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BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026 - Day 3 - NRG vs B8, FaZe vs TYLOO, Falcons vs NAVI, Aurora vs FURIA
03-20-2026 · 13h 23m
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Rotterdam where Jacob has just gotten done with his requisite pre-game push-ups.
I'm Darf Mike, joined here on the desk by Pimp and Vu.
Jacob, why are you so self-conscious about getting that pump off of his head?
Because he called me out.
He was like, oh, you haven't done any push-ups all tournament long.
I'm like, shut up, Vu, so I'm doing it now.
It is fair.
It's a classic green room site to see Jacob just doing push-ups on his head.
That's how you sound actually in my head.
What do you think?
Is that how you sound in your own head?
I have done exactly zero push-ups, by the way.
Zero push-ups in the last year.
We can fix that drop and give me five. Oh, no, thank you
Well, you know insubordinate
On the desk right now, but let's get into what happened yesterday
Let's do a little bit of a catch-up here
We have some banging games at yesterday coming on through and I prepare a vision liquid spirit
Mongols mouse that one. We're gonna have some words about vitality 9z as well
We started the day of course with nip taken on a peri vision. It was very vision
It's a good game of Counter-Strike, both teams showed up in spades on their respective maps,
first one very close, second one not so close, that was NIP really getting the job done on
Mirage X Kaspersky in particular, had a nice showing the world and showing the rest of
us why he's considered one of the greatest talents out there on the market potentially
as well if NIP doesn't qualify for the Major.
At the end of the day, Parivision ends up winning the game, I think that's fair
enough they are the better team we also spoke to snobby after it's it's looking
rough for an IP let's be completely honest it's hard for them to establish
themselves was for peri vision they keep getting it back it's para paid by the
round vision I mean that's of course is gonna go three maps I mean there's got to
be a triggered bonus in Caspersi's contract if he drops 30 and they still
lose the map I feel like that's just like the compensation how much that
was no yeah I don't know everybody else buys his dinner buys him some
snacks something like that there's got to be some sort of recompense it's
worth a buyout into another team.
That's what he gets paid for.
Well, we'll see if they can rally.
They still got a chance in the lower bracket.
Our second game as well, Spirit and Liquid,
Spirit taking care of business here.
Yeah, it was good to see Spirit bouncing back after Bury.
The last time we saw Spirit play
was against Astralis in a game that they
will like to forget about, I think.
So for them to come in and getting the job done
versus Liquid in a 2-0 fashion, very important.
However, it was a somewhat competitive game
on the second map.
It certainly was, right?
and mobs as well in his first day of view.
What did we think of that?
It wasn't the most impressive showing from mobs,
but I mean, what are we expecting?
It's a two day practice period
and you go up against Spirit.
It's about the hardest team you could go up against,
especially that pool doesn't feel great.
I think Liquid showed
what you're expecting them to show in that.
Ultimate had one terrible map
and one pretty solid map
and they still couldn't find a way to win.
I'm happy with what I saw from Liquid,
but what are you expecting?
It's Spirit.
No cause for alarm bells yet.
Spirit though don't did join us on the desk afterward. He had some choice words about their communication. Let's give that a listen
Because matrix. It's a different guy who needs space to call to show himself
When you speak about that in space
Is that like you need to be able to show up as individuals to make it as easy as possible to show what his plan is on the server?
Or is it literally?
Maybe playing the round slower taking more times with the calls. What do you mean by space? I mean
And I have to shut the fuck up and let him know.
Not one of the men's words there, that is exactly what I wanted to know and put so eloquently
by the young dog.
Yeah, sometimes that's what you need to do, Boo, in particular, to get the job done.
I think overall it was good to see Spirit and Dong for that matter as well, bounce
back from Polli.
You know, there are certain people out there, you know, who are starting to get
a bit worried on behalf of Team Spirit, they're not out of the dark by winning
against Team Liquid.
to be expected, but Don playing well and him being adamant about the fact that sometimes
maybe they need to allow metrics to transition into the in-game leader and actually listen
to him.
I'm still liking what I'm hearing from the Spirit Camp, but I want to see them do further
here at this tournament before I make up my mind.
Don can say all he wants and Don can stomp Liquid all he wants.
They're not out of the woods yet.
I want to see them play against Unastralis, even an Unastralis level team, or a Maus,
a Mongols, a Vitality.
I want to see them play against a team that is supposed to test them before
or I feel super confident in what they're showing.
Speaking of a team that's firmly in the woods,
we saw a mouse toppled against the Marlis Mongols
in a 2-0 fashion here.
Quite a surprise, not a good one for mouse.
No, not at all.
And it's the fashion it happened in as well.
You know, I don't want to take anything away from the moguls.
They played a good game of counter-strike.
Checked on the boys. We got the job done.
But if your mouse, like, you've had one thing going for you.
A lot of the cotegas that are not winning,
you know, they're not getting into the Grand Finals anymore.
Yadi-yadi. But at least you could always count on them
in the group stage being consistent as ever.
This time around, though, losing to Mongols,
losing in a 2-0 fashion, losing 13-3 on the second map move.
I'm starting to get a little worried on behalf of Maus.
You're starting to get a little worried.
I'm well within my ability to get worried.
I'm in the middle of my worry for Maus.
They got 13-3.
I'm beginning to panic.
OK, they're going to lose their jobs.
OK, they got 13-3 on their own map pick.
That's a pretty concerning site.
No Mara, no pauses.
I don't think Mongols pulled a single pause
in the entire series, and they just run it down.
That's ridiculous.
Maus has to do better than that.
Nice little cheer coming up from the Bay Poises
will be getting into the game just a little bit.
But yeah, I think that one's really concerning for Maus.
Berlin also gave an interview to HLTV afterwards
where he had an answer about like,
I think it's good to be in the lower bracket
because you can't lose anymore.
It's like, ah, I'm a copie.
I've heard that from many North American players.
Extreme copie, not supposed to do that as an EUIGL.
That's not how that's supposed to work.
Anyway, really positive signs for Mongols as well.
I think that's another takeaway we can have from it.
I think a lot of people will worry on behalf of Mongols
after losing Central first and foremost,
the control is coming in,
then you bring in a new guy once more.
So I feel like overall we can be very happy
with the way the Mongols are progressing.
I think they're playing good Counter Strike as well.
And I said it during a Crucifix and Poker.
If I'm the Mongols, I'm looking at it from the outside.
If they can establish themselves as a top eight team
that is getting into the player
for at least in the conversation every single time,
that would be great, but I feel like they're overachieving right now, but
they're doing better than I expected. Is it I would say there's one thing I'm
worried about with Mongols is Blitz is still not performing the way he was in
the middle of last year. We talked about him as the best frag and I gel in
the scene. He's really had some struggles, but if the rest of the team
can perform like that, if you can have techno dropping 1.5 plus rating
consistently, then you're looking at a team that's scary even if Blitz isn't
at his peak. That's what you need. That's what you need. One team that's
always seem to be at the peak. Fritality, consistency personified and that consistency
is consistently on top. They dominated 9-Z, no question about it.
Yeah, it's nice sometimes that you have a team that's actually living up to the expectations,
right? You walk into that game, you look at the lineup between Vitality and 9-Z and
you expect them to win convincingly and then they win convincingly, whereas I feel
like for every single game we're always trying to build up the story that it could
be competitive and maybe if 9-Z gets off to a good start they can apply a bit
pressure. There was none of that yesterday. Vitality just outright owning them.
I love watching Vitality because when they play a team they're supposed to be, they destroy them.
So when you actually have a team do well against Vitality, you know Vitality, they're so consistent.
That was a team that showed up and they performed and they had a great game. It's not like,
I'm going to say a paravision where paravision are clearly the better team,
but they can drop a map. They can make it close. They can allow a team to get in. You're not
sure exactly what that means. If you pull off a map win, if you pull off a close game against
It means you're a good team so we won't question what that means for 90 right now because it also did have the Matthew
Airbow show of dropping like
23 and 8 in the first map of play just absolutely annihilating
But let's check in on who's getting annihilated in our blast TV fantasy courtesy of gaming a multa
Let's see how am I doing that's the only thing I want to know. It's not good. It's not good. I had Zai Wu
But it's not been great for me so far
What's going wrong? Voo, you're the only one below me. Could you give me some advice here?
Well, you see what you should have done is you should have picked brawlin as your platinum level flair
How did you how did you how is that even possible?
That's my first question. How did that thought ever enter your mind? You know this who you I get so many questions
What would you I really know? I just thought to myself brawlin. Did you though?
Did you do it?
Did you actually think?
Brolin could win, Brolin could win this event.
He's my Platinum level player.
It works out.
Well, Pimp, you're firmly in the middle of the pack, so how do we rise to the level
of mediocrity?
Well, okay, well, I don't like to be there in the first place, but it's also a good
place to be in order to punch up one of you.
Now, I place myself strategically in the middle, and then by the end of the tournament,
by the end of this group stage, I'll be on top.
So you could say you're consistent?
I'm consistently mediocre.
Well, we're all just gonna have to learn from the good of analysis clearly Henry G currently tops in fantasy
And that's the only thing that matters moving on into today
We have a whole slate of games another pack schedule for you is it is all counter strike all the time here at the blast open
Rotterdam bait take on energy. That's our first match phase versus
Tyloo in a match that will have some serious implications for phases major chances
Falcons V-Nav-V and Aurora versus Furia to wrap things off so we start in the
lower bracket then we move to the top by the end of the day elimination on the
line now fellas the stakes are higher yeah they are especially when you
consider the two teams that we're heading into now for for Bates and
NRG both have been struggling as of recently you know both have been
going through roster changes both played a game in Crack-off you know
just a couple of weeks ago a couple of months ago some may say and that
That was with two different rosters as well, so I feel like it's two teams who are trying
to find their footing in 20-26 and neither have been able to do so yet, so a win against
each other is not really going to bring them out of the dark, but at least it's better
than being lost.
It helps to plant their feet, it helps to make this happen, let's get into the match
with some interviews.
Daps, Grim's been with the team for a few weeks now, that acquisition had been
in the works for a little while, how do you think he's integrating, how do you
think it's going?
I'd say it's going fine. We just haven't really had time to practice. I mean, we went pro league with him
Didn't have any practice because he had to play that Roman and Puritan land with passion
So we didn't really practice before pro league with him and then after pro league
We had about a week or so in North America and could only scrim one team only so
Yeah, I mean practice hasn't really been too much which is kind of the issue at the moment
But we have a boot camp after this event.
So really bringing him on board.
He mentioned yesterday or in your first match,
that a lot of this is about getting him comfortable with the team,
getting him integrated, getting the spacing going.
But something we noticed in the first game
is the spacing seemed to be a little strung out.
Do you think that that's something
that'll just fix with time with Grim playing in the team?
Yeah.
I mean, our chemistry is very low at the moment.
It's probably the lowest it'll be for the rest
of the season at this event.
So right now, I mean, our main chance of winning is essentially just people showing up individually
and doing like basic fundamental things, correct?
We don't have that much depth in our playbook yet though, because we just haven't had time
to practice with them.
A little bit of keep it simple, stupid classic move here?
Yeah, essentially, because we had a lot of like role changes and stuff.
So if you do, we didn't do all the role changes we want to do yet, because it
was just too much with no practice.
But yeah, it's not the best at the moment.
Speaking about Bait here, you guys played them previously this year.
That one was a win going your way, but changes for both teams coming into this one.
What do you think about them?
I mean, they're a decent team.
Like, I mean, they have, when they're playing well, they're playing like really well.
But they're probably in a similar position as us.
You know, they haven't got that much time to play with their new player.
and it's probably going to be some sloppiness.
But yeah, I mean, they're a good team.
Just got to show up.
Expectation is that you should be beating them, though, here?
Yeah.
I mean, if we play our B game at least, then we should win.
If we played like we did versus Falcons,
then we'll lose, for sure, so.
I think we're going to win easily.
Like at the IM Crackle, we was playing without our coach.
And we're just a team, if we're losing some mentally,
if we're losing some game, we just need to mentally refresh.
And we don't have our coach, it's hard.
But if we have our coach and he'll just
put us in the correct way, we will feel better.
So he'll help us and he's now with us,
and I think we're going to crush them.
Very different mentalities coming out of those interviews.
Daps always want to give it to you straight, but a lot more confidence flowing from Alex and the 8 boys.
Yeah, I'm a little worried, you know, listening into Daps because I get his reasoning and I fully get an
understand when you integrate a new player, you want to switch roles, you want to switch positions.
That's going to be tough, but saying that your B-game with all those circumstances is enough to beat Bate.
I'm sorry to tell you, buddy, that's not going to be enough at all.
All Bates are the favourites in my book.
Bates are the better team, they're shown more as of late.
And energy still have a lot of work to do.
So in terms of the confidence level for each team,
I kind of reflect what I heard in the interview right here.
Daps is threading waters, you know,
want to build on a project for the future.
I can respect that.
Bates right now, they are in a position to win this game.
I think Daps comes in, he's got the system,
he's trying to build it out.
He's not happy that he hasn't had time to integrate Grimm.
You can see he's just playing in the same exact spots
as George, playing almost the same exact way
that he's playing, except for a few changes.
Do you see him build up a system and then you see Stanislaw come in with the confidence
and replace him and then all of a sudden they're the best team in the world.
You know that's probably what's going to happen here as it's happened like three or
four times to Daps in the past.
As a coach?
As a coach.
A manager.
That's never happened before.
Stan's not a coach in these days.
They play completely different things at this point.
But he could do it.
He could do it.
Mike.
All right, well we're not going to dig the well of old memes for that much longer.
Let's talk about what the future is, right?
These two teams did match up very recently, but that was without Sizi.
That was with Sekugawa playing at Krakow.
That one did go the way of NRG, but also mentioned over from the Bay Camp
that they didn't have their coach there, who helps to reset them mentally,
helps to stabilize them coming on through.
How much do we think we can take away from this one?
Not really a lot, to be completely honest.
Obviously, if you're NRG, you're happy that you won the game.
But as you said, there's a lot of asterisks attached to that game.
Not only is it a couple of months ago, but no coach,
player-personal going in and out of both teams.
And then you would even argue it was a very close game on Inferno as well.
So I think if anything, it's a good baseline.
It's something that OC, as an example, can use as a bit of a confidence builder.
You did play a different AWPer in that game, as you said, Sisi now coming in.
So again, how much can you really use that?
But at the end of the day, I feel like it's two different projects,
two different teams, and as I said, two different mindsets coming into this game.
Yeah, I think when you look at the energy that played in that game,
they're first of all, they're playing 8th Segu Kawa.
There's a reason Segu Kawa played what, like six or eight maps only with Bay.
And then you look at the energy roster.
They had the five-man roster that had played together for quite a while. They had so much synergy together
They can actually play a really tactical brand of CS and from the depth interview. We saw they're not comfortable tactically
They need their players showing up
I don't think Grimm is enough of an upgrade from George to say that that's gonna make them
That's gonna put them over the line for this type of game
I do want to tap into the conversation about the offers though, right in particular sissy, right?
We saw some flashes from him in their first match against Navi and when he was on it particularly that second map very impressive
But we also have seen that he's a 16 year old who's playing this level of counter strike for the first time in his life,
and the consistency is not really there yet.
No, but I think his work conditions are going to be easier against a team like Energy.
Again, I fully buy into what Debs is saying that fundamentally they're not ready yet.
Changing a player, changing position, changing systems is not going to be as punishing as an environment
going up against Ceci for him in that regard, whereas if you play Navi, you play a blade system,
you're going to get punished if you make a rotation you're not supposed to do.
You're going to get punished if you're not peeking at the right moment, etc.
I don't fee NID as a team that is going to be as punishing in the way they play Counter-Strike,
so I feel there's a bit more leeway for Sissy to make some of the mistakes that you're going to make
when you're 16 years of age. And as you said, in terms of his mechanical abilities,
I feel like we've seen enough flashes of him that he can definitely take on a team like NID.
I think we were saying before the Navi game that he's one for the future.
And he is one for the future, but I think this is one where maybe you're happy with the flashes he showed against Navi.
Let's see him show a little something against the team that he's supposed to be a bit more
comfortable against.
And I think that's where we're starting to see maybe Sizi getting a little bit more confidence
behind him.
Now, it was focusing in on energy, right?
We've talked about Graham a little bit.
We can talk about him a little bit more.
The team as a whole, right, has been on a very positive trajectory over the span
of a year.
I think this is one of those take one step back to take two steps forward kind
of things.
And the question is, how long will it take to take those two steps forward?
keeping it to a little bit more of a simplified game plan here, which is, I think, what we expect NRG to do.
The reality is just Grim can't shoot heads. We know that.
We're watching him miss a lot of heads.
That was not what I was hoping for.
He was testing how to recover from a whiff.
I think there's two different ways of approaching this, because obviously, you know, long-term, I agree.
I think NRG is getting more and more exciting.
I think signing a player like Grim, you know, with this status, he's having a North American counter-strike with the level that he's also still possessing.
possessing. I think that's a lot of experience you bring into the team and that's a statement from
NRG that we're still investing into our team, we're still trying to make it better. However,
in the context of this specific game right here, right now today, I think that summarizes it pretty
well. They're not ready yet. I love how we've included bad news bears in that graphic. You was
on that team sub a month. I think he just took a break from Trump. I don't remember the exact
circumstances, but- Well, very NA-like, so I don't know why you're laughing. That's life,
That's life over on there. I mean, we can bring it all the way back to Dignitas, SOAR,
Space Station. Grim has been on a lot of NA teams. He's been on the trajectory, on the grind,
on the growth really since he was like 16 years old. Complexity. You know, it seemed that actually
one stuff at least got deep into tournaments. So he is bringing some experience into it.
Yeah, I mean, we're talking about being on Bad News Bear for under a month. He's been on
this team for under a month as well. And DAPS did sum it up perfectly. I think you got it on
that's going to be a big
thing for the next couple of
years. He's going to be on the
nose there. It's he's only been
here for a short period of
time. They go back to any they
can play one team they're
saying about in any. That's
clearly the interview of
someone that knows that this
is kind of. They're just
going to play with the
four man system they had.
They're going to try and get
grim and but Grimm's a
different player. They can't
activate that yet. They're
going to struggle even if
Grimm is not great, and I
think he clearly is. It's
an upgrade. We're going to
see in the future, not
here. Yeah, I mean, it's
North America for a week. As they said, they scripted like one team when they're back there.
It's always been a conversation of how quality of practice can you actually get when you're home.
Those are the realities of the situation. I reject that reality. I say we should have some
fireworks on the server. Even with those limitations on NRG, I think this is enough
to require a real test of bait. Yeah, I think what makes the game exciting is that
bait on the other side is not hitting that strike. You know, if bait were coming into
this tournament with a bit more success and maybe a bit longer in their progress of integrating
I'd buy into that, you know, okay, Bader are the clear cut favorites, but they've also been struggling as of late.
I've lost six out of the last seven games and I'm not looking comfortable yet with the new players.
So I think if anything that would make this game interesting, it's not necessarily about NID being competitive already yet.
I think we all agreed that let's give them some more time and that's fair enough.
But the opposition is not really a team oozing of confidence either, which could make the game slightly closer.
Just a quick summary of the video for you. It's going to be Inferno, Ancient and then
I believe Mirage as we bring it through into the last. So we're starting out with the Inferno.
We're diving right in and our castors are taking you through this one. It's another day listening
to the golden voices of Anders and Henry G.
Oh yes indeed. Thank you Michael. It is going to be day three here at Blast Open Rotterdam
2026. How are you doing Anders?
I feel great. I look forward to seeing more out of any NRG. I know Daps is a quiet
He doesn't want to oversell the team, but I think this team could do some damage
I think bait a bit of be ready the thing is and is every tournament has winners
Every tournament has losers today
We will find out who the first losers are gonna be in this tournament
You'd be losers series. You are going home dead last place. Yeah. Hate to see it for my money though
It's gonna be bait as the winners here. I think they hit so incredibly hard. We heard the interview from daps
He doesn't seem all that confident. I know we're just trying to manage expectations
But when you come in again saying we need more time, I'm just a bit sick of hearing that in every single interview
So yeah for me Bates they hear harder
They've got more experience as a squad and it should be a convincing two-zero in my book
But I hope NRG can just turn up and show us what they're made of. It is the classic excuse isn't it?
But I will say this just don't don't underestimate him. He is Canadian. That's an idiot. That's true
He's just got like, you know, he's always gonna seem that chill. Yeah, I don't know
I don't know if I'm buying it. I do think this team could do a little bit more
I think they're going to be better NRG today than they were last time around.
We'll find out right now as we head into the game.
It's the opening match, like you said, everything on the line.
If you lose here, it's the end of the ride.
It's NRG starting on the T side, Bait on that CT side, and let's see how this goes.
You don't see much Inferno these days.
Let me tell you, it's not a very popular map board, ever reason.
I absolutely love it, and we'll have a look at the T setup here.
We've got double smokes, Molotovs, double flashes for me and us.
This is a B execute all day long.
You've got the smoke for the coffins, spawn, and they've got the Molotov for the new boxes as well.
It looks like that way inclined. We're going to be starting to make our way over.
There's no initial CT aggression. No flashbang required here.
You can see Bro's actually bravely face checks towards the sandbags.
So yeah, full-on B execution, but a three-man stack from Bates.
They're trying to bait out the initial smoke if there is one on the CT side,
but I'm not seeing it right now unless it's on the ground.
Yeah, it feels like...
Is it you, Tilt?
Well, they've seen this one player. They do have the dualies up here as well,
You're absolutely right. You called it right out of spawn. It's gonna be that vx Q
Julie's on top. The flash is good though and Sizi he's gonna be able to pick up the first kill nice headshot from NPL
To follow it up. It's still looking pretty good here for the defense up until that point
OC and Grimm find a couple of clock headshots. The tag team duo that needs to go above and beyond now 11 HP
For OC and here comes Kenzie Zor. He had a fantastic game yesterday
We'll see if him in a cent field can cut this one down to size
They have got the advantage Anders, but no kick currently so there's a little bit of time pressure coming into around like this one
Not that pressure at the moment. They're sort of walking all the way up. No utility either
It's gonna be the raw peak around the corner essentially so good in kensis off
He's not gonna let his teammate downy
It's another shot and the diffuse gonna be in even without the kit here
So very well done a good read coming out. I think it's very hard for energy
They saw nobody in palace days or up in the apartments. They saw nobody in second mid
They saw one person that they be bombsite before they executed like it was a kind of a raw map for them
There was nothing really to figure out where the stack was
I didn't love that for men. Oh gee. There's not enough pressure
You've given them full banana control and that they you've got everything they need to do their execution
Right, you need to be showing like a little bit of presence towards the corner
Make them feel uncomfortable make them use that one flashbang to ensure
Yeah, the sandbags the fact you've given them so much control is a bit of a nightmare, but there it is it will be
Nice AXB execution coming through yeah, and a quick tech pause as well
Sort out a couple of things here before we move on into it
But yeah, it's true inferno
It's kind of got out of style a bit hasn't it people don't pick it so much anymore. Well, we'll we'll see
What we've got in return
For now energy back to the drawing board I
Think it won't land at least so
Next round involves Gileals, Tecdines, and on the other side is a single SMG. I
guess in front of one of the maps you could justify buying more SMGs. You know
you're gonna have a lot of close-range fights, but they've opted not to do that.
Immediate utility use, it actually grows pushed around their own smokes, a very
popular move here. So even if you get set up for anything, it's gonna be
an appearance that caught off guard. Shut down immediately and yeah, Morris
following Sonic is gonna get that kill and the round is done and over. Very
impressive this force fire is working out wonderfully your dead on Anders we are
going to see the plant come through I sent you and Sissy no chance on this
retake bouncing back quickly our NRG the execution let them down somewhat but
now with our bomb planted and a full array of weaponry they are looking very
comfortable back to that B bomb site this time it works how much better for
them. Yeah, they're just gonna have to save these weapons. The smoke that bro runs around
is one that I've tried to track quite a bit in the last like six months. I think 3D maxed
one of the teams that really popularized it on this one. And there are some teams that
use a lot and there are some teams that never do it. But it is really cool when
you can get it at half wall on the T side and the CT is trying to flash their way
in because they think you're on the other side of the smoke. But you can see bro,
was just in a really strong position there. It's a nice way to get the round started.
Apart from the fact that two rifles saved might be better than winning the pistol round.
I'll get the follow-up. There's definitely a few more twists and turns yet.
Dads will be happy with that. We go 1-1. We ride two safe weapons. We've got the MP9,
a couple of M4s in the mix as well. And we get into round number three, Bates.
For my money hit a bit harder than NRG, but this is the start they were looking for the
North American squad after losing the pistol will be bringing in heavy artillery now with
more grim on a Mach 10, tons of the helmets, only one player will make it two without.
See what they can make of it here, getting active, trying to thread the needle through
the smoke door to half all his MPL, throw the smoke towards the A side of the map.
Right on top of them. They're going to flash their way through. No delay on that one. That's a great call coming out.
OC, they'll find the opening. It was so quick to adjust for this round. Absolutely, nobody's another round where a couple of kills decide everything or even one kill.
So, great stuff from NRG. Moto Smoke goes down, opening frag in the form of Kent is all going down. They're stacked towards B.
And it's a bit of open runway there. Smiles all round. The hunt is on. Grim can certainly justify going for a bit of a hunt here and is considering he's got the Mach 10.
he's got the Mac 10. He's going to actually offer up his utility as well just to make sure
he doesn't give anything out there just like send me in boys and that's why.
He was sent in. It looked really hot-hearted though it looked like he was still
communicating with his teammates walking up banana but yeah not the end of the world here they
lose a couple more than they want it maybe but the round is theirs. We'll see throwing away
extra guns to make sure that there's no upgrades for the MP9 since they did through
their play, but NRG off to a good start. I can't explain why. It's just is all
vibes Henry from my point of view. I just feel like NRG are gonna be, they're gonna
be a bit stronger. I feel like they have, they have some fine violence. I was
highlighting Sonic last time, but like Sonic is great. Sonic is great, but
OC and Grimm, like if those two come online, I feel like I haven't seen OC do
anything really wild, but in the past I certainly have. I know he could be a
very, very strong author, so he's always been a bit of a journeyman
right like so yeah who never quite made it to the top you know he's reliable but
you're never gonna be winning massive amounts of trophies with him but this is
an opportunity for him to show he can still hang at the top and I'm willing to
see what he can bring to the table. Let's have a look then shall we it's
gonna be a nice star here for an RG but remember four players surviving from
Bates in the previous round yeah yeah they're gonna be fairly well equipped
here maybe not the most utility in the world in fact the utilities gone the
The other way, landing on Bait at the top of Banana, that's very painful, but actually if he sticks around, I'm kind of surprised that he wants to stick at the corner.
Still three people here for Bait, they're so sure that there's going to be a fight happening and they're not wrong about that either.
The Molotov will force Alex forward, there's an army waiting on the other side, this is a lot to handle!
The fact that he gets the first one is actually pretty impressive.
Thing is, and it's a comedy pounce, they've got a bomb back in T spawn,
We've got rotations coming in, though.
It's going to be Bates bolstering the B defense.
The health.
Yeah, they've taken a lot of damage on Rue here.
This will be very difficult to recover at this stage.
4 and 4, 50 seconds remaining.
Ascent fuel.
It's going for a nice defensive hold here.
They're playing passively in towards the A side.
I said that he is completely alone.
So we will need a rotation.
They have to need to do some retake utility towards B,
a flash over, anything to get some information here.
Otherwise, he's in a lot of trouble.
But the tuck himself in, you can see he is overworked
in this position right now. He has no idea they're coming towards Arch, Short,
Apartment, who hear them dropping out now and he needs the rotations. Where is the
backup? It's not coming, it's just him alone on this island here and now he's
ice-climbing away. He is not rotating. There's been a couple of rounds now where
Bait are in this position. The bomb is going to be planted. This time at least
it looks like they'll take a look in. They don't have a kit, they don't have
any utility, well one flashbang on kensizor, but the health is
is remarkably low on the NRG side.
So I don't know if they know exactly how low everyone is.
I don't think they have all of the information on that front.
But that doesn't mean they can't win the round.
Another smoke just went down towards the library.
So it'll be from this apartment's position
that they can try and make their way in.
Grim crouched in the pit.
We've got OC and Bro inside of the bomb site.
We'll see at the top of the head.
It's going to be showing there.
Little burst coming out.
NPL gets one, but he's caught in the air.
And Kenzo will have to pack it on out here.
What a start for NRG, three in a row to begin with.
I'm wondering what the comm was there to stack the B bomb site.
It was silence across the map.
There was no presence.
There was no space there.
Yeah.
They'd done a ton of damage towards B,
and they were just locked in towards that B side of the map,
leaving just poor Ascent.
They were by himself.
He managed to get one.
He does considerable damage, but yeah, NRG was a bit
of a freebie there.
They can't believe their luck.
One player defending the A site.
The backup was way too late.
They had one extra player there, Anders.
They win that round. They were so tantalizingly low.
So NRG, they're in the driving seat.
This is looking pretty ropey from Bates so far.
I've seen them normally hit so hard
and are difficult to put away.
NRG with the stand-in or anything like that,
a new player. They haven't had much experience with Grimm,
but they're looking hot to trot right now.
I'm enjoying this.
It's OCE especially, five and one.
It feels like they've come into this match bait expecting for there to be a lot of fights
at B and that kind of happened, but they have this over-reliance of B defense at the moment,
like two or three people every time and they stick around, they rotate more people in,
they're really sure that NRG are going to be hitting at B bomb site over and over
again.
At fair play, if you look at the tactical breakdown for NRG, they do use that B execute
The CT smokes are a lot. He's their favorite strat by a country mile.
NRG can't believe their luck.
An open bomb site essentially.
With such low HP, 3 to 1.
Manny's still pretty good though for Bates.
We'll have rifles across the board.
No Sizzly AWP.
The new boy in the squad's 16 years old
and one of the star players, Ascentiel, has been dealt with by Sonic.
Spotted his ankle though. Sizzly should better swing this one out and get the kill.
Trains come back and forth, but Grimm comes out on top.
He's got the bomb side. There is nobody else there.
They were almost ready to go on the B bomb side, but when he has that much success,
they just pull the plug on that one back to a while he's holding it.
This is not a very tactical game so far. This is just coming down to individual jewels, trades,
and so far NRG coming out on top, running their defaults,
bravely taking their angles and coming out on top.
Who needs them?
No one really just the end of the day. He's got to kill everyone. Yeah, I believe you said that once it's just that easy
True that's the Henry G system
Yeah, Bates you're looking a little bit slow today unable to keep up with the individual jewels as mentioned
So nice trades there, but
Advantages jewels taken by energy over and over
Feb play to Grim that second kill already very quick like that's that's that's what he's brought under the team for
That's just a victory down to mechanical skill bet. Yeah, you're absolutely right replacing George and I definitely would agree
It's a mechanical upgrade Grim looking to prove himself
Yeah, show he can be a top tier player within the North American region and that is a good example of what he can bring to the table
so four to one
Thing is they are saving
Considerable weapons every single time and so two more rifles taken over. Yeah
It's like they should be tactical time out territory because you are just getting best at it almost every jewel right now
Like I said, there's there's no flashbangs here. There's no smokes going down really everyone's just taking face check jewels and
Coming up on top
Yeah, I didn't even think about that. You're right. None of these teas coming in a flash
There's not a lot of pressure on them. It's just happening. There's taking the jewels of the AK if you're feeling it
That's absolutely fine and have a buy available once again. Those is the AWP
But they have got kits and a plethora of utility what would be challenging towards the banana this time
You can take some control of the map. That's a massive piece of utility bro. Dennis six points of power grenade exchange yet
More traditional inferno play now the tug of war towards banana and grim
He feels like he's got a gap here and is this such a powerful position to cut off the rotation towards library and arch
He's gonna walk out. Oh my god. Is he ever?
Grim is feeling it right now. The Reaper has arrived on the server remorseless with his AK-47.
Doesn't that tell you something about how much he can call his own shot in that moment that he just keeps going?
It's one thing to take the position but the fact that he keeps walking forward and does that all on his own is sickening.
Still a two-man set up at the B bomb site but this split coming in from Sonic through CT spawn is going to make it very hard to hold on to all the positions.
to all the positions. MPL, see if he's gonna get granaded out of this one. The
Molotov is gonna land a little bit further back, but Sonic is right here.
They don't quite know about the oranges yet, so there we go.
Wait, it's Nitro. His first kill of the map, but it's a great one, and Alex in the back
here still got some time left. Double shut down. That might actually make a
difference. Bro and Nitro, they hit the deck and now back up is coming.
Kensysaur, couldn't have been better timing for all. He misses the first
opportunity and he still goes down to Sonic. Wow. Grim would be stewing if they
don't win that round. Oh yeah. Xadaparman's by himself and a lovely sequence out of the
AK-47 gets the double kill. The round should be one at that point. Hands down
but Alex 666 at the back somehow avoiding the flames. I said that
Molotov's got a spread. It actually did and there was a little bit unlucky there
for an RG. He gets the double kill. The well handled energy didn't panic and
managed to trade out the kills even coming out on top in the 1v1.
Do you think that says something about the team culture in NRG?
I feel like there would be some teams where you wouldn't have the freedom as an individual to try and make that play.
The team would say, well, that's not part of the plan right now, but Grim just said, I'm going for it. I'm here.
I mean, it either comes down to the preparation, maybe Daps has spotted a hole in their game.
When they're struggling for the economy, they leave the apps open.
But Grim's approach was such confidence. He knew there was an opening there,
and he converged on his promise of finding a couple of kills.
really nice work there from Grim and now the money is a bit of an issue bait
will be down to the SMGs couple of pistols there and it should be through
sailing these are the ones you can't afford to lose every one of cheese got
this oh yeah a fantastic start morale's high everyone's feeling it Sonic's turning
up as well he's winning all of his jewels we have got a double stacking
towards boiler this can be difficult to deal with ideally going to be flashed
into this position before face checking it we'll see if that becomes a
A reality flash. There it is. Still didn't really work out unfortunate
It's still fine. You've got information now to play source boy. They should be pouncing towards be Anders
There's nobody here. It'll be no delay here at all. You spotted two towards boiler have a four and one
It was his bonsai and it's actually no one home. You're absolutely right. They recognize that very early on. That's good
Yeah, he might go down, but the Fandy spots too, there is a really important piece of information.
One being planted here, don't think the 5-7 is going to do anything about that.
The rest of the team is very, very far away.
I think it's worth highlighting that you said these are the kind of rounds you have to win,
and they're the kind of rounds that I think I've seen in the past,
sometimes they stumble in these moments, and they make the games so much harder for themselves.
themselves so seeing them in this position here with they just navigate
their way through no big issues it's gonna be six in a row after losing the
pistol and Bates you're right they look very flat right now I don't know what's
going on but it's not the team that I was expecting either I said I thought
NIG we're gonna be good today I feel like they're you know gonna be better
than last time I still do think Bates are the more experienced team
potentially the better team as well not playing like it at the moment
I suppose, but there's a lot of money on the C side.
Absolutely is. Won't be a problem really. We go 6-1.
AWP for Sizi now. Game far from over though for Bates.
They can still tie this up at 6-6.
There's been some great individual moments here.
OC, Grimm threading that needle, finding those openers.
Everyone's turning up. Nitro's only got two kills,
but he's had some very impactful ones
ones to save the day on some key rounds.
It's a dream for any game dealer that you can just
have sit in the back and you'll know your stars are out there.
So we've got OC dropping, I think,
the corner smoke towards the top of banana.
Allows Bro to navigate his way up.
We have got since with the AWP here.
This was the gap before, if you remember.
Grim's going to find it again.
Ha ha ha!
There was no gap, but he's created one.
That is a headshot.
The age is to land.
Essentially in the back, nobody's even checked it,
but Nitro will drop down right on top of him.
That is stunning for Grimm.
Go wait in the lobby.
Yeah, that's the kind of shop and death you take
that rattles your confidence for the rest of the game.
Yeah.
You'll be saying to the guys,
I don't think I can keep up anymore.
I don't think I won the orb.
If you're getting absolutely dumbstead like that,
you didn't even get a shot off.
It's got to be the worst comedy ever, guys.
I can't do it.
Yeah, honestly, like as a 16 year old, I would imagine I remember going to my first land at that age as well.
You have one of these games where you're nothing's going well for you, you're not building up any momentum.
You feel like you're the reason the rounds are falling apart and that is the reason you've got the all set up to stop that play and you don't even get a shot off ampers.
Yeah, they flashed you and didn't think crazy was barely even a double peak. It's a wide swing from Grimm.
That setup is also one of the reasons why people sometimes will do that double cross setup.
Yeah, two CTs that are holding either side of the hallway just to stop from from being wrecked, but that is
Let's get that replay from grim. This guy is locks. He appeared right now
Holy moly see you kid
Oh, it's wild get out of here
Like even at a jump like you can see that flap
Maybe a chance sends you against two but nine through there again
Just one kill with a very high impact frag. Yeah
Now, save the day.
And I didn't think NRG stood a chance against Bay.
To be honest, I thought Bay had been hitting way too hard
recently.
NRG with Grimm just coming in.
They sit themselves.
They need more time.
They're not feeling comfortable, but playing this loose.
Brand of counter-strike.
It's looking fantastic, Anders.
Everything going in their favor.
They've only lost the pistol so far.
They've only lost the pistol.
Just imagine what it could be.
But just keep this up.
You said, don't lose some of the easy rounds.
one up one of them quite a bit of weaponry on the CT side here utility slowly
being bled out from the B bomb site Sissy actually doubling down on the
aggression I don't know maybe this is a big confidence to play okay then feels
helping out taking down Sonic in can't lose the grim this time Sissy it is
can't happen timing is scary though he's walking back this actually could be a
little bit worrisome grim I think he's back on the next corner here
He do it one more time
An absolute mirror of the previous round. He's really got his number
Okay, he's done his maps over. I'm sorry. You won't regret this
Grims in your head
Taking everybody with him as well nitro another high-impact kill from the old boy. That's round-and-its
Yes, is he's getting wrecked
People are saying he's the next monocyber right now
showing us nothing every angle he takes every position getting destroyed by one
man and one man only yeah can't let this keep happening how you losing this
jewel you've got the AWP come on maybe don't take this angle anymore let's play
more traditional CT positions play towards the arch go all banana the
absame working the thing is as well it sometimes you can try to manufacture
confidence by just saying okay i'm gonna double down obviously but when it doesn't work the
cost is so much higher oh that's really rough at least crouch as well change the angle you're
standing in his prefire every single time yeah let's have a crowd she was it looked like they
were mirrored rounds yeah from that point forward oh he's two and seven so ball bang him
Take him down, there it is. Not all five surely. Okay, I'm out I guess.
They've had nothing to say. I'm sizzling behind the orb again by the way, so
if you go towards the app and get blown up once more, I don't have words left.
Go play a traditional position. This is hold the arch. Do it like Jane, you hold the aggressive
line, right, back to the arch, for wet on the library, take your shot, stay alive,
Then you can patrol towards the apps.
We don't need to find the opening kill.
He's gonna head towards banana.
He's going for another aggro peek.
I don't mind this one.
But you have to start having some output here.
Oh, he's expecting...
Could be a bit of a jump on the other side,
or maybe a boost even.
I think it could happen.
Oh, they won't do it.
They weren't trying to set up for it.
They're trying to run.
Cintil Pro and get his skull back.
What's again?
Dude.
There's so much to deal with here.
They're investing so much money in his AWP every single round.
and he's getting one bullet at a start at each and every encounter.
Yeah, it's not pretty out there.
I'm going to go look at the opening death situation for him.
It's got to be, it's got to be rough.
He also lost another player in Alex through the smoke.
He was trying to creep in there before the attack was really happening.
I guess it's a good idea for Alex, but he did get shut down.
Grim out of the round, but it's already too late.
Two people on this side. Okay, they get Sonic through now. I think that's out of the route it back because they realize wait a minute
We're actually killing them through the smoke somehow, but slow down again. There is a kid on the sent field
So oh, oh, but oh see now putting his foot down saying absolutely not gonna give up this round time
Yeah, this time they did is I mean they were already half exiting the round and then only cuz they got some kills with the smoke
They were like wait a minute. I guess we could try but then they lost everything is a classic
man
Sizi
This one's getting a bit rough out there my friend
You want to beat up on the kids 16 years old new to his career, but I says a rude awakening
He can't it's be challenging every single angle of opening opening practice. You're gonna have to play at your team
Set the all-up play towards quad play arch defensive angles. You have an opportunity to fall back
Well, you know, this is an opportunity for us to learn like what's his mental light?
Can you recover in the second half? Maybe the next map?
I have to make two of the MP70s, Keowney, one and four and opening jewels right now
and all of those four desks are against Grim, I would believe.
That's the last couple of rounds, Anders. Round number 11.
Desperate times, cool four. Despera Mezzi.
This could be the SMGs brought out in full force.
I think Grim taking down SZ is going to be a highlight package in its own right.
Just that one jewel.
Okay, Brode definitely not ready for that fight.
OC though, Kansas always swung just wide enough that he was visible to OC, otherwise Linky has that fight every time.
Here we go. Here's a shot. Get a couple of kills at MP Sack.
Yeah, at least do that in the pit here.
Good one.
The distraction gets hit.
Headshots. Okay, he's gonna spray a couple down there. They still will lose the bomb side. And now, unfortunately, Deborah gets grim.
And the MPL is already very, very low on health here, so...
Or he could be dead to the grenade. They're walking right into it. There's an absolute touchdown, but Alex is through.
He wasn't watching for that second player.
very very close round but finally a second on the board for Bates. Came down to the
wire, nice grenade there from Grimm. Will be the second on the board here 9-3.
Yeah it's the best scoreline they can hope for right now we'll see if they
get it. The fact it comes down to 1v1 and it suggests they won't have
everything they need going into that follow-up round. I'm not sure there's
even an AWP available for them to give the Sizi. Maybe that's a good thing
the way things have been going give him an SMG that's the best round he's had yeah hiding away
on the A side he got a double kill there turn out to be pivotal so credit on that yeah they're gonna
save an AK and then they will try and make it work but now daps and nitro they know the money
system better than anyone they know there's no warp available they've got OC to bring his out now
as well so this game right down now you work the picks you bleed them dry and this is where
where you can actually capitalize with your sniper.
See Grim back hunting in the apartments.
He's been pretty much in command of this part of the map
for the entire half, so why not?
Do have three people on the A side.
There's no banana information for bait to work with.
They don't really know what's happening out there,
so the more bro puts pressure on,
the more they could be tempted to
use more of that utility maybe even rotate somebody over from the arch
eventually minute on the clock and a lot of the utility at the start already gone
but oh see not able to find the opening that's a pretty good angle for kensas
all eat this round and is well they absolutely do three it wouldn't be much
by supposed to be in the pistol and start to have a bit of a conversation
bomb now. It's starting to be leaned back towards that banana position. Grim and Sonic are following
and actually to their credit, Bait are finding information. That is an enormous amount of noise
being made. Essential, he's got a big read right now. I think they're making a bit of a tactical
error here NRG in rotating away and making this much noise. Bait also to the credit they are
looking. NRG should never win this round. They're about to be shot in the back as they're
Setting up a sense of fantastic work in Kensa's or as well planning a second kill of the round here
They absolutely got shut down here three on the board for paid. It's not much, but it might be enough
So far so good for the North American squad, Grimm putting on a masterclass there, absolutely
dominating the opera of Sizi in Heads Up Jules has led them to a commanding lead, Anders.
It feels like this one they just need to put in, but they're a strong team, they're resilient.
Let's see if they can bounce back.
I don't want to rule that out, definitely not.
Oh, that is a start, isn't it?
Bro jumps up and just cuts down Alex and now the flank is in.
Nice goal.
That is expertly played.
He gets one more head shot to add.
to add the legend stills got it oh my god well that's all she wrote for the
pistol I'm afraid you won't be getting a bomb down so technically you should be
echoing next round but I think they might have the force of the tech nines
you cannot allow this game to go 11 to 3 the best you can hope for was a couple
of kills I would say give him nothing bleed the clock down yeah don't allow
him to pick anything up oh what a flank how often did your flank like that
and you just miss half the shots because you know with the USP yeah back
especially those are some of the hardest shots and CS hits and Sonic no
problem for him what a clean round Nitro loving that rolling back the years
and I haven't said that in a long time no but that was so incredibly crisp
wasn't it love to see that the whole team right now for NRG they look so
tiled in I don't know what their routine was this morning but they are
Absolutely ready to play you feel like you inspired nitro by playing deadlock with him
Yes, I might be able to take some of the credit. Yeah, we had a good time
You gave him a pep talk. You got him ready for this tournament. He carried me and maybe that felt good
Maybe it was like, you know what? I think you're under some variance
So like I said, you kind of do have to buy this one
Yeah, you take the full eco but you need this round desperately
He's going to take a couple of errors, a couple of blunders from NRG to give this one up.
The Tech 9's battling in full force over towards Banana.
Nothing has taken so much damage.
Smoked off.
I think you just have to let this one go, reset the round.
They still have their smokes, their flashes.
So there is that.
The three players towards A.
They've pulled none of the Rosations away from this A bomb site.
Now we'll go for a boost in towards the apartments.
You can see now, just playing a very defensive game.
You know, you've got the advantages.
You've got the firepower.
You've got the util, played the crossfires, played to block.
Oh, the timing might have looted Nitro here.
I think he goes down.
So here we are.
Oh, okay.
Not bad.
That's what he did see the sleeve.
Yeah.
Zen Thiel.
So he thought, okay, I've got an opportunity.
He probably did, but that is some wild timing.
They're going to go back and look who's already rotating over.
Bro is on his wing.
So there's two man defense turned to three man defense now.
It's got so much worse with bait.
Perfect call from NRG.
Should be their round.
Should be their map.
He even has another smoke with 30 seconds.
They have one more smoke, Henry.
This is devastating.
He's not even gonna use it.
I feel like you could have just put it down
and won the round, but I guess Grim needs a couple
of more kills.
Why not?
He's got a double.
It's MPL walking in, but he's very low on health here.
So is Grim, and he will go down eventually,
but through the smoke, OC will make sure.
I don't think there was ever a chance
that he was gonna win that round there, MPL,
but yeah, good work.
Don't leave him hanging. There we go.
Well, that was a four-spy. Might have to be more of the same here.
It does go 11-3.
Fantastic teamwork towards the apartments.
NRG is playing a simple, team-based game. Good comms.
Nice maneuvers.
It's such a rough veto because the second map is ancient,
which is one of the better maps for NRG as well.
Like, I feel like Bates' map pool is in shambles at the moment.
They were always going to play some of the worst maps for themselves,
including Inferno.
Oh, Inferno.
That's got nothing.
Bear in mind they won the pistol in the first half.
Yeah.
Two rounds to show for a now.
So what have we got?
They do go for the force as mentioned.
Kind of have to.
You will not recover a 12-3 deficit.
Praying for a miracle.
Full speed ahead towards the quad.
Yeah, down in the pit, Nitro just sitting there, not trying to go here. It's great work.
He particularly picks up three of the normals. Look, he's assisted on all these kills that Bro gets.
There's so much damage from Nitro, and it slows down the entire push.
I'm capping my captain, loving this from Nitro.
Still got it, baby. He's putting in the work right now, that is for sure.
You know what I want to see? I want to see NRG play overpass. I want to see Nitro have an
alternate bombsite okay then we're back in 2017 that's what I want to see that is
there are not many people around to remember any of the stuff Henry watching
me what are you talking about I appreciate it nonetheless
see is there anything left here I appreciate the attempt with a Mac 10
Alex he just wants one big opening here and honestly if he gets this round
should be over there's nobody else defending the B bombsite pretty much
wide open and Alex, he's feeling that out and he's wondering.
Tentative, yeah, rightly so, can't really assume the bombsite's open at this stage.
It all comes down to his stamp.
I think he just let this round go.
Your money's not great.
Give it a look and I suppose, but once the bomb goes down, I think you're better off
staying.
We've got 12-3 here, boys.
That's not far away all the economy, but the bomb's still not planted.
Oh, cram, he was so blind, there was a chance to deny it.
Yeah, call it off, lads.
We're not going to win this one.
It's okay.
line and Sizi wasn't moving. It was one of those T-Rex moments where he just his brain just
what's happening. No movement detected. But yeah, this is the right call. I'll give you some
inside info though. On day one, Nitro's plane was delayed so much that I think he pretty much had
like, you know, three hours of sleep coming into the day. Apparently, the plane needed new wheels
and they brought wheels that were too small. So they just couldn't take off and then I don't
I don't know how that happens, either.
That's a hard of anything like that.
That's worrying to me, but it was massively delayed, so.
Remember, we had the opening games.
It's the low bracket.
It was NRG playing the Falcons in their opening game.
Always going to be difficult for them,
even with the stand-in there of New Cairns.
They lost Ancient 13-6 and Dust 2-13-8.
If we look over the bait, they played against Na'Vi.
Actually had a pretty good season series,
so they put them and Na'Vi on Ancient in overtime.
So that does suggest to me that we might go to three maps.
The thing is though, they haven't really had a chance to get warmed up here at all.
It's the early morning game.
They're a young squad.
The challenge is I think we've got to be very honest with the NRG.
I don't want to say they're all too winning, but they have a big advantage on that map.
So I'm really worried about this whole set up, but I agree, ancient, it should be
strong and they should have confidence in that one.
Okay.
Does it end here?
Don't let them back in.
Don't let them warm up into this series.
Yeah.
Quite heavy damage over towards the B side of the map.
Free players here for an RG.
It's MPL.
Smoked down towards the Arch.
Kamalotov towards Short as well.
If you wanted to, we'll see if that comes through.
There it is.
All the protocols we love to see.
Don't take any risks now.
They just need as many rounds as they can get,
and the full comeback is so far away.
It's almost talking about at the moment,
but playing your way into a series is definitely a thing that happens.
You can see Alex is up to 11, MPL's up to 12 kills.
They've got some players that are starting to activate.
Don't want any more of those. 50 seconds on the clock here.
See how much they actually commit this.
They're still holding that banana position, so in theory, they could rotate back.
They're gonna head towards A here. That's a smoke for MOTO being set up right now.
Gonna go away, you're right. 30 seconds.
Smoke is already in the air. Down to the pit here, Nitro. He did great work earlier, but this time they don't have exactly the same kind of crossfire.
20 seconds now on the clock as they're trying to get in there. Nitro's out of the round. OZ now on his own dancing around in the corner there.
He's only going to get a double kill. Triple would have been set to seem up very nicely, and the question I guess is, do they want to go for this NRG?
They've got so much runway. They want to risk the rifles.
Well the bomb's not planted it is now. If you can get this quick kill, you look into it.
Of course now 3 vs 1, 9 impossible for Grim but he is here.
Feels like he might have a gap, he'll give it a look. Going for the glory.
Slots one towards the library. Finds a first. Can he get the second? Absolutely not. MPL will take him down.
Finally, it will be Bates. Getting activated here on Inferno.
Appreciate the look into Grim's level of confidence that he just said, oh, I will go for it.
I'll give it a shot. I like that
A lot of saving happening in counter strike these days. It's good to see somebody willing to take the fight, I suppose
Yeah, a bit of a shame. I feel like the NRG set up there
They had three people on the A bomb site and I don't think anyone was really able to help each other out
They all kind of died one by one
So not the best kind of setup for it. I would say defensively
12 to 5 is where we find ourselves
Going into ground number 18
right through. Fantastic work. Flash from Sizi and Ken's is all the good spray down.
Should set them up very nicely.
It's a friendly grenade. But who cares?
They're hitting the headshots. They are starting to warm up now a little bit.
This is the problem. That's why I said you should close this game out.
Yeah, obviously easier set than done.
I'm not saying like not trying to.
But ideally, you do not want bait to stop getting in their zone,
getting comfortable shaking off this defeat if we get there but you do need
the good habits like winning yeah those are good habits now try and win if
possible but yeah you're letting them back into this one now still for me a
foregone conclusion just a matter of time for energy get it over the line but
sure you're letting them shake off the frustration the tilts yeah victory even
for energy could feel different right yeah you know we get to 12 or 13 10 now
You're thinking our boys now. We need a tactical timeout. All right, let's lock in we can't afford to throw this away
Thoughts of doubt son of the creep into your head
Eight now nothing to lose is gonna play their game round by round one foot in front of the other
So the timeout has been called this time, of course for energy is that first one they've needed?
But every round that they pick up they know they're frustrating their opponent they know
This is a real nuisance now. I'm gonna have to dig deep to get this one over the line
The epistols of Trump double kill the kensies all
That was a bad man like 666
So
That's your about strong by they got no helmets no kits
But only up against the AK so it shouldn't be too much of a factor here unless the Glock is pulled out
All for OZ. Not going for a hyper-aggressive pick at the start here.
Round number 19.
Decent Sendry does some damage to us. Kenzie's all that grenade.
There's significant damage. Alex down to 46.
But he's very far and we take utility coming through and Alex can hear it.
He knows us being deployed from Megatron pounds in front of his handers.
Yeah, they're right there.
Oh, but there's a team kill to try and take down Sonic. That is a bit of a mistake.
Is it gonna cost them that much? They know Grim is in here somewhere and we're gonna find him in the smoke
but he's right in front, that's a great play!
Last bullets to take down Kensasaur and that should be enough to close out the map here.
Senthio, he's got no teammates any longer and Grim is still somehow alive in the back.
Teammates are coming in to help him out. NRG with a very, very strong inferno to start this series.
Loving that from NRG. Grim especially. What a masterclass it was with the AK-47
and dominating their all but time and time again.
There's still a lot of work to be done in this series,
Anderson, we've got Ancient coming up next
and the fact that Bate warm up into the series
does not bode well.
I think we go the distance here as Bate
go back to the drawing board
and get ready for the second map.
Right now, we're looking at the scoreboard.
We've got OC stepping up, Nitro as well.
Yes.
As Nitro had so many amazing moments there,
he's rolling back the years, Anderson.
He was putting into really, really good work
and you love to see it OC maybe not so much with the AWP but still with the rifle he was a factor in the game.
Well, buckle yourself in it's going to be the second map coming up very shortly that will be ancient for now we'll leave you at the desk.
Well Grim, that was quite a nice start to your day here with NRG. Looks like a little Grimferno back on the menu here.
Yeah I mean different spot I'm not in the band anymore but you know still Grimferno.
Always grew inferno that last round as well. They're all coming at you
You managed to find the spot of way from the Molly. What was going through your head?
I'm a solder Molly miss and I got the first skill of emo
So I was I'm just with myself you know, they can think I'm there and then hide in the Molly the bad
Molly and worked out pretty good at say and that first half
We saw you ripping some entries ripping some heads in towards the apartments. How confident are you feeling now?
Going to the series I'm pretty confident. I think that was a great map for us
We just need to come in winning pistol would be nice and come in with like pretty good confidence going into it
and yeah, just take it from there.
Looking forward to seeing it, good luck.
Strong start from NRG, strong start from Grimm as well as they take the first map on Inferno, without even making it close through.
Dominance from pretty much start to finish outside of a pistol and a conversion, Bait didn't really do much in this game.
Bait won the first pistol and then they lost nine rounds in a row after that.
That was incredible showing from the side of NRG.
And to be honest, I didn't expect as much from Grimm.
I said in the pre-game, he's an upgrade from George,
firepower-wise, but is he enough of an upgrade
to put them over the line with the lack of practice
they've had as a team?
Apparently, at least on this map, absolutely so.
I'd even argue the scoreboard didn't do him justice
right there, Mike, to be completely honest.
18 to 12, yeah, that's a beautiful scoreline.
It's a good scoreline.
I think the raw impact he had in the game,
with his entries on the T-side,
with the way he was constantly being annoying towards Bait as well,
it kind of justifies even more so than just an 18-12 scoreline.
That was a very, very impactful performance coming in from Bait.
What was this round swing, Jacob? That's what we need to know.
That's what the fans at home need to know.
The round swing, how much impact did he really have?
That's why we got Mike here.
Only number that matters and hasn't loaded yet.
I can't tell you what the round swing is.
I don't know what's going on in Nero's brain, so I can't tell you.
What I can tell you is I think you're seeing the vision
for what Grimm is supposed to be for this team, right?
changing up the roles adjusting in there, but at the end of the day, if you have a new player in,
it doesn't matter what the chemistry is, if you could just walk into a site and rip two heads and open it up for you.
Yeah, I agree. I think Grimm really, really, really did a good job on that T-side, you know,
being the foundation, sort of, for NRG coming in, and as Moe said, winning nine rounds in a row,
especially early on, you know, in the half when, again, Bait wins the pistol, they convert,
you think to yourself, that's a good start, so you got to establish some sort of presence on the map from the get-go,
and Grimm was the first to do that, and he was the, I guess, most impactful player in that regard on the T-side.
And we saw him close out that final round as well.
I mean, that's just all individual prowess,
finding that little bit of space that's coming at you.
And you just absolutely shred them.
What more can you offer this guy?
I mean, when you're looking at Grimm,
George in the same positions, he would generally
get the one that you needed to.
He would get the job done that you required of him.
But Grimm in these positions against Bate, getting two.
He's getting the one extra, sometimes three, the two extra
that you need to actually put you over the line
against a team like Bate.
that George and the rest of NRG did would struggle against the team of this level or a higher level.
They would struggle to make the next step at times.
I now have the funny numbers for you, Voo. They have loaded.
They're not what you would expect to be entirely on.
It's round swing percentage coming in.
OC actually tops the board. 5.64% positive round swing.
Grim with a 3.23.
And actually, Sonic as well, despite going 9 and 14 plus, 4.34% round swing.
Fieste makes sense.
Fieste. Fieste. They hate NICF.
They hate, but those are all NA players.
And then in the way, I don't think anyone...
Sonic Counts, he's Canadian now, you should claim him.
Yeah, nobody cares about that anywhere, right?
Because they got the win, and I think that's the most important thing for NA.
You're not only getting a win, but getting in a convincing fashion,
where you leave no room for doubt that you were the better team on Inferno now.
The big question, Mike, obviously, we're going to have that conversation in a moment,
Mike, is, can they continue that path?
You know, was this just a one-off for NA or is this sort of like the vision we spoke about?
You know, the future of NA, you know, I feel like you've been on the Cobium
throughout the entire ID of the German.
and you want something from the NA scene,
I feel like this is the first time
you can allow yourself to be positive for good reason.
Yeah, I'm feeling good.
I think a lot of people in the NRG camp are feeling good.
I want to hear from someone else in the NRG camp.
So I talked to Ocee.
Ocee, you and I got to talk at the beginning of the year
at the Flaumland.
You were saying you're coming back off the bench,
back into the steam with a little bit more of a,
shall we say, carefree mentality.
How's it been for you so far?
Now, a few months playing back in form,
how would you rate your own form this season?
Um, I would say recently, like obviously I had a pretty decent tournament in Crathow.
Um, so far with EPL and Rotterdam, I would say it hasn't been the best, but, uh,
I also know that what I'm capable of, so I'm not like too in my head about that.
Um, but yeah, I mean, getting back into it, you know, it's, it's been fun
and it's been nice implementing grim as well on the team.
And, uh, I think, especially since we finally have gotten time to practice
and you and stuff, and finally implementing some stuff
that we wanted to add for the last few months.
It's been good.
And yeah, I think with time that we're just
going to show that we have the capability of playing
against these top level teams.
But for now it's a work in progress for sure.
We still have a lot of things that we need to fix.
Now speaking about Grimm, I think it's kind of interesting.
You guys sort of came up in the same generation,
I'd say, of NA players.
But you've never really played together on a team.
What's it like playing with him now?
It's been honestly really fun.
Me and him have always been friends and joked around
and stuff, so finally having him on the team where there's
that business side, but then there's also the part outside
the game where you get to just act like friends,
like family.
So yeah, he's had no issue being incorporated into the
team and fitting in with the personalities and stuff.
And yeah, it's kind of surreal to think that we've
We've known each other for so long, been in the NA scene for so long, but we've never
played with each other.
Even DAPS, our coach, was like, oh, you guys played on an extra slot, right?
And I was like, no, we never did actually.
So, but yeah, he's been a joy to play with so far.
Love to hear it.
Bait coming in.
You guys played them earlier this year in Krakow.
What do you think about them?
How do you think it's going to go today?
I'm expecting it to go pretty similar in terms of the map pool and stuff.
They did have their new player, Segu Kawa, I think his name was?
Sezi now.
It was Segu Kawa and now we got Sezi.
I'm saying from Krakow when we last played them.
So they were trying them out and then they decided they wanted to move on.
So I think they finally found their piece that they wanted to stick with.
So yeah, I'm sure they'll have more things that they have implemented now.
So it'll probably be a little bit tougher.
But I also know that we've improved our game.
So yeah, it's going to be a good match for sure.
And
good start at least it was indeed for NRG. I did think it's really interesting you know when
this move came up I was going back checking all their rosters all the way back to like 15-year-old
local lands of Bushido. They never played together. It's funny because I mean you see Ossie saying
they've been friends forever. I'm imagining they're both been friends ever since they both got
absolutely abused by Liquid. They both get bond over the fact that they got picked up, thrown
thrown into weird roles, OC, you know, Liquid's never known how to use an opera, and they can
bond over the fact that Liquid just totally almost ruined their careers.
Misery loves company.
Yeah, you know something about trauma bonding from Liquid times?
I had a decent time, I'd say.
You know, it wasn't too bad.
But yeah, you're right.
You know, it's definitely not the liquid days, remember, them falling in terms of
individual output.
So hopefully, we're in the NIG jersey for the future, they can do better.
But it's certainly something that's looking good off of that first map, right?
It's a bright start to this series.
But let's talk about the other side of the coin as well, right?
Because Bait really never had a chance to start in that series.
What are you thinking about Bait here, Jacob?
It wasn't a great performance.
I think everything that worked for him against Navi, essentially having a monstrous
series and a monstrous map, you know, showing up in spades.
Didn't get to do much.
Cici spoke about him coming into Inferno.
Not necessarily almost paradise either, but he had five kills over the course
of the map.
something's got to change within the camp of Bait.
I'm willing to write it off as a bad performance in isolation.
I've seen them play ancient at this tournament against a team like Na'Vi.
They did well, so I expect significantly more coming out of Bait now.
And there was one player in particular you wanted to ask some questions about.
NPL this year has had a little bit more of a struggle.
Yeah, because I feel like last year he was actually the catalyst behind this lineup.
I think he was a bit of an unsung hero.
I think he was not getting enough credit for how well he was playing individually within the team.
I think he finished the year with a 1.18 rating or something like that.
So far for this year, he's at a 1-0-2. That's a quite significant drop compared to last year.
And I think that also speaks volumes to where Bate is at right now.
I think in terms of firepower, they lack his impact that he found more often than not last year.
So my eyes are on NPL because I think when he's on it, he's arguably the best player,
but he hasn't really shown so far.
And we also have to put the spotlight on him, right?
Because they made the decision partway through last year towards the end
to swap off of NPL as the IGL, give that responsibility to Alex.
part of it was to free up NPL to have more impact as an individual.
So if now you're seeing the drawback as an individual, that's got to ring alarm,
buzz. I think you're seeing a bit of the echoes of losing head trick.
I think it's a little bit harder for them to play freely as riflers when they
have this opera that wants to maybe take a little more space,
but you don't know if you can rely on them.
You see Sizi at times against a Navi.
I think he had a pretty weak performance on inferno, especially he had a good
performance on ancient, I believe, but he's struggled from times.
And when you don't have that off backbone,
you see it with Liquid as well. If your AWPer isn't there to support you to make
sure that you can't just get swung into, it's tough for the Riflers to perform as
well. Now focusing in on the Ancient, right? This is where they had success
against Na'Vi. This is where they managed to get that map win against them.
Now they choose to pick into it. Do we think what we saw from them against
Na'Vi is gonna be replicable here? I think they can play at that level again,
yes, and I think that's what it's required to be the NG who was
overly confident after the first map. Essential, a player that we spoke
about had a monstrous performance and in general the way they approach a map like
LinkedIn it's very much in your face it's very much taking early on duels and
making sure energy is never feeling comfortable on the server so I think
they'll be able to apply a lot more pressure compared to a map like Inferno
where you do sometimes feel you're stuck there's only so much you can do on
a CT side to be aggressive which definitely was an issue for for baiting
the first map. We talked coming into this they've got they're on a four
match losing streak and I think Inferno is a major part of that they've
lost Inferno multiple times in a row now and not only that but we're
about NPL. It's one of its worst maps. He does not perform on Inferno. On the other hand, Ancient,
he's very comfortable on this map. He showed it against Navi in their last series. He's shown it
many times. This is one of his most comfortable maps. So if you're bait, I think you can wipe yourself
off, dust yourself off, and move into Ancient, feeling like, hey, we already did this against
Navi. Let's pick up Mathieu. I do have one, a little bit of insight from the interviews.
I'm hoping we're going to get to show this interview later if we get to a third map. But
Ascential, I asked him about the ancient game, I asked him about the Na'Vi series, and he said life game.
His own words, so we'll see if he can bring that same form in, because he did have a monstrous map of ancient.
That was a huge part of them getting it offline.
It definitely was a huge part of that, you know, credit to Ascential for having a life game, so to speak.
But I'll be honest, I don't think they need a life game from him in order to beat NIG on a map like Ancient.
I still see Bait as fundamental. They should be a better team. They showed that against Na'Vi.
Navi I think in occasions in that matchup as well so as much I want to give credit to a center for having a great game
I don't think he's necessarily needed to play that well
But there's no doubt that if they show up with the form they showed on inferno then energy have a two-oh for the graph
Right, and we have also seen energy on the ancient right they played it against Falcons
We saw the clear game plan was to try and get nucleons didn't work
What do we think about NRG's ancient? Yeah, I think energy
Based on the daps interview they were trying to keep it simple keep it simple attack nucleons
not all that effective but this is a map where they haven't made quite as many changes
I actually have noted down that inferno is the map where they had the biggest changes with brim coming in changing up their CT side
They seem comfortable on that one. I think coming into ancient
They should be fairly comfortable the problem is this is a bait where it's not like gap said if we play our B game
We can beat this team
I think they need their a game and they need bait to actually play their B game a game for ancient
So it sounds like we're all expecting this to go the full distance all expecting this to go the series
I expect the NIG to be competitive on Ancient. I'm not going to say I think they win because I don't think they will.
I think Bate have shown against Na'Vi that they play counter-strike at a higher level when it comes to a map-like Ancient.
But I see no reason why NIG can't take the learning from Falcons, can't look at the map that Bate played against Na'Vi as well, and make this game competitive.
At the end of the day, with the way Grimm was playing, with the way he found impact as well, if he's going to continue down that path, then sure thing, I don't think Bate is much, much better than NIG.
It's a team, as you said, they lost four games in a row.
They lost six out of the last seven series they played.
So if you're NIG, there's probably no better time
to be baited than right here right now.
Grimm is a player that can have a great map.
He can have a great series.
Oftentimes, you see him have a performance
like he did on that tee side and then
cool off for the rest of the series.
I'd like to see him continue and show
that he can actually find more entries,
find those double openings, find the double trade
that he found so many times on Inferno.
In which case, I agree, they can be competitive,
but I have to say, I mean, this is Bates' map to lose.
Bates' map to lose.
Heat check on Grimm, trying to bring the heat into the server.
We'll see if Bate can match their energy.
But for now, it's time to go over to two guys
who will spit hot fire of their own.
We got Andrews and Henry G.
Yes, indeed.
Michael will do our best.
NLG taking on Bates.
And I tend to agree with the sentiment of the desk.
I feel like Bates are going to bounce back on Ancient.
They already took down Naby on this map.
And sure, Inferno wasn't a great showing for them.
and they did warm up towards the end of it, Anders.
They did, and they probably did come into the map
knowing that it was going to be a bit of a struggle
given the historical performances on their map of Inferno.
I think they are ready for this one.
I hope that they will be.
Esentiel is an absolute beast.
I think one of the best performing players on ancient
for the tournament so far.
Not that it's been many days,
but he's definitely up there.
So I expect big things.
I want to see Sissy kind of bounce back as well.
Just an individual thing as well
when you're a young player.
You get beat up on a map. Can you recover the confidence? I think that's so important. Not every map's going to be the best
Yeah, the problem was he wasn't being taken down by OC
It was grim taking him down with the AK-47 time and time again
It's gonna take a lot to recover his mental he finished that first map 5 and 14 is 0.5 rating energy
Nothing really to lose at this point though. They've already got a map under their belts
It's a new roster Grims looking very good OC managing to top the board as well in the previous map as well
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I will reiterate one final time.
One of these two teams have to go home today.
And NRG find the 2-0 and knockout bait.
Time will tell.
And we'll be based on this T-side.
We've got a Molotov smoke and flash,
and we're going quickly in towards middle,
leaping up towards the heavens,
and a B finish looking likely.
Yeah, let's see how fast they actually are going to be.
It felt like they just kept on running,
but now they've slowed it down.
They're walking towards that cave.
Nitro will be the first point of contact.
Just sees one play.
Oh that is a great shot from Sizi to get himself back mentally into this game.
Nitro is out of the round and now Bro decides he's not gonna fall back.
He got Grimm flanking through T spawn and oh see they're actually sticking around here.
This could be a bit of a mistake maybe if they can keep getting his headshot.
Bro certainly will. Three in a row that's outrageous.
Grimm's coming from that B ramp. He knows a senthials on the back lines here.
touches the bomb. Trying to keep him interested and my god that's a hell of a
shop. He takes the bait as it were and it will be another 1v1 and pistol
victory going in favor of NRG. It was looking so promising Anders. It was and
it all falls apart once again. They won the pistol on a phone and he picked up
three rounds in that first half and you'd think it was opening from Sizi.
That would be enough. They control the back range. They trade out
effectively. Brode did very well to keep the round alive but Grimm goes
above and beyond once again the bomb was planted we're assuming it's going to be a force by here
so yes we will see the galils math 10s and tech 9s very important to try and pick this one up and
reset the economy of the CT side we'll see if they can do it. I mean see what a sick idea to try and
interrupt the retake before it even gets going but bro just completely crush that three headshots
I believe in a row. That is crazy
Minimal damage towards the B lanes
Four players here. They're gonna go for a spam. See if anyone's home
No real damage exchange just yet. If one player watching the extremities of the map
Smoke goes very very deep here
He's forced back by the molotov nitro at the end of the world
but that smoke just doesn't help them really.
Kensasaur, hoping that someone peeks in there.
Wait a minute, they're not even in there,
or they might move forward.
Just can say this is a better setup.
If they move into Kensasaur, that could be a problem,
but now they're just quick to try and rotate into middle
if that donut position is attacked.
They could be very fast.
Leaving middle completely open.
It's not a bomb site.
You can't plant there, mate.
It's absolutely fine to let them have middle.
You can see they're playing to block.
Bro, just be holding the defensive utility with the smoke
folks who's the sports one trying to funnel them towards red,
but they are not respecting it as Sizi now coming to life.
He's down to something needs a double kill here to keep
the round alive takes a ding not going to happen.
And if the smoke goes down towards CD spawn,
it's going to be very difficult challenge to
retain this bombsite, but no smoke available.
No utility. In fact, he might give us want to look in.
OC certainly seems to think so fantastic work
with the M4A1S and they've got the 3v2 advantage.
Kenzie is all low and now dead.
Alex will just attack nine and is we'll have to try
hold on, but it looks nigh on impossible. Yeah, they got the kid as well. I did look
like the rest of energy to give it up on the round. They didn't even bother to run over
here, but now there might be a chance. They tapped the bomb once, Alex swings for it now.
They know where he is and they're going to be right on top. No issue. A really grotesque
retake coming in there from Ossie. The rest of the team were miles away. It's by virtue
of that smoke. They said that they had one more smoke remaining. They smoke off
that position. He doesn't even get a look at it. He needs to wait for his teammates,
he swings in, the AWP are getting the double kill. Really excellent work there from OC.
But the problem is that this is a bomb-punt and a few kills picked up. He might be tempted to
force by once again. They only got two kills, so maybe they go for a partial instead of a force
by here. Okay, indeed that's going to be the case. So if you've got like four kills,
you definitely go all in, but just going to be rocking with the Tek-9s and basic
U-Till for now, looking for three-zero NRG. They've got rifles across the board on the
the defensive side and Sonic he wants a slice of the action gets a bit more
than he bargained for though it doesn't really do any damage and Grimm to try and
find a few kills here in return needs to swing now though yeah the timing nearly
alluded him but he done absolutely fine on this one Alex standing it should
be ours gonna say Nitro dies then maybe not by the way that push that your
Sonic made there is a bit of a classic I think Navi with the Lexus were some
the early people's really adopted mainstream where you flash over from the B bomb site to assist the player coming in from middle.
It's so powerful. I'm shocked that Sonic didn't get more because they were really flashed.
I feel like it was just a slightly thumbled spray. He definitely had the opportunity to get at least one.
But it still went around. There's no harm, no foul. All good. Sonic's had a great tournament.
It seems to be in cracking form.
Yeah.
He's in a jump this time.
And the opening kill. Nice work, Sissi. Smoke pops open by his teammates.
Vinesbro and the man advancing to you in the first gun round.
He's been very good this tournament.
Seaside AWPing on this map.
Yeah, not the best, but he's ranked pretty high up there.
Had a bit of a stink on Inferno, but that is kind of part of the course.
Difficult for AWPs to really get going on that map.
I think it's a kind of all right like there are some that love it but yeah, but most don't
Historically broke he says unspeakable things and inferno for out his career
Yeah, we need more of that might hopefully see more of that later you playing up against Tyloo
You think at this point that's because the fact that you have to say oh really they really should like that says something about phase of the
Moment doesn't it you know
We're not really sure but we'll find out. Don't you worry. 50 seconds. Good return.
OC with a quick pick off against the AWP but Ken's still there to punish him.
Looks like this will be a B finish and honestly with Sonic already being there in the donut.
I wonder if he could even get closer towards the middle. It doesn't seem like he's feeling that comfortable.
So he'll be able to Grim and Nitro to hold onto this grenade.
He's gonna maybe hold them back a little bit here.
Centiel just have great headshot. He doesn't mind about the flames
And that might be why we were saving almost here while the bomb goes down buys him a bit of time if nitro gets a second
Yeah, the round could be back on he's laid the foundation Sonic is very handy in a clutch and no bomb planted going down now
Give it a look in Andrews. Why not?
They don't even know where he's coming from yet and peel is covering at CT spawn position Centiel
He's looking at the ramp. They've pretty much got each other covered at the moment
We'll see if you can find the timing here Sonic to just creep out
Oh, he's gonna get shot in the back instead. It's always gonna be a bit of a 50-50 there
I believe but I don't blame him for trying definitely was an opportunity
Well now
The economic struggles will be felt for NRG. They've had some close rounds
Sure, they found the 3-0 but they have not been the cleanest rounds you could have hoped for
Sizi opening things up towards middle
Senthiel, nice shot, and then Sonic.
Definitely worth a look in on that two on one,
but couldn't find the first player.
Finally gets his game back online here,
having a rough showing on Inferno.
What we're tactical time now,
it's gonna be Dapps knowing the money is weak,
averaging around $3,500 per player.
They've managed to scrape together an AWP and,
as I can tell you that right now.
So Ocie will have the AWP, Griman and MP9.
Otherwise they're going to have pistols here, so it's going to be a mixed bag.
That's for sure.
We'll see whether they can come up with a gimmick play for OC.
Maybe some sort of boost in the back of the B bomb site.
Go towards a main.
They need to find an open up.
Cut off that man in your screen right here.
Can't display towards Red Room and hope the pop-up and smokes.
In my opinion, I'd like to see him be quite active at the start here.
We saw those B boosts work out yesterday for at least a couple of teams.
So maybe there is a way to replay it.
Yeah, that could be fun.
They're running in the right direction for that so maybe in the middle you see a lot of control and a lot of speed
Yeah, they're boosting OC. Yeah, you called it
Kind of what I do Anders. Yeah, it's what you're here for that and and counter strike advice in general
We love it. So see won't be getting my traction be a boost until that be bonds allowing them to bolster the defense
over to a date
What's the finish we're looking for here?
Coordinating around the elbow position looks to be an A-finish here, wherever they'll drop
the utility or go for a contact pledge yet to be seen, looks to be the latter.
No one in a position to throw a step-piece utility so they're just going to be walking
in, but this is a difficult position to flush out because Grim will get the shadow advantage.
You see on the screen right there, see the shadow?
He knows that there.
If you're an A-sense while Sonic behind him, he's got at least a little bit of
utility.
Doesn't quite use it early enough. I wish that they would have been able to help out Grim before he went down
Because they definitely had the utility to try and shut that down
But the good news is damage has been done
So this Famous the 5-7 the Deagles
Sydney and Kensie's all like they will struggle against the lesser weaponry here and now the AWP making a swim back towards
Midway has not made itself known yet and
Well, there you go
It's announced his presence now hasn't it in the worst possible way
No
skewers them
pins them to the wall like butterflies that
And now we have a four on two still recoverable. Don't get me wrong. They can win this round
Well, maybe not anymore MPL in towards the red room. I think I was he finds a momentarily
Great round from nrg. Just played it to perfection
Success for bait is such short lived unfortunately. They just could not keep going
They wanted to escape they didn't want to go through all right
They're laughing on the NRG side who could blame them
That's the problem when you go for that slow contact in towards a the shadow advantage
Yeah, so extreme you either have to pop flash it and swing around together
You cannot just walk around the angle like that because if there is a boosted player there
He's gonna get one for sure. Yeah, they trade them out, but like the damage is already done the smoke went through
And now they're down to an eco. This is barely even a partial by we've got no Kevlar a few pistols and
And Alex takes 94 damage to kick things off.
Desert Eagle, now in high alerts.
There's that new tech molotov you can land on that boost, but obviously when you do that, you're not going to be fast.
It's going to be the opposite.
Yeah, no reason for NRG to fight from inside of the B bomb site against the Eagle like that.
All you could do is really risk to compromise the defense.
It's not gonna be a good idea, Sonic here. Perfect weapon, it's the jump around the corner and Nitro on the following pickup.
A double for each player, pretty much kills the round here.
5-1 for NRG, he's looking very promising at the moment.
Tactical time, I almost certainly hear coming in for Bates, they are getting battered and bruised once again.
No life games here, I'm afraid.
NRG in the driving seat once more, carrying on the momentum we found on Inferno.
OC with the double kill takes his toes up to 8 and 3, Nitro having a fantastic game, Sonex strong as ever, Grim 6 and 3.
It's just looking way too good. They've also got two AK-47s now on the defensive side. This is not the bait I'm used to seeing.
They're normally a hard-hitting, exciting team that stifles their opponents, overwhelm them with their skill.
And we're seeing none of that today.
There's so much on the line here. This is the lower bracket. This are the schemes that I've already lost.
This is what they brought to the table, just running and jumping through smoke, easy pickings.
And we have got another gun round at least.
Traditionally baits a bit stronger on their CT side, but not by an enormous amount, not
enough to justify this kind of a scoreline here.
They do still need to put in some work on the T side sooner rather than later.
When Esauce started to swell a bit for NRG, that was a problem then, maybe bait didn't have to worry about earlier, but now the CTs actually are building a bit of an economy.
You can't just win the auto round and get right back into it here, you're gonna really have to struggle now.
So, going through the motion, smoke down towards red, smoke down towards cave, four players outside of B,
Nitro, speculative spam, he thought he was going to go for a shot just then.
He's playing the advantage, he's happy to take these jewels and it's just got the AK-47.
There's a little bit of damage, that's enough, gets the intel.
Course of back up now, sets up the boost here, you won't be expecting this after he shows that first shot towards the entrance.
It's a great setup.
They found him in the flash and there's no swing from him.
They sat right in the middle as well, that's so uncomfortable if you're peeking here.
descent hill you could see almost a jump scare for him as he tries to escape it
here wall bang is pretty good but it's a batter in return outdone by the master
himself grim you're going for this I love it but it's a high-risk maneuver to
scissi detect it he's getting a core throwing his grenades
grim's been all confidence today and it's paid off
he did it on inferno pushing on to the A bomb side this time it's at the
He even picks up the AWP to take down Kensis, or it's outrageous for Grim.
He is feeding himself.
You let Grim off the leash, and fantastic things will happen on the server.
What a sequence.
21 HP.
As I said, as soon as you throw that smoke, he's going to hear on the other side, skips
round, catches your baguette, a double kill, recovers the AWP.
It's a quad kill from the Reaper.
Here we go, six and one. They are getting absolutely owned.
Yeah, where is the backup? Sisi and Kenzo, they've got some kills here, but the rest of the squad is looking very flat at the moment.
They can't make it past that B ramp right now.
a lot of confidence. There's a grenade at him in anger perhaps from that previous round.
In fact, he stole the orb and capped the fight going for another two kills. Don't even know
why he did that. But then RG are being disciplined here. It's great aggression for giving that
last round, but now they're back to playing far on back on the map. No easy pickups
here for bait. It seems like they're going to be testing out that bomb site again,
This time there's no one on the boost, OC is a little bit further back, so more of a retake really here on the A bomb site
doesn't mean that NRG can't make life hard on B, just trying to plant the bomb.
This is looking promising, the A bomb site relatively open, they've gone for the executioner, smokes down towards Donut
smokes down towards CDSplore and they seem to find a point of damage on Roots here.
So it's going to be popped open by OC, gonna be Nitro spamming through and gets a lot more than he bargained for.
for a fortune a dead eagle headshot, but I'm not planted yet but still the advantage continues here.
This is looking very promising now. I think that's enough to win the round at this point.
AWP and the AK-47 snoked up towards the donor while both players reside unless you get two kills
through the smoke. This one is done. You're a bit surprised to see NIG not have more of a protocol
for getting back onto that because I feel like not playing on the bombs I could even be fine.
It just feels like you should have more of a plan when you come back from donut.
You can see that they've actually thrown the AWP out of the map there on top of the donut pillar,
just to ensure that it isn't taken to the next round.
That's good detail.
Love to see it.
I give them anything more to work with here.
OC with the AK.
Trying to do something, but they make it a bit expensive.
It means there's not a lot of rifles to be carried over.
AWPs are otherwise.
There's just one person left there on bait.
That was the partial by victory. The perfect call there. It's very common on the
CT side of ancient just leave the A-bomb side open until you start. Receive the
extra threats. You focus your efforts towards B lanes and middle. If they're not
attacking the A-bomb side at all, we'll go for the retakes there. But
unfortunately the tech 9's got so much space and a couple of fortunate
Desert Eagle headshots through smoke. It's unlucky and it will be the
second round for base. But the money is absolutely fine for NRG. We've got an
all get on the server we don't see it too often and we discussed this yesterday
gone out of fashion we'll see whoever he can have some impact would be here it's
costing a few grenades going forward but see if he made the gun work
he's insisting on it that's really curious sort of creek and we didn't
really didn't really do anything with it unfortunately but now we got orcs as
well why not he's up close so he's not even gonna be scoping here he's
He's just going to be trying to take the battle straight up for people on the other side for bait, setting up for what could be a bit of a pounce on the B-bomb side, but a grin grin.
He's back to his old tricks, going to be a flash. Oh, he gets stuck on the wall. That is meant to go deeper. I think he just got completely wrecked by that.
It's not ideal. Wasn't really a right weapon for the job as well. You want to be taking long-range jewels with that orc, but either way, baits are more than happy to comply.
Why? They'll have the opening advantage here, the execute coming through, Molotov down towards
a cave entrance, smoke down towards shore, incendiary in response, spam damage coming in.
Don't have to commit to this, but there are 35 seconds, it's the side where the final move
is going to be. They're going to go towards A. Now they think that's open, but we have
got Ocie with the AWP. Tucked in towards the temple right now. Can you find multiple
kills? There's a first. Aware of the presence towards the main entrance, nails it, can
When he gets another, the third would have secured the round, he's now low HP, he needs his teammate to turn up and turn up they shall!
Supersonic play coming in there, as NRG secure yet another. Ascent fuel, nothing to do, nothing to say, time is non-existent and it's a beautiful play once more from OC.
Great awareness there, Anders gets the first kill, knew the presence of danger towards A main and takes him down.
He was nearly picture perfect, he really got the third kill, I mean it wasn't needed, Sonic showed up,
That's the kind of OC we want to see like they trusted him to hold that a bombsite and he did it
Bates they can't get anything right even when they want to say it's a free kill on grim
But they kind of they make a mistake there and our gene trying to get that aggression and it's not enough
They actually start the round four and five
And now timeouts be called here. Well, thankfully they won that partial by before so the money's not gonna be completely ruined
Okay, Raleigh is gonna be low
you lose this map you're out of the tournament dead last
NRG with the new roster as well Grim coming in who's looking fantastic quite
frankly I don't think the flash would have got him either way and as he was
quite deep and he was just jiggling behind the double door so I don't think
that was the real factor could have been not yeah yeah so it was just a nice
flight and then this was the for save the day and the fact that as Ozi
stays alive so long you can see it's absolute freebies there
The Sonic as he swings it. I mean being here at the the lower part of the tournament to Navi is one thing coming off the Stockholm victory
But losing to NRG in this fashion. I think that is I mean that's not my thing. This is not the team I've seen
Give true a lot of trouble towards team spirit towards Navi. This is this is looking quite weak and
Sonic is looking very strong. My throw as well. He's got a field day out there
Five on three, job done.
I did it to the CD side now.
You just want to retreat from the choke points.
Set up those crossfires, bleed them out of utility.
They've got a lack of firepower.
This is a force fire as well.
You've got a deagle and a glow left in a five on three.
The bros aren't done yet.
Still that smoke down towards the head
and he wants to inflict more damage.
I feel like you're done though.
I really would recommend getting out of this scenario
but they've got to hold onto the B lane.
Flash players out.
Grim does well to get one.
If he goes down with nothing there,
That is the real problem.
Bait has got to be so annoyed, they can't hold that bottom B ramp.
Grimace there all the time.
It's constantly in the back of their minds right now.
What if he shows up again?
Even if they trade him here, it's just so frustrating to deal with.
Sizi, attempt to the Deagle.
I don't think it would ever make a big difference there.
One more round.
As NRG are looking, they're making Bait look very average at the moment.
It might be the, I mean, Bait might be underplaying,
but NRG are definitely also playing a lot better than what we saw the first time around.
That was the fourth player.
So we've got $3,400 per player, max loss bonus.
Nitro just having some fun out there.
Statement round as well.
Like I said, most teams will be falling back with that sort of advantage.
They're taking the game to them.
And it has to be the partial again.
We're gonna go for Eagles and Tech Nines.
An ultimate round here.
Need a miracle.
You can't win these ones. The only real round they've won is the Tech 9A rush.
Yeah.
Maybe they could do it again.
They know that Grim is going to be near that ramp.
They can pretty much secure a fight against him no matter what.
He's been very willing to participate in some of the violence down here, but...
This time, they're just slowed down.
They've got utility, so whenever they get the cue, I don't like the fact that they're all grouped up.
I think if you've got this stuck together on the T side, yeah, you have to go.
You can't wait under the 10 seconds here.
It's time to see if you can actually get onto the site now.
Sonic's calling it out, saying they're all on that ramp.
I've seen so many players.
Kens is all will take him down, but Grim is now flanking around from the other side.
This time, not from the B ramp, but pushing out from the cave itself.
They do have a one-man advantage.
The bomb being attempted down in front, I think he's good for it.
Yeah, Centiel's got the Deagle back up, but now they've lost Alex.
So it's a really good start here for Bait, but I don't know if they can hold on to the side any longer.
They're gonna have to. They need this round. Even though it's a 4 on 2, Ascentfield needs another life round here.
Smoke goes down. AK can't connect and it's just the Deagle here.
Kit's available. Incendiary as well. They can throw the incendiary towards the cave and guarantee this round.
Yeah, doesn't even matter.
They can have a comfortable defuse. The closest they've come in some time to picking one up, but that's gonna be 9 to 2.
One more to go. That was the partial by Lisa got the bomb planted. They might have to take another tactical time
I hate to try and guarantee the final round of this first half
That's if they even have any left has been absolutely woeful here from Bates
They look defeated already see the frustration
Stunner the really really set in
Probably thinking
Okay, we get energy. They look like one of the weaker teams in the tournament not playing like it at all today
14 to 4 on OC Grimm at 13 6 and in itself is
Devastating to be up against flashed into the middle again. It's bro this time with the opening
Nitro he should have been caught off guard there. I thought a happy lives NPL goes down and it's a five versus three
They have got the advantage in every single duel.
Teamplay is fantastic. Every frag we've seen, the opposition are completely blind or surprised
as someone's pushed through a smoke. The comms are all over the place with bait right
now. They're frustrated, they're tilted and you can see no one's turning up individually
like it feels like they're already done here. Five on three. This is a formality as you
play out of the last round of the half.
Nitro, well aware, someone could be close. Bombs still in the middle, it's quite
far apart of the moment. Ascentfield, he's thinking, please Grim, you've given you've
pushed so much on that B ramp, can you do just one more time and at least we get that
pick off. But once Grim is being very controlled, they're just letting them bleed out the clock
here. We're down to 40 seconds now. And now you're just fine waiting as long as it
needs. There's Grim with the shot. Now they got bomb in the middle. 30 seconds
Yeah, and it's still blocking utility available
Takes a kill dies right out miss shot and Grimmy follows it up
That's a disgusting opening half here for energy who look to be sending bait packing from the tournament
I wouldn't say it's a meme team. I think they're trying their best
I don't think they're contender or even close to being that with that team.
They're already out of the major contention. I think that's weird.
On paper, BC game has a decent team. I think the Portuguese core and like they were good when they were playing for Seoul
and also now they have more experienced players in simple and electronic.
But from what I've seen they don't look the best as a team I would say.
So I'm not sure if they need to do some changes or just change the way they play a little bit.
The level is super strong right now, even in tier 2 scene.
And it's hard to claw your way up the BRS points and to be in the elite tournaments.
But yeah, they can make it happen if they are a quality team, actually.
Maybe they need some more time.
I think Simpo can definitely stay there and be their main star there,
because everyone knows who Simpo is and how good he was.
And I think right now he's not on the level he was before, in my opinion,
but he can still be pretty good, in my opinion, in tier 1 team or tier 1 tournaments.
Do I think Simba will have what it takes?
I think he has, but I don't think he reads the same level
as we're seeing of Dong and Saeba today.
It has to be a unique scenario where he can come back
to being a top three player in the world,
but can it be a top three player in the world?
For sure.
And that's where I think PC Game has to look
to put better pieces around him.
Somebody who looks up to Simba
and accepts how he can be sometimes,
because he's a straight shooter,
this is what it like.
Good afternoon gamers you're watching blast open Rotterdam 2026. This is a group a lower bracket
First team to go home is looking likely to be bait after getting battered and bruised on Inferno 13 6
They're currently down 10-2 on their map pick up ancient and this is going to take an absolute miracle to recover this one
But it's not over until it's over
Yeah, we'll give them the benefit of doubt see if they could put something together here at least start with a pistol
win on the second one. Try to get some more people warmed up. We know they could be good
on this one, but Bro's starts with a blinding headshot. Cassentiel, gone, Sizi, the leader,
Bro is just, he's put to work here. In reloading, look at our headshot. He's actually caught
one. Alex is barely survived by the skin of his teeth and only for a second it goes
down. The only damage he's taken of his teammate shooting in the back of the head.
There's no way, Henry, and now do you have a 17% round win rate in pistols on this
Smash them as well!
One more headshot please!
Somebody make it stop!
Well that's pistol and presumably the game, because that's 11-2.
If you ain't winning this one, I can tell you that right now.
The T side for NRG on this map generally is not that impressive.
They do their best work on the CT side, but their best work today was pretty impressive
and fate just looked like a team that have collapsed under all of this pressure here.
Smooth bomb plant, no issues, bro did all of the hard work.
Fighting his way through that cave, no much left.
Looking for a couple of kills though, get that I suppose.
It's an extra $50 for a player going into that next round.
Should be able to pick this one up as well but not meant to be.
You won't be saving your jewelies in Kevlar.
MPL hoping to save his Kevlar, he's saving USB Kevlar in the pistol.
That's at the very top end of what they've got to work with.
So it has to be the force by here.
You're down 11 to 2.
Bro has completely destroyed you here,
single-handedly in towards a cave.
It doesn't get much cleaning than this.
The young Dame stepping up.
He even got the gush in his third player as well.
Straight away, his teammate shoots in the back of the head,
gets another head shot.
Just gone.
And smiles all around.
If his teammate didn't shoot him in the head,
he probably gets our fourth as well.
Well, there we have it.
Last chance to loom for the tournament here.
you'll be locked out last place if you don't win this round Bates. All comes down to this.
Eagle, we could fight right there if you can be allowed to get it. The bomb is still back in
T spawn so very clear. If you look at the mini map to see that they're not you've not made
up their minds about anything yet. Just slow down and waiting to see if Bates are going to
to try something. Honestly it makes a lot of sense, they probably are quite desperate to try and do
something. You know they're not going to have very much of anything. Utility is going to be low on you.
He actually read it, he predicted that that boost was going to be coming in. That would have been so
sick if you got to kill but he can't. OC on the other side, a lot of bullets in the Galila and
enough to get a couple of kills. He could fairly get around the corner but not quite.
You thought, okay he's going to get one. They'll trade him out but the fact he gets
to and does considerable damage as well. An absolute gut punch here for Bates and well a chance at
least. There is a long range kill from our Famous, the MP9 trying to do some work from the B ramp as
well. Two players in towards B. Got to be grouping up now. This round set on a knife stage. I wouldn't
say this is a lock in by any stretch of the imagination. We are going to see 35 seconds
remaining. Kensi's only to tuck himself in. They both have to be fair. I think this
might work out for them. Looking like a Bate round here with the setup.
Very hard to clear this out, isn't it? Even if they're a little bit tagged up,
It's just not going to be easy. Good work from Kenzo.
Nobody even saw that there was a second player there, so he sent to you, I think it's still
reactivated. But 18 seconds and he started to make the wrap around towards the A-bomb side.
MPL's in a one-and-done position. They've got it.
Smoke up. Sonic trying to find just the edge of something by MPL. He was always going to
be able to win that. Great work. They buy themselves another round and that has to be
be the mentality for a very long time here. Just one round at a time, step forward.
Yeah, absolutely true.
There's the points in one there for NRG. Takes the wind out of their sails, as I
mentioned, as soon as they brought this two-man setup towards the cave, fell
if they had won the round. It's the perfect call. Here in the Bombing
Contage and we are going to have a force in response. NRG now trying to
close this one out early. They'll be going with the Deagle's technology.
if soon there's gonna be some sort of set piece of pocket strap looking to edge the way out towards middle
But Sonic will be taken down a range by MPL
That should be enough to win the round is there's not really much war to work with that one smoke remaining
less
ridiculous
Deagle's land
I just don't even see how you find an entry point here
Yeah, probably what energy you're looking for at the moment you could see
said Sonic in the middle at the start now. O.C. taking a quick peek but nothing is
being offered up at the moment. They are actually fairly aggressive in the middle
still but they're starting to roll back towards the red room instead and it'll be
NRG setting up in a bit of a group out here. They've got one single smoke so
let's see how this one goes towards that cave position. Maybe they could
slow things down a little bit. Alright, actually another one on the ground so
Yeah, they can try to do a bit of an execute here.
Smoking off with Senfield.
That's very interesting.
Is it gonna be enough to buy any kind of a space?
I wonder, I doubt it.
Kensasaur, good defense.
He's up to 15 kills, Henry.
He's the only one that's really trying
to put them back into this game.
Still a long way to go,
but NRG do not have series point just yet.
Round by round, play your game, the old cliches.
We'll be coming through the headphones right now, so we can do...
And it's a clean one at least. They managed to break them down to an eco here.
A chance to build their resources, upgrade the weaponry, replenish the grenades, and full eco.
Looks maybe just to be rushed, get it over and done with.
Time will tell.
Yep.
Full speed ahead, lads.
I do like these, but Alex, he's got the perfect weapon for it. He had the incendiary up as well.
Tech 9 is so many bullets.
Between that and the MP9 he's got the job done looking for the ace and he will be able to pick it up. That's fantastic work
I mean, yeah, they've got pistols, but still you'll definitely take it quick rounds a good round. Yeah, I
Can't help but think as well
It's kind of the ace and spite of the you know the mini comeback better kind of build here baits
The fact that Mirage is that third Matt, which can't be worried so badly
I feel like they could even if they win this map somehow by a miracle
I feel like it's right back in the hurt locker on the third after that even if they get there
It's out in the distance AK's are back on the T side
Those new new ish H ease the T store over they still do so much damage people jump in it all the time
Well, here's bro
Come on. It's been very good so far in the series. Nice Steve smoke towards long
It's all a ruse though Anders trying to make the way towards a taking a bullet to the thigh is Nitro
Sissy now needs to step up
Can't let his bomb go down with nothing. That's a brilliant shot towards Sonic backstab coming in
Kenzie's all of taking good for two here, but Grim will take him down very important kills back and forth
We go two versus two bro is low on the other side of the map
He'll have to get escapes on and that should be enough to diffuse
They know exactly where bro is and yeah, he can't go for it
Bro actually kept two people that he was like killed one of them like yeah such
an amazing job on that side of the map that he is a bit shocking to me that the
rest of the team couldn't have more of a punch through on the A-bomb side but
fair play to the defense Bates down to put some round together it's a bit
expensive here but they're clawing their way back could be just a
cosmetic comeback still but I don't know we've said all along Bates as a
team they're better than what they've shown here. If they can start to find that level again it will
be a different game for sure. Dapps starting to feel the heat now. It's getting closer and closer.
The rounds are getting convincing. Bates creeping their way back into it. Like we said it's never
over until it reach 13 at the top and it feels like they're still a long way from getting that
pressure alleviating round of number 12. The money will be okay going forward
whether it's a full buy is yet to be seen. It's in discussing their options here
11 to 6. Let's have a look at what buy they've got. Oh not a great one. So they
could have gone for a full investment but there would have been so many
concessions. So they're going to go for one AK couple of rifles still a
partial buy here Anders but this has to be one of those pocket strats
Go to mid control, into an execution, and start to hit again.
Yeah, it doesn't want to damage, huh?
I love it because it looks like the CTs are jumping up to try and headbutt them.
It looks like it's almost comical, you know?
Trying to see what you do there.
Maybe for another counter-shark update.
If you have a helmet, you can headbutt the nades.
Yeah, good idea.
I'll follow them.
Get full of something.
I'm just waiting for Valve to reach out to see, you know,
if I can work on the game a bit. We're on number 18 here. Utility is just not in a good
spot unfortunately for NRG, so they do need some kind of an opening fight that's going
to be maybe a little bit favorable to them. Smokes are up towards the cave. Looking very
good for a B attack at the moment. Can they find out that this is happening though?
I feel like
They still have a pretty good eye on the middle. Yes, he's here
He says no one's walked past, but that might, might question that now
Flash in his eyes, 45 seconds
Just trying to remove vision from CT's here
Push the AWPer back from the donor
Sona confirms that no one's at the B lanes, but that smoke is a disaster
Yeah
But it's focused through the cave now
They have one smoke and one flash of many, you're also smoked off in towards cave
Who's we saw before should be able to get a couple of kills. He might as well swing
Yeah, I'm gonna get the trades now. You've committed. You're not gonna be able to fall back with 20 seconds. Keep going
Look at one. Do they realize that feels good? Okay, look at the prefire now. He's low. Yeah, but there's only 14 seconds
Nice shot from bro. Unfortunately his teammates are dead and Sissie walks up behind him
I think you're right though once you've once you pull the trigger on that cave push
You might as well just double down. I did see that they were a little bit hesitant perhaps, but
But once again, baits with one more round, the clawback is really happening here.
And again, just historically to look at it, I think it's like a 34% win rate on the T side
of Ancient for NRG.
Obviously it's a new team with Grim and everything else, so who knows what's going to happen,
but still this is not a side of the map that they are very comfortable on.
Their CT side on the other hand is crazy, it's 71%.
So we're happy with that, but they just need a couple of rounds here.
Feeling the pressure now, MPL feeling himself going to get flashed through the smoke towards the heavens.
That's the flash himself though, doesn't quite fancy it just yet.
He's got Broly over side to deal with, doesn't want to push any further.
Apparently not. Nitro could help himself some space in towards the B bomb site.
Making a lot of noise on Ruto. This kill could be everything. OCD get it.
Is this where they find series points, elimination point for Bay?
This kill could decide it as well.
Ascent deal, painted into a corner but fighting for his life.
for his life. He'll find in-game leader Nitro, holding onto the Util right now.
Needs his teammates to rotate through, incendiary down towards the bomb side,
and a nice break from MPL, maintains that man advantage. Bro and OC incredibly long.
Yeah, I'll pull it away from DeathEye, the one of them here. Grimm might have to do more of the work again,
but he's been up for it so far. Flashing around the corner, that's a great setup for it,
but Bro could only get the one. MPL, a bullet would have killed him here,
but he gets to stay alive, at least for a little while longer here.
edging it out, Grim, he gets two right away
and Ken's in a little bit of trouble here.
He's gonna have to kick some once.
Oh, what a head shot!
Grim is back once again.
Back from the dead.
It's been a few rounds since NRG have posted one,
but that is the most important of them all.
It was scrappy, it was uncomfortable,
but Grim finds three kills
and comes out on top in the 1v1 clutch.
We go 12 and seven,
one round from elimination here for Bates.
I'd love to know what it was that gave Nitro the insight that he could crush the B-bombside that hard.
Because even if he didn't get a kill, he opened the entire bombside by the space he found, right?
Yeah, so deep. He was sick.
Do you love to see it? 12 to 7.
We're not over yet, though.
Bear in mind that comes down to a 1v1, the money's already busted for NRG.
They're gonna have to enter with Galilz and Tech 9s again, even though winning the previous round.
There'll be a ton of cash here for Bates.
They know it as well. This game is far from over.
I know that seems crazy to say at 12-7,
but it still has overtime written all over it.
I kind of agree, yes.
This T side is...
Let's have a look.
So we got 1 the X, exactly.
1 Tech 9, 2 Galils, Belly, any U-Till.
This could easily go to overtime.
Oh, that's so much worse than I thought as well.
Can they make it work?
Utility in the middle here has been pretty good for an RG.
They're really softening them up,
and here's the Tech 9, good head shot.
The Sony will do it MPL, though.
Oh, he spins around quickly, nearly catching the AWP though!
Sizzle!
And while he's feeling the pressure, he can't get a single one!
OC will open up the sights.
There's chaos everywhere on the map at the moment.
Another spray down here.
Good smoke.
Oh, and an even better wallbang.
It was looking so promising there.
Grim, the saved the day once again.
Can plant the bomb here.
Fakes it out.
Trying to provoke reactions here.
Yeah, he's got a good read right now.
a headshot as well. He's so good. Is he going to read this as well? Ascentiel, he'd love to follow up behind him. But he's keeping it cool as well, trusting in his abilities. This is actually a great read from Ascentiel. We'll see if Grim could actually clutch it once again. He nearly has it. Look at how much damage he did. But Ascentiel, it's ice cold. In fact, he doesn't follow Grim to what might have been an A plant. It's pretty impressive.
it's the most obvious play right run into a day get that bomb planted give yourself the advantage but
potentially overcooks it I like the idea from Grim it is just very well read from a Senfield
one step ahead that was the best chance they're gonna get from every rounds now to close this one
out comes down to the 1v1 oh he does incredibly well on this particular duel oh goes down to the
wall bang Senfield keeps the dream alive though and like I said overtime still very very likely
It's a partial buy once again, they've got that lost bonus on their side.
They can't bring much more to the table than Tech 9's in Kevlar.
One flash, Sonic trying to find a gap here.
Okay, there is a gap.
That low hander of Senthiel once again, looking very strong.
Trying to find that form from yesterday he showed against Narvi.
I think he might have done it.
have done it. OC will find a kill from way downtown with the Deagle, but no chance of winning this
one. We go 12-9. It's not that long ago. Maybe four rounds ago. Kensethsville was the only real
factor here for the bait side of things. That's not the case any longer. The rest of them shot
up on the scoreboard. They're really starting to come alive. It's starting to look like
the bait team that maybe we were expecting at the start of the series. It's just very,
very late to wake up, but they can still do it. Three more rounds to overtime here. We
need some, yeah, timeout. We need Daps and Nitro to have a bit of a conversation to figure
out how do we get that last round over the board.
We're going overtime, Anders. Oh, I'm sorry to tell you.
It's your specialty, Henry. You love the OTs.
I called it at 12-7. Yeah.
And I'm pretty sure that's what we're going to see. The fresh is mounting. Tech issues
are coming in as well now you can't even discuss your options in this one it's the last thing you need
right now OC looks to be some sort of headset issue he's 2013 he's playing very well but it is can't
find that killing blow that haymaker to finish this game off something to consider they've been
putting a lot of pressure on that B bomb site for I don't know four or five rounds on a rule it
feels like in our G there's a chance you just try and go real fast to the A like one time
Because if that keeps happening like it's been so much middle for bait
They've been having a lot of mid controllers wall bait and they've been pushing npl out of the cave a lot
Maybe you just yeah one round you don't even have all the weapons, but sometimes that fast a play can really rock a team
So maybe that's what they're building into conditioning the bait to to really trust in that in that be attack coming over and over again
thing is
If you're thinking of that idea Anders, well, yeah, sure the coach Bates is considering that as well
Yeah, they might be smarter than me as a good child
There is a world where they might consider that so that's the problem when you slow the game down these tech pauses
Yeah chance to deliver a over your options you think right?
Let's just try a fast day in execution, but the chances are that's what the all-pattery moves over there
Starts mowing you down this is problematic now for energy like the new squad with Grimm coming in
You felt like it was a done deal. You're on cloud nine at that point. Everything's feeling fantastic
Can't seem to put a foot wrong, but slowly but surely they creep back into it and with nothing to lose
Nates are taking this opportunity. I'm running with it. They dictate their pacing of the rounds. They're controlling the money
Well, you warned about that all the way from inferno like yeah, if baits thought that you know like close it now before it's too late
See if they've passed that mark or if there's still a chance here for an IT to get the job done
Gonna feel weird. I think it's gonna be real revitalization of baits if it gets into overtime like energy will feel like oh no
That was our chance and now it's gone
Bait are gonna be excited to get there. I wouldn't be surprised to be going to a tactical timeout out of this tech ports. Okay
Just a chance for daps to calm everyone down. They've got everything they need here
I can look on the server right now. They have got five AK 47s most of the utility they need
No A. W. P. It looks like we are getting ready to go. And that sounds to be the tactical time.
Oh, still tech.
Another tech. All right.
Well, they are working lightning fast to sort it out. I've got no doubt about it.
It's obviously if you're just showing us the first game of the day, we've got three today, I believe.
Let me run you through them.
through them. Yes, go on. Let
us know roughly what the schedule
looks like. So we've got some
bangers. We have another Losers
game coming up next with phase
versus Tyler. Oh, yes. Who have
you got for that? I haven't seen
much of Tyler recently. They've
got a new roster. I believe
they're playing in the form. I
think it's called zero. Is
that right? Yeah, zero. And
you've got G jam young mercury
mosey out by zero coming in up
against. Let's be honest that a
weak looking phase. I did see
some amazing highlights from
JQBS today, though they won
the game. Who did they play against? It was Aurora. Hey, man, let's take a map off them
and Jacob had some amazing highlights and you've got twists and frozen still for my
money to the best rifles in all of CS 2. Broke if you can find some form that'd be great.
Obviously a lot of conversation around that team right now. I want to see them win some
games. I don't want to be a hater. I want to see them actually do well in this sort
of I've got these for this one. I feel like someone's gone wrong with Tyloo. They
were they were better last middle of last year than they are now I think, but
Here we go, the tech issues have been resolved, shout out to the admins and now we're back into the mix here, round number 22, it's crunch time for NRG.
They need to stop this right now before bait continue to wake up because they are some strong players on that side and it's time to show it now.
Mid control though for once for NRG, it's something they haven't had in the last four or five rounds I think.
Overlook at this forward position with Kensa Storm, he's all the way in the A-hole way and that's not the start they wanted, Bro goes down.
Grim's already been dinked as well and you can see they've got so much map control pushing in towards A main
They've got such a strong read on the situation as well means they can have three players over towards his B side of the map
Allowing them to have middle as you mentioned time and time again not a bomb site
You can have middle we have the map advantage already dinked Grim as well come into the red room come join the fun. Yeah
This is such a setup for it
Is he going to go back and fry the AK in the bomb site just to try and lure them into the M4?
Ah, OC headshot there. AK comes back. That's a strong stop.
A couple of good breakdowns.
NPL. He's low already. Sizi. An important shot to take it down, but they're walking right past.
He's here in the footsteps. He knows. Lines up one. Could have been a double and there will be Grim.
He's back with the scythe and now it's just Kensis or one versus three. The bomb is already planted here.
A disaster for Bates who are looking to make the comeback happen, but a doubt if it will happen any longer.
Nitro's here, all the health in the world, he can't land the damage point.
Deep Grenade, oh he could have killed him right there.
He landed too far back to actually blow anybody up, but now there's smoke and fire on the bomb sign.
What do you do? He's at the edge, he's trying to find it.
Somehow he's up burning him and a headshot will do it.
Oh see, they close the book onto Bates and they will lock them out of the tournament.
But it's new boy Grim stepping up once again
He looked unstoppable on Inferno and as he goes above and beyond again the Grim Reaper boasting
24 and 14 and shout out to OC as well known to be the sniper this squad a player that felt like he was coming to the end of
His career and he has reinvented himself the AK 47 work on this map was spectacular
He posed 22 kills and that was a real test their mental fortitude at the same time
Sure they won the first half, 10-2. It felt like it was a done deal, but Bait are a tenacious team.
They brought it all the way back. They had them on the ropes. They were sweating, but it will be NRG getting it over the line 2 and 0.
Shout out to DAPT, keeping the teams together. And my god, what a game it was and Commiserations debate.
They're the first team that unfortunately go our last place here at the Blast Open.
What a massive step in the right direction for NRG who cleansed this victory 2-0 against Bait.
We spoke about it coming into the game.
We didn't anticipate that happening,
but Fats will say they were the better team today.
I mean, not only did they have the best player on the server,
I think they had the two best players on the server
for at least ancient with OC and Grim
both popping off to a ridiculous degree.
As mentioned, OC on the rifle,
which is not what you necessarily expect him with,
but I think that is what he's most impressive with to me.
He's almost as good on the rifle as he is on the arm.
Speaking of being impressive,
Nitro, we're joined by your presence at the disc.
A true victory.
What's that on the Cots coming into today?
Our expectations aren't that high right now, to be honest,
but we beat them last time at Krakow,
so definitely was realistic for us to beat them.
2-0, not sure, like I said, we didn't really talk about it.
We're not going to smash you, like,
we're going to 2-0 these guys, you know, kind of thing,
but we knew that we could win today,
as long as we played well.
So yeah.
Mike spoke to Debs coming into the game,
where he also referenced to what you're saying,
that expectations are low,
you still haven't had a lot of time to practice with Grimm.
In terms of integrating him into the lineup, is it just, you know, early days now and, you know, Fafoma, a fully settled thing?
He's not like George. If we compare them one to one, he's a bit more, he's definitely more experienced, obviously.
George is more of like a rookie coming into our team, whereas Mike is more experienced, he's been, you know, traveling abroad on passion and stuff a lot.
So he has way more experience than George. So he also has like kind of a voice and it's more about like implementing him into our system.
What does he like to do?
You know, like, it's no one, I think maybe Aaron play with that.
I don't know, I don't even know the history of my teammates, to be honest, but
I personally didn't know how Mike likes to play the game and how like he thinks about it.
I talked to him, obviously, like a tournament here and there, but it's not like I know how he plays.
I just kind of watched him play.
So I was more about just figuring out what he likes to do because he is like a really smart player.
But he also has insane aim and he's in like lurk roles.
So it's like maybe I can implement him more of like a intrigue style player because of his aim is very flashy very
You know like well like he flicks like his picture just insane to be honest when I'm watching fun
Like holy crap kind of reminds me of John a bit. Yeah, so it is like a work in process
Like, you know, maybe he doesn't want to be a lurker
Maybe wants to be a different role in some apps or his last team didn't allow that
So again, it's just a work in progress right now. So after this turn, we have a big boot camp
So that's probably where we get my sort of work done.
Is that also part of the vision by by signing Grim?
You know, I said it coming into the game that that's a statement for me.
Not you. You're bringing an experienced player, a player that is going to elevate your team in terms of war firepower.
I also going to allow him to, you know, be freed up and basically given the role that he decides to.
Yeah. I mean, every time a player joins, I'm not just like slotting him in one for one.
I like to see how he thinks about the game, what he likes to do.
If he likes to do specific plays, you know, I like to have that kind of system within my team.
And so far he's not necessarily like doing or he's not
He's not like fully implemented all the stuff he would like to do but like I said that's like the whole point of the process and
Yeah, it's pretty much it. Yeah, so we're seeing him be a bit more aggressive in the mid-round
I mean you still have him on the the lurk roles a lot of the same roles that that you had
George in and then in the mid-round I see some some apps
you're having him go in as the entry of the second in is there a specific player that has to take a step back
That's kind of volunteered to be you know throwing more utility
I think George through a bit more utility than you see than you see from Grimm sir I
Would say maybe bro
Take took kind of took a step back in terms of like who's going for a second in because he was kind of like that guy
I'd say George is more of like a
Usually kind of like lurking on a lot of mass whereas Grimm is I would say more in the pack
You know we have made some changes here and there on specific maps
I think Mike would be better
in that role. So yeah, I mean,
um, if any if I had to pick a
player, I'd say bro kind of
had us take a step back and be
more of like the player who's
in more clutch situations. And
uh, yeah, I mean, Mike
overall has been really
impressive in the mid round.
He's actually like. Taking
huge steps up for us and.
Like saying where they are
where he thinks are what we
should be doing. You know,
just overall macro game. It's
impressive. I wanted to ask
like, you know, I think
you know, I think
you know, I think
I wanted to ask, you took a step back going on NRG.
This is a team that you've had to work your way up with.
You bring Grimman, and as you're mentioning,
he's got more communication.
Is this something that you're trying to work with with the team
where you can notice you bring Grimman
and you know that he's had that Tier 1 experience?
He's played with a team that's won events
or come close to winning events in the past?
Is it very obvious that change?
And how are you working on your team
and that communication or that experience factor?
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not to harp too much
on George, but I think Mike has, he just communicates a bit more in terms of like,
especially in the mid-round situations, whereas George was maybe a bit more
timid, scared to make overall macro decisions where Mike just kind of came
with that team and he's just like, I think we should do this, do this.
I think they're here and he's very confident about it, which is like
impressive as well.
Well, like I said, whenever a new player joins, I want to make sure that
he feels as comfortable as possible.
We have the discussions of how he likes to play, how he's going to play in
the mid-round situations.
And then overall, I mean, I was talking about Counter Strike is very easy with them.
So this win was pretty, pretty important for you guys in terms of VIS, you know,
getting some points and getting a W as well.
We speak a lot about ProQuest and the future.
And I think all of us are excited to see where you're going to land.
But in terms of this tournament, is there any specific goal from now on?
Is it just one game at a time?
And then hopefully you can get another win.
I believe you faced the loser of Aurora versus who is in the lower bracket as well.
Is it like a set goal that you want to win a couple of games?
So is it just to learn to play with Grip?
Well, not to tell too much, but we're kind of trying to transition to different approach to our games
They're T sides have been kind of weirdly and the percents are pretty low. So we're trying to practice a specific style and
It's match by match to be honest right now with the new player
We've had maybe we had one week of practice in NA against like one team
It's been pretty nothing's changed, you know, really and then we had pro league where he's like just signed and then we played
three online view of three so you know it is gonna take some time to get used to it and get used to
how he likes to play because like I said he's an experienced player which requires more room on the
team to succeed normally. That's also mentioned the practice against one team who's your scrim buddy?
We're just playing wildcard and they had two guys in Europe. So high quality practice all the
same. I'm not sure exactly what was asked at the beginning of the interview but I'll just ask man
How pleasant of a surprise was it when Grim's just opening sites up with two kills?
I mean, did you expect the entry success?
I mean if you he's on passion was more of like alert clutch player and then I watch him aim
And I'm like man the sketch should be just running into destroying people
He's like very the way he plays is very confident
Yeah, and he's very good aim and his crosser is like the size my monitor
I don't know how you can get skills. Yeah, it's a
I'm trying to still figure out how he likes to play and and just make sure he's implemented as best as possible
you know it's showing up very nicely today indeed exciting matches coming
through from you yeah looking forward to seeing it down the stretch looking
forward to seeing you in the next match but thanks for joining us here Nitro and
good luck yeah thank you guys thanks for popping in take that headset off rock on
about with your day lots of smiles on North American faces after that one I
think there Jacob should be you know that's a great whistle for energy I think
you get the sentiment from speaking to tonight's world that this is a very
much a new team. There's a lot of work to be done. There's a bootcamp coming up and I
almost get the feeling that he's excited for the bootcamp in order to finally get to work,
work on some of those T-SARDS work on integrating Grimm, figuring out how he wants to use him
and what he can be used for. However, I win right here in terms of the VIS, that's
gathering them some more points, giving them a bit more leeway and I think beating
Babe 2-0. That's not a bad thing for NRG who still has said a work in progress.
I think they should be happy, they should be proud. No doubt that in that lower
bracket was either Aurora or Furia, they are going to be the underdog in that
So I guess they can play freed up now. You know, I think I think nitro is a little too nice
I don't think you wanted to say it. They're not supposed to win that game
He knows it the way he's talking about it. He knows that they're looking ahead
They're looking for this boot camp. He keeps referencing it. They want to change their T sides
They barely got any time. They only got discriminates wildcard with multiple players in Europe
That's insane that that's like their only practice for a week with this player. It's it's not a game
they're supposed to win and
Bait really kind of dropped the ball here. I think we have to say that.
You had the individual drill show up for NRG and CS is an individual game to some extent,
but still Bait had to find a way to at least push it to three maps.
Yeah, I mean we do need to talk about Bait a little bit more and to start that conversation
I did have a little bit of an exit interview with MPL, so let's give that a watch.
And Pierre, tough day in the office for you guys today.
What do you think went wrong with that series?
I don't know to be honest because I wasn't like in that
in that places on the map where we lost our control, I don't know, so I'm asking to say.
And atmosphere overall, right? I mean obviously the inferno went very strong in the way of NRG, Grim,
a force in the server, then the slow start on Ancient, do you think part of that was
the surprise of how the inferno had gone? How do you sort of make sure that the team's coming in
in the right mentality?
Well, we had a right mentality, I don't know. Probably like just wasn't aiming good, you know, like everything I can say when we lose, like we were aiming good and playing bad, that's it, I don't know.
Understood. And looking at the tournament as a whole, right, you guys had that tight series against Navi, but now you're out 0-2 in the tournament. What do you think about Bates current state?
Tough state, but it is what it is. I don't know.
Do you have some reason for optimism for the future?
Thinking about Sizi, he's still very new into the roster.
What do you think about his development as a player?
As I said before, it's hard to say because we are not playing good as a team, so...
His performance now, so, yeah.
And what's next for you guys? What's the next event?
I will play tier 2 LAN, I don't know where, but yeah.
That's the world of the VRS, well good luck at that one and we'll see you the next time.
Not so great for Bait, tough sledding here at the Blast Open, Rotterdam.
They'll be off to some VRS LAN somewhere in the world, they don't even know where.
Ain't that the life of a Counter-Strike player in 2026?
It's a very rough state for Bait right now, you could also send that from NPL.
Obviously not happy about being the first team eliminated from this tournament, but even more so looking at VIS looking at the future of this lineup
Let's just remind ourselves that four or five months ago. They were kind of like a stable at the bigger tournaments
They were you know safe and sound in the VIS system
There are one of the teams that you would look towards maybe punching above their weight at certain tournaments now
We were looking at a team that is in free fall. They're at the risk of not qualifying for the major
They lost what is it seven out of the last eight games now can't beat an NIT who just signed a new player as well
online in the studio. I see a lot of reason to be worried on behalf of Pate right now.
I think as much as we can say that the VRS is something they're concerned about,
I think that the impression I'm getting from that interview is it's more about just the
gameplay that the team, as you're saying, they were four or five months ago, they were a staple
in these tournaments. You were looking at them as can they make the next step to actually beat
tier one teams consistently. They could make an upset or two and now they're losing to
an NRG with a new player. They're losing five matches in a row. They can't close things out.
This is the state of bay. I think NPL would be happier if they could just win some games, even if the VRS wasn't accounted for.
They just need to find their footing so that they can actually get back to a level where they're confident and they can start trying to challenge again.
I think it's the stressing as well for the team state where, you know, we're asking about, okay, well, is it the integration of the new plan?
It's like, well, we can't even really judge him because everything else is not going well, right? We're not playing well around him.
How can you accurately judge Sissi and his debut at this level of play?
And also to harken back to something we talked about in the pre-match interviews,
Alex was saying it would be easier on them here because they have their coach with them.
Well, it didn't make a difference, right?
You talk about the mentality.
They looked shell-shocked coming into ancient off of that Inferno,
and it really didn't seem like they had reset.
I think it's just very distressing.
Yeah, and I think that's a fair sentiment as well.
You know, you can't really put the fault on Sissi.
You know, how are you going to judge whether he's a good player,
I know if the entire team is not working out so and that aspect I very much agree with what MPL
However, when he's also saying that he doesn't really know what went wrong because it was on a different side that he was playing on
It sounds to me like that's a team. That's not in synergy right now
Obviously, you're the ex in-game leader of this team
You are the biggest voice as we said coming into the game as well to my understanding
You've been the best player for quite some time as well if you just you know hands off being like well
It didn't happen on my side
So I don't know then that's not a team that is really working together in order to figure it out
So I have a lot of reasons to be worried on behalf of bait that interview didn't help me at all
Yeah, we talked about them in their first entry into this tournament as a team that had ripped up the floor to try and
Raise the ceiling well now it seems like the house might be a danger of collapsing
But we will have to see if they can get the renovations all back on track in future events for now
bait are done here at the blast open Rotterdam and we have some
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Yeah.
Do you think they'll pull off the upset?
The thing is, Mike, you have to forecast what's going to happen.
They're going to lose the next game, so unfortunately,
if they're not going to, you should have invested in them a bit earlier.
I'm going to throw something into the mix there,
and you can shop it out if you want to.
We have face with Tyloo coming up.
I think this could be the...
Well, face is already dead, too, to some extent.
I think Tyloo can win that game,
and I think there's pretty good value on a team like Tyloo,
and I feel frisky.
It's Friday, frisky Friday.
Why don't we put some coins on Tyloo to beat face?
I don't know if I'll lose to you, but I would bet on Tyloo.
I think everybody else is agreeing with you because they're actually just ranked in between
Furia and Spirit right now in value, but you know what, we'll do it, we'll do it.
You're wish my command, we're throwing 250 blast bucks in on Tyloo Stonks.
So they're already performing high, we'll see if they keep performing higher as we
buy in on the dragons in our next matchup.
Pretty excited for that one, but before we do that, I have to tell you about something
else I'm downright thrilled for, and that is the next blast event coming on
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Welcome back to the Blast Open Rotterdam where we are set to take the stage for our
second game of the day. It's FaZe Clan taking on Pailu in a match with massive VRS implications
and implications for the major at that. Still here on the desk with me, we got Pimp and Voo.
Wow, what a game this could be. The implications of this elimination, lower bracket, first round
of the lower bracket matchup feel massive. I think that's the best way to sort of frame
where we're at right now with FaZe Clan, that we're looking at a FaZe Clan that could be eliminated,
get lost at a blast tournament in a group stage and also potentially risking out on the Major.
That's how fads come. It's not about FaZe, you know, maybe not getting into the playoffs anymore,
it's not about FaZe not winning trophies, they're getting into quarter-final, semi-final.
We're talking about a team that is risking missing out on the Major. And they have to beat
Tyloo in the best of three in order to make sure that they get further away from that
horrible, horrible, horrible scenario.
So, yeah, I think there's a lot of stake right here,
but if anything, it's just some of us
where Faze find themselves at the moment.
If we're being honest, I think we all expected them
to lose to Aurora.
I think we were a little surprised
that Jacob had a great game
and they still managed to lose to Aurora.
I think we were expecting, you know,
when Jacob has a pop-off map, you want them to win.
Then you come into Tyloo.
This is where it's questionable if they lose.
Tyloo's a team.
They should be beating on paper.
This is a phase roster with the likes
of Kerrigan, Twist, Frozen.
They shouldn't be losing to a Tyloo, but Tyloo is such an incredible upset team.
It's really hard to keep them down, but you can't be happy if you're FaZe.
But there's even a question.
If FaZe are playing at a level that they should be playing at, there should be no question.
They take this one 2-0.
And yet there are so many questions that remain to try and answer.
Some of them, I had a conversation with Kerrigan.
Young player.
I think it was really good game by him.
I remember the round on Inferno that looked like he was spin-bottling on a side.
So really good performance for him. We have seen it here and there and hopefully you can continue that, right?
There's no secret that we had had problems with consistency, individual players around the whole team, and team performance.
So it is something we're trying to work on, trying to make more basic stuff and having obviously some more high-risk calls
and we try to balance that really good, giving space for people to do individual moves and have a plan behind it as well.
as well, so it is a work in progress, but most of all we have really focused on our
advantage as a team, surviving a lot more. I think one of the problems we had is that
we like to play with our economy too much, so we are focused on trying to survive four
or five people. It means I can make more interesting calls knowing our economy is behind our backs
and I think that's why we had a really good nuke against our role.
And bringing those adjustments into the match up against Thailu here, they can
be a dangerous opponent, what do you think about them?
Yeah, I mean I tried to look some data that hasn't been much since the Budapest major right so they have been be able to cook a lot at home
They always hard to play the play a lot of confidence. They come here to Europe. They want to show what they can
And it's a hard opponent. I mean let's just look at the years ranking. That's kind of like
That's a lie. They're not hundreds of ten in the world. We all know that so it is a game
We need to be on our toes and has always been like that with the Asians years and I'm just don't fall to play
But obviously it is going to be a tougher game than it looks on paper, that's for sure.
And one final thought, speaking of the VRS rankings, we know that the pressure is on for you guys in terms of getting some wins, keeping yourselves in the conversation for the major.
What's the messaging to the team overall about objectives at this event?
I mean, it's trying to improve and play the basics. Good. I mean, we can want to win, but in the end, playing Aurora, who comes from Pro League finals, right?
We cannot just take that big leap, we can't become the best team in the world.
We're without a coach so we are resetting some stuff in some of the areas.
Pressure? Yeah, I mean even in the face. It's a privilege to be here in the face.
Even when we won in 2022 we didn't win good enough.
So obviously now the pressure is huge and as long as we're in the four walls of the team
we talked about there's no eternal pressure.
They replaced the coach meaning the players are safe if we have quite a little time for the major.
major right so we need to make sure we can show the best counter strike and
this opportunity for us to step up as a team, as an individual, me as a leader
everybody has to do more and I've seen that the past four days, five days, but
we need results so not to shoker that we need to win today and if not we have
a chance in a tie-two event where it's gonna be like a bar fight and I
would prefer not to, I would prefer to come in prepared for a bar fight than
and really have to fight for our lives though.
Fighting for their lives.
I mean, look, he talks about it's a privilege
to have the pressure or there's always gonna be pressure
in the face.
This is a different kind of pressure.
The usual pressure for phases,
why aren't you lifting trophies?
This is, are you even going to make it into the dance?
Do you belong among the best teams
the world of Counter Strike has to offer
to compete in a major?
Yeah, the answer has been a resounding no as of late.
That's not the question anymore.
So you're facing it right here.
The question is, can you stay alive?
Can you somehow stay above water without grinding?
out, you know, making sure that
folks and goes away and twists
seek other avenues and basically
the entire team will crumble.
And that we got. So when you say
you're fighting for your life, I
think that's very much the case
right now for face. And so very
much by what you're saying right
here, Mike, it's a different
kind of pressure. And they're
saying, you know, players that
has tried so much in their
careers, care again, twist
folks and bokeh for that
matter as well. Jacob being
the only new guy who doesn't
have a lot of experience to
be under this kind of pressure.
It's even new to them. The
pressure is usually we're
going into the major. We're
not looking too good. Can we perform at the major? Now the pressure is can we make CS history
coming second at a major and then missing the very next major, which is almost impossible
unless you play at the level that FaZe has played this entire season. It's actually incredible.
It's even on the table. It is pretty astonishing when you put it in those words. They understand
the change has to come through, but the change that has come through so far is
that they've dismissed their coach, right, Neo out of the team after nearly three
years with it and it's felt less like an answer and more like an acknowledgement that there
are problems which will require answers to come at a later day.
Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts about that to be completely...
Share some, Jacob.
No, because I don't think this is the moment and the time for it right now, but the whole
way we've been speaking about Nio, the whole way we've been speaking about Kerrigan
and him, you know, having that coach relationship is that Kerrigan likes to have hands on,
you know, it's his team.
He makes the decision, he needs a coach that is sort of backing him up, you know,
So he never loses control of the team.
That's the way it's been phrased.
That's the way it's been laid out.
So I feel like you remove the one piece where you're like,
you have the least impact at all on what's going on
in FACE right now.
So why would we expect big changes
if the one guy you decided to remove
is the guy who has the least impact on the team?
Personally, not satisfied with it, you know?
Is it fair to remove Nio in isolation?
Maybe.
Is it the only thing that needs to happen
for FACE to come back?
A heart resounding deal.
And we'll keep focusing on Kerrigan
because that's where the conversation
has been on for the interview as well.
individual form has continued on a decline that's kind of what we expect. He's an older player,
he's not a player who we necessarily expect to have the impact in, but still there has to be an
upward limit right or a lower limit I suppose. I mean when you look at Kerrigan, he's never been
a great fragger ever since maybe in 2011 maybe he could frag pretty decently. It's always been
a downward trajectory for Kerrigan, but when you look at the tournaments that phase go deep
in when they can have a good run, it's almost universally tournaments where Kerrigan
shows up as an individual and can post a 1.01 rating or a 1.05 where he can actually hold
his own individually. When you see him have these events where now he's the lowest rated
IGL in the top 20, the lowest rated player in the top 20, he can barely crack a 0.8. I think
that's a bar where it's getting to the point it doesn't really matter how good your IGLing is.
Unless you're on a Falcons and I don't think Falcons are reaching out for
for Kerrigan at the moment.
Unless you're on that type of super team,
you need your IGL to do something.
Just do something.
Kerrigan, do something.
Yeah, I think that's why we wanted
to bring in this graphic, Mike, as well,
that the fact that it's been labeled as a non-issue
for a long, long time when you're surrounded by
Rob's twist, folks in that matter as well,
Bokey, when he was playing good cards,
Mike, as well, you could get away
with that 0.89 rating, but it's getting worse
and worse and worse.
And I poised the question a year ago
when it was 0.87, is that too low?
at that threshold where now you have to step it up, Kerrigan.
He's off to his worst start ever as an individual player.
And you said to yourself, you have to go back to 2011.
I'll tell you what, Kerrigan hasn't had a single year
in his professional Counter-Strike Global Offensive
or CS2 career where he finished above one rating.
Never, ever in his career has he tried that.
So it's getting to a point now where I agree with you.
When you're on a team that is then struggling,
then you have to take some responsibility as well.
And I think his individual output right now
is also part of the issue in faces.
Not the issue, it's part of it.
And the problem is that it is just part of it, right?
Because normally when an IGL is struggling,
maybe the stars can compensate.
But some of the stars have been dull in the face camp.
In particular, we wanted to talk about twists.
He's been vocal about the fact that he's
looking to find himself, that he's
looking to reinvent himself.
And there's good reason for it.
He's having one of his worst years as a professional.
I'm getting like a South Park reference right here.
You know, they killed Kenny.
They kind of killed Twist as well.
Came in to face it so fantastically well
in the beginning.
One would imagine.
I remember saying this at a couple of death segments.
Where would Face be if Twist didn't come in
plays a beautiful counter strike. What we found out right here right now with a
close missing the Major. That's what happened when Twist is not saving there
is. I don't blame Twist for getting into a team doing so well and then along the
way losing himself not really figuring it out at the moment but my god face
without Twist that's what you get you get a team that is barely
qualifying for the Major. I mean you go back to a Leige we saw a Leige join
this roster everyone question was a Leige the problem they go on this
downturn. I think the reality is without a Leige popping off they
brought in twists. Twist is popping off without a player on the T side finding
those openings. I think that's what Kerrigan relies on a player to find an
opening so we can call in the mid rounds without that player doing so with twist
struggling with no Elysian anymore with frozen as the only solid player on
this roster with consistency. They're not they have the worst T side in the
top 20 right now by a decent margin. They're below 40% win rate on T
sides. They can't do anything. And as much as you know, you can say
Kerrigan needs to frag better. I think he needs to call a different style with this team unless they can find a way for twist to activate again
He touched on that a little bit in the interview saying that they were trying to stay alive a little bit more
Not be that classic phase where you fight with everything fight with every force by trying to make the improbable round to happen
There is a little bit of redefinition going on
But my question to you guys before we start the conversation about Tai Lu is what would you like to see from phase?
Because we spelled out the problems we spelled out the doom and gloom
So in this series against the team that is still also finding the footing
What would you like to see from this phase roster to give you some hope?
It's very hard to pick one thing to be completely honest, but a bit more composure
I think is the best because I agree we've been here in care again
And we've been hearing face talk about that DNA and that DNA has always been you know run down your opponents
You know run down the throat
You know be aggressive go for the duel if you want to go for the play if you want to I think those days
When your players are lost of confidence, when you're not winning, when your T-sets are
striking, you have to revert back a little bit and show a bit more composure.
So I like what Kerrigan is saying.
He's probably seeing the same thing as I have, you know, and they probably know way,
way better than we do watching from the outside, but a bit more composure on the
server and that will probably help getting some of those fundamentals back to obviously
skilled players.
Yeah, I'd like to see maybe a tiny bit more structure at times to get the players
a little more activated because we're seeing a phase roster where Twists is being
thrown in.
frozen frozen struggled a lot in the previous series. It seems to be no matter
who is having a good game. If Twiz is finally popping off, if Broke he has a
great game somehow the rest of the roster seems to find a way to fail. So
composure maybe is the right way to put it. You need the players to be on the
same page to play together. The problem is at the moment phase look
like a dead team walking. It looks like the team themselves don't believe
that they can win and so they always find a way to lose. But when it
be face magic to when you are the most down on this roster find that
a little bit of a spark. See who can come from. It's going to be Broke on the
AWP for the FaZe Clan. Over on the other side is where we have G coming in for
Tai Lu. Always a bit of a spark plug. Always a whole lot of fun to watch.
He's a whole lot of fun to watch and also as Karrigan said, it's better
while since we've seen Tai Lu play tournament after tournament. So we
haven't really seen much from G. We haven't seen much from Tai Lu and this
whole matchup between G and Broke. Personally I feel like there's one
AWPer better than the other and it's not Broke anymore and that's
again part of the issue within face clan G to me is a better performing AWP player than Brokey's
Brokey is currently I believe the worst-rated non-IGL in the top 20 it's not looking too great
for Brokey that's it that's an offer that you would say is a top 20 offer of all time but he's
just not been performing to a level that's acceptable it's just not an acceptable level if
you want face to find success and you're speaking about phase magic phase magic isn't
Winning against Tyloo in the lower bracket round one not going out. Oh, too
Mike phase magic is when you win the major when you come to the finals of the major
Well, they did that but for now, let's talk a little bit more about Tyloo
And I did want to hear from the man himself Jay
How are you feeling today?
Feuding good. Yeah
Coming into a matchup against phase phase obviously team with a lot of story names on that roster
How do you think you match up?
You're a good-looking zombie.
Hmm...
50-50.
50-50? Climb flip? Yeah!
Alright, on the AWPing, though, you and Brokey. Who's better?
Hmm...
Jam Young better.
Jam Young better? Then both of you. Is he gonna be picking up the AWP?
John King will pick take up take off okay all right we're mixing everything up
here what are you gonna do then you're gonna be just running in and ripping
heads we're doing like tech nine what's what's you're gonna what's your play
gonna be today hi there sorry again what are you gonna do that if he's doing
all the op-ang what are you gonna do I'm coach today let's go boy sick so
We're swapping everything up, but for you Tyler with zero young player new player. How is he?
Zero yet genius. He had only 4,000 maybe 5,000 hours in Conestrager and
Yeah, he has yes. He is very young and
I believe in him. Yeah
How good do you think he can be? Can he be top 20? Can he be top 10 top 5?
Top 0. Top 0. Better than anyone. Yeah, top 0. There you go. Zero, top 0. I love to see it.
Alright, good luck to Deji. Thank you so much, my pleasure. I love talking to G. Zero, top 0.
Gonna be the best player ever. I have been talking to some of my friends in the region just to get a little bit of a read on this young guy.
young guy because he kind of came out of nowhere. He played about a year with the team that let's
be honest none of us have really watched play. He comes into this Tyloo team. He's apparently a
little bit of a social media star over in China. He was on Weeboo. Some of his clips went pretty
viral. He was playing Lans with a team that they called One Green, Four Red in that all of his
teammates would just get absolutely wrecked and he would God carry them through maps.
So, he's an exciting prospect. He's very much an unknown still, but this name that seems to be just a huge natural talent to Counter Strike that could really light the world on fire for kind of...
I'm honestly excited to see them play. Karrigan said it. We haven't seen them much since the Budapest Major, and what we saw at that Major was a little bit lackluster, which is also why they made the roster change.
bring in this guy, Sarah, and you're right on. I would be lying if I said that I watched
a lot of his game. Obviously, you look him up, you try to figure out what he's all about,
what are some of the tendencies that he can do. But at the end of the day, the only way
we learn and they learn and everyone else learns about him is playing on a stage like
this. So I'm for once excited to learn about a new prospect, a new player as well.
And I'm also excited to see Tyloo as a unit because people are kind of downplaying
them to a point where like, this is a bad team, you know, they're going to lose
all their games. Tyloo have been competitive for a long time. And I think in all the
they're playing, they're always showing up competitive.
Not always getting the results they want,
but they put up a good fight.
Yeah, I mean, Zero was playing with one green for Red.
Now they're playing against one green for Red.
I think he's going to feel at home with this one.
I think it's wrong to categorize
Tyloo as a weak team.
I think you're right.
I think they're a team that no matter who they come up
against, they come in with a really solid game plan.
And they tend to pick up a map even
against the best teams in the world.
When they play them, they can either make a map really
close, bring it to OT, or they can pick up a map.
So you're looking at them against FaZe.
I think there's almost a guaranteed three maps, especially with zero.
Even if he's a bit of an unknown, I think Attacker wasn't the solution for them.
They needed to find a replacement.
Zero may be the solution.
I've liked what I've seen so far.
Okay. Guaranteed three maps.
You haven't even seen the veto yet.
So why not? Let's roll the veto.
Let's see what maps they're going to be.
I am excited for this one.
I think you guys have put it very nicely, right?
Which, Tyloo, their ranking just doesn't describe how dangerous the team this is.
But let's see what maps we are going to play.
We've got the Mirage coming through from FaZe.
What do we make of this one?
I mean, it makes sense. I think Tyloo, right, picked the map, not a big surprise.
That's been a staple for them pretty much throughout the entirety of the international history of the lineup as well.
So that makes sense, also a map where Xero can probably express himself a bit more.
The Ancient pick coming in for FaZe, that's also been a staple of those.
I will say that's one of the few maps where I kind of know what I'm getting from FaZe.
A somewhat high level of Counter-Strike, despite them not winning all the time.
So I'm not too unhappy about that, but that also, you know, screams three maps to me.
The problem with FaZe right now is their only good map, or you could call it a good map, is Dust2.
And that's Tyloo, one of the only teams out here that typically banned Dust2.
So you bring them away from their best map, they have to go for Mirage, they have to go for Ancient, where they're on a five map slide.
This is the maps that you want to see Tyloo on if you want to see them maybe take this one home.
Yeah, Overpass is world third deciding map. That's the one game we've seen Tyloo in this tournament so far do a good job against Furia.
Let us see T side made a massive comeback on the T side. So we're not gonna lie
You know the more I speak about this game the more think about this game and you know just the fact that I've lost complete faith in face
I could see the opposite happen here. I could see Tyler winning this game
It really does feel like we're starting to build a case and that case is becoming stronger and stronger with each data point that we get oh
Are you buying in are we buying in to the Tyler resurgence?
We haven't seen them play this level of competition with zero other than the fury a game. No
That's the issue. We don't know what we get from Tyler yet. It's still a bit of an unknown since the Budapest Major
We know what we get from face, which is why I'm willing to take the gamble on this one
I'd still say face are the favorites on paper, but I wouldn't be surprised. I'd say Jacob that you know
I've been a Kerrigan fan for a long time. I think he's the best IGL of all time
I want Tyler to win this put phase out of their misery
Put just put them down take them out back and this whole
experiment and we can find frozen a good team we can find care again a good
yes and we can find twisted good team and we move on from phase you want
tyloo to old yellow one of the most storied teams in counter strike yes
that's I think in Denmark we call it a mercy kill you know you you hit a
bird or whatnot you know the bird is still squeaking a little bit you walk
out of your car you snap the neck of it and then you you did a good thing I
think that's what tyloo can do here today I guess we'll find out if
If Tyloo can give a mercy kill over towards FaZe,
if this horse is headed to the glue factory
because, man, you can't help but be a little romantic,
that stallions run some good races back in their day.
I agree and it hurts me to say,
because I'm a big fan of frozen,
I'm a big fan of Kerrigan,
I'm a big fan of Twist for that matter as well,
to be completely honest.
I think there's still players that in a year from now
and they could be on different teams
or they could even be a part of the coin FaZe Clan
and do good stuff, but FaZe as a team right now,
removing Nero, having watched them play the first four tournaments of the season.
I've just been disappointed every single time, Mike, so it's hard for me to buy
stock into face right now. If anything, I think it's up to them to earn the respect
once more. We've given them a lot of leeway, you know, for a lot of years, you
know, because of the magic and because of the story. Now it's time for face to
re-earn the respect for now. I don't think there's a lot of respect to be
put on their name. Well, I've got a desk here that is out for blood, but
What do you guys think Anders and Henry G?
What a grim picture there with their words.
Quite graphic mental images coming to mind.
Anders, what are your thoughts in this matchup?
Why did it keep getting worse all the time?
Like, it's just the image.
Yeah, it kept doubling down.
So wild.
Kapping next, round the back of the barn,
it had everything.
I tend to agree with the sentiment,
not necessarily the wording,
but yeah, this feels like do or die time for Fade right now.
Their major is up for conversation right now.
Going against Tyler as well.
They lose this game, they go down like four points I think in the VRS rankings, things aren't looking good.
Fair enough, yesterday they lost against Aurora, that's a game you don't expect them to win.
Tyloo on the other hand lost to Furia, kind of a similar story, but you would expect Faze to be taking down Tyloo with the new roster.
I have no idea about this kid, Zero. Have you managed to watch him play at all for Tyloo?
I don't have a good read on him to be honest, it's going to be a bit of a surprise.
I hope that he's going to be able to slot in, but yeah, this Tyloo team I think is self-destroying through some struggles.
I don't know if they were strong as they really were at some point last year.
I feel like they were a much more interesting team.
But for FaZe, I've got to be honest, the thing that worries me,
you know, if I had a penny for every time I've doubted FaZe and then they came back,
I'd have maybe at least like 20, 30 pennies, which is not a lot.
It's a lot of comebacks, a lot of surprises, you know,
it keeps happening.
So that's the only thing that worries me.
I can't even give you a reason beyond the fact that every time I doubt FaZe,
they do something wild.
Well, that's the favourites here, that they should be winning this game,
in my opinion. The problem is players like Jam Young, players like G, especially the former,
Jam Young can be an absolute world-class rifler if he gets in this zone. It's very difficult to
shut down. He can go toe-to-toe with twists and frozen. It just depends whether he turns up. He
does not turn up very often, but when he does, it's an absolutely spectacular display. And
the fact they removed Gus too as well from FaZe's map pool, that does not bode well. I
think this is a 50-50 game. I'd like to see FaZe win. I don't want this team to just
to disintegrate and disappear and not make a major.
I think we need them in Counter Strike
that the most fun and chaotic team to watch at times.
But bear in mind, they have no coach right now.
They will groove you behind in the assistant coach.
It's gonna be a rough one.
It's gonna be tough to get this one over the line.
Yeah, there is a weird atmosphere around the team
at the moment that's hard to shake off
and it's definitely getting to them a little bit.
They're not performing like themselves.
Some of the players obviously we know,
frozen can be very good.
We know twists can be very, very good.
I mean, Jacob is a very unfortunate situation
because he's going to look worse in the light of the chaos of the team, no matter what in my opinion.
But if they can all come together today, then maybe they can keep on battling through this one.
I kind of all want to see FaZe go to the playoffs though. They feel like they should be there.
I don't know. I don't know. I want to see this game first. I want to see what level we're putting down.
Karrigan was very candid in his interview. He was saying like he's aware of the dire straits they found themselves in right now.
Now it's simply not acceptable the counter-strike they're playing at this stage in their careers.
We expect so much more from the GOATS in-game leader, slowly but surely losing that status, I think,
with the pieces he has and the lack of results.
And it's getting alarming at this point, Anders.
Yeah, a lot to make up for. Hopefully they could do it now as we head into the opening map here of the series.
Phase plus a Tyler with everything on the line.
Tyler is starting at the T side phase on the CT side.
Good in a little bit of utility on the T side as well, but not much
Looks to be a B finish quite early on we have one smoke and a Molotov courtesy of Mercury
And it's going to be Carrigan
There are a lot of teams like to punish the side of the map and target those in-game leaders
Carrigan's fragging has left a lot to be desired this season, especially
We'll see what we can hold on he's been gifted the Julli's and Kevlar set up toward that side of the map
And in terms of exploration we'll see the CTs are up to as he vacated the bombsite almost entirely
they're pushed in towards T spawn Anders.
Yes they have, so could be very exciting, roundy, a carrigan, up in the hallways another
couple of seconds and his backup is going to be there but he can't live long enough.
Jamion will take him down instead, two people left on Tyloo's side and they do not have
a bomb plant yet to really make this around a hard one for FaZe and he could see Brokey.
He's sneaking in, he's seen the gun barrel, he knows the kill, it's a couple of seconds
away from E1 going like this and now it's a bit of a distraction as well.
out Jamion gets out alive? How's he got to live through this? Now he gets a chance
where they can lock in his banding. Some sickening headshots. Broke he and Jacob. Yeah, deleted.
Not even a bomb higher right now. Finally they got around to that. But they had him
locked in. They had him pushed up against the wall. Isolated in that hallway and still
they could not find the kill on him. Seven health left unfrozen and Merc Q will
take him down. A big flop there from FaZe.
Let's just talk about the fundamentals here. You've got a three versus two. The bombs
not planted, you wait for them to at least tap the bomb, you eliminate one of the players
there, then you strike in together, then you manage to overwhelm them, take down the one
player that's not planting, they overstep the ma, they get too keen to try and get the
kills and they get absolutely dominated by jam young. Like I said, if he's hitting hard
he is one of the best players on the server. There's a perfect display of it right there.
Really calm with the glock, he's getting two heads and he's going to pop them off
no problem. You should have waited for the plant, you should have taken your time
and he flubbed it.
It felt like Brokie was seconds away from sneaking up on him,
but then they kind of alerted themselves to the fact
that the flank was happening, and suddenly, well,
this is the result.
Oh, frustration, no question about it.
Oh, lads.
Boy, oh boy, that's just first round.
I'm already in the bin.
Yeah.
That mantle's gone.
One round in.
Oh, that should have been there all day long.
Just a bit of discipline.
Use the man advantage.
Don't force the issue.
Make them plant.
They haven't even tapped the bomb yet, lads.
Yeah, three CTs around.
Like, sure.
You had maybe the advantage of two players swinging in.
You think you could have hit that kill,
but he's got the head shot position.
He can duck and weave behind that bat.
He can crouch.
He can move back and forth.
You're the one that have to expose yourselves
and expose yourselves you did.
Whole round is on such a knife's edge,
Perceiving that the start when Kerrigan was fighting Jam Young to begin with, the backup was there, like if Kerrigan leaves two more seconds, and they had the perfect read as well, they had CTs pushing in through T spawn, they knew exactly what was coming.
We won't dwell on it too long, but yeah, just not the kind of round you want to see to kick things off there.
We will see the purchase coming through round number two, whether they force or take the eco, of course it's the technical issue to kick things off, not what you want to see straight away, and it looks to be the eco here.
So, the pick of Tai Lu, a recovery of the man, disadvantage there, three on two goes in that favor, courtesy of Chiam Young.
And that's what I said, if he gets going, he hits hard as any top five player in the world.
He is exceptionally good with the rifles, just not as consistent as some of the world's best.
Yeah, I think the team has a whole struggle to find that consistency, but I absolutely agree with you.
When he's in the zone, there's something really magical about watching him go to work.
I hope we get the honor of that today because that would be quite something second round here
And like you pointed out upgraded some pistols with nothing else really happening here for the phase side
So frozen's gonna get a chance maybe carrying him with another eagle from that should be a bit of a quiet round
Talu
You like some of the
Wait a minute hold the phone carrying snuck in so let's get the head shots a little bit messy, but
Drop down on the left. We'll take it.
Let's see whether FaZe can hold on here.
Not checking the boost to be a problem,
but well, there it is.
A USP doesn't have the firepower to hold on.
There was the full eco.
They get our kill, but that's about it.
We go 2-0 now.
As Tyloo, we'll have four players surviving.
First going around, coming up next.
They won't have the luxury of the brookie AWP.
He'll go for the M4.
be the same set up for the rest of the phase roster here ready for round number three who
really set the tone as to which way this one is going we need to see some signs of life early from
phase yeah you're not going to be able to fold your obviously but you're right that was a disappointing
pistol round if they can't quickly repair the damage there who knows what's going to happen jam
young is alone at the top of mid flash around the corner and jump in with no helmet I think
Karrick and is blown up twist out moving forward and he gets double peak zero the one to pick up the shot there
And now that's scrambling to get back into the bomb site here good taps from bro key
But no kill on the connection yet. He's gonna be able to get that one a Mosier
Three versus three but a wide swing for bro key before the backup is there come on. Jake. What are you gonna kill trying to get?
That's all I can as the headshot what we're looking for zero and jam young
Jam young's coming into the cowboy position. I don't think they know just yet
He hasn't shot anyone in this round so it could be a surprise and Jacob has not reloaded yet eight bullets
He's just not sure if he can safely get the reloading now down to the USP shot in the side of the head by jam
Young instead and again frozen is very low here
Nade if you didn't fall back there. He would have been dead. I'm still got 50 seconds
So he can't find the bomb here zero. It's all the way in front
It's gonna say could try to escape to the a bomb site with the time that's left
But now it's just a standoff both players
Very low indeed, who will blink first?
Who will make that first move here?
You're right, he can make his way towards the A-Cyber.
Frozen, hit strike, is he gonna commit to the plant?
After frozen now with no cap, comes out the one-bullet.
Who will land best first?
Advantage zero, new boy in the block, see what he can do.
Great position, he knows that frozen,
if he jumps out he's gonna make some noise
so he's just taking the only position
really that frozen can walk into.
Straight, health shot, health didn't matter at all.
Eddie is very, very smart.
Great positioning there.
He couldn't have played that better if he tried.
As you mentioned, he knows he's in towards the apartments.
His only point of access is if he were jumping down
and making a sound cue or face checking multiple angles
from the B apartments himself.
So that's what he went for.
And yeah, well played from zero.
Ice cold, committed to the plant.
He did have a helmet, by the way.
He did, you're right.
He just tried so quick.
Yes.
That's a good one to be not.
And I'll fair play to Jacob.
He kept that round alive.
The only reason that's close to the J for getting
but zero. First of all it's got to commentate him and that's an impressive cerebral clutch I would say.
He's up to five and one. Three zero overall. These rounds though,
phase are always dangerous. Twists, one of the best eagle players on the planet. See what he can do with it.
I think he'd have some early impact. It's been some very very rough rounds here for phase
right out the gate close all the time but not quite able to actually win the
rounds and that frustration is going to build pretty quickly I think. Not a ton
of money on Tyloo so that's something to think about maybe they can get rid
of it and start to pull together some rounds here. Kerrigan, he's burned out of the corner.
It's a very nice Molotov to be honest and what's going to be Bonsai looks
very undefended here. Headshot from Jacob, twists he lands that one.
There it is. Advantage still with Tyloo here. Bomb should be planted. It's a nice open one as well. Of course, there's no kits available here.
No real U-Tank. Retake utility as we will see a smoke and a flash.
Oh, the AK has been blown out of contention.
Three of them head towards Short. They spotted it, but it's still not the time to recover.
Okay, take care of it. I like that.
That's a great shot by Jam Young in the corner takes a couple of kills and a very confident tap from Moshe
Frozen low on health and he's got no chance here. It's another close round. They keep getting almost there, but not quite
They're doing very well. Like we said twist is deadly with the Desert Eagle gets a beautiful shot that from the window
Jacob with a couple as well through the smoke now is lovely from twist, but
Nice job. Jacob with a couple. He's looking sharp this tournament.
He's under a lot of scrutiny in this phase Jersey, but he can't deny a skill.
We give him a target in here, more often than not, he'll connect.
4-0, changing things up here. We are going to have...
Looks to be a bit A-split here. We have a 3-plane towards the top of middle.
They're lining up utility early towards the A-Ramp.
Maybe just trying to bait out some of the CT
Bits and pieces here
Jake playing in front of the util confirming the no one's coming through smokes down as you can see
Towards jungle and the steps
What a setup this is if you peek into the wall and then Jacob is in front of it still
But you might not be put into play the way that they were looking for there's already so much pressure in the middle that they had to escape and
So quick he wasn't even aiming that I think he was aiming at the other side of it
What a sicko. I'd love to see that from his point of view. Jacob very smart takes the kill.
The bombers on the other side if he could find G as well that would be disastrous for Tyloo.
Jacob is looking very sharp right now. It bodes well for face. Need to convert this round of course
but Jacob playing confidence CS pushing angles reading the game well. Problem is they've lost
track of Mercury and he is deep behind enemy lines. Controlling the murder hole.
Frozen aware of it as he peeks towards the shadow definitely does and
Jacob is already low that's unfortunate for him. Back to a four and three.
Karagan, Frozen and Brokey. We haven't even mentioned Brokey yet really. He's got
the AWP. Oh gosh they are getting absolutely walloped in the individual
jewels right now. By one person. Night and day in terms of the skill we're
seeing. Oh Karagan. Oh my god you're gonna need at least two. He can get to
here what and a half that's round that is unfortunately especially because that
AWP so valuable here on brookie not gonna be worth it
could stick around for an exit but even this has got me worried save that all
brookie if you go down that is it's not really gonna make a huge difference if
you get one and survive he gets this kill okay that's fine is he fancy it
no say surely not there is a version of brookie so the distant past now
that would have tried this but I feel like no longer put a round for Mercury. Three kills,
very well done. Definitely a moment of potential problems there with G peeking up against Jacob
that that could have been bad but at least these rounds are no blowouts. As soon as they win one
the money is going to be broken for Tybur. The problem is there's now five in a row.
Don't have the coach behind them.
They have to be the assistant but Mercury, playing like an absolute animal right now.
It kills, he's hitting.
What can you even do about that?
Yeah.
The dink, the head shot on the zero.
Unfortunately.
Okay, no time out.
We will continue the maximum loss bonus when he's not too bad with the save door,
broke you, he was able to drop one rifle.
And we're going for a straight up ace at P. Sanders.
This looks to be more of a palace hop to play as he's in that position.
Present shown towards middle.
courtesy of G.
Doesn't even need his AWP right now.
He'll come join the squad.
So two out of the palace.
Three towards the A ramp.
Frozen.
Normally so good in these sort of positions.
He used to have his wingman rain with him.
This time it's Jacob.
And they hold them off.
We're about to find out.
Oh, Molotov down on top of Frozen.
He's burned out of the corner.
Jango I think falls to his death but Sero is getting the entries no matter what.
Good shot on the Karagun, this might be all over.
They're not even putting up a fight here.
They didn't even get a kill, it was a team kill.
They ran into their own flames.
Yeah.
And you said at least the silver lining in the past, the fact that he was close.
Now four people alive here for Tyloo.
Nice change of pace.
Tyloo looking razor sharp with the AKs right now.
And that's the difference maker.
The crosshair placement, spacing, coordination, every facet of the game, I can't poke any holes in there.
Everything's looking spectacular.
Yeah, if you can hear sort of a distant sound of the background picked up by our microphones, that's just Jacob and Roo that are sharpening their knives out back somewhere.
They're really cool.
Oh my God. I can't believe what I'm seeing.
phase
It was a bit of a brutal study. It wasn't what we were expecting, but
They look very flat right now
Starting off on the opening map. It's not what you're expecting
Timeout called again. They don't have Neil behind them
It certainly do not it's gonna be groovy
Oh, this is a rough one boys
Difficult to dig yourself out of this hole. No one really been activated just yet. You've got Jacob
4 kills, frozen 5, twists of 1 and 5, he got a nice 1d, we really need to see more out of him
and Brokey especially in a map like, Marauder's CT side, he needs to be setting the pace and look at Janion go
he actually took himself down, got a Molotov, another single kill picked up
that A-Bombsite used to be rock solid back in the day for FaZe when Rain was there with them
Yeah true, so disappointing that they can't just even find the one, even one kill would have set
twist up coming in from connected to do something more okay so change of pace
it maybe get a bit more aggressive yes it looks like twist is that enough of
this now wants to display his own level of skill but so aligned in the smoke he
gets away with it for now he goes down in the end Jacob double kill from way
downtown gets jamming a mercury first advantage they've had since the
pistol anders I like it it just at the attempt for phase to try to do
anything differently and it did work out even if the flashbangs very nearly
foiled twist completely. They ended up with a man lead.
It's stuck on this A-Rap for a long time. I...
Yeah, time to go see if you could set it up.
Mercury's no longer alive, but Mojus hit some good shots, and Sierra's actually 8 and 2.
Come on, bro. You hit this.
Yeah, you got to carry this. It's in and there.
He's going to be faking it from the back, but it's going to be another 10, 15 seconds
where he gets there. Flash to set it up.
Really good timing, and a little bit of a peek up coming in.
Jacob not hitting the headshot.
But the Orp is still here, Broke is surely you get this one. Another flashbang and this time in the death mojure
He will open up with a double and I don't even know what to say
He had a couple of opportunities there, but the flashes have been so good that utility use for Tyloo shuts down the phase sniper
Now it's just frozen. Yeah, dude. This is a world-class key-side mirage so far. Yeah, it might fall apart
Frozen does like a clutch or two, but G holds on
perfect game, perfect play, and everyone looking so locked in for Tai Lu, a statement for them.
We haven't really seen them play in Europe since, what, they should play ground? That's been
lapsed in a month since then, so they've been in the lab. New player coming in zero since we
very handy as well, but you're right, it's a teamwork. They're not taking any risks. One
overstep in the market, so they have the advantage of the fight. One flashbang,
shuts them all down. This is one of the things that was lacking so hard in Chinese
counter-shiting in the past, they would go for way more of those high-risk duels
believing that they had the aim and you know what they did have the aim, but
against top-level opposition the flashback just makes the difference there.
Huge coming in from the 7-0. These are the sort of rounds though that
FaZe can win. When they're backs into the wall, they purchase up a few weapons
the star players need to shine there. Frozen and Jacob leading the way.
Broke you down to a deagle. Swiss on the Famous. Yeah sure, FaZe fan, that's
all you're thinking about like where's the where's the jump start where's the
spark that's gonna light something in this team hopefully is this round needs
to be but again the discipline here for Tyler was looking very good I can't
stress enough it's been the perfect east side yeah error mistakes good
recovery is fantastic aim spacing execution utility everything gets has
been perfect but the timing is very good you got three man push at the
A ramp but it looks like we're gonna see another B split coming in and they'll they'll realize way too late phase
Tyler we're setting it up. They've got some grenades as well
See if they can smoke off the market flash going over a little bit like this. Yeah, that is good
Karrigan is gonna try really distract here. He does a great job with a headshot here
We got girls out of it, but Jam Yung
I don't know if they will but Jam Yung he's getting so many kills
Oh, no!
He wanted more than the one twists, hoping for a double.
He's going to get nothing instead.
Oh, man.
Loan up once again, Henry.
It was a really nice idea.
You're right, Twist knew he needed more than one.
You can't blame him.
He's not even wrong.
Like, he is.
No, exactly.
You can't blame him.
Like, he's not going to win the round
on one, Famous Kill from the opposition.
He needed two.
And Mosie ahead on a swivel will take him down.
It's getting rough out of there now.
8-0.
I really didn't know what to expect, but I know that I wasn't expecting this.
I mean, yeah, I don't think anyone was.
I'm not going to say it's over yet.
You can still get four rounds.
This is a partial bife in the CTs.
They won all in.
They can bring out the brookie orb going forward.
Nice try.
Good ideas.
They are bringing something to the table, but nothing's working so far.
Halu just running circles around them
You see wants to get a bit messy right now
I think you just need to tell the game to them
I think they're not winning with the default setups. I think he's right if that's what he did say
Let's just start pushing middle
Let's just start getting the door posted up and be and send the rifles out on some fragging
Maybe he's there he either said he wanted things to get messy or he wanted to get messy
Okay, I'm gonna sign messy right now. I then we need to sign messy
What a thing to tell your teammates.
You guys suck.
We need Nezzy.
That's how he is to go.
I think he got Rob with the major MVP.
I think he had such an impact.
I'm standing tall on that.
Yeah, I'm fighting the cyber fans.
Not easy, but I think you should have had it.
Anyway, he's not in this server, not yet anyway.
Round number nine and we need to see something more.
Brookie's back on the AWP.
Twisted's got one kill, Jacob, Frozen are trying to do the best they can
I mean Karagin with four kills, but the output is not there right now for FaZe, that has to change.
A little bit of mid control right now being put in, but most of it is in the B Hallways.
They are coming towards B, but they are changing things up.
So Brokie, this is what you want to see.
Okay.
As we mentioned, Karagin, the weak link in terms of the fragging department of this squad,
he's got to be focused in towards that B bomb site.
Brokie though, sniping this season hasn't been great.
He needs at least one and survive.
Can't get clotheslined yet.
What is this from Mercury?
He's pushed in.
Brokie gets the kill.
Jacob okay, but a killer instinct on him. Cam Young is opening up on the other side
Broke he lands another connection on the sniper and now it's just zero left and very good work three kills for Broke
That's exactly what you like to see. Yes, definitely needed that nice change is set up there Broke
Getting a couple of kills nice adjustment
Realizing that was potentially the weakness on the map Karagin being targeted over and over
But it is Broke delivering the guilt who said he needed one he gets a couple Jacob as well
It's pretty solid showing for him, up to seven kills, the kit can shoot, trust me.
Oh yeah, he's got that for him.
And I am trying to run as much defense and PR for Jacob as I possibly can, because I
really feel like he got done dirty coming into this team.
Oh, absolutely.
Remember some of the early tournaments where it was like rain was suddenly back in, it
was like, it was such a mess.
I just don't think he has the personality to handle this sort of pressure and this
spotlight.
They quite a shy intimate person a little bit. Yeah, and having this much scrutiny and criticism like that's all comes by putting on the face
Jersey
Yeah, one of the biggest organizations in the world one of the most decorated you you're demanded to play well
That's true
He wouldn't be the first player though to get fast track past where he needed to be go back and then come back and do it again
Like that's a that's a pattern that many have followed missed window smoke. Oh, actually they missed that on purpose
That's what I normally get told online.
The voices in your own head, they're leaking out of a...
Oh, zero.
He's gone zero.
He might have won the round.
That was the AD fence, apart from Brokey, alone, and they're going to be coming for
him.
The backup is short.
As far away as it could be in the hallways.
He's dead and gone.
They're safe.
It was a nice round they picked up, but that's going to be all she wrote, I'm
afraid.
Residual cash is not great.
They have to save you two weapons.
do not even think about even go for exit kills. It will mean nothing.
You intentionally missed Windows, but it worked really well.
It was. It was a perfect bait and switch.
If you're enjoying this one, why don't you go check out Polymarket?
Yes. I'd trade the game there at polymarket.com,
the official prediction market at Blast Premiere.
All right, you are. You've got some time for it here as Faze are just waiting out the round.
I think that's the way things are looking right now.
I'm going to predict that FaZe won't be picking up Mirage, so that's what it's looking like.
Okay.
Spolder view, Henry.
I know you're a real risk taker.
Right then.
Zero looks good, man.
I'm not going to lie to you.
We had no information coming into it.
The deaths broke it down.
Now, you cannot come out of nowhere.
It seemed like he was a social media star or something.
I played on some low-level teams, but he is hitting very hard indeed, keeping up
with the very best of them.
Look at this.
They're ready for this play.
They're pushing to find his kill and he gets a double and twists and Jake gets some of the best aimers on the squad.
Jam Young.
Maybe no longer the star of this squad, it's all about zero.
Yeah, Phage can't keep up. They really can't at the moment.
Alright.
They saved a couple of weapons, maximum loss bonus of course.
We're going back into an A, execution lads, couple of rounds left, 11.
Number 11 wants to go and it's 9-1 overall. Jacob, what a good feeling about this. He looks
ready, looks locked in. And in they come. Got a head there his friend. He wasn't even
flashed this time. He just missed the shot, twist, good work and Jacob will follow it
up at least. They're going to get something here on the defense. Slows down Tyloo and
now... There we go. Yeah, I was going to say this is kind of a roundabout phase.
At least they win this. 5 vs 3 now down to 2 on 5 and G and Jam Young are waiting for
a mistake here. Don't know if they're going to get that many. A bit of a chance perhaps.
Frozen gets his.
They're on the CT side as well. 3 is a disaster.
Yes.
And that's if they even get it. This will be their second round.
I think we just had like a little quick info bubble about the discrepancy for Jacob
on the CT side where he's pretty good but the T side where he struggles on this map.
on this map. That's a bit of an issue. That's pretty rough to deal with knowing that that could be coming.
Gee, content to sit up here, weight them out. They do have a big bank on Mojah.
Got some good money on Mercury, but why would you give over anything if you don't need to?
Yeah, Mojah's got 10k, but yeah, no real reason just to give the Orpher, I suppose.
you'd give them a double orbs. Double orbs, yeah, exactly. Which character would be happy to
pick up and go towards B-Wave, so yeah, no real reason to give that over, even if you have an
order and enough money. Double orbs in the replay, shall we? Twist, getting into it, couple of
misshodes from Broke, but that was a very nice one, to be fair to him. I think we're not
going to pick up any A-case phase. I feel like surely they will ride to the end. Oh yeah,
they will. Okay, okay, there's one point, you know, they're so far away, I was thinking like,
That should at least be happening and it will be so.
Good news, second round, third, even that you said it, disastrous.
Even, yeah, on CT side of Mirage, three is far from comfortable.
We're not impossible in MR12 when the pistol, find your form of the AKs.
You've got the GOAT in-game leader in your ranks.
Yes.
Still possible.
Still possible indeed.
I've been here many times before, Anders.
more than we could count.
And every time the feeling is the same that this is it,
this is where they crumble and can't make it right.
I wouldn't be surprised if we somehow made it to overtime.
Now that's the kind of team FaZe are.
Just when you think they're done,
when you think they've got nothing left,
the winner pistol, a couple of ridiculous clutches,
twists will start finding his form,
and all of a sudden we make it to overtime,
and they'll all be the ones following in the other.
So we'll see what happens.
Yeah, what's the mean paint by the round,
I believe, is what people say.
could be. So what's the final play here? Final round of this first half. It's been fantastic CS
from Tyloo, zero especially. New boy, 20 years old, lighting up the server, top-fragging up there
with Jam Young. Execution looking likely maybe with some beef, fake flavor. Yeah, well they've
been hitting the people on the side a lot, so we'll see how much they bite on the B pressure.
Something much so far, Mojus kind of hanging around.
Looks like he could be joining from the underpass to that A bomb site.
Here come the utility.
Brokey back here, he's had such a hard time hitting these shots.
I'd love to see him just get one of these cleanly...
Not clean at all at the moment, but Twisted's there.
His third kill of the map.
Jacobs traded out, Twisted's gone down, as Jam Young starts to get activated.
G is out dual, and that's the bomb back there with about 30 seconds,
but another kill coming through.
Frozen and Brokey in a 2 vs 2 against Moja and Jamion and there's still time.
20 seconds.
They'll pick it up here. Frozen.
Not the best spray but it gets the job done nonetheless.
A deep grenade will not be able to kill him either.
And he's relocated into mid-lock. It's a smart play here, but back around the boxes.
He found Brokey and Jamion. He's got that block, but it is.
You have to admire it, but it was too much this time.
Third round for FaZe is secured.
You could include yourself if you want.
Honestly, you're going to be pretty ace.
I just put the whole Vitality lineup.
My dream roster right now in CS would be IGL, definitely Apex.
I'm assuming I'm in there, so it's going to be me.
They have Blitz.
It is probably the sharpest IGL, I would say.
If I had to make a squad to beat Vitality, I would make Niko IGL.
Because I think Isolated Vitality is one of the best teams in the world.
I'll make Niko ideal because I think Isolated Vitality is really really great players to have Saibou and then a really great role players
And if you want to beat them, I think you are probably beating by the system the way they play right now
So you have to beat them by both 5-0 just out of the gate. I think it's a no-brainer to pick
Saibou and Duncan at him. I think it's just unfair
Yo, it's been made a band of that, and the scope is so ridiculous.
I don't think it needs any extra explaining, like they're not crossing each other's roles.
They're the best currently.
I have no idea how this roster might work in terms of relationships,
how they're gonna get used to each other, and if it even could work.
But you know, Donk is Donk, Zywu is Zywu.
I would say Zayu. I would put Dong because I think he's probably the best hyzer in CS right now.
I'll take Manasi, I'll take Tank.
And we have an Endanger and Manasi at this point.
He's like the best one. He passed more than a year.
Robs, Apex Diamond Robs are playing for Vitality, which is by far the best teams in the last
months, like in the last one year let's say.
Robs, for the sake of being one of the world-class anchors for such a long time, and right now
in the top one team, he's been informed for a long period of time.
And then we'll take it.
Kyosuke, I would choose him because I think obviously he's really young, but even
though he doesn't have too much experience, he has shown how good he can be and
I think he definitely has a bright future.
Go Sucke, it is just Go Sucke.
Everyone knows.
I think he also takes on Sucke.
And the last player, I would say Monacea as a hybrid.
I just think Monacea just has the class, just has the talent.
He knows all of the situational utility.
He understands how to play college.
So I just think it's an overall pretty tough team to be.
If we're saying that current roster vitality,
we're all going to stay together.
You can't have any of them.
Who would you take instead?
I would take the full roaster of Team Spirit.
You never know how a team connects.
These players seem to add something to the server and make the team better.
I think that's unique and I think you're going to see that in the Astralis era,
where every player is really great and they're making each other better.
And I think that is always the hardest when you make a team
that has to compete for the finals on the first day of the season.
Welcome back to Blast Open Rotterdam 2026. Elimination was on the line for one of these
two teams in phase. Unfortunately Anders once again find himself down in the dumps. They
did get a couple rounds towards the end. Recovering the 9-1 deficit to 9-3. Signs of life. Jacob
is some good output as well. And as I said, you might think this team is done but they
always find a way to fight back.
Traditionally, historically, this is where they are the most dangerous, but let's see if that history will hold up here today.
Second half is coming up now, and Fairplay to Broke here as well.
Towards the end of that, he was having some very important picks, and to better say, bombsite.
It's just twists we need to see with Zeke. 47 now, step up.
Mercury, let's check his corners.
There's a knife out as well. He's going to find him with nothing in his hands at all. That's dangerous.
Get out of there.
around the corner, there's no backup immediately, but he's locked in here, he couldn't escape.
But still, that's got to be really frustrating for FaZe. You're setting up, you're trying
to have the communication about the timing and suddenly, you're off doing something else.
We're going to bomb back, there's nobody at A.
But a 4 on 4 is absolutely fine for FaZe. They're going to make their way back towards
said at A bomb site. It's Jacob all the timing. He was certainly dead at that point.
away with it. This one's on a knife's edge. Advantage phase for sure. The open A side,
they're gonna hit the bomb down. Guaranteed.
There's a possibility for a very fast flank through T spawn because Faze still are not
going. They can now start a step up onto the ramp, but they could get shot in the
back if they don't get the timing down right. Once the bomb is planted, do they
have the presence of mind to spin around and look where they just walked in from?
That's their own path of attack to the bomb site. Here it is, slowly but surely.
There is a smoke-kit combination as well as you pointed out here.
Jam-Yan trying to get a little bit of a jump up and looking to see anyone.
Not happening at the moment. They do need somebody else to distract.
And there's the distraction. Headshot, but Moshe goes down.
Well played from Broke. That should buy some time.
They're already on top of it. The defuse is happening.
They don't realize that's going to be a full-on defuse.
They get the kills, but not the round.
Oh, you hate to see that.
That's why you buy the smoking-kit in the pistols.
the Glocks will struggle to take you down.
That is an absolute gut punch.
Everything perfect.
Yeah.
Found the open bomb site.
Traded out the kills at the man's advantage.
Took all five players down, but, man,
as soon as that five-second defuse comes in, blink,
and you miss it.
You miss the first shot.
You have to reload the Glock as well.
Nice blockade set up as well.
By Jam Young.
And they take it.
It's going to be a four-spy for sure.
Oh, yeah.
Needs to win this, Faze.
no two ways about it you have to win this round
sis looking
very very impressive for them
on the front for the on the ct side confirming there's no a ramp presence
you hear that don't talk me right you know that the ct's no
at least you have that information
question is what will they do with it
quick smoke off towards bottom of connector and window
i mean you could turn it into a pretty quickly split
If you think they're still towards that A-Rapper, they're not that quick with the quick trade coming in, twists.
He's the one we need to see activated, like you said, we want more out of him here.
Nice attempt from Karagan, it's something that he does very well with some of those aggressive moves, either on the Mach 10 or the Tec-9 this time.
Alright, we didn't get the kill. Janion goes down, Twizzing good.
He's starting to get there now, even with the Galeel.
Two kills, make it a triple in the round.
And now it's zero and mercury all but the time he's ridiculous they line up all the round could be over right then in there
Brokey he's on 15 health and all it doesn't matter a
Blinding laser shot from brokeie. Oh my days. I didn't expect him to hit that 15 points of foul
Fella they were done for but face our back
We said it was a must win round and broke he delivers the goods. I didn't even know to shoot that down
I felt like he was going to get all three and a half, but Broke, like I said, he's been looking pretty decent.
Crazy shot. No, it's crazy shot. That's a free fire, right? That's a lifeline, maybe even a life raft.
We're going to see a force-buying response. You've got to convert this now as well, boys.
There's a chance of this comeback. Got to fend off these five-sevens. Problem is, it came down to that 1v1 previously,
So they're gonna be operating with PC-50 for Karrigan.
I think he dropped an AK for Frozen or Broke he hit.
Back temper Jacob.
That shot is the first real taste of phase that I've had.
Absolutely.
Like finally.
I'm kind of believing now.
That's the sort of round that brings him back to life.
It is.
That's what they built their legacy on.
The one odd round that you're supposed to lose,
but somebody don't and here we are.
The problem is I'm doing this.
I don't want to be a pessimist here, but they walk into it, they probably lose the round.
Feel it out a bit more, boys.
Yeah, there's even quite a bit of utility, so you could get kind of smoked off in the middle of that.
They are feeling it out though.
Okay, looks like they're going to be going for the connector. All is well.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Okay, he's thinking about it. The boss looks kind of...
Okay, now you've sorted a couple of players towards B. You're saying Karrigan in with the fake?
Yeah, you'll get down with nothing that's fine. Well, that's not great. I'll be honest with you
The faddie's lost two kills still advantage phase with the open bomb side. They don't know Mercury's here though
Bit of a fight frozen
Great kills coming out 25 seconds trying to get the right timing as Mercury. You got to respect how patient he was
If they would have found the kill on frozen then Mercury could have been activated
It would have been probably a very different round here, but phase they are threading the needle somehow some way
Moja getting a bit closer and he's got a 5-7 of his own but again like any chance of winning this round is probably done when they lose those three players at the catwalk.
I think they realize title so steal some weapons instead that's probably a good choice of five for FaZe.
Got a bit dicey. I like the initiative there from FaZe. Send in Kaga with the P250. Acetane that they're up against a B stack there.
The problem is he goes down, then a deagle heads your lands as well.
Thankfully, Frozen with his best sequence so far gets a triple spray down towards short,
saves the day.
Regardless of FaZe struggling this season, Frozen and Swiss for that matter have looked
very good for us.
You can always rely on those two.
So tactical time-up, call by Groovy just to calm everyone down.
Things are a bit chaotic that
Sure, it's a bit of an eco coming up next but they save the glower and so you know this team can hear hard
Gotta be very careful
Can't make any mistakes
at this point in the game
Still wide open phase
When that second round force by the right back into it frozen
firing on all cylinders now
Very calm with the taps and the burst fire towards shop
So we got the galil couple of five sevens and some cavlar
Yeah, I've got some flashes as well. So see what they can make of it not a foregone conclusion
The phase pick this one up
No, you've got to be very careful here
They're still in the early stages of a potential comeback. So I'll leave anything to chance
mid presence bit of a default really with
frozen hanging around or Jacob outside of the
a frozen it is yeah the a ramp so he's gonna be we did catch anyone there we've
seen a bit of aggression from tyloo in the past rounds but they are securing the
mid-control they're getting much of a fight here which makes sense to the
weaponry on tyloo come some early utility to put some pressure on
there he is a master of the mid-round giving the space to work with very
like me to figure out exactly what needs to be figured out. So hard to deal with.
50 second mark now.
Always enjoy watching him play on mirage. Seems like he's gonna be let off the leash a bit more.
He has got very good aim and testing mechanics in general.
Broke you to close things out, yeah.
And he'll close them out cleanly.
So the second half is looking more promising now.
Oh yeah, for sure. We said there was a possibility of this.
Maybe through the lens of the fan, we haven't seen too many rifle rounds come out of Tyler as well.
He's kind of been beat up a bit.
That's 10-6 now.
Three in a row for FaZe after losing the pistol.
Game is wide open once again.
Let's see what they can build.
What's happening? Jacob doesn't got a gun?
I don't need one.
Hold on, Jacob. You've got no gun.
Jacob?
Thank God.
Such an imagine.
Some would say an essential part of the thing.
Yeah, well that was just a little whoopsie along the way. It's all fine.
Execution, maybe a palace pop here. Two players into the latter.
It's going to be frozen, leading the way. 16 and 9.
A car again. Dropping some mid-util here.
But a full-on set execute coming out here from FaZe. Very interesting to see.
They have what it takes to stop Zero. New man on the squad, playing a very pivotal position
in front of A. Not necessarily easy to do this. He's going to have a little bit of
backup behind him, but I don't think they can easily play together, so it might just
be up to Zero. He's going to go,
Carragher lead, he's matched out on that one.
Very good work, and another entry.
G dies, you can see Siro and G never really had a chance to help each other.
Yeah, let's save it.
Excellent round there from FaZe.
Good awareness, that's great from Carragher.
He knows that he wants to throw himself in there, be sacrificial.
Yeah.
He'll go and pre-fire all the corners so his star players can actually use their rifles
to bring it back down.
He's only objective, throw at that angle.
The other one would be Molotov towards the steps, get himself a double.
Can't ask for much more from the in-game leader than that.
There we go, four rounds in a row now.
It's one of the things that's kind of known for what he does really well.
Sometimes, why you see him with so many SMGs in some of these games,
because he will just sacrifice it all for the team.
Okay, well, we are up to 7-10 now.
You're a tiny fan out there, you're starting to feel a bit nervous.
You're starting to feel like man this lead that we had why has it not turned into a big w at least on the opening map at this stage
You're a phase fan. You've been through this many many times and
You're hoping that it's gonna follow the same trend that it up. I won't say always does but
often does
Timeout called one more time a
chance to have another conversation here
But do you think Tyler must start it?
They must feel the heat at this point,
three rounds separating the teams.
Yeah, we're going the distance here.
Faze can still comfortably win this in regulation.
They had to win that second round conversion
after losing the pistol.
It's been a clean streak ever since.
Frozen and Jacob leading the way.
Carrigan, through forcing his way through
those initial choke points as well.
Fantastic work from him.
That's what we need to see.
Money's still tight.
They saved three weapons.
They take a partial around it, Anders.
Yeah.
10-8s.
Very possible here.
We've got the Broke-E-A-W-P available.
They've got a bit of breathing room now, half-face.
Sure as a rough bar of style, but they are back.
That is such an aggressive CT smoke there
at the top of mid-air.
It stops the T-some really running out like this.
It's nice to see it used.
But it doesn't cost any real damage for the V side.
They just fall back.
It does expend some utility retake middles,
and now you're not sure what the player behind the midbox is.
You have to just kind of calm down, play the round out.
Jacob clearing out the close-range proximity.
Showdown towards connector and window.
There we go.
Under a minute now, and Kerrigan is gonna be, I think, creating a bit of noise over here at the B bomb site.
Throwing in a flashbang. He's actually relocating. I wonder if that's just all fake noise. He's coming back now for more.
They're all on the catwalk. One mistake here for Tyloo, and this B defense will evaporate, and crack shots.
Twist down to get into the game a bit more, and that's real bad news for Tyloo.
Zero can't do much about it over on this side. Up to eight rounds now.
We all felt it in that one Brokey shot towards the market.
And that was the moment where the...
Absolutely. Those are the sort of rounds that bring Faze back to life.
Sure, it's a really rough first half. That is rough as it gets.
He loses the pistol to follow things up.
But Brokey, he brings the team back to life.
That's such an important factor.
Him winning that miraculous clutch from 15 points of health
with the one tap towards window.
They start believing again.
They realize that was their lifeline.
They're golden ticket back into this series.
And they are taking it and running with it.
Zero last by remaining.
Tyler have got nothing done.
Feels like tactical timeout territory going forward.
Yet to win a gun round.
She now offered up five in a row.
Everyone looking poised.
Frozen still at the top.
17 and nine, Jacob at 14.
As you said, twist my bed at the bottom,
but you can see he's getting stronger and stronger.
Yes, the rounds go by and that is a dangerous and scary prospect for Tyloo
You have that emphatic star, but starting to cool off now
Frozen has been playing a very very good game
I think he's bought the time for the rest of the team as much as broke his kills great worth reiterating
This is the lower bracket as well loser of the series will be going home
We've already said goodbye to Bates
Who's next on the chopping block?
Well many people might have said at the start that it could have been and it
could have been Tyloo being next but not in this fashion. The way that they
started you thought that's it. They've actually managed to dodge the most of it
but maybe we have to reconsider that. 19th round we're seeing another full-on
execute. Last time they had a quick entry from Karrigan. Double entry this
time. Tyloo are very far back on the map so you're not gonna get the
really quick kill around the corner. You're gonna have to fight at a
They already set up one smoke, they're gonna recommit to it again now, when the other smoke fades and then they will really go all in.
And Tyler, you have three people here by me, it could work out. The smokes are up, the wall is there, but you can still spam through.
Fifty-five seconds, they bump into each other inside of the smoke, that's a lot of chaos!
Karagan said he wanted it messy, well this round looks like it might be.
Bomb still not planted in the back, Twister's trying to see if he can find the right angle
that's most surely fading soon, gotta be careful when he exits the bomb plant, but he has got
it done, frozen with a headshot, and now they're lacking in players on the Tyloo side, Jamion
snuck through, he only gets the one for it though, frozen very quick on the trigger and
I think that's all they needed, G1 vs 3, it should never happen.
They need a bit of a miracle here, he might give a look in if they offer themselves
up a one more shot.
There is a chance, but no kits, bomb ticking at some pace right now.
I think you have to stay at that orb, G.
Andi, that's all he can do.
Holding towards CT spawn.
Another great play there from FaZe.
This one very chaotic, but the utility was pitch perfect.
And Frozen will find him.
Good stuff.
He's so sick right now. He's up to 20 kills.
Yeah, dude, triple in this one.
I don't hate the fact that you're playing far back towards connector jungle or ct spawn, but
it just felt like they could have done some more damage to phase as they were trying to get on to
the bomb side it felt like that never really happened like a most of the family of a tiny
was walking through the smoke and that can be a real coin flip when you're coming out on the
other side like you see with jam young yeah he gets a kill but then he shot at the back
immediately wish there was some more utility there for the ct side one round separating them
A tremendous lead for Tyloo now, almost evaporates it here.
It's Mojap, he's traded out frozen.
My God, he does not want to exit the tournament just yet.
Broke he landing a shot on Mercury, and it's getting better every single round.
Loving this from FaZe.
The tenacity on full display here.
They're known as brawlers.
Always having to fight back from the darkness.
And once again, that first half, 9-3 down, lost the pistol, you think they're done for
Anders?
Yeah.
But still, jammed yeah.
In my heart I felt like this is over.
This sort of position if it is overlooked, can yield multiple kills.
The MP9, I don't think he has more than one, but the backup is not far away.
If his teammates can find some shots in the window, just as they command, there
There is a chance of multiple kills there.
Probably not the other way, unfortunately.
Yeah, he's very much in an island.
They did need to be three seconds further up.
That would have been the distraction that was required.
Frozen.
God, there's another back-to-back triple here.
Challenging for the fight.
I don't even blame him.
He's playing so well right now.
He's feeling it.
23 and 10 is frozen.
Gotta commend this comeback.
Yeah.
We're all tied up now.
Money busted, sure you'll save the AWP, but on the CT side you're gonna be getting $3,400 per player.
Little bit more of the couple of kills they find I suppose, but yeah, G can drop a rifle.
This will be more of the same, and they're trying to hunt him down.
They got so much money on the face side.
Couple of players knocking the door of five digits.
Well, G survived, it looks like he will.
Frozen, ice cold, as you might expect.
Still one of the absolute best rifles on the planet right now
Even in this downturn of face he continues to deliver these world-class performances
Feels like something that every commentator every analysts can agree on frozen is really good
It feels like no matter what happens with the phase lineup or whatever risk nobody goes obviously, but
He's you should be able to land a good spot in a team almost anywhere in the world
Seven rounds in a row here after losing the pistol.
10-3 down and now 10-10.
Pressure for Tyloo. Money busted as I mentioned.
Averaging about $3,000 per player. G can drop one.
But you should be doing a partial buy here.
You should not be fully investing, but desperate times.
Sometimes call for desperate measures.
Brokey hitting the shots are really mad at.
Frozen great awareness.
and fantastic skill as you might expect.
Sounds of the map pick.
Tyloo chose Mirage, it was looking so promising,
and there's the partial buy.
So the one rifle, dropped by G, MP9 to the 5.7.
If you're working on the fourth comeback
from being eight round down to ZS2,
it's a good little comeback.
King's Infographics, zero years,
created outs, but you know what they got?
They're frozen.
You'll take that.
Oh, yeah, absolutely well.
He is the danger man right now.
He is the one that knocks.
Ooh, spotted out.
All there for G.
Surely Jacob is dead in this corner, but he's got some backup here.
Moshe, that will take care of both of them.
The connector is gone.
Broke, he's got the bomb over on the A-Rap alone.
It's a very weird position, but Twists,
he's controlling maybe 80% of the map being here.
He can spot them wherever they go.
Oh, but he's so close to dying, I thought he was gonna get picked off there, still alive and waiting for Moshe to come in towards the window in the middle.
A bullet is all it takes. Now one versus two. Brokey, he saved them once before.
He can win this for sure. He's feeling it.
Playing a very good game here on Mirage. So far, bailed them out a few times. CT's quite far removed.
They have a kit, but it's an open retake with not much uto, a flash and an HE.
Broke he has the Molotov he can isolate the jewels with the Molotov once he hits information as to where one is
Drop that Molly try and focus on the other player
Or delay as long as possible and get the Molly on top of the bomb itself plenty of options for him
They're giving him that opportunity because they're very slow. Yes, they've got the kit
Are you guys wondering?
The Molotov on top spray is good and he's guessing it perfectly. You know, he's coming in
It doesn't matter G hits the shot and Molotov was a bit early
He's gonna be on the diffusion have time for it as well such a close round
Finally tylu are back on the board and back in the game the Molotov a few centimeters deeper there
It denies the diffuse for a couple of seconds could have been it and it's a different story excellent effort there from broke
He couldn't have really played it better knew exactly what he was up against there
But finally the streak has been broken on the part survived all silent this car again killed on those
He up had other ideas swinging out from short
Good output there from Twisper, low HP, G had to work after this one.
We go 11-10, they maintain their lead at the very least, Brokey boosts it up.
Doesn't actually detect him pushing towards top of middle, opening frag.
Murky hungry for more, he knows there's multiple players on the other side.
Does he bail, does he try and get out of this one?
The answer is yes, smoke down towards window, go to see a Twis.
I saw that smoke though, I think he knows that there's still someone up here.
Twisters moving forward with a massive disadvantage.
Mercury saw the grenade flying out, so he definitely knew what was coming up.
Is it really all for nothing here for face?
Such a big comeback, and now, a chance for Tyler, a big chance to make it to 12.
This round and over, yeah.
Frozen still alive, Anders.
That's right.
Jacob will have to step up as well.
Carrigan to lead the Troop to success.
He's actually got past.
Did you see what I mean?
Mercury spot him.
Yeah, he did, he did.
He was on the comms immediately.
They definitely know 100%.
Carrigan shot him down back.
It's great communication, great awareness for Mercury.
They needed that frozenness out of the round now.
And Jacob, it's not a thing you could do, unfortunately,
alone against the world in that one, 12 for Tyloo.
Two opportunities to get over the line,
but they have not broken the money of FaZe just yet.
I can tell you that.
After winning so many rounds in a row,
there's definitely a buy available.
Orb comes out for Brokey.
AK's across the board here.
No concessions needing to be made.
I like the change of pace though.
Yeah.
Bring the game to them.
Rokkuri gets himself a nice triple kill that.
Boosting up, bringing out all the tricks there.
Big opportunity there for an early kill onto G.
It didn't work out zero.
He's flashed in.
Very proactive on the CT side.
There are a lot of little things that they're doing here,
a tyloo that I really enjoy. Trying to make sure that they don't just let the phase take
so much map control. Still sticking around on the A ramp. Really used to a die time here
for the T side. Never backed down, never surrender, phase. I've been here so many
times before. It's been admirable to come back, they've displayed so far but now the
chips are down. Two rounds required. Even if you win this one and there's the money
still quite strong but Tylo it's gonna be an uphill battle to convert two rounds
just to get to overtime. Good map control 45 seconds. Smoke down towards the
connector. G with his vision removed. Karagum needs to be careful. The bomb here.
Oh my goodness the jumping shot. It's ambitious but throws him a strike.
Janky will join him looking very promising now. I feel like Mojo is so
He just tried to run after him and somehow the jump shot didn't work, but everything else most certainly did.
Round is secured here.
Merc Q way too far away again. Frozen Jacob, good head shots over at the A side of the map.
Might as well save the AK.
Yeah.
One at map, this is B.
It's had absolutely everything, the AK will not be saved here.
Who really is the phase experience for all of us once again?
Oh, it's amazing. I love it.
This is what it's all about. This is a great spectacle.
Paid by the round as we go into the last regulation,
a chance here for all the time for FaZe.
I wonder what the Tyler economy is all about.
They lost everything there.
Frozen one of those absolute masters of the palace position
always seems to find massive impact.
24 and 12 right now.
Keeping that dream alive. One more would do it.
As we mentioned the money's still strong for Tai Lu. They've already guaranteed overtime. Can they close it in regulation?
Who will blink first to offer themselves up for a duel?
Carrigan showing presence towards the ace out of the map dropping tons of utility. He's got frozen in towards that past position again
Carrigan picking up the bomb just now
Big force for fees in the middle. I think this has to be an A-Split
We will carry out the A ramp with the bomb, makes his way towards Palace, three members
towards top of middle, so A-Split has to be the outcome here.
No two ways about it.
Smoke down window.
It's possible that the Catwalk player for Tyloo will have to make a strong decision
to join the fight instead of just getting smoked out here.
Frozen go to activate through this.
They have to do something.
Look at Tyloo, they're being so aggressive in the middle, they catch the entire push.
That is wild.
They might have won the round for the Brokey.
It's a good flick, but he's struggling carefully.
He's on 4 health and the grenade will catch him.
Great play. They feel the weakness, Tyler,
but they want to punch him. No scope from G as well.
And Kerrigan goes down. G, back-to-back-op shots.
And it's enough to push Tyler over the finish line.
What a great game it was, Anders.
It felt like base did not stand a chance there.
They go down 9-3 in the first half.
It looked like they were desperate.
There was no way back into it.
admirably back into this second half. They think it's all the way to round number 24, but still it's not quite enough.
The good news is Frozen is looking unbelievably good right now, and they're gonna need him moving on to map number two.
Very very impressive work.
It wasn't quite the battering it looked to be in the first half.
FaZe show some life, but ultimately they might still be on life support because that one still goes the way of
of Tai Lu and the dragon is looking fierce right now.
Jam Young, zero showing up in big form
and that spells huge danger for FaZe.
Yeah, there was a bit of a weird one to be completely honest
cause as much as I want to praise Tai Lu for that first half,
you know, equally FaZe first half was abysmal,
couldn't get anything done whatsoever.
However, the T side, I think there was smooth, fluent
standing next to FaZe here in the last round
is hearing the communication as well as well.
felt like they were in the zone, felt like they're in flow state.
So both teams having a good half and a bad half.
Unfortunately for Faze, they gave themselves
too little to work with in that first half.
And at the end of the day, I think
it's fair enough, Tyloo, into winning, but that was close.
I mean, 9-3, first half, no matter
how good you play in the second half,
it's almost impossible.
The thing that impressed me for Tyloo,
though, is they do give up the comeback.
They let it get to 10-10.
And that's when they actually activated.
Faze had all the money in the bank.
They had full buys for the rest of the game.
you had players dying on Tyloo,
so they couldn't even get a complete full buy
for some of those rounds,
and they still managed to close it out
in the hardest way possible,
despite nine-three-half and a second-half pistol win.
Like, letting it get to 10-10 is concerning,
but I love the way they closed it out.
I think it's also fair to say that
one of the big pieces for Tyloo
is still a little unproven, right, in zero.
That first half to second-half split,
I think would be pretty shocking.
Very strong first half,
really disappeared down the stretch,
and that's something that you might experience
or expect from an inexperienced player?
Yeah, that's fair to say, you know, because you're right.
He was all over the place in the first half, finding a lot of impact,
you know, really playing with a lot of confidence as well.
In your face, Counter-Counter-Strike, second half CT side,
couldn't really get much done.
It also did feel a bit like Tyloo were afraid to make the aggressive place
up until the point of 10-10.
Very last round we saw them, you know, be aggressive,
retake middle in the middle of the round.
And that's sort of like mid-round aggression.
It's something I would have liked to see more from Tyloo
and something that also probably would have suited Zero a little bit better.
Instead of sitting still on a bomb side waiting for the execute coming to you,
be a bit more proactive.
So I think a lot of learning in this one for Tyloo.
And if anything, winning a game in this fashion, that's great.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how you win, you get the W.
But you also got a lot of learning for how to close out a game.
I think FaZe actually had a really good read on Tyloo for that second half.
That Tyloo's had so many buys where they didn't have full utility
or they didn't have a full buy and they would go for an aggressive play in the mid-round.
But like you're saying, or in the early round rather,
but like you're saying, they wouldn't do it in the mid round.
So FaZe could just sit back, wait it out in a lot of rounds
and then retake mid in the mid round
and Tyloo has zero utility left over.
They have to take the gunfights.
And although we're going to talk positively
about G and Jam Young and Zero,
it's still when it comes down to it,
if you're taking straight up gunfights,
you have to pick FaZe as the favorites every time.
Let's talk about Jam Young, right?
Because as much as we might be excited about Zero
as a potential new star,
this guy has been a star in the region for a long time now
and he continues to show fine form
top of the board for his team here.
It's what they need to contend at this level,
and it's what he continues to deliver for them.
Yeah, Catalyst in that first half.
You see in the highlight package here,
he has well-found impact in the pistol,
found impact early stages as well,
finding impact all over the map.
And he is a diamond in a rough still, I feel.
Like obviously we know his potential,
and we've seen him around for quite some time now,
but I think there's more in this guy.
I think there's a reason why they label him
as maybe the next big thing
coming out of Asian Counter-Strike.
So good to see him perform at a high level,
good to see him perform here in Europe
against a team like FaceClan, but just like with Zero,
he found most of his impact in the first half.
Yeah, we're talking about Zero maybe being the next Jam Young
because Jam Young is that good.
Jam Young is kind of the next maybe Ben Tett.
Ben Tett was a player where you wanted him out of that region
so that he could carry a team in the top five, top 10.
It didn't work out for Ben Tett.
I could work out for Jam Young,
but I'd rather see him stay on Tyloo
and continue to dominate for this team
that's honestly such an upset like potential team.
They have so such good game plans. We saw in this game. They come in. They just dominate in middle the entire first half
I love to watch them with jam young with zero actually having impact in the mid round
It's such an interesting game. What's better than one jam young to jam young's what's better than one round round five
Who you want to talk about this one something it Tyler was doing well in that as much as Tyler did things well in this round
I have to say that phase did things poorly. I think from a strategic perspective
They kind of understand so many rounds in this first half what they were doing what Tyler was going for
Tyloo go for this really nice smoke out. So I love what they do here with the smoke off towards jungle
It isolates twists and then twist just swings into connector
This is one of those problems that phase are having look you can try and clear connector here
But he just swings into it as if it's empty as if he doesn't even know the jungle smokes are there
And then you have J.Caul push down ramp. He gets a kill back
But immediately after that he actually walks back towards the site jungles open
He could just get shot in the back here
He doesn't realize it for a few seconds eventually Tyloo slow down the round
You can see there's 20 seconds left before they hit a bomb site.
They actually spread phase out.
They do a fantastic job.
But as much as they do a great job there,
phase are just kind of lost.
Twist felt like he had to go for a swing
that I don't think he had to go for.
Jacob could have gotten killed in the back at any moment.
It's phase kind of looking for something
that they don't need to be looking for.
That's, again, just emblematic of the issues
that we've seen with them.
Let's talk about something that did work for them.
It's what got them back into this game.
It's one man frozen.
This guy had an incredible map.
but was a huge piece of why that got so close.
They are very much relying on his star power right now.
It does feel like he's the one constant in face right now.
The guy you can rely on, and even Throzen
have had games or tournaments where he hasn't
really shown up in this bad period for face clan.
And that's kind of what worries me.
Now that we see Throzen, again, performing
at a very high level, we seem almost playing at his best.
We still don't win.
That's a big issue.
Now, why is it, as Wuzed coming into this game as well,
it almost feels like whenever Jacob is having a great game,
someone else finds a way to have a poor game.
Whenever Frozen is playing this well,
finding so much impact in the second half,
crawling their way back into it,
Twist, where was he all of a sudden?
The guy that I think has been the best performer
within FaZe Clan ever since he rejoined,
struggling massively here in 2026 so far.
So I can help to feel a little bit for Karrigan
and for FaZe Clan that once you figure out
one of the players, you know,
once you have Frozen performing,
then Twist doesn't work out.
Once Twist works out, then Jacob doesn't work out.
Once Jacob works out, then both Frozen
and Twist goes missing.
So it almost like they can't work in tandem
and that's the biggest issue to have right now
because even frozen playing at his best
is not enough for face.
One green for red, Mike.
It's one green for red.
One green.
They had two green, but yeah,
there's still a lot of red and that's the problem.
And I mean, we were seeing red in the pregame.
We were talking through some of the scenarios
for what could be the end of this phase roster.
I asked our finest artists to do a depiction
of what we had been discussing in the pregame.
I think we've got to take a look at that right now.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Yeah, FaZe staring down the barrel right now. Ancient potentially on deck here.
Do we think they can survive and make it away from death this time around?
I think we have a good thing for FaZe that they clawed their way back into this game.
They must give them a bit of confidence.
And hey guys, we get off to a better style than Ancient.
I won't map pick by the way. Then maybe that's going to be a little bit different.
I'm however worried. You know, it's a team with no confidence whatsoever.
Yeah, I don't know what to say.
Well, we'll find out for whom the bell tolls. It may toll for FaZe after this.
After this, we'll be right back.
Look, we have been very doom and gloom on this desk about FaZe so far, and not without
reason, but I'd like to bring in some Razor Sunshine.
We're moving into Ancient.
It is FaZe's map pick.
What might go well for them here, Jacob?
I think a player that you want to put highlight on, you know, outside of the obvious and
Infusion, Twist, etc. Is Kerrigan on the CT side. I think he's one of the few maps where I feel like he's doing a good job at finding the balance, you know, being in cave, being on the smaller bomb site, staying alive while also constantly poking around, gathering information.
So in terms of, you know, as you said, always being doom and doom when it comes to face, I think Ancient is one of the maps where they do better than the other maps.
And I'm not sure that's good enough here, but going up against Tyloo, I think Kerrigan having a decent CT side, making sure not to be a liability.
That's the first step in the direction of winning this map.
Kerrigan the the things that look good for phase are we have a map where Kerrigan might not be a liability
This is a five map lose streak for phase on this map
But if you look at who they're losing to they're losing to the likes of g2 falcons a straw list twice
But this is a team you're expecting them to be able to beat on ancient. It's not the best map for tyloo
It's a map where phase have had great success in the past and it is I agree one of the maps where you don't expect
Kerrigan in cheetah to do an amazing job all that often but yet he does it's one of those ones where IGLs in cheetah often find the way to
frag because it's kind of a cerebral position you have to think about how you're spamming how you're playing that spot I like
Kerrigan there
Well, we'll have all eyes on Kerrigan all eyes on the mastermind see if he can pilot his team to a victory here
For tyloo on the other side. It's all eyes on the firepower eyes on the stars now
I want to see more of zero. You know I was intrigued by his first half performance on Mirage
Completely when missing in the second one as I said part of it was probably the approach Tailu had and part of it is that he's young and inexperienced
I'm curious to see if he can thrive on the pressure and he will be under pressure on a map like ancient
So if anything, I'm excited to see more of zero and see if we can get a sense of how good he is now
And what the potential within him is. I'm happy to look more at zero, but I think there's a map where we want G
popping off. I think G with the AWP on CT side, I think he's gonna have plenty
of opportunity to do so and he's found success on this map quite consistently
in the past. I think this is a G show if you want to see Tyler actually win this
one. And just to bring one more name into the bottle, right, Twist. We have to
talk about him. As I said, I think he's probably been the best performer
win face when you look at the past six months. However, the start to
2026 is the worst start Twist has ever had in his career, statistically
speaking by quite some margin.
So in terms of twists, not having the great showing
on Mirage, you want to see him step up,
he's an ancient, if face needs to stay alive at this term.
Well, there'd be no better time for a bounce back.
So we'll see if twists can lead his team two or one
to bring us through this map of ancient, Anders and Henry G.
Thanks very much, lads.
Yeah, do or die time for FaZe Clan,
looking down the barrel of a last place elimination
here at Blast Open Rotterdam 2026.
I'm not going to say it's the expected result.
their own down turn right now but it feels like they should be beating a team like Tyloo
and others.
They really should be especially with the kind of performance that Frozen brought into
the game.
I want to see that replicated here.
I think they need that to keep on going but ultimately yeah this is a rough turn for them
isn't it.
It really is.
It was a pretty decent comeback.
There were 9-3 down in the first half.
They battled all the way back but it does close down in regulation 13-11.
Tyloo were hitting hard.
We had some question marks coming into this one.
We weren't sure whether the new boy Zero would be able to step up, but he showed us some excellent work on the T side.
The boys on the deso dead on, he kind of went missing in the second half.
He didn't have the same level of output.
I agree as well.
Gee, not really getting going on Mirage as well.
His alarming, he'll have to step up, but it is absolutely true.
The fact that Twist was bottom of the scoreboard 9 and 17, 0.65.
We expect so much from the magician, that's simply not going to be good enough if he wants to take us to a third map.
He knows that, Frozen knows that, he actually managed to post 24 and 13, so he's firing all
cylinders and shout out to Broke here as well.
He had some fantastic moments saving the day, time and time again, sometimes on the AK, but
mostly on the AWP.
They need to put that good Frozen work into this one as well.
I hope it's not going to be really clear what's happening at Kaspersky, if you remember
with NIP, he had such a great first map and then they barely lost and then eventually
he just ran out of steam and he couldn't keep it going.
frozen will have enough in the bank left to actually make this work on ancient as
well as a map that phase play fair amount didn't necessarily win it that much I
don't have a lot of data on tiny one this one so it's gonna be a real big
question mark in some sense this is significant as well and because if they
lose this one they're currently 15 from the VRS losing this game takes
him out to 19th out of contention for the major and I think they said they
have like a tier 2 event coming up soon yes they would have to win their
hands down if they have some disastrous results there there's a chance their
phase don't make it to the major and that's crazy work to think that that
could be a reality yeah there's so much pressure all of a sudden isn't there
hopefully they can thrive in its fist bumps are coming out that should mean
that we're about to get into the second immatural the series with
everything of the line is ancient coming up now phase and we'll see if
phase can recover it they nearly did on the opening map but now everything
is reset so they're gonna start on the T side.
It's in a decoy out there, I like your Karagin,
but you're up against Zero, who was impressive,
but Karagin shuts him down cleanly.
It's Yam Young, the superstar,
a tyloo to try and save the day.
Yes, completely blind, gets the ones out,
but it might not be enough.
Fighting for his lifer, and they offended them off
towards A, dissuaded them from the commitment here,
the decoy, there it is, committed in towards the A side,
but they will reset the round and twist,
this fountain space in towards middle.
Was he flashed before or after he got that headshot?
Did he actually see anyone on the screen?
He was fully blind.
Yeah, before he even could even flick.
I don't know how that's possible.
Twist here with a clock in the red room,
but it's going to be a quick trade.
They'll take it, but now they're back on the A side.
Well, I'm going to be planted.
Kerrigan holding it while Brokey pushes toward Donut.
Once they catch G around the corner,
it's a very good fight for him here with the dualies.
G getting a bit closer and just runs him down.
Oh, look, it's Carrigan to the rescue.
Four kills on the captain of the team.
Needed that.
Pistols have been a bit of a nightmare to face so far.
This one, they managed to win it just about there.
Carrigan with the 4K.
It all started with an opening frag.
He was completely blind.
Somebody gets that kill.
Jam young.
You'll have to see that.
Wasn't quite enough, though.
Carrigan delivers the good.
Just a couple of body shots required there.
Frozen's feeling it.
And we have got a four spy in response.
You're not out of the woods just yet.
I'm afraid MP9's in a scout couple of D goals
and we're going for an A rush and his full speed ahead.
Oh, no, the boosted player here could shut them down completely.
He gets them coming and he finds multiple frags.
It's 0 of 1.
Mosier needs to find 2.
Not going to happen.
It's a triple kill for Faze.
And that should be all she wrote.
An exciting moment there.
They were ready and waiting for that exact rush.
But they can't fend them off.
And that's going to be 2-0 for Faze.
immediately to see the danger over there. One more kill, one more headshot and
suddenly I don't think they make it past that point on the map. A good work for
FaZe here. Oh, wait a minute. That's not exactly according to plan.
We're gonna pick it up and try and do it again. You gotta be careful there
because Frozen is very low on health so there definitely is a way to still
screw up this round now. Stick it around. I think the Molotov here
will convince Jam Young to take a couple of steps back and once the bomb is down and the
rest of me starts to back on out they become so much harder to find that you probably cannot
win the round. Twist is already in on a bit of a flank here but Jam Young is still thinking
about it. I'm kind of shocked to see that he's moving forward. Obviously there will
not be a kit in this round so that's not the issue here. Gee, he goes down but Jam
Young can you make it expensive? If you can just tap the bomb now he might force
someone to run in all right he's gonna try and pick up a galeel and make a run
for it instead it goes down anyway the blast radius and ancient is kind of
ridiculous but it is two zero all five members of Tyler going down the adelix
start now for phase two zero up should be converted to three like I said this
was looking really dangerous there but rookie of that mag 10 just to make it
Jam Younger won for the smoke but comfortable finish, twists, executes G.
They get into the full eco now.
P250 purchased.
Desert Eagle for 0.
That should be smooth sailing.
And I say that with baited breath. You never know what phase.
They really don't.
They have great comebacks but sometimes they also do give up leads that, you know,
You know, it's not like when they start well, they always finish in a great fashion.
Yeah, but they would love a start like this on the first map.
It's such a struggle for them to get into that one.
This is looking different.
G and Moshe are both taking identical damage.
Going to be backing off from the B bomb site right into the open arms of Jacob and Carrigan.
Going to be hanging around the red room.
So this round is more or less locked down already.
I don't really see a way out of this.
They're just so deep on the map.
and farmers being brought into an undefended B-bomb site.
Absolutely true.
Not really much to report here.
Let the SMG farm, build up that money,
keep all five players alive,
farm to be planted into World's B.
I'd better say no problem,
but a couple of kills you take it if you tie a loop.
Yeah.
Keeps phase modest and maybe the chance of one more.
Carrigan's half HP, a Dinkfnis USP could be enough,
but I'm pretty sure he face checks his angle.
I don't know, he doesn't seem like he's really thought about the issue yet, yeah he decided
something made him change his mind, oh that was the SMG that he picked up, that could
have been really interesting if you could have got the kill and the extra money, but
that's all for nothing. Couple of casualties on the phase side, but most importantly it's
a nice start to the game here on the second map, that's what you wanted to see all along.
Yeah, doesn't get much better than that. Would have liked that to be a bit cleaner
I suppose they lose a couple of kills, but not the end of the world.
Carrigan maintaining his life very valuable towards the end there.
G with the AWP hasn't done much with the weapon so far.
There's more influential with his rifles back from Mirage.
Tournament life on the line.
That phase of fighting for it.
Carrigan towards the cave.
Molotov's exchanged here.
Take the puddle of damage on routes.
They sacrifice in their mid control.
Re-setting the round, rush down towards that red room, Carrigan, left to his own devices here, it's going to be twists covering from the heavens.
Re-smoke on the red room, and they're making their way towards A main.
Broke is going to provide the utility, utility smoking spawn.
Maybe it's a contact lying through this one.
I mean I really like this because they got them occupied in donut.
in donut as long as they can keep the pressure on donut a bit no one's holding
the bomb site really they do lose twist though long and patient hold for G in
that corner down by the cave and Karrigan is now playing his mid position
alone so he will be turned into a bit of a lurker instead assuming they get the
bomb on maybe that works but Jam Young is here in front there's no smoke in
his eyes either he's just out there for the fight one player left with a
bomb on the site. Karrigan is wrapping around, but it's only 35 seconds. You've got to be careful here.
The bomb's right there. Karrigan. Sneak again. G is dead. They never knew what hit them.
Now Ciro trying to get onto the site. They've got the kit on him. Maybe he could tap it.
Broke, he's not aware that that's happening, and now the smoke's on the other side here.
What an absolutely chaotic ground. He's tapped the bomb once, so...
Karrigan, I don't think he's bought it. I think he's still waiting.
Now a grenade on top. They don't find any... Oh, that's a shot on Karrigan!
He saved him in a pistol with a quad kill, and now he's one-on-one with an AWP against Mosier,
and he's got so much experience here.
Oh, this is great work, and if Flixy can't quite get it, Mosier's got the kit, he's running for it, but...
Ooh, I don't think you'll have the time.
Can you run past the bomb there?
I think that might have cost him the extra second!
Karigan wins the clutch!
I think what happened there is I don't think he diffuses the EVE away,
and he just realized I'm gonna blow up the blast, there's no point running away.
Fair enough.
I think even if you jumped on it straight away he would have lost out by about a half second regardless
But still Karagin winning the clutch that is massive huge orb shot there from the big box
Two versus one delivers the goods and continues phase on their path to victory here
Jam young you thought this would be enough nice cross by being set up from him and mercury but bro keep
Maintaining an advantage mosey with the back stab
Aragorn from the temples, saves the day, the Jumbus up towards heaven here, believing
in the M4 of Yamyang, the Hero M4, full speed ahead.
Smoked down double doors, Gronson full belay in control wear, so now it's phase, building
up a nice array of rounds here on the T side of ancient.
aggressive B-Controller with Tyler with something that again right when ancient came out it was very
popular and that kind of disappeared again I feel like in european kind of show you don't see
these really aggressive pushes anymore but I feel for nothing because Faye's a very patient waiting
around outside of that lane I realized there were no more grenades coming in really good trade
frozen back at it again second kill of the map for him carrying though he's
doing all the work he's telling to really is Moses probably gonna go down
here face-checking smoking hand spotted we'll have to drop that smoke here
still pretty good right smoke at about 36 seconds yeah the thing is though they
go towards a wide open once you all phase have got up their sleeve to close
things out here frozen making his way towards a main I think he's calling for
his teammates to drop down from heaven and yet Brokey will just stay on this
side of the map confirm that they are stacked everyone's desperate for
information where you can guarantee there's at least two players over towards
the I think he spotted the third as well so that will be round try and
salvage a couple of rifles here I've got one in the hands of Mosier but
that's gonna be five zero it's a pretty good way to make sure that you
You win the round instead of gambling to take the fight at the B bomb site
Just get that bomb planted but AK
M4 picked up as well
Anything else on the ground that they can salvage would be great news. There it is. Not too bad. They entered one rifle
They'll leave the three
Phase on the other side probably not too sad either there or find the no
Yeah, so I'm we know it's normally the phase way to be down zero five and at the claw your way back in
This is uncharted territory for them
Let's see if he even knows what to do, it's not a comeback.
save a couple of AK-47s in the previous partial by down but not out they can
still win the hard 7 to 5 it's just gonna be an uphill battle from here on out
over past the third map if they can keep this up though phase then it'll be
interesting to see I do have a couple of maps on it seems to be a map that
they do enjoy playing so maybe they could make a bit of a comeback
themselves on that one. Right now, carrying in charge Jam Young and Moses are hitting
some shots here, but the economy's been all over the place. That's changed now because
they saved three rifles, two AKs. They bought the AWP on G.
I would love to see Tyler do a bit of work in this round and finally announce themselves
on ancient. It feels a little bit too one-sided for my taste right now.
they were thinking about it but not going through the smoke they decided to
boost on top of it instead they're not gonna find anyone really on the other
side but tiny war on a mission in the cave to push forward let's see how far
they go they've set up Mosier there they're not gonna move any further than
that so just a bit of a double set up
the trigger yeah are you gonna remember to check the other side they're not
even gonna give him a chance to find out motion activated slorses them in that
moment push us forward he just wanted more careful that keep your money strong
nice work four players survive it is the first round on the board there some
fancy footwork in towards the cave the bait and switch opening things up with a
nice AK kill saving the previous partial buy and then setting themselves up
as success here as mercury doing the heavy lifting but no yeah there's no
idea he was lying in weight swings around upgrades the AK this is a really
nice shot Jacob took him down but there we go money running thing better
Don't mind there's zero loss bonus of course, but Faze, so even after going up 5-0, you're
operating with pistols here, and a galil, very difficult round, completely blind, you're
hoping for the best of your Jacob, and you get nothing!
What?
As jam young, coming to life now, gee, doesn't necessarily need to beat this again, but
he's more than happy to go with the second shot.
That triple kill is available for him, and he gets it, that's clean, Eco coming
up next with Faze.
Jacob got done so dirty in the middle, he ran into two HEs, and like you said,
I think flash two or three times on top and you know they're swinging into you
All you can do is close your eyes and pray
Yeah, real Jesus take the wheel come on
Didn't work out
Unfortunately
All right. All right. All right. Gee. I like this
didn't see much resolve the mirage but
starting to tighten things up
Now the Rico down in the dumps comedy have bought anything. I don't think they'll even have an upgraded pistol
So yeah, Glock, no armor, mornades, a gimme round.
Take your hand off the keyboard for a second,
a moment's respite.
Yep, just like that.
That's kinda, you know, a bit disappointing for FaZe surely.
Like you said, win five in a row
and then all it takes is the one round
and immediately you're out of it.
I guess a little bit of credit to Tyloo
for doing some damage in those previous rounds.
We can flip it the other way, I suppose,
But yeah, they're having a nice little conversation.
You carry in the cameras very relaxed at the moment.
Feet dipped in the swamp waters.
Could be one of those fish spas.
It could be.
Could be.
Very relaxing, I've heard.
Leech therapy.
I don't know if it's a thing.
I think it was in the medieval times.
I don't think they do it anymore.
It was too good.
Too powerful.
They don't want you to know about it.
So as mentioned, Feliko and 5-3 pretty much locked in guys.
If they even get one kill here, they'll be happy with it.
Nice discipline though from Tyloo, giving nothing away.
No one's scared, no one's hunting for information,
you don't need it.
They're aware the money is completely ruined.
I sort of smoke, force a hand, and here comes the Mogao.
Try a bunch, there's just nothing to be done there.
Mercury and Moshe will split the kills, very nicely done.
And FaZe had a chance to have a conversation, so now everyone is real relaxed and ready to get into the next one.
But a 5-0 send, a 5-3, those AKs still alive on the CT side, I mean there's a lot that's going for Tyloo and it is not at all too late for them to turn it around.
You get up to about 5 or 6 rounds here in the first half, there's still an interesting fight to be had.
A lot of the phase work said it's still true. It's been done by Kerrigan, so
we still want to see frozen twists activated a bit more here on the T-Side.
Get to work, gentlemen.
A attack looking like the Anders. We have twists watching the extremities by the
double doors. Were any inquisitive CTs pushing down for an aggressive maneuver?
Yeah.
It looks to be A since the aim of the game.
Carragorn with the bomb on his back joined their brookie towards the pillar right now.
Frozen parked himself up in a main.
G with a nice position.
Looking down towards B, confirming no one's there, at least for now.
It's time, ticks away.
They're gonna drop the smoke and leave G in the middle, that's okay enough for long.
They've done that deep smoke towards K that removes vision from the B lanes
and now G can't confirm the B lanes are clear.
take that vision away for a minute might change the defense a bit I feel like
phase decided whatever reason to leave that a position that they were set up in
might have been for the better because Tyler did rotate the beef into the
events back over to the bombsite now the only question is can they punch
through the wall of the B defense because that is where they're going
arm is there there's gonna be a fake at the A bombsite this might actually
sell quite a bit just given the earlier information that G kind of had nice smoke from Mercury that's
Devastating they have to walk through twists. Can he actually find anything?
Yeah, I think Mercury might have both of them the loose G the spray is good
He wants to keep going can't find it
Twists gets away with so much in that moment and he follows it up triple here for Russell
That's exactly what they were looking for
He was lying in wait the entire time waiting behind those be a double doors
They dropped the deep smoke allowed him to get some space while his teammates arrived helps himself to the beat bomb
So I get in the back lines and cause his absolute chaos
Tyloo nothing to do but save at this point. Oh
Jam young you should be hitting that my friends
It's supposed to be that
Heaviest hitter on this team. That was a bit of a sit-out can't connect the dots
They do have plenty of money. That's a good news for tyloo. Yeah, even after that death
Yam Young is $10,000 to lose in the AK significant, really should have got that kill.
Big whiff. Could be one of those moments where you get a sense of how comfortable or not a player
feels on a map. Don't like the angles. Don't like what's in front of me. I can't believe
Mercury. His position was so short. I really thought he had both of them. I think they might
have won the round for them, but... Well, considering Twists had such a slow performance
So mirage that is fantastic to see him leaping into life with that galore get himself three huge kills single-handedly winning the round
Yeah upgrades the AK 47 now phase up back to their winning ways
Well the default setup here looks like we're gonna be flashing in towards middle
Can be coming in from heaven
Miss Molly that doesn't seem to matter twists will absolutely rail mercury G will answer back and find it
Yeah, but like you said earlier, that kind of a trade is probably fine for the T side.
Thin out the defense a little bit.
San Karrigan is playing alone at the B lane.
They want to get closer, but they've got to be very careful.
Jamion at the timing could not have been better.
Spray a little bit disorganized, but...
He's got zero on the other side.
All incendiary two, and Jamion sneaks in one more kill, and they burn out Frozen.
That was very nicely. That's just one player in red room one in doughnut and it shuts down the entire midtake
Well, it was looking so good for phase they're on cruise control 5-0 up, but slowly but surely
Time we creeping back into this one money's a problem once again. There's Yam young
And for a foreign hand that's the aim we want to see from him
Very good indeed
Have a look at the buy, I don't think it'll be great for FaZe, but not bad, a couple of Galils, their bones are utility.
Smokes go down, nothing towards Donut, but, uh, something about that smoke towards Red Rope.
Karagin takes massive damage off Rune, drops him on the top here, but he is burning to a crisp here.
Both teams up.
Defensive smoke from the CT side, denying access towards the cave and pop it open.
Karagin's inquisitive, but, I'll just nerf for now.
If you use that smoke across over towards Heaven, Frozen's confirmed that it's clear.
Take a moment's rest by here.
In terms of the setup, three players on the A side of the map.
That's Jacob, Brokey and Frozen.
They've got the bomb there as well.
Twists has done this before.
A solo play in towards the B bomb side.
Try and cause a ruckus.
Try and hold them over there.
There's three players on that side of the map.
It's G though of the AWP.
He was more than ready and is.
Does he nail the first shot?
He absolutely does to answer your question.
Jacob goes down, Twisters walk onto the site, he walked right through the smoke point, still gets punished where he broke, he's going to go down.
That first shot from G, very upsetting to Faze, trying to take the A site, it's carrying him.
He's got no chance here, not the health for it, not anything else.
Looking very lightly, we could see a 6-6 scoreline.
It's a really cool comeback for Tyloo, I thought it was looking over at 1.5 and 0, I believe, in favour of Faze and now it's a bit of a different story.
story. They don't have a lot of cash on that T side. None at all in fact.
Kind of just has to save the AK. Yeah, the most exciting outcome but with 20
points of health. Nothing he can do. It was looking quite nice as we've
mentioned it's twist trying to show presence and key players on that side
of the map, which did a great job. Yeah, sure. He doesn't get a ton of
frags, but he kept three players there. The problem was G and the AWP
way to on this side and it's really difficult. Once you've detected
that orb you've got to try to shut him down. The two players zero and she working
in tandem. Seems some great work from zero today. The new addition to Tyloo
looks very sharp indeed and six six looking quite likely as you mentioned
the money's pretty busted here. This one you need to dig deep in the strap
book and there's this one you're looking for the B executions the A rushes
maybe a fast mid-take through red. Those are your main options when you don't
have much firepower and we'll see what they've got up their sleep here
to be carrying him with the AK-47.
Is that a good game? Why not?
It's Jacob 2-11 off. No.
That's the right ball losing all his HP.
That's running back.
It's jammed me out.
Yeah, he saved them there.
That could have been really devastating.
Now the rest of them outside of B on the ramp.
That smoke has been devastating so far.
They've been really good tidal with timing it.
So I think for FaZe, yeah, they go into it.
They use it as a bit of a staging area.
They come fucking right out of the motion.
Mercury not impressed at all,
Mercury with the final shot at a great recovery from Tyloo 6-6 at the end of the half.
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Welcome back to the Counter-Strike Carnage that is FaZe versus Tyloo here at the Blast
Open.
Elimination is on the line and after a flying start and it's 5-0 up, it looked like they
were good to go.
Take us to a third map but Tyloo, they really did come back to life there, tying things
up and the 2-0 is very possible.
It's on the menu right now.
Tyloo, I like the recovery.
I want to see them do some good work here.
Oh okay.
trying to harvest the team somehow. He's become their best player. He wants them on a third map
here. Snipes away with the USB and down the middle Jacob sending out some bullets. Not really
connecting with anything but it has slowed down time so much. They need to regroup on the map.
They need to go back and take some control outside of B. Very awkward round for them already.
At least they got the smoke molotov so they can actually do a bit of a B execute if they
want to but it already feels a bit weird when you had another plan in mind and this is plan B now.
Okay still recoverable my favorite piece of U2 the decoy is in the mix is the replay of
Karrigan really nice shot no one you necessarily expect from him the old boy on top down towards
long. Rokey had a couple of kills available. Same story for Jacob and now it's a 3 versus 3.
Molotov dissipates, bomb to go down. There is no kit and play here. This is anyone's round,
but I would say Advantage Tyloo. Yeah, very well could be. They still had that
decoy you were talking about. If you put it to use, G gets the shot. Now he's going to follow
it up. All the work there. Just down the toilet unfortunately. Carrigan, only the one kill,
but
Frozen now into one versus three, it's a very good shot to begin with
but look at the celebration coming up, he is in his element
Oh dude, when you get an opening kill like that and there's Karagin that gets away scot-free
but Jules don't connect whatsoever
it was set up perfectly but broke you there, but unfortunately he gets nothing
and gee, he gets everything, snatches the round away
What a celebrate, I'm gonna start using that
Give him one of those
the cross. That's sick. Okay,
full eco eight, seven. He's so
high business. Yeah, he is one
of the great characters we have
in counter strike. Always has
some fun. Always entertaining
on the camera. Don't get the
most inside tactically from him
when he has the interviews, but
you definitely have the most
laughs. That is for sure. I
mean, the only downside is we
don't have Moses here to give
his ice cream. That's the
real let down. We can fly him
just for that one job.
Creamy Moses.
Let's go.
Execution, smoking towards Dernan
and CT spawn from this position, courtesy
of Mercury. They're all walking to the stack.
There is a chance he loses Anders. I know I always
say that, but more
this is actually quite precarious.
I'm not sure they can actually
get out of this cleanway. Let's see
if they can overcome. It's very
very. Okay, it's fine.
I think the thing that really works for them is they take
fight right away they didn't get to swing too deep into the usps i feel like for more steps
they would have been exposed to everyone all at once but it works out and that means time to rock
two rounds well i've five zero to kick things off now phaser eight six down oh no elimination on the
line this would be dead last in the tournament if you lose this map why people say they're
paid by the brown it doesn't matter if they start through it or bad they just have to play
more rounds. This works out in the end, or at least it normally does. I mean, it is great
when Karrigan stops bragging, but you really don't want to see that. You want to see more
of this. Jacob and Frozerd working in tandem. They take quite a lot of damage, but they
have got the man advantage. What's the response here? He's going to have to be
a pounce and towards it. It's broke, he though. M4 in hand. Play in his position.
It's named after him for a reason, Anders.
Yeah.
Pretty well done.
Good utility coming out of the turn, trying to put some pressure on, but unfortunately
the Molotov doesn't spread far enough here.
A little longer.
A G, alright.
Objective, a G now to try and inflict as much damage as possible.
We won't be winning this round if it had a lot of noise, he's dead, unfortunately.
Yeah.
Okay, one round game, needed that.
A lot of chaos towards mid all that.
Yeah, there was a minute where, because I think Twist is jumping up to try and control the B lane,
and he is so much confident that Jacob and Frozen behind him have got it under control.
When he gets shot in the back, that's got to be a tilting moment when you feel like,
oh man, guys, I thought you had, but then they turn in as a double kill, so it's absolutely fine,
but definitely Twist's catagard.
I want to say betrayed, but let down perhaps.
Hey, they win the round, tilt take it, doesn't matter.
We'll take a tactical timeout, this time courtesy of Tai Lu.
Money is a breaking point, very important round.
They want to maintain their lead here on the second map of Ancient.
Its phases pick, all still not available,
where AK's are on the CT side now being the hands of Frozen,
who hasn't had the same level of performance as he saw on Mirage.
It's currently 6-11.
You can turn it around very quickly, especially with the AK and the defense.
defense. I was going to take more aggressive peeks. Five seconds to go and so we're back
into the action here round number 16. Tyloo, the unknown quantity coming into this tournament.
Having seen him play in Europe for some time.
They're still bringing Ahito. It's so much fun whenever you get an opportunity to. And
now with a slightly new lineup. Very interesting.
Well, they dropped off two pieces of utility. The G outside the B bombsite. You're
Normally doing the one-man execution to the B-side from that position, but they're gonna feel things out first of course
There's the first bit of you till Karrigan. You gotta be careful here, my guy. They're pushing B ramp as well
They're pushing in behind. This is sick phase. I think this is gonna work out
Mosier and Mercury get a kill, but Karrigan on the double, Jacob there as well
There's a three-man push coming out of the B-bomb site. Two by the ramp, one by the cave
And it's more than Tyler were ready for
Down to zero, new boy. You can somehow win a three-up one
And he gets nowhere near.
Carrigan, 16 and 9.
He's so good.
Right now, he is looking absolutely brilliant.
Keep that up.
And there might be a chance of a third map here.
8-8 has to be the eco.
Can't even partial buy into this next one.
That's all these in-game leaders do.
A lot of them play towards that cave position.
Find that timing, push through that smoke.
Get the back stabs going.
Works out brilliantly there for Carrigan.
get himself three in total. Above and beyond his teammates right now, 16 kills, no one else
on double digits.
Swiss wants to activate himself. Getting stuck in, flashes over, confirming the b-lane.
At least not swarming with T's right now. As I did say, it's going to be the full
eco here, so should be a guaranteed round for FaZe.
puts them in a very strong position. I mean, assuming no casualties, money is going to start
to build pretty rapidly. It might just only be a one-round either still. We'll take it
right now, phase, close to making the full comeback, close to doing what they normally
do on the opening map on Mirage, but it wasn't enough. It's time to walk away 13-11
three. Oh, past the third map, waiting in the distance here. I feel like there's a
good chance that FaZe are going to be able to push it all the way. The money being what
they see of a Tyloo, the fact that Karrigan is still the main performer. It should mean
that FaZe have a couple of more people that are going to be activated real soon. I'm
sure that will be enough here. Frozen, J-Kid, yeah, they're still against on-armor
targets. You'll take it. Get the confidence flowing. Start to feel maybe a little
bit of more fun in the game here. One round lead. Overpass coming up next just to note that.
Yes. We don't have much information about phase and overpass. They've played it twice.
They haven't got any wins on it. Tyloo played it three times in the last three months
and that's 7% I've been going in their favor. So, the table look. That's neither
here nor there. We've got to get through this one first. Sure, phase out the lead
Can they hold on to it up against the AKCF? Definitely a weak buy though
That is allowing mid control to come through
Cargo
Trying to stop the spam is to be frozen towards a main finding zero to kick things off five and four advantage
That's a huge hill
What do you do on the T side now you if you go back and fight it that's gonna take a long time if you don't
You accept the fact that you have so little map control on that side of it
Which I don't think that feels good. So yeah, they are gonna go back and check it out. They're gonna go back and clear out the hallways
That play maybe it can work
G he's like if completely vacated the B bomb say it
They're gonna reach it middle and rightly so caragon continuing this strong form nice spray towards the star player of jam
Young and twist is that to provide the covering fire as well playing for his life
I as much time as he can Jacob is that
Looks like they're gonna have a round on the board comfortably for FaZe, double digits, money broken once again for Tyloo.
It's a really great calling from Perrigan.
Like he said, leaving the B-bombsite, going back to reclaim middle, in the middle of whatever it was Tyloo were trying to do.
They absolutely called them off guard.
That money's starting to swell now.
Tyloo started to shrink.
Partial buy is the only option available to them. They're a 4th stage loss bonus.
We're gonna get 3,400 doors for the next round so we can just buy some Tech 9s here, but quite well from Karagin, it's been very confident down there, leading by example.
Twists, great kill from Jacob, managing to get the third, and close things out.
That's a good time now, as I mentioned, has to be the Tech 9s here, and you're looking for a set piece.
You may be rushing A with smokes on the run, trying to get a quick plan there, trying to catch our potential AWPer.
But that's not in play right now, Brokey's happy to operate with the M4.
Got $10,000 to his name.
See what they can make of it.
They can steal this round away, the game's back on, but if FaZe begin up comfortably,
they're 11-8 and touching distance of overpass.
It's looking better than it has so far, FaZe in the series.
This is a prime opportunity to really get ahead.
Tech 9's, one Mac 10, one P250.
Tyloo don't have a lot to operate with, it looks like they're going to go towards the B bomb side.
Let's see if they're going to be as quick as we'd want here.
Smoke is up already, it's a bit of a molotov to hold the backup.
Slows them down no matter what.
Incendiary from the CT side, no idea what that's supposed to do,
but it certainly doesn't hold them back at all.
Mosier moving forward into it here, it's a dink,
but Roky and Jacob they're dug in on the bomb side.
The defense looking tight right now.
Now Mercury swings and finally they get some kind of an opening courtesy of G but it's all too late and too little.
Twist with a double kill. Faze determined to win this map.
Only dropping one player and that's Brokey. I would say he brings out the AWP now, it's $13,000 in their final form here with a couple of AK-47s on the CT side fending off that B execution.
No problem at all, didn't have to break a sweat. We go into round number 20. A couple more we'll do here for Faze.
Jake, if nice work, get Crossfire there with Broke Geek.
Twist.
After a pretty quiet map, the first is starting to have some great sequences here,
and we're going for that battle towards middle.
Frozen. Comes out on top again.
Mercury, hello?
He didn't notice for a long time there.
Oh, Ciro's gonna get traded out.
You can see the frustration's not in the show a little bit here on Talu, I think.
Moser and G left that is a very
Very big mistake potentially quick kill there and he would have been ready for the sit for the next fight immediately
Bombing brought back but Kerrigan's moved up. Does he see I don't think he seemed the other player but knife out here for G
He's down and Moser
Trying to investigate
Kerrigan seems to have an idea what's going on. He's not gonna be able to get the shot
But that's still 19 kills for Kerrigan on the map and a one versus three for Moser
Round certainly not done yet.
Mistakes can be made.
But not today.
Frozen from way downtown.
Finds a head shop.
Secures map point.
We go 12 to 8.
Money going to be in another problematic spot here.
No bomb planted.
We're averaging about $3,500 per player.
Caragun seems to be making all the right moves right now.
Calculated aggression.
Tons of information garnered and hitting shots on routes.
This could be if a tyloo here in ancient overpass.
ancient overpass seems inevitable. I don't know what kind of a miracle they're gonna try and make here but
it has to be right now. Get Lilz and cross the board on a single AK-47. What have you got for us lads?
I mean they've tried to send Jam Young into middle a lot to take some of these fights and
it hasn't really worked out the way that they were expected. They've actually been shut down
a lot by pains. This time there's nobody to fight in middle. Yeah they get the
all they've done is spend some of their own utility
that is very close
testing the limits here
no one to connect with yet on the other side mercury you can see the bullets on the high the side of him there that's kind of scary
good that he wasn't in the corner
what do you do now you have the map control what's the next step
I'm not sure. You don't really have many resources here. Yeah, you have a couple of flashes one smoke no damage done
I've got middle sure but phase are allowing you to have it
They've actually set up their defenses deep inside the a bomb site
I smoke towards the dying stages of what could be the final round here 42nd remaining
It's gonna be jam young trawling towards red room. It's teammates getting ready to pounce and towards B
Oh, he's gonna be found, isn't he?
Twist is gonna look at this every time.
Yeah, nice flick.
Twist gets the opening.
Now they knew everything.
This is looking very good.
The defense holding, carrying it up to 20 kills behind it.
Three left alive on Ty, who make it to a G.
It's in the grave early here.
Not even a bomb plan yet, so they don't have that luxury.
10 seconds on the clock.
Trying to get a bit closer.
It seems impossible because it is Mosier.
One versus four, he goes down.
Great comeback for FaZe, pushing us onto our third map.
Certainly our end is, it is down to that man in the screen right there,
a captain's performance from Karagin.
He posts 20 kills, top fragger on the server,
leading by example and thrusting us into the third map of Overpass.
Exactly the way we all expected that one to go down,
the Karagin carry job,
the one player lighting the wave for FaZe,
performing well and above his teammates.
That's what we expect from FaZe Clan.
I know I said, you know, focus on Kerrigan, you know, having him being a great performer is a step in the right direction.
However, I did not anticipate him being the carry job of the team.
The only player more or less going positive outside of Frozen and really doing a good job,
not only in the first half, but even more so in the CT side as well in the second.
So, in isolation, a good performance from FaZe Clan, a great performance from Kerrigan, and they stay alive for another man.
Yeah, I mentioned previously, you know, when you see FaZe do well at a tournament in the last three or six months,
it's almost universally tournaments where Kerrigan is finally at a 1.0 rating or above a 1.0 rating.
You can see it map to map when he does well. He lights the way for his team, and I think his calling improves when he's doing well, too.
It's that he gets the confidence, he gets the understanding of how the team is playing, and he can make it work.
And unfortunately, you don't want to be going to a map three against Tyloo if you're FaZe.
I think Faith would have hoped to close this one out 2-0, but still, if you can win this map in any direction after a five-map losing streak on ancient, I guess you're happy.
It's also the fashion they do it in the second half, because it was 8-6 for Tyloo, and then they win seven rounds in a row in that CT side, and they do it by being aggressive towards middle, they do it by being semi-aggressive towards Tida as well, Karrigan in particular, playing that spot well.
A lot of different avenues to get those rounds, so as much as I'm, I guess, a little disappointed in Tyloo's T side once more,
I think the CT side practice is coming out of faceclans.
That's what netted them the win more so than anything else,
which is impressive to me.
It is indeed.
And I mean, I think it's well the manner for a phase overall,
where you did have some players really slow starting
at the beginning of that map.
And your fraggers as well, right?
Frozen had a slow start.
Jacob had a slow start.
It was Karrigan really being the engine
through those early rounds,
that then gave them the opportunity to wake up
and join the fray.
Yeah, and that's the thing.
If you were back and you think of first half,
you're right in saying that it was Tyler
who making a little bit of a comeback,
making it six to six. And in the first day, I say nine rounds, it was, as you
said, it was Kagan, you know, keeping them alive. There's a world where
Tyler got away with eight rounds in that first half. Then they win the second
pistol they convert. It's a 10 to four. I think personally that maybe could
have changed the course of this game. They probably would have broke the
spirit of face clan. So in this essence, you know, yeah, he's
topping the scoreboard, but even more so, he was also keeping them alive
when it mattered the absolute most in the first half. What I like most
about that is that if you go back and look at the scoreboard, the way
the kills came in. A lot of the rounds that Tyloo were opening up with the entry themselves
in that first half. It wasn't FaZe just running them over necessarily every single player.
It was FaZe losing a player and then Kerrigan calling them into the right bomb site or pivoting
on the map in the correct way instead of just running them over firepower wise. But
looking at that, Tyloo, what's his rating against Tyloo?
I can't read that so far away. But I do want to bring up just one more number
from that first, from that ancient scoreboard, right?
The round swing.
It's always a fun one to see.
Kerrigan went 2011, plus 10.13% round swing.
That is truly astonishing.
One thing that is always going to be true about Faze
is they will never fail to surprise you.
No, no, they always, and I've said this before,
even in the slump then right now,
they're always entertaining to watch
because you can never really figure it out, Mike.
You never really know what you're gonna get from Faze.
And one thing I was quite certain not getting
was Kerrigan being the carry of this team
on a map like Ancient, however he managed to do it and now he kept his team alive and that's where you think, okay,
normally, and under normal circumstances, Karrigan, I'm never going to have two maps in a row where he finds that kind of impact.
I think you can count on one hand how many times that happened and what 25 years he's been playing Counter-Strike,
but I will say you also don't see Phosen and Twist having lacked as the performance as two maps in a row in the same fashion.
So I think he bought them some more time and I think Faze can head into the third map now,
slightly more confident than they would have been had they not won obviously.
I think Ancient is a bit of a unique map in terms of IGL's performing to a high level.
We saw Snacks doing it, even when he was having a tough time.
We see Kerrigan do it.
I think Cheetah works really well for him.
But what was surprising was the T-side that he comes in on the T-side and does that well,
and prevents his team from going home.
Because I think, to be honest, Frozen wasn't popping off.
You weren't seeing a slow start, as you mentioned, from several different players.
If Kerrigan wasn't there with a 10% round swing, with a 1.6 plus rating,
I think you're seeing Faze head home 0-2.
I want to flip the script, talk over about the Tyloo side as well, because this one's going to be disappointing for them.
There were opportunities, there were those slow starts, there were some weaknesses shown still by FaZe.
And in particular, their young gun, the guy we're kind of looking at is to be that X factor to elevate them to an X level zero, did not have nearly the impact here.
Now there were a couple of moments in the game where he found a little bit of impact, but it was very short-sighted and in very small sample sizes, so to speak, on a map like Ancient.
So yeah, I think we've seen glimpses of it, but we also saw Mirage,
good first half, poor second half here in Ancient as well, small glimpses.
It's hard for him to find consistency over the course of a full map,
and that probably comes with a bit of experience.
And then again, I think playing the T-side the way Tyloo did as well,
it's not playing into a stretch.
For me, it felt more often than not like it was a bit of a facet game,
to some degree, where everyone was willing to fight
and everyone was taking fights not to the advantage,
but trying to brute force it on the side of Tyloo.
And if you're zero and you're new to this game, that's going to be a rough way to go for it.
Yeah, I mean, I pointed out G is ancient is one of his best maps and G wasn't there quite the same way.
I think that support would have helped zero. I'm not too mad at zero if he's having a tough time on ancient.
He's still a new player to the roster. He's still getting his feet behind him.
I think he had a pretty solid game on Mirage. If he struggles on ancient, he comes back in map three.
That's a very solid performance from zero.
How do you get your feet behind you? How do you stand underneath you?
That one makes more sense to me, I was just picturing the lean, the Ministry of Funny Walks going on in here.
But yeah, I mean still strong showings from Jam Young as well, right?
If you want to talk about what's consistent for Tyloo, it is Jam Young, again and again and again.
And I think as we head into this final map of play, he's going to be somebody you're looking to,
to again light the way and make this happen.
I mean, we've learned a couple lessons from the course of this series,
FaZe not quite yet dead, but Tyloo's still very capable of making themself.
Thailu is capable of playing a good map for sure.
Thailu right now, the way I sense it and what we've seen with the very small sample size we have since the Budapest Major
is still a team that is finding their footing, finding their grounding as well.
I don't expect them to be consistent over the course of an entire series.
Canna saw that against Furia as well, struggling for the first one and a half sites, so to speak,
and then they came alive, unoverpassed the map we're heading to now,
almost making the comeback on the T side versus Furia, so I wouldn't rule out Thailu,
But I'd still say this despite all the troubles face are facing right now
They're still my favorites to win this series
But that speaks more about Tyloo's lack of effort right now than anything else
I think when you look at Tyloo as a team there are a team that comes in with a really strong game plan and when they can stick to that
You saw how they can 9-3 a tee half on Mirage and they can go forward from there. I'm not certain they expected ancient
I'm not certainly had as good of a game plan on ancient when you look at the way they played out
I think you're right. It did feel more like a puggy manner
or it felt less tactical, less strategic than we saw from them on Mirage.
And I think going into map three, I'm not sure they expected Overpass either.
So I'm not sure their game plan is going to be behind them.
They're going to need Jam Young, they're going to need G,
they're going to need Zero to actually frag out.
Well, it all comes down to the distance.
We've got one more map to play.
But before we do, we'll take a quick break
and come back with a little talk about Overpass.
Phase look to pull off the biggest bit of magic yet returning from the brink of death to leave to fight another
Day and this man frozen is gonna try and be the extra spice that they need to make it happen
Tyloo meanwhile trying to shove them right back down into that coffin and now that thing shut
This is all to play for and it's all coming to pass on the overpass
Yeah pressures on obviously for both teams
We know tyloo is in a situation right now where they need all the points
they're going to acquire for VIS, they need to re-establish themselves with the new line-up,
whereas for Faze, they're fighting to stay alive in the hopes of qualifying for the Major.
So in that regard, pressure is on. Overpass on map, we have seen Tyloo play already against Furia a couple of days ago.
Lackluster CT side, much better showing on the T side, almost made a comeback.
I'm not sure how much I can use from that game in the sense that Furia were already leading the series 1-0
and were up big time in the second map.
Sometimes you make a bit of a cosmetic comeback.
I'm not saying that exactly what it was from Tainu, but at the end of the day,
I think it's going to be a tougher opposition for them here now growing up against Faze.
I think they're going to struggle to have any chance of winning if they manage to win pistol
and then lose 8-4 on your CK side of Overpass.
I don't think Faze is a team that's going to let you into that one.
You know, you can have a little bit of a comeback on the, you know,
you can have a little bit going for you on the second half of Ancient,
but Faze, they showed in the second half of Mirage,
you give them anything they're going to take it, they're going to run with it.
And with Frozen at the helm, I think Frozen's going to have a great nap.
This is a phase that's ready to close itself.
If you could paint a premium picture though for Tyloo,
we could say that Fury are known to be the Overpass Specialists, right?
A lot was made last year about K-Serato
potentially being one of the greatest Overpass players of all time.
It's a tough team to play there.
Phase should present more weaknesses.
That's true.
And also, I think one of the most important things
when it comes to the map of Overpass is the AWPing role.
I think that is, if Dust2 is almost paralyzed,
then Overpass is maybe even more so, especially on the CT side.
You can do whatever the hell you want.
and it's very hard to punish an AWP player as well.
The good thing for me, if you put on the Tyloo glasses
in that regard, is that I think they have
the better AWP player on the server.
I think G is more impactful than Bokey's at the moment.
He's probably in a better shape as well.
Bokey's struggling massively to find his footing.
So if anything, I think in one of the most vital roles
on a map like Overpass, I think Tyloo actually
have a bit of an advantage in G over Bokey.
I think they have the advantage with the AWP,
but when you look at Overpass, the AWP creates space
and then your riflers can have lots of space to move
around. They can reposition, they can force duels.
We saw in Mirage when FaZe could force aim duels,
they were the team that was winning.
I think when they get on the CT side,
if Broke can get something done,
if they can have a little bit of space on the map,
if Tyloo gives them time to lurk around,
Overpass is always a map that's a little too big
to be holding every angle.
And I think FaZe is gonna be walking
into all of those angles.
Speaking of rifles, I did just wanna give
a hot news update here.
It's been teased, it's been tempted,
but I do have confirmation.
Kyosuke has arrived.
He is back, and he will be joining Fountains
in the next matchup.
So he'll be rocking on into the server.
But we'll leave that to the next crew to talk about in depth
as we focus back up here.
Faze getting themselves pumped up behind us.
Tyloo will walk into the server as well.
Both these teams, we set the stage early on.
There is so much to play for.
This is potentially any shot at the major right here,
right now, in one map of play.
Yeah, I know a lot of people have been at work today.
It's Friday.
People are most likely getting off work in Europe right now
just to reiterate what you said right here.
This is a must win game for face.
If they want to qualify for the major,
they need all the points they can get.
I'm not saying that if they lose right here,
they won't make the major,
but chances of that happening,
which is even a wild conversation to have,
is much, much larger.
So if you want to apply a bit of pressure
towards face right now,
we're talking about whether or not Karrigan,
first and twist are going to be part of the IEM
Cologne Major 2026.
I personally would be disappointed if that's not the case.
And if FaZe lose that year,
they're going out with a fizzle, not with a bang.
This is FaZe dying in the worst way possible.
Well, the stakes are massive.
And for stakes this big, we had to bring in some guys
with really big voices.
Anderson Henry G, take it away.
Cheers, Michael.
And yes, I agree with the sentiments on the desk.
If FaZe crash out here going 0-2,
dead last in the tournament, major on the line-handers,
it'd be nothing short of a disaster.
Unacceptable by FaZe standards.
We need to see more.
They did claw together a pretty good comeback. Maybe they can do it again here on overpass a third and final map
Tyloo on the other side will see what they can bring it's a map
They do play not an enormous amounts, but maybe a chance they didn't make it work against Furia
But it doesn't mean they can't against FaZe
Time will tell
I'm interested to see what level of performance to get from Karrigan once again. It's great
He saw bragging it's great that he got them over the line in their previous map
But you need the stars to shine here.
We need to see Broke here.
We need to see Twist and Frozen.
Final cylinders here as we get into what
could be the last map of play for Faze or Tai Lu.
Loser goes home.
Winner continues in towards the lower bracket.
It could be a T side start with a Chinese squad.
One smoke, couple of flashes, Frozen.
Some big shot for the USP.
There's just so many glocks coming his way.
You're banking it all on the idea
that those USP's will connect right away that's a real shame you lose twist so
early on utility being set up here they're gonna try and make the way up
towards long here comes frozen take the bullet to the face 20 HP the walking
wounded retreats back towards the bomb site trying to find a safety of the
truck but now we're within clock distance they're getting the shots
through Mosier big double and Harrigan yes he was their savior on ancient
But this is asking probably way too much the thing is and is winning the T side pistol is so so massive
Moshe with a triple your right. They do get a bit of momentum and it is the harder side
it's the most CT-sided map we have in the pool by far and
Winning the pistol and especially in the follow-up conversion if you start 3-0 on the T side of overpass
such amounts of decline here of your phase but I'm assuming we'll see the
four-spire in the second but one nice shot from Broke he birthed there's too
much pressure being applied across the bombsite here great shots from Mosia
a disappointing start at the phase and G is absolutely loving it no four-spire
two zero locked in. It was FaZe went up 5-0 on ancient. That's certainly going to be happening
here. Mac 10's hunting them down, farming that cash. Blinking you miss it. We don't even
get to really talk about the round before it's over. B-stack shut down.
That's the level of commitment I really want to see here. Tyloo, don't give them a chance.
This is a scary round now, with your FaZe, you do not have everything you need.
Sure, you took the Faleco, you'll have rifles, you're not going to have helmets, you're not
going to have kits, you won't have that orb.
Famous for Jacob, you can see they have to focus on getting helmets here, Anders.
Three Mac-10s at the globe, they needed helmets, sacrificing a lot of utility.
Firepower as well for Jacob, and we might just be doing the same thing again.
Are we rushing B?
Yeah, they will, right through the tunnel, grenade lands on top, but nobody knows
that they're dead. This is going to be a huge surprise.
Karrigan, is he ready? Good double spray down
and Zero gets one of a return, but they were ready.
FaZe, they saw it coming.
They already had so many people at the site.
G to go down last.
They said it was a critical round for FaZe
and they have stepped up in a big way.
Nice work from Karrigan, continuing that strong form
we saw in ancient.
As I mentioned, it was a captain's performance there.
20 kills.
They needed that to bring us to this third and final map.
Convincing first gun round with bare-mind is the F3 Mac 10s and the Galil.
He should be converting that one.
Thankfully they get it over the line, no problem.
AK is brought out in full force now.
2-1 to Tyloo.
That's where the game gets interesting.
What setup are we looking for?
It's gonna be initial smoke.
Incendiary towards that playground area.
Tyloo willing to...
...fight that time.
It's waist down towards the connector.
J.K. getting a lot of intel towards that short pipe.
for one split here actually going to be walking away from outside of the B bomb site so they'll
they're pretty much leave that part of the map brokey perhaps a bit exposed if they start to walk
up behind you but in a solo fight like this comes out ahead of jam young so that's a good start to
the round for plenty of time left and he's got some backup with him more than I was expecting
in fact so they're really holding on to this nice one from brokey drops that smoke down
come, deny access for them to try and come hunting down.
Man advantage for Faze.
And it's going to peel off from this one as well.
Maintain that advantage.
That's the way to play it.
Already showing you a hand, showing that aggressive setup.
And now they've got to waste so much time
flaring out those key positions like the connector.
And now just reset the round on the Faze side.
Back and towards the B bomb site.
Get the crossfires enabled, send the numbers back
and towards the A bomb site here as well.
Speaking of the bomb, it's on the back of zero.
Impressed as a mirage couldn't really get going on ancient carrigan. He certainly could 20 kills and hit zero this rounds. I
Feel like they just had to wait it out. I don't know why they were panicked so much even from the B bombs that they were rotating around
That's only 24 seconds here
There is a single incendiary on frozen in theory
He could try and stop the bomb plant with it if he's still at the a bomb site, but they think it's gonna be B
Frozen's rotating to try and stop a BP hit that's not coming now
Now they start to realize that someone is up frozen walking back in eight seconds on the clock here
They're checking it all out planning to watch the bank. He can't stop that bomb plan
Unfortunately a headshot there might have won in the round, but now phase is in trouble a five on four
And now they have to fight for it frozen. Yeah, he goes down. Gee straight headshot bangs him out on long
And now three versus four. I don't know phase they look like they're walking away
They don't want to part of it. That is that's such a confusing round
looking from the outside. I don't know why FaZe were that panicked. They were a man up.
There was not a lot of time left. It's because of that factor. There was 20
seconds remaining. We had one player from Tyloo throwing some utility through
the monster for a couple of flashbacks through a smoke over and I guess they
just assumed that was gonna be the final commitment coming in there from
Tyloo but it wasn't meant to be. Carrigan face checking long as well. No
jump peek, shred up face check. Yeah he goes down and that's it. That was
round in itself. I really do not enjoy that. The title certainly did. May have the opening
advantage as well. That was a five on four when they reset the round and it's the face check.
That's the real problem. Nice awareness from G as well. Frozen on the back stab gets nothing done.
That's when you can feel the round is over after the execution and the bomb being planted.
There was 20 seconds on both those smokes towards bank and towards the dumpster. Molotovs
in reserve. They had to hold on to the utility and the rifles of course. So
So, we get into round number five, it's the Brokey AWP.
Door blown open and aggressive is Brokey.
He takes quite a lot of damage for his troubles
and will scramble back towards middle.
Yeah, they're very quick out long.
Sometimes when you run this path that Jammer is running,
you can completely beat the timing on the CT side.
They have no idea that you're gonna be there.
Gotta be careful you don't run the whole wave
and you're gonna have to start walking
so that they can't hear it, but let's see.
There is a world here where they just,
at the restrooms, they have no idea
he's gonna be there lightning fast no one's look now broke he has got his back
turn he should be dead gun barrel is showing here they're not aware of it at
all they've been completely caught nice shot from down twist as well outplayed
by that war timing it was such a good maneuver even as the freedoms are miss
a couple of bullets and still get a double kill five on three now it's
about to punish Mozia can't do it gets the information that they're
saving it towards T spawn now affects the question who totally want to go on
the hunt now. Rosen buries himself in towards a B bomb cyber zero smells blood
in the water wants to see if you can take down a couple more members here the
thing is their money's not great don't necessarily have to fully commit to the
hunt here and smoke will probably dissuade them from going forward I
know they're in T spawn but it's not really in a position to punish here
our tyloo they're up for one on the T side and this is does not both
well at all now I think we've got a tactical timeout coming in next
phase at least i'd be calling one yeah that's a good point because you are down in the mud right now
well they get to save three rifles like they did in the previous round so that's one of the things
that's keeping phase dangerous in some of these rounds at least they have the the rifles to go
with it but yeah you're right he's he missed the shot i think he overall broke it to begin
with anyway but none of it matters yeah head in your hands oh no time out and you're going to
They're gonna be operating with a Famous.
They did save two AKs.
Vi's pretty decent.
Needs to convert this round though.
Need to start showing us some signs of life here in Overpass.
An issue all Molotov did and our access towards Shor.
Gonna be G and it's AWP.
Mosey out leading the charge through Mons.
They've got a lot of space under their remit.
Jay keep towards the ramp.
Needs to find at least one here.
So players all around him though.
Spotted, burns out of position.
Double kill, making it triple.
Tyloo just dominating the B-bombsite once again round over they're getting bullied out there. They are made to look foolish
Like there was no B defense at all it's literally like
Even fire off a shot. I'm not sure a little bit of damage to Mojo, but that was about it
I think I lose broken as well. It's a shot from him
Self-preservation the aim of the game now
Crashing out last place here the blast open wasn't on the menu for phase
No, it kind of begs the question. Why would you remove the coach before such a massive tournament?
Without having the VR secure exactly right like there's so much on the line like yeah
What was he detrimental to the squad? Was it that bad? He had to be removed before this tournament
Those are great question. Why would you have to cap yourself going into this when it masses the most? I?
I wish I had the answer.
You heard in the interviews,
oh yeah, we're playing about a coach.
Yeah, just don't remove the coach for the tournament, man.
Just don't do it.
Yeah.
Don't do that.
I would say it's got to be more to it than that,
I suppose.
We don't know all the details,
but just beg us to believe why you would make that move.
Some of the most important tournament regarding the major.
Yeah.
There's so much on the line here.
The fact that they're playing tier two tournaments
to potentially catch up to the VRS.
It's almost like they saw it coming.
Like we do need it just in case.
Well, that case is right here.
5-1.
They're on the T side, Tyler.
Like you pointed out, this is a massive CT-sided map.
This B defense, non-existent mojo.
You've got to give them credit.
The follow-up shot there when Frozen was out of this world.
It's slipping away, boys.
So is the money.
The other rounds, they had the three rifles saved.
every time, at least that was something to look forward to.
Now it's a little bit more thin.
Seven for out here.
Need some phase bullshit right now.
Yeah.
I mean, to be fair, the broken shot on Mirage
nearly brought the whole team back in just a single round.
There's the one rifle spotted.
It's going towards that connector.
And it's going to do some nice work with twist.
Double swing towards the connector.
And advantage if I knew boys zero
I probably a bit of a rookie mistake from him there
If we're being honest didn't have to face it that hard with the mullers on in hand. Yeah, that's a good point
We'll give him some room on that one generally been pretty good day for him
They won't recover that rifle, but they do reset the round with the man advantage here
Looks like the final commitment will come in towards the a bomb site
We still have a plethora of utility on the T side here looking for six one
at this stage would feel like a death sentence phase actually desperately need
this round gee nice attempt so that kill doesn't quite hit the mark three CTs
lying in wait a trifecta of doom has been set up frozen brookie and Jacob with
the little guns hoping for the best air deep smoke to remove CT vision allows
me to get closer toward the bomb site Jacob will play in front of them they've
Got the incendiary as well, unfrozen, so with time running down this low, even that could become a bit of a factor eventually.
Another smoke on top, Jacob's hiding inside of it.
Will they even check that?
I don't know if they will, he's run past them with the eagle, lord of damage, and a good kill.
Brokey burns alive, but they're still trying to get the opening twist, showing up at the spot just when they need him.
And she will find himself alone, he can't make it work.
They didn't have a lot going into this round phase, so even if they lose a couple of players here, that's a good round.
They had to be proactive. They had to find the man advantage of the star there catching
Zero was pans around his ankles and towards the connector was just what they were looking for
They were able to reset the round set up that crossfire towards the A side
That's just what the doctor ordered here for phase five to two set an absolute mountain to climb
That's the first step in their journey of the comeback here
It's gonna be a tactical timeout this time by Tyloo that money's pretty good now. We're getting to a real gun territory
We've got the AWP for G. We're going to slow things right down, run these defaults.
Zero, presumably learn his lesson now.
Won't be called at the molotov in hand.
Random rates.
Ideally, you need to be finding 7-5 here of your phase on the CT side of Overpass.
That's a bare minimum.
Such a long road ahead of them, but I don't want to count them out.
They also need to find a way to fix some of that B defense.
It's the bane of many teams on this map.
It's just holding on to B like it seems so simple
because you're running through a very narrow truck point in the months of tunnel
but it's so hard to hold B regardless.
Yeah, Tyloo have got a very impressive execution.
The river of flames engulfs the bomb site
whenever they make their way through, the flashbangs are always spot on.
Lining up for another one of those plays potentially.
Gonna be going for that triple grenade, I would say.
No one home.
It's an old classic and it's from CSGO.
Stralis used to run that.
Yes.
Still...
can absolutely work but there was nobody home this time
have you really seen FaZe go for any of those crazy boosts at the moment there
are some teams that
thrive on overpass because they have an infinite amount of weird boosts down and
be in all over the map but
FaZe are playing a little bit more traditional at the moment so
minute and ten on the clock and what is the plan here for Tyloo then
started to get up towards the middle of the map and the restrooms here
Forcing Brookie back in towards the bomb site. It's not bad
See if FaZe want to recover any map presence. Oh that jump you see so much
That is not bad
Very tense right now
Three players for FaZe in this side of the map. Karagon
juggling utility
Passing it around flashbang set up a frozen to enable a monster swing
Popping the smoke open
30 seconds remaining, that's frozen with that flash.
Lousy Karagin has had a little look here.
Bots 1 and now isolated, he'll be flashed himself but it's still finding kills.
Karagin!
Stepping up to the plate today, a double kill with the AK-47, I think that's enough to win this round, there's just no time remaining.
There would have been a 6th flank coming in from the A bomb site but none of it matters any longer.
They had the opportunity, if Karagin hadn't shut them down and they could have got the bomb planted, then
the late long flank would have been really fun to watch.
Wow, it doesn't matter, Carrigan.
He's had enough.
I mean, whatever it takes to stay in the tournament,
but it feels like this should not be happening.
It shouldn't be Carrigan's job to outfrag everybody else.
Think about who's on the team.
He's there for the SMGs and for the leadership.
Right now he's there for the frags as well.
Tremendous work from him across the last two maps.
puts them at three still early work they do need it money's still there what's
I lose behind the fact that phase has started to get a little bit going this
is looking good though Karagin if he has to be the star today so be it yeah
three kills now round all headshots at that AK-47 like for that spam damage
finances not broken just yeah gonna try and attack the B-bomb so once more
and zero track things open completely blind.
Grave comes through, Jam Young surely only good for one.
Carrigan fighting back, Frozen will join him.
It's looking very promising now.
There's B-Bombsite getting stronger and stronger.
Carrigan in absolute menace on the Bomsite.
He wants one more and he's going to get it!
Another triple kill there from Carrigan.
Stepping up as he goes 10 and 5.
Looking to beat his total on Angel of 20 frags.
Bringing this down to a one round game to go 5 to 4.
This is very promising now, being shut down from...
So proactive and pushing forward in the middle of that fight,
and he didn't give it all the space to hang around at the back
and sort of fight up towards the Heaven and Position.
Very nicely done.
That's five to four.
Slow crawl back into the game,
but they've got rid of the money for Tyloo.
One plant in the last couple of rounds here, Mojha.
He's got an AK, but this is a big turnaround.
Like you said, seven to five.
that is the goal for FaZe. It's not out of the question suddenly looks like that is within reach.
The old boy still got it. Carrigan still with that AK-47.
It's very impressive towards that B-bombsite. I don't see a world they can cause much of a
dent here. It's a bit of a scramble. They weren't sure whether they were investing into
this round. They were eco'd and they ran back, bought an AK, a couple of tech nines,
Three players of our Kevlar, so they're throwing some money away there, but let's see what they can make of it.
Two smokes available, make it three, and you can see a very passive setup from FaZe, they're allowing them to have this map control.
Let them come to you, run down that clock, it's been a massive issue for Tyloo.
See if Mosie, I can make anything out of there. Oh, the grenade is spectacular.
Broke he's here, and all his dreams of being in this position, should be able to find a couple.
Smokes off though as the P250 has to come out, he makes it work, being surrounded by twists, delivers the goods here, that's more like it.
Radiant stepping up and it is going to be zero, left with nothing to do.
Yeah, they're all up there waiting for him.
Not afraid to take the fight but more people are going to keep showing up on the spot.
Surprised to see Broke keep pulling up the P250 and take that fight but at the end of the day it works just fine.
one more round on the side of face. The comeback has now at least got them to an
even kill with Tyloo, but they're gonna make his back on the t-side of things.
Another opportunity. Curious if we are gonna see more of those B-pubs coming
out from Tyloo if it's a sign that they maybe don't have that deep of a
strategy pool or if they have something more elaborate for us here.
Haven't they really hated this half? I mean, five rounds is pretty good, but it would be fun to see something a little bit different now.
Twists decided to see if he could throw a spanner in the works. He's going to get the opening and very nearly could have hit the headshot there.
Mercure will take him down though.
I mean, it discombobulates their default. It makes things uncomfortable by losing a player like Twists and going down to a 4-4 so early on.
You're not hating it, you're actually fine with that.
Fair.
Let's see what they can convert.
Knowing they've spread the defense fin now,
it is going to be that B finish.
Which has been relatively successful,
at least in the early stages,
but since Carrigan got online,
he's been shutting them down.
Smoke's going in, Molotov towards the barrels.
Deep breath, can Carrigan find any more impact?
He's done so much so far.
This time goes down with nothing.
Down to Jacob. What have you got for us, kid?
He's on the warm side of the smoke.
He was playing this off angle outside of the bomb site,
so he can't even really get back in.
Nice to lay down on the incendiaries, they won't plant a bomb straight away.
They're really trying to make sure the grenades here, even dodging the HE for the most part.
Jacob's now wrapping around towards the monster tunnel.
Can he get through? He can, but right into Mercury.
Disgusting headshot, finding a second kill.
Of course two kills from Mercury in the map actually.
Didn't even realize that, but he hasn't really been too active here.
Moser, that is a really hard angle to stop.
I don't even know if Frozen was aware of that.
Broke he now so one versus four everything in the line matters what go for it here G takes him down and that's six for
Tyloo, that's very good
The dream of that seventh round for phases no longer and now they just need to focus on getting one more on the side
Money is absolutely fine on the CT side here
They've had a player throw around to go in their favor as mentioned short nice
Nice opening maneuver there from Twist, but as he gets out alive it makes things very uncomfortable for the rest of his team defending these B executes.
Jacob trying to go for the back stab with this lovely maneuver, boosting up towards Heaven, seal the deal.
Final round of the first half, Anders, both teams fully equipped.
Little Brokey, he gets his kill, surely. Smoked off Molotov as well.
Who decided to fall back. Mosier trying to help himself towards Short.
I'm going to go down here.
It's been controlling the monster
tunnel in a big way. It's been
fun to see him go to work but
it's kind of helped but think
that some at some point you want
to see the rest of the stars on
this team really step it up and
that hasn't happened quite yet
more than anything.
Phase need this round. Probably
do the pistol on the second
flash to set it up. Gotta be thrown in, see if they can take
Gareth Twist, and they absolutely will. That's a very clean
setup. What a flash that is. Yeah. Get some of your friends to
throw that for you and maybe you'll have similar success.
Brokey. Oh, there's a full army on the other side actually
gets the kill on zero, but I can't believe they're not
hunting him down. Frozen is there to help out Brokey picks up
a second kill. The bombsite defense is holding for now.
Should be able to kill him here somewhere. Yeah, he
already got the kill they must have known that Frozen spins around and it's
good enough at the end they tie the game, FaZe are still in it.
The new french Counter-Strike has always stood out in somewhat of similarities to
Danish Counter-Strike there's always been a passion for the game inside of the
French scene there's been a lot of talent coming out of France some of the
best players in the world it's always been like a force to be written with
in the department and I think that their playstyle has been a really nice mix of
being extremely aggressive but at the same time also having quite the tactical
things.
Talking in BK is always like a pivotal asset to whatever team we've been playing in
France. The likes of Kinesis kind of the same story. Kinesis was also brought up
inside of Mario games. I think I played against Kinesis first official
ever in Counter-Sauce. Talking Shucks has always been part of the good
teams whenever they were on the rise.
Shark has always had some kind of Godfather role within the teams like I guided, that
has guided the young players coming to Namniel, that's just like a cool story for Indikein
and Kinesin at the bottom.
The funny story with me and APC is that we were rivals for a long, long time.
He and myself, we shared the same kind of role, he was probably the more craziness
of the two of us.
We got reunite inside of Fatality.
He had obviously taken up another role of him being an England leader.
He had this obsession with having a soldier, which didn't fit my plato at all, and
And that is what you see now with the lights of flames, you know.
And it works for him, so let's be honest, it's a great asset.
Apex's ideal style is, in my opinion, the perfect fit.
He understands and wants to try and utilize his plays in the best possible way, like he
recognizes and wants to figure out what strengths does my player have.
He's exceptionally good at reading the game, not so much like in the micro-decision,
but more like in broad picture, like he always tries to be one step ahead.
He has like the same color thing as with the clay pad.
Apex was working off the system, where Apex has maybe created the system.
The Paris Major was obviously a unit. We knew how much it meant to the organization in French.
We had the CEO coming in stage and lifting a trophy and crying. Obviously that was very nice.
And I was winning his first major in mortality in Paris. I'm like this like a Cinderella story in the
self. Coming into the grand final, we were standing outside. I remember that I just said to the guys,
like, I'm just not losing today. You know, I just made that very clear with them.
And I knew that if I could go out and be so confident about my feelings,
then that would spark something within them. I was so close to my own goal and we were
They're so close to the team goal of winning the Paris Major, there wouldn't be a world
where we would move up with this one.
They have this streak going for them right now, they have won six tournaments in a row.
It's got to be something within them that they want to try and beat our breakup back
in Australia, that's being the greatest team of all time.
I mean, when the team is doing so good, it creates a lot of possibilities to create
some really nice storylines and there's no doubt that Vitality is also in a position
now where they can start doing that.
That will just spark something in some of the young players coming out of France
and you know, the Counter-Strike in France is not that big in the common knowledge.
But I think that's also changing now.
We've seen the president going on talking about vitality
and he's been wearing like a vitality shirt and everything.
So we see it with the 3D Max, you know,
a full French team, a team that has been running,
delivering a lot of last season.
There's players, you know, there's been a lot for a while,
but there's also a couple of new guys.
Do or die time for FaZe Clan here, six rounds does not feel like enough on their CT campaign
but it will have to do Anders.
Admirable comeback, Karagon once again stepping up, delivering the goods in that B bombsite,
time and time again.
But will they be able to hold on a very important pistol as upon us as they enter the T side?
You'll take a Kerrigan fuel comeback if that's all you can get, but I wish I could get more.
I want to see more of these FaZe players step it up right now.
Second half of his line is a final map in this one, backs to the wall for both teams.
But FaZe, they have a legacy to maintain.
They've got VRS points that they want to try and scrape together here.
There's so much on the line, and they're all wrapping long.
copying what Tyloo did to them.
Blocks getting very close now,
but on the other side here, this is dangerous.
Waiting, the Dually is G as well with the USP.
It's a missed opportunity.
G is there, headshots across the board,
and that keeps Tyloo in the round.
Mosey is gonna go for the long con, I think.
Maybe go for that back stab with the Dually lead.
They're gonna execute him towards the A site.
All three members here for phase,
but the cavalry is arriving.
No falling back now, and they've missed the smoke.
It actually landed on the player's head, I think.
Yeah, it might have been right.
They have three sets of Duallys
on the CT side. Here comes the flash on Troy.
Oh! See a thing. Zero burned out of the bomb site.
Damn young though. Playing a sneaky game. They're trying to run away but he's looking
to get the headshot as they're fading in towards the back and now they're being hunted again.
The bomb is made in escape so they can keep on running and Moja knows it.
Bicks the drop down here. He realizes he could get shot in the back.
Rokey is right on his tail. 30 seconds and it's carrying it again to the rescue.
you. Loving this from Karagin. A dicey round there could have gone either way. A couple
of key kills towards a bar from left over in the three versus three. The smoke missing.
Players rotating in. But it will be FaZe coming out on top. It felt like a must win pistol
and they have converted it. Zero is in a prime position but Core the flashbang in the
FaZe and Karagin didn't want to risk planting the bomb. It's a nice shot in that USP
and we go 7-6. No force by a response so it's going to be a full eco now for
Tyloo on the CT side of Overpass. They've got a flashbang, they're going to swing
towards middle looking to find twists. Here it comes, three, two, one.
You got to pop it now. They're running out of time. Oh it's going to be the
other way, yeah it'll fly in now but I think everyone's going to be ready on the other side once they
see the first player on that corner. A nice attempt nonetheless. After that
Pistol round win you got a bit of a shot at twist towards the end of the run didn't seem like sort of celebration like there's not a lot of energy
I guess they're still in the struggle of it, but love to see some of that comeback mentality for phase here
I think that is locked in right now
Can't be celebrating too early
Take it around by round
Full eco against them
No problem two rounds in their favor now eight six
Guns will come out. G has the AWP but he has no Kevlar. Not a massive deal on overpass but certainly not ideal.
Sendery down towards shore.
G is patrolling towards the bar from here. We'll have Frozen.
Finds a Fire Spire as well to connect out. Couple of kills though.
Like we discussed before once you have these sort of advance it is, try and reset the round now on the CT side. Get back in towards the safety of the bomb sites.
sites. That was only the third kill of the map for Mercury. He was a god on Mirage, wasn't he?
True.
Zero also had four kills so that could either be taken as a dreadful sign that two out of,
you know, five of the title players aren't really there, but it could also be that they have a
little bit more in the bank. If they can wake up here on the CT side then it could be a much
stronger title.
AK and that's a kill.
Cargill is like a man possessed right now.
Yeah, he's the front of the pack. He's the one finding the openers
Clutching rounds out fending them off on the B bomb site 20 kills on ancient top-fragging again here on overpass
Top of the server not just for his team
So unexpected
That's what I needed
Yeah, and again, it's possible the character could buy more time for the rest of the team to really get there
not that he isn't allowed to do it on his own.
Just way outside of the expectation.
Twenty seven seconds now.
Aragon with another head shot.
This should not be a loser around Tyler.
They got the opening.
There's a five on three and Karrigan has got two kills to get them back.
A massive grenade on G puts him at 15 health.
The bomb is being planted now and they want to put a bit of a boost over here.
Jam young always sees the shadow.
We know someone's back there, but this is dangerous.
Yeah, they're going to have to fall back off that.
They're in danger.
I think Karagan might have done enough here. It's going to be Brokey.
Bear in mind, low HP, 4G. They've thrown it away.
They have. Brokey's found a couple, he's seen the shadow, and he will get the third kill there.
Second shot from Brokey was outrageous on this one.
I can't believe that. That might be the collapsed moment for Tyloo though.
I think he might be right. You get a five on three advantage, and then Karagan.
bullies you one by one in towards middle no value plays a straight-up heads-up
Jules gets himself two kills a second of which he had 15 HP for you love to see
that the old boy keeping the dream alive here so a lot of works we done on the
T side of Ogle Pass but this one should be a bit of a gimme the money's
broken once again into the previous round with bare bones utility and a
glass cannon AWP it's gonna have to be five sevens maybe some Kevlar
this is the opening kill so you think okay we've won the round yeah it's locked
in the carry gun had other ideas you've got shot right in the faces it came out
of the smoke and it still wasn't enough to stop them getting another kill in
there oh that's devastating yeah okay little bit more sound coming from the
face out of things. They've got a three round lead. They've destroyed the economy on the
Tailu side face. They're getting closer to being eliminated, but now they've started
to find something else.
Faze denying the early monster smoke as well by throwing the Molotov on top of the bridge.
Must have been a genius in a minute that.
Is that an Anders thing?
Yes.
Okay.
But, tragically, 10 years before anybody else actually wanted to do it.
Whatever. I'm not mad at him.
No, not at all.
Well, still a scary round here. The 5-7s, burrowed away.
A deagle for Jam Young. Hasn't exactly been electrifying today.
Like I said, when he's really on, he does look like one of the best rifles in the game.
game. You rarely see it though. Those moments where he's like firing on all cylinders and
absolutely dominating the server. You just don't see it as often as you'd like.
We had a taste of it throughout the series and it's so good. It's so much fun to watch,
but yeah, you don't get it enough unfortunately. Jacob here looking to find it out for the
game. Okay, that's some good damage.
Okay, he's been very consistent. Mojane finds another jam. Young is there.
Jacob! Jacob!
Jacob has a out of control on this bomb side.
Jacob, where are the connections? They got 7 and 3 health here on the T side.
They're running out! They can't go through anything!
Garagan! He wins these.
All they need to touch him. They've got an HE. He's actually run away.
He would have died right then.
It's got time.
Secondly Sun Life indeed.
At least he's gonna get a bomb plant here.
He lies down 6 seconds on the clock planting out in the open.
I think he could just maybe get around the pillar.
All right. Does he have a chance? Nine bullets?
He hasn't even reloaded.
He just needs to be so accurate,
but maybe he's got a chance they do line up.
That might have been the opportunity.
What an absolute sicko it would have been
if he could have got that one.
That would have been the clutch of the tournament so far,
but Zero just barely touches him
and it's enough to take him down.
Oh my days, it comes down to the wire
up against the five pistols
and that's where they start to fumble.
I thought there was some open runway there
to get the 10 rounds on the board.
It all started here though,
close range of the 5-7, recovering the AK,
running through the smoke with a twist.
He gets caught out as well,
the dead and eagle causing a rockus and Karrigan.
They almost line up for him.
He had six bullets remaining, three HP.
Wasn't quite enough.
One more bullet potentially wins in that round.
The clutch of a lifetime was available to him.
We'll be going nine to seven,
a huge injection of cash.
Mojia's been very consistent in this series overall, we're going to have to give him a lot of credit if they end up winning this one which is by the way absolutely still on the table.
9-7 but they're on that CT side. Oh they're trying to get through the tunnel, Zero's here so pick opportunity for the young kid to step it up but he's getting straighted out.
A lot of damage on the frozen and he'll be an easy pick off on the following now, they're in trouble.
Jumping on the other side to try and not get shot in the knees.
Jacob, a lone amosia again, a good double kill.
Oh, that changes everything.
It does.
All of a sudden, it's a one-round game, your money's broken now, you're going to get $2,400 in the next round.
Kind of half the full eco here, Anders.
That nice lead he built up.
All of the heroics from Karrigan still top-fragging at 15 and 9.
Started to dissipate, started to disappear.
Beautiful work. This time Jam Young does step up.
Get yourself a couple here
Mosier to back him up. I
Think it has to be the full eco. I don't think you can partial this have a look. Yeah blocks
Yeah, couple of diggles, but we're going 9-9 on the T side of overpass
This is a very scary prospect for face fans across the world got a lot of them they expect
Results of this point
Removing your coach before the biggest tournament
Was an interesting decision
One that could come back to bite them. They come dead last here. Yeah at the blast open
Critical say that was a mistake
Mercury it's a good spray down, but like you pointed out no real investment into this one
Yeah, I think the phase fans are right to expect some results here
They want to see at a minimum they want to see phase at the major and if that's going to contention
If that's a question mark all of a sudden which maybe it already is
that's really scary 55 on the clock and sure and try and find some damage it all
counts at the end of it they do have a deagle on brookie but that's all we're
really waiting for here try and boost over on the other side I think that might
get them killed pretty quickly there's a chance he could find Mosier here he
tucks himself in behind a divider 35 seconds where did all the time go 5 on
to pre-fire this if you're broke, I suppose. Not going to happen. Karagin, of course he
gets it. Best looking Karagin we've seen in some time in this series.
Yeah, it is.
It's the AK, down he goes. It's a tied game. Money's still not great. They can buy an
AWP, but it would cost them a lot in terms of utility and resources in general.
They tried in that previous round to get through the monster tunnel and have a bit of a B-executive
fast B-pop on that one, but maybe they could do it again.
I feel like it is such an efficient weapon.
Make Tyler respect that B-attack a little bit more.
Cowigan is given the moniker of the goat in-game leader.
He's going to have to pull out all the stops here, Anders.
And they've got a very important round of a 19 here.
Could decide their fate here.
Last open rota down. This is the lower bracket. This is for the last place finish joining baits
Eliminated in the game previous
Aggressive are the CT's
Hungry for information ravenous. In fact
No one home towards shore very tentative
From face so far waiting for said aggression. It's gonna be Jacob patrolling towards to connect up
Flash is being set up from the B side of the map to assist towards middle.
They dropped the bomb a little bit further back right now, phase.
Just want to take a look here. Frozen hanging around outside of B.
Jacob gonna be the ones to go and pick up the bomb eventually.
But that's a lot of time that they've been wasting.
about 50 seconds now. Here comes the flash for the peek. No way to dodge that one in the hedges.
Mercury, he did two small works. Very slow for us after him. I think Kerrigan might have the idea.
He's wrapped around old, but instead Kerrigan's in trouble. Long spray, long enough that Broke
he gets to revenge, but Kerrigan's out of it. It's messy from both teams, but they'll take it.
The problem is that as we've got 30 seconds remaining, I guess you have to go A at this point.
What have they got remaining one smoke one flash? That's it. Look at the rotation coming. Yeah, I think she's coming
You with the AWP. Yeah, he's on the steps
That's what's the plan? I really don't know. They're slowed down as well the flashbang there to try and set it up
The spray down
Mosha running it back again eight seconds on the clock and there's no chance any longer broke
He's gonna go down to G. They wasted the time that they had but the flash set up there
G just executing onto the Moshe with a double kill that's what they needed now
they're in the lead. Tyloo three rounds away from knocking FaZe out of the
tournament. Dead last. Dead last. There was so much on the line. It's more so
great about the VRS system at this point. As Jacob said I don't think this side means
they're not going to the major but it makes chances much lower. You need to
where you don't want to be in the bracket where it's even a question. You
Yeah, I want to know.
Oh, it's a really nice round.
Ty Ludo, if you can hold on to this one,
fend off the partial by here in striking distance.
Yeah.
Have eliminating phase here.
Comes down to this.
They're playing on the front foot as well.
They're not playing scared.
Mercury wants to get stuck in.
He's deep behind enemy lines.
They can have a party himself with that M4.
Crazy value in this position,
even if you never run into anybody,
Just having to lock down the spot of the map.
You've called, no one can go towards long.
Yeah.
No one's middle.
You can stack the B bombsite essentially at this point.
And he's wrapping around.
Yeah.
This is, round feels already over.
Take an absolute disaster class to give this one up.
You pray for this sort of information and doesn't see it.
This is more than half the battle at the moment.
He's so close to stabbing and that's
a little bit of a failed molotov as well,
just to make things even harder for phase.
But they're getting close with the Tech 9s.
Zero, good to get the first one there, and he gets a good follow-up.
Mosier activated in the bomb site.
Twist gets one more kill, but they should shut it down after all this time.
Mercury surely didn't get the last one, at the very least.
Yeah, there we go.
Took a long time, but it got there.
OK, that's the partial by Delweyve.
A ton of information garnered.
Converted on it.
Tactical timeout could be their last one, 11-9.
Two rounds will do over Tyloo.
The unknown quantity coming into this tournament.
We haven't seen him in European soil in some time.
New boy, 0.
Huge question mark around him.
He's been pretty good.
Yeah.
I wouldn't say he's blown us away.
At his moments, though, it looks like he can keep up.
And the whole team stepped up today.
Mosey up.
Looks very good throughout the series.
Jam Young finally having a world-class performance
here with 17 kills.
And we will not have a broky AWP to operate with here
in round number 21.
Comes down to this.
If they don't get the bomb planted
and all five members go down,
They're operating with Kaleel's and Tech 9's going forward.
Yeah, this is exactly at the point of the game normally where you do see FaZe come up with something.
I mean, we say it all the time and it sounds like a bit of a cliche, but it just happens to also be true.
This is where they are the most dangerous.
A little bit weak, perhaps, but we'll see if they could do something here.
You can't cross the board.
You can't be relying on Karrigan though.
No.
I'm sorry, that's just not good enough.
Yeah.
Karrigan's the one to save the day here.
That's more like it, that's the kill you want to see.
Let's go, Frozen.
Your teammates need you right now,
and he's found the opening incision.
G goes down.
Jam Young's having none of it though.
Reposition to the AK-47.
He wants a slice of the action himself.
Five on four, reset the rounds.
What a reposition, very hard to clear out
if you're coming in from the T side,
but I don't know if they will be coming back
to this one.
They're so far backfaced,
They're expecting that there's going to be some aggression.
Three people near the connector, so they can rotate these defense anywhere.
True.
The game's on a knifes edge right now.
So comes down to Karrigan.
What's the call he's going to make?
How does he coordinate the troops?
Oh my.
They're going towards Long.
They just held this.
Oh, at the time it could be Sublime.
He was holding for the whole time.
I suppose he was watching it.
He is watching you're absolutely right and he's right to be doing it too.
kill frozen again and a 5-1-3. Gotta convert this lads you lose this to games over. Yeah 5-1-3 here
that's not going to be acceptable. They're towards the bomb site with the grenades but they're running
back. This is one of the big strategic advantages you're now pulling the defense to A but you're
actually going towards B. Carrigan opens it up, twists on the other side, they've picked
apart the defense across the map in this one. Jam Yong 18 seconds here and one versus three
they're coming from behind as well to the fourth man. Broke, he will take him down.
There was a world in my head there with Jan Janssen, one tapping everyone
from that awkward angle. He did hit a dink but it was through the fence. But nice work. Good
awareness there. No mistakes. Faze called the opener. We said we want to see more output from
Frozen. Gets the opening kill. Watches the extremity. Manages to shut down the backstab
there which was a nice maneuver. The only way to get back into that round is by pushing
up the ladder and frozen ready well. They've got double digits now. One round game with the money
is still very, very strong for Tyloo. They get a big buy going forward as they hunt for series point,
elimination point for FaZe. Nice work from Karagin. Great shot towards B. After 17 now,
this is the opening kill. We said we needed more output and David delivers.
huge timing opportunity was there if frozen hadn't covered them that could
have slaughtered the whole round but this is why he's so good even on a map
like this where he hasn't really been sparkling just yet it's still critical
kills coming through for him there 10 11 money's still there for tyloo they're
got a fight on is not infinite though see phase can scratch their way through the
last funds here on the tyloo side that will change the game quite a bit
jake I'm sorry to change damage twist as well running into some of the early
explosive ordinance coming in from the CT side they're real far back though
tyloo not giving them any fights and connector or really anywhere else this
particular setup I hate along you hate you hate is a very strong word Anders I
dislike this trust thank you thank you I'll really didn't have to reserve that
word when we meet up yeah so what's long we go phase would hate to lose this
round I could tell you that okay that's I like that well let's see my
problem here is that it's so easy to smoke off or flash out that all and
and then that's where the corner is toast.
Say that.
Things can and will happen.
If G gets a nice quick kill.
I'm ready to be wrong.
The spray down gets overlooked.
Got a history of being wrong.
Yeah, that's true.
35 seconds.
Oh, he's not even got the backup now.
There's nobody in CTs born any longer to help him out.
It's just him in the corner.
Great shot, oh my God.
Oh no, no, no.
He's including me.
Dead wrong.
Three kills,
Mercury and a G to follow it up. It's all come undone. What was that?
They don't even check. Yeah one player to jumps around
What was the idea there so you I understand the first player going down
But why is twist running and jumping over the air what you're trying to avoid the orp?
Yeah, they couldn't have made it any easier. Let's just have a look again
He's not even looking at what he's nice. I guess he's got setting up for a smoke or something
That's not a grenade and his jumps in the air. Oh, that's not the way you wanted to see it go down
That's such a shame like this was turning into such a spectacle and that's the round they give up. Yeah, oh
Man that one hearts
That's really rough to look at isn't there? There's a three free kills
Yeah, he even got the fourth one as well mercury you hunted down the last player to damn dude
Back to the wall. They cannot make a single mistake here. Faze, they walk into Mercury, and he's good for the opening.
He sees a lot of players, and there's a flank coming in. It might be with the AWP, but he's up for the hunt. Nice shot!
Frozen. He saved them previously, and he's trying to do that again. A one-man lead. Faze need the next two rounds.
They need overtime. They need to keep their spot alive here. Blast Rotterdam. Everything is on the line for this one.
There's nobody at B. It's not a single defender.
Trying to address that situation by going through connector themselves on the CT side.
It works out perfectly. Mosey will find Jacob brings it back to a 3 vs 3.
Is this where it comes crashing down for phase?
Karagun has been so good so far. Continues that strong form.
He's been traded out here and indeed he will be.
bomb site as you mentioned wide open zero and Jamia and the trying close out
the game smoked off advantage phase as the bomb is planted make advantage right
now can't miss now bro keep Jamia I'm sorry low on health here but they do have
the kits on the CT side not other question frozen quite far back bro key
a little bit alone here you gotta wonder if there's a chance that these two
last players on phase gets separated and can't help each other out but he's
spotted no one's coming through the monster tunnel he knows they're coming
for the L-BEN. This is a strong setup for the AWP. They don't have the flashes, or there's
one in the air. They picked one up, Jam Young goes down. Nice connection from Brokie. It
should be plenty enough, but zero. He's on it with the kit as well. All he fakes it out.
Comes back for more. This is the high pressure, and surely Brokie won't miss the timing.
He's already run away, but the bomb! It gets him. Point three seconds. Got to save
running away there. Holy shit. If he diffused it at that point, sure. You win the round,
comes Delors 0.3 seconds. He's got perfect inside of the heart. Head of the mind. I thought
there was a chance. Okay. Round number 24. We go the distance. The money's still strong
for Tyloo. Comes down to the wire. Brokey holds his nerve. I mean, you can never know
but you wonder if he could have had it on the first go-around if he didn't fake
the defuse well it is a phase game after all wouldn't have it any other way
carrigan that key kill bro key keeping the dream alive and it comes down to the
milliseconds there he was so confident that you were gonna win that round and
it's important I guess cuz broke it wouldn't be able to buy the AWP going
forward so I guess he's thinking yeah I've won the rounds it seemed pretty
convinced and he kept the AWP here we go ladies and gentlemen round number 24 oh
no not like this why okay did he not extinguish of the smoke what happened
we need to see the replay yeah I mean maybe he got slowed down and wall banged
at the same time but it did feel like that was that was not necessary I don't
know if it bucked out there was a smoke there it just kept burning yeah that's
Super unfortunate and that's unlucky. I don't see us go. We're gonna have to get that one broken down the analyst
That's that could cost in the game like a cost in the tournament
How shocking would that because that's the protocol you run for it and you smokey yourself and you go in
Normally, it looked like that was happening as well. I'm so I'm gonna have to investigate
Big investigation coming awesome the tournament and it's definitely could G. He set up. Oh my just on scopes the timing is absurd
50 seconds, it's still on. He's back in the next position and a nice pick off there against
Jacob. They're falling apart here, FaZe. They need a hero and Twist and Brokey are trying
to be just that. 3 vs 3. The bomb is being carried forward onto the site. 40 seconds
on the clock here. Let's see if Tyloo's got more in then. They don't want to play
overtime. They want to stop this madness here. Mercury. A good kill. Mosier. He's
still in the round and he has been a superstar here on the server today. The bomb is
planted. Deep smoke to try and block them off towards the L-Bend. It's gonna be pretty
good but with a low health here on twist and on brokey doesn't take much of a
mistake for FaZe to lose this round still. The kids are up and running and they're
gonna get a bit closer trying to tap that bomb see if they can. Mosha gets both of
them sprayed down and that is enough plenty of time on the clock Henry. A
13-11 as they knock FaZe out of the tournament. What a performance, what a
a series. It felt like FaZe had enough left in the tank there. It comes right down to
round number 24, but an disaster frozen running through the flames. A bug smoke I have no idea,
but the headline reads that FaZe have been eliminated last place here at Blast Open,
and Tyloo continue in the tournament. Shocking scenes here. We'll break it down on the desk.
A miss smoke, a missed shot, a moment too late, and now an elimination for Faze.
Talu triumphed and cries of joy for them.
The dragon roars but oh my, right down to the wire and what a way for it to go out.
Yeah, ultra competitive game, back and forth here between Talu and Faze.
I think it's fair to say the both teams were kinda equal tonight in this fashion.
And then another day, one team had to win, and I think it's only a fan of the Tyloo,
got it over the finish line.
For the vast majority of the game, I felt like they were the better performing team.
Very shocking, they're safe for FacePan, and another one they have to swallow.
Has to be a tough one when you actually have, you have Kerrigan, you have Brokey
popping off to a really high level, but you still can't push it over the line.
Your stars, your twists, your frozen, they can't show up in the moment where
you need it most.
Now, graciously joining us here on the desk, we do have Kerrigan after this
elimination.
Finn, this is a tough one here, that last round I think going to be a frustrating one, I'd imagine.
What was going on in the team in the comeback? What was it? The momentum felt like it was starting to swing your way.
I think a rough start on Orpas in the beginning, of course, makes it hard.
Orpas always a map on CT side. If you don't do a mistake, you should basically win. It's one of the most CT-sided maps in the pool, in my opinion.
I think the Antigo is where a little bit hurts because next round I'm going for the
high risk call.
You can pay out, you cannot pay out walking through the monster with spam.
So there is always a balance between where you want to do something like this because
Opus is a map you have to take high risk on T side and I think they play good as
well of course.
But yeah, we were not ourselves today to be honest.
Kagan, it's not a secret that it's been a rough period for faceclimbing as of late.
Really?
Some may say you said it pretty well coming into the game as well.
You'd rather not head into a bar fight, having a little bit of a giveaway, so to speak.
Now you put yourself in a very rough spot, to be completely honest.
Does it change anything? The fashion you're losing today and two days ago,
are you more comfortable that you'll turn it around, or is it more of the same, you feel?
I mean, you have to be positive at this point, right?
If I think about all the mistakes we're doing, all the nature things,
I will not be able to stand up and meet up to practice every day.
It is a mindset that we are far from where we want to be, right?
And we can't just not take a big step ahead.
The biggest problem we had the season was every time we were close to maybe beat Summer Good Team 2-0,
on the third map we all the time were flat.
There was no chance for us to come into the game.
We would lose 13-3 and the first two maps, it was like it's a different team.
This tournament I will say that the third map, we are fighting.
And yes, we are losing. Yes, it's disappointing. It's frustrating
But I have to look at these things because I'm the leader of the team
I have a lot of other things I want to talk about but
Today it's it's not the time
We have a like you said a bar fight come around in Dracula land
Whatever that land is it's gonna be interesting and go there. That's where we are. That's the reality
That's an intelligent to show up. It is in our own hands
Similar to that. I have it's our own hands. We
We were close enough maybe to go into that event and now I said it's best to go and I
think we will have everything in our own faith in our own hands.
And if we don't qualify for Major, we didn't deserve to go to the Major.
It's as simple as that.
The drop off on the Major is insane.
Yeah, as I understand it's still in your own hand as well as you describing right
here.
I have to ask you as well for a player like you who's been around for such a
long time, who's achieved as much as you have, is it hard for you to motivate
yourself to go to a LAN like DracoLand to be in a position you're in right
now?
attempting to be like alright this is just not working out you know let's let's figure something else out no
if actually the opposite I think going to tattoo event it is just a slap in the face
reality in my career I got benched and faced went to Envy that was a tattoo
team for me I just have to go to that side that we are where we are for a
reason and we need to fight and one thing I always done in my career is fight so
to the day I don't play anymore I'll fight and do everything I can is it
negative thoughts right now? Of course. Am I going to be fucking upset tonight? Yes, I am, so from my
language, but tomorrow is a new day and tomorrow I need to fight again and we have to go to the major
and whatever happens happens, but it is very rough mentally and but I still have a leadership
position in the team that I need to be aware of what my thoughts are and if I let the
out to the team. I want to ask about that fight, right? Because today we saw you fighting
in the server, in a way that we haven't seen in a long time, and we can see that you still
have that faith, that you still have that belief that any round is winnable, that any
moment is winnable.
Let's kind of define the phase ethos for so many years.
That's been the constant through different forms and moments in the team.
Do you still have that faith?
Is there a moment where you look around at your teammates and you wonder whether that
is, there is still that mentality of any game is winnable, any comeback is doable
with that phase magic, is still something that your teammates believe in?
This event I think we are better. Last the whole season, no. That's my main point.
When it came to the third map, we cannot think about the past. We cannot show up and not play the game.
We cannot even be close to 50% of our level. I get that our map was not the best.
We are everywhere in the map, right? Yes, that's an issue.
But in the end, the way we are losing, not because of the map.
It is basically us not finishing the job in some of these games.
And like I said, the last few events, the third map, I don't know.
So, you know, I just wish it was the best of two, because that's where we played the
best.
And if you go back and look at the Falcons game, the PyroVision game includes, you would
think to the moment there is 5% wrong in details, makes us win the game 2-0.
But reality?
No.
We lost 2-1, 2-1, and lost 2-0 to Astralis in another tournament.
That's how it is.
And we had the same of the major.
The history refused, we could have been on the stage one.
But we did not, you know.
So this tournament I feel the fight and that's what I can ask for, you know?
In the end we all do this because we want to be the best and right now we're not.
And I always believe that if you fight hard enough there's no regrets the next day and
I have no regrets from this game today in Aurora and that's the only thing I can take
away and try to sleep better tonight.
Maybe looking for something positive, you mentioned to Mike in the pre-game that
you were trying to slow things down a little bit, maybe keep five players alive,
more economy that you can call your way out of situations do you feel like you
accomplished that at least? To some part yeah I mean I feel like we have more
gun rounds right there is hard on the T side all parts we do still for Antigo
next right you are just looking at diamond situation you're gonna see just
gonna have so many gun rounds coming up you what you're gonna do in clocks on
all parts there's nothing to do with it like so I think to to certain
degree I think we did good in that department we did way better against
So, Roa, all the advances we had, we won 14 out of 15,
but we didn't have many advantages.
So, of course, that's another issue as well, right?
So, yeah, we could have played way better today,
but to be honest, Tyloo is not ranked number one in the world.
Let's not pretend that their ranking
is just reflecting what team it are,
but should we beat them?
Yes, and we did not,
and we have to go back to the grind again.
I think some very wise words coming through from you.
Really appreciate you joining us on the desk.
I know it's a difficult moment for it.
I know one way or another what you do at Dracula is going to be much watch Counter Strike as
it always is with you and FaZe Clan, so thank you for joining us, and good luck there.
Thank you.
Some somber words coming through from Kerrigan.
He fought his way through, battled every step, no regrets from his performance, from
what he's delivered here in the server.
I think that showed, especially down the last few maps of play, I mean we saw Kerrigan
really battling, straining in every moment to try and make this one happen.
And it is going to beat your stuff, bitterly disappointing to not get this over the line.
Listen, you can't help to feel for Kerrigan and for pretty much everyone involved in this
face project.
Naturally, it's not a fun state to be in right now.
You could visibly feel, you could probably see it on his face as well, that he's disappointed
as he should be.
And as he's saying as well, he's not going to sleep well tonight, but then there's
another day tomorrow.
And I guess the silver lining for face right now is that we already stepped as
is the fact that this is a team in a deep, deep crisis.
I don't think anyone in the world would disagree with that.
It would be a die-hard face fan to make a case against it.
But as he said, it's still in their own hands.
They can still go to Dragonland.
They can still qualify for the Major.
And who knows what happens in too much from now,
in terms of practice, in terms of steering around the ship.
Now, it's face clan, a team that I expect
to be part of the playoff at the Major,
even if they qualify.
Absolutely not.
But at the end of the day, I guess the silver lining
is it can only go up from here.
I think you have to give them some respect.
I mean, he's sitting here on the desk.
talking about it. He's talking about maybe missing the major and he says you know we have to accept
that if we miss the major because of this loss we weren't good enough. We just weren't the team
that we should be. The fall off in form is incredible. It's hard to understand how they
could have had that. I think everything he's saying shows that he's taking accountability,
that he's ready to push the team forward. But when we're looking at a game where you do have
Broke and Kerrigan topping the scoreboard and you still can't push it across the line. We've
seen this all season long. People missing Nades, people having a Nade out instead of
trading. There's so many small mistakes that every single player on phase I guarantee understands
these are problems. They know they shouldn't be doing that, but they're still somehow doing it.
It's hard to have faith that phase are going to do much moving forward. I think that's an excellent
point to raise right here because I think that's the most frustrating part within the camp of
faceclimb as well. It does feel like they find new avenues of losing every single time. It's
not the same guy or the same problem over and over and then the solution will be well let's
cut that guy and let's figure out this issue. It's like every single tournament something new
You know, Kerrigan takes us to start off calling it a little bit.
Feels like he's successful in certain areas of it and all of a sudden in Elimination game,
you have Twist not showing up anymore.
The guy who carried you through the vast majority of 2025 when he rejoined the roster.
Now all of a sudden he's an issue.
You have Jacob, you know, popping off against Aurora, yet you're still not able to get
the win.
You have Kerrigan playing one of the best series he's played in a long time, you're
still not able to get the win.
So it's almost like a negative spiral where you find different avenues of losing
every single time.
and if that's not frustrating for an in-game leader,
for a leader of this team, nothing will ever be.
So in all honesty, I feel for Kerrigan, I feel for Faze,
but it's a die-or-die situation they find themselves in.
I do want to just give one tiny ray of optimism
on the end of this conversation about Faze,
because we are closing their chapter here
at Blast Open Rotterdam, which is that,
I think Kerrigan was right to highlight
that in this event they fought, right?
In a way that we haven't seen
from them necessarily through this year,
they fought down the stretch,
they fought through the series.
We saw those moments, we saw those heartbreakers,
those nail biters that we're used to seeing from Faze.
This time they're cutting the other direction, now 5% is breaking the other way.
But there is at least still some hope that their heart could keep beating.
We close the chapter on FaZe. Now let's say nice things about Tyloo.
Because as much as we are concerned about FaZe, as much as we are worried about FaZe,
this is such a massive victory for a Tyloo team that, as again, Kerrigan highlighted,
does not deserve to be number 100 on the rankings. This team has some class,
has some talent, has some firepower, and now they get a chance to start their climb.
Yeah, they're playing Counter-Strike in a way that is not usually faced within Europe.
I think it is, as Ru has described throughout this game as well, a team that prepares well,
a team that is trying to have a tactical approach to the game despite coming out of the Asian region,
who, I guess historically speaking, have had a habit and a tendency to just be all in your face,
all guns and blazing Counter-Strike.
So they play this weird mix of Counter-Strike that I think a lot of teams could struggle against,
given that there is a lot of firepower inside of them.
Yeah, I think coming into Overpass, I thought the rounds were going to slow down,
phase was going to pick them apart. And when the rounds did slow down,
I think phase did a good job of picking them apart, at least in the first half.
But then Tyloo speeds it up. They managed to pick up six rounds on their T side.
They go into the CT side. Round 15 was this round where we, we all call,
you called in the green room. He said, Tyloo's going to win this.
They lose a 5v3. Tyloo's lose a 5v3 with full control of the map.
They still managed to fight back into the game from there.
I would say Tyloo, not only do they have a great style,
they've got great players.
They have the fight in them to come back from a situation like that,
where their economy is broken, they still managed to win.
It's honestly incredibly impressive from Tyler.
It is, and again, I mean, we know we have four of the players
with more season experience, but they do have a guy in zero
who's this exciting prodigy who has really no,
no experience playing at this level,
playing in this kind of studio,
playing across from the names that he is.
So you do have to imagine that with time,
as we continue to see games from them here
at Blast Open Rotterdam,
they should get more and more dangerous.
And that's very exciting as a prospect indeed.
I think we need a strong Talu to come out from that region as well.
It's been a household name.
You can almost argue that they are the face of Asia.
In a sense, they've been around for a long, long time, have a rich history and always
fighting back sometimes, more pretty than other times.
The Mughals, obviously, is the most recent researchers coming out of that region doing
such a great job.
But overall, it's good to see Talu playing well.
They're not number 100 in the world.
They're still in contention to climb the rankings and I'm excited to see more
of Talu.
If not at this tournament, then in the future.
One of the problems that Tyloo has had is they tend to go into a series like this, have
a really impressive mirage, pick up a win, and then lose the following two maps.
I can't count how many series Tyloo come in against a really strong team, against European
opposition.
They look incredible in both maps, but they lose both maps or they win one map and they
don't get anything out of it.
And VRS doesn't reward that.
It doesn't help you for that.
So they fall down the list and they don't go to a bunch of events.
I think coming into events with Zero instead of Attacker, I think that's them.
going to be doing some pretty big things in the future.
Well, I can't guarantee you that phase will make it to Cologne.
I cannot guarantee that whatsoever.
The future is in their hands, but I can guarantee you that they will be making it to blast rivals
for worth because they are confirmed going to be in attendance in front of the NA crowd.
The US loves a little bit of phase.
Texas loves a little bit of phase.
They're always well represented within the arena, so if they can battle their way
in front of that crowd. That is going to be a dang good time indeed. A real hootenanny you might say.
So May 1st to 3rd, get your tickets now because it is going to be one hell of a rodeo in Old
Fort Worth, Texas. Don't miss it. Come on, join us, get your tickets now. It's a stacked tournament.
Let's be completely honest. Vartalos is showing up through, is showing up now. We just want a
tournament showing up. It's going to be tough for face and everyone else basically. I mean,
you don't have an NA team there, but at least you have an NA player. You've got twist
there at least there's someone to cheer for him he's staying on the team
fire don't don't promise something you can't keep you we've got one roll the
trailer
I can't wait.
Counter-Strike is always better in this state of Texas.
Something about the sun, the barbecue, the heat.
It just makes the games that much fiercer and I'm very excited to see what we do in
old Fort Worth.
is better in the Sun, Mike, which is why everyone in Denmark is depressed six months
a year. This man keeps going to Spain to flee it. We're going to flee into our next
games here in just a moment. Before we do, let's take a look at what we've got so far.
Let's take a look at the brackets. See what we've done to this point because things
have gotten very heated in D. We got Group A over here. Next game coming in is Falcons
versus Navi. Falcons now with their full roster. Navi on the other side looking strong.
Yeah, but here's the issue for Tyloo as much as I would like to see them do well
They're facing the loser of Falcons and Navi and one thing is that that's a tough matchup
Another one is the Qsuke have also entered the building so regardless of who's gonna lose in that game
You're playing Falcons with Niko Qsuke monosie or you're playing a team who just won a trophy five days ago
It's gonna be tough. The struggle is Keregan says they're not the hundred worst team in the word hundreds bet team in the world
But that's their rank which means that's the seed they're gonna get and those are the teams that they're gonna have to play against
They're going to have to play against a Falcons.
They're going to have to play against the best teams in the world if they want to go anywhere.
You can't earn your spot among the big dogs.
They're taking some of them down first.
So we'll see if they've got the bite, if they've got the teeth.
Dogs have not been doing well under my metaphors today so far.
So maybe we'll leave that one alone for now.
But whatever the case is, I think we've seen that there is danger entirely.
I think they're going to be a team that nobody is underestimating from this point forward.
No, and you shouldn't.
You know, I think it's a team that have throughout history obviously earned their respect,
but also with the core of this lineup.
a team that people do respect, but also a team that I think
and de-waters, you know, when you consider that this tournament is one of the most
stacked tournaments we're going to have all season long. As said, we have nine of the top
ten ranked teams here in Blastwater them, so for Tyloo to do any more damage,
I think that's going to be tough, but I don't know about you. I'm very excited about
Falcons now coming up. That's the best game of the day, I think.
I think we have to admit that's the most interesting game of the day.
It's got to be fascinating, and you don't have to wait long for it,
because if we take a look at our schedule, it is the next one coming
on up so we're gonna be diving into that in just a few moments the night shift is gonna be coming on
in natsy taken over here on the mic so keep your eyes locked on this screen falcons versus navi
after this break
So, what are we going to do with those boffers again?
What do you want to know?
So, canning is illegal, right?
It's legal, when hand-percent legal,
you cannot just rock off with the booth and start shying on the branded hand.
They want you to wrap the can up so nobody can see who the brand it is.
And so just in booths or stage 2.
So it breaks down like this.
It's legal to drink it, it's legal to bring it with you,
but you can't show it when you're out on the break.
out on the break. But it doesn't matter because for them it's illegal to stop
here and that's the right that reference and player management don't have.
Okay next time I'm bringing some with me.
But you know what's the funny thing competing around the world?
What?
Just no differences.
They got all the same shit over there that we got at home.
Example?
Okay, like look at the last two Blast majors.
In an A you can join any fucking server and it'll be filled with crazy people.
And also the craziest combs I've ever seen.
And Paris, do you know how they call it fucking deal?
They don't call it deal?
They got different calls, man. They know what the fucking deal is.
Then what do they call it?
They call it little coop.
Little coop? What do they call a force buy?
A force buy? It's still a force buy.
But they call it left box.
Left box.
What do they call full save?
I don't know, man. I didn't do any calls.
I
I'm not sure if you're aware Falcons back to their full roster going to be playing with Kiyosuke there
Does that give you more or less confidence going into this series?
I just think that it's only fair for them to play with their full squad
I think you know when we place face like an elite team like them or anyone else
I think we're happy to play the full squad just to see where we are we are at and just the overall sake of the match
Tessus word on the street is that Kiyosuke is back with you guys
I want to know like how does that feel having you know your full roster back in for your match against Navi?
I feel it's amazing now. He still has to arrive of course, but
We have been practicing up to this event intensely
So we were going into this event the thing that we're gonna show what we have worked on now
We have the chance of course is not the best circumstances
He has been traveling for a long time. So it might feel a little bit tired, but I think he's gonna be ready anyways
You're coming up against Na'Vi today as well. They obviously won the previous tournament in EPL.
Are you guys still very confident against them or do you think they're a different team now that they have that recent tournament win?
I think they have the ball on their side because they just won the tournament. They have all the confidence.
We had also a lot of practice at home. We are going to play against Na'Vi with Kiyosuke. Kiyosuke will join us today.
And I think they just leave the trophy, so they have a feeling, you know?
Like, they got the feeling, they feel very confident, but we also have a lot of things to show against them,
and we're just going to play our game and everything will be decided on the server.
And you're saying Kyosuke is going to be back for you guys.
Like, how do you adjust so quickly to him being back with the team?
I don't know. He's just driving, you know?
He's just driving. I hope he's feeling good.
He had good sleep, I hope he's fine.
Okay.
Yeah, that was a little bit ago that I was getting to talk to, you know, both on the side of Navi and Falcons there.
Normally, it's multiple players arriving in one vehicle, but we were all on stand by waiting to see if Kyosuke was going to show up for them.
He did, he's on site, he's in the building, you know, he's got all of his SSD set up, he's ready to get into the server already, that's great.
just having to see that he's back because it just makes this series more interesting.
For the Falcons, you know, having their full roster here, now they can't really make up any excuses.
They lose for the side of Navi, you know, they get to play the full roster and they get to, as
Alex Biso solely also said in his interview, that they get to get that challenge, you know,
they get to try out where they actually are now as a team, you know, from the win in EPIL coming
here. Now they want to be playing into the best teams in the world and see how have they actually
improved over the last couple of months. So all in all, I think we've set ourselves up for
I mean, it was a great series.
I feel like even though Kiosk
is back and we're all excited
to see their five man lineup,
even though I would have said
Navigar the favorites regardless,
it does give a little bit of an
excuse. I mean, the one time in
the honestly career where he had
an exceptionally bad event was
a blast event. In fact, it
was the spring finals in 2024.
He just got off of a plane
and had to play one series. He
lost it. It was the worst
it's good that this is in a group stage with their life still intact if they lose this match right?
It's in the upper bracket because earlier today. We did say goodbye to two teams
We've already done that lower bracket of group bang and we're transitioning now into the upper weather is still that chance for second life
And that's probably also why I'm gonna see was a little bit like hey
We don't really know what form he's in right when I was talking to him
He still hadn't arrived at the building. We're hoping he still had a little bit of sleep
We're hoping that you know the delays and everything that's happened to get him here today
today isn't really going to impact him and that is that grain of salt still that we do
need to factor in.
It's obviously not like the most optimal situation.
I mean, I think as a whole, thousands have to have been back also the fact that this
is like a winner-winner matchup, you know, they, as you mentioned, it's not the tournament
on life at, at, on the end here.
And I think that it's also, you know, it's like when you, you as a player, you're
uncertain if you're going to be playing, then all of a sudden you get called in
and then you're like, okay, you have to catch a plan, you have to rush to
studio play.
You don't really, you don't get to feel the whole build up for the tournament.
you haven't really been with him.
So sure, that also creates a little bit more of pressure
for him as an individual.
But I mean, for the Falcons side, I think it's more about,
they've been talking about that they want to get better
as a team.
They want to have that team play flowing.
And I think it's a clear picture
that they need their five players
to be able to showcase that.
So even though they've done good with Nucleon
as a stand-in, I still think that regardless of him
not showing up, having enough time to get into the tournament,
this is still the most optimal situation.
They can find themselves as a skipping point.
Oh, without a doubt.
I mean, if you are at the Falcons here,
all of the time you spent between Cluj, Krakow, Till Now,
should have been on fixing some of those teamwork errors
that would boil up in the high pressure moments.
And yeah, maybe Kyosuke, as an individual,
isn't gonna be 100%, he's not gonna be quite as sharp
in terms of aim per se, right off of the airplane,
but at least he should be able to implement
some of the plans, because when falcons
are playing with nucleons, that means that people
like Tessus, people like Niko,
need to play a little bit more forward,
they need to really kind of carry the burden
a little bit more, whereas Kyosuke,
they can rely on him to at least satisfy his role
in a way where sometimes the vets probably need
to step in a little bit more knowing that nucleons
wasn't always gonna get it done.
Yeah, and the only thing that wasn't really said there,
but I did get to hear from them
is that when they took the break from certain events,
they were practicing as their normal five.
So it does feel like, yeah,
we get to now go back to what we had been working on.
We get to see if those imperfections
have sort of clarified for themselves
here on the side of Falcons.
And I was talking to him, we heard from him as well,
But how do we make of him as an individual here?
And what's going to be required from him in this upper bracket?
Well, I feel like Tessus has been completely hard done.
I'm a huge Tessus apologist.
I feel like a lot of people are frequently
calling for Tessus' head on this roster.
But in my opinion, I just don't
think you always have the most space when
you're playing with three guys who really kind of
have to take a lot from him.
Yeah, that's exactly my point.
I actually think I hope that people
can look at when Tessus was actually
brought into this battle for us.
But people actually claim as being probably the second best player in the team when they
were still playing with Magiskrider and Texter.
Now that they've removed Magiskrider, they've moved him to having more anchor roles and having
a little bit less space in the T side because he had to give space up to both Nico but
also Kyosuke.
You know, he did take a hit in his performance specifically on the T sides.
I do think that Tezes is, as you mentioned, being looked at as the next replacement,
the next guy to have his head chopped off.
And I think it's at a point where Piro not really looking what he brings to the table,
but he needs a better performance than what he's showing right now,
but I also think that Tessus is a guy that is just doing so much for the team.
If you look at the player, I think that Tessus and also Kixson is probably the two guys in the team
that does most for the team when we have to look outside of the actual firepower impact,
but creating the space, creating and not being selfish about their position
and having that ego that we've talked about so much.
I think Tessus has also been praised by Silent to have a little bit of a need.
People that really get on Tessus after a game usually are just pressing tab or looking at
the HLTV scorebot at the end of it and seeing a low score count.
But if you remember a lot of the most pivotal rounds at playoffs in high pressure moments,
it's a lot of the star players who have actually really faltered for Falcons.
I mean, at Crackow, we saw a huge mess up for Monacy where he took unnecessary
peaks in many late round post plant situations.
the first domino to fall and
even though at the end of a
tournament, those guys will have
the higher rating. It's rarely
actually. I mean, I'd say that
it's more frequently them that
are causing these sort of
catastrophe. You know the
screenshots of the radars where
you're saying how could they
possibly lose that? I don't
think it's usually tested as
the first domino. He's trying
to be the glue guy. It's just
that he's never a priority
player for them. Yeah, well
you're talking about this
reason that stuff plays
filtering here or there when
does get to the latest
stages, but I did speak to
why I want to say the most
notable stuff. I want to see
We want to see just before as well.
We want to see, thank you so much for joining me.
We had Xamik on the desk the other day
and he was talking about that he's been telling you guys
to stay away from Faceit a little bit more.
Has it been hard too? Have you been listening to him?
I listened to him, yes.
No, it's a bit hard.
It's a bit hard, you know, because I used to Faceit,
I used to play a lot and whatever is good for the team,
I will listen.
So how many games of Faceit are you doing?
Okay, so what are you doing? Are you down to like three games a day now?
For the last three days, I played eight in total, maybe, ten maximum, but we can play on the tournament, that's not a problem.
Oh, he was like, yeah, three days, eight maximum, maybe ten actually.
I really think that, you know, we also have to take with the green, I'll solve with what Sonic has to do.
I don't think that playing face against my playing individual is like constantly prepared in that tournament, right?
You know, that's also what Muncie says, but I was actually surprised to hear that Sonic went in that direction because you know
He's been my coach for a long time and he was always a guy that would always emphasize that the players had to play like a ton of things
Right, but it's also you know
It's different players and if he's recognized the pattern that that the players get bad habits from playing these games and maybe not
Well, maybe they focus too much on themselves instead of the team or maybe spending time that they should on the team
Then it's at least something they need to try and figure out if it's gonna bring some extra points for the team
I just feel like he watches Koske and says, what are you doing?
I feel often, and I feel like that was just simply a prescription for him over really anybody else on the team.
That's me reading between the lines there.
But when they talk to, like, you know, go to one player and be like,
bro, you're the only one that needs to stop playing face to face.
That's why I'm honestly still playing some.
I wanted to bring up one thing about that, though.
He did mention you in that.
I know, right?
Zonic did mention the fact that he's talked to you about face-limit and everything and I actually would I'm just curious about your perspective
Dupree I mean like what's the balance in your in your opinion?
I think the balance comes down to the fact that if you deliver on the server if you are still bringing what you're supposed to bring to the server
Then I think you it's fine that you do things on the other side
I mean I've always enjoyed playing all the games of turns because it gave me that freedom to you know
Put my brains somewhere else when I don't have to focus on Kyle's dragon
I know for a fact that and Saewoo even said that yesterday
I know Saewoo is a character by himself, but he's playing tons of games on the other, you know
The amount of house-torn games that I've lost to Saewoo or at least playing Balor's game 3
This guy is playing so much apart from contract
And you know it's all right. It's about finding the balance, but also staying in professional
So I know that he threw me under the bus, but
This is a shock that he actually went into the upper therics. I've never thought about that
Okay, and I mean we'll run this to you very quickly
Let's say you have like eight hours of the day and you're at a tournament. How do you break those eight hours up?
How many of it is facing how many of it scrims how many of it is watching demos like how much of it is having free time for yourself?
It's obviously very up to everything likes of course
It's a huge right schedule right but it's up for my teams when I was with Sonic
You know it's always meeting in for breakfast
Then you'd show up and then you'd have like a talk about either the game you pray previously
Oh the game that you have in front of you you start working on an anti-stride
Sonic has always been like a very prepared coach and he always loved when we as players went in as pair talking about
Okay, we have this specific tactic that we need to prepare for this is going to be our reaction
Right, that's what he's always been trying to find out and he's always loved that because he I think that puts the players in
Their own like they put them on the same page from the get-go instead of being told hey
You should do this so they actually see what they have to do in that given situation and then moving into the tournament
It's about you know refreshing the self like reminding
How are we going to be approaching the game and then from there on it's obviously playtime
And then you'll see afterwards how things expand out
And so then how much of that was you as an individual being like that's what I want
How much of it was Zonic as a coach being like that's actually just the game plan
I think Zonic has always he's always been listening to the players and always have put them sort of first in that position
Where he he listened to the players and what they want and he also wants to make sure that they are in the most comfortable place
But it's also at a point where I think that he needs to do it at a step in
He needs to save it and now take charge and say, I want this.
These results aren't good enough for them.
That's what I mean, right?
If this doesn't work, then nothing seems to be working because I think it's also, looking
at the team they have right now, they do have very big individual stars where they
probably want to go in the direction where playing defaults and then creating rounds
is their specialty, right?
But it's also just put them in a position where if they don't show up as individuals,
then they don't have it like a good fallback tonight.
And it's been that issue for a long time.
If they can't get the individuals going and everything working for them as a team, they
don't have that thing to fall back on.
And I think Sonic's step in now and saying that we need to take a different approach
is also he wants a lot more focus on the team play and playing for the team as the first
priority and still always relying on having a priority on the individuals as first.
And then you take that now, right?
When we talked a lot in Sonic, obviously we've had that personal first-hand experience
and you compare it to a coach on the side of Navi like Blade where it feels like
there is a big difference.
as Sonic is letting the individuals just run free,
gallop through the fields, see what they find.
It's Blade that's just laying the smack of down
on thy candy ass.
Like if you aren't actually adhering to the system
that Blade is, he's just gonna smack you in a shape
and say, this is how we play Counter Strike here
when we're dawning the black and yellow jersey.
So I like the way that Blade goes about things.
I mean, for my money, even though Sonic has
all of the major wins, I would say
the best coach in the space.
He hasn't always had the absolute best pieces,
but he gets so much mileage out of every single piece
that he gets.
I would even say that the 2024 run that Navi had
cemented that in my eyes that modern day,
I think he's just doing God's work in this game.
Every time I hear him talk,
I feel like I actually am getting something new
out of his vision of Counter-Strike.
And that's something that I can't say
about every single coach.
So he passes the interview test,
He passes the results test.
He passes the getting more out of what he should be getting.
He's creating a system that is always getting more
than the sum of its parts.
Is there more in the Navi roster that it can get out of the?
Definitely.
They just listed lifted trophy, you know?
Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
But I mean, I think there's still some doubters out there.
There's some naysayers because obviously,
we didn't see Falcons at that ESL pro league.
We didn't see Mauser spirit pitch up in the way
that they were supposed to and even get in the way of Navi.
And now, I think this is a great opportunity to really
to see. Was that run for real?
Are you actually amongst the big dogs now?
Or was it because you had a cupcake run to the grand final?
That's that's that's that's for me the interesting part about this match that we
actually get to see where both teams are right with what they've been trying
to work at right? This is like it's building up to come a match where we
can actually maybe get like this temperature check on how good both
teams actually are at the games.
And you're also moving into the major and and just to
touch really quickly on the whole blade surrounding aspect. I mean I
I don't think there's any doubt that we do have the two best coaches that Counter-Strike has ever produced now going up against each other.
And it's something that they've tried multiple times in terms of trophies and achievements.
I'd still obviously give it to Sonny, you know, he has achieved more, but it's also about like they also do have very different styles.
And I think they get that style to work in their own way, right?
I think to defend Sonny a little bit, I mean, I kind of feel like I have to because he's my former close boss, my friend.
but I feel like it's, he's also been put inside of a team with players and a playstyle that he's not been used to
and so I think he's had a hard time working with them.
I think he's been influenced a little bit with how maybe Manus Indigo also came from G2, how they played,
and you know, getting such big stars into your team and then being afraid of changing something that will make them perform worse.
I think he decided to go for an approach where I want to play like you guys, feel like it's the way that you perform the best.
How can we get this team to work the best?
And it has really worked that well.
And now I feel like Sonic is at a point where I need to take in and do something
drastic to actually see if I can do something about it.
Because if I can, then I think it's about time we find something else to do.
Yeah. We'll look coached, be coached.
Navi feet, Valkans, there's still so much more to be said,
but not from us, more so from the players.
And what would a win against Valkans mean?
Because you're talking about like, it's nice to know where you're sitting,
but getting a full win, what would that mean to you?
This game is super important, I think, that we've shown some good form,
but we were yet to play a team like them, so for us we're super excited,
and overall just want to get to the server already.
What needs to go right for you to be like, yeah, we hit my expectations?
No, I think we just need to realize the circumstances and not put too much pressure on ourselves.
Of course, we go into the game morning to win,
but Navi has been playing really well in this period, so we have to respect that,
expect that but of course we have to help Maxime coming into the server and be good
to him, we cannot expect him to show off like he always does but it would be a hell of obviously
but yeah we're going to do the best we can.
What would need to go right at the start of the Falcon series to feel like you've made
those improvements?
Two in pistols, versus B8, yes, versus B8 we didn't win zero pistols, so yes, okay
one pistols is going to be good.
You're coming up against Na'Vi today as well. They obviously won the previous tournament in
EPL. Are you guys still very confident against them or you think they're a different team
now that they have that recent tournament win?
I think they have the ball on their side because they just won the tournament. They
have all the confidence. We had also a lot of practice at home. We are going to
play against Na'Vi with Kyosuke. Kyosuke will join us today. I think they just
leave the trophy so they have a feeling you know like they got the feeling they
they feel very confident but we also have a lot of things to show against them
and just gonna play our game and everything will be decided on the
server. It will all be decided on the server as it is every day every series
but it's still nice to hear exactly what they're thinking about and for
Mikaze it was short sweet simple win pistols come on boys you gotta get a
win on the pistols that's gotta hurt a little bit especially coming into
this series. When we say it, it's lazy analysis, but when the pros say it, it's funny as hell.
It's super accurate. They want to get that good start, right? But I mean, I think this
video was, I think it was relatively hard to predict because they both, they don't really
both play like overpass, right? It's also a little bit of a game of chicken who kind
of banned that one out. And I think it also just really just comes down to both coaches
being so prep heavy, like, you know, they've probably really been digesting to try
find out what is the actual best pick that we've gotten and so far I feel like we've gotten a
relatively interesting map pool that maybe who do you feel like it plays in favor of?
I mean I feel like it's curveballs all around here. I'm a little bit surprised we didn't get
ancient at any point. I mean it's lately been Navi's best map. I mean I think Mikaze has just
been phenomenal on it. I would crown him the best ancient player in the world today actually
and so to not see that as their pick and to go back to a mirage who which has mostly
the last three to four months
is a bit of a surprise to me.
And then on the Falcon side,
Inferno also kind of curious
because Kyosuke had famously
really not played that map until
he started dawning the Falcons Jersey.
He took a long time to get up to
speed on the map. And yeah,
we're seeing signs there, but this
dude just got off an airplane.
Like are you going to try to play
a map that he's still not really
totally comfortable with? And he's
the second game. So, you know,
the second game is from the
falcon side, though. Okay, so
it's more that you're surprised
of their pigs and not so much
like, oh, yeah, thousands
aren't so great on it, but
Navi are worse. You're like
that actually does feel like
a coin toss for most of the
first two maps. I think both
of these teams more or less
got away with by like avoiding
the maps that they're bad at.
I mean, Navi banned in the
first round, a new bus, which
is their lowest win rate map.
And then for the side of
team last year for maybe six months and in a way that's why I'm just kind of
surprised by the video in total. I'm just excited to see this match and I hope that
we're gonna go to a third because I think this one's a good man. Well look I cannot
promise you a third map, okay? But I definitely can promise you that map number one of
Mirage is ready, same without cost is Scrony and Laundice. Thank you very much
Desk for your always professional thoughts. Mohan, getting into the nitty-gritty
now, right? We've got a stadium to fill over in Rotterdam and we need
some attendees. So here we go. Falcons versus Navi, a very hot prospect in a
Navi coming off of the trophy lift. And the Falcons that now want to get
themselves back full-forced with their starting five. The question is kind of
just watching for form here as we heard Monacy talk about it. The question is
they know he knows that Navi are gonna have a feeling and that they're the
ones coming off of the trophy. They proved themselves yesterday despite the
that's going to be a little
bit of a battle between the
two pistols versus bait. So
it's already a decent start.
And now you know, our falcon
is going to be a little bit
rattled by the fact that
Kyosuke is just coming in
right now. What's the deal?
But it's pretty interesting
because we had the comments
from blade talking about how
you know, Falcons were
scary, but because they
aren't delivering those
actual tournament victories
that sort of rubbed the
veneer off a little bit of
you know, all the star
player potential that
they've got, but we
Well here's Tess S and Kyosuke inside the B site met by flashbangs made awkward for a
second but only a second clean.
Okay just like that welcome back buddy.
Falcons take the pistol off Kyosuke's quad.
Fresh off the plane baby.
You know the worst part is I had this thought to myself earlier today when we found out
that maybe he was going to make it in time to play.
I was thinking like, man, if it's really gonna be one of those moments where he's rushed to the studio, has to jump into the server,
maybe it'd be better to just play with nucleons, who's already been here for a few days.
Let Kyosuke relax after the check.
No, throw that out the window.
He doesn't need any on-ramping time. It's a quad kill in the pistol.
Already a highlight. That's mad. That's beautiful that Kyosuke.
And it's exactly in his style as well.
From that position, I think, you know, we've seen him put up really good moments.
This is getting spotted now. He's dead from balcony.
Kind of missed that small timing that he could have maybe pounced on the bomb site with.
So, I mean, you see that moment and again, another part of Blades interview,
it was just about himself and his team and how they're going to use this tournament to see
if the individual level can really sustain versus everyone at the top.
Yeah, and they didn't have to go through vitality to take pro league and that was a question
But obviously said it with a smile on his face because he was probably quietly impressed by how everyone did even individually not just as a team
Slain top middle
And again, you could only beat the teams that are put in front of you
And that's exactly what Navi did to their trophy lift path
But two of the favorites going into that playoffs were eliminated by other teams
Yeah, you know, it's Navi who sees the opportunity can't deny them that and just the form that I think the cause and wonderful
We're able to bring to the table like there was a lot to still praise about that
But yes, this is now where you hope you can just a fine consistency, which is something we talk about with Navi all the time and then B
Really put that consistency to the test versus what are supposed to be the top dogs
And you know Navi are in that tier of team where sometimes they lose an honest game of CS
But they're they're not the team to choke they're the team to make others choke and that's that's what one of their strengths for sure
I mean the strategic depth obviously every game speaks for itself
It demands, you know fewer mistakes out of you if you're coming up against them and
Falcons obviously, it's like the screenshot me that
Once a game it feels like an important moment. There's always like one retake or one clutch. They let come through
Those are the kinds of things that actually help Navi take wins when
They don't seem to have the talent of some of the teams that they're playing against allegedly
Niko flies out through connector to try to get into the engagement and it's monosy with the double kill down there at the bottom of
So, Slain on the attempt to get into that A site, Falcon's going to be happy with this starts.
Yeah, that's a real beautiful repress into mid. All three choke points covered.
You think there's a world today where Falcons just hit the ground running and stomped the series?
I mean, it's always possible. Like, it's always possible for this team.
the team and again what we have to contextualize it by like the stage of the event right we're
not yet at the crowd I mean this is officially where they play their strongest game and where
you have the fewest questions about them so I think it's possible I don't I don't
really wouldn't expect it you know with no because you're right I mean they play
pro league and it's an Aurora Grand Finals it's an Aurora playing well but it's not
like one of the top four teams in the world or something like that, like that are consistent
tournament threats.
Another team that's notorious for struggling at that point, you know, and in those games,
like we like to say, like that's when Navi deliver. So to me, Adam picked to win that
grand finals.
I think Navi actually like to prospect that they play against a team when the pressure
is higher, that's better than like Furia at Budapest, where you wouldn't have expected
them to take that match.
We're probably favorites to get the finals at that point of the event
Round four goes down to the last 45 seconds we've got a bit of a hook here in the apartments for Nami
While connectors smoke there's that looming thread of the catwalk pinch to come through to the same two defenders
That we're here to stop it in the pistol
Instead, Tess S takes the cat angle from the base of fan, pops up for a second, he's done his job.
Josuke looking to handle business, but no need really. His Tess S gets himself a triple, and sure,
Mikaze finds monosy, and on top of that, the kicks and frag, trying to fight his way out of it,
but denied. It's two deaths on the Falcon squad as they'll secure the 4-0 start.
Another thing that was brought, what was the stat actually?
It was Tess S's performance before and after Kiyosuke joined the team and how it's dropped off.
I think it can be obviously that Tess S not playing as well, that that can happen to someone's form.
But it can also be the fact that there is a space vacuum and if you bring in someone this good who's taken up so many more roles
and getting more space and more opportunities to frag like Kiyosuke and delivering on them,
them that someone's going to suffer because of that. It's gonna be a natural dip.
I'm very partial to what Tess has done for for Falcons in some of their trying
moments. I feel like he you know had ever excuse to be like I'm a support player
but I think he saved the day a couple of times.
But for now, ball's in the court of Na'Vi because we've got three players with no kills on round five.
Just gotta get battered in the start of this map.
Heather Falcon is just making it look way too easy.
Now set up is very strong towards A, especially the later of the scats with vision on ramp.
Timing is everything on who peeks first.
Ooh, that helps.
Yeah, gonna jump on kickstand while using utility, monosy.
Oh, missed that.
missed opportunity at the double kill there
and you really needed it once the other two went down empty-handed.
I mean, Nico just gets slammed by that palace exit.
And once you've got one part of the support offline,
that push into kickstand made all the more easy.
Mikaze doesn't need vision to deal with Kyosuke.
And so nice pop by Nobby.
As you said, ball was in their court.
They were given a respectable amount of space
and sure getting spotted at bottom of ramp
could have caused problems.
But when you come slicing out the palace like that,
No issue for Navi here in round five.
So it takes them a second, but on the board,
five rounds into the game with a big tip of the hat
to this Mikaze triple kill.
Oftentimes players on Navi, they're formed up and down
and they all can kind of be stars in different maps.
But Mikaze is definitely just improving
and being more consistent than moments like this.
Uduse is not even riding off the back of his teammates.
So he's the spear.
He's the reason that they take this side over.
And that was versus a strong setup again.
That's a little awkward for Niko, because it's the vision on
ramp that causes Mikaze to look forward into it.
I don't know if it ignores anything going on in the site.
It's a good flash!
of the
just a better blind spray down
out of mccasey.
The liberation of both sides
of Falcons timeout.
Immediately after losing their
first round so far. Not a
moment where you want to get,
you know, I love time out of
this head to head. Those is
You know, we got Blade who has majors in both games and Sonic who has so many, but you know, no argument like these are two of the best.
The first time these teams have met in 2026.
Another early setup here for Navi.
They'll find no contest on the ramp exit and Kiyosuke goes down empty-handed. Nice frag grenade from Kicksand. I mean perfectly placed.
Just to finish off an important piece of Navi in Makaze. So who's gonna pick up the slack?
It's gonna be Alexi and Ema coming together again, combining for damage onto Ticket and taking over a bomb site with the bomb now on default to Plants.
Do Falcons want a piece of this retake or do they call it quits?
It's still taking a look.
And they're actually walking away.
Yeah.
Well, hang on.
Does that change things?
It's a little early, but Niko's already made a decision.
It looks like.
But yeah, there's another chance.
Honestly, there's still time.
And they really, they really could have grouped up in CT, man.
But I mean, well, play to be happy.
They're not even trying it.
You say that.
Look, planted default, ramp hold here for wonderful.
Alexi's the only one on the bomb site.
Imagine a world where those two kills come in
and you have two guys CT with bomb,
not even four of the guys that are left.
I'm with you, I think that was a debatable decision.
And they didn't know the kill was gonna come out
for monosy, but of course,
was still maybe an extra second to change their mind.
Let alone the second one.
You know, they could be the ones
causing someone else to have a screenshot
if they capitalize on opportunity like that.
I don't know, you can't really put a number
on how valuable some of these entries are, especially when it's going to be Kyosuke and
Mikaze.
So while we quietly sit here waiting for Bitten Wonderful to get their first kills of the
map, we watch Novi rack up a second round win and to top middle they'll go just cheesing
the side of that smoke grenade.
Yeah, that's going to catch defenders off guard.
And he says with the trade, remember still a defender and Niko down towards underpass.
You'd think that could catch Alexi B off guard in a moment.
He got underpassed, this is dangerous.
Back turn to Alexi, that's going to activate Niko.
He's got to get the trade he will.
Modesty found his inside of the A site.
Man advantage Falcons momentarily.
Bomb on Mikaze though.
They throw the missile smoke but with the bomb in this position, it's got to come back.
Whoa, he's going for the front of triple there.
Tility dunked on McCauze. Nice utility coming out of the Falcons.
We've got bit in the clutch. No kill still throughout Mirage.
As Modesty finds that tight angle and Falcons, the 5-2 lead.
The end of the day, you know, volume of kills is just such a problem.
Like, if you're on T side, you know, your economy can be okay
even if you don't have a lot of frags and stuff like that.
But the CT economy on their side just grows and the advantage is grow as well.
When everyone can have a kit, when everyone can have an incendiary,
They can buy all these expensive guns
That's when just getting kills with her lose actually has a huge impact
No, they aren't getting any of that
see that knobby want mid?
I've been responded to before with a late mid re-aggression from the CT side but in
In this position, it's just going to be monocene jungle, squeezing on another part of the mapping
sense.
Oh, and a call out here.
It's a perfect HG grenade and some good utility from Falcon so far.
Suspiciously quiet map right now.
Yeah, they inch closer to this A site, Niko coming over in time as well, pretty bolstered
ticket hold at 35 seconds.
They're going to kick-spend standing here, I feel like, honestly, still in danger, but
he falls back.
It's the shot.
Just doesn't kill, wonderful.
And yet still they pause.
And yet, they're low on utility to go for a full retake.
They've lost control of the site, but they had a flank.
Got this fast one from Tessus.
He starts to have to walk this one out, kicks in, hoping to get lucky with the
wallbang bomb.
Finally crossing here and Nico catches because a test s is able to activate that plank that compromises the bomb plant
And so now he has to do it all
Navi not quite the gas you were looking for to get in there just so much kind of lack of oomph
In terms of finishing off what you had to I say finishing off really just to get it started
I mean they it's weird because they like they do get the whole site with low time that could be okay
But it's the earlier move from Falcons where they decided to push B, let Navi have mid that both killed the clock and gave them an out on a retake
instead of having to defend the site before the bomb actually got planted.
So, just another great round from Falcons to be honest and, you know, Navi are used to being under time pressure, but right now they're not converting in those situations.
I think he's going to be there, oh, still killed him, in case he's got you covered.
I mean, Tess has tethered really nicely so far throughout these B defenses, I've had
the advantage over pistols a couple of times, but alas, never really causing panic inside
of B. Navi not being allowed to do so. Then you've got monosie causing problems over here
towards the ticket booth. So solid defense on both sides of the map. Maybe that's why
they try to take their hand towards middle. That's where Niko is going to shut down
your pistol antics, but they'll go ahead rinse and repeat and throw another player
into the boost.
See if Niko catches that one.
All wild.
Catwalks held.
The apps held.
Flash was good, but Niko still collects the kill.
And Alexi last man up.
Meant to be swept under the rug momentarily.
Rock solid rounds for the Falcons if they can keep all five players up.
Build that cash and really done for double digits here on the CT side.
But Alexi better make sure he dies.
Yeah, they'll put that pressure on.
7-2 for the Falcons.
No contest here with the lesser weapons from Navi.
Yeah, you know, they're not being scared. They're not being overtly aggressive, but they are they're just approaching it exactly how they should the
Whole CT side so far from Falcons is both
Wained individually and also I feel like a game-plan victory and this might be a moment where a blade goes
Okay, you know, I could try to talk us through this, but at the end of the day
Two of our really important players are just not delivering any trades whatsoever. I mean
Makaze, nice job. You're getting these huge entries and that's why we have two rounds, but that's pretty much where the praise stops.
Falcons do not have that problem.
and
was a good one was a good one
contact
right up the groups
is the worst start to a map in a cst two big event for both wonderful and bit
all
well i saw
well
uh... well-timed i guess that's
I mean, the 07 and 08.
Misery loves company.
Yeah.
That's where your coach calls attack pause,
but also kind of rolls their eyes.
Like, I mean, what more do you want me to do?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, guys, I can give you a great idea,
but are you just going to waste it?
Yeah.
Well, the half and the map aren't over, but tic-tac, bit and wonderful.
And again, like, I like Falcons not doing too much, but still keeping vision in certain
places.
Yeah, staying fluid and, you know, as the half goes on, it should be Navi to get more
desperate and to try to just look for a gimmick opportunity or something to generate an opening.
You know, an unresponded two-opening kill, something like that.
Yeah, if the game hasn't really called for any sort of evolution, why overcomplicate it if you're the Falcons, everything seems to be working.
So don't go above and beyond just yet.
Yeah, B is a bit weaker, at least.
Kills case though, by the window, coming over, they aren't setting up that smoke.
Niko's in a great spot to punish this catwalk.
There's been times where there's nobody here, but this time around Niko does press his luck.
Maybe a bit too far, although Kills case bend this consistency in again holding back the apps players.
That's going to track the jump and Kiosk gave once more gets his double kill.
E-Man lines them up and that could have been his moment, but instead rotating in at the right time,
into the right position, and Niko really just taking off a little bit of pressure
by confirming there's somebody coming up cat, but cutting off the first one.
Once again, Falcon's getting everything they need to hold off what's seemingly another easy round.
And he brought up just the natural, I think, cohesion between Kiosk and Tessus and the B site that's here.
I mean, this round is also brought to you by Niko finding this.
I'm just not really liking how quiet the positions are before the execs come in.
It feels like, uh, like Falcons are putting themselves in great spots to get info,
but there's nothing to scare them away from that at all.
Nice response here and an opening.
Fortunately around here, he must be the only one with an AK.
Still, they're gonna try to make something of it.
Honestly, he wants some action and it's pretty close there for the taking.
Very risky for him, and yeah, Wonderful's walking up on the right side.
Nade lands.
Interesting though, you've got E-Met up in the window already with that AK.
50 health.
Certainly not ideal.
Yeah.
Oh, butt's good time on the swing, and he's out of it.
He's going off.
Up to seven kills himself.
And he can't get killed.
I mean, suddenly you know that's one of, at least one of the B defenders dead,
and Tessas was rotating over alongside Kyosuke.
This is a good call from Navi, try to hit that B bomb site as you predict it to B softened up, and you'll find that you're correct.
This felt like a full buy, but it really wasn't.
And just like that, it's going to be a save. I mean, three players, they don't even know how many other guns they are. All they know is a rifle's killed two of their players.
That's off the tack pause, right?
I want to say yeah.
You want to say yeah
Well, I can just really give him a lot of credit
But we need a second
Late for this cost effective. I mean
Extra money it's last round anyways up next. Oh
Okay, now just go well, he's dead to the bomb save that a k
Okay.
Alright.
And you've almost swept everybody under the rug, wonderful, the only one to get away.
It's interesting though because we go into the next round, Navi aren't worried about the
last round of the half, Navi aren't worried about money, doesn't really matter for them.
You know, usually sometimes you can see somebody saving for stats, I feel like that was hunting
players for stats.
No matter what happens here, everybody's got money for the last round anyways.
This one's for the spectators, Mohan.
Yeah.
It's for the counter strike.
Slight misbreed on the situation. Maybe thought that this would really affect the buy for sure
But no one of us got us off every one that needs
It was just for our enjoyment
Nah first time we get this under bass push out of Falcon CT side and it comes in round 12 of the half
Luckily for Navi, Macaulay is there to trade back
So you lose the control for Falcons
But you do sit 4v4 with a key piece in Macaulay down on 18 HP
Tess S is gonna clean that up with ease and we've got Falcons with a strong spot to try to finish off the half
Let that last round win be nothing more than a one-off
Didn't miss that smoke
Can't remember the last time I saw a missed Palace smoke
It's a bit awkward, but I don't know if it will matter maybe
It's thinking well, okay, why not let me take a look
Now standing directly above his opposition, Kixen surely, oh he doesn't see that!
Oh my goodness!
Oh that's what they're mirroring the other, that is ridiculous.
Now he starts firing off, he's brought his additional teammate out towards Palace in
a second bit still stuck in the corner now.
Kixen stomping around, he's going to get burned out and then wonderful holding
for the jungle plays, got this back in three versus four coming together as Alexi
B starts to lurk up through connector, Miko makes another audio too.
And as he backs up, Alexi's got him.
3v4 and not a single additional death.
Mist Palace Smoke is what allows Bitt to just prance his way into a fourth T-Roundwin
for Navi.
A full year as a eSports player, a really counter-strike player, it is a lot of work,
it is a lot of spending time with your team. As a pro player, you need to sacrifice. It's
not just going to tournament, having some fun, see a city, go around being a tourist.
It's pretty hard with all the travel and bootcamps and practice from home and all
of that, but yeah, that's how it looks. Travel days, that's always so tough. We are traveling
like all together, like five players, coach, manager. I mean usually the year starts with
a boot camp before the first tournaments. In Navi, we are boot camping quite a lot. We
tend to have a boot camp at the start of the season, at the end of the season before
the major. And sometimes we might even have a boot camp in the middle. We have now
grinders practice at home for two weeks, maybe two days off. Then you go into a
tournament and you get met by extreme happy emotions or extreme sad emotions.
The best part of all of this is definitely a competition. When you're
making deep runs, especially if you're winning a tournament, you get the
benefits of the hard work you put in. When you're losing constantly, even if
you might go home a couple days earlier, you're thinking of what would
happen if we beat this team or win the tournament. As appropriate, you need to
You have to fight, to stay mentally strong, you have to fix mistakes, you have to adjust,
you have to prepare for the next day, you go into the game and then you repeat.
This year was pretty hard for us I would say because we had the boot camp tournament, just
a few days off then another tournament, then again just three or four days off.
Getting energy again is one of the most important thing for me.
I've done this for 25 years now.
I have my family close, I have my wife close and those are the people I see the most,
But not a lot.
They're trailing a lot of countries, sometimes even back-to-back, doubt they're doing home.
I'm used to it, I guess.
I think one of the most important things as a team is the team dynamic.
We are five people on the server, and if one person is missing outside the game, it ultimately feels very less.
In Nabi, we try to have the balance of not spending time 24-7 with each other.
But I'm close with EMA, for example.
I'm close with MacAza.
We might spend more time with each other.
Overall, you're still going to be in the practice room with all your teammates for countless of hours a day.
When we, let's say, go out for dinner or we go for a teamwork, we always try to be together like the whole team.
Everybody has to commit to the same amount, sacrifice the same things.
And only then you can reach the trophies.
What makes the whole year worth it is the majors.
I always have the best feeling of my life when my parents were watching me and my best friends were watching me.
So I just think that's the peak of the tournament calendar.
Everyone is looking for winning,
and this is what makes competition like being real.
I'm here for one reason.
I'm here to win everything I can.
And the day has stopped.
I have time for everything else in my life.
Well, just wanted to keep you on your toes there.
Navi, it wouldn't have been a Falcon's half
without a little bit of a mistake, right, Launders?
Yeah, a little one.
And, well, sometimes mistakes happen.
Three versus four victory to end at the half
and give Novi just that little bit more hope
that they can bank on a CT side within their map pick
to truly win this opening map of the series.
But we'll see what Kioske's got to say about it.
Quad kill back on the CT pistol round.
You know, you look at the scores and it is, I mean,
two, three kills here between wonderful and bit
and they got four rounds out of it.
Obviously, Mikaze getting two rounds kind of by himself.
getting around with that AK. And that's where they get you. The 3v4 little mistake from
Valken's and that's where Navi can really shine.
Surely a mistake like that would never cost them the map win.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah, that's never happened.
Right guys, right? Kiyosuke's got his first. Costs him Niko. Good gush on E-Math. That
pressure is going to deal with him.
Oh, Kase comes off Catwalk with the double kill.
This guy is still going.
It does still open the door for the bomb plant dealing with emetop con so in that regard the plans gone
Well for Falcon it's just a matter of closing and Tessus tries to take that fight into the CT spawn
He's 12 and 3 by the way quietly has an amazing half trying to pressure connector now
That's gonna alleviate a lot of pressure for Falcons Tessus can play tucked in behind the stack and still trying to find his impact here
It's low health on wonderful, but Alexi could still be a problem
No kit on these players 10-second diffuse needed kicks and big wrap around for CT spawn
Falcons take CT spawn one way or another. Yeah, that's that wrap back around and so Falcons taking another
Pistol in this map and that first half is like a good example. I mean we're seeing Kyosuke get like really
Great kills and they were flashy
But that's as was really just consistently putting up in the V side alongside of them even stealing some of the thunder to be honest
But here's a great mid-round to secure another pistol and Dobby are struggling on pistols
I think a single pistol versus bait and
They still pulled the series out
But you know you might be able to get away with that versus bait gonna be a bit harder versus Falcons
Because they even said it in the pregame interview. It's one of the yeah, if you win a pistol it'll be good
And that gap is kind of two pistols big essentially
Depending on how the conversion goes, of course, it's going to say no struggles with that last half.
And they are looking to go head on against the mid control.
Timing's going to be huge. No need to blow up in the window. Smoke.
Oh, he's just jumping out.
Oh, Lexi makes a move. Unfortunately for him and the rest of Navi, there's a lot of bodies there for Falcons.
there for Falcons you catch one little straggler I love the ballsy jump but you
end up jumping down into the pack of Falcons it's a nice trigger move
sometimes it's a nade sometimes it's a three two one or whatever but you know
times it's just a lexie when you throw a body of the problem that's gonna say
he loves throwing grenades and makes himself one cannon balls the
underpass you gotta love a man who has no issues with commitment yeah
So it's another good start with money made here for the Falcons.
And I mean, like, let's be real, this game doesn't get any better for Navi.
Like, they were going to say they were pretty fortunate to get any rounds.
I mean, it was almost only individual effort that got them there.
A mistake from the Falcons and a team round, quote unquote.
And that's about it.
If it wasn't Ecos, it was not one, one AK buy and a few good entries.
man like a lexie flies out of the window unannounced
then again it's this whole pack that was ready to still just snowball through connector
and another easy round queued up here for the falcons
as it's a couple of decals sprinkled in for Navi
I
Say a couple it's actually all five
Blanket this a site with smoke falcons flashbang very good
That just neutralizes wonderful
He has nothing to say about this round as he's full white and just praying they don't see him
Yeah, just a dead simple a exact
I'm pushing over this jungle smoke, so that's a nice pop-up.
All perfectly done here, Falcons not making mistakes here in round 15 whatsoever.
And that's going to be the 11-4 score secured.
Oh, quickies a day in the office.
Yeah, just, you know, round of applause here Falcons.
Chops nearly finished already.
Just one more good rifle and obviously closing can be a problem, especially versus a team
like Navi but you know we have to also just be like show us the reasons to believe right and we
haven't just we haven't really got those yet. Scary too because we're just gonna be looking at bit
and wonderful under a microscope going into the next map like are you ready to wake up? Yeah you
know wonderful is up at five kills majority of those kills are just that one round he's getting
hunted down for exits so yeah can't really give him too much credit for that it's been a very
flat half for a couple of the
Na'vi pieces.
And it sucks when you're coaching
and, you know, your timeouts are
like on your very few chances or
on your very few rifle
opportunities that you get.
We're gonna get this game going
or else Blade's gonna pick up
that mouse for you.
Wouldn't want that.
And he's the guy who went from player to coach, like, perfectly.
Yes.
What was just, his skills were, you know, apparent in the server as like a mind for the game,
but that translates perfectly to him as a coach.
And, yeah.
Look at that graphic in the coach head-to-head before the match.
Was it seven, eight years now?
Seven or eight years that Blade has been coaching?
again hasn't always had the hasn't always had the most amazing pieces to work
with but he just gets so much value out of whoever he does get to work yeah
yeah man I brought it up the mileage you know I did such a good yeah way to put
it so 11 for guns in the hands of Navi could make a hell of a difference
wonderful goes ahead and opens up with the palace kill the only player to take
to sniff towards that side of the map was Tess S.
He'll be sidelined for now, so we can't count Navi off,
but they've certainly made this as hard as possible.
Four round T side, losing both pistols, no force by success.
Here's your gun round to try to change things.
And Monacy's going to put a bit of pressure
on by trading Ema out through mid window.
Dual Q'd up here for Kyosuke, because he holds it though
on his own with the multi frag.
and with it, a lifeline for Navi to try to extend play on Mirage.
I mean, because they're like everybody else have died a lot in this map,
but he's also got so many good kills.
But it's huge, I think, for off-the-tack pause.
That wonderful is set up for an easy off-pick.
That's how the round begins, and then immediately Falcons feel pressure to make something happen.
Let's do the resting place here for Niko as time runs out and round with 4 alive.
It's probably the best round of the game so far for Navi.
It's not one off of a gimmick or any one individual play.
a really good setup overall and a tactic just to get a pick off like an entire first half
they didn't even really just get a kill and then pause in a 5v4 and like play their advantages
they never really had that chance so that's a nice change of pace
it's like right in the middle of my mega carry how you gonna do this to me
just give myself a concussion real quick sure cuz he would just love to get
this first map over with you know don't let any sort of combat come into this
don't let any individual level have an uptick try to keep it on ice for as
long as you can yeah like when monasy says they have a feeling it's the
feeling they know they can win they know they can close out entire play
off-run and it's gonna be Falcon's job to make sure that they don't access
That feeling that they never let them remind themselves of it.
They want to tell him you didn't play us in the finals.
Scary here is Alexi lets those first two players by.
Yeah, you let him out the window and you get dangerous.
Mikaze is going to try to scramble to stop number three and four.
But now they got a bench and Alexi's dead and Mikaze has only got his one.
Ema's on the scene single frag from him as well.
And we're going to call on wonderful to do something spectacular.
Oh, he's taking a risk.
He's alone at the moment, but he's gotten to a position they're not considering.
hits the shot towards Bench, there's the 10-2.
Nicely done from Wonderful.
Niko slowed down in the middle of all of this,
confirms it with a headshot, waits for the offer,
where'd he go?
He's thinking about it.
Ah!
Wonderful gets all three in a much needed 2v3 situation.
Him creeping out through that marketplace is the perfect play.
I mean, risks like that are just, you know,
they're called for for that situation.
You're low on numbers, you just lost your B players.
As you aptly pointed out, you know, when someone's crossing the window and you're Alexi on get right, your job is to make sure that that's protected so that no one jumps out and that's when they can get out of hand bench, bench control is one of the keys to victory for the T side, trying to scale the side and wonderful straight up saves a day.
Bouncing back into this game now.
And you shoot a round like that from bit as well, and then to hell with Mirage, move it
to Inferno, at least you kind of got that recent reminder.
It's nice to see Wonderful make a move, you know, that's a decision that requires a bit
of confidence, and confidence could be at a low with the way this game has gone so
far.
Damn.
He just took Niko's Deagle like that.
Was it a gift?
I mean, it's not because Kiyosuke's got Kevlar.
Did he give me?
Maybe it was.
Did he just check the scoreboard?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
He held me up.
Or maybe Kiyosuke gave it to Niko off of the spot.
I didn't see who was closer for the underpass play.
I promise you I'd take this round. Let's see it.
But he just took Niko's Deagle away.
Damn.
That's an iconic Deagle-ing player.
Going for the entry instead.
Okay, the wonderful Zothlum, no.
Another chance.
A little space.
I'm honestly starting to cross over towards Sandwich.
Bit, yeah, there's a bit to feed on.
Just a easy couple MP9 frags really stops Falcons in their tracks.
A little bit of confidence, a little bit of money made,
and that gap between the teams cut into.
Yes.
One foot in front of the other.
And again, we look at the fact that it's really pistols and conversions that were nice for Falcons that represent most of the scoreline now.
Much better looking Navi here on CT side.
Let's go down to one time now. Sonic gets involved.
at the speed.
one more of those and a Falcon Start trembling a little bit.
It's one thing about na be no one ever expects them to come into game play fast win every opening
the first rounds like that's just not how they win. I like to do it slowly from
behind, but their back is against the wall.
Oh, what in the world? Wait, did he see? He just popped it open. Was it popped? Yeah,
that's a crazy shot. I mean, obviously, I mean, Monace is not avoiding any damage
by actually jumping but it feels like it jumping over the molly pretty sure you're still getting
attack the same amount of headshot just because he predicted like he saw that that
smoke even tried to turn around and look down you know to hide his head
and saw trying to do everything he could it's a big find for him uh
he's doing the burning man where's tuna
I
Look like a Naruto run for me. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure some of us don't have brain rot though
I'm a tag now to 20 is wonderful. Scott's a tough fall back. I thought with palace pressure
Maybe he get clipped but he's got a little more cover to work with now
Smoke into ramp
The odds are slipping here 30 seconds or so
It's a very healthy looking A site you couldn't ask for better spots everything's being covered even wonderful's got cover from CT
Kim's case a lot steps. Oh
That's gonna put email on notice it's also all they're saving cat. Oh my goodness that is awkward
Wow, I mean with the health bars
No free kills and just a little bit of doubt and is a four-player zero doll
That's three guys that can't buy any grenades next round. Oh my goodness
They're laughing I won't be laughing. I mean whoever could tell jokes in that situation is a funny guy
But that is not one situation you want to have to save in I mean that that's the only kill yep
Oh look at this buy man I mean you're not really coming in with what a rare sight
this is kind of great you never see a full $0 there goes the only piece of utility on
the round for Falcons you're gonna have to gun your way out of this problem it's coming your
way instead emet in with the opening kill they're just gonna try to swing out and catch
He's still floating bottom middle, but he'll bring down a second because they can't manage his multi frag, but that's fine
Wonderfuls got it under wraps and you for sure feel the squeeze to do something then and there because that was your
Really do is try to take raw but it is hot mid and now still you'll have no money
It just screws up the money so badly to have to save in that situation and then your odds
your odds of winning with just AKs, you would normally, even in a forced down situation,
you would sacrifice two of those rifles to get a Maktan in full utility on a couple players
because you're playing like top tier CS right now, like you're not just going to be able
to win that easily versus a team like Na'Vi.
It's a free victory for them.
They catch a tempo off of this, look at the buy.
Now they'll have some grenades.
off. Not one AK.
Looking to play soldier. Support top stairs. Not quite sure which way to look, but now with
Palace smoked.
Falcons, this is the last of their utility. Final volley and the commitment comes through.
Bits lost his angles though. And wonderful misses the off shot. Three players on scene.
E-Mess doing the heavy lifting. So far, what a shot. Wonderful to the deagle. Cleared
out by the pistol and Monacy now establishing man advantage going over to grab that bomb. It's an
Alexi B clutch needed smoke frag kit and an M4 but no teammates to play off of. Oh that smoke goes
down they could actually lock this up they came in with no rifles. I like the pathing perfect it's
open just test the side of the smoke it's a 91 health monacy he's got no helmet M4 would execute
But Alexi seems to have lost track of him now.
Did he hear a step?
Crossed over.
That's a great reposition.
Nicely done here.
Monacee's going to have a back turn to him.
Oh, and you'll find the head shot on Alexi.
Belkin squeeze a 12th round win out of a round
that they have, no rifles.
And they avoid complete embarrassment here.
They get a 12th, and they embarrass Navi.
They do that with no rifles, and it just
goes to show what utility could do for you.
I mean, utility was the bane of Bitt's existence.
Trying to hide down beneath the palace, Molotov to up, smoked off originally, just has no vision down there.
Squandering this comeback with a round like that, I mean, game certainly not over.
I know that Falcons feel they've just received a gift.
It was just about to get real ugly for Falcons, so now they've got to seize the day.
Round 22, Baez looking a lot healthier here for both sides.
We'll say that one makes up for the three versus four Navi one on round 12.
Damn.
This is the incendiary behind top midbox.
I'll be facing three map points.
You heard the column there from Nico just play a default there.
Trying to play reactive and follow the information.
I'll be doing just the same.
Again, makes here no push.
I don't know if it's going to take a peek into Palace, but looks like they're just
trying to see who makes the first move we we saw Falcons let it go down to time
and then you have one kill and they ended up saving. I almost feel like letting
them stew in it themselves could be a key to victory.
I mean time's just bleeding off the clock all they've got is good control
the same move oh but a shot miss from wonderful that's gonna open up cat you've
got a little bit of a threat and connector.
Modesty slams a bullet back through, kills Mikaze.
But the numbers are here still with this two-player leanout
of Navi.
They're still not sure.
Two rotations over to B.
Ah, there it is.
Modesty finds the headshot to Alexi.
Eme has gone unnoticed, but he's got a 1v4 on his plate.
And right now, Kousuke just towing
with him towards the murder hole.
Eme's hoping he can get this kill clean,
but it's not going to happen.
Falcons make sure that that mistake and a bit of a slow
start into the second half. Don't cause too many problems. Five round CT streak for Navi, sure,
but a mirage map win in the Falcons back pocket. Oh yeah, I would like to come in here and say how
clean it was for Falcons. How nice it must have been to be able to take a win on Navi's pick,
but it wasn't cleaned by any means to breathe in. There was a lot of different question marks
around it, but a win at the end of the day is still a winner in an advantage here in this
series. Yeah, we get to waver with the sweat off our foreheads a little bit. We'll
the power of thought, that's almost allowed that one to slip away right and it's uh
unfortunately if you go back in time you know it's not the first time that we have
seen the Falcons just come out swinging, playing extremely good counter strike and then having
issues closing out the matches and then when they get like when they get put up to the line
you know they have troubles closing it out and you know also with the individuals showing
our you know cues look at how the massive massive map right here but also the even
minus the intense also contribute a lot with a lot of frags and I think that Falcons for
the majority of the match did look like a better team despite the the the few stumbles
that they had in the later stage.
I'm really impressed, first of all, by Kiyosuke,
the fact that he's able to get off of an airplane
and drop a 111 ADR off of a really hot Navi.
But this kind of adds to the woes of Navi for the year,
where now 12 of their 19 map picks have been lost.
And they actually have, you know,
they just won a tournament, and that's with that, you know?
So they're in a really weird position
where it feels like sometimes going into Vito's,
I was kind of questioning the Mirage pick as well,
going into it.
I thought they were gonna go with Ancient,
And it kind of comes back to bite them because sometimes the T side, I just feel like
Credit to Falcons for being able to read where it's headed. But also, I just think that Navi sometimes they don't have that extra
misdirection that seemed to really go in their way back when they were the masters of Mirage
Do you think it's a matter of course because the last if I reckon I think the last two
lost that Navi I've had on ancient days against foot and
Someone else that's maybe a little bit lower rank. Maybe they've lost like a little bit of I wouldn't say confidence
But I mean like Mirage is a map they usually have been going for a lot like they played it like 16 17 times the last like three months
Yeah, they've also played and picked multiple times
But it seems like that's always something they also want to go back to picking and it's some speed fighting their butt a little bit
sometimes it's weird because
The lot I mean in their last ten Mirages or so the three times they lost it were times they picked it
They're winning it every time it's picked into them
I don't know if that's a mentality thing with starting on the CT side versus the T side because frequently
this is kind of what happens where they have trouble constructing their T side. And then
maybe they show some signs on their CT side. Their CT side has a better win rate than their
T side in terms of percentages. But yeah, obviously, I'd say Falcons just kind of were
doing a great job in that first half of just understanding where the next play is
coming from. Yeah, it's hard to like look at the stats when it comes to Navi's pick
when they're not really winning on their own picks and then they're lacking to
pick Mirage and then they're not really going. Anyway, there's like too many
layers for that stat that we get to just like look at what is going to be bad
the way that we were sure
right if he was even going to
be playing if he was going to
show up in the server, but
he was gay. Oh my goodness. He
had a really real blunder of
Marasha. Some of the highlights
he had in this one are just
kind of almost feel weirdly
par for course. The one taps
the precision really in terms
of pure aim there. This is
the reason that this guy has
been likely over heights
because he just puts on
blinding displays of
of mechanics on such a regular basis,
especially in group stages.
I mean, in studio environments, this guy,
I mean, what is that?
Like that's just crazy.
Like picking someone crossing the B window
with a one tap there in a live match,
it's just absurd.
I mean, and he does it with such regularity
that it almost, you know, it keeps you in a smoke screen
of sometimes the late, you know, tournament
sort of errors that he makes.
I'm glad that he had a great game
right off of the airplane.
He's piloting his own plane at this point, right?
at this point, all right?
But you're looking for a face of Kiddimoth, though,
at this point.
I think this is more likely a face of Kiddimoth.
He actually gets to go in and just play his own style,
play his game.
He doesn't care if he gets to get that much more.
He seems to be working perfectly fine for a man.
He showed up where many people maybe
thought it was going to be a hindrance for him
or the team.
But it's over now, all in all,
from a player perspective, it's
a very high value for a player to be able to just
have these kind of things being in the back of your head,
but then showing up and then still
of the team. And it's just
a great test for both squads
because Falcons obviously took
off ESL pro league to work on
some of the issues that were
plaguing them, especially when
they were messing up post
plant situation with the
team. So it's just a great
test for both squads because
Falcons obviously took off ESL
pro league to work on some of
the issues that were plaguing
them, especially when they
the team. And so, you know,
they were missing a post plant
situations, essentially, and
Navi on the other hand had a
great tournament win, but it
wasn't truly against the most
elite teams. I mean, they
technically didn't have to play
the spirit. Maus, not a vitality
Falcons type lineups. And so
beating Falcons here for
Navi would mean everything
because then it's also further
vindication that the win at
Pro League wasn't just because
you're playing who's in front
Because I did feel like the start of this Mirage match was just like also just individually a slow start from from the individuals of Navi
We had both a bit and also wonderful having a get 0-7 and 0-7
Yeah, they got their first kill in round 12
That's what I mean, right? And you know, that's also just the fact that they're placed into professional counter, right?
That you can have slow starts and you know, they also lost both pistols if you want to make it up
And I'll excuse right but all in all I think that the bounce back of Navi is gonna tell me more about how they look as a team
Then then what this Mirage just showed and I think that from the fact that side
I mean, sure they did manage to close out their, their, their, you know, the spire that they were going in on the T side.
But on the city side, I think they still had this really good approach.
I think like the city side of Falcons in general plays out pretty well.
You know, they, they got a lot of things that they had to like the piece of players at the majority of the time at the right place.
So I think they play good city side.
But you can see that some of that same strongest when they got to the T side that you also made some questionable decision by, you know, saving with four guys left.
Okay, that is exactly where I was leading towards right around 19 save into around 20 what it happened
I'm not sure we have like a clip and explaining it all here
But now you are losing your mind when you saw what it had happened. Well, I mean this is this the way that this all played out
I mean we have
Well, we have but we do have this round here where it's just that
Falcons they they've saved in a four versus five and then the very next round instead of actually buying utility
like a tech nine flash flash smoke Molly monosie. It looks like he bought a galeel a smoke and a flash a single flash
And I just was wondering do they just think Navier bums?
I mean what like do they think they can actually just aim to their way through the map like that?
I mean, I shouldn't love it like that. No, that question you have
It's funny. No, it's legitimately funny that that that transpired right there. I mean, it's it's just a weird decision
I mean the way that that the previous round to that one played out was that they were in a four on five
They were encroaching it looked like they were setting up an a-split and then they just stopped dead in their tracks
Said we're gonna play the next one
But then they didn't even really buy to set themselves up now for the next one that that was like more my concern right that the setup
I mean the thing of saving when you you have no money in the bank that you could also see the face of Sonic
He wasn't really pleased with that situation. Obviously. It's also like they've been denied playing face it
So they got to play a little bit face at a some point
Just go five guys from the middle.
You can take the guy out of the face if you hit the face.
The face hit into the official.
Exactly.
The only real option when you have literally no utility,
it's just like five men on the rise
just see what happens to me.
They know they try to get it worked, but didn't really get that.
I mean, does it ever really work?
I mean, we're not stressing it.
We just go five guys, let's see what happens.
It was kind of default.
We've played that.
OK.
So you're like really obvious going to say like you can't play.
I was going to say that was when
You know ancient all the way back then when that was not in the
Yeah, that is that is true at one point. Yeah
Well look at it's hot and and that's why I do question right we see this where it's an absolute slow stop for knobby
You question was going on and then faculty himself falter and that's why I was wondering where in the measuring stick
Oh, like you actually think they are still more evenly matched now
Do you need a whole nother map to see that like does Mirage tell the full start? I would say no
I'm almost just frustrated with Navi for picking that one instead of ancient still by moving forward
I do think that Navi have shown me enough over ESL pro league and the growth that this roster has had to be one of the teams that
Should be solidifying themselves as the second to vitality like no one's no one's unseating vitality today
But I would say that by Navi they're nipping at their heels in a way just because they have great structure a lot of the
individuals looked really sharp but in doses at pro league. And unfortunately I think that's
kind of what let them down today or at least in this first map because mccause was a pretty
consistent factor. He won two of the T side rounds by himself for for Navi. But then when
you looked at bit when you looked at wonderful they weren't really able until round 12 to
hold up any end of their bargain. And that might be the defining factor here in a series
that with Falcons they just want to make it scrappy. Like they want to like muddy the
whole situation up like whereas you want to have this tactical layered approach
they're just gonna swing sometimes and you have to punish them for it and it's
at least something they've tried before right losing their own mapping strategy
thank you very much you're might be you never really know you know there is a
mastermind after all but maybe not that great of a mastermind but we'll see
what are you guys making of novice pistol runs as well like again it was a
similar thing when I asked my colleague coming into the series what needs to
go right for you guys to feel like you're bringing it to falcons and he
that was the straight up answer.
Well, unfortunately they didn't do that.
And so now I do wonder like,
why is it falling so apart?
They won one pistol round in the full maps
they've played so far have lost open.
It's curious because sometimes people say
that pistol rounds can be a little bit more random.
But I would say that the way I like seeing
Navi pistol rounds play out are actually
almost like they're playing a gun round.
That round right there where Kyosuke was able
to get the multi frag on the short side
as they were coming out the B halls.
That felt a little more one note.
know, and I guess they're trying different ways to play him. But I think the best
Navi pistol rounds, the best Alexi B called pistol rounds are where they're
actually spread out a little bit more wide.
Surely. And it's also, it is a part where it gets random, right? But it's also like
pistol rounds has always been where if you are sharp as an individual, it's
very limited with utility. It's very limited with like gambles and everything.
So it does just come down to the fact that if you hit your head just
before your opponent, then you will also win. And that's just what they
did pretty much, right?
I like it. It's broken down. You know, pistol rounds are already pretty
simple, broken down to be even more simple, but we'll see exactly if Navi get the pistol rounds
for themselves, just exactly what eventuates for them in map number two in Ferna after this break.
We had Navi's pick earlier with
with Mirage didn't go their way.
That was for Falcons,
but now we're looking at their map pick in Inferno.
And we still are scratching our heads a little bit,
Maui, as to why this was the map that they went for,
why it was Inferno that felt so important to pick it up.
I mean, you look at me like I have the answers here.
Oh no, I think you really do.
I normally am, I'm listening on there to my seat.
I just feel like Falcons right now,
they didn't really have the best record on this map
coming into this tournament.
They actually even second phase vetoed it
in their last game.
So I'm a little bit surprised that they go for it
for a first pick versus the Navi team
that in my eyes has looked totally solid,
totally reasonable on it.
Both of these teams seem to kind of beat
the same teams at the top level,
but they also seem to lose to some of the same teams
at the top level.
So my guess is just simply in practice,
in that time that they had off,
they worked on some stuff.
Yeah, that's gotta be the thing.
You know, that's also something you put
into your calculation when you have to pick a map.
And with the mixed results,
I think it can literally go either way.
We can have like a match that goes down the wire,
get maybe potentially overtime,
but it'll just be one team just like to show up
and smack the other.
That is what I'm hoping,
because we've been talking about the measurement
of these two teams,
where the Calvates really, truly sits,
and it feels like it's gonna be decided here on Inferno,
will Falcons be able to close it out,
or can Navi finally bounce back?
Feels like to me, Navi need to win a pistol tonight, Mohan.
They said it before the series went live
that that's something they were gonna have to have,
And because they kind of says it tongue-in-cheek, but it's a serious problem now because pistols conversions back on the first map
Could have made a world of difference for what ended up being the 13-9 scoreline
We also look at the you know bit to try to come alive earlier on into this matchup as well
So Falcons just getting through no, you know barring the 4v3 in around 12 no huge Falcons blunder really throughout that one
Yeah, the safe and oh yeah
A couple of weird things.
They survived it, like you said, because of the pistols.
Because they had the padding on the map,
by honestly, you could see that going a different way.
But now that we're on the Falcons' map pick,
if they had taken the break to work at all on their T-sides,
I think that's kind of the goal they're taking for them.
Because of all the rounds they played in their recent games,
and 70% of their CT side rounds, I mean,
it's pretty staggering.
And what's also crazy is if you go look at Nobby,
they're way more even-handed on both sides
and comfortable on the map, but they went even more on their T side than they do their CT side.
So it's a real interesting sort of a batch up here in that regard.
Once upon a time you'd look at map biases and one team would, you know, both teams would always be
good at the same side. Then you switch over and see maybe a comeback, but Falcons are going to
look for a decent T side. They're going to look for a strong comeback if they need it,
and they're going to look for pistols to make sure that that T side's a little bit easier.
Looking to take a sniff at this B bomb site with smoke Molotov and a couple of flashbangs included
No kit for the defenders if retake need B
But you do have wonderful with those armored Beretta's standing tall right here behind the oranges and Alexi shapes off monacy first
Beretta's go down empty-handed. It's a lexie with a triple mccase in with one and they
Crushed mccase able to put it to an end
but that is a lexie with some CT pistol impact and a much needed pistol round win here for Navi tonight
You know with him queuing up the smoke if that's a walk in and then they he won't have time to throw that
so they throw just enough utility that he can get this out and
Get his USP out to go for the flight. They cross a little bit early to catch anybody on the site off guard
But he's his first shot
Very nice route
Which just takes the edge off slightly for the start of this one and no force by coming
through from the Falcons either.
Should be a real chance for Navi to catch their breath.
Bit towards pit as you'd expect him.
Again, we just have him under a microscope because of the struggle of map one.
See if any threats come his way, but for the time being Falcon's just waiting out these smoke grenades, bought a banana about to expire.
That'll open up Niko's deagle chance.
It's...
...creator of vape.
Heh.
I'm worried about this A-split with the apartment's presence, but there's nobody home for Falcons in the apps.
It's four players with attention here towards Archside.
Good damage on Tess S and Kyosuke.
For Ima, he takes a dink in return, dropped down to 50 health.
Little redirection though coming out of the Falcons trying to take over CT spawn and Alexis here to deal with that money to be made
With this SMG dropping bomb really takes the wind out of their sails
They're gonna kill him and hope to be able to grab that you think somebody else from the A site would be able to keep it under wraps
But they've really just let it go
Fommas isn't able to get the kill because they from inside B will reveal himself and it's a shooting gallery for him
Yes, time to get this play running for it just enough in the cover as well. And he's got his hands on that mp9
They'll charge him down though sweep him under the rug a bit of cash here for the Falcons
But it's still majority alive on Navi. That's a small victory
I mean actually pretty sizable considering no investment here for Falcons saw bomb plants huge all the kills are very nice as well
And maybe a bit of banter between these two guys
Said you like that burst fire Lexi
I think this might be one of the last weeks we can really enjoy the MP9 mohan with the
magazine changes coming soon.
One of the guns effectively nerf pretty damn hard.
Jumping less spamming sold
May the Ups and MP7s reign supreme
Maybe they were trying to save inferno or something there's no saving this God forsaken
Well, that's the problem, actually. A lot of saving on this map.
Oh, nice.
No one here to save Kiosk. And a gun round, no less. That's a 5v4 off of utility.
Nobby's still afforded this three-player A-lane, just trying to throw out some
interrupted flashbangs, but SS remains tucked in.
They're not really careful of an off-on lane. Start to walk around through Arch.
It's wide open. I mean the CTs are bifurcated on their sights. I mean, it's rotation's gonna be a little slow
So it goes only four players CTs have to be careful with their lives here
Push out the deco great headshot. The rap starts to take place as well be careful
And then monicy trying to pressure the short side but bitten email with a kill apiece
Gun swap and monicy also dropped down to half health. So this one loses steam pretty swiftly
Niko had a hell of a headshot and all of that, but nothing beyond it.
Great hold for Navi.
Three round start, dispatching of the Falcons' gun round,
and buying themselves some time to build a buffer.
Taking advantage of their first pistol in a while.
It's got to feel good.
Inferno off to a great start.
Looks like Bladescott has some teammates he can trust.
I'll be quietly building up a little bit of a win streak at the moment as well, sitting
on five matches at the moment bait aurora foot mongles and 3d max
look real good if you could just add that falcons name to the list
yeah it really validates the rest of the results for sure
no if ands or buts this time with falcons being at full force at the start of
of their second day of play here for Blast Open.
Not be playing far back.
If there's anyone else, I'm like,
you guys are too far back when it's not being,
I'm like, you know how to pull this off.
They're dropping his utility,
even feeling a bit of a squeeze.
There goes the tech nine and Niko's gonna find pit.
Awper not given an angle because of the smoke
towards Mogo.
So you just said it, you know,
Usually you trust nobody but Navi and even they get swarmed by the side arms this time
To drive by moments out of Falcons and that bomb site is under their control
But Alexi still looks to take a glance towards site nobody else pops up
They let Nico do the dueling and so four versus two advantage in the post plant
Nobody else gonna take it the temp dad at Falcons first round by way of tech nine rush
It's no map more important than inferno to like to make sure that you have a way to like
either cheat over or rotate around on a quick flank or something like that and
You know even even if you keep three alive here, and there's two rotating over for me
You just kind of make sure you protect that jump through from default
Keep that crossfire as strong as possible like that
That was totally subverted and it was versus a low buy not the way that knob
We want to let Falcons into this game
of the
just leave it up to chance.
Blade wants in before things get out of control.
I think maybe when you don't see the proactivity in the setups and you know
Blade's not going to want to burn the timeouts on CT side but you see a moment where it's like
okay what we need to, we were missing a couple ideas last round.
They kind of went for a flat out default.
It was a little too vanilla, there was no active information, and then they lost, so...
Even though things are still looking up here for Navi, it's definitely not too late for Thalc to do some damage on T side.
Because they like to peek cars says kicks out see if that comes to fruition got that wonderful op again out here on the field
Yeah, they did do that face-at-round back on mirage. So yep
Some their blood for sure even though it's bad. They're not allowed to play
That's why they're doing it badges
Great me damage. Oh
Elections get the kills. I mean the targets election just works out perfectly utility be damned
Just getting Niko denied any success towards that B site and that's gonna put Falcons back
to the drawing board in an awkward early 3v5.
Yeah, so early is the thing.
Just hoping for one or the other.
I think it was also just the angle on sandbags. He he didn't see any other target. I think they both could only see the one guy in front of him and it just so happened to be
No crass cross didn't overlap.
Yeah.
Well done, Navi, for that.
We go 45 seconds and Falcon's gonna take a second attempt here towards Banana.
Denied entirely.
No access allowed.
Triple kill for Mikaze, quads right there for the taking.
And this is all after eating those hard frag grenades.
Falcons, wow, they softened them up but they couldn't do much about it.
A single casualty for Navi to have to stomach solid off of the tack pause from
to keep four players standing and to keep the pressure on this Falcons T side.
So never fun to lose around this early, but that's kind of what it felt like.
And I appreciate the Nades. They kind of just went for like a scatter pattern
to see how much damage they could do to anybody and then assist on the entries,
but both players have perfect angles for exactly when they were peeking.
It was really like a cluster bomb, eh? The way the three frag grenades went on.
And worms.
It was worth it's damage.
They're gonna try it again, catch McCauze playing with utility.
There we go.
Same round, but better.
That's kind of the 50-50 they'd hoped for last time, Ema on the recovery.
With one.
See if they can walk that open.
Yeah, all the CTs are in place, so it actually makes it very hard to cross safely.
Ema's going through, flashbang pops, he'll fight, kicks in, dies for.
He follows suits Nico's got the answer, but it's a 2v2 and Nico down to 2hp. Oh
Tessas with this lurk will slowly get over towards this B site
It kind of just has no idea what's happening and I mean neither of them do so this split is taking place
This means that Tessas can cross up and go yeah
Around wonderful. He'll come and check it shots missed critical shot miss
And you have to give it to Tess as like he's in a spot early that you wouldn't totally expect
But this does mean now bit
It's gonna have to go buffing beyond even though me goes on to HP he can
Hide wherever he wants angles held as well. Is he crosses?
Yeah solid stuff from Tess swapping over to the op they run back the same round and this time they catch
It's not that same setup from the defense right before previously with Alexi and McCauze right there
Just didn't feel as solid as the round prior
It's unfortunate because email has such a fantastic round on a brief frags the flashing from CT got it's 2k here
And probably feeling like the rounds basically done
one
of
all this puts up, Navi's money into an awkward position
taste the opportunity for Falcons
.
It's good to get away with this
They're a little long grenades still holding on to an eight dropping an HE on the floor
decent counter utility there for Navi
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
That's the hat.
You can just see the hat.
That's it. Wow.
Honestly wins the head-to-head versus the other AWPer.
Alice.
Alice, brutal man.
I would like that replay box enlarged, please.
Yeah, make the game small. Make the replay big.
Yeah, it's when the- when the-
if we were to do a cinematic picture in picture,
you'll see how much bigger the box is.
I'd like both boxes that size. Thank you.
And we get the Mikaze scope. Oh, it works. Yeah, yeah, just like that, huh?
What more do you have in the tank, Mikaze? Because your teammates over on A, not having as good of a time.
Tess has a real problem as he comes through with another instant headshot. Working with just 15 health.
Problematic over towards A site for Naughty to have to handle him.
And so Falcons finding themselves a third round by way of monosie over wonderful head-to-head
optical.
That was just fantastic and watch the pick happen like that.
I mean, you can cover his own bases, jump it up, but then, pick it up for the info
and then taking the shot after.
Here it is.
Never stood a chance.
What is that?
Imagine that from a like these POV put this test that was he just forced telling you he's a wild man that test s
Two thumbs up René yeah, he handled it
If they trudged through this T side again, I mean they just keep they're just thinking about the second half
So obviously should be a little worried
So the buy comes up very interesting here on the brink of being broken.
Yeah, wonderful.
Then up and couple of needs in my one rifle pistol round of the conversion that's great
and all but losing control the momentum they had at the start of the CT side are Navi
right now.
The lead hinges on this round for Navi with this solo op solo M4 on EMEH.
It feels like they've just taken the time to improve their Inferno, bring it into a pick,
play against Navi to improve their T side, maybe new looks at how they approach B.
Trying to tune in more to their explosiveness.
Feels like is what we're seeing and they really believe in it.
False flat on his face one round.
They do the same round the next time and it's just perfect so you can see the
confidence here.
Yeah, respect for that, honestly.
Good site selection, it looks like from Falcons.
Lanes open, halls are open, no one in pit.
It's a nice size picture in picture.
Sure wish we had that for the replays.
It's right here to try to stop it.
USP is all he's got to work with, but it's a beautiful setup
for EMA to spray down to that puts this round back into question.
Offer a counterpick by wonderful and that's got the bomb split up. Yeah, Nico's low join forces to get into this bomb site
How does he get beyond wonderful?
Well a miss shot certainly helps now short sides under pressure
Alexis Barrett is in hand but he has come through with a third kill and now a Nico 20 HP
Clutch is never gonna happen. Eman the hero of this one
Hey, he wasn't the only one with a gun, but he's the only one with a rifle
It's just like back on mirage. He understands the opportunity at hand
Critical too, because the lead hinged on this round's outcome.
And E-Mess steps up with the perfectly timed lowdown.
That little USP distraction on the arch peak.
Ooh, that's frustrating for them, eh?
Because they let you go in right before the smoke blooms.
They're catching an early timing.
They honestly did not need to come through a smoke in this position.
Right.
They had lane totally open, but they didn't know that there was a stack over on the other side of the map.
Did feel though that E-Mess should have never gotten away with both.
It's not like those players didn't have guns. It's not like they were emerging through the smoke
They had a clear vision of the EMF fight for sure just uh
You know shoot him now if you have firepower
Undeniably so right now it's Alexi be at the top of the board
still waiting for bit though huh yeah yeah I mean it's reading a lot of magazines in the
the waiting room. Early, down our utility. Ouch. They stave off the full reset, Navi.
Making it a fast day. It is still under threat that if they lose around, money's in question.
E-MAT not able to track that second and the flying Mactan best him nicely done. There
he is. Better late than never. Sweeps two under the rug. Niko waits for the banana
She's gonna find that flank but he does lose more HP still the 2v2 bit wants to keep this sectioned off as he stands on top of bomb
This is a little little hard here. I mean they've got escorted to copy they cleared out mid
So it's kind of a good spot. They can watch everything the only timing that gets opened up is the big flank
But that's later on
Falcons have to pause to just
Make them think about it obviously
But they're not gonna really use that I
I like Falcon staying active because it comes to a point where you can get the
bomb but going B kind of becomes out of the question. They're timing right though.
They're not just there yet. Yeah. Kiosk got too preoccupied with trying to help out Niko.
They think maybe they're still closer to the bomb, not the case. So good on Noggin to
make a move and with it, Bitt's got himself his third kill in this round.
Fifth within the map and so I'll shut up now. Good to see that damage on a
rifle. We were in the waiting room, you know, it's wonderful who got back into
to Mirage a little late, but eventually did.
That headshot on Tessas was perfectly controlled. I felt like you needed a
headshot to win the duel, since Falcons tailspinning into just pistols here
for round 10. And so starting to become a real rock solid half numerically for
Navi 96 best case what 9 3 best case
Sorry, let me see, let's go for the second drift.
Oh!
God, 15 rounds just feel so long now to think about.
15 round halves?
What were we doing?
With those MS paint smokes?
Oh my God.
Horrible.
Crazy to think that Inferno was worse.
Yeah.
I'm going to peek into this, interrupt Kyosuke.
A little boiler challenge up through Montesy's got something rolling forward, but the fall-back
frag grenade to just stun them for a second, we hit 45 seconds, that bomb wants to get
out through the apartments on the back of Niko.
Yeah, Emma knows that he's a person of interest right now inside of Pit.
Oh, that's a massive find.
Here we go.
Look at this side of the map right now.
Here we go.
be worried about this peek out of halls as well.
Misses a shot.
No good.
Short control totally there for the Falcons.
Bomb is chucked over and he goes into the little pit,
not allowed to cross over to the deeper corner.
Are they really testing him?
Why?
Wonderful's happy to just get that free shot
before the retake really has to come through.
We're talking about kits across the board here
still for Navi.
MP9 best case for the Falcons in this 3v3.
Desert Eagle shots a stray.
And Modesty finds himself alone.
So clean up on the A site made easy here by Navi.
They tried a toy with wonderful.
Yeah, OK, he missed one shot, but he's there
to make sure Niko goes down.
And here to make sure that Navi keep on winning.
Crazy scary moment for Emma in the pit.
He takes a one shot.
He just wants a little info, and that's
enough for Tessus to nail that shot.
Ready.
of the
all the utility
That's a reload coming in soon. They want to take advantage of the fact that one of
them is going to get out of this fight. Yeah, that's pretty perfect. Little mistake
for Navi for sure.
Sir, Niko doubles down on it and it's not with any rotations nearby. A little too confident
with that one, Navi.
They really big trust of their their deep smoke on on banana. I thought they're you know, Nico wasn't in front of it
So I think Nico sense the opportunity
And a reload is a timing so it's a way back into the game for Falcons I
Think kind of the way they want like they've been going a but they don't have that sort of though
We could see the sort of improvements or new things. They've they've tried towards be that are working
But the Arch, it feels like Arch is a huge part of the game plan today, and that's where Navi, I think, had some of their most stylish finishes, the spraydowns from multiple players on their team.
There's a big ol' OOPSie.
He's not waiting because he's playing in between our send legs.
We can do that. There we can.
Let's do it.
Navi are going to precipitate for the attack this round.
I mean, again, like they're thinking about,
because you have the deliberation about,
like, how potentially open that is.
Last round of the half, so, you know,
it's the one special moment where you don't have to worry about
what happens next after this.
If you're going to try the same thing again,
there won't be any time to respond.
Sometimes you want to go for a comfort haul.
But you know where it's at.
Lexi presses in and Kiosk apes best in.
And we've got Mikaze at back.
Ah, and he can't manage to get a second.
But Ema will catch them off guard with the numbers.
Uh-oh.
Missed chance at a frag.
Now he's on the fallback.
Look at a bit frazzled.
We'll find Kicksad at least.
And dropping the bomb as Niko goes over.
Top the trade frags.
There.
Final 2v2 of the half.
But very separated right now are Tessas and Niko.
Man, that was some great movement out of Ima.
Somehow navigated this way to a 2K.
Keeps hope alive.
Niko awaits TSS's arrival.
He's on it, knows exactly how important this round is,
this opportunity.
Thought I mean, totally split up, like.
They're forfeiting a plant.
Another one, he can't, oh, an attack.
For one damage, Nico now on high alert.
I'm playing it together, but a late smoke CT as well, and no one on a B flank.
It's really suffocating, but that'll certainly help.
Bit comes through with a quick headshot.
It's Tess S to the clutch, smoked off.
CT's now making the most of their own utility.
No way to pop this open.
He's gonna throw a bank on the lineup.
They tap it once.
He doesn't buy down fully. Wonderful's on half health.
Now he commits. Gets one off.
Down to 6 HP.
Now he can just run through it.
Clashes his way in and it's gonna be Texas with the 1v2.
A Falcons clutch for the road,
a five round T side to set them up for the 2-0.
When you're young and you're just starting, it looks hard.
For me, it looks like maybe I'll never make it
because there's so many things you need to do
to get to the top.
It's obvious nowadays that you need to be good and face it, but I do think that you need to start playing with a team because that's how you're going to stand out if you have better communication than others.
If you understand rotations, if you understand how team CS works.
There's one thing that stuck with me. There's being a sponge. You take in things and you can't accept it in a way what is usually you.
I'll give you an example. We must join mouse.
So I started watching him, and I could see his mechanics, he was really curable of spray-transfer.
And he just said he's doing a lot of aim-bots before games.
And I started doing that, and I could see my spray-transfer now improving.
If you have an individual brilliance, and you have a poor mental, it's really not going to work.
Maybe it's going to work for a short time, but not always.
It's a combination. Both of these things help each other.
In 2005, 2006, I was really good at the game.
I was 16 years old. Every time I played on the bit of players in the market, they told me I was cheating.
You needed to somehow make it to a team or make your own team and qualify for the biggest tournaments
and then play your mind off there.
I had like a team of me and a few friends and we started playing ESA open back then
and some of those games were shown on national TV and that's how we started playing some more
official games where people could watch us. Nowadays you can be number one on Facebook
and you're getting a contract, an email from 10 organizations
who are top 15 world because they wanna take chances
of 16, 17 year old kids, sign them on contract,
low salary, make them be able to play and lift the game
and by then selling them to for a $300,000.
I would say it was more difficult,
but then again, if you are so much better than the others,
someone's gonna know this year.
There is one guy called Donk who I thought would
crash his performance on a catch which find against us,
but I have never been wrecked as much as that.
He just handled like a pro.
To new players, I would just say,
if you just keep believing and keep working hard,
everything is possible.
That's going to be one of the more cases in the future
where the players are not living up to expectations
and then they'll go back to the grind
and perform even better later at the stage,
as long as they believe.
Showing us some solid T side stuff, Falcons have given themselves enough of a buffer
to try to turn this one around and although the pistol finally for Navi hits the scoreboard
Mohan they convert it fully, they start the CT side well enough.
Let's see if they can do it a second time in the same map.
Fast challenge out of Tess S trying to dominate here in round 13 and he'll find the one
and only peek from ultimate.
sends the Lexi back to grab the bomb as banana becomes the intended target of
Navi kicks in in the little pits as the smoke pops in front of Navi signing up
for a dangerous duel here. Yeah he is I mean it's the T side that just will take
a duel even if it's lucky through the smokes you've got to be careful for
sure. You know that B-Tran stat, Kyosuke is the 20-26 and for no player of the
year that really explains specifically you know how unbelievably good they're
on CT side.
This passive position is definitely earned.
It's not to be here to know they have their work cut out for them.
Hold on to their utility despite getting that close to the B bomb site.
Oh, it's a kill that could have been.
them back towards short instead. Barrettas from the corner ready to go. Tess S gets unrooted.
Monacee activates, double kills his. Gets a little wild, but a third frag found.
And then Biff to try to overtake the bomb sites. Not gonna happen. One pistol, all Naughty Gats.
Yeah, and you know, versus bait it's one thing, but you know, versus Falcons as well. I mean,
just look at Falcons players like, who's gonna like lack on pistols? You know, these guys
And some of the best headshot accuracy consistency on crosshair placement in
In rounds like this is just where they're the most fierce so
Navi just cannot generate the trades whatsoever to make a move here and this is where the series gets terrified
Bomb plant no buy
I had a confident looking falcons happy to take a duel down middle send the frag and almost finish off wonderful before he even has a chance to pop up from underground
It's sort of ahead of the pack there. He went really really wide for that one
It almost worked at least to avoid the first couple of bullets, but that was the Wild West there for a second
And then immediately you can already see the Hawkins are gonna be playing for info they're gonna be prodding
I'm not sure what the game plan is here.
That's all you needed to see, and on top of it, confirms wonderful in the backdrop,
so it's a silent, slain, Navi approach to that A-bombsite Falcon.
It's going to tie this game up seven rounds, all.
You can see Navi are playing not really for the round just for a couple kills couldn't get those at all
Five up very solid Sony takes a breath. I think he senses the chance here
Those it looks like a real sigh of relief here. Okay. This is gonna go one of two ways
You didn't want to breathe that hard, but I really wanted to but yeah, you're feeling good either this games in our pocket already
Nor this is gonna slip through our hands
This could be that turning point right here first gun round of Navi's T side
No real contest offered by the Falcons for the banana control immediately.
We'll see if they try to re-aggress, but they just try to get those nades banking down.
Pressure with util and then engage with banana as the fire fades
And that is that is banana right there you can give it up but it has to be on your terms
I'm going to try to make Falcon sweat while they still have five up and look at the buy
from Falcons.
They saved everything.
So it's not like they have the best weapons in the world.
Oh my goodness.
That was just exquisite because they got a 3HP.
He was lucky to be able to throw that all the time.
I can't afford to take a damage.
I haven't scared Falcons one bit, but if they do still remain two here, yeah, not the best
weapon in the world.
Trying to keep that pressure on, Alexei just spamming with the Galil.
That does draw Niko back slightly.
Oh, a lot of people eat the Flash, hits the Dink, but now it's E-Met also sucked
at HP.
Uh-oh.
They've gotten through.
Niko's gonna be met by a Smoke Grenade towards Modo, and despite the damage done to
Macaulay and E-Met, Nobby, by B3 post plant are gonna win this round.
They really threw the, you know, the loosest fake right there.
I mean, they didn't even have to sacrifice a player to entry.
It was on the other side of a smoke at the top of banana, but it was enough to
call one rotation over.
I think Niko looked at the guns and thought, we aren't going to win.
Two E3 to sites, even if we've got some utility damage, they didn't know about it all.
And I'm honestly partially dodged that flashbang it looked like but not enough to get the kill
So that's what for spawns and to be honest at Falcons lose everybody on this round just because it's a bonus quote-unquote
They're not gonna have all the money in the world for all the utility and upgrades on the next
So what three saved it's sort of the best case situation for them on a loss
us. It's like he tried to dodge the flash but didn't really full commit. Yeah, just a few
inches off. We got a new Tess's head bang unlocked. So you're creative, I'll give him
that. I'm sure production could cue that clip up into the next one so he hits his head
and his head hits the chair.
What do we think?
I don't know. It'd be hard to see with those tiny little picture
and picture replay.
I'm going to get what I want.
The fact that we haven't had a replay picture and picture
means they're working on it.
I know it.
Keep talking they're gonna put us in a smaller trailer. The walls are closing in
on me. I like my little casting box.
Oh they're great nade.
Not signing up for the banana fight again just kind of letting Navi have it
out of the opening attempts. Very similar to the last round. Now they'll threaten the
re-clear, but nobody actually committing to it this time around. Falcons try to cheat Kiosk
Ape back over to the A site early. Oh, he may have to return because clearly Navi putting
something behind his B presence are going to try to disrespect the timing. That's
a good read of the situation, but he does get through. Kiosk Ape punishing the Alexi
tree push and the spam will not find a second. Oh, that's a little bit of a mess. Again, you
know, points for the early round damage, 30 damage here from Kyosuke. You know, points
for getting some AT damage to kick it off, but Navi are right. Top of B is vacant when
they go for that timing and playing retake and then flashing yourself through looks
looks all too desperate. Maybe they can't get too comfortable being on their fun side here on CT.
But that doesn't think about Navi in this mashup. Like, you know,
since Falcons are like unbelievably impressive on their CT side, but Navi are just good on both.
They're not going to be uncomfortable either way.
Keep majority at least there.
That's the silver lining for Falcons in round 16, but yes, that is Navi pulling ahead.
Two round buffer.
Well, as we get a coach tack, here we just get Nico to really directing things, saying this is what's going to happen.
And I think the activity of communication was definitely lacking on the last round.
They got caught way too off-guard by that.
Trying to get this player back over to the A site again.
Oh, Monacy's locked into the corner. It's got to be saved. Kiosk can't do it.
Oh my goodness.
And the 5-3 for Naughty.
Oh my goodness.
They just slaughtered inside of the A site. They got that fourth piece over.
None of that was supposed to happen at all. Ouch.
He just ran into a smoke to kill Cubby.
teammate watching the cross, doesn't hit a bullet, gets away and gets another kill.
Off the tagpaws, Falcons feeling confident like they knew what was coming.
Niko was very adamant in that timeout and instead your round is done in about 20 seconds flat.
Navi slammed themselves against that 8 bomb, even with a fourth defender there.
You know that same kind of early cheese that Kyosuke tried to get away with last round.
A real lack of hesitation coming out of Navi in these two rounds back to back.
Changing up the bomb sites, trying to stay unpredictable and clearly at the moment playing
with falcons and their reeds but that left a lot to be desired. This is not a shot you often see in
this man. That's so wild. Not like anything really went well here for falcons not even on the other
side of that site. But you know what the call is perfect to the energy from the comms you saw
from falcons in the last round where they were so focused now on their B problem.
Now like they just let that slip when it feels like there shouldn't have really been a gap.
Navi found one.
Suddenly, it's an A-play just as quickly early round to each of these sites.
They're in their heads.
second my shoes fell off
This moment here, I think Navi are going to be the ones to want to get back through it
as soon as possible.
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It's drinking its own pee.
I hope not.
Fair grill style.
I hope not.
It's there, Al.
I've got a fridge full of drinks in the studio.
I would be on you to save your life Connor.
Thank you. Anytime.
I think.
If you're on fire or something.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, let's hope that doesn't happen anytime soon.
There's always a situation, you know.
I
Looks like MS shoes might be back on
I was thinking that's how I might protest
Because you know valve still haven't released danger zone and CS2
Yeah, and he news and he got one yet. They've got one more year where I light myself on fire. Oh, okay. All right
Okay, that's one year before Valvard danger zone
You think it's coming or I did see with the
You know how we they re-release CS go right like they're not send they're not letting anybody license of CS go events
But you can still go play CS go now. Yeah with that obviously that means you can play danger zone again
And yeah, I saw I saw I saw some community mark
Markets. Speaking of some community servers bringing back the old Danger Zone. Shout out to the Bump Mine one time.
Where they tested all the new features. We could have had the new mag changes. We could have seen them.
The many shots is coming.
Sonar grenades anyone?
Well, this has become awkward for Falcons.
Yeah, it has on CT side.
I mean, with the pistol, the conversion, the 2-0 CT side start.
Four Falcons, they've let three rounds slip.
Now they find themselves on pistols.
They haven't even really shot back in these last few rounds.
No. Particularly that last one.
Well, they shot into the smoke and missed every single shot on the Lexi.
They're coming into halls, which actually is a great opportunity for Falcons.
However, he met a adjustment to deal with Nico, but you did let Monici put his hands
on an AK.
He falls back.
He's got three more players slowly coming his direction, and yeah, they're going to
catch him crossing over in front of the truck.
Maybe it would have been worth just sitting in the pit, but he wanted to get into
to the safety of the bomb site in reality instead.
That's Navi's for the taking,
and an 11-7 score secured.
It's kind of just not a great look for Falcons.
Also very impressive like calling.
I feel like it's obviously what we saw was a bit messy
in response from Falcons,
whether it was when they played retake on B
or that our side mishap
where Kiyosuke just misses a huge spray
that you normally wouldn't see him miss,
but at the same time,
like Navi are the ones that have just like totally upended their idea of what was going
to happen. Like they, I think the pace at which they've come at this Inferno T side
has probably been a surprise. You know, sometimes they'll play slowly here. They've
thrown in really fast rounds back to back. Nico still got ideas. And the question is
the one step behind. I mean, it feels like he was trying to like help him out over
on the B side and then Navi said like okay right before they get prepared over there
we'll change it up so now how do you stay ahead of it? Last time now it's getting
burned here. It's very difficult to pin down the Navi T side. I agree it just
feels like Balkans are caught off guard by this Navi Tempo. Leave it to Blade to
try to switch things up one more time to secure their 12.
sort of I think call for it. I'm going to take a bit more of a director's role.
Here it comes though, the aggression towards Mikaze, but he's already tucked back around
the base of Banana and this is gonna be that sudden pop out through the app, something
fresh off the tech pause bit comes through with the double kill, dominates the A site.
Defense goes down just as they're trying to make something happen towards B. As Ma...
Cause they excuse me is throwing out his utility. Falcon's thinking they're about to jump on
something and Navi give us a new look and a similar outcome. Five rounds straight.
I mean this is how you throw a fake. I like it's not that kind of full commitment over
towards B but it's just holding you in place long enough that you're confirming
There's three there maybe an op and then that's enough to get out of halls on the other side great entries from bit
Who again? We were in the waiting room to see when he would start to turn up. Well, that's starting to come to fruition
This has become sort of a masterclass of a T side here for Navi
On how to confuse your opponent
It feels like no matter how emphatic Niko is in all these positions, like Navi know exactly
what Falcons are going to try to do next.
Step ahead has really been the case throughout this entire second half.
Barring pistol and conversion, it's nothing but Navi.
look off the tack paws catching it falcons off
so quietly now we have clearly taken over this game
five map points dust two weights in the wings
really at this point we're just waiting to see whether falcons can figure out
any of the CT rounds because it has been not be impossible to pin down
just gave floating around in banana macaque his counterpart ready for the
The entry fired his feet, he opts not to pull the trigger just yet.
Floating around on that gap though, Kyosuke in front of it, and even while blind, Mikaze
has got himself the frag.
He was just so deep on that angle.
They're already ahead of the smoke, so Navi will be happy to continue this pacing towards
the bomb site, but there aren't two defenders here.
Niko included, kicks Han off the top box, dropped empty handed, Mikaze has got himself
a second, and then Monichi comes through with the kill towards Bitt, but that's
the only thing that goes well.
frag over towards the A site.
Monacy's going to try to keep them boxed in.
Wonderful's missed shot.
Does open the possibility of a much needed retake.
The frag grenade's got wonderful dead to rights.
And Tess says, oh, he can't quite find the bomb plant,
but that's fine.
Monacy's got it.
And as Macaulay finds himself in the back of the site,
1v2 at hand.
It's Monacy shaved down to 59 health.
Macaulay pinned into the corner,
and they're going to have to swing into him.
It's Falcons done on Inferno.
Macaulay could find it, but no sir the pressure's on and Monacy swapping from the AWP after killing bit into that rifle
Best thing wonderful and keeping the pressure of the retake on finds the first of five needed for overtime
That's a 4k from Monacy. Just a real you you know Swiss knife Swiss army knife in this situation
Just banked on one miss shot to set himself up and beautiful grenade to kick off the retake
of the
way with the retake off of finding that flank frag but at the same time
still a scary moment as you know kids got seven kills you know he's got to be
the star of the show here on inferno
Oh, good trade by Niko at least.
I feel like in the head to head, Mikaze's got his number.
We've kind of been painting this picture that Falcons are one step behind Navi.
Even last round when they win, it still felt that way.
Banking on the retake to come through from Monosy.
This time at least they get away with that trade frag and keep Wonderful's HP low,
but this deep push from Niko.
What's it worth?
Oh, the frag to Eme. That's what.
Smoker need to try to keep him alive, but of course Alexi's going to keep the pressure on.
They'll get that kill back. We go 3v3.
And it looks like Navi want to size up this A site once again.
That's not necessarily an opportunity with Monosia live with an op.
They want a piece of arch and he's here waiting.
Oh!
Pop by Bitt.
Pressure on Tess S now three players coming his way and they're gonna try to split this but arch first
That's where the trade potentials higher. He goes for the reposition and there's no flank yet from wonderful up short side bit
Just point with the corners test S's got this and it's low HP for wonderful now
He's able to clear Tess S off the site confirms kicks and there my goodness around health be damned
That's gonna be kicks and back beyond the smoke
One round would do it a single bullet connects to wonderful and he is done for but he scoops up the bomb
Is he gonna fake? I don't think so kickstands gonna run out at this
This is a 3 and 13 kickstand making sound on the approach wonderful nose. He's right there, but don't you dare miss?
Brian for the taking blinded and pinned into the corner glocks out a hundred HP
a bait and still he survives this! Come on now! Valkid's come through with another round but, uh,
well, that was something. They were scared to win that, uh, and by they I mean kick set. Bam.
You need a hundred percent guarantee that that was gonna be good.
You literally throw out the white flag and fix that still didn't want to run out of
them.
That's two of five.
What was there on the op gonna do?
I don't know man, I don't know.
I really didn't know where to go about that shot, honestly.
That's what we're looking for.
Oh, hey, Monacy has some regrets about that, or you know, some frustration after a bit took him out.
I'll be careful a bit right now.
It's an overall very steady map for Monacy.
panchioske just 84 damage raw off the Mali casual.
Just tanked it.
No problem.
Another smoke.
Oh that was a mistake.
I'll tell you he wasn't ready to shoot yet.
Now, Tess has everything to do on his own.
Oh, he will at least skim him off the bush.
Bit's about to arrive from above.
There's still no support.
He's going to try to fight out through library.
Tess has been the savior, but both players line up,
and they've got this cleared.
Bit comes through with the kill towards Bit.
Mikaze slays both of the library players,
and now Kicksand's got to go back to back clutches.
This time outnumbered.
How do they jumble up inside of the library
and make that so easy for Mikaze, I don't know.
But Navi have surely given themselves
a chance to win this one.
Two versus one, kicks in on arrival, blindsided by Big.
Navi will finish off their food.
A hell of a T side, and one that the Falcons
just seemingly weren't ready for.
Man, you know, we see sometimes that Falcons
as much talent as they have,
they just can't activate it in a way
that make them look like a great team.
You've got good rounds, but you don't have a great complexion in terms of the entire half.
And that's what holds them back a lot. Impressive from Navi, regardless.
I just don't even know who wanted to go with this one. We knew they're coming into Inferno.
It was a bit of a question mark about why Falcons ended up picking it up,
how exactly were they going to perform. Also for the side of Navi knowing their history coming into it as well.
But at the end of the day, they win the first pistol round.
That's what it feels like is some really good momentum on the CT side
I'm really starting to think about what you said coming into the segment or before the second before we say maybe it's part of the
Planet they just want to lose their own map pick it then come
It's a point where the Navi have been in that situation many times of them bouncing back
It's obviously good for them and now also seeing how my cast also stepped up
We have also seen been having a lot of impact and my what did you say coming into this one?
What did you say about my cousin?
He's your idol, right?
I mean, that is great.
Excellent.
What needs to be said, what needs to be said.
He's excellent.
I mean, I feel like this was a clear demonstration throughout a lot of the banana fights versus
another hot prospect in Kiyosuke, who got the better of who.
I mean, even though I will give credit obviously to Kiyosuke for his mirage performance, it
was exceptional, but this map, Makase, was handling Falcons.
I mean, he was finding openers consistently, even in the times that he died frequently,
they were almost immediately traded.
And even in that last round, I mean,
he's done such a great job this year
at really kind of shooing away some of the deficiencies
he had when he first joined Navi.
I'd say the biggest problem he had
was that he had so much skill,
but he didn't know when to stop.
Now you see him in these kinds of moments,
like he did it on that very last round of banana inferno.
When he realizes there's just too much
that's blocking his path,
he doesn't try to force the issue anymore.
He reroutes, understands that there's another way
to play the round, that his life is valuable enough
that he comes in in a second wave of attack,
it's gonna be even maybe more important
than just trying to find that 5v5 edge.
Yeah, I think it's a great take also just to see
that he does more than just, you know,
being this guy running with his head, you know,
towards the wall, like trying to find openings.
If you can't really find the openings
by just, you know, playing proof
for us kind of being really aggressive,
he also have other tendencies to do,
like he can play also the late rounds,
he can find the openings in different ways, you know.
It's good to see that he's also evolving
that department and I'm I got to think of a little bit of exertion when you
mentioned this like you know that he's also got a guy that has this kind of
potential but doesn't really have that when to stop when cannot find opening I
need to find us some somehow else and I think that is what Macaulay show today
as well and that's probably also in a way why I would even just say even
though the exertion has been a top 20 player for multiple years out cause
I didn't quite make the list last year I think he was in HLTV is probably
top 25 roughly or something like that but I would take Macaulay today
I would also it may be what is a hotter take I would take Macaulay over Kiosk a today
I just feel like I've seen more in terms of development more in terms of growth
I think raw skill you saw all of it from Kiosk a on math number one
But what I saw here on inferno was just good tactical knowledge of when he needs to press forward
And when he should actually fall back and and just try to play a later round out
I think there's a case now also I mean if Jacob was he would probably disagree with you that
Oh yeah, he likes to do it easy.
We were just fighting about this.
We lost two days.
Josuke's obviously, he's looked upon as before mentioned,
being at a dunk point 2-0.
That's not really the case with him.
But I think that when he was picked up into five years,
I think obviously he's still a really great player.
Let's not deny that.
And when he was picked up, there was a lot of pressure
on top of it.
He did actually come out swinging
and having some really good events
and being at this talent that you really were looking for.
with Makasa when he was picked up by Navi. It's been taking a bit more time for him but it's like
he has just evolved whether that's because of the blade system or because he's got more
comfortable than team. He's just evolved to now maybe have already overtaken Kjask in this one.
So I think it's an interesting 5% of true prospect right now but I think Makasa is,
you know, he's showing himself what a player he can be. We can put it down to maybe map one.
Navi were a little bit quiet. They just needed to wake up even though it is almost, you
you know, 8 p.m. when they were playing that one, but they really showed up in map number two.
And for the biggest impact it feels was round number eight, where Falcons,
what they're going to look at through a positive negative lens is how I'm going to phrase this,
right? Falcons losing against the 4-spy, but also now they're being able to do so much with so
little. Yeah, the way that Emo was able to rotate around on this one was instrumental to
their victory. I mean, he's spamming two players practically, just catching the rotation
in time there. And then we see this response where Wonderful was actually
pushing down there with his teammate, but still able to find the return kill.
That felt like a grave error in the midst, but then look at who's there to save them. It's Ema.
We haven't talked about him a lot in this series yet, but he was...
That round in particular was pretty much worth, say, three, because your money was broken.
It hurt Falcon's economy on the flip side. There were such grave implications if they were
to have dropped that one. Some of the round that has been haunting
Falcon's quite a lot recently, and I don't think this one is specifically
as bad as the other one. I think that the main mistake for them is that it just took too long time,
like whenever they decided to return from Banana into middle, they would constantly smoke the LHB,
actually rotates over and smokes them off, and they had to force them through themselves through
this smoke, and they go just like a couple of seconds before the smoke actually pops into
library, and that is where I even find the two first frags, and that just makes them
spiral out of control, but that you know that you're, I wouldn't say they're obviously,
they're just put in a position where they're having a hard time figuring out what to do
when they are in getting denied for what they actually want from the get go, right?
And it's one of these things that Falcons obviously has been working at, you know,
you're never going to get to a point where you will never lose these type of situations, right?
But that could probably have been like a different approach to have them all in this kind of situation.
At the end of the day, that is one individual round. All of the CT side, that's a bit of a tongue twister,
but now they felt so impactful though. You've already hired Mikazi, but
Imer in that round specifically there, but Alexi B is well really showing up there.
Alexi B and Mikaze were just thickest thieves on this B bomb side.
They were there.
The synchronization that these two have found over the time that they played
inferno together is now become a sight to behold because you see this with a
couple of the other top teams.
I think Flamesee and Apex are another great example of you don't even
necessarily look at that duo and say this is our highest fragging duo.
But it's too.
It's more about how how in tandem you are and Mikaze Alexi.
They're great at just throwing great utility.
They constantly softened up the Falcons players
as they were trying to take that banana side.
And then usually, I would say, actually,
both of them were really kind of coming out better for wear
when it came to when Falcons actually
have to try to breach B. They're usually doing so at,
say, 60 or less HP.
Yeah, but nonetheless, it's just really great CT side
depth.
And it's funny how a lot of teams
have gone with the approach of having a guy that
likes to go for the fight to be very quick
and then tie that in with the brain of the team.
you know, that, you know, no timings, no positions,
and a lot of utilities set them up
to go for these comfortable fights.
You mentioned also Flames and Apex,
but it's not the first time we see a team
that they pair these two up to actually
have a really good combination.
And, you know, it's something that's hard to always deal
with that, you know, MacArthur's always trying
to find these fights.
But, Anna, he's doing it time and time again,
but also having LXB, who's also very smart,
understands the rotations, and then, you know,
playing that more rotation as he rolls.
It's still, you know, we sort of
not closing it right, but I do just want
the first half of the second
half, but it's not going to
be a good start. I think if
props that there was so much
from both sides here, whether
it was that early break on the
CT side that now they were
able to do for themselves. Again,
Fargo's also having a little bit
of a way in for their for
themselves in the second half
too, but it all boils down to
a map number three, which I
do have to ask you to
gentlemen. Where exactly does
it go? You lose your map
pick that's on both sides. It
of rounds that they also shouldn't be almost illegal gaming. It feels I know
this is kind of a well, my take is pretty simple. I think Kyosuke, we saw a lot of
fire there on Mirage. He felt right at home in that kind of situation. I think
that Inferno was not a regress. It's a regression that was so steep and it was
almost jarring to me. I'm almost surprised that he fell off that much.
And I think like I thought he was actually going to be able to fight off
the jet lag essentially. But that to me is worse than I'm used to
seeing him on Inferno 2 and I kind of fear for map number 3 if Kiyosuke is actually tired
because I mean getting right off of a plane to play this is a pretty ridiculous circumstance.
I'm not even trying to be just like a 20-20 hindsight Andy here.
I actually think like that looked like he hit a wall.
Like he couldn't come up with anything in that game.
No, no, no.
That's for sure.
I mean, like, you know, having less energy now having to play a third map with all
the things that he's been going through, you know, he did come out sweating on the
first one.
But energy is obviously going to be playing a factor for him and that's why I actually
I want to turn my attention a little bit to Nico on Dusty. It's one of his most
favorite maps. It is a heavy map for the office obviously, but I think
Nico is going to be very interesting. I'm still waiting to see Nico have this
good map that he can have. We know how good he can be also with the
very important position he's playing. Also just for the likes of Falcos,
playing Dust 2, it's a map that they have usually been having with the
records on right. Lately it's been a little bit more up and down, but if
you go a little bit back in time, it has been a map that they've also
So, you know, have the tendency of picking and playing a lot, so they know how to get
it to work and know how to go out and get the round stage to win this series.
But I mean, at the same time, third map, Navi also likes it, so it's going to be down the
wire a little.
Yeah, it really is.
That's the stories of our on every map.
Now it's only fair that the whole series kind of boils down to that element there.
But do you think either of these two teams have what it takes to go all the way potentially
win Blast open run because over a poly market, that's the predictions in the calcs that
are running right now.
How far can these guys go?
they win it. What's this blue line again? We ignore the blue line. We ignore the blue line, right?
Can we see that? That's the gatekeeper. Oh, 4%. Okay, I mean, my hot take right now is that
the team that's most likely to find an upset over vitality, who are still the clear favorites in
my eyes, is Navi. So there might be some value there. You're a big man. I'm getting in while
it's low, you know, you're going to find out. I think it's really low right now. It's crazy
I'm still I mean regardless of the stocks and how everything is looking, you know
Like I'm still buying into Libion to the Falcons. I think that is still the one that I
You're really faith and Sonic having used that time really well. Yes, of course
I mean like I think a win here with them would matter a lot to them also moving forward into the tournament regardless of everything
That's been happening
But I mean if you're looking to go in for prediction like my prediction would at least go for the pack and say if I
Hope they have what it takes to go all the way and also to you know better
because it is that team that I think has, or at least is meant to go underneath through them.
Yeah, I mean, we're still in the upper bracket, right? It's not like we're going to be saying goodbye to either of these two teams.
Whilst I am asking if you think they have the way, chances of winning Blaster,
but they're the chance of at least making it to Rotterdam, right?
That's what they're fighting for. They want to be able to make it to the next step in our bracket here for the group stage
because that is going to be securing the ticket to Rotterdam.
It's all the way down to a map in number three, though.
What exactly is installed for us for Dust2? Just after this break.
to keep the dream alive for one of these two teams, Falcons and Navi and what we already
know now, Malli, that in Dust2 Falcons are going to be starting CT side.
That's actually not the worst thing for a Na'Vi team.
Okay.
I'm just saying, some people, some people, some people know.
I like that.
It was just like, I'm gonna say, it's really not that bad.
Not that bad for Na'Vi.
Not that bad for Na'Vi Nation, okay?
No, I love Na'Vi's seaside on this one.
It doesn't actually have necessarily the highest win
percentage for rounds or anything like that.
Okay.
But they just have a diverse amount of plays.
They really actually, to me, use a lot of the most meta smokes.
Like you'll see the corridor smokes through mid to B plays.
They'll throw a lot of different fakes.
They keep their opponents guessing.
And that's not always something that I feel
like I can say about Falcons, which to me
are just a little bit more on the brute force side.
They're a little bit more of just letting your players play,
getting some cat control, and just going with the hit.
So I feel like maybe there's a light chance
that the tactics can actually, for Navi,
turn the tide in what is usually such a star power, fire power, dictated map.
Yeah, I'm just curious to see why Falcons decide to start on the C side,
whether they think I know that starting has had an idea that it's
sometimes easier for him to like mount the comeback on the T side.
You know, it's where you can control the pace.
So, starting Ct, getting as many rounds as possible, then we'll see how it turns out.
Yeah, we're gonna see exactly that because all of our players now that
sides have been decided in their seats and ready to go, a map three,
a decider with Scroney and Laundice.
Dust2 is where this one settles down and Falcons are Navi qualify for the Ahoy Arena.
Mohan Rotterdam beckons and we got to start filling up that team list.
So one of these two teams makes it in today based off this third and final map between
them.
Yeah, that is pretty huge.
And we've had some expectations subverted obviously we've got two map picks that don't
go as planned for either team.
And we look back at Zonic at the start of that second half on Inferno and go, he was
nervous about something that he was right about.
It wasn't going to be a free win just because they had CT side to look forward to.
So this one's going beyond the numbers.
Navi are obviously a tough team to click down.
When we looked at map when it felt like it was going to happen that it was inevitability
and suddenly things changed.
It won't be easy here for Falcons.
Maybe this one will be the most even of the three.
Again, we discussed that win streak that Navi currently sit on, well, it'd be a hell of a time to extend it with the likes of Falcons on that list.
But they will go down kicking and screaming in Kyosuke, finding first blood as Falcons will hunt another pistol round.
Navi sitting on one of the four, played so far.
Very elusive these pistol rounds for Navi as of late.
Luckily for them, they can still slow it down. They're still sitting on the Molotov and the smoker-nade between bit and Alexi.
Despite this man's disadvantage, could have been made worse, had Kixxan caught a headshot there as he popped it open unexpectedly.
Tessas plays in front of his teammate.
Blocks are gonna come barreling at him. Now the Perettas activate, but they go down empty-handed.
And Tessas has just pulled all the way back. That was a much needed duel because if not, now these CTs are stuck,
Corraled in the middle of all of Naughty who now find themselves with man advantage off that a site pinch
I'll be happy to see that kill scaly's Nico can rely on him for two kills, but it'll demand a clutch
Haven't seen one yet from him this series, but this is a good time to start that could have been two one taps back to back instead
Nico gives a second chance to Alexi. This is what he's good at. I still missing
Nico running out of bullets sits on seven shots down to six
Six, five, four, three, come on now, Niko!
That doesn't hurt any of those.
And it's indeed Novi that walk away with the pistol bounce back.
Yeah, Alexi was the one who was, you know, maybe a bit more scared.
Now Niko has open lines, but he's the one who has to respond.
Alexi can go and peek either side of that box, make himself hard to hit,
has the headshot angle to work with, and delivers the headshot himself.
Good try, but that's not good enough.
I love this very squirrely movement though from Alexi B.
Slides out into the crouch, comes back in an unexpected pattern.
That's enough to keep Niko off his comfort and now kicks in.
She's gonna get forced down by the SMG solo inside the B site.
Falcons outplayed and this one is there nowhere to be found.
This is off the force by as well, right?
So they really wanted to make something happen.
It turns into an easy save instead, and that's Navi to the 2-0 kickoff.
Oh, such an impressive T-side on Inferno.
Like, in terms of the variety of ways that they won rounds,
they actually lost the second pistol and still came back in one.
They were so good on the entries,
they used a fake after three rounds of dominance towards B.
Kind of had it all.
That's just an unstoppable force, really.
You're not getting out of that one.
KickSan hit the right one.
We have the better guns.
We picked B. You better be five here or you lose.
Get out of my way.
I get for Falcons, it's like there's
all these moments for each of the players.
It's just, you know, they don't really create that grand tapestry of a half that builds and has momentum and conditions their opponents.
It's more like really cool rounds. Oh, really bad mistake, really cool round, really bad mistake.
And I think, you know, we criticize Malus for like kind of disappointing in some situations.
That's like how conversion of it, you know, the potential is higher.
They just don't reach it consistently, even within one map that they're playing well.
through long goes the majority of Navi again kind of rolling the dice and that
they were very adamant about taking over long control they did have a contest on
the corner of it but they thought numbers strong would get them through it
and they're right scout goes down with nothing what is that all right yo yo yo
let's put that POV in the replay quick yeah a triple galil headshot picture in
picture or no I'm actually having I'm having an argument with the picture and
picture guy at the moment. Replay guy though.
Sleeped on.
Galial highlight. Replay guys, seven years at blast. You think I'd learn their names,
you know? Production guy one, production guy two.
after one cast or two. That's what they have written down so.
Yeah, that's all I am to you.
to take this by, this round by storm. Niko's not close to try to stop this. Uh, he's gonna
throw this nade desperately, but they haven't crossed just yet. This works out very well
for them now that he's burned that grenade they can start going oh basically over now
jumping mac 10 attempts but again it's just the splits well timed well positioned and unstoppable
falcons just a little foggy right now on ct side like they like nobby are coming out with fast ideas
and you know the novelty of that on inferno i'm not surprised that was something that caught
falcons off guard but we're now a map removed from that they're still doing the same thing
Stylistically, it's the T side that got them the whole comeback on Inferno, but they've
had a break to think about this, and they still seem totally unprepared for the tempo.
And Niko is over on the A side. I mean, like, he's one of the best in the world at controlling
Kat with Achees. I mean, talk about Alexi, he's one of those guys too, but Niko, like
the way he times it, he has prescience when it comes to Nades there. When he rotates
in the mid-beats to support this perfect guy is like you know a second call around this team and and everything but
Back on inferno. He was I feel like he was trying his best to like be an A player and also help out B figure out their problems
But then that resulted in A getting caught off guard
And now on inferno, you know, they've got to jump in and stop this before it's more of the same
because
At the worst we just say this is a little bit too easy of a round, you know, a standard mid-B like that where
The A player just throws a nade and hopefully, you know, the T's have made a mistake, but they throw that first smoke and wait because people can blow that smoke open.
And they have the time and resources to do that.
It'd be a good moment for Xonac to jump in.
She'll get long to shoot, do you?
And no head armor, no head armor and for kill from the T side.
That's just insult to injury.
Yeah.
A strange threat, you say.
8 and 9 duels between Top of Mid and CT Mid on Dust2 this year.
It's a real statsman stat.
Eee, bitch should have had that.
Gets the first shot and the drop on Tessus.
Gets 78 damage out, but Tessus survives it.
So man advantage Falcons here in round 5.
For a moment there was three players from Falcons without a kill. Tessus was one of them, but he jumps on the board with an opener
We saw how Navi started Mirage
Bit and wonderful sort of work start
That was what their worst start of 2026 so far both of them at the same time. Yeah, I think what the D-Tram stat was
But now look at him
Trying to turn it around. I think it'll still be frustrated that he didn't get the opening kill because it was there for the taking most certainly
This A site could still end up being under staffed
Got this push going on into the tunnels of falcons
But this is also queuing up Navi to come through with the a commitment because they burned down to 40 health
Niko just looking to give himself some utility to play around as Tess has maintains long control still
They'll get out onto elbow Navi
But Niko felt like sanctuary. This is all Tess S so far. Triple kill to his name, and he's whittled down wonderful as well. Quad kill from Tess S, and that is off of 22 HP, but he gets three additional frags.
Yeah man, with the opening kill as well. Really well done for Tess S. It looked like the B-Rotate or the B-Retake of tunnels was just going to be a little bit too slow to be useful, but that was not the case.
SS ends up killing one of the USP as well, they've gotten wonderful low, ooh, good impact
from wonderful there, they're gonna go back for the long fight, Alexey just a quick glance,
couple shots and he's out, bit right on the brink of the smoke stands a little longer
but also disengages back through their side of the doors.
You can just feel it, Navi are coming in electric.
Not thinking about there.
Lost round just now.
We'll see if the repetition of that pacing though
starts to kind of play into Falcons adaptations.
Yeah, they're playing closer to mid.
All of a sudden, like that's the big change.
Pressure on cap, both sides of mid,
not even in either site really.
You coming into this round with an op.
These cat setups can be tricky.
One Molly in a flash can ruin your day.
Oh, and Niko peeks out early.
Peeks out early, just hearing some mid utility.
Oh, man.
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totally bamboozled as Nico walks right into an op.
When he's got an op behind him, a rifler on the wall,
it's not like they pressured him to make that happen.
He thought he was coming forward with a creative timing.
Not if he were just in a default
and just protecting a cat push.
Maybe he was right that a mid B play
was a thing they had to be worried about.
But as far as Nivea you're concerned,
defend that way if you want to.
Just letting Niko kind of trip over his own shoes with that decision.
Two players save under question.
I hope you have the money to play, but that smoke grenade is just too brave to have to push through, so they'll let it go to survivors.
Patience pays off for Wonderful, and then this setup just cleared out by Alexei.
No help even needed!
There's been a few rollins actually throughout this match so far where Lexi B's left his impact on a round.
This is a fierce Na'vi, but it again, just a little bit too easy.
Easy.
Ah, there's Monosie first.
Monosie posted up.
Kyosuke takes damage back from the other hopper and Monosie's looking to go hunting now into
suicide.
Switch guns with Kyosuke.
Freeze up that op to move inside of the B site.
What did Navi make of this round at the man disadvantage?
Kind of like that they start out with some pressure in a bid early.
Then they can move back into this position where they don't have mid control.
It's a little bit more calm.
I think Niko's got some anxiety about the thought.
If I want to really think they're going to come up cat, I want to be here to defend
it.
to help out my mid-bts teammates as well, that's his duty as well.
Any timings.
Chucks it out, we're on the lands in the middle, but Alexi does take significant damage.
Nico doing a good job of making this costly on the approach, long again going to be held back by Tessus.
He's kind of dominated this half of the map for the time being, hoping to be the beacon of hope.
Bomb plant going down, cat side coverage off of my wonderful, but a missed shot.
is going to queue up the Falcons retake.
Another missed opportunity and they just get kind of stuck out in the open there.
So majority of Falcons alive, Tess S, a part of it all again,
and Niko getting that nade damage in really made it all the harder,
but it really all started with that monosy awkfrag out mid.
Yeah, definitely. It makes it a lot easier and Niko gets to stand in the position
he's been wanting to stand in, like kind of the entire half.
And here off of the ramp huge impact is 50 damage, HE slows him down a bit,
Finds a pick off delays for time test. That's obviously he's been a rock
And it's two successful cat defenses
Blades on happy about it
Okay.
Will they push instantly off of wonderful shot?
He seems to think so
There's one person I'd be avoiding right now it's Tess S
That might be how para vision operate they're gonna go for your weakest guy and then keep pummeling that's not a naughty operate though
They look for the biggest guy in prison, right, and try to punch him, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's what they...
They got to make a good first leg.
Yeah.
Like, nice superstar you've got, that's what we're trying to do.
Mmm.
He kills between the superstars of Falcons.
Niko no longer towards that ramp here in middle instead.
It's a good gap for him to try to exploit, to be honest.
Trying to come back through. There's eyes on this already, no?
Oh, he catches them off guard, but still no running there for Niko.
Wait, is that enough?
Tess says he's going to activate with the first flank from long,
but he misses his chance to strike one down, and now the AWPer's going to watch him.
But still, he finds that angle onto Bid.
Just a sliver, all he needs.
You've got Kyosuke tucked into the corner,
into the corner, but now under pressure, losing support from both sides, but what if he goes
unnoticed? They don't seem prepared. Now they found him. And just like that, unfortunately for Kyosuke,
both his targets kind of evade him, right? The window guy drops into the coverage of the back
site. That then alerts the tunnel push to also not swing wide. And so Nobby do find footing
into the B bomb site again, this time for the 6-2 lead. Yeah, and Tessus was, you know,
Doing good to miss his first shots and then find another one after that, but the instant two frags back in another successful mid B
Like for the most part Navi, I think they want to pretend that it's gonna be a place and they have tried it a couple of times
But that's the only place they failed
Every time they split on this site it works out perfectly
Set up doesn't look like they can totally compliment each other in front of the tunnels with Kiyosuke on car
Especially with the potential for window to get taken over. There's no one up there to watch anybody inside of mid
I guess they had Niko pushed out, but
Niko's position is such an all-win spot. Yeah, like he'll die. Yeah, you see it
He gets his kill, but he's just there's no way he's ever getting away from that unless he straight up gets all the kills needed
But they they lurk if they do that. Yeah
So instead mids compromised the pressure falls on to the V site and you can kind of see the reactions of Navi there
Feels like there's a certain weight off their shoulders with that one. Navi are playing so good and
Falcons, there's too many things. I feel like that are going wrong for them to address right now
Nico high fives always the best one wait for it
Here it comes. Listen.
Ah!
That was okay.
That's good.
Double-op.
I'm on a scene, Kyosuke. Coming to the round with it.
Seven zero six seven zero six start to a big event siesta game pulling ahead of ultimate in the all-time
Crank is crazy a record is a record
Yeah, that is kind of crazy. That's a crazy stray
Let the man rest oh
That's great hot every bullet on that is kick sands pulling away
Luckily, the second up pays off. They immediately get that kill back.
The fact that Kosuke's the guy to get the AWP kill, I mean, does that put Navi on high alert for the second?
What are you up to, Niko? Plays close mid-doors. Modesty here to bolster him.
If Modesty could take the attention away from Niko.
And they're getting an off to go over to support the optimicians already really weird. Oh
Nice shot right in the head. That's gonna confirm two snipers on the field
And if you think you can just puncture out through this smoke grenade
These operas will have a chance to test it modesty not gonna miss the opportunity
It's wonderful. This is a second follow-up as wonderful counter picks at least
But ops make a hell of a difference here in this one for the Falcons and there's that flying from Nico perfectly timed
It's majority alive as we go another round back and forth
No consecutive rounds found as this T side from Navi fights on
Scary moment there again with a great spray from Emma frustrating moment there for kicks in
but
The two ops of the reason they win this round between monosie and yo's game
And the expense expensive investment is justified they carry both forward
Oh, they actually drop one back. Oh, they let it go. They could have had both. Yeah, that's interesting
They decide to leave one behind bring a second night through one round
Okay, well, I guess monos he can cover for you know the presence of two with how he's playing
It's crazy to me that going into that last round we're nine rounds into the game. Honestly was one and two
Yeah, it was just chilly
Makase is going to be dropped empty-handed as the Riflers double up inside of middle.
And he's got one in the body bag already.
Alexi's able to cross and threaten the side of sight, but supports inbound.
Alexi's going to finish it off eventually with the Mach 10, but we do get this crawl from
Kyosuke out through the doors.
That's going to blindside Alexi and a wonderful tough spot with no bomb and 50 health.
This off will be valuable in the next one, the money bottoming out as we get towards
the end of this half for Navi he does just want to leave but they're really
clearing tunnels out fast out they're gonna give him a challenge
shot miss wonderful stays alive could definitely be impactful for Navi next
round okay well make sure that they can't get a second so it's gonna
upgrade. There's the find. It's one kill from kick sands enough.
Bit of repetition towards this B bomb site starting to cost Navi as Falcons string a couple together.
It was Kiyosuke's rotation in the mid-B position, like where Niko was that actually got the first kill, took down Mikaze.
I think unexpected as well to see two rifles there when we did just have a double off.
Falcon's happy to just let it slide. Just don't lose the pistols, okay?
Uh-oh.
Can we agree? Don't lose to the pistols, Tess S. Ah, it's Tess S. He got it under lock.
Does it die Niko comes over to just lend the helping hand and that should be five up strong for the Falcons
Is they'll look to finish this half tied six rounds a piece
This has been a workhorse on long is sir
It's ten and three coming into the santi eco
No matter how the half has gone with the numbers, we've got a lot of rounds now for Falcons.
So sure, it could have been better.
getting to five, I think, for how they started. It's already an achievement.
Laila used a chance in his final attempt to pull one out of the hat on his T side.
You can definitely feel, you know, the opportunity of qualifying to the arena is at hand.
You can see it on the coaches when they're talking, stress the communication.
Some of the mistakes that are happening.
There were some words again from blade about falcons as well and off the back of pro-late are looking for even better wins to justify their run overall
Yeah, the teams they didn't have to face to win it
Start this event with a 2-1 win over bait
Multi-overtime affair within that series, but otherwise two single-digit map wins
makes a statement that they're going to carry some momentum into this event.
We get Monacy pushing down into tunnels, you've given him a chance at a second.
Shoulda killed him when you have the chance.
They will still just burn him out.
Damage comes through from a cause at a half to stomach,
but he's looking to take this pressure up Catwalk instead.
And Limitations here with the scout of Wonderful.
But thanks to Monacy, he's got himself an upgrade.
Yeah, it's kind of a nice delivery
Might have been an escape plan in there, but now I just dealt with it so quickly
Here comes the cat aggression, but no swing behind that flash
Just as does have another one if there is a chance for Niko to go through there
It comes in but a cause it wasn't around the corner doesn't get blinded and there's plenty of players trying to climb up cap rate
Now wonderful piece of flash cover from Xbox now two players still for Navi down on half HP despite the four versus three
Tess S rocks solid again and again sits over towards long for most of the half
Finds himself on cat goes back to where he's holding another quad for rena
That's how this one ends tied half as Falcon spined the rebound
Let's get into this one
That was very loud and warm welcome here in Hong Kong.
You like this?
Now that people here is amazing.
Give me a second.
That would be cool if we opened the show.
Act of Moody Center, bro.
I would kill this.
All right, then.
How would you do it?
First, I remind them where we are.
Austin, Texas.
This state has been the beating part
Part of Counter Strike for 25 years.
You know, who's waiting for you at that stage?
Do you want to hear your hype?
Do you want to feel it?
Six teams entered the arena,
but there is only one prize waiting on this stage.
Let's go on!
Make some noise!
Protect music, people of Jewelry's.
Do you feel it? Your heart pounding with anticipation.
That shiver down your spine.
Counter strike, legs within us.
From the bottom of your heart, lay it down.
17 kills, 3 deaths, that's Tess S at the end of the CT side here for Falcons and they
were at one point trailing 6-2, but 4 rounds in a row to close out the half, Tess S multi-frag
after multi-frag as he repositioned throughout this A site moe, is it an exaggeration
to say that he may have just won this game.
You know, not a superstar, but in this moment he is.
And yeah, it's definitely not.
He made the comeback.
What's crazy is that he, a lot of times,
basically had no assistance in getting these kills.
He was just the reason, the full reason, beginning and end.
So beautiful to watch, to be honest.
No one played better than him.
So on Falcons and that CT side.
Then you can touch base and then...
He's like, hey guys, I'm just going to teach you how to play this game real quick.
What kind of pause is this?
I don't know.
Quick little tech issue here, fix a headset or two.
Put down, Tess says.
What was he just teaching them?
I don't know.
It sounded funny.
And harmless.
Well, why are we talking right now? What are you talking? You call the pause?
Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who's positive this
We're damn in that
Okay games live. That's why okay tech issues sorted. This is kind of freeze time. Yeah
We'll call it extended freeze time.
Extended freeze time.
All right.
It's an extended freeze time conversation.
All right.
And we're off.
Tied on map three.
We really can't separate these teams.
They've each won their opponent's map pick.
We go to Dust 2, feels lopsided.
Tess S is the guy to recover it for Falcons.
And that's why you can never cut him.
So that's the block to the attack go the Falcons
Heavy setup here for Navi on catwalk
Duba red is in the front
Well, they don't test it this cat setup is actually just gonna turn into a push. Oh
Nice shot kicks in that's his third
Because he's got the answer.
He sees he's are waiting.
Yeah, they're already out.
The bottom of ramp is compromised.
Modesty and Nico make quick work of Alexi and Ian.
Because it's all that remains.
Nothing you can do about stopping that bomb crossing over to the site.
And so Falcons may have damn well done it.
How many pistols can you afford to lose, Navi?
Oh, it's a real problem, isn't it?
Yeah.
He didn't even need to test us for this one.
Renne.
I mean, even when there was a rumor that Tess was gonna get caught, it was nonsense.
Not allowed to.
Didn't make sense.
Not allowed to.
Would have been a huge scapegoat.
For what?
It's that clean one from Kixen.
Deleting. Wonderful.
Before those breadies even get a chance to fire a shot.
They were so adamant about playing up catwalk that it kind of foregoes long control and lo and behold,
three players from Falcons just barrel through uncontested.
So the streak here for Falcons continues.
Four rounds at the end of the first half, add in this pistol, we'll see what they can convert in the face of the Na'vi force.
They did get tricked into going dropping in the beat, but because they had the cap push, it's just that the cap push died, they could have jumped back up if they wanted to.
Scrabs all the attention.
got a scout fight queued up place your bets now they know about one another but
still closing that gap are the goleals and wonderful never given a chance to
get back at monasy flash is meant to disrupt it all but Alexi gets flat
lined quickly got player locked in but fire to speed so very good protocols
here for the Falcons to just make sure this round goes down nice and smooth two
members left of Navi want nothing to do with these Galils and so Falcons with a
chance to pull ahead. How are you feeling right now like that this is a like
foul like I mean obviously Tess S is 19 and 3 yeah we're getting into a second
half so we get to see if you know he's gonna be a two-way carry today as
as well, because it feel like a falcons close.
I never feels like a falcons close is the thing, but I'm ready
for it because I don't want to see this kind of a performance
get wasted. Yeah. 19 and three is a bit wild. I like the
certainty that they've come into the T side with the
deal of a high carbon footprint, though, lots of waste.
A lot of wasted maps for short carry performances carry performances
It's happened many times
Pulling ahead. Mikaze is 15-8 in his direct head-to-head against Kiyosuke.
Whoa, super tied when they were Academy players.
Ooh, pulling an eight out with the eagle in front of you. That's all good.
Kiyosuke kicks in. They've got this one under wraps.
Your measly pistols will find no success in this round,
so Falcons really giving themselves the perfect start to the T side.
You know, that is a big deal, that head-to-head, especially when we try to figure out Inferno.
Yeah, because like that's kiosk a on v that's kiosk best inferno players b trans pointed out so far
In this year and it was mccasey who you know as an individual entry fragger consistently happy to duel with him oftentimes just outright winning
Feels like whenever mccasey is a part of the game too like just with his impact as an entry as of late
Certain teams where we always have to talk about that head-to-head on banana, right? We get it with when they play mouse
Uh-huh him versus zershin in the same position
So being able to mute Macaulay's impact, no easy feats, they'll drop Kiosk game.
This one, the only casualty for the Falcons as they pull ahead by three rounds, 9-6 over
Navi, now technically a seven round streak, but guns coming out for the defense, we'll
see what it changes here as Navi are hoping to get this game back under their own
control.
But you've got to find a way to put Tessas on ice.
It's sitting down the most intense part of the series.
Don't often see him taking a break.
There's an off advantage here for Wonderful as Monacy remains on the scout.
That $7,000 surplus, making this round a bit of a bonus for Falcons.
So we'll see what kind of a dent they can put in Na'vi if they're not able to just
walk away with the wind straight up.
Quick long clash, but no over-commitment, and it is back to sizing up middle.
No real challenge being offered here by Navi, I find surprising.
No pressure at any point, really just letting Falcons do as they please until the minute, Mark.
See if at any point Alexi decides that he wants to try to pressure the long flank.
He just got flashed into the long doors as we watched these utilities pop inside of middle,
and he still hasn't opted to go all in on it, so they're just hoping to hold back Falcons here.
and they will with two, bit and emek, come sliding through with the crossfire.
And that's bomb control at the bottom of middle,
so Falcons tiptoe their way into the booby trap.
Bit finds impact in this one.
And that scout's switching to the Galil, still enough time to cause problems.
He could make a swing at this.
Ah, no time.
Honestly looking for an upgrade or another kill to just soften up the economy,
but it doesn't happen.
Navi just lean back and let Falcons come to them, which does in the end pay off
I love how it's just immediately a lesson on how to defend against the thing that was working so well for them in the first half
The connections on bit me they just make it look so solid right here
Playing inside and outside the doors with a quick rotation is there and ready and bit is in a super good position to defend against tunnels
No one's in an easy to kill spot
Already out long though, this is Falcons of very different tempo.
At the very least, for the long takeover.
They are strong.
It's going to a more classic position and we look at the Grenades.
The scale it's you know got two more resmokes potentially there
You know fully prepared for this. They want to get into it wonderful also though good on him
No missed opportunity with that one five before I mean it's you know
Not not even know exactly what's coming
They're already working on the rotations. They have a man advantage as that's taking damage
Not yet able to soften up the bomb site Niko tries to go through will stuff one up close and
And wonderful still yet to strike down his second victim Tessas looking for his impact you didn't kill him
You just softened him up and that's not enough to stop it. Bomb is here on the ramp. Tessas has got another kickstand into the kill feed
It's pit for the die
Right there to stop it his multi kill with a quad kill as he comes alive in an important round and
Navi closed that gap to just one. Oh, that's the response to Tessas
Somehow it felt like he was just finding the magic move after magic move
And it's an early 5v4 that gets turned on it's head again by the guy who has just been doing
Unbelievable work here for the Falcons, but it's a clutch for a bit. That's what matters the most
It really felt like 40 health was still gonna be enough for test as yeah, but his vision was off
It was so hard to take the duel that he wanted to 21 and 5 and it's still just not enough
They wanted to remove him they needed to clone him
Money's gone for falcons banking on the monosie scout as they try to rebuild the economy
You really can't separate these teams tonight, can we?
If it wasn't for this huge performance from test s I feel like we'd have a much different picture
Yeah, pretty much the game would be over. It feels like.
Again, even though Falcons are in the lead, it really wasn't the most convincing first half.
It was just maybe four multi-kills to win rifles by a one guy.
Mikaaza and Ema trying to set up this crossfire once more.
Bit happy to just still play his B side alone, but there's nothing coming at him from tunnels.
And this is the A set up I like.
This is more like the Spirit version, you know, where they normally would be an AWP in the place of Alexi B here.
but they just play both inside of long. Their fast rotations, they're not too far away from mid B
and the third player who's in the can actually make sure they're still reinforced at mid.
It's just more flexible.
But not around and Falcons are expecting to win even though they're coming in forward with a plan.
You know, it's got a shooting gallery in front of him.
It's just the monosy scout for the one bit gets out through the window to help out and
we've got that type game guaranteed nine rounds all it's crazy how well not here playing just
overall since like that first half of Mirage even in the second half of Mirage Falcons
made so many mistakes at that weird save round where they had all the AKs didn't
They want to buy any grenades that they won on an eco after that.
Navi could have made a comeback there in this game.
It's just more consistency, great looking team play setups are just more solid.
I'm going to say that outright.
It was like the type of reliable counter strike that could pull off the
victory and now they're starting to feel a little more confident.
They could have moved here towards top middles.
Ema is kickstand ready to hold this back.
He's struggling throughout map three.
Oh, but that headshot's clean.
And right when he needs it,
McCauze, though, could still go unnoticed.
You can see the hesitation.
They're calling tunnels.
Right? Just because they think
there's somebody else out here.
Well, now you've found him.
Wonderful gets active.
And McCauze trying to make that move as well.
They know there's a lot of pieces
inside of middle for Nobby right now.
They can't move into B. They don't have the bomb.
It's their chance, though.
I mean, you're just gonna have to protect the site.
So much presence towards mid, they think they've got to go for it, and Bit leaves a lot to be desired.
They still don't have the bomb, by the way. It's gonna be running over, but...
Smoke grenade around the door from Mikaze, layered on top of it, flash goes over, he dives into the site, Alexi's right here with him.
Niko thinking about finding the flank timing, that AWPer's not prepared. Niko, does he strike?
Pushing through!
Oh, Wonderful's able to catch him up close in personal fire!
The bomb arrives at awkward moment.
They felt like they had to go towards B, I guess.
But like you said, they just didn't have the bomb.
I know. It's like you could take the site with a bunch of guys.
If no one's there though, that's going to be incredibly suspicious.
If no one can plant, and you still have to keep the door small,
you still have to keep the other team entertained or like push them back.
And even with Bit dying in this way, they had things under control.
awkward moment from Niko. What is this smoke? This is just a
missed smoke. That was just outside by the window. It just
went on forever. He was probably so confused. Whoa, we got a
bark at a bit.
It's out of nowhere. My favorite pop-offs. I mean, I think
after his, you know, his moment, they heard the reload.
Trying to bait it out. Tech nines. Big moment here for
Falcons. They've lost that lead. They're gonna just try to
Pounce and pop out. Mikaze's got one full commit. Empty mag. Bits turn, cuts off Kyosuke, but also loses the defender and he wants more!
Goes through, which offers up an opportunity to Monosy, who seizes that chance.
And now Nico's hands onto the M4.
Man-advantaged Navi, but a retake needed inside of the B site, missed and send the area over top.
They've still got a full wave of utility.
And Monosy obstacle P250 versus the window. Now the kit is inside of the bomb site.
bomb site. They've got a bit of utility still to use. So ready if they just
trade their way through the p250 this shouldn't be a problem. One kill at
best here for monosy you'd think and a distraction served up but now Niko's
rifle strikes down none of those three and Navi come through with majority
still alive and an 11-9 score. At very least get the plant but I mean
Navi are just made of iron at the moment like they don't look like
they're going to lose when the retake comes in. They're not making the mistakes, Falcon's
mistakes like you'd have to take off your shoes to count on. How many mistakes they've
made so far in this series, it is a lot.
It feels like some of the positive come in is just to, you know, keep hope alive, keep
focus back.
And the fogginess that seems to be apparent on this team is just sort of, I don't know
why it's happening today and then this happens.
Ooh.
What a round to find that timing.
What a moment.
guns back in Falcon's hands and you flip Kyosuke climbing up the Xbox. Heavy cap presence here
as well for Navi just constantly staying on top of it at the moment. It feels like they
can sense this victory as the looming threat from every direction stays on top of the
Falcons. Navi no longer wasting their moments. 5v2, a comfortable place here in round 21.
Niko's gonna forego bomb control.
No, excuse me, scoops it up.
And as he finds timing to walk out through middle,
there is a chance that they unravel this B bomb site.
This is highly unexpected of Niko to have made this move.
Now he's gonna go for the smoke behind him.
He needed to find a way to get that bomb into the site.
Because not even Tess S can claw back that 1B4.
Map and match points secured here by Navi.
They're just getting better and better.
They just look so good.
They're kind of showing exactly,
You know, why they've won a tournament and is feeling that monesty set they would have coming into the match.
Their presence is imposing in all these rounds.
Now they've got three rounds to play with. No off for Falcons to use.
This is going to be two second halves in this series between Inferno and Dust 2 where Nobby switch sides and never look in the rear view mirror.
Six round CT streak at the moment and yet again,
Mikase will find one through the mid smoke.
Kyosuke barely stands.
And I think that's Tess S with five deaths in a row.
No one else stepping up to the plate.
And no shame on Tess S's name tonight
because a lights out performance on the first half
had Falcons in this match.
He bought him time to help.
Switching over, he gets countered and nobody else steps up to the task tonight.
We've seen the Falcons vlogs. They're even confused about the reasons that they lose.
They don't know why it's happening. They want to be able to figure it out,
but they're going up against the team that they do have it figured out. They know what they can do.
This is not one of those series where there are blunders really from Falcons.
Just cold-blooded killers on the side of Navi contain any sort of mid-play and so we want
consistency from Navi.
They will not only qualify for Rotterdam but on top of that, Extend to out is now
a 6 match win streak and they will put the biggest trophy yet at the top of that
that list the Falcons slain by Navi can you believe it it comes all the way down
to a third map in dust and two there and whilst they ended the first half it
tied six and six it is Navi who closed it out and take a series of win here two
one for them there just so much it was going right in the second half for
Navi very good showing for Navi and you know they they came here and they
had a challenge that they wanted to show that that what they have been
working on is also got to be paying off against the best teams in the world, you know, by taking
down Falcons even by losing their own map pick in the beginning. It's a Nabi that, you know,
woke up throughout the series and also the individuals. I mean, I kind of get it, gotta
give it to you, Maui, you know, like, you can possibly really have a good series, right,
but it's also good to see that that bit eventually managed to step it up. And as
a whole, it looked like Nabi was on the same page throughout the majority of the match
when we moved on from Mirage and that ended up there paying into that favor.
I mean, in a series with Niko, Monosie, all of his teammates,
Mikaze was the best.
So I feel like the way that this guy has grown
has just been exceptional.
And I'm also really happy that Navi, who
weren't able to play Falcons due to their own absence
at ESL Pro League, showed themselves and the world
that they do mean business, that they are truly
a contender.
Yeah, we've got wonderful joining us now
off to that series win.
And we've talked about it, that this win against Falcons, it meant so much for you guys, but I want to hear from you, how much it really means, like how good does it feel to take down Falcons?
I don't know what to say, but it really meant a lot for us as win, because it's for sure points for stage 3 of the Major.
A second one is, we qualified for the Red Alliance, so it was very important to win, we got very tough first map, we started very tough, but we bounced back on two maps and yeah.
What do you think is the reason why you started off slow onto Mirage, and also why did you decide to go for Mirage when you had something like Ancient inside the books?
First of all, because we were waiting for two hours, I think, just waiting for a game.
I got a little bit hungry.
I don't know, we just need to be more focused.
When we started Mirage, we stopped speaking and we won the bounce bank in the city side.
So what was the second question?
Since you why you decided to go for Mirage and not maybe something like ancient if there was like something particularly that why you wanted to
Recently we played really good Mirage. So we prepared it. So kind of it was good and I think we banned the ancient
So that's correct
I just have a question because I feel like you've shown some insane highs
I mean the grand final you had a EPL was one of the but I think it's the best series
I've seen from you played the whole year practically against the top team.
But obviously sometimes there's series where it's a little bit more difficult
for you to get in the game.
I know consistency, if anybody could do it, they would.
But what do you think some of that comes down to?
I don't know, because like I'm trying my best for like
we've seen such a journey.
I'm trying my best and playing really a lot, practicing, trying to improve my game.
Sometimes it's getting hard games and sometimes some other people are shining.
team, so I sometimes help them to shine. But I don't know just what to say, I'm just trying to
be better of myself every day. Of course it's hard, for example, like today it was kind of hard to
show some crazy move or like just really good, but I'm just trying.
Then looking at Nabi throughout CS2, you know, going off, starting off really strong, winning
the major in Copenhagen and then you had like a little bit of like a slow 25. Now you're
You're in a place where it looks like you've worked hard to get back to a better shape.
And also by winning the APL, where do you see yourself right now?
Like, how good do you actually feel like?
Are you feeling confident about fighting for all the trophies now?
Or where do you see Navi as a team right now?
Yeah, for sure. I think we're confident to fight for tournaments.
Because even 25 was better for us, kind of.
But we were practicing a lot as a team.
We were trying to improve.
So, kind of, now it's coming.
what we played, we're trying to improve our game every day, so now it's coming.
We got a lot of confidence on EPL, so now it's time to show our best potential.
How has Makaze improved as a player? I feel like, obviously, when he first comes into
Na'Vi, there's some great moments and flashes, but now it just seems like he's found in every
In so many consecutive series, he's top fragger, second top fragger, you know, always just really delivering.
So what does it mean to you to have found now a rifle that can actually be a fairly reliable star?
He's a goat.
He just needs the time when he joined, he needs the time. It's obviously to understand how our system works and to
feel it so now if the time of coming when he's feeling it he's feeling full
confidence he's moves are working like very good so yeah and yeah you mentioned
before you know the series when it means you are going to Rotterdam what
are you excited for about Rotterdam specifically I've never been there so
I just like to be there like to come yeah and you still have one more
series to play here though before we do go to Rotterdam and it's gonna be up
against either Furia or Aurora. Is that one team you would rather come up against before
you go to Rotterdam?
It doesn't matter.
Okay.
Yeah.
You think you'll beat either?
Huh?
You think you'll beat? Doesn't matter who it is, you'll beat them?
I think so.
I hope so.
You should have stuck with the yeah, we're gonna beat them. I'll be confident, wonderful.
You'll be confident.
Yes.
Hey, we're trying to give another chance, but wonderful. Thank you so much for joining
us.
Congratulations again. Just a fantastic series of CS there for you. And you promised
as an individual as well, but it was like a bye for you.
We'll let you go and join your team.
It's been a late evening already.
Thank you guys.
Thank you, and that was wonderful joining us there.
We've said it, and we're praising his teammate,
Mikaze, as well, but wonderful himself,
had such a phenomenal showing.
He might've been a little bit quieter in Mirage.
He said he got a bit hungry.
Maybe they were just a little bit too sleepy there
for that one, but he himself,
in Fono, was his map.
Like, let's be real, he had some absolute blinds there.
Yeah, I imagine that that hunger could be a factor
for our team, not showing up, you know.
I mean, that...
You don't even experience that once in the many years you were playing.
That's some food, I mean like bananas.
Just eat a little banana.
You were banana to him.
Banana.
Banana.
Banana's like, yeah, that's how it is, right?
You know, it's just, countering against Indian is just also come down to the individuals.
And if your individuals really show up, you know, it's also just going to be very hard.
And I think that's what is good to see from out of it, that, you know, even though
they lose their map again, they start slow, they still bounce back and actually claw
their way back in the game by, you know, having really good fundamentals, having
good mid rounds but also just the individuals helping them carry them over the finish line
when they have the disadvantage situations. I think that's also what Blade has mentioned
inside and that they've needed this star player that they have now probably found a
little bit in my class and now that they can actually make up for these small mistakes
that happened around them. He flips everything around by getting like a triple kill or
training things around for them. It's good to see them. It's going to be nice
to finally have found that piece because that's also something that I believe that
the blade and the rest of the time has been missing for a while.
Yeah, I want to change the conversation just slightly away from that.
I'd be like, yes, they won here, right?
But it's up a bracket, which means Falcons on out by any means.
We're going to be seeing them play hopefully a couple more times here.
But specifically in Duster, talking about star players, right?
It didn't feel like it was necessarily a star player
that was showing up for Falcons to keep them in this.
But Tessus really showed up.
Like there is no cutting around the edges, beating around the bush
or anything like that for the Maui.
Tessus is just, I mean, I think he's been hard done
by a lot of the way that this team has been set up
to mostly serve the other stars on it.
So when he's able to have this much impact,
it's a huge luxury.
And it's one that I don't think,
that I think actually in this game,
Falcons sort of wasted.
I'm kind of surprised that some of the other players
really weren't able to come in tow
that the T side game plan wasn't able to find
as much footing as I may have expected
in some of the rounds.
Like, like Nobby were just on top of them.
So even though we saw some crazy heroics
from Tessus, I'd say mostly in the first half,
The second half, unfortunately, they just lost too much steam there, so...
I love them. Like, it's my favorite Falcon. It's so hard done.
But it wasn't enough, yeah.
It surely was hard to put a finger on Tess's performance today.
He did everything right in the majority of the situations specifically.
I feel like I'm a rushy. He really was one of the key reasons
why they had that big lead-up by actually getting a lot of info,
making sure that they had the right idea where now he's heading.
But flipping around, I just think I throw the series.
Na'Vi also just evolved. They made it harder for the individuals to shine on Falcons, you know.
And that's always been the way to go to when you play against a team with a lot of superstars that you make it harder than them.
You know, use your utility, make sure that they don't get all these easy fights.
If you do call them, you go as a pair.
And, you know, the blade system, the teamwork of Na'Vi, it was just on another level today.
It wasn't just teamwork. I know now you like to highlight individuals, but one person specifically fit Dust, right?
And it isn't Amima at this point. He really, truly was. We had wonderful.
like, Mikaze, yeah, he's leveling up, he's the good, you know?
And I want to say for Dusty, really was for this side of Navi,
the way that he was able to hold strong,
nearing the end, sometimes you've seen Navi falter a little bit
when it feels like they're about to close out a map,
but Mikaze's so strong.
He looks fantastic towards that ending.
I don't say this lightly, but there's not many players
who, like Zywu, can just have a bad start on a map
and then play themselves back in as consistently
as I've seen Mikaze do it.
I mean, yesterday or maybe an earlier game
he started at 8 and 15 on one
of the maps and then he ends
up top fragging the server.
That's not a rare occurrence
for this guy anymore, and it's
also really strange to see an
entry fragger be able to do
that. Usually if you're just
hitting your head into the
wall, you don't know how to
change things up, but it just
feels like there's always a
way that he can get back into
games, and I also say his
instincts for playing off of
his team have drastically
improved like the amount of
times he's involved in
some sort of double swing or
a play that's supported by
utility. He's very much
that's supported by utility. He's not getting these kills just because he's incredibly skilled,
which he is. He's doing it because there's so many times that Navi are making or funneling resources
to him or just making his life just a tad bit easier. And I think that the the overall confidence
that he's gained now also helps him make a lot of good decisions. You know it's I think it's
it's been rather we've actually seen my cars have been in position where thinking what are
you actually doing right now? Why did you go for that peak? Why did you do all these things?
I just think that also plays into his confidence that he's making a lot of good decisions.
But he also naturally puts him in good situation.
So it's good to see that he has so many things to offer for this Navi squad.
And it's just not only the raw firepower that he actually puts in the table.
Yeah, I liked the questions you guys asked too.
And wonderful was here was like now taking down Falcons off the back of winning EPL.
Do you feel like you're going to be there to lift more trophies?
And that's the question I'm going to pose to you guys.
Is that the distance you see Navi going?
Is there a place where they might fall a little bit shorter
then that then making at least over in finals.
Navi are just my second best team right now.
That's just that's just where I see them.
Yeah. The Falcons win, I'd say further that.
I mean, I've been saying over the last few days,
whether mostly just on podcast,
but just the idea that if there's anybody for me,
that's going to nip at the heels of vitality right now,
I see it being Navi.
I mean, I think that again, I'll reiterate the points.
Like one, I think that they still have the best coach
and counter strike.
I think blade has one of the best systems in place right now.
players are able to play themselves back in the wealth of strategies at their disposal is crazy.
They have an insanely strong mid-round IGL and Alexi B and Mikaze has now become the consistent
rifler for them. Sure some of the support players you'd want a little bit more but usually by the
end of the series they'll find ways to chime in as we saw from Bit who had a little bit of a
slow one. Saw from Wonderful there on Inferno. Ema always finds his time to strike on these
rounds where he can be an X-Factor too. I've been a little bit harsh on Na'Vi lately.
I actually didn't have a say a couple of months ago that I actually thought that both face and Navi would actually ultimate the face that they had to go for like, you know, making roster changes, right?
Well, you have 50% right in your prediction.
You're not sure that face is going to make it, in theory you're not right, but overall I feel like, you know, that face is disappointed heavily whereas Navi is now balanced back and over the course of the last couple of hours, I've also heard that Maui is quite a Navi fan and that he's been the second best team.
We're going to have to give a male customize to the game.
If I put you on the spot, who is the second?
Is there a...
I don't think there is a second, it's hard to say.
It's not so.
Yeah, between like four teams or something.
Yeah, yeah.
That's my honest thing, because I feel like the...
As you said in the game,
mentality is just so much better than everyone in the right now.
So then you have this group of teams, Falcon, Spirit, potentially,
sometimes Maus, Furia, and now also Navi
that kind of beats each other left, right and center to try and see
who is actually at the second best team in the world.
And that is why I think that,
I just want to see like a little bit more of that.
If they make like a really good run and run of them now,
then I could buy into that they are the one
because Fury has disappointed maybe a little bit since 25
and Mouse, they're kind of getting out there, right?
And Spirit is just still a massive question mark for me.
The door is open and Navi really putting their foot
into it, right?
They're saying, we want to be a part of this conversation.
It isn't just the individuals
whilst yes they're showing up in the server.
It's obviously what we'd be mentioning time and time again.
blade. He's done so much as a coach for the side of Nabi. You cannot overlook or overstate
just what he is truly really. The giga chat. When it comes to blade, like, you know, I'm
like, is this an approval disappointment? That's like, he's just thinking how they could
do it better the next time. Sometimes I'm having a hard time figuring out if he's
actually satisfied or dissatisfied with what's happening. Yeah. The thing with
play is like, you know, I've obviously worked with pretty much only with Sonic
So I have the tendency of, you know, taking his side, but ever since I've started working as a talent
and I've gotten the chance of talking a little bit more with play because as a player you don't really get to talk too much about the other coaches.
You're kind of your own bubble, but ever since I've gotten to talk with him, whether that being in the concert piece or when we bring him on to the desk,
you know, he is a guy that has a, I'd say like a different view on things in Counter-Strike.
And you know, it's something that is, that is, that usually opens my, you know, it's very rare that I get to talk with someone about Counter-Strike.
And he's like makes me feel like oh, yeah, that's a cool way of seeing things
You know, that's a cool way of approaching it and I think that's that's what blade has and he's also very eloquent in his way of
Approaching and also answering questions
So I feel like that also kind of shines through for him as a role model like a leader inside of now
You know, he's really good at guarding his place
But at the same time it's also think that he's relatively strict when it comes to what he demands of his players
Which I think is it's a pretty good balance when it comes to a team like abby
You're gonna need that give and take a little bit but overall very disciplined for now
that's why they're going to be
seeing themselves in Rotterdam,
right? That's what was also on the
line for this series and we know
that they're going to be there,
but they still have one more series to play.
We don't know exactly who that's going
to be going up against.
And so when we take a look at our
bracket for Group A, what we do know
that happened earlier today was we were
saying goodbye to the side of bait
as well as phase there.
Now we're seeing one team looked
into Rotterdam, Navi, and it is
going to be either Furia or Aurora
will be seeing themselves alongside Navi, having to go up against them and,
eh, no showing who is Top Dog of Grube.
I feel like Aurora probably want the Salty run back against Navi.
Yeah, I mean, don't weed, don't weed.
Yeah, in a way I do, but I also want to see Furia return to the form
that they've shown in the past.
So it's a win-win situation for the final matchup of the series.
Yeah, I actually want to buy into it.
I think Furious...
No, no, no, but in Altia, when we talked to Jirgin,
He said he was satisfied with how they performed against the Loo.
I actually wanted to hear like he,
but they maybe expected a little bit more like a clean victory.
Furious still remains as a really good team for me,
but it's clear that they, I wouldn't say if they've,
obviously they've slowed down,
but they seem to be at a place where they wouldn't say tired,
but maybe a little bit exhausted with where they are right now.
And that's relatively early in the season,
because there's still a lot of things that is not really going the way
compared to how it was in the last stage of last year.
And there's still a little bit more time though for us here
and you guys at home before we do get into that fourth and final series we've got furia up against
aurora but it is a little bit of time the players need a little bit of moments to warm up but we'll
be back just after this break
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There's been a lot of bad communication recently.
A lot.
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He's not warming up, he's hunting.
It's just a fluke. You can't drop 30 like that every match.
What possessed God in heaven to make a player like Molladoye?
God did not make Molladoye. I made him.
You trained him, right?
I teach this kid everything. Discipline, positioning.
We need lineups. He's ignoring it all.
You want to do the series?
Come sit, Daniel.
I've seen your flashbangs. Did Fallen teach you nothing?
Utilities for people that miss.
That's not game sense, bro. That's madness.
Madness? No. Confidence.
He's not blinking.
I don't think he's blinking since he walked in.
Look Daniel, the teams out there, they know you're dangerous. They're playing around you.
They don't want to end up in another high-level group from you.
If they don't want it to be in highlight reel they gonna need one thing and what's that?
Disconnect
She's so intense
You think you can keep this up every single match. They can't stop me you remind me of me
Just younger tick part generation a little bit less patient, but still very good. You can't coach that
You can only survive it stop trying to coach me
Start following my calls.
Ha! Be careful!
Last time I said it, they made me an agile.
Is this how roster changes happen?
Look at our final series, Furia versus Aurora. We do know Navi are already sitting there in
that final series for groups and one of these two teams will be matching up against them,
but first they have to get through this best of three. And how exactly would you match
them up? Because Navi Falcons previously, Navi listed a trophy. Falcons were those
T1 teams. Thuria a T1 team but Aurora didn't get that EPL win for themselves. They're off the
back of a second place win. Yeah I think for the likes of Aurora it's a team that is that after
getting soul fly they're looking to you know literally only improve like they've looked way better
like it's been historic for Aurora you know having that struggles inside the players actually
making the deep run then they do actually go into the grand final then and then losing to
to Navi and I think that it's a testimony for Aurora that things are getting better for them.
And I also think that it's a team that is looking to try and figure out how they can
get better than just being the skate keeper team.
They're constantly trying to figure out if they can actually become a team that can
potentially contend for trophies, which is going to be very difficult with the field
that they're going up against.
And today it starts against Fjord.
Despite Fjord's issues in the start of this season, it's still a team that
that you're going to have to
go against. I would say that
EPL was the best chance that
Aurora is going to have all
season probably trophy. I mean,
I don't want to be the bearer
of bad news because I actually.
Probably to some interestingly,
I see them as the favorites
today, but that's off of more
of the back of fury looking
really rough at ESO pro league
themselves. They didn't even
make it to the playoffs. I
hoped for their sake. Actually,
I said that I think their
form there was probably marred
that they were going to have
to use their coach. And so I
don't think they're going to
give 100% in that one. You know,
as professionals, they probably
don't want to admit to that,
but I think it's in the back
of your mind and it's hard to
play through that. But yeah,
for your fury of the season,
I mean, despite the fact that
they had the great crack out,
Cluj was kind of also a miss
to lose to a Mongols team
there in the playoffs. Well,
that's actually something I
wanted to bring up because
I wanted to wind back a little
bit. You're saying that you,
APL might have been the
best chance or had to lift
had to lift the trophy. Do you remember one of the statements you made in the early days
of Cluj about another team by the name of ParryVision?
That they wouldn't also lift a trophy? Yeah, you were like, they're never going to lift
another trophy in six months. And what place did they end up getting there?
Did they lift the trophy?
Whilst you are right, they did do a really good run, right? They had it good. So there
is an essence where it's like, yeah, we're not expecting a lot from Aurora, but maybe
there is still a chance.
that they're going to have to
be able to make it to the
playoffs. Well, I think that
they can be competitive, and
that's that's the bright sign
about Aurora. Okay I don't
want to be the bearer of all
the bad news for them just
because this is just a stacked
tournament, and I don't think
it's so I don't even know
realistically if they believe
you know, in a vitality,
Navi sort of field if
they're going to be lifting
it, but what they can do is
continue to improve like the
pre saying if they are able
to make it to the playoffs
comfortably by beating fury
here if they can even win
another series in an arena
sort of fashion because it
they were able to get over the
hurdle, which really plagued
them last year, which was that
they would make all of these
playoffs, but then never win
once they get to the playoffs.
No matter who the opposition
was, even if they're the
favorites or the underdogs
and I believe in Washington
screwing out, you do get the
latest matchup. They had that
back in Croco in the
quarterfinals where if
you're literally just, you
know, took a bite of them
and just decided to spit it
all out at once. All right.
It's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's
It was a match-up that Aurore didn't really have much to be saying and you know I think that I want to go back to what Jake and also having him on the desk that he actually didn't feel like they played that great in Kragow, you know, he didn't really expect him to go to the grand final and that also kind of puts him in that position that I'm not worried about Fury as of right now but it's more like they go to the grand final but they don't feel like they deserve.
Does that actually say more about Fiora or does it actually say more about their current teams purchasing outside?
And I think it's relatively unknown as of right now to why I feel like Fiora has dropped off a little bit.
Maybe it's because we also looked at them last season or last season.
You mean you don't have all the answers?
No, no, I don't know. But if you look at them from the late stage of 25, they did go and clinched back-to-back trophies.
And you know, I wouldn't say we rated them too high, maybe they over-performed or anything, and now we just have our expectations.
So high to a team that is maybe not as well. We thought it would be well. I have two answers. I'd say one is
Yuri, I think that he was a slept-on piece for fury it last year
I think all of the other players were practically stars
I mean yeah, kinders revitalization Mola doys rookie of the year case Serato just being the man
But unfortunately in 2026 a lot of Yuri's anchor attempts just do not seem to be quite there
I mean sometimes you're just left alone on your site
You need to get that one kill stay alive and unfortunately, I think he's just kind of dropping the ball in some of those circumstances
So not a sharp at defending against executes
Maybe always not as in tune also on the T side, but I would say at least from what I see from him
I don't really I just don't feel like he's overperforming because anchoring is hard in CSR
It's really difficult. Oh, is it hard to saw? Yeah, that's true
But I would even say in this game, you know stopping guys that are bursting through a smoke
They're breaking it there's ball throwing a flash in your face
He was sometimes coming away with two kills in those situations, which that might have been the overperformance for fury
I think a lot of the other aspects of them like Mola doi
He has the exact same rating last year as he does this year. So so he's doing exactly the same thing
It's consistent. Yeah, but it's just that Yuri maybe is like
He's having a little bit more difficulty this time
Nobody else was just placed into that if you're if your anchors having issues
You'd also put more pressure on the rest of the team because if they get the easier open to the bombs
They also need to overperform in terms of bringing it back if they if the losing muscle
I've always had this feeling if you have like a really solid anger then like if you always at least sometimes all
Always that's how do I even put that one? I put it like as often as possible
Getting a double kill then you're in for a really good time
I know these gig one and a half and I I don't know if you got noticed
But I also noticed yesterday with Yuri like when he played he do he don't be playing with one in in here
And I've heard that there's been some oh with his ear
Oh, no, I also have indications that I was playing with a little bit of an issue
I'm not sure if that's I did notice that on the cams. Yeah
Because I was looking it looks like it's open with one ear pierced and you know playing counter with only one ears
I sound a little bit difficult. I'm not sure if it's thing. It's just something I notice her do that
He did yeah, you got it to work, but he was not anchoring usually like going full force. Is that I guess we see it right now
I mean it oh
Oh, no, that's two pieces. That's two. We'll see. We'll see. We'll check it. We'll circle back around to that one, okay?
But it's interesting how we're factoring in that one element changes, and it feels like maybe the whole formula is wrong for them.
And even when we saw Fury a couple of days ago, they did have that conversation about how night and day their performance is.
When they are playing night time and day time. And so I wanted to delve a little bit deeper because they're on the late series yet again for themselves.
Thank you so much for joining me here. I have to say, late game again, you guys on
the last series, does it really truly impact you? Is it a bit of a joke now or would you
prefer those sort of earlier games?
No, actually yes, because we have Fallen. Fallen doesn't like to play like this time
because a little bit older and of course we have more energy when we're playing like
10, again, 12, so it's better for us, we like, but I think it's more because of the time zone in Brazil, it's four hours back, so I understand as well, but it is what it is, with the Outer Oregon going to play at the same time, so it's like the same.
Now we look at the past tournaments for Fury, it's obviously been some worse results than
what you would love considering how great your 2025 was.
How would you describe the start of 2026 and what are you hoping changes here at Blast
Open?
Actually the first two tournaments of GZ was great, not bad, but the last two was
bad really bad and we know that we need to pick something, some stuffs and individually
We need to be in point, we need to be better teammates as well, and we need to have good
reactions against all the teams, so we're going to win.
So yeah, we know that we're struggling in some situations and we know that so every
match is a good opportunity to be better and show for everyone that we're a good
team.
So I said, one thing that's going wrong for Furia
is Yuri's performance.
I would say the second thing for them
is the drop off on their T sides.
And I feel like that's affecting everybody.
Partially, Yuri's rating is also on the T side
that has dropped off, but also just the fact that,
you know, Fallen has been talking about the fact
that he's considering retirement right now.
And I feel like that's actually coming out in their play.
Their T side was last year,
second best right behind Vitality.
This year, it's actually in the lower half
of all the teams.
And I feel like when you're watching them now, they're not mid-rounding.
They're not communicating nearly as precisely as they were.
And when he's talking about reactions, especially, I just feel like maybe
it could be fallen, could be everybody on the team.
You know, it's a group job to make sure that everybody's reacting properly.
But I feel like sometimes they're just not as quick.
They're not as quick to move from one play to the other.
And that's what made them such a force last year is that as soon as they
recognize that there is a counter smoke or maybe two players on a bomb site,
They instantly were able to pivot, go to the other side, and in my eyes, they were right there with vitality for best mid-rounding teams.
This year, they have really fallen off.
I think that's an interesting take. I think it's well spotted.
Whether that's because of, you know, Fallen has, you know, considered retiring a lot.
If it's like, you know, he'd had like this really good run last year, and now he's like,
I don't know if it's going to happen again. Like maybe I should just consider it.
I don't know if that's like the reasoning behind it, but I do agree that the mid-rounding has been looking worse for Fiora.
And it was one of the things that also impressed me with how they've been playing,
really creating a lot of diversions, being really good at pulling themselves back and then going
into different scenarios and getting the best out of the least likely. And I think that's also what
I guess all teams, when they start looking, if you're thinking, how did they get this
good all of a sudden? I do believe that it comes down to a lot of the mid rounds as well.
You can be shopping your aim, but you have to also be shopping your decisions there as well.
And you guys have mentioned full and quite a number of times. Well,
I mean, his Twitter and his social media right now is being pretty active because the last
time they played it quite a late time, you kind of had a couple of choice words on his
account. And he's followed it up. He said, since these requirements aren't being met,
you know, about having earlier gains, his basement now not only includes Fallen, but
he's also going to take Yuri there as well. So he's just going to keep on adding more
plays to hold hostage until they see it turn around. They want tears to reconsider
than being on a 10pm by the way. 10pm is what he's calling too late.
You can know he's an experienced player. He should know by now, he should know by now
that when you're playing the late game as players you usually also get the late game
and I think you're he put the worst into that is because of all the times and so it's
because of the fans that's one take of it. But I mean if you can't watch the jail
his entire team go ahead for it. I mean look the man has a lot of words
on social media but as well as interviews which is where I got to catch up with
them. You think the last time we saw you two days ago came in the two over against
Tyloo, Overpass might be a little bit tighter than you would have liked, but
how have the last 48 hours been in preparation now for Aurora? Yeah, I mean
we've been practicing a lot. I feel like at some point this year we kind of
lost ourselves a little bit in terms of oh it's a game day we shouldn't put
practice on a game day. Now we started actually grinding like every day, every
day, even if it's a game day. Since we're getting these late matches
There's a lot of time to waste during the day and that's why we started playing practice
and the last 48 hours didn't change anything.
We were just practicing, getting ready and trying to get back to form.
So how many games have you played today before your series?
Three scrims.
Three scrims and a deathmatch for people who wanted to play and then we have talks
about the preparation that we had yesterday.
Yeah, I was a little bit surprised when he talked about it.
You are on the lead to get the games, which means you get more daytime.
Sometimes you can either see that as you can to see that you have time to waste your
time, but you can also capitalize on it.
For them, it was three scrims today.
Is that a normal?
Like that feels like an absurd amount to get on a game day.
That's a lot.
That is a lot.
I've heard about teams, at least when they go online, they would play like a practice
scrim before they go into the fishes.
But I don't recall when I've heard like a team doing before like a LAN and then
even doing three at the same time.
I don't know what the reason behind it, it's not weird just by killing time because it's
probably something else they could be looking at, but I mean, they probably want to get
a lot more representation.
Maybe they had something really urgent they need to work on or something they want to
fix.
So, it's curious to see where that's going to be, that's going to be heading.
Well, a reminder that after the ESL Pro League group stage ended, Fallen had to go
take care of personal matters.
And so, he only came back one day before this tournament started, so they probably
feel like they have to make up for some of that lost time where a lot of other
teams were either playing in that actual tournament or they were just grinding. So I kind of like it,
but it does feel like it might stretch you a little thin. That's what I mean, like especially
when they're playing this late. If this goes through a three map, we can see like the game
still be going in another three hours. And depending on when they did play those, I guess it's not
like, you know, it's probably in the beginning of the day. So they probably had time to
recuperate, but still, you know, three games from my liking seems a bit much. But I mean,
I mean, like, I'm not so sure it's a decision.
Maybe the other side of it is that they wanted as much warm-up
as much practice as they possibly can,
coming into this series against Aurora,
seeing them as a little bit more of a threat
than people might be giving them credit for here,
because Aurora, in that previous series,
it was two-and-one against FaZe.
We see FaZe eliminated now,
and so you do wonder what was happening
in that last series,
that they found that bit of a slump in one map,
whereas period at two-oh.
I'm not reading too much into the one map lost to phase phase can always just kind of randomly turn up in different games
And I feel like that's what happened there
This Aurora team to me is actually it's powering up in the right ways and still sometimes
Experiencing the same roadblocks like against Navi in the EPL grand finals
You still see some of the sort of I'd say choking issues from some of the likely spot suspects on the team
But I would say in terms of a foundation seems really solid and they're not playing fancy counter strike
They're not trying to out-brain their opponents too often.
There's not a ton of misdirection in the rounds,
but they have a couple sneaky setups for every CT side,
and they really understand all the way through
how Madger wants to conduct the T side.
Group up and go.
And I don't think that's a game plan
that today is going to be as easily thwarted
as one may expect.
And let's be honest with the momentum they gained
from going for the grand final in EPL,
coming here now also getting to test themselves against few of which is,
at least in the ranking, the second best team in the world.
There's never been a time for them to like play out of the moment to actually gain something and you know showcase that
Hey, we are actually moving in the right direction
Then I don't know like this is the best case that they can actually go for so I think overall
This is gonna be an important match also for them to secure yet another playoff
Yeah, we got the video coming up here to write all of these factors that we're talking about
Well, it's gonna be more important on the maps that they do end up picking for themselves on the side of a
Roller they went for dust
So that's what's going to be opening up this series and then it's going to be followed up by inferno
And is this a map veto Maui where you go?
Actually, I kind of still favor one side over the other even though they both got to pick a map
I I like Aurora on this one. I thought they would probably go with dust too
I even thought maybe they could do something here and even go for I think they're pretty strong at inferno as well
I mean it plays right into Madras strengths there and I would say even just for dust to this is the one map
I feel like Woxic has so much impact.
I can't understate that enough.
I mean, or overstate that even.
I mean, this dude is right up there with Zywoo
for if you're crossing middoors and you are not nading it,
you're gonna die.
You're gonna die a lot, okay?
Like, he is so ridiculously consistent
at tagging people or picking them straight up
through the crack, crossing middoors.
So you gotta use your nades, Firiya.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, there's no doubt that, you know, this map,
I mean, I buy into this world going for the side of Aurora.
I think it also does too.
It's a really strong map for them,
But as you mentioned, Inferno is also where they really get to just play that style where they can just group up, go five guys towards B, execute, and then get the things done without having to do much of diversion on the LSDAP.
So all in all, I think Aurora has set themselves up for a really good series.
Okay, a good series and hopefully a good start for themselves as well. Aurora picking up Dust, but is it going to be enough to be able to get a map 1 lead for themselves in this series against Furia?
Depends on which furia decides to come to play today mohan
We look back at this head-to-head and you know, I see that it's pretty lopsided back at thunder pick in 2025
But that's when obviously we had kind of the best version of furia
That's when they were winning area events and now things have been a little wishy-washy
What do you think of this matchup as we look to conclude the broadcast today?
I've got a video I recorded like a like
10 or so days ago, and here we are in trouble.
And so, yeah, I think that even though they're doing just fine,
if you're just looking at them as one of the top teams,
but when we look at what they showed us last year, they're not.
And I think that, you know, maybe it's the late games and stuff like that,
but it wasn't all this year.
It wasn't necessarily the only problem.
I think they just set a high standard for themselves,
And Maui was more specific about the fact that their mid-rounding was some of the best last year.
That's a bit missing now, so...
Yeah, I don't quite think they're the same beast right now.
They wouldn't really, I think, change the sentiment winning versus Aurora here though.
Because yesterday's test wasn't enough.
We're talking about an In-Form Aurora.
Yecky Jail, period of 1-2 of their last 6 series when playing in the 4th best of 3 slot of the day.
Ooh, okay, we're really hammering home this whole night thing, huh?
Guess one of them was at least the last one.
old man ballin and whatnot put some respect on the name first blood belongs to fury up as
molly do it collects his but be careful because there's a whole pack of aurora players on the
other side of this long smoke and they'll pause for the time being it's the classic aurora out
long. They know how to make a squirm.
Tongue twister and a half.
Likewise, the classic Aurora out long.
Maybe for some.
Don't get it twisted.
All the way looking for more pistol impacts.
She's a little skin top mid.
That's all they wanted before heading back from Catwalk to try to get positioning on site.
Loaned behold, three players ready for the cross.
And then as they jump over, they find just enough space, turning it back, Molledoy.
Ah, that would have alleviated a whole bunch of pressure.
Had he been able?
Get out of there, Madger.
Instead, Madger, 38 health, running for the hills.
And as he flies away, this chase from Furia is just not going to catch him.
So at least there's a kick here on the play for K Serato.
Fallen trying to go ahead and stomp out the CT player, but no sore.
It is Aurora with a pistol.
No sore.
Not allowed.
So late late night Aurora, maybe there is something to it.
I mean, it starts with doubting yourself out loud.
You know, you're not happy to be here, or you think this might not bring out
the best in you.
I think so too, then. Aurora, they were out there, uh, kicking the football around. Outdoors.
Outdoors. Like, sportsmen. Yes, like, athletes. Whoa.
Did they bounce the football off their own heads like Spinks?
The replaying that was crazy. Loved it. Speaking of which, soccer. Football.
A lot of talk about Woxic's impact through door on the pre-game desk and understandably
Maui is right in alluding to how much impact Woxic gets through that gap, he's on, he's
online, good on him, he's online, good to hit shots like that, I've seen enough, Cem
Terrors is online today.
Think we can squeeze in the replay.
We're gonna throw up that 2k right now. In production or having a little bit of a battle.
Yeah, I think you're kind of shadow boxing and everyone's your friend. Nobody has answered me.
Hell of a shot.
Let's see what else he's got in store for us here in round two, but it's feeling like a comfortable pistol conversion
Barring some Mollidoy antics problem is that he out so far removed. Yeah, he's so preoccupied. They're not looking at the back
I guess so
Yeah, I mean thing is from their side. They could see the gap totally. Yeah
So the push comes down. I mean it's good. They're rotating over but it is right now Mollidoy versus four
and the plant will definitely go down five alive as well, but it's real well for a runup.
That was another scout.
That's a Woxic shot and a half, huh?
Another point brought up by Maui.
Man, Woxic on Dust2Doors on the cross and again, I love that he never flexes reaction
time because he can get the pickaxe but he just flexed the lineups he flexed the preparation
he got seriously it's something it really is it's it's it's Terminator s it's iPad
flicks that's a beauty of a shot from walks because well into the other scout so here's
the freebie that you've earned by getting through that one nothing but smooth sailing
so far for Aurora. They're hitting every Nade, hitting every shot.
Certain timidness out of Furia so far as well. Trying to go for the B-stack this time around.
see if Aurora misstep into it. Definitely a bit of an afterglow for the two pro league finalists.
Still looking great. Which is nice too because sometimes we talk about like championship hangover.
Yeah and bait they give them a run. They did give them a run. Sure.
But they uh they finished the job. This one that's what's important.
Eerie
Going to be Aurora. I don't know that bombs on cat, but it could jump off
I mean you want to go to be they're not gonna if we'll Katie it doesn't go back up to tunnels
Okay, he is now since that Tara's in he'll unravel he is not peek anything let them totally in this work before bombs starting to fall back
Towards you little now gets the headshot everyone spotted. This is a cat play now
So that's why you do these things early enough let it go still a surplus of time to get that bomb over to the A site
Uncontested a chance for Wikipedia to have made some money so fly still gonna remain worried that there's one maybe
It's gonna wait for his teammate and his two every likes
Somebody come help me take this site
So fly he measures the height of his desk with tape measure does he really so of course, it's gonna be careful
and
nice calm soothing round three they said your be president wait
want that a k back that's what they want
center is they have it hands of case or auto so you've at least given fury of
that to work with come round four
That was awesome.
Toasty Marshmallows.
That was AI.
We're not even in a studio.
That was an AI Marshmallow.
And on to the next one.
Real fire though.
That's what they want you to think.
It's funny because the camera guys don't always know CS.
We know they have different events
because they'll just work at anything.
Sure, sometimes.
camera, which is everything, um, a fairly funny takes on what to watch.
Woxic waiting at that corner peek, but it doesn't come his way.
Oh, good spam through to deal with half of Woxic's health, at least.
And Fallen happy to be left to his own devices.
He's so right that they're here and they want to take long.
It's not being shy about it though, right? Spamming up close like that.
Yeah, good flashbang to catch a Kindar. Falling. Good damage, but still falters.
Got low HP here for Xanteras to have to handle. Molodoy flashed off his line, and Aurora doing a good job of just kind of blinding the support systems of Furia step by step, but it's still not quite the all-in.
They go for the run boost first, giving Xanteras an AWP. You don't get to see that every day.
Yeah, how scary is this going to be I can totally see it working
He's got the flicks for it. They're really pushing this into critical territory
Going for a late split the kinder does not see this
Did he hear a footstep? No, he's the one making noise. Oh, oh
Oh, he fakes the fallback.
Oh, he does.
Yeah, big time.
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Woxic nails the head shot.
Now the utility starts to come out.
Molledoy's position is fully compromised.
They really got to hurry up.
Remember, low health on two.
Still, 15 seconds could be enough now
that Molledoy's missing shots.
Just barely there with the clock.
Madger activates.
Bomb's got a cross.
Madger, you're the bomb.
And they've got this.
They put that slow squeeze on Furia, and it works.
Did you say, Madger, you're the man?
something like that. Magic, you the bomb. No, that's what I said. Go off, King. You the
bomb. You the bomb, Magic. Damn, Magic and the bomb. And he puts it down just in time,
though. It's all calculated by, it does come by way of missed Molodoy off shot and also
singer of a Woxic head shot. Honestly, you look at that late situation, I think they
didn't have a smoke so they said we have to split cat they just did it nice
and composed so and obviously really important first of all where you frag
from Zen terrace has been amazing on the AK and Woxic wing L versus Yikinder
and to Yikinder's credit he did successfully kind of bait them in I
feel like pretending to run back but he also gave him footsteps so they were
aware of something sure they're on high alert yeah high alert you know even
if you did fake it they just knew somebody was there anyone was watching
cross who knows what happens but we're putting the squeeze on Furia in these
first four rounds so much so that Sid's coming through with the timeout.
Are you in trouble?
Tough job for a guy like Sid to be the coach and have to make his voice heard
when you've got guys like falling at the helm but it feels like the Furia
guys respect him and his impact on the teams yeah I'm sure when he first took
over the world though how daunting totally imagine trying to suggest
something overfallen of all people you know I will say though there's something
special about these super top IGLs that you get it with Karrigan you get it
with Fallen you got it with Glaive they listen to everybody to some extent
like they're there just absorbing ideas they always talk about when they
play with young players have they learned from them kind of what makes
them the best leaders, isn't it? That's how that's how you do it. Oh, nice. Well, well,
well, I could possibly make up for the last round. 5v4 advantage, Furia. Bombs it. I'm
sorry, the op excuse. Cross it back to A. CTs want to push. Aurora have been taking
a long time to actually come through with their idea no matter what it is, so maybe
that cost them in the situation. There's no long push yet.
They are stepping towards one of the few
threats on the field for Furia in this awp with flashbangs.
He's going to try to catch the fourth piece of this.
The utility pressure is going to try to nullify Molodoy.
Now he's stuck in the middle of the smoke.
They're trying to get him out of this.
What are you going to do, Molodoy? Pressure all around you.
Bomb plant attempt coming through.
Aurora is still having a deal with the man disadvantaged,
but the plant's been found.
So good.
Still a couple with the pistols here for Furia.
But you kind of are on 12 HP.
He's going to have to tuck tail and spring to way.
And so another slow burn and then pop.
Yeah.
Aurora kind of masked the presence and then storm.
And I like that pacing that they're bringing to the table.
I like it too.
And this time it's a little faster than last round.
And that's just fast enough, just like last round.
So everything is gelling into place, really,
with how quickly they want to play
and how their players are fragging.
It's all working out nicely.
This is the face of a 4v5.
It feels like it. You know how water parks? They have that big bucket that slowly fills over time, and then once the bucket's full of enough, it dumps on everybody?
That's what Aurora are in this opening five rounds.
They had that at the Loyaloo as well.
Everybody loves the sauna.
And nobody more so than the finish.
This game's not finished yet.
Can't alley you.
I was gonna get you.
I had you.
Game on. Miss Molotov.
Door fighter. What a title.
Molotov is 21 and 6 in duels between Top Mid and CT Mid on Dust2 this year.
That's crazy. And that's just clear. That's awesome.
And that was something, when you talked about Molotov going head to head with operas and stuff like that,
That felt like every map, but it really had a lot to do with Dust2.
Where he showed off the most.
And you know what, a lot of operas only really pretend to pick.
They don't want to go up against.
Yeah, they kind of like have control, you know, like Jame.
They aren't actually looking to take out other operas.
But I think Wok's sake is a good matchup for this in this in this map. This guy who really will come for you
Yeah, okay, they're long timing found here from fallen
Try to take advantage of the fact that Aurora are moving at a certain tempo
There's nobody once again
They avoid anything and cat technically is still possible right and Aurora five men a lot
So they have to clear this out. They bulldozed through this B site. Yeah folks soon to come up
Flashbang interrupts it at least Yuri's able to get into the site case or auto-strike to join him
But it's still ahead of Furia, truly being in here.
Good job from Keisarado to spam through the doors.
That'll help.
Watching the flank.
They checked it momentarily, but still this flanks
in position.
Ya Kindar not having to deal with the player in the back
takes his sweet, sweet time.
And so it does work out for Furia.
They will snowball towards that B site,
and they'll stop it in its tracks.
A well-timed 55-second long A door push,
and it nets Furia their first round win.
It does.
It takes advantage of the fact that Aurora, they four won
They fight man a lot, and uh, and Fallen has been consistently just trying to find a way to get out of long over and over again. It pays off.
The info is working for them.
And they have entered the game.
Scary for a second, feeling like Aurora could have still gotten ahead of Fury as timing, but...
Fury will wrap it up just in time.
And so the death ball of Aurora will be held back by at least one round.
But here it comes again.
It works long.
Oh, I didn't see anything!
Perfect!
Fallen, it's a nasty angle to try to push through that one.
You kindars here to try to close out.
Nicely done, Wotsick.
No way he wins this 1v5, though.
Oh, he's gonna slow it down for a second.
Jump squad and Molodoy takes care of business.
Fallen ate that flash like it was his favorite food and still got the 3k spray down clean as need be a
Solid burst into the doorway and no exit allowed for Aurora
That's three kills in ten bullets is Jordan at the free throw line eyes closed
wish
Don't be fooled it's Wacadia not Wauksic otherwise.
Oh?
Well, at least you forced the Optimus.
That's Mollidoy in his prime.
I wouldn't want to be scouting this round is scout is one of the scouts of all time right
But he's on a Glock.
Ooh.
B-site looking kind of prime for the taking, no?
Good shot from K-sur-Auto.
Ooh!
Beautiful.
Quad kill for him.
Ooh.
That was donk level.
That'll slam the roar into the ground.
They didn't have much to work with, but K-sur-Auto made sure it stayed that way.
I thought maybe this flood catches him off guard.
If it's not that clean, they grab a gun.
They could contend with a B-site.
Even a bomb plant wouldn't have been half that for Aurora, but watch this
Wow
Wonderful
Not bad at all
Need a round like that to just keep things nice and tidy
And Aurora say okay enough's enough let's talk about this
and
now walks against the scout
point
There it is.
Yeah, it's just consistent, man.
The 10% of his Dust 2 kills have come on his scout, his second most used weapon.
Wow, second most used.
Love that.
Scary for Molo-Do, I mean, you know.
You can still be confident in yourself, but it's just the fact that,
oh, this guy has less to lose, but he's still, he goes for it, man.
That's what he does.
Plus 100 damage on that frag, as it lands perfectly down in lower tunnels.
He's been doing a good job at maintaining long control, but he did just depart and will
He'll leave a second time.
That opens the perfect pocket of timing.
But look at you, Kindar, pushed down into Madger.
Unprepared for that.
He was kind of striding up and down that wall, to be honest.
Fallen well timed, a Jen keeping it clean,
catching them with nades in hand.
Wow, late night gamer right here.
Dealing with the players that did have rifles ready.
And a 47 health Wacadia because of that frag grenade
into lower tunnels is just tucking tail
and on the retreat, hoping for the save.
So Aurora, who once felt untouchable, Mohan,
had been brought back down to Earth.
Totally.
I mean, it's just kind of fall apart here.
Every single duel goes the way of Aetheria.
Nothing special about it.
Just solid peaks and positioning.
Imagine with a bit of a weird move on Kat.
Yeah, that would be awkward.
It was like he was, it's like, you know,
like he had like dirt on his sleeve
and he was trying to rub it off on the wall
because I don't know what else I could have been trying to do.
Sure?
Just go.
Come on, get out of here.
We'll cut out.
I don't know.
I don't think you'll get you.
Ha.
Trick.
Yeah.
Can we talk about how Ops are supposed to pick off riflers
and not necessarily go for the head to head?
But I love when an AWP gets killed by an AWPer,
gets killed by an AWPer, and they just
scoff it off like that yeah I know your tricks I know your game yeah you there's
something there's a there's a crop that's going on there for sure between
a little side hustle going on between operas head to head
no ops featured on Aurora this time around health only an AK in the Mac
ten. Enough utility, though, to potentially frazzle this B site, but it's been pretty solid
in the face of the attacks. It looks like Aurora want to go back down to that slower
tempo. They started the game with this kind of a speed, really taking their sweet time
with these rounds, and they were putting them on the scoreboard, so return to said
pace.
with his 13 grand. Maybe makes sense.
Was that waiting paid off? They can now have a better chance at going B, but you're right, they have been super solid in here.
There's more often than not been some kind of an attack from middle, so you can see that attention drawn by Kcerado.
He's outside the window now. Fury's got a lot to have to handle, and they are able to break through the tunnel exit.
And Kacerado going down with nothing.
Fire in front of you. Kindar's gonna cause him to pause.
Bomb is being planted. Comfortably under said window.
And so, the retake is on.
Do they have upgrades for those weapons?
Looks like they find one AK.
What's Madra up here? Tech9, the boost comes out for Fallen.
Oh, pressure's on now.
Wakadia stuck here with 24 health.
Madra's trying to go through that bottom midflip.
That might work.
Perfectly timed.
Molo-Doy, Seer, Madra, you've got to make a move.
And he's gonna gun down the upper first cast them in the window surprise surprise with katia pulls it off the one
You can dark scoops up the kit match her to the op calls the bluff now that is excellent
headshot
All you kind are no way the wall bang kill onto the bomb
Close my goodness
Three tenths of a second. It's crazy how much damage he had to do to get that kill
That's still a perfect move for Madger.
This was sick.
Yeah.
Try to get it going.
I mean, that just catches the ball off guard.
Point three.
Double-op setup comes out from Furia instantly for the first time this CT side.
and K. Serato.
Successful door cross.
Ykindir is in the mean lower.
That's the thing, right?
When Wauks is so adamant about holding those doors,
it feels like you can go hunting for him in suicide
in a lot of rounds.
Yeah, a lot of things that Aurora specifically do fury
have been trying to find.
There are five man plays and everything like that.
Mm-hmm.
Your kinder gets sussed out.
Oh man, what a shot. What a shot.
He's really come into his own this game.
After a slow start.
I don't see this every day, but it's looking good so far.
Trade comes up for Woxic, and now you're all alone, Yuri.
Still thinking about that tunnel's player who tries to pop the vision open, but now
doors is taken over, they're already in the site.
Yuri, great headshot to Soulfly Manages.
Oh!
Incredible hold Yuri with the perfect reposition as well to the front of Platte
Yeah, that's tunnels got popped open by Madger, but it was only momentarily Yuri dodges that dual for that timing
And then gets right back to work window players just not even like what do you even call that in front of K sharp?
Just out in the open. It was the perfect place to be
And he was trying to hunt down soul fly they're putting so much pressure on the back of the site
But Madger didn't realize he had pushed out. That was a guaranteed dual one
and probably the round.
Great time for Yuri to put one on the scoreboard.
Gives Furia a great opportunity to tie up this half
as we see again single AK by for Aurora
coming through to close the T side.
That's serious business sticking around
AK's gonna have to get grabbed back up
It's wikadia's responsibility now. Wow rado on the off. Keep going gives it a bit of a jiggle
Confirms more bodies inbound the one-off player for Aurora will be mad at towards middle once more
But lower tunnels being taken over by furious
Simultaneously, they lose their vision on long that opens the cross for the bomb
But now he's been found out fallen sniffs out mad at
4v2 advantage to try to close the half, but there's still a bit of footwork here for what Katie is.
He closes the distance in on these players fighting himself all alone now and sworn.
They'll put the squeeze on him and Furia do come back into this one fighting tooth and nail
for a 6-6 half for what once started 5-0 Aurora.
15 to the clock. It's another close call coming out of Furia in round 11.
Op finds the pit kill somebody's got a clear brawling out of this corner and here comes Zershin sprinting in through the moto smoke to send the curve ball through again.
He could play it again. Just enough time. 1v3 queued up for Molladoy him versus Torsi and he looks the wrong direction.
Does he get wind of it? Oh, he must have spotted the peak but Molladoy still hiding and Torsi doesn't know. He gives up.
No!
Takes the no-scope to the chest, and it's another clutch for Maladoy, his second of this half alone.
Round number 18, Furia.
Five kills away from the big stage at the moody center.
They just need to complete this round, and it starts well.
Kacerato has slaughtered Flamas as he tries to burst through the smoke here.
Nice jump off, but Kacerato's still out there.
That M4 doing all the work, it's a massive quad kill!
And he already had the, oh he almost had the ace earlier, this time he's going to try and see if he can really complete it.
The USP out and he gets it, an ace to get to the playoffs!
He said Foulin's been quiet on Inferno, well he can't afford to be quiet here in round 22.
Do they do a contact? Is it really going to be destroyed?
It is, into the orb.
Cello activates if he's necessary, now the Nade does chip damage, but still that bomb is under their control!
And a Foulin steps up!
Delivers what his team need the most. A triple kill on the AWP.
Down goes Wreck on A and the job is done. The round is 1-11-11.
I know what Furia wishing for. Another one of them from Fallen. Four kills in the round.
Furia stacked those rounds.
Monosy uses that moment to establish an angle on Hut, but first shot misses.
And there's a lot of movement for Furia out. Are they right off this track? Kicks and can't get his.
This is your kindar just trying to charge it down. Multiple bodies still, but he doesn't give a damn.
He's not done yet.
Oh, he's just tearing right through every one.
He's a bulldozer.
Niko, last man standing here inside of the site.
It's a court-tower with a kindar.
He will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
What a monster, you kindar.
Take a look.
Nothing that he can see.
But if he continues on this journey,
he could have caught them off guard.
Molledoy, though, all the wiser.
Magazines out.
They are training him.
You get mad at them.
They are training him.
Sunpai has found a kill as well towards A. Maladoss able to get one.
Three on five.
Get the 4K. There's one.
Makes it all the harder. Four shots.
Four health.
This is a crazy play. Sunpai's looking for him to go up above.
No kit here for Sunpai as either.
He's wasting critical time on this, but he does manage to get out.
Another missed shot here for Maladoss.
The last shot closes pistol.
It almost looked like G2 would take it.
But the 5B3, Molodoy the sole survivor.
A nice answer from Furia as Dust2 went on.
We get a tied half at the end and everybody kind of had a moment there throughout the game for Furia.
Fallen's rock solid. A holds Yuri with that B site.
3K lockdown. But of course, as you can come to expect, it's Queserado at the top of the charts.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, dude, he was showing off with the AWP.
And as well as this rifle, there's some eco kills in there, but it was a 4k single spray eco frag clip, so counts for more.
Flash is excellent, Acadia is dead.
Yeah, no chance on that one, huh? Full blind.
The World War rocks, it still bails them out of this mid scramble, but now he's smoked off and they've got only Xanterra's over towards the B site.
Still so much spam damage coming out through that smoke that it does stall the fury on mid attack for now.
For now, but that's gonna help.
Molotoway cracks the B site wide open.
We could see a couple of players re-route
and the bomb is inside as well.
So this would be a tough one for Aurora.
That's like one of those head-to-heads.
Like Molotoway could have waited
all of his teammates were coming up through doors.
They have it smoked as well,
but him getting that kill allows him to take speed.
Totally changes the round.
And he had to be brave enough
to take that duel versus Xantharis.
He thought he's for sure gonna get his.
Molotoway's 8 and 6.
8 kills so far have all been pretty insane.
Slow starter.
And that's what I mean, that's probably the biggest thing that's missing from like
the few I mean the mid rounds and stuff like all that other stuff is cool.
But it also comes because Moldodoy does crazy things in the mid round real last year.
It was just like non-stop X factor.
Just like, whoa, I can't believe he took that.
Dude, I can't believe he won it.
I can't believe he thought it would be a good idea
and it ends up winning the round.
Like that was a lot of what made Fury look great.
Him and New Kindred's entries as well.
And I think for him, you know,
just in these particular matches as elimination games
was one thing, but then it started bleed over
to a couple of other moments as well.
And I think it's just kind of finding himself.
Again
But it's truly also had some very unique strats, but you remember those like that train
You know you go that phone would call like all the outside smokes and run through to an area
They're very creative last year they brought a different flavor
I don't think they have to do anything from stopping this catwalk crawl up.
I'll attempt to throw Xanteras at the problem, bolstering Woxic towards Long, but he's sight
still feeling prime for the taking unless that Woxic scout is screed up to hold the
catcross.
Here we go, a little more activity out of Aurora going for the tunnels push.
Oh, he's looking at his radar, maybe.
What's not looking at the center of his screen?
That's the third.
Did not expect that timing out of Madger.
That smoke works.
Still feels like a slightly understaffed A-site,
but Woxic known to do dirty things with this scout.
I'm all over the top back, huh?
What?
Scout vs. Scout combat.
Yikindar catches Madger.
What did he get?
Clear view right there.
And you kind of are going to do a great job of making sure mid control is maintained by Furia.
4v2 post plant looking comfortable, as it's not just the lead, but the second pistol, the conversion now.
I mean, again, at one point this was 5-0 Aurora.
Now, 6-8. Furia, take it back.
Production, can we get a Molledoy highlight reel right now?
Every Molledoy kill, I just want to reconfirm that they were all insane.
You can do that right?
Surely.
Spin it up.
Yeah.
Production, can I get an extra lot?
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Not too hot.
Then they're not going to do anything for us.
Latte, double espresso.
That's not even real.
What are you saying?
Can I get a moca chino frappe latte?
Not a Starbucks.
All right.
Alright, Madger's still locked in.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah.
Okay, highlight.
Howdy- Oh!
Like, what?
Okay.
He's 9 for 9 on insane kills.
How come Launders gets what he wants within 30 seconds?
Just up here now, you're out of favor.
Okay.
I appreciate the honesty.
The little trying to be weaponized falls down into walks.
It means Toronto's not going to let either of you get away with it.
The whole totem pole.
This is quite the little turnaround we have on our hands, isn't it?
Big time.
My goodness.
I'm loving what we're seeing.
I was worried in the first five rounds.
I'm not going to lie.
Well, I was also kind of loving that, too, because Aurora was looking super good.
Uh, Xanterus was on fire for a second.
Just a nice, slow pace for the game that Aurora had, you know, it really felt like they had full control of the situation.
Uh-oh.
Flytron has damned us to bring it back. Look at the health that remains here for three to four.
It's a wild world where these Deagles could still pull it off if Furia aren't careful about their approach.
You almost wish you had just like a default pistol in this situation.
The eagle could definitely let you down.
You're going to smoke.
All right.
No, it's OK.
It's OK.
I use incendiary.
Excuse me.
OK, gets there on you.
That was the bullet.
Yeah, that's the.
That was the easier of all the frags.
And then Mollidoy is just going to push right through.
Smoker made in front of Lecadia.
Massive gap.
You'll go around that one no problem, but still working
with just the Desert Eagle.
No Kevlar versus three.
Not too difficult, but with that angle from Quesarado, you've got to hit the headshot
and yeah, what you would have given for 5-7s instead.
Yeah, that could have made a big difference.
It was a nice full HP kill from Magier, but they don't know exactly how low everybody
is.
Well, Quesarado, you make sure that Galil can't escape, can't be reutilized elsewhere.
round lead for fury up really starting to fry now have won nine of the last ten
rounds this however could change things
Santerra is opening kill towards long doors.
I wonder if this is a good moment for Aurora to sort of chill.
The Kinder's gonna try to really multiply its presence.
Man, I mean, they're not getting any closer to the mid-doors.
So, flying with Katie, I mean, that's a duo you can definitely count on and be.
But, I don't know if this is gonna really feel like a 5v4.
They're kind of ahead of us. They're way ahead of us.
They're comfortable with that time period.
We're gonna jump on it.
We're taking it from the car. Good for just one.
That was actually just a bad smoke,
because it just left the gap on the left side of the mouth of the exit.
Right. And that meant you could come through the smoke, then look around,
then swing out.
So far, it just got himself killed.
With it, the bomb site lost.
Retakes on for Aurora. Kits on Magert.
Flash still for Xanterrez. Goes over top.
Doesn't blind anybody.
Risky to try this man, full B retake and Majors and Tunnels slow, I don't think so.
They've got to let this one go, so it'll be double digits for Fury up.
As the winning ways don't stop, and that one by way of a bad smoke from the B defense.
Let's see what the cost is at the end of the round,
because Majors are hard committed to denying this exit.
Honestly, it could still be damn well worth it.
You didn't even have to look.
It's an excellent.
And a happy Molledoy.
No way.
I actually brought the coffee.
I was like, what's Jonathan doing in here?
No way!
Oh, I actually timed that up.
Yeah, why are you here complaining about late night gaming?
Here's production making a coffee for Connor in the middle of the night
after giving me a Molladoy highlight sizzle reel.
I feel like so you feel like an asshole right now.
Yeah, you better drink that thing, by the way.
You better put it in your ass.
Oh, this isn't even a mocha.
Oh, yeah.
I kid, thanks, guys.
No, wait these guys they we got pranksters. You better finish that I can't I do it better 11 is that it's already 11
It's already 11 be crazy. You bouncing off the hotel room walls tonight
More than normal it's gonna say
What's Maladu are you gonna do this time?
It's been very much mischievous this game is looking for kills everywhere
There's Woxic though.
Another opening kill, remember last round, huh?
5v4 still wasn't enough for Aurora.
Yeah, that's because their setup was too static.
Does this one look similar?
It does, but in a way that technically, you know, Woxic goes to reinforce the right
site.
The only thing last time was they just didn't move a lot to go help out B.
That's quite a lean towards long.
So Madger's not going to necessarily be a part of stopping this.
He can just make sure Woxic doesn't have to worry about his flank.
But man, like, yeah.
This is where kind of like communication is sort of frozen here for Aurora.
They're in a position where they felt like Job was finished last round.
It clearly wasn't.
And in this round, they do it again.
Zenterre says one HE grenade.
Got no mollies to slow this down.
And the full attack is coming.
Lots of flashbangs.
made though so good you feel like certainly this time it's enough right
surely zanterra's burned down to a crisp missed off shot out of woxic that
second one will connect and so it's down to the two versus four with Yuri
sitting on 10 HP crazy well that's one thing but he goes in for both who are
you moladoy catches the fight from middle where Katie has been spotted
bombs been planted and this 2v4 it's got 48 health left combined between the
two. Kit for Wikipedia. I can't believe you. Oh my God. I can't believe Furio in this.
Furio decided instead of planting to walk slowly around the default boxes and took two
out at long. That's nasty. And Molodoy compliments that play. Not one. Two incredible shots
again. But both. Like when you get the kill on long, I get it. You're trying to
do something for the planter. Oh, that's great. And that is the final kill. Molodoy
Highlights this game
From another 4v5 situation and
Not stop winning these rounds out on top of it a man advantage this time Aurora's souls have been crushed
It's the Maldives missing
We got fireworks for this finale as furious sprint for the finish line
That's bomb dropped as well towards suicide so an awkward 3v4 left over almost feel bad crediting
Molotov-Woxic has been in the middle trying to get something back, but Aurora just aren't getting rounds
T-Side takes over all the A-Sites and terrorists totally blindsided by that attack. Another man advantage by the way
Molotov down into the CT spawn keeps Soulfly out of the engagement for now, open route for the bomb to come and join them
All of this secured by the off-timing of Furia. One step ahead time and time again
It's the best 14-9 game, I think, of all time.
Additional Molotov to just keep them locked out of every take attempt comes through for
Aurora.
They try to extinguish the flames and play with that timing, but a smoker made on-site
to work around buys a lot of time for you, Kindar.
Man, he got the collat, and now he's the last one up versus two.
Nothing since.
12th round secured! What a run!
Furia have gone on to reclaim control of Dust 2!
This is classic Furia.
By classic, I mean 2025.
And in a messed up way, it's classic Aurora 2.
Great shot, Wothik.
Crazy, you get an AWP collat.
And that's not the end of the round.
AWP collateral in a 4 versus 5.
With the 4v3 advantage, can you still lose?
Yeah, can you still lose?
Sid says, two thumbs up.
Very nice.
My wav.
A sequence of headshots out of Wakadia.
Aurora, again, another advantage.
Surely.
Just getting instantly humbled the next round is hilarious.
This has been a perfect T side for Furia thus far.
Six rounds in a row.
A 2v5 this time around.
It's just too much for Furia to win this time.
It's too much.
The biggest advantage so far.
I mean, as long as Aurora chill, Furia won't even play this round.
Yup, start.
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Done there's no way we put us a very on camera. You better take a sip of that coffee. No, no, please don't know fury
are roasted in round 19 hey whoa cast her picture and picture drink up no you
know I think your picture was a little small they need to make this they make
that box a little bigger too light it's funny makes me nervous that camera's
always on. I kind of forget. Yeah, look at that red light.
This round was done early on.
Well, that's a drop in the ocean. But it's a tasty one.
Salty. Wow.
Or look a little salty. And understandably, they've had some
real advantages in these rounds. Like you actually just can't
blame them about the frustration.
No, yeah, I genuinely think you pull it down just some of all the way skills overall and then Yuri's by everything like that
But a lot of ballad always
op kills
There's pretty much no recourse to like fighting against that scout shot on Kaz. He's up headshots
So many of them and sometimes you see players they get up headshots where you don't need to aim for the head
All of these skills have been like only your head showing boom your dad even half of it boom
It's a wall bank headshot
That's a pixel perfect gameplay
It's the kind of game you finish you go GG Molodoy specifically, you know, it's like yeah, you really felt that you got to give him his flowers
Discredit the others. I ceiling I ceiling
Nice try Jay res
Lab to cross over this time and keep all your health
It's a boon for Aurora.
Nice push for Xanterras as well.
Risky business down here versus K Serato, but it could pay off.
Yeah, he gets the drop on K Serato and nobody else inside of the tunnels, but what are
you...
Okay, he is lucky to fly.
He just runs back.
No one was behind him, uh, because they have walks over on A.
I get out long, Madger's talking about it.
I can't stop it.
by the gill, the man advantage goes up and smoke.
And that lack of an off on Woxic.
I feel like Woxic was maybe a touch out of position
because they didn't have to worry about cat necessarily.
He was there on car.
Like Xanthares just walked out mid to
to leave, but no one was there to help manager.
And so it's another 5v4 with an answer.
He's hurt, but still alive.
Just being here is going to threaten this A site for...
Yeah, this is old school. You leave one in TIT, you go back to B, and the AWP has this amazing line.
They have to, you know, they want to try to come back and get the info.
They have to just make sure around 30 seconds or 20 seconds, something that this isn't being taken,
or they gamble against it. They just assume it's a B play.
Smoke's going to start to come out. They're going to play reactive to this.
It just comes down to Soulfly and B if they want to do that.
They can't, in good conscience, just leave the site.
This smoke is bad though. Yeah, it's really bad.
Soul flies MP9, he is 4 and 13, and that is where this map could end for him.
This will certainly help.
Quick scramble for Wikipedia into middle-catching Molotoy.
What remains here of Furia in their attempt to just totally topple Aurora on Dust 2.
It's locked in inside of the bomb site, head tucked over by car.
Yuri doesn't need to pop up for now.
Don't be the first piece to get unraveled.
You can tank that.
Keep that head down. Another frag grenade's gonna get him out of there. Well done here by Aurora to get that frag.
You kindar trying to get into the cover?
Worried about the tunnels play, but two step out through the doors instead. Oh snap from Wakadia!
The retake comes through and this is a much needed moment for Aurora.
Wakadia not only with the clean kill on plat, but remember wasting no time towards top mid dealing with Molledoy.
That's what got them in on that retake.
They're enough. That was extremely clean.
I mean, they called out that Uri spot to perfectly place grenades.
There is no reason for him to peek as long as he could take some damage.
And they didn't have Molly, so those HEs had to be spot on.
No! I didn't mean that! Let's go!
Adria wants it. And they've just certain themselves an eco.
around the world. I mean, don't do it. Push long. I mean, no, no armor. So yeah. No armor.
The Wauksic's hopping. If they go cat, this would be around. Oh, don't lose this round.
You could have hit the shot. He's, you know, not totally safe. I think they just need
to keep five alive to make a real thread of like, you make a mistake. Okay. Good
Good shot, nicely landed.
Woxic turns back to collect the second.
Solid.
AKs in case Serato's hands now.
There's that looming long threat,
but Woxic doing all the heavy lifting he needs.
What are you going to do, Yuri?
Tough stuff.
Woxic turns for the 4K,
and so Woxic's the savior of this one.
Fallen.
Taking the Glock walkout middle.
Dealt with swiftly.
Let Soulfly rack up some easy kills.
There's Aurora.
Just three rounds away from overtime.
Yeah, nervous moment. It's really strange how they're like leaving Xanteras in there with
Yeah, no way to defend him the first time he got out
Got a skill and left but
Gotta still believe you're Aurora they haven't strung they had didn't strung rounds together since the first five of this map
Now sitting on a three-round streak
Push comes to shove and Aurora step it up
All the way to Suicide Santeras threatens that lower play again
This would be the third consecutive round that he decides to commit himself to it
But he'll just play on the brink of it instead
Tech nines on the approach
He's gonna catch off case or auto and he is in and out with support behind him utilities try to chase
But falling comes through with the kill off the tech nine
So ready to go fly this bill here and tether off it you've got where Katie it through the window as well
So now suddenly this tunnel push could be well timed
Molotov on Wikipedia's feet, but it awkwardly bounces behind him. So he's able to just maintain this position
Galil in the middle of it gets dropped
door threat by Yikindar dealt with and
Molotoy 50 health 1v3 is all the fury I have left to bank on
They plant good challenge Wikipedia right there unlucky Molotov the way it kind of pops up into the air that look ridiculous
Yeah, allows wakadia to go off for a couple more kills just some weird edge on the wall
But it looked like it was perfectly placed to be honest
So that clutch is huge gets them the the Glock save into a half by
Highest percentage of odd shots while standing completely still
How do you even that's gonna be making these up this I mean wouldn't the perfect one good counter strafe counter strafe's count is standing still
Oh everyone else is shoot so no, how do you I want I want the yeah, how long the science
I want a lot of body standing still yeah a frame
Where are these numbers come from?
You just wanted to write six seconds. That's why you know bad. Yeah
Serious business that is this Aurora streak four rounds and a road to get to double digits
It's a respectable score at the end of the day.
It's just that nature of Furia dominating for X amount of time.
12 round wins in a 13 round sequence.
All they've got to do now is tiptoe over the finish line, but you've got Woxic ahead
of you and he has been solid as this game's gone on.
Oh, Santerrez quick to respond to K Serato who's dropped with nothing to show for it.
You're in the out middle but still this offer is going to get caught.
Yeah, they let him drop his guard and then he's got the ball.
Pop out from catwalk.
Madger's going to try to recover it with a flash up high.
Players stuck in elbow looking to keep him on the corner but Madger and Santerrez
come back together to combine and shove this down.
Oh, they're up one from overtime.
I can't believe they pulled off that situation.
And shout out to Madger for jumping
to the call of duty right there, right at the corner of car.
Hit that headshot right after Wox got caught off guard.
That would have been full tilt.
That finish would have increased the bitterness
to a level I think we've never seen.
They thought for sure it was a mid-beat.
No way otherwise Wox, he drops his guard.
And I'm shocked he even gets away with this.
Yeah, this is a crazy comeback out of a war right now two comebacks within one game. Yeah
It was a 5-0 start to the game for Aurora, it would have to be a 6-round streak to end
regulation just to get to overtime.
Hell of an opening, hell of a close, that'll be the formula if Aurora have any chance at
winning this first map of the series has been so much that Tara's presence down
in tunnels if you're you kinder you've got to be on high alert that's not the
case this round
I like this much better you know if walks looks over here I'm sure he just
feels like I might bring me off but like I could get smoked and flashback and then I'm
useless anyway.
Xanteris has a rifle in a spot where he can be a lot more fluid.
Counter-smoking to B.
So, like...
Oh! Both out!
From Platt. Totally called.
Two players do make it through Middles.
Xanteris gonna pop that smoke open but he doesn't catch the player walking up.
He knows that there could be that threat so he'll soften one up.
Still unable to get that confirmation though.
Now, Acadia's got his third Soulfly, collects what a streak of rounds from Aurora.
They felt dead in the water at the hands of Furia, and it's a six round sequence to push
OT.
That's one of their best comebacks, man.
It's not one of their longest per se, but the quality of those rounds was absolutely
fantastic.
And these seemed to get better as the rounds went on, and it started with that double
made to Yuri on that B retake. Already such a difficult position to start from and you
saw how much energy Madgeard brought to that moment. I thought no way after what. Moldova
hasn't got a kill in any of these last rounds by the way. Good of a disappearing act.
I feel like he hasn't gotten a kill since that collateral.
He was 14 and 10.
If you're here, you better think up a solution quick, because this momentum's real for Aurora.
put out Tai Lu. We saw that match on overpass.
And down to the final round.
And a rare overtime here at this event.
Oh, little patience.
That works. Made well placed. Molodoy down to half.
Santera's waiting for the finish on Molodoy.
Button E's stoic on that corner.
M4 instead finds Fallen's head.
And Woxic peels back slightly here.
This is going to be Aurora giving space over to Furia,
but Keisarotto's locked in, catching him off!
A back turn to him with Kadia's slain.
Madger slides out and Keisarotto lifts back.
30 health left over, but what a moment there for Keisarotto
to take the first round in OT.
Or at least to set up the Woxic denial.
Sure enough, Molledoy's got it covered.
Just after that entire comeback,
and this is the round they lose,
It was such a good start to this moment.
This is great from Woxic.
I mean, but Kacerado's sitting in front of the smoke
and just walked backwards through it.
Obviously, Sopla is trying to clear it on the outside,
but every single kill, talk about a turret.
Madra had a chance to get that kill when he peeked out long,
but it wasn't a long chance at all.
Great reaction to Kacerado for getting shot in the side.
Clash set up on Long here with Woxic.
On the corner, and they're gonna try to bounce back with Flashbang catching.
Magier in transition to the corner chasing down the AWPer,
but he'll get away into the, at least cover of the CT cross and walks it, comes right back in,
plucking Kcerato off the round, no multi-kill this time.
Xanderas takes up the mantle.
Yukindar's got the trade and the bombs opened up for the cross over.
They're gonna flash again.
Low health offer sitting up above and Inferu comes with Gris.
Why, he gets the multi-kill this time,
But then you kindar burns him out from beyond the grave and while Molledoy's fallen absent as this second half went on time for the clutch
Up close, but blindsided by Soulfly
Aurora's answer immediate. Yeah, this game has it all this one goes back and forth so many ways
You think fury have this in their grasp
And it feels like no matter whoever is playing well in the beginning of the round is gonna lose
They take long control, they jump out, everyone's flying free kill to start off.
You can't, if you didn't shoulder peak that, would have got a second one.
Double lock comes through for the T, triple for the T side.
Making the most of that money.
Yeah, follow up.
Yeah, follow up.
Scott Santere is just going for the mid-peak.
What do you make of that?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
Um
They're drinking coffee, too
Triple off out of the gate for furia. I'm gonna call that absolutely uncalled for by that terrace. Hmm
Also thought it was crazy though that even when he fought in one inside that smoke on the long cross
He stuck around to fight more and then died that too was crazy
It walks right into it, falling at 45 seconds.
It's holding it like it's the beginning of a round and he gets a second frag.
That's the A site cracked wide open.
No way, Fallen, three kills into this round.
Wacadia not wasting a moment, stomps his way upwards.
Targets come to him and he delivers.
At least for the first one.
But Soulfly from the bottom of the scoreboard,
tasked with a hell of a 1v3.
And Fallen still in the corner, as long as now heard this.
He's going to keep it locked in.
Fallen on for the Quad, did he not?
Doesn't matter, he's got the reactions for it.
A 4k for Fallen in the final round of their T side
in overtime.
And so 2-1, they're half.
I got no expectations.
They let this whole streak go through.
Aurora, when the likely rounds could have maybe picked up 2
and over time.
Again, so many 4v5s won.
And I'm not even sure who's won more.
I'm going to say this does put Fury in a great spot.
They were excellent in the coming back into the first half.
I'm sure they're excited to swap sides.
You can have anything you want, big man.
to boss. You to bomb. Oh man. What are the stats on that B-trap? So many door tags.
This box it got. Who's the goat door tagger? Right back at it. Doesn't skip a beat. This
This is a double-op coming through from Furia in the first round of CT over time.
And while Molotov is making noise towards middle, that could open the door perfectly
for Fallen to walk into this peek.
Soflai gives up the angle.
We'll see how wide Fallen opts to go.
Catwalk's currently smoked while Yikindar is around the boxes, but there's really
not a lot of defense towards the site itself just yet and we're grouping up
for this cat commitment
Nate could be big yeah it's all about his timing he picks a good one
a match or near-lethally where Katie has got the first kill so man advantage
but the Kindar pops up clears Woxic off the round great head shot out of Soulfly
oh that's actually Molledoy from middle to get the kill this double lock pinch
trying to get the retake going, but Soulfly gets the pressure on the other
ropper and they never expect Wakadia to still be out towards mid. 1v3 in the
first shot connects, but Madger makes sure to keep that pressure up so Yikindar's
need be damned. Aurora, answer with the first of two needed to at least get us
to the next overtime. So another crazy series of events dropping into CT, all
those traits coming down on the A site. I had no idea who was in control of
this round I won't lie it's the first kill obviously for Aurora but when you
get your got the trade back I thought all right they're actually in a great
spot and then Sulflight instantly domes him. This thing is like a giant death
match
Now multiple ops on Aurora's side
Temporarily
Wow, that's classic.
Let's see if he can hold back.
It's still risky coming through the tunnels and 40 seconds.
They see a smoke land.
This is going to be unnerving.
Yuri tucked in on Humvee.
Utility comes over top. What can he get from this?
Okay, Serato comes back, draws the attention over.
Doesn't look like it's getting checked.
But he's only able to get that one.
Good reaction from Octavia. His second kill on the round.
Whoa. He's up to the window. He goes out.
Okay, tries to overextend perhaps.
It gives a gift over to Yaquindar who hits the long range headshot, and it's going to be a man advantage retake here for Furia.
Yeah, that might be the mistake that makes a difference, but 2v3 and a b-side with an AWP, I'm not sure who I'd rather be.
We got triple flashbangs for the retake for Furia.
No smokes, no flames for Aurora to try to stave it off, but Woxic goes in on his terms, and shaves Yaquindar off the retake.
Numbers evened out. Flash comes from over top, Madger's fully blind, Woxic misses the AWP shot.
shot back to the doors, you're welcome, you're the best.
Wikadia cracks that site open with the 2K,
so be it if he oversteps.
It's a second OT secured and a lead for Aurora.
I mean, the way that Wikadia moved into the lane,
got the two kills in the site,
and to be honest, he had your kinder
caught off guard slightly.
That was a hard fight for your kinder to win,
but when he put him down, I'm sure Wikadia was scared.
A 3v2 retake that doesn't come to fruition,
excellent round from Woxic.
And now Aurora are on map point.
They played extremely well to get here.
It's good shots from Woxic. You give it a little position on the platform.
They've earned themselves 8 map points.
Furia had 6 in regulation.
Couldn't close this down.
Already, we see the effects of that expensive op habit that Furia had fallen on a FAMAS
dwindling fallen has most certainly had his moments as this game has gone on but
this could be a tough task three players no for coming through this doorway
versus his vomit in the swing and he goes down empty-handed Zanterrez kicks
this off Maladoy called into the action he's had hot and cold streaks
throughout Dust 2 and he just wants to get back into the cover of CT cross a
minute to the clock do Aurora need two pounds it's a numbers advantage utility
advantage and a strong position with so many players out long the op continues
to let them know exactly where it's at and we get this repositioning up onto
the boxes slow crawl from long you could catch Mollidoy awkwardly here
they know what's coming but can they stop it is the question
Well, Katie is just back at Greenbox. He's gonna chill.
They c- Oh!
Soulfly sets one through the smokes and Teras gets another!
And Aurora takes their sweet time to get here, but victory merely two kills away.
On Dust2.
Furia were roaring through this map for a sequence of rounds that Aurora could do nothing about,
but they will show us resilience in the face of the resilience!
and they will rob back this map, comebacks within comebacks,
and a pop-off well-deserved as Aurora secure opening map.
I don't even know if I have words to be able to describe what we were able to see today
between Aurora and Fury, and the fact that it was only the first map as well to see
them show up, both of them ending half-time with, you know, pie, six and six there,
you think fury have this right there on map point for so long and the way that we're able to see
Aurora not only bounce back now but then win it. I mean to win what is it 10 of the last 12 is that
right? It's ridiculous. I mean I didn't I didn't really think Aurora would have had that in. I'm
usually last year's fury would have been closing that kind of game out so the resilience shown
by some of the individuals was more than impressive. I mean walks it really came online
the game. I mean, I think
he's really good. He's got
a lot of time. He's got a
lot of time. He's got a lot of
time. He's got a lot of time
towards the end of that game.
Huge difference maker. I felt
like even some of the ways
that Aurora wanted to construct
some of the rounds in overtime
were especially nice to on the
furious side. I mean, I think
scrawny and Launders highlighted
it. I mean, what was it
while it was starting 14? It
was 14 and 10 at one point,
and then I think he got four
kills for that entire
comeback. I mean, we're
ready. It is vanished. It
really seems like like
Just be honest, I fear he's going to be kicking themselves for this one slip off, you know.
Even with the style where they really fell behind 0-5, they're actually clawing their
way back, actually having so many match points, and they're actually not being able to close
it out.
Even with some of the situations they managed to put themselves in, right, you know.
They did have a glimpse of these mid-round calls, where they actually put themselves
in really favorable situations, and also the individuals pulling off some insane
plays.
But in the end, we're going to give some credit to also Arora with the way that
they actually managed to just constantly be, you know, trying to claw their way
back but also having you know the compulsion you know believing that they
could still bring back and once they come into awesome I feel like they they they
turn on again like in a completely different way so yeah our massive
massive performance yeah I want to look specifically though at how we got the
overtime because that's the most important part here right we've already
talked about how maybe furia they slip for themselves
mullidoy going missing towards that tail end but Aurora really showed up
it looked like it was all fury in that round 20
I was I was walking to the desk.
You're at the desk already.
It's a boy. See you.
I really thought that this one had ended.
I mean, what we had here was a very cool mid round from the side of fury is something that I was wanting more from in terms of falling on his return.
And it's 3v3 situation.
I do not envy Aurora in this moment.
This is such a ridiculously difficult bomb site to take, but the nades are good to unseat Yuri there a car.
And honestly, I think that was obviously the best way back into the round.
But then I would say that the instant shots to get him down.
Like it's kind of hard to even put it in a perspective there.
Just just getting dry fights like that in and being that successful on them
in a moment where they needed all the resilience in the world.
They were able to find it.
And the funny thing about this one being a good mid-run call is that
he actually doesn't require much.
Like we have Molotov sitting in pit.
He throws a smoke that's even doesn't it doesn't even cover the cross
which actually, you know, makes soul fly rotate out of B bombsite.
and he actually ends up rotating close to middle thinking,
oh, something's off, you know.
It's actually a mistake on a sole fly aside
because regardless of the situation,
even if they would have been long,
he wouldn't have been able to have pulled anything out.
He wouldn't be able to do anything.
He had an MP9, he had no nades,
he couldn't be able to do anything.
So it's also where you just want that inexperience
kind of shouts through for him.
But the fact that they have two nades to clear up,
you know, the car corner is obviously,
that's pretty huge, right?
And maybe also in theory, maybe a little bit lucky.
But I mean, that was one of the situations
where Fira looked good,
but they could have actually turned this one around.
I think I think also actually the the the cascading effects of not hating the perfect long-cross smoke is that maybe they would have like
Used one of those needs to try to break the the long-cross smoke
But because Moledoy messes that smoke up they just hold on to their nades and then they have them for a retake
Definitely feel like the information is they get the information faster than they should have gotten if the smoke would actually apply
And and it does look like it's like a little bit on it's an on-the-fly smoke
He just throws from pet you know because it's also I think like 20 seconds left on the clock
Yeah, and at that point, you know, it also has to know if you have to go line up
It also creates that you know difficulties for his team going B
But like all in all it's a good round mid round call from Furia
But it's a good way of also retain because I mean I roll whenever they win that retake you know
You can feel that they were ready to change everything. I mean it did right there
Would they win that one the momentum built to themselves?
They force over time and there was a question around pushing it over time
Okay
Now is it they're just gonna be Furia switching back on because the pressure of having that point is there anymore
and they did start strong now, but they didn't close strong.
No, we saw a couple of rounds from the furious side
where they were able to get some nice multi-frags.
I mean, K. Serato had a brilliant moment here,
and I was also counted as a post-plant,
even though technically two of the kills
happened right before the bomb was planted.
But I would say, fall in busting out
the double opt for T-side, that's a big risk.
I mean, that really kind of impedes your ability
to explode onto bomb sites
as you have one less rifler.
But then he just starts picking everybody,
and I think, okay, this is the fury of last year.
This is, this is hit, uncrolling it back.
And I was thinking, I was, I was ready to just wipe my hands
and say, okay, Fury, you're back to your old ways.
And then they don't want to sing around after that.
From this clip, I still get more disappointed
watching Aurora specifically with the first one
with K's Rattle because it just,
it's not the first time that we see that
they just get impatient.
They haven't fought, they, I think they have like a
probably three where K's Ratt drops spawn, right?
And the two guys from CC, they push up through the
smoke, which is about to fade before the guys
ready to actually pound from along as well.
Yeah, true.
It's just these small details.
I mean and and that is why I really want to be seeing a role make less of these
mistakes because if they pull up these times like sure against sure they do
they lost this one but if that's against Vitality, Maus or whatever they're gonna
be losing matches and I think they should be they should be happy and
probably was a little bit grateful for actually making it all the way back and
winning this one because they looked as a team that that looked flat and
coming into to the middle of the game so it's the real these type of
mistakes that we want to be seeing less of them around I think this is
why they really need to be to be working on some of those things.
Okay, well whilst it is one of those things you're highlighting how good Furio
Well, yeah, maybe a little bit disappointed on the side of yours. Hosh is Dupree a batter
I don't get five majors by accident
You gotta look at the details right? Oh, I think tournament is also in the details. So it that's it's what they will be looking at
And everything is probably pretty stupid, but in the heat of the moment, you know
You do come up with decisions and in hindsight, maybe you should have done something to you
But that's also the beauty of comes well
I was gonna let you redeem yourself say something nice about our ride because round 29 is where I feel like we can really
their phrases. Oh yeah I mean like you know Arora coming into this one you know
at this point you know it's the B explode again once again they're hiding
and you know he that the trades coming effectively out of tunnels and if we do
see the guy catching I think sometimes I could tell it by getting killed by this
one and once again you know we just literally just see like the fights going
back and forth and you know I feel like also boxing you know we mentioned in
being this really straight over that loves to play does to a new his
position here at Xbox really puts him in you know getting the fight into
Charles getting the facts coming out of doors and you know, it's very simple to get the guy in total
But the guy that comes out of those swings out and just wins it out for them
I think the pick though through the doors as they found themselves in the 2v3 after why katia peaked into a note
That was the x-factor for me. Yes, I would have wanted him to have it even cleaner
But I'm glad that manager was able to cover up for his miss because they had a good cross fire
Yeah, and they played it almost like kind of yes
You want the one more kill, but it was nearly picture perfect in terms of the setup
that's what I liked and also even though maybe why Katie I would argue he
oversteps there at window doesn't need to give up a free chance for fury to
get back into the round to find a man advantage back I'd like that walks it
took matters into his own hands that that single peak through door that sliver
shot that he got was game-changing. Yeah he kind of has to like he has to
salvage that situation that my kid I wouldn't say maybe through but maybe
over-saturated a little bit too much and then he salvaged out by you know
actually precision himself where he gets a frag and then goes in high behind
where he can help both windows doors but also Peter coming from Charles and that
late state around you know fury is probably also limit on utility so he
knows you will get the most impact out of it. Look you were harsh on them to
Priya and I don't want to say it rightly so you know you want to see them go
further it's kind of out of the cut you know kindness of your own heart where
you're like Aurora maybe we could brush up on those things. How exactly do you
brush up on those mistakes like where exactly would you go for something like that?
You're probably here for like refrag I'd say right? Refrag is you know
this tool where I've been using it with my previous team it's a tool where
You can really like practice pretty much everything that's related to counter strike and also team counter strike
You can even do this an individual. You know, you do have the pre-fire thing
That is the one that I think is it's generally something that's really fun to be doing
It's fun to just go on predict they you know and work on your angles
But this is important specifically as an entry fighter
You can also play aim boss if you feel like that's you know the original aim boss is not good enough for you
And if you're more of a tactician if you are the coach or maybe you are and I got it
Just love to be throwing a lot of grenades
Nader is a perfect place to go. If you want to find that specific date that you need to be throwing to where get your team to win that round
It's around 20 to 40 over time
For example, if you should probably went on to refrag and found a great double. I said, hey, no, no, no
I'm just kidding. But overall refrag is a really great tool when it comes to getting that niche that you want to be finding as a team
Shout out to Jacob. Shout out to Elise. Elise as well
I love it. You give me all
that information there. And
then it's all made in the
margins until I appreciate it
to free. But yeah, you guys
can go and have a look at
that for yourself over on
Recfrag. But I wouldn't
suggest doing it right this
moment because we're in the
middle of our series about
number two is going to be
coming up just after this
break.
And today, I don't know if you guys know the maps, but we like the map, we gambled,
and it worked, they banned and shunned, and now when we look at the maps, it's our site,
which they pick in Fernando, and it's one of the good maps, and the Dust2 as well.
So I hope we're going to win 2-0 today.
This is our hope, honestly.
I don't want to see the third map because it's going to late, you know?
So one of us has to do 2-0, or like either they're going to win or either we're going
to win 2-0, please.
He's like, please, no matter what it is, I am looking for a 2-0.
And he talks about, you know, they played that gamble on what was going to be banned.
Dad, Dustin Fern had picked up, and he was like, we're comfortable on Dust, right?
They were pushed to their limits and now I wonder what is installed for them on map number 2 in Inferno where it felt like he was even more confident.
Well, are you off of the back of having to go to overtime from Dust2?
I'm sticking with it. This is a 2-0 for Aurora.
Okay, you're sticking with it.
Yeah, I'm sticking with it. 2-0 for Aurora.
You're with Soulfly. You're like, yeah, I'm with it, bro. It's a 2-0.
I just, I mean, I thought Furia should have won that game at points, but from the beginning I was thinking Aurora had this one.
it would be it was nice to see furia return to some level of form throughout a lot of that game
I mean they had them they really had them right for the taking but then for whatever reason they just kind of fall off on
These kinds of moments, but Aurora on the other hand, they're just so battle tested at this point
I feel like watching them play inferno at the last EPL. Yes, there's still a lot of death ball
But I actually like the sometimes that they they do kind of flex into leaving some lurkers around they leave for plan B
I feel like there's a little bit more trust between Madger and some of his soldiers on the team.
So that little extra element, I feel like gives them some further win conditions than just hitting the open.
It works.
There's got to be a toggle of disappointment in the furicamers right now by letting the fresh map slip.
And now moving into Inferno.
I mean, the fact that Soulfly in a raw feels so comfortable also playing Inferno now moving into this one.
It's going to be a hard task for Fiora,
It's gonna be a hard task with Fiora, but I mean like it's it's it's never really over until it's over in Counter-Strike
Well, I mean we've seen before that you you map map well obviously it's furious mapping now
So they probably have a good idea how to want to approach it
But I mean maybe they have an answer for the deathmall. Maybe that's the cold that's the whole idea
But uh, yeah Fiora's gonna be kicking us a lot winning this one
So it's uh, it's open and I still believe that ours gonna take it
Yeah, you can't do all too much on what was map one especially when there is still a series of
Let's get on into it. Inferno is on the cards with scrawny and londas
Yeah, no more wasting time right? Let's get right back into the action
You couldn't have peeled these two teams apart at least in terms of the score mode
But the streaks in that first game were wild. That was a crazy match
Conor never finished that coffee so that kind of ruined it but apart from that lots of great moments
I'm just thinking to myself that Aurora are showing a real kind of
resilience when in the past I would see that happening that fury kind of come
back into the game and just think that's gone you know I was the most fan of
Aurora I think I've been in terms of their gameplay it looked like they finally
had their vibes on point okay even when they were there 12-8 and they won that
retake hmm and they were losing but Madger was like we're gonna win this
game now and he really yelled and they actually pulled it off I just don't
think we've really seen that no we need wins like that for Aurora for them to
just continue to evolve as one of these constants at the top of Counter-Strike. So I'm all for
it. It's also nice to see again, like in a world where you've got Wikipedia and you've
got Woxic just at the top of the charts and Xanteris is this third piece supporting it.
Sometimes Xanteris is going to win you rounds. I do still feel like sometimes Xanteris can
lose you around.
Yeah, he's like a negative energy aura sometimes, but they-
Yeah. I think he also sometimes would just like a wild push. Like we got it,
You know, like he's really flirting with harassment when it came to that lower tunnel commitment time and time again.
But then you'll do stuff like this.
In a pistol round.
And then get a second.
Sitting there with a knee to his feet.
They want to deal with him, but his threat is...
And then get a third.
Ready to go.
It's right there for the takings, Antares.
Don't let them stop you, boss.
Oh, and then he turns it into a 4k.
Where's the last Kaserado?
After Kaserado finds this a duel for free.
No, no. Nope. Just Aurora with a great round and Xanteris getting the most kills.
Their best player.
Something in the air tonight, Mohan. Aurora are riding the high of the Orialis.
Ooh! We are in the Nordics after all.
That's true. We're not far enough north, I think.
Well sometimes the Aurora comes down a little.
Sometimes it visits us.
You see it like...
It's Canada low?
Like it feels like there's certain parts of Canada that aren't even that north that you can see it in.
Drop it low.
Let's uh...
Y'all got reindeer?
Y'all got rain-
Y'all got rain-deers over here?
I think so.
Another question for the Danes.
I know your ass is guessing, that's fair.
Rainbears.
grenade to create a bit of curiosity here for Xanterras. What and who and when will come
barreling through that. Additional smoke over top for Modo. There's a good chance that Arch
Presence gets taken over by Furia. They're hoping these tech nines can shred through,
but lo and behold, there they go.
Whoa, are they ready for this? They're kind of ready for this.
Madger vs. Yakindar towards Banana.
Wukadia is just working with the FV9, has to deal with the jumping target.
Madger's gone down, but nicely touched.
Wukadia just hits the three, tucks into the corners, got bomb possession down beneath him.
Quad kills one too much of an ass.
Yeah, time is an issue. They've got to run back and plant,
but they have to protect this plant as well, and they can't do that right now.
Here it comes. Soulfly to lead the charge.
Tech 9 back out for Yakindar.
Oh, hold on! Hold on a second!
Fall in!
But that is a pop-off and a half considering only one player survives this Aurora still have to be on caution
But at least they do put up a fight in the face of a furious CT wraparound
It's not their map that they've won it four times in a row so far
They just, you know, he gave him that last map.
Anyone could have won it, 16-14.
No, I mean, there was a period in Dust2, and under terribly,
you've lost, you know, 12 rounds at a 13,
where Aurora were looking pretty quiet.
But now they're coming into this second map
with the high of pulling off that victory.
Don't believe.
Like for Woxic to pop off in a 2-0 kickoff like this,
with only one player surviving,
I mean, the energy of Dust2 is still
to be weaponized for Aurora.
And what it means is they can see the win.
They don't see the bitter defeat.
They don't see the embarrassing round losses,
and they don't see the tilt.
They see the win.
They look across and they, that's just,
that's one of those wins.
Comeback wins like that.
Oh yeah.
Build character for a team.
You just need to go through them.
If you aren't, if you're not lucky enough to,
if you just win all your games super easily.
You don't really build a bond,
you know, with your teammates in the same way.
You have to stare death in the face.
Yeah, I mean, there's very critical junctures as you grow as a team that you can't really undervalue.
One of them is comebacks like that. Another one is just being able to lift a trophy.
Any trophy at any point in the year. Aurora have done that in 2025.
Came pretty damn close to throwing it away.
We got the good rotations here. You know exactly what's happening.
I mean, here you are, tricking nobody.
I almost hope there's a flank coming in, but there's not.
Pistols are going to try to charge down the B site.
Numbers here, easy for Aurora, you'd expect.
Especially with a nice flashbang in the middle of it all set up by Madger.
Yes, sir, when Katie got a clean house, and that one makes up for the lost bodies
in the previous round.
Damn, Sid.
4 players up at the end of this one, cash made for Aurora, but it's guns up next for
the Furious Squad.
limitations is tech nine for fallen that ain't pretty
it's one of those games we really can't get ahead of ourselves because I
remember how I felt the five zero dust to start for Aurora it's different now
though because dust you happened like you can see it on various days right
So it's a heavy burden, a loss like that. Bless you.
Thank you.
Ooh, interesting.
Careful.
Missed this slightly.
Nade is good.
It's on the tech nine, though.
Get too piled up.
Some awkward movement going on as well.
Madger's dropping another Nade.
Madger's not coming over.
Does it land?
Yes.
Madger's goes.
Boom!
That's Molotoi down to 9 HP and two players damn near 50.
What are Furia thinking right now?
They're just sitting here and just taking punches.
They're just gonna walk away?
I'm thinking, man, I wish I was.
Wow, and Xeteris never rotated.
Awkwardly enough, Xeteris, maybe this is the moment he thinks, now is the time to go B?
No, he's sticking around, man.
Whoa, what if you're gonna do other going halls?
Dangerous.
Oh, no, okay, they're not.
They're just going to play Serato towards halls.
They're never expecting...
Oh, clean rifle work for Xanteris.
15 seconds, time to go.
Confirming more bodies inbound, Woxic still awaits that apartment's play,
but nobody actually plays the balcony.
It's just short instead.
MP7 gets the 1, and now still a chance for K Serato.
Bomb plant commitment comes out 2v1 for the retake.
Kcerato's got a double kill already
and both players stomping their way up short.
This retake's special.
Oof, it was right there.
Perfidia straights out and another one player
survived situation as Aurora go up 4-0
with both Wukadia and Zantares at a 7-1 start.
Dude, I mean, it comes down to one kill.
Sure, lots of damage done.
But the majority of this round was
Furia not doing that control taking car
Eating like six HG grenades to the face and then going back to a with very little time
And at no point did Aurora even rotate a third player to be nope. They didn't believe it for a second
The crazy part is here we're clearly going to go beat they were not trying to fake at all, but the names were so good. Yeah
That's where you kind of have to have a bit of blind faith if you decide to play that
B site as they did with the nades they did
Right back to it
This is impressive stuff that Nate's gonna hurt too
Oh, he's got second needs another idea
Nice pair though
Yeah, no Katie doesn't want any of that
I keep punishing them for any desperate moves being so careful with their utility
Coming back to bananas the smoke fades your kinder tip of the spear
He's gonna go for that swing.
It's a big departure.
Gotta make sure you don't get killed here, Wakadia's got them chasing behind.
Very safe, man. They really wanted to jump on this.
Wakadia could die if he's not careful, but...
That's welcoming. That's inviting them in for the commitment.
Careful now.
Smokeredade comes down.
More utility comes out for the Aurora squad, but there's a push.
Ya kindar right inside of it caught out.
And Wakadia's gonna go through!
Good chance of damage.
Madger takes his place. Good rip around with a player in the site.
in the site and Molo-Doy still keeps this thread. Great spam out of Xanteris to take control of the
situation. And they were playing retake for a second, but they were on the same page in terms of
making sure that that bomb does not go down. No chance here for Keisarotto. And I much prefer
that to seeing a retake setup, honestly. Especially when they're that close to the action.
That was well done for Makadia, not really for the kill, but just how he shoulder peeks,
stayed alive, got a smoke out, jumped up.
Aurora like sort swallower is playing very dangerous games this round.
Like the moments here come down to milliseconds.
The smoke grenades just up in time.
That crossback from Makadia, like you said, that he could have gotten killed on.
It's also Furia are desperate though, they're playing desperate CS like they're trying to
keep every single timing.
They want these rounds to be easy and fast.
That's not going to happen.
No.
Now make no mistake, they were close to winning.
They were close to getting that bomb down but they didn't actually do it and they throw
it all these fast plays, they get shut down.
I mean how many more are they going to do?
How much more ready is Aurora going to be the next time they try that?
extended pressure and they do it, but delayed.
They'll pop out through brackets.
Furia quick chase towards Wauksick.
Isn't really even had a chance to get that op shot off.
Good utility again, right?
Just cautious, Aurora, as they stack up inside of the bomb site,
let Zanterres go to the door.
And he'll find Keisarotto.
That's the AKDec.
Beautiful sequence out of Zanterres.
As Yuri's tech times, the only thing to find an answer
and one frag, all he's going to get,
Aurora will not take their foot off.
He's smiling.
Dude, he ripped through them like a piece of paper.
It was instant headshots.
That looked like one of his CSGO clips.
Like what is that third spray?
This is the roar you want to see every day.
Can we just say that?
I've never seen them so happy.
and it was earned and it, you make the comeback like that.
You ride that high.
Yeah, I mean, when you're that hopeless
and then you win, imagine what that feels like.
It's a sauna and then a cold shower, you know?
Sex and then a cigarette.
Okay.
A coffee at 11 p.m.
What have you got Furia?
It's crazy how much utility damage and everything they've avoided on B, I mean they've been fighting
for it and managing to avoid all the damage at the same time.
Here's another flash, and it's three-spotted.
Does feel like with how close they've come to just getting enveloped by those nades, that
they are playing dangerous games here on the B site.
They need something lucky.
They need to get a spam, run through this, do something.
Clean gets away with the double kills
Over to the rifle that's where Fallen's gonna end him, but now you've got Woxic back site off ready. They're caving K serato left up
tries to climb over
Pressure on the offer back site beautiful shot for K serato and now the pressure over towards soul fly
Yeah, he could absolutely win this but it pulls K serato back to grab the bomb
He'll get that with 15 seconds to the clock fakes it out once but working with 47 healthier
Well now they can run at them one at a time
he's gonna go for another fake this is oh you got a month bro oh my god he
gets to kill at least but he misses it on the timing case Serato thinking he's
in the plant zone what in the oh god I guess after that he just thought there's
no way even can get the plant so it has to be a fake but whoops oh they're
making mistakes now yeah but also like look at the mini map when you put
there coming for this attack there is no map control it is there run
from a bee smoke, they are totally folding here.
It is crazy that you can plant in the water, but not on the edge of the fountain.
Yeah, that's fair enough.
But you can plant outside of the fountain and inside of the fountain.
Why can't you plant there?
Doesn't make sense.
That's a great- Yeah, that-
Maybe he didn't click and he was just messing with you.
Will that be crazy?
So much damage, so much damage on those last few bullets and that might matter because
the B site for now is open.
Felt like an inevitability, Fury would break down the doors at one point but-
Oh, what a bang!
What is that?
The backboard, Yuri blown to smithereens, Aurora are stomping Fury up.
They hesitated for a second and that hesitation cost them one more body, Madger here to
Hang back on the coffin's angle. It's like the worst beatdown that we've ever seen fury again this iteration. It's crazy
The effects of a close affair back on dust two
Four kills from the back of sight that one is revenge
All right, never mind. It's all fun and games. Okay. Serato kicks your ass
The score they were doing such a good job. I had to like that seven one
the second one mag 4k of today last ones versus an eco
what a bounce
is destroyed both ends of the totem pole two different ways now
Yeah.
Woxic pulls out the auto shotgun after seven rounds in a row.
Furia have been getting kills.
Yup.
That's what I mean. It's all fun and games until you let Furia break back in.
It's this momentum.
It's the same five players that were able to put a 12 out of 13 round sequence on the board back on map 1.
I can't believe the energy on this team right now.
I've never, I don't think I've ever seen Aurora glow like this.
Auto shot gun flick.
After Cesarado's four-head bolt, good night.
Layered up, covered each other perfectly.
Nice round soul fly.
Like it never happened.
Woo!
It's awesome.
It's so awesome.
Sometimes it's hard to watch Aurora win because like, because like Santa
is you don't even know if you'd be happy about it makes it hard to cheer for it to be honest
but they're going to be like this and they're going to play this well too.
It's ironic because it shows to see us that a lot of us watching have seen them play
But sometimes it feels like they don't even believe they can do it.
Sure, maybe they don't have the same ceiling as some of the other top teams.
This is another grand finalist, another tournament threat.
And what a statement victory if they can really maintain this kind of a lead over Fury at the night.
Santerra's in Wikadia tearing you limb from limb
Easy pickup. Oh so good
Fong chucked into the corner as well. That's gonna make it awkward Woxic missed opportunity to maintain that control
Doesn't know you came down sliding. Oh team flash bro. Oh was it? Yep
Yep, that's a team flash thrown by Mollidoy as he falls back, I think.
No, no, how would he have done that?
Or he flashed in the corner?
It's possible. I was thinking it was Library.
It was a Soulfly flash, never mind.
Soulfly flash.
I thought Mollidoy threw when he fell back.
Yeah.
That's alright.
I was ready to play the Blame game.
Honestly, he had that figured out anyway.
And there's Xanataris clean 2k running through those smokes.
And now Aurora not even popping off because I don't, you know, they expect to win now.
It's actually getting a little too easy.
And dude, how many smokes are Vera going to run through?
You said this kind of run through a lot of smokes now.
it was a team flash yeah correction line they've clear they've clarified pretty
yeah it was a team flash ah yeah so he turned around into it or what happened
oh no he got flashed and turned around yeah okay you got a chuck for it to pop
above arch but it's still clipped you kinder so full blind stuck along the
wall fortunate. It's one of those like scrambling kind of runaway flashbangs.
It's just the kind of mistake you start making when you're down 9-1 you know.
Running through smokes when the pressure is on. So we'll fly back through
Could still blindside a couple. Nicely done by you, Kindar.
Using that tech nine for the double kill.
Get the guns over, and we'll see if Furia can hang on to the post plant.
Xanterras off is coming in on a retake.
Looking for any round they can here, Furia.
Aurora, brink of double digits. 3v3 retake demanded of them, and Xanterras with the op.
Don't do anything you'd regret here, Furia.
Time will win you this round.
He walks it's the kid in the situations and Tara's walk past the other kids. So he's not oh no nevermind grab one
We've got Molladoy back new box
He's got to come through now with the clutch and he will they land up for him a second round secured here by Furia
They just catch timing versus Aurora towards the B site at least once but with only one more round to go
Yeah, it's nothing super silly here. It's like both players coming into con don't get a 2k
Otherwise be pretty okay in that position
And they also gave over guns while they did it
But as we could see has gotten expensive or haven't just been banking money every single round win
So while they do have an opt for Woxic
They also have a 57 on the Soulfly and I would push go mid interesting
Honestly after the half they've had this is earned
But now a bit of an over chase didn't get Molo do it while he was blind
He regains vision and with it a 5v4
There is a third round to be had here for Furia.
And again, they don't rotate toward they don't like responding to to B place
At least not with theory, but it does look like a roar gonna actually turn this into a mid-peak at some point
Keering up for it right now that bomb floats the bottom of middle
Pretty split I feel like there's no actual
What's the main plant the bomb is watching a big push while the B fake is happening. I guess and they're still not moving
Statue-esque our Aurora at the moment.
Yeah, kinda hard reading this.
Ventera's toys with it queues up that peak off the 5-7.
They still want to go A?
Soulfly's still sitting inside of Boiler.
Bomb is locked into this A commitment.
They still want to go A.
5-4 advantage, 5-7 bullet bent around the edge.
Soulfly's still maintaining control.
A spray that goes to perfection.
And Soulfly's got himself the multi-frag now.
Moledoy, late trade, double digits Aurora.
Bora, both hands on this game since the victory on Dust2.
Full control on Inferno.
In 2026, so far, one team that is really close to becoming a really strong team is, I would say, FOOT.
Dust4, I think it might be FOOT.
I think the team foot put it the biggest underdog of this year season, whatever.
The young team previously not be junior, so a bit of a closer relationship to them than some other teams.
I play against them a few times and I could see the way they're playing.
They're playing with confidence, they're playing with a very nice structure,
but they're also playing with aggression with carelessness.
When I looked at the demos, I thought, oh, they're doing a lot of aggressive things,
but it's all planned to a bigger macro call by the coach.
They're a group of players who are playing with each other for a long time
and they do have a coach who is making them playing together.
They have a great individual skill and also they have a structure.
I feel like Puleo is doing a lot for their success.
Overall I just think that they're on the come-up to making playoffs,
making huge upsets in tournaments.
I guess even the elite teams, they won mouseports in the last playoffs they played
and I think that it's a dark horse type of team.
They show that they can play against anyone, so if they just do a little bit more, I think,
as you said, they can become a really strong team.
I think they're going to be top 8 at the Major.
I think they're going to go to the playoffs.
I think them at the Major will have so much motivation to showcase themselves,
that people miss out on them.
I've seen them develop for the past year.
How they grind for the title is reminding of what we saw in COVID times, the old Gambit lineup.
Now they skyrocketed and stayed on the top but they could never win.
And I think Futs' way of grinding to the top is probably the most selfie
because they take step by step by that.
I think they enjoy the training way more than them going straight into a final
and they believe now they're the best.
To throw out some other names, how do we think about Paravision?
The Ketanova Paravision, I wouldn't consider them really as underdogs.
I think they already proved that they're a really strong team.
So that's why I didn't mention it, because they already won a tier one event
and they made the playoffs in some other tier one events.
So I would say that they were under the X-Made a few months ago,
but now I think they kind of prove that they're a real tier one team.
I think Parv is not underrated.
I think this is to be expected for them to be even tournaments now.
I know that players have lower name value,
but when you win a tournament and you have ground in your way
and play pretty good CS, it is to be expected at this point.
It might be that there's only a foot that will surprise people.
Right now, I think there's a lot of teams that are interesting,
but not enough for me to mention in the scenario where I think it would be a little major.
Your spring up a big win yourself,
is this possible you could go on a run over the next few weeks?
Yeah, I would say that we are a good contender.
We didn't face the, so to say, elite teams,
so I think the win we just had,
it gives us the opportunity to, you know, step it up a notch.
And when we faced elite teams, to beat them as well.
Still lights out Counter-Strike coming out of Aurora, who feel like they are just vibin' off of that Dust 2 victory.
It was a nail-biter for them to manage to pull that game into overtime and close it.
Inferno? A different story.
Very.
Now, you know, Aurora earned his good on T-Side.
Um, Furia only have two rounds, so that shouldn't necessarily matter.
They can't randomly streak.
We've seen some weird games from Furia in the good end, the bad, in terms of how they
can streak back into things, but it would take Aurora falling apart based on what
we've seen.
So let's keep an eye on this pistol critical moment here for Furia.
It's made.
Damage is all five.
Doesn't get much better than that.
Bull blow an exec over top.
K. Serato trying to keep himself slim by the pillar.
Oh!
K. Dude, he's had some.
Oh! What are you doing?
What are those shots?
Animalistic.
Are you?
Ha!
Even he has to take a breath
We saw that 4k on an 8k in the first half of case Serato and this is one of his best clips ever
Surgeable precision on these shots not one bullet missed within those four
I was so incredible first French that's one of the best pistol
Highlights ever that was unbelievably robotic that was
Zanteris on Royce God pistol rounds man. You just sometimes you just don't see that shit coming
But a full reset of the situation off a play like that is that kind of a moment enough
To kickstart a furia who have just come into this second map what seemed like as a flat line
I mean they'll be talking about it
Aurora do have to find a way now
To just remove the joy from curia after that
It's insane
And that one eco 4k from k serato and does do that was cool
And the 4k in the b-site that was awesome that 4k pistol
It's going in the books for his clips
Out of nowhere
I'm so happy that Aurora didn't buy we can just sit here and think about it for another round
Same thing that they are one more time one more time
Before the game gets up back underway just just one more time
well dude it's so clean for bullet K dude he's had some
oh what are you doing
horrify who are those at the violence
gross in all the right ways
I can't even think about the rest of the game. I'm still stunlocked.
I'm telling you Aurora had moments like that. Aurora is going to be thinking. I mean,
Kisarada's had his telesteam mates about that. Right. Everyone got to see it.
But Aurora are lucky that they didn't see that or else they'd still be stuck thinking about it.
They know something spectacular happens.
They don't know just what that was.
I mean, like, they're still kind of shell shot.
They can hear the ammo.
That was very few bullets used for that.
That's like a car crash for Aurora.
They get up.
The adrenaline's still running.
They don't realize their arms have fallen off.
This is the final test for Aurora.
Yeah, still.
They come back now.
That'd be something.
But Santeris is going to try to make quick work
at the A site.
Yuri's chance for the multi-frag.
Moledoy jumping around in sight is here to help out.
Xanterra's in magic of the 2v4.
It's quick moves from Furia,
and they've got bomb possession here towards Pit as well.
So this one really sucks the life out of Aurora.
As we hit 35 seconds, Furia will be on the brink
of making the most tremendous CT side come back yet.
Xanterra says, gotta let this one go.
Brick by brick this one built on the foundation of K serato's excellence
It is just the 4k though, so get over it. I mean God
Imagine if that was an Ease
It's nice from Yuri from the bottom of the board with the 2k. Yeah, it's hard to compete with what that pistol round was
But a very clean execution of the pit hold
One more time
Oh, I mean the first shot is the first shot the best shot. Yes. Yes, it is. Oh, you just knew I
Was about like that first shot just remember when case or auto had the t-side entry pistol. We would be replaying the first shot
There's that block kill case or auto had once when he was entering B bomb site
He had no cross-eyed fountain what licked 45 degrees that one was nasty and that's all I thought about with the first shot
But then those four I
Mean he didn't miss a bullet in between
animalistic
Five rounds the gap Aurora losing in a gun rounds
Yes, one more time. Oh man look at that Flick dude, oh
So small that picture in picture, dang and yet you can still bask in the glory or a Colorado
I mean we could just keep that running for the rest of the game if you guys want.
Yeah, it'll be like our subway surfers.
Or someone cutting plate up.
Whoa Yuri, it's turning up.
Well headshot for Santaras, the apartment's pushed, shocked at its tracks.
Only Wikadia of the three able to find a kill in Majors 30 health
is not going to have him taking a chance at this bomb.
So you think that AK is too valuable?
but no saves guaranteed either so furia within four rounds of aurora now
come on play the clip again
oh two hp no time crazy that is even still here but maybe thinking he gets flanked
So I think this is where sort of the game begins because losing a pistol and losing a first rifle it happens
But it's not about what happens about how you respond to it
Still without a round win on the second half of this game Aurora stagnate at 10
Furia tiptoe their way closer to a tied game.
Aurora are so close regardless of this four-round sequence out of Furia
You can just got 11 grand what it's gonna be a tough go of it back down the way. Yeah
$8,000 on fallen as well
Okay, Serato takes a swing into brackets.
Whoa, no idea.
He appeared into the smoke.
He missed it.
Yeah, totally.
Now all of a sudden Fallen is going to get pounced on.
Wackadia.
The raft's coming in fast.
Maladoy could save it with an off shot, but he misses instead.
They're turning it into a B-Rip raft.
Fuck inside of the A site.
You've got Wackadia.
Deep CT spawn.
It's the perfect call.
I mean, you kinder.
He can be slowly hunted down.
If he goes into con, he can stay here.
They just want to go ahead and take the site.
The CT rotation is so slow, they have no where they think they can go for sure.
Madger still locks down Library as well, this would have to be a kindar to save it.
And keeping himself on 100 HP sure as hell helps.
But Madger inside of Library, will Kase-O-Auto be ready?
No, sir.
Blindsided by an upgrade for the in-game leader of Aurora as the bomb goes down.
And now Yuri wants a piece of the action.
If he can get this kill, then the retake could get going, but instead Madger holds
his own.
And now they know your kindar is here, there's one flanking.
They don't have technically eyes on banana for now.
You can go to his already out of this.
Madger is on a tear with a triple kill in this post plant, not even near the bomb site.
Well, that's him leading from the front.
That gets things back in order here for Aurora.
Because of their 10 round CT side, they are still this close to victory 2-0 tonight.
No matter what happens, a lead's a lead.
You can make a lot of money, but you're the one who has to come up with so many ideas.
So no matter here for Fury, they'll buy you right back into it.
Crazy gap that Wakadia finds.
He stands inside the R-Trap smoke, doesn't get spotted on the mid-clear.
Of course Fallen's guard's going to be down.
His teammate saw nothing.
For a split second, there was a sliver of wakidia on Kaserato's screen just passing between the pillar, but it's such a minor detail.
Goes unnoticed and costs furia around in a situation where they don't have much margin of error.
Luckily for them we highlighted it the money still very high instant rebuy with all the bells and whistles and the off still on
Molladoy
You can dark boys to take action here towards banana full belt of utility
Costly death if he goes down. This is the guy that we have to watch for this comeback for sure
He's gonna be taking the duals
He's burning, burning. Oh, he's dead, man. They covered that entirely.
They spray through, they connect to what was left of him, charred by the flames. Fallen
dropped a half and Wikati attaching a headshot on a killer piece of Furia's comeback attempt.
Hacerado's dead, Fallen alone calls Mollidoi to come join him and this is all while Aurora
stands five strong.
Gonna have all the money in the world but now you're staring twelve in the face
if you don't stop this.
And there's pace to it.
So a much needed shot by Mollidoy to try to even out the odds.
Fallen's got a frag to pop open smoke.
What more can they get?
The line-up's there!
But the frag comes back for Aurora!
And the bomb plant undeniable now!
No reason to save, really.
I mean, I... actually...
Yeah, I mean, no, it's only a kinder with all the money left over.
They don't get this op into the next rounds.
That'll have to be re-bought.
And Aurora... stand strong.
Map and match points secured off the back of this one
Took them only to their second gun round on this T side to break through Furia's defense
Look no further than wikadia on this round another map where he is leaving his impact
And again becoming a real talking point about this Aurora success story
Awkward one for you, Kindar.
Like you said, we had to keep an eye on him.
Something was gonna go well.
It should have been off his back, but the incendiary in his feet and just enough of
a spray to come through to deny any kind of reposition.
It's only going to be Heroics that gets fury of these rounds then.
Call it a day.
Aurora are two dialed.
For that to be the only thing you have to offer.
on the fragging core right now and it's not even really Woxic on board with it.
Wikipedia's Antares' Madger, all pretty handsome score lines right here.
So it'll take even more impressive comeback for Fury to bring this just over time.
Yikinder loses his best chance to defend B. He's got an MP9.
The maze has been so good for Marora. Both sides of Banana now.
And they have to be nervous about standing here, we saw that late round reclaim utility.
Pouncing on it now, even with the low HP, wakati is happy to just give his life away
for the cause.
He kinder happy to sweep him away, popping open the cross mode, but not finding any further
contact.
He's looking to set that plant spot ablaze.
No, it's the Frag instead, Lamps on Soulfly, chips him down to half HP,
Ykinder wants to dive this, he's gotten on towards Banana, but Madger finds his head turning.
That's a wrap.
And Santerrez is going to keep them at bay, a 4v2 for Aurora, who come off of a nail-biter of a comeback
over on Dust2 and never truly let Fioria back into this game.
It took one of Keisarotto's best highlights ever to even give them an iota of hope.
Here on Inferno, Cacerono trying to combine with Yuri, but they're slaying and that is it, Aurora back to playoffs!
Nothing but playoffs at S tier events so far in 2026.
This team is healing wounds and returning to the top of Counter Strike this year.
Well there we have it, a 204 Aurora is just...
I don't, like, you guys are almost convincing me that this would have just been Fury or Britain all over it.
And then when we saw just how close the dust was for it, yeah, ultimately Inferno was the story and the tale of Aurora.
SoFly must be happy now, you know?
Yeah, he was just too old.
And at the same time, we also did get to finish off Inferno with a five-man death ball from Aurora.
So, hold on, they're handshaking to Aurora. They played a really great match.
I really feel like the team play was really on display on the side of Inferno.
I really feel like they had so many good reactions.
Whenever they get pushed off, they had the reaction,
they had this quick adjustment to what they could do,
apart from that the individual showing up
and they just had a really good understanding of how to approach it.
But on the other side, Fjord looked, on that T side looked shell shot.
I think they decided to go for it.
They didn't look great.
No, they didn't.
I mean, the thing is that they went for these very aggressive rushes.
I had 122 and I hit the eight bombs that's fast, but it literally only was come down to the hero plays of winning and mostly in this case
I mean a lot of credit obviously goes to Aurora for the way that they were able to react to the fast plays of fury
I'm surprised that fury decided to play that style into an Aurora team where I mean
There's definitely things that you would want it improved when they play some of the elite teams
But if you're just gonna run set pieces into them, they have the reactions. They have the counternades ready
players are setting up very nicely now we're gonna watch it joining us you're
listening into the last tale and a bit of what Maui's saying there do you agree
what he's saying yeah other things you need to change before you come up against
the tier one teams is he's so cool coins them the elites the elites are the
elites yeah they lead once to know yeah if you're right that's you gotta put
and credit to that?
Yep.
For sure.
Okay, great.
That's a good question.
Don't worry about that.
But how are you feeling, Moxic?
I'm feeling great that we managed to make the playoffs and also one of the best teams
against that we played really well, I think, about the communication-wise and also helping
each other and understanding the rounds and having a great game plan before the game.
I think we did well.
I'm happy in the end.
I think you did amazing, by the way.
I have to say sorry.
I know you're gonna ask for free, but like, just how,
how do you go through overtime on a comeback like that,
on Dust, right?
Let's talk about it.
You guys were down and what felt like at,
you clutch it up in round 20,
and then you go into overtime.
Yeah, I mean, it was 12-6?
Yeah.
12-7, 12-7 when you ended up clutching it, yeah.
Okay, so after that, like,
we just say to each other, guys,
for round by round, this is not like,
nothing much left, we can do it.
And after that we won one more round, they became eco.
So after that, run by run, when we just start to win and we just start to have the feeling
of the comeback that we can make it.
Also we have been made, I think, in the previous tournaments against Australia as well.
So we had the kind of same feeling and nobody stepped down from the game and I thank you
for my teammates that they were always believing that we can still do the comeback even if
we are playing against the best teams in the world, one of the best teams.
But yeah, faith, believing is everything.
Moving on to Inferno, it really looked like you guys really hit a good spike of individual
players, but also the team play just seemed to be really rolling for you guys.
It looked like you had some of the best reaction, like you were flashing for a while, you had
the right rotations.
Did you feel that flow on the CT side specifically, Inferno?
Yeah, yeah, for sure, because when also you are, as you know, when you are leading
like 6-7-0 or something, you're just having more confidence because there's not much
to lose anymore.
So you are not scared of getting flashbacks, asking for flashbacks, or just less strafe
together or less push together.
And I think this has helped us, we need to play like this, like confidence, as well when
we play against anyone.
I think today it was like one point, the mid-round calls as well from the players that in CT
like for example, let's push long together or let's retake from short or less to the
flashbacks and start 3D and re-fighting back.
And again, we're just re-fighting back again.
kind of thing that I think was on point. And that's why we changed them and hunt them. I think.
So when we move on to the T side, I would say that your guys signature sort of plays are more just
grouping up, hitting a bomb side together. It's how you won the game, in fact. But there was
a round in this T side half that I felt like you guys masterfully played this one. You had
this A play where it felt like you had Wikipedia in this long side smoke and he gets this
timing on falling. And you guys are going to set you're setting up for an A wrap. And
But as soon as he gets that kill, you can see that you guys just pause
and you make this great mid-round read where Vaikadir slips into CT here.
You guys back up to B. What are the comms like when you're making a call?
The comms at the start were so chaotic because when the MOLU came, we couldn't hold his short
and we said, bro, short aggro, he's going to kill you from behind.
I think that's why he went inside the smoke and waved like this
and that's why he cashed the timing because probably the short guy said nobody
went out long I have the mid control I think it was Molotov that he did repeat from there
so I think it's it's made us to get the advantage and also when he killed it I think it was
Serrata or Fallen? Fallen is one of the B player and Mayer just instantly said that
guys there's a B player we need to go back to back to back B and at same time like Vickedia
just did the mid call as well like he said I'm sneaking to CT so we didn't do any steps
and we just started to walk down towards B so I think that was a good call from Mayer
in the mid-round.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like we're seeing a little bit more of that.
And I want to ask, on Mayer, what do you think about his improvements as an in-game leader?
I mean, we know he's on the older end, but it actually really does feel like this year.
I've noticed your guys mid-rounding has actually improved.
Yeah, I think he's personally doing really well about doing the mid-round calls right now.
He's like in a great shape about his brain, I think.
because as far as you said, like in the back in the days, it wasn't like this too much.
But now he's probably more focusing on the mid-calls and everything.
Like there is no age of learning, doing something.
So I think I'm glad that he's still capable of even his age of 35.
He's just not too old.
The 30s are the best, right?
Yeah, I mean, he has like so much experience
and he just keeps combining the things that he is having.
Yeah, and I think he made the amazing job today as well. Agreed. I agree totally agreed
Yeah, it feels like you made like work of fury there
But now at this year's win you guys are going to run a dab. Are you excited? What any plans for Rotterdam?
Not actually, we're winning the trophy
No, I like it for sure there and you're gonna be coming up against now be in your final group stage
Best of three. Do you want to give us any teases for it?
You know that rematch from the Grand Finals a week ago?
We need to get the revenge.
Doesn't matter.
It's affecting on anything, but we need to beat them.
That's it.
Your pride is on the line, Wuxic.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Congratulations again.
It's so much fun to get to take your brain there.
I'll let you go.
I'll let you go and join the boys of Aurora,
because it is getting late tonight, all right?
They had a late start to their series,
but I already said it there.
Aurora making a light work of Furia
and looking forward to getting to have that revenge,
that much needed revenge, Wuxic
is coining there against Nabi when it does get time to be there.
Yeah, they're going to be looking at that revenge, you know.
I mean, it's a little bit of a matchup that doesn't
have the same kind of importance as the one
that we play in the Grand Finale.
But it's always nice to try and get a bit of revenge
from when you just lost to them.
It happened many times in my career as well.
But it's like, I think right now,
they're just looking at them being proud of what they have.
You know, they once again made it to the playoffs.
And the way, the fashion that they beat Fjord today
look good, maybe you take a little bit of the down-swing on those two, but Inferno was masterclass
in so many ways. So I mean, they should be taking that, going to Nive with a lot of confidence,
see how things pan out, but at least they made the playoffs and they've been doing great.
I've been extremely critical of Madger in previous years leading up to ESL Pro League even at times,
but if he's going to be able to make mid rounds like he actually did in the Pro League playoffs
and what he's showing already at the group stage here for Rotterdam, then that changes
whole story of Aurora. If he's finally finding a way to level up the calling side of things,
it actually adds an X factor that I didn't know they necessarily had within them,
because I feel like we've been beating this drum for a while. At least I have about
they need to change. They need to have lurkers. They need to mid-round a little bit better
instead of just five-man death ball. And they still got the five-man death balls,
as we see on the very final round of this game. But now they also have this extra
element of Madger making really strong live reads and that's actually a very scary prospect
for the other elite teams because we know Aurora, they've always been shooters, but they just get
outplayed tactically. Now they're outplaying other teams tactically. That was never a win
condition before. It's nice to see it. Aurora is bordering their horizons. It feels like there
is so much more on the cards for them in 2026 and there is so much more for them at Blast
Open. For Fury, they're going to have to be looking at a different road if they want to
be making it to Rotterdam. Now they fall down into that lower bracket but it doesn't go without
giving them praise too, especially Quesarado and Inferna. He tried. He really tried, he kept
them in it. Let's be real, let's look at this. Do you think he's pulled up maybe the high
level for you so far? Was that the USP kill? The whole year.
The whole year. Mikaze's ace at pro league was probably my highlight of the year. But
just look at the snap. The snap is this one. In terms of pure speed and aim. One
One more time, one more time.
Run it back, run it, I love it.
Oh, he's overreacting.
I know, he reacted.
React harder.
He did, yeah.
Oh, we get it one more time.
I mean, like, just the snap of this kill,
it looks like he almost just put his mouth up there,
and then the anchors, you have the two left.
I just see it.
That would be my reaction as well.
He's like, of course that's so hard.
What else am I supposed to be looking at?
So it was in my way, like, mom, put it on the fridge,
like, frame it, this is it.
I mean, you got to be proud of that.
And it really did.
It started amounting for them.
I had such a great start to that T side again. Not enough, but now my goodness. It was beautiful to watch Xbox record that
Was that even really a thing?
No, it happens there
Let's look at our bracket though because we've had so much fun and action going across today that we need to have a deep dive
Into it we get to reflect a little bit more because group a playing again, right?
We saw them two days ago where they had that initial way of sorting themselves in that upper bracket down to the lower bracket
And what it started off with was energy coming up against bait where energy saw themselves come in
They were in a whole different form from when we saw them two days ago
Clean 2-0 and that unfortunately meant bait was one of our first teams to say goodbye to blast open
based on looking to you know, incorporate CC into the team and being you know that kind of
team that can still have a say against the best teams in the world.
I don't think it will ever be like a team that's going to contend for titles,
but it sure does seem like it's a struggle.
But on the other side, actually, you know, really having a good day today,
and it was good to see that also North American counter strike
can play a little bit of a good counter strike by me.
Grimm solidifying himself on this team.
So I'm happy about that, because there's a case to be made right now
that he might be the best player from America.
I'm looking at you, Elise, too, but Grimm's making a case.
He's definitely mounting something for himself there.
their road ending there. It
is going to be a long side
phase as well, who unfortunately
saw their departure from blast
open Rotterdam here. But that
won't all three maps. It was a
real nail biter. We can even see
an overpass just how close it
really was for them to be able
to push themselves just a little
bit deeper, trying to get more
of those much needed BRS points.
I'm going to be real. The end
of the third map helped a
little anticlimactic in a way.
I'm happy for Tyloo. I'm happy
for the fact that we get to
see more jam young moving
through this tournament, but
tournament, but after fighting the all their whole way back phase to lose in a pretty I'd
say favorable 2v2 post plan at the tail end. I'd say it kind of told the story for a lot
of this series that individuals they found their moments to chime in. You had a couple
good Jacob rounds, a couple good twist moments frozen was consistent as always, but not enough
to get him over the line and finishing up, you know, with the game that we've been
talking so much about the game that you, Maui, have now been talking so much because
Because Nabi has been playing against Pelkens.
It was a...
combination, wasn't it?
Yeah, for sure, you know. It's definitely...
it was a game that had it on the line for both teams, you know.
Q-Sugai barely making it here and actually coming in
and showing a great face of himself in the first map.
But in the end, it was actually Nabi who pulled through
despite a really bad start to the series.
We had Makasa playing incredibly well.
We also saw Bit and Wonderful having their say
to why Nabi has now evolved into a team
that is now actually fighting for, you know,
for the titles. And the Falcons once again
You're gonna be looking at your clone the way back inside the tournament button nothing short for them
But nonetheless, it's been interesting. This is such like a non factor thing to point out
But it's 12 30 like if it's past midnight you got to give me an excuse here
The factor was 13 9 9 13 and 9 13 really it's just something good in my brain. What does it mean?
Navi
Get the conspiracy theorists on this one
We need a little bit of list lesson placing on Navi, please
But they want it Maca's a stop is wonderful's goats. When will he be yours?
When I don't know. We'll figure that out
six majors later
So let's have a look at tomorrow's schedule all right
You guys know what you get to look forward to because our day number three is coming to a close
but day number four has all of the action of group B on the line for themselves. It's
going to be a similar story like today where we start off with some elimination matches
and you might not think that looking at the fact that Maus is playing one of those first
two tournament first two matches sorry but they will be going up against 90 that's
then going to be followed by our upper bracket matches parry vision spirit Mongols and
what you're gonna do. If you
get it, I mean, it's that
kind of vitality. Liquid Nip
That's your one. Someone's
got to get it together. Yeah,
someone's got to get their
act together. The bags have
been dropped here like one of
those two teams has to pick
it up. I mean, Nip are right
now. I think they're fighting
for major life. I think they
need to actually start winning
some series to make sure that
they solidify themselves at
it because there's some teams
that are really right on their
heels and actually some of them
The last two months like they're just barely staying alive in the whole yeah major imitation range, right?
In the end of day, you know, I have to be honest. I'm looking forward to see Mongols go up against my town
You know, it's also a man. Someone mentioned it. It's a match that we've been we've seen a lot
You know, it's gonna be interesting if a monk is actually gonna put up a fight against the best team in the world
And obviously with Cobra Sarah coming in and everything can happen. I'm excited for that one
But yeah, ultimately we always got a praise mentality about what they are, but we'll see how things will see if that's the case
after they fight the Mongols yes that's right and that's something that you guys get to look forward to tomorrow for now
It's saying goodbye midday games start again for our day number four
We'll see you there for the blast open-roader down