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BLAST Premier Bounty Malta 2026 - Quarterfinals - Team Falcons vs Team Liquid, FURIA vs HEROIC
01-22-2026 · 7h 00m
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Welcome to the playoffs at the blast bounty here courtesy of Gaming Malta in the blast
studio in beautiful sunny.
No longer stormy Malta, we have our eight playoff teams entering the studio, ready to battle
it out for the big prize and a few bananas along the way.
And to bring you through all the action, I've got some beautiful analysts here on the
desk.
We got Mr. Maui, Snake, and Mr. Jacob Pimp, Wynnecky.
You don't know me.
I'm alright, I'm glad the weather's gone a little bit better, I'm glad the teams are in
the studio, I'm glad Counter Strike finally gave us a big update that we could actually talk
about.
But maybe we'll say that for the next tournament.
Yeah, key bit of housekeeping.
We are not playing on new enuvres
for not playing on the new patch.
It did hit last night.
That's a little too tight of a turnaround
to be changing things around mid tournament.
So we're sticking with the old patch for this one year.
Jacob, you excited for the MP7 back in the meta?
I am always excited for a bit of a change.
I'm excited by newbies as well.
The match changes have seen a lot of stuff on Twitter.
Late, you know, a lot of videos.
A lot of new boosts so I think there's a lot to dive into.
After this tournament, after this tournament,
we'll leave the new haul and all the other changes
alone for now.
stick with old for the moment.
That's pretty good.
Get into the banquet of teams that we have in front of us.
This is, of course, the playoffs.
We had to little down from 32 teams all the way down to this before we got to this point.
And then we have a little bit of a draft to determine which teams we're going to be playing.
Who?
A little bit of a recap of what actually happened in that draft show.
We've got to look right here.
Here we have it, everyone in that position ready for the live draft.
It is time to find out who liquid up picking.
We are picking Falcons, Falcons.
Now I can understand it on paper right there.
Haven't had an academy play coming in.
Is that where this conversation went within the team?
Yeah, I would say somewhat, obviously, you know, losing a player, you know, I think it changes like a lot of things and the team somewhat, the chemistry and all that, it kind of gets thrown off.
So, but you know what they're doing on this job, good players, and you can honestly, you know, with them having a standing, they could have no pressure, you know, and honestly, you know, could be hitting every shot.
I haven't started. Did you expect this? Of course, yes.
Of course, we expected it. We are ready for every opponent. We are for guns.
Give it to me, Tobias. Who are heroic, picking?
We have chosen for you.
If you're, yeah.
So now I need to know though.
What team did you want if the team wanted to be?
I mean, we wanted a Falcon Smogger us
and the immediate guys wanted my talented
for the impression, you know,
were you expecting to be the second pick out here?
Ah, yeah.
Maybe first or second.
Like, a keepsaed, we know the liquid had this
comfortable streak against this.
So we figured we could be first,
but also second was an option.
So yeah, this is something we would prepare for.
But it's power vision picking, why?
Paravision is picking, it's in spirit.
Hey!
Yeah.
Do you think that some of your experience
on team spirit can help in this matchup?
Of course, I can like, maybe bring some strats
from the spirit into Paravision.
instantly after I get the agent, and also I know how they prepare to the matches and maybe
we do some ancestral, you know?
Oh, oh.
What's your reason for thinking in the first place that PowerVision would go for spirit?
Basically, because you are the third take and you don't have an option to be getting with the Sandin
and be getting who had a shaker result in online.
and the dirt of worse because of some outrefarming.
That's the major.
And the last one, but there's no peak for you here.
You just have to get what was left over.
So high-fax, you got vitality,
but I'm guessing did you expect it would go this way?
No, I don't think anyone expects this to be...
Yeah.
Here's what it is.
It is what it is.
You just gifted the last one at the end the game of the lings.
What do you make of game lings of the team right now?
in Zipitoho, so we have to respect them to not only understand what they did and just play
all game, but to get them quickly and show a little bit of them.
Or a farming in the draft show, that's what we like to see.
Quite a banquet of games that we've got set up here, was you favorite Big Nally?
I guess the pair of vision went half city, no problem.
I mean, the fact that there's probably a little bit of bad blood between sway and spirit
for his release. I know he's not actually putting that out there, but I feel like he more or less
learned his lesson about having a big mouth when he first joins a roster so has tightened it up a bit.
Someone bring up the Macauze meme. Exactly. I think we've all seen a lot of that here, Jacob.
What are you excited to see? I mean, all of them to be completely honest,
curious to the heroic one, you know, picking into Furia's world, this spoke about having
practice against each other and he broke, you know, has seeming to be in competitive against Furia
in practice, whereas when the practice against Vitality, they couldn't get anything done. So
I'm curious to see if Aurora can live up to the practice results in that game against Furrier.
Well, we'll have to leave that for the future because it's time to look at our schedule for the day.
We're starting things out very nicely with that first picked game between Falcons and Lickwood.
Then we will get the Furrier heroic game just a little bit later.
I'm very eager to see this Falcon vs. Lickwood matchup.
I think we need more of a test of this Lickwood roster coming into this season and
yeah Falcons have down a little bit, but there's still going to be a lot to prove there.
We'll get into that in just a little bit here folks.
But the question on our minds is,
what's going to be happening in that second game?
You already brought it up a little bit, Jacob.
You think that her out might have a chance here?
You think a team with a stand is going to make it to the final?
I mean, 18 with a stand, and maybe it's not going to be her road though.
I'm pretty proud of it.
I'm pretty proud of it.
Pretty proud of that.
I think that's going to be a tough match for Regalis.
Just for her road to be inside this environment,
to be in the studio with a picture-priced in itself.
Them taking out pain and they'd eat up,
you know coming into the play up was a big result for them. Youngster coming in playing S&HWP player despite being a bench driver.
There's a lot of stuff going against them. And that's a set yesterday. We're talking about
Syria who three weeks ago were the number one team in the world. Maybe this day lah. Let's figure that out.
Again, it's Hebrew. It couldn't even qualify for the maker. We're now playing what a stand in this world.
So if you want to set it up in that context, then there should be a skill disparity in that game.
Well, it's time to put some pride behind those predictions because it's time to dive into our blast
Balanty Simulator over on Blast.tv.
You can do this yourself as well, predict all the results going in.
We did a very good job of predicting the draft.
I think we were four for four if I'm not mistaken.
So what are we going to get here?
Who do we think is going to win this first matchup on our predictions?
Go ahead, Mom.
Oh, OK.
I mean, I feel like Falcons, despite the fact
that they're using a stand-in coach,
stand-in player, I think they'll be just fine.
The core is looking incredibly strong.
So I'd be taking them in this first one.
OK.
We're going for Falcons here.
I don't know if I agree with that one, but we'll lock it in, Fury Heroic.
Do we think Heroic can replicate those practice results?
I think Heroic can be competitive, maybe on one map,
but that's a bad idea.
I would be highly surprised if Fury is not lugging in that W.
That's the answer right there, Fury locked in,
vitality gamer Legion.
I like snacks.
But I like vitality a lot more for this one.
Yeah, I don't even think the people on Twitter
can pull you for that, too.
So vitality locked in so far, we're looking at all of the high seats
coming through.
All of our most wanted teams carrying those
have the bounties as well.
Last pick here, Spirit, Perry Vision,
Do We Believe in the Narrative upset?
This way revenge game.
I think that game is going to be more competitive
than a lot of people probably would think.
When they look at the name value of the game,
I think Swade was fantastic in his opening
couple of rooms for Peribition.
And they are team that can come in real-papath.
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd take a map off team spirit,
but I'd be surprised if they'd win the game.
So I have to cite what spirit.
You guys are so boring.
All of the top seats, all of the favorites.
I like a cock.
I only get more fun.
All right, I won't put a hand on the wheel.
I'll leave this up to you for now.
We're headed into the semi-finals.
This would give us some very interesting matchups
indeed we would have our draft picks coming through.
And so we would have Vitality Spirit locked in,
which means that we would have Falcons and Furia
able to pick their opponent.
If you are Falcons coming into this,
which of these two do you actually want to pick?
You're easily taking spirit.
There's no question about that.
You don't want to play against world number
for one, 2025, number one.
You'd rather play against the spirit
that's still figuring out how they're gonna call
with magic at the helm, how Zalantics is gonna play,
who seems to still be finding his footing as an individual.
Just maybe don't wanna limit tests immediately,
going all the way to vitality,
when you're still trying to figure out
how this stand in situation is working out for you.
Yeah, I've gotta start with that sentiment.
I don't see it, I know the world's in that case.
I should be Falcons, you know, going against Team Spirit,
and then you have by Saturday versus Spirit,
which is kind of the game that we didn't get at the major,
which I would love to see as well as so I hope that's going to be the case.
Now, we would have our match up locked in for the grand final here.
Who would you be taking in these matches? Who would be one of this?
It's tough. I think the vitality fury at once is actually a pretty curious prospect.
But if I'm just going with pass results going with 2025, I would be taking vitality.
I think the veto can get a little bit more interesting if you're his favor,
especially with the inclusion of a new bus. I think they're actually really strong on that.
but if you just have to ask me pick one today, you have to be right, I'm going to be taken
by Tality.
Outside with that one, I think it's going to be a close game, but I'll go with what my
Tality as well.
For Spirit, Falcon Stone, that's where my predictions are coming into play.
Yeah.
I think Falcon is having a realistic shot at beating Spirit in that game.
Yes, Spirit will probably be the favorite, but let's not forget that just brought back
some six-intercompetitive play that just brought in a new in-game lead on metrics, who is in
experience, who's never done that role on a big stage as well, and who's never done
it against a team that I think can apply a lot of pressure to him.
So I can see your well, where falcons are going to come in.
And despite playing with a stand in, they had that individual powers to match don't.
We see Nicol shot him down a couple of times throughout 24 and 25.
So I see your well, with falcons.
Oh, okay.
You're still riding falcons.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
You're the last year you were predicting that.
I haven't even told you.
Okay, yeah.
You know, a broken clock will be right twice a day, they say.
So then if we get this grand final, vitality, they've never won a bounty.
They've won everything else.
They've never won a bounty.
See, here's where it gets funny right?
you saying I'm riding the Default Constraining Ride.
He has thing, what's telly, will smoke
if we owe one a chance.
Yeah, it's a VO5, especially there's no shot for Falcons.
If that actually sounds like a play.
No shot, 0% chance.
I'm going to give it a 5% error.
Vitality finally claimed that trophy that has most
alluded them the blast bounty.
The one gem not in the crown of Vitality,
they finally secured it.
It happens here.
We've predicted it.
All right, we've predicted it.
All right, we've predicted it.
And narrative is set.
The story is built.
And so now it's just time for us to get into our first match, but before we do that, a short break.
Oh, yes, and the boss bouncy.
He's got him off if they're halfway through the two B4,
and they'll have to look off the platform to the pool.
These guys are demons.
As you get the SMG against you,
they're going to kill him all!
Kicks and it's a pretty tough situation for the first event of the year,
if you guys obviously you do have a plan coming from your country.
So I just want to ask, did you know him beforehand?
Do you know much about him?
Yeah, of course, I knew about him, I haven't played with him too much, obviously some bucks,
some face it once in a while, but this is the first time that he came on a team obviously,
and we will see how it goes.
In terms of seeing how it goes, how much time practice, like, what is it that you realistically
be able to do in such this great situation?
We had bootcamp with Maxime, because we care, and during this bootcamp, Nucleon was there with us,
so he was just watching, just watching how we work, how we are at team, learning about
us about our team and after we qualified for the land, we had two practice with an
exchange, so around 5-6 maps and totals, so it's not too much, but we'll see how
how it goes. Is it going to be like a one for one trade of him in Kiyosuki?
Yes, I mean, they're pretty similar players, I would say, so that they're similar roles,
so I think he would just stick to his roles from the academy.
How strong do you feel that still makes Falcons coming into this event?
Like, she's still feeling like you're in a good position.
Yeah, I mean, obviously it's a big close to not have just whatever it does,
but still think you have a good team.
Other than him, you still have good players and look at the Siyang guy,
who will hopefully just comment at his game,
and I think we can do good damage here.
Do you think that maybe Likur when they picture
and some of the other teams wanted to pick you,
because you have a stand and maybe underestimate you guys a little bit?
Yeah, I think most of the teams would have liked to play us,
because if you look at the other choices,
vitality is period theory and they're all top teams.
So when you have a team with a standing in it with no code right now,
obviously we're going to target that team and that's a surprise that we got picked first.
This is like the pressures off of you guys as well.
A man's time mentioned to enter in the draw flow that maybe could be also.
You guys want to fight hard of his own as well and do well at the same time?
Yeah, I think so.
I mean we have a standing now.
Obviously the expectations are not as high as usualy.
And obviously the enemy is not as now.
so we will do our best in this game for ourselves.
The North Macedonian connection there, perhaps for Falcons coming into play,
new man in the spot, New Clions, going to have to do a hell of a job in his first ever
land debut. That is a tall pass set now in this Falcons liquid matchup.
It's going to be interesting to see how he's able to slot in, but you can I, I guess you can hear
some of what Kixen saying regarding just let's say the perspective on on his fellow
countrymen. I feel like it's a it's a player that not many people are jumping at to
say this guy's going to be next up or he's going to be a guy that we're all
suddenly just we don't think that this guy's going to be a star gay one that's
simply play. No this sample size is very small even to have background here we can see
this quote coming through from Kixen. I can just say that with a lot of shangan events
happening this year, it was impossible to kill Skate for all of them.
They were being a little strategic about this one, perhaps, choosing that this might be
the event where integrating a new player, we're working it out in a more of a studio environment
my work for them, Jacob.
Yeah, and that's fair enough if they decide to process a different name in that regard.
I'm a little bit sad, though, because I would have loved to see Falcon's coming with the
full roster and get a sense of whether and after the break.
Because let's be honest, a lot of us were speculating after the major, maybe they make
a roster change.
Maybe they get another super star into the mix, but they decided to keep the line
together and give it a few more months to prove that they can win trophies at the very
highest level. So not to see Kyushuki right here, it's going to put an asterix to whatever
we saw them, whatever they're going to deliver throughout this tournament. And to me,
that's it's an eye, you know, because I would like to see the full roster play out.
However, we get to learn a new player to know, we get to see Falcons maybe play a bit more
freed up. And if anything, they're couldn't able, like I like the guy you're seeing
on your screen right here in Monacy to play some of his best corners.
And with the way that modern counter strike goes, it feels like every time a new, no name
fresh teenager comes out of nowhere, they somehow like the world on fire.
Do we think that might happen with nucleons?
Not necessarily.
I looked a little bit at how Nathanielons was playing lately in his face at games, because
there's not a lot of data to go off of when you're regarding officials.
He's only played five maps in officials and by the way, three of those were on train.
So can't even really take too much from those data points.
So looking at his face at games where he played with Tessa Sanico lately, yeah, his face
He's aggressive, he has pretty sharp aim, I'd say though that in general, he doesn't look
quite as smooth, the eye test is somebody like Kyosuke where he just feels like Kyosuke
knows where every next fight is coming from, he locks his cross around right to it, nucleons
I would say is a little bit rough around the edge, he's a guy where he's still sometimes
kind of thinking about, is it going to be coming from here, is he going to be coming from there?
And those are kind of attributes that I'd say tier one players, they kind of trim the fat in terms
of Crosshair placement, whereas nuclear on this kind of darting between positions for my eyes.
Anyone who has played 5,000 phasic games at the age of 18, you know, is first and foremost
a dialogue fan of Counter Strike, second of all, will be aggressive on the server. And I think
you're right on when you're saying that there's going to be certain things when in Counter
Strike, he hasn't been exposed to just yet. So if you've kicks in and if you're the
coach behind him right now, that son of a, he's not there either, you just got to simplify the
game for him. Right? You've got to put him in positions where he doesn't have to think too much,
where he doesn't have to make too many decisions, where he just has to rely on his aggressiveness,
We'll land the aim and then let all the clutching,
let all the communication and let all the
the finite details of counter strike.
Let that be played out by Montesignico when you're dead and you're done your opening jump.
Now this is also the second change coming in for Falcons.
It's on a dealing with a tragedy in his family, not able to attend,
taking time to be with his family, even to steam their new
assisting coach, new to the team this season,
coming on in, standing behind the team.
And we have some very positive words coming through from the
to Niko, we worked with Montesquio over on G2.
Now into this fellow,
it's roster kicks and is already liking the early results.
For some greater context on Amencena,
it was on that G2 roster as an assistant coach
as they were winning with Taz in front of him as the main coach.
So Amencena was there for the trophies
that they collected with Blas at the end of 2024.
He was there with the London trophy
that they also were able to get last year.
He's a figurehead that maybe isn't the most well known
because he hasn't had Tier 1 coaching positions,
but he's been around success before,
he's been with these personalities before.
If anything, he just created context
that we already know and seems to be the point
everyone is making about Falcons,
that they can't perform on the pushup.
Whenever they go into a playoff game,
they go into a grandfinal,
everyone is pointing towards them and saying,
oh, you can play on the pushup,
you can't deal with the pushup,
et cetera, et cetera.
You're now playing what a stand-in,
where no one has any expectations
in regards to the set stand-in,
you're playing with your assistant coach behind you as well.
There's no pushup on Falcons,
they can lose this game and they can brush it off
and be like, I wasn't the full rustler.
So if that has been an excuse
that everyone has been using now for six months,
this is a great time for felt-consuming room.
I will throw a tiny bit of water on it,
which is just with a new coach,
with an assistant coach,
with a coach who hasn't really stood behind the players
before there is one element that you haven't had reps on.
And that's just the cadence of when you wanna call your tech pauses
or your tech pauses, right?
When you maybe wanna reset your players, okay?
You know a couple of them,
you may not know three of their personalities.
So there is that element that might just be a little different.
Do we think it can come into play here?
I'll be completely honest.
When you're playing with Nico, like he's going to take charge of that together with Kicks
and I know Kicks and obviously he's a big voice, but so is Nico in that regard and
Amen already knows Nico from the G2 Day.
So I don't think that's a factor whatsoever and if anything, I think this is going to be one
of those tournaments where Nico is going to have a lot more to say now that there's more
responsibility than he's sure.
There's also a guy who we know can just absolutely take over the server.
That's going to be monacy, right?
He's had some fiery maps before we expect him to have many more in the future.
We expect him to be the guy on this falcons roster.
What do we expect from monacy?
So what you want from honesty is a guy that, even though we would give Falcons the team all
of the passes if they were to lose against Liquid, I feel like Monacy himself shouldn't
be giving a pass if he has a poor performance.
I mean, think of how slim the margins were from him being the third best player of last
year versus the fourth best player.
If you're able to pick up a couple of trophies, awards in these kinds of events, it can
tip the scales in your favor.
So even though maybe 25 wasn't quite as good as this 24, I feel like you're trying to
to eat out every single margin that you possibly can for a world elite
offer who can be the difference maker in every game.
Like if Monacy today wakes up and says, I want to be liquid,
regardless of the fact that we have a stand-in coach,
a stand-in player.
He has all of the capabilities to do just that.
Yeah, and I think he's going to feel great on the silver being a bit more
freed up, maybe taking a bit more responsibility,
feeling that there is no push on his shoulders, feeling that he doesn't necessarily have
to do what has been game planned in out,
because now you're playing what has been in your playing with a new coach as well.
I'm just curious to see Monica get off to a good start for the year, because I feel like we
had this conversation that he was going to take a step up in 2025 to contest versus
dunk to contest versus cyberwin. As you said, the reality is that this 25 wasn't bad
by no means, but it wasn't as strong as this 24. And if you're young and your
monacy, you want to be continuing to get better and better and better, because that's what
cyberwin don't is doing at the moment. So if anything in this game, I think he's going
to struggle against team liquid. He's not going to struggle against ultimate. Let's
be completely honest, but he needs to make a statement from the get go that he's in the
race to be the best player in the world.
Well, let's get into that, right?
Because if we're talking about a team that can really use a hot start to 2026,
that would be team liquid.
And these five players coming on in no changes from the end of last season,
they had that swap bringing in a leash in place of twists,
far away through the season, that was the big news.
That was the big tumult.
I would say for this roster in 2026, what are our expectations here,
right? Because it feels like we always have expectations for liquid.
We're always describing them and so often they've been falling short.
to me team liquid what they're trying to aim for in this season if they are just going to
sick with this same five man assembly is to just hover around being a top 10 team maybe punch
up that doesn't however be fit the brand of team liquid that's what's so disappointing it doesn't
even be fit the name of somebody likes you hey who's reach brand major grand final highs
uh of somebody like a leash has been consistent think maybe eight time top 20 player in the
world all of those accolades that these players have accumulated say that this should be a team
that's really contesting for trophies, but we feel like we're a far stretch away from that.
It doesn't even seem likely that this team will be lifting a single trophy this half season,
let alone this year. So if I'm liquid, I'm trying to just say to myself, can we find upsets?
And this is a great opportunity to find an upset victory against the team that by and large
should beat you almost every day of the week. But now you have a couple factors that are working
in your direction that could help you build some momentum into this season.
That's the thing right. You've got to manage your expectation when it comes to
the team liquid because the name itself and the organization and I guess the financial
power behind liquid as well, that screams we're going to tend to contest for trophies.
We're going to be part of the playoffs.
We're going to do well at the majors, but it just hasn't been the case for a very long time.
It's been almost 2400 days since the organization last one and international trophy.
We're talking 78 months.
And honestly, it was barely boner that time since liquid last week relevant in terms of winning
big trophies.
So, instead of talking about liquid going fine to the player right here, getting into the
final, just being here in itself is a step in the right direction.
And I hate we have to do that.
We have to talk about liquid as being a team
that just have to try to step yourself as a top 10 team.
When you're working with one of the biggest names in industry,
you're working with one of the biggest botchets you had a guy
like you have nerds, you have a niche.
You have all the player qualities in order to be relevant.
Yet you're not.
Now we just saw the huddle over on stage.
And I think that's going to be a key point for them
is just getting everyone pulling in the same direction.
That feels like that's been a bit of the problem
to liquid over the last while.
Looking at that player quality that we talk about.
There's one man who's pretty mercurial
about whether he's going to have success or not so much.
That's ultimate.
He's been under a lot of focus under the microscope.
What do we think of ultimate coming into the big two six?
Ultimate just needs to step up.
That's just by and large, the biggest problem for me
when I'm watching Liquid.
I feel like I've watched a handful of the riflers.
Find their form.
You can talk about even now in 25.
How the first season was so bad.
How he was able to have such a redemption in the second half.
But for me, Ultimate is just the most
feaster fan in player you could possibly have
and liquid and for a team that has such good rifleers,
I feel like I know that I'm going to get something out
of a leash, nerds, and NAF in almost every single game.
But going into any given series on any given day,
I don't know if Ultimate is going to drop one of the worst
shopping performances I watch in the tournament,
or a map that's going to just change the tides of the entire
bomb.
And that's the issue of the ultimate system.
He's so consistently inconsistent in the way that they split
with the game.
That's not a nice thing to say about a player,
especially in the other NAWP player.
And I also will say if I got to be brutally honest, he should be super, super heavy that he's given another chance.
And the only reason that is the case right now is that the opus market has probably never been in a lower stock right now.
It's very hard to pinpoint someone who would go in replace ultimate and be like, you are significantly better.
I think a lot of teams right now are scouting the market for the next up and coming up talent. No one seems to found it.
So ultimate is always gifted and another chance. And I sincerely hope that he's going to grab it.
It feels like we had such promise and his initial step with liquid right when he first joined, we saw those hard maps,
the aggressive awphing, the fiery style, the crazy interviews, the jokes, the banter,
and he thought this could be the guy, this could be the guy who told her it, and he just
hasn't been the case down the stretch of this last year. What went wrong for ultimate?
Ultimate came into the scene as being a hyper aggressive offer, and every time I see a hyper
aggressive offer come into Tier 1, their first month, two months, maybe, can go extremely well,
but once other Tier 1 teams have a beat on you, then they're going to start game planning for you.
They're going to flash you off your initial angles.
They're going to be ready for your re-piques.
And those kinds of counters just works way too strongly against ultimate.
And I feel like the funny part about this for liquid is if they're looking back at their
pass-offers, I honestly think that OC was more consistent.
He was a more consistent guy.
Maybe he didn't reach the same highs game to game, whereas sometimes Ultimate will just drop
at 1.5 and I'm kind of like, where did that come from?
But it's usually just because he's smurfing on some team with aggressive plays.
OC was the guy where I knew, okay, you're going to get some supportive elements.
some good flashes, and he's like gonna have a great idea
of what he wants to do in the mid and late round.
And I almost feel like that would just be a better option
for liquid if this ultimate project kind of continues
to be so hot and cold.
I'm gonna let that stay in the stand.
I guess you know how to make me happy.
I'm gonna let that statement stand by itself
because I think that describes everything
that is wrong with ultimate and team liquid.
Well, let's get into what might be right
because we're gonna talk a little bit about the veto here.
Looking back at their history,
is there any element of gamesmanship
that we could have going into this veto?
You have the cool thing about this video is that we had a new which being introduced into
to the map pool.
None of the two teams have had a chance to play it yet, we haven't seen it online.
And we also know that both of the two teams don't play all past.
That's the Prima Band, right?
So you are potentially ending up in that chicken scenario right here where one of the
two teams will have to band out of all past at some point unless you're willing to let it float
and potentially be a third map now.
If you're team liquid, you're team, you've been practicing, I don't think they're willing
to take that risk.
And if your Falcons, even though you're playing what are standing and an existing coach,
I think they believe too much in their own individual skill level that floating your
olaposs and playing a map that is basically going to be a puck is probably not the
way to go.
I would have to agree with that.
I mean, I feel like the way you read this in the video is whoever bands it first sort
of loses the video.
If anybody bands it in the first stage, that's a huge L on there.
Them in terms of pick band structure.
Even banding it in the second phase to me is kind of a sign of weakness if you do it unless
you're that final band that just simply has to do it.
time to find out because it's time for the veto.
What are we going to get here?
We've talked about the gamesmanship through.
Is anyone going to ban it in the first round?
That's what we need to know.
Inferno out for liquids.
They don't touch it.
And then the ancient coming out for Falcon.
So the overpass has been floated here.
Okay.
I mean already simply put.
That's kind of what we were getting out.
Yeah.
The fact that nobody's banning it here is just a sign that they understand nobody's just going to go
Hail Mary, pick it in the first round.
I mean, if you want to, you could,
but I don't think that's going to be the case.
Nuke being picked up as the first map,
not too big of a surprise.
It's something that Liquid likes to play as well.
I don't expect Falcons to pick over Pasta right here.
It'll be too big of a gamble.
And you want to make sure that your Niko's
and honestly are feeling comfortable.
And what maps to do that on Dust2?
Also, one of the EC's map to integrate as the end of them.
That does make a lot of sense, right?
You're going to know how to play Dust2.
You're going to know where to be directed.
Kicks aren't mentioned this, right?
Like, he's an aggressive guy.
We can tell him that to do and he can do it.
You make him the tip of the spear.
It's not going to have to think too hard about steps two and three.
This is on a weakness.
Yeah, that's a, I mean, lightly questionable.
I just feel like if you're liquid here, you could have just been
which of the two remaining maps are free.
You don't like, but instead now you get Falcons with this option.
Oh, they ban the rogen.
We actually get a newbis, which is to me a little bit of a surprise.
I guess I guess I guess if it went to that, I would have thought Falcons
would just ban a newbis, so we'd play a rogen.
You have a nucleons that is, you know, just a world-class
Pugger at this point, so he obviously would have just thrived if he was finding himself on
that map, but a new was you can target him pretty well in terms of just making him go first too.
I understand why, though, I understand why Liquid S4 team as a full vuster is not willing to
take the small gameable that what if Falcons would actually allow Orpas as the deciding
map and force it into become a facing game, because at the end of the day, if you set up these two
teams against each other, on a map like Orpas, neither of them practice it, neither of them have
ever had it in the map pool, that will turn out to be a facing game, and who would that
What would it favor? Monacy, Nico, the guy who's playing 5,000 face-to-games at the age of 18.
So I guess why, but still, it would have been nice to see.
Some extra intrigue, of course, with the Nubis, the update hit last night, for anyone who hasn't been
feverishly monitoring the CS sweater.
They've changed them out. There's some pretty radical changes to it, especially in towards
mid. There's a new window out of the E-box or connective position for you, Europeans, over towards the platform.
What do we make of the changes to Nubis? This might be the last time we see the previous version.
Well, it feels like it's gotten just lightly more CT-sided. I mean, the new box that was out onto the A site, the Austin box, the Austin box.
I feel like that's actually a nice little benefit to just make it so you can defend against executes a little.
But, well, I think it'll probably shift the needle maybe 3% though, just be lightly lightly more CT-sided.
But that combined with the changes to the CT economy, of course, the newest came out before you got that kill buff for the CTs.
Yeah, that's the best enough to even it out.
I think that was already a big enough change if you ask me personally.
I just wanted to see it played out in its past iteration with that CT buff.
So you hate the changes this one I'm hearing.
No, no, no, no, I don't hate the changes.
I think the whole, I think the whole, I think the window in middle is actually sick.
I think that's going to lead to a lot of cool new ideas.
It does seem like the boost ups there could get really weird and really wild.
Jake, what do you think?
I like it.
I like a bit of a change.
I'm a little bit of sad as you said that we didn't get to see it play out with the new CT side economy and see if that actually had potential but I don't mind you changing the map once in a while.
if you're changing certain maps.
And I think in Nubis was too teased out to some degree.
I think the feeling of being on the CT side,
especially when you're parking as well.
It's like being fishing a barrel.
There's only so much you can do.
And if you overstep just by a little marching,
you'll get ran over by a truck on the T side.
So I feel that it makes sense to lean it to off the CT side.
But I don't know.
They had a recap right now because we're not going to see it.
Well, we might.
And there's one other detail that changes this week
of the bounty, which is that we have our live audience.
So I want to take your quick moment and shout out
everybody who's here in studio right now. We ready for a little counter strike.
That's what I like to hear. There's nothing like having to fan here in person. It's an intimate
setting as well. There's so close to the stage so close to the players. What I want to ask you guys is
we're dialing it all the way back to the start of our conversation, nucleons. I got you to play
five officials on HLTV coming into his first land games here. There is a crowd. There are the
the bright lights, the camera's going to be on him.
How much does that amb up the pressure tremendously?
The fact that you're six the official ever is in a studio like this, where,
sure, we can give him a pass if he fails, but it's a great stepping stone and opportunity
for him to try to prove to everybody that he can be diamond in the rough.
I mean, I'm just going to also drop one heart fact.
I mean, that whole Falcons force academy team, reminder the big kind of news and
controversy around them was the fact that NATO
Saffix just hired four guys that were part of his agency.
This is the one guy that wasn't part of his agency.
So you would actually say that this is the guy that really has the
biggest reason to be here that actually proved himself through all of the
trials that they went to in order to get on to this spot.
The non-Nepo hire ready to take things over here on the server and
and it's time for the games to get underway.
Falcons team liquid the team with a stand-in versus the team
with oh so much to prove.
It's time for the blast bounty playoffs to kick off.
That's right.
And what a fantastic game for us to start things off with,
right, kind of potentially wounded version of the Falcons
without one of their stars in attendance
getting to see what nuclear on spring to the table.
But also as the desk were highlighting,
a team liquid that I've kind of everything to gain and everything to prove in this matchup.
Yeah, I'd say really good opportunity to see.
See, obviously, they get the first pick and they go further.
The wounded falcons without their full roster.
So it's a great opportunity for liquid.
But I do like the discussion from the desk on the veto.
I think there were missed opportunities here for liquid.
I can't believe we're in a world, Harry, where teams are banning in Fono against the falcons.
But that to be fair is well proven.
Falcons improvement on that map over the last few months.
We saw them back at rivals in Hong Kong take down vitality in Furia.
This is a map that plagued their pool.
That's a fair ban, but to not risk overpass as the underdog shows that liquid at least
believe in their map, which is a sign of relief may be internally for liquid.
We have to see if they can prove it here today against the Falcons.
Wounding up wounded or not.
This is still a stacked roster.
First, intonucleons now, it's the stand-in down here at B,
flopbing the opening lines, there's those kills going away
off team liquid and they break through that behold in seconds.
There should be a safe round.
Tessa is alone in this one, the four Dolberat is
undefined at first, but the reshore lived there.
It's an instant trade back.
Team liquid starts strong.
Yes, we like to see Liquid bring in some patience
of his pistol and taking it away early.
I mean, look at new killions here, has not gotten easy boost to fill, not just filling
in for Kiyosuke, but being a ramp player on CT side new, right? Kiyosuke is one of the
few who can make that look like a star roll at times putting up some massive multi kill.
So it's going to be very difficult for the new killions, at least in this first half.
What keep an eye on him though, as Liquid already looked at Tess the youngster, Eliege's
double, and Eliege has been the brightest spark for Liquid, at least in these online games,
I'm trying multiple aces, some incredible rounds, from Jonathan Jabbinowski.
I too love the monocetres, tried to hit that shot.
I'm the jump check, was hoping you'd get away with a little.
She keep 5v4 to open up, and it's the bomb going down, though.
Nico has been here forever.
This is not a new position, facing off against the leash.
Do they think it's a fake?
No, it's part of the bomb goes go back up anyway.
Yeah, I mean, I want us to saw that one player right at the start of the round, you know, but it wasn't a whole lot of info to work with.
That's a bit of an awkward TK in the mix for nerds.
Still, he tries to make up for it there with a equalizer on to monacy.
He could've not going to activate. He's going to hope his patience pays off me more liquid wrap outside going towards heaven.
That's lurking gives the bomb back to automat so he can late split
That's looks to take space nuclear ones again
After the boss, we can re-aggression punish and that keeps falcons with no info can you clear on spined anything
Maybe the guy to have to do so right now, but if anything even that scope in from down here in hell is kind of giving up the aim of the game
They know about him now. They're just gonna bypass this player out in hell
Gimpley on spools, he moves, trying to tempt him.
I'm a bit of a climb up through the ladder.
First kill's secured.
How trickled?
That's a sick grab.
He's stolen the gillilla way.
Been a nice little sequence of moves here,
just keeping pressure and depolating.
Now that's up in heaven, feel too comfortable
if he can catch the head.
I don't know if he's gonna get given a second opportunity to do so.
And so instead, contact would have to come first out of the lobby.
There's only so far back for nucleons to go and for now.
Now, that's his playing safe tucked in from that lone gillil out towards the spawn.
Yeah, this is looking like they've dodged the danger.
It was presented in this round and liquid will find this conversion to a no-stop.
Yeah, and that doesn't know how close he got to getting punished there.
Three kills in the round though.
Four if you count on to Shoei.
And he puts it the bed here for Team Liquid, so.
And they saved nonetheless, but not much more. Falcons can do.
The nuclear one's being locked out of heaven like that, so
the liquid in control of this game to start. Still,
breaking the heat of coming up for the Falcons.
That suits more Falcons in the day of employing this map.
to a strong level as well, maybe Liquid's pick in the series,
does two is obviously a huge question for Liquid,
and Matt, they've tried to avoid more often than not.
Falcons having no problem, even beating vitality on this map,
right, at rivals alongside on Inferno, seeing a serious improvement
of their map pool, whether that applies today with a standing
is yet to be seen.
Nice as well. Now that we're into the, you know, playoff portion here at Bounty.
It's good to have everyone online, right?
It will enjoy watching some of the madness of the online games, but
these ones, even in the, even in the studio in front of the live audience, they, yeah, they just hit a little different man.
They really do.
Seeing a keen example of it already when we shut up to work this morning, here you go.
Nurtse an ultimate route side playing the little game of KPRP is just something to get warmed up, something to get locked in.
Who's winning?
And it's kind of a team effort in that game, isn't it?
Yeah, but you know, who has more style, who has more pizzazz?
And that's like pretty good, I'll be honest.
I think another thing worth mentioning, obviously, is for Falcons.
It's actually not just one missing man, right?
It's not like not here either.
So you have a bit of a double punch in that sense for the Falcons.
I'm going to have him to fall back on.
I also kind of like the enubis third map for this reason out of liquid.
I'm assuming, right, that they've been putting in some time and energy, it's really
not uncommon for teams looking to kind of rise up through the VRS and try and return
towards a better form to look to move to these newer maps quicker, take to them faster.
And what a time to try and exploit the Falcons in this standard situation, right?
if let's see if our fans have been looking at this map under a microscope it's going to be way
harder just because it's way fresher in the pool to integrate a brand new player on it.
Yeah you can't even go oh yeah nuclear just play a kiss you can spot what are his spots. Yeah we don't even know.
So back into the eco here for the Falcons.
Let's see, get that little.
You can move on and notice what he's here for.
I need shots and outside crossing down secret at least. No one here to stop me.
Pressure in the ramp.
A lot of players ready to resist.
It's liquid to the line, it does look like this cop here, it's coming in right now.
Go back to the ramp side, do you have Molly for short?
Then I'll create the class before they through that.
CT-Ven Molly, they start to go out, they can even vent drop as well, try and group up with a lead
who's gaining space.
Oh, Tessas.
Creeper now wide, chance to catch limited the door goes from thinking he's fighting one to
suddenly fight in the entire team.
Oh, I found out they will power us down through the vents.
It's nucleons here, once again, in the right place, but I'm gonna get out with one arm
with that five seven.
It's the mossy rotate on the galel that gives a little bit of pause.
more kill from the B-hold back up through the vent now and in towards the top side they've
had this underlocking key for a little while. Presence of that gun down at lowers put the fear
and liquid into that get away. But Nico's dead back here in the lobby, chance for monacy to win
this. Don't scoot down drastically as he's trapped in at low at 1b3. One small liquid kind of
dodge the big threat, the big danger in this round and we'll get through on the back of this
this pistol, riding a bit of a high heading into that first rifle round.
Oh, at least I don't lose the bond there.
I could have gone very, very wrong with 15 seconds coming back up the vent.
It's so tempting, getting a vent kill like that, just thinking be as clear.
But Falcons were heavy ramp early.
Youth wheels were able to rotate down.
So it's scary for a second here, but liquid right now avoiding disaster.
Like you say, very good sign right now coming into their first gun round.
3-0 starts, the little saved over, someone's got to take the L, well, Monacy just hand it right back to the nuclear onto you wonder.
This is open play kicks and takes the L and they can still have a Mac 10.
I don't think it's a popular opinion, but I am able to believe that this CT drill can actually kind of slap.
Yeah, man, the T-Founder's great as well.
Yeah, I don't know if I want to see.
It's nice, have a gun to you, can't buy.
Exactly.
Can't see 35 bullets.
Got the most ammo out of all the guns you could get.
Screw, wait till the MP7 buff comes through, Harry, because that's going to be a laser beam.
I've got many rifle.
I'm going to see a lot of that in the next patch, but not here of the bounty.
Sure, nerds will love it.
It's true.
It's been an MP7 user in old school.
Simple as well.
Always we'll do that weapon.
Outside take the eco classic position.
They will bind, but he doesn't move.
And this is going to pay off.
A little labour though on that first kill.
You left wondering, could that have been even more from Nico?
Just the one and done, the reaction's gonna come twofold.
It's kicks and first trying to get aggressive
out through the main smoke.
And silence could flick for monacy.
I mean, if that's a sign of things to come,
it will make this Falcon Squad a hell of a lot more exciting.
Monacy's already kind of gone for some pretty audacious shots
in this game, and we're only a couple of rounds into the series.
I wonder, just exactly...
How long it's going to take for him to get going, that's what he thinks he's going to
honestly, we'll put him down and he's barely even a flash on the screen.
You know, instantly dead as soon as you see him.
Yeah, even if across our patients there, I don't think you can react in time to that peak.
We may be back on land, but still, lightning fast on the frag, honestly, two kills.
This one was lovely.
Boom!
And yeah, we need a good game out of monosimony, need a good game out of Nico today, because making up for the lack of firepower at least like an experience.
Can't necessarily rely on the LAN rookie on his first LAN match.
SICKHEL TV game, and in front of a crowd.
Quite a trial by fire here.
We quit looking for the A-pop, they've got a couple of AKs, they've got to make him sing.
This is going to be our first, you know, like real notable pace change to the game.
Let's see how about Kings' response to it.
It can always feel like a problem if you're not able to stop these.
And we've said already, Monticello looks like he's going to win right now!
That's another back to Monticello!
Second, or third shot, rather just sailing on past, it's just a tag.
catch the nerds pressure still on and
nuclearons will have a role to play in this
Niko's lent a helping hand leaves nerds in the
Hossie one v two back of the site sees that
Niko hasn't scaled yet that is a huge pick up
for nuclear on on the swing.
I like that he has the ball stood through that
he is on his own right then.
Niko not scaling just yet doesn't even get his
They're going to do anything together, nuclear on swings in, finds a headshot, it's a necessity
to get the roundback for Falcons.
Just a short miss for Monacy with the first two are lovely again.
You know, I think that at this point in kind of Niko's career, he's had a lot of time
of playing with younger, fresher, faced players who, you know, have always had great mechanical
skill, but he's always come back to the bit like a mentor figure to them. I think you know if this was
Nico years ago, this would be a more stressful situation, but I hope now right now,
kind of what they've said to nucleons is something along the lines of, look man, don't be nervous.
Just try and win your fights. You're not here to be the star of the team, right? Just shop and play a game.
And I'll say playing with players like this, right? It makes your game a lot easier when you
you can rely on your teammates,
he's the best players this kid's ever played with.
So he knows he's, he just sees a focus on his roles.
They're right, there's like no burden for the team
so he says falling on the shoulders of nuclear
on the outside of the areas that the map
he's responsible for.
For the most part, Falcons are gonna hold down part of the map.
Liquid, wanna test it again.
Another top hit coming in.
Bit limp on the entry, the map still finds one.
Monacy provides cover, so that's is not one to roll back in the site.
Pistol out, you can't get a third.
Nico in quick, it's the same round, but with ultimate on and off.
No, on a brutal need to seal the deal.
It just rains on in and makes that real easy for the Falcons.
This might have been a 3-0 start for Team Liquid, but the second these guns have made
an appearance Falcons have been in hard.
Monacy 4 double kills in a row by the way.
He's just gone, could double after double with his AWP this one.
It's out of his hands on the trade.
I don't think anything in dying there.
It's a nice moment to know there is a limit to this, right?
He's getting run out by multiple players at the back of the site.
And a little bit nervous that he was going to get out with a big,
more e-kilogram cut down after two.
I've got a pace right by this grid.
Ultimately, he doesn't pan out.
Honestly, locked in the open doesn't get punished by a repeat.
If you're showing one fail across our side,
what is he reveals with a knife?
He just misses that time again.
Flip your axe, give a needle, take one outside.
This is a pretty nice smoke walk for Shui.
Have a little bit of a window,
but outside's now been open for a moment,
animates the monesty reposition and so eyes
were all named the whole time.
I've opened up a window.
Monacy's quick to shut the door.
Why don't you tell him, I want to see you at a double kill?
Right move of mechanics from now,
but it's going to fall on dead.
It's probably being told to save.
And unlikely, one of these three,
unfortunately, two low players,
this might never get to punish.
And so that's it, round, cool, doff here, some time for liquid to chat it over, coming
into the next gun round, or maybe the next eco.
Falcons are finally broken through the money.
I don't know what kind of thing is it?
I'm not sure please, I'm not sure if I could get the speed of the game.
One of these looking just rapid right now though.
Yeah, it's hell!
It's hell I've down to fight here.
It's making me worry, but I say worry, dude.
It's worrying more liquid.
I don't know if you caught that, no, I was walking away.
Let's fall and recall it's catching on, like some people.
I warned you all, it's catching on.
He had it at the major, but only for SMGs and pistols who
toggle it on and off.
Now, if he's playing everyone,
we're so quick, you go to call me the greatest moron in the world.
You crazy?
And here I am, because I don't know if you go to get real stupid
to get real smart here you go.
OK.
When does the second half happen for you?
All right, buddy.
Interesting. Do you like how we have player crosshairs and configs?
I wondered if Altamus was accurate because it's exactly the same as when you spectate
a bot. I'm not calling you Altamus a bot, I'm just saying he has the bot crosshair dynamic
while moving.
Well let's keep our eyes on this one, liquid still broken after another double from monacy.
That's five in a row.
The map is the one gun present in this round 14 liquid, and he's going to be very aggressive
with it.
Monacy makes his way over, we've come in already, have this guy seems really down
of bite today, and you can see why, now forgets delete it before you know what's happening.
That tag hit. I think they did okay. I'm age
Twenty four doubles in a row excuse me this could be his fit
Wanna see moves back in he looks for a little bit more
Adding on to nuclear on stay on here a lower, but he does back up in the former kickstand
When they're broken, you saw that that kind of gave nerds a bit of a full sense of where
this setup was down at lower.
And even a chewy takes one back, he's going into a double set-up, trade available straight
away.
And so very quick, very clean round out of the falcons, they finally broke that money
and boy to take advantage of it, getting out with four players alive, making a bit
of cash now on this CT side.
If anything, that's been the one fact the liquid had been able to hold onto the
far on this streak out of the falcons, at least the rounds have been expensive, at least
we're keeping the modest with a chance to break through early.
I'll clean round such as that last one, suddenly puts a bit of distance between you and
that goal.
Yeah, it hurts for Lickler, because I feel like some of these rounds have looked good in it.
They've run nice accents, they've got it into a good position, but when Monterrey's doing
things like this, it's a very hard guy to get past.
Falcons closing all the rounds now, five in a row.
I want to see another opening kill.
Ah, he is so keen.
That's just what's standing out.
If that's a bite happening,
I want to see once to be involved in it.
That's his hand.
A bit of a freebie there on the map
as he tried to edge out around the smoke.
That's a very quickly map starts to shrink on down.
The only guy with freedom of movement right now
Now is the least down here at Lowa.
And even that isn't feel super freeing, right?
The only reason you've got this room is because Falcons are taking space elsewhere.
It's a lot of the aggression for nucleons that is going to give one away.
I sure.
It's not like Grandpa's not the tunity Nico repushes.
As they would expect his late timing,
me and Bob another entry up upper, why not push him?
We could have the bombing front of the door.
the position reveal, but he again delivers on the ramp.
There's two dead ramp.
You've got to expect Tess's back side.
Ventrop is your best opportunity.
Liquid make the right call.
Tess is in hot pursuit.
No kids.
Two of them attack.
You wonder if he's kind of curious about giving this a look in.
If the...
Oh, that's kill comes clean.
Then he's going to be down and give it a go.
Three of them.
In between the single player and the doubles players.
And now wrapping around it's into one hell of a crossfire.
I don't know how you're supposed to beat this Tess as
They've got both sides of him covered. He looks for a leash and a leash is quicker on the trigger
Liquid finally stopped this five round streak and get themselves on the board
That's from the back foot as well. They were three V-5 down in that round. You know, Altsman
There's a lot of talk about him people come but talking about coming for his head and you know
Get in a new awkward the open market is difficult right now
But one thing we know about Altsman is he is a really strong rifleer and at times wish he would drive for both the whole
Oh, great double kill to find the flank there, and also observing with his J-Razs in
form maybe that Ultimate Crosshair is not accurate, but that's his.
Because the X-X is conflict late, et cetera, et cetera, so the bot crosshair is just
default.
Nice double from Ultimate puts liquid back on the game, first round since the pistol conversion.
I need another double for monocity.
Yeah, I'd otherwise it's potentially in a breakthrough for liquid on the horizon, right?
If you kind of don't stop them here, the good graces you are, and you're at the eco-round, start to fall apart.
Fall apart, you will be broken on the CT side, suddenly liquid can put in a winning
T-side shift here on Nuke.
Markins mullied outside, it broke his snow, who is going to have been throwing them fast
every round.
They still make it down, but to significant damage done, unfortunately, no one is lower.
So Nukely on's take space, back on ramp, modesty fills his position.
They don't risk the event.
They could have four players down here, and that holds their flank, and Nukely on's
has to hold the site.
Yeah, look, I think in terms of getting his one nuclear on has been solid.
That's farther isn't really a whole lot you can complain about, but that has to stay true in this round.
Your money's on the line rotates a little bit slow to arrive here.
If he goes down getting nothing done, this retake might never even get started for the falcons.
Position made for multi kills so can nuclear or silver again, not today.
Nerds nails that headshot and with an open plan unpunished.
Was a chance here.
Back behind the site, in fact.
It goes down, and Napsluck pays off right now.
Falcons have to make that decision of whether they want to risk their money this late in the round.
Kind of just hope Naps continues to play fly in the ointment here, you know, floating around the extremities making the idea the prospect of saving even feel scary in this situation.
And that's exactly what he's doing.
Let's just save back intowards the spawns that they've drawn away from Napsluck at least.
I think a bit of distance between themselves and the lurking player for liquid, they can get out with three guns in tow.
I mean, the save is super important there, right?
We were saying this could have been a breakthrough round for team liquid if they get out with a couple more players falling,
suddenly your bro couldn't be slay into the half.
small moments where it's not, you know, four rounds of monacy double kills back to back to back to back
but you'll take him when you can get him or he trams his back because he's still blowing our mind with stats
monacy better rifle than ultimate although shocking discovery but very top heavy here for falcons
tower round, nuclear on's holds for one.
Kixan's already down here. And he's been down here really since the start of the round.
You're not going to expect this.
Captain, he puts his thinking head on and decides,
well, they're just exploiting ramp that try to get in the head of our sub.
And so he plays down towards lower, only good for the first.
First, it's Tessa's Niko now left looking onwards in this 2-on-3.
Should we spend a shot away from death?
It's a lesion, all of them at the might give you some pause.
Just the numbers.
When you look at this retake, see the 2v3?
You don't really feel like you have much to gain from going for it.
So they'll write this one off. They haven't gotten away from that reset.
It's been looming over them ever since the last round.
And even then only saving on two means someone's gonna have limitations heading into this final round of the half.
Liquid could be on the verge of winning out on the T side here.
Just a really good game out of liquid to be honest even in the lost rounds.
It felt like there were just a monocytable killer way from winning them, saving them in so many scenarios.
But cut down and event this round.
The dangers of dying on ramp.
Seeing new thoughts trying my passive pull back towards me, this tiny cliff is a cut through the smoke.
People want to walk through it's not enough. I felt like kicks immediately a double as well.
I hit the thick on Cheery. He's a joke when the pack you could have let them pass.
Like you said, never to be expected.
So now liquid, who lost five rounds in a row, still get six on the hop and may, sweeten the deal.
and
a
uh... yeah actually
completely know
that's just sending him out like a bit of it
he's got a official lab yeah
he's going quick
it's good to take space but what i'll say is the other signature gun has been purchased up by kicks and his isn't
flat however it's
really just due to the money for the falcons i can work in this position
on an A-Rosh with the oil shock gun.
This is around, made for kicks out.
How do you even get on this?
For kicks out is shut down the A-Play.
Men to abort this, because it was cheap and cheerful.
And it is cheerful all the way into this second half.
Now, he saved it for the Falcons.
Three of the oil shock gun rifle would not have done that.
And she is just left away to left the wonder,
left the face, the inevitable.
And that is a six round half here from the Falcons coming in right at the end.
No one offering away back in.
He pokes, he prods, and Falcons wait.
Kicks and really hungry to show off.
What that auto shot he was capable of, he flew it around for killed number four, but it isn't given to him.
It's got it belongs to Monacy, little smirk on the face of kicks down there, as the auto shot eats salvages that half for the Falcans.
So, I think we were going to go for a second.
I'll do my own job.
So, counter the links to the legal, right?
It's legal, when hand percent legal, we cannot just roll up with the both and start
checking on the credit hand.
They want you to rub the can up, so nobody can see what the credit is.
And it's just in both, or stage two.
Okay, so it brings down like this.
It's legal to drink it, it's legal to bring it to you,
but you can't show it when you're out on the break.
But it doesn't matter, because for them, it's illegal to stop here.
And that's the right that the Refresal Blur Managers don't have.
Okay, next time I'm bringing some with me,
but you know what's the funny thing,
competing around the world, or just moon differences?
They go all of the same sheet over there that we got at home.
Example?
Okay, like look at the last two glass majors.
In an elegant drive, any fucking server
and it'll be filled with crazy people.
And also the crazy scums I've ever seen.
And then Paris, do you know how the code is fucking due?
She doesn't call it legal?
Like a different cloud's man, they know what the fucking table is.
Then, why does they call it?
They call it LQ.
A line of code?
What does the code of force buy?
A force buy?
It's still a force buy.
But they call it LeFox.
I've got to live for hours.
Why does the code fall safe?
I don't know, mine hasn't really calls.
Bounty back on land and liquid are looking for the upset, stealing six rounds away from
the Falcons here on Nuke in that first half on the T-side no less.
It's a wounded Falcons, a missing coach and a stand-in sub, we're going to have to see
if they're up for the task of taking this series.
Heavy favorite nonetheless, Team Falcons switch to the T-side.
Yeah, and you know, for fans of the Falcons right now, you're liking what monacy is bringing
to the table. Are you going to like it in this fast day, boy?
That's the question double door bere, is that's what you're running into?
And they both get away with some success,
at least still putting them to work.
And only a couple of shots left,
but it's all throwing up the kicks and there's more Dobra
as when that came from three pairs, Harry.
It's the tripletes pulled out for the side of Team Liquid,
that's what locks in another pistol round.
That's how both of them here on New.
I don't think I've ever seen three pairs of Dobra's.
It's usually have one player drop over to by a flash,
take the L, that's a triple-julys,
the team Liquid, and it's enough.
chest and our bullets to finish the job on this top side.
I leave the star of the show no doubt about that.
Always has been the case.
Take a vacation here coming into the second half.
The interesting stuff.
Honestly, certainly feeling like the win condition right now for the Falcons and it's nice
to know the numbers back that up.
Oh, this is still really weird. We're controlled towards double-door liquid. We've got to be careful.
We're taking through this position. Not easy. Crossfires are available from monacy and the doorplayers.
Shrears, utils are isolated, perhaps, so have to use it. Just to get back control of the stairs.
Yeah, feel like you kind of almost have to try and grind the falcons down by getting them to peak or just save your guns.
That's a crazy towel to throw in here for liquid off the back of one death they give up the round.
Oh, it's not even guaranteed the nerd survives narrowly getting away but you can see the falcons are more than happy to try and give chase there.
Smoke will give them pause and stop the hunt.
Well, nearly stopped it.
Honestly still here.
Oh, it's almost at least, helps out nerds.
I like the escape of Falcons, but I already know they've found a huge victory by winning the force by round.
Now they can just buy a Baco's over the safe armor, and they're winning them a lot in order for the way to the bank here.
Ramp empty, with the dawn of the round, and Liquid paid a price.
They cost them four economic control. They have one more triad things before they're put down to a very minimal loss bonus.
The last few days, perhaps?
Look at that waiting at a topside exit, and we're kind of liking the sequencing of
rounds from kicks out, right?
Wins the force on the back of just a ramp hit, when liquid actually poised for this
around that now they're getting given here.
You tell comes out if you're able to win this one.
Falcons really do set a worrying precedent to open up on this T-side nurse.
You're going to let them have it for free.
Goes down fighting.
It's monacy ready for the wrap of course.
He's not a leech in behind enemy lines and nuts with a stellar hold.
That little tag team right there just denied the Falcons there up here.
Seems some really rough game from nuts and the liquid jersey.
Jersey bear looking good right now with another crazy multi-kill he started the game
strong he started second half just as much triple kill turning around back and
forward still a cut of this frame onto a new girl to fall down
little issues here for the Falcons I mean that was the three players throwing
and Utah on the roof, so really limited on their entry power.
So, around though, Lyptor forgets.
The falcons just have this 1-AK on monacy.
We're just gonna test it.
Just a really nice little kind of bait sequence right to get a leisure at chance at an opening.
He's able to deliver it nuclear on his dead.
So funny, though, and they threw them all in.
Immediately, Falcons looked at them all in and knew what was coming.
He'd co-behind with a deagle. He might just go for the knife.
And I don't blame it.
Yeah, well, he's got some bad memories.
So just gonna opt for the same option.
Learning from his mistakes, perhaps.
But Evan still punishing.
She comes in from above.
This is AK-5.
So fortunate.
Yeah, right.
Think he has a good window.
A good timing there.
Just a millisecond off.
Two from kicks out on this Eagle.
Low health on Shoe as well.
Hold on a second.
We were watching the wrong league the whole time.
What's the captain got for us?
He's got 20 seconds.
That's what he's got.
He's a scale quick.
quick. No one's in the heaven though. He's got the control for free. Shoe is in such a great position.
Surely you don't have time to clear this. You just have to go for the plan at that point.
Feels like liquid can't lose this. They're in dropping in. Shoe plays it safe, plays to the night.
Nice one there for Shoe. Right, just kind of winning that one with out positioning your opponent.
never even get worried, never even put kicks out in a position as succeed,
no he didn't have time to go anywhere else. And so just wait for him to play
right into your hands.
Nico's not the guy I've been confident I think that I've played night being
some more. Yeah, the D-Golf.
It's just the better option. You have the timing.
Fulico though for Falcons, one big or in the round on the Eco with little caviar, he's
gonna make it work, finding a lead outside.
Careful now, liquid, not around you can afford to lose without closing game has been.
Oh, God, don't go lose in a clock, Stauley-quid.
Precious on and around that's meant to come for free.
He needs me scared.
It is a clock.
Can't get a lead just gun.
She was making sure of that.
No, it's outside as well.
For reset lobby.
I was a little doubtful on the deek purchase from Nico.
I almost figured he was going to keep some cash aside to try and bring out all
fast as possible with the game on a season but if that deek can be the
If that dee can be the catalyst to make in this a very expensive, interesting round of minimum and maybe even sweet in the deal, and it's all worth it.
Older man, pushed up into the lobby, still rocking this MP7 dead after one, as another Glock kill comes in.
How are they in the advantage? No, it's his rotation is nice, but there's still trade potential Glock's or not.
How can they make him this round happen?
Kicks and going in thoughts, boss, he'd be cranky, need it, and no, it's just keep spraying.
Nico, no time to Dilly Dally.
Diggle doesn't connect and nuts saves it.
That is a stressful route for Team Liquid.
But around on the last 10-7, Falcons call the timer.
That's a very real moment from all these they just know he's sitting there quaking
and he says his team get 35.
I mean, this game always felt-
Sometimes those rounds get in close
can leave like a weird feeling in the air
because any sort of round kind of reacting at the end of it,
they all knew that was actually a crazy,
win-able spot.
But also, it's not around you,
or ever even meant to get to that position in.
It's a weird one to try and quantify. Let's see if falcons can hit just as hard with the rifles.
Can I tell you what? The success in that last round really doesn't matter how little a lot of this one falls flat on its face.
I'll I do you mention Nico and his money and the prospect of bringing Monacy in order because Monacy's not as quiet as what will see games that you'll never get to play it on the T side.
They'll just never safe play it.
So Monacy on the rifle at least delivers a kill onto the opera.
He's earned his orb.
Wanna see a nuclear finding?
To a kill a piece.
Feels like they're first half all over again.
To opening frags for falcons.
And they quit.
No information.
Those smokes are still up.
Wanna see lay outside.
They reset lobby.
As long as the liquid stay active in this position,
I'll be able to clear yard.
But right now, taking all three players to do so.
So, Balkans have an MTA site,
faking it out a little bit, going ramp instead.
Honestly, double you'd like to think it's enough.
It's also just so much info, right?
Like, not only got a kill from a player pushing out into the yard,
but gets the info as to where notes is as well.
Now you know where two thirds of what were the remaining players
are standing for liquid.
And you don't imagine that NAF was set on a solo venture,
on a solo venture in the down time.
So you feel a lot safer moving into this B site now.
Yeah, it was very sloth-like for NAF, but it would have loved some movement from him there.
Just to go re-clear ramp or to check the A site, he just sat held his higher round and no one ever crossed.
Little did he know four Falcons players walked down ramp.
No noise, mate. No need to.
He went the round of a position and position the loan.
It's promising start to the T-side campaign, I mean, you know, that round comes for free.
It kind of just falls right into the Falcon's lap.
Starts with the double out in the yard, and then they just kind of sit around and wait
to sweeten the deal.
Knowing that the pressure is all liquid in at 3v5.
I think sometimes it's easy to feel a little tunnel vision right when I try and best
Nico in that position feel like you can wrestle back control with Nico's feeling red
hot outside in the yard.
You've seen some frustration for a leash from that head to head.
that's how you know, additionally, you kind of get equally as nervous if the leash starts to play.
Two scared gives too much respect, too much room out in the yard.
I like this is a change, right?
Crossing into the back of garage gives him the ability to watch for the main cross anyone trying to wrap in.
It should be a safe goal for a leash.
Of course, kicks and makes the perfect call right now.
You wear two walking down secret.
So no information liquid as Falcons make a bit of a fuss on that topside.
No, that's his lower, but he's looking like you might rotate back up the vent.
Oh, I reached there trying to escape outside, and again, they don't know the object of
Falcons desires they could walk into being in fact they should, nobody's home.
Seeing you the side of the smoke, Tess says, maybe he leaves the round with one, and that
would be enough to just shore it up for Falcons.
They too, definitely not nerds that have played trade.
It's a good trade, but again, it might not be around the sighting killers.
Falcons are planting on B.
They've really, no, two great calls back to back.
One of the mid-round, one out of sport.
Lots of Utah on the top sight and Falcons just walk the empty walk down B.
That's a thing that's just down a field.
A little awkward is that, you know,
the lead's third opening death in a row out in the yard.
Yeah, this one he tried to play passive I was just getting pulled out of position that got him killed.
But I even think even if a lead gets out there.
It's a kind of round liquid with saving, 4v4, no info loa, no control conco vent,
have to go ramp, it's not a fun position.
Falcons are putting themselves in all the right ones here,
around behind Liquid now. We talked about this upset potential. The best pick that was in the top four.
It would arguably be the second worst pick. If not for the stand-in.
Liquid, if swung for this opportunity, we're going to make anything of it in the CT side. It's been
and a couple of well-cooled rounds for Falcons but not too late for Liquid.
I'm just worried that these relieved deaths out in the yard could be like the first crack
to show and team Liquid on this CT side.
So quickly your options fill out their shrinking down here, right?
Now you're getting worried you're thinking, okay we're giving away a lot of picks,
we're giving away a lot of chances to compete for these rounds out in the yard.
I feel like it's going to trigger one of two decisions, really going to get like a full-on
scenery change for a leash.
Maybe he goes back to the early cross-in towards lower, plays up through secret.
I feel like Falcons could try and be one step ahead of that.
Maybe he plays it super passive right out towards C2, just kind of spotting for info.
Either way, you haven't really had a cross on this yard control and it's created a huge
chasm in the map.
You will get one of these moves I'm talking about, right?
It's NAFST starting off down towards B.
What's that meant for liquid?
Ramprune is open and that's where falcons have headed.
They now get this real estate for free
and you're left playing to contain.
Now, also can't commit fully to the clear down on secret.
So you've traded out this position,
but you've ended up with very little to show for it.
You do have a man down a lower already,
which is nice.
It's something that liquid have been lacking,
I guess, in these BX-Ec rounds,
but you're really hoping for something to connect.
And that is a really ugly mess for ultimate.
Yeah, I was getting traded no matter what, but to not even take a player list, you've put
the liquid into a hot water, getting boiled, and the B size sitting there to nap the two
AKs in the right position. Smoke is a problem. Might be able to walk through it, but are
going to try and fight together with the break while crossing on the rockers. Now drop
it, they just spray through the smoke as it fades. Three on two pistol, no more, and a leech.
each has to save the begged to save, but no round here for liquid falcons match with 10-10.
Another monacy double.
Save.
On the question.
Nico, looking like he wants to come through.
Let's go ahead.
We need to get away with it.
And ultimately get to another chance, but there won't be many more left in this map as Falcons will pull it back.
time up this game and if they win this next one money is broken for the Liquid Squad what
started is a real commendable effort might all end with a whimper.
Yeah, and it's been early half a liquid has done their best work, right?
3-0 off the T side and then 4-1 off the CT side off the winning back against the Falcon's
force.
Talk about these early elite deaths is the potential kind of first cracks in liquid and
you're already seeing those cracks forming, right?
As they take from other areas of the map to try and bolster the yard, you would really
He loved it.
In front of these other positions, could withstand the test from the Falcons, but another
ugly whip from Ultimate, luckily enough, and Affinera leaves there to play trade.
They keep this in the advantage of Team Liquid.
This has been a ramp-up boost game from both teams, really, and there's some partnership
for Falcons, but Liquid maintains a advantage.
Back behind the CT van, if Shui peaks, he's going to nail the timing, catch his kicks
and with the bomb.
New Cleans, a long way away, coming back through main, and a lead, up in the rafters, able
the swing on his captain's contact. You feel like Liquid
had this one in a box.
Just have to anticipate the next swing so well. And he
goes to the right place, but the fact that that
kill even takes the extra second makes a huge
difference for nuclearons in the 1v3. Liquid
breathe a little easier, but only for a moment
they're able to maintain this lead over the
fouls. It's not giving all to the
orbs, please make it right below the
is missed two very ugly very committed positions and it's rightfully look good in that first half
want to see wheel tears ultimate tries again you position
I think spotted inside of the door.
What's going on?
Throw himself into the conversation to find him missed.
It's the break on that smoke.
It's a little better here as Tess has right there.
Tess is not pursuit.
He heard that rotate down.
What does he want to prioritize all the events?
That's it right now.
Moving proceed for it. No one's watching.
It's funnled back into his own death.
I really, really nice way to try and use that pressure.
What do you do now?
Tess has got the info.
And now has gone on look at how much space he's taken and look at how much of a rocket this is called for liquid.
The bomb is still red.
Let's go down on this.
Yeah.
What is going on?
Bomb coming back through there and shoot spotted down the vent.
He's going to get needed into the fight.
We'll lose it to Nutriol to be well.
Let's be retaking the wrong site.
Falcons are walking into a main with the bomb.
Let's wait until he even know this.
They're going to find out when it's too late.
Just been out position right here a little twitchy.
You're a little nervous.
You don't have info down towards lower.
And Tess has just takes that and is stride.
To experience move for Tess has been a kill clawed back.
Some leads to intrigue.
Monacy has been in the business of missing in this matchup.
this matchup and ultimate drop down. The round that will will sail past the
leash giving him a second chance to close the distance here. It's the
reposition from Nico meant to be the safety net, the insurance policy on
this round crossing out into the heart. He now plays this crossfire with
monacy and there's no road left to run for a leash. He's got to get out of
there. They'll come hunting and they'll remove that gun at 11 all.
I'm money now broken for liquid and they arrive at the worst case scenario. They've got no cash heading into around 23 the prospect of falcons
Leaping over them right at the finish line. I'm shocked he leaves doesn't try make something happen
It's a thing he's actually gonna get out of the safe falcons will not let that happen with liquids money where it is
He has smunk him
Just throw it on the run right there
Christ it
That out instead completely denied by
And now the double from monacy and liquid have nothing left.
Boosted right for monacy.
Oh, wait!
I'm not back!
Unbelievable kill.
You said he's not missing.
Those gimmicks that boost, that's supposed to just guarantee you an opening guarantee you had shards in this round.
I want to see Torrid all the way and I mean he showed up on a bit of a mission in this matchup. I think he wants a great start to 2026
From the very first fights we're talking round one round two of the game
must he look to be hyper-involved always keen always down a fight and he's just carried that energy forward through every one of these rounds
Also, I think kicks and it's called a really strong tea side here the way the Falcons are walking around in these mid rounds
they seem to be avoiding liquid perfectly.
And even when they run into those stacks,
the bombs not committed.
It's able to re-rutes.
And right now another example of that falcons
in the silence walking to an empty bombsite,
liquid burned at B before Gamble Stack Lower.
And falcons, they wander around, however you slice it,
math point of liquids pick Taken.
I think one of the big strengths of this T side is just the kickstands been very, very
short of himself that he's so often has the read on the response from liquid and it has
it times felt kind of pre-programmed in that sense.
You know, as soon as they fall behind, they're lacking the manpower they do just group
and go for these clays and so so often for falcons, the real challenge is in getting
that opening kill.
Once they get there, they're able to just sit pretty and around kind of comes to their
It's in those lulls in the actions that they secure the round.
Even here though, just the decision right expecting a grouping, expecting a bit of a walk and
thinking as a result, they'll be gaps everywhere,
and you're out in at the top site.
Kickstarter has been stubborn in his reads and often been right in the.
I like you don't need more opportunity to have it.
They just haven't really been worried about gambles and our stacks right about kind of getting
outred or outcooled by Shoeley on the other side.
It's been a very commanding game,
leveled from Kickstarter.
And I mean, with Monacy playing as good as he is,
it's taken all the boxes right now for the Falcon.
Yes, Monacy's 24 kills.
The next best, who do you think?
Nuclear on 13.
And he's not been, you know, a game-defining player.
He had a couple of nice doubles himself,
but really has just been getting one for one.
It's not really been too integral of Fragha,
but he's also not been a problem for Falcons.
That's all we can ask of him today
in this debut-land game.
Just don't lose your team the match,
and it doesn't feel like he is.
There are some teams where like a standing can show up
and you actually look at them and you go,
yeah, you know, they could put in a solid shift
and actually come out of this looking great.
I think when you're in the Falcons team of all squads,
maybe if you were subbing in for like,
the
zontics on spirit
you know there's a couple of teams where you're not really expected to like be the guy in Falcons is one of them.
But I mean kicks in seven into you, the HLTV, this guy's very aggressive, he's going to be going in first going to be, you know, a bit of a tip of the spear here, but he's actually been pretty reserved in a good way.
Not offering up entry kills away to liquid
Not getting untraded. I say that at least spans into the smoke, but there's only so much you can control
Leech gets out with that 5-4 in a round liquid need to drag us to overtime
Yeah, it's a huge step in the right direction of extended play giving ourselves a chance here on Nuke
But the job is just so far from done.
Oh, Tessa's will demonstrate that
when it kill out towards Ram,
keeping the pressure on Liquid, nothing feels safe.
Nothing feels certain in this game for the Liquid squad.
Liquid is so scared of Ram, another triple Ram.
Sad入, it's a lot of resources.
Falcons know it.
They're gonna walk back to A.
It's Nav, who makes a unlikely move to re-address Ram,
which is gonna give Liquid a chance.
Good catch for Shoe, that's the bomb toppling away.
crazy move at a kickstand.
Wanna see, cut down, and back in the lobby, and over time, back in, and open it from
a leash, finally taking a winning fight out in the yard, and then liquid with standing
that ramp pit, puts them back onto a track for victory.
They get to run this one back in extra time.
That is the last guy you'd expect to re-aggress there, but it's the perfect way to do
so.
I don't know if that's on draft and liquid in four stats off side with a stack.
I think you say that, but actually for me, one of the things that's kind of stood out about
enough is in these moments where a game needs someone to be a bit of a space taker
when you know others have been burned by a little bit.
I feel like NAF is actually really really good.
He won't do it a lot.
He doesn't pick and choose his moments, but I think at that point, when NAF was really
struggling, he hit those like career lows, had a string of bad events.
You actually saw like a very cagey, very boxed in that fly.
One that would never come through with those type of moves.
It's nice when every kind of puts that degree of
variance to use and explores those gaps
because he is an extremist player.
He is out there on his own.
And he's a big reason as to why they win that round.
He's a player in a war with the ace like nuts.
Good for a long, good for two.
Nath moving in through the heavens is in hot war.
But still making it work.
Can Nath round it out with a hat trick?
in this one the one versus nuclear on there's been clutches that we've seen the stand
in for Falcons thrust into the felt unwindable from the get-go this one is not one of
those clutches this would be a huge step in the right direction and just a huge notch
on the belt for the Falcons stand in what's he got?
Every advantage noted no Nades no kit on the clock playing silent two shots from
The next three clearance will win this round.
Or maybe twitchy, much patient walking down towards a single door across there in the right place.
Now she's pre-fired.
She gives it away.
She's an afternoon clearance.
Picked the thing.
But walks away with the round.
The stand-in puts on the first of overtime here for falcons.
Not really much more you could ask for him in this matchup.
Right? That's now a 1v1 clutch secured by new clearance in that head-to-head.
And you know, it's versus nerds and experienced peace and experience, players, star of multiple teams.
And you're able to bast him in that head-to-head.
Not to gave away his position, you put on to checking other things right now that we see nerds got the Dink off, why?
What that could have been for Liquid.
Ultima, it's just not that bad, has it?
The AWP, a constant source of Miss shots here for Liquid, same as last round.
around, even crossed past him before he realized he's lucky to still be alive.
Now he's said on the desk that he needs to step up and that remains to be true here in over time.
Still a chance to rewrite this map for liquid.
A time is going to link cross outside nuclear, a nuclear on makes it down.
He's already down here.
Oh, this going check.
New plans is softened up on the odd cross, so fights are a little easier for release.
The M4 and the AK on a level playing field and this had to add.
I think the way he's peaking is as wise.
Really just trying to get the first peek off.
No one really plays his position to come and release, so.
It's not going to be a natural check here for the rookie.
and
especially not you know when you're the
fresh-based player standing in
might have a million other things racing
through your head that lead you to overlook
this check over this corner and I mean
the timing couldn't get worse for it
he just jiggled on this position for a
solid 34 seconds and right as he's
left it in slits the lead
now that's just going to fall into the top
site round it's far from safe for team
It's going to fold out of this now for wrestling two back on the heaven push and another one be one clutch to try and decide
Well, Falcon's take a string of rounds to open up O.T.
It's kicks are left up in this clutch.
Their captain is called a good game thus far.
How's his clutching?
The swing and he nails it at least cut down.
It's a huge three K from kicks are.
Yeah, beautiful work there again.
again, and Liquid, one of their shooting too soon, Manelique, scales into the site, I guess
he shooting his feet, under the between the boxes in the middle of the site, Liquid just
keep giving it away, in these one-be-wants and Falcons are grabbing it from them.
Really, really ugly clutches back to back for Liquid.
And Falcons, starting to run away now, 2T side rounds.
Their job is done, can they sweeten the deal?
liquid and might just be a game of what if.
Yeah, and a number of them, right?
It's been one B1s to decide most of this over the time so far.
You've also just got this question of what if any of these shots are connected for all
of them?
He's had the AWP a staggering amount in a second half.
You can't even make the excuse, you know, that he's had the lean on other guns, that
he hasn't had his weapon a choice.
They've been very generous with making sure all them are against his hands on his gun.
You could have been 5-1.
You could hang on to this game right now, they need something on this CT side.
Now, I can zoom in, Max, and going back to spawn for more utility, ready to ramp up.
I hate to say an ultimate call to spawn, yet again.
players walking our ramp into this AWP. He has not hit a shot in some time.
Well, this is around where a miss costs you everything. Even a one for one may not be enough,
so it's got to be a clean slate for all of them. It gets out of there after the first. He's done
a great job in this ramp take.
Del, with Monocit, top performing dead and lives to tell the tale of 5v3 for Liquid.
Hopefully on Stiden Garage, a very aggressive outside, so Liquid have a lot of room right now.
Nath in an audacious position, looking to take one more with it.
Using this railing twist advantage, but Nico nails a headshot, two in the door kicks in.
You're going to get caught off guard, that's for sure.
30 seconds. He makes it. He just amount makes it, but I think that's got a bit of info there.
of info there are 20 seconds as Falcons are forced into B, Liquid should know this.
Down into the automobile, we go.
Okay.
A bit of follow up with a second, and that just isn't time for testers, so Team Liquid
they'll collect their one round.
A big question mark on this half, right?
one of the ones deciding it, Falcons taking the advantage, heading now into that second half
of O.T.
Look at the difference of actually being able to hold onto ramp here for liquid in the previous
rounds.
It's been up to three players fighting in that position and Leach has been so hot to rotate
to join Ultimate and Nav on ramp.
It's time just the solo AWP is able to keep liquid on the game.
He just hoped that that's a bit of a confidence round for all of it because up until this
point in the game, he had had as many kills on MP7 as he had the AWP, which is not good
given he had the MP7 once in the game.
Oh, that's a horrible bit of information.
That was up until this round, now he is, out doing his MP7 performance on the off, and
sentenced that you never want to say about your main offer.
Did the fall recall?
That's great.
It's growing on your right.
It's growing on everyone.
He's watching now.
Let's go ahead and try and to believe.
Take coming out here.
It's always monacy.
And after he's doing something to the cables,
then what's up, but always monacy with these.
I think he wants he can get it right now. He's 24 kills deep into the game.
Someone is checking his PC right now.
Well, we got back live into the second half of overtime. It's Liquid's map pick.
The first landmarks of the year.
The passage makes it look so easy.
The comparison's been night and day in that regard.
A bit more ultimate rifling now that it's gone at the T side here.
Pack down range for 31, through the box in the leg.
I've got to make something happen. No one's in a position to punish right now. Maybe he could find Tess's backside.
The kicks is ready to swing off of contact. So,
It's a right here for liquid. There's the Molly kicks and it will get out.
It'll release the P.
I do like that.
That's a really nice idea from now because you saw kicks out instantly suspicious, right?
That's kind of an infirmolly forcing the reposition that he was going to get swung from the T-Ven.
He prefied it.
Oh, sorry, pre-aimed it as soon as he was flushed out a cover.
It's hard to delay from now.
Hit that much harder. He just kind of written the angle off.
Only a one and done for now.
2v4 no easy route back in the gap is then right now for liquid if they want to risk it
It's really the only way I can see them winning this round just instead drop then and try and get that
Pantin. Yeah, one of you tell to do it. You've just got to hope you can find a gap here and get past the
The New Cleans hold from heaven a tag-down range to soften up all of it
That's man in and there it is Falcons
Really a clean sweep there as soon as they get to the CT half they've now got two chances to close on team liquids map
Yes indeed, Harry and Tessa's double as well. He's been pretty quiet on this A cycloponition. A lot of those lower by hits from liquid
They were getting into postplants in the first half
a lot of time ago though
Tessa's bottom of the circle
And so two chances as you say, we could try and stay above water, fighting the waves,
the
game that
by the game just be the one if the great games out of right rounds out of a league and hurts
has that the shot all of it is also taken whatever he can give you at this point
We don't want to waste this opportunity.
I'll be for.
Nobody home.
That says, will you drop in? No.
I mean, there's a poison-tipped needle in this hay stack that you just don't want to find, right?
And that's the monacy or you're playing to avoid and they pick the right site.
They're going to go in a test says, oh god, maybe there's...
More problems brewing here as Tess says his double keeps the round very much alive nuclear on
Throwing a flash to try and team up out through heaven. There's more needles than hey
Double flash incomes Tess says good catch for a leash
And that should be the safety net needed nuclear on still maintaining a bit of pressure here
Monacy floating around you've got rounds to play with at some of this point why not
And so, literally walking to a postcard and do manage to close it out and spy a double from top side.
Whew!
Shon, Shon, sure is.
And one more round of this overtime to decide.
I could so much focus on yard and regulations, so many smoke walls, so many crossing
twice the secret. No one in this round.
Oh, but I'm staying and fast out for team liquid unless
ultimate nerds can combine for something.
Might all be for not here. You're left in a 2v4 advantage for the
Falcons. Bomb dropped out towards A.
Now, this is trying to wrap around the world that he committed to this very,
very quickly, almost off the rip as soon as they lost those first few
players. You can see the Falcons. This is the freedom that being in such a
position gives you. They've got nucleons. Just subscribe for watching this exact move
for some exact reposition. Nerds is now known about on the backstabbing. There's no reason
to hang around and fight this. It's the safest possible play from nucleonrys.
Again with a reposition for nerds. You've lost the element of surprise. So we tries to gain
it elsewhere. But there's eyes on this position as well. He's got to fight for every inch
of ground he's looking for in this round.
It wasn't like just came in to ultimate.
Constrict it to hard.
It's very obvious right now where liquid
are coming from.
So Falcons, all eyes trained forward.
A rush in the final round of this overtime.
Looks like it's left liquid.
Hang out to dry.
Oh, put timing there for Mother Sea and a good catch for nerds.
Mother Sea is going to get back on the line.
That shot sales pass.
Incomes the cover.
New Cleans.
Bales out.
Modesty and then Modesty.
Bales out the Falcons.
They lock in team liquids, pack a pick of milk and break that streak of success in overtime
that liquid were on. They're looking for a 2-0 finish and it's just to some home ground
and an easy map to slot in a stand-in up next for the Falcons.
Magic from Monacy and a last minute upper and rush with the game on the line called from
liquid. That was a wild map of Nuke comes out with the Falcons on top. What are your
first impressions here, Jacob, what are you thinking?
I mean, good game of counter strike, competitive game of counter strike, two teams who
fought well and met each other in a lot of the parameters. But there was significant differences
in how we came about. Obviously, you see in the scoreboard one side, Elise and Nudge really
kept liquid alive. You know, make them have a good start on the T side, final offer
a lot of impact and on the other side there was one class standing out in monacy with
data repeat that goes without saying that the individual powers from monacy kept
alkans alive for long enough in order for them to come in and win this game.
A little bit disappointed and liquid not able to capitalize on some of the win condition
they're having for them.
When I describe them right now I'm looking at nerds, I'm looking at a leash.
If they're both playing well, I'm willing to say that there's a great likelihood they're
going to do well, but if that's not even enough on your own map picked then what is?
I would almost just put it pretty simply that Monacy was the anti-ultimate.
Whereas, Monacy was doing absolutely everything he possibly could to will falcons in
the rounds, get picks that they needed, make sure that they kept their chances alive.
Moment of moment, I would just say that ultimate did practically everything he could do
to do the opposite.
He was missing Opshots.
He was sometimes out of position.
He wasn't getting a lot done with the sniper rifle.
I mean, I feel like in this singular moment a lot of what we talked about in the pregame
come exactly to fruition that what liquid needed was a consistent
offer for their sake a guy like I even pinned in the pregame like
O.C. was for them in the past use this city he got the kills
that's one of the two of the group he threw good utility but this time
around for ultimate I didn't really see a good option until 20 rounds
into the game roughly. Yeah I think that's about right I don't think he had
not chill until about 20 rounds in the game either didn't purchase it in
the first half of the conversation. They put in his hands eventually had a
If you miss us with it, it's a tough spot to be in.
Here's the thing I don't disagree with with anything you just said, Maria.
I think Ultimate was a big part of the reason
that's to watch in Liquid didn't win,
because I think in terms of game plan and
in terms of crafting the rounds and putting himself in winning positions,
we saw that in the first half on the outside.
They didn't incredible well, but Ultimate unfortunately
wouldn't have waked the first 30 rounds in this game.
Seven or kills.
Seven. And an overtime game.
Yeah, and most of them were in overtime.
That's the other thing is, that's the thing, 12 and 20,
with two or kills as we win out of regulation.
like I was seconding. He came alive a little bit late into it. My issue with this is
summarized as team liquid as a whole. They find a new way to lose every single time.
Whether you pinpoint one player and say, ah, Ultimate didn't really show up this time around.
He said fault, whether it's the game plan, whether it's either a release, a nerd's not showing
lovely. I feel like whatever I'm watching a liquid game, I can come up with a new excuse every
single time. So it's not a consistent issue. It's a lot of different issues that stroke
cases itself from time to time. We've got around here. We've got around here that illustrates one
of those excuses. One of those ways. This is round 22. This was one where you could just
kind of see the disconnect between ultimate and others on the team. I mean, okay, there's a smoke
at early at door, the lurk smoke, but Nurtz just smoked door. He just smoked door and ultimate
nades to try to peek through door after Nurtz just smoked door. Like there's nothing that even
accomplished by throwing that HE and that's just kind of the disconnect you sometimes get from liquid.
It doesn't feel like they're always all together and because Nurtz just smoked door and ultimate
that missed the, the Nade.
It's test is who goes down the vent and blanks nerds.
So the whole entry kill here is because Liquid
are in a disconnect to start the first 30 seconds of this round.
Like, it's just the, the butterfly effect of
one little missed step in terms of communication
between the two players and it just becomes
his threat that completely unravels
anything that Liquid are trying to do
in terms of put up a formidable defense.
Yeah, it's annoying.
You know, it's unfortunate.
And as I said, like, I feel like we can pinpoint
these kind of mistakes from game to game
We can give different reasons as to why they're struggling to get the win.
Even in this one, I was like, I was positive.
You know, looking like they're about to win.
Elysium playing well, nerds is playing well.
Yes, automate.
Maybe they never lost impactful game, but that's okay from time to time.
But it's getting to a point where I get annoyed by the fact that I can come up with a new excuse every single time.
I can find a new reason whether it's a nice relation around 22, whether it's ultimate, not playing well.
That there seems to be these key moments in the game that consistently goes wrong for Team Liquid.
and it's been the case for for the better part of the enough.
Let's focus on the silver lining suit for a moment
because yes, the rifleers,
a leash, nerds, having some really big moments.
Now I've having some big plays in over time
trying to get some of those rounds over the line.
We saw the impact come through from the rifleing core here
and in particular it's really good to see both
the leash and nerds having a good game at the same time.
But to this, I guess, example I can give you
is that how many times in this game did you see
liquid almost have three players to watch ramp
and Falcon's actually walked into it right there?
It felt like the reading from Xu He,
the coaching from Flashy, the way the team was set up was set up to win, but then even when
you had a three-man second round, it's still 21-1, a two-for-two, they wouldn't get something
out of it, so it terms of reading the game and putting yourself in the mapping and giving
yourself a good, I guess, win condition to get it done. It's still not working out for
some liquids, so that's why I'm like, a little bit disappointed at your own map pick, you
have a great read in the game, you're playing a team with a stand-in and yet you're still
not able to get it over the finish line.
I was a little bit surprised that more of Liquid's game plan wasn't targeted around just
trying to get nucleons at a ramp, or trying to just kill him every single time frequently
I felt like he was just dooled with fairly simple, just single flash plays.
If they actually use just more utility, like double flashes, or smoke plays, like basically
test what he does in terms of reactions.
And I know that comes across a little bit one note, but then to try to play into monacy
and Nico outside, is feeding Falcons in the exact way that they want to be tested.
Speaking of the rookie, speaking of the stand-in, the guy coming in, nuclear-yons,
we really didn't have a lot of information coming into the game.
He held his own quite nicely.
I agree with you that maybe he could have been tested further, but considering the circumstances
considering the rounds, had himself a really nice game.
I think he passed the test, you know, it wasn't a breakout performance for him, there
was definitely moments in the game where he was a bit out of it, where he couldn't get
much done, but in terms of being a stand-in, standing in Syria and playing your first
game on a stage ever, and you're what six official game in your career, I think he
more than past it says. This was not a map when he was supposed to be the difference
mega, but he was not a liability either. So I think that regard he did a good job.
I'm still kind of holding on to see if there's going to be more from nucleons, especially
moving into their map pick, but in terms of working against liquid where Nuke was not
necessarily, I mean, it was technically played by the Falcons Academy team a couple of times,
but it's a, this performance to me is just saying,
okay, yeah, you survived.
I'm not, I'm not head over heels
and making any claims about this guy just yet.
But look, man, when we're talking about the Falcon security system,
it's totally fine for nucleons to be like the traffic cone
slowing you down a second so that big back monacy
can come running down and back will be offenders.
Yeah, exactly.
So even though it ramp, it's not like
he was putting up some massive multi kill holds
or anything like that, I'm not expecting to do that today.
You get one, you slow them into the site,
you let somebody trade you.
That's more than enough exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Looking at the future, it's so close, right?
And when we were talking about the video,
when we were looking at the maps,
it really did feel like this one could be a three-map affair,
could be a type of fair.
Based on what we saw on Nuke, are we still feeling that optimistic?
I think that was the missed opportunity right here for
a team Liquid, the head to a new for my money,
in order to keep this game competitive,
especially the fashion they played out.
And now we're moving into Dust 2,
and we'll speak more about that.
But for Team Liquid to be in a position now,
we're not winning your own map pick,
You're not winning from a winning position in the game as well.
That's gonna hurt him a little bit.
It will hurt indeed, but we'll see if they can recover from that hurt
and bring us to a full series when we come back and start breaking down us too.
Ultimately since you're in Team Liquid there have been some highs and lows but I
want to just get your thoughts now on the time you've had on Liquid overall.
And for me it was an amazing journey, it's not over yet, we can have a lot of highs together
as well.
Maybe a little bit of lows, it can happen but I really enjoyed the time and that I spent
here, it was very nice, I think I learned a lot of stuff while being under steam and
I'm just happy to do more.
Very positive and I like hearing that.
Looking at your performances and your individual level,
we've seen great highs from you,
but we've also seen some inconsistency.
Do you understand the reason for that?
Why are you struggling with the consistency?
Yeah, sometimes I'm a genius,
sometimes I'm a donkey, it's like, that's life.
It can happen to everybody.
You can't be good all the time.
Like I'm seeing it for the majors,
the next four major ones.
Okay, I like that.
I would never call your donkey just to be clear.
That was you. That's not mine.
I think there is possibility.
You hit me with someone I didn't expect.
You're focusing on the future I get that.
But is there something you are looking at maybe liquid looking at to try and fix and improve this situation?
Well, I hope not changing me, but...
Yeah, we're trying all the time. We're trying to get better.
We try to have more synergy in between a team.
We're always branding for us trying our best.
That's all we can do.
And do you feel like you have a lot of freedom in the team like obviously?
the changes that happened.
Lee has got a voice.
She has got a voice.
Fashion has got his voice.
Why do you still have the freedom you want to perform?
Yeah, I believe that everyone has freedom in this team.
I believe everyone has something to say and do stuff that they like to do and think
it's working.
And there were some periods that the space was a little bit tricky.
That we had to figure out some stuff, but overall, I'm very happy with it.
Where I am.
Sometimes the genius, sometimes the donkey, little too much of the donkey,
Perhaps that was not exactly a confidence inspiring interview from young Mr. Roland why did two of his answers say by the way
I'm not getting cut like yeah
I would like it the speech that you give after you get bench and then he finished it up with excited to continue
I'm simply confused at why he's trying to just avail that so lightly. I mean that's is that to me
I don't even know if there's a room around there right now for my my
I don't know anything but I'm but the way he talked about all of those subjects was just it was it was confusing
I might as well just think he is now at this point. I
He to me this guy and actually I don't to be completely honest. The only reason why you're still in team liquid is because there's no better
Alternative right now, you know, and
Give that another chance another opportunity and I respect that if you go in and grab it, but talking about the future right now
If you automate this there's no future unless you step it up right here right now
I'm not saying he's getting cut after this tournament if they lose this game, but the first couple of tournaments for Team Liquid in this year
will have to be tournaments where we see progress where we see him step up, but we see the teams step up, otherwise there will be our
chances. So in terms of talking long-term future and focusing on the future, how about no? How about focusing on right now
getting the job done right now and just be lucky that there's never been a less viable market for AWS.
Yeah. What a rosy picture you've painted here.
Anything that we should be looking for on Dust 2 because we're about to hop into the map.
Yeah, honestly, they're minus show.
I think that's going to be interesting.
Hey, New Cleans as well.
Curious is how he's going to be fitted in.
We didn't see much of of Nico as well.
I think Liquid are going to have a tough time.
I hope they're going to come out and play with a lot of pace and try to at least
read loud affected.
They're playing with a stand-in and playing with a stand-in coach show to speak,
but I don't have high hopes to be honest.
I think Falcons are going to be control.
I'm simply interested if New Cleans on CT side is going to play like
to be aggressive is he going to be dynamic and that kind of mid to be CT spot or is he
just going to end up helping his B player.
Can he double all pass we see.
Yeah, actually.
Yeah.
Could he be a hybrid haven't seen it yet?
We'll find out.
We'll find out and to take us through this map, we got two guys who are way more genius than
Donkey without hearing you go.
Wow.
Do you agree with that?
Here you go.
No, come on.
Okay.
So it's us to write a things looking kind of die for liquid right now.
We just watched that little O.T.
But Nanta, all of them had never got going, but
honestly certainly did.
You feel like that's going to be a big problem on dust too.
Like the desk of set mistakes very well there with
a typical tease that liquid are going through with the success of the
Falcons, feeling inevitable after taking liquid's mapping
especially in overtime.
It's in really ugly rounds from the ultimate A-W-U-P and
good signs across the board from the Falcons.
Nothing to really complain about, right?
from this standing addition for this tournament and picks up with some nice causes
well so ultimately they're in good for the falcons to keep that bounty on their head
and keep running through in this quarter final. It was liquid to pick it was their
choice. Will they come to regret it?
Oh no that's just throwing them a curve ball. Good block.
Ran up through mid to block that smoke at the Xbox,
but it might not matter with ultimate dead out towards long.
Gap has still been created here for the Falcons.
Are they ready?
Or a leash tucked into the car,
flash to set him up for the first.
Now they know they haven't boxed in,
but it's on a leash is say so
that he gets to fight and Nico.
This is head ripped off.
Hell of a hold from these two players
in at the car, you've got second man in there,
nerth's riding shotgun.
It leaves it all on nuclear ones.
It could have walked behind that leash after the group.
You're not going to met or not meant to be.
No, it's fine.
Three headshots here in this pistol, and the leash still gets to from the car.
Really good opening moves.
Block the gave him.
He first fry to the round, liquid.
Still here to show us something on this second map.
It's been a map we've not seen them play.
It's a great success recently right back at the Major.
Banged out against power visions say this though. That is power vision. I and I know it's old power vision
Minus way, but I still think even at that point, you know, this was heading shoulders to their best map and
That's it right now. They're one of the best us two teams in the world
Just not really seem liquid. I've great success against the best teams of the world on this map experience of vitalities and then Falcon's in that conversation as well
So it needs to be the best game on dust to the liquid in some time
time. Please here if you were like carrying any expectations heading into my walking for
liquid those are kind of largely off looking at us too. Sometimes that can mentally
free you up a little bit. You know it's like if you don't kind of show up now you've
shown nothing. So screw it. Play it. Play it. Play it. Make some aggressive moves. Everyone's
I already started writing you off, so...
Sure. And as well get a little...
Get a little silly play a little chaotic here to open things up.
Let's see what, you know, the off-season had in store for like, or maybe they got two ideas on a map there.
They ended on a sour note.
I want to see this spot, take this, nerdy angle.
And nerdy's running top mid punish is not every day already for that position to work.
It's the perfect read from monacy.
5-4-4-thalcans, even taking lower falcons to lay their pushoff to the flash of
voiding the Nade.
On the still-in-t-sport, so many options are available to the falcons with this 5-on-4th
liquid who go looking for answers clear at the long side.
They're falcons were already waiting, right?
This is one of the kind of, uh,
they go toes whenever they seize these mighty farmages,
just sit back and wait for the liquid aggression.
I'm shocked, the shoe is calling the bluff and just going.
They're both hurt each other, make moves in top middle.
If you just go all the way through.
Once we've been looking, no one's even considering it so a free catch.
Onto Tessas would have loved something out of a league
and not mid-hole, but it's just a bit of damage
put down range and now you've got the defense split one one they're heading out towards
now fly alone on this bomb site. Three players are all down in front of it and this has to be
huge for a map and that's not bad to on the smoke but with ultimate rotate here the dead
two minus the over in middle. Oh no, minus he's finding triple kills. That's not fair. He's on doubles
all last map. Can't be laying this guy improved coming into dust too. Really good
try for NAF, but too many players dropping the ball,
at least with a unlikely mess.
The flight to show you arguably overcomitted.
Falcons!
What?
Enter the game earlier than they did on Yuk.
And then the three comes up, Liquid's money.
Now the dust.
One by-in-this.
Oh, two clear ons.
Bealus.
As a lot of solo players all across the map here for the clip, that's the burden of going
him and down so early.
Good move here to bring all of it around to try and help out over a long.
He's going to catch one on that push, but two for one trade there for the long control.
It's actually screaming great value for liquid if it was already a rough position.
And that's been holding his own over here towards being another admirable effort on the behold.
on the be-home, but that was just the lurk of the real focus is this airplane with monacy.
Catching that by surprise, they should just be a done deal.
They know that NAF is so far from home, and so a second round beckons for the falcons.
Monacy might even complete the hunt here.
Very, very close to NAF-Ly.
Should just a little one right to the back of their head.
It's a punishing hunt in at the closed.
Frustrating around for a lead, Falcons play the long take late.
Perfectly, corner smoke means ultimate carpeak off of the lead just contact the dead because they flash over the smoke
For a car player and lead must turn and it's got a turn to get to kill nice clear for falcons
Everything about that comes up perfectly and
No save here for liquid means falcons destined to take the lead. They know it as well. Mac then coming in on this round
something else that I've just kind of been enjoying it's felt refreshing is you know
Falcons not ever leaning too deeply and yes it's likely as a result of the
stand in situation right not leaning too deeply on the individual talent
everything's felt very regimented very under control they've shown appropriate
respect to these situations and it's been playing well as a team
just nice to see it right that long take there you can highlight it white works
so well for them just a perfect example of kind of not getting ahead of yourselves
not thinking the individuals are gonna be there and enough to bail yourself out
it's just been a very clean and concise game from the Falcon squad that's far
Just such an easier map to slot in this stand in as well because while it's one thing
seeing this opening quarter final in the round of it all for heavy favorite teams feeling
fairly safer than what the question for falcons is still can't we win the event we're
and so getting these couple of warm-up maps
getting some experience for nuclear-ons on a comfortable map like dust to
it's gonna make all the difference here when it goes into a semi-final and even a
grandfinal that falcon's will be rooting for it's here to make the money
I think it takes a very specific type of captain to find success with this stand, they don't
want to say success.
I don't mean winning a series, winning a map, making a more commendable runner.
I'm talking, you know, get to the point where you could lift the trophy, get to the point where you are lifting a trophy.
That's why really only one name springs to mind and that's Caribbean, right?
I think you have to be very, very good at explaining complex situations in a concise way that's easy to understand.
You have to be able to kind of ride with the rhythm of the game a little bit because your protocols aren't going to be as good or as proper.
But I also think this is an even different situation to have most of those because it's one thing to bring in a standard.
So one might have changed, yeah, so he's got experience, right?
Uh, versus bringing in a rookie stand in.
He's never even played land.
Let alone tier one opposition in front of a crowd.
So it's kind of a double job here for the Falcons
and here for kicks into bringing this young player
for this event.
And I mean, maybe some,
and have it to do it coachless, I think,
as you've been more apparel.
Okay.
It's stacking up that.
I mean, you know, there was some kind of implication
and one of these interviews talking about how there's a lot of shengen events this year,
Kongek here so you can put all of them.
Now it's one thing that's not getting him for the first event of the season. That makes sense.
Especially one where the team didn't know they're going to land until they won their matches,
but is this going to be something that plague, falcons, all season long? We don't know yet.
So, hey, this could be a longer-term project.
You never know what the future has in store.
I mean, even to that point, right? The idea being out there that, yeah, you're dead on this mine I'll be the only time we see us down having to be filled it.
You feel like that puts a bit of a reason for nuclear ons to want to leave a lasting impression that he can hang at the top level.
Because you want to be first on the call sheet.
If they end up looking for another stand-in.
I want to decide ultimately gets hunted down and they take A with E's.
22nd hit at a perfect clash to disrupt the Op again.
It's not going to get easier here on Dust 2.
By a long shot.
One thing that's nice here was that,
Shoeey went kind of unaccounted for in the speed at which he's coming in on the long flank.
Not even needed in the end as nuts.
is not willing to run enough, good for his.
Leeds your long test, but he's done big damage.
Oh, it's hard.
Tessett collects.
Makes you so easy on that swing.
And a big 1B3 as more clutches come up for the falcons.
They've won every one of them in the series thus far.
Whatever it's come down to a clutch,
it's come up for the falcons.
And now coming up for Tessett as well,
he wants the corner for four babies, the weak point back on you.
On that top side safety side, but put him in this clutch and all happens so quickly.
Liquid don't know they've lost it until it's too late.
For Stratio, Russian lower.
Nuclear on's blown out of the water and kicks that found out, giving cover from Nico.
There's an AK pick up here for Liquid, but...
...and I'm not out of the woods yet.
Still committed to total still hunting down by a Molotov.
punish here there and everywhere, and that is on one shot from death, just destined to be true
be as open, and so if our friends are going to chaos at the beginning of the round,
looking like they can just walk it home, five on this T side right now,
Liquid getting lit up.
Not set forward.
And usually if I'm thinking B site second or pump thinking that's why.
And that's gonna don't it?
And puts it to work actually besting monacy in that head to head.
How does not you have a flashes this now? I don't know.
Well look, nerds got his.
Let's see how the main orb, the liquid feds, flashed off the line, how much he can do there,
the U-TILed this place is ultimate, and he never leaves him in position and take that
shot with the AWP.
It's got other options though, like on the bombsite, the lead just don't jump, it's
suspect of this litigee, meko or you can't walk, you still have nightmares about this.
Who you or meko, me, maybe him.
but also dreams, dreams of actually being an offer.
I pulled them back in.
It's always just been irresistible, too need code.
So that damage comes in for a lead.
I'm going to make it.
But how towards mid now?
Or what's been able to hold his own with one?
Get set without again?
Oh god.
It's fine, it's not a control.
He goes born five years later, and you know, way, way further off course out among earlier.
He would have been on the team.
He would have been with the Mongols second open, third open, fourth open to it.
3v3 retake now for team liquid.
He's got to try.
No Nades.
He's good catch, ice.
Nico gets his on the AWP, but another man's made it in.
and they don't know about second player blind to the flash.
No, that's monocity.
At the exit, there's all it will be here for ultimate.
He goes all puts up the one he requires to win the round.
Giggs is just at a lot of impactful rounds here on two sides in both these maps.
Using that strong post-war position that we see Nico do so often these days on top of the box.
comes out with three kills in this P5 site, including the trades, into me, and a beautiful
shot and nerds here.
Whoa, fix it.
I'm running today.
Time to feel good round for Falcons who are growing more and more lethal in this T-Sight Nico,
give it back and you round as big a gun.
I mean, I'll say this, Falcons really knew the liquid like to push top mid, right?
But he's been holding this position in two rounds that liquid have pushed.
He just doesn't find the angle this time, they're on the right side.
So there is a great understanding from Falcons of what they're up against.
What does he get to sort of back Nico returns to tunnels and liquid try to retake long?
It's also, you know, like pretty old tape on team liquid here for that too.
It was all stuff from before the offseason.
Not a whole lot to go off of.
It's very early to see the top mid push note.
Right before the flash.
He's out from the window, great catch on for a double.
He's said early, and after always been good at getting his one, well at 6 HP, really
going to have to work some magic, Nico charges him down, and now it's him and monacy side
by side.
What's in the window?
Did it fall out?
Ultimate.
He's going to be given a chance here with this orb.
Chance to catch Nico as he looks for the bomb.
Oh dear.
This is a big problem.
Should we close again, back at the tunnels, on it firing off.
if he can even slow them down by a bit more time for Shoee.
As the clock starts to tick down,
it's just a tag from the ultimate AWP and Shoee for her.
Eyes on at the tunnels,
but with low health or monacy,
Shoee closing in,
Nade could be huge and there it is,
the killing blow.
Shoee's gonna deal it down range.
And so Falcons and this big old streak of six,
finally laid to rest.
You're just breathing a sigh of relief again.
It's just no round is safe right now against this lethal falcon squad at ultimate makes it very messy in middle once more
I got picky on him, but
Suppies just needed to take rock with him
Also the leg, I didn't expect it wasn't a leg, it's not even a big thing, yeah
We can even go there.
Well, rounds around for Liquid, but in these to build into something more here on the CT side, three more chances.
The Falcon's nose closer to Eco.
Yeah, you know, rounds around, but you're so far from being all square here for Liquid.
It's a step in the right direction, but this is to be the beginning of a streak.
that can't just be a one and done but a success where they get away with a double kill from a leash.
You know, that's something that he was providing for them.
A hell of a lot back on Nuke as well.
You finished in that game only lagging behind Monacy by just one multi kill round, which I think is really impressive considering how memorable the monacy multi kills were.
It can't just come down to a leash, having to get to, if the liquid to put rounds on the board.
It's not sustainable.
Oh, that's the speaker balance in our limits fault.
That's monacy, monacy, and just a free connection.
You're going to watch that again.
What the?
See ya.
How do you beat that?
You don't.
How do you beat this?
Well, now I've got his turtle.
Now everyone's off in
Honestly's not done as an athlete in the obtho work. Let's kick some lurking tunnels
How can I think of it there? There is actually a world where like in the future
Liquid now can be like liquid of all the five rifles now taking kind of the nitro position of the double or not even
or hybrid or I'm not even saying Ben Choltzamer, I'm just saying let him right for what is he's going for the ace?
He's running towards Monk, he's seen the legs and nuclear on steals and so back to the Academy team.
Monacy maybe will forgive him before incredible kills, especially in the first.
and it's just getting a bit loose now, it's a liquid picked apart, one by one.
Yeah, it's a sick feat, like in any round, putting out that many kills to just go and win
it as a one-man army always feels good, but those were far from the most challenging
kills that Monacy's ever had to get in his career.
kind of just swung out from around the smoke multiple times while he set up at long.
Yeah, he's in an angle and liquid walk into it.
Just got that feel for the game right now.
Knowing what liquid are going to do before they do.
I mean, I just think as early, you know, like once you know the all-present position on the
long side, it used to be the case that that was kind of enough to lock you out of that part of the map,
giving it away and conceding the ground, maybe if you're very switched on, you feel like you
You can take it there, but I pretty wouldn't subscribe that to Team Liquid right now.
It feels like you can come some more from just a place of desperation.
Aggression from a league, you see, gets past the all-pup on this boost, and it's only attack.
Now they're gonna think he left. Surely, right? You've just left him, you've stopped that aggression.
You actually hung around and went for a bit more double dipping on the mid push, a league.
Now, no one about him.
Very farward, crazy flick from monacy.
What?
While he's searching for a lead, he ends up finding an unsuspecting
all amount towards the long doors.
Scared of terrified,
blowing liquid out of the game right now on his own.
It felt good enough on you, but to do it on thus too, again.
Monacy.
The headline act here.
In this quarter final.
You just really hope that this is, you know, a sign of things to come for monacy in 2026.
Yes.
Well, the time to reach knows that top bed is clear.
The B hit is manifesting.
Shoeer on a scout.
Nothing to lose. Two players are one shot.
Shoeer.
It's the swing. Good catch.
No, no more damage put down range in an instant trade from Nico they stopped that scout from putting the pressure on
I like you just about to skewer them all the kind of feel like that boy to maybe
Really hurts and yeah, Lege. Oh, no, yeah, he's gonna give it up. I've some aids
Foul gets on to aid
Even in slowbomb, it still looks quick.
Falcons refusing to let a stand-in ruffle their feathers here at the bounty.
I don't know if you can see it's just a couple of rounds as we've had to really live that one again, I mean, yeah, it's the time you gave them on the seas haven't.
And I think that's only really, you know, furthering to show the devise right now between the all right.
The fact that you have monacy absolutely red heart seemingly cards that have foot wrong
There's no macro in this map in the last 8 4 rounds. It's just like what happened?
What who's orping and where and then what having off the off-gills?
There's no there's no push and pull. There's no executes.
It doesn't feel like a normal game of counter strike.
What I see is just killing everything in sight. Not again.
Not like this.
He almost takes him out.
Tiger off top of the box and it could get to live another round.
These fake things can sometimes be annoying.
We won't know until later, but
think through your box on to Modesty
can be under the impression he's low when that is not the case.
Modesty still very much has threatened this round.
I mean he would be any health, but especially right now.
I leash on that jiggle, trade a bit of damage for the info that more of the players have made it up short.
Alright, all of it, good position for the AWP.
So in a bar low, apparently in a moment, just has to get one.
Jump down, we've done a bit of a snucleons makes it down into the spawn and wraps up
And wraps upon team liquid it from that point on it's a floor this execution from the falcons
They take so much control new plans controls the rotates and shows on to close it with a hatchric
The standing stands up for the falcons as they win out this off hard
Hey guys, this is my home and I'm gonna break down how the pros hold longing on dust to so you can do it just like them to let's go
Usually at the start of the round, you want to pay attention to the spawns, and that's
because only the best spawn for the CTs gets passed this corner before the best T spawn
peaks.
So the best use of the spawn is to try to get a mall-talk down at the doors right away to
stop at the potential rush.
Now keep in mind if you don't have the best spawn, the T's can already be holding you.
With the mall-talk down at doors, the next component is to have a second person throw
flashes to blend the T's 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 tea is 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 it can be at the doors.
The mall-toff in flash gives you a good initial defense, but tea's with the best spawn can
run straight to blue bin before the mall-toff lands.
So another option for the Maltov is to throw it behind the blue bin which stops T's
from sitting there.
And as for a 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.
This smoke limits T's on holding the long corner, which gives you an isolated fight on
the T crossing the blue bin.
But keep in mind if you want to peek the doors with the best spawn, it won't land
in time.
Blue bin Molotov and Long Doris Smoke takes away a lot of positions for the T's, but what
if the T's are fully committed to taking long, there will be flashes or a corner smoke
preventing you from holding the entrance. To ensure your Molotov 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 the Molotov, which means you can cross the pit without any additional movement
and it lowers the chance the T catches you mid-drow.
To fight the corner smoke, you can throw a counterflash to blind the T's pushing up,
and this is a flush your teammate can throw for you.
The goal of the flush is to have a pop on the left side along and behind you so you don't need to turn.
This flush will blind T's hugging the wall as the 149 flush won't get them.
What this flush, you can swing to the left side of the smoke
or push through the smoke to catch T's directly behind it.
So with these extra steps, let's say you've fought off the initial push, what's a 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 flupin.
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 re-position.
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 cards
and CG spawn, and as well you can use the smoke to push up close to fight the teas.
And that is the last piece of how to hold Dusty Long A, like the pros.
Team Falcon sought towards a semi-final here over Liquid at 9-3 at the half and a very close
nuke but does too is nowhere near the same Liquid looking like a deer in headlights getting
outorbed by monacy all across the map. Team Falcon's right now just looking like they're
strolling into those semis.
That's a really, really rough way for this to start.
That's top of former elege.
Kicked out of the pistol round almost instantly.
Barely gets a chance to play.
Monacy has had full dominion.
Over that seed.
Oh god.
Beef coach.
Bit of friendly fire in there.
Yeah, he could make up for it all, oh god, yeah
Okay, he goes out into a bit of intrigue to this pistol around nuclearons in another clutch
Don't make him save
I don't learn one of one be one
One be three been in a couple of these
And he's proven tricky.
That's what he should.
Look at what a really scared driver.
Oh, man, maybe they should be.
That's a hell of a catch, but you clearly honest with double-swing and he's so nearly
gets away with it.
It's all smiles for the standing, because that was so close.
And also, yeah, you just share on land, you almost clutch it up, you're feeling good
that you tried, you made it interesting.
And you know everyone's egging them on to give it a go.
Come on, kid.
What have you got?
liquid they went around by the way but you're almost wouldn't know it
yeah look you see a lot kind of sparing them on to go for it
liquid with all four distance Harry
What they've converted also far.
Ah, I just don't know if facing up against the monacy scout right now is something
you want to even attend.
Really, it's all the map control they have.
That's why I'm worried they are going to face up against the monacy scout.
Ready for a smokes over the top.
It's a flash on nuclear news to pop through this long smoke monacy gets obliterated.
Good pick up.
The huge pressure point removed the attempted to flash through.
There's not pan out for the battle kittens and so it clean sweep and a clean record
Court for Team Liquid in Pistols and Conversions.
This way there's Falcons Pistols continue to elude them.
But it is yet to...
It was a problem in their series.
So we need to be an unbelievable half a team with good on the side.
We have to head the counter.
So one more eco.
This is the level out of Niko, top mid push for Tessas contain my ultimate as well, so
they could just speed up.
That's a long range, they're gonna be all fine and down if I'm liquid and the reach
not the obvious, wow.
There's another one for Tessas, there's two for Tessas through the smoke, we need to
to save the round right now, and he's got a f***ing, oh, damn, denied, by monocy, 17 and 9,
and ultimate thrust into a clutch. How has this gone so far?
You gotta don't believe you're at this point in the round. Never should have got to a position
where all the meds to clutch up, but at least he gets it down and this one be one. He's got a
face off now against Tessas. He's got hot hands and a little picked up from mid.
It's bonnet.
Oh, no, with the plan.
There's a Molotov on Tessa, so all of it kind of has the reposition here.
If you sit in the sight, you're going to get burned by this Molly.
Forced out in the open now, commits to the fight and all of it nails it.
The right playing has stood the test.
Yeah.
Ultimate with a critical 1B2, if liquid do want to try and cause correctly in the day.
That says rushes the Molly, maybe scared of getting repeats there from the sight.
So it doesn't land deep enough to burn it.
Tassets 2, 3DDs on the long side though, just couldn't finish it.
In this one second.
So yes, the rifling is there, and it will keep going into the next round, liquid facing their first full bite.
Once on his own in middle, committed position, looking for a fight.
Shadow Spive is a chewy quick on the trigger.
It's modern, he forwards mid and they're going to try and carry this momentum through
a chewy.
After his reign of terror, that double to open up, he's around ends to spam, but he's
praying, he's hoping, he's done enough.
Kixan's low on health, trading places with napfly, he comes through, that's fantastic
value.
Molla's even gets one through the smoke.
And same can be set but nerds on that drop down, getting in behind enemy lines.
Kicks and thought that smoke push had sealed the deal on something.
Move a cook?
That's slow down for a moment and expecting him to have repositioned.
Are they ready for kicks and so quick in behind enemy lines?
There's really hoping they would re-re-tow and try and avoid him in doing so.
Put some self in middle, probably in a position to save one of CzWP.
We're really showing for liquid today.
I'm able to still find the gap there,
two on one going into that bombsite scary.
A lot of damage done by Nav called.
Big drop down from Nurtz into CT,
valve of monacy on the boostbox as well.
Kixen's hoping that bomb blows the orb just a little bit closer.
Maybe it will.
Maybe it will just get trapped in the corner.
corner.
Oh, no warp.
But no warp for ultimate either.
Is that a blessing in disguise?
And a bit of hulking individual effort later, and you're actually back within striking
distance of the falcons.
Right now the T-side effort for liquid very much spearheaded by nerds, a leg, and unsuspecting
We can't hit it and show you, right?
An important string of entries in that round.
Sure, even then it gets a little wild.
Thankfully, the other guys able to pull through for team liquid.
Slim Imagine's now on this game.
If Falcons want to dodge the fall,
they win this round here and now.
That's just your specs to take.
on this long side, shock to get that kill.
Damage, that's a surviving with the block smoke on long or slow liquid roll.
We get this space, but it's very reassured to commit.
Alkins clear metal, and now they can fight A together.
Look at this commitment from Falcons right now.
scared of a leech lurking through tunnels like he has before.
Four players here.
Clock on the smoke for monacy.
They give that time.
They try and peek on the back of it.
Good catch for a leech.
Spoke still lands, gives them something to try and get across with.
You tell him, attempt to slow this one down for the openers.
Keep running through.
Four team liquid.
And all of those fights falcons are one bullet away from winning the round it feels like.
Nath is nailing them to the wall.
Two headshots on three low players, and Nath says I'm not planting that bomb.
Full health gives it a check, goes back.
You three on stri-cycac.
Oh, he's now fly, three kills and liquid a round behind.
So close every step around there for Falcons, but none of the kills come through.
100 game, money broken for the Falcons, have liquid really got this in them.
This was far from a small order, you managed 3 rounds on the defensive half.
This one of 70 finals for Falcons written all over it.
At the 11th hour,
income some of the liquid rifle is to try and shake things up.
Just big nice, because
I've been a feeling of a real team effort for the four rifling players, right?
All kind of pulling their weight here across this streak of T rounds that liquid
is now on.
And a big multi-kilton shoe in the one prior to last
Malfi with a 6-3K there.
Lots of room to overthink it around that looks to tie up this map.
And the most unlikely of positions, Liquid just keeping it low and slow out through mid.
To the stack they'll go, three players here.
We've got the fact that our catchers do, except the AK is what we can get the highlight from the back of the site 3 kills and Nico. He's just going to put him in a box.
Oh, in the stack site, liquid get locked out.
There has seen a Falcon's highlight from there before. That's a beautiful 4K for Nico.
Right as the aims throw an arc for the first time in the bottom site, Nico is nothing but a problem.
Four team liquid, a moment they just can't get past.
If you give him too much room to work with, give him an extra couple of seconds.
That's all it takes for Nico to go and uproot the round.
And so that was the chance for Team Liquid to tie us up nine all at a low he can now,
but played into the stack played right into Nico's hands.
That's what the margin starts to widen again.
control taken, faster pace on this round for liquid. They've already got
key map control with plenty of time left.
On a see-up is always threatening.
You have to pay the price just to get that info.
Shoeey fed to the Earth.
This is the star, the downward spiral. Four team liquid.
Another aggressive move, Nico feeling good.
After that 4k flash through the mid-smoke.
Didn't get anything for it.
but it's spot that there are players out here in middle and that's causing a lot of suspicion for the Falcons they've got eyes on from the b-site
I want to see watching with the orp ready for this smoke to fade and how able to be active on both angles
No easy route here, but it does feel like that b-site is the path of least resistance and so that's what liquid are looking for
I've had to take the ride, we could out near 45, and they've got to go.
Facts are just for rotating, they kill players from the A side,
attack on the smoke breaks, liquids, hopes, and dreams.
And they have to clutch up in this B-bomb side there.
I have a second to stare, everybody holds their lines.
B-side not even required four of the five kills come from the A defenders.
Falcons right there on the precipice of taking this map this series and into the semi-finals
Team Liquid just hit the wall and after that meco-multi on the eco and the bebompside
They follow up with a flawless round
They're neutralizing this boost very well
Liquid have nothing
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That is a huge need!
Catch for Nico and I mean ever since that 4K this guy has just been
Raring to go into race between him and monacy for the eco kills over on short and Nico wants to win it
They are literally
leaping over each other to go for this final kill
They stop respecting team liquid. That's an eco round and they are playing it for the stats really great to see Nico performing like this today
I mean back on Nuki was a threat as well the forefront of so many opening kills
Maybe his end score line isn't spectacular, but he's set the precedent early on that CT side.
In the monacy, shutting down round after round and now four opportunities to finish off their map pick.
The fearless Falcon.
And with a stand-in who's gone under the radar in the most positive of ways, because
monocyanica are just taking all of the highlights.
That's what we say going in, just Nikon has to not be an issue, and safe to say, objective to fill.
We could final swing of the king.
the
responsible for shining down this short play from Team Liquid and looking at the
rooting he's taken. He loves this long and I ready to clear him.
Nurtz has opened it in the down time out towards Long Nico in position.
Two sixty to shut this down. He's out with a double. Okay. But a big follow-up
kill for Nurtz. No one about on the long push. Still gets out with the kill.
Two versus three. Damage gun. You know that Nurtz is low confidence. His
far from being at an all time high and you've got
Montesy in red hot form playing forward Montesy finds another
and with nuts out in the open it's only a matter of time.
Falcons find success.
They run away with Dust 2 and in to those semi finals
for Team Liquid.
They've been a filter swallow a chance to face off against
a wounded Falcons not just as standing in
nuclear arms but the absence of Sonic there were multiple
things going for Liquid here, but the engine never fired up.
They never got going.
Nuke was their best and maybe only chance.
Yeah, I mean, if Monacy is anything to go by in this series,
one year, there is a head of us.
I mean, this was an unbelievable couple of maps out of Monacy,
puts a bone at by the end of dust, too,
and Nico warms up with a massive 4K.
On Nico to break Liquid's momentum, everything to enjoy.
from the Falcons from the individual showing up, considering a team without a coach, without
with a stand-in.
This is a great result.
And Nucleons in his sixth land game gets to taste victory alongside this main Falcons
roster.
He's got more land matches to play in this stand-in position.
Now moving into the semi-finals and when he looks down the line, he's got a red hot
monacy, a fired up Nico, both of them showing up in great form to open up 2026.
It's a very exciting prospect.
Gotta take the highs with the lows though for liquid.
This one feels like a pretty big swing and a miss.
You had some good stuff from the liquid individuals.
Nappets and nice moments in this largely
the rifles weren't a problem.
A lead, nerds, both finding their form right from the top of the series.
But he never got going for all the dirt.
And that's really what you remember at the end of this series.
Falken's finding themselves making it through to the semi finals, a lot of the standing
with me here in New Clions. It must be a very difficult situation for you to come in at this
point and make it work. But just tell me, playing inside the 7 playing with these guys,
what was it like for you? It was really good. They've killed me to it a lot and they've actually
So it is really a lot of me, it was very nice playing with him and real play again.
You will play again and you can keep going all the way with this if you want to.
Looking at just your personal feeling, what kind of nerves did you have coming into it?
Did you think you handled it pretty well?
Like just talk with you through this moment and these emotions you might have had.
Yeah, it was stressful, a bit of pressure, but I think I handled it well.
There is some trials that I could have done better but it will fix it the next time.
fix it for next time. I like that and you're saying about the team helping you. What kind of help
will they be able to give you? What are they telling you? How did they help you get ready in it?
They're teaching me the tactics. They're cutting me through it. They're what they need to do.
They're understanding of the round and the timings and everything. And how valuable do you think this
is for just this part of your career? You know, your first big match, you're in your first big
Lannar Van Lake, how does that go for you?
It was very good.
I think I've learned a lot, and I'm going to implement it in my career.
So take that experience, bring it on back as well.
Also, I see some flags that I had some support as at the same time as well.
Who's that?
Do you know these people in the crowd?
I don't know.
No, no.
Okay, well, we've got some support.
Come on, guys.
That's more like it.
You're going to get some support being on the Falcon side at the same time as well.
and as well. And just having this first game under the under your belt, getting used to it.
Do you feel like you'll be able to play more confident going into the next game as well?
Definitely. I think I'm getting used to the stage and I think I'm going to play better next week.
I look forward to seeing it, man. Congratulations getting your first one under your belt. Well played.
And we'll see how it goes for Falcons later on.
It's time for a big surprise of the weekend.
It's time for the bounty banana because here at Blast Bounty, you know, we got to do
something a little bit weird a little bit special.
I got Monticelli here.
You absolutely crushed it in the server, but are you ready for your second win of the day here on the banana wheel?
Yeah, I'm so ready. I'm so ready.
What do you think about this madness that we've cut up?
I don't know, it looks special, you know? Looks fantastic.
Special impact. That's more rethink, Martha. Ready for the bounty banana!
So the way this is going to work is we have this fabulous bounty banana wheel.
I'm going to give it a big old spin monacy and wherever it stops, you're going to win the prize that corresponds with that number in less than to give away
Then our audience watching at home are going to win a giveaway all their own are you ready?
I've been a little bit in those years
He's a man of the people a man of the giveaways. Are you ready should we give this been?
Let's go here we go
The fountains of the real girls where it stops no one knows what's the number going to be it's going to be settling in on lucky
Number 19.
And that means that you're going to be
rocking on in with lucky number 19.
It's something for you and your teammates.
Time to find out what it is.
You have won this limited edition for you apex t-shirt.
The perfect outfit when you're walking out in front of an arena of 15,000 people
that absolutely hate you.
embodying the spirit of the fuck you a text moment. We have this lovely t-shirt for you and the whole team
What do you think about this iconic moment and gattest drag?
Man, this is absolutely amazing
Is this show the back? Yeah, the back is truly the best part just an iconic thing. Is that the energy you're trying to bring in here this weekend?
Yeah, of course. We just want to destroy just wanted to destroy just wanted to destroy destroy it on the wheel destroy it on this server
Montesy, hell of a game, hell of a wheel spin,
hell of a bounty banana, go enjoy that share with your teammates.
And we'll see you next time.
Here's the bounty banana.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Madness on the banana, a little new trip for Montesy,
and drip that he surely earned in the server.
Look at that.
I was panning it up.
He's given a gift on over.
I'm jealous here in the love.
I'm jealous out of love to win that T-shirt.
I don't know why.
I don't love to wear it right now.
It's one of the most iconic moments of last year to be completely honest.
I mean, when do you get a guy that's flipping off with a selfie video?
10,000 people?
That's how many people were in the Moody Center?
Ridiculous.
I mean, truly one of the most iconic moments, right?
We've got the chime in game.
Now we've got the shirt on monacy.
Well, more could you want?
Well, you could have won it.
Well, maybe a couple.
Yeah.
I could have done it.
That would have been nice.
That would have been nice.
All right.
Let's dive into it.
Let's dive into the breakdown here.
Again, just a tale of two teams where one team's flying.
Hi, Montices.
Shredding.
And the tale really is told by their operas, isn't it?
It kind of went as we expected to be completely honest.
I think Falcons were the favorite setting into us too.
Especially after the, I guess rather lackluster performance that came out from
Team Liquid on a new key.
It was tough to to envision a world where they would come back mentally after not getting it done on
newton. We saw glimpses he and does to that they perhaps could have made the game slightly
more competitive, but at that of the day, Mario, I don't know how your stomach is feeling
at the moment.
I've heard some rumors, but I was never leaned out.
I mean, I think the ADR difference, the fact that Ultimate has half of the ADR, it's not
always the best metric to measure how well and off is doing, but it was clearly a tale
of two snipers in this one. And I would say for at least the rest of the Falcons, though,
what they can be happy about, is that Nico totally showed up for Dust2 as well. I mean,
he was he was lights out in terms of closing the last round out in terms of just kind of
keeping them afloat through a lot of them. I mean it was basically pick your poison
is going to be Nico or monocity that destroys you this round liquid.
And it's kind of the part of the narrative that we were bringing in right is that even if
there's a stand in in many ways, the stand in just frees up falcons to lean on the super stars
even more to lean on their freedom to make the plays that they know they can't.
We saw Nico and monocity win a trophy with a stand in and Dallas. We know they can do this.
We know they have the class, the caliber of play.
And they just show it again here on Dust2.
What do you meant to do when
Monacy's hitting shots like he was all map-long?
There was that one straight through the mid-doors.
Ultimately tried to peek into him.
Got his hair cut, straight through the smoke.
It's just so razor sharp.
Falcons are just one of the best teams
to have any sort of adversity hit them.
I'm not saying that you'd wish any sort of ill-will
towards any of them or anything like that.
But it's just the fact that, yes, you can throw out
some of the playbook, you can let the stars shine a little bit more, you can let
Nico and Monacy get a little bit more aggressive with their fighting. I mean, the way
that they want to play the game is generally going to be the right way, even if there's
no system in place. I honestly think that when it comes to them, I don't know, I would
like your take on this pamphlet. It almost makes Falcon scary because they aren't just
relying on Kyosuke in the right position or on T-site to execute all these steps of a default.
If they go into put plays a little bit quicker as I've saw them do in this does too, then
I'm almost just worried because you're not going to be able to pick them apart through
every stage of the round.
You just have to take them head on immediately.
There's no doubt that having new clients instead of Cushuk is a weakness of the line
of weakness of the prospect.
But I think you're right in and saying that Falcons could be a team that is thriving a bit
better when there's no pressure when they can just release it.
You know, when and put down the showless, we even saw one monacy joined the first time around
that they were winning trophy, getting into Grandfiles.
One of the few teams that probably should have beaten my telly and they're golden, go
to run, you know, and that's when nobody expected anything because they didn't have any
time whatsoever to practice. And I think if anything, the external pressure coming from us
and coming from the fans, I don't really think they cared too much, but the internal pressure
of no guns. I think that's what's sometimes harming them a bit because in the beginning
when Manasi got in, there had no time to practice, he was freed up, he was playing some
beautiful canness, right? Nico was firing an all-cylinder. Tissus was playing some of the
best canness, right? That was in a period where they expected nothing because they didn't
really have any practice or any reasoning to expect to win tournaments, then they started to practice
and then everything went a little bit more, you know, rough on the edges.
So I think we're entering the same bike right now where Falcons doesn't really matter.
They can win, they can lose, they can brush it off, saying we don't have our coach here,
we don't have our player here and if they were to win them, maybe there's something to
be said about that.
And you also have some magic moments coming in from the rest of the cast as well, right?
I want to point to one in particular, this is the Tessus clutch on those two absolutely
ridiculous. This is the moment where you're thinking maybe liquid can get something going here
and not so much. It's nice to see Texas have a moment like this because people
weren't watching the rest of this event. I'm in the online group stage.
Texas was a standout player. I'm not, I don't think he ended it with the
technically highest rating at the end of that group stage. But in terms of
expectation versus performance, Texas was a monster. I mean, he was having so many
of these moments. Good spray transfers just switching between targets as
rapidly as he did. It felt like he was kind of refinding himself once
again in 2026. You could tell his aiming style was just so much snappier and cleaner, so we brought a
little bit of that here today. And I think you know, big picture stuff that's show important
for Tissis and so important for Falcons, because I feel like we know what we get from Madison.
We know we're get from Nico. We know that Q-Suke is a super star in the making as well.
One thing that didn't really work out was Tissis moving into his new position to where he's not
finding S-Mortz Impact as he used to, kind of has to redefine himself as a player. And if he's
off to a good start and he's had now the player break to figure out some of the minorities and
and some of the issues that he's had.
I feel like Tissis is probably the player that can elevate
his little, the most given what they have to work with.
And we saw what Falcons did, you know,
the last three months of last year,
they came in critical close winning tournaments.
One of the favorites in a lot of them,
and if Tissis is starting to play better,
then all of a sudden, what's talking about a team,
then maybe doesn't need another suit.
I thought there was something interesting
in that long form interview,
Niko did at the major of the last time.
He mentioned Tissis is the hardest working team
that he's ever had.
And I know that Tissis also came back earlier
from his vacations, but in some individual work,
ahead of their teamwork,
Well, he clearly understands that he is the player who could be the difference between Falcons being a championship roster and not
When you look at some of the other
Anchor stars that you have in CS right now
I mean you could point to people like Mezzy and Robbs for example on vitality instantly and just say look how much value
They got out of really tough positions
How much they performed above expectation and test this is entirely capable of that
I mean when he was on that heroic lineup
I always call them one of the most overqualified be anchors in the world on Mirage, even though it's just a spot that's supposed to be so sacrificial
He would so frequently get multi-frags and so finding his own form again on this falcon scene
Can definitely give be that extra little ex-factor that a team like vitality had in their support players in the last season
Yeah, and he won't let any motivation either right you're playing together with Nico you're playing together with Munnstein
You're playing together with Q-Sup, you know that if you're doing a good job and if you're doing your part not only are you safe with
would in the team and you're not really on the cutting block, which I think has been a conversation.
You know, I think you could find anchor players that right now in the current form is better than
Tessus, but maybe he can involve into becoming one of those players that, you know, other
teams would like to sign for the future in that exact role. The point being is, if you're playing
next to Nico, Monacy, Q, Sucan, you're part of the Falcons project, you have all the motivation
in the world because you know if that's going to click at some point, you're poised to win a hell
of a lot of trophies. I mean, if there are one last question before we move off of Falcons and
and think about liquid.
There is a logic to a lot of the conversation
for Falcons and integrating Kiske and getting him into the roster
was about giving him space,
is about Nico giving up roles, about giving opportunities over it.
When you have a player like Newtland,
you just like, bro, do whatever you're fine with,
comfortable, we're going to cover it up,
we're going to make it the fish.
Does that give more space for the other players
for the Nico for the Tessis to step up?
Well, it's more like they have to,
because when you're giving space to Kioske,
you can almost expect 20 kills per 24 rounds.
So on the dot consistently going to outfrag especially teams they're outside the top 10 Kiosk ages kind of bodies them
So nucleons it's not that I really think there's anything in the system for nucleons
It's gonna make those guys shine more. It's almost just by virtue of them having to like he's almost gonna die more
That's just gonna open up kills you could see on Nuke for example time for nucleons would he would get his killed and die
Well now there's the time for other people to step up
Well, let's dive into the other side of the conversation because we do have the exit in if you with flashy ready to go
We went into this and they tried to pick Falcons, some obvious reasons I would say, but still it wasn't enough for the team at its current stage right now.
When you're looking at it and looking at how at least we've new being a close one, what positives and negatives did you see throughout the series?
I think we made a lot of good plays and a lot of good rounds happened to be like in a team aspect.
I think we made a lot of individual mistakes that costed us the crusher runs on
you.
Conversely, it was a bit different matter.
I would say that there are things that started fall apart a little bit in some
runs, some frustrating runs to lose and we couldn't really pick it up after.
Although in TV we had a nice run, but unfortunately it didn't really read around well in
that forced stack on B.
Yeah.
And that basically costed us all the momentum that we had.
I was going to ask you that, with that run, what a five, seven, and you could grab the
Do you feel like had you taken that round?
That could have been a difference for me winning this map or not,
because it seemed like you kind of had them on the ropes.
Yeah, of course.
I think it was a huge difference maker.
That was a deal back around and the Fertional Dostate
we need to go back and look and make a solution for the future.
How we can analyze it better so we don't try to stack.
We have this solution usually, but I'm fortunate to see it.
It was missing now.
What happens in the voice cones?
What's happening in those moments for the team when you lose around like that
and you're going into the next round?
is there any alarm bells there?
No, like everyone knows that we need to reset
and obviously look forward,
so we are trying to reduce the frustration a little bit.
But yeah, I would say that even the next one,
like we were full effort there,
trying to win as best as we can.
So that's at least the good thing.
And I don't want to just
just warm-player in a team environment, right?
But obviously ultimate with the all-pum
what he can do is a player.
We've seen the highs of it,
but also we see a connox consistent lows at the moment.
What is it that can be done within Liquid System to enable him more?
Does he have the chances that he has a firm to do what he needs to do?
Is it just more on his own individual?
I wouldn't put it on him.
Let's just say that he just needs to find the more consistency.
I need to have him find that consistency.
We believe in him that he will find it and then he will start going.
I think once his confidence arises, it will be much easier for him.
And just looking at this event as a whole for you guys,
obviously very good in the online stage of things.
You were surviving even crazy games,
we got very close.
How do you view this start to the end?
I would say this was like kind of a warm-up tournament
like for most teams, we are trying to take this tournament
as the most we can learn from it.
We were happy to get to land and take
against a good team like Falcons,
so we have even more matter to work on now.
And now it's full focus on Craco.
Thank you very much, Plashupan.
Thank you, Sanch.
vote of confidence and ultimate from the coach warm-up turn of impraps. I don't think
liquids are team that can really afford to do warm-up turn. No, I want to be completely honest
because like we were that it kind of doesn't piss me off but it at least me with a
sour taste in my mouth. I don't think liquid either is in a position where they can treat
any tournament whatsoever as a warm-up tournament. They need to establish themselves as a team
that is even relevant talking about. They need to establish themselves as a team that if
they were to make a roster change, if they were to acquire nuclear,
A team that people actually wants to join for the qualities as a counter strike team, and I see that slipping more and more and more.
This tournament is not a disaster for Team Liquid, it's okay to lose for them, it's okay for them to be in the playoffs,
but treating anything as a warm-up for them, that's not what you're at right now.
You can talk about that when you're a stable team, but you're not.
They haven't even beaten a top 10 team with a leg.
So, I mean, at this point, you should be looking for any sort of victory that can instill confidence.
The best one that they've had was in stage two of the major.
They beat us all in a BO3, and they were ranked 11th in the world at the time.
So for liquid right now, they clearly are just so far away from being a top 10 team
that it almost feels like the pivot and one that I would stick to to wrap back.
Everybody loves a good book end is just that the O.C. conversation or just getting an American offer.
I mean, how do we stick to stuff with this O.C.?
I just need to have to have a look at this point at this point.
You just want, I think you just want free major stickers.
Like you just want, and that's the easiest way to do it.
And it is not to me a downgrade in terms of your offer.
That's fair.
Yeah, well, we'll leave the conversation alone
for just a moment.
We'll dive into maybe a little investment advice here
in NovaShot.io game, again, not real capital.
But you can go to NovaShot.io,
courtesy of Nova Wallet, and participate yourself.
Invest in the teams that you think are headed to the top.
Again, points.
Maybe sell on some teams that we've got some,
but they're likely to start with a thousand choke.
Oh, we now have written in my right.
Oh, wow, fancy.
And it's supposed to be your main menu.
Yeah.
But with some, with some, with some,
oh, yeah.
Hey, you real financial advice.
Malie, time to take a stab at him.
We got a big poll for you.
You got a thousand to work with here in the playoffs
as a tree set through.
This is everything that we earned.
The first week of play, who do you buy it?
I know it's not liquid.
Oh, OK.
I can't put a bit into provision.
You just a little bit of it.
Because you know, I'm down, I'll leave the fair to about that.
I got to do that.
I mean, you guys want to do that.
And I get out voter that's completely fine.
Where are they even?
They are so cheap, it's ridiculous.
Yeah, so by now, and they can go to the moon.
That's, I don't know, like what you're saying.
Come on, invest.
I don't know what they're saying.
I did, well, I did 25%, I don't know why.
That feels cracked.
That feels cracked.
That feels like you're doing it.
Can I do it in here?
A safer investment on the next one.
Okay.
What do you buy any five percent?
I would just probably go vitality, right?
Because I mean, fury and vitality right now, fury
is not what I want about the man.
Fury have cost a bit more than vitality,
so I'm just going to go with the cheaper option
I don't want to head you get why would I
just pick Terry look you know well we'll let you have a little bit of scratch to play with what are you investing in how much just the rest
That's the rest that's left. Oh that's everything we have for the week
It was only a thousand that I was given right now. That's all I saw right there
Yes, that's just keep buying all week long
We were what was that the one piece of my talent
I tell it he's gonna win. Okay. Can I say we're making a hat and I said on Amy here?
What can I say?
Shots, I'm having a segment with my staff.
Yeah, I mean, this is, look, risky.
He's not a financial advisor.
Oh, I don't know.
I'm just talking.
I'm running Bluff at top of me.
I'll talk about that.
Join us if you think we're fools, get on in Nova's shots.
My low sell high.
Dot I, courtesy of Nova Wallet, to make this happen.
This is how we learn.
This is how we put our money where our mouth is.
We're going to be right back after this with some more.
Kind of strike action here at the Blast Bounty.
Another underdog challenge, he's got a flashbang in his hand, but he sees that utility
start to trickle in falling keeps it clean, Furia, a playoff's feature.
Let's see, back of watch, they're all hanging on.
It's the one he's got. He doesn't know.
He has a right to come down.
Now, we're going to ask about the mentality for you and the team coming into
2026 because you had these great runs, you had the great trophies, but the
major wasn't living up to expectations what we expected from Europe.
So do you feel like you have something to prove this year to start things off
with here at the bounty?
I think we need to keep in doing what we were doing, like the last 4 or 5 months.
The major actually when we see a K&G individually, we play bad.
So it's hard to make sure that we have two or more players playing bad.
Before we were playing very well with everyone and we were playing like insanity good like for five
four months and we want some tournaments so we can see that we need to have everyone
playing well and all majorly didn't play maybe the pressure I don't know but I think this year
we need to keep into this you want to win as much as possible like all the tournaments as
It's possible and yeah, let's see.
Now looking at the goals for heroic outside of obviously this event and facing the fact that you do have a stand in.
Do you feel like we've christened as an IGL the changes you guys have made that we might see the best of our way come up again because on paper this looks really done good roles
You know how it's all working a young lineup as well.
Yeah, right now I think we had the better in pro,
I think we have a better lineup because we have now we younger age acting in our team so
and the young of the team.
I guess I'm not a little bit nervous, but I'm right now.
But in general, I think we have a better perspective of CCS and if we can like
in order to like the flow wing a bit more like using Nilo using me or maybe using
in the that like team play because like I think playing team play is good but I think
against elite teams that you need to show your quality you know you can play you can
win as a team only so I think if you can improve that I think we can be top 10 is this is
Isha Allah.
Awesome man Allah.
I like that is a good small if I start saying it last thing I have to ask about here is
Vito was for you guys.
It kind of looks like they just better in every way on the same apps that you would usually
do you want to play? What does that do to you and how you approach this game?
We played against them in Prex, you know, after a season. So, like when I check
or Prex, I think I'm very comfortable playing against them. I don't want to talk about
for my team name, but for me individually, I have a very good, very good plans for them.
Hopefully, hopefully it's works. Either we're going to write a story or we're going to
be history. So, let's see.
Uncloud, we call him. Good old, uncloud coming on in. All this player on the
The roster, that's kind of crazy to think about.
It's 23.
What does that make us?
Ancient.
Dost.
We're barely even here, I guess.
I mean, yeah.
No, I mean, I feel my knees creaking just saying that.
It's a wild perspective, but I feel like Unk really
starts at maybe 30 minimum.
It gets younger and younger at this point.
But no, seriously, this heroic roster, right?
A lot's too like with Trisen in the fold.
It's been impressive as well, working Unk's
back in there, playing without an offer, trying to make this all happen.
Honestly, we were trying to show up to see them get here for the playoffs.
Yeah, that was a big surprise.
There's no beating around the bush, then beating, pain gaming, the fashion they did it in,
and qualifying here for the playoffs was a bit of a surprise.
And I guess a big surprise in its essence, but I'm not really bored into who wrote just yet.
You know, I'm a little bit sad.
We don't get to see the full roster first and foremost.
I'm curious to how much Chris can do with this lineup.
And I'm also looking at the play and material.
they had to work with and comparing that with last season where they had some, you know,
had a guy like Tynia.
And I, you know, look at Tynia and I think to myself, he's a, he's a real prospect.
He's a guy that I think can go all the way.
Same could be set for an iron or as well.
But I feel like in terms of play and material,
your work can take a step down where some of these guys will have to overperform and over deliver
if they want to kind of replicate what he wrote in last year.
Well, I feel like that's why prison can do for them.
I feel like prison actually has been in the last season.
And he kind of showed that he could take an OG team that,
in my eyes, didn't really have a business winning some of the sort of online tournaments,
little lands that they did win.
And kind of be greater than the sum of their parts.
I was surprised.
I mean, for example, when they won over teams like passion you way,
teams like pair of vision and grand finals earlier,
that's a bit of a surprise to me because when I look just player for player,
I'd say what OG's last season they had like,
like Nika Dawes, I mean, that's feeding a James blood team on
pair of vision, it's feeding a, you know, a grim lead team on
passion, you way. I feel like prison has already proved
himself that he can make a roster like this be a little bit
better than what you may expect given face value.
Looking at a little bit, we saw the quote, and that was also
in a response to a question about heroic gaining a rep is kind of
a bit of a farm team. Time for farming is over. It's time to
harvest for a row, time to grow these crops into some
I don't know about that. No, no, no, no, no, no. All right,
I mean, there might be farm cycle.
Maybe pump the brakes a little bit.
It is not there. It's seasonal.
I don't think Heroic's gonna necessarily get it
become like a top 18 or anything like that.
It's still thing.
And until they actually start showing that they can win titles
or make playoffs more consistently,
they are a farm team.
I don't think I'm not even really ashamed to say that.
And yeah, they might have some up-and-coming prospective pieces,
but I feel like if you're looking at any of their guys
and you're a team that's one of the big dogs like a G2,
you're just gonna instantly coach that.
I mean, what do you think is this kind of happening
I was going to continue to play well as he has for the last couple of months.
Then obviously, G2 was going to come knocking at you.
Your face is going to come knocking at you.
Navi is soon going to need to play as well, most like this.
I feel like there's a lot of teams right now in contenting to be picking a part
some of these smaller teams.
And you know, don't get me wrong.
There's nothing wrong in being a farmer team.
There's nothing wrong in being the IX of kind of swag in that regard.
They're making a shit on a money selling clay.
I said, you're a roguer, and I'm just happy that you can continue doing that.
And if Kristen can help them sell Niler for maybe a couple of hundred grams more,
then initially thinking then why not guys we just finished with a nervous off that IO segment
But apparently we're right back into it. What what the hell? We'll talk about him. We'll stick with it on Nileau
Look this guy is showing some really impressive results his team is big up in him in a big way
Right, Tristan's talking about him. Toby's just talking about him. They're saying this is future top 20 player of the year material
Have you seen it? I would say that mechanically at times absolutely
I feel like the snappiness like target selection
how just quick he can be in terms of the two bursting of opponents even under just like
Nades flying around him every single time. It's extremely impressive. I feel like decision-making
is maybe an aspect that I'm not having seen quite as much yet, but what does this mic?
This is the comparison to Jim Fatt. This was Chris and talking about playing with Jim Fatt
over on the Mazen XT roster. Do we see it? That is incredibly apt because when
Jim Fatt first joined the mouse team, that's kind of what I saw in him. He was so quick, even in
really tough defensive situations. He's able to just get two kills that most
anchors would get zero or one in. That's what Nile has been doing for them.
Roll-wise, I think, I think the prison gets or not, prison. Nile gets a
couple better spots here and there. But for the most part, yeah, I think
it's actually a pretty decent person. Yeah, this is just one question
Magnetets to him. And he's a bit mysterious because we did see him
joining him, you know, being bought out of his former team and then he didn't play
an official game for, I think it was five or six months before he was
introduced into a line of right. So we don't know what was going on right there whether that was
something personal or whatever that may be, but in terms of juxtaping on the server, you know,
what he's delivering, as you're saying, when he's playing counterstrike, when he's actually part of
the team, I see him. I see him being a top 20 potential player and I see him being picked apart
by one of the better teams relatively soon. Well, the question is really can we demystify him and
what better way to do that than to talk to them. So we've got no children for an interview.
You know, you played a great opening two series for the blast bounce. You were the third
the highest rate to play on the online stage.
What do you say about your performance you got so far?
I mean, I'm proud of the performance.
And I feel like I'm less more comfortable
with its lineup and I really appreciate it.
So it's been a great, as well.
So it's nice with a new, the newest,
the new, the new guys, yeah, the new guys coming up.
Looking at that, when we're seeing you at bigger lands
in the past, obviously, who are having some ups and downs,
But do you feel like here is where you want to prove yourself
on a bigger event, but I've been running numbers again.
My off course, I feel like I was like playing with a stand in.
It's hard to always meet the goals in the same way
for the, the already, you know, line up.
So we just, they would all pressure
when meeting the number one ball right here right now.
So let's see how it goes.
I'm looking at that.
And though pressure is that a good thing for you guys is a whole collective because I saw the vibes on the boot cap looked really good.
They've almost smiling all the time even bad rounds and stuff.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to go in there, try to do our best.
In with the loose wheel you get in the 17 points from maybe or else.
So we are happy and all.
I love how you say you would agree with us.
Still a positive in this because of the virus, which is obviously very important for you guys.
And how is it for you with now Chris and Leading and having more time?
Do you feel like he's a leader who can help you
put yourself a better position and play the way that works for you?
Yeah, definitely.
I feel like sometimes if it are a fend bosset, this is his roommate.
So basically, like I don't have to say it, sometimes something else thinks what I'm thinking
or so it's really nice.
Mind Mel situation going on in there.
Look, her oxen, a great spot, even if they lose
and they win apparently, it's all gravy here
and prisons get inside the brain.
Of an eye-alow.
I gotta see more to understand exactly what that means.
I think it just means probably giving him a little bit
more freedom in the spots where he wants to take,
try to take some kind of advantage,
especially on the T-site.
I mean, Nile is playing a lot of those kind of lurky spots.
So if your IGL is in tune with what you want to do
as a lurker and not microing you too much,
that'll usually lead to good things.
Yeah, I like how he sees well informed in terms of the VIS as well.
You know, well aware that even if they lose,
they still gain some points and I think they jump from number 19 to number 15 in VIS,
which is, I guess, a good start for her word, but then you got to factor in the fact
that maybe you're changing out, you know, young star and you're putting in the
outcome and again. So that could mess up with that.
I think overall, that's the notion as well.
That's the vibe I'm getting from nine or they're coming in with no expectations,
whatsoever. No one is anticipating the day of supposed to be for
a, the favorite to win the major four weeks ago against the team that didn't qualify
for the major so come in play free see if you can take off a map and if anything just
gather your 17 points for BS and hey get your youngster is next job you know get
more a little bit more in the resume will uh tilt the scales talk about the other side of things
right now because you are right in expectations this is a little bit more of a mismatch perhaps
theory of looking very strong at the end of last season picking up trophies coming to that major
with strong momentum behind them wind beneath their wings top players on the server here there's
There's a lot to like about the Panthers in black.
And we would have had so much more to say.
We were so close to saying last year that they were the second best team of 2025.
But now you have to add all these caveats out there.
The second best team of the second half of 2025.
Doesn't really roll off the tongue all the same.
And that's because obviously they dropped the ball at the major, losing in the quarter
finals was well beneath expectation.
Still look at this, right?
Furia, they're going to be very happy with it.
Before 2024, they've been an organization since
in 2018.
Three trophies.
Yeah, it's year.
Four trophies.
Just this year.
Three back to back to back.
See, that's what happens in Counter Strike.
You know, Reese's, he buys all the fans.
All of a sudden, forgot, you know, there was a five six year
period where they got nothing out of case of rattle, nothing out of
Yuri.
They didn't really win anything and all of a sudden they'd find
himself in in prime position.
Picked up some trophies, went into the major way, one of the
favorites.
And they are a very relevant team in the sense that we still
talk about them as potentially being the best team in the
and even if they weren't, even if they're number two and number three and number four,
you've got down to being the fifth best team in the world.
I think that's still pretty decent for a team that was, you know, irrelevant for the
better part of five years. If anything, take liquid as an example, we just saw them.
They kind of are going through the same thing as Feria has been through,
little on the fact that liquid I know we're near being back as Feria right now.
So, we speak about them as a ferrid, we speak about them as a potential
telecontender, obviously, but if they're not willing to,
he's just the fact that they'd put themselves on the mark and fall and put himself on the
mark as an in-game leader that is leading a team that can win trophies in 2026. That's
pretty good.
And I mean you consider again just how recent the moves were, right? It came into that
second season having made the roster moves. They brought in Molledoy, a guy who we can
have a conversation about international, that's been done to death. We'll leave that alone.
It still bears repeating that Molledoy came out of nowhere. He was on nobody's radar.
He owned them in a scrim and they said, all right, we got to figure out how to make
This guy worked and they were so very correct for it because he has been a revelation in this
period team.
He's been absolutely incredible.
I mean, it's incredibly difficult to even poke a hole in his resume off of his rookie
year, the only one being that on major playoff stages, it's such a slim sample size of
games where he is not delivering to the highest level, but you take any other tournament
that Fury or winning are going deep at.
And you could say that this guy is an MVP caliber player.
He's completely reshaped the face of how Fury will run their defenses.
They allow him to just completely take over positions with the AWP.
They may fall in get off of the AWP so that they could let this guy thrive and they
have been payback in dividends.
He is absolutely carving it up and he's clearly slaughtered himself in the conversation
as the top four oper in the world.
See, that's the cool thing as well because we don't know the full potential of one of
the, you said it, Mike, he came in just what is it six months ago, seven months ago,
relatively new to the scene as well,
small sample size with the major.
That's fine, that's fair.
This could be growing.
You could be getting better and better and better.
Would you set the conversation well
that not monies on track or on part to contest against Donk,
Cyru, you know, to be the best player in the world?
We had a conversation and a lot of people believe right now
that Molodo is on the same level as monies.
They're kind of similar, you know,
they have the same output.
If that's the case then,
well, why we're not talking about Molodo
as potentially being a contender to be the best second,
third best player in the world.
That's kind of the step you can take up in 2016.
I think he made a great argument for himself.
And when we consider in this roster
that they continue to put their faith in him,
when they had four players within the top 25 last year,
they have a lot of player quality.
You talk about Kacerata, you talk about Yuriy,
you talk about, you can do these are very strong players.
And they all say Molotoy is the focal point.
Seed re-emphasize that in an interview with the Aegean TV
said, any time we can afford it,
we're putting the off in Molotoy's hands.
That is our priority is to set him up as the facility.
Yeah, I want to start with a bit of a hot take
right here to begin off the Yek.
And I want you opinion on his will,
because I do think to some degree,
and I'm not going to be probably
ever saying this, that you're here,
and you cannot kind out over perform.
When you look at how they're doing,
and how well they're doing in Furrier,
I don't want to take anything away from them,
but if you look at Yuri's past four years,
like he's playing some of the best kind of
so I can possibly play right now.
The same for you, Kinder,
had a very struggling some period came into Furrier,
and I feel like he's performing at a very high level.
Do I expect him to be performing as well in 2026?
Not really, I could see the drop 5, 10, 15% in output,
and I wouldn't fault them for that.
It's still be great, but do we really expect them
to be as good as they win 25?
Well, that's one of the big questions.
The revitalization in Yuri and Yekendar's forum
is something that I almost feel like fury of fans
are taking for granted.
That's exactly what I'm going to just continue indefinitely.
But one thing that you can say for certain is that there's
simply are no certainties for how long form can last,
especially with riflers.
I always find it's so fleeting that you can have
a great six months out of a guy,
and then he's never in a top 20 list ever again.
So for you're in Yekendart.
They definitely benefited from a great
furious system.
I think their T-size were especially good
under fallen calling and Sid.
They were always combining so many good tactics
together.
They had the best strategies and
finishes from practically every team.
That takes a lot of work.
That's a lot of effort to make sure
that you're always up to day on all of the
meta ways to finish off around.
But I'm not going to also say that there's no
chance of it happens because you're in Yekendart.
We're both top 20 players in the past too.
Yeah.
Even when you're actually got on to the top 20
before he overtook Kcerato in I think 2020. I mean, there's been years where he's just looked like the best player on
Furia. So I'm not ruling it out entirely that these guys can't keep up at least that top 30 level of form.
I think it's a good point. The call back the the fact that they've done it before in different
rosters and different systems. We are going to be diving into our matchups soon before we do
there's some housekeeping we gotta get into the veto but before we do that we've got an interview with
with you can do.
When it comes to the veto, it looks when you're playing heroic this week quite comfortable
before you, because almost every map they play, it's a really good map for you guys.
It's like give you extra confidence here.
Well, we really, like if you ask me, like we only consider a train being a little bit
on a downrise for us, but the train is not allowed, so like if you go on an HLT and look
at our map, and you see like every map is like 80% winner it, and then you're thinking,
Okay, what do we pick and whatever.
We're comfortable to play all the maps.
Maybe I know this is more of a fairground for everybody
because it's like a newer kind of like it's back in the pool
and we of course didn't have the same time to practice
and whatever.
But every other map we're comfortable to play.
Specifically against heroic,
we expect a little of these maps that came out
in the best of three.
Those are strong maps for them and strong maps for us.
And the plan is just to be better in these micro situations.
This is something we're focusing on.
and hopefully we're gonna show
InfoMens in that case.
Focusing on the micro focusing on the details we're diving right into our veto here.
Anubis out the gates early.
Case rattles going to be happy to see that one.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, obviously he was vocal about that.
One of the interviews, Fury going with their promo band of ancient.
Now, heroic in the earlier two series at the event with the stand in situation.
Have just gone from a rush.
So I would just bet that they go for that one.
Yeah, no big surprise in that and that is the strongest map we were possibly could have picked against Furrier like you can as way away
So they don't they can play all the maps and they don't really care which map that link because they have a high win weight on all of them
So I don't think you're gonna be pushed across the pit of we were being realized just too coming in for for Furrier
Also a stable in their in their map pool their West dropping a bit against foot
There was a very competitive very close game. Yeah, I'm curious to see if they can do slightly better
I yeah, I guess I'm a little bit surprised I suppose now that we get to the playoff the land portion that Furrier
don't go for the overpass, which I feel like would be the easiest way to exploit a stand-in.
Instead, we now get, well, we get new as the decider, but I think that does two performance
against foot, it draws a little bit of concern, but in general, I would say if you're
so favored in this series, that I'm not really too worried about it.
I think we can throw all those extras on online performance, getting your season started,
maybe a little bit of rust, all those things.
I'm not sure I'm too worried about it.
I don't know if you heard it come through on online microphones, but it seems like we've
I think that's some vamo's coming through from the audience.
Do we have some Brazilian fans here in Montenegro?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Well, famously well-traveled fan base.
There's a few sprinkled on there.
You know they're going to get loud.
You know they're going to bring the energy.
Speaking about the energy in here, we've kind of set it up earlier.
How do we think of this, stacks up?
Seeing the maps?
What do we think?
I have no doubt that for going to win this game,
it's going to be completely honest.
It's just, and what fashion is it going to happen?
Is it going to be a heroic that can put up a fight?
Is it going to be a nylon that is showing that?
Yes, he's great in online counter strike.
Can he do it on a lot of scale on a bigger stage?
Can he do it against a team like Furrier?
I want to see those small glimpses.
I don't expect he worked to win a map here,
but if they do, I'd be surprised.
To me, this is more or less an audition
for some of the individuals on heroic to see
if they could stack up against the roster like Furrier,
but I feel like the eventual outcome of this game
is going to be heroic collecting their 15 VR
response and getting this.
Seven out of here.
17.
Seven out.
Right, Maui, two guys who always get it, right?
our wonderful caskers, this is Corani and Latter's taking away.
Thank you gentlemen for your expertise.
Let's get this show on the road, shall we mohawk on Furia on land?
This is where we hope that they get their show rolling, because obviously what we saw online
left a lot to be desired if you're in the Furia cap to be honest.
There were surprises in the online portion, there was eye ballers who were also a surprise,
but foot were genuinely good, and that's something we also have to accept when we talk
about that match.
is what had happened online? No one knows, but look at the chance to play crackout actually, I think.
So we'll maybe get to see that. As for Furia, they nearly let it go, but Mollidoi brought it home.
I mean, that was one of the biggest sort of carries you could ask for in a game that would have been lost, otherwise, 100%.
So Mollidoi's impact was unbelievable. Online, that won't change, that's for sure.
And he, I've did some media with him and he gave for a lot of credits. They were surprisingly good,
and we got pushed a lot and I got to say like there was something that they had on overpass that was, you know, worth looking at. So now that we're here, I do think that there is a huge advantage now for fear and this game took place on online and heroic always took down pain on the way here.
They shown some impressive stuff, but another team with a standard versus the second best team of the second half of the year.
It's a mouthful, but it's still impressive.
Varia kicking it off on the defense here within Mirage.
Again, Matt Pick for heroic.
That they've tapped into throughout this event online, and to land.
Eyes on Nileau.
Utility, exact in middle. We've got an unsilance USP of Mollidoi.
Keep drawing those comparisons, folks.
Simple asque.
But he sits there anyways, and it's going to be heroic
to take up position inside of middle as well.
Just put that thorn on their side of a potential A problem.
I think that clock down to a minute 10.
We've got no more grenades here for heroic.
Kid on fallen for this one, sits on ticket booth.
And the first shots of the round are fired towards connector.
Then that walk out through the channel.
Let's get some all the way into the action.
But he leaves a locked B desired with that one.
Fallen doesn't get anything for his efforts either.
And so heroic take their sweet time with that hit.
But they just walk right into the free frags.
I mean, I really like it. If you actually look at the setup, it's not that great versus
palace specifically. So I think once they heard you can do shooting, even though it's a stack,
all those guys have great fights on everybody on the site. From CT is kind of hard to get that
under control. From the angle that you're firing from, from the Kinders perspective, you need support,
and each fighting connector, and obviously Sam, which would have been great, but they didn't get
tunnel vision. The guy in the back inside of Palace held it, so they had everything covered.
Oh, I've got a classy little pistol around we had.
You know what they expand.
Everything will be USB-C to USB-C and there will be no online games.
Okay, right.
You want to explain that one for the people that don't understand?
That was like that, sir.
Definitely not me.
I totally understand.
It's just in the future.
There will be no USB-A to USB-C.
It'll just be USB-C to USB-C.
Call the time.
You can you can never miss it'll always be that one. Oh, okay. I got both sides. I got you
I mean in fact one day everything will be wireless that's what I see we've got that conversation
I thought that's where you were going
It's the step before that and then right after that there'll be no more online games. Whoo
So world we can all look forward to
When bunny-homping and surfer fixed to
Yeah, pilot all change their changes are they're here. They're coming
I should be any changes in the momentum of the start here, pistols in hand, utility is for a few.
Leaning on a fallen, to keep eyes on this aceite, we're grenades trickle over top from heroic, but obviously not be all in.
Keep it up, nades for a second fall, eat it, eat it.
Who ex-flat finds timing on fallen though? Just try to find refuge on the other side about wall of smokes.
Maybe thinking there'll be more going down towards A when suddenly prison comes through those stair smokes and
What do you know? 5B3 made easy so attempt to the bomb plan. It's gonna go uncontested
Furious still showing that they're nearby, but eat that flashbang things continue to remain slowed down and
Constrable for Merrowing how to negate here on their pick
Look really well organized
Um, they have this game seriously, of course.
You know, it's like Adam minimum for them.
We get those VLS points, but it's a, a fury of that after their start to tournament.
You say maybe their wound did a little bit.
Maybe they're light a little bit slow.
We don't know how long that lasts.
Maybe we can capitalize on that.
And I think that's totally possible.
We can chalk it up to online player, whatever not.
But the numbers did paint a very Billy picture for fury of versus wood.
It's weird.
You had, you can do it, or excuse me, you can do it.
Mollidoi playing lights out as we've already discussed.
Beyond that case, Radoi was sitting at a 1.0-3 rating,
coming to this portion of the event,
everybody else sub 1 for Furia.
Yeah, to really just hammer-hound, home,
how hard Mollidoi went.
It was one of those scoreboards that, like,
you couldn't tell who won.
Yep, you know.
So kind of scoreboard, you look at it,
and you go, damn, they really wasted Mollidoi's carry.
Yeah.
The odds are that still would have wound up as a loss, but
Fury a held onto it. It's the first map for X-Flat and Youngstar against Fury up in their careers.
I wonder if they were excited or nervous.
Youngstar gets to off against Molladoy.
Now, shame he hates using the off.
Of course, didn't do it. As we mentioned, the standard situation bringing Youngstar back from the bench.
Good on him to do what he is asked to do.
He said it's fun not to experiment all the free him.
And again, the kind of a low pressure, nothing to lose type situation coming in.
Two bouncy, more chance at land experience.
But a highlight, flesh out the resume, perhaps.
He's pretty long.
Inside of window, going to try to take a ride down his underpass, but they see multiple bodies
The bodies with multiple guns, so it's an easy clean up as far as her are concerned and
Susp, catching Kacerado makes sure that these losses stay at a minimum.
Maybe, cruising gets caught, but he's going to be protected by his teammates and we go four
players strong for heroic as this 3-0 start begins.
That's for now.
Soaps.
That's how you know he's sweetish.
Sayy!
Good little lip pillow, but quick little pit stop before around for it.
And we're good to go.
All right, I've got him.
Maldives got an op.
Keep your eyes on him.
It's going to be hard.
Not to notice his impact.
if things continue on the online portion to the land.
And they should.
But Heroic are going to skip a beat with this one.
Straight in to the full-on cross in A site.
His throttle finds line-ups and still
won able to extend into the deeper part of this bomb site.
Youngstar is going to join up with Nilelob bombs.
Already made its way into V-fall.
They know that stairs in connector are going to have
to be contended with, but when?
His guitar out of clear this.
Oh, he's made noise.
He's not even thinking about it.
to play your city myth.
Explive Chumps on it.
Oh, Bertkill.
Very clean shooting here onto you, Kindar.
Uh-oh.
To nab all of the frags he could have.
And that's all made possible because Kacerot
who doesn't consider clearing top boxes.
It's hard to get one by him, but they did.
I don't know if they molly top boxes
and there was a gap they didn't clear,
but the fact that he wasn't even nervous about it
is very strange.
the
There's no charred earth sitting behind those boxes so it doesn't seem like it
I guess yeah, we we see him looking for the defense
As he could have peaked into a little connector up those bites
And actually held his cards close to his chest in a peek early
I think they felt a little press for time.
Well get a bit of it but in a tech timeouts will pause for Molladoa.
You can have all the time in the world.
Right.
Carrying to you go we're discussing that with the the tech timeouts for falcons earlier because they say God it's always monacy
It seems like it's monacy is it really the thing is
Monacy's got a problem. Let's fix it for this. Yeah, all of us definitely if it's the problem. It's real
I don't want to watch monacy on crushes. I want to see monacy on on rails. Yeah
Wanna see him on speed
That's what you meant, right? Yeah, go and quick. Yes sir. Full steam ahead.
Problems sorted. We jump back into this. Four zero heroic start. Got our interest again
because this is all building off of the struggles of fury versus food. Food.
So Jacob pinfinic he's been saying it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like a proper year as you name and food here
Okay, Toronto takes two of the top rope look at walk
It's got the target but the gun goes empty. How the X left get away was great for that long and that wide
That smoke span ends up costing case Toronto as he couldn't keep it as clean as they needed the ZMP 9 though
Point blank on the smokes gonna take a man advantage for Furia. This is crazy
Easy.
Their first fan advantage of the game.
And it is instantly taken back by young star pro.
Here, 27 health for two of the three remaining heroic players, but Xbox got in a way with
this corner.
You already played around through the apartments if you go to clear middle, that could've
bought heroic one.
And even scaring them back into mid.
Now, Xbox, fully ready for this exact moment.
Freigernade's going to just press on.
and of course Molodo is going to take this moment to come and clear out that chair spot he killed he killed the
moon is own native indeed kicks up into the latter room and doubles back towards window
Furious suddenly not sure where heroic are heading off to with that bomb in 40 seconds the best thing
they could do right now is clone Molodo away the second best thing they could do is just rotate quickly
play together.
Herolic with 30 seconds aren't a fine spot.
It looks like they're earlier than Fiori
are going to be ready for to come back to A.
They'll have the side of default
to plant on, they can get their nades out.
Don't start self-well matter,
and I think Maldives are going to wish you
really have this often this retake.
If it was like pressure falls on Susp as the player
with full HP, see if we'll
to talk back into the palace. You can see the concern here for
heroic because yes, they did leave middle, but there was the
rumblings of fury of players in that direction and they've
had enough time to flank heroic as well. They're not going to
look a clear this with the time left over. It's going to remain
on susites mine still holding flank even at this moment and
just letting young star try to confirm numbers as we get the
rumblings of this looking forward. Good catch on your
Kindar and that's going to send Mollidoi back away with his
op. It is five consecutive now for heroic. And this one coming
off of the back of catching Yorri pushing through the apartment spinning him into
a middle and making sure that it's 3v3 where you had a huge health and did this
advantage heroic still come up with the wind.
We talked about the gaps as well like X-Floody.
He got here way earlier in the round after Y swinging K-Surado at the beginning of
the rounds.
Basically just never laughed and Molozoid didn't clear him, they didn't think about him,
he ended up getting a Yorri kill.
There are pretty big gaps in awareness here for Furia that are a little alarming.
That is a calm team.
That's the difference.
Off shows presence in Beahall's and dips, prison tries to take up the mantle, but that
grenade. That grenade honestly had a young star's name on it.
Prison takes it and turned.
Just tries to throw a bit of a threat around that smoke.
Remains just you're retards B as we get this float from Kcerado out
middle yet again.
I like this from heroic. I mean, at default, where they can just try to be a
little annoying. They know that theory up. They're not going to just sit back
entire rounds when they're up against a team like a heroic.
Aye aye aye.
Maybe he was on purpose.
Your map pick, by the way.
But Molodoic gives a little slack back over.
Okay.
Set up the trap and explode goes down to the second shot instead.
Young start crossing over at that time and caught Molodoi off guard.
We've got the support of heroic and bottom middle.
Again, they will face a health disadvantage.
This time with an additional player on Furious Squad.
But they've scooped up the bomb and 40 seconds to figure this one out as well.
It's a lot of utility, a lot of thinking they got to do.
You kind of want to go to the pacifist route and around like this though.
You're like trying to get a kill lurking or something with the HP and the up and play.
It's going to be very difficult.
But also finding out what's open with a getting killed is also difficult.
Oh, God, God. He doesn't even look at you.
You can do that could have been your first kill.
You're falling over towards the ramps, it's still be fine.
We're going to start crossing over seven seconds for the Wampwant and press the button.
Come through and then left this spam connects, which it will cause he is so low.
So fury of find their first.
Ooh, that's after time.
But man, that was sketchy for a second.
Is that after time?
Is that low key expensive?
Looks like it was still just a second before the attack.
We're not allowed to have a bunch of extra money, which is also possible because it's a good start.
That's got $1,000 after.
All the do a brings it back and then.
It is after.
That is after.
Yeah.
Double off comes out for Furia.
They find their first round.
Again, another moment where Ferroa are going to show us that they're willing to fight even
when the odds are pretty heavily stacked up against them.
Plus their teams would have just got to tuck back into a safe maybe in that two versus
three no health.
We're really going to keep trying to secure a sixth in this half instead.
I'm so unfair to try to find consecutive round wins.
We're not here from all the way in connector.
The other one's going to pick up position towards B site.
Hold a deep line into the apartments.
Two ops can also make it easier.
Things aren't feeling right at first.
Things aren't jelly.
We're all actually a good map for it.
Especially when you got a part-time offer like Fallen.
Well, do I want a bad angle back, but see's nothing for it.
We get this trickle towards Fallen's direction at 45 seconds.
But he gives up his line just as they come around that quarter, squeeze up through the Catwalk plate as well.
And Fallen missing his chance to strike first up into the apartments. This is heroic.
very much on the brink of a bon sight shopping down into the waiting
hands of Cacerado fallen dies in the meantime.
You canner is on the scene and he's trying to get more than just the one but
it's man-advantaged heroic fought for with that exact late lurk by
prison through connector. As Puria are going to take a bit of a faster
pounce towards sight instead.
Crisis is not in position yet to really activate this flank in his
bon sights falling in the meantime. He's got to get it go for this and he's
It's going to crawl out through the murder wall.
If you're still not considering it, and even better for heroic is the bomb site holding
on its own.
You're ace-cracked in, and down he goes, to survive from heroic, a nice late squeeze,
and a squeeze is what that B site was under the entire time.
They try to keep it real simple once they got spotted coming up B apps.
They just continued for the exact in light.
You could chalk that up to fall and just missing a shot, or the two players that were there,
using one and dying, it's definitely messy, there's no multi-kill potential, you can
do under window as the overflow spot, there's just not that threatening at the moment.
And heroic, they keep it kind of simple, every other round's been great though, I think.
It's nothing bad about the way that they're playing, that's for sure, they're having fun
with it, they're playing good defaults, they're trading more effectively.
It's time to wake up.
Everybody from top to bottom can keep it in the back line.
Yeah.
And it was just enough kind of fainte cat presence.
We had a lot of the defenders attention turn towards catwalk.
Ready for that split that never really came through on the timing they were hoping for.
You know, you play replay that round again.
I think if you're a ticked-up position again,
because they had enough players
at a guy under Window that an up-and-site,
they still lost.
Oh, look, make a real go at this,
and on top of that, I can keep the pressure on thick.
Ah, you already doesn't win the battle, the SMGs.
The Mac10 tied up, then takes refuge behind Argin.
Nilello is gonna find the kills that you can't
are over top of him.
So this round is instantly done for.
If you're yet no way they're gonna go for this retake,
and it's a desperate save where heroic
are starting to rack up some money.
Or Furia are suddenly finding themselves trailing
by six rounds when dyspurity is show up.
Tell it, yeah, tell the heroic it's a landman,
try and out versus Furia.
Showing no fear from online to the studio.
It's great.
To be honest though, this is not one of those teams
where I would expect that change up to apply
much pressure. I agree. What we're talking about like let's say foot, you know, it's pretty
sad. No, like we have to mention it's that young star's hero as like a stand and otherwise it's
like an exciting team. I'm gonna team this going through there. Plan phases already.
the
slow-chise seemingly remember taking down pain top 8
the Austin major
as successful
that's a we were both impressed with pain's first best of three at this event so
Yeah, bro, like being able to defeat them caught me off guard at least and I paint will be watching this like
A warning to Brazil
And liquid will be watching this thinking damn maybe we should have picked Furia
I'm not sure liquid could beat anybody
But the way they played that last match. What about themselves?
Yeah, that's their champions of
of the app but also a double up inside a palace
trying to play both sides of the coin rate out of the intent
you walk through the smoke falls got you dead to rights could have nearly gotten that line up
but second player just off it
You know, it starts to move back towards spawn,
Chris and coming back to join him as well.
But curiously, this bomb still remains on young star,
sitting over towards B,
doing nothing with it, but waiting.
Again, nothing fancy.
They're trying to keep it easy.
The rotation will be your plenty of time.
Well, do I might just get a clean pick on right now?
Yeah, there's a little incentive for her
to do something else, like show something with X-Woud.
Three players coming in to be versus five on the maps, not that threatening.
They've just been coming up so good on the trades.
You're waiting for his chance, so...
Damn, down with nothing again, but you can't do our stay at a clean house, so you've got it.
Another round of the board for Furia, only their second in nine rounds played that is still
shocking we low as the favorites come into this, but I think unfortunately for Yuri, we've got to start to talk about it.
It's been multiple moments where he's had a chance of finding kills inside the site and goes down at the end
Yeah, I mean if you mean a few of them have missed missed missed
Shot miss opportunities definitely you can't just start at this game 0-5
five.
Try to go further walk out, Xbox gets away with it, just spamming smoke in the window while
you can't use out there meant to get the kill back, sure.
The case or auto maybe gets unlucky, maybe Xbox really just backed good at the moment,
tapped into it, even now off-Molidoy's top stare peek, and everything else for heroic
walking out middle at the moment.
Mollidoi clearly sensing that he could make something more happen
takes some damage, but we'll have a chance to remain apart
of holding back heroic mid-long.
And he goes too deep to open up the angle onto Catwalk.
We'll see a thing but sense is it.
And can hear him on cat, obviously.
and
all is an interesting spot he can really uses utility from here but he could use it later
they want to go get that
all planet he'll probably just take a timing peak
but he
he might be in a position where he has to let it go down it's going to be hard because he's got no one taking attention away from him
Oh, okay.
I mean, he already comes around that corner of the moment
they turn around.
They do cover their flank with the smoke grenade, though.
So Yuri loses his line.
Mollidoi adds himself to the cat retakes side of this.
And fall in like you said, has to kind of just let it go down.
Never even took any kind of a look at the bomb site.
Mollidoi.
There's no distraction, you know.
Oh.
Down it goes.
Yuri made easy inside of connector.
Man advantage established.
Ballons gonna hope to just come back and catch them off guard.
Like you said, no distractions.
but Mollidoi serves one up.
Fallen getting wings this,
catches a tool towards jungle,
but leaves a lot to be desired.
And now Mollidoi, one V-2 time,
is certainly against him.
And he's gonna just talk tail and try to save this off.
It is in eighth round,
with still the possibility of a 10 round half
for heroics T-side.
This is another game with shades of,
shades of foot where it's like,
my heroic in this match are definitely working them,
making them try harder and so on but you're just not hitting your normal metrics for any
or like targets for any of the players on Furia where it feels like even much of a challenge right now
they seem just sort of like a uh like a low energy team you know no ferocity no
and
a team still with one foot in the
Christmas break.
Some interesting conversation that
does cat discussing, you know,
the, uh, sometimes time limited
placement of a rifleer at the peak of
their career and you never know
if, you know, you don't want to
take it for granted that Nuryan
We're playing at the peak of 20-25.
You're him, bro.
That's my goal, bro.
I'm so cold.
I'm so cold.
Oh, it struck your toes off the road.
That's going on, huh?
Hey.
Wow.
All right.
That's what they do with boot camp.
That's why they're so excited.
That's what they do with boot camp.
Another piece of mist utility coming out of heroic, though.
Again.
We're part of about that one, though, Conor.
I've ever went on like this.
If you're a player, the case road has been consistent in his whole career.
Yeah.
Yeah. In this case, I'm just thinking more, you're a hero.
No, you're obviously playing, playing, keep up with a guy like Cacerado.
I also think the desk aren't just, not just defining that conversation by this one game,
but we've got a whole year of CS ahead of us and we do some foreshadowing, though.
We do, they put their paid for it.
And this is what we get.
So it actually kind of is like noticing.
Nice knee. Wow.
That one's an understatement.
Look at this.
That one's a perfection.
Molotov's going to get the angle of Catwalk taking away by Molodoy.
And you can't do our concern about jungle, but he lets his dark down towards window.
Oh, I thought Nile over to have that kill before this teammate died.
Instead, you can do our guess to rob her.
And I'll raise a right back.
3v2, 4 heroic.
And fallen.
Well, that grenade with well placed.
Holy flash, a susp comes out off the team play and puts Mollidoi into yet another seemingly unwinnable situation
9 to in the half and at this rate, I'm just gonna save a row of get double digits
Yeah, go for it at this point you're right for waiting for heroic the inferior rather to kind of make a move
Go in on around
do something clearly heroic at the ground running tonight not waste this opportunity
take a chunk out of furious confidence on mass one at the very least
I've been doing a good job of avoiding Mollido and late rounds as well, I've said that
I think he's been trying to move around and I haven't had to run into it much.
Just not in middle, and there really mid-borshins of the round.
If they try to weaponize them for the 12th, since behind bottom mid-smoke your day,
the case of the auto coming off of the catwalk, this will be a chance for Mollidoid to strike first
In underpass.
Again, timings go back and forth and a little bit of discomfort here could cost Mollidoia chance the 5v4.
and
don't some contacts like mid and round and stuff,
but not just all out.
A plays or anything.
Like they've been very default heavy,
which is that can be a tall task versus Fierrea.
If Fierrea kind of sat down,
I cannot really test that the waters.
Again, you get Kacerada just sitting into the corner.
Mollidoi will recover with that angle
and your key-guards position catches,
young star off-guard, the apps player,
two hyper-focused on the cathold to think about
your way back site and now fall in
a good-of-find timing here as well.
This is one of those ones where heroic kind of step into the trap,
seen in way that additional body added to the cathold in Yakindar catches at the very least
a third round of this furious CT side, but we cannot call this defense inspiring.
He's not warming up.
He's hunting.
It's just a fluke.
You can't drop 30 like that every match.
Won't possess God in heaven to make a player like Molledoy.
God did not make Molledoy.
I made him.
You trained him right?
I teach the skill everything.
Discipline positioning.
We need lineups.
Here's ignoring it all.
You're on to the series?
Come sit down now.
I've seen your flashbangs, did you fall in touch with nothing?
What you need is for the people's admins.
That's not game sense, bro.
That's madness.
Madness?
No.
Confidence.
He's not breaking.
I don't think he's playing since he walked here.
Look Daniel, the T's out there, they know your dangerous.
They're playing around you.
They don't want to end up in another high-tech group for you.
Is it done well to be in a higher level?
They're going to need one thing.
And what's that?
This kind of...
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-pock in the ration.
Little bit less patient,
but still, very good.
You can't coach that.
You can only survive it.
Stop trying to coach me.
It's started following my goals.
Huh?
Be careful.
Last time I said it, they made me an agio.
Is this how roster changes happen?
Not the most action pack CG side out of the likes of Furia, but they did have themselves
7 successful opening duels through that CG side and those 7 opening kills only
reverted to 3 round winds, wanders, how did you get it?
Only wind, 3 rounds on the CT side.
It's kind of a damning stat.
Yeah, that's extremely poor again, like they weren't needing their clothes.
They weren't getting their malties.
And sometimes you take a snapshot of their positions, they had enough players in the
site so they were trying to defend.
Right.
Those guys just didn't put it up.
Yeah, I mean, you really want the damming stat.
You can start had one multi kill around that whole half.
Mollotoy had three.
Fall in case of Rodo and Yuri old zero.
It's just knocked there for them.
I'm gonna do that slot out.
Probably more than all of the team combined.
We had three himself.
Young star.
Can you get help out by X-flop?
The spoff of Triple is going to fight a headshot to Yakindar, Maldoy's wall bang is going
to try to keep the hopes of the pistol alive, but not for very long.
Newlo comes through, catches him off ticket, and a 16 HP Kcerado 1v3.
That is what's asked of him.
Or else a roix, 10th round is 1 in the pistol, and then we'll go full speed ahead towards
the finish, but hang on because we've got to try to give him a chance actually.
I don't know.
I got this position in the back of the bomb site now.
Don't test the guy like this, actually.
Even though he's a long enough.
So are you.
He's already tied, cruising down to the 22 healthy sits on.
There's no one that's gonna try to build this for everything
that it's worth, but cruising still gets his duel.
It closes out and it's another round corner where
Mollidoi gets a multi and is the only one to get kills.
12 and 5 and exit.
So four are on map one and not enough tonight.
We're getting consistency, teamwork, and enthusiasm.
So, recipe for disaster has far as fury are concerned, in this flat start of Mirage.
hoping Molodo is desert eagle can kind of get this going that need placed to perfection
desert eagle of Molodo it we don't found a 29-L
I think we're gonna get out the window by the looks of things Molodo and we'll try his damsess
And he will be the last man standing in the face of four prisons pistol finishes and heroic two away from this win in what has felt like a 25-minute map so far
Yeah, it really has.
What's wild is earlier this very same event.
We were looking at Furia losing that blowout map.
And we said when his Furia ever lost so badly.
And it was one of their worst maps.
And now here, we could be staring at a 13-3 finish,
and so for the first time, and the second time,
we get these absolute blowouts from Furia
in the same week of Counter Strike.
Like this time's online, too.
And so that doesn't indicate something is wrong
out of the gate in 2026.
I
know maybe rather be a novice that just gets blown out of the water upset online chalk it up to that kind of a playing atmosphere you know people will remember this choke by fury a more than novice online loss
yeah I don't know it might be
I would even frame it. It's almost like, um, you know, it feels like an
apathetic performance more than necessarily a joke. Like I'm not even
seeing them give it their all. You know what I mean? It just feels like
they've shown up in a, they flown here, right? They, they've qualified to
get here. They've flown here. So obviously they're trying to figure it
out, but it doesn't, it certainly doesn't feel like they're in it.
The walk up into the cap leg, prisons missed this timing of falling, and Falun's
going to get away with the double kill.
Much needed, multi-frag rounds coming through from anybody other than Molladoy, but
Sussf is quick on to the scene that the B-site kills the bomb carrier in the middle of that,
and gets wind of Casterado already being back behind the van, great-nade from Casterado
to soften up the one.
finish what he started.
Oh, yeah.
Star.
Finds timing to dive the bomb and gets him off the plant.
Explode finds the kill to you, Kinder.
Both other players could first hear him.
All the time it was low health.
Case to Rod, it was never able to put that bomb down.
And it's pressure.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Go to the top.
That was so good.
I mean, even threatening to peek at first, getting the bomb off.
Having the trades come in, second player rotating, like the speed of which you're seeing
the decisions being made, that's what's missing from Vyria.
you're not getting that at all.
You're basically getting no pressure.
You can earn the interview said that we're
at a focus on our micro decisions for this match.
And I think that really shows that they need to.
I surprised in the first half, they
couldn't fall back more on their utility.
It gets a easy fight.
But there's obviously a litany of tanks that are falling far
right now.
I don't think you're going to get it that excited if they win around now.
There it is.
The bar is too high for the.
I don't think you're going to get stuck too.
Yeah.
You need to spoil the script, but I just don't think that you're going to win.
You need to spoil this script, but I just don't think that's gonna happen.
Full blown exec over the top here for a theory of trying to tap into the textbook.
And you can do it, it's got the trade back, at least.
Forte Sorado.
Jumping play from Yuri gets punished to mid-air.
And now, I'm gonna try to fight a second through that smoke's almost finished off.
The Molly, and I get spam.
A spam in through and take it off.
It's a late extinguish on the fire, so Molly will take the substantial amount of damage
Heroic have a chance in this two versus two with a health advantage to end in this game right now.
Oh, why? Through the top of the smoke, Molanoi says.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Triple cure for Nylon and a rock stall at start coming out of Heroic who will not waste this opportunity to strike burst in the Vest of three.
Furio, the rat has been hit land in 2026.
How about them apples, a road coming out with an absolute right hook across the jaw of
fury that is not what we expected to see here as a boys.
That was wild. That was unbelievable to be completely honest. I don't think anyone saw
he were winning against Furio, especially not in this fashion as well, but not only did
that win Mike, they dominated them from start to finish, who spoke about some of the
individuals who had Nileau, you had X-Flown, Kristen with some emaculate calling as well.
I feel like everything that could go right for her work in this game went right.
There was a breakout performance, there was a solid performance, and there was a performance
that should be held up out of regardless of how far you're conducted themselves because
we'll get to it.
They did not pay good counter strike, but it takes a good team to make for your look
bad.
That was extremely impressive, especially in terms of the calling.
I feel like the T side is exactly what Chris and I mean he's talked a big game before this
match in terms of being brought on to heroic to try to win to just be a more of a main
stay team in the tier one.
And wow, I mean he had them fooled in a couple of rounds.
I mean, yes, Fury got a couple of their players onto those bomb sites, but the crunch
is in particular, A site crunches, B site crunches every single time.
It felt like Fury were getting hit from two or three directions.
That's exactly what you want, right?
You want to make them uncomfortable.
You want to have them show that the online jitters maybe carry through, where you come
out quick.
You keep them off balance.
When you're on the T-side, that's just all gravy from there on on.
And it felt like every time, maybe if you were ready to get the feet over them, we had
an individual step up.
We had some pop-off rounds, we had some sauce plates, we have some, we have a whole lot of
meal of place, right?
Coming on through, it just makes it so uncomfortable for if you're ready to play.
I think that's part of my assessment of this game as well, that yes, there was set up
Well, it was good calling, but even in the two B2s like we just saw on the last round.
Whenever we had a clock, whenever it was down to the individual player, what in your
work to do a good decision or to show up or to win a dual or need beat, they outclass
for it and that we got.
So yeah, there was setup well, they were prepared well, good calling from Kristen, but
the individual decision making as well from guys like X-flout from Nileau as well.
So I feel like the setup was so good in some of the rounds that we could go back.
We can go into one of them and we got round four.
I think locked in here.
Yeah, and this is a great example of just the way that in some ways I'm actually disappointed by Furia
But some ways I'm also just really impressed and satisfied by heroic I mean they're going for this just quick
A hit out of spawn practically, but they got X-flowed into upper mid at the beginning of the round
And then the fact that he's able to just side swipe these players it's a combination of both set up and delivery from the individual
So everything was clicking for heroic in this game and the way that I'm also a little bit disappointed from Furia though
is that this is a play, the exact play that heroic ran twice versus pain in the very last match.
Like, exact same setup, start to finish.
And so my question that I'm already kind of raising for fury going to the season is that
you got destroyed in the quarter finals of the Major by a team that Anthester added you.
I wish you brought a little bit of Anthester adding here to day one of Landplay.
Yeah, I think that's an excellent point whether or not they were at Wavid,
whether or not they were caught on the spot, whether or not they placed one able to process
Whatever, Antiswet has been going on in the lead-up to this game,
it's always very tough from the outside to be like,
that's the issue of this guy didn't prepare well enough.
But when you end up losing in this fashion,
where you never even became competitive,
like you're the big dog, you're the favorite.
Regardless of this being your rules,
map pickers will use some post to dominate.
It's not like Furrier can play mirage.
We've seen them take down some of the best teams in the world on the map.
So, overall, it's just a very disappointing performance for Furrier.
Again, it's one map in a series.
It's one map in a best of three series.
We could be standing here in two hours for a remaining two to one and we wouldn't be breaking a sweat
And that we got but in isolation this was a a rather weak performance coming out from for it
And a very surprisingly well-played you were I feel like even in that storyline that you're building
We're still raising a little bit of a flag here of saying this this is just not the kind of math especially when you hold it up against what we're talking
It's food as well because they were like there were signs to be set right there
They probably could have and maybe even should have lost that game if if you go about the extremities
But if you struck a little bit early on and get it's a team like for you now lose a matter of your work
Would God this or what's gonna happen on the next two met like we're not seeing the same
Furrier that were dominating you know the last three months of last year
So they seem beatable at the moment and it feels like some of it's coming down to individual errors
I mean we have another round here that kind of shows that even though Fury are they're in a great position a great set of
It's just kind of dropping the ball or maybe just not really holding onto that space and round number seven
when we see that fall and he just kind of pulls out a smoke,
even though he's got an off holding the line,
ready to just kind of clip one side of this heroic split.
That's coming onto the bomb site.
There's a great opener here from heroic work.
They get all of this mid-control.
They keep fury in the dark, but fury of resorting to the double
offset of if you're falling, I need you to do this whole
this man.
I really, really do, but in setting pulls out the smoke
and that's unfortunately the worst timing possible.
Now heroic, they begin the split,
they have all of these great names.
And this is where I do give credit to her
of the spacing, spantastic.
The double jump out of window at the same time,
the fact that they molly bench and the market door
wall smoking window.
Like they got all of their nades out,
inseemingly like two seconds.
So that's a very impressive finisher coming out
for her oak, but it's one where that opening pick
just barely evaded fallen and to do what?
Throw a smoke towards B apartments.
It's not really gonna change the fate of a round
if you don't just, and rather you just hold the op on the line.
I also have bad news.
talked about it before the game right how long can a rifle peaks last, how long could the
form of Yuri you can do it last. That was Yuri's worst rated map in an official ever in
his career. That was a point three six rating I believe that is a really concerning
sign for Yuri. Wow sorry that didn't mean to jinx him in that way. I was just you know trying
to point out that I don't think he's necessarily going to be a player that is easily entering
into the top 20 players of the year,
so you could be set for your kingdom.
Again, it's easy to point out that they didn't play well.
It's easy to point out that when a 2v2 and a 3v3,
you'd cite which for your morph
and the nut in this game, nothing worked out for them.
In isolation, very poor performance,
but it's not gonna change my mind.
It's not gonna change what I think of for you.
It's not gonna change what I think is going to happen
on map number two and map number three.
All I'm saying is what we saw right even for you
was severely them underperforming.
He wrote playing properly the best possible
kind of strike they can and now giving themselves a chance of winning, but I'm not going
to make any rational conclusions right here because I don't think that's fair to neither
Furia or who broke for that matter.
Well, look at it a little bit in the future, but you know, crushing them up, that we've
gotten onto where we have this Mirage, we have this Dust 2 coming in.
These are maps where heroic are playing with the standin, they we've just seen it in the
Falcons game, Dust 2's not a bad map, the slot of standin into without a doubt.
I mean, it's one where youngster throughout this event, just in the online portion as an
just been okay.
That's a serviceable.
He didn't really jump off on any of the maps, but he wasn't really a liability either.
I don't think he's going to go toe to toe with Molotoy throughout any of this series,
but it's not necessarily about that.
It's just that these are, this is a well drilled heroic team that prison is clearly
just kind of bootstrapped, giving them a cool amount of set piece split plays that are hard
right now for Fierre to tackle with if they're not in the form that made them world
beaters last season.
It's an interesting note as well.
I don't know if we've touched on it yet,
but Chris and Antobas worked together previously
over on that mouse and XT project.
So you're kind of reassembling an existing IGL coach pairing
where you know that you have that chemistry.
You know you like to work together,
and that does allow maybe a little bit of a quicker upload
of getting some of this anti-getting some of this prep,
making things work on the fly
when you know you have that pre-existing relationship, right?
Yeah, I think that's a fair point to make.
And I can, I can all be to see now,
you know the imprint that Chris and have made
within the world.
The two rounds you showed us right here.
is two rounds where there's a layer to it. We saw X-flour, you know, being placed top
middle, getting a triple kill, you know, in the flank, so to speak in the after-plants
in error, that's a layer added towards the threat. We saw the B-side executors well,
we're quizzing himself, it's flanking from middle coming in through a, from behind-be,
and getting a double kill as well. So I feel like that's a very Danish way of playing
counter strike. Did you never have a threat where you just execute on towards the A-bomb side?
You put yourself in the 3v3 and then hope you're winning your duels and hope you're
winning your round. You always try and judge another layer and another layer and another
And if you had an underdog and it works out, well, you can see me need
Ponnie some of the better thing to do.
Well, one of those layers that was very, very nice in this map of play
is the man Neelo.
Let's look at some highlights.
Let's just talk about this new.
They're saying top 20 player, the year material.
He's showing it here on land against fury.
What's so impressive about Neelo is that even when you put him in those
tougher two on two, three on three situations, which is not necessarily
heroic game plan.
He's over delivering.
I think the last round of the entire game really
really capture that sort of feeling.
The fact that he's able to just nail the player sitting
default with a just kind of hair kind of shot,
where it just barely sees his forehead.
I mean, the precision on this guy,
it think it's an incredibly app comparison
to place him next to Yimpap because it's just
that he stretches the margins in these really tight sectors.
That he's just so snappy between targets.
He feels like on bomb sites like this guy
is just such a ridiculous weapon that if a rogue just
Get him onto that side. He could over-deliver.
He can steal around. All I'm saying is that he's going to be very, very, very expensive for someone to search his files.
And I think there's going to be a lot of teams looking towards Nilo right now, thinking we could use that prospect would in our roster.
Whether or not he can keep him, whether or not he's going to continue with this level that remains to be seen,
but I think it's fair to say that the hype is real when it comes to this guy.
And I think if you're Nilo, right?
And you're in this situation here in this team, you're deciding whether you want to look at other horizons or what?
fact that this team keeps putting their faith and you keep putting their confidence in you
your IGLs up in you. Your coach is up in you every chance that they get. They're building this
team to how to success with me, though. They're really putting their eggs in that basket.
You know, 10 year was here at one point. 10 years gone. That's the other star out. You're the guy
in this roster. You're the guy in this team. That's going to feel good. I mean, he's an incredibly
interesting prospect. I feel like the duo of him and Chris and already is a great point to start
from X allowed to me has been an underrated and probably slept on peace lightly in the Turkish
scene.
I mean, they benched him.
Yeah, there's no reason that it shouldn't be him instead of soul fly.
I would take X allowed in a heartbeat over soul fly rules with standing because they didn't
even care what soul flies are older.
They just they just took them on the team regardless.
That being said, also Alkaren on the team too, just kind of a hot prospect in the offing
department too.
I mean, I feel like in the spirit of Academy sort of conversation, it's been, he's already
showing some pretty decent signs like he could be pretty easily one of the
operas that also we look towards for who could possibly upgrade with an
op-up upgrade but today they are a great trio to work around I think
Alkaren, Nilo and prison that's you have some good bones to work with
there some seriously good bones for the future but right now it's about
they here and now and so we are going to take our break here and now to
get towards does too when we come back
I'm not going to be ready for no war for a different set of stuff in front of you.
Now that he's like I said in the on the stage, they have a very good coaching staff that have really good players
They have nothing to lose, which is very dangerous in no way like he's had they're gonna play like hundred dollars and they know they they're coming here just to do the best they can
Nothing to lose, but absolutely everything to win here. We already got the standard said even if they lose it's plus 17 on the VRS
Why not just keep rolling on through what a handle of a Mirage now we going to dust to Maui
what should we be expecting? Well, I feel like this is where Furia or should I say
Molotoy evens up the series. I mean watching them play against Futo in the online
portion of this pin gives me a lot of worry because yeah, I would make the easy case
here that it wasn't really Furia that one does two versus foot. It was Molotoy.
He took matters into his own hands. This guy was pushing top mid with an op on CT side
just to desperately find and will his team into a five on four situation and I'm gonna need
more of it because if the rest of Furia is going to come out as lackluster as they did on
Mirage and let themselves just get run over in terms of all the map control going the way of
heroic then you need to be a guy to be an X-factor or be a difference maker and there's no better
guy than Molodo. No one we even saw them Mirage like he was the only guy I actually stepped
up. You are still only guy trying at times in order to keep for your life in that game or maybe
kickstap them to remain competitive or get competitive. So like we would you our all-eye son on
on more of that when it comes to Dust2.
On the other hand, for her role,
as you said, as well, it's relatively easy
to integrate a new player or a stand-in,
they're said on a map like Dust2.
And I know we praise youngster as a stand-in, right?
But he is a player that's been playing with this team
for a long, long time.
He knows the system in and out.
He's well aware of how the players are reacting,
how they're communicating.
He's playing a different role with the AWS people.
He's not going to be uncomfortable in the communication
and in the calls and in understanding.
So I think there's a slight difference in terms of quantifying him as a stand-in
compared to what we just saw with without concern.
He's a stand-in light, that's fair.
But two guys who are absolute heavyweight, scrawny and launders, take it away.
Thanks Mike.
Thanks Mike.
Appreciate you brother.
Shall we respect brother?
Two does two, eight.
Three.
Triple H.
You big WWE guy?
All co-good brother.
Can't see this.
Don't see no brother and unfortunately for Furio, we did actually see it.
We saw the way Mirage went down.
Launders, we couldn't look away like a train wreck.
Parallel like absolutely own them and now we're going to take it over to dust too.
Where again, I think the desk put it at last time we saw Furio here.
It was all Mollidoy all day in the absence of his teammates.
It isn't so simple.
That the desk is like, yeah, okay, well Mollidoy is going to win this.
Yeah, it's still be enough.
Who, who, who, what other team you say this with right now?
It's just him right now.
So, and that's just, that doesn't, that doesn't make Fury a lot good, and there are much better than that.
Like, you know, like, it's not like any kind of situation where that would make sense, or that.
We know it. We know it. That would be the most expected result. Let's not make that a big, okay?
Let's give Mollido a team here.
And let's give Malta a show.
Wake up, Fury.
T-side pounds into the V-bomb site, not going to waste the moment.
Door smoke and the verretters, two pairs.
Attack in this flank, pretty damn instantly, bombs going to be able to cross over to
the sites.
It will be planted, uncontested.
We go two players for heroic inside of the tunnels and another double, over towards
mid.
The verretters smoke, though, comes out from fury.
That one goes to the deep through the doorway, verretters go down instantly.
I've fallen finds the headshot onto X-floud,
and so you've cut through half of the retake already,
but the pinch still comes from both sides in a moment.
Highly unlikely, two versus four.
I know it's not even taking a look at this one anymore,
and so they found their exit path out through middle.
Curia, we'll win the pistol.
They're awake now.
But it could still very well be too late.
It could be.
It's again another match where we look at the underdog and heroic him go.
There was a lot of great things to say.
What's the top of the list of things to say?
I think the reason you can say about them, I would say the most impressive part was that they ran like
like 60 fault in that 1 half versus Furia where when you think about if you're going to play
the best teams in the world that might be the round the type of round your most worry
to try because you have to keep up on solely enemy individual fronts and stay coordinated.
Wow, bro it could be on a pistol run streak.
First loss this event.
at least of their CT sides
all the way tag down
block here on the smoke
couple players already on the side of that
it's not so
how did he survive there
because i'm gonna find that out the hard way drop down to 18 health
bunch of bodies stacked up inside of this AD fence here for heroic you can do
it's got a flank going though
They're all up on these railings however nobody has pulled back. You can do our mid play even if he had come through the mid doors
There'd be nobody to hold this back
Now they're starting to get worried actually. It's not gonna see anyone right now. Oh my gosh
Finally get us one pull it in out of prison. Who's then just gonna quickly climb right back up into the cover
You've got fallen dead, which means bomb down over towards car 5 feet too inculstable
Dead after the one so that scout finds the second time and a heroic
Force by takes that momentum right back.
Well that is um...
I'll say great.
The way they all held this great, they had only a few bits of utility.
But they made it feel like a bit more.
They also blocked body block that first smoke and got a lot of value.
Another moment where you just see like you see from Chris's POV.
He peeks long in two players.
They're not even flying.
They're both shooting at him.
He gets off a few five seven shots
and just gets away. How's that happening?
You know, that's like mechanical sloppiness has nothing to do with your code.
It's nothing new through analyst, nothing new through preparation.
That's like, to do even DM before this game?
You know?
Yep.
Have you been doing your individual practice to get ready for this game?
Uh, that apex interview that just came out on HLTV was great.
Not just for the quote, so much insight.
Very explicit, and you've talked about rops.
And now like, Rob's when he comes and he says I'm having a bad term, but whatever,
A tax always tries to admit, remind him that he's a great player, that the good game
will come back.
But he said, first, everyone's got something a little different.
And for Rob, he needs, he needs individual time to prep more than other people do.
He needs his own time to prep.
And you've got to figure out what you need and then give yourself that.
Suspere, now would have loved the multi-kill to try to stop this big cross into
But he's only gonna find the one before a year he deals with him
And that's a rightful
I playing with the scout right go we'll do fine
Now you've established a man advantage, but a very well-placed grenade makes Mollidoys job of getting into this
Oh, oh, oh, yeah, and for Nate's gonna finish this off now the retake officially underway
You still got that flash right oh and
And X5 catches the headshot case, Toronto Tracks, and he's going to win out the 1v2 pressure on
Buria, but really more pressure on heroic as they're forced by momentum robbed right back, and it's
case of Toronto to post a clutch, and for a player who had so few multi-frags for a team that
had so few multi-frags, barring Molladoy, this is a better sign of the Buria early on.
Yeah, totally.
This is a good round to grab.
Obviously, getting into the post plan with the Moldoid Eagle
and Felic there was no chance of pulling that off
and Karak were pretty crafty to get those two nades in place
and you how Moldoid is gonna hold it
and nearly get himself a chance for a feary take
which is always difficult.
Now, line up there for the doorway.
X-flop thought he was gonna get more out of that one
but instead, you can darn mine health
and X-flop dead.
Young star robs the gun off the corpse,
tucked that back into long cross.
We're going to get the middle here for Mollidoi,
netting him a multi-frag early on dust, too.
Just catching wind of heroic who felt the pressure
to make something happen here with the lesser guns.
It's an M4 upgrade for sus peer towards Xbox.
And if you look in for that, if you could have killed Mollidoi,
it gets the quad versus what Vittal was left of heroic.
And so, Fury, up, I think, just a speed bump
in terms of losing the second round of this half.
They get all that momentum secured,
And now they're going to be going up against pistols in the fifth round.
This T-Side's got the makings of a strong start.
Yeah, it's almost nice that they don't have a perfect start.
They're kind of a huge disaster that all those last nap ends.
They still bounce back this way, or themselves a five USP safe.
No kits, no half armor, no utility here for heroic, nothing.
still should not a chunk
yet you still got a clock in for an honest day's work
try to charge out case or auto USP's never meant to get a kill but you're
able to pick them to the ones
That's fine by Furious standards for move forward in the 4-1 lead.
The fact is, uh, if you're down a map, so be heroic with a little bit less pressure.
I'll figure a play catch up.
It didn't cost him in the foot game, but it could have definitely.
I think that's nice about the bounty, it's basically virtually everyone who's like got the chance to play that we didn't expect has been impressive.
whether that's because they put in the extra preparation on the player break whether that's because they are more comfortable in the online realm at the start of this event
I think it's just it's like proof if you want to qualify or in the in tier two or whatever if you know you get the VRS points to get to it invite level just outside of that sort of like only tier one teams
it shows that
that's not easy
Defense has been hard on this triple B stacks since the very beginning of this round.
It's gonna leave X-floud with that much more responsibility and while he did a good job of hanging on to his grenades, they're not gonna respect the fury of already into the execute of their own.
Suskills, you already though.
Ooh, and X-floud's gonna find a one before the maid hunts him down.
Four versus three established, prison playing with the kit, and a relatively fast rotate coming out of that triple B stack means
Many bodies inside of the CT spawn.
No one's retaking from cat so they don't need to necessarily have one but no one's going to catch this when they start to push back.
Falling into the dank and dealt with such a huge case of roto cat managing.
No matter what they do, the back first.
Way too easy.
Three players up from CT spawn, prison towards long never even called on.
And heroic, I was thinking numbers so light inside of that ace site.
Ah, they're not going to be able to hold back enough to justify the retake.
What do I know?
It's strong out of X-floud from the ramp.
Chris and Wins, his fight solo towards Long, and it is indeed enough.
Shoot me, Suspine Middle, catching wind of the CT push.
Still enough to work with, heroic will find a second.
And I actually like seeing Yoastar just using a rifle, which is...
I don't even think he often rush, like at all.
I mean, yeah, not a primary opera, right, brought in to do it for heroic...
Yeah, he's out of the way.
You know what?
I'm all the way.
She's been always get those two confused.
That's a fairness up.
And there's the op.
Just a rifle clip for the road.
And then right back to his responsibility.
Molladoy, though, first bloodful.
And sus, pop it an instant.
Very ferocious looking fury ahead into the B bomb site.
into the B bomb site utilities all where it needs to be no real damage done by the original defender
and that's going to tie up the hands of a roler who are now forced back to the save.
Yeah, you're not going to think about this at all.
Be anger in your offer, die.
At the same time in the kill feed, that's the roundover, most of.
Most of this map really comes down to like, yeah, like set B players are so viable.
As you're being good doing.
All ready just the more reliable winning formula for the friria of the fact that the
Tsarotto is on the score board.
Alongside-Molly Boy in contrast back to where Mirage again he had zero multi-frags and
Coming into that second half
Wow, what a nice brand
It's a little too easy for Mollidoi
Furio won't be complaining I
Asked I asked Mollidoi about the walk peeking. I said I'm in the online portion. I felt like a lot of offers were getting walk peeks
Do you think it was that? And he's like, oh, that never happened to me. I was like, oh, okay
He's like, yeah, that'd be kind of embarrassing.
Oh, yeah, it's a kind of stuff I thought, actually, that he would say.
So what's something that you would want to fix in your game?
And he said I repeat a lot.
And I said, the day you stop re-picking is the day it all goes wrong.
Keep repeating my friend. Good. Yeah, problem up. That's what we want to go for.
I mean, it was never, it felt like it was never going to be cool again. People just got to
literally peaking after like 2015, but it's back.
That classic like a racing clip quote as well, right? Like the day you don't go for a gap is the day
you're no longer a race car driver.
Exactly.
That's, you'll lose that perfect.
You lose that sight and, uh, you're just another chomp.
you're just another Sunday driver and you're just driving a work
well everything turns gray don't raise a car today folks
you heard it here for it
for it
Uh, a couple flashbacks go back and forth, looks like heroic, tried to throw one extra.
But you didn't catch ball then with it and fallen.
Of the lightning couple ahead shots comes through on cowwalk, that's going to serve as
the trigger for furious commitment you are already extending into elbow, that's normal
not be stopped.
It feels like they know heroic had a lot invested in making that cat hold happen.
CT's hunting down first blood instead loose two heads and furious sixth on this T-side made easy.
Not so easy though, good shot from Sus. That's a nice long range.
I know what the bombs actually not planted in the bomb just got dropped in the smoke because it was actually on the case.
Oh, a sus can't win this round off those two five-seven.
The thing in that, Christen is also here with an M4 just blow up.
Just drop, caught them jumping into CT spawn and hasn't got seen by the operator yet.
That operator that stuck up to you knows.
So jump up on a cat knowing there's only one player there.
It doesn't know about the flight.
And Suski is working around the T's smoke.
Oh, it's a back turn from prison.
Easy pick up from all the way.
I'm not kidding.
sketchy for a moment there, but the 4V2 still turns into Furious 6th round win.
All good for Furia.
That was nice though we're on the edge of our seats for a second.
Yeah.
Uh, you need to say if you watch that first map, you'll know it wasn't too close.
Three wipes. Three windshield wipes is crazy.
Throw into the economy back online.
You know, I'm starting to take a more passive mid-angle. That's what the scarier things is a CT offer on Dust2.
You start getting out dual.
Start kind of giving over a little more ground and within that ground.
Clearly as you see, Fury up will take up positioning.
Oh yeah.
As fun as it is, the Off-On Dust2.
It's not fun when there's like such a big off difference.
Yeah, that guy's something you do.
And your team needs you.
Like not a lot of maps you're off.
You're going to go ahead and head to Dust2.
It'll happen. It'll happen very often.
So.
Oh, he's trying to avoid it, but I'm all the way, and all the way is also like he's
a head-on there.
He comes for other operators specifically, it feels like the last year I don't have the numbers
for it, but it felt like more than anyone else.
It's how you make sure you have the best mob stats simply kill all the other operators.
Actually I disagree, I think that's the riskiest thing you could do for your mob stats.
It definitely feels and he still just did it somehow.
Yeah.
guaranteed. Right. He's the race car driver man. Sally puts that cap between him and the
others. Oh, that one's going to get predicted. X-flowed far too ready for casear autos
antics. Nile backs up, but Molotoy moves forward through the mid doors. And that's as you
can do our catches and other kill over here towards the A site. So three versus three slight
health edge here for durians on never mind young start turns back in clips
time to worry bomb trying to cross it seven falling just enough time on that clock
just enough if you didn't get that headshot a second sooner than all of a sudden
this one's already done but here we go prison grabbing a rifle instead of
all at the forge net young star got a little shake it up with that peak and
wonders I just right shot from fall and I just got to take back the boot of
Yeah, the fall in 1v3 right the perfect amount of time fallen walks out through those tunnels gets the trade on doors and wins
Furious 7 get back in the server right now
That's one of the best Connor gets for sure
You can pause right he paused. You need even a full rookie paused and could only pause for that exact amount of time.
I can't really fill out a box for that day.
Give him a round of applause, would you?
Well, you might retire this year to hear about that.
Say that, stop saying it.
Check out check on HLTV.
Every time we say it, it feels a little more real.
the
Well at least with a guy like fall and I do believe that when he does retire as a player it's not like we're gonna stop seeing him
Yeah, that would be wild. He's not gonna be no reason to yeah
Like let's not get drastic right? No, he's gotta be no, how's he's gonna be doing everything I'm sure about it?
Might take our jobs
Okay, no, it's tanked on the peak.
He doesn't give a damn.
Just confirms these are life-wise coming out of heroics and pistols.
Set to Kevlar.
And you've already got yourself up through the mid-split.
So let's left of heroic is nowhere to be found.
And instead, you get yourself an eighth on the attack.
So we want a fury of playing land in 2026.
Feels like it has officially begun.
They've finally logged on.
It always makes games like this really confusing cast because there's so much conjecture about who's actually playing well, what's actually happening.
How much of its map if we play Barrage now, what would happen now?
You know, it's hard to say.
Yep.
But that's furious, Faults.
and
I did while I was outside before this game started software playing just they're playing football
they're passing the football back in the middle of the picks get back in the
photo they were kicking the football back in for it and the all got away from the circle and so
ran after the ball, chased it and as he chased it, I could see it coming from a mile away,
you know, he's maybe 30 feet, 40 feet away from the circle, he turns around and he just kicks
that ball. Okay. And he kicks that ball, thinking everybody was watching the ball.
Right. Lunders, nobody was watching the ball. Especially Kacerado.
Okay. And as that ball flew through the air, I saw the fright on it.
Mollidoi's face and he realized that ball was going to hit Kacerado right in the back of the head.
Ooh, and low and behold, that football nailed Kacerado in the back of the head.
Ooh, really.
Yeah, hit him with it.
Wow.
And I thought to myself, you know what?
If Kacerado has a bad map one, I know why.
But it feels like he's shicking off the trauma.
CTE.
Little temporary brain damage.
That's not temporary.
Yoh!
It seems to have been because Kacerado's playing much better here on map two.
Well, I start watching you by mallet.
You never seen the guy got hit in the head with a baseball,
and then you remember the weather every day since that happened.
That could be case of roto now.
Ooh, get out of there!
You're already lucky to be alive!
Oh, what? Tag twice?
I swear I just saw Nile get hit twice.
Off once, Dragon Armor, Plot Armor.
Could have been a bullet whizzing by and not the obshot, but...
Lucky to still be standing, although how lucky six health the word would have.
Obviously, he really tried to go back into another one of these early cat setups to go for that pressure.
Try to keep Fury at day.
They're relegated to their bomb sites, yet again.
Suspires it, it's got to go big.
Get on him dodging the flashes, tries to play the cover of the car and
Kisaroto keeps the clear clean
Fallen's gonna fly a little bit of time here floating out in middle waiting for this flank
Yeah, I could call to tuck into the tunnels as well now in that barrels pocket run comes through
He's not gonna be spotted and he's gonna hear the rumblings of prison if he makes it faster, but looks like heroic
I're actually gonna pull the plug on this. Yeah, I mean take the B-Sie. Oh, there a little late to it with the long flank and
and it's scary with the HB.
I think that's gotta be the ultimate factor here.
So, wow, round 11 saved.
Fair to say, we're not seeing the same fury
that we did back on map one
and we had some criticism in terms of just like,
then kind of being a little docile,
not making rounds happen.
That sounds a great word for that.
Right?
Yeah, I think that's a good way to sum it up.
Just to utilize the average fury around.
And now we kind of see the on the ball.
Especially, Kacerato.
Some of the every committee of us,
not the same guy at death.
Get him twice.
Watch the HP 16 to 6.
Two options.
No woodbackers,
wrap their tongues around their brains to make sure that their brains don't shake when they're back.
I taught you that last week.
I'm going to do a 10 kills, part of what the off.
He's top fragging the server.
Wait, an obberking it mostly with the off kills.
It's sanity.
And the 200 pressure is going to have to start getting more desperate.
So that's why heroic or maybe extending the yon cat.
We've seen them try to fight xbox a few times.
This time it's taught middle control.
They get to x5 first blood.
And unlike a lot of the other rounds, it's an all-in-furial long play.
So, we're gonna finish this half with a different flavor by the looks of things.
Very different.
Yeah, you're going for entries.
Oops, and two missed, this is a rough round here for Furia.
Yeah, a department, little awkward for sure.
Counter-util is a little slim that maybe a smoke would make a huge difference here for a roadway.
Well, the ball is nice.
Yeah, the tour's ramp, yeah, that burns.
Furia is just going to kind of force him into the flashbang, awkward for Furia.
Chris and Fully blind gets popped by the offer in the back drop,
and Fully is looking for his.
Give him the Kinder combined with the Killer Heats,
and that's going to be the 10th for Furia double digits on a T-side
that looks like an entirely different team than that which played back on Mirage.
Doug Skar, welcome to the last interview Benanza.
We'd like to be bold here at the Black Bounty take risks, like a risk of you coming here.
So in front of us we've got three pots, green, yellow and black, easy medium hard.
You get to pick the questions. What would you like to start with?
I mean, let's go from easy to hard.
Oh, wait, I should probably take it out.
How different does your game plan get when it's duer guy?
No, two different.
Like for example, if you lost a shit-ground and the score is close,
but you know, like what you're doing is working, you know?
You just keep going.
If it doesn't work, like your game,
but it's off the venues need to adapt.
Can I pick the next one?
Of course, let's go, I see.
What's a bad habit in your own game?
That top team will try to abuse.
You gotta show yourself my foot here.
I don't know, this is too smart to say, but I would say, like, the confidence thing, either I pop off a lip or then I'm like, kind of mid, when I have a good game, then I instinct it like sharper, I'm more confident to do stuff, you know, but for example, maybe we're gonna have a slow game, slow start, then I'm like thinking, okay, now I don't want to fuck up from my team, so maybe I do like the more tech-spoke, correct thing, I'm gonna go for part again. Yeah, let's go.
This tournament goes wrong.
What do you think people will blame you for?
I think.
I have to offer the same thing.
Everybody needs to start.
Yeah, I've started and I'm fake off for the first time.
Yeah.
We had like a week of practice.
So I don't think people expect too much.
This week you tweeted, looking for team.
What team would you like?
Any team I would want to play?
I always said I wanted to play with Bronham,
because I felt a little face away.
Oh, okay.
But like, I don't think I'm ready for like the top top, you know?
But let's hear that.
But it would be fun to play with Roland, isn't it?
Medium?
Yeah, let's go for a bit of a strategy.
Who's in their villain arc going into the final lead?
I was at Dulk.
Oh, yeah, really.
I saw like the spirit thing, like with the stats.
And Dulk had like 26 out of 28 number one.
Yeah, I think there's something like that.
I saw some people said it was like because of a team success and stuff, you know?
So maybe don't know enough proof.
There's really number one on what we do next.
Let's do a special one.
Yeah, I've always liked one.
Let's turn up the school wheels.
What's your weakest man?
I-I-What I was angry before?
Yeah.
Dust?
I hate a dust.
Hmm.
What's your weakest man?
I was an offer.
I'm a rock.
Or I should.
Yeah.
Okay.
Who's your favorite team name?
Of all time?
Right now.
I would say X-Welp.
Since like...
X-Welp.
Yeah, I spent so much time with him before.
You think X-Welp should be on the best Turkish team?
But is the best Turkish team in Europe in Europe?
All right, let's end off with a spicy one. You've been handling them.
That's a good one. Which team do you think is overrated right now?
That's a good one.
Wolver raked it.
You have to be at the bounty.
I have to bump it.
Okay, that was heroic, though.
I'm pouring.
Uh, look at her road. You do approve.
Got an offer.
That's all. Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
the
young stars as self-proclaimed worst map and yet low and behold still at the top of the scoreboard
I think that's a damning stat because heroic obviously trailing wonders two rounds
to 10
yeah it's a big gap and um... yeah it's like I mean it's what they dished out back on
morage so you gotta be able to take a little bit to I guess
and they're the ones playing with a map and they're the ones who could make a
to come back to be so great on pistols apart from obviously losing the last one.
Yuri's going to see the presence in a tunnels and fluids at all.
Her all a jungle through Yuri's clear second head shot.
Kacerado already through the doorway.
And he's going to drop that bomb and need the room.
That presents a chance for X-flav to come through with his.
But in that same window, Mollidoi's flank connects.
And now X-flav pinned into the corner is going to drop Mollidoi with him.
That was the road, but that road looks to be heading to Nuke.
Our third map queueed up is now Puria take second pistol.
It's like both one team from each map.
Thoughts to forget about it entirely.
Just move on as quickly as he can.
Nice ground here from Yuri.
I like when her like do do a rush.
They do like a contact explode.
They don't like.
I like that they don't go through a telegraph phase.
graph phase a fake first exact one there execute to a second like they always
explode on the contact and fully commit through and I feel like that's been good at
really surprising Syria even if it doesn't work there.
I think it's good to highlight the potential.
Success of heroic is going into Nuke.
I think hopefully get to a little more even around between the teams.
This is the right now.
Feel the wrath of Volaboy once again, Cacerado.
It's sure it has a better form than he was able to tap into over on Mirage,
and Chris and 18 health about to be swept under the rug,
so that Furio will have themselves 10 map points.
Ooh, never mind.
Hang on a second.
It's winnable, actually.
Clutch is officially on with that tech-9 headshot.
You might have him a little bit stressed out.
One before you can do our slow this would not be the play. You're is watching it was watching it
Something stirring dangerously close and if that round was that close and it wasn't 12 to then we'd hype up the possibility
That clearly any round is winnable so you won't know no I won't I'm gonna save it all for new
Come on. Okay, a nuke is just done. It's just ended. Yeah, just save it for nuke right?
I don't think there's anybody at home right now that doesn't believe Nuke is about to begin in about
15 minutes time to do because of guaranteed back to come out in this game today
Put everything I own on it
Everything you own everything I own even your magic cards even my magic cards
Even my fairy deck
you
you're very back I put my mother on it
I guess I don't know her, but
moving swiftly into round 13-14-15. Sorry, shit. Sorry, Sharon, I'm loving mom.
Sorry about your son.
He got hit and had with a soccer ball before the game started.
But she's case of roto.
I'm trying to speak Portuguese.
Man.
Let's go and take a gillill and deagles. That is what keeps heroic in the second map.
I don't know how long they want to stick around here on Dust 2,
whether they just rather get onto the next one.
The way they collect themselves thought,
nittle will get in the benefit of the doubt.
I think confident that whatever it comes their way they'll be able to just shut down
leaning on their bomb sites, they don't have all the utility in the world either, I put
the pressure on heroic to break the door down.
It feels like a road are going to sit here for a second,
try to get that response.
If it doesn't come their way out of utility usage,
which again, by the looks of it,
Furia aren't going to bite down on anything.
You either commit to this bomb site,
or that clock is going to run out as far as Furia are concerned.
Yeah, it's because of the money advantage Furia,
No, they can play like this and they have a good chance on either side.
It's really on heroic to just get confused or gamble or run head first into their death.
Doesn't go well.
The fallen spicked up that first one towards long.
He's Rano knows odds are the pack now comes his way and good on.
You're ready to cut that player down swiftly.
His reposition here catching young star off guard and
x-plowed soon to be surrounded seven seconds on the clock.
Nothing that they can do about it this time.
We're all gonna go up to smoke.
As Syria turned this game upside down
and show us the fury of we know and love
here on Dusty, Nuke is where this quarter final is decided.
Well, that's a little bit more like we expected
from Syria coming out to get swinging on Dusty
and making a series of this one
and absolutely dismantling our heroic squad
that were feeling like they might just have
the momentum to make this a too well.
That's kind of what we expected
coming into this matchup
to see a clear difference between the two teams.
Again, we're talking one of the best teams in the world versus a team.
We didn't qualify for the major.
We were playing what a stand-in was playing,
what an all player.
That's kind of what you expect in terms of the scoreline.
At no point at this game was a competitive.
At no point did you feel that a road
where any close winning rounds that could mount into a comeback
or that could mount into something interesting.
So a little bit of a shame that we've seen two.
So one sided map so far.
You know, obviously, for your didn't play well, I'm at number one.
There's two much, much better.
I hope that we get what we deserve on a new, and it was much better team effort from
Fury.
Yes, you could point to Molodoys probably being the top performer if you look at the rating,
but I feel like we saw a decent moments from practically everyone early on in the map.
We were seeing multi kills coming out of Yekendar, feel like Eury as well.
It was kind of good towards the latter half of that game, but yeah, there's nobody that
I would point the finger at and say you're not step it up today.
It was really just actually on the other foot.
Nobody from heroic could really hold practically anything.
And it was any particular issues that we saw for Ocarys,
it just that general out of your weight class, out of your depth.
You knew this was going to be a tough task coming in.
I guess they didn't really read some of the plays.
Like, Fury had a couple good mid rounds in this one,
which I feel like made it difficult for Horeau to capture what was going on.
But also, I just feel like sometimes, yeah, the openers did go the way of Fury.
I feel like there's only maybe a glimpse of Horeau being composed in a mid lay round.
I think it was the second round they won this entire map.
So, that was a foreign few between moment.
It's always tough to break down these very one-sided affairs here, Jacob.
So, what did you see? Give me a detail.
I mean, it's always tough to see like, yeah, everything went wrong and nothing went wrong for
who were in the same sense.
Because I do feel like there was just outmatched in every single aspect of what it's like,
playing kind of strike on a map like Dust 2.
There was around where I believe through around the clock down a little bit,
laid on the T-side fallen, is entering the B-bom side with a bomb,
with eight or seven seconds left where unfortunately the youngster decides to force him and fight him with AWP.
He loses out on the duel and you lose the round. That was like the only clear cut mistake as so on the game where the rest of it was just for your playing better counter strike.
So overall I'm not too disappointed in any road. They just got out next.
I mean this is the one that Tim's talking about. I mean it's a it's a good split coming in from Fury. I mean they took a lot of space early on.
And they kind of have this planned be option where things those aren't really going is
perfectly as they want to as they're going into A and you see fall and just
high tailing it towards the other bombsite with the bomb.
You're retry to make the first entry point and with such little time left you just kind
of want youngster here to just hold on.
I don't know if they exactly knew where Molotoy was or if he could be crunching him and
that's probably what caused youngster to be a little bit afraid there.
But it's just one of those moments where it's kind of do or die and youngster dies.
he was kind of the story of the man we saw about half-time interview right on his
sitting down with him the joke was how does this team get better will they get
it off or what he's doing here he knows the situation he's doing the best he
can to help out his guys to help out the chemistry to help out his teammates but
he knows he's not an offer he's not trying to be an offer he's trying to do
what the team needs right now yes there's so much you can do if you're a
young stun and again we spoke about what were some of the win conditions for
heroic if they wanted to make this game competitive a win it well Nilo didn't
really get to do much in this map even. It was very limited to how much he could, I guess
impact the game. We saw on the wrong to do your showcase right here. They were constantly
being forced out of position, would molotovs, would flashes. And that's where you got to give
credit to Furia as well. They played a very structured, a very, I guess, basic way of playing
does too. But that's the way you played does to at a high level. You do the basics. You do
them at a high level. You make sure utility has a purpose and then it's spacing and the way
you move around the map was just impactful. I feel like the way that I would characterize
like prison versus fallen is that prison might actually have
the more interesting idea to spawn, you know,
get a guy top mid, try to fake out some side of the map
and just get a second guy and fall into it or mid-rounder.
Like fall, fallen's gonna usually come up, say,
okay, plan A is not working.
We're gonna swap this up in a millisecond right now.
Everybody follow my lead and then you win those rounds
by the skin of your teeth.
It's what made him a championship,
IGL, throughout all of those years in the past,
even the most recent year.
So, prison on the other hand,
a great, great idea, but just kind of getting
school sometimes when you don't know what's coming next.
We've got another round to take a look at here.
I believe it's round three coming on up.
What were we looking for in this one?
This is to me this actually kind of pulled some of the story
of the first half where you get this great opening pick
when you're furious.
And then this is kind of it.
You get the mid round.
I mean, I feel like falling was sort of one foot in,
one foot out of this idea, even though all of his players
are practically towards long,
he just decides that he wants to go all the way back
towards be Molotoy still making a bit of a presence
in middle.
And this is just kind of outskilling your opponent.
There's no real reason that sus should lose this sort of situation.
It's got a great rifle.
It's got some decent position.
Even has some help.
But they just get the kill that they needed to get open this bomb.
Say, and then Molotor just steps up there.
That's a great kill to make it a 3v2.
And then this is the great case, Sarato moment.
Like we wanted more of him and all of the players from Furia.
And this is so uncomfortable.
I mean, winning a 1v2 on top of this barrel,
you feel like you got a draw.
But he just knows that he's gonna hit the shot.
And so he never has that little window of inaccuracy
when dropping from the barrel.
So I think that the individual stepped up for me.
And this is the conversation,
this is the comparison we're having as well.
This is now I believe across both maps
if I'm not mistaken, the stats coming on in.
But Fallen really doing a good one here on Dost to make it look good.
Doing what the team needed him, right?
Because the end of the day is trying to set up
his younger players, his teammates,
but whatever he is gold on, we know he's more than capable.
It was it was cruise control for for again. We, we, we, I, I, sometimes I dislike it.
She said, my get this like doing these segments because we can, we can over-hype the
result and we can over-hype the performance and we can dive into the, my new
shit details of, of the game here, but it was just two teams duking it out on
us to where there was a clear difference in how good they were able to conduct
themselves. Ferrier could have played at 50%, they still would have under this
game. And as you said, my right here would round three. There was still only
moment in the game. It was competitive. He rode one that one, sure. They
They lose the pistol, then they break Furrier's economy, and they're following two rounds,
maybe they get off to three, four, five rounds, it doesn't change the outcome of the game.
So in that aspect, it's, you know, take the game for what is this this time around.
There's not too much to talk about.
There's not too much to talk into.
This was Furrier, a cruise controlling, and he wrote, not showing up.
Well, I'll give you one more thing to talk about.
One more thing that we can over-high for that's Moldo.
We've been talking about him going into this series.
We've been talking about him a lot about how important he can be for this does, too.
He was, in fact, very important and very good.
this is what you wanted to see. I mean, I feel like is just the way that he handled
foot leading into this. I mean, if people really want to see a hard carry performance,
this is not even necessarily.
I thought it was heroic or handling foot in the comms. That's true. Actually, okay. Wait a second.
Okay. Yeah. Moladowy to great. Can we just address the fact that on map number one,
that they were sucking toe. That one of the players on heroic when they were doing
well said they were going to suck in the other players' toes. I do need to address that.
That's kind of a ridiculous statement.
Oh, I'm pretty sure I'm not on your
presenter, I'm not on your
presenter.
I think about it, but I'm offering it up.
100% KST has to do it all.
Every round day and day out, he's delivering.
Well, that's the cool thing about, you know,
for right now.
And if you want to dive into a store online,
that's from all of the way.
He was firing on all the cylinders online.
He was doing so well against food.
He's coming in here now.
He's at a 1.5 rating over the course of two maps.
Despite having lost one of them 13 to three.
Molina is making a case that the phone we saw last year is something he's going to continue
within 2020 and I'd post a question. If he's as good as people believe, if he's as good
as the fans believe as well, we have a player that is in contention to maybe title for the
best second best fit best plan in the world. Be bold, say first, let's go for it. Well,
if they've got you excited, well, there's a whole lot more coming on down the pipe and we're
going to our third and final map of play when we come back.
If I may not have heard a break, everybody is a little bit sloppy, you start to forget a little
bit of the, of the wire winning and everything.
We're trying to get back to that.
We had a close match against foot where they were amazing and it was a little bit
Something that we needed I think before the sternment is it's good that we won
But we won an fashion that made this realize that like okay, we need to work even harder and
Yeah, that's that's basically our mentality
It's the best kind of wake-up call one that you still actually do wind up winning and maybe that's what map number one was as well
Well, because Ferry came out storming on Dust 2 and now we end up on a new all the way all the distance all the maps here
Jacob, I think at the beginning of the pre show you said there was no way this wasn't a tool for Ferry
I see a remember something like that. Yeah, that was there was wrong. You know, there was no way it should have been a tool for
Shouldn't have been a tool for Ferry again
I just hope we get a bit of map now because I feel like we had two very one side of maps
Which has been rather boring to to watch you know for a lot of different reasons
I think heroic have shown that they could play Counter Strike at a high level and we know what Furrier can deliver us well
So I see no reason why we as I guess a US of Counter Strike on the desk the crowd inside their arena as well
Shouldn't be gifted a much better map. He has to finish and conclude today
Kind of be the classic what an air where the underdog just wins their map pick and then you just get the two sweeps from the
It's almost like the gentleman's sweep really from the favorite
Yeah, it is give them hope and then just crush it on down
I mean, we have the setup in the pregame, right?
For Furious all to play for, they want to get right back into the trophies,
they want to get right back into the winning ways for heroic.
They've already done more than was probably expected playing with how to
offer a playing with a stand-in.
They want to get into the future with their new roster.
Right now it's all just about enjoying the present.
That's fair enough, but I feel like Furious have shown the debatable, right?
They showed that on a map number one, I feel they showed that a couple of days ago
when they were playing football as well.
They weren't really in control in that game whatsoever.
Had it not been from World of the Year, there's a world where Furious wouldn't have been on the stage right now
to be completely honest. So it's not that he wrote, can't go into New York and feel like
there's a chance here. We can get off to a good start. When the night browns down on the
CT side, you know, get a bit of momentum and just to outline as well. I know for
he wrote that they're happy with the, is it 17 V.I.s. Prince, they're getting if they lose the
game regardless. What is their beating for you? The guaranteed 89 points. And they're taking
a jump from the V.I.s from number 19 to number 12 or number 13 or something like that. Which
would be massive for her work. And all you have to do is want to best the one against for her.
It's not entirely impossible.
Not at all.
They did win the night round as well,
so maybe that goes a little bit further
in their favor.
Maybe that makes this happen here, Maui?
Well, I mean, they've had a good CT side already
at this event.
I mean, they beat another Brazilian team in pain.
And so this is definitely proof that they can do it.
I don't know if they will, though, here.
Well, they're just living the love in the moment.
And two guys always love in the moment
and enhancing it as well.
Scrawny Lauders, take it away.
Thank you, gentlemen.
For your insights one last time.
going to new quared like we've just mentioned they've already beaten a Brazilian team.
Moe is this.
Do it, well, can you truly defeat Thiria?
Well, I think it depends which Thiria walks into the server and I think unfortunately
for heroic we kind of saw the warming up of individuals.
There's just a little more pep in the step of all of Thiria throughout that second map.
Most notably Cacerado, who again in the online portion was right down there in the struggles.
But if that's Cacerado's best map so far, a bounty, well, maybe this bodes well for
the Molladoy push.
you get him back to his best and Furia despite starting on this T-side could still end this.
I think what you see in, you know, Furia's history is like,
okay, throughout a play as well, doesn't really affect the outcome of the games,
but you see he's too good for the team. Then you get, you know, you can get
Molotoy that this will roster behind him. When Molotoy does this play well,
it all falls apart. When he plays well, they can still lose, but there's way more room for
everybody to just benefit. It feels just such high impact. Overall. Well, this could definitely
just be one long warm-up essentially for Furia to get into the game.
Lyrch's mode comes out. X-Legs, X-Legs. X-Legs got his knife out, ready to, uh, knife some feet.
Here's the rumble. As they move past, case or auto and domain.
I'm going to try to pressure hell, loves it. Well, oh, well, I miss this.
The.
Good on you.
Quick enough to do so.
Not mistaken.
That was the cash of nades as well from heroic.
They had a couple good.
Good had a not player dies down beneath the second from
Heaven's going to catch him all the time.
They never see mallet away coming.
Exfloud hiding in the back of the sites, gonna blindside
fallen and you already.
What?
Oh, oh, a stuck U had a little.
Exploud.
Come on.
His own downstairs.
The disgusting clip there from X-Lod.
I was just about to credit for rock for being in a few different positions that you could never expect.
All these shots, one or two bullets getting missing an instant punish, and then X-Lod being in the final spot they'll eventually get traded, but no.
Three for three on that lower home, and that was just beautiful.
That's how they win all those pistols, aren't?
It's true, just to the only CT pistol round they've lost so far as bounty.
That's how the statin, on his he kicking off on new business stat that's nice to see them tap back into your kingdom.
A lot to be desired with that tech-9 spam.
And Chris is going to press his vanilla pistol into the side of Fallen's head.
Let's head.
Five alive, huh?
Well, movie.
Yuri, can I make a quick run for the rooftops?
Don't jump.
It's actually crazy interesting that no, if things go right,
like on new gear, like they just get that crazy round.
And they hit a streak of momentum,
and they actually take the series.
What that does for the ranking?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's insane.
How hard you'd have to work in your regular matches.
I think to jump that much.
Particularly for a team as well that like in eighth major right like that's where we've seen a lot of these new other up in commerce say pair of vision for example
Yeah, they're run back in Budapest is why they got a chance at bounty and obviously they're capitalizing
Yeah, it's like you got to work so hard to get the one chance and then you've just got to hope you're great that week
Yes, and that could happen right now, you know, whereas other teams say the likes of Furia and the other top dogs in the space can have a literal bad week
They're worse weak of the year.
It's never gonna cost them so much
that they stopped getting invited to events.
They're the talk dogs.
So, heroic and contrasts.
You guys really gonna slow them off
that you can't are with?
Ha ha ha.
Damn production.
Damn.
That's pretty funny.
Gotta do what you gotta do.
It was an honestly important duel to take
to maybe get that bomb down on A.
Now, AK-47 for Kacerado still to work with, see if that catch is off.
We're going to go, no, Faunus instantly deals with it.
Luckily, it will be retrieved on the trade flag.
Crisind is going to scramble for lower sight.
Rightful is having edge here.
He tries to take a duel versus that picked up Molodoy Faunus.
And now, Fury, looking for an early round win,
off of the all-in, rap play.
Interesting moment, almost still get planted. It looks like the dude a good job of just peeking it up
Those down over towards a straw as follow-do-eye feels that Faum is back commits it into dark
You've got to piss the over towards the ramp x-flot playing with the door. It does kind of compromise the bomb site slightly with fallen being stuck on the other side of the smoke
Just trying to isolate these looking to Nate open the smoke and try to chase down falling good pressure
I hope from x-flot it's suspending one as well
two versus three being taken back barely
survives with a single point of health.
If not, Sus would be cut up for this one be one,
but without a kid, it is going to be that theory.
All in ramp push and not even off of the case
of Rado AK-47 that binds
Durya in early round.
It's the Mollidoi 4k after he steals this
bonus on the entry in the ramp.
Takes that instantly takes out
President going to the back of a site.
We look at that.
Look at that, I don't know, Chris and Maru should do is to look how quickly he dies.
And he also ends up fighting to one gun instantly as he gets there.
So just capturing the stable as the situation, and Moldoid does insane work with this weapon.
And you know, first map pressures off, they're joking about getting 17 VRS points.
Second map, they know they haven't map to play with, and then SMAP, they know they can
to be Syria if things go right and it's a little scarier yet again we get
fury trying to fly out on the number bombsite the deletion although a bad
volatile bouncing back makes it a bit awkward I feel like maybe if there's
timidness towards hell that's gonna stall fury I think they pull they pull
these rotators downstairs and I think they know it too so right now it's
This is the first 2-2 sights, all the day doesn't get a good balance.
Smoke will still block off Furio, they can have that ramp control, and a minute 10,
you're starting to carve a path back through Lobby.
It's kind of holding a great spot, I wonder if you really feel like you need to move.
They kind of just have this lock off inside a ramp, inside of Lobby as well.
You can go and search everything you want, but it's actually up to
Crescent to the side if he's gonna stack if he can smell it, you know?
Because they're not giving up that many visuals.
Nice one to their frag grenade through the squeaky door,
Suspensing that he can catch him as he goes back onto the angle.
Oh, Crescent doesn't want to make another mistake down here,
but they'll lower sides to be taken.
Smoke on double doors.
No second smoke.
Yes, single.
It's out the bled.
They're gonna try.
And the re-takes on.
Uh-oh.
Follow the way hanging onto that Molotov again.
It's CT's playing with no kid.
And so, sus taking damage towards single door puts pressure.
Now, onto his teammates to find room.
Off his dad.
There goes the ball.
Oh, in the reload.
It might be worth it.
Exfloud catching Molotov is a decent wall.
The BNB.
If Kinder dodges the awful, and that's going to put pressure back on prison.
Silently walks in again.
No kid.
Time critical.
And at this point, honestly, already too far gone.
So, as he backs this one up, just looking for an escape, he's trying to leave with the T's and he's going to do that.
With pressure back on it economically.
So, this is a Kindar survive, no spirit.
That's an off to be saved at least here for a heroic, but round win goes to Furia.
Yeah, they saved, I feel like, with off the back of some of these your Kindar kills.
And, um, feel for Yoke Star right there, got startled.
I had a position of me, be it to get their retake going.
I can't trust those officers for take-a-less play.
Mollio's down, Molli-ta, Molli-ta, I think it's no way.
No way after a full second, anyone's gonna come into it.
Reloads has got dyes, and that that create an opening.
You took out the most important player in that post plan.
So good effort.
It's brings the off-back to Youngstar,
and I'll pass more on everything.
Then I'll fall.
That's one opening.
Molli-ta, I case the Rotto finds success inside of A-Sight.
He's not even have to think about the re-tick now.
Yeah, slam your head against A, see if it lands and it felt like Fury had kind of,
they're going to look at this, you know, just Fury kind of floated lobby seeing what would
come out of heroic and heroic have had a bit of a forward pressed AD fence this time though,
Fury had just churn right through like it's nothing.
Go ahead, save majority if you're allowed to.
If it's refreshing to see the play fast, a lot of the games we watched last week
were extremely slow.
Oh brother, let's go back to Mirage.
Brother, brother, let's go back to Mirage.
Let's go back to Mirage.
If you were to be a back on Mirage, nothing!
I think it's actually Macho Man.
Yeah, savage, but I said the Hulk.
It's just too jammed guys, excuse me, but in my breathlers I'll make stop. Very tent. All I know shout out Andre the giant one time
To be both have blonde stashes. Hmm, no not the blonde ones, but sorry, that's let's get back to the point
Brother
you're just moron.
It's so easy to make.
That's it.
During this morage.
I had no lively moments.
No rounds where we would see kind of like that all in from fury.
I think they're they're final round of the T side.
They still set up outside of a side through some smokes went into an execute.
But something with that level of kind of tenacity all in confidence.
Yeah, not a single round like that.
Nothing.
And you know, you could have it.
It's still morage.
You can literally do that.
Yeah, now we get to map three and it feels like, okay, gloves are off, you're here in the server, we're playing some counter strike.
Yeah, we can slam ourselves against the ace site and look, it goes perfectly because you are one of the best teams in the entire damn world.
Yeah, that's the fury of everybody turned on their TVs to watch tonight.
If anybody's watching on a TV, you know, whoever's tuning into cable right now, catch in this game live here at the blast TV, don't change the channel folks.
Counter-strike, okay.
All right.
I think that's actually a monitor.
And think actually,
ruling.
Let's try G-Razz.
And start hacking onto the ramp.
Let's the off bullet fly and he's gone.
So Fallen takes up position within it.
Kindar, lookin' slime, as he tries to crawl up into heaven.
Nile, getting the better of the timing,
five V4 to heroic.
Peeled them off that jump, but like a gecko.
Don't make it.
Just, susfins out of the hot with just the 5'7.
There were limitations in this round.
In terms of the weapons for heroic,
we see one of them, whoa, what?
Nah, only one additional kill on the actual upper hold.
So again, for oh, it's just nests from Furia.
They show us a bit of tins acidity, a willingness,
Once you kind are and the potential, you know,
plan B goes down to just jump.
They pop in, they catch the 57-hut,
they follow through instantly,
and with convincing fashion,
secure this fourth terrorist round win.
It's so forward because they're just showing us
what they should have, and unlike we didn't,
at least, at least, it would have been nice to be like,
okay, you know, I ballers vitality.
Game was closed and I'm vitality one.
Right, good thing to say about both.
But, Mirage is a big bait, the game they played vs. foot, or a big bait, until us two.
It's sort of this, it's sort of just like...
We know it from the jump.
That it feels like it's just a long warm-up, they're not themselves.
And stuff that are taking the thought that all they're just not here.
Out of respects for Toroic, we're gonna take it seriously when you can beat Furia on a map.
Yeah, yeah, it feels like that beating has 180 pretty swiftly.
Big time, and then we just have to ask like, oh,
then why did it happen?
Well, it started the season.
It wouldn't be the first team to start slowly.
Again, we could find all the outs in the world for Syria.
But they bring any of these, you know,
wishy washingnesses to people versus any better team.
Your cooked.
This is heroic with a stand-in.
And that stand-ins not even a primary offer.
Yeah.
That'd be like, I don't know, it's like,
Maybe like a vitality in where to go to the major on a witch-treat and lose to like, like, like, like, a sear or something.
Can you imagine that ever happening?
Yeah, or like Falcon show up and take down a full strength-tave liquid on land with a standard?
Could you imagine that ever happening?
On this world, there's still something to look at for heroic defense, guns in hand, bodies on the inside.
If they want to just throw bodies into this problem,
then the trade frags are more likely and sus.
Bings one.
It's like a land.
Right there, though, back into the main pressure.
Walked out through the squeaky door will be clip.
They weren't counting on Chris and being in this corner.
Let us see, try to fight his way out off the Nilo Flash.
Perfect stuff coming out from Chris and the fallback.
Rich then opens up the flank out of the vent.
For you on the clock, they're going to catch that Nilo peak
because they knew he was up in heaven
and so Chris and Spill got more to do,
but they found their way out.
This is my favorite free fury look.
It's existed before basically everyone on this team.
You know, case or auto in your area, we're on this roster,
but this is from Park Days, the double lurk into many.
Gotta be the first ones to pull that off,
like more successfully.
I don't look, I love that they do,
is running out as if it's an upper entry
and then having everyone sneak in behind.
the smoke to go for the lower drop.
But all this stuff around mini-invent,
they're very, very tricky about it.
And even if you kind of see it coming,
it's still crazy effective to have both
and two outside lurks.
Someone come into mini and compromise top-plot,
get info on heaven.
Even if I get traded, the second guy knows now
for sure, where to peek in and the splits are hard to stop.
So the pace that period of prison right now,
like for Oak, just don't have that much time to think about it.
It's a great flash set up for Tristan.
Maybe that could have been that X-Factor moment to save the round.
Well, now look, it's killed in heaven.
I think Fury recognized their chance to leave.
A little bit awkward on the ladder.
And that has, it's gonna have impact.
So obviously, quick vent dive made possible by that.
and a half second stall, you can do our here's this stop coming out, they're not even considering
it.
Oh, great catch, great catch by Jay to see that miss on the ladder and you see the ramifications
that come from it.
As if all these other shots weren't just going so swimming with for Furia, just the
first kill is by way of the smallest mistake.
And those are the mistakes you can't make when you swing for a top contender.
Yeah, you might do that to your friends on purpose.
That doesn't fly at this level.
Get the hell off my head.
Now this has just changed up to some of the fastest fury around the ball time.
Well, this version of fury anyways.
It's no art version of fury. It is though. It is because like art at also because art also did crazy things like
He would push super early and flank. You know what I mean?
But it was like you're watching him like oh my goodness. He really does this do that
But it wasn't even necessarily about the speed of which
Just crazyness of it all. Yeah, I found was that to be fair
I kind of just thought back it was instant down the vent. It still fast. Yeah, I mean 142
141 137 first kill
It's tough if you're your crazy and you're trying to
You know you come into a round with a whole plan of course and but the other team does too
And then they do something you don't expect it and suddenly it's what I will
Again, I'm gonna move on. I got a little so I knew slight hiccup on that
So we'll allow that drop down stairs
I feel bad for this young start down obviously he rotates down has keep been given no indication that that could really be a real threat
I mean he should have he should have because they smoked in
Well he didn't consider to threat. Yeah
Oh
Okay, he gets there
Fallen making sure to keep an eye on the corner
But the fact that he's got an opponent sitting on top of the roof does make it a little more awkward.
Just like if that just locks up players, though towards T spawn, then the rest of Furious should be good to just take the rest of the map.
take the rest of the map.
This five seven starts to feel a little itchy.
You know, we start trying to find contact goes down
and we have managed to damage Furia secured.
Furia and another excellent position.
It's slowly constricting all the space left over.
Even with the pushes in place,
very clear where they are standing. Obviously, I hear it a
theory of it.
And it's a dead man sprinting. You already didn't catch that
front sight player, but slow squeeze out of
theory. I think now you know, we're starting to see
those different looks again a pretty quick opening move
to get into garage, but then when you see a player
hiding in corners, you think, OK, there's more corners
occupied if this is kind of the general plan.
Yeah, I don't like it. If I read the mistakes,
five, if I late can be good for T side like it can make
people nervous and stuff, but I think easily the best
position to find on average is early pick play into map control into weight.
And then that's the best way I feel like to generate another death instantly,
or to have an option to go on without having to go for map control.
Trying to get a hyper focused on that ace. I instant prison stops it.
It's a T-side still gunning for double digits.
It gives all the way a little chance to work in prison.
It finds the perfect timing.
Just stick his barrel to the back of prison set.
Oops.
Case erotic head.
Case erotic who has uh, I've just noticed really cooled off from map two, huh?
As if it needed with Mollidoine, you can do what they're doing.
Oh.
Whoa, this route is actually still alive.
Can't miss those shots.
Yeah, a few bullets come through.
I really respect like the disrespect actually from prison,
especially with the rounds of the way the rounds of the villain,
pushing through the squeaky smoke straight up,
trying to do something for his team.
When obviously plans are going on a ride,
but even though he gets the two kills,
it's gonna be a key tradeback,
you know if you're gonna attempt it.
one rough peak here on x-loud he's been really sharp though
very awkward
and so some guys as well
they know where you are x-loud how you gonna deal with this
thinking about jumping it smoke being covered would take a quick scope from all the door wouldn't put it past him
instead they're just going to wait that day
Hup players slowly getting into positions, small adjustments out of Mollidoi.
Oh, there we go kills back for heroic, but oh, you're retacking young start down to five.
Fire at your respite.
They got to get on that if they have a kid, but...
They don't.
They've got to stick this, so you're still going to have time to go for the duel being covered by the rifle.
Oh, I'm so scared of these survives.
That's what they need.
It's a third round at the very least here for her with us.
Beautiful from Nileau.
Well, you see that Yuri identifies where I'm going to be held from, for our pick 3-fire, 57 damage instantly.
I'll know how to hit the head right away.
Well, that was just a, a done round, young third.
It was one bullet away from death.
Oh, I'm supposed to just mince straight up.
I mean, all the way crouch, but I think he crouch like just happened.
Crouch, make before the shot.
You stop those bullets bouncing off the back wall.
You know what they say when you're good, you're lucky too.
Luck is a skill.
Use it wisely.
Second highest rate of taking off first off duals into your one of Ed's first Alperon.
Respect for that. It's got to be the most up almost impressive stats depending on how many you want. Yeah.
Yeah. That's a key element.
Duals taken versus it was kind of felt like he was brave.
Excloud has just found a free bomb thrown over. We have not seen that position occupied by a really like what so ever. So fallen just falling victim to it
Now the bomb pretty much belongs to heroic. They'll throw players down the vest presumably to go in clear
About me and probably because X allowed felt time limited and sure enough fire to speed up trained on him
And then, Chris turns to try to hold this, keeping his head down, offered him to step into
it.
And so that's a free frag on Molodeo.
A four versus two for heroic and 45 seconds to try to claw it back.
Gotta appreciate Chris and how he gets his info back.
So much money here for Furia as well.
It's a bi-flex round guaranteed.
So they've got to go for this.
No reason not to.
Not for anything else, just the economic damage on heroic.
I can't throw out our dyes with nothing to show for it and that my friends is heroics for it
So well earned for sure and I think it's that the attitude that they brought into
He's kind of come back around since prison infocities and still peeking things that playing actively
I know the phrase is fire fighting fire versus fire, but I also know that's not used properly
and
and
and this case it's going aggressive because the other team is expecting to be conditioned and
and
and
prison show them that he's not scared is actually working out really well it's it's it's it's like a way to humanize your opponent to make and feel like
they're not starting indomitable creatures that can just overwhelm human every they want
Let's get in real now.
Two rounds to start this CT side.
Two rounds in a row now.
Make up number three and four.
Five rounds at best case for heroic.
And they've got all the guns in the world.
Pull it off.
And it has felt like despite furious efforts in the last couple of rounds.
They've actually been caught on by heroic changes.
Right?
This new position in the secret stairs completely blindside.
And not just falling but falling with the bomb.
So much possession with that kind of through the rest of the round.
It's like by this point in the game you would think you've got your opponents in a spot where they have no confidence.
They don't believe in their own game plan. They're really angry because these rounds they've been losing them so quickly.
So for them to just turn around and play as if they've been winning the last few, I think that's just been really great.
The ball is lost at a time and it's the site.
The ball is lost at a time and it's the site.
The ball is full and it's full and it's the goal.
The ball is going to line those ones up.
The ball is getting a few assists this round.
But again, it's just that upper pressure made possible by the main play.
The ball is going to start the ball.
The ball is going to start the ball.
He was two and seven a quad kill and an assist for fallen to get that one over the line
It is eight rounds for Furia's attack
My name is Jacob Vinica and today I'll walk you through a little bit of a map analysis on Nuke
It's between spirit and eternal fire and I want to want to showcase for you guys today
How you condition your opponents to feel uncomfortable and maybe deny them information in order to cross rotations and then
in, losing your rounds.
Now we have spirit on the T-site.
And we have a turn on fire on the CT site.
And I want to set the scene from the get go.
Don't over here to watch out is being applied to,
I guess, pressurize a little bit.
According with Don't Right here,
there's also two smokes being put down.
One here and one here,
which is going to deny the vision for the player up here
and CT spawn.
So he no longer knows whether or not anyone
can cross down towards secret.
So with those two smokes,
you're conditioning their opponent and forcing them
to make a calculator the guess whether or not someone is going down secret, which is why
they have placed a player down towards secret already here, so the CT defense have now been
spread thin from the get go.
Now what's going to happen now is that Spirit is going to stay inside the lobby, and what
they're hoping for is some sort of reaction for a turn for him.
However, they're playing very defensively, as you can see the way it's set up right now
as well.
You have a player very defensively out here.
You have a player down towards secret who's super defensive.
You have two players inside who at this point haven't made a move or haven't pushed or haven't
on anything and you have a player boosted on ramp as well in a very isolated position
where he cannot rotate away.
When you're in this position right here, you're fighting till you die.
Now what's going to happen is that we have three spare players moving towards your
ramp right here, and later in the round.
And they're going to go out and they're going to go out towards ramp and applying their
person up.
Before they do that, they have players out here in Donk who's now rotated from yard
back towards lobby, into what's sender with this boy.
They're going to throw Molotovs towards in.
I believe the Molotov on behind the second vent, they're Molotov on somewhere on the
the side as well, and they're also going to throw a smoke towards gate.
Now what that does is that they're trying to sell the idea that they're going inside.
Meanwhile, three players from spirit are moving into watch ramp,
and they're actually going out right here.
The fight they brought to the table, tough go of it here on Nuke, it feels like heroic
across map two and three are now finally fighting the full forced
Buria. Okay. Yeah, that was a good
little iteration right there. Um, and it's very true.
This is about as strong as it gets. And to be honest,
they've gone from some of the most disappointing Cs that we've seen
in any of their time in the last year or so, to now some of the best
most exciting, well coordinated rounds with a much healthier
you're looking scoreboard teammates around Mola Delay, and all the extra fixants.
Oh, stamping.
Quickly, through that hot pan, you're always gonna go down to the Baretta's Rit through two.
And then you've arched on your head and player into the duel, so Rock Solid Start from Fury in the second pistol.
I think just having Baretta's in position and having Yuri to serve up the distraction.
That's what let's case the Rado kind of awkwardly get up.
Because if not he was like a second and a half behind the timing.
Spot that you would not clear in a situation like that.
Yeah, very awkward, but look how many people are here.
Yep.
Yeah.
And those distractions between main and back sight.
That's what let's case a rono come through with a cut-out kill.
He gets.
He lets his brother Yuri die for the greater cause.
Sometimes you got a break a few grigs.
Ah yes.
Greg Yuri Toledo.
What is Yuri's last name?
You're just giving him...
Yeah, I just gave him Gabriel.
He gave him all his last name.
Learned something today?
I inserted Molledoy.
Don't get ahead of yourself, kid.
His name is Greg Santos.
It's from California.
Same's actually Yuri.
Yeah, I know.
Oh, you knew that, okay.
It's I asked the other day and then some right-
We'll pleat it at me.
Ah, haha.
I love learning about the etymology of people's names lately.
I don't know what's gotten into me.
If don't them all for years.
Don't know where Scrony came from though.
Thanks bro.
Chot.
And P9 ready for this pack of hopeful heroic players.
They don't want Joe already, they're looking for more and low and behold, even as well as a good boss.
Right? They'll get that second one. They could find a bomb plant. You think that's as good as it gets.
And the Q&A has got other ideas.
I was playing with the MP9 up top. Try to get fancy with it. We can start giving them whatever the hell you're trying to do.
If you do little pure wets in your mid-air spins, get out of here. Double digits. Four Furia. Three away from semi-finals.
Planned fast to shoot and fast to trade in the multicillin. Yeah, and it wasn't a part of Mirage. I'll tell you that. I'll go back and watch that
Is that a fair time to blame timing?
Yeah, I don't know
That is just kind of a game
the
side of the
time to come through but not before you can
find opening kills again that it can
is friagnal sir
taking up the case of others position alongside
Molladoa as the heavier hitter
and that's what we need to see from
furious cap right is Molladoa at the top
that's become the absolute staple
and then somebody alongside them were often
the knockouts are all tonight
Kindar who catches a second kill in this 15th round of play and widdles the numbers down to a damning five versus two young star tries to kind of find timing
And we've got Furia what seems to be in every single position they would have to be in
Now one player that her own quote to catch off guard really is found with their pants down
It's just theory already from start to finish
Yeah, it's been an arc form so far these last few every set-ups perfect
Sometimes, for a worker just running into an extra stack site by accident to make it a little bit too quick to be honest.
But it's also if you're getting in their faces, we can see it.
Well, this could be a quick one. Herb will have a one last chance to put something together this next round.
I'm going to go for the squeaky bus, caught in the smoke, spam leaves alone to be desired.
I take that back.
The auto gets back on to it.
Chris and will come through with the double-tech 9 kill.
So at least the door distraction served well to catch the trades back and get that one gun into Chris and his hands.
Pick it up.
It's going to become there, mini.
Ouch.
Yeah.
A little bit.
and
on down one take place just yet they're gonna clear this all out let's see
after remember squeaky could be all
that's still awkward and unfortunate and unlucky that's timing and the bomb is inside of lobby now too
I aches and it looked forward so it's nice and deep and squeaky
Couldn't have been thrown farther from the teammates and fallen's gonna predict that these guys tried to double back the lobby to retrieve this
He's walking into them. Oh my goodness, and Mollido is complaining about that. Look at this.
Exflow just considering the rooftops.
Now, prison has to go splinter cell mode and somehow find a way to infiltrate lobby despite they're being two CTs inside it.
That's life for ya, huh?
Let's see it Tom Clancy.
Come on, Solid Snake.
Ooh.
Got the barrel.
Look at the damage.
Trying to figure out where the second player's at looking to isolate these angles
20 seconds. He finds them both
Here he comes for the ace.
Mollidoi running to the bomb site instead.
Sticks around him.
That up-angle is gonna catch
prison on the chase 12th round for Furia secured.
Yeah, what have been a hero moment.
And prison, I feel like if there's one thing that's been good this map, I really
have enjoyed some of the plays that he's made.
Uh, so
This is gonna be, well, it's gonna be tough.
Almost went around with a tempo, just to deny map points.
With an ace, that would have been a high moment for heroic, but unfortunately, huge
steps hit around, haven't seen much of a game plan so far besides.
Just go fast, which, well, it's been exciting, but Fury aren't just keeping up way too
hard.
A life mirage, because their T-side was very default heavy, and they really got a lot of these
individual traits and a lot of winning fight by himself, they're taking over back and
troll slowly. They're making things happen. On curious level, but Nuke has been a bit more
scrappy for sure.
Goes around comes around. That's what back confirms. Is that final by the heroic saved up for
just to try to make a game of this? Again, kind of exceeded our expectations, considering the
stand-in situation of young star, especially in his responsibility to pick up a gun he doesn't
use defeating pain is no joke. It's what qualified them for the land portion of
bouncy. But obviously once you get here you're going up against the top dogs and
lying versus fury up. No easy feats falling with a teenage smoke to sail in
front of him. Catch his friends in off guard. Though the trade still come back
putting these guns to the test. Case to rot out. Worried about secret.
But they're so flexible man. They've yeah, they've already got Kcerado in control silently
They might have been oh nice clear here. I'll make sure to keep his head ready and X5 has managed to slip that net
So now Mollidoys tech nine silently following just missing these timings. He will catch the wind a bit
half of the tag is not ideal X flat on 75 health and 2 teammates
25 in and a miss shot from Mollidoys which means missed opportunity for Furia to close this game
it seems. You can do it. Try to catch them off guard being held by young star.
And that is where this round ends. So, majority of life for heroic, they press the numbers up
into the ramp and they keep it simple. Just slide down into that B-bombsite, dual the
doles that come to you, one by one, and give yourself at least one more round to play with.
Yeah, I just fallen just started off by first of all, you know, the smoke has thrown
four fall and so no one's the wiser and they don't clear me there so he could have looked for
a second duel or an easier line up but couldn't keep control is great for the first
took a little bit too much effort to get that one together either way nice see you're
going to get a full round and now get a full bite off of it if we want to see young
our faculty up. It's much as possible.
With the pressure on fury,
it considering they're lighter by,
they're going to go for control of lobby.
Suspens responsibility
and Yuri's going to trade him out.
You've got two members of heroic up above this lobby crunch.
But at the time they're on the scene,
I feel like Furio will be gone.
and P9, the lingers towards trophy and the hands of fallen.
Trying to hang on to this.
A little bit longer.
Case erotic.
Just loses the dual heads up versus X-flout.
And that's going to be crazy.
It's opportunity to take over Lobby.
You're a sleeping in through line.
Isn't able to react fast enough and so heroic.
You're just going to run this bomb into that ace.
And again, they have figured out a problematic situation.
And looking to send Furious economy into the dumps and extend this play a little longer.
The recovery claiming lobby is not an easy task.
Definitely not been round, so.
And also, so nice when you see X-Loud, he always looks so free when it comes to taking
tools. He's very confident about it.
And that was great. Not easy to take out case or auto on a headshot angle of all things.
,
, that you discussed prison when we thought we're in the middle of wrapping this game of
you know, cities and press U of a few of his plays and feel like he just keeps making them
and that you're not nothing to lose here it's just
sort of rack up in the rounds as you can
until you get a little closer to over time then you have to take it seriously
but in the meantime he's playing quite freely and uh, looking good while he does it
follow through. I just feel like a lot of confidence. You can see that energy feeding into
his teammates as well. I think as well when you're in these kinds of positions where you're
in a recovery mode, right? Go back and get lobby. How daunting of a task is that to go lobby
back from from tops of the rooftop from the rooftops. Yes, extremely daunting.
Oh, I'm seeing that line up before.
Huh.
It's a new one.
Come to Kazakhstan.
All the boys off though,
looking to just make the difference this round of loan.
You'd be foolish to count him out of this.
17 and 8.
Yeah!
Shooters are so gross.
It's so gross.
Ooh!
Wow.
Damn.
I'm gonna throw it something to think about the only for a second.
They very quickly disrespect that smoke downstairs.
odds are the Molotoy's not here and they'd be right about that.
But he's not too far off.
If kind of forgot about control side, but it won't really matter.
Oh, it's all mine.
And you're resound it with a pistol.
But you've got this player up and front to Molotoy.
Oh, okay.
They dive into it.
Dives game.
Take it by NIO.
AK-47 picked up by Kacerado, cruising yet to come join this.
but that aka on case of autos also not downstairs.
Oh, kindergarten finding the squeaky kids.
No, it's all sketchy.
I don't think they can play for the round wind,
but they can put pressure on heroics economy at least.
Guess there's always the ramp eggs that save
and maybe with the picked up guns,
you're just gonna, yes, go jump on it, why not?
They won't bite, and you rested.
One foot in front of the other, I mean, really just don't look at the score at the top, right?
If you're playing well, as long as it took them to figure out how to get to this point, it's sort of irrelevant.
on this. Yeah, just like done for pretty deep clear as well.
Sid comes in trying to cool his jets.
You can all enjoy it as best to try to finish this one.
I don't want to outside my self, but I don't want to be the one who's on board a game.
I don't want to be the one who's on board a game.
Gabe Khrison has due credit.
A few of these pressure situations that he puts himself into to win the rounds back.
I as performing player for heroic is they dream of pushing this series into overtime map three.
We said coming into this third map, things would have felt real.
Like you had a chance to genuinely cause this upset.
Fury obviously tapped into a whole other level and I had kind of written heroic off.
Such a challenge, this T-Side of New.
And Fury had found their foothold, but here we are.
Guns again in the hands of heroic enough grenades to go in with two valleys if needed.
And once more, they're going to take that look towards Rathroomir.
very free for the taking.
Susp.
Oh, tap.
Smaller.
Do you have a this one?
And so no up in the equation for a fury.
They have to somehow reclaim in the 45 in prison.
Going to make that all the more difficult by killing case.
Toronto.
He's got that.
They're coming to fall in.
But how's it going to multi from this spot?
Take a huge individual moment here from fall in.
Missing this first view.
Oh, this is still lineup two frags in the backdrop.
Single man.
It's got the sheer for heroic nearly lost.
It's only two down stairs.
Ah, they can confirm.
They know there's one back in that lobby, and now it's X-Fly on Plants Bomb down stairs.
I think Fury are going to take a look at this and try to play ahead of the timing of that third attacker's rotation.
You can do this.
He's having a great game.
Pressure on control both sides.
T's are cowering.
Confirming this is back.
Your Chris is still a mile away from this bomb site.
Fury on the water.
Get this next kill.
But both of the other heroic members find their duels, pick those up, keep majority alive and close that overtime gap to now just measly four rounds the difference.
You know that was really scary for prison because he's like I can't even get back to you guys for a while.
And I don't know who's gonna be holding me so you really need to stay alive to post my it's on you and, well, if you don't, we can't get to do the game, but here he is making more pop off plays happen.
That face the fall of two chaos there's actually kept things alive for such a good
Really good hero
Following again comes in with the hero AWP fallen filling hard into the investment for that
Oh, there's a chance
This is his shot. We'll land that one on to susment
Oh, I got it. He's done a beautiful L.A.U
Very few tools for the job
Good.
So, it makes it up, it is clear that.
Miss Deagle, shopper, you can do our years go down.
Prove to play or get turned on and they have recovered this.
Heroics sinking their teeth deep into that upper sight.
Ballants can have no money for the next round.
And now Heroic, it is for rerounds to overtime.
If you broke, just say so.
Well, it's not bad.
and
looks like you will have a chance to get out of there
you think that her approach should get some extra BRS points for the fight
no
it's winter loss that's it
you
that's what I thought
I think they should get even less for winning
It's the way we and none of you are right.
Yeah, sure.
Honestly, I do think at first I thought they were just getting a few rounds here for exactly that.
Just don't get dumpstered.
A3.
Who fallen? I don't think you're so safe, brother.
He's hanging on though.
Show him all the way out.
It's done.
Okay, full of it.
No, no, no, no.
The four are not bad.
Paralyso obviously, you lose around this match is over.
So they will go all in.
And deny that pop save.
Scary moment.
Right when Yuri missed that first Eagle shot,
X-Loud gets the kill, gets two kills after that.
So, three round game, opposite play, everyone's stacked.
the
I'm standing up to this version of Furia's even more impressive than Mirage yes sir
Obviously they and we I think would have hope that it had happened a bit more so in the first half give yourself more margin of error
but hey they've made a game of this
commendable
no matter how the next three go
I think if you're furious, you're a bit worried that this has slipped out of your control.
It's just five rounds in a row, all the way for heroic.
Really, this CT side is only made up of CT pistol win and conversions.
It found first blood here in Round 22, prison as well, and there goes your playmaker.
There goes X-floud.
And so Fury just needed a bit more runway to seemingly find a way to close.
I set onto this upper floor.
Fury's going to get blindsided.
And all of a sudden, it feels that much more doable.
Mollidoi, concerned of some kind of a heaven-wrapped, takes the peek out finds nothing.
You can't are catching good timing.
Cuts one more half of the play, and no exit back in the lobby needs your start.
In this heroic jersey, it's trying to save the Earth.
What are the counts of the theory that will prevail?
A 39-finish year on map 3 after such,
an incredibly slow start to this series.
We get two rebound maps from one of the very best.
And it's a map where they turn our attention, I mean, even though they end up only playing for Pride,
I think they did earn some of that, a level we saw at a prison as a leader on this team,
especially when this game was basically done. Even throughout, while they were losing
round, some of the only moments that really mattered for heroic came from him,
so I thought he was very much leading by example. Back on Mirage, definitely,
X-Loud taking over Middle, Maloo throughout this event. There's been lots of good things to say,
and uh... union star is only overall stats are great and to be honest
maybe he didn't need to hop that much just should have just gone for comfort
picks
playing the rifle
uh... but i think i think this line up
showed a lot of potential not under the best circumstances
and in the end they did stand up
to the most strong fear that we've seen so far
for the event that is full of teams that tried to use this as kind of a springboard
as a chance to show us what they can showcase through of 2026.
It's safe to say heroic, one of the squads that have now made a bit more of a name for themselves,
especially fighting up against the fact that young start was brought back kind of in those
final moments before flying out to Malta. So heroic, it's a shortcoming versus Furia,
but that Furia obviously now ready to play here at Bounty.
They certainly are ready to play and they managed to get the first important win here.
I've got full and with me and okay opening two maps dominant from both sides but this
new is starting to get a bit scary despite the need you had there. Would you agree?
Yeah definitely it was got very close on the very end. We had like three or four more
monster blows a match and I think overall it was a good game. The destroyers on your eyes
should destroy the other shoe and then all came with the turn of map.
Told to me about that morage a little bit because they played in a similar way if what we
We saw them play against pain, it worked really well.
And it seemed like at times you guys were caught off guard by it.
Was it just the case that you guys not being ready?
I would say that the way we played it's a T-site,
we really needed individuals to step up
and get some kills and stay alive.
So, you know, for crossfire's work and stuff like that,
we didn't really play as active in the T-site as we could.
But it's just like how we can go.
They play well on those T-site and they deserve the winner.
And what did you say after Marage going into us too,
when you guys outside and getting ready for it?
because I can imagine the mood might have been not too good.
I mean, it was just fine.
That's why the game is up your three.
You know, like, maps can go either way.
In the end, contrast strikes outwards.
Who's going to be winning those speed stoves?
You know, for example, Castrator Clutch and those two
bring us back into the match, who has only won one.
The game was going on their way at this moment.
So, you know, contrast strike is just like that.
Sometimes, a very important one can happen
and the game can shoot the way.
You seem very calm throughout the morning.
You did get an important win here.
But now we've seen you drop a crazy map
on over past the foot.
This one here on Mirage, playing against the
It's very exciting.
Is that giving you any worries for just how you guys are starting the season?
For me, no worries.
We're not supposed to meet every map and not supposed to meet every single matchup we play.
I mean, we're very strong team, but there are many, many good and capable teams out there.
And I'm going to those matches knowing that I can lose off them and I can also end them.
So that's pretty much what it goes like.
We are very strong team, but nobody can beat everyone all the time, so we don't have such
expectations.
When it comes to your expectations, though, when you're now going to face tougher opposition
across the rest of the tournament, are you confident that we can see the fury
that we were getting towards the end of 2025 that you guys can bring that performance back up.
Yeah, definitely as the tournament goes by, only the best season are going to be surviving
and no exciting Mexican come away. I think we can play a little bit better than I have been playing
and it's those moments that you want to grow and you want to choose step up.
So we have always taken to make it happen and I'm looking forward to our Saturday.
And in terms of that, right, I've got to talk about this audience we've got here joining us in the studio.
That's still Brazilian, see how I met some from earlier.
Any of you want to say tip on back home, I'm in the crowd?
Yeah, definitely. Everyone cheering.
Outsider Brazil, thanks for tuning for Korea, following up on the boys.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
Thank you for joining us today, and thank you very much for being here.
Thank you very much for being here today.
It's time for the bouncy bananas.
We got Molo to it here.
You got a banana, kills.
Are you ready to spin the bananas a wheel?
No?
Not at all?
Always ready in the server, but a lot of surprises waiting here in the state.
What do we think fans have to reveal about Molo?
He got a few fans here.
Do you see what this wheel will do?
Let's go.
Here it goes.
Here's the big spin.
But that's the wheel off to the races where it stops.
No one knows.
Whatever number it's going to be.
That's our prize.
What's it going to be?
Could be a giveaway for the fans.
And I hope or it could be.
Oh, just pass the big one.
Get to the giveaway.
And that means that that's now triggered a giveaway.
So here in Twitch Chat,
That's an exclamation mark, but NASA and you might have a chance to win a prize all your own.
What's that prize going to be?
Well, it's time to find out.
Not bad, not bad.
Not bad.
Neatly.
Congratulations.
You've won a Desit Eagle, Princeton Factory New.
Make sure to get extra crispy headshots with this bad boy.
I don't have any skins.
I'm bankrupt.
That's right.
It's a Princeton D.
What the heck is that?
You have a quick.
Yeah.
Good question, good question.
I think a Digo boys have heard.
Do you like the print stream?
No.
No?
Well, it's a good thing you're not winning it.
Someone at home is, so if you like the print stream,
or get on into chat, like exclamation mark Bonanza,
and that print stream that's been metaphorically held by Molotoy
could be yours.
Plus by Molotoy, that gets you some headshot, surely.
Yeah?
Yeah, maybe.
They don't see.
Well, you're going to win another game so you can come back and spin this wheel.
Okay.
It's a promise. You heard it here first. Oh, thank you so much.
Well, you can go back and join your team.
This has been a bounty, but now it's all.
Rockin' on in here on the desk, deeks in the server, deeks on the wheel,
op kills as well. What can't Molotoy do?
Man, he just was thrilled for that one actually.
The blue actually, like the prince we know.
No.
Oh man, that was good.
The blaze skin actually just got messed up in the latest patch.
You see that?
Maybe it's time for a prince dream.
Yeah, he should consider it.
He should.
I mean, he had a great game, so he doesn't need to change a single thing.
You ask me.
Still hit the giveaway, right?
Man, the people here just are a minor,
exclamation mark, but Nanza, in chat,
and you'll enter the giveaway one lucky fan.
winning that Eagle delivery by more and more than the way he kind of metaphorically.
He's not actually going to give it to you.
metaphorically he was delivering our disservice well delivering this game and thank God
to him for for for moving on into this tournament.
You know, when all three maps even the one they lost 13 to three he was firing an
on cylinder.
So safe to say the bulldozer is off to good start in 2026 and what we thought was a good
year in 2025 I feel like you know we're seeing early science that he's going to be able
to replicate it.
He's not a one season one.
He's not like a six months player that's didn't go on a drop off. I feel like
Monacy is the real deal. I'm sorry. Not Monacy.
Molode is the real deal. And perhaps ready to take it on a guy like
Monacy. I'm in both of them have been the best players for their team today.
So yeah, you could even make the argument that they're the best two
land players of 20, 20, 20. There you go.
Two sample size. Yeah, let's move on from that one.
I always love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that size.
All right. Well, things that weren't small, the kill round counter for
I'm segue. We're getting there as well. Massive rounds coming to you from
Korea again and again delivering look a little bit of a run back there at
heroic, but that's that moment where it's like, you know, the team's dead.
You're just trying to see what the killing blow is going to be.
Hurt, we're bringing it back to be fair to them. They had a couple of
prison. Yeah, I was going to say. I mean, prison both in terms of individual play,
kind of mid late round moments along with some of the calls. Again, I feel like
there needs to be some credit given. The fact that he can really shock fury. I mean,
those rounds were one because they would throw something like an
exact. They would pull a bit of a rotation. They would move into the other
bombsite. And so the Furia players had to work for it. That's kind of
what was nice about the way that this ended that even though at the end
of the day, I'd say, yeah, it's a cosmetic comeback, but they did
display a couple of rounds that they could probably take moving forward
into online play or whatever tournaments they have ahead of them.
Yeah, I feel like they're comfortable. We've seen so far for who we
thought the inside of the tournament, both the online portion, but
also here at Land vs. Furrier, that they in moments in space in the game can play some high-quality
counter strike, Kristen, as you said, you know, an in-game leader coming from Denmark.
A lot of people were wondering why a stylist didn't take a chance, I mean, a lot of people
were wondering why OG would go for Kadean instead of prison. I think he's slowly put
surely running up to become something of a future, you know, prospect from Danish counter strike,
especially in the in-game leader department, where we have a history of having some decent
in-game leaders from that country, he's found some inspiration. So that's a positive sign.
The only thing I want to say here is that for heroic side of things is that Nilo, you
know, good map one didn't really see much in map two didn't see much in Newcastle.
I would love to see a little bit more because I really do believe that he is the future
of heroic.
So a tough night for him individually despite the first good map and that's something
to look out for in the future.
If he's going to be able to learn from that and do better and better and better.
It's going to be eyes on, but I feel like if you're heroic, you can just take all the positives
away from this game.
And 17 points for the VIS and 17 points for the VIS.
all those negatives you can throw out the window and say we had a stand and we didn't have an
offer we didn't have our offer with us you know whatever that's going to be in the future
you're looking at that future you're looking at that full project you're looking at the
trio to deliver you results so I think there's only positive really if you're looking at
for a look obviously would have been fantastic they could take a win but they caught
out one map they have some bright things ahead of them on the horizon and today
Furio's just too tough on her you know I mean not everybody that watches the broadcast
watch as both series of the day, but if you actually ask me, who's going to be higher ranked
in a few months, liquid or heroic? I have a hard time answering that question. I have a really
hot because I think liquid have better flares, but I like heroic style better. I think they
work that maybe together better as a team even. I think the calling and the way they start
every single round, it looks nice. I'm liking really almost every first minute of a round,
and then you just kind of have to hope that some of the closers like Nilo are able to deliver
and that's going to be up or down for them.
Look at this, man of the people triggers the giveaway, taking a photo with all the fans.
He is always prepared to stay after the game, it takes a maximum time, spend it with the fans,
just want to say, that's a really nice piece, in addition to all the damn often he does.
So, no one put surely turning into a superstar, you know, that's just the way we have to
phrase Moldo and people knew it already, obviously, what he did in 2025, how he's been one of the
big reasons as to why Feria was put back on the map, why they were the favorite setting
into the major, why the one tree trophies in a row as well.
Mollegoy is a superstar by a definition by now, and he's also very likable.
And I think, as I said, you know, we haven't seen the best from him.
I still think there's a lot of potential for Mollegoy.
We're heard about how him struggling a little bit with the English communication in the beginning,
how he had to get adjusted for that.
Still relatively young and experienced.
I feel like if he's playing this well already this early in his career,
just like we're seeing with Monacy, with Donk, there's another level to be attached to this guy.
And I'm really, really, really curious to see what that's
going to look like throughout 2026.
It's the asterisk we have to attach to an already stellar
resume, which is that he hasn't even had a year in this game.
He hasn't even had a year of speaking English.
He hasn't even had a year at this level of Counter Strike.
And he's already doing all this.
I just don't know how high the ceiling can go.
He's really relish the moments, too.
I mean, the fact that he stays after the fact that
in Estana at his opening land playoff,
he's just taking the mic from James Banks, saying something
to the crowd.
I feel like all of those aspects, especially being next to Fallen, it's going to just
big him up even more.
And as we all know, I mean, the operas are the most highly scrutinized role in this game.
I mean, we always see their perspective on defense as we always see all the with it with
it.
And so, but the thing is with Mola Doy, there's been a ton of hits for the last seven
months on this roster.
Congratulations to underscore, Kinser, you have won the giveaway.
You'll be the new proud owner of the Desert Eagle Prince stream.
Factory knew as well in the parentheses.
We didn't have that in the poster, but it's always good to know that.
So, congratulations, Ken Zer for that one.
Keep an eye out for some sort of communication,
because that's how you'll get the giveaway presumably.
And now it's time for us to give way to a little bit
of a loser interview, unfortunately,
because we're out of this one.
So we're gonna hear from Chris.
The work of impressed across the whole bouncy,
and still managed to do so against Syria,
especially on this first map.
You guys just seem to be so comfortable,
even without a dedicated role for all of this mirage.
like did you expect to be able to have that kind of impact against the team right
fury? I don't know if I would say expect. I feel like we for sure knew again that we
can come in and be annoying. I also feel like as you said we managed that in
Mirage now so feel like we do so a nuke for the majority of course they are just
really skilled and that of course makes it really hard but I think we kind of got
what we wanted from it. I feel like we got some experience that we needed playing
against the top and also seeing like where we're at, even though of course it is with
the stand and but yeah it's the first leg game for us as a new team and it's
important to bring with us throughout the season.
Now no dust team is very tough right and it's just good for those games. It looked
like Newt was going to be that way as well. Did you start believing when you
were able to clear it back or you were like down 12 or four round by round
was coming you were getting a good breed on the game you were pushing their
economy as well. Yeah for sure it's so close like I think for us we just kept on
believing you know and like suddenly the gap is just only within three rounds and I feel like we
kind of just do so. I've prepared a little bit in the last one. I feel like we're coming off in a
good idea but we really don't transition that will after getting blocked from it. So it's like
yeah I feel like maybe it was just being a little sad. I don't know what what can down to and then
personally yeah I feel like until you say we had a kind of a good idea of what they were doing.
I'm not sure, I'd have to look it back, but yeah, for sure, we feel like everyone was
believing it's doing good and keeping the comments moved to the higher, you know, it's
nice.
Very positive sign as well.
Looking at this event, even though it was with the stand, how important was it for
you to just have the guys on land now, come into your stint at this warm game and be able
to get that more experience and work with the team in this way?
Yeah, very important.
I mean, even myself, you know, like, I don't have so much experience playing at the
to one lens and what not so I think it's just everything that we can get right now.
You know what we get to test ourselves like this is gonna be very very well.
Especially when we play against people that are more an hour ball pit, how it's to
you know.
So I think for sure it's gonna give us an edge.
You're all later on and I mean I'm just happy with how we look and how we perform
and very happy with how the boys can through.
Sorry.
I've been talking to me that I've been very happy about your leading and how you're doing as well.
I'll say that from what they've said to me.
But after this, Al-Korens back, are we going back to normal?
I wouldn't be able to tell you, I'm not sure.
Um, yeah, we'll have to see.
Hopefully, we can go back to normal and thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.
I was all ready to come out of that interview with all positives.
That last little note is one to keep in mind, I suppose.
Why don't you sit with him, Rourou again, having players, you know,
that I know you want to keep it tight sometimes,
But we had a situation with nine lowest will when he didn't play for what five six months when he came into the line
I'm now I'll come on as well like I get privacy is the thing, but I would like to know what the hell's going on
You got to keep those things close to your chest so you can engage him and baton Twitter
Isn't it just some okay, I guess I don't know for sir isn't it something to do with just
Getting into the visas are common. I thought it was visas
I believe it is visas
They are complicated things to tell me so I know expert will move on into saying the positives
Yeah, isn't right because I think there was a lot to take away from that
that he put it very nicely.
It's nice to be able to with a stand in early on
in this roster be at least annoying to the top end teams.
And the way that he called did that.
I mean, he kind of upset Furia definitely on Mirage.
I mean, they didn't know what was happening.
I mean, he's right.
The T side, it was coming together for them.
But they just didn't have enough runway
because they had a CT side with no oper.
Like, what are you actually supposed to do
to slow down a Furia team with as many great rifleers
as they do have when you don't have that?
All in all though, I like his perspective a lot.
I like the way that even said he's going to look back at the footage to see what went wrong.
It's like, nobody's even asking you to do that.
You were playing with a stand in and even taking any sort of learning from this is probably
as big of a task as just building into the next tournament.
So good on him because you can tell that the mentality is pretty strong.
Absolutely, the right answers.
That's the thing where I've derived answers.
You know, and I do feel it makes a road get an interesting team to to follow.
Because I said as well, he can't wait to play teams in their own bullpike.
Right now, going up against a team like Furrier on a stage.
It's not what it reached for her work.
With our without alcohol and with our VWP player,
we're not expecting her to be a team that's able to compete
against for you right now.
So for them to be able to pressure them a little bit,
when I'm up, get in here, get a good experience.
Beating pain gaming, which is a team that they're probably
slightly below in that pecking order.
That's positive signs for the future.
Then whether it's visas, but for something else,
don't really care.
I just want to see the full line of play as well as.
As would we all, looking back at today,
we started out with the Falcons to owe over liquid monacy flying high liquid maybe break
it off on that one difficult pill to swallow if you're a liquid fan or player will say it's
a huge positive for the way that monacy and Nico played in this series in terms of the
stand-in for them also showed a good face I'm a positively surprised by the fact that he was
able to stay afloat despite the fact that he only had five official series name.
I'll put both of you on a spot right now and give you that you're NA representatives like we're looking at a team liquid coming into cracker
Coming into this offseason as well a lot of people expected them to make some sort of chains because it didn't really work out
Elicense adding a leash if they fail a cracker if they don't do well if they don't win a single game or just bum out
You know in whatever place are we already looking now and saying liquid you have to change in order to save the rest of the season
I'll go first
sometimes a little bit more optimistic. I would just say yeah you cut
ultimate. I feel like it's probably, and I know that the
opting department right now is a little bit harder to come by, just
take a gamble even. I mean I would even just like I said say I was
here. You know my answer regarding those things. You feel a bit
slumped. But I feel like all three rifles showed up today for
them. So I'm not really disappointed with a
lege, nap or not. I'm well they disappointed in one guy.
I think it's fair you're looking at me for the optimism. I don't know that I have any right now
You're going to need to have one hell of a bounce back for ultimate and liquid. I think to justify the continuation of that particular part
That's the pressure they're going to play on them. They're incredible. There's so much pressure and team liquid
You're one about famously liquid loves pressure. There's a thing you're one tournament. You're one tournament into the season
There all we've been saying so far here. The balance is that for face is not a deal breaker for Navi's not a deal breaker
but for liquid for some reason it's a deal where you get despite the means.
Let's show nothing, because I'm showing absolutely nothing.
That's exactly it.
Exactly. So they really put themselves in a spot right now
when not making a change in their offseason.
A pride push, a bun bunty, and even more so in our crack-up S,
they didn't really show too much here.
Well, we'll see if they can live up to that.
We'll see if our teams tomorrow can live up to the pressure as well
because we do have two more fantastic games coming your way
in that first round of play.
Game religion taken on by Tality and Perry Vision
and wrap an up spirit with a story book matchup to wrap up our day.
I really can't wait for that with no offense to the game religion
vitality matchup but we all know who's getting the marquee lighting.
I was very play as playing in that game as well.
It's right, huh?
Why not my other favorite player snacks on the game religious day.
There's a lot of favorites going on here.
I am optimistic for the future of Paravision.
I feel like spirit's gonna be a little tough for them to handle,
but hey, it's ways been on a heater.
Well, don't worry.
You'll get a lot more time to be up
about that particular matchup,
but we'll have to wait till tomorrow
for the first day of the Blast Founty Playoffs are done.
Tomorrow, we continue.
More action, more bounties, more bananas,
more wild around the town of strike.
Tomorrow, see you there.