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It's day two here at the Blast Premier Open portal and we're ready to rock and roll with
Four more best of threes coming your way.
Exciting stuff throughout as it was yesterday.
And two very happy and excited gentlemen alongside me.
We got Summer, Cher, Pimp out in the business right now.
I like this. This is good for you, man.
I'm just trying to manifest that just because we're nearing
the end of the summer, we can still celebrate.
We can still walk outside.
You know, I know it's going to rain in Denmark
for the next 10 days, apart from two days.
I'm just soaking it all in, Jim.
Raga, you actually killed it yesterday for us on death.
It was a pleasure to have you with us.
And you actually came back for another day, so that is a positive side.
You didn't run away from this or how did you find it, mate?
I found it quite like easy in a way because like I've been used to being honest.
Our job is easy. He's not lying.
I've been on camera for most of my career but it also helps like good questions, good interviews, also to bounce back and like have stories upon.
So really good first day.
Definitely and maybe if I tell you when today we get some more of your ex-players to join us up on here
But I need to keep things moving forward
I need us to look at what was happening in these groups starting with a group a
Obviously we've had plenty of games coming your way and looking at this through they right we got maybe the banger first game
That's the end of being cooler than what the two oh shows right in that G2 Aurora match up because this crazy comeback
We obviously yeah, I mean it was at times a competitive game
I think Aurora was slightly disappointing, whereas for G2 they lived up to the expectations
stepped up massively, second map making a sick comeback, you know, and I guess the big
sorry for me in that game was Wrinkle just going above and beyond and securing the 2-0
for G2.
Yeah, like I think G2 showed what we hoped they would show, and I think that's a good
sign for them as well, especially with the new player coming in, that they are still
competitive at this level and can quite easily, at least on map 1, like take care of a team
like Aurora, that's a good sign for them.
and then looking over towards Group B.
We were obviously not on this side of things,
but Rogan, you decided to message me late last night
and you were like, you seen the Navi M80 score?
Yeah, I was watching it live.
Oh my God, what was going on here?
You're shaking your head already, Pym.
Yeah, I'm just thinking at what point
do we start to ring the alarm bells for Navi?
You know, coming out of the break,
a lot of people thought
that they were gonna make roster change.
I advocated for changing the roster
because I think as a foundation,
they have what it takes to be maybe the best team in the world,
especially in a circuit that's open right now.
Without the roster change,
I was fearing they would stagnate, but stagnation at this point may even be a good thing,
because it seemingly feels like they're getting worse and worse and worse.
EWC not great, losing 13-6, 13-6, two times in a row against M80.
Sure, they played well, but that's unacceptable if you're Na'Vi.
I think they're at kind of a crossroads thing, because normally if you look at the big teams
and the teams that are like competing for the titles, it's teams that have been together for a long time, right?
Na'Vi has gotten that, they are at that point now where you either go all in on these five,
or you start thinking, okay, what can we actually do
to bring some new energy in?
But yeah, for me, I wouldn't call it like completely,
this is it, but I think they need to step up for sure.
Well, you know, one team that did step up
over in Group B was Furia.
They stepped up against Payne and they made it look
oh, so easy in that one.
Jakinda was pulling off Herorex.
I saw Fulham was having a great game as well.
I mean, they really were unhappy
from what Jakinda was saying.
So he was angry, right, of what happened at EWC.
Yeah, I played with a bit of anger, you know, and once again, I guess it's a domestic matchup, you know.
It used to be a fun game between Payne and Furrier.
There used to be somewhat equal, you know, a couple of years ago, even looking back at the Austin Major,
where Payne beat them in the quarter-final at the Major, but, oh my, you know, speaking of a team we should ring their lambels for,
Payne have just, stagnation would be a flattering word that they've gone and they decreased almost tournament by tournament by tournament.
Every time they make a roster move, seemingly it gets worse and worse and worse.
So, I'm at a point now where I don't even know what to say about Payne.
I feel like they really were an interesting team, they had some cool elements to them, but for me they're not interesting anymore.
I don't really care about paying because I don't consider them to be a top team or anywhere near close to that circuit.
I think they need to find out what exactly their identity should be, because every time they have a good upswing, it's because they bring something new.
They try something on orthodox and then they solidify themselves and then they try to play normal CS and then it falls back.
back you know so I think they just need to stay true to kind of the how I see
big of Sarah like this playmaker that does like some crazy things take these
like weird chances at times to bring his team in winning positions because when
they play by the book I don't think they're good enough yeah completely
agree we see it time and time again they keep going in this cycle loop with it
all but we also need to understand who might be winning Blast Premier open
Porto and we'll do that with our partners at Polymarket guys it is it is
tough to say this early on for sure we can maybe say well obviously we haven't
All the elite teams play at this point, but I mean, Spirit right now, 27% chance, a high prediction for many people in looking at, like, what could be the eventual winners off the back of EWC?
But is it that clear cut? Do we maybe give a look into someone like Falcons? Can the standing buff help vitality? Where are we at with it?
Starting with you, Pim.
I mean, it's open, you know. I think it's fair enough that Spirit are the favorite considering what's happened so far this second part of the season.
of the season two finals in a row one trophy to the name just recently a couple of days ago
in Paris so to claim they're not favorites I think would be unfair but as you can see by
by the presenters as well it's close and even our vitality would have stand and is almost equally
as big a favorite as spirit oh do I agree with that not necessarily but I think you know when
you look at it yeah but when you look at vitality you know it's it's a better scenario for them now
you know messy for jail that can work out I don't think that's true bigger of a change where
when they switch out Apex for JL it's going to be different. So I get why people still have a
bit of faith in mentality. I would look to, if there were teams to challenge them, I would look
for Falcons and Furia just because of the anti-streading element which I also talked about
yesterday, that Spirit are still one of the teams that are a little bit more prone to have gaps in
their game. So notoriously Falcons and Furia are the teams that are like super good at anti-streading,
so if there's a case there, yeah. It's also value for money, you know, if you get Furia at 9%
right now and do you tell me that there's a world where you play this tournament 10 times in
Ferry, one win, sorry, one out of 10 times? I'd say yes, you know, so I think it's good value
for money in that regard. If they could harness all that anger that your kinder was talking about
and build that into games where they dominate, well we'll have to wait and see, we'll keep you
updated across the tournament. As you'll be watching these games coming at you with it
and we need to look at the schedule for the day because we've got four more bangers coming your
way. Starting from the bottom here at the very end of the day, we've got Falcons versus Lynn Vision,
It should be a very one-sided affair, but you know, you never know what you're gonna get with the Falcons
You know, someone could go horribly wrong. You lose one 2v5 situation and then it all fumbles
Yeah, but I know what I get from Linvish and that's nothing so that shouldn't be a that shouldn't be a game
Foot legacy. This is the game. I am most excited for are you agreeing with me here?
Yes, it's the coaches the nightmare because it's like you can't expect structure
You can't expect, you know things that normally happen. It's like gonna be a full brawl and I'm looking forward to it
Well, we're starting with a good game here, because we get to have the debut of JL in the Vitality jersey.
It's Vitality taking on Inner Circle.
When you come into a tournament, you can't say, guys, we just want to play a good contract strike.
That's not enough for them.
But the vibe is still good, because we have Justine.
So it's definitely a special tournament.
We didn't have time to think about what we want to improve as a team.
We think about Justine first, to make him comfortable.
So, I would say we are okay.
To be honest, my opinion is that they have standing today is better for them, because
they have big expectations from themselves, but now they have standing, and maybe not
that big expectations, and as we know, they have a lurker, a player, an agile player,
and now MVP major, so they can shoot pretty hard, but anyway, it's CS, and maybe in mentally
part we can be better today and like anyone can win and yeah of course like
the most important to us here is to enjoy and to like take it as a chance and
appreciate the moments of the year.
I really like those words there from Onigrai, appreciate the moment that is there but there's a lot of aura that's been added now to this vitality line.
The vibes that Javel will bring is immaculate, but also we want to look at what he can bring as a player in this role for this team.
This is an exciting matchup because they've never played each other, right?
You could say this is maybe a nice warm-up game for Vitality with a standing,
but in a circle are no slouches on this tier 2 level, right? Try to break through.
No, not at all. They've been dominating that part of the scene as of recently.
I think they won 11 out of the last 12 games, which is quite impressive, you know, in a world where it's very hard to find consistency in tier 2, tier 3 counter-strike.
inner circle have done that so I agree they're gonna probably put up a decent
fight if anything the main storyline for me is it's the timing for volatility
I think the fact that they've been struggling a little bit lately the fact
they didn't get what they wanted out of the major either we see wasn't a success
either probably a big disappointment considering it was at home turf
yeah timing to bring in you know a bit of fresh energy a bit of moody guy in in
jail who can you bring up the mood and and maybe play into some of the more
fun sides of these players it's probably a good time to shake the tree a little
because it hasn't been looking too too great for Vitality the last couple of months.
I completely agree. It's one of these moments where if there was a time where you would need that fresh energy,
this would be it because zero expectations. Obviously we have expectations for Vitality,
but from inside the team that it's not a given they will win the trophy. Maybe that unleashes a
little bit more flames, a little bit more rubs, who has had a hard time lately. They get more duels
that they feel comfortable with by being a little bit more happy. Who knows?
Let's see how it goes with him. And I actually managed to speak to Jail a little bit before this to get a low down everything that's going on with him. So have a listen.
Jail, when we spoke on the podcast, you were saying that the practice has been going well. Obviously, it's very limited in that.
But can you just explain to everyone who maybe hasn't seen everything, hasn't watched everything, how you got ready for this role with Vitality?
Because it was weird from sitting there into doing some practice and to not doing some practice. And now you're here.
I'll be honest, the first week of us being together just watched them play because they had the EWC practice
and they just watched them. It's weird because as a six player, not a six player, but just a man who's watching everything from a side and you hear the voice comes
it seems like you can see the bigger picture. I never understood how coaches saw the game and I'm like, when I'm up top and I see all the POVs
I'm like wait wait it's actually kind of easy to maneuver the team around there's a coach you see more and you're like
There's a gap here or you're not doing this enough. So it's kind of helped me see the game in a different way
And in terms of that though how much actual practice have you had like is in playing games with these guys be realistic be real
Ten maps yes, I mean that's the most we could do
I would much rather focus on knowing what to do than just playing together.
Because we've played the game for a long time, it doesn't matter, but you need to know what you're playing.
What was it like first coming to that practice room, meeting up with the guys and just seeing everyone to actually be at this event?
Weird. I mean, it's weird because for me everyone's like here, you know what I mean, like very high.
And they're so down to earth and very humble and just welcome me in as I'm their teammate, so it felt very good to be there.
And I have to ask this right flamesy personality wise. I think you guys match up really well
I never work this out if you're sitting in messy spot. You're right next to him
So am I expecting carnage from the very beginning with you two next to each other I was down gonna deal with this
I don't know. We'll see I mean flames
Is the guy that shows in the camera the other guys are the same, but just off-camera
I didn't expect this
You gonna have some fun though, of course, of course if you're winning it's fun
It's not fun.
Well, hopefully you're going to keep the wins going for yourself.
But I know there's big expectations from you yourself, right?
We spoke about this before, and you always want to be much better than what you were before.
How much better do you think you'll be here compared to when you stood in for Maus?
I mean, first, I've had the lesson with Maus that I should not replicate the player one-to-one.
I should play my game, I do his responsibilities, and I play my game.
And I feel like that's the strongest aspect of me right now.
So, we'll see how it goes.
We have no official games in practice, it's been going good, but practice is practice.
Even in practice, I was a little bit stressed, I'll be honest.
Yeah, yeah, so maybe official is a little bit different because now we know what we're doing.
Like we have a...
It's set in stone, you know what I mean?
So, we'll see.
I want to play the game.
Can we start it now?
Almost time, almost time to see this game go down, but a little bit on Jail, right?
Obviously, during his Na'Vi time, it wasn't the highest-rated stats, but it was a good team performance.
He still netted himself in the big moments on stage in it.
For Maus, it was an acceptable level, two-third places in there, but you know it wasn't the heights at his level.
No, true, but Jail is an impact player, you know.
Back in Na'Vi, he was an impact player, he stepped up in moments, he had that ability to maybe go missing in two, three, four rounds,
and all of a sudden he could string together two or three rounds where he would make the difference and make no mistake.
You know, you may not like jail for different reasons or you may like him, but as a counter-strike player and as a broad-seller,
I think he's up there. You know, he's a great player.
Also, it helps him, as he said, that he's already had a stand-in, you know, 10-year in-mouse, a lot of learning from that.
So he should be, I guess, more well-rusted coming into this role in Vitality.
I think he's a really, really good player.
I think he's underrated among a lot of other players, teams, whatever.
the things he brings to the table. For me he's a low resource player and that he
has these like things that you talk about where he's like standing out
delivering in two three rounds in a row might go missing but that you can do
that as a low like as low resource player that means a lot for the rest of
the players and coming in as a stand-in that's basically the dream scenario for
the other four. Especially with the players you have on Vitality right when those
resources are going to be applied to your flames, to Zairu, to Rob's in it but I
I want to ask you, Broga, how hard is this for Vitality
to integrate a player like JL and deal with this?
Because this is just the beginning of integrating him
in basically twice.
I think the first iteration of the standing in
is going to be the easiest one.
It's always going to be a mix of how much do we continue playing
like we used to do and how much do we make it easier
for the new guy coming in.
And I think for a team like Vitality,
having Apex there who does a lot of microing, it obviously helps that he can pinpoint him
at certain places, you know, that he doesn't need to activate, like wait for himself to
activate, that he can help him a little bit during the things, but obviously having less
of an ideal preparation period as well, they have had him, like for some of the practices
as he said, but it's five days ago since they played in EWC or whatever it is, right?
So it's not a lot of time to integrate a player into a team that wants to win the trophy.
Yeah, it's going to be very hard for Short to do that.
I want to look at it from your perspective and you said, in terms of his ability, right?
Do you expect him to at least be able to keep up the same kind of numbers with Messi,
who's been struggling as of recently?
I think he can, you know, to some extent.
If anything, we also get to learn a bit about vitality as a system, you know.
The easier the system is to slot into, I think you'd argue, the better the system is, you know.
So for a guy like Jale, who obviously knows how to play Counter-Strike at a high level,
who have shared some of the common roles with Messi and his previously teams,
it should be a good fit. Is he going to put up better numbers than Messi?
Worse numbers than Messi? I don't think that necessarily is the bigger issue.
As long as the rest of the guys and Vitality feel comfortable still playing their game,
then whatever the hell does should be enough.
If anything, the only thing he should avoid is be a liability.
You know, he cannot be a liability. He cannot be playing just his own game and maybe mess around
with rotations in terms of that changes how Saivou is approaching the game,
how Robs is playing his game. So as long as you just slot in and you're not a liability,
I think that's 90% of the job done.
I like that. Thank you very much for that input, but we need to turn our attention to Inner Circle as well.
This is a team that you spoke about, Pym, on a rise, winning so many good games back and forward in this,
and also grinding their way up the VRS, which is very hard to do when you're trying to break through.
It's kind of like a team of, it sounds hard to say, but misfits, you know, some of these players
that's been around for a long time, who haven't really made the breakthrough and now they've found
together and they're doing a good job, you know, you have a guy like Captain Goodge, who's been around
for a long, long time, and I feel like he's been a talent for a long time. Hedrick coming back from
a time in NIMP, a time in B8, coming into this lineup as well, so it's names that you've seen
around before, but names that hasn't really had a big breakthrough up until this point, where as
a set rocker, you know that from being in Astralis, grinding the VS, winning 11 out of 12 games,
regardless of the opposition, tier 2, tier 3, counter strike, that's pretty impressive.
It means they have a solid identity, because you don't just rise out of nowhere, if you don't know
what you're doing, because then you will get the losses every now and then, so they 100% know what
what they want to do and that identity is also what they should try to bring into this
matchup and not just you know treat it as always the big dogs we need to change this
here change that there no they need to go out and play their game.
And in terms of that right what is really impressed me about Inner Circle is they've
lost some of their key players their star players were taken away from them as they
were on that grind at the end of 20-25 I think it was back at EPL and they've still been
able to bounce back like this this goes to credit Onik the IGL and also I heard from
He's getting some help from Hedrick right now who obviously has all this experience on international teams into Bay and also Hedrick
He might actually be back. I know it's on a lesser level, but this is him playing the way
I used to see him play to a much higher standard than what we saw at the end of Bay
It's an opportunity to rediscover yourself as a player, you know and maybe at a less level sure
He wasn't necessarily bad in Bay either. I think and hasn't been bad in this team either and even in NIP
I don't necessarily think that he was the issue right so that's what I mean about a team of misfits
It's good players. It's players who have a solid foundation, but they maybe just need an extra 10, 5, sometimes 20%.
And if you're in an environment where you feel trusted, you feel comfortable, you gain a bit of experience and also get more confidence under your skin,
then who's to say they can be great players and a great team of all?
I completely agree. And also I think what makes Hedtrick this version of himself here is that the supporting cast is a little bit more aggressive mindset-wise
wise than his previous teams right that everyone was looking at Hedrick like why
you're not doing anything like you're just holding this angle but that becomes
a little bit easier and smarter if you have people around you that makes this
chaos so people start making mistakes which then of course run into the op
and then he can punish your beautiful stuff here but it is time for that all
important moment it's time for the Vida
Now, Roger, we spoke a lot yesterday in terms of feeders. Can you maybe do some sort of
surprising air? Can you throw it on off? Would you like an inner circle to play at standard
or go for a wild one?
I'm hoping that they go completely to their own style, like go to their own best maps.
But let's see, Vitality has that effect on someone that you sometimes give it.
We spoke about what Vitality could pick, right? It used to be Dust2, inner circle is a good
team on Dust2. Anubis coming in for me in the circle, not a bad pick. I think that's
a tough map to integrate a stand-in in as well. I think, especially CT side, that could
be difficult for JL to find footings, so that makes sense. Vitality did go for Cashin.
That's what we spoke about as well. It's a new map and probably a map where you don't
have a big playbook yet, which means the integration of JL becomes significantly easier. For me,
it was between D2 and Cashin, and they went for Cashwitch. They also played at EWC and
looked quite solid on, especially Saibu, who was all over the place.
common ground for the third map. I think it's like it's a cornerstone in both
teams' map pool. If I'm in a circle and they lose a Nubis and never get to play
those two, I would feel a little bit unhappy for them because this is their map.
Yeah. So for me it also tells me that they like we tell as he prepped us
two which is why they leave it in for the third because that map they have a
good handle on how to like how they want to like actually deal with it in a
circle. But at the end of the day like it's a banger to go out, it's two good
teams on Dust2, so let's see if we go the distance.
So it's really important here for Unicircle to pick up that first map for Nubis and just
get the ball rolling to give them any hopes inside of this.
That's what I'd call an entry ticket into the game.
Without winning in Nubis, I don't see them win the next two maps in a row, not against
the Vitality.
And let's not forget, you know, as much as we praise Inner Circle, as much as we were
building up this game that it could be competitive, Vitality are the favorites, you know, without
a shadow of a doubt, they are the favorites.
And they're also favorites to win the game 2-0.
But again, I think Inner Circle have proven enough that it can make the games competitive
and if they can push it to us too, against JL with a stand-in, then maybe we have a fun game at hand.
What it is time for JL's debut in the Vitality jersey, it's in a circle taking on Vitality
with the beautiful voices of Anders and Henry G.
Oh yes indeed, thank you very much James. Day two here at Blast Open Porto and we've got an exciting one.
Maybe not on paper, but the fact we got the JL wild card back to here, I'm kind of excited for this game Anders.
He does make you smile, doesn't he? Even in the interviews, he's just a funny character and it's
It's kind of good to have him back,
even if the circumstances are a bit strange.
And we can see Cash again, that's exciting too,
in terms of the predictions over on Polymarket, Henry.
I mean, surely they're gonna be favoring
my mentality at the moment.
They certainly are.
According to them, it looks like a bit of a landslide,
but I don't know.
I feel like considering the performance
in a circle I've been putting out in tier two right now,
as the boys mentioned, 11 out of 12 wins recently.
And the fact we've got a stand in,
I think this could go three maps.
The fact we've got Cash in there,
that's another wild card back to X.
it is best at three so that's why I'm excited for it I think there is a chance
that's in a second I like that I like that a third map in this one and yeah you're right like
Anubis cash two maps and with the standing you never really know what's gonna happen we're gonna
find out right now as we head into the opening map we are on Anubis and it will be Vitality
starting on the CT side and in a circle on that T side to begin with we know this is
going to be important early on for the Vitality squad to win the pistol round here on the T side
on CT side and he actually massively stacked the A bomb site and that could be a bit of a blunder.
It could be. JL, he's going to be tested here. Bear in mind he's playing Mezzi's positions,
he's just slotting right into the team. He's going to have a bit of a shooting gallery here
and he's just a bombing thrown across. Bomb planted and here we go, a five on five retake.
There was a kid in play and a smoke and a couple of flashes here.
A strange way to start the round here, right? You see the C4 flying through the bomb site,
But here comes the retake and it's well jailed. Oh, oh, it's a drive by a squall
He's taken on zero and next up rops with the kill on the captain Kirk
Great leaves apex alone now that on it gets picked up robs. He does happy
He doesn't get this one. He's actually forcing them into he's not going straight for the defuse picks up another
USB instead of reloading and now he does it again. It's another fake
He's actually got his own knife out expecting head trick to come and find him
but he's outside with the B2Bs, and I've found a better angle.
Well, that's what we're looking for.
Those sort of rounds.
High octane counter strike right there.
JL, great job. The solo B-hold.
I just get a couple of kills there, but with the bomb planted,
the 5-on-5 retake just ran out of time there.
Apex did very well to make them uncomfortable in the 2 vs 1,
but ultimately will be in a circle picking that pistol up.
And the next question now was whether he was forced
by M.D. Second.
Time will certainly tell.
Looks like we're going to be going eco.
Couple of deagles, some 5-7s.
Some open runway here, beta circle.
This is the sort of round you can't afford to lose against Vitality and is true.
This has to be a gimme, a clean conversion.
Notoriously, if you let them in the rounds like these, that's where they really just run away with the game.
So, I did like that punch in that last round from inner circle, kind of stepping up and nothing complicated.
They were quick to execute onto the bomb site.
really nicely done. Absolutely.
So going through the motions here, A-splits looking very likely for players towards middle, opening frag, falls in favour of inner circle,
and it should be easy does it, has to make a way towards A.
Couple of headshots, getting a little bit of comfortable now, but ultimately all the kills landing in favour of inner circle.
So just Apex remaining, can he get a kill? Looks unlikely. Okay, well, there's one. We'll take that.
Yeah, it all happened there.
Oh, it must have been just a fading molotov that he runs into. That's pretty funny.
That's a good way to start the game, like a little bit of laughter.
Going into the third round, we're pretty quickly through that one,
and because of the save in the last round, Vitality going to be somewhat well equipped,
not massively so, but we've got some M4s out.
Well, this is exactly what Inner Circle needed.
Hell yes.
Pistol victory, ice conversion.
We've got a buy now from Vitality, rifles across the board.
It's one of those buys that's slightly compromised.
You can see concessions having to be made, couple players with helmets, no kits.
Utility's not great.
Get up against the galoreals there, see if they can step up.
Very important, first gun round here.
We're going through.
Their default here, considered spread across the map.
Waiting for any sort of CT aggression.
This version of Anubis lends itself to that sort of gameplay.
And you'd feel like with the stand-in and not many reps, vitality are going to be a little
bit looser than usual.
They're going to be going for those aggressive plays and trying to dominate with their skill.
Something that we saw yesterday, right, Nert's pushing out of that A bomb site quite a bit,
like some of that CTs.
It's really fun.
I think it does provide some interesting pressure, a wrinkle, also with the AWP I believe.
So we saw some fun and noobest tricks.
He was excellent.
He got like 35 kills.
He was sick.
Look at Flames pushing into the corner here looking for the opening he spots both
He actually dinks the second player as well Robs there to pick up the slack and that's the bomb on the ground the wrong side
Even up by Unicircle now, it's Panic and Entric
Two versus four and unless you get like a kill for a smoke like that. I don't think you're gonna be winning the round any longer
So just one player left and a little bit of damage would be nice. I suppose well, that certainly sets the tone
Robs with that Magnificent sequence there to what they mean
Perfectly timed, double kill, finds the bomb, smoke on top, job done, round over.
Onik, in-game leader, trying to...
As Anders mentioned, caused a little bit of financial trouble here,
and well, I didn't expect him to win that fight. Nice shot. Probably all he gets.
It actually would be really cool to see like a slow-mo replay of how Flames takes that first fight,
because once his first target dips into the corner, he realises that he's actually getting baited into another fight,
Another fight like someone else has been swinging and it's just it's really heads up play to be able to adjust that quickly
Stale to can ask one there. It was why with three members and they'll steal an AK to
two to one
Impressive first gun around there from vitality as we said concessions there didn't have all the utility didn't have helmets and a few players
Now they've got the kids now. They've got all the bells and whistles
To take on in a circle with their force by here
I'm expecting a couple of pistols at least see how many rifles they can bring out
I think I'm from Mac 10s.
See now three AKs
two Eagles
Matt not much into Utah. There's gonna be a bit more like DM and
Expecting something early something pacy here three players towards rugs. Oh my goodness
They get absolutely domed by the grenade looks like a contact plan towards a ambers
I don't hate it. It's straight up contact player. Yes, I think on a stone. Well, I tried it for a smoke into the bomb site
Yeah, she lived in that field, but that's a bit unfortunate.
That's the fake. He just smoked outside the B-bomb site.
What a deal, but let's see if the entry is going to work.
Captain Kirk has great work so far.
He's taking down Cyborg at the back of the site here,
and by the case, he's got one fair isolated.
It could have been better for Captain Kirk,
but he's in the grenade.
They're already soft from the first one,
but they dodged most of the damage.
I thought that was going to be way worse for them.
So, 5-1-3, make it a two-busters five now.
As Dawis picked up Flames, Jail and Apex find themselves a little.
Honestly, it's time to pull the plug in this round.
I don't know why they're sticking around.
I feel like this is already done for.
What a great entry from Inner Circle onto the site.
Well, like we said, resources were low.
Times were hard.
Contact plate in towards A.
Works very nicely indeed.
Captain Kirk up, stepping up.
Supermassive entries there. Round was pretty much done.
see if anything can be done with this there's an eagle amazing to find this
frag it all it all counts it all helps at the end of it if you could do a little
bit more damage then sure yeah absolutely gets you upgrades will arrive for
now as well but you called it right from the start Henry it's true they didn't
have a lot of utility so I guess like slope thing and doing keep fake so but
it's not really available when you don't have to try the fake I'd love to see
they though I guess he was just trying to smoke the left-hand side of the B
bombsite but it matters either way. Good stuff. In a circle, stepping up here, 3-1 in their
T-side campaign. But is their map pick after all? Money should be okay. Power to save
the rightful, the vitality. Good drops there. No choice. If you're that fresh up after swing,
take the challenge. Got taken down. So we're not going to be forcing the vitality here.
Go for the more conservative approach.
Couple of rivals from the previous round of USBs otherwise.
Robson will have a 5-7 in Kevlar.
Flames in JL, operating with a bit of utility
and is going to try and support that teammates here,
but 3B, ZywOo0 and 5R now.
You have to get going here on a Nubis.
It's very likely now to be a 4-1 game.
I wouldn't be too worried if Toretta would see ZywO0
kind of dip out of these games for a long time,
They do spot that. That's actually super important for Sera, right?
He sees that they're pushing out of the B bomb site,
so at least they're not going to get shot in the back any time soon.
This is an exciting start. I love the energy out of Inner Circle as well.
I feel like 25 was kind of the year that the tier 2 scene really came to life.
And then it's just become better ever since.
Now you see these teams like Dendeley yesterday,
obviously looking super well prepped and scary,
and they were up against Spirit and Donk, so that was hard, but they were looking good.
The level of Counter Strike has never been higher.
GBS teams and two teams have not messing around.
If anything, they have more time, more reps on specific maps and can have more time to do theory.
Anti-strike you, they're hungry up.
They definitely are.
And the USP shot them, head-tricked, finding a couple in return, as they'll take down Flames as well.
Only losing a single player once again, and money is gonna be great on the inner circle side of things.
and see what Vitality could do. They still don't have the AWP for Cyber which
I mean we always say is a bit of a hybrid but with zero kills be a nice
nice addition to that CT side. So the idyllic starts here for in a circle
there's a t-sided map of the thing we have left in this CT matter it was all
moving into. Let's have a look can they keep it going?
They're my pick so far so good. Rifles back out for vitality once again. Deep smoke in
towards EBOX, see where this good at. Force any sort of aggression here. You can see
leaving middle open now. It's becoming quite a mess around us. We're seeing this
more and more. CT's not playing any more middle, just watching from the camera.
Aware of potential flanks and bolstering the BD, then something too towards A.
Yeah, we would bring this up with a bit of curiosity yesterday when it was Aurora
Yeah playing it and leaving this mid-portion empty. It's because if you play middle if the T's go through the correct like
Execution as it were to take mid control
There's not much CT's can do about it you get Molotov
Smoked off and then like they'll smoke towards temple and Molotov towards camera like you can't do too much
So you definitely change things up and go for little gambits and plays to try and shut them down
but I think it does make sense to allow them to have middle and try and block once you know they have that control.
The idea was to block their andes, but Dory will get one through the smoke clean on towards flames.
He'll take it, Robs back here, tapping away. He realizes someone could be fighting him as well, but Saewoo getting there for the
attention. He's not going to be working at all. Captain Kirk could take some Robs.
He was doing great work, Robs staying alive behind that pillar, and he was doing that so that Saewoo could have come in to help him out,
But it has never really happened in time now. It's JL up on the high ground the bomb is planted
If you find someone if you don't realize that he's there already and what a surprise huge double
It leaves captain Kirk in a pad position here
I was at the AK and that's the only one of the new JLs
It's a huge clutch for captain Kirk
We're tripling the round and we've got the double opening in the previous round as well one of the previous rounds anyway
That is a massive impact
Just a great understanding of the situation. He's in there peaks towards heaven with the off-angle. They have no idea
A split coming at once again. They look like drops who do enough that to hold them off so much damage huge output
But fresh on me the side. Oh, yeah, I was contribution you pull that enough to win the round
That's the off angle. I'm talking about not fully exposing yourself
To the drop down you're gonna catch him
I guess that's the other problem right is that now the T's can boost and look through
that new window, the hole in the wall.
So yeah, you're just in an uncomfortable position now, I guess that's true.
Interested to see how the T side adapt if people are going to be playing less aggressively
on the CT side of middle if we're going to be seeing more of these kind of pushes.
Definitely our teams that love pushing middle quite a bit
And is gone. Let's be honest in inner circle win this which is right now for we can see looks likely right
It's a momentum. We got cash next with a bit of a under quantity. Nobody knows anything about yeah
I feel like that is a very interesting prospect for this particular series like this is got upstep potential just for that
Second map in mind obviously the jail factor jails playing very well just to know and it's early days here
and it's already set it up.
I'm just kind of getting everyone interested, you know?
I'm speculating as to what could happen now.
That is part of your job, Henry,
so I'm glad that you're doing that.
I mean, we had the interview before the game,
JL said it is more fun when you're winning.
They're not currently doing that.
Not a lot of fun right now.
Zawoo certainly not having fun
and doing the James Bond 07.
Don't see that too often.
It's good to know that he's human after all.
Early days, Anders, even though it's six-watt,
they can still come back and get it.
6-6 half there. Oh yeah. Worth remembering it is like you said a T-sided map so if I
tend to get up to you know three or four rounds then it's still somewhat
competitive this is something to be done. Now, next question, what's the response
from Vitality? Stick to the guns, get Zywilm AWP perhaps. I mean some of the
more successful stuff we did so yesterday from Anubis and I feel like it's
quite a matter as well is doing those aggressive pushes out towards that
outside of a area like even pushing through the canals and be fun to see vitality try that I'd like zai would be
Disruptive we talked about wrinkle on a new bus yesterday changing position each and every round finding the opening
Yes, and giving you a nice early advantage. I think the zai we need to get into this game
He's called the orp now. They've taken a tactical time out. Let's see what his spawn looks like
We're on the server right now, so he hasn't got an amazing spawn, but he is looking towards middle slash a
I'd like to see an opening gambit from him
Okay, well get himself in the game
Starvation and impact. Let's get into it. He's making do with the MP9, he's upgraded to an M4.
Alright, there we go, there we go. He's your super weapon, right? So having him be a little bit on the back
for not really contributing as much as you'd otherwise want, it obviously is going to have an
impact. But yeah, let's find out if he can disrupt this inner circle T-Serve. That's looking great at
the moment. T's heading towards A with the AWP right now. Nothing super aggressive,
to be hold his line, he can see middle.
Wow.
I'm a lot of scrutiny right now, CT's trying to play it, Anders,
and they are keeping their head above water for now.
Robs will trade out Onik, four on four.
Response coming through, gonna be getting aggressive towards B main.
I love the confidence.
He knows though, should have this kill.
Do you want to every single time they're right on?
There's the impact, scores down.
Great movement.
Nice awareness.
Now they're wrapping around.
This back line into the B bomb site puts Jail in a very awkward position.
I just bring down one, but the spacing is just perfect for it.
Hettrick ready to take on over and they don't even have to face this CT spawn
position. They could just pop the bomb and be fine with it.
This is awesome. Onic, that fight in the middle, if you just kind of
strip the HUD and forget about the player names, you're not thinking, oh he's
playing Vitality's. You know, he just doesn't care. He's just in there fighting.
Yeah, whatever like you might be flames on the other side, but I'm gonna take this fight
Well, we discussed why it's challenging for CTs and middle-landers
You could see how vitality was scrambling there with all the utile flashes going through knife style jumping away
I'm sure they got the trade from camera, but ultimately you could see like very uncomfortable
When the full exec as it were comes in towards middle all the utile drops
Another very convincing rounds here from in a circle seven to one three of them survive
as I will continue with the open to the next round might need another tactical
timeout here so I'm starting to spiral a little bit. I want to say in the past
could be making this up but I think Captain Kirk is one of the players that
used to be an IGL and now it's Onik instead.
So money not too bad but vitality goes by saying maximum loss bonus at this
stage. No wall required if we're in a circle looking comfy and we're getting a bit aggressive
and that's what we wanted to see. Xayah Wu setting up for an opening pick on hyper aggressive
but you can see a layered setup. Player next to him as well and we're going for that mid
control once again. We talked about it. No CT presence there whatsoever in a circle trying
to exploit it. Robs takes map control and response. That's one of the things that wasn't
happening that much yesterday on the map is the actual T side exploiting this
much of a of the mid control but they definitely are right now they've left
on it to kind of walk through the middle so he's gonna be lurking his way solo
through and zero he goes down straight away nice push out of apex and JL actually
went both the fights and that's such a shame because I put yeah put such a
slowdown on everything else on it's gonna be found this is around from in a
circle in my opinion that's almost directly lifted out of a bedroom kind of
matter they do this thing a lot with roomie pushing alone like that you just
doesn't work out well you can see how the system is designed now for vitality
once they realize mid control has been given up T side are gonna be using three
players at least to take middle like that so you can lose some control pushing out
on the extremist is the map remain out towards a as well get that
information and potentially find the stragglers who are holding for those
flanks and yeah that's a perfect example of how they've won the rounds to be
when they lose middle guess if you're an inner circle fan this is also where you
don't want to get too ahead of yourself right because 7-2 it still looks like a
great lead and it kind of is but it doesn't take a lot of it for this to be
a very different kind of affair like if they get up to four or five rounds here
by telling me it'll it'll be a very different half it'll be more than enough
that's if they get that still haven't even activated sideways that's true he's
chilling but he did have impact somewhat that him holding the aggressive line of
style of the orb allowed rops to push out in towards the canal so sure didn't get
arrived but he like is contributing in that sense it was a good move creating a
bit of space yeah exactly the rops in a promising position good round for vitality
there gel looking solid he grinded recently he absolutely is he's bringing
the vibes that pre-game interview just what did he say the best thing you can
do is just kind of play his own game I think they're missing their mid-molotov
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right about that.
Great flashes though.
That was Jail setting up Apex to pick up that kill.
So now he goes down straight away.
Deep HG doesn't get tight.
It goes to the worst.
Get him in the game.
Let's go.
Nice.
It took about nine rounds.
We're in the 10th here before we pick double kill, but you know what, we'll take it.
We'll take it all day long.
Looks like a comfy one here for vitality. Resetting the round, set up the crossfires, and rot the clock.
Next move has to be made by Inner Circle here.
In terms of their cash, money's still quite good. You could definitely give this one a look.
Head trick, minute remaining, tip of the spear here, AWP of course.
Full belts of Util on the remaining players here, we're Inner Circle.
50 seconds, I mean, there's no pressure on Vitality to do anything more than what they're
doing right now.
Xayah will give the AWP over to Apex, Short and middle, looks at the perfect crossfire,
Flames take first contact, Xayah will swing after that, and it should be absolutely fine.
Okay, that's a good protocol, Xayah gets.
There is the tank coming in, and it's a pretty good double spray down, Hedrick.
Rouse it on.
It is on, he's still got about 30 seconds, and there's nobody else on the bomb site,
So he goes straight for the bomb plant.
Does plant in a position where he can't really go up to mean.
Yes, who's going to go up to the high ground instead?
Already scored, but he misses the chance there.
There was an opportunity.
Apex very low on health there.
Thankfully, up against the AWP.
USP did the job.
It's uncomfortable, but the round is secure.
Seven of three.
Really nice crossfire there towards middle.
Three kills for Zywoo.
He's off to the races.
Got that frag towards the B bomb site.
Off with the AWP up to Apex there.
Double kill from the temple side.
Oh, the flashback was brutal there from JL.
Yeah, it was.
You can see all three of them dancing around.
Nice crossfire.
Comfortable finish from Apex as he misses that orb shot.
Come on!
Let's go.
Lock in.
Third round. It all counts here.
It is...
Prem's a bit worrying for Vitality.
That's a 5-on-3 that they almost sort of give up.
The round's around, Anders.
Alright.
I'll...
That's what they're at right now.
The round is around.
Just pick it up.
Alright, fair enough then.
Sideways up to three kills as well now, so it's slowly but surely going in their direction
Looks like it could be a faster be hit this time and there's only two defenders
So I kind of like this for once vitally actually holding the middle and in a circle
I found a great round to pull this one off
Get one, but he's great down and on it will find a jail at range
That's the bomb plan now lots of dinks though confirmed damage and is and Zywoo will find one of the low HP players
Captain Kirk 21 points of help as well bomb just plant it
Zywoo towards P-Main. Rifles coming in with him as well.
It's planted. Oh, he's planted on the other side.
I was going to say for Hedrick otherwise, he's in a weird position,
but it's actually planted on the right side for him.
So this could be a very difficult retake.
They must go for it surely.
Trying to get their way through. Flashbang is completely blind.
He doesn't realize that.
Robb's already walked past him.
And now this two on three really begins.
Bomb trying to be diffused now.
A couple of seconds left.
Oh, and Hettrae couldn't get activated. I thought he'd been in position there to a CT spawn to do more, but they just had no idea. That's pretty shocking.
It must have been planted on the wrong side anyway. I swear it looked like it was towards CT spawn.
Well, either way, missed the HG.
And looked like it was a pretty comfortable retake in the end. Zai will come into life now.
Good work from Apex, like I said. Confirmed damage. He only gets one kill, but he knows he didn't another as well.
This is a crazy moment. Nice welcome Rob to double check it.
So yeah, he wouldn't be able to see the bomb either way from Dark, so it wouldn't have mattered too much.
Him getting the HE either way.
Yeah, fair enough.
I mean, it's Russian middle. We thought about it as being wide open almost every single round.
Picking up the pace now. Here we go.
Oh, Flames is already here in the back, and he set up for it. It is so good.
He dives back down. He doesn't want to die right away.
He's trying to fight inside of him. Rob's the ultimate teammate gets the kill on Onig,
And he set up the flashbang for Flames to get the first one, so fantastic work.
Cyro, they had to pick up the kill and suddenly it's Cero alone versus Five.
And Vitality, kind of a dreadful start with a Cero and Seven Cyro.
Got nothing done at the beginning of the half, but now they're looking to pick up a fifth round here,
and that is plenty enough for Vitality to be dangerous on this map.
I mean, they're not even
fighting. I mean, give them a
chance here to do anything with
the bomb down in front and
eventually they're going to be
wrapping around and because the
apex is getting kind of closer
here, it's Robs with a headshot.
It's a seven to five end of it.
Looks like Robs is going to be
tested in this pistol round, but
But he's got dual Barrett is over towards the ramp a
Confidence start from Zywoo who's already taken space away out in the yard. It's Rob snow on the chopping block
Every single individual of this G2 squad
Refuses to falter at the hands of vitality
Finally something comes through in round 11 Zywoo's double kill out through the tip of that window sill
It's better late than never for Zywoo to step forward as the hero vitality need and they needed one five rounds ago
Apex gets burned into it in Zywoo. It's all or nothing here or never. Oh
They'll come barreling towards his side backs turn and that is four frags need for Zywoo
Oh, it's the ace! It's all five! And the hero steps forward!
And Apex has been all over the Mag7 today. Inferno Banana. That's actually one of the stronger places.
Yeah.
Not if you get a cheat.
Ooh.
This is a bit deep. Jump shot. Go on. Do it.
Surely they know. They must have seen Vitality do this. They must have seen the Apex do it.
They're holding the Apex.
Yeah.
Do it.
Do it.
Yeah, okay.
On the stomp.
So I'm gonna jump.
On the commit, he finds a double.
Mag 7. Back!
As he finds 3-4!
Off the jump, Apex!
That's one way for the RNG to fall in your favor.
They're killing the clock, 35 seconds.
Now Navi have to make a choice.
Flames, he's in the same corner, he's played in the past.
Wonderful, right here in hut.
Meanwhile, 8th floor falls.
to get the entry. Mezzi backside, the anchors.
Vitality's king.
He sets your response.
The head shot hunter only gets the two.
And so now it is on Eme.
And with 15 seconds, it's got to somehow grab that bomb.
We've got low health on Mezzi.
And they end it right here.
Mouses are so frightened of banana.
I mean, retake U-Tills being set up,
but Mouses aren't even close.
They only now re-enter ahead of that smoke.
Now it's well timed. Molly will stop Maus's approach. Over it goes, flames again,
forcing these kills and this time he flicks up with ease.
And no matter how you sliced it in this matchup, there's multiple scores to settle.
Vitality, since getting back from the player break in this season,
haven't seen them made a final yet. Last time they were here,
Messi falling short of the finals in London.
And Maus, the team that started it all.
The beginning of the fall apart for Vitality, well, they're back now into the grand final!
Vitality, get it done in two!
Well, Vitality might do it in two if they keep it up.
They were down and out, it was looking rough, but towards the tail end of that first half,
things were looking quite promising, Anders, and I feel like they might better bring this one all the way back.
Yeah, they played so well in a circle at the start of it, but I think you're absolutely right right
Tana t-clone the way back five rounds is kind of a scary prospect the second half is coming up now try
Tana t their turn for the T side and we've got a bit of utility to work with as well
We certainly do a couple of smokes couple of flashes and a Molotov got a technical pistol round here on the T side
Yeah, I'll send some you till up towards the B bomb sites
So first smoke already deployed
So maybe a B-split there or a call could be a ruse in towards A.
This guy just won a...
Oh, I can't believe it, but Flames has picked up a kill there.
What a surgical shot coming out from Captain Kirk.
He wants another one of his way.
Dancing his way out, Robbs! How is he alive?
The bomb is being planted on the other side,
but Onik is right there in the smoke next to them.
Does he want to pull the trigger? It's a three on three.
If he dies, he's putting his team in a weird position,
so he's trying to wait it out. There's the kill for Onik.
Finally, Apex, he gets completely run down and now Rops who is already low on health trying to sneak in a kill here, they've already took the bomb once.
They might not have a kit but they'll have plenty of time for the defuse, a critical round I think for Inner Circle to get this game back on track for them.
Well there we have it, the B splits, looked effective for a second there but the back stab from the canals, CT's pushing out of that A bomb site, found a couple of freebies.
Absolute Patentimonium here as well. I looked like those couple of kills would be enough. This is the moment I'm referencing
Lots of damage lots of pressure and a solid retake from in a circle
But the bomb was planted Anders and we know what that means
It means there'll be a potent force by and when I say potent
I mean it will go up since I we want AK 47s here means a couple of players will sacrifice their own round
That's gonna be apex and flames this time. They have to drop the AKs of course, but that let's see
All we have in store for us here, aggressive play from Dolly, actually getting down towards the canals and speaking of aggression, Captain Kugger pushing out of dark as well.
Rob's can't find the double, relentless aggression here from the CTs.
What's he doing? Stick that round, shoot that gun!
Flames is going to find him in the corner. You know, he still did a pretty good job. It looks kind of awkward there for a minute.
Dink from the Formas and that put shield down to 27, but um, Captain Kugger is not lacking in confidence right now.
I'm really enjoying this minute circle taking the game to Vitality, not resting on their laurels.
Letting the round come to them.
Very nice of Faisal.
But just taking Flames out, they don't allow them to escape.
They know they've got them in advantage.
Because they know they're going to be a little bit uncomfortable in general.
They're not going to be as prepared and as well regimented as they normally would be with Mezzi.
So presenting this sort of aggression and discombobulating the offense.
This is a really great approach to kick things off in the second half.
In a circle 9, Vitality 5, has to be the eco now.
Both pistols in the back.
I mean, yeah, Messi is, in my opinion, probably an irreplaceable part of his Vitality team,
especially maybe CT side anchoring.
Cero pushing down, he's gonna find a couple there with the MP7.
Oh, that's a nice little gift here.
He sees the gun, but he knows someone's there.
I shot him, that's a top 9.
Crazy shot.
How'd he found that?
Looks like the round is over. We'll take something spectacular from GL. Not gonna happen.
They know where Rob's is as well. Recovers the bomb at the very least, but it's a 4 on 1.
Zero percent chance of doing much more than maybe a kill.
Timing eludes him and the player towards T-Sport.
Yeah, they're really far away at the moment. All right, they're coming back.
I actually waste friends to turn around.
You know, we're watching Dendilay yesterday,
even if they ultimately got dunked,
I still feel like the lack of respect
that they had for Spirit, like they just played their own game.
I think it's really admirable.
I feel like in a circle, I kind of bring the same vibe here.
They're just, they don't care.
They're not really scared of vitality at all.
Well, it's a kind of a zero pressure game for them, right?
This is like a top five team versus, I think,
in a circle ranked 34th.
They didn't farming the tier two.
Circuit like we said, I think 11 out of 12 wins recently. They're in form. They're hungry and
Yeah, they don't look scared at all
applying the pressure
Vitality now a very important first gun rounds here you manage to win the first one in that first half
See if they can replicate that sort of form
The relentless aggression has subsided for the defense for now
And you know it's gonna be you can see how high alert everyone is right now as well
Thinking there's gonna be some sort of push
And they've dropped the bomb back towards T spawn right so they're they're always gonna be waiting around like this for a long time
With all the mollets off is I mean it could just be a straight up a execute which
Honestly the positioning here is kind of interesting for captain Kirk or if he stays in this corner
I don't know if any of the grenades they're gonna throw will actually touch him
So I'm kind of curious about this look at the push
That's late in the round for a double push out and they're gonna find jail in the middle of it
And you're not gonna see anyone else here. Here comes the full ASU, but look at this position
I don't think any of the grenades are gonna get back here
That's like a trusting in his aim and that's very nearly a double. You might have died
But I'm not gonna follow up. Hed trick. Got a human bombacue happening in the A bomb site
Apex to go down and now Saibu alone against four
Grenade right on top of him, they have no respect once again.
Daoey's taking him down in a circle looking great.
So still an aggressive round, but they're waiting and so they were lacking information.
Yeah.
That's when the push towards the middle comes through.
Jail can do nothing about it.
Oh no, he was lining up his grenade as well.
That's the grenade that goes towards Temple, I believe.
Oh no, a human barbecue.
It will be a double kill with that Molotov towards A main and now 11 to 5 touching distance
of dominating this first map before we move on the cash which is an unknown quantity to be fed.
We will see Zairu on the AK, he's got all in, partial by otherwise, this is for map points.
Zairu 6 and 12, right now needs to be the hero.
That position of Captain Kierke is so cool, right?
Because all of the Molotovs and the Smokes
shall end pretty much anywhere on the bombsite by him.
He did like 80 damage to two players.
They're the two players to go down to the Molotov.
Yeah, I mean, if he had an EK instead,
he probably kills both of them instead.
So nice work.
How it is.
Phil said this is the done deal.
In a circle, just so much momentum behind them right now.
And you're up against pistols, couple of rifles,
the secure map point, give yourself
seven opportunities to close this one out.
No aggression this time.
All the default rather than the CTs.
I don't want to make any excuses to Saibu when he was at, you know, 0-7 in all of that.
But to look at the scoreboard now, it does kind of feel like, again, he could have been a very different game here.
Saibu had a couple more kills in some of the important rounds here.
Robs is at 14, Jail is at 9, Apex at 9.
They are kind of missing him a little bit in this game.
That's rare.
That's a rare treat for Inner Circle.
You're right as well. Cash is a second map.
That really does throw a bit of a wrinkle into the series.
It really does. It's a Fraggers map and Vitality aren't being allowed to frag right now.
CT's in their face with beautiful pushes.
As I said, a relentless aggression.
And they are just looking very, very confident right now. Everyone contributing.
No one's scared of their opponents here.
It's Vitality that are cowering.
No map control to speak of Anders, they've got two players outside A, three towards T-Sets, 30 seconds, what's the play here?
I guess she's going into World Day with a basic execute?
Going towards Mid also, yeah, A split by the looks of things here, so we're smoking towards Heaven.
They can molotov the cake position or camera, I suppose?
20 seconds now, this is gonna be really tight.
I scramble now into the site.
Yeah, hour is late now, she's going around number 17, zero.
He does get the one kill that he needed there and Captain Kierkehold holding up behind
Seven seconds on the clock. The actual peeking a little bit more. Maybe didn't need to do that
So three on three though and can they make their way through this?
And they certainly are trying rops is gonna be dead next and apex is already very low on health and
How's he done it which is 27 healthy finds a quad kill landing two beautiful air shots. You've let them back in
You have let Vitality back into the game. Huge clutch from Apex. Gives them a lifeline right now, 11 to 6.
Money's still very strong on the inner circle side, but this is exactly what they need.
A bit of a miracle round. It's evening game later to provide the goods.
I know it's really, really nitpicking a lot of it, but it feels like Captain Kierke, because there's only 7 seconds left.
He wants to take another fight there.
Exactly. You're on a 4-3.
Arguably should have got the kill as well.
But yeah, definitely agreed. Could have waited for that one.
Like I said, he's led them back into the game now.
The response from Inner Circle, double AWP setup here.
Head trick and onyx, wood in the snipers.
Team-set-up map as we keep reminding you.
You need to find the right momentum now.
Game is far from over when vitality on the server,
regardless of the score line.
Secondary AWP as well on Onyx.
The surprise factor of that alone. You're not expecting it
That could be enough to catch vitality off guard turning a corner somewhere in a bit of an unsafe way
We are going in towards B. We talked about the double-obstet up here's one of them patrolling the
email line
Usually smokes off here smokes being deployed right now
I'm just gonna peek in front of it though, oh sorry, it's alright if the smoke pops!
And Jail in the back he's blinded, did see someone there, it's a strong headshot!
They just wanted to get through, Dawey wreaking havoc from this connector position.
Throw down that smoke before that molotov will get you.
And Jail holding for side-worth, the bomb is being planted now, can you actually save them?
They brought themselves a little bit of a lifeline in that last round, vitality, but they need to make good on it,
to keep going now and somehow they've actually got into the after plan without losing anyone
just yet.
Quite nice for JL getting that second smoke down towards the E-boxer man this could be
very, very tricky now to get out of that area and they've managed to do it and looked at
the round and secure 3 vs 1 Zywa will have to go nuclear here.
He does have a molotov though so he could actually maybe stop this bomb defuse or maybe
just throw them down as you're trying to get full sub ahead trick.
He's got that line up for it and I was thinking maybe there's a way to bounce the molotov
onto the bomb itself, but either way, it was going to be very, very tricky there in a circle up to 12.
I was saying Jail's second smoke there was very effective and 14 is a little bit too deep.
They had gaps there, they could spot him through it.
Opening kill, a little bit disappointed with Flames, waits half a second.
It's a very different round.
Great retake though.
And standing in the flames, I try to close things out.
Six opportunities to close this right here, right now.
We've got the Max Hember Flames
AWP for Zywoo
What's the call picking at the pace where looks thinks they're trying to get towards the e-box rooms could be Zywoo to provide the covering fire
Takes down toy
Can he find head trek?
Needed to be a kill apex will go down though
I don't know where the bullet went. It's a trick certainly hand the scope in the right position
do they want to be aggressive again? I mean they've turned this into a 4 on 4 now but
with two people in the B bombsite they could be pushing out and that's exactly what they're
going to be doing. And they're going to meet Vitality on the other side who are setting
up grenades, the timing has actually been waited for them here. Flames go straight down and
I think Jail is throwing grenades into the bombsite even as that was happening here. They
know that Hettrick's still going to be here so we need some backup right away before everyone
starts to collapse on him. It's Jail on the other side shooting him in the back.
Zero, he's not gonna be any better off. That's through the smoke as well.
Another round, Vitality not giving up so easily.
Still in it for now.
Captain Kirk up. Not gonna give this one a look in.
Nice work from J.L. there. Secures the round. Double kill.
Into that B-bombside ladder through the smoke.
It's a lot more than I came from. Sorry to open things up.
If anything though, it's unlikely they take us to overtime and as we're being objective here, but if you can just get Zywa online
Get him frying on the server finding some impacts. He's definitely recovering. It's gonna be a long series here
Even just from our point of view we want to see
Besides right there on the battlefield. Oh, absolutely. Come on. There we go
Those are the vibes we're talking about
That's that is one of the things that he really brings no one can argue that
Immaculate vibes and should be the ego here boys
So some open runway here
Yes, I like a save of course. I guess you could try and play around that kind of set up Captain Koka
He's been mechanically super strong
Fun to see him unleashed
In a way that I think in some of his previous scenes and really had the room to do that he's been
in charge of more on the leadership role in the past so
Looks like he's doing just fine.
Five rounds in a row is what Vitality need desperately.
Because again to reiterate, Cache is the second map and I mean even maybe worse so,
Dust2 is the final map and in a circle they are gods on Dust2. They're super strong on that map so
so I'm going to really consider as well for Vitality. Even if it goes the third map it's not
It's a done deal, they get to a weak map for Inner Circle at all.
This is an aggressive map pool.
There's cash in dust too, the sort of maps you can get stuck in on the CT side,
shut down your position before they can play their defaults out.
So yeah, this is an interesting prospect.
Inner Circle likely to pick up this first map, but we'll see.
Vitality as I said, very difficult team to put to bed.
Should be 12A here.
Nothing too flashy required and they find the AK-47 early.
Okay, round pretty much done. Zero will recover the AK, but I doubt he can really recover this scenario.
Apex is patrolling towards Evox, aware of the prospect of CTs dropping down and going for the flank.
And you don't want to give anything away here. Make sure you check every crevice in the B bomb site.
I swear, it's all right.
USB could be thrown in there a trick also
57
You can sit at Henry that if
If it was a six seven cartridge, we could never buy that gun the Summers would have ruined it for us
We'd have young I feel like six sevens dropped off there. No one is it making his way out. It's got a cringe now unfortunately
Okay, well, that's how do you get me?
I think it fell off about two months ago completely
You need to tell me this stuff in the night.
I should have asked you before this one.
Don't mention six, seven on the board.
The kids, they know I'm getting it to call.
What come up with some new memes?
Some new funny numbers for you, Anders.
There are so many numbers where you have to dodge already, I feel like.
Give it a couple of years and we'll...
Or there's always a chance of you dancing around trying to avoid saying the wrong things.
12 to 8. Not a funny number for vitality. It's a very serious issue on the back foot. One round
falling apart means the map is over.
Round number 21 though. Four on the T side. Certainly possible.
God is joining us. It's the opening day of Group B here at Blast Open Porto.
Vitality with the stand-in of course.
JL infamezzi and he's coming in as a one-form replacement. They're not playing on JL, he's just going into mezzi roles.
Apex over to things up, this is where it comes crashing down, it might be Anders.
Four on two now, aggressive once again, and it pays dividends for an acercle.
It's a great spray down for Captain Kirk, but it is a devastating flashbang that Hedrick throws from inside of the BAB onside there.
He absolutely wrecked them flames and jl. This jammal is playing very well a big shoes to fill in my opinion
stepping in straight in for mezi
But yeah, he's not been lacking in the firepower department. The problem is
In a circle showed up super focused for this game
They got the bomb picked up and they're making their way up the canals. Are they really gonna try and see if they could boost their way in?
How's that gonna work? So
Okay, it works perfectly!
The captain, Captain Kirk, is going to say if they make the jump up here, then they're going to leave one player behind, but 45 seconds, it's still winnable somehow.
Flames and GL, Flames hasn't had massive output.
This first map of the series, but they can recover this route, all be forgiven.
A bombsite actually, quite open for them, that's where they're heading.
All be timed to rotation without flashbang coming in.
They know what's up here, a trick to rotate through.
Yeah, you've kind of got to commit to it, there's no one actually holding the A bomb sign,
which I don't think is necessarily a big deal for Inner Circle.
Oh, a head trick, catching flames and then there's the bomb, that might just be do it.
Deep grenade lands right on JGL, only 12 seconds, it's no longer winnable for my talent team.
Inner Circle, at a 13-8 scoreline, that is a great headline to begin with.
Amazing work from Inner Circle, they were confident, they were aggressive and they were
playing with Flair as well.
Let me tell you, Captain Kalka did not come in peace.
He certainly did not. Henry is in a circle.
They got their way through that.
They played up to their strengths
and they were willing to take the fights
and take the position away from Vitality.
There were some moments in the game where you would say,
this could be the way back in for Vitality,
a chance, right, we were talking about it,
even in the first half, there may have been a way
for them to actually solidify themselves
of taking this map.
But every time you felt like they had it,
Inner Circle had another trick up their sleeve.
Yeah, that was the game where Vitaliy were on the back foot
for the vast majority of the game.
All the credit goes to Inner Circle for coming in
and playing proper Counter Strike,
for playing, as Henry said, aggressive Counter Strike.
But during it in a calculated way,
there's different ways of doing aggressive approaches
to a game of Counter Strike.
It wasn't this kind of relentless aggression
where everyone is just taking the hit on their arm
and going forward.
It felt like it was a team effort, you know,
but also a balanced effort.
There were rounds where they would be super, super aggressive
two times, three times in a row,
And then the fourth round they'd sit back, give a lot of space to Vitaly,
but Vitaly would just be sitting back and then waiting for that aggression that never appeared,
you know, never came to them.
So it was a great balance of playing your own style of Counter-Strike, coming in well-prepared,
and then also, I will say, punishing some of the mistakes Vitaly made.
And that takes, you know, a class team to be able to do consistently against a team like Vitaly.
Yeah, I think they, like, in a circle came and showed exactly how they were playing,
like, leading up to this event.
And you got to give them, like, the pet on the shoulder for that,
because it does take a certain amount of pride and belief in yourself to come in and do it
again against a team like Vitality. No fear, no nothing, just going in and delivering from
the first round.
And you could hear it, right? We were sat here right there, so loud about it, they're
so confident with it. This is a win that's very important. From you said, and Nubis
was just key for them to be able to pick up with it as well.
Also in isolation to how important this game and how important this tournament is for Inner
This is a giant opportunity for them to gain some BIS points and potentially secure them as part of the major.
This is solid their major, you know, this season. There's no guarantees that they'll be part of the Shanghai Major.
So if they do well, if they get a win against Vitality, maybe let themselves one more win.
That could be enough points to put you in contention to make the major.
So we speak of motivation. We speak of who doesn't mean more to a team that is struggling a bit with a standing in Vitality,
who naturally will be at the major no matter what, or a team that is fighting truth and nail to be part of that, you know, front circuit.
So in that regard, I could also sense from the player cams
the loudness coming out from inner circle
and maybe the lack of energy from Vitality
that there was one team it meant a little bit more for than the other.
Now you were also talking about inner circle
not being afraid of taking fights right
and you were picking out some rounds for us here Pims.
So talk us through this.
Yeah, I think we can start with round 14 again.
You know, the balance of being aggressive again.
You win the pistol, you convert
and the first thing you do on your CT side
is being in your face of Vitality, taking the fights again.
Rob comes in with a nice decent trade frag right here.
not aware of the second player even though he was spotted so I'm assuming there was some
communication issues within the vitality camp in that regard. Again a 3v2 right here,
you have then Onik taking an aggressive position, not staring away from the fact. You have two
men pushing out right here so you make sure that you can trade to kill no matter what.
It's just a nice way to see a team you know that you win pistol, you know that now you're
dainty was close to winning the game. I feel like a lot of teams would be a little bit afraid to
do the right thing but throughout the entire of the game rocket they played to win. They played
a hundred percent to win and it's also what the the cast was talking about when we had the game
with spirit and then the lay yesterday it was a little bit the same I think inner circle just
executed that plan more sharp with a little bit more like success in the duels as well and yeah
if you can do that against Vitality like you can do it against anyone so yeah and continuing on
about rounds we'll see mid pushes coming through Jallot time getting caught off guard as well
yeah unfortunately a little bit and round 16 is another great example of that balance of being
aggression. This time it's mid-round aggression. Again, we have 55 seconds left of the round.
You have a double-man push in middle. Unfortunately for Dale, he gets caught for a bad timing,
lining up a grenade. That can't happen. And then you're in a winning position. They know exactly
what's going to happen. They know exactly where they're coming from. Sure, you don't get the kill
idea from Captain Goodger, but he headshots both of them. So the Molotov coming in from a teammate
is basically killing two and a half members of Vitality, which makes the round unwinnable for
them. Again, I got to give it to Inner Circle. You could argue that, sure, you can win counters
right games by Vitality not playing well, them making mistakes and yes I will also say I was
disappointed in the level from Vitality but if anything I want to give credit to Inner Circle
for bringing the game to Vitality for playing their own style of CS and by doing it in different
fashions whether it was early aggression, mid-round aggression, sitting back late in the round
they showed different facets of what it's like to be a good Counter Strike team.
For sure like but also knowing like what happens in this break like they will go out and say okay
we just need to continue doing it while in the other camp knowing Apex from watching him live
behind the scenes but also on the on the V-Logs and everything he's going to give them one hell
of a wake-up call in the break so I have a high high expectations that whoever goes through the
door of vitality players they will have a completely different hunger to come in and
revenge like this first map. That's part of the story as well we saw the stat line come up
during the broadcast. Saibu off to his worst start ever. You know, in CS2 going 0-7. I think he got
his first kill in round nine. Naturally not a good sign for Saibu. So there were some anomalies
happening in this game. And as I said, Inner Circle were able to fully capitalise on that.
Looking at this though, I want to talk about Captain Kirk though a little bit, because this is a
player who we saw all the way back on the original bay, I think it was 2031. You've been talking about
him for so long as you mentioned, but he dominated this game in here, right? Doesn't matter,
they might be one of the oldest members of the team. He's still got the skills to back it up
and he will take these fights and he won't give a damn about what's going on. Yeah, he played an
incredible game of Counter-Strike and brought the fight to our telly. You can mention him,
naturally, for having a lot of kills, but I think all the members from for me in a circle had
moments or had rounds where they were the different maker. He was also the guy, I believe, pushing
out, you know, when the game was 11-2-7 or something like that. I think Saibu caught him
off guard, I got the first kill and then he's the one getting a fantastic flash from a teammate,
pushing out and basically closing the game so as you can see in this highlight
package it was impact on the T side it was impact in the pistol it was him
winning the final round of the game right here 12 to 8 he's the one pushing
out getting a double kill he was he was there from start to beginning I think
like he's a quite interesting story right because when he came into the scene
he was a little bit just like one trick pony everyone remembers like the major
run when they only played ancient yeah like living the time of his life you
know just hanging out on ancient every single game at a major and then he had
like a hard time about choosing like what do I do next, like what is my playstyle, but
I think what we see today is a very like a grown-up version of him, like you can still
see the skill ceiling, like he's super good, but now he doesn't need you know all these
like weird tricks to get a winning position, duel against like some of the best players
in the world, so for me it's like he's been here for a long time, people have maybe like
laughed about where is he playing, where like he just goes to show like he's good.
Yeah, he's definitely good. He definitely showed up on that and just overall looking at vitality.
Okay, you mentioned about the Zywoo side of things, but I mean, limited time coming off the back of this, changing a stand-in player.
Just one map being like this and it's not your pick. Does it send alarm bells from the way it went down?
Are you super worried? Like because it's very hard for me personally to judge on where I'm putting vitality right now in the grand scheme of things.
It's tough, you know, and that's always going to be the silver lining that can we really use these results for anything in regards to vitality?
a little bit I think, you know, they were disjointed, the spacing on Anubis wasn't great
and the fact that we now have Cash coming up as well, a new map where, sure they look great
the one time they played it at EWC, but that's going to be difficult to replicate what a guy
like JL, so if anything this game is now up in the air, you know, it's hard to say who actually
is the favourite at this point as crazy as it may sound. It does sound very crazy, but let's see what
happens when we go into Cash. That's the map that's coming up next, but before that, have a listen
Listen to an interview I did earlier with Onik.
Onik, the first thing I wanted to look at for Inner Circle here is you've got Stickler coming in from the bad news eagles of the past, right?
Helping you out at the moment. How did that come about and what is he adding for the team?
He's kind of, I would say, adding a new vision to us, because like also even me, like as an IGL, I was working on it with Jarr, like for my, like, I mean, professional career.
like he's just adding kind of new vision to the game and I like it so much also
he's kind of like a manager so he's like kind of second-coach and manager and
like he's helping out more individually to like every player he can sit and like
just add some his vision of the game also. Perfect, hopefully some depth that can
help you guys improve and grow faster as well and I know you guys are grinding
all the time but if I remember Inner Circle at its best was obviously this
little EPL run you had you've still kept a good rankings but it's like up and
down with it. How important is it to find that form again? And do you think with this
current team and all the things you have, you can break past that barrier now?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that with this roster we will even do more than we did in EPL, because
it's known right after EPL we got some bad moments in team, and we did the roster chances
and it's always like not good because we only did a big step up
and after we just do changes and it's like, yeah, we go down a lot,
but now we're kind of back and we hope we will do even more steps high.
And looking at that, you're still very young, but you're an IGL
and you've had to go through so much of this with these player changes,
everything you've talked about, how hard is it for you?
I mean, of course it's hard, but I like it. I love the game, I love some new stuff going
on and I just enjoy it. And I hope we can again do this roster big steps.
Nice fingers crossed you can. I also want to ask you a bit about Head Trick because he's
had five months on the team now. What is the difference you've seen the team since he's
come into it? Because he's performing very well.
I would say he's performing very well, but also he's helping me a lot, also as an IGL,
because he's an experienced guy, he plays with a lot of good players, I would say.
He can come down at the moment, maybe sometimes he can even help with scoring, so when he
comes to us it's kind of easier to play.
We are back and rolling into cash now this is where things get
interesting because we were unsure of the map pool and what we would see here from Vitality.
We've been struggling even with the main team to identify that, but we're going into cash where,
okay, they played what many people thought was the best team on cash phase. They dominated them,
Zyra dropped a 2.21 rating. So does that mean Goatwoo is going to be back and then
we're just going to see us go to a third map and it's going to roll on out through the circle?
It does mean Vitality have put in work to cash and obviously integrated into the map pool instead
of pivoting to two ancient flat matter during the player break. So yeah, you'd expect Vitality to
come in here and be competitive. The worry for me is Casper, as you know, it's a new map, right?
So it's still a little bit random, you know, then you find one way to deal with a certain default
and all of a sudden that changes the dynamic of the game. And that's how it's going to be the first
couple of months. So if Inner Circle has some sort of answer to what they saw from Vitality
against FaZe Clan, then this could very much be a competitive game.
Yeah, like Cas is the open question mark for a lot of teams here at this event. And for Vitality,
they need this to be a success.
Getting overpass removed, getting cash back in,
they need it to be a success.
So whatever storylines,
they need to start building some momentum on this map.
Do you want me to hit you or something
and give you more crazy as well?
JL has never played an official on-catch.
He's too young.
He's too young.
He's way too young to make that happen.
Could that also be a problem inside of this?
Could that make be, you know,
we're talking about the limited days of practice,
because remember, you were talking about them being at EWC.
After EWC, even when they finished,
They weren't practicing so much, Jail only joined them here, right?
And they were doing all this stuff with like, you know, the EWC things,
people going photos, media, all this other stuff, so...
Yeah, a bit worried.
I can say, when you have Cebu on a map like Cache,
and there's not so many strategic elements, just can go out brawl,
I don't think it's going to be a problem.
That's the thing where I didn't... For Jail is about not being a liability,
and as much as I want to say, it's not Jail's job to win the game for vitality,
it's Cyborg's job, it's Flamesee's job, it's Rob's job,
it's Apex for that matter as well.
coach extra jail is just there to do as good as he can as a stand-in don't think
it's fair to put the expectations on him being the difference maker and I'll be
completely with it and honest if if robs cyro and for him see for that matter
can't find a way to beat inner circle on a map like cash even then there's
simply not good enough for a cut for it right now so that would be disappointing
for vitality but make no mistake it's not up to jail to make the difference
it's the man on your screen right here who's supposed to do it yeah that's all
we're looking at right that's the goat in the conversation of it all for inner
Can they ride high off some crazy confidence with this? Can they turn that into something here or they have a good early start again?
I think if they get the piss around for sure, if they don't, I think it's going to be a completely different world going into a cash.
It's the difference between Saibou going off to his worst start ever, you know, in CS2 and Saibou put into getting off to a good start.
That can change the start of the game completely.
Well, let's see if he can get off to his best start. And two guys who are always at their best. It's Anders and Hemrege.
He's a jokester.
Oh, too kind, I suppose, we'll leave it there.
Yeah, map 2 is a pick of vitality, cash can be up next.
What excites me about this is, Inner Circle starts CT side here.
We talked about their aggression on the CT side, getting stuck in.
I don't think they'll allow vitality to get comfortable here whatsoever.
Dare I say it, Anders, I felt like a 2-0 could be happening here.
I think this bokeh pick of cash is interesting,
but I think after we saw them the first map,
this could be landing a favour of Inner Circle.
Not all of the polymorph predictions, I think, you know, seeing this one coming,
That's kind of a wild set of affairs that we got going on.
A new business, the first one, and it goes to Inner Circle now.
We're on cash for the second map.
I love it.
I'm glad that you and I get a chance to see some more cash,
especially with like a variety of different teams.
Like we're kind of, I would say we don't nothing about it,
but there's a lot to be figured out on the map.
And maybe some of these teams will have like the one trick that you need
to kind of open up a bomb site or win a map.
Yeah, we're sort of a fledgling stage to cash every map.
We will learn something new and let's see what Inner Circle
want to bring into the pistol here.
two sets of dual elites, and lots of utility once again for vitality.
Smokes, flashes, molotovs, and five players heading towards the A side of the map.
Once towards door, it'll be Robs.
Yeah, he's got a bit of a flashbang in his back pocket, but this is interesting.
Onik is moving up and going into that sunroom.
Now, it doesn't look like he's gonna, you know, kind of stay in it further,
but it will allow Darwy to route it back.
That's a very good point.
No one giving away anything just yet, so we're lying and waiting towards a boost.
Smoke being deployed towards high-waver looks things up.
Yeah, presumably Jail is going to be Molotov-ing always all the way in the back, so all he
was going to go for the forklift instead.
I feel like it's such an annoying position to deal with, especially when the dualies
are right in here.
You could see Zero setting it up, but it could have been more, but it will be a couple of
headshots with the USPs.
Nice shot.
Finally shows up, you're absolutely right about that.
It's a great shot to take down Head Trick.
And that means the pawn is going to be planted.
There is a flank coming in here, but they're in a little bit of trouble with Dawee being
this low on health and Onik.
They already know that he's there, Flames hunting him down, but he couldn't make it
around the corner.
And just like that, it's a one versus one, but I think Apex is playing in a tough position
to clear.
It's so unlikely that someone's going to be playing in front of this door, you're just
not normally going to be checking it straight into the headshot here.
Apex will save the team and pick up a pistol here on the T side that is critical
Yeah, the first pistol of the series is in the bag
There is a slow methodical round there in a circle hunting for information pushing towards that Sunrum area
Execution came through smoke down towards the truck side Molotov a quad
CT's other they were holding on for dear life there, but Apex strong performers from him and flames
poses things down to one versus one
Great shot as well
Up against the four-spy though, not out of the woods just yet, I'm afraid.
Challenging round.
They've been very mad to do some play-on towards red like this.
Catching CTs trying to get up close and personal.
Yeah, and you can see the next evolution of that now, where people,
they even blow up in the smoke.
They really want to make sure that the CTs aren't getting close enough.
Gotta convert this, you vitality needs a momentum of their own.
Couldn't really get going on an Ubers.
second half he managed to get three rounds in a row but it felt like it was
too little too late. Captain Kukka is also playing in front of that door and I
think if I'm not wrong the mechanics are such that if there's only one CT there
you can kind of push it open but I think if there's two then it becomes
significantly different and you can obviously spam through the door especially
we got a Glyla or an AK, but it isn't like the Doron nuke. That's worth considering.
Obviously stacked towards the A side, leaving Onyx with a D-Gull over towards the B bomb
side, and I tell you, they're taking their sweet time here to set everything up, and
I think that's totally fine. Flames is going to realise there's at least one player at
the top of the highway position, wants to keep pushing with a back ten. Probably blame
in for that, but at the same time the B bombsite is about to be attacked.
You're dead on there Anders, there's an eagle, needs to go absolutely huge here, it's looking
quite interesting. Should be enough to get this bomb planted, an advantage for sure for
a circle but once the bomb's down you give the advantage towards vitality. 10 seconds
on the clock you can see there, aware of the prospect of someone actually being on the
bombsite itself. They did do some damage but not much. No kid of course. And how do they
get into this retake. Player coming in from B main. Gonna be head trick or low HP.
This is where you'd love one flashbang to just kind of get everyone out onto the
bomb site. Not impossible like you said but definitely the advantage is with
vitality now as the bomb is ticking against inner circle here. Captain Kirk
gets the one, walks, gets around and we'll take him down and I think they've
realized you have the low health here. It's just not worth it.
interesting round had vitality sweating that's for sure I thought on it was
gonna be a little and a second evil shot to throw like a double all day long
couldn't quite find a head it's scrappy it's close to the vitality have
converted to zero no problem but a couple of MP9s will be saved so won't be a
complete gimme round it's a number three here I swear from flames got a lot of
Bintel, two players who are dead.
That was the shot.
That second one connects.
It's a very, very different round.
It's a great off angle for him to be holding.
You could see they definitely weren't quite ready for it.
Vitality, like you said.
It's been tricky for some teams to put together T rounds
on this map.
So it's not a bad start.
So what's the play here in a circle?
No for their regression.
Two MP9s.
I don't see any flashes.
Got one smoking an HE.
Presumably used towards middle, but time will tell.
She also had a kind of round where the counter boost
in the middle would be cool,
but it might also be so obvious that you're gonna do it,
that Vitality are gonna be holding it every single time.
Holy, that's a nice shot from Darwin in return though,
but Captain Kirkland, he got sprayed down midair.
I actually, man, I'd love to see a slow-mo replay of that.
And we're tracking him in the air.
Yeah, the Mac 10 was doing most of the damage,
and JL just had one shot on the jump.
That looks sick.
That was really cool.
cinematic kill coming through.
Okay, still a chance, believe it or not,
for any circle here.
They can find another D.G.L. kill here, bring it back to a 3 on 3.
Opportunity might arise momentarily.
It's such an interesting dynamic on this map.
You could see the holding for the potential CT counter-boost,
and it feels like you have to do that all the time, on the T side.
Like, somebody has to just be dedicated to making sure that no one sneaks through.
Oh, that was the one D.G. attempt.
Oh, the molotov's not actually reaching.
That happens a lot.
Okay, see if that changes things at all. Do I have to try and take all of the aggro here?
Thing is now enough time is passed. I'd probably check it even way with the smoke there as well. Okay, that's the problem
Again they're blocking that door
It's risky if someone has an AK they're gonna shoot you right away, but I'm certain they check out Zera
Yeah, okay. Well, let's find out. They are kind of suspicious looking at it
It could be a slip up, they probably should have.
It's fine, it's fine anyway.
Zera could have got a lot more out of that.
If he does, like, had a bit of trigger discipline,
there would certainly be two kills available.
They don't check it.
The round should be done here.
They know they can run it towards the B bomb site.
Hedrick short, he's got Kevlar on an AK.
Give it a look if you didn't make it a 1v1 quickly.
Definitely give it a try.
Open plop jail.
Smoke city spawn.
Molotov 1-7 is chances of being eradicated here.
Yeah, if all else fails, Robs is hanging around in the middle,
he can come right in to check it.
He already is.
Is he running up a spab or something now?
OK.
It did look like he had some kind of a plan.
I mean, honestly, with the AK, you don't have the kit
or anything to play for some of the exits here.
He's already got the one kill.
Maybe he could find jail?
This is so unlikely, though.
I feel like Jake will just play for time.
It's already very low here.
Fantastic work for Patrick.
He's going to run away.
They enter the round with two MP9s, they leave with an AK, and all five members of the opposition dead.
It's not too bad, Hendrik, he can buy the AWP as well, drop that AK to Captain Kerr, can I assume?
That's a good call.
I'm making a lot out of a little, and you're kind of putting a bit of a slot, like, vitality.
They're winning the rounds, but they're not really being allowed to celebrate that much.
Zerro is definitely worth two of that.
Couldn't believe his luck, yeah, he knows it.
And I feel like from the cash that I've seen so far
I'm up to like maybe 10 or 15 different sort of matches that I've been seeing and I've seen this this mod is all in the back
That's what's the sandbags. It does fail a lot
Some teams just kind of struggle to throw it
Very important position to molly every single time
Have a look here CT's
Quite a traditional setup so far, but nice grenades
Oh no, 10 HP on two defenders now.
You almost have to rotate the AWP in here.
I think you can't get a trick.
You can't have two people with rifles on 10 and 14 health.
That's what they're going to be doing.
They're trying to relocate.
They will leave, don't we, at the back of checker.
But man, that often does get Molotov back there.
So he might just be, he might be gone, he might be crisped if they actually end up going
for it.
They are setting up for the A-bomb side instead.
Well over 100 damage just from utility here received for the defense.
They have got manpower over towards A here.
Xerah not far away.
I should notice unconfirmed damage.
That's a good point.
I'm trying to let these POVs so they don't know the two players in towards B are essentially one HP.
So we're going to be seeing Apex throwing some smokes.
The traditional wall that we're used to seeing.
Same flashbangs here, very common stuff.
We'll give them a bit of time to react.
The Cali utility is coming out now and Cero, he's not been checked just yet, he's late
to the party!
Flames rushes onto the bomb site and lands a couple of great headshots.
And Cero, I wish he could have been a part of that, he was fighting by the forklift,
but it feels like he's just kind of...
He only gets a kill now, surely it's a little bit too late to actually have an impact on
the round.
Remember his teammates are low on health, so it has to be Cero to get the job done, that
might have been a little bit early on.
one as he does find a triple leading Robson Jail to wonder how did it all go wrong shot in the
back is Robson now so he didn't see the outline but he must know he's in the back here nice shot from
Jail and Onyx health it's so low he has to just try and run under the site and use that AWP almost
like a shotgun around the container we go but Jail again playing it very well on time and I think
he realizes now all he has to do is hide and there's no chance for Onyx to even escape the site very
3 falls round. Back to back, 1v1 clutch is there for JL. Ice cold there, couldn't have played it better if he tried.
He knows it as well. Very, very well done.
Um, has to be said though, Zero, we thought he missed his opportunity there. I had really thought, yeah.
But he ended up getting 3 kills. A fair play to him. Made the most out of a bad situation.
Nothing going to the side, got a couple of kills. We managed to bring it down to a 1 vs 1 on a stint at the HP.
All the time to really work it out. It's 4-0 for Vitality on the T side. Bouncing back in this series.
we're not seeing that calling card in a circle.
The aggression we saw in Anubis,
I thought on a map like Cash,
we'll be seeing relentless pushes,
getting it towards B main
and trying to disrupt the offense,
but you have to be seen so far
and another difficult buy here.
Have a look at the reflame.
Flames, those are the entries,
those are the kills.
Zara missed out on.
Start of the series Henry.
You made a mad prediction.
You said that it was gonna be three maps.
I'd say that it's looking good right now.
It's looking very good, especially on the seaside.
And I've not seen this suggest,
seeing anything that suggests that in a circle
are gonna be bouncing back.
I've got a very deep strap here on the seaside,
but early days, it is a little bit early.
Money's been an issue for me.
All right, so an old classic,
B main smoke, boost one up towards the events,
Back up middle.
That's where they're focusing most of their manpower right now on the CT side.
These vents could also be Molotov from the T side, but often that's another Molotov that fails.
You see Jail setting up for it here.
This Molotov is the one that people fail quite a bit, so let's see if they're going to be able to get it deep enough.
And again, it has the same problem like with the sandbags where if you throw it and you don't hit it, you feel like you're done for.
It's all going to be fine.
Let's see how this plays out.
Heading in towards B, so Jail will drop that Molotov as they're about to commit in towards D-Scipe, and it goes...
Did it land?
Nope.
Not even close.
Where did it go?
Landed in the middle.
Oh no!
That is an issue, and now they're running through the incendiary into what's the bomb site, bouncing around at his dowie, because he was on there the whole time.
Okay, Molotov would have pushed him into it, but it might be fine. They're actually still fighting their way through.
I was going to say it looks like they had no harm, no foul sort of situation.
And yeah, that bombed down huge advantage for Vitality.
Retake Util, they've got one smoke and an HE.
Incendiary for Head Trick as well.
Do they even want to go for a fresh smoke down towards spawn?
Smoke help, he made themselves.
Looks like we are going in.
Zero with the cap.
They feel like they probably have to at this stage here being down already four rounds.
trying to see if they can need their ways through.
What's a good color utility and look at the line up here for Robs.
They couldn't have been any better.
Apex taking down Hedrick and it's five for vitality.
They've certainly bounced their way back into this game.
Yeah, and it's a team effort as well.
It's not like they've been carried by Zawoo or Robs going nuclear.
Like everyone's contributing right now.
Just to give JL, okay, let's have a look.
We're allowed to.
You know what?
He had to learn all of Magic's grenades in like three days or something.
Like, um, and I think that stage never played a map.
Exactly.
Um, so I feel like that's fine.
That's going to happen.
It's sort of an infatality.
Like you're, you're hoping he can memorize every single grenade
and Molotov, but yeah, that's going to happen a few times.
That's good context.
I appreciate that.
So that was no way to.
Well, you're going to want it like that.
I don't know the front.
Someone else might need to do that.
To be honest, even though this is going to sound like an obscure point,
It's actually better to fail the grenade that hard, because the other way that people fail it, it looks from the T side like you've cleared other vents.
So you think it's cool.
We were seeing that from Donk yesterday, he was missing that mid grenade, and he kept throwing it, right?
He didn't get the information that he's missed each and every time.
So yeah, you are right, so you go come fuck.
Confirmation is missed, you have true.
You can tell your teammates, listen, I tried, that could be someone in the vent, but if you throw it and it looks like it's good,
then you say, okay, vent is clear, it's all good, and it's definitely not zero.
Actually kind of close to landing that kill on the jail, that would have been nice to start the round where they do need
some wind in their sails at this stage in a circle.
It kind of blew us away on Anubis. It was a great game.
Even if Cyprus was missing for part of it, it was still just a really great effort coming in from the Ukrainian side. I appreciate that.
But we said it was going to be a question mark on cash. We're excited to see it, but we don't know who's going to be leaning towards.
I expected to see more from inner circle. I feel like it they didn't get that pistol when they didn't get the momentum
They were looking for and now they're looking quite static. It's day and night compared to an oobus
Round feels like it's already over unfortunately
It's a matter of time before it's always going down here
Right you are right on
And then we had it six zero
I'm not surprised that Vitality are going to be good early on a map like this, because
I think one of the things that this team has, apart from the overall structure, you've got
X fans, obviously you've been coaching this team for a long time, and I think the chemistry
there is great.
But the other kind of ace up the sleeve they have is Robbs is such a relentless worker
for finding obscure grenades and new things on maps, like I think he truly enjoys it.
So I think they're always going to be ready when Train came into the map pool.
were so quick to pick it up and a lot of it was because Rob's just found like 10
different grenades in one day which is really frustrating because I feel like
he beats me to the timing every time. He's too good at it. He is somewhat the
go. Yeah. Especially in that department. Him and I have a bit of a beef going on.
Well who could find the most OP Molotovsor? Yeah I'm losing. I'm really losing hard on this one.
Okay, 6-0. And yeah, the circle feels like they've got a huge task ahead of them here.
I'm not seeing anything to suggest they're going to be pulling this one back, but let's
take the time out. Got the AWP for Hedrick once again, but no one really popping off here.
It's Captain Kerke, who was alive and well on our first map. 20 plus kills, currently
on 1 and 6. Zawoo, another slow start from him, 2 and 4, but it doesn't really matter.
the score line is looking like this.
It's tough though.
I think yesterday you brought up the point
that the mid control for this map,
like for either T or CT side is super important.
And I think by telling you they slow play it
and eventually they get that mid control
either by pushing the CTs back
or straight up fighting them and winning those fights.
And once you lose mid control, it's highway,
it's the vent into checkered,
like this the map opens up so much.
Maybe that's one of the flaws that any great here for
inner circle on the defensive side.
Yeah, the race splits,
quite potent right now, Vitality. All the bells and whistles. The skill behind it as well.
See how they set up round number seven here. CTs take a tactical timeout, changing their setup
and interval for a double AWP setup here. Okay.
It's that deep Molotov, but again, it doesn't clear out all of the sandbags.
Jail gonna try again to Molotov at the vents. It looks like it's gonna be potentially a fake
because the bomb is right next to JL.
Everyone with bated breath, can he nail the Molotov?
This one looks good, Anders. It looks good.
He's done it. He's definitely done it.
Goes all the way in the vents.
Feels like the round might be done.
Yeah, but the bomb is just so far away.
I mean, they're in checkered right now.
If they had the bomb with them, they could go immediately.
It's gonna save. They smoke off-sport and make their way through.
It's round over, but Onik, aware of that prospect.
Wait a minute.
Oh, my God, what just happened?
What?
I don't know.
Somehow, Onik checks the corner, but also Apex was pulling out a grenade
a grenade at the same time it was madness flames will find on it finally what a strange
around it's been already three versus three they've picked up the bomb on jail in the meantime so
they will go to the B bombsite I think they wanted to maybe pull more of a fake but they were so
successful getting into B they decided well let's just try and go B and that would have worked
if they could have traded on it right away
They were more than ready for that.
Two players towards Heaven.
Now into a two on two.
He's flanking with the ult though.
It's such a sick position for Head Trick, but do you want to come through this event
with an AWP?
I don't know if the sidearm might even be a better choice.
This is kind of tricky.
Let's see what you've got, Head Trick.
Jumps down, seeside...
Oof!
Hey!
What a feat that is!
Okay.
Cero's taking down flames.
I shouldn't have been finding that flare once again.
It's the double orb set up and finds in their first round.
I'll take under a lot of pressure there with the AWP and this.
I don't know how he gets that second kill.
I think Apex is putting up the Molotov
to try and cross with it.
I think so, yeah.
But yeah, cool.
Well, his pants run as I close out.
Oh, you're right.
You're absolutely right.
I'm gonna set up a bit of flare there for Mattrick.
Had to get out.
Had to be confident.
That was the offensive word on the first map.
Did the floodgates open now though?
We need Captain Kirk to get back in this. He was a superstar on the opening map.
He's one and seven at the moment.
In the middle is a really good start to the round.
Double set up behind the sandbag, so see if Jail is going to expect it or not.
He's pushed through the smoke!
That is kind of a surprise.
Classic lurk play towards B.
From the B main smoke, he can go left and right.
CT's normally not aware of it.
Oh, that's sick.
Unfortunately, though, still a uphill battle,
but they're in the round.
Robson Apex.
Can Robs perform like Donk in this sort of scenario?
Got the skill to back it up.
If he does, I wouldn't count them out at all.
Match around the corner.
A little bit of panic spray coming in from the CT side,
but Robs, hook-o-down, good headshot,
it's all on Apex and it's too much.
Captain Kirk are finding himself another couple of kills,
up to three now, and they do need every round to be fair.
It feels like in a circle, they need to make this a 6-6-1.
like that mid setup there from in a circle the boost up by the sandbags and you could see vitality didn't have the utility to flush them out
They had zero molotovs once at the mid control
So lost a couple of players had to fall back
Robbs find that luck kill that was nice, but I had no chance in the four on two nice retake and that should be the money broken here
I dare say
There we go he confirms it
It's gonna buy a bit partial buy
sometimes a bit is enough if you're a team like mentality well they've got the
executes like I said they're ace but that's really really nice maybe to
drop one of those in again I think this will be a four five and execute it
towards a not a split waiting for the initial bombardment of grenades to
subside and what have you got to work with here two smokes two molleys if a
couple of flashes three smokes beg your pardon if they go a we're gonna see if I
have the right technology to flash this corner.
Now, Hedrick's holding it a little bit wider than people normally do,
but it still is harder than it seems to flash this position.
It feels like it shouldn't be, but we'll see if he's missing a lot.
I was going to say, normally on these air executes,
you will boost one player up to control rotations,
maybe a back-soaking through.
They've got two players there, though.
So it might be a split through highway.
I like that.
They are going to be smoking in.
Smoke for highway goes down.
Yeah, this is super nice.
another smoke towards that truck as well.
There's the flash to set it up against Head Trick,
so he's pushed into that MBK corner.
Dawey though, landing kills, left and right in Head Trick.
All you need to do is start one kill, that's kind of enough.
Nice idea though, for Vitality.
Like you said, they have Execute,
you can see how the structure around is playing itself out.
Thing is, I think they're overspending that round, Anders.
Oh no.
They're averaging $3,900 per player right now.
So you're gonna have to make concessions,
Like at a real important moment of the first half, you either go AK and no utility or bring out the galil and sacrifice your firepower to have the extra grenades.
And for what we've seen so far, they like the executes, they like the splits, they like the fakes.
I think they might have to, yeah, they're going for galils. Three of them so far on the force base. This has to be a set piece.
I guess the definition of a little bit is not, is not precise enough.
This is a rough one. Four galils now, so you just need that utility.
Yeah, so I feel like yeah, they might have spent a bit too much in that previous round
It looks like it it feels like it at the moment and
Cyborg mean it's a better performance than it was he was zeroed seven on the newest but he's two and seven now
Having a bit of a wonky date. We've all been there
You definitely have I never leave
Wherever there is Henry. I'm there all the time
Trying to get out a trick
Finding his mojo, but there's Ross
Oh, this is Dick, though. Onik, he's playing for the mind game. He's trying to be here
so that they don't check the back check-in room. The bomb box is not even nearby, and
he's still in it. All right, now that's actually a sick follow-up spree, and that range with
the M4. Okay, I'm impressed. Now we're finding it. Captain Karka. He flies in the chaos and
finds a perfect timing. He is slipped in there by milliseconds, Anders. They were holding
this position. Oh you're right. They'll go for a boost and then go back seven towards
middle I'm assuming as well. One towards B storage, confirming middle's clear.
Might ask for a teammate to dismount. Dowie has an incendiary, I don't know if he could
buy enough time with it, but his teammates are still a little bit away, it comes to you
to lead you onto the bomb site. He needs to stay alive as long as possible and at least
get one. This is only up here. Oh, put the molotov back there. He's actually swinging
for the fight, that's pretty well played. That's about what it was worth. Compromise
position, no teammates back him up, leaves him with a winnable to 1-2.
That's a good point.
And the Molotov forced him into the fight, right?
So he couldn't even throw down the incendiary, he's kind of just forced to battle it.
Here comes the Swing AK from Cero, but Jail.
He was more than ready for it.
Mechanically, he's looked like a really, really good substitute for Mezzi at the moment.
And Captain Kirk cut up on the high ground, still got some time here with the kit in his
back pocket.
He gets the one!
No!
It's an accidental jump on Jail as well.
Oh, you do hate to see that.
A bit of panic, a mouse wheel, perhaps.
4HP, mate.
But I know what you mean.
It's fine.
And the jump, yeah, that's a 4HP.
I mean, it looked like the round was done and dusted here.
I know it's a double kill from Robs.
Dory arrives.
And more ways than long, it's sort of a triple.
Like we said, had to get one,
but that's who we want to be possible.
I don't think the jump made a huge difference. Maybe one more bullet connects.
I don't think so though. It looked like he wanted to do it away.
Could be karma for the time that he stole my mouse jail.
That's a good point. We didn't consider that in the pre-game.
I still don't have it back. He's still missing it.
Was that at the Copenhagen Major?
I think it was, yeah.
That's how it goes sometimes. Onic, Grenade, it feels the pressure a little bit now.
When you slam at the side of fall, back down, he's down again, he's been rock solid defending
his bombsite.
He's up to 12 kills.
It's a huge part of why it's doing so well all of a sudden, you're in a circle, Zaiwubu's
answered back and the Galeel, it's got the extra bullets for that triple.
Highest impact he's had so far in the series.
Takes him on two, five and eight.
It's been a quiet one for Zaiwubu.
That could be enough to get them back online here.
They were looking down the barrel of five rounds in a row.
And now another 2v2, retakes, certainly possible, lots of utile with the CTs here.
Once again it's going to be Captain Kirk coming in from B main.
Fresh smoke down towards CD spawn courtesy of Apex.
He's already in position, he's reading it so well, Saibou.
He's got the right idea, there is a late flank coming in from T spawn.
But he's already made his way past, they're all in there, confirmed at the very least.
Swings for it now again, but he just sprays it, he ran into the point!
And that leaves Apex in a very bad position, already tagged up in.
That trick's gonna be the one to find him here.
Great retake.
Saibu, they shouldn't even have had a chance
to get into this round by Tannity,
but Saibu found that triple and suddenly was doable.
That's a real shame and I just said the sentence,
that's the highest impact he's had so far.
It is true though.
And they don't pick up the round.
Yeah, you're right.
They kinda let him down on that one.
Oh man.
Okay, that's five in a row.
We thought this I would save the day there.
No dice, I'm afraid.
Shabba, to tell you again, though, for anchoring this B-bombs, like, he's been an absolute wreck.
Vitality, they won the pistol, they had their flying starts.
There's been one-way traffic ever since they found 6-0.
What a recovery! 2-0 is back on the menu!
Can they close it out?
6-6.
The moralizing finish with Vitality, considering the star they had.
Are they gonna...
Okay, so they're just gonna molotov up the vents again for the mid control. Fair enough.
It lands. Jail, he's got it on lock down. He's got the technology.
Really nice little mid take here. Yes.
Tubbers everything. CT's trying to take map control elsewhere and then doing it in batik style.
Two kills come through in a circle, our back.
Some might say that's textbook counter strike.
Really is. That's how you play cash. You lose middle, you go post the extremities,
get information, hopefully get a kill. They get two.
I don't know if I love this for Headtricker, he does have two teammates with him, so actually, I might take that back, it actually probably is going to be working here.
They're pushing right in for them, Pat and Kirk are getting one, Darwin on the follow-up, and now it's Robs, confirmed in the middle, Grenade, working on top of him, incendiary, if that had actually gone a little bit deeper, oh, he's having more Grenades!
There's just bombing him in the corner here, it's a TRIBE game at the end of the half, 6-6, a nice recovery for Inner Circle.
I don't even think it's on for a second there.
The monster is back.
Let's play again.
There are some players that are just born differently.
Some try to intimidate you.
He doesn't try to.
Everything he does is deliberate.
You never really feel out, so hey, you just feel late.
There is no pattern, he doesn't move faster, he's in third.
He makes him move, and that's the scary part.
He was mine for this.
It's not about losing to him, it's about arriving at him.
The
Comin...
Oh, he stopped!
Beautiful wild happen, Zywoo.
This is ridiculous!
Zywoo doesn't need the help!
Nails every single shot!
Right here, right now, on Mirage 8.
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Zywoo knows he's gonna fight right here, right now!
The most efficient player in Counter-Strike history that wasted ammo, that wasted movements.
But if there's a chance, there's someone here.
11-5 for the Mongols.
The one that was slowly piecing together some kind of comfort zone.
No comfort whatsoever.
9-10 hits another!
He doesn't bet it!
And so this space tries up, he will do it all if he has to.
As the others fall for him, no help is coming from my son.
Mountain calls the emergency services.
And there's a ton of pressure coming in on Messi.
He lines up the bodies though.
Oh, so solid.
Locks this down.
Another multi-frag moment, but here's Don Scrabble.
OK, over Torn's outer, damage onto the off.
This would be huge.
Is Donk gonna look for the pickoff into heaven from Hot?
Or is he gonna stay in Squeaky?
The decision he has to make.
Donk comes back.
Zayu remember full health over onto the AK.
They're feeding Apex to him.
And now this huge health advantage.
Time's ticking.
Donk's out wide.
Yay!
Clashes and kills them off.
Always reliable Russian rifleing.
Walking up on it though is Shiro. Does dispatch of another with Cobra gone?
Yami's scout gonna be pushed in. Shiro a chance. Don comes in.
Just gonna get a couple of extra. Padding up those stats further.
23 in County before the 9D connects!
Oh, it connects!
Right! What?
How's he not that?
It's a masterful from the 9D!
They're going to be very, very fast. Look at this here in a circle, straight to the A-bombsite.
Flashes and Molotov's going deep.
Siding with the Duelies, he wants more kills, but he's holding in the middle of it!
Look at the one! That flash is sick!
And Flames will not disappoint. He finds two headshots, make it a third.
Dawey out here, and a full flame for the love of more, and this is going to be Apex's clear on the round.
But, um, yeah, the contribution there for Flames was epic.
And the flash from Robs to be fair, he actually alley-ooped two freebies for Flames.
But, uh, nice work. A rush from inner circle, no bomb plant found.
Zawoop opened things up with the jewelies. Flames to shut it all down.
A couple of kills for him.
In the middle of the top of his roll for Zawoop. It's the flash, uh, used the second.
Whoever needed that first round, they posted in six, breaking the streak. Have I seen?
That's a good point, yeah. And there will be a force bite, even with no plants here.
Double Mac 10, Double Tech 9, Cheeky Beagle 4-0, and four players towards B, setting up some mutual head, Captain Karka.
Well, that's going to be deep towards Basely CT spawn and B. That's such a deep grenade that lands. Let's see if they're going to be ready here.
Wrops will be outdulled by the Mac 10. I mean, it is a bit of a surprise that they've even pulled in this one and nearly filled the spot.
A JL, he's down to 14 behind this one.
Well, I'm making this way over Dali and Hedry, both low.
That deep grenade could have killed somebody.
Alright!
Somehow they live even behind this one.
How are they alive?
They were low to begin with.
They've just landed two grenades on them.
And wait a minute.
Camps and Kirk are in the middle.
I was going to say, they're coming through.
The fact that he's stopped them here is huge, though.
Such low HP.
If they're like Vitality, pull this one off, and there should be five.
Yeah, maybe, but there's not a kit in play.
kit in play. Okay, good point, actually. This is already ticking. I think they're giving
it up. They don't know about the damage, I suppose you're absolutely right. Um, that's
a wild round.
Because that's so out of meta to buy in this round when you don't get the bomb plant.
Surprising them as well. They had no idea they weren't ready. The smoke deep from outside
a main lands towards CT spawn. The flashes are very effective. Denying Rob's any sort
of impact their bomb planted, actually set a load of damage through the smoke, but unconfirmed.
And I think better of it. That's absolutely fine. They keep four weapons up, they had
no kit, and all of a sudden, we're tied up once again. Seven, seven. Huge cash injection
for IC. That's great. That is what's defaulted. That first grenade is a little bit more on
them than it's not even around. It's not even close by Talon even when they go back and
Check the tape on this one, they're gonna be beautiful,
you probably should have won that round.
Is that gonna be enough to change the course of history here?
Imagine what it would do to Inner Circle's tournament running,
just their status in the scene,
if they're able to take down Vitality.
I understand that Jail is playing instead of Mezzy,
but I don't think Inner Circle are gonna care that much,
it's still gonna be a massive scout for them to take
if they're able to do this, especially in that 2-0 fashion.
But like I said, Dust 2 is the third map in Inner Circle,
They are really, really good on that map, so I think they're going to be confident no matter what happens here.
I think he said they were gods.
I did say that.
It sounded a bit hyperbolic, but I like it.
They're gods.
I am prone to high perfectly, Henry.
Yeah.
You're here to bring me back down to Earth sometimes.
I like that.
Huge rounds here.
Opening kill found.
Flies out.
Let's see if they're going to get a couple more, but no!
Shut down!
This robs my head trick.
Apex now pressure being applied, but they don't capitalize on a...
allowing rotations to come through.
52nd commanding two CTs.
They get one on the big bombsite here.
Apex needs a double, he goes down, the round is back on, he's got nice HP, but not for long.
I need a timer, I can say, don't necessarily have to finish up towards B.
They can pump the brakes if they want to, but they're going to plant either way.
It's a good point though, I mean, you can escape the bomb site going back through.
They've thrown in that Molotov towards Checkered, it's actually keeping both players back for the bomb to go down.
Some laser headshots coming out from inner circle in this round.
I'm surprised they even got onto the site.
Here comes the utility coming in. That's going to put some pressure on forcing them potentially into a fight.
It's Flames with the first headshot, eating on it. He's already too low on health. He is a good double.
Sick round indeed. Good retake.
Comfortable and calm as I weren't flamed to prevail here. Didn't really get close.
Nice utilization of the MP9 arranged there as well.
That attack onto the B-bomb side started with him walking into an HG and an incendiary.
I think the counter utility there was just kind of devastating.
I was wondering where that first kill came from.
So they beg to the clean spam, given the five on four.
Very influential frag.
And Flames stepping up to big rounds.
The boys are fired up.
Oh, that should be.
The war of attrition is well underway.
Force buying response coming in from IC here.
AK, I was about to say AK's singular though.
AK available, one Galil.
MP7, very meta SMG right now, we'll also be making an appearance here on the T side.
Zywoo and Flames finished his recovery, a couple of AKs there as well.
Thing is, Zywoo yet to be activated, Anders, when that happens, I think I see her for a rude awakening.
We've been waiting.
Might have to be on Dust too.
He's got three out of those six kills in a single round.
We got a triple.
And they didn't win that round, right?
They didn't.
I mean, they did the four-stop in the second round and it worked out.
So I feel like they're confident here in a circle and can't even go and keep the pressure
on.
You have to drop a set piece here.
You just don't have the firepower to go turn a tower, especially when it's on a flame to
vacays, which they'll be aware of.
You have to drop the full execution.
Just enough for it.
Got a presence being shown towards B by zero.
You're right.
Holding off any potential pushes
See what they've got left three smokes two flashes one Molotov presumably Molotov a quad
This position is one of those like the bench on overpass. It's so often overlooked
So that's the presence I'm talking about you see that smoke is about to pop towards B
exhibition Raven CT is kissing the outside of the map before they pop in towards the AXQ
Similarly George Midland, it's actually kind of working here by telling you kind of biting on this one
They're three towards the B bomb site. They feel like it could be happening only to defend a more contact play to be honest
You'll want smoke a couple of flashes left
Get the whole pick at an opening pick but ZywOo
the potent position
Very strong Call of utility coming out. They see the smokes going over the wall
So they're kind of ready for it monotone those bounce off the wall their flames traded out since I will
Dancing around in the back of teammates
Take nine for Captain Kekker, just instantly knocks out Apex on the bomb site.
30 seconds though and so we're still alive here.
Great contribution so far.
Should be a done deal.
On XWIV, a three on one scenario.
No U-Till.
And the CT's even like, let him at the bomb site.
We'll play this one together.
The round's too important at this stage.
Risk nothing.
I don't think he realised he could be spotted.
They're rops, he could have been there right away.
Great stuff running. They just keep showing ups.
A nice round for Zywoo.
You can see, worried about the threat of Zywoo still being towards Quad.
Yeah.
Definitely had a chance there with that initial kill,
but the swing from Zywoo gets a triple kill.
That's the most impact he's had now.
They convert that round, he gets three kills.
It was he.
He execute.
He'll gain just for a second there, but...
...the Molotov for MBK rather than Quad.
True.
Hey!
No!
Again, I'm not really even complaining, but I'm just...
I want to point it out again that because those smokes take such a long time to land on A,
it does give sight with that time to use the counter-smoke.
Like, the counter-utility is so close to the bomb site.
That made things ten times harder.
Coming through to smoke.
Let's have a look.
Should be the full eco here. We'll see any cavlar.
Daly, anything indecent into this one?
Strangely, they could actually get a bomb site if they just kind of pull the trigger.
They can't know that. They can't know that there's nobody really on the bomb site,
but yeah, they are playing it really far back,
which I think is gonna be a big part of the meta too.
This bomb site is so easy to retake when you've got utility.
If you're on highway and truck,
you can fire bomb the entire site
once the bomb is planted or being planted.
The great double nades for the default plant as well,
like there are just so many ways
that you don't really have to be on the site at all.
What is to be a great second map so far.
Vitality, finally getting some pistol success
under their belts.
It is circled that great resuscitation of their first half as well.
We are very close on vitality in the driving seat right now, offending off this full eco.
No problem whatsoever.
We'll certainly give them a lot of money going forward.
AK still in the hands of Apex for now.
Zai-Wei has the AWP.
Should be done momentarily.
Speaking of Zai-Wei, we'll go down.
Nice shot for Monik.
But double digits found by Vitality here number 18 up next money's still pretty poor for IC
They can bring out AK's and basic utile. They're 4200 per player
So a couple of galils may be required here
Yes, true that could be there undoing at the end of this if they just can't put together some really good buys
Even if their force ups have been impressive
Still want to be able to equip the team fully and currently that is a bit of a struggle
Three rounds separating these two teams, the whole Vitality squad. Flames kind of ahead of the scoreboard with 17 kills. Great individual contribution, but here's a real team effort. Apex running close.
How are they going to be able to go for something more? He doesn't have a teammate with him, so no counterboost is immediately available.
That position that he's in is more or less a lot from the T side too, when the T's have the utility.
Can't be clearing every corner in the middle if you're trying to get that control
Yeah, this time it's Captain Koko is lurking outside of the 8 bombsite
So I guess he's gonna try and throw some grenades in maybe put some bit of pressure on the middle
Zero is already down in the Sunroom
Another opening kill if any of those for vitality the second half
Apex. Close towards middle. Flames to set him up, but not required. Five on three, surely
enough to convert this to 5-11, but let's see what Onik can do. Has had his moments
throughout the series, that for sure. Molotov not quite even, now it's going to be Apex.
Finding a lurking. Captain Kirk out, and this looks like it's absolutely done. Five versus
watch your little hands, no kill sound, back to back clean sweeps here.
Oh yeah. Looks like Dust2 will be with us momentarily.
And I'm absolutely fine with it. The game we're having is here, the series.
This is perfect. Keep this one going.
Might even be nice for Vitality to get more of an opportunity to kind of fit
JL into the mix and then try and see if they can get some more reps with him
because they don't have that much time to play at all.
11-7.
Very nice indeed, JL.
Partial by B Rush by the looks of things.
Get stuck in, hope for the best, deep breath.
In we go, you're up against drop, so...
One of the best in the world with the M4A4.
Most of down.
No problem whatsoever.
No pressure applied.
Willing to take those fights.
Beautiful spray down.
And another clean sweep is looking likely here.
Can Onik at least 5-1.
Absolutely not.
Map points.
Establish of a vitality.
Five rounds to get it over the line.
Yeah, that smoke that he puts down rocks
so that they're forced through it into the rush.
Yeah.
It's just devastating.
Your prediction at the moment, Henry, is looking very good.
You said three maps in this one somehow.
To be fair, in the pregame of this map,
I said two zeroes also likely.
So I can't have all the predictions.
Not all of them.
But he is smart at making separate predictions.
That's true.
You got to be right at some point.
Cover your bases, you know?
Yeah.
There's a little bit of midfights here,
Darwins, trying to get flashed through.
But when they already had the crosshairs in the right position,
it doesn't really matter if they are momentarily blind.
And again, pushing up into this deep position,
so annoying to clear out.
Can they find a way normally to throw this Molotov into the corner on it just strictly
isn't that is a solid headshot.
Apex is all the way dead.
And so is Rops.
The T doing a bit on the edge here perhaps.
Who knows what's gonna happen if you let Inner Circle gain just a tiny bit of momentum here.
They are not that far away from getting into OT even if I talented even playing well.
And they're certainly gonna get this round.
A lot of money down the vitality squad, so...
They'll be fine for a long time.
Ooh, hold on.
That's such a free kill.
Nah, they're still walking away.
I mean, they've got the money to go for it, but...
So, I thought, so unlikely with their positions right now,
I guess I'll just try and contain.
Look for any players sniffing around CT spawn.
But that's the second round I see it picked up in this second half.
Currently 7-1.
They're getting close again.
I mean you could, this is a site where if you run in the headshot lane in theory you
can kind of put a lot of pressure on it.
It could be hard for the CTs over the T's to stop you defusing.
I think that's what they're going for.
There's Hedrick going down.
I'm hoping to make this a last second play but with that kill on the AK it's going to
be fine.
But especially when the bomb is passing in a default position, any T's that are playing
Check it or outside of the bomb site if you get in they're gonna have a really hard time running you to stop you. I
Like the attempt. Yeah, like we say plenty of money. It's a shame. They've lost the AK now, but
Should be absolutely fine here like I said, that's only the second round I see it picks up
I'm opening frag by apex. Oh blind as well come control
They've been pretty decent outside of the map, but
Finally I see breakthrough for to go to take us to overtime
Bear in mind, we've got an uphill battle to break the economy of Vitality here as well.
Yeah, Vitality would love to get out of this one right here right now.
Make sure that's not even a conversation.
Solid flashbang, putting in pressure on Saemoo back here,
see if there's going to be a smoke in his eyes, it will be.
It's already landing right in front, so he's calling in the reinforcements.
Somebody with a rifle coming up at this guy.
It's flames, you can have asked for a better bit of backup here.
On the railing, the apex now to follow it up.
The trades are looking good, but then, all of a sudden,
it's in the circle, we're gonna bring you back.
Important shot.
You know there's gonna be numbers,
at least two towards that A-side after all that carnage.
Yeah.
But you're up against one of the most stable players
in all of CS2, and there's,
you know he's getting at least one.
Disgusting off-angle.
There's the one, just needs to buy time now.
Nice shot for Monique.
But that actually is a really annoying off-angle,
I'd be so angry.
Head trick, taking down Jail,
finding him out in the open in the middle.
All right, Zawoo, if you can close things down this 2v1, we can officially say you are back.
Dust2 will be fun.
He's made his way in so far. He's just completely bypassed the one player.
He's got a powering in the corner. Yeah, he's surely got him, Onik.
Straight down, but the bomb is planted in the open.
That's a very smart bomb plant. He's trying to see if his fingers are quite on the right
street. He's not even giving him opportunity. Nice triple.
It felt like Zai Wu was in that flow state right there.
Yeah, anyone that's been watching, you had the feeling you could see that that kid had been his round.
Okay, and it's massive though.
But you know what's smart for Inner Circle to plant on that side?
Because we were almost reeling the scenario I was going through in the previous round.
If they plant all the way default, then it's a way different kind of pressure on Head Trick.
So, last of the gold here.
and then they have one more by available. If they give this one up with all five players going down so okay huge round for I see here. Of course, every round is at this point with map points, but they can win this one as a good chance to make it to overtime. Let's see. So I will one of the forward facing
They might go for, they can even go for like a main pick, squeak a door pick.
They can even go over towards B.
The world of his oyster will he actually be challenging something aggressive here.
Towards B, he could hold that aggressive line.
It means you can just have one player over there with a lot of information being guarded at the same time.
Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. He's in position, but...
That's backfire.
He's after somehow.
That's a nice kill.
Tripp's got his number twice now. Zero in the middle.
C.V. can actually escape this.
Oh, nearly takes the head right off. He's dancing around back here in the area with his heels.
But the counter Molotov comes out as well, and that will keep them alive, and they take down Ropp.
So that's the last of the B defense squad, and they know it.
You definitely know it. That's two players head towards B. You know, Ropp's at the anchor.
Yep.
And we talked about the financial implication of losing this round.
I don't think you even give this a look in, if you're vitality.
Great work from Hedtrick.
Very impressive performance in the second half.
half. Taking that into his own hands. We said they were lacking flair in that first half and they
were down six and zero. It wasn't much initiative, wasn't that? Textbook aggression we saw from in the
first map. But damn, they are feeling confident. Found the mojo once again here in the dying stages
of cash. Vitality's pick. This is going to get a bit scary now for Vitality to be honest. This is
tactical time on territory for sure. Thankfully, they saved two weapons, which gives them a strong
buy going forward. The money won't be a problem next round. We said they had to save a couple of
release. If all five went down, then we've got a problem. Now, in passing there, Henry,
you mentioned that squeak door. Yeah. And yesterday we had a little bit of a conversation
about the, you know, the power of pushing that early on the CT side. I think, yeah,
once a half, two players pushing that, when you know it's a slow default. That's a really
interesting idea. And maybe we'll see one deploy there.
How do you get another kill? That's kind of huge, actually. Okay. It is. Okay. Like I
It's still going to be a buy there, but this is now the danger zone for vitality.
Dude, form.
Zaru had that all day long.
Great work from Hedtrick.
Here's a second kill he got as well.
Damn, that is fast.
Very impressive.
Yep.
So you can do it so you have respect.
It's a nice job.
Yeah, you have to keep it up.
I'm surprised Onyx stays on his galore, you can see he's got $3,000 residual, what round
are you down anyway?
I mean I guess if you win this round you want to drop one I suppose, there's that idea
but...
Either way let's get into it, execution all five players here for IC, it's IWU to defend
it once again, lot of pressure, flashbangs will be coming in and the HEs, they bombed
the entire backslash here but it's just like well alone and the flashes keep on
coming unless you get a kill for the smoke call it off it's done it's got an idea yeah
rounds cooked
I'm thinking about it but I agree it's not worth it yep there it is okay
Zyra goes down like he said he was alone really nice execution there you
could see they covered every single position the molotovs covering quad
the smoke's covering towards highway, CT spawn in the flashbangs, that last position by the
default plant, Zywu, ace it. He was blind for about 20 seconds there on the bomb site,
an absolute freebie of a kill. It's a good template to take down the top players,
just keep them blind. Yeah, very effective. I can't believe we're saying this,
once again in the second half, it's IC clawing this one all the way back, there were 12, 7
down Anders. I'm so impressed I really am. We're seeing the praises on the opening map
of Nubisan for good reason. There's Captain Kirk leading the charge there. Now it's head
trick really stepping up and actually shutting down Cybertron straight up. Alt versus Alt
fights. Is it all for naught though? Like we said saving the four weapons there was definitely
the smarter play from Vitality. If you go for that retake you might be guaranteeing
over time. In a circle, feeding themselves once again after losing both pistols. One round
away from taking us to overtime here, fast towards middle! What a shot!
Sazawu goes down with nothing once again. Mid control has been granted towards IC.
A split looking like they two players towards the door as well. Pressure on Flames. He is
absolutely alone here. Need rotations. He needs them now. It might not matter. They are
dropping like flies across the map. You can see how overworked Flames is at this point
backstab from doorway shut down. Captain Koko up here there's actually kind of a
six-inches wild flames is not ready you are right he's overworked way too many
angles to cover and you don't want to be taking this fight there's no reason that
you need to cross here if you're catching Koko just leave apex I look okay oh shoot
him in the face I guess that's another way out drops now one versus four as in a
circle gunning for overtime they clawed their way back in the game and they
confirm where he is as long as they don't fight him there is nothing you do to win
this round. They boosted up in the back as well, just to try and take some shots at him,
but this is a great run in a circle, shocking us a little bit here as they get this came
into OT. The confidence flowing once again. This is the team we saw on the first map.
Back to back halves, Anders. They were 6-0 down in the first half. They were 6-1 down
in the second half and they put it all the way back. Man, that is wild. That's the effect
on Malal. Our mentality felt like such a done deal. They were looking so clean here on
cash and now it's a full reset. I see Romain on the T side versus 16. Singulope set up as
Zywu has been getting absolutely domed out there. He's been going down first pretty
much every round in the last few.
Yeah, they've got his number somehow. They found a way keeping with 13 kills.
Very similar setup to the last round here, except they don't find anyone in the middle early on,
but you could see Dowie and Captain Kirkura doing the same thing coming up the highway,
and they've got the other two players. Actually, a mirror round from the last one,
except for the early fight where they took down Apex, I believe it was, early on towards the truck.
Let's see if they're going to be able to find an opening. This is so much mid control right now for the T side.
Gotta be careful you get shot in the back here, but I don't think Vitality realized how close they are to losing this bomb site.
One misstep, one over-peak here and they're gonna be done for.
It's limited on the clock though.
Where is that door gonna be opened?
Oh!
Serro fixed, open tough.
Get down!
And Captain Kurt, you're getting rid of Apex in the same position.
They've got me out of bikes, yeah, that was beautiful.
All that aggro, all that attention thrown into what's highway, the smoke goes down, you hear them spamming Anders?
Oh yeah.
in the door open. Zero couldn't have timed it better if he tried that was
unbelievably good. Great teamwork. Synergy is the
opposite word there. It really highlights the point that he brought up
earlier about how much that mid control matters because giving up that
high reposition so allows in a circle to pull some trickery there. That's the
best round so far in this seaside campaign. Beautiful. Vitality didn't stand
the chance as soon as he committed to that spray our flame that is towards
That's what I knew is that before that door is going to be open and you are exposed, my friend.
There's one really fun thing that they could do because they've done this kind of an execute twice now.
If they throw the same kind of nades towards that top highway position, but instead of actually pushing highway,
they actually just push in towards CT spawn because that's like the last thing you can do on this map.
It's a little bit like taking red room on ancient, like pushing in towards CT spawn.
You could do the same thing here on cash and it absolutely ruins the backline of that defense.
It's really fun to see if Inner Circle are going to try and see if they can dive that
deep into it.
They're in charge right now.
Well we saw this yesterday, right?
G2 Aurora, it was a 12-7 scoreline and it felt like G2 had no chance.
They got nine rounds in a row.
Same thing could be happening here.
Vitality, it felt like an absolute lock in, a done deal here on cash.
And now they've given up the lead.
The 12-7 disintegrates into a 13-12 lead for IC.
So, I always got the best spawn once again, VAWP.
We saw him go for that aggressive B push, but I don't think he's really feeling it right now.
Maybe he changes things up, could go A main as we mentioned.
You want to use a spawn though, you want to be utilizing this spawn if possible.
Let's see what he goes for, he's going back towards B.
Okay, there is an AWP on the other side, which maybe even suggests that in a circle it's going to be a little bit faster once again.
This is where he ran into Hedtrick and got completely crushed.
And the smoke is gonna make it hard to all from this position.
He wants to relocate around it.
Gonna have the Molotov for the vents as well,
but it's actually straight through the smoke.
Robbs!
Find Cerro.
Unfortunate start, but Onik!
He's got one and they know that Robbs is gonna be here.
They trade it out.
It's actually still pretty good.
You'll take that if you're on the T side.
Opens up for the bomb plant and they got a late lurk as well.
and Captain Koko across the neck, in particular the bomb down, that is.
Onik, in a bit of an awkward position, still finds the headshot, but
Captain Koko is a million miles away.
He's gonna be running all the way up there, but can they get out?
Onik, he's traded places with them. What is happening, Henry? He's actually
towards CT spawn. He needs to be so careful, though. He's got the bomb on his
back, right?
They're making noise now. Cover from his teammate into wood sport as well, comes
after this kill!
Very well read, and Apex can't swing under. The flashbang is absolutely sublime.
It doesn't feel like he's got the mechanics to put off.
That sort of spray down.
And it will be a 2-0 scoreline here in overtime.
What a recovery from IC in more ways than one
in the big picture, and especially that round as well.
It looked like they were done for.
It's a quad kill for the captain and the team in Onik.
And also, the fact that he makes the footsteps
is what makes it so that the crosshair
for that high-level player there,
I think it was Flames up there, it's in the wrong position.
Captain Kirk is coming in from the other side.
That's really so hard
Looks like it could be two-zero after all in a circle firing at all cylinders on the T side
Looking for three zero and they might just get it Rob's goes down once again head trick playing out of this mind of these opening kills
He bombside there's so much pressure each and every time
Hedrick at that forward spawn, so he knew that he could see Rops going into a checkered,
so as soon as that shot comes to the smoke, he's more than ready.
They have another AWP as well on Onik, so double-hopping now on the T side.
But here's this forward push coming out.
We asked for this the whole time in regulation, and this is the reason why.
We have Kenny Askintle.
It's a good time with that one, is I gotta make sure this won't get accident, might not
even matter.
Hedrick bites back instantly.
Oh, the community is going to be in an uproar, Henry, if they win this one.
Okay, bit of a freebie.
Flames brings around back to life here.
I was looking cooked for a second there.
They're going to go back towards B.
It's going to be down to zero to try and find that space for the Malux things here.
That's a nice smoke to sell the idea, but they're still going here.
Taking a lot of vision away.
Do they go through the vents here or through B storage?
Vence feels risky but...
I mean, he's the fastest lane.
The way they're shooting right now, I don't think this will be a problem.
Should be at least a trade here, if not the advantage.
They know JL's towards Z.
They get a gamble now that B is open.
They know Rops is already down here, so JL will have to scramble into the site.
He's got U2. How does he deploy though?
Trying to find positional control.
Please be careful, a smoke will remove his vision and now they know it as well.
Pops it open.
Can he find a spray down here?
Absolutely counter-Hedrick.
Looking for a quad kill here.
1v1 against Apex.
Bomb will be planted.
He thinks he's right next to him. Oh, he's running in.
He might still be right one second left on the fucking headtrick.
Oh, it's such a sick idea, but Apex was a little bit further away.
OK, a bit of a disappointing finish there from Hedrick, of course.
Thought he was in the smoke, went for the.
Went for the gimmick plate and it doesn't work out for me.
It's a bomb down here.
They've heard Apex coming through checkers, but still his contributions
were exceptional in that round. Three kills for Hedrick.
Oh, yeah, electrifying counter strike here.
Opening kill, sees the traces through the smoke, takes on Zywoo as well.
To be fair, JL did pretty well there, considering he was smoked out of position.
Ah, I kind of love it for Head Trick.
Obviously, it looks a bit silly when it doesn't work out, but it's a cool idea.
It would have been sublime, if you'd have pulled that one.
Oh, yeah.
But 2-1 on the T-Saturday cash in overtime.
That's a great result. Could have been 3 as well.
Nice work from Apex.
They'll switch over to the CT side now.
Took them a while to figure out how to play the CT side in regulation.
But once they got going, it was pretty good.
They were lacking confidence, like I said, Mojo. It felt like they didn't have after being down 6 and 0,
but they've certainly found out now, Anders. Now we're seeing these more aggressive maneuvers.
This was lacking in regulation.
I agree.
Hardest check.
Not a space taken there.
So, look at the line that Hedtrick is holding in.
Same in towards B, I believe. Oh, no, we're not.
Okay, it's fine. We've got someone control four.
Robbs.
Hedtrick is holding middle from deep in A,
and that's why they have three people at the B bomb site,
but Captain Kirk are also playing forward.
That's a lot of trust, I think, in Hedtrick to land a shot,
if they do show up, but I don't hit it.
All right, Flash does not even do anything there,
and Captain Kirk can't raise both of them down.
on. Bear in mind, this is for map and series points.
Yes, it is.
They got a five on three.
And Onik is holding with that secondary AWP back here.
So one slip up, one mistake.
They need to get rid of him somehow.
Molotov on top would be the best way to do it.
And they do have one.
So let's see if Sairu's going to be able to land it right
on top of that all.
Onik gave a little bit of backup here.
He's standing in the fire.
He just doesn't worry about it that much.
Zero ends up going down.
A little bit of a tick there, but Sywall is sprayed in the back and rocks.
Barely makes it around the box.
The bullet's chasing him there, he tries to plant.
So once he gets the headshot, it could be a clutch still.
But the Grenade is going to put him down to 36, so he's so tanked up
and they've got so much more utility to just get rid of him.
They don't have to fight him straight up.
The Grenade could do the job and if you go for him, aggressive as ever here,
or inner circle, as they get all the way up to map and series point.
Now they're feeling themselves.
This is the inner circle.
we saw in Anubis, Captain Kirk had taken matters into his own hands and A main gets that sick
double kill. They missed the flashbang and as they were trying to flash him off they ended up
flashing themselves and giving over two kills that was messy. They had one Molotov to throw onto
the bombsite and they threw it towards headshot and not on the side itself. If they had more then
they could have burned off both positions and it would have been a very different affair against
Sonic, but um, this defense is looking rock solid once again, 15-13, ladies and gentlemen.
One more round for the circle and they are going to be making a little bit of history
for themselves here.
Recently they've ticked down the likes of Neo-Astral Iberian Soul.
You add vitality to that list.
What is different than the others, but one is getting a bit different.
Here we go. Straight up execute onto the site.
Go away!
With a stolen AK, it takes the head clean off of flames.
They have to slow down.
So I was with a bomb. If he dies here in Maine, it's a disaster.
And he will.
Apex hoping to kick open the door and help his teammate out.
It's now going to be rops in another clutch.
In a minute on the clock here, don't find him.
You've got the bomb on your side, you know what this guy can do in a clutch, so don't give him the opportunity.
Robs goes down on it, he's got no respect.
A great history victory here for Inner Circle, beating Vitality on land on two laps.
Historic is the right word. It looked like they were down and out, backs into the wall,
anders, but they managed to find their confidence, find their form, and recover that 12-7 scoreline.
They remain in the upper bracket and send a vitality packing it looked like dust two was a certainty at that point
I can't believe we actually saw them bring it all the way back bear in mind
There was six to zero down in the first half six one down in a second and they managed to recover
Against one of the world's best excellent work from inner circle
Vitality were up
12-7 it looked like the game was in their hands, but inner circle happened great playing here from them on cash
You can't take any way away from that. Your backs are up against the wall against one of the best teams in the world
Yes, they may have a standing but you know, they know what to do
They have to play off each other and then they just kept believing in themselves. They got the job done
Yeah, like it's the classic thing about like vitality was looking like they're having fun
They're giving like the one like the duals where people are not looking at them
Everything was letting so smooth then all of a sudden this guy
I get to find those next ones on the desk.
Started happening in the clutches, in the 2v2s, in the 2v3s,
winning these really important rounds
that also meant that the money swung the way of inner circle
instead of vitality.
This was a crazy performance.
Captain Kerr, thank you very much for joining us here
on the desk.
Just give me what this kind of win means to you guys
in your current situation, trying to grind up the VRS.
You were loud, you were proud the whole way through.
Yes, it was a very hard game, like I'm still a bit shaken.
I could imagine, man, I could imagine.
It was a game for me because I've been all the clutches.
A lot of blues I won as well, so yeah, it was a crazy game.
Just don't know what to say even.
It was like our very, very prime game.
Yeah.
We did everything very good.
What did it take to get you in this prime game?
How did this moment happen?
What did you feel that was maybe different to normal games?
Maybe it would be bad to say like this, but in my opinion, they were not having a great game.
It's not the vitality that was, like even two months ago, they're struggling a lot.
We can see that they're not winning duels and they're like not playing their game just, you know, that's the problem.
That's the main reason why we won, because vitality is not so good as they were, I suppose.
How has it been for you? Looking back at where you came into the same thing, a lot of ancients,
everyone was looking at you, like the next guy, who is this guy coming up, then you're
quiet for a couple of years where you're not really hitting the big peaks, now you're
here beating Vitality, what's been like for you?
Very great, because I was a bit shy in the end because some not very comfortable roles
maybe and not very good performance by me but in this team everyone is like
believing me and they believe in them fully we are just playing till the end
round by round and this helped me a lot and because of this I can like make in
this game like this again. Like looking back at like going into the game I had a
little idea that it could be a veto that favored you guys what was your force
like going into the game did you know that you would get both you know Anubis
and those two in this game?
Yes, we knew about those two in Tanubis, but what they're going to pick, we didn't know.
We were expecting cash nuke, cash we expected, but it was random, they could pick cash nuke
and even dust, we thought they can pick dust because it's the best map so far, it's very
good.
We were expecting a Mirage third map, but it is how it is, we played cash, yes.
Okay, maybe like looking at how Caster will have, like what did you guys change when you
you were behind in the beginning because it looked like Vitality was playing with a lot
of calmness in their game. They were waiting for you guys to run out of Utah and then they
hit you guys. What did you guys change to come back into the game?
We just fully changed our game plan because we had game plan to fight middle first-timing,
but as soon as they're not playing first-timing in the middle, they just keep in first-timing
and we were a bit like not playing this game. They were playing their game. And after that
we understood that they're not playing middle. We just started to play more closer to AB,
trying to prevent their execs in these situations and probably this clutch 1-2 vs. JL and Zilu
was one of the most crucial rounds in the game.
Definitely a lot of clutches, a lot of excitement in there as well.
For looking at you and where you're at in your career, you're 27 years old at the moment,
you're still grinding throughout this, you have such a young in-game leader,
can you give us some insight just into what Onik is like as a leader,
Maybe how you guys try to help him as well.
He's a very hot guy, very energetic in all the ways.
He's like a server, and outside the server he's all the same.
He's shouting, he's like speaking a lot, he's giving energy, he's supporting everyone.
And that's one of the most, in my opinion, best characters for the captain.
To be very hot, explosive.
No, I get you completely and then looking at that right you've also got stickler who came from the old B&E team
Yes, obviously, I know he doesn't speak the language, but how does that dynamic work?
What is he able to add to this team right now to help you guys make this rise?
In my opinion he helped us in the way like he sees the race
He sees something that the jar doesn't see and that helps us to like complete our game and like increase and prove it
improved is day by day because as well as his vision and Stikl has a bit of his
vision they are mostly the same but still some additional details and this and
how we communicate he usually use AI to translate from Russian but yeah we see
usually we speak English to him as well when we want to communicate a bit to him
but when we are speaking to each other we are talking like Ukrainian Russian
sometimes. That makes a lot of sense of it and Hedtrick obviously when he came
into this team he was kind of at least seen in the international eyes as not
being able to be up to standards but I'm seeing like the old best version of
Hedtrick now within you guys. How important is he as a player for this
success we're now seeing as well? He's very very important because this guy
he is like this guy who always can call everyone and say the crucial words for
example like if it can do this as well but he is usually doing it's more
faster he's like guys come on we need to focus we're not good playing our game
we're not playing good game we need to focus on aim we need to focus on this
on C's and this help us a lot and this is Daniels most I think the best he's
This is the best of his experience.
And lastly I just want to ask, if I remember it was the beginning of the year you guys were in a bootcamp house,
were you still in that bootcamp house at that time, right?
How helpful was that in making all of this possible?
Because it's not so often anymore that we see the European teams have themselves in a bootcamp all the time living together and working together.
Do you think that has helped you level up to this position you're in today?
Actually, it helped guys a lot because it was their house, they were living there.
But at the beginning of this year, they were finishing this bootcamp and finishing that.
They were all going to their new apartments.
And I just came there for two weeks.
And everyone was already moving away from there.
Awesome. Well, Captain Kirkup, thank you very much for all of your time.
Congratulations on the HootQ.
Thank you very much as well.
From the looks of this, it looks like you may have jumped five places in VRS as well,
if all things end up accurate.
So, great start for you here.
Let's see if it continues, man.
I hope so as well.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And with that, we're going to go to the B-desk as we've got Pimp with JL.
Yeah, I'm joined by JL, who naturally coming into this game was Man of the Hour.
You know, a lot of storylines around you having your debut as a stand-in for Vitality.
I think it goes without saying it perhaps wasn't the debut you would have hoped for.
Your feelings after the loss and after the game?
I mean, it's tough.
It's rough. I mean, both of those games, but I don't know, it didn't feel like we played bad.
I just feel like, for me personally, I like some protocols and how to counter stuff.
First official on cash was a little bit different, but I mean, we tried our best.
And that was the first time you ever played cash in an official game as well, I assume.
So not the easiest way of getting into things.
Now, when I got to drill with the loss, the reason why I wanted you here, Jail,
winning or losing was to to pick your brain a little bit about the situation you find yourself in
as a stand-in and as a player, because I think it's a unique situation.
You're standing in for what has been arguably the best team of all time in Vitality.
You still have your playing career going on as well, so first question would be,
were you ever in doubt whether or not you were going to say yes to this opportunity?
Is there anything that was speaking for or maybe even against joining as a stand-in?
I was thinking about it, but I feel like I looked up to probably three players in my life,
which was a simple, a zyber and robs.
And I played it simple, and I had the chance to play with zyber and robs,
And whatever had going in life I could have.
I wanted to take a pause from that and try to see how they think, how they act, why are
they so good in the game.
So I mean, yes it's a stand-in but I still get to play with the boys so it's interesting.
You get to practice with them, you get to see how they work and you get to be good
to them.
Was that also part of the equation that you think you from a personal standpoint can
become a better player by playing with some of the best players in the world?
Oh yeah, 100%.
I mean performance is a funny thing.
is what works for one person doesn't work for you so you just have to be careful with
that because I mean Mathu is just good naturally and Robin is a hard worker so I don't know
it's very two different people and but they have the same outcomes.
Still early days you had a little practice with the team you now play one official is
there anything that stands out you know playing next to Saibu you said you played with Symbol
before now you get to play with Saibu arguably two of the best players of all time in Counter
Strike anything in particular that stands out when you you play with him?
One of them is very chill.
Yeah very chill.
It wasn't surprising, but it's nice to see in person because you have a feeling you have a thought that he's chill, he's vibing, but he actually is.
He's just enjoying the game and he's super good at it too.
Speaking of the upsides of getting to stand in for volatility, lots of learning to be had, maybe you can develop as an individual as well.
Is there any downsides that you were maybe fearing in terms of like, because I feel as a player you also put yourself in a risky position.
If it doesn't go too well, if you don't play well individually, or if, let's say,
Vitality were to bomb out of the two tournaments you're part of, do you think that will then
lower your stock value and your opportunity of joining another team, or is that worth the risk, so to speak?
Probably not. I mean, I don't think that would impact me. Even if you won the tournament, that wouldn't give me a positive.
And if we lost, maybe it gives me a little bit of a negative, but I just wanted to play with the balls.
I wanted to be back on the server. A team I tried to sign with, it fell through, so I didn't have a team for the season.
I was just about to ask, did you have any other opportunities than standing here?
You said you had one team that you failed to sign for?
Was it any close?
It was very close.
Very close, yeah.
You share more?
One more, didn't it happen?
Contractual business.
Okay.
Yeah, just straight down to business.
The team was good.
It should have happened, but it was hard negotiating.
It's not about the money, it's more about the circumstances of the hosting.
And is that affecting you?
Is that something you regret?
It's a bit of a chase.
It pissed you off, yeah?
Yeah, I really wanted to be back.
I would have been back this season, but I mean, it'd be like that.
And that's still the clear goal for you.
You're standing for Vitality for a couple of tournaments now, and then you want to find
a new team for next season?
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, I was playing the game, I came back, and it felt like home.
Like, I'm going to media days, I'm walking around, I see the people, and it's like, I
don't feel like I've left at all.
It just felt like I slot in very easily, so.
But yeah.
Sounds like you missed it a little bit.
I did, I did, yeah.
question before I let you go. You also stood in for mouse before the
player break. Is there any learning from that experience? You can maybe give
players out there because I feel as I said it's a unique opportunity, it's a
unique situation, a player of your caliber standing in for teams like
mouse and Vitality. If any other player ever gets to experience the same offer,
is there any learning you can give already by now? How tough is it
to stand in? What are some of the pitfalls you have to be careful with?
I mean first of all you have to be careful with not replicating the player
by who he was you have to take his responsibilities and play your game so
I've learned that in mouse trying to replicate it here failed a little bit
that's fine one game one year we'll learn we'll learn and what was another
thing it's been a brain I'm on the desk and it's I forgot what I wanted to say
again well that happens yeah but anyway yeah yeah any pitfalls or anything you
you'd give you know any advice you'd give to players who maybe get a chance of
standing infotainment as well because it's a hard exercise it is yeah it is just
Be yourself. Don't try to be messy or whatever you're replacing. Just be yourself.
I guess that's the last thing. Be Jail if you're a way to stand in for any team.
Thank you so much for joining me, Jail. Really appreciate it.
Best of luck for the rest of the tournament.
We'll throw it back to James on the desk.
Back to us, back on the desk with me and Rug up.
Him be joining us again, but fantastic words coming out from Jail.
And I'm going to agree with that in some way, right?
You can't pretend to be someone you're not in game, right?
You have your install, you have your tendencies,
and you need to rock it in the best way you know how to do it.
But who rocked it within this game was definitely NotSaiWu.
I've got to highlight him a little bit here, right?
Because, I mean, he is the star.
He is supposed to be the greatest player of all time.
He very much is, right?
It's not often we see an off-game.
Everyone is allowed an off-game.
I'm not going to be like, ah, it's all his fault.
But I mean, it was kind of crazy to see because, especially
when we looked at some of the performances even just at EWC,
he was right up there as always.
You know what the youngsters would say, James?
He was mid. He was mid in this game.
Where did you learn this from, Ben?
Staying a little too much against it, you know, or something like that.
Too much time on Twitter.
But yeah, it was atypical to see Cyro disappear for big portions of the game.
I think you said it were again in the green room a couple of times.
Then he has a triple kill, you know, he's almost winning around for his teams
and then nothing happens for the following rounds.
He was also left by himself a lot of the times.
We spoke about how he on cash got no backup whatsoever,
tried to stay alive, tried to do the right thing
do the right thing and Perse didn't play bad in the position he was put in but
didn't really get any help so it's a story of two sides I don't think Saibou
had a great game naturally but he also didn't get a lot of help.
No and I think the few times where he tried to take the game into his own hand
Hedrige outpeaks him in 2026 so that's that so not to take anything away from
Hedrige I think like Saibou was not here today and for me it always goes back
because if he was there like last time they played right like you can go and
see what has changed since then, playing with the stand, then, what does Saewoo like?
He likes safety, he likes to know that everyone has his back, everyone is like super good
friends and stuff.
So it's not that I don't think he likes JL, but it's more like gilling JL into the team.
It's going to matter a lot for a guy like Saewoo, because I've watched a lot of his
highlights also, watched some of his face-to-face demos back in the day, and the amount of times
he's getting caught solo, single-handedly, flashed or killed in the back, I've never
seen it before.
like it's it's instantly and they said that it was just put up right here you
know wash forget about that of course he's you know but the fact that he's
having his second worst rating at a series in Counter-Strike 2 also speaks
to the anomality we saw in this game Saibu playing at his normal level as much
as I respect in a circle they would have lost this game you know we're talking
about one of the best players to ever touch the game if he's a finding the
impact that he normally does then he's naturally a massive win condition for
Vitality but if anything it also reminds us that a team like Vitality is very
much readable when your best player is not showing up at all and then again if
this is the worst second worst series he's ever had in his career and another
testament to how consistent and how good Saaru actually is. I also want to talk a
bit though on the inner circle side where is Dari, this guy looking so strong
throughout you've been picked out around just to highlight that. I mean he was it
was great in this game and they were great on on cash overall Dari had an
awful amount of impact especially at this moment again it was my telly going
up 6-0 in this game they win three in a row they lose the first pig right here
It's it's not a pretty situation for on a key gets caught off guard as well
And you have a 5v3 for a second
But guess who comes in with a nice multi-kill right here stays alive
Reverts back towards the bomb site can't really do much more apart from getting another kill which is a triple kill in the round
So he's single-handedly kept them alive and single-handedly made it possible for captain Crook to win this round
And again, you got to give it to to captain right here for pulling over mini-simple with an 847
Dropping down for heaven and getting the job done
but without daddy playing as well as he did again you can argue that this game
would have never gone the way of inner circle. I think he's been on the radar for
a lot of the top teams like looking at who is coming up from the second layer
and he's definitely one of the standout guys together with a lot of the
foot players before they took the step up themselves and it's because he's a
modern player like he can do anything he can like entry he can you know play a
little bit slower he is like super versatile in terms of like he moves a
a lot around the map, but at the same time he can also play this like mini lurk position.
So I think for me he's the generation, like the stereotype of what the new generation
can do and seems to, they know a little bit of everything.
That's not this, oh yeah, I need to stand here, get duels on my own, like no, let's
just go out, have fun, shoot some headshots, have good mechanics and yeah.
I think he's really good.
I think he will be picked up if in a circle doesn't take the step himself.
And also the mental resiliency sharing, because Anubis wasn't necessarily his best performance
of all time, comes into cash, you go down 6-0 and he's the one stepping up first and foremost
making sure you have a chance to close out the game 2-0. So I like what you're saying,
a modern player, you know, but also seems to have the head in the right place, which
is a big issue for a lot of these talented players, especially when they're young and coming up the ranks.
I also want to say on that Captain Kerr Klutz, right, the thing with that was crazy. It's so
hard to reset your spray when you're mid like that, right, when you're just going down and hitting it.
I'm civil about that.
That's the one person side doing it, but I mean doing it with a rifle and getting it in and he was so happy
He was so energizing that interview right he he was still
Reliving these moments despite it being so long ago within that series. They just beat my telly
They just beat my telly and you can argue. Yeah, it was with jail and yeah
I tell you may not be the best shape right now that goes without saying given the last three tournaments
But you beat my telly you beat the team that is currently number four five in the is as you said as well James
I think they jumped just in isolation five places from this win. They have a pretty good shot at getting another one in this tournament
Maybe you make the playoff at a tournament of this caliber. So he should be very happy. He should be very energized
This is a massive win for for inner circle
And even if they were to lose the next two games and get eliminated just beating my tally's getting those points for VS
You spoke about it Casper how stressful it is to continue staying in that race in terms of them making the major
that was a massive step in the right direction.
100%, like, I think they can even afford to lose to one of the big dogs here
and still come out with a surplus of points,
which not a lot of these teams that comes to the tier one events can take with them, right?
So, yeah, like, it's CSGC today.
If one of the teams has a bad day,
it's close enough for one of the guys below them to actually beat them.
To make a jump up and a very important jump up.
Well, that's all we've got within this series for now.
We're going to a quick break, but when we come back,
I've got something very exciting to show you guys.
Stay tuned.
Orphas use a gun that nobody else uses, it's the biggest resource in the game, it's a one-shot
gun, so it's bound to have high impact.
Top Orphas get the credit they do, because not anyone can do it.
A top AWP is the player you're going to remember because they're going to get the best highlights.
They're going to be really, really fast.
You need your AWPer to perform if you're going to be putting as much resources into the AWP every single game.
I think the role has evolved in a few ways.
When you go all the way back to the start of CSGO,
we had super combat AWP.
Kenny F is the best example because he was so mobile with the AWP.
The AWP got nerfed as a result, mainly of players like Fennyette, who were so aggressive,
who were always pushing, always in their face.
In the game that got nerfed that we saw AWPers be more ecstatic for a while.
Device is a great example of that, and someone who would pick their spot and stay in it
and be like a turret almost. This guy never missed the shot.
He was the most reliable AWP at the time really.
I think AWP by jelling is not easy.
Give him space, he'll figure it out every time.
There are very few cases of players who have made that work up at the top level.
There's a few factors, I think, that play into this.
When you're AWPing, you've got to be focused on your crosshair, as basic as that sound.
I think you have to have a lot more trust for your team in order to actually be capable to AWP.
It's interesting to see James still be able to do it, considering the whole narrative around his team
is how he has very inexperienced players that he needs to put in the right place.
But he's someone who is so passive on the author,
he's still gonna be alive in those late rounds.
He's more so playing for the clutch
while his team open up the round.
You typically just see an in-game leader be the first guy in.
I think if you're all pink, it's hard to be as involved.
Feels easier said than done.
But then you have also flash yorkers
that are a lot of fun to watch, people like Monosly.
Extremely exciting player in your face,
pushing through utility and of course simple doing the same thing absolutely
able to take over games with high-risk plays and bust on the simple best
moments dropping in from heaven getting to no scope kills give the craziest stuff
and you got away with it time after time when you're a top up as well you're
getting studied you're getting game planned for the fact as I was able to
find as much impact as he does is impressive considering there are whole
analyst teams trying to figure out how to not let this guy pop on a guy that
It never makes mistakes, the driver is extremely hard to punish.
There's different levels of walking, whether they're flashy, whether they're reliable.
They have to perform in the highest impact moment and there is no room for error.
If you miss a shot on the orb, you're going to die.
You're always going to take attention because there is no room for error.
And we are back and ready to head into our next game.
But our next game has a little bit of a delay on it and I got a plan for you boys.
I brought us back nice and early for this one.
Pym's got a confused look on his face.
Are you scared of what I might do to you?
Yeah, I am.
I know you have been around here for many, many years.
Usually not the guy who comes up with great ideas left, right and centre.
So I'm curious to see what you got for us, James.
Thanks, usually not, because I'm going to make this so much worse for you now, because I'm in full control.
Rugger, don't worry, you're safe.
Pimp is going to be my bully punch bag over here in the target.
And most of the community will enjoy me using you as a punch bag, I'm sure, right?
Unless they could mute me, you know.
One of those.
They won't mute this, because this is going to be great.
So, we're going to play a coach game.
As we've got Rugger here.
Rugger, what do you think the coach game could be before we get into it?
Psychic bias.
Naming coaches.
Naming coaches?
I like it.
What do you think, Pimp?
and naming washed up coaches, starting with...
Whoa!
It's kidding, it's kidding.
You can hit him.
I approve, no, actually it's on live on camera afterwards we'll hit him.
You've become a black eye, it wasn't like that.
Was it alright?
No, you both failed miserably, this makes it even better for me.
So there's many players we look at with great minds of Counter-Strike, but who could be
the next one to coach?
I've got this little graphic for us, we're going to go through a list of players and
And we're going to start with good old Apex in here.
I know you can't see Pimp, you're struggling with this, right?
OK, yeah.
But you can see the list of would it be likely for them,
right, 100% coach material, you know,
maybe a bit of a 50-50 in there.
Apex right now.
Now, the way I'm going to set this for Apex,
legend of the game, great in-game leader,
he can remember strats from 2012,
and still put it into a game now
and just put it out in the mid-round.
But also, he's about to have a kid, and if he did retire,
Would he want to go back into that coach's lifestyle?
You've got to factor these small details in, boys.
That's a good one, because I think when you put A-picks up as a potential in-game leader,
you'd say that's unlikely.
The playstyle he had, the mind for the game he had, he was a very hardcore intro-frecker.
I felt like he was a chicken running around sometimes and doing a lot of weird stuff,
but there was clearly some sense behind it.
Then he matured a lot as a player and became a great in-game leader.
So I would say unlikely back then.
I would say the same for coaching.
I think he's, at least that's the mindset I maybe also have and he's having as well
the fact that if you feel you make a bigger difference on the server, you can never imagine
yourself coaching and it's not to do you dirty here, Rucker, but it's not a secret that when
you were playing actually and we played together, you were not the best individual player. So you
have to find elsewhere to find impact. That's why he was admittedly a great ingame leader back then
and became a great coach. I think Apex feels he has too much to offer on the server and he will
continue to do that up until the point where he doesn't want to play anymore. And then I think
from a coaching perspective. I think he wants the feeling of having all the impact, you know,
not just a little bit, not just, you know, a couple of timeouts in a game. I don't think it's
enough for him. I think it would require a really, really good fitters in game leader.
Yeah. Like all the things you're talking about. But I'm also talking about the way he sometimes
acts with his teammates, where he can be really harsh on them, can be very emotional. Yeah.
And if you put an emotional guy as well in the driver's seat with him behind them,
I think it's going to be a really tough test, so I would probably put it in the second one,
give it a few years, because I see a lot of qualities that he has, like he is super good
with man management, which is by far like together with the strategic knowledge, a big part of the
job, so I would put it in that category. That was a dead resound of contract to 2028, I believe,
what about the title you just a couple of days ago? I'm talking about years, I'm talking about
in the future, when they do retire out of game. I'll say 50-50, I think I'm going to bootfosh it
I think it's a big 50-50, to be completely honest.
I can definitely see the qualities, I can definitely see him with the right mix and the right match,
but I think he's the type of player who wants more impact than you know, as of right now, can have as a coach.
Had it been one of the old-day scenarios where you could speak in all three times
and you maybe had a bit more of a say in every round and every situation,
I could see it more likely, but I think he's gonna feel that it's true far away for him to be in full control.
It's not a hill I want to die on, 50-50.
I think there are other players where it's more clear cut.
I like the 50-50, but how I imagined it,
because I like to live in a crazy fantasy world,
I'm seeing it as like he retires after 2028.
He goes and enjoys time with his kid, raising his kid for a bit.
He comes back in four, five years when the kid goes to school,
and then he's like, now I'm going to go and play in coach.
That's how I imagined it.
Four, five years in CS.
That's a long time.
It's fine. It's apex.
That's the long time.
It's apex. You can do whatever he wants.
All right, next.
One of your formers as well, Alexi B.
I would put it unlikely.
Unlikely?
Yeah.
Oh, why?
I don't think he has the ambition for like steering the ship if he's not playing.
Is that because also he does like the micro manager a lot as well?
I think it's more of a personality thing for me, like if I'm looking at, like obviously
I've talked with Alexio over the years, like if I'm looking back at the player I had since
I don't have him on a day to day basis, I would put it unlikely that he would go into
coaching.
Yeah, I mean, again, just judging from the outside tough to know when you don't know
the player I'd agree you know same philosophy I have with Apex I think he
wants a bit more impact I think he wants to be more in control and I think for a
lot of in-game leaders it's we have this idea that yeah they will naturally
transition into becoming great coaches but I think it's two different
descriptions you have to have different qualities. I think there's a way bigger
chance that he becomes the next big streamer in Finland. Oh okay yeah and
there is a good finished market for that as well I like that all right moving
swiftly on this man we know when he's retiring supposedly you know he could
They're definitely maybe not retired, he goes and wins a major or something else again.
But Foulon, many people would think of his years of experience, his knowledge of the
game and the scene that he could be a next great coach.
If he wants to, I think he would be a great coach.
I think he has the qualities, I think he has the perfect balance to his personality.
As far as I'm aware from everyone who has ever worked with him, they praise him for that
exactly.
Hard worker as well, very methodical, very thorough.
If you want to be a coach, I'd say it's a hundred and a coaching material guy, but
question is a guy that's been playing Counter-Strike for what, 20 years now, been around for so
long time.
Does he want to travel as much as you have to as a coach?
Does he want to work as hard as you have to as a coach?
People think that you're just watching the games, but you have to be part of practice
all the time.
It's a big workload and I'm not sure he wants that.
I don't think so, Javon.
I think it's too small of a role for him to consider it.
I think if he wants to stay in eSports, it's probably going to be, you know, at a higher
position somewhere making sure that for example the FURIA CS department together with whoever's
running it these days I'm not sure if it's Gary anymore like but that they know like that's the
direction he want to go I'm pretty certain because otherwise he would continue playing.
So it's a tough one right he's 100% coaching material but I think it's a 50-50 whether he works
right. Okay we can have him in two spots I'd take that but let's leave him in 100% coach material
because I think it fits for him it's not 100% he's going but he's 100% coach material I agree with
review boys on that one next. People expected it after he left phase, but he then went
in one of major. Mr. Carrigan, the greatest showman, but also one of the greatest minds.
That's a tough one. I think 100%. Yeah. Like there's a reason why he is where he is in
his career and has been through my career as well. Like I've played, you know, 1.6, 1.5
at the same years and like followed his career along the way. He's a 100% coach material.
And again, it's a question of do you want to once you put the fire of playing out?
Because this is what drives him.
Like that's the reason why he swaps from face to falcons.
This is because of it.
I agree.
I think he has all the qualities you need to be a great coach.
If he wants to, again, it's a delicate game to play right because naturally, if the guy
doesn't want to be a coach, then it's tough for him.
But does he have coaching material?
Is he a guy that I think if he dedicated his work line to becoming a coach, would he
be great at it?
A hundred percent.
Grinder, he's a guy that when you played with him in 1.6 sure he was good you know
When he came into to see his goal in the beginning he wasn't that great
You know then he just kept gradually getting better and better and better and he found way to and find ways to
To have a bigger bigger impact, you know on all the teams he's been in
Played with him a couple of times, you know, and I think we maybe have kicked him from two teams and
You know at the end of the day, you know genius, are you familiar? You talk about my decision-making
But he's the thing right at the moment that was the right thing to do and then the way
he reacted to being kicked you know it was okay I need to find a different way of finding
impact I need to get better at in-game leading I need to get better this is a player and
all of a sudden he's the legend of the game and the rest of us were stuck here with you.
I never knew that you and Nico would have so much in common but nothing to do with skill
just bad decisions.
And onto that it does line up nicely into Nico I put him here because you know he is
a leader and a captain in terms of quality of people and stuff around him. Could some of that
translate into coaching? Obviously many years from now because I know he's still,
he didn't heads pretty damn well. I'm going to go out on limb and say never in a million years.
I agree. It's not that he doesn't have the coaching prospect in there. I think he again,
if you dedicated to it, but he's too big of a player. He's too great of a player. And as I said,
normally what happens is in-game leaders are the players that is not necessarily the most
mechanical gifted guys. They then find different ways to find impact in the game and then specialize
at a certain area. He's just too big of a legend, too big of a player and I think he will never accept
the fact that he can't join the server and make the difference on the server compared to just being a coach.
Again, completely agree, but I think the the hidden question here is how many years he will have as an in-game leader.
Because I think that's for sure like not the next step as where he is right now, but in the future
it's gonna be in-game leader and I know I talked a lot with Hoekse when we were watching the games
and stuff and he also said he's gonna be the broil's best in-game leader when he wants to be.
When he wants to be, he needs to want to be as well.
So, Karrigan to coach, Niko to ITL, the whole thing comes together.
And they just win everything and have an era.
But Karrigan still wants to play as of now.
Next up, Kenny S.
I just put this one in there because why the hell not? I have power.
If there was a tier below never in a million years,
I'd put Kenny S into that one.
It's looking like...
Why?
Yeah, exactly. I've played with him, you play with him.
He's the type of player that is so gifted to the game,
not always a hard worker, not always the most focused guy.
I don't see a lot of coaching qualities in him.
He's a people's person.
He's very nice to be around a cool dude.
Could it not be a vibes coach?
No.
Okay.
Not in modern CS.
Not in modern CS.
I don't think so.
There you go.
Look, Rogus, stern, not on modern CS.
All right, so we'll put him at the very bottom of that.
And after that, we've got Chopper.
Now, Chopper's an interesting one because he's got that leap
for a CIS team.
People love him and trust in him of what he can do.
and I think he would be a good balance between a hard coach when you need to be,
but also good with the strategy.
I'll put him in the very top.
I think if you look at his career, like these things about reinventing himself,
we had it in Carigan as well, Fallen as well, going from opera to leading teams.
If you know how to reinvent yourself, you know it's because you have some perspective
of what you're doing, what's happening around you.
And trouble is the definition for me because I played, like not me, but my team played
the Vega squad that came out of nowhere, right? Get hit by a fucking bus and then all of a sudden,
you know, he's leading spirit to a major in. So, of course, like this guy, his resume says it all
for me at least and how his team has acted throughout his career. Yeah, big streamer now as well,
like he does whatever he wants to. That's the only thing though. He needs to lose streamer money
and failure streaming to become a coach because there's a lot of good money in that for him.
All right, next we'll go through these a little bit quicker boys. Bumich, I think 100% because
he's another one where he's reinvented himself, he's so good tactically and he showed up outside
when he didn't have played that he could still deliver and be a good RGL. It's tough for me to
speak on to be honest because I don't know the guy personally here and don't have too much information
on him you know I'd maybe be more inclined to give it a few years I want to see a bit more what he
can do as a player now that he made the comeback into coming and playing Counter Strike again so
I think just to balance it out a bit you know give it a few more years and then maybe he can
you know, progressing to becoming a coach.
I'll put him in the top as well.
Okay.
He is so strategic, smart, he knows how to handle big personalities,
like Lisbon, Stemple, and Eutronik at the same time, right?
So I think he's fit for it.
It's just a matter of like, again, is it exciting enough for a guy
that has been through the grind for all the...
I don't even remember the first team he qualified for the Major with,
but is that what he wants to do when he's done?
Yeah.
Want some bell fighters?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I kind of agree with both of you.
so I'm fine with where he ends up on this one.
Snappy, because Nipah's exploring options
and he is on the older echelon of CS playing at the moment.
He's done it for so long.
50-50?
I would say I can see a world where he would succeed massively.
If he gets a lot of power and the players coming in is 100% his own picks.
I like believing in him. He picked them.
A little bit like he was doing as an in-game leader.
Like if you find the right fit,
I think he can get a lot of success out of a team, but again if you put him in the boomage type of situations where he's been in with
Symbol and electronic then I think it won't be a good fit. I agree, but also what you're describing right here
There's only two coaches in the world who has that, you know luxury blade and sonic
That's something you have to earn your your stripes you have to earn your right to be able to do that
So it's a grind, you know coaching is a big grind and I don't know snobby again
He's playing Counter Strike for what 20 years, you know
also did quit his career for some time being, and then came back to the game.
Did it for a smart reason though, he went to university, got studies and stuff,
like I kind of agree with that. So 50-50, I like that for Snappy. Real quick,
James, Pym, go. 50-50. Again, I don't know the guy personally enough to be able to say if he can
handle it. I think he has the mind for it, you know. Big brain. But I think it's also like,
the players he's picking for his teams, they're very special. So if you want to be a coach at a
high level, I feel you have to work with a lot of different types of players. I see him working
with one style of players. I would say give it a few years based on the fact that it's the reverse
apex right that he needs the perfect fit in the chair in front of him as well like it cannot just
be a clone of himself. Okay. Then it'll be too boring. And also he needs to teach them what special
things you need to do before a game begins but less about that because that again isn't a dangerous
situation. And the last one are very own super big grain super knowledgeable pimp could you be a
Coach, Rugga, you know him better than anyone else.
Could he ever do it?
I think he could do it, but it would also
require compromising on something.
Because I think you have a smart brain for the game.
You're well-spoken.
You know how to be around people and stuff.
But there's always this fine line in main management,
whether you're too harsh or too soft.
And I think you need to find that balance if you enter a team
where you have to remember that everyone needs
to buy into the same idea and work towards a goal.
Well, I'll have my say on it, right?
I think he could want to be a coach,
but I don't think anyone would let him be a coach,
because it would be having to deal with him.
And he'd be surprised.
Him fired up, him being maybe too angry at times,
maybe you wouldn't be able to say the right words to make.
Like, say if you had a softer player
who can't take criticism,
you might just wreck his confidence
and he's never gonna play CS again.
Okay, let me rephrase.
I think if it's not in Scandinavia, then maybe.
Oh, okay, so give him like some CIS teams.
You'd be surprised.
I've had plenty of office going into coaching,
not interested whatsoever.
And part of the reason is that I think
I wouldn't be a great coach.
I think I could do a decent job.
I don't think I could be a great coach
and I don't want to do anything I'm not great at.
Furthermore, James, you know,
I think I'd be the type of coach, sort of like Jose Mourinho,
you know, who says that he makes strong players
even stronger and he makes, what is it,
weak players, he'll fuck them up or something like that.
I think that's sort of like my mantra.
If you're a weak player already, I can't make you strong.
If you're strong, I can enable you and make you even better.
I'll just tell you this, right?
If he spoke to me the way he speaks to some players,
I'd fold him up and break him in half,
and that'd be the end of Pint's life and career.
And on that note, thanks for the quick break.
He also can't catch me.
Bye.
A new French Counter-Strike has always stood out
in somewhat of similar just to Danish Counter-Strike.
There's always been a passion for the game
inside of the French scene.
There's been a lot of talent coming out of France.
Some of the best players in the world.
It's always been, like, a force to be broken with
in the department, and I think that their playstyle has been a really nice mix of being
extremely aggressive, but at the same time also having a high detective effect.
Talking in BK is always like a pivotal asset to whatever team you would be playing in France.
The likes of Kinesis has kind of the same story. Kinesis was also brought up inside of
Barragames. I think I played against Kinesis in his first official ever encounter, so talking
Sharks was always been part of the good team whenever they were on the rise.
Sharks always had some kind of Godfather role within the teams like a guy that has guided
the young players coming to Manuel. That's just like a cool story for him to play in,
and Kinesin at the bottom. The funny story with me and APC is that we were rivals for a long,
long time. He and myself, we shared the same kind of role. He was probably the more personant
of the two of us. We got reunited inside of Fatality. He had obviously taken up another role
of him being an in-year leader. He had this obsession with having a soldier,
which didn't fit my playstyle also, and that is what you see now with the lights of flames, you know,
and it works for him, so let's be honest, it's a great asset.
Apex's IGL style is, in my opinion, the perfect fit.
He understands and wants to try and utilize his plays in the best possible way,
like he recognizes and wants to figure out what strengths does not clear have.
He's exceptionally good at reading the game, not so much like in the micro-decision,
but more like in broad picture, like he always tries to be one step ahead,
and has like the same kind of leadership that you play with.
Apex was working off the system, where Apex has maybe created the system.
The Paris Major was obviously unique. We 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. I mean, I just made that very clear to them.
And I knew that if I could go out and be so confident about my feelings, then that would spark something within them.
I was so close to my own goal and we were so close to the team goal of winning the Paris Major.
there wouldn't be a world where we wouldn't fuck with this one.
They had this streak going for them right now, they have won six tournaments in a row.
It's got to be something within them that they want to try and beat our record back in Australia.
It's being the greatest team of all time. I mean, when the team is doing so good,
it creates a lot of possibilities to create some really nice storylines.
And there's no doubt that Batality is also in a position now where they can start doing that.
That will just spark something in some of the young players coming out of France.
You know, the Counter-Strike in France is not that big in the common knowledge.
But I think that's also changing now.
We've seen the president talking about vitality
and he's been wearing like a vitality shirt and everything.
So we see it with the 3D Max, you know,
a full French team, a team that has been grinding
to live in a lot of last season.
It was a pleasure to know for a while,
but there's also a couple of new guys.
Just overall, we will come in, we had a good prep, just enjoyed the game and I think we have a really good, I mean other than that Alda is a little bit sick but I'm pretty confident at the moment to be honest and I think it will be just, we will just play some good CS and just show some high level mouse CS to be honest.
They made some change and we think they get better with that. So it will be a very difficult match
I don't think it matters where the previous match if we win or no
So it will be a new one. I think
This is a game to get excited for because this is where we're looking at a 9z
I keep calling them the most exciting South American team
They've been grinding their way up the VRS rankings and they've been able to challenge some good teams
including one of them being Maus, despite them not facing this Maus at this stage
right with this lineup. I for the vast majority of time agree with you. I think
Nines is super interesting. Their fresh breath of air in top tier Counter-Strike
as well, where I guess they have established themselves. But the reason
results give me a bit of a mixed feeling around them, because I can
definitely see on the server what they deliver. I can definitely see some of the
progress they're making, but the win at tournament in China, the go to EWC,
don't play too well, don't make the playoff at the major, massive surprises
well and then they fall a bit flat at the playoff. It's hard for me to figure out
okay is 9C a team we can imagine being top five consistently or are they sort of
like G2 where they're consistently top eight, top nine. I don't know which category to put them in yet.
I'm really excited to see which one because they're one of the most exciting teams to watch
in the current landscape. Together with Foot as I've also said like the only thing I think that
that is holding them back from being this like tier one, tier one team,
is they lack one elite map, maybe even two.
Like they have a really, really good map pool, but they're lacking that one map
they can pick against, let's say, Maus, and then just straight up win at home.
Same thing goes against, you know, Spirit.
Like what do you want to pick against Spirit?
Because they're equally good, as it seems, on a lot of maps.
So that's what they can rely on, right?
And having that golden pick in there, turning the conversation to Maus a little bit.
Maus have obviously gone through this big change in there.
We saw them win the bounty, which was a huge win over Spirits.
EWC, things fell short a little bit here,
but I want to ask you guys specifically, Lurschen,
how are we rating his transition into IGL at first?
Because, you know, he still has these games moments where he's delivering.
I mean, from an individual standpoint,
I think his level of play didn't take as big as I would imagine,
which is a good thing.
Again, judging an in-game leader this early in the process,
I don't want to make any conclusions,
but I see why he could be a good in-game leader.
I see why he can play on a team like Maus
and be the spearhead of that team, you know, a guy that is willing to go in first, a guy
that is willing to create this space, but also have output, you know, sort of like
Crabini and Fudd, sort of the same style way of leading. So I'm positive, you know, I haven't
made any conclusions just yet, but if you're telling me your in-game leader is posting a 1.18
rating, I almost at that point doesn't care what he's calling as long as he does that.
Yeah, like if you put him back in time in the Danish heroic, you wouldn't be surprised if he was
leading it, because it's a lot of the same like ideas and ways that he thinks of the game,
Taking the gaps being one step ahead out playing you know with small sound cues and and set up with with util that
Catches the people of God and on top of that
I think he's one of the best in the current like landscape to have this like I know where the gap is gonna be and
Then exploit it to the fullest and I can tell you like we practiced in the beginning of the year
I think mouse seven or eight times and it's like
28 35
32 27 kids and there's a lot of it comes from finding this gap
that creates the second kill and then catches the third kill as well so for me
He's like an insanely good player that maybe didn't find the footing in the previous roster
Yeah, like to be the superstar when the games were decided and I think that's why there's also some exciting like
Prospect on him being the in-game leader because if he's in the in-game leader on top of it
And he can help set other players up
I think they have a really good recipe for success what is sounding very good. So let's hear from the man himself
surgeon here with an interview
You win Bounty, then you make top 8 at EWC and what that does is like the mentality and confidence for the team and players.
Well, I think in terms of results we are very confident. I think that we started the season off really well.
I think one of the better starts we had for a while now, in two tournaments back to back.
So, yeah, I mean for us it's just about not looking at the results but more looking at the road.
We want to enjoy the road but also put in a lot of work.
So, maybe after Bounty there was a little bit of overconfidence but I wouldn't say it was in a bad way.
way so I think we were still very grounded we worked really hard after
bounty at home even though we didn't have many off days and yeah I think that
it helped us to win it puts us in a position where we can have a really
good season now if we continue playing well and yeah we're just working on
improving from game to game. And looking a bit about you since your transition to
IGL obviously there were decisions and moves you would make in a game that
normally you'd make yourself but how much of that have you now given away to
other people and how much we kept to yourself?
Well, of course, I'm still in the very beginning of my career as an IGL.
We also have two new players, so we need to also understand what they like to do.
So in the beginning, I was maybe a little bit more supportive when I first moved to
be an IGL, but now we're starting to see that on some maps I need to still be in front,
because I'm just really good at leading from the front.
So it helps also the young players have chances to trade.
They have amazing mechanics, so I much prefer having them trade than me, to be honest.
So, some strategies I want to go first, maybe in a bit like a Karrigan way.
Maybe not as good as he does at creating space, I'm more focused on also shooting back and killing,
because for example Karrigan I think is really good at creating space.
I want to actually give us entries sometimes and stuff like that.
So, yeah, I mean just finding the mixture of me supporting and me going in first a little bit more right now.
Nice, well hopefully it works out and continues to work out for you guys.
And also I want to ask you, what would you say is the biggest difference between your calling style currently
currently and the Maus that was with Brolan in the past?
It's a good question. I mean I think that the system we have in Maus because of our
coach is very similar, that of course that he has taught me for five years now what I
know about CS. So a lot of it is of course down to him still but I think more in game
now there is a little bit more direction when it comes to mid rounds. I think Brolan did
his absolute best and we're also grateful for what he did, he sacrificed a lot. I think
I think I bring a little bit more leadership in terms of mentality and confidence in the
guys and yeah I think that there's a little bit of a difference of style because I really
like to mid-round call so I would say that is the biggest difference.
And you were helping out with that sometimes in the past anyway right from what we learned?
Yeah I was pretty vocal I would say.
Now looking at what he was saying there you were both making some comments during it Varga
let me start with you.
Address the concerns of what you were making of that?
If he sees himself going into great space like Kerrigan, then I think he misjudges himself a little bit as a player,
because he doesn't come gunsplacing at you. He's normally really good at taking his time, and by time I don't mean doing it super slow,
like 30, 40 seconds later, but finding the right time to do it, right? And that's what he's really, really good at.
Like I think his Inferno is one of the Inferno's that other players that wants to be better looks at, like how do they find the gaps,
What is his small tricks? When does he take the space and stuff like that?
So I think that was also what he meant that he wanted to still create the space,
but also be in front so some of the others can trade behind him.
Perfectly done. Yeah, I'd agree.
You know, he's not necessarily the most, I guess, aggressive player in that regard,
but people label him as aggressive because when he buys in, when he goes for the duel,
when he feels he has a timing, then he's 100% committing to it.
And that is seen as being aggressive.
So if anything, I think he's more explosive on the server sometimes,
we're having a good understanding of when to be.
And looking at 9Z, I want to give a little bit of what you were saying there, Pimp, is that
they had the XPL event that was after the player break, but they didn't have vacation,
so then they had vacation, they went to EWC without too much practice,
they got bonked a little bit by Magic once again and it's not ideal for them,
but now I'm guessing this is where we could hopefully see the best of them to actually live back up to expectations.
Hopefully, and that's my point, you know, I don't know where to place them,
but as a matter of fact, I know they're part of this tournament,
they're going to be part of the next tournament, and they're going to be part of the Major,
So they've established themselves already by now as a team that's going to be around for all the big tournaments
Yeah, whereas what four months ago five months ago not really a team
We were that familiar with you know still grinding their way through BIS
So they've already done a good portion of that hard job and as I said, I don't know if I feel 90 has the potential to be
An avi-esque team, you know our spirit is team or up in that caliber of team
Or if they're more like a G2 or more like a team, you know circling around seven eight nine in the world either way
It's way way better than I anticipated coming into you like they are the definition of a high-risk high reward type of team
Yeah, and you can write that like way for a for a long time until you find out it isn't working anymore
So they go into this season especially leading up to the next major like
What elements from the previous season was working really good for us?
And how do we balance it with a little bit more normal CS because we don't want to pain where they keep changing keep changing keep changing
But you need to find out what is your like DNA?
What are you really good at and for them it is to be a little crazy to disrespect the smokes to jump through on a flash like these
Type of things that will catch the teams off guard that are not used to playing against them
So go into hiatus South America for a couple of months come back and then just own everyone
Well with all of this I want to take a look at the video
I'm with this feature it can get interesting potentially here rugga because they know each other they play each
And they both like nuke a lot within this and no one likes the newbies
So it was a game of chicken chicken like who wanted to actually ban it and historically every underdog matchup
Must have been in they always ban it. Yeah
I like that I like that pig a lot, you know, we saw it a bit of EWC
I know the tournament in isolation for salt ride wasn't great
they played cash and I caught one of those games where they were in full control, played well,
could definitely see the idea of what they wanted to do. Mouse picking Nuke, you know,
that they're bringing 290. They're looking for comfort, because as I said going into this
veto before we talk back, this can get really uncomfortable really fast for Mouse because
picking Nuke, we only need to go back to the major where these guys were on fire on Nuke. We got
owned to say the least and Astralis against them and they had a massive win streak going. So this
This new pick is just not the easy pick.
It's a little bit crazy for me though,
because the last two times they faced each other,
open Rotterdam, Anastana.
Yes, it wasn't with the same five players,
I can say that all day long,
but 90 did win the nuke as well.
So, Maus just saying, we are better,
they believe in that.
It's because that map pool is all over the place
after losing overpass.
I was just about to say, you know,
the Dust 2 being the third deciding map against 90,
if you're Maus, it's not that long ago
they introduced Dust 2 to the map pool,
and sure they've had ups and downs on it,
but I don't consider Dust 2 as a stable map for Maus.
We're looking at Maus banning Ancient, right?
Yeah.
That is not something you would have thought about when
you look at Nynesee's Ancient, which is also not that good,
that Maus all of a sudden are so in deep trenches
that they need to go to Dust 2.
Well, because this is such a great leader,
I got to ask the players about it.
So let's hear what they have to say.
Yeah, I mean, I'm really happy that they pick Cash.
Finally, we get to play them up.
It's really looking forward to it,
to see where is our level at at the moment.
And yeah, I mean, Nuke has always been a really good map
for us, so one or two losses for me
doesn't define if I would like to pick it or not.
And you can tell me if I'm wrong.
I heard that you said you guys think
you're the best cash team.
Is that true?
I mean, at least I think so, from practice,
and also watching other games play, people playing official.
Of course, official is always different to practice.
But at the same time, I think people, overall,
the fundamental understanding of the map,
I think we have a good shot at being the best cash team
in the world.
But of course, there is many more games
to play for everyone.
He just picked up his balls and dropped them
on the table with that cash play like saying I respect it it's huge confidence but goddamn I love
the confidence and a lot of the fact that he's willing to double down saying once more but I
also did see a team that bowed out of EWC without playing the map because they didn't pick it you
know against any of the opposition so if you firmly believe that you are potentially the best team
in the world on cash yeah surely you bring it into the mix surely you force it into to the series
that you go into play instead of getting knocked out of on tournament from not playing it so as
As much as I like the bolsterness, as much as I like the statement, you know, you know me, James, prove it.
I want to see it proven before I buy into it.
Well, let's see if it is going to get proven, or otherwise, 9-0 will be taking advantage within this map very early on.
And guess who's getting all the cash today? It's Henry G and Anders. Enjoy for us.
Prove it, or Jacob will.
What will he do?
He'll do something. Anyway, yeah, I'm hyped for this one.
It's kind of crazy work to come in with a statement, we're the best cash team in the world, and they haven't played it yet.
I wish more players would make statements like this, makes it so much more fun because we're going to be on high alert, like you and I were going to be the cash expert to the end of this week, we've been watching it a lot now at a high level, it's exciting.
This is the first tournament I've commented on at, so I'm getting the reps in, I'm enjoying it and it's one of my favourite maps to play right now as well.
Interested to see what kind of ideas mouse bring to the table, like they said, they've probably got a new approach and they've watched all the demos, but they're saying that no one else would make that statement, but why would you?
They must have something up their sleeve, I don't know what it would be.
We're going to find out.
And the opposition picked it as well.
Yeah, you got to wonder if that will influence the predictions over at Polymarket to check it out
sponsor the tournament of course and I mean I you know
I have been watching a lot that main teams I've been watching Henry a 3d max and phase
And I'm a little bit annoyed at phase because they've come up with a couple of things that I was also coming up with
So now I'm worried that you know, they're gonna beat me to the punch
I'm wondering now that mouse are claiming that they might be the best. Do they have even more elaborate stuff
We're gonna find out right now as we head into the opening of the series here 9c versus mouse and I guarantee this will be a banging game
It's not gonna be boring
We've got a godlike map pool. We've got the best cash team in the world with mouse
One more can you ask for we've got to be rush to kick things off. There's LX insertion
Do nothing about it straight up be rush and it's and it works out quite nicely. Is there anything left to be said?
I don't think so
Georgie got his word cut out for him and that should be round. I say should have baited breath. You never know I suppose I
Feel like that is a very weird way to lose a round. That's a b rush
You must have to protocol and be ready and Robson in the last game
We showed us how you throw down those early smokes to stop them from coming through but in a pistol round
Especially how do you get caught off guard?
How is Celix falling back while his assertion is still kind of hanging around that checkered room?
It just looked like they weren't ready for that kind of speed
So there's nothing strategic about it from 9C, but sometimes that's all you need like a lot of footsteps and a lot of glocks.
I mean, it's simple, but very effective. They don't take any damage on route there. They had a bit of utility as well.
Once they made their way through, once smoke won Mollie, even the smoke somewhat missed and it was absolutely fine.
They don't take a single casualty. Great way to kick things off.
This is the pick of 9-Z, of course, Nuke next, and Gus too. Sick map pool. Nice C-Cash being chosen now, when it first came into the pool, understandably, people were avoiding it, but now we're kind of entering this part of the cycle where you need to start playing it.
You need to get reps in and no better time at the group stage.
That is a really good point, yeah. And, you know, especially, I feel like, if you can get some commander than that early on, if nothing else, you force other teams to veto it against you.
And the batting itself could be like a bit of a luxury.
We'll see. Second round.
There is an interesting couple of FAMAS on the other side there.
Not that much utility, of course.
I've seen this grenade all the time.
A couple of variations, like this one goes shallow, this one that goes deeper, you know, to the back wall where Spinks is playing.
You've seen both attempted. I think Spirit, we were talking about failing that a lot, but at least trying.
Ah, specifically Donk, but um, like if they won the map, I'm sure they would have sorted that out in the demo after the game.
No problem. Yeah
So all the top stand bags look down see
Nice little mid approach here bear mine is to force fire from mouse
Mid control has been granted
Nice protocol so far but surgeon. If I may and the bombs actually down towards a main as well
What is going on here?
They would go for that a split
Now on the back for a skill get the side the round sphinx to all maintain that man advantage
but they are fighting back in the 90s side.
Yes they are, DDT, you must convert this somehow.
Sidearms come out in the meantime,
and the whole bunch of them picked up and forced us to fight.
Torschey, well played on this one,
and obviously from House,
a massive return on investment for forcing up in that round.
I'm going boys, let's go!
I couldn't see the better myself.
Well, they are the best cash team in the world.
That's all you love to see.
I should be a 13-1 from here on out.
The thing is, I wanted to make that joke when they didn't stop to be rushers, and really?
I thought it'd be very petty of you, so...
We're just having fun.
We know...
You didn't really mean it like that.
Don't worry.
But it is good confidence. I do genuinely wish more players would kind of make these slightly more bombastic statements,
because it's fun, it makes the game more fun, you know?
Absolutely true. We want the personalities here instead of the boring PR answers.
It's not boring at all. We're going for the door rush here.
It's gonna be PR to defend. Only good for one of his galore, though.
The pressure of the trilogy not known to be a right flung as he will only be good for one here three on three this round is wide open
That's it is tech nine
Okay, that's pretty nice. That's cool good protocols deny that plan I
Think we briefly had this conversation on the last cash map that we saw but I think what you're gonna
See a lot of teams just play a retake a lot like double up in middle and just throw the grenades in like you can
and double knee that, you could throw the deep incendiaries.
Well, it's a little bit too close to comfort there.
Got to reload that M4 as well,
both of them heading towards a name.
Not sure if both were spotted, at least one was.
And for me, it's still on the helmet as well.
Luchov, can't get the follow up there,
but it was definitely an opportunity.
And if nothing else, I guess they get the bomb planted.
They get a couple of kills on that side.
So nine C, it was not completely without an impact
in this round.
They could force in the next round,
really wanted to they're playing quite a loosey-goosey game right now obviously to be rushed we saw a squeaky door rush there as well
You want to keep that pressure up to play surviving the thing is I don't think it's worth it
I feel like now you've got to take take the guy just giving the
Context if you really wanted to you could force it with the bomb blow
In a circle, I think the last game would have done that right they felt like they were on that kind of a
Vibe, but it's also kind of hard to get t rounds
So I guess if you spend your t rounds half buying or forcing up that's it just makes it harder overall
Yeah, you can't really apply that sort of pressure in MR 12
I think if it comes down to 1v1 you probably go for it
But no we're too surviving the money's quite strong for mouse regardless slight tech issue here
Yes, the chance to catch our breath. It's been a Rockham Socom affair right now with a couple of rushes
It's a long old desk segment the boys were doing shout out to the desk there
I know it grinded it through Jacob is out to get us
It's good to see the analysts finally doing some work
But they did put in a great shift there and you kind of ruined it there with that little comment
That was a hell of a shift.
It's Pimp.
He's getting to me.
He's always a little bit, you know, he's always out there.
You never know.
He's always going to snipe you with a comment somewhere.
That's what he does, you know.
Well, that's why he's the people's champion.
He's charming personality.
Yeah, that is exactly right.
I love him for it, though.
I think it's great.
He's got that heel character right down.
I spend the break.
We've got a popcorn machine in the studio, Henry.
Savory or sweet?
Savory.
Okay, that's good.
Sweet corn.
big fan of sweet corn is a different thing altogether all right well it's a
different not a corn expert Henry I'm just trying to I know it's on sweet
popcorn um you can mix them both up if you like that's that's the go oh really
okay that is the good right it's gonna say sweet and sour but that's not so
it's good I should have had a popcorn for the for the last game where I
kind of the ended up losing that was a popcorn worthy game that was cinema
Yeah, like the fact we had JL playing as well like this the aura he brings to the server
Yeah, and the vibes as well that has a really interesting storyline in general and then for the boys and in a circle to step up and go
That hard especially on cash as well
And there was six nil down on both sides of the server
It's easy and see and they still brought it all the way back so insane
That was that's gonna be a difficult series to beat. It really will be in terms of the fireworks
It's possible this one could do it. I really think both these teams are going to be locked in for a lot of action
I think the second game tomorrow is G2 spirit
Which is why we're tasting that as well. You gotta be ready to do that. You gotta be locked in. Yeah
I'll do to be wild. I'll skip the popcorn for that one
Bring the sweet corn. Exactly. Yeah some push-ups perhaps
I don't know somebody get myself going because that will be that'll be a fire game
I've no doubt about it
Not sure what the time-up is for but it's the first one that we hand at the tournament
So I guess we'll give you a little bit of a break get the get the admins up and running
I'm super enjoying cash as a map right now
I know some part of the community were complaining people saying nobody's playing it
We can't get it anywhere like into the pool
Well, that's the thing like guys make sure you get out there and play it choose it in your premier
Yeah, choose it in your your pugs online like it needs to be played. It's an iconic map like it was such a shame
We only had trained for what like five months or something in the pool like I know it was a brand-new version of as well
One of the best versions up train ever in my opinion and it was fun
And he just got removed out of nowhere
Hated that and normally that isn't something that like I feel like valve normally make changes very slowly like things kind of you know
Tender gone for a long time before valve get involved, but yeah, they removed it really quickly
You hate to see it. Let's hope cash can bounce back
Coming a lot more vogue last couple of tournaments. I'm gonna sneeze and it's hold on well you are allowed to that's fine
that's why we keep two sets of commentators, you know, cover each other. That's what we do.
The headsets are coming back on, so. Okay, we can all lock in now. It's great news.
Let's get up. If you are just joining us, this is day two, but this is the opening day of Group B,
a first game for mouse and 9Z. Mouse who have never played cash before. If you missed the
quotes from Zershin before the gaming game leader, he said he thinks after their practice,
They're the best cash team in the world
Well, that it's gonna be true. We'll find out so far so good up losing the pistol bouncing back nicely
I have a terrible relationship with players who have confidence based on practice games
I feel like I've been burned in the past like having high confidence like you went into a player at a tournament
It's a practice menu. Absolutely amazing. We've crushing everyone and then they just get completely destroyed
So I'm always worried about taking practice results into you know, the real world
but I do love the confidence regardless.
I think if you're going to be the best cash team,
surely one of the pillars of being that
will have to be controlling middle, really on either side.
So maybe that's something that we could focus on
when we get back into game, is kind of like,
what are the protocols for them
to actually get that mid-control here from us?
Absolutely. Different ideas and variations.
A lot of teams like to boost up in events.
From checkers, one save, shut down the rush.
You can also have a counter-boost,
and there's different versions of counter-boost as well.
You can actually, like, to know where you jump off
and you can self-boost and jump up.
a lot of teams are yes I can't do that but I know they boost up there and this
whole deposition of CT and just leave him there just parked up so lots of
different ideas variations interesting to see what kind of game plan we see
from mouse that's that counter boost is again is another sort of historically
iconic thing to do on cash but we haven't seen it yet you and I like the
CT seven really tried it you're right hasn't been super prevalent now no one's
really even given it a go I guess because like you said everyone's watching
and aware of it but I definitely can find some timings there looks like we still have a sound
issue in here issue okay well it is an essential part of the game many people have said so can't
really be playing without it I suppose well it's PR fans have shown up as well in the background
PR like for me like a pretty it's not bad um PR like is one of the most exciting prospects
of rifles right now like when he's on when he's in form PR is like an absolute monster
I love his game. It's so much fun to watch.
There are times where he goes missing a little bit, but honestly, I respect the fact that he's always buying for those kills.
He's always out there battling for it, so it's super fun to watch.
I mean, Sellex also, he seemed to be like he came almost out of nowhere, like thrown into, feels in pretty big shoes on mouse and honestly, he's been doing really well.
Yeah, fellow Hungarian there with Torgy, bit of synergy coming through. I'm sure he was influential in that pickup.
We are getting ready to jump back into cash. This is the first map of the series opening game in Group B.
9Z picking cash, Nuke up next and then Dust2 if required.
I'm not really sure what to think of this one. No 9Z can be a powerful team. They're knocking on the door of the top 10 all the time.
They take some big scouts every now and then.
But you've got to say, Mouses are the favourites here, but with this unknown quantity of cash, as usual, who knows what could happen?
I mean, obviously, most notably, 9C taking down Vitality at the Cologne Major. That was wild.
But I feel like one of the things that happens to some teams when they have these really incredible major runs, at least in the past, is that they just disappear immediately afterwards.
I feel like 9C have kind of kept up the fight. I feel like they're doing a good job.
Obviously the Austin Major, the 9C of that tournament was a legacy playing insanely well and I think they did stumble a little bit afterwards legacy but I feel like they're bringing it back now like there's time to get dangerous again.
Legacy won't even supposed to be there.
They won't even supposed to be there. Shadow the best here one time.
What is best here now? They still going? They still cooking?
I don't know. I'm still tweeting I think is there.
They did like it so much these days.
They did like it so much.
So, in terms of the final, let's just go for all the fill here, what the final is looking
for for 90 in the next round.
So they won the pistol, ended up losing the following two, couple of rushes in the mix
and we said there's a world where they could force buy but looking at the cash now it would
be more of the same, loss bonus, not necessarily established just yet so 2900 per player.
If you did force buy it's a mix of glills and pistols so I don't think they'll be doing
that.
You could definitely justify a little bit of investment though, some PT50s, maybe a
bit of Kevlar. Do you like those? A deagle or two perhaps, but that's what we're looking for.
As we get back into this one, momentarily, plenty of games coming up today as well. Four
best of threes almost every day here at Barcelona. What are the next couple of ones you've got? Any
bangers? Legacy foot, that will be a good game. Well, I'm a massive foot fan, so... You've got a
foot fetish. I'll own it. I have to own it. I think this team is amazing. Got a big investment
personally in Edux I think he's just an absolute solid player and again he's so young. First
time I started commenting last year he was still 16 and yeah I just I think this team still has a
lot going for it so I'm excited and they picked up X-Flight as well which is that's kind of out
of nowhere but not necessarily I think a bad pickup X-Flight's been grinding for years to stay on top.
In fact they made it to the final EWC you know that's kind of nuts I think that was X-Flight's
first ever grand final. Yeah. So new boy joining the squad seems to have raised their stock,
another grand final for foots. Really cool. That'll be scrawny and launderers to take you through
that one. So, you know, you got that. That's pretty good. That'll be able to handle that I reckon.
I've got faith, I've got endless faith to be honest and then. Falcons led vision. Now that is, I don't,
I don't think we can really sell that one. The thing is, I'm so frustrated because there was,
At some point last year, I think you and I were in Belgrade watching some of these Chinese teams play and I was so caught up in the moment, both Lin Vishen and also Tyler as well.
And also Tyler, they both played so well. I was like, this is the Chinese...
Well, in Belgrade, Chinese teams play very well.
Anywhere else, they don't seem to make much damage, to be honest with you.
But in Belgrade, that's their home city.
Let's move some more tournaments up there then. Let's get them.
I'd like to. It's a great place. Always add fun there.
Because I mean, this is the thing about the Chinese contract, they shoot so hard, like mechanically, they are demons.
That's true, but they make mistakes in, you know, when they have like the advantage and it's just very frustrating.
But then again, Falcons, you know, they've been stumbling a little bit too, so they're not an indestructible team.
I mean, in the Major, but...
Yeah, once you win the Major, like, there's a curse that comes with that as well.
Yeah, you never really have to keep that going.
Um, but yeah, I feel like they're obviously the favorites going into that one.
I got to speak to Kara again a bit yesterday, like, they seem confident, like,
I think he mentioned who they had to play next, who he was worried about, who they were playing next, if they get through that.
Does it even mean anything to be the favourite to the station?
That's it. You have to play the winner of Legacy of Foot. That's what he was worried about.
First match is not a problem, it's the second game.
That's fair, that's reasonable.
But I mean, we had Navi lose yesterday, we had Vitality lose today.
It's true, it has been a lot of favourites.
The favourites aren't doing so well. They're not really coming out that hot, although shout out to M80.
That's obviously a tremendous victory.
That was massive.
even though G2 Aurora game G2 win but that was also a fantastic series one to go check out. It was
that was Inferno and Anubis. G2 dominated the first map but the second one of Anubis they won
nine rounds in a row to bring it back a 12-7 score line. That was a lot of fun and we're hoping
this series will deliver as well. Thank you for bearing with us. We are back into the action.
First map between Nynze and Maus should be the eco here and I'm not seeing any Kevlar so yes
confirmed. Trying to get the bomb down if possible here. You know the score by now.
So deep. That's how it's done. Pay attention. Torch it down to 62, it's nice. And you're right,
that bomb plant, especially with the smoke kit combo or a smoke flash combination, I suppose.
Oh man, don't need a kit on the T side. Don't know why that's in my brain.
There's a lot of weird things up there, Anders.
Big true.
So, just trying to see if anyone will get impatient, over-commit to a duel here.
There's one.
Zershin will be the first in the chopping block.
Why so big we'll find him.
This should be all they get.
One more.
It would be fantastic with this kind of bite.
We've got that deep position from Zellex, I believe, yeah, talked about this a few times.
So difficult to clear this out unless you have the Mortoff.
You really have to commit to the check.
What I like about this position, especially if you've got another player in front, because
you can play that mind game, you kind of see one CT running away and you just don't think
that there could be someone else there.
Not really a requirement in this round.
Oh, hello.
Man, that's a nice shot.
You said you just wanted one more for the extra damage here.
If you get another one on top of it, that would be truly spectacular on the side.
side of 9C, winning the round, not really an option here, and she alright, taking care
of business.
Bit of a slow round after the tech time-up, but now we're back in business, 3-1 is the
scoreline, we're getting into round number 5 here, and 9C, it's time for them to show
us what they've got on the T side.
Let's find out, oh she's pick up an AWP, there's not gonna be one on the T side though, so
I'm gonna have that early weapon.
I'm more interested to see the protocols on the CT side if I'm mouse.
I'm gonna be deploying the CT spawn mid smoke.
Gonna see Molossovs exchange here either side of the equation.
Extinguish smoke towards boost to allow them to make this play.
First kill, gonna be coming in.
PR lucky to be alive here.
Mid control granted but not for long. Good response with the HE.
5 on 4.
You want to reset the round now. Let them have middle round.
There's got the man advantage.
Maybe we can commit to the next move, we are, don't mind that at all, he has low HP as well, managed to get a ding, he looks at the round, wouldn't see much done, thought he just needs to stay alive here, oh my nuts, good god.
Gotta be careful playing against that back wall, his shadow is going to be showing, if Nian takes the peek here, oh that's a shot in half isn't it, Nian looking to get the jump on over, he's inside of a smoke once again.
I thought this round was going to be done already, and the man goes down, it might be, because Warrzelpik just doesn't have the health for it.
13 left in a 1 vs 2, they know that Toshi's in that corner.
If he can bring this down to 1v1, ideally get Spinks first, he probably wins it with a low HP.
There he is.
Finds one in the open, headshots required, he can't get it, Spinks saving the day, late kill, but that starts as a 5 on 3.
So the fact that it ends in a 1v1 is kind of scary for Mouse.
the problem is they can't really capitalise upon that fact because they didn't get the bomb down.
So it has to be a partial buy here so then I think now it's very likely to top of the bank accounts once again.
It was looking like a very promising round.
Alright, so they've got a bit dicey towards the end here but there's no real danger of his fix.
There isn't that 1v1, TPH.
Nice indeed.
I'm using two molotovs in the back to get rid of the AWP but the fact that he has a smoke,
I mean, you could just stay alive kind of forever.
Who's shooting at Selix?
I think he got spammed at a start.
Might have been.
Like a tech nine thing through the window?
Maybe it's team damage.
I could work it out.
I could work it out.
I could work it out.
I could work it out.
I could work it out.
I could work it out.
It just might have been a teammate.
Well, he's in a great position right here.
Gotta be careful.
There is someone on the other side of the smoke
and you don't really have to find those guys.
There he is.
There he is.
He's in front of the teammate.
There we go.
All right.
Nice adjustment.
And Spinks is unstoppable.
He is 9, make it 10 and 0 right now, so it's a pretty good stop for him.
That's the problem for 9z.
Spinks have been finding some great individual forms for the last couple of tournaments.
And if you let him get going like this, his confidence is going to be flowing.
You have zero information as to how Maus played this map.
Also true.
Like, if anything, that's an advantage for Maus.
I'm sure it's there.
An inaugural showing.
First official, but that means there's zero information.
I think 9-Z have only played one official on it, to be fair.
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
But still, the fact you're going in the dark here,
that that's a scary prospect against team like Maus.
Count the pound to think easily,
you'd say they've got more firepower, more experience.
Some moment they would look like
Xelix is going to get shot through the smoke,
but I really love those aggressive B pushes.
Not that you have to do it every round,
but we talked about that sunroom as well,
like if you could get out there on the CT side,
oh, it gives you so much space in the middle
and the A bomb site to work with.
Yeah, if you're brave enough to try and get there and you successfully make it to Sunrim and leave you
It's a lot of pressure on the map. You saw how he is holding the potential vent drop as well
So the enemy B split comes in. He's still in a powerful position to handle that
Look at the lineups. Yeah, this will be very every team should be using that line up. Yeah
So it means you don't the joggle you made so much you get towards me
I said in the first game to do the smoke and the Molotov you can just focus on the Molotov or incendiary I should say
I think they failed the incendiary to jump up here because Luchov. He's not supposed to be able to jump up this quickly
Normally, there would have been one landing right on top, but I think it went a little bit too deep somehow.
Oh, nice peek from Piardo. Failed and sin here. You're not. Waso peek is dead.
And this smoke at the top of highway, it does give a bit of space. They're going to blow it open.
There's more than ready. Piye gets his head removed. Signs his own death warrant with the HE.
See whether we can convert this. 4 on 4 in favour of 9-Z.
give us something to talk about, it's going to get excited as we will hit the one-minute mark.
They don't have much map control, they are heading towards B.
Yeah, and that's what Torsche is with the AWP. And since they're not coming through the event,
he might just get a clean shot. He's going to fall back. He's not quite sure,
because that is that there's a real risk for him. If they come through checkered, then he's in trouble.
Now he's backing all the way up, and they do not have the Molotov, so they might just be peeking
straight into this AWP. We'll see if they get a good flash off. Smoke goes in towards that,
to main entrance to be here, but the difficulty is pretty good.
And with sub 40 seconds, this is already a little bit tricky here.
Torsche hasn't announced himself yet, in fact, his rifle has taken away all the attention for him.
Xersion finds a hatchet on man, and yeah, this was a little bit slow for 9C,
and Maus have read the situation really, really well.
Maybe they are the goats.
They might be.
It's looking impressive for the minutes. 18 seconds.
Okay, the rounds somewhat alive, actually.
That's what we want to do. It's a couple of quick kills, but this could happen. This is the more all important frag
That's you gotta close things out really nice. I have to say
Yeah, absolutely agree that smoke coming down just before they committed to the bomb site
Well, that was already over unfortunately
Good tribe at six one
Aggressive of course is PR
The timing
Not a good feeling.
That was the all-important kill from Zelex there.
Another partial buy. Seems like they haven't really got going here on cash.
They won the pistol, and the B rush was nice.
But, um...
I've made too many gun rounds there, not too many plants.
The bomb's only gone about once, and now it's around to three.
But look at the aggression in A main, even if they're not necessarily pushing it right away.
Just the deep smoke in the incendiary there.
So P.R. really trying to make sure he's limiting the map as much as he possibly can.
Another protocol I would say, run that as much as possible.
If you can get in the position where you can drop that,
you still have to have a main control that is so powerful.
See how much information that you get about what's happening outside of B,
because there's not a single T player there.
Smoke starts to go down, but Spinks, he is ready with the AK,
and should be an easy fight.
He's so out in the open that from the point of view of Luchov,
that's a big off angle. They might be Molotov-ing at the forklift but there's
nobody there. I think they're waiting. Wasupik is gonna be able to throw that
one in and the problem is could they get real Toshi in the back. He's still got
some good utility and he's got a teammate with him as well. Let's PR up on this
railing. Toshi waiting for it here but the fact that he's got his teammate in
position. Tell you what is what Henry you can Molotov that position from outside of
bomb site. It's true. 30 seconds on the clock. Oh, Spinks. He's unstoppable. He's not dying yet.
Torsche gets a kill on to Mayen and this round has fallen apart for 90.
Just an unstoppable defense being put up here from Mouse. Yeah, I think we've seen enough.
Mouse are the best cash team in the world. Ready to call him the gold. I'm ready to call him.
I like it though. Well, there we go. Um, yeah, what can you really say about this one? If you
You haven't killed Spinks once and we're into what?
Random at nine?
Now that's a problem.
That's a massive issue.
We want to see a bit more.
The next finder got a kill, but he was, I think, 0 and 6 or something like that.
So he's putting it together now.
They need more than a little bit here.
They need to get up to something like 4 or 5 if they can.
Would like to see if there's a bomb plant at this point.
Okay.
Setting the bomb really low, but I like it.
Yeah, like they haven't got close to it at all.
At all.
The one round the bomb did get planted, I think was that squeaky door rush.
Which was a close round.
To be fair, but everything else has been pretty pedestrian one-way traffic.
Time's running out for them to turn this around.
A lot of money on the mouse side, they're gonna be fighting against.
I'm trying to stop PR from getting this control early on.
Yeah.
That's what they're trying to shut down now.
Realizing that he cannot have that sort of control on the CT side, throw the molotov,
deny the entrance.
I wish someone would push weak just to see what happens to PR if they try and open the
door but, um, oh, he's playing with his back turned into it and they flash themselves there.
Swing towards highway
We'll actually be the killer available, but not gonna happen this time. Spoke down towards highway more top of the Z-holes
Oh look at the push in from street door. He's might be able to get wassup. He can deed he will
Grenade was thrown in from wassup. He so they knew that PR knew someone was gonna be out there
Root trough trying to get close, but look at the three way crossfire
Try and back up
That's round
Like your best bet now go through see I suppose
But you've got such an orally patrolling the B storage area. So yeah, go through the Vex, you know a one is a lease
Doesn't have to commit to that five bad start shouldn't make all that much of a difference nice Alex
No reason to take it along a bomb block
You could say you wanted one it would be more fun if me and had a teammate here
Yeah, not saying it's impossible, but it's highly unlikely mouse look very disciplined
You can see it in Stalix not taking the fight early on.
It's gonna be Spinks, of course it will.
Another double kill, he's up to 14 and 0.
Don't know what the record is yet,
but it's looking pretty good right now.
How many perfect games have we had historically?
If you know, tweet at us, give us the intel.
We need to know.
How many of them did?
Could be transdivor.
Whoever is working on stats,
whoever's crunching numbers right now, let's have a look.
Henry, you brought up this in the last patch map that we saw, this idea that if you lose the mid-control you just try and take one of the extremities?
Exactly, yes.
And that's what they did in this round against the USOP, so just to remind if you weren't watching it, I think it's a good principle to work on.
Absolutely true. You don't have to have mid-control, it's similar to what we say around the sort of bombsite, let them have it, it's have a good reaction, have your protocols in place.
Right.
If you do, if you, sometimes it executes, it's like middle on the Nuba, so if they drop all the correct Molotovs or smokes, sometimes it's nothing you can do.
Yeah.
And it's okay to sacrifice middle and find information elsewhere.
I like that, that's going to be something that we'll be watching for how
World teams are just losing for the one part of the map, get to pick up another one here.
It's the little learning days.
Round number 10, ladies and gentlemen, it's 8 to 1!
He's going down here for sure. He's going to die.
Are you sure about that, Spinks?
He's got PR there for the backup!
Alright.
God mode enabled.
Yeah.
That's not even a thing to use to anymore.
No, true.
You can only you can activate the regen. What's regen it just means if you take if you're running around with SV cheats on
And you take like grenade damage you just regen your health. I didn't know that well
Good bit of trivia there for you guys
They took so many commands away from us
You can see us too. I don't know why
They changed exit to quit from absolutely no reason
Well, we might be quitting cash
momentarily it stills like we're kind of done.
9-1.
It's locked in.
I don't know what you can do with this one.
You've got to give it a go.
Yeah, I mean this boost is absolutely fine.
But again, it's very telegraphed.
Look at the forward positions again.
On the B side of the map.
It's a good headshot though for Wassup.
You're going to need one more of those,
but this railing is very, very hard to deal with though.
I think it's Spinks who's up there.
See if they can swing wide enough to clear it.
Eventually the best they can to kind of track everyone.
There's a spray. Finally, he goes down 16-1.
That was the trick, that was the moment there.
That killed towards the fancy footwork from Zershin.
Closes things out and finally spinks.
We'll be thwarted as you can stop researching the stats now.
We're not going to get the perfect game.
16-1.
It's look pretty good.
I mean it's not bad.
I think the, uh, the boys in the desk were doing the, uh, the blast fantasy on day one.
They picked things. I feel like it was a topic conversation.
Guess what about it?
Playing very well recently. Um, to know as well, we had Donk yesterday.
Get 18 kills in the first half with cash.
Yeah.
See if that can be replicated here.
Couple more would do it.
Let's get this back to life.
Another opening kill.
I don't think I'm going to check the stats.
I don't think they've had a single opening frag here, apart from the pistol.
But they might not have.
It's scary.
Very hard to get into it.
Again, they keep getting the mid-control, Nancy, but it is by design.
Mouses, fine, you can have it.
Look at this.
One opening kill.
Oh, that was the pistol.
Okay, well that's we've identified another potential problem with the nine CT side
And also mouse surrendering middle in favor of just holding the extremities they'll take it
Inside of the B bombsite we have Celix with an AK and some good utility
Zershin borrowed away into what's checkers
Max does have a molotov. I mean would you use it for that though?
I don't you don't have the resource you need that for heaven
I would say yeah, you just might hasn't thrown it just yet. Torshe's dead, but
There's still that little look there is a grenade in there, but is he gonna be able to step out every time?
Needs the wide swing
And ready to move
Double and you know what? It's a bullet away from that triple DGT on just 17 health
Okay, best chance they've had to pick up a gun rounds two versus two
Now, certainly with the advantage with the HP and residual utility here as well, both players coming in from Heaven.
Can DGT hold on? Can not touch that incendiary? One tick and he's going down.
Yeah, he has to stay very honest inside of this one here to get a good spray, but almost able to take down Spinks.
It would have been a great kill if he could have. It's going to be Max to go down next.
He's really been struggling. Two kills in total for him, and the retake is smooth as ever for Mouse.
10-1. Well, what can you say about this one really? I don't know. They did warn us. I mean in fairness. Yeah
They said it was going to be great
It's kind of a ball of move to say before you even played one official
Where the best team in the world and then you lay down this sort of performance not against
Any bums or anything like that? This is like 9z huge results this year knocking on the door
I think they're 12th in the world
And this is a strong team and they are not even getting a look in right now
And they picked this map, by the way. That is true 90 wanted this punishment
They opted for it and this
More than they bargained for and then you've got a mouse classic up next a bit of nuke
I'm excited for that. I
For a long time mouse have been a fun really fun team to watch on you
So even throughout like the different changes like the different in-game leaders and all the rest of it
I feel like they've always had that map as sort of a core of it
Well, Spinks popping off the way he is right now.
One kill away from Equaling Donk, so it's all from yesterday.
18 kills in the first half.
Yeah, well, it's the final round, so it's now or never if you want it.
Time to step up, time to lock in.
10-2, I mean, a requirement, of course.
I don't think it would save them, though.
Look at the push again coming up from the other side.
It's actually Torsche pushing by the AWP, that's crazy.
Alone, no backup, and he finds Wassupik.
Yeah, I mean, too much fun now.
You got such a buffer in terms of rounds.
Yeah, you can start taking these sort of risks.
You can start disrespecting your opponent.
And now, his teammates have no idea
is Torsche still coming?
Yeah, he is, but from a completely different angle.
It's time it whistles by.
Don't mind, we have got presence towards Sandbags as well.
Torsche, you want to take all this aggro for this reason.
There it is.
We're at the 19 kills, Nylandis.
You're right. They're just all looking into the flashbang as well.
It's such great play.
He's scoping, he's stepping, he's really selling the idea.
Man, he's gonna go down last 11 to 1, ladies and gentlemen,
at the end of the half.
We're at the Asus ROG Lab.
It's Maui Snake and Voo.
And we're going to be looking at some clips of pro players from last events.
And without the nameplates, we're going to try to guess who created the highlight.
And it should be easy because we're looking at it in lightning fast refresh rate
on pristine color from ACES ROG.
We're going to be keeping score.
But once you make your guess, you are locked in.
Keeping score. I thought this was just for science.
Science and fun.
All right, let's roll the first clip.
I can tell you that this one is phased from 2025.
Who has these gloves?
Yeah, so weird skin combo.
Doesn't Brokey have...
This is Brokey.
It's Brokey. Lock it in. It's Brokey.
It's like, they're gonna lose this map.
Yeah.
He thinks about Glocksland, I tell you, he doesn't.
He walks around a connector and then he goes to someone
and everyone's like, Brokey's got it.
And then he's right back to Gankin' Pump.
All right, this one is the Huns 2025.
I know who this is. I can't remember his name.
I thought it was Score.
Maybe it's the only game I can't remember right now.
I don't think this is Score.
Okay, yeah.
Someone else.
Okay, if we can't remember the name, I'm going to say that what happens next is he doesn't
get a whole bunch of Eagle kills and makes one of the best clips of the year.
I was watching this in my mind, but I can't remember the name.
Nine.
Next up, Furia, 2026.
Oh, this is K. Serrano. This is going to be the pistol lace where he flicks right.
Oh, this is such a sick clip.
It's one of the best highlights of the year.
I think it's four kills.
Let's hit four.
It's like the bounty, right?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's something like nine.
Yeah.
Yeah, it moves.
Oh my god.
Next clip is going to be Vitality from 2026.
Yeah, the side will flick.
Oh, yeah.
The side will flick.
The one he purposely looks into the wall when he peeks
so that he can flick really hard, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a gratuitous flick.
So that's what this falcon's 2025.
All right, I'm taking Kyosuke.
I think it's Kyosuke five kills.
Yeah, I'll give this Kyosuke four.
In decision in the action.
Nico would have already thrown the nade.
It wouldn't turn around.
Randomly swinging around shooting.
That's Kyosuke.
Yeah.
Yeah, just looking for fights all the time.
Well, GG. At least the highlights were incredibly clear thanks to this ASUS ROG. I agree.
Welcome back to the blood bath that is mouse versus 9z. The former posting 11
rounds on their CT campaign switching over now to the T side. Bear in mind this is
the pick of 9z as well. Just two rounds away and it could be a very quick one
here on cash. Could be it has been so far. Mouse crowned themselves the kings of
cash and here we are 11-1 in their favor. Never seen anything like it but I'm
excited for it. The only problem is we might not get to see a lot of their T side if they're
in the pistol then it's kind of going to be a bit of a mystery for us. See if they can land some
shots here, 9C, give a bit of runway, just start to get something going like individually.
The most we have is six kills on DGT so they just need to get something warmed up and that's so
what's the peak? He's always good for a couple of shots. And taking out sphinx that's got to feel
amazing right now. They're trying to bait Zelex in with the sound cue. Hey Nari's that important kill here.
Both CT's swinging at the same time and nice work. That's right, well I think we all know that
9CD did this pistol round desperately. I mean stranger things have happened. I remember a certain
game at the major where big were down 12-0. That's one of the against NRG. That was one of the
more painful games I've seen a long time. So I'm just saying it can happen. There's always a world.
It's the first official game out of the plate on cash. I'm scraping the barrel here and
I'm trying to find something. I appreciate that. You know you're really putting in the effort every
I'll say this as well just because you brought up that game I actually went back and looked at a
game like round by round yeah and there are so many times in that game where nitros actually
Calling great rounds. Yeah, I think it's it will be there were so many crazy clutches. Yeah coming through
I don't think it was that calling and he was just random timings that just work out for big like it's it's a wild game
So many ways, but correct. We've seen it before
Could happen again
There's an auto shot. That's gonna say Sphinx. What are you up to get an auto shot?
Sadi soldier, but no, did you do the drop the decoy?
Yeah, he did see drop the decoy with the other shock and then sold the shotgun your genius Henry this
Why would you do that? I don't know to suggest you're buying I suppose for the Lord. So I think we said in a week to
Yeah
Charles
You know what I guess what I'm like
But I guess if you know do something quick you wait for the first sound cue of the shotgun to go off
And then you know they're gonna be coming in maybe a little bit distracted. That's when you pounce
Maybe that maybe that's the idea. I like I love it. This is such a confusing like sound cue
he was like why are they having all two shotgun rounds here?
Yeah, you're running through all the reasons for what
and then while you're doing that, it's like oh wait a minute.
That's the only kind of practicality I can think about it.
But it doesn't matter.
That was the pulleco.
And this one won't be.
We've got AKs, a couple of Galils,
and enough Molotovs to burn out any bombsite that they choose.
They are making a run across and oh God,
he's nearly caught Selik's off guard there.
That could have been an early death.
They have an all-in position, if a max.
Very vulnerable.
Mayhem will be joining him from the vents.
One Molotov can make things very uncomfortable.
But if the position you tend to Molotov too often, we'll see.
Where's that smoke going? What was that?
Absolutely nobody knows.
I'm gonna go check it out. What the hell?
I'm gonna go check it out. What is going on there?
it hit like this there's this weird vent-like structure on top of the roof
that is super annoying here we go no Molotov into the corner like you said
max only good for the one though and man he's on the other side of the day he's
been Molotoved out so that's to be a little bit more respectful that means
there's just a clear runway to the B bombsite plant here and they still have
lurking in the middle of PR and I think that's for the ace of the sleeve right now
finally we need a torsion nearly double and we're gonna jump down here man it's
to be dead next and I think if you're 9c, the chances to wind around are dwindling pretty quickly.
But I mean they don't have any space to work with so they might as well go for this 213 to be honest.
He asked for looking in the middle, good spray down for Celex and DGT.
Could you do anything? It's the AK here. You know that he's could be in the corner and now
you've confirmed it. Oh it had shot but he pulls out the decal running out of bullets unfortunately
the M4 and Celex takes him down. Good triple, good clutch and a 12 to three lead.
should be curtains nine in a row required here on the CT side mouse looking way too strong individually everyone turning up especially
sphinx on 24 hours and have to do much in the second half but that should be it there will be money for the CTs nice once you can get one in that position
there's a reason you don't really play so much if you're going to and as you kind of want to on base you win you want someone kind of jiggling the angle
Right, taking like some spams like that's the only time I think it's viable
Maybe special with from us like it's hard
Oh, this is a check is my address
Chad has me telling this most games. That's a good one
Write it down. I'll make it to memory. I'll show it to you after this game. Yeah, I got that
That's that's what I'm here for
Henry G grenades
Right then we're gonna be seeing newt next you invented some stuff on that map
That's it. Oh, yeah. Well, when CS2 first came out, I was the first one to, like, kind of know so you could do the outside wall of smoke with just two instead of three.
Yeah. It's true. Okay, then.
He's dead.
No big deal.
I'm actually a bit surprised.
That's a nice attempt.
It looked like he was facing the wrong way or at least it looked like he was looking
away from a flash there.
Did you see for just a second?
But he's going to be alright.
55 seconds left and a full on execute.
D-Mollus off the wall checker.
They know no one's back there.
They need to get rid of this headshot position as well.
Max has found the defensive kill.
9C.
Every bit counts right now.
Winning the map is highly unlikely but just try and get some of the individuals online
I feel like you're actually in the server with Maus.
Do the wallbang from Luchov and E-90 picking up another round.
You're absolutely right there.
Make it frustrating for Maus.
Yeah.
Delay this as long as possible.
Get them bickering a bit.
Make them run some ECOS and it's not going to be a complete wide wash now.
Like 13, 5 or 6 is like not a big deal.
Like, although it is your map picker, it's a bit rough.
But just get as many as you can.
off the rest is the first map of the tournament and is I get this happens to
even the top teams yes we saw yes so yeah don't read too much into this
you know outside of B up on the ceiling there's this like mesh like wire mesh but
you can't flash through it and I have no idea why but you can look through it you
can't flash away through it and I feel like that's just a strange kind of map
They're signed, it's a little counterintuitive.
So people are bouncing grenades off the wall instead.
Um...
Eco round coming in, so there should be no problem here for 9C.
DGT playing far back.
He's got a smoke, even if they had a Molotov to kind of push him into the sandbags.
He's...
Put it down, it's not gonna be an issue, alright.
Sweet Eagle shots.
Man goes down.
Not like this!
No... I mean...
He's got to be careful, wasp, you're going to commit one way or another.
Oh, Stoereen, it was Sellex.
A blinding Eagle headshot takes him down.
And now Max swings for it.
It was way too much a glock this time.
What is this madness that we're seeing?
Lutroff now, the one versus four in Sellex.
He has crushed them in this final round.
What can you even say about that one?
They came into this server without playing a single official game on cash,
cash and they leave known as the best cash team in the world an excellent
performance especially from Spinks 20 to 5 it doesn't get much better than that
but we have got potentially never couple maps to go for now we'll throw it over to
the desk I'm not sure I'm gonna call them the best cash team in the world just
yet but that was one hell of a good performance from them Spinks during 19
and one first half heavy lifting in that one dominant and this crazy last
round you should never be winning a round like that I mean when all you got
I work with is a couple of vehicles and a clock. They know you should never lose around like that and to to build further on your point
Again, I guess that's the counter argument
Can you claim to be the best team in the world on cash when you've only ever played it once in your playing against the 9c who?
I found very in inspiring in this game not quite on the other hand
This is the first time you played and you you may handle your position
You go out before the game and say you think you're the best team in the world on cash at least based on practice
Or you have the ability to be so so I gotta give credit to mouse at no point in this game
at no point were there any tension, any, I guess, belief that 9C could come back.
It was a very one-sided map and, you know, let's be honest, it was 9C picking into it.
Yeah, if we can talk about meta already on a map that's brand new and only been
touched by a couple of teams, I think Maus is way closer to that current meta than 9C was.
Like Maus was taking all the gaps towards a, like, finding the small areas where 9C was playing so slow
that they were not like focusing on picking it up when the danger was starting to happen right
and that's what happens when you play a new map you don't have so many reps on it maybe you haven't
faced this playstyle in practice then all of a sudden you're going to an official and the alarm
builds just start from I think round three when Silex had all of B lobby after 15 seconds or something
so yeah definitely back to the drawing board for 9c but also shows strong showing from us. I think
that's an excellent point to make right for people who's been playing Counter Strike for many many
as we remember cash being a map that on the CT side you need to be proactive you need to take
away space you need to face the opposition early on in order to not make it too easy and on the
other hand if you're playing the T side and you get gifted all this space it's probably the most
T side of map we had in a period of Counter Strike where when we played MR 15 you'd argue that 12
rounds on the T side that's to be expected especially when you get all the space towards B
and all the space towards A it's such a hard map to just sit back and defend you have to do something
actively in order to disturb their position and 9c you know we didn't get to see much in the second half
But it was a very flat experience to watch them play it and even though we had such a one-sided crazy
And you still managed to find some moments in it right prim?
I mean we had to find something you know and I just wanted to show what mouse did so well in order to not give a 9c
Any any work condition any space here?
They they try to take mid control and obviously they wanted to use mid for something and when you have mid you can go either bomb side
But mouse a double peeking in towards middle you have PR coming in your speaks coming in and at this point
you are 20 seconds into the round you have a 5v3 at that point you can allow
yourself if your mouse to sit back and defend the bombsite. That's when you
gain the advantage, that's when you gain the information, that's when you
pressure the opposition to a point where if you're just trading one for one as
mouse is doing right here at the end of the day you'll end up winning the round
and 9c becomes pressured on time and Molotov on the board's bombsite, DGT
doesn't win this duel which he was supposed to and even if he did it
wouldn't have made a change because Mayan can't get the bomb down so in terms of
Playing the I guess proactive meta that you want to see you know take away some of the space whether you do that towards a main
Towards be towards middle you have to take away one of the avenues to put pressure on the opposition and must did that for sure
Like they were one step ahead the whole time and like what I expected nine C picking into cash
I expected pace. I expected them to take you know the big risk not this. Okay. Now we have middle early
Let's slow walk and see what happens. It's like if you want to play
9c style you need to embrace it because it's a little bit what we talked about
yesterday with the Chinese teams wanting to play like European CS like if you
lose that one thing that makes you special then you're just another one of
the bunch right so going into Nuke which they have been historically known for
being crazy on I also need to see it if they want to have a chance against
mouse slow down against mouse mouse is way too good at being corrective yeah and
then they're taking full advantage of all of that we do need to highlight spinks
though because this was monstrous. It looked like he could just do whatever he wanted when
he wanted. He came in sharp but also they were just feeding him one at a time. One at
a time. He was up in the field there. That's the playground for Spinks, right? Giving him
all these duels where he has an advantage, where you're walking through smoke or you're
not being disturbed by a Molotov or by a flash. When you just go straight to straight, aim
dual versus Spinks, we know his qualities, right? People sometimes forget how good he
as an individual. Is he perhaps sometimes a bit tough to slot into a team and hard to work with?
Do you sometimes want him to be a little bit more involved in the round? Share a thing,
but if you're growing up against him in a game that becomes about aim duels, where he's not
pressured by any sort of utility in any of these duels, then you don't find many players out there
who's more efficient than Spinks. If I can get this version of Spinks, I'm not too scared of him
losing the A side of Overpass because this is basically watching him play A side of Overpass.
If you don't pressure him, you come one by one, you try to play this like greedy default,
we don't really set each other up, you don't throw the flash in all the obvious
possessions, he will tin you up. Like he's way too good of a player to just be, okay,
let's see if we can find this timing on him here or there, like no goal, then he just destroys you
like he did here. One death, James, one. One death for CT side, 18% round swing. Just guaranteed,
isn't it? Yeah, it's pretty good, pretty good impact. Pretty good impact overall. Well, realistically,
I understand what you were saying about 9z, giving this up to Maus and that senses is possible, they can come back onto this nuke
But without too much to say on all this boys, I want to play some more games
This game though, it's just for my C market. We're gonna play some higher and lower as well
I had a lot of fun doing this before. Rogga, this is where we need to look at some skins
And we say if it's higher value or lower value
I had no idea
Yeah, I thought you were gonna say this to us, I was gonna kind of guess that you might be after this
I would like to say that I'm not a pro, that's more pimp
But I'm pretty good at when it comes to this, but you want to take the first one because this should be quite easy
Yeah, this would be higher no, yes
I wasn't sure
Sticker lower
There we go
Bimp, what do you got? Oh, no
Oh a mag 7 just what it what it's factory new though. It is factory new people like mag 7. It's called justice. Whatever it's picked out
No, it's gonna be as hell, man. I wouldn't wear that. I'd say higher though. You know probably higher.
Hey
Hey
Big higher. Okay. Big higher. All right field tested glock, but it is a nice glock. It's like the anime style
Yeah, you turn lower. Oh, no, sorry. I would also say lower. Yeah. Okay. Oh
We're cooking let's go let's go and a case higher
I
Failed us. All right, let's go again. Run it back. I would have said lower. I would have said lower
Okay, you say that now speak before there's a click to lower wall fuckers. That's all no fuck lower
Okay feel tested AK-47 surely I know
What do you think, Drugger, what do you think?
Yeah, they're all here.
This one has to be high, job breaker, I've heard that before.
Yeah, we like that.
Maybe it's something.
Maybe it's because there's so many of them I've heard.
They're just close, you know.
So I could do this game all day. Production, we're allowed to run it back one more time.
I just know my former players are laughing.
One more time, let's go!
I love it because I have no idea of skins and they know it as well.
Neither do I, I'm so bad at it.
Okay, higher.
Lower.
Higher was right.
There we go higher yep nice lower. Oh, yeah
Okay
Feel tested people hate MP9's
And there's so many
Higher controversial
I thought people will hate it. Well, there we have it. Thank you
I see a resense.
I told you, there's so many in there, but you guys can play along as well.
You'll probably do a lot better than us.
We are kind of boomers compared to you Zoomers out there.
At least with where we're sat right now, we're moving into Nuke next.
I just want to say, for you guys looking at this, can 90 bounce back?
Nothing about the map, but do they have it in them after getting trounced like that?
I think there's too much quality within 90 for me to say that it can't be a competitive game,
but there's no doubt the mouse are at the head of the field now.
The only thing they have going for them is the historic value in the game.
I think it was just telling me also that they won the last two against Maus and Nuke, if I'm not mistaken.
And Nuke has been, as I said, in the beginning, they lag in the lead map.
That was their lead map if you go back three, four months.
So for sure, like the playing field is set for a good game, but they need to be present and actively play their own game.
Well, let's see if they are going to be in that presence.
And if they are going to be able to play their own game, we'll be finding out in just a few moments.
First of all, quick break.
most exciting South American team. This has not been exciting.
Sure, they need to step it up on us, you know, and one dual to look out for, at least one
player to look out for, to handle for 90 would be exertion. I feel like whenever you talk
Nuke from ours, you talk exertion. He's despair hit both on the T side, CT side, loves to
play Mini on the CT side, loves to go for fires, love to go for some of those holes
that you're speaking about, you know, fine timings, fine gaps and T side wise as well.
Like he's the one in the yard trying to create the cares out there, willing to walk through
smokes depending on what kind of smoke wall they're throwing, sometimes he walks in towards
the gate, sometimes he goes down secret, sometimes he's just waiting out there waiting for someone
to counter him and he has it all. I feel like if there's one player that's very influential in
terms of the success rate of Maus and Nuke, it's X-Xece. 100%. All these outside players that gets
to dictate what is happening on the map is also the ones that normally you live and die by, right?
That's also why sometimes Vitality has looked a little bit shaky when Epic hadn't won his
duals that he maybe you know are supposed to in some of these games so when you have these like
big teams that are good at Nuke everything to a certain degree relies on the outside player
and setting up the AWP at the same time so you have a lot of responsibility to and the city side
to help you get the entries for yourself or the AWP and on the other side not dying. That's a big
factor in it as well but I also want to touch on Nines East player Luchov. Do you remember Luchov
being at his very best of dominance, you know, being able to do so much work for his team.
It's not just him, it's now a couple of events where I've seen him go missing in critical
moments and need to see him at his best. That's a bit of an issue, naturally. If you're banking on
Lucha being the next big thing, then he needs to chime in and at least find some sort of impact.
I'll take your Lucha though and I'll raise you with a wassupique. Because coming into EWC,
he was the highest rated player post summer break, one lane. I know the sample size was a little
bit small with the Chinese events and blast bounty, but still you had two events and he was the highest
he's the greatest player in the world in those two events combined, so he's stepping it up massively,
he's taking over from Lutjof, so if anything I want to see a wassupik first go in and find the impact we've seen so far,
and then if you can have Lutjof maybe playing at 89% of what we saw at the major, then you have a pretty deadly duel in that.
You describe them as individually very, very skilled. Let's see it now.
Yeah, because like first map there was way too many 50-50 duels going the way of Maus,
and I even want to throw GGTN as well, like he is also one of the players that if you look at him,
his number one thing he contributes with is skill, his individual firepower.
He can match anyone but he also needs to do it on the biggest stage because he has also been up and
down which is also why he has been through a couple of different teams in his career where
started good, then fall off, get a new team, started good again, dropped off again so he also
needs to hit a higher peak at a longer time. Find a way to actually have that consistency
right and reset yourself if you do start to have a bit of a downturn in performance overall.
It looks like we've now changed this conversation into Maus being favourable because of what we saw on Cash in here, right?
Give me a percentage chance of what you think 9Z actually have in the start of U-Pin, but like, what could be possible within this for them to at least take us to a third?
I mean, I think Nuke in isolation is a competitor map for both teams, as Roger said, 90th shown in history that they play Nuke at a high level, but so has Maus.
It used to be the go-to pick, it used to be the map they could rely on. Then it's been a little bit shaky, a little bit rocky, but now bringing in Celix and bringing in, I guess, PR for that matter as well.
that matter as well. I did watch them play at EWC. The T side was horrendous. They went
down 10-2 versus game or legion, switched over to the CT side and then they made a
massive comeback. So if anything, I rely a lot on the CT side of Maus, whereas the T
side has been a little bit of a question mark. So I see chances for 90 here, but I still
have Maus being the winner's 2-0.
Well let's see if that's going to be the case. And I've got a question for our commentators.
Anders, Henry G, what do you think? Can 90 battle back in this and we're going to get
a third?
I feel like there's a chance. I've seen 9C play much, much better than this. So I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. It is tough that we're playing Nuke as a second map, of course, but yeah, why not?
Doesn't look like Polymarket necessarily agrees with you, though.
Okay, well, that's very unreasonable. I can understand why.
Listen, we can speculate all day long. All I know is that 9C have to turn up here. They're on the opponent's map, right? So they get to start CT side of Nuke, that's where you want to be.
They need the pistol. They need some momentum. They need to find some confidence here. I agree with the desk
They didn't look their usual self-stat. They've you to take the name plates away
You wouldn't think that was 9z no flamboyant aggressive team with a lot of skill
And I feel like Spinks had a life game there not to take anything away from him. He did I don't think that's a sustainable performance
You're gonna be getting 20 and one in this first half. Let me tell you that's a let's see what happens here
We're getting through the second map could be the last in between mouse and 9z
Look at the buy, HE available, so could be a fast upper pop here, Anders with smoke towards main, flashes in there as well, and this goes straight in towards the upper bomb site.
We've laid it out for a sender, let's see if the blocks can really follow through, it's also peeking, the defence is looking good, Luchov!
He gets one of the dualies, but the start of the claw, they're way back into the bomb site here, maybe cool down the fights now.
On the CT side, you've already got them in advantage.
Assertion trying to find the opening but the DGT the desk talked about and they wanted more out of him individually
Game plan spinks
Making his way down my eyes
Yeah, that's huge. This is a win in his own right
He won't be winning this round, but that's massive going forward. I can't believe you said that
You're gonna chance now Henry. He's got the kill. You got a little weapon
Surely you want something else than a glock. All right. I think he's trying to play against their expectations there. Yeah, he had to
Fair enough, fair play.
But recovering the round somewhat there.
We always say that winning the second round for Spy
is arguably better than winning the pistol,
especially on the T side here.
We'll really shut down the finances on the CT side,
but that is if they force Spy,
you don't necessarily have to, I suppose.
Get up a really strong first-gun round and take the eco here.
I doubt that will happen.
But it's solid hold.
We said 19 needed a pistol, and they got exactly that.
Getting fired up now.
Well, that's what Beaks enjoyed it.
I'm pretty interested to learn about Mouse on Nuke with this particular lineup in terms of how they're playing now with Celex and PR.
Like when they had
Jimmy on the lineup, he was holding that lobby on the T side a lot
and then they had Xersion kind of outside. I feel like nowadays Celex is also playing that outside position a little bit with him.
And Celex is pretty good at sneaking in through Mini. Like you see him kind of making that wrap around
to attacking a bomb site on a semi-regular basis.
Well, it is the force by Anders.
Yeah. And we will see a couple of Galils in the mix as well.
We'll large smoke towards the vents.
It applies a lot of pressure. CTs will have to adjust accordingly.
And towards ramp we go at three. There's plenty of nice little pop flashes you can do.
This is one of them. A couple of flashes.
Opening kills. Landing in favour of Maus. That is a massive problem here.
He got Cellex down towards the secret area as well.
He seems to be detected.
They seem to be at least aware of this possibility.
Lukov, 30 years, he gets his kill all day long.
Oh, maybe not.
Now he gets it a little bit questionable.
Does he even want to commit to that swing?
I don't think so.
Bomb going down.
Can he deny it?
I think he's on the other side.
I don't think he had a chance to really stop that long range with the MP9.
Maybe some favorable fight, but hold on.
He's charging onto the bomb site.
He's already found the kill on the Torsche.
They smoke the bomb, which they do have.
That's a good point.
pressure they have a kit on waso peak as well so it's a very winnable round and
mouse just listening this and no one's tapped the bomb yet in spite of that they're on the bomb
site so somebody could have tapped it already waiting for another player to get in there it's
dgt shooting selig to the back and now they're going to tap it put the pressure on with the smoke
like you mentioned they'll find spinks you can just pr against three headshots coming through
he's got the last 10 he's a bullet away from getting it all over the railing
Oh, that's not real. Did it stop the bullet altogether?
I have no idea. You saw the spark.
I guess she's confused as well.
You can see the spark flying off that railing.
Let's get the replay. Slow it down. I think you're dead on.
Absolute pandemonium.
Beautiful shots in that Desert Eagle.
Oh, it's so close. Oh!
That one. I feel like it was hit.
I don't know if it actually would have stopped the defuse, but you're gonna be buying all day long here though
And if you talked about this in their previous series now, it's won't be one with the bomb planted you definitely buy into this
You're still in the driving seat. Do you know you've got them?
pinned
financially
Oh man
So outside we go smokes deployed if you have the pace playing in front of the utility ggt having none of that
It takes our first interaction, finds a man advantage here, flashbangs are dissuaded from the angle, but it looks like 9Z are handling it well.
Round still alive, for Mao Zedpats, very well handled from 9Z so far.
Lukov needs to be careful, off angle with the MP9.
Destroyed by Torgie!
That is a great peek.
See you later.
Yeah, all the way dead.
Torgie coming back in for an AMX.
smoke is up just before the peek on the other side otherwise he would have been able to see Surtian there
also peek just a sliver of an angle but it's enough to get Celix and now Slaughtre has begun out in the yard
Torsche coming back into one versus three he's got the time for it here he can't even finish the first kill
Max activated as well
alright the desk they wanted DDT and wasp both of them playing very well at the start of this one
and the position that DDT has in the beginning for getting that first kill when he's in the garage
Is he just listening for the smoke to go down? Is that like his Q to P?
I think he knows the smokes are coming and he's trying to play in front before the bloom comes in.
It's just a really nice timing there like both ideas are quite interesting.
Mal's trying to play in front of the U2 and hoping to catch CTs reacting to it maybe with HEs or trying to juggle or reposition.
But it's super calm with DGT. The Fatsy's actually hitting that shot staying alive.
It's just nice play in general and we are going to see partial investment here.
The loss bonus is really something to rack up.
So we get some Kevlar, they get some upgraded pistols.
PR, spending a little bit more, you can see Galil in hand.
So, flashbang peek from Max, I was gonna say Mayhem was gonna get set up there.
Now that she becomes a little bit dicey, should be fine, good smoke will dissuade them.
Bukov, playing with the idea of holding hard or potentially pushing the smoke,
just gonna be holding for now.
Tees will reset, they have one smoke remaining.
Difficult to imagine a world where they can really cause much of a dents here, they'll go back towards outside.
Low-core, eventually. We'll try and get some intel towards the lobby.
Lux smoke.
Towards the squeaky door.
I kind of wanted to see them go for that pop flash though, towards lobby. That would have been fun.
Don't give the opportunity to.
Oh, there it is, there's the push.
First, he spotted three players towards a lobby.
If they can take this one down, there's a world where, okay,
they may be able to get a bomb flying out of this one.
Down towards Lullab.
Spinks, but the bomb wants more.
So yeah, that helps him out massively
in terms of the plans going forward.
PR, there's anything you can do about this, I doubt it.
He's made so many footsteps,
I always wanted to escape this position.
I feel like it's probably always gonna be very tough
with the health that they had left there,
but Spinks now slowly going to be collapsed upon.
He's actually pushing into the fight,
which I think makes a lot of sense
when you're on the bombsite.
Probably not a winnable strategy.
So, yes, I mean, it's not bad.
You get a bomb plant,
would have been fun with another killer too,
on the, you know, in favour of Maus there.
Didn't work out.
Well, we won a nine-seater bounce back.
Now they're doing it. Absolutely, yeah.
This is going to build some confidence up.
Four-zero, there's been some tight and intense rounds.
They've managed to come out on top each and every time, in-game retrosersion.
Giving out the orders now, speculating as to how they can win the round.
We've got the AWP with Torji, AK's have away, so the money in a promising spot now for Maus.
This is much more like it, looking to take us to Dust2, R9Z, making a compelling case so far.
We haven't really had a threat yet, have you and I?
No, we have not. We've been in all two O's.
Well that is a nice skill, man.
Pick on the trigger but spinks just as fast to react and bring it back to an advantage.
DDT dying early as well.
Put a little pressure on Ramp, I like it even if he doesn't commit to actually taking that Ramp control.
It's forcing the CTs to worry about it.
Luchov at a very forward position and I guess in a weird kind of roundabout way he's controlling like half the map from just this one box.
box. I don't know if anyone's gonna be checking this, especially not with an AWP.
You can see the gun barrel's gonna be showing dead giveaway. Nutshoff, thinking
it could be someone else. It is unlikely that the orb is gonna be pushing this
much alone, but he finds it and it's right back into a 3v3. Advantage for
mouse has disappeared. And now they're starting to get towards that ramp
position. They're gonna hear it, but there's nobody there to stop them, so it
should be a fairly clean bomb plant. I don't know if Mayhem's gonna be able to
do anything he's actually holding for a potential drop. Good point. Starless smoke. Get that
plant down. It's just where Maus posts their first retake it to be attempted here by 9Z
coming in from the ramp. Two players. Nice shot from PR. Doesn't detect spanks behind
the silo. That should be it. May have better off saving his AWP here. Very unlikely they
They gave him an opportunity to fire off a bullet.
Zershin will find him, and they're on the board.
Nice round. They recover the AWP as well.
As you might imagine, Lani is fine for 9-Z.
Big words.
I actually thought Wasopik saw both the players
playing at dark positions.
I guess he didn't, because clearly,
Mayan wasn't aware that there was a second player in there.
So a little bit of fortune, perhaps, on the communication,
but important stuff for Mouse.
Yeah, maybe he didn't see it at all.
And it was PR that got killed.
Yeah, so they didn't know, fair enough.
Round number six.
And Nines here pretty quickly out of money.
They're gonna buy this one obviously,
but the next one they're not gonna have anything
to work with here, so there's a huge opportunity
for Maus to put the pressure on right away.
So it's a Spinks lurking lobby while the rest are outside.
Like I said, in the past version of this team,
it would have been Jim Fat playing that Spinks position.
Can't do that anymore because he's not on the team.
Wise words.
Four smokes committed towards outside.
Pointed flag here.
Blue got to come out on top and finds LX.
Two in six with him right now.
Seize the frustration setting him.
I should find spawns.
Fantastic.
And they push in there with no Molotov on the hunt.
It's normally you're expecting more grenades for that A push to come through.
I could see why they might be surprised.
Bombers weirdly lost in mini, so suddenly it's a 3V3
and they're going to have to go back and pick it up.
It's looking a bit clumsy for Mouse.
Not going to lie.
What are they doing?
Giving away a couple of freebies and this kill could decide the round.
So I shouldn't maintain the advantage, but it's a suspect second player.
I don't believe he does and they know exactly what man it is.
So it's two in a row.
Money should be busted now for the CTs averaging $2,000 for play up.
Three survive a mouse, so yeah, they're officially online here on the T-Side campaign
It's their pick after all slow starts, but a lot of close rounds
Henry you said four smokes outside from mouse. Why are they throwing that many smokes? What's going on there?
Because we know the mentality of popping those smokes open and with the HE grenades if you have four smokes
And if they pop one of them was open, you've got another one behind it
Ah, so I would assume that's the reason why I love it
That's brilliant because that's the meta right now
You give your AWPer like two or three grenades sometimes in that AC unit and then he's keep popping them open
But if you have two walls there, he's got to blow it open twice. Yeah, you look through the first wall straight into the second one
Yeah, more smokes
It's just that you think about like the normal kind of counter-tracking to how valuable smokes are
I think of any other map like you can commit four smokes to it's not even a bomb side
You're not even like it's you're far away from a bomb side at point in time
I guess it does say something about the value of kind of getting getting those players across
the second game of the day here,
Ninesia Mouse.
I'm such a sucker for underdog stories.
I'm always on board with like the underdog teams,
kind of making their way through and inner circle
really, really proving it.
I mean, even if it didn't win against Spirit yesterday,
but then delay also, I think showing like a really high quality game.
So we're looking forward to seeing more out of them in the future as well.
Here we go, we're back.
Okay, and it's just pistols on CT side.
Yeah, like we said, the money was busted.
So Zershin, reading that well.
He's got the Mach 10 looking to farm that cash.
Couple of smokes deployed again.
Sell the illusion at outside presence.
So the seeds of doubts, this is a mine to the CTs.
My opinion, this is why Nuke is still the goaded map.
Yeah, for the kind of mind games
that are happening in the yard, it's just fun to watch.
Yeah, with the conditioning when it comes to the player, your front is outside swarms every time.
The condition, sometimes...
Okay, hold on, let's get back to that floor. The USP gets the opener.
It is just a Mac 10 surrender, but...
Whoa! Oh my God!
You were saying?
Yeah, I'll take it all back, it's no longer just a Mac 10 torsion.
A lot of trouble's got to sign out, Alex is trying to close way back in here.
We'll find Max on top of the putt.
It's still about 45 seconds, but...
This is very awkward. This was the gimme round.
It was!
Three USPs and two Degos with no Kevlar.
And you've lost the first two kills to USPs.
Hmm.
Okay, well.
Plans rounds aren't necessarily over.
They're not looking for necessarily over.
They're not looking for...
We're going down towards lower.
What's he up to? That's Torji.
The health though.
He's got the bomb, so he's gonna...
Zelec's gonna try and hold a rotation to show a bit of presence here.
I'm guessing.
Okay.
I do like that.
And now you see how kind of moving around a lot.
Fifteen seconds.
Okay, I think I see they're on the high ground hoping that it's an eggplant and they can rush out in the last second
But it's not advantage mouse now
Unless some ridiculous
Wandies come through it's all you have to do most the heavy lifting here considering the HP situation
Smoke available
The point towards windy. I mean you give it a look, but ideally you're gonna be saving his AK actors
You're right about that, especially now that Torsche's got that kill on the wasp, you don't have a kit obviously, so it will just be very, very tough to get onto the one side here.
Smoke unfortunately, we get a hard to see Torsche at all, and well that goes right by him.
Selleck's waiting behind the door, gonna bust it open, see that no one's defusing, it's a great shot and Mayhem's spitting it out for it, that's actually really cool.
I think the survivor thinks so.
The shot wave is caught up to him.
I mean good effort the money's still absolutely fine would have been nice to save the day care
Suppose but not a big deal. You've weakened the finances from mouse
Which could have been an absolute disaster?
USBs prevail. Yo, it's another bit disjoint. I'm almost sure what's going on here. I
Guess the up-to-date voice of the sevens version of the Mac 10 to explore
Ideally the the hot players ready for that swing, but it's just a bit unfortunate. They still win the round. It's all fine
Hey, you did get hurt.
You gotta get that stroke.
That's how I'm going to analyze them.
Yeah, you're right though. They may get through the round.
It's still kind of early on in the half-year, so we're not too worried about it.
Four to three, but actually they've been slowed down a bit.
Money was the problem for them one stage.
Now they're kind of back with the rifles.
Let's see what they could do.
More smokes outside.
Three of them committed to try and sell the idea that someone could be there,
but there isn't anyone in the yard.
See them pop those smokes open so we're talking about before if a variation of the smokes this time
I'm at all and main smoke is going towards upper once again. Why so people is play full can you get the opening kill?
Absolutely not new cop. I have to go huge only good for one egt scrambling away. This is a heavy commitment from Mayan
Ambitious maneuver. I'm not sure that was the play round. I feel like it's already done
I think at that stage, I would agree probably not gonna be worth it seven stones. I've really beautiful triple opening for him individually
super strong
Classic execute you might say yeah. Well, like we said
Outside wall of smokes you hear them popping them open multiple times of a cheese that you're cute to go
Yeah, they've been down in the baits. So, you know at least like you've heard two a cheese going off
Yeah, it was only one player that suggests they were two and then that's when you go for your pouncing towards upper
knowing that they're reacting to the outside smoke.
So yeah, really nice play for Maus.
Great entries as you might expect.
Great flashbacks as well.
He saw how devastating those were
to the few players that were in upper.
I'm always really blown away
by some of the really good A anchors in the world
at how good they are dodging the flashbacks
there on the 4 of A.
And it's so hard,
there are so many grenades coming through,
but sometimes people just kind of
fucking dive around them,
but you know, Celix, he could have stopped.
3 kills to read around then and there.
Ty's up the game, makes it a 4-4 scoreline.
Yeah, and it was 4-0 in favor of 9-Z.
That's true.
That's an eco, but they are USP specialists.
So, they've got a lot of smokes.
They have, they're going to try and treat us like a gun round,
I suppose, or try and run down the clock.
They've got some cattle out of the world with.
We know they can hit some deagle shots.
No denying that.
Already half-cop.
One player down towards secret, it has to be Zelek.
so it will be a lower splits here from the ramp.
The tightest joke point on the map, and it's so...
Going here is a high-risk maneuver. Your flashbang better be spot-off.
Might be suspicious that matches this stuff.
Waysing's not great, Eva.
No, it's not.
Are they going to check the corner?
Oh, here comes the second 5-7.
Nice spray through the smoke for PR, but you're absolutely right.
Oh, you could see how the disaster was almost unfolding right in front of our eyes.
Seems like they've...
Steadyed the ship.
I wonder if, if it did have been a little bit slower, if 9C would have wanted to try
and boost somebody up there.
That boost's typically good for at least one round.
Which are playing very, very close.
Deagle, unlike me you can get a multi kill from this one.
Not really enough damage on that, Torshe gets to live, and Waspik hanging around the Deagle
here.
The attempted ramp hold with some extra utility or whatever else it would be working out for them
That's gonna be five in a row for mouse now
Well, so peak they're taking their sweet time with the bomb on the other side is still hanging out
They're actually gonna go up or instead now guess you can't blame the mouse. They
They need some early success with this team, you know putting it together like this you want somebody early victories
You're gonna be playing the winner off
off. What was the last thing to say you haven't got that I've said myself up from Lillian
you are hoping I can jump in there. Let's have a look quickly in a circle. There we go.
Okay, loser. We're going to play vitality. So yeah, straight from the fire dot dot dot
It's Spinks to get the last one.
Not the most enthusiastic let's go I ever heard.
I feel like they just noticed it's done.
I knew you were down 4-0 by virtue of losing the pistol,
but these rounds following have been very convincing.
And Spinks is still hitting incredibly hard.
The call seemed to be good.
Sure, we had one round which almost fell a ride with the USB situation,
but they still won the round.
And everything's just going too swimmingly.
that they're conditioning with the smokes that are staying outside, the same three smokes being deployed each and every time.
And then, they seem to have a version that can cool every once and they'll find a headshot.
So there's the smokes, they use the cross smoke as well to deny any sort of incel who gets the red.
And we're going towards ramp. So you can see the system in play here.
Oh yeah. They're calling a really great T side. And I'm impressed.
It's nice and punchy as well. They're not wasting too much time.
Time for those folks make a group call and hit your headshots. It's nice to see
Nuke is one of the few maps where you can almost get into like a five-on-five full on save situation
It's almost down to quick enough for all your five-on-five. It'll be here
blowing open
Oh, it's desperate now. We should be going for this round really
Yeah reason
That's hard to blame them right of course
They just... they recall.
They really do.
She's got a point at our legacy.
She may drop it by flies.
You've got to be thinking about the save, but...
I mean, Henry, if you and I are losing a kind of fight game
and I say, come on, Henry, let's win and you say,
oh, let's, let's go.
There's a part of me that's like,
oh, man, like...
Come on!
If that's the office, well, Anders.
At least pretend.
Well, there's no pretending here.
Mouses are looking rock solid once more.
4-0 down, 6-4 up.
Oh yeah, I feel like this is 2-0 all day long. Hate to be there or a bad news, the day has been outclassed in almost every facet of the game right now.
Mainly the individual skill. Nothing too complex, nothing too flashy for a mouse.
Same smokes or variations of every round and then something quick once you know they've been down.
And then you can also always use the smokes as well, that's the variation.
that's the variation then you could just go and use four players outside of the smokes and
yeah they're doing everything like they're they're dictating the entire page of the game
another variation with selix pushing through their own wall to catch someone who might have been
throwing a grenade to hold open yeah he's back here he's way in the open they are battling them
everywhere also peaks a cool idea but it might have been too late because teammates are mostly dead
and the rest have pistols he's holding a teesport is he waiting for this specific push
Yeah, Spinks, that's wild. What a position that is.
He actually is.
What a super nerd.
You're seriously holding that deep in T-Sport.
How badly do you want to win?
If you're also peeking you somehow, you try to exit to save like the MP9 for round number 12 and you die here.
This is the absolute tail to be died for this.
I'm gonna make sure you get the kill now.
now. Yeah, it's done. Alright,
the teammates are going to be
calling for them. They've got
their number everywhere. I think
you've outlined it well for us.
I love it, Henry. Like the whole
matter around the yard, but also
how they exploit that to either
hit ramp or a like right now.
Nice. No idea what's happening
on the other side of that wall
ever. I don't think it really
matters what variation they call
right now. They're hitting the
shots. 9D haven't signed up for
this series. They had everything
they could ask for to kick off
his first half and they've
completely capitulated once again. On the positive side though it's really cool to see
mouse play this way. I am disappointed in 9C but mouse some of the best cash team in the
world and now really starting to put Nuke together it's always been a whole map for them. Whether
it was Sue or Brolan like they as in the IGL they've always been dangerous on it. I'm glad
they're keeping up that trend. Last round. Same smokes here courtesy of Zershin, one to
the left, one to the right, one to the top and then four players outside at this time
but looks like there's any variation that that third smoke is different than what we saw before.
Yeah, so where's that landing? Yeah, so four is the four smoke set up again.
All right then. And you can see they're trying to pop them open to no avail.
They can't see a thing out there, and this time Zellix is moving differently.
The smokes are on top of each other, they're layered, like just behind one another. So you
pop one open, it actually goes to give you a nice bit of coverage as Zellix will sneak through the
the shed smokes. Oh massive miss from man. It's so cool all right because the smokes
are the same but the play around the smokes is different from ours. This time Celix walking
through with his back turned he's got no idea they are getting brutalized out there on the
battlefield. 45 seconds round number 12 of course here so no saving or anything else Max. Chance
there good angle. There is an opportunity at least but. It's an open nest as well. Okay
I like scissor's in towards up and they're gonna try and get at the fence I suppose.
Yeah, he might as well.
There is...
At least the player nearby here in Hutz.
Mayhem walking back out, that is the right move.
20 seconds now, down, smoke it, sub-
Four finds, PR and the bomb delivered straight to his feet, they might do it back!
9c, after losing 7 in a row, Henry, they're now back to pick up this last round here.
10 seconds of spanks, he was a god on the opening map, but this is a lot to ask here.
Trying to get the spray down six seconds here really I think you would have run out of time no matter what so
7-5 and maybe a chance a glimmer of a hope here for 9c
You can do better than that
Coming back for stairs well
Big performers from taxi
So close to reducing the deficit here, but two of them dropped by Fuzi in a clutch now who suddenly made the 1v1
Until he knows he can commit
Wow, that's insane
He's got no idea where to look he's completely paranoid he needs tablets and a therapist
That Mully will force him into the open, but Fuzzi will deliver.
Bomb planted a moment, and Spirit, a sudden question as to whether they can convert their
pistol victory.
Prime taps cleared out from Forklift.
We've got this Midler coming through, but by the time Body gets into position, Shiro's
already got a couple kills.
Magics cleaned out as Shiro finds a third on the round, and the frag grenade widdles
Kadean down to half HP. Still a smoke in front of him to play off of. Shiro taking to the
high ground is going to get the quad kill in the retake.
Looking to get Paul flashed in with a teammate there as well. Twist into the aim and position.
FaZe might have the read. Oh, he gets immediately wrecked. He was carrying utility as well.
Japan doesn't have any. Trying to hide in the flame site and find a fight if he can.
But there's just nowhere for him to go. Neyzu needs a miracle.
He's got to find a lot of...
Madigo shots him, he might just do exactly that!
What an overperformance, that's utterly ridiculous!
That's nasty work!
Mac has got his bell rung, Kershi's got 21 HP.
This is so dangerous!
AWN in a 1 vs 2 this time, he does go for it!
Where's that last man?
Gravity!
Somewhere, Voo is crying.
And he does it, I can't believe it!
It's an NTE coder, stats are getting worse!
Ultimately isolating this B-dual,
There's just more confidence from Furia in their protocols.
Yes.
And in that case, Fallen's individuals, right?
Scooping that op-up, pushing through the smoke,
takes a little nerve.
And he is the top performing Furia player now
after that sequence.
Nice.
Oh, yeah, you got her.
The Moe down from downtown.
So OG keep the game interesting as the economic problems
sink in for Spirit.
Chiro, does it shoot?
Lot of bodies here.
They're just charging past him.
He's going to hang on the chat.
What up, what is your play?
ZAWN TECK!
Swift to a Degan 3 on the other side!
Donk was spotted, but Donk is still Donk.
And they two to one who dies.
That's kind of how it works when you go up against Donk.
Yeah, here's a par thing that was predictable.
Jacob does get...
Oh, hello!
Jacob and Twist both charming in with a frag.
That will help, odd as an incendiary also for Jacob.
And he's got a good angle to throw it.
So let's see now.
Frozen and Magisk, I think this duel...
It's going to be really important to see who wins what.
Okay, just down to Magisk now.
One versus two.
He's got the first one up against the rifle of Jacob.
Jacob's been doing great work for FaZe, and it will be another clutch 1v1 that is secured by FaZe.
Welcome back to Blast Open Porter. You join us for game two, map two, half two.
As we get ready for what should be a mouse at 2-0, all the twos.
All you've lined it up nicely for us. I appreciate that. It is a an interesting lead
It's not over yet, but I'm serious. They seem very flat at the moment
We're gonna need somebody to revitalize them here. They tried a little bit at the first half there
Luke's off playing well enough was so peak as well
But we do need more out of the mouse now on the CT side doolies on top of the hut
There is a Molotov I think for that hot position
So curious to see with fire on his back. Yeah, man
the standard to set it up here easy gonna be able to get those doolies in the
use pinks relocating into the safety of the smoke for the minutes Alex trying to
land a head shot but he can't really find it, there we go, exertion is there and finally
after all the bullets and then it's Alex with one more head shot of the wasp
ddt alone against three, assertion the absolute
championess of the ADF so far. This is what we saw Spinks in the first half
bearer in mind and he had to just get the bomb down but unfortunately I think the
bombs down on the side I don't think that'll be happening some heroics
required here. That would be the ultimate goal. Maybe someone's gonna plant down, but he'd need two kills first.
That's a good start.
And I think we know we could do it. There's one more kill, and he saw the player up on the high ground.
He's still got some bullets left. Already he's picked up the bomb so far. It even gets reloaded in.
Now we can fake it a lot of times, but he goes straight for it. Actually, PR trying to charge him down.
Do you have what it takes here? DGC!
A great clutch for the 1 vs 3!
Oh my god. They needed that desperately.
We were speculating all the ways he could have impact in that three versus one.
He goes with a brute force approach.
They may be overcommit for that, Anders.
They had the bomb within their reach.
The CTs just had to turtle up, but they challenge a bit too much there.
Give him some targets, and he knocks them down.
No problem at all. This is the moment.
He's getting scrambling there, panicking.
Realizing he's got an entry into the round at this point.
Ice cold there.
GGT steals it away.
That is massive.
Could save the map here.
around. He had no business winning whatsoever and it's straight into the tech
pause as well. You can't chat. You have to stew in the rage knowing there's no
world you should give that one up. All of a sudden it's a game again. And do you
force by? Do you just take it easy? Let them tie things up and buy next round.
Those are the questions. I'd be so curious to ask Rugga when we get to the
to the post map here. How much does it matter for the device? The chemistry in
team to win around like that one you know you know you're behind you haven't
really been playing your full game and suddenly come up with a 1v3 like that to
win a pistol like surely that's gonna get them fired up a little bit here it is a
force up for mouse though they are not bowing out easily they're gonna go for
the M4 they got a couple of MP9s and they're set up double up here towards
this ramp position. No wasting any time here is DGT the champagne hangover of
the class she'll be the first one to go down five and four
Thankfully the rifle is still on the T side towards that trophy room.
So, do they give this one up? Is there a world where mouse can actually
pull this one off, get back to their winning ways right here, right now.
Torgy, 13 and 8 still, the M4 in his hands. Got that opening frag.
And a bit of a reset here. I'm sure they've mouse win this round.
That's the ultimate slap in the face. Oh yeah.
woulda used all for nothing good try but not good enough still plenty of time
plenty of ways to bring this one back in their favor if they go towards secret and lower we
already have presence down there in the form of spanks that is true and i guess they got waso
pk hanging around lobby so if they go lower he can stop the rotations if they wrap around through
mini then obviously he's going to be coming out of the hut to help out it's getting tense now
35 seconds remaining. Oh look at the read though. Look at P.R. He's pushing Lobby.
They are really close to being told people on this bombsite. Tall she gets the first one.
This difference. I think you might just hold this. Oh! Another three headshots with the pistol.
He is a bit of a god right now. 15 and 10. Vazelax. Yeah absolutely right. Oh they
steal the round away. He found the three deagle shots on the end of cash right?
Yes, he did
Um, I feel as to keen from DGT at the start
I know what he's going for the ramp he's with the AK feeling himself
But as you can see from the PMP at Torch, that's a free PMP kill. You've got the advantage. You've got a better angle
Of course, you don't think he's got a rifle there, but that's exactly why he's gone now. Yeah, it's a really interesting call
You don't see that very often a second round M4 on the city side. So just a really smart call from mouse
Says someone about how much they trusted themselves right now
I do like it. Now, for Smokes outside, we had this whole discussion and look at how Excursion's playing it.
It's something that we didn't really see. He's one of the guys outside to be fair.
He is. I think he's really good out there.
Ninesie wishes they would have done something similar in that first half at any point really.
He speaks and right underneath you, they walked out through the smoke torche though.
Handling business and Selix. 16 kills on him.
Behind him with torche for the minute, it's a dangerous game, whack-a-mole.
with real moles. Real moles. No one wants to see that and no one wants to see this following
round. It has to be the full eco. That was the full investment, believe it or not. They don't
get much done. One kill found. Looking very comfortable. Once again, nice opening for our
concession. A ton of information there. So that's ideally what he's looking for. He gets that one
One kill confirms it's essentially a fake of one player going down that right
If that that one round almost summarizes everything the 9c kind of wanted to do or wish they could have done in the first half
I'm like finding information and shutting down all the smokes out there. So
It's a massive couple of ATs to kick things off
Bear in mind. No Kevlar. Yeah, very susceptible to utility damage
Yeah, one of them was up on the silo. I think DGT's holding up there and they just, they
grenade him early. Kind of frustrating. But you're at the lack of armor.
And firepower.
And firepower. And rounds. And momentum.
And momentum especially. And morale. Everything's kind of gone wrong here.
Lack of aura.
Lack of aura. Oh for sure. See whether anything can be done here. Maybe a double kill is available
for all of Maxip. Low HP though. One bullet will take him down. We'll find that killing blow.
2-0 looking locked in. So then we'll have a buy here at us, but we talked about this before.
You're averaging $4,200 per player. If you want utility, a couple of your key pieces need to be
operating with glills. It's not ideal, is it? But it's what they've got. Don't forget to hit
Head over to Polymarket as well, you can see that right now things are not looking good for 9C on the prediction market, they're down at 5%.
Yeah, that feels accurate. That's pretty rough. They've got a bad spot on.
Four round difference, it doesn't sound so bad but the momentum is solidly with the mouse side of things.
They've got the weapons, they've got everything else on their side here, nice dive down, I love that.
Big sound cue though, okay, don't worry, the sound cue is fine Anders.
Yeah, he's done it anyway. Okay, but wait a minute. The problem is the bomb now. Yeah, he's holding this on his own. Another bomb!
Oh! That's a long old spray, but it will stop it in now, Max. He's got the bomb in his back. Yeah, so DGT, all that work, but the rest of the team, they can't even join him.
And there's Celix with a stab in the back, so to speak.
And we know exactly where DGT is. He already got that kill down towards Lullab.
I suppose he's mentally sh-sowned out. He's done with it. Is that enough?
Yeah, there's no way to win it, unfortunately.
You're hoping for a massive blunder at this point with the CTs.
Maybe they try and hunt you too early, but this is no wilder that happens.
Save the AK.
Now, sort of another convincing round here.
Towards you this time, they want to shut them down.
Zershin rotating it from outside ZX, confirming the round with the backstab through the trophy room.
trying to pick up that pace trying to force the issue towards that ramp just
not working out for them at all 11 to 6 is all but confirmed
yeah saving the AK I think he's gonna be allowed to do that so I guess that's
something have a look at this and you see like again by his standards just
shooting fish in a barrel just going through the motions there they know it
as well. That wasn't good enough. And for now, they'll save the AK, he'll get no further
cash, rest of his teammates will be getting $2,900 each. Which is, as we all know, not
great. Kind of have to buy really, you're not going to be recovering a 12-6 facility
so I don't think you have to go all in. Kind of a long time to be saving. No one's hunting
you, spending a lot of time near the radiation Henry, maybe he's going to get superpowers.
happen. I say you have to bite, I suppose you don't have to, if you really feel like
you could, pull it off, six in a row, go for that, but I would say it's very unlikely,
you're hoping to steal around the way here, you need the miracle now.
I feel like they already had the miracle in the pistol.
Yeah.
How many miracles?
How many do you want, Andrew?
All right then. So they do force what I can confirm, I'm on the server.
Galils are out, saved AK, two pistols.
We're getting into the last couple of rounds, it feels like a mouse.
Certainly the favourites coming through this one.
We expected NyanZ to pick up more resistance than this, especially on cash.
They're not pick.
They're not pick.
I think they did play the kings of cash, and I guess that's what happened.
They newly crowned.
Crowned themselves.
They did crown themselves before their first official on it.
Oh look at this, blowing open two smokes at the same time. The coordination is out of this world.
The third H.E. lands, not quite the flick the torch he was hoping for, but again, he's still alive.
It's looking so desperate, he's already got Y.S.O.P.E.G.
He's trying to find a deagle headshot from the main roof, sneaking out of the hut.
This is the fourth spy bear in mind, they went all in here and they've got nothing to show for him.
I think Max died there because he actually can't make it down the stairs because there's a molotov waiting.
So he's forced to wait behind the smoke and then he's spammed down.
So like there are so many things working out in favor of mouse right now like even down to small details
But the coordination of blowing open those smokes is kind of cool
Need to see more of that
Well won't be seeing much more of 9z today. It looks like that will not be a third map
They're giving this their best shot though a plan to be something
There's no CD presence down towards lowest the plan looks locked in you got models of the smoke and user for left and right side of ramp
If that's how you want to operate
There's a smoke on the right side, Molotov on the left.
You've called it, Henry.
It's not my first rodeo, unfortunately.
You've been doing this for a long time.
You and I were in eSports purgatory. We can't leave.
I should have been gone a long time ago, but here we are.
We keep on trucking.
Never leave, Henry. Never leave.
It is going to be a very, very tough post-plant, no question about it.
2 vs 5, even if search is a little bit low on health here, they are starting to amass
on the ramp.
Good burst down.
Wasp peek.
Another headshot.
Make it a little bit more.
Okay!
We're back!
What are you doing?
I don't know.
I feel like that's still this remarkable performance coming in from 9z.
I guess the job's not done yet.
It is now that Miracle is delivered, Anders.
The Miracle is absolutely delivered.
They had no business winning that.
Why was there zero CT present down towards lowers?
I guess you think like, oh, the round's over.
We'll retake them, no problem.
But a clumsy retake opens up the door of opportunity
and mouse don't like what they see behind it.
The star wall that we're living in,
if you can summon up miracles like that,
why are you spending it on counter-trade?
I don't know.
I feel like that's a weird, you did ask for it.
Yeah, what can they do next?
Okay, that's actually huge.
I can't stress that enough.
There was, that's a fumble.
And then there's mouse taking this.
They rise up the road for a second now.
What is that? 5 on 2 landers?
It is a 5 on 2...
1v1? Sorry, 1v1. In they go.
Everyone coming from ramp?
I guess there's one from solo door.
But what do you...
How do you give that one up against Galils as well?
Yeah, they know. That's a massive blunder, boys.
I don't think it has too many ramifications, but...
Holy moly, should not be losing that.
It's a frustrating one.
That's a couple of disasters now, I'm sure this has been a good mouse showing, but bear
in mind, the discipline needs to be addressed.
The one versus three, and the pistol round.
You can't take anything for granted, and now a five versus two as well.
I'm sure you're going to win this, no worries, but you won't get away with these sort of
mistakes because you've topped the lead teams.
Sush is so close to getting the timing on that incendiary, but Samayans has started
off with a flick.
He nearly could have blocked that smoke from going down on the wall.
I'm not quite able to
I agree though the discipline is super important if you're playing a better team than 9th in the future
You could get punished so hard for screwing up a 2v5 like that
This feels like such a counter-strike 1v1
If you want a 1-1, sorry, if you have a 5-1-2 situation
You know, have one player down towards lower as the canary down the mine
You know like just to lay them get the intel
Fair request I think
You're not being unreasonable, PR
Okay
We'll get one there and we'll flash setting it up for max
No chance man in DGT. I mean look at him. They're just everywhere and it's obviously fine in the end, but yeah
These these kind of silly rounds and throwing opportunities
I that definitely can't happen going forward in the tournament. It can't but at the same time also from the point of view of
9c right you've you've got two miracles
Yeah, and you're not building anything behind them. Yes, you want to see the team just explode
Maybe especially the 1v3 in the pistol, which is really cool to see
But that last round 2v5, like where's the rallying cry for the team?
Where's the point where you finally like you get to take on over?
It's not happening, it'll be 12 to 7 instead mouse round away from taking the series.
They are going to take the series.
Unfortunately, 9-0 will get $2,400 into the next round, DGT just has to save here.
They'll go for a set piece, maybe the upper rush.
We've seen them try it a couple of times.
I think that's all you really can.
You do the outside smokes and pop towards up
like we saw from Maus.
Options very limited.
You're gonna have bare bones,
it's up to firepower and utility.
So choose your approach, stick with it.
Maus, the one's taking the tactical timeout.
I feel like we're seeing a lot of mistakes
and over-aggression and maybe getting a bit cocky out there.
Just reeling them in before we get into
what should be the final round.
Yeah, because these are fixable mistakes.
Absolutely.
These are conversations you didn't have.
I don't think this would happen in a different game.
They've just been absolutely dominating today.
They're failing themselves.
But yeah, suffering from success.
A little bit.
The five on two is kind of unforgettable.
I just have one player down now.
You had, what, 40 seconds before they even made that move?
You definitely could have had someone just window room, single door, anything.
Even ramps would have been fine.
The vibes are not good on the NAAC side.
I mean, it's understandable, not been a great day in the office, even with some miraculous rounds gifted to them.
Double neck, 10 GFs, like we said, something thick and fast, needs to come in, something punchy,
and catch them off guard. Last chance to loon here.
They're throwing a lot of utility onto that squeak door, but also the huts, so they're really trying to sell the idea that maybe it could have been a really fast A-play,
And then they're gonna wrap around outside, even while the smokes are not even landed yet, and as a result, Torsche shoots them for the win, and what for the smog, no way!
Oh no.
How did he get away with that?
He is farming them right now. Nice shot from Lukov.
Surprise isn't taking more damage from his troubles there, but open is the lower bomb site right now, but rotations are coming through.
His spanks, can he shut this one down?
Guarantee the win one kill would probably do it. He's gonna play next defense, but there's the bomb rotations to come through now
Look off in said vents. I don't think he's detected. He'll probably find sphinx
Seems like it. I'll bring around the Rosie. How did they dot you each other? I don't know
Max is kind of up on the bombsite, but somehow he's in found anybody
I think the hymn selects like walk right past each other now
It's gonna be coming down to it and finally speaks
Okay, four on two this time now a three on two a third miracle Henry
I do say good things come in threes.
Let's take their points.
30 seconds.
This time they are down below and not just one player, but three of them waiting at the
speed bomb site.
They really don't want to give up this round and I mean, with this kill from Torsche, he's
surely going to be happy.
He's already seen them.
Samashu's right past both of them and they get PR in return.
Now they're looking to get out into the site, smoke there to build a bit of a wall.
Only 13 seconds.
Can he find the angle?
in the Angle Floor, we can't see the stop-max!
And that's it, old job goes down last 13 to seven years.
Maus will take them down on two laps.
A couple of frustrating moments,
but generally speaking, Anders is a very good challenge
for Maus, just to tighten things out,
pull up their socks a bit,
and they could be going very far in this tournament.
Indeed impressive performance
and a little bit disappointing from 9Z.
Yes, I would agree with that,
Henry, not the 9Z that we were expecting
to come into this series,
but a strong performing mouse,
getting to see their cash on display.
They absolutely dominated from start to finish on that one.
And here on Nuke, despite maybe a slower start
than what they would have wanted,
they came back into that game
and they took full control of it.
Like they were by far the better team in this matchup.
I'm not sure if it was due to respect
or whatever it was from 9C,
but mouse were like stand out like the best
from the whole series.
Like there were moments where 9Cs were compatible,
but I don't know, like there's one team on the server
And yeah, that was one team on the server.
One man joining us here on the desk.
We got Torzy with us.
Mate, what a fantastic game from you guys, finally taking down a 9Z as well.
But it is with your full team, right?
It's the revenge you needed to have it.
Yes, finally, we beat them.
I think we lost the last three games, maybe, or four, at least.
I don't know.
I think they are a really good team, but finally we beat them.
And yeah, we are happy about it.
And looking at being happy about it,
I'm happy with the Torzja, I keep seeing.
I was just looking down some of your ratings.
We were talking about,
I know we spoke about it back at the Bounty Ride,
that you were having a bit of an underperforming
end of a season,
but you've come back so solidly right now.
Is this maybe where we're gonna get the best version
of Torzja ever?
Hopefully, yes.
I think I'm working towards that.
I feel like I'm on a really good path.
And also I feel like
Cyclone and Session is working towards
that is where to have a team
where everybody can shine and use the pieces correctly.
And yeah, I feel really comfortable
and also just putting a lot of work into it
to be in shape physically and also in the game.
So yeah.
And is that what it is?
It's a bit more of that, right?
Taking better care of yourself as well
when you're going through all these events,
back to back and stuff like that.
Yes, and also mentally.
Like, it was a tough last year, I would say.
The season was not the best for me individually
and also for the team.
And yeah, it was a little bit rough mentally,
You know, just not playing too good and having not the best results and it hit me.
So yeah, I had a lot of work with my sports psychologist, which I really appreciate.
I think he did a great job.
He's doing a great job and he's helping me a lot.
So yeah.
Can you give me some insight and just how difficult it is to take yourself out of
that when you're like you're kind of stuck and you can't move forward and just
the steps you've taken?
Yeah, I mean, it depends where you are in the moment.
But when you are in this rabbit hole, everything is not working, and you lose motivation.
You don't want to play, or you just flood your brain with useless things like scrolling
and playing different games just to hit your dopamine or whatever it is, and you need to
realize that it's not doing good.
and you need to try to look for that motivation, you know?
Yeah.
Or just that you are better than that and yeah, I had difficult moments, but I'm happy
I'm back and yeah.
You've come through it, man.
I can definitely see it.
What is your motivation though as you're talking about that?
Where's the motivated tools you right now?
Motivation is definitely to win trophies.
It was an amazing feeling after like one and a half years.
lifting the blaster trophy in Marta but we also would like to lift some big trophies in front of
some crowds so yeah looking for the major of course and yeah just being happy also a big
motivation and enjoying myself. Porto then you're saying right Porto could be the big trophy in front
of a crowd. I'm a Porto as well yes. You just skip bro you went all the way to Singapore already
we've got a few more months to go. Like talk to me a little bit about like the Torci that gets the
the two newest additions into the team.
What does that mean for you?
Because looking back at your games,
from what I remember,
you were a lot of the utility guy previously.
Now I see PR throwing smokes,
Extrusion throwing smokes.
Like what does that freedom mean for you?
Yeah, it means more responsibility for me.
As I said, the Cyclone and Sertian
are building a system where we can shine.
And I think they are utilizing me
and to go for the frags,
because I really like to go for the openings
and for the trades.
And I also feel like I'm pretty good at it.
So they are trying to get the best out of everybody.
Of course, it comes with more responsibility,
like leading sometimes and also more communication
and things like this.
And also, as you said, adding the two new guys,
it comes for more responsibility.
I'm one of, I mean, Sphinx is the oldest,
but the second oldest, the longest standing in the team,
I need to show some path to them, you know,
like about professionalism and working,
work ethic and things like this.
What does the Torci in 2026 like the most about the AWP role?
Because when I look back, as I said with the UTEL, that also means a lot of times you're in the clutches.
Now I see you get a lot of entry kills and have a lot of impact in the mid rounds.
What does 2026 Torci tell himself? This is what I'm really fucking good at.
Yeah, I think my favourite is running the mid rounds if it's 4-on-4 or 3-on-4,
and I can turn back the rounds and make that impact.
Yes, I think it's one of the best, and I think it's also high impact.
Of course, I also really like to be in clutches, but I think we have really good players for that.
But yeah, I like to make the difference in the mid-range, I would say.
Okay, last question. It goes to Cash. You're one of the few guys with the chest ups talking about Cash openly.
Like, what does Cash mean for you as a team while losing overpass?
Because I played you guys on overpass, you were really good at it.
Losing that in your map pool, you obviously need some other maps to all of a sudden stand out.
Like, what does Cash mean for you in that whole piece?
Yeah. As we talked about, we have some young guys, so Cash was a little bit a weird map
because they didn't play it in CSGO. But I think we adapted really good, we had a lot
of practice on it, and it looked pretty good. We didn't know where we were at, because we
didn't play official, but it looked really good this game, so we were happy about it.
But of course, I think other teams can also be better on it, but we will see. And yeah,
about the map pool, like overpass going out, I think we were always unlucky with the map
pool changing because a year ago when they switched train we were one of the best train
teams with vitality. We even beat Vitality like two or three times and they replayed
train. Now we were like 10-1 in overpass, we were one of the best overpass team, they
removed it so. And before that vertigo as well, no?
Yeah. I don't know, maybe Valve just doesn't like us.
They're like, okay, how do we make sure Maus can't get trophies?
Let's keep taking maps away from them.
Were you talking about Cash here though?
Zershin was telling me like, he feels like you guys are the best team in the world on it, right?
From what's going on in practice.
How much did you show within this game?
Because there wasn't so many rounds, so there's still a lot more to your cash.
What are we going to look at?
I think there is much more, yes.
I also think Spinks did a great job showing that.
I think he was, he's been confident in his position and what he can do.
And he played amazing.
and I think also as a team we moved around really good in the mid-runs so we did the right things.
Last day I just want to ask you about your fellow countryman, Zelex. He's been playing very well.
We see some great impactful moments from him. How happy are you with his development and how much
do you have like just conversations and talks about all of this? Yeah, I think he's doing great.
As you said he has really like high impact runs and I'm really happy that he's finding himself.
I think, of course, he has a way to go to improve on some things, but I'm really happy
how he's working.
I think he has a good work ethic.
I see him a lot of times in the morning playing BM or face it.
I think he has a bright future in front of him if he keeps the top.
It makes the old players also want to play, right?
I'm always first.
How are you?
Straight in with a grind.
I respect that, Tosy.
Thank you very much for your time.
You might not have known this.
Zellix can hear you, he's got a headset over there and he's going to do some work with Pimp, so you just glazed him powerfully into this one mate, thank you!
Nice, thank you!
That works as a perfect transition into this little conversation we're going to have Zellix, because obviously you are a new face to Maus, and you're a new face to a lot of people out there, so I wanted to give you and the rest of us an opportunity to get to know you a little bit better.
You come from the Maus Academy, you're now part of the main Maus team,
and my first question would be, how does it feel to make that transition from playing
there, say, tier 3, tier 2, counter-strike, into playing against the best teams in the world on a
consistent basis? Well, so, I mean, I think it was, I was really happy, of course, when I got the
opportunity to play in the main team, because I even felt like in the academy team that I could
step up already, like in either the main team or some other team, because I felt like, I mean,
I mean, I was just, I would grow the academy in a way, and yeah, it was, I mean, need to get used to it, you know, when you play against Vitality, Falcons or Fury, they are like the bigger teams, and at first it was really like hard, I would say, you know, it's a bit like, yeah, I'm playing as now Zywoo or whatever, you know, so it's, you have to get used to it, but I think it's just getting more and more better, you know, in a way that I'm staying here longer now, four months, so I'm just getting used to it.
What's the biggest difference from playing the likes of Saivoo and Dong, you name it, and then playing and grinding the tier 2 scene?
I think it's just like more details here as always, like I always say. In tier 1 it's just so much different in a way where it's like we look at things more detailed and everybody is just thinking in a different way than we are in like tier 2 or tier 3, it's just a different style.
Anything that surprised you or anything that's been hard to deal with, making that step or has it been somewhat easy so to speak to integrate?
I think I'm doing fine with the details, it's all about just my head stuff, you know, not overthink and these types of stuff.
But I think like, of course I'm learning every day because on some maps I play new positions that I never played before,
but I think I'm pretty smart to the game, or in a way like I like to look at it in detail too, so yeah, I would say I'm getting there.
Confident as well, and I wanted to ask you about that, and don't get me wrong, I watched you play at EWC as well.
You had that game against Gamer Legion, an ancient in particular, where I was watching the game and thinking to myself,
that's one of the worst performances I've seen from you in your mouse time,
and then you come back instantly out after, and the third deciding map on Nuke,
and you're the win condition for your team.
You bounce back, you know, a little break of 10-15 minutes, and all of a sudden you look like a new player on the server.
So you speak about that mental aspect of it, right? Getting inside your own head.
First and foremost, an ancient against Gamer Legion. Was that the case? Was it you getting into your own head?
Yeah, I would say it was that I was just overthinking too much and the first two maps even on Mirage. I was not I
Was disappointed in myself on Mirage too because I think even though we won it 13-11
I know I knew that I didn't play good like there was a many situations where like I just didn't react the way I should
To things even when I get the info and so I was a bit frustrated
But of course they want to take it on Asian but it seems like I couldn't move over it or it was I was just in my head
And over thinking I was not confident and even like nothing worked out
You know like I hit flamos like 99 in four. I don't know how many times I'm in so it was just like nothing could work
So yeah, it felt like I don't know I cannot do much on that map
And yeah, after that I was really mad like I don't think I felt that mad in a long time
Well, like how I felt after a chance. I was really disappointed and yeah many negative thoughts in a way
And then what happened because you go to a break you speak to cycle and you speak to some of your teammates
Can you maybe take us behind the curtain? What what happened in that 15 minute break?
I mean in that break I just instantly fly out of the room, like I was the first one who left.
And I just instantly went to, I just took a walk towards the toilet because it's a little bit far,
so it was like a three-minute walk, that was some nice reset thinking a bit.
And yeah, I mean Adam told me that no worries, you will bounce back on Nuke, you know,
you will drop 30 or whatever, but in the moment it didn't feel real, of course.
I know he wants to hype me up and I get it, I was in my head too much.
But yeah, I think it's hard to describe what went through actually in my head at that moment.
I felt like I think it was just... I had the two worst maps.
Okay, Mirage was fine, but I didn't play good, but I had the worst map of my life.
I was like, this cannot get worse, you know?
So yeah, I think I just left, I just focused on the game.
I was present on the third map and yeah, it's just easier.
I think I did the same today and when I'm able to do it,
that I stay present, just focused on my game and just listen to my instincts.
That's when I can play the best.
That's the thing, that's part of the context as well.
You're 18 years of age, if I'm not mistaken.
You're very young, you're relatively new to this level.
You spoke about Adam as well.
We heard from Tors as well, some nice words towards you.
How important is it for you and how nice is it for you
to have a guy like that on the team who can, I assume,
help you in and start building your confidence with the mouse?
I mean, it of course, it helps a lot that we can talk
in our own mother language, you know,
and sometimes I just talk with him about this stuff
and of course he's helping me with it.
So it's always nice that somebody can listen.
But I think the whole team is really helping.
Like, I cannot say a guy who is not always everybody.
I have a good connection with everyone in the team, the coaches.
So everybody is helping me day by day, even the sports psychologist.
So yeah, I'm just working on it as much as I can.
And hopefully it will get better and better.
And just when I can focus on my game and stay present, that's when I can perform the best.
Now, final question.
I sense you're a very driven individual.
Now, naturally, we could speak about miles, the expectations, you know,
You want to win more trophies, but do you have any individual goals?
Is there anything you want to achieve this year in terms of getting better statistically,
getting more comfortable?
Or do you have a goal that you're working on from an individual perspective as a player?
I think it's all about, for me now, I'm working a lot on the mental, a mental of it, I'm just
staying and not thinking.
Are you getting any help with that from anyone?
Yeah, it's the sports psychologist, I have my own, a Hungarian one and I have Ole from
So yeah, and yeah, I'm just trying to figure out the best way for myself how to how to look at the game or how
with what kind of a mindset come into the game and
What was the other question or how was it just in terms of you have any personal go?
Yeah, other than being I just still like I said it many times
I just want to achieve that I can be consistent first and just bring the highest level that I can always even if I have a
a bad day, I don't want to have 0-50 because I just want to make sure that I can help always
my team and don't let them down. Other than that, I didn't really make any specific goals
that I don't know. Of course, next year in 20-27 would be nice to get maybe top 20 players
of the year, these types of things, but for now I'm just focusing on the consistency and
just day by day grinding it. Next year, of course, I will probably look at some things,
how it goes, what will happen in the off-season. Day by day, you're still young, you're playing
Thank you so much for joining us, Alex, from a guy who's getting help to a guy that needs a bit of help. James, take it away.
I always need some help, but not from you, because you are utterly useless at everything you do.
That's why I've got Rugger here right now, and we can actually go through things that require brainpower and smarts to break down.
And that is this game, because you mentioned it, Rugger.
9Z did not play the way the 9Z normally play. They played slow, they played into Maus's hand, and I'm not saying Maus wouldn't have won anyway,
but we just didn't get the fight we wanted or the good game we expected.
Like this was not the team MaiaShrals played at the major test.
Yeah!
Like that was, this was boring, it was slow, it was playing into the exact things that
Maus do really good.
If you give them time and space, they will find these gaps that ends up killing the
round for you.
So, like, I think this has to be a win or call.
Like we talked about the good up swings in terms of the results, then they had this like,
showing lately and now this against mouse that feels completely flat no
individual popping off minor glimpses of you know the skill that we know they
have they're just they were here it's like me utterly useless you know didn't
really didn't really turn up James to be completely honest was a little bit
disappointing in in how they conducted themselves we know the potential of
line C we know that way way better than they showed here we know the way way
better than they showed at EWC and then playoff deciding games so as Ruggers
said maybe a bit of a wake-up call to to find back to the roots I will say this
Your little conversation with ZX, that was a fantastic job, well done.
And I loved what I was hearing from him.
That point he said that he has his own Hungarian psychologist on top of what the team is.
This is now like the second or third player I've spoke to who's doing this,
because obviously international teams just have a normal English speaking psychologist,
right, that will help with everything, nothing wrong with him.
But obviously we just heard from Torsi, he's getting good work from that guy as well,
he's been there a long time.
I do apologize, I forget his name.
But having your own way in your own language that can help on such small diseases,
that tells me you're taking it so seriously and he's so young. I love this with these young players.
I very much like that answer as well and I also think it's important to understand the
reasoning why I ask that, you know, because I do think that when you have a sports psychologist
connected to your team, that's a mouse's property, so to speak, right? That's with the focus of having
mouse work in the best capabilities, but if you want to work on yourself individually,
if he has individual goals, if there's anything that drives him, you know, from an individual
standpoint, then working with someone who's just focused on you and nobody else who can sort of
disconnect from the whole mouse thing and then just work with you as you as the person you are.
I think that's a great add-on, you know, so you get to work on both side-stop speak.
How much would it have helped you in your career if 70 years old, like I'm not even
kidding, because this would be like something that could elevate your game.
But it wasn't your career at all.
There was something I guess Astralis introduced it back in the days, but I'll be completely
honest and you can probably attest to that as well. I think in terms of my level and skills
sit back then I could have been way way more but I was a pain in there to play
with I was not a nice guy I was not calm I was not composed I think if I would
have had that help back then my career would have been vastly different outside
wouldn't be standing here you know so it comes in two sides but in the supermarkets
in the supermarket something like that maybe at McDonald's you know like a
boys out there Jimford has been there before I think but to be completely
honest it's something that can change the course of our career it's something
that contains the way you progress as an individual
and the fact that he's 18 years of age,
already doing it now instead of waiting till he's 22,
you know, that's something that can perhaps help him
to be the top 20 player that he wants to be,
if not next year, then the following year.
I love it when we're here and these players get proactive,
but we need to start rounding things out
because there's still two more games to come this way.
Let's take a look at the group to give you an overview
of where we're gonna be after seeing these games go down.
And as we have it right now, I see against Maus,
Not Vitality, miles like everyone expected.
Ineservical got the job done.
And guess what?
Nynzey lost that game.
They get the beautiful job of taking on Vitality.
Any hot takes?
I mean, to be completely honest, with the way Vitality played today
and with how Nynzey can play and what we've seen for the best
but you've got time, that lower bracket game to finish last
at this tournament, that's a banger.
That can go both ways.
I'm not going to lie.
It's two teams that needs to revenge what happened today.
Like, both of them didn't show the full version of themselves.
So I think it's going to be a lot of emotions in the room, a lot of shouting, a lot of energy
because none of these teams can afford to go out in the last place.
Even though we spoke about zero expectations for Vitality, this still cannot happen.
It cannot happen, but we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Guys, for both of you, did a fantastic job today.
Thank you very much for making my life nice and easy.
So we're making our way out of here.
But guess who's coming?
It's going to be little Maui, Medium Nat and Chai Envoo.
We'll see you in a few.
Maui is the strongest.
I'm in the unforgettable names in all through Counter Strike, I mean there's so many in
every single generation.
I think usually it's someone who's able to kind of break the rules of that particular
era, someone who kind of unlocks this vision of the way they want to play the game that
other people can see and build upon.
The first side name is Snacks.
Define how smokes could be used, the way he played around, the way he walked through them,
the way he hid in them.
That wasn't being done at the time.
That particular moment is a time of greatness for Snacks.
someone like JW and KennyS with how aggressive they were with the off.
Trophies, winning events, going on streaks, the NIP guys because of the streak that they
went on, the fanatic guys who established an era, there's always greatness there.
I think for Pasha, I think what made him was his personality.
Having someone being that outspoken and that strong and provide emotions and provide his
thoughts and be entertaining in a way that the audience can connect with and fans can
connect with and we as commentators can connect with, he was always able to get kills and
despite that you'd see these moments where you were like how is this guy a pro like the
the way he walked around corners, the way he stepped into a 1v1.
In fact, pros at the time even had a name for it called the Pasha Peek,
which was like the slowest, most awkward peek ever.
That was kind of the greatness-defining mood around the team at that point.
Olaf back in like 2015, he was such a force to be reckoned with,
he was one of the players that Fnatic could just send out and say,
find us a kill.
And he could go dual two or three players at a time.
He really did become that player where once upon a time he was the jack of all trades
and he was just so good at all those trades.
2016 was the era where Brazilian Counter-Strike really hit it.
Fallen's greatness obviously comes from his movement and his ability to understand his positioning,
take a shot, fall back, find new cover, and he was like a master of this kind of like retreating off defense that would just pick a player off.
So you add all that together with his leadership and then kind of the style of Counter-Strike that he developed with the Brazilians
and Fallen's just in some ways a complete package of greatness.
A device with someone who kind of mastered the textbook of Counter-Strike and always played within its limits to its maximum potential.
Zai Wu is someone who just has incredible consistency, sharp with the AWP as well as the AK-47, extremely versatile.
And he's a star player that doesn't demand a lot.
Simple's greatness came from the fact that he just beat the game.
He's the best player to ever touch it.
His motivation at some point was, I want to put on a show.
I want the crowd on their feet as I decimate you inside the server.
And that level of greatness is really hard to achieve and might not ever be achieved again.
For me, I think the Goat Conversation is a fun one.
Device is the greatest CSGO player of all time.
Four majors, what, 21 MVPs, 20 MVPs?
He was the center point for the greatest team of all time
of that Astralis lineup.
And then we get to Zaiwu.
And he's going to take the mantle
of the greatest player of all time.
It's just a matter of time
before everyone kind of gets on board and accepts that.
Someone like Monosy, someone like Donk
should be next in line to have
some kind of a goat status conversation.
You need the major trophies, you have to have them.
Donk's already got one in his first rookie year.
If he's doing this in year one,
where is he gonna develop into?
But it's competition and it's counter-strike
and things can change in a heartbeat.
of the results that have happened already today here and what could potentially be even more
upsets and tell me we'll walk through it. It is going to be Vue and Maui. I feel like we're just
inseparable. We're just a trio that you can't get rid of. Well, you can't get rid of the tiny Maui,
the medium Nat, and the huge, ridiculously huge, that they're posting tweets where my
upper body is cut off. Did you ever watch the Power Puff Girls or whatever and it's like the
I'm not sure if you're going to
get the name. I'm not sure if
you're going to get the name.
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check it out because there's a lot of different modes that they have for
themselves. The one that we'll look in here is Defender specifically on cash.
Defender, great. Great game mode to actually get used to a map when you want
to really understand how to play as an anchor on the CT side. The tough thing
to do, you're gonna have tees that are coming at you, varying their peak
timings, they're gonna be swinging together, they're gonna be using utility.
All of the things that absolutely nobody in your Premier games will be doing, but
if you can defend the site while blind,
you can defend it while not blind.
That's true.
That's totally true.
I just did an anchor tierless myself,
and I think I would move up personally
if I were to use this defender mode a little bit more
regularly.
There just aren't really many ways
to practice a live environment with the utility
being the key aspect of the defense there,
where you're getting flash off the angles.
You have to listen to if they're pulling a pin or anything
like that.
I mean, look at this guy that's defending right now.
He's getting blind as hell.
God, he has no idea where that next fight's coming from.
But if he just used Defender a little bit more,
he probably wouldn't get blind as frequently.
What tier would you put this Defender in?
Honestly, I mean, if you were fragging like this on,
there's a lot of multi-kills here.
This is probably an A tier.
I'd give him a B, B tier.
Was this all A tier?
Well, the eye test is not great, but the results say A.
The results say S plus.
Yeah.
You see Rops fragging out like this.
That's true.
Actually, no, actually, results base, S, yeah, you're right.
This guy is nearly flawless. He's getting multi-kill after multi-kill, not even dying.
You can't even ask Heavy God to do that.
I feel like you guys aren't even on the same page. You're like, oh, we're going from B, maybe A, alright, it's an S plus S.
We had to define our criteria. It's a quarter for tierless.
No, I mean, that is true, and everything else just has to fit within that.
Look, I fully respect that one, and maybe we'll do some more tierless, some more criteria fitting,
but right now we've got to look at our next matchup. It's going to be foot up against Legacy.
How do you fare your chances against Legacy today?
I mean, I think we are kind of the same color team, you know, so like they run, we run, they shoot hard, we shoot hard, so it's going to be depending on who is who slept better tonight or depending on the mood, like if you are happy or maybe like little bit nothing mood, you know, I think it's depending on that, I think if who is shooting faster or harder, we're going to win today.
How was your sleep last night? Sleep quality, 10 out of 10, 8 out of 10?
Uh, I love when I talk to him.
It's going to be like who should faster sometimes, but sometimes it's going to be some outplays
from I think our IGLs and it's going to be nice, I think it's going to be a nice game.
Do you think you guys will be consistent of the back of your performance in EWC?
I hope so, but they are also a very good team.
They were just behind us in EWC, like third place and they are playing pretty good, so
I think it's going to be a tough game.
Both teams are doing very well recently, everybody can see that.
So I would say there's a very good chance of both teams winning.
So we have to play our best to see that we can.
Both these teams being honest about what it takes to be able to take the victory today,
to be able to one-up their opponent, but honestly, the results that they've had, I don't know
if you put this in one of those situations here is self view of the criteria or in a
T-list not really you know going above expectations or if it is finally your meeting expectations.
I think these are teams that are really showcasing their skill their their teams that play very heavy
aim-based counter-strike and you're seeing them both in the upswing this is where they're both
firing on all cylinders second and third at EWC these are two teams that you would put in the
if you're talking about player to player,
uh, fragging ability, or maybe the A plus tier.
And when they come at you, if they're having a great game
and they so often are recently, you need to be playing at your best,
even if you're a Vitality, you're a Falcons, or you're going to struggle.
And as Falcons, they lose to this type of team.
Exactly. There are two teams that there have been rumblings about for a while.
When are they going to finally break through?
Well, now they've forced us to pay attention to them.
Because of that up tempo play style, they have shown that they can upset
that they can upset some of the big dogs,
whether that's Falcons or Maus,
both losing at the hands of both of these kinds of teams.
They've shown that really sort of the rumblings
in the beginning of CS2 were just how much,
it just seems to be about firepower.
And these guys are reminding us, yes,
it still is indeed a game that really values that.
Yeah, looking at our legacy specifically,
because you're talking about these teams,
are they able to get wins over?
It's a big, okay, that is amazing
that you were able to do it.
And yes, this is something that we were really hoping
you'd be able to achieve for yourself.
But how do you continue to stay
consistent for yourself?
Because right now it's a bit shaky at the top.
People aren't really sure how they're going to place
themselves in the season.
Just Jeff, I think, I think legacy rather is a little bit
slept on.
You know, they had this major run where people talked about
whether or not it was a fluke and then they come in.
They don't really build upon that.
They come into this year.
I think they've had some pretty solid results leading into
this EWC result and especially they've had an upgrade in the
upper category, right?
So you're seeing them not only have some solid results
before this, but upgrade their firepower,
I think tries an incredible oper
and you see this legacy team,
I think to say that we're questioning
if they have the consistency,
maybe we don't know if they can come top three
at an EWC consistently,
but there's certainly a playoff caliber team,
I would expect them there on most events.
I definitely took issue with the earlier segments,
tier list for the teams that they put on.
I feel like they weren't impressed enough with legacy.
Since they've gotten art,
They've made it to four of seven playoffs for tier one lands.
That's pretty good in my book.
That's better than some of the teams
that you would want to rank higher than them,
like the Navies of the world.
And having deep runs and lifting some trophies,
that's all of that is incredibly impressive.
And like Vu said though,
the fact that they've upgraded their opera
is what makes them such a force,
where so many teams are still holding onto these old relics
of an opera that maybe they feel indebted to,
that they help get them to where they are
in terms of placing and ranking today.
the legacy just they just they're going for the throat, you know, they're trying
to get that knockout blow and that finding a player like try and just
saying, Yeah, we're gonna ditch sags and who was the serviceable offer. He
actually helped get them to some of their trophy lifts in the past like CAC
last year. They still just were saying we're trying to get the next best
thing whenever we can. I think when you looked at this team with the addition
of art, they added another dimension to their play style that they can play
slow. Sometimes they can play a little group up. They can really catch you
off guard. It's not only the aggression and then you replace sadson with try who I agree was sadson he was okay
He was serviceably wasn't really gonna lose them games, but he wasn't gonna win them games
Now try will win you games
He will be the x-factor in so many games and you've had this team build up where they used to have kind of a weaker offer now
They have an offer that can really carry them over the top. They have so many dimensions as a roster
It's really impressive to see and I'm expecting a lot from this team heading into the rest of this season
the right spot. He's not
worried about walking back
into an angle that they've
already lost in the round.
He's very confident in his
ability that if he's caught in
the open, he's going to be
able to take advantage of
those. I think he calls his
own shot a decent amount of
the time. I see him rotate
around on the CT side very
often. He's constantly in the
right spot and he's extremely
explosive. He's not worried
about walking back into an
angle that they've already
lost in the round. He's very
confident in his ability that
if he's caught in the open,
he's going to be able to take
ability that if he's caught in the open he's going to hit that shot immediately.
He doesn't have to worry about that and then when he's holding angles he's
actually I did I took a little page out of your book now I was watching some POV
demos. He's one of the only operas I see actually doing like the rifle style
movement while holding angles. He's like jiggling back and forth, crouching up and
down holding angles. I've seen multiple people miss on this guy because he's
making it hard for them to hit him. That's a that's a great point but I would
also just add just versatility to that. The aggression and the rotating
If you're looking to get a
shot, you can get a shot.
You can get a shot, but
you can get a shot, but
you can get a shot, but
even when he is pressed into
a corner, like you're saying,
I mean, the way he's able to
just rattle off shot shot
after shot with nice flicks,
even dodging utility at times
to all of those aspects leads
to him being a force, whether
he's going to call his own
number or he's forced to play
a more just kind of passive
style because sometimes
legacy, they prioritize their
right for Sue. So you need to
still hit those tripwire
shots and just be able to
lock down a bomb site. If
you're that solo defender and
when he's able to get into that position for himself, but again, we've talked about it.
There is so much more going on on the side of legacy and a lot of props given to their
IGLs, which I liked for the pre-match interviews as well. It was, now he's like, you know, at the
end of the day, there's also going to be ways where maybe we're going to have an IGL off here
who's going to be able to call rounds better, but focusing more towards Lato there and what he's
going to be able to bring compared to his counterpart over on the foot side. Lato has been a guy that I
I feel like still is sometimes lightly slept on for the team because try obviously stole the show when it came to how they've been playing at the most recent Paris event.
But Lado has just been this rock solid force for them, not always quite as aggressive per se as somebody like do now is just being sent in and really has to be that hard entry.
But Lado on the extremities or even sometimes in the rotator positions.
I just feel like his read of the game was something that really helped upset teams like Falcons, for example, where in the macro sense,
I just see him in the right spot at the right time so frequently.
And that obviously comes because there's so much information that he gleams from
what Dumau did earlier in the round or what Trid did.
And I feel like when they have that sort of centered idea of what's coming next,
then Lado is just so, so solid when he knows what fight's coming.
Yeah, if we look back into their major performance back in Austin, right,
it was a talk about Lado and Dumau.
Which one is the more impressive player?
I think Dumau is great.
He pops off the page entry-wise, but you look at Lado.
He is that solid rock.
He's going to be the player on some maps he's playing on quite a few maps.
He's playing in anchor position.
He's really hard to deal with.
You want to go the other direction.
Then you're running into Nism.
Then you're running into try with the off often times.
I think Lotto gives them a stability that you often lack in these sorts of aggressive teams.
Football, the ones that we're talking about, though, that at the end of the day,
they're going to have a firepower, right?
It's who's going to be able to shoot faster.
Who's going to be able to shoot harder here.
And everything that you've built up for the side of the legacy feels like they're going to have that
bit of an edge over them, but is that just us maybe underestimating foot a little bit
more because remember they play slightly better at EWC. They were able to get second
and a map off of spirit in that finals. I don't want to underestimate foot. I think
the talk in the pregame, both interviews suggested this is going to be a heavy firepower
game. This is going to be a game where whoever, I think it was, uh, what was it X-Floud that
said whoever slept better is going to have the better name right.
11 out of 12, by the way, what's an animal does that?
I think they both realize the situation that they need to aim at the top of their abilities.
And when I see a foot, I can glaze legacy all day.
I see a lot of the same things coming out of foot.
They are an incredibly difficult team to play.
And when they get a kill, they're so good at snowballing around.
They get one frag, a flash pops above them immediately.
They're ready to swing out for more.
It's incredibly tough for more passive, more structured teams to deal with.
I also feel like there's sort of like a cliché thing about a team not having fear.
It's not even that I always say when I watch foot that they're a fearless team,
because when they when they have a great execute, they're all going to run in.
They understand what utilities around them, but also the discretion that they
sometimes even exercise where they they show a little fear.
But it's the right amount where they see that there's some blocking utility.
And even though they might have one smoke, one flash that was setting up a play,
I think any of their entry fraggers can call in a moment's notice.
wait pause or don't go through that cancel the call and that leads to that second kind of gear that
they sometimes hit that grabeni has to come up with that secondary plan and that's what i was
really impressed at in paris with with how they were able to find second kind of map control
procedures in a round even if that single exec that they were going for just gets stuffed what's
the difference then between hesitation and caution the difference between hesitation and caution i
would say well at least in the foot in the context of foot not necessarily like the overarching concept
it with with foot. I mean, it's just that sometimes it feels like they get a
read whether there's three guys on a bomb site because then you don't want
obviously just run into a solo choke point. And if they get those little
tells whether they're able to just hear a footstep or they're able to just see
two pieces of utility flying at them at that choke point, then they can
immediately pivot and say, Okay, we can't go right now. Maybe we can
reheat later, but they just have those contingency plans, which sometimes
younger teams don't always. I'd say hesitation is when both players or
the rest of the team isn't on the same page. We have one player who doesn't want to go
in, they're still throwing utility, the other guy swings in. Caution is one player, as you
say, he can call pause, he can call stop, and then you go back later, you go to the other
bomb site, that's caution and that's what foot does really well.
Alright, well we're going to throw caution to the wind because whilst we've been talking
about these teams, we do know that we have to have a look at Alveda to see what maps
are going to play out in this best of three.
I know you both love doing your research on what could potentially come out here.
What are going to be some confident maps that hopefully the foot or legacy get for themselves?
I would be surprised if there were really any curveballs here.
Foot's Hallmark map for maybe a six months, seven months at this point has been ancient.
I'd be kind of shocked if it went anywhere else there.
So we do get that ancient pick.
And for Legacy Voo, I was lightly leaning Dust 2 in this one.
Actually, I think it's a pretty strong Dust 2.
Yeah, I think Dust 2 is kind of obvious.
the game. I think that's the
biggest thing that's going to
happen. I think that's the
biggest thing that's going to
happen. This is probably going
to get removed if it goes the
second round of bands. The only
question mark ahead. I thought
maybe foot would go for a cash
and then you have an ancient as
the map three, but instead
you're just going to see cash
banned by legacy almost
certainly legacy did not look
good on cash when they've
played it so far, and that
leaves mirage is map three. I
think both teams are pretty
comfortable with the way this
went down. This is just
everybody playing to their
strengths. I don't really see
a clear winner or loser to
How much confidence would you give in legacy being able to put up a fight here?
Legacy was really strong on this map for a reasonable amount of time.
When they get going, when they can get their aggression working, they're really dangerous.
But they've really struggled on it recently.
They've lost four of their last five.
Their one win was against Navi, where Navi looked like they just weren't sure what the hell was going on in that game.
So it is a map that legacy are competent on.
They're not pushed over by any means, but it's certainly a foot-favored map.
I would probably take 65-35 favorites for foot here on the first one, just because it
has been their bread and butter map because they pivot so well in the middle of a round
here.
If they actually take mid control, then they're going to know how to use it in the mid round.
But also, I feel like they're sometimes a little gimmicky, but they get away with it.
When they just do a 4-1 type of call, when they just kind of pile into a bomb site, so
frequently, that first plan does work.
But like I said, if sometimes they get stuffed early on, they usually do have that release
on that opposite side of the map.
I mean, it shows as well in the numbers there.
The last three maps, 12 times they've been able to play on it
with a 75% success rate.
I'm sure they're hoping to be able to bump that number up
a little bit more, get another win here for themselves.
But at the end of the day, it still is just map number one
with scrawny ladders.
Thank you very much, Nat.
And the analysts, Mohan,
we have got the two hottest prospects
in the town at the moment.
What could have been two potential grand finalists
back at EWC had spirit not gotten the better of legacy.
And I think just, you know, at this point, two top 10 teams in the world and going head-to-head in an opening game.
I mean, since the opening matchups were announced for Lisbon, excuse me, Porto,
I've been excited for this day. So I'm super hyped to get up into this one. Our
polymarket predictors have foot as the favorite, but ever so slightly and totally fair.
I think coming off of a grand finals appearance that's going to give you the edge in this head-to-head.
Yeah, the numbers make a lot of sense right there.
I think you've got two teams that everybody else is very scared of and it's almost it almost feels like a waste to have them going up against each
Other because you feel like they could just kind of tear through a lot of teams that are higher ranked in them at the moment
Though not many are put foot
But in a match like this where foot are going up against legacy. This is actually where I think legacy they do have a chance
I think a foot have now started to ascend legacy even more recently
An ancient and this veto as brought up on the desk should bring the best out of both of them
Figures cross we get the game that this could be
And everyone delivers
Deep smokes for the execute here from foot. It's an all-in B-play. They don't have cave totally cuz Lotto was past tense in there
But he'll get popped nice and easy, Footman Advantage plus the bomb plants, and we'll see
what sort of a retake we have in store.
Legacy operating with a kit on Nism, smoking to flash here for Art.
Art whose calls as of late have turned heads.
Ooh, and speaking of heads, demons get popped.
Nice execution here from Nism.
Now trying to get in off that flashbang.
You've got one player up inside of Cade.
And really this emphasis over towards the ramp, but he's really just coming up legacy.
Juggs has got himself a second this round.
You know, he's got the kit, he's on 19 health.
Yeah, down to one second, and so that defuse stock legacy.
Easy does it.
As they come through with just enough utility, just the right plan, and even up against a
man disadvantage, they'll find that pistol round victory.
Again, in terms of form, like if you haven't watched these teams in a while, or it's your
first time like these all these players right now are matching up to everyone in
zero one in terms of individual level like the kills are gonna come really
quickly the trades are insane watching legacy really showed exactly how much
they've leveled up and they were already they have already been impressive like
ever since they got into the Austin major and trying to turn heads
Oh, damn, I really look back.
Oy, oy, demons galil out middle.
This is one rifle in hand for foot.
Happy to clash out mid, and at the same time,
we get foot overwhelming that A site.
Quick to take it over, try from inside.
Kona's got a back turn to him, deals with the deagle,
and also frazzles the bomb plant.
Oh, they do have a couple of smokes for this,
so they can get a planted all over the body.
Yeah, pop that one open, and so try.
has found great value out of that donut position.
Kruppeni sends a Deagle shot through
to find Art next to him.
We've got very little health here
for what's left of foot.
They actually have so much time.
Makes it a little bit more challenging for Legacy
even though, hope time of the clock,
but run right into try.
Kruppeni tries to get out of there, misses his chance
and try winds up being valuable in this one.
It's a quad kill from him, a six and zero start.
We were calling for Legacy to get an upgrade
in the AWP department and he has absolutely delivered
since donning this legacy jersey.
Yeah, totally.
It's been many years of try and, you know,
we like to invest back on 9Z and ever since then,
we wondered when was he gonna show us the same stuff
that he did on that lineup originally?
Well, now what's happening?
Absolutely.
I mean, he had a lot of bravado at EWC even talked about,
oh, I wanna play against Vitality
as my next match in playoffs
because we wanna play against the best.
This is my first time playing on a stage like this.
Just showing why he's here.
The pride.
It'd be big talk for an under performer that, of course, he wasn't.
Still an aggressive decision here to put Kribbeni on an AK.
It was five deaths last round.
rifle finds its mark. Try dealt with pistols grouped up with, again, this mobile AK-47.
Just trying to supplement the pistols on the approach and now it is all the foot grouped
up dangerous art almost loses his head they draw a lot of good utility out early
don't foot want to try to hope that they can actually pop through this afterwards
Nissan's on the other side of the map with a smoke no kids over here either
They earned this extra MP9 to try to work with, but then he goes wide, picks up ART,
and Lotto drops with nothing!
And they're just going to storm through that smoke grenade.
Jug's not too concerned about it.
That's exactly it right there.
It's like one moment of shaky aim, and that's the whole round.
You see ART, actually, he got startled, flicked a little bit too much, missed his spray,
and that's all they needed.
Lovely decision to bring in this one, AK, then.
I want to say this carefully, because everyone's talking about foot and all the players on foot.
Nextfile has been an excellent pick up as well.
Yeah.
Um, Kermedny's been getting his flowers, but I feel like he's going to forever be the most underrated part of the lineup while they're successful
because of the nature of the kills he gets.
Plainmaker, a lot of opening duels, a lot of aggressive lurks.
Like a lot of things that we saw from your kinder yesterday on cash and his style now calling on that map.
Uh, Kermedny just does that all the time on every single map.
And it's it's a high confidence place though. I was just talking to Anders by the green right
I feel like he kind of reminds me of when Nathan he called for
Yeah, and I immediately like does that mean that there's a lot that comes with the confidence of it
Can you keep that confidence right and?
but no reason no reason to draw a comparison between
Between what might happen what we see right now is a player that's playing at that level
He's calling he has a lot you hear him in the comms as well talking to his team's clearly an authority. Oh, yes on foot
Yes, sir
Seventary down into the double kill Krebbeni got the first one
He gets dealt with by the legacy players one for three. They'll take that just an absolute commitment to the mow down
And it is legacy
Slain top mid no chance at that kill back cemetery was just
Dreamlining those bullets we get foot into the B bomb site for the plant
And so this one's gonna come up foot and tie this game two rounds all yeah
Gamble there to go for mid, but they also I think they're happy to see T's trying to take it
They had low guns. They want a close range fights. They just didn't win them to return to the Krebbenny conversation
You brought up you just said that you know
he kind of speaks with this authority within the team and we hear that I think one of the best things about this foot lineup
And I think one of the reasons maybe he's able to do what he does and call the way he does
Is a roster that's been together for a long time
Mm-hmm, and so not only do the players around him trust him
But he knows that if he has to be harsh for a moment
He can be because it's this long-term partnership that they've already established always wonder sometimes when you get this
roster put together and place an IGL in
We all know that a little bit of distrust between players
Start second guessing you don't like the way somebody talks to you because maybe you don't know them so well
And yeah, we're all professionals in this space
You're supposed to be able to compartmentalize that but it just comes so much more naturally to a team like foot right now
Nice good job guys
And positivity and positivity I love that
there are threats out on the board you're talking about arts mag 7 i'm talking about arts mag 7
that ak and that m4
a couple of oh he was jumping too he was they were both
Oh, that's really awesome.
Oh boy, and Lotto just collect one through the edge of that smoke.
Got a kill from two of the three.
Now all three of these guns that Legacy enter with have picked up a kill apiece.
X-Flight just got the whittle down by Lotto who goes right back into that boost that Netem
his first.
So I mean Blinken you would have missed it.
Legacy, there's still five players standing tall.
What an absolutely perfect round to just ship this momentum back.
We've got a 62 health cemetery surrounded,
a Desert Eagle player that they can afford to lose.
And it all starts with Art jumping Mag 7 headshot.
Man, I just feel like these are the kinds of rounds
that we can, for whatever reason, expect tonight.
These teams are gonna offer us fireworks,
and this is an early example of it.
3-2 lead for Legacy off of two saved rifles
plus the Mag 7 addition that starts all of this off.
Both jumping is just...
Well, the worker bar, I guess you can call it.
But it wasn't the one killed in the round, like he said there were threats.
Legacy barely saw anything before losing that round.
Foot. Foot.
Yeah.
That's pretty huge for Legacy because they were just about to be totally broke.
Oh, they were. And now 9 out of the 10 players in this round have AK-47s.
Love that.
So, Legacy have just been offered a bit of a freebie.
Four out of the five legacy players with a buy in the next round as well.
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In front of the pack, Kat will not deter them.
He's already going for it and cave control looking prime for the taking
He wants that sweet revenge versus R who's right there on the brink of this fight actually over steps there could have definitely died
Yeah, they tried to lure him out man. That was that was like hard to organize. He had to throw that smoke
But he knew he'd let his teammate in the back have him in
But nothing comes of it just a little scare
Donut angle is being attended to. This flash won't catch anything, but it opens a gap.
A little gap here for X-flat across. They were really banking on getting the info on
the cross. They can at least hear it. And now they're just going to be suspicious.
But even being suspicious means you've got some resources tied up. It's effectively two
guys here holding on to B and Doom out, just praying his teammates have a hold so that he
He can watch this position.
Krobeni's still the sole player in cave and that smoke in front of him's about to fade.
You can tell they're kind of paralyzed by, you know, options.
They're still worried about an A-play.
Dropping utility in front of this commitment, head of foot, you start to confirm bodies.
The taste of Ramp Lotto softened up and dealt with without even being fully seen.
Juggs has got Art dead, it's all on Doom out now, and Krobeni finds his line up as well.
Unreal.
How many fights have we had here where nobody actually has confirmed vision?
This was a real chess position out of foot.
I think once they had crossed through mid
and Nyssen knew it, immediately the entire structure
of the CT side went to watching that.
Plus they didn't have anything on A main.
Ideally, you'd like to be able to come in and re-clear mid
so that you can free up those guys again.
Maybe also get the kill at the same time
and then find out the attention of the other team.
But instead, they have zero map control.
The two A players are both frozen
because they have to watch both Dona and A main.
And all that meant was there was effectively just a 2v5 in a B site,
and they couldn't watch for X-Flight, who eventually got his Lurk kill.
That one's up being a pretty damn near perfect one for foot.
Tied game again, three rounds apiece.
There's some spots in CS where it's like you make one decision,
and then you already almost know the round is over, and that's what just happened to Legacy,
and then all you have to hope is that your guns can bail you out.
Not even a kill here. They get kills through the smoke.
Two out of the four deaths this round for Legacy, just straight up through the smokes.
But again, that was around where they had all those AKs offered from foot, so Legacy keeps the buy going.
We've got an op on try.
And a little less oomph behind this mid-fight than what we've had in the past.
Nissum still floats around, and Slav blind, oh Nissum on retreat, catches the headshot.
And then the challenge from Art and Dumau gives the numbers right back over to Foot.
Will Nissum return into the duel?
Smoke grenade in front of him, he has to peel off.
Yeah, he got hit by it too.
And that was Dumau breaking the smoke open.
Oh, the blindside!
Could have gotten a second, Krebbeni fast to answer.
Try Scour's middle, sees nothing for his efforts.
Foot gonna go into that B site, not looking to waste too much time.
Nate goes too deep to give Try vision, but they also have yet to cross from Cate.
Oh, he's stomping!
And you'd think that would have given him away, but Nism was quick to the one kill.
Demon off the base of ramp with a trade.
Made just more incredible trades here out of foot, and they keep it to a 2v1.
Bomb has been planted.
Smoke doesn't fade soon enough to catch that bomb planter.
That's Krobeni to retreat in behind the box.
With the amount of honey, you almost have to walk away from this right away.
Like, there's just no...
He's out.
Even with the time, uh, the op to save.
It's so key.
I'd say the best thing you could say about Foot right now is just that they know when they have an opportunity.
They have an open site. They don't wait the extra 20 seconds.
Yep.
They're always right, which is what makes them win right now.
And, uh, here's another example of it.
You can question their experience, you can question their nerves, you cannot question
their team play and the confidence they've earned in their string of events in the last
few months.
Their trades are just unreal.
Let's watch them back in fact.
This is the key one that could have been the double to shut it out.
Nyssen also prompts for that insta-cat shot, but Demons base is ramp ready to go.
Everything comes for free, for legacy.
Seven rounds into this map and Foot have the lead for the first time.
Untrained at Shield of Kills just has to be the biggest sign of fragility and a lack of
communication.
You see all the best teams are even in spots like that where you're not necessarily doubled
up with someone, but you're still covering a position they need you to cover.
That shows you're still connected.
So Tri-Saved-Off has to be the solution to this problem.
What the hell can you really expect from him sitting over towards that B site?
There's been a lot of clashes going down in middle and foot tiptoe into it to find nobody home.
The foot have already done a good job of giving both A and B a little love, so it's really hard to read where you should stack.
They could absolutely have rushed B this round, but...
They've also gone mid-control into A, walked out,
donates the telegraph.
Almost with the USP kill.
And it only speeds him up.
Don't fall those grenades to just guarantee it, but we could see it from a mile away when
that one ops on the other side of the map from the get-go.
We'll see if Art's 5-7 can collect.
He gets up close to personal.
That's where the 5-7 gets lethal, but nope.
Demons got it covered for a second kill this round.
Tries off.
We'll find a target just to remind him what he's got and what he's capable of.
Yeah, but, um, I didn't mean to say that.
and
did you have an expectation for foot to win this series that
I'm not not very confident. Sure. Definitely not like not because you you know
Or I like that because sometimes I say like we'll pick a favorite and we're like I'm not super confident because we're worried about their form
No, anything this today is like I'm not super confident because legacy are also pretty sick. Yeah, exactly
That's that's why this game has been I'm gonna watch them when they beat naffi at EWC. I was like
They're actually unreal right now. Yeah, so
So nice change to go into a game and just be excited about games try he will clip the
wings of cemetery.
That's his 10th kill.
Yeah, slams the door shut at the boost outside of B that'll give foot something to chew on.
Oh, nice double down from our couple of headshots couple of off kills from try as well.
So, this is what we're talking about. It's not like Legacy are a bunch of chumps.
They come into this one prepared for the cemetery duel off the box.
Try with a very quick reposition as well over to the red room.
And Art under siege delivers a double.
So just another swift reminder, folks. If you're here cheering on foot, Legacy are threats.
You'll see how Claymake can keep the close of this round.
Even will remain surrounded he has no clear path to that e-bomb site
But he does have time to try to make this actually happen
Didn't even bother getting the bomb though
Okay, it's a little crazy one tap here
Try to find his third and legacy closing on that lead yet again.
A lot of what we expected about this match has definitely come true.
We're getting great rounds out of legacy, but also fun leading by a bit.
Strong T side game plan.
And try performing.
Yep, I think that's the big one.
It's like we'll try still be able to put up big numbers.
He is clearly leaps and bounds above the rest of legacy.
But for me, it's just that little bit of an edge in team play,
what's still have over legacy.
As you've highlighted, it's the trade frags.
And I was going to say that probably the biggest skill
that is like Krebbeni to art or something on an individual basis,
but even that round at art shows you can hang a bang.
Yes, sir.
This implies front donut, so prepared to face ex-floud.
He's having a bit of a struggle to get his game going today.
The one piece of foot that's negative.
Well, one and five anyways.
You get this move down the ramp, he's side of him, oh, he came back.
Cemetery had already cleared that spot as Nissen was tucked into Donut, but he took the front
face of the Bricks back. Now Dumau's gonna tuck into his position as this long A commitment
comes out. Oh wow. Great move. Fines missing. Kills him quick. We've got Dumau from site
off the flash thanks to Art. He's able to get a little more value out of that tough
squeeze. Knew he was under threat. Missed off shot because of the flash. Krippeni throwing
Util right back the other way. They actually are gonna plant but honestly they're not secure
on any choke points, and the op gets picked up by Art.
Misses his chance to finish this himself.
Krebbenny's on the chase.
Art's off.
Now posted.
He wants to get him to miss, but Art delivers.
Art with not only the flash assist,
as they execute and hard commit, but then, like you said,
the swap to the op winds up nailing himself a double kill.
Kind of like falling on Furia.
Art, obviously, he can be a secondary when you need him to.
He spent a lot of time in his career using the gun.
He doesn't bite on the shoulder deeps. It's a really nervous moment because you realize
if you, you know, you do, if you do too shoot too early, the round is just out of your hands
entirely. This bomb's going to the other side of the map.
Grenade. As we come into another hero, AK round per foot. Last time it was in the hands
of Krebbenny and it worked. This time he'll kick off with a tech nine as Nism just kind
it gets caught. That's a bit surprising. All that beat pressure. It was really trusting
that they wouldn't come through the smoke on cave, but not the case. They look a little
bit, I want to say not distracted, but I mean, very unsure. That's a site open. They block
B. They're going to walk back over. Legacy are searching for some answers right now.
I have no idea what footers are trying to do.
And because they blocked B, they kind of are going to stay a little bit committed on this side of the map.
Kerbeni will take the AK's, got more HP and half armor.
Jugg's been able to scoop up that M4 that Kerbeni killed bottom middle.
Curiously, he doesn't throw it to X-Flight, who actually has Kevlar, and doesn't have the bomb to deal with.
Kervenny's gonna go down, not able to fire that AK once, Doomow.
Close smoke, Jug's still playing with that bomb, and the M4!
He chucks it back, dies, then the bomb carriers just dealt with, they've watched him out wide, and it just comes up legacy.
That was one of those few moments where I feel like things got a little awkward there.
It almost felt to me like Jug didn't maybe realize he had bomb.
Because he hangs onto the M4, he extends past the site, he tries to throw it back after the fact when he could have just been planting.
I think he was waiting to phase the CT smoke, but Tri stuck around with his op, got two kills, three in the rounds, it's 15 for him.
By the way, I don't want to take it away from legacy, clean shots when called for.
That's legacy reestablishing a lead can they hang on to it going into the end of the first half
Breath of the wild it's a full moon tonight
Wait, that's the Sun could still be true in real life
If you go back, his foot do emerge through the Tetris smoke and see teas that were moments
ago at the bottom of middle now just comfortably into the red room.
Still feels like they want to sign up to fight for this, but they're not being given the
fight and his foot smoke off red for now.
You know they're scared to do this.
Pop it, yeah, did some good for one.
Great damage, here from Dumau once again.
We get this crawl out of the foot players closer to the B site.
Utility up and over, they're going to pop open that smoke and Lotto looking for a dual,
shaves X-flout off this.
He has had an incredibly rough half.
one and eight.
Zoom out goes wide out from the short smoke
and he goes unexpected.
Beautiful cleanup at the end of this half of a legacy.
They wind up getting themselves another round for the road,
a seven round CT half,
and the last four rounds straight.
From my sense, a rivalry is something
that ties you to your limits and shows you your limits.
something where there's a lot of emotion because of how hard it can be to overcome the rival.
There's a beauty in poetry in it because the rival is holding up the mirror to your weaknesses
and they're exposing them and that's frustrating to deal with but then you're forced to be honest
with yourself and to try to work through it and to become better and that is what boasts you
and your rival want and I think that's one of the most special things about competition.
I think one of the things about the fanatics, NV rivalry that was interesting is that French
and Swedish Counter-Strike, I think was really important to CS, with NV you had this kind
of combination of like crazy firepower and personalities that are French energy.
And then you also have on the other end of it, Histoic, Calm, also villains of the time,
the fanatic roster where it shows the super deep level of strategy and tactics, but they
showed a mastery of how to mid rounds. As well the AWP was obviously got nerfed thanks
to JWM's KMS, so it also has in that rivalry the best authors and the two authors that understood
how to play aggressively with the AWP like nobody else.
But I'm thinking back to the early days of CSGO with that from the French Swedish rivalry.
I'm thinking about that stylistic difference and how both of those teams were shown the
the best of CSGO in different ways.
I think Liquid was very important
to shaping narratives in North America
because Liquid was really the first serious team
in North America that showed a culture defining change.
Liquid had moments of much greater success than others.
Later on, you got this edition of the twist lineup
where eventually they did beat Astralis.
This, I think, elevated all of North America along with it.
It was necessary for them to do that
because Astralis were showing mastery of the game
in so many different levels that to compete against them
was so infinitely difficult for basically anyone and everyone.
And so everyone was studying Astralis
and Astralis were essentially making a student
of the entire scene.
And I think Liquid was one of the responses
to the cultural impacts of Astralis.
Zwei is gonna be burned out.
Do the library players swing to help him?
Zywoo's got a second still 76 health to play with and that all is right in front of him if he ever wants to switch over
Ready for some kind of a peek and with short not being able to be pushed
They're gonna take a second here and throws yellow over to this side. He gets behind the tall box
Looking to cut down library Zywoo's three kills into this. No, I kill 1v5
If he can and he always can the best the absolute best
In this case, Serato trying to keep himself slim by the pillar.
Oh!
K!
Dude, he's had some-
Oh!
Ah!
No way!
Foot come out swinging only to be stuffed back a bit.
Legacy, with a nice, solid, seven-round CT side here on foot's map pick.
And on an individual level, they kicked it up a notch as that one went on.
pretty much hinges on try however 15 kills on the half we'll see whether he can keep
that for the offense.
Yeah there are a lot of people helping out.
Definitely stood out oh my goodness.
You're dead.
Cemetery though does have Beretta's ready to go.
Five players on the other side of this doorway and they're all looking to play grouped up
for the trade.
They don't jump just yet.
There's two sets of bretas are very good so guns to hold here. Oh, yeah
One goes down with nothing
Finds a kill. There we go. Oh x-flat. Oh
He's got it all so far
Get the fifth for a guy who had one frag last half
Not a bad kickoff to the CT side. Oh my god. He ended on one and did that
It's just that second when they were about to exact sometimes waiting is good in that situation if they had just gone best chance to do it
Weapon X move into position and it's a last bullet kill for his fourth
One of his last bullets
What a use of a mag here for mech's loud
And that was that pause legacy Octo go for right because remember they get the opening kill they killed the main player early
Careful with this shoulder
Try to dive the utile this time
No sweat
I'm making cash in the M4 on arrival X loud is up to seven kills this half eight even Katie two rounds in
Eight and eight was never ever at one kill never
You tell me this is the same guy that was one and eight?
Doesn't look it.
I already know B Tram's gonna have the funniest stat in about five rounds.
Or maybe an animal fact.
We just don't know anymore.
I don't think we're getting a stop today though.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I mean hopefully not.
We'll see.
We got Falcons up next.
I think it'll take the Mission 3 maps at least.
They bit their tongue last round so that they could come through
these 5 AKs, legacy right back at it, 3 for 3.
In approaches to this A bomb site, so far on the attack,
that green boost almost went unnoticed.
Semitarius, a long range, FAMAS kills good.
Widow 1 off.
Flames at the feet of the bomb blamper, he's going to commit to it, try and get out of there with still half his health bar.
We've got this deep peek out from the CTs who spam through off Donut.
That's how they peel Lotto off the site, however, from behind the boxes, cemetery gets popped.
We've got low health bars across the board here for legacy, and so crew Benny's just going to be the driving force of this retake.
They've lost track of Art in the middle of all this, and now they know exactly where he's up.
Foot come through with the retake and they do it with conviction.
It's just such a good swarm.
I mean, if you even see X-Loud inside a donut, timing on when to spam to get some extra damage.
Peek from Temple.
You know, the guy who's there waiting for the Temple player also has to be extremely patient.
You want to catch them when they're stepping out, not when they're just peeking.
And yet that gets one of the, one of the legacy players killed.
This one up here and it's hard for Try.
You don't want to just hold this.
You can't hold that line forever
We also have to read how aggressive it at what speed is the other team gonna come at you with
Next slide now one of the best scores on his team
Counter-strike man, it really is a game of two halves
He's like one kill away from the best
Yeah, Dumas got this at least the opening secured
They'll kill him right after
Lotto able to grab a second rifle for legacies hopes of upsetting this round with majority pistols sure enough try
Catching Gribbetti out bottom middle. That's massive. Hmm. They don't go for the plant right away
But now they're actually in a safer spot with two fresh smokes
Flash over and they're gonna try their hand at a retake but Deanan gets shut down
two versus four now for foot and a tough go of it so legacy respect they go
straight back to that a site again sure they leave try at the bottom of middle
which does catch a kill and his 16th frag secured legacy know what they want
it's that a site this time they get it that was a prison call the same place
they run through the full Molly again they really sacrifice after HP they
We know they're going to have to do it, but it's just no hold whatsoever.
This ultimately would have made the difference.
If you replay that situation and think CTs would take their exact same setup with that
Molly down on that timing, they would just expect to hit the shot.
I think it was jokes that came up a little short.
This is where it may be coming into this big game now.
Yep.
Even thinking he's going through with better support than that.
Oh, under pressure from all the nades and still Cemetery finds the fight before.
And that was that smoke for him?
Is that how he got that shot off?
I'm not sure I was just as blind as he was.
Oh, we got this M4 push from Krebeni.
That was brave.
That was an untradable risk to take in a 5v4.
Let's see what's up.
Yep.
Okay.
Yeah, that's a stat call.
Then he gets to play anti, keeps his gun out.
That's really sick.
That was a pretty nasty catch by production, by the way.
I'm less surprised than you.
Ready to replay that mid-round the moment you ask?
I mean, come on.
What are we doing here, guys?
The best.
The absolute best.
You forgot to stomp the ground.
Let's see if Foot can stomp out what's left of legacy.
Three players up in round 17, all behind the main smoke,
which is now faded.
Defense in the form of jugs and now an inbound donut player.
They go up and over green.
Utility usage, that's his trigger to make a move,
knows that somebody's got a native play,
and then Nyssen's boost will still catch him off guard,
so at least the legacy gets value out of that.
Still, however, a double man disadvantage.
Made worse.
Nice path, Nyssen flies over the off,
And not even given plants the visualization that foot have through smoke grenades is I mean and he goes for the plant
So there's audio there too, but I'm just talking about this entire map long
It feels like they get so much value out of their smoke spans today. Yeah, definitely and it's again mark of a good team
It's one of those things that's hard to
Hard to teach per se, but like they just they have good cohesion. They know an individual level to really get it playing off their audio
But you have to be good at those smoke spams, life on ancient, donut and CTR smoke.
You just have so many chances to get kills.
You see on X-ray, the United players in position planting, there he comes, aggression, X-flash.
Usually R's there first.
Not this time.
Jokes has got your mid covered.
Rado will find the answer back in both frags on his own, and then the aggression out of Daemon gets caught, so now we've got an edge offered back over to Legacy, totally blindsided in Corbenny.
Mism just walks in like, brother is your monitor on?
And Cemetery's 1v3 is a hell of an ask, but it's doable here. If he gets this off shot into the player walking up...
Oh, Nysim, a US Peel could have gotten the job done, but instead Nysim survives on 3 health.
Legacy keeps 3 players up, and for what was a 3v5 for Legacy, they don't lose a single
player after that.
What we saw a little bit in the first half from Legacy, they went rounds like that, all
of a sudden.
I mean, it's such a great bounce back for Atsui by Lotto, obviously.
Because if not for those kills, there wouldn't be that push.
It wouldn't be a lurk in this spot.
There would be chances to make it even easier.
But both these teams like doubling down when things go wrong.
That's why we knew it was going to be a fun matchup. It's going to be Foots' last tactical.
Done well to get through their T side and get this far into the game.
I'm getting to a point where it's going to be hard to argue who is necessarily better.
Perfect match.
EWC was Tri's highest rated notable event in his career.
Not a bad debut, huh?
The enemy is first stage match.
Amazing.
See ya.
Those were teenage to pop that open for art.
I think there was also a teeth flash in the mix there.
I hope I'm wrong.
But it feels like it plays into Grimani's hand.
Now man advantage for foot again.
Didn't matter last round as Lotto was able to tear it back.
I guess we are kind of at a tight spot, I mean Fennie just doesn't want to die directly.
All quite low on utility.
No kits between the five players on foot.
Such a valuable kill when you think about that.
The odds of the bomb getting planted go down a little bit and I don't think it's hard.
Or be as aggressive.
It's gotta be legacy now to make the move.
Look at this, yes he will.
Wow.
What a shot.
A lot of noise out here, but still.
They go for the boost on top of box.
Try makes it interesting when you consider the low health bar.
Or not, that little bit of HP left over gets shaved off.
Crabbeni's dead. This would be back-to-back 3v5s for legacy.
Let me get that deep kill from X-Cloud.
Oh, it's try, baby.
Again, a triple kill for try.
20th frag found.
He's writing the story right now.
Jokes has to clutch.
And is he tiptoeing? Try and get himself the quad kill.
Consecutive 3v5 round wins.
What a legend.
That's an unreal performance on a try.
One of many good rounds so far this map.
What was it, T-Flash?
Make that jump.
V-5.
Uh-huh.
And the first one, you know, in Tri-Go, they just used good ideas
and a real X-Factor out of Tri.
Didn't miss a shot in that sequence.
Yeah.
Legacy taking the lead off of that, off of consecutive 3 V-5s,
and their reward is USPs here in this one.
Try showing no limits.
Coming off of a very well-timed stat from B Trams.
Career high notable events.
Opening map here for Blast Open Porto.
Oh, look what that does to the game.
21 and 7 it gives legacy an 11th round secured footer gonna have weapons in the next force them to eco this round Wow
That's counter strike right there the power of one player really
3d5 4k to force an eco and take 11 it's about as good as it gets
Try continuous to find so much value.
It's so rare you actually see someone get a pick off from this position, he did one
last round.
That double boost over the smoke.
You don't see that every day and they use it at the perfect moment.
I mean, you pull that out in a 3v5 and it's the first kill to just unravel every advantage
foot had.
I wonder if they can take her Benny here.
Tough place, right?
Hanging onto that wall as he is.
They just know that he's floating right now.
I need 20 health inside of cave. Yeah, Molly almost gets the job done.
It's got a taste of all the action.
At this point, Legacy have worked the map quite well. CTs are terrified, but also relentless. They won't give up on pushing.
Next 5 just keeps on jiggling safely for the mid info, sees the approach coming, drops the smoke grenade in anticipation.
Oh man, they got I think put half the gamble now. They don't have the info, they don't like to see or about to make a move.
Here it comes. First and foremost, Krobeny on the 20 health. They do flush one off up close. 25 seconds to the clock, great shot for Jugs.
Krobeny's gotten a second. Remember he's low HP from that B site.
B site, cemetery finds the lineup out through smoke yet again, and you're gonna see what tries limitations really are.
15 on the clock, smoke fades, and both of them-
Oh, yeah, right.
Oh, great blindside out of demon. Try has been an animal,
but demon puts him down in this one, wings the 1v1 with the element of surprise and keeps this a one-round game.
As close as it was, it just goes to show you how good foot are. Like they got bullied that entire round,
But when push came to shove and it was time to make the gamble read which in a previous round from legacy in the first half
They wouldn't make that move and they eventually lost foot decided we're leaving the B site
We are believing it's gonna be a they rotated so quickly if they hadn't rotated that fast. They would not have got those traits
That's a guarantee
It's a level of opposition legacy you're up against even with a small lead right now
Now, that's Grappeni. Keep your eye on him.
Place from site. Get to two kills in this moment.
Look how ready they look on the A site.
Went just five seconds before that.
There were two guys there. There were still three in B.
They had no vision.
Excellent rotations.
Yeah, that top-down replay makes it seem like
they've been waiting there the whole time.
Yeah, it wasn't true. It's crazy.
He had just gotten through that smoke.
And on a moment's notice, collects two kills with 20 health.
We got a Mk10 flyout middle. Flashbang interrupts it.
Dumau sees two bodies up inside a zone up.
There's another player here.
Art's got the trade back.
And they're ready to go out through a main if needed.
Cemetery collects one off the off.
That's missing dead on the attack.
Art's under pressure.
Deals with the jumping Kropani,
but obviously, Demon's able to jump on that trade.
Now, Tric Scott is blind.
And a headshot instantly found,
but there's too many slick moving pieces here from foot.
Constant on the threat.
It'll be Lotto to try to close out 1v2.
It'd be a great play.
But they don't even have to worry about the flank right away
because they have bomb vision.
At a certain point, truly, they turn around.
I swear he heard Cemetery run.
They might not think he's that close.
Maybe not.
Cemetery gets blindside out!
Oh, that was a shot!
Lotto!
Another big 2K moment.
He was a driving force in the first 3v5,
killed those guys out mid.
But this time, it's for 12.
Man, it's gotta be the fact that he pushed out so quickly in a CD spawn, he knew what he was gonna do right away.
Didn't think for a second to go for the challenge and look for the bomb.
An unbelievable 1v2 to get map point.
Just as Cemetery's coming back to look, but he is a step ahead of it.
It's again the power of commitment we saw last round from Foot with the rotations here in the clutch now from Lotto.
It's been a great match so far.
Legacy have had a fight so hard for this chance, but they are here on map point with foot forcing down no rifles
And lotto's just chill about it
Not foot in a good state.
Weak by to fight for overtime.
And a single defender here inside of this B site
in the form of Krobani with a 5-7 and a smoke
and what feels like a much prepared legacy
to just try to overtake this.
They're gonna chuck out utility of their own
as they're meant by that smoke,
but this defense is not gonna hold.
And so suddenly, Foot's map pick of ancient
Hinges on a retake with 4 empty nines. I don't think so.
Do now see what in the water goes for it.
Slams the door shut before the retake can even really get going,
and it better be Try, who steps up to the plate to be the one that ends this.
24 Jills, 25 secure, make it 26!
Lights out from Try, and he has been nothing but a beast since dawning this legacy jersey.
This first map of today's opening best of three, no different than his outing at EWC.
This is everything that you were talking about, Maui and Vu, that despite it being
Foots' map pick, there is so much going for the side of legacy player off the player,
showing up for themselves here, and it feels like at the end of the day,
did you really want to take it to ancient when you're coming up against legacy?
player after player. I want to mention try and then I want to mention try again on the second round and then try again on the third time.
He was insane start to finish for that team. That was an incredible performance from him and the rest of the team.
I mean, he bought time for them to show up, honestly.
So in the last handful of years, South America has been looking for their next big opper because Fallen cast a giant shadow over that continent.
And I would say that one of the only guys that ever lived up to the billing in brief stints was K&G
Then we had people like NQZ like safe. That was all cope
Try is the real deal try is the first guy that I see where I think that guy is a world elite
Opera the way he willed them back into some of those rounds. It was just captivating
What about art as an opera now?
I don't even know if I want to say cope that's just I it's just a false God
I have to say that was I mean that is try at his best that's why we like try
T side ancient that I mean CT side ancient great map for oppers T side
ancient very tough map for oppers he's picking up three case four case he's all
over the place I'm but I mean he was just so unbelievable I'd say the T side is
is where you where a lot of people are just going to remember those late round moments how he brought them back in.
But of course, he got a lot of it started on the CT side as well.
We saw the active kind of rotating style that we were talking about in the pregame, how he was taking so many different lines.
But this C side was just so masterful.
I would say, yeah, this this late round situation that he will them back into it.
And even the one they lost, we hit that no scope right there onto the player at that elbow position.
You it makes you believe in a way that you'd only think that with very few operas in the world
I mean even losing that type of clutch you're still damaging their economy and that's that's back-to-back rounds
We just saw there one he wins them the round arguably they would have lost the game if they didn't yeah that one
That was a 9-9 pivotal round wins that for them then
Seriously damaged their economy with two or three kills in the exact following round and then they finally managed a way to
Get it together close it out. That's just incredible from try even the rounds
He's not winning for them.
He's doing the damage that he needs to do
on the harder side of a very tough op map.
It feels like it's hard then to poke a hole in anything
that Triho is doing for the side of legacy,
but surely there is more on the side of legacy overall,
though, that you're willing to give props to.
Yeah, I mean, I want to give props to Dumau as well.
He did really well, especially in the second half.
I think when you have a legacy team where Dumau is doing well,
when he's turned on, and this wasn't Dumau being turned on,
this was Dumau having a solid game,
he is going to pop off.
And Lotto, at the end of it, we brought them up in the pregame.
At the end, he did come through with at least a couple
of impressive rounds that we wanted to see from him as well.
The 1v2 he had where he didn't pick up the bomb intentionally,
flanked the cave players through top mid through CT spawn.
That was excellent stuff.
I will say, for the CT side, Lotto
kind of took a while to get started.
He was having a hard time on B in a cave
to try to slow down foot, who were just so
oppressive on that side of the map.
But to a foot's credit, that's kind of why
ancients, their bread and butter, they're so strong on those B
hits.
I'd say that's why four of the last five games for legacy have been defeats. They struggle with the mid control and then arts getting pushed back in cheetah
They have no control of anything
It's really tough as a b-site player to get much done when you're getting smoked off
You have no control of anything on the map and you're just guessing there was a moment in that earlier half of this
Well, sorry in the later first half of this map where we saw similar to what you're saying, right?
Well legacy feel like maybe they're overstepping
They don't necessarily playing out the rounds in a clean manner and the utility usage isn't necessarily on point either
It's foot that's having some trouble with the utility usage on the T side where they go for this mid control
They end up double smoking in towards
Sniperness here just now and that means they don't have a smoke to smoke off CT is shortly afterwards
So they have to adjust things they molly towards temple usually they have a Molly behind the boxes and a smoke towards CT
They have to change things out instead. They smoke or they Molly CT so the player behind the boxes gets a double
And then you end up in this 3d2 where demon still hits a ridiculous shot to take down try
But you just don't have the you know
You don't have the ability to deal with this without having many problems because of the double smoke
We need to focus on this, who do window or not.
When you come back to the way this game ends, right, it just seems like one round.
They lose the round because of the way this game ends.
That round could have been an overtime game, instead you have them getting taken down on
their map pick.
Yeah, not actually just ironing out who's supposed to be throwing what or just not doubling up on utility
just one of those key mistakes that
Funnily for for foot to do it there Navi's been doing a lot of that lately actually I've been noticing that as well
So maybe they they take from from I don't know I don't know they're not their masters
But you know the team that they were aspiring to be on at one point in time
I feel like at that point you're gonna
Rearrange the order of which teams you're taking notes out of different playbooks that but around ten
It's quite devastating that on the side of foot because you're right at the end of the day
It was slim margins that push you to overtime or end up dropping a map here
But we're looking at round number 18 now where we're seeing a different approach coming out from legacy and yet still success
showing so I
Simply loved for legacy in this one how they had so many points of pressure
Simultaneously where even though they lose this opening pick to x-flout the way that they just kind of pile on where you get a Lado
who's activated and this is what I mean we're just kind of the trade-fragging where he's not that initial spearhead
But then he just presses on forward, but they still have this nice spread out default where tries able to pick up one there
But even this some this seems like a risk of course where he's pushing out of a main
But this is kind of an example of how legacy yes
They want to take that initial play out of you
But even if they lose that at first 5v5 fight and they are down in the hole like that
They have contingency plans like let for Lado to keep pushing up lane for in the 3v3
and he's going to scout that A bomb site as well.
They have all these other ways that their players will still activate,
and they're not just solely depending on can we get that opening pick.
Yeah, and I mean, if you caught that in that initial play,
X-Flight gets the kill, he's turned around,
he's dealing with the player into words elbow.
He turns back, he's out of ammo.
He doesn't have the ammo to deal with Lotto,
even if he can hit a shot, he's got two, three bullets left.
Lotto shows up, gets the double,
and then this is what you see from both teams,
where they know how that push and pull goes across the map.
cross the map, Lotto gets the double, then you're able to have Nyssen, Lurk out aiming,
he knows the rotates coming in. Both of these teams are experts at that, it's just that
Legacy got the better of them in some of these rounds getting those entries.
So then does it come full circle and almost makes you sign up to the notion even more
of what Demal is saying in the pregame interview that sure it is going to be who shoots best
and harder and faster, but it's also going to be our IGLs making short calls, making
certain round decisions that will ultimately be the difference maker in the, in this best
of three.
saying in that I think the the aim is going to be the biggest portion but if
you can have an art pick up one or two rounds for you in the game if you can
just steal one round that you're not supposed to win that's the difference
maker in this type of series. The margins were really slim there so for
them to have those extra little plan B options that does help them go above and
beyond where we saw on the other foot foot that where they just double smoke
something the communications not ideal there because yeah I mean I don't think
that the problem in this game was foot not shooting hard enough.
They looked super crisp, the first maybe seven rounds in this game.
It was when the margins were extremely thin
that the team play maybe lightly edged legacy.
Yeah, I mean, then we looked towards that's what we're saying for round 18.
But then when we look towards round 19, it feels a lot more like, yeah, again,
we've gone back to this similar sentiment of,
if you're able to shoot harder and faster,
then you will be able to get the best of the foot.
And obviously, that's what Tri just did in this one.
to be down four versus five, even 3v5 at one point.
They still are looking for ways to try to set up, try.
The contingencies again are just so excellent
where they're gonna be able to boost him up,
they're smoking the left side out,
and try, as he just takes consecutive fights,
it's just so excellent the way he's able to clear out cave
after Lado gets that spam kill.
But every single time that Try is taking
a consecutive duel, you could see how focused he is.
The right-eyed peek right there,
he shows an elbow to Cemetery, still gets the kill.
And at this point, you're already in a prime position
to just lock the round out as Jokes just tries a desperate retake.
We are just everyone fighting one by one.
I don't know what's happening.
Just please sit your ass high, wait for them to come.
We are four on B and we are somehow losing this one.
Like, how?
Valid frustrations is all I'm going to say.
How do you feel in the same sort of way?
That's a tough one.
I mean, that's a four on B.
You're going to the stacked bomb site.
That's I think they lose back to back 3D5s,
or at least it gets close and back-to-back 3D5s.
That's when you can't be,
you can't afford to be losing if you're a foot.
And to your point, I mean,
as much as everyone wants CS to be a chess game,
sometimes it really is, try just peeks out
and gets a couple of nice shots.
And they set them up well.
I mean, the boost to get the first one,
but then the kill on cemetery, that's just purely,
that's why CS is so entertaining to watch.
Skill diff.
Simple as that, just skill diff right there.
There's a skill diff and then there's a skill class.
And I feel like that that's what we kind of got
between the two teams right now
that we're standing in between.
Still Grand Canyon.
Okay, yeah, you still marry on a trend.
Maybe we could go with this one,
because I could one up, you brother.
That's the end of it.
I would just say, I mean,
when we're considering these teams
and how they match up, I would say,
you look at the rifle trios for both rosters
and say like, demon, jugs, X-flat,
you put that against what, Nism, Dumau, and Lato,
it's pretty even in my eyes.
I'm not really giving a strong edge to one another,
but where the difference obviously lies
is symmetry versus try and it's just that's where the chasm is truly felt.
Okay, we'll see if it's going to be that similar sort of shoot harder faster for
map number two or maybe more pieces on the chessboard are going to be utilized here.
We're looking towards the dust two after this break.
the game. Legacy taken map
number one, which was a
foot's pick ancient here in
this best of three. And so now
we look towards dust number
two, which is legacies map
pick for themselves. And we're
hoping there is something more
four foot because we had an
incredibly close ancient. We
almost saw it go to overtime.
They were just those slim
margins in each round. And so
now on dust two is that more
favorable towards a close game
or more favorable towards
Legacy is able to take down ancient where foot is very comfortable.
This is a map where foot is a little bit less comfortable.
And most notably this is a map that since bringing in Try, Legacy looks insane on.
This was Try's home map.
This is where he is incredibly tough to deal with.
He already dropped 26, 27 kills in map one.
I'm scared for foot on this one.
Only.
I'm looking at 50 for the series.
Two map series when Legacy closed it out here.
I mean, he's already just so sharp on it.
The way that they also set him up,
with just some knee breaks, just some boosts as well.
So many ways to get his AWP involved on the rounds.
A lot of the focus for Tri's old teams
was just activating him in particular.
And you guys see exactly why for map one there,
because he's so, so sharp when it is just tested
in those kinds of duels.
And I feel like a lot of maps,
we maybe overrate the upper head to head.
This is not a map where you do that,
where there actually are multiple instances
where symmetry is gonna have to get his ass in gear
and try to take down Tri.
This is your chance to do one up now in a prediction.
He's going to get 49 kills.
Oh, that's not how this was going to end.
In the series or in the map?
OK, Mara, we have to clarify that one there.
I'm still going to go with what my first instinct had.
And it was 49 in this map.
We'll see if it's going to be that much of a blowout
as we get to head to Dust2 with Skron in Launders.
I love how Vuzeli, in the series, guys, in the series,
as if he's ever reasonable.
Like, you could have totally met in the map.
49 kills this month
That's a food taken a half the poly market
Prediction predictors have legacy now favored mo because when we came into this one it was so tight
It was so difficult to separate the teams and I think the try has convinced a whole lot of people out there
Yeah, we thought we saw it was not
You know want to call this like an upset because it kind of is but like real ones know that
Yeah, that's not really easy.
And also, in those last few rounds,
I think Foot had a very good grasp on the game.
But it was literally try and that clutch out of motto,
the 1v2, completely changed the outcome.
So they took that one in their own hands.
Yeah, the 3v5, the 3v5, the 1v2, come on now.
I believe.
And still a 13-10 game to legacy.
So anything still possible?
Wato betrayed us.
Here he goes down.
Excuse me, with nothing.
And Demon at back.
Seizes two teammates, sprinting in from middle.
At least able to offer the kill over Dumao.
Ooh, Wato gets shredded.
And we are still 2v2, but Art knows
that they've pushed up.
Problem here is bomb for legacies out there in the open.
Oh, but XLOT actually might.
Oh no, I was going to think he walks into his death plate.
Neither player sees it.
They have no idea what just happened.
OK, well at least Art can go through as well.
And XLOT might jump up.
And as he does, Art gets the blindside on him.
Now, Judges has also been tagged down to 13.
How hard is he to get him the jumping Glock finish?
And Legacy just kind of hit the pause button in a 2v2.
I mean, another late-round moment, arguable disadvantage.
And Legacy come out on top.
Yeah, they've been great in those mid-rounds.
Situations, very impressive stuff.
I want to feel like, you know,
Blitz mental health after the last games,
the nature in which they lost is probably,
Yeah, it's probably going to be in a rough position.
A lot of young players, as good as they are.
This will be one of those tests.
Like, they're probably going to be pretty salty about what
just happened.
And maybe about that, as well.
Damn, Mark.
What's that arc?
He tried.
Well done.
And now Art.
Of course, long already.
Two players lined up.
He is happy to get in on the action with Lotto's support
from Flashbangs.
And so the four-spy from foot, dead on arrival.
of a moment where we get to see if there is a domino effect of how they won and then we
need to take that, how elated they must have been.
Players on site looking for impact but Lotto's got no time for your fun and games.
Sometimes we had maps and it's like, well, that wasn't the best CS, you know, and you're
very disappointed at one team or the other, but I always really appreciate when it's a
map like that where both squads were playing some high level games against each other,
hitting crazy shots.
That's why it's just such a great head to head at the moment, because both these teams
are on the rise.
Both these teams finding new heights, and for a little while I was worried that Legacy
Maybe it kind of reached the top of their endeavor, you know, like their, their success was like, I did. Yeah. Yeah, I did
But you know, I think obviously great track record
hadn't
hadn't hit the results you would have wanted posterior, but still like art and
Nafany and like shoe head they kind of have similar, you know, sure
It's and because he's sort of lived so long and see I see like you almost feel like art had seen too much for his play style
right because like back in the day like this guy was
Turbani on times to speed
For fury and that's saying something. Yeah, and he really went to the depths. I mean, it's I feel like he's quite lucky to have gotten
It's I've heard other often coming team. I was actually pretty surprised by it
Yeah, because it felt like you know it felt like Lux had done enough
But hey, you can't argue with results to the hottest prospects in the top 10 of the
moment.
You could argue both these teams could still make it to playoffs even though one has to
lose today.
Yes, but then what's going to happen is someone's going to play against Vitality in an unlucky
situation and well then there's no promises there's no promises but I'd
also say there's no guarantees the other way you know I'm saying I bet you
could sell ice to a polar bear I thought you got to be 9s the first
trying this in the recovery as it was opening impact four foot and
and Krobeni's M4 goes ahead and finds one.
These pistols aren't meant to be getting the damage
that they have, and now you've got Demon walking out
through the smoke, two players in front,
but he can't handle the Deagle.
Oh, still, if he were to react fast enough,
you'd think that pop-up moment from Nism could've cost it,
but we've got Art on for a third kill.
Art versus Krobeni, two kills each already,
both with rifles, but Krobeni,
he's got the slightly better gun.
Art, the slightly better health.
Trying to make it seem like he's dipped down
into CT spawn or wrapped around towards long.
And Art is playing the catch-all position.
So it's on Krebbeni to sort of believe that he's done this.
The peek is coming.
Oh.
They see each other.
Yeah.
Krebbeni knows he can just close that gap.
Dodges the flash that comes up.
Art's going to send out another one.
Doesn't find its mark.
He plays the clock and it's yeah.
Krebbeni in the air.
Easy pick-off.
Art's been killing everybody that jumps around him.
And so we go 3-0 legacy.
But that was a sketchy round considering
that, you know, the lesser weapons got it started, opened a door for the one rifle to find impact.
Great 7-7 setup.
7-0 for Art and a clutch.
And no rounds lost so far in Dust 2 and a good map behind him, I mean.
What are you trying to sell me right now?
You can finally like to see 2-0 foot tonight?
It's just doing a little foreshadowing to a potential that I didn't see coming.
Ooh, this is a little shaky.
That should have been a free one.
off long instead and move that off away.
Earth's got an evasion bonus right now.
Wow, 3 and B though.
Oh, never mind.
Compare the shots that each oper got.
And tell me the try right now is not
in the league of his own tonight.
Yeah, no, he said it.
You know, the op had to head.
It's going to be relevant on Dust 2.
Juggs is forced to reload as two players drop out
through the window, and he is not going to find enough
to hold back this hit.
There's a good amount of damage across the board for legacy,
But not a great enough amount of damage to justify this 2v4 attempt.
Again, run it back.
Cemetery's op opportunity, a guy who peeks longdoor with your crosshair on position and he misses.
Yeah.
Tri's op opportunity, a jump over through the B window and he hits it.
And it was, it was three players in B, so they didn't even need an early rotate.
They didn't really need mid control.
They were hoping it was going to be a B split.
Because that's, you know, sometimes you see a site where it's like,
oh, you have all the players you want, but there's not enough good spots to play.
But beside of Dust 2, absolutely, you can have all those players where they died
are on all great positions to play off each other and defend both door window and the tunnel.
But as soon as this pick-off happens, suddenly you have a terribly weak site and you have no rotations.
Solved just because Tri hits a great timing.
They're feeling a little deflated. I think they realize they've missed plenty of opportunities
now. Again, multiple three versus fives in the first map. The 2v1 they lost versus Lotto.
The 1v1 that could have been here at the start of this game. And now a man advantage missed
in that last round too. It's wild because of 3v5s. You know, for example,
Try 4k, but also that wall bang into the site on Kerbeni. That was so well timed
There are 3d5s where there's like a ton of mistakes that get made but there yeah punish game for legacy. It's just absolutely insane
It didn't feel like foot made a ton of errors, but
The forms carrying over tournament to tournament here try on mid-doors
Sees three players
Doesn't pull the trigger. Yeah. Full view of three crossing
Players though is highest rated map this year
It's cemetery's lowest
Flash for art to take position and there's nobody actually on the doors
We could finally get that battle of the operas in a moment
Two CTs in front of the AWP, flash.
It's done. I'm gonna find Art.
Cemetery will kill Try.
Oz, the Ops on Cycle. Great cover from the Teagle, but Lotto's there.
Always good for an important recovery moment.
Mm-hmm.
Before things get too haywire over on that long corner.
He really is a lifejacket sometimes, eh?
Mmm.
It's not the coolest nickname, but...
...we'll come up with something for him.
I feel like the lamest superhero name.
What about Life Preserver?
It's a little better.
Hey, ah, just enough bullets left over in it.
Chance to put the damage on.
Oh, 1 HP.
Come on now.
Survives the maid just so he can 1v2.
Is that what you're telling me?
Molly goes too far and he's not getting away.
Yeah.
Into the op you would have hoped to save legacy go up 5-0 on the start of their map pick showing
no signs of slowing down after ancient.
Lotto he's an umbrella in the rain.
Okay
Come on with something cooler
Lotto you'll punch your ticket
Where oh it's a playoff
Not this time buddy tries to get that lineback under wraps foot good
Lovely 5v4 on top of the utility play again
I feel like you could have sensed that long duel coming, so they pounce on it.
If legacy are willing to sign up for that fight, good on foot to just keep on trying opening moves to establish any kind of advantage.
This is still a bit worrying, actually, for Foot. The pull is actually being this quickly, but good job.
Yep, and X-Flight finds his, so across the board right now, Foot's individual is delivered.
I get it because they're super hard to pack.
Yep.
Because they're like memory foam and huge.
But then you use them and they just don't really.
They actually hurt my neck more than they help.
Sometimes I psych you out too.
They think I'm going to get a great sleep.
You're not.
No, you're not.
Uh-uh.
Just raw dog it next time.
I just like to use the shoulder of the stranger
I'm sitting next to.
That's strange.
You know?
Assert dominance.
This guy's always trying to win.
I'm not actually sleeping.
Not even sleeping is the creepiest part for sure.
We're getting into it legal now.
I'm just listening.
I like your scent.
Is that Chanel?
No.
It's foot.
First round secured.
They do it convincingly.
They got bodies and guns held on to.
So, I don't wanna start writing the obituary.
We're only six rounds into the second map.
Oh, he is nasty!
What's up?
Dumau's got the duel out long.
I knew it felt like a flash in the pan.
Last round was too easy for Foot
to just happen a second time.
Legacy playing mind games as they just go right back
to what they've been up to.
Try trying to take opening looks down mid
and this constant threat towards long and sure enough legacy,
sign up for it again,
this time netting them a 5v3.
Time is everything, 19 damage on that shot.
Looked away at the wrong moments.
I mean, footer in a place to give themselves a look at this.
They have three players on A.
It's like the commitment's coming in for legacy, even though it's necessarily need to.
This is what one foot around back on Ancient is the commitment.
Oh, the try just doesn't stop. It's just persist.
Yep.
Trying to tap back into it, now Demon's position gets predicted, and he will be forced to activate.
We've got damage on two of the four remaining players.
Jhinx is gonna have to dig real deep to pull this one off, but he's gone two-mount dead.
And now low health art, half health try, and Nism didn't actually come up from Catwalk.
He's taking the longer road through CT. This suddenly feels a little winnable.
Hey, Art's gonna get on the site though, and then, yeah, we choose getting off.
Now that Nism's got the climb up though, at the same time that Jigs went for this cat push,
that really cuts off his return to the bomb site.
Nism with the health advantage is wh-
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's a mistake.
They thought maybe he was in the box.
Two more kills.
They're a bit nervous.
A single bullet anywhere on Art's body gets him done for.
He has to just hit the pop-up.
That's the only way.
He knows it's going to come.
Try misses the shot!
Art!
He's got three now!
Jukes is going to go wide and try.
We'll make sure that last shot lands.
Seems the best for last in that one.
What would have been really the first embarrassing moment for legacy in this series?
Hell of an effort, but it comes up one kill short.
There's decent damage there for Duke.
We haven't seen that many great rounds out of him so far this match.
And that's rare to say, obviously.
He was one of the guys having a lot of trouble on ancient A site in that CT side.
He was 9.18 in the opening map of this series, and there's a good reason not to talk about
him.
Yeah, try to get everything, everything.
It's a solid close and try right back down to the suicide lane.
It feels like Archibit late for this one, but he'll try to take the duel.
Party starts when he gets there, actually.
Krebbeni gets shredded.
We're gonna try, Dumas gonna try to pounce on Catwalk, but met by Flames, hits the pause
button.
We've got X-Floud just beneath this catplay.
They're crawling closer to him.
What about the player in the backdrop?
And Cemetery's off now, hunting up Cat is going to predict the position.
Nicely done, reads through mouse, potential pop-off, off the reload.
X-Cloud's going to go for that, peek out through mid.
It does cost him as there's no free fallback.
Nissan kills Jukes.
Cemetery gets another one off of the Cat play.
We find ourselves 2v2 with the bombs still cut off top mid by the barrels, but jumping!
Oh, he makes a lot of noise.
I mean, they kind of lose sight of where everybody is.
of bombs roaming back through middle cemetery you want to say he has to clutch
this it's such a great chance for him
oh they are still cautious though and it'll be finished off by a lotto so
another 2v2 another late-round moment and guess what it comes up legacy it
does yeah I mean you seen foot like that absolutely toss around some better
There are teams in moments like that when Demon jumps off a cat, it's a big opportunity.
Legacy just feels like their mental is destroyed.
Oh yeah.
Woo!
Wow.
Two players tag, double off comes out of nowhere.
Try to hit the rare off shots in a row. Hard hit his.
The upside here for foot is that, and it's just $100 kills.
That's the best part of this round for them.
I can see nine rounds into the half go. You know what?
Let's double up.
Oh, everything's working?
Let's try something different.
Keeping it fresh.
Now remember the Coolio interview after the EWC finals
where he just said like the loss in map,
I think it was map three,
but the close on the crushing loss,
it just still had an effect on us in round four,
or map four, and we kind of ran out of steam.
We ran out of energy,
and that brutal loss just had a real effect on the guys.
Which is reasonable.
And it feels like that sequence of rounds foot
should have won on Ancient.
This actually looks like another moment
where I'm kind of seeing flashes back
to the EWC Grand Finals.
Totally.
That'll have to be something they have to conquer.
Really corporate, absolutely.
And only something you can conquer by facing it, but you don't want to face it this recently.
And you also...
Well actually, they're putting this mission out, so it's about surviving it.
Just to get a map 3 out of this.
Hmm.
But this is your challenge.
Like, mentally, that's the space they want to be in, like, at this moment.
Cause...
Like, if you don't have any comebacks to do, you should never get a comp.
It's a great solo lining here.
This is a gift.
Oh, this is what they wanted.
Is that what you're telling me?
So this is the best thing to ever happen at foot.
Right here.
Sorry, I thought I was the one full of bullshit.
This is what Foot want guys, so that they can grow.
Well, it's what they need.
To be sent down into a lower bracket and play Vitality.
No, no, no, they're going to win this map, that's the whole point.
Oh, okay.
They have to overcome here.
All right.
One to eight score lines, just numbers.
It's all in their head.
Ooh, well, rack them up.
Those numbers just keep piling against them.
Legacy, another man advantage, another opening
death for Krebhanyj over towards that long corner.
We'll try to press it again, but try...
Oh, he misses his chance, and Cemetery wins the head-to-head.
That's his second miss of the match.
Take that.
X-flat's gonna blindside Art.
This could be the 4v5 recovery for Foot.
His... Oh, could be.
Emphasis on the clutch.
On the possibility, not the certainty, a smoke to just trickle out through the tunnels, Nissum could even leave, but he's got the bomb behind him inbound.
CT smokes himself inside of the site, we've got that mid-walkout coming through as well, X-Flight finding great damage, but oh, the smoke fades and Doom out down near Killsbowl, and a teaming instead with a second.
And Lotto, what are you up to?
Done four.
Slammed out of that round, legacy give up a second foot.
A second round, ten rounds into play.
Off of the 4v5.
It's just this one shot that gets missed from Trident.
Get the pick off on Long again, which is so annoying for Flet.
It's through the smoke.
Great next kill there for Demon.
his teammate was extremely low. Quick entry. Another long peek. This time with the AWP.
Does he have to spawn for it? Try. Knows that Cemetery's on the other side of this.
That'll be Ops once more.
It's...
Oof, tried to get it.
I had started to turn a little bit.
Just trying to post enough of a CT side.
At this rate you take what you can get and miss him.
to take up all this tactical.
He's completely unheard.
And he's under the offer's line.
Yeah, he's actually going to be able to line this up
if Krebbenny walks back.
Oh boy.
Now he hasn't, but he can just milk this more,
because he's still low on teammates.
And there's vision on players.
Players are going B, actually, from mid.
Fall clear, spotted.
OK, they didn't have time to do that.
Unlucky.
But Lotto still gets the kill, so it's winnable.
Let's miss that smoke.
Little bit awkward.
Oh, is it that shot?
No way, dude.
Lotto in these moments has been fantastic tonight.
To close the close ones.
What kind of risks does he want to take?
Health advantage, X-Flight.
Uncertainness to the route of the CT for the retake.
Full utility, but going incognito.
Lotto looking for his third in the round.
CT approaches up from the ramp.
X-Flight has gotten very close.
But just as Lotto considers this walkup,
X5 to the left, Sidescotch to blindside secured, just able to cross by silently.
Had all the tools he could have worked with and he opts to go like you said in Cognito.
It was kind of a great read from Lotto.
He thought he would just see a shoulder or somebody jumping up on that first box, obviously.
Missed it by hair.
This just had to be a...
Yeah, a first bullet, a k-shot from that distance is so hard.
Yep.
Target selection was fine, back hill was insane.
But at the end of the day, this around foot just needed to stay alive.
This game starts very lopsided, but they're starting to get to that point.
You get another Brazilian in top 20, could be Lotto this year.
We've already got Krobeni to the top of ramp with an opening kill, tech nines to try to
pierce through that smoke in a moment, two mouse galil to find one, awful waits over
top of the box and demons got that two mouse push covered off and cemetery ready for the
try jump.
The foot will make something of this game in the final hours.
Yes, sir, from 8-1 to 8-4.
Three critical rounds of a streak here for foot
to even have any kind of a chance once we swap sides.
We've still got two and a half more days of action.
But, speak of action, off-climb into Catwalk.
Zaiwu tries to get away with a slick move
instead of fast-moving Navi.
And in total contrast to the round prior,
where Wonderful was the lone top mid,
you've already got knocking players up through connector,
trying to combine again with this big JL walkout.
Flames has got a lot of pressure on him
and he has not been performing.
He has not recovered since that awkward ladder kill
and this A site goes down with nothing
until the jungle players come out with two.
This is E-Mail on the tear.
A triple kill through middle, extended up connector,
right back into the action, quad kill for E-Math.
Not yet able to soften up the bombsite. Niko tries to go through. Will stuff one up close.
And wonderful still yet to strike down his second victim. Tess asks looking for his impact.
You didn't kill him. You just softened him up and that's not enough to stop him.
Bomb is here on the ramp. Tess asks who's got another. Kicks in into the kill feed.
It's hit from down! Right there to stop it. His multi-kill with a quad kill.
Mikaze stays tucked in
Here's a chance there under balconies. Ella's adding them up. That's two
Will Mikaze go unnoticed because the offer could serve up a perfect distraction
Bones can't get planted here now on the other side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they've lost this guard because they deliver
Wonderful goes down, but he's the open the door for this
from Ninja marauding inside of this a site
Game on the other side of it, 17 and 5 is Mikaze.
This guy is ascending to a whole new level.
The game waits this long, this might come back to bite him.
He's got the kit and that kit could be so key.
You gotta go, VP.
He needs to move.
Welcome to Westerland.
Yeah, he just wants to take the fight, but he's letting him get closer.
Finally, puts Wonderful to rest, bit in the meantime,
Slip the net inches ever closer, catches them off guard and finishes Jane.
Noda, you gotta deliver with a huge health advantage.
Bits on the pistol and it's enough for Novi to maintain control despite the cost and go up 3-0.
Donk plays behind the pole.
Scott Shiro on the first win, he scores a point.
The offer missed the shot.
Shiro's down.
Wow.
Alexi B double entry.
They came out ready for that.
Just like that, he takes back what Alexi worked so hard for.
We're talking about Bit's lurk though.
Deep inside the A site, the bomb gets cut off, bomb control again.
Alexi's down to nine.
It is all Alexi thus far for this round.
But remember, Zontics gets active.
And also Bit can get involved.
There are lurks on both ends.
And the bomb's still yet to be retrieved.
Magic's losing almost all that HP.
Zontics stole it, snaps up, and this is his chance.
Alexi B sees all.
With 9 health. 9 health he's gone!
Oh no! The name misses!
Oh! An ace!
What was feeling like, foot dead in the water, winds up being a curious turn of events.
Three rounds at the end of the half to just peak your interest.
Can legacy close out on the defense now?
Their map pick with an ancient victory in their back pocket.
back pocket, a lot of close moments that all went legacies rounds, or way, in previous rounds.
But Foot-Move started to show that fight in the nitty-gritty.
Bread is poised to fucking swing.
Oh, they'll go into it. There's a whole lot of bodies ready for that challenge.
Demon's gonna go out wide. Oh-oh.
Oh, but Nissan recovers vision, and now his support off of the cat play and the lower tunnels.
Prime to just try to trade out.
Nissan returns, gets damage, but not an additional kill.
They're so to the left, and the attacks cloud can't manage what a trade train back and forth from both teams, but it leads legacy to nine.
That one epitomizes this matchup. The quick trades, both teams on top of each other, but also legacy kind of just coming at a head.
When push comes to shove right now, they're getting the last say. Another clutch for them by way of drive.
and you know even though like footnought alive in those last few rounds just
I gotta come into going against CT side for legacy on Dust2
that stacked against them
but a buck fifty on that HG
everybody armored oh my goodness they haven't seen anybody yet
no they're walking dead
spot from Dumau confirms the cat play. It's going to be foot to try to bounce it.
Fommas pops up. All that early damage is going to be making this easy.
Although RAP player could have been a second casualty.
Try on one HP.
Manages to hang on for dear life. Him and Dumau both low, but happy to just finish off what they started.
Double digits quickly secured here by Legacy. The fourth spy of Foot comes up very light in terms of success.
And now they're stuck on pistols which will lead legacy surely to an 11-4 lead map 2
Gather in beast mode now
Control yourself nothing else I can say from here. I cannot press the buttons
Cannot press the buttons
Yeah.
Is he implying that he can't push the buttons for them or that he can't push his own buttons?
Yeah, I think that's probably what that is.
He wasn't the ideal, I don't know, you know, but that's one of those things that's like
that sounds great.
Game is still live.
Yeah.
No, that's that's that one's good.
I feel like that would cut deep.
Yeah.
If I was trying my best
Yeah, and we kind of we alluded to that right there's a couple of listen-ins where
Young team. Yeah doesn't soften his words
Yeah
You just always have the air on the side of productive and that's where sure in the in the game still live
So I mean it and he might be speaking to other people not talking or other people not throwing their nades correctly something like that
But still.
The belief has to start from the top.
Maybe he knows them better than we do. Maybe something like that gets them fired up.
Somebody says that to me. I'm gonna say, screw you, buddy.
Watch me push these buttons.
Maybe in the next round when they've got guns.
Cuz try on cleanup duty next to do now sure enough establishing the 11-4 off of
the freebie that was versus pistols. Confirm try and and lotto destroy their
mental. Damn. And all of legacy brought it to the table today. Try obviously leaps
and bounds above back on ancient.
sometimes that's why it's good to have one old guy sure who's lost a few times
so it makes Kerrigan so special I'd love to join put let me show you guys how
to lose. I can make you feel good about losing.
Because obviously you look from the outside you go, bro, guys like this,
how could you ever believe that you're ever gonna lose? Yeah, put in the server
in their atmosphere, they're in a totally different headspace. Yeah.
And obviously coming off of a tough loss as well, EWC Grand Finals could have been
real different. Those were very close first maps. Now you hit the ground running here.
That was the hope anyways. And legacy a massive hurdle. Demon's gonna find a team kill, so
maybe some buttons you shouldn't push. Art though wounded and a little nervous as two
players come out to clear and we've got an opening offered up here for foot now, but
Lotto's still ready to strike. Jigs has got him with a double kill off the cap play. It
Falls on Nism 1v3. It's a long road back into Dust 2.
You know, if it was an AK, I'd be curious.
With a glill, it's gonna be that much harder.
See if they're not watching something.
Watching catch the long player unprepared.
He's watching a...
Just turn. Holding long. There we have it.
There's the kill. Nism now knows Bomb Plancher's up next.
Oh, I like that. Krippany says,
to hell with this, I'll go looking for the fight.
As instead, Nissen was hoping that the support would go for a peek.
It is foot to survive with two players and give themselves a lifeline.
Yeah, for now, just a drop in the bucket.
Now, great, you don't get tilted.
Again, so, so hard.
Win rounds on G side.
And he's out!
Demons celebrating that last round, weaponized at the start of round 17 for the opening 5v4.
It's Dust 2.
Play those openings.
Given the opportunity, Cemetery another.
And he has been collecting these kills quietly one after another.
He started win more duels versus try, that was something.
Money's gonna be gone with this one, so legacy are really incentivized to save already.
Booster here for foot, got a clean rounds.
That's what motto is.
He's like a ginger shot.
That's a little bit better.
I like that.
Little pick me up.
Yeah.
Little immune booster.
It's a straightforward opening to the round.
and a comfortable three player save so we're saying how the money wouldn't be
good enough but the majority alive and feels like foot have no interest in
losing any of their investments
it's only a five round gap
You always hear in every one of the biggest comebacks, they don't even acknowledge that they were thinking about the score line at any point.
It's round by round, baby.
You just win a good round, get an eco, win another round, get close.
That's all Counter-Strike is, one round after another.
As long as that economy's flowing, good to go.
But there's a lot of presence heading towards Long here for both teams, double setup on the peak.
Do now crossing over, flashes, go ahead.
Oof, almost lines it up.
Art will be on clean up duty and delivers.
So a fast adjustment out of legacy.
Sorry, the bomb is out there as well.
That makes it really tough for Foot.
They're going to be forced out without smoking the doorway.
Art finding a bit more value.
Just barely chipping cemetery down.
I mean, they can try to approach Art.
He smoked himself out.
They burned him away.
Burned himself out.
Trying to native open.
He's down to 10 health.
But another Molly, but that smoke grenade remains there.
They could just put a bullet through it and he's done for.
But to go wide enough would mean to expose yourself to try.
Yeah, you would just hold a hard line here.
There's a chance they could walk out with the AWP at the same time.
It's so hard to deal with this.
Another Molly.
Forces aren't forward, but still just not there.
Oh, he goes out.
Shot missed.
And try misses his chance at maintaining a double man advantage.
But now they're just locked into this.
Cemetery's on half HP.
There's no way out.
They really can win, going forward towards A, but they'll have no secrets.
Luckily, they still have a fair bit of utility.
Trie lets them know where he's at with the U-Tilt, makes that approach on ramp uncomfortable for 25 seconds and the player this close.
That right will talk- Oh!
That was a mistake, Trie.
Jokes comes over, hits the headshot onto Lotto, Nism's gonna activate, plays flank over.
Bomb planters got coverage, but he's made it past the car and still Cemetery collects this.
Two versus four going back the way of...foot.
As Tried tries to close this gap, it's a head tuck from the bomb planter.
He's managed to get up close, and they do it without losing a player.
Straight up approach, a miss shot from Try on the long cover for Art.
And then that shot that sings out from the catwalk that opens up their push that was the real sin
If art didn't shoot they didn't know he was there
If he had repeats if he didn't shoot they might have slowed down
He also yeah because he failed to hold art on the cross. He had kind of a guaranteed pick right there couldn't get it
There haven't been many bad moments in this game for either team. That's the officially sort of the worst one there by legacy
Lots of mistakes in a row
crazy that foot find a way out of that
and now surely they believe they can do anything
This was Legacy Leaning 8-1 once upon a time.
Let's start the weaponize that feeling of invincibility.
And in this round, it will not even be slowed down.
Three round game.
You said this is where they need to be to grow, to evolve, to not give up when things
get tough.
No guarantees that they finish off this comeback with legacy as close as they are.
But I'm sure for foot it just feels good to not be on the receiving end of a 2 vs 4 for
You dish it out as a reminder, every round remains possible, and you clear out Nism to
make sure he can't save that AK.
I think you've got to make a comeback when you don't believe you can in order to win
more in the future.
That's sort of the position Foot have found themselves in, I think.
You can see that.
They just look totally lost and in disbelief, and I mean, the comps are horrible there.
You know when Krebbenny came in, sort of said,
and no one else was even talking in that spot.
So.
I can't push the buttons for you.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
It just sounded like he was dying
as he was saying it too, saying it so slowly.
It was like a, you know, it was like a parent saying,
I'm not mad at you, I'm just disappointed.
Yeah.
I had that same kind of sting to it.
Let's go guys, let's fucking go!
Just round by round we're gonna get closer
That's it's a duality of man for sure round by round so much
You will get closer now. Everybody wants to talk
Starting to feel real isn't it foot?
Buttons are getting pushed
The legacy re-emerged with guns, go for a little long play and we'll find nothing home.
It is a very quick set up for the cat hit, Dumau is going to get caught and prepared
for this and a mid shot.
Oh shot!
This try!
This try continues to miss these op shots, it continues to leave the door open for foot.
They try to molly this peek from Dumau.
Oh!
And Kribeni's ready for the spot!
Another shot!
X-Flight comes out!
It is all foot this round, not one frag out of legacy.
Ooh, what's happened, legacy?
Totally collapsing.
Want to give some credit to Flit for winning this round,
but three clearly good opportunities to get kills.
That's try unflashed on Long,
holding the exact line he wants.
They have three on A.
They're ready for a hold to get nothing, at all.
Just hoping for the save at this point, it looks good.
Holding off both sides for the time being, very low health for what's left of foot, but
they didn't think someone was coming at the time.
Miss them under siege, no, don't let that one go, or, yeah, they say, okay, you want
to mag dump, I'll come for this.
One saves for a legacy as what looked like a decent enough setup was absolutely empty-handed.
The only good thing about this for legacy is they did so much work early on.
They went all those free rounds.
They had such a big lead in the first half that, you know, they could afford to make some
mental mistakes themselves and still be in a position to win the map.
Question is, can they actually close?
Because suddenly, you know, we got to a point where I think after the first half try,
I was counting two missed shots in the entire half.
One of them didn't even cost them a round and now he's missed. I feel like most of his shots in the second. It's completely changed
And he will not have that up on this round
Just coming in for a half by MP 9s to support Nism save gun
Better try some curious 9 and 5 in his direct head-to-head against try this series
Yeah, wow, you can feel it impressive. That's across the series
It's something the desk brought up coming into the second map that we were gonna watch it happen and with the form try hat on ancient
We thought it was gonna be some legacies advantage
We get a lot of action in through tunnels to start this round one that lingering player
This Krebbenny tries to put himself
Easy easy, he's gonna bounce out through the door. What a move but it does cost him. Oh, man. That could have actually been great
We're at our coming through that smoke grabs an upgrade off of it
It feels like those are the kinds of moments that both art and Crabbetti can both thrive within. Oh, this is a big one
Do you know I envy
Nice to kill first
Touch back in without the support from the AK up through doors jokes. Oh gets bested do mouth
What the second and it's gonna be the MP 9s by the looks of things in less demon 1v3
We saw so many of these moments picked up by Legacy winning from a disadvantage
that has turned as we got some Matthew and Demon a single frag from posting
another claw background. Can he be the Lotto of this map? Going back through
spawn but with Nyssen going so aggressive he's gonna get a lot of info here.
This is kind of wild though all the way back through spawn and there's actually
a world where Nyssen still thinks that he's just walked forward into B.
Considered suicide for a second
Ready for the push out I feel like this I mean he's playing the odds
He does think there is a chance that it goes back the other way, but he's gonna have no audio
Is he gonna peek this cross?
No, sir, let's him have it great chance for demon
What's demons move post plant though?
Miss him in to CT demon jumps over surely that was spotted
You didn't see it. No, I didn't hear it. He didn't see it.
The boxes must have just covered it as Demon jumped far enough.
So a huge reposition here from Demon.
This is pretty free because surely Nism has no idea he could be in this spot.
He thought he was watching the cross.
It's the 1v3 for double digits.
Demon pops up back of the head.
Wow.
Instant execution.
Oops.
Puts it on ice as he out rotates and out positions and out aims.
And Tri goes deep for that flank.
He's by himself. He's inside of tunnels could have tried to walk off a player inside the site instead
Committed fully. I don't even know if you got a chance to shoot
Pulling out all the stops at this point full buy back in for legacy remember that was mp9s that could have secured the moatee
Aggression into the tunnels had foot on notice.
But it feels like they want to go back towards Long.
Trie has been losing duels on this side of the map.
He has been missing shots with this op.
He's the reason they want Ancient. Could be the reason they lose Dust too.
Four flashbangs out from foot to just get this positioning.
Trie lets that op swing and now with Demon finally to kill Tamar,
Trie is under pressure.
teammate tries to open the smoke but it is a real thick on the edge
and if this push into the tunnels goes the way of jubes
then we're gonna have legacy with the real problems
he jumps it and finds nissan dead to rights tries to flush forward
making a move over towards that long corner for betty walks out middle but
dies lotto could just try to dump this utile as the
operas still preoccupied towards long they have the b site right now as they're
walking up teaming between ct's currently going
An unnoticed bot drops the ball.
We've got an ex-flout up top mid spotted.
And the other two players on site,
but Lotto has split the difference
and somehow got between.
And they shouldn't be ready for this.
Not at all.
Back turned away.
He now consider all.
He misses his chance.
And now the Ops got the line.
And so they've done it.
They have at the very least tied up this game.
These are the comebacks that we're talking about.
What a moment here for Ft and the nature and which
that they've built these rounds out, stolen so many away.
It really seemed impossible for so many reasons.
Legacy were in full control.
8-1.
They let the last three rounds of foot CT side slip.
Hell, Legacy won the second half pistol,
converted for the 3-0 start.
I don't even know why they flashed.
I don't know what the pressure was that made them feel it
when, especially considering how they closed ancient,
That's the weirdest part of all.
But obviously, the output has so much to do with it.
I mean, the contrast between ancient and now for Try
is one thing, but even just simple kills
that he would normally get and positioning being good
but not nailing those shots.
That's unfortunately what we've seen somehow Try still
with his great first half is 14 and 12, but.
It feels like the contrast just between you.
Even half one and two.
He given a chance as he walks it out, Cat.
Right on the edge.
Oh, Chose wasn't ready.
Rader, he's looking maybe.
Try on the fallback, man advantage, earned by Legacy.
It's the 11th hour, 5'7".
Yeah, good for 72 damage.
Two mouths, gonna try to chase out through mid,
kills the even on the walkout,
and so they hang onto this one player advantage.
Had another smoke fresh in the face of all of foot.
all of them right there on Xbox.
I feel like they try to walk out
through his mid smoke so many times.
They got away with it, but now who knows?
Surely try hits this one.
Yes, sir. Head shot to cemetery.
Gets an edge back in the head to head.
And with X-Floud's early damage from that 5-7,
Kerbini, one and done.
Try collects a multi-frag.
First multi-kill in quite some time.
X-Floud drops down to the CT spawn.
Imagine.
They're gonna know about it.
It would have to be another 1v3 for foot.
But this off shot is a plant.
Yeah, he doesn't read it.
Of course, a person on this one gets it.
And Legacy, the final moments as Foot gets this game tied,
Legacy finally put one back on the scoreboard
after what was Foot's seven-round streak.
They don't even celebrate that.
It's because, think about how arduous the second half
has been, how many layups they've had that they failed.
It's been plenty of embarrassing rounds, unfortunately,
here for Legacy, who are winning,
who are maybe about to win the match,
And one last chance to make sure there's no lag on their face.
Foot, no, they can very easily bring this to overtime.
But finally, and I can't even remember how many rounds, Foot,
Try gets two kills.
And this one feels like it could have gone very differently.
And this one walking out through that smoke is clearly at the disadvantage.
But they've also, they've tried.
I mean, pushing that smoke was kind of crazy,
I think he just has got that got take that on the chin. I
Feel like I can't believe how many times foot have walked a lot change up
Some sly from legacy in the final round of regulation
That's our alone on long with an op and try here with his
Trying to skew that head-to-head back in his favor
Now, Art's got support. This is two ops. Both the ops here on long. Both art and tri between
car and this corner. It's kind of mental, but I actually like it. And both have chances
for contact walkouts. I mean, sometimes your long player's not getting that much support
anyway. Sendierry burns them back. We get a quick look through the middoors to no avail,
one person there. To be honest, a true weakness is B. It's like a retake is almost off the
table with the guns that are on the A site, but foot have not figured out that there are
two ops on the board. That they're both over here. They have 45 seconds to find the solution.
They are all grouped up. Five members strong for the mid walkout, not one guy out in tunnels.
They are going shoulder to shoulder to try to finish off this regulation and push this to OT.
What can you actually expect from Doom out versus 5? Nothing!
Popped, empty-handed, dry, takes the Hail Mary shot through, swaps out to the deep, there's damage!
Nell, so much!
Nissan's gonna pop that flash up above the window, but he also falters!
It's Lotto again in a critical moment!
He's been so clutched for this team!
An 8 out of the tall box, tracks him down at 17!
Hell's carpet, he's at the quad!
Lotto has single-handedly stopped it!
Seventary dives the doorway, Lotto off the plow for the ace to close the game.
Legacy play, all 24 rounds, but in those final moments, it is Lotto to come up huge.
The combination of Lotto and Try in the endgame is unmatched.
What a moment, that's one of the nastiest aces that you'll see.
Supported with the A-chees, but as a player alone with his teammate dying with only damage,
You cannot believe you could make a play like that.
You just don't get to do that.
That is illegal to end a series.
To end a map on that is insanity.
I mean, there's a reason we were being up lotto
before the series.
It took a little while to show us exactly why,
but that's why.
That type of round, stuck in the back of the B bomb site,
game over time on the line.
Any managers to pull it off, that is insane.
Take your fast off shots from try.
Take your entries from doom out.
I'm sticking with Lado on that.
Now, everybody obviously was a huge team effort from Legacy to get it over the line.
A lot of pandemonium going in that last round, but man, Lado on that bomb site, just untouchable.
Yeah, it's so insane to think about that. That's how we're going to end off us too.
But it does give us the absolute privilege of having tried joining us here.
Trey, congratulations. How insane was the end of that map there?
Yeah, it was the 10th end of the match.
We kind of screwed up a few clutches, a few rounds that we had good read, but yeah, we ended up winning.
Can I ask, the last round you have a double-op on A. Is that just, Art's just saying, I want the op here, I want to go for a player?
Is that something you've practiced before?
We did, this is something we have. He said, guys, don't care about long, just leave me alone, I will guarantee long for us.
Nice.
So, Tri, coming into this team, I feel like your impact is already really obvious.
How much space do you find legacies giving you?
Because we know a lot of their riflers like to do a lot, you know.
I mean, Dumau has his plays, Art has his plays, but you're trying to fit in, but you've
done a great job.
So how much of a voice do you get to have?
Actually, a lot.
But in the beginning, I was more like listening to the guys, trying to adapt more to them.
but nowadays it's like 50-50, I can do whatever I want,
but I also have to do my role and listen to art.
Okay, so when you're going over stuff
or you're listening to him, I mean,
how do you, I guess how do you strike the balance?
Like is more of it, say on the CT side,
you're calling more of your stuff
or do you get to go and call a lot for the T side as well?
On T side, depends on the map, on ancient,
for example, this map I support a lot,
so I don't get to do a lot of moves,
But on Dust2, it's a completely up map,
so I get to call whatever I want.
And on CitySide on every map,
I can do almost everything I want.
There was actually a round that we wanted to look at
and with you from Ancient.
It was round 19, and honestly,
this whole round was just you,
but talk to us about the calls that you're making,
what's going through your mind during it.
Beginning is a lot of rifle fights and everything,
but you helped bring this one back.
I mean, I know you get boosted
towards the bottom of lane here, bottom of the banana.
So yeah, are you calling for these kinds of moments or is this a team effort?
Yeah, this is something I called.
I actually saw this boost before the game, I think, only today.
I didn't know about this boost because I didn't play the map before.
So yeah, I just called it on the flow and then we got into B and we knew there was one guy here.
I don't know the call in English and I just picked him and this one as well.
He was saying, plant, plant, plant, but I just picked him and killed him.
How do you just win the fight so consistently through?
Like, Cemetery is holding the angle, but you're able to get him on those kinds of lines.
And you were, that's who got a little close between you guys, but how are you so consistently
beating other top oppers?
Because now you did it in Paris also, you were winning a lot of those fights.
I feel like in your op-ed-v-heads, or I guess op-v-op duels, you're really on top of them.
I don't know, this fight with Symmetry on Ancient, I thought he had an advantage, but it happens sometimes you whiff the shot even though you see him first.
I think he saw me first, that's why it happened in one round, I was holding short and he crouched me and I missed the shot, it just happens.
but usually I do a lot of homework against the pop-upers
because it's a must against these teams
because they have really good workers.
So yeah, I just do my homework.
Talking about ancient, you mentioned you didn't play it
for quite a while.
You've got very few reps on that map.
Are you putting in a lot of time to learn the map
or is it just kind of, as you're saying,
you didn't even know about the booster.
You're just go in and try and play your game,
obviously it worked out.
No, I actually did a lot of theory with art
and the coaches, props to ADR and Bob's, our coaches.
They help me a lot.
Every day with Prakash, ancient,
I just have some doubts on some situations
and I come to them and I ask them and they help me.
When it comes to coming into the tier one scene,
years ago you came in,
you came out of the South American scene,
it felt like you really struggled against utility,
but your aim has always been there,
your shot's always been there.
Can you tell me about developing as a full player
dealing with Utility, dealing with Tier 1 teams and how you've gotten to the point
where now you're at this incredible, well-rounded, rifler-opper at times, you know?
Yeah, I guess back then, there was a lot of difference between the team level, you know?
We were not so prepared to play Tier S and nowadays, Legacies will run the team,
they have won trophies before so they have a lot of experience and yeah it just feels like
winner mentality team and that's the difference and I also grew up a lot as a player
in these things like skybox also it's like a cheat so yeah.
We're seeing the tail end of Dust 2 for you guys be pretty rough you're losing rounds where you
do you have the numbers, advantages and everything like that?
How are you resetting with the timeouts and a coach coming in?
Who is the main voice that you're following to be able to take each round as it goes?
I think it's a little bit of everyone.
There was one round with Los Antizas, I just said to the guys there on that I told,
I with the shot against Cemetery.
I just said, guys, I with the shot of the round, it was a one round on,
just don't think about it.
And it's everyone someone saying something like 5-2 I think we lost.
I think Art said like it's okay guys, shit happens and it's a little bit of everyone and ADR also is helping.
Is there anyone that's like a vibes guy that tries to keep it from being too serious, you know,
tries to make a joke in these types of hectic, you know, tough comeback situations?
I don't think we joke about it, but I guess it's me.
I'm always telling the guys, like, just, like, kill,
it doesn't matter, we win next round, and that's it.
But more can you say, I mean, you talked about how ADR
and your other assistant coach,
we were able to help you prepare for these kinds of matchups.
What specifically are they bringing to you
that you don't already know?
It's not that in this, like, with the coaches one-on-one,
one-on-one like when they helped me it's not about the specific match of course
like they tell me you can do this this and that but it's like I told you I do
my homework and I already know what to do but it's like more of like when I
scream they point out some mistakes and I also come to them and ask them like
what can I do in this situation and stuff like this it's more about like
getting better and like when we scream.
Alright we'll try thank you so much for joining us congratulations again I look
you guys play in a couple of
days. Thank you. Grants. Thank
you so much. Try giving us so
much information about what
played out in these two maps in
our best of three here, of
course, ancient and now I guess
does to both being a little bit
closer than what we would have
thought and definitely been
what legacy would have liked
there. That does too. It's nice
to know everyone's pitching in,
but he's actually the vibes guy.
He's the one that's like, I
forget about it. Shit happens.
Move on. It's just one round and
a couple with shots. I was
expecting to say someone like
I think it's all business from them and at the end of the day it's sometimes the
comebacks happening and then sometimes Lotto just shuts him out of the B site,
closes it off because I think that one was going to get pretty hairy if it won the OT.
Really impressed with Legacy throughout the series though.
I felt like this was the match of the day.
In fact, it was the first series of the day with inner circle but moving on from that.
I mean, the way that Legacy composed themselves through some of this,
yes, there was a little bit of a comeback there for foot,
of this. Yes, there was a little bit of a comeback there for foot, but then to just kind of lock it
all down at the very tail end of it, the energy from people like Lado and try on ancient, especially
felt kind of like a playoff in the way that especially they, them too in particular, just sort
of locked in when the pressure was at the absolute highest. I mean, even if you go back to the most
recent event, I was talking about it before they played foot against Furia, 8-4 T side,
that they're not going to be
able to do that. They're
not going to be able to do that
for Furia. They go to the CT
side. Same type of thing
happens, but foot close it out.
This is a legacy team that has
that extra gear where they
could make the stop the comeback
that furious was incapable of
doing just a few weeks ago. I
also like that when we look
towards this, they're playing
very level headed. And so
whilst people are looking
towards that next round at the
end of the day, they know that
there is still those chances,
about their double open that last round as well where it's like, okay, actually, yeah,
we have scrimmed it and we do give full faith because there is that amount of faith you have
to give your teammates, even if it looks very unorthodox and even if it might still fail.
I remember asking Zai Wu about Robs picking up the double up and he goes,
uh, we don't really like it, but he just does it and it works. And what are you going to say when
it works? And that's almost, almost what it feels like. Art was having a tough time and long.
He picks up the opposite guys. Don't worry about long. I got this. I got this. And then they went
and a little bit anti-climactic for how the double-op played out when it is just a
rifle that gets all five kills, but I also think that the I guess the
composure from legacy to be able to get it over the line when that comeback was
mounting when they did lose a couple pretty pretty bad clutches all in all
honesty the 2v4 from I think it was demon and somebody else so how they were
able to retake long then get to the A bomb site win the 1v1 out that I thought
was maybe going to set legacy off and just down on a downward trend.
But then they're able to course correct.
And that probably comes from people like try, given that he talked about how level headed he could be.
But also I want to give credit to art because I think art has really had this great resurgence in his career.
And I think all of the lessons he learned with fury in the past, all the major playoffs that he played is a huge factor
in why this team is sometimes a little bit better than their years may show.
Yeah, I mean, I really liked Lux as a caller, but you bring in art and I think it really leveled up the team.
It gave them a different dimension and it gave them these types of games these types of comebacks where you're you're really out of it
Yeah, I think it's very easy for a team to just say we're screwed here go OT go next
You know let's let's get ready for that, but arts keeping them in it in so many situations
He's giving them different dimensions to their game plan. That's why legacy is looking so impressive now
Yeah, everything clicking and they're proving once again that it is something that they can start doing
Consistently we see them be able to to a foot here
We can also have a look at our bracket to see just how far away they are from making it to Porto
And it's only one at best of three. However, the opponent that they could be coming up against is
Potentially a difficult one and I have to say potentially because right now our group B bracket is not shaping up the way you would expect
Vitality obviously early today losing to inner circle there
Mouses well being able to win
But again, is it that form of mouse that looks as strong that looks like they're gonna be that top contender like we saw in
I've lost bounty. I'm comfortable with the way mouse closed that one out. I think they they didn't let it get too close
And but the problem is I mean at this point just win the game Navi's gonna lose the game
Sorry, my title is gonna lose the game Falcons are gonna lose. Sorry
Just just win your game and move on to the next one and within the air of Counter-Strike
We're in it's almost like an air of chaos just win your game and move on to the next one as long as you can get the W
I'm happy at this point. Also, I think that every team now in this bracket
especially sees that it's it's it almost feels like it's do or die even if
you're in an upper bracket and you have the two lives technically because when
you see vitality in that lower bracket to kick off this group B you're just
thinking to yourselves oh we better make it through by not dropping anything here
okay so just when I mean most teams are trying to do that for themselves but I'm
all aboard the mayhem and the chaos train when it comes to what is happening
right now at blast open we're gonna go to a break on the other side it's not just
yet Falcon's Mescaline vision because we got a little bit of fun to have between two series here.
That is springs his trap but he's left as the last man standing.
That was brutal for FaZe. I can't believe they get out so cleanly.
Yeah, someone call an ambulance.
Oh, we can say, we took your impact.
Yup, he's a giant.
Oh my god, he's playing the car.
Oh, that's mad, not too mad.
You think yourself what then?
Is it a bat?
Is it a plate?
No, it's an eagle!
No, it's actually a falcon.
He's the one that's got my butt.
Damn!
Simon's the guilty!
A triple kill out of his new elbow at night!
He's not warming up, he's... hunting.
It's just a fluke. You can't drop 30 like that every match.
What possessed God in heaven to make a player like Molodoy?
God did not make Molodoy. I made him.
You trained him, right?
I teach this kid everything. Discipline, positioning. We need lineups. He's ignoring it all.
You want to deceive me? Come sit, Daniel.
I've seen your flashbangs, it fall and teach you nothing.
Utilities for people that means...
That's not game sense bro, that's madness.
Madness? No, confidence.
He's not blinking.
I don't think he's playing it since he walked in.
Look Daniel, the teams out there, they know you're dangerous, they're playing around you.
They don't want to end up in another highlight grill for you.
If they don't want to be in highlight reel, they gonna need one thing.
And what's that?
Disconnect.
So intense.
You think you can keep this up? Every single match?
They can't stop me.
You remind me of me.
Just younger, tick-park generation.
A little bit less patient.
But still very good.
You can't coach that.
You can only survive it.
Stop trying to coach me.
Start following my calls.
Huh, be careful.
Last time I said it, they made me an ajo.
Is this roster changes, Evan?
Chaos and Mayhem, that's the note that we left off there with Foot Up Against Legacy,
and so we decided to bring it to the panel with Lordus joining us here.
Is that how you describe yourself?
Well, I thought you were going to go Chaos in Mohan because that would make sense.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I really fumbled hard.
Can we run it back? Can we send the gift back below and let's go again a second take there?
No, are you excited to join us here? Because it's not like Counter-Strike related in terms of knowledge.
The screens are far away, but I just got some new glasses.
You did. They are expensive.
So I could see all the answers.
They're not going to help.
They're not going to help you at all.
Because if anyone tuned into our Blasphemy Open Rotterdam event a couple of months ago,
You would already know what's coming.
It's something that I love to do with my Analyst Desk plus one.
We're going to be looking at the Steam profile pictures of our players.
And so this time around, I'd change it up.
Obviously, I didn't want to run back any teams that we had done before.
We're going to start off with Furia.
Our team of Furia right here.
Oh my god.
Oh my.
What is this?
Which one? Which one are you questioning the most?
Um, that's insane.
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be case or auto. Yeah case or auto or maybe you're like
Anime is Yuri. No, I'd say the anime far left is molodoy because that's that's some new gen stuff
Yeah, I don't know who that is. I can't know who it is either
Okay, you're going the far left one to be far left to be molodoy. Yeah, just something that could also be a kinder though
Couldn't it maybe but the full all red thing is something that's a little more Gen Z
the all red, you know, if you're going to do a color overlay, I don't think, I think
yet and are either just goes black and white original manga panel or just it's Mollida.
I'm going to go Mollida.
You think your kinders got like a picture of his dad there?
Who is that?
And that is John Wick.
No, no, no, the bottom.
It looks like that face jacket.
I assume that's like one driver.
It's on.
So no.
Yeah.
So it's going to be, uh, it's going to be a Brazilian there.
Yeah.
I'd probably go Yuri.
really narrowed down for you.
And is that Ellen DeGeneres?
Okay, I have no idea this person.
No.
This grace.
I like that.
She's a lovely, beautiful woman.
80 years old.
She was like,
I would go with the woman being fallen.
Just some weird inside joke.
Just some inside joke with somebody else.
I couldn't tell you why.
You think he's a troll like that though. I was thinking John Wick. John Wick couldn't be fallen couldn't be fall
Couldn't be falling. I'm taking yack and are is it possible that none of them are fallen
No, there's definitely a fallen one in there. It definitely
I would go John Wick yack and our quesarado exodia. I would go John. I would go John Wick quesarado exodia
Yuri and you can
All you did was name the plays of Gloria. What have you added to this conversation?
I'm telling you how to rotate them around.
There's no world where Senna is Yackindar. That's just an impossibility here.
Then it's fallen.
I mean, it could be fallen. The random woman could be...
I don't think fallen has any idols like that.
No, he does. He does.
Who, Dom Pedro II?
You know, he's a fan of a couple Dota players, actually.
He actually fanboyed out for them before.
I forgot who though, but not, not so.
Actually, I was straddling Fallen yesterday
and I asked him what he was doing
in his warm up to playing their game yesterday.
He goes, I was watching TI Grand Finals game five.
Yeah.
He's probably upset that they didn't play Invoker.
I think that's his favorite hero.
They did play that in the, anyway, no.
Oh, okay, okay.
I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it.
You like it?
I'm okay with that.
I'm gonna say this.
You're welcome to change any and I would suggest all of them never
Never a good time. Okay. The anime has to be yeah, I can all right John Wick you came dar
Okay, Santa fallen
Yes, yeah, yeah, he knows ball I
I just have I just change
Anime one I have a feeling although it can't be exodia. That's before it's time
Great, but the kids love larping. They do
Exactly the kids young falafel. I don't know. I don't anime is Yuri John Wick is K serato
Exodia's you kindar and the Tiger King woman is Molo do it the only thing I want is
I
You only think I want is fallen as John Wick that's the only thing I want did we not just have that no that wasn't the first
version okay, okay, I thought it obviously means it's wrong on the start
Okay, well, would you want to look this one in yes? Yes, okay?
You're gonna look it in who would you like to start with who are you most confident on the end our eczodia your most confident with you
Can do eczodia that is incorrect? Oh?
Fallen was actually Exodia.
I'm least confident about Maladoy.
I think that's the correct thing to be the least confident about.
Maladoy was actually John Wick.
Maladoy had Keanu Reeves.
That's a little egotistical.
I thought that was from the start.
Just saying, we had, what was it, the Tiger King woman?
That was, that was, that was Yuri.
Why?
Yuri, what is that?
He only had it for four days.
Oh, okay.
But there was clearly a very funny joke
in those four days in which he felt he wanted to change.
And then this is case, case or auto is Senna?
Yes.
Yeah.
Correct.
All right, you're Kinder animated.
Okay, I think it was a little.
I think we were pretty close.
It's like, I'd give us a B.
Oh!
I would actually put you guys in the C minus right now.
I call Fallen Exodia from the start.
From the start I said Fallen Exodia.
Remember?
I might have to Vod review that one.
Okay.
Also, I know something that has been a conversation for so long was that Maus is a team a little
Orless right so I thought I would know my what I know my words
But I figured I would pick mouse you guys could get to know them a little bit build a story for all of that
Okay, well the far right one has to be sping towards the is it's your time the far right one has to be spings just because it's an anime character wearing
An enchursey so that's just what who's most why would why would PR wear an enchursey in his profile pic
I'm just gonna say okay. No, that's for these is adventure time
Okay, it does have that. Why are you saying that so confidently because it's not anyone else? Okay
PR is the snowman
Stole frozen spot
That's a deep cut
Stop
I'm gonna glow now. I've never heard Zershin talk about anything. I don't think some people are just embarrassed
Do you think he watches correctly?
Then he wouldn't have this profile picture.
Who would have got the squid game?
Who wants to be squid game?
Yeah, maybe Zershin is a Korea boo, actually.
He strikes me as that type.
The skincare ends up being very meticulous.
OK.
So then you're going with Zellexam?
Yes, and I'll just say, I might have been completely wrong.
And towards the insertion, our Zellexer flipped.
Yeah, I would lightly think Torsy's squid game. I think that's just he's giving that he's giving squid game
Yeah, I think there's a good chance. We're wrong on all five yet again. No, there's no way sphinx is wrong
There's no no, let's imagine you were someone else in the team and he wanted to meme sphinx
You would have this also this this no man was such a deep cut, but had nothing to do
That was pure troll. That was really good, but I don't know he even thought you keep in the snowman. Yeah. Yeah
check it out okay I would rate you guys a B plus especially because of how
confidently one is you called Tauzy you got that one correct of course as well
now he being so confident Spinks is also correct there so I do feel like
Calling it first counts, like the stock market.
So Wasbou right about his snowman story.
You're rushing.
Hold on.
OK.
You're rushing or dragging.
I'm with you, whatever that.
Not my tempo.
Not my tempo.
Not my tempo.
Zealots, you guys stumbled into it a little bit,
but also correct.
Nice.
I don't know what anime that is, you.
No.
I think it's a Kamogakill.
I think it's One Piece.
I don't know for sure, but it feels like a Kamogakill.
Not 100%.
Maybe someone in Twitch cat, Twitch chat cat, Twitch chat can correct me.
Twitch cat kill.
Too many Cs there.
So is Zershin a creep?
Yeah, Zershin and PR.
Unfortunately, they're the only two you guys got wrong.
Come on, Voo.
They all swapped.
Yeah.
Come on, Voo.
The deep cut was there, but it was not correct.
Zershin does not strike me as a squid gamer.
Zershin has the default profile picture.
Yeah, that was pretty default, right?
All right.
Well, remember, it's not what they have now.
It is what they have had in the past.
Steam winner 6-6 years.
5-6 years.
Okay.
He just bought it and then like automatically changed it. He's like, oh yeah. Yeah, just considering where we started. I'm very proud of us
Effort it's a team effort. We all won equally
Well, uh, who maybe the one wrong answer
What is coming next you guys will excel at because it's not a team in which I picked
But I hand picked hand curated five people to put together here
Oh, okay. Oh
Oh me you got JL. You got cyclone you have karrigan, Maui and launders. What I will tell you right now
I am none of these I don't feel like I'm any of these either
Let's yeah, when did I use that one the mouse picture is obviously mouse
It's our old look good too, so you know he's been there for a while. All right. All right. Let's do let's also psychone mouse
No, it's got these could be old right these could be old anywhere between now and six years ago. Yeah, it's Karrigan
Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of back when everyone used to do five profile pictures as teams with you
Yeah, I buy it. Okay
Arbinger okay. Yeah
Odey Maui Odey
I don't know. Have you ever done? I don't know if I was I wasn't in to do it but enough to I wasn't really a big Odey picker
I've had the same profile picture for 10 years.
It really wouldn't be very interesting.
Could you leak it now?
It's Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift?
That's my bet!
We would have thought so.
Exactly.
I could see that.
Yeah, feel this man.
Right over there.
We would have guessed that right away.
15 is also a good album and song.
Song is the best.
The Swiss to the rankings.
15, good.
The sad one.
That's like one of those things.
15 good the sad the sad one
That's one of those like animated profile pictures, right? It's a new move. It's the sad mummy from League of Legends. He's not me
It's probably I don't play games except for TFT JL. Yeah, it's giving JL
JL, I don't know what this anime. It's got to be launderers
Would you like the text? I think that's from I haven't I haven't here the text is congratulations. I'm graduating from being a virgin
That's good. I'm gonna be honest. None of these are remind me. I don't know what that would be. I don't know what that would even be and then what's the penguin? What's the penguin's meme?
It says how the McDonald's manager rolls up when there's a problem.
Give me that one. That's funny. I like it. I like it. And then Cyclone is the congrats on losing the virginity.
Okay, you don't you don't know which one you are either no, I don't actually I really don't
I think you trade launderers in Cyclone
I'm okay with trying this I think we tried keregan in Cyclone
No, JL I mean
Who says the emo profile?
No, it's jail wouldn't have that one. I don't jail wouldn't have a
Been playing recently. He's had some time off. Oh
Wait, oh, that's a league character it's a movie. Did I not say a movie from League of Legends short-term memory problem?
I can tell the goldfish is really coming out. Yeah, no one else plays league. I don't know who plays league
Do you play any league? No, I played league, but I'm not on there
All right, let's walk it all right
Okay, who are you most confident with? We'll start with that. Karrigan. Mally's Mally's Nick
100% Karagans you got it.
Let's go.
Why are you looking at Maui when you say that?
I got it.
I knew it.
You're always right.
You're always right.
You said Laundice.
No, brother.
I'm looking in Karagans.
They hate giving Voo credit.
Nope.
I love it.
I love the Voo.
You knew it.
Okay.
Voo, this is your board.
Where would you like to take it?
I'd like to swap Cyclone and Launder.
No, no, no, no, no.
We've looked at it.
We've looked at it.
Here's your next.
JL.
Okay.
JL is also correct.
Nice.
Ten thousand hours and that was it's malle's gotta be okay. Okay at least right?
Did you could you it is possible you have this at once? I guess it's possible
Okay, I'm gonna say this malle's is incorrect. I don't think so
But would you like to guess who out of saccharin alone is this one was for me? It was you?
How did you forget that you have this is your profile? I never did
I don't even play him. This is when your steam account got hacked
Definitely was those guys are really smart
Which means where would you like to put your McDonald's manager penguin me?
That's gotta be me. I don't think I had that yeah
I do honestly. I think the funniest thing was how loud and how hard you laughed at it
Yeah, like 2015 jokes that's what happens when I read my Twitter. I'm like wow I used to be really
We watch the office and laugh at the up joke
Which means a cyclone was also correct, which is another one you guys
Well, you did really well that you guys did amazing so well done fellas
I would say only for the next few seconds because we do have to focus up on our next match up
It's gonna be Falcons up against Lynn vision
for the match against Falcons is gonna be a hard one, but
Before we won the mean of you one, but
D3 is definitely like far horrible, but we're the best we are guess dream team, you know dream team. Yes
They're the dream team Falcons is yes dream team. Yes. What what makes them the dream team and not you
No, they dream team. Yes. Why?
Mm-hmm because Moniz Nico Kairuga Kazook
Tosses yes, I mean, I think all the teams right now and
in CS2. I would say on all tier 1 tournaments you have a lot of teams who can do a lot of damage.
There are a lot of teams, new teams are coming into tier 1 and obviously the vision can be the same
team that can put a lot of damage. You can see Vitality losing, Na'Vi losing as well. So there are a lot of
teams that can, how to say it, can surprise, you know. So let's see how it will go, we
just want to focus on ourselves and be in the best form that we can be.
We lost to them in Austin, I think, so maybe, we'll see. But there's definitely two other
names that come more to my mind with food and legacy, but yeah, we'll see what the vision
I'm gonna go first today.
All the sounds like the players on the side of Falcons
are definitely buckled up for what could be potentially
a bumpy ride for them up against LynVision here
because it is a lot of upsets after upset
and expectations not being met for a lot of our T1 teams.
Yeah, this is, why would online Counter-Strike
do this to us now?
I don't understand, would there be so many
of us, Vitality losing, that's Navi losing?
I was online this morning wasn't online.
Our line counter strike does not forgive.
Strikes again.
It does not forget.
It strikes again and again, even online.
Even online.
I feel like sometimes building up a matchup, like one team lost it, sometimes devalues what
the underdog does to achieve victory over the favorites.
But the only way that Falcons lose this game is if they lose this game.
That's it.
I'm not giving any credit.
and being reductive, there's no way that Falcons should be losing this one to
LinVision today. I think there needs to be a symphony of things happening for
Falcons to lose this one. They need to be having a tough game. They need to have
players not show up in the way that they usually do. And you need to have the
likes of LinVision. You need to have Westmellon pulling off some entries as he
did in the previous matchup, albeit against KickSan and Magist. They've
upgraded since then in both roles. You know, they need to have more than just
one thing go well. It's going to be very tough for all of those things to get
together into one game and then a second map, you know, one map affair, you could see it happen.
Three maps. It's very tough to have that type of upset. I mean, people would look back at what
happened just a couple of days ago with EWC, them dropping the legacy. But the form that we see legacy
on the run that they were able to do for themselves, you realize that you have to stop putting them
with respect and you have to start putting these underdog teams on a similar level as them. And
in your eyes is Lynn vision of that caliber. I think treating legacy with respect is admitting
that they are on a different level to this LynVision team.
As much as I want to give credit to LynVision,
and I'll say they do some things right,
I think they, you know, I like their calling to some extent,
they're not at the same level as a Legacy.
Legacy is far ahead of them, and so are Falcons.
Have to concur with that.
It's not just Tier 1 versus Tier 2.
There's definitely layers to it.
Also, Legacy were more or less in the Tier 1.5 at worst.
They've already lifted a couple trophies
when they beat Falcons recently.
So they were there had already shown signs and also they already just beat him at CAC before that
So they beat him in a grand final same of actually four-man lineup versus five-man lineup
Whereas Lin vision. Yes, they won in Austin a year ago, but that was under very different circumstances
It was a BO one
It was a game that their coach gum actually said that he only had to look at Falcons for a couple of hours
And then he was able to take a nap after it because he knew everything that he needed to know and actually
and the game plan. And the
team made a move on the
team. Eventually, then vision
executed a game plan very
flawlessly. Their T side just
understood all the weaknesses
of Falcons up to a T whereas
there's a lot more going on
now with Falcons. I don't
think you're going to read
them just as easily. I feel
like also in the just normal.
Just head to head map control
players versus each other.
There's such a difference. And
I think we have to admit this
was Falcons at the major over
I mean, whoa, well, I think we're 97.3% past it.
Now he's out here welling you.
What's your what's your caveat to it then?
Well, they did just lose to legacy, which they were also
favorites against.
I don't think that was a choke.
Oh, OK.
That's true.
After you win the major and you lose to legacy,
you're not choking.
It's not a choke because Kerrigan struggles quite a bit.
You have to have all the stars together on this team
And all at once, if one of them doesn't show up,
they're going to struggle against the legacy playing
as well as legacy did.
Other than to say, you have to be in the lead to choke.
You're right.
When Tessus doesn't show up, that's
a star not showing up for them.
No, too much has to go right for LinVision
to make this one competitive for me.
That's the big problem.
Yeah, maybe we'll see some little pop-off plays
from people like West Millen per se, or maybe Call Me Sue
gets a nice little late round sort of flanking or something.
But beyond that, this should be a Falcons that
is gearing back up.
I really think if I'm Falcons organization, I'm reaming this team out for what they did and failed to provide it in terms of lifting and eSports World Cup plate.
That plate was supposed to fall on Zonic, not Holly, if you get what I mean.
I'm saying it's okay guys. Better luck next time. You'll get him at Blast Open Porto.
It happens though. It happens though. We can talk about this Falcons a little bit more because you guys are talking about it.
the team and one of the biggest
things in my eyes is target
joints and they're doing amazing.
The results that they get are so good.
A break happens and we're not really
sure where they're sitting in this season.
It feels like, yes, again, we're placing
higher expectations on them.
But at the end of the day, is this the
start they were supposed to have when
he first joined 17th to 32nd
at the blast bounty is not
17. I was supposed to be, you know,
this is not the start we were promised
This is not the start we were promised, Maui.
That's generous, losing to a hundred thieves
who have since gone on to beat Czech's notes.
Pretty much nobody.
So I feel like Falcons, they just,
yeah, I think that this lower third graphic
is totally correct, still hung over from the major.
I think that's exactly it.
I'm surprised personally that Falcons
haven't really changed up their map pool.
I'm always surprised coming into the season two
that they didn't incorporate cash.
That to me just shows they didn't do anything
over the player break.
that they were all just kind of sipping my ties,
you know, laying on the beach,
just enjoying the fact that they finally achieved
the ultimate goal and winning the major.
But now this is the tournament for me
where they're gearing up for it.
For me, Falcons, despite the mishaps recently,
they're my favorites to win this event.
I can't disagree with you.
You know, this is, do you win the major Niko
after that many years?
I'm not going to fault them for sipping some my ties,
having some time off, chill action.
You come back, you lose at the bounty.
I'm not too worried.
I'm not too concerned about the loss at EWC,
but this is where they have to showcase themselves.
I still, I agree with you,
I think they should be the favorite for this event.
Yeah, I like that, right?
There is always going to be a leeway,
but there still will always be expectations
that you have to meet too.
But yesterday, a narrative and something
that we really enjoyed for our MAD and Navi series
was the trajectory in which the veto took.
There was a little bit of a change-up,
there was a little bit of a surprise,
and I'm hoping we might get the same story here
in this best of three.
I mean, if you wanna just run it back for what you did a year ago, then you would go
to Nuke, and it feels like Gum as a coach has been pretty good at anti-streading, but
I don't think recently it's been something that's been in their wheelhouse, so they go
for Inferno.
This is another map that I find to just be like underdog central where you can get
advantages by just taking the simplest map control and running with it.
Falcons on the other hand, going with ancient map that they've had a lot of
strong history on, a little bit of a dip in performance at some points in time.
But with Karrigan, it's been pretty good.
Yeah, I think both these maps make a lot of sense.
LinVision, they've had their fair share of chances on Inferno.
Falcons going to get rid of the nuke that, as we said, over a year ago, they
didn't manage to take home against LinVision and then dust to us, the
to decide if we do get there is definitely a map that Falcons
are supposed to be comfortable on.
Yeah, I mean, if we want to get to a dust,
too, LundVision are going to have to show up in their map
pick, Inferno starting us off here.
And so what are some of the keys that give you that idea,
Maui, that Inferno is underdog central?
Just the fact that so often with other maps,
you might have to take multiple points of control
before executing into a bomb site.
Sometimes it's as simple as take out Kyosuke, take out
Kerrigan towards Banana, and then just
keep on pushing into the bomb site or Niko.
I mean, any semblance or assembly of players
that Falcons throw towards banana to defend early on,
well, you still can just get naded.
Like guns, you know, Niko's gun,
it shoots better than most players on Linvision's gun.
Okay, I don't know how they have different guns
that they bought from different sellers,
but his is way better.
But the grenades, that's where the score
really just gets equalized.
And that's where Linvision,
if they actually did their prep as they've done before,
That's where they can get a leg up.
All right, well, they're hoping for a run back
of what happened to the Austin Major a year ago,
but our Falcons gonna leave that door open
for them for that potential to start off our best of three.
Strong, we'll see how it plays out on Inferno.
Niko gun good, but L'Envision gun no.
Just playing with you, Maui.
As of this current moments,
this Falcons' core has never beat this L'Envision core.
Can't say the same the other way around,
Yes, I like the predictors over on poly market have this one heavily skewed the way of Falcons understandable
I mean Falcons are coming off of a legacy loss short at EWC. However, who doesn't lose the legacy?
That's what I'm saying, right? We know what legacy you're currently achieving at the moment
You could also say well Falcons lost a hundred thieves at the start of the season
But that's the old gives me effect and online counter strike off the player break, etc
Well, where do you put this one in terms of limb vision having chances in a best of three as well? Yeah, not very high
Especially in a match like there's no reason for a weird loss to happen
They mean even the hundred thieves one was sort of like they actually were very good brand new ITL hard to read everything like that
This one's like no quantity been around for a long time not necessarily peaking right now and I
I don't think this is going to get any easier in this round.
Kosuke coming in on the flank at the bottom of B.
Yeah, pretty confident opening gambit there for the side of Falcons.
Kosuke's timing is good, but Amelia returns.
Falcons gone good, but Amelia had gone great.
Two frags in this pistol.
Him and Callme Sioux to try to piece it together, still just hanging around in the mid lane.
But of course with that push down B, we got this simultaneous tuck from Kerrigan.
We then actually called Tess as they will way back over they will just have to start pushing essentially since they're together
They're gonna push into monasy
Question is will we be checking a flank perhaps as they move by or will they just circumvent him by taking this one arch?
They kind of know now essentially that it's arch monies only watching to see if they went back around through halls
But they have it all cleaned up
But is it arch day or arch to be we know the answer on-site both remaining lind vision members
It's a plant tucked in, back site, and we've already got Karrigan sniffing at the arch side of things.
Frag grenade from him, but he actually bounces it off the wall into his own face.
That could have damn near killed Emilia. That's a gap.
That's a big gap actually that called me Sujus found.
Okay, blindside's monosy. Call me Sujus position now, no.
Emilia's still just sitting on top of his bomb and couldn't have died to the frag grenade.
Now it's going to be Emilia, demanded of a 4k.
They come at him, they collect their headshots and it's going to be Falcons with a nice easy retake to start off inferno well
We've seen so many upsets here at first when we saw them at the bounties like oh, it's online
Of course, there's going to be some upsets, but we just literally seen similar ones, but on land now. Yes, sir
And there's just no reason to keep assuming
They'll continue to happen
I haven't really seen sort of the resume being built in the last few months from LendVision to
to precipitate anything like it.
And again, when it comes to like this team
in a group situation and also coming off the EWC,
it's not like they won and now they're feeling themselves
too much and didn't really practice.
They lost and it was probably a pretty tough loss.
Yeah.
And I feel like they know that in bringing Kerrigan,
they have the ability to win the major,
but now that their floor can just kind of disappear.
That's the other thing that you can get with Kerrigan.
So that might have been a call to realize
They need to step that part up in their game.
She gives me more confidence towards Falcons in this matchup.
Still just thinking about that quote from Nico.
I don't remember the last time we got destroyed like this,
talking about that legacy loss.
So that really is just kind of a testament
to the something special legacy through at them.
It'd be a wild night if LynVision could do the same.
May he blind out on Halfway?
Time will tell.
And now we get that pack working its way up the short side.
We've got a good positioning here on site, momentarily for LynVision, but it is TessS's
MP7 and Niko on the scene to really shut down the hopes of LynVision, and they got their
Damage in, Tess and Niko both tagged up down to 13 health each, however four players up for the conversion here from Falcons
It's going to be solid for the economy
No, we're easy to go obviously in the veto inferno can be a very fun map when you have to pick it play T side
And you know that the other team feels very confident versus you because they can just close down so much space so early in the round
That's the inferno specials taken over banana control and one thing is even if you're feeling rusty or out of form
Your your B grenades aren't really gonna do that and yet that controls so much of the game
That's what makes this map tough
That was not the top button I
Just coughed into talk back actually
I thought that everyone heard it.
Well...
Production team.
What a fommest headshot is these pistols will have nothing to work with except for the flashbangs.
Ooh, I see.
Later.
Amelia called Falcons the dream team.
What makes them the dream team?
Nat asked.
And his answer was to list all five players.
It's a fair response.
I really is
Just because they're the dream team doesn't mean you can't beat them. Yeah, you just got to be the nightmare team
Lynn vision have quite literally proven this in the past. I'll be it and a best of one
I mean it is just three best of ones
Whoa.
Honestly, gets active, but while he takes the deagle shot to the head, we get this instant pullback from Lindvision.
Starrie looking to link up with West Mellon once that smoke fades.
They'll see what they can get done towards the B site.
Killscade just gonna play a little more timid.
Make sure he can spot it. Doesn't want to die. Give open that B site.
Like Maui said, you know, on a map like Inferno, for underdog teams, you got to kill towards Banana.
kill towards banana. You could just try to sprint down that site. We'll see if they get
to that with the gun rounds. But for the time being, it's another four players alive situation
for Falcons. One of the more comfortable starts you could ask for to a game of Counter
Strike.
That's feel like there is like that unique problem of Lynn vision. Just like they love
the players on Falcons so much. It's like such big stars over there.
We ever beat them?
Yeah, like they've already sort of created them as these heroes in their heads. And you
and they are right. They're talking about players who are the elite of the elite and
all together and the most recent major winners. There's no way to question that. Also, monocy,
you know, potentially in a position to five for number one, you know, in a way that like
in 2024, he was very close, I think, but this team with the major win and his form is like
in a much more real position to actually do it.
And yeah, probably the scariest part about Falcons
is him and Kiyosuke, so much room to grow,
so much room to get better.
And somehow, Tess S has also gotten better year over year.
He's been around for a while.
You know, it's the company he struts around with now, it is.
The original Falcon.
First gun round comes up for LinVision, it's an instant op for Zacker.
Good name damage for Killscape to half the stomach.
Ooh, he's gonna burn out. Yep, done. Just to the utile.
And this is where maybe we start to test that theory, that a couple of kills in one direction will just lead LinVision to try to go for commitments.
But for now, they're happy to just let that death
settle in
Tuck a player behind logs and see what the answer is for Falcons, which will be a confident posture here for Nico
Let a little spray go try to get some damage in and then know that once that need fades he better play it safe
But you see the lie detector content that they made with a pex in him
And you know they asked him if you know if Kiyosuke wasn't on the team, would you be the star player?
He said he said I'd be better is what he said essentially
So I feel like in moments like this like he dies and now it's him on the B side like he does have more freedom just to be himself here
He goes pass they're coming through it
Oh
Beautiful he knows one player comes from the right side of the smoke the other on the left edge
To that was flicks the adjustment to perfection a mose it down how insane is that sequence the smoke timings perfect?
The H is just fine. He throws it while dodging a flash that's coming in
But can they maintain control the rest of the map because it is still 15 seconds on this clock?
Monacee is ready for the short peek bombs inbound and there's a chance the player in front of him's the first challenge
He'll cut down Zachary. That's the bomb thrown forward
Honestly even kills Starrie and things go excellently here for the Falcons the three remaining pieces all with a kill to their name
But it really starts or rather ends with Nico slamming the door shut solo me
It's just it's actually a beautiful round under Nico
and obviously with this happening kind of set up to be able to do it, but
Crazy to get that second kill on top of it
Honestly very ready for that Starrie approach
Going back to the lie detector content, my favorite one was when the guy asked Apex if he thought he was a better player than Niko, and he answered no.
Which was a lie.
But he didn't mean it.
Form map, Kyosuke's last inferno was his highest rated map in a Falcons jersey, 26 and 7 KD with a 150-7 ADR and a 13-3 against Yeol Mongols.
Well.
Let's see if he can beat it, because right now he's 5-2.
Yes, for a B-centric, a lot, but I feel like in the last few games there have been teams
that have just been trying to hit A over and over again, doesn't feel like people are just
Let's try to get car control exec B all the time now.
Tech 9's at this range could get scary, but they puncture forward.
Oh no, they do still hold the back.
Nicely done, Starry, good presence.
Gonna go for the split, Kerrigan can't hang onto the smoke this time, and that B site is vacant.
Still a player sticking around in arch, Starry earning the AK.
Oh, he could go back and catch this run from mid.
He goes holding it.
Was past tense gets away from the corner
Niko's got smoke behind him
He was once worried about this mid-play star. He's on the chase and he knows it. It looks like Niko's gonna get blindsided
Yes, sir. Ooh
Tec-9 deagle arch play and then on top of it Kerrigan
Unfortunately for Falcons isn't able to hang on to that smoke push not quite the same impact as Niko in the round to go
Yeah, it's kind of the same
Position players jumping through a smoke and trying to dodge a flash and then aim extremely well
But yeah, no one like me coming that regard not for as long anyway
It's a well-earned first round five rounds into the T side
I like that starry jumps through holds the deep the flank or just to you know just the in case clear
Yeah, that was awesome
That definitely won them the position. I mean it would have got that whole half of the split shut down rotations would come in
Would have seen a real attempt at the retake
But Falcons like four rounds they can let it fly
One vision kind of alluded to, they want to prove it on this round.
Tough damage to the stomach here for West Mellon, Nade is damn near perfect.
Gonna exchange a lot of utility here.
case softened up but still contents to take that bit of a challenge but it
looks like we're heading to a again at least for brackets three flashbangs
over they will take it for small see all good couple of kills for Niko as he
keeps that second one clean and that is going to turn Lynn vision back into the
short approach instead, met by a smoke note that lands back.
Monty happy to take up the angle towards short and he'll see
nothing as Lynn vision crawl away with 45 on the clock.
Stephen and Monty takes that shot. He's already thinking
about. Well now Nico is not going to get cleared.
Serves as an excellent bait.
Still a chance they could just bust the door down on this B
site though. Kiyosuke plays orange jump up. He's got Karrigan to play off of.
They've got needs for the execute. They might as well throw them and so up and
over go to the Uto. We've got a challenge down through CC cross. It goes unnoticed.
However, call me Sue dead already. Bomb carrier trying to get up into over orange
and it is Kiyosuke with a second kill. Now still that coffin wrap around is going
to net a frag or it could have. Kiyosuke gets into the cover just in time and
Speaking of time burns off that clock. Oh, no, that's gonna hurt economically Amelia down to
1700 he's got tons of money on his teammates luckily, so he will be fine, but still it stings. Yeah
Again really it's Nico I mean it's his two kills right here looking extremely clean at the moment
Just makes the rest of the round simple. It almost feels like they went B because Niko
was traded out. Didn't matter though. Nice pick. Come on, Acy. Happy to challenge around
that mid smoke. He makes risks not look very risky. Yep. Lex's his skill. That was awesome
Nicely done set up alongside Niko so there to make sure that it gets traded out in the worst-case scenario that Kyosuke can't kill them both
grenade chips away its suit
at a 4v2
We're a boiler challenge is gonna get shut down without ever shooting a bullet back at monasy
You watch a game like this and you go how do these guys ever lose?
Some of the skill on display is
Filthy
It's honestly a valid question
And that's why they always lose in the most unexpected ways yeah
You know Falcons don't just lose like everybody else
They lose their way
But thus far, doesn't feel like we're going to have any of those antics tonight.
This has been rock solid stuff from Falcons.
You can see the confidence in their play.
You can see their mechanical skill on display.
Niko's mowdowns, monosies opt shots, the opening moves they're making.
So to the 6-1 score we go.
And fortunately for LudenVision don't try to get crafty like it's just gonna get worse if they want to play the map standard
That's exactly what Falcons are hoping for they're gonna get Chokesland the one round they won was sort of an interesting B split that they pulled off
Yeah, this this is just such a nice setup it was so slick they way they pushed out into this flash from the top of banana
Um, it didn't feel like they were about to peek.
Is that flash?
You see how well they're set up on their angles.
Monicis has Sackers tilted and that was obviously the opening mid pick he got
pushing through.
Lenvision smoke.
Yeah, because every time you die like that, you go, why, I knew he could have done that,
but he didn't think he was just going to do that now.
Especially when you're already the guy that was 0 and 5, and then that happens, and now
you're 0 and 6.
Yeah.
It's like, okay, come on, enough's enough.
But it's not enough.
Falcons will not stop until you make them, and that is no certainty tonight.
Honestly, right back to that opening mid-line, and there's an AK back there.
Just getting the flashback. A lot of bodies here.
Kerrigan's gonna mop up the double kill. Justin's got a double as well. It is over!
Who's assisting who?
Real quick.
4K between the both of them.
Their name in each of the kills.
Woof!
Cleanest round of all.
Oh, that one's tough to stomach.
If you're l- that's the kind of round where you're like,
well, I guess we can't do anything.
Yeah.
In the face of this Falcons,
and another great flash.
We saw it last round.
This is obviously a different one,
but just watch Falcons as they play their variations.
Feels like we're gonna get a Falcons clinic this evening.
Remember, this is obviously the map pick of L'Invision.
Ancient Awaits.
CT's smoke halfway down middle.
This is still in vision ahead of the deep smoke down B.
Great damage on both Kerrigan and Kyosuke.
They say to hell with it, you want to try to take these duels early, we'll give it right back to you.
And sure enough, they've given themselves a chance to take down the site.
Niko though is only able to get the one this time around.
Still one absolute demon left over, but down to 31 HP. What can he do?
Oh, not much. Emilia comes wide with it and so, LinVision, there it is. I think, again,
a testament to what Mowry Snake was mentioning on the desk. Why Inferno can get picked by
the underdogs. Falcons are not hiding that they're signing up for these fights, whether
it's Monacy peeking down mid, whether it's the pack of players on banana. So you hit
them with nades, you follow through with the smoke push, and that momentum floods in for
a second LinVision round win.
and Amelia does all the work.
There's a difference between winning two, three rounds this way, in a half, and then
being able to actually leave a dent in Falcons through the series.
So with respect, it's worked a second time, but we'll see what more they can get out of
this T-side as we are in the dying moments.
What are they retaking here on Banana?
Oh, they got an off there, okay.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay, so that's four deaths the confidence. Yeah, you missed the offshot
You just go into the tech 9 do you could have just kept him make sure you say that happy to risk it full control full confidence
Still at least for link vision. This is around not on an ego. They actually win full guns versus Falcons
Two rounds is a start
I think that's a good one.
Fun part about this bracket, of course, is that if Falcons, as they currently are, defeat
LynVision, they get their rematch versus Legacy.
They didn't have to wait long for that one.
Don't think they're looking forward to that one.
It's also not the first time they lost to Legacy.
Legacy took a final from them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
so I revenge will be so sweet.
Or a streak of losses so sour.
So win-win for us.
That'll actually be awesome.
Yep.
Because Legacy are playing obviously very well right now too.
So win-win for all us viewers.
Keep the drama coming.
not as much of a presence here this round despite this b-fight working last round
probably an anticipation of a falcons change up but they don't really shake it up too much
They want this monasy off point of contact to get first blood
Solid damage
He's not gonna shy away from these fights if he thinks you're out here. He will happily come right back
Trying to tether off Niko towards Archside who is now starting to peel away himself into CT spawn
on the half wall, real tough to get him out of here so man disadvantage for
Lynn vision to have to stomach and you know monosy is just waiting for a
chance to shine. Oh man but they're actually going back to B, which you know
what it might not be a bad call especially after what Falcons just got out
of that they're probably thinking okay Lynn vision leave now.
Oh Niko 6th sense is tingling, starts to make the rotation back. This is a crazy
a good setup though to get one kill at the very last second while you're trying to put the bomb down.
My vision full, exec, more and more nades come through to try to stop them to catch damage, carry it, and kill Skade dead.
Bomb plants? Yes sir, with a second to spare.
Alright, that's the nice clean pop into the B site. We'll watch Niko, Monosy, and Tess S versus 4.
Banana flank gets called out by Sue, and Monosy is not going to be a part of this equation.
Niko watched his two players in front of him just got popped on the approach.
Bombs at 20 seconds.
Niko still sticking around finds one frag.
As Zacker's Molotov spreads out just to clear him.
What do you know, LinVision?
Yet again, just sink their teeth deep into the B site.
We'll find at the very least a third on this T side.
I mean, the only way that that ever could have been one is with both the entries
at the exact same time.
Exactly how it happened.
And they got it.
I'm pretty shocked that it did go that way with the boost up because they also had an insurance policy of trying to push through the smoke.
Yes, this was the ultimate distraction, almost knowing he was going to die, but you see the clear here is so good from West Mellon.
He's actually first to look up and check just in case.
What's the one way they could pop out and stop us from getting this bomb down?
BOMB!
Yeah, let him know.
You can just see Niko is kind of like the rays of the eyebrows the roll the eyes like guys
We had everything we needed to stop that all the nades in place all the positions to drop it
And instead we got a lindvision third round wins. So good luck's lindvision. Yeah giving him a little life
As we near the end of this T side
An apartment's dual queued up here between Tess S and starry
just having a peek.
Not gonna get away with that one. How do you know?
Damn it, this kid's good.
Mom's to change side of the bomb site and oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no. That's such a vicious gap
Feels like the kind of gap you might actually not notice if you're Lynn vision even still he knows they're not coming laying for all this time
They do get a player up into the apartments though to just near balcony that could be test s's demise and switch to holding mid now
Yeah, and he knows he can stay wide as well. There's a couple smokes still for Lynn vision
You think they'd throw another one down?
Sure enough, it's been pulled.
West Mellon's gonna put it in front of Monosy.
And he's gonna have to scramble into the site
to try to help out Tess S.
Molotov's in hand here for LinVision.
They're gonna just commit to this.
They're meant by smoke,
but they will try to still push through.
And Monosy lands a shot on West Mellon.
Back turn to Tess S, delivers a nice double.
Just mows them down on the approach.
Zacker firing shots left, right and center.
All the knives are out.
Come on, Monosy.
Wow.
Look at it chop them down to size.
4 standing again here for the falcons as an eighth round is secured
It's tough man, Tessas, that's spray dude
**Oof**
Pure class
**De-de-de-de-de-de-de** Tessas
As he's kinda like sliding back into the cover too
But yeah, you can't be surprised when you get...
punished for that fall
I'm surprised that you can't miss an arch smoke
Because it just, with CS2 smokes, it just takes up so much space there.
Yes.
Unless they've caught something.
No, no, he should be saying nice, Ren, eh?
Honestly.
The other way around, bro.
Yeah, what in the world?
That's Tess S.
That's Tess S.
He's the humble king.
And I love the way he maniacally rubs his hands together.
Well, he has the cleanest score line on the whole team.
Yes, sir.
Only two deaths for Tess S.
And that's because he was forced to try to retake once.
Final round of the half, his Falcons have kept it real clean.
The only thing LinVision have are three B bomb site hits, which is kind of exactly what the
analysts painted as like why LinVision would want to play this map.
It's like the way they might be able to keep it competitive, and they did do that nicely.
But this time, Kerrigan with the triple mow down, and that means you know there are bodies
still behind him.
Call me Sue doesn't seem too bothered by the threat of Kyosuke.
Unfortunately for Sue, he's down to 4 HP and only has one teammate left behind him.
Who's his threat ahead?
Niko.
Who's gonna pop up from coffin in a moment and presumably catch at least one of these kills.
This is Trigger.
Full blind Call me Sue.
Nice. Spam back from Starrie.
Let's see what he's got in the clutch tank as the Molotov pops
in front of him. He's got all the time in the world to try to make this one work.
I say all the time, but if that smoke fades, he'll be exposed to it.
He's actually in a great spot to put together something. Looking for the duel, and right now
it is separate fights, but he will instead get off to the coffin side. I'm honestly walking it up tree,
nose. He's located on this side of site, and so through smoke goes starry.
We've got kits on both sides, we've got Tess S with the smoke, wallbangs through it from
this other direction, the lineups there, but it's Tess S, who else to keep things clean.
Him and Monacy work it together whether that is the site holds on A1 round to go or this
retake to close things out.
A rock solid 9-3-1 half out of the Falcons.
Here on the Sundrench streets of Mirage, we spot some of nature's most fascinating creatures.
Counter-Strike players in their natural habitat.
Despite the plenipal environments these fellows could inhabit, they seem to always swarm towards
the comfort and safety of the shining paradise.
As the sun rises over the stone architecture, in typical fashion we see this species squabble
over their preferred position. Let us discover where they shall end up.
Firstly we have the so called A anchor. This fellow is often seen fighting for his life
without a lick of support. The window player. An arrogant and egotistical
creature. They can often be seen in the pregame chat claiming their position with the blink
of an eye. Not all are so lucky as to get their desired
position. The B anchor, often times the runts of the litter, designated to hold this empty
site and ward off predators. Forced to survive on scraps, he can often be found at the bottom
of the scoreboard. Here we see the signature characteristic of this off-forgotten fellow,
a key adaptation over millennia. This creature's legs propel them tirelessly and repeatedly
to spot any potential foe. As this defensive tribe scramble to defend their territory,
they realize they are not alone.
Mirage can hold up to as many as nine foes at a single time. As we move across its deserted
expanse, we arrive at another group of remarkable characters. However, these bloodthirsty devils
do not look as amicable as our aforementioned defenders, their eyes locked on the objective.
These players scurry from their spawn with the exception of one.
Without moving a muscle, we observe one of the players launching a grey metallic canister
skyward.
The desired outcome seems not to have been achieved.
A regrettable mistake.
With a new weapon acquired, our CT favors a more aggressive approach.
Meanwhile, with the anticipation in the air, a coordinated attack is incoming.
A breakneck flurry of utility flies overhead attempting to disrupt the defenders.
The stakes could not be higher.
And with nothing he can do, the A anchor is flash banged like a deer in headlights.
He decides his best bet is to retreat.
No matter how much he cries out for help, support is nowhere to be found.
However, the restless hunter has found its prey.
It's one shot, one kill, such as the life of the opera, precise and deadly.
Nice easy day in the office thus far, 14 Falcons.
They give up three rounds to land vision, all by a way of B site hits, and, well, everybody
else feels good about the game.
Monosy, 11 frags, Nico on 12, Tess S, rock solid.
They keep this up, Ancient will be in the Falcons' back pocket in no time.
Stari feeling inspired from the Falcons' opening move, he tries to take the duels into the
balcony room, gets one in the end, but for what is basically the same pistol ran back,
Teams on different sides, Falcons individual level shines through, they come out on top of the duels again, despite being on the G side this time.
Zachar, though, is going to shave Niko off the play. That's a beautiful shot down middle to at least keep things even 3v3.
It definitely makes it a little harder now for Falcons.
And if they walk into... Oh, just a peek. No first bullet kill.
Charlie's getting chased down Molly and a smoke available to the Falcons and all great shot out of soup
Nice couple of recoveries from this usp's but spammed out of it was he was sitting on two points of health
Les Mellon's position could catch you off if you're not ready for him to be this close
That's how it goes wide and I mean test S and monasy. They've cleaned up bomb sites on their own
They've retaken as needed on their own and here
Here they will be with another advantage in a post plant once again.
Playing it together as they should.
And unfortunately, Zacker has three kills so far this map, so you'd think his confidence
not quite boiling over.
They're going to keep it together side by side, pushing back around to wrap CT.
They're going all the way.
So Zacker feels that that side's clean enough, does see a bit of body.
The bomb is planted.
It's an interesting spot.
They split up.
Honestly, almost clipped, but again, just play it safe, draw him towards you, and it is double digits secured.
Yeah, they've locked us in. We're sort of looking for reasons to be like, okay, LinVision could actually do something interesting today,
and we have seen three good rounds, but without pistols and without a solid half otherwise, there isn't really a reason to sort of believe it.
Also, not seeing any questionable moments for Falcons either when it comes to decision-making.
It's a frag movie.
The smoke may slow this down, but it's still Falcons very much ready.
Try to hammer home the B hit, they'll pop open the smoke, and do they go, back ten in
the forefront.
Terrigan collects the first, good need to expose the approach, sorry, with a second off
that Desert Eagle.
Two on three.
The majority of Falcons dead!
Dude's a bomb plant easy. How fresh will these smoke? Oh, it actually re-smoked.
Huh. That smoke's kinda nice, I think.
Never mind.
Damn land, it's so to follow up!
Oh, someone smoked this.
The monocie's able to get off the bomb site funnily enough. It is monocie and tessus again.
It feels like they haven't dropped any of these moments when it's the two of them working together.
Oh, that smoke's not good. He can still peek fully from this side.
And stand here.
As long as he keeps that player at bay, they may close the distance,
but it's gonna be hard to get Tess S out of here.
They'll spam him down with the pistol.
He goes wide, deals with the coffin player.
Amelia's got a health advantage over Monacee, gets the frag,
but that bomb's already at four seconds, and so this one pops.
Lynn Vision just don't have the tools for the job.
He'll hang on to his upgraded Galil,
and it is a costly endeavor,
but it's a Falcons round win in 11-3.
That's all you really care about.
If you monosy test, I'd say the duo that we never talk about.
Tonight, it's on full display.
You know, Starry, who spammed Monosy while he was planting with one shot, and then hit
him with a second Beagle shot once the bomb was down.
That's very close to getting that kill, and I don't think Tess S from Newbox hangs on
in a 1v3.
It's also his smoke.
Ah!
At Coffins, so.
Well.
It's almost expected to have some kind of lineup for that because that was actually such a
Productive smoke for the tease. Yeah
Forces Linn vision to take a knee on this round
I thought Montessy was about to shoot that smoke, but it did feel like he was gonna left
Click West Mellon out of existence.
This is tough.
It's tough.
But they're not the only team that will get absolutely
smashed by Falcons.
We are a little bit used to seeing LinVision now,
so there's more expectations with them.
But there's somebody up and coming, stories, unfortunately.
They aren't one of those teams that stands out just
because they're playing a tier one team from a less strong
region.
I remember when Starry got that 1v5 versus these Falcons players.
Oh my god, back in the day.
They were G2 at the time, were they not?
Yeah.
On Vertigo, A-Ram.
They are still G2 in some ways.
I also just remember when LinVision was turning heads back at Austin.
You know, Austin as a major was a huge pop-off opportunity for Chinese counter-strike specifically.
Yeah.
G&M and Tyloo.
And then the Mongols obviously making it to the grand finals of that event all felt like
it was heading in the right direction and it's been a bit of a dry spell since.
They'll have one more gun round to try to then play on Inferno as a 5v4 is collected
off of a zacker aggression.
You know what that's got to feel good.
He is on the receiving end of those kinds of moves.
He makes it happen in this run but they do lose Westmellon over towards B and all the
Falcon's ready to go. This is what net Lynn vision all three of their rounds just follow throughs into this B bomb site
Well, call me soon ready to draw the line of the sand
It is the same two players who have closed out rounds with stories gone unnoticed and he's gonna line this up not this time
Lynn vision at the very least a single CT round win
How are these guys ending up in every single late round situation together they talk about this because there are the three teammates suck
Just kidding
These guys stink!
Well, not too in-storey. That's for sure, sir.
Okay, breathe in and breathe out.
Alright, yeah, they have the confidence to just end the game, don't they?
Storming their way into arch and CT control. That's going to force Linn vision to scramble back into their own spawn
You have the protocols to deal with something like this
And can you put it together as fast as you have to because they could just as quickly transition back into this a commitment
Tessus is here just on flank watch at the moment
It's getting a little bit crowded on the A site
Sacker feeling the need to squeeze something out of this and it's gonna cost him 60 points of health
We've got this close apartments approach
Sacker's gonna land one as Amelia also kills Kerrigan
He's hanging on to pick control for the time being but Tess S is the solution
Comes through with a double kill man advantage earned by Falcons bomb plant put down and this retake forced to forward
at a 2v3. Josuke damn near dies here and Tess S gets taken off of sight. Will they anticipate
two players inside of this? Josuke almost lines them up. They're still thinking about the player
up in half so a single bullet gets the job done and we could all see this one coming from a mile
away. Rock solid first half from Falcons. Happy to stand up to the test of Lynn vision's map pick
on Inferno. Sure that AWP pick from Zachar gets a bit of revenge but you see the confidence that
that Falcons weaponize here to close this game,
all in rush, side by side, the entire team contributes.
And in Fernando, that Lin vision was not looking for here
for themselves to be able to start off this best of three,
but a big win for Falcons,
definitely something that we expect from them.
But what feels like yet another fourth series of the debut
with map number one to be truly dominant
for our expected winning team.
I mean, when we look at the way this event has gone,
This isn't as expected as you'd think given,
I mean, Vitality losing the inner circle,
Na'Vi losing to M80, upsets are coming,
they're going left and right.
There will be no upset though, this will be a 2-0 very quickly.
Dude, you're already riding off the second map.
I'm sorry, but they're fighting the dream team.
It's the dream team.
You know why it's the dream team, Maui?
What?
showed something there and a couple of the early rounds actually peaked my interest,
but then when you get down to the brass tacks there,
Falcons were in what really was a short-lived war of attrition.
They came out well better throughout this one.
Practically everybody chimed in with multi-kills.
The banana controls were pretty demonstrative from Kiyosuke and Kerrigan.
They did die a couple times and that gave LynVision an in on a few of the rounds,
but I don't even think the calling had to be all too special
once you swapped to the T side for Kerrigan and the rest of the crew.
Saying this started off pretty well is kind of like saying a horror movie started off pretty well when they're a happy family before the killer breaks down the door and
You know what's coming?
I was like, what about the early round feature interest?
So I'm so intrigued to know about this.
Well, they actually took some bracket control and started kind of messing with CT a little bit, you know, kind of pushing up the archside lane vision.
But then I don't think that they really, well, the results weren't really speaking, but the map control,
If you look at the heat maps, there was some heat in some areas that I think made Falcons just a wee bit uncomfortable.
But again, like I'm just grasping for straws here as to anything that you could take for positive sides for Lynn vision.
Yeah, I mean, when we talk about Lynn vision, you say they might play you haven't said the people might say that they play a kind of European style of CS.
They go for the map control. They'll go for split map control. They have little tactics to try and get that control. They have good finishers.
The trouble with Lynn vision is always two fold.
It's their fragging just isn't there against the top European teams.
And sometimes their timings are a little bit off.
I think we saw that in a couple of rounds where they just wait those extra few seconds too long.
Their grouping takes a little too long because they're trying to get this style down.
I honestly prefer kind of like the Tyloo style where you come in with some really well planned
execs and you try and catch teams off guard.
It mitigates the disadvantage you have when you have this level of differentiation between the players.
When you have a dream team against dream team, are you saying one time apparently I guess he didn't say it
He knew what he wanted to say and that was all he was giving me that that's a dream team there
Well, we look towards the second half a little bit more here because I think it was brown 14 again
Another one that piqued your interest now. He just not for the side of
No, but this is more or less what I was talking about for why underdogs like Inferno that you could just get banana control
and then you just burst into the bomb site.
But it's in fact Falcons who did that.
And this is what I kind of meant,
where the calling didn't have to be anything too special.
Obviously, you see a couple of return kills here from Starry,
but all Kerrigan needs to do when he's playing Inferno
with Monosy, with Tessus, with Niko,
is just get them into a late round situation that's winnable.
So even though they brute force through his smoke,
even though there were, I think there were two smokes down,
actually, trying to block the path of those Falcons players,
they still were able to just burst on through.
And this retake smoke that, unfortunately,
He doesn't really land quite on the mark to try to block out
tests from that new box position, give some an angle,
give some a way to play into it.
And yeah, not enough time for Amelia to close it out
or to try to retake.
Yeah, and as you're saying, just get them into a winnable round.
I think you saw that in the first half as well.
They kept doing these two three-man fights
down to the bottom of banana.
Idea being, bring enough numbers.
We're going to have one of our players
won't get insta head shotted or spammed through a smoke,
and they will mow down your team.
And we saw that two or three rounds.
They just have the car play, Niko gets a 3k, Kiyosuke gets a spray down.
You just don't let them mitigate the advantage you have in fragging.
Kerrigan didn't let them do that, credit to him, but I mean,
this is the struggle we expected for Lynvison.
What's one of the best ways to get banana control in your eyes now?
Three man, probably.
I mean, it depends if you're talking CT or T side.
Let's go T side.
T side? Yeah.
A lot of teams have been smoking not too far up.
I feel like there was like a half wall smoke meta that people were going for.
Now it's actually a little bit farther down,
or sometimes they even just play around the CT smoke
knowing that it's gonna be a little bit more
in the middle of banana,
and then they just kind of stage it
where they set up behind that one,
get a guy at logs, get a guy at broom closet,
then you stage it, take the top of banana as well.
So that's been pretty effective for a lot of teams lately.
But all in all, I think that no matter what iteration
of banana control you threw at Kerrigan and Kioskade,
they were gonna find a way to just kind of to pressure you.
And even when you have this sort of stage banana control,
Sometimes they just send it a little bit more than you expect them to and then they just shoot you
Yeah, I mean when you're looking at taking banana control
It's so often now that you just need to have different looks you need to have a well-drilled plan a bcd
Because the CTs they have so much utility they can use they're gonna have different protocols different timings if you have only one
Look you're really gonna struggle and that's where a Lynn vision
We saw when they did get top banana control
Then finally they get it and a flash comes over they swing out top banana
And they didn't have someone playing anti flash because they weren't ready for every version of banana control
You need if you're gonna beat a team like falcons
We're working down certain rounds that we've enjoyed from falcons it but what about plays because again when you've got the dream
Team boo, how can you look at one player good? They would significantly above the others?
Modesty is
significantly above
Maybe three of the other players on this roster. I mean he's the only player in this roster
that's actually in the same tier, in the same breath.
You can speak about him with a Zai Wu and with a Donk.
Modesty can take over a game.
It can take over a map.
He can take over a full tournament if he needs to.
And not only can he do it with the AWP,
he can do it with the pistols.
He's actually, I would say,
he's one of the only AWPers out there
that's like just a confident rifler,
like just a very strong rifle.
If he tomorrow said, I don't wanna AWP anymore,
I'm gonna be a rifler,
he would be maybe a top 12 player in the world
as a rifler, he would still be an incredible player.
Yeah, him and him and Zywoo are probably just right at the top tier there of of
offers that could transition tomorrow if they deleted the sniper rifle from the
game. I just, yeah, I mean, he also on the CT side, I hate that we almost just
get used to it where he's just everywhere on the map getting op kills in
apartments, getting op kills on site defenses, and it just feels like it's
another day in the office for Monosy. But this is once again just a performance
that's just just showing that the difference between him and other
the professional players is so vast.
Monacy is the reason that you probably have guys like Wauksic
sending angry letters to Monacy.
You've made fans think that this is easy.
It's not, it's extremely hard.
CS2 AWPing is challenging.
Why are you making it seem like anyone can do this?
They can't.
Wow, heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Am I right, guys?
Gosh, what an awful burden to have
on your shoulder that poor Monacy.
But there are other people, though,
that you're talking about that have also really stood out.
in different ways, right?
Yeah, I have a gripe with the whole community narrative
around QSUK.
I see it on Reddit, I see it on Twitter,
I see it on Blue Sky, I see it on 4chan,
I see it absolutely everywhere.
I get into my email blasts, like I get it on Twitter.
I already said Twitter.
What was your email story if people wanted to follow up
off to your segment?
That's voocsgo at yahoo.com.
Yahoo.
Riding down boys, you might want it off to this guy
because he's got a tangent, he's got to go on.
I still see it.
When people talk about Kyosuke evolving
with Kerrigan under Kerrigan's leadership, rather,
they talk about him now having someone to go ahead of him.
And we're not talking about too much on the CT side.
This is a general narrative problem
that they talk about him going in second now.
I think that's completely wrong.
You see now he actually gets less trade frags.
There are less full execs coming out of Falcons
than they had under Kixen,
kick-sand would be leading first.
Oftentimes what's made this player so much better now,
Kerrigan tells him when to go in,
but oftentimes he tells him when to go in first.
He's a really great insta headshot player.
You see him entry the B bomb set on Dust too often.
It's not that he's not going in first.
He's actually going in first more often with Kerrigan
than he was with kick-sand.
It's the times he's going in second,
the situations he's being put in,
and the fact that I think Kerrigan is just saying,
is just saying, hey, go in now.
And he doesn't have to think too much about it.
I've actually had this problem with the whole narrative
around Kiosuke for quite a while.
I like the narrative correction there.
I think the number is back up what you're saying right there.
But I have one thing that goes further than that, the eye test.
What Kerrigan does that Kicksand never did,
he makes Kiosuke laugh, all right?
Oh, God.
That's what they say about me and you.
Yeah, making each other laugh, making each other laugh.
That's what's really important.
I think also that in the high pressure situations,
we've gotten a lot easier for him.
I mean, the way that they carried themselves,
I mean, I am being serious,
even though the initial statement was tongue in cheek,
that it does feel like the pressure
has been more or less lifted from this team.
And there's a clear vibe change when Kerrigan's
just we-woing in the middle of everybody,
whereas Kicksand was just scripted,
like running through the notes,
just thinking, what's the, what's the,
what's the, what's the, what's the, what's the,
what's the, what's the next?
And he's looking at Zonic who was just silent on the mic.
I think Kicksand's not a bad IGL,
but Kerrigan is a much better leader than Kixen,
and that's really the biggest difference
you're seeing on this roster.
I mean, vibes are up, but it doesn't feel like pressure
is alleviated by any means.
This is such a weird angle, by the way, like what's going on?
They're gonna have that team talk.
You guys can have one with all your friends in chat,
because we're going to a break on the other side.
Map two.
We're going to be turning our eyes towards Ancient now and the big question is, is it
going to be a 2-0 now or is there hopeful envision still?
The hope for a vision is that Falcons are picking this probably more as a warm-up game
than an actual display of what they consider their strongest map in the pool.
I feel like if they wanted to win this at all costs,
they'd probably go back to a newbis,
which spearheaded their Cologne campaign.
But ancient just seems to be something
they're folding back in after a couple losses
that they suffered back at that same major.
I think LinVision have a chance to impress us,
as with Inferno, in the first few rounds of the game.
But as the game goes on,
I think Falcons are just going to be a better team
individually.
LinVision might get five or six rounds,
but it'll be tough for them to pick up a map.
Five or six, you have to pick a number.
Five and a half.
Six seven five six. That's all we're gonna go with here for a inch of a we'll see if Lynn visioner able to subvert expectations
Let's go in and longest
You know it's it's not easy to sugarcoat this game, but those two still make it entertaining. Yeah
Yeah, our
Probably as skewed as I have ever seen them
Understandably so I think that you know who kind of hit the nail on the head
It's a chance to impress us in the first few rounds, but as Falcons find their footing as we saw back on inferno
They are so clearly in form coming into this porto open event
Sometimes first maps can be deceiving we'll have to see for now
We're cheering for funny rounds in same place and some good moments from Lynn vision that show us
They have something to offer here at this event because we have seen them play
Well, we know that they can even though this should be a team that they can't beat
This would be the 4th 2-0 today.
Kerrigan's got a decoy. What's the plan?
And remember, Vitality lost.
Sacker first, teammates right next to him.
My Smellin's on the run.
First day main player's dead, but the second one's gonna catch you off guard.
Tess S unprepared.
Haha! Call me Sue gets the better of him, but still that bomb's gonna work its way up through donut and Niko obviously prepared now for that main play
He's gonna send Kyosuke over watch Amelia charge through this smoke. Oh, he gets caught by Niko
We're going be sir changes positions uses that smoke and
Departs so really good way to avoid this final threat a real threat in the sense that call me Sue has two kills to his name in this pistol
Already, I feel like there's a chance for Sue to actually find this kill
It's the only way he really can generate a chance to win.
Oh, shot, there he is.
Now he has to fight.
And he wins it.
So here's a chance.
That was a nice decoy, Kerrigan.
Trudges towards the bomb site, Niko in the cover.
There's time to diffuse this.
But you've got to figure out that Niko's crawling behind you.
And Niko still hasn't dragged in, but then
will still get the edge.
So it takes his sweet time to close out.
Zonic likes that.
Yeah.
and we go one to zero Falcons out the gate.
Niko's in a good position, form-wise.
Excellent rounds back on Inferno.
Here's a great pistol.
CTs are all in spots that I think they wanted to be in
for the A-split that was coming in.
Just didn't hit as many shots, essentially.
They had two players in donut.
They were ready on that A-push inside of A,
nearly got that smoke push through CT
to deny the plant in the first place.
Points for a good setup.
One of three MP9s on the field that it finds monosy to start.
This is a force by that could still genuinely work.
It's got to be careful because the player boosts it on green.
I think it catches this.
Oh yeah, Starry just jumps in on it just to make sure.
That's awesome. Great clear.
But it did offer Kiyosuke an open route to the back line to the B site,
where he's gonna find a player unprepared and he wants more than just one.
Keeps his eye on the first victim.
He's not, he's not clear of this.
Didn't see left.
He's not ready.
Oh, and he just got spotted, I think.
Uh-huh.
Oh boy.
Well then.
See ya, sucker.
That is Kiyosuke embarrassed with nothing to show for his efforts.
And Falcons.
Was that with short sides spotting with like a smokeout or something
and then couldn't shoot him. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was very,
because you'd think the guy on Long would just, you know, turn around and blast him.
We'll run him back from there, you know, beanie go, under threat.
We've got Lynne vision with a force by victory throwing not one,
but two bodies over towards A main.
And that's great because it felt like that Tessus, after Monacy died,
had a real chance to kill Amelia until Starry just jumps in and dive bombs it.
It's good that they just can't focus because they know Emilia is not pushing unsupported.
What happens over here?
Oh, he just went to check it, I think.
NOOOOO!
Sonic just made a clap with no hands.
Yeah, I've never seen that.
That's a new coach strat.
And we are not talking during technicals.
Rules is rules and they're important.
Well Falcons, it's a little bit embarrassing.
Zacker, perfect timing, just one of you, just hanging out with the boys.
Kiko's going to kill him as the third player through and Tess has been found out.
You know the way Maui Snake characterizes this is like Falcons trying to get a little
bit of a repetition on this map as they bring it back into their pool as opposed to maybe
just going all in on the quickest, fastest victory.
I mean it's also like Tyloo's worst map by far, four and Tyloo's sorry they just lost
That's a tylu actually twice.
13-6 and 13-5 here on ancient and it's, yeah, LinVision, they've one win out of five on ancient.
Voo did also say that there's a drill chance that LinVision impressed us at the start of the game.
But the Falcons will pull ahead.
They impressed us with that force by and the tethering between players
Still a bit of life left on this one for Falcons bomb plant going down for Tess as he's got back to Lillin hand
AK for Niko great need to chip away Tess s second flag really forces it into a tough spot
And now Niko dodging flashes as the smokes gonna drop him out of this one
Can't do much unless he wants to go for the wall bang isn't a ball. Yeah, the boss planted for wall bank
So he's actually
It's good damage, but he takes some in return. Nobody peeking down that ranch just yet.
Spam fight till the end of eternity. Beautiful tech 9 kill, but he just...
Imagine he finished off Starry. 5 health. One more bullet on either of those spams.
And Niko's in a 1v1.
I feel like it was a little crazy to have the guy who just caught Spam down try again.
They knew exactly where he was. They were like walking at him.
That was actually very scary, because if he gets that kill, there's nobody to defuse.
The cave player doesn't make it back in time.
to be had? Oh no, denied by West Mellon. That's a spray commit.
That was like the fastest possible plan you could see at CS right there. But didn't get
it down. No sir. Great coverage.
From the big Mellon. USP's out though.
Tess S, no way! Just one more. Goes for the guns on the approach.
Camelia's gonna put it to bed, but holy hell that's the reminder every round of Counter-Strike, folks.
Oh, that got me standing. That was... dangerously close.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Because they have big pistols out, like the... it's a USP... okay, no, it's the AWPer with the Tec-9.
And that makes more sense.
Disaster averted.
Now, real time out here for LenVision.
And it wasn't negligible damage in the end.
That was a lot.
Genuine cost for LenVision's economy.
That's that's kind of nasty tonight. Yeah, I mean to you just is though. Yeah, that's that's kind of nasty
It's been years now this stuff
You know he essentially built this team he's the one they all came to
The heart and soul.
Zacker's off blind, flash, doesn't interrupt his angle, shadow advantage as the player
jumps over, but it's well supported so Zacker knows he can just keep on rattling off the
off.
5v3 advantage land vision.
vision is right baby yeah so far so good in the first five rounds of ancient
look at the recovery look like here you've got a smoke now faded from donut
two a players hard committed another couple of vision members now taking over
red room so will they test the waters of this donut flank this helps them get
out, Zacker keeps the highlights coming. Hell yeah, third kills his, Amelia collects,
and they know about Monosy from ages ago with that bomb down over towards Donut. Monosy has no
chance. LynnVision swarmed that bomb before one start on Ancient.
At what point does it feel like this gets out of control?
It's money under question in the follow-up.
Monacy just looking to get away from here, and Bill, afford him that.
Go ahead, save your AK.
You know, I want to say it wasn't the best exact, but like, they tried to throw a flash to cover their first peek.
It was shallow, meant to hit the op, obviously, but it was too easy to walk off that line, walk back in, and get a free shot.
And it looks like the second flash just straight up missed, because Zacker wasn't playing anti-blade, wasn't blind.
It's both Monosia and Kerrigan still without a kill.
You go at the top of the board, but Falcon's in an awkward spot here where Monacea Ves is
saved so they'll have an AK to work with, but everybody else is sub-$3,000, but they'll
come through with it.
I put it into the SFV right now.
Don't look back.
It's Kevlar upgraded pistols and a few pieces of Util.
See what Falcons can make of this.
low likelihood they get through the five rifles of lin vision
the crazier things have happened
nice boost, beautiful opening move
AK drops onto the teammate kioskay now the owner of that one and niko able to grab what was earned by monisee's first kill of this map
and i'll ask for your familiar
still good for the kioskay kill
deals with a second we've got a donut player on the approach and zacker with the op
didn't seem to need it
Oh, tight line there Bernico, not a second however.
Nice, Tess S gets damage and West Mellon damn near dead.
Tess S is going to just try to run this down, he's got a health advantage and he knows it.
He will find West Mellon without taking damage and response.
And Tess S, who has been solid this evening, will be looking to close out what's left of
the 1v2.
But it's the flank coming up from that ramp soon enough.
Well, dangerous game, but he's happy to take it.
hard position to figure out because it could be back lanes. Tessus is just saying come in from
anywhere you want as long as it's not cave. Now he knows damn well where Zacker's at.
Deep need an attack and very clearly Zacker considering long instead bomb not being diffused.
Tessus has all the information he needs and it's seven seconds left. There it is. So Tessus
to close out the clutch and Falcons to get their second round off of one AK-47 put to use with the
elbow boost something like that was obviously always gonna happen at some
point unfortunately for Lynn vision couldn't save that off to get a street
going early it's the perfect use of an AK to be used in a boost like this this
to blow you doesn't have any other sort of use that early in the rounds that
round is also the first time Falcons get the first kill in any of the rounds so
far they convert around off of monasy's entry I think they're getting excited
about what is essentially sort of a small round at the beginning of the game
in a game that they might feel like they should just be entitled to win you
know what I was super upset to happen because she's to be too embarrassed to
celebrate those moments
He's got another player in the smoke, but he gets a chance to duel!
It's the Glocko!
Aw, both players to pistols, but the trade out of Zacker now Niko has to clutch with
only 20 health.
He got hit down to 20 very early on.
I mean, it much rather be Zachar, obviously.
He has doughnut to play in.
Crazy route, though, from Nico.
Yeah, there's a lot of safety here,
but at the same time, like, you're coming in from one of two places.
Oh, but if Zachar goes...
He just has to doubt himself.
Yeah. I know.
Oh, oh, got wind of it.
There we go.
And closest!
Oh, another round out for Landlin Vision, answering instantly to the Falcons' clutch.
Get some big plays out of Amelia.
Yes, sir.
Nine and four at this point.
We just love to see Amelia win, man.
There's five before, thanks to Monosie yet again.
Josuke had a multi-kill in the middle of all this mid-action.
Zachary will close it out with confidence.
Another round where it will be, Monosy solo AK.
Another round where LinVision can continue to rack up success
and they will confidently storm down through that B-Rap.
It is a massacre outside of the site.
They show no hesitation in the face of Falcons approach
It's literally every series that is super favored tap one don't even believe it
Don't even believe it
Because now the vision are kind of cruising six to play they got rounds to play with they look solid
They're winning clutches when they're Hank getting multi kills. They're holding it down right now on CT side
What does Falcon's record on Ancient look like nowadays?
Most recently beating Astralis at the Esports World Cup, and then a loss to Betboom back
at Cologne.
Let's touch and go.
Dragon's breath.
Guns for majority barring monosy.
Limited by that save round.
Kerrigan has a 0 point, 3-7 KPR and T-Sites is joining Falcons, which is good for a guy
with the 0.68 rating that's you have to really know stats to get that just because
that there's very few that's such a statistic joke six eight rating
and Amelia hello 12 and four off of that insta kill on test test tries to go back
in but Nico gets his number mom so you'll be blindsided again they are
Oh, Nico just not even prepared for that threat.
So much value earned by LinVision with this double up inside AMA.
Multiple rounds, including the pistol.
Force by.
They have pushed themselves into the threat.
Oh, Kyosuke could have gotten more out of that.
Instead, it'll be Kerrigan to clutch out 19 HP versus three bullets whizzing by him.
And any corner could be occupied, so no surprise for Sorry to lock that down.
to lock that down. Amelia kicks it off with impact inside a main, but it's really starry
to go massive with the triple. He goes from one and five to four and five this round.
Lin vision now lead Falcons by five. I love it. Actually, we are here watching Lin vision
to learn let them know
it's hope you remember we talked about this thing let's go into big a little bit
I said, I'm gonna be kept in the control. Listen to fence code. Don't stress guys.
I said play a bit more set.
Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, I'm set.
Here's a set play.
That's what he wanted.
Call me Sue, steps up to the plate.
CT's offer this wall of smoke over.
And with the better weapons they will just send bullets through could have had that plan
Now you'll find nothing so
Pistols couple nades for the take but I like the lindvision defense there the smoke grenades the two smokes left right in the middle of the site
Excuse me forces Falcons to run through of which they didn't
Do we get something set in the next gun round too?
Dude, LinVision are smoking the Falcons right now.
They are absolutely destroying them.
I mean, it's hard to like get into the rhythm of the game because we just watch Inferno
be as absolutely outside of the game.
It's just like the other game, just like the Vita.
It's just like, over the Na'vi game. The Na'vi first map.
In this series, they got stopped afterwards.
It's the exact same thing.
Yeah, I just mean the discrepancy between 1 and 2.
Smelling back to it. This is Josuke's under siege
Sorry happy to find these duels out mid
You're not gonna get to throw set pieces because it's 5v2 at a minute 30
Should uh, call an ambulance should we just go to dust two or I
Love the confidence that Lynn vision have somehow found in between these maps
I just hate that we know this has something to do with Kerrigan.
I don't know who I can blame.
Love him to death.
We just know it has something to do with him.
I honestly put down and that is 9-2.
I don't know who I should blame.
You can beat anybody, you can lose to anybody.
We don't know when.
I just know who I will blame.
We just know it has something to do with him.
Although, you know, we bring Monosy's stats up on screen, and it's a tough fall off.
But I mean, look at the confidence now.
Like, LynVision never had a chance to play with this kind of confidence back on Inferno.
They were getting stomped in the server.
Every time they rounded a corner, somebody from Falcons is getting those instant headshots.
Nico's beautiful 2K mowdowns.
Monosy opening off duels, constant.
Him and Tessus retakes or site holds.
Everything on Inferno, dare I say it, was perfect for the Falcons.
Oh, whoops.
They come into their map pick and...
Oh, they're not going B.
LinVision running circles around the Falcons at the moment
and you can see the confidence spilling over from LinVision, slamming their way down mid,
running out into those B ramps, flanking through A where they should be finding kills,
but instead carrying in catches of back turns.
Didn't clear that too well. That was actually a chance back in.
It looked like they should have gone B.
Then they went back to A. The push was there.
I didn't see anything. Nice shot at a zacker.
We're losing the time to tighten up and not lose pieces.
Can the vision find a way back into this round? Yes they can.
Because Amelia is alive.
Sharp can, dude!
As hell.
Looking like a bird. That's right foot in the sermon.
Wow.
14 in front of him.
And his modesty now walks out through mid.
40 to the clock.
Smoke soon to fade.
Bomb in front of him.
He has time to try to figure this out,
but they will stay tethered nearby.
Oh, really?
His head shots legitimately the best player on Ancient.
It doesn't really get much better than this.
That's the other problem.
If you somehow don't win this round,
I mean are you gonna get better chances than this one to try and do anything later on probably not he goes deep on the site
Actually again probably should be dead already. He's gonna get the one kill there
Good little double for Bieri and might as well have been a triple there in bonus
He is in a lot of trouble. He no scopes one of them. He keeps going ten seconds
He fixed the bomb spins around takes down woody and now he said the hut running up close and personal
Doesn't have the time for the show. You know, he just give it to him. Yes
How's that possible? What an absolutely god-like secret from Monosy.
He doesn't have to move so much, there is a Molotov on Turtle.
He's gonna throw it. It's not deep enough. Monosy still could have the shot.
Oh, and there it is. One of the best touches we've seen in a long, long time.
That is something special.
Flames and Dexter.
Getting this bomb down is scary. Flames is taking real estate but ends up getting punished.
Liquid hold and they win these fights just eggs that left to get past but he's an iron wall at the back of the site
Moving around till number three
Nitro slots into the corner on arch simple catches. Oh
Immediately electronic also shines nitro. It's a good chance. Oh, and he gets three on
But what about that flash from SDY? How about this hold from Perfecto?
Incendiary to the right, Sumdai young turns his attention.
Oh! All three! Sumdai young and Sumdai again and again and again!
Lamef. Gotta be careful.
Looks into the shot.
It's just Broki. He talked into the vent behind the smoke.
Yeah, Broki.
He's wondering what's going on inside of the smoke.
He's going to find one, finds a second, absolutely not.
He's already done this so many times,
and now he's looking for an ace clutch instead.
It should be impossible, but we said that many, many times
already.
Goes straight for the bomb plant.
They open the door in front.
All going to be careful.
He gets one more.
Surely not on the other side.
Glavus ready and waiting.
Broke he up.
He's trying right now.
And oh, my god, Broke he up.
You must be kidding me.
And JKS goes down for essentially three CTs.
meant to work this forward. Utilities off of the mark.
Can Hunter sell this? Can Niko clutch it?
Will he be needed? Because that Tech 9 drops,
and here comes Niko's rifle.
It's headshots galore! All three dead!
And Niko's gonna keep it back and forth.
Fuck him in, son.
Relatively straightforward.
Electronic with the opening kill over the top of the smoke.
OG falling back.
That's precisely it. He gets another over the top.
Goddamn. Oh, filthy!
Absolutely filthy!
This was a fucking shit half, but we need to listen to each other, okay?
We're a little bit off too much off-page, we're just talking, but we're not connected and listening to each other.
So if somebody speaks, let's try not to speak about each other, especially also see the side now, we can easily come back from this voice, okay?
That's a fucking shitty half, it happens, but let's just show strong mentality like we talked about outside now.
The words of a strong leader and he's right shit half and I believe they can come back from it
But it's also going to take some kind of a tapering off from a guy like Amelia
Who at the end of that half look like he couldn't believe the kills that he was putting up. This is their best ancient t hat or
Ct half just half period here for a vision and like by far and away
They're hardest team by like a factor of five or something. It's like
This is their only tier one attempt and they have are literally destroying Falcon so
T side closes is another story Falcons trying to put all their skill points in a mental good idea
Feels like mentals what drags you out of this pit
And then we'll talk about mechanics as the game maybe goes on because it might not last much longer
Call me sue first blood to the pistol for retas ready to go
Oh, oh, Monacy, value out of that one.
All four players emerging into the B site slain
at the hand of the Duallys.
Yeah, that's what a good pep talk will do, huh?
And Monacy, he can actually go ahead and find this ace.
But there's one man left.
The best.
The absolute best.
All on Amelia.
I say that like Call Me Sue doesn't have more kills.
Yeah, call me soon at like 130, 80, R.
Yeah.
Last one's been found.
They're trying to give it to Monosy.
And that's an ace.
Easy does it.
A position under pressure, to be honest.
Those players kind of emerging up into and losing
a teammate next to him, but he lets them roar,
and we get another pistol ace here at Blast Open Porto.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
I love how it goes from 25 bullets of Peretta's 80-80 into the walk as he hunts down number 5.
Like a tank.
And finds it.
So that's a monocy going from 4-11 to 9-11.
No bomb plan is rough, obviously.
They clear the board here, saved lots of money, they've now got padding as well.
Not much to work with trying to close that gap, and of course, as you would expect, it's just going to get stopped in its tracks.
Well, that's eight kills and two rounds for Monacy.
There we go.
I did genuinely believe Karrigan when he said we could still come back in this game.
Yeah, because it's Karrigan, right?
Yep.
I think a lot of IGLs would say it.
I don't think I'd believe them all.
But this guy?
He's had a lot of shitheads.
So, he's had to come back.
He's genuinely seen it all.
Number one in second places.
With any player.
Fast all in charge from Lengizian, but it meets fire.
He don't like the way this one's fallen apart.
Okay!
Oh, it's another!
Two aces in three rounds of a CT side.
It was 13 kills in three rounds.
Okay.
Is that 13 kills in three rounds and two aces?
Yeah, it is.
This one though, I mean very stringy.
Look, not one of these tradable.
Until the last two line up, the gap on the timing with LynnVision is uncomfortable, not to take away an ace in a gun round from Monacy, but...
13 kills in three rounds.
They kinda tiptoed into the meat grinder there one by one.
Great rifle work.
He was 4'11 at the start.
Yeah.
Now 17'11.
Sure.
Beatrams, when's the last time somebody got two aces in three rounds?
Don't got two aces in that cashmash, is that three rounds apart?
I don't think so.
It'd be really annoying if that happened, but yeah, wow.
Now we get West Mellon with a killback with the tech nine, and around that Linnvision
really shouldn't be, look like Kerrigan's SMG, coupled off with Niko, yeah, this one's
in the bag and all of a sudden it's only a four-round game and Monacee's had two aces
in the last three rounds and also Falcons have Kerrigan who really did believe they
could come back and also LinVision have never beat anybody really that good on this map.
Yeah, so it starts to get scary.
One win over five star.
Who?
It starts to get scary.
Oh, five-star, Hooligan's team.
Yes, the team with Hooligan on it.
Maybe they were clouding around.
That was a confident slam out of Falcons down into the B site.
Last gun round for LinnVision was the one monosy Aston A exits.
I'm gonna try to come out middle again.
For a second there's no resistance but now it's Niko and Kyosuke here side by side and
that's enough to already deter LinVision.
They collect a kill on Starry and turn them back.
A main player comes out with the jump and Westmellon gets popped.
Monosy with a swith reposition.
Five versus three earned at damn near light speed.
He's on Zacker and these two gona players ready to go, but stay with their chance now.
We are right back to the 3v3.
Molly's good to actually delay for time a little bit.
See, she's having to get reorganized, but this will go down.
Make no mistake.
Got some work to do.
Here comes Emilia.
He's been playing lights out on ancient.
Oh, but Tess S.
Chewis gets around that corner.
Tess S. Kerrigan in monocy the monster.
Tess S.
He's got the key smoke here.
It's a good flank from call me Sue if you can find him back turn sure enough
Gonna strike one down trying to milk it. Oh, Karrick almost turned in time smoke on top of the bombs
Good cause a frantic issue here. Monacy's gonna cover the other way a bit of damage in but they stick it
And it's gonna be Falcons to come up with the round win clearing what was left of Lynn vision
And Monacy gets another 3k
That is unbelievable I pull off the retake
It's not exactly no sweat, it is a better round here for LimpVision.
It was definitely no sweat until that Niko Kyosuke fight inside a Donut met them nothing.
The CT side moving it very quickly to a tide game.
up and over we've got a lot of bodies here for Falcons already that three
player mid opening starts to shift pieces away set piece up and over
Tess S under siege he's gonna give himself a smoke to play around while
fire blankets his last position he's hanging on dodging flashes great
underhand here for Karrigan Tess S able to collect one you've got two players
on the other side of the column support already inbound from that cave
West Mellon's low, but Kioskate once again going down with nothing.
Smoke fades, Tess S back into the action.
Off the fresh magazine, they're looking to challenge, and they're right there on the brink of this duel.
They can't cross, however.
And Tess is only going to get more nervous that they will.
Modesty and anticipation.
He's expecting this push deep as if they've got to get off the bomb site.
Misses.
Oh, they gotta get the bomb back though.
Yes sir, doubling back and Niko goes wide out, reconfirms it's still sitting there on the ground.
Now they know that Tess S was in there.
Oh, worth a shot.
Well, they expect a second.
Begins to depart, Tess S sticks around.
Gotta be careful while you plant.
Damn, Niko's going all the way back around the red room.
Love that actually from West Mellon.
And this is actually the right play from Niko.
He's not flanking around the wrong way.
Nah, they're gonna for sure think it's ramp.
I, oh no, they do peek!
Oh, call me, Sue goes wide!
His 20th kill, found, and Tess S knows with 3 HP,
he is not destined for this clutch.
LinVision, pull it off!
That's really nice.
Gotta appreciate LinVision for this round.
Gillsgate definitely is struggling on an individual level.
He was not right there in the chaos of it all.
You know, Kerrigan and Tessas also in the thick of it, but both of them were managing
frags.
Kyrskja, the piece added.
It was real messy with all the smoke, even the CT defensive smoke.
That's been a great map for Sue.
It's great shots on Monosy and Nico, but remember, Nico didn't really get a chance
to shoot back.
Monosy missed his off shot.
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Wow.
Fall people.
They damage is tough on Starry, Emilia will bring Kyosuke down with him, that's not the player that Falcons feel like they need to tap into.
It's a very quick reposition here for LinVision, Tess has once again to be tested.
He's got support inbound from Cave, a single tee ahead of that smoke, now his second one already out here and carrying him down with one.
Tess has ready for more!
And as he slams the door shut on Zachar's head, it is a 16 HP 1v3 denied out of Starrie. Falcons keep this a three round game.
It's kind of mental here for Tessas because there was a bomb plant incoming and actually two CTs weren't even on the site with him.
You kind of just needed to get everything there.
That turns off the faucet on the economy. They shoot one bullet to get them to look at his flash.
That was a nice touch on this defense.
I think it's Smell-It that this attack was coming in quickly.
Got an Envision in a tough spot now, 10-9's back in hand.
That's a good grenade.
They'll still try to pounce it.
Flash finds its mark.
Kerrigan's turn.
Oh, and it's covered off by Koski.
He's going to offer something up here just
versus the Pistols.
A chance for him to regain a little form.
Two-round game now.
Falcons laughing.
It is, again, a sight under question, but it stands tall.
You almost like to see the Envision trying to make him
sweat a little bit more in rounds like this.
Not really about the money, per se,
but just chances to win.
Obviously, throwing a B rush sort of makes sense
in the success they found. They seemed Falcons sort of trip over their own feet a couple of times, but...
You could maybe be making them conditioned to work on some mind games.
Yes, exactly.
Instead, you're just giving this pretty facilitated round wins over to Falcons, letting them close that gap.
You've got a native to elbow, body spotted, Nico up front.
These corners are occupied, flashes find their marks, and two kills out for LynVision.
Great late flash.
Jenkins looking to recover and Westmellon denies a kill apiece from the three members of Lin vision that walk it out mid man
They pulled that off nicely
Monacy stomps on his way over as there's already a player here inside of Red Room totally gonna catch monasy off guard
Starry finds his second in the round
And Tessus he could at least get
Sorry chill
What?
Shred it. Yo, that's map point.
Three rounds to close this.
Falcons have more than enough money. That isn't really the issue.
What's cool here for LinVision is pulling off that play.
Two out through elbow, both sides of the smoke.
They're super late flash, which actually, they failed the time correctly in a previous round
and got them killed inside of mid. It was perfect this time.
Niko ate it
It's just excellent. Oh, I want to see this last shot
What?
Nasty adjustment
The Falcons falter now, and they will do it with guns in hand.
Flashes again, creating space for these mid-takes at a Linn vision.
The Linn vision have used four smoke grenades this round already.
I've got the opening pick at 10 to half don't let it be in fame the recovery
underway for falcons man advantage fought for
mick though go back goes starry's way kill skate just walks in again yeah on
his own yeah totally in the mid I mean they don't even have vision on window
untradable as well just thinks he's gonna get away with something and instead
offers back the 3v3 to lin vision is this bomb in it wasn't view but they're
They're kind of letting it go for a second.
I think there's too many gaps now and also Niko's on the big flank.
So it means Monosy can peel back.
They know it's not a.
Falcons don't want to be too spread out for too long.
Because essentially if this does end up being B,
it will just end up being a retake in the flank.
Well, it'll lose its novelty.
That mid opening because of Kiosuke's death,
it's got them questioning things.
Monosy keeps looking to Red Room.
I'm sure now Kerrigan will take it over.
That does free up modesty to look forward instead,
but he still has to hit these timings.
And bomb isn't bound from the ramp.
If he gets preoccupied with the cave players,
then maybe the bomb gets through,
but Nico dropped it.
He gets active out through middle.
This is going to cause a scramble back
for LinVision in 15 seconds.
It is Nico on the bomb.
And unfortunately for Westmellon,
I don't think he's got the time to recover all this.
7 to the clock.
He'll pick it up and just run for the hills.
Falcons take their 10th
They put a lot of pressure on monosie to
To do a lot it felt like but they also didn't have a smoke for short
So I think there were more than there's more than one way that they could have just you know lost terribly right there
Would have had to get lucky to actually win
This kill is just so massive it killed the clock
Oh
They're trying that same boost against them
It's game for zacker first and foremost full commitment starry's gonna see this
Do they try to go back in no they just let zacker know what a quick scope
5v3 from Zacker!
This is the time to close.
Monosy gearing up for something out mid.
Knowing his counterpart should be up on that shelf.
Kioski's got to find value here. They can find players with back turns.
It starts shooting so quickly.
This is his chance. It's picked off by Zacker.
These have been duels given over to LynVision.
vision fights that they signed up for and that zacker signed off on tessus into the cave
not one recovery so far for the falcons bomb is going to make its way out mid that means the
bomb is actually heading monisee's way three players come this direction tessus wins his fight
on the other side monisee's got a chance here to be the hero but a first missed off shot
lands it on the west vallen it's zacker to pick up another a quad off of lin vision top and you
And you could just blow them over like a piece of paper here.
Tess S on 8 HP.
Going to try to emerge out through that smoke.
Frag grenade for Starr.
You think you could just stay tucked in, chuck that out.
If ever this diffuse attempt comes through.
Zacker could ace to close this map.
So many separate engagements.
Zacker was given in this round, and it ends up
being Lynn Vision's offer to put this final nail in the coffin.
Tess S scrambling to get this one done.
Shot sail through.
Bombs at 15 seconds.
Sure.
Ace denied.
so be it. Tess S with a second and now he's on the stick. They don't know he's
diffusing. Four more seconds and it's clear. Total denial. It'll be starting to
end things and a 10 to half up from Lynn vision isn't in vain. Falcons losing
their map pick. Well, it's low. It's never zero at the end of the day.
Villain vision being able to win map number two here, win Falcons map pick of
I did say at the beginning of the series,
I like some of the structure,
some of the calling from Lynn vision.
I think they have some good things going for them.
The problem is always down to the individuals.
You don't often see a game like that coming out of Emilia QAQ alongside
a zacker alongside a starry.
Everybody on Lynn vision was firing and on top of that,
I think that's really solid ideas on how to mitigate Falcons firepower
even though in that game there wasn't much of a firepower advantage it didn't feel like.
People like Zachar look surprisingly prepared for a map pick from Falcons that I didn't necessarily expect to come out of them.
The bomb side defenses were great. T side the way that they were able to finish just looked like they were more in control of the map there.
The little edges in terms of really even just sometimes understanding ancient like on that last round,
round peeking around the smoke, for example, to catch Nico off guard or just to catch him kind
of slinking around. Those sort of little differences actually really tip the scales in Linvision's
favor despite the fact that they had a very poor map win percentage coming into this one.
And if I was to say there was something that was concerning for me for the Falcon side,
it's the fact that we saw on round maybe eight, we saw a pause and you hear Zonic say we've talked
about this guys. Let's play a little more. What I think he said it was a little more set as in
let's not play this kind of puggy, you know, play your aim style of CS. Let's run some execs,
let's try and slow it down and multiple rounds after that we still saw Kiyosuke running through
a smoke when they're in a 4v5 E4 5v3. We saw it on maybe the second last round. He was pushing
through a smoke with man advantages. Play more set means don't do those types of plays usually.
that's normally what you would infer from that sort of information but I guess
at the end of the day it still wasn't really clicking and was it you Mali
that was saying that the silver lining before we saw this go going into this
map was that ancient is a map for the side of falcons that it's newer into
that pool and something that there what was warming up I think you said not
necessarily newer just something that they haven't been really picking and
based off of last season I would say yeah I mean with Kerrigan the overall
win rate with for ancient was pretty solid but it was to me a map that they
were moving away from for really the the major and then what came after that
they lately they're well this season they've only just kind of incorporated it
I think they played it once in Paris and now here and to me if they wanted to
just pick their best map going into this a new best was top of my list thus was
probably number two ancient would have been a distant third for me in terms of
But so that's kind of why I feel like for Falcons, they're going to rest assured that
moving on to the final map, they're going to feel much more comfortable going into say dust,
whereas on ancient, they still have things dire now. It's interesting if it's a matter of
warming up on the map, if you think you want to get a little more reps on the map or a matter of,
as we heard in the cast, and as we've seen, Lynn vision, not great on ancient. Well,
what we saw was they were great on ancient, but in their history, they haven't been great on ancient.
So maybe you're trying to pick into Lynn vision's weaknesses, but obviously this amount of vision is putting time in they're putting practice in usually you see teams put a lot of time and effort into their worst map to try and
To try and buoy that in terms of a win rate when you know your opponents are going to pick it and it's it's obvious that Lynn vision came into this one prepared.
I mean that's the double whammy if it's something that you would love to put to be more confidently back in your rotation on the side of Falcons then you want to pick it up against 18 that shouldn't necessarily be strong on it.
to be strong on it, build a
little bit of confidence for
yourself. But unfortunately,
it's the inverse. It feels
like they falter a lot more,
playing into what you're
talking about. Yes, you can
not play in those set rounds
for themselves. But at the
end of the day, there is so
much that Lynn visioned it
right for themselves. Round
number five was the biggest
one, the way they were able
able to hold their side
defenses. Right. We did see
Falcons attempt to try to
just go for some set stuff
early on. And I feel like
this round it showed how
Zachary just dodged both of
those opening flashes so
well. In fact, I think the
In fact, I think the only flash that caught him was a team flash trying to support him on the on the defense there
And then they just were able to close it out. They keep prodding for information. They don't let the Falcons get comfortable whatsoever
Staying active on the defense and this is I'd say just the initial defense from Zachar here how they were going for a
Three-man midtake on the lin vision side, but then for Zachar to be that comfortable solo anchoring a bomb site
I think there was a rotation actually that came from a mid guy to try to help them
But for him to just dodge those flashes so well just shows yes
They have a bad win rate, but they still have some players that can actually hold their own on these sites
Yeah, one of the things I think you see from Falcons you saw it against legacy as well
They like these little two-man plays they set up with utility for a double play where you often have kiosk a with someone
They had Tezzas in that one sometimes as Kerrigan sometimes as even Nico
You'll have a double moving in with good utility if an op is there or a rifle or in position dodges a bit of that and picks up
The first kill then you've got a sitting duck there. He's running out alone
You can't get more than that and they really falter and that's I think what we saw there in that round
But much of the half they were getting the first entry going the way of Lynn vision
And then you don't have that third player a lot of the time for Falcons to overwhelm once you lose the first one
I thought after we saw them win round number six Maui that we were gonna see a bit more of a streak continue for themselves
But it was very quickly broken in round seven. It was the
Reaggress towards middle from Lynn vision again showed the preparation
and they break the top mid smoke.
I think at this point the donut smoke
is actually fading as well.
And, or actually they break it in just a second
to try to help out their guy who's stuck
in the top mid.
And that kind of regress just showed to me
that even when Lin vision were on the back foot,
they lose the opening pick.
They still have an idea of how they want to get back
in the round.
And thankfully on the other side of the map,
Zachar found a leg onto Niko.
And so in the one on one clutch,
he's able to drop the AWP, pick up the M4,
and he just puts himself in a perfect position here,
where he's going to be mostly holding towards middle,
but every now and then with the timing peak,
checking towards A to see if Nico's going to go
for a flank there.
Otherwise, just a great round played from Zachar again,
but I love the team dynamic from Linvision in the mid-round.
Yeah, they really weren't letting Falcons
through the transition period.
That's oftentimes where you see the biggest problems.
They've got mid control.
Now we need to parlay that into,
we need to go into red room or we need to get into donut.
And as they're making that transition,
that's where they're the weakest,
that's where they're the most vulnerable,
blow open a smoke, fight from,
fight from Red Room and from Donut at the same time, makes it very tough for Falcons to get anything done, even if they get the map control in the beginning.
We thought that, you know, taking the pauses, that normally leads to, even if you've won the round beforehand, you take the pause, okay, you reset a little bit, you should be able to still have the momentum going through.
They decide on the side of Falcons that they're going to have this pause two rounds out, right? At the end of round ten, two rounds out from having that halftime, hoping to be able to end with more than two rounds for themselves in the first half.
But it doesn't even go that way.
There still wasn't anything to come from it,
despite what they're hoping is going to be way more of a set round.
Yeah, this is the first gun round after the pause.
So they call the pause, they say, let's play a little more set.
They throw a full exec with pistols.
Then they come into this round.
They go for the mid-plane.
You're going to notice Tezes isn't blind here.
He's actually dodging a flash that has already exploded.
But you have the really coordinated take from LinVision
with the Molly towards the bottom mid-box.
Doesn't give them any chance to do anything.
And then Niko, I mean, he's walking through a smoke there.
You can't blame them. You're already 3v5.
That's where you want to try and go get a little loose and try and find an opening.
But the beginning of the round, I really credit Lynn vision for this one, especially you want as Falcons.
You want to play it safe. You want to take that mid control on a little bit of a delay.
Maybe you get your player in there. You're trying to take mid control
so you can go for an exec, maybe in the lay round.
Lynn vision. Don't give them the time or space to do that with a really well drilled mid take back in the other direction.
Also, just love the reaction of throughout this whole game guy.
We haven't really talked about call me Sue to understand around the smokes there
What Falcons is doing to get the kill in return kind of in a late-round situation there also moments earlier
I think on the CT side half where he's just calling out the positions of some of the Falcons players where they're gonna be necks
On the T side as well helping get it get some rounds over the line, too
He had that one really cool moment to kick off inferno
It's a pistol round if anybody can even remember back then where he was out positioning the guys on Falcons and
And unfortunately, I'd say a lot of games, he goes pretty silent,
but if he gets room to work within the middle and just gets a read of the opponents,
that's where I feel like his strengths are strong.
It's not in the 50-50 aim duels where people like Nico or Koskjaer are just going to dominate him,
but if he can catch a player on a timing or with some info, that's where CallmeSue shines.
Yeah, I feel so often when I watch CallmeSue or I watch LinVision games, he doesn't have a chance.
You know, if you just get run over in the early round, how is your clutch player going to 1v5, right?
But if you put him in the round with a chance, I think he generally performs at a pretty high level in these late rounds
It's just so often they're going to run over. I mean props to Lynn vision then to be able to consistently do that through the first half of
Themselves and you're thinking okay
We swap over to the second half here of ancient and it's going to be more in the tank for the side of Falcons
And there was there was still a fantastic start in that second half for themselves
But it wasn't enough because round 21 specifically boo was the one you look at and you go it's over here boys
Nice.
There was a Kerrigan's speech at some point.
He made us all believe.
I mean, scrawny launderers, they were talking about it as well.
They made us believe.
But they go into this round.
This is another delayed play.
They let Falcons take mid.
They don't go for the straight up aim duel.
And then the flash comes over with a double swing
through both sides of the smoke.
Kerrigan, I think a little missed time there.
The rounds kind of lost at that point.
They know where Kerrigan's going to come from,
where the next player must be coming through if he wants
to get something back.
But again, similar to the Niko run, 3-D5,
You got to go for something, but it's too little too late.
And I think this is as much as we can try and be critical of Falcons for some small misplays.
I'm so impressed with the way LinVision played this map rather than being too critical of Falcons.
Yeah, that timing play after it feels like the dust is settled or it was settling there,
totally caught Falcons off guard there.
And Kerrigan, yeah, he's desperately trying to get it back, but not able to connect with the shot.
I just think that the starters for LinVision and also the understanding of what Falcons were doing at the beginning
showed that maybe if the rounds got really scrappy,
people like Tessus could bail them out
with some individual heroics,
but I would almost say the early rounds
and the mid rounds of many of those
were dominated by LinVision.
I mean, we'd go back to a year ago, right,
where that's what LinVision were talking about,
taking that best of one off of Falcons.
Of course, a lot has changed since then,
but it feels like that's that emulation again,
when they were able to study them,
know exactly what was happening,
and be able to throughout all the rounds,
be able to do so much for them.
Because at the end of the day,
Something that could have broken many different players and many different teams now
He is getting aced by monosy two out of three rounds in the early part of a half-time
It really felt like after he pulls these not almost back-to-back rounds off
One with the pistols with the dualies and then two rounds later with the a4 able to get an ace there
And in between that you sandwich it with the 3k that that's it falcons have heated up
They're gonna be able to catch the vision off guard, but games not really won by individuals here
It's off of team CS that get monosy can still look like one of the best players in the world
Maybe it even argued today. We looked at Zywos form in that game versus inner circle
He's dropping off this is time for monosy to catch up to gain some ground in that sort of conversation
But he needs and Falcon need to have deep runs at these tournaments so that he can start collecting some hardware
Yeah, very much like the the loss they had last year
You have the individual showing up to some extent, but you can't make it push you over the line
line, but the difference between this and their last appearance where, you know, Falcons
managed to drop that one, you have a map 3. You have a third map to go to. This is where
LinnVision need to find the consistency going into another map.
I mean, individuals might make a team, but at the end of the day, they don't necessarily
make a win. And they're going to be looking towards that map number 3. LinnVision hoping
to be able to continue what was here in Ancient over on Dust2.
We're finally getting our first map number three for day two here at Blast Open Porto
and I cannot believe I am about to say this.
Just two between Falcons and LynVision is the series that delivers that.
But is it enough for LynVision to be able to continue in this upper bracket of the groups?
If LynVision can play like they did on Ancient individually,
I think their system is strong enough,
their play, their tactics are strong enough
to make it very scary for a Falcons.
But when it comes into it, if Falcons play at their S tier
game, if they play the best they can,
LynVision shouldn't have a chance.
S tier, B tier.
They all know they have a B tier.
All the Falcons need is B tier here.
This is a map that I thought they were going to go for as a pick.
Maybe they wanted to hide their hand a little bit more
with Anubis, but I thought going into this,
This was going to be the battleground for the today.
And that's just because even though the Falcons suffered
a recent loss to legacy,
I just think they need to tighten some things up.
Don't let counter utility separate you so much.
Make sure the spacing's a little bit cleaner.
And versus a team like Linvision,
I don't think that they're going to perturb Falcons
nearly as much as legacy did with their very,
very precise utility to stop those exits.
The disrespect of my boys over at Linvision,
I cannot believe this.
I will not stand for it.
And I'm hoping that they're gonna prove
Mary wrong in map three of Dust2.
I mean, it'd be a whole other beast
to be able to beat them in the best of three,
but I'm kind of there with Voo,
like on an individual level,
I just want to see if Lynn vision
can bring that to the table twice.
And I don't know why it would fall off
other than an uptick in Falcons play.
That's gonna put them on the back foot.
The users over on Polymarket, Mohan,
have Falcons as the favorite skill,
but it sure as hell not the 33 to one odds
that we started with the series with.
Things have changed quite quickly, I think.
It was a close map in the end,
but it was a domineering first half.
It was a good close overall for LynVision.
I mean, they stood up to Monosy,
who literally got two aces in the second half.
Something like, I don't know how many kills, almost 20,
on that CT side.
And I think that there were definitely
a lot instances of weird decision-making.
It was a very poor map from Kyosuke
on that basis for sure.
That stood out a lot.
But there are really no amount of numbers that could have pointed to an upset on that map.
Not with LinnVision's performances on ancient, not with Falcons.
After the last map that they saw, I mean, yeah.
We don't know what they're going to give us now. There's just no way to know.
Still fun to watch anomalies, and we'll see if it was a one-off or whether LinnVision can tap back into it.
Really at this point, whether Falcons can tap back into what they showed us on Inferno, because that was a stomping.
We get this three-player cohort working out through tunnels, Tess S at back, working with
Josuke.
Still without a kill here, Tess S. You'll go down empty-handed, and they're not ready
for the West Mellon midler.
Oh, they were flak!
And this little envision to strike with a pistol victory.
Let's talk.
Sometimes we go and we see, like, the upset to the underdogs.
They take a map.
Sometimes we go on a third map, we're like, don't waste our time.
What we've seen recently is they go, they absolutely close in the end, they go up against
it entirely, and obviously it's South, it's just happened to them more than a couple
of times at this point.
The only thing that's really different now is that they won the Major, but the spirit
of the team is still there.
Yeah, but Kerrigan's been in almost every CS2 Major Grand Final.
So they were destined to get there.
Yeah, that was always going to happen.
That's why it's just you look at him and you grin and you know it has something to do with you.
For better or for worse, they lose this game.
We're talking about a Falcons that has started a season after Niko's first major win, loses
to 100 thieves online, legacy on land, which is nothing to scoff at at the moment, but
then to come here and lose to LinVision in your opening game, I mean, Vitality have
all the excuses in the world, rotating roster and whatnot.
Yeah, to be very fair, but that legacy match, like, they still look great, like, that's next level.
This would be the bottom, the Pico bottom.
On map 3, so we can't get too crazy now.
Tess S is 5-7 with an assist, and it is nice and simple.
Body's strong out through that tunnel exit.
You get in with not enough casualties put up by the two Falcons defenders,
and no near rotation these scouting pistols will be more valuable in the next round than a retake attempt
it's definitely a little bit interesting is like they never really were
appearing to phone it in throughout the first half of ancient and yet they were very concerned about
you know how badly the half went over also both of those pointing to they took it very seriously
and yet they still couldn't um end up mounting the close now they did actually have a strong
come back overall but after winning the pistol I mean honestly they probably
should have just been able to close it that's that's again because this isn't
that wasn't Lynn vision's pick like there was no light there was just no
foreshadowing that that was the bottom of their map pool and they just got
destroyed on their map pick
There was genuinely NASKEY imitated to a moment's four LYNN vision across the board.
Mili is timed to kill and some of those rounds felt instant.
Zachar's AWP quad to close the map.
That's who's ADR man, he's still fragging.
This is a scary shot for Monosin, gonna get just pounced on yet again keeping it simple.
B site, B site, B site.
And you know, damn well, but the Falcons just don't have the tools for the job to stop
this.
They didn't in the last one with the genuine full 5-4 spy, so why would they here in this?
I don't think LinVision have to play complicated.
They've just got to make the right decisions and so far, 3 hard B commitments.
Nice and easy.
They got them out of the way. They've pulled this off, so now Falcons have to respect the thought of a B rush.
They ever use it again? It doesn't matter, because Lynn Vision approved for three. They have already won the rounds in the half.
They can take these and go, and they also keep five up. Four up.
They're pretty rich.
Around three ends of Zachar on 9k.
See if you'd like an upgrade.
Yep.
It's just a great opportunity
for early momentum here to Linnvision.
Cash left over after this buy, which includes Zachar op,
$5,000 on two.
Midline taken, smoke deep doors, and a three player long start for Falcons.
It's just really going to allow for LynVision to close that early distance in middle.
No resistance whatsoever, Monacy's AWP awaits them.
Well placed, Util.
Unravels, monocies opening perch.
It's a real feel-out position for Falcons.
Not really playing any committed spots, not pushing anything.
Just playing standard.
I'll see if he does the pop flash in the doorway, that's what's most important.
Monacy's off this angle.
They're...
Yeah, they're going in the wrong place.
Karrigan sprays away for a kill and a half.
Well, they're going in for the B-walk as well.
Monacy comes over.
Bomb is actually here on Blue Box.
The bomb charging in.
It's a story track.
It opened open.
Had a player's got it going.
What?
Into this split, they'll go.
The bomb's still at the cross.
Block out.
Now they've just got to finish off these two.
What a rebound from Killscain, Tess S.
Bomb picked up six seconds.
It's Emilia punching in numbers.
He's under threat.
The ramp run is there, and what a recovery from Falcons.
And Kiyosuke there with three kills.
Wow, that was crazy scary.
Karrigan getting one kill and getting flashed was
as designed there for LynVision
when they came out towards long.
Monocly shooting early.
Not what I expected to see right there.
How quickly they pushed that player out into B.
But this all happened because they kind of exec too late.
They exec too late, which means they're gonna be offered up
some cool opportunities because they're only going to be half-concerned.
They'll actually try to go long, but at 30 seconds you have no business doing a B-Lurk
with a long split and having to cross all the way to the site, so they sort of invited
that chaos in.
I want to know how Call Me Sioux doesn't get the kill from the B site.
I thought both CTs inbound.
I thought for sure he had a free one queued up for Min, because like you said, you know
he walks out into the B play while the bomb hard commits.
Lightning speed, Falcons, put three frags on that board.
Scary spot for the Falcons for a moment.
But I think it bodes well for them.
The Kiosk is up to six frags at the start of this game.
It was weird moments back on ancient.
You wanna wash that away as quick as you can.
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Yep, they don't want to commit it was actually still not a bad time to go, but it's scary always
Just giving that 100% certain confirmation over, Josuke, three players come through, he just dies with nothing.
Damage short on two.
Those flashes coming.
Gonna chuck it over the door, Tess S, deep into the corner.
Cross over to the plat, great lineup here for Tess S.
Stary a little labor to get that trap out, he didn't even find it.
What was that?
And now we've got a player depressing through the doors, Kennedy tries this, tests the waters, gets shut down, man, advantage is paging away.
Nico cleans up one 30 seconds and look who's coming.
Amelia walks up through middle.
Soon that door will no longer be smoked,
but soon he's got to get this going.
This would be raw out of Amelia.
He knows where Nico is going to be, surely.
Nico sat on the plate ready for the peak.
At any point it could also be tunnels,
but no, he's just going to play with the timing
and Amelia feels like he's lost track of him.
Oh, he wins!
Never mind.
Amelia right back to the headshots
He was offering us on ancient who's the boss now
That he was saying
Amelia
How much damage that h you line up does as you're playing there? Oh
vision yeah have a man advantage to go up 5-1 to bottom out the bank accounts of
falcons look at just like a game they're already all out long it is
carrying with an MP9 on the other side of this or monosies a 1s from catwalk
Nico started to make it but they are already well ahead of this the timing
here for Lynn vision looking better than the last time they tried to overtake
This bombsite may wilt get themselves the safest passage with that smoke.
Kerrigan doesn't die bomb for Emilia back to back at shots.
Suze got one through smoke.
And that is Falcons splattered on the windshield as LynVision put this D-side into sixth gear.
What on earth?
Are they really gonna beat Falcons?
I mean, without their map pick, we have to always wait to see
as the game gets close and the reality sinks in
and the stress of that situation starts to weigh on you.
It's just looking a lot like ancient already, that's all.
But it does look fantastic.
It's the time to kills they're tapping into.
It's how much money.
They keep floating when they win these rounds.
I mean, this five player up situation is fantastic.
I'm going to say that like Nico doesn't mow them all down.
I'm not going to sugarcoat this like Nats desk did, but I'll just say, they're not calling
an incredibly slick game plan.
That's super detailed and trying to disorient Falcons right.
I mean they're doing what they can and they're doing it well, right?
I don't know if it was communications or or what it was but like dude you're starting to I mean because Amelia is always this ball of energy
Yeah, you can start to see it work down the line
Yeah, starting to feel real tonight. It's infectious that guy
You want to ride that energy but you've also got to keep yourself focused
But this round? I mean, you know, you're not going to be able to do anything about it
You gotta keep yourself focused.
But this round?
I mean, look at the buy that's coming through.
We're talking about upgraded pistols on four
and that one saved Niko M4.
And Niko's got one kill.
Montessy's got zero.
Why wouldn't LinVision go up 6-1 right here right now?
Montessy added an aberration of the series back on ancient.
Four kills in the first half into like 20 in a second.
CT side this is a CT side no frag so far nothing's adding up
Just a very hot and cold Falcons
Jility interrupts it's actors got ssd dangerous for starry to go through that somehow jump
What I don't even know did he jump away I guess last bullet maybe connects either way he's dead
And it's a tough gun to retrieve. We've got less smell in the middle
Kosuke on his desert eagle killed by Zachary's got that trade frag
So now even the op dominance starting to come through for one vision. Yes, sir indeed
Six one majority alive
What are they thinking about this right now this is insane you're letting Amelia have a little too much fun
Of course, they had to take a knee their Falcons back in with a buy-in in the next one.
But, Zachar, with a multi-kill this round.
Yeah, Mr. Opener.
And let's take some risks. Let's push. Let's do something.
Is that okay? Let's not be static.
Damn. Let's do something.
Start taking risks. Start making moves.
Is it a little bit too late for vagaries?
right what's the move we got any ready yeah it's not a trivia moment you know
just pick what if so if no one else is
here we go honestly this actor there's a whole lot of bodies there through the
fire they'll catch two but then you've got care and still up oh with the boss
Westmellon catches that shot. He does not care.
Just working his way through.
Call me soon, he's gonna blindside Kyosuke at this rate.
He is not ready for this close proximity.
And so even with players up on the catwalk,
what, three Falcons players there?
That Westmellon confidence is crazy.
He had the bomb on his back.
They took a risk.
They made a move right into the hands of LinVision.
How could it be the case that you don't have a little smoke in them, brother smoking them?
They are smoking them, they're not just eating them, they're smoking them, they're making
brisket out of this team right now.
Bro, Falcon stew.
Where is that a delicacy?
I don't know, but.
You know what, you're right.
We need Stewie to join this team.
It's the only way.
Yup, it's a B rush.
Odyssey under siege, good damage from the pistols though.
Kars not going to go down easy.
He got SS with a rifle as well.
So real threat still inside sight.
Miss shot from Odyssey.
Now it's only SS, and he held his end of the bargain up, but now it's back to just pistols.
Yeah, just two deagles coming into the retake.
They're probably going to try to rush the situation.
Trying to emerge through that smoke.
Looking to cast them off.
Call me soon.
Finds the back turn.
Executes.
8-1 T-side.
Damn.
LinVision starting to look untouchable.
This is going to be a reference game for Sue.
He's had consistency across these maps.
This is turning into a very special one out of LinVision.
The confidence is meeting the commitment.
The game plan is simple, but exactly what they need.
And then they have Falcons in the team comps without even an actual idea, like no concrete
next move at all, which is insane to think about considering the maps they got, and Monasty
never lost a best of three series to a Chinese team.
I guess that last one was a best of one.
Yeah, the one with Sharia.
Well, that was also G2.
Oh, Sharia on this is there.
Yeah, yeah. Now it's said best of three series.
And he still hasn't lost just yet.
But he's whiffing shots inside that B site and he's one in eight.
He's playing for it, for sure.
Wish I could also can't really explain.
Oh, it goes good.
Not really aware of both threats.
Oh, okay.
One vision ready for that trade.
They'll happily sign up for the new old star.
He's got Nico off the ramp, so it's nothing but one in dunce.
Monty's second kill of a map.
But CallmeSue has found that B bomb site player,
and it is prime for the taking.
Full set of utility for this up and off as well
in the back of the site.
I'm going to call this a 70-30 situation here inside of B.
If they play this correctly, get to be picked up.
Let's make sure you find it on the way in.
It might not be necessary. It just comes down to this shot.
Fully committed here for Zacker.
Gotta love it, but you gotta hit the shot.
Kerrigan's on the other side, and Monosy still hasn't picked up that defuse kit.
Missed off shot, opens the door, Kerrigan got his kill.
Still, he scoops up the kit now, routes down through that door.
Tech 9 damage in.
Bodging shots, it's the pistol to prevail here for Monosy.
Does he? Oh, he did.
Seven seconds to defuse that bomb, he got it.
Monacy wins the sidearm duel and posts Falcon's second round win.
Oh boy, Dacker missed a shot, got his teammate killed,
he had the site and one HP win here for Monacy
for just a second round.
You cannot forget that a 10-2 pass back on Ancient
still led us to the very end of regulation.
Falcons did indeed start to post the comeback.
The doors of Jarron dust too.
I'm not saying they should ever be in this position.
But it's never over till it's over.
And a couple more rounds to attempt to secure, but it is Zachar right back to it.
Lineups good here for Josuke.
Drops the smoke in front of them, but it actually bounces back down through the tunnels.
That's a gap! And story's able to punish!
Kerrigan's not ready!
Wow.
Niko and Modesty left to their own devices in a 2v3.
They know they've got one long, but there's also this peelback from the B site itself.
There's a bit of conditioning because they thought it was a full commitment.
B site hit like we've seen so many times.
But this is weird because they might not want to make a move while Emilia is just so far from
this since he's also been spotted recently. It really is on him to either get out safely
clear them to join up with him.
It's a very nice pause in the mid-round here for LynVision.
And there is a real threat that it could still be A.
So Falcons have to respect that for now.
Nico is glued to this site.
And again, this pause is perfect because they go B,
and then there's two players separated.
If they're going to gamble in one direction,
it'd be most likely A, right?
Monocles outside of the bomb site,
and we're looking at two smoke grenades here for LynVision.
This door doesn't get smoked.
Niko doesn't believe it. He's coming over.
With that utility trickle down,
and you'd think the commitment comes out behind it, sure enough,
Monos is going for the window play first.
Flash has already popped though, so
Monos is right here on the line.
Missed again!
He throws his own flash out, Niko wants the door,
but he's double scoped, so it's an awkward shot, and he whips that one too.
Niko's only got 12 health, it really had to be Monosy!
And while Starry's hands are now busy, Niko's gonna emerge!
He gets shut down and Monacy has offered nothing from this window, he is gone!
And it is Lingvision with a 9th round secured as Monacy whips another!
Yeah, they kind of exact in a way to invite Monacy into an opening,
instead of walking to the end...
of the doorway.
You just have a chance to try to save this gun, really.
And he'll at least be able to do that.
Hanks on to that, that was four missed op shots.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And what a cool collected pause in the middle of a round.
The difference between letting fountains back into a half to, you know, let them close in
on your gap, or genuinely giving yourself another chance at a 10-2 half.
of
the
What a day of counter strike. Group B has winded up being inner circle over vitality.
Mows hold their own. Legacy beat foot. And if Lynne vision defeats Falcons right here
right now, then only one of the three following teams can make playoffs. Vitality Falcons
foot. There is a lot on the line for Falcons for trying to make this comeback happen. Their
job gets real tough.
Something a little different. Man, they found a gap. Wow. Unwatched entirely. They smoked
behind them as well. Wow.
the attention look like Kyosuke A1 as bottom ramp.
They're not here to walk into this. They kind of want to wait a little bit.
Player falling back from those A boxes. Okay, Niko keeps eyes on mid.
Westmellon gets clipped and then as the door player comes back, Monici's got that one locked off.
Nicely done. Now he's hitting two back-to-back shots.
Shut down this mid crawl.
And in the 12th hour of this CT side,
We've got Falcons with a convincing victory off of Niko and Monosy.
At least that's the way it feels, but with nothing to lose, Call Me Sue and Emilia are going to take this attempt up Catwalk.
Three defenders on site, ready to hold, Niko and Kyosuke.
Rifle's in hand and Emilia's the guy to hit the headshot. Took no damage for that first one.
And then it's a deagle up next, but Kyosuke's got this handled, finds his double kill, gives Falcons a third round.
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for the road there falcons able to catch some good mechanical moments coming into this next
one but we have landed where many thought we never would map three between falcons and
Lynn vision, second half of the map and it's a 9-3 Lynn vision lead.
They had a 10-2 back on ancient that almost got caught up, but they closed.
So let's see what this CT side has in store for us because it could be Falcons sent to
the lower bracket.
And he goes well versus Chinese teams as we see.
A little bit extra on the line.
Honestly fast entry.
We saw we can rush B as well.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, LinVision started their T side, right?
Three consecutive B charges.
Calm down, but will they anticipate a retake?
It's a long road for Niko to go compromise the mid control.
Nades thrown by West Mellon.
And if he gets his Nades out, yeah, the headshot's connected.
It is only sorry.
So four up for Falcons.
Going to start this one with the right foot forward.
Well, like ancient, I mean, with a one-round advantage.
The difference is though, that it's LinVision switching over to the better side, I mean, CT on Dust2, that's supposed to be where more of the free wins are at, so obviously it still comes down to whether or not they can close, and closing on Ancient is a little bit different, because closing on Ancient earns you a third map doesn't just get you the win, it's mentally maybe a little bit easier.
Kerrigan knows how to use a little bit of leverage. Sometimes it takes a little bit to get his teams going, but now that there's a potential chance for a loss, you might actually see the best version of the lineup.
A lot of CTs over here.
Yep, and no element of surprise either.
I mean, default though, we could get Molly'd, we'll see.
Trucking those nades out, jostling them around.
Molotov goes to Goose instead.
just give themselves a smoke to emerge with.
Still just these two pistols here, but it's not gonna kill.
Headshot, yeah, now Josuke is down to a quarter HP.
Finally puts Sue down.
Wait, they're actually not going out mid.
That's a West Mellon CT smoke in the doorway
that has Falcons hitting that pause button.
Sacker's gonna look for a wide angle,
but as he gets off site, it's a little bit dangerous.
Oh!
Oh, he's got that one kill.
Finally, Kiyosuke goes down.
But it comes right back out of him and Tess has his
Colilll's meant to open this up.
That's a hell of a headshot through the edge for Starry
that could have been a frag, but instead is just Tess S-12.
Little uncomfortable here for Falcons.
Down to 15 seconds before they plant.
But they get it down, they have four up.
Still looking a little dizzy right now.
But it's a conversion.
It's just the kind of result that makes you wonder, well, what if Lynn Vision were in the gun round?
Because that was a timid commitment and just pistols that still got these health bars as low as they are.
Falcons through, four up.
Three armored pistols, at least for the next one, so...
It's just, I mean, it's just, with Kerrigan, there's no, like, pretending this is a different situation.
If they make it towards the end of this game, they're going to show us rounds that are really impressive.
The question is if they make it to the end of the game.
It's been the question for Kerrigan forever.
Well, luckily for him.
You know, it made it all the way to the last round when they played against Spirit at Shanghai, right?
Obviously like that does to come back. Oh, yeah, almost entirely complete
But because they had to let the lead go so badly in the first place you open the door to that
So it's caused so many second place exits for him in his career
Niko here's all that presence tunnels
He'll let the squad know they are free to go take a site
But because there's a bit of a hesitation here, we do get a couple more bodies towards a it is a rapid headshot by Kerrigan
Just put Sue down
Tough to picture a world with these pistols get anything but Amelia finds test after stops the bomb into the smoke
And that bomb still sits inside that smoke and now they're boosting over top of it
Spam comes through as the bomb gets scooped back up
Going for the plant in a moment.
More and more, Yutzil just pelting LinVision.
They would have loved to have held onto that,
pushed through into the bottom of the ramp,
and the climb up caught.
So we'll see these headshots starting
to connect for Falcons.
Another moment where they could genuinely walk away,
again with four players still up.
And all but a three-round lead between Falcons and LinVision
is there on the brink of their first gun round
after having that first nine-round half.
trying to keep the energy high here for Falcons.
So, let's keep LinVision off 10.
They also just have some leeway to even lose a round here or there.
So, LinVision, if they want to strike, they got to do it early
before Falcons get too chatty.
What we're really looking for for LinVision is
the ideas that keep the Browns moving forward at all times.
if they get a kill, how do they make it worse?
If it's on eco like that, not that they're just floating around looking for individual
legal shots, but they're actually working on flanks.
That'll pay off a little bit later.
Missing that a bit last round.
But it didn't take much to push Falcons into time trouble on their anti-eco.
I think that's also a concern for them.
It's always a sign that the calling is a little foggy when you know it gets down to
the 10-15 seconds and around like that good commitment but there are three
players here they get through West Mellon kills me oh
oh monest he gets it but still got to yes Emilia slammed the door shut back
onto Nico oh yeah I'm gonna see him through the door what oh that's a weird
back and forth through the smoke you let Nico go through he gets a double sure
You find two of your own but there was a numbers advantage there because of monasy who had to hit that up close up shot
It was strange pathing though through the lurk smoke out to the right
And this actually might have secured it for the Falcons they get through
Since that
Smoke was out. They didn't walk out through the left side
There was no sort of trap wire alarm for the guy who was outside to go
Okay, we need to watch that but that's exactly why Falcons did that pathing
And you're on the back of the site behind Xbox watch on the right side of the tunnel when you're at k sharp
We're also seeing that
And I think because someone was playing outside the site they thought maybe there's no car player
Here's the time to go out of this right sure
Niko fast enough to catch them both off. It's actually crazy that Amelia winds up with the second
Watch this kill yeah
The dying moments before monosie hits him with the off
Two-round game economy back under question for Lynn vision a
Lynn vision that is still yet to win a round on the CT side. I missed that
He's a little awkward, he was boosted up, but he kinda just walked all the way across
off the boost. Awkward, they would have loved to have had that boost up. Let's take that.
Whoa.
Crazy shot.
Could have genuinely been a 5v4
in a round where this awp has to be a part of a solution.
Banking on the pistols, unlikely.
We hit the 45 second mark
and there are fresh smokes in front of Falcons.
Yeah, just don't let that clock run dry.
Promise there's nobody coming to help Amelia.
Just Kerrigan showing a bit of skin up. Catwalk has kept them still so timid on A.
This would take a miracle out of a 5-7.
All these spreads as well, so...
That spells disaster for LynnVision.
The all-elusive double digits.
I've heard some players say that despite the map biases, that it's not a good idea to
map biases that if they were to make a comeback they would much rather do it on
T side okay more control of the conditioning and how you you know the
tempo of rounds and everything like that so as an IGL it sort of feels like you
have more control and if you're confident obviously
I think LinVision need to they kind of just need to let it fly here if they
are going to slowly let Falcons back into this game don't let them do it on
their terms more attempts at opening kills more flanks and rotations you know
whether it's pushing long or pushing tunnels trying to grab up as much space
as you can because they just try to play uh too simply like talking to will with enough
time figure out the solution of the round I can honestly look average
much. Full on long control, but no tunnels pushed, not enough info here for Lynne Vision
to do anything. To pull at least a fourth or even all of their players over, which sometimes
is necessary. I'm going to try to hold on to cap, but this just kind of leaves their
AWPer, in a position where he has to do everything by himself.
And while he's trying to pluck off these AKs, there's also that monasy AWP in pit looking for him.
And he just keeps taking these deeper and deeper angles, which is going to give him fewer and fewer shots to prevent them from getting onto ramp.
AWPer right there, he's...
AWP? What? Sees the shadow!
I don't know.
No way!
Heh heh.
And that's kind of the only way they could have stopped this from happening, so...
Now the site is totally gone, because it was all on him, like you set it up.
It was all about the AWPer getting the job done.
I mean, you know and there's the you know the fact that he doesn't shoot at the guy who you can just see a shadow is one thing
But it's also a moment where they're already losing and losing and losing as Falcons get closer
Because where are a vision gonna go like hold on the cat and wait for the 2b guys to come over. It's just not really
Not really productive. So they're unfortunately vision right now
They've shown us a great map that shows a great first half to this map and now they're letting Falcons win
I'm speechless that he put the AWP away.
Yeah.
Tied game at 9 all still without a round win in the second half.
I suppose silver lining here for Lynn visions the revise made easy
One death that's it
than
such promising showing of vision
that it's going to be a gut wrenching waste if they don't even make this competitive
You know, like they could lose anyways,
but as Falcons start to play better,
you wanna see them also.
Keep pushing the envelope.
Take some risks, it's kind of what Sonic,
I think said to Falcons in that first half.
of
death
of
death
just floating once again every single monica of pressure is on zacker again
yep so little to work with no teammates near bar buying pit it's just two scaling flashes
and then he'll have no chance to beat these out of the round he hits his first shot it's
important. If you're gonna do anything it banks on that first one, puts a bit of
timidness in Falcons but only for a moment they know we get this bomb down
and it's gonna force a vision hand at a retake. So they hang on the long control
three players moving forward and nobody back towards mid-doors here for Falcons
whatsoever they are very much all stacked up on this shelf. They're playing
in a frag and if there's no pressure on cat,
they're in a really good spot to just be peeking.
Leastland vision of five players.
Honestly, just peppering the smoke,
trying to find shots like that.
Always got it.
Killing and assist.
Just tapping them out of the round.
It's a shooting gallery for the AKs.
And it's Zachar with one and a second on the departure,
but that's it.
You gave them the bomb plant.
You gave them the post plants.
You just allowed for them to get that in
with so little fight.
If your main advantage is 5v4,
And that's, you know, tips the odds in your favor, putting the bomb down suddenly brings it back to T side, even though they only have four.
Uh, if there's no cat pressure, all these spots across cat are a nightmare to actually dual versus.
Like, you've got Tess S, Niko, Monosy up here on headshot angles, all peeking at the same time.
Is that really that nice for you, even though you got your one kill?
That's a lead now for Falcons.
Yes, sir, they've done it in cruise control taking control of this game with the two-side
Lawless on their run. That's nice and monosy is gonna get active find a different look from zacker
Not just over towards that a site, but instead posting up at B and trying to find that early pick. It'll cost him his life
But hey at least this time he doesn't have to sit there on a waiting for the commitment
Got into the action. Goes down for his efforts.
The vision required to claw back, but no search.
Killscape back-to-back headshots too.
And it's now Kerrigan out here floating with that secondary AWP.
Just looking for a bit of impact on the way out.
This Linn vision totally forgo that A site once more cat path is totally empty and we've got Falcons
11 9 yeah, I think it's like now also a moment where after all these rounds of having vanilla setups
They finally try to throw in some labor way too late now is way too late
It's way too obvious because well Falcons obviously know you have to try to do something like that
Eighth round in a row you finally trying to change up the game
And especially when we already talked about the specialty of Kerrigan being these ones.
Yeah.
You know, like he's not the guy that's going to get caught off by you shaking it up.
Nine rounds into this half.
Don't let him get to round 20, but he's already got all the information.
Call me Subi trying to save this could be important.
Let's throw this guy out middle, why don't you?
Yeah, I'll shut it up.
Shots like this.
Dearest's win.
It's effective. Falcons still will not be denied that 11th round.
They should really mean Zachar was Mr. Open kill in that first half.
And that was T side.
And here again, they finally try to use him in that way.
But there could have been so many more at starts boosted peak into lower tunnels,
lower tunnel setups they could have pushed into to take control of things.
And I suppose there still can be. He's still got an op this round.
They have a buy, but this is the final notice.
Unfortunately, this is turning into a demo.
The watch back can be very disappointed themselves
after all the effort they put into it.
That's not to say that they would guarantee a win
versus Falcons or anything like that
if they tried to go for it,
but they'd definitely be more proud of themselves.
And for Falcons, they can wipe some sweat off their forehead.
Things are starting to go to plan.
They finally have rounds to work with.
I feel like they'll still be a bit confused as to why they weren't able to maintain the
stomp status that they established on Math 1, but push to the limit.
Brought back ancient
And have now finally posted what is looking like a flawless t-side on that three
Anything different this time around from Lynn vision. I'm just a capric set up not a single player doubled up
Any aggressive spot and we'll
Oh, he's got an open. There we go.
Karrigan goes down, just a pure walkout mid through the smoke by himself.
Spotted and dealt with.
All while bomb still sits on the suice.
Oh, Josuke just goes wide up the catwalk and Tess S wins his duel out long.
Now the mid player is going to feel the squeeze like he's got to get something
done himself and that is Niko well aware of the looming threat.
You get one, we get three.
It'll be Falcons to be taking that 12th round.
Looking to embarrass LinVision in the final half of this series.
It takes all six halves, but this sixth half, zero rounds.
LinVision is tough, man.
Not much to talk about either, unfortunately.
Sorry, forced to make a move here.
We saw last round as well.
Call me Sue, just fought for his gun.
Grats.
Exit highlight.
Awesome. I'm sure it doesn't feel any better for him
He's become a weird one a very weird game now into the day
It's one of those odd games where it's like almost both teams wind up being disappointed
There's no way
Falcons will be happy with this result because they wanted it in a different fashion
We're in vision. No damn. Well, they could have won this best of three
So everybody gets to go home disappointed
for once we all lose.
I mean, we could talk about the resilience that Falcon show and we can praise that, but
that's not really a skill set that I think we question.
Yeah, and also they weren't pushed that much.
Yeah, the second half to really give him a lot.
Exactly.
This was a perfect T side comeback in every round is clutches down to the two V twos.
We'd be like, wow, they're gelling, wow, they're growing.
But no, you just raffle stomped Lynn vision out of the game.
Yeah.
CT side, here we go.
Alright, round 22.
Make a move.
A wise man once said.
They pushed up on Cat too.
Honestly, those got the headshot.
Falcons looking to keep it as clean as you could possibly do.
Zacker tasked to get back into this 3v5.
He's gonna tip toe forward and kill Kyosuke.
That's something to play off of.
But Bomb is still literally in T spawn with carrying it.
That's insane.
Minute 20 is on the up.
We're just waitin'.
The night owl burns the midnight oil.
Kerrigan watched long for enough.
Joints forces with the players up in tunnels.
There were points in this series where Amelia's rifle work was impeccable.
It is time to kill world class.
He is going to be under threat inside of the B site. He's got to do it once more and the first one is playing no damage in response
It's a kill and a half. Zachary on the scene missed shot
critically and unfortunately here for Lynn vision so
Incredibly close, but so incredibly flat
Once we switch sides here on map 3 not a single round to their name
You've got a couple players tagged up. So maybe since he's forced to take a swing at this
You know, somehow pull off the miracle, but Montesey's got his number creeping up from behind.
Spalkins with a perfect T-side comeback, a 9-3 deficit that means nothing,
as Spalkins will indeed avoid that lower bracket, instead sending LinVision to go join foot and vitality instead.
that's a good start.
Not a single round in that
second half one by Lynn vision
despite having such a phenomenal
start, we almost to store for
themselves. But it was like a
flash before their eyes that
they could have been staying
there in the upper bracket. I
think that's kind of what we
expected the second map to look
like where Lynn vision can put
something together. They can
have a really solid half of
counter strike. They can look
impressive at times, but
eventually Falcons are going to
show up and they're just
as a team, and they should be taking one of these.
Are they taking this game home a little more comfortably
than they did in this series?
Great to see them just correct.
Course correct, that is.
On that T side, half, it looked a lot better
than what we saw earlier in the series,
let alone even what they provided in the playoffs of EWC.
So glad to see that they went back to the drawing board
and cleaned a lot up.
Yeah, nice room to have the three for themselves.
Karagin joining us here.
How do you keep your composure when
half ends like that man. I actually got excited when in some way that now I'm in
control of the game and the pace because I think that a strange game plan
normally everybody targets me along but there was not the case here so when we
came over I just said to the guys we can easily do the same we've done it before
and we should be able to against a team like this and obviously everything went
our way we cut rotations and people got a lot of kills left and right and just
You have to finish the job in the end.
Is that one of those aspects that you've been bringing since FaZe,
where the pressure needs to be cranked all the way up
before you guys actually start really playing?
I have to say there's something about it, right?
I think maybe it caught me by surprise the way they played ancient.
Should have expected the way they played it through,
and it was different than what we saw,
and what we saw in ancient was different.
And then I knew that the sound of the prep I had on those two was not about it.
just feel the game and I think we got into very good situations
and managed to outplay them in those micro decisions.
Okay, and I want to go back a little bit to last event,
EWC not going as deep as I'm sure you guys would have wanted.
We've always talked about with Falcons
that there's a lot of pressure being, you know,
donning that jersey from the fans,
but also I feel like for an event that's so tied
to maybe the Falcons brand winning it so many times
and being a top team in the cup and everything.
Was there a greater organisational pressure for you for that event?
I don't think so. Obviously we all know how much it means to Falcons.
But maybe we could be under some pressure that the other teams would not have,
because at the majors everyone is under pressure to perform
and want to do everything they can to win the event.
So what happened, we had a terrible off day.
And that's still something that I can't fix within a few months.
We have to be able to play a B game.
You know the way Vitality wins.
We're not not playing the best they managed to win the game more like today
We step up on the last half after three really bad halves after the first two
So that's something we need to work on and legacy abuse that and I think the only play that really was on the server
Was monocene that game sure early on when you joined Falcons also you guys mentioned
I think it was you in particular about how the target is Singapore
But you guys obviously got way ahead of schedule by winning Cologne
Do you still think that Singapore in a way is when you guys are going to ramp up to being the best version of this five-man roster?
I think it's a good question. I think we saw when everything came together at the major how good we can be
Obviously when you're doing that early you want to replicate it
But you also want to prepare yourself to the bad days and how we can improve small stuff and what I think we talked about is maybe we tried to
Figure out how we can improve better instead of working what actually worked really good at the major
And that's what after happens when you win a tournament. I just keep going and now there's a player break
It means you have a lot of time to review all the data we have from free events
and maybe we changed a little bit too much to kind of counter ourselves and
You need to go into the feeling we had at the major and still improve long-term for all the protocols and stuff like that
Can I ask how that player break went because there's this idea that maybe there was a long break for you guys after you win
The major you know Nico's finally got it. Maybe you're taking a long break. We putting in a lot of time during that player break
Yeah, for me we didn't travel anywhere. I knew after my season from being faced to joining Falcons that I was kind of burned out
But I also needed to work on myself
So when I first joined Falcons, I knew that I have no time to individually play
So I tried doing the the song break to actually practice to play a bit every day
What's the data and be aware of the season start?
But obviously the season had started if I wanted but that's part of the journey as well
we are working hard. The coaching staff is doing a lot of stuff for us to help improve and today I was just happy we showed the fighting mentality because that's what we had at the major.
When the game didn't look good we could fight our way back into the game and at either we see that legacy game and kind of feel like the fire was not there in the key moments.
So during map 2 in this series, we caught a pause where Zonik says we've talked about this, let's try and play.
I think you said play more set. Is that you're trying to get into more execs to deal with when you're having bad plays coming out of the players?
Yeah, it's a balance when we're talking and taking initiative. What can happen on the floor, my system is, if you just keep talking but don't keep understanding what the person is saying,
we can't connect the dots between each other. And I think one of those games where more, we just gave information,
but actually we didn't use it in either re-acting.
I think it was in-between, so every time we reacted it was too late.
Then my mid-runs calls were really bad,
and that's the moment where I need to press the brake,
that understanding my players actually just talking,
they're not listening to each other.
So that was one of the things we said, playing more set,
or make sure that we take some zone,
and take the zone, we relax,
and make sure the enemy is showing their hand
what they want to do or do a mistake.
So I think we were caught a little maybe
in between the things you're talking about and that's part of the journey as well.
And the map 3, we got another pause and we funny heard in, it's the exact opposite.
Do something guys, it's basically what he was saying, like what's the story there?
There must have been a CT side right? I think I'm not sure what happened.
There was one of those two games where I don't have no idea what's happening because
normally I am target long, right? So that one I have to review, kind of full out of it,
more so because there's not so much action that's normal and long, so I have to re-watch that I think.
He just wanted us to react earlier because it looked like they played in the pack a lot,
so when they came short there were four guys short, so if you fight them there they could
trade and they reacted fast, so maybe again they changed their game plan a lot compared to what we
saw and we couldn't adjust, but I also think there were some unfortunate situations happening in
the rounds, but we didn't get the same better results. I want to go back to when you were talking
about like trying to get the same feeling as when you guys were playing in the majors together.
And I know a common thread in a lot of the interviews you guys gave over there was trying
to enjoy the journey a little bit more rather than the end goal. And it feels like you got the
dream end goal. You guys ended up lifting the trophy there. Do you think you've stepped away
from that where you're focusing way more on results and the pressure has been put back on now that
you had such a successful start with Falcons? I think that's a great question because when you are
ahead of your journey like you have your journey build up you'd have these bad losses and then it
it comes together you win the Major in the end. We had really bad loss in CEC which actually
forces us to win the Major. I think that final against Legacy we just choked it. I could see
there was something broken within the team. We had a long talk and that was a catalyst
to what happened at the Major. We were fighting every game. It doesn't matter what it looked
and one game we were not fighting we all said we need to keep fighting. That's something
I've been used to in face because our games never been clean and EWC every game was clean
They're in with Legacy 2.0 out of the tournament.
And that's where I'm like, okay, actually, we lost the map here.
That means we need to fight from the beginning of day one in the tournament.
And I think that can help us fuel us.
That means we're doing minor details we can fix,
but we are constantly mentally there.
And I think about the journey path.
Yes, I think when you reach your goal too early,
you start making bigger goals, but you're far away from them.
But we also know how good we can be that we showed at the major
because that was an incredible level of seers.
I mean, you guys are also going to be coming up against Legacy in your next best of three here.
So are you a little bit afraid?
Is there maybe a potential of a PTSD of that running back,
even though there's a low bracket to save you?
No, I think Legacy obviously had a number of in the 1-2-3 games against us.
So I think what the point is, this has to spark some ego
and maybe also saying Legacy is a top team.
Like, if you look at the ranking, look what they've performed.
When they are on their really dangerous team,
they have maybe one of the most dirty playstyles in CS
and we can embrace the cares.
They're good at controlling the game,
but we should be able to play another game as well.
If you only want to pick Pony as our team,
you'll never be able to win the Major.
You have to adapt your style to who you play.
And last time we had a different approach,
and obviously we reviewed that and tried to figure out
maybe what small details can be changed to be more prepared.
But they're a dangerous team.
I guess one thing I wanted to ask not really about
what's happening right here,
but in general for Falcons and your guys,
map pool is you got the best cash player of all time on the team. Nico's got the
highest rating in CSGO on it. What's going on there? Maybe you don't have to
reel it too much too quickly, but I mean surely you guys should be, you should be
a good cash team in theory, right? Yes, in theory. Yes. Well, once I'm in the team,
the crazy idea of things and stuff like that happens, so not really yet, but one
day we will be. Okay, okay, I'll see it. Then I'll believe it. That's the same thing you
can try in the Veto if you want. That was the same thing with Roar Pass against Na'Vi.
Nobody wanted to play it. All right, well, that is going to be all from us here at Karagin.
Thank you so much for joining us on Look Forward to seeing you guys play again in a couple
of days. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure as always to be able to get the insights from
Karagin about everything that has happened in the last couple of days since their previous
tournament, but of course getting forced to a map number three looking at it in
the halves and breaking it down as to what went wrong in both of those halves
when it came to Ancient, why it was slow start for them on Dust2, but honestly
massive props to be able to bring it back. Crazy to think that they were even in
that situation, but to bring it back in that final half of Dust2. Yeah, I mean
that's that's the fight back that Kerrigan teams so often have that they
lacked in map two, they lacked against Vitale, or against Legacy rather at EWC
that they always have a chance to fight back.
That's why Kerrigan, his games are always cinema.
They're always so entertaining.
They go all the distance so often
because they get down, they struggle.
He gives the half-time speech like he did on 18.
It sounded like he gave one on Dust2 again.
Everyone goes, I would follow him into war.
And then you win the game.
Like that's Kerrigan's special.
I mean, I feel like it is just so classic
for a Kerrigan-led team to be back against the wall
before they finally show their true fangs as they did on Dust2
to just have a flawless T-side there versus a LinVision
that looked extremely dangerous going into it.
And I was thinking that this was,
but that I think actually speaks to kind of how I was setting
this up in the pregame that it's just to me on Falcons,
if they just want to do it, if they just want to show up
and play to the level that they've shown in doses
throughout Karrigan's tenure with the team,
then they should be wiping the floor with LinVision,
but we only got that one half of pure dominance.
I mean, it begs the question,
why on individuals bringing it up themselves?
Why is it that you have to wait until you're down
for a carraghan half-time speech
to be able to lift you up and put you in that position?
But hey, at the end of the day,
I understand you're enjoying some good counter strike,
but unfortunately, for day number two,
there isn't any more happening.
We're gonna be looking at our bracket
because now we know who's falling down to the lower bracket
and who will continue on here
in that upper bracket of our group B.
very surprisingly, vitality gonna have to go up against 9Z there.
Foot and Linn vision in the lower part where Falcons and Legacy will have their rematch
to secure a spot for Porto. I was so ready to say the lower bracket of this group has vitality foot
and Falcons. It was about to be insane. It's still crazy. I mean vitality and foot are both
obviously insane teams. You don't expect generally to see them in the lower bracket.
We also get 9 Z versus vitality which was obviously tough for vitality at the recent major as well
They drew blood in that match up there or 9 Z. So
That's that is a really loaded lower bracket right now
I know learn vision doesn't look fierce if you just looked on the name on paper
But the fight that they gave to Falcons here and how also Kerrigan talked about how they changed some of their game plans
Or at least gave them different looks and then Falcons expected shows that they might have a trick or two up their sleeve
Hey, I think they look quite fierce after that game. All right. That was that was very impressive from Lynn vision
It did require Falcons to bring out maybe even their a game to actually pull that one off at the end of it
I'm telling you I told you guys you were disrespecting Lynn vision too hard saying that the B
tier
that's all they needed there.
Yeah, but why would you say that?
We were going to see a beat here vitality.
I mean, that's what it felt like
was showing up early today.
Of course, though, they had a substitute with them,
so it's hard to be incredibly critical of them.
They were still able to put up a good fight for themselves.
I mean, map two forced into overtime there,
but at the end of the day,
in a circle really capitalizing
on what opportunity has been presented.
I'd be saying the same thing
if Lynn Vision beat Falcons.
It's not about whether inner circle played well.
They did.
The problem is vitality is supposed to be better
than inner circle's best day.
And Xayu having one of his worst days.
I think it wasn't like his second.
Second worst series, I think in CS2?
Yeah.
Yeah, which is crazy to think about that you're having
that sort of performance there when your team needs you
the most and on the side of mouse.
I mean, last time we saw them at a blast event,
they were lifting the trophy and the momentum
has just kept going for them.
They're starting their first best of three here.
Very strong 14, sorry, 13, 4 and 13, 7.
That's what we expected.
Maus dispatching of their opponent quite easily.
Falcons nearly losing and Vitality losing.
This is what we all predicted.
Of course, of course.
I mean, this is also a revenge match for Maus,
who, 9-Z, have gotten the better of
in consecutive blast events.
So breaking the curse right there.
Yeah, and we got to see foot up against Legacy earlier as well.
The second and third places of our previous tournament,
the game. I think that's a
really good point. I mean,
I'm not sure if you've ever
seen all of the previous on
here in the counter strike
season, so it's crazy to think
that one didn't actually go to
it. That map one that I
definitely would have
predicted to be significantly
closer, even if the map
results were the series didn't
necessarily feel it. I don't
need it to go three maps after
that 13 11 with the huge
comeback into the Lotto ace.
you're allowed to misspeak about
Lynn vision and I'm allowed to
miss. No, not allowed. Okay
all right. Well, instead, let's
have a look at our schedule for
tomorrow because we focused a
lot on our group beat today, but
we're going to be shifting the
tides and we're going to be
looking back at group A and
start saying goodbye to some of
our teams. As you can see Aurora
and Dendoli there, G2 up against
Spirit, Navi, Payne and Furia
versus M80. If you're confused,
elimination ones are Aurora Dendeley and Navi Payne. I believe.
Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah.
Honestly, with how this tournament's been going, I could just give clear-cut answers that Aurora, of course they should take care of Dendeley.
I don't know any, I don't know. I don't know. I think Dendeley's probably got a trick or two.
I think Aurora are probably playing worse than they should and
for Navi Payne, again, that feels like for all intents and purposes Navi should be cleaning them up, but
man they have just been falling off a cliff. One of those series is gonna be
an upset. One of those teams are going to be an upset tomorrow. You just don't know when it's gonna be.
Okay I want you guys to pick which one it's gonna be now though because you're
not gonna get to work both of them. Dendeley. Dendeley is doing it. Dendeley will humble Aurora.
Okay you heard it here. But make sure you guys shoot in tomorrow to see if
Balli and Vue are correct. If that's gonna be our upset or if there's gonna be
more on the table for day number three here at Blast premiere open portal.