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BLAST Premier Bounty Season 1 2026 - Day 6 - PARIVISION vs Astralis, Inner Circle vs Team Spirit, Vitality vs EYEBALLERS, FUT vs FURIA
01-18-2026 · 11h 27m
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Welcome to the Bouting, a new, bold counter strike format where every round raises the stakes.
Here's how it works.
The price port isn't just this at the end, it's distributing as bounties.
Its team starts with a bounty based on their seed.
Lower seed begins with zero, but can still strike a big by hunting bounties from higher
ranked teams.
Win a match and you secure 50% of your opponent's bounty at a guaranteed payout.
The other 50%?
It carries forward, growing the stakes for the next round.
the reach round, the lower seated teams pick the opponents from the higher seated
pool. This happens during the live draft shows, taking place before the tournament first
begins, and after each round of playing, bounty hunters can choose from the most wanted
teams, deciding if they want to choose their opponent based on strategy, past history,
or simply going for the biggest prize available. This is counter strike like never before.
Are you ready to go bounty hunting?
Welcome to the final day of stage 2 here at the Blast Bounty where we've had a
bevy of games to start the season all online to this point but this is the final day
of online play. The end of today will have little down to just eight teams and those
eight teams will be joining us here at our studio in Malta ready to battle it out for the
first trophy of twenty twenty six. I'm Darf Mike joined here on the desk by Mr. Jacob Pipp
when it came in the beautiful island of Malta. Jacob, how you doing this morning?
No grace, dude. Great had a rough night of sleep, you know, but slowly but surely
working up to it and usually counter strike gets me awake. So that's a good thing.
It is one hell of a stimulant that counter strike. It is good old counter strike. And a few
of our teams have felt the pull of it because we've got 14 already qualified through here
to Malta. This is what came through from yesterday. We have falcons, liquid, game elige, and heroic
all securing their spots. And some upsets and bounty hunters, right? When we're talking about
game elige and we're talking about heroic making their way on it, she technically heroic was
the most wanted, but you know, it was not said there. Yeah, very nice. You know, a big surprise
that he wrote, we're able to make it yesterday, take down pain. And as you could see,
you know, some interesting teams all really lined up, something tells me might them,
we'll have some more interesting teams making it today, knowing that Vitality of playing
later, Furious playing later, so still a lot of quality to be seen here last. I mean, really
good result for her golfing. I've considered for context for anyone who's not aware they're playing
with youngsters who was on their team, but is a stand-in. He's already been benched. He got
got a last minute call up to come in and help them out because Elkran had visa issues.
That means they don't have their offer. Youngsters been picking it up. He's actually
been doing fine considering the circumstances. Also doing fine in this liquid team.
After the first map, you and I were pretty doomed and gloom, but the next two dispel
the storm clouds brought the sun to shine on out on liquid. Much, much better for team
liquid. You know what? A dominant victory, especially on the third map. You know, left
no room for doubt whatsoever that they were the better team compared to the gentleman yesterday.
So a rap-pusted science coming out of Team Liquid right there.
I'm overjoyed.
I'm overjoyed.
I was fully ready to be Doom or on this roster
after one map of play and that'll show me
what to think about it.
Then we had Game Religion vs Aurora,
which this Aurora team seems to be in real trouble
and Game Religion capitalized.
Yeah, quite the contrast for Aurora.
Game Religion played exceptionally well.
I think this new project which snacks
as an ingredient of returning to Game Religion,
some of the players coming back into it as well.
it's proving to be a good bet for now,
West for Aurora, the contrast my last year around this time,
they were one of the few teams in the world beating
my tell of the making it into the grand final
of the very first tournament of the year.
This year though, can't even make the play off so,
one year's time makes a massive difference,
good for snacks, bad for Aurora.
I can't get over the snacks as Dartboard right next to the desk.
Always ready for it.
If you ever need the backup career,
if you ever need the backup career, you know,
if you ever need to know the workout,
maybe we'll see him competing in one day.
You know, yeah, so many can pick it up again. I would love to see that honestly
I would love to see snacks just become a multi-sport athlete and one of them is darts
Our final match to wrap up the day
So the Falcons take wing over Monty. Monty were one of the great stories of this event coming in after we really just haven't seen them
Competing at a high level in a long time they seem like they're on the right track
But Falcons were way too high hurt already and they made the game on new very competitive
You know at certain points in that game. I felt alright Monty you may as well win Nuke and push this into a third map
game but it wasn't to be the case.
Falcons looked in control, especially on second net,
and so far so good for Falcons who is not a lot of pressure.
I don't need that trophy in the cabinet when it comes to Counter-Strike
and the new roster, and they got once they've posted that yesterday.
Definitely a team that has always been very aware of what their expectations are
and very aware of how many times they fail to live up to them.
So that pressure just mounts every time you don't perform up to your level.
So nice to see that they do and nice to set the stage
for a promising 26th of a roster that we really do expect to be competing for trophies.
We're going to take a look forward though, it's time to get into our matches for today,
for more teams, for more spots here at the studio in Malta, Australia's the Perry vision
inner circle, spirit, eyeballers, vitality, and theory of versus foot. These are some
seriously puff matchups and we're coming down to the wire on them here, Gagob.
We are one that I look at, particularly for what too, is the Furrier Food Game.
I think that could be quite interesting for you, obviously.
It seemed to be reconnured right now, foot slightly underrated by a lot of people.
I think we could have a good game with that.
Now we are just moments away from getting through to land.
That's where the games get all that much better.
There's four more teams to book their spots, and I can't wait to see it.
It also means we're going to get to reveal this beautiful thing.
I can't tell you exactly what it is just yet, but let me tell you,
it's going to be a bananza of fun. But before we do, we do have a match up to get into
today. It's very vision taking on a strawless. A strawless, a strawless, a strawless. The pride of
the pride of Danish, counterstrike, the pride of international counterstrike, my device, my
intro fretting to pre, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, the ghost, the greatest in game
and meet up all time.
Mackie, Sean, the clutch minister.
We have to clutch minister on to change.
I get to what we say today.
We have to do that.
I'm proud.
I'm proud man.
How am I proud?
Come on.
Come back with me.
It's been years.
It's no longer that story to Strauss team.
No one from that roster is still here.
It's five new players.
It's a new era for a Strauss.
Oh, wow.
We're about to engage CS.
It's an international squad.
And that international squad is about to play a game.
So I need you with me in the here and now because we need to get ready for this match
and how better to do so, then to hear from someone from the team itself.
The repair had their match against Perry Visions.
You've got a new squad, you've got a new teammate in. It looked very good in the first outing.
How has it been with Fuzzi and Ryu in the fall?
It's been a feeling good. We didn't have a lot of practice right.
We just started the season, of course.
We got them in place of the later, I would say.
But I think with our first match, it will be a win.
I think it's very like a confidence booster.
it's Booster with sort of practice, so it was actually very nice and I think the two lovely
guys with very nice both in-game mechanics and good English, so I like it.
Now this next one might cause some intrigue with that lack of practice, there's a map that
you guys haven't played in a long time and you're going to be playing in this matchup,
it's just to come back in, while we're into the decision to start playing dust again.
I think it's just about all players and the players went now, depending on how they loved
to or how to like the suits. I think we didn't play in Australia, like from the
Panic on the rest of the replay and what to call our head. But I mean, it's not like
it's a hard map. Of course, it's hard to master, but the basics shouldn't be too hard
in the suit. But it is safe to say that we had some strong up in the past against the
top teams who always like pointed pickers on it. So, of course, in that way, it's been
tough for us. But I feel like we should still be able to do a good showing with this land
You're up against the Perry vision team that does like to play it that has a lot of success on it as well.
One of the keys going to be here, right, to avoid the the the rougher times that you had before taking out of the rotation.
I think with old team, we struggle a lot of like Justin General giving entries within the first like 22nd and C to set us to.
And when you're in mental development in the school, you're just, uh, that's too many holes to feel like you can't do anything like you think go anywhere the cheese rat.
You can't really be strong on any side playing too too.
So my thing, that's like the most important thing, not losing entry, everything around.
That's what did in the past.
And then we'll see from that, it'll work on up.
It's easier to be a heavy focus on the new guys, on setting up Fuzzi with that A to B P,
can really be a difference maker on dust.
I mean, I think the all below is pretty much mega.
No matter what on dust, I think it's one of the best all buffs,
it's not the best with all the past as well, right?
Because all the long range tools and just general good tools for an hope.
So in some way, yeah, but I think we just play our game account so too much, you know.
Didn't want to give away too much, but we can set this stage a little bit here, Jacob.
Australia's haven't played. It does too since I believe the beginning of October. They haven't won us too since July.
Yes, since July. I almost been a year. Well, half a year since they want to map on us to not
I'm at their familiar with, not I'm at their plate a lot. And I get what's they're saying, you know,
depending on what kind of team they had, depending on what in game leader they had.
I also buy into the sentiment that Dust 2 is a map that's easy to play hot to master.
The issue for them is perishing and that Dust 2 is a complete different league.
So, if you're struggling to get into this matchup, not only are you the dark according to me,
and according to a lot of the better, out there, but you're also heading into a map pool that is not necessary for you.
I will give them some silver linings, which is that the reinforcements they brought in should be able to play Dust 2 very effectively.
in particular on that app highlighted it there in the interview.
Think he's going to be an integral piece for them and he's had some really nice maps on
here, but nice maps does too. His numbers are good, he shares a good on this map.
And, oh, you know, an interesting figure. Obviously, we don't know for certain whether or not
does choose going to be picked by a pair of issues, but it will be a generational flop if they don't.
Now, for Fouci and the rest of Australia, I think he's a key decision piece coming in to Australia.
is obviously you're replacing a guy like named device. So you got big shoes to feel,
goes for all of the players in there, but I think Fushi have shown that he's
capable of playing Counter Strike at a relatively high level. To me, it's also a signing that
kind of signals that, okay, we're heading into a new era for Astralis, where this first version
of their international project. Most likely won't be the last, you know, there will be
roster changes down the line, that's not really a boss thing to say, but this is not a
roster that's supposed to be instantly a trap 10 team. This is not a roster that's supposed to
fight for titles. This is a roster where we have tremendous expectations and see how they
could develop the international side of the stories.
Always throwing water on this, but this guy, I think he eats things up. Indeed, he's been
all over the world. He's, see us as Mr. Worldwide, spends some time at nine, and, and none
young ninjas, that one didn't go so well, when the sand galls, spent some time in rare
out of over in China, spends some time in my region in wild card, got benched, lo and out to nine,
taken back from nine, sent back to nine went on a whirlwind there.
Catch a BTF you will perhaps and now he finds himself in a straw.
And I think this one is well deserved.
Having talked to the guy he's now decided that his travels may be
coming to a close wants to stick with Europe as a region,
have the ability to have a little bit more stability and growth.
And I think he's earned it, right?
He's demonstrated really across the last year and a half, two years of play,
that he's really elevated from those first glimpses.
We got of him in the young ninjas, that he is really an offer
or who can contend with the best and the best,
who can insert himself, I think,
into a top 15 top 10 team.
See, that's my issue, right?
Because I agree with you, I think his career is kind of admirable.
I think he's been growing through a lot,
but I'll be completely honest.
I don't see Foocey as a player
that necessarily hits into the conversation
of being a top 10, or you let it on a top five, or by us.
You want to kind of what you need for Australia's right now.
Another player that you need to step it up a little bit is,
you know, when he was first brought into Australia's
we had high expectations,
It's never been the case that Gabi hasn't done okay in Australia.
He's just never been living out his full potential.
And I sense, you know, and I hope that this will be the version.
This will be the iteration where he's getting all the confidence.
He's getting all the space.
He's getting all the rules that he decides to play.
And thus we get to see a bit of Gabi.
The last six months as you saw a 1.4 rating.
Oh, sorry, 1.04 rating.
There we go.
Yeah.
The opening game was 1.21.
And I think for Gabi, that's kind of the wrench you want to be in.
And you want to put on another 0.10 to your rating, you want to come in and be a different
maker and you need to be helping out in defecing department because you have lost, you
know, very prominent players as well.
So for Yabi, that's the player to look out for for me.
I think he has the capabilities of being part of a Chuck 10, Chuck 15 and the world.
The rest of the guys I need to see before I believe.
I think it's also very encouraging that that first series was good for Yabi because he is
a fun not mistaken.
The only player on this roster who hasn't previously played it in an English-speaking
roster.
So I don't think it would be an issue, certainly English is plenty good.
But there is always that moment when you're swapping communication that you could have
the excuse of just having a little bit of a starter in the calms.
And it doesn't seem to have affected him in our small sample size so far.
Sure.
There's always a bit of adjustment to be made.
And one thing is doing it online, doing it in practice, and other things doing it
on a big stage when the pressure is on, or when you're in an overtime game.
So there'll be a learning curve and a learning phase for it for you.
But as you said, you know, good early sampling.
Very good.
And looking at the other side of things, we need those good early signs because this
Perry vision team is a team that's come to play.
So this is a team that's dangerous.
Looking at the lineup, you got the experience with Jam and Dostan.
You've got that core of players in Nota, Zilo and Belchinoch.
And then the big man is way coming in, turn it heads, change in things up.
This guy, he really came to play in their last series.
He was fantastic in the opening game.
No doubt about it.
You know, a player that really made the difference of player that was all over the server.
A player that seemingly got a lot of freedom, and it got to do whatever he wanted.
and then you paid back the freedom by putting in a monster performance.
Without sway, they would definitely not have one on a new list.
That was a very clear scheme back and followed that I'm million over times.
Even on all parts, he was the one saving them doing a tremendous job in the beginning
of the game.
So very much agree.
I think Paravish and showed us doing the major four weeks ago that they are, you know,
a prosper team, they are a team that can definitely climb the ranking so to speak,
and adding sway into the mix instead of AWS.
I think they have upgraded in terms of raw firepower.
So, as I said, the more I see a parishion,
I think they could be one of the most improved teams
heading into 2026.
And thus also a team we need to take seriously
when we talk about teams knocking on the door
to be a top set.
I think the question is also what that progression arc
is going to look like, right?
Because outside of James, it's such a young team.
Exactly.
Even though they've already progressed so far,
as we saw on their major run, right?
They've already come so far from Windream,
join that project.
There's so much further that they can potentially move up.
I don't want to get ahead of myself,
but they do have my idea.
They do remind me a little bit of the mongles in the early days, you know, where you could clearly see the individual scale level, you could clearly see that they were young ruster, they're like a bit of experience, they're like some positive reinforcement, we saw the mongles, you know, qualify for some of the bigger tournaments, but they would only exit the group stage, you know, and placing themselves as a top 12, top 15 team, I see a lot of the same things in Paris and right now, and as you said, a very young team and I don't think we're seeing the best from Schwey, I don't think we're seeing the best from Belgium, I don't think we're seeing the best from Shell over that matter as well.
So there's so much potential in those players just
like we saw with the Mongols who eventually
became a stable end of top scene.
And this match I've been particularly
do have a little bit of an edge.
We talked about it with the regards to the strawers
that does, too, is a glaring Achilles heel that's out there.
You can imagine Perry's going to play it.
They're come from on Dust2.
We've already seen the play the newest, right?
So they've got a lot of flexibility in this video.
So let's go ahead and see it.
Let's go ahead and see if we do, in fact,
gamble, we expect it's time for the beat up.
Yeah, I'll be making a mega surprise if Dust2
was not the mixed new goes out of the way.
No big surprise and new is being banned by a
as dry list.
No big surprise that we got either.
And then if you're perivision and you're not
picking us to you're making a guarantee mistake.
And why would they?
Why would they make a guarantee mistake?
Dust 2 comes into the mix.
As said, I met the perivision place at a very high
living on a straddle as well.
You have to be seen.
It's the first to be in the pudding.
We're going to see what happens when we're actually in
the server.
Ancient's going to be the next one coming through.
That's been a comfort place for a straddle
for Huxi Roses for a long time.
What do we think about that for Perry?
It's not too bad, you know, Perry Rishina played as well.
Remember seeing the play that the media, if I'm not mistaken,
a couple of times as well, so it's a matter of familiar with,
it's a matter of comfortable with.
So it'll be one of those, you know,
where both teams are hitting in what a clear game play and clear idea
of what they want to do and we'll have to see who is the better team
per se, where it's thus too.
It's leaning towards Perry Rishina quite a lot.
No mirage, you know?
So we get overpass as a deciding map.
I'm not gonna lie, we also did see Perry Rishina play
overpass during the major quite a lot and I think I had a couple of segments where I said,
the biggest mistake you can do right now is playing Pararish and Under Overpass in the
best at one because they were underdogs in a lot of those games which meant to start
it under CT side and we saw them shut it down over and over and over again.
If you're a Stralis to me, it's not a Night Man net pool, it's more so a Night Man net show
because I don't think they could have done anything differently in the video,
but these maps are playing into the favor of Pararish quite a lot.
It really does feel that way, right?
It's interesting because the Stralis is core is the more established core, shall we say?
But they haven't made the swaps. We don't have as much information on them as a new team and it just does feel like
A Stralis is going to be the team with a lot to prove. They were the one that were chosen over by the Paraderation side.
They wanted this match up. They understood the advantages that they would have. And despite being such a young team, despite still being, you know, to some degree on proven.
It's feels so well set out for Barry.
It does feel well set up. It's a great matchup for Paris, and it's a great map pool for Paris,
but it also speaks into what I kind of said a couple of minutes ago that first trial is
we need to manage the expectations, right? It's a new roster. It's a new way of going international.
I have Parisian being defeated with some of this game, so in my mind,
that's trial is can only surprise. Let's be honest, as you said as well,
with two new players coming into it, with going international, it's an unknown quantity.
So we can really allow ourselves to have two high expectations on behalf of a trial.
So, at the end of the day, they can also walk into this game, you know, with the shoulders down, you know, no pressure, no big boss standing behind and saying, you're a star as you're supposed to win get into playoff.
That's not really the case anymore, so maybe that will relieve some of the players. Maybe that's what Yapi had been suffering under.
Maybe that's better for Huxi, who likes to be the underdog as well. So, I'm not going to rule out a star as in this matchup per se. I'm just saying, we should all lower the expectations and admit the fact that right now, Parisian is a love for that dead developer.
Maybe maybe or maybe they're gonna walk into this first map of dust too with a lot of questions to answer
Answer all of them and raise their expectations right back up. That's the opportunity that that's here for a straw
This is well, yeah to prove their map pool to prove the depth of it against a tough team
This would be a phenomenal victory for them to take. It would be fantastic. You know, I'm all for you know
Exceed expectations coming and share was glimpses of the potential for the future
I would even say that even a stylist that say the way to loose this game
But if they can make us too competitive they can win ancient and push it into an oil post game
that that to me would be exceeding my expectations for them. So I think in that regard
as well as can only surprise us for Paravishan. This is also the time to show that you played
an entire match as an underdog. Now you're actually heading to a playoff game as a favorite.
Can you deliver when you're the favorites when you're on your own squad? Well, that's
where it's.
Well, all eyes on Perry, all eyes on a Strawlus. All ears out for our two casters.
Here in Hugo, take it away.
Oh, yes. This is a pretty exciting on Hugo.
the new look of Strauss in that kind of first iteration.
You're unshores to what meant to provide versus this new.
And I would say improved power vision would be as way signing.
He had a very impressive debut game in the Power Vision Jazz.
He would kind of blow it away by what he was bringing to the table.
He's got a Strauss now to try and chow down upon.
And I do think the Strauss changes running a little deeper,
the move to international. What are your thoughts on this?
Yeah, I like how it happened. That's a very right.
Like Jacob's been talking about it for years about how the Danish
she and how it struggled and how we've not always got the talent
and when it's trialist lose, the couple of their, you know,
older boys and start players in device and in town, it just felt like
the right move for a trialist to join everyone else and go into
national. And they've got great pickups as well. I mean, both these
teams showed serious resilience in their debut here at Bounty for
The Paravision, it was a quadruper time affair back on a new bus and for a Strollers,
it was a very back and forth series against fanatic, where Riot stepped up in a big
way.
That was nice to see you here, and I'm excited to see who's going to one of these teams
will be in the landbiles, which is awesome.
I think both of them really hungry for this opportunity in New Australia and a, I'm looking
your parishes, let's new more than they want to continue their run from the end of last
time.
Yes, the way is also in this team now, but regardless of that, this is a quarter stack
of players who just tasted success, they want more.
Yeah, I think that's why I even tried to use kind of say different verbiage for
because I think the parivision is more of a succinct improvement in the roster change.
You kind of look at it and you go, yeah, they traded the guy who was okay for someone who
is more experienced.
That's a lot.
Yeah, you know, just kind of
has shown already that he can run away with games in his way.
But for a straw, there's very still question marks around this.
But yeah, something you kind of said this idea that
a straw is, these two new players are going to be very, very hungry for this chance.
You know, maybe more hungry than so on a device would have ever been just to get to a
land playoffs, absolutely. And so let's see who wants it more. Especially when you consider
Fuzzi's run, it was broken down earlier by the desk, but just all the regions, all the teams
he's grateful. How hungry are Australia, and all they up for the task of B Rush comes in through
on this pistol and Fuzzi and Fuzzi fall immediately, perfect Molotov to push Fuzzi out,
and not much Australia can do about that. Three on five save, get that armor into next.
our vision. I remember this dust to back at a major
hurry. They were brutal on these be hits. Probably 50, 60% of
their rounds were just that. We're just five players in
tunnels within 30 seconds coming through your smoke.
They literally didn't lose this map back at the major. So yeah,
and then you compare that to a Strauss. It's a map they've
shied away from them and playing. Even heard,
Just now talking about it in the pre-game interview, saying that they lose a lot of these
opening fights and on dust too, that's kind of unacceptable.
Leaves you with too many holes in the China Park.
Well, the pistol round wasn't a shining example of not giving away those opening kills.
And I hard not to, and they run out of the tunnels, you don't have a choice, you have to
fight and glockstude to work here for perivision.
So, yeah, this is definitely going to be a difficult map for Australia.
So I've no doubt about that.
Especially a Paravision, I'll just bringing their be hits back from the major.
Flawless of the major, that's...
We'll take that four wins and legit wins as well.
3D MaxNet, Liquid Legacy, no sleep at teams here.
For Paravision, underdogs and probably all of those games going in.
Striles on the Force.
I kept a lot of armor, so they've got some nates as well, a better mission come up cat.
You know, the other kind of fun step from their major run on this map is just that three of the four games were one and over time, right?
Like that's very, very, very, very, very, very, this idea that even though you can get them close to feeling vulnerable,
they always have this opportunity, that's something that you've never really doubted, J.M. brings to a team.
Yeah, and you know at this point it's like it has to come from him. You know if they're
wearing he doubts, maybe you thought like previous iterations of his teams like the old
VP maybe it was having all these really resilient individuals. I think the fact that
it's seemingly followed Jaym into power vision with none of the same crew sticking around
and that's down as well. Yeah right from the effecter. So that kind of frosty. Like
combo, coach and captain. And it's really cool because you have a young team and so when
you put that into the team and you make clear that like, no, I don't want you, you know,
checking out when we've lost an awful round or when we've given the map point and with down 12
three, no, I want you believe in the whole way. And this team have every reason. It's what we're
saying to the major there, every reason to believe in that mantra because they've proven it
time and time again and that only makes you stronger. As a squad has individuals
and considering that all very young, they'll carry that through for a long time.
Yeah, I just think it's like, it's kind of good because you build up a real
tolerance to pressure. You know, there are some teams who when the the opponent kind of hits
12, sure you're given a little you can, but in the back of your head, like you kind of can't help
the thoughts, but creeping, it's probably, you know, that they're one round away. Oh,
one round away or this could all get away from us. We might lose this, but Parabasian never really get to that mindset
They're threatening no matter the score line
And I think also it's just a just tube it better for when you get to some of these important games and there is that baseline level of pressure
It almost every game you play your
Aware that things could close up and that you're gonna have to win it if it goes the distance and
So you're used to playing with a bit of pressure there in the background regardless. I mean some of the clutches and some of the late games
we saw Parvison at the major. Remember that J1v2, I think that was on that point as well,
where he hits an impossible kill back on short, a failed repeat.
So Parvison 2 and 0 right now, going through one more anti-Eco.
Not sure not charging up long, but it's higher to you behind you than to wait,
lucky in middle. So, by getting freed up from these T-Sites, is back to what we, you know,
why we were hyped as way coming into spirit, right? It was the Omega T-Sites. It was the freedom
that this guy got across the map on CT Rotator rolls as well. So excited to see if he can repeat
his debut on this Paravision roster, which was a very nice start the other day.
We can go ahead with relative ease, not much to save here, they've got no cablass, so exit
will be nice.
I'm going to run through this door last second.
Right, it's flashing.
But of course you lose anti-fresh.
Go!
Oh, no problem.
Three and zero guns coming out.
map astrologers have not touched in some time. Let's see how these going around's look.
I've been over a little, sorry, little over three months since we last saw him play it.
And they came off the back of a five lost tree. Right. Yeah. So maybe a reason they
Not exactly a treasure trove of successful games here for a Strauss and this is very, very stiff competition.
I think one of the main things is you don't want Paravision to completely beat up on you.
Right? Like, that's the bar? Well, I know I'm just saying, you know, if you get Steamroll,
You get steam roll, don't ever really feel like you get going in the match, though.
That can be really, really problematic for the series as a whole.
A shot?
It's a really nice way to open.
Alright, AWP strikes early in this first gun round for a Stralis, and it's new by
Fuzi to open up.
The importance of these 5-4s, especially it's just not give them a lay on CT side.
Trade work has always been fantastic for power of vision, so anytime you can get away
with an advantage like this, it's really important you hold onto it.
His push, fast play in through the Catwalk, Fuzzi in position.
Dead straight away!
The shot!
Thought he had their number, tried to catch them on the cross, Z-Lope, provides the entry,
and there's the 4 on 4 bomb now planted.
A tricky task ahead of a stralist, as they've got a regroup and re-take.
Yeah, you're begrudgingly go through this round, but it's not going to be easy.
Huxies missed that timing by a second, by a literal second,
and he's going to lose his life.
That could not be unlucky for Huxie.
Yeah.
It was healing there.
Timing and that's the route.
It's in smoked off CT and cat.
It lost long throw in the hat.
All the towel.
All the towel.
Do you throw in your hat though?
Well, like you threw your hat in the ring.
Oh, you have to ring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like, I got the going in and going out mixed.
Yeah.
Why would you throw your hat in the ring?
We're not doing anything else.
What? What did you see?
Got out. Good shoot.
Here we are, you go.
Are you okay? Yeah.
So having a little aneurysm?
What's that tiny little sofa in the background of?
Probably for a dog room.
It is for a dog actually. I don't want to learn.
I already knew the answer.
A little dog sofa.
I've only seen one pack.
I've only seen one pet in the background of people's,
you know, cameras this week.
You know now. Leage. I sort of dug in the background.
It was I think I just remember the spooky lights. Yeah, there was a spooky lights, but there was also I think Bailey in the background. Okay
Where are the animals?
I'm not sure if I'm gonna die.
I'm not sure if I'm gonna die.
really waiting for a reaction look they've throwing so much you tell but they've
not actually taken anything fake mid to be fake cat take they want to see if Australia's
pop flash a corner but they will not be doing that one flash in the round right back
to be smoked up, cat they go. Three strong fuzzy and goose could be the surprise.
So we just tried lurking out through the tunnels just to keep pressure on and slow down
rotates, throwing in a lurk smoke, there's an entry and the double molly combo flushes out
two of the three defending players. What do you meant to do dude? I absolutely love watching this
power of vision team, especially on the
system. Oh, my thought of this thing that's so crazy to me, right? Is they, they scare you so much out of going for kind of early aggression through fear that you'll get punished think about it as well
They know the orp isn't going to be in place. They have bigger freedom to go and take mid and there and we saw it in the the previous round as well too
We're enthusiastic that AWP
Everything's so intentional like they always have exactly what they need for the exact same family times you kind of seem teams tee up to go a and
And they're working with some limitations.
They have kind of almost everything you need.
You know, they're making a decision.
Do we go for the ramp molly, the site molly, or the goose molly?
Like, what are we trying to get rid of here?
Because we only have one left.
We've used some other things to go and take map control.
Jamie liked that.
He wants to go in a site with everything he needs.
Look at this roll out that they get to play with.
Just like they'd kill two players on the back of just good util.
And that is over half of the site defense dead in a second.
where else you meant to be like astrologers are in the perfect setup for that round. They
cannot play they don't have it all. They cannot play anywhere else. You need eyes on long.
Goose and ramp is the most meta set of there's no other position. You don't play default.
And it's like, you know, within that in the round prior when they went with the with the
AWP there, right? They have the Utah for the rollout to go and take the space to get the all-puff
to the line. But then they still had smokes left to go and block in the post spawn.
There's it's just a lot of a lot of thought behind what you tell gets used in the round.
James has always been very intentional made sure he has exactly what he needs to get
the round done and you're you're seeing that in this power division team.
It was a slight dash over right that was a 40 second here after catnades, mid to
eight, then re-execimate to be, and they still went tats. They'll just keep me guessing.
Might be another power vision glazing here today, because...
Well, I did that. It's a little, it's a little unavoidable. This is their best map in the pool,
and it's one that is flawless. Haven't played a month, and when they lost it, they were on a big
lostry.
Yeah.
Seiko's been in from Jame.
Flash through.
They will come in with a little bit of aggression and it gets cancelled out even though
the flash was good and everyone was blind.
They only target they knew about was Jame.
They put a lot of energy in a killing him and that allows the other guys to come
on blind deal with that long push.
Stair would need round of the year with this eagle.
Not covering his 16-walk up.
Why does get into position?
So this is healthy shots, but that's even better.
No, no, no, no.
And be nice, and the eagle.
Oh, it's gonna say not long.
No way.
This is his world.
God.
His shot.
I will damage Duns there by time and there's not lots of it,
20 seconds to make elapses and belts and lock finishes the round.
That's all you had. That's all you could do.
Kill them all.
That is too much.
I just loved as the most ridiculous numbers ever.
Look at the Parimagents win, like win loss for 2025 on this map.
I want a prophecy by saying there was a period where we didn't have this roster.
We had a version of the roster.
Kick it was in game-leading.
James wasn't the first six months or at some point.
What do you think the win-loss is?
You're not going to get it.
It's going to sound stupid.
Like 40 wins to 10 losses.
It's essentially like 56 to 60.
56 to 60.
Yes, that's what you're up against the Stralis.
You know, you could become one of those 60.
You could make it 70, 17 reasons why.
Paravision loved us, too.
Or maybe 57 reasons why, because they just can't stop winning.
So this round is looking like a Stralis wanted to try and come through
a bit of mid-round aggression, right?
I think up until now you're worrying that the reason my Paravision
the final of the success is you'll give them too much respect to run their exec.
And so an attempt to disrupt was made there from a straddle, but they didn't like what
they saw.
Nearly got killed as they made their way up through short, and so it made them reconsider.
And that's one of the things that's always burning in the back of your mind, this idea
that if you play and look for the info, you might just be walking into a waiting
power vision. You know what James like.
Sound like Dr. Seuss there for a second.
Pointing his a lot.
Dr. Nook trading though. And
Paramison or just patient on these defaults right. There's always an anti flash player.
Twenty seconds.
Reblocks. They have to go through this.
That's the cool right now. Whoops.
You have seen this one before. Oh, god. Yeah.
We have this exact position.
And a big whoops.
round in times gone by but not in this one gets his first in the
orb there to trade it should be no winning this now no drop out in the
unclimbed as way a dead man as Strauss finally get on the board okay good
block for as Strauss at 20 seconds that's what really sells it for
Parivision not able to come through on that ace where it's way a little bit too late
And yeah, Flash at a hog your names, make the most of what you've got here as trial
is already able to get in the game and not too late either.
Noter, having the kettle next to the PC, to make tea, you're loving that.
And a quick pace, that's how my cocky that, that's a great idea.
Okay, but if the question is open, things up and that's what aggression gets here.
to quick kills to flip the script of this round.
It was credit-parivision for great trade work.
Here it actually goes once they're further than that.
It's more than just a trade.
You actually find the man advantage on the back of that mid push.
Okay, swapping you till a little nerve-racking.
It used to power vision slowing down on these short plays.
They tried to go a little bit faster on this one,
but still able to find a window.
Oh, so funny!
Oh, what a funny!
So we aim with two and suddenly what was looking like a good round for the Danes and...
Well, actually not even just Danes anymore.
And up, getting away from them to one of their new international pieces...
Off this up.
Ryu, get it back in the spawn.
It's ways on him, man. He's hitting hard right now.
and both of those first ones in the 2v3, that molly, as drivers, they wanted to leave,
but they couldn't. They wanted to reset. If anything, stage jumping further off,
light have done it better, but then that molly comes down and he is forced to fight with his teammate.
And both of them commit together, both of them die together.
So when it takes the York from Jay, not what I was expecting to see, but he puts it to use.
for sure, and the other day on a new bus, it actually helped his CT side when he was having
some trouble on the B-side. And Stralis just burning timeouts and I can't blame them. It was
nice idea, Gabby got the entry up top mid, but then Belgium looked double up. I can't even imagine
what this feels like to play against because it feels like in the perfect game. It feels like
like when you try to solve the problem,
you actually make it worse, like the whole idea,
usually if you feel like you're getting run on by XX,
if you feel like your opponents just playing group,
which is likely what Australia's are feeling right now,
whenever they're getting XX on,
it's by three, four players emerging from short.
You feel like you want to come through with a Greshet,
try and figure out a little bit earlier,
you know where the rounds ending up,
try and remove some players from the round,
with it, they're you tell with the options for the XX,
But we've seen it now a couple of times,
and ever as trawlers have looked to get aggressive,
they often get punished and come out looking worse for work.
It's just honestly, it's just not a lot of trading here,
but Paravision playing very grouped on T-side.
Can a strowless do something on this shore,
set up both rifles in the same position?
Even now it's clear they're expecting a change, right?
They're expecting, okay, we've gone short,
I'll have a lot, and a strowless know this.
So, perfect Molly.
Anticipate a bit of a reaction over to what's happened
And now they hear the burn in the morning, they know about the push.
So, ah, it just doesn't get better than this.
Doesn't get worse for a strawless.
What are you supposed to do here?
I never either.
You're playing the unthinking machine.
Oh, no, the machine is thinking. This machine is sent in.
Yeah, it's calculated.
It's thinking too much. You don't like it.
James, actually the most advanced version of the rock.
Grog put him on the b-site
You can see no it ago back door shut
Front or locked
The squad is round here, not allowed.
Eight-one.
Paravision, looking to build on their Budapest Wind Street.
A new addition's way, looking really good in this game again.
If that likes the nice close thousand light rounds, get some solid shots, nothing you can complain about.
When I saw the change, people were like out for Belgium, I'd be like, why are they w?
But the role speaks in my sense of Belgium, such a harder entry player.
As we can be back on these extremities, look at him now, I'll put these tunnels as his team
take a control.
I mean, I think you can even tell the Parvison themselves have a bigger degree, you know,
a huge degree of faith in this way.
AW didn't particularly have a lot of freedoms in this team.
Often times would be the guy dropping guns over to the rest of the squad in the miles
ways.
Kind of given that James giving him the orb.
Yeah, right?
I've never seen James, he has, he has freed him to really do whatever he wants in a lot of these rounds.
Yeah, he wanted to get his confidence back, definitely, right, in return to his former quality of play.
Dude, I mean, even this cool in this round, right, the idea that they're kind of posturing like they're trying to go short,
they're making it look like it's another one of these eight plays. They've got an A, like five, six rounds in a row now.
And so you're expecting a trialist to be a little twitchy and a little nervous.
Now to Astralis is credit, they haven't bit down on that and they've kept two players over here towards B.
Now crab damn they thought it was another one of these eight players now. It's just the arby and he'll get overwhelmed.
Good pick up down here in mid and important kill on the lurk of belted on.
That at least leaves you with a chance to go for the retake here. Three on three.
A Stralis, with a hard decision away up, limited you till nothing crazy to try and
come in on this retake, but a fast flank at the tunnels at a hoaxy, and a boost
for this all, with a try and strike one from the Tally early.
Oh, wait!
And so this is why you didn't want to face them on that too.
This is what you worried about, who has two on the map pool.
He's holding the tiny gap above the door and then he will bang same Harry like I I don't know how that what this would feel like if you're if you're
Huxy right now, you're what's rugged saying in this time out
That's it yeah, hold on let me think let me think and then the time out runs out
You know that's done like hello
It's so like hilariously we just talked about coming into the game where like the mentality of like James Paravision
Like never giving up and like always believing in the combat. I don't know if I could say this
They were about being on a Stralis right now. How do you how do you tell yourself yeah, we can we can outplay this
Why you know bait it to watch the fit to be
So, because the double wall smoke comes down like the corridor smokes recalling, the left
right, and so even the A players can't help on the mid to B, Parvish can walk through
the smokes where he has to go check it, that's when Parvish just run out tunnels, it
was an all-of-fake out in middle.
They just keep you guessing.
I wouldn't you think you know, you don't.
I do, I just can't not love how Parvish and they're playing right now, like it is as close
to perfect CS as you could get.
Yeah.
This is also where, you know, you would love individuals to kind of shine through and put around on the board for you.
But what player on a starlice is anything resembling confidence in this game?
That this scoreline, you know, like, you're not going to have a guy swing out unexpectedly, get a double kill and suddenly you're in a really good position.
You don't have the confidence to go for those types of fights right now.
You think it okay to win as a team?
We'll lean into our crossfires. We'll lean into playing off of one another.
Well, that might be the play in this round.
We've got a little stack over here towards B.
Have a look. They might play into it. That smoke.
Locking the tunnels at 45 seconds.
Wonder if that makes them reconsidering. It looks like it's going too.
Now Fuzzi was here, so there were three B, this was the transfer Strauss to catch Parvish enough guard, but now getting smoke to 40 seconds, I think really going to go
Strollers have kind of screwed themselves over with this move.
They didn't want to give it away, but in doing so, Parvish and say fine, look away!
Fuzzi needs everyone! He only takes one! That's the round done!
If a Strauss didn't smoke B, they had a chance!
Sometimes trying to be too smart is too silly I don't even know how, like, yeah,
Parvolution just, I say fine, I say fine, I don't even, there's no way they can
know how many players are there.
I do, I just go lower to my point to catch. I've got to, I've got a good, like, relatable
metaphor, I think for how I struggle, it's probably feeling right now. You know when
you've played a bunch of games, they've been going kind of well, you've got a bit of a roll,
and you're like, let's end it there. But then one of your dudes in the stack is like,
let's do one more, let's do one more. And you kind of already wanted to duck out anyway, but
then you play it and you just start to get them wrecked from round one, and everyone's a bit
quiet and you kind of knew it's one game too many can like I could
acquire. Yeah I think that's the the the the feeling that a
straw is have even the scenarios different issues with that
metaphor is they got to play another map of this. Yeah I have a
joy. No there is no going to bed at the end of this one even if
likely fill like you want to. Yeah yeah be in lower getting
new to buy aids and no escape.
Okay, did I say it too soon?
That is, arguably the best chance you've had in six rounds
that opening kill.
Get a kill.
And even then, you say opening kill?
No, I know.
I know there wasn't actual opening kill first,
but I mean, just an opener for Australia, right?
Have another go.
You just got a proof for us this now.
10-1.
Outlong, belching up with the entry and fuzzi weights
on the court.
This is a trade ready to come in as soon as that shot
by it's been a cause of swing.
The Molly defines that.
Right here, over on long, all right, maybe we're cooking as trawlers. They start this one off 45.
No, two way.
Looking forward, just two rounds on this CT side. Let's see how Jame and Co respond to the three on three.
There will always go B.
Or do they?
Fake out no way.
Oh, baby monster.
It is ways running up, or they just patch the aggression on cat.
20 seconds and they can run behind the Molly. It just falls short. James taking the
bombets on the inside. There is nobody home. That's insulting. That's despicable. No way you
think that out. And now they just collect all the kills. Zwei and James carry them through
as Paravision dominate as Strauss. Wow.
the
which remains posted now no support.
Embo the deepest formation if they don't disrespect this or if they come forward
it's actually come to the point now where smoke can take over. He doesn't have to put himself in jeopardy
they're running through this. Oh my god. They're actually gonna come. Yeah.
Double-nose-hope-collapse
Easy pickup for Navi, I mean they'll laugh in the face of this attack
This player in the only one that gets a kill, you'll double down Monacy, but he's already
down to a quarter HP, but we'll have it, we'll have it's die hard it looks like.
That's three, man, but he only has three health left.
That should be the end of him, it was only two guys, you know.
He's gonna use the smoke grenade to cut off a lexie.
Could they mess this up?
25 seconds and Monacy is seeing red.
wants to make it happen. Oh my god. Oh no way, dude. This is a one versus five straight up and he hasn't read it.
He's he should have this red with another smoke. Oh my monacy. One fake. The need doesn't come through.
Now he's got enough space to commit to this. Monacy. A pure one V five. And as Ema tries to get
out through that smoke. Monacy's just dodging all these bullets. He's terrified. Ema's looking
behind him for a push through times taking away.
How could you not be horrified?
Monacy, the prodigy, has pieced together four frags in this 1v5 ace clutch.
At EMA, it's on a silver platter, a miracle from the magnificent monacy.
The flames and dags, the...
His bomb down his scary flames is taking real estate,
but ends up getting punished, liquid-hold, and they win these fights,
just extra left to get past but he's an iron wall at the back of the site moving around
killed everything.
Oh, that's down.
Make some noise for it.
That is incredible.
And you've got J.L. and wonderful.
It's this fight J.L. and wonderful.
And fame.
Excuse me.
Very key.
Fame slips up.
Getting over closer.
J.L.
Thinking about going to help is wonderful.
Put that up over to the corner.
That could come back to Hauntim.
spot to get the multi-frag, but the CT's sitting in waitin' for a little longer.
Molotov goes to Cate.
If Finn waits this long, this might come back to bite him.
He's got the kit, and that kit could be so key.
You gotta go, BB. He needs to move.
Boughts more for lunch.
Oh, welcome to Wonderland!
They locked down that post-plat like it's nothing!
All right, that break might be longer than this second half with Paravision absolutely
dominating a Stralis on Dust 2. We painted an uneven picture coming into this one, right?
The idea that for PowerVision, this is a home app. They went undefeated on it on their major run
for a Stralis. It's been over three months since they played this map last and even then,
the last thing they remember about Dust 2 was the five lost streak they were on.
But this new look as Stralis Rostos was always going to be an uphill battle.
Actually, I don't think they appreciate quite how vertical this incline was going to be.
Yeah, there's no ladder left here.
The Strollers just have to put their fingers in the rock
and try and climb up hill.
James, I can't put the flash, it might be a...
It looks into the flash as well,
so Strollers can drop sport hunting down.
Tap on the side from sway.
His form has been a magella in these couple of parry vision games
so 16-4 takes his sweet time,
laid on the smoke, flushes out right you.
I love how I try these vying.
Anymore
Good damage with no kill
Then the troops swing and somehow's ways of lives
Now they're all low except belchinock
But there's plenty of headshot angles to go around
And to finish what he's way that is so
Oh, just wonderful, even though Ryo was in the spawn.
He dropped down, he killed someone on the drop down.
No, they need the CT smoke open, and then go and turn that to a kind of disadvantage position.
This is the fight, right?
But he still does a good job of slowing that rotate for the retake and keeping them
bogged down in CT, even for a couple of extra seconds.
But as Jarlas couldn't scale, they were worried about his way.
You really kind of picked and choose when he went for a for a aggressive fight there out from the site and he just forced you so much time away from them
The everyone still gets to arrive for power of his round is a good example why we say in like a lost game like this we say like
Oh, it's good to get a few rounds to get warmed up get your confidence because the Stralis have gotten none of it. No, just missed every glove in what is the penultimate round
Yeah, and we're about to go into England and a Stralisville and they haven't even got to play the only way that they could have won that round
is if they scale faster and get around to a way way quicker, but because everyone's so worried they're like
please, we just have to kill him. It's one guy. We just have to kill this one guy. They're all hoping for the fight.
They're all wanting to get it. They missed every shot. Confidence is in the dirt, but they're about to get there in one.
You know, there's really not a lot of confidence building rounds or kills in this game for a
That's a fact, you might it came into this feeling great.
I can assure you you feel horrible right now.
Yeah.
I don't even think it's about a strawless.
I just think it's about power vision.
Smoke's about...
Her vision just played such a perfect game.
It is.
Dust, too.
How do they lose her route?
I actually don't remember.
Well, don't worry, they won't make it happen.
They're looking for a mega-clean victory.
The routine won.
That is domination from power vision.
This is the reason we're so excited to see what this team
is capable of for its Charlis.
They've really got to try and reset a head of action.
They're my pick coming up next.
Well, we set the story line saying,
if Charlis could surprise us,
could change the narrative, could define them.
them, so they didn't do that. Perry Vision took control to find the whole game from
start to finish every time. Let's try this, try to find an answer. Perry Vision
had the counter punch right there locked and loaded. That was pure domination. It
literally as a team on the calls. Whatever you want to say, that was all Perry, all
day here, Jacob. I thought it was going to be bad, but I didn't think it was going to
be this bad. You know, obviously knowing Australia's not a 12 team haven't played
in quite some time going on against the team that has a 100% win record on the map
the last three months. It was never looking like a good matchup for Australis, but there's
different ways of losing like this. The way where you lose and you're like, oh, but there
were signs, there were glimpses, there were moments in the game that maybe could have been a little
close, or maybe if you give them another couple of tracks as runs or another couple of officials
in the map, I can see where it's going. From this game, I learned absolutely nothing
when it comes to Australis. Paravishen, by all means, a fantastic performance, but for Australis.
I think we still need a lot of answers if they're going to work
does do in the pool maybe.
Maybe time to think about it.
I think I did some good job actually because I was trying to
find one moment in the game.
Maybe the game could have been close.
Maybe it's a game around eight is the one example.
You know, and the one moment they won around seven.
And you think to yourself, okay, you went around and then you went
another round that would be nice.
You fight in a 3v4 right here. The question and middle didn't really work out. Then you re-acquise on to what's short well done by it's there
You know about 3v2 on the actually have 2 players and CTs on unfortunately to them
They both lose out on the duel to sway and guess what Australia's will lose this round not able to do anything right here
Rio can't really connect the kill and can't really get into the fuse the bomb now
Had Australia's won this round. We're talking 6-2. We're talking
Paragation starting to get slightly pressure on money and maybe we're talking a competitive first half or at least a game
where like, okay, you got 5, 6, 7 rounds. So maybe you know, we're a bit more practice,
but when you lose the one key round and the one key moment in the game and you get nothing
after that, then honestly speaking, I cannot stand here and say anything positive about that performance,
that is one first of all is where they have to forget about it and think about it.
Okay, so let's focus on positives for Perry Mission, because there were a whole lot of them, right?
If we're talking about the overall picture, beautiful. If we're talking about the individuals,
beautiful and in particular a couple of these guys were popping off here, Jacob.
Yeah, you have a shallow and and sway together on the T side in particular where their foundation for the win was late
Hoping often it's it's great to see
Channel play well as well. We saw during the major you know he was one of the few players at times when Parish and worst dropping
That actually stepped up and had the nerve to go above and beyond for sway again small
Sample size would just seem one and a half games for him in the Parish and Jersey
But he seems to be the player that everyone wished he won was he was on team spirit freed up
up. Very aggressive in the way that he's taking his tools. 136 plus 80 are in his game.
Mike, it is absolutely ridiculous. For Swag to play this will on three maps in a row now,
that's never happened to him. We saw games as we saw location moments where one map
you would pop off, but for him to be consistently delivering what in the frame of consistency over
the course of three maps, that is a massive sign for Swag, a massive sign for the future
of Parallelish and something they need to hold on to because that is magic. And I thought this
this was something that Harry and Hugo did a good job of highlighting during the
classic does feel like's way is having a lot of freedom to sort of do what he wants
to do, which is not something we're used to saying about a lot of jamer arsters and
really reflects the amount of respect and the amount of faith that the gym and us on
have placed in this young guy.
I think that's what they scouted and enjoyed their new right away when he was
going out of team spirit.
We need to acquire this guy.
We need to get this guy into our team because there's some un-tap potential.
Again, this whole roster has built around young prospects, you know, in Belgium, in
and AW when he was still a part of the team as well.
So for James to recognize here,
we have another pride prospect,
we have another young son who may have not
been ready for spirit,
which is, by the way, the highest of high level
of connoisseur.
You're playing next to Dawn.
You're playing next to Shiro.
There's no fold in not being ready for that,
but playing in Paris.
It's a different league and so far so good.
You're also playing in a situation in spirit
where you're never going to be the spotlight player.
You're never going to be the focal player, right?
It's always going to be about Dawn.
It's going to be about Cheryl after him.
There's just so many layers to what that team wants to do.
when you're like the third or fourth layer here,
you're being put on the front line,
you're being put in the spotlight,
you are the start player and right now,
at least it's like a damn good.
On the other side of things,
we do have to keep an eye.
I know we've already touched on the Astralis
and there are no pretty things to say.
They are trying to integrate two new players.
What did you see here, Jacob?
Anything that's promising about how they're working with them in?
I mean, we spoke about Fuse coming into the game saying
that he would have to be a difference
making with the AWS P. Unfortunately,
for him, he had a tough day at their office,
or a tough map at their office, so to speak,
couldn't really get anything done.
I don't want to blame too, see, I don't
think it's fair to pinpoint him.
It was the entirety of the striers that fell through.
The game plan, the way they were setting each other up,
didn't really pan out.
As soon as it was, you could do as well on a CT side
when you don't have the op that often
push your economy, it's being shared up,
everything's sinking around.
So in that regard, I don't think it's fair to point out
anyone from Australia's and saying he was at fault.
It was a team falling through.
And a team simply not ready to contest
Paravision on a map like Dust 2 yet that doesn't mean second map can be competitive that doesn't mean Australia still can't play decent
Counter Strike it just simply means that right now dust 2 is a weakness for them
They don't play a new business and that's gonna be an issue against any other team out there
Which willing to play dust it is we're gonna need to see them flex and develop that map
But the silver lining is if you can't get it down on your opponent's map
They could at least you get one more at least this one of straws might be better prepared for will see if they are as we get into our second map of play just after this
and
here is built you know ahead of the matchup against the straws built you know
really good showing yesterday is we're coming in look at nice hours with your
new teammate
she's a very young player so
I think she was playing pretty really nice
yesterday
And you team talked a lot about how quickly you and the other players develop in the
lead up to the major run last season. How much further along do you think you are now
with that major under the belt with the off season? How far do you think the team has come?
I think we still have a big potential to be did one team.
And how we feel is very, so even if she is young, I think you know, but if you have more experience on this one, even then ask, you know, okay.
So it's for sure boost for our roster and I think we still have a big potential to still grow, you know.
Now, in this matchup, you picked into a Stralis.
Strasston was very clear in the draft show that it wasn't because they were particularly weak,
but they were maybe the best choice at the time.
What do you think of the matchup?
I don't think about it.
It's the standard decision, the standard decision, so I don't think about it.
Good soldier right there.
I don't think.
I let them make the decisions when I rock up in the server and I own.
Yeah, I mean, I guess that's what you have to do sometimes, you know, just, you know, put aside all the thinking and just show up and play in your intuition.
For some young players, it works out well, and I guess that's another case right here.
It was just a fantastic answer.
I mean, you talk about being blunt and clear about what your thoughts are on it,
or rather you lack thereof, I like to hear it.
And I mean, certainly it's working out so far.
Letting James do the thinking, you folks think, are doing the shooting,
but I'll try not to get a really good map one.
Team overall, obviously, it doesn't get much better.
No, it doesn't. That was a perfect performance.
performance. It's one where you don't break a split. It's one where you don't use any, if I guess
cognitive power, even, or anything in order to like solve how we got to Windows 2, how we're
going to win the next round. So in terms of coming in, fresh to the next map, that's going to be
a case to be made for for permission. I'm curious to see if a stylist can bounce back,
ancient is a different playground, and a playground that we have seen this new version of
a stylist, you know, do decent them. This one's all about having the short memory is having
the goldfish brains, just instantly forgetting what happened, finding the reset after you got
battered on the dust too, saying, okay, this happens to us, you know, maybe trying
rub your eyes out of your head as you have these attempting right here and just get right back
to it. You gotta have a short memory as a competitor and this is where it comes into play
and where it can be tough, especially with the new team. You had some optimism, you had some
hope leaving the dust to in there, then instantly your hopes are dashed and destroyed.
Sure, that's true, but that's, again, it's easy for us to, because they can just forget about dust
to. They knew that was always going to be tough, so when you're losing that fashion,
It's not like we were close. We should have done that and we should have they could just completely forget about if focus on ancient and what we've seen from a style is so far
They have played it once and they play against phonetic and they absolutely destroyed the 13 to four
Yabhi had a fantastic showing Yabhi usually lost to play ancient back in the Copenhagen
What they call Copenhagen flames days when he first emerged that was also their go-to map pic, so he has a good history with that map
So I'm not really worried on behalf of a style is I get to see now how good are they beating phonetic is one thing
going toe to toe versus perivision on a map like ancient, that's a difference.
So this is the first real big test for us while it's on a map they should quote unquote
be comfortable with.
Based on what we've seen, based on what we've seen from Australia so far this year,
confidence rating, give me a percentage here.
I mean, it's such a small sample size that says that, you know,
beating the fanatic 13 for the way they did, there was a positive sign, but playing perivision
on a map like ancient, that's a different caliber. So I'm here to figure it out.
I think it's pointing in the right direction on an ancient, but I don't think they're going to be
I think they're going to make the game compete.
But we'll see if they can.
We'll just have to hope that Australia's going to make a series of this
Perry Vision hoping for a quick day in the office.
And now we will throw over two experts who might just bring it through this swiftly as well
hearing you go take it away.
You're hoping a Stralis can win.
You haven't been paying attention guys.
We just watched us through.
Anchons up next.
This is a Parallel Vision show right now.
It is.
Yeah, it's very much feeling that way.
Like one thing, it's going to be really just hard to get away from.
If you're a Stralis, it is the feeling you're going to have at the end of that first map.
It wasn't pretty.
You got absolutely steamrolled and even though now you're heading to your own map,
pick, Paravision, a feeling super warm and ready to close.
If they do bounce back, all the more credit to a Stralis.
Because I think a lot of folks would just be cooked at this point,
after getting the perfect CS played against them.
From Paravision.
Well, as Trason at least played his map with his roster
right, we saw it in the first round against Firmatic.
They've 34 to them.
It was a nice dominant victory.
So that's something maybe inspiring for Australia's here,
the Paravision.
After a perfect game, feeling exactly that.
And after they lost a couple of times at the Major,
The prior two went on a seven winstery coming in.
And of course, the addition is way.
Gonna add a lot of value to these two sides.
It's an A-play.
Who's he spotted early?
So, astronomers have info.
If you can bait for his teammate.
Surely they don't click, yeah, be right?
Surely.
Oh, it's fine.
It's all good for now.
All right, yeah, be one of them, please.
Oh, we're going to worry about sealing a little cold.
We'll call that for only getting one round back on us too.
And they've been absolutely...
...cognitive in the pistol.
Can we get Zilo's PO video on that? Is that possible?
360 jump shot, no scope, nice double from stare.
Could that really make it interesting? They take donut right back.
Alright, Ray, what you got for us?
The whole beret is we've seen these guns.
Really dominate in pistol rounds here at the bounty
But surely this one's too much
They just know they're like what he's not surprised. You're want me to bro bro ain't sticking that bomb
He spotted it and rise thinking bro himself. This couldn't be worse
They don't get peaked so you never have the charts in the one be two
Dude, yeah, be let everyone in, you got to play with the back turn and then Zealogis.
What?
What are you doing?
Yeah!
Insanely, buddy.
Oh!
No!
You're nothing.
If James was a baller, he would show up.
Okay, the tournament with his own bull ready to go. Yeah, it's job.
Ball the perfect 300.
Or whatever the top score is, I think it's 360, but it feels like 300.
And leave. He would leave. And he would leave with like three more bulls than he can.
Okay, he's just playing perfect CS right now.
But I still think, you know, the thing that's good about this team is, yes, it's all
game on the, on the big picture, but you still get to see some really strong rifle from
these young players.
And I think they're definitely getting their flowers as you're very capable individuals,
which is, I mean, you couldn't, you couldn't run the system without
I imagine it's like joining a cult, but the difference is that actually like there are real benefits.
Maybe it's like scienceology.
Okay, you'll say it again!
Yeah!
What's the benefit to science?
It's reasonably, they're awesome.
Yeah, I mean, otherwise, why would you, right?
Inside up now, using my referral too.
Get a rare round to a Parvolution, don't have the utility.
Smoke flash, decoy, and a walk-up ramp, two here.
I'll point wide spacing if they were closer together, could have transferred, but when
it's time you finish off that first player, too late, you're looking the wrong way.
Bon, we'll make it down cover is that.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Pary, Pary vision.
Pary, Pary.
We've actually been doing this all week.
Pary, I listened to the tune of Chuckle Vision.
Right, you recommend that.
To me.
Why, Tary, didn't even you left it.
To me?
To me.
Well, let's say to you.
Just keep it on silent.
Like, we're carrying a ladder through a draw.
to save him for a strawless
I mean, I mean.
20 seconds hit the camera, don't error mead.
Well Mr. Vision.
See I like him, he's closing his eyes there almost and just this belief.
That's all you're thinking right now.
Kelly, I'm just going to set a load bar.
Get on the board and then take it round by round.
Yes.
That is the lowest bar possible, guys.
We just need a round.
Oh!
Time in.
I can see.
Nice shot, but it's too long.
There's two more in the cave and they've got him boxed, so they're not even going to wait.
Oh, money, baby!
Will it matter?
Is it just a delay of being able to run into the molly to kill him insulting?
But he wasn't ready for it.
So it feels like what could be a very strong map for prohibition just in the fight.
Oh, hang on, go and cave us as the pistol always makes me there, but here's the backstatement.
To alleviate all the pressure and it will.
This map is just such a push and pull of space. Always having to take something back.
You know, a lot of times on CT side, you'll be dark and have no info.
You have to go investigating. This feels like another map that prohibition will excel at.
Oh, if you had armor, one more bullet would have done it, but not to be the Abbey.
It's a Parisian convert on their pistol eventually.
Always found it interesting with James and his nuke.
I'd love to see him on you.
Never played it really.
The same case on VP.
I mean, it'd be, you know, for...
I'm gonna kiss for this feeling, even scary.
You touched upon how a power vision play in this.
And even though it's not like that's to when they went flawless at the age
or they still had good results.
And all the stalks, the mid-crunch, looking at shut down at decisively.
Okay, Australia.
guns come out, played the night away, a power of vision, and they're going to get on the
border way earlier than back on Dust 2. That's better.
It will be a pace around his power of vision, punish, going right back to something
slower now as they've been dealt a crunch in middle.
You know what I was going to say is you even think about the way on that spirit squad,
and this was one of their most played maps, their highest win rate maps. So in that
sense, you know, one that they had a lot of success on, he's going to come into this with a lot of ideas.
And then thinking, you know,
if you're gonna get to implement various set ideas,
feel like they already have their whole own system,
but what I mean is, you know,
as way will be more than comfortable here,
so you still expect very solid output
from the latest edition in this Power Vision store.
When I mentioned you, James played it twice
in his career out of hundreds, thousands of maps.
He has played it in you kind of twice.
Once on Avengar, once on a squad I've never heard of.
Ooh, wonky riot!
Shut down of the blue sign, I could have no saving this, they try with a pistol, and damage gun.
But yeah, it's a save here.
I could have been something.
Pistol finishing you, those kills.
We were talking about Parvus in during the break even, and we were saying, like,
kind of watching James on this comeback arc into CS2 is super interesting and the games do just
feel decisively different. Like the old VP, it was still James style and it was still like,
I think one of the strongest and smartest ways of playing the game to his credit, just very few
teams kind of wanted to and even then over time the implement it kind of drags of James' whole
thing which was always trying to keep money,
trying to keep pressure on.
But, you know, people used to complain about
those games being boring, being slow.
How it would always go the distance.
It's a half to win and over time because it was so many
saves, you know, that's where the jam time moniker comes from, right?
And it's like, sure, the pair of vision still save.
Yeah, do you have a show on a suit right now?
But, I do think that it's really, it's really,
it's exactly other factors.
I think also, a lot of the time is
It's not worrying about their opponents money now, right?
The idea of, okay, it's kind of hard for us to remain like super entrenched in these games,
but they go for saves in a way where they always remain a little bit threatening to the opponent.
Trying to keep them broke, not throughout the entire game.
Yeah, that's a good point. I'd also say the difference as well is like the amount of, even if you're looking at us too,
and sure, as a game where everything was going right, look at the amount of rounds where they go for the last 27 ways.
They're trying to let it pop, they win it.
You know, they get slouched and give 30 seconds to go past.
Or the round where they fake the full back off cat to go be
and they go back up, hey, you know, they're going for 15,
20 second hits, which is excellent to see.
I also think there's less kind of emphasis on,
as it says, solo plays, but like in the past,
we need to have guys like flip, be a bit more
of the space taker and one on here.
It's a bit more packer-oly, this idea of,
Oh my god, he hit me!
He hit me!
He hit me!
I'll hit you!
98 damage!
Staying lucky!
Still being my surround!
He just got on a right now FUSI.
A mesh shock could be a big problem.
Wading for the warp right now.
Just don't miss!
Simple!
TLCS is...
But even the pros miss Harry.
Probably a warp sliding into this angle should be FUSI's kill.
So he nails it.
Yeah, no excuse on that one.
And Poozy makes it look as easy as it was.
Oh, pretty good.
And so he's gonna get a couple more things.
Oh, okay.
Oh, that's way.
That seemed to be a bit of a Swiss army knife, doesn't he?
I'm kind of doing it all right now.
There's no room to second up on spirit when dogs on the team.
The power may he's got it in him.
Just putting enough time away in the round that they can make as far as it doubt.
I wouldn't surprise you if sort of the idea here is, you know, see if you can find anything on this pistol.
It's going to be just faking the first steps. This probably is to say, right?
And you think it's always going to get out with the opiates the only way they're going to have one going forward.
But that's not as great as you might think, though,
because J.M.O.V.C saved it in the last round.
Now it's way saving it in this one.
So you're going to be down a gun.
They move the gun away.
Good move from stairs.
Wasn't then falling.
Oh, that's what he was going back for.
Mike just saved up U250.
He wants to die here.
Oh, yeah.
It was hard.
Damage.
Again, like you feel like one more shot or if that orb actually
finished there, what this round could have been here for
Power Emissions.
The bonus trial is they are showing up in this game a lot better than Dust2.
Yeah, the better, but you know,
the company should build up pretty quickly here for a straw.
I know they got slapped around and the whole story was always going to be one hell of a task to reset.
If you win a couple of rounds, you just tell yourself, yeah, they wrecked this up there.
You don't even think about that anymore.
You're just looking at the series in front here.
You're remaining two maps.
And you telling yourselves, but everything can be Dust2.
So, you know, this is already a way better opening.
I don't have to tell you that.
So let's see if Australia can take the lead in this head-to-head.
To the opening of the ramp,
and you can see always a cave.
Something else that's nice about being in this position
is forcing power vision to play with some concessions.
right? Think back to Dust2 we were saying they always have all the utility need for these eggs eggs. Well, that's not been true in these early rounds and the kind of mismatch save in the last two has really
ensured that fact they come into this round with next and nothing in terms of the utility. So,
I'm really has to come up with something here to save the day.
Bit of aggression out through mid and on the jump up and are you going to catch two,
full blind and out in the open was the Fuji WT.
Still trying to battle back in on this round, our power vision and wallet was a 5B3.
They've now grinded that down to a 3 on 3 post-plan,
or gets posted back in the cave and with Rai Lowe, I don't think you can go for this, it's flawless.
The kill through the tieship and a talker to do it.
I don't know why Fruzy stays on the angle, he is both blind,
Five second flash and he just sits there doesn't fire doesn't move.
Parvision get like two seconds to work out but he's still there and then kill him.
It's parvision. They're not wasting a flashbang and not pushing off in a three on five.
They're coming through that smoke and if Fusi lives, it maintains control of B.
You can stay long, you can retake, his team can scale on your hold to line.
Instead, you just get to have the crossfire with Huxie as well.
even if you were just like covering the kind of run up to caves that they never get to
a strong loop him out on a 5v3 in middle with that crunch.
That's right, by a caravish and then food just sits in the sight for blind.
That's a huge mistake.
Think though at times you wind up thinking that paravish and
are a team that won't take risks and that's not entirely true, right?
They push the smoke there, which is a risk, but they take calculated risks, you know, through the flash to back it up.
A little bit of a skirmish out here in middle.
Notice that at least kept it even in a four on four, but there's a lot more left to deal with out here in mid.
Two players strong with support from Dona, smoked off right now, short.
Right, it was really hoping they would follow through on this aggression and hoping he would go on cleared now.
He will go on cleared because there's no one left him mid, they're grouping outside of this B site.
He was strong here for Australia, so they have a scope, so in CIS mode, not playing around with that.
Who's now over the smoke? Now we're cooking with gas.
Oh, I saw a deer, but it all weight fuses for rotating the end, and it's going to go short.
So, everyone is fine for Australia's.
And I hope if he gets flash, he just kind of stands there.
It's good, but it's a hard fight load.
I load setup. Good fight.
Nice crawl. What a trampoline.
He goes, James.
Let's put Shaston okay, James, trying to go to the AK's bowl.
Who's he smoked off? He can't stand there.
He gives it up 20 seconds away.
Walking through the smoke, you shoot the little guys away.
You fucking little dude!
Last thing you were ready for.
Now the flank. Smoke, not available, but he can.
That's got a kid in his default.
Let's get go, Ron.
Let's go, very, very wrong.
Oh, huge catch right.
Tap on the bomb and that is going to cause a swing out from Zwei.
Doesn't matter because he backs his aim and with good reason a huge
Patrick there from Zwei.
Dude, it's just the redemption arc is a meteor on this team.
It has not taken more than three maps.
Dude, it sees away in his elements in his squad.
When he out, integral round here.
A extremely decisive push through the smoke, and a one-by-one that is not easy, right?
You can stick, so he's going to toss up between, do I run at him?
Do I hope he peaks?
And he nails the headshot shift, I'm forward.
I'll say this, I think, you know, Jame is very, very careful with who he places, he's
trust in to get that extra freedom.
you look at the kind of list of players that got it in his previous team. This idea that
you actually have to have a really, really solid understanding of the micro of the game.
When it's good to take a calculated risk like a smoke push, when it's good to get aggressive,
you know, when you look at someone like Ykindar, I think that that's something he always
shined in, even though he had this reputation as just the mad dog that would run in and kind of play
super aggressive. You can though it is an incredibly intelligent CS player, especially when
it comes down at a micro, how that ties into the big picture, and I think likely, James
sees a little bit of his way, you know, sorry, a little bit of those type of players
in his way.
Oh, I've got this time though, run through the B door.
You can see able to get out.
He's tracking him right now, maybe when he sees around the click, just walk the whole
way in, but through this take in the line.
The one thing that isn't working for parrison is they keep just doing these mid pops out
elbow, and to be fair, it is like the DNA of ancient, right?
You'll see games where donk is running out elbow every single round off spawn, and getting
Nate's that getting triple peak getting destroyed by utility and you'll still do it. And so
parish and all in that same vein really trying to abuse middle but it hasn't worked for them at
a tool. If you look at the trade up heaven this round but it's still a 2v4 again for
power division where a lot has to go right. Look at this aggression from Neppi on this push all the way
three main. He just might catch the bomb. Oh, sorry. James, it scales up in a heaven.
Back turned. What are you expecting now? You see, low dead on that swing,
fourth round secured for Australia, bringing themselves back into this. You know,
you're never able to conquer middle. That is actually a bit of a problem for power division. I
think that's why James was so focused on it. Because for now, you've had quick rotates.
You've had those lane fights to worry about.
I'm going to say historically,
pyrovision haven't been good at really knows it.
Right? You think about the riot-opper,
sure they ended up losing that round,
which was a bit of a shame,
but these fights from heaven have been a problem.
If you're able to kind of take mid-away,
that really only leaves pressure on the extremities,
then that's almost what pyrovision
won with how they're playing these early rounds.
They kind of want the fights to come down ramp.
They want the fights to come out of cave.
They wouldn't mind in a push,
because they're holding for it in the early stages.
It's kind of forced that reaction out of Australia, and to get all this control over
mid, you've got to go and win the mid fight once. This may be one hill that James
can't conquer in this matchup, because...
Well, Australia has had their number.
You may not be as conqueror Harry, but the question is, will he die on it?
Because that's the third full mid take that has been shut down by Australia's.
It's what got them their first round, and it's what gets them their fourth round.
Strollers have found a way into this game, and they've broken the money of Paravision.
So two more proper swings here for Paravision.
Try and keep up this T-side street, but Strollers right now, right behind.
You know, Jane, where we talk about economy is going to place your time, waste your
utensil, grind squeeze everything you found out of your surroundings.
if you want it's going to get a drink, go to the bathroom, now it's perfect time. There's another minute of this.
I think it is viable to try and kill players after time in these rounds. We'd like to see that
from a striker but they're probably just picking more about closing the round. Yeah, as I see this too,
like James always know, and that that's one of the pitfalls of slow play in these type of rounds,
So they'll always be in a position where they can try and
Right, they made a pause
No, no surely not this is Glock's man. What do you pity it that might be enough?
They've got it into a TV to destroy us. You can't let them win this round. I hope you didn't go to the bathroom because this round is on right now
That's a wrap full reposition for both players
No way!
Oh, if you weren't crushed, if you weren't feeling defeated before you are now, that's an eco round, a folly coat.
Look at that, a pretty milimpistol stay on.
That kills you. Surely that kills you.
Yeah, and then it's flawless time now, and you know what, fair enough.
Whoa!
I can't even say...
What have you got?
Raga, say something, dude.
They, they, they, they, they have a P250. They have a P250.
They have one P250 for gloves.
Yeah, I think so.
And they wait, and they win the round. No, Nades.
No, nothing.
As drivers like jumping, they realize they've both gone cave,
and they jumping, but no to a so quick to go back,
ramp, he catches them both crossing.
No one needs to run, hurry.
No way, that just happened.
Cloths!
No way, that just happened.
Oh my god.
Oh dear.
Oh yeah, just have a little city coffee now.
Yeah, you have absolutely killed this thing.
Wow.
Wow.
This is why we love power and vision so much.
This is why we love this team.
Shocking.
It's just everything.
Every step of the way there's this advantage.
Every step of that round. And they win it.
No shit. They're playing with the stun you start with.
The free gun.
The free gun. They're not meant to use it.
Those rounds you go.
Oh, so...
Well, you know what?
I think we can get our middle now.
Astralis fully shattered armulous pistols, that was their chance to build into this game
against the Fulico, and instead it's there's a right back in the face, Astralis have looked
Magusia in the eye they've turned into stone.
He chicked over the knife and then breathed.
Oh, it's... it's fun.
We have fun.
Just in the eye.
I don't think you can repel this.
No, right.
You got a phone on my phone.
You just lost two of the lock-around in like...
I lose no agocran any time any game is bad that was a win arguably like what
was the half-depiting round.
He's the one spots on the wall even the round that was meant to be the round to get
you into the round.
Yeah.
One of the rounds of all time.
Four now.
I have vision there.
I have this team.
So I can't wait.
I'm getting ahead of myself.
I think this team, they don't, they don't really
or probably not. They can't convince this here.
They could be a real person.
They could be some sort of teams.
I could definitely see that happening here for
Paravision coming into this season.
Or because also, you know, they look better than the major.
It's like, look better.
Yeah, they do. They do 100%.
I imagine, you know, the major success was very galvanizing.
This idea of what we're doing is working.
This grind has all been worth it.
We've moved up the rankings as serious amount.
serious amount. You know we're going to start hitting points where we're getting invited
to events. We're getting a go and play the big dogs because also this was a team that for
the longest time were just the kings of second place. They were one map away from making it
to proly, they were one map away from a bunch of lands, they came from a bunch of second places
in qualifiers and I kept thinking like before the major man, when are we going to get to see
this team take on top squads and they kept falling short just enough and then the major happens.
We've already locked in a bunch of a tendances this year.
I've got close, probably bounty.
Dude, it's like, it's also just the thing that's who sick to me is you're getting to see James, like unique viewer the game.
With new, with new names, new tower, by the way.
Other than Zwei, you didn't know a lot of these guys, sure you could say bell too long.
See if they're around for a little while, but you get to see new faces, playing with one of the most unique brains of the game and James.
And it's exciting, it's fun, right?
Old VP, you can shoot in in the final few rounds
of you could guess which overtime the game was ending in.
Just kind of get the gist, but every round,
something a little different, something a little explosive,
as well, though gladly throwing some pacey rounds.
So gladly throwing some bites, they're not afraid to take risks.
You kind of have to in MR 12, but it's still just as cold
and calculated.
And now they're going to leave every two.
This is just horrific.
Belching off, got back stabs away at the down time and spawning over the wall to be now.
Fuzzi's credit. He's actually tried to get ahead of this.
What are you saying?
They decided to go by me.
Zwae has got him retaken the space.
So Fuzzi, you might get this kill.
I'll give you that.
But then you've got to embark on this one, B2.
They've already got deep long.
They've already got good space.
The flashes are active and there's the peak.
Power of vision.
These guys are seriously impressive and they are sitting just
rounds away from getting to show what they can do online.
Blaze, he's got players breathing down his neck.
And there's a ton of pressure coming in on Mezzy.
He lines up the body.
Oh, so solid.
Locked this down.
Another multi-frag moment.
But here's the script, but all.
Okay, over towards out her damage onto the off.
And now, Zayu slides away.
No fast moves.
Don't get into the back of the site.
This is a one V5.
He can sense the fear.
Rotation around for Zaiwu.
Doc comes back.
Zaiwu, remember, full health over onto the AK.
They're feeding Zaipex to him.
And now this huge health advantage.
Times ticking.
Don't sell.
Oh, my God!
Clashes and kills them off.
Always reliable Russian right-wing.
But your answer comes in the way of a Malagoy-A site entry.
Spam down through the smoke, there's a lot of security,
and kick them, watch this over.
But here comes the clutch.
Cacerado solo already.
No need to finish this off.
It's going to have to be a guillotine from Cacerado, not once but twice.
Off default, and he's moving up.
Monocies have been playing phenomenally in this fourth map
to keep the Falcons dream alive.
How can they get two from this position?
I don't know.
He's trying to think different.
He might catch one, if he gets both.
It'd be a miracle.
He will stay tucked in and hit in and hope.
And as they encroach closer, he remains in the shadows.
This is Falcons getting closer to that bomb now.
The retakes and full of pech monocity stopping over.
It's a headshot immediately.
No!
And that's not the point!
From T.S. Sarato!
At times when we've seen Vitality come in after that first fall.
This is a different timing from them.
They're going to try to send one through the card.
All that beautiful glass on a empty.
Oh, good recovery for monocene, not letting that go for free.
Got that smoke still for monocene?
And he gets the answer packed.
All right, now we're talking.
It comes down to 20 seconds.
It is right there.
Rob's not sure from which avenue
to assess going in first, buys out to messy.
Monocene's got himself a third.
And the clock on the fort and ace and time to plant.
And sanctuary on the other side
his apex will walk this approach.
He's got to take a breath.
I want to see low HP 14 hell looking for this last kill.
Locked in, holding the ankle, apex is head.
All right, all right, all right.
You know, full house for four rounds.
I want to see uses that moment to establish an angle on
hut, but misses.
And there's a lot of movement for theory of elders.
They right off this track, can't take it.
That is.
This is your kind of arch just trying to charge it down.
Multiple bodies still.
But he doesn't give it down.
He's not going to be always just tearing right through every one.
He's a bulldozer.
Nico, last man standing here inside of the site.
It's a corner where you can't guard.
You will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
It's a power-evision season coming in hot
of the Budapest major with another addition to this roster
and Zwei, not only is taking the cake, the James leaving them to victory.
This is a beautiful series from the whole of Paravision, everyone having their moments.
Domination across us too, and now a similar story on ancient astrologers.
It might be end of the line here in their second match.
This Paravision looked too hot to handle right now.
Ah, drop.
I'll first round from the get-go, a strata's at least get out mid.
That's more progress than James Boyz,
are ever able to make in this position.
Obviously, they didn't get shot out, there's no you till.
But they still got the space.
It's got the little victories you go.
Okay, but how about this be side?
Well, there's only two players here that is about to change.
One or two more on the way over.
Look, crap, they're in pain instead.
way back turned, he's dead, out in the open, ready for a ramp fight, they never arrived, so a
straw is getting, get bombed out and get posted for this post plan. There's no winning this,
Jane. Now that they're actually here this time. There we go. He was gonna smoke caves away.
If he right-click that smoking cave, maybe someone told him not to, maybe he changes mine, but if
that smoke comes a cave and he plays with the jollies, that's suddenly interesting. Okay,
But this is still an intriguing start of the second half.
Yeah.
It was never really going to get going if the starless lost that piston round.
So now a sharp redemption.
And you can't actually just crumble up and give up in this head to head.
You've got to keep fighting.
You've got to believe now that their T-Side can see them through.
And they've at least hopefully got a little cash around here to fall back on
on the back of that pistol win.
Guns will be coming out in the next for power divisions if and now.
Hasn't say there should be guaranteed for a stronghold.
If you win two fully chosen again, that's a record here.
Oh, no.
So fine.
Just the first bullet was a ding can knock out.
For a moment, I had a flashback.
It's okay.
Stroll us a scout too.
This is a win.
Ooh.
Make sure he's dead.
It's do play in this team would piss you off. Yeah, true. Like
Even if you were super cool super chill
You know like you'd get as I would spam these bodies. He's a chill guy
Strawless two rounds behind
I feel like you're within touching distance in an enemy that is had you beat throughout
the five series.
Ooh, you're feeling an air stat!
Bring in home and advantage straight away, this time there is a midfight, there is a
midhead to head, once more a star, let's take it, they get the space.
It's only one player in middle for Parvish and let's draw a point fearless right now,
that's a good sign.
I'm out of for the shrink-up against Parivision right now.
Let's see.
Let's go check in here.
There's some labids, brave, it's way.
Thanks to Kel and they lose the B-cylinder.
Let's see if we careful, they don't rush in and cave him.
Only comes now, CT retake, everything's normal, but not with the reload from J-Mats.
The surprising mistake to see from J-M of all people, and Kiddlers.
Hopeless. Stay here to punish.
Oh, they both are nice, else.
All right.
Okay, game. Game on.
We do have a game on our hands, folks. It's trial is fighting back.
A real test of your resilience.
Gotta give them even more credit if they pull through now.
They are within one round of power of vision.
Thank you.
It's one piece of good.
God, think for the night.
And dead.
Stay with me.
Ninety-nine, you tell me.
Okay.
I don't know what to make of it just yet.
Too early to help.
They weren't ready for stairs. Keep your luck here.
That's it. That's nice. I like it. You're all small on.
He knows he's just going to court them in a really compromised position.
A JK through some leading here, but a lot of it is going to be down to the micro
decisions made by individuals on the CT side.
Be start coming in, strong as very quiet outside of the site.
I'll show up still in 12.
We will need some moments of Parivision if they are to win this map.
Right now, Strollers, making a convincing case.
I don't know what's happening, I'm looking to go to the end to a big stack from
power of vision.
I wonder if that re-smoke, say, well, it might change your mind if you had any control
anywhere else.
You don't know what's happening anywhere else on the map, so you kind of have to just
commit into these four players.
Okay.
Okay, 20 seconds left is they ready themselves for the hit.
I'll kill from the site play, but yeah, those flashes destroyed.
They set up all three players, getting caught by them.
On back, Vizilos, sure.
Vizilos, you're in a 2-on-3, as Belchenok arrives over on long.
Make a Vizilos, just get out with the gun.
Play survival on the AK, and let Belchenok see if he can do anything, which, to and whatever,
you won't be able to.
Reasonable say.
Hi game now though.
Yeah, nice be exact rolled out into this stack.
You know for a team that's lost to a full eco in this map already.
That's well handled round.
I've won gun round in the hearts of this is Paravish and second chance.
And you don't get many of them in M. R. 12.
So half the season's opportunity now.
or disgainers disappear.
It's way he's got enough to buy the upgrade for Jame.
CTA- again, not an orp is paradise.
Absolutely, expect to see him wield it.
Har理 could do with a foot-in kill right now,
as trial is running a very execute heavy game.
And it's working well.
Four straight rounds on this T-side.
Jim has that all.
Kits available.
Everything.
Parvision need.
Team SolarMid.
Whiskey.
Steying.
Move.
Kits certainly need.
You tell us, Drone, the fact of the stairs from running out there.
They need to be paid on the cross.
They run through a ramps boat.
And full lane take care for Parvision.
James is not notice.
Here they come, should be a tray, can he escape just about, Jane, in whole water, in
this spot of water, Jane now is a second shot falling back.
I mean, this is where you're feeling the absence of your third player, you need Yabby to get away
with a killer least for his time, but he's a long way away.
That's a power of vision.
They take this window of opportunity to go and fight
the two site players, knowing their
fielding one hell of an advantage,
diffused being held.
I spot.
No win in this, for Yabby.
Power of vision.
Will maintain the lead.
I like that.
I've seen someone diffused like that before.
Jumping on the box.
And it's all just a little bit of an hour.
The box thing is to give you the smallest edge possible.
When Yabby gets a kill, great speed up from power of vision,
they just run out templar immediately.
They know, hey, one player's not here.
Don't let him get back in time, let's kill everyone else,
belching off, double up.
Huge kills for James, who is getting hunted
from donor and main, he's able to find two entries
on this E.T. site.
Oh, it's hard.
Crazy move, I wanted to go and fight with all the U.T.
with teammates coming into helping,
but Zwei has kept this one even.
Don't play around there in mid, able to deal with the push.
Still, three on three.
Good spot for Australia's, right?
If feeling the burn, lack of resources here
if you're power vision.
Kind of exciting, so we have plenty of to see what they have
to do in these spots, yeah?
How they play these three on three's.
They take them.
How do they be, site?
Yeah, some squads.
Thank you, Mac, even to the likes of Abby's old teams in heroic.
You used to do the wolf pack in moments like this.
You group you roam together, go and clear them up, but for now, the zealow all alone,
taking a bit of a probe out towards the lane.
It's good in focus, it tells Jane they're not in B, at the door with the bomb.
So Jane can get back on the angle, not be too worried about positions like long, and now
we can just hold down that.
Potentially, a big moment for Fuzzi to try and step up.
I'm not necessarily blown us away.
He tries his hand at the opening.
Does damage, but it's jam with the kill, and that leaves it all on Huxie.
Captain's got to do it on his own.
The deal with he's got to get past jam, and James knew right hand, man.
They are just shoved in on this site position.
No, he could have gone through a piece of swing up and over for Huxie.
But dead after one, the trade is instantaneous.
And Paravision will build upon this lead.
jumps the jame or who's holding cave anyway and it's gonna get away with the round for
power vision thanks to his way poor fuzzi hit the tag on jame
chaotic midpoint here and shocked a power vision able to get out in a 3v3
so he coming in late right now but again this is another example of one of the other just
fundamental skills, the power of vision do really, really well, which is their trade
work.
It's such a big reason why they're so successful, why they're so threatening.
There's this idea in the back of your mind that for a team that can trade this well,
where the fundamentals at this nail down, that if you fall, go a man advantage, right?
Even if, like in that round where you get out towards me, if you get two kills, will they
still trade it to keep it even, didn't they?
And the moment you end up in on the back foot, it feels so tough.
this team are really, really good at playing that buddy system, playing off of each other.
It's not often trades as well in a way where it's super easy to line them up, right?
That was one of maybe the better looks at getting like a 1v2 you've had because it's just
way in shame side by side, but even the way they go about taking those spikes out to pressure
didn't really know where it's where he was to lead already played forward.
I was trying to find that first early round of that right forward now, I am just warming
up into it, chaos in middle, continuing, and perivision it's selling at it.
No, it's just going to be careful here, we're coming from heaven and happy it's going
to root caves, so no to get to second chance.
Not very low.
It's a poor jiggling, unable to walk.
Just be forced into the fight and sway happy.
So again.
Just so good, doesn't he?
Looks better than the meager and spirit combined, to be honest.
I just really hope you can keep up these, but like, I hope this.
Perfect.
I just want to take you to sleep.
There's the trade.
Too open.
Why would be cool?
I'd be cool. No, and he keeps this up, but I think they're going to be really threatening.
The idea that he could even get better is out there as well.
You'll have to see whether or not this is a honeymoon period whose way or if there's actually even more to do.
If this is just a mega strong foundation and that things could build up from here.
Yeah, it's a shocking question.
I mean, because we were all hyped on parvision.
If they kept the same roster in the season, I would have been so hyped on parvision.
And when now they've added him, and now we've seen two games, he's even better.
The whole team is even better, they're more firepower, they're more experienced,
the roles seem to fit perfectly. You call them James Wright and Man last round, and he really is.
Why is he so often? I'm putting up big numbers in these few match groups here.
There's just nothing to doubt yet for part of his shift. And now sitting just two rounds away
away from the landfinals, another child's play, a top team here at the bounty.
Why not, Paragitian, why not?
It picked a straw-less, and they looked to remove them from the competition, chamber the
tie, no to find for the love.
has been taken. What's higher, vision of coming in hard.
Oh, he's hit the perfect timing. It just cleared me.
It's too long to play for Noah and he controls the spray for the second.
Beautiful. The mechanics.
I just imagine how he's already in taking that retake.
Yes. You missed the timing on the main flank. Someone goes main clear.
I have two guys die to Maine as he says it then when you turn to try and kill the guy in Maine
you're flooded on through temple through donut through CT what do you do what do you do that's how I felt so often throughout this entire series
I'm looking at this and I'm thinking what could a strongness have done here we are
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What happens so quick, man?
Yeah.
Strauss, just when they had you believe him with four rounds on his T-side, our vision
for right back at a fifth to finish this series at the finish of Strauss in their debut
tournament with this international roster, but blinded middle, staff will get it out.
Strollers have run out elbow, three rounds at a row, and it has gone as well each time.
Yeah, and he's time to pretty horribly, that's the...
I mean, this one's all done as Strollers.
Now the game's shy.
From the playoff run, it's gonna be power vision getting there incredibly dominant fashion.
9 rounds total for his drawles in the series.
Power of vision. Very excited to see what this team can deliver with sway now in the roster.
Looking to these land playoffs.
There was a moment. There was a moment when I went to about 7 to 8 where we thought this might actually be a game.
We might actually have some resistance and then quickly pay a vision came in and said no actually we're not interested in that.
We're going to destroy them and so they did.
Better, but not good for Australia, that's what Parisian diggers continue down the same
trend that we've seen so far. It's been a great start to 2026 for them. It's been a great
start to sway when in this lineup, look at that. One more time, he's doing God's work,
he's clutching, he's opening, he's just finding impact, he left the right and center.
There's no denying that Parisian Brews significantly the better team today.
I'm a little bit disappointed that Australia is one able to put up more of a fight,
met one, we could forget about that ancient. As you said, there were moments, you know,
You know, we thought to yourself, you know, when this call was eatery,
maybe as far as they're going to win this map,
and maybe we'll get to see a third map, just to lose obviously.
But that was not the case by the app.
Paravish and got the job done and showed another little tonight.
Yeah, and there were just so many of these gut-wrenching rounds
back breaking rounds that just do not allow you to build in the slightest.
There's one of them that we are going to take a look at in a moment.
There were many errors, many blunders, but some of them are going to haunt you.
you imagine who sees going to see them in the closest eyes at night.
And one of these in particular was a E-girl.
I'm going to take a wild kiss and say, round 10.
Maybe it's probably asking for a full E-girl
looking at the buy coming right in your fire.
Oh, it's a story.
I was making a comeback as well in this first half after
stopping a little bit and you lose to blocks.
Jumping around, you give up one in four to Shaleau.
I'm always doing a good job right here.
The trading is fine as well, but I don't know what the hell
It's one by one, a guy jumping back turn to the one play on towards Ram.
It's, yeah, I understand, yeah, it's reaction rounds, then everyone's reactants.
And let's be complete.
The honest, this could happen to any team out there.
It's just, it's happening in all of a lot to Australia's.
And has historically been happening a lot the last two years.
So even if you come in with a new roster, a new foundation,
we've got to stop, man.
You've got to, well, we might be able to get some answers.
I think we've got Raga undec.
It's not the happiest of circumstances here, Raga.
That was a tough one. What do you think went wrong for the team?
I think we got a little bit into the game thing on Dust2 and it kind of like stuck in our head a little bit.
We tried to maybe start out a little bit too passive on Dust and then we started to play a little bit more aggro.
And yeah, I heard a lot of them team speak that they should have killed like this guy or that guy and then you know,
when you play a super structure like team that game always brings, it's hard to find
like any weaknesses and what they're doing, whether it's default or threats and at
least it's too like they were just better, I think on what's the call, like on ancient,
at different, you think we had our chances, we had some five or three, we had the right
read and one of the pissed rounds also, I think they were better at the X-bexes and that's
what decided the game. I'm not going to fold you for just two, that's a map you have to
integrate that's going to take some time.
Ancient, as you said, it felt like it was much closer.
Do you think this was a fair representation of where you at right now?
It's a squad given you new or do you think you should have, and could have played better?
I think we should have played better, like obviously.
I think losing was a 13-1 on dust.
I think even during practice, I think we should have different face than what we were doing today.
On that map, maybe just like a little bit inexperienced,
that's a new dust team playing against one of the most
the step is like ingame leaders on the map.
I think we just got a lot of data to work on,
but I do want to say like ancient from how it played out,
like the situations we had,
like that one should be in the bank in my opinion.
Well, thank you for joining us.
I know this is a tough situation,
but a lot more counter-shrike to be played in 2026.
We'll look forward to seeing you further down the road.
Yep.
See ya.
Tough spot there.
I mean, really tough law for Australia.
That's a hard one to find answers for.
It's always a bad sign when he's saying hearing the team speak, you know, people talking about kills they should have gotten
Should have had this have to be able to forget and move on as a counter strike player.
Yeah, it's a reality check, you know, they knew they were growing up against a strong opponent in
Paravish and losing his one way but losing in this fashion, that's to think that hurts right now.
I think they expected to go to a five right here, but as he said 13 to one and the ancients slipping out of their hands, that's the one that's rough.
Well, hearing from the other side of things will go towards the optimistic because we have so a joining us from
carry visions way another series another dominant run from you individually you are on fire
what is leading to all of this success video
uh...
uh... thank you uh...
i don't know i just uh...
uh...
like
sway uh... what did you have for breakfast today
ex
like all this
next I go waste there oh my god yeah hey you need some good protein when you're
gonna rip heads from shoulders uh look man it's been a really hot start for you
you've now booked your spot here on land as well uh presumably some good
memories for you here in this multi studio lifting a trophy last season should
be expected to be lifting something on this stage again um well stay I can say it right now
Well, we'll look forward to seeing it, can't wait to see you here playing once again in
Malta.
Thanks for joining us.
Congratulations on that one.
Thank you, thank you, bye.
Man a few words in that moment.
Does all his talking in the server Jacob?
I like that way.
To be completely honest, do the talking on the server if you want to talk smack-outs out
of the server.
Fair enough, it's optional, but doing the talking on the server, I don't think that's optional.
And it's, let's be spoke about already.
It's a perfect start for Swayan Parish.
coming in and full force is showing all the potential that we didn't quite get to see
consistent enough in Team Spirit. And as I said, what is it, seven days ago, six days ago,
when we opened up the surface segment, the team I look forward to see the most pervition
they deliver. They are, they are, and someone will be joining them here in Malta in our next matchup.
This one could deliver as well, some serious fireworks, ways previous home team spirit,
take on inner circle to start us off with that one. We've got some interviews.
Now, to near you of a matchup against inner circle coming up, I wanted to ask about your experience with magic, you're one of the players who hasn't played with him before, what do you take it a man so far?
Another guy before he back to our roster,
I played this game some faces, or just looking about real stuff,
relax stuff, he's very cool guy.
And Rata, when I played playing this game in some spirit,
I very enjoy, because I think he had very big potential,
And he, uh,
where me, how does it?
Where me?
Mmm, very smart guy.
And that you have a lot of ideas in mid-course.
No.
And what about those ideas when it comes to use, specifically?
How many conversations have you had about how he wants to play you in this roster?
And is there going to be any change from what we saw before?
Mmm.
It's pretty real, I don't know, you have a little bit different structure.
I can say a lot of different speakers, but in future I think you can see that.
But I sure in future I will have more freedom on the map.
And maybe you can see my little more aggressive style almost in heroic.
And that certainly worked out well.
I'm talking about this matchup in our circle on deck.
What do you think about them?
We have played against the guys on the Apparel probably.
The show showed a good game,
but the outcome might be surprised us on today,
but we are ready for fight with them.
And I think it should be...
a bit much.
Any overall idea of how you can't do that.
We've seen some teams trying to avoid them.
We've seen some teams trying to go straight out of them.
What do you think you guys are going to do?
Hmm.
I think I'll try to do...
Like, some of the teams like to maybe counter him as Neds.
But probably we are not so good.
Team to maybe make it very good.
So maybe sometimes you'll fight him as well.
him as well, you know, to fight him on his area, to do him because overall we are very good
in the middle team and we have good fighters as well, we have Zerofix, we have Dahu, the good
shooters and maybe he is a little him as a great game, they can do him and win the duel, no.
So yeah, they will try to counter him with Nets, but it doesn't go on, so we will try to win the fight.
I like how realistic Captain Kirkker was about this.
Yeah.
Thanks, Spirit.
Step one.
Figure a dunk.
Figure a dunk.
Step two.
Figure out literally everything else.
Well, how are you going to figure that out?
I feel like everyone's been trying that for a couple of years now and I don't think
there's any possible solution right now and that almost goes without saying that
I feel in a game like this and it may sound a little bit harsh and it may sound, you
know, a little bit of that Jacob, don't worry the fun.
But it's up to God whether or not he wants to win this game.
It's up to Spirit, whether or not they wants to win this game.
Now, if Donk is not showing up on a 1.72 rating as he did in the first game, then maybe
there's a world where inner server can steal away a map or make the game competitive.
But let's be bluntly honest right here.
We are having one of the most lopsided matches on paper, even though spirit and degrading
a new ring game, even though something is back when you have Donk on the server against
a team like inner server, that's what he does for breakfast every single day on face it.
So it should be pretty straightforward.
Yeah, and I want to be clear, right?
I'm not sure if we're going to show the clip later on, but I'll spoil a little bit now.
Captain Kirk was very clear about me. He thinks best-case scenario the confidence is like 50 50
realistically. It's like a 70 30 for spirit. He was very frank and very honest about their expectations
here. But inner circle is a team that we know can surprise. They've got some serious firepower
their own. I think he's correct to identify that honestly, if they can bring this down to fights
and fights and fights, that might honestly be inner circle's best chance. 100% because one thing
is dog eating them for breakfast and face it. Sure thing, but the rest of the place wouldn't
team spirit. If you have fights going up against Mackies or Suntik Fat,
Mattas Willer, you get zero to be a little bit uncomfortable. Those are
players you can talk to. Those are duels you can win and then if you
leave don't get a one-week-three consistently, then all of a sudden you
have a game on your hand. And I also will say despite looking at the
video right here, there's no big thing standing out might to be completely
honest. Ancient dust, too, mirage, shoot, we needed all comfortable maps for
both teams. Again, another face-to-game right here. I will say one thing
though. I feel like for them to even be in this game, they took down
3D next. That we got to get quite a four. There was a tough fight. So they've
have shown that they can play Counter Strike at a higher level than we initially anticipated,
so if Spirit is coming into this game unfocused, yes, it can be competitive, but then again,
winning the game has kept him perfect, that's going to be tough.
It will be tough indeed, but to take us through this map of play, we've got the Eldrossi
Angler himself and also Hugo, take it away, boy.
It's still tough, it's still tough.
Still thinking about the Eldrossi's my cano, you dog, you go, Harry, I think they could be
I think it's not impossible. I don't know. I don't share big Jacob set elements of this being a lock-in win for spirit.
I'm with you. In the sense, I'm not going to say I think there's an upside on their hands. I would say that of the teams that could be spirit in this draw in a circle or one of them.
Obviously, I'd like the desk who said super dependent on quiet games out of players like Don
can share on maybe that they know there's the insurance policies that spirit not performing
on six being new or rather being back and maybe struggling, magic being new to in game
leadership, there's potential but always with spirit you have to.
Yeah, yeah the Don fact there is something you just can't ignore.
Yes.
That's fair, but I think you know, even looking back to when they met back at EPL
where in a circle it just rounds away from winning this head to head.
I think Captain Cokeer is certainly showing he is a fantastic addition to this team
blowing us away in the opening series for the inner circle squad.
In theory, you know, your team hits harder than it did last time and you are only around
away from the win last time you faced spirit.
I've got a lot to say but we'll save it for this after this pistol because right now in a circle of
And it should take the site on put down magic has a kit smoke donk has fuel these armor
Oh, so it's cleaned up with donk it's here in time to save his life, so he's gonna have to make up for it with the trade
Fire right doesn't allow it good shots and fly racks to stop his series
Wow, on for the triple.
In that last headhead, Flarex was their top performing piece, so him starting off strong
is a good sign.
Yeah, you mentioned that game, obviously they won Nuke against Spirit last time, and this
time they banned out Nuke, they've been having a really difficult time when it recently, and
maybe seeing Spirit play against Sinners the other day as methodically as they did, didn't
want to touch that.
The benefit in a circle had something even mentioned in the draft show is they like the veto against spirit, right?
Obviously both teams down in Fono, you're the underdog, you're not banning in Fono, you're forcing spirit to ban spirit.
Spirit would never take that risk.
You take a bit of an edge in that sense in the veto, so yeah, makes a lot of sense for it.
In a circle, just a prize of their banning out the map they'd get from on before.
Also, this series is going to answer a kind of hotbed question, which is who is the gov?
Captain Kirk or Donk?
That's true! Right now we've got our answer one and zero to the Kirk.
Yeah.
Even think them in the pistol, FireX is the one who completed the kill.
But no. Captain Kirk has been on fire.
Yeah, he had an incredible series the other day.
Taking down 3D Max. It was...
And it was ancient to open up that series and that was where it started. It owes so well.
And as always, a lot of fun we talked about this.
You know, this team is kind of like two teams in a way across the players we've seen last year.
It was in a circle in the latter half of 2025 with the corporate price that TNL with a different mix.
And when they were at Bounty last time, they beat Navi on ancient. They lost the series, but they selected Navi and they managed to put up a really good fight.
And so we know these
Underdogs love picking ancient because you can out call the star player
Nothing to bring some pace, perhaps into this game today
Too old start over spirits did something else. I've liked the newest is that both days now here we go
Yeah, we've had power vision into spirit. We got to see its way and then we have spirit is like the immediate
How they go some hand in hand.
Sure.
Once an underdog, the other is one of the biggest favorites in the world.
An overdog.
Yes.
It's overdog.
That's like you don't say when you say that.
You'll say that as far as you're done.
Well, it's good.
It's funny.
It's overdog.
Good needs on a captain, Kaka, or Zerofix rather.
If you remember, it was his CT side in particular that was stunning in that opening game,
Captain Kirk, I went last door and he's massive, quiet and down a bit CT off, alright.
Alright, Shiro, okay buddy, you're really gonna do that too?
Oh, he's so bloodlustling, you nearly killed the near.
That was Shiro?
Pretty sure.
I'm gonna go back.
Either way.
You gotta show on the back.
Okay.
I trust you.
With my light.
Okay.
They've chipped away at the marry.
The deagles do it through smoke.
Yeah, they chipped away.
And let's see if they can leverage the opportunity.
Booster, magic.
Oh, so much damage, man.
It just sounds a luck at this point. Oh, good news. Good needs
Plum found and now you're pretty cozy in this four on three post-plum. Let's see
Chiro still alive and Chiro's a kill to the good already
And all don't
So that's not
Get any the other on the dig, but he can't quite find the follow up. Yeah a lot of people saying hey, they're low. They're all low watch out
Don't just spray in a way, but only to tag on
So one healthy player of flyracks,
bought you favors the bold in this post one,
in a circle, go swinging in long,
and they almost pay the price on the donk.
This is the thing I think it's really important
to remember with spirits, like yes they have donk.
Yes they have Shiro, you have within this team,
top players in the world, the best player in the world in donk.
Sorry they didn't win number one.
Different conversations.
Let's not get into that.
I know.
What you mean, the statistics.
Yeah.
You have two of the best players in the world, and you know the best player in the world.
That always adds some crazy ability to win games.
But the thing that we have to remember, Magic is new to leadership.
And this has been out for six months.
Exactly. So there are two things going against them here.
Magic, someone who I have no doubt with enough time is going to really grow into this role.
You think with the chaos the inner circle like to cause, this could be a button pushing
match up for him as the captain.
And if you're spirit, you're getting prepped for all you're going to get red.
For example, donk just got double-naded off of his mid jump into Dona.
It's a common opening move for Donk.
He is on five health.
These are the kind of factors that make this game so interesting because inner circle
won't this so bad.
And so, they're gonna seize this opportunity.
Donk put on his last legs,
Sheeran, rely upon an headshot byonic.
How is the floor of this team spirit?
That is the question today.
It's quite the play to find early.
When you think about the fact that those needs
you spoke about right off the top of the round of also, but donk down so low.
These are your two heavy hiters almost out of commission.
So it's a real test of the other three, magic.
It's on takes two new old editions.
Also, we're trying to see what teniers capable of.
Donk at 5 HP, you'll take him getting one.
You would love a GTG one.
You will.
I'm quite the double.
Don't know how he stays alive.
So long at the same time.
I can't reach.
And here's our partner rotate.
It's a near-lens-a-helping hand, they pull through to near-with-the-double kill, and a
sigh of relief for Team Spirit is that one is safely maintained.
Here, everyone gets all up today's ways running out on parvisions, and near-picks it up
after Sherro dies on being he puts it to use.
Big Ranners Spirit fell like positionally, they were going to lose that to don't retakes
a with quite the pace, and he gets information early.
Come through that smoke, feel it.
Nice to see you.
In the circle, it was never going to be easy.
Time out early, while they still have some money.
Some being the key word.
It's a question of whether they're by here. I mean, surely you would.
That's going to be some limitations.
Don't worry about him.
I just think you're gonna get sour.
Don't worry about him.
I'm gonna kill him.
Let's just throw the flame off.
Let's do anything.
I just want to keep an eye on how Donk starts his rounds because you know he's aware of the
anti-stratting that in the circle will have to do against him if they have a chance in this game.
Kirk ground middle, Donk walks back through the smoke, grants in a circle access made on the smoke
But sure, I can't see that would have been the 5v4 for Team Spirit if that made land steeper.
Keep from the Redburns on 6x1 with him.
That's about to play a T-sided trigger circle, so they do want to try and find a good bounty of rounds here,
keeping this one even, still with that chance to keep Spirit on the back for economically as huge.
Now you're going to get passed on, can he only gets out with one kill?
Look in a Shiro next so you're going through waves at the top men for the spirit squad
Shiro is on the prize that is very well handled such a nice way to pick me in the
soldiers going for the typical right side box when he goes in front of it and that just
offsets any expectation of how you're going to get peeked by that or they know he's there
but they can't stop him. So zero fix saving the A to B P for flyracks and
and spirit securing a second round.
Yeah, Orpe is gonna make it out at least.
There's no contest, no challenge on this save.
Let's see if that magic's any comes.
Oh, oh, three peek is crazy there from zero fix from magic as well. He could have gone out with the AK which he went for
I do respect that a lot from magic so one of my big things was spirit that used to really get on my skin
It was how they didn't hunt right they so often even around see about times you see spirit
Well, there's like two rounds of the game left they have eight thousand dollars. They're not hunting. It's like
What do you do it? Yeah, all right. This is just free
I remember the worst game of that. It was the passion UA wanted to check high R of R.
Where they had zero reach and say, okay Doc, back up heaven, back with a vengeance clock.
It's a by-door way.
Hey, it's been impressive, at least, is even never let donk get away with multi kills.
He's only managed one and done for the most part.
And if I'm sent to you getting a silence, yeah, that's the one exception.
Oh, we've already had a clock win here on ancient.
very different teams. And so I'm not that worried, Shiro looking very safe in this game right now.
And he pushes back. He saw he dropped the ob so he just pushes back in with the pistol while they pick it up.
Dark waiting to get going. He had a slow start against sinners as well, right? For him, slow start.
But when he got going on the roger, if you remember Harry, oh my goodness. It was 4k, 3k, 3k, 4k, it was
and it was GG. It just took a few rounds to get it back, so it's an important
trades for inner circle on to donk, but you know it's just a matter of time.
Spawn Rush on A donk is going to hear this. Watch the mini map look it's very scramble.
And it's a fake owl.
But the T-site smoke thrown to make it look like they're looking up.
They go quiet.
And no spirit of mobile right now.
So we'll be a recommit later around.
And he needs donkeys to see over the top.
There they go.
Here's the push.
Again into the dock.
Get a try and deal with him early.
He will get out with his multi-kill and these trades will not come through
Don't you know kill and then up that first so quickly will he start to just steam roll over you and that's a lesson
They'll learn the hard way up until now largely, but now to stop him from those multi-kill rain the tarimoman's
I'm not in this round up with a smoke in their way a
Shootin gallery for don't he just had enough players in the same and he knows
It's just a lot of resources, there's a good chance they're just going to reach a bad arc today.
And nothing, you've got thrown out by spirit because they have no one A.
So don't get some re-smoke, A-cheater, everything he's got before they even get out A.
Don't get the right place, the limits of 3K, and the game has begun for spirit,
they've not have to wait long.
Looking to start taking the lead, seriously now, as this E-code, for inner circle,
shifts it way it's way around the map.
Yeah, Lola's worried about an upset with Donk and Shiro both looking red off out of the game
That's donk being able to push through some of the early challenges
Just kids kind of look at the bar for what Donk wants to do in these rounds is that much higher than for most players
Right, you when Donk gets out of around going one for one. He's not that good. You know, that's pretty rough
So just great to see that he's kind of powered through those early
woes the early one for ones where he's getting traded and now he's started to find his
mull e-cills.
Shiro is also just not been missing.
At that one round over towards Rampor, he got wrecked with the flash, other than that,
Shiro has been flawless on the AWP.
Indeed.
All good science for Sparrow right now, 5-3, 4-by-run coming up for an assurcle.
Flyracks on the AWP, he had trouble on ancient against 3D Max, stepped up on mute.
Oh, that's really smoked.
But no room to have a poor game on your own in this kind of match.
If you fire axe.
I started strong at least.
Pulling the bluff on the smoke, can I cut?
Sanctics is in red, and no one is in donor. Right now, spirit of blood, the ace I open.
Oh, it's got it.
Steps, babe.
It's on takes.
Is he gonna flank?
Cappushing in together, they've dropped zero fix at B.
They know the bomb is donuts.
Rotates are coming in, donk, and Zontix right behind.
I think it arrived so quickly, so quietly.
You might not be ready for it, there's donk getting set up to trade, but only good for the first shot.
3B3 in the post-on.
And saying that Shiro has had a remarkably consistent streak for the setup, you can get
to need that to power them through,
all left in the retake here, alongside magic.
But the Molly, the Knight, it's all whistling and down,
given another chance to fire off the AWP and Shiro doesn't miss.
Really smart to just pull back now.
Listen to the 2v2 magic, nearly sideline by the donut player still gets to play on.
That's a Dinkdown range, and Oliq has removed now,
it's all eyes on Doi, and he gets mopped up the AWP.
Oh, it's close, Harrow.
I've got this.
I've got it.
Shiromann, I am impressed right now.
Yes.
That, the backup saves around because you see the double swinging him together.
They go Shirrow's in the molly he's ticked on the york.
He's gated him.
Let's just double swing one of us will die.
That's the effect when you will trade.
Shirrow pulls back out of tempo.
He sees the shadow, gets one tight.
No trade allowed.
I guess I'll play the 2v2 and cover that deepfoo's beautiful round out of Sherro, every move is perfect.
Zontek's dice for Donk who still only goes 1 for 1, but spirit are winning rounds with Donk 1 for 1.
Oh, Flash and I made the captain Kirk has made it.
Donk by his other hand. He knows, he's not falling for that. He knows as a guy.
I do love the similarity, you know, if you're watching demos, as an aggressive
rifle, what do you watch it?
Sheer on the line.
I feel like I just haven't seen a miss here.
Well he ever.
He's covering the ramp.
There it is.
Another line up.
Okay, first miss, but it's the no scope.
Left it to shots.
Cheryl!
Run down off the two.
Still, you'd like to think he's done his part in the round.
Now you look on.
Continue to play cleanup.
First run it with a ramp.
Don't wait.
I NEASED a SPAM, but a final kill.
Huh?
All right.
It's in here.
It's not on his screen.
The sprays are through the wood.
Some really close rounds for endless circle.
These last two have come down to the wire.
Two V2's both tights.
But Spirit makes the difference.
I think we spent enough time telling you that Donk's good
Chiro right now is the guy went in this game.
He is playing lights out.
There's nothing worse than playing versus an all-paying
I feel like just isn't ever missing.
The fact that you seemingly can't peek him without losing a player
is a travesty for it, it's circle.
Yeah, you have Molotoy who gets as many shots off and around as he can,
but he won't hit them more.
I didn't do a cheery.
He only takes a few, but he nails them.
Cheery, back at it, spawn side.
They've found the 5-4.
It's always got an entry.
Smoke found.
Major important here for spirit.
Trying slow the roll on this push.
Donk.
Splashed and delpids.
Shiro again.
Yeah, I mean, you might not be missing, but the wolf still has its limitations.
That double kill actually does make this really scary.
Magic's has just given them away in.
Shiro out on longer.
Where's the limit line?
Oh, I'm missing.
We're about to fly out!
Shiro with every single kill!
Oh my god!
My god, he is tapped in, he is feeling this AWP.
Mind blowing.
Perfection for Shiran.
Flick's good lord.
It's pretty as well.
You don't have any room for Arra.
You don't have any way to run.
Molly keeps him locked in and Shirou shuts him out.
Wow.
Oh, shoot, bro.
You can't waste a game like this.
You can't.
They're not.
Yeah, they're boring.
It's kind of a story of this game.
We'll just be in a circle.
Got close to winning a bunch of rounds.
But Harry, they ain't winning those rounds.
No, they are not.
It's just the ultimate fail safe.
No, but it doesn't miss. How do you beat that?
Oh, flicks as well.
He's missed one shot this whole game and it was in no scope while flashed.
So like not even a shot you're meant to do other than that.
Other than that, it's been flawless.
And look at this.
Now, the worry here is they can rotate quick donut,
but Spiritor is just believing in this play.
And they're right right now, it's looking like a be-head.
Zontix is flanking through spawn.
It's got the pistol out, he's min-maxing that speed.
And he is coming up high, but even if they get these entries
and that's a big if, to be a magic just spraying them down,
triple assist for the captain to near-takes the glory
and at least on it's ready.
The Zontics isn't even giving him the flank,
nine rounds on the CT side of ancient spirit
have shown up and are looking to make it to land here in Malta.
Yeah, very reassuring form,
and that is them running away with this half.
And it springs his trap,
but he's left his lost man standing.
That was brutal for phase.
I can't believe they get out so clean, isn't he?
Yeah, someone calling ambulance.
We're going to birthday, but we're not here to vote.
We're going to call when you make some wonder if you want to stay in the bad job.
We're going to say the truth.
We're going to say the truth.
We're going to say the truth.
Who the hell?
Yeah, he's a journalist.
Oh, my god. He's playing the car.
Why are you asking me?
I'm not talking to you.
Man, I'm just just a rock band.
Is it the back?
Is it the play?
No, it's an eagle.
No, no, no, no, no.
I felt him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the best.
Yeah.
That's the best.
A little bit bigger.
Yeah.
All right, spirit,
are in full control on inner circles pick. We said come in in a circle usually put their best
working on these T-haves of ancient while they are left lagging behind a bunch of close rounds in
there but really it hasn't come to matter with the form that we're getting off from dunk. He's
playing good play and fine. It's Shiro right now who is the hero of the spirit team had some crazy
he sequences and he is missed but one shot on the AWP in the entire game thus far.
you, there's no way to go hidden in the corner, share our arms and down. Just keeping
it up, isn't he? 17 and 4, 2 kills? All the bombers are making it and he couldn't get
it back. Magic's 1v2, low health finishes up, and now the clutch for the captain, what
he got. See ya.
You see him leave, see him go, and now you got to give chase. What's the play for
magic's always still doubting it, but as that bomb goes down, magic has time to go wherever
he wants no, yeah, stay in there.
We're in the bomb, it's smoke is such a best option, the air, that smoke is going to force
a fight out.
Stick, might be the best choice, it's magic's one shot from death, does he know that?
I felt you just got to try and put the fear in him, try and catch him on a swing, get him
Spamming that smoke, but magic's does not move. There's not budge.
Now I'm going to commit to this swing out.
Deep use being health, shots off the mark for magic's knife,
pulled one chance to get this right and he's missed with the blade.
Kill comes in, but the deep use already grabbed.
Unlikely.
Very unlikely. What can you do?
Do he sticks it with just enough time for the smoke to cover his diffuse?
Magic, Miss shots, all it takes here in this pistol, that's round I just sure, how did
the bomb get there though, putting out of it, it's a miracle, lifeline gifted here
off the smoke stick.
Okay.
Hey little lesson about getting to aggressive in this round.
You really don't want to give this away.
Gox one, okay.
And they have two glills.
Like who has the better body?
Spirit, now arguably favorites in this round off that kill.
I'll be there, go.
Oh, fuck.
Steam, you're broken apart on the beat.
There's a fell it off at a half.
That is a great hold from ZeroFix, man.
Just an isom at the door, that B play would have been the beginning of the end for
in a circle on this map if they don't hold the line and all he refuses to give up even
an inch of ground, it all starts with this beautiful big, it's quickly to go on about.
I'm sorry, Paxis, forces by a trace, re-swinging and getting back into cover, re-swinging,
spare it cons, get a beat on it.
All of the meanwhile, don't quit smoking at middle.
I'm gonna hack some of the USB here, save you without all the next fire round.
Nice.
Nice.
So you used to see and don't get dropped guns.
It's nice sometimes to watch him with a eagle.
It's fine away the best gun in the game.
Certainly the best feeling.
That's true.
I'll take some flashes if they want to get through this door.
Is there a bit of feeling like a deglaze?
A deglaze, something like that.
I don't think so.
Okay, I don't want to run through the smoke. Okay, let me kill.
Oh my god. Okay, don't go to zero.
It's all good, it's all kept in check by in a circle.
But is it just like that Strauss game, right?
with the early couple around the half and then reality to set in spirit full rifle around
or one hero yeah that's the big it could be fixture right you get donk arm the
data see get sure on the AWP see the orb was so so strong in his hands he was far
in a way the best player in the entire server in that first half.
How's he gonna fare now on the T-side in the one after step out take lines, take peaks.
Shiro still look just as commanding on the AWP, they said their sights on the A play.
Keeping a pretty stripped back here, but team spirit, dog goes in first and the flashes
leave him blind to quit kills. She renews his, but have an upgrade up and on to the right for that
gets him caught out in the open. Secret he's swinging for Sonic saves that round really,
Sherro knows he can isolate the donor player and they would have had a 3v3 there with guns up.
If not for Sonic swinging through that smoke, a massacre on the EA site. Nice reaction for
In the circle as well, just popping flashes out of doughnuts but not even swinging with them
laying spirit chase, knowing that pressure is on spirit to take space back on that A-head.
We need something tempoed owner, anything.
Now to move on to save.
These are the flashes.
The game is so much better since you can't hit your teammates with flashbangs and smokes,
right?
You don't just stop and remember in 20 NSC's go even earlier, see if you can hit my smoke
you would just get stuck in place, you couldn't move.
counter to the now you can just love flashes through your teammates. Easy.
In this circle, four rounds in a row. They found three, the first three, at the game, and
Spirit went on a 9-round streak on that CT side.
Fritz is this time, and a circle have won a gun round.
Their first gun round or map.
Donk's board
I clean half they board a minute
Today drops that over from the save and donk those out of them
Culture again
Noticing
I mean, that's something that has really, the Captain Kirk has certainly bolstered CTF and
just across the board.
I'm proving to be a very pliable player on these defensive halves.
I've lost a good chunk of ground out here to more time, but it will cross the extremities
They're ready to kind of push and prod in front of a way. It opens the spirit. That's a few catch.
Over the smoke. You're joking?
Magic's and Zonsix.
Two fresh players. I can spirit left up in this one.
I'm going to throw the gun across to Magic's. It's a bit of a hit.
In the 10-9, we'll do just fine. So there's magic.
Now I'm backing up to play around the bomb. A pretty tall task here. I had a bit of a circle room for this one.
one to go a ride, kit on zero fix. So the
awkward half to cover, but with two players
that could swing how you meant to accomplish
this. Up can only get one of them, they
really need to fight early and even if
they're given it, the kill comes through.
That is a ludicrous round for team spirit to win.
We know magic is ice cold, but you just
know he made the call there like, don't
pick on that tap. There is no way they're
going to stick it first time around. There's
enough time to fake in a circle.
Probably some nerve still, and so of course they fake it twice out, the second peak confirms it.
Ice cold indeed, not sure what happened there in sport, maybe that player got blocked,
because he ran through the mollot of on his own.
If you feel like you couldn't go back, that's the big issue there for NSW,
I could have been a 3v2 coming out back into the site.
To the rush donor in the post-bond.
Very strange.
And the Molly came down and he was already running so he just looked to commit.
He may well let him burn.
It's got a little bit wrong there. That's an eco-win for spirit.
Not even donk's AK to make it happen either.
Pistols on the A site.
And again a similar case of the first half close round for inner circle, but close doesn't count.
and count.
Anybody home?
I'm in the circle now.
It's been a realising that the name has been taken from all those needs and so Manjuk's
back, trying to show presence at B, steam outside of Elbow.
Oops.
I'm gonna use that red smoke fire axe hoping it.
Alright, at least gonna see it's falling in and now I'm making it across to them boxes
nose to be wary of the red room swing.
When I put the push down through the ramp, I mean this round really does decide how much
of a chance you have in this half and coming a man down for in a circle.
Not the way they wanted this make or break round to open.
Now, in the final few seconds now,
the aggression timing there through the round is perfect.
Follow a kill onto Donk,
Shiro Austin, traded after the first very spread out here.
And with the bomb lost out towards Donk,
there simply isn't time surely.
See the kills.
It takes for him for his half as he could,
But even then, no time remaining, it ticks down too low, and with all those casualties out
in mid, the bomb getting away from them, the success of those players out through
main and over the wards B, don't matter.
I think they've even ran red at the end and they picked up fire axes or the dog could tap
out.
So, yeah, really awkward around there for spirit running out of the fog, projects caught by the
regroup with this team in middle, and Coco consistently, besting donk in the head to head.
He's found him almost every round in a circle of one.
Very impressive.
He heads up fight for Kirkker.
It's the elbow smoke, don't looking to a fuse,
but no one's swinging elbow.
However, the countercashers, they'll bite.
Oh, hey, yeah, I missed the elbow.
Could cost them instead.
They're able to turn around and battle through it,
keeping things even in this 3 on 3.
They even have on it, out on the lane,
and I don't think that's known about.
Good catch out there in middle, sheer road.
No contest.
The aggressive doorie.
Doorie will even hop on up into heaven to land a bit of a helping hand here to this lane control.
Where do you go if you're spirit?
You're a man down.
The only real estate you have is out here towards the doors.
This is an area in a circle of playing for.
Do we look it to be alive to nail waiting for magic?
I don't need one smoke, surely just gonna contact into this B bomb site, but
I haven't placed, it has his back turned, he's in a little pocket right now.
Don't know if they'll clue this, it's gonna come to them.
Get it to the fight, get it, Dink!
Do you maybe tempting, but they have time to go elsewhere is to nail just gonna fake a rotate.
to take context for cave with magic's very very low has to convert on that earlier damage
but he's in a very committed position here. The trade should be there and that's going
to leave you in a one. Do you want to get this first? Does a big chunk of damage on
some magic as well? Now you've got a hope that FlyRax is up for the job of this clutch.
as he's low, but still too short to the USP, so careful flyracks.
Need could be big if you figure out where magic is faster enough, and if he plays somewhere
that's needable.
And towards ramp, that's super safe from magic.
Looking very rightful, like well it's enough.
It could be nice, it's in for the corner, not deep down ramp, so magic's playing
in, but the deep use held, shush it!
the round magic there is milliseconds on that one v1 secured out of the window I felt like
the defeat was bound to come through magic's when's it with milliseconds between it.
I like the idea of the close nage just to make sure he's not coming up already or on
the ramp but if it goes 0.032 sorry on that defuse.
diffused. But if he bounced that native, what a kill magic. The margins. So close. This
time magic finds the one B1. Understand that the thought process, right? You see how close
the round is. The only position he could be into 100% stop that bottom time was the cubby
on ramp. That's why he gets needed. And then you're not even, you know, your point. What was
his 032? You're everything, 033. Yeah. Unlocky. That's just a metaphor for this game. And to
think that that does now broken your money left you with a force via this scoreline. Could have
been you with in touching distance, up team spirit, then in this position with money running
low, such a close game.
The spirit of just had the firepower, had the clutch factor.
And they have donk.
He's been relatively tame in this battle.
Yeah, I don't think it's because of like a donk under performance either.
I think he's been trying.
It's just in a circle today, credit have been really good at dealing with him.
Captain Kirk, Captain Kirk, we're fans of this guy and what he brings to the CT side.
Let's see if he can show us what he's made of.
Bomb out here in the open and he's had donks number a number of times in this head to head.
Don't go slow waiting for it to get a little bit closer before he plays.
The Red Room Flank Captain Kirk doesn't like this huge creeping silence.
He's worried that they're closing in from somewhere else on the map, and he is right
in there.
This is Donc lending time for Tenea for this backstab.
Captain Kirk, read it, get ahead of it, or catch a favorable timing on to Donc.
There's this spot going back right in to Tenea on the wrap-brown for the timing there
because Kirk could just clear that. So he thinks he has a bit more room than he does. Very close,
but well done from spirit to stop Kirk on his way to an embarrassing clutch.
Matt points the spirit and in a circle's pick and only pistols in an MP9 separate spirit
from a being a map away from this series when.
Not well, but it's okay, it's better than that.
And this circle would be very then to just walk through it and hope for the past.
And if all the rounds they could do that, it would be when Spurin a contacting A, a fake on the B-bomb site,
I don't know if it's working. So there's been found. Magic's running back, spirit speed up.
It's really all you planned for in this one, so just going to follow through with it.
Once you get the info of a couple of players over at B, that's the best you've got to work with
magic on this. Return to his team is cut down by the fine king captain Kirk at this
force by not an unwindable position. It's a 5B3 as this begins, but they've already lost
zero in fix. It's down to even odds 3, V, 3, and a bomb to play around. They don't have
about flyracks in this close corner, but that won't stop dunk from flicking onto him
and this might be the end of the line for in a circle on a chunk of donk, seals it with
a moe kill, as team spirit now sit a map away from those land finals.
At the end of the day, the record will show that this is a win for spirit, a comfortable
one at that, but if you looked into the rounds themselves, it was anything but so many of
of those moments where it felt like inner circle
were just a nice edge away from converting critical round
that could send this ancient into complete chaos.
Yeah, I think they did a slightly better
than I would have expected.
They made the game competitive.
They made it close to something we also helped
and offer a lot by the fact that they win both
pistons and convert both pistons.
So they went up three, oh, and the first half,
they went up four, and the second half.
And outside of that mic, they only had one big round
so to be one big buy round in there we got.
So there's two ways I'm looking at this for you.
And I think you're right by saying
that in brown-senized isolation, a lot of them were close,
a lot of it came down to structures,
but they didn't win any of those clutches.
That was a big issue.
That is the big issue at the end of the day.
You get it too close, but if you can't get around
over the line, well, it's not much to write all about.
I was gonna be frustrating, I think, for inner circle.
I mean, when we go back and review some of these rounds,
the margins were so very slim.
We had so many moments as well,
where especially in that first off,
you have the advantages for inner circle,
and then an individual performance,
the only from Shiro quite a bit, turns it the other way.
Yeah, it's, it's usually how it goes when you're up against the team next
period.
They can afford to be 45, 3v5 right now.
9, sorry, it's a great example of around where you'd argue that
in a surgery could have wanted, maybe sure to one of the least,
been in the content center, win it.
Again, they're trading out a little bit back at the port.
They get into the bomb side, don't get absolutely blown away by
that.
We write here.
We want a lot of those tools against down early on in the game.
And then you have to retake coming in right here.
At this point, you think that's a secure round.
If you even call it an agreeable, maybe the gold's saved by his period.
I don't understand why Captain Kirk Affirnther had to white-spin right here, a shoulder
peak would have given up the position from the share of that would have been enough
unfortunately for inner servings.
They ended up losing this round as they now leave the one player in towards the one
I'm not able to defend it and spirit wins a very close round.
I think this round in isolation was a very important round to win for spirit, but also a
big-ness fancer.
We're diving into round 17 as well.
This is another one of the situations where it felt like things could be close, it felt
like things could get out of hand and then you just see that star power effect
from through from spirit to smatter. Well guns they have in their hands they're always
going to be deadly demons. They're always going to be so very dangerous and it's just
half of them so much respect. It's a four-be-two a tech nine and a people at that time before
the pick-up to impulse. It's a good molots of right-hands. A nice played biometics who also
reposition and play the numbers game with his teammate right here. Not falling for the fate
diffuse coming in for an assertive, which was a trend throughout this game. I don't know if
with people noticed, but every single time Spirit
were in a clutch wheel that there would be
metrics or someone else, they would always believe
that the first step on the bump would be a fake.
At some point, you're in a circle, you know,
admit the fact that you're underdogs,
maybe admit the fact that you're playing against players
with more experience, stick to it, you know?
Because I feel like it was too easy for Spirit
just to assume that every time you tap the bump,
you wouldn't really have the ballistics who ridden it
and that cost them a couple of rounds.
Well, I mean, that plays nicely into our next round
that we're gonna look at,
because there was a last second defuse,
a magic's took your advice.
he was listening and in this two on two in round 19 and this was really where I might have just sealed
the map. This is where inner circle lost that last opportunity. This clutch could have been
everything instead, 0.2 seconds.
Now as he's a body say he took the advice he actually stuck to it. It was the right plane.
It was the right thing to do and he got so close winning it and that's what's gonna hurt for
in a certain. Because you're right, we just showed you three rounds where you could. I did
They probably should have won all three when contention to win all three all of them were very important rounds
Key moments in the game. So I had to just one one maybe two of those rounds. It would have been a different story
Especially when you consider that one both pistols and convert. This is the moral of the story, right?
If you're playing a team like this if you're playing a team like spirit of their caliber
You have to win the rounds that you should you cannot give them any margin otherwise players like Shiro are going to punish you
And he certainly did on this map Shiro a madman a menace. He was a little bit quieter in their debut game here
bounty the day he showed his class as caliber here in ancient.
Yeah, spirit spirit and hero had a great heroine without about the
proofing about the the proofing about share is that he could do it, you know, from a lot of
different positions. Again, around that should go the way up in a survey. Spirit comes in
with a bit of help from from metrics right here being left in a very tough position, but
it's just good to see the spirit consistently has their ability to turn around around. You know,
hero, especially in Josh moments, he's very strong. The upfront feels all being the aggressive
of all being right here, not necessarily what he's known for the most, but I think it's
a bit of an underrated aspect to his game. He's actually put a good in those scenarios.
It's just that he don't put himself too often in them because he's a very calculating
and a very smart player in regards to his position, but he definitely have the ability
to hit some of those nasty shots here up close.
Why wouldn't Flashy if you can win it today? Well, I do, but if you got it, you can cheer
on certainly good. And he took a lot out of dinner circle. I mean, that first that was just
the Shiro show, the second is logged straight throughout, but really did take over the map
and it didn't make life so very over in circles. The numbers tell the tail 23 kills 12 deaths.
Oh, that's pretty good. I think that's a way to conclude that. I think this was a good map of
Counter-Strike. It was an exciting map of Counter-Strike. A game of Counter-Strike where every round was
alive. So to speak, it wasn't boring. It wasn't like just because one team is saving,
or one team is having a take nine. So we both teams were able to make every single round competitive
and both teams were able to apply pressure so they had to fight for everything around.
So we've got this of spirit winning in their say a convincing fashion in terms of the scoreline,
the rounds itself and the game itself were super, super close.
There's a lot to take away for in her circle, what they're going to need to take away right now
is that they need to rest up and get ready because when we come back, it'll be just about time for a little dust too.
Well, the stage has been set for Spirit Dominance, a good attempt from inner circle, but
now we have to dust to it.
Dust to it is for your some territory indeed for the dragons of Spirit.
And look at that bromance!
Look at that bromance!
It's nice to see them in the server again, donk, and his magic's a boy restored it to his good friend.
Yes, it's nice to see them back together. That's nice to see Magic coming back in to say a one count of stuff together with some things. I know we don't
We don't speak that much of some takes.
Yeah, he's not the most outspoken player out there. Magic, he has a lot of personality.
A lot of catchphrases, but to see both of them back is kind of.
It's always been interesting as well to me that people forget the way back in the day.
Magic's was the young 16 year old joining the spirit roster right we had a lot of pressure on it was a mechanical prodigy
It was supposed to be all these things. So I think there's an element of being able to relate
Obviously they were different degrees of a focus and pressure at the time
But there is that element of knowing what the situation wants for Dawn to some degree and I think it definitely helped them
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This is a game where you don't have to put any of your own money in but you get points and you try and build those points as much as possible
by investing in the various teams here at the Blast County. I'm thinking we should invest in
spirit. Based on all we've seen so far, based on expectations, I'm bullish. We got 450 available.
You want to go all in? You want to go all in, I'm curious. All in.
Okay, if you feel that strongly about team spirit, they're going to win this game, but first play
of game in the dust too. Yeah, well, go for it. I don't know if we, I think we reset before next week.
Maybe we get some more points to start. We do. I mean, we started with a thousand Mike and with a
the full fitty and the value of our bank is 2100.
We have double the pretty good for itself.
Yes, so I'm okay with going on in the team spirit.
I think in terms of winning this game on those two,
yeah, I'm all about going on in.
Have I seen enough from spirit to be like,
okay, what happens when you play by its ability?
Ooh, when I'm playing play,
focus now that playing what it's done.
And by the way, I don't know what to think of spirit
just yet in that regard,
but they're getting to jump down for now.
Everything they're showing me, every variable,
everything they're saying in the interviews is well,
I think it makes me more and more bullish, right?
Giving 10 years some more freedom, setting things up,
changing up the playstyle a little bit. Magic's having a bit more of a hand in it not just being the
Holly show having a bit more of a conversation there. Yeah, I like what I'm hearing. I like what I'm seeing. Yes, it's a world of
difference when we get on the land. Yes, it's a world of the difference when you're up against the vitality of against the Falcons.
That is, yes. Uh, up against that caliber of team. But I'm encouraged. I'm encouraged too. Only team Joe,
wind about you and I think they want to win a row and if they wait to win this one to be the third one in a row and
There's only been three bounty formats ever, so it isn't team that has a habit of winning these ones.
I'm just gonna play a little fun game right here, and I don't know if people in in chat will be mad at me right now,
but what if they kept their own play on?
What if Sway was the guy that was actually supposed to stay in the dead, and then what is Sway?
What would have happened with him with a bit more freedom within Team Spirit?
I know it's very easy to play that game now that we've seen Sway, and we haven't seen that much of the name,
but I'm just saying there's a world where, you know, possibilities,
Timeline's worlds of difference to navigate them all. We have our time travelers. Harry, do you go?
You're gonna say anything, Chief?
I just offered a pen to a little bit, you know.
No, no, no, no.
It's way on spirit, no, no, no. We tried that.
It didn't work out. It's way on power vision.
Now we're talking.
Yeah, but look, you get the Senate about power vision right now.
It's about team spirit trying to get to the land playoffs, and they're just a map away from that.
And it couldn't get better because it's there, my pogo.
It's just two that we're going to now.
This is the one that they've picked into.
That's how we're going to see this new look, spirit, try and play it.
And one thing is for certain if Shiro can keep up appearances,
boy, I think you could be in for a very rough time.
He was lights out on the AWP back on ancient, in particular in that first half,
big reason as to why they got as many rounds as they did,
why they shut down in a circle on their better half there and want to see more mileage
as well from the rest of the gang on spirit.
I don't know either way. I don't know. I feel like it was being him in the first half as well.
Now he got him once and we bought it up and then don't got him every time.
Okay. What do I know then? Either way. I'm not too worried for spirit by any means.
You know, it was a slow start against sinners.
A map they still won, 1311. They dominated them on you. They're looking to do the same thing to inner circle here.
and two over their way to land, the spirit to try and defend the title of Blast Bounty,
winning both previous season's Harry, one over the Eternal Fire Squad, another, over by Talbotting.
Back to back, Raining Champs. Will the new spirit be able to go on to defend their title,
they're just a map away from doing so.
That's a world's long.
It was a month or so, I told him.
Yeah, they'd be the men.
Yeah.
If you remember, we were waiting for the big spirit,
by Valley, Eman's show.
Oh!
You'll make it.
Fly Rax, won't flank to get one,
but smoke on the shore side gives spirit.
Room in this postman.
I trade out towards short, near corner in the open, and I have time on the back of that
flash to drop down.
Shiro holds for the cross, the P250 gets swipe from the slate at range and now it's just
in here.
Also dead down in the spawn, it pissed around, picked up and pretty convincingly at
that, by an assurcle.
big triple for zero fix as well to get him there. I do like that pistol for spirit,
you know, a lot of teams have been doing it smoking offshore from far away so they can take
this face tissue is. If CTs retake with any shore, you're kind of just stuck in the open.
You're all relying on them, coming up CT somewhat, glows in a second, sheer on the
crossie hit two for one, what are you going to jump back as a bit risky, learn your lesson,
Collated through the doors.
I'm going to say anything.
the explosion
all of these force buys you've seen spirit
very down to put money in the moment they get that bomb plot and this might be why they might
all be low with the exception of dark they've still come through with the entries
oh don't dead though maybe that causes you some problems
That will set up here and a great catch for Zontix backstab out of magic.
Gonna shut this re-take down before it becomes a problem.
I'm still trying to battle forward.
Large P on the players in the site but time is low.
Time is the problem.
Gotta move quickly here.
Contact taking my magic's just to throw off a tiny bit more.
An entity near for that final kill, spirit immediately bounce back with the force by.
There's a lot of angles, headshot angles, when you come up CTD are used to, you know, on certain corner certain positions are normal, but you're not ready for that.
That's a boost in the focus spot. Back against the wall, look at this, he's on magic's head.
So that's the last angle you could possibly be ready for.
And that's what wins around for a really for spirit. That was 3v3, donk dead, everyone low, it shaves the first kill off.
So, sick little idea there for magic in the post-plan
and spirifying their force by win.
Interesting.
That'd be...
Short stack, no flash, I'm just gonna swing together all.
Make this switch, make it as the ball, easy tracking, so that you can spirit it ready.
So this one's no problem.
So this one's no problem.
That's stuff from Shiromann.
Yeah, do you go?
Did he get in the bulk of the kills on the pistols?
Is he rushing on the corner? That's just nice.
Oh, the word for it.
I'm only down to fully cut it now for an assurcle.
So, three one, good as done here for Team Spirit.
You know, I get pimps point about yours, way, after he's looks so good and to near playing
essentially what his waist rolls to a degree, right, extra 50 for a crank ring off CT side,
But the difference is, because spirit, you know, have so much firepower on the front
line that's, to near isn't really making plays on the key's just kind of the stock
gap.
Is the insurance policy?
Well, I mean, it's always interesting to do too much on these keys.
I think it's just an anecdote about it.
If the roles were reversed right now and it was ten year to power of vision, I bet to
near would look sick, you know, like, okay, yeah, sure.
I think, you know, you're not always going to get the player they are in a different
When they come to your team playing some different, but I think that the main point is like
If you're playing that role on this team, you're not the team all playing around you. No, yeah exactly the team
Do what kind of gets to be the donker power division?
Yeah, who an extent?
You just be the star. Yeah, I get a different role
Like donkers is a nuclear because he is the star in the entry role, which is not typically a forgiving role
It's a role where you go on for one
If that were you often just dying for the team to get space, but don't obviously breaks the matrix.
And it's just to consistently find multiple entries, the wind rounds off of his impact alone.
You know, I also think to me it brings very good vibes.
Maybe that's what's underneath.
I think him and magic, we said at the other day, really curious what their interactions
are like as they're both kind of funny dudes, but a very different.
It's near CT side that I'm going to be paying attention to this year.
Oh, it'd be a bilingual fly on the wall in a team spirit practicum.
Again, some ticks, it did that last time on the anti-Eco.
It's time to just spams on it through the B-Spoke.
Really, puts doorway in an impossible position.
And Zontics gets out of 11 health and now he can just live.
I think...
Speak for everyone when I say what we really want in the future is a power-evision spirit matchup.
Yes.
And actually that would be...
Especially if Spirit...
Not taking a bit of a liking to Dusk 2.
Ooh, I want to see that.
Catch out here and mid all with the smoke's down.
Cross me in tame for fire, I'm able to confirm that it was just the two players that
attempted only one of them survived, but you're so far away, it won't come to matter.
So just kind of have to sit back here and look for the save spirit really building upon this early lead.
This early momentum for one up. No problems.
Shea hunting with the D-girl.
It's got an open-ass battle.
You know you're locked in when this is the,
this is where you find yourself.
Ain't no way, surely, do.
If you win this,
no.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
No, no, no.
He is so dialed in.
Yeah, in this game, it is terrifying.
It's fine, bro.
How does he do it?
Like it's not.
Sure it was always someone who's good for output, right is that a second guy alongside
don't get this team finished up five on the year, but right now you're seeing what happens
when he gets that extra 10% you know I think that's all it is. It's an extra 10%
nerd but it makes him unbeatable. He was like this every single game this could be an unbeatable
team. Yeah it's interesting when you watch you know if he's so used to watching
We see spirit, play the other top 5 teams in the world, and then you know, it's a lot harder to be
so consistent with the top such a carry hit these crazy shots, but it really does put it into
perspective when you're not playing the top 5 teams in the world. How much better you actually are,
right? Like someone like Chero can just look as good as he does.
Because he's punishing a squad that don't have to play as perfect.
who aren't used to playing a squad like this.
Just a margin for arrows so much.
So much less against the bifolity.
The sure is getting away with murder today.
That's what the Bountiful Man is fun, Harry, because we get these
Young squads, Thunderdogs, showing up and impressing and improving as well, gaining much
needy experience. I think it was on a Microsoft show with saying the other day about how
work by Tyler got picked by Oble, and he said, ah, we wanted to pick my personality. We really
wanted to just, we just want to play them. You know, it wasn't even about like to be better. The
options weren't great. It was like the top four teams after the event, but he wanted to shoot for the
moon because he wanted the experience of playing the world's best team, the best team
in the last year, in an official because that's something that these guys don't get to
do every day. And so when or last you take home valuable experience, it shows the mindset
of a team like Inner Circle who are seizing this opportunity, but right now it might
I'll be too much. On the eyeball is tough, it's funny. I made a tweet after um, after they beat phase. Yes, a tweet as a JW would have humbled Zow in the final at the major. Nice.
Good. And JW liked the tweet and then proceeded to pick Vitalis.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's biased.
He wants to prove it.
Took that literally.
Yeah, why not?
He's coming up later on today. You got that to look forward to.
Hmm.
Is that next game?
Yes.
Oh, I love that.
Eyeball is vitality.
So we're still looking like we're going to get the top squads in the world.
If Eyeball is doing, I hope Jayd, I'll be using sense of something like,
you know, he's got nothing on Kenny's sword ever from back in my day.
You're calling the Eyeball is where I am.
I'm bullish on Eyeball is.
Yeah, for that.
Crazy, that's also pretty thick.
Let's shout a lot of the Shiro.
Donk follows up, everybody gets a friend.
Yeah, there's maybe no worse map in the world to play an orphan that isn't missing them does too.
Yeah, true.
Wait, or CT side, just not gonna get out of Canton, oh.
Donk jumped into the Nade, unlucky.
Yeah, Shiro, when he sees that spawn along, he's a very happy lad.
5v3, and in a circle go investigated.
All right, the way you got for us was the lineup.
Bit of team damage in there, but ultimately killed for his team.
it now into FlyRax on their SAWP, and that first shot missing while that might cost you
dearly.
And put on one on the smoke, as the second orb moves on over, are they ready for the
backstab?
Today, it could be about to just steal this all the way right now, here he is, arriving
through the backline, and you know that last orb is here, and another miss for FlyRax,
how many more chances can you really expect to get away with, spirit will eventually
punish.
He got two kills in the round, but could have been a lot more than a FlyRax, if
He's almost even coming back into B.
Some reason or another spirit. They're not scared of innocent call on his T side right now. That much is very clear.
If Zerifex hit his...
Maybe we're talking about a round for an historical births.
Six one for spirit right now.
When the Orp is this dialed in on your opponent's side, like, there we go.
Another example is who I was going to set this so many opportunities for that Orp.
just ruin your CT round. From the very start of the clock, the minute the round goes
live, you are vulnerable to the AWP. You have to cross doors? Okay, I just got that.
Well, yeah, you know, you're vulnerable, you have to cross the doors. If you survive that,
which, sure, you survive this round, but you're on 6HP is that really living. You know,
then kind of every stage of map control you could possibly look to take or all these super
long sightlines where the orb is able to hold, the orb is able to sit back, the map just
starts to feel very, very small and it's not, it's a big map, there's a lot of options,
but they all get closed down quickly when there's a, oh, this powerful against you.
And if you go for info anywhere, right, you try to chew gold, it's the channels like, are they
if they cross, they playing B, like boom.
You're dead, you know, Shiro's having that kind of day.
Cause it's like, you know, at least on overpass for example,
another map that's good for all purpose.
There's ways to avoid them.
There's ways to like play to avoid the WP.
That can be a lot harder on us too.
Not just because of the midshot, like a feature that just unique to this map, but it is very
much because of that.
You always feel the threat ever switched on AWP, thinking back to other really good
dust 2 teams or teams that are opposite to sicker hit in the midshot, you see a Zywoo,
Mollidoi, very much ended that conversation, always good to nail it.
Again, they're going to put Shiro here and the need will get them across, but even then it's like to get the crossing your wasting
Util you told that you would love to have the latest round
Something 5v4 here before I racked up a little thing and as many rounds as they can
Oh, that's what it takes. It's cool because they know they need to
On accusing his towards being and
Fire acts with a 5v4 spirit. I said they're not scared
They're looking to prove it right through this mid smoke and the timing might not be good
Captain Kirk has come in to take control over middle and actually the boys come back
Retort positions a little awkward does get spotted as well
But if his shop from sheer over rare phrase is he's swung from an angle he wasn't expecting
Mine's this one into a 2v4 magic and donk
And we're keen to get this duo back together and see what it's capable of donk on the WP
Sighting prospect, but it's dead straight away
All right, in a circle, making the most of their two-man advantage gifted by the AWP's
want to be, want it long, both of them find an early pick.
Talking like the round is over, but I've seen magic set long before, what's it got to
do in this situation?
Double peak is nice.
so no more second round taken here by in a circle
spare the cat there for the low and slow
let me sure are working a lot of these rounds
with max money on magic's before the buy.
Spirit iron, no stress right now. They're going to call a pause.
I like that they call this pause, and I think how these always been good at this type of stuff.
Just a chance to kind of get involved early. Just have a little bit of a chat with the guys.
Make sure they really know what's happening in the rounds ahead. Because it's like right now,
you're dominating in this game, you're dominating in this map. Don't let in a circle get to a point where
but you can entertain the comeback.
Don't let it be achievable.
Do all the groundwork right now
and this first half, and just tear
cells up for a really nice finish,
a really clean, easy finish.
If you win this round,
you have secured a very, very dominant half.
You would once again start to cause
money problems for the side of in a circle,
and at that point, you are well on your way to the double digits.
Can't go again.
you know you've seen don't come to cameras he's looked a little
kind of bored almost he doesn't like not super locked in right now
he just in all the online games which is weird right for a guy who plays
like face it all day in these online games are not every bouncy just like
so like in these matches maybe it's because they know they're going to win
and a lot of their his time you know and like he's now going to sit back
What's his team play the round?
But he's pretty disinterested.
The better way to approach it, right?
Because undoubtedly, what he's experiencing now
is more boring than if he was playing the round.
You know, if you dial in and you win fasty,
you get it over and done with it, don't you?
You got to think about it like that.
I think he is trying to win.
I'm doing that for you.
Yeah, I feel hot-taked, buddy.
Yeah, I think he's crazy.
Guys, I know it's not my CS.
Don't ever want to try to win on my CS.
Don't might be trying to win.
But thoughts?
He doesn't board in these games.
I think he's also someone who struggles to get pushed by even the best teams.
So like...
He wants a challenge. He likes a challenge.
Okay.
Pacy meant to be, there's no smoke on it,
is it popping through it and door doubles?
No window to the wall, sure, oh, he's gone as well.
So, in a circle, it's surviving, Harry.
They are, they are, and, you know, that pause to spirit,
this whole idea of, let's not let them build into the half.
Let's not give them a streak around.
Well, they're gonna get it, they're gonna fight for it, at least.
To in a row now, back to backgrounds for the in a circle, spot,
hoping for a late-in-the-game result on this CT-half.
Don't like the need to dial in just for these final couple of rounds.
As they've been fine, I'll actually operate in without him in this map.
A Greshen out towards top mid is in a circle building of incompetence and other miss from the
Hero 8WP, but there's donk delivering two from lower.
One HP from the exchange, but still returns that advantage around and puts spirit in the driver's seat.
Lucky to get out there on a feetmaid.
I think tries to punish, it's still spare and maintain the advantage.
The tight line here for Fire Axe, only the angle that sure may peek but don't
stay in the orb.
So loud, upcat is aerifix waiting to strike.
You can catch them off guard as multiple players, and busy with nades, flashes good
no one jumps on it.
Sparits and box player magic is good for that refrag and so upcat goes spirit fast.
or not.
They've got so many nays. Look at them. There's three or four belts. They're going to make the most of this.
And it's a slow down that so's a seed of doubt here for inner circle.
Sure.
Alright.
No, how many would have gone about getting that kill.
But that's the route that don't select it. Let's see what I can do in this 1v2 clutch attempt.
I'm just spam-aid to him.
Ollie, not the Molly.
A.C. Flash, not the flank, not the Flash.
Not the Molly?
I threw this one, but Tenea on the line.
You know, Tenea's been putting in a very solid shift here on Dust 2, good to see.
It's been a pretty miraculous game for Tenea across both maps, right?
When they asked them, they thought, be, you got a couple of double kills.
than holding his own.
I have a pack in this key side.
And 8 to 3 right now.
And spare find another 9 round opening half, there's a tag.
He's just been nailing them, hasn't he?
to
be in the chest of the
We know this faking, all this posturing over to what's short for magic, just to
really conceal the end, go all the means, the honor is alone in the behold.
In a gun check on the first few players output has to fire off eventually, and it's
It's done with a quick turn around, a traded 3-4, with magic's dead on his mid-low.
The fakey-solid did serve the purpose of keeping four players out of the site, and early
of resources to retake a little bit of a util on flyracks to try and set this one up,
trying to send them in and shot the Shiro.
Again, a phrase you're not too used to saying, I have another go at it, and this time it
That comes up Trump's for sure, goes on a tear from the back of the site, and there it is.
Nine rounds secured, 14 spirit, they sit, but rounds away from those land finals.
Hey guys, this is my home, and I'm going to break down how the pros hold long A on
dust too, so you can do it just like them too.
Let's go.
Usually at the start of the round, you want to pay attention to the spawns.
That's because only the best spawn for the CTs gets past this corner before the
best tea spawn peaks. So the best use of the spawn is to try to get a mall
top down at the doors right away to stop a potential rush. Now keep in mind if
you don't have the best spawn the teas can already be holding you. With a mall
top down at doors the next component is to have a second person throw flashes
to blind the teas as they come out. One of the most common ways to do this is
just over the building from the long crossing. The flash of blind teas holding
from the doors, so even if you don't have the best spawn you get a brief window
to cross the angle. It's possible to throw this flash too early, so the timing to throw this
flash is at 149 which leads to the earliest AT you can be at the doors. The Maltoff and
Flash gives you a good initial defense, but T-Zeld the best spawn can run straight to
blue bin before the Maltoff lands. So another option for the Maltoff is to throw it behind the
blue bin which stops T from sitting there. And as for our potential T at the entrance,
You can use this smoke at the start of the round.
The smoke is thrown from elevator, flies over the buildings,
then bounces off the top of the long house and drops into the doors.
The smoke limits tea, so I'm holding the long corner, which gives you an isolated fight on the
tea crossing to gloobin. But keep in mind if you want to peek the doors with the best spawn,
it won't land in time. The gloobin malletoff and long doors smoke takes away a lot of positions
for the teas, but what if the teas are fully committed to taking long? There will be flashes
or a corner smoke, preventing you from holding the entrance. To ensure your
mollotov still lands even while blind, you can use this line up where you run
sideways facing the wall and release as soon as you reach the corner. Facing the
wall reduces how much you get blinded and it also removes the need to step forward
to throw them all off, which means you can cross the pit without any additional
movement and it lowers the chance that you catch as you mid-dough. To fight the
corner smoke, you can throw counter-flash to blind the T's pushing up, and this is a
flash your teammate and throw for you. The goal of the flashes to have a pop on the
left side along and behind you so you don't need to turn. This flash will blind
T's hugging the wall as the 149 flash won't get them. What this flash you can
swing to the left side of the smoke or push through the smoke to catch T's directly
behind it. So what these extra steps? Let's say you fought off the initial push.
What's it good spot to hold from? There's this position at the pit where you aren't
directly holding the doors but the side of the blue bin. The idea is to
catch the teas at the moment they have to clear the right side. You can also use this line up to
re-smoke the doors without exposing yourself too much, giving you time to reposition. So that's
what you can do if you have long control, but what do you do if you're forced to fall back?
If you back up to the long crossing, you can use this smoke that lands at the middle of long
to delay teas and pushing up. The smoke covers the entire choke point, which allows you to move
freely between car and CT spawn. And as well, you can use the smoke to push up close to fight the
And that is the last piece of how to hold Dust 2 long day like the pros.
Team spirit are running away with their mountain pick of Dust 2.
That was the case back on ancient.
It's been the Sherro show in this series.
Bit of a helping hand in this game from today.
Nice to see him stretching his legs with an important role to play on Dust 2.
There's a lot less grip on this game from inner circle, right?
To be fair, they went 9-3 down back on Ancient and made it interesting in the second half
but there were some way closer rounds in their T-Side of Ancient.
Here on Dust 2, it has been decisive.
One side.
Team Spirit, getting to do what they want when they want it.
Now it's in a circle time to lead the charge straight up cat in his pistol for an aspect.
Good shots for donk.
Just a for one actually.
And actually a killback from zero fixed.
What he shot king in at the car was an up for the task.
He was done she wrote with a pair of the leaves.
hmm.
From the top of the former in this series, what's here?
Who got for us?
Oh, that's so annoying.
No, safe, seriously?
Play for Katie at this point.
Oh, they're coming through it.
They're coming through.
Sheer?
I mean, when it's fake about, he's dead.
Oh, no, no, no, no, we don't have back.
They don't have that being the kill that he was waiting for.
He was really hoping that we're gonna feed him something and that would throw everything in a disarray, but it's fine
In a circle secure it and there they are pistol round picked up. They've been solid at getting these rounds at least
But I win the pistol back in that first half as well. It was the conversions that they've had trouble with
That's a bearing that fact in mind, the boss buy comes as no surprise from Team Spirit.
You're gonna say anything?
You gave me like five seconds.
I'll say something.
Watch me.
Flashplay, but I didn't really think it was on the time.
It didn't bounce with his flashbang.
First few kills are secured and then you will actually use real really good
They're burning in their own molotom. Oh
They just can't convert on these pistol rounds man
Captain Kirk. Not even the captain
Not even the Kirk can recover this 2v5
Surely it's too far gone not so easy, Kirk
The darkest molly burning them in the corner. There's so much about that.
Like the 2 SMGs up close to only works because you have to throw the flash either
on a timing and get it right or you're throwing it reactively. They're throwing it
reactively. So the first two fights you get, no one is blind. It's a 2v2 SMGs versus
the rifles spirit. Obviously, we're in both of those with the dogs helping to secure
and then you have the flash pop-in awkward teammate Molly on the back of the flashbang burning alive in their own
new till it just sets emotion this really unfortunate chain of events for in a circle great we save our
The more donksames are AK.
That's not what they wanted.
Cool setup, never spirit.
Wins another second round after losing their store.
And so from bad to worse here for inner circle.
The series may end in a whimper on dust.
Yeah, which is a kind of feel like a crime chain.
When you think back to how close ancient was, it might not look crazy close in terms of the scoreline, but believe me, if you call that game, there was so many moments in there where it comes down, you know, there's the ridiculous hero on B3.
There's so many rounds where they do a lot of damage. They bring everyone low, but they just can't convert.
And if like one or two of those rounds have gone differently, could have been a win for an assurcle here on Dust 2.
That's really poppy in the story.
It's been far cleaner, far more dominant for spirit.
And so it's gonna underpin this series,
but my work was there a chance
to have made this more competitive dog on the swing.
We'll get put down.
And this one's actually left in a 1v1.
Something could be brewing here.
Zero fix locked into the clutch,
but look at who he's got to be.
The sheriff's got me brown.
There's no kit anywhere.
So the sheriff's got to get going.
It's in middle rather.
can go pick him up. That's going to shave some time, smoke down, zero fixed place to commit.
You want to win this fight. He doesn't want to give Shiro the chance to play mine games.
It comes down to whether Shiro clears his position, shifting in right now. Oh, and their turn
in time, Shiro makes it look easy. Doesn't even get tagged. Didn't even need to check the position.
Just had to react. Yeah, little rough as well. Zero fixed falling off, right?
is it takes the shot?
Just everything that could go wrong, dude.
And at this point, you know, it's not even necessarily
thought who's striking fear into you with this server. It is Shiro, right?
When you hit tab, it's a name that they've become very, very acquainted
with over the course of this series. You think that I got to beat this guy?
I got to be Shiro with the game he's having. The stress of the faces of
and a server as well, to every route, every engagement or what it could have been.
Yeah, you just, you just know, like the down you know, how winnable that first map was.
You know, like we say here on Dust, it has been more one-sided.
There has been less in it for in a circle, less close moments.
Ooh, get a pace, why not?
Running wild, sharing the sights.
I'm going to give him a bite. There he goes. Sure, taking one with him, but
how far it does it. Flyracks delivers. Don, what's he got?
We said the dogs can make it for the challenge. Looked a little sleepy. This would have been
the round to step up. But he does nothing. Zontik's dead as well. That is a very lovely
pace change out of an circle. It comes a bit from a place of desperation, but you can't argue
with the results. You know, they're back into a corner here. They need anything to get around
and a PC-1 up through the short side goes to just that.
When all favors last, rush short, in a circle, seemingly delay the inevitable,
and sure it's even hitting the cross-shallon CT, didn't think that existed,
though we kind of jump out top-med.
Gonna just walk through this smoke.
I like it.
Right now it's a big gap.
We'll do we commit with this. No.
Takes a strong position to kill rotates.
I mean, while Doc Spams on here.
Oh, no. Oh, God.
He even tagged zero fixed.
I'm pretty sure what because he was moving while he should.
I mean, he's like playin' it, gee.
He's like playin' it, he just killed three guys.
Come through the tunnel, swing.
Ahhhh...
Fireack...
Get's one.
That's the...
Orper mood, Shiro dead.
Maybe a chance for something here is magic that commits to trying to evade me while
Dunk is on to the ace.
He's only seen one opponent that's far in the round and he's on for all five kills.
Can Fireack be the stopgap?
Even if you get past donk, you still have a red hot tin air to deal with, so it would
just be the beginning of this clutch.
And it's dark with hot hands and what has been a pretty quiet map, really looking to
deliver something special here if it's very defined.
Match and series point.
I think grouping lower as well should be a trade shot missed and donk hunting down for
the ace.
to find 12. Beautiful recovery for Donk right when he's had enough.
Closing out in a circle all five three three five.
And Donk is done with this game so this game might just be done.
for a team that you know really on a for a on a for a usually to play you know kind of
in your face count as strike that's a bit of a brand in a circle of look to commit to
they've certainly felt that they have to pay respect to spirit.
This round, being a good example, they throw their smokes to open up, trying to force
a reaction, they don't get anything, so you end up sitting back in spawn, kind of using
up the first 30 seconds of the round, just hoping for an overextension, hoping the spirit
at chomping at the bit to close this game and end up giving it all away, but that doesn't
happen.
Spirit do want this to end on this round, and they know that any crazy aggression, any move
to punish only drags out their series that much longer.
They're looking at it, they want to book their tickets, they want to sort those flights
out to the landfinals out here in Malta, and they want to do that in a couple of moments
time.
The second is not long.
A circle charge on the mid to be a dog sees everything he needs for players in middle, ready to reap the dog's team and dog care with another multi-gill as the game reaches its natural conclusion.
Ancient was a competition. Ancient had close moments, but here on Dustoo, spirit, duet, dirty and dog takes another 4K to finish the job.
team spirit back to back to Bounty Champions, look to defend their title next week in Molta.
The Kings of Bounty are coming for their crown, once again that you're in against here at the
studio in Molta, it would not have felt like a proper blast bounty without them, and I think
it don't felt the same way because those last few rounds of the giga-tired of playing decided to
just go ahead and end it. That's what it felt like. Good performance coming out of the
scene spirit, you know, not leaving any room for doubt, not the fumbling at all, just getting
the job done moving on and not spending too much time on an either mic, you know, we
seen some of the favorites so fine this tournament, losing a map, dropping a map, you
know, like some faces out of the tournament, now the out of the tournament, spirit, they
mean business.
And I mean, maybe you could have had those excuses if you were a spirit, oh new IGL, we're
adjusting some things, we're changing some positions around, we're trying some different
stuff.
They didn't really need any excuses, did that took care of business, slaughtered their way
on through.
I mean, this one in particular, we were having the conversation on H, about how close it
It was in rounds in moments in this, it never really felt that way.
No, not really.
To be completely honest.
I think engine was a close map and that was a competitive affair in a service to
serve some praise for that.
But, because too, there was no doubt.
It was just a question of time.
It was just a question of whether or not it seemed a spirit would allow in a
service to get a couple of rounds and maybe get a sense and a feel for the game.
But, let's be honest, as you said, don't want to end the show.
Show wants to end the show and overall team spirit looking very, very solid early on.
There was perhaps that one moment in the second half where they're moving up Catwalk,
you're thinking they've got the weapons advantage, and then don't continue swimming into them and kill everybody,
and all of your hope is completely gashed.
That was about the story, for any sort of a look, they knew they were coming up against the dragon of spirit.
They knew they were coming up against one of the hottest hurdles you can try and overcome in the game of Counter Strike,
and sure enough spirit lived up to their billing.
I know a lot of people are just tuning in now for the weekend.
Obviously you have your life and your jobs to focus on doing the week,
But they did feed 3D Max early on in this week, you know, and that's why I want to keep in a circle a bit of credit because people watched them now
And think no, the playing spirit while there's no part of this tournament
Well, they weren't good enough to beat team spirits to slave the dragon say whatever you want but they did knock out 3D Max in that opening round
And for that, I think they deserve credit 3D Max is by no means a bad team and in a circle
They showed a bit of that, you know promise a bit of that potential for the future
So good on them for doing that today though not too much to them
I think they have definitely established themselves as a team to watch for the future.
We're going forward and to hear a little bit more about it.
I think we've got an on-extaining bite on a tough day today.
You knew it was going to be a tough challenge.
Rough go there. What happened against spirit in your opinion?
Uh, to be honest, like, uh, it was so but mentally like, uh, it was no end of the year.
Maybe we were scared to be, I don't know.
Like all mentioned to be lost some crucial rounds for this side. It was our rounds, but we just did stupid stuff
And after this it was just hard to go back and like have energy to play. Maybe I think I know yeah
I think on an ancient witch program about me and Mike on the desk is well
It was a very close game despite you losing 13 to eight I feel like pretty much all the rounds were close a lot of
What you felt as well, that was probably the map to win for you guys, to extend it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's for sure.
I think we were about to mention, but we just lost a few clashes, like a few hour rounds,
like Sherop puts on crazy stuff.
It's only that stuff.
I mean, it could be very good birthday gift for me to go last one.
I have a better birthday.
Thank you.
Happy birthday man.
is some positivity though to take from this event for you guys. I mean, it was the debut for this version of the roster right bringing into two new players integrating them having a very good win against 3D Max.
In the overall picture, we at least here on the desk are feeling very positive about inner circle. What lessons are you taking away from the bounty?
Yeah, it's for sure a good tournament for us, like for new roster, new season, we're proud
of how we played, only a not-dust, we're spirit-but overall, like we beat 3D max, we played
good tension, so for the start of the season and versus this team, we're feeling pretty
confident in this season, also, it's a good start for season for us anyway.
Yeah, and it's just the beginning of the season.
So if anyone wants to watch out for you guys,
where can we see you play next and then what is the goals coming up for you guys now?
I mean, to be honest, I don't know the names like we just have some online tournaments,
a lot of online tournaments, so our goals just to go up in a various...
So, not more like we want major for short and like...
Yeah.
You're in for the big grande.
Yeah, big grand.
I'm curious to hear about your new additions.
We talked about it at the beginning of the event
about what you were expecting from zero effects
where you're expecting from Captain Kirk.
Now having a few officials under your belt
with them, what are your thoughts on the two players?
I mean, they're really amazing.
Like, they're always focused.
It's hard to break the mentally, so it's good.
And they really fit us so, so nice.
like a lot of people who seem to like if Carna Lev and the DJ for in the so-called
but to be honest like I feel we can even be better with this roster because like we have
no more team play we just need time to do our structure better and like I'm pretty confident
in this roster like I'm pretty sure we will go up in the rest.
Well I'm glad to hear that positivity, glad to hear it's not GG, we certainly are like
what we're seeing here. Thank you for joining us.
Commiserations on the loss. We'll see you down the road.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday, man.
Thank you so much, bye.
That's a tough one for the birthday.
Blowin' out the candles, get your candle blown out by Donk.
I mean, yeah, I guess, you know, sometimes it is one of this.
I think as he said, overall, should be rough.
I think they played a good tournament. I think they exceeded expectations.
And they gathered a few B.S. point beating three D.M.X.
that's going to be a great amount of points going towards their name and
that's it's just going to be a grind. They won't major. Well, got to earn it and
that's one way to do it. And there's so young as well, right? There's a lot of
spirit on this team. That's ironic, considering they just played. It does feel
that way. There's a lot of momentum. There's a lot that they can build into. And
I think bringing someone like Goodgen, the fold who's been competing for a while,
helps build on that. Some of the lessons you've learned, some of the things
that they can integrate. I do think the future is very bright for Inter Circle, but
I think he's also right to set the expectations of we're still in the point where it's just
can we call our way up the R.S. We're not in the conversation about what we're doing at tournaments.
It's more about whether we can get to tournaments. Yeah, I agree. I think it's super interesting right now.
I think the IS obviously that's a conversation for another time. But it's done a lot of good stuff for
the T2 tier. We've seen there's always something to go for. There's always importance on
the recently game, getting all the points, getting all the prize money you name it. And I think
the competitive spirit right now, you know, if you take the teams from let's say top 15 to top 40
I think it's a hyper-competitive environment in right now.
So to be one of those teams that's going to stand out
and maybe Clintus part of the major, that's not easy.
There's so many teams out there grinding.
There's so many teams with the goal to climb the DIS.
So in a circle, they're going to have a big ground ahead of them.
But they are one of the few teams.
I think have a realistic shot at least getting close to qualifying for the making.
And there's big hurdles in their way to that.
One of the hurdles that we just witnessed was spirit.
And to hear from them, we got magic on the line.
Magic's, congratulations on the win.
Looking forward to seeing you here in Malta.
Cool. Cool indeed. Look, you had to watch the last time they were here at the bounty
with the trophy. Now you're in the server, now you're in the control. Now having a few
officials under your belt in the leadership as well. Any lessons you're taking away,
I know it's just two games, but anything you've already learned about this team and about
you in the leadership.
Ah, no idea. I mean, it's like, you're only not that great. So I think is that we are not
having we're not getting a lot of officials if you're playing like
bounty, you know like if you're playing like straight to win the tournament
there's only five matches and I feel like there's a few more officials needed
to warm up and like to get everything kind of stacked and ready and
However, before that, unless, like, if when you have not that many officials, the game might
shake at the times.
That's a good point.
Good thing for you guys, you have a long year ahead of you, obviously, and a lot of
games to be played.
Magic's for you now being an in-game leader.
I know one thing is thinking about, you know, one thing is transitioning into it.
Now you had a couple of official games under your skin.
I always had in-game leading team spirit.
Is it enjoyable?
Is it motivating?
Is it fun for you?
Ah, it's definitely exciting.
Yeah.
Speaking about some of your pieces that you're moving around the board,
I want to ask about Teneer.
We spoke to him in the pre-game interview.
He mentioned he's had some conversations with you
about potentially things going on with his role,
maybe getting some more freedom, maybe moving around the map
a little bit more.
Can you share anything with us about what you think of Teneer,
what you think about how you can use him?
Well, I do, Jenny, I believe that if you have an assap,
such as this player, you have to give
in the, you had to do the sound space for him to play the game, so he would be enjoying it.
And like, we all basically understand what he's capable of.
And if he's getting that space and, you know, he's a DS implemented, he might be, he can shine.
Yeah.
Maddy, you and your team has never lost a bounty format before you, the Backpack Champions.
Is it far for us to expect you guys also to make a VPN the playoff or do you think it's still too early to have that was a quick thing
Phil Pondau some
Yeah, soon enough. What about you? What do you do think do you think you're ready to win?
I'm not thinking
I think that's what they brought you back
I'm looking for a lot of them thinking now
Any final thoughts on inner circle and what they what they brought against you?
Well, I do think that their map pool is not that great, but it's a big advantage.
They basically, this is the map they're most comfortable on.
And if you're playing against them, you're not really prepared or you know what to expect.
It might be difficult, but they still have a lot of job to do, bringing in two new players.
There is a long road for them to get the map already, get everyone used to each other, and just to play better.
Because with the previous roster, all of us have probably seen last time they played a 10-spirit without me, and they had their moments to shine.
They did indeed, but now secret weapon back in magic's back in the server. Not so much shining for them
Thank you for joining us for this interview. Looking forward to seeing you next week here in Malta and excited to see those few more
officials before we can get the true idea of what kind of a mad idea you can unleash here. Thanks
I'm in a few words when he doesn't want to talk and a lot of information when he does
He's always interested in interview with me.
He's always interested in me.
He doesn't think I don't believe that.
I think he's on the plane.
He's rolled a little bit.
I think he is.
And I said that as well.
I think it's a very intriguing project.
They got going in team spirit.
I think he has the capabilities of involving
and transitioning into becoming a grading him.
Of course, from metrics as well.
That's going to take time.
It's not going to be a flawless transition.
There's going to be mistakes happening.
There's going to be learning curves.
And as he said, I think it's a very valid point.
The more officials you play, the more you learn about yourself,
the more you learn about your players,
how they act on the pressure, how they respond to your calls,
how much trust they have in you.
And the only way to find out is by going through the motions.
And for more, for them, the more games to get to play the better
and playing on a stage, you know,
and playing against better opposition,
that's going to be the real big test for metrics
and this new iteration of spirit.
But I think it's fair to say that we can have high hopes for them.
Yeah, there's no reason not to.
Yeah, I think it's also very fair
from metrics to be tamping down expectations right now,
because he knows they haven't had a real test in the air.
He knows they've just been rolling through teams
that they absolutely should be beating.
And that it's going to be a different story once he hits the land.
I mean, I think you saw it in Donx player camp in a whole second half.
You look like he was just checking out forms and finally he's playing take it for this one,
because it was very common collective experience.
Very common collected.
Like, let's be honest, right?
If you scope out, you know, yes, in isolation of this tournament,
of course, spirit of coming in and they're trying to win it.
But I think it's fair to say that give them a couple of months before we see the full potential
team spirit.
Maybe they hit the ground running, maybe they're coming and win off the first tournament
And then have a bit of a honeymoon period,
but in terms of looking at the broader perspective right here,
I think it's fair that we give them two or three months
to fully integrate whatever it is
that magic wants to do with this line of,
to fully get some success up to speed
and see what this new version of Team Spirit is gonna look like.
And I guess the big goal for them obviously
will be the color major.
And up until that point, it's all just, you know,
are we looking at seeing that is getting gradually?
Better, are we looking at a team that is having too many difficulties?
They're only way we find out, Mike, it's by waiting
and following the progress.
Look, maybe we don't know what the final stew's gonna taste like,
but we're seeing the ingredients and the ingredients are looking good, right?
We saw Shiro at today having some monstrous rounds.
We've seen Taneer freed up a little bit,
maybe starting to make his impact on the server,
felt a bit more dunk is still dunk.
He's clearly dunked those final few rounds
and just a nice little signature on the series.
Maybe Zontix is taking a little bit more time,
but let's be real.
The way this team has set up,
Zontix is never going to be the one
who's trying to step forward.
Now, when I also feel when it comes to Zontix,
that he's a player that plays up to the level of the opposition.
When he's playing good teams,
he's often standing out as making great decisions
and actually keeping his level today.
You know, bottom of the scoreboard, it doesn't matter.
Like he wasn't needed.
He was doing exactly what he was supposed to.
So if people want to point fingers and be like,
nah, San Tics is not ready yet.
Wait and see until he plays against the better team
because I feel that's where he gets to show
the best version of himself as well.
Well, we will have to wait and see that.
But let's take a look at our teams
that have already booked their tickets
into multiple.
There's two more to confirm.
But we are getting ready to get the action going here
at the Blast Bounty just two more teams remaining.
Exciting! So far, a really stacked lineup
we've got with a few surprises,
sprinkled in Falcons, Liquid Perry Vision Spirit,
and Game Elite should be in heroic as well.
There's some other starts this time.
It hasn't just been the clean slate
that we saw last Bounty, things getting weird.
Yeah, let's just play with it.
You have Mike that the two TBDs
is going to be vitality and through it, which I personally think it will be, you know,
then you have a very stacked playoff, right? You have some of the best teams in the world taking
on each other and you have a couple of underdogs, you have a couple of team with standings.
And I say a couple of teams with standing and we know we're going to show up with a standing
unfortunately, no A to R P player is going to be tough for them. Unfortunately, I've also been following
social media, it's been scrolling around Mike and apparently it seems that he's so cute. We'll
not show up with Falcons due to these issues. So that's going to play what a standing as well.
To me, that's a bummer because I wanted to see Falcons in full force take on spirit take on
for your take on by telling you if they're making it. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait and see
you most likely for cracker before we see the full iteration of Falcons.
Well, I have to wait to see the Joshua, but who knows, maybe we'll get the heroic
the Falcons stand in battle. That would be a fun little narrative to have gone.
And we've got our schedule for today. Steve, I'm just a part of the one coming.
I'm asking the questions all the time. So I'm going to take your job just for you.
Okay. We've all right. He have I tell the eyeball us. Give me your heart take.
Give me a heart take care.
Uh, well, I have a cold take for it, which is that high ballers are going to get destroyed.
They're going to be de-eyed and bald.
All right.
Want borrowing.
How about by telling you versus, sorry, three of us is food.
Now, what I think could get interesting.
Yeah.
I'm very curious to see the fury of battle bounce back, right?
From a disappointing major.
I think there's a chance that they come out into this season, just a little flat.
Or there's sort of a, how do you respond situation?
Do you come out flat or do you come out pissed off and ready to rip heads?
All right, I've put a team that can punish three maps, but two maps.
Let's go three maps.
Let's end the day with a bang.
Maybe a few overtime, like five, six of them spread across them,
really give the night shift something to work for.
All right, my go back to your role as always, please.
All right, locking in as a host here,
analyst, starved, my checking out of duty.
I do want to give a little bit of spice
for this eyeball is vitality matchup, right?
Because even though every part of my logical brain says
that this should be remarkably one-sided,
I've always had some flair they got some spice and I've got this guy jw who knows what it means to be a champion who knows what it means to win
Who knows what it means as well to play the spoil sport who knows how to get weird with it
He wanted this team he wanted this match. He wanted this smoke
We can hear from him and his words in the blasher draft show
Give it to me. Who are I bull is picking
Yeah, I mean, I will some back with a back and before so let's do it again. We go from right out of there
Oh, Jay does you crazy.
You're a run-in bastard.
You're a run-in bastard.
This is epic.
This is exactly what we want.
Dude, we might have to start calling you the king's land.
I will see.
Wait a minute.
I'll have to get him back.
Do you want to show, as I would,
what it's like to be the first major MVP
versus the most recent?
Is it going to be the old version of the new here?
I think it's it's more about the battle of the trash start between me and
I think it's more about the battle of the trash start between me and I think it's more about my god. I wish this wasn't what's that land
I wish it was it land to wow. I love JW spirit. I love his energy, you know
Rollin' back the years making it happen. Yeah, OG major MVP showing them how to do it on the server making some noise
I mean, they made noise. They made noise by being face friend and they did it in a fashion while I've all
when I was only beating face-clamber, they dominated in a map number two and map number three.
Unfortunately, there's also a real world today where vitality will come in and there will
smack the AW and there will smack eyeballs out of the server. And if that's going to happen,
I wouldn't be surprised to be completely honest, which is kind of nice for me to say,
because I feel like there's only one way this game is going to go, either it's going to be
vitality beating them, you know, quite handily. Or it's going to make a game out of that. And that
in itself would be a bit surprising. I hope that's the case. I hope JW and I
ball us will show glimpses of what we saw against Facebook as well and maybe
glimpses of all can expect when they play teams like in a circle, when they
play teams like foot teams they have to compete against in order to make
the major, but having any sort of expectations of them beating by a
telly or taking a map off by a telly that's ridiculous. So it's an open end
game where they can only surprise and I kind of like that. You still want to
set out with ridiculous before they did it to phase though. Now playing doubles
advocate here. Oh, no, no, no, I even said that could win a
Megan's face. A map. A map is not a series. No, I'm saying
they can't win a Megan's white telly. So that's a different. Okay.
All right. We're setting different standards here, but perhaps
we might have some surprises yet in store. I know I'm going to be
glued to my television set because it's time for us to take our
leave to head on off. James Banks and Maui will be bringing you
through the action when we come back. I ballers vitality for what would
be the greatest upset to start this year, to send a team through for Malta, it would
be absolutely wild folks. You're not going to want to miss this one.
I'm a pretty little thing. And if you're counter-sharking, 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,
that other people can see and build upon them.
The person I named as Snacks to find how smokes to be used, where he played around them,
where he walked through them, where he hid in them. That wasn't being done at the time.
That particular moment is a time of greatness for Snacks. Someone like J.W. and Kenny
asked for 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.
I think for Pasha, I think we made him, was his personality. Having someone being that outspoken
in that strong, to provide emotions and provide his thoughts and be entertaining in a way
that the audience can connect with him fans, can connect with him 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 Pashapeath, 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 Fnatic could just send out and say, find us a kill.
And he could go duel two or three players at a time.
He really did become that player where once upon a time he was the jack of all trades and
he was just so good at all those trades.
2016 is the air where Brazilian Counter-Strike really hit it.
Fnatic, 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
We're treating off defense that would just pick a player off.
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 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 is someone who just has incredible consistency
sharp with the AWP as well as the AK47 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, for me, I think the goat conversation is a fun one.
The vice 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
the greatest player of all time.
Just a matter of time before everyone kind of gets on board
and accepts that.
Someone like Montesy, someone like dog 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.
Dogs already got one in his first rookie year.
He's doing this in year one.
Where's he going to develop into?
But it's competition, and it's counter strike,
and things can change in a heartbeat.
Looks like Rob's going to be tested in this pistol round, but he's got Dolbara is
over towards the ramp.
A confident stop from Zaywoo, who's already taken space away out in the yard.
It's Rob's no on the jumping block.
Dolbara, whoo!
What a Rob!
And it's all Rob's all day!
Every single individual of this G2 squad refuses to falter at the hands of vitality.
Finally something comes through in round 11.
I was double kill out through the tip of that window sill.
It's better late than never for Zywoo to step forward
as the hero vitality need and they needed one.
Five rounds ago, Apex gets burned into it and Zywoo.
It's all or nothing.
Here or never, I'll see that flash.
They'll come parallel towards his side, back, turned.
And that is core frags.
The first I will.
Oh, it's the A.
It's a fight and a hero step forward.
That's eight packs he's been all over the back seven today.
In further banana, that's actually one of the stronger places.
Yeah.
One of you get eight cheed.
Ooh.
This is a bit deep. Jumpshot.
Go on. Do it.
Surely they know the must have seen that side of the do this.
The must have seen eight extra do it.
The holding notes.
Yeah.
Do it.
Do it.
Yeah.
Okay.
on the stump.
I'm going to jump on the
committee finds a double.
Mag seven.
Back as he finds three-four of the
jump apex.
That's one way for the RNG to
fall in your favor.
Nick Hawke, you're killing the clock.
35 seconds.
Now, you have to make a choice.
Flames is in the same corner.
He's played in the past.
Wonderful.
Rake your in-hot.
Meanwhile, eight-floor falls.
I love to get the entry.
Nessie.
Back site.
The anchor!
The whole vitality is king.
He sits here as pit response.
The headshot hunter only gets the two.
And so now it is on email.
And with 15 seconds, it's got to somehow grab that bomb.
We've got low health on messy.
And they end it right here.
Miles is so frightened of banana.
I mean, retake useless being set up.
But Miles won't even close the only now.
Reenter.
Head of that smoke.
Now it's well timed.
the ball.
Molly will stop Mouser's approach
over it goes flames again
forcing these kills and this time
he clicks up with ease.
And then how you slice it in this
matchup, there's multiple scores
to settle vitality.
Since getting back from the play
break in this season, haven't seen the
matter final yet last time they
were here, messy falling short of the
finals in London.
beginning of the full apartment by
talent, well, they're back now in to the
grand final.
By talent, he got it done into.
In the process, apex gets the better of
his teammate. Now he's got the utility to
keep Donc out of this. He knows he's going to
swing. Okay.
Oh, no, apex, baby.
It's like a spot.
Yeah, it's like then.
There we go.
Yeah, sure, sure.
Even though you've read, we love you.
Let's see what happens.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I meant make sure that I always put 100% of the effort into this.
Don't know if that's coming through.
Then you lose this this timing that you get with the others surprise. It's like worth it to lose a plan
Plains he's got players breathing down his neck and there's a ton of pressure coming in on messy
He lines up the body
It's all in.
Locks this down, another multi-frag moment, but here's dogs from bottom.
OK, over towards outer damage onto the off.
And now, Zayu slides away.
No fast moves.
Don't get into the back of the site.
This is a one V5.
He can sense the fear.
Rotation around for Zayu.
Don't come back.
Zayu, remember, full health over on the AK.
Their feet ain't back to him.
And now, this huge health advantage.
Time's ticking!
Go to the wall!
I don't care!
Clashes and kills them off!
Always reliable Russian right thing!
But your answer comes in the way of a mobile-boyacy entry,
scammed out through the smoke as long as he continues to counter.
And kicks in, watch this over.
But here comes the clock!
Case of Rotto so low already!
No need to finish this off.
It's going to have to be a guillotine from Case of Rotto, not once but twice!
off default and he's moving up.
Monacy's been playing phenomenally in this fourth map to keep the Falcons dream alive.
How can he get two from this position?
I don't know.
He's trying to think different.
He might catch one.
If he gets both, it'd be a miracle.
He will stay tucked in and hit in and hope.
And if they encroach closer, he remains in the shadows.
This is Falcons getting closer to that bomb now.
The retakes and full of Beck Monacy's stopping over.
It's not gonna chop immediately.
No!
It's not going from P.S. Sarato!
At times when I'm seen by a reality kind of come in
after that first of all,
this is a different timing from them,
and they're gonna try to send one through the car,
all that beautiful Kavanaugh Show of Mezzzie.
Oh, Kavanaugh cover me from honesty,
not letting that go for free.
God, that smoke still from honesty,
and he gets the answer back.
All right, now we're talking.
It comes down to 20 seconds.
is right there.
Rob's not sure from which avenue
to assess going in first,
dies out to messy.
Monacies got himself a third
and a claw and a claw and a fork and ace
and time to plant and sanctuary on the other side
as Apex will walk this approach.
He's got to take a breath.
Monacy low HP 14 hell looking for this last kill.
Locked in, holding the ankle, Apex's head.
In a full house for boroughs.
Monocity uses that moment to establish an angle on hot but misses.
And there's a lot of movement for theory of elders.
They write off this right.
It's a cat that is.
This is a kindergarten just trying to charge it down multiple bodies.
Still, but he doesn't give a damn.
You've done it, don't you?
He's just tearing right through every line.
He's a bulldozer.
Nico Lassman standing here inside of the site.
It's a clatter, a kind guard.
You will stare them in the face
and step up to the plate.
He's not warming up.
He's hunting.
It's just a fluke.
You can't drop 30 like that every match.
More possessed, God in heaven,
to make a player like Molladoy.
God did not make more of it. I made him.
You trained him, right?
I teach this kid everything.
Discipline positioning.
We need lineups. He's ignoring it all.
You want to do serious?
Concent Daniel.
I've seen your flashbangs.
Did following teach you nothing?
Utilities for the people that miss.
That's not game sense, bro.
That's madness.
Madness?
Now confidence.
He's not blinking.
I don't think he's playing since he walked in.
Look Daniel, the cheese out there, they know you're dangerous, they're planning around you.
They don't want to end up in another high-tech group from you.
If they don't want to be in high-tech group, they're going to need one thing.
And what's that?
This kind of...
He's so intense.
You think you can keep this up every single match, they can't stop me.
You remind me of me, just younger, tick-pockeneration, a little bit less patient, but still very good.
You can't coach that, you can only survive it.
Stop trying to coach me, start following my calls.
Huh, be careful, last time I said it, they made me an Igel.
Is this how roster changes happen?
Major's are not banana cups.
If you ask a player with a 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 going to be iconic if you've got to start in playoffs.
The crowd on the crowd likes.
The call has to be so good from the cast.
just to compliment that play perfectly.
Just a 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 Strollers of Earth's Pro.
And this was right when a Strollers had picked up Glave.
This was very interesting because Kairgen was a much more revered IGL.
But the one thing Glaive brought to that major
and to Astralis 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
at 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,
Glaive was the best option.
And I think that was a really key point for both,
Astralis and honestly Denmark as a whole.
when you look at Faze at Boston,
one of the most iconic images
was Nico blown up on the jumbo trombone.
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.
Stewie being the guy who was the player
that made Kla 9 into a winning theme
and made Kla 9 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 above the scale anymore,
it's about who's good under pressure
I think that one will be forever iconic.
I would never want to have to go through what phase one threw a basket.
But in terms of how much emotion came out of that,
it's sort of irreplaceable at the moment of history.
Lining springs his trap, but he's left his lost man standing.
That was brutal for phase. I can't believe they get out so clean, man.
Yeah, someone calling ambulance.
They've been yelling at you, don't you?
I'm not getting calling you, man.
It's the one you brought us in.
I'm so sorry.
Fuck you, man.
We're all the same.
Yeah, he's the joins.
Oh my god, he's playing the guitar.
Why was the man not to do that?
Is it? Is it the back? Is it the plane?
No, it's the needle! No, no, no!
I felt him.
The little bit sicker.
So, what do we do? We're going to the ball for the second.
Oh, there we are.
So, kind of doing this illegal, right?
It's legal.
By 100% legal, you cannot just rock out with the balls and start trying on the bread at
hand.
They want you to wrap the can up, so nobody can see you with the bread at this.
And it's just in both, or stage two, obviously it brings down like this.
It's legal to drink it, it's legal to bring it for the youth, 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 here.
And that's the right that referee-seller-managers don't have.
Okay, next time I'm bringing some with me,
but he knows the fine thing for beating around the world
caught in just small differences.
They got all the same sheep over there
that we got at home.
Example?
Okay, like look at the last two plus the majors.
In a lane, it can join any fucking server
and it'll be filled with crazy people.
And also, the crazy scones I've ever seen
and in Paris, do you know how the call is fucking due?
She don't call it legal?
Take a different class man,
they don't know what the fucking deal is.
Then what does it call it?
They call it little cube.
Well, I'm good.
This is equal to force by.
A force by is still a force by.
But they call it lefox.
That's lefox.
What does it call full save?
I don't know man, I didn't do any calls.
has been the unit car of China's strike for 25 years.
NEARS!
From my sense, rivalry is something that tells you to your limit and shows you a limit.
There's something like there's a lot of a notion because of how far it can be to overcome the rival.
There's a beauty and poetry and it because the rival is holding up the mirror to your weaknesses.
And they're exposing them and that's frustrating for deal with better than your force to be honest with yourself.
And try to work through it and see if you come better.
And now there's what both of you and your rival won.
And I think that's one of the most special things about competition.
I think one of the things about the Fanatics and the rivalry that was interesting is that French and Swedish
Panistrage, I think was really important to see us.
With envy, you had this kind of combination of like praising five power and personality to that French energy.
And then you also have on the other end of it, the story of also villains at the time in the Fanatic roster where it
show is the super deep level of strategy and tactics, but they show the mastery of how
the mid rounds, as well the AWP was, obviously got no thanks to GWRs, can you yes, and so
you also had in that rivalry the best authors and the two authors that understood how
to play aggressively with the AWP like nobody else.
I'm thinking back to the early days of CSCo, the French Swedish rivalry, I'm thinking
about that stylistic difference and how both of those teams were shown the best of
see us go in different ways.
I think liquid was very important to shaping narratives in North America because liquid was
really the first serious team in North America that shows a culture to find any change.
Liquid had moments of much greater success than others.
Later on, you got this edition of the Twist Line Up, where eventually they did be
the smallest.
This, I think, elevated all of North America along with it.
It was necessary for them to do that because the Strauss was showing mastery of the game in so many different levels.
That two compete against them was so infinitely difficult for basically anyone and everyone.
And so everyone was studying the Strauss and the Strauss were essentially making a student of the entire scene.
And I think Lakewood was one of the responses to the cultural impacts of the Strauss.
15 to the clock.
It's another close call coming out of fury.
I didn't round 11.
Op finds the pitkill.
Somebody's got a clear bowl and out of this corner.
And here comes search and sprinting into the motor smoke to
send the curve balls to the other.
Again, he can play it again, just enough time.
One of these three queued up from all the joy.
Him versus Torsey.
And he looks the wrong direction.
Does he get wind of it?
Oh, he's right down there with a peak.
But Molledoy still hiding in Torset doesn't know he gives a no take the no scope to the chest
And it's another clutch for Molledoy 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 come leave this round and it starts well, Kacer also a slaughtered
flammers as he tries to burst to the smoke here.
Nice jump off, but Kacer wants us to out there.
That end for doing all the work, it's a massive quart kill.
And he already had the, almost had the air slurling at this time.
He's going to try and see if he can really complete it.
Yours be out and he gets it.
And ace to get to the playoffs.
You said Florence has been quiet on in front of,
while he can't afford to be quiet here in Round 22.
Do they do a contact to this?
Is it really going to be destroyed?
It is into the orb.
Cheloractivates if he's necessary, now the need does ship damage, but still that bomb is under their control, and a full-in step stop!
Delivers would his team need a most triple kill on the yorp, down goes Rekorn A, and the job is done around his 1, 11, 11.
And I will fury a wishing for, another one of them from filling 4 kills in the round.
Furious, back those rounds.
Montesy uses that moment to establish an angle on height, but for a shot misses, and there's a lot of movement for Furious outer.
They right off this threat.
Kicks and Kanket is.
This is a kindergarten just trying to charge it down.
Multiple bodies still.
But he doesn't give a damn.
He's not done yet.
Oh, he's just tearing right through everyone.
He's a bulldozer.
Miko, last-span standing here inside of the site.
It's a quarter kindergarten.
He will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
What a monster you can do.
Take a look.
Nothing that you can see.
But if you continue is on this journey, you could have caught them off guard.
Molledoui, though, overwiser.
Magazine's out training him.
You get Molledoui.
I'm training him.
Some Pius got a kill as well for today.
Molledoui is able to get one.
3-0-5.
Get the 4-K.
There's one.
Makes it all the harder.
Four shots.
Four health.
This is a crazy place.
Some Pius looking for him to go up above.
No kid here for some Pius either.
He's wasting critical time on this.
on this, but he does manage to get out another midshot here from all the joint.
The last shot close this pistol at almost looked like G2 would take it.
But the 5B3, Mallanoi, the sole survivor.
Boom, it remains posted now no support.
And both the deep information if they don't disrespect this or if they come forward,
it's actually come to the point now where a smoke can take over.
He doesn't have to put himself in jeopardy.
They're running through this.
Oh my gosh, they're actually going to come.
Oh, no way! Double-nose-cope-collapse!
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
Easy pickup. For Nave, I mean, they'll laugh in the face of this attack.
Fifth player incy only won't get to kill.
You'll double-down, Monacy, but he's already down to a quarter HP.
But we'll have it. Old habits die hard, it looks like.
That's three.
Man, but he only has three health left.
That should be the end of him.
That was only two guys.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's going to use the smoke grenade to cut off a Lexi could they mess this up 25 seconds and Monacy is seeing red wants to make it happen
Oh my god. Oh no, wait. Do this is a one versus five straight up and he has to read it. Yeah, bomb. He's he should have this red with another smoke
Oh my monacy one fake the need doesn't come through now. He's got enough space to commit to this
is monacy, a pure 1v5, and as EMA tries to get out through that smoke, monacy's just
dodging all these bullets.
He's terrified, and EMA is looking behind him for a push through times taking away.
I mean, how could you not be horrified?
Monacy, the prodigy, has pieced together four frags in this 1v5 ace clutch.
And EMA is on a silver platter, a miracle from the magnificent monacy.
The flames and begs them, and this palm down his scary flames is taking real estate,
but ends up getting punished.
Liquid hold, and they win these fights, just begs them left to get past, but he's an iron wall at the back of the site.
Move it around, held up a drink!
Oh! Backstall!
Make some noise for it, that is incredible!
And you've got J.L. and wonderful.
It's this fight, JL and one of our famous, excuse me.
Very key, fame slips up, getting ever closer.
JL thinking about going to help is wonderful.
Put that up over to the corner.
That could come back to Hauntim.
Tough spot to get the multi-frag.
But the CT's sitting and waiting for a little longer.
Molotop goes to Cape.
It's the same weight this long.
This might come back to bite him.
He's got the kit.
And that kick could be so key.
You got a govp.
He needs to move.
Boughts more for that.
Oh, welcome to Wonderland.
They locked down that post plant like it's nothing.
Welcome to the Bounty, a new bold counterstrike format where every round raises the
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When a match and you secure 50% of your opponent's bounty as a guaranteed payout, the
other 50% it carries forward, growing the stakes for the next round.
the reach round, the lower seated teams pick their opponents from the higher seated
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Let's go back to hunting.
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Clancy, I want to look a bit about you.
Donk is a challenge, right, but he's the one that takes your water away for your position
So what can you do in this year to make sure that doesn't happen like he do you have some idea of some training plan or something you want to try to put together
Well, the idea is just to be the same, you know, to try to get better and find any ways to to stay in shape and get good inform
But I think if it's just donk last year if you could replace
what I've won with what is won even though he's great and it's probably going to win
it's all as well. I think you will take that 2025 so it's just about being a good team
good team mate and the best entry I can for my team and that's the most important
I don't compete with him. I just need to do the job that my team requires me to
do and that's all it is about and if we win and it's accessible I think
everybody understands that this is what matters in this game.
BobxD, you put up a great individual performance versus phase.
What does it feel like to do that against the team-like phase and the players they have?
I mean, of course, a great feeling to get to win, but also perform well.
Obviously, it's the win that matters, but playing well on top of that, it's like,
is that bonus for me? I think it proves to me as well that I can't play with it with
that big guys, so it's good. And do you feel more confident at the same time now,
going into this next matchup? I mean, of course it gives some confidence to play against
with the picket, well against face, but I think my confidence is always high, so I think,
Yeah, sure, I can come first, but I'm always going for them.
That's great man, that's really good. You need to have that as a Counter-Strike player.
Now, I have to also ask JW is making things hard for you guys.
First place and now for utility. What do you think about that?
I mean, I think it's fun, it's good experience and I think it's just what we need to take the next step.
I think we have been doing well in this tattoo tournaments and on some lands.
But I think it's just good for us to get this experience, even though it's a line.
I think we all get some good experience and hopefully get us ready for the next step.
If we get a magic at an invite to some tier on the mat.
Exactly, man. Make the most of every opportunity.
Now, I do want to mention one thing.
When you play phase in that opening map, it didn't look like the same eyeball as we would see
would see previously. Is there something you guys have spoke about now going into this game
against vitality to make sure that doesn't happen again?
We haven't necessarily talked about, like anything special about the first map, I think
we concluded that I think we may be very fully prepared or like we haven't, we didn't
warm up as good as we maybe would have liked and we didn't play with the same confidence
that we usually do in iBolo's and we come with a lot of ideas and that's in that
way. So I think overall we just really weren't really for the start of that game.
Okay and in terms of being ready and what practice looks like do you as iBolo's get a chance
to practice against this level of team in the day-to-day games?
Yeah, I'm here for you to click freak frequency. We get to play if I tell this period
face like all of this seems so we're definitely practicing them and I think it just
helps us to get for us to get ready against these teams and these matches very
good. Okay perfect and anything special you want to see happen tonight again
my tiled the anything you've got planned in terms of practice more Peter and JW
put together for you guys. I mean I just want everyone of us in my
I'm not able to show what I really like.
I play some play with a lot of conference
and take a lot of initiative.
I think that's gonna be a hard game either way,
but I think if we all play,
like we usually do, I think we have a chance.
People at home, you might be sleeping on this matchup,
but you certainly shouldn't,
after what we saw eyeballers do to face.
You might say it's phasing, this is vitality,
but I'm excited for this one.
I've got Maui with me on the best.
How you doing man?
Doing good man.
The weather's getting a little bit better over here.
Thunderstorms are gone.
And I feel like the players are really going to enjoy
that it's a little warmer than the rest of Europe.
Yeah, most people are coming from snow
and minus temperatures when you come to this,
it's a nice change, it's a beautiful moment.
And right now it's a beautiful moment for eyeballs
because that win over phase did a huge boost
for their confidence.
They would send us in an interview by Oxty said,
they're actually practicing against these teams,
but they don't get to play in the visuals.
And we know how different that is.
And we need to talk about Oxty,
because he was a star of the show by a long margin.
And that's impressive when you look at the players
that were on the server alongside Bob Exie might be
nine biggest fumble of last year.
You know, this guy because he's clearly elevated how
I ballers are in terms of just world ranking.
I mean, it feels like they're just on a slow upward trajectory.
And he's clearly stolen the show.
Despite the fact that on CT side, he's playing a lot of
the extremity positions.
He can be very aggressive.
It's actually very cool to see a guy finally just push himself in those sort of spots
because the way I would kind of relate it in the past is that both two players, for
example, that played B on Mirage would be someone like MSL and someone like Shroud.
But Shroud, you always wanted to do a little bit more.
You wanted him to be a little bit more aggressive because we knew who had the tools to
do it.
Bob XC has the tools and he's aggressive.
So he's combining both the playmaking ability and just imposing his strengths.
I'm getting to do a lot of it.
been a longer interviewer him.
They got to see a bit of his personality as well.
We were talking before the interview started.
And, you know, he's not so reserved.
He's got some opinion.
He's got some confidence in there.
And this confidence is going to be building when he's
getting to play games and players like this.
But this also matters for the whole of eyeballs.
I think I'm going to say,
that experience isn't really there.
So for these guys, this is big milestone
to take in your whole career.
Max, the guy we saw time and time again on NIP,
he was kind of thrown in at the wall
to just be in a life.
But now he's kind of refined himself.
It's like a stone that's been sculpted slowly.
I was really disappointed with Maxar when he first made the
promotion or got promoted to NIP from the young ninja squad.
I was kind of wondering what was all the hype about with the guy.
But on Iballers, it just looks like it's a team that fits him a lot more.
Where he's not always under pressure thinking about how do I mess up.
I think he's taking, we're calling his own number a little bit more.
He can be a little bit more individualistic.
I don't think that I'm seeing him back up into bomb sites,
just hoping to multi-frag his much.
And so taking fights on their own terms is kind of a hallmark of what I would consider
to be eyeball or strength that they aren't just a team that is starting around and just
hoping that things go their way.
I'm just seeing a little bit more proactivity even on parts of the map that I wouldn't
always expect.
And then on that, right there for JW leading them, yes, you still wielding you up one of the
few ideal or both, you know, maybe making a research, because Katie is back in the flow
as well.
But at the same time, it's something that doesn't get as much love and attention these
days, but you know what his experience alone is just helping them so much in this, right?
Because this is a very young team who could quickly fumble under the pressure.
The way they came back in that first map against phase, that's what impressed me.
We went and seen a team that didn't look like I've always been watching you watching
in that previous games, and then they really showed up and they were like, this is the
real team.
And look what they made phase.
You just will carry in space then.
In terms of being just a heartwarming moment for me with JW is talking to him prior to this
tournament and the fact that he stuck with this eyeballers project, even though it was over
a year of them, kind of just fighting it out in the top 60 teams in the world, and I feel
like at that time, there was a real case that you would have made to say, why is JW doing
this to his legacy?
I mean, he's a guy with multiple major victories, a major MVP, and then him saying himself
that he feels like he needs to almost write the wrongs for the sweetest scene where he was
probably partially responsible where they just had this gatekeeping mentality
where they just kind of kept recycling, top Swedish pros over and over again.
And it sort of led to a decline in what was once one of the most powerful teams
in all of Counter Strike.
Kind of what they're most going through now, right? They're both learning the lessons,
kind of the hard way of having to deal with it. But JW said to us,
he wanted to be backed with a bank. He already chose phase.
But look at this, what he was doing on the draft pick, that we had just a few days ago.
Give it to me. Who are Iballers picking?
I mean, I was back with a bang before us, but that's doing it again. We're going from my town of this.
Oh, Jay does you crazy. You're running, but you don't take the lead.
This is epic. This is exactly what we want. Dude, we might have to start calling you the King's land.
We'll see. Wait a bit after the game. Do you want to show us?
know as I would it's like to be the first major MVP versus the most recent is it is
going to be the old person to new here. I mean, not really, I think it's it's more about
the better. Lots of trash start between me and I. Yeah, I wish this was was that land. And we
do wish this was at land, right? You can see it. We know what apex delivers right? All that
trash talking, all that fun, all that excitement. JW wants a piece of that in self, you know.
He's well measured in how he spoke, wasn't how he responded to this. I think I was more
He was, because you know, honestly, it just filled me with joy that he is going for these
picks. He's not just like I could have chosen like a paravision or a pain or something
like that. Right. He went for a big team again because he knows when it's done for his team
already. And the fact that they were able to already take down phase is one of the stories
of the tournament for me. I think it's one of the biggest upsets from the first round. So
to keep that mentality moving forward.
At one point, I would probably say, come on, JW,
just take an easier team, just get to the land with your boys,
you know, make it a little bit easier for you guys,
but I like it because at the same time,
all of these games, they're just invaluable in terms of practice
and what you're going to learn from them,
because you're going to see the best teams in the world
give absolutely everything that they need to
in order to try to take you down.
So, in what was supposed to probably be a humbling experience
for someone like Bob XD, and that are being one where
his limit testing actually prove that it could work in a live environment.
And from that right, we now starting to start looking at vitality a little bit, because
vitality, best team of the year, they're normally accolades, they're all this confidence
going through them. But right now, right for them, this isn't they focus, right?
Maybe they're going to be not as clear and sharp when they come into this.
Yeah, they want to be in the lamp island. Yes, they are expected to be.
But there is something to some aura around this where I feel like their mindset is going to be
elsewhere, future for the rest of the year, more so than here.
I feel like in speaking to them around this tournament, it already feels like they didn't
really make us concrete as an objective regarding the Blast Bounty event because like you're saying
there are a couple of events in the season that maybe you just regard with a little bit more
prestige and also people would probably even give themselves a pass because it's the first event of
the season and to vitalities credit, you kind of have to give them a pass. Thinking about the
the 2025 bounty where they lost out, then went on their eight tournament win streak.
Yeah. There's a lot to love about this vitality team, but you might not get every single piece
of it activating at 100% in this tournament. Looking at this, though, in the opening game,
he did farm, he had a good job. It was against the artist's bow. You know, like,
it should be a game where they're confident they can just be running for it. I didn't see anything
which made me worry at all there. It was good school line. There was no real stress moments from there.
And remember, they're not playing on a boot camp.
They were taking their time.
They could have played more chances across the year
to be played in Latin environments.
Maybe here in the studio, stuff like that.
So for now, I think I just easing that way
into it in the correct way.
But so I was showing up even online
is a positive sign.
Zayou absolutely formed VP.
There's no way to beat around the bush there.
He just teased Morph down them.
This was a complete masterclass from Zayou,
which is exactly what you want to see coming off
of him being labeled by HLTV.
the number one player of 2025.
I don't feel like there even has almost not much to prove
in this kind of environment and yet he does overperform.
He does show everybody that he is clearly
class above the teams that are,
he's gonna be facing in the online qualifier portion
of this tournament.
So he, along with people like Flamsey, people like Mezi,
definitely are trying to show that they're gonna start
the year on the right foot that he's gonna still keep
making the strong reads against any level of opposition, and it would be a mistake to
bet against Zyru in a match like this.
We say this so often, right about Zyru, the business of a tough ego with it.
I know he got the number one player in the world spot, but do you think with all the comments
and the controversy and the discussion around it, the maybe he's thinking, you know,
what screwed these guys?
I'm not letting this happen.
I'm going to next time with it, but I'm going to be there with it and you can't deny me.
To be fair to Zyru, I don't think he reads too much of the internet chatter, but I feel
like the fact that there was even a semblance of a doubt when you win two majors are
the MVP should light a new fire underneath him.
And hopefully that's something that he can build towards so that there isn't even a conversation.
Because I feel like it was a fair conversation to pin him against Donk.
I understand why HLTV would have ranked Zaiwu hire with all of the accolades that he was
able to grasp onto.
But if Zaiwu could just put a slightly better individual performance, if he left no room
for doubt at Budapest that he was the MVP because let's not forget that there was a
bit of a question there. Is it going to be rocks? Is it going to be him? People were
refreshing pretty frantically there and seeing does the year end with rocks stealing one
of his trophies? And that would have been a big one if rocks can make it possible. But you do
have to know that if you sit on a team like Vitality or Spirit, you probably are just taking
second place no matter if you are really good when you go these kind of players on your team.
You have to kind of take that error of it. But before we go any further, we need to take a look
Look at the maps, so it's time for the video.
Not the main thing here,
because I don't expect any crazy surprise or anything wild coming out of here, right?
We know how this should be going, but I think for eyewitness,
it's just about getting off to a good start in this, you know?
Coming right with the right mentality, no matter what map ends I've been.
I'm a little bit, uh...
Oh, okay, wait a second.
I bought that, I don't know where to, but okay, yeah, wait a second.
I was just thinking we're going to go for one of the maps that they played against.
They played against phase and we're able to win.
Yeah, bringing out a new bus here.
Well, that's going to be a real tricky.
Vitality go with the overpass pick.
I kind of figured they might go with Nuke, actually,
but it was one or the other.
And so for Decider here, I feel like, yeah,
I've all are then decide to get rid of Nuke.
Honestly, I'm still shocked by the new bus.
I didn't think that one was coming.
The reason I set off what is going to be a stand-up
is because I'm thinking, like, if you're all
able to place your strength, you know, phase already,
go off that and play in the confidence.
Well, they still get the mirage, which they played well against phase.
But I also, man, I mean, I didn't really prep for them to even go for a
dude.
But I just thought that they were going to go with one of those maps that
they already beat phase.
So I'm kind of shocked.
I'm interested to see if anything too much has to change.
We did see Vitality play a new bus at the beginning of last year with
Robs.
I think it was Robs that took over the A spot and flamesy got to change
his position around.
So I think that actually that ended up looking a little bit
better for some of the individuals on the team. And in general, I think Mezzy in last season
or in 2025, the last season in Nubis was there. He looked way more confident on that B-bombsite
anchoring position when it was him next to Flamesy instead of next to Spinks. The question for me
though, right, is that I'm sure, for example, I bought us what they told us, they came back to practice
a little bit earlier than what Vitality did, but who's going to be more ready on it? I was definitely
they've got to have a great way to go with this, but I do think now that like they put
themselves into a bit of an unknown at the same time. They can't prep us hot, right? They
can't have good understanding. I feel like this is where you just can't like a little bit.
Okay. If you're JW and I ballers, you realize that it's going to be a ridiculous battle versus
vitality, but I like that he does this because instead of just going with his tried and tested
maps, he's actually trying to go for the win. If you just kind of went for, say, I'm a
or something like that, it would show that, yes, we know you're pretty good at that,
because you beat phase, but then once Vitality downloads the data on you and swatches what you did
in your last series, they're going to get counter-shadowed so much harder.
So, a new biz means that Vitality's going a little bit more into the dark here,
and I would say that probably favors eyeballs, because if I'm taking prep heavy teams or really
just the staff behind each roster, I'm signing with Vitality easily.
very quick, because we're nearly close to the game.
How important is the fireball to just play the way we know and love from them and not like going to that shell even if some rounds go badly earlier?
I mean, I want to see some antics. I want to see that.
They're going to make a risky pick, make some risky plays.
Some of the teams here showed that if they're the underdog, they're going to make a couple of smoke pushes.
They're going to play off of their own timings, even if there is a semblance of counter utility.
So I hope that the confidence is still there.
And I hope to see just Bob XD, Winnie switches over to that CT or Winnie's on that CT site.
I want to just see him continue to be aggressive against last year's number one team.
Well, let's see how he goes down.
We're going to be exciting a new, it's the kick off this series.
A new, it's was the surprise that these two that never surprise.
That's amazing.
James, you're going to run out of compliments soon.
I'm telling you.
Nice.
Got to.
Well, come to the second half of the day.
Folks.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next day.
I'm on the next.
Then why not? Why not upset here as well?
They took a look at Major Finalist's badge.
They got back on top and back on land too.
Ooh, what year is it?
Oh, like Malice, that man imagine this game is on land.
That just be so, that would just be content, actually.
So much content.
John, it's gonna be fun.
And I mean, there's gonna be rounds in there.
For sure, at least that ball is approved.
Like they can really compete.
They have some real potential talents and stuff.
And with someone like J-D-I don't think without someone like J-W, you can't take down phase.
Even if it was just a skill question, you had someone to equivalent skill, it wouldn't be the same.
J-W can speak to them and tell them, this is we can beat this team.
I beat in teams like this whole life, you can have confidence in yourselves, you know?
And I feel like he's the best reminder.
It could be like play that coaching role for a team like this, but it's still obviously more than good enough to play.
So, well, I mean, you have to take this match and stride.
you're here for the experience.
You can think back on how well you did versus phase and I feel like you're going to be
braiding yourself based on how much you left on the table and you know how much you went for
I think that's what I'm always going to be looking for.
And I think that the veto like the desk said really is kind of the testament to that they are
going for it right you try to get vitality off-kilter for some to play a novice
hope things get a little bit weird and then within that oddity you're somehow able to come out on top
you make those rounds happen you make those plays happen but you know it's not just the map pick
itself that is important. You have to have that same
bravado when it comes to the rounds that you're
about to face. And odds are, obviously, four
players on the side of the vitality and the
top 20 HL TV, you're going to have some rounds
that get thrown in your own face. And I've
always have to be ready to handle that.
They've got to be ready to adapt. They've got to
be ready to just kind of be humbled.
Because surely there's going to be one of those
rounds where, you know, so I would drop a
4k on your entry or, or Missy is going to be
alone on a bomb site and holds you back. And you
can't let those kind of mentally pile up
against you if you're eyeballers, yeah, like to be a downer, like the
differences between this game and the phase game or, you know, phase
versus vitality, that's one thing. Um, the fact that it's not day one
anymore as well. Correct. And then even when it was day one, vitality
we're still fantastic. So there are some questions and
bull things that happen to teams so far, but opening games, um, to
to start the year. That's where upsets happen. It's consistently
happened for years now. Um, so you can only expect vitality, but
even better than last time and for I've always also I think there's something about this
for a vitality there'll be a certain level of respect you know that they they don't
want to get embarrassed they know that I've always can play and that they're probably
they want to make sure they take them down a pack because they probably feel like okay
we're going to have so much fun right now they probably feel like in a sense they're playing
with house money already impressing everybody with their win so I'm sure vitality will
to take them seriously at least to start.
Thank you, half to your vitality
because the phase upset just kind of makes you raise
an eyebrow, you know, makes you take a step back
coming into this, maybe spend that extra 30 minutes
to just kind of pinpoint what could be critical
for the eyeballs win, find that condition
and then make sure you've stomped on it out of the gate.
I was thinking to myself that, you know,
again, not to just, already find outs for eyeballs,
but if we can all accept that heavily favored
vitality should win this game, it's like,
how many times would they even get a chance
to practice versus a team's like vitality?
let alone get an official in versus the likes of vitality.
Yeah.
This could be a huge chance to just appreciate the game and learn some of that stuff
yourself up for the rest of the season.
Yeah, some of that stuff we don't know, like top teams play against teams.
They're not going to play against tournaments.
So lots of a lot of that's here too, actually grows in scrims.
But I'd always might be a team that, you know, they can't get access to a team like
vitality, because not even, you know, they're going to have that level where it would be
a formidable challenge or if they're well, maybe I'd always have broken into that
here at least with their showing so far let's see if they can be a little more
damage.
Phase upset earned respects this one would shock the world.
That's the challenge I bought.
I bought it as worth it.
Ball VxD puts the smoke down in front of this utility from vitality.
That is the only smoke that vitality had to play with and we get this fast reaction
of the aiming push.
So trying to nip with the heels they'll find all of canals for free.
I mean, it's quite a lot of an edge strong on long,
all four players through once messy splashes come out
to support.
Dex is going to find a headshot back for Eyeballers,
but it's him and Max are inside of Evox.
It have only done a little bit of work here.
Down through the long push, come J.W.
But there is the Zylu difference.
The pistol to take vitalities T side win.
That's crazy, because you get kind of a,
I feel like this sort of epitomized
with a match could be.
If I bother even if they play their best, they just had five players there ready to defend the site before the bomb even got planted and still lost.
So that's about as good of a setup you could have to an exact put the instant entry for Plain D. The 3K in the middle from Diaboo and we get it spin around shot right here.
How ready so good.
Can we get Zai we've stopped on a new bus going back? He's even talked about that yet.
I haven't heard them.
I feel like Zai will be happy on every map.
So I'm gonna take it off, right?
You know?
Yeah.
So I would've kind of got to stop to smell the roses.
And so here on a new bus, something fresh.
I think one of the things that helped us
drawless like during their era was the fact
that they banned Mirage, and Mirage.
What was it? It was like the map that one map that came in was like their work one map that went out was like their worst map
And the new map that came in
One of the best I can't remember exactly should have been more prepared for that moment
Seeing is you're the one you've only seven years ago only then fine-fliess
As do vitality here and round two very quickly storming into the safe like finding zero resistance the i-bollars b-stack
Make sense coming off the pistol when vitality were willing to go all in off long with just the messy flashes
You'd hope maybe they'd rinse and repeat that's what the stack was hoping for instead bomb down for vitality
And I ballers can go ahead and try to win the next month if they're upgraded pistols, but don't lose them now. I was a Kevlar and
Eagle or five seven
As you can make a bit of money, I will actually drop smacks, so I was thinking it would
just be a nice, you know, Rinson repeat and the follow up, but now it's the majority
of eyeballs is dead, and that's going to make the next round all the more unlikely.
What would be a great bet, as if we had like, JW, yelling over the webcam as if they were
on land, like he kills Apex?
I mean, you can still do it.
I know it's not on every player has the charisma to pull off the at home trash talk, but Apex
This is always throwing middle fingers up to the camera,
feel making, you know, hand gestures and doing what he does.
Just taking a lighting.
Yeah, the one online player, I feel like that was really good
at this was also Halzer.
He would do the fake fist bump.
Yeah.
To his teammates.
Try to, you know, you got to put yourself in that space.
Gotta wear a jeans, even if you work from home.
I did all my top 20 videos with my like,
Tuxedo long and I was like, you're not wearing pants.
I'm like, I was.
What about the- I'm a method actor.
Because we always say hunters, the shoes, the shoes are for the fans.
A major notion in the house.
Okay, that's fair.
Good on you.
Socks?
Socks, yeah.
Okay.
I can call the nether.
Also good on you.
So that even lighter around for the eye-baller's here,
this time it'll go for the all-in-stack.
It'll go a little bit of a lean here for the middle of the day.
And Flamesy, gonna get dicked in mid, so...
I don't know, cause vitalities to just hit the brakes ever so slightly.
BobxD,
on your flank, here comes the menace.
I'm insurrect.
Astac.
Oh yeah.
Shields Apex, remember Flamesy down to 10 health.
He doesn't want to linger by the bridge.
That's going to draw a mezi over to try to deal with this.
And we've got eye-baller setting themselves up to do some real damage this round.
What themselves in a great spot?
I think not.
Vitality definitely, a little rocked.
Still have to worry about the, you know, group up explode.
Because on either side, that's gonna take place soon.
And we saw what happened with the pistol around,
even though they had so many players there.
Couldn't stop deal for welding force and all that's one back.
Yeah, you find, oh Bob, walking across the bridge, oh Bob.
So I would have the troll that resides beneath it.
Miss Molotov though, in the execute,
there's a little ring rust for vitality's exac.
Desert Eagle, they would've loved to have connected,
come through with the second P250 finishes
on lazy pressures on vitality.
Mesie's gonna alleviate that slightly,
and then go into the bomb plant.
Good on eye-bollars, keeping the cost up,
making vitality sweat for this one.
Nothing to lose, with one set of Kevlar on decks, no kits.
And there's the flood out from hand in,
but mesie, ready to react to it,
he'll be the guy that just puts it in.
And you've got vitality off
to the 3-0 start.
I feel like I would JW wants as he wants like Bob XD to get another grey round in this match.
I feel like that's what he's secretly cheering on.
Beyond obviously himself also getting some ridiculous off three chaos off of him.
to down by ballback's D.
Broad daylight.
If I got a threatening letter signed ballback's D, I'd be worried too.
The signature is better just Bx D, right? Like the...
It better B, yeah.
Made onto the stairs, is why Apex is down to 73 health.
Gotta eat now one.
That a challenge on the smoke?
This rope is happy to step into.
Flashback is getting this odd-off.
It's angled very uncomfortable around for JW, but a solid flank out of Bob XD.
And that is a side-wool down. That's man-advant that's earned.
Oh, boy. Oh, this is a round.
Bob XD.
the
check-back behind them and with that possession
off-eye-bollars keep it clean four players up at the end of it their first gun-round-looking
real good yeah very solid and I love how much they're playing for info and I'd like
they know that they're not gonna be able to play as many re-takes knocking a little
play as many just like great like two multi-kill sideholds so you must push you
much to get it back and they get very liberal about it
It's running through canals about many moments, that's, you know, a minute 15 he's doing that so
It's really part of the game plan I really like it
Channeling their internet fanatic
Oh, that's a sweet fight not often you see, exactly what you're caught off guard like that
Was he?
He's got a line, why so?
Okay, we'll keep an eye on that head, yeah, that'll be the fun one.
Oh, I'm trying to keep an active and mesis got a solution unfolding here inside of
B. J.W. not able to get any kind of an angle going with that off, and so it completely
gets rolled over by vitality, and I was thinking of myself five D-4, Bob XD, beat inside
we in the head to head to gun rounds, he's got him both times, but here it is again, right?
ready to just roll. And so far,
Mesie's been the solution for
vitalities, you know, struggled
spots when those pistol started
to come together. He was at
driving force with rocks to
get them into a to finish
it off to not lose to the
force by or in the light
by. And this bad as it is
that they like they lose.
So badly with all those guys
in the site. They had all the
guys in the site. Like I do
want to see rounds like that
where like I bought those
are picking the right spot
to stack or they have an
idea of where vitality
wanted to. These are good
signs. Maybe a different
thing to reflect that player
coming through the smoke
grenade gets caught and then
And that course is vitality in and the bombsite, like you said, which is stacked is able to hold, but at least send one guy in to die for free and then everybody else goes down empty handed.
I was like looking at the ground, right? And it was, you know, it was hard to tell.
I'm not exactly sure if you got blinded or spar away. Let's see.
Oh, okay. It's what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Bob, like a semi-trailer just slams through him.
Apex coming through the smoke on e-box. That's what unraveled it all.
So pressure back on i-ballers to not get economically reset, but they've got everything they need that JW
You'll still try to find its impact. It's been really honestly countered by the util on both these executes now
We see him stuck inside a temple last round nothing to do bricks the round prior on the ace site. You just kept having to give up his angles
When we talk about how good of a team vitality is it feels like you know
It's a nightmare for a guy like JW.
It's probably used to punishing lesser opposition in pairs here, but it's fine tuned utility
for vitality so far.
This one's going to go into the final section of the round.
It looks like the default as it stands.
And vitality are also probably thinking about the fact that they've like never
run into three or four players sometimes.
Oh.
A flashdog missed.
That'll slow things down.
That might have been a gift for Bob depending on if he would have eaten it anyway.
Honestly, Apex lucky off-lash, because if it just missed and didn't blind him, he would have run through that.
Oh, very aggressive line here.
That's the risk of it.
45 seconds, so this is must be paid.
Vitality met by a smoke as well, so a well-time piece of util
come out from the defense roll on the close-poke.
Oh!
Simon Snaps, it into him flingsy one in time towards mid-tuff spot.
Okay, W still manages a double.
Another moment here where the pressure's on.
Drop from Maxter, Insticill, and no round for Vitality,
because the long player just has to stay tucked in.
Oh, well, Maxter comes in with both.
And that is JW getting a critical 2K to set up that 2V2.
It's a great second shot.
I mean, it didn't have time to breathe, but you have to take in the fact that it was very hard-flipped to hit.
So, nicely done, just like old times here, JW.
And that was...
Let's get it out, man. That happens to them now.
Just the right amount of disrespect, right?
They don't want to get it to any postplats
Anybody knows that fine line of a limit. It's gonna be JW
You map
to come over to offer by Tality was not free to fenders here but the first one falls
of nothing.
Not this time, Jay Dubs, 2K, last round was key.
Maxor would have loved to be put back into a 2v2 where he could dive the site again but he
knows he's significantly outnumbered.
On the line here, it feels like vitality just run it back,
give themselves more time, and this time come through with a crushing blow for eye
ballers.
That was nice to like, you know, to get a deep, you got one slow default.
We're both sides of the map, previous rounds, a little bit faster, but the tempo
shift and like, how quiet it was for a second.
It felt like maybe this one's going to be a little slower, and then all of a sudden it's just a full take.
Well, I really wanted to play that aggressively and stay in the open go for an off-angle,
off angle, but no killed this time.
I'm like, off the day.
Yeah.
Got him.
Fuck, buddy.
He's Swedish guy.
Yeah.
and I was like, because they watched Old CSGO, right?
And I was like, JW, I was like, okay, you should watch the match as that 5 o'clock.
And, you know, that's just the name that I knew I could say.
And they'd still kill anyone in Sweden, wouldn't know who that is.
We watched any amount of counters, right?
Were they shocked to hear that he was still inside the server?
Yeah, they were like, he's a coach, right?
I don't know.
I like no.
You're in for a treat.
the
this is authority
this is a thought of that
that stands as
this is hockey
at home standing coach respect
and
and a chair of that
probably tough to get a read on this game so far for I ball is your
held so well the round prior and then last round it just got slammed and we
get to see again the vitality difference. So I baller city side here kind of
just continues to survive on the edge haven't been thrust back into the
saves just yet so they've got that going for them but it is vitality pulling
ahead 5-2 vitality showing that it's not as though there's a part of this
map that they can't get into you're just gonna win some of those rounds when
and JW throws out those nasty two-cays.
Maybe that's the reminder I ballers need.
It's gonna take X-Factor in your place today.
You've seen great headshots from Bald X-D.
We saw that very critical two-cay at a JW.
Everyone's gonna have to bring it to the table.
And it's all on a whim,
because you never know where Vitality
are gonna commit.
They've had a very varied attack so far.
And they're gonna go back to starting out
with a little bit of Flingsy mid-pressure.
It's a times of hardest part about this map
is just like how much attention do you give to mid?
Sometimes you want to put a lot of emphasis on the first few rounds, get a team pushback, maybe punish a lurker to make him regret it, but
So difficult rotating without me, see ya
Yeah, and that just isolates it entirely see that making sure all to have this a kill
Now, it's interesting is obviously the bomb on outside a it's ready to split on four guys waiting for them
the
they just have to believe that they're right about this
mm-hmm
flash in and Bob XD started to give it a chance to shoot back JW again with a nasty double kill
burn go buy silo maxed her gets his one they know exactly where he is so he gives himself a smoke to try to work with them
the clock is on his side
can he make it weird
they're starting to swing through so I was gonna have hands busy
It doesn't jump it, you know.
Yetly, plant on the opposite side gives rocks what he needs that awkward dual out through
smoke and vitality get through with two up.
Versus a lot of teams like in there tier obviously a setup like this, it's gonna be perfect.
A perfect counter essentially, but their ability to mall be traded or multi-fragons is so high
and it's just like you can almost see the setup and think well, they might still think
of this, uh, and truly enough they do.
It's a great call from them. I've always worked totally, you know, taking out on the other side of the map didn't have to make control.
Didn't have time to go for a crazy rotation. Said, okay, we'll stay here and save if they don't come.
If I told you, probably thought they were going to try to panic and go, you know, I'm around to the other side of the map, but they didn't bite.
and
that it's applied over here
and it's nothing I've all just can do about a year and a nine
pistols across the board
a vitality work for this
Now an extension of this lead earned.
And I think it's well within their tier,
if see, as we could run that last round back,
you know, maybe another team would make mistakes,
10 seconds, and that one V2,
folks all around the bombsite and whatnot,
Vitality played to perfection.
Yeah.
They adjust the bomb plant,
robs hold's the correct side,
push the crew happen on the opposite side of the awful list,
or to give in you a shot on side,
and we'll cause you add up the wall to cover him.
And so Vitality, even though it is crunch time,
And you could try to pressure them with that clock.
They still just keep their cool.
And I think that's good to continue to be the test for vitality if these eyeballs
breaths come through.
Right now, vitality just continue to look like the very best team in the world.
Seven, two.
Yeah.
And the guns come back for eyeballs in the next one.
Obviously, we're in a different era of the game, so that, you know, vitality of straw
as comparisons, they just get more real every day, and they've already completed this
amazing year.
So, beginning with, and the question is, how much longer will it go?
I mean, everyone's precipitating.
some kind of fallback or other, you know,
and those teams have just, you know,
finally achieved what they have been trying to
and he had challenged for vitality gets hired.
But we don't know.
I mean, last year they were the best at everything.
They could very easily start off just as strong.
The honest, we kind of had that door kick open, right?
And the second half of 2025,
when Vitaly started losing events
when they had some shortcomings.
When we watched other roasters, hoist, trophies.
But all that really mattered in the end of that year was vitality getting back to back majors and that kind of changes all the tone coming into 2026.
It means that even now vitality know for a fact that they can lose an event, have an off game, and still win the most prestigious tournaments of the season.
And are you going to tell me that a vitality lose a few on the road to Cologne, but then
get three majors in a road that we're still going to put them on this huge pedestal?
Absolutely not.
So, right now, of course, bouncing, just a stepping stone for vitality to kind of see
where they begin the season.
And I ballers one of those pebbles within the path.
But this pebbles got a little bit of bite.
And that's why we're 5v4 again.
We get this active flank across the bridge,
mesi considering it, but as he operates here alone,
it looks like JW could find good timing and sure enough.
He's got a freaky Tude up, you know what I'm talking about?
He's got a freaky Tude up, you know what I'm talking about?
Executem, and at 35 seconds of 3v5 all in from camera
back turns to Bob as well.
And JW right in with his next one.
Fluidly moving through this round, JW comes up
with a triple kill and eye ballers with a third round win.
awesome and like you know they're human more than anyone else. So that's just great. And there's again. You want to count up the rounds that
Regardless of a winner not the setup was good like the stacks were good just a couple of shots getting
Minister mean there's been a lot of them. So this one of flash misses and then we're all saves it with his aim and
Rob's obviously knowing you dodge the flashes
Probably a little upset isn't get the kill but
Everyone was saying JW needs to go up against I would, right? That was no. That was what was supposed to be just a meme
Look at him now
Commendable moments already throughout this CT side
Open he catch by itsality on an off day on an off map. Well
Oh, it's gonna take a little more than just the JW op shots.
He finds one in the middle of that execute,
it's the kill out of apex.
Nice shot.
And with that Zywoo can just kind of patrol the site
to see if anybody wants to throw that French in the works,
but now bomb planted hands no longer busy.
Oh, stop from JW.
And Bob XD comes through with one as well,
but now they know about that flank.
It's a busy low.
The maid.
Yeah, perfect.
to finish that one off and force apex to try to come through with a third kill in
this round.
He has a smoke and a kid.
Oh, the kill.
The clutch on top of it, Bob XD coming through with another for the eyeball.
He has make an eyeball.
There's proud all over again and MJW has another great round actually.
and it's a retake checked off the list.
So we did this so back, man, you know,
mail-on-9, everybody's bold prediction.
I've always taken out phase.
and
if you buy tality something to think about double up inside of camera with that's coming through on a
thing hey I'm all I said the end of this half five rounds some respectable challenges
within the vitalities seven round wins big time. It's not a bad look for the
suede's whatsoever. Call us a good half first anybody else right and uh I'm a
new goose. This is gonna keep our attention glued to the screen for the second
1.5 of this game 3.5 attempt for vitality. Nothing to lose here. Final round of
1.5 and JW on a half is a angle that gets pot-by-plainsy.
Millimetres make a difference. Bobx can also shred it. Flainsy can be the solution
near a number 12. We go right back to the even 3.3 and quite some distance from
Iballers in this bombsite.
That's when it goes down.
Uncontested.
Oh, and Maxur dies also through the smoke.
Uh-oh.
Gonna be worried about the camera's at 8 pops.
Oh, they actually find rocks within that.
Still plenty of time to recover this.
They don't know about the second guy.
Double-duff. I don't know.
Trying to figure out where the hell is happening.
The CT smoke just popped inside of camera.
Bombing play around.
They're still thinking about a walkthrough smoke is nasty.
And you can see Flingsy still thinking where could it come in from?
and the power of climbing from rope behind the pillar.
3v5 denied in the 1v1 and i-ballers, respect, 5 round CT-half.
The boss has eight backs gets the better of his teammate now. He's got the utility to keep
Don't count of this. He knows you've got a swing.
Okay, no, it's eight backs, baby.
Oh, the fact.
I don't know what's there to do.
Look, it's plenty has plugged in.
There we go.
There you go.
We love you, let's see about that.
I might make sure that I always put 100% in there, but it ends with us.
Don't know if that's coming through.
Then you lose this timing that you get with the elements in price.
It's worth it to lose a player.
You're too many! You're too many! You're way too many!
Even in the cutting drain of the onion, something!
Well, if you showed up today with the dream of JW upsetting, the number one team in the world,
I'll tell you, that dream is actually alive.
Between him and Bob XD, we had some solid individual moments, and even that last clutch
coming through for Eyeballers shows they got X-Factor, and X-Factor is what causes upsets.
Now the problem for i-ballers is still my quality look rock solid.
Everything you want to see from them, but that's what I kind of feel like makes that five rounds even more special.
So, I mean, they've kind of done the hard part, I mean, doesn't mean this side's gonna be a year.
That's gonna catch you blind, but luckily for i-ballers, Flamesi, is a aim to trace them,
Jumping down through the cameras, it's an all-in.
They keep it simple.
Drops, given a shooting gallery towards the bricks,
finds his head rip clean off,
and a T-side pistol for eyeballs
could genuinely tie this game.
When you play on Swedish pengots like your own land,
anyways, true, they're up there, right?
So, up there in the Great North.
That's what we all used to believe
was the reason that Sweden was so good.
Like on it, Ronically.
Long winters.
Long winters and low-paying.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, it couldn't have hurt.
I don't think I could win this round.
These guys are blood thirsty.
Well, that's awesome.
You'll give it up.
And I ballers, a sixth.
Are you ready to say I ballers have a lead?
Are you ready for that?
I'm looking forward to it.
Oh, yeah.
No offense, Vitality.
We wanted a challenge. You've already got phases head on one spike.
Take it a big swing of vitality now, the miracle that Malta just converted.
That's the big thing. Convert this round. You've got a phomison's eyewood to contend with.
Yep. MP9 for Mr. Mattisclare.
You know the buys comment.
Let's the call.
Well, chip damage here is the clear out the close positions.
It's all a big ruse though. They've got JW on the lurk.
But does he want to jump by camera?
Or take a fight?
Damn you actually gets away from that. Yeah, and more damage. Just out damage to Zaiwu on a raw duel
And we're gonna celebrate everything. He's bringing reinforcements now
Little smoke off camera
to
get ready to reform the be a
attack and
it on himself all to make a lead happen in the five seven take them down
that little bit of damage from the I will help
come to the head off the snake with high baller still looking to slither down through camera
the part though. You lose the first in the third in but wait that's rushing things. Does it give them a chance to evacuate? No, bombs already down on bricks.
It's in touch. Oh, hell here for three. And now, side woo. It's trying to come in and serve up that distraction drops bomb and pushes Bob into the clutch. Oh, he didn't full clear that.
He didn't even look up on him.
Yeah.
And because he doesn't go that one inch further,
oh, it's vitality's force by win.
Gosh, he was so close to clearing that out.
Gosh, Golly G.
Frick.
Fudge.
But that's vitality for you.
Yeah.
Don't punish. That's the thing. You know, you're gonna get punished for every little bit.
Said I've all just had to be ready for all these rounds. We'll sure enough. I tell you where my Jew who's boss.
And a boon to their economy as well, right?
So I wound me on AK-47's.
Technines for all of the I ballers that jump through the bridge. Click by so I won't.
But by Bob. Oh, seconds.
Right back to what worked last time. This mid pressure got them close to that aceite
Never make you up gone down this easy ropses recovery denied Bob XD's got three kills this round
As he gives vitality it tastes to their own medicine. Also about this flank. This is a free kill for master. Oh
Maybe not free, but still a kill
Apex clipping JW in the meantime
Muzzy still here in this bomb site and they for spy right back. I'm getting this Bob
The tech 9 3K, on mid, no rifles behind them nothing.
How real is that? That's the X-Factor in the XD.
Uh-huh?
And that's even with Apex getting away with that flying kill.
That could actually look even worse, true, for vitality.
Now, by touti, you're going to come back into the forest by at their own, but this is one of those weird ones where you're kind of prolonging what could be the vitality save.
And you go back and forth long enough, and all of a sudden with a 5B3, it looks like Iballers A, tied this game at 8 rounds each, but more importantly, have to save on the other side of this.
That's real. Lead on the table.
Plying for the taking. I mean, it the fact that Bob's having another great game.
KW's having a great game. I ballers are tying this map.
Go on. I mean, it's the weird part that looks like it's sustainable for some reason, right?
Even in the first half when they lost a few rounds, they still stack the right sites.
They lost a few trades here and there, but they won their own clutches. They want to retake at the end.
They're going through the checklist of things that they need to do. They're bucket list of things they need to check off to say that they, you know, prove themselves as a vitality.
And they did that. That looks like it's not going to stop at one half.
Who doesn't love an underdog?
dog. Right now, Vitality. Yeah. Suddenly they got their apex is talked about before.
And everyone's always cheering against us. You know, we're the best we're winning everything.
That's, that's what it is. It's actually what makes the game great. It's why it's having
a team like Vitality is so crazy. I also think that never ever lose. When you have a leader like
apex, he is somebody who actually can seemingly embrace the me against the world type
mentality. Yeah, some people would crumble under that kind of a pressure. He's proven to us. He's ready to thrive in it.
Like Yanco brought up with the HOT video award show. One of the best moments of 2025 is apex
getting the middle finger to thousands of Americans in a part of Texas. Yeah, I lay it over the year.
at this round starts with another eye baller's curveball, flamesy walking away with a kill,
low health sure, but still, you know, you've already been reminded by vitality that
you have to stay on your A game from start to finish through this T side, and the worst
thing that could possibly happen right now is to let vitality pull back in the lead with
not even a fully Kevlar team.
It's a tenuous moment where, you know, you want to make this call correct.
You don't want to throw this round away. You still actually if you look at the map or in a very good spot.
And then I tell you, our suspicious about the right thing.
It doesn't mean anything though. There's just bringing a bunch of pistols over here.
This is still a great stage until the round. There's no close positions on the site that have been taken up.
It's going to be pistols re-taking.
Oh, cleat shots on a text. There we go. Goes a lot of pressure. So I was still in the middle, but even his element of surprise
After three teammates die around him's not enough and this round goes exactly how it always should eye-ballers
Easily sweep away the vitality challenge say eye-ballers are in the lead
It's way for the bomb to explode. Okay. Yeah, we can do it together. All right
Okay, we're gonna lay all the way to the, all right, yeah, right when it, let me just,
can't say it now.
We're all upside a kit, we'd be on the edge of our seats.
At worst, it's would have been a death.
Eyeballers are in the lead.
I try to say that as awkwardly as possible.
Yeah, you're timing was great and you'd be there, dude.
Like you forgot how to read!
But it doesn't make it any less true.
98
On their map pick, vitality back with guns. We have a game on our hands.
My eyes are open. I'm seeing it. I'm standing.
The X-field and feisty and mid-ray now.
He's bolstered by teammates right behind him, dodging the flash, taking the pressure down
to camera, but Zy was going to cut off the tail end of that, and it's only decks in the
very front to get one, so having a hard-kimit, committed defender, and that well-time
cyber-mid push felt like vitality kind of sought out when coming and then attacked it perfectly,
shave off the third guy, Mesi gets his on the front and with only deck's finding success in this one.
Vitality have tied the game, which is perfect because the next time I bowler, I bat, what's wrong with me today?
You're on quailudes or something?
No, but if you're offering.
I ballers are in the lead. We get to say that again, maybe another time.
I've done to go for every time. Okay.
Yeah.
Well, right now, should be vitality tying up this 1v4 with total bomb possession for vitality looks far too easy to secure.
I think set play here for my ballers towards the A site and just will more of a standard hold. So to speak.
Well, okay, we're chance to do all but Apex wins it, a talented tie this thing up.
Do it with a rock solid around as well.
Just the right amount of risk here, for Zylu, time to perfection hearing those first two players
stomped down through camera.
I'm going to go to the odds of four members of Iballers coming out mid, so once two are conferred
Yeah, dual that third
But it keeps us rates in the middle of the storm both teams guns back in hand
Even a bit of extra cash your fryballers too. So yeah, it's not that risky business
But that need for JW. Ouch. Yeah, that was right at his doorstep
Hey, backstrap and fire in front of Bob
Bob throws the bottle back
Just showing a little bit of skin here to keep vitality's beat defense on its toes.
Back to working at default.
Bubs really suspicious about the re-aggression he's really right about as well.
Ah, and he catches a pecks off, that's nice.
20 HP, you'll take that.
It's been a real lep in this game, but oh, there's one back for messing up through the smoke over towards Long Beaver.
Oh, that's killed.
Lingsy wins his duel on cameras.
Dex was cut off from the JW op.
A little bit further ahead of JW.
And so man advantage secured by Vitality off that one about to find themselves with double digits.
JW's patience here.
And that palm just sitting outside of the A site.
Yeah, and it's like this reclear inside of middle.
JW seemed to be very aware.
Tons of Nades as well for eye-bollars still.
It's going to be more players.
And if you just come over here to just draw their attention, it's going to work.
Look at Robbs, back stepping into camera.
The perfect move here from JW, it's got vitality biting down on nothing.
Oh.
And now Robbs is starting to realize, wait, I've fallen for this smoke grenade's popping
all over the opposite side of where vitality stacked up, and suddenly eye-bollars all
they've got to do is hang on to this plant.
Yeah, fresh moke pops, the CTs.
I mean, is 3v3, Bob is low as well.
And we want to give it a look.
Bob is the flashbang.
Robbs doesn't come out just yet.
They do emerge from the closet.
More utility for this retake.
That's all the need that Vitality had.
Bob from down beneath pops up to perfection.
Robbs on the edge of the smoke.
This low health bar from JW.
Closed by the side will name your finish.
What he started at the beginning of this round, and it's a solid retake from Vitality
to secure those double digits.
That's a good position.
It's definitely a winning spot there
in the 3D3 post-plant for eye-ballers,
but, you know, leave it to Vitality
and pull it back together.
They looked really well coordinated.
And even when we're off the peak,
they're like, oh, JW, I'm gonna keep holding that, well,
he's only peaking because he needs about to peat from well.
JW knows he needs to isolate a fight as possible.
And again, they're coordinated,
so there's no mistake here.
...
its form of the first 5 rounds of this T side all i ballers
possible by that four of spy victory. I don't know. Those contributing right now. They're just taking a stress break.
Maybe they have the game plan. Then just minutes for shopping. One of those matches whereby,
you know, you start with kind of, uh, it's an expectation. You know, but if you get absolutely
bodied by vitality, then you can't really be too upset about it. It's when you get to yourself
to this score line where you're like, oh, shit. It's real. We don't want to waste this opportunity.
It's a rare treat to have an official versus vitality, but I ballers were in the lead.
Unfortunately, we were talking about how they have that economy going for them.
They've got a lot of a curve by this time, AK-4 decks instantly down.
That's going to have to change hands and luckily four eye ballers still, all other four
members of their team have that Kevlar.
But they've got to scoop up that gun at some point and it's awkward because nobody's
actually out towards middle, so they'll just have to do this with the tech nine.
a barrel through this defense. Maxors call it through with one is Bob XD doubles down and
it's man advantage secured it. To hell with the AK-47 talk middle, I ballers just run
rampant through this defense catching vitality off with solid timing and tech 9's again.
It's off the positive genuinely. I don't even know who is talking in this spot, but I ballers
on a low by once again. Bob XD once again with a multi kill on this round.
They will shove vitality out of this, no chance to come back into this retake.
Well, well, well, yeah.
With tech nines.
And you can see them really saving the celebration too, you know, they're not popping off at every moment, they're not overreacting to doing cast the job.
Oh, that's a bit of a shock for Max there.
Sprinkle that in and suddenly vitality.
Well, you force them to take their first time out of the game.
That's how you know for certain that it's kind of starting to pressure vitality.
It's up to feeling all the more real on a new bus.
And CTs have a questionable economy here.
There's going to have to be some shortcomings for vitality.
It's not desperate, but you just got to make sure that everything has a use in mind.
Faumus in an MP9.
Early utility pressure pretty heavy commitment.
And opening dual decks just rip side moves head-on.
And that MP9 down inside of Evox,
right now doesn't have anything to deal with,
but APX eats the flashback for players blind on iPolar's counter-utilit.
Oh, right, God.
Man, he's in the middle,
and flings the ends up from platform taking one back,
but it's still the iPolar's 3B2.
to not long live the pressure's on him.
The fact he comes up with all of that is massive
and he leaves Maxter on 11 HP.
You get that crosshair steady.
What a spray.
To Maxter find the exit.
He has.
And that's going to dodge Robbs who hears the departure,
but can't sprint immediately after him.
Oh, that's bad.
But aluminum health Robbs isn't ready.
Got him.
caught off.
Massive moment for Maxter.
And eye ballers are in the lead.
He faked the run back and actually got robs to run.
Robbs robs.
He tricked robs.
Robbs.
After this, too, oh my goodness.
I called clutch with 11HP and now that economy is bottomed out and so I ballers not only in a lead but with what should be a guaranteed
two map points to close.
Because it's not even armored pistols here for vitality.
I ballers leave that bomb back towards spawn to make sure vitality can't really overwhelm it.
Ball bags need to be in our hands full of near plenty of players off the roof. They'll find that kill
But it's a lot of numbers confirmed
Master cover from a distance is good
And that bomb is very swiftly gonna get picked up and head into that A-Bom site
Bob dies, but it's a nice strong default. They're still spread out. They have everything watched perfect position to refrag
Retake surely forget about it
I don't know if you can see it's worth it.
I'm not blinded there for apex to dive on it.
I'll lead this one thing. They have map point.
Two of them. Ready to be cut up.
the
start this game on the city side we saw jw's x factor we saw bobs x these x factor but as this
game's gone on
x and max are both started to contribute pretty heavily yeah they gotta be so proud
I mean
they're playing their best cs right now versus the best in the world
it's cool because that's kind of those
You know, that's the winning formula.
Sometimes you expect when the upsets are kind of around the corner, right?
The guy who has all the worlds experience in JW who's been here before shouldn't be shaken.
And Bob XD, who is seemingly, provably, with that phase upset, the guy that has maybe the most potential on the team.
And when you as their teammate start watching JW and Bob XD pull off this opportunity,
yeah, you're going to find confidence in the people standing in next to you.
We're in this case, sitting at their houses.
Real chance to win their Mastic of a new biz,
flingsy try to take that challenge over the bridge,
and it's not per free.
You'll per apex down inside the e-box.
No, it's a right there, but Bob does it to shoot immediately.
So he won't find his angle.
Pressure on vitality, a single kid within this round,
residing on rocks.
pressure on Bob now taking down the 14-HV apex is coming out better on this dual.
A dual that has at times cost him and vitality, but here in round 23, you'll win a
pistol, a shot from JW, as slames these pressure keeps this up, and vitality will
gun towards over time with what is currently a 5B3.
That one swings things back in a bad way, unfortunately, for I ballers, a three of
five spot and apex credit to him he is not scared of Bob he's been fighting for control
e-box every round
I'll have to reveal their positions now outside of be not a lot of time to regroup
had a call patient apex gonna find it all grouped up still a couple of defenders
There's already in position, scramble from Flangsy soon to join them inside Temple.
Good flash bang out from Zywoo as well, sets up Mezzi to perfection, and now Maxder finds
a headshot under this, and Zywoo's there to close.
We go round 24 with Eyeballers still having one chance to win this.
I love, I mean, they don't so much impressive stuff.
They've won like these tech nine rounds.
They've won some really good rifle rounds.
They want a couple of retakes.
They're defaults and everything.
But now we just comes down to the final.
assured around 24. You didn't want to let it get here.
Vitality show us every time the answer back, like they're still playing really well.
That's the again, the crazy part here.
For eyeballers, but
you were talking about seeing that finish line. Well, now it's like right in front of them.
And that's definitely
for many of the scariest moments.
And JW sitting here thinking like, I know how to think like a winner.
I know how to put myself in the spot, and then actually follow through with that victory.
Unfortunately, in the last round, one slightly missed offshot from him, and it's not a 4v4.
It's a 5v3, and he'll have to contribute just as much as sort of this emotional
leader of the team as an individual, carrying such an important weapon.
see what they got.
Everybody has everything they want.
It's an honest round of counter strike to try to close.
And what could a ban in opening duel for GW?
I'll do the jump right now is scary, but actually I think it would have got you what
I killed from the other way.
Well, BXD tagged down to 34 already, meticulous with these flashbangs.
with the operas trying to get on this angle to just hold bridge.
Looks like I've always been giving a little bit of space.
I've said it earlier in this cast that sometimes with a new bit of the question is,
like how much pressure do you want to put on mid and we've seen different looks pretty
risky business sending that off early, but now Dex, all of a sudden has a lot of room
to put pressure on vitality to keep these bombsite split.
block their vision.
The fiber gets the sight.
Last.
And he gets the kill.
Flames he meant to come through with a frag.
Confirms that there's only one there and Apex smokes off E-box.
A little bit of mid pressure here by Dex.
He only survived with 10 points of health.
I created front of the smoke.
He's waiting for them to flash by him.
I'm starting to leave Dex positions inside of camera running though.
It's easy to know it.
He's going to hear that movement outside a name, but he doesn't want to turn his back.
Just yet, this crawl out from camera is going unnoticed.
No, this side was going to get blindsided,
Roth brings this pack.
And he's got the hold towards a main,
bomb at his feet at a 1v3 for rule.
Already everybody else provide
talent on the scene and Roth's going to get blindsided,
drops the rock solid, vitality,
survive that test and we go OT.
Oh, you could just see it on his face.
Ooh, that's a struggle.
They did so much work to get to the point
where they could have, you know,
they even got the 5v4 to go over mid,
avoided a flash, 70% of the job was finished, so Tyloo got one quick take off just before
decks could swoop in for an extra kill and rock to the rest. With the multi-pride and the
the clothes.
The reaction is so good.
Oh man.
I'm gonna get you just scooped up by tornado.
I hit by a fracker named.
It's like it blasts.
to
the
two rounds to close the challenge on a new
bus unable to do so that decks is right back to this mid play
you know anything but a choke that was a very good
attempts.
Vitality just played that much better.
Down first by before.
The player also dead with nothing and that
mid controls just non-existing air
Vitality, slight adjustment from the i-ballers ready to bounce on a name faster.
Apex, the first of the last three to arrive on the sea.
He's going to catch Bob.
J-W gets the trade strike.
Dex comes and joins out through that camera and that gives a shot over to Zaiwu.
Feels like this re-take has legs to stand on.
Oh, absolutely.
But it is bomb-clanted.
And it's mesy to try and get this going.
Clip by the player half-climbing up into heaven.
A Zaiwu, one B-3, clutches.
What's needing here for Vitality?
And as he drops a mate down into the bombsite, wide swing up from the stairs,
as I would lucky to be alive and he knows it.
Pressure's still on, as JW gets into the camera, and it's such a nuisance.
When that thorn in your side prevents you from moving forward safely,
I baller secure the first denotee.
A clean set played great entries right there, and it's a sight that was really hard to take last time
to make it look even easier this time.
More to give.
Made easier with that 5-B3 out of the gate.
A main really betrays Vitalian that round, I was like, he'd do it from JW, as he was
being so careful, shoulder peaking, got the vision, went for the pre-fire.
First double-op at just been here for Vitalian this game.
So I rolled in this, yeah.
And Robs puts his over towards A main where they just lost bodies.
Easy pick up for Ziru and anticipation of the JW boost.
I can't demurge at that fast.
And now I think we're gonna get an A-Made walk out.
Yup, Rob's flash off the angle at least.
They might not know that was a second off.
It's all getting chipped down on the spot very consistently.
off right when he wants to go for something it's not a little bit of damage
all adds up
apex and bob have been just walking horns on this utility duo all half long
fight of the night
apex knowing that there's no longer a fire bomb
for his feet
goes one bit deeper
some of this one back to the off but the bomb is still back in mid
I mean, if they just walk into this, it's a free-frag for Robb's.
They really wanted to show some presence, but because he's hopping, even though it's not smoked,
I don't think they knew there was an off there.
They probably think vitality or are actually worried about A, but they're not really.
I just even ended the fence right now across the map.
Free B for Zaiwu.
Still more room to work.
I will under threat it's going to get sworn by the last two good double kill here for Maxter
Oh
He gets himself a burn turn back around Bob XD gets the trade back at the ball
Oh, no, it's not timing you can dive the temple. Oh by a second and robsets this shot just in case
That's just Bob unfortunately I guess he dies after time dump at it matters
the
extra made that scary
yeah clean triple kill
in what was a two versus five situation start a piece of them together
this turn over toward the box
it's that all these heroes on the same
We've been licking the lips after bad.
This is, we've got a, we've got a character on our hands.
So, that's awesome.
That's the most Swedish thing I've ever seen.
Oh, my hoo, look.
Apex quick headshot.
See a later bomb.
Oh, man.
No, Apex is one of those games.
He's got 13 kills.
But he has just been controlling this area.
Yeah.
So, well.
Yeah, showing us it's about utility.
Trying to build up a guy that's 13 and 21, but honestly, it's like, yeah, genuinely
making Bob's job hard, and there's Apex with another one on Macster, who's potential
we saw in that last round, so suddenly, a vitality, 1413 looks likely, it's going to
be this mid-walk out for eye-ballers, two players in position, Ross is going to catch him
off guard on timing, you'd think, but it pops up one.
No, see it, there we go, ho, beauty.
As Rob's connects, but you had shots and flings,
he's there to end this vitality secure it comfortably
to CT round wins in overtime.
Come, yeah, that round was, yeah,
but it's that one round game.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh, clean his kill, yeah, for Maypax overbaudent.
Even when he doesn't kill,
he's been getting it low and you know you really do have to zap his power somehow because
if he spots these alive too long that's when good things happen for eyeballers
but yeah no joke this is now a strong spot by Tality of all that whole half of information on
I brawlers. They're fully warmed up clearly. It's always harder to believe the
underdog and over time.
I'm just going for the quarantine protocols.
CTE's test the couple of positions, and Max just coming through with kills again.
You believe that?
Wilds to me, the Maxer has surpassed everybody else at this point.
26 and 16.
Oh, robs and flames, either still recovering this.
Trying to make a round of it.
But it started so convincingly for the eye-ballers, and Max is going to make sure that it's
not in vain. They push B-main and camera in mid at the same time and come up with favorable
doals. Not easy fights to sign up for, but they walk away with frags.
Yeah, I'm actually just caught some crazy hatching. They amount of kills. He's got these
last few rounds. The trades are raised there from Dex. He's got a triple at the end. And again,
we said kind of across the board. You know, Bob's actually been surpassed now. Maybe
apex holding him back. Dex and Maxler felt like they were riding Bob's co-tails and
W's momentum at the start of this game, they're now kind of the stars of the show.
And that boat's really well for I've all is because they're showing their ability across the squad.
And they tie this game at 14 all. 14 all.
What a special performance from all these guys.
This is still anybody's game.
Fast moves coming through from vitality.
That's pretty costly.
I think it's considered to eight those eighties.
Full blown X-ack and Max are just one space to play filler.
Oh, it's good.
One on the side of the smokes, no fight down and try to play its stubborn.
And Messi's gonna win the spam duel.
JW has seen great things from his op in this position.
That's a rely on this molly, no smoke to work with.
You'll be wishes he could get another vision.
Bit of vision.
Well, while that A-flank starts to get into position,
Bob has caused the mob guard before.
And Simon, not ready for it.
Yet again, man, advantage secured.
I've always on the brink of taking a 15th.
They've got vitality stuck in this bomb site.
It seems, but camera is that one exit.
Now, they forged a way out.
What's interesting is this bomb gets planted A-packs
is now in the most important position on the map.
He knows it.
Look how far back Bob fell back within this round.
He was all the way back over towards Kenals, just in case they went for that camera exit.
Apex knows for a fact they're not coming here.
He's got to get the guys up and have it.
And Mezzy's just lurking around.
It's all about the timing and Apex.
Oh, just out there.
It didn't get spotted.
Doesn't look like.
USP's gonna catch Mezzy, Apex now.
She's doing it on his own.
Oh, blast it.
You've gone eyepolars with their third attempt to finish this map.
Cute up next.
This is just beyond class here from Iballers, so well played, a nice flank once again from Bob.
And a solid hole that gets some preemptive need damage versus the rush as well.
They had vitality running through that smoke and regretting it.
For whatever it's worth, flames you got left clicked by a teammates' knife coming out of spawn as well, 9 damage, but hey, when you go into the smoke spam flight, it versus eyeballers, you need every bit of health.
It all matters. Vitality don't secure it at double overtime.
Highballers win their map pick.
Off a good map of counterstrike as well, so good.
I'm not seeing anything gimmicky.
And it's not one of those days where, like,
Syru's teammates have kind of just let him down.
We've got performances from Mezzy and Flamesy and Robs to build this up.
Toad to failed ability in regulation to close this map.
third one right here right now.
I'll Bob gets to flex a little bit here,
holding on to e-box versus his nemesis and apex.
That's spot on as well, so much to end up.
And it's harder to get into e-box than it is to hold it.
A-peck-stealing-box rack.
Right now though, it is just two members of i-ballers inside of the site.
the site KW would be up on the bridge push more utility damage.
This time flings is now softened up and Vitality are going to try to go head strong
into this bombsite in a matter of seconds, pointing on the clock.
Bob's able to hold down for now.
There's that flank at a JW.
He read this was coming, not the first time Vitality try to go all into me, they've got to
get that bomb back, they'll scoop it all.
Then JW threw smoke with the DEG, man advantage, seven seconds at his messy
He drives to now have hands busy, he comes real, ready to cover.
No massive moment back for flames, he keeps his head on a swivel, and Maxter, 27 to his
name, round 30.
And as he gets close to this site, it's separated, element of surprise, both well.
Muzzy, hanging off inside of the e-box, fire in front of him, no smoke to cover that
But it is tucked into this obelisk and he could put pressure on with that tap
Muzzy coming at it and maxed through all you need a shot between Muzzy's eyes
Oh, I'm back there way and we go OT too
Man, they had a desk rep on that round until flamesy ripped it out
All for three in rounds to close this game so far. Oh
Oh, this killed from JW thought that seal to deal at 10 seconds while getting dropped.
They somehow recovered this.
Flames he recovered it.
Wow.
JW's wild antics are timeless.
He smelled something was up.
He went for that mid push.
He wrote, I mean it's a, you know, there's only a certain amount of time left on the clock.
No one's taking him to this late.
He comes in with another flank.
It's another successful flank for Eyeballers,
or I thought they are finding those.
Again, everything is great, but Flamesy,
I mean, it's incredible.
He knew he was gonna have to,
basically pick a part across fire
and defend the ball mall at once.
He was ready for it.
If a nominal cover.
Vitality gonna try to play with the timing.
Go after this one again, Bob, good test.
Shave's messy off the play at least.
Supporting bound, soon enough.
Vitality, don't find any other target to them,
but just gonna test the water
is coming around that smoke.
Another smoke thrown out from Temple
opens a door for roll,
but apex and anticipation of this exact play.
Got the freebie.
I'll regret that.
Vitality, look at a secure, a lead.
You know, D2, max, there's flank well timed.
Almost got the jail player.
Fragornate could still make this one possible
Robbs is sitting on half health. JW scours the field. He's not going to find an angle because you get vitality changing to the backside of the bomb site
All three players just line that one up. Sure the bombs not for them, but they'll rush it when they need to
With the man advantage you think they had it's a back-plack. It's covered ten seconds. No player
So definitely an unwindable round and Robbs comes through to just guarantee it vitality strike first in OT2
I get the sleeve back. That depends it didn't have to work for it
It's a formidable defense there, and the timeout's getting called an O-T.
to
a snooze break
a snooze break
a snooze break
on a school water on the desk got to be it okay
because we're taking tech pauses to clean our phones
to handbrother.
This is a real sportman dangerous thing to happen.
And what a piece of smashy through something as well.
Did he?
You know, he gets animated.
I'm trying to see him on land.
Yeah, right.
Doing that cartwheels and rolling on the ground
down when the rules around are lost, jump it into walls.
I think the king of the at home pop-offs still has to be probably
catean in the covid arrow, we started tearing down back draw and chairs.
Yeah.
Now the bar is high.
I don't think he needs a chair.
Oh my goodness, that just bounced back into his face.
to
if we play that one more time just confirm it
yeah it is even slow it down just one more please
oh
what if you knock himself out
oh
it looks like the I think it's a little water bottle like a little
A little bit of a little reverb mode.
A little metal can.
Now, if you're just joining us,
welcome to overtime too, between
2025's number one team
and JW in friends.
Eyeballers have eliminated phase already at bounty.
That kind of had us all surprised the world's first major MVP.
Then we thought to ourselves,
Spays starting slowly the beginning of the season. This is now a very real deal for eyeballs
A newbis their map pick overpass vitalities choice up next in Mirage if we need it. I don't want to see anything else get broken, but I kind of do also
I'm loving the energy. Ooh, big went here for Zaiwu
the
couple of quiet rounds but
never know when he's going to strike again
rolf men
a lot of pressure oh he just goes down empty handed
that's a site run over
it's going to be a second t-rounder for vitality
Oh, you find that timing at least.
Try to keep it alive.
It's a 3v5 and very few opportunities up the auto is one, so take a look at it, Bob.
They're getting pelted by utility, that fragger name coming over the wall, taking them down to 13.
And they're all just waiting for that aiming flank to get closer.
bomb at the halfway point, we got a dislodged side with how can they?
It's going to be a tough one to get through that smoke,
Rob's holding a heat to flashbang,
Gets us now into the corner, Rob's found his frag.
Dex shakes one off the plane to the corner position here for Mezi and
him and Rob's just leaning on one another.
Mezi getting the first towards long and all of a sudden,
you've got vitality in a much more comfortable position, 17 rounds on the board.
Yeah, they're set now.
There.
Right about to close this.
That Robbs could have died right there, that flash coming in through main was perfect.
From the 3b5.
Shouldn't have even come close, but Robbs and MZ had it all figured out.
I'll set, while blind, ooh, look at the clean sweep, and Max was gone other ideas to
and 21 is Max, there.
Just, you know, versus vitality, you're average Sunday afternoon, like, uh, blah, blah,
Oh, oh, catch his robes.
Zylu, here to trade frag back at least,
but this two versus four is only one kill deep.
And Maxor's gonna keep that pressure up,
knowing that Zylu's probably concerned,
but another A-main push.
You see that with him guarding the climb-up,
well, time by Maxor, dropping that bomb
and putting Mezi into an impossible clutch.
And you believe this guy,
the deeper the game goes, the more impact he gets.
In fact, he's got a minute to try to make this happen, though.
If that opera over steps this line, that could be Mesee's way in because the other two
over-torts be. I believe this angle's being held, Mesee got to step into it. Yeah. JW
ready to lock that in. So at the very least, I ballers take one on the CT side, but it was two
in the first half for both teams. Yeah. I mean, first over time. They're going to put to work right
now. So nice here from Baxter. On a mechanical level, we always see great moments from him.
But now if he's just got a little more swagger in his step, maybe chalk it up to playing next to JW.
And Brainsy body blocks a good on-roof.
Get that kill back your smoke we haven't had to talk about, Rov too much.
That's a pretty critical trade frag to come out with.
Fragrernade sells past 8x.
Oh, he's testing the waters and has to spray back just to get himself into cover, Rov's going to take a look at bridge as well.
By towelity continuing to keep some pressure up, but it's bombed to slip through the smoke.
They do know they scare 8x after that spam, so he falls back.
Bobby immediately takes the space. They were walking away as well.
Gotta see which way the bomb drifts in this body.
If that kill with the other way, maybe you get the swing and Bob get
makes momentum off of it, but he's still holding on.
He doesn't need any more than that.
Hey, thanks, heard that.
The MZ now chance needs some help.
So, Rob's is coming over a flag off of the pillar.
That's going to land at their feet.
Great damage off.
MZ's grenade stalls it for a second.
Let's stop standing, the bomb site.
MZ brings one with them in Rob, so it's just finding kills.
Now, finding his moments to strike.
A JW-1V-2 in 2026 with 9 HP.
Enough time to get to the A site.
to the A-Sight 2 guys on the other side of a map.
And the gun he's looking for on the way back.
A-Bombsite, free for the plants.
It's gonna have some time here,
but Nizi is still kind of close.
Sorry, Zaiwu.
Just a little out for Zaiwu.
Feels like you know to put the damage in, yeah.
Yeah, steps right through it to finish it off.
JW never even really given a chance.
It's only he had more HP, that's 18 for vitality,
and their first chance to win this map.
It's cool move from Bog to Sneak and the E-Box after that damage from Apex,
and then finally take him out as well.
But it was just a material advantage all the way through.
The fight's being won in middle.
Frost getting an excellent kill.
It looked like Rob's is killed from Bridge was a really deep angle as well from Rolf.
Okay.
Just clipping him.
Grape before we try to leave.
But Rolf did kind of invite that spam back by shooting through.
Sorry, it's hard.
Be corrected by production.
A bunch of Danes telling me how to speak Swedish.
Flames begin to the log A-fight.
Great flash.
Or whether or not.
Eeeeh!
Sorry for Bob and, oh no.
I guess back into the well and now at 3v5 coming to an end was that team flash that I ballers 8 inside of long?
They can move past it if it was
Where did flames be underhanded himself talk about this lurk instead and got a real big split coming in to be
There's a moment here where decks could just absolutely raise hell
But the time on the clock like they're not watching this at all
They're just assuming that this is gonna be a mid-Lirk
Maybe they go slowly.
Okay.
How much do you want?
Okay.
Is turned around.
Oh, he's in.
Oh, he watches that.
Sixth.
Sixth.
Oh.
And what could have been the Hail Mary moment for eyewollers.
Dream of upsetting vitality tonight.
Just fizzles out inside a back bomb sight.
It's a challenge to be proud of.
But it comes up short.
And vitality survive.
survive a chest and a half a test offered up by all of the i-bollers. Bob and J.W. got this party started,
but Maxter and Dex took it over by the end of this map.
This is going to sting. A much better first map compared to what we saw from i-bolls when they faced off against
phase gave you hope. It gave them confidence. They saw the finish line, not once, but twice,
and they push vitality in every single round,
but that pressure, some of the experience,
these little moments that we're getting to later, Malay.
Oh, it's, you know, you're not rooting against vitality,
but you're all rooting for the underdogs when you see it.
Yeah, it's just such good and exciting plays like this.
The whole of Sweden is crying and very stressed right now.
It's simply nice to be pleasantly surprised.
Yeah.
When you see eyeballs have this many ideas,
individuals taking over rounds, exercising some individual liberties so that they can be the
difference makers. You have, I mean, I end up rooting for them just to tad. Vitality, though,
you know, when they're in a position to win the game, they're not going to slow down the flash to get
into a man to close things out. The fact that they were generally being quite proactive, keeping
information. It's what you want to see from an enubis team does sting, though, does sting, because the
The eyeball has just felt so close so many times.
And it also felt like my tality on some of these a-holes, for example, right when I was just locking it down.
My tality was uncomfortable.
They were made to feel uncomfortable by the eyeball, mm-hmm.
A lot of moments where we were able to see, just the way that even though the tality
have a great grasp of how they want to play these rounds, people like Bob Exkeed in the
first half were able to hold on to spaces like e-box, force them, funnel them into JW and
the rest of the eyeballers.
It was honestly just good play from the eyeballs in the beginning.
This is what I generally like.
A ball is able to get a lot done in this position.
But you could see just how the crunch came at such a late time that vitality,
their stress in terms of timing, and Max, or who is one of the big heroes for eyeballs throughout
this game, just was able to balance right when he knew there is an opportunity to get a victory.
And so this is what I like about Max, or an eyeball, as you were seeing, I'm seeing the
so much more than he was on NIP, just kind of a deer in the headlights.
And now he's being that active player that he was more so on young ninjas.
And you know, I love more about that player from Mexico is the fact that he was so aware
that he looked, maybe I can't have the time.
If I die here, he could still get the bottom planet before my teammate convert 18 just
a smaller details there to give them some success with it.
But it, it's just one of these things where like you believed in what I was could do, the
whole way coming through with it.
Then we get a kind of a messy be hit into a big brain play out of nowhere out, training
rocks.
Yeah, I mean, this is this is a moment for eye ballers where it I mean
Max sir in this one the late round play again just kind of was something we really wanted a highlight
It is a pretty
This is a pretty crappy moment for them. I'm kind of surprised me even got that kill in that
I mean, Flamesy doesn't great job picking up a couple kills here when his back is against the wall
But yeah, I mean there we get Max sir. You think this is over right? Yeah, he's running away
Rob looks like he's getting a pretty good timing on him and again Max is on such low HP if he plays this standard and just runs and plants at the other bombs
I'm saying it's probably gonna lose so to play it like that. I mean there were so many little moments here for Max
You're that just kind of reminded me that this guy was a Swedish prospect before whatever happened did happen when he joined an IP
It's almost like eyeballs are picking up all the Swedish players that people said would know good
Yeah, making them work right now and giving us something to shout out
how, just be positive about for these guys.
Without a doubt, I mean, Bob XD from 9, Max or from NIP,
we did see, I mean, JW is trying to just kind of create
his own luck with this sort of roster,
just taking these kind of scraps, I would even say,
under his wing, not that these guys don't have
individual skill, like Bob XD was a pretty sure top
30 on face it at one point.
And he was really a big, just elo grinder.
So there's a lot of skill, but it wasn't necessarily
harness.
So to see it come together and almost get the victor
of Vitality.
talking so much about a team who didn't even come away with the victory.
But if I had to get that victory and some of that comes down to some of the magic
that apex was able to do towards you call it e-box, like what a connective, whatever you want to say.
Con, shadow, car, I don't know, everybody's called this thing.
There really is one of those things.
I mean, I think the utility from apex is something that
launders in Scroanie were really highlighting on the cast and we just wanted to take another look at it.
I mean, I think the utilities, the way that it was fairy to second mallet off there,
to beat out the utility from the T side.
And the way he's able to even cut down Bob XD to him again.
Again, this is a star player of a rising team versus a 32 year old
in-game leader, like you would expect that the young star
is able to take that kind of space.
But apex is really tricky.
He knows his utility still.
And it's a reason that vitality was so world-alete
for the first half of 25 because he was playing like that all the time.
And also apex is unpredictable.
So that all safe go into that at any point.
Right, that's a scary situation to run yourself into.
Now, there was a moment where I ball has had the game.
And the feedback I would say, yeah, I'm no expert like you,
you know, but this comes down to pressure, nerves,
maybe not having a bad game.
And the experience of vitality coming out on top.
Unfortunately, this was probably the best opportunity
that I ball has had to win the game.
In this round 30, they're holding on in this crunch.
GW pulls off a great flank.
I can't believe he got this kill on his eye.
It's wild.
As I was trying to take that space back,
toward Maine, the fact that JW reads the plate,
calls it out with his deagle stuff.
But then we're over here, man.
I mean, he didn't have a great game,
and that round is kind of epitomizing the moment for him,
where it just feels a little too big for him.
Maxor had his chance here, but credit to Mezdy
for just instantly nailing him.
As soon as he gets off the ball this time,
it's just pinpoint precision
from another one of the world's best players.
And it's really, oh my God,
reaction there. Break your own chair. You can see how much it means to them. Yeah. And the biggest
thing I need to look at here is that how Rof is going to reset now. Yeah. Because it was a
stinker. You probably know you cost them the game. They're not going to be saying that to you,
but it's going to be in the back of your mind. And they reset already against phase. They share
as they could do it. But it was never like close like this. And this was their kind of pocket picture
success. I'm a little surprised that Rof wasn't able to show a little bit more because I've actually
like them in the past. I thought he was one of the players, especially on young
ninjas, that just looked like a stable pair of hands. One of those guys that it was on
those anchor spots and I always think it's going to get one at least, usually not drop
the ball on his position, but sometimes that's what happens when you load up and press
tab and you see it's a ziru and rops against you in the server. You're just going to make some
uncharacteristic mistakes, but thankfully in a way it is online. So hopefully you can just go to
the kitchen, get a snack, you know, free snack. I go to get the snack, reset, go into the
next game, I go through the next cue. Bob, we was talking about so positively. He wasn't
in the best performer within this team for this game, but he just has these moments
again and again. And it doesn't seem to matter who he's facing. He's got that conference
to go for it.
I wouldn't be surprised if I ballers tend to pick a new bus a little bit more moving into
this season because on a few of the maps, such as Mirage, you have Bob XD playing positions
like the anchor.
But this is e-box is on both side, CT ant,
just feels way more fitting for the active style
that he wants to play.
He was a standout in this game in the beginning.
Feel like he may be slowed down a little bit
when Apex got a beat on him
and started just kind of smothering him
with all of that utility in that space.
But in terms of just being an active presence,
he was flanking at times.
He was holding his own on bombsite defenses,
rotating into the right spots.
He showed exactly what I wanted to see
from a guy that I would tell as a great Swedish
fup and coming prospect.
Yeah, for sure.
And you know, it's what?
Ha ha ha ha.
Production nailing goes with the sound of the
effects.
You can't control the sound from that, but yeah,
yeah, we did they make that.
You know, production make that sound for us or something.
Yeah, they made that production.
That was taken from that.
That's a wondering.
That's on point.
It was very accurate.
It was, it was fitting with it.
And I know right now people are looking
at, like guys, my telltale one, you just keep talking
about eyeballs.
Well, guess what?
to see I bought as much, so it's my desk.
I'm going to keep focusing on them.
Let's also max the highlights at the same time
because max the was a dominant force.
We were talking a bit more about
the next in the opening game against phase.
This time max the showed up with spades of skill,
winning them crucial rounds.
And I'm really, really pleased to see this
because everybody that was watching Maxer
before he got promoted to the Wanky and IP roster
reminder that was the one where it was Alex as the IGL.
No, no, no, no, Hayter shame to Alex,
but I don't think he was ready to call on
on an international team and you felt people like Max are also lost their way.
So to see him have this other opportunity in the tier two space and taking it by the horns,
especially being as proactive as he was against the team like Vitality, I love, I love a redemption
story, I love a player that shows that there was a reason that he were being talked about.
It's kind of almost reminiscent, maybe on a slightly lower level, been sort of what is
ways doing on paravision where the other moment was maybe a little too big for them,
But once they're on a team that's a lot more comfortable,
a lot more fitting to their skill set,
they can show that they can be a difference maker.
Definitely was a difference maker shirt up in a very strong fashion.
And if they can keep that going,
then maybe that's something these guys will have to work with.
Overall, I know it's unlawful,
but it's just something we can be positive about for I suppose.
Yes, without a doubt.
Taking vitality,
team of the year for 25,
even if it's on an amapp like a newbis,
it was a map that vitality were quite good at.
So the fact that they were able to take it to multiple over times,
that practically everybody had at least rounds where they were able to just shift the balance
in their favor, just go to show that eyeballers the project, it is indeed improving steadily.
And I feel like this iteration of it, despite the fact that 25 was pretty, I would say it was pretty
meddling, I didn't really see them on my radar all too much, even in those kind of CCTV cups,
they didn't really get any decent playsings. This is a team that I'm interested to see even
if they drop the series, what's going to come for them in the next few months?
We'll find out if they can get a map in this series before we go any further after the break.
Overpass coming up next, it's my town, he's big, but trust me, I have all
there's no house to play and they seem ready to fight and prepare for it or so let's see if
they can fight back in this series in just a few moments.
Hi, Maui, this is one of these moments where things don't really make sense when
you look at it all.
By tout he playing some of the very best teams in the world, on the map of overpass,
eyeballs, not even winning in against some of the lower down teams that don't compete
at the style of events.
This is going to be massively one-favorite for sure in terms of what we expect of it, but
they cook enough on newbies.
Is there any way they can do the same on overpass?
What did this come down to?
I feel like it comes down to a guy we haven't really talked too much about on the I baller side.
I mean, he was talked about sure in the first series against phase decks.
But his right-wing towards aid to me is sometimes a little hit or miss when I look back at
their games. I was kind of wondering, is he aggressive? Is he kind of a guy that falls back?
I feel like he just trusts his own instincts.
Maybe sometimes to a fault where he'll buy a little bit by himself.
Maybe get one kill, but going one for one against a team like my
is not going to be good enough and so, but the thing is that it's been since no
Vemper since they played. So, a lot can change in a couple of months. Maybe he's going to play
a lot better alongside JW. Maybe there's even a position change. Maybe they want to focus
Bob XD to become the A rifleer, but that's just the only concerning factor that you're
two star rifles of the last game in my eyes, Maxter and Bob are just going to be defending B,
whereas Dex, a less likely hero, is going to be the man that's in my eyes has the best position.
is there any weaknesses in overpower for vitality?
Jeez, I mean, unless you're fury and not really,
like, I mean, it's pretty tough to exploit anything
on vitalities.
But you might just say, no, I would probably say,
I would probably say that Rob's as an A rifleer
is not something that I always saw in the path.
I mean, I don't think he played that position
all that much before or ever.
So I guess when you switch to CT style,
I'm gonna roll up.
But no, then you're gonna be fighting Zibu too.
I'm gonna say no, James,
I'm going to say no, unfortunately, I think this is where the eyeballers run and
well, they put up a good fight. We'll see if we can continue on overpass. It looks like
doom and gloom, but two guys who are never gloomy and they're full of positivity. It's
growing in London's Peter Impressions brought to you by Scrunney and Londres. I hope
I hope they've got something up there's sleeve because as Maui painted that bleak picture,
it's tough to get anything going up against the likes of vitality. Also, Shadow James
Banks once I'm for telling now he's snakes up in the maybe he's never realized. You
can just say no. Just say less. Oh, he's too good of an analyst. I know.
Professional. Yeah. I've got some to say. But you can just say no. And I think in this
case, you kind of have to recognize that it is tough to identify a weak point with vitality
unless you are the likes of Furia. So I ballers will have their hands full moving into the
I mean, it showed us something that you could never expect.
It showed us the series you could never expect.
I think Faser probably feeling a little better about their loss.
Seeing how well I ballers have just played overpass is obviously going to be a different
level of liberillians from vitality.
I ballers, as I understand, as we're seeing, we're going to have to continue to bring
their A game.
Always floating onters.
These guys can literally walk on water.
We allowed to do this.
Now, crouch on to me.
This is whole broad cast is falling apart at the seams.
Now, it's standing on the shoulders of J-Ras.
Robbs you better not get anything for this.
Yeah, somebody walks out, Adam and the bang.
Brawl.
Catches in the headshot onto Flingsie is going to find a first blood eye ball.
Second one's for him. So I was got the answer back. They find that boosted Bob
And a 3v5 recovery after a wolf kicked it off well
Bombs down smoke still up toward short Texas flanks been found and Zy was gonna alleviate pressure by killing JW
He's allowed to now join his teammates look back to the site and somehow he just taps out those last two as well
Oh, we got an ace. Yes, he did. Oh, he's got it like that
I don't know where, as well.
Phil, like the last two kills, we're not going to be his food taking, but Zaiwu chalk it up, another race.
Why don't get him this?
My Tality Catch and Ases left right in center on overpass pistols, so far this year.
I'd spot the talk about how, you know, we're all through the last game, unfortunately, it was the one guy just was struggling pretty much the whole time.
And then he gets this 2-day hold, almost a be countered an outshined by Zaiwu and his 5-day.
Oh, she's from a hundred.
Is that two mollies or?
Nope, just mezzles just dancing around in that.
Just mezzles, the man likes the way it feels.
Dex gets a USB kill.
Upgrade to the Mac 10, try to get himself a flash to work with, but flingsy too hot on the
trots to give him any further chance.
Oh, that's going to confirm two more bodies.
Expect that bomb to go down stairs.
Yeah, see you never buddy now.
I ball is trying to scramble, but Rob's is well ahead of the rotation.
And that's going to serve up an issue here for eyeball.
There's hoping to get something going.
But also this was just USP's, right?
They want that round three rifle round to be where the CPC side starts.
and it's only Bob he chose down to Ostar for vitality not setting my expectations this game
you know tried to not do it on a new bus and was still surprised you know tried to just
not set them but just thought I can't I can't help but think I would or vitality you're just going to run them over
that didn't happen at all and in fact it was three chances that was the three chances
Yes, close the game for I ballers. Yeah, two in regulation one and over time. Again anything but a choke like they didn't it wasn't like that at all
Like they
Vitality best of them stole a couple of rounds from the black plane incredibly well, but I
Mean the flansy star potential. I didn't see any nervous call that's for I ballers really. Nope
But now unfortunately this could be one of those worlds where they needed a new best to have a chance on Mirage
Obviously the further you go down in the tiers of counter strike sometimes the weaker the map
pulls get.
Every time, every time in fact, you know, it's this is the hardest thing.
Like they can, they literally doesn't even matter that the map changed, you know, like,
my tality, we're good at every map, they even have a streak on train going, even though
that was one of the least played maps.
It's gun around, has not bowed well for eyeball, they're so far, and this is the bonus
of vitality is there was two maxtends in the middle of it.
Oh.
Robbs gets just what he needs.
Just the perfect place to stand there for Robbs.
It's the jump on Bob.
And Max are right now operating alone versus three players here
inside of a.
Ooh, good on him to find two does his job at least,
but Bob will be picked back up by Zywoo
planted for Mezzy and bathrooms.
And we're going to have a roath.
1v2 attempts.
utility goes far beyond it.
So he's actually giving a chance.
The name missed the dumpster stop it.
So he's got a little room to work with.
Messe's the head and roll.
It's going to clutch three kills in the round.
And I ballers find victory in their first gun round.
It's feeling so happy for this man.
Again, he was sitting there on like 12 kills.
No matter how deep that last map went, he clearly hated Nubis.
Here, here he is looking alive.
A 2K hold on the pistol.
Now this clutch already a much better start.
Everything can change in a map.
If you have the right attitude, I mean T-side on overpass still daunting.
I'm curious if that ball is up was meant to be right on dumpster,
or if it was meant to stop him from rotating up already,
but it's burning behind Wolf there.
You know, if Mesey thought that Wolf was still down towards B,
then there's a chance that it's meant to really prevent him.
But either way, it comes up with the eyeballers roundwind.
But again, I called it the bonus round,
because there was those two Mac Tens and the Galil still in it.
Apex just that tech nine, but still AK's majority vitality here and round four.
It's going to start with this con stoppage.
It's got to be this round as well, back to back for I ballers, because it's not one survivor in the round prior.
Economically, they're on the edge and flames he's going to keep battling decks here.
Talk of bathrooms held on to by JW3V3E.
Keep in the trades good.
He floats around a bit.
Shadow advantage, Apex baits it out with the shoulder peek.
And now he's stuck in with JW.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Now the pressure is starting to come in from the back side as well.
And JW leaves a lot to be desired in this one.
Oh, man.
Two critically missed shots puts Rolf back into another clutch.
That production is regretting telling you not to pronounce it correctly.
I didn't even do it, right?
I'm sorry.
Rolf.
The guard dog of Iballers.
He's got the dog in, and I'll tell you that.
I already have the 1v2.
This time, that preventative utility does hold him back from pushing dumpster.
Vitality's so ready for his attempt that he knows better, and he's got to walk away.
So now we're in that kind of worst case scenario.
I ballers win the round off.
Goal.
Sorry.
That's going to blow a conifer for the rest of the day.
I'm going to have a bad time.
I'm tweaking.
So his save in this one is going to have to somehow fuel an upset round next or vitality
run away with a comfortable patty start to this T side.
Let's get into the point where you see Matt and Sire in your life.
So how's it going to get a 2K this time and you know getting one and a half seems like
Oh, old max or just crushes them, but it's no way you could double that performance from a new guess, right?
That was just unreal.
Oh, missed the timing, cuz of that.
Yeah, mr. Robbs. Oh, they don't know about this push. Well, they think about it though because he did slip off. No, it's false confidence
Executed. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it kind of assembled a little bit slowly a little bit late. Mm-hmm
Feels like the kind of like position it. Oh, yeah, yeah, and then apex is ready for that. Are you kidding, yeah?
That ball. Valkated me. That was an idea quality assembly
We can't get to kill with that AK-47 saved from the last round, big bad Bob.
We got a preview for Maxner.
Get the jump on Mezi, poor guy, USP to the face.
Careful.
2v5.
You'd think impossible, but bombsite's still belong to the Iballers.
It's just the armor.
That's the issue.
Right AK's they don't want to give away
This round's not coming to them. We bobbed up and have them I guess
I don't get smoked though
Oh, he's playing for it. Okay. It's good catch somebody. Oh, yeah
Keep telling in but it's not the instant kill and so it's the beef on plants and spent for vitality for one their key side start
That's male, oh, no, I'm going to join them more.
Hmm, it's a good question.
I'm actually thinking he should go 100 thieves.
100 thieves.
And then they could just peel a North and European connection.
100 thieves. The team that everybody was really hyped for.
They got the vice-rain.
And some other ways.
boys.
They've got a sweet Norwegian day in the rest of the week.
They have two sweets.
What do they play?
I don't know.
They're being tactical about it.
You know, MSEO is going to pick the perfect moment for them to strike the R.
Master, but on all they didn't go for a core, so that's what's
Make things harder. They were inspired by Nibb
It's one of those North American. Yeah, we can claim
I think it's like a qualifier for one of the events in the Americas that they were supposed to debut and it'll
And rocks has alluded I ballers pretty consistently in this short presence. Yeah
3rd round is just kind of slipped into that corner eating nades when you're defending nothing
going to make it more soft than that. Oh, great find here for Bob. It's a little back over
8x. I didn't realize like how much they would go head to head in the series and that's already been fun.
and
trying to bait this peek. Double top
bathroom, such a good spot to be in
flash or a flash. Great. Oh,
you're really gets away with that
and some info. It gets a little
scary from max. Yeah, he's feeling
squeezed now, but if he tries to
walk out short side bathroom,
it's going to be the Zyru angle
held. Flashbang goes past
the light on that flashbang.
If he tells them JW's over here,
somebody's got to have been here
to throw that. They almost just
looks like they just want to leave
them the space they go around.
drops in the middle of all this. They could take their time, say about JW is going to have to fight back to the site.
Well, time's on that clear. It's just as JW felt the squeeze to make a move. Things felt too quiet for too long.
But Bob gets into position fast enough. Didn't waste any time just locking in behind Optimus.
I down to 45 he's dealt with by Robs, and that is an aceite primed for the taking.
I think there's on one hand so coordinated.
Unfortunately, that flash could have just been a bit better.
I've been working on a new impression.
Oh, I'm ready for it. This is Anders Bloom.
Okay.
He was a 15th century scholar. Oh my goodness
He got off the bow to this eye
You get it
Get it guys what about Sean Connery on a moon mission. Oh, I
Don't pull the trigger, bro.
Put it down.
It's overpass.
You'll recover.
It's vitality.
You're never supposed to win this.
You can fight for it though,
and they've got the guns to do it.
But let's see if Max or a wolf have something up there, sleepy wolf.
Great counter-accelity, it's only the one H. It's about as good as it gets to the one
H. either got.
There's a Scam back Apex just died to it last round, but I don't even know.
Lesson. Hard to learn. Bob is going to capitalize on the short plate because Rob's has been there like four out of the seven rounds. We've seen now
Yeah, so no surprise to catch him there again. Just surprised that he doesn't want to go with the better guy. Mezi inside of connector
Figuring out the aggressive move from decks
Trying to bring back this 3v5 for vitality a lot of damage on mezi got a few bullets off to max sir. Oh, we could catch a good timing or
more.
We're paying for the awkward.
Oh, they're perfect.
On the clear.
Yep.
Flamesy.
They just think Bob is here though.
There we go.
Drops on it.
Good on him to not play too timid.
Try to catch a timing.
Does exactly that keeps man advantage secured and vitality drop in utility on this.
If they think they can go back, JW's got other ideas.
Oh, and Massey.
Clean as need be.
And now they've got to kind of chase him down or rotate.
And it looks like.
It's all in.
Bob's going to go for the quick rotation.
Quick rotation. You'll actually be here first. How do you want to play it Bob? You can walk all the way up
It's gonna stand in the open ground hold the angle try to stop that bomb
Oh, it's clean for the first one
So I will have to go for the bomb plant pistol over top side. We ready
Bob does he sports from the top of the top side in winvook hold
two kills on his own had to deliver pub does he sports breaking vitality
That duels any longer, you know, Zy was gonna have just that extra half a second more to come off of the bomb plant ready.
And I was on purpose.
Nasty shot by Bob.
Oh, it's not Flash, eh?
He's pushing all the way through, though.
Here we go.
Okay.
One step too far.
Roll, able to get his decks inside of short cuts off the other side of this flamesy approach.
Oh, they're just a ball-y.
Flames, he's kind of stuck in, but Zylu at least recovers.
The short control of all this, apex not dead to his spam.
But seemingly spotted, I mean, the 8th flat and some bullets was by.
They have another Molly as well.
So I would could throw down a barrel if you want to.
I'm going to wait these smokes out and see what happens.
Zylu still has a gap to play around with, but he's lost his teammate, so...
No no, it's actually where he's coming through from.
And Rolef just fires off eye-bollars, starting to collect a few more CT rounds
than vitality would have liked.
And Rolf was in the 9 and 3 now, I mean, it's kind of, wow, he's already almost at his
KD back on a new this. I love to hear his thoughts on the map.
And after this, unfortunate death to start off.
It's everything making a forward here vitality.
5 round T side over pass, that's the quote I've done already.
The roll, but yeah, pressure on 10 and 3.
And he's one of the spide outside of BU, it's not a pex this time.
He said, see?
I'm not gonna be back to my
feet, I was gonna caught off right?
Eight packs holding the smoke.
I still got the kill.
Should have been a dead man.
We'll be traded.
Bomb.
Yeah, hard to protect.
It's so early.
I can't up, I feel like he's just gotta leave eventually.
They're gonna try and delay on this position.
to
be nice to like sit on it, but
he kills time off the clock as they just go and try to
set out the situation carefully.
And it gets to a certain point where they still can even have vision on the bomb and then it has to be
needs to be B.
They're not actually checking it though.
And that's the right side of monster cracked open.
Fire in front of this, but still just enough time.
Nage should find its mark. Yep.
That's plaincy down by half.
Again, layered defense could slow this down just enough.
This clothes plate on the side.
Max, there's going to get one.
That force them to come to him all right from Max.
They're on, man.
Great rifle work set up again.
Has Rolf given Iballers enough runway to still bring this game back.
He's Mr. Malti Kill.
What a series so far by max.
That one almost brought to you by more three.
You're ready to say I ballers are in the lead again?
I didn't think we were gonna have to here on half past, but maybe we didn't think we'd
have to on a new bus either.
Maybe.
to work for what's left of this T-side.
It's timing on master. Confirm in all the bodies.
The tech nines, they've gotten two scrambled rotate up from that B bomb site.
It looks like vitality. Just going to keep the pressure on for a second with the flashes.
Nope. They're going back though.
Yeah, this is spot where now the third eight player shows himself.
And he's going to call for help.
You know, at least one guy, right?
There it instantly we know a reason just to go forward to take the site is a gun to grab here
This is the really tricky part for eye-ballers. I mean pushing out towards bathrooms is an awesome move. It's a little risk
It helps freeze up a player in the back of the site to have more angles
Smoke at the mouth of long right now Bob's watching it. Nice peeled
But if Dex gets his attention pull towards long at all,
and that walk up out there.
Yeah.
Oh, that's Nate's getting thrown.
Nice of vitality to still have tools for the job like that.
Did he get spotted?
I do like maybe.
Yeah, looks like.
Yeah, they're very much fixated on his foot.
Then they forget about bomb Dex still able to strike.
Rob's gets the trade back.
Bomb.
He got him.
He got it.
I think he's got it.
Barely, Rob's gonna try to die.
He stopped it.
And survived.
Oh, he got away.
It's close, but it's another added to the board by Rolf.
His second clutch within this Asai.
That's hype for Rolf.
They've got a significant amount of clutches as well,
versus vitality.
A lot of contributors.
I'm telling you, that is hard as possible. I feel like a full buy with the exact
that came in done, A site.
Respect for him bailing out of that fight when there's one second left on the clock.
Yeah, man.
And like, this turning and looking down, yeah.
Exactly, just don't die. He's in the spray because the second player was lined up and
And then his brain kind of registered, like, don't die.
Now, this awkward, since out of the B-sites,
looking to get tricky.
But it's dismantled pretty quickly.
I don't wait too many early fights outside of monster.
Since four rounds consecutive now out of the eye
ballers, really making vitality work to hang on to this lead.
as he made me noise on purpose, it looks like they flashed, they see nothing, and that's actually the scare of them.
This might speed up, if I tell you up towards it, because that's, you know, that's an A player that's in, in, in, in, con.
But the bomb's still pretty far back.
Oh, they're just turning it into a fake.
But no kill here for JW and now they're wondering, they've just rotated the A, they want to respect that smoke.
But that's a lot of last second information.
It's almost becoming late to even get this exact going.
You gotta give it a try.
Down to the limit here.
Another smoke comes up.
up, they've got to just run through it, blindly,
MZ takes team damage to the back of the head
and JW finds a second kill at his half.
Three players down on the approach.
Four seconds, no chance.
Vitality just spinning their tires in the mud.
I mean, that's huge because JW gets that early peak
on monster, calls for a rotation, falls back as well.
They get the late smoke on monster.
They're super well prepared for it.
Mentally, they know the attacks coming.
And time is just not on Vitality side.
Say it, Lenders.
Eyeballers are in the lead.
After that 5-1 starts
CT side finds ground to stand on.
It's been a tough go of it from JW. He had one kill coming into that last round.
We were singing his praise for the X-Factor he brought to the table for a new bus.
It's the same boost that started the last round, looking to that deep connector kill, but
not quite there for the taking is this scrap together by from vitality, featuring
galleels, a scout, Mac 10, tech 9.
It's not a pretty look for vitality, and you couple that with them losing to the clock
last round.
This T-Side has lost its momentum.
before it to boot.
The deck's dying makes this push feel a little more likely. We get that one already.
And JW's there to help out dropping bomb at the front of bathroom, so it looks like I
ballers full control here and round well, and they're gonna stuff that smoke push entirely. Rock
solid stuff from JW a quad kill for the road. Fricking guy gets six kills in the last two rounds of
of play looks like Rob's going to be tested in this pistol round, but he's got
Duel Burat is over towards the ramp. A confident stop from Zaiwu. He's already taken
space away out in the yard. It's Rob's though on the jumping block. Duel Burat is
to roll around.
Every single individual of this
G2 squad refuses to falter at the
hands of vitality.
Finally, something comes through in
round 11.
I lose double kill out through the
tip of that window still.
It's better late than never for
Zywu to step forward as the
hero vitality need and they need
and one ball.
Five rounds ago, Apex gets burned into
it and Zywu, it's all or nothing.
Here.
Here or never. Oh, he's that flash. They'll come barely important site back turned and that is for frags
The first I will
Oh, it's the a
It's all by and the hero step sport as apex. He's been all over the mag seven today in
Furno banana. That's actually one of the stronger places. Yeah, one if you get a cheet
Oh, this is a bit deep jump shot. Go on. Do it.
Surely they know the must have seen right out of the do this. The must have seen apex do it.
The holding nodes. Yeah. Do it. Do it.
Yeah. Okay. On the stump.
Someone is dropping.
On the commit. He finds a double.
Back as he finds 3-4 of the jump apex that's one way for the RNG to fool in your favor
He didn't clocked a kill in the clock 35 seconds now. Now we have to make a choice
Planks using the same corner he's played in the past wonderful
Rate your in-hot meanwhile 8-floor falls
Vitalities king
He sits here as pit response that had shot Hunter only gets the two and so now it is on
E-MAR and with 15 seconds to go somehow grab that bomb, we've got low health on Mazi and they end that right here
Mals is so frightened off banana. I mean reticutals being set up, Mals aren't even close. They only now reenter
ahead of that smoke
now it's well timed
Molly will stop Mals as approach
over a go whose flames are getting forcing these kills and this time he picks up with ease.
And no matter how you slice it in this matchup, there's multiple scores to settle
vitality. Since getting back from the player break in this season, haven't seen them
made a final yet last time they were here, messy, falling short of the finals in London.
And now's the team that started all the beginning of the fall apart for vitality.
Well, they're back now in to the grand final.
By telling me, get it done in two.
Well, if you thought I ballers, we're just going to roll over
an accepted feet.
You'd be wrong about that one.
They find their form towards the end.
And it's an unlikely hero that kind of got that CT side kicked off
in roll.
So most don't likely for sure.
Yeah, like again, we're, you know, it's an underdog team.
And we're trying to highlight everyone's good performances.
And we had great things to say about everybody back on a new
base, but Ralph just struggled the whole time.
He's literally flipped his score line.
On his head, he's got two clotches.
He's 13 and four.
He was amazing over on B.
So there it is.
The final piece of he's dodea.
It's finally come to fruition.
Unfortunately for eyeballs, unlike Exodia,
you don't automatically win.
Still some work left to be done here on this T-side.
Well, I think you should.
And that's the daunting task of overpass.
The attack.
Well, Bob's on the attack.
No.
Bob shredded.
Plenty of defenders down here on the B-side as well.
That smokeernade really takes a window to their sale for a second.
They try to just play the off-timing dives through it.
And it's flamesy keeping it clean.
Apex executes.
JW bringing this one back, but it falls on Maxter's clutch.
Box not on a side from this distance, that's for sure.
The only thing saved it, oh P250.
Whoa, that's beautiful.
Rob's gives a little too much slack over, and Maxter finds the first of three.
Yeah, I don't play with Max.
But Zywoo has actually found timing slip down into the mud.
And that close proximity to the moment Maxter tries to go for a plant.
You're going to think Zywoo's Baretta's come up to roar.
And he has no idea, no link links in Spishon.
No way he clears this.
You already got the two kills on that.
Still looking out towards heaven, but he's so worried about the flank.
Not Zaiwu there on the ramp now.
Trying to figure out where the hell the second CT's at really just goes to show.
He has no idea that Zaiwu has managed to creep up this close.
And there's no time to do anything else.
And this plan is not going to come in.
dead. Unfortunately, Max are missed that timing as Zyru was able to creep out from graffiti
and so that seals the deal for the second pistol vitality closing the gap.
Yeah, Max definitely, you know, you had a chance if you wanted to go for an earlier plant,
that might have been respected. Maybe I would have had time to fake it so as I would,
maybe it doesn't peek right away, but it'll end at this one shot.
I'm not too pissed over this game here for vitality.
He's like I'm here, come get me.
Do you think it's out there?
So I heard he's got a bomb, it's easy for X, and the credit is out.
No fault there.
So it's Wolf Gets one.
But there it is.
As quick as they can, vitality tie this game up.
Tug some money made.
See, decide to look forward to.
Knowing you got both pistols, definitely takes the weight off your shoulders a little bit.
What the hell?
Um, excuse me?
The jade put that there.
What?
I scared me for a second. I was anticipating some kind of like the other month in the
answers. You know, balloon pops. It's just a clown inside. But instead, it's all the
distraction. Or is this round gone? Just a clown on the mic. And that wallbang killed the
kick-and-off. Trying to take short control. Apex found that one instantly. So this
first sunrise, or I ballers. It was just so quickly put to a real challenge.
They need some kind of lead.
One thing in front of offers you up on T-Sight is a raw entry power on the B-Sight,
especially if you let you out of monster.
Been getting at last
Looks good yeah try to find a space to open and all of them vitality so ready to just send flashes
its way and they are going to slatter the eyewallers
in the streets first attempt with guns here on overpass they get absolutely nothing going for them
Say it Connor
Vitality are in the lead
That of the same ring to it
That doesn't think feels good
I'd be moving saying it for a year now.
Yeah.
But vitality of definitely been tested.
You know, Nugus was no joke, and again, I didn't expect this one to get competitive,
does everyone in Sweden watching this game right now?
I mean, in the bars and everything.
I can just probably a lot of people cap a bar.
Are we on cap a bar right now?
Almost 7 p.m.
We're probably on the TV at the BME Studios.
Yes.
Shout out to those boys, but fast-play towards B.
And it's ball.
It would be entry.
You know, play with a little more lightning.
Unfortunately, the tech-nines are going to get shredded.
Max or down to 11 help and yet again, vitality ready to step up to that task.
So, majority of live, obviously, Eyeballers trying to change up the tempo,
not be as predictable.
And I mean, if you go back to a nubus, there was a couple of rounds like that,
like that, where their tech 9's did pop out and blast away vitality. But I think vitality's
comfort here on overpass is going to be that much more fine tuned. You catch them off guard
with the newest map in a new bus. Here I think it's just a great example of protocols for
those emergency moments. I mean, scaling is a really difficult part. You can totally
explode and overwhelm the B site with anything, but it's also easier to keep participants on
CT side. He's here to get a lot of utility damage before the exact happens.
The damage is only amplified the better, keep guess.
Oh, another deal with the best.
It's been started here from Rolf.
Flames he going on the expedition, and all that one jumps into his lap.
Freaked him out with the utility.
Shroud of the push.
The flashback is to perfection, yes, but why?
And Apex gives an 8-3 duel.
He takes over that boost.
So they'll go bathrooms and try to move this one towards that A-Sight.
Right now it is just Zaiwoo jumping around, having all this responsibility alone.
JW didn't get a chance to pull the trigger on Sight.
And Zaiwoo just talks into front of Optimus.
Yeah, I thought he got spotted, Bob.
Very much locked in on that clear.
And so they find enough room to put this bog down you'd think.
Bob tried to take a little more space,
challenge this bank retake 3B3 and a post plant,
looking good for the eye-ballers.
Take it flush!
The B-site, but Bob goes big!
Triple kill, bank control, bomb planted,
and eye-ballers, T-side, begins now.
Freaky, huh, Hunter?
I'm glad you didn't call me out for that. I didn't know. I don't know why I said that.
It's just because this name's Bob XD, so it just feels very PG right now.
But weird thing, I said, I was talking about JW.
Right, no, but Bob's listening. Oh, okay, you know.
Bob's listening.
Bob Earth.
Bobby.
Really felt like Vitality had control, but I mean, you know, wasting no time getting upstairs, and then I mean, it's hard clear, right?
Matt Flash was trying to get Zaiwoo in, but mystify a half second, and Paul just has this edge.
Next one's nasty.
Paul.
We could whip.
One round game.
Signs of life you're on T-side for eyeballs.
It's one.
Gotta try to build momentum off this.
That one's performance earned.
Us taking the second one serious now that the door could be a jar, but we've got a risky one from Robs.
A risky one.
I'm sure they either walk by and tell it to Lee or go through the crowd clear.
It's a little bit late.
Four kills.
We're so fixated here on Robbs that we don't get to see what happens to the B side, but it looks like one dies through the monster smoke.
It just doesn't such a good job with guysing any kind of threat there in Con just didn't feel like they're worried about it at all.
And, and, Master took a look, but didn't go further for the full clear.
And Robbs gets away with it.
So, it's just gonna be the one and done for this T side so far.
It's not GG just yet.
But that is a hard, just stomach round because it evaporates in three seconds.
The CTs gets keep so much money.
Texas wondering if you can even... maybe even take this off or...
Yeah, I mean, silver lining, it's three rounds of lost bonus at the moment for eye-bollars.
It was majority alive in the one round they won.
And it saved off as well, it did.
Maybe I spoke too soon.
Yeah, sorry, Dex.
Your game goes from back to worse.
3 and 16 did not even save.
The first part of that silver lining still exists,
but not the ob safe.
What was it?
That they had three rounds of lost bonus and the majority
of live in the round they won.
So I'm looking across the board here for eyeballs.
It's not going to be the prettiest of five,
But I've still got three players with 4,500 or more.
They'll go for the time out first.
Every comeback starts with a timeout.
I haven't seen anybody talk on these timeouts, actually.
Someone's got to be talking.
roll down.
If they're tapping into his overpass abilities, what do you know about vitality right
now that we don't?
How are you 15 and 10?
Scary prospect though, I mean you've got Zaiwu, Rob's both popping off now that just
solo Rob's hold.
always blows my mind sometimes to just remember that you can really just let
rops do whatever he wants play anywhere alone so trustworthy of his totally
by himself he just literally kill feed you two kills before you know it's
to operate on your own like that and have eight consecutive top 20
placements on hltv i mean
oh that's a big jumping collateral how do you eat it you see something
You every day. You every day. You've never seen that before and you might never see it again
and that's why counter strikes the best
a jumping
collateral and not. Yeah, I love this game
I mean, if anybody nobody if there's one person in the server who can't play in about some
It's got to be J-Dubs like it was.
So I was optional. That's like a lot of information here past a minute.
I would have been three hits on three flying targets.
I would just out here, skit shooting.
But he missed. So...
I couldn't at all have lined up, it's okay.
Should I could have wooded up?
See, he's a little bit out long, and this is really all the eyeballs.
There's our operating with the hope that they can just take control,
get closer to the bomb site and explode.
Apex about to confirm it.
Flash ready to interrupt this.
Apex jump spot.
Dex is counter-flashings a little bit better.
So I will miss chance but all's good times gonna try outside. We're not gonna get in on the entry. That's a quad kill for Zyru
and made all too easy to rounds away from securing flights to Malta.
So solid
You just don't ever see that
I'm doing this eight years never seen that ever seen that never see it again.
God freaky not this elephant again.
But why is there a fucking indable loon?
Yeah, that's a too many questions.
rocks takes the peak of bouncing. He'll be caught out. So it felt still able to deliver a 2k here with the limited by of the i-volars.
They're just trying to get to the next one. Play those four rounds for over five. And so I was five seven. Look at the strong as an off with the way he just closed line roll.
And okay, didn't you want us to fit again?
Done four four up four vitality. They have absolutely found their groove. There's one round win on this T side for i-volars and not even a bomb plant
In the seven rounds vitality of one otherwise can be overpass sometimes.
Obviously a map that I ballers are still comfortable on, but world number one, four-round gap.
Can't we be that surprised?
Why is this in here? How long has it been there?
What happens when you shoot the balloon?
I mean, it's got a fall, all right.
Why have we never seen it before?
Fickin' bugs, man.
This game's got bugs!
What if he got sick hate as everyone's in a while?
No.
Every year or something.
Since we don't celebrate anything anymore.
to
shame that the conversation around
i ballers versus vitality is going to end on such a sour note this is a team that obviously defeated face clan shot this all to start the bounty
showed real promise back on a new base i would have loved to see what they had up their sleep for mirage would have been funer more fun for them to try to finish this
upset there
damage here, but it's the stuff that's
getting good tools to.
T-side reality that is kind of broken
eyeballs and I don't want you to remember
them for this flat T-half.
You got to think about what they did
upon push.
They pushed vitality to the limit.
And they are still trying to fight
through this B-bond site.
So I'll stop the obituary for now.
Robbs and psi will be to try to crush
them in a two versus four to really
just add it on thick.
No second chances here at the
the Bounty single elimination online.
And Rob's finding that flank going
over towards the monster is going to put it on decks.
Set it over.
And 18.
Goes for the head and duel and loses out.
So vitality will survive the scare versus I-Bollars.
JW's chance at taking a swing versus Zaiwu
looks so good back on a new list.
But they know that they had a map three potential right there
for the taking.
And instead vitality will come and join us here in Malthum
for a chance at this year's first trophy.
Honestly, I ballers did manage the piece together,
one incredibly strong performance against vitality.
The best team in the world, the best team of 20-25,
it's a strong effort. There's a lot of positive to take away from it,
but this is what happens. You can get close,
but vitality know how to deal with these situations,
they're not to deal with these scenarios,
and the player pieces, the experience, the quality,
is just better.
I felt like when you were asking me in the pregame,
really what could you even poke a hole in in vitality?
It was a really tough ask.
I mean, they're just stuff to rise now and some of them.
The cognitive dual needs just.
I mean, yeah, I mean, it was a difficult answer question
because really there was no hole.
This was a darn good performance.
Sure, I've all those.
They did have us going a fit in the first half.
They've set aside, didn't mount a comeback off of some,
I'd say, some good rotations.
People like Bob XD, pull off some nice little antics like this
to spur them, some multi-frags from Maxter, but I just wasn't enough, and unfortunately
there, their T-site had nothing really to show, vitality were so on top of them in terms
of utility, A-site defenders and Roths and Zy were nearly flawless, so it was going to
be a tough-ask no matter what.
Yeah, and that's sometimes it's just the way the Pookie Crumbles, but this is a good experience
for the Eyeballers who were looking to take on bigger and better challenges, taking down
phase, they would not be forgotten, like they just took down phase.
If people look at this and say, oh, they just got 2 0 and that's the end of it.
I want to accept that because the quality of the game and what they showed was positive.
We have pizza standing by the coach of I ballers with us here who's given us many amazing
reactions, commissarations first of all may on the on the last, but you guys fought so hard.
You made it exciting, but how is your heart and how did you even reset after a new
because you were losing it man.
Yeah, I don't know why I'm, uh,
I might have a way, but I don't know why I'm even doing this anymore.
I mean, 35 years old feels like, yeah, I'm still shaking
from the game and all these clutch scenarios.
And, uh, special on a new biz felt that's coming into the game,
obviously playing against the best team in the world.
Uh, I think we were 176, six months ago, uh,
in the world ranking, uh, huge, huge step for the players
to come in and still be able to not only play, but to be able to dare against them.
I think that's what surprised me the most from my guys, because I think against FaceTime
the first game, like the communication was so off and coming in against Vitality,
I was expecting us to not be able to play first game first map, but they were really good
from from the geth go. So I'm super proud of the experience that we have got here. Obviously
sad that we couldn't win, but we're playing against the best team in the world. So yeah, I didn't
see us lose here this matchup, which feels weird to say, but yeah. No, I can completely get it and
understand what you're saying there, because the way you guys played was like a team of winners
happy to fight against one of the best teams in the world. How much do you think this will help you
now going forward in 2026 just in terms of the experienced gain or what you can work on
with the players also believing and knowing that they can fight against these kind of players.
So many different factors coming in obviously like the one that we get the experience confidence
to play but also on the other hand like I think teams might prepare a bit more for us I don't
I don't know how much my talented prepared against us.
So, there's so many factors coming into it,
but I think overall, like the experience
for the group as a whole, super, super important,
and also for the individuals.
And I'm really proud of the way everyone played.
I'm there to play, I'm there to make mistakes.
So, that's, I think, what we will be taking away
with us from this short, but amazing experience.
a great fight. It was really entertaining to watch you guys play against phase and vitality today.
I only got time for one question for you. So I just wanted to touch on the guy that we've really kind of your mark.
You're going to star Bob XD. I mean, what can you say about him as a player and how he's grown since joining you guys about seven months ago or so?
I'd say he is a guy that feels like he's not not scared in many situations.
Me and him can disagree what the solution should be.
But he is just now.
We make jokes with him that he only used W.
Yeah, that's obviously since he came in it's super super good player as the rest also
Well, Peter, thank you very much for your time.
Thank you for putting on a great show to tell the boys from ours that it was entertaining
And they definitely won some fans here over a blast and good luck for other rest of the season mate
Thank you, and thank you guys also take care
It's tough for him right in those moments
moments and there's a he will his heart on the sleeve when he first said that I
thought like does he not expect me on the end if you also show where we've
gone if he's right for the part to us. I mean it was really great to watch
I ballers here because there are team that maybe I'll see just maybe a half of
them here and there when I'm just kind of flipping through the tier two games now
and then but to see them actually take the fight to phase to show such improvement
because I feel like the last time I really watched them in depth or just for a game
live maybe four or five months ago, it's kind of like, what's really even going on here
is this project even worth anybody's time, but then now they're seriously sticking the
fight to vitality on a new bus. Unfortunately, couldn't keep going on overpass, but to
walk away with the win against phase at the beginning of the season, that is, it's going to
be hard to top that in some ways. It's going to, it almost feels like you're setting the expectation
so high, but seeing the result that early shows that there is some fruits to your labor.
Yeah, there's something to work with for sure.
A man has always got a lot to work,
and he's doing great work in the service.
Rob's now joining us from the vitality side of things.
He's made it over to multi.
He'd be joining us at the land finals.
Rob's pretty good and comfortable.
When would you say it bit scary at times, maybe?
Um, it was scary for sure.
I mean, I know this was close.
Then, uh, all of us got a lot of control.
Yeah.
Starts. So, you know, it was scary.
How ready were you for this new business?
like what was it that was kind of making it difficult for you guys? What were you struggling with?
I think it's just started from the Viter, I think it didn't really expect an obvious problem.
It could pick by them to test us because it's new map and it's for no other people prepared it or not,
but I think we had some good stuff and still working on the many things. So,
really nice to just play them up, get some experience on that map before we obviously go into lands
and bigger tournaments, but you guys just play really chaotic CS,
they're going through smokes, you know, the old school data,
but you still have the best of the kind of, you know,
we play very structured CS now, it's in the top CS,
so not really, not really for everything.
Perhaps what would it look like to top this year,
or what could even be an objective for this year after what 20, 25 was?
We're not thinking about that too much, I think that was, you know,
part of the issue, why we probably play that bit
towards the second season, because we tried to play up to that standard we had in the first
season of 25 and you kind of forget how the process was in the first season, how we got
there in the first place. So we just, we just said different goals. We don't want to, we
don't want to top the top of the year, if you respond, obviously we're not going to say
no, but I think the objective is to make the most out of the situation we're in, we're
in a very good place for the team. I think we're very strong. We have a lot of opportunities
to win trophies and I'm like there's we're not putting really a number on it we just want to make
them all out of it and when we look back on this team we can make sure that we have no regrets.
Well we know you always make the most of it Rob, thank you very much for joining us we'll see you
in a couple of days here in Malta. Thank you and see you there. A good very well put together
when in the end right so that they can go through down to stand this vitality. They'll never
shop to shake and buy this stuff. I got to stop talking we got to keep moving guys we're going
going into the next game with FUT taking on Furia and I did catch up with Lounge and
case of others. Listen to them, join this quick break.
I'm not gonna spill the beans of what we have spoken before, but regarding our price
value, we will have the same playstyle. I mean there's nothing to be scared of. I think
I mean for me especially, I even told them like this should be any other game. I'm playing
in our comfort, you know, even if it will be like, you know, it's still to be a comfort
But from our home I think it should be in our advantage because we're used to playing moral line the land
Yeah, so I do you think these guys on your team and do yourself?
Do you get a facing anyone?
No, I mean I have to be careful with the aggressiveness shit by then because they don't fucking care
They're the fucking underdogs. So they had to prove not for nothing for everyone. So they had to play their game
but to have some bees, mars, and concert is for sure.
Okay, so about our having the best year ever of his career,
I mean he's coming up with all the F's and blood.
Yeah, let's see.
Yeah, let's see.
It's like, Donald, language is a little bit.
I'm afraid he should relax.
He should live with him.
Maybe two relax, yeah.
Okay, we're getting into the video here.
I feel like foot should probably be going to the map like Mirage.
I've seen them have a lot of strength on that.
Yeah.
season fury probably going to be going for something maybe like overpass and uh
okay another nervous alright the underdog's really wanted today huh
Judo who's not gonna be happier that?
Jason Rodder
I mean we had some proxy on another bit but it feels the same because they changed
any shit on the map so it's kind of the same is still T-Site's work but we managed
when someone's on the city side, but it was very important,
but we are considering on that, I'm not sure.
Okay, from what you're saying there,
you want to see some changes.
Tell me what changes you want to see, man.
I mean, at least 50 50 CT and T,
or 55, 55, but it's still decided, bro.
If you guys, I can only, you're fucked, and I'm playing A.
So, yeah, you know, yeah, I know, I know.
if our bodies did jima.
But this one is the case tomorrow.
I have not seen Maddie's just chitted like we're just having
a casual conversation.
He's like, eh, this, that I don't like a nervous.
He's talking like it's an after party.
You know what, this is this is a official interview.
He's just swearin' on stop.
I got a bit of advice on it.
That's for sure.
What was that?
Okay.
He shocked me man.
I'm British, I should be the one saying this stuff.
He just came out with me doing.
I know, that was, that was uncold for it.
But I like it.
I like it.
That's comfortable and English. I'll give him that.
You know, that's that's a cool part of it.
Right. He's so chillin' maybe.
He just is not gonna be happy that they've gone for a new business.
He didn't know my way at this point.
He did not know to be that's not been done.
Oh, right. Okay.
I mean, yeah, what?
He's a last time around I saw him as an A anchor.
I don't think that's one of the least
and enviable spots.
I mean, what, you're just getting pelted
with ballies and smokes and flashes.
You're just constantly talking to him either.
Your screen is either gray or white half the time.
Yeah, he's not.
I can't blame him.
But he is one of the best players in the world.
had a very good year overall right and then it ended up selling a high placing very high
as well. Did you have them higher on your rankings? No, I had them about where HLTV put
on. Okay, yeah. We got an agreement, your handshake of HLTV. Amazing. Pretty similar, yeah.
When it's keep things moving, the game is ready. There's no time to wait, but you know,
who's always ready no matter what the time is. It's the amazing Scroan in London.
Thank you, James. Thank you, Maui Snake. Yes, moving swiftly into our last game before
the land portion of the bounty. That's what we're all here for us to see who can do it out once the playoffs come round.
Furia versus FUT.
Feet. I mean,
I'm in it.
Launders is right away. All right. Out of the gate.
Yeah, we got to feet on the server.
Foot e-sports.
Versus Furia.
Case for all to just jump drop from the server. We'll get him back in in a second.
Another underdog challenge coming through on a new bus.
The thing is we've already seen Furia play a new bus, Mohan.
versus another set of plucking underdogs and well, they stood up to that challenge, didn't they?
Yeah, they 100% did.
Ah, Furia, or again, another team or one of the few that have just continued to impress us, not been
scared here so far in this sort of online start to the year, my goodness, the Christmas lights from
lalinex. How's that not distracting? I know it's it's kind of wild.
Lala next uh we we met him at the Red Bull flick. ESA. Ah yes there's a champion of Red Bull flick
ESA. You're getting a chance to climb the ladder. It's CS2 eSports. Lovely to see a man with
great aim. We'll be able to come together versus the likes of fury
of though that's the big question obviously this event kind of started off with upset city
we said goodbye to phase and Navi far sooner than we would have liked to everybody else
is kind of settled in you know all the other favorites for the most part make it through
if you're here just a last approved they can do it i ballers gave us a real test versus vitality
at least on map one that's kind of it's so impressive though how many games foot of one just like
I guess this is almost like some kind of record they okay, they hadn't lost him on T in this November 30th game
That's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 series in a row would have been just now for one loss
There's no memory there's no way it flashes that aggressively
You just missed it unfortunately move. I saw you missed the last one. Oh, okay
Well, you're gonna miss the next one.
How do you play with that in the peripheral vision?
I don't know.
This guy must love Christmas.
How do you know that?
That's going to be just all night long, no problem.
He's got to be reaching for the remote.
It's got a remote, shouldn't it?
A foot pet.
Wow, it's going crazy.
There's no way.
That's mental. That's too much stimulus. I'm overstimulating and like he's not even trolling anybody
No, he also can see it except for us. That's just sat there having a grand old time
We'll see if it has an impact on the outcome of the game. Maybe since they've started winning
I think November 22nd, right? He's had it up can't take it down take it down until you secure that
That multiplayer, it says it's his playoff beard right now.
Well, it's a good thing he's not epileptic.
Yeah, maybe someone at home.
Yeah, let's do it.
Well, that's the worry about that, actually.
So, if you may suffer from seizures,
please tune out of the show now, because, uh,
or new before I need to allow him to highlight.
He's going to be playing all night long,
or at least what's wrapped left of this evening.
We got fallen back in the server.
I wonder is can you read the five names on foot for me real quick?
Yeah.
Could I be neat?
There's a oogie.
Consumience.
Hey, demon.
Alone.
X.
Ooh.
And Mollidoi.
We have the five players on foot.
Yep.
We are five toes of the other foot.
Oh, he's like, how many foot jokes do you think we can squeeze it at the?
I came ready to go with that one, that is good.
Uh...
I love that we come out of that tech pause, you know.
Football hyped for the challenge and it's a single P2 50 tap.
It just gives them a dose of reality. You can go stack that A-bomb site all you want.
Fury are going to just still walk around with options.
You can do it. It's going to go take a sniff towards the B-site.
and
activity heard here with the aggressive a main push
case roto
not going to get the quad immediately but still just killer execution on the first three
and fury up the two side begins with a pistol victory
what does it if you forgot dropped in the middle of all that that's scary
all the way late back as usual. Yeah, he had bad distraction offered up by a teammate and blind
sides everybody coming his way. That's the spot he's basically always in on the pistol.
It's just so good on this position. I'm further thinking about it, but I got a little distracted.
Be a shame of the, I mean, the rain of terror has ended some point. It's gotten them to play in this match.
so obviously it was coming but they put themselves in a spot to be like a
scary team for fury and to just have to be today. It kind of feels like how
I ballers were for vitality. In case Rado has mentioned, I'm super excited
about it here this. But it was excited about the T-sat.
You see, later, Lao.
Made it out of that one.
Early positioning, ready to roar through this B site.
We get a bit of a stack going on.
The three players have to pour left up.
Gravetti, good headshot.
That was not a gun for a second.
Demon picks one up as well, but it's Mollidoi here with the recovery.
Three kills to his name.
quickly off to the races.
Demon doubles back, smokes soon to fade.
He's concerned about falling over here.
And if you can push falling and drop that bomb,
there was something left to play out.
But Mollidoi really saved the day with that triple.
Make sure that there's no further bleeding.
And it's a conversion out of Furia.
And Demon was, I don't think we got to cast him.
But it was like a few years ago on Navi Jr.
that he was just now looked right.
And it was interesting to see, you know,
well, the thought of like, where he would go from there
because it just felt like everybody coming off this team
was gonna be successful right one way or another.
Just like the perfect feeders, this,
no, I'm getting it talked of late every once in a while,
like a great track record between monocene and dead.
And he was so young at the time.
Just felt like one of the biggest,
positives, there we go.
of having, uh, not be junior signings, like,
blades in your contacts.
Yeah, we would see your phone.
We'd see him also.
We'd just see him, like, it was only the only time
to really saw coach footage where he was actually
with the team.
Yes.
And, um, you know, you hear about that?
I would just love to be a fly on the wall.
I've never got to experience anything like that.
So, yeah, a coach of that caliber coming down to help you learn
counterstrike.
It's just like, really, it was a really cool thing to watch.
Like, just, as a counterstrike fan has, like, a fan of our scene.
to see the Academy teams get taken so seriously and to be so successful.
I felt like he was the biggest name in terms of like a coaching or support staff to go down into that level.
So he took it seriously.
I don't think you can be overstated how important the Academy League really was for a generation of players.
It's a shame that we don't still have it.
But here comes Cemetery hanging on with the op waiting for this line on long.
Oh, the timing, this time it's crazy, it gives up the spot.
Oh, it's all good though. He doesn't die, his teammates saved him.
So I'm able to fully escape case a robber.
Okay, well, what's the problem?
Jax, cleared out.
A site, cleared out.
Demon may find the fight back on to Fallen at least,
but it's still managed to cure Bifurio wasting in no time.
time applying that a long pressure and taking over site and the first gun round as well
that foot tried to bring to the table they go up against a very quick moving furious
in this one felt like they had a planet of spawn and they applied it to no real resistance
but really got there socks knocked off huh
it's going to be easy keep it coming mom keep it coming
You're still one out though, it was a good one.
I think I in the back of the fallen scams was what he's what only he was watching the game last
I think he's just working at the office.
Yeah.
I wonder if it's you in the same company.
Might be like their merch vendor, you know?
Right.
Just totally different mission in life.
Like, listen, John, I know you've got that really important project
for get done, but uh, okay, he's making the movie.
Follens gonna be competing from your office.
Molly, do I try to get ahead of that smoke?
Pissed on the other side.
Just knew we could get away with that until I'll be able to walk through the smoke as well.
They're being very aggressive. I love it. It's working.
Whoa, headshot. Yeah, nice.
Don't unravel that setup in an instant.
They didn't have the most to work with, but Molladoy makes sure that it's quick work for the first two.
demon at least brings it back by one but it's yet another round where Furia just
sink their teeth into that bomb site and there's no real resistance. Not enough to
win the round anyways. You can save though if you'd like put upgrades to be
had here inside of E-box. Yeah but that's another one added to the scoreboard
early. I saw it all the way to the slick and I was like I was shocked to see the
kill me because I was like there's no way that killed it and you see the headshot
as well. But a micro adjustment through the wall like not even like the far
part of the wall.
Frickin' call them right in front of him?
Fat part of the wall.
I keep saying that today.
I'm almost going on.
Frickin' cool around, man.
Don't sense it yourself.
I let it rip, man.
Think contractually I have to.
I'm not that we've sworn on this broadcast.
Oh, that's dirty.
Not dirty shot from all the way.
And I mean, he didn't skip a beat either in their last game.
Oh, he was monster. So far, the bounty has been his playground.
Fricking playground.
The longer I don't swear, the more you want to run back full it feels.
Right. Save up a good one for the day. Oh, I will.
and
seen a place where the full of last year playing
he threatened to go say that he said it all
said I don't say that what though it's
everyone was saying you should have retired at real right that was the consensus
that's what however was like sure no how can he retire this year
all things have changed
changed is what he was bringing to the table in a reo sure looked different than what he brought to the table in 2025
Trying to walk it out middle he'll be clipped out by crubbany
So it looks like foot may have found their first round. It's a 5v3 to still close out
Mr. Cindy what's that doing up there?
Trying to send smoke signals for reinforcements
the
tech pause works great here for foot apparently
two big fines
it's not gonna stop here from trying
already pressed up against the last year of box
to decide a main
to run out a couple positions get a little bit of an answer in the utility here
of foot who awkward trying to change your needs like that likely they don't get
jumped on in that moment.
An additional volley of nades comes over top that follow up Frank or fire rather
stops you kindergarten gets clip from behind fast move by Krabani to just
compromise the other side of this set and then you'd think there's no commitment here.
Might lay back draw some more you more utility.
I don't really know. I don't think foot will be looking for any kind of fight.
the
happy that they saved up this much money after buying
and
can
the
as the guns this run on two players and
survived last round with three
Now win one of five alive, so that's well done.
It's a good way to try to jump start a CT side here.
So first round, it's found six rounds in, off of the tack pause, like you said.
Yeah.
How did it do?
Coach comes in, cemetery opens.
And Molodeus got the opening shot instantly though, poor loud down now 1 and 4 his start.
And Fallen's gonna remain passive here on the bridge.
Ooh, I see tries to pull away for many comes in, good trade back by Molodeus, but it's
the man advantage lost as Crabetti pops two heads off that bridge peak.
I love they still going, they're still going looking for more in a three-on-three.
This just helps open up the map so much.
Oh, I can just fall into it.
And Spidey sense was tingling.
That timing gets shut down.
He can do our versus dugs.
He just wants to lock into his position, so concerned about that middle push.
and
the
c. T's got to push ahead of the timing
he's just not worried about this though
I mean you can do it but
two p's in the same pod is preeming a little deeper. Oh my goodness that works out so well for you
kinder I want to say he's just like way ahead of this timing on that departure still concerned about middle he's going to jump up because I think
I should get away with my all the way already prepared for that peek off.
Oh no, I'm not going to wear it as this too much.
He's just going to ace this route.
12 and 3 unstoppable so far.
And Fury, I respond to foot first around when.
With an instant answer right back, it's off to the safe.
And more pain as this T-side is dominating.
Who's getting number one this year?
It's a crazy question.
But there is no pride in where he's almost at all the other lane. Is it?
My god, it is the 18th.
Time flies.
Who gets number one this year?
Wild bat.
Donk.
Donk, okay, takes it back.
He does have a very cool team coming into the, yeah, exactly.
This is the studio that the players will soon be joining us in.
You think, well, honestly, you could get it.
I mean, Malcolm's figure it out.
Figure out their visa issues, maybe.
Yeah, that's actually the first step, probably.
Just, you know, because I felt like Malcolm's painted us,
like Malcolm's, this is the event they could win.
They could start this season up high.
And then obviously you secure the land portion of the event,
and you don't come in with one of your hottest prospects.
prospects. It's not the way anybody wants to start the year. Players support
staff, organization, T.O. fans alike. We want falcons firing on all cylinders so
that we get the best CS we can. So for now I'll say no.
Now I had X-Baking a move. He's been kind of shut out of a lot of these early
rounds and finally gets away with a bit of information but doesn't want to risk his life too long.
Crabini with the mid walk. Yeah, it's got your kindar on this side of the doors.
All the way right there with them and Mollido has been so sharp like so prepared for those little
tiny peaks, but not this one. You can do our guess the trade back at least.
One way or how was the offer and demon he might have found a get but I don't know.
Can our comes back at this worried about camera does he pre-clear the snow caught on the way back out nice on for demon
Man advantage with that
And fallen on shy below he's got the ball on his back
Walking into mid. It's a total call out
all out.
So one on one to kick it off with a soft spot,
although the CT is going to be only alert.
Oh, it doesn't matter, great hold.
Easy mode out on the approach.
Here he's going to dodge the option.
Pressure still on the top side to hold.
Changing guns here into the operas.
Good to burn him out.
There's the first of the three for you,
we've got this A-main flank coming silently,
having players stomping around,
And Demon's gonna be the one to put this on Ice's, but do find a second.
It's real nice moves here for Demon.
I mean, out of that small, and like,
knowing how to like replaces his team in,
who just got a kill as well, makes the rotation happen.
Building blocks put in place with that one.
I don't want anything to go wrong inside of Middle East Time.
There's no challenge to hear superior, you're worried about it because of the smoke, but
very much leaning back into this one, we'll get the minute 10 mark, it's really just
These are all the outside of the A-main, the fury I have to work with, so, foot start to feel the squeeze.
No flash. Oh, shots missed.
I don't know about Yuri.
Because I'm in a tap. Yuri is there to make sure that they don't let demon escape.
Trying to get into that fight, lucky you have survived the upshot.
Uncharacteristic miss from Mollidoi, he'll scoop up bomb.
And off that frag, it looks like Furious, start to take a look at B.
They love going to where you just depressed.
Oh, man, that's a huge play for Benny is got this mid-long now. They're coming to check on it.
Actually, he gets re-fragged out. This is just furious double-checking.
That's been a lot to see here as well.
He's been behind his pillar multiple times as well. He's literally been made it out of that without having a fight.
At least twice now.
Oh, double kill! From Zogs!
10 seconds, and it's gonna put pressure on Cacerano to try to push this out through
camera.
Roll the E-box peak and he gets off for her.
I can't miss what a clutch.
What an absolutely insane hold.
But like that bomb site was all furious for the taking the fact that they get loud and
extra behind the pillar with just their names.
Yeah, that was beyond done.
Like it had already been picked up.
That is sharp rifle work.
We're getting clips done to great teams.
Look what it earns them as well. Pistol's here for Furia.
Chants at build. That's the building blocks are in place.
Would you just throw a wrench in the works?
Jugg's right back at it with aggressive move out towards A, just on the frame, Malmidoi.
Get a pounce on him using the AK.
No second fight instantly.
Corbany hangs off too long, and then that camera hold comes through.
Triple kill is they tried to force their way through smoke.
Well, back to back quad kills, coming out of foot players.
We've got Furia, slowly losing this lead.
Yeah, no kidding, and Corbany is like every single round.
He's kind of had a kill or more with massive impact that's kind of turned the tides
Different parts of the map
Okay, so I was talking about how this map is still very very decent, but you can see what you can do if you have the right players and the right positions here
They're making these holes look easy
No free wins here at the bounty
the
the
try to be stubborn about getting through all
that all of the opening
asking all two easy for
crubani two flashes
dodged four players killed
that's his site
One damage frag your nade.
And you can feel that approach going down towards middle.
You can do our looks to come and join Fallen.
That's the pistols on the other side of this door.
but it's the pistols and the bomb.
And put, looking to put,
Kribani behind the doorway,
his multi-kill potential's been light so.
But he leaves at the side of that utility
over towards long, just throwing himself
inside of camera instead.
Sancle's been very kind to him.
That's Demons' chance to take contact.
Flash, rumbling comes through.
Yuri actually kills Kribani.
Now, demon needed the multi-kill,
but Yuri's going to get the double veridis.
Jucks again, a triple.
Subjectory Co-Hall, through with the op connection,
bomb is at the feet of the CTs.
OK, and Sorato is going to come back towards middle,
blinding the op, forcing it to dive into the cover of Temple.
Another flash to try to regain possession of this bomb.
There is still time to piece together this clutch.
He's got to go.
And it's being covered.
Kills his.
No time now.
Unfortunately, the clock comes back to Haunt Fury,
and that lead they once had, has visual though.
I mean it's so amazing the sprays that are happening right now from multiple players here on foot
At Fira have made mid, central to their game plan. It's been a no issue
Well, it's had their rifles and now they're feeling that confidence coming into the
12.
Better be careful though, because Jeria still have tools for the job and they've already
got this rapid pace set towards Long A. It's a bad need bouncing out of the windows.
I'm not going to a little bit better.
Puri, I just tried to scramble to the fences.
Can't wait to walk on any ground.
It's going to go in forward with the full pop.
You can fall in the full belt of utility.
You're going to run into the two multi-fragments here for that's how you do it.
Yeah, right. Big spray down potential here on long.
long spoke about to come out, flash to be every day.
Good, blinds one, always got full of weight from the corner.
So, Benny, only with one kill, the tech nights prevail.
Upgrades to be found, and there's no rotation nearby either.
They were so confident that those two players who have shown us great
multi-kill potential would have gotten more than they did.
Damage on majority of the furious squad, but it's that deep positioning
already up inside of heaven here for you.
where you can't do it right there to try and tie them off of him.
And now, loud down to nine as well.
You're right.
You'll find one.
The Skullman gets blasted off of the fountain.
It's a Mollidoi clutch.
He's been the hands-down best player for Furia.
And he's going to add a clutch to the board.
A 1v2, a 17 and 7 half for Mollidoi.
Yet again, the pillar of this Furia team.
This team to the clock.
another close call coming out of fury and round 11,
opfines the pitkill.
Somebody's got a clear brawl and out of this corner.
And here comes search and sprinting into the mode of smoke to
setting the curve ball through what?
Again, he can play it.
Again, just enough time.
One V3, queued up from all a joy.
Panna versus Torsey.
And he looks the wrong direction.
Does he get wind of it?
Oh, he's right down there with a peak, but
Mala doys still hiding in Torsey doesn't know.
He gives up no-oh, takes the no-scope to the chest, and it's another clutch from all
the doughy his second up this half alone.
Round number 18, Furia.
Five kills away from the big stage at the Moody Center.
They just need to clean this round and it starts to well-casear off, so that's slaughtered,
flammers as he tries to burst into the smoke here, nice jump off, but casear off just
out there. That M4 doing all the work, it's a massive quad kill. And he already had
the almost had the Ace earlier. This time he's going to try and see if he can really
complete it. You have to be out and he gets it. And Ace, to get to the playoffs.
You said Fulton's been quiet on in front of, well, he can't afford to be quiet here in
round 22. Do they do a contact to this? It's really going to be just dry. It is into the
orb. Cano activates if he's necessary. Now the name does chip damage, but still that
and the ball is under their control
and the full and steps up.
Deliver's when his team needed most a triple kill
on the yorp.
Down goes record A and the job is done.
The round is won 11 11 11.
I know what, Yuri, a wishing for.
Another one of them from following four kills in the round.
Yorias 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
and Eleanor, they right off this track.
It's epic, it is.
This is your kindergarten trying to charge it down.
He's a bulldozer, me go last man standing here inside of the site.
It's a clipper, you will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
One monster, you can't do it.
Take a look, nothing that he can see.
But if you continue on this journey, you could have caught them off guard.
Followed, boy, though, overwiser.
Magazine's out there.
fall and joy, though, over-wise there.
Magazine's entertaining him.
You get mad.
No, I'm turning him.
Some Pius found a kill as well towards him.
All it does, able to get one.
Three on five.
Get that 4k, there's one.
Makes it all the harder.
Four shots.
Four health.
This is a crazy place.
Some Pius looking for him to go up above.
No kid here for some Pius either.
He's wasting critical time on this.
But he does manage to get out another miss shot here
From all the joy, the last shot close as pistol.
It almost looked like G2 would take it.
But the 5B3, Mollidoi, the sole survivor.
Two round lead for Furia coming to this one.
They've rode some real highs.
As we saw in that highlight package in 2025.
And now, such a good final, my goodness.
We're now getting pushed by foot.
Yeah, they've got to foot in their mouth.
the same
still trailing by two but they'll take over that t-side on their map pick
saw some solid rifling from crubbany and ziugs
i mean they got the maltese that i don't even think i agree only only mulledoy stood out above everyone else
and mulledoy did stand out del man
Some pretty incredible work from him as we've come to expect
Kind of felt like at times though the rest of Furio were like their confident Molladoi will do enough to win
So individually like we haven't had that big moment from anybody else just yet, right?
We'll see if the CT side just lets everybody kind of slot into their positions and
Hold back the challengers
So it has to be careful about when they go for fakes like this, their play is furious.
So if you're going to go back into fallback protocols, they're going to actively check.
If they come back and actively check, they'll see anything that suddenly you're going to get
an overstack site.
You wouldn't have.
Good entry.
C-M-Tree with one.
Dine on the cross over, Eury, takes that edge back, man advantage for the retake, but it is bomb
planted.
We've got to kit on Fallen.
It's going to be three players working their way up long for now.
Molly do I remain smoked off in temple.
And so, allow first contacts.
For Benny over towards jail, just keep it at space, press against the wall.
Oh, taps from LOW and that.
The jugs comes through with a headshot as well.
And now, Molly's going to get's put two kills from each of those remaining attackers.
And the gap gets cut down by the pistol.
A momentous start, cut up here for foot.
Their aim just is it's so impressive and and now it's not rifles as well
Crazy couple of pistol shots here from loud
I'll be able to say that about myself
you
you guys have talked about that right but you have yeah yeah okay have a connection
did you like the fight for the identity or did he just did you know no he was like
or brothers okay yeah
I don't know if I'm like that, or I know too old to the death.
This will be as they press down into the against out there better be careful because
it's more than just him inside this bomb site that got you the rags.
They're taking me to the starting to ride it off.
I'm falling pressed up against the smoke.
It's the numbers advantage for Furia in the site that makes all of the difference in
this one.
They quite literally didn't see two people.
As they were about to get that bomb planted, thought they had done enough work, but
yeah, that's a Furia stack they ran into.
And then even then, right, Molly do I get that deagle from inside of the site?
The pantry just says like yeah, he's there and then the two long players
compushing in full confidence looking for that cake duel.
And they're like at worst there's one guy out.
We can't find, we'll find them together.
No.
And they don't even run into like say a P250, but just straight up that empty nine.
Just staying on the side of the phone, that's so great.
Wow, look at the flex the advantage that he can have in slow-stop bottom stairs sucks to be foot completely ruined
Why that is plenty of pretty sure
Again, they keep updating info
All in flying away, leave this one to Yuri.
Dangerous and close these tech nines.
Yuri's not able to keep falling alive.
There's damage from all the joy you can do to make the gap.
Widen, there's a theory of favor, bomb splinter, flush back.
But still, an M4 now, in the hands of Deoggs.
Mr. Multi-Fragger. Who he gives it up?
Interesting. That's really weird, actually.
I guess this ain't finds him, so it makes sense in the end.
You'd actually rather see him treat to have it.
Genius.
He's also now late-hated low, and the M4 finds the cover.
There's no kit here for the retake. They've got to get it going.
They've got to go now.
If kids are over on the platform, so somebody's going to have to go scoop one up.
He get, oh, he did.
I didn't even know.
All right, Molly doing naped it, and it's all good in the end.
But still, push to the absolute limits off of the back of the tech nine rush.
I feel like there's just crazy awareness right there,
right there because you're not going to ask your teammate for him for, but if they, like,
he recognized the C.M. tree's position on that pillar. I mean, I guess he's like, you can
take the first fight and immediately throw it over to him. That's such a clutch move to make
and I pressure it's hot, or you can easily just say, well, whoever's done they got in line.
Let's hit, let him have the frags. Almost works out.
I thought it keeps Fury on their toes, but more feed stuff.
It's a can't avoid it, yeah, it's just...
My Fury, I keep playing with canals though, it feels like it's kind of stifling
foot. We'll see when we get back to the gun rounds and that part of the map starts to turn
into their Achilles heel. You can do our scramble and inside of the site trying to get an
head of this and so little delirus. Oh, it's just come charging out without one gun. You pick
up that M4 demon's gonna utilize it well, but the numbers get whittle back down. And you
were here's that drop inside of the side so they know there's still somebody press
That close could have tried to drop fire down on top of him at him for over towards
walk.
Oh, laughs gets cleared.
Down goes the weapon, Samtree, trying to get it going instead, but it's furious recovery
yet again.
I'm just as impressed with Furious.
I am with almost every single round.
They've both shown something in each of these situations.
That's really impressive.
And I feel like it was, again, the guy who got the gun, gave it to somebody else.
I didn't see I was watching from that either way they used it to get their entry which was huge
Good off the tack last time
Take the tack toe corner
A free crowbar to go to tactile what wonders
You're playing chess their play take that. Oh, okay
Okay, give you a half point for that one.
That's right, you guys.
That's a big foot.
I'm not talking about the Yeti.
the
leading gun rounds
for the T-side
the opportunity this time
they want to play for the bridge and you can dart
yeah he's got a locked in and crue any comes out with the headshot
who was trapped in with who
that's the door you can do wanted but
This is time to work, yeah.
Oh, that's great.
Fine.
Good on Kcerato.
It's time to go.
Oh, but this guy's going to go all in on me in that moment.
And they'll clear it.
Falling dead with nothing, Kcerato comes through just has enough to work with.
Here on Temple.
Add a bit of chip damage.
See, I'm tree.
Kcerato tight down to three quarters to help the fallbacks there in position.
It might not be able to even think about this.
The smoke is so fresh.
I'm always got enough, and this very handsome score line of 22 and 8 wouldn't want to spoil that.
I used to see foot jump on that opportunity, you know, the midkill from Crabani is not quite tethered over would be, but they just sense that weakness, jumping with numbers.
They've got both of those defenders going down with nothing.
the
ready for it. Yeah, so it's not like they're not ready for it. I mean in their first series as well, right? They're opposition trying to pick a new bus
So even the officials people think of the bacon just take a swing at one of the best
So cousin the new map. He's sorry
They go wide around Mollidoy
We won't see anything for now
the
but i mean they just know what's happening
mulled away hasn't been smoked out they just tried to avoid it
not to arouse suspicion but no noise is still information
and the full exact coming behind us
this smoke they're gonna have to jump through a trailer and committed so much utility
see if he's dropping needs on it just to try to soften them up
Fallen right here. Just lay down lead. He's got himself two kills. Oh, triple for Fallen.
For Benny's got answers. Headshots from him once again. How many rifle rounds turn into
multi-frags for this guy and he's got open runway to sprint towards the other side but he has
a moment of hesitation here. The cap at off. He's got to kill Mollidoy. He's 22 and eight with the
up, full HP,
Cabini Trest, a cut noise,
maybe just to make it seem like he could
re-aggress, and he totally could still.
But we see the commitment and we see the commitment
from all I do as well.
He's sure footed.
I actually didn't mean that one.
Sitting here with the desert eagle as well, right?
Side arm out, just looking for the headshot.
Discorb any, consider it.
Yeah, yeah, what a real.
Wow.
And that shot from the eagle landed.
And that's the one on three, right?
With the four, okay?
Yep. What if it had been the op?
Maybe harder to play inside that corner.
All the way sitting there like, I'm not getting cleared.
I think that's just...
What do you really smart think in here for Crabin? Crabinny.
That would the headshot as well. So pressure back on two round game and the economy bottoms out from beneath Furia.
Yeah, that's a huge clutch. They're coming through with the desert eagles
Cobra, Cabrini, Cabrini, Cabrini, and ducks keeping this dream alive
Oh, that's a AIDS case or auto out of this one. That was gonna be fury with the great double nights they've got them too
and
meticulously pulling apart this midset up
all the way with nothing to show for it in this round
we're going to be looking to one round game in a second
you're ready to say footer in the lead
I don't know if I believe it yet
Yeah, we'll have to see, we're seeing great rounds back and forth and obviously the last one was narrowly one by a great clutch.
But otherwise would have been a total shutdown over on a side. It was full information.
They're making great use of e-boxes. You know, while the do is happy to peek at every round.
And even when they've smoked it, they push out of the smoke to hold inside of canal. So that audaciousness, I think, has just been really annoying for fun.
I'm gonna do way to use Molodeo here.
Oh, wow, is respect.
Wait, I mean, this is gonna work.
I'll probably cut off, or are they watching?
Cause there's half of the health gone to the frown.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
the double knee kills we've seen this thing.
That one's a nastiest.
It keeps the Rotto, it's got an easy position on the side
of the smoke to hold with.
Oh, it's insane.
No scope, smoke shot.
And now they can safely get this bomb down.
I don't know.
We have Mollido, I can't do anything for them up here.
It's the full-on retake.
And if you're, I've been really good on this retake stuff.
Fallen comes through, executes the offer, another frag grenade, perfectly placed, and the camera
kill comes out from Yuri.
It's up to 1v4, not gonna happen this time around.
The double needs into camera.
No, that's wild.
That was such a big call out into the smoke, knowing someone was sitting there.
They're clearly so well-crafted.
Especially with however using e-box when they're keeping information when they've stacked
They haven't even had the confirmed vision to know.
And I'm thinking this is going to work because the splits here is only two pairs of
side. There's not even a third close rotator really. And they've lost mid-control.
This is the best part about it. I thought probably attack somehow for foot.
That's why he said you couldn't really believe it even though it was a one-round game.
I'm a heroine, it just looks dominant.
the
still with all of the rifles they need and a little more room than what they've been afforded right
effective all the time's fury of
contended
with ebox right now all the dois just holding the pass of angle
fire burns them off of that line so lot of softening damage done inside of
the balladoy still able to catch the five before yeah just goes really wide around the
Molotov and gets his angle and
crombone unfortunately.
That's that's a worst case
situation here for flood.
He's been just such a
difference maker in moments
like these.
Now Molotov is going to have
a good line and the potential
for fallback off these
proceeding shots.
He's the flashbang.
Stop the long the pillar.
Ball and tries to give
cover will collect one kill.
And Molotov, I'm not too
concerned about his back
as it remains smoked.
Flames in front of him.
He can sit here.
He'll replace that smoke
grenade.
You can't arm with the double
lock variation is going to
lock in what feels like a
12 round here for Furia. There's a double push on both sides. They want this tempo flank to
come through foot. But by the time it gets to the bombsite, Molodeo is too kills deep and
Furia secure there. 12. That's so clean. And I love the deep Molotov that they use to try to
push them back. And that's why they were just so unprepared for Molodeo being there. Like they're
trying their best to really like pay attention to what Furia won and disrespected as much as possible.
but like it's just not comparing to how again how a dacist area are being, regardless,
can't get anything.
The double-oppel persisted into this round two, at point for Furia.
That's what I'm talking about.
Ouch.
The double-nades is good.
It's uncanny.
I know we've had it.
You know, sometimes it's like one team just nails it all the time,
and both been grass sick at it.
Put about answers, trying to mirror that fury of energy.
Although it's not afraid of your tech nine sees that as an invitation, but
looking this off could allow for them to go for the gap closed. So he'll pop it open. That's what he was looking for.
Famous trying to close that distance. They were falling for it, but he missed his shot.
I think a position on platform and steady.
Got two teammates to work with. Lots of Miss shots here from all the doymen. Demon rips his head off.
That's going to serve as the trigger here for foot. They'll go sprinting in. Fallen gets
It's bested and not a single kill from Fury, a despite plenty of opportunities there for the 24 and 11 Molladoi.
I mean, three of the shots from Molladoi just doesn't normally happen and even his tactic to throw that smoke down and then just blow it open immediately to draw them forward work.
They got the info. He had opportunities to hit shots.
That's a weird one because Molladoi setting himself up the whole time, you know, but just trips over his own feet.
But now, double digit secured.
To do that, five alive, fine free upgrades.
I mean, foot come under this with real limitations.
Played right into how fury up, planned that to go.
Yeah, I mean, some rounds are going to be a gift.
So, you need even fury up, can...
It's just fury, I kind of failing to take off.
Some reason I need to think you'd be that tilted about it, but this game is very close.
You know you just had a golden opportunity to try to end this.
Fallen's been the guy to remind Mollidoi just to, yeah, I think not get too down on himself in any kind of moments
And I mean, he's still gonna get a game like this, like you absolutely shouldn't be sort of put up like five unbelievable rounds.
to
get close in the double up that we've seen you can
be a fine to kill with already
who would have been up and the
are to say
this timing they continue with it could be
on a few days are
I don't realize they could actually just walk into the spot, but now they know the exact
is coming through.
Jumping in, case of auto, headshot from him, to kick down, holds the line, but now pressure
on him, fire his feet, all he stops the cemetery in the background, and now, wow, that
is going to try to smoke off camera, scoops up, bomb, and wants to get out of here.
Flashbangs just one form of pressure, but furious.
I can get that bomb down fast, is they've got to wait.
Put that down quickly before fear, I can get their full flank in place.
I'll do a concern that they're going to try to lock up with position on long at his not the case.
He's going for the slow approach.
I like this doubling up in heaven.
There's a kid on a U.R.E. hear towards camera,
but if it dies on the way in, and if Mollidoi has to come up with a clutch,
he's got to pick up the kid that's over towards the fountain.
Oh!
Touch day!
Flowers been found out!
And Fallen's hear to close it.
They don't manage in the one-round prior,
but Yuri jumps on top of that bomb,
and we go 13-10 on the challenge.
challenge. It's a parallel to that of vitality pushed by i-bollars. The underdog's
try to take a swing on a new risk, but it still comes up the way of the favourites.
A swing and a missed from FUT going up against the big dogs in Furia. They tried a bit of
this a new risk to flow into it to see if Furia will not ready for it, but they may not like the
map, but they certainly were ready for it in the first time they played off here and once again
to that you're not fooling him against his lower down team and you're really not fooling
Molodei. I feel like he's got to be the story of this game and he was just masterful.
There were so few moments where it felt like anything foot did even bothered him,
didn't matter if they were trying to throw utility to push him off of an angle,
trying to force him in a late round. He was probably the most perfect player you could have asked
for in this kind of game. So, Furia, kind of escaping by the skin of their teeth in some ways,
because I mean, something that's kind of crazy about this game is you look at the scoreline.
No one really showed up other than Mollidoi, but it was definitely enough to get them over the line.
Yeah, it was kind of like a middling performance in the rest while Mollidoi was picking up
all the extra kills in there. I guess they were maybe not wanting to fight too much against a team like
FUT who would love and welcome that challenge to find themselves some advantages and push the limits
of what Fury has to offer. But it did stop with a lot of positives, at least in the first half
for the side of FUT. We can talk about it positive player for sure.
Yugs was just so great in the late rounds for FUT.
I feel like the most exciting thing about this guy is that really he's just kind of
leveled up his game so much in the last year and a half.
Even though this became a really hairy situation theory of this mantle kicked apart
the bomb site.
This is just master.
Again, like so clean, understanding where the last fight is from, doesn't actually
nail the nail.
I don't think, but it's still the positioning is great.
The aim is so solid.
It almost feels like when I'm watching his aim, it's just no wasted movement.
It's so, so just snappy onto the player and then it just locks.
What I like there right and we played this in Slomo after us to show that he wasn't going to let the fight come to him right by them just staying in a position.
He wanted to go and approach it without going too wide and just a little bit, little bit,
taking his fights, picking and choosing when he wants to take him.
And that's what made the difference here.
Because it's not very often you'll be able to do that against a team like Furrier, especially how connected they were,
or something when I was just looking up foot a little bit
coming into this is the ratings that they all had when they were on
Navi Junior. Of course, Macasay was playing instead of
loud, long, back then. But Jogga was kind of a meddling player. He was
actually the second lowest rated on the team. He was the
actually the lowest rated rifler on the team. But now for the last three
months, I think if you even go back to six months, he is in fact
their highest rated player. So it's it's really impressive how he is
clearly come into form as as this closer for them.
When you need some extra oomph in a late round,
he's really good at just getting that extra multi-frag.
And I think part of it is sure he's getting more comfort,
but I really love his aim.
It just feels like it's so locked on to people.
I mean, I mean, James, we look at people's mechanics pretty closely,
sometimes and he's, I just love when he snaps onto a player.
I'm not watching it just go in some random problems.
And then back to a little bit of it.
And then this way, no, he's straight on it.
Yes, exactly.
And when we say in that, I'm glad you're mentioning about what they were in the past.
Were they an arbitrary, obviously, I thought I'm a little bit more close to you than you're
looking at this team where McCarthy was a star and McCarthy was the one I've almost
looking at.
But the individuals as well, maybe we're lacking something in terms of the experience.
They were just some lands, the smaller lands.
They went online events that were like positive for him.
But then, McCarthy goes out, he gets picked onto the main roster and you start to see when
Lounge comes in, the his experiences helping him.
He touched on this himself.
He said the fact that because he's got this experience in life, not just the game, it's
something you're helping the team get things kind of under control.
And they do seem like a better team chemistry wise right now, which is definitely better
fitting them.
Yeah, reminder for everybody that's watching foot for the first time here.
All this player on the team is Corbany and Long's both the 20 years of age.
The rest of them are just teenagers.
So for them to even be fighting into some of these tournaments, I remember watching them at
CAC, where they were able to take down phase to get to the playoffs there, that was a huge
surprise victory.
That's why they're an exciting team.
One that I would say is probably at the top of tier two,
I wouldn't consider them that tier 1.5 roster.
Yeah, because it's still kind of in and out of these sort of tournaments,
but they've actually taken some big dogs down already.
And they've got this confidence to jump up as well.
And they're so hungry for you here.
You see it.
And that's the beauty of this play within this team.
We also got to talk about some of the positive of fear.
They did end up winning this map.
We're not just going to sing the phrases that you've got to do.
You know, losing results again.
But it was the force by win, right?
was kind of moments like that where you see Furious Confidence Furious individual step up that isn't
just more like a whole time. To me, this sort of reads is to why, I mean, this is a little bit
of a surprise pick for foot to be getting a new basin and you could see with a minute and 30 left,
they're already trying to go for an eight front. Maybe they had some read on Furry in the prep here,
but all on all, there was only one map this season that Furry played. So to go for a split this
quickly to me, kind of spoke to the fact that maybe the one at some of the aspects of
foot that they could work on in the future are just calling for cancels and just recognizing
eight. Just good calendar utility in front of us right out. Maybe we shouldn't just push through
amen, slow the round down a little bit. It's kind of what you'd expect from a younger underdog team.
Overconfidence can kind of be a kick in the thief every now and again right. You can just run into
those moments. One of the way we keep talking about him so positively in this many reasons why
This guy was not on just rookie of the year, but had he played a fully and he could have been even higher up on the rankings, but this guy is the truth.
Crazy to even think about that. I mean, I feel like the contest between operas in the world right now on a more macro level would probably be between him and Shara.
Because if he actually got to play all of 2025 out with Yuri, give him a couple more tournaments, maybe he collects another accolader too,
then there's a real case to be made that he is a more impactful
upper than Cheryl, because I'm not going to put him on the level of
monocene psi who would be the occupants of my S tier right now.
Okay. But Moladoy and Shiro both are kind of in that A plus zone.
And Moladoy, I'd say, has all the tools to jump up into that next tier,
because he's so proactive, so good at playing around opponents utility,
whereas Shiro, he's slowly gotten more aggressive over the years.
I almost feel like for Moladoy, I just want him to sometimes
feel back a little bit more, you know, slow down because your life is a little bit more
valuable, but this game didn't even matter. I mean, every single fight he took,
it felt like he was winning it.
These kind of maps are confidence-building from all of the way. I like when you said
that sometimes you would want him to peel back a little bit. I mean, that's just what he's
learning. We've started to see if you compare it to a start of what it's every peak,
every swing. I still see some of these moments where I'm like, you don't need to repeat this.
You can maybe have the hit it. And it's interesting when you do, but you stay alive,
give them the round. It's kind of, there's two sides to the coin here. Whether you want an
offer to come into the space more like simple, where you're going to limit tests every single
fight to see what you can get away with into your one, or do you want to guy that's maybe a
little bit more like X-I where he's just trying to make the proper decision every single time.
So I'd say that Molo do I clearly taking a little bit more from the simple camp in that regard
or maybe more recently the monacy camp guys that are just really flashy, really trying to see
if they can take over games and, well, I'm going to be honest.
I think that Furia relish the opportunity to play with a guy that was limit testing this
much because it really gave them a shot in the arm in terms of their CT size last year.
It really didn't have political teams to do so, as well.
We'll keep an eye on it across the whole year.
But for now, we need to go to a break.
Overpass is coming up next.
It's Furia's pick.
This is their tried and tested map.
They should be very confident going into it.
But let's see how much limit testing FUT can do of their own.
That's what I've got my eyes on.
Now, so you guys had a very strong game against OG to kick things off with here at
the Blast Bounty, but you also did this and performed very well while the Christmas tree
was going crazy.
How do you not get distracted, man?
I mean, I don't have an answer, but I mean it has been on since I don't know, I think
21st of December and I didn't stop it since then, like not even in the night, you know,
so it's 24 out of 7 and I think my eyes just got used to it, but yeah, I just don't find it as a distraction, you know,
I think it's actually more like a focus thing, you know, I can focus on the main screen better. I don't.
Well, you're going to be ready for when you hit the big stages in the big events. Nothing's going to distract you.
It's going to work out very well. Yeah, I think it will help me pretty much. If you want to say,
I think this is a training, no need for stability.
Maybe you keep it up, oh yeah, long.
I mean, I was thinking about that,
but to be honest, yeah, that's like an insight you'll now
for us, but I thought like, my mom is coming here,
you know, like some guests, and they'll think I'm crazy
probably.
I think I can keep it until maximum favor,
but in favor, you have to take it off.
Okay, okay, I like what you doing there.
Getting back on to more of the game
and yourself within this team,
But despite you still being very young, you're only 20 years old.
You're one of the more experienced players within this team.
How does your experience help your teammates
as you're working your way up through the rankings?
I mean, to be honest, I think it's a hard answer
from me to be honest, because it's about more myself.
I think I can ask my teammates this,
but for my point of view, the experience
is more like outside the game, you know?
Because inside the game I feel like this kid's are so evolved and so matured in game that I don't know
I really feel like I looked at a very good job with them
Like even in Pire and I have the food like that very mature for the region
I don't know, it's more like outside the game where I come with my experiences in life with teams
It's everything I've done wrong and bad stuff like this
Okay, well it sounds very positive I like what I'm hearing
and you are putting up some positive performances
and some numbers in here.
Do we feel like we're getting maybe
the best version of you we've ever seen?
I mean, for sure, I'm on my way up.
I always said I didn't reach my primary yet.
I was good when I was young,
but I did some stupid mistakes.
I took some bad decisions,
but I'm happy I got to learn from those mistakes
because now I'm attending.
I feel very mature when it comes to your life expectations
and what I should do is yes.
So yeah, from now I just need to work,
grind and enjoy the game because this is a blessing what we do right now.
Very true and what mistakes did you learn from when you when you're younger career?
Just maybe this could help other gamers as well.
I mean to do honest it's more like staying on the right path you know because I feel
young and you're very talented I think it can go very wrong I first thing around the
wrong people I feel hang out with bad people it just need to focus on your vision focus
on your game because like friends will come and go.
It's hard to say stuff like this, it doesn't matter, you know, like you should just focus on the career and that's it.
I don't know about you guys at home, but hearing that makes me happy.
I am now a Lounge fan 20 years old and he's spitting knowledge like that.
He's way ahead of a lot of plans. We've had more success in the more things because they don't understand that already.
There's been a lot of players from Europe who were kind of journeymen across tier 2 teams where we knew they were extremely talented,
But then they got a bit of a bad reputation for attitude and I feel like long
a couple years ago, I'm not going to say explicitly, but it seemed like that could have been
the case for him because he was so, so good on Sprout.
And then we don't really see him get all those higher level opportunities.
So for him to be as reflective as he showed in that interview, and to now be taking this
foot opportunity and stride. It's nice because he understands he needed to just focus, lock in,
and now he looks really sharp for doing it. Yeah, really positive stuff coming out from him,
but I'm not so positive about this team's overpass. It's not a map they play all too
well from mate. They've been some team like I bought a lot of, for example, but it's not a,
not looking too pretty when they're going to pick Dura. Not when you're playing a fury a who had
a 12 map win streak last season. I think it was the longest active map streak we had against Ant or on any
to your one team, a theory of where the best team in the world last year on overpass.
I have no doubt saying that I would even say that they should have gone toe to toe with
vitality whenever they played them on it. And so that's why this is going to be an uphill
battle. That's why this was furious pick and it makes me believe that this series is
likely over here. Well, maybe it is over. We'll have to wait and see, but this is my last time
desk hosting in the end here. We're back to the stage and interviews after this. So,
escorting lotus one final time take my energy go
spirit bomb you Dragon Ball Z fan yeah big time yeah who's your favorite
character I'm gonna go with go on these my name right with them oh you
never peace that together wonders never peace that together perceptive of you
go well I think of you as laundry is more often than mohon perhaps for
Oh.
Okay.
So, pretty bleak picture.
World's best overpass team.
Versus flies to go into the bathroom and put water in my hair and make it like trunks.
It's a little add-of-luster-puff.
Cool guy.
Cool guy.
Primary school.
We got a cool guy.
I always been a tin fan.
because he had three eyes.
I just say I like that though.
I don't know.
Not a lot of answers for you today.
Okay.
Mox, keep it as head tucked down and connector.
And there's the case, Rado Mollidoi response.
Instantly, two kills.
Towards that eight-bong site,
we're gonna get that fast phrasal scrambled rotate up.
But if you're no better than to just instantly bite down on the ace site.
the
red as on the other side of the door.
The Friday's all the fried
potential was massive back on a
newbies unfortunately for him
now that threat of a push into
the V bomb site starts to peel
one of the two off of a
dox obviously losing the teammate
up on the opposite side now has
to consider both options again
and uh...
it's gonna be a difficult one to pull
off here
now it'll just be floating around
looking for any chance he can get
By the time you see his one.
Oh, and he found out.
Spot it instantly.
Still alive, still a chance.
Flash makes it a bit awkward.
Double up on short.
His replayers just peel him back.
I mean, they're given them respect here as they give him the space, but they're going to force him to come to them
on the layered angle.
Oh, come on.
Yes, sir.
Chumps on the bomb.
10 second defuse.
A 1v3 like it's nobody's business.
You can't believe that.
they're layered up perfectly or they're on short.
Too much respect.
I mean, I income to them and he just taps them both out of the round.
Too much respect. I don't know. I think they played it perfectly.
Like they stacked up right behind each other.
Just didn't hit the shot.
I thought more and like the three versus one, you know?
You left that one guy out on site with no trade potential.
Hi, hi, hi. Wow.
Okay, first shot since then. So,
Maldives like oh no. This is just a raw one. Do you want?
Wow, that's not nasty fun. See why I've put up one so many matches recently.
I don't give you something to consider.
That's what the fuck you get the zugs.
Well, we'll work shop that one.
If you're here in kind of a weird place, they let that first game get really close.
If it wasn't from all the way being like world-class, super dominant.
and
I came to a band and OT at the very least so it had more players popping off. You can say that.
Oh, there's some work out here every day, so I'm going to empty now.
I say as well, but it actually still comes through. You get there in the end, Yuri.
The first casualty of the second round, demon hanging onto the short control.
The rotations are here.
I'll get a little bit frustrated waiting for someone to come around this corner, but
he's got teammates now.
It's a comfortably stacked sight for foot.
I'm trying to go to the mid-falling back in a pit.
So I was getting smoked off.
Here's that stomp here by fall and shadow advantage for it's yugs.
It's still a couple players for Furia coming in from short side.
They'll figure out a case of auto's position and this round absolutely falls flat for the side of Puria.
Five players out this is an excellent way for foot to build a economy early on the CT side.
Yeah, big time. Put the force up that comes in.
Look at like five standing, yes sir. Everybody survives. Money made off the SMGs.
And Furia, kind of trip over their own feet trying to get to that B bomb site.
If it's always awkward the whole time that smoke grenade on short dug sitting on the other side of it the 9thuria any chance the joint forces of casearoto
So low monster push
Couldn't get their foot in the door
Now sent to the pistols not top of that mollidoid dies after time so your operas now in
$850 coming in around three with nothing to show
and
I still paving in that clutch and come out of it with five alive it's
a glowing moment here for foot
These are the upcoming stories that we've done on the teams. They contenders here at Bounty.
Individually, and Asteems.
Be a pretty heavy fallback, and there's no smoke on the A site right now, so...
Don't know if it'll matter.
No, no, Eagle shot in, Demon stays alive, 42 seconds in the bomb that's starting to follow him back.
But like, Caceraw can't walk the flank turning into a beat play, surely even with 30 seconds, right?
It's got the glock.
And if he's not going, he's going to be in an awkward place to try to die.
I mean, maybe he gets the plant in.
I think they're going to need to kill at least over here.
Oh, wait a second.
They might not even want to die now because we'll have the open site.
Bombs going down on me, you're eating.
He's going to fall through on a site. That's cash made by Furia.
That's pretty good.
He'll sneak a route.
Nobody coming down from Connector just three members of Foot Charging
Forward from the graffiti retake.
Gatorado, you just go steal something from that A-bombsite.
He's got one on the front of the site.
A little go get it.
He is this round.
He sneaks the bomb into B, and then heads to the opposite side to go and grab a gun.
That's okay, Ceroado's been doing since the beginning of time.
Right now, it's just the MP90.
He wants something a little bit better.
But, it's always gonna find him as an SMG and a bit of money for his efforts.
It's a boring upgrade, but it'll upgrade nonetheless.
And he brings home some money for the whole squad.
It's delayed rifles are fury out after losing the pistol round, but it's coming your way right now.
off here
samtree falls back
got a little fight going down for connector but the utility flushes foot out of it
the
team and hold in the open door, it's always scary when that door is off its hinges.
He's been spotted. There's two players waiting here on short.
I don't know if he realizes that. Feels like foot signing up to hold the fury back on this one.
Demon's corner position is going to blindside Fallen.
Hey, really feel squeezed the angle could be taken by demon, but instead he's trying to just fall back into the safety of site
5 vs 4 is not bad when you consider the damage on case or auto 2
be ashamed to throw away this advantage so they'll play their sights at 50 seconds
Don't let another round go a low time. I only say that because I don't have the map control exactly to execute
There was layers on that one for foot, and their first test isn't much of a test at all.
Time fizzles out. Furious survived with two.
Just nothing bad to say about the round so far.
Again, the fact that it's off of the back of that one on three on the pistol.
It speaks volumes to their confidence.
The idea is no idea how many people would be waiting for him.
Only frustration here from Furia.
Half-boss
Full-Right Back 2 inch short control
Looking like the name of the game for him
Demon taken down to 40, but we got damage here on 2 of the fury of members
members, see I'm tree has to give up his
play towards Battery, Scarpetty's under pressure, and
Falun's going to be the first to die in this one, but
unprepared for the second layer of connector in the
U.S. scared that somebody's behind this, but they're
assembling the boost right now, and that's going to
catch off guard, as he throws out utility, man advantage
foot for the 5-0 starts. Man, he was so, he was so
sure that somebody was sitting inside of short
waiting for him on the door. He couldn't move. I blew that
open, they even took a second to assemble the boost, but they got an answer for everything.
They missed two opportunities for opening kills still got. Two for one in the end.
Letton case or auto tip toe into the site. It's not getting peeked.
A lot of players to respond to this though.
Yeah, demon at least keeps it clean, but they don't tour on B, so it's time to get moving.
Kind of forced one death bomb is moving outwards.
Foot still sticking around thinking somebody would have been with Kcerado.
Good damage onto the akin darmolidoi though catching the angle.
And so this A-bomb site gets wrapped up by Fury a momentarily.
We'll see what kind of leverage they can get off this.
I don't know if we'll not be a boon in the retake, but demons in a great spot, and he's kind of...
He's got a need as well.
Right now they're just giving their backs up to the bathroom play playing on the opposite side of dice playing on Optimus
But your kinder is gonna be a sitting duck when this plank finally comes up
You can't do our save to get as one and so Molladoy into the clutch versus the 40 health demon and he lands his upshot
There we go deny that five rounds start just walking it up into the bathrooms and it felt like your kinder having the confidence to make that solo move
to be really kept foot stuck on that site for a little too long.
Yeah, definitely.
So right here was a nice save from a Corvenient and also an tactic to make sure they got
Yuri inside of Con was very nice to watch, but no, how much they'd actually get in a case
or auto's alert.
Well, it turns out the whole round.
I'm sure there's still more frosty with that than happy with how the game's gone so far, but
that'll help sort of ease the tension.
It's coming forward, see how the player is, oh, not good enough.
You'll re-take some damage, but walks away 5v4.
Tuxin in case there's a second layer to all this, but that's not the case, so low bathrooms hold.
Four foot is they go majority inside B, which right now is the right call.
Smoke to get the eggs, at least with options, to stick in along the wall.
If you're gonna get that inkling that maybe they're stepping on to the wrong site.
After his players pulled all the way back to Bank now, this lean just remains heavy on B.
We waited for that flash there and now they just walk in.
Exex coming in late flash is perfect.
Oh, cool goodness.
Beautiful entries from your kingdom.
Two little headshots back to back, like it's nothing.
Oh, it shows.
I mean, they used their opponents flash as a trigger point to start everything.
And then they went, but low telegraph execute, one single flashbang,
put her in on the wiser.
Sorry, much stronger looking default here for Furia.
The save's still being hung on, too.
And it does feel like Fury are pulling out all the works to get this T-side going.
Respect to earned.
Off the clutch, the conversion.
It's a 40-star, but now Fury, a back-to-back rounds.
Pressure economically.
Gonna start racking up versus the defense, that flash.
Perfect adjustment from the kindergarten there.
for a loud fury up to get that positioning
the fury of pounds lethal
brought some pretty good stuff off the tax i mean we see nothing but good ideas from
good setups and everything too so just to excited to see what they try to
bring in next
I wonder how aggressive they want to go inside of Pawn Control, I mean a lot of top teams are not even.
They don't bother with it, not every round, some teams not at all, you see a roar, or they don't even play inside a door like they just...
They'll play from the boosts and everything, but...
...Kirbini has been a guy just happy to take all the fights by himself in a lot of situations.
I'm gonna get fancy, but nobody up in heaven here.
Short controls where the success started for foot.
No surprise to try.
Again, demon wants an angle.
Force to work for it.
Every flash counter to go as last say.
What the f**k!
There's get enough shoreside.
This lurk smoke, I mean.
CT still have a lot of info here.
And they're not seeing any T's right now.
But there are a lot of resources in terms of players.
Just sitting.
Stores open, you can't walk into an offshot.
All that life with a solid.
Oh, shot, isn't it?
Yeah, leaves a little to be desired.
from down beneath that. Keeping man advantage in control.
It turns Furio away, is there meant by smoke outside of monster?
So, it's just holding the monster smoke, given a free gift,
is case of auto tiptoes is way through that one.
I thought you'd be playing like left side monster,
or something like that.
Hey, man, you're like a risk.
World's best overpass team, supposedly,
foot are stepping up to the challenge to see if they...
And you've got Ferria trying to really put the slow squeeze
on a lot of these rounds and coming up
with little for their efforts.
Let's do rounds.
I don't know if I mentioned that.
In a row, a soldier going to be able to get
as majority of life for foot and foot's done a good job
of making sure that they keep their money
in their round wins.
Shoot's on the other foot.
Come on, Hunter.
Jay asks for more.
He's at just keep going with the foot jokes. I said how do you pronounce zugs? He said just keep telling foot jokes. Oh, so
Jay with more requests than answers, huh? Classic
That's Jay Ratt's hour cinematic observer, but we call him Jay because we're friends like that, you know
Oh, that's like all the flashing that fear it did off of short.
That was to try to get but to be like confused about what was going to happen, but we
saw them being very active.
They boosted their entire time.
They stayed there the entire time.
Even that door blown open as well has been huge and okay, it's in there.
That's one way to start off with my response.
the
She keep the pressure on Con. It's been a lot of play from Fury up from this part of the map.
You re-steps right into his death.
They run into this. Oh, he perfect. Goes for the wall bang. I mean, footer making active plays in Fury, it just aren't ready.
Yeah, so many. Where they're going to come from too. It's the push into short. It's the connector challenges.
Now, just a sudden long walk out.
We can't just kill, so I'm peeking at the beginning around.
Another pushing from long.
And they got an offshot down the blue.
Now we'll get caught by this short walk up as jug stays
into the cover of barrels.
But he's going to find his timing correctly.
His entry comes through with a second and it's clean.
Six rounds of a CT side.
Eight rounds in.
I think this is a team that you could learn from.
One things for certain, they're not afraid of fury.
Or I'll say, wouldn't be making all these active moves.
Pointing like they're cut from the same cloth.
Keep in the pressure on what's supposed to be the favorites. That heavy favorites.
Coming into overpass, particularly.
Back to the tech nine's, but watch, curious, kind of take the gloves off.
Go for a more aggressive round and I think maybe that could end up being one of the keys.
They're just getting a couple more on the board before switching over to a defense that,
you know, maybe that's where Furrier are banking on, doing their best work.
Pressure's on, you can do our comes through with the sidearm headshot, you've got players.
Just bottle-lect inside of the line, boy.
The odds has got back turned to every back.
And we get a USB kill in the middle of all this one, but the gun goes tight.
What a fine, it's a USB headshot in the face of what was supposed to be a faster pace
out of fury, instead a 5 round lead foot.
You can have the video guy look over.
He hasn't looked over once.
Two entries and five responses.
It's about time, uh, time out came in.
the
city has seen enough
is that's it right there that's it sitting there is the fall in the early right there you can see is
helmons advertised on they've all got one though
that's got to be said nobody else looks on is by the way right or die with your
They've been there for, I can't even remember when they came in.
Shout out to Mayonnaise. One time, Manese.
You know what they say? Helmins and Red Bull. Helmins and feet.
They go to...
Sassy.
He would popsicle.
Okay.
You can do this.
You can do this.
Back turn to demon who again just having a long way.
What it comes to these challenges into the playground.
Fall and bring it back with the commandee kill.
The whole map is theirs.
As far as they're concerned.
They're afraid.
They see overpassed.
Like Valver, like you're all the options you have.
And they said, okay, we'll use all of them.
They don't just do one thing at a time.
They're also at no point throughout this first half.
First half like countering on bomb sites and just letting all the space be given to fallen in friends. No, and that's like the silliest thing
Yeah, you can do it overpass. They give you all these great spawn timings where you can like scale without anyone seeing you for so long and
You know, I mean falling knows better than anybody he ran a team that took advantage of aggressive overpass on CT side
For many years of the best team in the world and they'll get that chance on CT side too, but for now
Just here to sort of enjoy
the
foot, uh, you know, using all these options and at 40 seconds, yeah, even can die there. Look at this. They've got another push going and this full information and it always looks like
there's one step ahead.
It leaps and bounds ahead in terms of HP left.
So if we do get this theory of commitment into the ace site, which now has a second defender on it,
you might just run into this.
It was just being used or without her to get back all this line.
You're a good answer back.
There it is.
On through the wall.
And we've got another one racked up for foot.
Eight rounds onto this scoreboard stellar CT side.
I mean, I remember like thinking overpass.
I'm not sure about this map right now.
It's too hard for most people to play.
You know, you see like,
vitality and a couple other rosers are like,
okay, they put on a show and overpass.
Everyone else is struggling to like look good.
But here's what it's here too, and like I'm looking at Velver Pass I want to see everybody flagged
I want to see all these options getting taken this makes the map feel faster
Smaller for the T side obviously, but in the best way possible pressing all their damages
It's crazy to me that just like the fracking has fallen off as hard as it has a theory
a tech-dying rush into the B-bombside again in work last time they died out to U.S.
P's and this time once again the M4s are just going to absolutely tear them to shreds.
But are no joke on this map now and they're doing it against the best overpass team?
They're standing on the feet of giants.
I tried to bring it up coming in from map one like if it wasn't from all the way going so far above
and beyond what did it really look like? Is the star potential wasn't there for Furia?
And now with Mollidoi looking human within this first happens well like how and what
further we in where Mollidoi has seven kills, Yuri's four and ten versus foot.
Case or autos, four and eight versus foot.
And the confidence that foot weapon out is going into these duals, that's because they
just feel untouchable.
They didn't really let their dogs out.
And Corbany again, just kind of set up for this, but how many times is somebody going to be allowed to go for this long challenge and make sense that Mollido is just going to get his op stuck on this angle.
We're going to go to the long flight instead and right into the spray.
Fallen dead after just the one loud peeled off long, but that double up here for.
But we've seen a lot of solo plays in this portion of the map.
Another headshot comes through from dogs and so
two health from all the doi and two rounds for Furia on this
t-side of a map that they were worlds number one on in 2025.
They helped themselves 12 inches from their opponent.
Every step of the way.
The way that Furia were able to recover back on a new bus, thought they'd have some
pep in their step, but they just land on overpass, flat-footed.
Bomb plant here for Mollidoi shore, keep the hope of a third round alive, but you have
your work set out for you Furia.
the
call upon the pistol
gods
at the start of that second half you'll take position inside a graffiti, but you're not going to find that early kill you want and you wish you planned for having
hmm now he's got to go back to default there's any chance it's impossible just didn't feel like he was going to get away with all this free space goes back
Oh, we shot right at this.
The odds is gonna stick this for five seconds.
Molladoy doesn't go for it.
And what do you know, double digit secured?
Vyria, what was that?
Oh, God, you're kidding.
I'm not finished, you're well.
At least, was I good too?
Yeah, you were.
You were.
Do you think I was a good leader?
A perfect heart.
We're going to work for it to set it up, we're going to work for it.
Gabriel, you're a symbol for Brazil, yes.
Without you, there's no me, there's no SK.
There's no, no me knows it.
Oh, that takes the best.
You are so smart, and all those who can't be for you,
you bring me fire, you hurt, and treats you as they are.
They hold work, you're too loose, and when falling,
and he's all wearing the clothes.
Then it was all worthless.
Let's keep anything to have you back, Mr.
What the hell is this?
You just died, bro?
No, no, no.
He wasn't me.
That was bad falling.
Yeah.
That's not a really?
Yeah, and I'm good falling.
Okay.
We left you a friend that came back as a prophet.
I went foreign beyond.
I saw everything.
Now I know what I need to do to be next majorly, Stormy.
First we need a better offer.
Okay, I got a smaller one.
A smaller one?
A smaller one?
A smaller one?
I'm the weight.
I also revive the top ten wife from the world.
Go there, let's go.
You're rich in Eekin' there.
I hope I have a better time, please come back.
A shocking first half here on map 2 of our final game, a head of the
of the studio portion of Bounty.
10, 2.
Believe your eyes, 10, 2.
CT side, foot over, urea.
I was kind of like, it's kind of a crazy.
I feel like if you're going to watch this game back
and learn some stuff and I don't even mean like,
oh, it's just, you know, fury, I could learn it
over past.
It's kind of like, there's just some genuine good concepts
that flip foot problems.
Yeah, I feel like we weren't versus anybody that just show you.
It's true.
It's why they have won so much in the last couple of months.
The other day I asked who's the Monti of this generation. I feel like I was eating.
You had them on my radar, but you're ready for other.
Yeah.
Ooh, you can do it. I was going to find a headshot in that chaos towards playground.
But you're he is five and twelve.
And fall in.
Done for. If you don't win this 3v4 pistol,
Link.
There we go.
My little boy, it's body spam shots.
Headshots.
So elusive.
Low HP for what's left of foot.
And Demon still just gonna keep on kicking up dust.
Demon on one HP, Moladoy on one HP, and Cacer on it with Duelies.
Are they gonna come check this quickly? Let's see.
We were timing.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
There.
Luckily, Demon was on one HP.
They know he's in here, right?
It's pink, right?
They've got everything else, but Cacer on it on the fallback could get blindsided by crom.
Any P250 spam now, it's one health Moladoy.
Oh, and Moladoy's last bought it over at long.
You know, it's gonna take a while to get back to be. That's obviously where Kacerada was going, so make sense for him to run over here
This will be a tough clutch
Seems like there might have been bad info there that Kacerada was more alarmed about going back
As if somebody had gone elsewhere, yeah suppose it could have been like through connector or something like that they'd worried about
He's gonna go up and Molodo is gonna wrap around so I'm just keeping distance in between them. Okay
Crabenny makes a break for it two seconds to spare here plants in the center of sight
And Molodo ain't still got more running to do that's gonna force him to run that's for sure. Oh, wait. Maybe not
But if he doesn't with no kids
He literally just has to pull off like a perfect flank shot and crubbini after doing all that is pulled all the way down
I can't believe it
Perfect. We've mentally put together by Krubani and at 11th round another pistol
We're on the brink of a 13-2 fury a loss. Tell me what teams last year 13-2
Curia and I could bet you the foot is not on that list. I don't know. I don't think anyone's there
But it's a new year my boy
Master class of a pistol clutch
Okay, so Rado kind of frazzled with that one.
It kind of feels that a certain point unnecessary to have gone up to A, but the way
that he rotates back there, he got it all over the line.
The fact that he went back down, though, and cut it off just means like he had that
outplayed for the last 40 seconds went exactly how he thought it was.
He did risk something weird happening like Mollidoi rotating back to the inside of...
Oh 100% following him for sure.
Like, what if Mollidoi did just walk up through bathrooms and you're down at the bottom of the dumpster stairs?
But we'll be outcome oriented for this one.
Get some way with it.
Phamus MP9's Pistols.
Demon doing some excavating on short trying to find contact.
His fall-offs get a let-up know that it's coming.
And the 9 pops up goes down with nothing.
Second MP9 scares them, 570 men in the head.
The difference there, but demon survives it with 2 HP.
And now, ball is away.
Good try to swing that desert eagle in goes down.
It is going to be map points, earned, 10 of them to go, baby.
This is looking like a mental defeat, strategic defeat, mechanical defeat.
They can't keep up in any category.
Right, I did just say feet three times.
As if you didn't, I actually didn't have time.
But it's now it's one of those things where you realize like how often, yeah,
foot comes up and everything.
They've stepped up.
If you're a kick in the can down the road now,
hoping that just choose going to be the place to be victorious,
but what kind of competent foot is going to run into that third map
map on an individual level, just absolutely dominating Furia now across all of overpass.
And if you go back to a new base, I mean, for the most part, you had, you know, big,
star potential moments, multi-kill spray downs for more members of foot than you did
from Furia.
Mollidoy was lights out on that line, but...
After this map, you're ready for example is going to be 17 and 26 on this series.
It always had enough.
The case is auto, and you can't do it much better than that scoreline either, so you've got three bits to this team offline.
I win this round, it's foot-night.
Fortnight?
Ridiculous, come back, Asked a Furia.
I don't want him to throw it away. Look how much scared.
Remember all those more aggressive rounds from foot CT side?
Look, if you're here try to weaponize in the one round they've got guns on this half, they're readying a B push.
They're going to come forward with it.
45 seconds, I was watching Demon swing playground in the first 15.
Yeah, they actually just re-spoke B as well.
A lot of players here, but it's like they're playing back.
All the way starts dropping his utility in the final 30 seconds of the round, foot
have been afforded all the space in the world.
You're allowed to take over all this room ready to just blindside your kinderers.
Nobody covering that one.
Molly, away from behind dice, bomb dropped at 15.
Molly, away dealt with.
Then the bank players toppled.
Manifantage is taking back.
Now, bank challenge from Kcerano's making the difference.
There's just enough time, but he missed picking up the bomb.
picking up the bomb and that clock is gonna get fury a life long.
Wow, just barely one alive and with so many dead, it's not even gonna be a great buy next round.
It's just around. That's all they can be happy about.
It's a round and barely.
That was a pretty good look, still from foot, the way they approached the site.
They got the first entry where someone was still playing anti flash.
They really held their cards close to their chest.
and
immediately attack pause to figure out how to close now
I can't with that
the fact he said it's a focus thing it's a focus thing guys it just I'm just focused I mean it's I think it's more dangerous
That is fair
There's one of the 10 fury a need consecutive
Look at the buys
Hard to tell who won that last round you can't are there we go right an aggressive stance taking towards fountains
But it's traded back immediately.
And foot prepared themselves to walk and test that smoke.
They're already well ahead of it.
You've got a boost going down inside of the bomb site.
And I could have been an awkward dismantle
if not for falling at least slowing it down with a kill.
Even it picks the bomb back up.
Still sitting towards mud.
You've got a couple of players clumped up.
Lounds could have taken that.
Top rope over the bomb site.
You already stopped it in its tracks and this stack B bombsite is enough for Furia to nab another still only two alive
The guns are getting slightly better as we go forward. There'll be more utility coming into play and it might have to be foot to take a save
So off the tack that don't find success
If I progress they get kills no plant though
The chance of fury had to catch their breath after the pressure was never let off to the
first half.
You can do it.
Here to have a field day on fountain is going to drop two bodies and P9 challenge out of
Mollidois good for the one.
And that's bombed down in the middle of all this.
So difficult to even go sneak a plant but allow you to take that M4 and find a plank on
Mollidois.
Now you've got an MP9 for Krabani. No Kevlar on either.
I'm really thinking about how could you sneak down a plant now at a minute 15.
Yeah, I even just want more kill. I keep it. Keep everything low.
I mean, no matter too much, but it will make the one round they need to win a little easier.
one
one
one
one
one
one
So he might even just
It looks like he's gonna go down swingin
There's their arrival announced
You're locking this in no damaged delt, Crabenny, the switching plan back to the desert eagle gets the instant headshot trade and Crabenny has been lights out. It's got a molly now. Yeah
Only he had to cancel our aim punches going to serve up a problem.
Optimus wraparound, quartz dumpsters, that's the end of him,
Instacul with the headshot from Fallen 2 survive for Furia.
And they will find themselves another on this journey to overtime.
I'm gonna try to keep it calm, there's seven rounds to go.
Still feels unfathomable that they actually make the comeback happen.
As foot still have successful rounds, they still have bomb plans, they still have good shots.
They come into this realm, basically nothing and they still get three kills.
But no round versus fury, a CT side is guaranteed, even if it's close.
As much as they've looked offline in that first half, they're obviously going to tell
us that they were feeling off, they never got them on, they certainly woke up too
later whatever it is. They do a foot start getting a little nervous and there is still
time for it to go wrong for them and they focussed.
Because if this was a full powered fury right now, they would make the comeback.
I think you won't play this game.
Oh, that's just that.
That's just that.
That's a good stand.
And then you can do activating at the perfect moment.
So that's the 5B3 established in the gun around.
Another comfortable place to find yourself inferior.
this one and you're halfway to foot score.
We'll confront a barrels. Let's put get onto the perimeter of sight.
There's so many numbers strong here for fury. You think they got this bomb sight wrapped up already.
Lousy gonna bring it back with one.
Tugs gets a double jumping over top of the barrels and it's another close round suddenly.
Lousy got bomb on his back 20 seconds to go big chance for a crush
But I just figure out this close player as well. He'll have time to clear it. Yeah, he's gonna clear the water
And if he's into it, he wins that fight. It's right there for the taking now
Second hole and it's gonna be allowed a close
Let a clutch but will not waste this opportunity
Absolute upset here on overpass that nobody could see coming and this series heads to dust too
from an impressive fight that we saw on a new wrist. They were taking a swing at the Giants
in Furia, but they're on overpassed. It's unbelievable. It's not what we expected. The stats
told the lies. The idea to tell the lies we told the lies. Furia could not match up with the
young players of FUT who were swinging, who were playing confident, who were pushing their positions
and that was a true masterclass. It was really, it was extremely hard for Furia to keep track
of what we're doing in that first half.
Thuria worked definitely the team of 2025 when it came to overpass,
even looking back at last year in their few losses.
The worst loss that they have, they still got eight rounds.
They only got five here.
This is ridiculous that what we were able to pull that off and I feel like
Thuria themselves are going to be scratching their heads like did we come into the season
week or is this foot team just coming out of nowhere and taking names?
I'm going to just look at it from this side of things.
It felt like to me that we saw the real FUT.
We've seen this in many times, many games,
where these underdog teams, these younger teams,
don't play the way they were against other teams.
They play a little bit backwards in themselves, you know?
They're not giving that full confidence saying it would chest.
Well, they did from the very first round on Overpass.
Jokes is one V3. That was a thing of beauty.
We just talked about how great Jokes' mechanics are.
And I feel like that's all that really needs to be praise here,
because even going for this one is so difficult.
that feel like a few pistol players
nowadays are just going to hang back
see if they get any freebies.
But he pushes on forward.
And I look at how it's crosshair
just locks on to everybody.
It's so clean.
And even though this is a great
high low set up, it's the for
meaning to players from Furia.
He just takes them both down
with headshots.
It's so, so sick.
It's like they weren't ready to react
and as well if you hear the
glow shots coming back,
that wasn't that many.
But he's just popping them down.
He's getting it done.
And you know what?
I'm the hype bringing it.
That's my phrase.
But he brought the hype that
the whole team on that one man. He did it in a spectacular way. And something like that
when you just lost out on a new base, probably does ignite the rest of the team. Imagine
the vibes without a doubt. I mean, on a new bus team, on a new bus game that probably was
a little bit closer than we even expected. A couple of close rounds easily could have gone
their way to swing it to just play your team back into it to build the momentum. Because
I mean, fury, if they got rolling on that T side of overpass, able to just run all their
plays with all the utility could have been a completely different story. So it was so imperative
that they got off on a good foot. And they really did get on a good foot if you taught
Jesus.
Haha, you did it, right?
I really did it.
You did it.
No.
Okay. The holds on the lock bounds though. That's what we need to look at. Because that's what
I was seeing.
There was a question, but then there was also these impressive holds without a doubt. I mean,
the flashes here of utility, it was really strong from the furious side to breach, but
But it was also equally strong from the put side.
I mean, the counter utility protocols are clearly in place.
It gets a little bit messy.
There's a bit of a scramble here, but you could see it.
Again, they just throw the barrel smoke to block off those oncoming
fury of players.
The players on the team are ready to fight around it.
In general, I just think the spacing and the help from foot looked so solid.
And what could have easily been a scramble round.
Because fury will win a few more of those kind of pop plays on the beat
bombsite.
one, even against here one opposition.
And by the way, people who maybe just look at these guys and say, Oh, it's
only aggression. That's all they can do. They're not watching the games. Well,
that's just some low tier analysis. They knew, look at this, they have well
measured responses to how they're taking map control, how they're diving around
the things. And we see a mix of the aggression and good holds like that. And the
chemistry as well. The next bit, though, we do need to look at some of the
aggression, because it's just fun.
Yes, indeed. I mean, I feel like the AD fence was also such a problem for
a few of the time.
Just patching of some of these
players. Even though you
can't get a little glimpse of
that player that's playing
forward towards party.
It's demon that actually
pushes out gets one.
They go one for one in
terms of the trades here,
but look at just how active
foot are even.
30 seconds later.
Demon goes out for a single
peak right there.
20 seconds later.
He does get taken down
towards along as he's
trying to find out something.
But foot keep on pushing.
There have a couple of
guys scouting out that
Montserier, which allows them
to center their defense.
players can play on that A bomb site, they can just play back.
They know where the next hit is coming from.
And even though it is cemetery, that's able to take down those players,
there was eventually going to be a flank too.
So I feel like foot really took a hold of this game.
Instead of doing what we were kind of worried,
that teams that are down to underdog teams do,
which is this playback that let the pro team, the tier one team,
just do everything that they want to,
because foot, they played on their own terms.
Yeah, they really did play on that in terms.
And I want to highlight demon mix because demons
player who I remember, this is in your fun little story.
It was either the Stockholm or Antwerp Major, an army
who's the head of Esports for Navi.
He walked even over, and he told me,
I believe in this kid, he's gonna be one of the next things.
He was on Navi for a long time.
And at first, you wanted to look to somebody's results
in his scores of four.
Maybe he's not like as great or as hyped up.
But in this game, he showed us something beautiful moments
as he has been doing under air cont.
Demon was extremely solid as just the short B player,
a couple times they pulled him on over
for those A site defenses too.
And he's definitely one of the more unsung guys.
I think McCause back when they were under the Navi
label definitely stole the show.
Now, I feel like it's jokes that is probably the one
that's shooting up in the ranks in terms of just a
stature and reputation.
But demons been really solid throughout all of this.
So for him to get his moment here against Furia
in a variety of forward situations.
Sometimes, as we saw in that one round round 10,
He maybe can bite off a little bit more than he can shoot, but there's a reason behind it.
He's not just pushing for no reason.
He's pushing to get information for the team.
So you really do sometimes need that aggressive guy that'll just throw a caution
to win so that you can send her your defense to better.
And then we go to look at jokes as well, because he's a name.
We've just mentioned that almost every game when it comes to this team, the eye test is not
lying to us.
This dude is so clean.
I mean, it's one of the slickest performances in terms of mechanics where I'm just constantly
baffled by the fact that every time someone ends up on this guy's screen feels like there's
just so few wasted movements with his crosshair. It's so centered. It's just so consistently
delivers these frags that are so needed when he is defending. So I mean, I feel like there's
I really can't stress enough how sublime his crosshair moves. It's just so slick from Target
to Target and it's not just overshooting. That's just one of those things where these new
two kids on the block. I mean, in terms of aim trainers, whatever they're using, or even
just how they're warming up, it's sometimes it just feels a little different, the amount
of control and even stopping power on their mouse pads.
Should we be worried now for Fury, though, could just for what we saw in over past like,
was that a worrying sign that it wasn't even much but battle backing to this series?
It's this map, sir.
Lightly.
Lightly?
Yeah, just because overpass was where the series was supposed to end. I wasn't mincing words or
anything over-hyping fury when I said this series should end prior to its starting.
So because does to it's a little bit more of an even battlefield for these guys.
I'm sure we'll get into it more, but it's something that's not a red flag necessarily
like everybody can slip up and online performances.
But I'm a little bit concerned that fury didn't show a bit more that they weren't
able to just kind of curtail all of the aggressive moves that foot were constantly throwing
out.
Well, cemetery is the one I'm looking at when it comes to one of this because he may be the
with a graveyard in his name, but it's fury that could be going there and they lose this map.
That's where we're going next. It starts to come and up. We're going to a break and we'll be back in a few.
It was not expected that we could have done it.
it was not expected that we would get to this stage,
but FUT have proven that they are more than capable
of taking fear here.
On one of their best maps, even though they're best map,
use of the best map for them in 2025.
I'm not gonna back down on that.
You never would've let their bread is buttermilk.
It was, it was.
2020 hindsight, Andy's gonna say that
it was always gonna be a close affair or something like that.
It wasn't.
It was never supposed to be, okay?
This is new data that's entering my system
and it's making me lightly concerned for fury
but more so excited for flight.
Oh, why I'm worried about this kind of thing is because when we're looking at it,
it's right now all the pieces of FUC accept the offers performing better than the
Furrier place.
Molotoy is just saving the day as much as he can and he does not much competition on the
other side if we look at this.
I might have the jitter milly overrated Furriers and Nubes performance because Molotoy saved
them in so many different situations.
But you did mention to us, you didn't lie, you said the rest of them weren't really there.
You pointed that out earlier.
True.
Thank you for giving me that sort of credit.
And I feel like Furrier are going to have to keep relying on Mola Doye.
In terms of the head-to-head here, between these two operas, Mola Doye has been the
highest rated player on Dust2, 4 Furrier, and I don't think that's by mistake.
They set him up very frequently with the op, both on CT side and T side to look for a
lot of different picks.
So I don't think Cemetery has been necessarily that bad, but he doesn't really match
up to me in the head-to-head.
And we don't normally look out at the officers at one to one battle right.
They're not fighting against them.
But how important is it that he has a good game here?
If more of the list starts farming,
can that be the difference?
Make it that carries fury over the line once again?
I know we don't always look at that.
But people have pulled up the stats in terms of how good
Molledoy was in op-the-op duels in 2025.
And he was the best.
He was taken down.
People like Zaiwu, Montesee,
didn't matter who he's facing up against.
If it was a scoped weapon versus Molledoy scoped weapon,
He was winning that at a higher clip than anybody else into your one.
He is the other old truck outside the map, but he just stopped for her to, you know?
Always hunting him.
I get a new boy.
He wants that fight.
But looking at how those two come play out here,
this is a good map for Fury and only, right?
It's one that very well versed in.
But I have worried about how FUT will play out against him.
I feel like that could throw them off kill to once again.
There's one strad that I feel like foot always loves to keep going to,
which can upset Fury.
They really like their late long takes.
And that's going to be fallen on the defense there.
So you've got to be concerned because I like falling.
Everything it brings for this team.
As a CT long anchor, sometimes can leave a little bit to be desired.
He's going to be calling for backup,
calling for extra flashes, trying to get some extra help in that.
But that's a problem.
If you're always just taking Molotoy over to try to lock that down with you,
then you lose so much of that fear factor of him pressing up through mid-doors
at short with the boost.
So this is kind of a good matchup for foot in terms of if they just kind of play
the style that they have for the last handful of months, they might be able to find some
sort of in on their own T-side.
Now, we've got what we're looking at here.
FUT, though, are still underdogs, massively within this fight.
We've got to set the stage, of course.
But if you're looking at this and saying with fresh eyes on what you've seen, with that momentum
coming in, is it a bit more worrying than you would have expected?
Because overpass was so much of a stomp.
Yes.
It didn't even feel like Fury had played themselves back into it.
The fact that they lost on a 1v2 clutch from longs.
I mean, that's the exact kind of weapon that can really just break things open in terms of space taking.
I mean, longs, I think he isn't quite reaching the heights of Macauze in us this early,
but he has, in fact, just been a good can opener at least in this series.
Well, Maui, I gave him a win to do last time around.
Scrody, and Lotus, you gotta take the rest!
GOOOOOO!
Last time!
Ooh, we gotta James, I got it all, I got it all, I got it all, I got it all, I got it all.
I promise no foot jokes this map. It gets serial. It's just none left. It's serious because serious right now
We saw a master class in overpass. I think no just tweeted that was the worst a fury of overpass loss
I don't know since when it feels like said to have hurt all the time and it was you know
People are gonna look at the main plates and go well, you know, foot it must have just been a fury of failure
But we watched it and foot did plenty of great things so I think they've convinced a lot of people
They're strong, and this is their chance. This is their right ballers chance sort of
Imagine imagine they make it the land
I
Imagine it can't really piece that together just yet. Literally. I'm not ready to say the fury of having this kind of a shortcoming
As they set foot on the I just don't ready to accept it yet
Andrew we could smell the feet in person. Okay, I'm just done. I you said you were done growing and then you get in a sniff and joke
You freak.
I'm gonna get the strobe lights ready for the studio.
We need loud play in the same kind of an environment.
If they reach the land.
Can we put Christmas tree behind them?
It's a big hit.
But it is map 3.
And it's yeah, one map to go.
They showed they have the energy.
And if you're never showed us they actually woke up at all on overpass.
That ended up on another clutch for foot.
They've had so many clutches in fact.
They're definitely overshadowing Furia.
It's time to leave their final mark.
Flatplay held onto the arcs of the Insta-Kill.
From the corner of the bread is ripped.
Flashback's gonna help.
He gets the damage in and allows there to finish it off.
Another pistol round here for foot.
these guys are are gunning.
Frusters on second flash was excellent when they read
rest of the tunnels they had plenty of guys there close left one
unclear.
Like definitely if you're gonna play well on overpass we
didn't we could say that for sure they weren't shooting
hard enough.
Thanks to change path to that.
But like usually you want the small come back to the show
that they woke up late and then and then you go back
and you think about a new best and and you mentioned
already the fact that Maldoy had to play out of his mind
actually for them to close and felt like that was gonna be the close map of the series so
see if Yuri is confident this her we know they can't play better but are they going to
look at her go barred the b-site utilover top
Doug's whole time his vision loud and him combining to just chew through this attempt from
The theory of the gets nothing, turn it upside down, head back to spawn, bring something
else to the table, it's a save on the other side of this one, it's a 3-0 start made
easy, but the way they just shut that down, five players still standing, no deaths, no
plants, it's exactly what the theory of wanting to try to do with that be exact counter flashes
were great, long range MP9 kills were stylish, and now foot, oh, they've got a clock around
out the farm up even more.
Now, massive made damage to make this one all the worse for Furio.
I'm getting close to this bomb site. Let them feed they got a chance, but obviously they
news from the get-go, no sore, 3-0, and move it forward.
What are they going to win you over, Connor?
Foot?
Yeah.
I mean, I think I'm just still in shock.
Like, I'm not trying to take anything away from them.
I'm just still so shocked at Furrier coming in with nothing.
Like, I'm waiting for the case to rot around.
The Urehold, the something, the something.
I can't imagine a world where we go three maps in the series and the only person on Furrier
In any of those three maps that do anything is Mollidoi the only player on Furio that's a kill this game is Mollidoi
You know we are still on their bonus route yep and they'll hang onto that
That.
Fommission an MP-9, letting Furia take some space their first gun round to play here round four.
It's in a bonus round, it's not even one of those bad bonus rounds. Double MP-9 in a bonus.
Body's been towards day out of the gate.
It's a little long as the bonus round is last it is what I'm wondering.
We get the 45 seconds and it's not even because of really throwing anything furious
way to stall the note.
They just let that clock burn down.
That's already a bad sign isn't it?
Take up Catwalk control you've been surrounded everybody's ready to go if you are
a FUT.
You've already got a flank in position if long eight does decide to push it's going to confirm
bodies out from elbow, what did they get for him? Flashbang coverage is great.
Demon's Faumus gets a double, and so it's going to be Mollidoi to try to be the hero.
He's the guy that saved the nubus and he's here to find impact, a climb up from
Crabeni.
Goodness.
He doesn't actually commit to it, and so bomb's going to go down.
Oh, here's a lot of shrap.
There we go.
You can do it on the board.
It's caught out.
Loud doubles back from long.
Falling in no man's lands.
Gonna try to stop that CT retake and allow us to find one.
That end fork, it's still be picked up.
He's got the kid, he's got a hundred health.
The challenge from a side of the smoke.
That's where Mollidoi comes through.
He's got to do it all.
So it's a triple kill from Mollidoi.
He was enough back on a new business and he will be enough
in the first round win for Furio's Dust 2.
When we look at like, like, Donk's Dust 2,
it's just to show the example of what you can be all on that.
A 1.6 million tire a year for Donk.
It is a map that like, of all maps.
If you have an individual talent to the level of Maldoy, they can't actually save the day for you.
Back on overpass, it was supposed to be more of a team affair.
And Furrier is supposed to be great at it.
But they couldn't highlight that, and yours Maldoy is just rackin' up more.
So, you can dress one kill Maldoy as the rest.
The fall wants in there too.
That was actually a nice one.
Pick off from elbow.
Followed, and that may as lands on his head.
Or did their way up Catwalk with utility support again?
Cemetery taking off his ankle?
Let's come in and lay, but if not first of the boost player or 3 on A, the big difference
is the op-um, on car 45 HP.
I'm just gonna get to the 9 here, just even being spotted.
And no flash, actually easy hold, right?
Same thing I want to have, oh my god I had a flash, that's it.
coming from the same direction.
Moldo has also got the bombs.
So now he's going to have to be a part of the players
that weren't up.
Yuri's going to find one in middle,
but takes damage from Matt Duel
and Kubernetes able to clean it up.
Great flashbang, but Moldo,
he gains vision.
How?
And so on six health,
he's looking to make the difference.
Good damage coming out from Kcerado as well.
And so the last two remaining players
of Furia combined to hang on to this bomb site.
But it is a winnable one versus two here for Krabani.
Big time.
Never went for the reload.
After that first kill towards Yuri, 20 bullets to make this happen, coming up the ramp,
but you're in the backdrops, Pompi, it's in here!
Molli doing comes alive with a nose go, wow!
He didn't see that!
Wow, he died, man, that's shocking.
Now we're watching.
Were you bend this whole time, buddy?
Looked up from his laptop, like shit, this is cinema!
You see his head right there.
Just missed that.
The gun swapping over his back.
Moldo, I thought he was cooked.
And the no scope, yeah.
Come on now.
So, okay.
Everyone's got one kill.
Moldo, it's got the rest.
It's unreal.
the
more emphasis on long this round for fury of the one series if you lose you're on the team to go to the
letter you go to the mall in the right right you to mall that's sure
get credit where it's due and don't spread the love
the back is
trying to get ahead of what has been this cat heavy play into the a site
It just slight enough change for Furia that nobody's even watching this.
We get that turnaround from CT spawn and time.
Prebenny does get wind to the cross over.
They didn't take an ounce with that utility.
Lows getting shape down the half-helf.
Not ideal for him and this cat hold this Yority comes up with a kill.
And the only thing left is this swamble through the mid-doors.
Jugs comes up with it.
Can they get back into this both known?
Case for auto.
Tagged a half-late smoke.
It could even go for a long push if they,
Moldoie wants to, but Bump's flying for him in the end.
They're gonna sweep the ballies zone, teammates flash.
Well, that'll be the end of that.
And this one's definitely more of a team that for...
If you're gonna make this difficult.
But yeah, when you do contrast it to like,
I ballers vitality. It was vitality. We're playing well and I ballers. We're still keeping up.
Yeah. So it was just a lot of disappointment from Furia last map.
Now first map felt like it had a little bit of both, but it was, um,
it was it was really Moldo. We just couldn't, couldn't be sure of it yet.
So always good when you see more of a team effort no matter how many
start players you've got
what's login' to have to do in February when he takes that down
it's gonna have to do any qualifies to land
It's got a packet that are bringing it with him.
I got neighbors that leave their Christmas lights on all year long.
There you go.
They're not my favorite neighbors, but, you know.
Double M4 still out here on the field.
Off of FUT's first pause.
5.7 pressed into the door.
Supported by a rifle, one of the two.
The other one sitting over there towards the beast, and I suppose if it is going to be
a pressure again, like it has been this whole time for Furia, transitions you back into
the double rifle safe easily.
But, wow, nobody covering the door, you're just going to be found back there, and there's
a third weapon in the hands, and a mistletoe.
Oh, god, from all the toy, needs that rifle escape in time, and they understand what's
up this commitment into the A-Play.
Oh, good shot.
Eagle head shot.
Over the smoke in three guns on the scene.
He goes in for second service.
Can't handle the pistol.
We get a recovery back from caseurato and fallen.
Numbers get even now.
No further Molotov on the ramp.
They'll just be able to scale here.
CT smoke comes out.
Demon splank is coming in through cowwalk.
Bon Trump.
Thanks to the smoke spam.
Molotov down to half and demon strikes.
Caseurato from inside of it dead.
With two rifles, it's loud to push into the tunnel.
And the rod this round out of fury is hands.
That was the real, it was the perfect hunt for me.
New exactly where you would be standing.
Took that AK away, Moldo and Missa shot,
as he fell back, and from there everything toppled.
Fury had just self-pressured to go right into that cat, exact.
What's Moldo, we're watching in that moment?
What, Yuri? Or, Moldo?
No, Moldo was in cut-out.
Tile, Yuri is a great boss.
Yeah.
Is he just watching the cat push?
You had cat control already.
He had teammates pushed up it.
Oh, yeah.
True.
Maybe he was watching Moldo.
I'm not playing them all the way for a thing. I don't even care if that's up
Well, I just slips the net
Yeah, that's a long must have been watching long
This is where the C keys now their rethink. This is a whole site, man
I mean, it's a very fast way.
Oh, I'm all in the bill.
I don't think demon expected him just to be out in the open like that.
Still though, look, Fallen just turned around and he's considering both sides.
Again, wow.
Oh, glad.
Just walks right in.
He's going to smoke off tunnels and now you're going to have two fury
of players trying to just sprint through to save this.
It's done.
That's just a massive risk from Fallen, right?
Because they only have window to watch.
And Fallen's looking behind him.
They're both watching the same thing.
They have door smoked, so only one place that can come out.
We've got a little disjointedness here by theory of a little bit, yeah.
I think that one's on fallin' a little bit.
Thought board, maybe.
Great timing as well by foot to get through.
Obviously there was play pieces coming back to take over tunnels for falling.
fall and probably hear you go, but they just went in place in time. Probably thought they're
going to flash or something as well. And now it's it. Yeah, something. But no. Nope. The
crbanis on that guy. He just walks right through the smoke. Just not make that pulse.
This is this lugs on that guy. You're just at it.
But do you have a moment?
All right.
Economy under question now, Furia, pressure's back on.
Mollidoi can give you moments.
It wasn't up on a new bus.
Will it be enough on us too?
Starting to feel like more of the same that led us to this third map
cleared up mid entirely. I think the footer here just expecting it to eventually be a cat play, so
They'll have to be just a great raw site hold or the double entry from your kinder, you know, that could always be cut up
I can't wait to have another list. Okay, death and well, oh, you positioned loud tropes off his roost. And that's kind of how you hold that like cover both things. Yeah
Yeah, that's that, you know, a little bit more sense? Yeah, barrel sling it on the CT's to know how to defend the site.
Yeah.
What's this gonna happen? Let's just go check for Furia.
Sorry, which of these teams is technically ranked Valve number one?
Right now, what's stopping all over Furia?
This loud stops it in its tracks, they don't even lose a body there in round 10.
9.
The 10th features weapons, back for Furia, at least.
if you're not making this third map with any easier as time goes on
all the ways up to all the other three
T spawn is gonna, this is that Mollidoi thought he...
That's just a game of chance.
Thought wrong.
Indeed.
I paid the price.
Subitary boosted up, not afraid to hang onto the single for extra second, but you can do it.
We'll come through.
With the headshot, each is up to a wall still off-cather for watching it.
Try to bounce that on.
I think on you can do it.
are falling, it's gonna attach for Benny.
That's a kill over towards Long A.
The damage is staying here, it's crazy.
Trying to keep you kind of unloctin,
bombs still sitting outside long doors, falling.
Taking his time to come back now
as he throws a flashbang out.
That's gonna draw cemeteries attention over.
A case of roto has got mid control as well.
You can feel the fury of have their hooks in this round.
It's gonna take a heroic individual plate
from somebody on foot.
Oh, well, he's actually split this up a little bit.
They're open it though.
So he just gets shot on the back,
hat blindsides him.
Yeah, not even thinking about the potential for a full-on exact coming.
Shane, too, because Juggs gets that kill,
taking no damage to the process.
Ah, you kind of hope we didn't see that one.
That's kind of good.
But we did.
Demon's stomps him out, and all of a sudden,
just like that, this retakes truly on.
You've got a couple of flash banks.
Demeterry setting up demon.
At first flash was good, blinded both.
Demons the other one holding onto the flash though so now cemetery over to the window
Fallen concerned about the tunnels flash comes out from the doorway nobody's actually walking that window
It's just interchangeably between their two spots. They'll figure this one out in theory. I'll secure their force
So it won't matter no problem. Just a little awkward two players up still for fury in that post plant and
They trace the side. I was kind of surprised. It wasn't worried about someone coming in mid after a kill
Do we walk here at a tunnel? It's bad.
Natch.
That's not how you want to die when you're two and seven. No.
That's the way she goes.
That's a good idea.
To the least out mid fury and not wasting much time with this one.
Wow, excellent grenade.
Footer kind of starting out these rounds with hardreads. It's at a look in
In the set-ups perfectly fine. Obviously
A little later on a
We'll see how long period day because there is a late-small waiting for them if they do take too long
That's when you get that catwalk walk up
Smoke in the boxes, Corbany.
Oh, they're splitting B into three people.
Hangin' on to his line, cemetery waiting for this CT play.
Obviously getting wind of that was Corbany.
Oh, but you can't do our Insta headshot.
Still two defenders on this side at 25 seconds.
Wow, fight the perfect chance to pop up!
Toots from the back sight kill.
To Molledoy, there's a rifle finding two.
And so all that damage on Molledoy all for knots.
And he's a lot of this entire time.
He's still sitting inside of their spawn.
They kind of forget about him and Crabenny just trying to walk away as
Fury, a close that gap to the tide six round half.
Ever kill was so important for Fury because like all the
multifragly positions possible from the window the
op instant headshot from you can their Molotoy's, both
Molotoy's kills because they're not expecting three be insides
aside.
They would have killed two then get put there let their guard down
and someone would have the bomb out, they would have got really loose with it.
That could have been a loud multi-kill for sure.
That's a huge reaction on them all the time, man.
They read the attack, they just couldn't come up with the kills.
Let's money dries up for this one, two pistols out there, and so cemetery looking for an early line.
Ah, I can't try to jump across, balladoy.
Good on him.
Again, kind of being the heavy lifter.
The fury of banked on on a new bus, he's back here in map three.
And what's the big idea on the bifur, that's the question.
Get what you can.
Pick that second smoke grenade back up.
Don't have a lot to work with. This AD fence backing on a goose hold.
But the rumblings of cap presents could bring somebody back from middle towards that half of the map right now fury a remain with options open.
Not expecting there to be an op on that line but Crabani picked it up off the corpse and that's gonna get Mollado as attention just in case they try it again
And you can know it was watching door this entire time, but the moment he leaves is when demon starts the threat in this flank
They're getting up catwalk though pretty quickly pretty convincingly and again it all boils down to just that Kusho
As Molly, it spreads a bit too late,
still lowed dies with nothing,
and now that Yuri's gone unnoticed,
this mid push is gonna get punished.
They're thinking about tunnels.
Demon will strike with the Elevator's surprise,
pops up, gets a second, and now he's got a teammate
to try to pinch Yuri.
All of a sudden, it is still an even situation,
but they're smoked off on a rival for the cat retain.
I bet I'm all a top to work with,
but I think they wish they had a smoke, maybe.
This one's gonna come down to the wire.
A couple flashbangs to try to get themselves through it,
you can't are taking up his position over towards long fallen burning and what a
well-placed piece of utile you can't are drawn back they go high low
opera front and it's a shot landing what a move you're from demon the fact that
he just moves past your in mid picks up three with that retrieve day wp
and it'll give foot the seven five edge moving into the second half
I mean, the unforgettable names in Ultra Counter-Shaker,
I mean, there's so many in every single generation.
I think usually it's someone who was 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,
that other people can see and build upon.
For the first time, name is Snacks.
To find how smokes could be used,
where he played around them, the way 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 S with how aggressive they were with the all.
Trophies winning events, going on streaks, the NIP guys, and 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're made him, was his personality. Having someone being that outspoken
and 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
But 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.
That was kind of the greatness to finding mood 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 Fnatic could just send out and say, find us a kill.
And he could go duel two or three players at a time.
He really did become that player where once upon a time he was the jack of all trades.
he was just so good at all those trades.
2016 was the era where Brazilian Counter-Strike really hit it.
Fallon'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.
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 Fallon'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's 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.
For me, I think the goat conversation is a fun one.
The vice 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 Monacy, someone like Doc,
should be next in line to have some kind of a goat status
conversation.
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 your one.
Where's he going to develop into?
But it's competition and it's counter strike and things can change in a heartbeat.
A curtain ball at the end of that half felt like we'd still not be able to peel these two teams apart.
But a seven five lead off of a demon heroic up that catwalk.
And he ends the half tied with Lao 12 kills each.
They picked a pizza molly.
They come forward like there's only options.
Once they lined them all up, they executed on them, they got the fill inside of middle
everything was unlikely, but they've made a lot of unlikely rounds possible.
Some good organization and great shots.
All the doye first blood in what could be a very valuable pistol win for Furia.
You can do it.
You're even a little bit desired here with his shots, loses fallen beside him, but you'll
recover.
Demons put down with just the one, but rotators that already 3v3
minute 15, FUT pause with long control.
And this match it feels like a pistol for Furia might be necessary.
I'm sure we'll be feeling the pressure right now.
Great time to reset though, you want to leave suspicion of the flank.
And Yuri's done a comfortable spot to like push through
middle, it's got to kind of hope that it's going to end a and it will.
Wow, they're starting to be believe in the move.
And you can, they're, it depends if it goes and peaks this, but they're coming in the clear at hard.
He's going to plop off.
Oh, not even going to get a chance to shoot back. They just seem around the front of the windshield.
Mollidoi's Barretto's miss.
I did not see anyone sneaking in a car either.
I don't feel like foot suddenly have this insurance policy with car control themselves.
It's pressure on Furia to pick up this pistol and they're playing without a kit.
Oh, man.
They don't know about car.
They're down a player.
You've got pretty solid spots in both car and the ramp.
It might look a bit the site player as well.
Just going to look the keep is head tuck.
You're already going to find cemetery first.
Baretta's need to be reloaded.
Mollido is gonna save them again.
Yeah, there's no kid.
55 health bomb is ticking quickly.
Mollido is gonna try to charge it down
and he gets the second flag,
but there's no time for the diffus.
They waited a little too long
for you ready to get up that catwalk.
Ooh.
Durya about to feel the real pressure sink in.
Now we see a deep exhale there from Mollido.
Is it recognized as circumstances?
It's the three round gap now.
We saw how the first half started though.
Completely caught out.
If you're gonna opt to save this time,
we're linked to concede, a 9-5 lead.
All in the hopes of making sure their first gun round is convincing and has all the tools for the job.
I'll do a top midfresence turn back, this appears, nobody home and mid, nobody home on B.
Just a gamble stack coming out of fury in a desperate time on dust too.
I mean, if there's a way that these pistols can win, it'll be like this.
I'll take the right bomb site, but again, working with little, loud goes out first,
USP found and dealt with swiftly, three kills.
Stack bomb site or not, they just simply don't have the weapons for the job.
And Yuri is going to be figured out as well, not a single death, or racked up versus
foot that nine-five lead that Yuri were happy to give over is indeed materialized, but
their guns start now and the comeback has to start now.
I know, right, but it doesn't.
We're not getting the signs, really.
I mean, we're getting more of what a new bus was,
which is just another moment where Mallidoi can win rounds on his own.
Five frags for Fallen, Yakindar, and Yuri.
Mm-hmm.
Versus foot.
And you can feel it.
Let's see the moments.
See the lack of clutches that they can close.
Who's able to get opening kills?
Who's not?
Yeah, on the other side, they just have to...
a litany of heroes.
With the closer they get to this victory,
the more foot will have to face
that intangible pressure that comes with
the thought of actually finishing off this upset.
It's one thing to push Furia to their limits.
It's another thing to materialize the win.
And you're up against guns now.
All the toys got us off and Mollidoi has been again the beacon of hope here for Furia tonight.
But no test really offered over two foot they will take control of Catwalk.
They will clump up happily, Mactons, a part of this pack.
And Mollidoi setting up utility for Yikindar to try to get something from this forward spot.
Flash goes in.
It goes in, the Akidda peak, fair with a freebie, confirms all of those numbers, and
foot 40 seconds if they have other ideas.
They're still in an okay spot to go forward the cat-exec, see how low the utility is
for Furia.
They're the ones who are actually a little bit worried.
They really like keep numbers high in this situation, I don't know, how long all
it'll likely to get stopped the plant.
While a smokes put up fire on the bomb site, Krabenny, the Trion Challenge, the CT corner,
miss shot from Mollipop, it gets taken down to 16, but still no frags found.
And Yuri could have to come and clear out the CT spawn.
As Fallen takes the fight up towards the ramp.
We've got a man advantage, but remember that early damage,
Auburn's still out of distance.
It's a dangerous line for Mollipop.
You'll come through an execute, cemetery trying to put them all in the grave.
They blow them back on the bottom of ramp.
It's a sole surviving Yuri, and a chance for Furious come back to start off their first gun rounds.
One more moment of appreciation for Mollidoi in this spot for a who as low HP gets one peak in all he needs is one kill and then it's just
3v2 2v1
Easy for Furia to make sure they get the trades foot make it scary
Absolutely and that's because the money for Furia was overall pretty low utility was very low
It had to be offered up some raw fights and that was a must-head shot back in that day
The
Far off here is concerned of Winds of Wind, though.
It's a costly victory, but it's not double digits, but just yet. I don't ventilate it, it's looking for a kick.
Go! Caterano!
Lock that one down! And it falls and doubled up on top of the door.
But we're hoping that that was going to be far easier, but barrel stuff by the two defenders.
A comfortable back-to-back round win.
a comfortable win like start to finish.
It feels like it's been years since we've got one
from Furia so we'll see about the finish.
That we will see how much footer willing to risk
for this as well right.
Thought of save starting to trickle through Furia C.T.
Side, build a little bit.
I wish they.
Right.
Again, do you have the bravery that it takes to still run risks?
Because a 3v5 commitment in this round
is most certainly a risk.
Highest performing through the employer, a part of this AD fence as well.
They try to throw the cemetery out on it, and Mollidoi will not miss that chance to strike another one down.
They're going to get caught out in no man's land attempting to take this ASI.
Mollidoi miss shot gives them a little more room to work with.
It draws out the nades, they're concerned about the flank, and they've got good cost to be.
He holds on, challenged towards Long.
And Mollidoid puts that off the way back on the angle, the F-P-9 arrives, and they're
going to just steal overwhelm.
It cuts two players off the fury of camp, but it's back to back round winds nonetheless.
I didn't even think Mollidoid could get back on cycle that quickly, just for that one peak
against Livre of an angle.
Maybe it doesn't matter for winning the rounds, but it doesn't matter for winning around
dominant lane.
And they actually do that this time.
and
have both nestles is a huge boost obviously for foot, but
won't guarantee the land as we can see
I was tasty.
He's picking here for Furia.
Free runway as the double ops come out.
This is kind of a critical moment for Furia because like they can make a lot of money here, but I've
have really done a good job on ECOs, getting kills and everything, and it looks like
they won't bank a lot off of this win. Double opera deals itself, shooting gallery through
the mid gap. That's where the CT advantage is really start coming through. Keep two
ops, extra bank for re-bies, Molledoy, attack them there, five up as they make it a
the one-round game, and as much as this would be super disappointing for Fury to win this
or to lose this game, I think foot for about a map and a half now, I felt like this
is their match to lose, and are so close to getting on land, and after having such a successful
couple of months, I'm sure it will sting if they can't close this one-win out.
Luckily for them, even a part of this formula right now is still just molly doy, 20 kills
11 deaths, not one other player on his team has even reached 10 yet.
It's the same formula that one Fidria Anubis, when you've got the rookie of the year,
surely you can lean on him, but have they leaned on him too hard to start this year?
Giving yourself a little leeway.
It's not like footers standing on the finish line, still only nine rounds to their
name, but if they start to take their game plan away from Mollidoi because so far it
has just been these eight plays out of this T side.
We'll see how mobile Mollidoi can remain.
We'll see if they have any kinds of answers.
They've been very good off the tack pauses without adaptations.
Mollidoi gave it a chance to go hunting into the tunnels.
He is very much operating alone here.
Nobody just sent out names for him.
He's just instantly on that fallback.
He has to forego tunnels and the mid-control.
He'll try to pop it open and nets himself, his own frag.
And just the inches off of finding a second one towards Tot Middle as well.
This is DIY with Molladoy.
The
place in front of the smoke like it's not a problem.
Confident and his ability to just linger out here in the open round of the line.
You keep giving him a challenge you will step up to the plate.
That much proven already.
And a frag grenade was loud as name on it.
It's going to take all the wind out of the sales here up to what this game is a tight
endeavor.
inside of the tunnels, total map control is falling
sits inside of your spawn. You got nowhere to go.
You can try your damnedest to move this one forward.
You're already tagged down low, and this corner position
from your kidner is going to catch it all off guard.
Molly do I find a third in this round?
And he alone is driving this come back for Furia.
Sometimes you see in a Furia, you know, at low moment,
and Molly do I as a bad match, like we'll take the major elimination
games. The shiny even near of the whole team sort of goes away
for a second you realize how important this one player can be and that's and it's
moments like this where you really see it. It's a qualifying match to a land but
all the same they wouldn't be able to do it without them. This is just raw
impact to its highest theory.
Now I got to touch the desperation here around 19 pistols up for foot.
You're ready.
Hang on to the platform.
Takes two players down with them, but does burn to a crisp.
Get our walks that challenge through the doorway.
Molly do a tag down to 44.
You can't even reach his move.
And that's going to just take it down inside of the bomb site.
No chance at the plan.
No chance at the round.
Force of Viper Furia is a pawn to the lead.
I pull this to the lead.
Somehow in this match, they've actually got back in the lead.
After all the struggles, the trials.
trials. I know how. It's fueled by Molodeo. Yeah. The rest of Furia can start to find their
moments here when the rounds get easy versus pistols, but Molodeo, the savior when the pressure
was really on throughout us, too. That's still best dressed at the HLTV or it's yet to be seen.
to be in the game.
Well, they can change it up in the face of this high-performing
Mollidoi. He goes back in the tunnels. We know he's already
wanted to start round us here.
Fantastic flag lands right on top of loud again.
And he's been muzzle by this utility damage in these last couple
rounds, but they'll come through with an execute.
Your def only blind goes unchecked.
And if he re-game, he goes big.
Okay, you're ready.
Anchors that bomb site successfully.
Car cross over.
In the 2v4 attempt, Cemetery hands busy with the plant, Molledoei on on the flank already.
That tunnel's push.
Worth its weight and goal, this will trade out their offer and get one step closer to the finish on Dust 2.
Man, goes for Hummer in a spotlight that he solo anchor on the site.
Full exact coming is way blind the entire time.
And soon as he comes to, they may have cleared him right after looking at car.
But as soon as he comes to, perfect for shot and the spray control here with the silenced M4, it's exquisite.
4-6-Wiz-it.
Games running away from Flicknow's, like lots of monies getting banged here for Furia as well.
No ideas are actually turning into rounds or down the last time out.
And they're a young team, you know, and they can feel it slipping. It's going to compound.
Never have they had such a great chance to upset, never have they known what it feels like to see that
that slip away and that rollercoaster of emotions
that they've so clearly been on in this game.
You could see it starting to stack up.
That last hold from Yuri just feels like a pile driver
when the pressure's at its highest.
It's another gun round afforded to them,
but I mean, Mollidoi has just turned this game upside down.
That's probably what it feels like if your foot
had over heels spiraling out of control.
the smaller the way again has the confidence to just go hunting towards top middle.
They don't want to give a bone over to foot.
So he peels back with that utility pressure, keeping things even five feet five.
Massive activity inside of mid, but doesn't complete the kill.
They have to smoke down into his side. He has two attempts at shots.
He's scared him for sure that they can come back and take it.
back and take it. It doesn't really have a huge effect on the round in terms of time.
It'd be there. You need to re-clear things.
Foot could win back a lot on our top, but it's just picking up around right now, but more good utility here for the
gear aside. Oh, Krubini's lucky to be alive, tapping back into the double nades we saw so regularly on the
Nubus just teleporting to their position, spawning this, attempt at a cap plate, supporting
smoke lands after he leaves 35 to the clock. It just feels like no matter where they go,
Mollidoi gets their first. They're low-unger nades, that's actually Mollidoi, the flashes,
and, um, Cacerotos, be side with the Molli. They're flanking long. Yeah, they're killing.
He's got this wrapped up, but it's still assuming the account, or he's just turned into a retaker.
he should actually go back.
Okay, okay.
Right now, Mollido is looking to hold his just lost his teammate on the site.
All team in double headshot.
Wow.
Fallen tries to make this happen to the 5-7 flank around, but oh my god.
They did pull it off just now.
That was awkward because I mean, a long flank sounds like a great idea.
But they had two ops on, they right there.
Fallen goes flanking with the 5-7 in hand because he has it, but it's like if you have
the op-on long, don't you, I mean.
I guess Mollido was floating so much that he started it.
They just ended up in an awkward spot.
They brought you, kiddo.
I want to see those headshots out of demon.
They'd be fair to fall, and you can't predict both your teammates.
They're going to die that quickly.
If they had put up any kind of hold,
he could have been a very fast flank on Cat, but...
And he tells them they don't have to worry about long,
but it doesn't help them.
Demis Destroyed him.
One round game.
That's what foot needed right here right now.
Some kind of individual hero.
Make a difference, make it feel alive.
Watch this.
some damage, but they didn't lose any player, so.
So nasty couple entries.
Just ready from all the way on that angle.
Pressure right back onto Furia.
They know that they've had this streak of winning ways.
It was six rounds in a row.
Only the third terrorist round win here for foot.
Silver lining there.
They've got still tons of cash for the attack.
That bomb site falls with no defense posted out of Furia.
Yeah, looks like it's going to be full strength rounds to the end.
But, who wins this?
More good utility, and we saw that utility last round didn't have a huge impact, but
they've been consistently able to lend these grenades.
I'm not going to get this out.
Oh, it just gives up his angle and the need's follow him.
I kind of want to get quick about it.
You can just got an HE either.
It's got to be careful about that.
I'm just going to come.
And that last round came so easily off with a double demon entry.
I'm sure there's a part of your brain that thinks you could just tap back into it, but how many times you're going to get it over?
Mollidoi, that easily.
Because yet again, he's right back to that car angle.
I haven't made a total decision yet, and fallen spots actually.
Like, this is so key.
With Mollidoi, it's such a good way to get more than one kill in this position.
They're right about this split.
And the flashback fight's nothing.
Back turn, bomb delivered.
that's a little bit of a changeup from foot
that walks right into that trap.
They have no chance to get this bomb back.
They have no opportunity to deny theory a 12
round.
Two map and match points secured off of the back of a
changeup for long control foot not wanting to go back to that.
and you haven't seen Mullidoid
dwelling on long like that.
And yet the moment they go for it,
they fall for it as well.
And last time,
we had fallen go for the push.
This time, he's in a very committed position.
Four or late round long play reads that really right here.
And while foot did nothing wrong,
like the exact on a good amount of time
they had every player alive.
I think they did feel a little indecisive on cat.
decisive on cat. I think they were hoping to just get an early frag and fury. I just
didn't give them any options for that. Feels like falling nose. He just outcalled that, right?
Yeah. A little change up. Yeah. But B play was definitely possible there for foot, but
they didn't really, you know, they like A site.
Spile and be a little scary too.
Next fair, his triple locked down. That's a great name man. They're just so good. Oh my goodness.
of value on that.
100.
They see them.
Oh, and a little tag.
You know, we go right back to a new business in terms of the win conditions.
Mollidoi star-studded performance here on map 3, the franker nades that are just landing
to perfection.
We're also a parent back on map 1, but foot did suddenly just have that burst of entry
ability off the back of demon near rounds ago.
They will try to tap back into it with this cat play.
Oh, you kiddart.
This is frag.
Oh, they might not be worried about this one now.
And luckily, he's got another.
But he opts not to throw it.
That's going to keep the health bars up foot higher for now.
That's going to be the cat exec and then the Nate definitely hits.
And there's a couple of players that can't afford that.
You see how the timing all boils down.
Smoke lands at 42 seconds.
Frack comes in, a little ahead of the pack.
Mollidoi and Fallen are also here layered up for this whole list while we're eating.
They're going to flash and they don't even announce it.
Fallen spams down Mollidoi hits his headshot.
Foot go all in on the challenge.
Fallen off of the side of Ramp cleared and Mollidoi dives back into cover.
They don't announce themselves.
They just dive that bomb site.
Teriyahab is so much cash that this retake is inevitable.
But what about the success of it?
It'll be a clash head to head 2v2 on cat kick things off.
Mullidoy, we'll see if he gets Pete.
You already got him.
Mullidoy goes down.
Oh, what?
Cacerado could have bring up the tail end of this in a 1v2.
And it's an instant headshot.
Full zone for Benny looking for the quad kill.
His multi-frags have been massive.
And it be swings.
Cacerado to survive it.
A 24th on the line.
And foot, they'll just play that time.
Down to the final seconds.
Oh, they got the L play on your can, they're no flash, nothing just walked by that smoke.
He turned to play anti-assuming they were going to do a little extra, and that wasn't the case.
This one's not done.
They themselves walked away from Kat around the gold, because it felt maybe a bit too predictable,
but they tied back even the success of it.
The two rounds that have broken through on this T-side, barring the pistol and the conversion
come off of catwalk entries.
So now we've got those teams looking alive here around 24 on map 3.
These opportunities do not come off into challengers like foot.
If you're here, I have been able to bank on Maladoy again here in Map 3.
But when does it run out?
Miss chance towards the opening kill, Smoke Bay.
Oh, I don't know, he can't.
He put the gold back in the top of the hill.
He will pop through Benny.
They wanted him dead so badly.
He knew we couldn't run, but he stood his ground.
And unfortunately, for foot, economy low needs, infrequent.
And the guns lack Luster.
And they saw Maladoy skip over to Ward day.
I think.
And so a daunting thought to try to take this fight back to Molledoy again,
but this is the only thing that has worked.
It's very, I believe, in in this little fake.
They think that it might be a B split.
Falling back onto the ramp, he's got a flashbang in his hand,
but he sees that utility start to trickle in.
And they extend out, they're going to give it a try.
Falling keeps it clean.
Two headshots off the rifle, bolster, fight Molledoy behind him.
He gets that triple kill.
Juggs, one strike back that's all they find, and at the final hurdle, foot falter.
Furia survived a scare at the start of 2026. All the rounds of regulation, but Furia
a playoff's feature. Furia are our last team to make it through here to Malta,
of the Blast Bounty Season 1 at the Land of Finals. The Maya Mai, it was close,
and if it wasn't for Mordadoy and it's in the virtual brilliant moments, they would not have had a chance.
He bought time for the rest of the team to level up and deliver.
Yes, they started to come more alive on the CT side, but down this was close.
And you've got to give a lot of credit and praise to FUTY for just how they played.
It foot really put forward a great effort here on the third map.
I mean, I feel like taking overpass already caught our attention.
Yeah. I felt like there were many moments in this Dust2 game where they could have gotten it over
with a line. Simply put though, Molotoy was not going to lose this game.
No way that he was going to walk away with his head down. He was always going to try to
will his team into this one. And that's why we've been so high on this guy, because
it's the style. It's the flare. It's the aggression. It's the way that he's pushing
up middle on a gun round when there's really almost no support from him from anybody
else on the team. He is always going to play on his own terms.
And those turns that he's setting are really strong.
Look at this last round when he gets that kill into mid.
That was like three or four teas that were willing to shoot at him trying to take him down.
And you know, he gets stopped and he goes, OK, I'll fight then.
You want to play this game?
Yeah, I'm going to shoot back to you.
Time and time again that worked out for him.
Good to say.
Good Benny, as an IGL and also fragging out,
demon alongside him again, another positive performance in there.
The only thing that really let foot down was signature.
Unfortunately, that was the case.
think he had one nice round close out the first half by other than that. It's been pretty
rare to even hear his name uttered by the commentators. That's kind of the matchup that I
had built prior to this one. I feel like that was the most obvious discrepancy between
person A versus person B team versus team. So Mollidoi getting his job done and to
Cribeni's credit though. I mean, he's a guy that I feel like we didn't really say his name that
much of this tournament. I definitely said it a bit at the last time I watched this guy play.
He is one of the better fraggers in general when it comes to foot.
I mean, he's the in-game leader, but he's so mobile, he can be so active.
He's a recent, also, on overpass that they were actually using all those
different setups because he just has a lot of ideas, seemingly.
A lot of ideas that he's making well with the PCs got.
And, you know what, I think this is just another team similar to the eyeballs,
fashion where you can say there's a lot of positives to take away from this
despite not making it through to the landfiles.
But you know, we've got to speak to.
It's the mega-carry, it's Molledoy, from Fury, joining us once again, Molledoy, bro, you were doing everything for the team to make sure you could be here in the finals in Molledoy, this seemed like it was closer to this should have been.
Did you feel like at times though, that maybe they were catching you off guard with some of the like the aggression they were thrown especially on overpass?
I don't know, bro, it's overpass, it's not same again when you have in 2020 to 5, but we have mistakes in this side and we need to check what mistakes we have and it's have to play night game and my teammates are not here in my way because my team is all little bit
I don't think it's much of a secret that you had an incredible last year, but that being said it was your rookie year coming into your second full year into your one play. What did you do in the off season to ready yourself?
I'm just very hurt you, I'm just I don't hurt you, I'm just playing this game every
time and I want to stay in top one team in the world and you need to
work so hard and it's your job, what can I say?
Do you think this year you could definitively break?
I know that Shiro outranked you on HLTV's list, but do you think you're going to
you're going to outrank in this year.
Maybe.
Let's see.
That is a that is a typical modador response.
You are now going to travel to Malta, join up with the team and play on land.
Are you just we've got what you're saying to us that you're playing so much in the
downtime, you like playing the game, you want to grind it.
Are you looking forward to being on the first land of 2026 and showing the best
and the best of yourself.
I don't know, but I've had this first one because this is New Year and for me, and this year,
I want to play so much, it's game now, and I want to play this game.
That's a great thing, man. We like watching you play this game, because you make high light.
After high light, Molador, thank you very much for joining us with the interview.
Thank you, guys. We will see you in the future in a few days, bro.
Thank you, thank you, I see you, see you soon.
He's such a positive guy, man.
He thinks he's getting better.
He's so cheer with everything, because well,
even when we're trying to say like,
you're carrying a whole game.
Molode, really is part of this life,
believing in the team.
Oh, yeah.
He's not going to sit there and just take the credit,
even though he went crazy.
That kind of mentality is what you exactly want to hear
from your star player.
I mean, I feel like the prime example of that would be somebody
like Zeya comes across so humble
and how much vitality relish having a superstar
that can come across so selfless. The thing is, though, that when it comes to play
style, they quite contrast. I mean, I feel like, whereas I will let's the game come to
him. Balladoy always takes it by force. And I feel like he needed to in this one. Because
it was so close. I was an offshoot, right? If I told you that the winning team had four negative
rated players. Wow. Balladoy was the only positive rated player. And yet they still
one this year. He didn't it wasn't okay. He popped off, but it was a 146 rating for
Molodeo, right? 146. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And I'm going for one for jukes.
Crabani had one 30, uh, demon up what I six, but everyone across the Furia camp had
different peaks at different maps. Wow. But like they were all under a not point
95. Wow. That is, that's kind of shocking actually. I mean, I felt like on
this particular maps, you kind of, uh, probably made a case that I didn't think
case or auto was that far down, but I don't know what happened there on a
probably overpass I suppose.
Yeah, overpass was the kick in the safe.
Yeah, but I mean, for Molotoy to do this, I mean, again, it's it is why we are so
high on this guy. There's very few players who can just take a game over like that.
And I think the common contrast and compare is in Shiro. I feel like he's a guy that
maybe gets downplayed and underrated by a lot of the community because he doesn't
take over games like this, but polar opposites him in Molotoy.
Now there's one final interview we need to do because we're speaking so positively about the
foot line up. We've got Crabini standing with us here. Crabini, I know this is going to be tough
and it's such a close game for you. Commiserations on the last dude. Can you just tell me how you
feel at this moment in time where like you pushed one of the best teams in the world. The number
won't rank team right now to the absolute limits.
I don't know, thank you, but I think in Nanobis, when we start that thing, we start
that with pressure a bit, that we're playing against number one team and let pressure
out of that we can go to my type in this game and I think when we start to winning
and the game was close, same in Nanobis and same in Dust2, I think we had pressure
like I think people, some people in our team at pressure, maybe also maybe it's called sometimes in dust, but yeah, a roll, a bucket.
Can you tell me about this overpass though? Because it looked like there was no pressure in overpass.
You guys had such a good game plan. You were playing aggressive some rounds, knowing when to hold back, like was this a game plan tailored around Furio?
So we're going to play again some good teams, our fire 1 doesn't matter.
We don't really look to fully anti-strad, we just look for the basics, but overpass has been
good-mup in practice, we've played very good in practice in the last week and we knew that
we can be able to show a good game there.
Here is what you could say about your coach in Kulio.
I mean, I feel like he's been around the space for a while.
I remember watching him actually even commentating some of his stuff when he was playing
on the Budapest 5 lineup.
But I mean, what does he bring to you guys in terms of stability?
I'm sure it's nice to have a more veteran figure around.
I think all this resolves it's more because of Julio, like he's building.
I think everything, like default stuff, like he's doing like 98%,
I think of the work, like a coach, I mean, we are happy with him, like he's doing everything
kind of.
So yeah, it's very good.
And also, I feel like the guy that really caught our attention at this is jokes.
I mean, he was just, I mean, some of the clutches he's had at this event were unreal,
and I know that you guys would have wanted the win, but in terms of the positives regarding
him, what would you have to say?
I don't know at the moment like Duke's also everyone in team. I'm happy that everyone
like playing very good. I think we are showing good. Yes, I don't know if I
about Duke's. I think he's like the best anchor for me at the moment. Like he's like
I'm very impressed from in the last six months. I think he's like one of the best in his
this early thing and I agree that he's looking really strong, really good in it.
You next though have crack out coming up another big event for the team.
What does that feel like going there after you've put up these performances, you've
shown a good level of counter strike.
Does it feel you have more confidence?
I think we have before a crack of year this online I am Rios close.
I think if you need this game to play, because also against Orchi, also against Furia,
when we are like one month break and become, we are feeling a pressure a bit,
so I think it's good that we're gonna play a few more games before a crack of an
also in Crack, or I think we'll feel less pressure.
Awesome, it sounds like you know what to do, man.
Thank you very much for joining us.
You've had some really impressive moments in counter, good luck, for across the rest of
your 20-26 season, man.
I think there's so much to know.
Very well spoken, very understanding of the situation and do not people need to understand.
Even though maybe people just all look to this and say, yeah, if you're here with where, and that's what we expected.
But someone like him who is an ideal, who's going through this grinding of the team every day, this is the moment they dream for to make it here.
To gaming multiple arena, to come to the studio, to be in with a chance of getting some land games like that playing against this level of opposition.
So the pain is still probably very strong right now without a doubt.
I mean, to even give an interview in this kind of situation is a bit of a rarity,
probably, because so often,
uh, Krabani and foot, when they just lose a qualifier,
there's out. They just walk away and they think about the next one.
So it's nice to be able to pick his brain a little bit as he's reflective on
this situation, the experience and how there was pressure.
I feel like that's also another thing where these,
these seems that people don't really know as well into your two can be a little
faceless by putting a man to a voice is especially nice as we're getting our
our feet wet as we learn who put our.
Yeah, and I'm looking forward to learning more about them across future events for this
2026 season, but we have arrived at the end of the online side of things here at the
Blouse Bounty Season 1 and look who we've got as our qualified teams, no surprises with
some of the names in that spirit, vitality, fury, even notice close, falcons, but then
liquid, game-elegant, heroic, power division, all starting the year strong, and many
might have thought that they would have slipped in the first couple of hurdles.
I'm really happy with how game-elegant look immediately off of bringing snacks in.
I find that this is probably the best possible situation for him to fall to after G2.
It's clear that his voice is being heard by these players talking to Res after their victory
reverse's Aurora.
I mean, he was just heaping praise upon snacks
as ability to recognize how much does he need to micro,
how much should he give in terms of letting the players
have individual freedoms.
I think that sort of veteran voice live in the server
just going to be a difference between that and ZTR.
I still raise ZTR in terms of as a caller,
but you can't deny the presence of snacks.
And remember, things can still get crazy here
because we will be having a draft show on Wednesday.
I believe my knowledge and memory is correct at this point.
And they will have to do these picks again.
And that's where it can start to get, it's like, it's not a bracket.
It's not some normal whitewood looking at playoffs.
They get to pick their opponent and be ready ready for this.
And that's exactly what I want to see if snacks or anybody of the just underdogs
can tailor a game plan.
I mean, I think a team like pair of vision is probably going to also just relish the opportunity
to just get to see who their opponent is or at least kind of theory craft what they can
do against them because we've got some, the cool thing about some of these underdogs is
that they've got some tenured leaders.
I mean, I would be a little bit worried if I'm a team like Fury that's looking a little rocky a little one
No, like Mollido has got to carry me if chain is trying to craft the master plan to take me down
Fury on land though should be a different base, right? Totally. Yeah, I mean, that can't
Underrate that aspect definitely cannot and just give me this right spirit of one all the bounty so far
But they've come in with obviously a brand new looking lineup some tips magic spec. We spoke about as many times
But then you've also got a team like Falcons, Josk is not here now.
Right, he couldn't go in here. That kind of takes them down on the level.
Does this open it up to like a quite comfortable vitality,
fury at favorites or not so much, based on what we just saw from Furia.
We since he buy us, include I would say it's rather foolish to say that
this is really anybody's tournament except for vitalities in Furia.
Obviously vitality will be working with just simply being an elite squad
Yeah, along with Furia, but I feel like Furia
should come into this a little bit hungrier.
I know that today looked a little bit like they were
going to trip up on an opponent like foot,
but vitality on the other hand.
I just think the whole perspective of them
not having a concrete objective.
I'm not sure if that's really going to hinder them,
but it's just enough of a crack that maybe Furia
in a deep semi-final grand final game can exploit it.
And lastly, the touches.
We were at a season before where there was no upset
and nothing matters to go happen.
This time we had two big ones.
both phase and Navi not finding their way through.
Who was the biggest disappointment to you?
I'll let you think about it because my first one
would just be Navi because I was hoping
after that playoff run at Budapest,
we'd see some positive signs.
And I don't think online is an excuse.
They know what this is.
They don't have to do it.
They don't have their own boot camp as well.
Like that was a failure.
I'll take that up with you that I would say Navi
is the more disappointing team.
However, I'm just scared for phase.
Because we saw the magic that occurred at Budapest
But to me, it was just magic to be it was something that looked fairly
unsustainable like they shouldn't actually be as good as a major
grand finalist like I'm not expecting them to have those kinds of results
moving into the season if there was either of these two teams that I thought
would build off of their major runs. Almost ironically I would actually
pick Navi even though they fell to phase just because I thought they were
doing a good job in a grading Macase. He was starting to look like the
star aggressive player that they really needed him to be on that team.
Whereas on the face that I just felt like they were running on fumes.
They were they were always just cooking up individual plans for opponents.
And that to me almost read more like a a care again master class.
But unfortunately in recent years that of those of always felt like a little flash in the
pan more than the sustained excellence that I would expect out of a team like Navi.
One thing is well on Navi, you've got to ask for this because I haven't asked the players yet to
run this time. Do you think because of this?
Lates kept them on the boot camp with the wets cracker on now.
I mean, if I had to say yes, yes, you're not leaving this boot camp until we
iron everything out that went wrong.
I'll drop the bases and I'll find out if we let you know that I'm thinking the same as well.
Now, we're closing off final thoughts to all the fans out there watching at home.
Just that if they were already excited about what was happening here in the online stage of
play, things are going to get a lot crazier, a lot wackier, a lot more fun and the stakes are
are really going to build once we get everybody in the studio.
Oh, yes, that's what it's all about.
We've got a wonderful time here in Malta.
So far, but we've still got the playoffs to come.
Eight teams have made it all the way to the landfiles.
They're flying in some right now, some tomorrow.
And over the next couple of days, we've got media and all that good stuff.
And then the games begin on Thursday.
Don't miss it. We'll see you then.
Welcome to the Bounty, a new bold counterstrike format.
where every round raises the stakes.
Here's how it works.
The prize pool isn't just beside the end,
it's distributed as boundaries.
Each team starts with a bounty base on their seat.
Lower seat, you can get zero,
but can still strike it big by hunting bounties
from higher run teams.
Win a match and you secure 50% of your opponent's bounty
as a guaranteed payout.
The other 50%, it carries forward,
growing the stakes for the next round.
After reach round, the lowest sea detains pick their opponents from the highest sea
deport.
This happens during the live draft shows, taking place before the tournament first begins
and after each round of playing, bounty hunters can choose from the most wanted teams, deciding
if they want to choose their opponent based on strategy, past history, or simply going for
the biggest prize available.
This is Counter-Strike, like never before.
Are you ready to go bouncing hunting?
The State has been the beginning of power strike for twenty-five years.