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BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026 - Semi-Final - Vitality vs Aurora, NAVI vs PARIVISION
03-28-2026 · 7h 22m
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We have some more Counter-Strike action coming up for our second day here at the Ahoy Arena.
In fact, I think production is pretty much ready to get started, so let's see who makes
it to the grand finals for our second day of the Blossomia Open Rotodam.
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It's semi-final Saturday! How we feeling Rotterdam?
Welcome back once again to the Blast Premier Open 26.
Now, of course, yesterday felt like a blink and you miss it kind of way day.
The quarterfinals are long gone.
We now have two best of threes separating us from finding out who will challenge this trophy tomorrow.
And these semi-finals are bangers.
Let's talk about them.
Fresh off the back of revenge, 2-0 over the Mongols.
The Taggish veterans are looking formidable.
Who's here for Aurora?
Yeah!
They're going to need your support because their opponents took...
The greatest team in the world, unshaken, unstoppable.
They haven't dropped a map in the groups and they are looking to stop their way through to another grand final.
Who's here for Vitality?
Alright, some mixed bagging here Rotterdam. I'm liking it.
Let's move on to that second semi-final.
If you Google the word Structure, you will see an image of this roster.
They are incredible and are looking in phenomenal form.
And again, they're going to need it for their opponents.
They're coming.
Lots of support here.
press off the back of a pro league title and they had an incredible run through
the group as well so I'm going to do a quick temperature check for both of those
teams any para vision fans here
and what about Navi
players are all starting to arrive I just want to give a big thank you to you
watching at home and to all of you filling this arena I want to hear you
one time 3 2 1 make some noise semi-final Saturday starts right now
welcome to the playoffs
coach. He's the best.
Incredible!
No way that came from it. It feels like it wouldn't be a counter strike event without a couple of surprises and it definitely wouldn't be a desk without Maui and Defree joining me.
I'm so excited. The weekend it feels like, you know, we had a yes and a yes but the vibe is really hitting it now.
The crowd going for a lot of cheers but a couple of booze in there as well. I don't actually know who really is favorite for the crowd.
I don't really feel we've gotten like a you know a team favorite and the crowd is not really
sure if a one specific team it will spread out with all of them and maybe you have to
get a little bit of an edge to now I think they maybe got the one the loudest over a pair
of vision for sure.
I felt like vitality just split the room in half you had a lot of booze you had a
lot of cheers.
I mean I feel like also we just have the foremost deserving teams off of the quarter
finals yesterday you saw some great stuff from Para vision they really laid the pressure
on Falcons.
Yeah, that's it right now that we have entered our Saturday
We've gone from a top six to a top four and we're going to be knowing our grand finalists in just a mint number of hours
And now it does make me wonder to pre
Whilst we can Copenhagen when we were looking at our Nova Shots
You're pretty all in on a couple of teams and to me
A lot of lost coins to spend that coming to the segment we did sell a bit of our spirit stocks also the falcons since
They're not part of the tournament anymore. That doesn't make sense. We're sitting at 610 blast coins to spend
So if you at home want to be playing a little bit of this prediction game where you can win real money
I think this is time to just pay attention and that and you know, I think we should be looking down to this one
Because I'm I'm seeing a stock of perversion right now that sits where I want to be spending more money
Oh, okay, where you think it disappeared me. Where do we go?
Either way, I mean, I'm totally you got it
right? I got it. The value on it was way too good to pass up on this one. It was what? Relatively
inexpensive compared to a Navi team. And so, yeah, we're, oh yeah, we're all in on it.
We're all in on it. We're all in on it. Let's get it. Let's get it. Hold that. Hold that.
Hold that. Hold that. This is the classic. Oh, wow. It's, it's Maui is the one that's
prominent that we're going all in there for Paris Vision. They're gonna be playing
later today. Okay. They're going to be going up against Navi, which means we
mostly really want to focus on what's happening right now in the Ahoy Arena with a lot
of fans now piling in and dividing the room you already talked about it Aurora had some
good cheers but Vitality had the most noise made for them and I'm not going to say cheers
because it was split right down the middle there.
Oh I mean it was something that you can tell that this audience is really just getting
totally fired up here and the thing is though Vitality fans they do have to worry.
You are seeing an Aurora team that is powering up the fact that Majer has gone back to
to the drawing board of how he wants to construct defense
at half-percinct.
You saw how vicious they were against the Mongols.
They were practically the most airtight team
yesterday in the arena.
We saw Zantara's with his usual heroics,
but Woxic has just this coolness about him
when he goes into these interviews,
the way that he's been on these stages
dozens of times in the past,
and the shining star for me, Wicadia.
Every time they need an X-factor moment,
this guy is stepping up.
despite being 21 years of age, you would not know it
from how comfortable he has looked
in these kinds of moments, and a little shout out to Fapper.
Because we don't talk about this guy enough,
but every single time they went for a timeout,
I feel like the plans were picture perfect.
Already signing autographs as you're walking in,
the crowd's going crazy for you.
You live for environments like this.
Exactly.
Like, we are so excited to see these people here.
They are going to stop for sure, but yeah, it's good.
There were great few yesterday and your impressive 2-0 win against the Mongols.
What have you done since that win and how have you prepped for the greatest team in the world here today?
We just gave our everything as a team and as individually. We will see.
I know that you are never afraid for a bit of shit talk.
What would you say to any Vitality fans watching this that think that you're going to lose?
lose this time I just gonna choose my world wise no we're gonna beat you guys
now I like the words to take a moment he's like what part I really want to go
down here and he took the right one right you got to bring fighting words
to vitality because you're gonna have a fight when it comes to being in that
server against them to pray you're a massive on a dog so why not just try
and throw it out that you know have a little fun about it but also you know
play with the word that you are the unlike you need to bring so much
fights in the table but now the man on the picture on January 10th 2025 we had
Robb's joining by telling that I don't think anyone would have expected what
will go on and happen with this team they have gotten 11 trophies they are
now hunting for their 12 without being also two majors back to back and an
Intel grand slam this team at this time is playing phenomenal countertrack and
it is looking like a team that is unstoppable right now we're just
looking at a team that are trying to prove that they are the greatest
of all of them and right now I'm afraid.
Robs, nothing new here, vitality arriving at a main stage tournament as the clear favourites.
How confident are you feeling?
I'm confident, I'm comfortable, this is where we want to be and this is the plan.
You haven't dropped a single map in the group stages, do you think that gives you even more of an advantage?
Do you think that your opposition will fear you here?
I think it's just giving us more and more confidence, as I said, not much else to say.
I think we were feeling good, and that's it.
What about this crowd?
You got some boos as you walked in here.
Do you think that the crowd might get in your head
a little bit?
I didn't even notice.
I don't even know what the boot, but we've
been in that situation many times,
and we've come out of it, so no problem.
Aurora were phenomenal yesterday in a 2-0 victory.
I'm sure you watched along.
What do you think of them?
They're very explosive sometimes,
so we have to watch out for that.
They had a good match yesterday,
and they're getting into the arena, feeling good.
So it's a dangerous game.
And I know it's going to be an interesting one with the veto and everything, so I'll see you.
I think it's going to be a good one.
Finally, is it just going to be business as usual and a vitality win here?
That's always the plan. Business as usual.
You know, we're feeling good, as I said.
We're feeling confident. I think so far we're showing good results in this year as well.
So we just want to keep it going.
Best of luck. Thank you.
Outside of all of the emotions, I'm sure those players were feeling as they walked that red carpet and came into Ahoy Arena.
that he thinks the veto is going to be interesting and maybe now if the people who aren't always on top of what is so interesting about a veto, why does he say that? What puts that context there?
Well, both of these teams share a perma ban and so for people at home, obviously the battlefield is utterly important in terms of just the extent of tactics between both teams.
teams usually teams can find an edge because they're just more comfortable on one or the other but the fact that they both play or they don't play ancient means that both of them want to get rid of it but there's also a little bit of a game at play here where it's sort of that the team that decides to float it or not ban it for longer kind of gets an edge because then they get two bands on maps otherwise that the other team may pick or ones that they just assess themselves as maybe their sixth or fifth best map.
And it's not untested territory. We have seen that these two guys have all these two teams have gone
Toe to toe on ancient where it was a very back-and-forth game with multiple over times
We have our tally ended up getting the win and that just plays a lot into the favor tell because our role will also
Respect the fact that last time they did try to go for this kind of edgy pick
They lost it and that also just puts my tally in the mensalize
But also in the meat and then the veto mappage and for that matter
You know by tally's having such a strong map pool and for the side of our roar whatever they want to ban
but I was just gonna pick the other side if they want to get rid of overpass then
it's just gonna go put us to always the other way around yeah the fact that we're
seeing them have a strong map pool for vitality saying permaban you wonder who
is gonna buckle first in a game of chicken and we don't have to wait much
longer because our veto is gonna be rolling it ancient is a permaban for
both you and vitality how do you think the veto is gonna play out for
you both with veto I think we come up with a good plan we will try to
to make it work let's say we have some tricks for them let's see oh my god I
don't even know okay you ask the wrong people for that I don't even know like
you need to ask a flex for that but I think it's I think they're picking
for no at least and actually I don't any anything but ancient right yeah I
mean I don't think I'm in the forest it's fine to play in shirts I think it's
mostly alright like maybe more scared to play against us and on ancient so
So, yeah, we are looking for it, maybe.
Well, two beginners, we're pretty sure of what they're going to pick, the realists.
But we're not sure about what they're going to veto, because we both have the same permavan,
and they know we're not going to remove Enchant ourselves, so it's just a question of what they're going to ban themselves,
because we beat them two times on Overpass.
So, let's see how it goes, but I think it would be a good match anyway.
of course, as our desk allude
to both teams have ancient as
perma bands. So which team will
ban it first? We've got a game
of chicken here live in the
Ahoy arena. Let's get into it.
Let's find out first Aurora's
Let's get into it. Let's find out first Aurora's first ban.
All right. It's overpass.
Mixed reaction here. Next.
Anubis from Vitality. Okay.
Ancient still in the mix. Let's move on to picks now.
now. Aurora pick inferno.
Vitality.
It gets a big pop from the crowd.
Okay, back to fans. Who's
banding ancient first? Let's
find out. Aurora.
There's two. All right.
There's two potential options
here. Vitality fan.
the game of chicken there.
With the deciding map being
Mirage. Will we see this
played out to a potential full
three? Do we see Aurora with a
little bit of an advantage here
after this map pick or a
Wow!
Yeah, this morning I just said like, guys, we are playing the best team in the world,
yes, but if five people today, I need like five people to play good individually, if
we can succeed to do that, I think we have chance to beat them, they are human, like
they are not robots, so they beat them all, and we already did it in the past.
favorites on many aspects. The first one is here. We get used to playing on stage and
we won a lot of seats so we know how to deal with that. Aurora has been improving massively
the last couple of weeks month. They went in final in Pro League, they hit in semi-final,
they just keep delivering. So I think it's going to be a tough game for us.
I'm not going to lie like they are the best team in the world of course. So it's
going to be hard for us but I think we did our preparation good and all left
to us is I think shoot hard today.
Obviously, playing our way is always dangerous, but we just need to be focused on ourselves first and be focused on what we can bring into the server and be able to play good at good sets, so that's going to be our main goal today.
Yeah, a goal that of course feels like it is just the most obvious thing to say, but you really do have to focus up when there's so many moving parts around you.
And we're going to go back, talk a little bit about that Vito, because it came down all the way to the end.
Vitality were the ones that took that ancient.
Even after Apex said, like, I don't think we're going to ban it.
Why not the ones that are going to do it? It's going to have to be Aurora, but they were forced into a corner
and they ended up buckling under that pressure, at least in the Vito.
It was actually one of the more interesting Vitos we got from the playoffs here.
So to actually see Aurora go the entire distance and not ban it,
despite what happened last time the two teams faced off against each other,
I would say that's what they need.
They need these little tricks to try to tip the scales in their favor in what is obviously
an incredibly lopsided matchup in terms of calling out Vitality as the clear favorites.
There's no doubt that the Vitality map pool when you go up against them is just so good
that it's hard to find a way to go right because you've seen it in this particular
matchup now that the fact that we don't get to see Overpass which is the map that
they picked against last time, they just go for Dust2 because it's their come up
pick and when it comes to the third map I think it actually, Aurora can only
a fork to be the one spanning out ancient because that would just solely ended up with
vitality getting those two. And if you get both those maps and map pool for vitality
that then you're just going to lose straight up hand. I think Aurora with this map that
they've got right now Inferno is a map they always want to be playing into. It's their
comfortable pick wasn't really a surprise for the vitality guys either. So at this
point I mean it's not open. Not at all. I still think it's favorite vitality greatly
but I mean with what they had to work with I think it's a fine standoff.
Well let's keep talking about vitality. We saw Aurora yesterday. We know just how
clean they were, how sharp they were there, but we're wondering Vitality, they're not a team that
isn't able to come back after a break. They took a whole tournament off, so it feels like these
four days of not playing shouldn't really affect them like we might have seen some of the teams
yesterday. Vitality get to watch on as the other quarterfinal rages as X has and Mad and Apex get
to formulate a plan and given that the roster's construction is just this is the most elegantly
put together team that we've ever seen in CS and because of that they can always mix and match they
can always tailor their gameplay to an Aurora team that every consecutive match they play and even
with Aurora looking sharper it just means it's more data for the Vitality guys to download
and then just tailor make a game plan to defeat and it makes perfect sense in my book for them
to take like a break out you know break because they make deep runs if not winning the tournament
every single time with my time in Astralis that's also something we prioritize because we
We know how difficult and hard it is to keep traveling and keep making deep runs.
It's like you barely have time to practice it, but you actually want to prioritize going
home feeling more rested and then coming to terms with that energy that you need to actually
go forward.
And with the pass results of Vitality and how good they're looking, they're also just
in just the way they are allowed to do that, right?
It's not like they're going to be all of a sudden looking like a worse team when
they get back from that week's vacation.
So I mean, I think it's it's the right way to play a card.
I think they have said them themselves multiple times as well, but overall, I mean,
mentality is just looking as sharp as ever, and it's something that I'm...
We're still trying to find that one team that is the closest to beating mentality,
and I don't think it's going to be Aurora.
Wow, okay, Dupri's kind of just already putting it out that you don't think it's going to be Aurora,
but we saw them yesterday and they looked good there.
I feel like there is a lot of confidence that can come into it,
where you're just like, we were so good yesterday.
We're aware of what vitality is able to do,
but we also know that there's more within us.
The thing that's so impressive about Aurora
is that last year, they were a team in the first season
that won seven, or they made it to seven consecutive playoffs,
but they didn't win any games in those playoffs.
They would always get to that quarter-final, semifinal,
but then they could never actually do it on stage.
But this is a different Aurora.
We have a round here that shows
just how they've actually adapted some of their play
to just kind of be more well-rounded.
This is something I was asking from them
for all of last year where they went for this
total five-man death-fall strategy.
But now we're seeing an Aurora team that takes space.
They take top banana control against Furia
in this round here.
They pressure for that map control,
and then they reroute.
They go back towards A after a big,
neat exchange between both of the teams,
and then you start to see mid-rounding.
This is, again, something we just never saw
from Aurora last year,
where the T-sides actually have a lot more depth,
that they're not so one-note
that whatever they outlined in the beginning of the round,
That's not necessarily where they're finishing,
because now they take bracket in this round,
and with a great read from Waikadia here,
he tucks into the smoke on this archside here,
as Fury are going for a read clear towards middle,
and then look at the pounce play that he makes on Fallen,
as he catches him with his nades out.
Fallen was none the wiser.
This was a great Fury a team coming into this tournament,
but the way that Waikadia, Aurora now read the situation,
they recognize they killed one of the B players,
and now they make their way all the way back towards B,
which they've already cleared out towards Banana, by the way,
and then they're able to go for crunches like this.
Defree, to me, this is where Aurora looks different in 2026.
We are seeing just tactical upgrades for the team.
I think that's the difference that we've been looking for
for a long time for them because you can get far
in tournaments by playing all the system,
playing this five man death ball
because that's the one you think you work off, right?
But once you get into the deep playoffs
with semifinals, even grand finals,
you need to rely on also making calls on the fly,
adjusting and also letting your players
work out of intuition.
And all the Indian leaders that I've worked with and all the coaches that I've worked with, they know exactly how Aurora plays.
So if you're so set that this is the place that we're going for, then you also got to be making sure that you develop throughout the tournament.
I am just getting really excited, by the way, that we're getting ever so close.
So you guys are really hyping up Aurora, whether you truly believe they have it or not.
I do think that this is going to be that close series.
And I'm also just hearing the Aurora fans getting more and more excited.
Like they could feel within themselves too that we're getting ever so closer to seeing the teams come out on stage.
to see Aurora put it up to
vitality. And so I do ask the
question. You've highlighted
all of these amazing things
that Aurora has improved on
the things that they've been
able to do for themselves. But
when you really look at it on
paper in this atmosphere, where
would they be able to have a
good start and a good showing
against vitality to make those
fans happy? Well, I feel like
I'm really glad that the veto
starts with Inferno as the
pick because to me vitality
are creating another streak
right now. They've got their
17 map win streak, but this
has shown their own streak on there.
They've won six in a row on it.
They look extremely comfortable in terms of the calling,
the way that they've actually upgraded their style in general.
And also I just feel like on their CT side,
even if they don't get everything done
they need to on that T side,
they can put forward a rock solid defense too.
The way Woxic is just so aggressive
that he can get into the faces of opponents.
He always finds ways to shave off oncoming T's.
And I also feel like Wikipedia
is just such an incredible late round player.
I think that right now he has the best overall read
anybody on Aurora for live game and I just think that they need him to be I don't know take like 10 scoops of creatine today
That's okay some fish oil just get everything to this guy some caffeine new tropics anything because if he's in his back
He can be a difference maker in particular rounds. Well, everybody doesn't need all of that
Maybe just hearing the cheers of the fans for them is enough to get it because it's gonna get ladder as our players
They're getting one step closer to walking out into that stage
Playing on stage is very unique. You're playing in a large stadium which is very unreal still.
I like this sensation when you're on stage in front of a lot of people.
You really affect the way that you're playing, the way that you'll have pressure, you'll have the noise, the fans.
You need emotion to play this game, but you have to control this emotion.
I think I do have an advantage playing on stage, understanding why the crowd makes the other moves.
Oh, he's holding!
God!
It's been new things and you have clad up yourself.
That is wicked sick!
You play CS, you play very reactive, you play very adaptive.
Zyber's got all three kills!
They think if I miss my aim, I will die.
Think of us as the nightmare.
This is going to be good Rotterdam are we ready?
Let me do another temperature check I want to see as the ahoy arena really starts to fill
up here if you didn't get a ticket what were you thinking this place is going to be electric
for this semi-final let me see who everyone's supporting here.
Any Aurora fans in the building?
Alright, I like it. What about Team Vitality?
Alright look, the fans are amazing. I don't even think I'm supposed to do this, but I'm going to come off the stage.
Hannes, you are the best cameraman in the business, Steadycam man list.
Let's go down onto the floor here. I might get sacked on my first CS job, but it's all good.
Hello there, what's your name?
Jürgen.
Who do you think is going to win this, and who do you want to win as a Y?
I'm afraid Farteltfi will win this one, but I'm hoping for Aurora of course.
You really want Aurora?
Yeah man, I just want to see Farteltfi lose for example.
Okay, alright. I like that energy.
Let's see if we can find some Vitality fans.
Here's some guys. You look like Vitality fans over here.
Guys, why are your team the best in the world and are going to win again today?
Because we have the best player in the world, Zai Wu.
Of course.
What do you think?
Zai Wu.
Zai Wu. Alright.
I'm heading back up here one more time.
The players are standing behind this huge stage right now and they want to hear you.
So if you are ready for the first semi-final here, Rotterdam, make some NICE!
Welcome to the stage, Aurora.
Wax it!
Soul fly!
Brotherhood and Firepower, the faithful stand tall.
Apex.
Flames Z.
Mezzy.
there is so much noise in the
arena at the moment, whether
it's for or against vitality,
for or against Aurora.
There's one thing you can't deny
Maui.
It's got a lot on the line for
a semi-finals when it comes to
a crowd.
The fact that Streak is alive
for vitality, that you got
of their team and the Turkish fans, I can barely hear myself think when I'm
anywhere close to those guys. It's long to have you know this kind of atmosphere
and they need this atmosphere to help them carry them over the finish line
if they even supposed to have a chance against Vartali you know. I tried my
heart to try and find a positive edge where I could see like Aurora has
that's an edge in this game and the only thing that I found is that it's a
best of three and if you go in the best of three against Vartali that
is it's a better shot than if it's a best of five and then also their
that was like those two things that I could find where I would give them a
positive edge so they they have a hard one on the line really do we're seeing
it now vitality doing their huddle we've seen it before to come out and just
say and they haven't been shaken before about what a crowd thinks of them and I
wonder does that stand strong all we're gonna see another impenetrable
vitality probably there's no guarantees and counter strike but one of the
reasons for that is just the way that they are so well oiled the fact
that even their superstar and Zai Wu doesn't take a breath of oxygen more than he needs
to out of this room. They all play off of each other. They are so consistently on top
of each other. The teamwork is so exceptional. That's why the comparisons to the era defining
Astralis have constantly persisted because the way that they have perfected CS we've
only probably seen once ever in our lifetimes. It's a discussion that we gotta be having
maybe coming into the Cologne Major. If they can bounce back and get that third
back to back to back then. I think it's a conversation that we need to be
having at this. That is for sure. But this is the playground of Battalion.
This is where they play the best brand of Counter Strike. When we saw them in
the Copenhagen, I wouldn't even say that we saw the A-game of Battalion.
They had a very close series against Paravision, but this is where they
fight. This is where they play their best Counter Strike. And it's not
only because of their individuals. As a team, they just function and they
love the energy, the atmosphere of playing in an arena. That's what
they're fighting for. And that's why they've gotten all their titles.
So it's a game where vitality is just at this point,
so much better than the rest of the teams
that they're just looking to hoist trophy after trophy.
And it seems like at this point,
it's more of a sub goal of them winning trophies
because they want to cement themselves
as the greatest of all time.
Well, we've talked about it before,
time and time again of vitality
as that team, Zayu as their star player.
But this year, this event,
there's been conversations about
arising of a second star player in Flames Day.
It has been incredible to see Flamesy in 2026.
If you look at Zywoo's 2022 numbers,
they're practically identical.
So if you already thought that it was unfair having Zywoo
on your team, what about having two Zywoo's on your team
from different years?
That's what we're talking about now with Vitality
and how the firepower is just so well distributed.
It's straight up impressive to see what Flamesy's doing
in his roles and what he brings to the team.
The amount of space that he managed to press
for the stars in that team is unheard of.
And I don't think we've seen something similar
since Dong actually got here.
It's something that Vitality's playing off,
and they're so good at utilizing in those positions.
And it can be on both T sides and CT sides
where he gets so much job done.
And if it's not Flamesy, then it's Robbs.
You know, Robbs out, you'll dip a little bit in form,
but then Flamesy have stepped up.
And that's the beauty of having a good crossword team
that you will have players stepping up individually
and having different forms in different periods
when it's needed the most.
Well, what you're talking about two players
to look out for on the side of Vitality,
but on the side of Aurora,
Where should our eyes be going?
Who should we be looking for to have that early start
and that strong start for Aurora?
Well, I feel like why Katie has become the hot new star
for Aurora, but I feel like it would be a mistake
to overlook Zantara's.
And the thing is that there's questions about Zantara's.
Now we know that he has a bit of a hand injury
that he's working through that sort of pain.
And we also know that sometimes in big playoff moments,
sometimes it's the grand finals,
but it could be the semis too.
They'll have a little bit of a dip in performance.
Aurora cannot afford a different performance from their entry fragger today.
I don't think they can perform a different performance from anyone.
I think they're a team where they have to play almost up to S2 level to actually have
a chance of beating Cot Talaghan this game in the form.
I don't think there's a chance where you can have one guy either or at least not two
players dipping out of form and you know playing worse than he usually does.
Of course you've got to be looking at the stars of Santeres but also by Katie about
we have to see a lot from the entire team that they need to have a slightest chance.
I also don't even want to overlook a matcher.
I feel like there has been moments where on his t-sides in the past I've drawn a lot of it into question the fact that it's so one-dimensional
But again, I'm gonna reiterate the fact that he's elevating that he's adding layers
There's depth to it is mid-rounding and also I have seen more than a handful of seriously where Badger has looked like the best player on Aurora
That was not something I expected from a 35 year old, okay? No offense to 35 year olds out there
But I know that some of you are gonna have a hard time playing as well as he does, I believe
the crowd. You mentioned over
35. Yes, please. Anyone out here
over 35 and still join CS. None
none. Way too boomer way too
boomer for this. Unfortunately,
it's not just that that's going
to let us down a little bit as
well. It's the fact that of
course, as the anticipation
builds for this series. There's
some tech issues. All right.
The steam having a couple of
network issues, so we're going
to wait it out. We're going
to have a little bit fun
what we could expect. If we could start the game, we would. Okay. If you guys want to put it
out there, because I've always asked players to be bold in their predictions, have they expect
them matchup to go? I want to hear some boldness from you guys in a vitality or war matchup.
It's tough because anything that isn't vitality cited just feels ludicrous. It feels like you'd
be checking yourself into the insane asylum tomorrow. But I think the one angle I feel
like is that this could be a two one that Aurora could take Inferno that in
itself would be an accomplishment to me to stop the 17 map win streak from
vitality that in its tracks with the map that might actually in my eyes be
overtaking Aurora's anubis I felt like the way that they're calling on Inferno
lately and playing the CT side it's one of the most comprehensively strong
maps for them in the pool. That's without doubt they can clinch Inferno that will be a massive step in the right direction for
also getting more experienced playing stages because they have a little better in quarter funds
But now it's a whole other beast that they have to fight against right
This is the semi-finals and you're going up against a team that is winning tiny other title
And this is where you really got to be earning your money
I think for the side of a roar
We are looking now to find a team that are still breaking into this whole illusion of them also
Playing for titles, but I think there's such a big gap between being able to compete for it
But actually winning it and I think that if they can win what just one of here that would be massive
but the series as an overall,
I think we're going to be seeing it to a volatility.
But I also love the fact that there is that visualization
that when Woxic talked in the pregame interview,
even though he knew that it's a far cry
or it's a tough shot for them to win it,
he said that they were going to do it.
And that's the difference between a team like them
for me right now, who's on the up and up,
that's in a honeymoon in a way with SoulFlight
and a team like Falcons,
that doesn't even visualize the trophy anymore.
The way Niko responded in that post game interview
was a team that is destitute,
that doesn't even imagine themself lifting it.
That's not what the case is for Aurora.
Madger feels like they should be contesting for trophies
and Woxic also feels like there is a chance
that they win today.
I agree, and then you know,
that is the thing that now in Counterstrike,
Counterstrike is so much more than just getting
your super stars together,
because I feel like this Falcons project
has fallen to the floor.
It has not done what we have expected,
but you can see a team like Aurora
that has been working through things.
Even a team like Navi's also on my thoughts
when I think of a team that's had their flaws,
had their issues, but working through them.
And Arora has stuck with his roster,
maybe making a change in here and there
to try and fulfill the things that they felt was lacking.
But that is also the key to counter.
Like, you cannot just make changes all the time
and just expect it to be better.
You also got to work your way through it.
And Arora has done so, and it has worked better.
But I still believe that there is still a massive gap
for them to fill before they even
can beat on the tip of the stage lifting trophies.
Because lifting trophies, it comes
like when you have teams like Vitality, teams like Fiora,
and even teams when, well, if let's just say
the spirit plays better, then it
would be a very difficult task.
I'm playing my own sort of minigame here in the arena while you guys are discussing what's going to happen when we do eventually get into the server.
And it's every time a player is showing, is the crowd going to boo them or cheer them?
Which individual is pulling more of the crowd's personality out there?
Rops is the cheer.
Rops is the cheer.
Cheer for Rops. That's a good one.
I wouldn't give up.
Oh, my job.
That's got a big cheer on the other side of the booth than where we're standing from the Aurora fast.
Definitely more polarizing Aurora in the fast.
They got their lovers but they definitely have their haters.
I want to get a picture of a big step-son guy.
I want to get people's attention and you know,
the little bit of a temporary check on this guy
because he is a guy that you can love and hate personally.
Wait, wait, wait, get a list for it.
Most of you is a little boo with a big ace.
In all honesty, you love and hate him, right?
I mean, I play alongside him.
You know, I also had a love-hate relationship
with this guy because he can be awesome to have you in
team, but he can also have points feel like, oh man,
we should just shut up for once.
It's actually the fans put on a veil when it comes to Apex, OK?
They'll flip him off in Austin, but as soon as he wins,
it's all applause, OK?
They can't hate to watch you and all
be gathered here in this arena.
No, totally true.
It isn't like that at all.
And it brings me so much pleasure
to say that you don't have to wait much longer
to either cheer or boof with them at the end of this,
because right now, it's a best of three
that stands between either Vitality or Aurora
making it to the grand finals.
Ahoy Rotterdam, welcome to the semi-finals.
It's gonna be Aurora taking on Vitality
and for the Turkish squad,
the road to the grand final
runs through the number one team in the world, Vitality.
And right now beating them feels
like an insurmountable task.
They'll be praying that Zywu doesn't show up
to the semi-final and if they're not,
they fucking should be.
Someway, somehow, Zywu just keeps getting better
and better, but it's one that he attends
And he's on track for yet another MVP medal.
The first battle to have everything we need to know,
whether David can hold a candle to the Goliath.
Rotterdam, let's light up this arena.
Genoa Anders, take a day to battle.
Yes, Henry, we are ready.
Yesterday was electric,
and today you are one win away
from getting to the grand finals.
Everything is one second on the line,
and we'll see Aurora start on that T side,
Looking to get a bit of information, but this is a ruse right now. They want to take this banana control
Bomb that's the big clue at the moment. It's on the other side of the map
Clashes around the corner flames. He starts it
Cutting them all down the entire plan has gone down the pen at the moment
It's just work hard. You're left. What a way to start here for vitality. Well, that's what you love to see
aggressive in your face and precise at the same time everyone contributing there
a double kill for Flamesy as with Cardi the young star for Aurora has nothing left
to say about this one five on one I guess he can really hope for Anders is a
couple of kills maybe the bomb plant that's got the C4 is back here but by
Taddy looking for the perfect round and they might just get it a couple of
kills exchange couple of shots coming through but it looks like we are
down here. It is the clean sweep as Robb confirms around. It will be Vitality going up 1-0, denying
the plans and a raw wrap. Nothing picked up there, completely shut down. Didn't even get any control
towards Banana and it's all about this flashbang. Perfectly set up. Nothing they could do. Look
how blind they were and it's a precision from Flames. The wins and the rounds.
That is so sick. And we caught the flashbang there on the replay because you're right,
That is the thing that set it all up. I think they took a combined 18 damage in that round vitality
So hardly even had to break a sweat to get this one going and the second round no bomb parts
But they still invest into this one tech 9s and 2 mat 10s now leading the charge towards the top of a banana
Into the fire they go trying to see if they can find any entry at all and they will take out flames
Hey, you know what? This is not as bad as it started
There is a way for them to break through on this one. The bomb is going to be planted and they've even stolen an M4 on top of it here.
So now, vitality are put to the test early.
One of the most difficult bombsites that we take and all of counters right here.
Starts with Kevgy. He's done a great job at MP9, mowing them down.
Riccardia remains. He would have to do something very impressive.
Powering in the corner as Robs hunts him down, Anders.
A good round, a good effort there, lots of money invested there from Aurora, they get a couple of kills and the bomb planted.
Doesn't have to be the full eco going forward into the next one.
Yeah, if it looks silly what Makati was doing, he's hoping that all three of them are retaken from the church side.
So it's not as silly as it seems, it's not like he's scared or anything.
He was a big risk no matter what.
And he was hoping all three of them will wrap in from the side.
Cool round for Mezi.
I still think he doesn't get quite enough credit,
but I guess it's very hard when you're on a team with Saewoo
to try and steal some of the headlines,
but I think he's such a rock-solid player,
single-handedly trying to keep British Counter-Strike alive.
Doing a pretty good job, if I might say so.
Third round here,
and we're not gonna have a lot to play with, unfortunately.
Yeah, not absolutely nothing, though.
Because Cezanne Tarris has the Mac 10, the helmet,
with Cardia, Tecna, and Armour.
The problem is, these rounds have been so convincing,
so clean for vitality.
They are starting to build up a nice reservoir of cash.
You're expecting them to win this one,
but we'll see whether any further damage can be done
from the Turkish squad here.
Five on five for now, Anders.
Wokser will try his luck with the Desert Eagle
towards top of middle,
but Vitality are giving nothing away.
Soulfly helps himself up for a freebie.
Zaiwu will devour the first.
And now, not already much left to be said.
You're hoping for his entire miracle round
with that Mach 10.
Apex looking to get stuck in here as well.
He's going to be finding an advantageous position,
takes down his rival in game lead up.
Guardia, in a lot of trouble as well.
It's another clean sweep of Vitality.
They go 3-0 here, Anders.
But this whole match is right.
They did a good amount of damage in the previous round,
but then this one, not a single casualty
on the Vitality side.
And what it means is that the CT side
will bounce right back on that economy.
It would have been great for Aurora
had they been able to pick up a couple of kills
this last round. Funny smoke there but ultimately you're not going to change your thing.
Yes, forgot to jump I guess. All good though. First gun round is underway ladies and gentlemen
Aurora will have AKs across the board. Walksicavad is trusty AWP currently 1 and 3.
Have a look at the overall setup and approach from Aurora just running the default right
now that we Zantara is battling his way through that banana. He takes so much damage
John Rue, his round is pretty much over and this is the problem.
Vitality are the absolute masters of Utah in the entire TCS2.
No one does it better than Vitality.
My plug in inferno as well.
It's so brutal when you start the round like this.
You know, you're going to get close.
You're probably going to get it again at some point here.
Wiccardia, we've talked about here,
the kind who could maybe make a difference here.
If you played the kind of game that did yesterday,
it could be interesting once again.
They're in the middle, and the champion has a big turnaround.
Wiccardia, he had his back turned at the start of the fight, but he takes down Messi nonetheless.
The bomb is at the bottom of the T-stairs, so they're not going to jump on this bomb site right away.
They have to go back and pick it up.
Really excellent work there from Wiccardia, really sinking his teeth in this tournament,
becoming one of the true stars of the squad.
So reliable, so precise, a 180 kill to open things up.
They have taken heavy damage on Rue.
At least smoke from Flames, towards the top of Banana, allows Apex to rotate in here.
There will be two players to defend. Two of the Turkish players are low as well. Here we go Anders.
Flames, he gets the first one, pulls out the incendiary, but they're right in front of its own fly.
You have to get that kill. It might not be enough, we have plaincy.
Can anyone shut him down finally? He gets doused in the fountain, but
there's two eights. Apex had already shown up. And by Tality, yes they lost the player early on,
but they were right there. The rotation from Apex, perfect timing.
The defense will watch on it again.
This is the pick of Aurora, they're behind as well, you get an opening kill like that.
That's great news, but everyone was so low, Flames is having one half a run.
The last few tournaments, he looks so clean, he looks so calm.
So much damage, shut up the game leader.
Look at all the damage and kills found by Infect of those things out.
Maximum loss bonus at this stage and we've got Tech Nines.
Well, Cardi is going for the Hero AK 2 and 4,
and that's top-fragging after four rounds of play.
It's not ideal, but maybe he can do something with this one.
The thing is, we all knew this was going to be the test.
You said it right at the start.
The first couple of rounds will probably tell us a lot
about how this game will play out.
It's such a task that they had ahead of it.
Everybody in the world has been saying it.
There's vitality, and then there's a big gap,
and then there's everybody else in the world at the moment.
And we're trying to figure out how big is the gap
to Aurora at the moment it feels like it's a pretty big one here. Apex top
fragging in the server with the 7 and 1. They haven't even had to put sidewood
to play it. Right now that gap feels like a canyon. That's very true. Let's see
whether they can do anything with this one. Aurora known for that hobby
play to the tech nines. We'll see what they have up their sleeve here. It's
got to be smoked down towards the library side in towards the arch trying
and finds his space keyboard short, and over opening kill.
It's Messi to go down again.
Flashback is gonna be setting up Robb's here.
He's got the AK-47 in hand.
He's got Zairu joining him as well.
This drop solid duo just going to town on the A bomb site.
All of a sudden, it's very comfortable indeed.
Nothing but perfection here.
Another clean round as Zairu confirms it.
Gets himself a hat-trick, and we go five and zero.
Vitality firmly in the driving seat right now.
Even in those small moments there,
You see Saigun and Robs, they never really overpeak.
They're always backing into the corner.
They use so few bullets, they don't have to reel.
There's just two AKs on the other side, 60 bullets.
It's plenty enough to shut down the entire attack.
They're so efficient with every little micro moment in this.
It's really sick and it's very, very hard
to overcome right now.
Aurora feeling suffocated on Inferno
and we're just getting started.
It's only map one.
That's a good timeout, a much needed one, but this is where the game really gets going.
You've got Woxig on the AWP now. Suggests where to slow things down.
They are finding the opening kills out of this. That's the problem here.
You're getting the 4 and 5s, right?
You're getting that kill on Medji towards top of middle.
You're just not converting up towards that quad side this round.
Just well to set up for Vitality to go.
Woxig or Zywoo, two of the hardest hitting players in World Counter-Strike right now.
With AK47s in their hands, of course they're going to mow you down.
We'll see if Aurora can get into this while we need Woxic to find some impact here.
Because right now we've got three AKs on the CT side and bear in mind,
Zaru, who doesn't even need the AWP, he's looking so good at the rifle yet to die.
Four and zero.
Another round of play here. This time Maja, the one battling towards the top of the banana area.
His teammate told them meanwhile working towards second middle, so a different approach.
We're not seeing Zantara's brute force his way up towards B.
They're gonna try and get some space towards middle of one of their star players actually having the help
Who takes hard in the round lads come on?
Gotta be nailing these ones no silent boost anymore big sound cue given away the flashbang in towards the boiler room
The setups on Tarras his signature peak normally finds one off this for no one home
They're all the way there and they've already heard a boost so they know that someone could be peeking that boiler room
They definitely are aware
Tarras, we love a fight here that goes this way without too much damage as well
Well, a minute on the clock.
Bottom of banana is being controlled by the smoke that's been thrown in there from the
vitality side.
And Flames, he's got another one in his back pocket, so if they try to push him unless
they shut him down with the AWP, then maybe he could just fall back and try and over
again.
He's actually playing with him so much that's wild.
Such a nuisance.
He's just showing presence there.
Doesn't over commit.
Keeps the fear of God in them, trying to funnel them into the four man stack
anders.
But they might not take the bait.
I don't think they are at all.
gonna leave Xantares on the lurk. Four players of the B execution here, Mezzi in between both
bomb sites. It's down to Flames once again changing his position at this time playing
behind the smoke, up close and personal as Xantares hunts to one and he'll take down Zywoo.
So all up to Flames here right now. Could he actually stop them? He's got a little bit
of backup towards CT spawn. Looking good. Flashbang coming in, right on top of them
but they do trade him out. Very critical kill coming in from Akkadia Xantares. The
the other arm of the attack. He's gone.
Mezzi was well aware that was coming in, and it's another 3v3 retake.
Last time, admittedly Aurora didn't quite have the weapons to hold on to the bomb site
this time, so he got the opportunity.
If they could have landed that one, I think they have the round, but now it's still on.
Vitality, they did not want to give him a break.
They want to take everything away from Aurora here on the stage,
and once it leads to Flicky, he's not going to get that one.
Another attempt, he goes down to Rot.
Aliah fighting towards that smoke.
He comes in when he shoots at Alijah towards the end of Triple with a cat to the forward.
They knew this so badly.
It looked like he was falling apart once again.
Maja, the unlikely hero in the 2v1 clutch.
It was all falling apart.
Woxic can't seem to hit a shot with the AWP.
It was Mezzi that found one and Aliah just teammate playing to at least get one of the solo defense there.
And Maga, massive impact here.
Huge punch towards the end, takes that Apex.
They did need that desperately.
The problem is, Anders, only one player survives.
It means you enter with very little.
Two Mac 10s, a couple of AKs,
and little to no utility after the initial barrage here.
We normally talk about the apartment pops
and these sort of rounds.
You wanna keep things quick.
You wanna keep together.
You utilize that Wolfpack CS and we'll see
whether that's what they've got in mind.
Hop flash being enabled here by Madge trying to get some mid control
spotted by Mezzi as he'll fall back.
Some decent grenade damage on Torres, battered and bruised as they make the way towards A.
Apex on the other side, rocks towards the pit.
No one's even checking him. He's not flashed either.
And Apex, Jono's on the other side.
The coordination between rocks and Apex just not able to break through at all.
Usually there's going to be a flash in the air.
There's going to be a molotov somewhere to try and push that pit player a little bit further back.
A rock's he had just clear vision. The flash is there to get rid of. He gets that kill and nobody else is facing him. He can just shut them all down.
This is just a pick counter-strike from Apex and his boys. It doesn't get better than this. Every crossfire, every read, every setup, it just looks perfect.
Another partial buy.
6-1 down in a remat pick. Considered to be a slightly T side of these days as well, Anders.
You're operating once again the wikari ak-47 a few tech nines a
Couple of flashes again a
Miracle required and I'm not sure they could have in them
No one really stepping up here. You got new boys Soulfly zero seven
Boxing doesn't look like he's off to the adb. He's back to warm up
Waiting for the initial utilities to subside I
I assume they'll be heading towards banana once again. They know flames likes to be aggressive here
He plays on the front foot. Yes, if they can take him down
Overwhelming with the tech nice as a chance to crack things open
But this round he is certainly not alone apex who's playing incredibly well right now 9 and 2 the in-game lead up
Another fantastic grenade. I can't stress enough. How good they are the utility very efficient brutal the eighties here it comes again
Yeah, you're right going down and incendiaries
another attempt at the B1 side, more utility coming out there just bombing them before they
even get close to it.
Woksik's going to burn after the fact there to Apex Incendiary, but they're on the site.
It's not impossible here to win the Rows, very tricky to retake it.
AK in the hands of Centaurus, we haven't really had to call his name yet, but this
is the weapon where he does the best work and when he's really good, he might be
one of the best in the world with it, so let's see what he can bring.
So fly is yet to get a kill as well.
This would be the clutch that they need.
Otherwise, I think this first half is a compete wash for a war.
They need to do something and they're going to get a headshot each.
Sai-Wu now, you can never count him out.
You know the absolute madness that he brings to a game ready to take this
fight in the corner.
I don't know why you're peaking that.
That's so dangerous.
He does miss the shot and they're not as good as they are.
And they bring him down.
Well, finally some fortune favoring Aurora there.
Felt like they didn't have enough to make their way in towards the B-bomb site.
Absolute chaos as they run through the smoke.
The fire and flames, it's attack nine to come out on top.
Wapsit goes down.
They have the nine advantage.
They find the rifles and all of a sudden, Zai Wu, he's dropped.
He doesn't perform another miraculous clutch here today.
Six to two.
Slowly, but surely, Aurora are bringing this one back.
It's still possible to tie this half up.
And this will be the most important round yet.
They can win this one.
They break the bank of vitality.
Azawu on the AWP now holding towards the outside.
Slowing things down.
Detaility.
Slowly, but surely makes his way towards arch.
That will land in front of Azawu.
Yeah, all of the standard utility, fight here, that's everything.
Mezzan, he's playing things again.
The swing is in, they're just so good at defending it.
This is a core part of the map.
If the T side can't control banana, then there's not a lot that you really can do.
Robs is traded out, so fly, slow start, but he's found three kills in a loss around the bomb.
Oh, they might put true. Mezzy, did he hear him step? He did.
That's the bomb. He heard Matt just put a step.
He decides to push through, and outside moves on the other side.
Didn't expect that, but vitality they look like they're just warming up
Little homage to Stewie 2k with that one
So fly
He's on the hunt here, but the bombs lost and sold just for the scoreboard at this point in time
There's not enough time I think for him to hunt down all the players find the bomb try to find a bomb site
He's battling against Cyborg.
Come on, go with him.
There we go.
But there's only 24 seconds.
So probably you can take the AWP here.
You're not going to recover this bomb.
Let's see what he can do with it.
Certainly won't be winning the round.
Will they hunt him down?
The money's not great for vitality, as we discussed.
The fact that they don't pick up the AWP
is probably an indication of what kind of a round
was he going to be seeing next time.
You said the ult makes you a bit slower.
See what Madger's going to be cooking up if it's going to be all AKs.
There it is, another convincing one. Nice work from Soulfly to keep Vitality humble.
Round of a 10 coming up. They need a few more though.
$3,000 on average. Soulfly doesn't get any further cash.
This is such a nice little play there. The jump peek there from Mezzi gets the information.
Drive by Kail by Mimeo Gasticy to push through that smoke. Find the bomb as well.
Well, he's got a good orc of a Zywoo.
Definitely made him work for the kill, that's for sure.
But he will be saving the AK-47, that is the headlight.
Soulfly will be working again with the Tech-9s, the Mag-10s,
and Robs wants to take the game to them.
Smoke down towards the bottom of middle, tucks himself behind it.
More damaging in time, Paravigian team combined.
That's crazy, just to answer your point, Henry.
They're really good at throwing that utility.
Robs, no one was expecting that.
Smoke is suspicious, they'll find him.
Okay, but a luck there for the smoke will take it and now it's what cardiac trying to find that gap towards the apartments
Yeah, but look at the rotation the entire talented team are here. There's nobody defending B right now
They've just called it. Oh, this is sick
The game right now and Simon with the
Walking into a bit of a fortress here at the A bomb site not welcome what serve a soul fly
He did very well last time but this is asking a lot once again a one versus three Henry a new recruit on the team
He's going to get the bomb plant at the very least, but they'll use that time to surround him.
They're right on top of him here, Grenadeon and Flamesee.
It's an easy shot, a double kill once again, and an eighth round.
Vitality proving why. They are so far ahead of everybody else in this business.
Aurora, it's been too far between these rounds. They need to do more damage.
They need to keep them close to them. Every time they have a chance, Vitality get all the money back
and they're ready to fight.
They have got Aurora in their pocket right now.
Another tactical timeout.
They can feel their map slipping away.
They are being outclassed in every facet of Counter-Strike
right now.
No one really stepping up.
Magia with the best sequence so far.
Now, two versus one situation.
You have to be bombsite.
Apart from that, they've managed
to win a Tech 9 round in towards B as well.
There haven't been any real clean gun rounds going
in their favor.
Just to say as well, the threat
that flamethrower got the last kill there on so far in the last round means aurora know
that they all four rotated over they will have known up man they were already all here
we actually walked into a format stack in a in a four on four so just add to the insults
there that you magic is gonna know man they were the reading everything right now they've
got it on lockdown a two to eight school line here vitality we all knew is very likely
this would happen not over yet but there's certainly not big opportunities right now on
Inferno Aurora it could do some real damage but they haven't got off the ground yet.
Let's see what they can do it's playing the project way too comfortable. He's the one dominating
and dictating the pace over in the banana area and it's such prime real estate they keep
sacrificing it over and it enables these stacks to come through. Four players usually towards
the east side of the map. Mezzi transitioning over right now but for now we have more planes
getting boosted up. Flash stock not feeling it. We'll have another look. Zontara's to deal with.
What about all this is? Zontara's down low doesn't do any damage in return. Once again
his round is nullified. He's three and ten right now. The absolute star player of Aurora
having zero impact in the semi-final. And they're going back towards B.
he's normally so confident I thought maybe he was gonna take that fight and
shut him down on the boost wall there but not exactly how it played out oh this
is so beautiful playing for that pixel gap taking barely any damage
going to smoke a 40 seconds and now you force a hand you have to run through
this or you run out of time or if you don't run through there's another smoke
on the other side a pics got one more Henry so they got to run through this
There's no choice here. They try and flash it, but Flinty is dead out of here.
They need to knock them out.
Oh, there's just no entry.
Here comes the next smoke with 20 seconds.
There's no choice. It's not even a hard one to make.
You have to run through.
If you try and wait this out, you're going to lose around 100% of the time.
They've got the bombs sure, but they're trying to see if they can even navigate their way through.
They're lost in the mist right now.
As if they're in some kind of a Stephen King novel.
The monsters are on the other side, ready to eat all of them.
The clock has run out here, Vitality defeating them with the utility.
Vitality making them look foolish right now.
The factor in that sort of position, they still have two smokes remaining
and your team can't decide if you're running through or not.
You're going through a blind and a grey screen.
There's fire on the other side, two players waiting for you.
It wasn't even a contestant.
There's nothing to play. He's changing his position up each and every time.
He's presenting that aggression at the start of each and every round.
You're too scared to fight him.
He took down Taras and a 20 HP, like we said nullified his efforts at the start and you're just kind of acquiescing in towards the bombs
I hope you can get something done, but it was so flat. It was so weak
Vitality
How has he got away with that he swings into the fights and they don't even get a chance to answer back
There were two of them waiting on the other side by the way
He should never have been allowed. He should have been traded out there.
And that's your two heaviest hitters. Waukeser and Zuntar have just gone.
Before the round has even got going. Some damage in return I suppose, but a five on three.
Robs is about to save one of the best towards a proposition. Doesn't play the crossfire, doesn't feel back towards the bonsai.
He plays on the front foot. That could be a mistake. Flames is low.
The next move now, very important for Aurora. It's the final round of this first half-hander.
And Lord knows they need to pick this one up, 10-2 will simply not do.
He's going to walk straight through, Madge.
I think he's on the other side, or he's inside the smoke.
He knows there's going to be another one thrown, so it's possible that he will just try and take a couple of steps forward.
Yep, here comes the next one, just as they throw, it's a really cool idea, Madge.
You have to admire the IQ to make that play, but unfortunately Apex still had the gun out, and he was ready.
They jumped on the other side now, but the retake is on.
a little bit of damage here on some of these mortality players.
It's exactly a clean.
Two versus four.
I need this.
Yeah, if there's any dream right now for Aurora,
they must win this round.
But it is a very big task.
I think as he ran on the bullets, that's a bit awkward.
But Cardia, he will still be traded out.
So fly.
He's been probably the best player so far.
Maybe Cardia slightly are doing in, but he's in the back corner.
And they're going to check everything.
It's easy for Flamesy.
He will pick up another kill and it will be a 10 to 2 first half for vitality.
I don't even think it's off for a second there.
The monster is back.
There are some players that are just more different.
Some try to intimidate you.
She doesn't have to.
Everything she does is deliberate.
You never really feel out of place.
You just feel late.
Where is no father?
He doesn't move faster.
He's in first.
He makes it look easy.
And that's the scary part.
He was my father.
It's not about losing to him.
It's about arriving at it.
with sufficient player in counter-strike history.
The wasted ammo, the wasted movements.
But there's a chance!
There's Zywoo!
You've tried too.
I will catch you.
Mm-hmm.
the world's best.
Welcome back to Blast Open,
Rotterdam, 2026 is the first map
of the semifinal between Aurora
and Vitality and it's nothing
but pure domination here and
is 10-2 on their opponent's pick.
The world's best continue to
impress here. Everyone stepping
up, everyone delivering and I
the utility, deployment of vitality. Apex alone dropped 523 damage with utility alone.
Do you know how much damage the Aurora did in total?
47 across the whole board on the T side shore, but it means they landed one good grenade the entire half.
That doesn't even sound real, but we saw it right there on the graph as well.
Here we go ladies and gentlemen, second half is coming up, vitality.
They look to be cruising straight into the grand finals here in Rotterdam.
They wanted to step up. They finally got the win against the Mongols at the quarter finals.
That was a big highlight moment for them.
But they must have woken up this morning knowing what was ahead of them.
Knowing that they were going to be facing Vitality here today.
The good news is, Maja is the master of the B-bomb set himself.
Known to be very impressive in that position.
They need this pistol. They need to lay the foundations and it needs to be clean as well.
You need to be denying the bomb part here for Vitality.
They win this pistol, I'm afraid it is GG. Time will tell, mid smoke goes down, it's going to be the apartment's pop.
It walks it ready for them with trusty p2000.
Oh he better be ready, flash is already in the air, but he's trying to find that kill, he can't do it again.
It's flamesy, just dancing around the fire, like he was born into it.
Oh now, Cardia, you need more than that. I wanted him to see him with the dualies, but it was the USB to get the kill instead.
get the kill instead. Four versus three, the bomb is going to be planted and all the while
Henry Apex is lurking in the apartments. He's holding that, but he knows there's no flank
coming and eventually he can get out there. He can start to shoot them in the back. This
is a real IQ play from Apex. Santaris it's a good kill, but again a couple of steps away.
Apex, there he goes, running out, takes off. We find the kill, that late baxter.
No pistol round, very likely no win here on Inferno for Aurora.
You know it's a good play when you can miss six or seven bullets and still get the kill.
Yeah. Great stuff there from Apex.
Comprehensive victory once again from Vitality, waiting for the initial aggression.
Smoke down towards middle, leaping out of the apartment as well.
You can see there's one CT there to deal with it.
P2000 in hand.
McCarty did well to get one, but over one on the bomb site.
Flames, you're right. He is off on a tear right now.
18 and 6 you have to force by you cannot go down to map points and round number 2 of the second half
So what have we got MP 9's a stack a stack in towards B
The Lions then has been set up
The Molotovs have dislodged them you're gonna see the bombsite engulfed in flames momentarily
Smokes down, double molotov. Walksick, what have you got for us?
Probably wants to be a little bit different. He's opening, catch the first.
If he just gets the first kill, then it's on for the defense.
They've got everyone here and some Taris. I'll take that.
That might be enough here. Walksick on top, so fly.
Now they realize Vitality, they've walked in again to the entire army of Aurora on the other side.
Okay. And this is enough.
Maybe a little bit messy there.
Coming in from Vitality.
Getting in the default, don't fill out the map.
Go for the early call, the BXQ hoping to give it a knockout punch,
but it's perfect.
You saw them from every piece of utility as well.
It's Woxig dodging and weaving those flashbangs.
A popper smoke open, but very well done.
Managing to hold on here.
That's a very important round.
Matthew with a 5-7 to close things out as well.
And now we have a chance of a good game here.
11-3. Oh, yeah.
Gotta convert this up against the Tech 9s and the D-goals.
It's a weak five of Vitality and goodbye to Cyburn.
Listen, if you're gonna be trying to do some damage here to Vitality,
you need to do it before Cyburn wakes up.
It's impressive to see Flamesey on top of the scoreboard like this,
but you know eventually Cyburn's gonna announce himself in this game,
and when that happens,
I'm not sure if Aurora can really hold on on the other side.
You got a bit of a moment here, though, where he's actually looked mortal.
They fought him straight up a big soul fly twice in the first half took the battle to Simon when actually came out on top
So you've proven that much you've got a chance here
I just been think up in this round
But just four people left with pistols and not really that much else a little bit of body armor to add to it, but
They should be there round
You'd hope so
It's looking very good so far you got that man advantage apex low
and it will be Wakadia super locked in ready to be flashed soon as he detects
pressure on the other side it should be fine the flashbang will be coming under
there it is and there's the spray down triple kill for Wakadia this is looking
more comfy now they need these couple of rounds it's full eco coming up next
for vitality and now we're getting somewhere for just a second I was
worried they were gonna peek him right before the flash bang got there
but it really couldn't have been any better.
4-11.
No bomb plan in the last round.
Damage, not really anything to discuss here.
Aurora will even keep the Galils,
the MP9s, they're building a pretty big bank early on,
especially to get some more of these SMG kills.
They're gonna be filthy rich coming into some of these later rounds
and they will need that money.
Vitality only in two more rounds.
It was Walkstick that couldn't really get going on that first half.
he could say that for pretty much the entirety of Aurora.
Oh yeah.
They're getting stronger now.
The confidence starting to flow.
This game is far from over.
It's their map pick for a reason.
CT specialists.
Got to fend off the Glocks now, though.
Keep this one clean.
Keep the money strong.
That'll be weapon for the job.
You go back to Lil, 35 bullets,
flames along to the back with a back stab.
From Wikipedia, should be enough here.
It's getting a bit messy though, Anders.
The fact he's given up three kills now
and the round is open against a full eco.
There's alarming to say the very least.
Now, what's your call?
Do you go back and defend the B bomb side?
Do you stick together and try and retake here?
They'll be able to hear Waxxin rotating through CT spawn.
He's making a lot of noise.
Did they have a smoke?
I don't think they're going to cross and he misses a shot.
They have no armor though.
So those eight sheets on the left here
could do some real damage.
It shoots to the B there round.
There we go, Grenade around the corner.
He's already backed out.
Bombs going to be planted now.
Unreal nervous for Watsnick. Maybe settling the nerves a bit here for himself as well.
Soulfly finds the last one, but he got absolutely right, Henry.
That should have been around. That should have been very easy for Aurora.
Up against nothing. No armor. You're supposed to win that every single time,
and it got down to the 2v2.
Yeah, that's certainly one that rattles you.
Trying to get aggressive, trying to take the game to them.
The Galil really knows Ansari. It's his day on the stage right now.
is looking weak, looking uncomfortable. They need him if they're going to recover this,
but excellent work from Wauksic. He is starting to wake up. So a flight to confirm the victory.
If there was a smoke available on the T side there, they'd get it down in spawn. They would
have been in a lot of trouble. Thankfully, just the Molotov. And we see it get into
the first gun round here of the second half. 11-5. Can they keep it going?
Bear in mind that being an expensive round will cost them dearly going forward here.
Zai Wu leading the way towards the top of Banana. Touched himself into the barrels,
Grenade being exchanged. It's walked in towards top of Mid with the AWP right now. Nice Grenade,
at least tickles away. And Vitality. Okay, they've got some Tars over here as well,
so a really big defense to begin with. You mentioned Magi being good in this position,
but Riccardia, he's also an absolute champion right now, playing this Banana position
on the CT side.
Nice save.
Very nice save.
That'll do it.
The so far behind the utility damage
probably feels pretty good to get a little bit of that back
right now.
And there's another one for half a way at Madjab.
This bounces right behind the half wall if they're there.
He can double-nade it and this could be huge.
Mezzi might be going down off this nade alone.
One grenade could find Mezzi.
If he deploys it now, it's a kill.
He missed it.
Oh!
It's supposed to hit the option.
He bounced down.
He missed it.
He missed both of them, in fact, and now it's on for the B-bombside back and come back to Haunter.
They saw the opportunity that would have killed maybe a couple of players there.
That lineup is designed to do 50 damage towards the half-fall.
Yeah.
You miss throw up, you get almost nothing out of it.
And he had two of them.
One grenade would have killed Mezzi there, and instead, they use that opportunity knowing that that grenade lineup, you have to be vaulted up.
They pounce through and just dominate the bombside. That is such a case.
Yeah, kind of strike is a game of margins some down sometimes down to the pixels
It's probably was in that moment
If you hit it a little bit lower
It hits the arch and then it bounces right down
This is what we're talking about. Mezzi would have died a hundred percent even yeah, those grenades would have killed him. Oh
You hate to see that you really do yeah, that's gonna go down
That's one of the big what ifs of the semi-final and that's what the desk will be talking about
Yeah, part of the thoughts make any mistakes against Vitality.
Those small details, what makes them the best team.
They don't make those sort of mistakes ever.
They're the masters of utility, and it's a huge part of their game,
and a massive part of why they're so successful.
That red was good.
This one, an absolute stinker.
What a replay, though, that we are getting here.
You see how close that is.
And you know exactly where that point is as well.
I'm glad you brought that up.
They don't have to think, they don't have to wonder,
is he going to be playing so late?
They know exactly where he's going to be.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, it's 12-5.
Vitality around the way from taking away their opponent's map pick.
Oh yes, Aurora, they are in a lot of trouble right now.
They need, they said at the start, they need everyone here.
It's got to be the entire team that shows up.
I think Rokadia is putting his weight right now.
Soulfly, given how inexperienced he is at this stage.
He's actually playing pretty well.
We need Santaris. We need Wapsick to hit some more shots.
It's got to be all of them.
This happened in the EPL finals as well as Santaris bottom fragged in the
best of five grand final. What's happening again here in the semi, six and fourteen.
Where is the Terminator? Completely offline right now.
There is still a chance, Anders. I know that's a ridiculous statement,
but seven rounds on the CT side. It's not impossible.
But maybe when the GOAT is hitting those sort of shots,
It might already be over once it goes down. Flashbang comes over with Karnia fighting for his live-to plan to deal with
They know there's one more that flashbang had to come from somewhere if down for the in-game leader
Can he bend them off?
Just him here alive. It's not gonna be life alone
Rezzy will take him down. Oh, I missed the nade on the pop of the smoke
We did it. That's another one. Oh, this is not what you want to see again. I can't believe it
So fly to one to go down many mistakes
feels like some tires is melting not to the mold and steel but to the stage lamps
right now they did double smoke it to beat that I will know that it was a
double smoke so okay fair oh we're cardiac so I don't know if you caught him
over he peaks out there was a second player that was flashed by the barrels
that were cardiac just in the chaos of that situation he didn't realize I
think he could have had the second kill there and that might have changed a
little bit for the defense but there's nothing to do right now Santaris
they've already punted over on the A bomb side he's trying to get closer so
one versus four for the map and it would be vitality looking easy on this one
as they pick up Inferno in a 13 to 5 fashion that is just so convincing you
can't ask so much more than that Anders that's as good as it gets we talked
about utility the coordination the star power as well and the fashion not
even relying on Zai Wu.
He bottom frags that game as they go 13 and five.
It's all about flames.
He may be on route for the MVP medal at this tournament.
He's playing so well right now.
And the thing is, where is Zantares?
Where is Woxic?
We need these guys to step up.
That's their map pick,
and they're getting absolutely dominated
on the server right now.
It does not look good going forward.
No, it really doesn't.
What a hard game to start with here.
Early in the day, still the semi-finals,
but yeah, vitality,
they look exactly how you'd want them
to be able to win another trophy.
They do indeed enough standing by with Apex here.
You smashed through Aurora on their map pick.
You just felt like another day in the office for Vitality.
Well, yeah, I think we came prepared
and we did a really good city side to business.
I think we had their parents on the whole rounds
and we knew what they were doing.
So I think of Aurora, it was pretty cool
and yeah, we played great.
Newt next, your pick, of course,
you're looking to close this series out nice and easily
in two and book your spot in that grand final.
Yeah, I mean, when you're vitality, your goal is to win every event, and that's what you're trying to do.
Now, yeah, they changed their veto, they had to try out something, because last few times it didn't work for them to play another pass.
So here we go, New York, and let's see what goes.
All right, thank you very much. Best of luck.
Thank you.
enough right now to push against Vitality.
You just have to play flawless counter strike.
I'm not asking a lot, but you just
have to play flawlessly if you want
to beat this Vitality team.
Unfortunately, Aurora, despite the come-up
that they've had so far at this tournament
through this season, it's not enough to match the world's
best.
Just a handful of mistakes in every single department
of Aurora's play.
I think it came down to the individuals
not hitting their shots, making wrong reads,
utility missed.
Also, whenever they got their advances, they would still fumble the situations
and be in two tunnel vision on one guy taking the fights.
You just don't beat a team of Martellis Calibur playing like this.
And then I'm even prone to say that they can throw anubis inside of this map right now.
Just give it to them right now, let them play anubis, and they will still lose
because the difference in skill is just showcasing so much in this one right now.
And Martellis is looking better in every single way.
And we, leading into this, had specific players that we wanted to highlight on Vitality.
It was Zywu and Flameseed. Now Zywu didn't necessarily live up to the Zywu aura that we've noted so many times,
but Flameseed has. It feels like maybe people think that we might be building up a little bit too much,
but when you look at him on this map, there is no building him up enough.
The thing for Flameseed is that he gets so much done and we see in this situation as well that
They really see that Aurora actually goes to go and get mid control here, they actually get the first kill and then this is really good for them because they decide to group up, go for banana, go for this death ball play to do.
But Flames is just doing things on his own, he gets the first kill here, goes forward because he knows he has a friend coming in the back, he even gets a third one.
I mean the thing that Flames just pushing forward and confidently getting these kills time of the time to set up apics for the follow-up, I mean this is just individual prowess in so many ways because his decision making with how he used the utility
The first five see picks and then also knowing it's probably a piece coming from behind saying flames
You need to find I'm coming right behind you the way that you go forward gets the second and also the third
Sets up a bitch perfectly and you just close it out the rounds and this is also how you can win counter strike
It's not always about being the best team throwing the best flash
You can simply win by doing things yourself and flames just showcasing right here
It's not often that you draw something up in practice and then it goes exactly according to plan
that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about the
game. We're talking about the
game, man, but that's
seemingly how almost every
single round goes for
vitality. That is exactly the
action and response that they
went over back whenever they
were screaming this map last.
It's crazy to see execution
really just meet that
preparation, and that's why
it's so hard to. You know,
both vitality for anything
really, but on the flip side,
it is a little bit harder
to watch Aurora have such a
great quarter finals for
getting them that advantage there but ultimately actually being the thing that undoes them and
draws a lot of fans to ask questions about where is the Aurora of yesterday.
These moments are extremely frustrating when you see Madger missing a little bit of utility
or Zantara's at the tail end of this game because it's just everybody's kind of wondering right
now also in the back of their heads is Vitality the greatest team ever or are the opponents
week. These kind of rounds unfortunately lean towards the ladder. I don't agree with that.
Okay, I'm going to just say, all right, I don't agree with that the teams are just bad because
throughout all of history of CS, people are making mistakes, but this succession of errors
was too much to really turn a blind eye to. And that's why we had to bring it up that
in a game that was not really going to probably be brought back. You're not just
doing yourself any favors by missing five nades there. No, no, that's the mistake that's
on Aurora themselves, right? Major would probably land that nade nine out of ten times, but when
he actually has to hit it playing against Vitality on the stage where it matters the most, that's
why he constantly, like, that's why he has to hit it, but he doesn't because there's probably a
lot of nerves on it, right? You can see Centair sitting in CT. I think he used three nades to
try and break it to get himself an advantage, but he misses them as well. I mean, you just
can't afford to have those kind of fumbles when you play a team like that caliber,
And it's just straight up bad from a roar that they can't get things done because they make it very hard for themselves.
They have occasions in this game where they put themselves forward to actually have a success.
Two rounds back to back in the beginning of the game, they would get the advantage.
But then if you look at stats of my child, their 4v5 conversion rate is sitting at like,
I believe it's like 47%, which is absurd.
It might be even higher after this one now.
Probably, whereas the normality of all the teams or the elite teams, it sits like at 37%.
So they are 10% better at winning our 4B5s.
And if you can't convert them, if you can't convert those advantages,
then you're just not going to be winning.
And it's just a simple set.
It was rough to just see how hard Aurora would hit by starting on that T side too.
And again, the conversation can also be flipped to just being how strong Vitality's CT side was, right?
We already looked at that earlier round four, but looking at round seven as well,
this is where it feels like even more strengths of Vitality are showing themselves.
Exactly one of those rounds that I just pointed out, you know, they actually get an advantage here by getting the first kill to the guy that is fighting them out.
And the thing here now is, Rops is hiding on balcony, he gets a lot of job done by getting the attention of Messi.
He drops down, put a look at the camera, three of our role-players are solely looking at Rops, and he took all the attention, which then sets up Apex.
Like, in theory this is very simple to pull off, because Messi is the first guy of contact sitting at Modo, he gets the first contact.
Then what happens is that turns rubs into a favorable situation when he gets a kill drops down that sets up apex
It's this ping pong between them on the CT sides in the crossfires
That makes them look so good and you can see this was this was stage blues from aroa because they're screaming and seems like he's
In pit he's in pit. He's in pit everyone's looking at that direction that all three players
Yes, but get about apex and they're just like you can low you down guys
You're not even looking at me they get tunnel vision in that no moment because they the vitality players are
are kind of in a way, I think it's a, it's praised a pair of vision that they can look similar to at times, where they take that first contact, they get the kill that they're supposed to get, but then they don't overstay their welcome, any defender for vitality, they make sure that then then play off of the second guy who's supposed to get the next contact, and the way that they're able to just telepathically work off of each other is why they're in this just error of dominance as it continues here on Inferno.
I might be being a little tunnel vision right now and what I'm about to say, but I had the cost to say it to
Flame Z potential MVP if you keep this up, right?
He's up there that I'm no doubt without it because he continues and if he continues his form from the from the roof
State he just had and now converting that into players
Which we know he can and what he just showed as well
Then there is a case that we can actually see a guy outside of Saru inside by telling winning an MVP
And I don't think that has ever happened before.
I even had a poll, Jake saying that I don't think it's ever going to happen.
Because Sa'Woo is just so good and so reliable a player
that he will always be putting himself out there.
And with what Flames is doing and with his position
and what he's bringing to the team, this is a massive performance.
And I think he's on the verge of actually doing what I thought would be impossible.
I have to look at the stats again after this particular map
because that's a good graphic by the way.
but but looking before this game I brought it up in the pregame flames these
numbers are practically the same in terms of kills per round and damage per
round as I went 2022 and I was just been a nearly flawless top two player top three
player his entire career ever since he hit tier one for them to get a second
guy like this today is just so absurd I feel like if they actually if he
He actually pulls this off. If he's actually able to capture an MVP, I kind of hope in a weird way that it doesn't change the conversation because, for my money, Zywoo is the best player of this year so far.
I have no doubt about that. There was a conversation last year, but if Flamesee gets that one MVP, I don't think that actually undermines Zywoo's greatness as much as some naysayers may think.
But look also at Saewoo's 22nd, like he's been massive, he's had an enormous year so far.
Flames is even putting up the same numbers as him right now, that is absolutely absurd.
I mean, there's still a gap between them surely, but what he's doing right now, that's absolutely incredible.
Well, then it makes the question that if you guys were to predict who might be MVP of this tournament,
what exactly would you say and what do you think Polly Mugget might have in the chances of that?
Well, looking at this one here about will any team beat them?
I don't think it's getting any more favorable than now.
It's going to be really tough.
Aurora already lost one of their chances to me in this series to pre for Aurora to win
it or have any chance I thought it needed to happen on Inferno.
It needed to start there.
There's no way back.
I think this is, it's over.
I think we're going to go right.
I think you do need to look at the other side of the bracket to try and find a team, obviously.
That can actually beat them out, right?
I think Nabi up Harrison has a way better shot at doing than Arora, but that's going to wait for tomorrow.
Well, it might be low, but it's never zero, right?
There is always that chance, and it does change a lot because we're always getting more information,
trying to change things of what we might want to be predicting here.
And whilst my desk might think it's already over, there is still another mouth that we get to look forward to.
So we're going to go to break on the other side.
We'll see if Vitality are able to keep that streak and not win streak alive for themselves.
We're turning our eyes towards Nuke now with Vitality, one map advantage in this best of
three looking towards that grand finals and right now they're probably looking their lips
just being so close to it but on the other side of Aurora you want to bounce back now.
You want to be able to have a fighting chance on making it to that grand final.
Well it was so disappointing for Aurora there on Inferno probably has to be summed
up not only with the round total but with Santar as his individual performance. Admittedly he was
the victim of more shrapnel than I think anybody has ever been in this kind of environment. I mean
he was just eating nades and Molotovs left and right so I can't blame the guy but this is a map
where he has more opportunities for himself fighting towards that outside yard of nuke is
going to be more open he's going to have more chances going to be able to work around the
smokes of vitality. He needs to punch back in this one if we don't want another slaughter.
Fair play to Aurora to try and go for a different kind of map now the fact that they didn't want to go against overpass
Which is the two maps that they have faced off against Vitality latest now going into nuke
It's it's not something that looks good on the paper
I think that Vitality is sitting at 100% win rate and we also look at the side of Aurora
They have looked pretty bad on nuke lately
So I don't think there's anything forward that would put me in a position where I feel
Aurora is making it back into the series and that just slowly come down to what I've seen in the first map
I'm always not pressing right now, but I tell you they're here to make grand finals.
To be fair, we could say they have a 100% win map on a lot of different maps.
And so hoping that Nuke is going to be different.
We don't know exactly how it's going to play out.
We can only say what we want to see.
I know everyone wants to see a map number three,
but for now, we get all the hype and action of Nuke.
Yes, thank you very much, guys.
The second map is around the corner.
It's going to be Nuke.
And I agree with Maui, an absolute slaughter on Inferno.
We didn't see much output there from Santaris from Woxig. They need to step it up.
Do you feel like there's a chance of a comeback here, Anders? Or is it just a foregone conclusion?
We get the 2-0.
You know, I would love for nothing more to be wrong on this one, but I can't imagine.
We said we needed everybody to step it up on that first map, and it really didn't.
Half the team was missing. Inferno, they knock her their way.
We do need this nuke to start strong. I need a pistol round from Aurora.
I need more than anything in the world.
Centaurus to be ready for this one otherwise there won't even be a match to talk about.
We're heading into it now ladies and gentlemen.
Rotten down! Are you ready?
I know I am Anders. It's that CT star we got through Aurora.
We need to see so much more. It will set the tone.
The round in front of us right here. If they can make this work of the USPs
and fend off Vitality they might stand a chance. It all starts with Zantara's and down he goes but walks it with that P-2000.
He has managed to bring it back to an even kill but not for long.
Look at Flamacy! He's run the hole! They don't know!
He's sprinted to this position and they never realized.
What boldness for him.
Oh! That's a shot and a half isn't it Madge?
Okay this round is still on.
Rocks fly your head over heel
That might be something here. So fly is still on top
I feel like he's held his cool very well under the pressure so far a head shot
What's needed right now, but flames he's playing with him toying with him on the other side and there's the limit on the clock
I saw an open messy
Sends him to an early grave and Madge. He's out of secret. Yeah, he's got an issue, but
Good luck, I suppose even with a smoke it combination down then never gonna let you onto the site here
He's got an HE. I love your optimism, Anders.
I'm trying all the time. I want to construct some kind of a story here.
I'm on industrial level, to try and see if I can find a way to get Aurora back in this game.
Madge trying to do the exact same thing.
Probably more likely to see than I am.
He's swing around the corner.
Balm already takes so far and Messi finding the third kill here.
Very, very well done.
Vitality, it's another pistol round to them.
It's all about Flames once again, only gets one kill,
but Sabotage is the back line, they have no idea he's stuck his way down.
Opening kill, once more, Zantara's down with nothing.
And you can see the pressure being applied in the pathing as well,
just getting into that ladder room so quickly,
in towards Hell, causing chaos.
It's Flames, Nezzy, just once again making it look so comfy.
We've got the force by, it can be possible on you to make this work.
Lots of close range encounters.
SMGs can prevail.
They've gone for no five sevens.
They've gone for a scouts, four MP9s,
and very little to no utility remaining.
Vitality though, slowing things down.
And it looks like we're setting up an upper execution
and there's, think about double molotovs
towards the bomb side floor on top of the hut.
Four flashbangs coming through the windows
and then everyone breaking through
in towards the upper bomb side.
That's all we're expecting.
Looks very likely that's exactly what we're gonna get.
Will you draw the entire outline
strategy here for us Henry. Best I can say is good luck right now to anyone holding this
bomb site. Fire is everywhere. Match up. That's actually really well done. He gets the first one,
he almost counts it, counts it, counts it, backhand shot. He might have done enough in
this one, Robson as he's trying to bring it back into the round. Robs, how does he live?
He knows it's a round plan. He's got five bullets. There's no helmet on Soulfly. Five
Bullets is enough and if a war weren't already crushed losing to one Mac 10
You painted the picture perfectly Anders
6hp five bullets in a Mac 10 nothing but a headshot will do
Perfectly played an ice cold from Robin cool once again. How does he keep doing it?
You think after this sequence and walk tick that's got to be enough and the Mac 10 sickening isn't it?
Looks like he's done for just one bullet from Soulfly wins them around
What is the response Madge has got the answers boosted up towards outside
They'll at least take down apex here a five on four vitality are wounded, but they're not done yet a beautiful opening kill
But they just don't have the Kevlar. They don't have the utility. They need to make a manoeuvre.
They are getting mowed down.
Massive damage, match up, down to four points of health. Looking for another one, flashed off the angle.
You started the conversation, Henry, about Flamesey being a potential MVP for the tournament.
Over-taken side, he's doing everything he can to prove you right at the moment.
He was a demon on that opening map and not looking to slow down any time soon you can see the confidence in every step every fight that he takes
I'm still blown away by Ross
He is the absolute master of lurking around on nuke. Everyone knows it
Those sort of clutches are his bread and butter, but soul fly. He knew where he was rocks have been name-played towards upper already
Yeah, there's only a couple of places. It can be and he read the exact play
He comes out. He's got the crosshair there ready. He got the first bullet off his well-unders and he couldn't land one.
A single bullet anywhere on the body wins the round. That's enough. And five bullets, six HP.
Robs comes out on top. Zantares keeps sinking to the bottom. He cannot get anything done this series whatsoever.
Robs will find him. Molotov is a magic. A pair of mine. One tick will take him down.
That's neither here nor there. Flames will find him.
Guardia, MP9, a 3-0 completely locked in.
And the discipline here, they know that a ward didn't have a lot in this round, but they still saw a player that's flamethrowered with four kills.
The M10 has made a ton of money on top.
Very thin margins in this game for, you know, defeating Vitality and getting blown up.
We talked about the HE on Inferno that missed the wall and then now it gets rops, a bullet of difference between losing and winning the round.
winning the round. You made many mistakes. You gave them even an inch. And that's it.
The round is over and done with. It really could come back to home himself.
I'm not winning that won't be one. If they don't get going on the CT side, that
was a golden ticket opportunity. He had 100 HP. It was the lack of how much
he pointed out. Yeah. That led to his demise. The only way Rob's could win
was an instant headshot with the Mac 10.
Crushing isn't it? Absolutely crushing. But here we are. Round number four now
kicking up. We got Woxic on the AWP and he wasn't necessarily bad on in front of
the disc, he got beat a lot but he actually did land some pretty decent shots.
That flashbang hit.
Magia up on top of the hut, the A-bomb side Woxic. I think he can stand tall on this one.
Came sees the opportunity and he will take it as well. Another double kill for him.
He's up to seven and one.
Just getting thrown around by right dolls now.
Rops really is one of the true masters of Nuke.
And you can see why his timing, his gut feeling, his instinct, whatever you want to call it.
Dropping the Molotov, dropping the smoke, running through the utility, catching them with a juggling grenade in their hand.
They're completely blind.
This is the best looking Counter Strike team of all time.
Every facet of the game is pitch perfect.
You can't poke any holes in it.
Yes, it's hard not to argue that right now. Even on the first map, even without
Saiwu, you've got the best player in the world on your team. That's not how
they're winning. They don't need that. That's a luxury that they're keeping in the background.
If things start to go off the rails, but the rest of the team, they're firing
on all cylinders. Good news is the office recovered. Okay, so there's
something to work with going forward with the loss bonus. It should be five.
Look at the flashbang set up, Xylo is a flash,
Force of the Flush have a CT vent,
Robsters has to focus on the bombsite floor,
and focus on headshots as well of course as well.
Beautiful stuff, excellent execution.
Yeah.
I imagine, yeah, he's feeling the struggle out there,
they're getting nothing done.
They need one of those miracle rounds here, Anders,
and I think we're changing the pace.
Full speed ahead for Mezzie and Kozak over that squeaky door.
No respects, they want to crush a wall right now,
they're down the vents.
They've got the bomb with them as well.
They're going to be very, very fast out here, but maybe the first mistake that we've seen, Apex,
I think he had an opportunity to win that fight.
Five on three.
Okay, so this hits.
This is around you have to win. Even that defuse kit, right?
It doesn't really get a lot better than this, but already,
Stalin of the Throws doubts into it as Saewoo picks up the first kill on Makania.
And he's cut off that rotation point now. They can't go down secret, but he's going to go back towards a lobby.
Now he's controlling the bend.
Robs with the decon door a 5 on 3 evaporating before the very eyes. They have no kit.
Woxic has a... I think yeah, they have to call it off.
Another gut punch of a round. You have all those openers and still nowhere near the victory.
Woxic has a hold on to the AWP. Can he do it? Robs is coming for him.
Why wouldn't he grenade in the back? Makes it look easy. They died to the bomber.
Don't think they care. They have so much money on the team side.
It's not really a factor at the moment.
a 5-1-3, and it doesn't even look competitive to Vitality that are three alive.
They look like that was just another little day in the office here.
Oh, my name is Raul from Santarez.
Through the smoke while blind, you take every day long,
soul fly in transition, catch the team game leader, but as I mentioned,
so I will getting that kill, comes to the rotation towards Seagull.
There'll be two Scares who even go down there anymore.
He goes back to lobby, same story towards the vent,
catches the perfect timing as they're trying to descend down towards lower,
and it's just part of play once again.
Zywu didn't do too much in Inferno.
Didn't really have to with his teammates stepping up,
but that's an excellent round, perfectly timed.
Takes his total up to three and three right now.
But his flames once again almost at the top,
he's seven and three, rops eight and two.
We need to see some rounds right here,
right now from Aurora.
They have the AWP once again.
Oxyc normally very good on Nuke.
CT side is now being aggressive, dynamic,
nimble around the map.
He likes to go for the opening kills towards Ram.
The heart of heaven.
We'll see what he's got obviously this time.
They've got an 8-0, they've got an 8-0 here on the CT side.
Aurora missing in the semi-finals.
They've got a tiny bit done on the opening map.
That was their own pick now.
We're on the home ground for Vitality Nuke.
They do some of their best work here.
They have some absolute experts.
How do you find any kind of a crack in the armor
here is the question.
That's a very good question.
Smoke's being deployed towards outside.
All a bit of a ruse though.
We just have Apex that'll be utilizing them.
He'll try and get down towards Seeker
and suggest the Ram take Anders.
Lower splits.
Haven't seen too much of the activity
towards the Ram so far.
That we're sending those full flashes towards the Ram
from and trying to get the backstab with Apex.
They've got a nice setup there.
They've read this well.
Two players in towards the Ram.
It's down to Xantarras and an AK.
He needs two Anders.
All eyes on him right now.
The detraction is in.
He's got Woxy there. If they can't hold this, there's nothing to fight for.
They will get the first couple of headshots there.
So, Fyre will take down Robs.
Apex was waiting for the breakthrough on the other side.
He wanted to be a little bit late to look in.
But now that that hasn't happened, they've changed their minds.
We've already seen 1-5-0-3 go the way of Vitality.
Another one, it will be criminal here
and it starts with Apex finding Sotaris.
How is he beating him with an AK outside?
I don't know.
Bakaria on the bomb site.
They've got Madro on the hut. It's still a very tight defense.
It shouldn't be packed open, but it might be anyway.
Manchur trying the best that he can to save his team,
but it's down below. There's nobody here.
Mezzi, not on the rest of the meeting.
Mezzi is the master of the clutch, let me tell you.
He flies in this sort of rounds.
He knows what he has to do.
They're right on top of him by the door as well.
He knows it.
Let's see what he could do here.
It's not going to be enough.
Fortunately, Soulfly tapping away at the back line
and will take down Mezzi.
Aurora get their first round on the board.
meaning everything that you get right now.
That was another five on three though, Anders.
It almost fell apart for them.
It was looking very promising.
They cleaned it up quite nicely towards the end,
but you can see they're stressed.
We said that he needed a couple of kills here towards the round.
They had three players there.
Soul Flies and Taras and Woxic.
Still an uncomfortable finish.
Apex cracked things open.
Zywa making a comfortable nice work from Anders.
If Mezzie hits one of those taps towards the round,
he wins that round.
Let me tell you,
he knew where the second player was coming from as well.
So sure, you get the first on the board here.
There's still tension running high on the Aurora camp.
They've got the offer for Wauksic again.
Very important round here.
You can break the finances of vitality.
Of course, they have no lost bonus going forward.
So you need to make sure you convert this one.
Wauksic outside.
And it's a Mac 10 for Mezzi.
I'm gonna find some players of our helmets here.
There's only Merger.
Okay, it's good on the helmet watch.
Keep it in mind if it comes down to a 1v1
could still make a difference here.
Santaris is here in the footsteps,
he's calling Giddy, you can see on the microphone there,
he's running it out to Woxic saying there is someone out here
and the shot being fired is not,
it could be a kill but it's just a trying to strike.
They want to match up, but no one's checking Santaris.
They've got Wakadia down towards secret as well.
They're expecting outside play,
but Woxic goes down and takes ready for the fight
and Flames will be striking from the silo.
A three on three vitality will take that all day long.
The defense is stretched very thin at this stage as well
And Robs is using that information to sneak around the map, start the lurk, and sniff out CT defenders down towards Lower.
It's Wakadia he's looking for, but can he find him?
He is one of the most enigmatic players for this exact reason.
You lose track of Robs on the map and you know it's not going to end well. Now the glasses still intact.
They can try and use a grenade to try and sound the cue of the window crack here.
True.
See if they can time it well enough.
I think they did it with the flash.
Yeah, you're right.
I don't think they know Eva.
Oh, this could be deadly, but there's another fight coming in here, Maja.
Maybe a little bit early, didn't have quite a crosshair in the right position.
Watch running down low, all this ramp defense.
This should be enough to jump around the corner.
Wakadia, he gets the first one.
Oh! It jumps in!
And you know where Maja is. You can't see him.
That late flank, he's already down here.
Could he do anything to stop them here?
He is the captain.
He's gonna go down with the ship in this round, opens the door.
the spray is not great but it will get the job done and that's all we care about
there's no time at the round is he actually come to bar I think you can
think you ran out of time for this one it will be a horror it's a time they
win the round majo he's stuck not when they need him it's not clean it's not
pretty but they get the job done it's match out once again saving the day
shutting down the finances of vitality it comes down to the milliseconds
there they knew where he was but he made the perfect rotation
down towards the devil, it's an open plan and it looked like another horror show
around for Aurora, but there's just no time, you need to reach four on the
clock for it to go down and there just wasn't enough there.
Aurora desperately needed that, it is not going to be a force by this time
from my challenge, just to save AK for Robbs,
it takes heavy damage on route towards the hot position.
You've got to convert this, there's no way you can afford to give this round
up if you're Aurora right now, has to be a victory for them.
If they can win this round without too many casualties it might be the first time that we could see a roar in this semi-final
Take something like a deep breath and feel like they have some influence over this game
Because vitality been dictating every single round up until this point. It's never been easy. Everything has been a battle
But now it's an opportunity
Maybe the first one that they have with Cardi gets a long spray. You don't get the kill
All right, the USBs come out and he gets the job done. That should be all wait a minute
One-on-one, dude.
It's a one-on-one. Flamesee, how did he get the kill on Santaris?
He's got an M4 as well.
I don't know. He's got 12 and 5.
He somehow danced onto the bomb site.
Got kills in every direction.
And now Soulfly, you must get this retake.
The team needs you.
He's backing up. He doesn't have any body armor.
Okay.
Oh, that's the problem, isn't it?
That's the crucial difference here, Soulfly.
Flamesee's got to make him play himself, yeah.
Well, the kit's on the upside. That's so gutsy.
It's close, but there's a flaw between him and the kit right now.
He's panicking.
He knows he's got it.
Oh, well, I think he's in his brain. You're absolutely right.
Flamesee, he's done enough 10-second defuse on the other side.
We're down to five now, and he's timed it perfectly.
He does get the kill so far, but it won't matter.
Flamesee with a one versus two.
The bomb plant on top, and he fakes it out towards the end
and stops that defuse.
That one hards. That one hards so bad.
That's one of those rounds you're up against.
To say that he came, a couple of upgraded pistols,
as you mentioned, flames without even Kevlar there.
That's a thinking man's clutch.
He knew he would have salt by panicking.
He had no kit, no information in his upper rush.
It's absolutely everything.
Look at Santaraj is coming in.
He's just has no impact.
I mean, I know we've been saying it.
Santaraj, one kill and it's done.
Oh my god, 6-2!
That's a nice round from Flames as well. Not the flashiest clutch but certainly one of the most impressive.
Like I said, you're a loud soulfighter, play himself.
Yeah, well think about what a big switchover it is from how Flames has been playing, right?
Because he's been so aggressive hunting and he can change the pace of his own game in a matter of seconds.
Suddenly he's passive, he's elusive, very very hard to do, especially when you're hitting all these shots.
but he knew not to fight so fly.
Bomb is making its way down the hallways,
there's only one defender.
If they get Wokseg right here,
then there's not a lot of round to fight with him.
The thing is, they can take away his vision now,
it'll call for rotations,
Wokali will join them,
and he's actually done pretty well to be fair to him,
but one for one with no further damage
doesn't really help out their case too much.
Apex patrolling the extremities.
In terms, you can see the rotations
down towards lower now.
I don't think they finish up there,
I would say after showing this early presence with a Molotov they go back in towards Upper,
finish around there, knowing the gamble stacks have to happen and I think that's what you're going to see.
All of Aurora have gone down towards Lower. It's perfectly played.
You've got Zywoo to stop the backstab. He'll hold secret, but we're going in towards the upper bomb site
and it should be a foregone conclusion here. As long as they have patrolled events effectively,
should be no problem and Aurora starting to realize what's happened.
Just another great call from Apex here. The mid rounds have been very impressive.
knowing what you're up against, knowing that there's early presence down towards lower.
Yeah. You can take his vision away, apply pressure towards Walkty, he's got a call for backup
and it comes in spades, but at that point they've already vacated the premises.
They're watching every rotation. Robs, as you might expect, perfectly positioned. Drops down.
Surely you're going to be saving the rest of the guns here.
They need the rounds though. They'll give it a look.
Okay, well let's see if they can even find anything. Did you have some towers down there
They're with the AK but giving that one up it could be very painful and I think they realized they're kind of getting pushed out as well
The grenades are going down towards mini not a lot of positions left
Yeah, they're backing on out. It's gonna be seven rounds to vitality
This is a very comprehensive victory right now for but they've never even been tested it feels like
Just absolute peak calling from apex. Yeah, I guess that's one of the benefits of coming in the yard like that
Funny moments.
Take it. Doesn't matter too much yet.
Firing on all cylinders, everyone feeling good.
Don't even need Zai Wu in his final form here.
Pretty average by his standards.
Pretty pedestrian.
They don't need him to be going supersonic right now.
Oh, they don't.
They've got flames healing charge.
Rocks up there as well.
Tension mounting.
Aurora can feel this one slipping away.
The dreams of taking down Vitality
and booking themselves a place in another grand final
looks very unlikely at this moment.
You've already been battered and bruised on your map here.
You're now on Vitality's turf.
And they are not slowing down.
They're even killing each other.
Showing Aurora how to do it.
Santaris was still waiting.
It feels like we're gonna be waiting until it's too late.
He's got the AK again, Anders, I'll say that.
Determinate his best weapon.
He's outside there, not gonna be pushing up to the silo.
He tried that in the previous round and it was Flamesy to shut him down from that high ground position.
Hearing some of the Aurora fans think of the background trying to cheer the team back online.
They're gonna need them now.
Yeah, more than ever.
The game's not over.
If Aurora can find five rounds here,
they can bring this one back.
They can be it's an ace's team,
but they need those five rounds.
Round number 10, very important here,
and is we're creeping everyone across.
And Dan Tarek is coming to life.
Takes down the danger man, Flames.
Has he got anything left in the tank here?
They need to come back.
There's four and five advantage.
And what a gift it is, you find the first one through the smoke,
he did take a lot of damage in the return,
and Rops is not putting on the pressure and distracting from the fact that
they're down the B hallways, and there's not a single defender down there.
We know what they can do with a 3v5 vitality, but
still a 4v5 right now.
Only now Soulfly is starting to walk down the ramp and get close to the B bomb site.
He's very exposed right now, they're gonna go behind, he's gonna be dead.
He could be dead in a second here.
Three people on the other side, there we go.
spray is actually not bad but Messi still takes him and now rops on the look
again finding the kill on the high ground there's no where is safe it's a ridiculous
messy continues to frag here two of us is one Zaya moves the go this step up
far turn quick enough and it will be Magyar once again winning another
touch here on the lower bomb site it finds them their third I've seen these
aurora games way too many times where Magyar is the one that's trying to
save the team and it's a really cool story. It's just not how you want this team to play.
No, definitely not. It seems to happen all too often as well.
Yeah.
And that's nice from Zantarez. It's a fortunate spray for a smoke though.
That's not the aim display.
No.
That's not the soldier we expect to be stepping up and mowing them down and finding the taps.
That's just a nice fortunate spray for the smoke.
Fire enough. We'll take that. But we need to see him get to his final form.
Still has the AK here.
Needs to show some confidence. Some assertive play.
Can't just be a couple of kills through the smoke every now and then.
Honestly, that 7-fly is looking more likely right now.
Again, the body is not great here for the other side.
Every time.
And it's Antara's point of view.
This time, he's gone through the smoke.
The dropping like flies out in the yard there.
Not even getting a chance to answer back here.
It's another kill. So fly.
Not expecting to push.
He's been so fast-flamed, see all half long.
Now you just come to breaks.
You know they have to play themselves.
They are desperate for information.
Looking for anything.
Both players down towards lower.
Zairu with the bomb, vaulting up to the heavens.
Flying like a god as you might expect.
Apex, even if he goes down here, but so much discipline.
Doesn't even go further than secret.
He knows they're probably trying to save their weapons.
Holding onto their AKC, giving nothing away
until the bomb is planted.
And still going through all the protocols there.
Making sure no mistakes are made.
No one's hunting.
No one's letting off the leash.
It's just gonna be a comprehensive counter strike.
Yeah, I know we're talking about it all the time.
It sounds like we're doing this praising vitality,
but what do you want?
There's not much else we can talk about it.
You're absolutely right.
That smoke goes down.
It covers squeaky door and the vent.
Yeah.
So any little plan you had to sneak up there,
completely shut down.
No one's home.
Round over, eight to three.
The hunt will be called once the bomb is planted.
And this is nothing you can do.
You have to try and save it.
They've had them close to the brink of the economy on the vitality side a couple of times Aurora
They could have had some rounds where they were up against nothing but glocks and
Every time they get close every time
That's an opportunity to manufacture some sort of a lead here for Aurora
They end up throwing it away. They get cut down in the yard this time
So I win apex with a couple of opening kills and again
Just want to point it out flame see pushing so deep on the map that the CTs are not ready
You could see Soulfly was coming in on this idea, no idea that Flamesy was going to be there.
Individually, he's let off the leash, and they don't know where to find him.
Bates now.
Vitality.
Man, what team is going to bring them down on the other side of the bracket?
Parivision and Navi.
Who is going to be able to stop this?
Maybe it's only Jayme. Maybe he's the only man for the job.
Off meta counter strike, a different style.
I mean, he's got close on both Mirage and Inferno lately, so you may be all right.
I don't think it's a bad idea.
Aurora do not look like they have the answer.
We're going into round number 12, and it's been a very one-sided opening half here.
Vitality up to eight to Aurora, just with three.
Here we go.
Scout kill.
Oh, but it's immediately turned back.
I love it from Watsik, but they can't all on the lead once again.
Doesn't really do much for them in the four and four,
Especially when they have the lesser weaponry. It's gonna be flames trying to find some space in the map here again
We're walking through the smoke knowing they're taking that boxy again. Wow. Madge. You've been absolutely owned by friend
Final round of this first half looking at nine three Anders
The freedom that flames he has to make this move is just crazy
Oh, I might find a free kill if he's kept on looking, but we'll miss the opportunity but the fact that he's back here
There's nobody watching up here right now. He might just be raining down
down. Death from above. Exactly
right Henry. There we go. It's
a quick death at least for
Santaris. He never even really
knew what hit him there. And
Mccarty are now in the mini
position. You need a headshot
right now. He's going to do
pretty well, but it also
reveals him. And they knew
what's so fine. They know that
he's anchoring that ramp
position. So it's not going to
be a big surprise. They have
all the information. They've
got the man lead. Vitality
are really taking no hostages
in this semifinal. It's
beautiful counter strike. There's
Nothing you can criticize for them right here. There is a kit on McCarty M
But around number 12 no one's gonna be running away from that bomb and he's already low on health trying to get on to the
Ruffles here flames he getting another kill and now soul fly poking away towards the mess
He will take them down truly fantastic counter strike being shown here on the big stage bar vitality
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The Noah shuts up and sees if he can beat me, and they don't want us.
A swept aside, there's nothing a war has been able to do.
They have been completely demolished by vitality.
Second half here, a pistol round, it'd be nice,
but I can't see how they can make it back on this one.
Some nice shots from Walsig,
but Zywu answering back quickly there.
You can see Flames is taking that space.
And once again, they absolutely dominate that first half.
Nothing to be said.
A couple of magic clutches, and you mentioned it Anders,
that simply won't do.
If that's their headline, then matter when you a couple of rounds and 1B2s, it's not good enough.
That's not a team that's going to be vitality. You need the big names. We need the Ricardius, the Woxic, and especially the Santares. Where is he?
Oh, Robs.
Oh, don't do him like this.
Are you really?
Don't do him like this.
Is this where we've come to now? Finally, might be at the end of the road here for a while.
He pulls out the USB, hiding in the corner, he's still having the headshot, but you know what, this is looking better, Aurora!
They come into the round here, Centaurus will pick up a kill, and now it's just Mezzie, alone versus three.
He wasn't actually at the A bomb site, but he lands a shot onto Madge, a warning shot across the bow.
Let's see if he can crush Aurora for once, once and for all here.
I don't think they can recover if they lose a 1v3 in the pistol.
Up on the high ground, they know that he's coming.
They've got the glocks trained here.
He's going to have to show the top of his head as well as he comes in.
Very likely he can make it through and walks it will be there to make the round a little bit easier.
They get a kill each in this round.
And Aurora, it's the first sign of life for them in quite a while.
You'll have to see that though.
The pistol round going in their favor.
Wasn't too uncomfortable towards the end of it.
Assertive play, the upper split coming through,
Marday hitting a nice shot towards outside,
and Torres, good precision on the penultimate kill
and walking the tidy things up.
Let's get into it then.
Do we have the force by?
Yes, we certainly do.
Another round, you'd have to win if you're Aurora here.
CT side, Vitality on the defense with the MP9s in hand.
Fast towards outside, sending multiple numbers,
Four players down towards Siegfried.
Talked about this before.
You'll have one lurking towards a ram.
There'll be a lower split.
And we have two vitality players ready and waiting.
Oh, Robs.
Oh, my.
The king of the ram for him.
He'll find Magier and give them the man advantage.
They'll cancel their plans to try and go down towards Lower.
And now explore options towards the yard.
Scared of the five-seater now.
Here we go, Santaris crouching on in.
He will find Apex.
Yeah, he thought they were going down towards Lower,
right?
Yeah, well, let's see if we can
rotate around there a little bit.
But they are on the railing, on the outside.
Still got a little bit of a defense here inside.
Well, you can't really stay on the bomb site
when he doesn't have any backup here.
It's not the smoke you're looking for.
That was for heaven.
So you don't see that too often from vitality,
missing utility.
You think that's covered, but it's certainly not.
Oh, the spray.
Not the best of the job, but it gets the kill in the end.
It's going to be the backstop coming through.
coming through and now the man advantage does sit with vitality but not for long.
They're going to get that kill on the frame, see that's pretty good.
Roxy is shooting him right in the feet and he will take down Santaris.
I don't know why he's not a little bit more covered in this one.
Now it's Wakadia.
I mean if anyone could on this team it just might be him.
Goes to put down the bomb, he knows where Roxy is, he's trying to find Sairon and he will.
But not with the result that he was looking for.
The four-spy works, vitality of no patience.
They want to be out of this semi-final. They want to move on with their day.
Not even going to give them that much.
It all started with the round play, the 5-7, the snapping turtle.
Zantara has brought it back to an even kill. Even with the miss smoke from Zywoo, you thought,
okay, now we've got a chance.
But of course, even after a double kill from Wakadia, it drops.
Probably position takes down Zantara and Zywoo in an unpredictable position.
We'll find that final kill and it has to be the force by in response here
It was on Tara's posting six and fifteen on inferno
He currently sits at eight and eleven. These are not the numbers of the star player. We're looking for I know
We're bringing him up a lot, but we expect much from the terminator. We call him that for a reason
Always in his big games that he seems to fall off. We are only bringing it up because we know how good it could be
We're Tantara fans. Yeah. You and I love it.
We would love to see him come alive right now.
It's because we know it can make a difference if he shows up,
but he isn't. And that is hurting the team.
Another problem in the horizon for as long as it lasts
is the fact that Mezzi, if you're into statistics,
he is the best A anchor on Nuke in the world.
Yeah, true. So attacking that position,
it's just not going to be easy.
You've got Rob towards the ramp.
I don't know the stats like you,
stats like you but I'm pretty sure he's up there as well oh yeah yeah I think it
might be his second best position in the game pretty much so you got some
experts pretty much in every position what can you do I don't know that would
that helps quite a bit. Apex now left to his own devices here and I throw up an
incendiary but can they come to me? Oh he swings back in! That's madness! Okay hold on there's low HP they've got the man advantage but yeah
Yeah, there's some grounds to win this one now if you're Aurora.
Mezi and Zai Wu, Zai Wu low as well.
They're so far removed.
I think this one might be an Aurora round all day long.
You might just be holding on to the AK.
AKs, I should say.
Yeah, that's it.
So Aurora have broken through.
We said they had some of the best grand players in the world,
but it's rocks going down with nothing at all.
17-8 right now that the Flashbang takes them off the angle
for a split second overwhelmed by those tech nines.
And we got another Aurora round,
but they do save as I will wake up.
Same story for Mezzi as they make their way back.
Well, good on you guys for taking the opportunity to boo.
You're not gonna have many, but that was one of them.
You can take it when you can.
It makes sense obviously, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
It's a lot of support here today for Aurora.
A lot of people really wanted to see the underdog story.
Somebody just wants,
I want to see somebody beat by a tally finally.
The clock hasn't struck mid-night yet.
Okay.
Five to ten.
An uphill battle.
We've seen it so many times in CS2, MR12.
These games can fall apart.
The finances can be destroyed.
But you need to build up momentum of course.
You can't just win one round and offer it up straight up in return.
This will be very indicative as to where this game is going right now.
You have to convert now take the lead ruin the finances and you're up against
I won't my God you should be dead how has I will survive that how is
Santaris not killed him I don't think he knows how to any longer I feel like
it's been 10 rounds since I've seen him do anything
imagine we'll get a shot there but apex is holding down below we're gonna
need to see the replay that one in the flames as well yeah he's running back into
the fire it's an AK on the other side shooting him literally directly above
him and somehow he spins and gets the kill but now they found an empty bomb
site Henry even if they're a man down right now this is winnable but it's
Ross so good with the timing he's always such a nuisance and we're cardiac we'll
get him that's really nice the other lurker is Sai Woo but he's solo on
healthier he needs the instant head shot might get a free kill on soul fly
He wasn't ready. He was creating that high ground position walk sick in Makaria a two one three to try and hold on to the map
You let me tell you back in now
You're not gonna get a chance here. They traded out Benaria in the corner a one versus two a grenade at his feet and now being swung
So it's an easy kill by his standards a triple even when they got in the nine health
He's still dangerous
Zai Wu couldn't have played that round any better.
You can see the comms flowing.
He knows is a vulnerable target.
He found the freebie towards the heart,
but he doesn't overextend.
He doesn't swing.
He waits for the rotations to come through
and manages the time of his teammates,
the perfect play.
Give themselves a huge advantage.
And that opening kill, Tantara.
Oh, what a nightmare.
How you haven't got that frag?
That really will come back to horn them.
But that flashbang, it sets up his teammates
It allows Messi to come through.
They get the information as to where Cardi are as they need him.
Swing him together.
Once again, it's perfect counter strike on display here from Vitality.
And Apec didn't have you with that.
Boltz himself up, on towards the garage, and he's down as I will again.
Doesn't show us the trick of discipline, but doesn't show us the brutes away.
Can he get three?
You better believe he can!
The hat-trick for the World's Best!
18-9 right now as we go into a 4-on-2,
hunting for series points.
This was supposed to be a quiet Saeho game
when he was just warming the back bench,
but now he's up to 18.
That all happened in a flash.
They missed one corner,
and they're all dead in the yard.
Rocked here, a little bit of a labor fight.
My God, all it takes is one mistake.
You could give nothing to this team.
My challenge, it'll take everything away
from you every single time.
And as I know I said must win round a few times, but if Aurora give this one up
They will get $1,900 into the next rounds. Yeah, fully invested here
It will be series point grand final point of vitality at three versus two you've recovered two rifles here
But with Cardia magia desperately low on HP
35 seconds to work with with Cardia working through the back lines of the lower bomb side
Magic will join in from the ramp as well. The hot on their tail is mezzy
the bomb down, two players from
the ramp and the MP9 unfortunately, the perfect weapon for this sort of job.
Majer needs at least one and even that wouldn't be enough.
Yeah, I think you're right and they're already low on health right now.
I touched him right on top just crouching in and made it messy.
You actually look so easy.
They've got a smoke for the bomb.
They could do everything.
Well, all right, Wakadia, there's the first, but if anything touches him right
now, he's going to be dead.
He's trying to relocate, wants to play up in the control room.
That's a little bit risky with the smoke there that could just be inside of
He's waiting for you and he has to shoot into the smoke.
They might have been, oh my God, flamethrower.
Just airborne and he takes him down.
Good try. Bomb plants, it does give them a bit of extra cash.
$600 extra for player-and-ers.
Reaching deep now, Henry, to try and find anything,
anything that could be a positive for Aurora.
This was unbelievable, Zai Wormon.
I would say his best sequence of this match so far.
No question.
The third kill. Just an absolute thing of beauty. Look at the control, look at that precision.
That is the first time that he's actually, you've actually had to show some skill with your Saibu.
The first time that he's really had to do anything in this game. And that's what he delivers.
It's been the flames he shows so far in this series.
Yeah, Robs also slowly climbing the scoreboard. Like he always is. I feel like that's so...
So one of the scary things about rops is that you might not always remember, you know all of those kills that he's getting
But you look at the scoreboard and suddenly he's way up there anyway. He's such a nuisance on you. Yeah
He always says that he's everywhere. You have to be on high alert at all times
But right now Anders it throws what we might be done here. They're on the CT side. Yeah
It's their map pick. They were destined for the grand finals. It felt like before this tournament even started
semi-finals here it's been nothing but smooth sailing first map was pure
domination similar story here last chance saloon for Aurora have they got
anything left in the tank it has to be the upper pounds flames waiting for them
on the other side of that smoke and a miss smoker that's what's outside
They're going to give it here, and if time will tell, one last hurrah for Aurora as they try to crack up in the A-bomb side, they're not welcome, they are not going to get a chance here.
Apex will take them down with a triple, and they've done it again. Vitality, they make another grand final, and they make it look easy this time.
Aurora, they never stood a chance. Vitality, a team that cannot be defeated.
Just another display of perfect counter strike.
Difficult to poke any holes in their system.
Both CT and T side are communication.
The defaults are mid-round calling.
Everything was spectacular.
You've got the big names showing up.
18 kills on Zywoo.
17 kills on Rott.
16 kills on Flames.
14 on Mezi.
And the headline is that Santara is bottom-frag once again
when Immanuel Sanders.
We don't want to beat up the guy too much,
but the same thing happened in the EPL finals.
Dead last there.
and he's done it again against Vitality.
When they needed the Terminator to be online,
he was nowhere to be seen.
Yo, unfortunately you're right.
Melting under the stage lights once again.
It's not what you're hoping for,
but it's exactly what we got here.
What a terrifying display of powerful vitality.
What we've seen here tonight
is gonna make everyone worried.
Either Perry, Vishal or Nabi
will have to step up in that grand final.
Yep, you guessed it.
I thought he booked their spot in the grand final tomorrow here at the Blast premiere open Rotterdam. I'm standing by with Mezzi
Does he ever get boring being this good? No never. I mean we weren't so hard to get this good
But I never get boring
What does that work look like because everybody's saying it the fans know it you are playing almost well
You're playing perfect counter strike. Is there even any room for improvement in your game?
I think there's always room for improvement.
I think definitely this tournament, the break before, helped us with a lot of new ideas
and building on a lot of new things.
So there's always things to improve on.
I think today we definitely paid some good CS.
So I hope we can just keep this going.
Is there like a secret sauce here?
Is there a vibe within the camp where you truly feel unstoppable?
I mean, we see it in all sports, where when a team is in full flow, in that flow
state, as a pack, it's almost like you feel unbreakable.
Yeah.
I think it all starts from the preparation as well.
Before the event, during the build-up to the game,
I think everything that we do in terms of the preparation,
outside the game, inside the game,
I think it's not just inside a server
when we've got some of the best players in the world.
I think everyone does their part,
and that's what makes us so great.
For an average team, they look at a trophy like this,
and it feels somewhat out of reach,
but I imagine yourself,
you can already see your fingerprints on that bad boy.
Yeah, I mean, that's always the goal.
I think we want to pick up as many trophies as we can.
especially in the new arena with fans that we don't usually play in front of it's always an exciting prospect so yeah
Hopefully we can get this one as well. Just briefly you talked about the fans there
I don't know if you've noticed this shift as of late where of course there are a lot of vitality fans
How many vitality fans in the building here?
But of course when you're the top dog
Fans like that want to see you lose
Do you feel that? Yeah, I mean it's normal, but I think it's doing that with Rivander
I think whatever the support we get in arena whether it's for us or against us
We we build on that we we love the vibes in the arena. So yeah, if we if you're against us
It's fun, but we also love the support as well
I have no doubt that you imagine that you are going to win this grand final
Who do you think would give you the biggest challenge the biggest threat now the or paravision?
I think it's gonna be tough tough either way, but I think Navi are looking really strong
I think they're definitely confident and it's a match of that
we would like as well just to see as well where we're at as well.
I think they're getting better with each game, with each tournament,
and they'll be exciting games to go against Harvey.
Congratulations. One more time.
Rotterdam for nine. Not Harvey.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
For Vitality!
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You know guys, I might as well be very honest with you.
You're probably thinking to me, why did you bring a Vitaly fan to the B-Desk?
But this, ladies and gentlemen, this is Matt.
He is the assistant coach of Team Vitaly for as long as I can remember.
And also, one of the old guys with the French car track scene.
So, Matt, thank you so much for taking time to come here and talk with me.
I thought it would be interesting to talk with you about your time in Vitality,
but also what you bring to the team.
So, I'm going to start off asking you, how close do you work with the coach?
How close do you work with Apex?
And why do you think that you guys have become so good so fast?
Hello, everyone. First of all, thank you for having me.
Of course, if it wasn't you, I would never have accepted.
Obviously, now, of course, you know me better than anyone.
So I'm really close to the players, but also we've done in the coach.
No matter what it was like, Remy or O'Donnie, I was also like, I'm still close to the enemy.
The thing is, I just believe the fact that more I'm going to try to bring ideas,
advice is just more we're going to talk.
That can be because no matter what I'm going to say,
they're going to build something better around.
That's my way to work it in function.
And when you come to preparation, you are doing a lot of the work.
That's what you did with me and the team as well.
And you look and you work closely with back time.
It was Danny now, it's X-Tas.
How much do you, like also when you come into the games,
like how much do you work with the game plan
together with the X-Tas or together with Dan?
Are they everyone chiming in or is it like
the coach is making the biggest call?
I think it's tough to say that the thing is
we have a particular team for that.
We all know that obviously
Dan is an important part of the game plan
because he's the IGL and also he's setting the tone
and also for the T side and also for most of the move on the CT side when it's related to like specific CT move.
But the thing is, what I like the most is just, I'm trying to gather a lot of information on what I saw on all the softwares
and I'm just gonna go on every player, I'm just gonna take them one, two things.
And once again, they're just gonna look into it, they're gonna build something better
and I think they're just gonna bring that into the game plan.
asking them to do please do that 100% it's just I think it can be nice I think
you can play there I think it's just about like giving them advices and
trying to help them all the time but obviously for our particular team yes
we are building the game plans with everyone but yeah for that apex of
Rusey setting the tone and Remy is also having a really important look
on the big picture. I want to talk to you a little bit about a funny thing
because when I used to be Matali you did not like to watch our games
whenever we play these important stage games you would just normally sit out back looking at your PC
preparing for third map. Is that still a thing? Of course. Imagine having an assistant coach that
doesn't want to watch your games. Why is that, Matt? Okay, the thing is for me the way I look
into it is just we're gonna prepare a lot of maps but the thing is for me just coming there
and watching the two first maps for me it's a waste of time because I can still look for the
third when it's a grand final the fourth the fifth and it's just like trying to
find any detail that can be spending one hour for nothing yes but at least I'm
not just gonna sit and watch the TV so it's just about like yes trying again
and again to find something to them well it clearly works because what you
guys have done so far since you've got Rob's has been you know it's crazy
I'm personally getting a little bit afraid of my Renault Strix and everything
with Astralis I think that is something that people know by now I
I want to talk to you about getting Robs in the team, because he changed everything for you guys.
Can you try and put words into what Robs specifically did for the team?
How did he come in and have such a big impact?
And why are you guys playing so well all of a sudden?
I think he also came at the moment that it was really needed for us, of course.
With the end of the 24 season, it was not great.
We were not having a good form and also a good chemistry together.
So obviously, a change was really needed.
And the thing is, even if we didn't know everything about him,
because it's true that even if we are competing against him for years,
it was also tough to know who is the real Robin, more than the rups.
And it's just like coming that it clicked really fast.
The thing is the way he sees the game, it's also the same way as Dan is also seeing the game
and also the others, it's a lot about logic.
And he's the perfect locker on CT CIS and he's also like just
Also preparing where these games about like I want to do that
It's just like bringing his ideas and he's a way to to play the game and also like as a human
He's now like an important pieces of our team before gonna let you go Matt
I need to ask you a bit for funny question. Do you still clean up the practice rooms after the players?
Okay, yes
I mean, I can answer to that because it's also important for me like
More the environment will be good for the players more. They can be like just focused on the most important
It's the game the way they can prepare so also to respect their routine and also also us
We are I think since the beginning of this team. I think we changed a lot our routine pregame
as a team also individually
Shah, for example, also changed his routine a couple of months ago and we can all see that it's pretty working.
But yes, as a team, our way to prep the game, to talk about the game plan, we changed like maybe three, four times already
because we are just trying to keep growing as a team and evolving and doing better.
Thank you so much for taking your time, the best guy on this planet in my opinion. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Well, each to their own opinion, but I personally think the desk has the best guy on this fire.
Who plans to be joining us?
And we're here for Matt himself. He still cleans up after you guys.
So I'm going to touch on the funny moment for you guys there.
How messy does it get?
Well, some tables are different than the others, but I'll say that Apex could sometimes be messy.
I'm very messy. So, you know, you just come back at the night and your jerseys are folded.
Your mouse is charged.
It really takes care of us. He's actually such a sweetheart.
How about Messi? Obviously his name is Messi, but...
Yeah, he's so tidy, so clean. Nothing happens on this table.
That's ironic.
Yeah, that's nothing. He's such a nice guy.
I love it, though. It feels like there is so much more within vitality that things...
We're ever looking, right? And it's very rare that we even get to hear words from Matt,
and he talks about what he does for the team. But how does that affect you when you're
preparing for coming into the semi-finals, when you take a couple days break?
Like what is he adding to you guys that he might not give himself credit for?
Well, he will not give himself credit on anything.
He doesn't want to do that to himself.
But the amount of support he gives us, the amount of, you know,
he's like a CS nerd basically and he knows a lot of shit that we don't know.
And he just keeps bringing that.
And you know, if I prep yesterday night against Aurora,
he might come to me, you know, have you seen this, this, that?
And he doesn't want to force you to do something.
He just asks you, like, are you comfortable with that?
He's very open-minded, and he's very smart in the game, so he pulls up with a few ideas,
and then you have an old game plan that just someone said a few words and it connected.
And this is the type of guy. He will never take credit, he will never be on the...
He will always want to be behind the stage, but he's such an amazing person, and actually,
like, he's the best person I've ever met in my life.
How do you integrate that, though, into your gameplay? Because sometimes it's a little bit
difficult for an analyst to say, hey, every time they get mid control, 60% of the time they finish A.
Are you? No, it's not this statistic. What it does is that he per se will come to me and will say, you know, when
they take me, this guy does that and that and that, do you have any idea against him? When he has like two ideas at the back
of his mind, but he's just, you know, he wants me to kind of figure out what I want to do. Okay. And then
if I'm like, I'm not sure what to do, then he comes up with his ideas. And usually he's like a coach, you know,
in the practice with us, he's always with us, so he kind of knows what is comfortable for us to play
and it just comes up with sort of a few things that he knows that may I'll be comfortable with,
he knows that I'm very aggressive, very like I want to go through some smoke sessions,
and then he will create an idea upon it, but he also works a lot with Apex and Remy the coach
and together they plan a map in like 12-15 minutes and it's actually great, like so short,
But he always is on top of he's always ahead of one step ahead
How would you then compare them then to x-taz because it seems like Matt's bringing out the lots of the table in terms of the tactics
But it seems like x-taz probably manages more aspects
No, I think I think the tactic wise is a lot undone. He brings a lot of like game plan stuff like that
And I think Remy does a really good job at prepping the games like overall giving us like the game plan
And he's also you know, we don't call it like a system right like some other things do
But let's say we have something that we do, Remy's job and what Remy does really good at is that he always checks for our mistakes,
he always checks for something that is ahead of time, like possibly things that we counter the way we play.
So, and then he brings it on the table. And Matt is kind of like assists that as well, like he helps Remy a lot in finding those kind of stuff.
But Remy will kind of like watch, like let's say we have 10 days off, Remy will watch our all games, games, games, games, and then he will come back.
Okay, the plan for the week, we want to work on that, we want to work on that.
This plan, we want to work on the clutch, stuff like that, more rotations.
And then he lets us play with the ideas as well, because we have a lot of players with ideas in the team.
And then he also has his own ideas that he gives us like, you know, like just as backup in case we don't have much on them up.
Okay, the last question I have for you is just about the fact that the MVP race is heating up.
I know you've talked about, you don't really care about the entry fragger and stuff like that,
but your performance this year is just insane.
It's incredible.
You wish, Donk.
Yeah.
You said it, not me.
I guess Rob said it first.
Yeah.
I mean, what would it mean to you in your guys era
for you to just kind of snag one of them?
The MVP?
Yeah, the MVP.
Well, it would be cool.
The thing is, many players, it was Spinks in 24 and 23.
It was Rob's in 25.
You always think you might have the chance to win the MVP
and then Zayu just does great stuff on the front.
So, I'm not that, like obviously I'm excited if I get MVP, I'm happy with it, but on the other end, like, you know, it's kind of like space.
All the trophies Vitality Gati is the MVP of all of them, so, you never know, like, if tomorrow is, like, individually I'm shining, I also feel like it is gonna shine, you know, like.
I remember in Cracow, and I'm Katowice in 2025, Rob said the best map of his career, and then Zai would just write after that, the best map of his career.
So you can't expect it, you can want it, you can think maybe I get the MVP this time
but this guy is just insane, like he has cultural impact.
At this point, can't deny it.
I feel that you definitely can't blame Z, it was so much fun to have you here,
I wish we could have talked a little bit longer but I'm gonna let you go back,
join all the boys in Vitality, so thank you again, I really appreciate it.
And enjoy of course the fans that are still hanging around to go and see you.
We'll see you tomorrow for the grand finals.
Thank you very much, have a good one.
Thank you. Enjoy the rest and everything that comes with winning the semi-finals there and preparing for what is going to be their Sunday showing.
That's tomorrow and for now.
We do want to shift the conversation a little bit because we do have another best of three, that next semi-finals.
But before it, it's looking at the fact that Aurora didn't amount to what we really wanted them to be able to do.
We wanted to see more of them, especially in that first map.
We should have seen so much more out of Inferno for themselves.
And they almost showed up a little bit broken on the side of Nuke.
it's really rough to have to bring this up because he was such a cult hero for such a long time,
but just add this to the tally of performances where unfortunately,
Zantares is not able to live up to the billing from the group stages or practically every tournament
you look at for Aurora, back to Eternal Fire, he's their star, he's their best player,
and he was nowhere to be found in this series. On Inferno, he just got battered by Utility.
On Nuke, I would say he had a few more opportunities in this one,
but still just couldn't find any impact in this kind of environment and it's kind of heartbreaking because it's really the guy that's been
Carrying the torch for Turkish CS for such a long time as an individual
So I would love to see him succeed in these moments
So he but at the age of at the age of 30
It's tough to imagine that he's gonna have a huge mentality change
That's gonna suddenly unlock all of the potential we've seen over the last decade of his career
There's no doubt that Santaris has always been the one that we've been looking out for whenever the Turkish squad has been playing and
It's not the first time that I personally see him, you know, fall to the pressure or fall to the stage or whatever you want to be seeing what the issue with him is, but for the likes of a roar as a squad, you know, it's still the gap for me that is the biggest issue when it comes to like the skill difference coming into the display on the server.
And of course, then Teres has to be the front runner, but he can't do it all by himself, but even he can't really step up to the occasion, then I don't see anyone doing it as well.
that's what it's a hard one to really draw conclusions from with vitality
feeling like they're another level part of a war maybe not being ready for
whatever reasons are off. It does unfortunately end their run at Bloss
premiere open and Ian got to chat out with magic just before he left the
building. Magic commiserations. It's never easy. You've been playing this
game a long time dropping out of a semi final in this fashion is hard,
but you were up against an incredibly good team there. Yes, we lost vitality.
I think losing Vitality for any team right now is okay. There is not to be sad.
Nothing like that's the only thing. Why do you think that was?
Like I think they just choke us like individually and as a team they play way better.
And I think my teammates and me and everyone in the team we cannot fight or show performance today.
But this is my only regress, I would like to be fighting more, but I feel like we really lose our game.
As a player yourself, you are evolving and growing as a caller within the team.
Even after all of these years in the game, you keep switching up and improving the levels of your calling.
Do you think you could have been more of a vocal leader in this match-up, or do you feel like you did enough?
I was talking 100% like full, but I feel like you know when all the teams individually you're not performing, it's very difficult.
And when you play Vitality, like I told you yesterday, I told you in the interview, you need to have five players on a good day, you know.
And today, as a team, everyone, we just fall off, but it's Vitality,
and this is why they're strong, and this is the best team in the world.
Do you think for teams to start to rise to the top again,
you're just going to have to wait for Vitality to not be so good?
I don't know, I don't know, but I think you can win them,
but like I told you, you need to be on a good day.
Like every green light needs to be good on this day.
And because even Apex told him very well in the interview,
even when they play the B game, they're still winning, you know?
And against them, you have to have five players playing your A game
to win against them.
So it's OK there.
It's fair enough, but we will see, I think, obviously,
with time, people, team will be more comfortable playing
against them.
and maybe we will see a better result next time.
You will be back. Thank you, Maga.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, hoping to get a couple more reps there
against Vitality in future events.
That is definitely one way to be able to figure out
some of their weaknesses is just
getting to have that opportunity there.
But Aurora's also right in saying sometimes Vitality
is playing at a level that almost like in a way brings
out those issues that you have and you think you fixed it
and then you get frustrated over the fact
that some have vitality still exploits it.
That's kind of the experience for tier two teams
when they play a tier one event for the first time.
All of their vulnerabilities are further exposed.
Oftentimes happens to Asian teams and North American teams
when they make the pilgrimage to Europe
for their first event that they see that,
oh, that style that was working in our region
isn't quite as airtight as we had figured.
It's just shocking that a tier one team in Aurora,
arguably a top five team in Aurora
has that much to learn from a team like Vitality.
That's the gap we are working with right now,
that we are so deep in this Vitality era
that another elite team is just being spanked
to the point of learning lessons
when they face them in the server.
It's relatively simply in the fact that Vitality
just make their opponent look worse.
And that's what he touches on that.
They will make more mistakes playing Vitality
because they are so good at putting on the pressure,
not making them, like, giving up mistakes themselves
and just playing out the situation perfectly.
And then you just add on top that you have
individual players that are just blowing up the server
and that just doesn't really make it any easier for you.
And Major touching on that, he even feel like
if Vitality is playing their B game,
they're still hard to beat.
And I feel like Aurora,
they need to not even play their A game.
They have to be in the S game to even come to a point
where they can actually go toe to toe with a Vitality.
And that's not only for Aurora,
that speaks for a lot of the teams that are right now
in that lower edge of team that we're trying to figure out
if they can actually beat Vitality.
You've got to give it to Vitality.
They're playing some great counter.
Yeah, whatever level you think that you need to play on,
you actually have to still best that
to be able to bring it to Vitality.
And that's why we're seeing them in the grand finals.
That's why they topped their group stage,
made it to semi-finals,
and honestly made light work of Aurora with that duo.
However, who exactly is going to be coming up
against them in that grand final?
That one's still to be decided
because Navi, after topping their group stage,
making it to the semi-finals,
We haven't seen what sort of form they're in,
but we do know Paris vision being able to handle
Falcon swiftly yesterday is going to be able to put up
a good fight for themselves.
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How are we doing after that series of Counter-Strike?
Let me hear you, how are we feeling?
Pasha, what a series that was.
I mean, Vitality running over Aurora, I was looking a little plow-like.
Yeah, that was like a plow, like old VP days.
I think Vitality is too strong right now, and the opponents have like a big shit on
his pants.
Something like that?
You'd know something about being too strong, you're a little bit of an expert on that.
Do you think we might want to test the strength of some of the fans here in the arena in Rotterdam?
I think we need to find the strongest biceps in Rotterdam.
We're on a quest, folks. We're on a quest to find the strongest biceps in Rotterdam.
And what other way to do that than with a good old-fashioned competition?
So I've got a few contestants for us.
These gentlemen, can you come join us here on stage?
Rotterdam, make some noise for what's your name?
Smokey.
Smokey? Your name, sir.
Bobble and you sir Stephen Stephen and your friend RJ. Okay RJ Stephen Bobble
Smokey you gentlemen are you make a beating to be the strongest biceps in
Rotterdam? Pasha what do you think of our contestants? Guys I'm gonna be the
admin of this server so listen to me we have some rules so we don't like
like cheating? No. Chest to the ground and one more important thing. Straight and box.
We do some push up challenge, okay? So be ready. You look like you're being everyday
on the gym so it's gonna be easy for you guys. What do you train the most? Everyday
gym? Everything but legs. Yeah you look like very big, big leg. And what about you?
the right arm and then experience with the team.
All right, what I'm gonna do, fingers fingers,
it helps you, it helps you.
That's the key here to me.
Before we get the push-ups started,
can we get a flex to the fans?
Can everyone give us a nice biceps flex going on here?
What do we think we're on?
Okay, now the way this is gonna work,
I'm gonna be doing the counting,
Pasha's gonna be doing the judging.
He's our expert here.
So gentlemen, I'm gonna need you all
to assume the position.
Can we all get into a nice push up position here?
You would like to show me?
Or no?
You would like to show me how to do it?
You're good, right?
You're good.
OK.
Let's do it, everybody.
Into the push up spot.
I'm going to count.
You go on my count.
And Pausher will be judging.
If you don't live up to your standards,
he's kicking you out of the server.
Last one standing wins.
Your rest a bit down.
Your rest a bit down.
Yes, yes, yes.
All right.
Are we ready?
One.
two three four five six seven you can do it come on
eight don't give up give up don't give up okay GG
First contestant out, 11!
12!
Okay, seeing some wobbles here, 13!
Oh, the next one drops! Unlocking number 13!
Two left! Flashlet's come down to the final two.
Can I get a 14?
15!
16!
This is like a major final guys
17
We have a winner
StrayArts is in the 18 one more for good measure
Pavel you've taken the victory here fist bumps on land well done, sir
Pasha, how do you rate that performance?
I think you can be like a second Pasha by steps
You could be right there. You're playing this yes, of course. Okay. I need to ask. What is your max heel?
2600.
2600.
Not that bad.
You are a sniper, lurker, entry-frager.
Rifler.
Rifler.
You are like an entry-frager.
GG, my friend.
GG, my friend indeed, and you have won a fabulous prize.
We have for you not only a t-shirt, but also a fabulous hat here and a framed picture
Nuke the map that we just witnessed here in the arena. What do you think about all this follow?
Now you've got a second one to work with your follow
Tell me about the championship mentality future posture biceps. We know that year
What was going through your mind as you hit that 18th push-up? I
Was thinking about
That how the champions win think about nothing lock in
Bright future in front of you my friend. Bright future.
Bright future indeed.
Instead of win prize I have offered to Pasha
that we could play some face-it-together.
And I have the last thing to say.
Polska Górum.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
One last question here. Who's winning the next series?
For sure Navi.
For sure Navi. What do we think about it now?
They don't seem convinced, but we'll have to find out.
Run it up on all of that, make some noise for Paolo!
Where were my push-ups?
We're doing a physical challenge and I'm not actually getting to see Pasha do it.
I know, right? Why do they not arm wrestling people?
Oh, no, I guess the two left-sided.
No one I could definitely understand a little bit more of, but there was not so much of a convincing cheer that Navi were going to take it, even though our audience member was so sure of himself, and so I do wonder, Maui, where exactly could we put our faith?
Is it going to be in Navi? Are you all in the Navi camp? Do I even have to ask that?
I'm so in on this Navi this is obviously the brain trust of blade and Alexi B
and for me that's the second best duo you could possibly have to lead your team
in 2026 on top of that all of the support players have proven that they
are not chokers which is a rarity in modern-day counters right four of
them part of the team of 2024 and then mccasey of course how can you
even overlooked this guy and what was a cog in the Navi machine in 2025. At this point, he has
elevated himself to become the showroom engine. Hey, Mika, how are you doing? Good, bro. You?
Happy semi-final Saturday. How are you and the team feeling ahead of this one?
You have been on a tear recently. Just phenomenal play from yourself. Multiple MVP
performances. How much do you think that pro league trophy, that experience will help you
coming into this semi-final? I don't think it's going to help us. Like I think when we
start in this tournament, we come with confidence that we want to win. I think right now we
are just focusing on ourselves and let's see how it's going to go in players. Yeah,
you're thinking of yourself, but of course you're thinking of your opponents in Para
Vision. They're very structured, very disciplined. How do you stop them today? By killing
him.
Just upfront, just one about it, man knows what he needs to do and it feels like he doesn't
want to over complicate it with any other words and what needs to be done to stop Parivision
there.
The thing is like, you know, he says that they just want to go out and kill him, just
beat them to the tally, but I don't think it's going to be as easy because when you
go up against a team like Parivision, that is not an easy deal.
I think we've already said to Tony that Maui is going for Navi, but the fact that
I am actually decided to go for perverson is guess no real big surprise the guy on the screen right here
Jane has really picked up a bunch of unexperienced guy
But he has made every single player work inside the system alongside his coach of Dustin everything is looking to play out of them
They have had roller coaster results throughout the season
But as far as I can tell they are playing great great counter strike. They're playing with a massive amount of discipline
They're playing off each other not only the team
but also as an individual and I am excited to see what they can bring when they go up against Na'Vi.
Dustin, welcome to semi-final Saturday. The team behind you are looking incredibly confident
and so they should be. They were phenomenal against Falcons yesterday. How proud are you of this team?
It's nice to beat them three times because three times it's very confident.
It's very confident if you win three times, but generally nice feeling, we just enjoyed the moment.
Yeah, and to continue enjoying that moment and make it into the grand final, your team now needs to stop
Na'Vi, who have had some incredible success themselves recently. What do you make of them?
What I think about that. Na'Vi is a strong team right now, they won last big tournament.
They have Makaji, he is MVP. They are huge favourites.
But for now, no pressure, just play.
If you win, win, lose, okay?
I think everyone waits for Vitality Navi final.
We try to not do that.
Classic Dastan, even on the red carpet, he isn't faced.
He isn't feeling that extra little expectation.
And he's very clearly not putting it on his team either.
The fact that he realizes what a lot of people want
and what people might expect
if our vision, he still goes
against it. He always makes sure
to temper expectations. The
underdog mentality has been vital
to the success of so many storybook
runs that we've seen in Counter
Strike, and it feels like Dawson
and James have just captured that
in a bottle. Every single time
he's sprinkling a little bit on
his players that there's no
expectation. There's no way
that we should even be here
necessarily, but good job guys
and keep it up because maybe one
of our dreams and somehow for a group of Stoic Russian guys that gets to them.
It does, it really does. They're playing their cars smart in this department. They're really
underplaying themselves every single time we hear an interview. It's about yeah we know we're going
up against a good team but it's more like we just want to go out and play and you know become
better for the major. So far so good they have done that you know and and I think the
matchup now is going to be interesting because it's like two structured teams going up against
is played that mastermind that we know he is. Can he actually go in and do the job that Sonic didn't manage to do?
Actually figuring out how to beat Paravision because the playstyle is the big question here.
It's normally lightning in a bottle, but this time around underdog in a bottle.
That's the essence that Maui is going to. So good for Paravision.
A couple of chance starting behind me hoping to see Navi take the stage two.
But before we see that, we want to see exactly what maps they're going to be playing on.
We are expecting to play the maps that we usually play, that's to Mirage, Inferno, maybe Ancient,
but yeah, it's gonna be a mystery because they can pick whatever they want,
because they like to pick three maps out of what I said and then we will see.
I think that there might be some differences in the video, yes,
because of our overall form on some of the maps that we shared maps
and we had played previous series against them,
And I think this time it might be the other way around, so we might be picking a map they don't expect, they might be picking a map we don't expect.
But we should be well prepared for the overall video.
Honestly, we don't have hope, we have a plan. I cannot say it to you guys, but it's a plan by Dustin and Jame.
And you will see this soon.
interesting thoughts from the players there should we expect the unexpected it
is time for our picks and bands ahead of our second semi-final Rotterdam are we
ready to find out all right let's do this let's see if there's any
controversial picks in here like last time our first ban power vision ban
the first one. It's overpassed.
All right. This is where it gets
interesting. Let's now move into
the picks starting with our
vision. And just two which gets
a mixed reaction from our crowd
here in Rotterdam. What about
interesting because we expected either ancient or Mirage from Navi there.
Let's move on now to our final two bands.
Ancient from ParaVision and Navi's final band is Anubis which means our deciding map is
Mirage which of course was the map that Navi built that 2024 team of the year case
This should be a tasty one. Who knows which way it is going to go?
Baratidam, are we ready for our second semi-final?
Let's continue.
What do we expect from Navi after a couple of days off, now coming up against Parivision?
You can expect everything I would say. But obviously we are trying to not be cocky, because sometimes you can backfire you.
But obviously we are coming out of a very good form and then we are hoping to show this today also.
I think we are confident and comfortable to play against any team in the world, maybe accept Vitality because they are on another level to be honest.
But we never win, Navi. Last time it was in Krakow, when we were in bad shape. Today it's going to be different.
I hope that we're going to just show our best game that we showed yesterday against Falcons, and I hope crowd will cheer for us this time.
And with this help we're going to win, I guess.
I got cheering for them along with a good performance that they saw yesterday.
That's what Paris vision one on the other side of Navi.
It's just continuing the confidence of group stage.
Yeah, you can expect a lot from us is kind of what we had there with a caveat,
but it does bring me a lot of joy in what we could potentially see between these two
and the different sort of styles that could come out with, you know,
that interesting it might be to that.
I would say that whereas Paris vision is exacting meticulous,
Navi on the other hand, it's just about construction.
The way that they're able to build every single round is just, to me,
an example, a textbook example of how to take map control,
of how to exert pressure upon your opponents, about how to punish mistakes.
So both of these teams, they're trying to constantly get the absolute most out of a game plan
that involves every single player and making sure that you don't miss any damn utility.
It's a clear picture for me also seeing when Navi won in EPL, what that did to the team.
You know it's a team that has been looking for success for a long time and what one victory one event when can actually do to your team
Throughout this tournament has been specifically
Kimakasa blows the image has been stepping out really really
Powering through but for the team as a whole you can just see that they're not they believe in what they're doing right now
I think that's that's the big change for me
Is that you can feel that they're they believe in what they're doing inside the server and that the system?
They have been working off for a long time
it's just purely you know coming into fruition again and it is one of those things that if yours a team lose a bit of
your idea and see if you start losing a little faith in what you've been working on, then it's
hard to get back when I think this win actually plays into to Navi getting back to a form that
we know and expect for them. We saw their group stage history there a lot coming through that
upper bracket so it was only three best of three that we saw but maybe people weren't watching
debris so what exactly would you look towards when you describe Navi and maybe a key thing that
needs to happen or someone to show up again today. I without a doubt we need to see a
and Makasa, right?
Makasa has been this guy that's been picked up the Nive Squad that didn't have the best
show up in the beginning yet to have some time coming into the server and also feeling
comfortable inside the system.
But without a doubt he's the guy that we want to be looking out for and it's also a fact
that he's bringing that vibe of having at least a small goat on the team and that
has quite the influence and I've really been trying like the last 24 hours to
wrap my head around but what has made Makasa so good and why he's so good and then
I came to this conclusion that I wanted to ask you, Maui.
I believe you have a nightstand at home, right?
Sure.
What do you have on your nightstand?
A lamp?
Cool.
I have another thing.
I bought something for you.
I'll get it up here for you.
OK.
What are we doing here?
What is this?
I thought now that we are going to be talking a little bit
about Mikasa, I thought he should be present at this
minute, right?
So I think he deserves to have a spot just
beside his number one friend so he can take it away
and talk why Mikasa is so great.
on your nightstand, by the way, quickly?
Of course, of course.
This is obviously gonna be right there next to family photos
and making sure that I have light in my room, yes, of course.
Because he is the light of my life, okay?
Okay!
That's what's been happening with Mikaze lately for me.
Just the growth that this guy has seen
is exactly why I had so much faith in him.
I mean, I guess I made the hot take lately
that I would say that he has come to,
in terms of showing his talent
and actually delivering on the potential,
so often we speak about that in Counter Strike.
This guy's got potential.
That guy's got potential.
It's a buzzword that floats around way too frequently
without it being actualized.
But Mikaze's talent is he has in the last 11 series
for Navi had in 10 of them above a 1.1 rating.
Kyosuke, get in line and learn something, okay?
Because when I'm watching Mikaze,
it doesn't matter what kind of team he's playing,
what kind of game plan they're throwing against him.
He just feels inevitable.
It's very rare that you see a player in CS
that almost resembles Zywu,
where he can have a slow start.
They can claim plan against him
for the beginning of the rounds
using a boatload of utility to try to slow him down,
but he always gets his.
That's what's been so impressive about this guy lately.
And don't get me started on mechanics, okay?
Cause that's what everybody begins with.
I'm just ending with that.
This guy is one of the sharpest shooters
that we have seen in Navi.
I haven't seen a visceral entry fragger on Navi
since prime electronic, like this guy.
So it is inspiring me
and everyone in Navi Nation should be inspired by him.
They definitely are off to that one right everyone else is going to have to get their own because they put us for that night stands off to this if it goes anything as now he predicts but.
Now he predicts, but Parivision are going to have a little bit to say to Prey.
They're also going to want to put a good fight up against Navi.
100%. I think we're going to have a little bit of a brawl on this because
Maui has clearly taken the side of Navi and I have taken the side of Parivision.
Parivision is a team that I really started to pay attention to coming into this tournament
because I, when I see good counts like, I just, I get hard on.
I'm just going to be, I'm just, I'm not going to lie.
When I see team play the way they do, it just does something to me.
The way they have the discipline though, I they don't have clear suicide.
That's not the case, but they make the team work so well with what they have to
work with. And what Jamie and Dustin has built just so far, the foundation of
having a team that can play so well together. That is a massive bright
future. And I cannot wait to see this match up, but also moving forward
into the major. Yeah, I'm sure you're really good for that one.
Maybe have to watch somewhere else because we're getting ready right now.
We want to see our teams come out on stage. We want to see the hype
that is going to be knobby up against Power Vision.
We're going to stage a feeling so much for emotions.
Your heart is pumping very hard and then you are not sitting straight.
You just hit the handle with the special.
People are screaming and you think, oh, what's going on?
Like, someone pushing, someone is flanking.
I was coming from the meagre for Spirit or Power Vision now.
That's my biggest power.
You are not thinking straight or maybe you are rushing some thoughts, all of this comes only with experience.
We might have an advantage if we play so many times in so many stages.
To pre-infect the opponents you just have to be them understand.
There is nothing you can do about previous rounds, you just need to look for.
Our top 5 is to be scared.
I don't care what they think about us. Just play your game.
Do not sleep on this semi-final.
By all accounts, it's set to be a banger.
Of course, we need to determine which of these two will go on to face
Vitality for this trophy tomorrow in our best of five grand final.
But before we bring out the teams, we're, of course,
waiting just beyond the stage to come out here
In front of this awesome crowd in Rotterdam. Let's see who everybody's supporting
Who's taking this semi-final? Is it?
Paravision!
All right, what about Navi?
Wait, wait, I just need a double check. Paravision!
Okay
Navi!
Let's not waste another second. It's time to bring out the teams.
Welcome to the stage, Navi!
Be it!
Wonderful!
A Lexi B!
Mikaze!
They are the ruthless flock, under the wise shepherd.
They're young guns.
What a crazy crowd right now.
Navi Nation in full force, I'd say,
now you get a lot of counterparts in the crowd
that are cheering just as hard as you are.
I feel like the crowd was even more for Navi
more for Navi than they were for vitality earlier.
I 100% agree actually.
That is ridiculous.
I mean, as soon as Navi gets back
into a championship contender form,
you know that the nation is right behind them.
I think that's the one thing that I'm also looking
very much forward to see that.
Can Navi be that team?
Can they be the next one to actually go
and contend by a talent?
I guess that's also why a lot of people in here
seem to be loving you, you know?
We know how great Navi can be.
I love the fact that Navi has stuck
with the roster now, adding Mikasa,
bringing that extra firepower to now become a team that has worked through their issues
and to become a team that we need to be looking out for.
We can't overlook the fact that Jame himself also had so many cheers from the crowd to people
loving and re-believing in him as an in-game leader.
Jame has catapulted himself back into the top five of the main character power ranking
of CES.
People love this guy, the redemption art that he's been on has been absolutely
unforeseeable and the way that he's whipped these guys into shape it is
downright impressive and it has already produced results. It's incredibly what he
has done and I don't think anyone would have thought that when James was done in
Verne's Pro, when he would go to Paris and pick up a bunch of young guys, cater
them, tell them how he saw how he envisioned Counter-Strike. Together with
the coach Dustin, they have now created a unit that plays so well
Counter-Strike that it's hard to sometimes find the gaps. The small gap
that we might be seeing is because of an experience. That is something they
have addressed themselves they've been talking about that when they get to the stage it can become a
little bit more hectic and the more the further they go the more we ran back so I'm interested to see
if they can keep up the high level they showed against Valganj yesterday. The patience from
Parivision is a lot of what makes their opponents frustrated it's easy to get overeager for yourself
and on the side of Navi I wonder who's reigning that in now who's going to be able to make
sure that they're a team that's able to deal with what is so tough about Parivision. Oh if
If you think that Jame and Dawson are the progenitors of a slow play style, Blade is the prototype.
Blade was the first to go for that. His flipside teams in the past, even the Navis of the past,
all of the ones that have been led by Blade, they try to work for every single inch and they give you nothing back.
There's only left for Blade. I think he's one of those coaches that I have been
looking at when I've had my time with Sonic being the second best, if not the best coach that we've ever had in college, right?
There's no doubt that Blake knows exactly how to get his unit to function.
He knows how he wants to play and he's also about bringing that out into his players.
He's probably a very strict coach, but a coach that knows what he wants and that's what you want
to see for a guy that they have to work through the issues. He has to be the front one to show
them what it's capable and to see how he has brought Navi. Navi back into the whole like
his generation of being a contender all of a sudden. It's nothing but, nothing but impressive.
Outside of just the coaches though, Mikaze, Belchernock. There's a conversation to be had,
especially with how Belchinock played yesterday against Stockins.
Belchinock has been the late-round luxury for a ParaVision team that has
needed a little bit more clutch. The way that he's able to slink in in the 1v2s, 2v2s.
I thought it was going to be Zway, but Belchinock seems like a lot of these guys on ParaVision
take turns and it's his right now.
That's the case for ParaVision. They don't have a clear star and I think that also
eventually it's going to do them dirty. If they don't find a star, I have one that
that steps up to the occasion more than Belichlock has already done. I think it
might be difficult for them because if you only rely on playing good as a team
you can get as far but the individual has to shine when you get far in
tournaments. I've seen some good stuff from Belichlock in this tournament. He's
had some crispy situations where he can really turn things around but I'm at
the point where I need to be seeing more of the everyone in this tournament.
Our first map gonna be Dust2Pick by ParisVision so what could we predict from this?
What could we potentially see coming out from Navi to halter ParisVision's
I would say there are two trademarks of the Paravision style on DUSHU. One is the one map where
Jamie is aggressive with the AWP really tries to impose himself pushing down mid with it looking
for picks off of shore through the double doors but the other is their gamble stacks. The gamble
stacks that they have towards B I want to know has Blade cracked the code has he been the one
that can actually figure out that there's a stack on a bomb site so that he doesn't send
all five of his players into the waiting arms of Jamie and company. It's a bet that
that will allow you to just play more default.
I think it's where it's also easy to set up
the team play that Paravision is so good at.
It's going to be around giving the catwalk control
and doing a small couple of beef fakes
to bait up the utility of the narcos.
Keep them guessing that Paravision is so good
at them grouping up going for those cat executes
or at least going back to the B-bombs
where they are so notorious
which is hitting the full force.
It feels like there is ways.
It feels like there is going to be
a potential for that upset.
But do you guys want to talk about
how close this could come down to?
Where are more of the emotions of walking out,
hearing a crowd cheer for you, or against you?
The craziest part about this ParaVision team
is that it does not feel like the big stage gets to them.
The fact that all of the poise from James,
it exudes to his other teammates.
They all have come into tier one
with very little experience other than Zway,
and they did not look like they lost the step.
When it came to what they did at Cluj,
making it to the grand finals there.
And so even though I'd usually lend Navi
experience difference. I don't think it's as big of a factor here as much as
just the pure tactical play. I think the composure of bringing that play style
and then still showing that high level of composure when you hit playoffs, when
you go into the server playing it for the trophies and even for potential
spot inside the grand final, that's why you really need to be stepping up.
That's why you need to make sure that you stay true to the things
that you know work for you as a team. And yesterday with Falcons, they did
it all time. They did it on the T side, on the C side. When they were
like getting on the way to get the having a like a
how do you put it like a comeback but overall it's more like the fact that
perverson they stay true to that stuff regardless of the result and regardless
of the situation and that that requires a lot of spirit. We've mentioned many times
of head-to-heads between teams how one is more favorable than the other. Right
now that's for the side of Navi and for you to bring you in there multiple
times do you think about that do you factor that in is that anything that
actually needs to be held to a certain level. Yeah I mean of course I mean
The Navi side has to be the favorite this one.
I mean, regardless of much, I've been talking about
Paravision being a team that I have really looked up to
and had like a vision of seeing how good counter
can be played, even if you're like not the most experienced.
You got to give it to Navi, you know,
they also come into this game with, you know,
the victory at the uphill and a lot of confidence.
And I think that is really just shining through
for the team.
They're feeling like a unit once again.
And I think that's, that pays off.
And you just have to give it to my customer.
But what he's been bringing to the table
is just phenomenal.
The margins were extremely fine in the last victory between these two matchups for the
Novi side and I don't think that that's going to perturb anybody on paravision.
I know that this team is just going to try to execute the game plan from start to finish
and if they were better today then they're going to earn it.
So I feel like Jame right now is the one that's going to have his work cut out for
him in this kind of matchup because we know that Dawson is able to bring a lot of discipline
to this team but it does feel oftentimes in these live situations that Zway might
be the only right-hand man for him. Whereas, Navi, they have the wealth of options, a wealth of
experienced players that can always give a plan B, plan C, if anything gets tough.
That's what sort of leans into the fact that Navi right now having a seven-match win streak for
themselves, something that I think people gloss over a little bit that they might overlook,
and that's why there's also this story of, yeah, good, but, and there doesn't really need to
be that right now to bring it. It's like pulling off a little bit of a meaning if I tell you
right now. You know, I mean, we got to give it to Navi as well with how they have been
performing ever since he played and even in the interviews, like, they're very comfortable
around their things. It's clearly that this team has to step on it onto a whole new level
and it's great to see that they work through their issues. I think it's this whole map.
I think it's also about the map pool for them. I think they've just found more
comfort in it. And I just really shine through to me that the team, at least with
my cousin now, is in a position where he is, I wouldn't say he's far from being
to go right but he is he brings that superstar pile that they have been lacking for so long
inside this Navi Ken and that just brings something to the team because if they can
send him out made on Anshino they can just let him like let off the leash and he can
create openings for the rest of the team that is something that they've been lacking a little
bit and it's good to see that they've finally found that kind of roof. There's also
more patterns to look at not just streaks not just records to try and match or break
but the fact that Paris vision can come in have a good tournament a rough tournament a good
good one. And now if the trend were to continue, Mali, it should be that good tournament.
I mean, every single, it's every other tournament, isn't it? I mean, to win one at the beginning
of the year, then to exit in the group stage there of the following event at Crackout,
Cluj hit another grand final, EPL lose out in stage one. Feels like it's their
time again. We'll see. It just seems like it's rocking back and forth for them there.
But that is beating the streak. What do you, what do you take in there? The oscillating
for him, a pair of vision, or the pure streak that Nami's on right now.
It feels like it's not easy to sway one way or the other for sure.
I'm really enjoying a lot of these shots of the crowd.
There's a lot of fun signs.
I think you guys missed one, but there was a big crowd cheer for when someone had a sign
about wanting a new operation.
Oh, right.
I wish I was into operations when I played as well.
First, he like he doesn't play Counter-Strike at all.
Okay, I played my show, right?
That's about as likely to happen as Aurora walking away with the trophy right now.
Ooh!
Come on now, give us something, bring something back.
I'm gonna take a shot, I love it.
I feel like there's at least a little bit more of a chance there.
A little bit more of a second winter.
It's an above 1% chance, we'll say that.
And that's a much larger number than I feel like people would have given it early up.
But right now, we want to know just exactly how tight the margins are going to be
between Paravision and Na'Vi now that we have Dust2 ready.
Yes, sir, that's right. Time to get into the show that will be Na'Vi versus Paravision.
We're talking about teams that are built on strong systems with big brains behind the
operations and what it seemed to be as 2026 goes on absolute fireworks in the frag departments.
So Rotterdam, here we go, second semi-final.
And on the other side, sense of vitality that basks in the glory of their greatness.
They look down upon every challenger watching tonight to see who comes out in form.
Wait, what?
Oh, he got shot in the head and suicide.
James jumped down and instantly took a bullet.
A quick message from Mikaze.
Surely he's not going to be that good, Launders.
The three teams remaining, the three best teams with coach and IGL combos.
Two of the most structured systems here going head-to-head for a spot in Grands.
The split's coming over towards B. James still waiting outside along.
It tries to turn it around.
Flashbang not the best, but there comes that hit from Zway to try to clear it out.
James patience with only that HP.
It still works.
Actually make this into an a-play somehow the bomb can get out of there. All right
We're playing games, huh right off of the right here on just to sway
It's just closed down now, but look at a Lexi scratching his head. How the hell did we get out rotated?
This is a winnable situation for a Lexi. He has 83 health
It's still rather be the two guys in the post plant, but there's a chance. He's working with no kit
Belchinock holds position with insight.
Did he not see him?
He did.
Combed.
Nose he's got to keep his head down.
Belchinock with the three positions.
Just going to shoot him in the back.
And so, paravision with clean positioning.
And a beautiful fallback.
We saw, I think, glimpses of that yesterday, Tumo.
They're so hard to pin down right now.
That's a great example of if they had done less in this round
and they had just gone for the B-split,
it's possible that they lose.
It's possible they get cut off and everything like that.
So even though they have this really strong B-split, the lurkin from Jame is the insurance policy, every little bit mattered.
I mean, he took a headshot at the beginning of the round and still made himself useful.
Nades towards Long, but nobody's home.
That was an interesting establishing shot on the map so far, because we got great shots out of Na'vi as well.
Kaze has been an absolute beast highest rated player at the event in the server right now
Trying to keep his name up in the lights alongside the likes of Zai will the likes of flamesy
And an email the core of this not be run so far in Rotterdam. It's a good tag. I mean you guys way still out here in the tunnels
No commitments made just yet
I
Smoke though things will slow down, you know we've seen para vision in the playoffs already
I think play with tempo and timing to a surprising swiftness
And a bit more chip damage so the next move will probably need to be the final one
They can't afford to get scouted again
Flash in for the doorway, but nobody home
I was playing so far back on this that's that passive health from Zello on 30 HP still stationed outside it
Well wonderful didn't get a bullet off flashback makes it awkward. He goes back before damage
Just a bit of chip on belchinock heads down as per vision look to extend out elbow and Zello doesn't need to speed up
He doesn't need to if this bomb gets planted. There's no friction whatsoever
He knows that they're gonna try to find him or exit
If not retake and so they're trapped
Two of them stuck on long, the other three not even moving a muscle off of that B-bomb site.
Navi's unwillingness to really sign up for these duels obviously because we're looking at a potential double scout triple pistol in the follow-up as well.
It's impressive when we see ParaVision always find the right site versus a lot of teams.
But versus Navi, I think that would be their final test in some senses. They've already done it versus Vitality.
And somehow they do find an exit out the back door, nicely done for Alexi.
Lexi. Okay, there's two kills. Collect it. A little bit of damage for
Paravision to deal with the Navi in a perfect state. It's not every day you get to take
everything you brought into round two and apply it into the next one so Navi can't
be too upset about that. No, it's mostly about the calling again. It's mostly about
the fact that Paravision found the easiest route to success. Found the way out of
a bad play in the last round or maybe they could have won the B-split as well
But the fact that they had two options to win,
that's what's got to worry you if you're Navi.
Let me send this to the final.
Sometimes when I think about going up versus vitality,
that's kind of like in this current form,
in this current state of counter strike,
swinging it vitality is going for glory.
It's going for gold.
Barely anybody can put a dent in them at the moment.
I love kind of framing this matchup as the test because we're talking about structure.
We're talking about systems.
We're talking about great in game leaders.
And on top of that, a coach element that kind of bruised beforehand.
So this is kind of its own grand final because for Navi, they're trying to validate their last run.
Obviously, they come off a trophy, but they didn't beat the hardest teams.
Now they are and for Para vision, they go up and down in form constantly getting to a grand finals for either of this.
either of these rosters an excellent start to the year and then pressure is off when they play against vitality now
It's not like oh, we're gonna be the team to be vitality
Everyone's just saying it's okay to lose to them. You can't be upset about it. No one even gets mad at you if that happens
Sure when both these teams look across the server from one another they see a bit of themselves and these opponents
VRS ranking number two and number three so tonight we figure out who gets that chance to swing it the world's number one again
And the grand finals versus vitality isn't something you're just gifted it's something
you have to earn and in this matchup if you know game you know ball you've got a close
eye on this head to head between the two and right now there's no challenge for the walkout
middle trying to coax them into this mid B they did it last time as well they had
the 3B lane but once again the bomb hasn't made any decisions no to will get hit and
fall back.
A lot of attention on Macaulay tonight with just the way that he is tapping into this whole new consistency and massive level exact same smoke that comes up on cat last time there was only two on the A site.
Let's see was towards long.
Looks like they're just trying to dress up the same play a little different.
You see the climb towards catwalk you spot an anchor at the top of middle.
That's going to keep Nota locked in top mid for the time being.
Bit doesn't want to seem to give this angle away,
but he's pressured off of it by the utility.
Oh, they drop off and go towards tunnels.
It's been very hard to pin down ParaVision so far.
Somehow let's the right move again.
Look at Bit.
He's on the other side of the smoke.
Looking to move that scout back over as he just glimpses
through the doorway.
Well placed Molotov, but nobody actually punishing
that scramble from E-Math.
Now we've got to double up by the pistols on the cars.
And ParaVision are playing with a dangerous amount of time.
Mikaze's got himself two, three!
Finally put to rest, but Inaz got that!
I wanted some surprise, and Navi's reposition here is perfect.
For the amount of utility they had and the amount of weapons,
they did an excellent job of both burning the clock
and taking HP off of Paravision while they were thinking.
Mikaze was set up for success with that hold.
Set up for success and delivers.
Third kill is a thing of beauty would have made it all the harder for the 5-7 to maybe get his double.
This attention that Mikaze has found lately is well deserved because it's again earned.
I think if you're just on and you look at that round you kind of get outdone a little bit.
You're running around the ring.
You're taking damage throughout the whole round.
You're trying to safely, without losing a player,
get some information.
But every time they took a peek, a little bit too far
out of middle, an HE off of cat or something like that.
The small gaps that they left, Navi found them
and got some output.
Picasso's KPR increases from 0.69 to 0.78 in arena maps.
And it's palpable
Everybody wants to sign rising stars, but it tends to be that collection of players that then tapers off
Waivers under the bright lights not Macaulay and especially not as of late
Feels like there's high expectations for this matchup tonight that these two teams are well fitted for one another
There's high expectations for this round for paravision.
They spend everything, they get three guns out of it.
They have some utility to work with.
And it's off the pause.
Bit is kind of alone right now.
Mikaze'll be the first to try to help out.
Mikaze gets to the doorway in time, just slides right through it.
Flashbang interrupts the beat.
Follow up exit, that's all you need.
Hold this thing up. It opens the door for Bit.
Belchinov tries to take it back by cutting off the other supportive piece and Bitt's not able to get the multi-kill McCauze did.
Con player, oh Belchinov going big.
Triple kill to his name, Wonderfull's made noise outside of the window, they know about him already, but he creeps in and gets his.
He's got you stuck behind the tall box, Belchinov, can you end it?
Snipe like that!
Snipe like that!
Because across the board this evening, there is capable hands on Navi's squad, and wonderful
shows us his first two kills in that retake.
A highlight already.
Now we talk about our Maui brought up on ParaVision that the clutches were changing hands.
Everyone was taking turns being the hero.
Well, here on Navi, they have the same deal, right?
And Dupri brought up the missing consistent superstars.
Navi have that right now with this event.
For ParaVision it's a little weird because we actually see Belchinov take on some of
the biggest moments for ParaVision on this run so far.
Everyone in this server can be a little streaky and they can also go huge and deliver moments
like that.
But the stakes were kind of high there for ParaVision.
They invested fully and now they have to save.
you just mentioned about players being able to be streaky for highs or lows.
I think that's what makes this game so exciting.
Oftentimes you have to watch a superstar and you know they could win anything,
but when you look at this game before it starts,
you don't necessarily know who it's going to be. Obviously,
Macaulay, E-Man, putting themselves up there so far in this event.
Can you tell me, wonderful is not going to have a potential moment?
Ever since Budapest, we've seen so many great moments from wonderful
that show you really how high that ceiling can be.
Again, everyone's freaky.
It's a nice stabilizing situation for Navi.
And this is one of the first times they don't go for the B lane.
I mean, we look at that cat smoke every single round. It doesn't matter what's happening.
They're making sure that is perma smoked.
That's been a problem for Paravision. We've seen a couple situations where they would have taken a cat.
I mean, we look at that cat smoke every single round. It doesn't matter what's happening.
They're making sure that is perma smoked.
And that's been a problem for Parabizion.
I've seen a couple situations where they would have taken a cat
if that door was open.
But now we're getting into a part of the round
where they almost just need to die.
If they can't run across this, underlass wonderful misses.
And he's not.
Let's have a bit of room and just tell
there's off of Ema who's here for the cleanup.
Wonderful pistol to close out.
So not only are we talking to Naughey,
but start winning rounds off of saved force buys.
But now also keeping five players up to
two. They're in the lead and with it securing some economy to give them a
chance to breathe if things start to go south.
An interview with Belchinox said, you know, we're comfortable versus every team
except for vitality like everybody else.
But we also struggle versus Navi.
He just said that this will be different today.
And to be honest, as good as we've seen Paravision and all their
tournament runs, they're playing their best yes right now.
Here we go. Wonderful looking to take space. Knows that offset on the field with
Jame having fired his from suicide. Nice, Nate. That's half of no to a down.
It's yellow and Jame in the 60s.
That is a quality damage and it's dust too. That util damage is definitely going
to come into effect. A lot of pack plays.
Last one three ones
Once more they want to contend with this catwalk you said at last round it's remained perma smoked
And they've got in love shoved in goose right now. He wants this to happen the moment they're ahead of it
So yeah, this is an invitation from Navi instead
Happy to take that invite into the ace side. He met will bring one down with him
Unfortunately here for Navi
It's a lexy empty handed and a wonderful flash off the angles is gonna have to forfeit some control
I'm not even sure if they can just simply go for this retake. I mean they might want to think about it
But such a strong spot already for para vision. So it's the palm tree palm tree flashed from Emma
That's great
It sets up a peak from the ramp as well
But you see now a glimpse of the firepower that para vision have to offer they don't have to win rounds off of great
Calling alone. They really have some shooters on this team and those were two insanely sharp entries
So they kind of just patiently waited for their opportunity to get Cat, which is what
they, it's been on their mind this entire half.
Felt like a handshake between the teams to just kind of duel it out.
Unfortunately, Lexi with nothing to show for his hold.
Oh god!
Damn.
Two deaths off of that.
I feel like James still had 70 health.
There's that nade that set it all up. Yeah, this helps.
Again, this flash is so good because you can't dodge it. You'll never see it.
You just have to assume you have to know that someone's goose or you're kind of screwed and
it was the perfect time to peek for Alexi, but that's just a matter of getting outgun. That's counter strike right there, so
So it becomes a tight game and it'll be played to go into a pause this time.
What do you think of the brewing battle we'll have tonight with the coaches and Blade versus
Dostan?
I mean, I think one thing's for sure, the three teams left have the best coach IGL system.
It's just, that's just a point blank period.
The strongest.
We've seen the preparation is just so visible when they start playing their rounds, the
reads that they have, the setups that they have.
It looks like a gamble. Sometimes it's so smart. It doesn't look like a gamble
It looks like they had information that we can't even see with the whole map. So
We're definitely gonna get some high-level CS
And some fast CS as well on top of that James still young
Place no time the job I catch
Was wonderful reaming a little high for the jump caught midair
Desk brought it up that Jane a little more aggressive on this map with that off
So clipping somebody through the doorways killing the cause a that's a huge start
Wonderful keeps note of the bottom of the board
And this is a chance of getting the Xbox player on the retreat looks like he mess gonna take it on his terms
And he will blindside change middle, but again the trades are goes from both sides still
Goodness yeah, and now wonderful says okay. Let's get in the action
Bring some back in. They have a lot of active players right now.
We're talking about pick control here for para vision, which is an interesting crossback, but bomb
They have to go and get it back if they want to take this too long. They can
That's Belchinov waiting for the long walk up
But feels like Alexi at the moment just wants to be reserved in sight
Slowly we might get there as we start to watch Navi take a look towards long
You can see the rumblings on both sides of this. This is bad
They don't know about it right now. You wouldn't be trying to scale up this way if you did catwalk noise as well could draw attention back
It's not never has to overextend. You just wait time to come. Oh, it's
Wonderful, but the bombsites already foregone they're on top of it and a wonderful just sits down beneath the plant
Missed headshot on that and kind of welcomes the peak over top
But they don't full commit to this and it allows for noggy's pieces to join up quite a tricky retake with the up now at the
moment. Paravision aren't side by side. Zello is going hunting.
Oh, what a perfect slide.
Yeah, it's a nice risk to take here.
It should insure it. They're not clearing this at all.
Now, backs turned. They're still thinking both on site.
And Zwei's going to offer the perfect distraction.
Paravision win this one out by way of preemptive positioning.
Belchanoch into the pit.
And Zello, they're not called on, but felt like a guarantee if needed.
I like how they're using long in so many different ways.
This time it's quite aggressive. You almost never see like it.
like a lurker getting a pit like that in the middle of a red hole.
Man, it's like off the job.
That's disgusting.
And this shot was also nasty, man.
Yes, sir.
That's an ult.
No, it took out the right target, the rifle,
because Yop's never supposed to hit that.
That was a nice round that could tell us there could be some
op highlights tonight.
It feels like no matter who wins tonight,
they know that they would have been able to win the rematch.
But the other team would be able to.
They're going toe-to-toe.
That catwalk smoke now getting a little deeper,
and this is after we've seen Navi go test the cat expansion once or twice.
So moving parts on cat control, only eight rounds into the game,
but Paravision sees the space.
They called this bluff out, now they can actually go a little faster.
The wonderful is not operating.
With any assistance next to him, but he will put Belchin on off the attack and double-stab
it.
This yellow still a chance.
No.
Fire spreads.
3v5 recovery back to the even number.
Bomb stopped in the middle of battle.
Lexi's limitations, this MP9, and Jane won't be a part of the bomb site fight itself.
And Macaulay's gotta come up through Kat.
Alexi's got his swing, but left up de-handed.
Macaulay catching Jane, who wasn't ready for that corner walk-up, but trade big
spray.
And no, Tom, that's only his third of this map so far.
Missed the flash.
He's got a second.
Mikaze, close proximity.
Toys with fire.
Wins it.
And will tie this game again.
What a move.
How do you ever trick James like that?
Not jumping up on Xbox, but taking the long way around.
The patient round here for Mikaze.
Made that clutch look easy.
Nice second failure from Wunderful.
crazy audacious from wonderful taking. Oh my god. Yeah, we're getting all kinds of crazy
shots right now. The ops are on point. Oh my goodness. How did he avoid that? So close
getting tagged. This is an interesting looking round at a pair of vision. It's a full B default.
I think in terms of conditioning with the amount that they've used long in the late rounds,
whether or not they've wanted to go there originally, they know that Navi have to be
worried about it so that just keeps one guy occupied.
They're gonna use this to walk out and steal on the left side of the wall.
McCossey boosted, gets away with a second. How does this guy always find the multi-kill?
It's got a nade behind him! Dude, ice cold! Just sits on that!
Wait for his bomb is fragged to come to him, and Zelo caught on the attempt to cross over.
1v3 for Jayme, Oppress posted on it, and still he wins the fight,
but he's not gonna get away from it, and I'll be flooding to that bomb site with no hesitation.
Citation I can't believe it doesn't even move his crosshair under pressure. He doesn't even worry about it
He's like this guy's too scared to peek me. I'm gonna hold this
So mo there was a question whether mccasey could keep it up another 2k situation in a hold like that
Yes, fantastic. I mean, I'm honestly really impressed by
Pretty much everybody today
And that's a rare thing to say with these two teams right and the two teams that get criticized for not having consistent superstars
That was my worry coming into the game this evening that there was a lot of height building up
It felt like a fair fight, but if one or two pieces were off their game
It felt like it could turn into a bit of a domination
We know the ceilings are high
Right now Navi trying to reach for it again versus these pistols. It'll be made easy
So far throughout this event, it's really been E-man Makaze towards the top of the ratings,
but wonderful sitting pretty on a 12 kill half already.
Guys playing fantastic. I mean, it's like, it's not like overtly aggressive, but it's explosive.
Right. And he's willing to risk his own HP. Again, this is like an evolution for Wonderful,
who used to just be a guy with so much skill packed in, but just a little bit too passive.
Like you're seeing him take some liberties, go for swings that he wouldn't have done,
even a couple of years ago and actually show off that he can hit the shot when he takes that risk.
And Niko's exit interview yesterday, he gave credit to Navi and discussed how kind of quick
they were moving, how confident they looked. He feels like that confidence. That's what kind
of gels Navi in these moments here. There's a very small lack of hesitation in any of the
rotations and the duels they commit to. It's going to have players exiting underneath him,
The wonderfuls got that cover. Flashbangs fantastic.
The Paravision not really a front-and-a-next. Not on pit's watch.
Nothing wonderful's a watchful eye in through the window.
And now lobby's electricity is continuing to spill over round and around.
This one keeps four players up as they go 7-4 over Paravision.
I don't know how else to describe it, besides they have a lot of teammates online.
I mean, when it's a B-play, someone new is coming in and posting up the first kill in support of the main anchor.
They're always covering each other, and once you get the first kill on a rush, second one's way easier.
So now almost nobody's dying, we're not even getting to bomb plants here.
Navi have not had an easy walk over half and yet still have a three round lead.
These guys are wet stones for each other, trying to get to a point that they can be competitive
enough to face off against my talent, and it feels like one of the confidence builder.
There's been a lot of moments for Nobby's squad where if it's a situation, you expect
one, they shouldn't get to, but they will cause a top of the bricks last round of
an exit of B.
This one from Bit with the last few bullets in the FOMAS.
And if Naughty can continue to milk these opportunities for more than they're supposed to get and then throw danger as well at the squad to ParaVision, it could bode well.
But this time that aggressive miss out middle in the final round of the half, got to give it respect, trying to just finish this one off with a message, and instead they'll have to recover from a man disadvantage instead.
See that the opening kill is a bad staffer ParaVision, but at least they come up here ahead in trades.
Looking to make it 7-5. Alexi is looking to deny that. He sees the bomb in the back.
Oh, and tries to stay confident and poised to take that dual, but Belchinov wins him out.
At a minute 10 with long control and numbers, this is a trying spot for Navi.
I wonder if Navi decide to just, since they're in this 2v4, make another risk.
You might as well move together in this spot, absolutely.
For as long as they see nothing out middle and bit sitting behind that smoke grenade towards long
It's really afforded para vision free movement. They don't want to believe it
They don't want to believe that it's gonna be a B play otherwise wonderful would have shoved himself in the door
They can cross they have a smoke here. No problem tough reality check now for Navi
It's a B site retake on dust to pay at least a different tool for the job
And a good amount of utility here as well
Well, this is a spot where Paravision should just be able to lock in a fifth round.
And again, you're playing in the dark.
You don't know if somebody's decided to stick around in middle.
Now you've figured out, yeah, it's good for the retake.
That bomb nears the halfway point.
Navi half to understand.
Chance is low.
Throw the Hail Mary at them, but by burning off the window, you're just giving them
more time forcing yourself in front of the doorway.
It comes in through with one.
They're not going to topple up on Wonderful, but he gets that wallbang kill! No way they test this!
It's winnable!
Time is low! Wonderful takes the high road!
Jayce is going to play with time!
That sixth teammate that does decide the outcome here in Round 12!
They are finishing with one through the road, but Navi's rock saw the defense off the back of Wonderful and Makaze!
I got a Molotov.
Molotov? Molotov boy? Who isn't there?
Wait, I also revive a top-ten wife on the world called Sarah. Let's go. You wish get yet in there
Oh party back from and please come back
Hard to say I would say I will
If I had to guess like he really likes to play a would open peak a lot
My guess would be so who but I know it's not him because he doesn't use those skins
Maybe it's me then I don't know it's probably me then okay
So, he got the bat!
He's got the ball!
Jamie!
Nice, man!
He won!
Six points. Here's the lead.
Let's...
One.
Seven.
Two.
Ah!
What the...
Is it a bat? Is it a plane?
No, it's an eagle!
kind of. What? I decided that I needed to show my inner support for Falcons so now
I'm here I've been decorated from playing a player to now being a team mascot.
Don't really care that much about, you know, being the best player in the world.
If that would happen, you know, Kabliss, but I think when I look back I always see
when I have every trophy in my Kabliss. A couple of, you know, gold bars,
Grand Slam is here and there, being part of the best thing, having an era.
But, you know, there's still a lot of things that I need to learn.
I fail countless of times.
Like, there's been so many times where I thought,
ah, you got it, you know.
Today I got it. Today I'm waking up, I'm feeling good,
and then instead we relapsed the next day.
You're bound to fail. You're bound to feel losses.
You're bound to feel disappointments, and all those disappointments,
all those losses, all those failures, changed the narrative.
Round to round full reposition for both players.
No! No, sir! No way!
Oh, if you weren't crushed, if you weren't feeling defeated before you are now, that's an eco round, a full eco!
I'm so wrong.
Romra, eagled.
Let me think.
I think if we will watch the 15 times in a row, we will understand something.
Um, Amr?
Daigle Amr?
Daigle Amr.
Yeah.
I see.
You can't understand.
Obviously, you knew how much it meant to the organization, being French.
We had the CEO coming on stage and lifting the trophy and crying.
Obviously, that was very nice.
And I was winning his first major in mortality in Paris.
And like this, like a Cinderella story in the south.
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 clearly.
And I knew that if I could go out and be so confident about my feelings,
then that would spark something within them.
An uphill battle from the get-go for the Paravision squad.
Only two successful opening duels across the first 12 rounds of play.
And then add on top of that some Rockstar moments from a piece of Navi.
That hasn't been called on so far, the event, but now is stepping up.
Wonderful top performer, a 17 and 6 half.
Let me know, Rotterdam, what'd you think about that first half?
Yeah, they know great CS when they see it.
That one was tight.
It's actually kind of a miracle based on the opening kills.
That pair of vision get five, but we saw off
that they were still fierce.
Beretta's depress in.
Careful as yellow.
A lot of guys waiting for this.
A lot more than he may expect.
He finds it back and still.
The team that covers Belchernau taps from platform, he takes a bullet to the head, down to 10 health.
Easy clean up through Wunderful.
It does get ParaVision to flood one forward to the site. Window player drops as well.
The window in the open! Anybody's to take!
James got an execution queued up, there's a second collected, and Zwei in through the window takes a man advantage.
It's gonna be the Alexi clutch now, and he finds Jane first with that low health, but Zwei's been so good in these moments.
going to read this yesterday versus Falcons lights out in the clutch.
He's thinking about it, waiting for that smoke to go.
Comes to this way, spots him.
Now's what he's nervous.
Takes to the tie road.
Alexi pauses.
He goes higher up and straight extends.
One round closer to tying up with Navi
and importantly, the pistol, the second pistol,
the paravision of one in this first map of play.
And they got that first kill and still didn't get a bomb
They decided to try to fight every single player on Paravision to get into the site full commitment here
They spent a little bit of time fighting Belgium out James snuck in through the window somehow got both of his
Paravision be happy about pistols
And the game that we expect to come down to the nitty gritty, to the nail-biter moments,
pistol rounds could damn well make a difference.
But you've also got to find a way to cool off some of the hot-handed individuals Navi
are tapping into right now.
Yeah, again, just like that, the amount of opening kills.
in that pistol round that was a 4v5 victory for ParaVision.
You mentioned the streakiness of some of these players and these teams,
well the problem right now is you've got Nota and Zelo still with four and three kills respectively.
Feels like usually on a bad day one player can have an off map and the rest can still pick it up
but if we get two rough performances, then what are the gun rounds going to look like once Navi get there?
Still time to tap back in.
For now, No-Tou should have a shooting gallery,
and Anzielo, a little confidence builder here versus Glock.
Go ahead, get your groove on,
and make sure that you stop with just this one death.
All's good. Chuck the SMG away.
Grab that second M4,
Paravision tied game at seven rounds all.
Oh, they wanted was a bomb plant, but they couldn't find that.
On this tied up, I think Paravision still have some work to do
to kind of prove that they are comfortable versus Navi.
On top of being able to pick up the map,
They're a map pick, of course.
You'd be terrified of the form that we're seeing consistently,
and now with wonderful joining Mikaze here.
And that is the thing with Nota.
Sometimes it's instantly 10 headshots in a row,
or he's totally off.
and
james been solid but i would call it impressive just yet now he's
couple of couple of great shots for sure
and the pistol is also very strong
but with one of all the other side
cast a great shadow
but there's a lot of pressure on on television
by the first kill on this round, that's for sure.
Who other than Mikaze to throw at the front?
It's a sharp tip to this spear.
It won't be ready surely for Zelo sitting on default.
Only with the MP9, but I'm gonna get surprised.
That's Mikaze dead, flashbang, stunned him for a second.
Zelo also down to half health.
He tries to get out of there
and good on Swag2, but at least peel Alexi
off of the bomb site.
The bomb damn near fell over the ledge just there.
And they jump up on it to get the baby.
Oh, but that's the guy that could have stopped him.
Great coverage don't allow anybody to get close they put a smoke on it just to make sure nothing gets weird
And they don't get freaked out by seeing someone on default. They get them all. Yo as they're scaling they're still fighting long
They're not getting tunnel vision. They keep the machine going
Once again another opening this time's mccasey we're talking about how good he is on CT side
We haven't even got to the T side yet
But it leaves a mark in the first round with guns and obviously on dust you there's a lot of onus on you to have a very strong
CT half
Their vision gonna be thinking about that, but hopefully not thinking about how easy it's gonna be
For the longest time in the pool dust who was the tea-sided map that changed a lot
I understand why that frustration would start two mounts.
Try to get your game going and instead this little pocket of positioning found behind
the flames from a cause a is a quick entry frag.
And a quick first gun round win.
And we're about halfway through this game.
No timeouts remaining now for para vision.
All the powers in blades hands.
But I can understand why they want to talk.
They got to get ahead of us.
You just called it back to back.
Oh, late just using one.
Damn.
In the spots.
Oh, now we're getting deep, huh?
Yeah, that's a wild.
Like, what are you thinking now?
I mean, it's another chance to talk, obviously, repair vision,
but they didn't expect it.
That's insane for down a one-nobby timeout at 8-7 in this series.
You want to talk about coaches and how tactical this game can be.
And obviously, you can also sort out some disagreements
and talk about the next round all in the same breath now.
OK, what's going to happen this round?
Tell you this much.
It's got every tool you could ask for.
Just like that first half, 2-0 start, paravision, Navi don't waste time getting into it.
They use time, clearly.
With that last second tacked time out.
Looks like we're going for the long play out of the gate, but no hard commitment.
They left a really interesting gap for Mikaze on Cat last time.
He's scaling up here again.
If he's not careful, he could meet his maker.
He's not taking any kind of risk by standing there, so they're going to approach him correctly.
And Sway's getting shoved back. This round is actually coming in quite quickly.
Yeah, starting to feel the pressure from both sides of A, but Jane will kill McCauze.
There it is. The counter part to the entry, Frager.
A five versus four secured by Berrigan. Do you know how they had the first half?
I need to keep more pressure up towards Long, Sway needs to splash and he dies.
That was a big risk from him.
The Lexi punishes for it.
Jane now riddled down the 30 health, barely gets out of the flames, and here comes Wunderbolt.
One of those headshots!
E-Math just moves down with the triple!
You see the Colgate smile on his face after he gets that on the long cross.
When they killed Sway, it was done.
That's when the split came out.
The only reasons we try to expand towards cars because they had lost control of cat and long at the same time off the second blade time out
They come to please to make this move
It's the slightest glimpse of yellow in the background
At best they were gonna be able to save that gun he stole that one away as well and now they just have usb's
We know the capability of all ten of these players, but it feels like the
It's being tapped into by Navi tonight, at least first here on ParaVision's map page.
Making quick work of that collection of USPs over on Long.
Navi will secure double digits off of this round.
Runway on a T side.
Confidence that comes with it.
And poor ParaVision have no way to put the brakes on what could end up being
now a runaway train of a second half.
And Paravision use their last hack.
It gets countered by Navi's tack.
They win the round.
Now, Dastan has no choice.
They have to see if Navi even want
to use their final timeout for the rest of this map.
And it's five alive here for Navi.
After that, Emma 3K, no save guns on that last round.
The instant buy-up.
Fight for wonderful out of the gate.
slow to catch the first one but knows they're out here.
See them use the best CT spawn right there to cross long.
Be expecting it to be a 3A lean for now.
Pull back pretty fast though.
They realize they gave up that info, they smoked from that side.
Leaves way as per usual to his own devices over on long and Mikaze once more going
to try to be the guy that unravels catwalk.
He saw Jane play counter part. Well, they're thinking one step ahead.
They already showed by wonderful shooting that they knew about the three long set up.
Now they're still going into the A split, and it's ParaVision who have actually left.
Oftentimes it's ParaVision who get the read.
Right now it's Wade just hoping he doesn't get hard cleared.
It's been left in a one versus one here.
We'll see how thorough he is in clearing out these spots,
but as Wade is preoccupied, Noz is got no help.
Yeah, totally preoccupied.
Has to get himself out of this position with the smoke grenade keeps his head down on the ramp with the Coos players coming.
No does Nate collects, but it's McCauze here looking to thrive.
It's Jame out in the middle to play for.
Zellalong to the bottom.
Here's what's left of it.
Popping up at the perfect moment and giving Paravision some sort of a CT side to stand on.
Impressive anyways.
I mean the only thing that was really weird was Bit getting out long on the opposite side of blue.
Not having any fear of that's way to be there.
And also, Jane, very good to catch our rotator.
Huge plays all around.
That's kind of Yellow's most impactful moment so far through this map.
His 7th and 8th frag, fast removed by Navi,
instantly getting bit into what was Sway's position.
Lingering on the other side of that smoke though, not fully falling back.
We've got majority here for paravision, but Navi have secured themselves control of Longford.
now. It gets really complicated now for ParaVision. They don't have full vision on Cat. They know
that just Cat alone is not going to feel good. They've had Lurkers be a problem. There's no
tunnels pushed. There's no boost up in mid. And they're sitting in front of their own
smoke on Cat as well. It's a very precarious situation for ParaVision. But Navi still have
some work to do to guide this one home. They are taking a risk and trying to push
mid now. Whoa, Zello's done it. Secures a solid positioning, but we'll see just how far he wants to go.
He's a reverse clear, so it's more of a, you know, if this ends up being a full long set up, at least I can tell you about it.
Oh, dude, he doesn't miss. Amikaze is watching. Oh, somehow.
That is an X factor from Belchanox, spring through the door, and it's a perfect distraction for Zello to capitalize on what was a hard commitment to the spray there.
there. Man advantage secured off of that slightly aggressive paravision mid move. It allows
for them to get numbers back over to the site and Bit uses the cover of that smoke just
as it starts to fade. He manages to get onto the ramp. See if anybody gets caught off by
that behind the Gandalf box. And Wonderful just wants him not to swing, that's all.
Nozer gets barmed out and Wonderful fights the kill. Numbers back even. Wonderful making
the difference. Activate, get back from the other side. Zello tapping into talent.
As it's Alexi to challenge the corner, Zellos build up a power up!
Navi strike off it long and secure themselves 11.
What a key 1v1 there for Alexi.
They pick up 11 off of that kill.
That's a low number situation for Navi.
The trade from Bellshod's.
The timing is insane because they even had the awareness
to think someone was in lower without seeing them.
Sequence from Wonderful?
Yeah, that was nuts.
And the Alexi clutch.
A just low of how much pressure he's got.
He used to sit there, wait for his chance.
Now he's pressuring, you taking shots and pushing you out of position.
And then going for more.
This looks back for Paravision.
Navi don't know it just yet, but it is a free runway
to that 12th round, to poor math points.
On Paravision's pick, one kill comes through from this long-clad
and the Paravision set up for a better black pit.
Sees red.
And Navi can see the finish line.
What an impressive map here for Navi in spite of the pistols.
A four-round gap, a T-side close.
Winning off the tack pauses.
Star players guiding the ship.
So here it is, everything paravision to piece together.
James alternative boost will cut kill Macaulay.
Oh his way gets tacked down low.
Oh he doesn't get away.
Fast moves falling back from the catwalk though.
James gonna try to take that space back.
Just making sure nobody can actually contend with Long for now.
But plenty of time.
Yeah I mean they have long control and now they have a timing.
They have a amount of time here where paravision,
they can just assume it's going to be long
but then they started out,
got to start looking into tunnels.
And they're just trying to hold them in this
They're trying to bind to their hope that this one ends a but it's not going to just yet
And we're going one later deeper they don't even peek into belch knock he's held into position
James hasn't moved a muscle pair of vision are not doubting themselves
But the one objective advantage is that they still have bit ready to split
numbers on Noda as well who's right now not supported he's gonna have to deliver
and he will at least the one. Alexi takes a quarter damage in return but it's a
strong trade at 35 seconds. Jame could again be what props up, let's left the
project vision. Nax the head shot from downtown.
Bits not wasting bullets. Bomb gets picked back up and Belchinock who's been
waiting over towards that B site to get into the action who's had to take
the longest possible rotation, and we'll see if maybe this Kingcatch-Nabe off guard.
He swings out, kills one, and the second!
That is what you waited for!
A chance to shine, and a chance for overtime.
That's all Paravision have to fight for.
After that bit round, that one jumps right into their arms.
Belchnuk's only a little bit happy about it.
He knows it's a very fortunate time, and can't believe Ben hit this shot.
That's jame who stays there for what 40 seconds gone is killed towards cat
Navi are just oozing talent at the moment. Yeah, so much confidence
Still plenty of money to buy up here for Navi here it goes mohan the last tactical timeout of regulation
One final chance for Doston
Obviously, it's a bit more desperate on this side. They're at the win and mercy of whenever
Navi you want to get some more ideas out
Surely he's ready to contribute
It's all fine tuned and calculated here by Navi
They walk into this one rifles of plenty ops still on each side, but
off the pauses. It's been pretty fast rounds actually.
They've been moving into splits quite quickly and a lot of this game for Navi has been towards the A side.
It was the opposite for Paravision.
Oh, gees!
The G up!
Holds and waits.
He said it would be fast.
We don't waste a second.
That is a great shot for Jayman.
Just a great moment.
to the top.
Opening kills a stat that stood against ParaVision.
The question is can they close out the 5v4?
Bit goes onto the off.
not every day. Very active moment of prophylaxis here from
Paravision. They take over the tunnels. They're ready to rotate
over towards A. These folks are not going to scare them at all.
They're about to turn the corner on lower, but he's only got
this 79. Belchnock, does he want to peek? Nobody watching.
This is pressure on Jamie in a moment. He will find that
first one, but Kaze has been effectively shut down throughout this T side.
These are all the right players to take out one by one.
Dodging the flashes, but just missing that chance at a second, he will strike down a bit.
But Lexi pops up, get on the turn, that's Elginak, MP9 active.
Lexi with four health, not meant long for this one.
Double digit secured, round 23 up next.
And that is all the money now for Navi.
They will not be buying this round.
Guess we're almost definitely going the distance.
What a shot!
As you set off the attack causes, it's fast and it is instant in the duel towards mid.
Jane not missing.
Jane propping up ParaVision for more and more opportunities.
Of which we see them seizing. Well, here's a freebie.
One single Desert Eagle.
James hasn't been as impressive as wonderful in this match, but if you look at the impact
of his kills, it's tremendous. Honestly, he's even from all the other rounds. It's 2K on
the pistol. It's pure impact. Whoever wins Dust 2 could very well win this series. Again,
This is MeraVision's map pic.
You think of all the teams, they take a series of disasters to lose this round.
space instead towards catwalk. Again what the hell are you gonna do? You don't have
flashes. You don't have a smoke. You don't have a way into this. Try to score. All you
can, television ready to lock this one down. Game would feel like a 3B. Starts to miss
shots. All should be good. But wonderful is just gonna remind us that it goes beyond
that AWP. Couple of Desert Eagle headshots. Get those numbers up. This is a one round
difference despite what the kill count might tell you.
Now let's go round 24 here in this matchup.
One of the best maps we've seen so far at the event.
Navi in the lead despite the pistols.
Paravision making a comeback off the back of a Belchunov 1v2.
No promises here in the final round of regulation.
Who's going to be the hero?
Those fights towards long have kind of faded in these last few rounds and we see Jane positioned
on the corner this time.
Maybe not getting with it anticipating that direction.
Our vision has sprinkled in those mid-challenges quite eloquently.
They are far from it. There is a lot of open space. If now he can wind up finding it
And with that open space comes control of the rotation
And with the control of the rotation, it's additional pressure for para vision who just look to walk in with what they have at a minute on this clock
There's a lot of questions in para vision's mind because again, they don't know what exactly is going down in middle
They don't know where this group up is going who knows if now be jumping to their hands now
This has to be a full-throated call from Alexi B.
This is a couple of smokes left for Navi,
a couple of flashbangs with it.
Oh, my goodness. This is so much space to be taken.
They don't have to bomb. It's back on cap.
But are they just going to commit out now?
They're walking it out. They've already crossed players over
if they're hoping to catch you off.
That's one thing.
Belcher knocked spotted as he throws you.
Telling you doesn't get a chance at that duel.
We'll see if Yellow lost the swing from winning.
Get left and left and back!
Oh, he's Yellow stands! A second collected!
But with 11 health, that's all he's going to find.
Zwei has big playoff performances in his back pocket,
but a slow burn move here from Emak could be his end in the 24th round.
In the moments of ParaVision's test of today, this time very dehanded.
Navi succeed in the challenge that was this attempt at the ParaVision comeback.
Map 1, Navi.
Now that was beyond impressive.
What a performance to take it all the way in the final call again. No play it involved.
Alexi just has to pilot that home and the mid B to close out in a series and a map.
Sorry where the half had everything to do with a for Navi.
Everything to do with B for para vision 1311 victory with both pistols secured by para vision.
They converted for two zero starts each time and usually those slight ticks are enough to push it over the edge for the team that never seems to die in those moments.
moments, but Navi tonight have other ideas.
Alexi, you take your opponent's map pick here, but you had to fight for it at the end there.
Yeah, for sure. I think we just made a big mistake on the 2 on 1.
We didn't manage to close it out earlier, but yet again, we played a good team side.
You move on to your pick now, and if there are no, are you expecting the same level
of fights and grit from Paravision here too?
Yeah, I think you cannot underestimate at all, and it will be very annoying to
play against their playstyle in all the maps.
But yeah, we did our homework
and hopefully we'll play the same as now.
How much are you enjoying this crowd support?
I'm enjoying it for sure.
Best of luck.
Thank you guys.
Take it, jump!
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Well I hope that LXV is enjoying this series release
that first map as much as the crowd was
and as much as he's enjoying the crowd
because he was right.
They misunderstood what was going to happen in that 1v2.
They're like, all right, jump's done, boys.
Let's do it.
This maps out.
But there was a lot more to it.
Beltrinal came in clutch and really, really, truly almost
pushed it to the outside.
I feel like this game had so many stories to tell,
even if you go all the way back to the very beginning.
Because we set this up as just strategy versus tactic.
Big brains all mirroring each other in the server.
And even going back to how James wanted
to put together this need to be split but waiting outside long to kill the player
rotating on in and then sending his players back to go back up to the a
bomb say to pre I don't see this many layers generally and I feel like it set
the tone for what is usually a dust to which is people say it's a puggy map you
know it's not that tactical oh there was a lot going on in this one that was
that was such a gym as kind of round like the fact that he even puts
himself out there you know so he can control the pace and know so he can
you say the guy is pushing when I kill him we can just run it back you know and
it's a very like when you see the Beast but smoke and you see a lot of people
swarming up it it is the most natural reaction for the guy holding on to just
push because he wants to have more action but it's just well thought out
from James no doubt about that but that was that was the one that's James
from the kid that was like a teaser that was a teaser for what was to be
coming into the mess yeah it showed itself a bunch of times there it
felt like we're almost overwhelmed with how good each side played with
parry vision and Navi every individual round but what was really the turning point I want to say for parry vision that almost got them to that overtime was that belching
up 1v2 is all the way in round 21 to be able to just have nerves of steel in this moment.
Set him up in the pregame as this late round luxury for the parry vision side.
It hits two blinders of shots. I thought the game is done and dusted at this point but he always and everyone from parry vision they try to stretch the margins.
doesn't go for the common rotation through CT doesn't go for another obvious one through catwalk
He catches wonderful as he's in a moment of transition trying to set up along with big if he did this one second later
And wonderful would have traded them out
But he caught a perfect timing because of how quick he was with that decision
There's no doubt. I also think that at least just touched on it on stage in the interview with Ian saying that
They actually misplayed that situation
No, it took a little while for them to get the bomb down
But the after-plant situations didn't really seem to be working for Navi in this specific moment.
You just see wonderful in the middle of everything.
I think they were doubting a lot where he was going to come from.
So we've got to give us a belch not far.
Pushing himself in that position and pushing all the way behind from long, that caught them off guard.
But Navi should have played this one differently and they would have closed off the game by then.
I feel like they were almost broken, right?
There was a chance that almost we were going to be able to see that over time.
But overall Navi being able to close it out in the 24th round,
They really did go. Hey, you know you guys are missing. You know who your Rena well a little bit of a closest here
He's a little bit of a close-up happen
So they did that for themselves
But what happened in that round family for them to be able to have such an advantage
Well, I wanted to see in this game if jay are not jammed in blade was going to be able to snip out these
3v6 which are just a hallmark of the para vision style
I would say they did it right into it. They fully committed to this idea
They went, I would say, on a maybe lightly earlier timing
than Paravision would have expected.
But Paravision players in this moment
kind of got what they wanted.
They got Navi going in.
And I feel like this in some way encapsulated a lot.
A lot of went on with this game, where tactics were very 50-50.
I might even actually say to Prey
that Paravision played a lightly better game tactically
than Navi.
But Navi players just got a couple more key kills
in those sort of moments.
For sure.
I was worried for Navi in that last round
because I don't think that Navi at that point when they went out middle they already had like the idea of where they were going to be hitting
I think they tried to sniff out what was going on
But as soon as they get up mid and they didn't get contested
They knew that something was up and when they get that first concert with the guy sitting close close tunnels
I think they sniff out that this is a B-stack because you can see how determined they are when they actually running through the doors
He knows exactly what you're clear because they've probably seen him prep and also from blade
You know briefing the players that if there's a guy here
there's a big chance you're gonna have a stack looking like this and that's just so smart from Navi and you know
The smoke was even about to fade in CT. It did not look like Navi was set up winning that one
But that just shows what perversion can do for you
And just how quickly they're able to turn it because there's also that question of they're a little bit undecided right now
Are they gonna be able to make the right choice?
Maybe in that situation either A or B would have been the right choice
But they made it for themselves
They take out Mount number one and there are so many players that we could put on a pedestal right now in this map
There were so many players that really showed up for themselves, but who exactly now if you are you looking more towards well
You know who I already like
But I got to give a lot of credit to wonderful as well
Clearly wonderful and the cause a word live lifting up Navi through a lot of these situations
Where they had no business getting some of the multi frags that they were able to find for themselves
I'd say that every time mccasey was contested on this b bomb site
It felt like he was getting two without fail and when he did it thankfully he had bit in tow to help him out
But wonderful as well man. This is with the potential of this guy full on display
He had a little bit of a slow 2026 to start after an incredible
Budapest major and now you're getting them back in full force
It's a pleasure to watch because when he's firing like this. This is when Navi are truly trophy contenders
I love it. Yo, he's been under a lot of critique. He's been told that this should be the next replacement
We need to find a better offer wonderful is not contributing to the team that is with a yada yada yada keeps going right
But what he showed today is that wonderful that we saw when CS2 at that point, you know came came into version
And when now he played the best there's no doubt that wonderful
He played a massive impact will my cousin as well
But wonderful in my books
He was the main character of this one and if if we could replace this frame
I know we love my cousin this one. Oh mostly you right?
But we show frame wonderful after this one because man this guy he performed
I got to just make sure my girlfriend's okay with that.
We can put a chopper in the back as well,
so she feels a little bit included, you know,
going on the bedside there,
because they're wonderful.
There's so much that we get to have for Navi here,
and there's also that confidence that you're winning
the map pick of parry visions, right?
And then you get to look towards the one
that you're a little bit more comfortable on,
and when you do turn your eyes towards that to three,
having that little bit more of a comfort,
knowing how close this one was,
really look towards? Yeah well I think
Paravision they really should have clinched
this one out you know it's always a
disaster but it's always in a deficit
when you don't win your own map because that's the one you can
really prepare for. The fact that I'm moving into
Inferno it's a map that Paravision
haven't really been looking too well on.
They've had a really close affair with
Vitality where they almost won that one out
but going back they've lost to teams like
Legacy, they've lost to teams like Monteno
teams that is definitely offside to tier 1
and it's a Paravision
that now have the bags against the wall.
It's not the first time that they've lost their own map
because in the last series against Mavi,
but now it's more about perversing,
staying true to their own form,
staying true to what they're good at
because they showed against Falkens that,
sorry about against Vitali
that they can play at a high level.
But it's been their consistency
on the front that worries me to look at this one.
I am just a little bit worried about that too,
because I mean, it's tough to gauge it
because to play vitality as close as they have,
but then to also lose out to some lower tier teams,
kind of the form for a pair vision on the map is obviously wavering. A lot of it comes down to
the fact that that James just has to make the right reads. I'd say his reads look pretty damn good
versus Navi today, but you could see that in some of these tense moments people like Zelo and Nota
are less to be found than we sometimes had hoped for them throughout maybe the rest of the year
so far. I think there's a case when when the game they play against Vitality we saw that
there was a lot of frustration from the Vitality side. I really feel like they pulled off
have a lot of gambles when they play against Vitality probably also why they
made it so close. I think that's also going to be the case here. I think
Paris vision they feel like they need we need to do something drastically. We
have to go for those gambles if you're going to have any chance. So I think
that's also what's going to happen this one. There is a little bit of
repetition sometimes how Paris vision might be playing whilst it does look
clean. It is very tactical. We'll ultimately broke them apart and gave
Navi that advantage with knowing how to read just exactly where
Paris vision were sitting on the B side of dust to understand at home.
Maybe you don't have access to everything
to be able to get some good reads,
but you do have access to refrag.
And honestly, I think that's something
that'll help you guys a lot.
Right now we have Marketeers doing pimp's warmup.
This is pimp's warmup routine.
We have someone else giving it a go.
We have a bit of an issue here
because there's no bike involved in this segment, right?
We should have like a refrag X script,
something X pimp.
Two stationaries right now, we have to refit.
We are actually showcasing
pimp's training routine right here.
So if you wanna, yeah, as good as pimp,
or at least get close to his level,
then that's what you'd be doing.
And ReefRank is a great tool.
If you want to go in there and play more by your age,
play out your routine, that is a good start.
I feel like a lot of people haven't seen Pimp play enough
lately.
He used to be good, right?
Dude, he went drop 20 bombs in every high,
low basic game that I would see him play,
well after he was done with his professional career.
I'll give him a little credit,
because I feel like people in chat right now
are probably like, lol, Pimp routine.
But he's good.
He's sharp, OK?
He's better than 99.9996% of all players at one point.
No, me, the-
That's a stat.
That's a stat.
That is a stat.
Jeffrey, when are you dropping your training?
Your warmup routine?
I mean, uh-
I mean, uh-
I got-
I got-
I was like, why was so funny about that?
I don't have a routine.
I don't have a routine.
No, no way.
I was like, I'm a racist and fucking connected to the cell hall.
There's no way you don't it.
You never had a-
Well, yeah, I had a routine.
Okay, okay.
But I'm a real worried.
With all respect.
Okay, we'll make one we all have to work on that one. All right, because whilst the breeze gonna work on his warm up
We're gonna be working towards our next map. We get to look towards inferno
That is that is Navi's map of pick will see exactly if they're able to bring it to the same level that this work before
in this series one map away from a grand final for themselves and about to enter their own
map pick of Inferno and so questions around Paris vision having that mental fortitude able to bounce
back fight back knowing they were so close having overtime on dust it's going to be a tough one but
I feel that per vision have been this through this before I will say that Navi they're not out
out of the woods by any means.
The fact is that throughout this year,
they're winning less than 50% of their own map picks.
It's a very weird world when Blade has that poor
of an assessment of his own team,
but they're usually still getting the job done.
I think Navi is looking at this right now.
I think they should probably have closed out
those two a little early.
I mean, it is after all two very strategic teams
going up against each other,
but I also believe that Navi can feel
that they're playing better as an individual.
It's just a couple of those small mistakes
that maybe hinders them from closing out the game faster,
But one industry was very instrumental and they know that there's one map away from now going into that grind file that probably everyone myself included wants to see because we want to see how good is Navi actually when it matters the actual most.
So even though it is not always map heck even though most teams excel on what they picked for themselves with those stats now you're still slightly favoring party vision you're like they're not down and out.
I'm just saying that James always makes it a coin flip on this map.
The amount of stacks that he calls, really,
ParaVision, they live by James' calls.
They also die by James' calls.
That's why sometimes they can play a team like Vitality Close,
but they can also get blown out by a team like Legacy or Monty.
We'll see exactly what's going to happen
where the coin will land if it's heads or tails,
ParaVision or Navi as we head into our second map.
That's right, map two, where suddenly ParaVision
have that extra added pressure.
And we wonder whether this was the veto
they predicted, whether they can step it up under the brightest lights that we
really have seen this team play on because we talk about ParaVision inching
it upwards step by step but now you're playing versus a Navi that have
certified rock stars on the stage tonight. That type of level that they were
able to bring to Dust2, I mean that almost felt uncontainable for ParaVision.
Yeah, 100% and I mean again with the way that the Vito went and Dust2 coming out I mean ParaVision put a
a lot of mental eggs into that win.
Obviously, they did so much to kind of prove
that they could at least have made that an overtime game.
If you just looked at some stats,
I would show you, I mean, winning pistols alone.
So, but that also speaks to what's more important.
And then that's not the winning rifle rounds.
It's probably looking like a two-way team.
It's not having three consistent starts show up
at the same time.
I mean, bit towards the end of the game,
wonderful is just getting better and better
if you didn't get out off by Jamie
in one of those last rounds.
It's scary to think how much more they may have had to show.
On top of that, we talk about the streakiness
and the hot and cold nature of some of the Paravision players.
Nota and Cielo will have to dig themselves out
of the trench that at one point they were in,
and it felt like Cielo was starting to do exactly that.
Starting to find his kills, starting to find his moments.
But now Paravision also have to find the belief
that they can reverse sweep this series.
So Rotterdam, this could be it for Navi.
Aerovision on the break, has Navi gotten it for a vitality of grand finals
and want to show us that as all the inconsistencies surround them, Navi become the rock.
Yeah, they're in the power position, the drivers see, they've got to be happy with themselves, they've got to be proud.
And it's Lexi's call, the final call that really makes sure that that game ends nicely.
They put a bow on it, they never give that hope over.
No comeback completed.
Let's see here, loves taking a bit of responsibility towards this B site.
Right now it is him and him alone and nobody to help him, nobody to help out.
Not even a thought of a rotate over just yet and we see the positioning for paravision
getting inch by inch ever closer.
They're staged up to, looks like to almost certainly get this bomb planted at a minimum.
No push down mid here, and the heroic setup from Navi, they'll finally start running down,
but again, plant.
Looks like a guarantee.
Stomping down middle, fast to the flank.
James tries to keep eyes on it. We get a five versus five retake in round one of Inferno
And hearing these smoke just stopped them from the outside of con but they get a lot of space off of that
able to at least get to the back door of church down goes the coffin smoke on the retake
McCauze trying to again be that front runner looking to create space to pop up over coffins as punish
What kind of shot was that?
Navi just finding a sea of headshots
But they let their guard down and one player from the back site turning his back music nails in the end
The last two pieces of paravision three for three in pistols
But we know that it wasn't enough back on dust to even a 4k for his yellow an amazing round from him and if it's way
It's way didn't hear that it's possible that that bomb could have got diffused while there was two players still alive
Pretty incredible to find all these entries last bullet care there for
Or as yellow excuse me. He's the one who runs in handles everything
I'm not sure if I'm going to
get that right.
Caravision converted those
pistols as well. Haven't had a
bad start to a half per se.
See what kind of confidence
Naughty exude as they come into
the second map because we know
that there was times as Dust
two went on. They just kind of
felt freed up to make their
he takes utility damage. A lot of it. He's gonna start off every round with 50 HP but
that's sort of the name of the game when you're defaulting on banana. But last map, we didn't
get everything we needed from Moda, that's for sure. This one could be even harder.
Wonderful sees that smoke fading as an invite to get closer
Paravision always happy to hit that pause button
It's a test of your patience, test of your nerve
I'm just gonna go towards Arch
Eagle activates, the noted just kind of swings right into it
Oh, that's it!
Bit trying to collect more as the Desert Eagle goes dry, 5-7 takes the front
And now Bitt's got a fresh mag to commit with.
There's damage on Zway who still survives it.
The bomb has to go around the long way.
The CTs will have time to start this retake early.
Delchanock was able to establish that space.
Still, Jane pauses. That flashbang makes it awkward.
Delchanock's gonna get knocked off by the 5-7.
And now James down to 17 health as well.
10 seconds. Do you want to take this game?
You're gonna get out of here.
No, they know. Oh, they know.
And this time, this will sure,
but you're not gonna get the conversion.
Oh my goodness. What about those Deagle shots from Bid?
That was such a smooth move after he caught this one on Noda
Running right into his crossair perfect swing on his Delo exactly where he would be holding this flash also works
It doesn't even catch a lexie he goes smoke blind for a second knows exactly where to look once he's out of it
That one wasn't just aim
They're lucky to have gotten out with those two guns both those players are very low as well
You don't have the desk intrigued this normally inferno pick
And it's right when the other team might be starting to say, okay, we feel more confident
now.
We want to go up against you.
You know, we struggle normally and you throw in a veto change when you're winning in the
head to head.
Just trying to stay that one step ahead.
Yeah.
Trying to tap into the tactical difference, the preparations, the game plans, the ability
that Navi have to evolve.
The round like that perfectly exemplified how prepared they were.
It'll be a scary sign for ParaVision or just a chance for them to flex pistols of their own.
They still have these two rifles, but they've gone down to no grenades.
And they have a lot of positioning on the perimeter of this A bomb site.
E-MAC concerned about the potential CT wraparound, but it's going to get a flash to go back to the door.
Well, full commitment. They're running around behind him as well.
Alexi drawn over from the B site. It's a little late early to go for the full push because I could still go mid B
It keeps his head down pops up on his terms will keep it clean on no
Ta and this is fight all while wonderful just walks into the corner of the bomb site
So really just taking the attention taking down the health bars activating Alexi on that flight
And then just sweeping pair of vision neatly under the rug
And that is Navi with majority alive and now a bit of momentum you got a little of the constant pressure
I mean, you could have tucked there,
let it, wonderful take next contact after you have already peaked up twice from the mini-pit,
but he doesn't care. He keeps on fighting,
and this also draws time off the clock for the B players to come in through CG's spot.
So one thing that ParaVision are great at doing is pausing when they're not in good positions
and waiting together and then punishing you for overswinging.
That was a good example of Navi knowing exactly how much they could get away with
and somehow making them look uncomfortable where, you know,
When we watched them play versus Falcons, they couldn't do that.
Fair vision.
We're using that strategy to punish any kind of response.
Time to think things over, then.
Yeah.
I almost wonder if that was grounds for a pause.
I mean, they have this round to talk about things, which
also makes sense.
But I think right away, you just get, you know,
you get a glimpse into what we're about to see.
I want to say so far every match that Paravid have played at this event, they look like the more prepared team.
This might be the first time that that changes.
People are going to say, what about Vitality? We watched that game.
That was incredibly close for Paravidians. I would have to 1v5 them in overtime to make sure they won.
We obviously know Vitality's record in OTs this year is damn near flawless.
It is flawless.
of the 1v5 didn't look in the rear view right now thing is leave it to
Novi to be the team that looks more prepared right prime suspect to be
honest in that department so you've had a chance to talk things over you've
allowed Dostan to keep that pause you milk that round for what it's worth
with those pistols and you come into this one double Khalil Mac 10 slight
limitation here for para vision. Another opening chance for Macaulay to just really spread his
wings here on banana for a player that has been dominating this event for a guy who is
known to kind of thrust himself into those awkward jewels and take things on his terms
well. Nobody signs up for it. I'm not going to call para vision scared they're just
not here this time but if you can tap into what he was doing you can improve the map
right now for the CT side.
Oh, they're pulling on your gun.
Timing's not bad on that one.
Still two kills back.
At least you've got that going for you if you're Navi, Jay taken down to 30 health
and wonderful activates from inside the bomb site.
Perfect start.
They pounce out and they're not done yet.
Sway halfway through the 1v4 tries to make that happen but it's too much damage against
with the first fight and Navi just keep that pressure on never giving him space
coming through that smoke and really just dog piling to take their fourth CT
round win consecutive.
So who wins that?
This showed you how good the setup was that one player could literally be
switching guns and they could afford that loss they had the perfect crossfire
they had the right rotators over they got all the full information over on
banana as well before that attack even came in that was not the round to
go for a lane attack. And the massive chance passes them by. Yeah, it's already in 0-5,
but again, we're looking at Noda. This map is about banana. You know, we might see a
lot of rounds of Paravision try to take A because they like to be different. Yeah.
at the end of the day. Default start here. It's the heart of the map. Notice always going
to be the first guy to go in. Sometimes we call on players back starts and then suddenly
they have a multi kill. So let's see what he can do with that upgraded pistol. Zello's
the only dead man on the entry. Alexey falls back. The cause they forced to go into
the duel. That's where his way is going to catch him, right? There is that AK
out there on the field. This is nice, but they're not planning yet. Bomb kind
being jostled around bits trying to set up a lexie who could have a path over
towards banana. Great routing but it gets opened up exposes him and gives a
man advantage back over to para vision who can get off of that bomb site who
can grab that second gun who can lean on the depth of the bomb site itself to
just walk in the second round win. Now op damage on nota makes his job all the
harder on top of that 0-5 start but they're gonna have to deal with him in
that corner. He may will with the double head shot sway locked in back
site. James over towards banana. Time problems now.
Staying in the corners is hanging on and eventually his way activates.
James will be found out but on his berms takes a kill and it's with those tech
nines and that one rifle that ParaVision punctured through.
That one right there is massive for the program here for ParaVision.
They get the kill as they entry and that's the main difference.
Honestly, they didn't have much coming into it.
They go for a contact explode. They even lose, sorry, they get killed by
by McCauze while they're trying to entry but finding out about Alexi it was the
CT Nade was meant to blow that open so it's a bit awkward for him honestly that's
gotta be a miscommunication because he's fully lurking in that spot I mean if
he looked more prepared then maybe it would have made sense but he didn't
So Blades the first to burn one.
It's a good amount of damage on the retake, but it's a round where Paravision are already
saving, so at least keeps this game alive.
Let's tell his team about it
No, it takes a deep grenade just 30 damage to the bottom of B. They don't have banana now
I'd be worried about their vision if they just move into an attack off of this a
Little bit of information that they have
It's looking for revenge from the last time they tried to take lane.
Interesting how they're gearing up here at double arch.
Fallback's low build.
Low build.
Fresh, yeah.
sitting in that corner, even has to make his play.
And everybody prepared for it on Paravision's squad,
jumping over top of the fire, starts to challenge Bitt
from both sides.
Alexi off the flash.
Mikaze helping out with that flashbang
on both sides of the site hole.
And so as James Off starts to go empty, Bitt then activates.
Mikaze has got the support in him too, huh?
Damn, that was so good.
Again, the team play is everything.
Bitt stays in the corner.
knows exactly how much time he has. His teammates have a plan to come and try to help them. They
also started out double arch. Even though IMA gets killed, takes down one. It's the
fact that they knew it was going to be an arch move. And we're even worried about doubling
up and pit this time around. Navi in their heads. Everybody getting a piece of this tack
pause from Dastan. Because they won that half buy, the money's still good. You see how important
on that platform.
And they're looking for this banana fight but it's actually bit to die in mid.
He's smoke position, dead to the other side of it.
James been looking for that dual in the last couple of rounds.
Yeah.
Now this deep spot from E-Meth though, doesn't seem like OK.
No, they'll clear it, but he gets active.
And James finds another close quarters headshot on E-Meth.
Zwei gets caught off by the smoker,
but he's still got control.
Never mind.
Dunked on by Alexi B, king of the Util.
And he immediately runs from this.
That's the player who was within the smoke.
They don't know if it's going to be a push.
wouldn't be surprised a pair of vision want to disrespect this they like to call
a bluff but if they don't they're gonna run into a huge trap yeah they are just
going up and Anna now CT's making moves fast enough though very quickly but it is
Jane doubles back to check it all the bomb is gonna be the slowest thing
which means it can't also watch the flank if they want to go for an exact
they will get caught James also siphoning up utilities he gets a dead
It's a back turn towards Jane, grenades and hands on top of that, like you said, but mom, that is everything.
Jane leaves his back exposed, didn't think Tommy would make a move like that.
And let me free it up because Alexi had no hesitation to depart from that B bomb site off of his grenade kill.
Now they kind of have to fight for this bomb because they're peeking it collected and go back to B if they want it.
Frag goes over, nice headshot, founds.
Belchernock's got to do something to try to keep this control, but now he just turns back, sprints over towards B
And eventually Navi will come through this bomb plant on orange side because you know the threat of Navi's flank is coming in swiftly
Zello doesn't take the duel to banana doesn't want to be the first thread pulled on in this post plant
They know where he is at quad right now. Do they know about Zello because they climbs up
Trying to find contact now the coffin player fires
Yellow's gonna have the offense right in front of him, but a little good on his turn.
Double kill for his Yellow.
Just lets Belchnock lock in.
The positive KD for Yellow is nice to see, considering his struggles back on Dust2.
It was a fantastic recovery.
It's actually, it was too hard to protect the bomb for the full portion of the round.
So, they moved just quickly enough, and Belchnock hit one shot through the smoke,
which is a narrow corridor.
He can rely on those fams to get him something.
They dropped it in that spot. They wouldn't necessarily be a free win.
Paravision still had a smoke to use.
For Banana, they will fight again.
Mikaze will call Alexi.
Double spray down with the HE.
And Mikaze's collecting headshots now from the corner off of the frag grenade.
The damage finds the way trying to emerge, looking to gain control of what they fought so valiantly for.
4v2 advantage for Navi, and a paravision aren't careful. Last round will be a one-off round win.
We've gone back and forth, both teams jostling for stability in this first half of Inferno.
Navi really haven't made the mistake so far to show us that they're in jeopardy in a position like this, but the cause is low.
They're vision do not want to reveal their position every time they're on that corner playing a dangerous game
Cause a smoke fades easy pickup as far as belcher not concerned so the patients not shooting just to check
He knows does have a lot of utility to be the solo B defender doesn't waste any time drops the smoke
They're gonna drop flashes
Ketspaw!
Beltianock so far single handedly in the recovery clears out the two players that remained on B.
And this might be that first big mistake. A two on two retake.
They have some interesting utility. Beltianock's only got 49 health.
But he's not really in a position where they're going to hit him with this.
Big on him to have gone towards banana instead. Banana's also where the only kit is for this retake.
And so 10 second defuse demanded of Navi.
Starting to throw out that utile it'll find it nobody where it lands unfortunate
here for knobby they picked the wrong place but oh Jane that's a mistake
they went on it has to be covered but they could stick that's still in the
mix though sir it's dropped bit not diffusing Belgium off tests the
waters oh it's a headshot in an instant but again no kit means it's not any
different this is gonna be the bomb to pop and para vision close that lead
to one yes so all the gills is one thing but it's a three on four victory
here for paravision and it was the round that started up feels like years ago it
started off with Alexi beat hitting the HE grenade getting a double spray down
and then McCausley getting a third kill
they were so out of there. They just really wanted to take control of his
way going in like that. Could have cost them. Could on Belchinock to beat that
We got glimpses of it at the start of Dust 2 as well.
Fighting tooth and nail for this one.
Mentioned that back and forth that was sort of slow burning to what was leading to what felt like the Paravigin save.
It's not the case.
Instead pistols for Navi.
Barring Bits.
Although it's a stretch of the imagination, has enough to win this round single-handedly.
Kit, armor, AK.
And position.
Inside of halls there's definitely chances.
He wants to take any kind of risk.
He's going to hear them running around inside of vault and his yellow walks right into
this.
Right into his depth as the CT starts to move to B.
12 damage.
All bit takes for that engagement.
Totally frees up the pistols to try to get into the stack.
Now, utility advantage for ParaVision, sure.
But you've got two players now also sub-50 HP.
And this boost from Wonderful can collect anything.
And it's really on, but the bomb is planted, there comes the flooding.
And the counter-terrorists on the site will find nothing.
So good on ParaVision to lock down what they earned.
That B bomb site, as they lost Zelo, there's for the taking.
And Bit gets killed by Belchanak, who's gonna show us that he remains tapped in.
Fair vision fighting, hard here on Inferno, put these three together, dangerous moments in each of these rounds and yet they still come out and tie the game up.
Even though Bitt had that one gun they knew it wasn't a full buy, can rotate as many pistols over as you want but a full B execs hard enough to stop with everything.
That was good damage by Navi on the B approach, but nothing to slow them down.
Damage doesn't mean much when the pistol's on site. Don't even get a chance to shoot.
Great coverage by the bomb planter to turn around once he was in the safety of Pit.
Yeah, rough start for Noda to kick this game off 1-9 now.
The only score that matters is the one at the top and they've made it 5-5.
That's really impressive based on what we've seen.
Blade would be frustrated because now there are clear, you know, favorable positions
getting that flank on Jane.
Getting a 4v2 spot.
They'll know the end this half with rounds left on the table.
A round of applause, please, everybody.
Yes, yes.
Just like us.
It's my goat.
A big one, a 5v4.
Piece by piece, Paravision will build.
Nate goes a bit too deep there, Paravision not mad about that as Alexi continues to just chuck out the Util.
Yeah, avoided virtually everything there.
It's a bracket setup that begins to fall back, left on his own, and it's when he's left alone that he decides to take the peek that nets them the equalizing kill.
That's such a massive fight. I mean, Zell is about to breach brackets. It totally changes the complexion of the round.
It's making this rotation over towards the other side of the map. Paravision once again want to call a bluff.
this time it should work wonderful's alone support is so far away bit is moving
into coffins right now over on b-site I'll be trying to stay one step ahead but
unfortunately it's just one step too far you're all gonna run over it depends if
you get skills here surely wonderful's not meant to be the hero in this one
kind of taking a lot of time to get into the site and you get to kill at
At least 87 damage.
That's not nothing.
Still they'll take their time to clear out the other corners.
Bomb plant on short is absolutely safe.
Malling misses.
Mistakes being made.
And again, it's a situation with no kit for Navi.
With the extra dink it's worth it to give it a test, but these smokes are fresh.
Yeah, that smoke grenade forces the reposition. We see it now.
Emphasis on brackets instead.
Which you've got to be considering 10 second deep use bomb at the half waypoint and swage is rocks
E-meh on the approach so no actual attempt for the retake and therefore the round
Paravision's T side is now breaking through we have those four rounds back and forth the
Stability the Paravision fine by being the team that wins two consecutive first has now net them a four round streak
Yeah, we look at the way back in and it's
Converting losing positions into getting into winning positions and then closing.
That's exactly what you want to see.
Ooh, one more time out.
Oh, we can't aim. It's a headset issue. We'll keep it quiet then so that they don't know
what's going on. We've got everything you need, though.
You can talk about vitality if you want. Vitality? How about I talk about this awesome
looking crowd here in the Ahoy Arena? There'll be even more of you tomorrow for a night
Nice and early best of five, but best of five where it's possible we might need more than
three maps this time for vitality.
Yeah, the last time we were here it was at Rotterdam, but it was in the employee conference
center or whatever where they had a dream hack, you know, maybe a thousand people came
to that or whatever.
Now we're getting up there, something like 6,000 people.
So many years later, a lot of development in the city.
And over here, everyone can just take a train.
Come on down.
Oh.
I didn't know Tim was here.
All right, Snowda sorted.
Paravision still leading, a four round streak that will put Navi on notice.
Julie noted. See, it's not all in the numbers, but it also is, but it also it is.
Oh, bit side-sup for the dual.
Notice got himself another.
Whoa, great tracking.
Nice flammas work from Ena with the two gels.
Wonderful goes unnoticed from inside of the pit.
And I like that he just tucks right back into the cover.
Gives himself a smoke.
Oh, he was meant to remain a nuisance.
But instead, Jane and Belchanoch come out with impact.
You want to say that, well, Mikaze, his kills haven't been all that impactful.
Let's see these two.
They don't know where he's coming in from.
He doesn't know where they've got off to.
He's assuming there's pit.
Don't have to reload in this spot. This kills the clock.
Down to 10 bullets.
Climbing over top instead.
Yeah, Paravision just keeping their heads tucked.
He's just so positive there's someone in pit. No one here.
You'd think somebody would take it over,
but unfortunately here McCauke's chasing ghosts.
Will kill James. Swap guns.
Time is of the essence.
Does have a kit, finally, for a Navi retake.
But he really believed that pit was occupied.
And there was a world where Navi believed
they had this game in the bag.
Nice resurgence here from Paravision
keeps their Grand Finals hopes alive.
Some of the trophies are heavy.
You never know.
That's a good one, yeah.
This one's got to be Niko when we beat them.
Niko?
That's a good one, yeah.
I'll blow it down on that one.
Dark will get crazy, Niko smash the table.
Jimmy fuck up the keyboard.
He doesn't say crunching a teammate to smash something. That's a different story with to break. I think it's pretty unlikely
You know, I'm gonna say yes, I think I'm gonna shout this tournament. I think it's possible actually
I would say they they will not make it. I give them playoff though
There's possibly for everything there's a possibility for liquid to make it the finals, right?
But this is more on a unlikely side
I feel like that hasn't happened in so long.
The only thing I remember is the vice when he like...
Ooh, they're like on the spell.
Some of the trophies are heavy.
Like, Doc's like a little excited.
He tries to like raise, like, the trophies
all to their forms. It could be, it could be.
Nah, I don't think it's gonna happen,
but if we are winning, and I put money, maybe I put money.
Let's feel like we need to win.
It's time to win, you know?
Yeah.
Maybe I can win.
Let's go, we need to win.
It's time to leave.
I'm going to have to put else to make it to playoffs from now on.
Yeah, we got to say yes.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
It's a tournament to make it to playoffs.
So NAP is potential, the 9G team,
come up ranks as potential?
Yeah.
Maybe NAP.
They're going to do the good old strategy
of losing before playoffs so that they can go into playoffs.
Fear, yeah. I don't know why I just have a feeling.
Yeah, fear of what it costs to be making big banks.
And you're an OT, and someone could be giving you 30 kills for your...
I mean, there's not a lot of players that could do that.
You're one of them.
I'm just...
What's the money out there?
Obviously, yes.
Punk?
Maybe.
Or is it wool?
Definitely, yeah.
I don't know.
It's not one of me to get over it.
It's not going to be him.
I think that having pre-opened, that's a big possibility.
It's going to be even two-up.
Well, we have anything like nine, three, and that's two, you know?
Yeah.
And then we go to the south.
Yeah.
It has happened to us, and we have not done it.
I hope so.
I love when Grandfather and I play five maps.
I must say yes, just because I want it to happen.
For me, it's like a 50-50.
Three-one for someone, I call it nine.
I think it's like a 50-50, 3-1 for someone I could hit now.
3-0, 3-0.
We are in the view of the 3.
You never know which of the first moves.
Yeah.
How about we make our own predictions
what if someone does a shooie in the crowd?
Someone goes for a knife kill,
but ends up getting shot.
There will be an in the fuse in the playoffs.
In the fuse in the playoffs?
Yeah, I think that's a good one.
I would put my money on this one.
Me too.
Leave it to Jame and ParaVision to always find a way to fight back.
Five rounds consecutive to close out that half.
And unfortunately it just felt like Mikase wasn't finding the duels he wanted
to kind of dominate this game.
Over towards Banana we had this Jossle back and forth.
The economy decided the momentum opening for ParaVision
and they didn't let go from that point forward.
Yeah, it was less so I think, you know, the opening duels and stuff like that
because Navi got a lot of those, more like those middle late situations
that got ParaVision back into the half. Then they started to gain confidence. That's when
they didn't stop winning.
Utility for the pistol here on Novi's side. Again, we get a crawl towards B, much like
the ParaVision move, but that was when Alexi was understaffing the B site with just himself.
This time we've got a numbers lean by ParaVision and a beautiful tap, seemingly from
Yellow got a little more utility to work with because they an opening deck once more yellow trying to collect a second
Just gets over a bit of space. Oh the Nate break works against them
It winds up finding the headshot. Do they get a plant off? They're gonna put that down even with the B retake
Coming into place. It's wonderful. You're just try to stop up. It's on the other side of the CT smoke
He meant killing yellow meanwhile wonderful awkwardly between the bursts
It's cleared out from banana empty-handed and so Sway's Beretta's on half HP starts to move forward and we know Belgium
Oxford big
Not by God they've done it
They've won a pistol round in this series. It took a full house with a bit of Emma there to put that one together
Now it's a one-round game
back to back maps always somebody new who can take the wheel on Navi
to do with it anyway.
Very few deagle shots ring out, but it is enough to get them to move.
Bomb is still sitting bottom middle though, so I wonder how Paravision are going to respond
to this inevitable scouts.
They're not going to...
Oops.
That's a pretty bad smoke miss.
Oh, surprise you missed that.
I'm not able to keep myself small.
Probably feeling like his time is limited.
Just how much he hears rumbling in the B site.
Miss stack by para vision.
Yeah, good luck with this.
Not one of those floor spies either, Murr.
You just go ahead and get to save much.
They just don't want to give up the money for dying at this point.
The buy on the other side of this round regardless.
Maybe they do.
Ooh, okay.
Click the wheel shots.
That's the kind of game that bits have.
Where do you put the likelihood that a Navi T-side just runs away with this game?
I wouldn't think about running away based on what we've seen so far in any of the hats, but...
I'm not sure if paravision leaves means much. I'll say that.
See what sort of pace comes into the next round with the buy that Navier left over with due to the lack of struggles in that round.
Still a couple of Mac 10s on the field.
You know, back on Dust2, opening kills can matter, but it doesn't have the same impact as an opening kill on Inferno.
If you take someone out early, whether it's A or B, those rotations are so complicated, so annoying to have to reorganize yourselves around.
round. It's an eclectic collection of guns here for ParaVision. It's interesting to put
the spotlight on the pause after the first half because he can beat the maker break now.
Blash banks keep this presence constant and they weren't able to actually collect their
grenades on the fallback here. Great catch. Under equipped with the utility here are
ParaVision for a second. That's a little bit awkward for them.
that smoke does for the time being turn knobby back it could literally just walk
into this but I don't know what's coming man let's see like you look at a map
like this for a pair of vision they're not getting enough info on be on a
sometimes they still managed to figure these situations out but it's a
cardinal sin you give up all of car you have no info no push anywhere else no
rotations over clean dodge by nota keeps that pressure on but doesn't
actually land his utility where anybody is standing this frag grenade if well
placed could soften up Navi nicely but be careful of timing here I don't really
believe it that's why no one else has come over another smoke goes down well
timed but there is still 35 on this clock frag grenade will chip away at a
lexie but now that the utilities run out for Navi they're just gonna come
through with the commitment and no to lock into the depths of this bomb site
gets gunned down by Ena his support was cut off by that coffin smoke so no
on the bomb plant four before retake demanded a pair of vision if they want to go for this friend
We've got an auto shotgun retaking mid right now. This thing's coming in slowly
Finds any fight. It'll be versus big boys banana
Oh changes things
Belcher knocking chain collect the double kill and as this draws bit closer to the bomb site
It also gives the empty space needed its way to get that shotgun ever closer wonderful down to 30 health
It's an auto-shotty versus wonderful back sight.
He's closed the gap on up to do it.
He wraps the kit, jumped on bomb, and will put
Paravision in the lead.
He grabs it with the auto-shot gun.
Can't dance around that emo pillar and get away from him.
But if not for those kills on the CT cross,
you think Bitt still stays towards banana,
and that shot gun's never going to get to the bomb site.
You get the two-gate from the back of the site.
The one kill here, I mean, Belgium not getting his kill from CT as well.
He really could have just talked, there would be no way.
Okay, I guess the game's not over.
I bet you they don't even eat breakfast together.
get again banana set plays it's very difficult for
Paravision even think about taking a position there with how many Molotovs hit the ground as a spawn but wonderful survives
Five HP and sure you're faced with utility
But what sort of numbers are beyond this smoke that would not be want to figure out and all go belt you're not
Scammed through with the trick to Mikaze. They're playing with fire like they keep wanting to get a little extra
But this is looking like enough to actually shove Paravision out of it
They know how good they played to get that retake going last round, but they also know like they won't strike twice
So tucked tail and running away for the save
That's again where you have to pay attention to those entries
And like look at where the X's are on the map, right? I mean you want to you want to see paravision fighting
somewhat towards car to make sure that
They get the info early enough you shouldn't have like three healthy players
that could have moved a little sooner if your two teammates who were on beat did a
decent job of delaying even if they only get a kill but that's exactly what
Navi should be trying to exploit the fact that para vision they play the
perimeter of inferno they gamble scotch block they sometimes have great
breath but
sometimes they're just fine to take a risk they're just fine to assume it's
One site, save on the other.
This is a five health difference by the way.
And on Noda's best days, it feels like that kill happens in a split second.
But right now, this awkward duel, it's enough for Navi to run away with the momentum of the follow through into B.
It's going to parse these timeouts down to one apiece.
It's helping MacAusie with his settings.
There's no mutations.
It's going to be really interesting to look at the scoreboards when this series is done.
For the good and the bad for, you know,
The bits and the nodes.
For once, Navi are just slightly further back. They've been so quick to get onto these angles.
That Nade would have done damage to the previous rounds, but it's minimal from a cause it to have to stomach.
It's just option reduction once you start out the round in your site, but because they
want to try to, you know, sometimes jamming around like this, they're going to try to
boost him.
They'll try to boost him.
They'll try to move him around.
Knows better than to stick around.
Looks to find a line into the sites.
I did see a sleeve.
The game really fell back off that, huh?
Goes all the way over towards CT spawn.
Yep, and it's coming up lane now.
There's three CTs here, good crossfire.
See if that AWP can find an angle.
Tello's lucky to be alive.
There's still a light below the mix, right?
That Galil on the way collects one.
Jay, fucking Tiz!
No answer!
Are you kidding me?
And he gets a single kill!
Lamps to the slaughter with advantages across the board.
Peruvian have no business winning this round of all the rounds they've lost
Not a single frag I mean I knew the setup looked good, but
Like clockwork these CTs taking tools off of one another's contact
Yeah
Well, well, well, that makes the game really interesting.
That's a lot of money here for paravision, but thereby, let's just go to tech nine on this one.
Forcing them to spend everything they have coming into round 18.
That one was, you know, all a cart, they could have taken it B, they could have gone A, they had worked the map properly.
What an anomaly.
Yeah, you almost never see that.
Ramakaze, tip of the spear.
But how many times do you let this go?
And how many times is it going to cost you?
Dropping a smoke.
I don't think Navi are going to respect it.
Gov at the tempo that they're playing with this one.
But Nova finds the lineup challenged through.
Beltranar gets away with the single steal.
No time.
That's it.
Head shot to Eme.
Working with less health, but still able to catch two.
But Pitz allowed them to go by.
Oh, they catch, he's going to miss the shot!
Oh my God, it got past him!
The stakes are being made!
Oh, we used to call this bit for a note.
And it's been a great map apart from that.
At a one-round game, you would have had Jane Dead to rights.
You knew damn well Zway just went running right by you.
This isn't like bits at the bottom of the board and underperforming.
He's their best player right now. That's a pretty unfortunate spray. We'll call it that
But it also was kind of round the finding he was in a perfect lurk spot
He almost wishes he was closer to that
Mounted that exit so he could take the first kill sooner, but he was granted almost an even better opportunity
We really have to do that on slow motion.
That one's going to leave a sting.
It feels like James God has answered a round prior.
We're not one player from Na'Vi gets a kill with opportunity by Bitts.
And a big problem with the game plan for Na'Vi is when they're attacking into B,
they are constantly dying through the CT smoke.
They're constantly fighting back through smokes and getting killed.
When they need, they're trying to go for a little bit more.
Look where this has put things. Double digits first by ParaVision, a boon to the economy, they've got so much cash.
But whatever's left of this map, and a free BQ'd up here in round 19, well played Snape, Slavie!
Slavie, on the approach to that A-bomb site, and suddenly it feels like there is no guarantee for Navi
that this will get close again.
This is a massive grind for ParaVision, very impressive that they even took it this far.
But now this league's becoming huge.
It's a pair of vision that was trailing two rounds to five at the start of this game.
We were on pace for like a 10-2 half out of Navi.
But the economy buckled underneath them, allowed for Jame and PeraVision to just get that string of victories.
And they won a 2v4.
You go back to Dust2, it felt like we didn't see a mistake.
And now they're starting to rear their ugly heads.
One too many times for Navi to really stomach.
They're back in with buys.
The ParaVision, two from victory on map two,
and a decider map needed while Navi's still
trailed by three.
and james feeling freed up to try to make the opening move
not being able to find the comfort zone clearly our navi one of their map picks this tournament
and Navi at one.
And we're slowly getting further away from the banana fights that kicked this half off.
No longer are things on fire and instantly.
Every time you pause at about a minute,
like you look at the map and you're like, I'd rather be Navi.
There's two players on A, they've just breached brackets.
All the last rounds they take full B control. They have two players in the site
The only really ran into that stack on that
Op ego or whatever
Problems start when the guns and the bullets start flying and this one again
They sent television management right for the short play away
Just alley-oops himself quick reposition into the side of pit Belchinov draws attention now
He's got two players
They're stalling out, startering.
On the clear of this corner, they'll eventually get there,
but already you've got Jame on the scene.
Although Alexi's been given space with insight,
bit gets the warning, but Yellow's able to capitalize
on that name, has got Alexi's name on it for map points.
So good from the anchors, so good from the rotators.
In terms of being in the right spots,
Navi have a great start to the round.
But pair of vision, as you pointed out,
right when the gun fight start happening,
the ones coming out ahead every single time. And a nice search here on Banana. That was a rare look
from Jamie. Might not have expected anybody to be peeking cars for the past a minute.
Suffocating pressure once paravision rotates in.
got red chick by for
nobby to try to stave off victory here with the boost flexing the advantage
she knows damn well the television has this is gonna catch the and the call
Oh, he saves it!
Immovable, it's gone!
These casted spells.
He's everywhere.
And not missing shots the entire time.
Belginock queued up to close this.
Two players lie ahead.
But they have found a bit of a gap to try to pressure.
Noda's got it handled, at least with the one.
A desperate act to close here on map two
It was wonderful 68 health and a 1v5, only 1 kill deep already.
You'll try to find mistakes.
Paravisions should have learned their lessons from these sorts of situations.
You'd think never could it happen twice.
And so it was, not today, not tonight, not here on Inferno.
Not be an inability to close as the economy in the first half opened
the door for Paravision.
And the one thing you don't wanna do
when the boogie man comes hunting
is leave that door open.
That's a wild response out of Paravision after Dust 2.
And after the first half,
it was a massive grind,
each and every one of those rounds.
And you mentioned, could Navi walk away
with the second half?
They absolutely could.
They found just as many good positions there
and yet could not close any of them.
Worst case, this game should have been 13-10.
Finally Rotterdam, we get a three-map series here in our second semi-final.
I'm here with Paravision's coach Dastin.
They took your map, you take their map.
What were you saying to the team in between those two maps?
I said that we need to play at a bit more good level of CS and we can win because
The score was close on us too.
On Inferno, I think they had good adventures.
They had B-sides, we won one retake on B-side.
Also, we won one A-stack.
And these two rounds helped us on CT side.
And after that, it was pretty easy.
Can you close this out on Mirage?
I think we can.
That's the blood.
Thank you.
Good vibes and encouragement from coach Dustan there.
PaiVision really needed it and it felt like again they came in stronger than anyone would
have expected.
But now you did preface map number two, Navi's map pick with a stat.
But Navi on always going into their own map pick with an advantage.
It's just never been clean this year for Navi.
Again, over half of their own map picks in 2026 have gone the way of their opponents.
And that's despite winning an ESL Pro League, being on a 7-match win streak.
So it's just honestly par for course.
I think that looking at Nari in this game, they came off from a good start.
We actually thought that it was going to be over.
They were just going to clear it out.
They take that good play start they show from Dust2, bring that into the further.
But it seemed like something was slipping up for them.
We did see a lot more individual mistakes.
We had been having a really big blunder sitting and trying to kill a guy coming from behind
and also to answer the plant situation.
They would go for some questionable decisions, they would fight it out instead of playing
it together.
It would feel like Navi was more in a position where they wanted to finish the game and
just get over with it.
I still think that Navi is the favorite going to the third one, but it's like I want
to see more consistency on Navi.
They shouldn't be looking this bad on their own map pick because they can do it a
a lot better than they already shown.
And I mean, even the guy on the screen right now,
James, you know, he's making it hard for them.
That's for sure.
But the issue right now is that Navi
has just given them way too much space
to give them way much too many opportunities
of actually bringing it back.
There's also something to be said, though,
that Pirate Vision may be making space for themselves
where they aren't really able to,
when Navi wasn't really able to take anything
for themselves.
So Pirate Vision having a number of great rounds
for themselves.
And the way that we coined them
Now he disciplined textbook feels like those are the recurring words of what they are.
Yeah, no, without a doubt.
I mean, that's kind of been the way that Paravision have won so many of these.
I mean, we had the final round in this half, especially you just see.
This is okay.
Yeah.
Actually, did you get this one?
I'll get it.
Yeah.
It's more just the fact that, you know, that they go for this very look at the clock
right now.
They do move up with very fast, you know, get the traits up and you see that wonderful
he really wants to try and stay alive in the pit.
What I actually was interested about is that
when Mikasa does actually have very big flight,
he's so unsure of where they are.
He thinks they're still a guy in pit
and he's looking for it, looking for that last player.
He just talks sight.
Like Delta like is just sitting back side
just needing to show himself.
And that one just showcases once more
how good perversion is at, you know,
keeping them gazing, keeping them hiding behind the side
and always making them doubt themselves.
You know, I think there's so many players,
so many players in that heated situation.
would have thought let's let's go for the peak three two one we go fight him but
they just talk he just talked and they believe that what they have just
created it's gonna pay off for them it's something that's very hard to replicate
but they do time and time again there's a lot of situations like that where it's
just the para vision players understand in every single situation whether
they're in the dark like their opponents are in the dark or whether
they should be playing together whereas Navi in this game a couple times
it felt like they just thought we have to play together almost at the
cost of them maintaining an advantage in the round,
whereas Paravision players, they understood the call there
is roughly play two 1v1s.
That's just what you say when you're
in a post plan like that, where Makaase
is flying completely blind on that retake.
I agree.
You remember?
I like it.
So I know I was hoping maybe a little bit of a pushback.
We'll see it there because in that round number 12,
it was one of those things.
Of course, I shouldn't know it.
Now he wasn't going to be like,
this was anything to do with Makaase, right?
He showed up as he could.
But even sometimes your heroes and your idols, Maui,
falter a bit.
I'm going to cope for Macaulay.
OK.
OK.
Please.
The game plan for Navi was extremely frustrating
while watching this one.
Yeah.
The fact that they constantly sent him out on missions
to try to fight for banana space
through all of the utility.
And think of all of the T side plays
where he's running through a smoke
as they are testing the utility of Paravision.
I understand that they're trying not to run the clock
all the way down.
And then you go into a bomb site,
You don't know if it's a three man or a four man stack, but at the same time they didn't allow or knobby on that hand
They didn't allow with their star player to get fair fights
He was always running in first as he was trying to burst through a smoke test the limits of what he could get away with first
Paravision, but I would say that almost all of his fights were 80 20 favorite for the Paravision player
Yeah, and it's it's always this this case that how much do you want to put in effort and setting up your style plan?
You know we've talked about how good my car is how much space he also gives and you know it it literally comes down to the game plan
Or after all right and looking at blade
I think blade also had occasion where he didn't look too satisfied
I think the score under this point is five five and you know
He doesn't seem happy. He doesn't seem like he's actually satisfied with what their place in putting up
And that could be the case of my car
So at least he's not following what they were supposed to be doing or at least to just miss playing situation because they might have a game plan
that hey my cousin you're supposed to be doing this but right now you didn't do
this you're not doing things that we've already agreed on and you know I put all
my faith in play that he's supposed to be cooking up what's actually gonna be
gonna be the plan forward for the team but he did look happy in this
scenario and I agree because they had like a really good start and it
really felt like they shifted into a position where they just you know I
wouldn't say they were pissing around away but at least we're giving up
rounds way too easy or at least giving up that like they didn't play out
the situation the way they should be doing.
Too fair.
Is Blade really an easy person to read?
No, was that something that felt like it was extra
on the disappointment scale for him?
I just felt like he's probably talking about understanding.
To me, the big theme, if I were Blade in that,
is understanding when you're in positions of power
and reading your opponents properly.
There's moments in this game, for example,
where Navi were in a four-on-four post-plant.
And instead of waiting the entire time out,
because Paravision were just considering a retake,
They go for a double swing into CT spawn.
And I don't even know if Paravision
were truly gonna go for that round back
until they got those two kills
and then everything just activated
in the direction of Paravision.
And I felt like Blade probably saw those kinds of moments
where he realized his team is maybe doing one too many things.
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah, just being a little too extra
when you could just sit back
and wait for them to make the next move.
Yeah, it's like they're waiting for that mistake.
And you know, when you go up against James
and his spot of Paravision,
they're waiting for that mistake.
If you give them anything, they will play off of that, you know.
That was also the case, and we even had a situation where they were going off of the A-bombs.
I think it was around 17, you know.
At this point, you know, this is a must win round for Navi.
But again, you can see that Jane has saved the AWP.
You don't really know where he is.
I don't necessarily think what Navi is doing here is bad.
They use a lot of utility.
They go for the trades, but once they don't get the first kill, they just fall apart.
Jane gets a kill, Sway picks a lot of them, and then fights from pit as well,
and they end up losing this round by not even getting a single kill.
I don't necessarily think Navi did something like extremely bad here, but it's just against Joseph composure of a parry vision
They keep the guns like he saves a lot. He keeps the gun. He keeps him guessing and it's sometimes it's also just hard to know
You know breakthrough sometimes those kind of rounds look a lot different where the attacking team throws the utility
And they more or less can wait suss out the situation break it down a little bit more cleanly
But again with 40 seconds left or so on the clock Navi just say to themselves
We have to spring into action. I think that's the fit the fear that Paravision instills in you where you just think if they if they we make a
Single footstep it's gonna be four guys on the bomb site
That was the case but it still lacked a lot of composure when they were entering the first guy looking completely
Backwards for example when he has a rifle if it's a map 10
I get it like yeah, you could just jump all around flames
He makes that kind of his signature move lately, but running in backwards with the rifle. Just look ridiculous
So those things that they still get to kind of enjoy it, even if it is ridiculous.
And that's one of the things you got to make bold moves if you want it to work out.
A little two bold for Nafi here.
And instead, PariVision end up tying the series.
Won a piece and for the first time in our last Investive 3 here at Ahoy Arena,
we finally get a map number three.
That's going to look at Mara's just off the spray.
a map number three. It's
took its time, but finally
we're going to get one here at
Ahoy Arena. That makes everyone
excited, but more so than
anything, a pirate vision going
to be able to keep that going
for themselves they won the most recent nap navi can they dance back it feels like one of those teams
that has a pretty strong mental fortitude to pray i definitely believe so i think when you look at
now like you look at navi you also look at mirage it's been one of the picks that they've been the
most comfortable playing it played a massive role in their victory run over the pill so for now would
you have mirage as a third one that that's comfortable for them it's not a map that they
feel like they can't really play it's a map where they know and they have a lot of these
like they have a lot of uh like answers to what perishing might throw at them well at
And at the same time, Caravish had great games against the Falcons, you know, they really
showcase the composure and I believe that it's not going to be an easy one, I think it's
going to go down the wire and I think that both teams will come in swinging for this
one.
The last three month win rate for Navi on this map has looked a little bit less exciting
than you would remember back in 2024 when they were just dominating everybody on this
map and that's what I'm going to say.
This is not a foregone conclusion for Navi, even though I like the squad, even
though, I have so much trust in what Blade and Alexi have been putting together.
Sometimes their T sides get some. Sometimes the teams that are playing
against them are all too aware because Blade and Alexi wrote the book of how
to play Mirage recently in CS2. Everybody has studied them to a T
with a map three that is always coming with the fact that they have to
knife for which side that they want to go on. And I got the information
for you. Navi won that for themselves. They pick CT side to
stop. Thank goodness. I have not always loved the T sides for
Navi lately, but on CT side, man, they could be dynamic. They
could be active. If they lose space towards mid, I love their
reactions in the mid round the way they can get aggressive in
Palace at ramp. I feel like so many times they're not
actually just flying blind through the round. And the
thing is that if any of their players are in a joker
position on a bomb site, it so frequently happens that they
guess right they have that extra line of defense para vision players they got to
just play nearly perfect even if you get two or three kills in that site there
might be another waiting and they will allow you to be more aggressive allows
you to push for information and I think that that specific information is very
important for now they need to go out and search they need to go out and
throughout what is happening inside the map and and where para vision is
heading so they can possible things together put themselves in the
comfortable situations and set up you know relying too much on the
individual because we know that a team play of knowledge really that in
And specifically in the CT side, that really comes to conversion.
So now we're starting CT side, that's a pause in my book.
It's not like though just starting on CT side is going to give you that one.
You're still going to have to push yourself.
You're still going to have to match the patience and the discipline of paravision if you're
on na'vi, right?
But a lot of people out there, they were cheering for Jane.
What do you think some of his wise words were for paravision?
I feel like paravision have already proven to themselves that they can get this
one over the line.
the way that they play this map too. I think they also need to hold strong on the fact that
T-side can get a little bit hairy for both of these teams, but I will say that even
James's reactions in particular on this map, when he switches in that second after the defense,
are impeccable. The amount of nades that they have stockpiled to break and to keep information
for their mid control, it makes it so hard to be as crafty as Navi want to be.
It's been 2-0, off the 2-0, off the 2-0, but finally for our last semifinals we get a map 3, it's going all the way on to Mirage.
Yeah, we get a map 3 because we need a map 3 and it's perfect that it's these two teams to do it Mohan.
We knew at the start of the day that it would be difficult to separate them and now like Maui Steak just mentioned it's tough to get into your game when Jamin Paravision are on that other side.
We have Mirage. It's got to be the best way to end this.
It should be a fun fire. He finished between these squads.
And there's a second chance for some players to show us what they've shown us so far at this event.
New players taking the reins each time we see Navian Paravision play.
We want to see those headshots. We want to see those highlights.
We want to see Rotterdam on his feet.
Because this is where the semifinal ends.
This is where somebody has to make a difference.
We call this an unlikely opportunity for paravision.
Navi know they could have outright won that last map with the amount of good positions they found, but that does not matter.
Once again, feeling to close their map pick.
They let it go down to the wire.
Oh, Breda's ready, collects a second.
And then already with a player down on the footwork,
it's Zello to try to give that space over for the others
to come and join him.
And Alexi doesn't force the issue, so Zello will.
Take that fight on his terms.
E-Met emerges.
Low health for the T side.
And Navi have control of the bomb site.
Navi had another pistol.
And they kick off with a pistol.
Eventually that's going to catch up with you.
We're in the final hours now.
There might have been some kind of mental struggle back on Inferno, where, again, that's
bad about their map picks that V-Tran's brought up.
Because they otherwise played well in two-thirds of each round.
It's a weird time for a stat like that to come out because it's not, you know, obviously
not the team you'd think of like that.
At least not this year, maybe, right?
So we're different.
Yeah, just when I believe.
But hey, there's still the semis and still got a couple of players and the highest
rated players of the events and they've still got an edge after this first round
on Mirage. I feel like it's got to be notice time to come alive. If he, I mean, if not,
it's nightmare fuel for him this evening when he gets back to that hotel. If he has three
maps with zero impact, I'll say it. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing though. He can,
he can be cold for a day. It's nice to be cold for a couple. He can suddenly pop
off out of nowhere and that's just what they have to have happened now.
Clocks group up. Take a challenge towards the B site. It'll be a good chance for Alexi B to make some money.
Alexi B and Mikaze. Expect them tethered. This is Mikaze. Happy to deal with this one.
Yeah, easy. And no exit for Paravision, but that's fine. They've always got a plan for the follow-up.
We just want one to try to send a message, but Navi, again, pretty quick too.
And I think that's one of the nicest things I saw if we go back to map one, right?
That's where Navi really shined, was just in their willingness to pounce on rotations.
The support was always right there to come and help out.
And I'm curious if Mirage is going to reopen the possibility of those kinds of electric rotations.
got me a pair of vision the way that they were rotating in in that second half as well was
also impressive they both make a lot of money off of that round as well as make sure they
don't lose anybody but one the servants had a lot of big plays in a lot of misutility
What's up with that? I don't know about that, but I like that. I like that combo, actually.
Yeah, the highlights keep coming.
There's gonna be some more mistakes going.
Oh, here's an active move out a bit.
Doesn't feel like you really see him go into the palace this early into a CT side.
Always has a willingness to go test it, but round three, first gun round,
and he's already got himself a deep position.
So opens the door for that rotation that we talked about.
With utility still trickling out of paravision towards middle, that's going to still keep E-Met preoccupied.
Wonderful as well, towards connector. We can see Grenade coming out of both of them all while this full-blown execute starts to hit the B-side.
McCauset, well-controlled. He loses his teammate without a frag.
Alexi B going down, opens the door for E-Met. Fast to take that challenge.
Always staying active.
James drops.
And he shows it, but James doesn't notice.
And so James starting to inch closer towards the garbage can as Ema remains on top of it.
James will pounce on that.
Ema doesn't know that maybe he gave that away and Noda's right here now to try to help
wonderful closes the gap.
What?
And he misses his chance to find kills.
This has been the story all night long.
Yeah, he just wants to take the fight, but he's letting him get closer.
Finally puts wonderful to rest.
Bittin' the meantime slips the net.
Inches ever closer.
Catches him off guard and finishes James.
Noda, you got to deliver with a huge health advantage.
Bits on the pistol!
Oh, it's on!
For nothing to maintain control, just spike the costs,
and go up for EO.
Fall back to the USP.
And Noda's positioning gets read like a book.
That was not a confident-looking Noda on that first duel.
And again, that's what we've been talking about.
I can understand where the confidence is gone after the first two maps of play tonight.
The third one becomes a clutch, but the B defense overall was still good even.
Man, the stats that are being used against ParaVision aren't going to paint a very good picture.
And it's another farm-up round here for the CT side if Paravision aren't careful.
At least No-Till recovers James Gunn.
But the way Alexi, you know, he's not a Starfrager, but he knows he's like the best in the world when it comes to playing B in terms of
when he uses utility, how he falls back. It's so hard to catch him on his jump spots and everything like that.
So if you can set up a cause, and he gets two kills,
That really sets the stage for a play like Ima jumping in and finding a third, making
something of that.
There's a good find for Noda.
So we need, that picked up AK finds Mikaze, who loves to be the star of the show nowadays,
but to the wayside in round four.
It's not playing inside a palace, it's on the color.
into deep ball reminds the head shot that's no
the deal with so pistols all the
left and those pistols still pack a punch
yellow may not have those opening kills
but he's got himself to in this round
low HP those could have served problems
and Zello triple D grounds and the
pressure is on easy elo as
parent of vision hit their firsts
there's those T side duels that we're
looking for from Yellow. A fast action clutch. Two Deagle shots to open up. That round was
It's supposed to be finished.
Played immediately on it to try to stop the bleeding.
Notes are catching that one headshot over towards Katwock.
That put a question mark towards connector.
It was dealt with nicely, but look at this sequence.
Man, that's a 2v4.
Wasting no time at Ziello.
Straight to that deagle.
Straight to the top of stairs.
And straight to a questionable situation,
Gwonabi as they limp into this one.
With an MP9 and a pistol in the mix,
that is a huge moment for Ziello
to leave his mark early on in this D-side.
We're about to make up a huge amount of economy
off of this, but again, some of the things,
You get the opening duel there for Navi.
Contact, bottom con.
Second player piece, it gets his.
Eman's got a double.
And even with lots of weapons, it's still just all too easy, Navi.
He goes, go both ways.
Oh, the utility down.
Every good gun taken out.
Make control for the CT side, they didn't even have a lot of guns.
And it's such a patient set of kills here from Ema.
from the bottom of connector on the cat not even a spray transfer
I don't know what para vision we're hoping for taking connector like that
but it sure as hell wasn't bitten email combining for three kills open duals
straight down con it's hard to say if they wanted it too quickly or not I
mean didn't really see any missed utility in that spot
But the play doesn't care about the fasts.
That round one, that one's done, or moving on to the next one.
Get so patient.
And Windows not smoke as they're approaching, so I'm not sure
if that smoke just finished or they haven't actually put one there.
Lucky themselves to have won a round with lesser weapons.
There's still something to play with in this one,
and they're not gonna over complicate things
immediately set up for the a-hit.
So, Zillow, go do that again.
Let's see if he can.
Heaven Chain with the AKs this round.
Pop it open, the smoke's gonna challenge that.
Zillow gets the hand at this time around,
and that's gonna be a cause for concern here for paravision.
It's also a cause for the pause,
but only momentarily, they're still able to cross over.
Bit of spray coming through from the defense,
But not necessarily damage behind it.
Now a T smoke as well towards connector.
That gives space over.
It's Waze MP7.
Starts the challenge.
His support system here towards ticket.
Still not beyond the rebound.
Notice on the response.
You get the trade.
And a slick moving bit comes through with a triple.
It's been all day.
He's mad.
He's coming in for the retake early.
It's good use of the pressure.
Ima blows open the jungle smoke
because they know that Paravision, even if they're going to try to pretend this is some kind of full A-hit,
they can't re-smoke everything.
They have to scale quickly and get that bomb down as soon as possible.
So, we have that broken open, you have the CTs putting pressure at the same time.
It's great that Paravision even find a plant in this spot, but quickly we're into a 5-1 game for Navi.
Paravision going to keep these buys up though, coming in with something to work with,
trying to keep that pressure on Na'Vi despite the round counts being so skewed.
It is his round go by. There seems to be less and less for paravision to work with.
Bomb is left in spawn as they start to take over middle.
Getting positioning down towards bottom connector, but it's E-man to take the fight on his terms.
And No-Tuh tries to challenge.
He's out of there.
Shrews 1, Tech 9 shot opens the door for Wonderful to turn around with the information.
And even though Jane may be tucked into this ladder room, what's he really gonna get done from here?
Balm remains in spawn here for paravision.
They can all grab this, I mean, at the very least, Jane knows that they're not thinking about him.
So, they want to try to make this some kind of B-play.
Jane can get in the mix.
Belchernok and him are 1 and 6.
Really doesn't feel like Mikaze is concerned about this timing from Jane.
Kind of depends what happens here, but he's pretty protected from the apps.
That gets spotted because he turns around.
Here's the chance.
James strikes, tech nine into the upgrade.
Alexi B is able to hold his own.
Tries to just hang on to the killer.
It's a pistol for Peltier knock versus four.
Tries to get off site and that's just not going to happen.
They're covering everything.
Sure.
James positioning good for the kill with the element of surprise.
But Navi will not stop racking up the round wins.
It's just more good rounds.
It's more good starts.
It's more good setups.
It's exactly what we saw in Inferno. Again, it didn't expect Fairvision to have to work so hard to pick up a map, but they did that, but we're just right back to not be looking extremely comfortable.
Auburn wanted a piece at middle.
Gives up 75 health instead.
Navi really contending for any kind of space
and not letting Paravision get into the comfort zone.
That's the kind of flavor they were giving us back on Dust 2 as well.
And as the lead grew, they started to make more and more confident moves,
so expect it to keep on coming.
Mikaze, 10 and 4, even 9 frags to his name.
bolstered here by wonderful who should be careful about taking a great bullet
they're trying to freak him out
they're going to bounce the shot straight into the b-site but mccase is good with the recovery
and alexis kept it clean once again
smoked the play around
but mccase steps into a duel to counter off picks up
alexis going to get the multi-frag this time
and it is always emat quick to the scene
out comes jane with the wide swing but he takes
90 damage
and that should spell disaster
what is the play he's making right now?
James O. Masterful in his push-pice!
They follow up and beat right there to trade!
It's just one piece too many for Navi to be toppled, a 7-1 lead.
They keep on in the past, the test-over on the B site.
They keep putting it to Mikaze, he's putting up.
Him and Alexi have that chemistry right now.
The holds have overall been solid.
And there's this huge gap on the empty pillar swing every single time a little delay happens
someone jumps out to default with the bomb they try to plant it they throw a piece of
utility and someone swings no one's ever covering it it's a little bit late to get
ahead of that now paravision all the rounds are lost Jesus every knobby stat we see has
has just been outstanding.
Well, the Paravision stats are concerning, to say the least.
Again, crazy that they have picked up a map,
but this is sort of more how the matchup feels.
Sometimes, though, Paravision goes beyond the numbers,
and they're going to need something
to work with on this T side.
If they're going to change this game's momentum back,
once again, E-Math challenging these smokes
to find the finest damage, and he'll do a whole lot of it.
There's Zello again.
That Diggle has been quite nasty, but Ema will collect the little that was left as yellow.
And while Wonderful misses an off-shot, that reopens the door.
Swayve, pouncing on that moment, unable to get the upgrade, wants to go to the ticket
control, but Mikaze's cover from over top of the stairs works out well.
Belchernock found on the side of Smoke and Jane just left out in No Man's Land.
But with No Man's Land comes the element of surprise.
They don't really know where he's at just yet.
He tries to jump on it, missed opportunity.
Mikaze executes from behind for another triple.
14 frags, five deaths to this star.
That's insane.
I was going to say, Bitz having an equally good map over here.
But Mikaze, he's getting tested on B.
Now he's delivering as a rotator as well.
It's a real race for impact from both of them.
At this point, between A and B,
which site would you rather go to, Paravision?
They're both pretty locked down.
It's insanely hard to make ParaVision look weak and yet they're doing it.
Miss chance for Jane.
Window player doesn't want anything to do with that.
Never mind.
Just a re-aggression.
Once ParaVision's departed, so this is Navi sucking up control of middle.
moment that jame leaves jumps top middle knowing damn well that anybody outside a
would hear that right wouldn't be surprised they just try to lean like map
quiet and paravision do full a attacks all the time
Yeah, there's a thing about going to that re-smoke.
Oh, hello!
Oh, okay.
That's a little out of position.
Mikaoze stays tucked in.
Here's a chance they're under balcony.
Zelo's adding them up.
That's two.
Will Mikaoze go unnoticed?
Because the AWPer could serve up a perfect distraction.
Bomb plant!
Can't get planted here now.
On the other side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They've lost this guard.
Mikaoze delivers!
Wonderful goes down, but at least he opened the guard.
For this!
From Menjah, marauding inside of this A site.
Jame on the other side of it, 17 and 5 is Mikase.
This fight is ascending to a whole new level.
From Menjah, he turns that into a 4K.
And wonderful, just one kill to take all the heat off of him.
An opener for Paravision, a 2K Verzello coming into the site.
But it activates him as a trap.
Clean life forward and just waits for the opportune moments.
Having a field day here on Mirage as Mikaze.
These last two rounds will be for dignity for paravision.
It's really hard to see the win right now.
He's stunningly rock solid CT side out of Navi.
It's a fresh sight to see Navi be this dominant.
And they are validating that pro league run with wins like these.
Cherubin can't even talk about the second half until they put something up here.
God, this guy!
Finally put down by Nozom, who's gonna try to pinch into the B site.
Alexi's been solid enough to open the door for a rotator to still come through with impact.
It's one or the other.
the other once again here on the scene wonderful not too far behind and we've
seen James clutch attempts and this one looking no different disease whittled to
10 HP rifles all around him James against the wall and Navi are not wasting
anybody's time the traits are inevitable no full A no full B it
doesn't matter the cohesion on the site players is too good
And the last time they tried to go mid, they lost to Pistols.
The score may not be enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, but it's just the quality
of Narvey here on the decider that starts to raise the stakes for tomorrow's grand finals.
You watch them flail around on Inferno, you would think, yeah, you know who wins,
but this is quality counter-strike out of what is turning out to be the number
Number one contender beyond vitality as 2026 unfolds the team that make a roster move and
then stick with it beyond doubters.
They see how it works.
They develop it.
They use blade from a promise of rookie mccasey is already looking like a veteran with the
way that he plays. Not even a year removed from when he joined the team.
Another chance to get active here in the final round of the half.
Swade catching one back to lead.
Good at Shuskin for wonderful.
Dried by out of Jane.
That's a gun to be grabbed off that walk.
Paravision with love.
The second down here, but Laffle's got other ideas.
The track in is beautiful.
Bit and 11 in short performance is going to track.
Swade down and the stars tonight for Navi come together.
World class CT side from Navi for an 11-1 lead.
A full year as a eSports player, it's a really counter-fracture 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 tournaments, having some fun, CSAT, you 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.
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 bootcamp before the first tournaments. In Navi we are
bootcamping quite a lot. We tend to have a bootcamp at the start of the season, at the end
of the season, before the major. And sometimes we might even have a bootcamp in the middle.
We have now grinded practice at home for two weeks, maybe two days off.
They 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 beat drums, 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 of days earlier,
you're thinking of what would have happened if we beat this team or win the tournament.
As appropriate, you need to fight, stay mentally strong.
You have to fix mistakes, you have to adjust.
We have to prepare for the next day, you go into the game and then you repeat.
This year it was pretty hard for us I would say because we had the bootcamp 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.
traveling a lot of countries, sometimes even back-to-back.
Now they're turning 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 Navi, we try to have the balance of not spending time 24-7 with each other.
When I'm close with EMA, for example, I'm close with MacAza.
We might spend more time with each other.
Overall, you're still gonna be in the practice room
with all of 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 I stop,
I have time for everything else in my life.
All right guys, hello. Quick question. Who will take this same match?
I hope Navi.
Yes, Navi.
Okay, let's go.
Navi! Navi, Navi of course! Navi! Navi!
Navi! Navi, for sure.
Paravision. Who will take this match?
Navi.
Who will take this match?
Navi.
I think everyone should ask Navi to match.
Sorry.
After a stubble back on map 2, it seems like Navi have led us to Mirage only to smash Paravision.
and to hear their organization's name
chanted here in the Ahoy Arena.
This is the type of CS that looks like it could swing
for another trophy lift.
They're playing exactly as they need to to be a threat.
If I tell it, you're watching this game, they can be impressed.
Barovision playing this game obviously have to be disappointed.
But more than that, they have to be scared.
They know they can make comebacks and they have in the past.
But 11-1 versus a team that's playing like Navi right now,
it's hard to believe.
They really can make teams choke, but Navi are also one of those teams.
They're not one of those teams that get scared when they get into quarters and semis.
Looking to step it up a notch in the semifinals.
Looking to turn ahead of a best of five versus Worlds number one tomorrow.
This is a Novi's whose hype train has grown off of the back of a pro league win, where
Vitality blessed the scene by not attending, but what you do when you do that is open the
door for somebody else to find confidence, to find form, and to grow in strength, which
we've clearly seen on display as Blast Open Rotterdam's gone down.
Now as the CT's scramble to get back over to the A site, Novi already knocking on the
door announced their intentions with that smoke inside the bomb bomb challenges
jungle and it works IMAZ forced to go back to try to eventually plant but this
thread over towards ticket no longer that much of a threat as you have
this control yeah they can just put this bomb down and they probably should
quickly zoe's flank coming in from ramp but it's not fast enough to stop the
bomb plant 4v5 retake demanded a pair of vision or the only thing left of
them will be a force by in the follow-up not be continued to tear
heads off but Zello and James trying to make this happen away from Six Health
will get his but the bombs the advantage you're planted for what's left of
Naughty a little bit laborer than that one but who other than Mikase to just
finish off what he started. What? But as they double back with Kit Zello's got
this. Paravision take a pistol and they will double their round counts. Oh he
got killed in the window could have dropped out of a connector. Waved the
time a little bit longer when they wanted to run him down that's
actually a great shot kind of goes under the radar and it's
because a who's 20 and eight they had to take him out.
So here's a real chart. It's kind of wild after taking window
control getting the bomb down when they did, which they took a
little bit too much time to do. There was any chance for
para vision to pull this back.
His way's head shot at a palace is the big one.
I
Look because they wins it like that on his hands and actually won that right so I could have
But I guess that's not how you get 20 kills in a half. They're gonna style point. We went staff from the window cell
I'm one more smokes to get missed. I want more mistakes. I
Mean, it's not like it's not like paravision could ever come back from this. They've never done that before
Yeah, because as impressive as Macaulay has been, there have also been supportive elements
from the other members of Navi in this domination of Mirage.
I mean, Ima's showed up now because it was wonderful back on map one.
Bit's been good every single map.
So yeah, lots of support.
This one does absolutely get dangerous.
got right side sight you know so it's not a terrible spot to be in but they're
kind of low in utility to slow things down they'll have to shoot their way back
perimeter of the A site's not a bad place to be two guys out through ramp
already bomb awkwardly gonna have to just try to jump for the site it's
literally just like no more eagle shots but Jane leaving from ticket actually
opens the door for a lexie it won't be they knew the ticket wouldn't be a
contest a lexie instead gets locked in with the fights oh okay why not rack
up the costs why don't you? J-mon jungle really careful with that inch closer and
closer so a third round for ParaVision here as their tournament life is on the
line. As their chance to show that they need to be taken as seriously as
another team that implements good systems. Which are so many parallels
between Navi and ParaVision coming into this matchup and for it to end on a
On a blowout, we'd be very damning for this head to head.
There's a lot of one-sided rivalries in Counter Strike.
You don't want to be a part of one of them, not on the wrong end of it.
Third round of the T side, Nobby have guns.
Yeah, they're best to keep the money quite low.
So, A only has an SMG, so it's causing so close to peakiness.
Nobby on the brink of victory.
Ooh, just got out of there before the smoke fades.
They look a touch rattled.
Even last round, like giving up a little bit too much space.
Like, how's that walkout even possible?
Bits like, give me a second.
Starts to get organized towards the connector.
I've just cleared out a lot of stuff.
There's no one on default, no one shot him from opposite firebox.
Jane Ferry concerned about it and has good reason to be.
If he's not careful at any moment, that peek comes out, but obviously Naughty has other ideas.
It is. He takes his timing. He set that up for himself.
Pounces on Belchinock, now the threat of Windo, and that's what he was looking for in the pistol.
Pure flash.
Stun angle. This time, headshot connects.
E-net.
Cut-wrenching. AK spray into the torso of Zelo.
This is a walkover.
No free entry allowed for paravision on this rotation.
Naughty is a dead man. If he tries to climb through this murder hole,
he's going to get chased down. You'd think Mikaze would have had that.
But where Mikaze falters, his teammates take up control.
Noto will be blindsided, pinched from both sides.
Navi don't waste time. The moment they've got guns in their hands,
they secure that 12th round on the board.
They needed a couple more rounds, I think, to believe in anything happening,
but right here it's too sharp.
That was a great play from Bid, an excellent shot from Mikaze.
Other two kills for Mima
Paravision in such a dire place with the buy that they have next
Beautiful patience out of this
Master of Palace
Man, they have thought this is about as bad as the biking. Yeah, I mean there's one literally arm of this goal
They're very long for me
to the top of Middles where they want to die on their sword.
The bombs actually back in spawn as they take the B site.
I mean respect the paravision to go for such an audacious move
and around like this when you have so little to work with
fight on your terms
fall on your terms.
Oh my goodness, is this the move?
They saw someone at the top of Connector, they did not see Jane.
But the bomb, the thing is Jane doesn't know the bombs in spawn.
He just thinks that's something wrong because obviously they haven't planted yet.
This guy can figure things out like nobody else and he talks in as Mikaze goes to clear it.
Can you believe the sorts of situation that Jane seems to materialize out of nowhere?
I got nothing to say. Is Mikaze even going to clear this? His teammates?
And of course, James found a gap.
Of course, still only 46 health to words, Yellow wants to go and
stack up on top of that bomb.
There's a world where McCauze could still come and rip this from Paravision's control.
Yeah, he's got to move quickly into it.
He wants a lucky kill.
Impressive doesn't do it justice for what McCauze has been able to do in
recent times in the Black and Gold Jersey.
And now Jane who has created the situation
will maintain the situation.
At least one round of the nine needed
for ParaVision's overtime hopes.
That's so beautiful.
I mean, that's what it looks like to play chess.
Again, he didn't even know that the bomb was in spawn,
but they didn't plant because he was pushing off of Cat.
So he gets in the middle of this.
He hides.
He even avoids M'kause clearing him.
Doesn't even know about this
because he thought about the option earlier.
like he never had any audio to make these moves what's wild there is email
comes in and clears the kitchen so you know he's kind of on alert but you never
think the guy would be talking about the door threshold Jane goes one step
further gives you a reason to believe
Let's hope his teammates can feel that same energy.
What a round to pull off when you mentioned they had so little coming into that and three
players run top middle.
Absolutely worst by possible.
Because it's a 1v1, it's not like this one's great either.
MP7 to get flash deep in, Sway's got a deliver, McAulay's blind! Nicely done.
Two-piece combo, offered up by ParaVision.
Big problem tackled, but they're still taking Cat, this is actually the right place still for Navi.
They figured out how to slice open the B site regardless of the lack of apartments controls.
Yellow looking to sign up for tools, he'll catch Alexi at least.
And then Sway tucks in with a deep off plant, ready to swing into Catwalks.
Yellow doing the heavy work for the time being.
And Zwayz can just remain tough in, prepared for his strike.
That upgrade from the MP7 looks good in his hands, as ParaVision will take a fifth round.
Only seven left to overtime.
That was so good from the back of the site.
They didn't need anyone get right, no early info off of Kat.
There was a smoke that came down the connector, so they knew they had to be worried about it.
But this tactic that makes better use of their SMG too.
The absolute easiest way to end this game was the last round.
This was also a chance.
Sway's now low.
One set of Kevlar on the field in bits.
Rue is getting himself through jungle.
No, that's caught.
Dolcanov feels with at least Sway took that early damage,
so not surprised to see him toppled.
So confidence, the paravision rotation.
It's gonna fall on Noza.
33 health for what's left of Novi.
33 health.
An impossibility that Alexi pulls this off
with just the Glock, but what if he finds an upgrade?
Suddenly the odds change. They're not pushing out to help them away. Okay, right there the entire time
Six rounds to overtime they can make those rounds close, but that actually doesn't matter. We saw what happened on inferno
They lost to the worst by possible the absolute minimum everyone was money broken on fifteen hundred bucks
They didn't even have utility.
Paravision are going to attempt to make this a long night.
This is that point of the game, when Nobby stand on the finish line and just haven't crossed it.
where ParaVision start to string rounds together, where coaches come into play.
And from the get-go, we have discussed the impact that both these great minds for Counter-Strike have had on these teams.
Double-op setups, the adjustment here for ParaVision.
I'm going to try to pull that out as Navi are expected to change things in an attempt
to end this third map.
How could these two ops possibly catch Navi off guard as now they have already taken over
a ton of mid control.
They got this A site absolutely surrounded.
You've got hit up in Palace where he loves to take duels on his terms.
It's a lot of space given back but you never, you never know.
They could be giving you that space because they want you to come.
This is big, this bolstered, jump little set up, Yellow getting through the murder hole.
That opens the door for No-Tag to just turn his attention towards connector instead.
But Yellow burnt down, 5 HP is not a lot to work with.
The cause is on the head hunt, but Bellshonk's the guy to step up.
Wonderful's on the rebuttal, 3 versus 5.
And it's not coming together for Navi just yet.
Wonderful and Alexi gonna have to do it themselves.
What a shot.
It's a great way to secure control of this side of the bomb site
where everybody else prepares and just juggles up.
And that spray could have done a ton of damage.
The bullets aren't going in.
So he weighs on this off.
Well, Lexi takes the high road, lands that on chain.
Got wrenching.
Man, it's a two-off retake into this position.
Wonderful.
Could cross in plans.
Navi hit that pause button.
But you know that time tends to be on ParaVision's side.
No contest, no challenge.
You'd think, show me the most one over there.
Still no bullets kill him.
Olexi, look how low they are.
You could do this with such a small spray.
Do they light up for him?
The one cross isn't a last one.
The one two run, the pair of vision continue to fight on.
I have never seen so many sprays do nothing.
Sprays in the CT, two players escaping, such low HP.
I can't even believe what we just watched even Alexi not just landing down 103 no problem
all happened to swing out two ops to have to scale up into this first kill for free
and it's a USP to win it.
Now, is Yellow coming into this deciding map?
He actually can't make this up.
That's had decisive moments.
I almost think if he's not on the sidearm is he moving fast enough to get past those
bullets?
first in the CT spawn versus players who are one bullet away from death and nothing lands.
Leave it to Paravision to have that thick of plot armor.
But it will need to be even thicker
to stave off what should be, should be the inevitable Navi close.
6-1 on this CT side or paravision. Challenge down to the underpass. It's gonna cost Nota.
Gonna make his job all the more difficult for the rest of this round.
Yeah, that hurts quite a lot and that's too boosted up so they know a little bit now.
Novi sends flooding the water towards his A site, else you knock another death.
This time goes down with nothing.
Jame has gotten one already, but it's Yellow to Klippi-Mack.
Now you've got Yellow just for it, and Jame burning out of the open.
Alexi's found a way back in, but look at the health now this time on Novi.
This is the best jazz.
Alexi a hundred, and Pnoda back to the bench.
Newell dead at the hands of Wonderful.
And Sway, who goes big on stages, needs to step forward into this clutch.
clutch and a wonderful survives the need to start.
They're shaking in their boots right now.
Zwei has pulled off one of the best clutches so far at this event.
This one will somehow have to be even better.
Not tonight.
Not with Lommie striking that sort of form
that they did in the first half of Counter-Strike.
This is a team that builds break by break,
that exceeds your expectations
and that now earns its place in grand finals
in a best of five versus vitality.
We got to see what was scary about ParaVision back on Inferno,
just a little too late.
But Navi, do they have the mental after this win,
letting ParaVision back into just a few rounds
that show us that they need to be perfect tomorrow
if they're going to stand a chance versus vitality?
Stockholm was an opportunity for Navi to grow
in confidence, in form.
And that opportunity was given to them by vitality,
the undeniable Worlds number one.
Will that chance, that space,
the respect that Navi now deserved
potentially cost them in tomorrow's grand finals?
Only two teams left at Blast, open Rotterdam.
All right, Navi, into our grand final.
Rotterdam, how do we feel about that?
I'm standing by with wonderful,
wonderful, that final map there.
Your opponent did start to mount a bit of a comeback.
Was there ever any nerves towards the end there,
despite you having such a strong lead?
I think it just rolled a little bit around us,
but it was often counter control.
They were getting a little bit nervous,
but in the end, the Phoenix suit.
But the mental stayed strong inside of the roster, of course?
Yeah. I mean, you personally,
you've had some amazing moments in this tournament.
Do you feel like you're getting better and better
and we might see the best version of you yet in the grand final.
Yes, why?
And confidence.
You're confident.
Well, let's talk about that grand final because it's going to be tough.
You're going up against what everybody calls
the greatest team in the world right now in vitality.
How do you stop them?
We'll try our best to stop them.
Of course, and I think we are confident in our game.
They're playing pretty good right now.
Tomorrow will be a banger match.
What do you think of this crowd just finally because they have been cheering you on every step of the way
and they're going to be here in force for you again tomorrow. Do you want to say anything
to the Navi fans here? Thank you guys. One more time for Navi.
I am with man of the moment in
Makaze here congratulations first of all on your victory Makaze. Thank you. Just got to say, okay
Third map excellent win second map probably not as you planned though. What went wrong there?
To be honest, I think
Inferno would be more easy if you wouldn't throw some runs for example
I think it was 5-2 we was leading I think and we lost four versus two like if it just hides
Or like just chill and don't push them
I think we would win that round because they would go for sale
But sometimes this is what it is
I feel like you guys though were able to really quickly correct in terms of what happened on mirage though
I mean that CT side was was just fantastic how that's kind of been a trademark of Navi even going back to before you guys on the roster
How do you guys think you reset so well between maps?
I mean we was working a lot this like with also with our psychologists like
It doesn't matter what is the score, we always believe in comeback.
Even if we lose the map, we go outside, we take fresh air and we are back
because we know like we can win them anytime.
So we were fully confident and we did.
Okay, speaking about the confidence, obviously,
topic has been lately just vitality, everybody else.
I feel like at this point you guys have proved at the bare minimum,
you're the best of the rest because you look at the teams like Falcons,
they're not here.
Spirit didn't even make it through the group stage.
Obviously, Mao's didn't either.
How are you perceiving yourself on Navi?
We are confident.
Like, we was working a lot to come here,
and we are working like every day.
We are practicing.
We are trying to fix mistakes.
So I think we are confident.
Okay, we got one round for you guys here on the Mirage game there.
And this is what I would just call, like, classic Navi.
The way that Bit comes out of Palace at one point,
as you guys are taking mid-control,
he's able to find the first pick here.
and then everything just kind of starts going in your favor.
How do these rounds work out for you, from your perspective,
where it just feels like it's such a complex round,
there's so much layering of utilities, so many moments
where you guys could strike or be the ones that are attacked,
but it just seems so frequently that it goes in your way.
I think it works really good,
especially with Valera took this entry kill for me to make more easy to go window.
Even though I missed the jump on window, he heard me,
but I knew that if I will swing him, I will kill him 100%.
So I also confident that I will kill him.
But it's working good.
How about your individual play?
Because at this point, you, I don't know if you know this,
but right now in all of CS2, you are the third highest rated
playoff player, playoff player.
So what do you think it is about big stage moments
where you just don't feel the pressure
and just play even better than you do in group stages?
To be honest for me, I don't feel that much pressure
because I'm from Koso and I was always playing
in PC clubs like our own people watching me while I'm playing.
So I'm already got used to it, for example.
But it feels good.
Like it gives me more motivation to play the game
when I see the crowd also.
So maybe that's why I'm better sense,
because I didn't check it.
OK, I guess that makes sense.
OK, and the last thing I want to say is Blade and Alexi.
We talk about them all the time when we talk about Navi.
I'm sure that they've helped you improve.
I feel like day one from you on this team versus now,
much more complete player. How would you sum it up? Are they helping you make decisions
about how to play mid rounds, late rounds? What is it?
Yeah, for sure. Like when I joined Na'Vi, I was playing Na'Vi Junior. It was like a
full different playstyle. And when I joined Na'Vi, like it was really hard for me.
Like I would say like especially two first months. It was so hard. But I got used
to it. I was working a lot with Andre with Blade and with Alexia a lot. And
I think they helped me a lot, as an individual player also.
You made an end.
Well, it's looking good so far, and good congratulations,
and good luck tomorrow.
Thank you.
May I begin the absolute pleasure of getting to have a chat
to his idol, his own personal MVP on Navi,
but I guess Alice for the desk is, of course,
going to be blade of that coach.
Hello.
Oh my gosh, what an intense map number three.
First of all, how do you keep yourself composed?
What's going through your head when you see the T-side kind of falling apart a little bit for Nave?
I usually try to focus a lot, not even on clutches or how they fix them.
Like, what is happening in the round, because what they did, how they wanted to fool us,
how they wanted to manipulate or something, like what was the idea,
because next round maybe they will change depending on what happened in this round.
And we also have our game plan. I must be always focused on thinking what should I say if I put them out or if they do them out.
And yes, absolutely. Our city side was pretty strong, but I think we stepped up a lot.
This is how we have this mode when we had two Mirages lings versus Mongols and versus bait, I think.
Sorry, it was another tournament, but still.
When we play like this, we have this fuel and we feel this momentum.
And at this moment when we are in the flow, it's really hard to stop us.
Sometimes we can do something unnecessary, like on forced errors,
because we are so hyped.
But at the same time, it helps us to do these moves,
which they don't expect, like the bold moves.
Now you're talking about the flow, because I can recognize being in that flow,
But when someone breaks that flow and you need to reinvent or find the solution to what they're bringing you
What do you pay in with a coach in that situation? What is your job? And what are you saying to the guys? What's most important?
That's the thing like it's very hard to break this flow. I don't remember when we had this kind of flow and we lost it
We only fought versus these kind of laws as a team. That's the thing and
Usually we just try to slow down the pace. So now they know what to do
Talking now, you've made two Grand Finals in a row, you also won back in Stockholm and
the beginning of the year for you guys seemed a little bit shaky, then you won in Stockholm
and now you're in another Grand Final.
In your own wording, what has been the biggest change for Naby now that you've made two
Grand Finals back to back?
Well, I was speaking about that we need more consistency because we had good maps
versus some good opponents during this year and we were winning them.
It shows me that we have the potential to beat these kinds of teams, and we can work on other maps,
but at the same time there were some situations like, for example,
post-plans forces to 3.1, they are crucial if you lost versus big tier 1 teams,
and this is what we wanted to fix, so consistency in this kind of aspect.
And we are constantly, I think sometimes just enough to be aware of this, constantly reminding,
because obviously they're all skilled players and they can play versus two very good,
but at the same time it's all about when they hurry up because of this momentum.
And one more thing is that when they removed Train, it was really hard for us.
Our plan was to start really sharp this year and then they removed Train and we started to work on our map.
Now I think Mapul is much stronger, we picked.
In the grand final of EPL, there was an important thing that we didn't play Nuke and Anubis
for 10 days, or if we played it, it was one Anubis, one Nuke.
And then we played, let's say, 8 Mirages, just to mention, and 9 Dust2s, comparing this.
And in the grand final, we had both maps present, like Dust2, sorry, Nuke and Anubis,
and Nuke we picked versus Aurora.
So now we feel that we're showing that we can pick different maps, we can trust other maps like the Stoofe example.
And it works much better with map pool for sure.
I really want to pick your brains now that we're talking about maps because tomorrow you have a best of five against Vitality.
I think they're looking at four maps with a 100% win rate.
What's your thoughts coming into a match where first of all you're going to play a team that is so good,
but they also have a map pool that really just kicks ass?
We are prep team, heavy prep team.
Usually we like to analyze opponent and understand what we should do,
not just blindly calling something from our strat book.
And unfortunately the match tomorrow is at 12pm.
Also minus one hour because it changed the clock.
So everything is against our us, you know.
You're running out of time here.
Yes, yes, yes. Can you freeze a little bit?
And I think that our thing that can help us, or let's say, upper hand, our strong strength,
that we are playing a lot of maps last months.
We played a lot of official maps, and we have kind of good shape.
We can call it like tournament grind, okay?
And we are really confident, although some maps we don't need even to prepare,
We just play them with callouts, calling in the air, in the floor, all the stuff.
So this is for sure can help us.
This is our chance because of this, because we played for last months, constantly online.
And other than this, everyone who is playing Vitality, they always say that they have
the best team in the world, and they lose, they don't upset so much because it's
the best team in the world.
The best maybe even in history of CS, they're going to this right.
And I think I prefer to focus on us, not on vitality.
And I'm literally not watching a lot of our games, like only sometimes, because we're
focusing on our progress.
And even tomorrow, yes, they're a strong team, they're doing amazing things, for sure.
But we don't want to focus on them at all like they are.
We're trying to think what are we going to do, what is our mistakes today.
And only this if we focus, because if you go to the server and you start thinking
Oh, it's Zybel, he will kill three.
You are shackled, you cannot do any moves.
Right?
Actually, in turn of fire, Rora was saying the same, right?
Yeah.
How does that work?
I do it awesome with you saying that, like, you know, you're mentioning that you guys have had played so many tournaments, so many maps, right?
Is this a team for you, Navi?
Is this squad that kind of enjoys the grind?
I don't know what you're saying.
That's not your...
I'm sorry.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
We all know that he's a bit new to the broadcasting, he's a good CS player, not so much time.
What I was asking, Blade, very quickly, is...
Do you enjoy?
Yes, do you guys enjoy playing more? Because Vitality, they like to have their breaks, but for you guys, you're on that tournament grind.
So are you guys a team that doesn't necessarily like to take breaks?
I think we didn't have enough yet.
I think if you play, for example, one more tournament, it can be very tough.
For now, it was good because one part was online, then we went LAN.
I see.
Copenhagen was, yes, also one part was LAN.
It's a tournament a little bit long for example this break of five days. I think we better to cut like maybe like three days
Maybe two even and because you lose this momentum of tournament right and
For us we for sure enjoy for sure because now we're like not very well before for sure. We should enjoy
Yeah, that totally makes sense
I'm excited to see you know now you guys have played three maps here in a best of three that hopefully will at least get maybe
Five five maps tomorrow. You think it'll do the distance plate. I think we will try our best
I think we believe that we can win any opponent in a good shape with a good game plan, all the stuff.
And I think we already proved it, we don't need to believe in this, we know this.
Obviously Vitality is now better than we are in all aspects because they have such a cool progress.
They went down after the first season last year, fixed the mistakes, came this one major, came this year
this year and now they have this experience of what can get wrong, it's very hard to be
these kind of teams. But do you remember when Astralis era ended?
Yeah, with the pandemic.
And what was the last tournament you played?
Oh, that's a good question. We played something online against Furio.
On LAN.
On LAN? I have no clue.
It was Katowice.
Yeah.
Who do you play versus us?
Oh, that's true now.
That game ended before you started it.
It ended, DePrize.
I remember the scores.
You said it was the first time you lost like this.
So maybe, I don't know.
Maybe we're aiming something like this.
Maybe Navi can stop another era. I don't know.
I love it and I feel like that's just the hope.
A lot of people out there that are cheering for Navi won a year.
Blake, thank you so much for joining us.
It's been an absolutely insightful moment.
I'll let you go back and join the Navi boys
and celebrate that win.
making it to a grand finals because not only has he brought up the fact that he was a part of the team that ended to
Prease error on Astralis, but he might be a part of the roster that ends Navi's, sorry Vitality's era
You know that's funny it brings this one up because I can actually remember this one specifically because it ended so fast
Like we didn't stand a chance whatsoever and we played in front of like no crowd inside this border
it was a tough one, but I mean, if play can stop or he stopped us back then, if he can stop by telling, I'll be very
I think I think there's legs to it though, right? He says that because even though it's a bit tongue-in-cheek
Fally, there's some confidence behind it. There's something in him that is fully back in that team
The way that Navi is playing like that right now does give hope to those who either a want to see Navi
Nation return to its former glory or be
kneecap vitality
I don't think that going into
the grand finals is any way that
I could confuse this one
result or even the EPL
performance for saying that
Navier their favorites, but
they are definitely my
favorites to do damage to
them. I like that. There is
always a way to be able to look
at it and have a favorite for
something. Unfortunately, those
have who have Paris vision as
their favorite. I'm going to be
a little bit more devastated.
They are ending their run here
at Blast premiere open
Rotterdam in the stand to
have to capture up with us
and Dastan got to catch up with us before he left the building.
Dastan, it was a tough loss, of course it was.
It was a semi-final that you desperately wanted to win.
What went wrong against Naby here?
I think on third map on the beginning we lost 2v1 on B-side,
and then we were important around on 3v1.
And nowadays on Mirage if you don't find your tempo you can't get...
We need it more than one round, maybe three or four, at least it will be more comfortable.
But it's okay, in hard situations, we have struggles.
We need to find the picture of the map.
That's all. I'm frustrated, what else can I say?
You've mentioned prior to this matchup that you never want to take out any frustrations on the players
players because they're a young team and you want to be patient with them. I imagine that's going to
continue after this loss here. But after on Inferno on some rounds on the beginning I was very angry
because we're losing some situations even for us it's bad because in call what on paper they
They can't read, they don't understand what they need to do.
And basic is, right now, it's still not enough
natural understanding of situations.
And I hope it will be better by time.
And nothing else.
At least we won one map.
It was nice, because if it was 2-0,
I will be more set.
At least 1-1, we had chance on Mirage, OK?
This is a very strong team.
If you've fixed some of the problems you just mentioned, how good can Paralyzion be?
I think we can always compete with them, they are playing together as a group more and it helps them.
And I think by time we will be stronger.
But for this tournament I think we made all achievements, what we needed, we beat Falcons on stage, it's nice feeling.
Of course, today I will be sad, but then, the general result is good. It's okay.
Thank you, Futsan.
Thank you.
Also breaks my heart to have to see this done in an exit interview.
I also get it mended a little bit by just how wholesome, how supportive he is of his team.
The fact that I can still look at it and be like, we still had a chance on Mirage.
We brought it back. We were able to win map 2.
No one else so far in playoffs have even forced a map 3.
So, Paris Vision, you get to walk away at least with a semblance of your head held high.
It's a little bit of credit to definitely throw a pair of visions way the way they played on inferno was excellent
The way they have pushed other teams even vitality in the group stage on inferno also
I do feel like some the way that he characterized the loss though thinking that they need to play more and more situations
Perfectly will eventually hit a breaking point. If I'm being real, I think that this pair of vision team is great
I'm glad they're here to test all of the other top teams that are in CS right now
because if you aren't playing excellent tactical CS, they'll outplay you in that facet.
But this is what happens when they play a Navi team where it is a great tactical team that's facing you now.
But now they have better players than you.
And so it's very difficult because the only T side round they won was practically just yellow popping off.
You do need a little bit more of that sometimes when it comes to arena CS.
Yeah, yeah, 100%. You know, that's also part of the whole journey of playing more stage games.
I feel like they've built themselves a really good foundation to like moving forward, you know
And it's something that you know
We also got to remember that the major shoots around the corner and that is that's where most teams want to be peaking
So I think perversions should be very happy and very proud of what they've achieved
I think they've they've won a lot of people over with their playstyle and how structured they can do things
And it's just great to see that
It doesn't have to be superstars that usually lead out the server
I can also just because you're playing good Counter Strike and you have a really good team-based situation
I think it's it's overall just been paravis and showing that they can be very high level season
And it's it's been an actual joy to watch them play. No, it definitely has been for sure
And it's not just superstars up on that stage that we get to look at and talk about
It's also the superstar that's standing next to me because our blast fantasy by gaming Malta
We're looking specifically at Maui's a fantasy team. You have two vitality plays and two Navi plays
You literally maxed out on plays of the grand final there
you know I had to do it to him I'm just a little confused because it's not
Macauzee that I think he was in the same tier as I will yeah exactly I like
Macauzee he's top three in playoff performances but I won but I was I was
I will you know stop to maybe even top one after today I didn't look at the
numbers for him what category of flames to be put in to go side with this
point. I think he was also in the top. Oh, right. The
player or diamond tier there. Yeah, it was tough to pick
these guys. Yeah, I see you've made a good team. I'll give
that to you, but I'm still disappointed regardless that
you don't have prioritize having my cousin. I could have
just dealt down on it. I know. I know. I think I knew my
limits though. There's like not enough vitality plays in
the other tiers for you to be able to look at though.
That's that's the hard thing when you're making a fantasy
team. But yeah, when I look at you know how many points
you have, it hasn't updated. Okay, so I'm gonna
to get to the grand final
probably someone's like, Yeah,
they've got to update it once
they are related. Yeah. Don't
worry. There's going to be many,
many more points going to
wood. Quick shout out to the
blast fantasy instead of some
other ones out there, though,
is that you just make the
team? Yeah, I don't have to
think about it every single
day. And then I just look at
the end of the event and say,
Damn, I got a lot of points.
A lot easier. A lot easier
than some other ones out
there where you gotta do
stuff every single day. It's
props here. Navi in a nail by the three maps. Struggling a little bit on the empty side but
closing it out eventually going up against the vitality where the question really is
will the reign continue? Will the dominance ensure for them? I still think vitality is a
heavy favorite tomorrow. I don't think there's anything that really speaks in the favor of
Navi winning it out like in a fashion. I think that vitality at least this semifinal they
played like incredible content that that's like the A level content that we can see out of them.
I think that Navi is supposedly the best team that we could have gotten to challenge him in the
grand final so I'm happy that that's the two teams that we've got. Is it enough? I don't think so,
but maybe this could be like at least Navi getting more repetitions playing against Vitali and
maybe in the future you know challenging for that title. I'm really happy that the last
three remaining teams we had in this tournament to me played the best tactical CS and so it
It does feel though like we are just getting skill upgrade after skill upgrade after skill upgrade. They're all almost nearly air tight in terms of play style. But vitality. I don't have to ask is this guy going to show up.
Zywu is going to show up flames. He's going to show up. Rops going to show up.
But Navi on the other hand is bit going to be good. This map is email going to be good. This map. Those are questions. I always have to ask.
Well, the questions that I might be asking you tomorrow when we do get to our grand finals,
one thing I didn't know that our grand finals is starting at 12.30.
So make sure you guys are tuning in earlier to get all of the pinions of Maui and Dupree,
but that you don't miss a single action of our Best of Five grand finals tomorrow.
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