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BLAST Premier Bounty Malta 2026 - Quarterfinals - Vitality vs GamerLegion, Spirit vs PARIVISION
01-23-2026 · 7h 16m
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Welcome to Day 2 of the Blast Bounty Playoffs here in our wonderful Blast Arena studio
courtesy of Gaming Maltah.
We're here on the desk on Dark Mike.
We got Mr. Maui Snake and Mr. Jacobin when he came on in.
And here the sun is shining today and Maltah it's a good day.
The sea is home.
Things are looking good.
How are we feeling Jacob?
It's really windy.
Super windy, what I like, I was saying there's no key cold, that's awesome rain
Tonya's well like what the hell are you on it?
Yeah, I know, oh you're Danish, this is cool, that's true.
Mike, that's B roll.
That's cool, that's not a lie, those are the lights on.
It's wonderful, it's a perfect day, I just want to get out on the water, nothing this.
It's really gaming with it.
That's perfect, exactly.
That's a good idea.
How many are kilometers have you already hit for that?
Fuck, it's a kilometer, Mike.
Wow, that's based.
That's based, yeah.
We've converted into the fucking same second.
Six miles I moved today. Yeah, my lord. All right, we're locked in he's in freedom units now. Yeah
No, no, yes, I use miles you're gonna start saying miles per hour miles per hour. Yeah
Locking in well, we're gonna have a lot of miles per hour because we are going fast with our games today
There's some very exciting matchups coming your way and there's certainly where yesterday as well
Well, speaking of what the fuck is a kilometer, liquid are straight out, whatever unit
of measure you want to use, they are gone into maps here at the playoffs, they came to
Malta, they saw and they did not conquer, not at all.
At least they showed up, you know, at least they got to the point where they were in the
playoff and I guess that's a small step in the right direction.
Not a lot of positive to set for team liquid, they lost to Falcons and was playing with
a standing and was playing without their coach and they did it in a two-o fashion.
That wasn't that impressive.
just one highlight, I'd say is that the nerds, elish, and nafflive to some extent
showed up. So the rifeing trio for team Liquid proved that there's still some potential
future within that. But as a team, as a whole, as a project right now, I'm having a tough
time finding anything positive to see.
Hard to find something there, but at least on the flip side, honestly, just destroyed them.
He looks like he's in world class forum off of a 2025 that left a little bit to be desired.
He clearly is coming in trying to be the best player in the world.
It's something that we want to see, especially if you're making pentex and saying, you know,
Falcon's going to be lifting trophies, going to be doing this, going to be doing that.
You need monacy, fire, and like he has been, and especially considering the stand in
situation, especially considering all the factors they've had to absorb in, if Falcon's going to
make a run here to that grand final, you need that guy on the scope, absolutely shredding the
opposition. That's exactly what he did. He was great yesterday, you know, didn't put a foot
wrong, and I think he goes without saying that his counterparts well, Nico helped him out,
especially in dust too. So as you said Mike, we are looking at Falcons in this scope of them playing with a stand and not having QCQ right here.
So if they want to lift the trophies, if they want to go into the Grand Final,
well, Manisi and Nico has to play well and did did that yesterday. They delivered. So that's a good sign for Falcons.
And I guess a new client says, well, he passed the test. Didn't do too much, you know, didn't play out as a liability.
So all that good night for Falcons. And got a new fit as well off the bounty. And so we'll. So,
Jerry's if we'll see him sporting that at some point our second match up will stick with the theme of operas because holy molla doye
That was a molla talking good time
All three mass he was blistering. Okay. I mean molla doye clearly stole the show when it comes to fury
I'd say the second and third best players on the team did come in toe eventually
I mean we did have some nice yakin dar moments some nice case eroto moments to but
I broke him a scare first map being a 13-3 affair for the underdogs and showing why
prison is so hyped up as an individual.
We saw glimpses from Nilo as well, could see why he's such a touted prospect from the
Swedish scene.
I'd say the app's comparison that prison already made that he resembles the impact in
playstyle.
I think it's incredibly fitting.
I feel like he's stretching the margins already very well for a team like that, even
against a world-beater like Syria.
I'd say like this, you know, I didn't even learn anything about Syria yesterday.
We know the qualities.
We know Molodai is a fantastic player.
And we know that Friere was supposed to win their game eventually.
And they got it done, even though that they allowed
for a bit of a cosmetic comeback on Nuke.
However, I did learn a lot about Hibro.
I learned that Kristen, I think he's a much better
in-game leader than a lot of people
were given credit for being benched by OG, moving into Hibro.
Not being picked up by a stylist when there's been
a couple of opportunities.
I think maybe potentially a lot of people are going
to look back and Kristen and be like,
ah, we probably should have picked him up,
but we probably should have gone for him.
And then it's just that it's well for Nailo
he wrote as a whole, came into the playoff with a stand and came into the playoff with an
on a WP play and took a map off for a and banged in 17 V.S. points as well. So a good day for
her role. This is such a nice demonstration of how expectations just wait our results from
their teams, right? When you compare the conversation, we just had about liquid and then with
heroic, right? Liquid had that overtime. First map, desperate, close loss, heroic, slaughtered on
the first map, came in with no expectations. We're super happy with them, despite the loss,
It is just the world of Counter Strike and the world of expectations coming on.
And what do we expect out of our matchups today?
Because taking a look at our schedule here, we have two more very exciting games coming through.
Game religion versus vitality, vitality, the last pick didn't even really have a pick to
game religion, but the team that they are stuck with, the Kings of Counter Strike in 2025,
striding back into a land server here at the Blast Bounty.
Vitality from the online stage barely looks like they've missed a step.
game religion on the other hand, upsetting expectations lately,
seeing like a plucky underdog to look out for the season,
but there's obviously a David and Goliath, and that sort of conversation.
Yeah, moving on to the matchup, you know, between sway and team spirit.
I think that's going to be an interest-run,
pervition taking on team spirit.
We're going to shake the hands right there.
That's fan-off.
That's going to be a cool matchup fall out of different reasons.
But it was, I don't know, I was going to fall loose.
I'm not going to fall, I'm going to be okay.
Yeah.
Well, technically, matchups didn't kick sway, right?
So there should be no blood between them.
I think it's a way of wanting to poop a point.
I think he's gonna be fired up tonight.
I think they both replaced each other, right?
It's actually a game in for magics.
And then magics came back in for the way.
You wanna be technical and but actually,
and but actually,
I feel like magics was the placement for chopper.
Yeah, roll for roll.
I see way you're going, Mike, you know what,
I appreciate you trying.
Let me do the narrative.
Come on, you guys.
Give me something.
I'm going to work with something here.
It's a downman.
My bad.
My bad for being so literal here, okay?
Yeah, I thought we needed to smack some sense back into it.
after this guy started talking miles.
I just didn't know what foot we're getting off on this.
What's on my low ceiling?
Now it's a game of inches, but we're going to take our seconds
to take just a quick brief pause here
and be back ready for match number one.
It's vitality versus game religion
when we come back from this break.
The one of the damage that brings day against 2025's number 1 team, the solid showing out
of game religion.
Got some of the pop-up, oh pretty good.
Oh, what a wonderful life.
Kill's instead.
It's gonna chip away on three players, instant execution, three U.S. on all of all you can.
the
matchup with some historical implications here game religion taking on vitality and their new age
IGL over on the game religion side is very familiar with the captain of vitality snacks and apex have played a lot of games of
counter strike dating back well over a decade possibly through multiple versions of the game
But in maps that we're tracking if I'm not mistaken they have played 98 maps of counter strike before this
We will be guaranteed getting the hundredth bow the hundredth map between snacks and eight pecs
It's just great the legacy that counter strike has that these two players have been duking it out and sometimes heavyweight
Godlets where it's just so much history so much legacy
I feel like Snacks obviously had some of his highs with that old VP roster, Apex kind
of seeing the peak of his career today.
So both players, both in-game leaders for this matchup, and two very different parts of their
career, but shared quite a few blows over the years.
Feel like longevity is one of the most underrated aspects to any kind of strike playout.
I don't really feel the community quite often understand how impressive it is to stay at
the top of your game.
And we're not even talking about maybe staying at Chucky, because I don't think there's
down the right now, Apex is seeding his peak as an in-game leader, maybe claiming to currently
in-game lead the best team of all time. In Counter Strike, there's a conversation to be had
worse for snacks, just the fact that he's still relevant. Just the fact that he's still able to
get into some of these teams and we've seen clear improvements with in-game religion ever since
he joins. You know, I don't think snacks right now is a player that is ever going to come back
to the VP candidates, we're going to live trophies, but the fact that he's still competing at a
relatively high level, I think is super super cool and underrated. I mean, let's be clear though,
So, it's not been that long since Sax was lifting trophies.
He lifted a couple when his time in G2.
He did compete for how long.
How long did it always that?
And do you think that's kind of replicate itself?
I mean, I'm sure you'll tell me on Twitter some of that.
You would love that to have men.
Everyone would love that to have them.
But there's only one trophy, a East tournament.
And if next has to win a tournament,
then you have to be the team like by Telegy.
And as much as people want to like Snacks,
and as much as people want to like Game One,
you can, for that reason,
it's not really likely to be the case here, Mike.
You know, perhaps it's not.
And we will be diving into that in just a moment.
But it is still incredible that you do have this kind of longevity.
It's a privilege that we have in our game that is so very rare in Esports period, that
you can count rivalries in terms of decades as opposed to months.
It's quite a privilege, frankly.
And now this is a one that set for another.
The other way is just the fact that you can pivot in this game, whereas in most, I could
say, Esports, you just kind of have to be mechanically talented until the day you retire,
as in CS, we know that Apex isn't the same guy that he was the first time he played
snacks.
Before he was this bonnified entry frager guy that was just let loose and then he tried
to break into a bomb site head first.
Now he's much more methodical.
He's much more talented in that his mind for the game has clearly adapted to what
it needs to be in 2025 where he went on a run, putting together some great calls, tactics,
and exemplified leadership qualities
that if you looked at 2013 apex, you'd say,
what are you talking about?
That's never going to be a bad guy.
And the same thing could be said about Snacks.
As you talked about right pivoting,
back in his golden era, he was also
a bit of a star rifle.
He was the guy making the difference a lot of the time.
He was a clocked minister and he was,
hey, I know him to play against.
Whenever there was a smoke,
Snacks would always do something ridiculous
as per his intuition, which is at a very high level,
that would net him a lot of facts,
compared to today, he's transitioning
to becoming an endgame reader.
He had to do that in order to build up the legacy
and build up that longevity we're talking about.
So we are looking at two in-game leaders
who, in their prime, there were different
makers under seven in terms of the fighting department,
where's today they're leaving the team
that are in-game leaders and having different kind of impact.
If there's one thing we know about snacks,
that is always hungry, whether for the big apple
or for that next challenge,
but this challenge is going to be a big one.
And as we hop into this matchup,
we've got some words from both teams
about the veto ahead of the game.
Ready for these results and just what's coming out here?
Yeah, I mean, our map was like a bit shaking the second dot of season
while having a new bit like being worse.
In front of us, well, at some point, by the major, we played really well on it.
Same fall of a pass and train that were like a bit shaky.
Train is gone over past we got so much better and we have finally been
straight in a row.
So yeah, I think we put some hours on the new two to extend what I was
our biggest weakness because it was one of our strongest map before.
But yeah, it's all see its works.
You know, we always have this from this too.
Sometimes it gets a bit worse.
You need to put some work on it again.
We tried it.
You never notice if it's going to work,
but of course we put some hours
because when you look at the rest,
it's the last one.
Do you feel like there is a weak map you can talk here
against what else it is?
We can wrap against right everything.
Yeah.
I mean, of course we did some prep.
We found some holes in the structure.
So, better something, but now we're just needs to order the game, the game, and I'm about to find out for them.
Understandably a little gun shy to say anything definitive you're coming through from IMD.
Anything where that we see that could go in the video?
Well, I feel like for the picks here, a game religion has shown that they, like, for no, they were able to take that against Aurora.
So, I personally like to see that.
I feel like it's been something that's been in Snacks' wheelhouse for some time.
time, they could go for a morage pick as well, which they've showed some strength on, but
I guess we'll see you in just a second with that first pick is here we go.
We do get the infernal pick coming in for a game on Legion, I almost feel sorry for them,
because I don't think there's any way they can go in order to really punish that
Celidian, they have one of the most, I guess, home augerness, met pools in the game of
kind of strike right now, where we've got this, where you're going into that Celidian, you
are going to face a very strong team.
So here when you can go in with something that comfortable with, which is going to be infernal,
then we have the dust two pick coming in for that Celidian, I think that makes an awful
a lot of sense also a map that they have played and also a lot in 2025. I think we're talking
38 games and they won 34 though so does 2 is in the wheelhouse. That's even putting it lightly,
I would suppose. I mean, it's a map that I feel like historically people talk about just that
it's puggier but really when it comes to vitality it's pure excellence. I mean, for a map
that seemingly so random and skilled-dependent, not only do they have one of those skilled teams
of all time assembled together but their tactics are super clean. Now, Nuke on the Decider,
I guess I may be lightly surprised by this because Game Religion went for the second phase
band of overpass. That was sort of a snack special when he was on Game Religion the first time,
so going to Nuke, which is a map that they haven't played yet as this five-man lineup.
It'll be interesting to see if we get to it, but as we all know, frankly,
here on the desk, here in the studio, here in the audience, this is a tough task to get anything
done against a vitality team that has exemplified excellence all through last year. I mean,
one of the most if not the finest year of counter strike for any roster ever in any version
of this game. This team typifies excellence, typifies dominance, and they're ready.
Back here on land with a few more days of practice under the belt to do it all again.
Yeah, I just want to put a bit of context to it as well because that's what they're chasing
right now. Right? They're chasing more trophies and they're maybe chasing the effect that we have
to crown them as the best team ever to play counter strike. If you dive into it, I don't want
to take too much of your time right here. But the whole conversation is between obviously
prime astralis and prime biotelty. Astralis had a period over 14, 15 months where they were
dominating everything. One, two, make this as well. I kind of doing what biotelty is doing right now.
You're the acu biotelty if now I had 12 months. We're talking to three, maybe four months of
biotelty staying at that peak before I feel that conversation dies out and we have to give to biotelty.
So I think that's the motivating factor that we're moving on now to come into this season,
start off great because there's so, so close making history. It's an interesting one,
Because I don't necessarily say that the run of a straws if I look at pure achievements is better
But I feel like a lot of people factor in the intangibles. How good their calling was how they revolutionize the game
But better utility. I feel like that's lightly overblown when you look back at it
I feel like teams today play much better tactics than they even did in 2018-19
However, I do think that a straws made a huge jump for counter strike in general how they did do so many great-nade stacks
So many great ways of just finding entries into rounds that just felt more tactical than
necessarily based off of the brawly brawn that they might have in terms of attack or skill
that is.
I think there's one other aspect that may be sometimes goes over looks when we're comparing
these two eros is that one of the things that Strauss redefined is the amount of support
you could put around a team in terms of giving them resources, giving them coaches, giving
them things that they could bring it outside of the server and we live in an era where
many teams are doing that.
It's not just vitality.
They do in fact have a phenomenal support staff, phenomenal coaching, but they're not the only ones anymore.
I think it's a good point and it's a fair point. They were the pioneers in that regard as world,
but they also like to talk about it a lot. They like to talk about it more than maybe what's the reality.
Being part of the Dany scene, knowing some of the players, even standing in for them back in the
Dany scene, this whole story about them going to better ten weighting up at eight going to the,
like it was, it was good for the Dany's media. It was good for the PR, but that's not really the reality of it.
So going in the mental side of it and you know trying to elevate kind of strike. Yes, they did that but it was also
Bastly overblown in the media's at the time being what I know from from inside of jokes. Well a little inside
Baseball there, but we're gonna get some from vitality here apex on goal setting for 2026
When a second grand slam wide out a third major
You know just mild goals coming in but it is the standard they've said it's not for now
It's just step by step for us. So now we're focused on trying to give our best for bounty
This was a lot of the conversation, especially when they were on that streak of undefeated
series wins for vitality.
It was all about digesting those lofty big goals into small, bice-tized chunks, setting
the story for each event is something that they really prioritize.
And I was clearly important in vitality's journey to make everything more bite-sized,
because it comes second season.
It felt like their expectations were so lofty that they kind of got lost in the sauce
a bit, that everything just felt like it's winner.
It do or die when or go home,
whereas really sometimes picking tournaments
and ramping up was the vitality way back in 2023,
thinking about their run into the Paris major.
They had to target specific events to get good.
And then it almost is just by chance,
or I wouldn't say by chance,
they were obviously a great team,
but by the fact that they were just still in a lead squad,
it come booted up us that they were able to survive that tournament
and just crown themselves as the best team ever in CSTA.
That's the crazy thing to me when you look at my telly day.
I could be did have a bit of a down period.
And in that down period, there was still the second best team in the world.
Quite consistently getting into the grand finals,
at worst getting into the semi finals.
So in terms of having that kind of bottom floor,
in terms of knowing that even when you're playing your worst,
when the players as they pick set in a couple of interviews,
you know, sometimes the communication wasn't unpass,
sometimes the players perhaps went in this shape
that would like to be at your worst.
You were still the second best.
That's pretty goddamn awesome.
I think it packs, but it really nice in an interview last season.
either at E to B C or the bounty where he said, what is a slump for us is something most organizations would kill for.
Yeah. And it really does just reflect the standard that they said. And now we get a treat as well because we're going to get apex back on land.
And we know, no matter the environment that is always the treat, this guy is just so much fun to watch a showman through and through so many moments through that 2025 run that just captured our attention capture our imagination.
and he took Carrigan swagger and made it his own.
I mean, Carrigan was one of the first captains
that was just really playing to the crowd,
understanding the dynamic of being in an arena.
I feel like he's also, in some ways, a lightning rod.
Instead of letting the fans target other people on the team,
like there's barely any criticism
that really spread around any of the players
on vitality anymore.
And really, I'd say the main guy that people want to,
that I guess that sticks out is just apex.
And that's for good and that's for bad.
I mean, I feel like for someone like Zywood,
that let's him focus in his land.
He doesn't have to worry about the press.
He doesn't worry about the media.
He just continues on with his job.
It's also, it's somewhat akin to what Katie
and did for a heroic back in the day,
where it was a bunch of neat guys
that just wanted to play Counter Strike as well as they
possibly could and let the leader just take the brunt
of what everybody's saying on Reddit or Twitter
or doesn't matter.
I think that's an excellent point,
you know, because you're protecting your place
and you're protecting guys like Syru,
so you can focus on what he likes to do
and that is to play Counter Strike.
Obviously, you've seen the development of Syru as well,
not only as a player on the server where he sustains himself as, you know,
potentially the goal of going to struggle with that conversation down the line in a
couple of years when Don gets, you know, turning into what he's going to be in in
terms of final product, but he's also developed outside of the server.
He's well, well spoken, he's more open and he's a guy, you know, that is okay to
do interviews and you'd like to hear from him, but at the end of the day, whenever
pressure's on and when it's a pressure cooker, it's always apex coming forward.
It's always hinting their attention.
And it's something you've seen football quite often, where some of the, you know,
flambler and coaches that coming out and they're kind of taking away their tension from
a bat with salt or from your start plan not working out because you can just say something
outrageous and that's where all the focus is going to be at. And having that ability
in apex as an in-game leader I think that's severely underrated as well.
It is one of the intangibles and I mean we barely touched the rest of this roster but we'll have
to leave that for the future because there are two teams coming into this game and to hear
from game religion we've gotten interview with Snacks.
Okay, so Snacks, you've made it here to the Blast Bounty Land Finals, we've got your
dart board, especially to be able to house some fun here. Just tell me, we showed on camera,
right, that you were doing it during the interview, it didn't go so well. Then off camera,
you get a bullseye. And I believe you, because you sent me a picture, I trust you, you're
You're not going to lie.
So where does your dots create come from?
What are you doing this?
I know, I was 10 years old, like my parents were playing, and I mean it was like the first game
like in Poland, I would say, as well, it's like not many people were playing.
I got some trophies from it as well.
What?
Yeah, I mean, it was just a small game for maybe two or three years, I was playing actually.
And then I just decided to stick more with CS.
I think it was kind of a good idea to go this way.
Maybe in the future I would go back and look to that.
So I actually, I like it.
So, okay, 10 years time, you retire from CS.
And then you go and take the Snacks brand
to professional Darts.
I would like so.
I mean, whenever I watch Darts, it's so funny.
You know, you see those people having fun,
like to start being messed up.
And I just feel like this is something for me, you know?
That's good.
Now, come back to the CS a little bit.
What is it like and how are you enjoying being back
within game allegiance with this team?
Because it's completely different players
when you were there last time.
Ah, yeah, true. I think I didn't play with anyone from them, I mean, obviously this is a big difference.
I mean, G2 or more experience and I have a different player now. I feel like a little bit pop-up of the team.
And I mean, I kind of like it, you know. I mean, this is where I can give my experience to the team.
And I feel like those players are really good in, like in Senna, at Soutin. So I like, again, I don't need to play.
I hope, fully, I will do some good structures, you know, because probably in G3, I had struggles with it, you know.
I'm not sure if I can get the lead.
My drill on the dirt board.
My drill on the surfer.
Perhaps moving these teammates all around and letting them do the shooting.
Let them do the killing while he just kicks back and throws darts.
That's a such a nice board man.
If you never watch it, you should definitely do it.
You should definitely do it.
I love it.
I love it.
I watch it.
You know, a lot of the time.
And it's cool to see.
And then here that's next is played without.
And he's going to need some of that position today.
Because going up against the fight.
That's going to be incredible.
I think it's a lot easier when you don't really have an opponent.
That can affect you.
You should not say that.
You should not say that.
No one is affecting him on that bike.
He's even on the digital bike.
There's no wind.
It obviously takes an immense amount of skill in hand-eye coordination, which I'm sure translates
well to countershot.
All right, let's talk about the countershot.
Let's talk about the countershot.
Let's talk about game religion, because they've been on a nice run here, right?
Making some changes coming into this season, having the whole situation going on with the coach.
Ash, having snacks come back in to be the IGL.
There's a lot of tumult, and they found themselves here on land despite all that.
that. And it's been an extremely impressive run. The fact that they were able to take down a passion
UA, which was higher ranked in them, an Aurora that was much higher ranked than them that felt
like a shoe in to make it to the playoffs here. So this game religion run already is catching my
attention. I'm liking a lot of the aspects about it in terms of how the individuals are playing,
but the quality of wins, I think, already speaks for itself. This game religion core, which in my
eyes for the second season of last year was kind of meddling, kind of underperforming. Now actually
It looks like they might have a leader at the helm that can give them new fresh ideas
that can reinvigorate some of these guys that looked on track to be top 20 players in the
world but never really got the accolades to even get close.
And adding to that, they got nothing to lose.
I very much agree with that.
You know, the win against Aurora was a big one, good for the ES, good for the team, good
start to the season.
You're taking on by a telety on a stage.
No one is expecting you to do anything.
So you can, you know, relieve the pressure coming into this game, play a best brain of
of counter strike, sort of like you were against today, but with a full lineup where you
get a lot of learnings and a lot of experience, and let's be completely honest, no matter
what the result is going to be today, just the fact that their understates, the maintenance
survey has already been in prison for game release.
And also, just the reality of this event with the bounty with the bounty hunting with a
roar coming in with a massive bounty on their heads, they're really getting very secured themselves
a lot of capital there, which is also going to help with that VRS acts.
Aspect, it's it's all gravy at this point.
and you've got young players, you've got a young team,
you're trying the more than we tried to reflect them.
And we've already seen so much from this squad.
There was one round in particular,
you wanted to bring in from their online run here,
mounting to show what Snacks is doing with this team.
Exactly.
I feel like the biggest problem of game religion in 2025
was the inability to mid-round.
First of all, there's a really cool starter
for this round, the way that they fake for a hall's pop
with this smoke towards the hay car,
big take bracket control.
There is a kill back and return from Aurora.
And then tossing kind of unleashes himself.
He goes for a solo play by himself.
You're seeing a little bit more freedom
from game religion in moments like these.
We're necessarily, I wouldn't say necessarily last season.
You saw that.
But the three on three is the Snacks Masterclass.
This is something I never saw from game religion last season
around is to smoke, moto, yourself.
Go for an art craft and to walk through your own moto,
smoke to blank the lone player on the A-bombs.
This kind of risk taking is something that snacks
is doing, which is just way more intuitive, way more instinctual than what ZTR did, which was to
mean maybe a little too predictable at times.
Yeah, I've been loving to see what he's done in this early, would game on EGN as well.
It seems like the play us are believing in his calling abilities as well, it seems like
they're being freed up a little bit more.
We got a guy like P.R.S. as well, who were by many room, a true perhaps move on, he even
set it himself in a crowd that potentially, you know, he's going to be a bit hyped about moving
on to the next one.
But overall, P.R. seems to be in a place now way, can continue to develop together,
what's next, what in-game religion,
and I think that's a healthy place to be right now.
And there's also this whole situation going on
with the coaching, right, where we've thought of this team
as being Ash's team for so long,
well, Ash benches himself coming into this season.
Now we find out that he's asking to be released
from the organization that he wants to try other opportunities
that it's not just about Cabrano.
And meanwhile, you hear from PR and this HLTV interview,
it's different when Ash is not there.
When Ash was there, I always felt like he was my safe space.
Or I don't know how to name it,
but he was like, my uncle.
I could just go to him and speak to him.
Now he did make sure to mention
after this that IMD is somebody, IMD is somebody.
IMD is somebody that he thinks of the same way.
It's still saying, those are very powerful words
about a coach, about a presence that you're definitely missing.
And that's where this snacks identity,
I think it's gonna be that much more important
for Game Religion to really define what this team's gonna be.
Yo, dead ass chat, dead ass.
That's my uncle, so okay.
I mean, I feel like everybody on Game Religion
a little wide-eyed because of the first season of 2025, where they made it to the playoffs of
Melbourne, they were taking down teams that felt like they were surely bigger organizations
in terms of resources in terms of player quality. And so people like PR, people like Ash,
they probably think that there's a light at the end of this tunnel which isn't in a
game religion jersey. And that's a bit concerning because obviously this team has reached
quite high highs. It's just that they have no semblance of sustained success.
Yeah, and that that is going to be an issue when you're game-religing. Again, there's so many
chopped teams out there. There's so many teams with great aspirations. We're looking at a team
licorice struckly and a bit. We're looking at other teams not sure whether or not they're going
to be part of that top 10 circuit. Realistic speaking, when you look at game-religing, you look at the
player material, you look at the budget they're working with as well and the history of the
organization willing to sell players. It's never going to be a team that's going to be a
die-hard chop 18 before they lose some of those big players. Whether that's snack moving on to a
better team or that's PR moving on, that's just name of the game for game-religing.
Well, we've done enough yapping here. It's time to listen to two of my favorite
onks yapping away through a map of counter strike.
Harry and Hugo!
Take it away.
2025's team of the air vitality coming in back on land in a new season
to Harry this was their one blemish on their record at the dawn of last year.
This was the one trophy that alluded them.
Bounty. Season one.
And season two, but of course, that second season was a little slow to start
vitality. I don't think they're coming into 2026, fearing that anymore, especially not up against
the gamer Legion who were forced to play. This team didn't even get to pick their opponent.
They were just put in their place up against team vitality. My question to you is his snacks
up to the job. I mean, I believe in him. He'll get his a shock you. Yeah, it does actually.
If this was a game of dance, maybe it would be hard. If this ain't no dance, this is counter strike.
This is Blast Bounty, this is the quarterfinal.
Now we're just in at no time getting into this one. We're going to open things up on the game
of Legion pick of Inferno. That's too, but I tell you up after that. And Nuke waiting as the third
should we need it. To CT side start for vitality, game of Legion, they're wasting no time in this
pistol round, fanning out early on, but it can troll over to Wardspinanna and setting themselves up
up in the apartments as well.
Try to cover all fronts here and seeing if Vitality
would get aggressive in this pistol round.
If that doesn't happen, it's going to fall to Game
Allegion and make the first move.
They seem to know the reaction that
preparation now is paying off Vitality
a clearing out middle and starting to flank.
That's going to feel Vitality to rotate.
Game Allegion selling this one so hard right now
on the beef on, say, smokes come in.
Nate go flying Vitality, bite down on this fake.
jump check there. I have caused a bit of suspicion for Zy-Woo and you can see
Realization dawns on them at its two late. Snacks got the reaction he wanted and
Vitality piece it together to late in the round. Bomb now planted but a 3v5 for game
alleging. They know that through running this they're gonna get players pulled out of
position but you run the risk of losing the two out towards banana. That's exactly what's
happen. Hyplex deals one time from the ranks of
vitality and then on a swing. Reson hyplex
working in tandem chewed through the rest of them
vitality get picked apart in the pistol round
three V5 for game allegiance and the pet at the prep
pays off. What a beautiful round of counter strike
from both teams because even though game
allegiance and poor vitality to the wrong side of the
map, it's still what is a beautiful retaker
to banana from vitality. A flash for catch
next to the harbour. I didn't bite out of you, realized he had at this point. They'd been
duped, but still, in with a very good shot of winning that retake. It comes out of
rest, back to the site doubling up, and I kept pausing a lot of chaos running between
positions. A gamer leach and put that pistol on the board.
There was a team knife in here for gamer leachant. No, as I moved down there with a scout.
Really, indeed. Okay, no mind.
Good catch, you good. I'm locked in, I just got back to that.
And even better catch for snacks, up at top and on it. Two captains clash in that head dead.
Snacks comes out in front of Apex.
Or they don't have a smoke big problem for brains, you think. Still gets one within.
Damaged on, Apex, I look at finish often.
This short rarity, this game will eat and come in hot and hard into the second round vitality, still need to warm in.
And they'll have to do so and round number four, this force by cost them dearly.
Game of Legion, and to the fray.
No one's calling the upset early Harry, but we are just more interested to see what this snacksled team,
What these strong individuals can do today against the vitality on that?
Yeah, I do think this act is very very good at like this pelling any nerves that may exist
Very non-chalance
And even just kind of the tone the game of Legion of Come-In with, you know, looking at
someone like Hypex who, we know for the reason that we pass it even though, he's had
some like cooler, more aggressive moments. I think you'd largely say a brother passive
operator and it's been a fighting showing from him to open up this game.
Admittedly, we've only seen the piss around of that second round, but man, the way he was
kind of throwing vitality through a loop with the constant peaks in round one of the series
certainly did a lot of lifting.
While it's vitalities first and further the year, the emulation play this and both of
there will be series that makes it a grand final try and a legit run for a game of
Legion taking down passion you able to also take you down a roar. Of course going through
their own changes, but still have the core of a very strong team. In fact, you know, a team
that should be walking over a game-religion considering the in-game leader change at all, but
Let's go.
G-out.
Third round looks just walking into B.
So I was making a gamble.
That's my talented clear middle.
It should leave, I will, at this B-bombsite.
Now, a reason to rotate now with this mid-in-foked, but smokes had a seal to deal in
this round.
That's how it's going to move again.
I have to be quite the highlight from the loop.
There's smoke so you're going to make it hard for him too.
Let's have a highlight.
The backstaff here is on a very very good time.
The turn around for high-packs comes at a perfect moment for the side of the game illusion.
and so any danger has been averted there with our check down through banana.
Sheet and blanks right now.
So you've, or exits really from as you know, even Kebler to hold on to the game, I mean,
even giving away nothing, then maxing, early in this map, getting out with four rifles going
into that first gun round.
They've got something to fall back on when things go wrong.
Not if...
the state vitality are patiently waiting for they're gone round so many great
moments from vitality across last year and I think one thing never to forget about
is how this team can do combat. We rarely saw it because so often
with vitality in the league.
Yeah, I mean, when the game's right.
I think about some of my favorite matches of last year,
and it was vitality showing tenacity and never giving up.
Think of that Melbourne final down what?
11, 5, 11, 6, or New Commanders should pull it back,
win it out in a crazy overtime affair.
I mean, there were a few moments like that from vitality
where they showed the staying power of this team.
Not that I'm comparing three-o-down to game Malaysian to any of those,
But more in the sense of even if Gain Legion starts strong, they have to finish strong today.
Yeah, you know, it really is a series about keeping it up, right?
Essentially, it's saying Vitality, I'm just gonna roll over and die here, right?
Because you've taken a bit of an early lead, not a team that you're gonna get in their head,
or get too flustered.
Everybody think, you know, especially with how like the second half of Lossia went,
the second season for Vitality, the fact that it wasn't as dominant as the first,
Which it's hard to do when you win all but one events and you already touched upon that the event they didn't win was bounty
You know, it kind of is still the vitality area that we're living in they win both majors on the year
They're gonna string of events to open things up
Having a incredibly dominant year
Oh no, this round is going so wrong
Rops-naded, I was 65 frames jumping, caught in mid, and I would just death.
It's gone horribly wrong.
Yeah, everything's going, but as worse as it possibly could for vitality, what a repack
submesse even supposed to do, Messe is making a convincing case as the lone player inside
of A.
Oh, mate.
And he packs, it's actually got on a head of this reposition from Game of Leachon.
Oh, that's a big shop for high-packs, man.
was a real road where that leads to ruin for Game of Legion, but he locks it in.
We're doing an important kill, and we set it right away to open up the series.
Hipex is looking, dialed in right now.
You trust in your eye test after two rounds, Harry, and after four rounds, I'm jumping
on board a little bit late, or it's a really awkward name to jump behind, and that lead
Hipex onto wind around, catching flames slowly, bottom of the plank, and what a pretty
He did a pegs of steel here.
He's feeling it.
Bro, my pegs has even lookin' shop these playing so well.
Seven and zero, and he's onto the orb.
All right, this is where I swear,
and always goes down the orb.
You're open, looking red heart with the rifles.
Polish opers that should sometimes just rifle.
Well, here I pecks out first.
I also, not even just the balls.
You've seen it with a lot of them.
Think him back to some of the nine ten tournaments of last year.
Yeah, and Chengdu, he looked like he was the best rifleer ever.
And he walked every last again.
Yeah.
No, it is, yeah.
You understand why you pull the orb out.
You've got to freeze, get up.
At the same time.
When you're feeling it with the rifle.
All of this doesn't hit the same.
Maybe your hits better.
This was from vitality, playing delay.
They got three or two smokes remaining.
Trying to buy as much time as they can.
As he's bringing the flash over.
A game illusion that's done a good job of baiting in these few rounds, right?
Re-cutting with the second wave.
Faking the pistol, managing to kick the gun,
on his B-bomb side, the vitality of the 3-year.
A collision look to take the space in mid.
I have a little bit of the spot over here on long, is he ready to work?
many players. It's a really good opener. All for highpacks to live as one once again.
Another kind of sick read from him or messy out there towards the spawn.
Just a quick shot round the corner and he gets cleaned up and they ready for a pegs.
Once again, it's a flag that is racking all the highpacks on the pre-fire day.
It was trading in time so low and a pegs with that one kill steals the round away.
It's not the one that you were expecting, but it's the round the vitality get on the board and back into the game now
It's delivered by apex with a 5-7 out towards the spawn
There's some really nice shots coming out from vitality to be expected here
Deep as I will shot and see teeth of empty
And it's actually the teeth spoken to game which is spoke over on the top so that means they can't wrap into that weekend
And they bombsite, they have to go for the mid to be which they set up for, but vitality
have the stack there, because of the earlier utility.
So, game illusion, kind of, except themselves up for disaster there, and vitality
quite to punish.
Graves risky, full behind the smoke.
I'm not taking here at least a car for vitality, loosen up the other side, and they go
one for one.
A lot of harassment leaves number one of you to left.
It's got a bounty of spawn, yes he does.
It seems like he's replenishing the game religion looking keen to execute.
It doesn't actually have a re-smoke, so Molly, any get a buy you so much time.
And that time's already elapsed.
Ready to take a second play around, not about idea here for vitality as game religion
You set their sights on the B-play, walking in contact right now and that's right, as flames is given up the info.
Here's the second smoke coming out and the flames are taking the gas that they've already walked in that they've kind of seized this gap, seized the moment.
Really impressive, that's how they're gonna get a foot in anywhere.
All right, Rez, that's a keen shot of flames.
Now one more player out from this smoke over at coughing, the meshes are already fired off.
So they know about him now as well.
A third smoke out towards spawn just to shut down this angle for even longer.
Oh well dark, and sometimes make you nervous.
Considering you have CT smoke off, it's really scary.
You have no control, really.
You're just hoping for authority burn the clock down.
Maybe they will.
It's the steps now, Snacks playing out in the open, with a loved him to go one for one,
because now it's lifted all on high pecs, and out with that swing, rocks will catch him.
Yeah, you see the danger of double dart in that position, because they just have no crossfire
right there.
They're relying on vitalities of fall for it, and not check it, but really good check.
I think it was from Mesey, late to clear Dark El.
Because that could have gone a lot better with a player in New Box.
Maybe a plane in the pool?
Just having more cross-fired potential, I vex gets thrust today, difficult one these three.
And rops is able to clean up, so nice round out of vitality and got stressful.
There was a lot of you to a play there for game allusion.
But they get the diffused in just in time.
Even vitality calling a timer, because things haven't gone perfectly to do fair, they've been pulled around the map in all the wrong directions.
So far in this game, so some credit here to game allegiance game plan, but when you have this first maybe 3, 4, 5 rounds of the match planned
You can't plan forever. You have to now start reading on the fly
And making calls as vitality find back to back gun rounds. Yeah, you know your sausages left for this feeling that rounds like the last one
And even the fact, you know, it's to how you kind of gave away that first round of I tell you these are the ones that can really come to matter
are a hell of a lot in the grand scheme of this game.
Because you've been in great good positions
in both of those rounds, only to give them away.
And if this ends up coming close,
how even if it does it, even if I tell it,
you've got to run away with it.
You're always just left feeling with that big water.
Flames is really pushing the boat out.
In terms of what's possible holding the water down
to go for the jump shot.
And a cloud around, he's got support here.
on the V-Pex and his spam will also connect.
Ouch.
Maybe here, HyperX taken down a peg to the smoke spam.
P.R. who tried to swing to save Snacks' life also got spammed by Flames earlier.
So both very unlucky debt-server game a Legion
and Flames again picks everything back up from spawn.
Bring it towards a V-bombsite.
So, I can turn essentially play retake, giving them everything.
So, execute comes in, it's going to be a smoke-on CT coffin still open.
There are recent mocks, game-lician prioritizing them in CT spawn, perhaps.
site taken. Let's see what these post-ponsored like this type. This round is even harder.
Clans, so everyone's tank up here.
Far from comfortable, four-game allegiance, but that is set up, right? Man down in the pool.
It's a crossfire with a back site player and someone in a banana, so this time you've got options.
And by the way, that needs going to be big. Snacks board down even lower, and there's more
you till rating it on his position. The jump won't save him.
Come on, get away from the fire. He'll get burnt alive. And again, it's an orb trying to
clutch up over here up in honor. The rest is not having it in one before he is out of
there. Trying to hold on to this AWP.
He knows what he's up against. That's a reasonable save for rest. Two kills, some damage,
but winning that one before with and up is not going to happen.
Vitality, a clinical of the retake of utility.
Named body, back on Snacks, Nade first,
get a free damage, Molly to confirm it and just everyone.
Different layers of elevation out of confidence.
I mean, this is also why, you know,
you kind of saw and see what we were talking about just moments
together, this idea.
But now, forgets the team life.
I tell you those rounds where you do find it,
barn inches those rounds where you do get to good positions.
You have to make sure you convert upon the
because that was, you know, arguably,
they kind of best round looking,
sorry, the best looking round yet out of this vitality squad.
There's a very real world where the score line is six one
with that being their first step in the right direction.
Instead, they're now nipping your heels.
They're just around behind and they've broken your money.
So then kind of getting into a position
where they could just overtake you
in the early stages of the Varno might be right in front of us.
Well, that's why we said,
wait for your gun round, right?
Because that was the three rounds in a row
and that's an eco-win on the time running out and then two buy-rounds for game
allegiance. They've had three game-leach of our three rifles in a row, all of
missed and now they stuck on this, orbsave, hand-in-over snacks takes the pistol.
It's enough to game-leach and just about.
But yeah, lose this, a bite out of the snar.
It's not a play with his heart.
Turning for the flash and lucky to be alive, but not for long.
There's not back here Snacks.
How hungry are you?
Can't find it.
The need has blown it out of the way.
I know Jay Rads will find, but he's looking.
That's not a fight.
It's not a fight, it's not a step.
Definitely won't.
My Talty 5-4, yes, that's just looking at a whole bit of holes in the map!
It's gone there mate, unlucky.
Two smokes on a flash life, we just have to execute this B bombsite.
I found him in keys and retake it.
Let's see if they fight this time.
Or you know he wants to.
Flames has been down to play super fast.
If he's holding.
This time he does have a teammate in reserve.
He will play through this smoke out from the confidence.
Extends this advantage for vitality and you think he's going to leave on the pressure right now.
Rise to play it through, but ends up feeding Torson.
Okay, Game of Legion, they've wrestled themselves back into a good position here.
Three on three, and once again, it's a test of their post-plan.
Swing out and into Zaiwu feeding two kills like that.
A little strung out for the swing was Torson.
Now it's just Razz.
I'll do it for the first kill, but I gotta have more in reserve.
That's what Robson's I would demand.
Double Swan by Talie tie this game up.
But the only reason that goes wrong is because the toss and going over confidence
Flames you have the same idea that both trying to jump up toss and got their first
That's the only reason that even gets close
But I will
Doesn't miss a beat of both those archiving kills
And I love the way both times vitality of retaking from confidence
They go one high one low
It's the perfect repeat of the call and it starts to raise on the clutch
Got to save our Talty's utility has been
Daffoning in this game
Just... everyone, ladding eight cheese on game-election in this bebombsite, saving them till later, a good reason.
Big question at the end of that round is, where did the Orchardon?
Jaden even find it. This guy can find anything. On the roof?
Two lines. Oh! Six feet under the barbs, and now vitality of a woken.
You don't want to play against Wokelightality.
Oh, in 2026.
Game of Legion, a cancel.
Oh, huh.
I think that doesn't make sense.
Doesn't compute.
Okay again a claw back of the 3v5 they've done this a couple of times now
It's enclosing the round the game a legion of struggled
With Res Dead back in the apartments huge pickup for Mezzy
Falling Prader Res on that push
All this attention towards top mid is kind of given flames the idea that he might be able to start slinking on in through banana on a deep push
she's now well behind enemy lines.
I mean, might never have a part to play.
The site hold can just withstand the hit.
Flames ends up being surplus to requirement.
He hours made a footstep now, and so they know what to use.
I'm on the line and by talented move up into the lead.
That's not scouting anymore.
Remember all those miss shots for the first few he currently?
Zaiwu is looking as reliable as ever of the CT side.
You may not remember any of his flakes.
I'm a big one.
And you won't remember the score at the end of the map.
If I tell her to keep this up, it's going to be one side.
A gamer lead you can, they break back in with another four by.
No war. Maybe a blessing in disguise on the T side of him for a bit.
He tried.
He's a poplar.
He's well. He kind of happened to just fight here.
That's a realisation Zaiwu came to as well.
They forced him to do this, remember.
Push that to the wall to the top and don't flash in this.
Oh, timing!
Just missed, but Zaiwu hanging around, saw something on that final sliver away.
Ow, just gonna get out of there, right?
Is the needs come in, so I won't.
Honestly, they put so much in a trying to disrupt them,
but he owned but on at the entire time.
They haven't because he doesn't want it.
He gave it to them.
Shocked no one has died in this round,
but two tagged up players from the needs
by Talty again, clamoring for info, clear out middle,
Medio rotation.
It's got a flash for Zyrooli, that's all he can offer.
It's up to the wood.
That's where it makes it past flashes.
It's a good, maybe a little too good.
This shop for Zyrooli.
The arc would capitalize,
made up the smoke for the break comes up in favour of Game Elegion.
And so if we're meeting two here, they're giving away some man advantage rounds,
but this will not be one of them apex,
nor robs, in a position to give this one a go.
Right, awareness from Game Elegion,
We've not seen a single round where vitality have popped open the smokes. They've used their HEs for damage on this B bombsite every single round
So game illusion is still say super aware that that's a possibility and as they cross in vitality try to stop them
Reses is putting up a double at the back of the site
That's I was up get saved. So it's a huge victory here for game illusion who we're worrying my run out of steam
Back on the board
And if I round no less, we're looking at a very equal half right now.
The credits weren't too weak in the Legion.
Testing vitality of the moment.
Get in the one.
The timing.
Everyone's so blind there, and I will alone.
If you're like even taking one, might not be enough in that position.
Just because of the timings missed.
Counting strength comes down to the milliseconds.
Tensual hyperspees, I will clash if either of them wanted to attempt them in fight.
Offs one and jump across to spawn it.
it. I lose there but once nothing to do with it. And so again it's back to trying to force
vitality back into a passive B set up for the side of the game a Legion.
At least the reaction they happen to get once they kind of get this banana control.
Here is before this half is done they try and use that against them and one of these fakes.
Now it's pretty committed towards the east side.
Maybe by starting panning right now with this YouTube, it's a bit of a ruse as they come
up alongside all this apps presence just in joke.
Let's get through the smoke, snacks is ready to receive.
Big kill for snacks, and now, Robsons Eye, we're getting trapped in a bomb site, but who's
trapped as a game-relation or as a vitality.
Oh, vitality.
Nikes!
What is that?
And the third is well, Snikes takes them all.
He's even doing gestures, man.
You still play in the round now.
He's hunting for more.
He's getting pumped up right now.
Three kills deep from bottom of the board.
A high impact around here for game-relation's captain.
Yes, it is beautiful. What a cool they got all the space and even though Vitality knew
It's nothing they could do about it and snacks is hitting hard like that
Yet one kill coming into that round he leaves with a trip all
God is the flash
Clean the core head shots of the orb and climbs up over smoke and classics next
Fast finish the job
Oh, stop.
I did that while the round was live, like the little hand just to the kind of, like,
I did it's crazy.
108 U.T. damage around. Back in London.
I mean, sure.
Darts, juggling, headshots and such.
It's next could do it all.
He said himself, you want trophies and darts.
Placed above his parents,
his leaky crackle.
Oh, but in a piece. There's a thing or two.
Finally fighting for banana or vitality, let me get out with a kill.
Close beef versus the 5-7 always makes you nervous, especially when it's teed up with a
picture perfect flash from Zai Wu.
Ever even get stressful for Mersey there out in the apartments.
It's a good bit of interplay just to try and squie cow any advantage you can in this final round.
On back to way.
And on the 5-7, these guns are brutal right now, and they have to take the bomb into a
pex.
Mag7 anchoring.
Yeah, I mean, a pex is got a bit of a love-hate relationship with this one.
He loves it sometimes.
It hates him.
Mag7.
It's not his trusty sidekick there.
I got in the first kill of the round, but that's the end of it.
4-8-8-stown.
To a retake now.
And I'm extra on the spare high pex and snacks.
Next, immune to these bullets coming through the smoke.
244.
Conqueror, follow with that squad.
Can't really commit to Bonona.
Let's see if Snacks' hot hands, right?
He just had that sick 3K in the round prior.
You're one kill heading into round number 11.
Snacks' shot in the back, nearly over to get away.
And with Highpex dead, out of Bonona, vitality,
will succeed in tying up this opening map.
Game of Legends pick, fall from safe right now.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Today we're going to be playing a series of carnival games.
This is probably a piece together.
We're going to start this off a little bit of hairstyle.
I'll get shooting into Gartson Balloons.
And then we're going to finish with some extra,
I'm holding.
He need guns and targets.
Just getting to do this.
Hello.
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Look.
Hold it.
Targeting the back is untouched.
Round one that's zero.
Raise it.
You can confidently compete with that.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see if you're at it.
Yeah.
OK.
OK.
Go ahead and go.
There's a lot of points.
Yeah.
OK.
OK.
It's better than the pencil.
Let's go ahead and do the pencil.
I have to pull it up to 6.7.
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That's a snap.
128 points.
And on the other side, right?
As we've received 132 to win round one.
the right now, they should pay to up next to her and give it throwing darts so we made this for you,
set it down, there's three rounds of three darts each, gold balloons, three points,
one for you. That's tight points, no, that's a lot for it.
Oh, all right.
All right.
Ooh, you're going.
I'm going.
I'm going.
I'm going up a lot.
All right.
Great.
Sex.
No!
That's your impression.
13, climb around, 15, 15.
15, 15.
And in the yard, 16, 13, snatching tide up the series.
Or now going into a little axe throwing closest to the center.
We'll win that round.
OK.
Let's start.
Yeah.
Did you hear not the watching?
Oh, yes.
That's how we're doing.
You have to go first this time.
I got you know it.
Ooh, one boys, I know where's that.
That's when we're looking to be here, spot him.
Ooh.
And so it's decided.
Res, you are victorious.
You actually have to throw your clutches on the roof.
And throw up first champion of the day.
Hey, Res.
Champion of the day, reds, we have congratulations.
We have fun and yeah, thanks for playing.
Thank you.
It's a close opening map here, vitality able to claw it back to an even footing, six
all on the half.
A game of Legion can end up feeling the burn, here you go, and foregoing a couple of rounds
maybe earlier than they should in this first half of in Fernou.
It was an eco that got the member, right?
Though pistols on Archive running out of time in a three on five, it was awkward for game
and vitality swept a five-round streak off the back and now draw at the half.
So no complaints with vitality other than perhaps as slow as start than they wanted,
but again we said it's all about how you finish vitality back on the T-side in full
control and with a lot of needs in this pistol as well.
3 players buying utility, but not an upgrade, pistols in sight.
It's really out on a solo venture here, alone over towards the B-Sight and the enforcement
are away as a waste, and that's thought about the rotation.
Well, this side against it, so for now it's Resolver Loan.
What's he got for us? Up close to the smoke, tries to get tricky with it.
So I was going to find him. And with the peace-site falling so convincingly, there's
really not a lot of aim-leaching could do here, that desperate for this kill on robs,
and he won't give it away for free. This was a rifle round. You'd be saving already.
The fact that it's a pistol, get it?
even give them calls to go for this.
They're nothing to save.
They get more out of getting kills here for the killer award
than they do out of keeping USPs without armor.
Game of the Legion Mayor's well.
The exception PR, 4 cent.
All right, I shot to over there.
You're not gonna win this round anymore,
but let's see if they can cause some chaos
on their way out.
It's a lot of kills and they just might get them all.
All right, so obviously it's fine
being on the other side of the map, because you notice my Italian he have already done it.
So there's the pistol rounds woken up this second half.
Sure, you lose almost everyone.
What matters is that number up at the top of the screen and it climbs up for vitality.
There's just keeps going, doesn't it?
I think left the side will come here, it's nice.
I just like watching the POV over the shoulder, and that's my favorite part.
Pours up the game of Legion.
Attancing with no 3b's.
I'm going to greet you very much on the T side.
See how my Tanties are actually in comparison to a strong.
Maybe more than I can come to this next system.
Doing what flames are doing all CT side.
That's what they'll be time for me. This is the score of the game.
on his days later
Ash could be interested
I mean that's a really good double for I high-packs but once again you know it's down
it was so low all down all the side of game allegiance
If you're getting away with one, is gonna make this one interesting at 3v2, you're more
than down to give this to go if you're game-elegant and ticing.
Sure, rotate to a little ways away, but already arriving in a top mid and able to do so stealthily.
It's cross-fired down here in the pit for Rops and Mezzy.
Rifel's rule here in this position.
The ball is a bit of a problem.
No turning from flash.
A toss comes out.
He quick kills here from game religion.
I think they've found them just in time.
The fuse coming in.
And around one out on the force game religion.
Flip this game on.
It's head early in the second half.
Every time you're ready to write them out.
And expect vitality to run away.
Game religion give us something else to marvel at.
They have just been training round.
Raving round, all game!
Keeping this rod netting neck.
And with a damage of the pistol, a force by victory.
But it's guaranteed you have an almost nothing to show for it.
Coming in slow here to Inferno.
Zai would give an AK.
That's all we've got.
Oh, what's that, Snacks?
Oh, now it's die hard.
Oh, okay.
Hey, Pekstas, a favour to game elition.
Why does he run into the smoke spam of HiPekst?
Still as I win with the AK survivors.
Yeah, still has the pot to play in the round toss in the pole blind.
Ress is gonna get rid of Zai Wu and that leaves a sub-10 HP robs.
Spam would end in here in this position, and that's exactly how it's gonna go down.
Never have really given a fat fight there as robs.
And so Game of Leach and keep it in check.
Lead, taken again as they steal it back from vitality.
One is happening here, Harry.
No, it's game. Well, he's just man-picked, but...
One of the things I think it's really hard not to love is whatever you're talking about, Apex and his career and how, you know, he's been as a play.
You talk about the change and how his style, him as a person has changed over the years, right?
Since going from like the old entry star, back in the day to, you know, now, captain and a hell of a captain of that.
By talent, you think I love his, when you look at Snacks on the other side, there's still so much Snacks in how Snacks plays.
I mean you're always down to see him commit to a smoke push and he lives in days by it, too
Oh, yes, definitely we've seen the worst sign of that yeah
The original smoke criminal
In his own way
I remember he was the first guy to walk up into the mirage top mid smoke on CT side
And just the wait for it to fade.
Mypex has been reliable in this game.
It started off super strong to get those anti-Ecos in
and the first gun rifle game in the Middle East.
Top of the team right now.
I'm going to need him.
If this upset is to come through,
Rob's add some intrigue with the 1D.
Jump on the corner.
I picked Missy, really needed one there, quite a lot on the long side able to mow him down,
and Warries, averted, avoiding for now.
Seeing some stress on Apex's face, that's for sure, and they're getting more than they bothered.
let's go
I don't think it's far to be feeling stressed at this point in the game, right?
You're kind of late in the day now when you're worried that
you know just giving one round awake have massive implications that's really
you're working within small margins for error here if you're vitality and
even that starts to kind of tighten the purse strings tight in the playbook
you feel a little more restricted at this type of a score line it's not like
apex kind of has the the whole map open to play with game allegiance right
now they've got a slight cushion a bit of a lead it's so with that comes a
And freedom to take some risks a bit of a gamble like in this round right the four one splitch has put its in faith in the read
These are all things vitality you're gonna have to contend with
With this gamble comes heavy stack out in top there and they flash the peak in
But all of this is really just a draw attention away from Torsten. He's in a very very powerful position here getting in behind enemy lines on an abs flank
Could be in position. I'll fruit the whole round. Here's the coming back with the bomb A pegs
This is gonna tilt in getting some
You tell dropped back they knew about rocks
So kill comes in Torsten cleaned up gets a bit stressed out on his flank the position where he really kind of had to win the round for game
a leach and only gets out with one. Maybe that will relieve some of the intention being
out to so cleanly convert the round. Paulson tried to hold on but the kills came to him.
Good hunt for rops to trade that frag. Almost a very ugly situation for vitality. I think
he lose that round and all the wheels just come off. That's 10 rounds. That's your economy gone
and that's all because you're captain. You're gonna shot on the back on him. His ultimate push
rush would have been a kill around to lose. So vitality still here, still fighting.
I hear problems with kind of rounds like Afro-Game of Legion is so much goes in to setting
up the push and tossing the commit into the midfives to try and take a patch off them.
When you end up sacrificing, you tell a player on the swing out through middle, you really
need big results from that flank. That's why we say if I like
Torsi kind of have to win the round, essentially, or at least put
them in a position two in the round. One was never going to be
enough. It's a terrifying position to play like trick
discipline as well. Yeah, right. You're in a lot of the best way.
It's just you need a multi. It's a wild headspace to be in
because you know, Torsi's feeling that pressure too, right?
He sees a teammate die out in top mid. He knows he has to get
big results at the same time. You know, what's worse than not
getting your one? It's it's getting none because you try to play
the triggered discipline and then someone comes in late.
When he hears a pegs or he's taking up through mid,
it actually kind of puts him in a very weird predicament.
He knows players are coming back from B.
He knows there's guys top middle.
And so, you know, there's kind of a lot of variables there
to try and deal with decides to take the shot.
And it ends up with vitality getting through that
with minimal casually, he's a pegs sacrifice,
but everyone else does their part.
I'll just say you didn't watch.
I love this next Shader.
He funds at the table.
Graphics cards are shakes.
No way we had that ready.
I'm actually confident now.
The production's so good here.
You could just say anything and they've got it ready.
Yeah, careful.
Ha ha ha.
It's way too quick.
Take over like bars removed on here.
Try something.
Crash zoom apex is face.
What's he up to?
Crushing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's messy, boo.
Be reasonable.
Because I think he was alone.
Yeah, there he is.
There he is, getting involved in this time-out, is the game's getting real close now.
I still wonder how the head game will each and every bit of the buffer, they still have a economy,
or it got saved, it's not panic, just yet.
Say, it's hard to hear, at least putting it resistance to difficult rounds.
I've every expectation that running away from the game today, Harry, so all of them
impressed with what we've gotten out of GL, but is that all it's going to be?
They don't want it to be the case.
Double Nades, remove the solo B player, or his god, can PR do anything.
It's a nice way to starve, right?
Stopping, just that.
Roll out from the first kill, but get a struggle to fully contain it.
I haven't really seen behind that molly there.
It had been over commitment.
And the round lives and dies on that fight from PR, so into
the youth presumed, Mr Sir, clean vitality night good,
aids the apex just survives.
They're not rushing as planned, they know that they need to prevalent.
I tell you, with all the time of the world, I'll take the sweet time to guarantee a night.
And it's theirs.
Why don't you take the opportunity to do it?
Why don't you take the opportunity to do it?
Why don't you take the opportunity to do it?
if they're just stuck with rifles.
Yeah, you know, I mean we were talking in that first half on high picks as
looking as lights out with the rifles kind of saying how you'll see for
offers where they go to kind of don the AW that may be they may end up
regretting and I was ever really full and
It's always been down to do both. Even more so from the moment CS2 rocked up, super hybrid.
Especially here at T side of Furno.
It's famously the worst side to walk on.
I get it in a post-on and you can have a better weapon, but getting in that post-Florist
especially getting it on by the cities that don't save.
It's considerably rarer.
So, even game now, game allegiance money, cause for concern, gonna echo on these non-saved
Plyates.
If they just go for the 4b executes, they should be no saving this round here, say, simple
answer here for vitality, forcing the save of Game of Legion.
The Archotaurat is smoke deep to try and...
Something shards but all he'd offer to confidence.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's a peek.
Pending a ludicrous, you know, double kill or something from PR,
you would never really interested if this ended up with B
and with him cleared straight away.
And you're really not.
There's always going to be the case that they've played to save, and honestly, it's not the end of the world here for Game of Legion right.
You get out with three guns. You give yourself a little bit more staying power, which is hard to do when you're on a losing streak.
And my Tality, pulling up back into the lead, late in the game.
And this is where, you know, you kind of see the, you know, this could not be like a case study
in how mistakes compound in high tiers of competition, high tiers of counter strike this
idea that, you know, you really kind of only messed up a handful of rounds in that first
but it had massive implications.
Todd to play flawless,
but whenever you get to a winning position,
especially versus the best team we have right now
in Vitality, you really can't afford to let them get away
from you because you think about how different this game
could have looked, had game a legion,
either been able to win the eco, secured success,
and any one of their kind of post-plot positions,
thinking about that ugly double-dark post-plot
from their first, their first B-plot round off
of the lost of the eco.
Or even any of these clawed back 3B files
that they couldn't stick the landing in.
Just like this game could have,
for all intents purposes, been over already
with Game of Leach and picking it up,
but my talent is still offering positive resistance
and now taking the lead.
Outside is it's not like you can look at really
this game to say, oh, these were massive mistakes from game
but that's why I say mistakes in town, right?
It's like you only made two, what are,
relatively speaking, I kind of mind them mistakes, but in the long run, that ended up causing
you to we go in that first half that gave Vitali and even bigger cash around to fall back
on.
Definitely when you're playing a team like Vitali, but just refuse to go down.
Yeah, you feel like, and you know, that really room fair.
It really matters in a close game, and a game that's coming down the final couple around.
And that is what this game is doing.
It's not at least it's a valley and trade there.
and have to be a valiant effort in this banana hole that with the swing, flames gets in the
U-till forces that reaction at a snacks, as they return this to a 3 on 3, really measured
with vitality never rushing that play just to get those players out of top car using the
U-till well. Now they execute the B-bombsite knowing there's probably no one here,
Ress is giving it away back from confidence, vitality shift their way in time could be the only
issue with HyperX bringing in a need.
You sit down, so how do you get me into the bar of fate?
You need to kill a Red Squad in chaos 10 seconds, or HyperX run through, will he risk it all?
Fast drop them, but no push on the back of it, they can see the bomb plant leaving this
one at two a re-take.
That's awesome, HyperX is both had good moments in this map so far, but to get past
and flames set up in a crossfire.
Down and play off of one another.
If flames could even get one before getting cleaned up
and there's no trade out.
It's horse and yeah, at the late swing.
And now they know about him.
They've got him pinned in here on this push out from CT.
Now it's up, it's playing the trade game.
Rawling's lead done in that 2B2.
As Vitality shows, how to handle one of those post-planned.
Yeah, that was a 45 and the slow down.
It's not a case of a new chance to go back to B,
the player hasn't yet had the car.
I like the setup it's good, but vitality just
are so measured when the team threw them,
jump to gun, they're trying to trade these kills out on
coffins, or on on sandbags, they let them by their hands.
They remolly him a second time.
It's methodical for vitality.
Minimizing mistakes.
I mean, there were so many close moments in that round,
I think at the bomb plant, the fake outs, I would die off the site and just getting the
plant in time.
If HyperX used his HE to break CT smoke, doesn't even have to rush the plant.
He just has to keep the pressure on.
That felt like the opportunity wasted the game of Legion.
He went for damage, but no one was even tagged up.
Not enough.
There's a very close game, can game-lead and give us anything more down the stretch or
easy vitality of the back of three clean, three clean post-pone post-pone and then around
like that.
Are they just going to finish the job?
off Bell down but on her. I tell her to barely even look at A in this T-side.
You can try and use that to your advantage right now you have Game of Leach and paranoid
about their behold. You know that in a 5v4 resources get spread thin.
So you might be expecting a bit of a gamble here, a bit of a reaction from Game of
Legion. I'll group with three but they're in advanced positions here thanks to Snacks down at the base of banana.
As far as these Gamble stacks go, this one carrying a lot more aggression and if anything,
hearing two players tag in the Molly's longer, if that makes you able to look Snacks,
as he won't, I think it's my claw one back but it's still the advantage sighting with vitality.
And with the ground gained out here towards a multiple players spotted over a B, it feels
like we're finally going to get one of these A players from the Vitalite squad.
They wait in the long smoke, they clear this together.
They've got one man to deal with here, it's tossing down in the pit.
Molly still on A-packs, needs ready to come in and none of that's even required.
They catch him transitioning out in the open and so round is done.
The map point for vitality, the dodge of the stack.
Very strange position change there, right?
The whole map is quiet, your team of peaking car.
They don't see anyone, and you try and shift from big pits
and many pit, that feels so optimistic for Torson there.
You know, he had him 30 seconds to pick his position.
But it is as vitality walkout along there,
he is caught in the open and up to 12 rounds that 5 in a row.
Vitality, they reach for that gear.
They've leveled up here on this T-side.
They've been trying to punish maximum damage
hunting these kills at the F-8.
Oh, swinging in, fight tactic, it's gone.
And there's no way to get it back.
So from back to worse, if it came to the Legion.
I have guys my charity leveling up you're on it fun.
Yeah, you know, we'll be sore apex looking a little bit kind of a little bit stress a little bit
a little bit of thanks to some of these early rounds, but I think he's got a lot to be happy about right now by
talent you're playing a really really good game.
You know, we were kind of talking about how one or two storm mistakes can end up being game defining and that's been a bit of a
A bit of a trend for game-reliefing the idea that and you even said this to open up a series
to open up the series.
It's not enough to just start strong, you have to finish strong and I wouldn't actually
subscribe that to a lot of these rounds game-reliefing of often got into good positions
but it's their round closes that feel like they've let them down in this game.
You compare it to what by talent you're bringing to the table even when they're taking
risks like they're waiting in the lava smoke in that last round.
It's not much of a risk because of the info they've picked up.
But even there, you know, the setup was perfect, they were playing a trade, they were playing
a crossfire on the fate of the smoke and they've just kept this up, all game-off, every
move is synergistic with someone else, they're playing off of each other really well.
I think Apex is a lot to be happy about with how Vitality have recovered here on Inferno
from kind of a slower start.
How does I just sit down, boy?
It doesn't even kill him.
The ability to kill away, and game-leature, all you can say is, an admirable game from them
here on land, in Fono, their map pick, and a really great showing in that first half.
They've given us glimmers of hopes, but it is vitality.
The burn bright, an inevitable conclusion here for as you think, smoke can't make
it interesting, but long-sight taken vitality sitting there crossfire.
I'm just gonna go down, this is a vitality who took so many trophies last year, but didn't
graze, blast bounty, a new year, a new season, a new trophies to take vitality here in this
quarterfinal, are looking to run forward into the semis, Res 1v3, frames down, sees a lot of
The player's smoke can come on the bomb, but he needs his kill first.
Shes him down, Apex, Respar.
I'm interesting.
Three kills, but time gives you no room, Barra,
or Res just thick in the smoke.
Make him upset, he could have won it.
No!
Tan, the second is...
AHHHH!
The bomb!
If Res stopped that, what it could have been, instead.
The headlight should have vitality coming through,
and taking game allegiance map pick.
They made a run of it.
They made a game of it, but it is vitality
at the end of the date of battle back in the second half of Inferno
and sees their opponents map kick right back to winning ways for the Kings of Counter Strike.
Both of those have started really well for Gamer Legion.
I mean, the T-side for them was looking extremely strong.
I felt like they were going to get some more momentum rolling into it, but that's kind of what Vitality does.
That's what 2025 was all about.
Just when you think you happen right where you want them, they're able to bounce on back.
Yeah, I agree with that.
I think Gamer Legion gave them a good fight.
They gave us a bit of a hope, gave me a sense that, oh, maybe there's a bit of an upset
looming in the corner right here, but at the end of the day, you win the first pistol you
go out for when the first half, then you lose the second pistol, but you bounce back instantly
in round number two when you commit on those. So, the readily speaking, yeah, Gamma Lee didn't
got off to a good start in both of the beginning of both-house, but when it came down to the
gun rounds, when it came down to the nitty-gritty, all the retakes, scenarios, all the actual playing
counters right, five years, five-word guns in your hand. It was a clear disparity between the two teams.
This feels like the most quintessentially in Fernos scoreboard, which is that barely anybody on vitality side is actually positive in the field count there
yet they still just had so many commanding rounds that second half, but at forcing game release into the saver that winning around very early
I will say this is one of those scenarios where yes he didn't pop off, you know, in terms of the scoreboard
but the manager's green line he has side move had impact in the game
he went six for eight in opening duels throughout this series throughout this game
that's an awful lot of impact
he was the one showing him down in the beginning as well with the A-W-E-P one by Saturday
one by telling you, we're struggling a little bit on the CT side, involved in some of the
first-by-winces world. So, yes, as per the, I guess that's she didn't have one of those
blow-off games where he went crazy, but in terms of growing, I think he played fantastic.
Also, you just know that in a series like this, I feel like in the first maybe five or
so rounds, there was not even a lot to say about that. He just warms up into it. I mean,
you can never keep him down for very long. Always finds a way back into a never feels, like
he's bothered by the score line. That's a crazy, that page to look at, because he was so
much better than that suggests.
Yeah, that's a quintessential Zavu isn't it, right?
I mean, even when the numbers are eye-opping, you also know that he's a player who's going
to do exactly what he thinks he needs to do for the team to win.
As opposed to any individual like chasing or anything like that, he's always going to be like,
I've got enough.
We're going to win this round.
Now I'm going to make sure we don't lose it.
I feel like the entire time that Zavu was coming up into the space, he had to just be
a one-man wrecking crew.
But also just that he had to recognize every single time on that AAA line, I've even
going all the way back there and early vitality days, how are you the biggest win
condition for your team and how do you create no losing conditions ever, which is
why he seems so risk averse, which is why oftentimes he doesn't feel like he
has as much flare as some of the big superstars that we also talk about, people
like dog monacy and simple for example, who really just always push it to the
limit, but as I will know, he knows when enough is enough, and he doesn't need
to actually go for that extra frag. Now, maybe you don't remember as I
will flick, but you do remember if vitality retakes and he's got a few of these
here, Maui. There's three consecutive
retakes. And this is where it really
just started feeling like the the
boa constrictor of vitality started
tightening its grip on game religion
because these were winnable situations
for game religion. The first retake
the post plant that is they off for the
double emo setup, which in itself is a
bit of a risk. But then the second time
around Snacks goes for the solo emo
and then he just gets completely
native, molly that a position. You can
see in all of these retakes as well
that Vitalian clicks so much damage
onto all of the game religion players
because of the wealth of utility that was well placed
from Flamesy and Apex.
I think their utility stats are probably off the charts
for this too.
And so what do Gamerly do in the bird post plant?
They try to push right into Zyro.
So huge impact will round for him where it felt like they
tried to flip the script, but he was still ready for it.
You could argue that Gamerly and perhaps
could have won one of these new entrepreneur
and maybe could have played some of the scenarios differently.
But I would even also highlight the fact
of our utility.
It's such a ball of strength to flesh
that you can go for consistent and retaking on a map
like inferno.
you would put a lot of other teams in that scenario,
take Falcons as an example, right?
You don't really want to put them in a WeeTix scenario
three times in a round, because they don't really
have that same ability, okay, mobility.
I think a few Falcons retakes on inferno's,
or something, retakes in a round.
That's the point, right?
You're still in my mind.
You feel like, I feel like, I feel like I'm telling the,
I just, in this game, they're just flexing their muscles.
You know, they can win in so many different
sessions, whether they have to go for the WeeTix,
whether they have to play a bit more aggressive on banana,
and not allow it to be a WeeTix in aero.
There's so many avenues to victory for my tele게
and they fixed that in this game.
Now I do want to give a bright spot over to game religion
and particularly a bright spot over to snacks
because to come a little while to get involved
that a holy cow, let's just watch this round back.
It was sick.
This was nice, it's hell, rollin' back a year's
for snacks in this one.
This is just pure fan service.
That's why we really enjoy this one.
And we all are the fans.
I mean, I will say to snacks is credit.
I mean, this is, this one's back Taco.
But tap onto Apex into the bomb,
so I will say with that it's just despicable.
That's just so nasty.
And then he also flexes into the bomb site,
gets the kill on a Rob's two on top.
And you do just feel like that.
And that's a vintage snacks performance right there, right?
Like, that's where you just, your eyes get wide.
And you remember what it was like back in 2013?
That is a bit of a bullseye play right there,
coming in for snacks, but also look at the score line.
This game is still at this very moment, very competitive.
You don't know what's gonna happen in this second half.
So the fact that he puts a six rounds on the ball,
single handy by getting a triple kill,
at the moment when it happened,
that seemed that could be a key round
unfortunately to turn out not to be,
but it was still a big move from next.
You know what, that's so nice.
I don't want to watch it twice.
I think we've got that round with the comms on it.
Can we go and give that a whirl?
I'll let you go.
I'll let you go.
I'll let you go.
I'm gonna have some ticker.
I'll let you go.
Let me sit.
I want to put that thing on the floor.
I think you're going to take it hand.
I think you're as well.
Yeah, I'm so interested in it.
We're gonna go away, guys, too.
Yeah.
I don't need shot. I don't need shot. Let's do it.
That's it. That's it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
That's it.
Get car.
You're like that's almost the rule you make.
You're giving me a good round.
Yeah.
I got another one.
This is still a five-person study.
It's time for breaking.
Already.
I've been reading some incredible games.
That Scrawdy was doing good.
Some of the players, it feels like snacks.
It feels like he just won a teddy bear.
I mean, you can see a resident still completely blocked it at the time.
So like at this point, Reds feels like the uncary,
like he's just like clearing car moving forward still.
It's like this next.
Woo!
Looks like somebody's got to keep the mood light.
The game was very much still in contenture.
Yeah, that could have been a critical round.
That would have been what we were talking about.
A game of league in the closest.
They don't.
How worried are we now?
I mean, we knew our expectations coming into us.
A game of league and how to chance.
And they show you enough for you to think that this might still be a series.
It's still be a series.
Nope, not in terms of winning it on the second map.
I think it showed me enough that it was a competitive game on in Ferrywell.
I think that it did a good job.
I expected by telling it to win this game quite convincingly.
I would even anticipate that in Ferrywell could have even more safe for by telling it that
we didn't have so many moments where I'm like, oh, maybe there's a chance here for Gamaloo
season.
But it doesn't change the outcome of this game.
But if anything, it reaffirmed me that beating Aurora and playing so well in the online portion
of it.
There was no fluke game on it, and I'm playing some decent counter strike right here, especially
when you consider whether at right now
the landscape of the big city.
They certainly are, and we'll talk a little bit more
about that when we come back from this break,
and get ready for Dust 2.
Apex, I thought it would be interesting to be from you, so did you suck your coat
yet today?
Every day mates, that's a dirty basis, I do that.
It's important between that energy.
What do you think our success comes from?
That's from there.
A little team synergy there.
I'll tell you one thing, I heard that there might be a little bit of a bug going around
for the coach, so that was an especially tough task for apex this time around, but still
he'll do whatever it takes for the team to succeed and in this one they certainly did
on inferno.
I don't know how does two is going to go, but I do know one thing.
This will be the 100th recorded HLTV map between apex and snacks.
This is a little moment of Counter Strike history right here on the desk.
Coach is not what's next.
It's a lot of maps, you know.
It's a lot of games between the Katrina's Yava and it goes to speak where we talked about
coming into the game, the longevity of both the players, they may have been the same position
right now.
One is winning everything and contending to be arguably in the conversation of perhaps a future
great in-game leader.
Snacks has really done a great job coming back into the scene.
He had a time where I think most people would have counted them off and said he's never
going to come back in competitive counts, right?
Went into G2, won a couple of trophies, could have done better in certain scenarios.
And now feel like he's found his place in a game-religion, which is a promising squad where
he wants again, can showcase that.
by all means a decent in-game beta.
So it really is, now looking at this map,
how might a decent in-game leader
to actually make it happen here for game religion now?
Well, I feel like for snacks and company on Dust2.
I mean, this is kind of a dire picture.
I mean, there've just been fairly disastrous
ever since he's come back into the lineup.
And I feel like I would try to set up high-packs a little bit more.
I look back at what he did versus Aurora or what he didn't do.
And you want to guess how many of the eight gun rounds on CT side
they even tried to set up high-packs,
when he held the WP, can you tell me zero is zero. They didn't give him a boost,
they didn't give him a flash. He barely went for a singular peak against Aurora.
And so they just need to set up the offer. Stop trying to set up the rifles. It's does too,
man. And high picks is from, I'd say for at this event, been the standout player on CT side.
So you need to make new need to make them a priority on your defense. We were talking about it yesterday.
You don't need to reinvent the wheel most of the time on dust too. You need to do things well.
And I think that's what my teller, yeah, I'm gonna do one on this map.
I think they're gonna come in with some new spectacular way of addressing dust too.
S.S.S. in 2025, I think they played it 37 times or 38 times, and the 134 of those games.
Only played against tier one opposition as well, it's impeccable.
It's arguably one of the greatest streaks of any team as ever had if you actually dive into it.
So from our teller, you need to come into dust too, that's a home ground.
I'm just gonna pretend you're a percent, you're sorry, a few facts, and not really gonna attach any word to it.
but Game of Leading with this new roster
have never won does to ride.
They've lost to a row where they lost to passion,
you're way, they lost to energy in the lost to venom.
Come to those games for the stand-in.
I get it, but still, you're going up again,
it's a team that I think perhaps
is the greatest does to team of all time,
and you haven't won the map yourself.
How are you supposed to win the mic?
I'll tell you what, I'm struggling to come up
with a way through, but I know two guys
who are always inventing.
Sheddy got a vision.
We got air in here, you got any ideas?
I think that's fair enough to say heading into map 2. The semis only beckon 1 team
forward. Right now it's vital, he is step away from that heading on to home ground and
for Game of Legends, it's a real weak point.
Yeah, and I really like the way the Jacob closes that,
because he says that this is more than likely
the best dust who team of all time,
and I think if you go and look at the last 12 months,
it's very hard to argue with that, right?
Dropping this map, just a handful of times,
four times across the year,
it's just an unbelievable track record
that you don't see any other team,
you know, a match for any degree, right?
I've found these dominance was destructive enough,
31 and 4 on this map in 2025 is completely underniable.
An inethable team.
Actually given them two little, 32 and 4.
Oh my, well no, 2025.
You're in, right, you're voting the one this year already.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm not even giving them the right amount of credit.
But maybe they can make it 33.
Oh, he inshots on this be hit.
Now he's going to repel the first two in, but why don't you stop the full tide of
Vitali, if you're running on through.
I'm now plant-event down to a retake.
You've got a bit of you till on snacks and high-pakes.
Who stopped trying peeking, but nothing being offered by Vitali.
See, it's all going to come down to the Snacks Flash over the top.
In it goes and the first results don't look that convincing.
Highpex catches one on the drop down and all of a sudden,
Gamer Legion will cause correct.
It's all round. It's secured for the game allegiance squad.
There's a bit of a lucky chart shop for Highpex.
Goes a long way. The polls have been doing fantastic work
on Gamer Legion today. Snacks hitting some sharp shots
That's that final kill as I were in necessity to come in instantly.
They can't 3 on 4, look easy in that beef hose plant, but snacks, and I pegs.
Give us a pistol.
This force is going to be even more dangerous on a map I does too.
I'm surprising I'll see how we scout.
Usually knocks your socks off on this mid-cross.
a couple of glills instead.
Emily, Jean, love adding a couple of twists and turns to this series, but they make dust
who is interesting as inferno as my wonder. What do I say no?
I'm still around, says maybe.
I'm not missed, I'm going to definitely miss this.
No, that flash is so punishing.
Just dribbles into the bottom of a high-pixel screen and leaves him dead out on long
It's a good tradeback for PR and it keeps this long presence active for game-religion
Normal normal care play on it packs feeling a bit stressed here because he doesn't actually want to die
It feels like it be gives away a man in part-age
It might be up for the task
Thankfully he takes one with him and that will just be the safe called here for game-religion the plan kind of failed on long-row with the Miss Smoke
You can mend the game-election word bothered about the long lurk and they're just watch
your side but still vitality find all the entries and...
It's a simple round of the end of the day, hunting kills!
Good night! So they didn't save anything but they do save their scoreline.
Wanting a force by upgrades available.
They complain.
What's that?
What's that?
I get it.
Got a very valuable team here at my time.
Oh, he saw something.
You want to wait?
So, we scout?
Just say that's like a hundred millisecond shot, but he just misses it.
I'm trying to give second XQC vibe in the comms, okay?
Shot, one shot, two shot,
flash it shot!
Good, wait, good!
Oh, hang on Rob's, it's holding onto the tunnels,
but not for long, it's a really good push at a raise.
King double, make sure that Torcin and Snacks is sacrifices,
weren't in vain, keeps this one even, right?
Well, it's put to work, as PR also delivers,
and screw it. Why not make it the double with Zayu dead?
You're left looking on a messy here. What are you three?
Little like he was up to the task on the turnaround,
but just a little too far and res a little too fast.
It snatched back by Game of Legion.
Rekels out of res, he's seven and one.
He's given his high pegs before Mr. Starter game.
Fantastic beginning from res will be required.
In the Legion, I need to force right back with a bit of control
Chaos in tunnels and PR who's gone mostly under the radar numbers were finalized map, but
didn't really blow us out of the water.
Or chased, but just escaping daymoleage and back on long,
Vitality really wanted that kill in order to commit.
Let's leave it to Dio and Pets, so it comes out.
You can go around the world, it's an option, but res still sits back flat.
So I don't really dig with open-up this round.
he out with full nades shouldn't give it to him.
Expoxpoke is so back.
Didn't see this for a while just saw these hinge smokes but...
They're a little harder than a drop.
Not what rops.
He's dude, he is countering snacks so hard.
Around these smokes
Sometimes just kind of getting a little glimmer of someone hiding in them
You spot someone in a smoke in these games. I don't know who it's gonna be drops. Ah, that's an awkward miss
So I will at least hop for the trade is he up for any more no dead on the cross over
It's simply does not have time playing it a little loose to go grab the degle chance to try cross on any scene the barrel of the man and elevator
He's actually going to go back for the kill!
He's an idea there for Apex, but worth marches, the round still gets collected for Gamalige and all the same.
That's so strange because the Molly on short misses, and that lets robs out, and you actually wonder,
if robs cross and let out.
Maybe they win, because he loses the bomb of this way.
So we had the really quick trade, but I thought anyway, it's just the finest margins and all of them coming up
to gain the legion, even when they seem like they shouldn't, 3-1.
Near folly, go ahead for vitality.
I begs on the open short, we saw in the last stack from B3rd about struggles on CT side,
the Moist Swing, Mount Swing as an Orport and CT, the second season.
How are we going to start?
That should be where that gets made a little easier.
show on short and vitality go back to the long door pier in a nice surprising position.
Might be able to mop up all three.
Okay, flames. Cool. Give me one more like that. Go on.
Jiggle flames like that on the blaze in hand and he's feeling red hot
But dead of the cross high pegs put some down as kills
Good keen double from flames
That's really all there was to get too excited about in that one at four vitality
It was always gonna be an uphill battle still you don't mind watching a flames dee again
Next has been dealt a real nasty couple of deaths to open up best too, but that's not cut down the morale.
All the spirit of this game allegiance squad who are right now leading the charge for one. This is the real intriguing part.
Let's see how this first rifle round goes, because this is where things started to spiral back on that opening map.
It's, you know, we had a nice staff and game in Legion, but once I got out he got guns out, it was a very different story.
The couple of streaks are five rounds, the first half and to end the game.
So let's see if history repeats itself here.
I'll be back with you till looking to, I guess, A.G. the smoke.
Let's close doors.
Let's see his no one.
As this is full commit in the corner, you see a con-drop up Xbox without high pegs having
a good shot here, got a long way flashed in, not so rare, they don't clear it.
Stacks aggression gets thwarted out and short.
So feel the most necessary with how weak the ace at us.
I mean now there's just a big gap in that, right?
Something you've got to take reds away from CT, pull him back around just to try and slow
the roll of any potential short play that's brewing.
But you won't be able to get in position really to stop this.
It's just sent back into the realm of CT, forced to forego the site with a bomb plant now and
a 44 and being out of position, mesi even sweetens the deal, it shouldn't even really be
way in this one-up game of the league and the rounds are already concluded.
You mentioned this last map about how styles change for certain players after many years,
but snacks, it still feels very similar right?
Punishing, sneaky, through smokes, trying to extend advantages and he said he lives and dies
by it, well there's an example of him dying by it.
5v4, the game Malaysian coming with a set up, it pays off they survive, where's gets out,
and it stacks, brief pushes to turn, trying to catch them off on the vitality, stay aware
of all positions. And with that punishing kill, it just opens up a free round, there
was no one in A, there is no one in A, there's no one in any positions, having a pack
on the round, this conscious teammate is locked in behind long doors, so you lose the round
off that push. It's a bit of a waste of an advantage if a game
religion and here we go, my palates here in with a gun round.
That's pretty distinct. It kind of feels as Max is just looking for that
killed that like brings him back into the game because we said it earlier on
He's been handed an awkward set of debts to open the door.
No, okay.
Thought.
I'm putting this game up.
It's like sad, I'm sure we know.
I'm gonna have to end the game,
but let's go out and help together by these strong performances that he are in res.
Sorry there, they've got the same amount of kills combined as all the vitality they have started this map off in real fantastic fashion.
It looks to extend that now, kill already in the round, but knows when he's overstate
his welcomes, slinks out of there with a 5v4, and this time I don't think I'm a Legion
as keen on the idea of throwing it away.
Rampegoos, they're playing the wind around here, they're saying the next move is yours
vitality.
Locked into positions, high-packs, orping from the window.
hives are out, that should make it very clear, game elogen are not going to be budging.
Let's see, come on catwalk, it makes late on the long side, PR to get past.
the
Res, still playing the real conviction right now, second kill in the round.
As a lot more left to do, therefore the snap back over along, but Snacks has
gone ahead and cleaned it up himself.
And as they go pushing it to Res now, they're going into a very, very
switched on individual.
This two-man hold the Res and Snacks enough to
a pellet. God, it give res his flowers. He is a light's out to open up dust too.
Yeah. If you ever were going to make a case of joining the very exclusive club,
but I mean very exclusive club teams that have beaten my talcion dust,
having a absolutely insane res performance is certainly a step in the right direction.
It's just so nice to see him join this team last year right after so long, an NIP just being
Holy irrelevant, getting a fresh bit of scenery, I think, really reignited as we saw
especially great performances when he first joined his roster.
Emily's from obviously going through a lot of tumultuous roster changes over the year,
but Rens, he's still got it.
Let's look out about that.
The MVP of IEM Babylon 1380, still putting up incredible performances, 11 and one against
That's fine-tallity.
The RN, a problematic position, double flash, you get to think, but that was meant to be for
vitality.
Friends, surely you can't find drops here.
Oh, apparently you can, 12 and 1, lurker gone.
You're committing to long, but not for long.
Hypx picks one more.
Good catch for Hypx just.
Taking really far into these long drawn out fights and now he's got teammates on their way over to support
Res 12 and 1
Torcin
Here, let me help him have the course it all belongs to Res
Dude, he really got to appreciate just kind of the the level he's tapped into here on dust to from the clear in mid being ready
into that corner, so the follow-through is the safe pair of hands to steal the deal. I don't
know, the race is playing out of his mind.
What more can you say to that, Harry? The high-low, but only one man's gonna get that kill.
13 and one is astronomical. But you know, it's not uncommon to have these games where
Whereas really does just seemingly tap back into his top form and looking credible, but
this is far in a way from what you would have expected even if it was one of those games.
This is a game of legend coming off of a five map lost streak.
You know, I said, oh, in Florida they want it in both their games against passion and
a roar to make it to land finals.
And lost us to them, both those games are looked terrible on it.
I mean, I'm losing a fragged elf here to who knows.
Look man, I'll use a turn that we've all heard just through playing the game, which is life game.
And it feels like that's what Raz is kind of unlocked right now.
Yes, of course.
Gotta keep your finger to the pulse because you never know when the last round could have been your best round.
Right?
Now I've come and it's the place that real strong.
But once you kind of lose that mojo and you exit the flow state,
it's still trying to play with the confidence of someone that's there in and one.
And you can actually make mistakes from that giving away kills,
Just giving away advantages.
No, sorry.
Let's see how long Raz can stay on top of this map.
Going mid to be and starting to check out what this B site has got in store is good
on to here to run away from the whole Paranoid.
Oh, just keep him.
He's everywhere.
13, 6 feet and 2 wrong.
But the B site doors are closed by Torson.
Raz is here there and everywhere he is in your nightmares right now.
now an 8KD, a 75% headshot on 16 kills, unstoppable, some vitality, hold the brakes,
screeched to a halt and chat to X-Tas, they need to fix this.
I want to reiterate I think because it adds even more props to Game of Legion last year,
31 and 4 on Dust 2 with team vitality.
They lost a spirit, G2, Falcons and Mowes each once.
They pay Game of Legion Harry once on this map last year, you know what the score line
was gone 13 to 1. Well, if then a damn site better than that. And now you just look
on my the entry, you're wondering, can I really sweeten the deal? You know, there
were no numbers, no stats, no history, nothing you could have pointed to to suggest
game allegiance, even being competitive in this map. That's why we love C.S. Because
You never truly know what you're going to get.
I don't know how they're being so much more than just competitive.
They're in a very, very powerful position with a chance to really drive home a big success on the half in this round.
If they win it, Vitality back to the drawing board and back to being broke.
And it's a lot harder to win ecos on this map than it is on inferno, so they broke in on
CT side with a 5-7 or 2.
Winning a force by here is not more tricky.
Snacks talking of tricky, playing behind the smoke flash ready for high packs.
Res, the fly in the ointment.
The ghost in the machine hiding it goose.
The character here wants before, but in a way, the more of a rocker's high-packs can cause, holding the cross, and holding the kills.
It's only going to serve to strengthen the rest of his position.
Don't die straight away. They need to clean it. It's raised against that with the first.
So I want to see even a little scared to face in there, that has to have it, but we'll get given the kill, and there's this support from Apex.
My talent he knew just how important this round was.
So anything that could have thrown that in jeopardy,
anything that could have thrown it away.
They really just take this few extra seconds to cross their T's.
Dot their eyes, get everything right and they come through with a third round.
They break this streak of game alleging and still in with a shot.
They finish out this hard feeling like they've put in some work on the T side.
The spacing is definitely scary there.
You could tell that they don't expect him,
But hot hands from Raz, I will know he's going to repeat and just swing.
So good patience for Zaiwu to find his third kill and shut down Raz at the back of the bombs.
So even a shot on high pecks was really nice watching him from the death POV.
Zaiwu has today to win vitality around and that was what meant to happen.
Right?
They're getting dealt a great game from Game of Legion.
You want to rely on number one of 25.
The show up and stick you to Game of Legion.
Still a chance here to come out with a 5 round half vitality, better sees it.
Oh, blind as well with his name down he just shoots the smoke and fires high pegs on
10.
No easier.
You hinch, folks, you're dropping.
Oh, well, they're trying.
Yeah, back to the drawing board.
I did look like a loose line up there,
I mean, these hinchs have to be so precise.
I think Raz is going to use it.
Trusting his guts.
I mean, something that's been a treat, you know, we've talked about snacks being
smoked, pushing and always down a fight, it's very much a vibe that's been embodied
by the rest of the game, a Legion guys, Reds. Even at 18 and three, no exception of
that rule down to get a bit cheeky with it down to push and prod.
It's also not a need of this time of the school, and if you're not trusting yourself,
and if you're not backing your aim, what are you doing? 18 and three, Reds plays it forward
and he exploits vitalities mistake, right? That was going to be a mid-door smoke. It looked
like it could land perfectly in the bounces off the hinge and ends up in lower.
So game Legion Punish, vitality for a mistake, and what does that do?
That's gonna piss apex off, isn't it?
Zywemis is a smoke, it gets apex killed.
Now you're in a 45 with 30 seconds, high pecks have even hit one.
He's setting them up.
Oh, okay, so we're gonna miss for high pecks on the orb.
Nothing's easy now.
And I'm gonna over commit to trying to hold on to the site.
I see that, Snacks is playing it further afield ahead of the rest of the team.
An important pick up on a Rob Sedge.
Actually, now I can't see his post park as it all over for messy flames.
It's bizarre, what about these two rifles?
They've got Rez to try and beat here, late from the B site.
Ready to jump up and bring the action,
force in firing off hoping to take attention away.
And that is nailed as soon as he peaks up and over.
My Tallye, never to stand tall at the end of that one.
They do it all a man down.
I'm shocked, Vitality, women out out.
They were getting body blocked on each other down over on the elbow side.
Everyone running into each other, lining up even and Vitality is realising.
They have to find the police spot.
They win a tough monster.
Shop shooting for Flamesy put to fork on the board and put to the game allegiance money and Jeopardy
So this five round half
Steering game allegiance in the face, but again chaos in lower
The high loan
If I tell you to use their needs
Expecting it
Play my come to them
It just turns away to the wrong moment, so I will take nine from late.
I've got a pick of fight and he gets sandwiched.
Why does he turn his two teammates and upper tunnels?
The chaos is shaking my tower team.
They're quaking right now.
I know that I high-packs is here as well, but someone's going to go get this bomb.
More aggression across the map.
He are just reconsiderers.
That's not good for him.
Oh, but Mensi's also just left the long position and so they will get to trade out spots.
3v2 maintained for Game of Legion and it's looking like a walk back into the tunnels for vitality.
And they last saw HyperX here but a lot of time is elapsed.
Since that initial push, not only do you have to clear all these angles,
but you might anticipate that Game of Legion have rotated away that their success in the tunnels might
Let them to go and stack elsewhere and if you discard this position, that would have been a grave error.
A pegs dozen snacks on a scout, Molly, into the tunnels they come running right through it, tag down range.
Snacks is up for the task.
As the horror has the horror moving over.
10 seconds left.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm going to look to play through.
Middle push.
No reaction yet, going a little later, Messi's got the cover.
And Mesee, looking at the liver thigh, but true by Talie, it's not a lot, but it might be enough to recover here, home ground map,
four by Talie and in spite of that big effort, game-elegant, the true test is still ahead of them.
What's going on guys, we are here at the Multimax Entertainment area and we are about to have
an epic day of fun with three amazing counter strike fans in here.
We've got a blast, we've got Nathan, we've got Roman and they have the amazing opportunity
to come and watch the games of blast, come here and play some laser tag with me, which is
basically like real life counter strike, just wait till we get to that and on top of that
they're also getting to meet some of the players and getting a jersey signed as well.
Now, glad.
Did you have a favor to make your food?
Of course.
Spirit.
No, from what about you, man?
Yeah.
Have a try with the feel it could.
Roman, be very grateful.
How's that C phase?
Oh, it's unique.
They work out.
You guys ready?
Yes, sir.
But we'll need to screw up into the team's room.
We'll screw me on, Blue.
I think we'll.
Yeah.
All right, come on.
Glad man, that gun was a little bit too big.
You must have a gym guy?
No.
No.
He's put the center.
He's his hope to see through.
Yeah.
That's him.
Yeah, yeah.
This is a little laser scope on itself.
This might be a bit of a mint.
Ha ha ha.
Best of luck, guys.
Good luck, good luck.
You ready for this?
This fucking guy.
Look, it's fine.
Ah, he's moving!
Oh, no!
Fuck this video!
F***!
It's been a blast.
He's done!
He's done!
What?
I can't get out of him!
You no!
Fuck!
I can't hear you, ass!
I don't know you did I get off this!
Alright guys, I know we're been tired,
We're now going to go and meet
Don Kornladgix from Team Spirit.
Are you ready for that?
Yeah, all right, let's go.
Here are our guests.
The last of the weeks for you, mate.
I'm in.
Roman.
Nathan.
Good morning, Shane.
That's up to them. That's up to these, mate.
Yeah?
All right.
I can't do what I had.
Am I trying to do what I needed to do?
So guys, what was the light just to see him to meet them?
I'm using experience.
There's some real effort to stay before I've got some dirty sand from.
I think you must have been the world.
Do you want to wear it?
Well, you don't want to wear it.
People who wear it aren't like specialties, like games.
Do you have an idea of what you're going to do with your neck?
No, I'm not going to tell you it's only put there, just though.
Maybe I don't bring any of that.
I don't bring any of that.
I'm bringing this over.
Are you ready to go and watch Kalon, so I can't see you relax and enjoy some games?
All right, let's go. Come on, guys.
R-E-Z in that first half for Gamalige and Res Runs away with a beautiful run, 19-5.
Apex trying to get his head, but I think my target is even more headshots than
all.
For me, Swedish punishing.
Young as he's done.
and
you can't you know you can't look at this game and just be
involved with my friends as bought to the table I mean you know we said life game
it really is something else the the level that he's been playing out
how he's kind of made every round feel winnable every situation feel
winnable a huge reason is to why game a leech and one of that first off
The kind of big question now is can he keep it up? Just how high can that kill counter go?
It's all also not just kills right?
If I tell you coming in with some well crafted rounds by the end of their tea side, mid rounds save on that tea side
So you get back into being and pick up five rounds
The baby set up in this crystal flames burns in that ballido
So it's worked out here for game illusions opener
I'm just feeling quite tight right now only until we're in Apex here, good trades.
Ah, I've messaged just gets nailed on the cross three players or two players rather fighting him head on.
It's not exactly been a super loud series from robs.
I get a struggle to make any headway in this one V3 is.
Stacks is learn a thing or two about fighting robs for this damn short control over the course it does too.
Yeah.
And he decides to not even chance it.
Just two to one in favour of robs, but still.
walking away works for Gamaligian. They're up to eight here. Pistol rounds, both in this map.
You know, they won one pistol and found over, but when they lost on the CT side, they won the force and then went on to string three rounds.
You could argue game religion have converted all the pistols so far in this series
See if that keeps up here
I tell you quite a predicament CD4 spy staring them dead in the face
You never see by tell to eco second round so there it is double farm ass and the scouts
It's not gonna be not sure in the era if this doesn't connect
They get so much room to roam up top middle, but they know they can't hang around.
such a bait for PR because he can hear this.
It's can't do much about it.
Why have we not given Res the AK?
He has 73% headshot with 19 kills.
Have some respect.
Torcent 5 and 5.
Yeah, you'll have more to say if it lets him down.
I'm sure, but for now things are looking fine.
Why be four secured and it's on to Zai Wu no less.
I really got in heavy by going for this force.
You were talking about it off the top of the round, the idea now that...
This comes up against you.
Double digits is looming for game elite, isn't it?
It's going to be very little resistance out of my tower.
It has stopped at me getting there.
Never saw it, really admit to me for vitality.
Fifteen seconds, but I'm not even worried.
just going boxed in.
Game of Thrones, it's a perfect call.
Pretty close, so they can't have five seconds to blow them.
But there worries, the save comes out from vitality.
The save kind of essential, right?
It gives you a chance that leads to disrupting that 10th round.
It's waiting in the wings for Game of Legion.
This is a very nice save.
Three rifles out in this round is more than they came into it with.
So, I'm not counting the scouts.
I think the five double digits before you have a true buy-around.
I mean, yeah, I think even in amongst these huge res performance,
you've got to recognize the output, the high-paces,
how to track the entire series.
Now, we kind of fell off a little times on inferno,
but, uh, kept up, what is being?
That's strong performance throughout the entire thing.
He's now starting closing on Res at the top of the board.
I see if that force can offer much for vitality to work with.
As you say, it's a good save.
Getting out with three guns dropping over those pistols as well,
so as I would apex and just kind of sit back to it
their thumbs around they can be involved in this round. You've got to play this like it's a full
rifle, be rifle round if your game is Legion.
The better case that's one of the utility and vitality to long it out so they need the fights coming
up on short side. He's what we need to do that bomb loose. Snacks, he's not even going to
try and jump up and trade, he's just right through the smoke, he keeps way apex-old deer.
You live and die by the risks you take and right now game is Legion three on five.
I mean, it was apex is five seven that stole away down there this exact round back on in
Furno. In fact, Vitality were operating with even less in that one. Here, he's got a pretty
round defining kill out through mid. He's forced the reaction from Game of Legends to abandon
any ambitions of that mid to be and in doing so, it sent them into the stack over here at A.
I will reposition his that meant to be so called as attention away, but just for a moment
another pistol kill coming out for Vitali.
The Digan hand is I will and even if you get through him on scale that in and on
a set proves to be too much of a mission so you don't have to worry about it.
The shutdown comes in there's the support from long as well and a well deserved fist
Spon 4x IWU is that DIG double really teed Vitality up a success.
My own mind.
Beautiful shots from the ramp.
But even the positionary tried that and love her Vitality reset fully from middle.
In a 5v3 they reclay along.
They get their foot back in the door.
And all of the meat types IWU is putting up a highlight alone in the bombsite.
And that is, you know, I've seen enough Vitality last year to just know...
No, what that could do to this game, right?
Gamaliche might have been in full control,
but I just have expectations of the comeback here.
So can't let Tilesy live up to those expectations.
Starts with a full eco from Gamaliche.
Just chance to just talk over the rounds ahead,
take a bit of a timeout, chat to one and other.
Clear the air a little bit and just try and get ahead of this before the game
tightened all the way up.
Facts are putting himself in jail.
He's still looking for that orb.
I haven't let go.
So what's the one thing you can do with the football?
Yeah.
If you're really patient.
That's it.
It's go long doors.
Or if they throw the long smoke, put it in the smoke.
and then it'll get kicked out if they walk through.
So there you go.
That is pretty much.
You can use physics to your advantage you go.
That's actually small.
Wherever you take that ball, you can use it to disrupt smoke plays.
So you can count every snacks push.
Now I don't know if the football will be required for vitality to do that.
I can neither confirm nor deny it.
I wanted to like kick it out B through the smoke first, you know?
That would be funny.
Maybe it would...
It's a B, should be fine, right? It's a bunch of blocks.
I can't say no issue for vitality, rocks with three flawless round.
I don't know if I'll give him advice.
As now, he's a demon-ege and get guns.
I feel like we have something more astounding, two mactons, a bit of money saved, they're
made on torsion, one man behold, up against this spy, you say you have to space something
quick because of the Mac 10 purchases. If that's what they get delivered, pressure's
going to be on for Mersey.
Composition though. They're taking too long on this with a miss corner smoke
plate. How to have the info. You know it's coming to catch for robbs. Off
man. But it kick around here though as Mersey gets overrun and now down in this
3v4. I tell you, locked out of the b-site. Chance that a plot for game
a legion before the retakes even in a position to do anything and, you know, when they're
to turn this one on its head, if you're the vitality squad is very, very quickly closing
the utils, reigning it just to punish you just to slow you down even more. You weren't able
to pounce on the back of a bomb plan, that's the only time you would have it kind of even odd
spite for the sight and so save is really there only option here. A nice experience play
for Snacks, as soon as that door smoke comes down, he moves out of the car and then apex goes
to Nade car, right? Just to see if he can get a kill to open up the retake. If Snacks
stayed in the strong position of my health, he would have died to the Nade by Talty might have
come in for the retake instead, he moves out of position and they miss his and by Talty
saved their guns. Just a small detail here that you see that experience on Snacks. If he dies,
they're out could be in jeopardy.
Robbs have the obvious route, so I'm always playing as long as more than 8K.
I'm just surprised to see even after the misspoke that Vitality keeps two players committed
along.
Robbs get off the going to be in time with the opening kill, but then there's nothing
for Mesey.
And Robbs can't follow up, so...
I tell you it's done a really really good job of slowing
Reses role when you think about just the tear he was on he was what 19 I want to say
19 and six but even then I think I've added some deaths on there he's gone
kill this throughout this entire second half let us fall.
Good pick up for Robbs on that secondary AWP that's now two from him over towards this
be side first onto the big man in tunnels next onto the pushout through mid and
came really to the map's really shrunk down here just down to two players so
high pegs looking a little out of it on the cams and that to me just screams
to save right it was kind of one of those deflated sides where you know the
rounds over it's just gonna sit back in the tunnels trying hold onto these
This gun's game will continue to close up as my Talie or spawned with a round of their own.
And they do so very convincingly.
Five alive is no small feat here.
Gives yourselves a little bit of staying power because the worst possible feeling of this
score line even if you can feel it come back brewing as the idea that the rounds were super
close.
There's a well where it just ends up being out of your hands, right?
Decided by the money, you're having to take some awkward forces right at the tail into
the game.
all the rounds, this late in the series is so valuable, and so to do it versus the rifles,
you know easy feat, but massive implications moving forward.
Thus, two ops man, three shots, three kills, and the save.
Okay, I'm leaving now, no, they're up against stop-a-lobs, so they can try and game-plan
around that, just feels like so often this map can come down to those spawns.
I mean look right right right the right way on map on we said not enough just to start strong
Yeah, you have to keep it up all again. You have to be willing to finish strong as well
Yeah, and it might be and two maps in a row where we have the first half. Yeah, I hope the second even kind of down to an individual level
Right, Ray's first half is a thing to marvel at, but
but you don't win trophies, you don't win medals
for great first half performances.
You have to keep going.
You hasn't got to kill yet on the T side.
And if you kind of slow him down thinking about
how big a role he played in the success of that CT
venture for game elieging, you do start to get a little bit
nervous, especially because you know,
just going from such a high feeling that you can't set
a foot wrong to suddenly, you know,
every move is getting punished, everything you're trying
getting shut down. You go to a weird place when that's the kind of roller coaster of emotions
you're on and that's where Res is right now.
I can't. That's one's better from snacks.
Slow deep on the start, this round using their flashes.
Put a save sum for these orbs that are waiting back in their bomb sites respectively.
Flames has been very committed in some of these rounds behind the long doors.
It's also gonna hear more you talk from this position. Flash goes high, flames won't go
even after it's always got. They keep missing the corner smoked man. It's another round
with a game-leisure miss it. Apex missed it. Game-leisure miss it twice. Look at the
problems. I will just scopes up on the corner and now flames walks in. Snacks with knife
out dead as a door knob and 53.
My Tality and waiting for a commitment,
are they just going to save?
I don't blame them.
They've got nothing.
No smoke, no flash.
They knows I was going to be in a somewhere.
Even the method in which you're losing these rounds
starts to feel really brutal twice over now.
You've kind of gone for these opening moves.
And twice over, they've gone dominantly against you.
That's now back to back floor this rounds as well for
There's no entrenching them before this game.
Sorry, there's no kind of getting them into
dire straits in terms of the money before the end of this game.
They're going to have buys every single round.
So now they're resilient.
They're building up good form.
They're waiting these rounds convincingly.
This is started to become a big threat.
We said on Dust 2, this is a very exclusive club in terms of teams that have managed to beat
vitality on this map in the last year.
G2 Falcons, Mao's team spirit.
these are the guys that were able to do it and even then only managed it once over.
It's right by telling you only lost us two four times in the last year of play.
And so if you were going to join those names, it's got to be good. They haven't
liked the conditions of the last two rounds. Let's see how we feel about this one. A brutal
need to open things up. Dunked on by the double flames, waiting at a long smoke.
It's a common spam, but he's gonna play an engine with the flash and it just blindes while getting bullied, battered and bruised, to play as barely living.
I'd still like you to be alive.
Rare's holds for a B-Push, but knowing Rob's is orping alone on this bomb site means there is no reason to move.
I have to just be a re-commit to A if he came a legion.
Back around the world to be, Stacks faking this hour design.
If I tell you to spurs on this setup, still very heavy.
Robbs right now is exploitable, but it's still a try angle with an up on the line.
Okay, that's a hell of a mess, can't afford any more of them.
Robbs gonna be down there, pull this from here on out, that double ain't bad.
Still the rotates gonna arrive, and they're arriving in numbers.
Snacks so far removed from this round, so it's all eyes on PR 14 HP tucked into a corner and quaking.
There's vitality weight on the other side of this window. Good kick up for PR, but the end of the line
This is multiple players nearby and ready to trade by talent. You have clawed back to us too.
Not looking to get upset right now. They tie us up at 10 all and they do so brilliantly.
It's too fall as round in a row. They don't fall for that fake that snacks is trying to pull
You just wish you had more you to write to Trimble Smoke out of me a world-place flash anything to get rocks away
You miss this first shot. How does he still take two with him?
Frustrations and massing for game-relation two maps
Very very close to beating vitality, but it might just be close
It might be no more
Be as empty. Careful, boys, would they fall send five players? Why not?
It's a gun to drop in, drops again on standby to support with that AWP and I mean the door one of this second-door
As well like a revelation for vitality
Rob's has not been his usual threatening self in this series
It's like a whole different beast now. There is a play through the smoke. Hipex gets his hands on his weapon a choice
It's a bit of time for him to start hit him some shots. Two players lurk through the tunnels
Now you've got a fight for middle. You've got to win this engagement on the CT player because you boxed in both sides
You by Tally players come through swinging walkbang from Zaiwu and a headshot for apex
Prepex, that might spell lights up for Game of Legion.
Peace side plays shut down, 11 rounds on the board for Vitality.
They are just rounds away from those semi-finals.
As Zastorus post-planted here,
the Zastorus moments for Game of Legion.
So really close round to the Vitality taking the cake every time torsive,
turns around at a more second as they come to the board.
That's a crazy warbait for Zastorus to find.
There was nowhere to move.
but also, you know, Res, yet to do anything in the second half
high-pecks, continual misses.
You know, I think you can feel this unshakable feeling that, oh, no, we have
throw in this game away. I think that's been setting in for a while. You know,
you arrive at this point with a number of, like, really awkward round openings,
having to just go to saves, kind of within your opening move or the round.
They were that decisive against you.
For maybe it's the, oh no, we are throwing this game away.
It hasn't happened yet, but it's certainly been brewing.
Yeah, I think this kind of a mindset that comes with it when, when you
fill out your choking a big lead, you tense up a lot, you overthink more.
Think about just how much things were flowing for Res at the start of the game.
He made every player he wanted to. There was no doubt in his mind. He was aggressive. He was in your face.
right till when he needed to be and then when the situation is called for him to play passive
play a little slower he would put himself in some fantastic positions to succeed.
He had those great multi-kills from Goose but you're not getting that now in the second half.
These are things are a lot more tense. There is a lot on the line by Talik.
You are making the comeback happen and you might arrive at that terrifying conclusion that
you thought we were going to get to at the dawn of dust too which is by Talik he
Keep up there, incredibly strong performance on this map.
It's all perfect.
A placement from Zywall.
It's that quick flick.
It pop out short.
It claims he does get caught and Zywall follows up this late bit in the side frame wide,
and landing a lot of damage.
Try to follow up.
It's not meant to be for game allegiance.
It's just left a young toss and in-spawn.
Coming from behind, in front above,
and maybe even below,
it's taking shots in the leg.
There's nowhere to move at all, so now it's just got in as well.
Perfect, second or from Robbs in this CT side, he has put up double after double on B,
and he closes his clutch before it begins.
12 to 10, fantastic return to form of vitality.
Because yeah, you can look at this game and say hey, it was close.
Are we worried about vitality?
Was it maybe not great game to them?
But for me, it's about the recovery from this team, it always has been.
Delts of difficult games, difficult first hogs, but then locked in and looking for another
6 round streak to close his map.
Yeah, just to feel like kind of twice over when the pressure was on when you really had
to get going, my talent you were able to do so, and there's a lot to be happy about in that.
You know, I imagine Apex isn't exactly thrilled with how either of these maps started,
But I do imagine he'll be more than happy with how Vitalik
went on to recover.
If last time we were early on to open up this round,
it's to a mad, snacks, Mac 10 charge down through middle.
It's also in these moments, right?
Whereas games close up, wherever I might have been vocal coming up
with ideas, chipping in, see around, always feel dynamic.
There's a lot of movement, there's a lot happening.
And everyone's very communicative.
You get a lot more quiet when you're given away a lead like this.
That's why you're going to lean on snacks.
a lot more is the captain.
So he's at least provided an open in here and he's called the rest of the pack in behind him.
You can see us, not just kind of having to string these rounds together, try and get something going.
Often just centering them around here and he's either the guy doing the fake or he's the one leading the charge here with the night 10.
This fake is keeping vitality on a strike now there.
Watching mid to be and re-gracing on short, whilst basically taking it long,
Torservaix is interesting, Robs dee to kill, and he connects it now, realizing what's truly happening.
Lockhouse on the smoke, miss shot from Robs, and even the Spanford stacks low, but they make it in with four up.
20 seconds left for the plant, Robs in a position.
He feels like he's got a jump, jocks.
Scenoroth Robs, jump, shot from here before, and he won't even attempt it,
plays through the smoke, ends up feeding a couple of kills to raise.
You finally get himself moving back up the scoreboard.
Mesie can't save and Game of Legion at the 11th hour, still have a bit more fight in them.
Not ever expecting Robs to miss a bit of utility, but that Molly would have killed Snacks on the plan.
Yet one health left.
And Robs is Molly misses.
So Game of Legion get another chance.
Dear Odea.
Reds back on the board first kills at the T side.
Ouch.
His frames has jumped out without damage.
It's not a big stop.
He takes all and no!
You would end this.
You see a smoke down, you spam right through it, you find not only reds top of former
that snacks was hiding in that smoke as well, and I pecks now nose, he is just boy, his
team, it's so close to those semis, so close to the victory, and he worry about us too,
starts to subside and give way to those semis.
Oh, I pecks looking in, that's an important pick-up, romps has been a very difficult player
to get rid of on these b-side holes,
but there's more that came from
and they've lost PR in the downtime.
That means now all of I tell you
a freed up mezzie is two sets of feet,
two foot steps back in the tunnels.
He's calling for everyone to make their way over.
Important pick up for Torcin.
Do they have it in them?
Game of Legion over time is right there.
If you can see there's two on three foot,
flooding out through the window.
It's for Torcin!
It's for Torcin!
We're going to retake, but they make it look easy.
And so those semi-finals are way as vitality keep up their strong dust to performances.
Yeah, impressive resilience from vitality yet again.
The stay-in-the-series dealt a great game from game allegiance across both maps to hyper-competitive maps.
And a life-gaming first half for res, but none of that is enough to take down number one of 20-25.
They're just getting started semi-finals locked in for vitality.
And that second door Paris looking pretty good.
Yeah, you know, Rob's the moment he poured it out.
He really did just kind of retrieve it himself.
Just became a super hard wall to get past a Uber of B.
Vitali here, you know, it's a bit of an odd series,
because I think they had some really, really slow starts on both paths,
but at that same time we're creating them for the recovery, the resilience.
Source of moments where he pakes us looking a little stressed out.
I think he's going to leave this with a lot to be happy with.
the ability to turn this game around to build back into it to recover from those slower
starts.
The game of Legion really solid effort.
I don't think you could have asked for any more.
The fact that they had vitality on the ropes here on Dust 2.
For me, this series is a missed opportunity for game of Legion at chance when they could
have exploited a slow-to-star vitality.
Vitality survived the fight against game Legion.
They certainly did put up a fight there.
I've got to start the last new that, perhaps.
Was it more the fight out of this game division that expected?
I was tough to us too, for sure.
I think that if they wanted to see this title, it was filling it.
I think so much of us.
And yeah, it was tough to go back into the game, but we found some solutions.
In terms of finding those solutions,
how was it done?
What was the discussion?
Was it more just adapting to what they were doing?
Was it a big difference from when they didn't have Snacks before?
And the previous game to play them last year?
I think we're mainly in the studio.
Last a lot of entries.
race. Again, it played really well. It pushed me a lot.
They had some lower pushes, which I think we got punished and twice.
So, yeah, it was just for a play that I think was stuff.
One of those two, when you started on a, on a, you know, you lose round.
You don't have the op and you start to think map control without the op and that's I think
was the struggle. But once you got the economy, you know, we had really more comfortable.
Now, you've done it again. You've made it through to the semi-fondal same as last
time around at the previous bounty. But is there a focus on wanting to win it this
It's time around.
If we're nice to win the Balencius, start a tournament with a year.
I think that would be the nicest thing ever.
We're looking forward to it, do you know, to it here?
There's been a lot of conversation about the fact you have just a couple of days of practice,
and then you wouldn't see online games grinding your way for it now.
Are you noticing that some of the rust is maybe going away?
Are you feeling better as a team in the server game by game?
Definitely, I think probably the worst when it comes to racing.
I need my $100 plus two weeks, I need my, I need on my hours, I can, I, I don't know, for some people feel a game without less, so I'm something more and I definitely need more, you know, just to, you know, kind of getting the state of state of flow and, you know, just understand everything and I think you make better decisions day by day, you put in more hours, so yeah.
I just want to ask about that. Does that make you've been putting in some more personal practice hours, you know, when you've been here, you've been going to the way?
I think it's the usual, you know, I think it's, I mean, every season start looks like this coming up over a great thing.
You don't touch CS much, I think you're trying to get your mind up for that and then just come into the first season of fresh and you work with what you can.
You know, we didn't have the most hours or possible to supply and practice this some of the year, but yeah, we're working with what we can.
Well, thank you very much for talking to me for having me.
Welcome to the Bounty Bunanza, day two of the Bounty Playhouse, and that means day two of
wheel spins and big wins.
We got Flamesy here.
Plainsy win in the server already today.
You ready to win your second prize?
Well, hopefully what can I win?
You know, always to put on them.
All sorts of exciting things we're giving us.
T-shirts with Apex's face on that.
We've done it once.
Dinner has been got giveaways for the fans.
You want me to get the Apex shirt?
We really want to do a Apex shirt.
We'll see what we can do.
OK.
Are you ready to spin it?
Yes.
I think you're going to do this one yourself.
Here we go.
Can make some noise here in the arena.
Let's get it.
No!
The winner is a go-wearing stop.
We've got to play now, one moment is a good thing.
What is playing is a good away?
And that's a hell of a spin.
That's been muscleated.
We're slowing down.
My number is going to be...
Oh, give it away.
Another give!
Yeah!
Number five, ultimately give away.
That means a skim is going to be going to the fans
and win the chat.
You're such a generous guy.
You're getting yourself, you got to give away.
Oh, is it?
We checked most of the fans here.
For the chat, the people here pull up your phones
real quick.
Let's get in there.
Come on, everybody.
slam into those chat digits and make it happen.
Our prize is for this giveaway, this one of those games.
Here's a one, a skinny giveaway.
For a norm, as a mod, the magic stick.
It's white, I'm pretty, just like me.
The op-as-em-all, that's a classic right there going to one lucky fan.
Have you ever had an op-as-em-all?
Yes, since I'm being with an op-as-em-all right now.
Yes, I don't think you're in.
So if you want to kick your stuff out like Flamesy,
you can get an ass of all of yourself.
Curricid, see if this wonderful man right here.
No problem.
Don't stray to the fan, man to the people.
Yep.
Enjoy that, see?
I like it.
I play with it right now, so take one.
Well, thank you so much Flamesy.
Go back and join your team, celebrate this job.
Hell of a spin on the bouncy banana wheel.
Yeah.
Thank you, guys.
Let's move on.
We've now had three spins and two giveaways for the fans at home.
I'd say that's a lucky one for everybody watching.
Not too bad at all.
Just got to say Flamesy did he say he placed what an Asimov?
He does.
One was the last time you saw him with an AWP in his hand.
He's just dropping it to Zy.
He got a big little good when he dropped it.
It is.
It's a classic.
as a moth actually it was gifted by a fan actually maybe like eight years ago or something so
do you remember that fan's name as if you have fans.
I'm grateful for Maui's name.
I'm grateful for Maui's name.
I'm grateful for Maui's name.
You got the rare Maui's theme and talk about a victory here for Vitality.
You're not quite as dominant as me expecting though.
Far from you know far from by utility worst rocking in this game and more so I gotta keep
it to game on each and once more I think that over exceeding expectations we spoke about
the fact that they even got into the playoff, they even got to be on that stage.
I think they delivered to an idea, they didn't get a map when yesterday didn't beat
by a telly, but in terms of being ranked number 20 in the world, having just integrated
a new in-game reader, you pushed by a telly, I would say the fair distance on both infernal
and even more so on does too. So yeah, we can talk about by a telly maybe,
struggling a little bit, but I think a lot of the focus should be on game religion as well
doing one hell of a job. Game religion have already succeeded in my eyes. They have beaten more
top 10 teams with snacks, then liquid has the entire time they've had.
Okay, this is, they seem already has legs for me.
And that would be a huge, you know.
Yeah, they're getting the worst.
Straising liquid out of nowhere, man.
They're already out of the tournament.
They're the signing session today.
Well, it's just that they both finished in the same position at this tournament.
And so some people may assume that that is equal.
It is not.
Context is given.
I am here to provide us.
All right, context is King.
Well, he bought me some more for a game of Legion.
I mean, the start of that map was incredible.
We were looking like we were going to have a series.
Let's talk about Res, holy cow Res.
What year is it?
2016 Oakland?
What's going on here?
I feel like we had that game coming out of Res,
you know, occasionally where we were like,
oh, that's the old restaurant from what is it eight,
nine years ago in an IP by now.
So it's cool to 16, 10 years ago, baby.
Yeah, I don't know.
I lost count.
Yeah, I lost count too.
Anyway, for Res to play in that fashion,
that's obviously amazing.
He was resurrected when he came back into the game
or Legion.
He's been playing at a fairly high level.
is he ever gonna be, you know, a guy that has been in the top 20, probably not, but he
has their ability to step up like he did right here and that's pretty got them cool to
see. Well, why not here from the man himself? We've got his eggs that interview with James
Manz.
Gamerlies and across both maps did put up a fight against vitality with the run or the bounty
you will end here. Whereas I'm just going to come on to some positive start off within this
bad moment because at least you were popping off of this duster. You really were pushing
them to your limits there. What was going on inside the 7 times of calls or just read
of the game. I mean we didn't have much practice right going to this event or overall together
with the snacks. But yeah we had a good prep. We felt like we had a good plan or all
on that too. And so yeah I mean I think we put a lot of flow and like feeling based
the type of counter strike and I think it. I mean the more the later we came into the game
we could really see that we lacked stuff and we lacked practice and that's where the mistakes
come out, right? So yeah, if you just need some more practice and we could be able to close these
steps against out. We've worked with you all saying there is that kind of what you felt on both
maps because you were able to get off to like good stars and then it seemed like later in the game
if they adjust it there wasn't the same ability for you guys to be able to do it.
Yeah, that's what I feel like that's we are really missing some protocols on the maps and
yeah we've been missing time as well like we need to get used to each other and the synergy like some
some people have some new positions as well, I feel like I think and so yeah, I mean,
just yeah, I know we need practice and we need to get together and talk more and talk
through the mistakes and all and but I'm really happy overall how we'd
have performance and I'm really stoked for the future as well. I think we are
looking as only like we do this type of game against Vitality in such a sort of
other time I go I have high hopes. I want to ask you about that so I hope because I
I think my expectations have changed around you guys for this event as well, because we
weren't sure what we're going to get. This is certainly positive. What potential do you
see do you think we can get you back to where you were, say, beginning of last year or
is even further, but you feel like you guys can push you?
Definitely think we should be belonging like playoffs and all their events we're playing. And
that's the level of our expectations to be. And also the major as well is something really
specters to qualify for as well. So yeah, that's the obviously in main goal right now,
because we dropped a lot of our Ranking points, seriously.
And so hopefully we can do that.
Thank you so much for your time.
Good luck going forward.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Lauf the goals.
Playoffs of every event they're in.
I mean, so far so true.
Blast bounty.
Frag Miami.
Two playoffs.
Why not everything?
What's with the fit?
I don't know if it's pretty alive.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
You know, I like the aspirations.
And I like the motivation to do well.
I think for game and even to be part of every single playoff
that's going to be tough, but I'm going to be playing like this.
It's going to be more teams winning the top 10.
So I don't think it's that outrageous arrest to say that there's an aspiration,
there's a goal, a game I don't want to get back to a point where they consistently
at least content for the playoffs.
To me, they're already punching up.
The fact that they came into this tournament and ranked around 20th,
beat two teams consecutively in passion,
UA and Aurora, who were higher ranked than them,
that I thought were the favorites in those matches going into them,
and showing that they actually always create a plunger's chance for themselves.
the way that snacks calls, it's unique.
And he's learned a lot from his time with G2.
He knows how he wants to micro pieces.
And it's actually really interesting.
We talked so much about snacks and his journey
and how he's developed from this cool micro player
working around smokes.
Now he does it with all these pieces at his disposal.
I feel like it's one of them more interesting aspects of who he is
as a tactician that he will throw smokes
and then have players walk through them.
Sometimes sure he'll walk away with egg on his face,
but other times he gets upset round victories versus some of the best
team's in the world. So for that, I would easily
commend him and I would look forward to the
prospective game-religion season. It means that
our eyes are always blue to the screen, right?
When snacks are playing, when game-religion is
playing, and that's the most you can ask in
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off skin. Speaking of ops, let's talk about
high pecks a little bit because again, I
think he's a player that we had some eyes
on that maybe we had some high
expectations for last season and he
seems like he's delivering in
individual form starting at this one.
So even this gives some context. I mean,
high pecks going into this dust to
for the frag Miami for the earlier parts
of this event. He was there worse CT
side rated dust to play or it was a
pretty poultry rating. They just
never set him up. They always just kind of
really focused on the riflers, but this is a game where he clearly called his own number.
He took a little bit more initiative and was a player that to me, I think game
religion can work with this guy. I mean, there's been such a consistent and
unfortunate streak of poor operas that have dawned on the game religion jersey.
I don't need to get into their names. I would just be insulting honestly.
Hipex to me is you write it up.
I mean, let's just look, keep that in the rear view mirror and just look forward to
I feel like this guy takes the right level of initiative.
He creates opportunities for himself even against strong opposition.
Not going to say he has world elite accuracy.
But I like the fact that he always gives himself chances to get involved.
And I see him creating with the rifle too as well, right, Jacob?
Yeah, he's more than just an old player.
I think you have to be in a modern day in Hcono.
So I think you have to be capable with the rifle.
If you want to be a great old player to be completely honest,
especially in the M.A.12, there's going to be games where money is going to be screwed.
where you're going to force a bit, maybe too much from time to time, so they opt a
little bill of these is not always going to be there. I will say though that I feel like
that's also where the potential winning game I lead in is laying, because I feel like I
know what I'm meaning from this. At this point I know what I get from PRs, well, my solid
player. I kind of know what I'm getting for snacks, especially now that he has players that
actually are buying into his system, not like he was in T2, where he kind of have to give
money to all the freedom, you have to give Nico all the freedom. Now he's controlling a team,
well he's the man in charge, you know, and the players are buying into him as well. I feel
He's the guy that if you can elevate him from being out of you, he's maybe a five out of ten all play right now
You know doing a decent job if he can hit a seven on eight and then become
I guess I'm more of a dominant play up for for gamer even that's where the true potential is putting game
I mean, because that's it. I know what I'm getting from risk. I know what I'm getting from P.I
And snacks for that man as well. I think they've done an excellent job of this event of changing the conversation
We were having about game age and right there's coming into the season
You have some headlines and aren't great everyone speculating about where the core micro who might be buying them out
where individual players, Michael, who might be buying them out, you have the news with Ash,
you have this self-benching, we're wondering what's the identity of this team going to be?
Now, after just one event here on LAN at the Blast Bounty,
it feels like we've radically changed our conversation.
I also feel like the interview that PR gave, so the THLTV was almost a scolding review of what he
felt like was going to be happening with game religion. Honestly, I'm just going to say,
as a guy that really respects PR, thought that there were times last year where he was
building himself to be rookie of the year you got to suck it up you got to suck it up
this is your home now I mean this is the team that you're on you didn't get the G2 call up
you didn't get the vitality call up so this is what you have to work with and if you need
if you want to be a top 20 player you're going to have to create your own destiny you're not
just getting put on to some star studded roster that can just carry you to some nice individual
placement on HLTV's list or anything like that we know you have the skill so now you just got to
keep upgrading your game I know you say we kind of know up yours I mean last season was his rookie
year. So I feel like there's a lot more for him to develop and I feel like in today's game even
against vitality, there were moments where I wanted maybe a little bit more another
kill a long A to slow down, vote vitalities doing. So if he's able to do that, give us just
10% more, game religion become a top 10 conversation team and that can get you into those
sort of placements.
I was just about to say, you know, for P.S. Well, it's just about a patient, you know, at that
point, you know, as you said, six more months when he's doing a good job with game
and getting some decent results,
perhaps to go into another playoff,
where he pops off as he had moments.
He did last season, then at some point,
it's evident, whether that's going to be G2, Navi, face.
I think some of the bigger teams are looking at him right now,
and if you can confirm what we saw on 25,
and show maybe a bit more consistency,
then I agree whether or not he tastes
game-relieved into be a top 10,
before that move happens, not sure,
but then move will happen eventually.
Let's close the book on game religion for the moment,
because they are done here at the blast mountain.
Let's talk a little bit more about vitality.
Based on what you've seen in this matchup,
What are you thinking? Is this a team that can make a run about trophy, Robson saying,
you know, they finally need that bounty trophy? Is it time?
This for, well, now I just feel like they always play up to the level of the opposition as well.
And that's kind of the notion of vitality. It's not always that they just
show how dominate their opponents. I remember in Hong Kong when they were playing,
who was it? They should have lost two players. Spirit. Yeah, but there was another team in the group stage.
It was a title. It was an agency, anyway. You know, where they basically won the game and then
and Rob said to pull a 2B5 on in Furniture.
Oh, yeah, yes, yes, yes.
I feel like there is the games, you know,
especially in group states environment,
a quarter of fans when it doesn't get into the,
I guess trophy game sort of.
What I tell you is always a little bit,
you know, playing up to the level of the opposition.
So I'm not worried on behalf of our teleague.
Tonight was not a strong performance.
I think there'll be the first to say that,
but it was good enough to win.
And also we have this situation where just because of this
morning, because we're choosing our opponents,
the aura that vitality has,
means that naturally they're getting left towards
last or towards the end for the picks because you've got to be kind of crazy to take a swing at the
Kings. So yeah, we'll see the competitions only get tougher from here on out to more rounds
to try and lift that trophy on stage. We'll see if we're actually buying into the vitality
stocks because it's time for our NovaShot.io segment courtesy of Nova Wallet. If you want
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We're currently looking pretty dang good. The portfolio is doing great.
And then we're at 5,232. Can we grow this more? I'm going to need you to take a deep breath,
Maui, because I felt like yesterday you were a little bit out of control.
What an eye investment. Dude, I put all in on vitality. And we just skyrocketed to five points.
Two judges got by. Cold in a scenario like, you know, think Maui, think.
I thought last, I thought yesterday and I made us one of the richest
noble wallets in noble wall of history.
I'm not sure that's-
I've looked at the leaderboards.
I've looked at the leaderboards.
All right, gentlemen, make a Nova shot.
What team are we buying in on?
Parvish and Spiridmoy.
We've already put it here.
Yes, you should have made it.
Are you putting 25% of what we had in Perry?
Do you want to put mine in?
No.
Do you want to hedge?
Do you want to hedge?
There's no shot.
I want to put more into them.
I feel like that's, oh.
You guys are getting a little too high on your own supply.
I've got to go with the big dogs now.
What about my telly?
I have to what you see right now.
Now do you buy into the fact that I'm saying that they will live up and play up to the live up to the fact that vitality is
Oh, I know they're the most expensive now. I guess fury on my furious dogs now
I mean, falcons is half the price of spirits with a stand-in. It is with nucleons. Yeah, I got one
I see okay, I'll take the deep breath and I'll let him make the executive Wow, what a brave man bowing out of having to actually make the college
Jacob, it's all on you, baby. What are we doing? Okay fine team spirit put a half our money into team
We were kind of hitting our bed.
I know we put a bit in in parrison yesterday.
So we're winning regardless.
That's usually what losers do.
You know, betting on both sides of the equation.
Yeah. Why did you head?
Heading.
Had you like hedging.
I'm seven Mac.
Falcons.
I think that's worth the bed.
I said we're going to have a team.
We're the standing in the grand final of the Bloss Brown team.
That's going to be Falcons.
I think we should put, let's say, two fiddly into Falcons.
The cheap.
Good value for money.
Two fiddly.
Two fiddly.
I think we got two fiddly.
More to.
Yeah.
for the good time.
By the way, yeah, by the way, you know, we got to save.
We got to save.
Build it for the Nest Egg.
Thank you once again to Nova Wallet
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Make that one happen.
We got more time and strike coming your way.
This is the marquee matchup of the day,
a little tale of revenge as way and very vision matchup
against the dominant demons of spirit.
Okay, Flamesy, welcome to the blast interview, Bananza.
We asked both questions here at the blast bounty because we're here to have fun.
Yeah.
All right.
We've got three spice levels to the questions.
Green yellow and black, black being the most spicy.
You can pick the first question.
Yes.
Okay.
Let's see if we enjoy.
Which team do you think is the most overrated right now?
If no one wants to say it.
Okay, generally, don't know.
I should have my bullet at the basic game monster.
That's a game roster, actually, that's a good one.
It's a lot of hype, but I don't see them getting advice to big tournaments or doing
some games that are out here.
Is that too hot for you?
Uh-huh.
You want more?
Yeah, one more.
It's all that.
Really?
What weakness in your own game?
Are you fixing right now?
Sometimes I'm too aggressive.
Instead of taking my time and picking slowly and giving myself a chance to kill,
I just try and sacrifice myself and there doesn't make sense.
He said, it's crazy.
Mezzy was his best teammate of all time.
Who's your best teammate of all time?
All right, that'll be.
Mezzy.
Yeah, yeah.
What is it about this guy?
He's just a person who doesn't share taking you like a lot of shit.
He just shares about winning and so nice out of the game.
And I think he's a part of the success we had last year.
Like, such a good human being that's undeniably in what matchup are you actually hoping to dodge and play off?
Maybe I would have said like Falcons because they have a spending like if you'd have nothing to lose to some extent
Every game you guys come into
Everybody's cheering for the underdog
Exactly, but on the other end you know it's like last last year I was hoping a lot of games
We're gonna get something you've heard and what we got and you've diluted it
Space 24 seven yeah, which team do you think is one bad loss away from a full collapse?
Just in the popped in my mind could have been liquid liquid. Yeah, all right
I think they've been struggling, although they got the religion, I think it's a good addition to them.
If they keep having like one, two more losses that I really like, you know, they should have won those games and they chew them.
I think it might get a bit tough.
Really, we go on with the other one, really.
Yellow, no, okay.
Alright, let's try yellow.
If this tournament goes wrong, what do you think people will blame you for?
Entry is bad or something, probably that's the equivalent, but if this tournament goes wrong,
we probably do what's to change this.
That's it.
Who's first to go?
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Last question.
Do you want to try green one?
Okay, let's just try mild salsa.
What do you think has been the most underrated team at the bounty?
I think they genuinely played good and they should have won an obies against us.
That's how I felt when we were watching that they actually did play well.
Yeah, they did.
But also these guys, like JW.
That's what I said when we were casting, I was like,
They probably can do this because JW is giving them a concert and you can just go play it.
Such a legend. I think JW was good in back in the game, even though it's a stage, but I don't know how much they would enough to compare to them.
claims he, Bob XG forever.
What would it be for ever?
Donk, another year, another time for you to succeed the best way you can.
You've also got magic's and Zontex back for you.
What is it like for you? Like does it give you some good energy some good vibes?
What does it change for you as a player?
Like
Yeah, like we all know that the magic is a
Wipe person. Yeah, it's a clear for anyone and like
It's only just I think the
just drink, the goal was to bring the stability, the consistency and I think this
like shapples I've got this kind of stability but maybe we will see like
because it's only in terms of practice days.
And what does it do for you knowing you have someone like Zontek's again who you've worked
So a lot we've played a lot with one tournament with it, is it like different in-game in your mind knowing that you know how he's going to act, you know, what he's going to deliver?
to be honest, it's easier to work as like you don't need a lot of things to talk about,
because we played together for five years and we know everything, every strategy we use on our positions,
All setups that we have and what we think is strong, what is not and why we don't need
those waste time to talk some things to discuss maybe something we like all know.
And for you I know there's a lot of conversation about best play over the world, not playing
the world.
You always tell me it's the team achievement, it's the trophies and stuff, but does it give
If you extra motivation or thoughts in yourself like, no, next year I'm going to make
what this year now, I'm going to make it that I am the best player.
I want to go further.
I want to go harder.
Like, what can I say like about, even talk about KLCR, I just like, I don't have a situation
that I have to become the best player in the world of the, it's more about like, I
I want to build a better era than Vitality Head and like that's it I think.
Just because like it's clear to me that if you want to be the best player in the world
you need to win the championships and if you will win the championships you will be the best
team in the world and that's it.
Do you feel like you are the best individual player in terms of raw skill or mechanics?
But not like, I don't know how to say, like, some periods, actually like, nobody can stop me,
like literally, and like some champions who are going crazy, like, with the first major, or maybe,
I am caught in a lake last year and it was a feeling that literally no budget can stop me in my flow and that's it.
If he doesn't want to say I will, there's absolutely no doubt that the dunk is the most mechanical gift that counts right clear.
right now. I get the fact that he's trying to be a little bit humble about it. Obviously,
he's aware that he's not always playing to his best, but I don't think we've ever seen
such a skill player play Counter Strike. As I said in Budapest, at Cologne, what we saw in
Katovitsa, in his debut year as well, putting a 1.71 rating or something ridiculous like that,
I've never seen a player play that little, never before.
I mean, simple. The conversation is just still going, isn't it?
I mean, it's, donk is the most mechanically gifted and strongest player in the world hands down.
It doesn't necessarily make you the best overall at all times.
There's times when Zyru's smarter, where Zyru makes a better choice, where Zyru plays off of a teammate
in a way that Donk would probably send it because Donk imposes himself on his opponents.
He's trying to always be the difference maker for a spirit team that last year needed somebody
to just be a hard carry for them.
I don't care that he gets dropped a case or anything like that.
He should be dropped in a K every single round.
Anybody can afford what I, he's the biggest win condition in that any single team has.
And that's why he plays the way he does because he was the most studied player for the
last two years.
Everybody's looking at this guy in terms of mechanics in terms of movements.
He's creating tech in terms of how he's using the control key in order to just make his
model harder to hit than practically anybody in the game ever has been.
I mean, look at the numbers.
this guy is getting a multi kill in over one fifth of the rounds.
Let's talk about his stated objective, right? Because he kind of underplayed it, but he said,
I just want a greater era than vitality has right now. That's it. That's not it. That's incredible.
What an ambition. But you know, if there's anyone who makes you believe he could do it,
that he could will his team to those heights. It is don't. Yeah, and I feel too sprued
out of backing him up in the sense that they've made roster changes in order to improve that
that for them, right? It's not a secret that Donk had a fantastic 2025, but spirit in terms
of winning trophies. I know they got some big ones, you know, they won a column, they won
their one here. You know, it was also a big, they are a back-to-back champions of this
very format. They only seem to have done it. But I do feel spirit can win even more. So,
the fact of the matter is that spirit is backing him up. You know, the rest of the team
is backing him up. The goal for spirit is to be the best team in the world, with the best
player in the world as well, and both can work in correlation. And one thing that this team
is trying to do is to make him as comfortable as possible as well, right? They've just brought
and Zontix back into the roster after his personal break.
Reminder for anyone who's newer to watch in Counter Strike,
don't mention it.
They've been playing together for five years.
They came up from the Academy program together.
They were promoted alongside each other.
They know each other in and out.
They know exactly how the other ones play.
They know exactly how to compliment each other
in any given situation.
And Zontix also understands so much of the circumstances,
so much of the context around his team.
Very clear headed about his teammate
about what he can accomplish,
and how important is for the team to deliver that for dog.
Sometimes when watching Zonsix,
it feels like you're seeing a guy that doesn't necessarily
seize every opportunity that's presented to him.
You don't always see him push forward.
You don't see him on lyrx, just trying to always
be a difference maker or spearhead himself.
He's not really a secondary win condition.
He's more so just trying to keep the floor of spirit
as high as it can possibly be so that their ceiling
razor in dog has all of this face in the world to work.
When Zonsix is a guy that you don't have to worry about,
that's a win for spirit. 100% and now I was
hoping there's a case to be made that
before we we just to come back off
Sanctix gave him a couple of events,
you know, given a couple of officials to
get back into it, there's going to be
some rust, there's going to be a new
leadership on the metrics as well that
he has to get used to but I very
much agree that the best way you describe
a guy like Sanctix is that he's making
the rest of the team better because he
requires no resources whatsoever in
order to function in the world that he's
having within the team. Now speaking
about that change in the IGL, magic stepping
into it so far but doing pretty well
Well, I don't know that we've seen any massive test of his eye-jailing 10 years so far,
but I think there's been enough hints that we're starting to see something about what
the shifts might be.
What magic might one of accomplish?
He's talked a little bit about how he wants to use his various teammates.
We're getting a vision for his philosophy.
I would say so.
I feel like the game's thus far haven't been necessarily strong enough where you have
to watch his mid-rounding come into play.
So I'm not really, I'm not the jury still out in that capacity, but the interesting aspect
for me regarding Magic's becoming the IGL is just the age.
I mean, I feel like, yeah, even though he was bench recently on
spirit, I feel like people almost acted like he was old because it's been a
long time that he's been on spirit.
He's only 22 years old.
When Spirit, when Chopper became the in-game leader for spirit, he was 22 years
old also.
And we saw how long and lengthy of a career Chopper had with the
organization and just for correcting the common narrative sake,
Chopper wasn't the IGL on Vegas watching.
He played on that team, but he was only only called for two weeks in a
a trial period one time that it was really when he came to spirit as a 22 year old,
did he actually take up the mantle as a captain.
And so yeah, they naturally think that magic is the best up for it because I would say
without regard for the in-game tactics, magic just brings a better vibe.
Okay, and he brings a better, he's more charismatic.
You can bring up the mood of a team that is so oftentimes, if they have a bad loss on
map one in a series, they kind of capitulated in map number two.
so I feel like magic can write that ship
in a live environment better than chopper did.
It felt like we got a window into that and Budapest,
all right, the frustration that we saw coming through
for spirit coming through for donk in particular
that may be something that led to the decision
to make this change.
It is also interesting to see the sort of arc
of spirit's decision making.
They do feel like an organization
that thinks in years and decades,
a lot more than a lot of other teams do.
You saw it with a transition of when magic came into this roster.
He was the young 16 year old, if I'm not mistaken,
coming in under chopper's tutelage.
Now you have that passing of the torch
that changing of the guard to make him the player
who's bringing up the next generation,
who's trying to lead the troops here.
It is a sense of time that we just don't get all the time
in counter strike.
I agree with that, and I definitely see the vision
in terms of how they're sampling the team,
but I also do think that's a very fine line to work
if you're team spirit, because now don't has a right to a point
where he's in the peak perhaps of his career.
We don't know whether that peak is gonna last for one year,
five years, a 10 years, nobody knows.
So if you're team spirit, you've got to capitalize on it right now.
So in terms of making signings,
making visions for the team that is supposed to work in six months,
12 months, hell now.
You've got to keep Donk happy right now,
because as you said, his goal is to be the dominant team in the world.
His goal is to be the best player in the world.
And if he doesn't believe that's going to happen
within two spurt, because they think long term,
well, at some point there's going to be a contract
that's going to run out or he's not going to renew it.
And then he's got to find some wells to play where he believes
that's the case.
So it is a conversation that needs to be had,
But right now, I feel like Team Spirit
are doing everything they can to back up the fact
they have the best plan to win.
This leads nicely into our conversation
about Perry Vision, right?
Because they've taken the opposite tack.
They're on an upward swing going into that last major.
They impress the lot.
And they made this decision to bring in outside help.
Sway, coming in, cast off from spirit.
They thought this guy still has high high peaks.
Much as spirit themselves and highly in particular
kept saying within that roster,
what we've seen earlier on in the early results,
I've been enormously promising.
This dude is harrowing it up in Perry.
Paravision is given him the freedom that he simply didn't have when he was on spirit.
On spirit, he had to be more of a selfless entry player.
He had to be more sacrificial in terms of positions.
And on paravision, they just let him do what he wants.
You can watch a whole half of T-side counter strike from Paravision now.
And it almost is like Zwei is working completely agnostic of the team.
I mean, he's just completely controlling one side of the map.
And it whereas for spirit, this guy is going to be the first guy rounding the corner with
no flash in a side execute where Zai was holding the line. Like, of course he was going to die.
But that was a role that obviously did not suit Zwei. He needs to have more space. And so to see
this, it's fitting. It makes much more sense that he can now shine as a star for a, I'd say,
tier 1.5 team in pair of vision because they just know that he can be a win condition in himself,
even maybe at the highest level. He wouldn't be a superstar, which is kind of why, unfortunately,
it just doesn't work out when he's on a team where dogs the main guy. Well, that's a
It's a crushing white, because Kenny, what he's done so far online, has been absolutely
fantastic for perishing.
He's doing a great job and as you said, I feel like a lot of the impact is coming from
the T-site.
It's coming in rounds where he's just exploding on the same almost, he's getting a double
entry, he's getting a triple entry, almost winning the round by himself.
He's done that against Ence and he's done that against Australia's online and obviously
great signs, early signs, can he do that against a team like Spirit?
Can he do that against a team like Vitality?
What you're going to do against players who are significant to better.
That's what he has to prove in Paravish and we get the first sign of that tonight.
And if you're watching it at home and you're wondering, this guy just totally changed
it through your team, going to the Hyperbolic Time Jam, no apparently, he's getting ready
by playing geometry dash based on what he said, nothing changed dramatically for him.
But maybe this was just the player that he was all along.
This is what we expected when he came over from Domega.
This is what spirit may be once able to activate.
Can we talk about how good gaming that is from Paravish and to see that opportunity as soon
I feel like we often talk about, you know, certain roster changes or the lack there off, you know, when in some of the big organizations,
Parisian, they did well at the major, right? That team came out on the old way, went into the major over exceeded expectations,
you could argue, why would you change anything? They saw an opportunity and they jumped on it straight away.
I actually remember a game quote that I'm going to be paraphrasing here around the time that they benched us on on VP,
which was, we must chill that, which is most dear to us in order to achieve success.
I think I might be paraphrasing that, but that was essentially the spirit of the phrase.
They will do anything.
They will be as ruthless as is necessary to achieve their goal and that goal is counter-shared
glory.
It's nice to see that James still has that sort of hunger along with Dawson that they'll
bench an AW who in a couple of this ages looked pretty reasonably good.
He was a little bit of a source plot for them.
I think in the opening stage of the major, so he did leave something to be desired.
But instead, now they just have a new win condition.
And I think that's kind of the main aspect of
his way that kind of speaks to me on this move.
Is that as opposed to a guy who's just trying not to mess up,
which was more of what AW was doing.
You have a guy that can just be a one man wrecking crew.
And you don't really even have to call too much around him.
So I like the vision that James is moving forward with.
I like the fact that they're being his hungry as they are in the off season.
Let me talk about James, let's lean into it with the vision, right?
Because it's not just way, it's not just the incredible youngsters.
It's the way that they're being used.
and it's the nightmare that always is playing against James.
He puts you through just mental hurdles and for magic, right?
This is going to be one of the first big tests in IGL.
No matter the players that he has to work with,
James never easy to call again.
Now, well, I hope so, right?
Cause I'm not sure just yet that's going to be the case.
I really, really hope that Parvishen can apply pressure
to watch metrics and to watch two spirits.
So we get to see some of those reactions.
So we get a sense of, well, I know he's caught out
for the job this early, or well,
I need to a little bit more pay testing.
So it all depends on the guys like Swey,
you know, your channel is well,
How what are they gonna do early on in order to apply that push?
We'll find out.
It's time to find out where we're gonna be playing this
because it's time for the veto.
Would anything shock you about this one?
We've got new count already.
I'm gonna take a while against and say,
we're not gonna seem fair enough, while we...
It's pretty unlikely, unless Magic just wants to change things up for them.
For the side of Paravision, they've been liking ancient.
They've been liking Dust2 lately at the major.
They showed a little bit of overpass.
And they go back to that.
I feel like this is a pretty risky given you're against a dog that's there's also has so much control of how he handles the
A-site can really put you in a pickle easily and spirit going with mirage
I'd say that this is kind of kind of more like second in their map pool third in their map pool
But strong map for them regardless. I think that's a ball sea ball to pick to go for a little positive
That's an our especially when in the business up for grabs you're playing against you know team spirit
You get to start on the T-Sites that that's kind of being so good
Yeah, that's kind of pan out third deciding map does two is not going to be it
Are we looking at a handshake at a new business potentially?
Looks like it. Oh, no, no, no, okay. Ancient ancient is coming in as a Decider there
Well, I feel like this is almost as good as it gets for a pair of vision
I mean you got two maps that I felt like you could have wanted to pick in this series already
With the overpass with the ancient I'm almost surprised in the second phase that they went with the dust two veto
But I mean it's also I'm just kind of just grasping and straws here a little bit
I mean, there are a few of those maps where a couple of maps were good for them, so it wasn't like it was a bad option for them.
Maybe trying to shift this conversation to where they can bring the IGL advantage into play,
we'll see if they can do so. Time for our big brains on the server, Scrony and Laundus, take it away.
Thank you, gentlemen. That's right. We got the big ol' game tonight.
tonight. Sway versus team spirit to finish off this evening. Only one
can progress. Magic's wins the stare down, but will he win the battle of the
brains? Because Jayme on the other side of this, I think, you know, desk just
put it aptly. We are looking to see which of these in-game leaders will
get the edge and overpass such a great place for Jayme to try to bully
this newfound look for magic. You know, talking to a lot of players at the
events. I think they all said pair vision the most underrated. The most underrated coming
into the season at the event right now. I think I think there are a lot of teams just like
also, you know, what do we expect? We know they're good. We haven't about to play them ourselves.
This is going to be a real test for Spirit for sure. Real test for magic. He's going to be,
you know, as an IGL for this roster. And conversely, pair vision, all they might be thinking,
We could potentially see a win, but obviously we still have to realize that this is what us going up against Spirit.
Like the raw power on the other side of the server are also going to be prepared to come into this match, but, you know,
me and you, we cast it so many pair of vision games as well as, yeah, pretty much every single one.
And we really saw how much they had to offer. It's a strong lineup.
100%. I think it's a strong lineup that we saw on Budapest, honestly, run out of gas.
It's a team that started at the first stage of the major alongside phase and it
phase and character talking about how much they gasped out at the end.
I remember that interview when they progressed to the final stage.
James just straight up said, like, we're going to take a day fully off.
I am so tired.
Yeah.
Because they've been grinding and working and obviously the player break is a great way for
pair of visions.
Just kind of sit back, relax, reset mentally and come to a first season of counter strike
with hopefully that full gas tank.
Now, all these invitations that likes of bounty
to the likes of Crackout, that's earned off of their major run.
This is the pair of vision that now gets to come back at it
and try to establish even more momentum.
And like you said, with everybody saying,
these guys are underdogs that we need to be worried about.
So without further ado, folks, big game,
pair of vision and spirit, and it's going to be
a real tactical element coming out of the gate.
Play slow, play smart Cs.
It's going to be a song of fire and ice.
with dog versus James calling style.
Definitely a great introduction to this roster.
With Zwei on it.
Can't believe neither these players have died yet.
Zero in James shot a lot of nations in this game.
Like 30 seconds ago, this fight was meant to be cut up.
Nobody wants to be the first casualty of what could be a very critical pistol round
on a very difficult T side flashbangs do end up going into the B site.
And in that moment, Paravision start to take a bit of space.
Jimal, win that duel over Twirl.
Founcing in the mean time.
Oh, hey, that's it.
He's gonna pick up a triple headshot inside B.
So, Jain can try all he wants for that Shiro duel
with a BD fan's hold strong out of the gate.
Well, they just got a misarrated by magic.
It's pretty much solo.
That's fine.
What I expected coming into this exact.
No-to-a-takes that back.
Talks on one HP.
You can see some star potential come through
in this pistol still.
Again, we go back to that slow squeeze three kills all magics is afforded.
Let's say, Jame and Donk are even here to near versus no talk.
And he's brought it back on his own triple kill as he jumps into the bomb site.
Jame tried to give that cover to hear for the chance to be the hero in the pistol.
Twiddling HP lower fresh mag needed double up on the pillar.
Gatch that.
Back to back.
And it's a spirit pistol to kick off over fast.
We got everything in that round.
No way the one B2 happens. They missed time the double peak. I thought Teneer was gonna be sitting there
Knowing they're gonna cross the pillar at the same time and they kind of attempt the two, but it was a little uncorrelated gave Teneer a chance to fight that
That is really
Stretched out to cool on an it felt like it was gonna be a messy round, but then back it's all of a sudden
The three K right
Clean headshots playing down the B site
I was Jayme coming in from an awkward angle, and almost good for if you was playing it by himself.
I could have definitely put a lot more pressure on Tanya right there.
It's pretty light purchase here for paravision, but they will come through with some tools.
goals, set a utility for Jane, no heavy excuse me, investments.
Saw a really cool just, you know, lower third ticker during the desk segment that V-Trams
presumably brings into this conversation, saying that magic is taking over the in-game
leadership 14-spirit at the same age that chopper took that responsibility for the same
organization. And I like that parallel. I think that's interesting for a conversation. Again,
you know, how long ago was it where Apex became an in-game leader and we all thought really?
And maybe you think that today about magic. But obviously the players on this team believe in his
ability to evolve into what he needs to be. And so will there be growing pains? Maybe.
Can we excuse that? Absolutely. But what will this roster become? That's the big question
everybody's mind. Take it into the peace site again on armor players for Paragitian Flag.
But the flash is good.
Yellow comes out with a double kill thugs on the recovery already.
No, it's got his hands on them for last player rushes this down.
And we go down to the wire and back to background. Very, very close.
And they need something like that, especially after dropping the 1v2,
that would have taught them back into the game mentally.
It was an excellent flash to scale those tech nines got really scary for spirit for a second.
I was really the warning sign wasn't it?
Magic's getting caught on the climb-up.
Model knack to the mud.
No flash assist in the kill feed.
That was a lie.
Let's play as we're scrambleing to just stay alive.
Not ideal.
So cost effective round obviously for Paravision talking about how they come in without Cavalier one round to go.
Look at the limitations here for spirit out of the gate.
And P9's bomb is critical amounts of utility as well right if we're going to go into a full execute like Parvision have kind of been banking on even in last round they had enough smoke a couple flashes
They'll play the waiting game. Oh, Swake could have disrespect this
He's been lights out all bounty long enough. They got unwatched
They're leaving the paravisions to know those timings.
So he's gonna take to the tip of the spear rotation coming downstairs at the scrambling
spirit.
There's been no pain, presence from paravisions so far when they are near these bomb sites
they do indeed come in and over to top of the bomb site.
Go swipe down with nothing, magic and sheer of taste, man, advantage, good recovery with
a couple kills for paravisions and it's a Jane Clutch.
He walks up on me and takes a shot of advantage with the SMG survives.
This is playing well individually right now.
That's not up, definitely very scary, but I think they supported it perfectly.
They knew they had the MP9s in the B-site.
They're playing from pit.
They can't fight versus, unless they're playing right in front of monster.
They can't play versus the exact, but the rifleers who came in made sure to put pressure
in from heaven.
They're usually paraphrasing their very good at taking a situation like that and pausing
out of the open and then making the other team make a mistake.
but here they couldn't conjure it up.
That's what always scares me about any of James teams.
It's like those weird little timings, right?
Like when you said, just kind of stands out in the open.
Like professional roasters, they won't realize someone
from pair vision is just out in the open
or just on a specific angle.
Like he knows how to just hide and play in sight.
I think that's why I've always so fun to watch Jane work with, you know, young,
malleable players kind of gets his hands on their minds for the game and I think we've learned
that we don't want to see him play.
We want to see him play with players, or basically it's their first date.
I mean, I think that's kind of just where he works the best.
I mean, I think electronic signing for Verus Pro and that team,
it was never James from that moment onwards.
That we're seeing, obviously.
I mean, a pair of vision of getting my overpass in this regard,
but this is obviously also just bad over right now,
and it's B site is, it's still open.
You know, the walls are short, and there's a lot of flash potential.
It's always been the case on overpass, but lately that's been emphasized more than ever.
Nice, off of the Zontik's Flash.
Haven't really seen Spirit yet too disruptive, in terms of like pressing up against monster
taking into short place, so see that deep peak.
And force the hands of Paravision to come in.
I don't seem afraid of this presence,
but Shirou's Nate John sway off the column.
You're on the scene to just spray it all down.
This is one of the least successful chances
that the television have passed towards this piece
that they'll get a bit of damage on to two of the remaining four,
but spirit seemingly stabilizes in the face
of another B-site challenge.
They've clearly worked on these reactions
and what's interesting is what you say
that they're not even focusing solely on monster,
they're letting the lockouts happen.
And heravision, meanwhile, they might be relying
on some kind of close early fight to help them overwhelm in B.
It was really a straws back in the day that just broke overpass
where they would, they couldn't exact the over and over.
It was just a few versus like no matter how much player they put at the site,
it was never enough to stop the fully exact spot.
I think that's coming back in a bash, obviously.
CTE's have evolved and learned since then.
You can definitely get on this fight so the CTE's have to get back.
For a different angle you better be careful, James off.
There to challenge if needed, but quickly dispanceled.
the
start for spirit but in reality per vision have had
footing in three of these four rounds of say the last one being the most convincing
now they move over to monster was in you know a couple of rounds of double wall nades there still sensing the exact is coming
but it's a new look to try to hold.
Clearly tapped into this affinity
that Paravish and have for the B site.
Spark on her name, but important utility left over.
And sendyary dropped at 40 seconds.
No, if magic's gonna be able to use this flash, definitely not.
That's how fully blind this turn from so it takes.
Not able to get the double belt,
you're not gonna be killed feed with his.
Multi-frag, don't hot on the heel.
No, it's not annual caches.
Short control goes away, it's spirit.
And a spray control for don't vote as well.
Man, it bad to share for spirit on top of that.
58 damage grenade dunked on what's left of Paravision and James op left without targets and left without time
He better hope he doesn't die after that clock expires
Stop so now they know he's there. They surely want to take a peek
They're gonna try it, but to near loses track of his position and James able to hang on time expires in the face of paravisions
Be site challenge
You do, we see a new look to try to stop them this time.
It's a little monster set up, they get the first skill without dying.
It's almost from Balchinox beautiful, but this...
Like, after Don shoots a bullet and gets spotted,
you would never think you would try to run out into that duel.
You know, like, the T that's waiting for him,
you've got to give him the edge a little bit,
but because it's Donk, like, you've got to get used to that.
He's one of one when it comes to taking a moment where it feels like...
you would do anything but be aggressive and then make that the best play.
I think one of the evolutions we're going to see within this map right here right now is
Donk continuing to threat that threat in that connector flank because of maybe the lack of
presence up towards a yeah, you know, Donk's the kind of guy he's just ready to go and if you
don't show him anything from fountain you don't threaten long what's Donk going to start doing
he's just going to slam his head against you inside of connector and titanium skull so we've seen
And here's the first instance of that, see, a pair of vision adapt in any way, be pretty
scary if they can get blown out.
And the thing is they've already started out with so many beach lands that have all, I mean,
early one's gone close, but that's it.
So Jane keeps this off, take by up behind it.
and
plays the
eight
There's a lot of gammles that happen on the B side because the double name, two words, the wood wall, it's just like a game winner if you pick the right round to do it, but it's totally blind, you never get vision over there.
Just when they take a sniff at the side, met by utility, we hit the minute mark, and you
know, I think this is kind of what I was hoping for, just a little bit more around the top
of connector. Again, you're looking for dock over stepping that boundary, let's
spare it seem happy to just sit back for a second. And within that lack of
detail here towards monster now we're going to get this walk out
pair of vision coming through without really announcing themselves ahead of time.
Magics to try to hold off the short side smoke popped open.
Sausage taken down to a corner HP, then starting to feel uncomfortable here as it
was momentarily understaffed at nine.
I'm recording through.
It's too headshot to tech dines.
Don't hear the stuff it.
You'll bring it back with a double kill, but
chainsaw finds it's target.
And just like that,
Paravision with less fine footing inside of the B bomb site
because for six rounds in a row now, they've hit it.
Yeah, and seniors got the off to take back this year,
our next round, so actually to near-med the rotation back to A,
they did it without seeing anything.
And Paravision or a team that are going to stack,
They're gonna stack, they're gonna not give you info and the thing is if they don't go a at all
Like they don't even clear things out. You still have to unless you've pushed yourself a assume that it could be late, and
That's why I think spirit kind of trip over their own true lights is here. They go.
Well, that's not gonna be be six times in a row
Even though they didn't have the information to do so because again, pair of vision hard team to telegraph
the kind of team that will go be six rounds in a row.
Those are like way.
In fact, every round they do again
it becomes even more unlikely.
And yet, they'll just keep going.
Here's those tech nine entries.
Not the first time, and probably not the last either.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
The first time on this nasty, yeah, we weren't, you know,
Watching Doc who actually had a line on his targets,
you see, Shiro go down, I'm thinking,
how, let's straight up through the smoke.
Let's be right now, this is a big opportunity
because it was just a saved up.
That was brought into this with a nice force behind it.
That's classic, Jane fashion, right?
Make more with less.
Find those kinds of rounds, put the squeeze on you.
right now obviously James team is just brimming with amers
as tech nine's continue to find headshots and multiple rounds eight a bold roster move right because they
w definitely showed his value this clutch value is unreal so it was kind of I just want to say
brave move to swap them out but it's way also a chillis of potential in his final games
and even more so back at Austin you know when he was being utilized in different roles I think
He's not going to replace a, W, and play the same C.S., I think James, somebody who knows how to get the most out of his players.
You see those...
Evolutions within Paravision, even since Budapest.
And look at his way's performance individually so far about he, light's out.
One of the best players in terms of rating.
Oh, that was actually got a timing.
Let me dog has to turn around, but he just full-clear that for a second.
I'll get away.
I shot Balchinock.
Over top of the party ledge,
Donk goes down outside bathrooms,
and that bathroom's cap is now going to be used by Paravision,
taking their first real work towards this game site.
Another dual caught out in the open.
They caught two great timings by moving quickly.
It was off of Zell's info kind of both times.
Towards Dumpster,
It's interesting though with it, they're not other than this round because they have top bathrooms control with the op
So they're kind of surrounded whether they realize it or not and
They could push in a syrup, but it might just give a kill back
Well miss shop from Shiro
Uncharacteristic flash bounces behind in challenge flying over top
He's ready
But in this shot it gets gonna cost you players on the bomb site magic takes refuge behind the optimist
Bomb is gonna be trying to be planted and you'll stop right just enough a chance
and it's a damage done, so it's a straight-down.
Fire the left side, threats life in head.
And with a bit more chip down towards Jamie,
just can't escape it, that squeeze onto the A site
for the first time this half,
nets them their second round wind.
They get the back to the backs
and this time it's going towards A.
So right here, after Dawn clears it,
that's full of Michellea walks up.
This gives the infotent bell genoc
and then because Ella was on spot
if he just continued walking forward.
To near looks lost in his because
It looked like they're just in a really, like a slower default.
They love lots of tiny ones, though.
It was anything but.
Like two rounds now will receive the power of just kind of poking your head out of the top of connector.
Was it James was watching it around to go with the or two rounds to go with the job?
And now this chase from Zello.
Finds himself working through connector yet again.
No resistance, the spirit comes through obviously for a save of their CT side, this is one round, where you might not see Paravision scout at all.
So we've seen these previous rounds they don't scout, and they go B.
But because they're going into potentially a stack, this is a round where it might be valuable to do so, but they are just going to commit to be spirit or leaving they're doing this too.
It's a Mac 10 in the front of it.
Unlikely round to win, but Donk will give them something to think about that.
Desert Eagle headshot hits in a minute five double mates for Donk. He'll sit here still with a third of his health
Looking for another, but they'll swarm slowly putting that squeeze on just pausing for a
Nuckle moment to figure out where Donk's peak comes through and now it's in here 1v3 usp only
It's gonna get dealt with swiftly
Opposed to events swiftly and without cost, but a no 13 kill makes it a little awkward
So three deaths on the side of pair of vision means it's costly
But another round on the board is nothing to scoff at as this T side closes the gap to their lead
Had time to cancel and go back, but they didn't again have info. They don't use
Lerkers on the opposite side of the map that often Arabian so spirit try to tap into that
Three kills on around like this is pretty successful, but getting three rounds on T side back to back like this is also successful
The
spirit are not gonna be shy
You can defend, come from playing the short.
You can defend, be from playing short.
I caught off by the angle.
It's in here, picks the perfect spot, eh?
And I'm likely spot again, just based on the trends of spirit.
Just like the second time, they've kind of prodded into short control.
Second time it's gotten to the McKill.
And you got Delo looking for dog and then it's other targets.
And this is where you're really tempted to go because you don't need five other full
exact.
Now this is where you might feel this is pretty obvious that we'll try this, but at the
moment it's weird to have it overstack the site.
They're running out of time to actually go in one week as well as you know it's not
going to be a they have a lot of info, rotations are coming to the CT's already.
Starting to make moves, don't move and fast down that dumpster staircase.
It's always not been given a target, and you just, yeah.
It's both towards the barrel, so I'm just ready to go.
And here it just comes out through the smoke.
If only so I can feel the fine something dark,
it comes out from the side of the feed,
but the gloss track is magic.
He's gonna stop the bow and nails the double kill.
Massive rifling rounds out of magic, man.
I mean, it's very fun to pistolies,
having a great game already.
Donk slipping the net on graffiti,
getting to the opposite side.
You see how that just draws everybody's attention.
And that's where you can see sort of uh, you know, I mean when they signed uh, to
near and away at the same time it was like okay firepower upgrade.
Hopefully we can still be as good of a team but with better firepower.
Now it's still a similar line.
They just chopper for magics and now it's can they still be a good team when they try to go for a little bit more firepower
We know if magics
He's kind of just this like secret x-factor right we see the
The finals performance
That we had a chain eye and you know that wasn't even just one that that was a series sister
It shows you a ceiling that you know, it's really tempting to think like is that it's that gonna be our secret windcon when push comes to shove
of
as we have seen chopper sees up a little bit sometimes in very precious games.
100% headshot accuracy on the kill.
Yeah, you can feel that too.
Yeah, I'm going to read that.
Ooh.
Well, implemented boost.
Zello's been having a hard time getting into connector lately.
That has been set on a mission to clear this out.
Up down dog.
and
every round they can pretend to want to do other things but it's always going to come back to this
the scary part of the spirit and playing for guys here waiting for this almost always been to was just
at best back rotations this would be a great round for a double nade obviously is on takes here
and they're going to hear what this is smoked from lead
Oh, they're coming in, ooh, yeah.
The fog we're catching on the boost, there are timings not found by Spirit.
Now you're scrambled and p9 down on the water,
to near keeps it clean.
He's made a bull.
Both position, back, or feedy, rotate.
I don't have one.
It's burned off.
I can have the way to the extra second here, spirit,
to add boots to the ground.
Magic's to keep his head tough, his whole time,
it's gone, it's going to be done up in the open.
He's fine with that.
James trades good.
We've got Belgium all hunting down.
Magic's, he will keep those headshots rolling.
and now it's just a double up to both sides of graffiti.
All that remains here for Spirit is near the floor.
That is a headshot in the half here from Shiro,
and he's gonna look to reposition up to heaven,
but he really just stomps it and then comes back.
And this walk up from tinier,
change it to get blindsided,
short player doesn't pee.
Yellow working with that,
three held from the early connector damage
and so spirit,
man to sit that edge,
still regain their bomb site.
The micro on this ground was just beautiful
and I'm not even just talking about Spirit. I actually liked the way that that was approach, I think, from, noted,
did, to try to take out Shiro, Beltsonot. That's a fight that's great for him. He recognized
that the air was on the other side, but as soon as Beltsonot shoots Shiro a little vision,
Of course he hits the off-head shot.
A good lead for spirit, but it's not been a bad team half for Paravision. There's still time to get five.
See, it went around like this already.
Get that pressure on spirit this whole time.
Then press by spirits for Zillians, and some of these moments, right?
You're getting caught off.
They're good hard with the timing. You still rotate down in time.
They're going for the day this time the double name would wall and it actually might hit a target
Still floating over there
Trying to line this up they haven't thrown it all half now could be that chance like you said you got a sprinkle with it
At the right moment and they do
But only one made hits and that won't matter
Sweet catches tech nine head shots short kill
What a shot there from the pressure magic's can't survive man advantage established but barely we've got a single bullet to kill to
to old rain and Arabians, they're not able to survive this.
Damage continues to be racked up,
Shiro just looking to work with the pistol,
but it keeps lights versus Jane.
That pistol may not cut it.
Don't collect this breath for a second.
Waiting for that peek off site and for retrieved,
and they're gonna finish that little off of Zwei,
but have they lost track of Jane?
He gets all of the short side of the bombsite.
Here's both players running around,
trying to find the solution.
This is so game, and as he goes over top,
don't answer busy!
Perfect, shame!
Now no time for the deep, you surely!
Shiro tries to get back on it!
Isn't that just classic?
Yeah, just disappears into the darkness,
Cave, that is so well done.
Again, more moments of brilliance in the micro here.
I'm sure they're going to stop the plant.
It's like a two little buys that I've got them around.
So put a bit more pressure on Spirit and make it the T side.
But a contrast in that clutch, watching James just cools ice work his way around the
bombsite while both the re-taking spirit players are stomping around the bombsite, looking
for the duel, the logic here for pair of vision is all economy focused.
they know it's last round of the half. I think they have a pretty clear idea of the money.
Now they want to take it to eight where they specifically know they have huge advantages.
There's no opt to stop them. You can see the MP9 buys that would come to your first
spirit.
Shiro misses timing on that bathroom peak. There is indeed a walk-up.
Zello right here on the entrance. Oh, Shiro's missed it twice.
Is it able to turn back right?
But that's a kill.
Uh-oh.
Not ideal.
Move it here for a swing.
But he still has the presence of mine
to clear dog's favorite position.
And sure enough, it's what he's doing.
So, secure it's just enough time to plant.
I don't never mind.
Nate comes out from dumpster pressure back on Parasishing.
I gotta get that back now.
Get scooped up.
Jane misses the timing on the flag.
Now, magic's his MP9's gonna find the seconds his tempt.
And that flag created his worth.
It's waiting cold.
But a Jane clutch still doable.
back to back eight health pull this off, both bodies behind dice and he sees it but they
see him seven seconds, marchers on and if he misses that second shot, so goes to clutch,
spirit getting away with a robbery as they secure eight rounds on this CT side.
I can bring his trap, but he's left his lost man standing.
That was brutal for phase.
I can't believe they get out so clean, isn't he?
Yeah, someone called an ambulance.
You're back, David! You're the more damn common you need!
It's the one you've got to stand in there!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Come on, let's play one.
Yeah, he's the Germans. Oh, my God! He's playing the guitar!
Why are you just playing?
Oh, my God! I can trust him. What?
Yeah.
Is it in the back?
Is it played?
No, it's an evil!
No, it's an evil!
It's an evil! I felt it.
I'm gonna go with the other one.
I'm gonna go with the other one.
I'm gonna go with the other one.
A little mistake.
But we don't classy game of counter strike. May I say? Paravision felt like they brought
the challenge to the table. Oh, that's a one of a kind keycap folks. HLTV number one.
I like that he's got it on his board to remind him where he's going to get back to.
Longers. Definitely. Oh, he referenced it. So they made the team to get them there.
Falcon magic's tied just like Shanghai Grand Finals. Oh, take me back.
That was the most absurd thing ever because dogs still had to like slightly better game.
That was the most absurd thing ever because dogs still had to like slightly better game.
It's not freaking sad with that, Jay.
Creepy crawlers up into the bastards here, spirit.
It's like a real look at this A-bombsite.
James, for the moment, very much alone.
Zway's gonna come rotating up. Zway, who is kind of struggling
in the kill department. Four frags to his name coming off of that first bath.
A couple kind of cool kills.
Quality.
The not as many as he would have wanted.
So bombs gonna be going down in the 555, no kit.
Oh, nice.
Smoking to flash for the retake.
They're pushing into where all the CTs are now.
They have to fight for the spot. They can't play long.
If you control bank, then suddenly the dumpster push is compromised, and the dumpster push
is going to be key for pervasion.
C yellow treats out.
Doc Paul's on to his half of this, but he comes back in for more.
He gives them a chance to refrag on him.
Now, she rose got the responsibility because the bomb stop planted for the bathrooms, and
that's fine by Shiro's standards.
P250 for the back-to-back headshots triple in the pistol at a 9-4 lead with a second pistol in their back-pock
You know, it's kind of like it like because overpass is this a side as uniquely like a spot where both
Joe Point right here, or even I suspect plus two like let's say it was beyond us, too
You could play up by the window and by the bar with the tunnels is right behind you
They see everything but on overpass you can hide behind dice if anyone's coming up through bathrooms
You can't really be spotted and it's really gonna be confusing for this heat these coming up like wait
They're taking over CT now like a four guys here, and it'd be hard to be compared to that
And even if you just went one side or the other
You can push down into it suddenly went on time
I like that's case for car vision
Get a little bit on both ends
Magic's with a little rumbunkious moment here, jumping around top connector
Paravage in no force in this half, either.
You know, the value of utility in their first CT bias, bascially, at the 49 potentially
410 deficit.
James ability to rock your world on the CT side of overpass knows no bounds, this is
one of the most driving factors that won him his major in Rio, playing overpass throughout
Most of the best of ones at that event.
Nice clip off.
Going to be hard to pull off an upset without the pistols, even if you want a nice trick in the first half.
to show us what they can do on the CT side.
Not going to just write off Paravisions Gunrounds
because they'd get to start here on the CT side.
But in a world where spirit do dominate this game,
I think that everybody was kind of watching these quarter
finals to figure out where vitality stood
and where team spirits stood.
As Falcons are coming into this,
but a stand-in, no coach, etc.
We want to know who wins the first event of the year,
and I think eyes are falling on the spirit versus vitality match-up.
But I would think of the two games today, this was supposed to be the more competitive
of the two, game religion, surprising us in a positive way.
Yeah, we've had some good early surprises already, this event would like the teams as, you
know, we have no idea what to expect.
Side ballers, foot, yeah, so you go like.
We, I think, had high hopes for pair of vision, just because, you know, if we go back to
The Buddha Pass, this is a team that kind of put themselves in the front of that pack.
Yeah.
Five ballers are going to have a great 2026.
They weren't even a player yet, sadly.
They're kind of starting that journey.
The pair of vision are very much clearly a couple of steps ahead of them on.
But first gun round.
And it is a man-dissid vantage to have to deal with.
Well time boost and tenure keeps it clean with the glial on the reverse, you know, from the city side perspective you can choose step and weight.
There were first boosts till you'd hop and take this perfect timing, so that was just a good example of that
It's very cleanly done for him to near and he's got the team as far lines as far out here at
It's a very disheartening moment now for a fair mission first right ball low guns a little grenades
And this is where they will always go into stack mode
Well, it's not one of that barrels in the back of an already ripped through, but there's
that double back chain keeps it alive and then seal it up from having traded back, she
won't know where your apodies solo help and he has to go for this bomb plan.
Oh, he's got a chain running!
He jumps up, chain keeps it ready, and it's jaming himself at the center of Paravision,
And look at this inside of the server hanging on to graffiti critically.
That's a crazy mill unload down and it's the early stack decision that brings him over to graffiti that quickly in the first place.
So, two days break right here, great lineup.
The headshot on both guys.
It doesn't freak out no longer one.
He's never going to pull his knife out and jump on the back of his sight and never had a rush thanks never.
the
share could have probably got that
off and then played shoulder peaks for about 15 more seconds before that round ended if you wanted to
crazy they do this 45
sphere will have control timeouts to rest the game
and
one of the second to appreciate our new bounty trophy I think it looks pretty damn cool it's got inspiration
from Austin with the engravings on the front of it
I don't know if it's actually pink and blue or if that is lighting
but that's come on that's pretty good last is made worst trophies
then let me
Nothing specific comes to mind, but you know, you know, it's not a pretty good
memory.
Oh god.
Oh, it's so 2023.
Alright, bit of a bonus round in the last one for Spirit, they were coming into that
physical lilies, they still have a couple, they buy everything they can afford
around 16.
And again, you don't want paravision being given a chance on an early CT side to find
footing.
So it feels like sometimes Jain wears spike shoes, the way he's able to stop his team from
free falling.
Just takes in his heels just a lot.
It helps a little bit slow for the full exact that's coming in.
feeling that this could be a good plan. We'll see if Spirit
realized that. I'll probably play outside that for him.
Moving up quickly, those way adds himself looks like James going to go for a bit of an info play.
This round comes down to Delo, honestly.
James takes the peak, well time flashback, and the frags yellow is not able to hold his
but James is another double trying to scramble off of the signpost.
That's what's going to cost them their in-game leaders life.
Notice tagged and dealt with.
Magic's goes wide, hits the headshot onto his way, who survives on 10 for now.
an ox crept out for the double or 1v1 trade train squeezed out of spirit but they will
still net themselves 11.
So we saw a jane get vision but they didn't have any other players there.
There's no way they did deny that from spirit because even though they spotted for
a long spirit had already pushed out of their bathroom so they didn't like 70% of the
This play was key on the secret game, but unless L.O. gets two, it's really hell
stop people from rotating the really important part and his position would be obvious.
It's a really strong spot against Yato advantage and he's got the inside of that.
How for you?
But you still have to get to him.
to square one here for pair of vision.
Ouch.
I have one M4.
Time to get a little weird here, right?
Belchinox tries to fund Zellos hero moment, and in Staddy's down to 59 health out of the gate.
Parvision know that they got to do something desperate, but their desperation is always still calculated.
Everything about James teams tends to be calculated.
But they're not idiots.
Obviously, they know this game is nearly done.
And so try to sprinkle something special into this one.
Unfortunately, Zello still up at that ace site.
Looks like he's starting to scramble down.
We'll see if he can get to the scene in time
whether these pistols unarmored are able to offer any kind of a stall.
He won't even consider waiting.
Just throws himself into the mud alongside all the others.
And they are in anticipation of the all-in from Spirit, which is indeed exactly what's about to come in bound.
You'd think no chance.
You'd think, Zelog gets done in by dog, two taps over the ledge, and for some shitty chance,
USPs go wild with one, but it's zero over the top of the flash-fattings being taken by their teammates.
It's not ideal, that thing gets sketchy, and yet still spirit come out with a 12th round
secured and 7 map points ahead.
It's even jumping up on our default, like knowing that CT's clean, like how advantageous
that situation gets for the T's.
You can have two backup players, but you have to protect them.
They can really do a lot for you, but not if there's no one up in heaven, no one in CT
to stop the T's from locking up on you.
This game goes on, I think, take a second here to appreciate ten years performance tonight.
Four in zero in terms of opening duels.
Keeps fighting his moments to just sprinkle in.
him donk and magic's all tied at 17 frags so it's not even like
parvison or just dealing with the dock show they are totally avoiding
james only information on a really expecting them to walk into this but
he actually has no idea and even worse for jame now his
stork was down goodness the blind side headshot really nice put together
around here by spirit it's the perfect call for the very last set up
Paravision seemed to have to offer us.
It's pretty much a wrap, but it has smoke CT and when the desk was emphasizing
athletes, the faculty in-game leaders that was meant to go down tonight, a beautiful
call in the final round of overpass where Paravision's challenge comes up flat.
It's bolds real well for this new look spirit.
There's a lot of talk about how its Halley's system and magic's just has that
implemented. Well, Magic's individual level has looked excellent this evening, tying that
of Teneer and Doc right there amidst the best of spirit. And on top of that, you get a master
class counter play to put this one on ice team spirit coming into this quarter finals looking
excellent tonight. In the battle of the X is one is looking a whole lot for us here on this map
of overpass spirit coming out storming in their first land map of the Blast bounty.
Looking every bit the roster we know they can be.
You know what, it's a little bit underrated.
It's the fact that we never really spoke about Tenia.
The fact that we spoke about sway being kicked out of Tenia spirit,
coming into Paravish and playing so well online.
It was between him and Tenia and I think most people were like, yeah,
it makes an awful lot of sense why Tenia is staying within Tenia spirit.
But in this game, we got to see exactly why.
And that's what I'm hoping for for team spirit as well for the future if Teneas playing well if he's elevating himself
We know where we get from Don't we know what we get from Shiro
We'll see what we get from that mix, but if Teneas coming back alive and maybe you know put all those conversations on least shut down the question
Did you go to ask yourself think we kicked it wrong play on I think Teneas was giving an answer back to that straight right here
Had a fantastic show without a doubt. I mean the holds that Tenear had it in that first half
We're just insane actually. I mean it consistently always getting the first player on those entries
as they kept trying to hammer his bombsite. I feel like between swaying to near, there was never
a question for me, but I know the community out there was wondering, well, sway showed a little
bit more on the mega perhaps, but senior just consistently was showing it on that heroic team.
I mean, the opposition that he was playing against was definitely a notch higher than the rating
that swayed farmed when he was playing some of those online cups.
And he talked about it in the online portion of this event as well, right? In conversations
with magic, they want to give him more freedom, they want to give him more space, they know
the heights that he can reach if he's given that opportunity, and we see it here on this overpass,
right? He is delivering everything that Spirit could ask it on.
That's the thing. I mean, when it comes to also just the bombsite defenses, we had a, it's
kind of odd because some of the best moments remember of Sway where the falcons holes that he had,
you know, the site defenses on Newt on Dust 2, but in my eyes, I mean, that's generally where
until that quarter final,
just tinier was the better player at that kind of stuff.
And at holding down and extremity and holding down a bomb site,
he has just this rock steady aim where he's able to weave around utility relatively well.
Because he has that heroic level of experience,
he's played a lot against a lot of good executes in the past.
So he's not bothered as much when there's some good flashes coming his way.
Whereas way, just often times was a blinded deer in the headlights.
Now, looking at the pair of vision side of things, right?
overpass can always be a tough one as your map pick because you start on that
T side and we know how suffocating it can be. This one did start out very rocky
indeed here. There was a few rounds you wanted to take a look at here, Maui.
Well, I just think that the style that Jayman Dostown went before here was pretty
similar to how they called at the major. They went for a lot of B hits at that
major and the first six rounds of the entire game they just consistently were slam
in this site and that's why Seneer was able to farm so many kills because he was
just doing such a great job for speeding through these because it kind of was the same story
in a lot of them. There were a couple retakes sprinkled in here. So for the most part, the initial
site, the vendors, got a lot of the dirty work done for them. So all of it all, I was kind
of surprised that through a player break, they didn't really do more, but that's when the time
outcomes. And this is where you think Holly's got some kind of reason for going this because
they did lose one, but it kind of works in a weird way. It kind of works in a weird way, but
But it's also one of those scenarios where I feel like there were moments in each of
every round, you know, where you're feeling, oh, we got so close to getting the kill, the
water won us around.
Then, Jane is like, let's try one more time and then another place like, I probably should
have had that kill.
We can do it again.
So you're getting close consistently, but you're never really getting over the finish line.
And sometimes you get tricked into continuing doing the same thing over and over and over
and you're hoping you're going to break through and it should be completely honest.
It did break through at the end of the day.
They got through your arms and they were like, you know, on the T-Sat and all of a sudden
we're talking, oh, spirit, are you losing grasp on the game?
So there was a moment in the game in the first half where I felt
in West Competiton, but when you then look at the scoreline
and the way it finishes 13 to 5, you're like,
that was the only moment here.
They did enough, right?
They did enough and that first half that we couldn't just
sight it as the reason that they lost.
Because there were two halves of play and legitimately,
two halves that we did get to see.
There was another round here round 11 that we wanted to take a look at.
Yeah, I mean, we saw we were seeing some good moments
from Paravision to close it out.
But this was another moment, I'd say, for the side of James,
that was just classic.
I mean, it's got that sneaky style.
I mean, he's known for saving.
I mean, I almost feel like if you're a spirit here,
you're wondering, is he saving something?
Like, is he a way from the boss?
But instead, he was just secret agent,
James, in the back of the bombs.
I even though he doesn't get the final kill.
He bought enough time for his team.
And I feel like that's why we gave him the nickname
in the past.
He's the time lord.
I think Harry Hugo actually pointed this out
during the online cast that if there's one player
who couldn't pull off an inch of diffuse, it is,
because he's created that reputation that expectation that you think he's a light year away, so you might actually leave the bomb.
Obviously not the case here, but you can see the idea of start to turn and the way he pulls out one off.
There's still that, Jane magic. There is still that ability to manipulate to play with the time.
Yeah, and at that point in the game, you're getting your fourth round on a T-Sight without winning a Pissier round.
It's all of a sudden a pretty good T-Sight on a map like a Rupassan.
You know, you're wondering, okay, if we get a fifth, are we heading into the second half as the fate?
it's now all of a sudden to win. So at the very moment, James pulled this off with a
tick nine in a very, I guess pivot will moment in the game as it's so cold key ground. It
was super super impactful. Unfortunately, in the second half, Mike, they weren't able to follow
it up. You don't win a pistol, you don't convert anything and you never really get into
the game. And there's one of their fact of its very troubling for Perry Visions, well going forward,
right? So I had a stinker and he's the player who would have the most to prove in this particular
matchup, who would the most motivation, the most in the line we saw the stare downs, we saw the
the weird high five pan shake standoff with magic right clearly
understands that there's something to prove against this team and unfortunately
I know overpass was not able to deliver on that. I will say that Zwei was
thrust into the situation here on overpass which I don't necessarily think
that his skill said frequently on these bombside hits going into B he was the
first player sent in. Zwei's way better when he's the second or third as
our most people but you could just kind of see that there's there's clearly a
difference when he's when he's given all of that free room which he was again some of
their in their earlier matchups in the online portion of this he's able to just
kind of freely roam kind of carve out his own space just get an entry based off
of the timing he's feeling but when he's just first in entering it's just it's
just bad battle for him. It's also first in entering on the B-bombside. I saw him
play early in the tournament against the Sinus or in a circuit T side or a
pass. He got most of the jump down on the T side on the A-bombside off
things, you know, controlling the toilet area, getting into good positions, playing
around with the smokes and the timings into water toilets, entering into water bebombside,
it's always going to be uncomfortable if you're the first guy and even the second guy
in this at risk, whereas A is it's a bit more open, you get a lot more, one of you
want to do it's where if you're the better player, you have the better day, then you
can win though and swing it in your way. So I think this game was not played to the
strength of the sway, what's your own? That's why I'm not too, too worried just yet
Mike, I think you can bounce back on the mettle number. Well, we'll have to see, but there's
There's one more thing that's gotta be troubling if you're a Perry Vision fan, which is that we barely even mentioned don't get this point
We're gonna be talking about that map number two when we come back from this break
Now you and your own career, you've on the major, you've on Colourn, Cato, loads of other
trophies as well. What personal goals do you have going forward?
I have no certain role. Many people think that this is a problem, but for me, it's just
unlocking the potential because I'm kind of not bounded by any goal I have in my head.
So I'm just trying to get as much as I can out of it and you also do you have maybe
then the motivations to just be the best player you can be and the way you want to play
Counter-Strike?
Yeah of course I'm still haven't became the best venture in the world of the year.
So if you talk about this individual results you can get, just still.
not bounded by expectations or goals this guy I love his interview answer is you never know what you're gonna get was long to
But you know it's gonna be the unexpected and spirit perhaps delivering the expected over on overpass
And Zontix a nice piece of that Maui
I'm still trying to piece together how I feel about that sort of interview it and really I think that that's the Zontix effect
Baby in general that's how most of his interviews work on me
It makes you think it does make you ponder. I guess the lack of a goal
It does for you from any sort of expectation for myself, but I feel like
Journey in terms of like introspection
It's okay to have personal failures which make you reach higher in the future too to
Sayon philosophy conversation your Jagan Jericho Center you love goals. You love goals
You're a big goal
Yeah, with that interview piss you're all about goals and now you hit so many your goals. It doesn't finish me off
Because I feel like this I'm driven by goals obviously, but I think you know people are driven
They were driven so I can't speak right now by different things and Sun six is one of those very eccentric guys in a sense
That is it's probably driven by different stuff than most people and I kind of respect that in a way
I don't know what to make of it. I certainly do. I know what to make of it. I love it
I love a lot of
I don't want to be thinking about it. I'm going to be walking to the shuttle later and thinking what did he mean by that answer?
That's just a little heck of a gift. I think that this one's going to be pretty rough for Perry vision. What do you think?
I think there's a chance to become really honest and very small sample size. We've only seen spirit played it once. I guess online against the cynos.
They went down six to one. I believe in that game took a long time coming into it.
I wasn't necessarily impressed with how they played on Miras and yeah, I'm basing everything in one, you know, one met and that's the same
Besides we have to work with all I'm saying is didn't seem beat or sorry unbeatable and and I think that's what Paris
You have to look into see what's in us bit which was a lot of fast-paced counter strike
Especially under CT site when the got up six to one
It was aggressive. It was trying to take away map control from team spirit pushing middle pushing connector pushing down a slow as well
I would love to see some of the same things playing out here for Paris and interesting note
a very vision offing to start on the T side actually pretty
on the usual thoughts.
Yeah, I don't know about that one.
That's a little bit confusing because I feel like there was
roll over lap going into this.
His way was going to have to take up a spot.
I think that Bellchonock took over.
I mean, I think they were both B-Lirker.
So hopefully we just see his way in some more action.
I just hope that he's not full blown entering.
I like when he had a little bit more space on the other maps
that Paravision already played at this event.
When he's just allowed to work aside of the map
and not be in some kind of like map control space-taking area.
That's when I think he does his best work,
and that's when he can actually be a big difference maker.
We'll see if he can be, we need him to be, right?
I think it's important here that we have
to have just a hot start,
so that we can forget about what happened on overpass,
and still get this nice, tidy narrative of sway-taking on spirit.
I just want to see him have a good game.
Yeah, I just want to see a competitive game.
I think Paravish has it in them in order to apply
a bit of pressure to Team Spirit.
That's what's spoken about.
I want to learn more about Team Spirit,
and metrics even said in one of the interviews that we did that he's a little bit
mad that they don't get to play more official games because he wants to learn
and he wants to see so do I, the sample size is so, so, so, so, so, so, so, at least when
we do have the monstaches and at least give us a competitive game so we see how
the react went on the push.
Well, have to see what they can do indeed, but now it's time for
launchers and scrawny to take it away was one of the launchers is good old friend's
mess.
Oh, that is a throwback and a half boat.
You remember when that photo was taken?
Yeah, that was um, that was it the
Man, what are we gonna do with that?
I can't remember now
That was the player who tell in Boota Rattles
He's a huge adult, right?
He'll have a JW on the stairs
Yes, after part of his attack
Yes, that is, that is pretty funny
Wow, magic, so they cut it off
Magic was standing like three stairs up
Four, six, eight
Now I'm roll, four, both six, but yeah
Last time I checked magic
Isn't
I thought we'd have a competition on our hands today and James tried to do it with the clutch factor and
saw the T side go a bit back on overpass but obviously when Teneer's dropped in 2.11 ratings on you
5 and 0 in the opening kills no CT side was not easy to get through I mean he was just alone
Dominating them on that half so I think like this it's exactly what you want to see for spirit for sure
And now, guess what, they're going up against another spirit CT side, but this is of
pair of visions, choosing.
Utility here in the A-Bom site currently occupied by Shiro, disruptive utility
over towards wrap, right?
Smoking front of Tetris, flash to kind of stall things out, and you see how that
bottle next through the players fall there, push the rudders, and the finding too,
that can't clear them out clean.
The answer is already back under way though.
Zello's got you pinned against the garbage can, and Teneer is going to go down empty handed
here in the CT pistol, but you've still got dunk in the mix, and he's going to pressure
that bomb plant, gets away with the headshot, but he'll need the next two frags as well.
Don't put a past him, smoke into flash, two players in front, but now that they hit that
push, he's done, and pair of vision will win their first pistol of this series.
Yeah, that's actually so important again because like it's got to be an upset they all
repass the more slanted a map is the more the pistols are relevant just for like getting
into your good side and putting around these large side and just these are series again for
pair of vision they're gonna have to fly out the set out strong.
So here we're basically every single situation on that last map so it's a nice spot
It's a 35 for a second to get back into it and they get the neuron and auto shotgun.
Yeah, why does he not?
Easy second round by on a round after losing the pistol.
Make sense though, sitting inside B-side with it, just in case they were to swarm.
And this is the new pair of vision.
They don't wait until the whole round to make decisions.
It's a quick exec.
Flashes come after the fact.
We don't retake, surely, but maybe they can try to see if CT gets taken over.
or something to look for a mistake.
Well, they haven't boxed in, actually,
a magic has an MP9 on the flank.
I mean, honestly, there's actually
either a room for mistakes right now.
Rack up costs, perhaps, and again,
well, time flank, if all of a sudden,
the attention is drawn toward sight,
we'll see if Jane gives up this idea
that the flank is coming.
Oh, it matters to the corner.
Yep.
It's a matter of timing, that flashbang just got changed.
There's her replayers in front of me.
Oh, good on Jane, that was the longest period of time
that he hadn't checked that flank,
and it's exactly as magic starts to put that pressure on,
but James still has the presence of mine to hold it.
Little upgrade was what no-to-watched and E.
He's not going to get away with it.
Yeah. So double-glill and an AK-47 held on to my pair of vision,
but a two-zero start really all they wanted.
And Jayman, do sure we'll have his pillow.
He better.
It got that... uh... got that synergy.
Leave it to jail.
But they never saw the secret weapon did they never saw the new tube.
You'll let them 10-14.
you
y'all mad autotradi still a few threats
to kill our cross the board for everybody except to hear
that's got a funny right
Smokes come down on the A side again interesting spots and they'd actually don't think you're a
Little too late unfortunately
ZLO down to five points of health finds refuge in the back of the site
He's just trying to get the hell out of there. Oh, what a thing
Through the stairs not every day you see that headshot so through but magic's lands it trade is
Instinct retakes under way again to near no Kevlar
The bomb is not planted for all of the players on Paravision over towards that ramp, it's true.
No diffuse kit here for Team Spirit, so that's going to cause the problem.
We're looking to just keep these players near the bomb site and rack up again, a cost, but it's still three rifles,
just like last round to get away with this Paravision going up 3-0 at the start of this half.
And Team Spirit, again, keep majority alive themselves.
That was kind of a crazy plant choice.
I'm not having CT control and just smoke in it off
But again confident they're holding unlikely that there's any kit on that round they're right about that
Nice this is no
Wow that's ridiculous
She said I impressed me
This is the be clear that was not his crosshair right most likely not
I mean you might have it on a bind and then when the time you know blast kind of locks in the player crosshairs
Oh, yeah, you told him could have had the bound find on that adds up
Considering the person hadn't executed his but I think it was NAF who's now playing with a follow recoil crosshair
Yeah, I got a hearing you go talking about that yesterday
One more for the club
Now you've got that on, right?
Yeah, I've put that for...
Almost a year now.
Me blitz and NAF.
Good company. Thank you.
Reagels.
Imagine NAF calling.
Sold.
So what do you guys want to do this round?
Ha ha ha.
This looks land in this 5T4, deep on peak is going to keep ten years start on map 2,
limited, and Shiro is going to find a robbery of an off-sharp back.
Just escapes there on skates, all is good as far as Shiro is concerned.
Waiting for a chance at another target.
Yeah, well, he's all planned to get in that's crazy.
Yeah, he kind of wants this bomb plant, but you know the pressure can be re-applied from
Take it a straight off shot goes through.
All boils down to timing, sway burns,
Zontix alive.
They're waiting a long time.
Another kill.
Ket shot here off the stairs.
They wide-swing into him.
Great challenge for his way to get one back.
And then they will find that plant on the other side of things.
They secure the staircase.
Take over connector and make sure that this double up on ticket
that Shiro clearly wanted the challenge.
Never has a chance to thrive for zero.
The pair of vision start.
Very well played so far.
Very well earned.
Very well earned right into the rifles. No stress at all. It was a clean pickoff from Shiro, but not much after that
If don't go out of multi that round gets ugly, but he was on stairs really trapped in
Big 50 damage
The
Spirit stumped out of the gate here on map 2
Nothing fancy it's fully exact. I was gonna say it's how
How chain is this we go on site 10 out of 12 rounds back on overpass going to that debom site
We switch over to Mirage and we're gonna go
10 at a 12 to ace right now. Well, we'll see though if it's five at a row or six in a row. Yeah
But I'm gonna say surely not
Surely not it's I mean it Mirage is not what he wants to bring you the meta of you know
This just is a broken site right now for us this makes sense to need to sure
But yeah, you're right like
Heartman to predict
And yet so easy to predict, I mean, just impossible to play against.
So I set up with their default, the grenade from the are moving into, I mean, the spawn to my palace here.
So it's a different look, but it's still in a play, brewing.
So this spot where they want to try to run out on to near, as soon as they find out someone's here.
It's going to be this wide swing out of palace, but this is actually only encouraged
of rotation towards A's, and here it gets more into the site, magic's watching over
a shoulder, and dunk in his usual spot.
Gene that one anomaly here in the fifth round playing out towards Middlescott, share control.
There's so focused on A right now.
Yeah, this did not work.
rounds of, it's gonna have to be firepower that wind this first.
Caravision, light swing to take it.
Ooh, it's all swings a little to be desired, but that's fine.
He's got teammates across the board that all pick up a brag of peace.
Caravision try to swing him without one unexpected and instead, they just hit the ground.
The moment they exit that palace, every single player's dead, James shows up like
guys, which he'd do wrong.
Yeah, honestly, it's spirit didn't have a lot of vision inside of middle.
I think they really read the Nades that were coming in and precipitated the strad.
that was just looking like a solid sort of preparation
read here from spirit unless they saw something we did it.
So wild too, is that wasn't even like the cleanest
mechanical moment out of spirit squad,
don't get so many players.
Yeah, just kind of hitting half of the health off,
you know, something insta kill,
as maybe you've come to expect from him.
But you're really relying on that spot,
just for there to be one guy and take it,
you know, you almost maybe hope it's zero
so that you could just either kill him,
Oh, right, or spam them down as he tries to hide behind and take it.
Running over top of this teammate who might be under balcony.
Yeah, actually just a super good round from spirit in terms of what they clearly knew about what was going to happen.
I think that's, you know, a good, uh...
This is interesting. James Banks brought something to our attention earlier today that Donk is now for the first time ever.
different mouse. We see his hand on it here. Yeah, you're really good that
could saw it to eat the heart. My nose is black. Change up. We know
sometimes players can get a little superstitious. Yeah, on a hard to change
anything is it is it's antares who still plays with a wired mouse? Hmm I won't always
freak me out. I mean I never believed them when they said that wireless technology is more
reliable than wired technology. Oh now that they've got now they've got special wireless
receivers to give it like ultra super wireless boost but if you need those receivers then
clearly the original must not have been that good. Hmm you know that's right there you go.
Or is it just a deal with skeptics like you, London? I don't know. Yeah I mean it's half
confidence at science. That's a wireless Mos user. All it takes is me forgetting to charge my mouse,
plugging in a wire for one day of gaining to be reminded why I'm wireless for the rest of eternity.
Oh, it's the resistance still. Get out of here. We keep up this round with a miswindo smoke and a lot
of attention from the CTs in middle. I'm presetting the bomb towards that. This is a lean.
Oh, that could have been a free kill.
That'll probably be a little scary for Perry, vision though.
Hello, up on the line.
Seems a bit wide, though, for James and Shiro's patience, just gonna sit here.
It's got an infinite level of that.
That'll be the operas that we thought was cute up, kind of fizzles out and Shiro, aww.
Missed his chance!
As the name gets chucked back by Nota, too big misses.
Look like for sure, Shiro was gonna find my timing, but missed opportunity,
Man Advantage Paravision, and a real chance at a 5B one if they can just hang onto this.
Okay, well, to near playing up here, he knows his scary, because if they get up to nectar,
you have to push into palace.
Ideal situation for him as he takes out this palace player,
and it has also a point to escape.
Smokes about to fade as the character players work their way up.
He loses his dual pressure on Donk.
Stairs player, served up in a distraction.
in between hunts and down, and the head to head
between sway and dark rate now.
Sways the way of sway.
Song ticks up the tide of ticket.
Trying to keep this round alive, but he's
taking so much damage.
They've lost control of Sways' push.
He's going to find himself another freebie of a frag.
And the fallback here for magic is this
Paravision T-side, right?
We kind of raised the eyebrow, and they decided to start
morage on this half of the map.
But this affinity for the Asay has gone swimmingly so far.
Yeah, we'd have to ignore the two big misses and all the map control that Spirit had though, as your hero was
very careful about how he approached both those fights and nearly got top mid kill.
Went for a push, nearly picked off a rifle or without a jame, actually covering him.
I'll use switching grenades too.
That's a bit of a fortunate moment here for sure for ParaVision.
But sir, you want to still could have been lost at the near, lost this ghoul in palace.
Nice to see his way of finding his impact after having, what was disappointing, first
outing versus spirit over on overpass.
Again, he had a couple of critical kills, but Quantity just wasn't there for him.
I think when the conversation had started today about the contrast in in-game leadership and the experience of
Jane versus the inexperience of magics, it's one thing like when you can't apply the game plan out of the gate,
but now we talk about adaptation, trying to find a solution to this problem, and we're just not sure yet if magics has that ability.
Again, bar nut last row is two miswondo smokes in a row here from Paravision on James team and then
Like not ever go
Here we go, the whole office justment comes through with a swift 5v4
Yeah, they try to use James to lurking in middle that previous round for the pulse walk out and this runny dies
So actually just gonna abandon it totally
I was around with a second rifle for a pair of vision, and it was sort of a stroke of
luck that they were able to bring home the win, so it won't be a bit more difficult.
I'll really leave him the bomb back, so I'll notice, surely going to just, okay, I'm like,
maybe they want to use him, but...
Get scooped up, and they work their way towards B. I hope that they can just maybe group
up and out number and op-hold.
Thing is it's bolster now by Zonsix and a fresh smoke right as they arrive.
That's really alarming.
Ouch.
It feels like there's two guys here.
Belgium Ox is going to be cut up for an M4 headshot.
Zelo has worked into the side of this and avoided damage for the time being.
The smoke is going to fade soon enough, but it's still going to be a critical push for
pair of vision.
20 seconds on the clock and it's the higher HP player dies first.
That's sober.
And I'm so on to just sprays into him.
Almost holding the apartment's on his own.
Now, I'm just waiting for the cap plate.
Insta killed back to no one's on.
Oh, when he's got himself a third fry.
This round off of the off.
I gel off, star rifleer.
I just get a little extra from Magic so far.
I never a big game choker.
that's off to excelsi
you know the train is coming out you do is gonna be a little delayed
and look at the reward that earned spirit as well right right back into the pistol's
of vision.
For a game that's had a whole lot of action towards the ASI, you find ourselves with
pistols clumping up towards the ball, perfectly timed, and if you thought you were going
to see that second off again, you are wrong, right?
In a world where that off was still here in the hands of magic, maybe this clumping
behind the smoke could pay off, but because he has his M4,
he's afforded a spam on timing and look what it nets him.
That's all the wind that a pair of vision sails.
Yeah, totally.
It's just gonna be a really uncomfortable situation.
I mean, they're gonna have to obviously go for it.
Don't even still on this B-site lane.
finding two players should smoke like that odds are there was a stack behind it, so
no help needed on A for the meantime.
Belchanox Desert Eagle tries to take points.
But there goes Jane that's the bomb stop and what she can ace for
magics here versus unarmed pistols on the B site.
Welcome back magics.
Rack him up well earned. I'd say off of bat triple ops shot
The one round prior he deserved the ace in the anti-EGO
Manor user never gonna get serious magic. They know as a player especially now is taller
There's gonna be have to be moments there
I think he sends a bit of that personality to like really bring home a game or like make a call that he needs to make everyone listen to
And my first stop was like, is that gonna be at all to the first now?
But we don't have full insight into how much he would do to that, just as an anchor before.
Not a bad time to go be when they're pulling out like this if this becomes a cat smoke
it's actually kind of hard to get back into it.
You typically want someone to back outside the matter what.
They seem to keep a good read on what's happening but...
diving by 50 damages, we hit the ground,
the magic and saunting, all air through everybody.
All they thought they had a chance.
Slonders, they thought they had space and timing.
They thought that they had this hit in their hand.
It's actually what they can now anchor together and just
terrifying.
Oof.
That one made easy.
So, you know, one guy holding second window,
and on that sliver angle, we're on get right, that's great.
But you wanna have some fun across by her and be especially if you let them get out or, you know, I can't get small either flashed and
Maybe it was too hard to read here for pair of vision but there read is just about vanished
But they pulled off two rounds like this back on over past these side
See what they can do
Easy pickin versus pistols you to soon, but Zello still comes through with one at least
Please.
Full and daunting kids gonna go try the way.
Triple test timer out for Zhello so far, just when stability was seemingly found.
Exfactor from Paravision breaks through again, now hands on two AKs and Kevlar in the mix.
The cheerleaf faked the runback or did he go pick something up?
If anything, it was just a flashbang, so it's really not enough.
Magic's testing the side of this smoke and that's space given over
This is gonna be a sting of a result for spirit to have to handle. We got kids on both the CTs
Terrorist as though smokespock take a look
James likes to break the hero and they break through
Triple tech nine round for Zello and pressure right back on spirit
Yeah, that's gonna be a salty moment would have been just their moment of reprieve they can have an eco to farm off of and right when that's about to happen
and Paravision chime in with another forced by victory.
Even if it's here, it's not far.
Now the super solid track record of Snowflind is now from Paravision.
Oh, that's nasty.
That's disgusting.
Triple flashes with the side of it.
Belgium, I'm just going to try to keep the round the line with the challenge into the apartments.
And that's just a quadkill, cut-up for the Zontix on for the Ace.
As Jame approaches off of the catwalk, that is five in the ground.
and as he went down empty handed alongside dog on the stairs hold all five made easy in the follow-up
Dix
Oh, baby
Follow-requilt
the
uh... got wrenching moment there for a pair of vision so we felt like they had
just kind of secured the half had a six-thround ready to go you really don't see
pair of vision versus anyone get red so often it was like here's how to
bring a nice dreamly well yes i agree with that you go back to the end of uh... overpass
even right that perfect t-side closed in a gun round
That's always been the thing people say about James Tames.
You know what he's going to do, but you can't stop it.
One go over it again here for Zothix, top middle challenge, set towards him, and it's another
multi-prime, although not as dominant.
The dog is here to clean up.
Taps into the head of Jane.
You just feel pinned against the wall
if you're jaming that moment.
It confirms the bombs down towards middle.
And timing versus Shiro on cycle.
And everything stacked up against him.
El Chinat versus four.
Doesn't have bomb possession.
And very quickly on the scene is dog.
So tight half at the end of this one.
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What was once a 4-0 lead and a 5-1 lead with the side of Paravision ends up being a pretty
recovered half for our spirit in the end. We get some big multi-kill potential out of
zontics, you know that ace in a rifle round really kind of changes the tone in the
server and it feels like spirit if they can run away with this pistol which they won both
of back on overpass all the sudden pressure on paravision is real. Execute into the A-bombsite
with nota up on top of palace, a little bit of ticket support in terms of belchinock
And everybody else trying to scramble over.
James got a golden line back turned to the breadless.
That is a deadly decision made here by spirit.
But the recovery is still underway.
Shiro's P250 in another pistol.
Oh, it's executed by James on the blindside magic.
One V2 with a minute, 15 to play.
14 and five.
I don't know if there's a better guy to put in a one V2 right now.
Yeah, he does not have the health to do it,
but it is a pistol round.
And a pair of vision it's going to be a situation where they gamble.
It got two together.
They can allow the bomb plant to go down.
Hope that the game plant comes back to hay, but magic is not over thinking this at all.
He's moving with conviction.
Get going.
Actually, this is Giscal's time.
We stepped forward.
Magic decides to play a back into the apartments.
We'll see if pair vision are concerned about any kind of market presence.
No, they just go stomping.
They don't believe he's here or if he is,
they'll just try to trade this out.
They know times.
Is the critical point on this one?
But he's, magic says to walk back.
Hmm, assume they're faking.
They're clearing everything right now.
James got the wide angle.
And again, Magic's 13 healthy.
He's got to win this duel.
I mean, he's playing this one.
Down to the final seconds.
Now he's got to clear off the dizzier.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Five HP from 39 to five.
And if that defuse gets stopped,
that round is magic.
That was actually played as best as he possibly could.
More read the no-kitt situation held for so long.
The Jame met Jame gave up.
Right? You got Jame to give up on his idea.
And usually when Jame has an idea,
he gets locked it on that moment.
He's second guesses it.
Jame almost died.
Valien effort there for magic,
but it's gonna be both pistol's caravision here on the horse.
forced by at a spirit bolster by the bomb plant triple tech nine double galile that's what they'll have to try to upset this early CT momentum
They're able to get themselves for it's we all very awkward
Yellow goes down with not all spam through the connector smoke
James challenge out of the window does bring one back instantly, but it's a four versus two plus further damage now for Jane
Let's just happen. Say every fight was one that pair of vision wanted and spear at somehow
Make this a 4v2 before a minute 12 plants going to go down no chance to win this round now for pair of vision. That's it
Can't even explain that so be a gut-wrenching map loss pair of vision lose control of it fully
lead to the first half second pistol
still falling victim to just a double galil play up catwalk.
confidence for paravisions and challenge team spirit picking their opponent for this quarter final
Thought they'd come in with a game plan and maybe try to out mastermind the likes of spirit
But one thing to out think of it's another thing to out the flag
Unfortunately, right here on Mirage the flagings making all the difference once spirit we're able to take control of this game tied up at seven
but economic pressure here for paravision as pistols make an appearance
a few bucks safer
going for mid straight-up c.a.a. the luck first is gone
zillow is not having a good time here on garage now sitting five and thirteen
first death back to back rounds at a very critical point in the early c.c.s.
I
Like that philosophy though if you can't outrun it just stare at it
That was homing
I'll talk out on the jiggle talk on the lockup.
I think it really had a stack either.
Three players inside B, Friday, it's gonna chip down.
So, a pistols here for the defenders.
Spirit are gonna have to forget about someone.
They don't have great spots.
Don comes running upwards from Catwalk to near with the Insta Kill already.
There is still a- that 5-7 that you'd think would get something going.
To near and doctures have their way with this bomb site.
Ooh!
The Belgian Ox 5-7 finds a couple of kills.
Unfortunately for me being squeezed from the flank and doesn't even know it.
So, magic makes sure that his fun ends with only those 2-5-7 frags.
It's when James Spodding, he's got his smoke out and he's whatever it is and he's falling back.
It'd be better maybe to just try to fight because like once you let them up cap with the full split with the guns they have everything's gonna be declared
There goes the lead
Easy pick up for Donk here on armored pistols inside the A site
Team spirit feel like they could just kind of stab they're play on these rounds now and that is why Donk and Teneer
Just combining for some more easy entries
Tine issues inside a connector. I don't know if anyone's gonna spot him, but
Surely Jane wears out those shoes. It's just that much
Yeah, let's be real human max is that
That's a little like to see that.
At the same time, you might be the kind of guy that really wants to take his time in the morning.
Oh, true.
You know, some people slip on their shoes.
I bet you jame unties and ties them every day.
He definitely puts his boat his pants on both feet at a time.
Meanwhile, magic's in the crox.
No underwear.
So they have the man now 15 and 6.
I'm the leader.
I can freeball now.
By the seat of his pants.
Got to feel the game.
Go with the flow.
And right now that's what Spirit are doing.
Just finding flow in these last couple of rounds.
Early damage onto two of Paravisions players.
As Ella just tankin' it, and they can't pair of vision instantly playing with so little space.
You know, the part is a little bit uncomfortable.
I think you'll back to their stacking game style, but that just I won't work towards me.
I can't towards A.
And the smoke lands?
He's spirit hit their windowsmugs.
the
contest for a donkey know if you give him an inch is gonna take a mile so he's about to try to go
roaring up through connector
c.t.s put a smoke in front of him will see if he respects it on to our not but
well
belchonot just puts a
burst through all
crossers on point for a second james holds off
the front of the bombsite and cello still able to get at least one but he had
Fire to speed.
Missed opportunity for James Multi-Frank,
Magic's putting pressure on him.
Is a plank coming in, though?
Trying to get this hero to play out through connector,
but yeah, about A-Ramp Flank's gonna find the bomb
with back turn.
No talk.
It's gonna execute, and all of a sudden,
this round fizzles out.
Have he stacked from pair of vision inside of his sight?
And it works wonderfully.
Yeah, actually, it felt like it was more of a B-play,
but they had the push coming in,
then they had that final rotation,
top kill, and from the CT side,
and this is beautiful.
About not that final little spray just to check before donkeys is closed and open every bullet hit
That's huge also because dogs never lurking so it's just like you're you're getting full info on the exact now, too
the
Through a smoke, he's just gonna start shooting your smokes.
I mean, he just called out perfectly when that name was gonna get thrown.
My goodness.
That's just such a good gun down.
Plus a connector player.
James, it's an interesting spot.
Maybe someone wants into him, but there's not really incentive for them to split up too much.
This is the way just don't that need on magic.
Magic shot a bullet.
the
game of the fallback gets
chase pressure up from
catwalk he knows that he's a bit of a pinch but
luckily he's got teammates to help out
yellow catching that spam from a site through
connector and that gives just enough space over to
Jane to reposition and now happily come back at the
apartments.
Boms been confirmed back there.
Enough time to maybe run away and go to the site but I don't even think
considering at the end of the off-to-save, it looks like James saved the day.
It really made all of the more easy by that A to Catwalk, Smoke Spam.
As you felt, James pressured by Catwalk as he just kind of took up position behind the pillar of apartments.
This round of Fizzles out, Paravision, able to come back from a four versus five,
hanging on to every other life, tying this game at nine rounds all.
Yes, very impressive.
So they were trying to ready the exact and James so deep that if they had already crossed into the
B-apps, two D-P could get incidentally traded but that risk was perfect.
They weren't ready just then.
the
goes around comes around
I've really had a conversation about how he versus
tossed on yet tonight, but yeah, he was so
thinking at least with his way that you know on
the spirit like it didn't it didn't really work
they might have made a decision before obviously
you know
Before they saw it's way kind of finally fit into the anchor rules just came too late, right?
It's like he had he had some run play, but they're in tier one on its team like spirit. You're not going to hit that much
But playing under jamed this song like you know that you're going to have to play with way more discipline
You're gonna have to learn to play a certain style and you will be under a microscope
Is everything moves so slowly that you can you can really see everyone's actions
I feel like on unfair vision more to the master
So I think it'll be good for it
Oh, just regain vision almost not like that CT opened the smoke a second sooner than
the notes are wanted it to be busted open, but it's a 5B4 regardless.
It's a year late back, too.
Utility to the bottom of middle of this, well it's going to keep dark at bay all great
teams this round.
If only note to it was able to finish off Shiro, but still you're happy about this.
five versus three, you'd think it was all comfortable.
This way actually gets caught out pushing the B apartments,
but it is now all three of spirits remaining players
at half-health or less.
The off from Jane will not miss its chance to strike.
There's a Z-L-O in with a headshot,
and tinier unwindable, one versus four.
Double digits secured by pair of vision
as they try to power up and push this to map three
and by God, do you want?
Dipping with his Gismai a little bit.
Jame with a grin on his face.
I mean this round's one on tactics which is like perfect agility.
Reuva.
Deep watch.
Deep watch.
Molly here to push him back.
Everything's just excellent.
Time.
Exactly how you want to win around.
Ooh look at the reward for that one as well.
Ooh if the analysts start right now pulling that round aside to replay on the desk.
the desk, but they're not doing their jobs, right?
Talk us through that one. Perfect utility and momentum secured off the back of this.
Pistol's at hand.
Here we go.
Hang on, cause sometimes.
Careful. Sometimes all the toll.
A couple of his angles.
He's unleashed.
Look at the front.
Oh, bombsite.
Oh, and now he's in between what is a double lock set up, right?
This is a bit of an adjustment here from Paravision.
How is he just showing himself so many times of living?
Two offs and an AK both firing inside of this B bomb site.
And now Teneer is already out onto the A-play as well.
Don't feel just takes one risk too many.
The bomb is going back.
Of course, look at Teneer up through jungle.
What we mean to take noise.
No to try to keep control of the rifle and also find vision into the apartments.
Zello is able to catch the next kill.
But this one gets a bit too stringy.
I mean, Spirit trying to send the bomb back through underpass.
Let's let's come in.
It's two hops.
One's in Latter Room, one's outside of Window.
The rotations are actually super slow because of this.
So obviously, Balchinox here and take it.
But anyone wrong move from him and it gets ugly.
No, he gets his kill.
Yeah, easy.
Balm will get spotted.
They start the rotate around through CT, but that's fine.
Spirit.
It's gonna be a smart move from to near.
You think it wouldn't leave his post?
Oh, but suddenly, it's gonna be back turned on, take it.
only jambler.
It's going to try to milk this.
Oh, that's too.
He of least recovers the AWP round back on.
They know about the player underbalk.
He's just sitting there.
Minimal cover, tech nine back out.
He's going to get dealt with and belch and knock plays that cover to a
sliver of perfection.
Yeah, within a with in a millimeter of getting killed.
They're showing a little bit too much perfect stuff there.
From belch and hockey was all he was the single point of failure.
I'm going to fill here and that's it up.
Donk's D-goal, put everybody on notice.
But then there were a bit slow about departing.
What have had to walk all the underpass and obviously donk can only jump around those angles for so long.
Not able to make that route anything more than just an original threat.
The yellow just got a stunt on the connector.
He's feeling strange at the moment.
and there's a challenge coming in from underpass.
Inverses, don't queue up.
Ooh, don't gives it a jiggle.
Without the gun, yellow's given a chance
to actually depart.
Really did expect the seal in there.
You wanted to get back into connector.
It was just the mallet that stopped it.
and
Jim waiting
Miss Chatsa underpass such a big shot to miss
Not an easy one but
Don't got a new lease on life now. We window smoked and the Dave going too far
Here's able to slip out through rip great straight full built-in-ock
Ten years got the train back he has been kind of the other half of the entry power for spirit in these later round
I don't have a Molly or Smoke for Jungle.
Ten years going to have to try to find a gap here, take the space, create the space, create the opportunity to cross.
Trying to bait for James to get back.
Can you get out?
It doesn't matter.
Easy.
No, it's up.
They're able to hold the off on that one.
Shiro goes down to this way, headshot.
These rifles.
Finding their marks for Paravision, easy.
One, two, three.
Just like that.
And no further success out of team spirit.
This is going to be a 12th round secured by Paravision by Straight Up.
Straight up duals and their spirit are totally broke man. They're vision or gaming right now aging like one of his passion
Especially when that last round off looks a very nice tactics
Oh, I have to tie heights
Time after time and could have brought that off to Shiro that had to be the main chance to be able to bring this game back
Not enough tools for the job, nobody blocking vision, no flashbangs to find the defense,
it is nothing but frags on lines.
And so three map points for Paravision to extend to play to Ancient Arobery, of Spirit's
map pick, a T-side for Spirit that was pistol 30 start and nothing since not even a bomb
plant.
But his desperation knocks on Spirit's door.
They will answer that call with a dog 5v4.
And a Cheryl sends a cat per that jump across a connector.
The belt nucks been super solid on A does he do it?
No, right to, but Tiniere ready to bring the dual back.
And dogs can go deep into the jungle dice.
Oh, they get all three.
Paravision.
Suddenly with a chance that it is here and now it's quad with bomb possession.
They did not have to fight that.
Now the bomb has to be reclaim Shiro and a one on two and he doesn't know about this
Oh, he stops he's gonna let him know
He instantly turned attention to it worried about the jump into the window still
How does he piece together the one v2 if anybody's got this clutch it could be Shiro?
He's trying to stomach him inside a window. I mean Shiro doesn't know that he's on the right side, however
The step, oh, the step, my by-sello, and as he goes crouchwalking wide, Chiro's
the ease inside a jungle, it's a 2B5 to close this.
What he turned around at the second half of his pair of vision said, we'll start on T-side
and we thought the answer was that of spirit, but now ancient to separate the two.
They went right into the jaws of the dragon.
They started on the T-side to boot and they pulled it off here on Mirage, making a series
of this one rewriting the script and stunning a spirit squad that looked like they were rolling
at times on Mirage.
Yeah, what do we do it in the final round?
This world's preparation, Shelo, notice that we've got massively combining for all five
heels.
Technically, it was a five-E-3 spirit, I had a pretty good answer, you know, and a pretty
good chance of forcing this one into over time, but I feel every time we got into a
We got into a close quarter scenario in the second half. It was Paravish and show in
Composite. It was Paravish and show that they were
Shawha in the duels Shawha in the key moments and winning for the vast majority of the time the key rounds in this game
I was a little bit surprised by that say that I felt like spirit was supposed to win my rush
Obviously I did say there were beatable based on the one met they played online, but I didn't expect them to be this week
That was the surprising aspect of it and I feel like Paravish and came into this one with a right level of proactive
I feel like they didn't want to just play out around and let it go default from start to finish
I mean they were in spirit spaces their bomb site holds were also really well coordinated
So all and I feel like they really earned this win especially in the second half and I mean this is what we were talking about going into it
Right if there was one thing that paradigmition had the edge on over spirit
It's the mid-rounding. It's the I geling. It's the experience of seeing these situations
And we sought play through in a few rounds here Malay in that second half as well where
there, spirit, have some moment, and they have something going their way, and it just, they can't stick the land it.
I feel like when we get into this round, what you'll notice is that when a lot of the top 5 gls, though guys, we really praise the way they play 5 v4s, it's just that they have patience.
They're able to slow the round down, they're making the opponents guess a little bit more, but I just feel like Paravision in this round, even though they're in a 4 v5, they're never left guessing.
know exactly what's happening even when they lose that opening pick. There's really no pressure
towards the A side for probably a span of 30 seconds. It's abundantly obvious that spirit
or heading into a beast split. And I feel like these are going to be the moments where
magic has to just be a little bit more intuitive or understand how Holly wants these sorts
of situations to play out because if you just walk into the waiting arms of a team that
knows what's coming even if you have the man advantage, their top level players. They can
hold on and get multi-fragile. I think that's the key metric, you know, in terms of not
converting your opening kill spirit, one 15 of those in this game. It was 15 to 7 in favor of team
series. Yet they lose the game 13 to 9. It was, it was, it was last year, you know, whether you
attribute that to, to magic, whether you attribute that to some of the spare players getting a bit of
head of himself, whether you attribute that to pervition being very, very comfortable and very good
at the interactive in default me files. Probably a little bit of everything, but it's it's unheard of
after that you're winning, your opening duel is 15-7.
As a massive favorite on a map like Mirosh and you're still losing quite convincingly,
I don't think that's ever happened for Team Spirit.
It does feel quintessential for a game game though, right?
Playing all the margins, all the situations and standing things out,
even in rounds where maybe you're losing at times.
Only a game can have a KD of 1.3 and 59 ADR.
You're spending some good at it, I mean.
So good.
We love a game's that page.
And I mean, this one's just another entry in a very long
lexicon of successful drain maps, right?
Where we start to give the credit through to him.
Yes, we have some individual performances.
Yes, we have some individual pop-offs over on the
Paravision side.
But I think when we're looking at why this team won,
we've got to be placing the credit on this guy's shoulders.
Definitely him and Dostan came up with some great defensive
ideas.
I mean, I think round after the one we had already
looked at had a great level of proactivity, which is kind of what
makes perivision also exciting when we're looking at what made that defense so comprehensive.
I mean, they get aggressive.
I mean, pimps when you're talking about the sinners barely losing to two spirit, it was
off of the back of some proactive plays.
And that's exactly what perivision did in this kind of round.
I mean, they get aggressive towards middle at the very beginning.
They use a ballie to kind of stun these fear players paired with a flash.
Even though they have the five before advantage that's gold for another,
maybe a little bit of an overpeak from his white like actually completely unnecessary, but they
still are able to claw this one out because they just already did all of the hard work
in the beginning of the round by just being so active and making sure that spirit could never
get middle too easily. And this exceeded what something very few teams have been able to succeed
with and that is neutralized donk you know to the degree that yes he found opening kills in this
game I think he won six out of nine or something like that but he wasn't able to follow it up
with a second and a third and a fourth where he's just single-handed winning rounds. We saw it right
he's well, as you said, putting a flash into face of dunk. There's only so much he can do in the
scenario like that. He's turning his back and then he's dead and he saw the reaction from his
will on the player camp. He was visibly mad, visibly frustrated, and that I attribute to
James, that I attribute to Destin, that I attribute to the game playing coming in for
Paravishin, that they found a way to neutralize dunk on probably the most open and
didn't met with him in the pool right now, that is mirrored. That deserves a lot of credit.
All right, so he's heaped a lot of praise on Paravishin. Now let's talk a little bit about
because there were bright spots right if you think about what should be spirit wind conditions
don't getting that many entries that many entries overall is a team
Magic's having a really strong individual map considering the circumstances
Zontix playing quite well as well and yet we've got a loss here for spirit what went wrong
Well, I feel like their A side defense is really let them down a few times
I think that's a role that Teneer wasn't really playing all that much last time around
I mean, we're going to see how magics and
and Sontics were able to just really step up in this one,
but they were kind of pushed away to the B side.
I mean, magic's taking up that B anchor spot.
Sontics still kind of playing around the short spot.
These are kind of natural fits for what their skill sets are.
But Teneer is kind of taking up now,
what was Wayspot in the previous season.
And even though I had, I heat a lot of praise onto Teneer,
it's tough to play against a pair of vision that can be so explosive
in your face as they're trying to get out that A round.
they have so many different little bits of utility sets, the way that they scale is still
as farocious as it was during the Budapest major. So it's a lot of work on hit it shoulders,
or at least it's a lot that he has to look back on to get better out.
Think the way I want to summarize this game is that it was atypical on a met like Miras
to be so, I guess, not fracked dependent. It was a lot around, you know, when
went into a couple of opening duels and then a team would save, a team would be out of it,
a team would not really be in a position to get more than one kill than instantly getting
trade it again, just to look at the scoreboard as well. You have the three top
fingers, sorry, on the silver, all coming from the side of spirit despite
them losing out the game. None of them, you know, really stepped up. None of
them had a bad game. It was quite a typical, almost like watching an
infernal game where a lot of the rounds are decided by the two B2s, and
then whoever gets the most important kill in the round world, then you know,
snowball into a winning position. Normally, I'm a rush, you see a lot of
clutches, you see a lot of post-plants in areas. You see a lot of, you know,
two B4s that have been turned around, but it felt very stale to something
we in that attribute to Parivation,
they really sucked the life out of Team Spirit.
I want to ask you one more question
before we get ready for my number one.
We haven't said his name much at all today.
Shiro, fine.
On overpass, a lot quieter here in Mirage.
What are we seeing from Shiro?
Not enough.
It's for Shiro in this one.
I feel like he was very frequently sectioned off
from whatever the main hit of Parivision was.
I mean, they were doing a lot of bombside kind of explosion
hits.
And with that, they were throwing just smokes
just kind of separated him from what he needed to do, which is to get into the fray.
Shiro's not the kind of guy that's also going to just always be the most active around
opposing utilities, so he's not going to always take matters into his own hands, like
charging through.
He wants to play those later rounds out, but the problem is, perversion we're just airtight.
In the late round situations, they knew if there was going to be a flank or if there
was going to be any sort of late round attempt to just feel like they were completely comfortable
in playing those kinds of sort of situations out, we're sure of sometimes finds you an
edge.
They can change their fortunes because we're headed into ancient when we get back from this break.
one more map to wrap the day and I wouldn't have it any other way but now it's time
to tell tales of Zwei because we are headed into ancient, we got more counterstrike on
the way, spirit man, they let a third on through what are we thinking of this.
I mean I said it coming into the game, I wanted Parish and to be competitive, I wanted
them to apply pressure to team spirit to see how they reacted and I think they failed
the first test I mean I don't think there was a good performance whatsoever so I'm hoping
And for the same here again, obviously spirit are the favorites to win on Ancient regardless.
Shiro in particular is having a good time on Ancient.
They've only played at once with Metics, but Shiro was fired up with data.
We've both had a T-side, but you can also on the CT side.
I would just love to see spirit being under pressure once more, so I get to see how
Metics is going to cope with that.
Because I don't think they did well on the Russian terms of walking out of the push-up
by permission.
I'm also feeling like, for the pair of vision side, this is where you should find a
little bit of comfort or at least the way should find some comfort.
I feel like map 1 and 2 here has not been really a great story for him so far, but this
is really where he can complete the redemption arc where he can actually buy his own will
take down the spirit team that rejected him, where because on ancient when he was playing
it for spirit last year, if I looked at the I test, ancient was easily his best map.
I'm pretty sure the stats back that one up as well because he actually had above a 1.0
on that map.
So this is a map where he also is resuming many of the rules that he had on that spirit,
which are the same roles that he had back on to Miga.
He's just working that entire B bomb site.
And I feel like James gives him just enough freedom over there.
We're he can limit us.
He can try out a pick or two.
Just see, is there a free kill here?
Because people are always getting caught in transition
when they're defending the B bomb site,
moving from default to cave.
You're constantly shifting setups.
And his way knows that given that he's a B player too.
I know a big part of the story is obviously
just way going around his team spirit.
It's Dongas always, it's Sherro.
But a player we haven't really mentioned
who's done a tremendous job so fine this tournament.
There's no such coming out for Paravish and I feel like
he's one of the least talked about prospect
what in the lineup.
He's been playing very stable.
He was very good against the Stralis
and the online portion on this very map.
He was strong on Mirage as well.
So as much as I would love to see sway come into play as well,
no time has been the difference
to make a so far for Paravish.
So I'm looking towards him and seeing
if you can continue the good steps that we've seen.
We'll see if he can spirit did, in fact,
when the knife will be starting a defensive side.
Now it's time to see if magic can rally his team
through a three map series to rally us deep into the night.
We've got scrawny and laundry is taken away, gentlemen.
Thank you, boys. Yes, sir.
Time to go into ancient, a map where back in Budapest, we've
seen pair of vision actually rely on their one cut piece,
a W with quite a few clutches on this map.
So, you'll see if the new pieces and the new look on the side
of pair of vision can pull this off.
But Mohana, why bring something up?
Yeah. We heard the desk at the end of Mirage discussing how the amount
of opening kills that Spirit were able to establish
and still they lost that game.
I wanna bring up a stat here in all three series,
so far at Bounty.
Paravision have won their opponent's map picks.
I'm gonna read the opening kills success rate
for those games.
A Strollist.
Paravision, eight first kills to 13 of a Strollist.
They win that game, 13, eight.
First is S.
We have them in over time.
If I'm at 24, 18, first kills, and favored,
pair of vision still win that game.
And then the 15, seven that just went down on Mirage as well.
What this tells us is that even if you get these kills versus
pair of vision, all these opponents on all of their
map picks cannot finalize those rounds.
Thank you, Beatreams.
I'm here, and I'm ready.
That's a good one.
I love that.
It just, it really is just yet another testament that
James got dead until you put him in the ground.
And so, Doc, able to find some holds inside of it.
Oh, no, it's, yeah, he's got himself a second.
And looking to hang on to the mid-control
that comes with this, bomb is gonna try to scramble back
on the belt of sway, but with Jane
tiptoeing his way back in on mid to see catch.
Doc, off guard.
Yes, he got his second swing, though.
We'll get one back, and so, sway,
given a chance to clutch early facing to where
is those deintents to locate both to take that line
and a spirit pistol to kick off CT side.
They grab it. No, I'll say one thing I really love about that, and that's so cool. I don't know what
Spread you want to go and check the feeling. Yeah, just because again, like bringing up that, you know,
15-7 Mirage and bought the desk mentioned it. And we haven't actually cast Paravision at this event, right?
But I just had a hunch. It's like, it does confirm the feeling of watching a Paravision game and then being this team
That's really annoying in late-round situations and like you wouldn't always assume that they're disadvantaged
at least on that degree.
Uh, but a team like that winning in a situation where
mode teams would just structurally fail slowly.
That does add up, so that's pretty cool.
It'd be cooler obviously for pair vision to just get more opening kills
because then they'd be a super threat, right?
I mean, sure.
I can imagine you had that stat and then you've also just edged out on opening kills.
I might be the next move for them to be able to close out tournaments, but for now
That definitely makes them really underrated
It's really interesting stuff to have as well just particularly on your opponent's map pick like not only are you at a disadvantage
Which you get this like false confidence for your opponent who are thinking yeah, we've got this in the bag round by round and yet
Never count pair vision out
and
your films and other situation where
some of the television and try to do
for during a defense
The luck we do is multiple MP9s on the scene and so they'll hold them back no deaths.
Yeah, I think, you know, Spirit starting off on CT might be very nice to them because we saw a T side right there,
where yeah, Spirit Vision seemed to do that to everybody, but also, you know,
it may be they shouldn't be able to do it to spirit.
Maybe their T side should have been a bit better.
They should be able to close out five before, especially with how they were playing overall.
But I think it meant, you know, the early time and sort of the debut of Magic's as an IGL,
it would make sense that the T-Side is when the strongest of them warms.
Okay.
That's a serious spirit, smoke and a half.
I'll clear it on swing and mid off this one.
I like the re-small because they know the spirit and they don't have control of it,
they don't even have to play into mid-necessarily.
Just letting the silence creep in, pair of vision,
inching their way closer to both the donut and the exit of A.
They're leaving donut open.
See, sure up here. Okay, but one one and dice obviously, ready this way.
Slice up. Oh my goodness. So ready.
Seattle gets deleted. His teammate still able to emerge out through that donut smoke.
But he dies back in. James suddenly uncovered.
And sure, he's just going to quietly creep around to nize the bomb plant.
They get a little too stringy here.
And Nota trying to knock down the MP9 is now been found out.
sits at half-help has no bomb possession and spirits third round when queued up off of a solid
docked 2k inside sight. It's not even a perfect setup. Really mean the fact that the
dock is ready to swing main then come back to donut was kind of crazy. I was wondering why
sheiros actually leaning towards being this spot. They don't know what's happening in middle.
Though sheiro comes and checks it, so maybe it just feels like nothing's actually here.
There's no lurks, but obviously donut was getting taken over.
This is a bailout from Donk, a huge second kill, and just another spot where the shun
of the panic are every second.
It makes it look like they came to that fight favorite.
He absolutely wasn't.
Just not ready for a Donk timing.
Not the first victim of that kind of a wide swing.
It's ludicrous, Zello is so ready for that.
Now it's a coming through with a buy.
Got an AK on the field to your prepare vision. They won't really success on this T-side.
They're willing to run a bit of a risk for it.
to
tag on your he's by the shot right confirm
they've got something to work with
Spirit not afraid to leave mid wide open.
That's just about trusting your stack.
Shiro's here and be.
It finds Chip Damage Shiro still waiting for his target.
They let this clock down to 45 seconds.
I really can fuse the bell.
Do we actually want to go here?
They know Shiro's here.
Magic's showing willingness to spam into that smoke, but that's fine. He's supported with Teneer right behind him
I think almost half a leave at this attack isn't coming, but she goes
Oh, miss shop by Cheryl. I yeah, it's ways of allowed to just come up through that ramphatic sleeping back on Teneer to try to hold this now
It's only magic and no-ta comes through even though it's stacked
They break down the numbers and put donk into a pressured spot where he's looking at this bomb site
knows the planter still plays behind that pillar, but Cello hanging on to Shiro's
op is just waiting for Don to make this move.
That's all about how he plays it.
So, want to see the Sontix walk-up short is better.
Let that heat first contact Cello able to just go into the reactive shot man.
Finds himself a second.
So, majority of life here for pair of vision, they surely felt the squeeze of that stacked
bomb site and still they succeed.
It almost felt like the set up they used would have a better versus rifles than a team
that's ready to rush. Like you see that this ramp is mostly open. And also I feel like
we could have a clue that magic sees almost all of his standing into the smoke down the ramp.
It felt like they didn't really believe it was going to be a B play. If you're a head of shot,
it's maybe a different round, but he's also just going to get split upon.
And his two teammates aren't really ready to stop that cross. They basically need
the two multi's to bail themselves out. So I think they didn't believe in what they were
playing essentially, even though they did have the right idea.
It's a lot around, which is a fact nine that we're up to three now that Paravision
have won in the series.
and
you're just think about something because honestly
one is not great
It's off early.
He's on Shiro and Red Room. He's got a teammate ahead of him.
I'm just thinking about it, James on the hunt.
Ooh, good challenge for Sway.
He's down to Half-Helf.
Notal wants to take positioning into the bomb site,
and utility comes up the ramp as well.
That's gonna be such a great distraction.
But Notal doesn't strike yet.
They want all the pieces in place.
So many CT's here.
Waiting for James to arrive.
He's got more flashbangs to offer over.
Hard shot here for Shiro, but he will land him.
Noter still remains inside of cave.
Oh, that flash thought it found its target,
but it's dead, they will take over half of this hold.
Zwae still wants it on this,
and a misshot from Shiro,
as Sway scours the field.
Not the prettiest round so far.
It feels like Paravision needed to go on the ramp,
when they were at that close on cave.
They in the jiggle game.
As they do, good shot, Sway,
and Sway'll recovers, this three versus four is underway.
And his hero passively holds back on long, he'll land his shot.
Answers have been found, bombs been able to cross.
Ah, buddy, Lance, right where the wall bank connects.
And so time fizzles out and team spirit find themselves right back to winning ways.
Almost losing some patience there, nearly giving away interest to win that round for Garibision.
But Spirit had all the right positions, the right amount of players, everything to lock that up in.
I've been no sure unless last round it was quick to sell this one.
Cast one.
No no no no no no no no.
Oh.
There we go.
Still though exit through it's fire threatens, Jame, it feels back.
Interestingly, Spirit is just not really playing in middle.
This game had also far not worried about it either.
We've had like the Zontix tucked in red room once.
Right now he's tucked inside a main.
Does this free up Shiro fast enough, though?
Go three strong for Spirit inside this bomb site, smoke at the top of ramp.
Patients have been the real killer of Spirit in a couple of these spots.
Even on the ground that Paravision wants.
Careful there about to test this.
Oh, flash it back.
Don't come through with a headshot.
Ten years, the one with the double kill, they were backing on that flashbang.
And it's a late answer out of Belchenok instead.
Perivision, needing success, the moment they
crusted through that smoke, but instead, James Flash
doesn't find its targets in his utility.
I mean, we go back to Mirage, right?
The one round he had a smirk on his face was because of
perfect needs from start to finish.
Yeah. This one leaves a lot to be desired.
And it's the confidence you put into the flash, too,
that just makes it so much worse.
Because, you know, if there's no flash,
maybe it's a guy jiggling.
But if it is a flash relying on everyone's full committing.
Oh, and a bit of a sting of the end of that one, who's the, uh, tip of the hat to
tinier, rock solid shots out of this round.
Big time.
All while Shiro quietly climbs this scoreboard as well.
I mentioned that just because the desk had kind of alluded to the fact that, you
know, we didn't have to talk about them all too much, but finding more and more impact,
Not as much as tinier, huge multi-frag on that old all him, but again made easy by blinded
terrorists trying to exit smoke as he has full vision.
It definitely feels like a tailor-made game plan to pair a vision, no, we're getting out of
spirit.
I don't, you know, we've seen them go head to head with teams at one middle, running it
down, fighting for elbow from beginning to end around, and here they haven't tried it
once and it's been totally fine.
Here are vision like the extremities.
Spirit know it, and that's all they're focusing on.
Careful, I can't hide my rounds.
Tech-by-damage is real.
Low health for Tamir on that full back, and the boss magic's already.
Again, they're gonna seemingly pull Miss Osk.
Oh, but he still gets himself a double off at the top of Rampold.
Now, Zontix quickly onto the scene.
A 1v2 demanded of him. He just unloads.
Oh, it's not utility.
Oh, so close.
And almost kills Zellow.
You've got a jam deep on long holding this angle.
Ah, and he lands his shot, they will pull it off again!
Oh man, they really got a tight nap when it comes to the fight against those tech
nines, but also, so impressive that Paravish could pull this off, so consistently.
That's four rounds now in this series.
you
you let Jane put his claws on an off and you have yourself some problems
yeah
second halie timeout where eight rounds into play
play. It's not enough from Paravision to win rounds like this and really show us
that they can take the map. I think it's another game where again you look at the game
plan from Spirit and it's just so perfect. I didn't expect Paravision to get out
red so many times in this series. I expected to get out going into a few rounds. Maybe
spirit to pick up some of the tech nine rounds on. It's really super seeding my
expectations. The outcomes of these situations, but I'm not seeing the sustainability from
Parabition to like really overwhelm spirit. Like, those ones could be gifts. But now they've
got to win something off the back of a good default.
First map. Oh, my three four. Oh, shit. Just a different kind of animal. Like a typo.
Hey, down bottom. Perhaps going to find ship damage. They're going to see that as an
invitation. And just go right through that smoke. And it works wonderfully. Okay.
It's all right, they're through it again.
One tech nine, one off-out.
And the plant in.
Off the Spirit Act.
What was the second part of that?
Be Trams that?
I want to say second highest rated player on ancient.
Oh, okay, worse map, second highest rated player.
Yeah, I think I think that's what that said.
I'm looking at everything dog does, it's just shocking.
This is weird.
It's not a comfortable door for sure with the start of the round, but
Seats an air just caught off by the time.
Staring off into the wall.
Oh, it's a weird one, right?
Losing two players and the round with that, you come to this round.
It's going to be spirit, just parreras on magic's, USP and a fry grenade for it's an
ear.
It feels like we both are trying to be bullied again.
Nice, NATO.
They use this boost every round.
Yep.
They dunk it on Jane Dock's kills, so it's up.
Remove a smoking middle.
I wonder if he popped that open?
Instead of utility himself, Red Room was smoked when that kill occurred.
I have some surprise to see how passive this over all set up is here for spirit.
Not taking over cave, not pushing down B except that one round with their lower on guns.
Chance for a sautéxist, A main push, will they predict it?
He plays the open wall, they kill him, or even if they trade him, that A-bom site is primed for the taking.
And they're obviously coming in cautiously.
He's not able to get more than his one frags,
so he quickly is just going to crank that dial.
And don't go sprinting over to try to get ahead of this.
Utility sales again.
That'll make sure he stays out on Jane,
good presence of mine to catch that flank.
Now all options open.
Another team has gone back, actually quite slowly.
It's interesting though, because Spirit
have already started moving back.
Sure has an AK, getting comfortable over towards B.
and there's no longer presence on the A site, they feel they've done enough.
I think if they threw one more piece of utility over to where they'd,
I would be enough for spirit to wanna believe it.
Okay, even that, just that's it.
Yeah, just that's it.
And extra half seconds spent here by Paravision collecting themselves on B,
and they're gonna find a vacant bomb site prime for the taking.
And this just turns into a safe.
It came into the surround with three rifles. They'll seemingly walk away with two
A pervasion at the next where we got the building momentum off of their unlikely rounds
Didn't feel like that was happening yet this game, but after tech nine plays is a streak really
Hopefully.
Smooth trade from the sway, but that catch on magic is really what opened up the threat
of the rotate and the rotate that does come to fruition.
All of a sudden we've got ourselves a one-round game on a decider map between
in Paravision and Team Spirit for two or three months, it's weird.
Well, we're gonna be frustrating for Alex.
His attack pauses, it's been like the tech nine round right after.
Right?
Yep.
the
double name goes down in the middle of the
commitment.
When dog is dead.
No joke getting revenge for that.
Previous round with spamming through the smoke.
Feeling like there's free space to be taken here at middle.
They're not wrong about that.
We get this red room peel back.
A hero made is a little bit too late.
Two players still ahead of the timing.
ahead of the timing, James willing to take a third of his health for that, and now we're
going to swing into Shiro.
Oh, felt like you could have sprayed into both, but instead we'll get this Pelchinoch
wrapper around to the eighth site and Sauntick's hangs on to Donut, hoping that help comes.
And Magic's one, can you push out of cave?
This will be the, you know, way to build a connection side of Middlewood.
Sauntick's won't have vision, bomb, surely to get planted.
And all of CT take it, I mean, how to spear it back into this.
They're close enough to think about it, but it feels so hopeless.
Little risk another death to be honest.
Don't you have to be honest. Don't you have to be honest.
Tie game at five all. T-sides found its quota.
It's quota.
I had another catch to make sure that it's not majority alive this time around.
There's no guarantees.
Authics gets away with this either.
There's no reason.
Belchinoch great trade.
It's near helping.
Helpously, that one gun survives, and I'll tell you that he's got no threat.
So all's good.
One rifle move forward for this round to the spirit as we tie it.
Five rounds all.
again, Paravish, and then a great job building momentum off of that fast rushing to be, and
from there they also started branching their game plan out a little bit across the map, so it's
not so one note.
time for Halley to choose to speak here, burning through timeouts you're on CT side.
I want to say that's quite a big risk, you know, consider if the, uh, for our CT side we saw,
maybe some of the concerns you might have for you line up with the VITL.
and
lost his mojo
I want to tap it again, really. We're 10 rounds into this game and
and paravision have three opening kills.
Team tie for rounds off in that.
Not being good at that's never a bad thing, not at all.
And again, you can build from there.
That's your starting point.
You know, like you said, imagine that coupled
with just great 5v4 success to easy routes.
Right?
Build the foundation.
Something you can rely on when things don't go well.
the
parvisions resilience is real
don't just think about cat tick talks right now
i think he's thinking about how much he hates the feeling of losing
But this isn't a loss yet, but it's getting dangerously close.
Because he was winning.
It's third map now, real chance for an upset.
It was a 5-1 lead at one point for Spirit,
and we are all tied at 5 rounds each.
That's how quickly things can change in a game of counter-strike.
see if it's time to think it's a harbor good
for who
kind of pretty free walk out for nota
you know he's actually had a couple of free moments to do this ever since he was able to kill
dog that one time with the smoke spam don't get him from red room he returns the favor one round later
But Jame is there on a silver platter if dog takes this timing.
Oh, into the obstacle, oh, you'll kill notes up, but still burn to a crisp.
For before off that one, double up inside of the cave.
Zero's gonna find the difference.
Yellow's got some party here.
We're just gonna have to go wide.
What a spray!
He just commits to it at the entire time.
And now that we'll find it's space to play inside of this B bomb site.
Flank is already underway here by Shiro and he's not gonna go for the cave play, but rather wants ramp chance of the lead now here for a pair of vision
Shiro changes out guns on this wraparound, so he's gonna try to blind side them distraction offered into that smoke spam
Shiro not quite looking at long juice yet
Yellow's gonna slip up right beneath him a
A triple kill for Zellow, he's the player to take first contact inside of Cabe, and he takes the whole damn B-site with him.
He was 18 HP after the initial spam still came through with this massive round.
Now's the Zontex thinking about exits, but also more self-think it about how he's coming into the final round with low-mind.
If you weren't paying attention back in Budapest, Zellow was the guy to turn heads first for Paravision in those opening stages.
Right, so, right, it's cool, go towards the end, and luckily that's when we could showcase the rest of Paravid's ability.
But this round is electric for him. He was cutting them down inside of that cave.
And he knows to near me. He could try to hide, but he knows exactly how far back you can go that he'll have to peek again.
And he doesn't have any space.
And just like that, Paravid shouldn't are leading.
on T-sided passage that Sonsix want the immediately take back around 12-54 off of the push down middle, but what to 5-4 is mean in the face of the pair of vision squad?
Seemingly not much.
A main play here for Spirit. If they see it vacant, we'll see whether pair of vision give them time.
Wow.
Well, these teams prove it'll be very good.
But the fact that pair of vision are behind right behind them on that.
So that's the end.
And the fact that they're beating them with those stats right here right now in the head to head.
He'll hold again.
Trying to play the cave presence.
He need on the vatrix that is the end of the sword.
I'm freaking back in.
Good on to near to make sure that kill is not in vain.
And now with low health on Donk and Sontix,
three players still up for pair of vision.
But the kind of act like there wasn't really much behind that Z-L-O play to dig its opagent spirit in service.
They start to overthink.
So he's given a chance to tiptoe into the cave, smokes come fairly and over and top of the bombsite.
And that's going to be space for a swayed to clear back sight. He goes for the challenge into long, almost gets caught with a need out.
Don't try to chase it down, Jame will get the trade flag here.
I'm Hero tonight by his counterpart, and to near tries to play the smoke.
Oh, my god, Jame has got the ball!
Body bags stacked tall inside the base.
I will want kill for the road and pair of vision.
Seven, five, T-side lead, map three, and elimination on the line.
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Quadkill for the road off of James hit into this deep on say.
And I think to me, the shot on the smoke to deny that it's a near push, that's the nasty part of all of this.
It's the awareness, right?
Because he has to believe that someone's here.
So he's just kind of ready to hit the ball.
He's the hard one.
That's the game.
Thank you.
Big adjustment on that.
And leave it to Jane.
Banks on his other lesser experienced teammates to kind of get the ball rolling,
but then make sure to capitalize when that door is open.
This could be a sweet day for a tenier.
ends up on the team like pair of vision potentially beating spirit here on map 3.
Hmm, I wasn't feeling it was real until like basically that last round.
7 5 T side running into the CT trying to flank the cave set up.
It's bonking to near inside of cave.
Everybody else over towards that ace site.
Getting prepared for the commitment.
Pan comfortable here. I feel like for the CT.
Oh, this is weird, huh?
Yeah.
Belchanoc has been having a rough go with it.
Sitting inside it will don't us.
Nobody gets the better.
She wrote at least the timing.
He will still be able to recover that way.
Little cave presence found out,
but you've got Jane in the tea spawn right now.
I might have been a slight over investment
because Jane now he wants to rotate and he's still committing.
No, it's a back turn.
Perfect chance.
Watch the get closer.
Don't play your holds for another.
Neil Ripton here's head off.
As bomb gets planted down on the ace side,
we've got a man advantage pair of vision critical pistol win for them.
And already that donut retake underway.
They were waste no time with this one the play around turns over
A lot of ticks gets the headshot magic spine to second and team spirit looking for another pistol in this third back
Jane wants to post the clutch, but they're dodging him and as they run back in fourth year
You'll find that first headshot but no kid to play with and he's got to flush their spirit
But he's already ran out of time
Spirit will take a sigh of relief as they secure another pistol. Yeah, and Jane won't get away with the bill
Alley Zondick will pick this one up, everyone dies, but for spirit, this is their ticket back.
Maybe Zello is a little bit too much confidence, like it's two guys here waiting for
or I mean, they can do all of us.
Who would have potentially killed that and also, as cool as this was from Noda, as he
made died before he got that extra kill.
It might just be the micro one or two small decisions that tips the scales in this game
Now it's gonna be a little bit of pressure on magic a key side to close in a series that now is not guaranteed to serve
And not too far off is that thought that a five one CT start for spirit still
Fizzled out and so a second pistol win is great and all
Okay, but don't you dare lose to the zoos?
It's a little bit of a bait set up going.
It's getting tricky.
It's going to load them long.
This goes right.
Flash into it.
Yeah.
Magic makes sure to clear the hard corner.
And if they think there's a stack going on.
It's another position where they have like a perfect re.
Yeah.
Magic still considering it.
Ball's good.
Three kills collected here for spirit.
Money made off the SMG as well.
Well, and the bullets left of the perigation squad
can try to swing into the cage, shots they'll find one donk.
Well, it's an upgrade.
Get that galil for the McTan and keep it moving.
Four rifles moved forward for Spirit Game Tide 7 all.
I mean, Spirit are great team.
They had great stats.
They had wins last year and everything.
But I gotta say they just look at particularly well-prept.
Like I'm seeing so many times they've got a counterner without the info.
Right, right before each of these maps has begun.
We're seeing rounds that clearly they have watched and learned and know what care vision are going to do, even without vision, and that's been one of their biggest edges.
Pretty simple this time. We're going hard into this A-boxite Belchinoch.
Yeah, oh, it's still finally got traded.
Notice it gets an extra.
Try to jump away into the temple, but can't survive it.
On onto the site, hands busy for magic,
plant comes through and Zontix just flirting with the threat of temple.
He'll lay down utility in the meantime.
This is no donut control.
Wolfe and more pressure onto the temple plate.
This is three players strong,
going for the swing, they don't Zontix is back on this platform,
and they find their trade-fright birds.
Guns here in Pervition's hands,
and this re-take is underway.
Gotta take the perfect moment to get out of this.
We've got one kit, and it belongs to Zyelo.
No, Zyelo is the one actually going to the deep view.
They switch inside of the smoke and good thing they do that cover comes through.
And he eighth round for Perivision as Guns find success early.
Yeah, it's the full retake.
It's the perfect spot for Belchinox.
He's out of view.
They don't double flash him there on that big box.
And so, he's here, sort of.
We are on exactly what to do.
They want to try to get him to jump back, probably.
It's that hole, and then he's the Molly in.
But just good enough between him and Dota keep his ground alive.
The emotions are gonna run high and this match now.
Don't try to slam himself out into the middle.
You'll find nothing to hide.
It's all about the latest flashes, and that was just a beautiful from Paravision.
You cut the head off the dragon with a frag on dog, and watch as the rest of Spirit try to desperately sliver back into this round.
All the time in the world.
But when Paravision succeed in so many 4B5s,
I think it's in smart to just call back that B-Tramp stat he was able to drop us, right?
Paravision just behind spirit in converting these kinds of rounds.
So do not scoff the spirit's chances despite this man disadvantage.
We'll also see if that rings true with the new lineup.
And if they're in a wrong tense, very fair.
on this big push, right?
This is just feeling like they're tapping the nail
that's a bit of a...
I'm missing on their side defensive.
Right.
I'd still have Leon of 3B players never went for a full flank.
And as we see spirit set up there,
utility peridition, dropping flames inside of cave
to near tests, the top of ramp,
but still belching off,
inching his way onto that flank.
Sweet, down to fine HP,
gets bested by magic,
but here it is.
Belching off has played this one down to perfection,
and they have not considered this at all.
The shots get swampy, seven to the clock,
and shearers around and dealt with swiftly
pair of vision's lead, gross to the nine seven score.
Finding a moment where they can get the push out of a main.
Again, it really puts a mirror up the spirit
and what they were trying to do on their beat defenses.
It still would be attacked.
It's with an opening frag.
There's no insurance policy coming around from behind.
And it's tier frustration from dogs, but it's actually a pair of vision who steal the show.
I mean, again, they want to fight down into elbow to go about who that's those.
Last trailing flashes to make that guy hold in turn.
Cool.
Can you hear the blast through the way?
Easy around here for pair of vision, confidence comes through and the mid set up.
And this game is starting to very quickly snowball.
This is Paravision taking a confident take towards middle, multiple rounds, shutting down
Donko already in the gun rounds, and doing it without either pistol.
This would be a state and victory.
When, again, you consider the fact that Paravision picked their opponent tonight.
I mean, I blew the best of like we immediately were like, we hope we would see more
Paravision next year.
We didn't know how long it would take, they picked up the way in a spot where we were
pretty high on the PW.
The brisks that are paying off his deals.
Stomping beyond the cave smoke.
Look at the franticness on notes of space, Paravision.
Tricky, the temple electric, but to near we'll get the better of Z-L-O down at the bottom
of the rat play.
Feels like they know about this heavy presence, but it's another thing to do something
about it.
The magazine not contend to just sit in the bomb site this round.
Smoking front of Cave.
Try to cut this off, Donk gets present for its middle.
Obviously, the threat of an A-main flank is going to be hot on their minds, with what
Belchunak was able to pull off two rounds ago.
But that's not the case this time.
Oh, Mr. Jump and J. Punishes it.
That was going to be cool.
They'll just, they don't convert this.
Double Cave set up, four players on the B-site.
Happy to stack.
and they saw it, Dawn could jump up to go here.
And of all the players to find,
and of all the mistakes to punish,
our spirit gonna be flexible enough to cancel
on these plans that they wanna go forward.
And they're not to come through a CT smoke
without cave control.
And if you don't have the ability to pivot,
if you already feel like the flank could put on a squeeze,
they're starting to pull back at 30 seconds.
Wow, and they've pushed up.
So they're wrong about this.
She wrote a stand out.
Really.
Beltshanok looking like he's willing to run the risk.
They're not even going, eh?
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
No ability to pivot.
No confidence to go all in.
Don't missing that jump.
I think it's the reason he gets killed.
It's possible he gets away.
It's not often you see that happen to him.
And the beauty of all of this is highly used all his pauses.
Yeah.
Dostants choice if he gets a chance back in.
Yeah.
Or they're just going to let spirit.
Two in the failure of this T side so far and at that pair of vision, you know, they're thinking about that
They know they have all the power and if they keep winning there wouldn't be a good reason. Oh my goodness
I'm just stepping forward.
Look at the buy we wouldn't have had to save those.
If they just were to more solid on their anti ecos essentially.
Look they're vision really punished up.
There is a little left.
early any grenades and a more and more confident set up
from pair of vision it went from playing the back of
cave to the front of caves and now taking a peak into
lane.
Zello wants something.
Come this way.
Miss shot by Jane.
That's a scramble back as dog doesn't bite down
entirely on the chase and Cello's forest to give up
that front cave position for now.
They'll double up.
We've already seen this set up.
They'll try to tap into it yet again.
They don't even have a smoke left over.
This is a really rough by it.
You would have liked to see them prioritize
at least one more full set for them at a minute, five, five.
They got to pick up a bunch of raw doles.
Kind of a single frag grenade for Donk.
I mean, wanna see Donk switch guns this round.
Just looking to add himself to this wrap stack.
To hell with trying to be the guy that comes to join this,
just be the front of the line.
Oh, he's gonna get damage on this yellow.
That's 99 health taking as Paravision were falling back,
leaving one defender there.
Magic comes barreling through with the tech nine
and Spirit Strike at the perfect moment,
weaponizing dock and catching paravision at odds.
Just to keep the game alive,
I think Paravision are still sitting on two tack bosses
if I remember correctly, correct.
And the more pressure Spirit put,
maybe they have to tap into it.
For now, I think Paravision can say, okay, just forget about this, they actually, it was Spirit actually did the same thing that Paravision do them.
They won on patience, they came forward with a late B play. Paravision actually did doubt themselves too, they too are human.
And I'm thinking for the first time it's a win on a lower by for Spirit. I mean, they have a lot coming into it overall.
That's really the attack line that brings this home.
Question is where do you go from here? What's up next?
They've got the economy, we've done say one here.
They're small blimish on the record without last round.
No reason to have their confidence shaking yet.
Zella is still showing us affinity to play the front of Cave.
Jame has clipped Donk's wings in mid-previously he will do that again.
Docs 11 and 16.
Looking like a mortal in the face of the pair of vision challenged and I another 45 demanded
of them Shiro takes the kill to Jame using a rifle.
He wished he didn't have the bomb right now.
I'm gonna run him up through red.
He'll peel back, 55 seconds on the clock,
and ten years are gonna take a look into the cave.
See, I'll just drop the smoke and then just peels back,
doesn't want to be a casualty, bell-chernock,
thinking about it almost caught Shiro on timing,
but now he's able to just tuck in silently instead.
Yeah, and in donut, that's a good spot to be.
We've seen what he's done with the flanks.
The later the sketch the more it goes into it.
You want to see some conviction here from spirit.
Magic's left and red room, two players indicated.
Oh, it's the same lineup.
They're so happy to just lean on this layer deep.
So laying off the box is...
Ballmastic, yet here.
Magic's now turning this into an A-play.
It's gonna scramble. We didn't see it last time, right?
But, said they just talked and saved.
Bell Genox, been given this chance inside of Donut.
They've got to come around and clear it.
And he will strike Zontix off the play.
And if he's happy to hang on to the 42,
then they will take their test to the retake.
Shiro, quick kill on his way.
You've got low health on Delta North,
cleared out temple player tonight.
Magic's on 15, 17 on Nota.
And if he comes up from Donut,
working with that kid, he's playing off the smoke.
Just magic swing, just magic hold.
All in all, start at Nota Denies.
It's Paravision for Matchpoint.
Try to read it right before the tap could have held on
to that signpost and had an advantage.
and it's one bullet would have made the difference.
Instead, it's another clutch repair revision.
I think Spirit are even lucky here to get into a decent post-planet spot.
Yes, I see it's forward!
Dropping it!
They lost a lot of control.
Kind of give a kill back over on B just to have the idea to go A were.
In a lurkspot with a timer,
meaning they'll they had to skip so many angles.
Bomb barely got by Belchinoff.
Oh, it's a near-spass on the play though.
Way playing with grenades.
Oh, and he's got the headshot quickly.
And everybody else's stuff behind that small,
boring magic, so a parade's on his own.
Haven't sure a new cover.
We've got team damage, he's a middle of it all,
and now it's just a zon to explain from the back of the site!
Right here with a limited jump!
The objective!
Oh, it's like, born and built an imputive pest!
Lost a bite in a pothole!
Spirit eliminated in their debut event!
Twenty twenty six, start with a fumble!
Ooh, this is gonna stain your scenes.
Way about to go shake its former teammates hands.
Taking about in this best of three.
An unlikely victory.
victory all the way until the start of the second half, but they did close.
They landed on their feet.
They're the team who come out with all the 4v5 wins, all the tech nine victories.
Surviving a terrible defeat on the first map.
One, a comeback.
Just the fact that this map is a reverse sweep in the series.
The fact that in map 3 they lose both the pistol still recover each half, and that
beautiful 6 round streak in the first 12.
just give them that confidence that they could close this revenge for
his way sweet taste the victory to kick off this year when all we wanted to
see was more perivision all we could hope for was this perivision. We didn't want
Budapest to be in anomaly. We wanted it to be their beginning and so here we
have it a very important start to the year for perivision. This team's not going
anywhere.
Paravision impresses at the major, but here and now they take down spirit and get a
big of win than they ever done with this line up before.
That's why I come and order you to make some noise, just open it up from there.
Now, James, looking at the overpass, it's a map you guys often go for, but for you,
why was it not connecting?
You were very stubborn hitting the B-bomb site like you'd like to do again and again
but Spirit was shutting you down every step of the way.
I think it's just not a bit.
It's was all our situation, I think, on other parts of the site and I think it's just
because we aren't.
It's our first mind, which is, I don't know, Kira S. Kira.
And looking at that, what do you say to your players when they're in the situation, when
they are feeling nervous when they're not playing their way.
I think who subscribe on by Evasion Channel?
They will see what I said and nothing special guys you can check on our in-out of
blocks and all simple unclear for you.
All the very famous vlogs that we love to see from you but then okay going into Mirage
it was actually spirit getting a lot of the opening kills, yet you were still able to
turn it around. What do you put that down to? What was the recipe for success in Mirage?
Mirage? I was okay. I don't know. It just faces Mirage. Nothing special. You just communicate.
Yeah, we'll push B, I'll go over you. Let's say nothing special. Let's fight Mirage. It's not like
big-minded games on Mirage. It's simple. Did you notice a change in confidence from the players?
Like, were they playing more like you expected them to play in the next two maps though?
I don't think about my expectation, I just did my job, that's all.
Well, you're doing a job very well. Are you proud of the team though, especially?
You had sway and you managed to take down a big team, like Team Spirit.
Is this a positive for you guys now to feel we have more confidence?
Of course, it's positive. I think for sure it's our first big win in Jéron's here.
But tomorrow we have one more game versus I don't know maybe
Legend of the team and
We need to focus on next open focus as always. Thank you very much and good luck tomorrow
And now it's time for the bounty bananza, because we have to send Belchino here down with an extra
pride.
Belchino crazy win already, you ready to spin this wheel?
Yeah, I'm a you've sighted.
A little bit.
Only excited here in the house.
You got some excited fans here. Are you ready?
Let's go.
Let's go, Bounty Manz, the All-3 General.
What's the number?
God, I'll be the wheels coming to a stop.
Right on in the lucky number.
Oh, big manz, I'm not quiet over the line.
It's gonna be three.
You have one, right?
Number three, and that means five, number three.
We'll be.
You have won this very soft, very squishy, chicken plushy.
These guys have been through a lot, so please take them home to a safe place.
My lovely assistant, Ryan, joining us here on the stage.
Doesn't he look too in his secret jacket?
A beautiful chicken plushy for you, free range, high quality chicken plushy right there.
Complete with the bomb.
Haven't you?
What do you think about our beautiful chicken?
Um, nothing to be honest.
Nothing to be honest.
He's off the truck.
He's speechless, folks.
I lost my hand in his own game.
Understandable, well, you are not the only one winning that chicken.
We've got four more of those to join you back with your teammates.
You can go ahead and join them.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you.
Maybe we'll see.
Maybe we'll see that chicken decorating a desk someday.
But what I do know is that Perry Vision have decorated themselves with one hell of a win.
One hell of an upset here, crazy series coming on through and a massive job now secured.
Yeah, I don't think a lot of people saw that coming to be completely honest.
Obviously, we knew Pervish and a team to look out for the way they finished 2025 gave a lot of
a lot of hopes, I guess, and then adding sway to the line of game.
I expect him to come in and perhaps be the breakout team of the season maybe one, two, three months down the line for them to be able to compete at this level already by now and taking down team spirit.
Regardless of them being new with metrics as well, that's exceeding my expectations very early on.
I feel like it's extremely fitting that Belgium gets a chicken because the game was just playing a game of chicken with spirit this entire series.
the way that he wanted to call again spirit was basically just daring them.
Daring them to try to change their setups to call out the fact that he was just going for
these repeat bombsite hits over and over again. So I mean to walk away with the chicken.
I mean yeah, he won that game. I think the astonishing thing as well, right?
You were talking about the change coming in for Perry Vision. So I lit it up through the online
a portion of this event, but they won kind of without him in a lot of these circumstances,
right?
Was everybody else picking things up?
We saw it from Dota.
We saw it from Bellchomp.
We saw massive performances from Jane that they're on ancient to really like the way
and make it possible for this team.
Yeah, it's a very well-rounded team.
I think we even saw that during the Maythios, well, it's hard to pinpoint a player that
is to designate and start what in the team and maybe a player will develop to become that
star.
This is giving a lot of freedom.
We saw online, but maybe it's a bit too early now to
expect that from inconsistent game by game, but everyone in that team can play
counter strike and everyone is shooting up. We knew that from the make already.
I feel like it would be just a disservice so whatever everybody else did to
even kind of continue onsway like being real aboutsway. There were two maps in
this series where he got single digit kills. He was not the story of this one
other than the story book ending that he gets to have tonight and hopefully
moving forward he's able to show a bit more. But guys like C. L.O.O. guys like
like no-to really carried in terms of just getting the pivotal
frags and these kinds of rounds that just following up on good
game planning for a Dastana Jam. Well, to hear from the other side of
this story, we do have an exit interview with magics.
Spirit were the defending a blast-bounded champions, but this
summer round they fall to Paravision, like a magics with me joining me.
First of all, congratulations on the loss. Can I just get your
thoughts and feelings if it's that bad, you know, considering you
guys, made changes in the side like what's your initial thoughts on the whole loss.
Mirage, pick game, kill, I take at some point and the comms were poor playing second half,
going into the engine. We'll ask a few key rounds, especially the Untie Force on B-side.
We got the Sita, a set up was pretty bad and we knew what they were going to do and
we have chosen positions for that and this is how we lost the multi-parallel on Beside
on Anchant.
If I come back to Mirage, just quickly, you guys were getting a lot of the opening kills,
right?
It was looking positive.
Then it was starting to fall apart for you guys.
Is that where it was getting countered?
Was it maybe not agreeing on where you need to end, where you want to finish rounds?
I believe that the idea, in a few of those rounds, where we had the 5-B4, the idea
that I've given was wrong because I need it probably one more player in some positions
like to hit the side and it would have been easier because we would have had the trades.
Obviously this is your first event being the IGL so does it bother you so much or is it
just more like taking the experience and learning from it?
Oh, it's basically it's a bad thing that only play to one match in there.
And there won't be like besides these three maps, there won't be that many of material
to learn because the situations they're basically the same, but I need to like get used
and adjust some reactions or so, and yeah.
And last, I just saw a little bit of like tilt
from Duncan some rounds.
We are used to seeing this in my opinion.
This is just my own thoughts.
I was thinking with you as I jails
be a good person to try to cheer
him up, get him out of it.
Do you see that as your role as I jails
or are you still more focused on other things right now?
Well, I definitely have to be supporting him
in some way because, you know, there's a lot of pressure on to him and, you know,
usually there's no one in the world being able to, you know, to be ready for this
mount of pressure. So you should have some person, some people around you helping you in
some way and I have to you know I have to find a way because I do need a lot of time
in terms of basically gameplay and of course it's kind of difficult to
support him. Yeah. Thank you for your insights. We'll see you at the next event.
some sober words from the magic there I mean this one's going to be very disappointing but the reality is you got to take your lumps early on learning a new role learning new responsibilities here for the team and this one's going to be a lesson learned for sure
A hundred percent, you know, and he's gonna learn a lot from this game. He's gonna learn a lot from from the losing experience
If anything, I think what I know is him the most is what we also spoke to him about Mike in the online portion of the game that
They don't get a lot of repetitions. They don't get a lot of games the next thing to go into is straight into Cracker
Which is a big tournament, and that's gonna be a different kind of pressure
So they're kind of coming in as a bit of an unknown quantity obviously when dog is on the line
You can always make magic heaven same goes for sure, but in terms of getting more reps, you know at least one more
best of three on a stage like this would have been nice for spirit regardless of
then winning or losing a percentage semi final, but losing in the quarterfinal
to pervition that's heard. And the way that they lost to in ability to just
kind of make the adaptations that they needed to in my eyes inability to slow down
on their T-sides despite the fact that they they basically dominated in terms of
opening picks for the last two maps both of which they they lost. So you need
to learn just how to pause. I feel like that's a huge call for an up and coming
IGLs just the inability to say everybody hold and then you get an assessment of what's
going on on the radar, you come up with a structured plan to finish, but it just kind
of felt like Spirit were lazily walking into whatever their next step in the round was
instead of formulating a more strategic finisher and that's something that Holly and
Magic's absolutely need to come to terms with to make sure that they have a chance at making
a deep run a crackout.
I do have a silver lining for Spirit, a dog said that his ambition was to beat the era of
the
well the era of vitality also started with a quarter final exit here at last
bounty so maybe in a twisted way that's a good home and maybe all that means we're
getting the win-up about your format has been
no bitch back to back to back to back to the end of the bounty I kind of liked that you know
and the question is who's that when I'm going to be my guy think we have a bit of a
dress show coming up and not so long as well so I'm curious to see who's going to play who
in this in the final it does feel like this thing's blown wide open now right we still have our
are favorites obviously, but this is now the Joker in the deck that's been
shuffled in in Perry vision, which is that we don't really know quite where to
place them. They've now got this victory over spirit, but there's the
asterisk to the new IGL. We've now got their tremendous results online,
but they won in a different way here on land than they did online. Where are we
placing Perry vision? Both. Yes, still is the heavy undogs here. I feel like
the style that Perry vision called here. It was rather gimmicky and it was
incredibly solved by the time they got to stage three of the major. I don't think that
James necessarily is a, I mean, he's a good IGL. Don't get me wrong. But if you place this kind of
style, we're so one note versus vitality of falcons, those teams just have so many weapons
that they can dispatch you with. And also, I just think that there are mid-half adaptations
without a timeout are going to be strong enough because they simply have just real IGLs that
they're working with right now. Yeah, I'll I could have said them. I think the most amazing
thing about the wind tonight for for Parisian was their ability to wind from being a man
behind.
We spoke about it.
They lost their opening duals quite significantly on Mirage, even on an ancient
as well.
Couldn't really get it going.
If you play 4v5 for the vast majority of time against either Fourier, Falcons, all
vitality, you are going to lose your chance.
Thank you.
Even if you're a Parisian and you're doing well in those scenarios.
Well, maybe they've got no chance, but there's always a chance if we've learned anything
tonight.
There's a guaranteed chance that we'll be seeing a new champion.
We'll choose our matchups for the semi final in the draft show with James Banks after this.
Hello everybody and welcome back. It is time for our semi-finals draft. We know which
four teams we've got ready to get themselves into the position of understanding of who
they are going to face and yeah for some it might seem quite easy. Remember only one team
gets to pick then the other one is decided so all of that power sits in vitalities had. It's
important thing to see, but you don't want me to do? We're going to teams on to the stage.
Hello, guys.
Smalls on everyone's faces.
You're always fine.
You're the happiest one possible.
Just enjoying the moment for it all.
Every time.
Sit.
Jury is not been maybe at its strongest right now.
You feeling good?
You nervous across all of this?
We need to warm up sometimes.
I'm feeling great.
I'm feeling great.
Maybe we play a series before it actually will be final.
So we can warm up and not open, can we?
So a quick package, you can write a game,
a quick moment, and then we'll go get it.
You're going to do a three mile for just in case?
Yeah, a three mile for practice.
Just make it very, very round up.
I like it.
I like the tactics for it.
Even starting four obviously new clearance coming in.
He showed up pretty good.
He wasn't a liability.
You happy about what you saw from the standard?
Yeah, yeah.
We knew that we were bringing someone,
someone that had firepower and that can help us also.
Of course he's not as good as Kyosuke, he's still learning, but we have some good upcoming talent
Oh yes, we definitely saw that
Hey stars, listen
You're feeling any better right now, still a little bit under the weather
Alright, it's okay
It's okay, I pick very easy
You got picked very vicious
You know what, it's not time to pick, but you also can't pick them
So take some more time, I think this through
Zwei, he wanted to pick you, would you like to play right here?
Yes, he needs to do it
Oh he asked you, oh okay
That's why you're also cool, but so you guys are trying to break the system up here.
I can't allow that just yet.
That's why you beat your X.
Yes.
That's pretty damn good, right?
Yes.
Biggest win to a power division.
You join the team.
Things are going very well for him.
You are a blast-bounded champion as well, so if you're like a power division can go all the way.
We will see.
We will see.
We'll see who you face.
That's for sure.
It's time for the draft. It's time to see how this is going to go.
And next task. All the power is in your hand. You make the decision. Everything else aligns.
Wow. Yeah, I know. You feel the most powerful man in the room right now. Oh, yes. It's good. It's good. It's a good feeling. Take that energy.
Feel it good. There you go. And people are, we'd be not expecting what they're, we'd be. No? No, I know.
It's going to be a complete shock. Yes. But it can't be parabasant. Just making sure that's clear.
Okay, I got it good. All right, let's get into X-Tas. Who is vitality picking?
We beat
Falcons
I'm shocked
The way was waiting for you to say paravision to follow everyone. Yes
Oh, no. Okay, do I need to ask you why it's an obvious reason the stand-in situation? I mean
And yes, and also with the map pool, we know it can be good.
They'd be thuswithstanding in the last, we know.
It's a completely dangerous, but at some point you have to make a choice, and I know for us,
the funcance was the deal of use.
You're already preparing to face vitality, you've done the homework already, of course, we are ready,
and I have a...
We recently actually received a special gift yesterday.
Oh!
You're ready?
Oh!
Hey!
Hey!
And I was very ready for it.
We didn't see an escape.
Yeah, it's a fun plot of fame right now.
He's advertising for you.
It's a great plot.
Free for both of you.
That doesn't want to suck me.
One way or the other, you know,
anything that happened in my childhood?
No, the respect to then.
It was a good joke to make it.
Yes, no, I like it.
This is what I want for you guys.
Thank you very much for keeping me at the same old flow.
play, play, you're going to get furious, give me your thoughts on just fury, currently, who
have been struggling, does it feel like a team that the power of vision can play well
against?
I don't think it's about the team that they're playing in the guise.
I mean, for as top one, see right now, as I know, and we can't on the right, so anyway,
if they played not their best on online stage, but more than a shot yesterday is that they
can be anyone I guess and it's going to be tough game anyway.
So, let's see how it goes.
That's it?
Yeah.
Can we get the version of the way we saw online against Furious more?
Can you bring that bag so I can give us the full power?
We'll see.
We'll see.
I'll take that, that's all in, sit, you get into the face power vision.
You go to take him quite seriously now, mate.
Yeah, we always do, always do.
We have a big respect for the guys and for James as well.
We have one of his students in our team.
So it's going to be the match against the student tomorrow.
And I mean, of course, it's going to be a great match.
Yeah.
Like I said, in the other draft, we're going to have great teams here,
before we're bringing their A games to the tournament,
and everyone's coming full power.
and we're going to make sure we're well prepared
and ready for it again.
Well, I'll let you get some rest.
I'll let you get prepared for the game.
Thank you very much, guys.
That is the end of the draw.
But not quite the end of the broadcast.
We got a little housekeeping to do here.
We have our matchups set for tomorrow.
Falcons taking on vitality and fury offending off
peri-vision.
Wow.
What a slate of games we've got here.
No surprises in the draft, let's be honest.
you're picking the team with a stand in your picking the team with an aspirant
asterisk, a question mark. But yeah, if a telly he's going to bitterly remember
the last time they faced Nico and Monacy with a stand in on a stage.
Yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of a lot of big duels between vitality and
Falcon, I remember a lot of the games in 2025 that really came down to the
Nitty-Griddy, even Falcon's winning a couple of those games as well. So I feel
that's a cool matchup. Obviously the asterix with the standing coming into play
And another estuic step I'm going to talk more about tomorrow, but the fact of the mad ice
that Falcons, that beat my telegraph a couple of times, but they haven't really been able to collect the trophy after being him,
and we find a self-in-the-same scenario. Are you referring to Dallas? Dallas? Are you referring to Dallas?
He's referring to Dallas? He's referring to Dallas? He's referring to Dallas? He's referring to Dallas? He's referring to Dallas?
You have to stand there? He's too. He's too. It's a generational run, but when that's going to be pretty hard to replicate with
the form that this vitality has shown lately, I feel like this is still a really strong pick for vitality.
I know we want to get into the the call back to what happened there did to being fair though that I'm pretty sure that was a BO3 grand final also and this will also be a BO3
So there's it's I'm not ruling out entirely that's gonna be competitive
I hope all the games tomorrow are competitive but by
Tality they're pretty happy about the American copian like going on
It's worth it to the Dennis event, you know something happened 90 years ago exactly what what could that possibly be
to be coping, I don't have any American slaps, man, I just hope it's like something that
actually happened. It's a fact that's the history books.
That's a fair mind.
Facts don't care about your feelings, Jacob. Now moving on into the facts of the start of
the broadcast, by saying what the F is a colloquial.
You're a million now. You can't switch up on me like this. Let's talk about
the fury of taking on Perry Vision as well, right? I mean, I think we we've
seen some wearing sense for fury. We've seen some encouraging
for Perry vision, where do we think that goes?
I'm not gonna lie, I feel like Fura
had been winning out on these draft shows
every single time so far.
What all do the effects of her work?
They also came in with a stand-in,
came in with a bit of surprise,
probably on paper, the easiest match
of they could have gotten in the quarter final.
Definitely, perivision on paper,
the easiest opponent they could have gotten
in the semi-final.
So if you're Fura, you gotta collect,
you gotta cash in on the fact that you're getting
a quarter-quote, easy route to the grandfinal.
I just don't see Perry vision doing
what they did the spirit against Fura.
They got one of the most tenured in-game leaders
as we have even competing in Tier 1 in Fallen, he's going to be able to make all the live
adjustments necessary. He is a master of the Mid-Round, so I am supremely confident
that Furia, they're going to be punching in there, taking to the Grand Final Samarrow.
Even though the story with Paravision has been exciting thus far, I don't know how the
road gets any brighter for them when we go.
I don't know, man. What about James? Look, Prisillian, remember a James play.
Remember a James clutch, they know he can be the magic man, so we'll see if Paravision
have a little bit more magic to come,
but we are going to say good night.
That's a wrap on the quarter finals here.
At the blast bounty you've seen,
the draft you know, the matches that I said,
only four teams remain as we stride into tomorrow
and stride into the top four of Counter Strike.