch up here.
And he will get one, JW puts a third on the board for the eyeballs.
And it's with his trusty AWP.
This state has been the beat of power strike for twenty-five years!
Well, I bullies have been slow to get going, let's say they're trailing behind with just
three rounds here on their map pick of ancient faiths, it's been a very lucrative half.
It's been a strong showing from Carrigan in the captain's chair, frozen looking lights
out and then Jacob and Brokey nailing every shot that's been asked to them.
Oh, you got to spend a little quiet as twists and hasn't really mattered thus far.
hasn't been required to step up in this game in any big way.
The eyeball is JW was able to put one round extra on the board for them.
And tonight double digits the way of phase will that be enough to make a difference.
It's all resting on this pistol round.
W front line, he's holding down with a USB, so I have to give it up, let the joolies have a
taste, and Bondrock now, as Frozen's double, may need to be more, face weight for a flank
out middle, twist with timing. W clears it, I want a shot from twist, that's out of nowhere,
not going to get this Bombak phase as the joolies continue to wreak havoc, two pairs of the
now in a 2v1 on the site, and it's this nice vibe, all is moving in, but Frozen's able to isolate,
I didn't mind the big box he hears and coming.
Twess is going round the world.
They're not ready for this.
I stab.
Everyone's flanking.
They know Rolf was in Donut.
And so for a moment he has the element of surprise.
I don't need a moment with Chexborn.
There's the infertile. It takes one can go down.
It's a bit delicious, after a lot of fun, another clutch not today.
Releaving round from twists and frozen at 5 kills between the two.
Lots of NTs, lots of close tries here for eyeballers in this game, but it looks like the
scoreline will read all phase.
the 3 and the full eco.
Big question for me for the eyeball is it's just kind of where it is, you know, all
of the, uh, the up and coming talent right now, there have struggled to really get the, get
The game going thus far on their map pick.
JW's top of the board for his team.
Gonna sweeten the deal there, even with a little backstab out through mid, but shut down.
Bad, but
and I've eyes in the back of your head to fight phase with all the map control they've taken.
And so pretty clean win all things considered here on to 11 many a chance to walk this game home.
Yeah, I agree.
You know, I'm waiting for Bob X to really, he's been the stand-up player in the last few months,
since getting added to this team, I ballers have gone from top 60, top 50, team to a top 30 team.
And so, you know, kind of expecting a little bit more from some of these individuals, but
getting swept up in this game right now as I will say phase of playing a very impressive
match, everyone in form, everyone looking comfortable and extremely aggressive on the
CT side gave no breathing or thigh ballers. This game I just disappeared before your
very high, rather. This is eyeball as pick as well with mirage up next. One of the lower
We're in percentage and apps for Iballers, but one of them are played at least.
Watch out, Bob.
Pushes well.
Frozen found his kill in red.
The bomb survives.
Triple B is a lot of resources they're going to recommit.
Oh, aggression down through ramp.
The next still hanging around, but it's the Jacob look in Red Room as the last thing remaining for phase clan and with the bomb lost in a way for him, Jacob on the other side of the map, this might just be a bit of a draw an out save here.
line of the time to win their stats is a big problem all the health to the right
cool saving here you may look at it one B2 but bomb is so far away I ball
is kind of just strong about so good save here
can get that over to frozen and frozen twenty and seven you're gonna want to
gun in his head fourth round here five ballers
I think that's a good idea.
like in the interview before this game, Carrigan even mentioned the old meme is brother Jw
spoke about him as so, you know, it was only yesterday they were playing.
And five years. And you know, like we said earlier, Jw is top in the charts for his team,
which you know, while it's cool, hoping that eventually, seven of the early other guys do get switched on.
As you mentioned Bob XD, Max to have in a particularly quiet game right now as early as normally a heavy hit for this squad.
I've never really got going.
I've just extended them at that time on ancient by around and give themselves a bit of a lifeline here.
So this would be the time.
Rather folks to join the prey.
They said their sights on mid-controll and he's got it.
Nice position for Jake.
W especially with how this round is starting looks like phase again.
Take a main.
W might have something in store to see how cautious phase are of these corners.
and looks in quiz it's a Jacob perfect clear early on your screen
or he finds a finally foreign face don't need to jump at that yeah look at a panic on the mini map
i ballers moving three players to this side of the map be is very weak right now
can face exploit this twist is coming through cave
the cargon on the ramp as well face have so many options available to themselves
I'm trying to call some panic at being just look at eyeballers, rotate hard, off that smoke.
They are full of this hook line and synchor.
This phase is still planned on recommitting a.
Conquist and character make contact to sell this fake.
That's because you see eyeballers have started to peel on out there.
An initial smoke, I think, actually worked way better than phase expected.
What a love the kill you see, Carigan.
The one shuffle this defense, now phase,
commit into the stack at three on three for this A control.
With the B-look dealt with and a play up all the way around.
It's done, it's done, it's done.
It's just gonna stop this one.
Right, is that bomb gets planted?
Time bought for the eyeballers.
They take back the backgrounds and they get ahead of that misdirect
from phase clan, possible to know,
Shada, whoever made that call because I ballers the whole round are going to
it. Two players and CT going, A go, B go, B go, B go, B go, B go, B go, B go, B move like four times.
And then even as Karra hatch, he gets out B, we're 20 seconds. I ballers still don't move the
bustle, they realize it's fake. They have three players in the right sight, and they are still in with
a shot. E go now for phase.
I bought this getting a chance to breathe on this safety side.
Something a little different here for phase.
Ooh, that's not a bad way for it to start!
Prokey Eagle opens it up.
And now Molly slows them down, but honestly, you know,
gives them time to reconsider.
It's not a disaster here for FaZe.
Still plenty of time left, and you just pick a different avenue.
Blocked out towards Cave.
They could have turned their attention out towards mid.
Max still on a wide swing.
I'm in port and double, but doesn't want to go down here.
Drops that smoke to buy himself a bit more time.
That force is phased into the right fall over here on A. It's shade W next on the scene.
Playing it forward with a flash.
Won't be able to stop this bomb pump, but you should have the round guaranteed.
A moneymaking venture there for phased as they inflict a little bit of damage,
and they pat out their bank accounts ready for the round ahead.
Yeah, it's still a good eco for phased ultimately.
And not any cause we can search just yet with this scoreline.
all mine, Apple opportunity to end this map.
It's a kind of phase too good on this first half.
I'm a twist.
It's all wants to be something a wood.
JW already rotating to fill that up.
Seems a smoke and CT spawn.
It's phase a second volley.
But blocked on middle as they're ready to go.
I'll pay the.
Oh, that's insane.
Oh, don't let me get included. Do not swear.
Oh, the perfect position. It's the perfect position. Don't peek. Oh, the hurts.
And now just a be hit with the advantage face come through.
Now Molly would have been huge. There's two players out here on default. I would have forced both of them to reposition.
And that would have just been the B place sorted there and then I'm running very very low and now you've got to break through this site
On manual mode Jacob
The spear leads that charge in
Heels with both the defenders bomb now planted a
Max to left very very far away phase finally arrive at
That point here on ancient and they've got six opportunities to close it out. I know like you feel Bob feels like
He can swing because no one's looking at his corner of an adjustment to play a peeky there.
So small versus the advantage you have.
I've never been cleared.
Such a shame.
And yeah, I felt like phase.
I thought I'm Molly was going to cost them that Miss Molly, but they just wait in the smoke.
They had almost no room for error.
Seven seconds on that plant.
But they find the trade in time.
Nice work from Jay.
Cause they maybe just swing on more of a delay.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
You only think the corn is clear, though.
I don't know, I mean they thought it was clear anyway.
The molly was meant to get rid of it, so.
It's not a big adjustment, like, oh, he's peaking left instead of right.
Like, it's still a pretty...
The Targaryen's position is pretty easy shot, no matter which way he peaks.
Walk on it.
And that's map point for phase on eyeball as pick.
Another familiar face. Coach of the eyeball is Peter.
Wait a minute, sir.
JW has an orb.
Happy to report.
Okay.
Doesn't really got to done them in this game.
Let's see how much better JW gets.
Because we felt like a crime.
Really the only time you got to see him.
Use one was that one round.
He was able to put on the ball with it in the first half.
Go on.
Oh man, that's it.
Well, JW dead.
Doris, I'm putting it for this A play.
And it fades, getting through.
They are on their way to the win on the Eyeballers pick a five-man post-plan only two remaining for the Eyeballers and
Only a little bit of damage done to frozen and J-Cube, there should be no winning this
Only real time you get to see that J-W or in a position as succeed and let's them down
Eyeballers shut down on ancient and dominant stuff from phase-clan in this opening bow
I'll take down the eyeball as here on ancient, let's see if phase can find that 2-0.
JW said he wanted to come into Blast Bounty and be back with a bang.
This time around, it's not meant to be. It is always going to be an uphill battle, right?
You can look at the win percentage and say, oh, eyeballs, they know they're doing on this map,
but they are going against a completely different caliber of team and phases in the leading comparison
and the eyeballs.
Make a finalist.
Just a couple of weeks ago they were going to make a final, so I agree with you, obviously
for JW and I, it was always going to be tough for them to come into this tournament
and make waves, but playing face in the very first game, it almost doesn't get any harder,
especially when you consider how face conducted themselves in this game.
From round number one, it was clear to see classic arrogant sense, I bet you've been
saying this and seems to be sure they're no respect whatsoever.
Let's run them down the first, let's be aggressive and middle, let's be aggressive all
over the map and this is bang on the fact that we are significant better individuals.
It was clear to see that that was the mentality face came in with, unfortunately, if I
have all as they couldn't withstand that pressure.
Yeah, and when that pressure was being applied to them, are you just seeing them fall apart,
not be ready for it?
They were trying to, at times, expect that aggression to come out, but they were able to
match them to do it.
They were able to fight, where they were able to find a way to actually battle back into
these rounds.
I think anyone watching at home right now, if you're playing Counter-Strike Willet,
that being unfaithful or matchmaking.
Sometimes you know it's coming towards you.
You know what's the point is going to rush down middle
or someone is going to take a fight against you over and over
and over and one of the most frustrating things
as a Counter-Strike player is knowing what's coming at you
but don't having the ability,
or not having the abilities against you to punish the aggression.
A punish whatever's coming at you.
And I feel like that was what we saw right here.
It wasn't necessarily a game plan for carrying a face
where they were hiding too much stuff
or whether we're making it too complicated.
They just banked undefected, playing simple Counter-Strike
and trusting in their own aim and their own abilities was enough to overcome
eyeballs, which in this case was was true. That was a great game plan and it was more
than enough. And this round summarizes everything you were just saying.
Just look at that, you know, it's round five. It's pretty early on in the game. It's
a full-buyer on coming at five ballers. They want to take the five towards middle and face.
Look at this set up right here. They're having a guy in the cover. They're having another guy,
you know, coming out with a flash. And then you see this constant aggression. Frozen getting
a double kill. He's being backed up by a player at Bovem. And you see even though
I bought us a getting the first kill face. I just saying,
hell now, we're going to take every single fight. And when you see a full
buy round when 10 players is under server, everyone has M4, 8 WP's AKs and
the round is over in 20 or 25 seconds. You know, that's the mentality. You
know exactly what Kagan said and to you speak, rushed in down the middle,
leave the no space whatsoever. If there is a fight, you take it,
you win it, and you get it over with. And I can respect that from
Chris. Yeah, not giving them any time, even to get ready for things. It
worked out for him perfectly here. We're talking a lot about Jake.
in the freedom right that he started to look like at a better player.
He's been developing well in this game I expected to be that way, but he is also just showing
up by and if he's even doing it here on the online stage of the expect it's good that
he hasn't kind of fooling back because he's not feeling that same pressure.
100% I feel like he's following the trajectory that we saw transpiring during the major
where he obviously had a breakthrough where he was, did a winning condition in a lot of the
games and a lot of scenarios for face-clans so for him to have another great map right
here. Again, I don't want to give too credit or too much credit, I guess, based on one
map versus eyeball. Yes, to do it consistently throughout the entire tournament. But if
we're looking for early signs of Jacob getting better and more comfortable, this is definitely
a great performance. You should be proud of it. You should be glad and I think Caragan
also is glad that he's finally getting to see the Jacob that he's probably been witnessing
in practice, also, to transfer himself under server. 18 kills, 7 death, a kid. He have 2.57
That's a very strong performance coming out of Jacob.
And this is where it gets obviously, we expect this from phase against team-like eyeballs,
but this is also a positive that didn't take that thought of the question.
And they're running with that momentum, they're running with their ability,
and they know what they can do to push them over the line here,
not struggle online. That's what you want to see from them,
because at times they can be shaken in their situation.
At times phases, it's very tough to figure out where that, you know?
I think that's one of the most tough tasks I have standing on the desk,
and sort of like predicting what do I expect from phase?
what kind of face is going to come out and it's not that I'm going to learn too much about that.
Today I'll be bluntly honest right here. They should be beating eyeballs and they should be being
unconvincingly but if they can do it in a true or fashion like they did here in ancient
where they leave no room for doubt where they play good counter strike aggressive counter strike
where individuals like folks in a standing up individuals like broke yesterday being up
then to me those are great signs people into the tournament because I'll be honest I expect
them to take on this stage next week and I'll be disappointed if face is not but when you're
I ball us, that's not going to tell me whether or not
faces ready for that, but it's a step in the right direction.
Both frozen and tourists had a great year despite not having
trophies to the name, right?
The individuals are there.
If they can keep that going, this is the must we need for a phase
that people believe in again, but don't just turn up only for the
majors, but also the other events, but they can be in playoffs,
total contenders.
100%.
When you look at frozen and when you look at twists, when you have
those two names in the same sentence, you're supposed to be a
team that is contending for trophies.
You're supposed to be a team that is going into every tournament, having expectations
of making the playoff.
And that was part of what was so frustrating, watching face and in 2020, five, I think
people watching at home would feel the same.
They have so much quality when in that camp, you have carry gun as well, tremendous
the best thing in game in the world, or at least the camera there too, to that maybe the
golden game leader.
So you have three pieces where the expectations should always be that you want to win trophies.
So when it's not working out, it's frustrating when it is working out when they're looking
comfortable on the server teams.
then let's be honest, that's also a team that you'd expect to see in the stage, right?
If face, I'm not making the playoff of the vast majority of the tournaments they're attending,
then that will be seen as a failure.
Now, when we go into this next map, it's Mirage coming up after this.
We've got to look at it, it's his face is wheelhouse, but what would you say is a hope
that you would have for eyeballs, potentially within this, right?
Just to maybe play, because a little bit less stressed or pressured in this, like, understand
more of how they want to react on the map?
The cool thing with Mirage is a field ancientism map that if face decides to play a grissel
on the CT site like there did. There's only so much eyeballs can do on the
CT side. Mirage is a very open map. So they get to decide whether or not they
want to do auto spawn calls, whether they want to play fast-paced, kind of
strike, whether they want to fall back a little bit and maybe wait for
some of that aggression, which is easier to punish on the T side of
Mirage than it is on a map like ancient. So I feel they're coming into a map where
at least the playing field is open and then we need to see whether or not
they have the quality in terms of the individuals, the game plane, etc., in order
to make the game competitive. I'm not going to say that I expect to win because
that's not the case, but I would love to see eyeballs at some point in this game
give me and give you guys at home, I guess, a feeling that this game is competitive.
Yeah, give us a competitive game, give us a fight in some way and let something individual show up.
We'll find out in a few moments after this break if that's even possible.
The beautiful thing about this matchup may not be the countershot that's on display at least
from one side in the first map, but it is the legacy and the names
if we're looking at JW and Carrigan, right?
Because yes, Carrigan has been at the top of so long.
He's been showing up in a big way, but for JW,
he is a legend of all that may be some newer fans to counter strike.
Don't remember, they didn't see those moments of glory
from the one to show.
No, there was a time where JW was a world beer.
There was a time where he was playing in the best team of the world.
There was a time that whenever we went into a major,
a kinetic bag in the day, would JW be in the spirit of that team.
was one of the favorites to win the major. They even won a couple of them not mistaken.
So JW is a living legend of the game. Unfortunately for him, the last couple of years
of his career has been a little bit rough, but also for Swedish counterstrike. So
as I said, you know, coming into this game for him to still be around for stealing for him to
just still be dedicated to Swedish counterstrike, be dedicated to the game,
still playing at a respectable level. I think he did well on ancient and overall you've been doing
well in in eyeballs. It's a testament to longevity. It's a testament to him, you know,
being in love with the game still and it's a testament that you can still do it despite being
relatively old in the world of Connolly. Well, talking about Angstil during
it, Carrigan in Budapest beat the all-time major record for kills right now as well. So
he's still there, and he's still far now, and he can still lay down hands. He
still laid on hands, and you could feel Carrigan doing the majors. Well, he even said it in the
Exit and Review with you that he's not going to give up, right? He's still feeling it. He's
still feels there's another major in him. There's still another potential good time coming for
for Fiskland and Karygan. And that's the set up. I bet they're myself. I quit my career
when I was 21 years of age, right? That's not long, Jim. That's the opposite of long
year. But Karygan has been doing it for what 20 years almost now. It is absolutely crazy.
And honestly, it deserves a lot of respect because I don't think people at home truly believe
and understand how tough it is to stay at the top for such a long time. And it's not for everyone.
It's not possible for everyone. But what might be possible here for eyeballs is at least
showing a better face before you leave the tournament. Because after what we saw in ancient,
It's not looking good. There's no way my brain that I can understand how they can try and have some success here.
But what would you be looking at him in order for him to be able to do it like?
What would you be saying if your JW and Peter right now to the rest of the team
of like guys, this is the approach we need to say?
I hate to simplify to this point right, but with the way face are playing, knowing that it's mirage coming up,
which is very individualistic map where you get to expression self.
I'm looking at the individuals and I'm looking at a guy like Bob Exdee.
I think looking into him how he's conducted himself so far.
In Iballas, he's sort of like there, that's a stop there.
He's the guy who has the highest output on the server.
He's the guy that you can rely on.
You can turn to when you need a couple of rounds going your way.
So if anything, I would love to see him do well.
Not only in the case that I want to see,
Iballas make this game competitive,
but look at this, at 1.22 rating the last three months.
This is also a great scene to showcase himself.
There's currently more than 70,000 people watching.
If I'm not mistaken, both in the future,
but set it right. Hey, chat, by the way.
So if you're doing well and you want to make a name for yourself,
play well against a team like face clan. That's one way to put you on the map. You
remember why Jacob was all of a sudden picked up by face clan right there, been practicing
against him a little bit. Yeah, remember the story about Moldo as well. Apparently Moldo
owned through our in practice and phone went right. We need to sign this guy right who the hell is he?
So you do well against some of the teams that may be in the future that you would attract
interest from. That's one way of doing it. So there's a little bit of added pressure, but also
I want to see Bob XD, you know, produced a numbers that he's doing in tier two against a little bit
better opposition. You want to produce these numbers so that he gets taken to a better team.
So we try to tell you, try to see him leave eyeballs. We're trying to talk about this
national Swedish team. We put together and you know it's so good for Swedish counter strike.
That's the cool thing about being in my position. I don't have to care about that because
yes, it's a bit of a cruel way to say it, but at the end of the day, all these teams in tier 2
tier 3 they are. They're say farming teams for some of the better ones. If you're face, if you're G2,
if you're, I guess Falcons looking for another superstar one day. If you have this a superstar
I'm Tier 2, well, outside that you'll be called up to one of the better teams.
So yes, I think for Bob XD, obviously you want to win what I ball us right now, but you also want to put himself on the map.
There's maybe there's a bigger moving in the future.
Well, you're talking about a lot of superstars.
We've got two superstars ready to take this game away and they've also got some high elo at the same time.
If you go and Harry, that's a life.
That's not a life, Jacob. We actually play this game. You should try one time.
Oh, not CSK. Oh, yeah.
I'm going to go look at your face right now. Bob XD to falcons.
Boughts?
I don't want one more super start, but yeah here Harry in the week 20 is the WWE
Yeah we're still watching JWV Carrigan 10 years on something's never changed but I guess
Form has a bit of a struggle at the same time kind of one of the only guys putting
up performances and putting it browns really for iBlo is back on ancients it was a runaway
train for phase absolutely destroyed. And now we go to Mirage. I think it's kind of an
interesting place for us to end up. Why is that phase electing the pick into this one?
You know, I just think I'm thinking back to really like the major of the phase,
even though they're good results there, Mirage was a part of some key victories. It was also the
site of some really rough losses and they were on a bit of a downturn on this map.
heading in to that major at the end of the year. So I anticipate and they put some work in over the
break to this map and maybe hope in that it's gonna be a nice little test head to try and test it on here
versus the eyeballs.
Carrying and twists come through with kills in this pistol round. They get themselves a bomb plant
and four on three in a very, very good position here of phase.
Oh, that smoke is just a middle finger.
What do you do?
I run through it, and a child is already unwating.
He does get headshot through the smoke,
but putting this round, the far cry from
for the eyeballers, Jacob picks another,
and bobaix these, got the kids, that's about it.
And we're all over the side right now.
I picked together a nice job from phase
to walk in a pistol round again.
Easy does it here for phase?
Said they were confident coming into an online tournament
or at least an online stage looking to make the land here in Malta.
A couple of games will get them there.
Need to win 2BO3's.
They're going to be top-seed the entire way you imagine to be picked.
Maybe this game put some flair in some of the underdogs for picking phase.
It's with the way they've dismantled.
and
We'll go
Okay, Dubs with the one being on the car again
Hustling
I think you love to see how the boost up on being apartments and phase
is going to go right into this triple B setup with the boost get ready.
Not ready for Bob any more.
Ooh another deep down range, JW!
That's a little bit exciting.
I'm looking to say a little bit about him now.
It hit not a team carry. That was really rolling back. He knows. He knows, he knows.
Say double human. You original deal skin.
What does JW mean to you, Hugo? Like not the combination of letters, the player.
Aggressive all-pin, hitting B hops.
and
just style I think styles the word stylish open
part of the legendary hated and loved fanatic team
Controversy in many forms
Unk in the modern day
And if they're under an accusation, see you get accusation. That's good
If you think so, did you tell the you were carrying me?
No, it's carryin, yeah, you're a...
It's not a thinking.
Watch the scenes or the bellways.
Okay.
Use all the brooky or twist?
Ooh, now that is a thing.
Uh, I'm gonna go with Twiss.
That's me Twiss.
Definitely, Twiss.
That's what I would put money on that.
How much?
Uh, let's see if I'm right first.
Twiss is 26, Brookie's 24.
I've done it.
I've done it.
Who's younger?
Dex or Rolf?
Easy, Dex.
Yeah, you're probably right.
You're wrong, I'm wrong.
Easy, he said. A max of delivers. Another double in middle, putting eyeballers up 3-1 now. Face by end.
All in. Push in their chips to center table and round number 5.
Maybe this is the map frightballers, maybe it's an unlikely mirage.
Once the des said have phase improved upon this coming into a new season.
These.
Good catch for the eggs.
On that smoke break out there in middle.
Thanks there, just flying under the radar.
Thought he'd finish the job there on Fuson.
Close him, but the extra couple of jobs will come back to horn him.
It's a crash now towards the spawn, flipping the script in this one, leaving it on bottom.
It's the over the stairs to knock out too.
Frozen low on health. This was the guy that got away out through palace.
They killed they thought they'd already gained.
And now Frozen waits to try and steal this one away.
No.
ability to miss as dead on that swing low on health it's a nice easy finish for
the eyeballers. Yeah a little bit scary letting some players live letting some
players get deeper than they are ready for maybe miss comms but eyeballers
pieces together in the post plant so all is forgiven for one up far better
go a thing here. Very slow to start the ancients. So phase number half.
There's every site, seemingly a brick wall right now, and I've been able to get anything done in
in the middle, either.
He hits, three here.
And pass through the U-TELL,
but it absolutely destroys phase.
They need Molly's spam,
and the fourth rotate gets in the site before phase do.
I saw a pin line for JW and so just kind of a
amount of formalities here for the eyeball is a fifth round.
What impatiently for them?
You're even a bit of a, it was a bit of spam on the body.
But if you make you sure he's dead a little, making sure he's dead, he let
of extra if you let them go earlier, making sure we got them. Bob 8 and 1, decks 8 and 4.
This is suddenly a different game and phase is going to have to dig deeper.
I mean, I'm going to do it. I'll be starting to get in Purgman all those years ago. It's
to build this team. I saw that. Rachel TV I think it was, where a young squad full of potential.
And now they're five one up versus phase. Public's the aggressive out through the apartment
But it's time to fall back now ready for this smoke to fade and it's a good thing. He didn't hang around
This bad, no, okay double short. He is very open
I can't let the be play this is where phase one to try and get through
You tell once more finds some good early damage and Bob's over to stop that spill over
First man found it for the eyeballers,
but takes it one step further with a double kill.
Lots of damage done on to Brokey and Jacob
with this intel.
Caragon was the only guy with HP
and even then playing it forward,
brings him down low.
They're all the shot away from death here.
Some of her eager chance that the eyeball
is able to clean this one up on the retake.
And that's gonna extend this lead even further.
You're talking about phase having a runaway half back on ancient,
Well, it might be eyeball as time to shine here.
They just have to finish the job and get past Prokey.
You can't stop that play out through the apartment.
Six, one leap.
Wow.
Super impressive recovery, five ballers after just getting
mauled on the previous map.
And there are more odd just a different game entirely.
Bob XD is performing like we expected.
It was absolutely missing from ancient.
Ten and two right now.
another huge double kill in defence of the site.
And I ballers with nothing to lose with elimination staring them dead in the face.
Giving us some rounds to talk about, 6-1, phase pause and a re-buy coming in.
Nothing since the pistol for phase.
Like this was kind of my nerves around the Mirage pick from phase because if you remember, like, going into the major, this, this, this is a bit of an outfit that like really fallen off from phase plan.
It's died to have some immense struggles on the Mirage.
Even then, thinking back to like their, their opening game, they took the L to the red canids.
Hmm.
Lost to the Mongols here as well, I'm sure, better team.
But it's not like they had crazy crazy wins on this map at any point.
The best team they beat on it is that Majoron was passionate you away, but if you remember, the whole story with them is it was a team that had been
instabounding this map for years.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah, you know, maybe they have put some work in to try and round out their mirage, and this was their chance to kind of put that to the test.
But right now they're flunking it.
There's always the reset, Harry.
I'd be required.
Phase blader 3 on 5 already survived down, but Miss Shot Frozen jumps on that opportunity.
I'll find them alkony cleared as well, nice shooting from Frozen.
2v3 now, gonna watch out with close 4 control, it's caught jumping in the open,
broke in 1v3, and then I'll give him a thing, JW triple kill on the
not missing any more as I bullies start to streak through this game seven straight
bounds on CT side mirage it is a nice place to be.
Okay, Tarragon good.
It's right now there's no hero to rely on for phase.
Okay, execute coming in.
Fasten execution.
I'm going to get past her off, but there's decks with a trade.
He's got support from maxed her out as spawn as well, but now left his own devices.
Maxed her was supposed to lend her helping hand, only good for one.
Jay, don't be you.
Looking for a rifle.
Up and over, bro, he's going to delete him on that jiggle.
He went for the plance of during the reload.
That's crazy fate for Brokey.
The back stab now arriving out through ramp needs to deal with Brokey cleanly and even then
Around still very much alive with Karigan having backed off over to ward CT's got the bomb to play around now
Close his in Karigan's actually crossed out from the spawn side and going for the rap, but the deep use being held will be ready
Rob start one away
Miller seconds the difference, Karigan just slightly too late.
Oh man, that hurts phase felt like they've done everything.
A calmly broken and fakes that bomb on default would smoke down, but he sees Karigan reloading.
Jumping Oskar CT really trying to squeeze as much secret out of that.
A bomb that secures diffuses in the open with a bit of smoke cover and Karigan can't kill him in time.
This is also around to lose her face, that could have been the way into this half, instead they're just looking for scraps now.
And nothing guaranteed with unlimited money essentially for high-borners.
They can buy every round.
Prokey's Orp is out, boost out under herd.
a max the easy kill from this position.
Skipping may not be a simple.
But everyone just swings in the flashes this have been prime in the CT-Ci-5 Bullets,
JW offering strong neutral and his young players peek out and find a 5v1.
Blinky, a misset.
This round is over.
Oh, uh, sensory overload and connector, 9-1.
Can't say I was expecting this.
No, that's bad.
I even though I was nervous for days with this map.
Not this time, I didn't think it would be like this.
It's not having to be, you know, just JW right now, we were saying in that last map, we wanted to see way more mileage, out of the fresher faces in this eyeball as team and
He's definitely bought the heat on the face, paper, garage, decks, Bob XD, and Magster all hitting really, really hard.
And it's the latter, too, that I think you were really feeling the absence of.
Okay, not about opening for the power again.
You want to darn do it yourself, Bob XD down.
I mean, that's just absurd, even if that's not what I'm talking about, that's not what I'm talking about.
I mean, that's not what I'm talking about.
find a fourth finish knockers twist and it's all decks to put 10 on CT side.
I mean that's just absurd. That's just crazy like phase whenever they get to a good position.
They can't finish the job. Dex is absolutely ruined them on that push out through called 3v5.
4 kills, and he makes it into like a laser just one after the other.
Oh, face.
What is happening?
Into the big grinder.
Ground beef.
Little pieces of phase littered on the ramp to V2, and I bought us a quick to the punch.
They line up for a second, but phase will save themselves with something on this
this T-site, the first and the last round of the half, nothing more.
Hey, my name is Kairigan.
I'm currently an ideal for face clan,
and today we're doing some mental analysis.
Again, we're looking at this liquid versus heroic.
So first of all, you want to always play for some bit control.
All these feel some bits as the CTs.
And most of the time, you actually are able to play through B.
So the third option is always,
are you going to control a bit with three CTs,
or you're going to control B with three CTs as well?
So what happened in the round is basically
they took the option of starting to guys be
counter the early aggression if it comes in
with utility as you normally see.
But they wanted the CT side to fight for you guys mid.
So to set up the round, they have to figure out how to
one or five mid.
The utility dumb you get down in this one we call.
Pogger area now a team.
There's right as a lot of HHS, a lot of Mollos
and flashes and CTs are swinging with them.
In this case, what Nicolas is calling for
is a classic tactic that I've been played on ancient for a while.
So they send the best for not mid.
and heroic decides to fight aggressive or window, they want to be in this area.
So, they sent 3 star blitz with one guy supporting from Spawn,
three guys running towards Volkoll, A-man with Bump,
and of course there's a default smoke smit, we all seen maybe in a donut smoke, that's the other A-fing.
But the key thing here is, the guy coming up mid, the second he sees nothing,
I am pretty sure the coal is walk A-man. Because if mid is clear, they are playing for A-sides.
Right? Means there has to be players B and players A.
So, in this scenario, normally what they want to happen is that the guy's running out mid, hopefully he gets a kill with his opponent back.
When this scenario didn't get the kill, but he got information about the free player's mid.
Meaning, there is nine of his own chance no one is in.
What they do next is the key element of ancient.
They're coming up, well, knowing the closest player's probably here, or he is in this area in spawn.
So, the round unfolds in this way that they're rushing out a minute.
The mid guy's coming back.
The guy from red who supported the window guy is coming back to CT.
So now this guy is smoke-off from the angle here.
So he can't really support the guy.
Now the decision made by Liquor is really good.
The first two guys rub in a hand.
First guy throws a flashbang behind the box over here.
The blinds, the angle, all the way into the donor area.
He's two guys swing.
They take out the donor guy.
And now the key element in this thing is sometimes people smoke-on-out.
Instead, but in this scenario,
Liquor decided to go into take the donor.
Mostly important with that is that they can plant a bomb.
They don't get an expand from two angles through the smoke.
so they are actually getting a map area because on ancient
based on you want to take an area, especially with plan in the bomb
because there is nowhere to go after plan in the bomb.
Liquor did the right thing, they went in to kill the guy,
I traded the guy, I had to just a million.
And therefore, they had a good success,
setting up the plan and therefore, with a round.
I hope you guys enjoyed this map analysis by me.
See you soon on Ancient.
They came, we saw, and phases eyes are rolling right now to the back of their head.
I bullets tend to up on a CT side of mirage after getting dominated on ancient,
they dish out and even more one-sided opener to the face clan. Crazy game right now,
decks delivering a Bob XD performing like we'd expect.
Oh, hell, if I j-w. Is there any faith left, left for phase?
Well, it would have to start with a pistol.
If there is any hope for them on Mirage, because they picked into this.
Oh, my.
Frozen dead on the push you left wondering why on earth is max to come around the corner that ready for it.
True. Bees clear.
Be that guy, but I think it's done. Yeah, I think so. Oh hang on. It's only a locker. Hold on here. He's holding.
Easy kill.
I don't know what didn't go for it.
Still fine.
Oh, okay, that's kind of nice.
Okay.
I got it.
Two on three now.
Let's go back here in the apartments.
Good.
Tap on the first.
Can you follow up?
Tap on that bottom.
I call them four.
Sponsor they're not on the deep use.
And now, Carrigan, they're really, really rough spot.
Kitt to work with.
But it won't matter as they hound him down.
And pistol secured for the eyeball is.
And they're on a fast track to victory here on Mirage, phase picked into this one in the show.
A soul, what they've been working on over the break.
They just really want to play in Farno, man.
They really want to play in Farno.
Exties in the chat for Bob, I think, big triple kill, 14 in 5.
He was missing on ancient. Everyone kind of was.
Except for JW.
JW has not to do a damn move.
He's had a nice easy time.
He's got his shots, he's been throwing great flashbangs, and he's been sitting in the side car.
Well, these young riflers pop off.
A shot, but nothing else, not on this side.
Ricky runs in, but no, on top default.
I Bulletin's just having fun with it.
We've been getting a great game from the other faces on the eyeball is decks at the front of the pack mainly 20 kills deep
Carman is a deck if you don't willing to step up me the main character
Feels like whenever there is a decks in pop culture and media or whatever
They're usually pretty important
Whether that's Ron and Dex Stargate. Atlanta is whether that's
There's a bit of the deck extra the add-dexter use the main
character famously from the show Dexter or Dexter's laboratory as another one true
there's also Dex the Lizard man from Fract Punk the video game there's you're
like Dex named three of his cultural appearances you do that has Dex in it
Okay, yeah, sure. Yeah, and would be nothing without deck
It's good that's a for your brits. Are you like that?
I don't know what happened. It's 12 and 10 effect. Yeah, there's a decks. Don't remember what he was, but there was a deck
Not a main character. He's one of the characters. Okay, sure. That's one of the main companions
Well, decks is a main character of this game.
You have four...
The main character in CS right now, look at him.
That 4K in Jungle was outstanding.
But, face it down, okay, because there's a different decks, it's X.
D.
Backwards.
Five-fifth and three, into this BOM site, phase, ready to fall, and let's throw key back, start.
Coming right off the back of the site, come help from Caharan as well, that fain farm aspect.
How are you saving this?
Backstone's pocket survived!
Frank through the market denied.
And phase look to live for one more round at least.
Well, that's...
No.
What?
What if?
Surely not, uh, but...
The replay is here.
Prime, and ready to shut him down on that first push.
Not going to happen.
All right.
Phase clan.
steps if they do want to try and come back into this one.
Yeah, that's the first round in a streak of how many
you do it, I'll need 10.
It'll really bathe his family.
You can't famously can't walk, okay?
Okay.
Well, that's your the extra.
Yeah, it depends on you know, humans, sure.
Well, that's not what I'll give you a sense of humor.
It's calm walk, I'll never bathe his babies.
But like, bathe his dear.
Oh, okay, bathe his constat.
Yeah, I see you, boy.
I mean while the baby shark can never walk even when it's an adult.
You're gone, really.
Yeah, this is your last season.
Here we are.
Thanks.
I get a cancel.
Dexter.
I get it.
There's a TV show reference.
Yeah, I get it.
Oh, he really faked him out of that jump.
You want to know what this is.
I can't.
I can't.
You want to know what this is.
I can figure it out.
I got it.
I got it.
Okay.
Yeah, it's live, it's live, it's live, it's live, we're live.
Nothing happened.
Everything is okay.
What is that tense, isn't it?
going to be... nothing's going to happen though.
Two burst fire weapons facing off against the open.
Oh no help it!
Oh it's good watch! But still!
Jacob's Johnny on the spot under the underpallence
and able to put it stop to those pistols.
It doesn't get weird.
It doesn't get wonderful. It's another round for phase clamp.
But this is a pretty gargantuan undertaking if they do want to try and overstay their welcome on Mirage.
Get under two guys.
Oh, that's a pace. Trying to handle it with a bang.
Straight up connect a mishop from the blind or prokey may happen.
Fuck, Stin, but got off the none.
And Kagan left alone and this is it, I ballers, showing up on the rod phases map pick
and absolutely dominating their way through.
Kagan tries to go back around.
They are not having this, none of it.
Maybe even JW to end it, Rolf caught in the open Kagan, Plock's one more, can he keep
this game going?
No, JW sends us to his father and three map series to the planet to cycle feed.
in this opening game of blast bounty from iballas and fays.
This is what happens when you start to believe in fays.
We were saying, that's just no way, right?
Look at that dominant performance on the first map.
Look at all the magic that fays can do, you know?
Individuals all strong, everyone's performing well.
And then one little tumble, one little slip,
and it starts to really crumble quite quickly to the fays plan.
We've seen this time in time again. This is why I was worried about online.
This is what was worrying me.
That's true. Credit where I credit this due to be completely honest. I think you got to give a lot of
credit to eyeballs for coming in on a Russian and playing significantly better. I feel like
face came in with the same mentality show no respect whatsoever but this is not
we're able to step up to the occasion. They were able to punish some of their individuals
coming in from faceland where you could say the same on it. There were certain times where an
individual from faceland would maybe take one step too far and win the duel so we would
wouldn't classify it as a mistake.
This time around there, they got punished.
And I want to say it like this, yes,
face did not play well.
And there's no hiding around the fact
that there was a disappointing result
by different face.
But I also want to give a little bit more credit to eyeballs.
I think they stepped up on some of the individuals,
which are about Bob XD, which are about Dex as well.
They did an incredible job
at punishing the mistakes that Facebook.
They really did.
And well, you said they did significantly better.
They actually did six times better
in order to get themselves into this situation.
But one man, he came back with a little...
Who is I bonus going for?
I mean, I'm back, I wanted back with a bang.
And so I think I'm not going to face here.
Whee!
Okay.
Interesting there, right?
There was a lot of other teams within that category he could have picked from.
would be an easier opponent on paper than fails.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but he wants to be back with a bang.
And I think he's lived up to that promise right here.
Maybe it's also, and again, that's a notion that we have to maybe address
the other deaths that. All these teams are practicing against each other.
All these teams are obviously training against each other and coming off a break,
coming off from faces well who had a very long major winning to the break,
very late compared to some of the other teams.
Maybe they started this season a little bit later,
so maybe they're not turning up in the very first game in a full shape.
So if you're JW, you may be saw you know a timing here where if we're ever going to beat
things, if you want to make that big splash, then it's better to play it now than to play them in a
couple of weeks when they're warmed up. That's cool for you. That's cool, too.
Not really to be honest. I mean, if you heard from Kairigan himself, you know, Jacob apparently
didn't take a break during the play where he kept on grinding it out, but I bet you Kairigan,
he even said to himself, he was exhausted after the major. So he would have been spending some time
off the server rightfully so, but I think there's a case to be made that when you come into
to your first tournament of the year, especially when the season is starting so early,
you're not going to be at a 100% and face clearly is not right now.
At least we're in that nod of the tour, but someone who was Dex.
This man was lighting up the scoreboard.
He was dominating.
He was looking confident.
Whatever they said to him between the maps, do the same again right now.
It started in round two with the deal on the B-Bongside face winning the pistol.
Not able to convert Dex with a nasty shot with a digl and then he just picked it up.
He had an awful lot of impact defending the A-Bongside.
You see him in middle.
on the B bomb side. It felt like his presence was shown all over the server and all over
the map. The CT side hold from Dexter. The amount of times that he was, I wouldn't say single
hand-be winning rounds, but it was contributing heavily. That was a sight that it was lovely to
see and not something I expected to be completely honest. I've tried to pay attention, tried to
look over to some of these players and look how he was performing against Tier 2 kind of strike
but one thing is to do it in Tier 2 and other one is doing it against FaceClan, which he did right
he did it do it in full force as well. I mean, it's a look at round 11 a little bit of detail because it's just went after win when you look at these guys
It is and it's another round where phase obviously at this point they desperately need to win
Carigan finds an opening you think to yourself five before you're playing against eyeballs
It's even a five year three for short moment right here that is around you're supposed to win but guess what X is coming in?
This is Nestle. This is absolutely nasty word the triple kill right here with the AK 47
And you can see whatever you want, whether that's online counterstrike or not, that
is super, super clean, as you said, it is counterstrike, and it is individual aiming at
an incredible high level.
So I'm not going to fold face can at all right here.
Under normal circumstances, you would get one kills, you would get treated.
But when you're playing at that level, you got to get the credit and you got to get
the spotlight to text that was beautiful.
And the one thing here that's going to be interesting is how much this means to the team
available.
That's right.
It's not about, okay, you're on one.
The series, yeah, it could mean nothing at the end of it.
JW told me during the draft show that for his players,
this is going to be such an important game
to play against the likes of phase clan, right?
Now they're going to start believing we can do it,
but they're going to be off the handle that.
I said it, and I'll say it again, I think they're already one.
They're already one in the sense that no one expected him
to take off a map from phase clan,
and especially in London this fashion.
And that's a good thing for the team.
It's a good thing for Bob XD as well.
We trust a bit on him, you know,
and in separate between the first map and the second map,
he also showed up and had an incredible series,
had an incredible game,
He showed up in full force.
I found a lot of the impact that he's normally finding in tier 2 kind of strike as well.
So I agree with you.
I agree with JW for my money.
Again, I have no stake in face.
I have no stake in eyeballs.
I'm just standing here, you know, trying to be a bit objective.
If I'm all I ball us right now, I would say you're ready.
One, you're ready to done better than most people would expect you to do against face fans.
So regardless of what happens on map number three, you can already go away from this game and say,
okay, maybe we didn't win, but we had that mirror.
game we showed them when we're on fire, when we're playing our best
brand of cars right, even face clean as a team that we can take down.
Not only winner Americans, but actually dominate. So I'm
positive on behalf of our ballers and then again, as you said,
for face, I feel like it's more of the same. The second,
they make you believe that, oh, they're back. Oh, yeah. Now,
now you can trust face, Ken, that's the second they crumble. So I'm
not really bought into face just yet. That I'm still sure they're
going to win this series, but I want to see a bit more
consistency coming off. Well, do you know what I want to do? I want
to get a little bit crazy. We're going to do the Nova Wallet.
It's Nova Shops time.
We are going to, I put ourselves into a situation
where we can buy some of the stocks right now.
So I'm all a stocks.
Must look pretty good right now.
You're probably pretty low before this game.
Yeah.
Does that make, do I do an all-in?
Or is that completely crazy?
You've done this many times.
OK, I mean, we can take the case.
Yeah, it's obviously going up right with this great results
for Fifisc and I'll say, I'm willing to put in a bit here.
Not a lot, not, no, no, no, no.
That's a hard call.
The pot of all you want to talk about.
It is still the unless of surprises.
If I ball is beat face, you will be allowed to do 150.
100.
I'll be allowed to do 150.
It's a bit of a gamble.
Wait, wait, wait.
There's a maximum of my life.
I still do that.
150.
That's the thing about doing this.
Again, if you want to play at home, you can do that.
You don't have to put in any money yourself.
It's basically just a trocken value of coins.
And then if you're good, better than James and me, then you can win some cool
prices. Do it? You did 160? Yeah, I believe that a little bit more than you. It's fine. It's fine.
But diversify, right? We got to that file a little bit. And I want to take this opportunity to maybe
look ahead at the next game a little bit. A Stylist versus Fnatic James. If you put a bit of
coin of the money on that one, Fnatic? Fnatic. No play, MF. You're creating entry over. Okay.
Yeah. How much? How much do you believe in Fnatic? More that I believe in a Charlest?
I don't know how you say you allow me like I'm a child being given a board game.
No, you're a financial situation. I think that's a good idea.
Yeah, I allow you to spend 150 on this as well. 150 on a fanatic beating as well.
I think that's realistic. You guys are home to do the same if you want to.
And maybe go all in if you believe a fanatic will tear down as well.
I don't think it's going to be easy, but it should be a fun game.
All right. Can we spend some more?
No. I'm going to spend some more.
week ahead of us. This is day one James. Just a little bit more. A little bit more. Yeah.
Every month I'm not being 50. You can do 50. But what's top of the liberty, my money.
50.
Why do you have to be like that?
I can't just agree with the number you are giving me. I'm putting 55 on
9. It's low, but it's a good investment. There we go. We've had some fun with it.
We still got one more map to go in this series as well. Now, the problem is, it
phased you really well. We just put a bunch of money into the eyeballs. It's not a
That's why you diversify, right?
So, a risk, it's a high risk, kind of reward if XD
and the boy in Bob XD is in the postfilm.
I've always thought, I'm gonna win this game,
then you can put a lot of money into your beloved Navi,
if you want to, but we gotta take a bit of a calculated risk
before we do something stupid.
Well, yeah, let's go to a break before we do something stupid,
because in fact, I was coming up next, we'll see you in a few.
Let's get to it.
Okay, W, the first thing I want to ask you about here is just, we know that we're
the Swedish scene has had its struggles.
But do you feel like with the performance from your team and the opportunity is now coming
away from the other Swedish teams as well?
That's about to change in 2026?
Yeah, definitely.
I think it has been on the rise for the past couple of like two years, small steps perhaps,
but I think now we're starting to get a bold rolling and I think now it's just most
faster and faster. So I think I think I'm confident and very hopeful that
when the 26th is going to be like the breakthrough year again for us. We just
hopefully with the high ballers in the front of course. I love that you said
with eye ballers at the front. I know you said you were going to be back with
a bang over and over again right. So is this a motivating factor for you to bring
things we've seen back to the same levels when you were your best?
Yeah, of course.
I think I've been involved in this we've seen for the past 13, 14 years,
a sort of play profession for like 20, 30 years.
Like we last a couple of five years or so.
I think you can really feel this we've seen.
It's like a work chain for that.
It's really steep to root for you, no?
team to support, I think, to share for these big tournaments, and now we have to pick
these teams with one or maximum like two players of Swedish players, and I think the
Swedish team really wants that that fine man units, that full Swedish team that they can
all get behind, and that's been a main goal for a long time now to become the Swedish team.
I think we are on to something there.
Some of the steps left, of course.
But I think this is a huge recipe for like success, I think.
So to get the speed to see behind you.
Yeah, we'll see how far we can go in this moment.
And that's what they're looking to do, right?
Bring that Swedish scene, that support behind a full Swedish lineup.
And maybe that can begin here today with a win over phase.
But it's not going to be easy. We've had the two crazy opening maps going different directions, different ways of playing.
And you can see that the flated faces of the Fades clan players, they need to be able to be the ones that turn it around here on in Florida.
But it is a good map for that.
Do you want the good news at a bad news for eyeball first?
Good. Good news. Good news is inferno is a map they play at a high level in regards to their own stand-ups.
It's just got to have the high as 1% is on and is a map that they usually beat the teams on their own level on.
on quite convincing as well. That's good news, five dollars.
That news?
Bad news.
Face be everyone doing the major, you know, on the map apart from my tellies, so
good luck I was.
Okay, so face right now, basically I'm stopped all except vitality, eyeballs and
not vitality.
That's the thing, right? So face they beat Navi, they beat mouse, they beat 3D
max, they beat NIP, flux or red candidates, even teams on the level of eyeball, you
know you're not getting the flux there, and red candidates being at the majors are better
than eyeballers, but maybe they're the same category, they're not only beat them, but
they dominated them.
The only team that got double digits in any of those wins for face was NIP.
Apart from that, you beat in mouse, 13-2, you beat 90, 13-8, you beat 3DMX, 13-6.
I believe so.
It's one of those where I've seen face as a reasonably plain Fernor at a very high level.
So for me to stand here and say, I, Bollos, you can win this game.
I need to see probably then play the best brand of kind of strike they've ever played,
but with they can do what they did on Miras and the face is dropping down on a level
or two, maybe not ready from the beginning of the season, then I'm willing to say
that I think we can get a competitiveness.
do you think that I ballers though have it within them to deal with all of what could come
with beating phase?
Because JW's been there before, you know how this works, but a lot of these younger
players, there's a different thing in your mind right now, you know?
It's gone from, okay, we're about to be eliminated, no pressure, we play crazy with
part of this, and then we come into this now, as like we can best be owning.
I mean, it can be tough, I promise, to play as free as they probably would like to and need
to in order to win a game like this under other half, as you said, the single 2018 stage
right here, we're basically playing a best of one looser as out of the tournament, so you're
the pressure's also on face, but if there's one thing that face doesn't seem
bothered by its pressure. There are also a couple of rounds away from being
eliminated from the makeup and stage one, seemingly didn't care about that
went on to the grand finals. So I wouldn't be too worried on behalf of
face for now. For now, well, let's find out what's happening on in
Furno Hugo and Harry. I've got to ask you guys, is the phase magic ending
here? Is it going to be an eyeball as when do you believe?
I have no idea. I mean, like, they should be winning this, right?
I know that's fair, and Mirage was so weird and one-sided for the eyeball is
Fage is kind of disappeared. That was after storming the board on ancient to open things
up as well. It's a very odd match. I can't pretend it isn't heading to inferno now.
It's been for saying on the desk, this was a really good map for Faze across their major run.
Even though eyeball isn't got a lot of reps on inferno and mostly sound results there as well.
You'd like to think that just the caliber of teams phased them and able to take down on this map should be enough for them to feel like a safe bet.
But maybe it isn't still...
I mean, six winstreaks at the nature and like the death set, you know, like Jacob talked about, you know, the way in which they won those games, right, ignoring the vitality match and the final, I think phased has had such an unbelievable run on in Furno alone.
So, for that reason, of course, they're the favorites.
But I ballers have shaken the boat.
A dominant win on the garage, a game fee,
has had a really end.
Maybe they have some wind in their sails.
Maybe they have some confidence here in this third map.
That being a home map for themselves.
So, let's see what Inforno has in store.
JW, keeping the pressure on, JW man, yeah, great start in this pistol round gonna
land a clean tap down range on a Jacob, not even good arm, he's taking these fights,
he's dropped his team of utility, now they're 4A, some of the phase.
Oh, the tap from the USP's Fuxedap in on the long push gets gets his two backs for
Carigan, but looking at twists now and a big clutch demanded Max though won't give him
the room.
Pistol picked up for the eyeball is kind of crazy, you know.
They do it very, very cleanly, yes it is Harry, yes it is, a very technical map here in
Fano, but a lot of experience on phase you would have a lot of expectations in the long run,
but then to take this game, here's one thing, the young, lucky underdogs, bring the five
power on C.T. Summarage and dominate their way through that game with great team play, but, okay,
What about those?
Give me out.
If I ballers win this.
Yeah.
And phase decides.
They want to make changes.
And this is the game.
So it's worth the last change over you.
And they won a kind of crazy outlandish effort.
Yeah.
I know a guy.
I know a guy who would have just beat them.
His name's Jasper.
Mine is brokeie plus Jacob Vinickie. No, you said JW. Brokey looks. It's J, it is
Pimp JW. JW. In a way. Yeah, but he's not named Jasper Wax. I'll even named Jacob. Win it. Win it. Win it.
Win it. Sure. We'll get to the bottom of this. But first of all, buy around here from
Phase on the game. Yeah, I should largely double you. Yeah, that was kind of crazy
Use jade up and before jade up, it's jade up
Jade up with you with a Molotov kill down middle
Five and one, Harry
Broken zero and two
Well, I'm saying it.
Oh, jump shot.
We can hit the bomb.
It's here and it's just killed it.
Through the smoke bomb loose,
Rolf Massard killed the can't stop there.
He has more to do.
Smoke off, says hey, you guys can have it.
But you're not getting much further.
Carrying alone in the clutch.
Alright.
What tricks is carrying?
Got up his sleeve.
And walking along Smoke and just playing right through that one-on-motor,
Carrigan, Kauai, a no-man's land, eyeball is 3-0, first try, pull around, picked up,
and I'll show this now, as they take control of the early game.
Well, dear old dear Harry, this could be quite the upset today.
And some are calling you games a day.
Others have realized Norbert is also playing this evening.
Regardless, in terms of outcome, this one's going to make the headlines.
I ballers continuing to impress here in the third map, came in very quiet through the
series, but they beat phase so what are decidedly?
on the rog 30 another rifle on twist that's it here for phase
there's to be back to back series wins for JW vs. Caragad and Crone's
haha back to
what was the last one again five years again yes what a win streak just has their number
five year win streak that's crazy
Caragon, not being JWN, half the decade.
Alright, it's getting messy, though, so maybe phase a found their way in, breaking into
this A site with a nice long wrap from Caragon, twist AK put to use as well.
Nessie fights before fights the phase wind on the less of the smoke down on the bomb
That's almost half the clock.
Do they really want to consider this?
Trying to re-exack
As they at resmoked
They've had this like a crazy hole. Oh my god. Okay now this second smoke from phase
It's a little further afield a little further forward
I'll make steegan to try and flash them in with decks wrapping around through the apartments
It's just really left down to the white, but it's one more for Bob XDD.
Let's have a last mad, it's XDD.
Get out of time!
And so, phase, lock it in.
Finally, they come through the round on this T-sided.
It's an unexpected one at that.
Yeah, you'll take the round, but you don't take anything with you.
Broken even dice the bombs, so everything lost for phase.
Except the round.
We're gonna hop by, though.
Huge victory!
That's just very powerful about pit doesn't even expand up the pit player.
Realising both were contained in sight, both sprang.
Close doesn't cut it, phase on the board.
Should he W?
I was gonna say, is he picking mid like old school?
No, he's going all the way wide.
You don't do that anymore.
Should he W?
Hold on, it's still not that hard.
What's that?
head of the U-TIL and as an opening tries to follow through and we'll get shut down.
It's a boron for now.
The bait and swing.
Switch back your feet.
Dex taking contact.
The more he can accomplish the better.
Dex, the better.
The next allowed to hang out here and back turned.
They are not ready for the presence of a second player at the back of the site.
Dex, to on a plate they're both served up looking the wrong way and that leaves it just
to Jake have now felt far afield out here towards A.
You know, 1v3's got just under a minute left to work with.
And I need this first cleanly.
I mean, we'll get it.
Very little damage done.
Lock in his face, our CT,
Nate on that smoke, they don't peek.
Oh, there's another for Jake and he's got the ball rolling
on this 1v3.
20 seconds left time is of the essence this one's gonna have to be one in a gunfight and do that is gonna take down JW
The veteran the old guard at the heart the eyeball is
And collects that round JW with the clutch shuts down J Kuba kill shy of the 1v3
And you love that if you're JW you just show your young and how it's done ice cold doesn't move a muscle as they go peek into that final player
Gotta say no, who through that damn volatile?
Absolutely troll Molly throwing the old line up.
You threw the good Molly from the same spot, you just have to aim lower on the board of the car and you jump through.
Can't be seeing people throw that Molotov in 2026, it's gotta be bad.
Take a sense. Thank you very much, Jade, W, he snatches that AWP and a 5v4.
Looks like they're right. Oh,
Hurricane chill
Triple one deed. Round one.
Job done. Job done.
All right phase. I ain't bad. Two of these forced by round winds on the A plays.
these low e-con rounds are other.
This one does have some pretty significant ramifications though the money entirely gone for the eyeballs and so a huge opportunity bestowed upon phase at chance to close this game up.
I'm not the Christmas tree.
At least that one doesn't have the strobe on.
Yeah, the storm lights.
Brokey looks like he's in a house from South Park.
I don't know what you mean by that.
You'll see it when you see him on the camera.
Okay. Why is he just like, I think I know it.
Okay.
Patience pays off here.
Hope I'll ball us with a triple V, not playing in the army either.
Welcome in phase towards the car.
Refresh, new Molly Flash.
They stop Rookie.
Nice.
I
Push the smoke
Should I tell you, no, it's likely B, but as I say that face-to-back.
So this triple stack on...
Be side, wasted right now, and...
The same founded apartments.
Told you nothing, JW's even edging back to spawn.
But phased.
It's already on this round.
Okay, it's got to be something crazy.
JW's here alone on this scale.
scale tag down range but it had to be the headshot and so this is a safe round for phase
clan. We're going to get that promise chance to equalize here, even though there's this
save for the eyeball is getting out with some SMGs, some rifles, it got loads to work with
in this next round and so a chance to find 4-4 is open for phase. Show me Brokey's house.
I have a life of phase and so now the game really begins. It was a slow start.
I mean, you know, if one thing's clear, Jacob's really stepping up in these apartments fights.
He's been a kind of constant source of openness for phase now.
He's lost a couple of rounds.
So what'd be keeping it keen eye on him on these apartments lurks?
uh,
It's waiting for me, I'm gonna shoot it now, I'm gonna shoot it now
they're now you wanna see broke
I'll put this camera
It's bits and bobs here
to max in some bees
Not much utility, so phase ramps are run up the corner in this round with no resistance.
Oh, we go for the double boost over the smoke, I like this play.
Even if they do, the top boost smoke, you can still see, so we need a smoke that lands
even higher up Harry.
I thought we're missing.
What if you don't smoke him?
What if they do?
And they'll just peek right on down over the top.
Oh, that's a big smoke.
I mean, I asked for it.
I didn't mean that one, though.
Well, they can't boost on coffins.
But I'm just trying.
Three on the other hand.
You know, this is not around that I've always had supposed to be having it
free off the victory end, and back up, they've taken this advantage three on two.
Twist, trying to claw if I picked up, but no, we're in them, out of there.
A lot of damage down onto twists and things are really awkward for phase.
These folks are going to fade, brokeie needs to provide something on the
up, because you're under a lot of pressure and the brokeie seeks to alleviate it.
That's the one.
Whoa!
Let's hear that!
Crazy little flick back into the spawn surely.
No, he's a shot away from certain dead.
Pop could have finished this already.
I have to do it the second time around.
But he will shut down twists.
And around the eyeball is once supposed to win.
I used to cure the victory.
Rollercoast around.
Remember that was two years of speed coming in.
Is it the canvas?
Something about it.
It's like you're giving us out of the park.
Okay. I trust you.
The issue is eyeballers.
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not trying to throw it away.
Six y'all.
But yeah, low health after the fight from off.
JW tries a all-the-an-a-goldie,
but Flash is good from phase.
from phase me more Jacob, can he do it again? No, finally found. Okay, you found the
perfect difference.
Oh, you mean. What's the damage done on beam? Maybe there's a capitalizer
They happen naming since it's spawn.
Four players in banana though.
A lot of noise, JW's moved over.
Pop, risky position on 20 health.
Okay, so we can get out of there.
Come face.
That's more into a three man stack.
What fires up at the spawn, but in all of quits swinging a miss there.
Still, by XD's Molly's burn out one broke even taking some extra damage.
In the end of it far from out of the woods here.
XD's been spotted, below on ammo, just hoping he could get out of there.
That's when frozen catches him.
2v3, bro, he waiting up close, he's around, carrying him with that swing, really would
have loved the killer, JW, but Brokey has just teed them up, for this close, for on
the board for phase clan, and then not letting eyeballers creep too far up the board away
from them, sec 2v3 and the post-buyer unorthodox position for Brokey, and they don't
clear it, they come to regret it. Double sprayed on Haragant. Force is JW. To attempt
to save on low health. And thus even by the food that.
To big round to win the phase, because it puts the money under question for eyeballers
as well, late in the half. And one would last but... phase now prying to win out this
He's too side.
Or are they?
Or there's just been a nuisance.
Oh, okay.
Sure. What can you do?
I can.
Constantly finance excess on these apartments lurks, but won't come to matter if everyone else for phase just dies over here at banana
And even now without one
Going out is even more fraught with peril, but they have to get away from barbership and beast out towards banana
Jacob
And this reign of terror, there's no stopping it a third kill found
To reignite the hope in this one bomb now planted and phase low health in the 2v1
and Hobbob, triple kill on his own solo B.
And still he's left.
That forced to ace the round,
and you're not expecting twists in this position, are you?
Twist comes fighting, Bob balls, Bob finds him.
12 health, no kit, waiting for a move
that will not be made, Jacob hides out in pit
and Bob, he's got to find his clinical kill.
The name might be, oh, no kit needed,
should be just in time.
Unbelievable.
three kills felt like not enough so he takes all five.
No way.
Absolutely no way from Bob XD.
The one proper gun in the round three of banana,
pressed into a one B2.
And then the retrieval that made from that moment.
Of course, all done. It was all over.
Of course he picks up the Nade.
The Nade that seals Jacob's fate.
Jacob got three of his own adapts as well, remember.
But twist put him in the worst position.
If he stayed tucked in, it's got a shade of...
...Narveevee Fallon.
It's a history's repeat in itself.
It's like the different characters this time. It's Bayes Magic vs. Eyeball is BS.
I can't believe that.
Most players in the straight-up save, he did down 40 health, 10 after this, but then
they from downtown.
And I've always have saved this third map, they were the ones on a force by now it's
phase. At so many low economy wins a series though.
Oh, pretty filling himself at the end of the ace clutch, which very now I wanted to get stuck in
out towards banana.
Brokey, thanks him for his sacrifice.
If so, we have five feet for.
And they just shy of reclaiming the kill.
off the leash. It's been finding me's entry here for phase.
Well, there's going P and there's nobody home. Gambling by I ballers in a 45.
They play aggressive. A lot of aggressive enough to stop this bottom. You can walking into the site
right now. Dex is going to clear me if it's rotating. No Jacobs here. Three are already in B.
It's retakable. Especially if they find Jacob. He's going to make sure I doesn't
and happen running away to regroup in this B post-plan.
Does this decision to make five ballasts?
We'll have ramifications in that 12-throw.
Yeah, if you go for it and you come up
short, you're handing phase.
They're the keys to a comeback, right?
And tying this game up at six all.
Oh, but there is low players in this post-plan.
Dave, second smoke should seal the deal on this one.
And I ballers think much the same.
They don't have the time to wait around for these to fade and they don't want to be caught pushing through and throwing away this round, this opportunity.
So, we're gonna succeed five to phase clan, but it's all with the bigger goal of trying to win out on the half.
I like that they're still taking risks, right? That's still, you know, going for...
Soldacious moves, playing a format A when your B player gets picked, it's very...
Mine gave me here for eye-ballers, but phase-read it well, and they just walk in.
I didn't really have any other choice either way.
And so despite phases, incredible track record in Budapest, finding six straight wins.
On in Furner, only losing to Vitality.
Eye-ballers are right now giving them a run for their money.
The end.
Before XD they here attacked and I'm on the top, they know they got him trapped behind the
smart but he's still out with the double.
He's put him under the worst spots imaginable there and gets out with two kills from
it.
Teaches the young man out of do it.
And this is eyeball is staring in the face of a 1 out half if decks can even take one with him that would be huge, but shut down.
Before he can do so, get space through to a post-plot in a 2-on-3.
that's when they try and play it forward JW taking contact right around the corner and
where's the lineup JW with the hat trick. The secure a winning half for the eyeballers.
This is phase half the back of a major final. Then now in jeopardy their lives about
hanging in the balance, and it might be JW in the boys that take him down.
I ball is seizing this opportunity here at Blast Bounty at a single elimination format
2BO3s qualifies you to land, but lose one and nothing, that's the position phase
in right here and right now at the second half of the third map. A dominant debut on ancient
from phase, Iball was responded even more one-sidedly on Mirage and healing Ferno.
In a battle of Braun, Iball was coming out with all the clutch rounds.
Seven on the defense, Jacob didn't spot them second mid, but Iballers are closing the gap very
pretty quickly. Okay, a bit of revenge. It's been a quite a head to head, Jacob VJW.
They're going down the last.
Jacob and the swing position down here and pair only going to get out with one extra kill.
He'll only, and it's still not enough.
Double up, and this retake is very tough.
They need to deal with Bob XD,
tucked in at his corner, he'll reveal himself at just the wrong moment.
They learn about the two players out through mid at least.
That's info, that's something wrong for the top-down range.
If you win this pistol, you're well in your way to winning the series,
and ending the rather phase-clin at Bounty.
That's it. There's a lot of pressure on this pistol round.
building up now, Frozen giving Chase just going to get away with the flag and time for that
depuse.
Yeah, phase is still in this fight, Frozen collects in the clutch and this game tightens
up.
Whoa, close one, but phase will take it, whatever the cost, Jacob's double up and some really
nice trading here from Iballers who have absolutely warmed into this series, but there
still more to play down this second half. So strap in.
Jacob has just been a miracle on this third map. It's not even the highest kill count in the world, but it's the impact that it comes with it.
Rekel Lills. It's the best eyeballs can muster.
While he can only do so much, like that CT and Cindy are just straight behind for roll.
They all bang out, check your robots.
Okay. Oh my god, and then just clean sweep of entries in a second.
And that's enough, that is around this.
Force by picked up by the eyeballers and a lead maintained.
Who needs pistols?
And head Jacob said coming into this third map, it's a BO1 now, right?
Not just the pistol and the conversion in the first half, but the essential conversion, here in the second, I'm all as with every advantage, every reason to run away with this game.
We face is almost undefeated track record at Budapest.
on in Furno, called into question at the top of the season, and eyeballers online
grind looking like it's going to pay off, play a lot of maps in these last few months
to finish off 2025.
Right now, absolutely paying off when it matters against the top squad, so team to
It took trophies online and online in the last season.
that in mind. I still didn't expect them to put up this much fire against the
phase. I mean, they were very, very keen to try and make it here at the
bounty, right? They were very worried as we touched on the start of the
series back when they let they were on the amount of a point shy of making
it into the event. worried that they missed the cut off and wanting a
chance to play versus top teams. I mean, this would certainly be a great kind of
showcase of why they wanted to do that so badly. I mean this is a team that happened on the grind.
You never out of the woods in a game like this. This is the end of the dog. At any point,
face could think themselves out of this hole, but I think the most relieving part is that you're
not getting star performances from these face players. Jacob has had a series of important
multi-gills on T-cyper and can't really save too much else in defense of phase in this
third map you hear Targon carrying them on ancient so frozen 5 and 9
Tarzan holding this beef on side they break on a smoke he gives it up it was
Just group grenades for phase that shift to air and eyeballers, but with no kills until now,
still going to be a bomb-block for eyewitness.
They should absolutely risk it to try and win this round.
Oh, they look like they were getting ready to save earlier, so these players from
A are a little slower on the rotate because of how late that that kill came through on
the spam.
You wonder if there's few seconds we'll make any type of a difference, but it looks like phase
will just go back to the saving game, trying to get out of here with as many guns
in tow as they can.
This is now a huge opportunity for the eyeballers, because, you know, you've got this
this saved by essentially to try and break through again, and it still features two rifles
and this can still be tricky. If you get through that though, you're really only
You know, one two rifle rounds away from winning this series and eliminating face from
bounty in the first round.
I mean, also just think back to how this series started, right?
With eyeball is getting absolutely demolished on an on ancient nine three half very,
very quickly ended up having that one go against them and there wasn't a lot of
resisted, JW top the charts, no one else really showed up. Then they actually outdo that
school line on the half back on Mirage. That was phases pick and they secured it 10-2.
Went on for a nice dominant win. And so, you know, you would have kind of recovered
in this series, and spite of a slow star as the underdog. And gone on to reverse sweep
I think as wild, you know, like phase came into the day with everyone looking really, really good.
It was only twists, if you remember, it was like a little bit quiet on ancient, but it didn't feel like it mattered.
I'm a Raj, no one really stepped up and here on inferno, like you say outside of Jacob, you haven't really had anything to write her about for the rest of them.
He said he saved a grace down the stretcher for phase.
Doesn't look like in a hit that molly burnout and he just spanned paragon off the boost.
Rosen gets his gun, but to no avail, shot through this smoke and his round is over.
Back to the bomb site, three strong, but the tank CT again to phase that habit.
at least stock in B right now, they have no one in position, and so I will just look
to get Paul's in the mouth, they just run in, thank you very much for the gift.
Bond can be planted, yes there's a 2B2 in chewing, but I will have re-smokes, a position,
what the face have.
Oh
Raw it's out. Not able to finish the job on broke even Max can will
And so here we are it's now a
Very very doable task for the eyeball is you said right these final couple of rounds these are the big challenge
Especially versus a team like phase we're at any moment that they could just add a sudden surge and uptake their hockey into put away
But, and that's the same vein, it's so late in the game now, it's 10 to 6, one good rifle
round win, and you break their money, and it's late in the day, that's the disaster.
And so this would be the time to win around, right now, while they're still vulnerable
to the body, they're all entrenched on this CT side.
You pick this one up, you are right there, victory is in your grasp.
Get a desperate...
...knife all is...
...don't look flustered or overwhelmed...
...and not...
...making any mistakes, not rushing...
...any moments...
...take up some doubt, it jumped through it, fearless trade-out!
Still a second player in the pit and broke you didn't realize he dropped others a trait from twist still...
...this round isn't committed, the bow is only an abs!
...these are panicking scrambleing right now!
Five bullets are no closer to their end goal. They can freeze.
They're sure the mollets are not communicated.
But there's a trade again on the Carrigan. JW, keeping this round intact.
Twist with good timing. But bomb can come through.
Frozen still so far away.
Oh, that's a way out. Twist back, stab, needs to do all the lifting right now for phase.
He gets out without first one, leaving it on decks.
I don't know. I never saw him.
This is a really good flank crowd. It's going to waste a lot of time.
This deck's going to be searching for him unless he goes into apps as well. Uh-oh.
This is giving him nothing. Looking to play the 2v1 together in a post spawn, if it must be.
Well, the X feels like he's flying into it.
Oh, this timing on to us right now is crazy.
just started to move back into the
apartments and so Dex might just
die from the position he only
just cleared this second jump out
the place and he's got him in a
box that is a great round from
twist it's been a while that you've
been waiting for Russell to
properly show up in this server.
Here on map three brings the heat
there and keeps phase very much
in the conversations are really
nice experience by the twist
this engaging buying enough time but
It's still not playing too passive, he just waits till he knows Dex will have been forced
to commit to the site, and then he comes in on the flank, really, really nice round out
of twists.
You can see how chaotic that began with two players jumping out of that.
So phase, I give it a lifeline, by then Canadian.
But there is so much more to do on their CT side.
It's at first house and for pistol.
Ouch.
Now with that last round coming so close you still have to dodge the idea that you can just
lose all your money here and now.
And that's what phase I haven't a contend with in this round.
They're already just down to three players,
so it's gonna be a gamble.
Trying to move everyone around to reinforce this A-Sai twist.
That is a miraculous three-cap, but it won't come to matter.
Where did the other one? Who did he kill?
I only saw two.
They lined up on shore.
Yeah. That's crazy.
And you know, maybe that's given frozen enough to make this clutch happen.
A fortunate lineup for Twists has given them a tiny sliver of hope to hold onto, but it comes down and frozen to realize it and he can't get out with the double.
Eyeball is shutting down in the clutch.
Oh my goodness, this game is a roller coaster.
That's right now. That's money broken for phase clan.
This late in the day.
11 rounds for the Eyeball is and your bank accounts have bottomed out. What do you do here?
Probably get eliminated from the last battle team.
A sick, two...
Back to back at three casian twists, but one of them falls on dead is.
And it's I ballers who caught out the attack.
At 11-7 knowing the money is busted,
phase of bought 5 MP9s, and a bit of utility, so they can do.
Do you think they're gonna run down Manimbenarna?
I'd say there's a good chance.
Now left with nothing else.
As I pullers, searching towards the finish line.
Here we go.
And it's a really, really good, they've bullied deckstown loads to open up this round.
Oh, tankers, wow, Bollocks, the... Oh, does it have double kill and every time he gets
these entries he is just knighting out into the site.
That is around.
That's 12 for the eye-ballers.
Unbelievable.
And so they have five opportunities to close this and there's still no money for phase
clan because they've decided to force.
I think they've got it.
I mean, this is just colossal, like you might have wanted to see I ball the shot today and put push phase to that limit to a little to
Trying you know show us some impressive rounds what they've been working on
Over this huge grind
Seeing an old legend like JW back in the server as well as always a treat someone who's stayed true as well
To try and you know build up his region after the big decline of Swedish CS
I told him to talk in the interview about, you know, having Sweden having a team to cheer for, having players to cheer for, and, you know, the struggles of Sweden has gone through in the sea.
So this is one way to take matters into your own hands, play with some upcoming players, and also JW is, you know, no liability either.
He's had a series of impactful rounds across this game.
Great utility on the rod.
Some solid olfying went through the pond, not it's been two-three quits.
For BobxD, decks maxed at these three, have put on some incredible rounds.
decks was a standout of mirage, maxed her, here, along with Bob.
And right now we're looking at an eyeball in the twar, right and ready to eliminate
phase in day one.
We've got a Bob Ace on the sea side.
I've been some insane moments from these guys.
And so this is one more round.
And this is the easiest time to get it as well.
So, for years we've been throwing around a lot today
that you've done the hard part.
You've gone all the way on to 12.
you have five opportunities but none of them will come as easy as this one or at least
that's how it's supposed to go.
They still reeling from the losses.
Don't have a proper buy.
They've got SMGs, that's all they really have to work with here.
And even then on a further way, you tell it you're so important, your
left trying to cobble that together as well if your phase
and you should be slightly better in that regard than in the last round.
I mean, you're really clutching it straws here for phase client.
Just talking about how I'm likely this is, we said it already, but this is phase on the
back of just having made it to the major final in a shocking display, you know, no one
was ready for that after nearly getting eliminated in stage one all the way through.
They ended their season on the kind of weird high where the future felt oddly optimistic
for phase a team that you started to feel sour on towards the end of 2025.
But their season in 2026 might start with a colossal failure.
And both of these maps have been dominant five orders, 13, 4 and a large day, looks
to do 13, 7 on in Thunder and I don't see a way face to stop this from happening.
The Swedes bowling all their way to a elimination game on to base.
And just like that, five alive, flawless round, face.
With nothing to show across map two and three of this series.
Yeah, the inverse phase plan,
start strong but finish week on the remaining two.
And for the eyeball, is this was an opportunity?
They just couldn't pass up.
I love to get here, they wanted to show us
what they've been working on,
The grind that this team has been on, and the proof is right there.
Phase 118 is from Blastbound, in a shocking upset to the Eyeballers.
JW's still got it.
He certainly has.
He who must not be named the one that child himself.
JW in 2026 eliminates Caragon and Face Clan here at the Blastboundy for our first upset
of what could be many more to come, but this, what it meant to them, how they did it,
this comeback, we were completely wrong on this one.
I, I tip my imaginary hat, you know, on the, on the, on the bowing for Iballas for a
great, great performance, not only beating face clan, that's one thing, but to do it so convincingly
two maps in a row.
So those of you who didn't watch me or ask, that was a blowout, Iballas by far the bellot team.
I would argue the same was the case on infernal, not a lot of moments in this game that
were being competitive. I know the score line 5 to 4 right here. That's when you
felt faced with the closest to I ballers, but apart from that, it was a very
one-sided game. So yeah, massive results. You saw by Peter as well, the coach
how much he meant to him. He had to slam a pillow and basically destroy it. So I
really do feel that as much as I hate saying it, you know, for FaceCle and you
went from a major grand final into losing the first game of the season. And
unfortunately, if you, it's the most cut-through format that we have all season
long, so you're eliminated from the blast bounty. In last place, coming from a major grand
final, that's crazy to say about, but it came at the hand of Iballas, came at the
hand of JW, who did tremendously well. That is a well-forward victory and a victory that
means the world to their message. It means the world to them and what I'm looking at this
as well. This is crazy because I was speaking to Peter before this event. He wasn't even sure
if other teams accepted it, they would get an invite. He was worried that this opportunity would
slip through their hands, so they want to make the most of it and they come through with this
is banning performance, knocking out phase.
And now showing us that, okay, they might have it in them
to step up a little bit here.
They embraced the format, right?
You did this show where they, the draft show show
where they picked face clan.
They could have gone for different opponents.
They could have taken opponents that on paper would have been,
they'd say, weaker than to make a finalist in face clan.
But as Jay W said, you wanted to come in with a bang.
You wanted to entertain one kind of strike one more time.
And so he did.
So in terms of embracing the opportunity, if you're Peter,
and if you're Jay W and if you're eyeballs,
everything and more so. So really really impressed by what they did right here.
Super disappointed face claim, but that goes without seeing. Well, we got to stop talking
about that for a moment and grab in a JW. The wonder child is joining us here. I'm sure
he's got a smile on his face. Dude, you said you wanted to come back with a bang. Well, this
is one way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I said. I usually deliver them right.
Yeah. You stuck to your words. Just just talk to me. What was the conversation like after the
the first map where they were playing so aggressive,
they were kind of bullying you around bombs
so that we were not seeing you guys be able to react to them.
How did it change then going into Mirage?
I mean, I think it's the classic thing
when I go up against a much stronger team.
You look a lot of what tendencies do they have,
what do they do, how do they usually react,
where do they play and how do they play there.
And I think we went in and maybe over think a bit.
So my thought is, you've been shouting that.
I was shouting a bit.
Yeah, everything got a little bit like what they were going to do and stuff and then got a bit of guard.
And where we got that punished, I think we took like the natural reaction is like to take a step back, right?
Yeah.
You don't want to walk forward.
And I mean, we are an aggressive team and that doesn't really fit us.
So I think we kind of screwed ourselves a little bit there, but they also did a very good ancient.
What do we have picked it if it wasn't for the win rate? I don't know. We have a lot of maps that are very strong, but we felt like maybe an ancient is the best pick right. It turned out that wasn't. Yeah, they did a great mention.
Speaking of doing a great ancient, you didn't even bet a mirage and an even better dare say it in front of where you surprised that obviously winning the game may be a bit of a surprise to you.
But you did it so convincing as well. You left no one without.
I don't want to be too, like, cocky here, I mean, I wasn't that surprised, of course, I mean, we haven't played this good against many good teams, but I think we just got to momentum and we want to do else and yeah, everything just went away, I guess, but they are strong team and I guess we were lucky this time around, especially on Mirosh, but yeah, I wasn't too surprised.
I play with these guys, they in the out and I see what they are capable of.
So I'm just happy that they managed to show it here and to face them to the world.
Super strong, super impressive in-promise.
Now, be honest with me, I know it would be an honest man.
What was the reason that you picked face?
Because you could obviously pick teams that unpaid me would have been easy for you.
But did you see anything in this matchup that made you feel comfortable
that that was the right pick for you heading into?
I mean, the biggest thing for me and us, I think, me and Peter, especially was like,
we want to play a team that we don't usually play.
We play a lot of these other tournaments online.
We go to some title two lands.
We play against teams like Foot, OG, like these kind of teams.
When we have the chance, we want to play one of the bigger dogs.
And I think phase was a great choice here and now because I mean,
in some of them were at the H and T of words.
I don't know when they started to practice.
They were maybe starting the season a bit later in us.
They have a lot of tier one tournaments coming up for them.
Like they can pick and choose whatever they want pretty much.
While we are here and this is everything for us.
So the thing that we are going to come in way more hungry than they are.
And I'm not sure if that's what the key defense here,
but that was kind of the reasoning.
And I think like now I've had it paid off.
Would we have gotten steamrolled?
Sure, I would maybe sit here and regret my choice.
But it's yes, it's a lot about taking gamblers.
And you have to take some gamblers sometimes.
That's what I'm about.
So I paid off this time around.
I love it.
And then I also want to look with you right at the fact that
when we spoke during the draft show,
you said that this would be such an important game
for the young players on your team as well.
Was there some moments in there where you felt their excitement
maybe needed to calm things down as well?
Or did they play the usual way you expected?
How was it?
Yeah.
I mean, I think we as a team play the usual way.
I think we're also a players who stepped up like I'm used to.
I mean, we have more BXD in same player.
And he's always going to show up no matter what.
And same goes for a role in BXD and Max as well.
I think we're a very good team.
And that sense that we don't really rely on just one player,
even though Bob is an amazing player.
You usually get those decent risks.
I think anyone can always pop off.
So I'm just happy to see everyone contributing.
And of course, sometimes the communication got a bit
stressed and too much screening.
But that's counter-shracking.
And I love that feeling.
I'm happy to be back here against Team Mike Faes
and get that feeling again.
And that's what you play for and live for.
Well, JW, thank you so much for joining us once again. Congratulations on a very important win for you here. We'll see you in a few days.
Thank you guys. Take care.
What a way to do it, man. What a crazy situation.
The find yourself sitting. And then on the other side of this right, this is a win that means so much to JW and I ballers.
But it's probably not a loss that matters that much to face in the grand scheme of things.
I was just about to say, obviously it's disappointing for FaceClin. And there's no running around the fact that they would have left to win this game and get off to a good start.
but no, I don't think it's defining for FaceClan.
If anything, it puts a bit more pressure on them,
heading into Cracker, which is going to be the next big event for them.
And obviously, you never want to start the season by losing a game like this.
But it was one game. It was online best of three series.
Obviously, they didn't play world. They'll be the first to admit that.
But I don't think it's one of those losses where you're going to bring their land bills just yet and be like,
OK, face is done for this.
This is pointing, yes, but not at the finding game for them, so to speak.
Yeah, another defining game.
So we're going to try and get twists on the line at the same time.
And I'm glad that they got to come talk about it, right?
because there's some things that I'll be able to see and understand
as to why I went this way.
But it is something where we can count on phase on land,
but online sometimes they're not quite there.
Well, that's the question, my word.
How much can we counter-phase?
Because what we saw during the major
when they finally stepped up when they got into the groove,
during states two, doing state three,
and especially during the playoff as well,
everyone loves to see that kind of phase playout.
You said twist, you know, having a fantastic comeback
into phase game.
You look at frozen, a fantastic playoff as well, Jacob's stepping up.
There's so many interesting aspects to phase-clans still,
But I want to see a bit more consistency and I think that's what they're still seeking themselves as well.
Well, let's try and learn a bit more from it, twist to the kindly joining us here after the loss against the eyeball is here.
Rusty, here is okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, loud and clear, mate. Obviously a tough game for you guys.
Not the way you want to start off the season considering how well you guys played a Budapest.
Can you just kind of give me a summary of what you guys felt went wrong after obviously dominating them the way you did with the aggression and just attacking them on ancient
how did it go so wrong on the rest of the series for you guys?
Um, I mean, uh, won't lie. Like, we haven't had a pretty start to the season.
And, uh, practice hasn't been the best for us either.
Um, so yeah, I think, uh, you know, it was shown basically to, to the public that, you know, it's, uh,
not, uh, not the great. I think we're trying our best to get through, like, you know,
really seasoned struggles. It could be some, some rust, you know, the playbreak and it also
So long ago and yeah, I just said as well, I feel like obviously a disappointing loss for you guys, but not necessarily a defining loss for you.
You have crack of coming up, which arguably is a bigger goal for you. Do you feel comfortable that you can play off that rust and maybe practice yourself into form for the next victim and for you guys?
Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. We're going to be able to practice a much more time to play. Everyone's going to be able to get more hours into the game.
I'm concerned about the crack-off, you know, from me, this is just another online
BO3 that you have to play, so it sucks to lose in the first stage, obviously the events
in Malta would have liked to have an event where I live, it would have been nice.
But, you know, it is what it is.
I'm not gonna say it's like the end of the world.
All right, well, Ross, thank you very much for taking the time to join us, Ma'am.
We'll see you across the rest of the year as well, and good luck with practicing everything
Thank you guys, tough times, sometimes we've got a few things moving. There's more games
to have here at the Blast Band. He's still two more coming your way and next up is
Panatic taking on a striers and new recruit Madden drove me for an interview.
That's a lot of the doubt.
Booksy International Australia has happened.
Ryu comes into the team with Fozy, but I just guess I need to know what did you see in
Ryu, like, what was your decision in picking him because Fozy was seeing quite a bit more of?
I think we just has all the things that we need right now for the team.
Obviously he's being more of the anchor positions.
He has really good mechanics.
And he's young and he's hungry, really surprised.
And yeah, I think we just needed exactly a guy like him.
And I think he's already surprised me a little bit with how well he's communicating.
That's nice.
OK, that's very positive.
And in terms of that, we've bring new two players in.
Are you clicking well in practice or is it too early to say,
like, what's the initial feeling?
I think it's like, we have good games and bad games.
I think that's the tough course when you make a change.
It's very inconsistent.
But I think that I'm very hopeful for the future.
I think that with some more time,
we will definitely get a higher box ceiling and floor.
So yeah, my pretty sure will be a good time.
Now don't shoot me down too much on this next question
because you and stare right,
you have a lot of experience of like being an international team.
But yeah, we're not so much.
So I know he's English is great when we talk to him,
but how is it switching to being fully
in the middle of the time communicating in game?
Is there any worries there at all?
Boris, let's not let's not let the
there's some fun moments in there.
I'll give you something, tell me, tell me.
But I don't know, it's hard to explain,
but this is a little time where he's free and thinks
that he has to seem vocabulary that he has to be in Danish.
Yeah, yeah, you know, he just goes off the rails and he's off the rails and he's off the rails and he's very annoyed by himself, but the rest of us is very funny.
Hello, you guys, we're eating some good mood to the team, you know,
while some something wild happens, but hopefully not in any crucial moments with this one.
Last thing is when you get your thoughts on this fanatic team,
the Ukrainian trio and our Madons come in and crimps the all-guard just hanging in there.
Do you think they could maybe be a test for you because you are going through this change?
Could it be challenging?
Yeah, I think fast right now, the opponent doesn't really matter too much.
I think that it's just challenging to switch into international and to switch players.
We kind of have to get on the same page.
So yeah, I just don't think that they were fear-ponent for us, and yeah, I think it'll be a good game
No, I'm looking forward to seeing it best of luck mate and see you soon
Thank you
Well, we're going into a trial is taking on fanatic with switch things up on the desk here. I'm still here
But I don't go anywhere. I do it all, but Malie has come in to fill in for him. Hey, dear man. You're the see you
I'm it's good to see you, man. You're a workaholic. I'm a workaholic. I probably got problems in issues, but you want to help me understand the issue of these two teams
So we haven't got much time on it. It's really limited.
Astral is fanatic. Go. Yeah, I mean, though, the last game was just so crazy.
We only have a couple seconds here. I would just say Astral is finally.
They pivot to international. They move away from the Danish lineup.
No longer for the first time in his career is Yabby speaking Danish, which is going to be
probably a work in progress. But I like some of the pieces that they picked up. I like
a foe Z as an individual. I thought that he was really thriving in nine and in wild card,
even under adverse situations that he was getting cut from the roster for Chad G.P. T.
Reasons and then brought back to the roster just to keep them afloat. Like this guy has
been through absolutely everything. He's worked on three different continents. Remember, he worked
right. I don't know what you did. I was on wildcard in America and now he's back to Europe.
And I feel like this is the guy that Astral needs to lean on along with Stair as their two
pillars for star power. Okay, and I'll hit me for
on it. Finatic on the other hand, they lose
blame F seems like big, really wanted him. And, you know,
for that, themselves, they did say that they wanted a little
bit more aggression, modding in the last year was zero
tenacity, did look like a more aggressive piece for
them. We saw his entry attempts go up quite a bit, or
when he was on ends, however, I don't feel like he has the
same star power, we'll bring them to the same heights, where
sometimes to be fair to blame
if he carried fanatic through that
Shanghai RMR basically gifted them
playoff birth or a major birth
that is and in their stead they have
this passion UA core which itself
did pretty well at Shanghai but I
feel like this is going to be
one that it's going to be kind of
a medley season for them.
Do you think right now we're
looking at these two teams though?
Finanica has a bit of an advantage
because the change is more drastic
for the side of a shot.
It's can that be something that works
some fanatics favor. Exactly. When we were doing the draft show, this is one of the matchups that I said even though
there's a few teams that definitely look like the favorites. It's a good opportunity for fanatic. A team that has only changed one play
around that they think the rules are more fitting for their team. They're getting a more aggressive player and modding over Blamf.
Maybe there's an opportunity here for them to find the upset. But first off, I still think that they have more star power
across the board. Okay. Well, let's see if that's what can carry them fruit to a win here with done and dust it on this
this desk number of going straight into a game.
It's fanatic taking on a shot.
We're scrolling in, London's.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your excellent thoughts.
That's right, we've got two fresh roster's roster's
that have actually gone through changes in an off-season
where if somewhere disappointed by a lack of team changes,
Mohan, we've got a couple new projects
in fanatic versus the Shrollers.
Yeah, I mean, it, you know, hangs my heart to see a straws go
away from a full Danish line up, obviously.
But at the same time, I think one thing that might be
interesting, even though international might be
down side just for having to switch from actual Dana speaking for like Huxie and for
Abby and whatever. The fact is they have interesting players that they've picked up. I
think Ryu's really interesting. I think I think the lineup with where Copenhagen flames were
with the original Huxie lineup. I like the idea that he's bringing up new guys together.
The one thing was coming into Astralis, it felt like a ship that was barely afloat
and there wasn't enough fresh blood for there to feel like there'd be a new peak again with maybe
device in some of the old lineup. But Huxie's still super hungry as an IGL,
and I think with some younger players that he could shape and mold, he has a really great track
record with new teammates. So that's what I'm looking forward to. So thing get done today begins on
Mirage, Mac choice of fanatic, a fanatic that when I look over there and see blame F's absence,
I just think this is going to be more of that passion UA that ran through Shanghai.
Feels like you don't have to implement blame F as much, and maybe Matt and can just kind of
to prop up what we know has probably worked in the past.
Those are my thoughts.
Right now, it's looking simple.
Clean hit into this ace,
I primed with the opening kill.
Oh, that's a labored effort.
Nothing's still from the triple block this fight.
The opportunities and then some.
So it's gonna have to be hooked
in jabby to try to save this one down
to just jabby 1v3.
You know that could have been a better hold.
Unfortunately, Chef caught it all.
Tap here from the triple block.
The tack in jabby's gonna go down with not enough.
to survive, fanatic take a pistol.
It's kind of hard to talk past that little kerfuffle
with the USB spam, unfortunately.
He was very close on every bullet.
Ah, yes, I never actually touched the head
unfortunately and playing from triple.
He had a key port, a portion of the round here.
This round definitely could have been one
by the strawless pipe.
Sometimes this game just comes down to aim.
and
it's really interesting for similar reasons it's like
a step back on star player potential but
fresh blood from a player who has been looking for more aggressive roles in his career
for someone who I feel like even when he played on ends I think because Spinks was on the team
and with snappy calling on the way to organize that he kind of felt to the bottom of that list in terms of
of importance, played really hard support roles,
but word on the street is that he always had more to offer.
So that's what we're gonna look for with Matt and this new lineup.
It feels like that word on the street
was kind of floating up there for quite some time as well.
Yeah, better, it's been a moment since Matt and was in
on the Counter Strike cycles.
So about hunger translates to early success.
You're trying to prop up the fanatic conversion.
It should be good.
We just checked the field for that single desert eagle
And as a foosie, an interesting piece, we've seen foosie in what it feels like now a couple
dozen jerseys.
Yeah, this guy is always down to clown, doesn't matter which region in fact having played
on even some Chinese roasters, lenders.
Yeah.
And it felt like he was in contract jail for a second too, and I didn't feel, I feel like
he was going to get locked up for a bit and miss, you know, the chance at playing on a team
like a strawless.
So that's nice to see him get the chance.
if it was going to be a sweetest lineup like I guess maybe I ball it's just like
yeah right.
It's the only shame here is that he's no longer one of us in North America.
Yeah.
To greener pastries my friend.
We'll never get another softball for a little bit.
We're still looking.
Madden cleared out pieces here to step to Eagle that was meant to come to play and
ends up going down with nothing so you're finatic you're happy about this one.
Pistol into the five man conversion.
Yep.
Very, very nice.
And the professional puts on a polo.
This is what we need to see.
Jersey's in the mail.
So what do you think about, um, what do you think about Huxie with this new lineup?
Do you think he can bring the most out of guys that you wouldn't expect?
I would hope so.
I think you'll get more than what people would expect, but I still think that this is an
Astralis with the lower ceiling.
I, you know,
That's where I'm left.
It's a run left though.
It's going to be a tough one to get it out.
I think maybe it's stair.
You can just say it here, but hey, trying to make a deal with what you've got.
I feel like it's kind of like the motto for a Charlottes, whether they like it or not.
Yeah, I mean, they've had their doubt of ever, you know, playing with every great Danish player,
ever at this point, and they try to mall to be fair to the Charlottes.
Like, they tried sort of every iteration, whether it was like,
Config playing math or device coming back, or, yeah,
We have to bring it in hook sea, which never thought that would happen.
They play with Katie.
They were trying to win no matter what.
That was something that was never supposed to happen.
So, we're playin' rules in the area of hunting.
This is where I was tryin' to pressure him into the ramp.
You get that top stairs kill to keep it clean.
And we're not all under talking just about getting through pistols.
This is first gun round for a Stralis.
And a 4v2 off that one from Jambo.
So we have that kind of mid-round floating moment, and Jambo's going to make the difference
seemingly.
Oh, this is a bit of a pickle.
I mean, if...
Let's see, near that they're coming up behind him.
He wouldn't be a bad spot to watch that second window playing off of cat.
Oh, and...
And...
And...
This pickup could actually help out a lot.
So this next kill, I feel like, really makes...
I'm a difference.
Careful.
The facility comes in.
Hooks he's going to notice he's got to pick one up, but not shot from Jack Asmo.
Considering that's the Galil as well to the M4,
gets the Insta headshot.
Put the pressure back on Fuzi.
That one free frag over towards the A-site.
All they've netted since this was the 4v4.
I felt like you needed to make the decision
to play a touch more aggressively.
Those one falls into his lap, actually.
Fuzi's patience pays off.
Okay, that's going to be a limitation here.
This Jack Azmo and Fierre split up.
Amat frag finds its mark to perfection.
50 damage on Fuzi.
Gonna send him back into the save.
If he's lucky, he'll get away with this.
fear maybe catches an angle from the catwalk but see about that one now he's going to get
blindsided instead so who's he catching another frag 9 HP with he escapes with and
frenetic bill up 3-0 so obviously this is also the you know the ship that have changed
the most blanks and it's not just the players it's switching a you know a communication
I think it's the biggest thing overall now we've all talked to Hocksey and Gabby and
There, they speak English, they speak English great.
So it's not going to be that weird, but that's what's the mention.
There's been moments for like Gabby where he's never played on an international lineup,
and that's the as, and he gets frustrated with himself because he'll be just speaking normally,
and then all of a sudden a thing, just where we'll come out where he thought it was English,
and then we're really like, what are you talking about?
So, they're just going to be, I think, some lack mental lag that he's going to have to solve.
which we'll, I'm sure, happen over time.
That F4 stocked down in underpass.
Not yet found out by Madden, but pieces being toppled all around it already.
And as he talks down, and he'll catch his one.
But that's all you're going to get, stare, hate the break, it's you.
Yeah, this side of the map's totally cracked open.
Only these pistols left over, they can go ahead and try to get back some better guns.
But for now, hard round to lose for a fanatic.
And so far, Madden, looking like a great inclusion
inclusion in the fanatic jersey yeah no kidding there is always a question of if you've
changed the environment how much better can a player get to right and I think one of those
examples maybe would have been stare when you gave him better rolls he kind of like rose to the
occasion definitely um are we gonna you know the last game that fanatic played it was like
like BlameF with a 1.5 rating, trying to carry them as they lost to friendly campers,
right, and it's just like that happened sometimes because he's so good.
Are we going to get those average-gibbed carry performances out of anybody on fanatic
like he could do sometimes?
I feel like you'd expect it less often, but that's the beauty of Madden.
Is that sometimes you kind of forget about them?
He goes off the radar and then does surprise you.
He's even back with the answers.
Mm-hmm.
Throw it out there.
I think what's nice about Madden is, obviously,
you think about him, you think about ants.
It's not one of those organizations that seems
to be somewhat cursed.
We're an environment that can hold the player back.
And then you see them unleash when they change off, right?
He was kind of a victim of the big ants cell-off.
Yeah, the cursed.
The cursed line-ups, I think,
is actually a cestralis and liquid right now.
Like, no matter who they try to bring in it,
and they just never get to where their trajectory
it seems like it's pointing to.
That's why I sort of think like this lineup
will have some low-keep potential for Astralis.
It's just the finally the time no one has expectations.
Maybe that's where with no egos,
with only hunger left, with a little less pressure
on a lineup that historically has been the most
under a microscope in their country.
And for many years in the world,
that here's where, you know, it's a good environment to blossom.
And we cast so many G2 games, for example,
and they had all their best players.
There's so much attention on them.
They got more hate, more pressure, more attention,
and I think that makes it so much harder
to grow, especially if you're learning.
What do you hope to this time, Matt?
And place inside of the underpass smoke,
pressure out through the apartments as well,
is fanatic gun for that 5-0 start.
I'll link it into the year it.
And with the way fear is already hit the dirt towards Van, and the way Madden's just still
lingering towards Bottom Illy, you know, fanatic or something.
Trying to set themselves up for something closer, but slow down and Fuzi clips one down
for Bottom Connector that kill onto fear will be found out when it looked like he had gone
on a notice.
Molotov decides that he's going to have no runaway in this round, desperation sinks in
with the palace pushes crimson's looking to get anything going and by God folks, you've
got it, a strawless looking alive here in the fifth round of Mirage.
just when it looks like it's going to get ugly again, it's a moment where they actually
are aware of that band drop. They have everything covered and now Jambo in this one on
five kicks it off with a frag. Does have fun too. So let's see, that makes it just slightly
more interesting. Javi to lock into the corner and that gives all the time needed for
the rotations to come over. You saw that window of opportunity slipped by just by Javi
making sure he kept his head tucked down. Wanted to be picked by window. Oh, and the
jump spot, gonna confirm it.
Now impossible for CT's on the scene
to make sure Jambot can't get away
with this robbery of a bomb plant.
Luckily for him, no one's coming up from behind.
So he'll have a place to save if he wants to,
but if he keeps giving them audibles,
he feels like he can't escape.
So it's gonna fight his way forward.
But that's two kills, that's three.
It is second.
But there's four on the scene
and that's what does put it in.
But remember, that was half of what was on the defense still allowing Jambo to hit the ground.
It's kind of nice for Fnatic and the most successful moment for a straw is to get back that many kills.
Now we saw that Budapest. They are in the very aggressive line of like that too.
of just on that calculation, saving would have been cool, but thank you by the end.
It's a strong money that won't keep low.
Spam to the top mid, bad, and not too worried about it still keeps that pressure on,
and that pressure comes in the form of a connector timing that just caught a shoulder, no kills.
Those draw the second window player back over in a game, right?
So I talk about aggression and start to creep in, exposed in bottom con,
but Matt and Lens the Dual, Stair was looking for him, the headshot comes up to
Fanatic's favor.
Are you leads back?
Oh, he's going to lose that dual to the edge of Triple Box and the NAACS, still
not crossing over Bonds, stuffed over towards Tetris, three players there with flashes
coming out.
He's going to take the place of his Fallen Comrade.
And Matt had already knows that the rotations have come about.
There's still real reason for a straw-steven worry about B when Fanatic went on both sides
to the map, so this is their ace in the hole, actually.
Madden's done a fantastic job, both with his presence inside
a middle and also responding to that connector play.
Got the kills to cure the site, and now we'll have no
friction coming in to get this ball plan.
Are they going to clear this out?
Wow, busted open.
And then crimps still lead to the party out from palace.
Get's revenge for dying on that walkout in the last round.
This is pretty, that's pretty beautiful out of Madden.
It really shows a lot of his end plays in this round.
I mean, his fast connector lurk, and also with the way that it came down there, it felt
like there was two or three players.
That maybe they were going to go for a split with a lot of connector attention.
It was just mad in the whole time.
And with the straws having no one there, they just had to basically watch their backs.
A bit of a steam roll from fanatic now with the nature of this round, and those extra
kills in the last.
It's a great response as well just because the shot down on the one round prior
means you think, okay, second chance with guns, games get to get going but fanatic with
a very fast rebuttal and one that again shows Matt and Zability to kind of prop up this
team.
And I like that it's like it's him, you know, it's not like on playing that.
Ooh, it maybe it's to be fair to play that.
He's sped it up a lot in the last year or so with the way that he's played CS in general.
Well, that's going to be faster, and I think if you can bring his personality out like that and they don't support it,
might be an awesome fit for this team, but again, like to be aggressive.
Rugga's first time out.
If you're the most tall, long time, do you live your Christmas decorations up?
Uh, usually, until at least new years.
Yeah. Then you got to give it at least a few more days.
Yep.
Um, but then we usually kind of leave you and die for work.
Yes.
So I don't know when they get taken down, because I'm never the one that does it.
Yeah, Matt, you just took down the tree.
I lied, I said, I don't want to see it come down, but actually I just didn't want to have to do it myself.
Well, a couple of missed shots here for Fuzi.
Wanted to put that off into what was indeed a pack of
fanatic players playing out top mid.
They all go into a crawl force connector.
His goosebott from stair was meant to stop them.
So the two guns in the round for a stroll is both
had a chance at contact.
Unfortunately, both fall empty handed.
Five before again, but fanatic don't really
seem to like that they were kind of pressed twice there,
from the off-and-side of con and for off of Catwalk.
Surely you do feel a bit squeeze.
So we've got a couple of stragglers at the bottom of middle
and we get this rotation back at a crimson.
Let's see, where I can do anything about it.
Maybe if you catch the nice timing,
I'll have a close fight, but I'll have to be that first shot.
It's definitely not fine to it.
This makes things a little less nervous for a fanatic.
They can charge moving quickly all the great shot
that I'm adding to.
He's going to splice that A-bombsite.
You can't ask for much more out of this line up right now.
No, sir.
It's looking kind of perfect.
This is about exactly what you need from the debut.
Again, they had a solid showing back the major.
Seated some expectations, considering they only qualified by the skin of their teeth.
And now Madden putting on a display.
Not quite some time out of the server.
Wouldn't that be funny, JW and Finatic, waiting on the same day?
It would be nice.
Start of a new season, things can always get a little weird.
Online single elimination. That's why we do the bounty the way we do.
Keep showing your toes.
Look at you, fanatic, or rather face.
Right back into Christmas break.
Yeah, that is the thing about Counter Strike.
If you're just exposed to that, like lower tier or a little too much,
get exposed because it's hard in a different way. You know, they could start
prepping for their next event, but I think just two more days off, why not?
All right, well, so that I keep doing what you're doing.
I'm still sat here believing somewhat, and the strongest of defense, just because of the nature of
of the one round they hid with.
Sure, all right, four players on site versus Jambo.
Half of them died.
They kind of let that one go economically,
but it was a convincing round.
It's tools all over the place.
Everybody picked them up.
Let's see one right here.
There's a world where there's somewhat of a recovery,
but start to contrast at the last round.
It's not going to be fanatic.
Jumbling up behind those talk.
His launch is despite the attention here
from Australia's who, man, and all that made effort
coming out from the defense.
That could have been the perfect chance for fanatic to pop.
They burn off a little more time and we'll see if that does transition to Charlottes back to the bomb site's defense
Foldload execute three smokes over flashes make it an awkward here as well
Right hasn't seen a damn thing and they knocked on you to spam just yet
For that that in sendy area just keeps the pressure on
Let's go deep now they're pushing through smoke to the offer unable to get that quick scope in no fear as he comes running through it
But bomb planted open as well for both the players here on top of Tetris.
It's almost a force day position with the panelists.
Yeah, this one's cooked.
You see the crossfire that just takes this now that the T's have won it and the off going down
in the same blow.
So they'll have to walk away from this.
No dignity on this save.
Unfortunately, the straws are probably feeling pretty good about one of their last chances
to get back into this game.
I also feel like it's a bit of a nervous map so far from from Rauh.
And I think we'll see better performances from him,
but we saw it right away from the pistol,
who's definitely rocked a bit.
TURES TREE.
An entire WIFT magazine, if USP is usually a tough recovery.
Really good execute as well.
Didn't notice any mis-utility, the flashbangs were timed well.
But, probably on that second folly, too,
just kind of forcey tease into that even further back position.
And then the one, you know, let's call it flavor move,
is fear pushing through that smoke as well.
Flavor, spicy, little flavor.
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Jabby going through the top mid-play here.
On Jabby, take it down, line size one.
Five versus four for a shawls,
has been tough to come by and yet still he floats around here dropped out of a half
health stare confirmed inside connector wants his and Jack has no signing up for these
fights has support all that boozy off of connector that is how fanatic get this back
to the 3v3 that was filthy down the hook see alone on this side of the map but he's
in a good spot he's got his wits about them let's see if he catches a lurk and come
We've got time, they'll gun down that.
Number Jabby's health is advantage.
It's gonna now push this one into Fanatic's hands.
Still a bit delayed as well from this B-site rotation.
So Jambo, gonna go ahead and plant this one for the Catwalk.
Crims goes deep on 50 health.
Two HEs makes this interesting, but Crims is over there on cat.
So, they'll have to find Jambo first.
While he's looking for them, maybe he'll make a mistake.
That's all that straws can help for.
Oh, quick to it, that's both down.
And, Bob, clean as need being triple on the round.
And we don't end up getting to see the whole thing,
but clipping boozing inside a connector as well.
Yeah. I mean, that's when I'm lucky
to get this top mid-fight, not the one I saw coming.
It's like the best jam, though.
Yeah. So it kicks it all off.
So huge triple kill moment here for the offer of fanatic
and low and behold, it is a strawless still sitting on.
A measly one round win.
It's the Shanghai Jambo.
That's the kind of confidence that wind's fanatic rounds.
I think I got to be a shut down.
Countering every play.
The stairs boosted up Caprix, they walked two down to Connector, cleared him.
Here they're posted up on the off.
Okay.
That's something.
It's there also a slow starter in this map.
Ooh.
It's gonna be over here.
No.
Oh, he got by him, actually.
This is awkward now.
Nice jabby still clipping in over the top of the smoke.
Right, you head down.
Stairs working on that flank now.
So that should be an insurance policy.
Blash is making awkward, but they find the cricks full blind drops down on the ladder.
little recovery here though from Madden and Jambot two versus four four
for that X and ninth round on the T side that stare flanks coming
Jambi trying to keep him all self hit an inside a connector but the wall
ban connects to perfection. Bomb is gonna get clip trying to cross back
over. He gets thrown forward a bit so actually Madden he got it more
damage dealt to him. Bomb scooped up he just tries to sprint away and he does
throw that caution to the wind. But where can he go? It's up or be apartments
and he can get cut off that's there once to walk this way.
So big advantage actually is Madden who asked a gamble correctly and he picks the right
move it looks like.
Stair splitting the difference he's going to hang out on window.
Madden's a little HP so it's not a bad idea.
But just one gap and he'll get the default plant off.
We'll see if Sarah turns around or not.
It was a bit of uncertainty here, Stair checking the, he's going to get out.
Connect your walk up which means he doesn't see it, Palace.
Is there's an HE?
Oh, but he doesn't even hear it.
Oh, he kind of hears it as he's baking mode.
Oh, no.
Critical timing here. Remember he's got the kit and he's also got the health advantage now. He knows it
Gonna come back through jungle knows this was cleared. Oh, this could be heard now
And Madden goes deep off of this huge move here by Madden in the one versus one 12 kills already
There still has his H2 within this round trying to figure it out. He's gonna go smoke to the bomb tap it and try to read that this would come from
I'm taking... Why? Why?
I'm just from Madden off the headshot triple kill for him at a 2v4 for fanatic.
Oh my goodness. That's a move out of Madden. Again, the correct read wrapping back around a palace
and stare at it and cut him off anyway.
And it's because Jambil was fincing towards jungle with that ball, as he was running away. So...
Walls are in. Yeah, that was beautiful. Just another great round of the Madden. It's been a masterclass for him.
Dude, the timing on this, the confidence to run.
Didn't waste the second either coming out from Palace?
Feels like Madden hasn't skipped a beat despite his departure from Tier 1.
So much impact.
Start to force the straws and his hands to get Frisky, they'll take the ramp control with two.
That's so brutal because Stair even though Madden wasn't one who would fast that long be one,
Once they're moved fast to go for the flank, they just need to lay a little longer
for him to just be a guaranteed win.
And again, this move could be big, but it really comes down to how fast the natic go.
If it's going to be a beast, but even though it's three guys here, I still I still like the
the T's on the attack if they clear things properly.
Good timing on the whole attack with that double kill as well.
You take what comes your way.
That's going to put them to a halt again.
This is kind of looking like that one round of shoulders did wind up winning.
Rock solid defense to take down the numbers.
Crits cut down with just the one.
So we do have a second round at the very least.
It's a thin silver lining, but it's silver nonetheless.
Only because of the nature, they've lost so many of these rounds of thought, and maybe this is going to be another one, but
You couldn't ask for something better than pushing a not seeing anybody and having three on the side that they're going to
So a lot of this comes down to this hooked you spray look at the second kill. It's so easy. I think I don't see some
Right in
It's very going, so I just know is there against the wall, so you're shooting for it
Sometimes you put the bullet down the road and
So I want to walk right into it.
Smoke towards top middle to cause uncertainty.
We're going to end this half of the B-Rush, aren't we?
Yeah.
Gonna get real close.
A more often than not just kind of at Hokesy floating out here,
Javi from Cap with the fire down at the right moment,
fragged to follow suit.
They're going to shoot that one.
It's not the worst amount of damage
though considering how pumped up they were.
Javi's still good for the first.
Stolts things for only a second.
Clean corner clear by Jack Azmo.
He'll waste not these bullets when it comes to denying
through the market place for versus two-foot fanatic and all this CT side may lean on
is two one-off round wins for the Daines.
Well, Daines is.
Plus, plus.
Nowadays.
Real and stare are going to try their damnedest and it's a one-before-needed knock-and-a-happin
and fanatic come out swinging to start 2020-6.
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a lot to us. We were proud of what we had already created. Now it's more about being
wanted and needed to get the results right to get it, get it where we wanted it to. It really
fast, but pretty big in my opinion, it rose to, because something like it's more of a
subculture back in the month. You could go and ask anyone on the streets and then like
and they would know what it's like. So maybe they didn't like specifically in detail
and nobody was about what they've heard the name before.
It's just glued to proportions that we never expected.
I think for our any counter strike player,
that I play in this game completely,
it's about making an aim for yourself.
That's where the major comes in really handy.
I think back to dream of winning one is
what everyone wants to achieve inside counter strike.
But getting there takes a little of hard work
and also some luck and everything.
But when I first started playing counter strike,
I want to put in my major.
And if I could just win one major,
then I would be very satisfied.
Getting to a point where I feel like continuing back in the days with Australia is that it was capable
of when you mentioned it was like a really good feeling.
You go into a tournament and then you would feel that we had to have the killer feel as
a point of discernment. That felt really good.
We're running that brand finally, you know, I think we obviously play against Redis Pro and
that brand-final we're playing against some really experienced guys from the time and for us to go
up against these kind of legends. We kind of fuel us in a way that everyone's going through the week and
can also do this, you know.
And then, you know, getting to the point where you need one more round, I believe that we
have 15 seconds or free time in case we would say that guys, let's just do the exact same
much, but I just had some more of that.
And you could just feel that everyone knew team was on the same pace, everyone felt that
this was like, like, going everyone believed in it.
That was so, it's clear, it's like, there were just like people just didn't pull us in,
right?
But it was just like one fragment of time and you can see that we're getting closer and closer
and closer and closer and then that final skill looks, I believe that I got when I hit that
last technology on test.
It was like crazy, like the place, just like we jump out and throw it to the hall.
Although some, I found myself in a shitman,
I should see if the three of winning the major.
We'll call the jeez, but we missed the pistol.
I'll have you know, if you're in a Strollers fan though, good news.
They absolutely ran through fanatic.
I've got a couple of replays for ya.
But he missed the whole fan dover just for a while.
Has happened, it has indeed happened.
And fanatic.
Look at this.
I'm able to staff his A-bom site.
Strollers got him down, and so there is hope for a T-side comeback.
Again, many moving parts in live production.
But you guys got to watch a beautiful debris and best I think so I could ever play it right there
Back at Atlanta and at least you didn't miss
Round of the year sometimes you never know when it's gonna happen. Yeah, wasn't that one?
No, that one will be the end of this game
When the straws make this come back to
And what they say every comeback starts with a pistol that we didn't watch or something like that
I'm not going to go to the
full USP on a single peak on the field, but
you can get spotted trying to get around with that one.
It is a slaughter even faster than the last I tell you.
Who's that?
That was you go byron.
Faust of the lost.
Okay, this is officially the start of a real match.
It smells in the face of it over on a straw, so they don't lose a guy on this anti-eco.
So much cash made.
It's pretty low grenades here for finatic as well. One single kit on fear, keep your eyes on it.
All in connector while both sides are smoked, so Hook C sees that as an invitation, so be a real test of the read, you know, I mean they can obviously send something off, but Hook C's here to make sure they don't move too far.
of things to the head, though, 80 damage for Huxy.
That had tries to dive over to the arch.
He's going to hold that line, him and fear.
With Killapiece, Jambo, onto the scene, quickly,
out through that market window, nose-one's locked in
spots the other.
Oh, boozey with the AK goes in double headshot.
And now it's him towards the top of the board,
still trailing behind Huxy on 12 kills so far,
but let's see if they can put this 3D2 on ice.
Check asmo and crimps.
Coming at this from different angles.
One of the apartments, one towards Catwalk,
they don't want to take a sniff at this
and that's going to be as strong as finding five.
Everyone's prepared for T-side right now.
It's a good call at a Fuxy.
I mean, it's a five pop in the middle.
They take over control of it.
They leave Huxy there and all he's meant to do
is just be a B in the bonnet inside of Connector.
Hold their attention and the attack comes in
a very impressed by the kill for Matt and the original
pickoff from fear made it feel like
somehow fanatic we're going to pull this out.
But overall the structure of the round definitely favored how a straw is attacked it.
And even though they sent something that was wrong over on B, they couldn't fully respond to it because they're still to the threat of a connector split.
So it's just really well orchestrated here to keep the momentum going.
These two kills.
If they have the best time with the op of the first half, no, but that's a great rifle clip for Fuzzi.
flashback to the jambo corner hold in the last round right with a double
ob.
But who's he does it with the rifle keeps it clean and keeps this t-side rolling.
Wall is so far.
Over top of the smoke for the hunts.
Nobody looking to step into it at the start of this one.
Successful element of fanatics. T-side was never falling victim to these kinds of
buys that they're holding onto at the moment when we had a couple of rifles floating
out or whatever not. I mean there was just so few mistakes made in general. See if they
You can wield the power of a couple M4s themselves.
It all starts with some mid-control, and unless kinetic one of stack, which they probably
should think about is that stuff playing.
It's not going to be a good chance for them to win here.
It appears, practically the only one inside smokes, and he's only got a pistol.
That hurts from Madden's gonna get up.
And now they scramble to the A-Sight.
For a Charlest Fun Fruit.
You're working with something.
Jack Azmo finds it with the one hand for it.
This will get to another.
Jabby's rebuttles good, but still it is pressure on Fuzzi with four health.
Fennetic catching that kill in mid and a fast scramble into the A-Bom Sight could damn well be enough.
With the amount of time and the bomb just awkwardly that far away.
I don't even think there's a chance for Fuzzi to go for this.
He's got a runes.
well, where it is, I said that they wouldn't fall victim to these kinds of rounds and yet
still fanatic pull it off.
I felt like a fear had to do everything that 5-7 wasn't going to get away with enough,
but considering you already had the M4 frag, he steps forward gets one with the 5-7
slows it all down.
And the counterflash, I don't know if it was his own from under balcony, but they had a
ramp line, so he could get that kill easily.
And they found Huxy, they also found Huxy going to Wards connector, they had a good response
in the middle versus him.
That's just all starts right here.
And I will say definitely one thing the aim isn't looking super sharp for us to draw this, like all other things aside.
We don't really have stairs taking over.
That's moments, I think.
A couple of jabbies kills, boozy on that previous round.
You know, somehow hoaxy at the top of the board, that's not what he wants to see.
Ouch.
I could fuzze his job all the harder.
Javi told to just tuck in for a second, and that is on the timing of fanatic clearing out this ramp, low health fear in the front of it.
Jack as much as they cast the commit to the trade, but he doesn't wide swing immediately.
Slow burn, he then steps out and jabby will collect that second kill so good.
Patients here by jabby for the 5B3.
I'm flashing cat and they haven't cleared it properly.
But it looks easy.
Oh, he gets in front of them all.
They'll get the off.
Didn't hear this?
Madden is running around.
Oh, oozy.
Yeah, he's going to turn around and oozy is...
Hmm.
I'm going to break a walking this off after the corner.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
Tracks him down.
I felt like it was Madden's kill for free when he quickly moved,
move, but I guess didn't make the sound or Fuji doesn't clear it. And all's good for a
straw is by the looks of things. Still just a shame that when you can only put together
a measly two round CT side, then one of the rounds you get back is to the two end
fours in the round preview. You know, if he already had 11, it just doesn't feel good.
So, it'll be hard days work here for a straw list, but at least on the harder rounds,
they still look very competent. There's nothing too complicated about that. It's just a default
that it stays inside of middle instead of is a lurker in middle. So we kind of had all kinds of
variety now from their T-side, but everything to do with a middle start.
I can't tell if that makes this game interesting or not after the last route.
It makes it interesting that they've been able to have clean round so far, but it also just feels like it ends the moment they make one more mistake, right?
Because this is such a fresh project for a straw, as I think we don't or lose, I just want to see more of it, you know, I don't know, when you ask me earlier, like
We'll hook to be able to get a lot of these lesser pieces. I think if the answer to that question does end up being yes, it's still gonna take some time
I'm so fresh, but right off to the races and hooks these right there making use of the space that why you created with a kill of his own on the stairs?
No trade though, and so the recovery here for fanatic is underway.
There to try to make that difference, Fuzzi looking for a target, but it's a disengaged from Crim's back towards mid.
Madden's desert eagle only walks up closer.
It's such a difficult choice.
They've got to decide if they want to come into a and they're already halfway up stand sandwich.
But they don't have CT control.
Oh, what a shot out of Fuzi.
Love to see it.
Crimson's reposition as well back into the jungle.
Crimson's has two.
He's going to need two more.
Give position towards that smoke towards ticket.
Let me use that way.
This is actually interesting because Crimson has the perfect grenades for their setup.
Smoking them all. It's off picks up a flag as well. Just one more tool for the job
Two kills in looking for the one V2 clutch opera on the angle. He just missed this cross-stop first jump up good
A catch in and the flag grenade not gonna be enough
Smoke grenade to come up next. He's gonna try to sit on this with an awkward angle
But before he can even do so, Fuzzi's got that line and so a trolleys keep these T side rounds coming
Love to see Fuzzi lighting it up here. He's actually doing so much better now on T side and
It wasn't even the amount of kills he got in the first half of those. I was okay. They didn't have a good hat, so
What expect that, but he started to really take over
This shot
That's special
You think you can get away with just understanding a smoke over the ticket like that 90% of the time you do get away with it
Not on Fuzzi's watch tonight
That is the first time out, while considering a 2 round CT side.
But held them for these kinds of moments and it's starting to feel like this lead gets
cut into.
For round game here.
Is that group on his head?
It's a little beam sprout.
from a loved one.
We asked him, please.
Huh?
So, uh, Star, I think I should get that thing checked out.
Maybe characters shouldn't keep the rocks to his head.
Swallow a few.
Enhanced the chakra.
Jambo, easy one for the Poozy hole.
Oh, isn't the on-pad to have Jambo.
He's just that guy.
I love this though for Hotsie and that's a clean head shot on an opera that you know
I like to repeat from time to time.
In a jambo, happy to sprinkle in a little pizzazz.
It's been repeating a lot.
And it was the hooksy.
Instant AK headshot in a tough position.
That otherwise is a 5-B3.
This three-mode could be lethal.
Madden not expecting that a back-tem would come climbing up through that smoke.
But you let your guard down and you feel the wrath.
Eighth round on the line here for a straw is bombed doubling back on the back of the hooksy.
And this is actually a draw jabby away from A instead.
to can they want to be an 8-plight but they've got Ryu in the window and it's the CTC we're over here.
Here's gonna be the first mover and they just let the B careful as they cross you know.
But if Ryu wants to play two paths if he will, that here come and help.
It's a good back angle from friends. Yes, sir. Saw the hit to the first.
Crumbs that's gonna do it all, at least for the first two.
Stairs sneaks up in the meantime.
And under that shrouded moment set up by the players in the bomb site,
you'll find enough to recover this and get that plant down.
Jack Azmo, one B2 pressure on the opera has to land the jumps.
And he keeps it slick, but why are you waiting in the latter room?
And what do you know? A stroll is add another.
It's a big round from where I use well, he's in there with three.
It's a four versus five as well for the attack off of the opening jambo upshot.
and
as you mentioned, because of the repeat that hooks you with waiting for.
He's almost like tapping into the three-fire for that very repeat.
Yeah.
It's like, what a lot of what Maldoy brought,
re-peeking back in a fashion this year.
Pulling it off into here one.
And I think a lot of people are like, well, okay,
we could be a bit more aggressive than we learned we could encounter strike.
Good flashes to the top middle to try to stop a stroll,
it's in their tracks.
When you've got little to work with,
If you gotta make a move and so fanatic try to put those MP9s up close
You definitely see that catch them off. I was a strawless frazzled for a second because there's been some aggression in middle
But that one was the all in out of the gate. You know push for a lot more control though after these kills they didn't go for palace or anything like that
They're probably assuming this round end day
the
smoke for bench Molly stairs
and this is going to isolate half of fanatic
time is huge
get away with it
the guy beneath bomb is still coming in this direction though I like you know
fanatic map right now and p9's valuable as well throw that on the bomb site
and somebody's going to have to get hectic
Here for the attack, Jack Azmo, Mr. Desert Eagle Chats,
and P9 goes down at the end of it,
more Mr. Opportunities for Jack Azmo.
It's Crimson's in palace,
going to be able to offer enough.
Go for the bomb plant, the bomb is still down!
Sandwich kill, a loot sim!
And so, all of a sudden,
we've got Matt in 1v3 versus low health players.
It's a winnable round,
but without a kit, time is at the essence.
And so, a fast one on the foosie is going to move him into position.
But still he kind of slow burns the thought of a second player being close because there was now that fallback flashbang
Maybe this puts him into it, but still you've got to go if you're gonna try and I think this one's a save
Yeah, they can go and play it from anywhere since he got that kill, but oh
It's like go hand another frag back and they don't have all the money in the world
Valley and Defer can try to stack the numbers up his crumple was able to actually stop the bomb plant
That also could have been something this off to be saved.
Yes, sir, held on to Madden with some late-round impact.
Three kills cuts into the economy, but it's another T-side win regardless.
It was we saw it at the kill team, but you know that cover kill out of Phoozy was
everything really and again, that's a site with three players in it.
I feel like even on the rounds that finatic are losing to do a good job of just knowing
where it's going to happen, even with those five frags, straws have been up money for
everything they want.
Now it's just a close game anything can happen. A mad enough cat makes a first move
They are that close to the finish line
The chance
I'm gonna lovely equalizing kill instead gotta be careful with this timing
Oh, she's the barrel doesn't take the shot
That one hurt. It does. There's a perfect sound. It's actually
Yeah, didn't actually drop down beneath the ledge.
Popped right into the feet, more pressure of the utility.
Chambunos, damn well what you were trying to get up to.
Their concern of a smoke push into connector,
but they're just gonna use the cover of it instead to pick a move towards cat.
There's no good option here. I mean, they gotta go A with Javi instead of
Rye's down beneath it now.
fear try to go wide. That's when Ryus strikes.
Layered with Jack Azmo and there's no one in CT now.
No sir, that's the panic turn to get back into the
East Side Catwalk players got a shot damaged done on
to stare.
And with fire inside of the jungle, the
Operas got a move. Fruzy hits his Jambos pistol from
down beneath the bottom of the other side.
Whoa, thanks go through, but miss.
Flings instead to try to flush for stare.
He is so low and yet still standing.
Six points of HP here for that on the brain.
As they've got this retake truly underway, they know he's in CT as well.
All of that earlier damage going to be worth its weight and goal. This crimson,
the only man with real health to work with, but the element of surprise is on stare side.
Unfortunately, the bomb plant's not. As they tap it once, he's going to buy his time.
It's actually crimson who has the kit and the bullet speed down to the final second.
There goes wild. This is going to get this. Benatics 12.
After everything we've seen, that's how they get map point in this one view on it's so close for
Stair.
Another flank that comes out quickly, the only chance to really win that, but it's still
not enough.
So much layered action within that connector, cat play at the start of this engagement.
Oh, man.
He kind of had to go for the spam.
Maybe thought he'd be able to see him from the top of stairs.
just a pressure situation on the HP very nice attempt
but the straws has come back looks like maybe only gets two thirds of the way there they still have money though
this is where losing an eco earlier in the same half really starts to haunt you and the two rounds
CT side you had to start with you know rounds inevitably get close but such a small margin
in the air, it's always going to be a tough task.
Fire burning stare out from his corner down to 28 health again.
Poor guys not had a lot to work with.
In that department, Huxy survives barely.
Hopper up close, Miss Chance Matting away.
On fire, two kills inside of the ladder room.
His 20th and 21st flag of his first map here at Bounty
in this fanatic jersey.
He's still alive.
And they're going to go quickly,
trucking over towards this A-bombsite.
Jamboc is damn well, get an easy duel,
but his first shot, a clean chance.
And he misses.
I didn't step off of the catwalk.
Now, top of the back by Javvy.
Low health doesn't seem to be holding him back.
A second flag of the round for Javvy.
Crimstries to get into the jungle from this duel,
and they're going to let him walk out instead,
giving space over to Crimst.
See, see both.
I'm not sure at least one still in Jambal
worried of that walk up coast of the top of ticket
misses the flick down on stair again low health impact from stair
crimstarts to walk away at a strawless fine
have rid the more slightly longer runway
yeah this actually does make it really interesting it's uh another
strong round where there were some good pressure back from
fanatic but the kills
the kills were all as trawlers
Honestly, we were shocking that mad and even got that second fry, so...
Jumping back up there from window, it looked like he was just gonna get killed by Fuzi in the first place.
Now I wonder who's feeling the pressure.
Wild scenes that we all just had, half of the straw is coming up Catwalk.
getting stuff and then still just really quick response to get out ramp into A instead.
I feel like that's one of those moments where a guy like Oaxi can make the difference.
Just in terms of the tempo of the changeups.
That was a shake up with no hesitation.
Yeah, they've got the jambel. They've got jambel over here on cat.
But a straw's just going for a full-feel-out default right now.
Look like a 3B lean, but the bombs far back.
They're not going to make any choices just yet.
If an addict can't always spread out on his e-coats, they haven't really stock sights and then push much.
So, probably makes the most sense to play this way if you're a strawless.
This is just the one guy they have to find out about.
And as the time goes on, I feel like the more scary he gets.
get so.
You just want to find that up without dying to it.
They're going to walk right into it.
They will.
And again, this is past a minute now.
This first kill comes down.
It gets harder for us to re-arrange.
Like you said, they weren't playing with the stack.
So we'll see how fanatic kind of own man.
He says, it got this deep palace control for fear.
And this allows Jack Osmo to sit at default.
Doesn't have to worry about palace's entire time.
It's just a deep place.
Okay.
We've had shot.
And a variety, again, here inside of the palace, to now be drawn back.
It might be suspicious, they don't see anybody else here, they have to come out of
palace themselves.
Awkward for Fuzi to have to once again play that op-up close.
Fear's gonna have people to tether off of, with this ticket control coming out for
a kinetic heavy emphasis here, three players up, battle the operas, Nate starts to make
them turn, not enough cover to keep Jambo alive, but Crimson will still trade that quickly.
And the back of the operas is gonna be turned, fear's gonna execute, and now the re-takes
on, but another fast response could on Jabby.
not lost even side of the ramp, but instead right here to hang on alongside
Raiu who gets himself a second in this attempt to take over the A-Bon site.
No kid here for Madden. It's right in front of him. As he moves forward, this
retake could still be on. But he's letting them try to leave and in that
transition, he's going to pop the head of Javi, but the bomb plans over for
Chengbo. And a desperate runback, just in case he tried to stick this, a
as well as take it the distance round 24 needed let's go round 24 man I'm kind of surprised the way mad and plays that because it looks like he gave himself a chance actually win but
maybe they didn't count you with kid in front of him but then saving forward into the site was crazy either way gets a kill stays alive with the off
round 24
anyone's game
the
Look to me like he was hoping for a short side triple plant instead of a connector triple plant
Because if he gets that kit gets the first kill weighted just enough time that's five seconds
But knowing he's fully exposed to jungle and connector
I think that's where it loses it. That's why he gives it up
Sitting above that kit just perched on it for a second who would felt alive
to the
and
it's a map where they
split pistols this game it's a map where the real edge honestly is just a fact of an act pulled off an eco in the second half
and
a
double m4 round.
I would go on, you know, in the Blunder category, right?
It's a major mistake, so.
And even that last round was in-off, and one other rifle, hmm.
For the next coming in, FAMO Dr. Thomas Day in front of it.
Trying to look over top, but loses his line.
Those names, excellent.
Check Asmo tucked in.
Oh, catch it, the player dropping down, but doesn't find the kill, the flash gauge cover!
And we've got a double entry here for a shot.
Okay.
A 5B3 is a barrel through that deep end and they go deep.
Ryeo into the current's rotation,
swarming this A-bombsite, don't you dare, lose 5B2 though.
a strawless, no madden stuck in this corner.
He's got no way to run and no health to work with.
And so blunder or not versus those two M4s,
all you've got to do is deny Jambo the 1v4.
That's all that's left to ask of a strawless.
Frank over to the sandwich isn't going to find anybody
that got this deep rotate over towards jungle side already.
And that's going to come across that'll surface the swivel.
And he still had a chance with one deep shot.
Not the first time he gets through it.
But at 12-12 overtime demanded as a strawless turn through with a good T-side themselves.
And in a debut here for Ryum, you get to score a line positive.
They actually make a full comeback and they what felt like a very hopeless map all righty.
So they've got to be elated to be honest.
If you feel like fanatic, they they thought they have this all locked up.
They had lots of chances to finally close, but instead it's extra time.
And there's always one more.
There's one team that's more happy to be here than the other.
Every time you go to overtime,
It's a team that made the comeback, and that right now is a strawless.
A lot of variety been called, it ends with a full A exact thing to retry that before.
The only thing really missing from there are, are it's like a full B attack.
And they pull up the full A when there was actually more pieces on that bombsite than usual.
the
jambil really wanted that top cat or sushi tops there's angle
utility though once again from the attack was smothering
see how much that momentum a straw is gonna ride with
really trying to sell you this uh... madden
performance
Oh man, another sadder good grenade to me.
He told me he's been pretty sound, but the CT's, oh man, that's a great option.
On the jump back.
Jambal, close, jabby, crumbs kills Ryu, and then the cat play walks right into Madden's hand.
He's fast with it.
Whenever you see around like this, it always feels like a reverendurfs before it, you know?
This one's just way too easy.
There we go.
Every kill comes in perfectly for a fanatic to have him take in a single point of damage
you cross the four separate duals crazy and it didn't I mean barring the one smoke push and they just out so much utility damage
You know it didn't feel like a
Strauss where his house helpless is they end up being in this round not doing a single point of damage
I went to call those 50 50s, but there was a couple moments where they should have at least had the drop
Peaking into Madden for example as he comes down on that ladder, but
Wow, that's quick
So quick from Jambo, immediately freeing the job as well.
This one here maybe could have helped out to get players into the B-Bom site, but Hooks he can't beat him, mad in two hall-handed.
So, finatic, immediately pull ahead.
I'm not gonna waste any time here, Hooks he already tried to cross over to the ladder room.
Also, cutting for players for it's there's quite a flash.
Fear, jambo, and jackass will come together to hold down that eight defense, but still offering an opening back over
We got to quick a couple of kills out of a strawless
It's crazy to have it because he on that flashbang after the first kill crouching into it still knowing the guy would be blind
See these are coming in behind this mallet off. That doesn't go that deep
But they're gonna walk right into the line of fire
because he's gotten off to the plant at least.
I mean, he's got everything.
100 HP, all the utility.
No one's actually in CT right now.
What's the C to do?
You say utility, I just get it better.
The utility just drops about the position.
He sat there and waited, and if you tried to plant,
I think the same two nades come his way.
So, doomed, if you do, doomed, if you don't.
This flashbangs, so good.
Everything they need, great cover as well,
from Chambo top stairs.
I think it was a lot of backing for the second one on connector, so very mobile moment
there for Jambo trying to catch up towards Madden.
That's fanatic now looking for the flawless CT over time half.
Yeah, I mean the two most impressive parts of this game so far I think have been mad
in Jambo and are both on the same team, so.
Oh, fuck, in the battle of the offers, as he goes down yet again.
One sided.
So that's the thing.
The best part about Astralis is Phoozy, but he's been doing better versus other rifleers.
This head-to-head has not been kind to him.
on route for a three-o sweep in this over time if the straws don't do something now.
Ooh, didn't expect that one though.
Just on the edge of the smoke, Jambo gets caught off from our patting.
Good hold over towards the palace and Jack Gasmo turns as well.
That is what we're looking for.
Phenetic find their groove again.
Once they get into overtime,
considering all the struggles of regulation they go for the flawless sweep.
There are some things suspicious about the, like, not the way that the straws were winning rounds,
but the fact that a fanatic always said the right sight and mind, their utility and their start
were always pretty good. They weren't losing a ton of guys early. Even while that come back,
it's taking place and they even won that eco, but they just couldn't close anything. So for that one view one.
So what it feels like is that they just opened up. They're playing a bit more free now.
3 map points of weren't enough in regulation, and we'll see if 3 more will do the trick for
Finanette.
10-2 T-Side, and they began this game with, they're going to find Manic Vantage's
Fruzy gets burned down.
He's just been nullified and over time, absolutely.
It's kind of a miracle he's got this score line, with the amount of ways they killed
Test them into his impact within the first 24 rounds.
I'm just going to walk into this flag aren't they?
Fiers on the prowl trying to hunt it down.
Molotops are going to keep focusing on the other side of that one.
Does that make it weird here?
No.
Jabby actually kills Matt and that goes down.
Elsewhere.
Yeah, there's that fallback.
Fiers crawl.
Does pay off.
Oh, he's thin.
Into the flag on the jabby as well.
Four versus two to try to end that one.
One, Ryan is going to clip one towards that A-bombside to keep the hopes of the
retake on, but he's lost his teammate in the process.
And so an active desperation to run over towards the market, time is against them, but
at least he's got that kid.
Finatic.
Start of this map and start at this year with a convincing first half as he tries to swap
over his own.
He took the long road, but they'll get there, picking up their map pick in this series.
That's a Charlottes' overpass, up next.
A strong 11-5 start for fanatic.
They were absolutely dominating and walking over
the new formed Australis.
But they did show some grit.
They did show some determination.
They were fighting their way back into this game.
But once they hear over time, that all went away.
It all just fell apart.
They just wanted a greater sample size, OK?
They wanted to test out all of their rounds,
make sure that their default was in order,
exercise themselves through a variety of situations. All in all, this was a game that I felt
like fanatic were well and control of, and once it hit overtime, it felt like we were getting
the team that we saw from the first 16 rounds. There was pro activity on their CT side,
on their T-side. They had a variety of starters and finishers, and so a stroll is despite
having a lot to say to bring this game two overtime showed nothing when actually it came
down to the grittiest moments. I'm Adam, right? We're going to start talking about him. He
comes in. He's delivering what they wanted. He was looking good on the server, and you can see how
He was just being able to do what the things they were asking him to do.
For sure, I feel like modern in this one really just started with a bag.
I mean, this is exactly what you want to see.
Hit the ground running, aggressive on the entries, finding a lot of impact,
topping the scoreboard, and also, in fact, a lot of great late-round prowess.
I mean, I think that his experience into one, it's definitely shown through how he handled
many of the situations, which he was really just thrust into.
I don't even think he was necessarily outlying to be the late round player in some of those rounds.
It's just sort of how things shake up and honestly he was really sticking into a straw.
Well, you were talking about some of the late rounds.
He was coming into it here on Round 10.
Right.
We get a flurry of frags back and forth between both of these teams.
It is actually a straw to come out.
A little bit better.
You can see a little bit of the inexperienced from where you're here kind of an unnecessary
peep towards Tetris, but to want to situation really close, modern, again.
I mean, it's supposed to be the entry of this run, but great wall bang here to take down the player in connector and look at the margins here.
This is something that was highlighted by Lizbee in the EVS operations.
Just how actually stare had an opportunity to finish this round out right here.
Not even just there, but when he's trying to stray across two triple, it's caught on the side of triple.
And now, but the mind games begin.
He's able to work his way all the way back through Palace cannot hear the bomb plant there is stare.
is stair and that's so close. I think the margins there are probably just a meter, a single
meter or so, and then modern just close lines of as soon as he swings across this angle again.
Perfect. Perfect. It's what you want to see. It is much of what I want to see. That's what they
brought him in for, right? It's a very different style of play than playman. I think playman
can do the last part. Yeah, but maybe not all the opening parts. Exactly. So you got the whole
gamut of what modern had and really what I feel like so many of his XC mates of praise
and for him. I mean, Stapy has not been shy in the past about saying all of the great
aspects of modern. And so it's nice to see him already show a lot here in this opening map.
And then we want to look at some moments where it's still went for not X-way, but boy did it get
close. This is what it started to get these more crazy situations. If that's either round
that helped them get 12 on the board. Of course. I mean, there were definitely moments for them
when we get into this one that it was I mean there was just a lot of clutch
action. Okay there were a handful of rounds where fanatic one very cleanly
but when push came to shove I mean they were extremely tested in these kinds of
moments and so people like Crims also to show some of that metal to really
again prove the doubters why he's still on this roster the awareness to watch
CT in this moment I was shocked I didn't think that he was gonna clear that
angle so carefully but to take down Yabby there and then to just stick the bomb
against their margins or so slim in this kind of moment.
And you feel like when this happens, surely the game's over,
but a straw is still able to push it after this one.
And honestly, I'm kind of surprised that a straw
is themselves were able to recuperate after that kind of moment.
Yeah, you know, that's the moment where you go,
oh, we should have had it, it was around to have,
and then they can fall apart, but they did.
They took us in over time, but then they took us into over time.
And that's normally where we say, right?
Oh, they've got this momentum.
They've got this belief, you know, it all resets.
Well, actually, it seemed to just benefit.
Finanity.
Well, honors on the cast mentioned the psychology of that
moment.
The team that makes the comeback going in over time.
Usually is the one that feels like they have so momentum to run with.
But man, Finanette, I mean, they just completely shifted gears.
They felt like all the pressure was off of their shoulders to the way that
they were able to play the situation flashing in to ram.
For Jakasmo, the way Jambo got a little bit more explosive.
It just felt like they unleashed themselves.
Like for whatever reason, they wanted to win this super clean, defined
clean to find way, but then they just started being a little bit more proactive, a little
bit freer went the extra utility, the extra money that over time allots you and that's what
that's what they needed. They needed to be just really just taking matters into their own hands.
That's what they needed. And being able to do that right, being able to hold back and have this
composer, to be able to deliver it against them, is really positive signs. But is it maybe
some negatives though, because they had it so close? They had it since you so dominant and then
And then they saw the latest tip of West, especially against an astralist who probably
don't have the particles right now, or the understanding of how they should be playing
fully as a five-man team.
I feel like that's slightly worrying for a fanatic because it definitely looked like their
playbook was more varied.
I'd say the amount of default starters that they had, I mean, sometimes that crimson
is in palace, sometimes he's helping with mid.
Sometimes the way that fear was able to mid-round felt like there are a lot more options
for a fanatic, so for it to be that close, I would say probably off the back of foasy, who,
Unfortunately, when silent in overtime for these straw aside, but also for
fanatic, they're probably themselves are thinking, we're also integrating a new
player. So it's going to be a little rough around the edges. Well, I did catch up with
that new player. I did tease it earlier, but we didn't see it. So I have to listen to
this one with madam.
What about getting back into the shape? How are you feeling in that
regard? You feel like you're at your best getting close to it again. You're
ready for the test.
I mean, I think I'm lately playing very good. Well, also the statistics would say
I mean, I was never the guy who was looking at stats, but yeah, I think I'm just playing good in the visually right now, and I feel very confident.
And confidence is so key for this game. Now, you come in replacing BlameF, and he was a big player for the team. How are you handling that?
We've all the expectations the team has on you and how they want you to play.
I mean, to be honest, it's not easy to replace BlameF. I think he's very good, and he brings a lot to the team.
team, but I would say we are kind of a different player. I'm more aggressive and he's
more passive player, and this team, they were looking for some of his more aggressive and
who is willing to take space for the young guns, which young boys and the kids are very
good individually, and they need someone who will try to help them with good coms, experience,
and someone who is willing to sacrifice for the team, and let those young players try.
and I love what he's saying there at the end, right? Let those young players shine. How
many times did we see last year? Jambo, entry, orping, up, B ramp on ancient, like, because
I'm done with his shots, but it's not the optimal way you want to be doing things, right?
So this does give them that extra backup, that extra experience they need, not just crimps now,
you know? This was a good move. I feel like it was one that was a little bit force. I'm not
or what came first, the blame-f, poach from big or the decision from fanatic.
I couldn't read the T-Leaves well enough to understand who was forced in this one.
But I would say that, modern. I mean, in terms of what he's able to provide,
I think the key word I took from the interview was sacrifice. Because that's something
that unfortunately blame-f doesn't really do sacrifice himself. I mean, modern in this one
was a bit of a luxury because even in sacrificial positions, he was able to get the entry
very frequently and providing a secondary voice. I figured that honestly BlameF
should be able to do that, given that he was an in-game leader before. But I'm also a
little bit, I know that mod and has a lot of experience. I mean, he worked
under saw, especially one of the best coaches that we have in the Counter-Strike
Space, along with snappy one of the best minds. So for him to perform this well and to
be a bit more of a sacrificial player in the future, hopefully it allows people like
Jambo and Jakazmo to eventually blossom to reach the heights that we know they're capable of,
which we only unfortunately seeing glimpses.
We talked about reach the heights they were capable of, and he's looking fuzzy a little bit
ahead, because we have seen him have opportunities on bigger name teams.
He has the times showed up and delivered. He's time on their southern counter to degree, you know,
we've all of that, but we've seen he's capable. But even here, I'm doing the best performance
who can fall the Australia side,
is this going to be maybe the difference
make of the need to see that
like individual talent within him?
I feel like fozy is in a better position
in his career right now than device.
I mean, that might be the hot take right now
because it's the second reminder.
It is the second time fozy has replaced device.
Yeah, I'm under a little bit more direct
given that the departure from an IP
was not quite as amicable, perhaps.
But this one was, to me, a move that I think
as strong as it's quite happy about.
I think that they're getting a young gun
who was in the past a journeyman,
just traveling across multiple continents
and being thrust into very difficult situations.
And one who was actually evolved
because I feel like when I watched him on young ninjas
to NIP, to even wild card,
he was a really, I mean, a solid offer
that continuously added elements to his game.
In the beginning for young ninjas,
I think he was more of a mid-round player
but sometimes struggled in the clutches.
I think he's a decent clutch right now
And I also think that he's added the opening for
Aging ability.
I mean, I feel like in this game, especially,
he was trying to impose himself on the CT side,
going for repeats, not always successfully unfortunately,
but he knows how to involve the AWP.
And I feel like he hits it with a consistent enough rate
where he can be more of an impact player
than device who maybe is a more stable force,
but when we're, I feel like it's a known quantity
that I'm not always getting excited about in terms of highs.
Well, thank you very much for all of your thoughts
the mower, we're going to go and kick it to a break and when we come back we'll be moving
into overboss. That's what a shyness has gone for with this one, so let's see what we'll
I'm out for that.
A stride is this map pick of overpass is coming up next there are down a map and they need
to fight strong in this one but now for me if I'm looking overpass I'm being in that is a
tough map to integrate two new players on and become one of your CT side that you need
to have good as well as the T side being hell of strong for being difficult you know you
you're struggling the whole way through.
And you're going to stop on the T-Saw as well.
I feel like it's a map that usually teams are building out
after a few months together.
Not one that you're going to say on day one.
Yes, this is going to be our pick,
but I feel like this might be a little bit of a target.
I think that hooks the recognizes that
fanatic lost their A-Rifler in Blamef.
To me, that's the most pivotal position on the entire
defensive side.
So whoever takes up the mantle for fanatic
is definitely going to have their work cut out for them.
But I hope that hooksy just doesn't get too
keyed in to that A-bombsite because we all know
it can be really difficult if your utility isn't perfectly
layer, your trading's not on top of each other.
It's going to be tough to take space.
Looking at that, though, for the likes of finatic,
I don't even have that one more player in there.
Do you read too much and that results right now
of their performance on the map?
They can still play it, right?
I feel like they're going to be fine on this one.
I mean, they went through a lot of iterations,
especially even going back just a couple months
when they had Cipher as well.
I mean, Jacazmo had to switch positions.
I feel like Crim's did Cipher did.
I mean, yeah, obviously it's a new look for them.
But I feel like the baseline level from this
fanatic team is going to rely on if Jambo can just be mobile
with the AWP.
And I think he found his form towards the tail end of that game.
And so if he's able to bring some of that, then I think
that there's a good chance of a stroll.
It's going to have a very tough map ahead of themselves.
Well, let's find out how it will go down and what to expect when it comes to overpass is a
strife facing off against Finatic and Finatic. I look for the two zero. Let's see if they can get it.
It's going in long. Let's take it away. A two zero that looked primed for the taking when we look back at the first half of
Mirage will hunt. Yeah, Charles clearly was some fight in them. So, yes, okay, difficult playground when it comes to
overpass specifically. But I think looks he's got some tricks up his sleeves. Definitely. I think in a think, I mean,
The main fanatic are going to be competitive, here, a straws are going to be competitive
and are looking for something with a new lineup on a new map where I think they're
going to be learning as we are about them.
So I mean, based on what we saw, I think there's something with a raw power that we saw
from fanatic that was very appealing, I feel like when they opened up in over time as
well, I feel like they showed themselves that it wasn't so much this strategy, but more
so just the atmosphere, maybe the attitude and I'm worried a little bit for us to all
Unless if they don't bring this to a third map, even though this is their pick, so we'll find out it's going to be a CT start for Fnatic on map 2.
I'm very forward facing AD fence here for Fnatic, not a single player on B-cyton fact.
Yeah, that's a crazy call out.
level. And there's a map where you can do these stacks because you can just fast
rotate. Obviously if they want to go for a con control. Yeah, that's what's waiting.
Be careful with your clearing your corners. Let's see. No guys are seat four. Don't
could just spray through all four of them. Yeah. Oh, we could be setting up a blood
bath. You should all just kind of creep in in. Someone's getting caught off guard and
Let's see stairs usually very careful about these peaks.
Now especially with the bathroom player kind of drawing a tension first.
You realize that's a bit of a bait or does it cause you to walk right into what is a heavy stack?
Nobody else from a straw is coming around that corner.
Right, you're suddenly notice you're going to have to escape off this rotate down through
connector and it is a fast flood from fanatic.
They know that a straw is what have scrambled and so they try to throw a ton of
bodies at D, but because a straw is weight.
Yeah, this is actually a little too hard of a rotate for the beauty is you can go right back
Okay, again they're right there. Oh, okay, come over
Jackassmo at the top of this staircase now
And spoozy hunt down a second. There's those rotations
Jackassmo just getting down around the corner. Jack needs a little bit labor, but he gets there and it's gonna have to be him now. One versus two
Oh, I'm on his belt
Dax around and finds the safe plant as those smokes begin to fade just enough time here for him to reposition on it dumps through as well. It's what it
Maybe back at it stops all in a one-top on a jample. Come on, jabby.
To kill feet. Oh, but it's gonna be Jack Osmo to end him instead a triple for Jack Osmo and a pistol for
Phenetic. I would have been a nice highlight for you, Abby. To bring home a T pistol as well in that fashion, especially after the setup and the way the first couple of kills went down
You know, losing Rio in the stairs and also
So, Stair as that first peek came out, it's another good round, first anatic on CT side
with the way they're reading, you know, the T side rounds from Astralis.
They've been kind of in their heads, I feel like even back on Mirage.
Again, last last map was a comeback, but until we got to overtime, it was just a sweep.
So they come ready.
And I like that, but I brought up, you know, a and the fact that Blameth is not on the
steam anymore but the Meta not overpass right now.
Just so be happy in the first place.
I'm locked in, stuff's jabby on the wide swing.
Oh, I was spotted.
This one's better guns down.
Desert Eagle tries to keep him in here.
Madden's stuck working with both ends of it all.
It's stairs.
Got one of the better rifles too.
No support there.
Actually for Madden.
So that actually turns into an upgrade for the T side.
Yeah, I felt like he would have loved to have had a flashback or something,
or something but fanatic limited in that department because they do come in with five rifles.
You could have held that wall because you know they don't have a wall on this,
oh they actually do, but that there can be low on utility on this round.
It's great setup again here for fanatic.
They've got this cross. They have crimson rotating in for the hard spot.
Let's see how this kill goes. Very good for fear.
Starts to disengage. That's actually a utility up from crimson.
Oh, it's fantastic.
See, there's no armor. Oh, I hear this.
See, as it's down, knees taken out from BDTEM.
And as they fade back into the spawn, the time is going to expire.
If I'm not showing us two strong setups out of the gate here is, I think, showing great promise
for a CT side of overpass. I like to see a typical position as well.
Like, you know, if you're on that door holding the cross, like he, they're gonna spot him, but they're not gonna be ready for someone exactly on that angle.
So,
that'll be enough. That one kill from out of the info, the time bleeding down,
and that call out on the rotation once again with this political display.
80 is crazy.
The journey live, so the others buy a couple of pistols out here for a Strauss and
Bruce East Boost is going to find Madden his aggressiveness so far outside of parties.
But oh hell the first time not so much the second now a clean desert eagle shot here
for Hoaxie connector controls going to belong to Jambo I got to open a door for fear
to come and join them but then you open that door and all these bathrooms players are
hear the contact.
It really rocks in the app, I mean, they could leave B, but they actually still don't
know where all the T's are.
Hello?
Okay.
There goes Hipsie's Desert Eagle, and that's going to scramble the defenders up towards
A site instead.
You know that you dealt with the one guy that got away, and you know where he was planning
on going.
Unfortunately, though, for a fanatic, you've already got boots on the ground for a stroll
this.
Get a man advantage, trying to pressure the dumpsters smoke their met by another volume
and so it's going to be on Jambo to try to crack open long.
Oh, Instacul with the bomb is boat 12.
Now they're a little scared.
We go 3v3, Ryus trying to wrap back around towards long as well,
but he's got to walk this.
And Jambo's already gotten real close to this bomb site,
keeping the pressure on.
There's the flank.
It connects in time, and the dumpster smoke finally fades.
Surely they're not going to try this, but they are so aggressive sometimes.
Trying to keep something of a shawl us on site just in case,
But everybody's allowed to leave this one and so buying back in with the three rifles that survived around two
We've got a shoulders on this T side scoreboard early clean them up
Crypt right there and right you that is going to put them into the pain point
Fanatic tough place to be in being cleared out like that. Yeah, I think those two two rounds are one. It's the T side
You win this is considered early. So
Gonna thank Hoaxi for that Eagle shot for sure
And the flank time in here just to seal it up
Crazy gets a kill there and the two exits over and be a second slayer.
barely gets the vision right idea
and with working with so few tools at the moment
gotta respect the ambition but they're gonna find way less
defense here towards bathrooms than what they're accustomed to. There's been a lot of
kind of forward presence from fanatic a lot of mad and action here towards party not this time
and I could leave them to believe correctly that aceites under staff
the heart part sometimes is not getting into a it's just getting up to the front door
using a C and these like sort of softlock positions just to make as much presence as possible
that's enough
you get L-Class, go sometimes.
Oh, looks like we got caught off, and they know he's a lurker, so I wouldn't be surprised
they start to run over.
This actually gets quite scary for us, for all this once again.
Five-7's trying to just kind of effort the entries.
Oh, Jack Gasmo gets away with more than he should have, he's still up inside the short
side.
They're fine.
The upgrade fly down on the Jampo right full of the mix, who's he sits on 65 and makes
what onto them, fanatic, making it happen with what was only two five sevens at the
point of the commitment there from a straw is totally believe in you know,
hooksy in terms of a brain in the game and how to control the map.
But a couple of times, you saw them on Marrage as well as the lurker if you
dies first. That's the best piece of info. The most serious, you know,
sign that it's not going to be that side of the map so far in the series. And
that's how pathetic have been able to pull out a pistol or two. Like they did that
taking him out, um, when they jumped up on cat and they killed him in
underpass, and they were ready for the A play.
I think in this moment, they have a B-Exact that could pull off.
They have a lot of map control, but they just make need to make sure Huxie doesn't
die and hold back a little bit, because they really didn't need him to get a kill on A as
well.
Maybe he just felt if they don't see me at all, they're not going to go for this.
all that on a jambom
seriously, it's the headshot man.
They're starting to spam the approach.
Oh, no, they're you're not supposed to get the headshot.
Just on the side of the staircase as well.
Jabby looking for the upgrade.
Fast black out and sphinatic.
Find them a little blood in the water.
Making the most of that.
Catching the additional kill off of the side.
That's when really that one falls on its face.
super good. And look like he was the one being, you know, pundit down right here, but you
with that shadow was so ready. Oh boy, it's draw us. And when they win an early round on the
T side, you start to think to yourself, this is gonna go great. Yeah, but then I do think, you know,
again we're talking about the new roster yeah talk about one that's making more
changes more so than fanatic right yeah I'm gonna prop up what fanatic
had it where it's a straw is truly is a rebuild and you know devils in the details
this is counter strike whoever was losing we're gonna give them that
excuse that's fair it's gonna help you out and so when it feels like you
could have been winning we'll also give you that excuse I know blame that
Of course, Venatic are losing, you know, I mean.
Oh, yeah, and they also brought up on the desk
that this is a, you know, a tough map to play.
Stay one, yep, as well.
Like, throw that onto it, and then there's a lot of elements
as to why.
Oh, this could be having a tough go of it.
First day of 20, 26 is season.
An attic, look at the tap back into,
they were able to put together back in Budapest.
know for some but actually there've been like a lot of players here at this event
had been you know playing 10-12 maps already that's fair that's fair it really
get a player break per se you tell me all these guys were in Las Vegas at
Flomland yeah they're still on the flight with Mike right now you'll get here
eventually we hope
to the
more aggressive moves of
matton
not able to recover vision
there fear could be the first
victim of rounds seven a five
versus three for a straw is this
could vote real well that's
looking like a prime b site for the
taking but awkwardly bombs look
at the scooped up on the fallback
fanatic reclosing up on this
extension to fountain to try to
cat somebody but with the way those
two people are not just one but
Know that a shawl is gonna take over this bombsite and you're pretty damn confident. There's no more resistance to deal with
Now you want just don't take too much time
That's such a gift from Gabby here
Both feet offenders out
And again, it's not too late to get back into the game. It's just sort of like lose losing the echos when you're in a position to get an early streak like you want that when you've lost that last map
but it's not too late.
That is an ugly elephant, eh?
I was just thinking about delirium.
Oh yeah.
Tromends.
You know what I mean?
A little delirium in the park of Suburlin?
I think that's kind of what...
But we all need not lives.
Yeah, that's a spooky one.
Is that a two, two pink elephant beast?
Trample
Medis
Someone goes down in a flurry second kill is
Yeah, Jack has no just kind of taking a look at short
Two rounds on the T side of overpass five seven rounds in
and stop.
You know, scoff at that.
Just don't fall victim to these half buys, again.
So constant in the shake up of their opening moves
are fanatic at the moment.
I'm mad in the connector to be that.
Oh, good.
Be that success story.
Instead, Raiu fast with a headshot.
And a five feet forward, a straw is yet again.
That's from Raiu.
I mean, the HE met a new huge part just
spitting in a really hard decision.
So for that fight on low HP, I'd thought maybe Ryu wasn't gonna be watching and he was.
I'm kind of playing this perfectly, just, you know, not stepping into the line of fire here on this boost.
The only thing that went wrong last time was again losing Huxie a little too early,
Keeping the full info over.
Ouch.
Are you wearing those, Charles Stilt?
Three CT's here.
Two now.
Happy again.
Good with it.
Here's got something going.
Him and Crimson kill a piece.
Fear keeps the headtocks.
There's going to find him.
Not enough.
Survive the headshot.
Puts jambo into the 1v3.
And nobody looking at him.
I'm short side confirming it with a smoke in his face.
That's going to force him to fall back and it's going to be as strong as again.
Kind of tapping back into the promise we thought we saw and then got worried we saw a
vanish, but it's right here for the taking around T side and fundamentally speaking
that's that's the way you win these rounds on overpass even if you have three if
they're all behind the fall to playing in graffiti or back in the pit then there's so many
more advantages to the T's coming in if you're not guarding from the woodwall or playing on
on the right side of monster, or playing the barrels to stop everyone from coming in, like,
you have every right, even if the sights overstaffed is tried to fight.
The first one.
Feels like some of those more confident opening moves up towards party, bathrooms,
into the B pushes feels like those are starting to get shut down by a Charlottes
Now, you're not catching them off guard with the fights in the first 15 seconds.
It feels like the perfect time for a pause.
You're in the lead, but you just don't want their comeback to really take effect.
You know, this is the easier half for you.
Two rounds in a row now, as well for the first time, a sharp-ass.
and
really helps economically, as well as
go back to around six, that's when the
I keep trying to call them the Dane's sort of
straws with the six players, six players, five players a
lot of the Dane's now. Who are the Dane's?
Whoa, are there any?
Blast production.
Blast production.
It's all we got left.
It's got a few Fortnite players left.
It's a bunch of Dane's, J-Raz and Chev, yeah. Chev-Raz.
Who just won the best observer duo of the world?
Who's dead?
Who's he takes all the time in the world he wants for that one?
And there's been a lot of boost going on for Phenetic's defense down towards B, but this time
He's read like a book.
Hmm, it's like done.
that's what you do to someone else's boss yeah right off of the pause you
there'd be a big idea back to the game and you done the crimson's the op
actually an interesting spot but oh look at this way oh just don't be the
first guy around the corner foods it should be very careful all along that and
oh I'm a queer at the jump up there felt and Fuzi I think he saw crimson but
didn't get the shot in.
It stays alive.
One off, rang out.
Fuzi, or should we do it?
I'm going to peat towards long.
Somebody missed.
Dear.
Should be just the right amount of timid because they could come back to him.
And that is exactly what's occurring.
Double kill is against the second on to ride you false back with the smoke.
Oh, this crazy guy's fan here.
Of course he is.
It's fear.
Yeah, that's fear.
Strikes at the perfect moment.
Takes man advantage.
Smoke's come down in the A-bombsite.
perfect cover to try to get this bomb down and it feels like fanatic
or giving them just the right amount of space to go for this looks
planting on optimists gonna eat that need oh no
don't need still gets clipped cringe from inside of the tank miss no
not miss it a shot but boozy survives it you give him an off and if he tries to
turn around, Jack Asmo goes wide with the angle, not wasting time on that retake finatic.
Take their sixth.
Ooh, fear gets away with a lot right there, and it's just, you know, they knew
someone was going to be in stairs, they kept it in their minds, but also fear, he waited
just long enough that they just dropped their car for one second, and off of this tactic
and from this pause, they had a grand chance to really scare finatic in this half.
They even do well versus this setup, but him getting too, oh, let's do much.
Optimus Prime, clearly playing favorites in this game?
Yeah, I mean, not a point of damage.
Now, this is about rated reactions where, even the smallest lip of a ledge, absorbs everything.
That really is him.
Deal with it.
There's a tag actually I think through it wall night, even the wood.
It's jammed with hang on, the slow hook sees got the first one that's fear down and he
just got to put that smoke.
Wow, that's mode takes a peek over top of it.
And then Jabby's going to slip right underneath that AWP so easy headshot for him to get
the 4v3.
We got some scrappy place coming out, but in favor of a straw is now.
Again, this is a position where you just kind of keep kind of conjure up the B plays in the end.
It's 43 obviously, they can go anywhere they want, but you know that TT's unless they're really stacking
aren't going to play these more dedicated spots on the right side, so it's the perfect time to apply pressure.
There's a nice pick off, wait for both of them.
Uh-oh, well, well, two stringy.
Crimson cuts it back down to the even kill.
Fuzzi is going to walk that bomb out through monster.
Still no help here for Crimson.
This guy's been around the block and back and back again.
Fuzzi's next peak, man.
It's going to be it.
Vision from Heaven confirmed by the frag.
That's going to give away Madden's spot.
And you know, Crimson's lurking down here somewhere.
He's got to still be on this site.
They go ahead throw the smoke up top. We hit 10 seconds.
All the time.
Five eggs.
They're still going to get caught out of the open as Madden goes for his reposition.
Need for seconds on the round, fire to the right side.
He goes over, slips down into the water,
upshot here for boozy.
He can't afford to miss!
Haha, hits it up close and gets another for a straw.
As you will, not even switches to the glock burst.
To shoot the dead body and says, I was never going to miss that.
a finatic one a finatic and pull that off somehow
caught them between the smokes okay that makes more sense
if you're trying to talk on the block it in between that is on the alternate
but also steps on site so
well orchestrated there
to recover
was looking like a two person for set up by cramp we go fast into the next one
Flurry into the V-site.
Why do you need to be blind-sided?
Still they come out with a double jab.
He's got the coverage needed.
That's going to push the bomb into position to plant
and no support here for fanatic on site.
The straw is fighting.
They try to still keep this half-tied.
A T-side of overpass has not held them back.
Nice tempo change here.
Into the B-play.
The amount of money left over makes perfect sense.
and
that it's not a good spot to actually get an upgrade it's really not about the money right now, but
depends how they want to exit
What?
Okay.
Can't go, just cannot lose the boozy though on the op.
Doesn't matter how much time you give them.
I'll show you how it's done, hanging on to the op then keep it moving forward a little bit of cost.
The end of this, final round of the half with fanatics leading question.
It's all jammed with the two kills on short side, nice transition into fear.
Quick little flick, and that B-bomb site cracked wide open.
Maybe a copy and paste, but they leave the ball back so it's really they can't be going
fast, but this is just totally B right now.
I'm real back, front just draw on every bit of utility. It looks like
This has got a good angle to play with all
Flash
Wait, they can basically still have a bomb. I don't think they realize inside of the B bomb site. They will go bomb is very far back
But if you kill everybody then the round is still one-launders. Yeah, once they're still remembering that. Yeah
Listen, this is Huxie's
Long-blank game plan
Still throw it away, Crimson.
Inside a beat to connect onto Jabby,
Rio yet to jump on the return.
Oh.
Crimson walks back up.
And that's where he's going to be.
Oh, but they want to go B still.
Uh-huh, bombs been recovered.
Get here a little bit.
Wait, still.
Jack asked me off floating around towards Graffiti.
So, I don't want to be a silly one, too.
Try to catch somebody in transition,
able to cross that bomb into the plant.
Hooksy, hands to the longer busy,
Fuzzi down to 40 health.
Jack Asmon, you're 70.
This is just a little bit of a mess.
That takes the wide swing.
Two players there that could have lined up to the farmers.
Jack Asmon was starting to get desperate here.
No, okay, for him, and they'll close this.
Great recovery of a T side here for a Charlost.
They end up winning five of the last six rounds
to just dry up that fanatic lead and push them
into what could be a tough attack up next.
I can spray his trap and he's left with the last band standing.
That was brutal for Faze. I can't believe they get out so clean, isn't it?
Yeah, someone called an ambulance.
I'm not gonna say it.
You don't know what I'm getting.
Call me.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it.
Yeah, he's a jerk.
Oh my god, he's playing the guitar.
Why are you just playing?
I'm not playing.
Man, I think you're a son.
What the heck?
Is it?
Is it?
Is it playing?
No, it's a needle.
No.
It's an athlete.
I felt it.
I'm a little bit sick of it.
Well, what a covering and a half year.
God have given credit where it's due, a strawless, making the most of their map pick.
hooksy throw in flashbangs left right in center and that beat bomb site just unable to hold back
kind of became an intended target i would say towards the end and i think a tip of the
hat is well to jabby there for a couple of critical clean entries double entries definitely
absolutely had a lot of impact that it felt like his mirrored where he was in there
it's not uh not started the show or anything but enough to get a straw us back to a score
line that's much more scary for fanatic now especially after they want the pistol and you know
pulled off again, another low-by-rounds.
I'll see how D-side treats them now,
that I could not the most competitive overpass map,
but they actually struggle just as much on CT side.
So, I have a win overpane here at CAC O'WILEGO.
I'll wait a couple of times, back at Budapest.
On the utility here, for the pistol it's changed, flashbang blinds
He's a four.
E.
And it's a quick seat.
They catch Jack Asmo.
Jack, he's still playing on the other side of the dice box.
That's right on the side.
I think I might as they go towards Pank,
but he doesn't actually end up getting a kill,
which would have been much needed.
Right, use Baretta's instead to the back of three.
Oh, he doesn't pull the trigger some immediately.
Give himself away, but he kills the bomb planter.
So that'll slow fanatic down for a moment
and he goes for the reposition within it.
I think he's gonna take this peek
because he knows exactly what I'm at in his right.
The bomb still confirmed on the ground.
Now he knows where there's two.
Oh, mad, and though, maybe catching them off,
he thought maybe he had pulled back slightly.
Stairs gonna have to come up clutch instead.
Trying to be at his move, stare taps one out,
but crimps right there for the trade flag
and fanatic make it happen inside A.
And do we on the second pistol now in this game?
And it's, you know, even though CT side
has gotta be nice for a straw as I think it's still,
it's not guaranteed today.
Not in this day, but you'll.
I'm liking the complexion of every pistol you see not a fanatic man, sure I need to
stack it to first task.
They knew this map was coming.
The CT side also deserves some credit just for the ideas they moved out with and I'll
think they ended up working as well as they wanted.
Madden throwing himself in Con, party, and this thing, this like, be a tack that's going
happen a lot. I think this would be nice for them.
God, U.S. P is up all over the place, every corner of this bombsite occupied, but every
single corner of it cleared us.
And so we're going to thrust fanatic back into victory lane for that one and it's like a
taste moving on swiftly.
You get that 10 guys in there. They don't have all the guns and utilities. Sometimes it's
still too hard to stop.
It can be kind of a plow from the T's coming in.
So once you have strong, they can stand here.
I'll see said rise the perfect guy that they need it. They're going to be playing a lot of anchor rolls or he's going to be taking over a lot of anchor rolls.
Yeah, obviously kicked off a little nervous back on Mirage by the end of the game. Definitely had some good rounds in there.
But, again, you look at his spot over on B. It's a lot of responsibility. Oh, nice kill out of you.
I'm not gonna try to take over a short water, it's gonna cost them a man for even trying and this pistol stomping forward with the bomb.
Fear, wild booms with this one, in and back, and gone.
All while they take over to the wall, didn't see anything, did he?
Oh, it starts to leave, they'll announce it though, utility comes down, or he did see it.
Trying to go to the big green position, and ends up falling with nothing.
So sure, you lose a player, fanatic, down towards B, but just as swiftly taking over this
A-site, bomb was a long journey back.
Not fear of a wish he had somebody else to run credit card back over on B-site, but he had to bomb
the all time, so.
Let's see how it's going to come in, offering up some utility too.
That's it, say good catch, looks he and Fuzi on the attempt to out through the bank
instead of just for challenge coming out.
It's the third member of the bank push also meets the same fate.
It's going to attempt their pariah with a couple more kills, but that is fanatic with their
ninth.
Just love the way they played the round and fear new exactly what he was doing.
wanted to delay for time. Keep the B guys one or two seconds up as that long skill
was happening and again he brought a full kit of utility over the words day so
even though they had to let their C key smoke run out he could re-plunge it but
this fall it's off. Keep the pressure high and man it did not fall but it's
and
the
one of the second time out that's been used in this game so far
and it's been pretty active
and
just seeing a star talks to the bell spread one needs ideas for once in a while shortly
and
that would ever other voices he's got going on up there
one Danish one English now
There it is.
We're going to try to show us the tower of the...
Just looking to potentially brute force another roundo on the board.
I feel like fanatic when they know that their upper surface pistols are willing to have that bit more of a risk.
If you have good track record around like this, so...
That means the change now for us for all this.
I'm not mistaken for all this track record.
It's just hanging out.
There's that smoke, too.
There's the ones pulling it off.
I'll take the other way around.
CT's are just not moving really over on A.
Slow creeps like a weird maybe they'll flank connect your type of vibe.
They see the site itself kind of jumping around was in it.
They're gonna send Jack Asmo as the tip of the spear here.
The new hook see was nearby. He snaps over to get the headshot to Jabby and this B bomb site goes down real smooth.
Back 10 flying around the corners awkwardly switching over to the grenades their costs sphere.
Clear that out as well as he thought.
Who's the Degal up?
One good shot, maybe?
Oh, maybe too, nice.
Finding the peek out through connector.
This is going to keep Crimson Preoccupied,
which means Jack Asmo and Madding
that I've beat up with holding the site themselves.
Well, one goes down.
Madden tries to slip out in that moment.
There's a gun in the head of the CTE.
Just drop, Mac10 gets the tradeback rings.
Pre-positioned, predicted, but still he'll push this one over the line and it's double digits first for frenatic.
I'm likely, but they somehow make that one close. It's a good effort for a Strollless, but effort is really not important at this point.
They need to convert.
And I mean, I love the way that it's...
Panatic attack this slide.
They go for fast, short control, and they can feel like a B-place coming in.
Femon all the sponsors said, and they start throwing utility at all the spots they know that the pistols need to get into
at any chance of offending, they soften out these positions and because they put in all that effort, they made sure that they're just, you know,
a very low likelihood of it.
The closest they could get was that one B1.
Oh, that's unfortunate.
Jumping up and jabby ends up going down can't get control that's right.
I'll lose you one back.
Stare right there with it as well, so we don't manage to just straw us.
Retard its in here. You careful.
Just barely using this lip.
Check-ass mode, here's the shuffling.
Those are the layers you just beside him.
Wow, wow.
And he's out.
Walks through.
Doesn't get away, Matt, and nearly with a robbery
through that smoke-on monster.
That's his secret trade.
Missed off, Shaco, could still frasal as Shraullis.
Spuzy's gonna pick it up on the second,
and it's a crimson one versus three bomb-out side of monster.
No, there's one towards Barrel.
But I can't wait to connect it.
I like the hood of the safe here.
Yeah, with that bomb in this spot.
So yeah, even though the shots missed,
Fuzi answers back, he gets to in this round.
Again, it's a great trade from Ryu.
Hmm, that walk through Moll.
Oh, walk through the monster?
Nothing makes you more angry when you're holding,
when you're holding beyond overpasses when run through that smoke.
Cause just before that moment,
you know if they did and you're watching it,
kill ever.
Damn, you're got to weigh with it as well.
I mean, you know what, at all, it's time to be disgusting.
What needs to happen for a straws to win this game is Fuzzi has to win his duel versus Jambo.
I'll top.
That's the moment.
Sitting here on the ankle waiting for Madden to walk out, that's the first one,
Doesn't have much support that you can see the scramble back up from stare to try to join them.
Molotov's off long in the meantime.
Just taking a rest and here, not watching the outside of the divider.
It's gonna seem a bit behind him though, actually.
While Molly'd onshore cooks the, yeah, nosecrumbs is going to clear his corner.
Oh, he arrives, but he also writes off the thought of somebody being through the short pipe.
Again, no one's basically on the site at the moment. No, I had to graffiti fast scrambled down from Fuzzi. Uh-oh
This lurk could actually be a nightmare
Still got that forward presence over towards connector. I don't keep it covered enough and that it can actually wait
Dear with bomb ops the double back. They're pushing that got bank now
Oh boy
Who's here? You're going to get knife-sunt.
Oh.
Just executed as he turns back around, still you've got players in the BOM site at 30 seconds.
Jambos going to be breathing down there next from above.
Thank you, saw that deep hole.
Sponsored, so they're going to have to chuck down into the water.
Tough spot here to double up within a strawless damage is being dealt.
Very well done.
Rye with the double headshot.
Oh, that's huge from the new guy.
And Jambos would damage in the process of all of that.
What a squeeze was just on a strawless and still he steps up.
Yes, well, for the spinach.
Three kills for Ryu when they need it most.
Now, that's massive for the kid to show his worth on this new lineup.
First time, Astral's go international ever.
And sometimes that this happened has happened recently, whether it's Furio or M.I.B.R.
or Astral, this is always with like underrated picks.
Including an expectant on some huge charges.
Ryu being one of them.
And this is one of the hardest spots to get through those kills.
And knowing that there's a guy that hasn't behind you.
I mean for him to remain full focus forward just helps that there's a player in the pit beneath them.
Somebody had to keep an eye on Heaven but he just locks down the forward push.
It's a potential turning point moment set up by Riot.
Two rounds consecutive for the CT side for the first time.
You've got the save now out of Phenetic to try to let Astralis get to a one round game.
There's one name on that team we've got to thank for this opportunity.
Hella behold from Rio.
And I have nothing to work with just to go on all through the bathrooms.
The widest peeker goes down first and stare connects the headshot on the mat and stuffed
in its tracks.
Desert Eagle dual from Crimson is kind of the best case scenario here for fanatic which
really paints a bleak picture. You'll eat the frag grenade for 40. And Stair's gonna
loosen up as a strawless of definitely content that I did here around 19.
Remember we've still got a lot of timeouts of things continue to get gritty, but
time the streak of round winds they were able to piece together at the end of the T side that is
forion a row a shawl is no bond plant for fanatic throughout all three.
So I might be able to walk this one home slowly and despite the pistols when they envisioned
There, overpass it was probably on the rifle rounds in the first place.
Oops, fireworks.
I've no reason to celebrate just yet.
Could you play your set up outside of the monster?
Frightenate thrown forwards going to chip away at Jack Asmo, but it's not going to hit the
pack.
Deep smoke deployed.
Well, this one's either going to look desperate or entirely frustrating for us
straws if they don't pull this off because you can tell they know that this is the main threat
at the moment.
They're geared up ready for a full v-hit.
This one smoker made now left on a straw as it belongs to Stair inside of connector
here as he duals fear in the headshot meltdown.
Dangerous game to cross over the corner, as the traction serves up a chance for
Japanese to get his eats to the plash, interrupted, misfrague through the window, and
yet Stair's goes barely out, and they just pinched into the short pipe stopping bomb,
So even its fanatic try to push forward into the speed bomb site without the device, this
one goes down and it is tied at 10 all.
And it's the former.
It looks more desperate than anything else because the straws from the start of that
round new, the B-play was inevitable that this was what fanatic were going to try to do.
They didn't even need full info.
And here's there.
It's a beautiful first kill, but then the fact that they could use him to make this
even worse.
It was a flash push and a combination push off a short. They got ahead of this.
It wasn't even monster that was the real threat.
Red.
When we said those timeouts were ready, yeah, so many left over.
I'll go onto to the end, and I'm 21, up next.
It's another broke spot for fanatic to find themselves in.
Looking at three tech nines, a desert eagle.
Smoke for something, so clearly off the time out with an idea, but not with the money to go all in.
I can't go all in on the vibe, could still go all in on V though.
You want to keep that pace up, jambo in the back of the bomb, flash to the monster, right?
You could mess.
Oh, cool.
And Jabby, in with one as well, so fast pop through that smoke was the intention, but
you need the grinder of that AK-47.
And just like that already a big Mac for Ryuu, starting off with a full mag missed on the first round of Mirage into just pure impact on the CT side of overpass.
And he's been the focus focal point coming into this map, you know, the fact that he's playing basically a most important position now on CT these days.
Another three piece for him.
I never seen that spray in my life.
Yeah, same.
I think I know what that says.
That's just eating bamboo. Is that one?
Not eating bamboo. That's why.
He's not a hell storm of riot bullets.
But this time it's man, this advantage,
jabby taking off the top and
Crimst hasn't left yet,
Rai is on the hunt for this.
And he's going to find him.
Grim is kind of stalling out, stuck on the smoke, didn't want to lose control of it, but
thought maybe they could go back to whatever boost looked like that, but he was holding
for him.
I don't want to post to the walk up, then Rye, who takes the fight forward.
Good thing looks he's made, tracks down Madden, otherwise 43 fanatics, stare has gone
to the back.
But the trades, again, continue to be good, and it is fear late to the party, but him
Jack asked smoking come together in this for now faking a site.
Pretty solid set up here for the T side.
Um, the bike coming in though means that looks he's going to have to go slowly.
Oil just miss that that is so close.
I'm able to put fear back towards long.
You've got Jack asmo in front of the bathrooms.
Not hidden inside of him.
What do you mean?
No, it's too easy.
Jack asmo knows exactly what you're up to.
It's just going to get wrapped.
There's no way why would boozey check this.
Who's he's going to step forward down?
He has written his own obituary with that gun swap.
And unfortunately, I could not be as strong as coming through.
Hooks he trying to tap bomb to cause panic.
That big rap from long into the bathrooms of four pier.
Oh, and the two you gradients come together to get fanatics 11.
It's just crazy because he did dismiss the bonds.
So he thought they were playing a two long set up,
but he didn't clear the inside of bathrooms.
And yeah, that's, that's where they were, and that's a pretty bad mistake. I don't know if who's he realized it.
Just trusted too hard in his own read.
You can see right really starting to open up with his aggressive plays, but it's only the one kill.
And now it's fanatic trading back.
This is where I'm at, how else I feel like it's about or anymore. Now it's just a, a tight game.
this one gets you over time
wants to walk into that, yeah, he will
I'm just remembering the two days he's gotten so far this game.
Ryan's been another beacon of hope so they'll throw him up under the boost.
I think I'm on a monster.
They can't hold this wherever he drops off.
Very nice kill.
But they get to walk out.
Keeps it clean with the jambo frag.
He's got to dismantle this boost before he gets blind sighted.
Oh, offer up top.
Ryan, you and Fuzi.
More kills to be had.
4B2 off of that one.
12 rounds on the line for somebody here and the 2B4 to come together
It's the same to the pull-off the clothes and the 1 round prior right you taking down to half
Boosie's got the cross covered and this bomb to be plated. Yeah, good luck with this 2-H
He's at cut his way first one for 24 damage the next one drops him to half
He's still able to get the headshot trying to get away from these two players on the retake both on the same direction
And it will indeed be a stroll is to take 12 rounds first and Susie just indoors here
a trade after trade really great round for him another solid round from Ryu and that's after
Jabby Died's first. That's when it was just peak fear here for a flawless. This kill from
Gambo and it looked like oh no they bungled in but no Ryu on the recovery.
I don't let it all be for knots, with a chance to close out, finatic they let three map points go in regulation on Mirage.
I had to secure their pick in over time but Willis Charlis had to run way through this game.
Promising start with around 3 win and then we saw Finatic CT side come together but
five of the last six in the first half is looks he started to put that pressure down on the
to be bombsite.
And now they sit pretty on a five round CT streak.
And then right then in there.
a
It's coming into the boss, a forphanatic.
You know, everybody wants to go beat, but they want to be able to show some range in.
They don't want to lose rounds like they have been trying to force their way into a sight that the straw is just getting better and better at defending.
two ops to play with for a strawless be play coming
this girl probably will get it you get another gang from the back wall though
we're running over to hide it's gonna fight it's way
all the triple of the corner the opt to try to close and jackass
smoke forced into the clutch right now,
Ops up close on the other side.
Oh, there with the drive.
Oh, and the straw is will finish 13 11.
No overtime's needed.
Ryu with something to talk about here in overpass.
And something to be proud of.
The new recruit for a straw is delivered in a big way here
on overpass.
This is exactly what they needed.
This is what they were looking for.
And at times, this is going to be a two zero.
A shot has looked down on out.
They definitely did.
I mean, the beginning was shaping up nicely for
fanatic, but for the Astralis side, there are two things
that I was really impressed by.
Of course, Ryu, especially on those B-side defenses,
but also the T-side openers for Astralis were varied.
There are a lot of little gimmicks that they had.
Some boosts that they were assembling.
Good flashes.
I'm surprised at how well and how quickly
hooksy and a straws were able to put together a solid playbook for a map that, usually,
we talk about as being one of the toughest ones to assemble any kind of structure on.
This for me says there was a lot of focus on this. Like they obviously designated and
homed in on we will have a home map this even if we are a new team. That's an incredibly smart
move. Well, when we look at it now, it finds that obviously. Of course, I mean, even just the way
that they played so many of those rounds, I feel like it's so contrasting from a rod. I mean,
I mean, it's just kind of clear in a way that both of them went in with their home
picks, had much more varied playbooks on those maps because hooks, I mean, I think in
this game, they assembled three different boosts that all found them opening picks.
They had good flashes as well.
Of course, in the later stages of this one, a lot of it came down to those B side defenses,
but in general, for a straw, I think this is one where we're probably going to see throughout
this season, I wouldn't be surprised if you get some kind of 50% or higher pick rate throughout
the next five months.
Okay, that much.
All right.
It just look way more polished than expected.
Well, this is a good stop for them,
considering that right because it didn't know that all this team.
This is an important win.
Let's go back through some of the rounds though.
Let's start looking at early in the game.
The backstop coming out from rear was actually working out really nicely.
Of course, I mean, the way that he closed it out was great,
but I think also the way that it opened again.
We're seeing some of the tricks coming out from them.
They assemble a boost,
talking about the A site defense for the site of fanatic.
like it's modern.
And he hasn't really played this position in quite some time.
I mean, I couldn't even find the last time that he played it
because I know for NC didn't, I know for zero tenacity,
he didn't.
So they were able to fool him with that opening pick.
There's a bit of a scramble in the mid-round here,
but I think the presence of mine in the post plant
from Rio was really exceptional.
I mean, we're gonna talk about him more on the CT side,
but for him to be pressed up forward,
deep in bathrooms to find the flank right there.
It just closes the round out in a very nice way
off the back of a good opener.
And again, just assembling the piece is really nice.
They was hooked to you throughout the kind of hectic
scramble there.
Really costing them as well.
That's the small details of matter, especially in these
rounds, but it's going so back and forth like that at
the same time.
We've also got the openers.
We have to look up.
You keep mentioning it, right?
There's the different flavors, different style
they were able to throw into the mix.
And we saw the fact that they use a boost right there to
open things up.
I think we have another round in this half, round 12, where
things are a little bit faster.
This is an opener.
I haven't seen really all that much in CS2 if I'm being honest.
This kind of lurks smoke that you're getting out the front of monster.
This was really popular in CSGO because you could one way the side of that smoke,
but they actually flashed pop through the opening smoke at the end of the monster,
tunnel the CT's throw, and then they gained so much position because of that early lurks
smoke out that they were caught unaware.
As a fanatic that is off of that early, just kind of push.
And so they were able to take way more space than fanatic expected.
And yet again, I mean, this is just another great look.
They're able to convert the man advantage situation to even up the
score line in the first half on an overpass reminder, very CT
side at map.
Yeah, exactly.
Very important to be able to have that in your arsenal,
to be able to switch it up and have the most T side.
Hey, it worked out really well for them.
We're going to keep talking about rear because he just had so much
impact, right?
So another round the 18 we're going to look at this time.
This is one where he really held his nerve.
And that was something I was very concerned about given how he looked
on Mirage at A where he was going for some over swings, maybe getting caught on some
of those kind of bombsite crunches, but this is one where they were in a very fast situation.
Jambo finds a great flank through heaven and somehow Ryu is able to hold his nerve to
just key in, focus on the players that are coming out monster and just close line both of
them as they're trying to make their approach.
This is very, very just sharp shooting, good little micro corrections there.
I mean, I didn't read for me was a little bit more of an unknown factor.
I was really down with the foe's he signing and I saw a real was doing well for Monti,
but I didn't know that he could really just pull his nerve, not react to a flank.
He'd just completely shut them down there.
And this is it, like, it says support play a buy him, but he's got the mechanical skills.
He's got that Ryan set skill of, I'm ready, I'll fight and he seems very confident.
I mean, he needs to be because when you're in a team like a straws and you're replacing
a player, supposedly like Majest because he's got a slot into some of his spots.
You have to just trust your aim a lot.
And yes, that got in caught a little bit on Mirage where he's going for the over-swing,
but this is a map where the over-swing's actually worked out well for him.
It's kind of that new blood that's coming into the Tier 1 space where the reason they're
dominating Tier 2 and CS2 is their mechanics are so strong.
It's a game where you do swing a little bit more.
You've got to trust your fighting ability even in 10th moments and Rio was just so sharp in
this one. His crosshair placement was fantastic.
Corrections were great. And this one, I think he
quelt some of those little mistakes that he had on
the Raj, where everything felt a little bit more
purposeful. And then probably right for being in
his shoes. This is a big organization. There's going
to be some extra nerves in that this is something else
he's having to deal with. It's not just playing C. S.
anymore. No, no, no, no. And I feel like on
Mirage, I think you maybe see a little bit of the
Monti Ryu where he just thinks he can get away with
anything. This is one where even though we just
witness quite a few highlights.
There were even moments on the B bomb site where he gets a spot.
He hides behind the pillar on the bomb site.
He waits for his teammates to come in for the rotation.
So it just felt like all of the nerves from map one.
That's just why you can't write a player off after a single map.
After a single half, so seeing him being able to show more
of what he's made up here on overpass was a welcome site.
A welcome site and it did prove as well that he can adapt.
And you need to be able to do that, especially at this level.
But it's time for us to kick it to a break.
And when we come back, we'll be doing ancient
off the dam.
Ancestry is coming up next after an impressive fight from a stri-list on overpass, both
team securing their map pick, both games pretty close, obviously Mirage is an over time,
overpass right to the wire, but a stri-splash to do it.
When it comes to Ancestry though, I don't remember, I know it's an on-time ago now, but
The full looks he, ancient was a really good map for this Australia side.
In recent times, not as much and then looking at the other side of the fanatic, it's been
an okay map.
I remember which side it was very good, they would have a stand-out moment on that map,
that since then they have also struggled.
So this is a middle map they've agreed on, but it's maybe not going to be the prettiest
counter strike.
I feel like we're going to get a little bit more of a puggier of him.
Whereas Morage and overpass were characterized by wealth, outstarters, good mid rounds from
the teams that, especially the ones that picked the maps, this one might be a scrappy or
a fair.
I feel like the absence, for example, on the phonetic side of BlameF, I mean, your
middle guy is probably now going to be what modern, because he's taking over, say, some
of the same positions that BlameF did.
I don't know, I'm, I'm not in these kinds of spots.
I feel like, maybe could do it pretty decently, but it's just not to the same effect as a guy
that really, yeah, everybody called BlameF a bader, but he was pretty good in these kinds
of map control positions.
So do you feel like this may be one where it's undoing, but where some of the
strengths were for fina.
This is one that's going to handle them a little bit.
Perhaps because also I really associate mod and way more with playing around the B
bombsite.
I mean, in the very beginning of the map, he was great at cave lately.
I think he's been more been playing around the B bomb site itself.
So if they just throw us them into middle, we've seen good riflers try to take over that
middle position.
And when they're not familiar, all of us, someone like Nico, even they can have difficulties
trying to control what is a barrage of flash bangs and just so much utility that you have to work around.
We've been impressed just previously with the openings that the straws were able to show here.
Are we expecting a bit less of that though? It's going to be a bit more of like the older
strawless way of doing things and kind of bandaging your way through this map.
Perhaps I feel like for a strawless to maybe even show in the video earlier on. We didn't really
touch on it too much that they're banning a new biz. It seems like they just want to focus with
the maps that they had worked on a little bit more in practice.
So I mean, this to me, your guess is as good as mine on this one, James, where I feel like
a strollers, they have a little bit of a foundation on this one, but then too have to
probably work through some slight, slight role changes here.
And that's always going to be hard to do with what you've seen from both teams, though.
We're looking at both individual teams, the ability of what they've shown,
who would you give a slight edge to at this day?
I'm going to lightly favor a strollers here.
I feel like there's a little bit more explosive potential from a couple of their players.
I've seen obviously great moments from Ryu thus far.
I think Fosie has shown a lot.
I think he's going to really dampen the opening attempts from fanatic as they try to make
their approach.
And I just feel like for the fanatic side, maybe players like Jambo for example.
I'm getting little glimpses, but I feel like he's not stringing the great rounds together
out the back of the winter break off season. So I'm going to lightly favor a straw
through this matchup. And the difference here, right, when you're looking down the
scoreboards on the first two games is that really when Fuzzi are the ones who are standing
out, obviously really is in League of his own right now, 1.30 a rating. But it's actually
Crimson Jambo who are doing heavy lifting for fanatic. It's maddened who's not been
able to keep up that good performance he had on the rod and slowed down so massively. So
if he's in uncomfortable positions, like you said, I don't know if I'll have some things
changed for him right, that's where we're maybe going to see the problems. And in that
I mean, play me if was the star of
fanatic in the past, even though
he had a style that was, maybe
unforgiving and hard to play around
for some of his teammates.
He was putting up ridiculous numbers
on a very frequent basis.
Modern throughout the last three
years.
Great teammate.
Everyone's there to praise him
about that.
No question about that.
But not a guy that you're really
expecting to carry the burden
of just putting up 25 kills in
a game in a map control position
that will generally dictate the
dictate the outcome of a match.
Well, it's going to be very tough for them to deal with, but we'll have to see if they
can get it done.
We're moving into ancient, it's the deciding map between Australia and the likes of
Fadna.
Both teams pick it up their map pick.
I think it's a good start to the year in general, close affair as well, and I think
what's really nice is we've now had a couple of moments to praise the newer pieces of these
formulas, longers.
Yeah.
I mean, again, it was talked about a lot already, but the fact that, right, you had such a good
map.
pretty good, it was outstanding, especially in such an important anchor roll, which is again brought up as he's coming in to fill those positions.
Looks like they're off to an excellent start. Now, that didn't have a lot of shine back on Mirage, even had a couple of moments on overpass, but in the end, a stroll is win despite losing both pistols.
So now we'll take it to ancient, and we'll see who wins in this series, because at this point, I can't tell you who the better team is, they both shown a lot.
As we start to test that early map pool, but I don't know, man, I think to myself,
fanatic, comfort zone on a map like an ancient, see them here plenty of times, made
a name for themselves right here on this map.
But no blame that, remember?
No blame that.
and
go damage either on the spam to the smoke so that's going to be a five versus five post plant the first round of map three and
crimps hoping somebody steps forward so that he can take a shot at it before the retakes demanded of him
things kind of stall here for a second and this is a fanatic that's not working with a diffuse kit whatsoever
What's so, ever?
Although they'll find that instant headshot.
Beer's got the jabby pillar hold covered,
and now these last two players,
I'm just banking on the Molotovs that come over top,
and no diffused kit.
So we've got to get off of it,
but he's lost his teammate.
Fire's gonna fizzle out in a second.
Fruzy burns him.
Yeah, we've got it.
Molotov works from beyond the doorway.
Exactly what they needed, and he does it in the end
with one single HP.
And they both died.
Everyone dead on the map.
So Bob Plan is perfect, Molly is perfect and the time to get into there, into the sight of the first place was great, not rushed, avoided all the damage on the spam of the cross back from CT, and a quick start to this map.
No better feeling than seeing your utility work out that well for you.
Let out early in the pistol, low likelihood that there's still the smoke in play.
Added damage, that there's not a diffuse kit either.
And setting themselves right back up into the following.
Consecidive B hit, no interruption offered by fanatics mid-climbed just yet.
They'll scramble now.
Yeah, that's a lot of lines.
It's just sound of all of those nades flying over.
Phuase he's gonna have his hands full in a second, but that's fine, he's got a little
more bullets in that gun than he's got opponents ahead of him.
in the back 10 here for good measures, the shooting gallery and a bit of money it made for
hooksy four galil kills one back 10 frag two zero start, Astralis. So I can pretty
sharp so far, it's looking buttoned up here for Astralis.
And the elusive pistol. Yeah.
What could be the difference?
That was a little work though. Wind Cave quite quickly.
Mid control gets a lot harder to hold right now.
We're actually push forward into this.
We're just being taken here.
We've got some timing.
Oh, okay.
I'll get to kill, but the move.
Yeah, traits come back too quickly.
Try from both sides.
Spusey and Javie come out on top of it.
Good spamming to elbow.
Crimson handles that pressure.
To one side and still snaps the shot back to Foozy.
They know about Crimson.
I don't even know there's probably still one at BLL.
And then Javie was revealed of something.
He did take two damage.
a
now it's a risky maneuver there for the city side went up their k fought push back this
I did okay let's just go double down the aggression but it didn't work out and now
perfect read of the map here for us roll us it was like five turning a little bit
I didn't see why you would go for this and we have only if two mollays but
two v3 to far away nice call here for hooks eat
Set up an epic clash inside of the caves, but disengaged the right moment in the right direction,
hand to a position, fanatic had no other defenders in.
The Rizero start.
The most aggressive astrologers we've seen on this map was when they back when they had
I figured blame that. Oh god call them the polybros living around that mid. That was on CT side even
Nice seeing config back at the HLTV award show last weekend. It a great here. Look at fantastic
Dapper
Always been a handsome guy though. Yeah
I still think for me one of the craziest moments was screen using the platform to announce
his performance.
I know I'm here to celebrate somebody else, but guys just know I'm back.
Yeah, that was as screened.
I'm gonna give you a year in.
I remember guys, reviews are something to veterans.
Punch it, Chumps.
Well, it should be Chumps here with the dribble pistol set up for fanatic in the fact
that this is Stralis 3-0 streak is rollin' high.
Booksy, quickly!
Into the cave, find some self-down at the hands of Madden, and that's going to be a
Galelra tree as well, so the third rifle offered over to fanatic is they scrambled into
the fight on cave.
Stralis Stralis, plenty of round left to play out, but you've lost your in-game leader.
You have.
the
other boat just to headless hydros right now
anyone walks into this setup first guys dead for sure but
they might circumvent this operation we'll see if you have
takes a peek.
Ooh, yeah, that ought to wait with it. That's pretty huge. Nice. Good caution.
Use your by Javi. Converse two players and then a took a pistol shot to the head
though in the meantime. It did and actually this opens up the donut right again.
I want to take it.
Jembo drop and fire in the front of cave, but we'll be seeing crimms try to lock in versus three
10 seconds off. Ah crimst us the peel back
Returns in kills jabby first. There's got to commit to this bomb plant
Now, let's be to cover it and there's no fight out of crimms. He'll go into the duel after the fact
Fuzi gets his head and they're gonna
Find those two players rotate around through spawn not in taking down to 27 fruzi low on 16
But he eats that flashbang in the retake attempts, and Madden versus two targets deep inside of the donut,
doesn't have any kind of utility to cover this off.
Well, at the very least pick up a kit, but still no great to play with, and as he goes back in,
Fuzzi is going to end it with that 16 help, a 72 start for Fuzzi, boads well for this flawless T side so far.
It's just looking very tiered one of this map, the way they're controlling things, the exact same thing.
go the business so far it's just feeling like it's so operational that I wonder why this was
even their first map pick.
and
You know, slow the team down, that come back, stop a team from winning.
They're gonna use this one to try to keep those fanatics.
That's finnier, sorry, that makes more sense.
It's like, you know, like, it's draws everything
when according to plan, but...
on.
It's not able to manage the kills in the corner, crimson's going to have to pick up
that slack body spawning around him.
I wouldn't have been there to collect that.
They'd be up 3v2.
It was a nice try.
But a pressure kill at a fuzzy and they walk out now soksi knows they have a bit more
freedom.
I can't take it away from him, still an excellent 2K but you're just that close to being
the one man army.
I actually like how they kept pushing into elbow with the flashes camp because everyone
gets pulled into that corner and they know as long as their flashes are better and
even if you're blind as soon as you get into that angle you can just start spraying.
So, not the easiest kills to defend their frost draws, but they pull them out.
And again, another read where they get the open site.
It's the frictionless entry into A.
Also during all that pandemonium.
Oh, he gets away.
One bullet would have done the trick.
Yeah.
Who's he sends one back in?
Jambo.
Oh, oh.
Yeah.
You're not hiding, folksy.
That's a free beat.
That makes it interesting because it's Fuzi low health.
Yeah, and we've got Jabby boosted up on the green,
tries to cover the dog on the green, take now his position.
Oh, down, down, good transition to Jack Azmo,
Jambo, 45 health in the USP.
It's great coverage from Jabby with 31 health combined.
That's what's left over on a strawless side,
but a 5-0 regardless.
That was in enormously difficult.
Killed to get a temple shocked that he pulled out too.
And he just started around, mad at him.
It's a flash and you really get to the angle of just in time and, you know, conversely, the teeth are blind, but they know exactly where the CTs are going to peek from, so they just have to stand back.
Oof.
Why are you doing them crazy?
Number.
They're tough place for a finatic to find themselves, and they'll just try to throw it out again through K-57 in hand, dealt with.
Books he haddles the pressure and I used got the cover offered and this one goes up in smoke for finatic
Does that make it interesting me there's four players behind a smoke and
And jambos, maybe it's assuming they left.
No, they're very patient.
And so it fell on one man and one man alone.
Not more patient than crimps.
He's been waiting 10 years.
For another major.
School to see Olaf Myster get inducted into the Hall of Fame last weekend.
weekend, and then we are here a few days later watching crimps still play counter strike.
Don't play it. Yeah. Oh, well, I'll still on the phase bench, right? I don't know anymore.
I don't think they have to give back the Rolex if they need them to play again. Isn't the right
spot? Little health, but yeah, it's here comes through and figures out. But one corner crimps
could have been hidden then. Yeah, walk through the elevator. Oh, often as brother were there,
And they both look the same but like just because they have I thought it was the glasses right they both
That the exact same glasses. This is my brother. It's like, okay. Didn't want to just say that
Really person this year to my brother my friend standing ovation as well for a lot of my sir. Absolutely freaking deserve
You can't swear on this bread cast. No, you know
2026 new me. I'm trying to be something different.
Got to keep me, Hermit.
No, definitely not.
I got arrested. Oh really? Yeah. For some weird stuff. Oh no.
Okay, I got to pop it open and the hell?
I thought I was just right. It's shot.
You know, Jambo connection is fanatic or frantically looking for this first round of a CT side.
Easy.
Fuzzi's not going to miss his chance to strike down that, and as he steps into the scope,
nine and two sits Fuzzi off that one.
Miss opportunity with the wide swing over, but luckily there is a set of helping hands here in the form of stare.
Five knee three is Strawless.
different look right we haven't had them inside the red room. They look amazing
and then they cover everything okay and Chad look at one thing. That doesn't change
just jambo just and not die to food. Crimson's gonna find himself one fear
collects and we go back into the even 2v2 but all the while be site now belongs to
Australia's running at this and he's got to let it go. Crimson's maybe gonna sprint to
try to catch that timing but it would mean fear. Who's kind of here to help out. They
need to make sure everybody's left red room first and that does give timing for
Strawl is his plant to be secure and that's smoke.
Well, that's gonna go down default.
You've gotta try this obviously, if you're fanatic,
you just need something to go wrong.
And it could jump through at the same time.
Oh, that just die as a safe car.
That's actually very nicely done, right?
You know, they're good couple of kills.
Let's get that bomb out of the desperate spot.
I never see him getting anyone's way.
You know, he's always like creating, yeah, creating impact.
And you're very solid.
I don't know if that was answered. I'm the caught half the interview, but I wanted to know who that's got it.
Yeah.
Things have changed since Mirage.
And this is gonna work too, so they can ace side.
Straight on in versus two F-P-9's.
Oh, they get the Lurk filament though.
You'll take that.
If you're fanatic, you'll take anything.
If you need this molecule, he'll melt down.
Everybody gets burnt to a crisp.
And that's gonna be job-y fighting mat in the meantime.
So man, advantage secured with the bomb plant,
and it goes from one to two.
The pill to swallow here.
If you are fanatic, it feels like a shawl
Just have your number, and that's one of them horse pills.
My favorite.
It's just trink.
Get my lean on.
42 is where this one comes to a close.
Fanatics still just trying to keep the pressure up, but that
belongs going to pop and kill crimson crimson crimson.
Just like no way you leave it me here. See you second
For survival still for the strawless 80 full-allist T side on ancient. Oh, this is a little unexpected
And yet kind of welcome. Yeah, look I'm down if their T side's gonna look this good with all the releases. Yeah, with the calls working so well with
Ryan playing well again
Talk about new additions. He's boozy too
11 and 3
I'm going to be a little bit more tricky to get to the top of the road.
you got up your slave hooksy. It's cool how varied this attack is but yeah started with that like convincing B and K play until they started to get stacked on a little bit.
It's nice to see that the adaptations have looked just as convincing.
Pretty solid T side. New roster considered.
the
factor where the half-started little bit of be-play mid-hold goes well for
fanatic it's a mad advantage looking for anything on the CT side jack
asthma forced off the same old fear off to have had a go back to it
Friday
oh
blown to smithereens mad and rapid on the cane pressure though for sick boozy
to go for the plant on the alternate side.
And Javi pushes a smoke in the three versus three.
Fruzy collects Madden inside of the cave.
And with that, it is crimst thrust to the clutch.
It really conditioned the thought,
because he was looking at their flank inside a window.
On a B-Rush.
Crimst shot at Tipto, his way in, Fruzy's on the line.
And that is gonna end in a three V-3 that
looked like fanatic at something to stand on in the retake.
But it comes up as strong as the entirety of this T-side has.
Now, that's just a try you're killing at 2HP right here, it's the net shot and the Nate kill again.
Just creating so much impact.
That's one's 9-0.
That's think about this round for Finatic, as Jambo's off.
And all the gets taken down to 53 hell out of the gate here in Round 10.
And the only good gun on the field for fanatic.
Sitting outside of Red Room.
All right, sorry.
Okay.
Ooh.
Good on Jambo of close.
Five, before, but again, it's already instant on the traits back.
Raiu keeps on finding his impact.
Jambo's off his mobile, couldn't for the second frag, this round.
Smoked off, as he tries to go to the alternate side of the bombsite.
Utility pressure, whizz, is by, lands that shot on, from Newsy, forces the pre-position
for the plant, not in Trump's through.
when he needs to to maintain that fanatic man advantage and
put his getting a little down as well jabby still to find the
headshot and they know jambos back there somewhere
crams looks to crawl out we've got forty seconds on this clock
this is a chance for them to just go silent a strawless
and be nine could be good here that peak we get spotted
is it a sandwich back uh...
could spam
it's always a threat especially with where they can plant
Okay, Fuzzi's got this locked in already.
Oh, good ball bang, just it off.
Thought Fuzzi would have found himself an angle.
Instead, he'll be tasked to pick up that bomb.
They didn't want to die to the spam from cave.
This is crazy, Fuzzi.
Not expecting it up close and so we've got it.
10 rounds into this map, fanatic, find their first.
They've got around, they're on the board.
And they don't do it with much either.
They looked at it just really off of that jambo
Oppen that looming threat of Grims.
So wild, yeah, but push that.
Close up with the Opp inside a window.
The thought of dying to the wild cave MP9
is what put this bomb plant into the line for Jambo.
Good hit.
Read on his behalf.
He also interrupted the plant the first time.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm trying to make something stick, Jabby locked into the corner, so they're going to be
an envisioned.
That's the question.
Check Casmo.
You got to clear this.
You've got to know.
Oh no.
It's a cute suppose.
Hmm?
Hey Steve.
Jabby going to be happy with that one, bombs behind him, crimson.
You'll collect an instant kill on Hooksy over towards A.
That's a cool spot to be in in this situation.
Hooksy just walking into a few bomb sites tonight.
Getting caught off by these wild angles.
Molly goes past fear. He's able to hold onto his.
He's got mad into coming hell out and he'll find the jabby frag.
No immediate trade.
Okay, player, slightly behind that.
Boosy, good to get dropped.
And now stairs on the recovery for the bomb.
It's felt very stringy all of a sudden between the T's.
player on the left side catches him off as he gets that bomb back three separate
one v ones all one by fanatic as they're on the brink of two consecutive rounds now.
It's a little messy, but it works.
It's actually just the straw system mistakes essentially and it starts off with
hooks he trying to go for the search, but okay Ryan's got the spotlight.
It's quite a bit infall actually at the ball and an interesting spot.
And a lot of time though.
If it had a chance to be the hero here, a little hailberry one v-3.
Ooh, it's instinct, unlike that.
Planting inside a smoke gets dangerous.
That's where they'll deal with him.
If not, with shots like that to cue it up,
feels like there's a real chance at the clutch instead,
fanatic second.
And if he's gonna play anchor roles, there will be half the,
you know, little half to the moments where he'll need to pull off the clutch.
But that's just a little bit too much to ask for.
Everyone that close by.
3v5.
Aggies are covering.
Oops.
It's always fun when we have coaches online because you know, I feel like sometimes
they forget the cameras aren't off.
It's tough.
It's got to be a tough as a coach trying to set up the perfect play and everything in
position and then you say that one mistake.
Sure.
Yeah.
That's how I feel on a play to you.
Just one mistake.
corner goes unclear when things were 9-1, the Proxfinatic pull off the 3v5 and give
yourself a chance at a 3 round CT side.
I've had some CT side at struggles in this head to head tonight from a roach to this
one. Nice, crimson. He's finding his moments.
I think back it kind of kicks off the 3v5 is kill onto Hooksy.
That off angle inside of an aceite.
I'm going to talk about his ace on ancient at the major.
Keep them in the tournament.
I'm going to be, I use responsibility momentarily, Jabby, right there for the taking and
he'll do so.
Jack Azmo, a 112 half, that's where your CT side ends.
In converted.
Yeah, I mean 13 and 4 is a hard guy to get.
T's are in crazy positions right now, there's two in window walking backwards into holding
this flying fast shot ticket missed and he knows he can't fall back.
Don't open up again, Chris.
God, timing on one doesn't get the bomb with it.
Ryan's still moving it forward.
It's Sarah's front of him.
Good off, angle from Crims again.
Crims, trying to be the pain of a strawist within this aceite.
Ron, you throw has got another.
And you know, fear is coming in from this.
Don't not flank, scomping all the while.
Why you go for the tool.
Try to take it on his terms.
And instead loses the one B1 for fanatics.
three round CT side. It took them a while, but they string them together. That was a 90-string shut down at the tail end of the first half of ancient.
Well, they found a little fight in the Mutatel end of that one!
Fanatic three rounds in a row, mo, but in the face of a very varied attack out of a
trolla.
say this new straw us maybe they should have gone international sooner. No. No, but yeah, I mean, I do really like the
what we're seeing out of Ryuu. We already like Fuzi. Just haven't seen him on the right team. For sure,
I mean, we could say that. And when we watched him play, he was just so young. He was just starting really.
So looking like he's maturing. He's not making the same. He's got the same sort of aggression,
but he's not making any of the same mistakes. So like it's so far, he said,
That's the figure out a kill Jambo.
Starr is on the fast fall back, out of donut.
When he finally finds the ground he wants to stand on,
it's an instant hedgehog.
A bit more effort for the other two.
A site taken over here by a rapidly moving fanatic.
Bomb in the middle of it all,
as Starr tries to keep that pressure up.
No diffuse kit for a shot.
As my preventives get flashed out through the temple's player
on the boxes, this is a chance the strike
of down a much moving riot jumping around.
things get wild.
Jambos going to get caught by
stare, who's since beer run down in
donut, he's still a part of all of this.
He wrap back around through temple comes out on
the exit, gets a couple more kills and is a
key piece to securing double digits early
here for a strawless.
Yeah, he's quick with it with that wrap around.
I thought that flash was going to do a little more.
I didn't really see them even dodged.
Probably scared right you a little bit when he saw
three players in the blind, but still got his
kill. And stairs for shot. I was special. So Ryomex is crazy in the middle of all that.
And then you see stare actually come through and clean up. Yeah. So he keeps it surgical.
No pistol so far. Forphanetic on what's now the most important map.
Lots of smoke thrown out of spawn for this. Try to hold off on the elbow control just
Jambo in the corner, dropped down to 50 health.
He was a little ready, but blasted away by Fuzzi
at a fast climb up at a stair, very confident.
The straw is probably bred by this huge lead
on the side of the smoke goes the MP9 of Huxi.
And Fier's got a little left in him.
Oh, my God.
It turns out, trying to cross through the flames.
Everybody else cut off.
And that's, Fier to pick up an empty gun, reload and push.
On his own, trying to set up Madden instead goes down.
no trade potential for that one.
A tech nine versus three, I don't think so.
Wrap it on the re-take our as strawless,
sprinting to the finish line on this best of three.
And it looked like Oxy was there and B by himself,
but really he had all mid-control with his teammates,
and that's something the Oxy has been doing
a great job of calling.
They've dominated inside of middle on both halves of this game.
That might just continue now.
That was just no while this coming here.
They might be blinded with a finish line at this rate, with a bomb plant going down, and pressure on to stay off that point.
Three colleles coming in.
I'm going to take an eye over top of his team's mallet off and so ready to just pound
set up his beat bombset or fanatic.
Foozy lean him back, beat two, and it's hoaxy, actually, to pick up the kill from inside
of the cave where there's no actual pressure from fanatic, it was all in on ramp.
That's gonna bring them up to go for wall bangs and whatnot
that losing teammates in the meantime.
Utility comes through for pressure,
and it's actually for natic to find yourself at 4-E2.
Every single bit of spam got answered back by a better one
from the T-side.
So those go loads are great.
The straws are the ones that signed up to those fights
didn't think they'd lose them, but they'd do.
And so we don't have to wait till the end of the half this time
for fanatic to find a round win.
It's a final upgrade.
Let me do stay off map point and maybe we could see a real T side, but I mean I'm
just too.
I'm too impressed by the straw that's right now to really believe in it.
Unlike the other maps which were so close, it's weird.
to be fair, I guess, to finaticly, you know, to come back, so that...
I thought he would have played it maybe a bit safer behind the box, go for a wallbang or whatnot, but...
put himself on display.
We're getting a Shraul is trying to talk through a buy here, currently sitting with the two M4s.
$3,500 on the three players that have yet to buy.
About 10,000 surplus for Fanatic to try to bite into.
Is it worth trying to rack up a price tag here in around 16?
The end-up coming out, MP9, FOMIS, and an additional M4, so pretty solid still for Astralis.
But it's everything they can afford.
Except Ryof.
It doesn't buy all the Nates you can.
It's got to believe it himself.
Three player had to start side of Middlet'swell, who's he locks into the corner, but
running into the blue, yes they are, back turn to him.
FOMIS blasts him, mad in a way.
Asimo trying to find his angle out from cave stairs low flash finds him, and that's just gonna give
Stayer enough room to survive.
Momentarily, barely gets back around that corner, get on the corner, check Asimo moves.
Oh, balls!
As this shoulder catches the edge, and that is going to cost you a lot of bodies, and potentially map points.
They just couldn't believe their eyes.
The fact that a straws would take over making troll again, even though they didn't have as much money, and they still wanted it.
Confidence is boiled over two on five for a fanatic now
Charles know they have such an advantage they can just remain active stare this five health is gonna be all throw it out like an offering
interesting turn of events here.
Jabby gets popped, doesn't do any damage back in response.
Okay, they're trying to milk this for a little more.
Plank health stand.
Perhaps it's got to turn around eventually.
But I'll get one kill.
It looks so many here though.
Big swing from foos.
You can firms and there's more where the first and second came from.
Good thing they go all three on that push.
Nobody worrying about the B-site backline.
Folks, he wants the join, the party on the offense, and so 12 for a stroll.
It comes with it.
It's just a perfect game lag, right? First messy as it is, it's just like in terms of how they're moving together and taking it over mid and working with it's
it's fanatic who always look a little awkward a little late and every single time it's straws and then it's just a side of good ancient team.
There are the kings of middle right now.
Can we replay the Molotov?
getting Jack Osmo in the face. I want to see if you clip the corner as well.
It's a big demand coming in late.
Whoa!
The corner was just the bottle.
Bottles.
Thank you.
Good night.
Good night.
Are you okay, Org?
You've passed your first test of 2026.
Today, uh, Connor said I just had my the best third best wrap of 2026.
2026, my only Rhapsody eating.
I think about 6 so far.
If burritos count.
The old Skyward E-Coi.
Let them know you're coming.
One tech nine in the mix here on fear.
Careful.
Playing with dates here, I hope, see he's got support from Rio, but they noticed stuck in this corner.
He's got to smoke down in front of him, fast tech nine push fear.
We're finding the duel.
Hooks, he's finding a bit more.
Oh, he got it right.
Trust in his dying breath.
Ensteere, we go two versus two with this match on the line.
With fanatics, bounty on the line.
Bomb dropped inside B site, Fruzy working forward.
Been a rough game for Jack Azmo.
Two kills all map long.
And he doubles back to grab that bomb as Crimstill sits
over towards the rapid stead.
Smoke is soon to phase as jabby's gonna walk this one out through the cave
They're gonna try to gather a time together. They'll do so
Crim's back into the cover at a health disadvantage three kills deep when push comes to shove
Crim's comes to clutch right there for the taking and
Jabby's reload needed this guy's playing with a smoke playing with a kid goes for the duel and
Finds it which means a straw is moves forward to stage two and
and fanatic, it is a shortly attempt here at the blast bounty.
A stralist managed to outlast fanatic, but this one, this didn't get close.
This looks comfortable the whole way, and we spoke about how there could be some struggles
on the side of fanatic, you know, how mad I'm going to have to adjust the playing mid.
Well, we saw it, time and time again. On a straw list, they look very comfortable. They
looked very confident with where this. They definitely had a good game plan.
Clearly, modern here out of his depth in playing a new position. It's one of the hardest,
I would say, in the game for rifleers, doesn't matter if you're aggressive or how you want to
take it up. It's just the flurry of utility is difficult. We could see in the waning moments
as fanatic try to keep themselves in it, the way he's trying to pop a smoke desperately go through
one of the elbow smokes to take space towards middle.
And it just looks so jumbled, wears the straws.
A lot more compose.
You have a guy in middle in stare who's been playing it for a couple of seasons now.
He's looking way, way solid.
We haven't really said his name too much today.
But I think he was great.
Yeah, be obviously closing it out with a chuckle at the end.
Kind of playing with his food.
I like the style points with the little graffiti tag at the very end, too.
He's not getting a graffiti for that play, but you know,
I can't go from there for this time.
Okay.
Maybe too early in the season for a graffiti,
but he makes his own.
Right?
Yeah, you know, I have to put some flash in through it,
but it comes with all of this.
And I'll say this.
This was a flushier strawless, but with this map.
Maybe they might even think, absolutely, guys.
Maybe it is financials battle, or is this a map?
We actually, we got some legs we're here.
What do you, what do you have to just make of it?
As overall for a strawless,
looking at how they played through this map?
I mean, with the exception of hooksy,
everybody else have their moments.
And obviously, hooksy, not really supposed to be the guy
to pop off in these kinds of ones.
But no, I feel like map 2 and 3 were great for you.
I feel like he was definitely the standout for me today.
I thought foezy, foezy was going to be the guy.
We'll ask him hopefully in just a bit.
So I feel like there's a lot to like so far.
And I think a strong surprisingly in their first 4A
to international composition, they hit the ground running.
Well, let's find out what foezy has to say after this all
foezy will ask him, we'll get a counter fight by the man.
And just have, how you doing, bro?
I'm good, I'm good, how are you?
I'm very good, thank you.
It's nice to see you back on our screens.
It's good to see you in a good position within a shot.
So let's just talk to us first about the nickname Vinkers.
Someone's saying it one way.
Someone's saying, yeah, but you are the deciding fact.
I forgot what we said at we play Academy League.
It's been a long time.
It's a weird one.
It's a fozy fozy.
That's what I've been saying.
He's correct.
That's fine.
So commentators wrong.
Malik correct.
I got it.
The first winner of the year.
He just noticed.
He's not.
But for you right now, coming into a sharp shot,
good performance here in the opening game, but just talk to us a bit about when this
offer came around for you, because in the last few months of your birth has been crazy.
Back on 9 away from the line, back on 9 again, and now it's Charlis.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's been a very silly second half of the 2012-25 season for me.
Yeah, obviously I was in World Card and then I got Benster and found a team with 9,
going alone there and then I brought God brought back again to Wildcard and then
which you didn't write by the way you didn't want to go back yeah I I definitely
didn't have felt a bit this mystery it's not only because of getting benched you
know that's something you have to take if you're a player but for some other
stuff as well you know but by you don't have the same it's been all
said exactly said it publicly they all the worst organization in C.S. like
Well, I'll just crash.
I'll stand up for them.
I'll give them one thing there.
They're at least, or they have at least paid.
But it's good for old players.
That should do.
That's positive.
It's good.
It's positive.
I will not say only bad stuff about them.
Some things are good.
I like that.
Then this is strong.
It's off-of-coming along for you, right?
Was it a surprise for you?
It was a little bit of a surprise.
Obviously, there were some leaks going around.
around the device where we're going to go to 100
feats.
But yeah, I wasn't sure if they were going
to take the international route or just pick up
some more Danish players.
So it was a little bit of a surprise, but I'm very happy
it happened.
I would say the craziest thing about your journey, though,
fozy, is that even though you've gone through some ridiculous
moves as a player, I mean, we can go back to rare atom.
It feels like you're always coming out the other side,
a little bit better, and learning along the way.
And that's something that I really want to praise you for.
But how do you keep your nose to the grindstone?
Because I think you had all of the excuses in the world
throughout all of these seasons.
Of why you could have performed badly,
but you've continued to show that you can be a solid
opera in a different smaker.
So what's the mentality like for you?
I'm not sure to be honest.
I just want to play CS, whether that takes me going
to China or North America to get a decent team done.
Yeah, I went there, obviously, now maybe my stocks are a little bit higher
after having the success with Wildcorn, at least in the early 2025, late 2024 season.
So yeah, I just want to play, you know, it's what I like to do as well, I'm here.
And you're doing it well as well, and you're doing it very well.
I would say, what are your early impressions of working with somebody like Hooksea?
Yeah, I'm really impressed by him, especially in practice, like you always have this meme in mind when he was in G2, he wasn't maybe shooting the best stuff like this, but who actually impact this is a different pieceman.
Okay, okay, okay.
And yeah, obviously, calling ways and all like this, it's been nice.
I think we all have some info for haven't had that much practice, so maybe we're not talking at the depth of the stratbook that we want to be right now,
be right now, but winning the game, at least that we have some days up and we can work on that.
I'm sorry, I've got to let you go, but I don't want to let you go before you tell
me what kind of a different beast is hook, see where to come with the practice tell me.
I need to mince it. It's just killing everyone.
Oh, okay. Okay. Well that's good. Let's see if you can pull that through to officials.
If you think you're very much for joining us, my man, I appreciate you very much. Good
luck for all the rest of the tournaments. Well, we'll see you soon. Thank you so much.
I'm not sure if I could look first of all, such a well-spoken guy.
So honest at home for his well, he was on the gave us about the chat GPT problems,
even defending wall curbs, trash, that's the best he can because at least I did pay.
That's impressive, I mean, I feel like maybe he wasn't able to put it in the
words, but even just that kind of remark to see the bright side of something that he's
always had to do in his career with all of the different rosters that he's joined.
And like I said, I just feel like in a weird way,
even though all of these curveballs have been thrown
as direction, all of these hurdles
he's had to get over.
It just feels like he's getting out stronger every single time.
I'm really seriously.
I think if you put yourself into his shoes
and you're going through these many roster changes,
you've just my tumble down and just exit the Pro scene
entirely.
I don't even know what I have.
But he's actually shown online on wildcard,
even on rare atom when he was just farming Chinese competition.
like he just makes the best out of every bad situation.
It is a beautiful thing to see.
And that's why he is now getting the position
as he deserves.
This is like the best chances had for sure.
Yeah, I mean, he was on NIP for a bit.
This is better.
Yeah, this is better.
This is definitely a step up for him,
but we still got one more game to go here
for the opening day of the Blast Bounty.
And it's a roger taking a hearted cellet here
for a matter before we get into it.
So with that right, the hopes to be more consistent.
You make this change, Joe, to go out.
Can you just tell me why Joe's out so fly in from your perspective?
Obviously, it's not only my decision, it's like a coach decision and also more
decision of them, like me on the second plan.
But we had some road problem on T-Side.
Like when we get Janta, we wanted him to be more on first, you know, more anglicare.
and we understand that there is an issue on the T-side, which way into have some fresh
blood also, maybe I don't know what the stuff is, but I believe in the decision and we're
going to do everything in a proper way to do the same season and even better with the
in Janette, it's some place, this is awesome. Hopefully that does be the case for you. And
looking at that, you mentioned about the T side, right? Is this if you have this player who's
going to be able to do that more for you in Soulfly, be the first one going in, taking more
of that space? Does that change the way you can play your T sides to improve it? Because they
started to look a bit weaker at the end of last year?
Yeah, we have, I ask you to add the new teams, we try to add new teams also, but the main
the issue that I had in the system, but my player was not very comfortable on this system,
you know, when practically the first one don't, if I say, you have to go first, but
the player inside of him don't want it, not comfortable with that, is complicated, you know.
And we have to change a lot of things to fix that.
But now, it's so fly, it's really willing to do that.
But obviously, it's not like mathematical, like you always first
is the bottom of the situation, but when you play your team game,
it doesn't matter who goes first to several of you just
do for the team, what is made of me.
And having this mentality was important for me.
And, hopefully, the decision we can show better
on to strike over the 90-cydanced side here.
A lot of insight from matcha that had changed that had come here despite Jörda being a capable
player.
Now we start to understand some of that reasoning as to why this change needed to happen.
Very early into 2025, Jörda was building a case as the rookie of the year.
Obviously, we're far removed from that reality, given what Moldadoi, Kyosuke, and Makaze
They brought to the table and Aurora, they're extremely far removed from that.
They've replaced him with Soulfly and, imagine, I got to address it immediately.
I feel like the way he responded to that interview and your question about his calling
style saying that they wanted players to always be ready to go first.
I feel like you've got a couple guys who are extremely aggressive, extremely ready to go
in in Zantar as NYKD already.
I don't necessarily think you needed a third guy who's also ready to go in.
So when he says that he's trying to get fresh blood, I feel like he might just be setting
so fly up to be fresh meat.
But that's what I was kind of thinking about my mindset was he doesn't want his untarher
as we're cadets of die early on.
So he wants to set out the soul fly to go.
Okay.
Feed the fly to the frogs and then everyone else doesn't clean up afterwards.
I mean, that's just never the been the problem in my eyes for Aurora and their
It feels like the problem was that it was too readable that they would consistently
deathball and not use workers to the extent that so many other teams do.
And that's why even teams that are slightly ranked beneath them, but in my eyes tier one
Rossers, they'll just flank them a lot.
And that was kind of the they're undoing in a lot of the big moments that prevented them
from making the playoffs of either major of last year.
And is it also a case now, so flies can have to make some sacrifices on his CD size
compared to what he used to do?
Yes, I feel like the, some of the positions he's more familiar with are ones that people
like Santara's like to play.
Oh, you're not getting them.
No.
You're going to leave him there.
Obviously, he played a couple anchor spots.
I think I think he played long A for example on Dust 2 so he can just kind of swap around
get to Joe's B site.
It's not the craziest swap or anything.
So he was, he's a little bit flexible and he's young even though obviously we know
so fly for a handful of years now with, with sandball in particular on fire flux, he played
rolls where sometimes on T side, frequently he was the aggressor, but on CT side, I'd say
there was a little bit of a mix of some anchor spots, some rotator spots. So I feel like
he can slot in any shown versatility in the last year. That's the main thing.
And the thing is right, the only issue I have with this for Aurora for me is that this
Turkish site will always seem to be a step behind on picking up like the next good player.
We went through that time in a tunnel fire of a lot of mixing up different players, everyone
coming in, rotating, not sure what they wanted.
Now they've got more of an identity.
But, so fly I was positive about two years ago,
and now he only comes to the team.
It's like, do you throw that there behind
and actually having the successful full Turkish
roster that could be put on the cards?
Well, I feel like the best Turkish roster
today would have X-flowed on it.
Wrangly.
That's for my money.
I feel like X-flowed showed more versatility
and at a higher level than so I'm going to notice
the buy-out reason that they went with so fly.
I do think that so fly's talented enough.
is mechanics are really snappy. Again, like I said, he has shown a little bit of versatility,
but I just don't think he's necessarily set up right now to play the positions that Joe
did play and necessarily thrive. So that's going to be a little bit of a learning curve that he
has to embark on. And now looking at the other side of things we have here, we're going to look
at Hotsu, who come in as a team that showed up a little bit back at ESO for early, right? We go to
have a look at that. We start to get excited about them. Domestically, they can perform pretty well.
They at first were not competing within the Europe VRS, and they thought they'd think change,
they started to do it, and they still may have to hold a pretty good level. Even winning,
there was in his backstab, why they want to move it. They just want a little cup.
Yeah, and his backstab, and they were the favorites going into that one. And since their ESL
Pro League run, which is probably the last time a lot of people viewed them, they have swapped
out one player. They brought in Kalash, who is an up and coming late round player. He actually has
has a lot of great ideas in terms of just utility usage.
But I'd say the beating heart of this team
in terms of narrative-wise is the coach and mo,
major winner on the Gambit roster,
back at Pijil Crackout,
and then also of course Norbert.
I mean, like-
Can't hate this guy.
Those unhatable player into your one counter strike,
and he's also been their star player,
which is a huge surprise because obviously he was not the guy
being set up for success on his VP or outsiders days.
And you know what I think this is, is this goes to show like how much Norbert wants this.
Because when I speak to him, when I see him at events, he is still so motivated.
He knows his team is not as experienced and he can help them out there, but he's also
doing like the extra legwork whenever they give him the opportunity.
Like, this is a complete 180 on run, you know, with Norbert of all.
Hey, it feels like he's actually bestowing a lot of wisdom to his younger players.
I mean, I went through some of the vlog of them winning that recent cup in his back
to understand. And yeah, he, along with Mo are frequently just chiming in, making sure
they're solidifying things in terms of ideas and plans, even though they're IGL in Duke
Fissura is the guy that's going to be coming up with the live round plans. He's definitely
norbert is definitely trying to help this team catch up to speed, make sure that they're
a little bit more well ironed out, instead of being a little bit more of a one note team.
Because I think a few months ago, you watch how Ho2 played and they were kind of just running
sort of the same default, almost every single round, but then watching them more recently,
they're trying a few more iterations and making sure that they're not always just so obvious
with their moves. Well, let's hear it from the goat Norba before we get into the game.
You've decided to pick Aurora as the team you would go up against here. Can you give me just
your thoughts on them right now as a team? And what you think is good for you in this matchup?
before last update everything was good, but you know they bring back Anubis and it's
hard you know to understand Vietnam. Yeah so you know no no we're confident in our game
in our peak but I would say nothing just happened to be just thinking will they peak
I don't need to be thrown off.
Oh, this is all right.
When he picked him in the draft show,
there was no newbies going to be playing.
Oh, and then all of a sudden he goes,
ah, no, they've called that best back.
That's actually, there's a no one I planned for.
They also picked Aurora fairly early in the draft, too.
So they thought that there was a weakness that they could have taken.
It's no way.
It's not bound out straight away.
No, no, no, it's not.
It's not out.
They had to go for the inferno and the ancient bands as the,
they picked it.
That's it.
Aurora's got to go for it.
Yeah, okay, so it's mirage from the whole two side and here it is. I saw that the texture
I'm actually for it because the newbies are those I want to do what they didn't do it
But they yeah, but are they even posted on socials?
There was a thing of like walksics keyboard and everything and said the newbies on my little letter like they were really
Yeah, but with his notes. They really are okay, and then what about now? So we're not getting it. Well, that's disappointing
Wow, the funnest veto we can have for the day and we don't get what we want
I, I'm shocked.
I'm pretty, I'm, I'm extremely shocked because everybody, myself included, considered Aurora,
one of if not the best news teams.
And yeah, you're swapping out one player, so fly, but I mean, come on, the core of your
team is just made to play that map.
So if they're not going to hear it feels like a bit of a shame, probably a decision
that was made as soon as they were picked by Ho-to, they probably thought to themselves
what, okay, we're going to go for this, they started prepping for this matchup, but
Come on guys like we know we know it's magic is best map to call
Yeah, this way feels comfortable is where it works for the individuals as well
Does it change much third that it's not picked does this give hot to more of a chance?
I
I would say yes because I
On Nuke in particular there's been now I mean what I saw them play at the Uzbek land and they were playing against the team in Neilen's on and
I'd say that they looked fairly comfortable like they they knew how to play the map enough
that I don't think that even, like, a roar could have gone into this with a huge leg up on a new bus,
but now you're playing into a map on Nuke where it's just, like,
whole two can play Nuke. So you could have just, like, really, really just played to your strengths,
and instead they kind of just let this one slip.
Well, let's see if they're going to have a chance of taking on a roar within the maps we have.
Now, let's go to our amazing commentators, it's going in.
Now, he states that he was surprised he didn't come through, right?
right? I'm more than that, Mohan. I'm disappointed, right? I'm actually a little angry.
I thought a new bis, you know, we go back to bounty. Aurora is here. It's right there
for the taking, but, uh, Alas, yeah, I think Maui's probably tapping into the right
idea is they would have prepped, not knowing that it was returning to the pool and tried to stick
to it. So maybe it comes out. But yeah, maybe not at this event. No, not sure. I mean, yeah,
sometimes you get a new map, but it's just like there was, yeah, there was just no notice at
all. There was none. So if a couple days given maybe we'd see a new
this come through but for now unfortunately because we're after way to
another day. Full transparency there was so little notice I almost
thought maybe we shouldn't do it. Yeah but also it's like let's do it. Yeah.
Chaos baby. Yeah let's get into it. So Roorone. One of the teams back in
Budapest who certainly had a disappointing major. They were to lift a
trophy for the first time last season, but weren't able to replicate that success at the final event of the year.
That would have been extra special. And that was a struggle, man. When they won,
Bookarrest, they were going through it emotionally. I think they all looked kind of mad at each other even when they won.
It was, um, it was hard, but they played well. We go back to the start of 2024, Aurora, with a great bounty performance there,
toppled by Spirit in the Grand Finals.
Now we've got an order and exit
through Palace for the opening kill of this match.
Locadia's gonna go down with nothing.
Good shock from Mizu.
The challenge out of Zantara's yet to come,
but he's still just sitting back on ticket,
buying his time.
There's so flies first kill.
Three on four retakes, Antara's.
One HP doesn't matter what Zantara's on a pistol.
I don't think so, but really deep jungle control.
That could make the difference.
That's Colash inside of the window corner tucked in.
Zantara is trying to take the top of ticket.
That's a fully displayed body with one HP to try to work with.
And now it's the only thing left.
Beautiful clean up here by Mezu.
Three kills on the round for him, too, for Norbert.
And that A site defense crumbles under the threat of Ho2.
So very good attack.
And again, another, I think contrast between the team that
had a player break and then one that didn't,
like Aurora definitely took their time off.
because I think of all teams they were the story besides okay vitality were the team that had the most
reason to need a break and everything because they're going so deep in every tournament, but it was a
Rora who were attending Wayne, there's every single event and then constantly citing the fact they were exhausted
so I'm sure they were, I mean I can't imagine they touched the ass very much in like during over the Christmas
break and I don't know I can't speak for them but they have so flies well they need to on board so
Don't work never ends really
Kind of sleep when you're dead. Yeah, exactly
Although this is a team that does still feature or never sleeps hold this ever top 20 HLTD player in Zentaras at the right age of 30 years old
The first ever do that
So don't forget about
KDS found sanctuary still posted inside this window this forest by situation from Aurora with MP Nines in front of Hotu's connector set up
You're gonna find vision on Mizzoo, watch it scout with the headshot, love to see something like that but collage
Sweet up with the AK catches one, Norbert in from Palace as well for the man advantage, but striking the player on cat as he falls
We don't know about Magger.
Duke Fissura down, Magger tries to strike,
and that's going to be Norbert down to only three points of health.
Tough bomb recovery here, 30 seconds.
It's a spritz back.
Oh, that's right.
By the smoke, and even then, still taking damage on the cross,
but Colashang's on with a quarter HP.
They just want to find him.
There's no cover, but I mean, it's totally fine.
It's got default.
Still an HP advantage somehow.
Try to evening it out, but not the case.
Norbert's down beneath gets popped,
that it's going to be the roar of force by to get on to the board that MP9 from stairs
kind of stifles the connector attack and a well caught timing in middle with the
cap player jumping down. That's what put it in the 2v2, where Aurora closed out.
Very soon, some interesting need lineups out of 02. We're getting some good shots.
He hit his well, but even with all that, low guns is all they need. The last shot I've
I was like, uh, let's steal the bait here, have a roar of the McLean.
Round out of hand, but...
Could keep track of these MP9s, and honestly, I think there's a few...
There are a few teams better than a roar on MP9s.
More birdtail.
You never thought you'd ever look at Norbert, though. This is the most experienced player on the lineup.
to make your champion as well for all growing up you can't take it away from him
between him and Moe
and to bring that to the table for Ho2 you're saying that's a good at Pro League
yeah and it's an event that impressed you
so some big wins they were just got tearing through it
I felt like they were the new Monty for a second at Pro League but
lots of lots of proving to do still for them
I feel like still some stuff to figure out about Aurora because I'm a Joe to guy.
Okay, that's fair.
So, the physics of the problems they had had no idea Joe to was even on that list.
Now, when Joe to join, that was kind of the tale of Aurora.
It was like this guy slot in and on the other side.
Yeah.
have great maps on an individual level but more than anything it just felt like he unlocked
a lot of options for Aurora and that's when suddenly they were able to kind of gel and
find success and the camaraderie looked better and the team play worked well and there
results were excellent. He wasn't like the guy you even see getting super tilted a lot.
That was really like that terrorist you know but that terrorist obviously is the best player
on the team consistently throughout the year. Now the season it'll be the question
was Joe to the scapegoat.
Yeah, it's a big question to ask.
And while were they running from themselves,
London.
But I think you've also still got the talented pieces, right?
Yeah, I hate it.
Well, Katie made my top 20 list.
This last year, I actually had some weird ask criteria.
And then I thought, one of the tests I would do in my head
was like, could I see this player on the face plan?
OK.
And he passed that test.
It's something about that character, because he might have the most random teammates ever, you know.
I think I could join the team.
I'm sure.
Couldn't you picture?
Well, Kadia, working on phase-clans?
Yeah.
So...
I see what you're talking about.
Yeah.
You know?
But I feel like if...
If...
You can't say that about everyone.
There's like a certain type of player, so.
With Zywoo, be on phase-clim.
I feel like I could work anywhere. Yeah, I'm good working anywhere for sure.
In the French Parliament perhaps one day in the office, said it could work anywhere. Oh yeah true. Got my vote.
You're allowed to do that? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that would be a voter fraud.
the
of the
and
if you could just be our Prime Minister.
I listen our friend Macron wanted to get esports into France.
I say we start taking over parlor.
Let's make him regret it.
The esports revolution.
Eight.
No laughing during tech bosses.
Nice to see the Aurora spirit's high.
Enjoy it while you can boys.
It's day one of the year.
You had a good joke about the ever.
was a Turkish fans yeah never ever mentioned Turkish fans never ever
don't mention to her and never ever don't yeah you pick your battle but it's a
battle either way yeah and you know what I know it comes from passion I know it
comes from love of the game and not they're like oh I got you know don't have
a straw anymore I got Aurora yeah so who else do I got I feel like that's about
it there's a couple of teams really but no not many Aurora and the Mongols
and
for some reason face
that
got a forgive. I got a forgiven forget. Oh, you know, the story with them is that
we're talking about phase right now. Because you're on the broadcast.
Well, you know, just like with snappy as well, you tie it into even more players. That's
some players never got the chance to play. You know, I will hear you know, carry out
a roof from a straw as or snappy, never got the chance to play with Danish players
so they went international. So that's kind of why I gave them a pass. Because they couldn't
I'm gonna say wanted to, but they tried.
So when do Aurora go international?
And who?
Could they pick up?
I don't know, man.
It feels like nobody can get picked up anymore, right?
They pecks is quote on HOTV with Sponge.
Well, that's why maybe you get like some of just everyone
going for underrated picks.
I mean, Jacob, you have, uh,
right you to go into his trawlers.
and
full credit to Aurora, they've had a great feeder system actually, that's what brought them jota, that's what created
X-Loud, like, they're one of the best, uh, in a Academy stories, absolutely. I think in a world where we have these
hyper-expensive vioids and whatnot and roster changes in international teams are hard to make, it does actually get a slight edge to if you're speaking in a local
less popular language. Yeah. Assuming that the other Turkish players are the dreams, scooped up by others, you know, but like if you're
If you are from Mongolia, you want to make it into your one counter strike.
You can go play for the hunds, and if you can back, there's so far removed actually.
But then you've opened the you get to the Mongols.
Yeah, exactly that's why I suppose when it comes to Turkish counter strike, you're still
so much closer to Europe, and I feel like you just have more English speakers there in general.
You can get around it.
But we don't have X-Light.
How many other people, right?
Yeah, right.
That's like the example.
Yeah.
That's why I kind of bit my tongue here, because you don't have to.
He's got an ex-flowed in Mongols.
Yeah.
They're rather in Mongolia.
And maybe, oh man, it didn't the Mongols actually entertain the thought of J.L.
Guess they did?
Yeah, that was an intimate insight for a second.
And he never responded kind of wild both of those things.
I had no J.L. was that kind of guy?
Yeah.
You know, J.L.
I truly believe that if I needed help, I could message J.L. and he'd show up.
And I don't even really know the guy.
Yeah.
But he's that kind of nice guy.
Yeah.
Is that magic?
Imagine, Emzino comes knocking on your door.
you just leave it locked you don't even respond left about in the cold
sorry it does his best work maybe J.O. was on the drifting course
I was just picturing him drifting to him and seeing you as house
you ring
J.O.
no X-flout it's so fly now
change that's a lot of show you there is some stirris strength underrated strength
and uh in in Turkey let's see if we can solve all their problems.
you know what folks let's give y'all a break three minutes long there's an
I'll be right back with you okay sit put folks it's a roar of versus Ho-2 tied
one one sit look majors are not banana cups do you ask a player with
but they rather win, Cologne or a major.
No one will ever say Cologne,
unless Cologne is a major.
And that's because of the prestige.
It's a place gonna be iconic.
You gotta start and play off.
The crowd on the crowd lights,
the call has to be so good from the casters.
Just to compliment that play perfectly,
just the right amount of surprise and awe,
and the reaction, just a raw reaction of the room.
So I think it's just about the audience.
For me, my favorite major final was the Strollethers of Earth's Pro, and this was
right when a Strollethers had picked up Glaive, this was very interesting because
Kairgen was a much more revered IGL, but the one thing Glaive brought to that major
into a Strollethers was he solved their choking issue.
He made a series of calls on that T-side comeback on train, and it was a bunch of very
aggressive confidence plays.
A moment where if they lost an X-Roundly probably would have just lost the entire series
lost the major.
And that was the first of the four majors that they won.
At a major where there's the most pressure, Glave was the best option.
And I think that was a really key point for both, a Strollus and honestly Denmark as a whole.
When you look at Phase at Boston, one of the most iconic images was Nico blown up on
the jumbo trauma.
As hard as that might be for him to think about it or go back and watch, that's one of the
things you remember the most.
Do we being the guy who was the player that made Cloud9 into a winning team?
And made Cloud9 into a team that was top six that year.
So the best sort of N18 that we'd seen in forever.
And then for him to have the clutch moment to bring the team
to overtime.
It's not about the skill anymore.
It's about who's good under pressure.
And, too, he was that for Cloud9.
I think that one will be forever iconical.
I would never want to have to go through what phase
went through a basket.
But in terms of how much emotion came out of that,
It's sort of irreplaceable at the moment in history.
And we're back with Aurora and HOTU, tied one one, remember?
Off of the Force by from Aurora, if your memory is shorter than mine.
And so, get locked in, folks.
We've got this AK still for Duke Fissura.
That's a Threat towards top middle.
As Aurora goes for the spam, no damage connects.
And the bomb sits back, how do Ho-Jube recover momentum?
Let's see, you can mentally live in a moment better than the other.
There's a lot of ruckus in middle of the start of this round, but Aurora taking that quick peek into the palace pays off.
Norbert's dead.
Well, see, many times Norbert actually falls victim to his antara that feels confident enough to go hunting like that.
Over looks the lingo round up in the apps think he's a loiter or a loit maybe
Could be that's a crime
Wikipedia, who sharpness man that'll look at you. There goes the AK
Tap back by a pistol, of course, so good efforts here from Hochu to get anything going and he kind of death any damage any
Economics problems racked up versus Aurora would be great, but it falls down to just mezu
And as he goes stopping towards his one chill towards Jungle,
which he will finish off is gunna get some dry Santara's collects a third.
And that folks is a row right back to it off of the force by and around two rifles work out.
And remember this is now them with 3-8K-47.
So this economy propped up by Houtu's shortcomings.
I mean, yeah, they were angst looking pretty.
Fans saw it so far. Obviously if you missed it, it was a there's an MP9 of fair MP9 and it's scout
The fair that's one of them that conversion
I'll do a lot of save again. Oh, no
That one didn't even really exist. So
I missed you
Miss you loaders our Christmas
ready we got a busy year everybody counter strike doesn't stop
imagine knows that so trying to press into what could be the setup
I'll have HOT to.
The solo collage desert eagle.
You just know it's coming.
Maybe no other grenades a little bit longer. Oh no, the molly comes out.
Yeah, I'm just gonna have to brute force this one.
I've been allowed a lot of space here.
Desert Eagle still looking for its one.
Katie, you're gonna make quick work of that.
As he also burns off the rest of the pack.
Down to 30 seconds, AK's gonna be down,
but need them so fly catching Norbert.
Yeah, not what I hope to, we're looking for
at the start of the game.
Pistol, great.
Glac-Finds, Magger, that is it, that is all.
and so still majority rifle saved and move forward and we'll go up to the 3-1 start.
A bit of a flat move here, but not a lot to work with, so they don't have to think about it too much.
Again, seeing some new stuff with the utility line-ups and such.
Let's see if they can bring that into the next rifle round.
I'm not a good deal with you.
I'm not a good deal with you.
Bob stays on it.
Duke Fissura behind boxes.
Bomb to his right.
Welcoming the spam back, Santeris.
Get to pull the trigger, then start to spam through.
No, it's the player still behind it.
Hoping to catch them off, you'll get that.
One bullet to the head of frontales.
Man, advantage for Ho-2 though off their efforts in little.
Oh, my Cadia gets blasted out of this one.
Comfortable looking for V2.
Bombo still top mid.
That's gonna be Stolldown for a second.
Norbert wide into Magger and Soulfly's gone unnoticed,
but they're gonna have another opening
over towards B in contrast to what it felt like for a second.
And maybe leave that bomb ends up being a blessing.
It'll charge towards B vacant site for the taking.
Yeah.
Good idea here.
Maybe a little late, or imagine to stop this,
which is by the window, but will he clear E-box?
Does damage?
That's stupid to screw it down.
Definitely thinking about it.
This splash will help him, actually.
Right now, it's a 2v2, because this third piece
of HOTES still far removed.
Are they actually kind of walking away though?
Yeah, it looks like they are.
Maybe just, they don't know where the third piece is.
And how he's going to get involved.
Okay. So we'll take a step back.
Okay, I've always just disappears at a certain level
And so
Light of habit
Oh awkward
One survivor per side on this one. Hoats who close that gap. What's the money like? It's fine. Got to think back the force by victory and round two
It's a bit of a weird ground because yeah, walk the guys in the back of the spam and they're so
Sure that dentaries is floating this mode getting gets spamming on him and
Obviously sometimes he makes that's makes that move happen
But that was just kind of like a slow death that they couldn't stop basically
I like you got committed to a position, but then kind of didn't even want to be there anymore
That's that you can't really leave. So you can't shoot you early or else they're just gonna continue with the spam. Yeah
That one corner, kind of, fizzles out.
Oh, corner.
That's my inner pamph.
Hose mad.
And another opening kill for the favorite of Hose.
Now this time, it's most of the money dried up for Aurora into it.
A buffer they built with the force by win of evaporates.
By the time we hit round six,
and a five-weeks-war just start.
See you in more and more and the ball with that one.
Side of the cat quarter's matcher.
Duke Fitzgerald down and no man advantage recovered.
Fragrant ain't gonna land well right on frontels but still he'll win his duel.
Santa Rosa's quick into the back of sight while Norbert goes into the Sunni.
And that again is going to be another one of these mid-round moments where the rotate could pull
the wool over the eyes of a roar jumping off at the top of the stairs though.
Front tail is kind of throws caution to the wind and that's going to cost him.
That's the bomb just kind of shocked all the way into the site as well.
What a difficult cross this will be now.
But one that is forced upon them, so if I come out losing half his health with a second
kill and they have to still push forward through him.
to be the last test.
I'm gonna fry grenade chips him down to 43.
Find with that one.
Mezu popped.
Colash the eight seconds.
Picks up bomb at the other side of triple.
Walks it's gonna cut it down all the plants.
Dodges the shot and will win out with a jumping,
go-lill head shot.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
That was his anny round man.
That had a lot going on and for it then that way.
Well, that was just a cherry on top.
uh... unfortunate miss there for walksie kind of had impainted into a corner so he
didn't really do was just land that one shot
uh... could personally just it was the right option so it's a win-and-side of middle
this one's funny but obviously the flash just doesn't work and well they did throw it
age get up that off-cycule
you kill him however you want
Now down to the pistols, dodge the flash, but can't avoid death.
Quick stop at a fallback. I'm looking like a team that can successfully tilt Aurora.
And if you can tilt Aurora, you can beat Aurora. Yeah.
So, if I kind of looks like boo with hair.
From this distance, we are sat across the room after all.
And Norbert loves a little palace play, no shocker to see him right back in it.
He's just trying to crack that dial to come through with the commitment and walks
Six season timing to just try to slot this five seven into the side of
Ho-to, but imagine, oh my god, I can't be doing that with the knife out,
rather, oh yeah, but what about another pistol you wouldn't expect on your way back?
Punks. He's who, because he kept his gun out.
See, notice how everybody who doesn't have a gun on him, and dies.
Doesn't matter what team you're on, doesn't matter what position you're
odds of being able to shoot back a way down.
Just, you don't have your gun out.
Hold the gun at the very worst, the side arm.
You need the extra speed I get it.
Okay, so here, without your gun out, it's gonna be okay.
There it is.
Every player who didn't have a gun in their hand,
maybe they'd tell the comes from within.
It's your own decisions.
It was not even watching. You knew they were gonna win.
So, in a row, it was a pause.
Remember when they were laughing?
We always get.
We always forget how little moves be you even gained from having your knife out like at the very worst
pistol. Yeah, strong the pistol
I'd be fair that last one pay a lot to the knives though. I get it
Everybody knows your gloves looked at the best with a knife and hand, but there's one there's two and
and there's three this one
he literally got to give someone a break I guess but yeah it's the other
past player used to use them to our merit but we're here to sell
snake oil
Maui snake oil he's not even from Oahu or wait Maui
yeah
the
least four Aurora the guns are back online
longer hanging on it free AK-47's either is a ho-to-teaside lead
lead
to come into the map very quiet on these T rounds and I mean Aurora are making a lot of noise
themselves so see if this results in a rod duel looking for a time and do
I'm not gonna flash connect here.
Oh, yo, yo, yo, yeah.
Well, give it away, why don't you let him know you're trying to boost bottom mid.
Mist boost.
So what's that?
Terrorist, no.
All he needs to do, he'll fall back to 30 damage.
And Molotov meets them on the Catwalk approach, so Wikipedia trying to find a time to
tether with Zantara's and possibly the office well, but Waxett goes for the big rotation.
Wikipedia tries to get flashed around Cat, but Duke Fissura on the attack.
Zantara's in with one matcher is going to be toppled.
Good on the multi-kill of Zantara's here, but Waxett's office has been revealed inside
of the market.
and it tests the waters on site fast cat flank from Santa Rosa and walks it finds one.
He's going to be caught out in the open so fly comes through with a helping hand.
Ooh, a flat-flash bomb planted in front of you goes to the market side Santa
Santa Rosa comes up massive with a triple kill finding each of those doles with a perfect moment
to tie this game at four kind of insane that they do that without any kills in the site.
That's just the Antares with three from the periphery.
nicely done 10 seconds thick, but it was locked in and a good effort from Kalashu ended
with three, I think.
It kills entering.
awkward misboos, this flash would go into it, but it goes past Duke.
That's how he got it, huh?
And the jungle hold.
That was a pretty high octane shot as well for walks it to come out with because if that player
There's a lot to just sit on the window. I don't see a world where soulfly catches the angle that he did.
It's nice to see a call out like that every once in a while though.
Like the guy, you know, the guy who's playing on default, like never peaked.
So, why not try to punish him sometimes?
Oh, nice, you know, like a book.
I'll play it for a tales.
I guess what, Norbert's in power is again.
He is a king.
Luckily for him doesn't have to deal with Zantar as this time, not yet anyways.
I'll keep eye to the middle instead.
I'll let him know that they're close.
It's critical round considering the economy of Ho-2 down to, and Mac10 here for Duke
Fissura, everything invested, and a lot of mid-moments I'm gained.
Oh, flash this time, doesn't work for the T's.
Good shot from Frontale's back.
Keep this even.
But watch it's got your head over top of the staircase, so if like keeps himself tucked
down, welcome to the challenge, but then a bit of a labored effort here in Norbert's
Still alive, bomb down inside a connector of 35 seconds.
Norbert tries to go through the wide swing.
That's going to confirm both players inside of that aceite.
Smooth moves here from Colash.
It'll make a fast run.
I hope in that this isn't watch on the cross,
but it doesn't matter.
CTs are a little slow to get here anyways.
Lans, every bit of small movement in that
doesn't get caught on any corners.
No clipping.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that was beautiful, too.
Yeah.
place case you a little too long and find some self-clipped on the cross.
Yeah, I mean, I guess running that way on the van would have made that shot me a
little bit easier, but he was just so close to totally getting away with it.
Feels like we might be due for a clutch from him.
Oh, it just get off the ball.
They did.
Oh, okay, it doesn't matter going to get a gun.
So fly-finding splash bangs.
And a walk sink, a three-day.
Put some roar back in the lead.
What a clear off of 45 as well.
Acadia's round was very short-lived.
That's crazy.
Read that peek.
Oh, that's okay.
Yeah, okay.
Wait, how did he even?
All right.
Respect the nasty shy.
Yeah, he got really ruined that.
Beautiful moment.
The movement moment of the day.
You could tell Kalash is just in the flow.
He was in a new feeling.
Fast swing out top middle here from a Norbert. That's five desert evils across the board for Ho-2
So let's see what they come through with 3,500 dollars
You need at least one and they've found it's what's for KD from downtown with the Frightornate
They're gonna milk this one we've already seen it. Oh, no
I'm gonna catch him off guard.
Was there anyone on your top 20 that you thought should be there?
I don't have a top 21 to know.
Oh, yeah, second maybe we'll be front tails this year.
We'll let it around like this.
That's an early front corner in front tails.
The best of the year so far.
So when he's working towards,
but Soulfly's already got around the Catwalk corner,
so it retakes coming in the liquidy split now.
And they're gonna start slicing through the options.
Wikipedia is on a bit of a tear.
Bork kills this round.
Making up for the one prior where he died instantly.
Six four the lead for Aurora.
Remember all made possible off of the round two force by but no, but I don't put the effort into making my own list
I think it's very daunting actually ever spec for like you Maui. I believe bags has a 20. It's just it's a lot of work
You know, it's a lot of work and to differ away from the official HLTV list. I mean that takes that takes some some balls
Hmm, let's
I guess that I mean that's why they made them because we disagree sometimes. You know, I like to sit back and then and I take all your guys as opinions and I steal them
Yeah, I mean there are lots of lists now, so at a certain point don't need many more
But I'd still like to see yours going in
So I would number one
and
Who's your
Who's your both prediction for an extra action to do that?
Oh
Lake let's go all that
You know, G2's new is player
Where do they come up with this stuff if you need a coach?
same point we've seen before oh two clearing cat and then into the window booths not too much pressure applied by a mora this time around either
you know we've had a lot of presence inside of a window with a cadium kind of perched up at times but not here and so they're allowed to just walk out with a frag
okay the last of the window control is good for it and finally something comes back for a rora but it's only the one
Norbert's been afforded space. Norbert doesn't know that they're up here. He could check this, but
All while the bomb heads be though, so Norbert's got them hook line and sinker as
Wakadia is gonna find Norbert with his back turn. It's gonna be a late
Realization here by Aurora that the bomb has gone to be. It's a long rotate. It's 3v3
It's around where they have kits and around where they have utility
But this bomb is about to be a third of the way gone by the time they
Yeah, here.
I'll see if it matters.
Oh, it could be a little bit tight in these moments.
Gotta make sure you cover each other.
Two kids, they've put that Molotov exactly
where it's gotta go, frag your name.
Bit more to damage and the doorway hell of a well.
For the swans clean in the second,
just as quick, Duke Fitzsore
with the double to close.
Three-hand, total.
Hoats who trying to keep this game tied,
going into the second half.
I found some good routing there to get
over towards the B-site.
Well, these around the field,
get Norbert has been like, he's just been getting caught off as a lurker and a lot of
these spots.
But the way they're slipping into window into connector is working out a lot, and they
can be caught off, but finally enough, I feel like Aurora have also maybe taken more
time than they need to sometimes to get him.
You know, like he's not getting away with a lot, but just being around is still somehow
putting HOTS to and solid spots.
It's a solid spot to close the half because here we are with pistol and MP9 back in hand for Magger and Zantaras.
Well, here's the round where they have almost no utility.
It's gonna be reactive.
Again one where they don't interrupt this mid set of what so ever flash your inside of
a connector to maybe try to change that.
If bombs are turned, that's what we're looking for, but not able to get an additional kill here.
Duke Fissura.
Pops and Terras on the cat play, so fly tries to squeeze into palace, you know you're hunting down Norbert,
But you never know which way he's coming in from.
And this round it is a change up.
All while Mizu, catching Soulfly, pushing into Palace
with A-Cal, any U-TILS going to keep him locked
in that position.
And it's going to force Aurora's hand
into the 3v3 retake here to try to close out this half.
So walk into this up.
Mizu doubles back.
Norbert's been afforded his position on ramp this entire time.
Oh, but the 5-7 slips up through connector.
They wanted to lay it a little longer
because of this palace wrap.
AK-47 down to four bullets as well.
Awkward here for Mezu, he'll be blindsided by Soulfly
who eventually comes back on eight health.
Norbert tried to make it happen.
Cumbers the cross over now.
He's locked into the corner.
Oppa's on the prowl.
Locks it's gonna find it.
Jumps on with 10 seconds.
It's gonna cut it close.
Wow, really close.
Yes, he's gonna have it.
No, he's gotta try.
Hanging on for dear life down to the final second.
Point four is where Ho-2 will tie this game up.
Six rounds on the T side.
The process apex gets the better of his teammate.
Now he's got the utility to keep donk out of this.
He knows he's gonna swing.
Oh, baby knows.
Apex, baby.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm just going to die.
Look at this.
Yeah, it's fucked in. There we go.
There you go.
Sasha, even though you're weak, we love you.
Let's see what happens.
I'm gonna make sure that I always put 100% of that in 2.
Don't know what that's going to do.
Then you lose this timing that you get with the elements of crisis,
like worth it to lose a plan.
You're stupid, you're stupid! You're way too stupid!
Give it!
You're the only one who can do this.
You're the only one who can do this.
You're the only one who can do this.
all tied up by the time we get to the end of that first half, good rebuttal by Hotsu
and remember they lost some of their early momentum because of the Aurora forespy.
Yeah, I thought that Aurora were actually just going to really run away with it because their aim
Look good and they were super solid, but to be honest, it felt like yeah, they had some sleeper ideas coming into this
Half-Lare, they starved him out inside of middle, they punished them, they played a little too passive, and then they started to speed up as the round went on.
So, Ho-Too, go with they wanted in their own way and it took a little bit of time, but going 66 versus Aurora, that's not easy.
and
that are more interview right matches just need more people that are willing to go in when need be a sea of so flies can a slot in the
and the desk said
and the
and the
you have you have your self you have is a terrace you have a kid you walk that we need a little more
as you may be a little less
more soul fly
some soul walk
Not sure if it's what they need but it's what he alluded to
Right now on the pistol set up in the perimeter of a nobody to defend it within it for
Ho-to
Ha-ha
Hmm
Zantara's gonna clip Norbert
Katie with the rapid headshot as well finally something comes back here for Ho-to
3v4 but 14 health on frontels and not ideal with this p250 breathing down your neck
Oh, he got by that, but that still window control for the T side.
Colash has got the retake rolling.
Get on his headshot, interesting, this is the fuse kit.
He's going to have to stick this out in the open and the connector players, the one that's
going to have vision, Colash, trying to get the better of it, and as that kit exchanges hands
onto front tails, he knows he is doomed.
He is just going to try to stick this down to 1.4 seconds and Tarra is out wide to end
hit with the P250 finishes what he started and puts Aurora back in the lead.
Yeah, good kills back and forth, but no upset pistol here for Ho too.
What I had to have been a 3v5.
First two kills just branded so much space and control taking over window.
I can't at the same time.
Probably a butterfly.
Makes you move faster.
The Duke keeps around and finds a lot of players coming up through connector.
Oh, almost caught off by the gate, but still able to survive it.
Norbert's melons smashed.
And an uncontestable A-Size Bomb Planet.
They should have just played a new bus.
I forgot about that. We're going to nuke instead, huh? Yeah, they could do it. We thought I'd have been to that thought, you know what?
I'm excited to cast a nuke as a cast. Because I knew we were casting Aurora, and I thought it was a garrison.
I was just clapping for Aurora, four players, a main team, control the situation, go up 8-6.
It actually could have been phased, and they didn't get eliminated earlier.
That's a good point, arrogant, said he was looking forward to it.
Wow, phaser out of the tournament.
There you go.
Life comes at your fest.
From major grand finals.
They see the problem for phased those that showdown.
This format doesn't have a Swiss group that can go down zero to in person.
They have power up.
That's really what they needed.
Last bounce he's not made for phased.
Another.
They're stealing whole two smokes.
It's the innovation that we're getting out of the lower tiers.
It's just the Christmas break ring rust.
You know, we're all a couple pounds heavier.
I did it three days fast, all right?
I'm a cousin of that heavier.
Finally sees the CT all this effort out of Aurora,
while I'm planting everything included,
and they only now start to find duels
here in the 15th round of play,
and those duels they found are the only duels they're gonna find.
He didn't hit him.
Walks away, Scott-free.
Didn't even hit him once.
He's slippery that, magic.
That's your dream route. You get to the site for free. You get the bomb plant down with
no deaths. You find one kill you win.
Oh, it will peak ski here over time by the smoke presenter Snowden's inside a connector.
Norbert's around it, oh my goodness, could he not see?
Soon?
They're just playing metal gear solid right now.
Loading the perimeter.
Oh, what's that?
It's not a nipple way to see us, but instead it's going to be the first two kills to lay a horror.
You get the flood out into your jungle holes, but in order to only do so much with this one, two players on half-out here for the Aurora 3B2.
Bomb down in T spawn though, and it's about to be found
But he's stomping, right? Remember that centaris top middle would have heard that
Looks like clash will get into the palace corner if you want to yeah ahead of centaris is hunt behind him
And we've got so fly watching ramp right now. Yeah centaris again
You know somebody's pushed through your spawn and they also know that frontels is in CT. They're just playing containment
This peak is gonna come out with MP9
It should blindside centaris
Yes sir, worried that he had gone towards ramp and stepped down so fly no sees task to come back and grab this.
Got to find this one B1 smoke off. He's gonna have to challenge through. There's no time otherwise.
And a really well played move here by Colash.
Yeah.
The timing on catching Zantara is going into the smoke to really cause desperation after flustering Aurora,
who had footing on that bomb site, but didn't have the bomb to go with it.
Yeah, definitely.
They really, they interested in them to go back and get that.
They didn't try to group up.
And you know, maybe they should have because they were concerned that someone had they knew that someone had pushed they just didn't know where exactly.
So it's an awkward moment where the bomb gets caught on the flight.
In this moment should the bomb have not been there in the first place at all.
Very fully committed to take his pay right now.
They already.
Yeah.
and
it was a terrorist top middle
that was passed a comeback and he heard that flanked all the
low and behold
and me in the back line and the lead gets to cut down to two
Oh no.
That's your blast-bound E-Joke of the day.
I'll tell you, bro.
We're going to go down to Forty-Held for that attempt, but it comes up with nothing.
It's going to be a trouble, man.
Last time they left the site open.
The plan can go down, they're going to have to retake it.
for Aurora, oh, Nizu spams back through it's Antares from top of stairs though, yep.
Lines up both headshots point blank. We go back to V2 but Santares has been cleared off
at the staircase and so fly unable to plan the process, finds Frontale's first, 100 health
both sides to kill up his headshot as the flash pops and so flies got himself a clutch for
Aurora's 10th. There you go, center sage, the new guy, you're so fly very well done.
The flash worked that the jump out was just the second too soon and
But he obviously had a scare because he didn't even need to do that. He was ready to go for the rough fight
This one right here crazy
I was looking so stabilized for a second for how to
you.
Most first time out.
I still don't think of Moe as a coach.
Yeah, I think a gambit's offer and then because he was such a talent as an individual
It was like an G.L. anything like that, so yeah, I really had a breakthrough too big yet I think it's a kind of a lot of people don't know most
I want you to give them an introduction. Mo was my favorite offer back in the day when he played with Gambit say 2017 I believe
Correct. Oh yeah, I was correct. You know part of that's a Kazakh core
Mo hobbit and a dren
I'm a little bit injured.
Sorry, that's right.
I'm trying to prevent any.
Not to be confused with ours.
Hmm.
Hmm.
And now he's a coach.
Coach with more opportunity to come in terms of kind of talking to the English broadcast world again.
I think if votes you can continue on this trend.
Yeah, could be a year of opportunity for them.
Now we've seen them be able to take out good teams.
This just can they do it in more than one tournament, essentially.
And then like Bounty's a great springboard for that.
32 teams invited.
There's always a couple invite rejects.
that's how we get teams like
who replaced energy flappy dads flappy birds
the campers oh yeah yeah that's it friendly campers that's right
flappy dads
oxick's got front tails down for good and the 25 seconds there is your answer back
you didn't think there'd be two on the back lines but ho choose positioning
to the swing, excellent sandwich there from Colash,
100 health walks at 15 seconds.
He's dead on the tech nine head shy.
That's how he was saying.
Oh, smashes him out of the round puts an easy
to the task of a clutch, but you let walks
it get his off-up on the angle.
Well, not miss the chance to clutch out 1v2.
He knew how he was gonna go.
He knew how he's gonna draw him out of the window.
That was just all perfect from walks it.
He had that map done in his mind before it started.
Every Norbert reaction has been awesome, we're gonna lose.
Insta with tech 9, huh?
That hurts.
He manned Santara's kind of thrusting themselves into the moment that they had to when they had to lack of hesitation there for Aurora Boatswell for the 117, the lead off of that.
And so this T-side now comes up five of these six rounds all the way over Rora.
Oh, this push is gonna get crushed. I mean the way that.
Wakadia is holding for it, surely.
Number rocked.
Howdy, so ready for that. Wakadia, just...
Oh, no, that's up, that's nasty, whole sides open.
I mean, all of Mid is taking already, too.
He feels like a 12th round guarantee already just with those two frags poured Duke Fissura
forced the tiptoe into the back of sight
As he finds a position to hang on to he's also gonna find a threat look at the cupcake it from him with the idiot with the headshot
As he goes back and forth between windows, walks x got this any potential a-rotate locked in already
So locked in on this angle he gives up the bomb for someone else to deal with and that is indeed a chorus 12th off of an awesome position
from a KDI. Great. We have a red discrason. You don't often see people holding back
a B-Push from their just period. So, you know exactly what Hogue 2 we're going to try.
Really in their heads, you're on Mirage. It's only been one round for Hogue 2 since that
First half.
A graceful Aurora will allow this save.
Very generous.
3.5 for every player on HOTU to survive with their foamuses.
Yeah, like you said, it's so good.
Great reactions.
Flash was just trying to leave as well, but trying to tip Joe his way back around gets...
He was like really, don't take a shower.
Cod out by Wikipedia.
You're holding that.
Katie who now surpasses Antara's at the top of the scoreboard for Aurora off that triple kill last round so well
learned. His triple comes with the 12th round of win and now he's positioned here in front of two
Who fomis?
One kid on the field here for Duke.
goes down again. Pressure is on.
It really like their walk peeks, man.
It feels like we're all really tapped into it.
Santa Rosa's quick to the top of this.
Oh, instant, on-collash.
Rural one HP down to Santa Rosa.
Man, you can't give him an inch, yes, seriously.
Yes, seriously.
Close your head off in a moment.
Frontail's down beneath the palace, walk out.
It's going to blind side to sandwich player, at least.
Oh, and the timing's perfection here from Frontail, so a fly from down into its antenna.
No, another comes walking up from connector.
Rips ahead off another player, and then his mollotovs got Duke Fissura stuck inside the
corner.
By God, if Santer has gets another kill this round, will he need to?
that's catching the Duke from the corner and all he does is he closes on one HB.
Santares, start of the final round, solucidia coming for the top of the scoreboard
and just eclipses him, quiet to finish it off.
Finishing off in Star and taking the opening map win here for Aurora.
The crazy thing about this game was in the beginning and that first thought, it was very
back and forth.
How to get off to that nice clean pistol looks really strong.
The industry around is from Aurora, they battle back, and this looks like we're going
to get like a closer series.
But when we switch things up, when we see a Aurora goes with a T side, that's where they
start taking control.
Normally we do have question marks around the T side of Aurora, but against this level
of team, I guess it's not too much more in them.
It's a little bit depressing, I would say, for Hozu to put up the first half that they were
capable of on the T side, they had a little bit of misdirection, some individual pop-off,
on particular rounds, but then on the CT side, Aurora kind of stick to their guns.
I mean, they grouped up on a lot of the rounds, either just winning in the default outright.
So they get the picks that they need in order to convert, or they just implement that
deathball mentality and they're able to work through parts of the map together or just
do an early execute, and that was all they needed to do.
So that just kind of speaks to me about the player quality that Aurora still possesses in
the first half of least for you
that hot out could be a danger to
Aurora. Yes, I did I did see
potential for them to find the
upset but unfortunately that was
just solely on the T side and likely
Aurora's unfamiliar with how
her to want to play how they want
to mid-round because I hope to
have some cool rounds. I mean, I
think we have one of them from the
first half where they were able to
just throw enough misdirection to
Aurora where they were able to just
kind of slink away from the
from the situation. I mean, there's a couple of trades in the middle of the map. And for this one,
they were able to actually make their way up cat and they were able to then they kind of went back, went through
con and actually for this one, this was my bad. This is one where actually Norbert was able to kind of keep things together
towards the jungle side. And then as well, this was a good moment for for Coloss. I was talking about him in the late
around how he can really hold his nerve,
rather well, and you could see the really
sliver jiggle that he throws into walks
direction, and then also recognizes walks
charging him a little bit of luck on his side.
It is a jumping shot, but I mean, he does
throw a little caution to the wind as he's
just getting charged down.
And it was more positive, even in like,
how they would like to fix some things out, right?
Yes.
And kind of got a roar of loss running around,
not sure of what to do.
I mean, that round itself was rather confusing
for a roar to follow.
the next one that we have in this one round 11 here is where they make their way up
connector. They're clearly going for an ace blivier. But because Colossus
was able to get this kill in the window, they actually kind of sent a fake.
Norbert still is the decoy at ramp. They link their way through the window. As
Norbert is just causing this major distraction. And even though like Katie picks up
that kill right there at the ramp in the meanwhile, everybody yells from
to just mosey's their way onto the B-bombsay and Aurora
are none the wiser.
Yeah, I'm pretty lost right.
And then this is where you start to think,
okay, communication, understanding of how much space
you've given away because at that point,
how to, they've understood there's a gap in,
we can fully take it.
I mean, this is one where, yeah, these kind of rounds
of how they were able to piece them together.
It showed the strength of Ho-2 in the mid-Lot round,
the late round, the composure that you don't really expect
to see from a team that is primarily filled with rookies.
So that was a bright sign, but unfortunately,
switching to the second half, I think Aurora really took care of business.
They really took business in a positive way as well, considering we were worried about that.
He saw it on nobody's on against her too, but it's something to be positive about.
What Katie had some of these moments as well, because we're not only going to talk about him.
There's lots of more than capable players on here, but these kind of moments as well.
He's known for.
I mean, the defaulting he had and how he's able to just put a stop to any kind of aggression from
home to, because Ho-2 recognize and this kind of around, okay, they're losing some space
towards middle. They need to take something in advance, and then, like, it just completely
stops them in their tracks, not only getting one, but immediately deleting the second
two, and then he just kind of toys with them on the entries as well. Like, he runs
across, and that's, that's some ego right there. But you're back. You're kind of
wondering, say it, don't you? It was the way you went. Okay, actually, you know, I
go, I like that fight. Yeah. I'm going to take that. Yeah. And it's fair, you, you want
to build some confidence in games like this, right?
You wouldn't just start off in the right foot for as well.
We do have to mention the same time, though,
usual suspect, Zantar.
Yes.
Thus, what he does best, you know,
ended the top 20 this year as well.
So it's all positive in right now.
It's really nice to see that Zantar is,
despite the fact that he's had a long career as a player,
finally has a team around him.
That's good enough to help him achieve these kinds of placements
where he's able to continue to deliver
in terms of opening ability, multi-friacate ability,
still some of the crispest aim in the world.
And yeah, I mean, I think it was kind of funny to watch him
in Waikadia have this little back and forth
of who's going to be at this top of the scoreboard
and for his enthars to close it out
in the final round of regulation.
I mean, in all honesty,
to see what Zantar is does as a 30-year-old player
and to not do it with his brain, that's silly.
I mean, he's got a good brain.
I'll get me wrong.
How are you going?
Don't get it wrong.
But to do it with mechanics.
I find that even more impressive, you know?
Because Counter-Strike, longevity really kind of
it persists in a lot of players due to the ability
that they have to think about the macro,
oftentimes have to pivot to being an in-game leader,
or maybe even kind of a lit more late-round support
of element.
But Santara is still the star of this team
and he's on the wrong side of 30,
if you want to ask a Counter-Strike player.
And you know what's more impressive about that
when you're talking about his mechanics,
he does this through never changing anything.
When I spoke to him about like settings and stuff,
He's still using a wild mouse because this is what works me.
He doesn't change anything because he wants to stay consistent, he doesn't have any fluctuation,
he wants to be as like, as understanding of every little movie he's going to make mechanically
naturally without having to think.
So, I mean, I have used the same mouse shape for over 10 years, I literally have gone from
not sponsored by Logitech MX-518 to G5, G500, G500S, and back to the MX-518.
I still use a wired mouse too.
Oh, no.
And it makes it so that you barely have to warm up because it's the same shape I've
used for 10 years.
I'm not as good as Santara's, but I'm just saying it actually just makes it so
the maintenance of having to change your settings all the time.
Your res go through different mice.
I mean, I feel like if you're keeping it the same, then the game's going to feel as
smooth as it did for that decade prior.
muscle memory is very important.
I mean, we also need to go over to the left hand.
Did use it for the team.
Waxick.
Good to highlight him while we're there at it, you know, a very different style of gameplay.
Waxick, even adjusting to being a bit of a lowest sense player as well.
But he just still pull off all the highlights for this team with the open hand.
The South paw.
I mean, yeah.
The fact that also for him, in terms of the fact that CS2 started so poorly for him,
but then once they actually added to the view model ability to switch to the left hand,
he regained some of that forum.
I feel like that's one of the kind of weird underrated stories of a player needing his
setting's back because I mean, remember at the beginning, James, where you just weren't
able to use the left-handed view model and then walks it suddenly. No joke. I think there
was a noticeable and significant increase in his rating once that they came back in.
It's kind of crazy. Like there's a few places. Walks it, right? And I think you came
to sometimes uses the left-hand model as well. And I don't know if a rain like he was
hating it up until there. Yeah, like he couldn't get used to. He couldn't talk
What if you're with spraying, you know, all these little things?
It doesn't have an effect on the brain as well.
Have you ever tried swapping to the outside?
I tried doing the zoomer thing and go where you would press the key and swap,
but I just felt like it was too much for me to try to keep track.
It just froze me off.
I'm just like, why is this happening?
I don't have the APM for that, honestly.
No, but I mean, there is like that science behind it in terms of what you're
dominant eye, moving it away from that so that you have more vision towards that side of the screen.
Also if you're peeking angles, you don't want to cover it.
I think that was most applicable on Vertigo back when you're peaking down the round.
A little bit less applicable in today's maps.
Yeah, definitely so.
We'll not apply, we need to touch them for a war because we didn't have the rounds for them,
but they have the individuals.
Well, okay, at least it works again.
So I'm going to confuse with a double double use.
But the other double use, we're going to be coming in here as well.
I can't say once again, just kind of any time he's playing a team that's out of the top 20.
He just absolutely smurfs on him.
I mean, in terms of his speed is time to kill precision.
it's so up there that you can see why when
Londers was talking about him that he
included him is top 20 list. I mean, the
highlights that this guy produces do
feel worthy of joining phase
clan. I know that today, I mean, or
or well, they might be the better team
that phase clan. But at the same time,
I feel like he's just got that
explosive potential. And one where I
would be honest, I think he sometimes
throws caution to the wind a little
bit too frequently, but he can be
the X factor for this team in maps
like us to like Mirage where they just need a guy who's going to be some kind of
can opener in around and then he's just ready for them. So in case of emergency, call upon
him, why Katie? Where was why Katie in your top list? Around 25th, personally. Just on the outside of
yeah, I had a couple guys above him, but I mean, the talent is obviously there. I just feel like
in these kinds of matchups, he really imposes himself and he's not afraid of anything. Like, I mean,
Just see how he goes from one kill and then swings into the following angle.
You know, like, how to should be able to react, but it's just that
White Katie is faster getting the kill sometimes.
And but he struggles with this more against the tough
attention because more of a mental thing than a mechanical thing.
Because we know we can do it.
Well, it's tough to do that when you're playing against some of the best
seems in the world that simply react a little bit quicker,
even in high pressure moments where as Ho2,
they're almost blindsided. I almost feel like the the
brazen, re-peeking style that White Katie has gets called out more by teams
that are of the upper echelon, where his hoe too almost just thing.
No way, he's gonna do that, and then by the time they even think about it,
he's already shot him in the face.
Would you know what I'm thinking about, Maui?
I'm thinking about new.
That's the next map that's coming up, and I've done it with where to go,
because they've been both lights on the cameras just to guide them.
Confused me for this.
Thanks, you guys. Let's get to the break.
We're going in to Nuke. It is an hour chance for Hottu to show us what they can do.
You were talking to me in the green room that actually this might be something where
there can be more fights from them going up against Aurora. But Aurora did pick this over
the newest one coming in there, right? We were hoping for it. How much better do you expect
a reward to be able to show up with this one or do you expect more competitive fighting?
Now, you've seen the first map go down? I guess I feel like it'll probably end similarly
to Mirage if I'm being frank. I feel like what I've liked about Ho2 on this map has more
been involved to the T side. I feel like the cross-mooks that they throw the fact that they're
able to fight around their own smokes to take down outside yard defenders, kind of surprises people,
But those are regional matchups.
Those are against other teams that are Kazakhstan base,
ones that maybe aren't playing at the same level of Aurora.
It's not a maybe.
They aren't playing at the same level of Aurora.
And so it's obviously easier to take down someone like,
say, kneel in outside yards than Zantara's.
So I'm giving a little bit of a, I guess the benefit of the doubt
to Ho2 in the way that they approach Nuke.
But I do think Aurora will probably close things out here.
I do think that Aurora is going to probably just continue
with their kind of depth bally t side because honestly, I didn't see any answers from the
whole two side. Well, let's find out. Can Ho-Too take us to a third map or will it be
them going home and ending there on here at the Bloss Bouncy take it away, school
and loneliness. Yeah, feeling like a big if as far as I'm concerned, I think individually
as well, Rora kind of hit the ground running in a lot of good ways with Katie, look fantastic,
a walk sick, or excuse me, Zentara's reminder right there to tell end of the half to just
to remind you who's boss.
I want to give this a go.
Right.
So, uh, who'd do it?
Let's hope that, again, their approach may be respectable.
But like Maui said, there's a big gap in the player,
specifically that you're facing when it comes to outer here on Nuke.
Now, I think they, they played weird and they got their six rounds,
but then it could have been really cool if they continued in that second
haven't showed us something, but they only got one more round.
So, we don't have a lot to go off.
That's going to tell us, like, yeah, we should be excited about this.
That was their map pick. So let's see how new goes here for Ho-2
But it could very well be the end of the line
But I'm looking for here is an Aurora stomped because if you decided not to play a new bus tonight
You better be extra ready. Yeah, I came on new and since you got rid of Joe tell you're an enemy now
You got to you got a fruit not that we don't like soul five, but just you got to justify this. Yeah, I'm not blaming soul fly for Joe to his absence. No
And I'm ready to cheer for Aurora again this year
but show me why show me what you've got right now to do like an incantation right there
no that's a ricken morti reference oh okay yeah for only the smartest viewers
not he's
you
do
let's have positioning outside who lots of room given over
formerly get by the doco fissura
now you missed your chance buddy now that's in terrace shooting at you he's got
with a to work with
oops
And now it's like almost a little too late.
I mean, you gotta go ahead and have it, so you can't just go there, but okay.
Double in back side of lobby to make sure you know, it's not a bad position.
They need to go, so yeah.
Ho-to comes out with something to play for.
They got man advantage off that bomb dropped over towards Maine as well.
Not a bad spot to be in.
I felt like that squeeze was going to cost them, but they come out on top of the kills.
Now you've got imagine on your tracks, one locked into the side of Ben,
didn't finish the kill.
It was back out of the finish, mezu.
how measur doesn't get anything there. I don't know.
Madger's got himself a second 39 health eight seconds to the clock and it's
Norbert from the top rope and with a double kill to close it.
Yeah, to get the bomb. There was no chance of him doing that. So nicely done here for Norbert
and for everybody to be honest, because well, the first kill happens and it looks like
the rounds lost with the split at that point. They're already the back of hell with like so much
time left over, but I guess 46 seconds they had to kill the clock here and Norbert defended his
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, stomped on.
You saw Santera is thinking damage to the right, so the shots were landing, but you know, maybe shoot him in the head.
Yeah.
Give them a double tap for good measure.
Well, in the first pistol on Raj as well.
And this kind of a similar buy broke through for Aurora,
There's a lot of blocks that scout headshot.
So front tails maybe lucky to take that one to the shoulder.
Oh, but this smoke grenade gives them another chance.
We're here.
Lucky to be alive.
Hit him.
Finished.
So two players drop down to 30 HP by the way the scout.
Sometimes that isn't enough.
With that pack of pistols gets chewed through by Norbert,
spraised down into it.
And that'll be so fly or move from this one,
Double up inside of D-Con, that's three players allocated B and Aurora are gonna take their time playing options.
It's kind of nuts.
Yeah, very aggressive maneuver here from the CT side.
Start to peel back a little bit.
And Norbert, he has just ditched it out right now.
What a extra damage as well.
A K-PIC backup, off-center, instead body.
Smoke to cover the plants as well. You get away with a bit of money here. It's not half bad, but those double doors could swing wide.
Oh, that's a fun edge.
Connance, that is a great fake out.
And all while Madger still has Bombard,
they're gonna look to head this up towards A.
Oh, I can't get the fence.
Once they do that, they're always, they've come to the top.
Perfect rotation around, they leave with Cadillan as well.
It's a genius maneuver.
They have a rock.
But them locked downstairs.
We're cadia up through the vent.
It's a long road for one,
but at least this fast removed by the Duke up into heaven already.
It's no kid on the play.
Okay, do you ever kill this round in a perfect spot to get a fourth?
Oh, what is this?
He's flanking the heaven flanker who's going to get caught.
As he drops down to the back of the sight, they're desperate to catch
Arcadia.
He's got his quad kills established already and the Duke is dead in ace for Arcadia.
Come on, take your hat off.
That's so beautiful out of both Madger as a caller and Arcadia as a player.
I mean, that's that's one of the best of all rounds ever.
I think it'll weigh out of that. That was beautiful.
25.
Three players down here on the B site,
80 out with the door swing,
the Molotov perfectly forcing Frontels to wait outside of the vent,
and each and every one of the Acadias positions catching players off guard till he aces.
Damn.
That was just finesse. I mean,
the Molly on the opposite of that was just the fast move in the ball, I feel like.
So, it's a great read of every position.
That's the difference between regional lands and the big stage.
Well, the online stage of the big stage.
Well, place frag grenade, though we'll give credit where it's due, M4 in the corner for functails.
Ooh, careful Aurora, they'll get the trade with just the one casualty and Norbert on the scene with the 5-7 collects.
Down into the B-site, you'll quickly run, Chase is on, drop to half health.
Frag grenade with his name on it, drops into a corridor and magic makes sure that he won't get away.
Second kill for magic, and this one is Zantara, as has a health disadvantage, versus the remaining three pistols.
You know there are a little bit scared because they saw a quickly the rotation came from the CT side's last time
They don't want to rush it
Folks have gotta find he's in control of the vents and
Oh, he's got a legal slammed on that one's and Harris tries to slip through remember he's working with half health
Matt your work is caught by the deal, but it's so so frantic jumping into that bomb side. It surprises them
Get some way with it. Look at the health care combined at the foreclash to have to handle.
One bullet to deal with magic. No kit to play with.
It's a crazy difficult to me in there.
Lightering right now. No, they're not even.
It's got the Kevlar, in punch, not a problem.
Smoke onto the bomb.
Going to cause a bit of panic here and remember one wild spray back
break back and end up killing magic and there it's up once he does no kid, no stick,
we're trying to spam through, oh he doesn't have the time to win this regardless, so we
get a roar of converting but we'll done by Ho-Too to at least rack up the costs.
That's a two-one lease with a start here at the T-Side.
Yeah, rack the costs up as much as they could and that's everyone dead at the very least.
The moment, say, for matter of this time, he was lying to that, you know, two-on-five
didn't get the kills, but really called a number around them, but here, think, put up
three kills.
Super Mario moment coming off the silos, too hard to track for Duke Feshera, Ace Finchera.
the
another pistol round. That one was dangerously close.
Luckily for Wukati, it's only the one challenger. Nobody else could kind of swarm him in that moment.
Yeah, I'd get out of there too if I was you.
Never doing too much.
is
creep down mode going to work out pretty well
ct's are none the wiser
great flank though 12 times and you've lied another kill right this one m4
just got a pops on the scene gets too kills and if there's another desert eagle headshot to be found here
here, then we've got problems for Aurora once again.
There we go.
And for down for the count, Duke Fissora with nothing,
and so managed, vantage back in the hands of Aurora
here for the 3-1 T-side start.
Wildly sketchies, they took a little extra time
downstairs, but didn't see any CT,
so were maybe suspicious that there was some kind of flank.
Just at that point, they already have all the info.
They need to just guarantee the rounds over.
So it's kind of the start.
We expect someone, obviously,
most of them are going to pistol and then lose afterwards.
But, you know, we, everyone wanted a,
Aurora to pick a new business just so we could watch a new business.
It wasn't really for them.
It wasn't really for them.
New clothes and a bad pig.
It's just that we wanted to see a new business.
That's all.
Glad they stuck to their guns then, right?
They've really been prepping for this one.
So that is interesting, though, that with a new business coming back,
like Aurora's chances this year are doing something
sure. I mean that was like a, I feel like James VP when overpass left the pool the first time.
Yeah. That let's took a hard hit as well. That was brutal. There's no denying overpass was one of
the things that fueled their win in Rio. It's how they got through the earlier stages.
Here we go. There's ramps, action, here for the Lord of the no what they want. And that is just
smash the door off the hinges and northern down first and a fast scramble into the vents for
collage, but utilities gonna swarm these doors and funtails to dangerous game to play here with the
off.
I feel like Normor needed to try to get a pick off and fall out, you know, like that's case.
Oh, smoke and deep though, didn't deny the angle.
You can go be a gap, they can expose.
Nice. Oh, nice again, and that's what happens.
Spoke goes a bit too deep, you don't deny.
I hope to their line and now magic is gonna hide the recover it from the top rope.
They gotta get moving.
2v4.
They try to trickle out through the single door.
There's the rack player just striking at the right moment with K-E if that's wild.
Out in front of it all but they don't have the time.
It's a late kit pick up jumps on top of it but I think they missed their timing.
Oh, they've got it.
That was so close.
Man, it looked like they were miles away.
Scrabble with that one.
The milliseconds on that diffuse, well done.
What was that point?
Point one?
Or point zero five?
Yeah, point zero five.
Wow.
Who's the kinds of one here?
It was the kind of one that he's all you did to him.
Keep you up at night.
No, he's coming across, but Frontale's waits for the chance
to strike and doesn't get vision.
Santaris slips into main.
Oh, God, this is pressure for the ace item.
A moment backing up into it as well.
Sure, I heard the fall down, but Mizzu is not there to hold it.
So, Kalash takes a bullet to the back of the head and sped.
And in that disruption, we got what Kd into the vent.
So many moves, Minis just over here, he's gonna be covering this.
Well, the great spray and then he gets the drink even on the soul fly. That's a lot of value out of Norbert
Molotov's left and right side of ramp to just guarantee the bomb plant
And this is gonna be with Katie and a weird spot because it's a Mac 10 only and he knows these got to stop the top of ladder
Pretty dark and it's upgrade he can disengage now from that point. Oh
This one. Oh
Yeah, I just saw it right now, man. All while frontels walks out from the ramp trying to figure on
There's a vehicle gets the job done.
And we can't just give him a chance to connect to the headshot.
You'll hand him a flashbang.
Smoke to try to cause panic.
Almost just jumbled that down into the water.
But there you'll have another chance at this key fuse.
And what Katie is going to line up the spray huge moment again for
Acadia.
You are watching a master at work right now.
Cross the two maps plus the ace on this one.
Acadia just doesn't make mistakes.
Does everything he has to...
And I thought Norbert happened to back with this one.
Such a good couple of kills.
Get the Dink on Soulfly and his aim is good.
It's just that I feel like it's playing for him too.
Grasically, 20's up there.
But he's been kind of locking down a first one for sure.
And a couple times he got away even when he tried to stick to...
Stick around for an extra fight.
Nice shot.
There's nothing like a Zantara's outer to head into him.
How many of those have you seen?
I know.
It's like he has the boss.
And I'm gonna tell you how to never stop.
Three players trying to deal with this deal in garage,
a jumping block at shop from walkser.
Into the off-cub, right?
It was necessary.
Okay.
You know, hold two got one back on Aurora and Mirage.
So, I'm gonna taste it at their own medicine.
He's just going off now, just Norbert, 5-7, up and have it.
Aurora, with all of the time in the world to make sure that they send out the right, search party to see if A's clear first.
And that you're going to take his time with this.
Structions.
Three feet from the fire. I didn't know that.
I could be meters. Damn it. I think it's far.
Oh man, I got a Europe as far away.
That's...
Figure that one out. Whoa.
From what, man?
There's the first victim of Zantaris.
and there's the second victim of the same spot, rack him up, not just the
frags but the rounds here five on this T side already for Aurora.
It's like they've got a nice house in the cabin.
Excuse me, jumping burst clock.
Yeah, well, Foxx explained play, everyone else played counter strike.
Oh, who's like that?
That's in Tarras for you.
Yeah, that's all you're along with St. Tarras.
30 years old?
Top 20 player of 20-25.
A best-turk ever.
Oh, that's gonna keep walks at the locked-in.
But he'll miss, Neon. Those are big shoulder peaks.
There was a chance that he could have died for sure.
A little tiptoe action through the garage smoke.
And a life side cut-up.
The Duke of Fassura.
And the Orberdam caught out in the open.
He's been so good for like the one and done at the very least, but this time add them to the pile of
Ho-2 players going down with nothing to show for their efforts.
Five versus two advantage for Aurora and the Nuke pick look a real good tonight. Very good. Yeah
I think Aurora is one of the teams that really chip on their shoulder after the way that the
Major ended for them. It's got a feminine legacy really. I think the two big big disappointments
You know when we talk about how stacked the playoff was it's because everybody who should be there kind of was
And Mongols kind of snatch that spot despite having the controller's last second standin. Yeah, they didn't even keep them
But Aurora look back at Budapest and just think damn
That's such a Brazilian name. It's so Brazilian. It's even on the Mongols
Like there's a venom there already
Yeah!
Then down those the last.
Walk in the park so far for Aurora.
It's absolutely insane how long as Antares has been this good, like his aim, I mean everyone just thought he was cheating in like, you know, early days and CSGO and everything, just look at the aim.
He used to watch like his highlights on the Raj, in connector and it just looked like a task speedrun, like the way he was clearing things, it didn't make sense.
He's just kept it up the entire time for like 10 years.
He's a machine.
That's why they call him the Terminator.
Now he's got a trophy and a top 20 to go with it.
Hmm.
2026, is it the year of Aurora?
It's the map pool.
That's a big part of it, man.
It really is, huh?
Your question will just be whether they can match.
There last year's performance or even exceed it with this new edition of Soulfly.
It's the same four core.
It's not to downplay Jota's contributions, but you know, he was the most recently added player to the team.
They changed out the new guy. And also,
Locadia is kind of like,
newly on everyone's radar, but that's because he's just been getting a lot better.
Yeah, like he had his best year ever last year, so
I feel like he's not even peaked, right?
Like, there's going to be a point where he's just going to be the best Turkish player.
and
Tarras with love and hate to hear that. I mean at some point, then Tarras would be a co-twentay, you know?
Of close not meant to be.
With nice deagle shot from Colash, quickly drops down onto the hut. This is just going to expedite the be hit, feels like for Aurora,
It was like for, or a, walks of dropping nades from inside of Grosh.
And the deal that could have been dropped by a matcher.
So now, a lot of control is going to be attempted to be taken.
Po2, feeling the squeeze, like they've got to get away with some kind of map control.
And all the numbers working with is this deep corner.
But hey, it's not.
We got the thing to.
So, we'll fly taking out an H.P.
Norbert is going to be continued on the test.
He put, he got the tank.
He shouldn't just chase that kill down.
That would have made things a lot easier here for Mizu,
who's flashing himself inside of the vent.
So it's a daunting township that I'm just a ladder.
He's very nervous, and that's why I'm shocked.
Tops him from 86 to 1 HP, and then the pistol's going to end him.
Headshot from the tech nine for good measure.
Seven, two.
You ever wondered what Mario looks like going down the pipe?
It's that.
Mario going down the pipe sounds like he's got a drug problem.
Mario holding the pipe.
Faster move outside again.
They've gotten through this smoke cross with no real test multiple times.
And this round no different.
Imagine already down the secret stage.
They're just not ready for this, are they?
I'm not ready to deal with this.
In communication.
They're pushed.
They don't have anyone in ramp right now, like they aren't.
They're just not there right now.
I think the beauty of having an event with 32 teams.
You know, sometimes you get the privilege
of watching the best 10 teams in the world, then you think.
Maybe I could do this, and then you see Ho2, who would absolutely dominate you in a server,
get dominated by Aurora.
The bigger fish feeds my friends.
And right now there's no bigger fish than we're Katie of 15 and six up on that a floor nothing that
Hotsu can do about it as the winning ways of Aurora show no sign of slowing down.
What's that really big fish is it a way or a group her groupers yeah fish yeah the blue fin tuna is pretty big too.
Oh yeah.
Or whales fish no they're mammals.
Okay, like we mean yeah, you're a whale after Christmas
See if I would try to throw a spare in the works with some aggression you'd think it could work
Then you made Octadians and Tara's hangin out in the trophy room tearing your living for limb four kills on the attempted lobby crunch
T's Thrive, Duke Fissura, gives himself away for the AK upgrade, that's going to be the bomb just sprinting into the upper site.
You've got San Tarris, three kills into this round, covering Major's plant, but the bomb has that site, that's crazy!
Oh, what's this?
Come on!
That is crazy!
For Duke Fissura.
Not like, yeah, Duke Nukem, baby.
He didn't even, yeah, you're at the plant back site, it's not covered at all, and...
And I mean, that's one of two places he could have come from.
It feels like you're starting to like kind of rush the process at this point in the
round.
They do have so much confidence.
I'm sure it's just a blur right now.
These rounds.
Like I'm not even sure how hyped he is to get this, even though he did just
go to shoot a body, didn't he?
That would pick up a gun.
He ran into hot.
So, yeah.
Yeah, get the op and some nades.
No, can't.
3K on the round though, for Duke Fissura.
I hate to say it, but I'm working in for this round based on what we see.
Still, nice round.
We've watched shoot second shot on Santa Rosa. How'd they earn that?
That's your road to a draw. Snap shot over.
Wild Santa Rosa's shooting you?
That's true. Not many have been able to.
Listen, hang against that.
You gotta take what you can get.
But Aurora, still with the upper hand,
economic leave here in the final round of the half,
Cutting for a night!
And the desperately need to catch them, trying to cross, whether it's 1 or 5.
Shields like the naves are always kind of mistimed. They got the wrong ones because, yeah, I mean,
or obviously they've got levels on this map.
and
the
friends for a push to see the
four so nice catch
forward angle from frontels it's also supported by northern right behind him
a-oh, when they tried to push into hot at the same time off the op kill and instead it's a gift of a big used to abom cells
that they haven't really fully pushed the ramp yet, so we're just
offing the cross that's unfortunate
Over, really wants to get up into heaven.
Set ablaze early days and 43.
Duke Fassora is going to have to make what could end up being a tragic decision
of not looking outside, but never mind.
Keeps his guard up.
Felt that squeeze coming up from Santa Rosa.
It's a forced retake attempt in the 33 flashed around side.
It's going to set up Norbert Well.
Half-elf now for Waxick.
So fly front side clear down on from inside of the hut connects and he goes back in
before Norbert expects it it's another for the road nine rounds on the T side of a
map pick Aurora absolutely justified tonight.
Now, we set it in the pre-game, it's a horror beast when you're going up against Santa Rosa,
And on that outer yard, five successful opening duels throughout that half-mo-hons.
So, uh, to thank.
Cut from a different cloth or aurora than Ho-to's usual opponents, and while Ho-to would
give it a something to hope for back on Mirage, this one's been a blowout on the T-side
of Nuke nonetheless.
Yeah, I mean, also, Acadia, 18 kills in the nays in a 2v5 win, and...
I like those who stole them, and they will come up with kills, but Locadia got himself a couple in the middle of all that, so we stay 2v2, deep corner as well, occupied, that's going to tell them the positions of both, and it's magic comes back in,
Clash has gotten in behind the silos instead.
Did I take an extra second to put that bomb down?
Sort of loud Santara's to join forces up inside of heaven with the kit.
Clash still worried about what's going down over towards Maine.
So now he's snap back from the house.
Okay, you've got to kill him as he falls and you do.
So we've got a pistol here for a hotel to try to work with.
Those little scary.
I mean, fortunately, it's their second pistol.
So, and it's their third pistol in the series, but they haven't converted to of them.
So that means they haven't converted any of them.
Not an...
And I know expert, but that doesn't build well for your odds of winning, doesn't not a lot.
Right now, to five the stats.
There we go for the double max 10 on this one, and quick move into the F-P9, imagine
who's gonna drop with nothing to show for its enteris on the scene, also limited to
the SMG.
And so again, HOTU, know the tempo they want to play with in these rounds.
It's already taking the challenge down lower, norber versus one inside of Lobby's key.
And that's just a little more breathing room here for HOTU.
The T-side nuke come back. No one's inside. Come on. It's it's a rare sight. You know like a ho-o
Which a call me
Like a flying Pokemon. Ah
legendary creature. Yeah rainbow colored. I think
Bird type four four flying
Hate flying creatures. Hmm. Well play reach.
I'm just fighting me on the ground like a man.
Because I use fairy you fairy. Exactly. That's my creature.
Wish I was kidding.
I do love cardboard.
magic man just four players got in them down again.
Hotsu little to loose so play with that aggression you know catch them off guard.
Aurora may have well versed procedures but they have none of them have as many majors as
Norbert so that's what it got to think about that.
Rio wasn't free slam into them and see if Aurora can hang on for deer life.
That's the game plan and uh would Aurora have to work with this round that
Fominus and the United Scout, none of us inside of the Ramp Room, so again, it is open
avenues found by Ho-2.
Locadia's not gonna waste the moment though, quick Fominus rotation, down into control,
he holds the line versus Colash at least.
And a fire bomb on the other side of the doorway gives Norbert room to work.
That'll slow things down here in the majority now, USP situation of Aurora.
Bomb planted means on swing and up to the T's, yet again.
Very clean. Perhaps the right place to go.
Unlikely any more kills even go down I mean there's no reason for a warrior to give them backfragues to be honest to make them more rich
So maybe the Duke Fissora clutch could be meaningful
Oh, it's good to hurt.
Yeah, that's unfortunate.
More fun.
He's all about perspective.
I think Aurora mind too much.
Norbert's like, yeah, no, that means.
Let's just go harder.
Let's still, let's the round win.
So fly hasn't even met the team yet, nope.
Maybe it's just a trial run.
Okay, you know, you got to earn it.
Hang out of my house.
Until we win our first game.
Well, 3 and 11 destroying the other team, so four rounds away from sent victory here on Nuke.
Yeah.
Looking for a two zero today here for day one of the blast bouncing.
Day one of stage one single elimination best of three is at bouncing.
You didn't know that and we're living under a rock for the last year or so.
Magger gonna try to get away with this hog and the flash gave him a chance to leave he floats around for a second
So map control still here for HOTU and then within that utility usage you got a little peek no wall bank found
You know 45 that HOTU would love to claw back
Love in the hog usage so far. Let's use against another one
No, no
You're always cheering against the augment.
Katie, here's the stop and going down in the bomb site, still waiting the player from the top of stairs.
Fast, venture off.
Oh, nice, it's up for fun.
Tell us the beast.
Oh, walks it's got the off-kill back.
It's the northern sub there.
Chill.
Norbert down to 5 HP's going to be cleaned up by Santera's instead.
And Mizu kind of caught between these two CT's doubles back to the doors.
And he gets found.
Found a walkstick with the fast shots in the middle of all that retake
Bell like Hotsu had enough in that post plan. It's one small moment. I think from front tails who got a good kill
But then just needed to post in that door properly and walks it came out with the peak as he missed them
Yeah, it's where we fight but I'm just saying when we got down here they really made some good progress
easy pick up through that single door to start
Rura did not lay off
so Rura four rounds into the CT side collect their first round when two players survive it
the
money's good in this tech pauses and terrors fell out of the server but he's already back
nice
the hurt when you feel that it has been sent to
his
is so fly at a ad in that
it looks like it yet
spot.
It's right on NRG, we're going if they had made the journey to Europe to play in Bounty,
but they got so deep into the flamm line that they couldn't join us.
A late cancellation.
They're lost.
I hope Darth Micah's chest tell his travel story tomorrow.
He's still not here.
It's pretty crazy so far and it's still going.
80-4 damage on Norbert.
Hosty.
Oh, oh, oh, they were coming for them, man.
Down and down.
There's still got, oh, down to six.
He's not even through the front door.
It's afraid.
Yeah, but there's not another need coming.
So, gets away with that one.
Oh.
to half health on the crosses is not a comfortable start to the round at 4-0-2-1 whatsoever.
More utility pressure, before it's the trophy approach, but still, the Duke of Fassura
comes through the headshot on one.
Now, imagine locked into the wall.
So to not being shy about this stomped that away so much, so to be a psycholasticity.
get out wide and okay, wide-eyed.
Zantara's and magic down with nothing to show for it.
With Katie's on the recovery here,
surrounded by four is the bombs being planted.
Creates a bit of ambiguity, trucks to flash out,
maybe the pressure's on,
but instead he's gonna link up inside of the vents,
and Mizzuz half health.
The most health of any remaining Hotsu player goes down.
So you'd think this retakes on.
You've got to kid to play with,
you've got a ton of damage done,
but the question is,
you know, how much do they know is confirmed?
Not much.
Let's see how much damage matters.
To last, try to hold off on the double doors,
does so, so fly V2, looking for another one V2 in this series.
And Lord Bird's gonna clip him with that off.
Ho-to, find another.
And I'm surprised to see both Madger and Santera
is go down there without a kill.
On, it's insane.
I mean, with the amount of damage done,
we just saw Norber get hit with two grenades
and all to up down to 84 before the round even began.
But it doesn't matter because the players were still alive and they got the first kill as well.
So I mean, this would've had to be a 45 victory.
The amount of foot steps there, I feel like was so confusing. They just stopped.
There was never actually going to be someone trying to enter.
So...
This is the confusion tactic. It works out in orbit.
Somehow gets the final word in this round amazing.
Let's go home to now because this is a T-Side that's got something to stand on.
Yeah.
on a advantage here that's going to be a two round game if they close out this one and then things are indeed in question
don't get me wrong. Arcadia is a god at the moment, but the rest of Aurora looking like mortals and
well, so fly kind of like an insect. No, but on the windshield, 4 and 13
try to get his game going.
And imagine the only MP9 on the field here for Aurora popped after just the one kill.
Maybe if you lay long enough, something will peat by without side like this.
You got to make a move and I didn't know if it walks like even really cares.
You just got native right there. They have to come clear him. Oh, I forgot about this
It looks in terrorists. It's gonna just body bag a second, but instead it falls on McCadia 1v3
Hit there's someone who could have went on 1v3 right now for Aurora. You brought it up
From his bombs already crossed out main. Ooh, this is a freebie
Just take that one extra step and McCadia's gonna pull the trigger
And then there's a gun to be grab right outside the window again
There goes his chance.
Drop by Duke Fissura, who kicks this one off with a 3K this round, and like I said,
two round game, money in the back pockets of Ho2 as well.
This is not a foregone conclusion that Aurora win this map.
Yeah, not anymore.
Not if that lower take, they survived it all to get there.
is turning into a very promising performance. I mean, they're down a map, they didn't look
in the first half, but none of that matters.
The economy is in the balance here for the CTs.
Let's see if MoL had something cooking.
acts when rounds but ideas, ideas when matches.
Very liberal peeks here for Zantara, as he's looking to just take control of the situation.
When they run by the scope of blocksick, Mizzoo takes a lot of damage on the cross.
No kill is found however.
Still hanging out heavy on that squeaky door while the smoke's about to fade.
The last track is coming in from outer, this is going to be a quick split into the
A-Sight now, change of tempo here for O2, and it's good for the double kill on a
collage, but Santara's is on the scene and wants it up in heaven dealt with, good shot
at a front tail, through turns around to try to deal with lobby.
Oh, he's going to walk into this.
Right now he's got the bombs, so he's got nothing to do with the wait.
Oh, but he doesn't pull the trigger in time.
His teammate will blindside Santara's, but that's that bomb dropped inside of it.
Oh, no, it's right there for the taking.
And Madder has to come and check this because it could go down the vent.
This kills right here could be everything.
Oh, but he doesn't have the HP doesn't hit the shot square on the head.
And Madder gets away with two walk peak kills.
I have no idea how he killed Frontale's walking into hut on that angle.
Two angles held.
Madder took turns into both.
And just a lack of reaction at both members of Ho2 to deal with Madger.
So he finds had shots instead.
instin. Yeah. Once and twice.
We see you, Madger.
Sixteen kills to his name off that one.
And Aurora.
Two rounds from victory tonight.
Fast push down to the bottom of the silo.
Gonna throw a player up there.
Santa Rosa is in the corner.
Oh, no.
Oxick's gonna serve on great distraction.
The sort of distraction that's gonna blind side teammates.
One bullet comes out. Okay.
Oops, mistake from Zeterra is gonna cost him and this rounds back on is Norbert finds the recovery instead. It could be a big mistake. They're not that rich
down goes another Duke Fissura catching with Katie on top of the blue box man advantage established. Oh, too. Oh
What could have been
It's a lobby control instead taken over by magic
And it's fine. Oh, it's
Perfectly.
I'm not sure surely no way he gets away with it.
The manager comes back with Lobby control makes it into a 3v3.
These are calling in.
Perfect.
Pinch between the two.
That's fine.
But it's actually, imagine, still up top.
Vent players are going to try to come out and serve up a distraction.
And then in that moment, imagine swings again.
Another bit of late-round impact does the Duke Finkey.
You think he can dive that vent instead?
Magic goes for the trophy play, getting out of the throw take.
Duke Fistora's gonna find Lobby Clear.
He's gonna follow him to the ramps.
You just heard that, surely.
He comes in behind him.
Duke's just gonna run though if he's gonna make this play happen.
Get the fort to jump and make this down.
Seconds, my friend.
Got to now just sprint this in.
Oh, you've got now.
And so it's done for.
Rice to run it forward, Duke Fistura, chasing thoughts of a flank through the lobby, but
literally the real eyes took the wrong route.
Yeah, the long route really slowly, as well.
Um, how to chance to win that playing isn't up or I thought that, I thought that
magic was some kind of genius when he pulled back the ramp, that's how he's going to
re-aggress.
But he was just going to cover the other option in case a vent drop game, which was also
great.
I don't know if he realized that play was coming, but it worked out well.
I hate to break it to the Hochu fans, but the buys not pretty.
Technines across the board utility for most.
The Duke would 2,500 to spend joins them in that struggling spot.
tech 9 and utility across the entirety of HOTU here up against elimination at Bounty.
There were close shave trades in both of these last two rounds, but unfortunately for HOTU
is a roar to come out on top in each situation.
The terrorist walking it in, catching a player, jumping in the back and so the
tech nine tries to swing to catch a mob guard through main comes another.
The Lash of Hesu with a kill apiece.
Colash gets his hands onto the M4, so if I try to play around the edge of the smoke here,
They open up the vent drop, will he take the shot?
No, they dive it.
They're down there.
Two players downstairs, front-held still up here,
decides to join them through that vent instead.
I don't mind that at all.
It's gonna be really difficult for a while.
They would've looked at someone upstairs,
get the kill, make it a 2v2.
They won't find anything like that now.
I don't know if it's advisable to even try this to be honest.
Well, I have to concede it's a fast play.
somehow ho-to with just tech nights, or able to win this round.
Take it on, Aurora's terms, finding that peek into the squeaky door,
and then just flooding out with it, you know, if their plan was just what?
Any point with tech nights is kind of nice that the squeaky challenge comes your way
because that just sort of serves as a trigger.
You don't have to find the timing correctly if the timing's given to you.
And so, host two counts on that, with no hesitation, take it downstairs,
They'll walk away with the round win and a couple of cults.
All right, off to the races. Once again,
utilities okay. No, the little here is not too bad.
I don't know the one they just had for sure.
Ouch. Another first kill is Antares down outside.
Off the top of the main truck, get caught by Wikipedia, but unable to go through the double down.
Man, advantage held onto Ho2. So fly is gonna try to come knocking on this instead. Now right now, that bomb is alone to his right.
Man, 5 and 16, but he's in a position that could just be a nightmare for Ho2.
It depends how he plays it, but you better believe he's not feeling confident right now.
Walks a bit too late to find this climb up, taking too much time to make it happen.
They'll do the move, right? It's got to be the bomb to come through main, and have both flies stuck around in that position,
then maybe he would have bought the bomb, but now instead, the bomb's going to fly to an open row.
It's to have an MP 90, this is actually not bad.
Scopes a couple times outside, so fly ahead of that. He's watching the ladder.
He's making noise down the teeth, right?
Yeah, because of the ops go on beneath the off went for a dice go to the pretty sure the graffiti spray so then all of a sudden all the tension on ladder instead
They make the most of that with the MP9
It's an audio bait to get the better of O2
Bomb planted not for that squeaky play of normal either pressure on this forward facing setup
The crossfire here between the fence it gets disconnected front
No, no, no, no.
Thanks, bullets around the side.
Nasty.
And a 1v2 collect to keep Hotu's hopes alive.
Well, that was a really great try.
And late wake up for Soulfly, but obviously this one's
also assisted as you pointed out by that bait from below.
Now the two scopes, that's sneaky.
The graffiti, please.
Oh, no, no, no.
Oh, no, no.
I think I heard something.
They're not NPCs. Although they were both staring at the ladder
And now look where you are left Aurora the T side Nuke come back no one ever sees it coming
We're not very yet forces no eco possible
Never in a million years would around like this work
The way that Ho2 play, I get a little worried for them in a situation like this.
Slow default outside.
A lot of utility walk peeking things.
Oh...
Well, oh, well, there was damage.
No.
No.
Okay, not live.
Okay.
Okay.
If you're funny to go back in the server, they're all just looking at me as soon.
He's looking back at him.
What kind of connection you got?
Three players looked at him. Nobody killed him.
Imagine as other ideas.
Well, we'll have to reset that one won't we?
the
Yeah, or else.
felt like HOTO were finding answers.
Let's take a look at the
center of string and cope with no pressure.
Sure.
It's a beautiful chandelier.
How much of those things run you?
I don't know.
Hundreds or thousands.
1000. I heard Le, say something beautiful about Freya during the
award show. Okay, ready. Freya is like a chandelier. She illuminates the room
but takes up no space. Wow, that's poetry.
ah
Blah, blah, the metal head, the metal head, you know what I thought?
That is poetry. Hard of gold, black gold.
That's kind of like, but gold. That's like, rye you for me.
Oh, yeah, except no space. Beautiful.
Adds to the room. That's what he's doing right now on his true voice.
Yeah, when you said that, I mean, just getting anybody's way.
is way I was like that is a great way to like try and leave or that's what I should have said a nice new player
doesn't get in the way
because of all Ben there we all have that team yet there's just breathing down your neck
new you know sometimes you know you stand in the wrong spot you throw in the wrong
neid you're um you're doing too much five bump into you it's not my fault
don't be that guy in my way yeah
the
is going to be really anti-climatic if we just wait the tech pause out and then
months to come out of
the
You know why they drink that tomato juice? Yeah, no, why do they drink that on planes?
It's because you because you lose
Taste when you go high up in the air and planes so they give you that because tomato helps bring out flavor
Ah, yeah, I don't know if it's pseudo science or not
Or just facts, but maybe it was big tomato that really pushed the agenda
It's like, you know how they say like
I'm drinking milk, but you don't need to.
Sure?
Yeah.
But you grow up, like, you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Right.
It was a big cereal.
Big cereal.
Sold us on that one out.
Could be big tomato in this guys.
Jokes on them.
Disgusting vegetable on the earth and in this guy.
It was not ready for that.
That's what how you feel about tomatoes.
No, I actually don't mind them.
I'm just kind of taking this position for Hugo Byron.
He's a big tomato hater that guy. Oh, yeah, big tomato hater. He'll go
So Hugo, we've got a season them Hugo. You just got to fry them a little. Oh, he'll go. What if you now?
I think he just had a curry today that had to make it in said it was the best meal effort. I mean, I've been Hugo's friend for a long time
He's
In the he's been a picky guy in the past. Yeah, he's really broadened his horizons. Like he hates nuts
That's really hates nuts as well.
He says, they're nuts in that, and I said, eh, buddy.
He says, no, you.
No nuts.
No nuts across the board, but what did we have to do to help
me fats in that?
We had cashews the other day.
I said, you go give it another try.
Nobody dislikes cashews.
Yes, what?
He loves them.
Oh, okay.
I was gonna say that.
It's like the sweetest one.
But peanuts don't get them started.
Yeah, peanuts are kind of cumbersome.
Sometimes to eat.
All right.
Well, couple nut jobs sitting here,
flapping their gums while we throw this to a break.
I'm sure you guys hate these nuts too.
We'll be back in a second here as we figure out this last round of play.
We'll be like a jerk off right here.
So what do I do now is a vocal scene?
Oh, Devalo.
So, countering is illegal, right?
It's legal.
And hand percent legal.
We cannot just rock out with the booth and start shining on the bread of can.
They want you to rub the can off, so nobody can see it with the bread of this.
And they're just in woes or stage two.
Obviously, it breaks down like this.
It's legal to drink it.
It's legal to bring it to you, but you can't show it when you're out on the break.
But it doesn't matter, because for them, it's illegal to stop you.
And that's the right that reference and player management don't have.
Okay, next time I'm being in sound with me, but you know what's the funny thing
competing around the world or in just more differences.
They got all the same sheep over there that we got at home.
Example?
Okay, like look at the last two plus two majors.
In a lane you can drive, and you're fucking server, and it'll be true to crazy people.
And also the craziest comes I've ever seen, and it varies.
Do you know how the code fucking do?
Should I call a deal?
Take a different class man, they know what the fucking deal is.
Then, why does they call it?
They call it little coupe.
A little coupe?
What is the equal force by?
A force by?
It's still a force by.
But they call it lefox.
She has lefors.
What do they call full save?
I don't know, man.
I didn't do any calls.
I mean, the unforgettable names in all through Counter-Shark,
I mean, there's so many in every single generation.
I think usually it's someone who's able to kind of break the rules of that particular era,
someone who kind of unlocks this vision of the way they want to play the game,
but other people can see and build upon it.
By the first time name is Snacks, to find how smokes could be used,
where he played around them, or he walked through them, the way he hid in them.
That wasn't being done at the time. That particular moment is a time of greatness for Snacks.
Someone like JW and Kenny asked with how aggressive they were with the off.
trophies, winning events, going on streaks. The NIP guys, because of the streak that they went on
the fanatic guys who established an error, there's always greatness there.
Think for Pasha, I think we'll made him, was his personality. Having someone being that outspoken
in that strong, and provide emotions and provide his thoughts and be entertaining in a way that
the audience can connect with and fans, can connect with and we as commentators can connect with.
He was always able to get kills and despite that, you'd see these moments where you were like,
how is this guy a pro like the way he walked around corners the way he stepped into a 1v1?
In fact, pros at the time even had a name for it called the Pasha Peak, which was like the
slowest, most awkward peak ever. And that was kind of the greatness to finding mood around
around the team at that point. All off back in like 2015, he was such a force to be reckoned with.
He was one of the players that, that fanatic could just send out and say, find us a killed.
And he could go dual two or three players at a time. He really did become that player.
Or once upon a time, he was the jack of all trades. And he was just so good at all those trades.
2016 was the Arrow at Brazilian Counter Strike really hit it.
Fallen's greatness obviously comes from his movement and his ability to understand
his positioning, take a shot, fall back, find new cover, and he was like a master of
this kind of like retreating off defense that would just pick a player off it.
So you add all that together with his leadership and then kind of the style of Counter Strike
that he developed with the Brazilians and Fallen's just in some ways a complete package
of greatness.
Device was someone who kind of mastered the textbook of Counter Strike and always played
within its limits to its maximum potential.
So, I woo as someone who just has incredible consistency, sharp with the AWP as well as the AK-47
extremely versatile, and he's a star player that doesn't demand a lot.
Simple as greatness came from the fact that he just beat the game.
He's the best player to ever touch it.
His motivation at some point was, I want to put on a show.
I want the crowd on their feet as I decimate you inside the server.
And that level of greatness is really hard to achieve, and might not ever be achieved again.
And for me, I think the goat conversation is a fun one.
Device is the greatest CSGO player of all time.
Four majors, what 21 MVP's, 20 MVP's,
he was the center point for the greatest team of all time
of that Astralis lineup, and then we get to Zaiwu.
And he's going to take the mantle of the greatest player of all time.
It's just a matter of time before everyone kind of gets on board
and accepts that.
Someone like Montesy is someone like Doc should be next in line
to have some kind of a goat status conversation.
Do you need the major trophies?
You have to have them.
Doc's already got one in his first rookie year.
He's doing this in year one,
where is he going to develop into?
But it's competition, and it's counter strike,
and things can change in a heartbeat.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
And we're back.
12-10 folks is where we sit pretty here for a roar of versus Ho-2.
Thank you for your patience.
It's over.
You know, just brush, right?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, after doing that defaults,
probably we're feeling a little stressed out about it.
But...
chance to catch your breath versus the solo MP9?
We're gonna go right back to it.
Oh, you just a little bit faster outside.
Let's get definitely be the play.
Five secret primed for the taking.
No challenge out from heaven, either.
Oh, rotation's coming down quick.
They're not double-thinking this.
Santa Rosa's MP9 up.
Five seven ahead of them.
Once walks it to take the contacts that he can go big.
and
the
garage, which is by the looks of things
hout to his next move. Yeah, this is actually a great call from
a two
oh, no, we didn't clear that.
We're inside it by the first, but more were that came from.
Is that desert eagle kill though enough to send Hout to back down stairs?
That is exactly what Aurora we're looking for.
Yeah, they're getting excited about this now.
They're hoping to push something back this way.
The corner is five-cented first things. Good MP-9. A lot to be left.
Oh, here. Oh, he tries to get away, but instead the Duke of the Soros
is going to catch him on the exit, and Soulfly still stuck inside of the vents.
And I had your car on the window crossing. How they know of these last two CTs,
trying to dodge the threat, the AK tears through them,
and we are going through round 24.
That's okay. So, this is what was supposed to happen.
This is what did happen now, and even though it was a 45,
five. There was no real buy here coming in for Aurora. So, look like they're getting
around there looking for it, but no major disaster here for Ho2.
The comeback is on.
9-3 start for the record. 9-3 T-side Aurora on their map pick. We thought to ourselves
Yep, here we go.
Oh, too.
Just don't have what it takes to compete here on this map versus the lights of Aurora.
Okay, make the new this.
So, we'll fly Hates this map.
7 and 17 at the moment.
It's with Katie at the top of the charts.
26 frags to his name.
I picked it because I am.
So, while this game has gotten this close, when you look back over to the score line of
line of Ho-2, it's not like there's this big pop-off kind of moment, but just doing
enough. It's a humble day of work. Team effort, Norbert ever so slightly beyond the rest.
I had to take one on the chin with the pistols and the last round of work,
I could just put this all to rest right here right now in the 24th.
If they're doing a good job of countering Xantaris outside, that's one thing.
And he's been really active.
Oh, that's big damage, does he have food?
Off though.
Yo!
Off hits the lake shot.
Centares just dodges that push in through the garage.
You'll happen to the chance that it's being covered by Waxik.
Yeah, he's just got to watch Greta Card.
But how long do they want to hold onto the question?
But everything covered.
Oh, they figure out where he is.
Colash over top of the boxes from Main Roof.
Gonna send two players downstairs.
His Wakadia signs up for the garage fight.
Almost catching that player with a maiden hand.
It's a lot of control given up. He gets out of me and all the while there's some good movement down stairs from
Ho-2, none from Aurora. Yeah, no one's made this move
They kind of just want to go quickly honestly
So they're gonna find it free for the taking
Aurora still thinking that Ho-2 would have been playing outside little that they know three players deep inside of B
And the other two
Hang around the outer.
With Katie and catches the headshot onto Mizu.
Colash has been doing good work this round.
Two kills a day.
Oh, it's got enough.
What a day it comes through.
Finishes that off.
We go back even 3v3.
And these smokes were sent down early.
But the bombs at the halfway point now.
And there is no cake here on the side of a road.
This re-take has to be fast.
From here on out.
Miss Bob Shot gives way to Duke Fassaurus position.
And they even win now.
I don't know.
Time.
It's so far gone already.
They have wasted their time to get through.
waste of their time to get down here with Katie
it comes out with another.
And then he's on top of the bomb,
but no coverage from the double doors.
And for till,
blocks this one in,
sprays them down for the triple fall.
And over time needed after a measly
three rounds CT side from O2.
And that's the best round yet.
I mean, they actually game the rotation upstairs
and down stairs.
They got the lurk going outside.
This was, this was a war.
Who could not dislodge their bigger watch player.
And they feel was in tears again.
I mean, even more damage to this time around, but he didn't end up getting a kill.
And they dedicated a lot of resources to try and help sent to Arizona's situation
and he still died, and all the while, again, they didn't get caught up in one idea.
They went downstairs with everybody, no rotations whatsoever.
So I doped the Sora, clutch at the end of the first half, mattered.
One V2 from heaven, we could not afford it.
An unlikely couple of mishawts from Santa Rosa that he punished.
six off, placed out her.
Very sneaky getting into their spots outside. This one's just a secret lurker.
It's coming, bombs coming back lobby.
Gonna finally do an upper pop.
They're gonna take a ramp it looks like.
I'll get in the same place.
Oh, I've covered it.
Terras has to give it up as well, fire in front of it.
He goes running back outside and he's blindsided by mezu, and there is nothing to talk about.
You're for a rarer whatsoever.
the
the
of the
the
of the
He gets his 20th frags secured.
I mean, they're looking kind of static now, right?
Aurora, like, it's not like they're putting
a lot of pressure back outside the way the O2
are getting a little better each round
at staying a live longer moving faster.
And right here, it's just measuring the exact same spot
as before.
And all these alerts, that take place is the lower head.
They have the ability to take up or at the same time.
Looks like a war are gonna have to work to save this.
Oh, he hit that falling down insane.
Frontal gets that off without here to see.
So as Antares has just been honestly bullied at this point.
Down to the 19 and 21 scoreline,
his CT side has not been something to talk about.
No problem killing him outside.
It's something like five opening kills
and just the first half outside on the T side
was where he was doing his best work, but hot and cold between the defense and the attack,
we're putting to a 43 advantage this time to hold you's favor.
We're still up, a trade comes down quick though, and they can actually jump on this.
So fly, not had the best game so far.
bomb gets hit back and it's really running fast actually so
flat is just going to he's kind of suspicious about this but
measure no idea that's going to cost them clash again from just playing
the side of red box he's going to end this one he is finding his
groove now these last couple around instant headshots on players outside
making the most of this opportunity up to 22 kills and hoax you
gunning for a flawless overtime at this rate the first pistol
when were they convert and then they make a real T-cell. Oh my gosh, they knocked at some
moment he hits the ground. Yeah, it's not so far. Present terrace. It's not no kind of ways now.
And after the first half, it's crazy they're not even scared of him. Seems like he's the one who is now.
this is like a locati in a dark situation
we used to carry if a rotor aren't able to finish off this game
drop this game.
Santa Rosa hopping a ramp in contrast to what you're used to.
The shot, the shot, the shot.
Land so that one hand in those scopes ambitious, but hey, finishes it off.
Waxick there with the double sniper set-ups going to start to put this one on ice.
Two before chased down into the lower bombsite.
I think then you're used to seeing, but good recovery.
It was scary for a second.
Those first two whiffs made you think it was done for, but
so I'm just grooving the end.
And now this tucking position here from what Katie is going to blind side.
The counter-oper of frontails
converts the last players out here in the open.
And what Katie has got to for the road.
So one round to Aurora in the overtime of their CT side.
So how good they were on the T side.
So one could be enough.
I think, obviously, HOTU looking to sweep that would have been so unlikely.
It's crazy they won two and a row after that.
But actually is it because they made this full come back happen?
It looked like you missed, but you'd lagging my guess, right? The nosecope.
It was that or hit the off, I saw the gun jump off the ground.
Didn't catch the health bar.
Either way, I think it's the centrist flash that saves it.
We have to.
Almost looks like you shot him through the gun.
We know that's not possible for whatever reason.
And you do see a think come off of it.
Hmm.
Maybe CNCS-3 Guns will bleed.
They could feel what we feel.
Frontale's been a bit of a nuisance. This hot presence for Hotsu's done some good.
Purchased up top with eyes outer.
It's a new lease on life for them.
and frontels just walks away from this.
There really haven't been any super place from the CT side from either team.
the
go of it in the second map of the series,
invitation to head down stairs by the looks of the laser.
Still all upper right now.
So I don't know.
They saw that Molly into secret and it feel like they just
want to believe it's going to be an upper return.
Centares if he does die here.
Oh, they're scared of upper.
They're so scared of upper.
I think his Aurora have to move.
On the clock, Centares.
Oh, it's trying to be as thorough as he needs to be.
Now, Colash back sight.
They're going to start the panic to send back.
And he strikes the perfection, knows that one got by him.
And then that bomb plant attempt in the back of the site,
SoulPly 20 health pressed up against it,
and match your dives in the backdrop to the single door swing.
15 rounds, hold to have a chance to extend play.
They got another overtime, guaranteed it could close out with one more.
It is a totally new team.
After the comeback, into overtime, getting better by the round.
and lots of days in.
I'm running into a gate to win.
It's on the first time you die first.
Can they stuff them out of the gate again? Big question.
With the gate is formed.
Still any pressure on immediately?
We've got players setting up inside of the rooftops.
Nades inbound.
I don't find their march. Colash is sitting on top.
It's boosted off, but the pounce could come out at any moment.
And then it kind of stalls for a second, Santerra.
This is that we're nothing, but before we try to push this series to a third, and
these who's down, but that's all right, because teammates all around him.
Imagine 55 health shaped away piece by piece, who to survive a 93-team side from Aurora, not enough.
Unbelievable that they find more life here at Bounty.
I can't hear control 31 kills, but it doesn't matter when Ho-2 are playing like a team
they're playing together and they're playing with some fire and they started to believe
and that belief got them an impressive win on their opponents map pick.
I'm shocked, frankly.
I saw Ho-2 dismantle other teams in their region leading up to this tournament on the side
of Nuke, I did not expect them to handle Zantara's in that second half as they did.
I mean, the variety of outside takes that they had in order to sneak down Lord or to find
the opening pick.
I mean, they were just picking them apart.
Yeah, this was a true team performance for them to be very proud of it, especially considering
that back's really pushed up against them.
What they showed us on the rods was lackluster.
This wasn't looking like they could compete on any level with this.
This is a shock, but obviously it's still only one map with this.
I think the positives here though is going to be looking at like frontels for example,
remember.
He is ideally at the same time as dragging out like this is a crazy situation for him.
For Talis in this game, I feel like had a lot of kind of mid-late round impact even though
he's wielding the op sometimes.
I feel like actually it was it was sometimes even in the lower situations because they
were just hammering that lower bomb site how he was able to just kind of make sure that
he lock and key held the round for them.
I feel like you could pick on a couple guys too.
I think Mizu in this game as well.
I mean, to me, when I watch him play for Ho2,
he's probably actually could be the most mechanically
talented guy, but sometimes doesn't always
get into the flow of things.
This one, he was taking Duel's winning them.
I mean, I don't know if he necessarily
popped off the page, but he got a couple key kills
in the last five or six rounds that really helped them get
over the edge.
Well, we got into overtime and then.
So let's stop by looking at how we got into that situation, right?
Let's look around 24 exactly and just see the madness that unfolded to get them
that in this first place.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like the Ho2 method was tried and sure.
You throw your outside yards, folks.
They had a couple varieties of them.
But then they flash right through.
They're able to put so much pressure on the mid garage.
They're able to get down lower with that sort of pressure.
And then again, yeah, Mizu, I mean, he has some of that space outside.
I think the man thing with Hoatz is they just kind of exerted this dual pressure like they get down lower while still maintaining that space outside.
It was kind of part of why they were able to just keep a roar off kilter in so many of these.
But yeah, front hall is at the very end.
One V3.
The time was already ticking down for him, but the lineup, I mean, it's just picture perfect and picture perfect.
I'm going to say, I misspoke.
It was actually Duke.
It is the idea of a solid.
Yeah.
I got mixed up when looking at it with all of it, but I will say, these moments, right?
Then spurred them on because you get into that overtime and it felt like the game shifted
in a way that it wasn't looking like across the rest of the game.
I really thought that, in over time, we would see a little bit more, I guess, proactiveity
from the Aurora side. But it kind of just felt like they let once again,
whole two go back to what they wanted to do and go for the outside yard smokes.
Magic is taking down at-ram off of a great pick from
front all is, but then on the side of
Ho-to, they again, they just have full rain or full
control of outside, I'm just kind of
surprised. Like Aurora, at times, pushes
Antara's towards that kind of Africa that
forward under silo region, but he got taken
down in a kind of a miss out like you
kind of misfired one bullet, but then I just
felt like they weren't quite as proactive.
Like they just kind of wanted to play this
defensive style, but honestly, when you let
hold to have that much outside yard space on multiple consecutive rounds. They know how to convert and then they really put the pressure to a roar, but someone who might be fitting the pressure a little bit more right now is so far. I don't want to pick them because you had a rough game, but it's early doors for this guy and it seemed like especially here on Newt. He was feeling uncomfortable. Like he didn't ever look to me in a situation where he was okay, like I'm aware of what I'm going to do. I know what my spacing should be wasn't there. I mean, so fly a James, I want you to guess. Okay, I look this up. All right.
So, on face it and officials on HLTV for Soulfly,
guests in all of CS2, how many new games on face it and HLTV combined in all of CS2.
All of CS2.
Did his last team play new?
No.
Okay.
He wasn't on, remember though, he wasn't on San Gal before that?
Uh...
Let's go 12.
10.
10.
Oh, they're close.
They're all on face it.
Just face it.
face it. He actually, I mean, Sangal played it in CSGO. He played in CS2. So it's been a while
that he's not been that which I look so uncomfortable right now. He's got, he's got in terms of
you and officials in CSGO, it's less than 10. So this guy has practically no experience on
Nuke, even though by the way, reminder to everybody at home, Aurora picked that, that's
no way he had no experience on the map. Like, what a little way, like, I feel like you're
trying to ease your new guy in most of the time, give him a map that he's come through a lot
Like even phase was going for Jacob's ancient because he's comfortable on those positions, but Aurora
Just like yeah, we're gonna give you the map that you've never played in an official
I mean, I'm kind of mind blown about that one like they thought he was really gonna fit in that easily
This what they did right they got him the picture
That's okay. We'll do it off camera off camera
maybe another award show actually either way. I mean, I just think that the trial by fire clearly was too hot for him to handle. Yeah, it definitely was, but
Wikadia was the positive and he was on fire, but even with that crazy carry performance, 33 kills. Yeah. That wasn't enough. Like that's tough, man. No, I mean, I feel like also for for Wikadia's sake. I mean,
He was the consistent factor throughout the entirety of Nuke.
But I think there was a tale of two halves
for the other star for Aurora.
The fact that Zantara's got off to a blistering star
on the T side.
I mean, the 50 openers that he had in the first 12 rounds.
But then on CT side, he was just picked apart.
It just really felt like Aurora on their defensive side here
came severely under prepared for Hozu.
Because again, watching Hozu in the lead up to this tournament,
They love these variety of outside yard smokes and they love just kind of playing around them flashing into big garage sometimes taking three like one to three players down lower, but they're going to test you on your lower defense wrapping through secret and clearly Aurora they just weren't prepared for that and they really didn't even have the answer of I thought they would even also maybe rotate a guy down secret earlier, but that just didn't even really seem to be in their wheelhouse either.
So I'm kind of perplexed by the lack of adaptations there for Aurora.
But I'll give credit to Houghty because they played Tier 1,
Newc in terms of just putting together good offensive rounds.
I'm, by the way, why can't you at the same time?
You really have the same ADR as like two and a half,
Houghty players. Yeah. Okay. And then at the same time,
two of his players almost two in a corner, I would say.
It's like he's doing everything to make that work.
We'll just run some from Talis Highlights at the same time to come back to the
because what I want to look at here is, first of all,
he had good moments across this whole game to start off here.
But it was just like, I feel right now that Aurora is that team,
especially now it's online, even if they're a boot camp,
where I would worry for them, no matter what map they've played next.
But whatever happens, because guess what we're coming up with two next.
Overpass.
Oh, jeez. I mean, I remember I hope to overpass game.
Yeah. I remember in all goats overpass game.
You know, they beat fury on that map.
on that map. You said ESO for a leg. So that's not going to be easy for them. So I mean, for
a more that is I'm worried about a roar, man. I'm worried about him because I feel like
Joe took um it's one it's it's two maps. I want to I want to jump the gun here. Don't
but all wait. You wait. Oh wait. We got to a break and when we come back it's overpossed
between a war and her two.
The reactions from Ho2 as they find themselves with an important win over Aurora.
The hype is real, the belief is there, they're excited while Aurora, they're deflated.
And if I'm my gator, I'm thinking, what the hell that I put off this game for, if we're
going to end up losing it as well.
on the other side of things.
Haven't a rough time.
No go.
Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, sh!
Okay.
That's why he's the go.
Yeah, that's why he's the go.
That's the cultural impact I'm looking for right there.
See.
That's, that's why we love him.
That is why we actually really do love normal.
He gives everything great interviews, great content.
Can be sacrificial, can be the star player.
Can do all the interviews.
Can do all the content.
At least hateable.
He's hateable player.
You can't hate normal.
I've never heard of him.
I've never.
I've never.
of a player or a coach or a talent.
What do you want else to be like, yeah, that's more of a guy, man.
He's such a dick, like it just doesn't have no.
No, even when he's flipping off the camera,
I take it in stride.
I'll be like, oh, you gave me that bit of your energy.
Exactly.
That's valuable.
Now, we've got a valuable deciding map.
It's overpass.
I remember Ho-Too enjoying this playing this,
like doing what you mentioned in the Fury again, they won.
My question is, how many soul fly footage?
Did you already said he wasn't comfortable on New?
I mean, I've got bad news for this time.
It's so important.
Oh, wait.
Is that a good answer?
I think I hope to took that.
Reduction.
Yes, that was good.
Okay.
I'm going to actually be real.
I think that might lightly, lightly help so fly because when he switches to the CT side,
he played a rifleer on overpass, on his last scene.
But that's the antara's disposition.
So again, he's going to be on com.
So at least he's going to snagging.
Something to think about when that second half hits, when he probably has to take
Joe does be anchor spot. You know who's the be-lirker for HOTU?
It's Norbert. It's Norbert. He's got it. He's like one of the best over-class
past players by raiding in the last time that the map was even in the pool.
He's going to put him in the torture chamber.
All right. Did you imagine that? Norbert is just going to manhandle him in that second half.
Okay? Keep your eyes peeled for that matchup in particular.
Just to bring us to some reality though. All we may be over-hyping this too much.
if it's actually warning signs for this is difficult.
Now, this is difficult.
I mean, legitimately, when Ho2 played Fierrea,
they had a couple different defaults that they went for
on the T side.
They are a bit more comfortable.
And I'd say four months ago, even at EPL,
it was actually almost a little stagnant,
but when I was looking at their more recent games
on Overpass, they've varied the playbook more.
If they have more looks, they have a couple more boosts
that they also run in terms of just getting their offer
in tow and just ready to find opening picks. So there's a lot of ways that
Ho-to can find entries on this one. And I don't feel like Aurora came into this
series as prepared as I wanted them to off the player brick. And they can't take
Ho-to lightly will have to see what happens with going to overpass
Scourney and Londos is nobody you'll go as well. I mean, I can't say anything
bad about the guy. I think you're right about that. Go maybe an
exaggeration. But hey, I'm going to cheer for him. I'm going to cheer for him for
I mean, I think that, I mean, I really like Aurora's overpass.
I feel like, HOTU, this could be a problem only if Aurora are, I mean, it could be a problem if Soulfly is just not good.
Absolutely.
General.
Yeah, because, I mean, we've seen some Dave use that have gone well.
So now for Soulfly, fortunately, he's got to be the last to prove today.
Yeah.
And that's the map on new and I mean that's a map they could have won 10 times over so
We'll see the last chance here on overpass for sure
But like when it comes to like how to play CT side and and what we'll see the approach here from from Aurora, but
This is one of their strongest maps, you know, in terms of what kind of game they bring
Can soul fly slot in and do it though. That's a big question for now. It's the T side at four Aurora
I'm going to take that quick sprint into A.
Colash, not alone here.
able to collect on Soulfly a strong start
as Duke Fistura holds off inside a connector,
but it was Aurora trying to just slip this bomb
into the B-site instead, which, at least,
is the one part of this plan that goes well.
2B5 though.
Certainly not ideal.
Make it a 1B5 off-bat one.
We're Katie, a kind of pinched here as the connector fights
coming at him, but oh, it isn't.
It's a lawless.
Oh, well, they actually converted
the pistol on new could then they made it come back and won the map now. Now let's see
they can convert another pistol here because they and that's some of them bring up because
they I think they feel three conversions so far this year. So, um, well they do that now,
and then they're swimming. Clinical shots coming out from your A defenders, perfect
reposition here from Duke. Keeperore like mad. Keeperome really mad. It was a total break down by
at the end of the game. The last, like, T-site exec on Nuke, like where they tried to pop up
up her. They were just out of it. They were out of it.
We're starting to stay with laughter.
It could damn well end in frustration.
I'm coming to the round two with the force by again. You mentioned it. The amount of pistol
conversions that hold to a left on the table.
I can't afford to let this one also slip the same way as the others.
No kid on this round, and a couple of grenades still to play off of, but Hotsu taking
a more passive play inside of A, leaving it on Duke to just hang on to upper bathrooms.
Big Duke.
is why soul fly goes to get ever closer to the short play on B smoke goes over top of the bathrooms
uh they over a simple fight and then on clear our bathrooms and you just wait
and get themselves a front smoke just kind of get closer to things to be a huge problem for them
as a flank or if they try to fall back to stairs which are not doing and actually front
tells is just evacuating this is just too low information right now
monster smoke just faded as the short play comes in so that was Norbert watching the opposite side of
be and all the while they're able to just trickle into this abom site, which is already
been surrounded by Duke.
5v4, hangs onto the bathroom's play as Magier kills Colash.
All but he slips underneath the awpx camp, managed to track all of WCAG, but still take
some down to 15 health deep play.
Here from Zantara is good headshot for the one.
Mizu in a pinch between bank and the dumpster push, and Norbert's later rival is currently
on the opposite side, this is going to cause a bit of panic, but it's smoke out and try to
flush him, trying to force this fight over towards Optimus. He doesn't have a kit for
this and so that five help from magic. That is what's going to win this and Aurora do it again,
robbing around after Ho-2 take pistol. Yeah, unfortunately, that's just, that's really rough,
but there were, there were ways to play it back against that if you were Ho-2, so they didn't
implore them. They kind of dug their own grave right there and it's a good move here from Aurora,
but they don't even have info on top bathrooms in.
I think Duke just didn't want to blow his position.
We get that, but also his teammate left.
It didn't actually know it was happening outside of bathrooms.
They were in such a prime spot to get a little bit more map knowledge and they didn't look for it.
And that's why they lost this round.
That's why they lost so many of these conversions.
Oh, too.
Ha ha ha.
I knew if I waited long enough you'd find another.
Make you clap like monkey.
the
smoke pin pulled for clash
is going to be better here
it's going to get that clear off
It's not bad here for me zoo
Very quiet. They're gonna be comfortable with that for a control. Oh, I mean, yeah
Into the scaval instead of chopper's and terror as that boat well. I get this
He's gonna try to track you down map his full player, but me zoo off the shorts on the soul flight gets the short kill
But the pistol draws attention and now all the supports on seen they're done for right back in action are oh two yeah, that was um
Okay, so that's that that's new they haven't got E code and then pulled one back right after this is a
This is the fortuitus. Oh, too. This is a
Fortified, oh, too. They're looking way more confident now
And these go up listen sort of on the other side of it where so flowers having a bad map. You was struggling back on Nuke
He's looking for event performance as well
The elephant.
The elephant.
The elephant's on the ground.
That's James Banks after working a double shift today.
More power to you brother, the elephant in the room.
Maybe Darf gets your bite tomorrow. Maybe
I'm just saying Darf Mike was in Las Vegas suddenly late for work. Mm-hmm
Frontdale's ready for the attack out bathrooms and yeesh get to wait for him as the charge comes out
The all in from Aurora that was afforded to them honestly you let players walk up bathrooms like that no contest
Of course they're gonna flood your bombsite when they get the chance
I'll fool me once.
While I'm playing goes down to the middle of all this,
unfortunately, just that one kill to kick this offer
or a M4 gets taken down with a tab.
Good shot from Colash.
In Norbert's gonna stick that deep view,
so so far I have nothing to say about this one.
Three one, four, two, CT side and he dies.
Right, then after the two.
So it doesn't get away with any guns.
That's quick and easy.
And even though they weren't like ready,
like they have a front tail there,
are not ready, can't even fall back without getting a kill.
That got so many rotators in place and lock control, though.
I actually play fine with this.
I couldn't go get, like, think of protecting gun the whole time as well.
Let me have a sure Aurora had the energy to keep this party going.
Just wild, because we're coming off the break.
Down goes with Cadia, immediately.
So fly steps in on his own, no trade potential on that one, quickly popped and swept
under the rug.
This triple deagle versus five full buys all that Aurora can bank on in the fifth round of play
I bet they were excited for the prospect of overpass before it all began
And I thought like a horse case, we could just finish him off on overpass.
That's probably what they said.
You're not willing to write off.
Hotu's T side though, giving us some struggles.
But again, I think tapping into like saying that back at pro league when you're
able to beat Furia, even if that wasn't the Furia of today,
But I mean, that's still a shocking singular map results.
Fury have never been bad at overpass per se.
They may have gotten better, but they've never been bad at it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
They had to run there, man.
They had a, didn't they beat vitality?
And like three good wins in a row.
So it's just that it was a while ago.
So it's hard to say how much it, because they beat Mongols,
and then they lost spirit vitality.
No.
If they beat Mongols, then they lost Spear повiety, none of them, the last one.
No.
Isn't that they took this?
How long ago was that?
Yeah.
So, period, bait, and the Mongols, that's pretty.
It's all because it is.
It just had a September.
So it's the only thing.
He on to go.
It's kinda crazy how little they play.
I mean, even for a regional competition, they're on the brink.
They've played three tournaments since then.
Once they rob all of Aurora's VRS points tonight, they can play even less.
You didn't last.
Yeah, you have so many points, you can just play less.
You know, you earned your points now?
Oh, okay, yeah.
I mean, this victory would put HOTU into the talk 25 teams
of HLTV.
Where are they at right now?
28th.
That's key.
This chance, though.
Let's get me back to your control tank
and Santerra's won't waste time with that one.
Go stomping forward to try to take a look
the sight itself instead.
Ready for that exact.
Oh my.
Who's ready?
Cool.
Last is ready.
What's right into that angle?
Helped by none other than Santarez.
Yeah.
He gives him the jiggle and tears his head off.
Well, on the stage outside of the eight site,
we're getting this fallback from Hothu.
So why selling it?
He's still got, he got three kills.
He looks like a little bit of a sinker.
They'll clear him up.
They're going back upstairs.
They know this plant over here, but it's 2-B-3.
All he goes flying beyond the dumpster.
Oh my god.
Oh, he's going to have to snap down and it's not ready.
Walks it right there for the headshot.
Duke Fissora knows he's got three players ahead of him.
What Katie is going to stop it so Aurora find their second.
And once you let Zantara's move forward, I thought he'd be the key to slicing through
that A site.
Hell of a shot from Colash, but still all that space gave Aurora the way to slip the bomb
on to site.
And this is all about Soulfly, he gets three kills over and B.
Draws him down.
And everybody's patience outside of the A site pays off.
Let's Soulfly go to work.
That's what we've been waiting for for Soulfly.
And it's absolutely what's going to make the difference if they can bring this game back.
and
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I'll see in the mime negotiations.
Nobody home here for your nades, not the first nor second.
Little audible.
We're stuck in now.
Forced in, yeah, nice second mallets off there for Aurora.
Forced the exit for man advantage, fried goes deep, it's that terror is hard, and Norbert's gonna drop with nothing beyond that fried damage.
Colashit back again, all line up was nearly there, but the spray gets away from him.
And so it's only frontels of all to do anything in terms of the hold.
Duked down with nothing tons of damage across the remnants here of Aurora, but bomb plant
can not be stopped and that's a third for the T-side collected.
They can't win any of these trades and it's also that you see how they space their
needs out and try to punish anybody on woodwall, but then when there's no one there
they all serve a plan for this right side of monster and they sit all out so slowly it
feels like they're only gonna throw one of those tactics in but they end up using them
all. That's very nice. And it's, you know, it's not too late. They have a T side. They know
these rounds are going to be harder to work for, but like, this final Molly after they
zoned everybody out to the right and got this off shot and they make it look really,
um, really not risky. I guess is the best way to play it. Like, this is the most comfortable
attack on the site that they could have. And unfortunately, O2 sort of tell for everything
that they were trying to do.
The Vs, the RS points won't be for free.
The Vs, the RS points won't be for free.
Chase is on San Tarras, but it takes more damage than he dishes out.
He's going off off with those bursts.
Dude, he's that a rub go ever since that first half of New.
Yes, second half a new key was a liability.
Lock's horn with another fight, still standing at 13 HP, but so is his opponent in Duke Fassura.
the
same exact walk-up has like yielded so many positive situations for a
and hope to are kind of letting it happen again
if the mallies come down all wait there are dead actually
a lot of these positions
facing in now
to try to chase that first kill the damage is good so
Duke gets their reload on the dice box but is he goes wild around the side the coverage
a roar as other players holds things off.
It's really hard to defend from inside it.
That's why the CTP is so many spots to push up in.
I mean even with MP9s and things like that, if you're in bathrooms, you can be, you
can be totally fine to sit there.
If you only tell me you should really be back on the site, like, without any pressure,
yeah, as if you're rotating in late or something like that.
Unfortunately for O2, they're not like they're not tapping into the fact that Aurora when they find something that works
What do they do?
They always do it again. Yeah, like that's just who they are. So
It's nothing bad you could save out the way Aurora approaching it. Let's a ho-to don't be surprised if they
They don't break what's not they don't fix what's not broken
And you go for the pick
One last peak towards long, and it's gonna cost you no save allowed here for Ho2.
Next, $3,400 on the Duke.
I mean, so we've got to save in the north.
Just the power of four rifles facing out from the bathrooms.
Yeah.
You're not hiding behind the dicebox, you're not really hiding at all.
You can take your time with the squeeze, but eventually that time comes.
That ties this game up for all.
A little leaks of that cross frontels.
of
a couple of good age units but it's a pretty stark contrast in the equipment value right now
I don't think even Norbert could stop this on overpass.
to go, yeah, up through blue. It's all good. They're not even scared.
It's got all the time in the world.
It's just wake up, Danks. When someone pours a bucket of water in her head, when you...
In the morning, wake you up.
Now they're up.
No save is guaranteed here!
Clash fights on for it.
Last movement on Ho2.
Tell me how this happens.
From barrels one from the boardwalk.
Five-four Aurora. The King and the Pond go in the same box.
the
the
the mo calls a timeout and he's just chilling
yeah he doesn't talk
that's what I noticed lean
no pressure it's just a control thing
when I say timeout it's like squid game everyone has to stop
Scary though, to give a tune like a roar of this much.
Room on the T-Side, so guns to try and turn it around here and now, around 10.
O2, and then off on front tails, gives a quick look over to the fountain.
That's it, front tails immediately back.
because all the way to the depths of bathroom and statin just welcomes that connector walk out.
I've always got the best boost on this map. Let's see if they can...
That is, yeah, the line was perfect.
All the variations, all the timings.
So, let it a try to keep that pressure up.
Let it a good job of zoning somebody
and then forcing the opening kill
when they last tried it.
O2, let it a try to give him a taste of their own medicine
and it works.
It's so good.
On top of that, you see Soulfly trying to join up inside connector,
so you think that could free somebody up to move.
The amount of times they've let this go by, but...
You can't die.
You got the shadow.
He gets freaked out by his own shadow.
Can you tell me to come down?
Run tell us.
Trying to put the smoke down to work
around in front of bathrooms right now.
His counterpart in the backdrop
misopt shot twice into the cover.
It's got a chance and a third shot here.
McAske's guilty to teammate rotating in the fun
tells us on the recovery.
Three shots missed out of the fort.
ifiers, certainly not ideal,
more crazy round to win.
Let's talk the table if you'll blindside one
and the spray gets away from a mezu.
It's only 50 damage onto a cady who gets two kills
one and Aurora six four on this T side,
gunning for a lead before they start their defensive
half. It's crazy how a walk sick of all people
had to save the day there. Yeah, the shoulder
peak with and off in his hand, which means he's
moving extremely slowly and he's the one day of
a shot begin to kill him on. Otherwise, despite
how many shots were missed, still a very strong
position to be in if your front tails takes
forever to clear that and you can always let
the off go back on cycle. So it's expertly
played from a walk second, obviously fun
So it's probably like damn I had some chances, but he could have had even more.
Nothing.
Look good to me.
Small bangs are fickle.
and
wow that's
that little balance huh that's kind of crazy I don't think it because the trail that is
ends before that
one so fun tells good thing he's got a vision coming out big
trying to make up for the one round prior
new from behind of the double as well so couple of two case will make it this job all the
easier here by Houghty. It's the moment that they're no longer contending with the lead.
Turn this one back up, side down, six five lead for Aurora still, but one round to play out
for Houghty, and it's nice to see couples of multi kills coming together from the same Bob site.
After the T-size we saw on Nuke, I'm not holding my breath, man. I don't know who's going to win this game.
I don't care about it's overpass. It's just not guaranteed tonight.
This is a decent half from Aurora, but
I don't think the reason they lost was just the map.
Clashes still look stable.
The dukes brought some old table, but walks it off.
I'm going to take his head off for the fight before and round 12.
Damn.
Oh, little slow to the draw there.
So fly still collect that shot.
And the man advantage that comes with it.
the
12. Damn.
Hopefully that somebody just walks out into B and even if that is the case, it's one kill.
And that bomb's going to commit on the other half of the map.
Tough choice.
Supposition to the short side of things.
This is the first visit to jump. Yep.
Oh, a beautiful shot, Delphi.
That is Delphi.
Mises' chance to try to close out.
Obviously, Bongott delayed slightly.
Look how much they're still remaining on that timer.
Mises' got a kit, an entire kit of utility to go with it.
Okay. And Delphi.
Delphi.
The last place you'd expect him to come from.
Well, he starts stopping, gives away the old surprise
and mattress right there for the headshot.
So Aurora's 7 round T side.
inside. In so many other moments, you'd think this one's in the bag. But T-Sides have been strong tonight and
Ho-2 have fueled their first comeback doing exactly that in offense, awaits, and elimination for the loser.
And so the final half of this series set to begin with an advantage for Aurora 7 rounds
on the T-side of overpass, Launders, that's so much.
It's enough to inspire so many.
That's so many, it's surely enough.
That's what you usually sense.
But the fact that we're even on a third map
means Ho2 have already pulled comebacks out of the hat,
a 9-3 T-side from Aurora to start map 2.
That wasn't enough.
Yeah, I mean, number seven, five right now, huh?
Numbers don't really matter.
We might find out this game as well
that might prove that there.
I agree. I'm a colors guy personally.
I'm a smell guy.
Stay away from me.
You got a smoke. We got two flashbangs here for frontels.
You got a major running it down long. Stop in all the while.
That's fine because he's got the red is inside of the doorway to catch one off.
So hook line and sinker
They'll bait and switch for the 5v4 the pistol
Kind of given this the big wrap around the reorganization into the front of bathrooms
It's kind of interesting because like they do get by
Poetry like they are going into the right place that has been evacuated, but the set-up still covers things
Still like it from Aurora. Let's see
Long emphasis spotted.
Now there's only confirmed one now,
he sees the second on the jump,
so the burettas are gonna change their attention.
Ooh, magic, oh, okay, all three down long,
just pop by, magic on his own.
What was that?
I mean, I can't blame Chef.
You switch to the burettas,
there's three guys point blank long.
They're surely Zantara's is gonna kill them.
Yeah.
But it's magic instead.
Daddy's home.
Boom.
2.
Wow!
That's that fibol, it's finally thing.
1.
2.
5 shots, 3 frags.
Present this.
Surge your call.
For the second pistol off of the in-game leader of Aurora.
And now pistols for the attack, and not the big kind either, yeah, little floppy pistols.
Kind of pistols that can't even spam this smoke if they wanted to.
They milk these rounds.
I try to wait for somebody to make a mistake over step or something, but instead you're met by flames and flashes.
And then some jump spots here for Aurora looking to get rumbunches.
Look at the confirm that you are indeed talking on the door of the B-sight.
But it's still less from bone.
Great cover from Wukadian on a single casualty here.
Clawdkill for Wikipedia is just feasting on the 80 arts and nights.
He's at a big day.
It could be spoiled, but so far it's been a big day.
And I mean, they kind of just have to walk this home now
since they've got that second pistol and the conversion.
Last time I couldn't see the comeback happening
from O2, I was dead wrong.
and
uh, I think like you pointed out once there wasn't even any one player that had a outstanding scoreline period.
They just behind the bird by the end or anything.
Yeah, but it's starting to come through. Maybe it's, there it is.
It's not always doing this to it.
It builds in terrace outside to kick things off, then it's just like nook.
It's a terrace hasn't really been a driving factor across this map.
It doesn't get you to have to kill the KDA.
Which was also a problem back on Nuke that you couldn't quite handle until you could.
For quite some time you was trying to keep the team afloat was it beyond 30 kills?
Yeah.
Well beyond.
Let's hope performance on map 2 for Acadia 16 and 9 at the moment.
16 and 9.
What's your new year's resolution?
Burn out from the dice.
It's located in a roundery doesn't get a kill.
I think that's the better question.
Not whether or not he can get in on this.
These were gun spokes and they get absolutely shredded by even just the MP9.
Norbert will find an open B bomb site.
That's the bomb inbound.
Yeah, it's pretty quick.
Don't smoke though, but they can cover, which is...
Okay, do they get a safe plant in them?
It comes down to heaven.
And they don't blow it up in time.
Yeah, plants at opposite side means you can't fall back into the short plan.
Fortunately, Norbert has to play the ramp instead.
An anticipation of back graffiti push.
You'll play left side pillar and look at these guns.
It's not that convincing here for.
Timing too.
Yeah.
They just something first out through heaven.
That's going to catch one of the two off guard.
Norbert can't handle the heat of all of these retake coming in from three separate directions.
And what's crazy there is Aurora just pounce on that retake with no real announcement.
Yeah.
You're watching heaven. You look away. You go to look back up and before you can put your crosshair back to where it was just two seconds sooner
Aurora have decided to go for the pounds and that's gonna net them that's 10-5 lead
I'll kick off by with KDA better. No, you can't. You know it's laying anti
Use your extra bodies as a resource and that's what they do here
It's getting not even Norbert can stop them
I shut down at the front gate trying to get into the A site, that's pretty much where
the ground is lost.
Yeah, it's boost like these, and it's mostly on CT side where they don't really
collect some that makes the roar of hard to beat on this map.
It feels like mad you're such a good example of somebody who just comes in with a call.
You can do this as small thing, sprinkle it in, keep it fresh.
Yeah.
I think it's also everyone knows every boost, right?
But it's their timings that are so good.
Now, we seem to make it to play through like,
Oh, wait, they're losing now.
Let's all that shadow.
Yeah.
And Norbert's like, you get, oh, never mind.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Or it instead, and we get evened out 44.
Oh, good name, I don't pay for it, a little.
the
thing's for free
oh
snap shop
a shot from set there has beautiful stuff.
The problem here now for O2 is that cut off one side of your attack.
It's an old in force from you.
And Santa is back to finding headshot.
Just like not everyone can do that.
So what are you supposed to do in response?
It's crushing the whole time.
Just put a while since we've seen that kind of an accuracy
from him.
It's been since the beginning of nuke in fact,
but taps right back into the potential he's held.
That's a good point.
Damn, you're decade.
One clip like that.
like forget about everything they'll let her on for a map
it's just a magnet
great to create wakadia he's kind of just been having fun all the while I think
a timeout remaining for a whole two
small talking we can confirm or deny
I'm allowed to group up into short though.
Again, we think you give them space, maybe they're able to jump down to the site, but it's been a flawless CT side so far for a row or up.
Can't forget, this is a 4-1 lead for Ho2 once upon a time.
4-1, 2-5-11, paints a very bleak picture.
the
center is just going to walk into
a pretty fruitful situation I thought
look at the habit one on a silver platter
but just missed the timing of the head
around the edge
forty five seconds and there's starting to be this walk back to
teased on at forty seconds you peel back some way
they realize they know that that's not really an option
Right, you know, something's all right.
I also have a malle.
This is gonna be so rough.
And that's just gonna confirm everything you were
fearing, Norbert dies first as well before everybody else
can go for the commitment.
And now you have to ask, do you even wanna do this
at 20 seconds?
You know, damn well, what lies at you?
So you just have to somehow break through.
And with one kill, they will find a good amount of space.
Enough space to plant perhaps, no sur.
Magier's got other ideas.
Another double kill to his name, Frontyels occupied with the monster fight, comes in a bit too late,
and they knew that was gonna happen, they could feel it in their guts.
Yeah, they do have a problem with like in some of these situations, they do a lot on pistols,
but they go totally silent, then they sit behind smoke and then they just assume, even if the last one gets pushed,
the other team has no idea that we're here waiting for.
Almost every time we've seen a roar, it's very clear that there's someone here, it's not the wait patiently,
they had the nade space out to do it.
So, it's not as tricky as I feel.
I hope you think it is.
This could be where it ends.
One final go.
You guys are that a utility left.
And then dare suddenly.
Start a note.
Right back into the war, man.
Feels like once you can feel it,
the frustrations of maybe nuke's extension.
Eventually, wash off and so down to the one versus four.
I hope you come out swinging.
Try to give a test of it on the rise,
made a hell of a comeback over on a new cut.
Unfortunately for them, this is single elimination
as the bounty and we safe farewell.
Hope you congratulate Aurora, surviving.
The heartbreak of not being able to finish this 2-0
that 9-3 Nuke is going to leave us scratching our heads
and maybe leaving them picking a new best next time instead.
There was no comeback, there was no fight needed when it came down to overpath.
But it was a good response from Aurora, why Katie, continuing his good performance across
every map in this series, he was not letting this one go.
And this is something okay, no two, maybe a bit out of the depth, to come back to these
conversations we initially had.
But they did earn our respect with that new.
Without a doubt, I feel like their overpass game plan sort of just shrunk a lot after
a couple of mishaps towards a, I feel like they just sort of thought, okay, let's just try
to hammer that B-bombside. And unfortunately, the defense was just too stiff from the Aurora
side. Zantara, Ykadia, both having great moments. I still have yet to see, unfortunately,
a good soul fly map in a Aurora jersey, but hopefully, as time really unfolds, we will see him
finally just get his footing on this roster. Yeah, that's what he's looking at here, right? It's
going to be a maybe slow star maybe takes a time from adapt to get used to this but if they're
getting the wind he's going to get those opportunities then they're looking for him to be
the superstar that's looking to play his role well and at least on this map he also a liability
you know he wasn't bullied and abused. No I thought that he was going to be much more of a
hindrance towards that b-bombsite but I feel like there were just so many great moments from
Wikadia from Zantara's even Magger actually getting a nice multi-frag towards the end of things so
didn't really have to depend on him.
No, I didn't have to depend on him at all.
That's a positive sign in there.
My biggest worry was like for a roar,
if there was gonna be any tilt settling in on this mute,
but this was a good response.
I know it's obviously an online match.
It should be, I'll still have those themselves,
but it can't happen.
And we know what can happen with these,
like hype, you try to bring themselves into the game.
I'm actually quite interested if Soulfly brings any of the element.
He's not on the boot camp with him as of yet.
Supposing he will be for the next game we would hold.
So what is he gonna add maybe in that element?
Because Jota wasn't a quiet guy.
Now I felt like Joto was actually sometimes one of the more vocal guys.
I mean, we definitely saw him throughout 25 in the land environments getting very excited for
the team. We didn't get to talk to him too much. They usually just sent other players to cook for
interviews. So I don't really know. We didn't pick his brain, but yeah, no, in terms of just
body language and energy, he was one of the hype guys. Yeah, it's trying to figure out like
how he will fit in because there's so much what you do inside the server, but at times we do feel
like, they've not figured the outside the service stuff as well.
The spot how long now this team has been together, you know, it's quite an interesting
conundrum that we have here with this team.
That's why we just kind of feel like we're in purgatory watching or like, you know that
they have some really good pieces that they can punch up occasionally.
I mean, they were what?
First half of the year, they made every single playoff except for the Austin major playoffs.
Second half was a little bit more up and down, but they did win a trophy at Bucharest.
So we kind of want to see more of what they had in store for us at Bucharest.
But I right now off of a one-series sample size, it's not looking great for the minus
Joe to plus ol' fly, but maybe the ceiling is higher after you get some more reps.
Yeah, and it's probably about the most of the amount of time they've had to practice
room and get him settled in as well.
The fact is none of the boot camp right now, but we'll join him afterwards.
Obviously there's something there.
Then we're going to deal with the same time.
Sure, yeah.
But there's a lot of things going on in the background with it.
I'll also though the fact that the ceiling is higher because they got a new bis back, but we didn't see that today.
And I feel like they're probably regretting not putting it into this series, you know?
Yeah, could have been too early, probably. Probably. Probably.
It's like realistically, how well would they be ready for a new bis, even more for them?
And even if they're already, this is still a war on a new bis. Exactly.
I'm really sorry, but maybe they're saving it for like a bigger moment, you know?
Maybe they're trying to like trick people into.
We're not playing this right now. We don't come to the moment right now.
Right. I mean, I feel like it's going to come into play by the end of the bounty.
If a roger don't play a new biz, if they just somehow settled on this game plan to run with the other pool,
I think that's just foolish. I think you need to start getting reps immediately to re-establish yourself as that powerhouse team on the map.
Well, let's find out what reps they were getting and let's see how they are feeling because we've got blocks
standing by with us for the interview. Hello, walks it. Hello, how are you guys?
I'm doing good, man. It's a little bit late here, but you know, that's counter-short
run late into the night. You took us to three maps made, so you made it extended.
Yeah, you just wanted to make more practice as I think.
But in terms of that practice, we, honestly, expected you guys to pick a newest knowing
how much you did love it in the past. Can you give me like the reasoning or you maybe
not fully ready on it yet? Were you trying to hold it back?
Yeah, we are actually always ready for that map.
Okay, just you wanted to go like more like a hardest map against them.
I mean, yeah, I feel like no, didn't work out.
It was the hardest map for you guys in this series.
So what do you think caused the the comeback to work in their favor?
I think I think is because like a game crash happened many times.
We had game issues and we like I think cool of and we should have been already close that round for sure
Like I mean that map overall, but it's just we did like ceiling mistakes
There was like clutch round couple of clutch rounds me and my aras well like I straight out
I told he just started to look on him like he was in next to city went and if they if we want that round
We could have close that game, but this kind of things can happen
always inside the game, you need to be like more play like how to say like it's like
you need to not lose the control of the game at all, but I think in the end of the
Nukev we start to lose the control of the game because as far as I remember we had a
really good time like 9-3, like a 4-4, not something like this, yeah, okay I got one
more question about the overall 26. I mean, 2025, looking back at it, you guys were able
to get a trophy by the end of the year. You guys had that great playoff streak in the first half
of the year. What are the goals looking like for the new year? For the new year, personally,
if I have to be honest, I didn't satisfy that from the trophy that we won. I would like to see
and also probably from my teammates as well. We would like to see to get at least a couple of
of tire 1 events, that's why we're going to work hard for it to get it.
Because you were so close in the previous year, like a product finals, ECVC finals.
And also, if we were not to like little mistakes that we have been making it in that
events, we could have it be finished like a year with like a couple of tire 1 events and
also with a TGL1.
So I hope in this year, in this way, we started now.
I hope we can just keep it like this
because also after some time, when you're not playing,
when you come back, the first official
is always a so hard and different.
But now, I think we managed to win in the end,
we need to win, so it's not important.
I think it's if you win any win, and if you play major,
to like till the end of the maybe quarter semi final maybe winning the event it will be
so satisfying you know but everyone everything like from the previous year don't have
been more hunger as well so we need to be much better with them like against them.
Walksick thank you very much for the insight we'll let you go go get some rest and we'll see
in a few days time man. Yeah thank you thank you so much bye bye. There we go there we have
with the words from what's it there? Optimistic for the year ahead. We're going to see
what can happen to how sulfide pans out in all of this, right? Maybe something changes when they get
him on the boot camp down. He can push it more grind time in and people will hands on them as well.
With exactly, I mean, I feel like there was clear discomfort shown there on Nuke. Obviously,
I already brought it up in the post game for that map that he hasn't played in official in CS2
on D Nuke. So he's going to have to really catch up to speed with how to react on
them after just so many protocols and ways you need to rotate in order to be the most effective
that he clearly was a little bit slow on. So other than that, I think that what he shown
on the tier two teams leading up to this promotion was strong enough as an individual, mechanically.
So he has the tools, he's just got to put in the work and put his mind to it.
Well, we'll keep an eye on it throughout the rest of the tournament and throughout the year when
it comes to Roar. But Maui, we need to recap what happened in today. I've been here all day.
So I know it all for you, man.
Let's start him with FUT taking on OG.
And FUT the young guns of a point to prove the Christmas tree
in the background, giving a power up to the lousy.
They were able to come through with two close wins,
but they held their own and individually,
they did look sharp.
They pressured OG and Cadian.
I thought OG was going to win the second map.
Yeah, I mean, they had it at one point,
but then there were just some nice kind of plays
from some of the individuals on the FUT team.
So nice to see them pop off, but this is a game of the day.
I mean, I can't believe.
I mean, we in the draft show when JW said he wanted to get back into tier 1, go out with a bang. I thought it that man. Okay, yeah, you're gonna go out with a bang.
Maybe you have a couple highlights individually, but to take the scalp to actually take down phase client fresh off their major grand final birth.
You could see how much that means to him that pillow probably hopes it never happens again.
For Bob XD as well. He has a legit play. He was the same player to watch for a strong escrowing up against finatic.
I thought this had upset potential written over it and then we got to this ancient and the
upset was that even deciding they could put maddening meat because he was upset about
what he was able to do that.
This was not him looking comfortable.
Now, that was a bit disappointing for him obviously mod and seems to be taking over some
of the blame-f positions and that's going to be a learning process because mod and great
player, but maybe not could out to be the star immediately.
Over time though, we'll see how he develops in the positions.
It is going to take some time right so settling in time but they do have the time
because it's the beginning of the year.
This is the start of the season but guess what?
We've got four more best of three for you tomorrow.
We'll show you the schedule of what you're rocking with here.
Now Maui, we are blessed with lots of amazing games in here for me.
Obviously, Navi Monti, that's a Ukrainian organization, Matt Chau.
I make side of for that.
I put some fire on that.
Do you have another favor in that you're looking at?
Key Nights.
I'm really curious about game religion passion you.
I feel like passion you are.
just, I mean, it's kind of the sleeper game probably of the day for some people, but
it was just waking up for exactly. I mean, game religion going with their new roster
move, bringing snacks back into toe and then passing you a single map away from making
it to the major playoffs, they're going to want to build off of how close they were to
tasting greatness. And I think that's a team. You said about sleeper game. That's team people
are sleeping on. People still don't believe in what this passion team can do, but more time
in Europe, more time grinding, good organization support behind them. They can do some work.
Well, Maui, thank you very much. It was a pleasure.
I want to sit for the opening day.
This is the end of Blast Bounty 4 today,
but come join us back tomorrow
for more games, more excitement, more action.
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