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That is it, your last chance
to get some tickets for the Blast Premier Open Porto and for some of these teams they're
trying to book their flights, hopefully not to go home, hopefully to Porto but some of
that is happening today because some teams are going to be eliminated, they'll be checking
out of the hotel, sad, unhappy, disappointed with what they've done and some of them might
be some big name teams in there as well. I'm a big name player sometimes but Pimp and
Rugger they're even bigger when it comes to all of this. Pimp, how you doing with today
my man? I heard I stole your iPad yesterday.
Yeah, you kind of did. I'm doing good, James, to be completely honest.
Today's my favourite day of tournaments.
I know you don't like them as you used to play in Astralis and exit tournaments quite early,
but when we get to eliminate teams, you know, we get to see who's the real deal, who's not, and
for once, you know, not having any stake in the other teams, that makes me quite happy.
Yeah, like I think it's always these days when you see who is training upwards and who needs
to go back to the drawing board, and I think today is a really good day for these types of insights
to some of the match-ups.
It's broken like a true teacher, you know, going back to the drawing board.
Yes, see we like drawing boards in here. Maybe we'll bring one out for you later on right
We'll have to wait and see if we can get one going for it
But I do want to take a look at group B as we're actually on this side of it all today now
Let's start with this one vitality going up against inner circle
This was a wild one because we could give vitality losing a map jail standing in but I can't really understand
Zairu not being even close to Zairu. No, that was the way one, you know
having his second worst series in his counter strike two career yesterday against
inner circle, speak volume to what kind of off day he had a naturally
ultra vitality having a bit of an off day. Again how much is that jail standing
in? Not too much I think. I think the anxiety of the team was not really showing
up and to me it was the way they lost cash you know allowing inner circle to
make a comeback and then get absolutely demolished in overtime. That was the one
map that stood out to me. Vertels has notorious been known for being you know
really really sharp when the games get close. So losing it in that aspect like a little bit
feared for them but I also know that they are the team like when they go back and talk this game
through they're gonna come out firing and all cylinders a little bit like we saw in between
the two maps they came out completely different like a lot of energy but at the end it wasn't
enough but knowing these guys like they will come back with a lot of fire and aesthetics.
And another one but it didn't result in an upset was Falcons Linn vision. This could have been a
a potential upset, because LinVision had this series in their hands. They pushed the major
champions to the very edge.
It should have been, you know, they were leading on that third deciding map, Dust2 first half,
9-3 for LinVision. At that point you think to yourself, that's it, it's game over, right?
And the biggest surprise to me was the fact that it happened for Falcons against LinVision.
I don't know about you, Roger, but personally I made it quite clear, I think LinVision is
one of the teams that has shown no progress whatsoever, basically ever since the blast
Austin Major, so for Falcons almost to fall short against what I consider to be
maybe the weakest team at the tournament and was surprising to me.
For sure, like when we talk about these type of games like you you see the names
on the Falcons roster and you see this type of CS that Lin Vishen historically
has played, it is the matchup for all these like big stars to start their MVP
races right, so I'm a little bit sad that they weren't more convincing but at
the end of the day it's the same thing we talked about with Spirit, it might be
Messi but they end up winning. Yeah in the end result that is what matters that
pushes them closer to making it forward to playoffs and to Porto and some of that
is gonna be happening just in a few moments. This is our schedule for today
we're already on to our third day of action here at Porto and this is what
I'm looking at. Furia taking on M80 in that lower bracket because Navi made a
bit of a failure of earlier on then we've got Navi going up against Payne, G2
Spirit one that we're excited for but we're starting things here with Aurora
we're taking on Den Delay. This one for me guys, when I'm looking at the schedule we have,
I would say the Navi Payne game gives me the most worries, but the Furia M80 game gives
me the most excitement to see if M80 has actually improved. Where are you guys looking
at? What's the best game of the day for you?
Good question. I think honestly it's the Spare G2. I think that's the highest quality game
of Counter-Strike.
That's the obvious one.
Yeah, I see three games that should be a clear card victory for three teams to be completely
As the M80 shared, they did a decent job beating Navi, but Navi is also struggling a bit at the moment.
It would be nice to see them affirm that their level is rising, but M80 is also one of those teams I feel have stagnated for almost a year now.
So it's hard for me to all of a sudden get excited based on one game.
I need to see that confirmed a few more times before I jump the gun.
I love the opening game, but it's also because I love sometimes to see things burn, and I think this is one of these games
where it could potentially be one of the early alarm bells ringing for Aurora if they don't come out convincingly and beat up these Brazilians.
Okay, well, I like where you're going with this, Raga. So with that, let's start to get into Aurora, take me on Dandelion, and let's listen to what Vokadia and Ardien had to say.
Vokadia, in a few events that you've been switching to English, I would say, personally, what I saw was you stayed consistent within your individual level. How are you finding the transition into the international scene?
I think Voxic already played like long years in international team so it's fine for him
but for me and Vantelis I think it's a bit harder because we are trying to adapt and
stuff so I think with time it's going to be better for us.
With that time you were just telling me off camera you've been grinding out of FACEIT
how much have you been playing to bring your level up and are you maybe trying to also
play FACEIT like without so many Turkish people maybe less of your friends and more international
people to help?
Yes, actually I'm queuing solo and also like after practice I'm trying to play like six
Five six games in a day, so I'm trying to get back to form. I like that
I remember the best for KD was when you were grinding out face it like crazy. What's the elo right now?
I don't I think
3500 something like that goal for 4k hopefully
I'm sure it will come and you definitely got the skills for it now
Now, you've already been playing tier one CS for three years.
You made obviously semi-finals the major, it's a huge achievement.
Now you're in this part of your career.
What goals have you set yourself?
What do you want as a player?
I think there's always up and downs in your team and career.
So first goal for me right now is to get back to old form as individual, as team as well.
And hopefully we're going to get qualified from the groups and after we will see.
What goals do you have?
Where is your motivation at? What is your dream here in Counter-Strike?
I think everyone says to win a major, but of course I want to win a major, but I think
my dream is to get to use it to go to every Tiger S event or every time. I think it's
like the main goal for me.
In order to make that goal possible, what is missing from the team? What needs to change?
What needs to improve to make that a reality?
Yeah, that's complicated to say, I don't know.
Maybe I think we need to keep doing what we've done this year.
Like keep pushing ourselves to perform better, to like be more, I don't know, nerd on the game.
I think it's like this you can do these events.
How much do you believe that you can beat a team like Aurora?
Considering also, people might not look at the score line and think,
oh it was close versus spirit, but you definitely had a chance.
Yeah, we feel that way, that we have a chance to win spirits, because I don't know, I think against Aurora, of course it's a tough team.
They have a lot of experienced players, good players, but we trust, we can win, we can manage to win them today.
Well, if RDN and Dendale want to start showing up and being on this tier 1 circuit, I like
it right, everyone wants to win the Major, but he's focusing on, I want to be at all
these F tier events, I want to start grinding out like that, that's how you learn, that's
how you grow, but in order to do that you need to not get eliminated against Aurora right
now, and this is an Aurora that have got their own struggles.
This is an Aurora where I still think in terms of sometimes the T side, sometimes the communication
we're seeing or maybe some hesitation, it could enable the Dendeley to take advantage
of that in some situations where they have got the individual confidence.
Now is the time, you know, if you're Dendeley, if you want to beat Aurora, you know, on paper,
you know, realistically speaking, Aurora is only going to get better, they're going
to figure it out eventually.
Yeah.
Whether it's going to be with this five-man roster, they have to make a roster change down
the line, it's a project that has a lot of backing behind it, you know, and a lot of
quality still within the lineup.
So if there ever was a time for Dendeley to pull up the surprise, then now is the time,
Because I think at Roar, as much as there's still a big question mark,
I think we've confirmed with EWC and what we saw in the opening game as well,
they're not fully ready yet to contest the Taiwan teams.
They'll be ready along the season as progressives.
You have the core of the Turkish players that went to the semi-finals.
You have Küksen coming fresh out of the Falcons project.
You have Jimmy coming from Maus as well.
So it's not nobody's that are trying to support the Turkish trio.
It's like really, really solid players.
So at one point, they will hit the round running, but the Christian is whether it's going to
be now or in a week, in two weeks, or even further down the road.
I want to start by asking you, Rugger, on the T-slide struggles we're seeing so far
from Aurora.
What does that come from?
Is it just the stylistic approach to change so much that it's uncomfortable?
Does it take more time?
What are you seeing?
I was diving a little bit down into some of their games, like Under Major and Together
with Qixxan.
Like a lot of the elements remain the same.
There are these stylistic things where in some of the mid rounds, they before would group
up as four and just trade their way to the bomb side.
They also did that in the first game, but then you also have the other side of the coin
where they try to play the more greedy top team style where they split up a little bit
more maybe in pairs and instantly they get punished by it.
So I think these things they need to figure out which idea we're going to run with in
the long run because either can work.
You just need to pick the one and start getting more comfortable with it, because the wolfpacking
thing for the old Aurora was super, super good, and was also what they needed to beat
some of the best teams.
So they need to decide, are we going the more freedom way, or are we going the full trading
way?
It's interesting though, because Kixxan is saying in other interviews all the time that
he wants to give them all this freedom as well.
Yes, but it's also when you think of where Kixxan comes from, right?
You can do that more quote-unquote greedy style if you have players like Niko, Kyushu,
monasy, you know, in order to create the space, having them working in pairs is often going
to give you enough, I guess, firepower and enough individual quality and decision-making
to make it work. Whereas, to be completely honest, it may not sound nice, but playing
in a Wolfpack mentality also takes a lot of the individual decision-making away from
some of these individuals. Not to say they're stupid, not to say they don't have it, but
there's a difference between having Nico's understanding of the game and being Santeris
or being Vaikadia, you know, so you've got to play into the strengths of your players
and right now, as you said, it feels like they're trying to test out both ways and by
the looks of it they'll probably revert back to the more simplistic way.
I also think like one other storyline in all of this is also you know when you start not
wolfpacking you open up timings on the map right we saw in the game against G2 that they didn't
care about you know playing the whole map on the city side they knew at one point we are gonna you
know take our initiative and in these moments where you like play in these pairs if you then bring
you know advantage numbers against these pairs you will get traded out or at the worst case just
get straight up killed, right? So when you play Wolfpack, you kind of know the idea about
when I need to be where, because you leave all these gaps on the map, but when you spread
more out, and then you start advancing, you cannot be all over the map, meaning there
will be gaps for the cities to take advantage of, and I think G2 did a very good job at
that.
Yeah, they were aware of it, and they were punishing it, and hopefully that doesn't happen
to Aurora today, if they want to stand a chance within that. When we're talking about all
of this, especially on these T sides, just how the team is performing, I caught up with
KickSan, so have a listen to this.
KickSan, I want to start by asking you
about your own in-game leadership style, right?
I would look at it as like, normally,
you play into the defaults and go from there,
but is that always the way you like to play and call?
Is that like, what suits you best?
Yeah, I think so.
I think I always like calling like that.
I don't want to play fully set and just play like robots
in a way.
I want to see how the round goes and then make a call
based on what happened or what information we gained
throughout the round.
So, I would say it's a bit different than, let's say, maybe how the old Aurora played
in the past, and some of the players are not used to it, so that's why I think maybe we
have a slow start, but I think with time it will get better.
And with that time, I just want to ask you what you're seeing, because you know as a
leader, right, if there's maybe some hesitation or if they fully trust you, and it's because
sometimes I watch the game and I see them stop, but I don't know if it's about the trust
or it's about the misunderstanding.
Have you seen what I'm talking about a bit?
Yeah, of course, but I don't think it's about the trust.
I think the coach and the players have given me the trust since day one.
I think it's mostly about some misunderstandings in the round and it's a new challenge for
some of the players.
It's their first time playing international teams, so sometimes they maybe don't understand
some things or maybe they need more time to understand what I'm trying to say, so obviously
communication is not at the highest level right now and I think that's the main reason
like we are struggling in some rounds.
It'll just come with time though, right?
I've spoke to them all many times.
They definitely know what they're doing
and what they're talking about.
I also wanna know about the freedom.
I know you like to give them freedom.
How are they finding that kind of freedom
where when I look at the old Aurora,
it was quite a lot of micromanaging with it?
Yeah, I'm trying to give them freedom
and I think they like it.
But again, I think there's no time to get used to it
because with some players,
I feel like sometimes they kind of forget in a way
that they have freedom.
Like for example, in practice everything looks good,
but then we go to official and some of them,
sometimes they're a bit more quiet
or maybe they're a bit more kind of waiting for me
to make the call while they have the freedom.
So I think it's just a balance.
Obviously I have the last word of how we will play
and what I will call, but I like when the players
are more active because I think all of this information
is important in the mid-round for me,
for myself to be able to make a good call.
And looking at that, right, when you're going through
these moments of these players and you're giving them this freedom you're
trying to make them make some moves. I've seen also maybe a bit less energy in
the team. You are someone who can pump everyone back up but who else is supposed
to be helping you because I remember a kick-sand, a cheer and a scream but also
that would be a bit more like what Maja was doing or even Soulfly was doing
before and now it seems to be like a little bit quiet because we're not
gonna get that for most of the other guys. Yeah I would say it's mostly on me
He likes to bring energy and I would say the rest are a bit more calm and focused on the game,
so I think it's up to me and him to bring the team up.
We want a bit of freedom in our lives, but sometimes that freedom can be a bit too much, I would say.
That's exactly what we spoke about and it may sound harsh and for people watching out now, don't get me wrong,
but giving freedom to players who don't know what to do with that freedom is barely going to be a good idea.
good idea, often it's not, you know, and that's the difference.
When we praise a guy like Nico for having great understanding of the game, for having
great timing, when you give freedom to a guy like the extortion from ours, we're praising
their capabilities and qualities as individual players to possess all the information, to
take the right decisions and to capitalise on those timings.
If you don't have players who are used to it and don't possess that quality, it's not
going to work out if you give them freedom.
So it's also going to be a learning experience from Kixon.
He's coming into the team that used to play in the Wolfpack mentality.
Now he wants to give players who do not have freedom.
Is that going to work out?
So as he said, it's a balance and it's a very tough balance to figure out and don't
get me wrong.
Some players, they work better in a Wolfpig mentality.
Some players work better when they don't have to think too much about their individual moves
and that's where you get the most out of them.
Sounds perfect for me, that's for sure.
On any given day with all of this, but we need to start talking a little bit about end
delay in here as we see the players get to warm up.
Then we get a little exclusive look at what map that might be.
Could you guess?
Did you see it?
Yeah, it's about the right one.
I wish that would be a dream come true.
Let's look at this then delay, right? Because you guys mentioned to me last time around,
oh, let's look at Doc. When I looked at them playing in Tier 1 games, right, against other
good teams, it's a limited sample size, but I saw Max Kor, I saw Koala. I didn't see the
Doc that we were hyping up and being told was so good, so what the hell's going on with
this guy?
Good question. Like, I gave him the Skybox Edge, I had to test from that game, right?
I wanted to find out was it just you know bad duels like did he not win his his his aim duels and whatever right?
But for me he stroked me at least in the game against spirit to be very you know scared of playing to win
Like there are a couple of situations in the beginning of the city side of cash where he are he is in the prime position
To make the winning play but instead he hesitates a little bit
Waits too long to actually do his thing and what happens meanwhile the spirit just goes on the bottom side and wins around right?
So I think for this guy if he is to be the next big thing
Yeah, he needs to also do these things under pressure against the better teams a little bit like we talked about with the freedom thing on a
Roar, right? But it's easy to do it in practice. It's harder when everything is on the line
This kid needs to learn it as well because obviously he has the skill to be to be able to be here
Yeah, but he also needs to put himself into the mix, you know make that thing that makes you a star player
Could be a mindset thing at the same time, but guys, you know what time it is it's time for the video
Now, I'm not the analyst, I'm not a genius, but I'm just going to predict.
We might be getting some cash, I have no idea how I knew that, I'm just obviously predicting
the future.
Yeah, you kind of did that, right?
You know good on you.
Cash coming into the mix is not going to be a big surprise.
I mean, I like it from Dendele, Aurora is a team that's trying to adopt them early on,
and if anything, when I think cash back in the day, I think Sencerus, you know.
Honestly, the best aim I've ever seen at Cash.
Back in the beginning of the days in Space Soldiers, you couldn't play Cash against him.
You couldn't play Cash against Santeris.
He would just own you straight up.
So another chance for Santeris to bring back the old version of him on a map like Cash.
That should be interesting.
Mirage from a Roar, Wacker.
I had my fears going into this veto that a Roar would end up playing two of the three
worst maps and the first two already picked.
They picked one of them themselves.
So I think it is early worry struggles in the map pool that they have to go out on the
map where they are not, you know, full of flying on all cylinders.
Yeah, simplifying it a little bit, you know, Mirage, maybe one of the easier maps to approach,
you know, takes a little less time to get drilled in.
And then you finish off with a nuke, who, you know, historically speaking, is one of
the more tough maps in terms of communication, in terms of rotations and understanding.
So it's a diverse map pool, so to speak, cash and Mirage very similar in the way you
play it, you know, very open for duels, very open for the players to express themselves.
and then you have this tactical affair nuke, should we need it?
Does Dendele get an edge because of the veto in some ways at all?
Do you believe in that side of it? Am I going too far afield?
I don't know yet. I think Aurora doesn't know the map.
They know the strings yet, so it's hard to argue that Dendele should know something.
Aurora doesn't even know. So I think it's still open for interpretation
and that's why Aurora is a big question mark.
For me, the number one thing going into all these three maps,
Dendele's T-Sites, they played against Spirit.
Well class like super super good had they just had a little bit more to work with from the city sites
Different story right and they go in against the team that are best on city, right?
So if you can actually throw, you know some good rounds in there destroy the money a little bit and then pressure
Quicksand to find all the rounds they need on the T side you have a winning recipe
But still Aurora are in my in my like opinion still massive favorites here
Well, let's see if they can cook up that recipe and get themselves a win here. We're going into our opening game
It's then delayed taking on Aurora and Temre G and Anders
Thank you very much boys. Yes elimination on the line here on day three Anders
Someone has to go home. It's a real shame
But I'm excited for the prospect of cash kicking things off mirage as well
And I like a little tidbit from Pimpus. What if Abba Zantara used to be a beast on cash?
She's absolutely right that is true or on the poly market the predictions seem to be favoring
Aurora at the moment, I guess that makes sense even to name brand point of view
But I kinda want both of these teams to stay. I've actually been enjoying this so much.
The problem I've seen with Aurora right now is the output from the Turkish core.
Wakadia especially. He did not turn up against G2. Zantara's looked very flat.
I'm finding Zantara's inconsistencies a little bit alarming right now.
I don't feel like he's the start of this team anymore.
He has the potential to have pop-off games, but I feel we need more output from Wakadia especially.
The other guys, Kicksand and Jimmy, they look pretty decent.
They're up against Dendele who gave spirits a rump of their money. I think it's very very wide open as to who will be eliminated today
We'll kick things off. It's gonna be the pick of Dendele ladies and gentlemen
We will see them start on the T side of course
I'm excited for this one
We've been seeing a lot of cash and we are learning rapidly what the meta is looking like so far
Bit of a stack on the a-bomb side for the defense and they do have that forward set up over on B
So they're gonna be able to know a little bit earlier on what's happening
Molotov I think is going to be set up towards that back sandbags position here
There we go. So trying to find for some mid control Dendalee, which is super important another Molotov
That's two in the pistol and then they're gonna throw these top-high with small spots
Centaur is
You want to the see me or Henry and he's already
Very nice indeed round still available to Dendalee though coming down to some scrappy fights here four versus two
He takes a bullet for the face, but Jimmy, stepping up.
It's now the koala.
Surely nothing he can do with this one.
He has no bomb.
Julie's in hand and a three versus one here.
Minute to work with.
We've seen plenty of 3B1s and pistols
in this tournament, Anders.
To be fair, but a bomb down towards highway.
They're round to lose, of course.
Walk safe, be careful.
You've got 10 HP trying to bait in.
The player towards the lockers.
And it all works perfectly.
Nice round there from Aurora, especially for the Zantaras.
But he keeps one of those players.
a good pistol round they probably have a good half. That's scary. He mentioned it, right?
How hard it was to play in the past. Yeah. Well that's supposedly mouse now. They crown
themselves. The kings of cash that's true. Cash money. Or maybe Santaris has a different opinion
about it. It's a bit of a shame, right? Because they had smokes to try and make sure that Santaris
couldn't take the kind of a peek but they ran in front of their own smokes. Exactly. And that kind
Well, we're not going to see a force by here, a bit of a gimme round.
Plenty of counter strike action coming your way, ladies and gentlemen, four more bests
at threes is being the first, of course.
Let's have a look at some of the, oh, the next game, man, is that's the one everyone's
waiting for.
G2 versus Spirit.
Just keeping me up at night.
That's going to be a hell of a banger.
We're going to have to give it the beans on that one.
Well, especially because Dogg has been playing out of his mind, which I guess is no surprise.
I always do.
Can we just chill?
It's day one of the tournament.
Why are you getting aces every two rounds?
Let's relax. Yeah, the Navi vs. Pain, M.A.T vs. Furia.
Bear in mind, well, Navi vs. Pain, that's also another M.A.T. game.
Oh, yeah.
Navi, you look great. There's a world where they're knocked out, they threw the tournament.
That could be happening. That would be, I guess, they're already facing a favorite criticism
of Navi these days. If they can't make it through this one, I think that's going to
be pretty tough for them. We're going into round number three, and we've got some weapons
coming out finally from Dendeley. The desk were, I think, excited, you know, given what
they showed against Spirit. I kind of agree, right? Like, if you take Donk out of the mix,
then Dendeley are very competitive. I know that's always going to be a big statement,
but... There was definitely a conversation of them winning at least a map there. Yeah,
there were times where they looked like they had fore control be alive. It was a Donk
factor. He just kept absolutely destroying them 1v5. It was kind of unreal, actually.
But here we go. As you mentioned, guns are out. A few galels in the mix to focus on utility.
Absolutely fine. They've got that nice mid control and every team is trying to garner a nice response
And if you've talked about this all week long, if you lose middle you need to attack the extremities get some B
Storage control pushing towards a main and you can see Jimmy and there are a lot of scrutiny right now
Looks to be a B finish here from the fence and they've all banged him
There's a lineup you can do through the glass paint and those give you that
I didn't think it would connect that cleanly though kicks out making up for a keeps it a three versus three
There's a lot of damage inflicted as well as Antares up and towards the heaven spots one towards the back up of the side
She does bounce off the wall there. It's an attempted flight from Mercadia, but he's gonna go down koala
He was really sick last time that we saw it ended him and max core
I think were the two players to really watch although we know that doc could do better the bombers momentarily lost outside of the bomb
So it's a bit of a shame because otherwise they could have put a lot of pressure on but I guess tenderly they're spending their time
Well, they're trying to relocate koala who's low on health through the middle
He's gonna go right through CT spawn
Oh, okay. So they've got plenty of time to do this, but every second the passes, Woxig will be aware of it.
You can see him actually being quite mindful. I think the timing will allude him though.
The back stab should prevail here.
It's up to Koala.
Santariz.
Showing presence towards Heaven. That should activate Koala here.
Oh, he's waiting. Almost had the grenade out.
Some straight-head shot from Koala with just three points of health.
That's such a fusion.
He nearly took down Woxig as well.
That's so well played.
Save the AK here, the nade lands, you're gonna kill, you probably look into it, but very unlikely over the pool this one off.
17 HP.
Yeah, I do feel like that AK could be valuable. I guess they have a little bit of cash, but...
It's just good enough to buy the AWP going forward. Dropping that AK actually is kind of massive.
If you get that, there's on towers, on a CT side of cash. I would like to bring that up.
Specialist weapon, especially on the defense. I think that's a much more beneficial than giving a pretty much impossible tour on one ago.
That's the window paper I'm starting to get about.
Like a sick, see where that's not a great spot to hold.
Well, the other thing you brought up, which I think is really, I think that might be our new metric for testing how good of an understanding people at the CC side is this trading mid for other parts of the map.
I feel like some teams have picked that up well and some teams just haven't done that yet, like they just lose mid and that's it, they don't know what to do.
It's good to see Aurora try to adjust, even if ultimately they ended up losing that round.
I mean, getting wallbang died there, I guess it's not part of the script, probably wouldn't happen again.
It was a unique setup, they had like a bonus situation there, and it was like MP9s and Famas,
so they're gonna be trying a bit more of a gimmick setup there.
But well done from Dendeley.
It's fine, let's get the next one, they have shit money.
Yeah, there we go.
I mean, that's absolutely fine.
Got that AK now, presumably in the hands of Santariz, indeed.
Watch out, he gets it in zone here on cash, it could be a massive problem for Dendeley.
No fast mid control this time CT's actually taking control of it three players there getting closer and closer
They haven't seen many counterboots in the CT side is this one of those red moments. They might give it a go
So I would have as I was
Love to see that it's just so much fun
And like there's something dramatic about waiting for that boost to happen
But right now we're not seeing we're seeing these deep nades that have become
You know met her in the last couple of days I would say yeah
absolutely
So, slow and steady so far, exchange of utility, kicks out and walks it, feeling the brunt of it, down to about half HP.
Look at them essentially playing retake on A, which is one of the predictions that we made on day one,
that probably people are going to be trying to play further back on the A bomb, so I think just now we're starting to get a little bit closer.
Deep Molotovs both into checkered and into the vent at the same time, so if you're playing in the vent and you're trying to fall back into checkered,
then you're going to be burned running into another Molotov, that's not going to be a fun idea.
here. Lara grenades under the bomb site, Jimmy throwing out some counter utility, but it's
Santaris with that AK. Big 8 prefers kill on RDN.
And again, it's one of the most iconic anchors. Take down the strike history, Jimmy. Sit to
the back of the bomb site, got his wall cut out from now on. There's at least one and
a half kills here. I don't think he's going to get it though, and there's a lot of pressure.
Yep, didn't quite manage the spray. And that could cost him the rounds. Santaris a bit
too aggressive. A bit disjointed there. Didn't seem like they were really working together.
two separate 1v3 situations.
And in 70, we're gonna slow them down.
There's only 10 seconds on the clock.
That's Kuala now on the ground.
Doc trying to make his way up.
He's got the bomb.
He's only got 22 health.
If a bullet touches him there,
he might've been dead,
and then there would've been no bomb planted around.
That's actually so much scarier than maybe it seemed
for just a second there,
because I thought that's it, but he's got it.
Doc's gonna be going down,
and now Max-Core with an AK swings into it,
strong headshot.
He knows that someone's right above him.
Is this a good position?
Are you actually going to be able to spot behind your
and get yourself down?
What a flick that is.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Quite an ugly round from Aurora in the end.
Like I said, too many disjointed fights,
his entire dropping out of the vents.
Jimmy's not really backing him up as well,
that is leaving each other alone in those jewels.
Yeah.
And they're very well done from Dendeley to Manicent.
What a fucking wall versus one to kick things open as well.
This is the moment here.
Get that kill.
I don't know why you come into that.
I don't know either.
You've got a nice kill, you can stay alive, you can call for a flash, you can drop down.
That spray light, I don't know what he was hoping to achieve there.
Yeah, I feel like there's so many more options to synergize and...
...bring that advantage into your favor further.
I think you're bang on, I think that's one of those moments, you know, the pre-given to you talking about like freedom on that side, you know, like maybe that is too much freedom this entire time.
I'm gonna go for it.
Get a nice freebie there from the vents, you can stay alive.
Either way, we've got an A executioner, three smokes being deployed, truck CT, highway,
Tantaris, trying to deliver the good tears, essentially an eco with an MP9, the P9 doing
well, it's doing excellent in fact.
Gives them a fighting chance, bear in mind they're full eco otherwise, but if I don't
matter, P2000 doing considerable damage, Kicksand will convert it, still massive advances to
the tenderlay of course, no care blah, and some good damage to be fair, 90, towards Koala,
Round is back on Anders, all the rest of these Max cores can definitely be out of duel
and now it's 10 hell for Kuala, holding onto it although like he's saying, they know he's low, they know that he's back there.
Find him instantly, that is a miracle round coming out there and it's on the back of Santares on that ridiculous double MP9.
Okay, all is forgiven from that messy previous round because Santares goes above and beyond of the SFG, a hero MP9.
You don't see those two often, I mean, you're not expecting some foul play, but more so than speed.
The spray control towards the streaky door is just sublime.
Excellent work there. Jimmy as well, doesn't get a kill, but he gets the ding towards the player on heaven.
That is so valuable, and it's a full eco victory, essentially there for Aurora.
It's a moralizing outcome there for Den Delay. They're going to be going for an A execution once again here.
Two players towards the door, sending out multiple smokes here, and just going to be trying to surprise Wakadia.
He's got the 8k in hand though, got to have backup from the mighties, Antares towards highway.
As we've always mentioned though, and as soon as these smokes come in, very telegraphed,
allowed for CTs to rebuttal with their incendiaries, their own smokes going down.
I don't think there's going to be too much of a problem.
They might be able to get a bomb down, but it should be fine.
Antares up towards the heavens, see what he can do.
Yeah, kind of utility already coming out.
Smokers down now, with Cardia trying to build a little bit of space here at the back of the bomb site.
Making their way on top of the box is so good, isn't he?
When he's on, he is a world-class rifleman.
He should be the star of this team. He should be taking the baton from Zantara as to be the number one rifleman in this squad.
Henry, you're the first person that I heard of, even mention Wakadia's name for international combat.
You were like one of the earliest to...
I was about to say that.
That's an ace, by the way. It is against, you know, just the four-stop pistols there, but nonetheless, pretty cool.
I mean, the facts. You've got the clean sheet there, five players alive, deny the plan,
Send them down to an eco. That's a very significant ace.
Yeah, I think that's fantastic work from Wakadia.
He's looking much better today.
Yes, he is.
The listening that we had, they were mentioning on the war,
listen, their money's not that good.
They didn't win that round that they were talking about.
It remains true.
Like, it's kind of been fulfilled anyway,
that promise of destroying the Denderley economy.
So, why good stuff here?
Can be a bit of a CT-sided map at times, though.
So, we've seen teams struggle to put these T rounds together,
and maybe Dendeley running into the end of the back of the economy being this low, it's not going to get any easier.
Taking the tactical time out here, Dendeley, just to calm things down.
It's going to be the full E-Cable look, Sting's here.
Lost bonus, not exactly established, they got $1,900 per play into this round, you can't even justify a P250, you have to go five glocks here.
Yeah.
Koala has two more kills than the all the rest of his teammates.
Yeah, that could be a problem.
That's not ideal, that's for sure.
to get it over and down with.
No early counter utility coming
out from Aurora to try and stop
the rush. I think Robs showed us
some really good, you know, kind
of utility to make sure that you
couldn't rush the B bomb site.
I like this from Jimmy, though.
The game is going to play a boost
of the site as well. Jimmy takes
the initial aggro, kicks and mows
him down. And then he takes the
initial aggro, kicks and mows
him down. And then he takes the
initial aggro, kicks and mows
him down. And then he takes the
the game. That's a good way to
not have to throw the kind of
utilities just play far enough
back. Good call from kick, Sam.
Great understanding of the
economy gives nothing away.
Doesn't risk a damn thing.
Five two on the CT side here
for Aurora on their opponent's
pick. If you're just joining us,
welcome to day three here.
Blast open Porto. We have got
four best of threes, including
this one and their mind. The
loser of this series is
eliminated. Well, that's a
series is eliminated. I kind of hate that to be honest. I wish we could keep both these
teams a little while longer. I want to see more out of them. Dandelay, they really, really
keep my interest. It's playing yet spirit. I thought they put up a great game. They need
to get off the ground though. I mean, more than anything, Koala needs some help to try
and get some kills on the board. There's going to be an earlier execute. I think they're
going to flash their way over and just try and beat the timing for anyone that might
be in the bomb site. This is the current sort of classic flash bang and it's going to
flash that NBK corner as well and they try and see if they can make their way out.
Doc on the entry looking for anyone that he could find on the site and he'll find it.
Wakadia no problem. Waxing gets to go down. It's a long spray.
At least Zantara's alone on the highway and yeah they can talk him off.
Wifi- oh no! They're still fighting him! And that's why you don't want to do that!
Okay they should be absolutely fine here. I don't see a wall to this retake.
It's impossible Zantara's being low. He's got the AWP as well.
The thing is, they're in main, if they get smoked up by default, you can end up being
locked out of a potential afterplan here, but they're going to be fine.
You're right, Henry.
Jerome to be worried, Centares goes down, it's just so when you see him hitting those
headshots, I think, oh no.
Yeah.
Why are they throwing the round away?
Good job, Dendeley, though.
Absolutely true.
Nice work on the entries, super clean, crisp.
Not a conviction behind this play as well, but exactly where to create excellent work
with your Guardian.
Hound was over at that point, but Zazam Tarrin certainly made it interesting with his second
kill.
Here he comes.
Great work.
Keeps him modest at least, but it's another round of the ball for Dendeley.
We'll have the first tactical time-out now for Aurora.
They'll still have the AWP in walksie-tans.
With CT AWPs on catch, you want to see him moving around the map a lot.
It's when you see him tagging the B players, maybe going for an A main pick, Squeaky Door.
And just staying dynamic would be the operative word for Orpheus on the CT side of Cache.
Quite stressful when you are trying to peek and take angles on the T side.
You never know if you turn the corner, you walk into that scope.
Like just the fear factor of not knowing where it is could be really, really annoying.
We have seen finally some cool squeak door pushers coming out of the A bomb side with the AWP as well.
Yeah, you'll see that at least once a half, a two man push towards Squeaky Door.
just to keep a blind pressure, condition him to realize that's a threat they need to consider.
But now let's see what kind of U2 are dropping the front, the side of the line.
So it could be that T spawn B main smoke and they're sending five players instead of Matt.
I think they'll be setting themselves up for maybe just a shred of contact play.
Suggesting is just to stand at deep or a one player is trying to get towards checkers,
but they've got your five players here.
Oh, Jimmy, surprise, living the smoke and he's doing a lot of damage here.
Very uncomfortable now, but then delay and he will kick down.
In the back of checkers, you'd expect to hide a little bit more there,
But he's done very well so goes down as well. He should be absolutely fine. The real thought of their side yet
They have a Molotov but can they slow it down to actually get him away?
No docks the one that has it so he can't return around to Molotov out kicks out in the corner
It's very awkward since ours that's a second time. He's done that now. What are you up to?
I know exactly what you're talking about. I think it's a ridiculous play for some guys
You don't need to be doing that and I potentially lost around so it could be absolutely could be Jimmy finally
It's going to return here in class.
Okay, Jimmy saved them.
That is...
Zanzara's easy to kill.
I hate you.
Come on, bro.
I love it, Henry.
I can feel your frustration.
You're not even in the server.
That's great.
He knows it as well.
That right smile, like, dude.
You're almost through the round.
Yeah.
They did such a beautiful start to it as well.
Really nice setup.
Brother.
Yeah.
Don't even need to be part of the fight.
It's killing everyone.
We're warming up. They are just warming up into it. Sure, but I think honestly, I think you're right to be frustrated on like, because that is that you're putting your teammates in such a weird situation.
Just trying to do too much, trying to like dominate the server, trying to show he's the big goal, which is fair enough. He is. He's probably the best aimer on the server right now.
But we do need to win the round as well. Play as a team, play conservatively and play the percentages more importantly. The round was already in the bag there.
was already in the bag that you open up your opportunity. Thankfully Jimmy getting that
wall bang towards checkers saved the day. It's all fine. Whatever. Let's move on. Should
be the eco here. Six to three. Then the least money this half has been woeful. So many echoes
full because of that again, not even a while they can really buy PT 50 has to be clocks
to get one D eagle on koala. That is about it. I don't know if it's just because their
money started to run low but I feel like the mid control that Dendili was getting early on was
great, like they had great molotovs to take their mid control. I'd love to see them kind of return
to that when they start to pick up some more utility again. That'd make it a little bit interesting.
Look how he's feeling himself, dominating the enemy position, actual shooting gallery here.
Oh, that was aggressive though, it's going to cost them. Oh my goodness. I like the confidence but
Unfortunately, that's the risky take.
We were commending them for that really passive b-holding
against the Pelikos, and of course, the issue here.
Now, you potentially lose to the Glocks.
I think they're going to be fine because there's
so much utility.
They just bombed out one Theron and Santaris
with the headshots.
Follow, looking to relocate.
Max-Corp is low enough to get him the AWP.
That would be even better, but all he's left on
is a Glock here, flashing around the corner.
They're out in the open, but it's a good retake.
They're important work for Aurora.
Cyber Relief I suppose, again not really sure why they're going for those plays, you know it's a Faleca, they've been tracking the money really well, like you know they're in $2400 into this round, can't get a bomb plant, let's relax, I guess there's bad comms at that point, they're both today me, they get surprised by Glock coming at his wiki door, like why are you coming at him, what is going on there, it's fine they win the round, I'm not gonna try, I'm gonna chill, it's fine I like it, I like it, it's Ash, it's Ash, this is gonna be a six right now,
If Ash has like a little scorecard of like you know smileys and I don't know
What's the frownies is that the other side you're gonna push a male like that at least I drop the incendiary deep
Give yourself about that space the bridge and then you can have like some real strong positions
How about it either way I'll get into another gun round
Here's that mid-control I'm talking about for then delay now. They've lost the player outside of the B bombsite
It's just walks are just playing aggressively the confidence is not lacking
But max core was gonna be there they trade him out. So
really really important for Max score. Again somebody must have that koala at
the moment. Four and four for now. What a pressure over towards B.
Gb currently nine and four up against Rdm here. Smoke goes down CT score. He's got
the AK and the B side. You can see he's eager to look for some frags towards B main.
I think he's only got one player there. Is it over towards Sunrum as well to be fair?
Drops to defensive smoke.
Got a reposition for that.
You're playing a bit of a mind game.
I think if you're coming in for check, you're not going to be...
You're going to be looking for this. You don't realize that he's already in the smoke.
This is kind of a scary position.
Wokadia's traded out. It's a good kill for Cafolo.
But, catch me.
Now he's trying to see if he can navigate back
and get another kill, but it's going to be a little bit late.
And Maxx call with the headshot on to Santaris,
who finds himself in a very exposed position up there.
I don't think you realize this smoke did not cover him fully.
Clicks and thrust into a 2 on 1 clutch.
Yeah, massive advantage with Enderley.
Nightmare scenario for the in-game leader.
How to access the bombsite through the vents, potentially,
20 seconds remaining.
Just waiting to see if he appears in towards the bombsite.
He's going to go through B main.
That's what a kid of course.
Money's very strong for Aurora.
Incendiary and a flash available.
This dual comes out of the timings here.
So bombs could be, they can't be sorry.
He's actually got a great timing here.
He slipped in that.
He almost had him at the corner, and that might have ended the round in the open.
He's not going to be able to find him immediately, but you are right.
The timing is amazing.
There's just no one who's going to be checking this, but my scores again.
His reactions are really great.
A triple for Max Kor.
Finally adding something.
We know he could play better than this.
We've seen it before, but they needed this round, Henry.
They're up to four.
I think that's already good enough that they could be competitive.
They get a fifth here in the 12th round.
I think that will put them over the line.
I think that's where things get real interesting.
But this B-Defense is super destroyed, isn't it?
Like Jimmy's been playing well, but every time the backup is there,
like they never managed to play off each other.
Exactly, that's exactly my point.
Yeah, there's too many solo interactions.
They let them have the bombsite.
You can go for a retake.
Zantara seems to be wanting to take every single jewel.
Speaking of jewels, we'll be docked with the wallbang towards Kicksad.
That one's rough.
That's right towards middle, as he's crossing over as well.
It's a very important part of the game, knowing your lineups,
understanding your spams.
It's paper thin, and you can see that, and you can see how it's going to go.
Oh, that perfectly punctuates my point.
If you know the lineups, and you know how to take them down, that's so powerful.
Punch into your point, and punch into his head as well.
It's brutal.
It's that lineup.
Right, this shows you how powerful it is.
It's got two kills for free.
They haven't seen anyone.
Yeah, three versus five now.
So I'd like to say for the nerds out there,
glass is the most penetrable material in the game in the world in the world and
wood then concrete for anyone cares metal gym fats couple of kills in turn
what's happening and ladies you've got two free kills with wall bangs in the
middle this is not around that you could be given up while they're trying to get
a bit closer but Max course sniked out of there since Harris he did see the
shoulder but while I still managed to take him down somehow we're back in a
2v2 but this should have been a one round already with 35 seconds the bomb is back in middle as well Henry
This is a bit of a weird round already and maybe ardy and maybe that headshot is enough to get it across the line
I really feel if that if then delay gave up this round that would just be unforgivable. Oh Jimmy
He's in a pretzy
Dire situation he's got two kills to his name still 100 HP
Incendiary HG but so far removed they're gonna get a nice plan going on here's a default plants
I assume they went for as safe as possible.
What's the play here Jimmy?
How do you cut this one down to size?
I mean, incendiary HE to the back line, could...
What a bad idea.
Could force out one player, could do a lot of damage, but right now he's being quiet
as a mouse, sneaking up on towards the forklift at the moment.
Bombs ticking around rapidly, okay, he has to do something there.
Incendiary going deep to the left-hand side, not the N.
Alright, he saves it there.
win five at a critical round of the end of the year for Denderly.
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 AWP to perform if you're going to
put in as much resources into the AWP every single game.
I think their role has evolved in a few ways.
When you go all the way back to the start of CSGO, we have super combat AWP, Kenny
It's the best example because he was so mobile with the AWP.
We all got nerfed as a result, mainly of players like Kenny S, who were so aggressive
that they were always pushing, always in your face.
In the game, that got nerfed that we saw offers the more static for a while.
Devices are 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 a shot.
He was the most reliable all the time really.
I think all by gelling is not easy.
You give him space, he'll figure it out every time.
There are very few cases of players who have made that work
at the top level.
There's a few factors, I think, that play into this.
When you're orping, you've got to be focused on your crosshair
as basic as that sounds.
I think you have to have a lot more trust
for your team in order to actually be capable to or.
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 yopers
that are a lot of fun to watch people at 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 thus on the simple best moment, dropping in from heaven,
getting two no-scope kills, and hit the crazy stuff,
and you got away with it time off the time.
When you're a top-up as well, you're getting studied,
you're getting game planned for.
The fact is 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 never makes mistakes,
a guy that is extremely hard to punish.
There's different levels of open, 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.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. You're watching Blast Open Porto. You join us for the first elimination game here on day three.
It's Aurora up 7-5 on their opponent's map pick of cash, but the desk we're talking about, freedom, allowing players off the leash.
I would say Aurora need a bit more discipline right now. I feel like there is, if anything, way too much freedom going on.
With Santaris back on the leash.
That's great.
Either way, 7-5 up, not a big deal.
He did a lot of better team, but just quite a messy first half.
Pistol round.
Get out of there, Doc.
As ever, very important.
Bit of a scrap towards middle to kick things off.
And we'll have a look at the new cell available here.
We've got one smoke and a Molotov remaining for Aurora.
Wokadia is confirmed that he has got squeaky door control.
He's got the bomb as well, better or mind.
So we're likely finishing up towards A.
Jimmy towards B, by the way.
He's in summer of a Molotov.
So is he going to Molotov headshot?
and try and suggest we're getting towards B and they have a smoke that was of checkers I suppose like
a couple of ideas. Think the smoke they're throwing from mid now is actually going to land towards that main entrance to B.
Yes. Like it's such a deep smoke. It's gone CT sport, yeah. Yeah. Nice camera.
Where does he molotov? How does he sell this? Zantara's? He's gone.
Oh, the fact that they find Zantara's in the middle is going to make the sell harder.
They try to open the door on the other side. Finally getting help. Fuck, I think he was holding it for a second there.
Wakali are flying in with the Glock to take his head straight off!
Bomb planted, yes, but there's only one T actually here.
Laflank coming in, Jimmy.
Orange! How's he done this? There's no scope on that!
I was gonna say, how is Jimmy gonna have impact?
That's how.
That's no problem at all.
Glock...
...used like an orb there.
Fantastic work at range.
Gets himself three kills.
He's still got the Molotovs. He didn't fake it.
I guess it was a post-plant Molotov he was planning to throw from truck, I suppose?
That's...
That is such a sick idea. I hope that's the plan in the future.
That'd be my favorite pistol round if he actually did that.
Yeah, quite a layered nuanced pistol there, but great output from Jimmy, he certainly saves the day.
I had the same question in my mind, like how's he going to do anything in this round?
He answers that question by getting three kills. Like, yeah, let me go, fair enough.
Very impressive. Nice work, Jimmy. 15 and six now.
Awkward position to deal with, plus Avocadia jumping Glock.
to be stole the show though calm crisp three kills in total this one very
good night they needed that's eight to five huge round I did like the freedom
discussion because it also kind of felt like kickstand was halfway implying that
the team had been enslaved by Maja for so long that they weren't used to the
freedom like there's something about that imagery that's just amazing but
Yeah, I mean, I think it's fair criticism for Centauri's in the first half.
We know that he has the skill to back it up, but sometimes you just don't need it.
You don't need to be doing all of that work.
Let's see if it's going to be more impressive in a second.
I don't even know who he was in Tari's. He's got 11 kills. I'm not complaining.
No denying that. So it's just some of the key rounds,
whereas a 50-50 sort of scenario, if not, they had the advantage him just
committing to 1BX Jules by himself.
This didn't make sense, but we're in the lead.
So good.
You're a fan of the Max 7, Henry?
Actually, I am. And this method actually seems like a very potent weapon.
You've got to be careful.
Give it another shot here.
Get some tires.
It's, it's, you know, like it's not worth it.
Your teammates aren't even ready to go.
You can't do much with it.
All right, he's going to find the kill, but there's a world in which he gets his head blown clean off.
That's scary.
All under control.
Looks like an A finish.
It's a bit of a B stack from Den Delay.
One player with the MP9.
Will he be able to replicate the success of Santaris?
He got that nice double kill from the forklift.
He's going to have to go even bigger.
They got a chance of winning the round here.
No one else to back him up.
No flash, there's one flash, I suppose.
Not going to happen.
Save the little you have, boys, deagles.
I mean, the dink is impressive, but you're right.
It would have to be Santaris kind of
spray down for that to be doable.
Just a note, that Aurora now winning both pistols
and follow-up conversions.
Yeah, important to keep track of, right?
With the kind of lead that they had coming out of the first half as well,
this is going to be a uphill battle right now for the end of the day.
It really is.
They're not pick as well.
I feel like if I had to construct a better case for them though,
I would say so much of the first half was just Koala trying to get kills.
We haven't really seen a real contribution from Max-Koala,
but he is so much better than he's shown already.
They get him online for the second half here with the AWP. I think it'll be a very very different affair very true
He was excellence against spirits a real thorn in their side. Yeah, good round though. Aurora keep four alive
They actually managed to hunt down
Towards the end that for anyone that missed that spirit game with them today
Like one of the big takeaways that we had was in spite of don't getting
Tons of kills very very often. They actually traded our donk
I didn't allow them to get a ton of multi-kills like they only successfully did that and that's a big achievement
So, we know they've got the mechanic, we know they can shoot hard.
Max 7, more or less.
And the Eagle 2 as well.
Just one player with Kevlar on the CT side, so it should be a bit of a gimme,
but we have seen plenty of eco-victories, don't mind war up,
one with 1MP9 and 4USB, so it definitely can't happen.
So we'll see you get a nice opener like that,
walks into a lot of schools in here,
holds his nerve, will card you, back him up,
Flying the omen in the form of Cthulhu, he has actually got a good timing here, but city close to the behind him though
because otherwise they're gonna know that he's pushed in here.
Always gonna hit a corpse.
None of that matters.
You can do a bit of detective work based on that doping open or closed, always fun to think about.
Nice shot, I think it's a little bit late in the hour to start speaking of Digo headshots.
A lone koala, and he's gonna be found by Woxic, who's been a little bit more quiet.
Three kills from this round.
Three kills in this round, taking us to top eight and seven.
Didn't really have massive outputs in the first half, but as we said, the team are winning.
Decent lead here, 10-5.
Everyone else looking razor sharp, Wakadia and Jimmy especially.
So first gun round here. Max Kord is at the AWP.
Same story for Woxic as well.
Always an interesting first-come-round. Do you have so much success? You had a bit of a bonus situation with two Galils here.
Snipe off really early. Kickshand pushing straight through and Doc, he could have been dead right there. Max-Cord, this is so scary.
What a shot.
I was gonna say, there's someone close by, but it doesn't even matter, yeah. What a shot coming out from Santaris.
And Kickshand pushing on forward. He might be the time he did, he just might not realize that he's here.
that he's here. That's gonna say, do you go up the ladder? Yeah. Are they aware of this potential?
If you wanted to, you might have failed to actually find the ladder there, but...
Oh, shut up! He rewarded Kexan, that's an ugly spray! He was partially blind, but definitely
should be getting that kill. There's still a way to get back. If they can find Qwala here,
well, they can't because he's in the corner, but if they had found him, then they would have been
a clean pass to the onsite. Qwala doing exceptional work to keep Dendeley in, and this is such an
important round. Like, they absolutely need to win this one, otherwise they're gonna be in a lot
a lot of trouble, but I think this could be the beginning of a cool comeback here for the CT side.
Grenaded himself Henry. It's not necessary.
The walks here to try and hold onto the orb, I don't think that'll be happening. You're definitely going to try and hunt him down here.
Holding towards Sun Room for now is the opening pick there.
Full Aurora, nice mid-control, but a good rebuttal. Has to be 7 Dendaland.
Bravely boosting up on the ticket booth going through that smoke. I feel like it's I'm definitely should have got at least one there
Whether it makes a difference. I'm not sure but uh, yeah
It would be gutted like I said, he was partially blind
awkward fights I
Wanted to see him go up the ladder because I don't think they realize the timing but I guess like that's what I'm thinking
I don't know how meta that is to park up the smoke and go to the ladder
I'm assuming you're just aware the CT to be watching that potential
It's gonna be allowed to hold on to it. Okay. Yeah, I guess the money's quite fragile
Fair enough
Just gonna hold on to their weapons first round of the second half picks up
The den delay
I was gonna ask you because we've been having this conversation about
The CT response to losing mid and then pushing, you know, some of the other extremities
How long before we start to see C sides that take mid control and then actually just fall back and wait for the CTs to push like just
I mean, yeah, their maths is evolving constantly, right?
There's been a couple of months, we've had cash,
and there's those few tournaments, it was barely played.
We're learning new ideas, approaches,
every single time you watch the map.
And thankfully, we're in the cycle now
where everyone wants to play it.
Every series, you seem to be getting cash.
What a refreshing scenario.
The beginning was a bit frustrating,
seeing it banned out all the time,
or sometimes the third map, but you didn't get there.
Yeah.
This is what I was talking about,
quite a good response there. Definitely should have got that one. Like I said, I don't think
it has necessarily been the moment they lost the round, but certainly didn't help.
Braves and towers. A little frustration. A little frustration. Money is going to be
fine in the trend for Aurora. Do they have the wall bang lineup? I guess he's positioned slightly
different. No, there it is. So he could be wall banged as well. Whether they know the lineup,
That's a different question.
Well, they experienced it themselves, so if they know it, it's going to be at least in their mind somewhere, Wakadia.
It's one of those positions that does get overlooked.
Kwanagh, waiting for it, smoke is down, his shoulders could be showing, and yeah, Wakadia.
Good job actually checking that, and not just kind of making the assumption to follow alone in the back, and it's a good first kill, but he still needs some backup here.
I think Wakati is pushing through the smoke into TCT's spawn.
He might catch them as they're coming through here, but no max core.
He was ready with the AWP. That is some heads up play.
We'll touch on this after the round, but that defensive smoke,
K'Farlow, that drops towards Hedgehobber.
It's so powerful. It means they have to go through the actual main entrance to the bomb
site itself. Okay.
They do isolate a lot of fights there. They can't really molotov you.
That's a really important LB, very meta going forward.
He doesn't want to be fighting at two angles, I guess.
Yeah, so you can isolate those jewels and make sure they come back
I love that.
Walkstick at range. Perfect.
For this AWP of his.
Bomb planted. They look like they've done enough, but somehow
Aurora slipped the net and planted the bomb in the A bomb side.
They had a 3v2, but they are so far away.
And to be honest, their money's not that great.
The AKWP, I mean, you might try and go for this,
or you might just lose everything here on the high ground.
And to Walkstick with three kills, didn't take a single point of damage in the round.
He's starting to wake up now.
now. Okay, even though they're up 11-6, it seems quite tense over there. And rightly
so, like I said, discipline has not been great. A couple of fumbles, a disconnect between
some of the key players, but they're still winning. It just feels quite stress. But so
far so good. Woxic, pretty nice sequence from him. Very quiet first half, but alive and
well here in a second. Triple kill with the AWP. There it is. Ash is loving it.
Look at the pressure that it provides to Dendeley, right?
They've got low money, they do have enough for the AWP, but Max-Quar, still where is he?
We've been requesting his presence since the middle of the first half, and now we're
drawing towards, but could be the end of the map here, and he's still not really hitting
the shots.
Koalado!
He's doing all the work.
Fourteen kills now, he is the only engine that's really up and running on this team.
Let's see if he can escape this.
He's got the kill, but he's a little bit stuck in checkered right now, and Maxcorp on the other side.
Oh, is he gonna keep moving forward?
Woxic is waiting for him.
It's a ridiculous off-angle for Woxic to be holding, but it looks like Maxcorp's kind
of put a pause on this.
They lose Koala.
He couldn't make it out of checkered, so now it's a 4 on 4, and with Maxcorp, where does
the bullet go?
He had to cross there right there, and now he's trapped in the cross!
He gives me four once.
There's a way out.
The USB could have done the job as well.
My God, I thought he'd give it up the round there.
Really exciting moment there.
The collateral with the AWP.
Maxxcore makes it work.
Like he said, it's been quiet from him as well.
Eight and sixteen after that double kill.
Round is still on.
Wakadia and Jimmy to a headline act here.
The Aurora outfits.
But let's see whether they can get anything done.
There's no time.
We'll be opened. We can't even get a quick one here. Maybe there's a chance of a plant with a 10 HP and this feels very unlikely
They can make this work
Yeah, and back up a son of the get there as well. They've got the 8G as well
I don't think he's gonna be able to do it any longer. I mean, yes any idea that IDN is already wrapped around no time for the bomb plants
So fortune it's hiding that yeah, she's a little bit half a second earlier
Would have been very effective
Unfortunate, but there it is. It's gonna be dendly posting a second here on the CT campaign to play survive
money's actually kind of busted Jimmy will save the AWP but yeah they've got
a lot of the barrel loss bonus here so it's called the AWP this is like
potential tactical timeout because you're gonna be operating with pistols and
AWP and one AK. You see where they want to go? Is it timeout? Is it called by Aurora?
I'm guessing it is yeah it has to be. That almost was a three man lineup for that
AWP it's so ridiculous. Yeah look like he was done for there but it's such an
awkward fight and they line up for him. Look the fact they didn't hit the first
shot like the Max score yesterday would have hit that shot every single time. Sure.
Try to put too much pressure, but like I know he's better.
So this all comes down to Woxig, right?
Starting to show some form in the second half.
He's got the AWP here.
It's got Kevlar in terms of Util.
They've got a few smokes and not much else.
So it's going to be the force by a couple of rifles, a couple of pistols.
And how do they utilize Woxig?
How do they get the most out of him?
Remember the old cash T spawn wall bang?
Yes, of course.
I don't think he's suggesting he does that.
I'm just saying that.
I'm the only guy who can find a round where someone would try it.
Maybe Ashley's suggesting that right now.
I would assume they'll boost Woxig somewhere and try and get him an early advantage.
He's going towards AMA.
All right.
That aggression is going to take a heads up fight, I assume.
He wants somebody to peek behind that. He's saying, please give it a shot.
He's got two teammates within that are playing anti flash.
So if he's pot flashed in, that's probably fine for them.
Smoke goes up, does make it a lot more tricky.
Yeah, he's aware of the potential threat of CTs pushing that smoke
and tucking in on the left side as well. It's very common.
On the A side of Cache, you've got one player towards the dodgeback area with the AK.
And Jimmy's outside with the utilities.
They're gonna have one smoke and some flashes going over.
Jimmy's got the bomb though.
Yeah, so I'll have to really leg it to get in there.
There's the smoke in the air.
Gonna be another smoke on the ground, alright?
So he's setting up the full XQ from here.
See if these fascists are gonna be working.
Don't need them for RIVN. He's gone straight down, Maxcorp.
Can't really navigate that, so he kicks and finds him.
It's finally a kill for the Dandelion side, but it's an HG for Maxcorp to take down Woxic.
Nice, nice.
Nice boost, OAS. Huge to take that kill, and he's aware that someone could be peeking up on the background.
But wait a minute, peeking on C. That's not a 4x3.
I don't know, but uh
Zantara's aware he's got a little slither of smoke to get up
He's like that angle and great finish Zantara's
Entry kill on the tech nine ambitious self-boosting towards the heavens as well the AWP makes it work
And we do go 12 to 7
Five opportunities closer than ever bear in mind and is against a G2 Aurora
12 to 7 as well. That's what it's called a game
Let's see this from his point of view, it's a great camera angle, yeah, oh, you're seeing
it there, but it's just outside of his range, yeah, that's, you can see besides that, that
little puff of smoke at the top there, it's just a vault up, that's crazy, and is this
where it comes crashing down, there's not much to speak of, it's under firepower, MP
9s, M4s, 5.7s, it's the opponent's pick, and it looks like Jimmy is leaving the way,
20 kills should be GG. I think it is now.
Great killer instinct for Aurora. They have them in a bad economic position.
They know they control the map right now and that is the time of what they're doing.
I like to see that Ash is fired up.
Wacardi has been fired up and Jimmy as well.
They've been playing lights out on this map and you're with Joan 13-7.
It's Aurora taking the map of Dendeley away from them.
Yeah, it's a bit of a shame. Dendeley didn't show up at all.
Against Spira, they look fantastic on this map. We have Max-Core leading the way.
He finishes with 9-18, but that's not to say it wasn't stressful for Aurora.
We saw in that first half, they looked like they were going at each other,
tilted at times and a little bit disconnected, but still an impressive game.
13-7, we have Mirage coming up next, where they should be able to do their best work
and it feels likely for a 2-0 here.
It definitely does feel likely after that one once again, then delay.
They have some moments, but it falls apart when it matters most of them,
some struggles towards the end as well.
It's a bit of a problem now, right, where you can see the idea,
you talk about their positive T-Sides, Rogo, even starting on the T-Side, though, right.
The individuals at times just can't match up to this, they can't make the right decisions.
But I think that's one way to attack it, to be completely honest,
because you can definitely see what they want to do, you can definitely see the division behind it,
but I feel like this game was based on those individuals, you know,
Heroic moments and Terras having this double kill with MP9,
you saw Jim Fett come in and turn around rounds that, you know,
If you stop the round after 50 seconds into it, you say, okay, this is an equal game.
This is a round that can go both ways.
But the individual quality on some of the players of Aurora was the difference maker to me.
You know, Jim Fett, Wycadious, and Thyrus, for that matter as well.
You can play all the right things, do all the right things, have all the great ideas, Rugerft.
But if you can't execute it, if you don't have the players to deliver it in the duels required,
then you can't win games of Counter Strike.
I think the one thing they had going for them was that they won, you know, five full weapon versus weapon rounds on their side.
Who knows, like if they convert the Antico against the Centauros MP9, maybe they run away with the half, right?
But instead, it becomes this like good idea, but at the end of the day it's just not enough, and I think again on CT they get a lot of nice situations, I think.
But again, the individuals on the road just picks it up, and I'm really feeling that these players that has these good stats coming into this tournament, they also need to deliver.
Right now it's the Qwaila and then the rest is like shaky I think.
And we're talking about Antikos going in there well.
Zontoro is on an MP9, just some pistols running away over here.
This was a key round to be able to pick up. One that they shouldn't normally be getting.
Yeah, that's what Rugga said you know, at this point it could have been a very strong T-side knowing how it unfolded.
Zontaro's position gets multileveled out, you know again the idea is good,
but the fact that he gets two kills from this position under all that pressure,
it's one kill too many. Then you see all these pistols, no armour.
P2000, USP, what they do well is they actually get the damage done so it's feasible.
It's viable for them. Again, a USP right there, he goes down, but he puts the player down to 10 HP.
At this point, the spacing, right? It's just one by one by one by one.
After Centaur is getting the first two kills, you can calm down. You can still win the round.
You can still, you know, play a little bit more calm and reassess the situation,
but it felt like all the players were starting to panic, feeling, oh, I have to win my next duel
in order to bring it back in our favor. And the next player goes,
goes I have to win this duel to bring it into my favor and it's as you saw one by one by one and
it must have been nice in their world camp and I think we actually do have a team speak clip as
well we can show from exactly that round.
two guys let's go let's go from play i'm strafing now wait wait
nice guys big fucking round nice man let's go they have shit money guys
they definitely did have shit money after that as well and this is it right we're talking a lot in
the interviews with these guys about the communication about moments like this a lot of voices a lot of
ideas but they're they're following along with each other i think this is quite positive for an
early stage of a war. Yeah it looked like the the conference was on point you know
the players realizing that they're putting down the players to low HP
which is very important information in terms of how you take those tools with
the with the pistols. I think what I like to hear as a coach is a lot of this
peak on me and after you starts right okay let's go right side of the side
together let's swing together we even here you know suggestions to swing left
side but it gets overruled you know it's a lonely let's just hold that everyone
buys into these like small things and as I said this is easy when you're not
under pressure and it's like still only in the game when the game gets close 11
12 against the spirit is it there then as well that is the question right yeah
keeping the mental strong throughout all of the crazy situations I can hit you
count right now you need to get a little bit nerdy when it comes to cash and we
saw a bit of that but also rdm is talking about it with me I think we need
to keep doing what we've done this year like keep pushing ourselves to
To perform better to like be more I don't know nerd in the game
Yeah, like being nerds especially on a new map is super fun because you get to explore all these like things that people haven't talked
About and getting you know the first wall bang the second wall bang and then even a little cheeky little lineup one as well
Crazy it sometimes give you the small advantages you need against the better teams
So I love that that Dindalee has put in the time and effort to actually try and master some of these things where they probably know
They're not the best like in this in the series like they're the underdog
So what can we do instead? Let's bring out some gimmicks
Makes me so happy that we bring back wall bang to to counter strike naturally in 1.6
It was a big part of the game and too much. Yeah, maybe a bit too much
You know all walls is made of paper
But there's not a lot of maps these days where you can actually practice wall bangs and where being
being a good wall banger or being good at shooting through smokes, is that feasible anymore?
You and I both know Gleif to be maybe the best guy to have a maneuver, a smoke or wall bang
for that matter as well.
It's a skill set, it's a feeling, it's an intuition.
And Cache is one of those maps where there's a lot of wall bangable walls, weird sentence.
But it brings another aspect to the map, just like we had a train where movement became
a part of it with all the trains and all the stairs.
Now we have a map where being good at wall banging and being able to visualize, I guess,
skill set in it all.
That's enough about banging, but
why Kadea was doing a lot of banging in the server.
And he spoke to me in the interview before,
by saying he'd been grinding out faces,
doing five to six faces of games after practice
to get his individual level up.
This man is when you know you've got a good future
on your hands, right?
Still 21 years of age, three years at the competitive scene
already at tier one.
And we do remember so many good moments from that.
Kind of got muted over time, but we know the ceiling's there.
Yeah, he kind of overtook Santero's and Boxley,
that matters as well and label himself or we label him the best Turkish player,
you know, for good reason.
I think he was consistent and doing a good job in the old iteration of Aurora.
A little bit of a drop off here to begin with within his national squad,
especially after the summer break.
It's been a bit rough for him in the last couple of tournaments in particular.
So for him to get into a game like this and farm a little bit, you know,
against an opposition that on paper is burdened butter for him.
That's perhaps sometimes what you need as a player.
Just to install a bit of confidence, you know, remind yourself that,
Oh, I'm still great at the game and then you can hopefully take this level and bring it against the better teams as well
I think he's super underrated in the fact that you know you always look at at Santar something
Oh, this is this insane super aimer
He is but he does it, you know at a more slow pace
Then you bring in Vicadia and he is one of the reasons why the old version of the role also work because put him into these
High-action ones we just instantly to track a lot of action happening around you
Maybe even a team flash he will sometimes somehow get the most out of it, right?
So you have a very steady call Maimai and Suntars, and then you have the guy that just see what happens, you know
Throw him in. Yeah, there's young mechanics
There's young skills that could just pop off and dominate on now. You're talking about when things get a bit dice
You made some lost rounds in here. I know it's not against spirit Raga, but I gotta have a team speak for you
I will do a play get ready to go beef. I tell you okay. Yes
Okay, I'm doing up there gently went through Monday go back to B. I will stay easy
Who is one B?
I think he's alone fight
I will just break anything. I know I want to flash
He's alone fight. He's alone fight. Let's search him
Maybe one
Oh, no, he's behind the box. Do guys be one under and one is behind
Well, he doesn't have smoke how we can go like this
And that is that chaos, right, Roger? How can we go like this? They wanted to make a
play, they weren't sure what space was being taken on the map and what actual control they
had and it looks like they didn't have any control by the end of that.
This is the difference between playing the freedom game, because Cookson actually gives
them the actual mid-round to finish call, right? I'm going to make a play, be ready
to go B, but as he says that, I'm looking at what happens behind him. A guy, instead
going back to Vence continues towards connector, towards city spawn and I'm like you want the freedom,
you get the freedom, he even gives you the direction what he wants out of the round
and no one is responding to it right and that's where you know the ping pong obviously the idea is
it could be better let's be honest, it could be better right but at least there is an idea
but people need to buy into it like it's a bad idea, execute it well, it's still better than no
idea and everyone just running around solo right so this is one of the things
this is what Kuksen brings this is what you need to feed off. I was about to say
I'll die on that hill you know a bad call that's followed is better than what
pretend you may be a good call when no one is listening in at all. Even though
you may not agree with the call you have to follow through with it. Back in
Englaves you know days he could do some of the most badass call ever where you
like why we're doing this but everyone just believed that because he said it
people would do it and everyone would buy into it and that is always gonna be a
stronger aspect than you know one or two players hesitating a little bit or one or two players
thinking to themselves is that a good idea maybe i shouldn't maybe i shouldn't at that point you
missed the timing and it's all over you got to drop the egos with those one but at least for
aurora it didn't cost them the game they did go one map up in this series but can they close it
out we're going to mirage next but first of all we're going to a quick break so grab yourself a
snack, a drink, maybe practice some of your wallbangs as well.
It looks like Rob's going to be
tested in this pistol round, but he's got dual Barat is over towards the ramp.
A confident start from Zywoo who's already taken space away out in the yard.
It's Rops though on the chopping block.
Dual Baredes, Flaps, and it's all Rops, all deadies.
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.
As he eats that flash, they'll come barreling towards his sight.
Bax turned. And that is four frags deep for Zywoo.
Oh, it's the ace. It's all five. And the hero steps forward.
That's apex, he's been all over the max seven today in photo banana. That's actually one of the stronger places
Yeah, not if you get a cheat
This is a bit deep jump shot go on do it surely they know they must have seen that how do you do this?
I must have seen a text do it holding aids. Yeah do it
Do it
Okay
on the stomp
So I'm gonna jump on that. On the commit he finds a double, Mag7, back as he finds three,
four of the jump Apex! That's one way for the RNG to fall in your favor.
Killing the clock, 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 Eight Floor falls, Navi get the entry, Mezzi back site, the anchor!
Oh, my God!
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
Mezzie falling short of the finals in London and
And Mao's the team that started it all, the beginning of the fall apart for Vitality, well they're back now, in to the grand final!
Vitality, get it done in two!
And you were just hearing there, some of the commentary and roars of a crowd where only
one of these two teams will have a chance of hearing any sort of crowd if they fight
their way through the lower bracket.
Dendeley right now trailing a map, going into Mirage that is a roar as picked, but you really
said it, Rugger.
In terms of the veto and the map pull for a roar, there's still figuring things out.
Can this be one where we can at least see Dendeley challenge, maybe a bit more than
cash or?
all doom and gloom. Obviously there's always a case you know for the underdog
upsetting the favorite. I want to say with how Mirageben played the last year
or so it has been harder for the underdogs to crack that the T-side so
then delay they need as much as they can get on the CT side and so far that has
been the weakness for them throughout this event so they will need to put up
a really really strong defense and actually take the initiative. Take the
initiative from the start like start these like weird pushes make this like
small traps here and there to actually throw cooks out of it because then he
will have to assemble the pieces and start coming up with new things but if
you just give them freedom satire is going up connected just getting the
time of his life they will have to fill so many holes I don't know. I think I've
seen enough you know the intro ticket for Dendele in this game is to be able
to match the individual output for some of these are role-players so unless you
have a guy like Doc who's been owning it up online in tier 2 to tier 3
Counter-Strike showing up then I think you know in all games you can simplify it to a point
Unless you can match the output unless you can match it in terms of firepower then all the strategies all the ideas all the execution
Kind of goes out of the window
So that's step one if they can do that sure you can build a case that it can be competitive
But I think I've seen enough from from then they're not ready yet to to consist of well
You know who is ready and they're always ready with amazing commentary for us. It's Anders and have regime
No comment from Pimper like a let that one slip by somebody has me knows like he's under my skin
elimination on the line with
Endley here. Unfortunately this
happened to show up as individuals
as a team. They had some good
ideas on cash, but the
individuals is getting absolutely
blown out of the water there.
It feels like a 2-0, but
anything can and will happen.
Last chance to learn for the
Brazilian Corp.
It was already rough over on
Polymarket, but it got even
worse on the prediction side
there. I mean, or are they
already the favourites coming
into this one? And I think
they've just cemented that by
winning their opponent's map
pick. So I'm excited for this
one. Mirage is going to be
coming up here as the second
map, and it is elimination,
like you pointed out on the
So yeah, this is gonna be real tough for them. There's no question. Absolutely true
T side starts for the favorites. Let's see how they kick things off
Stop fresh, let's go. Come on. I wish it's good. That's the one. Let's park them boys
That's a great plan. That's it's a good game plan for sure
Give that a go. It's gonna be five players over towards A. Execution potential off the charts here with two smokes, two flashes and a Molotov.
You will know they're landing at this point. Flash over, down to the dual elites and they get nothing done.
That smoke unfortunately is a little bit too late. They run the right through.
It's Warkhardy with a Hector. Wait a minute, Sadock is here and he's found three! That is so late, they fast!
What just happened?
I don't know, they would just delete it.
Oh, what a ridiculous display of skill.
Finally, Doc has arrived.
We've talked about him for a couple of days now,
and we haven't really seen anything like this before.
I haven't seen a round like that before.
That just all gone.
I'm five on three, kind of wrapping it up.
I was kind of like sitting down,
getting ready for number two,
and then all of a sudden this happens.
See if it's POV.
Oh, my days.
Oh, my, that's two kills and two bullets.
three and four
Real
Completely shuts it down a five on three and then they don't even get near a bomb plant or any further kills
That's why it would fall for doc
And it looks like we've got a tactical pull a technical pause actually going into this follow-up rounds
And it's got the stew on it
We saw them having some
Frustrations there in the first map even though they were the much better team across the board
Yeah, they definitely didn't look comfortable. So that's gonna be one of those tilting rounds
Everything was going so swimmingly that it all collapses. So yeah, I mean we might call it clan F for Aurora
Yeah, just didn't work out Henry. Sometimes that'll happen
See we've done that's pretty good
That's the first pistol then the layer of one as well. So yeah, you're right
No plant should be the eco coming in next as well did not see that coming at all
Nothing anyone did
It's about time though. Yeah, I think the desk we're talking about on day one
that Doc is someone who could be an interesting character for the team in terms of, you know, the mechanics.
I don't think we've seen anything anywhere near that.
So him, if he steps up, if Max core kind of gets back into the swing of things, Kuala's been playing well every single map.
Then they've got something to work with.
And I think that there's also, I think,
Roger was mentioning that he was a bit worried about the map pool in terms of Cash and Mirage being the first four Aurora saying that this might not be
kind of the best maps for them at the moment.
Well, there's still a fledgling team.
Far from perfect great individuals fantastic skill across the board a lot of experience
But this international project it will take some time bear in mind and now communicating English of course not a huge deal
I was a time senator big before
What's he said in a various teams from mouse?
Cloud nine obviously famously famously spoke English there
Yeah, you're right
We've got patients for this team to come together in a different way
I think it actually is a really great project now, I'm excited.
But you're right, there is some frustration and there are some mistakes being made.
That'll pull set up towards the kitchen.
I suppose that wasn't really a mistake though, that was just an unbelievable sequence from Doc.
Yeah it was, you're right.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do about it.
So, as mentioned, technical time-outs into the full eco doesn't feel great.
Now is that grenade?
Oh my god, that's about 160 damage.
Yeah, that'll put a bit of a slowdown on everything.
Suppose there was never a great chance here, bomb plan would be fun, would be nice.
Ah, don't think that's happening.
The doubtful isn't it?
Ah, they're vying for the deagle shot here.
They're checking under, they're really trying to make sure that they can optimize this round to find really anything.
Like any CTs that are pushing, that are sick of waiting.
Nobody is at the moment.
I think we'll follow a little bit low down, but the keynote has really begun here.
So no troubles.
Tell you what as well, Henry.
Go on.
Up in that kitchen in the B hallway where they were waiting for a while, there's a pot
in that kitchen.
And I once had this idea that if you shoot the pot, because they keep rolling, just like
grenades, they'll roll for a while the pot.
So if you shoot it on the ground and it rolls into the lane, maybe you can make the CTs
kind of look away.
They're wondering like what's what's that on the ground? Why is there a pot rolling through the you're gonna have to make a video on it?
Look at that one day. Okay, I'll get that dude is positive. He got oh
I guess he didn't have time. That's a nightmare. That is a nightmare
It's he's not it won't pay you unless you go down fighting
Because they're buying to the shroud he can only get second on armor or doesn't he like suppose
That's a rare thing to happen. Normally you can find a way to fight.
Maybe a bit lost in the source. Either way, it's going to be a rough one for Jimmy.
As mentioned, Tec9 available for him. King Sam will go down to the Galil.
This is a really poor buy. All things considered, you've got a Ricardia with no further utility.
You've got Jimmy on that pistol, and RDN feeling himself hit.
himself at the end of the way finally off to a good start and they keep it going maybe not
kakesan will put his best foot forward through the slope finds the apple mentioned at the end
looking for a spawn tears i'm sorry spot squad taking matters into his own hands can he find a
double absolutely can nice break control look like you're the third as well but walkstick will
beat him to the punch and okay exactly what they needed after the fumble with the time up the economics
They have got another. Why wash him around here? Five players survive it. At least for now.
Crazy timing for Santaris to get out of the underpass like that. But not enough.
He is just touched by the incendiary and the reason they're not looking at him is because as soon as they hear the tick from the incendiary, obviously they're ready to turn, but he's already on them.
It's such an unfortunate timing for the CT's point of view there.
That's a great skill for Zantara, is that?
A few questionable over-aggressive decisions for him today, but you can't deny his skill.
He's looking sharp.
Well, that's probably the reason why we're always a little bit more critical.
Like, he's being compared to, like, his former, like, highlight reels.
I think, I think we know that he can be an absolutely immaculate player.
And I think that's maybe the problem.
He's trying to roll back the years and kind of solidify himself as that guy still and
Maybe taking these over-aggressive peaks with that mindset.
The way it works, it does look fantastic.
Really nice round of Zatara's opening kill from Kixxan.
Sick of the incendiary, doesn't dissuade him.
I wonder if he's suffering from that superstar syndrome
where you feel like you have to perform at 120%.
We've seen that from other players in the past.
Someone like Nico, where he's like,
he got the firepower now, and you don't have to be the only one doing things.
It's so true.
It's such a good Wakati there as well.
well as I mentioned before he's the future star of this squad if not they're
already he doesn't have the same impact as Jantaro's right now but you can see
Glimmer's a bit when he's on it looks really really good. I fully agree yeah
he's just shown it on on a cash cash yeah and unfortunately the first showing
they had against G2, Wokadia was nowhere to be seen, Tweet that Jantaro is
struggling there as well but let's see we've got an eco here. They ran into a
Really powerful wrinkle as well, which is super fun. It's a good point. We'll see him a little bit later on in the day
Spirit versus G2 the next best of three to win this game, of course
G2 that took down Aurora spirits that found Dendale
Careful
Comfortable great maneuver out towards mid
Bombs down towards T spawn as well. So they look like space here, but they've given up a few rifles
They know it as well. We'll cardio attack himself into water connector
Oh, don't know your teammates tired. Oh, you're going for that gonna go a little bit out of hand
Yeah, you're gonna communicate that that is a touchdown that grenade that lands on the Ardien in the Middle
He's dead. Oh, no
I'm not saying they had a great chance of in the round because obviously they didn't have a lot to work with but yeah
That was an eco, no careful art.
HG's definitely made it impossible.
Nice little swing, coordinated push towards middle.
Then we should get a couple of kills.
Xantara isn't Kixar.
I think before Kixar kind of got overwhelmed,
he was flashed in by Woxic who was in the B hallway,
like throwing flashbangs over.
That's kind of a,
that's an interesting way to kind of get into that fight.
I like that.
That's the grenade, yeah.
In his pocket.
In seconds.
death by shrapnel so I might call it an orc grenade if you want to roll out right back
I do miss an orc grenade I certainly blew them hopefully someone will bring them back
eventually Anders fingers crossed on that front yes we do need that right then round
number five then delay with the pistol great start for them awkward financial situation
with Jimmy outliving the clock but that Aurora made it work money's back on track couple of
clean rounds. AK's across the board here walks it with plenty of resources going forward gonna
stay with the five rifles for now let's go down top of middle and of course window as well looks
to be more of a B focus it's you play towards your parmach right now two towards middle just
one lurking over towards the palace it's gonna be Jimmy. Big miss from Maxxwell he's not looking
himself right now, but breaking up for it is out of the air.
Kerasantara is huge, some cardio, spotting someone in the corner.
He's got that killer instinct, wanted to find him.
I love the idea of trying to molotov that out
and just getting that to get some pressure back on their side.
But in the meantime, they've lost Jimmy, they've lost Kicksand
and obviously, Intaras went down to the start of the round here.
So, for Dendeley, huge if they could pick this one up.
They really need to slow down the Aurora team
a team before things get out of control and if they just keep that cool now and
don't do anything wilds don't do a centaurs and start running out for any
kind of a fight here on the CT side you're gonna be absolutely fine in this
round so and they are far back on the map
I'm gonna find anyone with this CTs are so respectful they are a million miles
away some 40 seconds I think it's on the end that's at the back of the site here
if they had another molotov it could be a little bit of pressure on him but yeah it's
it's a bit of a long shot to say the least just trying to inflict a bit of damage here walks
it will spot one towards the back of the B bomb site where cardio make the first incision here
he's over towards jungle that's the round yeah it's going to be everything no time
I think you might have been spotted there.
Now, at the start of that round, a raw throw, two smokes, I mean, the classic smokes, obviously,
one for the window, one for top mid.
Dendeley tries to blow open the window smoke, but there are some South American teams that I've seen
that will sink their grenades, so they will blow open both the top mid smoke and the window smoke
at the same time.
Okay, that's really the legacies, one of those teams that's done it a couple of times.
Well, a little gambit there towards the underpass from Dengalade, the AWP and the M4 working in tandem, even with the missed AWP shot making up for it was RDM.
Nice work.
So, as you mentioned though, money pretty decent. Aurora.
With the AWP this time as well, a couple of concessions, not all the grenades and they get a little bit of kicks out.
And Koala, feeding himself, gonna be exploring options in towards the B apartments here.
Popping his smoke open or just sending it in?
It's interesting.
It's interesting to wake up anyone on the other side.
So it's going to be a very flat default here from Aurora.
Just waiting for the round to subside.
There's any aggression.
I'm going to be smoking window once again.
A little bit of damage on the Bacardi here, but otherwise.
Slow mid protocols being initiated from Aurora.
Yeah.
Kick sound definitely one of those in-game leaders who likes to feel the round.
out, see what the CTs are up to, hold them at bay, then take the map control.
They're going to be eventually splitting this A bomb site, and this is scary for the CT side,
right in the Centaurus, and that's the scary part. He is looking very good today.
He is, look at the pressure that he puts on the rest of the defense here, Max-Core,
he really wants to be close to people held by it. If you can stop them coming through the
connector, then the rest of the A defense might be all right, but if they slip the net, there's
There's another headshot for Centaurus before he's finally got rid of 27 seconds now and
there's nobody left on the A1 side.
If you go for the...
Oh!
He's back.
Maybe they will now.
It's gonna say maybe you could have saved the day on the Dendeley side but 3D3 now,
you might try it.
Crazy shot.
Might inspire the remaining members here of Dendeley.
Three versus three.
No further defensive utility now.
I don't smoke though.
On the CT side I think.
This is definitely the better option like it.
You have no idea what they're up against here three on three bombs already halfway gone. Yeah control the keys to on top of the
Your right, so let's keep the AKs keep the off
with max score
Such low HP as well. This is definitely the the right call
Three play surviving leave us out of the coin here. So
Santaris wants to get nice opening pick get some stuff a double into this round
That's slow and steady nice methodical round there from Aurora
That has to feel like a bit of a disappointing way to have a defense going where two you'll die like it's connected here towards the connector
I like this. There's no trade potential
No one's fashion you want in you're peeking innocent towers and dying like it feels like it's not much of not much of a defense
great shots with the towers fair play, but
We're you're then delay you you want to set that up a little bit differently if you can
Yeah, we saw them on cash against spirit as well. They're doing that set up into what's happened on the CT side
We're both players are swinging out. Yeah, bro. Yeah, you're right
So that could have been a similar amount of telepathy, but both players swing at the same time, but uh...
Either way, they do save the three weapons.
Let's have a look. Max-core. Slowly but surely, finding his form was MIA.
On cash.
Oh, it's a trouble.
Santare's maybe. Oh, yep.
That's a death slap moment.
For him.
It is.
Oh, it's all falling apart.
Huge.
Max-core should have been dead every single time.
Well, looked like a gimme kill, a 3B.
Sounds to do a bit of a nightmare. It's actually Max called getting two kills. Okay, half the position for quality is definitely getting one
Okay
They were preoccupied. They had to check the other side of it. Very aggressive very confidence
She should be
I don't know. I mean if you get funded of the kill here, then it's kind of on again
The bombers being brought on over and Bacardi is waiting for the mistake here giving
then delay perhaps just enough rope to hang themselves with 50 seconds all
right there's the peak coming in the bombers right there with him now but
Max Court he's gonna be killed outright Gafalo got sick take down kicks in the
meantime and we still got 40 seconds is there a chance for a cardio to do some
trickery here definitely a chance he is a master in the clutch right does some
of his absolute best work see if you can deliver the goods this time all stacked
against him. Goes with the fake plant here. Two versus one, Baramite.
One out on the open, gonna be good for getting the kill on Dawkin.
Turns around, Gafolo's right there, this damage.
So well, Wakadia. While he's reloading, gets the information, it's almost a crutch.
But Gafolo, he stops the madness, takes down Wakadia.
Oh, you could see it. He actually is so cerebral in that moment.
You could see every decision.
Absolutely true. That was gonna be my point. You could see he understands exactly
what he's up against there. All the potential threats.
Great mechanical skillet slot.
That spray-down to go ashore, sublime.
Should have been in a roll-round all day long, though.
Zantares gets the peek on the AWP.
Could have given it an extra peek.
Got a better angle. I've taken him down for three, but...
That's true.
...over-committed to the fights
and actually set up Max-Call for a double kill.
That's a frustrating way to kick off the round for Zantares.
He's looking very, very good today.
Third play to Wakadia, though. Had them on the ropes.
One more bullet, and he wins that round.
4-3, Dendeley in the lead for the first time in this series.
So, there's going to be a bye, Jimmy, on the Deagle.
Hasn't really shown the same level that what we saw on Cash,
one of four right now, but it's a bare-mind, he's been operating with Tec-9s and Deagle is now.
Signals have been a bit rough.
So, taking out the kicks at this time, Galils and the Woxic AWP,
but he has no Kevlar on the T side.
So, absolutely golden opportunity right here for Dendeley to really get ahead in this game.
Yeah, this will set the tone for the second map.
They can win this.
They have a very successful first half in front of them.
They give though.
They've lost some stinkers today as well.
Most notably against USPs and 1MP9.
So, they've just done half an execute onto the A bomb site, but Kixxan has another set
of grenades, so they're going to try to double pump A and then go B.
Yeah, this is classic IGR manoeuvres here
Cuz he already put down one set of smoke monotovs towards you actor
So he wants to sell something on this side of the map
Get them interested and he wants no input lag
He doesn't want to trust anyone else's cause here
He wants to show a bit of a ruckus and give them an exact call when to commit into what that be bomb site
Yeah, second set of utility parts koalas there to spot them early. They know they see it really fast
So the backup's going to be called for years.
Wakati is dead.
Koala actually did land the head shot
before he got dinked by Jimmy.
It's a kickstand and walk stick.
I think that's actually kind of a sick idea.
Doesn't work out in practice, but on the April, I like it.
Yeah, it's the same, but he didn't really
give enough time to buy down on it.
They were pushing through before the smokes even really
bloomed.
I guess they were hoping to catch some CDSK transition
once our call comes in as you till there.
But I feel like there's maybe a bit more kickstand could do.
maybe just fire a few bullets show a bit of presence but either way he doesn't
see the matter too much.
Dendoli were well ahead of it to play some of that B bombsite didn't move the
muscle and that's a huge round to pick up now.
Oh yeah.
That should be maybe even a couple in the back here.
The finances have been in tatters for this T side campaign.
I have three and a full eco here.
What a single dollar invested into the round.
I see a lot of opportunity for Dandelion to finally build something.
They really didn't show up on Cashew, it was actually a bit disappointing, I had much
higher expectations.
Oh, they're bouncing back now, like that, 6-3, completely locked in here.
Now, are the ends the one that's taken over some of the fraying duties there?
Doc, remember he had four kills in the pistol round, so he's got three since then, it's not bad at all that the pistol round was impactful, but...
I think it was extremely impactful.
Yes.
Turned the game on its head. Not only with the round itself, but that's such a tilter for Aurora.
Like, you get two opening kills, you've dominated to the first map, and you know, giving him that sort of entry into the second,
he's gonna be fired up. The whole team's gonna be fired up, and it's replicated now.
The deeper we get.
Let's have a look.
massive grenade
Spleeding those bits of utility out and
Presumably just running towards connector. See if they get a kill
Yeah, there's not much really unfortunately be done here
Grenade doesn't make it any easier, but doubt it would have been different without it
Line up there before though getting a chance to pan the stats will definitely take that
Another round for dendolame
Surviving with all of these people is huge. So the money you could see is going to be exploding on the CT side
What's the plan for Aurora?
I feel like sometimes when all else fails on this map just going for a
Box standard a execute could just be worth it. You know, everyone knows it's not complicated
You know one entry to kill and you're gonna go it's still pretty rough out there
Again, the finance is a massive issue. Sure. They have the AKs now with one galore, but
That's those utilities again. My best being game leader is I think difficult to run your default since execute
Yeah, gotta be pressuring in towards middle
For names being ashamed as Max score. It's really sinking his teeth into the CT side campaign
So
On the top over towards connect up. Oh
Doesn't actually make it in there
No, it doesn't
And you're right, they didn't have that much to begin with, so can't be missing too many
nades.
Opportunity for Max-Core.
So, Taras will live through this one.
Bomb is now suspiciously making its way back towards the A-bomb site through T spawn, so
if you stay alive in the middle here, Taras and Kixang kind of working together.
They could put some pressure on, smokes towards that jungle position, and they're going to
be molotov-ing the K'n'exa out as well, while the rest of them, all three, are setting up
in Palace.
choke point so they have the palace pop it's exactly what's going to be happening in a wide open
air bomb site a splits kicks out to open things up that's got to be the queue out of the palace they
come yeah and with no warning there's no grenades to show that they're actually here so no grenades
Jimmy's dead it's gonna be watched to get the head shot they still could find a way the bomb is
plant it, you see they're going to get the role, they're going to be the slowest kill
of all time, you will get it, Santar is hunting down on the end, okay, they got a lot out
of a little here, they haven't won the round just yet, but there's no smoke for the CTs,
that's the only way they could probably win this round, smoking the bomb, causing chaos,
but looks like Aurora will be bouncing back, a rough round for them, Santar finds his
form once again takes total eight eight here I took a backstab through the
murder hole so that palace pop with the mid-presence shown gave them a wide
open a bomb sights kicks and gets the intel they are borrowed away into a
connector behind the smoke
this is the plane that wins the round oh yes my shufflebox
So, now they actually do have a buy. On the fixed size they've actually got 5 AKs, decent
utility, a couple of rounds to go, they've lost a 6x recovery here.
The start of the run is very similar, Jimmy started the last round up in the palace as
well and then they ended up with some mid-control and that they execute.
They boost it up. Koala is jacking this all day long, he knows the moves.
Avocadia. Okay. He's seen that before. He's so much conviction he had that he knew he was gonna be
right there. Yeah, you're right. That's some homework. He's definitely done his own work.
Just never really a homework person myself, Henry.
But, um, I mean, you get those kind of results you can't really argue against it.
It's a good point. We'll see whether they can recover.
Five and four. One minute remaining and really anything in terms of map control here we have.
It's Antares got through the linchpin once again.
Has had some good impacts from this connected position.
This is his favorite duel, but smoked off for now.
Focusing his attention towards Shor.
Seamates will be exiting in towards a Molotov. Flash is going in.
Antares has a threatened needle here. Jimmy will find the opening flag.
We're maxed for a life and well.
They say the same thing, and at Bart it still sits a dandelion, so you spam or get the bomb down here at us.
Not gonna be that easy, but still a winnable round.
Jimmy, do you wanna go for this? They do have a flash, if they want to fight this, they could set up a bit of a pop to go towards CT spawn.
Maybe the bomb is planted in a decent position for that.
KickSans pick up the open duties now, and they're gonna be careful enough on top of each other.
KickSan, Jimmy, on the trades.
Leave Doc in a bit of an awkward 1v1.
Jimmy's now 12 health, but he has picked up
that sniper rifle, and all he needs is one bullet.
It's going to be easy to take down Doc.
Aurora, a huge round, and a great quad as well for Jimmy.
KickSan and Jimmy utilizing the AWP there,
in towards Spawn.
The money shop from Jim Fad as well,
knowing he had 10 HP, perfect weapon for the job.
It all started here, that's what he said.
He's watched his demos.
He knows his moves, easy pickup, but fantastic recovery here.
Definitely had the man advantage throughout,
but the clutch landed in favor of a war.
Finances, okay for Dendeley, a couple of MP9s,
but they've got two rifles on the orb as well.
Max Gore knows he needs to step up here,
finds an opener if possible, folds up,
in towards that ladder room and finds Zantara,
is a very valuable scout to take down early.
Walks sake trying to find a quick response here. It'd be so nice to then
let it pick up another round at the end of the half. Why not? They're already a
map down so the pressure is on. Molotovs to force anyone up by that.
No one's actually by the box at all so they know that much but there are three
people near connector in jungle and one in CT spawns a very well-defended
bombsite at the moment. Aurora they shouldn't even be allowed to get on the
Walks, they take squad, but he's immediately sprayed down, and just with Cardi, coming up the connector, great defense for once here, 7-5, Dendele, started to look a little bit more alive.
They have to connect, and so far they have.
Little peek on short gets Magisk a double, missed shot! Zairu only leaves the door open!
What is that?! Quintruple, Deagle, out of Javi!
He's gonna be able to stop them before they even set up the grenades, that's devastating.
Fallen gets one to return, but there's no way you could bring into this bomb site.
Cello gets a kill, and at the back site, there, missed opportunity fallen.
That's the shot you have to hit, he's gonna get it eventually.
The fact that they're even here with the bomb plant is kind of sick of us.
Why, taste the Arcadian!
What on earth is going on?
Just jumping the bomb, if you do not have the reference.
Why is this falling? You must be kidding me!
How do you win that round?
I'm shuffling the Molly around.
If that actually unseats one of these tees,
this is very possible.
Let's see where it goes.
OK, this should be a kill for Monosy.
He's going to hit the shot.
There it is.
All right, just hobbit now.
1v2, he's got a great angle.
What, crosshair disruption?
Monosy just soaring across his screen.
He's almost getting himself killed no matter what.
Yeah, this is so hard to deal with on the other side.
And even how that ends the shot.
Yeah, hobbit not happy with that one.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Loaman has finally come.
The grand final of Blast Pro Series by Andy.
Right in there.
He misses the first shot in midair.
Niko though a single tap of the USP.
A second, oh my god, it's shot up by Niko again.
It looked like Faze had a solid read on this as Niko points it out.
He gets the kill he wanted and he can see so calm there.
That's a nice little retake.
Cold Sira next to take down Device.
And he's taking down a medium.
Cold Sira's cleaning up.
Three kills just like that.
Currently going into Faze's coffers.
Oh, double smokes.
Big mistake.
Yeah, you don't want to do that.
Although they're coming right through and they're going to shut down Brad.
Oh no!
Oh my lord, he's just tucked down four people in absolutely no time flat.
It's Daps alone on the other side.
What an absolutely absurd performance here.
Now sneaking through on the other side, Daps is waiting and then the headshot.
He's waiting for it.
Timing is everything.
He's go-
Oh!
It can't be real!
I didn't see anybody landing the triple right to the smoke.
I've never seen anything like it.
And now at least they're gonna get the bomb on,
but Faze are being robbed once again.
NAF, he's still in play in this round
on the other side of Srain, and he wants more.
NAF, have you no mercy?
He's gonna pick up an ace in the round.
Their aggressive setups with their rifles
are totally fine, Elysian's always delivering.
And there is a shot that just runs right into him.
Oh my God! No way that just happened!
Koutzera, eat your heart out!
Oh! He's got a third!
Nitro slamming down the gauntlet!
And he's third!
15 seconds to start the bomb, and that might be the saving grace for Cloud9.
They've been pushing all over the map.
There's 10s for the Deagle once again.
He needs to stay alive. He's got to buy time for his team.
Stu's cutting off the rotation. There's another one from 10s.
Can he get the last one?
It's time he's won the round with all these Deagle shots.
And that's a much needed last round for Cloud9.
What's up, ladies and gentlemen? Elimination on the line for Dendeley, but they have looked much better here on the second map, and as the team has locked in,
looking much better as a unit, and they've got a 7-5 scoreline here on their opponent's map pick of Mirage. Nuke is on the cards.
I'm glad you reminded us about that elimination, and almost slipped my mind here, but yeah, they're going to be feeling the pressure as a result.
Let's see if they can get into any of the second half, second map. I'd love to see Nuke. I just want to see more out of both these teams.
been really excited for what Dandelion been bringing.
They obviously are an underdog,
pretty much no matter who they're going to be facing
in the tournament.
So, you know, it's cool to see them
really take the fight,
get into the spirit,
couldn't get their way past Donk
and nobody can blame them for it.
But Aurora, they might be a weaker team still.
They might still be ironing out
some of the problems in that team.
If they can win the pistol here,
Dandelion, then it is on.
And they are wrapping that B bombsite,
watching in position with a classic P2000,
but he can't get the shot.
It's all up to Junior and Santara is trying to get there,
But they die one at a time.
Bit of an anti-strat there again.
You saw the defensive CT player up there on the balcony.
They molotov him on the pistol.
Oh, okay.
Which is a wild thing to do.
Wouldn't normally waste a molotov just to that one position,
but I flushed him out and got an opening kill.
Good trap work.
Get you all the way.
KickSend's dead.
Round was gonna be gone no matter what here.
How many players like Woxig are using the P2000?
He might be the last one.
Might be the last standing soldier.
Alright.
It was kind of vogue for a while.
Like maybe five years ago.
Let's say, yeah, in CS2.
He might be the last one.
I just wanted a single kill at the end,
but they're just way too fast.
Escaping his crosshair.
Nice, for tenderly.
Very nice indeed.
Great B-Split here, applying a lot of pressure from the apartment.
You can see the CT scrambling, trying to find safe haven within the site,
but taking damage on route, led to the face.
Really nice round.
Tilting one for Aurora, didn't even get a look in there.
Nowhere near.
Stopping that onslaughting towards B.
They were forced by him in response.
Pound for pound, they've got more firepower, I would say, than Dendoli, but...
this team there's no slouch they are turning up in the second map they really
didn't look themselves there on cash the Mirage very different affair they have
the advantage in run number two that's both pistols now in favor of dandelion
you're right it was Aurora they got both pistols and cash so real chance
tickets were third now but it does require a conversion here we saw what
the Zantara is at the United New York cash as well.
3B for Doc.
Just before the smoke comes down there as well.
Man, sneaking up close now with the Galil.
No, go down again.
At least he took a lot more damage on the first fight this time
and there's no one immediately there.
The bomb is in B.
In a couple seconds.
Yo!
Oh my god, a Max-Core.
Are you getting pressured that much?
Okay.
Two TCs with pistols.
The thing is, the B bomb site's wide open.
So yeah, these kills are valuable, but still huge advantage for Dendeley here, I'm afraid.
No kits, out of position.
Molotov.
Yeah, that pretty much 75 seconds.
I think so.
The quality is coming in.
Yeah, he's coming in with another Molotov, so even if they somehow got the kills and try to go for the 10-second defuse,
he can throw that up from the apartments and just cancel everything down.
Alright, a little bit of damage there, starting to give him some pressure on this.
Gafolo dying again.
You do have that to one Molotov.
Could just throw it.
Out of music.
Yeah.
But there we go.
Burns it out.
That's why that last grenade is so impactful.
They don't have the smoke obviously.
They don't have the kit.
So that's why that long old flank with the Molotov
was always going to have an impact in the rounds.
I like it from Aurora though.
They try to go for it.
That's the only way they could have done it.
One player defused.
The other is trying to set up the wall.
That's that.
Like I said the Molotov
Deciding the rounds opening kills coming at the wall up I tell them wide open B bombsite that was the problem
So far removed in the scenario
Good effort
But the thing is now you save one weapon surely you can't really justify investing much more to this
I'm seeing some upgraded pistols, but no Kevlar. Okay. We're cardio's got a helmet
And we have got a few smokes there so Zantara's will have to go above and beyond once again
I think in the tournament so far, Qwala has probably been their best player and he's kind
of missing a little bit for once.
Like, it's the first map that we've really seen him have a big output.
If they get him activated, I think they're going to run away with this pretty quickly
here on the T side.
Got everything working in their favor.
Like we said, both pistols and now both conversions landing in their favor.
Should be absolutely fine here in round number three.
It's all down his unties.
Some damage.
Not a whole lot, so we'll stop in the middle.
He needs to find some clean jewels here.
And then Delay are giving him nothing until he's coming forward.
I'll land him two pins on him from the underbars, he's getting a shot in the back, but he has
got backup.
There's the opener.
Okay.
He had to step up.
Tag docked down 61 as well.
Great.
That should do significant damage.
We'll target him.
He's got the Kevlar Bear in mind as well.
Time's starting to get a little bit uncomfortable here.
Docks are breathing.
There's a weird interaction, but yeah, you're right.
Be careful you don't run the clock down too low.
Long is towards connector.
They do have three people here.
I like that, so at least the bombs are going to be stranded.
It's the PZ-1000.
Oh, you're right.
And he actually did a significant amount of damage.
Smoke is up.
He's good with it.
Timing. It's close!
He's one bullet away from getting that kill on the dock.
It's not too late though. 14 seconds.
What a good guy.
You're talking about Henry's now come back to haunt them.
Nine seconds.
They're trying to get onto the site,
but one shot here could seal the TLA.
Won't be able to find it.
KickSan, you could see that he was feeling it in you.
If you could just get that kill on the guy on the bomb,
that would have been game over here,
but instead it is, then delay,
threading the needle, getting onto the site
in the last possible second.
Quite common composed towards the end that
Sure, the clock was low, but it didn't feel like they were ever going to lose the round
Better mind their CT players didn't have Kevlar Eva. So very squishy
Any wall bangs any nades making a very low indeed in the end quite a successful run up a dendoli as we move closer and closer to new care
It's gonna be 10 to 5
It's looking really, really good, glad to see Dendele covered from that cash loss.
It was a bit disappointing.
I'm going to assume Ash might call a timeout here, like we have that danger zone now, right,
there we go, and yeah, this is like the round that decides the game.
This one decides when we go to Nukonob, so they've become very, very close in the last
two rounds, but unable to get it over the line. They've affected the finances here.
They can break through on the CT side and stabilize. Still a chance they can do a regulation.
Got to keep fighting. Speaking of CT sides, Dendeley, something they didn't do that much here on the
first half was pushing aggressively. We didn't see like a crazy amount of B hallway, A palace
pushers. Like they were really far back on the map. It'd be fun to see Aurora try that. Even top
mid like the top mid sometimes we know zantara is feeling himself today I'm sure
he'll be looking to get stuck in here very very important rounds here in the
second half number four it's coming three zeroes dendoli all for Woxic
it's just gonna be really fast to execute it's a good time to do it
smoke's already up two towards the connector in jungle there is a counter
smoke coming out but um all the C's already here I feel like you kind of need to go for it
they feel the same way recommitting some of the smoke steep towards connector and CT spawn and
just uh an endless amount of flashbangs go over the wall kickstand though he's not gonna molotov
now he's gonna stay here he'll keep him all alone and that's a sick head shot he'll take down
centaurs on the follow up the grenades might not have done it but the head shot certainly will
bomb now being carried onto the site and it will be planted nothing that wakardia could do to stop
it here and you've got to be careful here you don't have a lot of money on the ct side and you have
one kit that's all wakardia as well if you can find a couple of crispy kills there maybe there's
a chance but it's looking very unlikely deadly giving them nothing to work with they have a
a smoke and a Molotov, there's the incendiary being deployed here.
HG does reasonable damage, but the bug said that's rash.
Oh, he's gonna find one more!
Ah, he's been missing for the whole tournament, but now he's here.
That was wild.
The second kill especially, there was a nice entry, but then if that's too...
Absolute masterclass from the dock.
They probably have walk scare as well, we're gonna leap around the corner he's fine.
Just about makes it, so that's gonna be a huge round to pick up.
This is the opening for Kigsat, let's see you can see just overwhelmed, second kill,
I think a beauty is on tower, it doesn't even get a lock in, and it's spammed for a CD
squad.
Solidified the rounds and we're gonna be buying again.
Lost bonus max at this point, you saved the AWP, walkster can drop one, so need to lock
in here. Need to arrive. Nuke feels like a certainty. They've missed the window smoke.
Yes, they have. Just want to top mid, but it can be pretty dangerous when you end up doing that.
And look at the push-up top mid. We did talk about the CT at rush, and he's in the smoke with them.
Oh, that is a Yikes moment. Okay, feels like that might be it.
This is already a desperate situation with the U-Till, the scrappy buy, looking at the barrel of map points.
Kixam gives him something to welcome here, finds a straggler towards palace position.
At the end they're applying pressure, trying to get some intel over towards B, showing presence at the very least.
I think they're trying to find it towards the A ramp.
And then we'll find Max-Core on the other side, if he gets one, it's enough to win the
round.
If he goes out of nothing, it's back on.
It almost was like you put a spell on him there, Henry.
Cast it.
Yeah, he did.
40 seconds, and it is back on now.
They're so stretched out of the map, it's very uncomfortable.
alone in connector, one guy in jungle and window now pushing in towards the B bombsite.
They're gonna try and wrap back, but there's already two people here.
I think this is very tricky, like one mistake and it's over for this T side.
And Jimmy's already seen it.
He knows that someone's there, the flank is coming in and Jimmy could have been dead,
but like I said, Woxig is still at the bombsite.
15 seconds, just about on the clock here as we try to make a bit of an entry, the gun
barrel is showing, but Jimmy is covering his teammate.
What a position.
Doc goes down. I can follow no chance any longer here. Good hold for Aurora. They're about to slip up on the map and just lose it
Yeah, they're the ones who haven't shown up. No big clutches. No massive moments for the individuals. It's been pretty
Slow by their standards that it all the leg was coming to a halt here with the kill on the car
Yeah, but good response. We talked about getting some information kicks out pushing the palace getting that very important kill
He ramp is there as well and then Jimmy one of the goats of this and be bomb-sided mirage
What a great quality to have Jimmy as our anchor
Yeah, like he's not the one you want to be targeted
It's not like a car again at the back of the site
You've got someone who will hold them hold their own in a walkie-five situation because that is a feature of a lot of teams
I could put the in-game leader who's sometimes a bit weaker on the mechanics of B and they're gonna get bullied
But this is where Jimmy thrives. It's gonna be walk sick watch a double-orbs it up
I beg your pardon, so we'll card here.
We've seen this from him a few times.
He's very capable.
Yeah, he's very, very good at that.
Well then...
Oh...
Doesn't touch anyone, so I can't really hear anything from that,
and now he's actually very committed.
I'm a bit worried on his behalf.
There's no backup nearby.
Okay, well he's gonna get the first kill on the corner.
Absolutely fine now.
Put something each to you.
Backup is gonna be there,
Adion, the next victim.
Smoke was there.
Whoa!
He's gonna find him as well.
Well, Doc goes down.
Well, there you go.
I hope that answers your question.
Well, I'm convinced, Henry.
Do you remember what it was in the beginning
that caught your eye with the cardio?
Because now we're looking back at it.
It was great, but...
When they were playing in the tunnel five
and they were playing Vertigo especially,
he was at the tip of the spear on the A ramp.
He'd be walking up first with the AK-47.
Yeah. And he would just obliterate people.
Like, in terms of working it slowly
and the precision the Amy had
and confidence with someone who hadn't had
here one experience before I think it was a pro league we first saw him and yeah
that for me like every time I watch my verticals at this kid's gonna be a star
in the future if you can replicate that form on two other maps like he's gonna
be someone very special and that was about four years ago yeah and since then
like I said he's now one of the mainstays of the squad and he's got an ace
with the AWP so if that's actually convinced you I don't know what will
it's perfectly time as you're reliving the history of how good he could be in
Yeah, it's just casually easing in the background. I mean they didn't have much of a chance once you got the first three
But very well played. I mean
It is tricky like I think sometimes it could be hard to kind of pinpoint
What it is about a player when you see them play like sometimes you just have this sense as you're watching like a new
Up-and-coming player you just feel like that this could be something
Well, it could be hard to kind of articulate well enough exactly what it is
11-7
Enderlane
Don't trip and stumble now
Second pre-all base.
Nothing crazy flash about this one, but just very well played.
He cleaned.
Methodical, played the advantage.
Every single jaw, it felt like he was going to be the one to get the kill.
That's how you do it.
And that's a massive round.
And there's...
Oh yes.
So, they are back on track.
Down but not out.
Single orb set up here.
Just to know, we're cardiac.
It's going to be for the AK-47.
He's right after the orb.
They've run the double AWP, put a fear of God in them, and now just back to business as usual.
I feel like we see that actually quite a bit on a map like Mirage, where once the element of surprise
is kind of gone, you just say, well, that's it. Like, we don't need it. And yeah, with the AK as well,
I mean, it's not even much of a downgrade. So, well, as I tell you, he's got the information there,
he's spotted the boots of once who was underpass. Can we have some bit more to the fight?
You don't need to.
There we go.
Somebody put a leash on Zantara's he loves
It's fine, but you've lost an AK though
And he can't recover it. There's already three AK's there. So the someone would drop him an AK because it's on towers
He would demand it
And it's fair enough. He's very good with the AK kicks that should be the one to give it to him. Yeah, you would expect so
This 8 and 11
I mean, this is an experience that every up and coming team has to go through where you feel like you've got the lead, the win, at least on the map, and then you kind of slip up, but I just don't want to see this happen today right now, but it's the kind of game you can feel it coming.
Oh, such a weak buy as well.
Yeah, and I want to do cause me out of sport here. Okay, that's what they've done
With this sort of weak bike already just fire full default double smoking window having the Molotov connect multiple times
You just don't have the resources has to be an ex-q has to be a set piece out of spawn
The thing is again if they think they're still running into the secondary off. I don't know if you know
Maybe they think oh, that's it
Like we'll just use the speed and running down but you won't because it's an AK Jimmy
We said Jimmy can handle himself in a 1v5 scenario and there's we're gonna be tested on that one right now
You're absolutely right. Good smoke Jimmy
That oh, yeah, give them second guessing their commitment
He's actually dissuaded them completely the 1v5 he comes out on top right now at least
They're gonna come back
Waiting to smoke out. No backup a genius. Yeah defensive position towards short
They'll wait for the smoke to disappear. There's no end cell across the map
So they'll be reaching the whole day ram the CT's and now here comes the commitment Jimmy needs to and there's nothing else will do
Oh, he's trying to get in there. He's only going to get the one and look how dear he turned the corner in that short position and got
Instantly don't come on this
You have the money to go for it though. You can you almost kind of might as well
I know you're gonna maybe lose the AK and the adb will not be able to be a day
But then they'll have been very good enough over a peaking of these scenarios
That's true. They borrow themselves in the bomb set and make you come through the discipline has been terrific
I agree with that. Oh nice shot. Finally
He's been missing for this map with a couple of great headshots the first one get to Harnia and they will take down kicks and
12 rounds then delay trying to bring us push us onto new crystal deciding map just to go back to your thought about the
Double warp set up there. That's exactly they're hoping to find that and Aurora
I hope they've conditioned them enough never come back to be again after he gets the ace and that's out of the map and I
They buy it again
Let's go back to what was working boys. Yeah, bring out the double orbs
the game. It's a good one.
Unfortunately, but Jimmy, like I
said, painted into a corner
needed to the full execution.
Flash is coming his way. Just
didn't stand a chance at no
backup. They really were hoping
they had conditioned them enough
never to come be again. But it
was the low by set piece out of
spawn Jimmy did well to delay
them. You'd think at that point
they would be hunting for
the case. Jimmy gets one and that was simply wasn't enough. Four in a row, certainly possible.
Oh yeah. The money being lost well on Dendeley means it's not going to be like four rifle rounds
that they have to fight their way through here Aurora. So absolutely could be OT still.
We'll see if that surprise secondary orb is is going to be a thing again. It definitely can be.
They're setting up a very common default here.
Smokes in the middle, they stretch out into Palace, they've got the bomb dropped in Teespawn
so we're not going to do anything super early.
What kind of is actually secondary orping towards Short instead?
So a little bit of a different position, trying to keep it fresh, keep it interesting.
I walk sick. I'm not been the best map for him just yet.
The primary opening on this map, there are so many grenade protocols to get rid of you
in window and CT spawn, like you're just all the time smoked off, it's kind of frustrating.
Where's the bomb picked up now? Seems like they've made up their minds.
Max course in the B hallways.
What's his role going to be in this? Okay, they're giving the bomb back now. I thought they were going to go A, but never mind.
Bomb makes his way towards B apartments, but their A-splits still very likely here.
Kigtan, defensive, you still at the ready. It's going to be spot to pixel.
They're running all over the place.
You're really right. It is going to be the A-splits. They just took a lot of time to figure out who's going to carry on the bomb, I guess.
Nice defensive so from kicks and he gets onto all the eight ramp and a 30 second mark as well
They can have to push through that Anders. No two ways about it. They got to try and contact him pop it open
Didn't even see him but the doc is gone
Max for you know where he is
Nothing you can do in the round any longer. That's so I'll play the smoke. You're right
How much of a chance once that's up
Zero chance. Clean rounds.
You really want to take this all by the Maxx cause hands.
He won't be able to buy one next.
They have $1,900 loss bonus into the following round.
So him saving the orbs actually kind of huge.
Felt like a kind of confusing round even before they even got close to an execute.
Like they were running around the T spawn carrying the bomb back and forth
and it felt like they spent like 20 seconds doing that.
Not that the time was necessarily the biggest factor in the round
but just kind of an awkward scenario when they say
Okay, so now you don't quite know what's going to be happening.
9-12.
What can we do here?
You could do go one of those boosts in the middle.
Yeah, boost my smoke.
Yeah.
Probably what I'll do.
Straight up peeking hits.
And we're currently with a perfect jump on over.
Yeah, fancy field work.
Good understanding.
What he could be up against there.
It's the most valuable target, MaxCorp.
The follow will recover the AWP of Paramount. He has no Kevlar.
This definitely was an eco.
Hoping to find a timing here.
We're going to wait until he's just committed through the jump and then try and pounce at him.
Use the sound cues as intel.
Yeah.
He's trying to find a rhythm in those jumps, but unfortunately they've kind of evaporated now.
Jimmy's gone back into the corner and we're carnivorous. The easiest kill of his life.
Jimmy peeks on outs. It's really great work on the defense.
It's more like it. No mistakes from here on outs. 12-10. Two to go, as Antares.
They're gonna close things out here. Oh, he's missed him. 4x3.
BOOM!
UGH!
So every time Zantara makes the choice to go a little bit aggressive, he can kind of backfuck it.
He's lost the AK again!
Brother!
That's a shame, that's just really unlucky I suppose.
He's actually a good push.
He had a freebie.
I'm not sure if it was 4x3, it looked like it was to me.
Yeah, it could have been.
I know, I know he does play 12x89, 60.
KickSan is an unlikely off-angle.
Can you really beat this?
enough to follow, kickstand with good confidence, but RDM will find the headshot. 15 seconds
bomb, obviously on the other side, so can't really win the round, but you can make it
more expensive and you can try and save this AWP into the next one as well. Aurora climbed
to 10 rounds. They wouldn't have the AWP otherwise. That's at least kind of a massive frag they
pick up on Sanse Aris there. If he gets that frag, they have no AWP going forward. Now they
certainly do. Not a problem for RDM, he can be dropped to the AK by MaxCorp, get himself
Kevlar and Aids, and they've actually got a pretty nice buy.
That's actually kind of a big deal.
They saved that.
So, look at that replay. I'm sure that's what we're gonna see.
There we go, Anders.
Oh, yeah, I didn't think it was a 4x3 moment.
Let me go check his res.
Let's go.
I'll find out.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Well, while you're doing that, we're getting into round number 23.
It's crunch time right now for Ben-A-Lay.
They can feel the pressure of every single mistake of every
Opening kill that goes the way of Aurora
This one is on the end set up with the follow on the flashbang and they delete Wakadia
He's taken down Santaris to finally they get one in return
It's all online right here. They've got no room for error Aurora
Three more kills and we are on you
Why do they finish things up?
Plenty of time, resources, and a man advantage kicks in the fly in the ointment here.
There's a chance he could time this well. You can see Doc patrolling towards the palace, they've got no idea this flank is coming through.
Kick someone, he both kills the rounders, one will not be enough, he needs the double kill and it's actually possible.
And if he does that, he's got the bombers as well, Henry. So I like that setup, that framing for it.
Go for Broke it, go for the big play. One is not enough.
enough. Yeah, you are mind melded with him, Henry. That's what he's going to be doing.
Oh, you've asked and he has delivered love that. Well played. Only way they win the
round if he gets to. And that's the bomb on the ground. What a huge turnaround. Oh,
then lay it was right there for the taking and now now the desperate AWP to try and
walk in here. Look at how many angles Max core has to, you know, check just to find
the bomb even his teammates so far away keep it cool kicks and this is the
heist of a round doc behind enemy lines look at the position for Jimmy if they
go be there all the damage it has to be here I think yeah that's the right place
to go super fast one kill them walks it secures the round a tag is not bad or
Oh, he's a trouble now.
The grenade might have done it there.
Oh, wait a minute.
Doc, he's been a supreme player.
He's taken down Wokseq to start with.
But the fact that they even on the site, the fact that he even
got the bomb planted is already a bit of a nightmare for Aurora.
Gotta move fast.
You must.
They do not have a smoke grinder.
They've got an incendiary, but they've got
put that much pressure on the orchestra.
All right.
Wow.
They seal the deal here.
They don't see the danger.
They seal the deal here. They don't let that one go kick-san on the quarter kill, but the flank is obviously what really does it
It's a real thinking man's play there from kicks and
Knew what he had to do knew the objective as I mentioned one would certainly not be enough
Had to go to the big player might not be find it got a bit scary there squeaky bum dime towards the end
We're doing walksic tag and no frag
but a pretty comfortable retake in the end.
One round away from overtime.
Bomb goes down thankfully, so they do have a buy here,
but it's just a good point.
Gonna be mainly Galil's and a couple of AKs.
Some open runway to get into overtime, Anders.
Two-zero looking to eliminate Dandelion
from the tournament.
Wakadia bravely ventures in towards the underpass.
No one home, but lots of information garnered for Aurora.
The bad you see no one there is massive.
I'm afraid I shouldn't have kicked Sans in my fight.
Do you think you can pull back now?
Watch the guard here if you can't, it's clear. Why not even matter?
Yeah, so Tyros give the kills while overtime is looking very likely.
It's a flashbang to set it up, but kick Sans, still!
The thorn in their side from that window.
Two kills is what he's got so far.
Captain of the team, you got a quad in the last round, and now working on another multi...
This is real great work.
Just don't throw the round. The bomb's down towards the top of middle.
I feel like I can't. All right.
Walks, he's going to be able to find his one and quarter.
And it's overtime ladies and gentlemen the photo goes down last
Bacardi with a very very confident second half here on the CT side and now that kickstands not a step it up
This is super scary for Dendeley
Should have closed this game. We said they didn't look themselves in that first map
They look fantastic in a second running away with the times as well
another huge lead
squandered giving up
Some great rounds there, Kicksand saving the day in the most important of them all with that backstab towards T spawn.
And a full reset now.
And Vance has Aurora, another one's hitting themselves.
Yeah, you can see it as well. Huge round.
2-0 back on the menu.
No one's towards A, so just a set piece, maybe a fast B split here.
Traditional smokes go down.
great test of the strength of Aurora as well on the mental side right being behind
having to throw your way back I feel like these are the kind of things that
kind of shake a team together a little bit you build some some good memories
when you're able to do this in a tournament where again yeah the start
of the season here you need to do this now it's always good for the coach as
well so your team doesn't give up they stay fighting to the very end yeah
It's a new team, new language, new stars, it's going to take some time but so far so good,
kick-sap, massive output by the AWP, strikes back 3 vs 3 for now, smoked off towards the
B apartments, Jimmy not knowing to play up close and personal like this, he might be
overlooked.
Yeah but the fact that he's here means they can rotate back to A because they were all
on the B bomb side, they were pretty much fully rotated and Jimmy he's done great work,
is a huge kill. Well they know he has a vacate to the premises though so they can go towards
your guaranteeing his position. But they have to be worried about McCarty. They know that
he's the second player on the B bomb site and they don't know where he is at the moment
so that's probably why they are a little bit nervous. You need to have one eye on the hallway
and then your other eye somewhere inside of the bomb site is what they think but McCarty
is really far back. He's holding the window. They've got a molotov. They can molotov the
apartments in plan. Okay, so I should be the player. They are quiet. Just 13 seconds. There
we go. That's the plan, but it goes deep. Jimmy's already on the other side of it. It
comes to car here. Spray down. They're not the most flashy kills here for Jim Hapad,
but the fact that he's able to push in and find that and turn it into that 2v3, it's
huge. This one is known as one of the best people as a mirage. It's not the flashiest
or sexiest position on the map but he gets a job done 18 and 13 for him.
KickSent up to 20 by the way up there with Vokadia.
Yes.
There's some fragging in-game leaders.
1-0 Aurora, snatched the lead in their favor.
But they win four or five in the interregulation to get into OT.
Yeah.
And now starting off with the win here in overtime.
So it's between rounds, he was 12-8.
Yeah.
We set forward the best of all, Tom, he was.
That doubts creeping into the mines of then-delayed players now.
You realise this was your opportunity.
You didn't go over the line and now you've lost the advantage
looking at the barrel of elimination here in the group stages.
I don't think anyone expected him to make the final eight,
but they would have liked to have at least picked up a map today.
Yeah, this one could have been it.
Maybe it should have been it.
Deep incendiary.
On the way to the top of mid.
The end of the lane. Where's that last bit of strength?
Dark and R.D.N. have been playing a really strong game on Mirage.
Especially I feel like on the T side, they've been having the entries, they know what they're doing in the middle.
But they need to close the rounds out once they find that.
They do have a palace player in Koala kind of hanging out, so...
Let's see if we can find a good finish towards the 8 bomb site.
I feel like at least one out of the three rounds here in OT, the first half's gotta go their way.
Ah, Centauras.
Given the chance, he's hitting the shots, but his plays and decisions in the mid-round have been over-aggressive at times.
This one, working very, very good though. It's gonna be the opening frag.
He seems to reel it in now. Go join the teammates. Job's done.
That smoke is up just as Centauras gets the kill.
kill so even if they wanted to kind of convert that into a push on me it's gonna
be really tricky to run into the HG while Kixan holding his teammate while he was
completely blind. The fact that Makati is over here is a nightmare as well. They know
dendily it's gonna be a heavily defended bombsite. The Kixan he's played so well in
the last couple of rounds. Another multi a triple for the captain of the scene
leaves RDN. Bomberman is back here but they're waiting on the other side already.
Wait a minute, there's shots here.
Okay, baby go B.
Yeah, you can just get nowhere, you can't.
Jimmy's already there in CT spawn waiting
and honestly, there might be a position
you're not expecting Jimmy to come from.
You know he's the Bianca, he's already in CT spawn,
ready to catch you, Aurora up to 14.
Zatara's there, one of his signature moves,
drops out smoke himself, real deep one,
uses it to find a pick.
We've always talked about his AK-47 on the CT side as well.
and kicks it in right another triple.
Brilliant.
He has kept him in this.
He might have locked in a 2-0 here single-handedly.
Playing like an absolute beast right now.
Good pressure with the star.
Actually great, yeah.
It's an executioner, looks things here.
Contact player smoked off again.
They might have to
reconsider.
There's that double-off once more.
3-0 looking lightly now. They have 0 map control. They're stuck behind a smoke at a ramp three of them
While making his way back towards T spawn we have got a follow in towards the B apartment
He's going underpass right now, so they've literally got nothing on the map to work with
They're at the full reset this one, but you have no idea the CT is taking mid control
Yeah, have they got aggressive here, and they certainly have you know, that's ours is getting stuck in
He's flashed in around the corner. They're gonna hear the flashbang, but you're right like the
The uncomfortable position on the T side when you lose all the map control and you have
to crawl back through the map to find anything just to get into a position to even execute
onto a bomb site.
Three people on B as well, Henry.
There's a fake execute happening on the A bomb site, smoke down towards CT spawn, some
flashes.
It will pull back a couple of- wait a minute, they're going back through underpass.
So maybe it's more of like a wrap kind of situation here.
Getting docked into the window.
See if they could get the bomb even closer.
30 seconds on the clock here.
There's a player in sandwich at Kicksand.
If he could finish here with another multi-kill, that would be sublime.
25 seconds on the clock.
Getting down to the wire now.
It's the end of the day.
Try to get close.
What, Bacardi?
He's AWPing from CT.
Spoil.
You never expect it.
It's a good leg shot.
Even if Cafolo gets that one.
Kicks and coming in with more and Santar is to close up the round three in a row in overtime as Aurora are up to 15
Well, what can you say about that one?
They get to overtime the hard work was done in regulation the four in the row and they keep the streak going and take it up to seven
What a dynamic defense with my intermittent double or being with failure sometimes
You know playing that short B position, but sometimes he's in a all the way in the front the time
he was orping the you know the ticket booth yeah no it's happening
he has to be said Woxig if you look back at his career like the last five years
he'd normally be the ones taking those sort of fights it seems like Wokadia is
the more aggressive operator than two of them now which is wild to think he's
doing everything he's a lot more disciplined and calm these days Woxig
that is true oh here we go they want to close it out the killer instinct is back
Wokadia with the opening they weren't ready got his deads a little bit of an
attempted flick their max call you must step it up you must get another kill
The bosses he's spawned, they've actually won the bonfire without even bringing the essential package with them.
Kicksan does it again, RDN finds one in the middle, but they can't get the spray down, Santaris with the headshot leading Kuala.
One versus three, trying to hold on to the series, they kill Kicksan, 27 kills and a triple to end the series with, as Aurora take it in overtime.
It looked like they were down and out, they were 12, they're down, Dendele will fire on all cylinders,
They finally found their form in this tournament, but unfortunately we say goodbye to the Brazilians
and hello to Aurora, who are getting better and better as series go by.
They'll continue their run in the lower bracket.
Dendele didn't look themselves today, Cash was very disappointing, Maraj was better and
they'll be gutted.
That's the way they hit to the tournament, Anders.
Yeah, unfortunately it just wasn't strong enough this time, but definitely an up and
coming team.
I'm excited for it and excited to see what the Desk have to say about them as well.
Understandable, if Dendele right now is a little bit about the feeling of not making it over the finish line
They put up a good fight on the second map, especially on Mirage, Rocker in a winning position
But I guess it's the old saying, you know close yet yet yet so far. I think it was a matter of an experience
I think they actually had the situations in the regular time where they could you know a little bit more sharpness a little bit more
Decisiveness, I think they could have shut it down and went to the third map
but Aurora showed the experience, the captain leading from the front had a lot of massive
impact in the crucial round, so yeah, Aurora deserved it.
I felt like Dandelion had it all on control until this guy happened, Kixen joining us by the desk
right now. Let's start off with a little bit of fun. First map, Cash for you guys.
Seems to be in control, seems to be playing well. Is that a map you guys have been working on a lot
to integrate into your map pool? Yeah, I mean it's a map that most of us like
And we've been working on it a lot. I would say the results haven't been the best
But I feel like that doesn't show how good we are on the map
So right now we have like 50% win rate, so it doesn't look the best
But we feel pretty comfortable on the map and also a bit older map
And I know you've been playing Counter-Strike for some time
But but do you like cash coming back into the mix? Is it a map that you you like? Yes, I love cash
I mean I never played it in a team before this because back then when it was in the map pool
I was just playing face it and this kind of things but it was one of my favorite maps back then
so I'm happy to see it back.
I also remember from my time and Kasper's time as well,
playing against Santeris on Kasper was impossible.
Do you feel that as well?
Does he have a good feeling for the map?
And is that a player you can utilize maybe a bit more on the map?
Yeah, of course.
I mean, even when Kasper came out, he just said,
I'm so happy, guys.
It's good on this map.
And he has a lot of ideas from the past,
but also I feel like the map is changing a bit.
So he's also up with the map and he's adapting well.
Speaking of stalking a little bit and things changing,
Mirage was a map where you guys were trailing for the vast majority.
It seemed like you couldn't find your footing.
From your perspective, what was lacking in the first 24 rounds?
I would say on this side they just kept playing super aggressive on mid,
which is something we didn't expect.
I mean, we saw it one round, two rounds, three rounds,
but it just kept happening and they punished us a few times.
But we still got five rounds without a pistol, so I think it was an okay half.
On the city side, I think we just obviously again lost the pistol,
It was the first gun round and it was already like 11-5 I think.
So I don't think we played that bad as the score might have looked like 11-5.
It was just two pistols lost and one or two clutches that we couldn't won.
Could you feel like during the game, like you had a lot of like pushes and mini pushes going,
could you feel like by getting these kills, like the tempo went out of the game
because you like constantly like disrupted their plans?
Yeah, we knew what's their playstyle so you cannot let them play
because they're playing with a lot of fakes and pulling rotations so you need to be kind of one step ahead of them
So if you get a space and you like push somewhere and do something you will destroy their plan and then their second
Tom will not be the best so that was our goal on the city side and I think we did it really good
Looking a little bit on map one again like I think you played a good cash
We've actually seen some like really good cash T side also from your opponents also played really really good
Like what do you think the meta is on the map on the T side right now?
Is it fakey? Is it like hitting the bomb sites like scripted from kind of spawn, you know, or like how do you see them right now?
I think recently it changed a bit compared to let's say one month ago. I feel like right now
Everyone is just hitting the sites. I feel like at the start everyone had all of these mid-retakes with
more the Sandbags, more the Vents, more the Short, but then the CTs found good reactions to HE boost and those kind of things
So right now I feel like the T-side is avoiding me a little bit
especially in the late round. Early round you can get it out but if you don't get
out early it's super hard to go out mid later in the round so I would say early
round the danger is mid but later it's the sides and B.
Okay big picture stuff for you guys in Aurora naturally it's still a
working progress you know trying to fit together play styles we spoke a bit about
you know the balance from your point of view of giving freedom to players but
also honing in when we needed to be is that something you you're feeling in
practice is moving forward or is it still a question for you how much freedom
you actually need to give them and how strict you have to be with how you play?
I would like my team to have freedom because I think all of them are really
good players and skilled they have good ideas and they know how to play the game
obviously so I would like them to have freedom but I would say that maybe we
need to learn a bit better how to use that freedom I would say that some of
them are not maybe used to having that much freedom let's say I'm not sure how
to say it in the best way but I think they just need everyone just needs time
to get used to this way of playing and yeah I mean obviously I have the last call when
it comes to the two sides but I'm always open to give the freedom to the players because
with the players I have I think they can give a lot of information in the mid-round or get
a kill or make a move that can win us around.
Speaking of expectations as well you know for Aurora in this tournament do we have a
bare minimum?
Is that making the playoff or are we still too early in the journey for you guys to set
up those goals?
To be honest, officially we haven't talked about setting a goal for this event or even
for the next few events. I think right now we're just trying to make progress because
it's challenging. It's basically a new team, some of the players never played internationally.
We had only one month, so it's just about making progress and we'll see where we are in humans.
So, on a steady, thank you so much for joining us, Jackson, and best of luck in the rest of the
tournament. For us, though, we move over to James Spanks, who caught up with one of the losers from
Dendele. For Dendele, the run to Porto ends here and they did put up a fight within at least this
last map of it. Kochi, just taught me for you personally being Portuguese as well, having
the chance to make it to Porto. How disappointing is it not to just go out with 0-2 but also
know you had a chance across both series in some ways. Do people look at the game correctly?
Yeah, I 100% agree with you. Not sure everyone looks at the score line and didn't watch the
game but I think the game with Spirit was super close. We lost all four pistol rounds
And we got dunked, right, dunk was on fire, so I really think we won most of the first
gun rounds, so I think we could have won against Spirit, actually, or at least won at one of
the maps.
I think cash 100% is my eyes, yeah.
And we lost some stupid rounds.
Today, I think it's exactly the same, because on cash we won all the first gun rounds, we
lost all pistols, and then we lost against USPs.
It was way closer than the 13-7.
I mean, it was as close as it was at Mirage that went to overtime.
But then on Mirage, we had the game, 5v3 to close it, and we didn't.
It feels so bad. The event is very close to my house.
I would love to go and be there and be the only Portuguese there, but not possible.
Not possible for this time, right?
But looking at just what happened on this Mirage, you were 12-8 up.
You mentioned the 5v3 as well.
What are you seeing from your players that starts to go wrong in these situations?
We get very nervous. I don't know if people noticed, we have the perfect round to close out the match
and Doc was in A-Apps and he shoot the wall by mistake, one single shot, and we cancelled the call, went back and then everything, we didn't know what to do after that
because it was a surprise tactic there. And yeah, so these kind of mistakes, my players are still not experienced,
Not that they are super young, not that they are experiencing these kind of games.
And you need that little extra to close because then Aurora managed with all the experience they have to close it out and we didn't.
But I think it's a 50-50 game, I think we are as good as them.
So I think next time they will play with us, they will think like these guys are good.
So let's watch out.
And it is at the moment when we're looking at this, very small details between how far maybe Dendley could go in some of these events and not.
When you're now going to go back home and get working, I know they've been in Europe for a long time,
but what's the push going forward? What's next for you guys?
How are you going to keep improving and maybe see more of these kind of events, which I know is very important?
Yeah, I think that's exactly the breakthrough we need, is actually to come to these events more often.
Now the region is really stacked. South America is crazy right now, right?
With three teams in the top time.
So it's hard to get slots there because the teams are way much better, but that's what we need.
qualified to bigger events come here more often but I think we are one of the
teams that actually can do damage if you take a look at some of the other teams
that come they they're not that dangerous I think when we come we play
solid and yeah we need more experience and I think we will get there.
Any final words to the fans out there you can do it in Portuguese as well if you want.
and a little bit of Brazil in the last open.
But who knows, next time, thanks everyone.
Like he was the focus of my attention at least from the Spirit game, where a lot of the good situations he just needed to reach out and like go for it, right?
And obviously him shooting a wall is not exactly the same, but the chaos that happens around going off script and not being present in the moment, that's the real danger for that team.
that they need to learn from it that next time they have these situations where they can smell the
victory they can smell you know a good result that they don't you know stand back and then let the
big dogs do their thing because then they will lose. You need to be there. That's the thing right
you need to capitalize on the the opportunity that you brought to the table yourself because they
did play well up until that point. They were doing a lot of good stuff they were applying pressure to
a run in isolation they're going to be disappointed right now they didn't push it to a third map but
No guarantees they would have beaten a Roar on Nuke, you know, I personally don't think they would have, you know, but if anything, I think there's a lot to look at right here.
A lot of the stuff you've seen in the demos and a lot of the tendencies you've seen from some of these players is stuff they can use to learn and hopefully get better next time they have an opportunity at playing at Tier 1 event.
But for now, I think it's pretty evident and pretty clear that the team and the players are not ready to contest their likes of Spirit or Roar.
And let's be completely honest, that's not bad, you know, we're talking about a Spirit who...
That's the thing, we're talking about a spirit who just won a trophy, who may be the best team in the world
and you're talking about a roura that was in the semi-final of the Major, at least they called that line-up a couple of months ago.
So if you're a bender lan, don't be disappointed, you know, sure you can be disappointed in the moment,
but overall I think they showed, you know, that they're still a competitive team, but with a lot of things to learn.
And just a quick bit of focus on their T-Sides, Rugga, that you were specifically on.
Do you think, like, if they get past some of these things, they've got that fundamental base to work on,
on the T sides on how the team plays that they could be successful?
I think the T sides are really really really solid and also remember that the
reason why they don't close this game out is because something happens that
that like you cannot really plan for you know like he shoots the ball they slow
everything down Qixxen finds the perfect timing right like the T sides are
solid in theory and I think they executed it 85% of the time to a very
very very high degree for them it just sucks that the last 15% is some of the
rounds that hurts the most right the NCE call on cash and the rounded 12 10 or
whatever it was here today this was like the perfect start for them as well to
close this out and have a 13-10 win yeah a hundred and you know but also you know
as much as I didn't live they're gonna look at this round they're gonna think
to himself we should have won this you know a hundred percent 5v3 you have
plenty of time to work with but also want to want to give a quick moment to
kicks and for being as proactive as he is in a scenario like that he's well aware
he has to do something he finds the gap in towards ramp he then continues to
push and a lot of players would have killed the first guy you know in middle
and they made it a 3v3 and all of a sudden you think okay we have a winnable
position right here he goes for the goal he waits you know and waits and waits
and all of a sudden he's gifting a multi-kill in middle so in that regard it
also shows what experience can give you that's not kicks and being a better
aimer than his opposition that kick and just understanding the game on a
little bit of a high level. Well that's your glazing a bit of Aurora in there we
got a team ski clip from round 10 it was a 3v5 win for a war
Nice, whenever you're ready to play
Okay we are walking out, we are walking out, I peek
Hop jungle, hop jungle
What is holding you?
I'm not picking
I'm in the con guys
I'm just waiting for some time
It's here, it's here, it's here
Con, two top con, two top con
I smoke your jungle, I'm playing for jungle boys
I'm playing for jungle boys
Stay alive, stay alive
Stay alive, stay alive!
Kill boys!
Locker!
On!
He's smoking as well!
I'm gonna kill him as well!
SONT SONT!
On CT!
I'm shooting on CT!
Both CT!
Open as well!
Open as well!
I'm going!
I'm going!
Can't be out!
Where is it?
I'm just...
That's G-Dodge!
I'm gonna cross!
I'm gonna cross!
He cannot live!
I'm calling his importance!
He cannot live!
NOOOOOOO!
It's okay bro, it's okay. Shit happens man.
I think it's a really good insight to the two different styles you know, like you have Aurora that is a lot of you know, in your face, small comps here, small comps there, that makes them you know, turn around because I actually think what Dandelion is doing is putting themselves up for success right, they retake, they go in to come, they get the first kill, but before they can like, like follow through with a new plan that really like sets them in the winning percentage.
Abura understands, highlights, it's the A player, you know, takes the room while they're
focusing on middle and that's also what ends up, you know, giving them the advanced positions
that they can kill, you know, the players trying to come in, hold the short-clan, go
behind CT, all these things that makes it so annoying trying to retake A because you
don't know if you can actually move forward on the map.
Looking at this for Abura in a little bit more detail though, I know it's only a win
over Dendele, but I mean, from what we've seen, from a bit of insights in the TeamSpeak
clips from winning some of these disadvantaged situations. Is this at least a team you're
seeing some growth from?
For me it's too early to be completely honest. I think my position stands firm. I don't think
they're ready yet. I don't think they're ready to be a factor in this tournament. Maybe they
can sneak their way into a play-off with a bit of an upset. But beating any good team,
any team like Spirit, even beating a struggling Navi or Falcons, seem to be very difficult
for me to imagine that happening. I think it's a team with a lot of potential. I think
over time kicks and we'll figure it out but I haven't changed my opinion watching the
first two games from right here they're still not ready for contesting for the big guys.
Well that's what it's all about right getting up to that level and testing for those trophies
but our next two teams they definitely are looking at trophies it's G2 and Spirit that's
the game that's coming up next but before that a quick break.
Hey guys this is Mahon and I'm going to break down how the pros hold Long A on Dust2 so
you can do it just like them too let's go.
at the start of the round, you want to pay attention to the spawns. That's because only
the best spawn for the CTs gets past this corner before the best T spawn peeks. So the
best use of the spawn is to try to get a Molotov down at the doors right away to stop a potential
rush. Now keep in mind if you don't have the best spawn, the T's can already be holding
you. With the Molotov down at doors, the next component is to have a second person throw
flashes to blind the T's as they come out. One of the most common ways to do this is
just over the building from the long crossing. The flash for blind T's holding from the doors,
so even if you don't have the best spawn, you get a brief window to cross the angle.
It's possible to throw this flash too early, so the timing to throw this flash is at 149,
which leads to the earliest a T can be at the doors. The Molotov and flash gives you a good
initial defense, but T's with the best spawn can run straight to blue bin before the Molotov lands.
So another option for the Molotov is to throw up behind the blue bin, which stops T from sitting there.
And as for our potential T at the entrance, you can use this smoke at the start of the round.
The smoke is thrown from elevator, flies over the buildings, then bounces off the top of Long
House and drops into the doors. This smoke limits T from holding the long corner,
which gives you an isolated fight on the T crossing to blue bin. But keep in mind,
if you want to peek the doors with the best spawn, it won't land in time.
The Blue Bin Molotov and Long Door Smoke takes away a lot of positions for the tees,
but what if the tees are fully committed to taking long? There will be flashes or a corner smoke
preventing you from holding the entrance. To ensure your Molotov still lands even while blind,
you can use this lineup where you run sideways facing the wall and release as soon as you
reach the corner. Facing the wall reduces how much you get blinded and it also removes the need to
step forward to throw the Molotov, which means you can cross the pit without any additional movement
and it lowers the chance the T catches you mid-throw.
To fight the corner smoke, you can throw a counter flash to blind the T's pushing up.
And this is a flash your teammate can throw for you.
The goal of the flash is to have it pop on the left side of long and behind you so you don't need to turn.
This flash will blind T's hugging the wall as the 149 flash won't get them.
With this flash, you can swing to the left side of the smoke or push through the smoke to catch T's directly behind it.
So with these extra steps, let's say you fought off the initial push. What's a good spot to hold from?
There's this position at the pit where you aren't directly holding the doors, but the side of the blue bin.
The idea is to catch the T's at the moment they have to clear the right side.
You can also use this lineup to re-smoke the doors without exposing yourself too much, giving you time to reposition.
So that's what you can do if you have long control, but what do you do if you're forced to fall back?
If you back up to the long crossing, you can use this smoke that lands at the middle of long to delay T's from pushing up.
This smoke covers the entire choke point, which allows you to move freely between Kar and CT spawn.
And as well, you can use the smoke to push up close to fight the T's.
And that is the last piece of how to hold Dust2LongA like the pros.
As the teams get themselves set up and ready for a game that will qualify them to blast
open porto, whether it's the semis or the quarters, that'll be decided later on, but
it is an important game for both these teams.
We're gonna have some fun again boys, and you guys actually took part in making this
possible.
So, I suggested, ah, let's try and make the Danish Dream Team, but not of old school players,
actively current players and pimp went you idiot that's a horrible idea but I'll make it slightly better so you are gonna do the
Danish team and you're gonna make the active Danish team rugga is gonna make one from Swedish players who are actively playing and
Then we are going to debate how and who would win in that best of three between those two countries right now
So how do you want to begin this do you want to go like roll by roll if I let you both start with maybe your IGL?
You want to go first?
Yeah, sure, we can do that.
The reason why I didn't like the idea is that it's such a tough task right now to build a Danish Dream Team.
But you like to work hard, you like tough tasks.
True, but it's also to the point where the wording of it feels, you know,
wake for me, because we can't build a Danish Dream Team right now.
You know, Danish Counter Strike has never been worse than this right now.
Roger tried.
Yeah, he tried, he failed, you know, and don't blame him here.
Exactly, I don't blame him, you know.
I blame the play-up materials, but let's try.
In-game leading role. I was actually very very close in up picking this guy which may sounds controversial
But I'm gonna go with Kerrigan. Surprise surprise. He's gonna be my in-game leader for this team
But I'll be honest with the way he's playing individually at the moment
That's not gonna work out on a Danish dream team because that only works out when you have monocene Niku and everyone else
It was between him and Blame F being my in-game leader, but I'm gonna go with Kerrigan to begin with
Okay, wait a sec. So you sacrificed firepower of Blame F for the amazing leadership qualities
of Karrigan, or you don't have such a...
Okay, okay, okay.
Rogo, what you got for me on the Swedish side?
I'm going to go for Brolin,
even though he's not in-game leading right now.
I think him playing individually
had a little bit the same story when it comes to the Danish one.
You need to be able to have a high individual level,
and I think he outmatches the other competitors
that could be the in-game leader for the Swedish team.
So I'm picking him based on his parents in the calling department,
and that he's a very good individual.
Who else are you looking at potentially in the Swedish IGL world right now?
I was looking at LNC, just because the experience he's had throughout the last couple of years,
like doing a little bit of everything, like playing Western European, going to South America,
like he's tried a little bit of everything, you know, and even then he also got the experience
playing with some of the best Swedish players in the past and also Device, so like I think he's
earned his spot to be into contention, contention at least.
That's right, sometimes words are very hard, I do the same thing every now and again.
I also like the Brawland pick because if we put him back on a Swedish line-up,
I remember when he gave an interview, and obviously it's not really possible that much anymore,
but he was saying, I just want to speak Swedish, I don't like having to do this English,
international talk, it's just part of sadly where CS is at right now for him personally.
All right, what role do you want to go for next, Pimpi?
Let's go with the AWP role, another role where we have no one good to offer.
What do you mean, with the voice?
Yeah, well that's the issue, I said good.
Anymore, I'm not sure if Device is caught for it. He was close. It was between this guy. I brought in and deviced Jay Bohn, you know, what he's done in FACE so far.
He's interesting. Is it fair to say that he has to be part of a DREAM already? I mean, we need to see a bit more, but that also speaks volume in the lack of quality we have in that role,
because you're looking at Jay Bohn, you're looking at Staun, you're looking at Device, who is over his best days. I could have gone with Device, and that would have been as an AWPing in-game leader instead of Karrigan.
that worked out but I opted to go with J-Bone and maybe a bit of youth here.
Alright, I like J-Bone, I think he's super aggressive, fun, explosive, has the tricks
and the flashiness to it but I'm really surprised you didn't go for Device, he's still active.
You think he's washed?
I mean he's not washed and he would be a good player and in all honesty I may regret it you
know what we go down the line but there's a world where you replace Kerrigan with Device
and let him in-game lead as a rival.
Do you think Device could be someone that transitions to RGO?
I advocated for it. That was my project in the beginning.
We just, you know, didn't find the proper fit in that team at the given moment.
I think he has all the qualities. The question is whether he wants to or not.
But he had it. I think he was really good at it.
Okay, Raga, where are you going next then? Who's going to be your author?
I'm going to go with my former player.
J.W.
I never coached him, but sure. I'm going to go Fuzi.
Fuzi from Oslo.
Okay, Fuzi. So a lot of people said, well,
someone walking behind us right here, did he life game against Spirit?
Was it a life game or how deep can he go? How good can this guy be?
He's been all over the world with his teams.
I think like probably not life life game but it's up there you know like
but that's also what he brings you you know like sometimes he just like
takes off and that's that's something you need in that all you know Swedish lineup
you need to have that ability a little bit like we talked about with Wrinkle
right that the the peaks needs to be super high for some some of the teams
to have a chance, a fighting chance, right? So I'm going to go with him also because he's really
good with the rifle, good with pistols, so he can be utilized a little bit also in the rifle role.
Why do you think he had this falloff? Because their conversation right now was hooked. He said he was
too harsh on them, he said like he was struggling with like everything that was just happening
at the time. What did you see? Because you were behind the team, you were there every day.
I think like coming from these like up and coming teams or teams that has, you know, a
couple of peaks here and there going into what I would call a tier one environment,
There is a lot of ass on you as a player, right?
You have a transition period where you need to show that you are capable of taking the feedback,
capable of growing as a person, capable of growing as a teammate as well.
So I think that's the period of time that we're talking about with him,
that he needs to come through it just high and then work and show it on the other side of this.
Very nice. I'm going to stop asking you guys too many questions,
because we need to go a little bit faster. That's on me.
Pimpy, where are you going next? What role are you taking?
No, Brina, my playmaker. The only playmaker we have in the Maxx.
He's there, currently the best Danish player I feel we have to offer.
I can do anything.
He can do anything. I think he's good. He seems to be a smart guy as well.
Still seems to be a lot of stuff that he can improve on as well, so there's a bit of potential in him.
But the way he's performing right now, I know Buena, he has to be part of the team.
Roger, your playmaker?
Nilo.
Ooh, okay, I like him.
He's going a little bit under the radar with his history in and of the scene and stuff.
But I think if you put him into a role where he's the secondary playmaker, where he doesn't need to take all the dirty, dirty fires, but he can utilize his brain, find some gaps here and there, like he reminds me a lot about Stevan when he came up, like I think they have a little bit similar playstyle.
So I think like he's a no-brainer if you want a good Swedish team.
Okay, next.
Tessus has to be part of it, you know, I think he can also do a bit more than he's doing in Falcons.
Can't do any openings.
Well, to some degree, I think he'd be the second guy, you know.
Him and Stab would work well in a pair.
I think people forget Tessus and what he used to do in his Rogue
and how much he was active in his Rogue as well.
Some of the best spray controls.
That too, you know.
I feel like in Falcons, he's limited in his role, you know, for good reason.
You're not taking away space from Niku or Kyushu or...
Honestly, for that matter as well.
So I think Tessus has more to offer in a role on a team
where he's supposed to do a little bit more.
OK, Raga, over to you.
Are easy.
Mr. Ress.
Ah, like you have to like he took it together with what we saw against bird from from from fozie
He has the highest peaks in all of sweden, right?
This the question is the the the stability, right?
But I think it goes to say that he is the one that may will make you competitive if you want to aim upwards with the team
All from sweden nicely and the last roll to complete your team's pimp
I'm gonna say this i'm giving rugga a slight edge right now
What have you got here?
Really, I can change that completely.
We have to wing in Bleymouth.
We have to wing in Bleymouth to my business.
Not as an IGL?
Not as an IGL.
What are you going to have him do?
Whatever he wants to.
He can be a bit of a baby.
He can be taken care of his own.
As said, if you want to stare and test his to work in pairs,
then I can place Bleymouth somewhere on the side of the map
and go back to what he honestly does the best,
which is lurking a little bit and playing by himself,
where he doesn't have to take too much of an account of what's around him.
Bleymouth is underrated.
People love to hate on Bleymouth.
hate on Blemeth, people love to meme on Blemeth. The fact of the matter is he's the one making
big competitive for the first time in a year's time now. I think he's a fantastically skilled
individual and you know he will go down in history as a player that should have gotten more out of
his career to some degree. But I think maybe his playstyle and his repetition etc etc timing
maybe of some of these moves as well have held him back but Blemeth is still one of the best
Danish players without a doubt. Raghav what are you doing to make sure you solidify your team
as the winners in this best of three.
I was looking a little bit like, okay, is it here now?
Yes.
But I'm still bringing in a guy
that will be even better in the future.
Oh, good, good.
I'm bringing in male.
Yes, good choice.
He is the upcoming talent they have in Sweden.
He might not be for everyone's liking.
You talked a little bit about Blame's playstyle.
He is also very passive.
He reminds me a little bit about Jimmy
that we had earlier today,
but the highs, the skill, the clutch ability,
He is the fit and he will be even better in the future.
So who knows, like when all the Swedes are done being mercenaries abroad, they can see it happen.
But would you agree with this, right, that with Mayo, when he was on Alliance, that little tenure there, it was great.
And now on Metasport, especially the Metasport before, they didn't use him correctly and he's kind of stuck in this rut.
Like for me, I just need him to be contract free.
Someone help him buy him out, get him out of this hellhole of Metasport and put him onto a good Swedish team.
Because in Alliance, I saw all the things that everyone was talking positively about for this guy.
I think it's the case of having a very young player.
If you have zero expectations for him and you just give him some love,
you'll feel really, really good and you'll get the best out of him.
And that's why when you sometimes join a project, maybe it wasn't his first pick.
And they are also not maybe just giving him free range to do whatever he wants.
You have a little ask here, the results goes a little bit, no.
And then all of a sudden, like for a young player,
it can also be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
By the way, what's great about this?
I'm just doing some mini calculations in my head your team average ages about 27 yours is probably gonna be like
23 you got the young team versus the next generation of talent coming up. So that's you sucks
When you've done this and this remember this is for everyone at home to realize this is not like a dream team of all time
This is a dream team of right now active players in the scene
These are two countries who used to be at different points the very best in counter strike
Sweden from the beginning, Sweden in 1.6 and then Danish was in the 2018 to well
until COVID and then it will got ruined. This is the best of what you guys have
got. How much confidence do you have in that Danish team to be able to take down
what Rugger has built in across the best of three? Not a lot to be honest.
I think it's quite equal to be completely honest. I think Denmark and
Sweden are kind of similar and where they're at right now you know the state
of Counter-Strike ever since Fnatic ever since the Gats and Despo they had two
teams, well in Denmark we had Astralis and Hurok, Duke came out and dominating, so there's
been periods but it's like both countries have gotten into a point just like Poland,
you know.
Poland was super super strong for a time being, had two teams at times, Virtus.pro, ECS I
believe they're called and then sometimes even a third team, you know, that would be
competitive and I don't know what happens, you know, it's just like the new generation
is not as strong as it used to be.
I think the whole international, you know, some of the best talents that get picked off
quite early in their career and go international and you don't have to stay on a daily team
which I think is hurting for a lot of these players, so it's just not as easy anymore and I'll be honest as I said
I don't think Danish counter strike has ever been worse than this right now from a talent perspective and
Hopefully that changes sooner rather than later. All right, so I have one final question for both of you
Higher or lower chance for Ruggers team to win over Pimp. It's higher higher. There we go
I like that and with that we can segue into our IC market higher and lower time
I know you guys loved this so much so we had to bring this one back like okay
We're doing a music kit for sure. No, I love it. There's for sure not me
I'm gonna go higher pimp. I think you're saying we get higher. It's a
It's very expensive what they're knowing really. Yes, bro. Really. Oh souvenir package, but it's real 2022
Hi, and that's too lower
I'll go higher cuz I'm joining him. Yes. Oh my god. Oh, it's low. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hi. It's bad
I'm gonna look at this screen. Okay. Feel tested. Yeah, higher higher
You know it's against let's go. Let's go. That's just that's just as close. We died on my use p. Hill yesterday
So I'm sitting this one up feel tested usp lower surely, right? There's so many of them
Nice pimp. Well done. These are people like these and it's minimal wear, but it's Julie's I'm gonna risk it and say hire
I agree
higher higher yeah people like this one oh what was the price of it you can get
him no I have two more leads okay that's making sense that's kind of cooked
I'll be honest but that's it for our IC market higher and lower we're going to a
break as we go into the break don't actually go anywhere we've got amazing
interview with Zontek and Nurtz have you made enough improvements are you
ready enough to challenge Spirit currently who didn't make any changes I
I mean, it's hard to say but I want already to fuck them like for me. It's like the most important thing
We had like a really close game in the
Major for me like every time I'm watching the YouTube YouTube reels and short. I see this magics
1v4 I cannot handle it
So for me a win today it will be super important
Has it become like a bit more mental as well for you guys like you're more hyped up about this game
100% for me please, I will say, but individually about myself, I want to win this.
Wrinkles come in for some pies. What do you think of this change they made?
It's refreshing for them, I think, but nothing very special about this, I think.
We will have to see. They will have to play a few events more to kind of understand
where they are at the moment. But as I always say, if you're not coming to play your best,
you can lose to anyone.
NG2 is for sure the team that we can lose to if we play better.
And it could have happened back at the Major.
That was one of the craziest games of the Cologne Major, right?
So much back and forth.
Magic's got his little cans added to the map because of it,
so we're still getting lovely additions.
Thank you, Valve, for something positive within this game.
Roger, you were making a little face there at the end of what Zontik just said.
What do you think of that?
That you can lose to anyone, but I think...
If you talk historic matchups, I think this is the worst G2 has had for a very, very long time.
Like six match, losing streak, last map they won when they picked it was Overpass, not there,
lost five times, those two against each other, still not rolling on Ancient, which Svir could also pick,
so there's a massive mountain to climb, but I also know that these guys, they do everything they can,
behind scenes to actually try and see how do we do it, you know, because they don't just come up and do what they always do.
They're here with the plan and I'm super excited to see how they actually handle this game.
Sort of the same thing as Spirit going against Falcons, right?
The loss was a 10 in a row before they finally got it done.
I think it took Donk, also took against Vitality, Donk a year and a half to finally beat Saivoura or something along the lines.
The loss was an eight games in a row versus Nico and Monizzi as well.
So Spirit have had their share of one-sided matchups.
This is one where they're comfortable.
This is one where the map pool is fitting for them.
This is one where the individual skill of G2 is not able to out,
I guess, output some of the rule of lines in Counter-Strike in terms of how do you
approach certain games strategically speaking? G2 can have a great game plan.
But you need players in order to execute that great game plan.
And with some players being the old passive oper, they were never able to.
My only hope here is that Winkle can come in and throw a little bit of extra light
on this game and maybe change the outcome slightly, at least how it was perceived
up until this point.
I'm going to change our direction a little bit and put it back on to Spirit side of things.
I want to ask you both, is Spirit the best team in the world right now?
Because other teams have fallen at all these other events, all these other hurdles.
I'm not talking about going to finals and doing it right, but I mean,
right now when Spirit needs to get the job done, they get the job done.
Result wise, you can argue that they're the best team in the world right now.
I don't think they are. I don't think it is the best team in the world right now.
I think it's really up for debate. I think it's really up for interpretation.
It depends on what you feel like, sure. Based on the last, what, four weeks?
Yeah, a final at Bounty and winning EWC. You'd say they're the best in the world, but it's the way they're winning.
They get the job done, but it's not convincing. They lost to GTHow, they should have lost to Big in a best of three.
They should have been eliminated from EWC.
But they weren't, and the win is world-nice.
Sure, and that's why I can argue that they're the best, but I'd say there is no best right now.
I want to ask you, Rogus, specifically, because you were such a recent coach in this.
If you heard what Zontik said about no motivation
within that interview clip that came out right,
what would your reaction be?
Before or after we play them.
Because I can tell you, if you lose to them,
and this is the storyline, you have to see when you open your...
Okay, but what if you were here?
This is the most demotivating thing ever.
Losing to a team that has no motivation,
and then you come out and it's like, yeah.
But what if you were his coach?
You're coaching him.
Even a player says that to you.
It's a different culture, isn't it?
It is a different culture, but I would be...
If I was him, I would be very sure to know my grenades, to know my strats, to make sure
that I don't have these massive drop-off in the game, because if you already put it out
there and you have a shit tournament, like the arrow points to you, bro, because you're
also part of bringing energy into the team, making sure that everyone believes in the
same thing.
So, if Dong hears you have zero motivation when he's grinding 12 phases a day?
That's my issue.
I think, and it may just be my brain who's
wide a little bit different.
When you're playing with Donk, you have a responsibility
to be motivated, show up, and make sure he gets the most
out of his career.
You're literally playing with what could go down in history
as the greatest player to ever touch the game.
It's not realistic to think there's
going to be another player like Donk on his level,
as consistent as he is.
So you're living in a time and day right now,
to be completely honest, where you don't know how long he's
going to be that good.
People think that that's going to last forever, just
like they think Messi and Ronaldo is going to last forever.
But at some point, it's going to go a different direction.
at some point, Donk is going to find other interests.
Or he grows too old or somewhere else comes in.
You have a responsibility making the most out of it
right here, right now.
So yes, if you play with Donk, you better show up motivated.
You better do everything you can
because you can be part of the best team in the world
if you do your best to enable him
because he will make sure that happens.
Well, I managed to enable myself
into getting some good answers on all of the situations.
So let's hear from the man himself.
You said that at the moment you try to compensate
for the problems the team can have.
I wanted to see if you could explain that to me.
if it's like different problems per game
and that's what you try to compensate,
like maybe you're all round trying to help out
with everything, how does it work for you?
Well, I'm just trying to help with everything I think
because like I do something in game plan,
I do something about communication,
I do something about me call,
I can kill sometimes, maybe in a clutch,
like a lot of different stuff.
So just try to focus on the main problem the team has.
If I notice that my team has problems with communication, I try to talk more.
If I see that I'm by far the less firepower, I should kill more.
I'm trying to focus more on just being more do-less and this kind of stuff.
If I think that the game plans probably way too disconnected between coaches and players,
I try to kind of connect it, you know, so we can communicate together before the game starts.
we can create the game plan together.
Everything by little, you know.
Something there, something here.
What is it that you enjoy most about being a professional player
that isn't winning trophies like?
There must be something that ignites you a little bit.
Progressing as a person, I think I have no direct motivation
to be in like a certain amount of championships or like a major.
I won three majors, I don't have this thing.
I just want to win as much as I can.
as I can. I'm not setting any goals so I have kind of no limits I would say because the main
problem I think you can encounter if you have a certain goal you achieve this goal and then you
have like a dopamine hole. It's yeah it's very hard if you have like a certain goal you achieve it and
then kind of running around for months or maybe years trying to understand what you have to do
or what you want to do so I'm just trying to you know understand or like see how far can I go
so yeah I don't have a goal of like winning something like major grand slam or whatever
like the only thing I don't have right now is grand slam so it's kind of obvious for me to be
be motivated about GreenSlam. But as I say, if we win four Blast, I don't know, Cato,
and then we win the Major, and we don't win GreenSlam, I'm kind of fine. So I just want
to win as much as I can, and it's not about certain goals, especially inside professional
industry.
Now, I speak to him a lot, I know him a lot, and when I saw that interview come out in
public, I understand it was just after a win and he even said to me just after this that he knew
when he said that people are going to take it the wrong way but he said he didn't care right
that's that's his way of doing it but I wanted to give him a chance to explain it some more because
it's not a lack of motivation for playing it's not a lack of motivation for winning because he
still wants to see how much he can win but it's he has such a unique mindset on the game and vision
of it all but also he's the most stable player emotionally on that team and he's also the glue
He does feel like he's very realistic, you know, and then seems very down-to-earth with it.
It's fascinating to hear because I get what he's saying to some degree,
but it's also where players are different and you must know that from a coaching perspective, right?
One way to motivate Donk doesn't mean that it's the same way to motivate a guy like Sontek, right?
We work in different ways, we're wired in different ways, comes from different backgrounds, both culturally,
but also where they obviously grew up, you know.
But I think the main difference that I'm sensing is that he speaks about, you know,
potentially ending in a hole or in a void, you know, once you have a big goal,
you achieve that goal, what's the next thing they're gonna be?
I think I just failed this, by the way. They've won and they've got a strong hold on my mind.
That's my only counter-argument, because I really like what he's saying, to some degree,
but the best players, the lead players, the ones with the most bulletproof mentality,
they find a new goal. Look at Apex. That's what he does, the absolute best win mentality.
Doesn't matter if they won 11 games in a row, doesn't matter if they won two majors in a row,
doesn't matter if they won another Grand Slam. He finds a new goal, and then he's fully focused
on that new goal. It doesn't matter if that goal is bigger or smaller or whatever, he just needs
something to change and I think that's what makes sometimes the elite players go above and beyond
that they're always driven always motivated but I totally get what he's saying you know not everyone
is right the same way. Rugg, any thoughts on it? It's a lot to take it right? It's a lot of talking
from my side partner here but yeah but what I do want to say is obviously he must have seen some
documentaries about like sporting right and when he goes out and say this it also it also creates
you know some some bubble right around them where yeah like I don't I don't care so much and it also
spreads to the others meaning in the fact that yes we want to win but if we don't win we don't get
it's okay you know like there's no pressure let's just take a hand yeah so I think like
it's super like he is smart but I'm pretty sure that the word he is trying to describe is not
motivation it's something else because obviously he's motivated to be here I think it's more like
that he doesn't, you know, have this end goal down the road.
Yeah, I'm sitting expectations.
If you set expectations, you risk a fail.
If you don't have any expectations, you can't fail again.
Yeah. And I'm taking it as how he manages his own feelings inside
when he's going through all of this.
So it's good to have this discussion on it.
But also let's have a take a look at these IGLs
and the IGL head to head in this one, right?
Magics going up against the Hunter.
Magics at time can still have very impactful performances,
but as can Hunter, both of them still quite new in the IGL role
and finding their own footing with it.
The difference is, Magix is the one lifting trophies right now and Hunters had a bit more time.
Yeah, and that's why I wanted this head-to-head actually to poke your brain a little bit, Roger.
You know, who do you see as the better potential for an in-game leader?
Both of them have been doing it for a similar amount of time.
Both of them have to learn it from the ground up.
Both of them came from players now making it into in-game leading roles.
I feel like they're kind of similar in their trajectory and how we rate them.
But how do you see them?
Like, who do you think is the better in-game leader right now?
He's letting you talk.
I think if you take an actual project and look at, let's say,
we build an international project. I want Hunter to lead it on different types of things.
I want him for the professionalism that I know he represents, for the work ethic, everything
is done at the proper, we're really good together with the coach, always put in maximum effort,
superstructure, takes a lot of time out of his day to make sure that everyone knows what
to be expected of them. But if you're talking a national team where a lot of these things
are maybe implied in the culture thing, I think I would pick Magix any day of the week
because he has that thing about, it seems like he can explain CS to anyone.
Oh yeah.
Like, he can explain it to anyone.
And if you have that ability and able to do it under pressure as well,
sometimes you can pull the carry gun and wrap it out of the head, you know,
when the heat is on.
And I think that's a very underrated skill to have in the national team.
I love this. This is why I've got you here on the desk with us, Rager,
but we might lose when we keep talking.
So if there's someone else, you've got to come and grab him.
Hopefully for his career going forward.
But as always, there's no overpass this time around,
but we do need to discover what maps we're playing.
So it's time for the video.
How big of a problem is it that there's no overpass in here?
Oh, there's a butterfly in here.
Hello, butterfly.
How big of a problem is it that there's no overpass in here?
It's a very big problem.
The last two map wins, they got against Spirit G2.
It was over us.
So this is a massive issue for them,
meaning they have to pick in to what they also know
is Spirit territory.
It's a tough video.
regardless of where you're going to go. We discussed it as well.
If you're Spirit, you have different avenues to go for.
You're G2, you have to do something.
Spirit comes in with a Dust 2 pick.
They like to go that way when they have the opportunity to do so.
That is stable. That is probably the map they like to play the most.
We also spoke about G2. What could they pull into this mix?
It is Cash. Spirit have shown a bit of weakness on Cash.
I got to say, the way they play, the items we put them to,
it's been dunked performing at a high level.
Apart from that, the team doesn't look that gel.
I think Cash makes sense, but it's also a bit of a risk for G2.
They've only played it once so far, they've been big on it as well, so for G2, yes, they do know it.
They could be Spirit, right, so you know how that works.
Oh yeah, of course, that's the trial, I wish they'd worked that way, I wish a lot of these teams would have worked that way.
And then we come into the side and we get an Ancient in here, and Rog is making a very strange face, like he's not too happy with the Ancient.
I think this is a statement for both teams, that if you win out this series, you're good for the rest of the tournament,
tournament, but if G2 goes into a best of three with dust and ancient against spirit and lose,
holy moly, that's not good. You know, the ancient lady G2 have been, they've been struggling a lot.
Yeah, a lot. Spirit a little bit up and down, but I think spirit okay with this leader was for G2 today.
It's going to be a tough match for Gallus. But obviously right G2 know their flaws, they're going
to be working on these things as well. Rugger, tell me how much you realistically can do to change
between what we saw from them at EWC coming into now this, like it's not going to be a night and
day difference right they're gonna have to rely on some old stuff. I think if you if we look at the
third map I think that's the easiest one to like tell whether you can actually make some
changes right like Ancient they know how the map works they used to be the trendsetters together
with a couple of other teams on the map meanwhile Spirit have overtaken them right and Ancient is
a map where Meta defies a lot and sending Spirit like Donk out in middle every single time is
something that you can try and finances for like this is the never-ending thing because if you take
Don't out of this out of the whole thing on ancient they're completely different team
Like we've tried ourselves with with Astralis that when you succeed with it you win if you don't you get absolutely hammered
Right, so there is the chance and that's the win condition
I think that they will see an ancient whereas had they gone for anubis or something else
The the task would have been way way way bigger, but they have to get to ancient
Yes, there's gonna be an issue in itself. Well, let's see if they can get to ancient
I'm gonna go and catch myself a butterfly and then Henry go and do your thing
We'll do our best, James. Thank you very much, boys. And yes, we're going to find our first team for the playoffs here at the Blast.
Porto Anders is an exciting one. This has the potential to be the best game of the group stages so far.
I don't know about you. I'm going to be giving it the beans.
Oh, let's go all in on this one. On the polymarker as well, we've got a little bit of an advantage spirit.
I guess that makes sense given the last victory at the DWC. I can't really blame the crowd for being on their side.
Absolutely true. And what a way to kick things off.
Now if we're talking my map, Paul Anders, as a commentator, this is my dream map board.
This is where I'll do my best work.
Gustav Cash and Ancient.
This is where I feel most comfortable, and I think there's going to be fireworks on the server today.
Let's find out who will be the first team to make it to the playoffs.
It'll be G2 or Spirits.
We start with the pick of Spirits here.
We'll have the T side start up.
Gustav too.
Quite a technical one as well.
A couple of smokes, couple of flashes.
Adam Molotov.
No P250 in their hands though.
We've got double dual elites on the G2 side.
Let's get into it.
Rinko, he's had a fantastic tournament so far.
and he's getting aggressive into World Lower B.
Well, he's going to be tested today.
There's no question about it.
Some early utility to get towards that shot position
while the rest of them are alone.
Smoke has already set up for the cross.
They are going to be lightning fast.
Donk, he's actually cancelled out.
Rinkle, he even had the chance there.
Donk for another head shot.
He's coming up short in Son Tix.
He takes a peek over into the void
and it's Nertz that's down there waiting for him.
Shiro and Magix, yes, they're on the bomb site,
but they're a player down and G2 are right next door.
Double dualies here coming in for the retake.
Magics misses the opening shot,
they're getting rocked!
It's Rinko again!
Yeah, he's a bit of a beast, isn't he?
They're gonna let him get into his zone early,
triple kill for the rookie.
Gotta be stepping up here.
He did magnificent work in their opening game.
35 kills he posted in the series,
and now we'll see whether he can...
He's all duty, thinking of the off in the second round.
Just to know that, it pretty much means I'm going to lose this follow up round.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy a second one or actually win it.
It's a cost thing to do.
It is, like it's one of those counter strike superstition things.
It seems to be true, though.
And every time I mention it, it always falls apart.
Let's see if the trend continues.
I never liked the seer.
Well, for one thing, he's lacking a helmet, right?
Which is a big deal in a round like this one.
It really is.
OK, have they just gifted Spirit the win in the second round?
Time will tell.
Mach 10 for Teneir, a couple of guillots, make it one, let's scout for Shiro.
focusing more on the U2 here.
Donk.
Ready to use it.
Holding out for Nurtz and his signature MP7.
There's Rincor through to Smoke as well.
A five on three.
Except that you're always done.
Did they just blow up on the Smoke with one HP?
I think so.
And got a kill.
Yeah, that's insane.
They had Nurtz through the MP7, they opened the line as well.
That looked like a very common maneuver for Spirit.
They get that smoke down in Spirit,
sorry, don't vault up towards Short.
But they were very aware of that.
The timing was spot on.
This version of Spirit, post-chopper,
they do have a couple of really fast Short plays
that they like to run.
And they'll throw some grenades along.
This wasn't like the fast version,
but they have one that's much faster.
Oh, smoke to try and almost bait in a shot there
with these scouts.
Would have been fun if he could have landed the kill
against Hunter, but he's alive.
So we need to see some discipline now.
Oh, yeah, man.
There's no way.
They're so close to that in their headshot.
But I think they're fine.
I think G2 have done enough.
They've slowed it down.
They're in the 5-on-3.
Donk is dead.
Perhaps most importantly, Donk is dead.
He has been playing like an absolute animal so far here.
The blast's open.
See if Mattis can fend them off.
MP9 in an off-angle.
Spots 1 does not need to commit to the fight.
We talked about it discipline-required here.
Make sure you have the advantage and then duals.
Well done. From Mattis, round somewhat open, not anymore.
As you'll see, Rinkle comes down the victory here.
Last thing they can do, Rinkle will take his total up to 6 and 0 now.
Great.
That was a force by Bear in mind.
One of the few times that early AWP...
...actually went up.
Such a sick sequence.
He probably just won't get two kills.
We love that. Good job for Maxis as well, set good discipline play.
Should be the eco now. Donk, of course, will get a deagle.
Cheryl's saving his cash going forward for the AWP.
Bit of a master of dust to himself.
Maxis has really moved up in the world.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Good match, Donk.
Those huge numbers looking very comfy in a GT jersey.
I feel like he always had something about him, but I was never able to really pinpoint.
It's hard to know where his career trajectory is going to go.
Happy that he's ended up here. He looks like a rock solid player at the moment.
Looks very good indeed. Should be too difficult to fend this one off.
Couple of deegos with the Zonteks, one for Teneb, and Donk.
Let's see, Hunter here. He shouldn't be able to be headshot jumping back from this one, but
yeah, spots them out. Here comes the heavy-ordnance might.
It's a super weapon.
Absolutely bomb them out, wrinkle with a bit of a failed flick.
He's back around the corner.
Well, that's round.
The only real objective in these ones is base out CTU till.
True.
Shirou might be able to get one.
It's a very low chance of happening, but there we go.
Going through the motions here.
We'll have a gun round, going into the next one.
objective of G2 is keep five players alive and
opportunity to get a few kills here side of the campaign here on the CC side but
Mattis might be into the punch and have an absolutely sensational little spray
down there with the MP9 I guess you want him to get the kills he's got the MP9
can farm that money making quite a bit of a back from the util that you spent so
3-0, the idyllic starts for G2.
Sea of Shiro's AWP can have some impact here, currently 1-3.
Got the Kevlar AWP, longsport available here as well.
They'll be sending most of their firepower though,
it's towards the B side of the map, it's going to be Shiro with the AWP,
I guess going for that first pick.
I mean that there's a mistake in Sendiri of course,
So, if one of the CTs was to jump back on that plateau, you can find them.
G2 though, not giving them an opportunity.
That's a very deep smoke over on Long for Matzas to kind of play close to that, the double doors here.
That's interesting.
I was going to say, Matzas is going to make somewhat of a play here with the MP9.
It's the first gun round, you know, a little bit discontent-bobulated.
Right, he's got lots of information there confirming Long was clear, flashes over towards the top of middle as well.
So, options are meant to be splittered, certainly there.
Or just the default up towards short next to the A site.
Molotov 2, take vision away from the CTs and that's out of the map.
See Rinko, active reposition.
There's quite a bit of utility on the CT side, so they've been pretty disciplined in that.
Oh, two nerds. That's really scary, but somehow they don't catch him.
He does spot out a bunch of people on short.
Smoke is gonna be up, it's the crisscross.
So one on the B side and one towards CT spawn.
But he's in front, he knows.
Well handled from there. Strops his own defensive smoke, blocks that up, and now confirms that no one's using those crisscross smokes.
Wrinkle, high pressure shot here Anders. Missed this and he's dead.
That's true, but this is where he does some of his best work.
Oh, they're gonna hunt him down, Donk.
Oh my!
He can't know he's flashed!
There was a grenade in the sky there against Wrinkle, he still finds Donk.
In 23 seconds, the bomb is gonna be planted, but I guess if you're G2, you could be alright, but he's still got long control even though it's the MP9.
Brinkel's gonna put on a show today. 9 and 0 is very assertive, very confident right now as well.
Trying to make a name for himself on tier 1 CS, his journey at NIP wasn't great.
No.
Let's see whether they can keep the momentum going here, looking for 4-0 and a 5-on-4 retake now.
The fact that he throws the flashbang, he drags all the attention away.
Shiro does at the open, that is scary. He's so good at these defensive positions.
tix as well helping out and suddenly it's the men advancing to spirit looking to claim their first
round in the series magic's trading out heavy god never really got activated wrinkled you can't
really blame him for this one for the retake it didn't really look like it got going and i guess
credit to spirit for going to clear out and long so that they can focus on the rest of capola they
don't have to worry about getting shot in the back and four chief of matters there he's in a
perfect position great timing to sit and have the firepower of the mp9 if you had a rifle there and
They win that round.
That's a good point, yeah.
My welcome, Matt.
He just didn't have the range to actually this fight here.
He wins out of the M4.
100%.
That's a bit of a shame for him.
He played it very well.
He was looking like a promising round there for G2,
but coming out on top, our spirits,
they managed to hold on to AWP as well.
But as we know,
that needs to be quite strong here.
Rincourt saves the AWP.
They've got rifles otherwise.
Have a look at the initial setup here for spirit.
More of the same, more defaults here.
Bomb down at T spawn.
So just feeding out any CT side aggression as everyone to a lower B anyone pushing shorts
Recovering the Bob now
Few drowned here for both teams in terms of the finances
Hunters through an incendiary into lower dark and then you smoked on top of the incendiary
Yeah, trust that for me. What are we doing that for?
I guess I we know that players like nuts love to be in lower B
That's one of the nerds calling cards here be around here each and every time maybe just trying to keep them conditioned
Keep the one that toes but trust me gonna see nerds in there a lot
Yeah, I guess you could force them to use a Molotov.
Like, clear out the corner, that's an interesting idea.
Slows him down.
Oh, look at this.
Moves on the other side, they blow open the smoke.
They're hunting for their kill, they've got magics,
but Donk is there on the other side, ducked down behind the wall,
and he comes flying out with a double kill.
And once more, he's been a little quiet at the start of the game.
He's sick of waiting around for it.
No one peeking into the smoke, that's what he was waiting for.
And they still have some 45 seconds on the clock here.
Four versus three. Winkle. Yet to die. Here we're at number five. Same position.
Didn't hit the initial before but of a fade away. Like this. He managed to get one.
But this round might be close. No one towards there. I think you just have to save.
Agreed. He's so close though. Like so much hinges on him hitting that shot.
He's got the, again, he's certainly got the killer instinct for it.
He's not afraid of anything that could back down.
So he was off by a pixel.
Yeah, it seems that they gave him a lot of freedom in this team.
I feel like he calls his own position to the start
where he wants to go and find activity.
Definitely lent himself to dust, too.
We always say it's an all-purpose paradise,
a playground for the snipers.
You mentioned Nurtz.
Last series we saw the G2, he was the lights up.
Him and Wrinkle together looked super dangerous.
And I thought it was like a really inspiring kind of play
for Nerds as well, who I want to see back, like I'm probably being excreted into him.
I want to see, I want to see more of P7 from Nerds.
Yeah, that's my favourite.
That's true.
He's got that weapon in his hands.
Man, is it a good show.
Alright then.
Second round.
Money's still okay for G2, we said that was an important one in terms of the finances,
that's why they are taking the save.
Even if they went for it, it likely heard of even getting close to it was...
low, at best.
So, tactical timeout.
I think OK so far, you're 3-2 up, as you mentioned, money's OK, but Spirit sort of is surely making the presence known here on Dust2.
The opening map, it's their pick, we've got Cash, Second and Ancient Third, it's the DreamMap pool actors.
Yeah, for once, let us have all three maps, that'd be really great.
You and I have only had two zeros, so if it's been all two zeros all the way.
They've been some great two zeros, don't get me wrong, we've had a lot of overtime, so we've had a lot of 12-7s fall awry.
I think almost all of our game should have been three maps, but somehow the comebacks here at last open have been sublime.
This one could be it's the way that this is shaping up as well.
Yeah, like I said, this should be the best game of the entirety of the group stages in terms of like
the excitement, expectation on paper, the way like Dom is playing right now.
The performance wrinkle put down in the opening series.
Hopefully we get some incredibly exciting moments.
Next gun run underway.
Wrinkle. Like I said, confident. Assertive.
In towards lower B right now.
Khan outstays. Welcome here.
Got a smoke too.
Give him a number like five seconds of cal.
I need to think about falling back soon.
Donk was waiting in there in upper dock.
So, realizing someone could have been there.
Very, very patient.
Got to be reclaiming that lower dock position.
time they will monitor that corner. Yeah. They're aware of the potential threats.
But those are like the small details, right? Because of the form of CT smoke,
it forces some utility from Spirit that they maybe could have used later on in the round
just to reclaim this part of the map that they normally get free.
They'll be going for a long retake here on the T side. Flash will be going through momentarily.
Ooh, that a nice little smoke.
Hard to be deployed.
Might have to reassess their options here.
There's the flash. I don't think they push through with it, though.
I think G2 have an expectation this is going to be some sort of a B hit.
They've got three people inside of the B bomb site, so...
They have got Wrenkel. He's at the AWP.
Planted here by the car.
See where every can...
Have some impact this time.
Still yet to die, by the way.
Still hasn't died.
Yeah, their first kill is going to be everything.
misses the first shot. I think they're gonna be on top of him. Molotov. That's a
friendly Molotov that slows them down. I don't think they meant to do that. I
think that was meant to bounce off the wall into the bomb site. So a little bit
awkward 15 seconds on the clock, but they're gonna get the bomb plant. There's
nobody on the A side. They realize this is the player thing matters. It's
already encountered Tenir out there. Bomb plant happening in the last fading
seconds of the round. The five on five for the retake. A rare treat for a map
like Dust 2. Spirit could be claimed a third in a row here. Nice grenade on top of Magix,
but all of the pressure right now is on G2 and looking lurking in. No chance. Rinka will
suffer his first death and Donk trading out against Mattis, so this would be a very grim
at the moment. They're really far away. Nurtz does get one and they find a kill on Shiro,
but there's just no time left in the round. Yeah, even with a 3-on-2 advantage,
the backstab from Taneir really did make things uncomfortable. Get that player so
was long could have been a different story but that was the AWP of Wrinkle. Finally he goes down
he is no longer immortal. It's going to be spirit with three in a row but time and time again G2
are saving three weapons so in terms of managing the finances doing a good job in that regard
they will have another buy available to them they've already used a timeout and yeah okay
they've been trying to move around the map about three man's seconds towards B like he said
Yeah, so it's 100% by default, like, we're losing A too easily,
they're getting too much short control and splitting us and we have no response.
Say this spirit, I wanted the teams that are so scary at finding those B-upper dark hits.
Like, sometimes when you...
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, 91 damage!
That's so much.
How did you do that much?
Just through the door.
I have no idea.
Just found the exact right angle.
A lot of the time when you're on the CT side, if you throw an incendiary or smoke into that
upper dark hallway, spirits sometimes when they're waiting on you, they'll pump right
through like they'll run through just as you're throwing the grenades.
It's kind of wild and something you've got to be aware of, I think, if you're playing
the CT defense.
Nurtz though, what do you do now?
Well, you have to bury yourself in towards the back boxes of B. I'd say this is making
a headshot, a jewel.
Yeah, find a way.
Hunter?
He's got the incendiary already prepped to throw.
It'll be a smoke instead to try and slow them down in spirit.
We've already proven they don't mind playing this late in the round.
They're happy to wait it out.
Utility is dropping all the time here on the CT side.
It'll be a smoke up, but playing in front of it is wrinkled.
He's still here.
He's held so many angles against him, but he's failed a couple of shots on shorts.
Here we go.
We're gonna go for it right now.
Deep grenade, incendiary to try and throw into the back line,
see if they could slow them down even further.
30 seconds here.
And not the aim that Hunter was looking for.
He's taking straight down.
It's becoming a real issue now.
They say bombsite.
They just have no response for it.
Running their default.
Excusing in and just hitting their shots.
You can see how much pressure Hunter was under.
He had no back of a misseemates. He had no one flashing him in.
Molotov down, just had to take a swing, did a little bit of damage, I suppose.
And you can see the IG there as well. Similar to what you'll see Apex Suwon does too.
He has multiple A-chees at his feet to try and bounce him off the back wall, do as much damage,
and hopefully get body kills as he runs towards the side, but he was so flashed.
And standing in the flames as well just didn't have a good duel to take.
And again, they'll survive with four players, but Spirit can't be allowed to have A this easily.
Yeah, that short position is becoming a massive vulnerability app.
It really is.
And the thing is, Magics will know that.
He knows they're going to adjust, and now he's got them right where he wants them.
They've shown the same approach time and time again.
He can just change the pace up now.
As he knows they're going to adjust, they're going to try and find a response here.
Is there a timeout?
Because this one's kind of getting out of hand.
Four rounds in a row after having a 3-0 star G2.
This can't hold on to the A side, there's a timeout.
The other problem right is that
because Spirit are playing such a slow game right now on the T side
if G2 wanted to be aggressive, that's gonna feel like a nightmare.
And you get nothing out of the aggression.
They're just waiting for you to do that.
So it's a really good point.
They're being very methodical.
Not taking any duels at all, they're doing damage as you cross the doors as well.
Very frustrating.
It is.
So what's the call? Do you try and take the game to them?
them do you try and get that nerds present towards lower B?
I mean I like the idea of going for for those mid to late round short retakes
just like you do like a top banana retake on inferno you do a similar
kind of thing I guess but the timing has to be perfect
otherwise Don just gonna be ready for you instead.
So yeah like I said you might be taking the time out and adjusting your setup
but magic is also aware that's exactly what you're doing.
Yeah. See where everyone's changed things up.
I'm sure of the best B spawn, not going to use it though.
No, it's using the AT to make sure they can cross this time.
And they are stacking their players towards A.
There is a complete adjustment here.
So, one towards B.
It's going to be Heavy God, one of the most reliable anchors in the game.
What is that smoke about along?
That's a CT smoke.
Yeah.
I think it's supposed to be in the long doors to stop that play from to near.
That's my mark. I'm assuming that's where the smoke's supposed to go.
throwing it from elevators, pushing them along doors
we'll get the replay confirmation I'm sure
Is it because they wanted to throw the one that lands on top of the box?
Yeah exactly, that's all I can think of, that's the only reason the smoke would land outside
T side double doors though
either way, 3B4, it's in there there essentially
Donk in the middle
inside of the smoke I think waiting, seeing if anyone's going to be making a mistake near the
doors, alright
They smoke it off. Nurtz, he would love to block it, at least it gives a slight opportunity
for somebody to maybe shoot off of, but at the back of the beep on site, it's heavy
God who's yet to really have an impact on the game. Maybe he's going to get tested
now. Oh, he definitely is. B-split coming through and good smoke from him, but it's
answered that by a large smoke. He might be good for two kills here, but he needs three.
That's the problem, Anders. Anything else? They lose the round. Are they leaving Sontikson
upper with the bomb.
Okay, he's gonna get joined.
They do have some Molotovs, so they could try and burn it out,
but look at the time!
Spirit are just so casually playing their way into the last 20 seconds of the round.
Normally, you'd be stressed out of your mind to do this,
but they don't seem to really care.
Heavy God, one kill on the bomb carrier, and this round is gonna be one.
Oh, what's in there?
Subscribe, I have shot! Ridiculous!
Well, he needed three, and he got zero.
They are getting absolutely owned out there, G2.
No response, no answer. This time it's the B-bombsite and it's five players alive once again in the spirit, it's being outclassed in every facet of the game here.
That is sticking the landing in a ridiculous way. There's acrobatics, you know, all the ten scoring cards are coming out here because they had no time left, even if they got the team killed against...
Oh, shit.
This didn't matter.
Trying to get over the taps.
Maybe he didn't really have the bullets there.
They should be hunting. They've got so much cash.
Disappointing round from G2. Missing a pretty pedestrian smoke towards Long Double Dors.
I'm not even just missing it. Like, you're giving Taneer an opportunity to challenge an area.
And he gets a freebie, essentially.
My Matt sister didn't stand a chance.
I think he assumed the smoke was about to bloom and it never came.
So...
some fortune of time that's actually behind the bomb you know they get the
kill immediately this is it like it's it's half a second away from losing the
round here we go then five in a row spirit high flying here g2 floundering
they've got guns each and every time now we're getting a bit more active play
we're gonna see wrinkle taking matters into his own hands he gets the AWP
into us lower once again it will be zontics he's up against normally you're
gonna be flashing this one off before you commit to see if zontics that way in
time as you walk straight into it okay first advances it had in some time five
and four this is actually a great mirror to the round that was I don't like four
or five where it was donk instead of son takes all that position and donk was
endlessly patient he didn't peek it he didn't allow wrinkle to try and go for it
Sontics a little bit more forward. Ends up going down. Now they're going into upper
dark and this is where I just want to remind you again. If you're heavy god here and you
throw that utility, you've got to be ready for them to basically blast through. They're
so good at weight, like they weight intentionally for the utility to be thrown and then they
just go. It's actually hard to deal with. There's a smoke from the heavy god. Again,
alone, isolated, even with the man advantage-anders. He needs to, yeah. One would be okay
but the bomb will be planted and the ramps wide open, nothing!
And where is everyone else? Where are his teammates?
Smoke's no good, at least. They have to re-smoke the double doors.
That's notoriously the hardest bomb site in the game to retake.
What do you do?
I can't believe he's got zero backup there.
Yeah, that is disappointing. Even like a flashbang coming in from the middle of the hill down, right?
Anything.
We'd have taken that one.
Donk in the back and Teneir with this god in the train. Yeah, you kind of have to
get the flashbangs trying it in. Everyone is blind including the CTs running into the site.
It's not ideal. Yeah, they might be blinded. It's looking for the kills.
Shirom picking up Mattis. So they go through the double doors. They flash
themselves. Yeah. And yeah, that's round. They had to open and kill that rink.
I had to work so hard for that one, taking a massive risk into War's Lower.
And I just can't comprehend why in a five and four months
if you don't at least have someone outside the double doors
is providing a bit of assistance, like he said,
a bit of utility and a thing.
Why is he isolated like that?
Super, I think worth noticing again,
how little respect, spirit,
half of the smoke that have you got froze though.
They just don't care.
And this is like a really, really big theme for them.
And they even miss their double door smoke.
Yeah.
They don't get punished for it.
That's, yeah, really good.
Yeah, and if someone had been there in the middle,
that would have been potentially round-ending.
Oh, that's gutting for G2.
All right.
Wrinkle's still 12-1, by the way.
Yeah, we're going into round about 10,
and we've got a six-three down.
He's the survivor.
Yeah, they haven't had to equal at all.
We'll give them that.
Good utility out long from the CT side,
like Mahon has been talking about
in one of these videos going into the game,
exactly what they're doing here.
They molotov and send the area out.
The blue container, Donk, is about to be lit inside the box.
Oh!
He's such a ridiculous player.
Oh, I think they're out boys round is probably all though bomb is a little bit for the back
but I mean who cares you gotta save again yeah wrinkle we happy with that keep the stats going
look how much they wouldn't have can justify having to near outside the long the double doors
yeah if you're mad that's how confident they are like boys going on this is brutal throwing it
doubt they're not defending themselves that's that's true yes where's the
referee hunter best you could do a save they've already used two timeouts as
well I don't know if you do have a response today filled with the half is
cooks at least they won the pistol I mean it was a really nice pistol victory it
was conversion 30 now seven in a row this time all five members do go down
They will have a strong buy skill this shot from Toc, it's so sick. He does damage in the second as well
We get one from Nertsef, that's overwhelmed, he comes to HE down, he goes
This is ridiculous. The fact that they're planting on the B side of the map, he's outside long tour. This is so crazy
That is having fun out there toying with their food partial buy as well double scout setup
That says it all look on their face
Yeah, you just lost seven rounds in a row.
Smuggler's up for long, but there are no CT's there to kind of back it up.
You're in the wrong place in the map every single time.
The Rautons haven't even been competitive.
You have to save because you've been called around the map.
And again, another beautiful shot that's round.
And a completely different look from Spirit, right?
They've been so slow, now fast long, no one's ready for it.
And you don't have the weapons either.
Everyone's contributing on the Spirit side, looking calm, confident,
I mean, they're coming into this tournament, as you say, as scouts.
Shorted on.
Shorted on.
Short on, Rinko.
See if you could do anything more.
But they're kind of the team to say down, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
I'll see if anyone's going to be able to...
I'm here holding onto the bomb site, to need to actually get the kill.
Yeah, trying to do a little bit more damage.
Maybe get some more people warmed up.
Not gonna be happening. Pretty good from Sonic.
It's a quad kill.
Very nice.
He'd in a row for Spirit.
I feel like we're done here unfortunately.
Don't you dare to say they haven't turned up?
We overpromised.
Yeah, this could be a game of the day.
It is Spirit's pick.
We'll say that is Cash up next, but I just want to confirm this.
I was looking at the map data before. I'm pretty sure G2 have only played it once and they lost to big
13-5 at EWC
Okay, so they've picked cash. I couldn't tell you why I guess they're confident in their practice
Not much tape on them I suppose I look into catch them off guard
But the thing is we saw a spirit on cash already and they looked very comfortable and there's even donk
Yeah, who obviously didn't play it in CSGO or anything like that. He looks like it was a second home for
Flick opportunity. Rinko was already low. He also got two aces and one half cash. He could also do that.
Just casual day in the office for Donk, but that headline breaking for anybody else.
Round number 12, last of the half. Spirit are looking to win nine in a row to just put a bit of a fine point on it.
sure that G2 know they're not welcome here. Lurk smoke goes up. Wrinkle back here and
he's still tagged up already. That's a really impressive shot but then what looks off surely
gonna kill him? It'll be some ticks with a bullet instead. Heavy guard on the wrong side
of the door. They're gonna lose fun too as well. And it's well upon horribly wrong here.
Another plant at the B-bomb site and a 2v3 in the after plant. G2 desperately want another
but, um, he's gonna let them nerps going down, leaving matches.
He's been struggling like, he's been out long the whole time
trying to do anything, but he's not even his fault, like,
he's had no opportunities.
Well, after being up 3-0, it will be nine rounds in a row.
Very disappointing for G2.
Like I said, Anders, feels like we're done here.
It does. There we go.
Nine to three!
That's nine in a row, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of the half.
We're at the Asus ROG Lab. It's Maui Snake and Vu. 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 this should be easy because we're looking at it
in lightning fast refresh rate on pristine color from Asus 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?
This is Brokey.
It's Brokey.
Lock it in.
It's Brokey.
It's like, they're going to lose this map.
Yeah.
He thinks without going through it until he doesn't.
He walks around a connector and then he knows
it's going to someone and everyone's like, Brokey's got it.
And then he's right back to getting the pump.
All right, this one is the Huns 2025.
I know who this is, I can't remember his name.
A score maybe is the only game I can't remember right now.
I don't think there's a score.
Okay, yeah.
Someone else.
Okay, if we can't remember the name,
I'm gonna say that what happens next is,
doesn't get a whole bunch of Eagle kills,
makes one of the best clips that he's here.
I was watching this in my mind,
but I can't remember the name.
Yeah.
Ha, nine.
Next up, Furia, 20-26.
Oh, this is Keisarado.
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 say four.
This is like the bounty, right?
Yeah, pretty sure it's OK.
Damn, boosted.
Oh, my god.
Yeah.
Next clip is going to be Vitality from 20-26.
Yeah, this is a zygoflick.
Oh, yeah.
This is a zygoflick.
He purposely looks into the wall when he peeks,
so that he can flick really hard, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a zygoflick.
A gratuitous flick.
This clip is Falcons 2025.
All right.
I'm taking Kyosuke.
I think it's Kyosuke 5 kills.
Yeah, I'll give this Kyosuke 4.
He came to Sision in the action.
Nico would have already thrown the nade when it turned around randomly swinging around shooting. Yeah, just looking for fights all the time
Well GG at least the highlights were incredibly clear thanks to this aces ROG
Rinkle posting a 14-4 scoreline in the first half, suggests G2 were off to the races, Anders.
It looks like they were high flying, but unfortunately no.
Nine rounds in a row for Spirit and it's G2 with three after winning the pistol.
Absolute disaster.
What a meltdown.
You have to say Spirit does look very, very good, but G2 just didn't get a look into
the majority of those routes. Yeah, it was a great T-Zyve, a spirit, and it set them
up very, very nice. The flash is going over towards Long. We already got one smoke for
the cross, and they don't have a second one, so they're kind of...
Oh, he's...
I mean, it is.
You're joking?
Didn't hear that.
That's a shot.
Okay, well, they know exactly what's coming now. Man advantage.
Here, we'll tuck himself away, and Gando will pop me over to smoke his magics. No one
home on the other side, but they've already crossed over towards the A-side itself.
There's no kit in this round, but there is a smoke on Sonic, so even if it's a 10-second defuse, you could put some pressure on to try and slow this down a little bit, Shiro.
Again, just putting some bullets towards the site, not connecting with anyone. Down and long. It's a P250 on Heavy God.
Very patient from Taneir, waiting for his moment to strike it. Been agando all the entire time.
Heavy God's got two kills. You're trusting him to snipe away any defuseless in this round.
Max is trying to do the best that he can to find a time to near continuing his third headshot of the round.
Here we go, Heavy God. And there's that pit position.
Oh, what? Disgusting!
Magics! He just absolutely wrecked him.
I'm flung by that.
Ed looked like there was a good chance of Heavy God.
Finally, an opportunity to get back into this game, but no, it's 10 in a row.
in a row. What a shot to kick
things off as well. F***
blind. Oh yes, he was CT and
D. Look at the fighting chance
over a second. Even in the two
versus one, you think that P2
50 is going to come out on top
of the first bullet from
magics? It's an absolute
peach of a shop. That's 10 in
a row, Henry. That is 10 in a
row. 10 three. Yeah, cashed
around the corner. Last chance
to lose at least got the bomb
planted. They do have a buy
here and some damage on the
I promised at the start this would be one of the most exciting series, there are no refunds, we don't like, you know, there's what it is, you can't control it.
I mean it's still been a pleasure to watch it, it's a skill and what we're seeing from Spirit is like, yeah, they might be the favourites, absolute favourites at this point for the trophy here in Porto.
I actually think it's also more exciting because it's not just Donk wrecking people, like Spirit as a whole, it's like a united machine playing really well.
And that is, it's fun to watch Donk but it's also good for the longevity of the Spirit team to be able to do this.
Yeah, difficult to poke any holes in them right now, like every map we've seen from them, admittedly only two.
It's been pretty spectacular, and this one is no different.
Coming in hot from the EWC Victory stack tournament, but still the favourites are Spirits.
Yes, we'll see this.
Force 5, actually have a decent start here.
That's sick. Sick timing. Only some seats left. Shut the bottle.
I hope we can get a replay of that first kill because if we can what you're gonna see is that they throw the crisscross smokes
But they're actually already making the flank towards speed by the time that second smoke lands like they're basically running through it
Like it's such a it's a cool timing to find
But like donk was ready for them a little bit of damage, but he goes down with nothing and zontics
Pressure either side caught off by the Molotov coming through his smoke give us position
Just about containing now.
Yeah.
How much continue do you?
You've been looking pretty solid.
Top five spirit of the moment.
A couple of bursts coming out.
They pick up a rifle as well there, the Galeel.
Okay, the rest are going to run elsewhere.
They don't want to fight a Galeel variant.
It's fair enough.
That breaks the 10 round streak.
Finally, after the pistol in the first couple of rounds in the first half,
What seems like an age you go
She's you to back on the board now for fourth round. So look at the smoke landing as they're already on this side
Thank you for that you tell
Good shot from heavy gods hasn't really done much here on dust to that's a very impactful killer
They can get going here on the tea set of dust to and give spirit a taste of their own medicine
Maybe it's gonna be a much closer game needed that the miracle lands in their favor
technology deagles prevail
but
A few weapons saved here, two M4s, a danger man, Donk, M4A4, Shiro, if you have a rifle.
I think it's just going to go fast, short.
This is actually something that Spirit themselves do quite a bit.
It almost looks like it's lifted out of the Spirit Playbook.
You wait and hear the long utility, you smoke up middles and no one can see you, and then
you're just in that short position very quickly.
I smoke mid to B as well, that's a bit of an A-stack here, I've got four CTs.
And now all our Brawlanders, buck with your seatbelts, G2, committed to a day.
Yeah, they've chosen to attack the strongest part of the map, they have no information about it yet.
They've set fires to duck, but he's got a weapon on the other side, a magic.
With the SMG, Mattis actually comes flying through, it's a really good kill.
Bomb being attempted now, but Teneys creeping up, he's got the M4 back in his hands,
just a couple of bullets, pulls up the side on Mattis.
That was the kill.
Ah, the tech guy, and he was struggling in the first half, Mattis, but he's up to 12 now.
And Son takes surely the award, let him clutch this round.
He's sneaking up towards that elevator position,
sees the top of his head, a wrinkle, rock solid, 16 on him.
G2, back to back rounds.
Has to be the eco now.
Like we said, there's an all-out brawl in towards A.
Donk, did a ton of damage through the smoke,
but standing in the flames as well,
had to get that reloaded towards Goose.
Atty is taking matters into his own hands,
leaps through the smoke.
today getting that rifle couldn't fight by the double kill timing eludes him and
that's the tech nine takes him down all of a sudden they're back into the game
10-6 for Liko here you Henry but the longer the scores the more of a chance
that heavy god can actually get into the game and that could change things right
absolutely an absolute superstar in the making is heavy god oh they haven't checked
the car dog is here if he stands up I think it's almost a free kill with the
Deagle against that AWP, but he is being chased. Nicely done, heavy guard, making sure that nothing goes awry.
Yeah, this round is on lockdown.
6-10. I mean, the mood is going to change on Spirit. I don't think that Panicked are worried yet, but, um, I don't know.
Couple of more rounds like this for G2, and it will be a very different atmosphere on the CT side for sure.
Absolutely, felt like we were in cruise control after the pistol victory, the second round
forced by Ace Dividends, and all of a sudden it's a very different looking G2 here, 9-3
down a half after winning the pistol going up 3-0.
They have more kills, Henry, G2 than Spirit do, since they saved a lot, right?
They did save a lot, but still that isn't what I'm considering the score line and how
the first half when I guess yeah they were just saving a lot huh there must be
the explanation it's kind of a rare thing to see I feel like wrinkle obviously
18 and 5 is 9 and 0 and 9 1 at some points hmm so that's a good time out
first one used by spirits money not great they certainly don't have the
luxury of a Shira AWP. Very bad bones as well in terms of the util. Very important round here
can she too keep the momentum flowing. Huge advantage in terms of the buy. There's no
kit. Can we make all five damage on the cross? Not quite. Long corner smoke going down. Take
Division away from the CTS keeps him occupied that side of the map.
Look at this.
A bit of aggression to begin with.
Presumably you can't stay there forever.
Molotov is already going to make it a little bit more potentially.
Sure, you don't want to be touched by this because then they're going to know.
They know anyway now.
Now, fall back.
Yeah, you have to fall back.
I saw dangerous flashes in and it lands under the rim of that wall.
So it doesn't even flash the T's.
I think nerds, some more fumbling that jump up,
actually worked in his favor. They spotted the peak of his head when he bolts on the
planets and they fired a bullet and then he gets the information. There's a
bullet on behind him saying couldn't fall back and they were committed to the fight.
Oh that's wicked if that's how it played out.
They're in upper dark on the spirit side and wait a minute mate, he's actually gonna get
the kill. Magix there. This could be interesting. Oh they fall back from the
upper dark position. I kind of wish that he would have kept pushing
Son Tix over on that side. Somehow they've managed to refresh you on the long
what's going on. That's the bomb. That's presumably round as well. 50 seconds you
got two players to get them we've gone along doors wow brave maneuver nice molotov and yeah
they still have the bomb on their side of the server it's magic recovering the AWP
like we said that money was very weak coming to this one so try to min max the round
high risk maneuver running in there making the audible cues as well but no problem at all
trying to drop a large smoke here desperate times smoke a response good luck and it's 100%
10 round now, calm one up.
11 to 6.
Bit of a shame with the setup once they get the opening kill on Shiro there.
And it looked like it was a little bit panicked for Spirits.
Look at this flashbang instead of my Hunter.
Like this is a great, great setup for it.
No chance.
But after that, they don't have anything else to show for it.
Can't see how they killed that last.
Rock.
The spirit return, they pick up another round, 11-6 now.
And you were right, the money was out of the dwindle on the CT side, so it's a huge boost.
Yeah, we're full surviving, recovering the AWP as well, absolutely true.
Now they have all the grenades, defuse kits, recover the sniper and we'll get into it.
Bit of a view spawn here.
Very much so, yeah.
One of the few maps we could play around the spawns on this dust tube.
I don't think they'll be rushing it necessarily.
See whether that wrinkle can find an open eye with his decent spawn.
Oh, there is a chance.
You're just holding your breath back.
I'm trying to convert it again, my god.
A slither.
The scab of Donk on display there.
So, initial stages are round over, no aggression presented by either side.
Going through the defaults now, aim for short control, nerds flashed in, no one home.
T side molly, in response, hold him at bay.
Grenade, ships away at nerds, not significant damage down to 88.
This feels like this could end up at the airborne site when they've already got heavy
got this far out long, to near pretending second flash is where he goes for it and it's
dead on purpose. The first one was just a bit of a taste of what was to come.
Really nice play. Gets a lot of information and gets them a man advantage and it wasn't
really risky either. You've got two flashes there, you've got a massive advantage that
won't be won. Those small tricks we didn't see out of G2.
Yeah true. They weren't as active. Yeah they just won.
They just sit back and just wait for the jewels, oh it's a Gaffamad smoke, you're getting a
free kill. You are exactly right. You're eating the
future Henry. It's an ear is that long? Oh what is going on? He's wrinkled as that one but it
looks like Maxis' mouse just kind of flew across the table. I don't know what's happening.
It's longer. What chance I suppose? There is. Nurse finds one.
Shearrow's ice cold. Yeah, he's very good. Let me see if he was sick there as well.
How did you not get bit into the shot the first like five times that he does it?
I don't know. I don't know Anders. If I do that, be that with him. The first flash was so sick in the second as well.
He just had to start firing. He knew he was dead. Like I said, I'm not sure if they missed through the smoke slightly, but I don't think there should be that sort of gap on the cross.
Well, it seemed like a decent recovery here in the second half, and in our second round, four-spite and getting three in a row.
My Bule shoe rose I'm afraid six opportunities for spirit to close things out to near looking red hearts with 15 kills
Everyone else is contributing
Everyone offering around 10 kills otherwise
To me playing very well even now that Halley's back maybe put each other conspiracies to rest
True. It was always a bit ridiculous, but but fair enough. I kind of get it
Last chance to loan for G2 a couple of pistols
Galil and the AWP of Wrinkle
Yeah, let's go.
Wrinkles 19 and 7, and they're about to potentially lose 13-6.
Yeah, if you just cover the rest of the scoreboard for the team,
if you're a G2 fan, you'll think,
Oh, this is sweet.
It's going well.
Oh, it's not going all out.
Shiro with the...
Don't do it again.
...he feels it.
The pressure's on.
Deep grenade.
Heavy guards.
He hasn't got activated at all.
Now the Molotov's forcing into the fight.
Have you got it five kills in round number 90 such a rare thing? He's just DMing
Okay, well, that's GG ladies and gents that was the pick of spirit
I suppose cash up next and there's a G2 have never picked up a win on it
They played big at EWC and also 13-5 and we promised that map is gonna be one of the best of the
They've obviously been cooking all jokes aside. They've always to be in practice not much tape out there of them
And they might not have a good game there
They've obviously been working on it and ready to show the world what they're made of mouse did it mouse did it they announced
We've been great with the best in fact, and they proved it right away. Maybe you could do the same thing
I hope they will I want to see them on cash, but this does to map is it's been brutal
three versus five
Hunter on four kills
That's in matters if they can find an entry here shiro gonna miss the flick but it doesn't really matter this so little time in the round
They have to fight their way onto a bomb site, some utility on catwalk, flash going through under the flash over.
The bomb is making its way back, so they're going to be jumping down Hunter, not finding anyone in CT spawn.
I bet he wished that he could have, in fact, in here, about to shoot them.
Just to make things worse, Henry, this could be how it ends.
Well, he's got the call. They're going mid to B.
C-Maze, we ready for it. Should be GG at this point, Anders.
20 seconds in the go towards B.
And there's a stab in the back, in here, making sure that they are all the way dead.
Hunter MCT is born fired by Shearer's last triple for the Spirit Sniper. It is a 13 to 6 victory. Very comprehensive, isn't it?
Absolutely. After being down 3-0 as well, it's Spirit. What are the best-looking dust tattoos you're ever going to see?
Can G2 bounce back on cash? Time will tell.
If G2 are to bounce back on cash, we don't need to see a lot more than what we saw within this dust, too.
I know this spirit's picking this but it starts off pretty well.
Once we get to the gun rounds, once we get to the moving, we saw some weird after plant
situations where it's a 5v5.
They weren't even fighting at times.
And we'll go to reflect this in the scoreboard, because the scoreboard is kind of weird, right?
Yeah, it's kind of you set up all the wing conditions for G2 heading into Spirits Map
pick Dust2, win the pistol, convert, get Wrinkle off to a good start, get the orb in the hand
early on and you get that all going for you, yet you still get this mantle on Dust2.
If anything, it speaks volume to how well Spirit is playing the map, how structured they are.
You even see on the scoreboard, the problem for G2 was that a lot of the rounds were decided
by not being able to retake that A bomb site and Spirit had a field day just walking all
over that C site.
Broker, you were getting a little bit frustrated in the room saying that you have to do something
to disturb Spirit before they get to execute.
If you don't, they're just going to run away with it.
Yeah, I actually think they had that idea in the beginning, like the first weapon round.
They throw this combo that I think was Henry talking about, where they molly lower and
smoke it off at the same time, like to slow down the timeline so you don't have to waste
your utility instantly in the round, so they have to use their utility to kind of reclaim
territory before they go up and just execute upon you.
But I do also want to say that playing passive against Spirit, they're just so good at trading
out whatever route they want to pick that it's going to be impossible.
We learned it the hard way in Astralis, lost 10 million times to the Mundo 2 until we actually start thinking,
how do we actually get the game a little bit into our hands, into our favor.
And I also think if you look at Hunter's first half, he was the wrong place at the wrong time, out of position,
didn't have the Achees to disrupt whatever was coming their way.
I think he would be a little bit disappointed, not because of his shooting,
but because he didn't really read the game in a way that I would normally expect the Hunters to do.
Now you're talking about the win condition for G2 and we're talking about wrinkles so much in every game we have from G2
He's popping off. He's doing exactly what you want. I'm not gonna blame the other supporting cast
But I mean you need to capitalize on when you're always been able to find you so much success
And I know some of it was off in saving afterwards, but I mean he was getting the openness at times as well
Yeah, and he kept the op in play, you know, yeah, there's nothing against saving
There's nothing against saving at times as well for G2
It just became a bit too passive because the guard argument to that is that spirit didn't only have to win two or three
By rounds in that teeth at that to win seven or eight
You know because D2 kept saving and had money and had weaponry every single round
But you got to do something with it and as much as I agree
Ringer tried his absolute best to be a bit aggressive to to go out then and fine fights
But it wasn't enough and you know the few times they moved over to the B bombsite as well
I think we saw donge in in a in an entry duel
You know he got one kill got traded straight away
But that one kill was enough to open up the B bomb site for then the second guy to be stuck on site behind a Molotov
So in terms of Donk's performance as well may not pop off on the scoreboard
You know the same way you've seen him done before but they've raw impact the share impact of doing something like that
Also making sure that you install a bit of fear in the B bomb site
So it's not gonna be an a a simulator all the time
It was just a very well-structured T side from from spirit
Well, we're gonna learn some more about wrinkle this time from his teammates have a listen to this
How happy are you with Rinkle's input on the CT side and what he's been able to do?
In the last game, he completely took over.
Something about Rinkle that I really like is the way how he's deciding what he wants to do.
And also he's coming for you and saying, let's switch.
All of these things for Opera, it's super important.
He's dictating the pace and this is how it should be in everything.
A lot of the conversation around Rinkle is just about aggression.
But maybe you can give me some more insight.
because he surely does more than just out of an aggressive AWPer.
What else does he change within the team?
Yeah, I mean obviously he's aggressive as everyone says,
and everyone can see he likes to do plays.
I think he's a friendly guy and he can also hype the team.
Yeah, he can give some good emotions, so it's really good.
He has it in himself, maybe he didn't show it out,
like the monster from inside, but it can happen.
I think he also like he always like wants to like offer plays and offer some stuff in the game
So I think it's really good and I think mostly like he's helping us in like small things
And those small things may make a difference
But we didn't see it within dust too and we were talking about what spirit we're able to do here
You're mentioning don't can get an opener and then be traded out
But I mean if you can win like this without relying on dog and Teneir can have some moments as well
This is only a good sign for Spirit, right?
One of the most comprehensive games I've seen from Team Spirit.
As I said, they may be the best team in the world right now,
but they've shown on certain maps, certain games,
they weren't as clean as you'd like to.
This is Spirit looking like the best Dust 2 team in the world right now.
Vitality have been struggling on it lately.
They had that crown for quite some time, Casper,
but I can't see any team playing Dust 2 to the level that Spirit is right now.
Completely agree.
And we also need to remember that this is the map where the team wins for Spirit.
I think when we go into cash, different story again, but at least it's healthy signs for a team like Spirit
that they can go in on their map pick and rely on the team, and not just Donk, you know, because they tried at times to take Donk out of the picture, right?
You saw the wrinkle kill into lower, this time it was on Sontex, but it was meant for Donk, so it's like small things where we can actually rely on the supporting cast then.
So this game was like a really good example of that.
I'm looking at T'Nir, we kind of get many different shades of T'Nir right now in terms of what you can expect from him,
but I think he is still holding his own and I would say trending upwards in many ways.
Maybe a little bit, yeah, it's the consistency.
I think everyone realises how good he can be and we see glimpses.
We saw that EWC in the grand final against FOOT as well, where he at times took over,
at times he was the player keeping spirit alive.
It wasn't about Shira, it wasn't about Donk, it was about Tenir.
So whether he's trending upwards or not, I don't know, but we keep seeing these glimpses.
It's just about finding consistency.
Because if you can enable these guys being the third star of this team,
they have everything it takes to be the best in the world.
100%. I especially loved the way he was toying with Metis on his long lurks.
The old team would have jumped the gun when his teammates were meeting resistance, entering the A-bomb side.
But he was super patient, knew exactly what was happening, read the retake perfectly,
goes out, kills Ringle, game over, you know? So I think...
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We're ready to rock and roll and see what will happen as we get into Cache.
Still a new map in the map, but it's an old-school one that's been brought back.
It's one that many love, some can hate as well in it.
but right now Spirit do have some struggles, but I remember Raga, Dongsai here.
He was talking to us and he was like, we know that they know that we know
and now we're going to be better on it and maybe that'll be the case today.
Like it's at least, it's the non-naive approach taking into a map victory on a new map
because you can get fooled a little bit by the lights and how everything evolves
and if it's easy that okay we're just so good, but looking back at the game
like I gave it a little light test yesterday.
Like, then they also gave them a lot of opportunities to like develop, like to use all the tools
in the toolbox to play the whole map of cash, right?
They didn't play aggressive, they didn't do anything, they gave them the permission to
just you know, make them blind on the map.
Well you said use all the tools in the toolbox.
You can use all the tools to improve your game and one of those tools, the best one
out there is Refrags.
Pym, talk me through this one, what are we cooking with, how can I improve and stop being
a bot and be more like... more like dongle, then you got to play a lot of crossfire, which
is what you're watching right now, which is basically a mode where the bots are peeking
at you and peeking out from hiding places.
So you get to play the game on real maps like Mirage, Cash for that matter, Nuke, you name
it, in different areas, in different positions.
So this time around you're almost retaking the B bomb site, you don't know where the
bots are peeking from, you don't know how hard they shoot back at you, you can adjust
the settings yourself, you can have bots that is on a nightmare level where basically like
playing dongs, so if you want to kill them you've got to be sharp as hell, or you can
have bots who are just you know testing you a little bit and making sure that you keep up on your toes.
As you can see every time you move to a new level or a new arena you get to play a new position so
you become versatile in that regard. It's I guess a development from what used to be what is called
not X-Fire but Pre-Fire where basically the bots are spawning the same place all the time and you
have to Pre-Fire all the time. This time the bots are peeking you and you have to react to that
depending on where they come from. I love this as well because when I'm getting to try this out
it's leveling up as I level up so I see it get harder and then eventually just gets to a point where
I'm being one tapped out of the server every single time and I can't get past that bit.
It has a mode that's called Dutch Smart basically, where the parts are just to your level so if you
and I go in there obviously they shoot mega mega hard you really have to be sharp whereas if you
join the server then easy peasy James. I knew you were going to do this to me but trust me I've
leveled up to a harder part and it is still ridiculous so if you are playing Counter Strike
you can try for free it's refrag.gg forward slash bars there's no reason for you not to try
Don't just listen to us, yap about it. Try it. It's a free tool to improve the game.
If you're taking things seriously, you need to be doing this.
But also, we need to be continuing to talk about the game that is coming on up.
Just tell me realistically, right, is this just a easy punish pick for G2?
Is that how you see it from what you're seeing on the games we've seen so far from Spirit on the map?
Maybe. Again, it's a little bit too soon to make all the conclusions in regards to cash.
But I did see Spirit play big at EOC. And if G2 saw the same game as I saw,
there's a lot of things to exploit. Because I agree against Dindille.
You can't really use it that much. I don't think the Dele were at a level to really punish Spirit for the mistakes they made.
However, Big were able to do that. And if G2 is trying to look at some of those things that were exploitable, especially the anchor players,
I feel on the CT side didn't get much done. It was basically Don keeping Spirit alive for as long as he could until they fell apart.
I think G2 have a realistic shot here at the very least making the game more competitive than Dust2. They should.
They should.
I think they at least need to look at 7, 8 or even 9 on your city side to have a fighting chance
because you also know swapping over one pistol round to size almost everything you meet down to one round
and all of a sudden you're map-point against you, right? So they need to do a little bit what they did on the Nubis
the other day where they need to utilize Wrinkle to get the opening kills, then they need to find the sweet spots
okay, Spear is starting to move on the map, we need to take Runeback or push or make it hard for them
because if you just again like just to sit back play good crossfires handling
util you will lose against spirit and I think a lot of teams will do that right
now so this is also a good test for other teams to look again into the
toolbox to see like how do we actually beat the spirit team how can we push
them and what are the actual like outcomes when they when that happens
like what spirit will remain well the one positive here for G2 is that Wrinkle
is on fire right now and two of us who are on fire all the time it's Anna's and
Henry G's to take it away.
I'm fine.
Oh, Jacob.
Always a pleasure to have a top 10 analyst in CS Werbez Anders.
Nice.
We got him back, we got him back.
All right, yeah, qualification on the line here.
One map away from the playoffs, our spirits,
and it's looking like they're on track to do so.
Yeah, Polymarket agrees with them.
I mean, after that performance on Dust2,
it was ridiculous, and it wasn't the don't show.
He was fine, but T'Nee was top-fragging,
and the team was a whole light.
The calling on the T side was immaculate.
So yeah, you have confidence in Spirit right now for sure.
G2, I think they could do more.
I think Heavy God needs to get into the mix.
I know he's great, so let's see it now.
I want Cash to be closer.
I want to see the excitement.
Sweating in map number two here to find our first contestant
to make their way through.
It's gonna be exciting, Henry.
Let's go.
All teams start on the T side.
Spirit, just to notice the pick of G2.
Okay.
So we're gonna have an A execution here.
to see a lot of these. I say that we're actually going for more of a door-centric approach.
Three players heading towards squeaky right now, one towards the main. Magic's the point of util.
Popping through out the door, let's see how it goes Anders. They've got them all off
for where Wrinkle is playing, so the dualies are going to be put under a lot of pressure.
There we go, straight onto the dualies, flashing their way out, Wrinkle doesn't care. He still finds
the headshot, he's finally got rid of, but they've slowed it down, and Mattis is back at the site
waiting for it hunter up close. The defense is looking really good right now and they've
got rid of two of the heaviest hitters on spirit. Don't continue our boat out of the round
and there's no bomb plant happening either so this is a bit interesting. Waiting for things to
subside letting the dust settle. Four and three but it's going to be a natural strike once again.
Takes a bullet to the face for the round looks secure here. It is now pure out nothing to do.
nothing to say this gave one frag on the exit but excellent work there we'll take
that first pistol victory 4g2 3 kills from Atis as they let the mad dog off the
leash it's going to be 1-0 no bomb bar for spirits next question to be forced by
a case in the third hunter I think slapped him out of the sky at the end
there he hit Shira while he was airborne but yeah hugely important of course
they did win the pistol on the first half of dust 2 and then they going when
to lose nine rounds. Let's say that's gonna happen again, but in the back of G2's mind,
they must be looking for a really hot star here. You got the MP7 or not? You asked for
it, Henry. It is my favorite. Oh, it is water. Okay, there it is. Pick it up. Careful now.
Okay. Let's have a look. Just a full eco. A chance to farm. A moment's respite for spirits
just going to be using this like a time-out, discussing your options going forward. If
you're just joining us, welcome to the show. We're in the group stages here. This is group
A, upper bracket, semi-final. When it does go to the playoffs, lose out, we'll go down
to the lower brackets.
Is there going to be playing Aurora? Is that how it works out?
Let's have a look.
Yes, no, they would be playing against either Na'Vi or Payne.
Okay, well that's more complicated than I thought fair enough
Interesting that's the first kill for nuts
Farming it up and just another opinion pain is the next game after this one
That is true and then M.A.T. versus Furia. That should be quite an interesting battle
I think I may see a looking pretty sharp right now
I think M.A.T. could be the surprise package we took out now of yesterday
Really fun game
I enjoyed it.
A lot of kills with the SMGs and a team kill.
Shiro's gone.
Doesn't matter.
At one point in time, you suffered enormous economic losses
from shooting your two minutes.
Glad we don't have that anymore.
Like it had a significant impact on the game.
$1,000 you can have.
That was a bit ridiculous, perhaps.
Well, there we go.
Let's go a couple of rounds out of the way.
Just what they needed.
As you mentioned, though, they had that 3-0 start on Dust 2,
and it's got absolutely walloped after that.
AKs are coming out in the third.
Now the MP7 on heavy guard at the start of this round,
does that suggest that it could be some CT trickery?
Like do you wanna push with it or what's the plan here?
I guess, cause he's gonna be anchoring
at the back of a bomb site.
Maybe it's all right.
He's gonna be back like he's gonna go check
and some B I suppose.
Okay.
And maybe he just feels more comfortable
allowing that to have the rifle.
Yeah, maybe he's just opted for it.
They've got some sort of boots going on.
It's almost B as well.
Oh, they can look right up.
I've not seen it.
Oh my god, that's close.
I think if they'd managed to stabilize that booster a little bit earlier, then they would've
been ready.
Smoke for Shiro.
Gonna be flying all the way through to that top of highway position.
And Doc is already in the middle.
This could actually be a very fast split onto the A bomb site.
We know how dangerous they could be, although G2 actually not in a bad position for it.
off towards truck. She layers up towards highway. Flash is coming through. A lot of pressure
now towards Mattis. Into the Lerba. Players surrounding him.
teammate goes down. This is a sick execution spirit.
I don't think we've seen a lot exactly like this. They flashed their way through their
own top highway smoke. So and there's no other indication really that anything's happening
on the A bomb site. Like they don't have those long smokes that land. They just run straight
in there well this one's a little bit we talked about it being very telegraphed the traditional
execution right this one you're not really sure what's going on you've got no vision towards highway
you don't know they're coming up there's one smoke down towards truck it's not like it's very very
clear they're going to be popping in any second especially those flashes as well that could be
for almost anything right that was cool because yeah you could use that to go through z i suppose
and have a bit of cover for sure that's out there we go that was cool very nice round from spirits
First gunny is theirs.
In towards A.
Through the smokes and absolutely obliterated the defence game aside.
4500 for Heavy Gott.
Money's not great otherwise. They get some casualties.
Pry up.
Perhaps a bit more tricky to do something in a round like this one because the spirits
are probably going to be a little bit like they're going to know the economies have a
little bit lower on the CT side.
If you were gonna be watching for counterbooster or anything else, like this is the kind of round where you would expect for the CTs to be either aggressive or boosting or anything like that.
Like we said, money gonna be an issue that's opposite to take the eco here.
MP7 at the tippity top.
USPs. Otherwise there's gonna be Zontik's over things up here. Heavy God goes down.
Spirit have made their presence known here on Cache.
He tried to push through his own smoke, heavy god.
So he throws the early, like, the smoke's on the rush?
Yeah.
Trying to get the element of surprise, I suppose.
Because the cheeky one might funnel them into the A-stack that's going on.
I suppose that was the intention.
Yeah, that's probably right, yeah.
Nice idea, to be honest. I like that.
Good shelf and wrinkle.
Doesn't mean too much. Maybe you can save an AK.
It's about it.
Not gonna happen, donk.
One step ahead, as you might imagine.
That's round 2-2.
Nurt's with the P2000. There's another P2000 user.
What's the gamemodes?
Okay, we're collecting a little, you know, list.
Sample size.
Okay, nothing you can do about this one,
but nice to see Spirit dotting their eyes,
crossing their T's, not giving anything away.
I real hope here because we don't have a lot of data on G2.
Like you said, they lost to Big on this map.
That's the only real data that we have,
and it's a minute ago,
so they could have done a lot of prep, a lot of changes.
I think that's a feather in the cap almost
just because there's tape from Spirit on this map yesterday, right from Dendeley.
Yeah.
Sure, you've got one game to look at from G2, but presumably since then they've been working
on things, adjusting, and you've got fresh intel on what Spirit brings to the table,
but I don't think that helps you too much.
You can have all the best executions, nor they're up to, but it comes down to who's
hitting their shots, and right now Spirit are dominating them in that department, especially
a map like Cache.
There's only so much you can do in terms of the prep and executions.
I think that's true. Yeah, it's too early on to have that deep of a playbook.
Under the first map, G2 had the kills, but not the rounds to follow it.
They ended up saving a bunch, especially in the first half.
Wrinkle played well enough. It was sick to see.
We were lacking both heavy guard and hunter in terms of the scoreboard.
And obviously that must be rectified coming into this second map.
At least it's not elimination, but I don't know, Spirit are coming into this,
looking very, very strong. I had my doubts because another Dendeley, definitely the
underdog team, obviously knocked out earlier today, but they played really well against
Spirit and I thought that made me wonder, is this like a post-victory Spirit that are
they a little bit too relaxed coming in? This doesn't look like it now. They are super
sharp. Tied up game. But we do have Wrinkle on the orb.
He was impressive. He has been in this tournament so far. A lot of his kills didn't have massive
impact, but he's certainly got a lot of them. It was in 19 and seven after they got absolutely
batted on Dust2. 2-2 though, early days. Don't mind, just through opting to start on the
T side of Cashhip. This is Gary Common these days, getting on that boosted player to get
into any close-range CTs, trying to sneak up close to all the vents. Now, Donk was missing
his grenades in their first outing. Looks like that one's spot on. He's got another one here.
Let's say he's been working on it. They were bouncing off that right-hand wall,
just like that. Surely you worked on that. Yeah, you'd want to see that. Change the bit.
Okay, maybe I'm trying to see where it went. Maybe it's just some. Okay, there we go. Nice.
What is going on? Two out of three is not bad. You know. What was that CT smoke? I couldn't tell
you. Any good ideas? Molotov. You mentioned this one last time. They are checkered. Very nice.
Really nice Molotov to get into Arsenal.
And a deep grenade, that's towards the sandbags in the middle.
Super important if you want to mid-control here on the T side, you have to be able to clear that out.
Again, very deep smoke that lands towards that top highway position.
So again, kind of signaling we could be going A, this is what they did last time.
And then this time instead, it's actually a B hit.
So try to play with the metagame already, our spirit, see if they can keep G2 in the dark for as long as possible.
As long as possible, counting until he's coming out, we're down soft 30 seconds.
And a nice boost as well.
It's a really powerful boost.
Nerds here, see if they can find a flash against him so far.
He's got perfect vision on this one.
Taps the first player, falls back down.
That's where you want him to engage.
Magix is dead and heavy guard.
Activated to take down Sontik.
So, in spite of the fact that there only really was two people at the bomb site,
that boost really made a difference.
It's such an annoying boost to deal with.
The only players that can get vision on any of the ones in checkers and you're not pre-firing that angle when you come through.
So even if you jiggle him, like they did to get the intel, it's really difficult to call me.
You can shout the word boost, it's not entirely clear as to where he'll be and you can see, just such a strong position.
Now it's getting a double kill, they didn't even need headshots, plenty of time to kill.
Surprise, you don't see it anymore.
If you see that, the reason you can't be seen, that pipe covers you from B-Made.
Yeah, the players swinging through really have to get deep angles.
And I guess if you wanted the flash that deep then those flashbangs would be much worse against anyone who's not on the boost
And the flashes people are firing from submarines right now they bounce behind that or issues, okay
Sound of life
What's up on dust to it was nine in a row before before G2 got back. Yes, this time. It's right different. Yep. Good point
I'm just taking I'm taking anything I can to build a good story
I want to see them do more. Yeah, that's the boss good setup
Let's see round number six
So we talk about wrinkle being confident assertive
dictating the pace
CC house cash
Lends itself to that sort of play style you can go anywhere you wanted to see to your power have impact depending on your spawn
Oh, well, you're feeling it. You can actually go anywhere inside of the map and look for an opening pick
It's common to be over towards be it's where he's heading right now
A lot of damage taken after that.
For a brief moment he wanted to do the fights in here and then he kind of felt better of it.
The fact that he gets hit at all with the incendiary is just good information for the CT side, but...
Don't think you're expecting to do 52 damage in that one.
Deep nades...
That must have been the second they landing on Hunter as well. He's down to 38. Kind of annoying.
Let's see what Magix has got for us.
Smoke for the middle.
Molotov? Oh, that failed.
That actually lands on the T side,
so he wanted to think maybe Molotov
out the back sandbags there.
Mid-control is there for G2.
It looks like it will be the A bomb site to be tested
as soon as they pick up the bomb here.
Certainly will, Anders.
See whether this could be a successful gambit
towards the A side.
Molotov's down towards Quad and Forklift.
Smoke two covered across.
Scree coming to Ligo.
Ice position for Mattis, A.K. in hand as well.
He is sharp, this kid.
Gonna have to go above and beyond.
He's the one that needs to step up.
He needs a couple of kills here.
Crisp headshot is required.
I'm gonna get it.
Rico, he was all in.
He had to hit that shot.
He was gonna die every single time.
25 seconds, are they find him on top?
It's agonizingly slow for spirit here.
I feel like normally when you're this far
sort of grouped up on the map
and you're this slow onto a bomb site,
that means the CTs are gonna be ready.
But they weren't at this time.
Heavy God trying to sneak on through.
I don't think he realized there's a player right in front of him.
It's Sontix, triple for him right now, stepping up in the round.
And it's Nurtz.
No real chance to win it, unfortunately.
One of the utility don't have the kit either.
He's going to be traded out to near.
Takes him down to Spirit.
The answer fact, huge round to win financially as well.
It's difficult to even justify a partial here.
Two players have to eco.
I feel like it's a weird pace that they find, Spirit.
Normally when you throw in the grenades, you're just on the bomb site, but they were sort of slithering out, like slowly creeping onto the site. Very annoying.
Donk, no happy either.
Well played, some zombies, 33 kills in a round.
Wins it with that kill.
Gonna encroaching CT towards the bomb site.
Ship of the eco here. This is exactly what we get.
Couple of sets of cadlam.
Have you got it, Hunts? Rocking the 5-7s.
I still haven't seen many people boosted up into that shroud position.
It's so famous.
It is.
Shroud died for this.
Exactly.
But we still remember him.
Yeah, absolutely.
Especially now that the map is back.
One of the guards.
You could definitely say that.
Nice Molotovs, and again, that top highway smoke, that seems to be really a stable of
what spirit are doing. I like the fact that they're throwing it in rounds even when they're not
even going for this highway position. It just keeps G2 in the dark all the time. Like,
that smoke is down so often. They love this highway play. That smoke is so stifling the CTs.
You have no idea what's on the other side. If you're in pressure from A main, squeaky,
they're in the dark right now. It's a bit of a B stack for G2. Wrong side of the map.
Unfortunately, Mattis... I don't think he's actually gonna do it.
Nope. Yeah, tough.
Four to three, and indeed, yeah.
Had he got an Hunter, better off to save him the Kevlar.
Yeah, we've got to be boosted up. Maybe a chance of finding Xontix here.
But he's more than aware you'll probably find him slipping out these sort of kills.
Not the cleanest, but we'll take it.
It's one piece of cavilar down. Hunter remains. Nerdsmiders will give it a look in. P2000 only.
Sherry needs to be careful there. No need to go hunting here. You don't want to lose the orb.
No one to back you up. Realizes that's the case.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's one of the one big mistake that they could potentially make. It's give over a rifle otherwise things are fine.
You do not need to find these last two kills.
That's so hungry for it. I guess he does have magics on the other side, but it does seem
perhaps a bit greedy. He's going to be rewarded for it anyway.
He knows he's going to die. He's going to throw the orb away. Not a big deal. All good.
Saving the orb.
Shockwave. We'll get to it.
There we go. Smiles all around. No deaths slamming now.
Spirit will take the lead, 4-3 on their T-Sci campaign, winning the pistol, similar scenes
there and there's 4-3 scoreline, sure they broke the streak but it's more of the same
and it's a CT-sided map.
And T2 not quite doing the thing that we've been talking about otherwise which is losing
control and then taking something else, like they're losing it to that high-waist.
Well that was the problem on Dust2 as well, they weren't reactive enough.
Yeah you're right.
They weren't actually reclaiming the map once they lost space and if they
Don't start stepping up and having that mentality team spirits will pick them off one by one
We talked about this maneuver earlier the a mains but it was a bit deeper
Oh, they try to go over and actually works out quite nicely
They've overlooked the CT in towards the garage as well. Have you got you get back to a three kills there?
First one, but he does pick up matches
Left and this is sure enough to take down dark levels of real opportunity. He needed such a clean kill on the first one
The bomb is over here. I don't know why it's shooting the gun.
It's probably going to be fine, but I feel like it's going to be...
You're assuming he's a marker, though, to be fair.
You probably are.
But Heads up, play the plan on this position.
Because his teammates might be coming in from the other side of the world. Wait a minute.
Sontics is now going to be coming in.
But it is planted for Sontics. That was the point.
Yeah, look. He's leaving Squeaky Door.
So I guess...
Are they saving or are they going for it? They think it's B?
I actually have no idea.
I guess they're saving now. You don't even know.
Well, you are right, though. Like, that's a good point.
I don't get that they're trying to save where the bomb is. I don't think they realized
They don't have the kids they can't go for it
No
That is kind of wacky. I think you're on to something
She's been trying to play as in towards me the bomb quote-unquote lurking. Yeah over to a squeaky door
He takes some shots in the back. He's assuming he's a lurker
Yeah, the reason why I said I don't want to need a fire the whole record died as well, dude
Dude, they hardly even tell... Okay, they recovered the Orbis-5. They hardly tell you if you're going to survive or not.
Rough.
Oh, you don't love to see that.
5-3.
Yeah, I have... Back in... I think CS 1.5 or something?
Here we go.
Here's a hot-tick.
Yeah?
We played an online tournament. We got knocked out because the teammate of mine basically did what Tineir did, except he got shot down and the bomb was lost and then we just...
You were like, if you just didn't fight again, we'd win.
That's what I seriously say.
It's in the back of my mind, like, 15, like 20 years later,
I'm like, no.
Rolling it back to 2002, that, I like it.
Yeah.
It's a different time.
It's a different time too, but seriously,
it's back when Tefon skates were a big thing, Henry.
So, a glass mouse pad.
Yeah.
They had a sponsorship for those in one of my scenes.
Yeah, the ice mats.
the best salary I've ever had, I mean, I'm not going to call a professional counter
shine, that'd be a stretch. You were playing Counter Strike. We can leave it there. That's
about the best. We'll try the very best if you could. Ring call. He didn't save the
AWP, he went down to the blast when the calls would be thrown back over, so when we talked
about being assertive, controlling the map, he hasn't necessarily done that on Dust2.
Maybe a little bit scared of Shiro's presence on the server. And we saw them earlier in
in the tournament. Wrinkle looked very, very comfortable.
Do you want to take this fight against someone like Shiro?
He's such a patient rifle.
It's going to be wrinkled, taken on Sunset instead.
And, heavy guard, I don't even hate the fact
that he tries to find something there.
Yeah, you're hoping the orbshaw would dissuade them
and you could get a free rifle.
Yeah.
Not the worst idea, it's unfortunate.
Getting pan out in their favor.
It's going down towards A.
You know the orbs over towards B, but it's scrambling.
Oh, but bear in mind, Shiro has the bomb.
They probably don't commit to this.
They know that everyone's going to be rotating and moving around the map, trying to set up and be ready.
Oh, they're faking it. You can see them faking as well. The mind games are really up, beginning here.
So all four players now going over towards B, throwing a smoke towards A main, suggesting there's still players there.
If this was a rifle round, we would probably call this an over rotation for G2, but in the round like this one, like, what are they supposed to do?
Save the orb is what they need to do.
Yeah.
So this works, and with that mentality, this is okay.
Fair.
Uh, it's a bit unfortunate.
Feels like they can't catch a break today.
Every call just seems to be, unfortunately, the incorrect one.
Yeah, and on the flip side, like Spirit are very confident in what they're doing.
They obviously have, you know, game planned a lot on the seaside of this map.
Some of the fundamentals, I think are looking like some of the best that we've seen so far.
Maybe especially with that highway component.
I feel like they're getting so much use out of that one.
It doesn't seem to be any sort of response for CT squads right now against Spirit in the highway play.
They get the mid control, that smoke goes down and they've got so many plays, they can deploy once they get out control.
And the problem is right, if you're playing close to that headshot box in the middle, you get granaded.
And nobody wants to play in the middle of highway on the CT side, like that's the difference.
Yeah, that's a good point. So when they do slow mid control, they're not trying to rush through smoke,
so they triple nade towards the highway box, they double molotov, they get the mid control
and they've got that deep highway smoke and that's when,
unfortunately, if you see that's when you need to be pushing in towards B,
getting smokey to all presence, that's when you have to react.
You can let them have middle, you can't just be sitting ducks,
wasting all the other side of the smoke and getting flashed off.
So you know they're mid-control, there's at least two, maybe three players doing it,
so you can use the manpower, two player excursions on the extremities.
They lost AWP, right?
They picked up an AK, but I think they had to rebuy the open wrinkle.
Oh, he's got $100, he might be right.
I think he was the one playing, maybe I'm hallucinating, but I feel like that did happen.
Oh, G2, man.
The, I mean, Dust2 was already looking shaky, but I was hoping that they could do more early on.
This is a CT-sided map.
Sure.
So, um, they need to win the last three rounds here.
Fastay, Anders, changing the pace-ups, Ontix.
Looking for that entry, and it's going to be Mattis.
Nice shot.
Can he get the second? He absolutely can. Look at that triple. Not gonna happen.
And a Hunter now dropping the Block Utility.
There's a little bit of time for the Rotations to come for it. This has to be a G2 round.
I think Tidia was saved by the Forkley, otherwise he gets killed by that secondary spray for Maxis.
The water burning all the way into the hundreds.
Nurtz, he's taking down Magic, so it's still on here.
Another good headshot as he moves forward.
13 bullets, and it's Shiro in a 1 versus 3.
Try to clutch it. Try to find it out at the slope. Okay.
That's what the triple and another round for G2. They needed this
Job from matters, especially their high pressure situation a change of pace between spirits
I think I'm not foreseeable in the replay, but he actually is
You would have the third kill if not for the the raider. Yeah
You can see the spot there
That would have been in I think
You need a time-lapse of spirits
One more down
Don't let them build up momentum ice them out
Well, last couple of rounds here, 6-4 for Spirit, they'd love to get up to 8, being very impressive
since losing the pistol, they were down to 0 before they posted their first, but yeah,
it does feel like Spirit's well on track to qualify towards the Porto playoffs.
Oh, and it branded a hater.
Oh, here we go.
I feel like I'd be neglected if I didn't point out that Hunter and Heavy God again are struggling
like that duo for now, they're having a hard time.
The thing is, Heavy God's the Bianca, they have just haven't gone B, you know what I
I get that they haven't really been showing how much there's been a lot of a splits a brushes
I think they've been to be maybe once I like that
It's called sweeping for yes
But it's I don't know
It's the A bomb size under a lot of scrutiny and as we said is this bomb bomb and a grenade
It's so difficult to hold middle against spirit
Look at Ripple. He's pushed through the T smoke outside of being
so you've brought it up many times like his aggression his willingness to
challenge he's done it again this time grenades in the middle there's one
great camera work boys enjoying that in this time nails all three HEs
he's been in the lab Nuts is playing in the vents and I feel like Spirit are
gonna be molotoving that out for a little bit of mid-control yep here we
There we go.
More mid control being attempted.
There comes the molotov.
Oh, it fails.
I think it lands on the wrong side.
Nurtz is still in the vent.
Yeah.
That is a bit of a mistake.
And that'll cost you.
They at least trade out the kill, but those are the small details that need to be fixed.
Oh, dude, huge mess.
Crazy mess.
Where did the bullet go?
Did he move right as he shot?
I can't even...
I can't further what's happening.
Got it, here it goes.
That's not like a...
kind of a silverblaster sort of scenario.
A must-hit shot, etc.
And it doesn't connect.
Oh, he's waiting so patiently.
He was waiting for the flash to hit the erection on the site.
He's really lying up, but...
trying to see if he can sense what's on the other side.
No scope is being attempted now, but no connection.
Bomber's gonna be prone to double-incendiary...
Crazy retake.
We'll try it here.
Sontics, hello?
Alright.
giving it half his self to really make sure they plant the bomb.
Flashes and incendiaries is all they have.
They can't have a go for it, right?
The thing is, Donk loves this fight in CT spawn.
Well, let's find out if he's gonna be up to the task here.
GC, it's all or nothing.
Deep grenades, landing.
And Rinkle will get the shot on Donkso.
The main threat is gone.
Max is in great navigation.
He finds the headshot against Taliyah.
And Sons of the Old Sword, you know, from earlier,
Shiro, he picked up heavy god.
Can't get on the side of Rinkle yet.
There's just no time unfortunately. It's really close to retaking that one and once they get around the corner
maybe they could have gone for the defuse but
Shearer was always in a great position, so it's gonna be spirit up to seven rounds
Pretty admirable attempt in the end. It's just Shearer the final boss
An absolute master
I know sort of scenarios. Great shot from Rinko. Unfortunately missing that one is with me storage
That's when it felt like the round was in jeopardy
Wow, Shira though delivers the goods high pressure moment doesn't miss a single bullet
Can we see that ring bullshot again in the later round?
I love to see how fast that is in slow motion regardless we're in round number 12 Henry
We need you to step it off
Amazing by here, but not the worst I suppose three rifles to which a pharmacy gonna flash him towards a main take a little swing here
They throw the flash, but they don't really swing, and now they've activated Donk.
Oh, they're hiding in the corner, and the flash is gone by the time the Hunter is trying
to track them down.
They're great.
You can just reset the round as well, even 1 minute 20, you don't just have to run in.
And I think a team like Spirit, that's exactly how they'll play up.
They like to draw it out, maintain their advantage, not take any risks, work on information, give
yourself the advantageous jewels this is beautiful see a lot of teams will just
run in there with two kills and agree back to the same protocol right like you
see the double smoke in this this is high-level CS right here like it might be
tempting to run in there anything okay the rounds down no there was an open
the other side that you can actually Fed wrinkle there just really died nice
solid counter strike here nice and calm sticking together using the numbers
doesn't check it all the way it feels unjust by the time they finally show up
to fight heavy god he's got a famas and no teammates so he's in the worst
possible position to actually defend himself smoke up towards that headshot
position 30 seconds on the clock I don't know how you can get the kills
nice spacing to near to get this one and we call that they give nothing away
yeah it's really impressive the discipline that's been a key word of
tournament these guys that they have bucket loads of it it's really well done
the T side on Dust2 as well I mean it was impressive we watched Aurora earlier
they took every fight possible
Wrinkle the last man in only four seconds 8-4 in the first half spirit they look
like the best team in the tournament right now
therapist
Mully will force him into the open but foosie will deliver
bomb plant in a moment and spirit a
Sudden question as to whether they can convert their pistol victory prime taps cleared out from forklifts
We've got this mid alert 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
Cade in 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 Pop Flash in with a teammate there as well, twist into the main position.
FaZe might have the read.
Oh he gets immediately wrecked. He was carrying utility as well.
Jebon doesn't have any. Trying to hide in plain sight and find a fight if he can.
There's just nowhere for him to go.
Nate who needs a miracle, he's got to find a lot of...
Deagle shots here, he might just do exactly that!
What an overperformance, that's utterly ridiculous!
That's nasty work!
Mac has got his bow run, Kerti's got 21 HP.
This is so dangerous!
AW now in the one versus two, this time he does go for it.
Where's that last man, Gravity?
Somewhere through his crying.
And he does it, I can't believe it!
It's an anti-Eco, this 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 came there.
The modem from downtown.
So OG keep the game interesting as the economic problems
sink in for Spirit.
Chiro doesn't shoot.
A lot of bodies here and they're just charging past him.
He's gonna hang off the chair.
Where the fuck is this place?
ZOTACS!
With the Degan-3 on the other side!
Donk was spotted, but Donk is still Donk.
And they choose the one who dies.
That's kind of how it works when you go up against Donk.
Yeah, here's a part thing that was predictable.
Jacob does get...
Oh, hello, Jacob!
Antwis both charming you with a frag.
That will help.
Otter's in incendiary also for Jacob.
And he's got a good angle to throw it.
So let's see now.
Frozen imager is nothing this duel.
It's gonna be really important to see who wins what.
Okay, just down to magics 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.
Ladies and gentlemen, looks like Spirit of Ulbuk confirmed their playoff place in Porto,
and it's five rounds to go, and it begs the question, do G2, can they do anything about it?
Is there anything they can say to bring this game back to life?
Oh, good, let's lock them on T-set, okay?
Not the most inspirational situation that I've ever heard.
Listen, it can be done.
I was hoping for like, in any given Sunday kind of speech,
you know, we're like, we're all getting fired up here, but G2.
Maybe it's less talking and more shooting, I really hope so.
Really wants to shoot that bento, huh?
Yeah.
Alright, it feels like a must win a pistol for G2, you know, on the T side, it's your
map, make sure that Spiritus looks so locked in, Shiro, three-beats here, can I get the
double?
Oh, he won't get the double, that's so unfortunate, I know it's a millisecond in it, they have
got an open-aid bomb, sorry, still winnable, bomb planted at the very least, kit available
for magics, and Maxis still being on highway here, that kind of forces Spirit into a bit
have a weird potential crossfire.
So as long as Maxis is alive, I think
this could be a winnable round still.
Kit is there for magics, and that
means they've got a little bit more time
on a jump up, donkeys.
Relentless, it's actually Taneer.
He's getting me another shot.
Finally, Hunter, and now heavy guard
with all the work to do.
His teammates are dead and gone.
They're on the sights already, and they make it look
like an easy retake.
The crossfire, it was no problem at all.
Taneer, lovely shots there.
look like don't have the plans towards highway gets the intel of the very least
to their beats into the punch the past year it gets to here yeah what you thought
where the round was decided he could not be allowed to get to the sandbags matters
just one bullet behind that's the shot from today pixel perfect precision here
wow really nice work you can have the force by if you do now sure as a
join up I'm having a grand time you can see matters like sort of sinking into a
share they just are not feeling it that is not I think the smoke that they
want it they wanted a mid smoke it lands kind of on top of the boost no that's
probably the extinguished smoke I'm guessing I suggest you guys go for the
rush okay okay I might be wrong but there is an idea where you can put a
sword from C spawn every round and get a bit more cover and deny the incendiary
okay that's really cool I don't know but that there is that sort of idea it's
beautiful opening kill. Oh, so unfortunate that it's the micro this time! They haven't seen anyone yet!
Okay, packing up boys. Ridiculous. Not the team we were expecting today, G2 kind of shrinking as the series goes on.
We thought this would be the game of the day. But unfortunately, like, no one from G2 really set me up.
We had Rinko on Dust2, sure we got 19 and 7, but they were getting absolutely owned on Roots.
important lesson for the fans though don't trust the commentators really ever
you know stoned I mean yeah that's a good rule of thumb in general yeah you
learn the hard way you guys have duped rough on the poly market that the g2
fans fair enough okay that's to be the eco they've invested a little bit I
suppose with the Desert Eagles no Kevlar to be seen it's on ticks that's
Let's say it's an ambitious little play.
You know, the Riko, they've been so good at being disciplined today
and not giving anything away.
Exhaust to go down with nothing.
Yeah, that could be round.
Come on, G2.
We know they could do stuff like this.
Heavy guard with another head shot.
Unnecessary from Spirit there.
First blunder.
Unforced error, we call that, Anders.
At this point, sacrifice whoever you need to to summon
the heavy guard in this point.
I feel like they need that.
A couple of banging eagle shots.
And just no real need for it.
Even if you get that kill, like, it's such a high risk maneuver.
You give it a rifle up if they are rushing.
Well, and it plays against the point
that I think you made earlier about how
disciplined they've been.
Yeah, it doesn't necessarily matter too much
in the grand scheme of things, but it's certainly not ideal.
They still have some nades.
I think they're hoping that they can get enough damage
to get an early kill. Stick around.
Alright, that's definitely not perfect.
They don't get a single frag, but a deagle no arm around.
Maxis is angry.
That could be the difference maker right there.
You've called him the mad dog, Henry.
That's what I know, that's what Mattis means in his language.
What have you got?
I might be wrong, man.
I've learned something new, but we're committing to it now.
Yeah.
It's too late to take it back.
You certainly look mad at this moment.
These are some very, very cool shots coming out in the back of the body language.
I want to see that again. That is going to be an instant meme gift coming your way.
Well then, as you said, no real need for that at all from spirits.
They feed the GT-B Eagles. Don't take anything away from G2.
They've hit some remarkable shots there. It's unlucky, I suppose, for spirit,
but definitely not needed. Devon's on ticks. He opened the floodgates.
Nice!
Nice indeed!
Very important round here.
G2, they win this, Anders.
There's a chance of a comeback.
Quite a good one.
I would agree.
And they're getting a little bit of their own medicine here.
It's Tenir down to
6'9 in the middle.
As he's landed, I think a third grenade on him.
So kind of frustrating.
But he is still there to kind of hold on to it.
So at least they haven't pushed back and got the mid control in the world.
in the world. Tenir. What a risk to take, pushing in front here. Guts will find them, but I do like
the attempt from Tenir. It's a little bit mad to try and do that late in the round with not a
lot of backup, but there was a chance that G2 would have kind of come over the wall and not
been ready for it. Smokes are down towards the A side and the bomb is a little bit far back, so
they're actually going to be faking this execute. They're going on middle instead.
30 seconds. I don't know if I love this, especially not now that heavy god is dead.
I feel like they might have overcooked this round quite a bit. Shiro, if you had found
that kill, I think the round comes undone, but now they've done it. Now they've threaded
a needle. Looks absolutely fine here. They would have
saved me three rifles over towards B. G2 keep their head above the proverbial water. Four
to survive. They've got four M4s on the T side of cash. You don't see that too often.
won't be necessarily too useful and is in the next gun rounds because you'll be
taking one of modules at range with an m4 that's true like it's fine it keeps the
money strong I suppose but that you don't see this really ever this is a bit
of an anomaly so rare we don't even have a name for it yeah so I'm guessing
they'll buy an orb for wrinkles you have four m4s and an orb on the T side
That was a good find early on there.
Such an important tree, I was really getting worried.
We did say they can win this one.
The conversation of a comeback certainly begins.
Do they want the AWP?
They do, there it is.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen this in 13 years of commentary.
It does look like the hut is broken somehow.
We made a mistake, put the weapons on the wrong side.
Saving three rifles though are spiritual.
They're still dangerous in this round.
It kind of extends their life a little bit.
Maybe delays the comeback for G2 a little bit
if they can pick up a couple of kills here.
They have almost no utility.
So in spite of the fact that they had the three rifles,
then they're not reinvesting.
Oh my God!
He's joking or what?
Why's he doing that?
Trying to have a reasonable conversation about a comeback.
trying to... we're working hard to believe in G2.
Is he joking?
What the fuck?
What the hell?
How do you...
I'll just have to...
Oh, okay.
I'm getting in the server.
What a character.
So, yeah, the spam for the smoke wasn't a wallbang or anything.
That was just clean.
Between the eyes...
There are ten bullets committed to that one.
I'm fair enough, this is an eco for...
Chiro and Co.
They saved the three rifles and got USPs otherwise,
But, uh, Donk takes Madison to his own hands there.
Double kill to kick things off.
That's such a disappointing way to kick it off.
Round on necessarily over, though.
Don't get me wrong.
Got to be trying to come out of the fence here.
No, it's...
Bravenin's stands, we've got the same boost.
Tastes his own medicine here.
Oh, magic's not pretty.
Madison's back in.
If you actually phone the round somewhere here.
Here they are.
It's in here, coming through on the one side.
Donk is back.
He's already got a couple of reasons on this map,
and now he's trying to fall off.
SHUT UP!
He's sick again!
He keeps building the Henry! He wants somebody, can't be stopped!
Another ace. Here on cash.
We've got to see it from the get-go. What was on his POP? He's blind in smoke.
Ha ha ha ha!
Yeah, yeah, he's connected I suppose. And of course he gets an ace.
The thing is, by the time he arrives in the middle, that smoke is already up so he must just know the line-up beforehand and he's probably pre-aiming it as he's running in the middle.
Definitely. And, but, God, he's just not human.
Just watching his screen, like, the confidence, the Christmas of the game, just every pre-fire,
it's just spectacular.
No other word for it.
Uh, tactical timeout from G2.
Last chance to loon here.
I don't mind they're not eliminated, they go down to the lower bracket, but, uh, this will confirm the spirits place in the playoffs, which I think everyone wants to see at this point.
Oh, yeah, of course.
you want to see this in person. Imagine those sort of plays erupting in Porto.
The energy is going to be crazy. Yeah, those guys know how to party.
There's, yeah, we did this with the crowd. Yeah, every time.
First time in Porto, of course, but in Lisbon it was, it's been beautiful.
We'll look forward to that. Spirit of the Prime and ready.
Donk, just giving us a taste of what he could do. I feel like one of the most haunting things
This is the fact that his kills are not always that flashy, like it sort of feels like, okay, he probably is gonna get traded, you know, somehow he's just always in the right position, always getting those moldies.
The Machine Years, round number 18.
Don't tie with Shearer over top, Tinier continuing to play well.
He's had a bit of a resurgence.
for a minute to me it felt like today
played well enough on the right to get
picked up on spirit and then just kind
of gave up playing at all like the
fifth player is a big disappointment
for me at least he is definitely all
the way back at the moment
minute on the clock nuts it looked like
that could have been a victory for him
but Manjik's backing out and managed to
get the spray now it's the B bomb site
and Ripple with a critical opening
Sunfix alone I think even if he gets
that one he's gonna get traded
immediately. Don't go to drop.
We don't line up. Jesus Christ.
Can't stop it.
It is absurd.
We know that it can happen.
We have of course we've seen it many times before, but
every time you're in their boots, Sanders, they don't want to challenge it.
They know he's waiting for his next opportunity to strike.
Don't can smell blood in the water.
Looking for a quad kill this time.
Have a plan will come in.
That's a nice flashbang though.
He couldn't see a thing.
Shiro up top.
Can you make good on what Donk was trying to deliver there?
They don't have that much money on the CT side.
I guess Shiro, if you're this close, you feel like you want to go for the clutch,
but you've got such a big buffer there.
In theory, especially if you could find an AWP somewhere, it could be interesting.
He's trying to get a bit closer now.
No one's really showing themselves.
And I think he's starting to realize...
Obviously, they take one down with him.
Fair enough.
There is a kid on the site, so if they were too quick to rotate out,
if they were running for it early, he could have got the kill and run into the site.
Not gonna be the case here.
They survived the Donk Scare.
Felt like we were about to get yet another
masterclass highlight from the world's best counter-strike player.
Yeah, I said this way the terms of skill the best of all time. I've never seen anything like this
at the level of consistency the things he
inspeakable things over and over again
You are gonna have to come really well prepared to debate that point if you want to say that he isn't you need to bring
Yeah, you need to bring like a whole stack of evidence
That's not an easy case to dismiss the best player that tops the game in over 25 years
is 19 years old. I can't explain it. Fantastic time to be alive and watching Counter Strike.
We're all going to remember this 10 years from now. The start of it. His rookie year
was... Most players peek into their careers about 25. That's when you get the absolute
best if this isn't the P. I don't know what I can't even imagine it.
11, 7 ladies and gentlemen, so only a four round difference, right?
But the scary thing is it feels like Donks is finally showing up in the game.
They haven't needed him that much.
It's not like he's been sleeping or anything, but the rest of the spirit have just done
so much work that they haven't had to call his number.
I'm just in awe.
And we're finally getting a bit of a counter boost.
Surely Donks going up, I was going to say, don't.
Don't deny it now.
Well, they're throwing the grenades in the barrel.
They're both got the grenades.
Oh, my God!
How has he found the timing?
It couldn't have been more inconvenient.
It's just as they're getting ready for the run through the grenade.
Oh, that's so agonizing for G2.
And they wanted to set up the synced grenades.
So just outright kill someone in the middle.
Crazy work.
Well, that's round and series points.
Sub one minutes, they're in map control. What do you do now?
Click over it, I suppose. You've got to do something. You kind of have to
Three towards the door? Yeah, the problem is that NBK corner is so hard to clear if you're all coming out the door
It is looking sharp right now. You know he's getting at least one if not two
You want somebody in main to bounce a grenade into this one?
It's an argument to be made you to save but we'll see what they can do with it. Here we go
There's the one. It's all we needed. Get on towards Mattis, Nade will kill him
I love the fact as well that they were checking for that mid-boost like a second earlier, so
it's like you're trying to cross the road and you're checking both sides and then it's
just a Ferrari riding down like 300km an hour, you've got no chance, there's no fat grenades
in their hands.
Oh man.
Whatever.
This thing outclassed.
Whatever.
This thing outclassed.
All they're going to say in the post interview is that we got donked.
That's what you can say.
Listen, this...
It does suck a little bit because it feels like sometimes that is the analysis for when Spirit are playing.
That's the boost smoke I was telling you about.
They are throwing.
Actually done, yeah. I'm glad we caught that on camera again.
got G2, they need 5 in a row, they've traded the early kill, so Shura is dead, Hunter is
out of the round, he's got 3 kills, he's really had a tough game both here and on Dust2.
Let's see if they can find more, it's in here, it's settling in out to the middle, somehow
losing to the MP7 and Nurtz, his signature weapon.
Well he has got the final boss to deal with, 20 in 10, Dong of an AK in hand this time,
4 and 3 in front of a G2, but you know they're scared
They're waiting for a reaction. They're hoping that someone gives them a freebie as they park the bus right now
Bombs in towards Sun Room better of mine. This is a week by they've got pt-50 every seven and a heavy got
Down to magics here. He could get multiple kills towards events
There's plenty of time in a round. Okay, what is best work?
So to say, even if Magix kills the bomb and it drops, they have enough time to kind of
re-investigate and find him.
But even in that mid position, when Donk is kind of hanging around, he's so endlessly
patient.
That's kind of the other thing I think that's annoying for G2 in some of these rounds, is
that he isn't necessarily just going to be swinging out to fight you and they're waiting
for a long time to get that opportunity.
Well played, heavy guard.
Huge.
like we talked about it before. Spirit don't play wild CS, it only let Donk run around like it's all
controlled, it's all methodical. He takes wise peaks and gives himself advantages, but for now
Zomfix will be saving the AWP, but he's actually somewhat busted.
He's been using it for about five or six years though.
He has from the end point to Fatima.
There you go.
Yeah.
Not the Academy using the main team.
from my point of view, all of them, this was one big academy.
I see what you're saying, the academy in terms of a grandiose term for them.
Exactly.
Because they would find that that's where Heavy God came from as well.
They did it many times, it was kind of cool.
And Flames.
Yeah.
You're right, okay, fair enough, the academy.
Steve, what are you saying?
We're gonna get into round 21 here.
Come on, G2.
We got a game on our hands here released with that round going in their favour.
I was looking unlikely with the pie they had but they made it work.
Just need to get by Shiro now.
Is there a conversation that could be had on the third map?
It's not impossible.
Maybe a lot of fun.
Ancient.
Donk on the middle of ancient is something to be all.
Another ridiculous map for him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
him just running out on the T side, a few flashes, more than like a 2 every single time.
Okay, here comes the mid utility. Molotovs pushing Shiro even further back.
You can see G2 have the protocols right. I like the approach towards middle.
It is going to be a B finish, coming into the vent towards Checkered.
There is a couple of players there. It shouldn't be a big deal.
Suntix has a 5-7, but how many kills do you really see to be given in this position?
At least one.
Huh? That's not bad.
A follow-up surprise 5-7, but this one will not be able to do quite the same.
Heavy God finds him.
Magik's gone in the corner and saved the AWP if you're a Shiro.
There's just no point in fighting it.
That puts it down to three rounds that they need to win.
Had to do the math really quickly.
You got this.
Yeah, nice.
I appreciate your trust in me, Henry.
Oh, trusting in Taneir as well, that's a huge pick up.
You can save that AK, but it was going to be a pretty weak buy otherwise.
So saving the AWP, the AK-47 is pretty massive actually.
You'll definitely be given that to Donk.
One would imagine.
Why he's playing right now, why not?
20-11.
Shiro had some magnificent sequences in the AWP as well, maybe that one in towards a B
bomb site in the first half.
16 and 10 to him. But G2 in second half is actually looking pretty good for them.
Bit more runway on this, there's going to be a different story here.
I think so.
That's three opportunities to close it out. Should probably be this round, we'll see what happens.
If they can get this one over the line. You know, in hindsight, for G2 on their CT side,
they should have just driven that APC that's in the spawn into the middle of the map.
That's probably the only way they can actually...
That's how you take it down, yeah.
Well, it's close.
All the time was in reach.
Maybe they could stress out Spirit a bit if they can actually get there.
Donk in the middle.
Jumping up pretty quickly, there are some pretty early Molotovs that land on this position
to try and stop this thing from happening, but G2 haven't thrown them in this round.
We did see it in the last catch game though.
Rinkle is ready for anyone.
One round away from the playoffs here.
Great opportunity to close this one out.
Pretty decent buy.
That's a great need.
Yeah, none of the flies dunk.
Don't sub one.
You still have mid control of the Spirit, right?
They haven't pushed away in the same way that Spirit themselves were able to push G2
out of the middle.
It's not quite the same thing.
you wouldn't go for the smoke, right?
Hmm...
It's quite an obvious maneuver, I don't think you go for that one.
Okay, execute as a fake.
It is a nice fake, we talk about it still normally being telegraphed, but uh...
It is all a ruse.
Not necessarily bicing down in it, it's off-takes isn't moving an inch.
That is actually true.
Oh wait...
They're coming right for the smoke.
Oh, look at the double-tick!
Down to there for a second.
He didn't trust his eyes!
Shirou is still back here though and that's the bomber right in front of him there on top of the clock.
Oh! He's got a scope stick!
Nuts out of it! That had to be a connection!
He was going to be hunted down now.
Wrinkle is going to fall and Hunter coming in with a late flank here.
Overtime looked like it was going to be possible but with that no scope,
he probably is the last nail in the coffin here.
Spirit looking to qualify for the main stage of the tournament and Hunter.
It's a nice attempt. You've got to do something to try and scrape him down
them down but it's only 12 seconds and the clock in spirit ages look so rock
solid 13 to 9 as they bring down G2 on two maps. Another statement performance
here from Team Spirits. Donk in a red ball he's looking absolutely fantastic.
G2 didn't really get a look into this series it never felt like they were in
danger of giving this one up. Team Spirit absolutely the favourites going into
the playoffs Anders. Yeah they really are. I mean it's great coming off the
victory at the ADWC obviously and now into this one even though they look maybe a little
bit slow to start in their first game against tenderly they look so fired up in this one
I'm impressed.
Ladies and gentlemen your first team through to the playoffs is Team Spirit.
And a big congratulations for Team Spirit for keeping the playoffs streak alive the
dominance alive and we have to say it they are by far the best playing team so far here
right not stumbling fighting back into games looking comfortable always finding an edge
If you give them just a little bit to work with, they are going to punish you for it.
Yeah, and they seem to get better game by game, you know, had a bit of a rough start to EWC,
but ever since that, best of one loss against GG, how it's just gotten better and better and better
to a point now where, yeah, they dominate their position.
Teneir, welcome to the desk. A solid win from you guys once here and there.
Are we starting to enjoy Cash a little bit more?
Hello, everyone. Yeah, we are starting to work a lot about Cash because it's, right now, it looks like
our worst map, if we will see our statistics, and we really spent a lot of time working
about this map, because for example it's really a good chance for lower teams to pick against us,
and for example if we will show a good game on this map, they will scare you, because
yeah this is it right, and you say like weaker teams, but even G2 wanted to give it a try
against you this time around. Now you're getting these wins, these extra matches on it. Are you
pretty confident with your ability on it? Could you be one of the best teams in the world on the map?
We'll see. But I don't know, I really like Cache, but we need time to work it about this because
it's a really new map and for us it's very good because everyone picked against us Cache. It's
a lot of practice, a lot of material for working.
And also, we don't have a lot of time for practice as much because we have three tournaments
in a row.
And we're just trying to take our off days for working.
Is that why you guys are starting T-Side each time so you can work on the strategy for
it?
I don't know.
For us, it's very comfortable on the KSide, and for real, it's not my idea, I don't know.
You just go over to the Magic to enjoy it.
A couple of weeks ago you started at EWC by losing to GD, how?
You had a tough game against Big, but ever since you've been cruising through,
it all seems pretty much.
Did something change the last couple of weeks?
Was it just a bit of a slow start to a tournament?
Yes, because we really have a lot of talks with each other.
Because when we came to EWC, we started this tournament very bad.
We don't play as a team.
We really have bad communication, bad ideas, and there is an invitation for do something
when we have some information.
And we just started talking about this and step by step we just keep fighting and want
to know and right now we have a lot of confidence and we want to try to take more trophies because
Because if we will see, last time we were on this place probably last Rotterdam and it
was for us very bad tournament and very bad start of season like a new roster.
But if we will see right now like short period we have maybe six tournaments and five tournaments
if we don't count this one.
Like four grand finals, two trophies and one semi-finals.
I think it's good for us because we really have very bad situation, it looks like we
We should disband or something like that, but we're just keeping working and for us, it's very good.
We're very happy and we want to try and do more, try hard and show our potential.
Please don't disband for now.
Another point, you know, it does seem like the title is the best team in the world.
It's up for grabs at the moment, with Barterri playing with Stanton, with you guys coming into play as well.
Does that play into your mind at all that you now have an opportunity to maybe become the best team in the world once more?
Is that extra motivation or...?
Sorry, can you repeat?
Right now it seems like this scene is open right, so the title is the best team in the world.
It's no longer Vitality as a default. Is that extra motivation for you?
I think it's extra motivation because we're really very hungry, because Vitality dominated
like 1.5 years and every one team wants to leave trophy also. And for us we have very
and players and team and our star players like Shiran and Dirk and we really want to
leave trophy and we're very hungry and want to keep fighting and trying to take our chances.
Like looking back at Dust2 from the game today right like from the outside it looked like this was
one of the easier T-Sides that you've had to play you didn't really get you know
pressured like Renekton was only peeking I think once killed Sun6 and lower like
Like, could you feel that there is some respect for your T-Sites, so you got all this room to work with?
I'm not sure about that, because if we will take last maps on Cache, we really have bad T-Sites.
And probably they don't... maybe be ready, we are changing a lot of stuff on this map before this tournament.
And because maybe it was a surprise, and also we smashed them on the first map, it's more stressful for them.
What about the smoke that you're one of the few teams using on the highway towards A when you go out in the middle?
What does that feel like being the defender of that smoke?
Why are you throwing it and how does it feel playing against it, do you think?
You mean on the right side of the top?
I think it's a very good smoke for taking all control of the middle, and after that we have space for split, for example, from connector, also going to be, also hold your lurks, and it's a lot of space, it's like on Mirage, you know, you take mid and you can hold or stay anti-push setup, and after that you can make some mid call, for example, going to other point, because it's a very important part of map.
Okay, and there was also two rounds from the stew where you're kind of the deciding factor and I'm sure production can play
Play them and one of them is the one where you see the time in the top of the
of the
agency
11 seconds and you need to go entry the bomb side and basically if you don't get this kill you don't win the round
Yeah, but I know about this guy because when I go close to I would be I heard like he sneak jumped to
box and I call he right side top but when I out I don't see him okay he probably car
but it also got it also shows like you talk about like the two star players in the team are we
also considering putting you in that one can you think yourself as one of the star players
because this performance today you have so many like impact kills especially on those two you
have this one going in on B killing heavy guard you have the other one where you go out the
late-long kill, wrinkle, kill matters, like this is not just a job that anyone does, you know.
I think for us, third star player is like X-Factor, it can be me, Zontik or Magic,
because we have consistent two star players, it's obviously, but third player, if you will check,
like, a lot of our maps, sometimes it's like Magic, scary, and we are Zontik, like low stats.
Another map is very scary, it starts with me and we just change these roles.
It's about our plan on the game and how much space we have for our role in the map.
How much has Maddy's meant for you in the team, with the change and coming to In-game League?
How much has that affected you and your ability to also get some freedom to have these type of rounds?
For real, Magikz more understands me because he also played my roles before and when I tried to talk first time with him and explain, I need a little more space because it's very hard.
He said, I understand why I'm playing for years, of course.
And he tried to give me Miss Halley and Sotfik more space because I really can't play if I'm a full passive player because for me it's more agro style, more tricks or some looks.
And they're trying to combine with us because everyone needs some space.
And that's it.
It's looking good.
How important is it to have an in-game leader like Magix
that can really understand these things for you
and have the same kind of mindset as you were being in your position before?
Sorry?
So, Magix, he was in your roles before.
He's played as a player.
How important is that for you that you can have this conversation?
I think it's very good because you have a guy
who play on the server on my roles and understand how hard keeping your confidence or important
in the rounds if you just stand passive you know and he understood this and he know how was it
when you play in this role and he tried to help a lot. Nice very good and lastly you now at least
before your next game you've made playoffs but next game will decide if semis if quarters
How important is a couple of days break for you guys, where you've had a big run of non-stop counter-strike?
It's really hard questions, because right now I feel we have a lot of energy.
Oh, okay. Some of your teammates said they were tired.
I don't know. For me right now, no. But I also feel like we have a lot of energy, because we have good communication, we are playing good.
and I don't know maybe it's confidence because we won't tournament I'm not sure but I really feel we are
here and
It's really
50-50
Breaks for us good because we are playing three tournaments a row. We have two tournaments bootcamp and right now
It's sort of not and we have like 40 days in
Not at home. Yeah
But for example for another part
I don't know, we also have some material for working.
I think Hali or Maddox will choose what we prefer, maybe one of the two works or two
of the small works, I don't know.
Go and enjoy the sun in Portugal and get out of rainy, windy, cold Denmark, always a good
bet.
Definitely, well today, thank you very much for joining us, thank you for your energy,
good luck throughout the rest of the tour and we'll speak to you soon.
And with that spirit put themselves in a fantastic position, the manager is clapping the hands
right now of Jabgabes to Taneer as he holds his bag and passes it on over and I'd be
clapping for Taneer right now.
Not only for that interview but for the performance he can put up in this and the understanding
he just gave us.
There's only one thing I didn't like about that interview because I agree it was a good
one.
It's him not saying that he's going to be that third star because he is supposed to
be that third star and he has the capabilities to be that third star.
I think people forget how good he is, you know, from a mystical point of view, Teneir and Heroic,
even at times in spirit, we saw that the EWC finals, well, he can definitely make the difference.
He's a very skilled player, so as much as I respect him for saying that we have two clear star players in Shira and Donk,
I firmly believe that if he steps up to the occasion, if he finds a little bit more consistency,
and shows a little bit more of that skill, which we know he possesses,
there's no doubt that he could be that third star, and there's no doubt Spirit can be the best team at all.
I think what he has been showing, at least like recently, is that yes, he may be preferred back in the day,
the role that kind of, you know, magic, like, not santechal, magics, or dunk is playing,
like one where you have more elbow room, you have more, you have more like space to do things,
to be crazy, to find these high impact kills. What he's showing me at least today, he gets the maximum
out of what he is like presented in terms of resources, right? He finds the super greedy lurker
out long to basically kill the retake for D2. He is in upper tunnels, zero resources,
he's getting told we need to plant the bomb, just runs out, kills the guy. That's the
impact you need from a guy that is supposed to be the third star in the team. So he's
showing a lot of progress recently because I also remember in the beginning of the year,
it was a little slow. It was not that high impact. It was like, yeah, he was good a little
bit here, didn't have a drop-off game. But from now on, we need to probably start putting
him in so that that's also important for people to understand when we speak about
spirit we hold them up to the pedigree that they can be the best team in the
world right they can win trophies and maybe even as he said you know contest
vitality Sontek said it you know build our own era we want we want to have our
own era so when we speak of spirit and when we sometimes maybe sound a little
bit quote-unquote critical about them it's always hold up against the fact that
we want them to be the number one team in the world because I think everyone
agrees that they have all the capabilities they have all the
all the players and the foundation to become that number one team.
Of course, 100%. Now quickly on G2, before we get on out of here, looking at them.
This performance, right, we know they've struggled against the likes of Spirit in the past,
but obviously now not having a go-to map and going through some changes.
Is this a worrying sign or do you just give them some more time? How do you look at it?
Because they wanted this cash, they wanted to turn into it.
We talk about them being a bit more default heavy, we talk about them being well-prepared for this.
This wasn't maybe what I expected.
I don't know how you feel, but I'm personally a little bit disappointed because I feel like these next six months where G2 was supposed to take that step up and be a team like Spirit, like Navi, like Valkyrie, you know, to enter that pedigree of teams, but the way they're playing right now, the way they're progressing, it does feel like a situation where they'll forever be number seven, eight, nine in the world.
And is that good? Sure, in a very competitive world, but I'm sure they want more than that.
I think right now they need to beat the teams that they think they're better than
and then they need to build up the map pool and then we can talk about beating
spirit vitality in three months each time right because right now the map
pool is all over the place and I think they also realize it otherwise you
don't go cash today so they need to figure out what is our map pool yeah
which maps can we rely on with wrinkle in the driver seat and which one is the
team maps that we need to be better as a team than others so I would say give them
a little bit of time, but it's not endless of time because it's still four of the same
players. The style is kind of the same on the seaside still, so yeah.
And it's also G2 who won trophies there, one of the big figures of an organisation as well,
but that's an honest feedback of it from a coach of the game as well. But now let's take
a look at our group and see where we're at after this one. So, then delayed, they did
get eliminated. We had to say goodbye to them. Aurora have marched on forward. Right now,
all the way comfortably is the first team to qualify for Porto and it looks like it doesn't matter who they face.
None of those teams are going to be able to stop them.
Give me your thoughts.
It's just a tough lower bracket already, right?
You have Navi learning down there.
We'd assume that they're going to beat Paine later on today and progress.
Then they go up against G2 and you know, odds are that Aurora will move on as well.
And who knows if Furia can get the job done against M80.
This Gube is hyper competitive spirit.
Where the main favorites, they made it into the playoff to make it from that lower bracket.
lower bracket I mean if you aim 80 and if your furia your best odds and your
best chance of making it is by winning that game today because if you drop
down to a rora g2 and a potential navi that's a stat lower bracket for sure I
think like furia is probably one of the only teams that can also like pressure
spirit in the strategic department so not only that the lower bracket is stacked
but also actually think if we need to pressure spirit to see how good they
actually are I think we need furia in that game yeah all right well that's all
and dust it for today. Thank you very much for your time once again, gentlemen.
Hopefully you guys have enjoyed the opening two games, but it's played too much more action coming your way for everything.
Counter strike. That's what it is. Non-stop counter strike action. Don't be sitting, but we'll be back in a few just after the break.
Leave the lane. The push. It can do better than that.
Got the Hixi and Yabi coming back for Stare as well.
Big performance from Texi.
So close to reducing the deficit here, but two of them dropped by fuzi in the clutch now who suddenly made it a 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 molly will force him into the open, but Foosie 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 mid-leart 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
five ground is going to get the quad kill in the retake.
Looking to get Pop Flash in with a teammate there as well. Twist into the main position.
FaZe might have the read.
Oh, he gets immediately wrecked. He was carrying utility as well.
Jabon doesn't have any. Trying to hide in plain sight and find a fight if he can.
But there's just nowhere for him to go.
Meizu needs a miracle. He's got to find a lot of...
So the Digo shots here, he backed us through exactly that!
What an incredible performance, that's utterly ridiculous!
That's nasty work!
Bon Appetit fellas, I think we all get one ravioli each.
You know what, I'm grabbing two.
Usually at the start of the round, you want to pay attention to the spawns.
That's because only the best spawn for the CTs gets past this corner before the best T spawn peeks.
So the best use of the spawn is to try to get a Molotov down at the doors right away to stop a potential rush.
habits, such as smoking, flashing, and of course, winning.
Well, how can I play with this game team, brother, I don't understand.
Why did he ask?
Just advice, emotional support, chat GBT, has it helped.
What's the point in having Jack up for once, coach, when you have chat GBT, but I think
he did a great job with Flamesy.
That's kind of scary.
I know about that.
The question for Ima is, bro, are you him?
Every time when I see him everywhere, he's shouting to me.
You are him, you are him, and I mean, he's so funny.
But I don't know, maybe, maybe not.
You match up today against Navi, how do you think it'll go against them?
I know we are the underdogs here, but I think we can surprise them.
them. We are practicing really good. So if you can put that, show that in the tournament,
I think you can surprise them.
How do you think your series against pain gaming is going to go today?
Win.
A 2-1, a 2-0, where's the confidence?
Just a second.
It's a big conversation point right now. How confident are Navi? I mean, Emo, whilst it
did take a little bit of coaxing out from him, they set a 2-0. And that is something
they're going to need for themselves. But of course, pain at gaming aren't going to
give it so freely. They're also going to be fighting for their lives here at last premiere
Open Porto. And hoping to be able to take it that little step further and show that
they are a team that can contend amongst the top.
Yeah, pain has had some struggles this year, but we've seen it in the last couple of events
I think they've shown that they have something in the tank that they can bring to the scene
You've seen flashes from a VSM. You've seen flashes from a safe
It's the consistency and it's their ability to maybe make a deeper run rather than you know
You see them here
I almost see them as like a playoff gatekeeper if they were to beat a Navi
You know they can they can make it into the playoffs and in the quarterfinal usually I'd see them losing
I'd like to see them make a deeper run at some point.
That's way higher than I have been.
I see them as a last place finish team,
more or less, for this kind of event.
That's, uh...
What the heck, Valley?
Well, look at who they're playing right now
in a game to decide who comes in last place
at the tournament.
Yeah, Navi.
Oh, yeah.
Which they're gonna have a very hard time with.
That's not their fault.
Okay, sure, yeah.
If they were M80 right there,
maybe we'd have a different conversation,
but I feel like you're way more optimistic
on this team than I am or even have reason to.
I don't feel like pain has shown me an semblance of consistency.
Yes, there's been flashes where they can take a map off of a team around the top 10.
But when it comes to actually beating strong European opposition,
they are far cry away from accomplishing that.
I see the potential, Maui.
I see it in them.
I see it in them.
It's probably not going to come true, but I see it there.
Okay.
When you say that, do you mean like ever are you saying for this event?
Because I feel like I have to also ask questions with you.
For this event, I think Navi's going to send them home, unfortunately.
But I do think they have some potential in the future.
I see them at the end of the season being, as I said, like a playoff gatekeeper.
I'd like to see them a little bit higher than that, though.
All right, like you're saying in the future, a playoff gatekeeper right now,
now he's putting them as a team that qualifies but doesn't get very far.
Of course, it all comes down to how this best of three is going to play out against Navi.
And I'd love to talk about Navi first, because right now they're in such a precarious situation.
You decide no roster change is made.
They're all sticking with it.
They're talking about we need a little bit more
confidence here,
but it feels like there's so much more play there.
I think you look at them in terms of a roster move
that they should have made,
you're thinking they should have made it
so they could make another step,
so that they could maybe contend for a tournament victory
at some point,
so they could be in the top level.
You don't think they're not gonna make a roster move
and then they're gonna lose to an M80
and potentially go out dead last in this sort of event.
That's not what I'm thinking of when I think roster move,
But then you look at the way they're playing,
they don't seem to trust each other.
They seem to be having a lot of problems
with the structure, with the way they're playing.
They're just going downhill at the moment.
In a way, I wouldn't have predicted
just off of not making a roster move.
It's really curious with Navi
because this might be the weakest I have seen them
for maybe nine or so months.
However, they in the last season
did win a couple of tournaments,
winning out IEM Atlanta, taking that over vitality,
and also winning ESL Pro League.
Albeit, when they won ESL Pro League,
They didn't actually have to beat some of the best teams there.
They didn't have to play Spirit who were taken out in the quarterfinals by an
Astralis lineup.
So, Navi, they have the silverware to show for their efforts in the previous
season, but when you actually watch them in the server play against some of those
top teams, as we saw at a Cologne, for example, they don't really hold a candle
to them yet.
I mean, at this point in time, I think we can even just drop the conversation of
versing top teams and just say, when we see Navi in the server, right?
Two days ago, they played up against M80 and it was that similar sort of
conversation.
A map 1 looked great for them, but everything fell apart towards the end.
You got a question, what happened on Mirage, what happened on Inferno, for you to be able
to looking...
Sorry, I could just go that the wrong way round.
Map number 2.
Yeah, well Anubis and Inferno going the way of M80 there.
I mean, it was...
It was this sort of series highlighted all of the weaknesses of Navi.
If I would say that the two guys you can't touch on this roster are clearly bit and wonderful.
for reasons I've mentioned before,
for the fact that, of course, they're Ukrainian,
so that obviously matches with the organization
and where they're from, too.
But also, they're just by far the two best players.
But as we've seen in the past with Rossers,
ones, for example, that are dying,
but then have a player like Robs,
you can't win a game, or even sometimes G2 with Heavy God.
You can't win a game with an anchor who overperforms.
You need a star, space-taking player,
like Ima or Mikaze, to always show up.
And that's the thing.
When Mikaze was that bright, rising star,
Then you saw all of Na'Vi actualized.
You saw the great space-taker.
You saw the great follow-up player in EMA.
It was a well-coordinated team.
But now teams are figuring out Na'Vi.
And that seems to be my biggest problem with them.
They just seem so incredibly stale.
I feel like the 2024 Na'Vi that was the team of the year
then is still oftentimes the,
if you took the name plates off,
might feel like the same team that you're seeing in 2026.
And teams are too used to that.
Yeah, when you see Na'Vi doing well,
it's often carried by the system.
And then you have the players within that system.
They have wonderful has been doing well.
It's been doing well.
Mikaze has been a little up and down,
but I would put him maybe not in the untouchable category,
but close to it.
It's E-May that you look at as the player that's
really been underperforming.
Mikaze had a really tough series against them, maybe, though.
And I think that's the system failing this team,
where it used to be that it would elevate them.
Now it seems they don't believe in the system.
And when things start to go wrong,
all of the players seem to fraction,
and they move in different directions,
and they're not on the same page.
things only work as good as people are willing to buy into it. If at the end of the day you don't
have belief in it or even a different word, right? Confidence in it that it is going to crumble. And
map number two is felt like where that really started to show when they came up against M80,
right? Looking at Mirage there, that was the big question, aren't you? Yeah, one of the things
Lake said in the after afterwards interview was that he liked that this team was so structured
because they could read them. And this is a play Navi loved to run this season. They've run it four
four or five times that I've seen against anti-ecos.
They throw this double flash in the mid
and then Alexi B swings out,
trying to actually get out towards the boxes,
but Lake swings inside of that,
catches just between the two flashes.
He actually finds that kill on Alexi.
And then you have Makaze at the back.
He was all the way back on the stairs,
almost waiting, making sure
that they can't get counter flash there.
And because of that, Emei had no support,
then you have Wonderful on his own.
And as soon as the first pillar falls there,
once Alexi B dies at top mid,
you have Emei on his own,
then you have Vakaze on his own,
then you have Wonderful getting pushed back,
he's on his own, and the whole system is built around
this initial play working out,
but at times it seems teams have a really good read
on Navi right now.
Certainly we saw that from M80,
we've seen that from other teams in the past,
that they see how Navi are playing,
it gets a little bit stale at times,
they have a good counter-strat,
and once the system fails,
once the initial play fails,
it seems like the system isn't picking them up anymore.
The way I would relate it is that
when you study a team's execute,
when you're a bomb site anchor,
you understand the flash timings that are gonna come out.
You know, when you can take shots,
when you have to duck away, when you can fight again.
And Navi's map control is very similar to that,
that you're gonna have this layered utility
and there are windows in their timings that you can spring
and you can go for a counter play.
And now teams, they're so used to Navi
and how they operate that they have found those windows
and they know how to strike within those windows,
which is extremely concerning because in 24,
It felt like the whole system was so airtight
that there was no way to break in, but there were cracks
and now teams have finally pried those ones open.
I would say in Navi's defense, when it works,
it still looks amazing.
When I see a Navi game that's going well,
I think to myself, this could be the best team in the world.
The flashes are everywhere.
They have such good timing, spacing, everything's on point.
It's when one thing goes wrong now,
they're really struggling to put back the pieces.
Yeah, and you're gonna rebuild from foundation up.
You're gonna make sure that the structure,
that however heavy you are rebuilding it needs to be strong for themselves and I
didn't want to talk to Alexi be earlier before this matchup and dig to the
bottom dig to the root of what he believes is gonna be the structure of
Navi. Alexi, talk to me about some of the issues that were present a couple days
ago in your series against M80. You know I just think that we are in a bit of a
Bad shape, bad slump as a team. We spent a lot of time on certain maps and we just didn't execute our game plan as well as we did, for example, in the opening map.
It's tough to say, I think, that we lack some confidence right now and you can always find reasons when the times are tough on what's wrong because it could be a lot of different things.
We, for a fact, need some confidence and we need to, you know, grab a win today and go from there.
I also remember you talking to me about focusing on team play, working together a little bit more as a team.
Would you say you've seen improvement in that, even if you didn't get a win?
How we started the first map, everything felt perfect, felt like we were, you know, doing all the things that we were speaking about and whatnot.
Then when we headed to Mirage, I just think that everything kind of collapsed there.
So yeah, I think there are still both.
There are things that we're doing correct, but also vice versa.
I think we can play as bad as we did a couple of days ago.
So we just need to find the groove now.
And something else that came up in your series against M80 was right at the end, we were
talking to Lake and he said that Navi was a very structured team and in their eyes,
that they felt really comfortable coming up against, would you guys define yourself as structured?
Do you kind of agree with what he was saying? Yeah, of course we are and that's you know how
Navi has been historically, even if you look at Spirit you can see that they're also very structured
but I think your game can collapse on a lot of different things if you rely on the whole unit
working and yeah we also show that everything can work and how it works when everything is
you know smooth sailing and when everybody is up up to their standard so to say. So yeah we
just need to all be better and we need to climb ourselves out of this hole.
I mean it's crazy to think about Alexi they're saying almost exactly what you said Voo when the
the structure works. It works well and that is why they don't deviate too much from it
because there is success in it. There is just something lacking right now for them and they
don't necessarily have the answers, but they know it is like rooted in the confidence.
Yeah, when you look at the the initial beginnings of rounds, we look at players like Mikaze getting
aggressive and trying to find success. And we've seen him have a pretty big statistical
downstair down turn recently. But to speak to the structure, Mikaze's downturn doesn't
come from the beginning of the rounds, actually.
His opening kill rate and success rate
has maintained, despite a massive downturn in his form.
You expect that this means that he's
going to be getting less openings.
He's going to be dying more often.
What really happens is in the mid-round,
when things go wrong, he's not able to maintain it.
And he mentioned in an interview before our last game,
he's playing like 12 hours a day of face-it in the off time
when they had a little bit of a break.
And so his individual form is still there.
It's his spot in the structure.
It's the way the system is working in the mid-round
that things are really going wrong for this team.
That's concerning because it felt like the way
that Mikaze was leveling up for Navi
was because he was figuring out
those mid-round situations better.
But then I've seen progression,
even in the loss for his M80,
some of the games also in Paris as well,
where he'll be in a spot where you just can't mess up
or you have to be the player that just locks on,
like for example, top car on Inferno,
where he's just jump spotting,
that he doesn't recognize that that angle is actually vulnerable to someone
creeping up even when he rotates doesn't always feel like he's on the same page
with teammates where it feels like there's a lack of communication between
him and maybe a bomb site anchor that he's trying to help out those kind of
moments I thought they I thought they went away I thought all those problems
were fixed or alleviated as he was growing as an individual but because of
this knobby slump that just seems to be pervasive amongst everybody doesn't seem
like everything is getting from one man's eyes to another man's ears and so
the communication to me is probably the biggest call for it. I'm gonna hit you with a hot take here.
I think the system might be failing Navi at the moment, especially you bring up the top car,
the jump spot from top car, they lost the game based on him getting caught on that position.
That's not a play that any other team is making because they know that that play is possible.
When they do a jump spot two, three times, when the smoke is up, just after it goes down,
then they back up, they know they can get popped by that. Navi is doing that because they is doing
that and that's someone would have told them not to do that. I think the system at times is
failing this team and certainly they don't believe in it. I'd give that like a 4 out of 10 hot take.
Well I think it's a hot take to say that a system devised by Blade who is supposed to be
pedaled as one of the best coaches. I mean this is the first year of maybe three years straight
where I wouldn't put him in my top three. Wow. I think that a couple other people have surpassed
him in my eyes. I would easily point to someone like Cyclone again as being an elite coach and
and blade for me doesn't seem,
even though in the past he's proven
that he can do it with the amalgamation
of some weaker pieces or he could do it with star players.
He's just in this transition period
where he was able to put together this near flawless system
with underpowered pieces that was the team of the year.
And now he just hasn't really reinvented it again.
It's a lot to ask of a guy to reinvent your approach
for all of these maps, but something needs to be done.
I mean, especially if you're not gonna be changing
certain plays out, then there has to be something added
in a little bit of flood.
But it is crazy to see, Maui,
that you know back at Rotterdam event for Blast,
you were putting him almost as your number one.
Like that's where he was sitting for you.
And now you're like, he's kind of fallen really hard.
And I do think that this opens the perfect opportunity
for Payne to be able to make a name for themselves,
to live up to those expectations
that you're hoping they can reach for sooner than later.
Yeah, I mean, Payne certainly have a chance here,
especially when you look back at the M80 game and Navi,
they won the map they weren't prepared for.
That's the most concerning thing about that.
They all talked about, hey,
We weren't ready for a new best, absolute domination.
We were ready for Mirage Inferno,
absolute domination the other day.
So Payne come in this one,
they have an idea of how Navi are gonna play
and as much as Navi will always be scary,
they at least can plan for this
and prepare for what Navi will be doing.
And it's worrying because I feel like that has manifested
in such an obvious result,
which is that Navi's own map picks
have just been really poor.
I mean, it's four series straight
where they've lost their map picks
going even back to Cologne
where they picked against G2
and lost that one that also ended their campaign back in Germany at the major.
So for them, they just have to, I mean, almost feels like
blade is in a kind of an opposite day kind of world where it's just everything
you're thinking is going to work. You need to almost just go for you.
You need to start thinking of yourself maybe more as an underdog.
And I think that's the mentality shift for Navi is that because you thought
of yourselves as the favorites for so long, the the player game was working
when the system was airtight and nearly flawless.
But now it almost just feels like you should just maybe go for the the
curveball picks a couple more times go for an Anubis go for a maybe try to even
incorporate cash go for maps that because everybody knows how you play
ancient mirage now everybody in the world has studied how you played ancient
mirage because you played them to such a strong level so now you need to show
someone something else that you're keeping up your sleeve. Is that something
that you can do against pain though because pain will thrive on a little
bit of chaos and a little bit of curveballs and want to throw Baron in
there as well? I think pain have to actually get inside of that system they
have to find the opening.
I think offers are really good at opening up Navi
and making them panic, making them have struggles.
You have aggressive plays coming in.
I'm not sure Payne is necessarily the team
that will expose a Navi.
I still give this one favorite to Navi quite heavily
despite that, even if Payne do know
what they're coming up against.
Sometimes it's just a little too hard.
I agree.
I mean, I don't necessarily see Payne as the team
that even when they know what the opponent can do
that they have improved into me
that they can anti-strat somebody to a level
that can upset Navi.
And I know that M80, which should be seen as a weaker team
who was able to do that,
but I feel like Payne have just been going through
so many of their own struggles
of trying to get themselves on the same page,
like players that are individually aggressing.
I think that's also been kind of a worry of Biguzera
in the pain camp that some of those young guns
can be a little too aggressive,
and then they don't even get to play the system
that they crafted for themselves.
Yeah, the Biguzera question is very much at Lodge,
where it's how is he going to show up as an IGL?
How has he been moving using his moving parts here?
And I mean, a pain spring in this matchup
was really difficult to watch is my nice way of saying it.
Yeah, I mean, they just got ran over,
but that's what's going to happen when you play a spirit
and donkeys at peak form, right?
Sometimes you just can't really deal with that.
They didn't have much of a chance in either map.
They got absolutely destroyed.
And I think they're capable and ready to reset from that.
You have big use error as this player
that I think is a fragging IGL,
but he's lost some of that.
I look to them, this is why I mentioned
maybe there can be a playoff gatekeeper in the future
because their players have the capability,
but we pulled up the stat here.
When I found it, it was that Biguzer,
after a player change,
really struggles for the first several months.
We're hitting the three month period
where they've had safe in the roster.
I think it's very hard for an IGL to call and frag
when he has to be worried about working in a new player,
slotting him into the roster.
So at the very least, maybe we're gonna see Biguzer
reaching his previous heights.
Still, I think this team needs a little more time
to be able to beat a team like Navi.
Does it?
That is just a really sad prospect
for what pain need to find new win conditions
that you don't rely on snow,
who you're building to be your star.
You're not looking to safe to try to be your opera
that needs to be a difference maker.
We need the IGL who has children at home
to try to be the fragger.
That's not a win condition for me in the big 26.
Wonderful to see we know who's the
Four for four Navi have a favorite player
You're looking at all the individual pieces but a lot of this conversation has been a bad structure about being able to work in a
System and right now. I'm gonna wonder where these systems want to go and I want to check out Alvita
We say this every time when it comes to a potential underdog getting that upper hand,
it does look towards a map that maybe they're not prepared for on this side of Navi.
So anything out here that you'd love paying to pick up for themselves that isn't either
an ancient or just a.
I love to see them pick the map that they're most comfortable on, which is nuked, even
though it's it's going to be something Navi is completely ready for.
Still, when we saw their last series, they didn't get to play nuked because they didn't
pick it. If you don't pick it, you're not going to play it.
Yeah, that was obviously curious.
So Payne go back to their primary picking map or their favorite map in Nuke.
Navi, they give us the tried and tested Mirage.
I was hoping they maybe would change things up.
But again, this is this is Navi to me falling into one of their own traps
where they just say our Mirage is really foolproof.
We were really good on it in the past, but I don't know if it's really updated.
And I think Payne are going to be incredibly ready to try to dispatch of them on that map.
Yeah, Navi are one of the only teams that have maintained
a reasonable win rate on the T side of Mirage, but their CT side hasn't been as good as it
should be and it's certainly one that Pain could have seen coming. And then map 3, we
go to Inferno. I think Navi has historically been quite comfortable on that map regardless
of any recent results.
Okay, Comfort is there for them, but is it enough to be able to win this best of three?
Of course, Navi have talked about how much a win it would be important for themselves,
but Pain themselves don't want to give it up. So let's head on into map number one with
Scoroni and Launders.
That's right, Payne with a tough ask of them today with Navi on the other side of this
and Mohon we're talking about elimination pretty early here in Porto.
So a do or die situation for both these squads, the predictors over on Polymarket have this
one painted Navi and I think that makes sense even with their opening game struggle versus
M80.
We saw what they did in the first map of that series.
I would ask is five to one is a little steep considering what we saw in that game.
But also it's that first map of that series that has you a little bit inspired about what
Novi can do that's kind of went over it sort of a hard conversation to have
Because it's not definitive. It's sort of like we've seen them play really good
We've seen them play very badly when it's good. It's great. All those things are true
Unfortunately, we have to just see what that looks like right now
It feels like a series like pain that pain can absolutely take a map, but they themselves are not playing well exactly
Yeah, it sounds kind of flimsy when you say it out loud, but it's totally fair with what we've seen so far
into the action switch with Ema back a sights and he's got support up top we've
got two players dropping down vent is suddenly pain sort of hit a pause
mccase has got a duel down lower he'll pick that up for first blood and the
bomb is joined forces with big Ouzera the one other player down here who just
got gushed very uncomfortable now to have him three health on control side
bomb plant is gonna get prioritized I'm sure this feels like it's slipping
through Payne's hands, so get the plant down, secure the cash, and let's see what's left.
Upper players split, one ramp, one A-floor, crazy, very separated, but Peria, I mean it
works, he gets this kill and it opens a door for him to rotate down really quickly, safe
finds one, that 3 HP, big Azera hold over towards control, now stuck on stairs, Peria
gets another kill from behind, and snow activates off ramp, I mean there was a world here where
Novi took this bombsite but slowed down just enough to let all these pain pieces fall into place.
It's also they're slowing down because they don't know where everybody is and for pain like they're
the ones who probably feel a bit more pressure being spread out but they also had it under control
because they were hitting shots in the right place like safe getting is killing the back of the site
slows things down dramatically. Now once Peria is found they realize that they can go faster but at
at that point he's also got a kill so everything goes just right in order for
Payne to win. Now I am thinking that after the Na'Vi game vs. M80 it was I
want to believe a productive loss. They have that great first map and they
showed both their ceiling and their floor at the same time. If it was a win
maybe they would have thought about it less. I'm assuming they had some parity
We need more conversations after that game, man.
What it feels like is that Navi RAT very close to answers?
For Kane, I'm not exactly sure. It's the same level.
You say that they had a tough conversation. I mean, that quote on HLTV from EMA on the loss to M80, and I quote EMA here,
fucking shit that's the first thought and it's like yeah for sure it's gonna be
an emotionally raw experience because you just lost the M80 and you had the map
win he said they showed their ceiling that first map was so good so to let that
one slip in a you know I'm gonna see if teams that you should be separating
yourselves from totally understandable that you would have such a
frustration with the loss I mean yeah like to get that quote after map one
on the broadcast, I call it a master class.
Kaze?
Oh, it's still airy.
One wonderful flies up with the MP9, and just like this,
we've got Navi down to just a single kill.
Oh, God!
And wonderful catches that headshot.
Just enough of a distraction from the players on site,
opens a door for Mikaze to go three kills deep,
and to hell with your pistol pain,
we've got Navi on the rebound.
Yeah, wonderful with the three kills.
Mm-hmm.
From a 4v5 position as well.
Good headshot.
Wonderful, it's great in the clutch, isn't it?
He really is.
You may need that clutch factor up against pain today.
Clearly, on display early.
We got a multi-kill in the clutch all in one.
We do have this main.
I was going to say flip, but E-Math, he's got this covered on the right side.
Happy to just play pistol if he pistol.
Hey, a Glock.
They're not coming through that smoke just yet, so it's a good smoke to the right of E-Math.
Oh, but as he backs up, that kill inside of me comes his way.
That opened the door for the vent drop.
It's wild pain if still managed to get this bomb downstairs with Alexi having been there,
but luckily Bitt's on the scene.
If he can't stop the Hail Mary crossover, this could still be money for pain.
Just slain by Bit, moves it forward, and it will be Navi. Still in the end, four players up.
When that first player is able to drop main, you're thinking, oh god, this could open something.
Luckily, Ema had that smoke to his right side to play from.
Mikaozi had a tough decision, I guess, because he had to decide if this was going to be some kind of
wrapped outside with the mini smoke, or a push through the smoke itself, and it felt like he gambled the wrong.
but still had enough players to handle all of this
and it was a little awkward watching Payne
trying to get out of that doorway.
I'm not prepared to live in a world
where Naviarna are in a relevant tournament threat.
I would like to thank you and everybody else right. This is a talk about like the most history organization in Counter-Strike. Yeah
Talk about a team that has a mastermind tactician as a coach. Yeah
Plus they have sort of an underdog
Like atmosphere if not, you know, mm-hmm going through for outrageous buyouts, you know promoting a lot of players for example
picking underrated the players who did well at recent big events who didn't have
the experience and a franchise player in bits.
Wonderful under question towards Hell's Heal Hole, triple kill for Wonderful,
Deagle's out for the ace and it gets shut down by the Glock so good swarm forward into him.
It's rifles retrieved
And time still to slow the round down so you can get a bomb plant what makes this interesting is bit is 45 health back site
Should we call this mission bit it almost says bit on the back of the site it
See what you see
Quick headshot to put period down you're gonna flush that 45 health out into the open
You're going to try to get this Hail Mary plant off at some point. Smoke cover could help.
Smotes under question though with seven seconds. He's going to hope they just don't bam him through.
And as you'd expect, from both sides of that smoker, Nate, eventually the shots needed land and Navi go three rounds straight.
Money's looking just fine, but not enough for an op obviously, for pain might not be a priority.
Far too many options this early map and say they're definitely going to do this one play.
Snow's got to fight Q'd up in a moment.
Macaulay gets a matter of him over it and wonderful is off.
Great coverage into hot opening 5v3.
Simple and very quick too, right?
We're a minute 32 players dead, no response.
Not even a point of damage dealt.
That's amazing.
Macaulay just alley-oops his own frags.
So this gun round that Payne were waiting for
totally goes up in smoke.
That comes down to the micro a little bit.
Snow sees that smoke get blown open.
Doesn't know what's on the other side of it,
but also knows it's a CT made that blue it open
in the first place.
So, thought he was being tricky, but Mikazi was just playing a spot.
Way too easy.
Looking for damages.
Genuinely not a bad idea at the moment, but they couldn't risk losing it all.
Try to get in with anything at this point.
Dangerous to really still consider your options in this round as if you have a chance to overtake that A site.
While I'm floating back over towards garage and they give up Heaven just in case that wrap's coming through.
But again, 20 seconds. What are the chances that you even take Heaven and can take off this A site?
A site you have to peel three players off it so they know better they will sulk away into their opponent spawn and that's Navi
for one
You can see lots of lots of
potential for Navi in this sort of trough of form at the moment, but
Again, it just feels like a lot of teams right now
Now there have been periods of time like 2024 and parts of 2025 where it felt like so many player teams were on form at the same time.
Do you not feel that way any longer?
Yeah, it feels like this is like the the lowest form we've seen on average for most teams.
It's year one.
You know, we're literally most excited because we know what that legacy will be consistent.
Sure.
We have no promises from anybody else.
Hell, the teams above them show cracks.
Yeah, it's like kind of just spirit.
And even that's kind of been a newer prospect in the last couple of events.
And with that, you're sort of like, ooh, are they gonna be perfect today or not?
Yeah, it's not the same thing.
They haven't been perfect, but they have avoided a lot of upsets, actually.
Definitely, really close games.
They delivered, that's why I was like, did want to mention them because they're putting up the numbers.
They deserve the shout-out.
Three rifles working closer outside towards Mikaze as Bit goes for the spam and connects.
Won't know it for certain.
That'll confirm it.
VSM peeled away, and that gun has to change hands.
There's still two players top secret stairs.
They decide to come back as there's a recently opened vacancy outside.
This is more pressure on Mikaze.
Bit goes up to Heaven, comes back to double check.
Ooh, nice!
As suddenly Bit has found himself on the 3K.
There was a flash in there at some point.
I thought maybe it was Macause's throw-no.
I'm worried that maybe it was Big Ucero's.
Makes it awkward for those pain players on the approach
and makes it easy for Bit to be on for a quad kill.
Wonderful is here with the AWP to help out.
And Macause finally getting acted as Bit really handled all of that on his own.
And he did it through the smokes mostly.
just well-timed sprays, little bits of chip damage, a great time peek out from Heaven to double down.
Navi, five rounds consecutive.
Just no questions, no notes right now for Navi, they're cruising.
Yeah, Painter really not putting up that much of a fight at the moment, but it looks extremely...
We've seen a lot of frustration in a bit recently, but it also feels like his form is extremely good.
And I just feel like he's not sort of had this... he's been very close to putting up insane rounds.
Now we're seeing a lot of that output come together.
Let's go, Payne, give us a show.
I think we're hoping for a show from Payne, and they're hoping to give us something at some
point, because this has actually been an incredibly rough year for Payne. In comparison to, say,
the two years prior where they had that like big breakout moment, you know, we're, we're well
past the halfway point. Yeah, they're just no longer up and coming.
You know what they can do
You know they've had successful runs at a couple of B tier events back in Brazil
That's the minimum you'd expect for this squad and now it's I mean like with competence
We can say most certainly surpassed by legacy
I think it's possible there's a ceiling to the calling on this team
Hmm, you know as much as bigger zero is like sort of the the reason we watch and we understand their style
And we definitely moments where it's like okay, this could be better, you know
Off the flash, E-Map blinds, Bit still looking at the wall, and those three players down beneath him.
Oh, it's a little patient, takes an extra second, at least gets value out of this, but it is a good pop from Pain to get 2v2 secured.
Wonderful's about to announce himself, but his Nade actually looks like it's going to have a good trajectory.
Yeah, won't kill him, nevermind.
All he ever the site got the SM back with his and they'll pull this off
It wasn't with rifles, but it was all in a confident move from pain as a unit into the a floor
And there's just not enough value out of the other pieces of Navi barring bit
He got two kills, but the two players before him not enough
Painter and team that will upper-poss a lot
They're very comfortable want to do this as much as they can and there was solid flashes here from safe
So it's a little splash for them, it's kind of nice for them to win while they're saving, so...
Still not too late to turn this into a half.
And big missed event dies.
Periode does not have the bomb.
What can you get from this?
Did they hear it? Are they considering it?
There's a smoke on Ben.
The timing is very early at a period. I like that he's going quickly.
There's no way. Yep.
Boom. There's your value.
Open B bomb site so good on pain
from the all-in a rush to an unexpected vent drop wonderful missed opportunity to at least have put that back for
Before flight now the Lexi activates and BSM will just straight up win his duel
That's gonna send the CT scrambling off to a safe
Man simple and effective right there
Just get the vent drop in and they did it with in so much chaos that so many pieces of utility being thrown that I
Think period was like I mean this is the perfect rest of take he's there so quickly
I saw a scary stat the other day, Mohan, after the M80 loss, that Navi now have the lowest
win rate on CT side of the top 10 teams in the world.
Man, I'm surprised to hear that.
Less than 50% of their CT rounds.
And isn't that crazy to think about?
Team like Navi don't have a defense?
Yeah.
I will say though, like when we talk about what's so amazing, why they stand out and what's so amazing about them, I would say it's the details on the T side calls that, you know, the way they can get organized, you know, pause in position.
We saw that Nubis match versus MAD, the way they could just, they could stay cognizant of every threat in a mid round in brand new positions you've never seen before and understand how to play off each other so well.
That's where they shine, but maybe I've over invested a bit too much in the hard side
And I bring that up now with purpose because here we are eight rounds into the half pain have broken through with that
Half by one round ago and now with guns as well
Two different looks two different starts both of them banking on a certain bit of explosiveness. You can expect that from pain
now Navi
The money has been mostly chewed through. We've got a few thousand dollars to spare on the camp.
But with the weakened CT side as a blade, this could be that turning point where we look at pain and say, okay, you have broken through.
Let's see how this one comes in. Off of the pause. Blade with attack pause for Navi on the CT side.
You'd think the chances of winning this one on an uptick big miss, NQZ with the 1.52
new grading on LAN this year.
Safe, its current offer has a 1.05.
Definitely missed.
And that's- that is one thing to get ignoring QZ was just a tank for this team.
Shot with the fly, he met nice!
We flashed by safe to set that up.
Navi were trying to make a move, BSM slipped the net into the eighth-
They're all up her.
What's the opening here?
Nobody home on A site barring that main player.
Wow have these set up over towards outer and it is pain that just a walk right out
So great on pain to off of their opponents
Tactical timeout still finds such a guaranteed round win off a timing from BSM. Yeah, you don't see that a ton
That was awesome out of pain again. It's like a super simple call
And they're just going off of what's happening now instead of like what they want to do out of spawn
I think that's definitely what defines pain
But when they're flash retaking outside like that, it feels like a slower-paced default
that they're going to slowly work on map control, but I think they also recognize this is pretty
heavy outrode of Navi.
They're not afraid to take a risk.
They're officially back in the game.
They are indeed breaking through, cutting the lead to one.
Is that flash?
Wonderful, it just rattled an awp shot off from the garage.
Cause it walks back in.
Okay guys, now we're going to be easy, right?
So, energy is good, we just need to keep doing the same stuff.
I feel like you don't...
don't often hear a blade.
It's kinda nice.
Yeah, it's kinda nice.
I believe that was probably a listen-in from before the most recent round when he took that tactical time out
So
So let's do it again the strap obviously that outer plate didn't work
But I like them I need subtle but I like the most openly the opening line. Nobody said this was gonna be easy
Because they're hanging on just in case and sure enough
Here comes the flank! He'll win his duel over BIT!
Some of these pain kills looking very sharp!
The Biguzero will get knaded out!
And Pain did have a good read last round. They killed Emma, but before they even did that, who's normally their mini-player,
they were already walking out upper, so it felt like he knew where the whole team was before they attacked.
Alright, Ema links up with the AWP downstairs, both on control side.
Painter threatening this lower play.
That doesn't mean they're going to hard commit.
Mkasa's gonna have a critical role in this round.
Facts turn to him, easy pickup, period dead.
Trade chance for Snow and he'll nail it.
Now Alexi defines himself alone.
The vent player's trying to come up and add himself to this defense, but he's gonna be
concerned about main, so good on Alexi to at least, at the very least, get his one.
Playing player slain as the damage from McCauze tapped into by E-man who keeps his shooting
sharp deals a third casualty to Payne and guarantees Navi six rounds of a CT side at
the very least.
It's a good round on the frags for sure.
Excellent round out of E-ma.
When this push gets cut down it feels like Payne and they kind of know what's coming
Next would have been a very interesting 1v1 if they traded him, but they couldn't do that.
Famous AIM so sharp.
Snowcatch is wonderful through garage.
That was a Mikaze top secret.
Now he gets spotted with no trade kill.
Snow blows Ema's head off.
Alright.
Oh, we got another.
VSM from the top silo catches Mikaze
And we have in the matter of 30 seconds gone through three players from Navi who were feeling real good with the result of that last round
But nice and simple as snow just goes for the duels outside
And he may not be finished yet. Oh, it's a clean execution here from snow
They'll run rampant in through this lower site, just trying to find the last piece.
5v1, round 11, guaranteed 5 guns for pain in the next one.
You can go ahead and get a little sloppy if you have to.
They're gonna find Bit in a moment.
Who had this up on ramp and was hoping to get value from it, but he never even got a
chance to show them what he has. Looks like he'll be allowed to leave, maybe.
Well, it's a long save and you'd think they've got all the money in the world.
It's true. Final round of the half next round, so I feel like pain. Get hunting.
But Cedar Creek's a very big facility so sure lots of corners to clear
And that one to just let him know yeah, I know you're up there
Sounds like a great name for a golf course doesn't it Cedar Creek. Oh
I
Feel like we literally play together that I feel like we did
That was Stewart
Ooh, a bit dotting out of him.
They knew that first nade was just foreshadowing.
So, paint finish it off,
and the money here for Navi is not pretty,
so they were pretty excited about securing that sixth round
the way they did off of Ema's 3k.
Now let's run this back.
Snow just straight up finds wonderful through garage,
catches Ema,
and Mikaze, who is top secret,
never really had his chance to get into the action.
It's a half that let's gone in all kinds of directions it looked like game
we're kind of out of it but not the case whatsoever.
Oh fast start to this they try to crunch into the lobby and it costs them damn near
everybody. Navi just cranking that dial for the final outing on the CT half and
it's gonna be pain taking the sixth one for sure. I mean bit go ahead try as you
might they know where you're coming in from smoked off etc and so pain I'll
Alcohol to recovery. You know, we have that consecutive streak of rounds from Novi that look like a great rebuttal.
Can he just fight Jill in a console? Or every day? I guess we've got to still run this through.
They have one more smoke as well.
Here, I'll get the outro started now.
Please throw the smoke.
So after Novi with the five round streak, Kane's answer back ties to half six six.
Great stuff outside from Snow across these.
Bit can't do much.
See you for the next half.
Die, bro!
I mean, the unforgettable names in Ultra 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 I'd name is Snacks, to find how smokes could be used,
How smokes could be used, the way he played around them, 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 AWP.
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.
Think for Pasha, I think what made him was his personality.
Having someone being that outspoken and that strong, it 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 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
posher peak which was like the slowest most awkward peak ever and that was kind of the
greatness defining mood around around the team at that point. Olaf back in like 2015 he was such a
forced to be reckoned with he was one of the players that that fanatic 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 counterstrike 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
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. Device was someone who kind of mastered the text book
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 GO! conversation is a fun one.
The Vice 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 Zai Wu.
And he's going to take the mantle
of the greatest player of all time.
That'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.
He's doing this in year one, where is he going to develop into, but it's competition
and it's counter strike and things can change in a heartbeat.
recovery from pain in that half winning five of the last six rounds and breaking through in a way
that puts Navi under question. Again, their lack of CT round success as of late here on display.
We're talking about Nuke and we're talking about only six rounds Navi. Tough stuff, but that force
buy that netted them the early momentum. At least that worked out their favor. We'll see what their
attack has in store for us now. It's going to be early to the hut by the looks of things.
Biguzera, in anticipation, takes a position down in vent and leaves Snow's Berettas.
I mean, this should work, right?
Back turn to him! Oh yeah! Perfect position from Snow.
Goes back to the bomb site and is met by Eme.
There's still a pain player back site behind Silo's.
Alexey on the approach with bomb.
Boy spotted.
He slides out, and as he gets back into the cover, it is all coming up pain.
This consistency from the end of the first half rolls right into this next one with a CT pistol victory
They're like a box of chocolates man like you start this game out. It looks like they're kind of despondent no real
Super solid game plan doesn't feel like the energy is there all of a sudden they put together a couple of rushes
They wouldn't actually off of a half by that's what got the back into this game
And then they don't look back like they they know how to capitalize. They know how to build momentum
Yeah, that was a little risky, obviously, for Navi jumping through that smoke that was
just so perfect for Snow to stand behind.
season is starting to feel scary for Navi. I mean we're early in this series but I'm just gonna
say it like they ended the first half of the year. Some pretty impressive results. You know there's
a team that lifted a trophy in Atlanta. Caveat being there was simultaneous events at that point
so the field was kind of split up. Second place at rivals in spring. Hang on now wonderful double
Oh, it's got two. Okay, I thought it was safe.
I thought it was safe. Please save me pain.
Oh, VSM on the fadeaway. Back at it.
Oh, good. These digs.
Or is it?
Could still get another couple.
That was 2v5 for a second, wasn't it?
I know. I tried to zoom out big picture.
Thought it was safe. Wonderful. Decides. Nope.
Oh, those Deagle shots. Not too far off the mark.
Double swing.
And he's dead.
Thank you, VSM.
4K for VSM, yeah, save the day.
As I was saying, pretty impressive results for Navi
in the first half of the game.
You know, they had a strong showing that had us feel
like maybe they were gonna come into the second season
with something good, and yeah, okay,
the shortcoming of the major maybe caught people off,
but man, it's been struggled since.
If they lose this best of three today,
and it's a big if, there's lots of counter strikes
still to play.
We're talking about two consecutive,
basically last place results for them
outside of eSports World Cup, and now this,
that is not the Navi we know.
No, not at all.
And there really is this thing where I like footer on the rise next to Nami Jr. while they're there.
Playing all the same events.
We won't get too ahead of ourselves.
Let's see what Nami's T-Sides got in the store.
Guns up!
Another show of promise with those deagle shots from Wonderful.
It's going to be hot.
It's Peria finds the second player trying to exit because they got his.
Remains elusive, but Peria still winds up finding him.
Quick eye towards the lobby flank. Wonderful.
Yeah, goes for the AK, doubles back a second time, safe takes damage up in Heaven.
But as Wonderful adds himself to the players on site, that flank, the threat, remains real.
Wonderfu is better off just holding that flank for a second with two players upper because right now they're still watching it, but now they're watching it from within the site where they're in a bit more danger at the other choke points.
Bomb planted on the hot corner, E-MAT hanging on to the squeaky door, takes some damage but
bests the MP9 and now to get off of this ladder is wild, but he is down to 11 health.
Eight misses.
And that M4 shot almost killing him, but surviving enough, E-MAT is there to lock this in and
Navi taking over an upper site.
The period tried his damnedest to defend.
This next round is so critical because you have three kills out of wonderful.
previous round, now they lose. Those are extremely expensive.
Oh man, and their investment behind these two guns is going to be almost nothing.
So well earned opening
For the start of this key side off the first gun round
Saves can only drop a FAMAS, but he's gonna go for utility
We'll have MP-9s
3 SMGs is the limitation this round for pain
This is such a big chance for Navi.
And a big responsibility for SAFE from the bottom of the scoreboard to get something from that off.
Biguzera will kick this off, with the kill from Red wants to get out of here,
and is showing the door, allowed to escape what could have been a dangerous position. 5v4 earned by Pain.
Period changes up. Place top hut instead.
Oh, but he gets caught by Ena's creep out.
Yep, and he's the only player on this site until that Heaven guy moves up the ladder.
So now you're banking on Snow flying up with an SMG, but that's kind of perfect for what he had to do.
Close corner cleared of Ena. You've got bit back site in the second one out through hut.
So Snow, still with work to do.
Molly into the back of site. This lobby player is the one to clear out Snow.
snow and now wonderful has been found out at age
remains cut off and a wonderful finds another clean execution he's got a lot
of HP left to work with around his wounded teammates but save the very
valuable weapon to save I mean keep the nothing in this round yeah next round you
won't have anything either except for this gun
now with three up like Navi's money is just fine
Oh, they won't keep that gun either bottomed out. I mean we can we can also point to Macaulay who
like you flipped like almost I feel like almost exactly a year ago and it's like Macaulay is one
of the only players who's playing extremely well consistently and everyone else is kind of struggling
and there's a period of time where everyone was calling for the heads in and wonderful
Um, saying that their form is just not good enough to hold up there into the bargain.
It feels like they're the only two who are more consistent, and then on the Macaulay
front, mysteriously, his form has really vanished.
Or we get the 13 deaths in this game.
F***ing CT's off the bomb site, pistol swings, and it all gets dealt with.
There's still a guy on the stack, just dropped top of it.
Somehow Snow's still alive here.
Unfortunately, all his teammates dying around him, and too much of an axe for VSM caught
out by three.
We've got Navi in the lead, having to fight for it, but with all those damning stats about
the CT side, nice to see some life on the attack so far.
It'll be a time out for pain, but also I would be a good moment
to talk if you're blade as well, because now you're kind of
back in control. You've got the money. You can calculate the
money every round now because you had them in a buy save
situation. This is really a moment where he, you know,
wants to put together what's the read now in this spot if
you're paying about how to approach this next round. Scary
part is for pain. You have big user getting opening kill, but
That's not enough.
You're not going to come by too many of those free frags outside.
I want to believe this a roundward Navi, you're not going to play it too quickly
unless they feel that.
Painter, maybe overstack upper or something like that.
You know, ramp could be the thing they want.
I feel like you feel it now. You just keep trying to do as much damage as possible, keep the money extremely low.
You know you're gonna beat the playground on more grenades.
Plus it's Navi though. They like to take their time.
That pain are already literally down to three pieces of utility.
No kids whatsoever
This is where people just walk in the sprays like you can get so much map control if you're Navi
That's a mistake yeah awkward for him to let McCauze get by and then pee back from that side of the smoke
Compromises Hell, compromises Heaven, Peria has to reposition accordingly, all while you
now have no information outside still.
You're gonna find this tool at least if you're pain, but a quick disengage away from it.
It doesn't even really need to be...
Ah, DSM doesn't get the instant kill at a distance, so the player up close is afforded
a chance to pop up, sure, safe finds the answer back from inside Lobby, but you've got big
clearing players off of vents.
the ladder goes bit who tries to get into this engagement. Man, things are weird right now.
I mean, Mikaze is going for the plant back site. This is going to put Wonderful in a tough place
where he's got a quickly collapsed force happening, which really means Mikaze has got to hang on for
dear life. Safe gets blasted out of it. Mikaze does his role very well from the opening kill inside
of main into just kind of taking things into his own hands. And that plant kind of puts him in the
spotlight to be the guy to close, but he holds his nerve, delivers, and puts Navi on 10.
So much of that comes down to just one step that's a bit too big out of snow, right into
the smoke, allowed Mikaze to swing at that moment.
of this game, but it's not
limited economy comes through again with this scout. It's already under question, but changed
up in the tempo for Navi. We just know they're going to sense that blood in the water off
of their last round. You said it, you know, once you've got them in this safe cycle, they're
very aware of the economy. Biguzera decides to rip a head off.
And even though they didn't win the round, it was those three Deagle shots. I'm wonderful.
That just started this sort of vicious cycle of never having enough.
It's going to find that cash of grenades. Those nades in that scout combo could have
been fun but never even really given a chance to use it there's all good it
finds the headshots the main player toppled so this one's gonna be Navi's
11th made easy and now this T side really you lose the pistol you allow
pain to convert. Haven't looked in the rearview mirror since, Navi, as this will be their
fifth consecutive round on the attack.
Having credit to them, they got themselves back into the game. T-side looks excellent.
And that's why I didn't want to linger too long about that whole, you know, Navi coming
in last place thing. Because now they're about to pick up their opponent's map pick.
There's a whole lot of grenades.
It's all this free stuff.
And everyone dies again for pain.
Yeah, it's a tough place to be in.
Navi have all the money in the world to try to close this out.
I mean, we watched this opening pick from Wonderful.
Wonderful it was so fast into that duel and it's also safe. He dies and he has three aches
Four even I mean that guy was really was like set
It really felt like he was still in the process of like you know, he's laying out his blanket trying to set up the picnic
He was gonna be there camping the whole entire round
Wonderful like a grizzly bear just charges him out of the woods
I'll see if Payne's guns try to stop the bleeding.
Cause they just making a bit of a nuisance down lower, keeps Payne's attention somewhat.
Still this three player hard A-stack might be the right call.
Not transitioning out of this, they're just hanging on but there comes the vent clear.
McCauze joint sports is upstairs, nice routing.
Puria holds his nerve for one.
Snow's gone unnoticed but they clear him and still you'll find a double.
Wonderfuls into the kill feed.
Snow's still going!
Sure enough, 4k.
All on his zone!
Watch those first two pieces fall period doing just enough to offer up a distraction.
Snow gets cleared by Alexi, but he just riprores through that entire Naughty Unit.
I mean, he's painted into a complete corner here, has to deliver every kill while they know exactly where he is.
Ooh!
Insane rifle work.
So it looks like Snow's being painted as the hero for paying today.
18 kills off of that quad kill.
Top of the board on Payne Squad.
I mentioned all that money Navi had,
so easy for them to come back into this next with
five AKs and all the grenades in the world.
Yeah. I feel like Navi can stomach that even though it's still
in a two round game because it's a miracle play that happens,
but their overall round was still good.
all their previous rounds were still very good.
So Pain will have to do a bit more.
Took a lot of players on that A site
for Pain to be able to hold it back,
and it's still all hinged on snow.
For the most part, I don't want to discredit
Peria's first kill, but...
You can't. Four kills?
That spot, yeah, I mean, he's looking like Trout.
True.
Double flash over red,
but it is just Mikaze out here
It's not even looking to stick around.
Early ramp-wife, BSM.
Gonna just forego his position as they get early notice
that Navi are taking a sniff to this side of the site.
It's a nice find.
It was a bit scary when you do a full group towards ramp.
You don't have leads anywhere else.
You don't have, you can kill time,
but you're also really low on actual information.
So, you know, committing downstairs was only one,
one of the only clear ideas that you can get,
but you don't have vent control.
You don't know what's going on a controller decon.
Yes, I'm with a gut wrenching feeling
as he opens the door and knows, damn it,
they're on this bomb site.
There was no, there was no committed rotation
to control side.
It's a little too passive here.
Snow gets exposed as the double doors pop open.
There's one from Big Oozera, and that's it.
That's tough. I feel like in a moment like that, when VSM dies,
and they took their time to go downstairs, that's why you just, you need to,
you know, you need to assume like there is danger.
They can take lower now. We need to get into better spots.
Yeah, Navi played this one with a good tempo, while Payne thought they'd have a bit more time,
But no, sir. There was conviction there from Navi's adjustment because we haven't seen this kind of a ramp play. No
Maybe it's a bit different BSM gets a kill, but he was so quick to fall off
And that's what was curious to me was like he was so quick to fall off, but nobody else was so quick to come join him. Yeah
So safe is afforded to be safe this time
Also BSM is the one to drop ramp while in ramp. Yep, but then goes for a rotator spot
Right. Yeah, only single doors. Yeah, it really only overcrowds your rotators coming in
What rotators
It's a little too late
Room you've got them deep already into control side saw that layering on the staircase as well
So wonderfully afforded one kill
Now we're talking three map points for Navi. So this T side has been very fruitful
They'll be slight limitations here for Pain, but we've seen them work with less.
MP7, Piriya, Fommus on Biguzera.
Last time though, when they had little nades, we saw them kind of throw them out of spawn
to stave off a potential rush and then have nothing for the rest of the round.
Play quick 10-0 out the gate, and this one's gonna be the same.
Oh, we have to stay also because his opening kills last like five rounds. They've been there now.
Definitely turned it up a notch as the game's gone on. Snow quick to move lower,
but this is also Navi quick to join forces. Not one, not two, but all four remaining players
working their way through these vents.
He was 8 and 13, uh, somewhere in the middle of this D half.
Now 16 and 15.
This is a single peek from Bindo. Everybody else goes single door and Wonderful is able to break through.
Oh! Insta kill from Alexi B. The player who still has health here for Navi because Wonderful is dangerously close to death.
He's in great form.
But it's a hell of an ask of Piri, a 1v2, met by Amali on arrival and they link up here.
He will find one and Alexi's the guy to put this on ice.
At two kills in the closing moments,
Navi's T-side rock solid stuff.
As Navi were able to force by successfully back on the CT side
that gave them the rounds they needed to play with,
unfortunate Payne couldn't also find that
as they did win all those terrorist rounds.
But the second half, it is just all Navi.
And so Payne's map pick robbed away.
I would say it was deservedly earned by Navi.
They put in the hard work for themselves,
but unfortunately it was just not it for pain
at the end of the day.
We wanted them to go back to comfort.
Comfort was there, but you're just one up by Navi.
A team that is coming in as the expected winners here,
but still surprising as to what limits they were pushed to.
Yeah, I would say Navi made it a little bit harder
for themselves, starting on the first half
with what was like a five one lead, I believe,
and then they end up having so many struggles
at the end of that first half.
Payne had a great idea of the plays
we're going to go for Navi going for a double ramp three or four times in the
first half. But once you get into the second half, Navi can dictate the pace.
They can decide what duels they want to be taking. And we saw Navi just run away
with it. And whereas Payne, a couple of their T side plays did work out extremely
well in fooling Navi or at least getting them lightly out of position. Many of the
rounds for Navi did the same and even better to Payne in return. So a T side
that was more or less met by an even better T side.
I know that now be one and normally I would love to sit here
and sing the praises for a team that won,
but I still think that there is a solid conversation
to be had about novice T side.
You're five and one, right?
You're up four rounds.
This shouldn't be a hop that ends six and six.
Yeah, I mean, their upper sight was attacked several times.
I think Payne found really great success doing that.
And as I mentioned, they had a double ramp
three or four times in that half.
They kept trying to force it in through ramp
and you had pain, they just, they held those angles,
they knew the push was coming
and they could counteract that really effectively.
I was also surprised by how so many
of the sort of gimmicky plays from Pain
were working out so well.
Before this round, there was a nice little vent dive
that netted them some kills,
but early kill towards outside on the emo with the flash
and what do Pain do?
Instead of pressing on forward towards outside,
they're already pushing through door
and through huts simultaneously.
And it's just caught Navi off guard.
There were a couple instances where
This is initial kind of one, two fakes for pain worked out as Navi were trying to collect their bearings or find their bearings after those initial little punches were made.
I think those are great gimmicks from pain, but at the same time, if those don't work, they have nothing to fall back on.
Navi have to find a way to counter at least one of them.
It was the entire end of the first half that every gimmick for pain work.
Yeah.
And they could just slow down and then they could manipulate the rotates.
There's another round in two rounds.
They just walk out hot.
that Macaulay is not ready for it.
You great great read from pain to set up those situations,
but at the same time, Navi have to be able to counter that.
Yeah, we're looking towards then the second half
where we do get to be a bit more lighthearted about Navi
and go congratulations.
You guys were able to turn that one around for yourselves.
Round 18 was the one, right?
Where we're also seeing a little bit of a weaker CT side
for pain too.
I thought this was a really interesting round
because Navi come into this one
with a pretty clear plan, right?
You throw the outer smokes.
A lot of teams you'll see that if you get across outer
without making any noise.
Sometimes they just gamble and never go lower
or they'll blow open that smoke two, three times.
Instead, Pain try to play honest.
They try and play safe from everything,
but that means your players
have to win their individual engagements.
As soon as snow goes down,
you have another 1v1 on lower.
It doesn't go either way,
but you end up with a 1v1 in Heaven shortly afterward.
That's a 3v1, but one player jumping up at the same time.
Then you have M.A.
He's got a 1v1, he can't win that one,
but you still have a round in Navi's hands
where they eventually manage their way into upper control.
Another 1v1 for Bit in lower.
They're just catching the players off guard
because you have pain trying to play all over the map
and not be weak to anything.
That means your players need to win their 1v1s
and you're playing against a Navi team
that I think taught the bottom for the most part
just to have better individuals.
What I also really don't like about runs like that
and more of what we saw in the pain CT side,
it was too reactive for me.
Whereas their T side had such clear ideas
for how they wanted to stage the first 45 seconds
of the round. I felt a lot of the pain rounds were very default where they're
just kind of hoping that they're going to be able to read what Navi's doing and
then be able to either get the kills like you're saying or make a good reaction.
And then they were kind of between ideas sometimes like you saw big Azera just
sort of just being by himself down lower and they never really were in control
of the situation. Those are the types of situations where if you have a
donk on your team and he can pick up two then you're not worried about it.
But if you're having a player that two people peek him he's getting one and
dying at best you're really going to struggle.
I mean, no one can put up a fight against Mikasa who's thrown in 100 and 110 hours every week.
I mean, if we were wondering like, okay, he's very clearly focusing on that individual skill
for himself and it felt like that's not what Navi needed in that previous series against M80.
And now we're seeing it, you're growing up against Payne. More of the system is working for them.
Yes, CT sides are still weak, but now the individual performance is stepping up and it is also being
for light upon. I mean, as we're saying, and as you mentioned, this is a this is a T side from
Navi that they weren't pressured, right? You didn't see Payne taking the initiative. So when
Macaulay can get into the duels that he wants to be getting into, he's in like almost 40% of the T
opening duels for Navi. They're getting him into the ones that he wants to be in. His aim is going
to carry him in those situations. It's continued to be very sharp. It's when the rounds break down.
If Payne had gone for some initiative, had try and blown open some of these rounds,
that's where mccasey might start to struggle and maybe the 120 hours however much face he's playing can can start to backfire when you're used to
pug teammates not your actual team. I felt like a lot of the T side rounds for Navi just went so exactly how they scripted them that they got to use
mccasey as that tip of the spear through many of their entry or space taking attempts and then the rest of the team got to just pile in afterwards
only maybe once in this game did you see him have to stand up in a mid-late
round we was on planning on that bomb site where wonderful was in heaven but
if you just give him that steady diet of opening fights he's gonna be better
than your counter which I think in this game would probably I'd probably say it's
snow yeah that's just not even a 50-50 that's like a 70-30. Not even close. Not
even close there but Mokazi definitely being able to put in that individual
performance big question marks from his previous tournament now it feels like it
is finally showing in officials,
but wonderful also having a great showing for himself
in map number one.
The T side that wonderful put on,
especially that Diggle round just kind of showed
the individual prowess from him,
where Navi seemingly, it felt like this,
they need a little bit of a lifeline.
Wonderful was there to give him,
at least a little bit of a little bit of air.
Like they need him so frequently to be the CT star for them.
And unfortunately in this game,
I would say he didn't really carry that side.
But once he swapped over to the T side,
he still had a very active AWP presence.
His Deagle was crazy.
His trade-fragging on the rifle was subliminal.
It's everything what you want from a guy
who seems to be rising as now this season's star for Navi.
How many kills of those were with the AWP?
I think I saw one.
I mean, this guy, as an AWPer,
he can pull out the rifle,
and especially T side nuke,
very tough map for the AWP to actually get effective.
He had four kills with the AWP on this map
with a 20 kill performance.
so many of those great performances, multi-frags with the rifle, especially on the very tough
T-side. Very impressive from Wonderful. He's one of the few on Navi that have maintained
their form the entirety of this downswing. It's the consistency that they're needing
right now. Again, we've talked about it, the system, the structure for Navi, whatever you want
to say when it does and doesn't work. At the end of the day, you still want to be able to rely on
individuals. So, Wonderful. Whilst it wasn't an explosive C-T-side for him, I think just having
a really good T side is something right now that Navi can rely on and that's great. My
question mark though is what a pain going to rely on when we look towards map two.
I think they have to rely on some solid. I think as you mentioned before again, initiative.
I think they need to be taking the initiative. They need to be catching Navi off guard because
as we continue to harp on when Navi when the system breaks down when the initial plan doesn't
work out, that's where they really start to struggle. We didn't see enough of that in
the second half of that game.
Now I would have the problem sometimes within watching pain is that you see individuals take
it upon themselves to find some sort of opener in the round because I don't know if they've
always outlined how are we going to upset the balance of a T side that's being so meticulously
constructed and if you they once again just let blade and Alexi construct a T side that
really is quite well ironed out then I feel like it's inevitable that they're just going
to fall in a very similar way to as they did on Duke.
I don't like hearing that. I need more from it, right? Okay. Yes, they need to be able to have
continuancies. A little bit of a plan B, but you don't think that there is any way in which they
can catch the Navi off guard. We saw MAD be able to dismantle the structure of Navi, but you're
saying that's not really a toolkit. That pain, have it the disposal? I don't think they're
crazily enough to say. I don't think their structure is quite as good as MAD structure in
terms of playing from a systemic, a systematic approach to the game. I think MAD is really
impressive in that regard and I'm not too against the way that pain play where you have a little
gimmick you get into a 5v4 and you try and you know snowball that into a round win. It's the
second half it's the you know the it's the CT side that they really need to get things together
and have some gimmicky plays there as well. That's why you sometimes see people like VSM or
period just go for these plays that if they if they succeed you say oh wow they're such explosive
wild card players but oftentimes they end up being a losing condition. I think instead of actually
trying to reel them in. Sometimes I think big is there to try to set them up a bit more.
So hopefully, I don't know if that's going to happen.
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game. No, I'll be up against
pain here. Now we did take
pains. Map number one to pick
in New and I do wonder is
Mirage going to be a different
story for them compared to when
they went up against M 80 on
this one because well, there's
only six rounds they're able to
get for themselves. So hire a
This is going to be a different story.
Navi will pick up the win on this one.
I think they take this one down to zero.
There, as I mentioned previously,
they're one of the only teams that have maintained
a reasonably decent win rate on T-Side of Mirage
as it's become arguably the most CT-Sided map in the pool.
And that's because of this guy on screen,
Mikaze and Bit, Bit from the Palace,
one of the best out there that you're ever going to find.
And Mikaze heading in through connector
for the mid control plays, incredible on the entry.
Even if, as we've mentioned, when rounds break down,
can get a little odd mirages map they know very well and they know well enough
to to figure their way out of some bad situations. Only thing I would give for
the pain side or at least something to keep your eye on is I do actually like
that they put both of the new young guns from VSM and Pyrrhea on the B site
together. I've seen both of them trade off as the solo B anchor. I think it's
usually VSM but I've seen times when Pyrrhea gets kind of aggressive towards
the apartments and when I want pain to be a little bit more aggressive even though
would probably want them to be more disruptive towards connector in middle. They find their own
way to at least upset the balance with some of those guys towards the B side. Well, it's not
just upsetting the balance. They would have to upset this best of three if they were to win
Mirage here. And it feels like more the narrative is not so much is Navi gonna win, but are they
gonna have a better CT side for themselves? Are they gonna be able to get more than six rounds?
Well, there's one way to find out as to get on into it with Gronian Launders.
It's more than six rounds.
Okay, it's the only way to get into it is with us.
Now, PolyMarkets got pain, less likely to win,
and it's a great desk.
It's a bunch of, you know, Nats desk was great,
but it's a bunch of analytical points
that are all valid.
They're all true.
There was no falsehoods there.
And yet I here heard all the same stuff about Navi
right before they lost to MAD the other day.
And they didn't just lose to MAD.
I mean, they kind of got stunk by M80,
which is so weird to say,
because again, it's a tough job as an analyst
to speak the truth, and they do.
They spread the gospel,
but then Navi just didn't help up there into the bargain.
Navi, we're also map up going into that game versus M80.
So me and my expectations still a little bit tempered.
I'm starting to think it's all held together though
by Mikaze.
Okay.
Because like what we saw on the T side comeback
was Mikaze go from 8 to 13.
Yeah.
To 16 to 15.
And the game was over.
With opening kills every round.
And his form in that M80 game, like it was gone, he fell off entirely so.
And maybe that first map was just a bit too easy.
Well, they played against M80.
Well, now they should be on alert.
They're also facing elimination in this lower bracket run.
So let's get my crazy four players.
Oh, I heard a tap across the map and the wonderful is just dead.
Pirae off the flash, oh he kinda cut that pack in half but goes down empty-handed because
Zera trying to find seconds in this one, it's PSM to execute.
Oh can't get it.
Now we've got Bit to 12 HP, Alexi on a full bar, with Beretta's.
Finds himself in the clutch one versus three, he's been effectively surrounded, safe front
site in the bomb back by Van.
Cat player's gonna take Alexi's attention, now that's two of the three confirmed and
He's dropped down to a quarter-half safe gonna get the job done and we've got pain with the CT pistol victory
Should have been totally fine from the beginning. They had lots of great spots. They get that first kill little sketchy
Obviously when period died, but they still had it handled rotations were nice and quick
Nobby lost the pistol back on nuke as well didn't matter as much, but
I'm trying to remember if they had even got the bomb plant.
I don't think so.
This round?
No.
No, in the back on you.
Come on, this one with three deagles.
And a duel up close that makes snow a bunch of money.
MP7 takes a look, period. Floating around, the window still gets found out by EMA. They
would love to get a bomb plant here, and all you've got to do is make sure the cap player
doesn't drop that bomb. One more deagle, and it's dangerous. Exit
labored only for a second. Bomb plant prioritized by Alexey, so props here to Naughty. They
made their money. Oh, not just that. It's still going. We saw some scary stuff from
Wonderful's Deagle back on Nuke. Can he try to tap back into that again?
Player to try to merge out through the market window. Nice sequence of kills from Payne.
They don't even second guess it. It's an all-in retake from what was left of the team.
But Navi, I think after going down 3v5, you're happy to catch Piriya an additional kill and also get that plant.
One of those first situations where both teams win a little bit. Everybody's happy for once.
Yay!
Not if you didn't get the round, but they didn't have the expectation of getting it.
They didn't invest all their money.
They got a bomb plant.
They got two kills.
But Pain only lost two guys.
A friendly reminder that you can always live trade the game on Poly Market.
Any game.
Any time.
Any boss of them.
Guns up, the top hit, swing is through.
Temporary safety here for Alexey, he decides to sign up for the fight, sees a second, even
just off cap walk alone.
You've got Snowdead, a 5-3 versus the first set of guns, and here's your answer, Payne.
Still lingering out middle, have managed to equalize what felt like a great start to the
round for Navi.
That's a small thing, but it was such good awareness from Biguzera who, you know, all
All the threats at top mid did not forget that someone could be trying to lurk out.
Ooh, this smoke.
I don't know if Navi are going to respect it.
VSM gets out of market.
He's going to hear that stop coming through.
Now he knows.
Okay, time to make a play.
How cautious will they be about his potentials position?
Yeah, just kind of walks into it.
VSM hits him like a truck, isn't able to clip Ema over Van, who's now down to 13 health.
Wonderful's got to get into this, and that's both remaining Na'Vi players a very low.
Big Uzerah tries to come through with the element of the surprise, and he has such a health advantage.
Oh, he trade that Molly for an HE.
Looks to strike him down. Body shots will do the job. He's been spotted.
And Sendier is going to flush Ema into the open.
Easy pick up for Big Oozera, now you've just got to find Wonderful without getting blindsided in the process.
Wonderful is going to try to choose a timing at some point.
Oh, beautiful wrap here from Wonderful.
Oh, he's got Big Oozera, look in the wrong direction.
He's just got to get this kill, and still Big Oozera doesn't consider it.
Back onto the bomb, he's still elusive, and Big Oozera takes the knife though.
So that's going to be his demise, Navi coming through with no survivors.
That's a wild really well done there for wonderful again him in the clutch. You're always in a safe pair of hands
Ended up being much worse for pain once upon a time remember opening 5g3 from Navi off top mid yep
I really appreciate the call-out from Navi when they're grouped up B and they saw yes that smoke and then sucks
That looks like somebody who's bluffing and walked right through it
5-0 from Redness here for Payne, but the fact you go down 5v4 sure won't help.
Snow's gonna try to chase out the bomb, he's got it cut off and he knows it.
He'll grab the upgrade instead and we get this Palace walkout that survives the offshot.
Oh, safe.
Not lethal, but Snow at least threw the Palace floor against the headshot and follows up
onto E-Met.
That Galil he nabs, very valuable in the end.
Ridiculous that pain brought this back have three players up and because they was spotted
I need to see that wall bang kill from pain from snow on the fallback
Zero's gonna finish this off, but this is all snow chasing out that bomb and at least grabbing a galeel. Yeah
I feel like safe was almost unlucky to die had the
Op shot wall bang through the balcony and then got shot in the head because if the palace player gets away
I feel like they're disengaged. Yeah, just
Okay
Sure
That palace kill it feels like email that really gets drawn into committing whereas if the palace player gets away
Maybe email stays in connector options there for Navi so much different
Well then you do throw snow into chaos and he does well feels like that's what he waits for
And you know off the back of that that was Navi winning one round with zero survivors
So this actually puts pain in a great spot early on
I think they lost their patience just a touch there while that whole situation was distilling
Like they kind of had a small advantage then they lost it small advantage then they lost it
But refused to actually wait a little bit longer
Avoid five, Nautis and Seer have lost their last four map picks.
There's a lot of scary.
It's the perfect opponent for the thing.
There's a lot of scary stats coming up against Navi as of late.
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comes the Stomp. It's all about keeping this one cost effective so far so good. Yeah, nice
and easy here for Payne, converting to the 4-1 start on the CT side. We had high praise
for Navi's T side on this map in particular, but the economy has really held their hands
behind their back for the start of this. Payne getting those free punches in while they can,
It is rifles back in hand for the next one.
Because it took a long time to warm up last game, looks like it'll be the same story again.
Slippery!
Biguzera just tucks into the smoke. Ah, got flashed.
Wonderful. Oh, sorry. Thought that was another kill.
Wonderful. Blinding Biguzera on the retreat.
Awkward as he just tries to jump at the entrance of Connector.
So for once it's Navi to claw something back.
that's a good first kill, huh?
The SM will take a peek, I mean he sees nobody's actually pushed towards B.
But I mean, safe is on the perimeter at the moment.
Looks like a very strong mid-round call here for Navi.
Ain't have a completely wrong read.
Should be a very straightforward finish to the round as they walk up into A site.
Opera now.
Yeah, can a full commit to this B lean.
There's no real need even for Macauze to have across that murder hole, so all's good, Navi.
They'll take the precaution with the fake plant, but it is secured.
Surprisingly, it's probably Navi even, how little resistance they wind up meeting on
this half of the map.
Yeah, they just thought, okay, with that B kill, they're gonna pause and go.
Not the worst choice in the world here for pain, but it is one where they have some extra money, and if they hadn't fully committed, they may have had a chance, but I think this is just more so a good call from Navi and not much else.
It's also pretty huge they four alive after that.
A frictionless end to the round.
For once, because when Navi have had advantages there's just been constant recoveries from
not always in the round win, but always keeping it close.
I feel like the result of that round is kind of Navi taking a sigh of relief
and going like, okay, we got through the economic problems at the start of the game.
It's like an exceptional set of circumstances.
Now let's see if we can get the ball rolling.
As they go heavy out top mid once more, we get this quick move into the ladder room
From pain's offer, but because era gets caught out as he tries to escape after setting safe up
Starting out every round like this and it's been working
What can safe earn with this will not be overstep
that
Not too obnoxious don't want to reveal the plans, but they that doesn't mean they just have to hope that not be make the wrong decision
It's dinked and almost finished off
E-MAT gets killed, we've got another recovery underway.
Wow, 89 damage.
And the AWP here for Peria, as the second AWP is revealed,
Payne's setup with that second sniper, winds up putting Na'Vi down a man,
and even though there's damage dealt to two of these players, this is not easy for what's left of Na'Vi.
Yeah, I mean, Peria might have to rise to the challenge right now, he's got his first kill.
Oh, never mind, they found a way to get a gap.
But no, you've got this connector player locked into the corner.
If he tries to get out of here, Piraeus surely gets him.
Piraeus got to give up his angle, and now it's Snow with 11 HP versus two players
that are going to be forced to commit to this A site.
And they know that Snow was once here.
It's a very tradable spot.
He's looking for the back, trying to stay small.
Now we get that whip around from Bit.
He's going to commit to this bomb plant.
Piraeus walking in unannounced.
Bit could still be considering.
He missed a shot! No! That was Purious Chance!
And as he's now stuck in my ticket, he'll just use the USP!
Okay, why not?
The USP.
Are you kidding?
Of all things.
Not even a reaction from him.
This guy wouldn't be reacting after that whipped up shot either.
God, that could have been a tragedy.
It's still an expensive one for the double-op setup, where they get value out of both snipers.
So just such a good risk here, I mean.
They're really about to get shoved out of the round, if not for that.
Back to the Navi struggles.
Eagle from Akaze.
They really just don't believe in their CT mid-starts, Navi have been running out of
this every time.
I think Payne have got the memo, it's tough for them.
Scope will be seen, let's see if Peria can catch one.
So it takes wonderful down, but it's such an extension that Mikaze able to catch him on the fallback.
Eme's walkthrough connector goes down with nothing.
And Bits already been found and tagged down to half health.
So this T-Side's not looking like it's gonna get any easier anytime soon.
Heavily invested into this round as well was Navi.
And the only player that's gotten a kill so far was the one guy that was stuck on a pistol.
Mikaze has two kills that headshot deep into apartments from underpass steps and now this
deed kill. We talked about it. You said it like there was this kind of correlation between
Mikaze's successful opening kills back on Nuke and Navi closing out that game as they
did. You're not getting it here and Navi aren't getting round wins either.
Because on form he's donk light, but he's not on form.
What's that make him then?
Ironically, Donk heavy.
Navi, struggling to carry the weight at the moment.
Not like anybody else is stepping up into his shoes.
So, this is six for pain on the CT side.
Counter-terrorists win.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
I don't know if it's the left or the right.
I don't know if it's the left or the right.
Let's do the fnatic.
B-book, if you can start from the right, I'll go to the right.
Just give me a second.
Now if you're able to afford a bit more trimmings alongside what was saved, heavy utility in
the apartments and smoked off on a rival.
A whole lot of flashbangs, but a single smoke for Navias, everybody decides to group back
up.
Okay.
Feels like a big change of plan.
What have they sensed?
Flash into ramp, sees nothing, but that's not the truth.
Very ready to go.
They try to chase it in, snow finds Mikaze.
Keeps it clean, safe holding off to the palace player, lands a shot.
Great coverage from safe with a double kill.
And this one drying up, but a couple of kills still for Noggin to play off of, Flash goes high into the duel,
M4 has got the advantage, and it is majority alive for Payne as they extend this lead to 5.
And Snow played that, which is the right amount of vigilance.
He had the smoke, but he kind of still, Flash retook it, didn't see anything, but still was extremely worried,
was careful about the shoulder peeks.
timeouts coming in but this uh t-side is starting to evaporate
and we know that the stats for navi on the ct side haven't been something to write home about lately
their map picker not
We can still have a good half, we just need to wake up into it.
I feel like we're giving them fucking pay-doubts.
I know what they're capable of, that's for sure.
Yeah, but I don't want to talk about potential anymore.
I know.
I want to talk about realized results.
Coming back into this half is still just a 5 round T side.
But he's not wrong.
They can recover.
me everything you got. 57% win rate on the CT side of Mirage for Navi. Better than their
average across the map pool. One player bottom mid offering up a distraction, safe goes in,
Snow with an easy first pick up and he doubles down off VSM off the staircase.
That was all in Na'Vi with guns and they died instantly.
I mean they ate him alive, yeah.
I mean, full investment like that's your half gone.
You can see I'm stuck here out of pain, it looks so comfortable.
Ooh.
Five players up, not one kill for Na'Vi.
Six round deficit in the face of pain CT side.
We're back in the M80 game
Yeah, we are not we are naughty with a map win on their opponent's pick and then just kind of disappear
They're gonna have majority pistols in this one single AK. Nope. Excuse me. There's a second rifle out
Oh, there was because they bought a glill and then sold it back
respect
Let him a single rifle
Build up what they can for the next round. It's not a fast-pack charge that just gets slammed shut
Big Buzera easy
There's more where the first two came from but that one's got a bit more of a bite to it Alexi
Catching a headshot really just wants a gun for his efforts and snow has been locked in through this CT side
Totally, he's quite good back on new two, wasn't he?
Ever since that 4k from inside a site nuke
Back turned from the player climbing window. We had high praise for the attack of Navi
See, prior to this game going live, but... anything but world class.
Wonderful tip-toeing around in a 1 vs 4.
Okay, smooth moves!
Yes, sir!
That's gonna earn you an AK.
Then you've got safe on the line.
And you know what? There's been an uptick in safe's level as well from back on Nuke to now.
He's hit some critical shots under pressure.
Seven and four. It's easier in a stomp, short.
Remaining in these rounds,
as it is now at best,
at best,
three rounds on the T side here for Nobby.
Just feel like some of these top dogs have,
they're kind of at peace with how much they have to try to
to put their wins together, but you're not really seeing them have answers.
So, you know, I still block, and these suddenly are going wrong.
So, the Falcon's struggling yesterday as well.
Double up change up now for Biguzera, not Piriya, so.
That all making the rounds.
All that the mid defense is though.
Couple of snipers, one per side.
Yeah, daunting ask of Biguzera to put that op inside connector to smoke the top of the
op.
I mean, couldn't it be better?
The bit is out of this one, five and 10.
I'm all the underbought now.
And we usually sing Bit's praise
as a palace player on Mirage.
Constant on those exits.
22 damage from the off-shot.
We're gonna get anything going, no sewer.
Shut down once more.
We've got the double ramp single connector attempt.
At 30 seconds left,
they are slowly clawing their way back into this round.
But VSM's still here on site with a strong half thus far.
They're thinking these up in palace.
Executes those last two players triple kill for VSM double digits out of pain on the CT side of Navi's pick
We still got two and a half more days of action
But speak of action climb into catwalk
Sidewood tries to get away with a slick move instead of fast moving Navi and in total contrast to the round prior
were wonderful as a lone top mid you've already gotten off the players up through connector trying to combine again with this big
JL walkout
Please he's got a lot of pressure on him and he has not been performing. He has not recovered
Since that awkward ladder kill and this acyc goes down with nothing until the jungle players come up with two
This is email in the tear a triple kill through middle extended up
Connectors right back in the direction! Quad kill for E-Math!
Not yet able to soften up the bomb site. Niko tries to go through. Will stuff one up close?
And wonderful still yet to strike down his second victim. Tess S 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 S has got another. Kicks in into the kill feed.
It's hit from down underneath. Right there to stop it. His multi-kill with a quad kill.
Mikaze stays tucked in
Here's a chance there under balconies elbows adding them up. That's two
Will Mikaze go unnoticed because the opera could serve up a perfect distraction
Bob can't get plenty here now the other side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they've lost this guard cause they deliver
Wonderful goes down
Marauding inside of this a site
Jame on the other side of it, 17 and 5 is Mikase.
This guy is ascending to a whole new level.
If him waits this long, this might come back to bite him.
He's got the kit and that kit could be so key.
You got to go, BB.
He needs to move.
One, four, three, four, five, welcome to Leverland.
Yeah, he just wants to take the fight, but he's letting him get closer.
Finally, puts Wonderful to rest, bit in the meantime, slipped the net.
Inches ever closer
Guard and finishes Jane no that you gotta deliver with a huge health advantage bits on the
Maintain control despite the cost and go up 3.0
Donk plays behind the pole
Shiro's down
Alexi beat double entry
They came out ready for that
Just like that he takes back what a lexie works so hard for we're talking about bits lurked out deep inside the A site
The bomb gets cut off control again. They like sees down to nine
It is all a lexie 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 still yet to be retrieved magics losing almost all that HP
Zontics Stomach snaps up. Oh, this is his chance
a lexie B sees all
with nine health. Nine health he's got!
Oh! Oh! Oh! The name misses!
Oh! It ace!
They impress us back on Nuke, but they've seemed to disappear.
Somebody called the detective. We got a mystery.
Where did Navi go between these maps?
Two rounds on the T side of their pick.
Flashes back to the M80 game,
in that they have their opponents pick and an inability to seemingly to zero these series now you could come back on the
CT side I suppose but it just felt so flat
More damning Navi stats because they're the 24 radio on the CT side of the season lower than a Lexi B and Ima
It's not making them look good either
Full blind wonderful finds the first each
Mikaase with nothing. He wouldn't have wanted us to see that from his perspective.
He at least gets the assist because Alexi's going big. Nice execute with the three headshots here for Alexi.
And so a pistol round could make a big difference, but it's going to have to be a damn near flawless CT half for Navi.
They could afford to Mikaase to die in that spot because they started out with like 4B, but they can't afford it for the rest of the game.
We've already seen what happens there.
Four up, nice and convincing from the Lexi B, and always a bonus when the cat player
can pluck off a player mid-air, he didn't even let him hit the ground.
So Payne taking knee, let Navi have a fourth theoretically.
Mental screenshot on Mikaze here, three and twelve, let's see.
He brought it back on Nuke, but it was T-side Nuke that he brought back, which is weirdly
harder.
Three and twelve.
Ouch.
Thing is, he dies a lot because he takes so many opening duels too, so.
Right.
Yeah, he has zero and three in opening duels on this map.
But there is no universe where Navi lose this round, so we'll watch this comeback happen
slowly and we'll see what sort of state they're in at the end of this, because they go heavy
on the rifles.
There's not one SMG here for Navi.
So let's just win and go from there.
Just win.
Put money second.
For the bomb plant, Bits gonna go peeking out with that second magazine and he denies it.
There we go, not one depth.
No, play bomb plant.
You've already got rifles for the follow-up.
Yep, just rebuy the utility, get some kits in play and some kits, start this rifle round.
What about one kit, Mohan?
Would that be enough to satisfy you, because that's all they've got?
Yeah, once enough, I do trust that they're gonna remember where it is in the B site with Lexi B.
It's gonna be a long road back into this game.
So we'll watch and see if Navi are made of steel today.
Oh, that's not going to help Biguzera scanning through the smoke into the window kill.
At least Bit finds one on the fade-away.
He was just crawling away with his teammate and wonderful, sends a few bullets back and
it works out for him.
This would be a very scary position for Navi, if not for that Bit response.
It's like push-off cat, it's actually a good time to do it, you don't have any B-Play coming
this way.
Lexi extending, perfect lineup between the two, and the SM's got the answer!
kills all the mid players. If not for Alexi, grabbing another. His triple kill this round
puts Navi to a fifth, assuming Snow can't clutch out in these final 30 seconds, but
the CTs remain split up.
They pretty much know where he is.
Alexi's dead.
Oh, doesn't matter.
Snow loses half his health.
He's got the bomb in front of him.
Alexi's had solid output, but this is a 3 and 12 Mikaze in a 1v1.
Yeah, Mikaze just doesn't want to overthink this. No, I think he realizes this would
be obvious.
Captures him with a nice out going for the bomb plant, Mikaze with a good reposition.
And you see Snow just head in hands because he really just prioritized plant and gave Mikaze the freebie on that cross.
Just way scarier to go, eh? And I think the calculation was, I got this kill so quickly?
Maybe Mikaze wasn't totally ready.
Problem is, it's like I got this kill so quickly, but then I feel like Snow did hesitate for a second before he starts running.
If he had sprinted immediately, if he had made that decision, then he does get across without being found.
Same for Mikaze though, he downed himself a little bit.
Very true.
That's been an ongoing story, it's a fire round game.
So Navi go the route of like, get all the guns you need to win, no bonus rounds involved,
no MP9s.
It's working out pretty well for them to get to a place where pink can only half invest.
This half investment is what sort of got them back in a nuke even though they didn't end
end up winning.
Biguzera, Snow and VSM all having a great match so far.
So low tech 9 mid rush for Bigger Zara and that gets put on ice.
The beep play but there's no bomb.
Uh oh. Um...
They're so ready to go but there's no bomb.
Yeah, safe now going back for it.
Missed hop shot maybe, open the door for something weird to happen.
Anything weirder than what's already happening in that big commitment without the bomb.
What if safe runs up connector and just plants A?
He messes this up.
They've got issues.
He has a gunner too.
Could have gone down a had, because they managed to find a way to lose that.
But, yeah, I think Pain would have much rather had that bomb at the B site,
even though they don't get their openings.
It's a great set tactic to start off here for Navi.
The flash in the mid, it's super simple.
They just catch this guy running up to the connector, eliminate alert,
Big Xero is huge right now, he's going for openers.
Now the game's a little awkwardly close, I mean, it's four rounds but then with a little extra money, with a little extra confidence.
Walk in time.
This would be their first nine round CT half this season.
Okay.
Maybe a big ask.
Nice skill.
Puria trying to pounce on the B site while he knows who the boss is.
Yeah, I'm a cause here to help.
That's absolutely insane to try that.
He didn't even have that B player low.
Nope.
There's the chance though. You peel one player off this A site, now suddenly it's just bit here.
Painter moving in.
I mean, you really like to have jungle control in this spot, and that's what actually Pain
had.
But Snow doesn't have a safe way to get there.
It's going to take a little extra time, which might cause a little extra confusion.
The CTs are going to get moving.
There's actually a chance for Safe to kind of peek out and get a pick off if he wants
to be proactive.
Oh, no!
I think it was there at the 12th.
Yeah.
See, I'm not thinking there's multiple bodies here, but they are so ready for this
they hit because they back it up because there are strikes with only 10 HP not a
bad kill to get trying to keep this within the realm of possibility snow late
with the bomb walking in low health and that gets cleared but now bits reveal
themselves big slick move from bit there to double down and you feel like snow is
informed enough to get that frag but he was just so health limited at the time
Yeah, missed his spray up a little bit and you know took a little too long to get that one kill
on firebox even though bigger zero had softened it up, but
With the opening kills going this way can't be surprised the result is the what it is
Five rounds into the second half and pain is still yet to plant a bomb
Each amp springs up that this is gonna take the most solid CT side. Navi have played on garage this season
Well, they've got the ingredients.
Three round deficit, up versus pistols.
All the utility pain half gets thrown up and over to the A site, just flux snow off as the
commitment comes out, made to open it up, DSM's deagle with coverage as bombs planted.
time that's gone down this attack but they're not able to grab a gun off that
corpse. Oh he's gonna miss that. No way, Wonderful didn't see the jungle push.
Weird place now for him with this AWP.
Concerned about the stairs, VSM kills Wonderful. That's gonna be an Octody
grabbed in a moment but they're also so concerned.
Pyrrho's got his head shot in the middle of all this. VSM gets away from him.
Safe no good gun. Trying to wrap around to grab that AWP. Bomb is planted under the
Smoke and so tough place here for safe to try to get this diffuser dead and the cover for McCauze is good
They just run rampant over ticket into this place
Scary when wonderful doesn't see the jungle push and dies to the BSM headshot pistols almost enough
Pain have to take it as a silver lining at least this time they get that little bit of extra money
bomb plan is some progress unfortunately for them
Bit of a dry spell
And it gets marginally scary, but for no of you to know that at some point during this comeback there will be marginally scary rounds
They have to make fewer mistakes but as long as they keep getting away with it, they've got nothing to worry about
about. I wonder what this play is shaping up to be here. There's a lot of guys in mid,
but they're not really ready to go A or B. The deep control from Mikaze, I feel like
It's nice to be naughty
Rough like this with with pain where it looks like a set play, but it's hard to say exactly what the what the plan was
Or what killer were hoping for?
This might be a moment where you need them because they step up you had a rough first half
But now the game's close
His extension forward confirmed bomb on the approach nice shooting the cause a there we go double kill and a damn near third on safe
That all you need out of him well then
Suddenly everything in question here for pain's peace. I just they are just getting rocked by this defense yet again
Turn tail back towards the apartments if they decide to try to jump this but I mean at this rate
I mean so much would probably go help wonderful even though there's not much of a chance
With the pace of which they're crawling through apartments doesn't feel like they're making this
Gamble happen, so they'll call off this attempt. We go now a one round difference
You know Navi could have made more money in the last few rounds as well
But pain have been doing considerable damage, but this time around five alive. Yeah
Wonderful on 11k, Hema, 10.
Yeah, it's an excellent round result when we now get into like the last five rounds of regulation.
It's going to keep these buys coming even if Pain can manage to win a round,
because this is still a totally flat T side with one bomb plant and no round wins for Pain.
pain. It's insane, Navi only used one time out throughout that entire T side fiasco.
Blades sitting back like, they'll figure it out. I can't push the buttons.
Oh, such a badass Crebeni quote. No, it was actually Coolio.
Oh, was it? Oh, it's cool. Yeah, that makes way more sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he can't he actually can't
No
I'm not a full-time offer
but still
Pretty gut-wrenching miss for VSN that could have been a very valuable 5v4
Yeah
For a team that feels stuck in the mud so far in the attack. Yeah critical. That was that was one of the bag for sure
All right some pressure on Emma, you know, okay, they catch timing inside
Okay one for one plans revealed
This little cat jiggle could wind up costing them another player, Navi, have to be careful
about it.
Will the BSM also sort of scared because he's low HP from that first peek?
So they're going to let him have a window.
They understand it.
Bits watching the flank.
They have the correct amount of worry towards B as well.
It's a benefit to pain that they can have this window control, but they'll be a little
bit later on the attack, 2B3.
There's no flanks, it's gonna take a while.
Since I know he's here.
Causing again.
Recovers nicely after letting the first one cross.
Here's the first one on the ground and deals damage.
Yep, Alexi, there to clean up.
And so poor Snow still towards Windows, got a guy stomping in front of him.
He strikes well enough, but how is the bomb ever going to get back?
It can't.
They need the kills.
Without these frags, it's going to be nobby to tie this game at 10.
Little dangerous.
I think Snow's going to get hunted down.
Oh, and dies after time.
This is a calamity.
Man.
Oh, no.
Yeah, they that was just a good move from Navi to have the two players in the b-site not worry about window whatsoever
It weakened Payne's attack while they still had a good read on the situation
It's really interesting because if they snuck into window and there was not that imma one for one and imma
I'm seeing a second player in there that window guy could have been a b-flank could have been something to actually make the attack a lot stronger
But instead he was really there Achilles. He really made it hard to trade and because he's putting up his end of the bargain now
Two times you've seen him recover from half to half in this series. Yeah
Starting to feel like two times Navi have managed to close
One plant for pain eight rounds straight for Navi. Oh
Looking for the lockout on a CT side
The CT side they average 57% win rate on has been impenetrable so far today
You know we need an auto sniper. Maybe not
It's not a game no room in the loadout for that
Flash over top, Matt. New fresh position. Catches off BSM for the first kill. Biguzera, good trade.
There's still more to be done though, out middle. And Biguzera has been rocked down to half HP.
Ah man. That Nade's coming out as well. Still be scary for a bit, maybe.
Okay.
Jungle smoke at the halfway point, there's going to be a palace smoke thrown from that
jungle player and Alexi happy to just emerge through this smoke so.
Fury is not out, he actually falls back totally.
No kills, just walking into the scope of safe.
Oh boy, I think this is where Navi just, you know, they can really follow you around.
Okay, turning back towards A, feels like this has to be the play.
Given the time.
It's pained with no grenades though.
Yeah, that's to cross that open A site with no utility actually not even a flash. I mean nothing
It's like you should be saving but how could you you're this close with this game players?
Yeah, yeah, this is insane
You would not normally never try this clock expired in the last two rounds as well for pain
So they just dry sprint out through ramp it works. No way. It's the p250 of all
To at least open the door, but it's also snow with the bomb
And as he extends into the stairs, they're gonna catch both CTs
Big Uzeras down to a quarter health and that's all that's left.
I mean, this is falling apart at the seams for pain.
The P250 gets the entry, but they sent the guy with the bomb out to get crazy like that.
And then so no plant attempt and Na'Vi now after all of this have genuinely earned the lead.
They were going to let them cross behind default as well with that bomb.
They didn't even have that deep line.
At least they could have had safe come out to try to refrag with the bomb in a retrievable spot.
Always gonna be a tough job when they had no nades, you never expect the P250 to get
the entry as it did.
Back onto the pistols for Payne, Navi about to earn a 12th versus barely equipped Payne
players.
It's a fresh spot for Bitness round.
Low utility, so they just try to jump clear through him and Snow gets the trade into the
upgrade.
Mid goes well for Navi.
No challenge to ticket, as that bomb is going to get into position.
It's already a shooting gallery for Mikaze.
Second bomb plant for Payne throughout this T side, but it has been nothing but flawless
since Navi have swapped to the CT side.
That's incredible. They're finally smiling. They've been chewed up entirely.
Yeah, this has now officially been the best CT side of Mirage for Navi this season.
impossible for them to have secured nine rounds this half just to get to the but
here we are and played safe his last two timeouts for the CT side comeback just
knew it was gonna happen used two out of those three in the last couple of
rounds
it gives pain time to talk but it feels like they're just not getting the same
efficacy out of their tack pauses I mean there's some of the flat yeah there's
gonna be questions and difficult talks for Navi regardless when they get back
to the practice room after that first half was such a struggle but obviously
no complaints from them if they can just close this out here in there
2-0 shut it down
go D3 figured out what wrong but this round opens with a safe headshot on
E-MAT in mid-window. Alexi's gonna get moving.
He might walk into this. I mean, with that kill going down, wow, what a fine man.
Can't manage it. Now the other past players are forced to come back and as they peel away,
and I mean, if you're expecting Alexi up in here, would you anticipate wonderful on the offline?
Even a 5v4 might not be enough.
And wonderful I had a line of see that, right?
I thought so, but it also got smoked. Okay, let it go.
Pain to collect themselves outside of A site instead. This is gonna put Macaulay back into question.
They haven't won a round in years, but this feels like the best setup so far.
Macaulay looking for the kill and the ramp exit starts dueling.
It's a little awkward.
It's still my god.
Big Uzerah never stamps up a Latin bit.
Still here for the his double.
Now this is insane.
Drops the bomb, takes advantage over for Nagi.
It was a 5v4 for Payne.
It felt like they would finally win a single terrorist round
in this map.
And they still could.
As Big Uzerah tries to give cover for that bounty crossover,
they do claw their way back through this.
Bomb planted connector side.
Big reposition here for Wonderful.
And he stomps it all the while.
But Deft Dine in hand, and he knows both positions.
AWP peeked to the player stuck on stairs.
He's going to flush him into the open.
Oh!
And the SM will just take it.
From a man advantage to a man disadvantage
to Payne's first T-win.
They make it out.
I couldn't have ever seen that happen.
Big Azura on Tetris.
He doesn't.
I'm going to never pop up.
I respect it because Mikaaza is waiting the entire time
for his head to pop up a single time.
Never in my life into the like crap walk free fire to re-enter the duel. Yeah
Well then better late than never but it could still wind up being a regulation victory for Navi
At least they avoided the headline
I'm very careful on the jump spots.
Oh my, slips up.
Got away with it.
Waited long enough.
Yep, well played.
Wonderful with the deep angle.
Haven't seen this op down ramp, so something fresh to catch pain off guard.
Didn't see the foot, I don't think.
We'll have to flick a little bit.
Nicely done for wonderful, man advantage earned.
Period, dropping nades on the fallback.
The clock isn't been working in pain's favor.
45 seconds with a bit of mid control to play with.
Yep, if they're not blowing up the smoke on connector, there is a bit more pressure on Makaazi and Alexi.
They have apartments remain smoke, but not for much longer to test connector that's gonna help
It gives an early warning sign over to this cat extension more damage
They find big was there a down to a quarter health
Mikaze stays tucked in let's Alexi by the looks of things play contact
Player in the backdrop spotted Mikaze still going unnoticed able to strike one down and they're just gonna fizzle out pain
Absolutely
on the CT side and instead they face the most successful CT side on Mirage that
Navi have posted this season. It's a hell of a comeback, a clawback that you would
have never seen coming. 13-11 victory for Navi as Payne fall out of blast very
early. Incredible performance from Navi in the second half coming back from what
was a almost disastrous first half, 10-2 down to begin this one, bring it back, CT side almost
flawless. They baited us with that one. We thought it was going to be flawless and then they gave
up one just to give them false hope. They had to do it to them. They really did. I was surprised
that Navi couldn't accomplish a lot on their own T-side. However, the fact that they were so
able and capable to read what Payne was doing, rotations were good, people like Wonderful
were able to stand up the last round itself. I mean I feel like they never really did it.
They were never really surprised by what Payne was doing and even when Payne actually got into some
nice advanced positions that they never really capitalized on say getting window or even getting
up con sometimes. Yeah and when it comes down to having the right idea, having the right plan
coming into it, part of that at least is going to be coming from the coach blade. How's it going?
It's good, good feeling when you're winning and especially the tough match when it's
Intrigued till the end, you don't know who we're going to win and yeah, it's a very good thing.
So this is the first time you guys have actually won your map pick in I think five or four series
in a row that you'd lost. This is the fifth that would have been the fifth. What do you think's
been going on with, I'd say mostly your Mirage and Ancient there? Well, I was saying this a lot
that when you pick them up, opponent a lot of times anticipate it. So we usually try to pick our
strong map, not the weakest map of opponent. And when you pick the strongest map, we feel
comfortable when we play scrims, like our biggest win rate. And they know it, and they also prep it.
So sometimes now, we're not in the position where we can pick weak maps of opponent, and we're just
trying to build confidence on the map that we like to play. It's good that we, for example,
on T side, we were trying to play not methodical and more risky. And these situations, we can
can analyze them, how it can be different next time, like little details to change.
So we can also play this style because you need to play a surprise more on T side.
Does it ever come into factor, you know, you're looking at Mirage, it's so CT
sided now that you're going to be starting on the T side, or does that not, you
don't buy into that?
Yeah, but like I said, it was, it was one, two close rounds, one leg when we were
coming in snow one in default, if you check him, clearing the clutch heat versus
the guy who's OP, you speak, you can kill him.
Yeah.
Yeah, so like this kind of rounds on a material first very crucial and we lost some of them to M80 also and then
Everything changed. They have confidence. We lose economy and for us. I think this is more important now
Like we have good ideas. We know how to play T side city side. It's more about like being
On the highest point in these crucial moments and to step up and like communicate good and win this kind of moments
I think if you play more official matches, we will get to this vibe to this groove like of the tournament
What would you say regarding Makaze's form so far this season because it was really darn good for the first five months of this year.
He had a had a drop of Cologne.
EWC wasn't too hot either.
Even at this tournament, he did come back in that last half there.
But yeah, it's been a little bit rougher.
So what can you say to that?
He had MVP in one tournament, which is good.
Yeah.
He's still young player and he's like improving day by day.
I think he has good potential.
I think he just needs to basically shape up his best prime mode.
And he must understand how to get into this mode.
Because now he's more like feeling fun out of time and vibing.
And sometimes when you're not feeling this, you need to rely on something else.
Not only on your game sense, for example.
And I think he's now a little bit unstable, but we know that he can be good.
like we work on this and we will try to improve as much as possible basically
because today he was good for example I liked how he played.
When we've had an interview with the Lexi B said we need to work better as a team
Makaze said he was working a lot on his individual form
I feel when he enters the game his aim still is on point
but his decision making in the mid-round is kind of questionable at times
how are you working on that?
On the team overall or Makaze?
Well, this is an experience, the amount of situations can happen in the game, especially if you play 7 maps, it's huge.
And we always try not to forget the maps, we practiced like 7-8 days ago, to refresh them constantly.
And now this competition is so huge, people know all the matters, they copy it so fast.
And you need to be always like your brain must work constantly, very good.
very good. So I mean I think that for him like it's important to play more
officials and constantly fixing himself but and now we're trying to do this and
also count that he's not so experienced players. The thing that you're saying
it's defines by experience a lot. If you have good knowledge and good experience
like it comes automatic sometimes. Look how sometimes I'm saying Rob's playing
Xio like in these situations. It was always a base you know like you have
knowledge, you can do better decision-making and faster.
One of the things I feel I noticed between this version of Navi in this
season and Navi shortly before you removed JL, it feels like when you guys
go down a man, when the rounds get chaotic, players are overpeaking, they're
over-aggressing. What's the, is there a through line there?
Yeah, you know there was a year and we were playing this style a lot and it
worked a lot, people were not ready for this, like I think they even copied us a
on this aspect. Like when you play good dictate mode and you always try to keep the pace and
being always on the face of opponent constantly like you cannot be comfortable yet we're always
here like picking and we were relying on this style we were basically even like doing like
green light it was our protocols like to play like this you know and it worked a lot like especially
should you decide? Because when you find entries, there's always a gap somewhere.
You just need to constantly analyze which one, right? And what was the puzzle
when I killed the guy? What was around? Like, where's the gap now?
Like, it's thinking fast. But now, like, everything's changing.
People are controlling more. We're also trying to adapt to this.
So, like, I'm not being too, not to hurry up much.
So, obviously, things didn't go as well as you would have wanted at the major
and in Paris, and I know you're a forward-thinking guy,
you always think about, okay, what should we do next,
or anything like that, but there also has to be some aspect
of regret, so probably the knee-jerk reaction
or to be human is just thinking, I wish I did this.
What do you wish you did differently at Cologne or at EWC?
In Cologne, for sure, we should close Falcons game,
for sure, and there was a moment that the one we discussed
already as a team, and we didn't do it, right?
And basically, when you have space, you need to abuse the space.
You don't exploit it.
You should not be afraid of it.
And yeah, basically, this was the thing
that we a little bit shackled, like we were stiffed a little bit.
And it's always a problem of a lot of teams, maybe even now,
for pain, when they're close to the wind,
they start to play different.
And it's always the thing like, I
wish we could speak 10 minutes more in practice
to emphasize something more.
It's always like, I don't think it's
It's like something you can control.
I think it's more like a more natural thing that happens on stressful and crucial games,
that you can build this skill as a team and as a player, the more you play, the more you
win.
Like today's confidence, if you see what a player says on tier one level, the more wins
you have, the more confidence you have.
And confidence is crucial nowadays.
Because like I said, we all equal.
Anyone can win anyone.
Like you see like underdogs winning like favorites constantly because this is important for you to
In your decision-making to generate like idea that are strong and efficient and in a good timing also
So this is like I said if you answer to your question like this is something that always will be there
Like always regress will be there obviously
I wanted to ask about your uh, your previous matchup played against m80
You've had time to maybe to go back and and look at that vaude. What what went wrong there in m80. Yeah
We just didn't play how we can play like now, for example.
They played good, they played very aggressive and confident,
but we, as a team, we know how we can play, because we're together for a long time already,
and we know our potential.
And we can compare this with our bootcamp, how we played on the scrims,
and how we played first officials in this season.
And there were some moments, for example, we lost on Mirage, anti-Eco,
eco then when the guy just with his pee swing and kill me it never happens like
this it's it's it's so crazy that it happens to us and we are sometimes
losing ground that we should not lose at all so but I think the confidence must
come like because we need to play more and the confidence most likely because
we have a lot of material build now we just need to not be only the theoretical
team you know we just relying on theory we just also need to feel each other
like playing these micro moments when you're trading each other or when you
need to create something very fast when there is something
happening on the map, something crucial. I need you to think fast and today I saw
this glimpse of this. People are speaking more precise and more
basically they want so much to create something that will help us as a team.
This is important. My last question is your assessment of the team and its
potential for this season because last season you mentioned how you felt like
the team could win titles you did you did you won two titles in fact which
exceeded most people's expectation what about this season I think we're capable
because now there's a cash I think if you remember like last season it was three
events not so good for us like coach bounty and Krakow and then we played
online EPL and then it started like we needed some something like to build out
out of, you know, like we have now and then I saw so many moments that we can fix like
to improve like on every round on every game. And if we doing this more and more and more,
this is when we jump in like in this train for trophies. Okay.
Yeah, great to have you here. Thanks for coming. I think that's the end of our questions for
you. I mean, that's a great interview from Blade as always, right? You know, he's always
got a lot of information to give us. He's got really long winded, but informational
answers to everything we have to say. And I think he gives him some great reasoning.
He did give a pretty solid baseline for the idea. You know, last season something similar
happened, right? They had a few bad events and then they pop off. They managed to get
things together, maybe trying to get the timing right to head into the major at their highest
level.
Well, I feel a little jealous you guys got all the information out of blade and I was
sitting there twiddling my thumbs and sitting there long getting to enjoy it.
Not enough room for you on that.
I mean look the the big brain IQ I feel like I would not have added much to it
anyway so I pull again. But it was insane to get to see and obviously here is
well talking about like that momentum the thing that it's like we know that we
can do it but finally we're able to actually show and sink glimpses it's
nice to hear that from from a coach right because at the end of the day they
have the overarching viewpoint of everything that's happening in all the
cogs turning in the machine that is now I think I think it's nice to see in this
matchup. I think we are seeing some of the signs, but we need to see more from
Navi. We need to see them make a deep run before I'm ready to say that we're
finally seeing it come together. Same. I just feel like until you're actually
beating some of the top five teams, because that's where I envision Navi.
Yes, they were able to dispatch of pain. They were always supposed to. They were
the favorites. But now it feels like their floor has gotten very low, given
the fact that even though Legacy is a team that we're praising now, it's
It's at the expense of Navi losing to them, that we can praise them, that's not supposed
to even be happening.
Navi should bare minimum be the gatekeepers of the elite teams, where the question always
was, was just lingering and it's, can they beat Spirit or Vitality or Falcons or teams
that just clearly have better firepower than them?
I think what's going to remain concerning is, attend to on the first half of your map
pick.
You know, it just takes one off-round to lose that map against anyone.
They manage to pull it over the line, but you play a Spirit.
going to steal you one of those rounds if you get 10 to you're going to lose that map. I mean the
the silver lining is that you can just focus on the fact that the second half was almost flawless
for them. We came in here talking about their CT CT sides being quite weak and they only dropped
one round there and then they're able to convert it into being a 2-0 win in this best of three.
And that's where I was before I was talking to Big Azir because unfortunately this is the end of
the road for pain gaming here. Big Azir I know this wasn't the result you guys were hoping for
But what went wrong in that second half of Miragea?
To be honest, no idea.
But I think they were fighting a lot mid.
And at the same time, when we were trying to play like two
mid and three like A or B, we got punished.
So it was difficult as a jail to, I don't know.
I felt every call was bad because I don't know.
I don't know if we like a kind of executing paddy, like a badly
So I have no idea. I have to watch to be honest
That's understandable put in a lot of tough positions there and of course it's not the result you guys were looking for here at Blast open
But looking towards future tournaments and your season. What are you taking away from this tournament?
A lot of mistakes
Just kidding, but yeah, I think
Every tournament that we play is some experience so
When we play against good things as Navi
is of course
Pretty cool to play
Even if you lose, but yeah, it is what it is. So we play we didn't play a good counter strike. So
We're kind of paid off. So let's see next chapter
And are you guys gonna spend a little bit more time in Europe after this or are you gonna look to heading back home?
We'll have one more week. We'll have some qualifier for China, I guess and then we go back to Brazil and
We never know what's going next
And lastly any words there for the fans watching along for you guys?
To be honest just I'm sorry. I think the contract that we showed
So it's like not good to watch and it's something that of course we have to improve, we have
to be better in the next but at the same time I can guarantee that I'm working a lot to
do it.
So yeah, just sorry.
Because they're taking a lot of that burden onto his shoulders there, he said at the second
half of Mirage there there was just no good calls.
He's going to be very honest with that and look at it later, have more perspective about
it, but to take that onus so closely following the laws, big props.
I think that's an IGL that just got absolutely obliterated on the T side of the map.
They had a chance on and is a little depressed about it.
I mean, we saw this back in Paris with the Kindor having an interview after a really
tough one.
They're asking him about IGL and he goes, I think I'm done with this.
You know, it's like, I don't know what to do.
the feeling you have when you just try everything everything you can and nothing absolutely nothing
works until the second last round you can finally get something based off just individual players
getting kills. It was even him just getting one of the entry kills onto the A bomb site there.
He put him and his team into at least one winning position on T side. It's just that the players
didn't really activate in the way that they were supposed to. So I don't put the burden or blame
at least on Biguzera as much as he might do himself but that's just a sign of a great captain.
I feel like this team is just also still reckoning with the fact that they're safe is not NQZ, completely different players.
It is admittedly a downgrade there, safe by the end of the term, it probably was one of the weakest players at the events.
And even though I saw glimpses of him this season having maybe a map here where he can do some damage, it's not frequent enough.
And so they have to rethink how they're able to...
Yeah, they had a good CT side in that final one,
but I feel like safe is just not a relevant player for 80% of rounds,
which is not enough for an opera.
The unfortunate thing when it comes to safe is it always feels like you see glimpses,
you see signs, you think that he has a future where maybe he could build on that,
but it never seems to come to fruition.
It's been years now where he's just been kind of a middling opera.
He's really struggled.
And I think this is another one where you could have seen more from safe.
And if you did, maybe you see a third map coming out.
I feel like if they really want to look towards the future you already have two young guns on the team in the dress trying to
Keep this whole pain ship afloat and get the VRS invites
So they probably bring it in a more stable player and safe
But if they just went and dove into whatever's going on in tier two Brazil I
Would bet money that you could find someone better just easily actually cat disagree
Yeah, well that's a conversation the pain gaming are gonna have for themselves because right now
We're going to look at our bracket and see how things are shaping up because pain gave me here a blast open portal
Well, that journey ends it is a long side
Dandelion as well who did get eliminated earlier today
But we're seeing Aurora advance down there and then of course we've got G2 and and Navi
Having a matchup there because G2 lost earlier against spirit
And so it does beg the question which team is going to continue on to face spirit and which team is going to be falling down into that
TV D slot around the world because we're looking at m80 inferior well we
would have said yesterday that Navi would have taken rather mm mm and you
would have lost to Navi instead they find the win and they could try an upset
again but yet again I'm gonna say it'll be feria that lower bracket though is
pretty stacked right now G2 and Navi are down there I think Navi's gonna want
some revenge for what happened back at the clone major so I'm sure that's on
their mind. Alright well I'm gonna let you guys collect your minds collect your thoughts because
we have our fourth and final Vesta 3 coming up after this break we're gonna see Thuria taking on M80.
DONG
comes in just gonna get a couple of extra padding up those stats for the 23 and counting
before the 9D connects!
Oh!
It connects!
What?
How's he not that masterful from the 9D?
He's like, okay, okay, let's just staying at the bench because they don't have a teammate just yet. And this is oh my God, like, Zywoo is an animal with a shot like this. It's another KW play on his screen. Oh my God.
Oh my god, I didn't see anything.
Tyloo, the pain of their existence regionally jammed young Taps into three and passed out!
Clear, baby!
Unbelievable!
Five on the trot!
Slain, step by step.
With the AWP recovered, you need to get the strongest weapons out next to it.
They can't come to Stab me, the line's dead!
Oh!
What?
How has he done that?
Hunter, that is something special over the AK.
Hooks he's got too, but Hunter's not stopping.
That's the kind of spray where you're looking around.
You're like, none of you saw that, but you all need to see the replay.
He's got cheekies, man.
He knows. He knows what he's done.
We'll blow an exec over top.
K. Serato trying to keep himself slim by the pillar.
Oh!
K. Dude, he's had some...
Oh! Ah!
No way!
Doing!
What are those shots right here right now on Mirage 8?
That's the shot heard around the world, baby.
One bullet and a dream.
Good night, Mattis.
Instantaneously, this is what we were asking for before as well.
Kani just keep it rolling forwards.
Now, Starrie's close by the cross.
He gets back in. It's a great one!
Oh my god, Starrie!
A quad kill spray on A-Long.
You know, Donk, right there on the doorway, will jump onto this if he has to.
Over top, come the nades.
Pushing through, it's good.
That was weird, but-
Oh!
Ow!
It looks like Rob's gonna be tested in this pistol ramp, but he's got dual burratas 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.
What a rock, man, it's all raps all day.
That's an ace in the pistol to open up this series.
Off with your head.
It's fine, I heard you, it's fine.
Perfectly timed by Snax, and he's gonna try to push his luck, but
Rops has got that cover.
We hit 20 seconds.
CT's in position early not.
It keeps on coming, and it's gonna fall on the Hypex now.
It's time to run at this.
10 to the clock, two players in front of the bathroom.
Hypex shapes off one of the three.
Seven seconds!
And go on high-packs now!
Fights behind the dice!
The no-score!
Whoa!
Shot up!
And back-to-back instances of double-op kills out of high-packs.
That is a massive shot from high-packs.
We're feeling really confident after Navi.
We've had, Paris wasn't the greatest showing,
but I think we talked a lot.
We had a big talk about just how we run things,
the team and atmosphere after Paris.
I'd say we're feeling pretty good about it.
What would you say is the difference between
versing a Navi and versing a Feria?
Probably the two different types of styles.
Navi's, you know, this really structured team.
Feria, not so much.
And I'd say Feria's probably in a better spot right now.
Team wise.
I mean, the last time I played them,
it was definitely hard.
But I think I've also grown, so yeah, we'll see.
I think we're coming off a win, so we have the confidence now and the flow state, hopefully.
So I think just being confident and playing aggressive and playing our game and our preparation
should be key as well.
I'll say hopefully we win, but we are already playing against them and it's always hard
to play against a good team in this tournament because people know how to play against Rai
and we can lose always.
Well, I think I made a show that they're capable of beating the big
teams and even though Navi is maybe struggling a little bit, but
they are a big team and
you learn throughout the especially latest seasons where the difference
between tier one and tier two is so small that
to take every game
has something that could be like the last game, you know, and we are
coming in carefully, we were a little bit surprised in the map veto, but other than that, we're ready to play.
You can do it alluding to the map veto so early. A little bit surprised you guys are going to have to stick around for a whole pre-show here, a pre-match conversation before you get to see what exactly they picked for themselves, but also noting caution and what it takes to come up against a team like M80 that despite Bruce saying it time and time again is the underdog
and won't win, they still prove your own, buddy.
That makes it so much more sweet when they do win.
Because I'm back there, I'm hyping them up.
I want MAD to win.
I have to set the expectation so that when they prove me wrong,
it feels so sweet.
Then the fans get to root against you and MAD's opponent.
Double Ramy, you know?
They put a face to their anger.
They're supposed to support the North Americans on the desk.
They're supporting the North American teams.
but someone's gotta, someone's gotta be real.
It just really, the reality is it just doesn't take long
as an NA analyst to just get the NA hope
beaten completely out of it.
Oh, come on.
At some point you kinda start hating.
How do you Australian?
You kinda start hating your own region.
I really guess it's just like they keep giving me hope
and then they keep failing.
I just don't even give me hope.
It's really nice to meet you.
Are you a fly quest?
Yeah, a fly quest, oh yeah.
It's tough being Australian.
I'm just saying I totally get exactly
you guys are talking about here, but MAD really showed massive signs of life against
Navi and they're talking about it time and time again. The little steps that they take to be
that top contender again and the challenges that they're over facing right. They talked about
a couple days ago. They flew back to America between EWC and now and they weren't actually
screaming anyone. It was a lot of prep. It was a lot of demo review for them. And whilst that
worked against Navi, you go to beg the question will it still work against Furia despite the
the differences. Hey, they did say they scrimmed need a roof without a roof, without a roof.
That's what I'm saying, Ding. That was an example of good practice, which makes me question
what an example of bad North American practice is and how it can actually prepare you for
teams like Navi and Furia. The problem is that looking at a team such as Navi and trying
to anti-strat them is actually a little more systematic. You can break them down, you can
see the timings that they work with, what certain utility means, but Furia is a team
that can just be a little trickier to work around because even though Furia themselves
like Navi have a very important support staff and coach, Fallen or Yekendar at the drop
of a hat could just simply say, actually, I think we should pivot into this and Fallen
has much more, I would say, and varied experience when it comes to recognizing that the initial
game plan needs to be altered.
And when the initial game plan is going well, it's you cannot deal with fallen as a caller.
He will call a winning half better than anyone in the scene right now.
Yeah, that's why I know I'm going to get to a little bit for Furia, but that change
up in shock call is where it feels like people are sliding in.
But staying on the topic here, looking more towards M80 because they are massive underdogs,
right?
They are going to be going up against another test, another hurdle for themselves.
You've got to wonder, are they going to show up consistently, right?
I don't even necessarily looking at are you going to be able to Andy's track?
Are you still going to show up as individuals the way that you did two days ago?
Yeah, when we're looking at MAD we hope for them to make baby steps, but beating Navi,
that's a huge leap, that's a giant leap for North American kind.
Beating Furia would also be a giant leap for North American kind and it's going to be a
very tough battle for them to do so because as you mentioned, I think you're right.
Navi, they go for a systematic approach, you can kind of get planned for that.
They're usually on the cutting edge.
They have a lot of new plays time and time again.
When they have time, they bring out new strats, new plays,
and they're always a little bit harder to read
than I think a Navi is.
When you watch Navi get loose,
just means one guy swings a little earlier
than the other guy.
That a smoke timing or a flash is slightly altered,
but Furia, they just throw the playbook out the window.
And I feel like, but in terms of taking a step up,
one guy that I really am glad it showed quite his teeth
in the last series was JBA.
The clutch that he had against Navi is really everything I've been waiting for
because JBA has been one of the few names that's been circling in the American region
as being next up and sometimes that's just varied effect when we say that.
That some guys blossom and become an actual threat on the international stage
and oftentimes they fizzle out before they even really become a tier 1.5 player.
But this kind of moment reminded me of what I was seeing with JBA two years ago,
even last year, a bit here and there with Wildcard and why they decided to pick him up.
Because as much as I liked Hex on this roster, JBA is just a more individually strong player,
and he showed that with that 1v3 versus Navi and even some of his CT side antics too.
Sometimes when you see North Americans call out the next up, you're seeing a Grim,
you're seeing an OC, you're seeing, I think, Hex was there at some point. Sometimes it feels like
grasping at straws and I'm gonna admit for quite a while, JBA felt like you were grasping
at straws but I think I've seen some, I've seen some, some ray of hope for him and when
you hear people talk about him, especially on the team, mechanically he's insane. That's
so often what North America's missing. You can have a player come in and play pretty
reasonably smart CS and it's oh my god, he's innovating. He's the smartest player we've
ever seen in North America. It's nice to see someone with good mechanics come along and
maybe he can continue to make steps forward.
Yeah, that's the pinch of salt of boo
that I was expecting to the sweetness of Maui's hope
about what is up and coming right now for him.
He showed up a couple of days ago,
but he also showed up in a pre-match interviewer.
I got to speak to him about what could be on the cards today.
Javier, you are the highest rated player against Navi
in your best of three.
How are you hitting that?
And how are you hoping to have consistency
and show it again today against Feria?
I think I've just been trying a lot of new things.
I've always started with consistency in my career so far.
And it's probably the most annoying thing
to try to get right.
I know I can be the consistent player,
and I know how good I can be.
It's just trying to improve things outside of the game,
which what I've been trying is just different routines,
positive self-talk, to get myself more confident and just having fun in the server.
When you say different routines, do you mean like waking up early, trying to go to the
gym before playing, after late at night, like what sort of change ups?
Probably consistent sleep schedule is the most important for me.
Waking up early, getting gym done, like prep, deathmatch in the morning, whatever it is,
just getting my mornings, just getting a lot done in the morning to feel more productive
and good throughout the day.
So then how do you feel about playing the last series in a long day with four best of
threes?
Um, I can get tiring, but I think the main thing is just, I like my energy drinks, so
I mean, I take like two energy drinks throughout the day if it's a light match, kept to stay
you're awake and then you're good.
And you also talked about your career.
There is a lot left in your career.
There's so much more potential for you.
What is the sort of legacy or what sort of career
do you wanna have if we look in three or five years time?
I think my legacy, I wanted to stay in N.A.
and be on a good N.A.T., like top five N.A.T.
I'm gonna bring N.A. back to the top
my career. I don't want to switch to you do that. I just want to build an A backup again.
What a bold claim and I love that from someone as young as JVA is everyone wants to be able to
region hop. I mean there's a lot of success in players that find a home for themselves permanently
in Europe but here's a different approach. He wants to stay on NA and he wants to be able
to bring an NA team back into the top five and I really have to commend that because I think that
that takes more guts than just to say I personally want to go out there and lift a bunch of trophies.
in his defense case Serato several years back when South America was at its lowest said something very similar and everyone said
It's over man. Go international find a different team and look where they're at now. Yeah
No, it's a I never thought you'd say something so positive. I was waiting
Arise there. I mean it's something that I could definitely respect
I like that he even though he's looked at the careers of some of the other all-time great
American, North American players such as Twist, who now lives in Europe and say
even a leash with his stint with FaZe where he lived in Poland, still wants to
try to just make it work from an American team and that's something that I feel
like actually for the greater, I would say for the health of the North
American Counter Strike scene, it's important to see players who can make it
happen while staying within their own region. Reminder though, that's a very
It's been rare in history that you get that kind of opportunity or a team to even have the amount of experience.
And with all of the having to fly home, fly to Europe, it's harder now than ever.
Whereas before, there were events like ESL Pro League, which would keep people in North America and top teams in America for such extended periods of time.
We don't no longer have that. So now you do have to be on point with theory, making sure you're anti-strattling your opponent's will, staying disciplined, while staying on top of your mechanics.
your mechanics and the routine that he alluded to as well making sure the sleep
quality is there trying to be a little bit productive in your day just outside
of it but he's talking about bringing an NA team back into the top five and
honestly right now the rankings in which M80 have been able to gain for
themselves already just off the win of Navi it's putting them in the right
direction. It's the right direction but there's still a little or okay a little
is understanding it. There's a long ways to go before they're back in the top
I can't count what number is that I can't count 108 points added after beating Navi
I think they're not 39th or 38th right now in the world on VRS so 39 he said top five
Did he mean top 35?
They'll get there they'll get there. Okay, just give him time. Okay. He's a it's only been a handful of months on M80
So needs more give him a year. Okay, give him a year. Okay, something I've never said about any player been so charitable
I'm all about that a year. I did. I did ask some question three to five years. Okay. Maybe you're not
Not to give him that but there is a lot of longevity still and what he's able to do. And
again, we'll check back in. You could put this in a time capsule. You can see how well it ages
and through to five years there. But I made he already up to a great start for themselves. However,
the question is, do they stand the test of fury? Not the test of time here because looking at our
offers, something that's been pivotal in so many of our series here about who's being able to do
impact. You got to compare Molotoy and Slax here. Like are they really on the
similar sort of level? I think Slax is great for an MAD team. He's been one of
the most impressive player, probably the most impressive player for this team at
many different points. And I'd say he's one of the more consistent players. But
when you compare him to a Molotoy, when you look at the stats, it says, Hey,
they're pretty close together. When you look at the eye test, I see MAD playing
Voka and without a roof. And I see Molotoy playing the best teams in the
world. And while I like Slacks, he's a great player. He's not on the level of
Molotoy. Slacks keeps the floor for MAD high enough that MAD can remain the
best America's team or North American team. That is Molotoy keeps the floor
fury high enough that the only time I'm ever questioning him is the semifinals
of an arena where he's playing in the major against one of the best teams in
the world. Very different levels of scale there for both of these guys. Yeah,
and I think that's obviously where there's a huge edge. There's going to be
other aspects to where fury are better, but in just that individual head to head.
There's really no question on top of that.
Muller has been one of the best in the op versus op duelist for maybe the last 12 months.
He feasts upon oppers like slacks who don't take angles that are as strong or even if
they're both tasked with trying to push into a new position.
Something you used to see in especially online counter strike, but in the early days of CSGO,
you'd have oppers that went head to head with the other opera and said, let me find this guy.
I'm just going to peek into him and kill him.
You don't usually see that.
Mollidoy is someone that will occasionally do that.
Hey, all props to him.
The fact that you're able to not only want to do it,
you're enabled by your team as well, right?
Because that's the other caveat to this.
Mollidoy delivers, but his team trusts him with it.
And a big question mark around this new season
of Furia is not only with phones or time
at moving over their heads,
how are they going to change up the shock colors?
And we've talked about it many times.
You're kind of coming in,
having a couple of maps for himself
in which he's the primary shock color.
That's what we go.
Is this transition happening that you're one foot in,
one foot out?
Foot out?
Or is it a transition that is actually
going to work out for you?
I'm concerned this is going to be
like that meme of the clock where it's like secondary IGL
does well, so becomes main IGL, so does terribly,
so stops IGLing, so becomes secondary IGL.
In a circle, round and round we go,
it's happened so many times throughout history.
Mekindor is a great secondary caller.
When he's on his game, when he has a good read of the game,
he's incredible.
I worry when things go a little wrong,
when they're struggling in a game,
especially if he's struggling individually,
I think his calling falls off pretty heavily.
Does happen, but I feel like it's
one of the most pragmatic approaches for Furia,
who they're not going to change any players
before Fallen retires, before the end of the year.
And if you're looking for that extra 5%, 10%,
it's probably not going to come from any individual,
because they're all fairly known quantities.
Maybe Moldedoy has the greatest upside right now.
but with Yackindar sharing some of those responsibilities,
it could at least give them a new angle
to take down some of the other elite teams.
Well, for those of you guys who have been with us
for the whole pre-match leading into this series,
you would have remembered that just a moment ago
in the head-to-head interviews
where you kind of was talking about the Vito's,
he said he was caught a little bit by surprise,
so it's finally time to see what exactly it meant
by being caught by surprise.
to be able to do that. A lot of
words to essentially mean what
exactly have made you picked here
to catch. You can device
surprised that he goes. Hold on.
We're going to get to play that
map today. Now best of three. If
being caught by surprise means
anything to Navi. It's Oh my God.
All right. I mean when he said that it surprised him surprised me for fury on the other hand
I feel like we've seen
Okay, I didn't I didn't really think that they're gonna go with us to either
So maybe it's a prize. Yeah, Kandar what they even picked in this series
Yeah, he actually looked at his own teams pick and he said wait what yeah
Well, they don't necessarily picked us to it is a map that may have a poor win rate on so I guess it
I they're just going for the punish angle there. I'm not I'm not against the dust to pick
I think just is not the greatest map for m80 the cash pick is confusing to say the least
But you know when you actually get into it m80 have played it a couple of times sin played it in the nation's cup for germany and they did win
Oh the one that got pushed for a whole year that one
He's got he's got four maps of experience on this map. That's excellent. Excellent. That's gonna play a huge factor
and you're going, yeah, cash boys, let's run it, M80.
My concern is that Fury is actually good on this map.
Fury is good on cash.
They're good on cash.
Yakendar fried Payne when he played him
in that match earlier at this event,
so good luck, M80.
Good luck, have fun.
Seems to be the final words of my analyst desk here,
but we're going to get many more words
from our castes at Scrony and Laundice.
Maybe more words than you like, Nat,
but yeah, we'll be talking.
Fun, I think, is definitely this entire series, Moe.
We go from Casha Dust to guaranteed at least.
This is going to be an interesting and exciting head-to-head,
and we're doing it for a spot in the playoffs.
Now, the polymarket predictors have,
Fury is the favorite, totally understandable.
I think, great form.
We just talked about how they won their first best of three
in a 2-0 in months,
and now here they are going up against an M80
that showed us upset potential over Navi,
showed us an ability to rebound,
considering they lost that first map versus Navi
as convincingly as they did.
But yeah, they pick Cache, and Vu tried to sell us on the potential sin calls for this map.
It's also two regional wins for M80. We've seen this team on this map twice, win both times, but that's back in the North America.
So, bit of an uphill battle versus guys like Furia in contrast.
Yeah, and it's worthwhile, I guess, for M.A. to just explore something where they're feeling good.
No one's going to criticize them if it doesn't work out in a matchup like this where they're going up against Furia.
And also, we all want to watch Cash, so everybody wins.
But yeah, Furia will be happy. They get to play it. They get to start CT side. They just get to, like...
What a nice way to start your day
You can just like damn I got a call
Yeah, except that he will he was he was calling around himself though and I was working so well
Cuz frag it like crazy
Yeah, okay, no contact out of Maldor so a five versus five
1,000 HP total in a post plan. Highly retake full site.
Especially with the kit and the utility they've got.
Smoke for main, first flash goes in, no actual follow through just behind that.
Here we go. Oh, it's Mollidoi first blood.
Remember kit on fallen, we'll keep our eyes on that as the clock gets dangerously close.
We're at 15 seconds. He got kills back for M80. K-Serato's making the difference.
But that tap on the bomb from Maladoy, now he's dead. He just now case Serato. No, they've lost it.
Why didn't he say?
Bomb's gonna pop. Sin is here looking for the last frag and no surge to the case Serato 3K.
But everybody dies.
Why didn't he stick it?
I don't know.
Maladoy could have diffused that bomb from the cover of the site. Maybe they didn't know last guy was fork, but they should have.
Oh, he knew. He peaked it.
Yeah.
But he had the kit, right?
Yeah, Maladoy picked it up off of Fallen's dead body.
Oh, it's a little bit of a line. I thought it was like right at the...
Yeah, here they go, a little bit farther to get on it. So, nice round out of M80.
And while that is a highly retakeable site, you know, it is always scary to have to play the retake.
Like, just one or two bad peaks from those blocks, the headshots come in,
and you are introducing a little bit of risk in your setup.
set up. But they really thought it was gonna be B. Jbo would be feeling himself after the
last game.
That should be. Probably the nastiest 1v3 we've had so far at Porto. Last open Porto.
We're gonna do what to Porto?
We're gonna open up the ports.
Let it flow.
You worry nothing in the face of the jumping Swisher back 10, so nice and easy conversion
for M80 as far as they're concerned.
You know what's fun about this cash pick for M80 is they're kind of vamping like they're
ramping up into this victory because they played it twice in the qualifier for this event.
They won it both times again versus North American opposition in Mocha and winners.
Cash has been played more times in the Nubis this season.
There really has been this seismic shift.
I mean Cash will always be a map where you know exactly what you're gonna get.
I feel like people don't feel that way as much about Anubis.
And especially when you're playing CT on Anubis, it doesn't feel like there's any perfect setup sometimes.
And when you have to defend the side, it's not the same as Cache. Cache feels like a more of like a series of honest duels.
You know someone's running over top of mid. You know when there's going to be a full pop A.
You know how to catch lurkers on this map is like, it's a lot more standard.
And I think it's kind of nice for that reason.
We are in an interesting state of the map, where it's like Cache Mirage and Dusty are all incredibly brawly maps.
Even though Mirage is probably the most dynamic of those, but even Ancient is pretty, you know, pug-friendly as well.
It's a name-heavy meta.
It's a weird buy.
Yeah, it is very weird.
Got Exodia on the M4.
It's falling from the Kindar.
That's right, ahead of Exodia. It doesn't make sense the more you think about it.
He's saying all of his teammates are other parts of Exodia.
And he's nothing without them. That makes more sense.
picture for those of you that weren't
playing for the next segment yesterday.
Swisher's given a head to chop off with falling
just walking into main like that.
Thanks for the freebie.
And also thanks for the M4.
I wonder if that kind of confuses them a little bit
because it's like wait, they have an extra M4
to just send through a smoke like that?
Neither of the M4s wind up finding impact this round,
so you'd think Fury has chances in the dumps.
It's gonna be an awkward buy next round because of falling on the $0
Uri back sight burned away P250 only still manages excuse me falling on
damage in I didn't give him the credit he deserved need to respect Exodia I think
it's actually an incredibly cheap win condition what's your steam profile
picture my steam profile picture is a picture of me exodia it is it is me
sitting on the sand dunes that we visited with harry russell and moses
when we went to anubis yep woman to anubis when moses tried to
god we've never probably never told the story so we went out the sand dunes while
we were visiting Abu Dhabi during the world finals and you know moses he's a
really smart guy so here we are at the sand dunes take its cool pictures and
whatnot and they said you guys want to do some sandboarding you can you can ride
these cool snowboard like things down the sand dunes and Jason went well I
think I'm just gonna try to slide down the sand on my belly so Jason Moses
O'Toole that's Moses out of nowhere from the top of the sand dune just decides
to belly flop down the hill except sand is not a liquid and so Jason jumps
Lands
Completely wins himself and rolls into this pile of sand
No one's gonna believe you because you can never picture someone like Jason taking a risk like that
Oh, he once he caught his breath two minutes later. He went yeah, that was kind of stupid
That's the last stupid thing he's ever done in his life
Maybe the only stupid thing he's ever done
God, great times
Back to M80 beating Furia
First gun round.
Easy duel for K-sur-Auto.
Hot that challenge around the ladder.
K-sur-Auto just winds up nailing the triple kill.
You've got Swisher 40 health, JVA trying to help out.
Swisher giving the duel to fall on his K-sur-Auto.
I mean, he could still ace this round.
Sitting on 77 health with a teammate right behind him.
double smoke highway.
Oh, major mistakes.
Molodoy into the kill feed means it's not all K-Sorado,
but those critical kills that slowed the round down,
certainly all his.
Swisher gets past and kills Molodoy,
but doesn't have the bomb.
Oh, but it does have the second kill.
Now all of a sudden, he's on for this.
If not for the 5 HP and his whole lower body
exposed on the ladder.
Nice attempt there, Swisher,
but Yuri cuts him down to size.
Making it expensive isn't too bad
in a situation like that.
Fury put up a great hold, obviously,
that's mostly just K-Sirado.
They're on a terrorist's way.
Love that K-Sirado just from car
gets those first tools given to him,
Showing us that his rifle work's gonna be clean tonight.
But over top of middle goes Sin already.
Man, he's...
really committed in this spot.
Last try though.
Yeah, Fallen does help out for the one kill.
K. Serato's got main locked down and there's no trade potential for that Swisher death.
All of a sudden, Tees want out of me and it's all a doi under pressure from the utility.
And Slax's... Slax's flashbang...
Makes that one very awkward, so we get evened out of the 3v3
And really like him what we're seeing at M80 right now. I mean, it's just good protocols
But this this will be hard
You're still looking to shape one off as the smokes soon to fade Fallen comes back into help out and you've got another player on top
It all JBA gets found
Ensign activates, would have loved to have kept that cleaner so that he would have more than 30 health to play with.
And sure enough, that post from Yori back site, he had just been patiently back there waiting for a chance to shoot.
And as he does, it keeps two players up, fury of finding their second round win.
I was thinking like this is a good attempt. You make it two with three on three, they throw the right setup.
Util, just to punish Molledoy for just trying to take one risk.
He said, let me try to get in front of the smoke at an early kill and get out.
But they're not able to close.
Man, M80, you're straight broke.
And even their Desert Eagle's dead already.
Maldor is really thrust into a duel last round.
It got scary when his death inside of B-Main allowed M80 to take over Checker's controls as well,
I mean, it was the utility that really turned that tide against Molledoy.
It's also a nice part about Cache, I think, as a caller as well,
is your eco's are so easy.
I mean, like, in terms of just your walk around,
there's so much space for everyone just to take a deagle and look at an angle.
Actually, I have a decent chance that it killed two.
Yeah, good point.
B main, AWPer, walking out A, like...
Here's a chance for your kinder to make money.
That's going to be easy as he launches the flash, cuts two down to side,
drops ball in his feet just to guarantee it all.
And his death's not in vain. That's a ton of cash made.
Good to go.
Falling cleans up and it's nice to see Furia with four players alive at the end of this,
really starts to grow that defensive economy.
You're going to be mad at M80 if they lose cash?
No, not alone.
Yeah, no.
I think I'm 80 have given themselves good runway here at this event by just upsetting Navi
Yeah, definitely upset Navi from a map deficit even
And on the desk they brought up that graphic that showed you know
I made he really in need of some BRS points after some shortcomings as of late right that Navi victory really helps so
No shame in losing to fury up who showed good form in their opening game
And hey, we are still tied here
That's funny too, because you heard Swisher in between rounds saying, hey, he's tried
to AWP the main twice now, so maybe we don't do that a third.
And what do they do?
Completely different strategy, boost from the middle of the site.
Nice to see Fury keeping it fresh, just as M80s start to get a read of what's up.
Defensive smoke thrown on the site, but you have to respect it.
It's so easy to shoot over top of, it's very hard to get an angle on this.
Really counting on one more smoke before they start moving.
Now look who Moses on over.
And up on Molledoy.
Ykindar though has got a lot of responsibility in mid right now alone.
I mean he actually let people see him.
Oh crazy!
Oh yeah!
Wow that's absolutely insane.
Love to see Ykindar in good form.
In their last cash outing, I mean his T side was phenomenal.
around himself, dominating that game, one of the most dominating Yukindar performances
in some time.
Gee, there is not a duel to be won right now for M80.
There's a 13-6 victory over Pain that Furia established in their opening game.
Ykindar going 24 and 11 that map.
Actually finished the series as the highest rated player.
To heroes, professionals, to those who protected the world
from the nuclear disaster, speaking of Chernobyl,
in honor of the 20th anniversary
of the Shelter Object Construction.
That's the thing that the elephant's foot is under?
the original one, because then they made a bigger one.
Okay.
Damn, that wasn't a not-peak three times,
but it was an opening move from Fury off that B-side,
or a first-summer boost, yeah.
This is a great line.
Gonna try to keep it simple for the A-Hit.
Oh, that's a collat.
Replayers for a kill and a bunch of damage, but is it all in vain?
Cause look at this, double kill entry between slacks and the lake.
They're native, but using them in the wrong spots.
The late arrival is here, he's gotta run all the way over from the B site.
What makes the site retakeable as well is like, if you get the guys on the site, you don't need everyone else.
Oh, there's a chance.
He doesn't see it. Oh, he's totally missed this.
Yeah, I think it was.
If it could have been because it was like 50 damage on her guy
Just run it back, but look at that head sitting right there. Yeah
here comes Rory
It's a very philosophical question.
Is there a rush at all?
Is there a rush at all?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Ask yourself this question.
Man, it looks like three.
This is a key one, though.
Hard to tell without X-ray.
Yeah.
Looks like three. This is the key one though. Hard to tell without X-ray. Yeah.
Fury announced back that everything they can ask for.
And it's deaf that called for this kind of start to the round in middle.
So cool to see that dynamic between coach and IGL, felt very adamant that this was kind
of the play to make right now.
Is there a rush at all?
I think he's good.
Oh, he was good.
puts it out. Flash in hand now, Moledoy over towards Fork on A and this is three players
main, met by a smoke grenade. Do they try to still push through this? They're going
to pop it open with a frag. There's supposed to be a fake. Here's the Molotov. JBA finding
fallen through smoke as Kcerato stams back and connects one. Ooh, dangerous peek and
Kcerato just winds up finding slacks in the meantime. Bombs stuck under the shroud boost
at the moment, still a very late activation from Sin, stuck in middle, under boost.
It's the same, they don't know he's here.
They pause and they pause and they wait.
Swisher's scared too, because he thinks they for sure know he's here.
And Swisher winds up blindside in case Serato.
Now Molotow is going to be locked in on quad.
Missed chance, confirms the offer.
Sin's walk out through middle is going to find a second player highway.
This gives Swisher a good picture, but you've got to get JBA over with the bomb.
Swisher's galil to catch another kill.
And now another off-of-highway steps into that crosshair,
but Yikinder's got the better gun and the better aim.
Triple kill, Yikinder.
Shutting down the mid-boy, joining up forces on the A site,
and putting Thuria into the 5-4 lead.
Nine rounds deep, and KSR out of 16 and 4.
He's having a fantastic time.
Loving the amount of rounds coming towards A.
And if there's anyone who's good at spamming smokes on this team,
it's gotta be him.
Let's go guys, keep hitting, keep hitting, keep hitting, you're looking for eight here, let's go, let's go, stay focused.
They're looking for eight here.
Eight?
Oh.
I was like, yeah they have been looking for eight.
That's true.
He's got a good read on MA.
Portuguese, very efficient.
Looking for eight here
Big great happen we know how dangerous
Furia the vent on the tea side of cash and particularly you kinder as an individual who off that last round has proved
He's got it tonight
of the
looks like this is a fake a pop that they've seen that they were planning to do that previous
round
the kinder doesn't want to fall for it
see a swisher killer such a walkout made
that it's possible to flanking
Lake catches him, backturns, fall in.
Oop, caught off, looking at the radar or the teammate's screen.
Got a while exposed.
Careful now, let's gun-grab.
You're already going to find timing on slacks.
We've got this M4 pushing into truck.
That'll find Molodoy on Cycle.
And Lake has opened up the possibility of this round actually landing for M80.
I smoke highway off.
Caseurato unheard?
Yeah, Caseurato unheard.
I mean, oh, not anymore.
Tresa Tresa Sight steps right into the opera lake has got a triple kill now
And they know exactly where Yuri's at missed off shot opens the door for Yuri to close distance
In front of him. Oh
80 had no business winning this one. Yeah, not at all my goodness. I can't believe they pulled that off especially
And their fate kind of gets called out first guy guys on a they walk out middle
With someone rushing into Z but because they pushed so quickly they just ignored it. It worked
I
Look highway kill came down and I guess like is a part-time offer
It's a huge round to win as well because it actually puts furious money under question
We've got four players with less than $2,000 at $4,000
They're still making the buy happen. Oh never mind. I said that too soon
Fallen has bought and sold twice now
Literally, he's like your kinder, make a choice.
Now Fallen gets to be that difficult teammate that doesn't have to listen to calls.
This is where they land.
A few pistols added to the tally, a Serato though puts the M4 in the perfect place for an opening kill.
Still a ton of M80 players on the other side of that CT smoke.
Lake is going to find you running, falling through A main as if it was totally clear.
And as Lake starts to now threaten this half of the map, we'll see how much that draws away from B.
Yeah.
Smoked the cross-off, so there's some more movement from the CTs. They can actually use this to their advantage.
Getting over to Forklift.
Maladoy, here's the others joining, Lake.
He's content to just keep sitting inside this smoke.
As he pushes through, no one's holding. That's wild.
Okay.
Lake from backside's got it, and all's good.
I made it pretty quick to run away from that...
4 vs 5, but it was really fallen.
Who assumed nobody would be in A main, whatsoever.
It's great that they ran that anti-eco though with what was looking like a straight B-pop
and still made sure just in case they had something like that.
I mean securing a six-round T side here on their map pick
Surely the most genuine knows yeah
Yeah.
So, off on Molotoway one more time.
Oh, that's hilarious.
It's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Four Molotoway's five kills this map.
We're opening kills.
Well, time to close one, because here we are.
Guns once more for Furia, M80 goes to the mid-pot.
That's what Sin wanted.
I'm aware of what they're up against.
I'm trying to fall through into the highway, boy.
Is this their own smoke?
To let them get closer, falling on the other side of this.
And it's just this double-up on Forklift.
I mean, they're so close. Getting on highway this quickly is insane.
Smoke couldn't have come out in a better time, though.
We're gonna try to force the players off Forklift.
It's a little awkward for a second.
The rock falling inside of these smokes gets found out by JBA, who's not buying it.
That was an awesome strat. I mean, taking fast highway control is something that
something we really haven't seen many people do so far.
Feels like the caster introduced, yeah.
Really catches off Fioria, and they're gonna be forced, unfortunately, for them
into this very awkward 2v5 retreating time, already being held just in case.
Honestly, it's usually so hard to get highway control.
Usually, if you have highway control, you're already halfway to winning the round,
They've done that without even losing a player.
Beautiful, seven round T side here for the side of M80,
finishing it with four of the last five rounds.
So excellent recovery when Furia had K-Sirado
posting 18 kills, one half.
Kind of 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, didn't they?
Yeah, someone call an ambulance.
And yet I hear the world's game calling you, man.
What do you want to say to them?
Mm, that's all we can say.
Mm, so if you ain't got it, mm.
Oh, the fellow.
Yeah, he's enjoying himself.
Oh, my god, he's playing the car.
Why are you laughing, man?
You're not talking to me.
Man, you can't just say what, man.
Is it, is it a bat?
Is it a plane?
No, it's an eagle.
No, it's not.
It's actually a falcon.
Oh, shit, he's getting out of my hand.
He was just out of my hand.
I'm not doing this.
Sad, but he secures it.
A triple kill.
Out of the steel elbow, I know.
What a mess.
We've never had a trumpet.
What a mess.
What a mess.
I'm standing.
What a mess.
I don't want to get in.
I'm not getting in.
I'm not getting in.
I'm not getting in.
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 Molladoy?
God did not make Molladoy. I made him.
You trained him right I teach this kid everything discipline positioning we need lineups he's ignoring all
You want to to see me come sit Daniel
I've seen your flashbangs. Did fallen teach you nothing
Utilities for people that means
That's not game sense, bro. That's madness madness
No confidence
He's not breaking
I don't think he's playing it since he walked in.
Look Daniel, the T's out there, they know you're dangerous.
They're playing it around you. They don't want to end up in another hideout grill for you.
If they don't want it to be in highlight reel, they gonna need one thing.
And what's that? Disconnect.
He's so intense.
You think you can keep this up? Every single match? They can't stop me.
You remind me of me, just a younger, tick-clock generation, a little bit less patient, but
still very good.
You can't coach that, you can only survive it.
Stop trying to coach me, start following my calls, ha, be careful, last time I said it,
they made me an agile.
Is this how roster changes happen?
as they'll switch over to the east side.
Last time it was a very heavy B defense,
and a stack and a reed that was wrong out of Furia.
May have cost them the half overall,
close to winning that retake.
One thing Furia did have going for themselves was all the opening kills.
Eight opening kills last map.
Excuse me, last half.
Only five round wins from that.
It's wild, because he's like Maldon is the best and worst at it,
because he gets those opening kills,
but he also gave away a lot of trades afterwards,
or maybe it was just that he couldn't be traded.
Well, that made me feel like they're slightly strengthening towards A.
Well, now Furia are starting to lean maybe in towards B,
ready to get it going inside of the vent.
I think this will be exciting for me to see the smoke feels like an anti-attack is brewing
Dude he was such a beast versus pain on this T side that I think the best lurker right now
It's a scary warning sign to see him catching pack like that 30 C cuts off the team. He's still sitting in there
Slimes has got his kill back
He kindars gotta let him move somewhat here
He's waiting for his teammate to tether off of him on the other side of middle.
Kcerado comes through, lets them know where he's at, slacks his kill, the Kindar and JBAs help this bomb site.
Somehow, M80 managed to hang on. That's with Swisher on 8 health.
Lake on 2, and still they just move quick enough to respond to that B pressure.
You've got M80 with a CT pistol win.
Man, just a couple of shots missed there. Kcerado flanking the vent.
You can there as he peaked in the mid they didn't finish their food and that was a problem for the B players that was around that look
I think very in favor of your area up until the end. There's so many key moments. I made a cat finding these kills
That's huge for the program
Force by Buria features tech nines and one dig and a bomb crawling towards squeaky.
This defense is sin and swisher.
The lake rotae as needed up highway, swisher eats a flashbang, they're already on quad.
Oh, he gets the two headshots.
They don't clear him out, he regains vision.
Yes, the impact he needed. There is still a rebuttal back here for the Furious Squad.
Sin just trying to stay alive now. Banking on the two B players rotating in.
They got them stranded back behind Quad.
That means K-Sorado's grabbed an M4, and he has been playing lights out.
Goes for the bomb plant as these two smokes.
They'll give them temporary cover.
Missed Eagle's shot here for Molodoy could have evened out the numbers,
but at least now that M4 is ready to get back into play.
They'll spam through smoke, clip Molledoy,
and let's watch as Kcerato with 57 health is up against three.
They'll play it out in the open.
Should be impossible.
They're still thinking Quad.
They're going to find it here in the corner,
and a little drive-by action by JBA.
M80 able to hang on,
as Furia almost fought back into that round.
Feels like the stars are aligning here for M80.
I mean, they had a cool game plan in the first half.
They maybe won a couple extra rounds
where it looked like Furia had control of things.
But now they kick off with another pistol,
and they still got the right energy.
They're feeling themselves.
Sketch you in case or auto grab that gun, but
case for all the 20 frags in the five rounds.
Oh, he's an animal right now. He's 20 and eight.
Not just being 20 and eight and losing five to nine.
They have so much faith in case
Rado's form right now that they're going to go ahead and weaponize them.
Single hero, AK for fury of this round.
Oh, and it opens Kcerado with a 5v4.
Man, we might get a Kcerado classic.
Suddenly this B defense is slacks and slacks alone.
Obviously the opening death is gonna draw attention over,
so a shuffling of the positions here for M80,
and also dumping a bunch of nades out middle and whatnot.
A main as well.
But this is all just to get Yikindar over.
That adds a second smoke to a potential execute.
It's an extremely weak b-side. It's an extremely weak looking map.
It's a map that looks like it's full of fear right now from the CT side, scrambling to get back mid control when...
I fear I don't care about that right now. They can actually just walk in.
Smokes come through for both heaven and tree.
No Molotov yet.
What do you do, Slax?
Slax is at least given a little position to work with.
K-Sirado.
K-Sirado finds a second. Yuri gets spammed down through smoke.
Lakes gonna dive in once the fire fades.
Cacerado is still in the middle of all this,
but now dropped down to 3 HP.
Still fighting, and it's gonna be the pistol of Lakes
to get the job done.
You kindar plant it in the meantime.
V3 has to hold onto the site,
and Lake keeps the pistol out for another headshot.
Nice, man.
Cacerado's not gonna be enough,
but he is also just that AK.
Like, he kind of did what he could in a round like this.
M80 was really impressive,
but they brought this back,
Even though that was very disfavorite situation losing the B site only having slacks there him only getting a single kill
Another opener for furia for what it's worth
They do SP kills man
I
Nice activeness
Pre-exercising I work out
Things working out for M80 as they take over mid again sin. Just said it like watch for the sights watch for the poppiness
Through smoke that's wild. Did they see the second? No
Oh, yeah, actually falling cautious about it.
That's coming to check it.
And we've got ourselves a Furia 5B3.
Maybe really signing up for duals.
That push in middle with two, pushing to B main.
I feel like that would have just been the most salt inducing
play they could have pulled off, right?
Right in the middle of all the spams
and a calm looking default in front of a smoke
would ever walk through. Kind of like it actually considering how you know tilting some of the
rounds have been for Furia. Obviously just puts you in such a dire place though if those both
go south right the mid and the main push. Yeah we already see them just gambling on a site and
looking to try to save these three guns. They need all three players to survive as well if they
They're gonna have all guns in the next.
Well, they're just going B, though, actually.
It is a gamble, and that means they could still be right.
Oh, yeah. No way.
So fight for the round.
Fight for your guns.
Gonna drop the bomb to start this.
Since God hit us, this 3v5.
Bomb gets scooped up.
They want to leave 20 seconds,
and they will run for the other side of the map.
Molliloy's gonna try to cut him off at the pass.
I mean, he can at least interrupt.
Maybe someone coming towards truck.
Truck players manage to get over.
Molliloy strikes down Lake at least.
Smoke through the cross to get them out.
Mollidoy cuts down a second.
Bomb is gonna try to run into the site.
They missed the time.
Oh, the kill comes through from Cacerado.
They stop to pause for the highway smoke to pop,
and that's what would have cost them the time.
They do still manage to get away,
and that B gamble almost wins the round.
That's big danger, but M80 knew they just had
to run back anyway, so.
Good thing Mollidoy went for that extra duel inside the C,
otherwise there would have been a straggler.
Yeah, if Molly gets that first kill and just walks away thinking she should play it safe.
Nails on 4th, 5th, deaths out of M80 where they actually would have saved inside of me.
Yep, and they would have had a much better buy than this.
Pistols on 2, limited grenades across the board.
This was, at its widest, a 5 round gap.
Fury will make it a 4 point difference.
But Sid's got good info here.
Naming jiggle, smoke in hand, ready to go down.
Similar positions to what we just saw them play when they were trying to save their guns.
Normally if it's a full B, exactly of all your utility, it's kind of hard to stick around in the site with all the right volleys.
I feel like it's not as threatening without checkers as well.
CT's down to flashes.
Oh, Swisher nailed with a flash in hand.
Late still with a 5-7 post.
Two frags.
Not too bad.
They see it as enough of an invitation to try or do they want to save this M4 AWP combo.
Yeah, they will just cocktail and give this up
Period finding that B site makes you wonder what could have been had swisher not died to the main peak
But always the danger of putting your head on that headshot angle and especially when you do it with a nade pole
Just a classic lineup to pop flash that be made in
Some things will never change on this map good. Yeah
I like the cache came back just as more of a remodel totally new map otherwise it need a new name
We trained to be past you might be cool dust to worked out really well. It's fair. I guess they don't do that anymore, huh?
Yeah, I mean at the time they weren't really valve maps so they called it train even though that was not the same map at all
That should have been trained to it's a good point train plus
Such a tell Rory Jackson thinks he's got to read it on your kindars cash calling
I
Gotta love how prepped and how emphatic they both are him and sin. Yes, they're both they both deliver information
But like so enthusiastically all the time some coaches are a bore
It's not a pretty place to be though I made it this round just what was saved in the last
C.G. Pistol and 3-0 start for M-80.
That speed is getting...
Shipped away at.
As they go for the B-start, boost the player up into the vents.
So confident it's not a B-stack.
Furia making the correct move.
About to find A.
Free for the taking.
A USPS between them and a beat-round win.
We get two of your kid there, T-sized master classes, back to back.
Because we are looking for who, you know, who is the best cash team in the world going to be.
That's up for Grats. That whole season to find out.
Karrig is also playing coy about it. When do we have to make that determination?
Do we have to wait till the end of the season or do you want to call it early?
You can call it anytime and then just you know it could change it next week if it changes.
Okay.
Because no one really cares who's team of the year on cash or whatever.
Have we not made an award for that yet?
I don't think so.
I hurt my only friends?
Oh, girlfriend. Sorry.
Good one Connor.
Thanks man.
Some of your best work.
We got so many different accents, I just love it.
German, the British Texan.
Yeah, from the splice days, the envious days.
Three Americans from all over.
Oh, fast one. Okay, no time to jest.
JBA under seek, but he'll catch a Kindar with a nice free headshot.
So they start off man-advantage, but yeah, that bomb site's gone.
If you're across it with a bombing hand that actually whittles falling down low and JBA is knowing that he's got him stuck still back site
Be a little bit less retakeable
This will be a real test of their map pool
Like me doing one of these passing the flashbangs back to try to set JBA out for the
Journey that will be you're ready for the tree peak. Molo do has got the op trained on the vent
So it's gonna be a tough job for Lake to get into this
This bomb at 15 seconds, they're finally going to get going and they kill one.
JBA with the wide swing out, gets himself a throw on the round and no way.
Lake kills Molledoy because he put his own smoke up inside it.
They find the defuse in time.
What an explosive retake coming out from M80.
That's sweet man.
That's got to feel good because again, B site, you can retake it.
A lot harder than A and I'm not losing a single player.
Ridiculous.
Flies through wide swings and clears it out.
That JBA gets the most point.
Where he's on headshot can stop everything.
And also has a big advantage as he runs through the smoke.
One more to lock in overtime.
Boosting over it.
Now it's just a flash.
Oh, he's got both.
Easy pickup for slacks as well.
Totally different look out of M80 this time.
When have you seen two players push through a main like that?
They have looks.
Varying speeds.
Very clearly prepared for this game.
And not just what Fury would throw their direction,
despite depth.
Just clear a sense of a read but just fresh looks themselves. Yeah exactly what
you love to see. Yeah I think there's keep it flowing man.
Something different. So many teams we've heard from recently are just like
out of ideas. Not MAD. Not SIN. Not DEF. But this B site could still get lost.
Oh this would be a gut wrenching round to lose. You've allowed the bomb to get on
to site. Fallen's gonna plant it safe.
This is the last retake, sure.
Fallen planted defaults, that means Fallen is still alive for sure.
I'm really gonna try to emphasize holding back tree.
All eyes forward, Fallen peeking into the fire,
Fallen back through flames, burnt out by Lake.
It's gonna take an extra second here to get the retake going,
but it's all on Yuri.
Three players from the tree and a ton of damage output,
but this is it. A guaranteed 12th 4M80 overtime at least,
and four map points on their pick you gotta like even they stood up against all those opening kills in the first half
They pick up both pistols. They pull off a very difficult retake over on me. They've justified this pick in that stuff
And see what a straight rancer man
Well then, by the end of this game, you know, Lake is actually racking it up, he's 21-14.
Lake is 0.7 ADR behind K Serato, both of them 109.
One point in this game K Serato felt like he was untouchable, but he could get surpassed
if Lake has a big round and if this is the last one 4M80.
First of four chances to close out and unfortunately for Fury up, you've got Bollardoy with only
the deagle.
Hasn't been a ton of mid-plates tonight for Furia, not on this attack, whereas last time
I feel like we saw you kind of are constantly getting space out here.
So they're gonna throw a couple bodies forward.
Lake looking for the vent climb.
Oh, Lake almost catching the nade throw.
Z gets smoked off, Swisher decides to tuck into the forklift, careful crossing.
Oh, didn't see that.
See that at all.
Damn, you kinders managed to get away with the time, but there is still a consideration
here from Lake.
He keeps checking, both towards A site and back towards Z.
But, you kind of can really slow play this one, right?
His teammates are all still alive.
He's cleared out all of mid for them.
Just that looming mid threat kind of has them on that A site just in case it were to come,
Nobody's actually peeked into a main to take some info. This is m80 playing a bit in the dark
It's like even gonna really clear this now. He's just have they run down highway really he gets to cut him off and
Cheating the third piece over to be though actually he might get shot in the back truck players coming
He's gonna get found out you kindar still able to get the kill obviously has to reveal his element of surprise
We've got two CTs hard dedicated back at the site at 25 seconds all falling over top
We've got lakes to activate up from Heaven with a double kill, but the only impact of any of the three players on that site so you kind of are getting into Z just causes real problems and Furia survived the first of four.
Whenever you kinders in a spot like that, good things happen.
I mean, they do know how to make the most of that map control and maybe have just given a little bit too much away, didn't realize it on this round.
I mean, he didn't respect that top highway smoke, actually, because they didn't have vision on mid for so, so long.
It's not like a kid who doesn't do that.
Hmm.
Damn, that's too bad.
I do like that there's no, like, sacred IGL only talks during freeze time moments.
It is definitely by committee over on M80, but they make it work.
Sometimes you can see that and be like, there's too many cooks in the kitchen, but we haven't
seen any issues with just them coming up with successful ideas and executing all of them.
Diff's like, actually let me tell you around. This would be the best team in the world.
Sure. I mean they've always talked about, I mean it's not even in timeouts, but when they're in
live rounds, Sin has always been one of those like big figureheads and saying like, even if you're
dead, you've still got a responsibility to like help people calm. Yeah. You know, obviously you
You don't want too much panic over calming and stuff and maybe I think do can get hectic
Yeah, that's one of those like Bogdan's law things where
In your pugs don't talk when you're dead. Yeah, sure. Yeah
If we're spending every day working together towards a common goal, I trust that synergy if I just met you
Shut it
All right
oof
Kindar willing to go up and over
Legs are busted up, but still putting the pressure on middle great Nate damage on you Kindar though
And Lake all blind sides fallen reverse boost. They didn't even suspect it no Molly either
Oh, and he goes wide for the second. What a great adjustment
Five versus three off of that active mood and that is kind of the solution via committee. We were talking about
Oh, they've given themselves a golden chance to close this first map down now.
Smoke canister in hand for JBA, we're going to get rock contact and Yuri does not miss
the chance at ripping JBA's head off, Molotov into the vent as well, because if they boost
it up into vent, that means one player less from Beast, Swisher still hides back site.
Oh, I thought they were going to write it off, but Caterado jumps in, gun out, and a 3v5
recovery well underway.
really felt like it. Had that bomb out for a second and now the round is probably over.
Wow, Fury survived it. That'll do it. Individual prowess from Yuri, Kcerato, and Molledoy all
with a kill apiece in this 3v5. M80, they're gonna feel like they had this in the bag.
And with it, Fury survived a second map point.
I feel like almost playing from the site a bit too much when it comes to B instead of playing just play headshot more often and like
Even though you're gonna get
Naded a lot
Getting a kill early for really good line on all the choke points
But once they start running up headshot on you, it's really hard like if you're you know back site
Watching that run up. I don't know that fight's not very good
Once I get under heaven and start scaling I just feel like it's just too hard
Like right here like who would you rather be in a spot always the guy running on that shot. Yeah a
Lot less emphatic than they were after the last round
That's a gut wrenching feeling that you're gonna have to stomach here and 80
Heavy utility out middle here for fury up and they will find that no resistance
No vent boost this time and you kind of back to white box smoke at the top of highway player just peek down e-box
And he's gonna probably I was gonna say tuck into Z cuz he does it also often
But no you kind of actually starts to peel away
I mean even him just letting him know they have to clear this and take time to think about it
He's good enough. It might be fit be better that they can have him scared
Starting to feel like an incorrect lean
You can actually smoke down Z.
And Molly's back checkers.
Yeah. Wow. He is really good at calling this map, isn't he?
And he's not dominating individually this time around, but the calls are still good. The adjustment's nice. Confirmation.
Really perfect, honestly.
Crossing into the A site.
Yeah, totally unprepared with Sin.
Didn't expect that Kindar to have just disrespected that highway smoke as he did.
And that is going to send M80 into a tailspin off to the save with 4.
He's the current best cash caller in the world.
3 of the last 4 rounds needed.
And Furia almost there to secure OT.
I mean round like that is so so great on so many levels for someone who it's also not just that he's calling on this map that he'll
Eventually probably call on the whole map pool right that is you know his destiny to be realized is to become an IGL eventually
But around like that is such a good sign. I mean they they were able to juggle all the rotations without having to see anybody
They did that on people that was conditions from his lurks inside of Z without him having to actually play there again
Which would have felt like it would start getting repetitive so he changes it up
And then still got the first kill
Here spending the second half to try to make up for everything that went wrong
In the first
You remember also I made you have two pistol rounds in this game
So a lot of quality rounds being one here for Furia two pistols both for three zero starts
Everything had pointed to the direction that I made you win this but
Soul crushing 5v3 loss. Let's see if they peak too early
Slacks sitting on the line smokes are gonna come down in front of them. He's gonna lose vision
But all you keep our goes around here soon
Small mistake and what could have been second frag for slacks
Gonna pop open the crossbow, Siddin's getting damage output, they are so low.
Two of these four players still fighting back, leap into K Serato on the brink of 30 kills.
Molotoy looking for a shot, and he's gonna find it.
Slacks peeled off this one, 4v2 advantage, even with those low health bars.
Trying to bait out a Molotoy with, but he's got the nerve, and he nails his seconds.
Swisher giving away his position, one before attempt, they're going to just spread wide for this swing, and they do feed Uri over, wow, they've done it!
Four rounds to try to close out Cash, and this one leads to OT.
I mean, MA-80 played a great game. They did play a great game, but Furia worked extra hard to make this possible.
Going up against these, you know, the six rounds, pistol and conversions.
All their opening kills, where they failed to actually make the round happen.
This won't even start the AWP on the right line to get a kill.
As you mentioned, could have been a double.
And as we see, needed to be a double.
Great nerf from Molotoy there too, dealing with like these jump peeks.
And in love with the underpressure calls from your kicker that brought this back in the first place.
And we had a lot of praise to sing for M80 and how varied their playbook look coming
to this challenge.
But even that change up from Yukindar not playing Z going highway to E-Box instead.
Shake ups within his own game, his own mid-play.
This is fresh as well.
We haven't seen a counter-boost and Lake could damn well catch you off.
First round of overtime, something very different.
Oh, the Yukindar wins the duel.
And as he almost finds them on the fallback, it's Molledoy there to trade because they
Boosting two players simultaneous, you'll see that C retreat.
Man advantage, hard fought for, but Furia earned it.
Oh, it's a massive start, unfortunately. 4v3, and it's real early.
Actually, crazy that on Furia,
Kace Reynolds, the only one with a positive scoreline right now.
3 over here, great feak at an axe actually, I mean they can go ahead to be, take it back.
You'll find that vacant B site but this is not the first time, maybe go for that like
gamble lean and it finds value.
I mean Cash really welcomes it again because you can retake it, they've shown it already,
how good they're and comfortable they are at doing it.
There's other mollies in the retakes last time.
One went to headshot when Furia tried to play forward.
This time they'll plant default and play within the site.
Could have feel a little boxed in here, surely Furia.
We got flashes to go, slacks chucking the Nade out.
That's going to drop you already down to a quarter HP.
Fire at his feet, forcing him wide.
Still survives at seven health.
He's not long for this duel, but there's also not
A lot of time left on this bomb,
Cesarado reveals himself, sprays away,
and almost got a chance for that third one.
But it's gonna be Slacks left over
with the trade off the off.
The third piece in has one shot to land, and he does it.
So it will be M80 to strike first in overtime.
I mean, more great utility usage.
Did they see a shoulder there for Yuri?
Because it was so certain that he was back there.
It's fair for Lake to be losing his mind.
On that counter boost gets killed.
Yeah.
But also, it's not like a guarantee.
If you will boost in front of you
when you counter boost and sit there,
it can be awkward, for sure.
I love that.
I really do love that.
What's he saying?
I feel like I was trying to get,
I really didn't hear him, but my hunch is like,
Almost like he wants different looks from the B set up.
Okay.
I thought he was saying like, you go checkers sometimes.
You go shadows sometimes.
I feel like, yeah, that's what we'd like to see.
Yeah, so I'm going to imply that's what he was saying.
I'm going to make believe, because it's
what I want to see for M80's sake.
I was actually wondering the same thing
why they don't use checkers as much.
I feel like I haven't seen a CT in there.
Yeah.
Unless they do that lake reverse boost,
reverse vent. No! Volodoy survives it!
I feel like this crazy even got a chance to miss.
Gonna have to flick for that at all.
And Sin just zooms forward to domain control.
Don't overstep this thing with a flash though.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Excuse me.
Dangerous.
There is some extra damage.
Extremely dangerous but with the flash he earned the right to peek and I'm just happy
that he disengaged when he saw that presence.
It's a tough amount of damage for Fury at his stomach, with Molledoy and Ykindar so low.
Slax wants him to cover, and he will get away with that at least.
He's in a great spot.
On top of that, you still have-
We can molly him, but he has the warning of the door opening as well.
Sin back on Quad and Swisher plays highway.
And he's someone spotting main for him.
Yup.
Now, we'll put him on high alert.
As Ykindar dead first.
Oh, nice trade from Fallen.
Sin gets cleared out.
Molledoy with little health, still able.
And they managed to find the three kills they need to with the very least plant this bomb.
That was pretty filthy.
The scaling there from Fallen right into the side of Forklift to make sure there couldn't be a second peek out of the op.
Just eats the kills him too.
Yeah.
Very little health here. It's only they had a frag grenade. Now, Lake has been frying.
There's low health on three.
Aw, but he gets caught out by Fallen.
And now JBA with everything to do they're gonna come challenging towards him
Confirms the position and Freyland's here for another frag
But what a hard fought attempt into the A site and it honestly hinges on Fallen. Yeah, it was Fallen definitely
Trace scaling not having a incredible game so far, but these are the ones that matter in over time
Again no one on fury out with a positive KD besides Kcerado
Both time-outs used here in overtime.
This could absolutely be a story of tea-sides.
What a big-on-do.
You just so wide, if you were inside of...
Squeaky?
Niggas easily have died to that op.
It's one of three secured for Furia on the attack.
Looking back at aim aim and doing it with pace.
Sin dropping a frag into the middle of the pack but it really is just negligible damage.
You kind of have the sight.
drop and you still all around or challenge up close it's your kinder
get punched again no way you're getting away with that now he's stuck here as
sin has flushed them off the bomb site they just planted and then the walk
back through smoke case or auto you dog dirty play to make totally catches sin
off guard and that earns him quad position two his 30th kill yeah is
He is nasty, because you just don't expect that if you're sinned.
Forced retake attempt now at an even number count.
Kcerato still a problem here for M80.
Miss shot from all the way, opens up the door,
but it's going to be falling to kill both.
Bombo already passed the five seconds.
Kcerato, 31 kills.
Critical 2k to give Furia an edge, halfway through OT.
Actually have a lead now.
It's another very serious A attack.
It is that one move from Kcerado.
Just establish a site, bomb's already going down.
Because they planted so quickly, there was no chance at that retake.
And if you're sin walking through that site after you kill your Kindar, and you're like,
they planted here and no one's quad, but that creep back through smoke.
It was messed with all the utility back here though.
Never sees it coming.
Well then, M80, a challenge ahead.
Bit scary they give Furia another shot at CT.
Oh yeah.
Chance for them to right their rocks.
Are they ready for you, Kindergier?
They've been trying to go highway so many times on the T side.
I mean, Bun-Light almost never did Furia try to push up mid this way.
Right.
And unlike Furia, almost half of the rounds M81 T-side regulation was the pistol and conversion.
This is interesting though.
Bomb is actually going squeaky.
This is a brand new idea.
It has nothing to do with mid.
I feel like Furia might actually be more concerned about B.
Let's see if they cheat an extra one over.
Yeah, it's feeling like quite a bit of presence.
Is it feeling like a fake though?
I feel like it's a little bit weird how many nades there is growing right there.
Fallen misses, Slacks kills the coverage, Fallen able to recover.
After the first missed offshot, JBA trades back, other side of the map, Slacks versus Fallen.
Both combat, AWPing, neither with support nearby.
Oh, you can't miss, and so a no-scope connects, that's massive.
Unfortunately here, four Slacks loses his teammate.
Wait, what are you up to?
Get back to the site, man.
Thinking maybe he could go for a peek, blinds himself in the middle.
Everybody, let's reset.
Slacks is planting safe.
1v2, two kills to his name already.
And he knows this truck player is the AWPer.
What he doesn't know about is Yuri's paving.
And so sure enough, gets caught off.
That looks very awkward as we zoom out in the round.
I mean, good on him to clear out Fallen,
put that bomb down with no support.
But everything goes south everywhere else.
And Furia take their 15th.
Yeah, he oceaned himself in the end.
But to be honest, if that's what got him back to the site,
That's what he needed.
Yeah, sure, right?
Slaps his own wrist.
Don't over-rotate too much.
Play your positions.
They're faking a lot.
Slap more calm over there on Furia.
They're kind of doing the same amount of good in some sense.
Three different rounds to get here.
Again, lots of great rounds out of M80 so far, but now they're really just there in death in the face.
So don't over rotate, and that was a round to avoid getting faked out.
It did feel like the fakes wasn't convincing enough.
Who's exacting versus default B smoke that's that deep with checker no check control no no mid control for the T side
Now the timing of it all
Didn't feel like they sold it enough
Still in front of main follow the pop it
She's nobody else yet, but that is two players confirmed just because the utilt and the squeaky door swung wide
What a position what an angle and what a double kill is he turns it back to Lake
That's a game later, isn't it highest performing player on m80 gets shut down trying to trade out your kinder
Now bomb tries to tiptoe its way back towards main to just look and link up with sin
Who is still just tucked away?
kind of a great position to fall in.
He's not really worried about someone coming late squeaky.
He just has to cross back into the site.
You don't even know concerned about the mid walk.
May miss the timing on holding a main.
Yeah, me falling just saw the climb up.
Oh, perfect distraction as well.
Falling right here lands the shot on JBA.
Hands forced for sin 30 HP and they done it.
Furia what a close and what just element of survivability called by you kindar because m80 know where this went wrong
12 8
5v3
Furia survive it and with that secure another cash win
Another win for them and another great start to a best of 343 here
It was again what you can talk about a little bit surprised as to where the map veto went and honestly
I'm surprised as to how cash went because I cannot believe not only were we
seeing this dominant start the stone in streak I want to say for M80 when
they're in a position to be able to close it out. Furio fight back to the
nail push it to overtime and then in that overtime do so much for themselves to
have to close it out. I mean I'm impressed by both teams on this one you
can still see it's it's a new map to the pool for both teams they haven't
practiced it to the end of the world they might have a mirage but when you
You look at the ways adjustments were being made.
When you look at the push from falling into squeaky
on the final round, getting himself in the corner,
where he spots the cross.
There's so many individual plays, but also team plays.
Both teams had great macro on that map.
They had great ideas.
I actually think that's just one of the better cash games
I've seen on this map since his return.
It was extremely competitive,
but Taster Auto just refused to lose in that one.
Even if MAD had a great idea, great, great plan
to get on the bomb site or put themselves
advantage. He was so frequently able to swing it back into Furia's favor with
just great individual shots. The plays he made around smokes and utility was
great. I mean late round he was extremely clutched to whether that was a 2v5, 1v1s
on the bomb sides. All of that he did so spectacularly. I mean Kcerato didn't
necessarily push them over the finish line but he gave them time to actually
power up because by the end of the game you did see everyone on Furia actually
involved in the game. The beginning of this one was a struggle for everyone but
Kcerato. I think in the first half he had something like almost 20 kills alone.
He is the only reason that this one was even in a position to be 12-8 where they
could make the comeback. There were so many times that we're seeing this first
half as well. Hit off the hit for the side of M80 goes so well at A-side and so
the fact that Kcerato is able to hold his own and feel like the only player that
is holding their own now you really beg the question of okay why was it not
until the second half in which we actually got to see you through a fire up.
Well that's probably due in part to MAD just having a lot of really well
outlined plays for their T side the way that they were able to also yeah abuse
that A side defense in general was great. I mean I feel like they didn't always go
to a K Serato or you couldn't always get involved in the action as much as he
would have wanted. Sometimes for example on those A side defenses it was people
like Fallen Moledoy in those kinds of spots which is why you saw Fallen
swap up and move to the AWP because he didn't want to just get run over anymore.
Yeah, when you're looking at the early parts of the half, a lot of it was on.
I think this map really hinges for the CT side on Yakindar.
He's the highway player.
He's the pivotal one that needs to be in the right spot at the right time.
He was struggling.
If he's struggling, it's hard for your anchor to actually get involved in the play.
So much we see anchors are a victim of their circumstance.
If you don't give them an opportunity,
it's hard for them to carry the game on CT necessarily.
Yeah, we're looking at it and we're gonna kind of push that first off to the side and be like okay at the end of the day
M80 chose this map for themselves. They were able to have a really strong start
That's what it should be when it's your map pick but to not be able to close it out
That's the really difficult part right because we're not really seeing a lot happen for them on the CT side
There was one glimmer of hope on the side of M80 for their CT. It was round 19
They were able to have a very very good retake
So a lot of MAD's style of positioning was based on the fact that they were very comfortable knowing that they could retake
either bombsite. First of all JBA does a great job just slowing the oncoming attackers down, make sure that he gets the player coming up
ramp, but I think that's kind of also what Voo refers to when you're talking about teams with inexperience on the map.
You don't usually see people run up on that ramp for that exact reason that you will just get picked off and so in that 5 on 4
advantage now that MAD have found the counter or the retake utility is just pristine.
I mean, they're able to smoke off a main.
They smoke off the checker side somewhat as well.
Lake is a pivotal player on this retake as well.
He's the only person that's going to be attacking
from a different angle towards the vents.
Instead of going early or showing any skin right there,
he waits all of the way until finally,
K-Strat is in the clutch, and then at that point,
there's just too many angles to manage,
and so good retake utility, and just good understanding,
which is why JBA felt comfortable just playing Heaven there.
A lot of people just fully commit,
and sometimes that'll cost them their lives.
like that was great from M80.
I think that was really effective on a retake B,
not the easiest site to retake.
I have a gripe with teams putting multiple players
on the B bomb site.
It's the theory you did it multiple times.
I feel like this is something,
give it a couple of weeks, everyone's gonna remember,
hey, back in 2018, we all agreed,
it sucks being on the B site.
You have one player headshot, he gets flashed,
they swing in, he's dead,
and then your guy default is like,
hold on, I'm supposed to win a duel from this end?
It's not possible.
They kind of set themselves up for that one.
Well, look, at the end of the day though,
you're still very happy with what they were able to do.
There is just a shame that they couldn't do it
two more times for themselves
because then we wouldn't have seen over time.
But it wasn't the late a few rounds there.
Round 22 was the other one where you see, okay,
maybe MAD don't have enough fuel left in the tank
because we could see them throwing a lot of money
down the drain.
Round's not really winning for themselves.
And at the end of the day, they're also not winning
in what should be favorable matchups.
Yeah, I mean, this is a 5v3 on round 22
that would have secured them the game.
And they have a really nice opening here.
They get Lake boosted up into vents.
This is a classic play.
It's one of the only ways you can really
hold on to middle right now.
Teams are already so good at taking mid on the T side,
but Lake not only gets one,
but he actually goes for the aggressive play out vents,
catches you to our off guard.
Now they're 5v3, but JBA maybe a little
in a curious here catches.
He's a little too far out there.
Yuri catches him.
And then this is really well done by Furia.
Yuri knows the next rotation is gonna be coming
through vents.
Lake was already there.
They can make their way into the bomb site.
and it just hinges on one one V1.
If you have that win from Swisher,
it's a disadvantage fight.
So you can't blame him for losing it,
but he wins that and you're looking
at a completely different round.
Instead, you end up in a 3D3 B site control
and then you have Molodoy take it over,
pick up one and that's Fury on 10.
And it's unfortunate because that's a 5D3
that maybe should be closing out.
It's super rough for Swisher there
because his position seems so valuable
because JBA already died on the bomb site.
You don't usually expect a second player,
but that's also just where Casterado took over,
that he's not gonna leave any angle unchecked
on the bomb site.
There's really almost, it's almost no reason
that M8 should even have Swisher there,
but I feel like Swisher maybe is a little bit unfortunate
there that nobody was putting pressure on from his team.
Like Lake was isolated off of the vent there
because they maulied him.
Nobody from CT was really able to spam through or from Heaven.
And so he has all these reasons to believe
that spot has value, but yeah, it's a disadvantage one.
just probably could have peaked earlier. Yeah, I think what you really want there,
you want your CT rotator coming through his E, toss a flash in through heaven,
then you can peek out, get one, and then it's, you know, 50-50 on the guy headshot.
Who cares if you lose that? You've already got your one.
Misplayed. Okay, whatever you want to call it, there was a setup. They had the potential,
they had the potential to close out this map as well, but we were treated to the overtime.
And one of the first rounds in overtime, round number 25, it was looking towards that,
okay, where are you going to gamble? Is this going to pay off? Are we going to be able to
CMA to continue what had already been such a good map for them.
So 25 is around that I think exemplifies why I like this map so much in the way it was played out
because I think this is played out by both teams really effectively.
You have this entry coming in, you kinder gets the one, it turns into a 4v3,
and then look at the setup that they go into here.
You have the fake coming up highway, but you have a player sunroom and you have a player vent.
So they're trying to fake and draw a rotate, and maybe on the other side,
The day it just gamble stacked off of B entirely,
that allows them to get the double.
Then you have a 3v2.
Both players kind of have to be in the bomb site
in this type of situation,
but you have great utility coming in
for the retake through Heaven.
There's the double Molly on one position.
Maybe could have Molly both, but that's a nitpick.
It forces Yuri into a tough situation,
and then you have Kcerato, who nearly does it.
We were sitting there saying,
oh my God, he's got it,
but it doesn't manage to take down the final player.
I actually think both teams played that round really well.
Yeah, that definitely epitomizes just how competitive
this affair was on cash between both the teams
and also how interactive the game was too,
that so many different styles and calls
could be made in the mid-round,
how Viria let so many options stay available to themselves
once they took that default space,
but also how MAD tried to make sure
that they didn't just play back,
they weren't just only playing a very default approach
to themselves.
Yeah, the question that I also have then
is when we're seeing it be this competitive
and what you've coined for as one of the better times
that you've watched cashier in the competitive
is looking towards again, you're wondering,
he's now kind of in coin as their main shot call
for this map and looking at all of the rotations,
all the changes that Fury had for themselves.
How much are you craving to him?
And again, trying to almost encourage him
that this can work out for you.
Like I'm very happy with seeing the trajectory.
I'm actually interested to know
if they might have changed something up on the T side,
because I think you got to the later parts of the T side.
The Kindars was having a tough game.
They were having a bit of a tough T side, 12-8 down.
It wouldn't surprise me honestly
if Fallen had taken over there.
That still felt like a Kindar game,
but it actually would not surprise me at all
if they had gone a different direction
because it did feel like there was a bit of a change of pace
coming into the last few rounds as well.
It definitely, I wouldn't put it past Furia
to keep things fluid with who's chiming and where.
I also fully expect that on the maps
that they say Fallen calls on,
yet kind of are still provides a lot of mid round input or even in the middle of a half.
Yeah, it's just one of those questions I had to ask. I had to get the information out because
you guys obviously know the looks of what could potentially be either or there. And
you've highlighted case to rider was that plan to be for the side of fury. We're hoping
it continues from up to but again and maybe really pushing them to their limits. JBA
showing up again. We loved what he looked like in their series against Navi and it feels
like whilst he was questioning his own consistency, that's something that he's struggling with
I would say he still really showed up today in map one, at least. Stonewall maps to come.
I like JBI, I like a lot of what we've seen from him and what we can see from him.
If I'm pointing out a player from M80 though, I don't think we can get past Lake.
I think Lake was the key for them on this map in so many situations.
I think he ended this one with nearly 30 kills. He was the caseurado of their side,
but I think he's in slightly more aggressive roles,
and he's the reason for them that this one got so close.
Just couldn't push it quite over the line.
I would I would definitely echo that sentiment that Lake was in rounds similar to quacerado in how he was able to break things open or go the extra
Mile on just some kind of play whether that's an aggressive one or we set up to succeed
I feel like his micro play like he was I think that round 10 actually is really where he stepped up when he was able to push towards the truck side
side, able to swing back towards main.
And also, I feel like his presence of mind
in so many situations on when he shouldn't die
was also similarly impressive.
The problem is that, unfortunately, in this game,
he's so frequently the entry fragger for them.
So there are a couple rounds where he just dies,
and then you don't really get to see any of his impact,
whereas K-Sirado always had a red carpet rolled out for him,
where he was going to have a lot of room to operate with.
Yeah, whereas Firiya, it feels like you always
have that certainty of the closer coming in from K-Sirado,
and then you question who's going to have the opening.
Is it going to be Mollidoy?
Is it going to be Kindar?
On the opposite side, sometimes you
struggle when you're in M80 or you know,
Spirit C this once in a while.
You see teams, they have a great opener.
They struggle to find the closers that can actually
put the bell on this round, finish it off,
and actually put them over the line,
which M80 unfortunately didn't have this time.
Feels like that's just the tale here
for the side of Cache 4.
M80, where we're seeing this pick come out from them,
we're seeing them really be able to put the test
up to the side of Feria.
But at the end of the day, they couldn't
get it over the line it was only one more round they needed for themselves to be
able to close out their map pick and instead they have to look towards what
is going to be map number two and this best of three hope for themselves it's
going to be a better showing as we'll see dust two just after this break
It is
is our final best of three for day number three here at Blasphemia open
order and we're looking towards right now what is going to be Dust2 and
potentially a 204 Furia who were pushed to overtime still pushed their limits
and they're hoping for a much cleaner
not only did they pick for themselves but they have many more iterations on
too. I think we should expect a cleaner game from Furia but I mean when you look
at the way that cash was played I don't think you can fault them for that one
getting close. Both teams played that so well. You go into Dust 2 though. That's a
more comfortable map for Fury. That's a map where I've seen them fallen. It's
called circles around other teams on this map even with their two lot and two
map lost on this one. They're incredible on both sides of the map.
Molodoy pops off. You kind of had some great maps on this one too. This is a
fury a home pick for them. Exactly. Even though they haven't really been picking
it this season last season they picked it more than a handful of times. Think they
even picked it against Falcons early on kind of around. I think it was actually
the last blast open event.
So there were many times where they felt extremely comfortable
on this map and like Vu said,
that's because I think their T side calling has,
I mean, Fallen has a great understanding
of how he wants to dictate the mid-round
and you have individuals who simply just succeed
on the map as he already mentioned too.
We'll see if they get that successful themselves,
if they get the 2-0 or if M80 is still gonna be able
to bounce back strong and put them a performance
like they did in Cache as we're at Univ.Costas,
grown in London.
That looks back on a crazy style.
I mean hopefully for their sake mo because I think there's still something about getting back after knowing you were
12 8 up 5d 3 that's a heartbreaking round loss for the side of m80 and
They didn't really recover ever since now the poly market predictors still feel unfair though
Yeah, that's still unfair that last one getting as close as it did hold on 12 to 1 put us back on camera
Thank you take it away
That's
Yeah, it's all you. Go ahead.
I really wanted to get that. Absolutely nothing to say.
Just wanted to get it yourself. Pretty sick, I think.
I think I'd explain that. Pretty tough, if you ask me.
Come get it!
Dust 2, let's go!
Action right away.
Love this. Oh well.
For who?
I was excited for Lake's sake.
The case or auto kind of a monster this evening, although we've got the rest of them 80 picking up the slack
Wait a second. Molladoi catch them if they get a little too antsy. Oh, yeah, Megan
You can see him agitated down there in the tunnels. You kind of hits the pause button
And then they depart back now. It's a loud fury it'll link up feels like it's around that just you know slowly becomes a
Oh your kinder man. He's actually I think figured out an even better solution
Molladoi's up on cat
He's gonna climb up because they're gonna challenge now.
It's the bomb.
Oh, that's one.
But nice trade, Swisher.
Quick the execution.
Because he's walking back.
Did the bomb hit something or did it just land it on the ground?
We saw that.
It's just not that far out of the doors, is it?
You notice they're gonna try to link up.
Would Swisher dare push through?
He's up close.
Careful.
Ooh, bombscrapped.
Oh!
That's good damage, but it's neither kill.
Maldoy had chances there, M80 put the squeeze on, felt like with Lake's first death,
Kacerado is just going to tear through everybody, but hey, they got away with it.
We've got M83 for three in pistol rounds so far tonight.
I thought that your kind of had to figured out when he was going up,
when Maldoy was going up cat at first, but then,
the back of tunnels went out to mid, didn't really see everything.
So, I guess in some sense was guessing.
Lucky to get his skills, he walked out of the doors.
Oh, he was laughing like three seconds ago.
Not anymore.
Don't play around with this map, that matey.
That's the thing, I mean, I'm maybe currently on a 3 map losing streak here on Dust2, thanks
to Aurora, Legacy, and Debt Boom, Fury on a 2 map losing streak, thanks to Legacy and
Foot.
Both of those go down the same, down at the Esports World Cup, same event where Fury were
able to win Dust2 convincingly, 13-4, 13-6 over G2, and 9s these, so yeah, I think the
the death put it very well despite this two map losing streak very capable team
on dust two and comfortable here to try to flex the advantage but this five
versus four they earned off molly boy plus that tag on JBA could definitely get
you into a B bomb site with a sudden pop JBA still just jumping around with that
MP9 decides to double back it's it's the two lesser of the weapons here but
Smoking off front tunnels.
Trying to make it seem like there really is more here.
They are going to rotate back towards A site, where at least
it's the FOMAS and the M4 in play.
The silver lining for Furia is you've got the defense split
2-2 per site.
Problem is, it's rifles to get through.
And Goose could catch them off.
Will, indeed.
Tech 9 can't trade back, and now that clock's going to expire.
Unfortunately for Furia, hitting that B site,
whether they knew it or not, would have probably
lined it up hanging in the better spot.
This one gets dangerously close with these duels, especially the kills coming through.
Oh, but that's one player!
Two! Oh, that's a way!
8 HP for Kcerano, but they still killed one after time expired.
Damn, that was close.
That would have stunted them for sure.
But in a second, I'll get that kill, and Kcerano's got a good gun.
Yeah, he's like, alright.
Sin's losing control, he's caught.
That's a me feeling excited at another prospect of a strong start
It's nice that that's like their thing like I don't think a single other team in the world that's sort of that
That calling by committee. Yeah, just that many times all the time
Like almost everyone else suffered for not having enough ideas
I
Think it's the most quiet person on M80. I feel like it might be JBA. Yeah, I think slacks. Yeah, JBA
He's always yelling. He's always yelling, but I mean like
That's true
I mean though for like in terms of like ideas it starts of rounds and stuff
Oh, okay, I'd assume slacks would make calls when you want to make them dumb as well. No, no
He talks but never anything. He's just the new guy, you know
I'd never call him a fucking idiot
I like you
You don't like dumb people
Okay.
Haha!
Oh, the Eagle kill for your kindar with a bomb plant.
Furious fighting success again. This is weird.
You've got a sight under wraps.
You've got no long control, so that's gonna be a problem.
You can see them trying to move over with this M4
K-sur-Auto killing people every step of the way.
As they peek out into the scenes, it's JBA
to make the difference.
Still has a 1v1 to win out, though.
Peaks out wide.
Bomb planted it for Kat.
And it's falling down in CT spawn.
Oh, he didn't see that.
Maybe they're trying to find the damn bomb of all things.
Still thinking maybe falling behind and out,
but he'll win the duel, get back on bomb.
It's a little tight.
It's really close.
And he misses.
Ah, he's falling.
Find that bomb.
We'll close out the 1v1.
And for the first time, M80's pistol does not
net them a 3-0 starts.
But you still like KBA, right?
Of course.
OK.
Until otherwise stated.
Kills a little bit too clean from Cacerado, if she was to stay alive a little bit as they
were swinging out, that definitely could have been more successful.
Retaking up towards A. Man there's such a bad spot too.
You lose one round and this is what you get.
But then, once you're back into quote unquote safety on your side of the doors, that's when
Molledoy goes for the wider angle, tags up Swisher, who's now stuck with a pistol and
only 57 health.
Uh oh.
I mean, it's okay, he's a new addition to the team Fallen, he's uh, he's one of the
new guys around here.
He combined like, how many players could you combine to have less experience in Fallen
this game. All the foot. And most of M80? Yeah, probably. Yeah. M80 as well. Yeah, two teams.
Oh, slacks with a quick scope to Kcerados head. Okay, keep it interesting. Tough job from here on
out, but gets more tag damage out. If only there was something else to work with on this defense,
Yeah, he knows he's got to forego the cat extension, which is gonna put Furia in a post-plant, no doubt.
It's all about the Xbox climb, what they get out of this.
Setting up for the retake, four player strong, met by another smoke.
They just got to run through shooting.
Up and open at least, they've got that going for it, but there's so many players here ready to shoot back.
Furia going for the heavy cap post plan and Slax is going to try to get this scout into the next round now.
So Furia tying this game up two rounds all early days.
He's getting chased though.
And down he goes. So no scout to follow up.
And unfortunately for M80 those buys have dried up.
They're going to have to wait to get their economy back online giving Furia a real open road for the lead.
I realize results for fall in 2005 on
Lickipedia, so all of 21 years.
Lake TurnPro last year.
Wow.
JBA TurnPro what?
Three years ago?
Two years ago, yeah.
My goodness.
Uh oh, you're letting Kcerado have warm-up, but they'll kill him.
There's your reward.
An AK-47 fresh from Kcerado's hands.
Cacerado just takes so many kills last game that, you know, he can't have had enough time.
So good.
Yeah, eventually like the calls kind of took over for the reason they won and everybody
else started to shine a little bit, but it was just such a heavy hitter.
That was Kcerado season going, in fact.
1.18 rating over the last three months.
Never really falls off, man.
I mean, I genuinely...
Viria's worst for years. Never fell off really.
0.01 better than Mollidoi on land in the last three months.
That's the left and right hand of Fury at the moment.
That's their off-rifle combo.
The hands of Exodia?
Yeah. Which makes Yukindar in the left.
the feet I guess if she the leg yeah
is there a torso piece for Xodio yeah no it's attached to the head the heart
in the mind mo they're one no this guy agrees
so I made after being stunned with light buys got everything they hope to work
with but case of all those already got scissors at the entry tries to double down
on sin who at least returns it back by once
So round go and is inviting back Spam.
Yeah, you shoot what?
He shot one bullet additional through that smoke
and then just two AKs fire pack.
Slacks find the pack kill in the meantime.
Lake gets one off the car and that opens a door
for Slacks to multi-frag.
Now Fallen, 1v2, Galil and Bomb on his back.
And as he pushes forward, he catches the right foot first.
Gets the instant kill.
Oh, it's falling.
Fallen!
Oh, Slacks falls off.
And that inaccuracy means he never gets a chance
the shootback Gabriel Toledo with Furia's force.
Damn, that's uncomfortable.
Presenting.
It's on that crystal menthol.
This is the response to sin shooting two bullets.
Oh, no.
You thought I could go wide enough for that.
The hell's out?
Hello! Now the long flight, Fury, don't waste a moment!
And they're just gonna gun down Sin as well.
This is kinda next level out of Fury right now.
Super confident that they got the edge of these guns, because they're absolutely correct.
Last time I saw a farm game like this.
Everyone's been taking CS so seriously lately.
I know, man.
Like, bro, it's groups.
Swing.
I think everybody's been taking it so seriously because there was we had this conversation earlier about like it's sort of like
Period of a bit of sloppiness. Yeah, you know and and nobody wants to be that team that's falling apart at the seams
But it's like do you not swing because you're bad or?
It's very very philosophical
Do you swing when you shouldn't because you're good?
Yeah.
Or do you swing when you shouldn't because you're bad?
Yeah.
Great question.
Like are you bad because you're not swinging enough?
I just win.
We'll have to ask Nat what she thinks.
Confucius say.
Even crumbs is bread.
But very rapid attacks on long these last rounds back to back to Kindar, K-Serado, whoever it takes.
Yeah. You're getting fritzed and frazzled.
Fury up 5-2 on this T-side. 2% left. Correctly with the Pedia.
This is the 369th event in Fallen's career.
We'll be 98% done with Fallen's career after this attack.
Oh my god. Oh, that number's crazy.
Ouch. B-transport on the Heartstrings.
Just a drop that one at the end.
90.
Only 2% left?
98% done.
Aw, it's free.
Wait.
Yes, what kind of knife do you got, you kinder?
Sharp one.
See, it's the Leto user, I forgot.
Oh, yeah, classic.
Aw, he's waiting for somebody to come join.
And guess what, Swisher's inbound.
If not inbound, he's at least going to play that ramp.
but you know you kinder he'll go for the grand kill first
yes mokla just make sure they can't come out
genius
and being there it is
the
covers nicely done
the
everybody to get up on the catwalk
you kinder is greasy
in all the right way
all that you know what he did it perfectly
Yeah, he did. It ain't came from that distance, just not gonna hit every time.
And I love that when you didn't get the first kill, he changed targets.
You know, he didn't over commit to the guy further away.
Screw it, you can't back to that fight.
That's what he did.
Shut up, you kinder. And that's just, ugh, it's so gut-wrenching if you're M80 now.
Like, you're losing rounds like that.
He's gonna blow himself up.
Okay.
How in the world did he survive that?
Blake's still alive, alive and kicking, trying to save the second M4, 45 HP for the CTs that remain combined.
And JBA just killed two in window. This suddenly becomes a very costly perfurea.
Kcerato's gonna topple one of the airs.
Boom. Kcerato. Kcerato.
He always gets his, man.
Kcerato.
The kinder's in the second prime.
From the 4v5, by the way.
I said, Donk was in his second prime the other day.
Now he's ganked into it, too.
He's waving at J-Raz.
We keep J-Raz locked up in the production closet.
He wants his new name to be Moment Operator. Have you heard about this?
No.
It's ridiculous.
As in, like, his...
Yeah, and he's observers too many rights.
He wants his, like, official broadcast title.
Yeah, yeah.
It doesn't like Observer, he thinks he's too perverted.
Well, he's a cinematic Observer, right?
This is Jayraz, by the way, whenever you see these live angles, this is Jayraz.
Observing, by the way.
Now he wants to be called what, by for doing this?
Sorry, we're giving Jayraz the highlight, so now, Chef looks bad.
This is Jayraz, this is Chef.
Chef?
Jayraz.
Jayraz.
I think he's Christopher Nolan all of a sudden.
He's got his hair slicked back.
Here comes the lake off the flash with a nice chance to get this back into the even of 4v4.
Taking a man advantage, Sint.
Dangerous game to go up against a Kindar like that, but making use of the MP9 up close.
If you're here, feel a little awkward with this one.
You know, just because CTs are actually poking and prodding this round,
Instead of being on the receiving end of a yukindar work
Actually peek out
Molladoy was looking for that. Wait, but he sees three
Mom's not going this way. Okay. All this round winds up being about slacks of the double kill and off to the save for Molladoy
Well, that one had a thin air. Good job, M80. Well done.
Winging around with less. But around where again, I feel like, you know, you're down
6-2, CT side starting to feel suffocating, so get active, get wild. What was it? We watched
Lynn Vision, unfortunately, yesterday, switch to the CT side with a massive lead and lose
to Falcons because it just never felt like they kind of got aggressive with their moves.
Yeah. And even, uh, even Sonic.
You know, even Sonic, when Falcons were on the CT side, took that call and said,
guys, come on, let's make moves, let's make decisions, let's create action.
Well, now we get a round of that from M80.
When things start to feel dire, and look what happens.
Beautiful 2K from Slacks, and M80 find a third round win.
Def always standing.
You know we talk about J-Raz and talk about Shev, but who's standing behind this camera?
Nobody knows that it's another moment operator moment operator crazy title
Mind you they do call us talent so
Maybe we should start renaming things true. We got away with that one
Yeah, I'd like my title to be esteemed orator I think I'll choose God
Or clown
It's J-Raz no way it's it's the oh we put them on camera the moment operator
here. You can't handle this. You can't handle, I know J.R. as well. He could not handle that.
Good. Now let's go visit the green room next. See what those guys are up to, huh? Yeah,
let's see what the talent are doing. I know Voo has just started panic cleaning his Pepsi
Max off the tables. Okay, let's walk back in. We've got real guns. Oh, yeah, real guns,
real guns. Fourth game, things get wild around here. Flashes out through mid doors. And maybe
we're really hoping there's a cat approach and there still could be. Peek wide but they
just keep their heads top. Kcerato extends there for an extra second, forces them to
fall back through fire. Now you've got mid control here for you Kindar and an opening
pick Furious Favor. Shoulder blocked into that really uncomfortable situation.
Blacks avoids that, but misses a shot. Either way, Lake gets it. They find the double up,
right? Multiple bodies here, Fallen swings. Oh, and you kind of are getting the kill
into CT spawn simultaneously, all on Sin now. That's a bit of a mess though, right?
Because why does Slacks fall down if Lake's gonna be throwing an HE when, you know, they
could peek? In that situation, he could have stayed up there, looked for the trade frag.
They could have thrown his nade, then the AWP gets the kill, and both fail off.
Just a tad de-disorganized.
Stepping on each other's toes a bit.
A lot, actually.
Didn't try to find any value, but this round was already too far gone.
It's the green room!
Wow.
They didn't even try.
Yeah, this is clean, by the way.
They didn't even try.
Okay.
Okay.
Analyst desks, am I right?
Nice valley thundering, I love that.
Should we go see Leonard?
You want to see the most 3D printed objects in one room.
He should give me this dagger that I...
Is this a dagger?
I don't know what this is.
You should be holding the weapon if you don't even know what it is.
Yeah, going from heartfelt moment to heartfelt moment here, M80.
They had their foot on Furious Throat.
12-8 cash.
Lost to 5-3.
Have not been in control of this game since.
And it's not like they've totally lost hope.
Oh, man.
But they're losing.
They're just straight up losing.
Yeah, I mean, Furia here on this game side.
Oh, no.
Playing well ahead of it.
Kandar's going to crawl right into this and execute
Lake, who is trying to play off that op.
You know, so we're getting to that point in the CT side now,
where M80 are throwing out double-op setups,
trying to find solutions.
We'll give them that, right?
The aggressive openings.
They've tried a lot of different things.
They've had ideas.
They haven't.
But now, mechanically, they're just getting outplayed by Furia, who are too sharp on this T side.
And you've got K Sarato doing what he did back on Cache again here.
14 kills on this half alone.
Woo! Slacks with a quick reaction as Molotow as Lurt gets found.
So it'll open the door for the save.
That'll put real guns in the hands of M80 for the final round.
This is a four round CT side best case situation for M80.
Besides the start from Furia, where M80 played really well.
Ever open to that, by the way.
Oh, so I should stop doing that.
Let me do much fun.
Why'd your face look so serious when you were looking that sort of?
Feel pretty tough.
Not gonna lie.
And besides the first start to the to cash,
it was just a very, very legitimate start for M80.
It wasn't like Furia were just so terrible.
They had so many openings and stuff.
This is the most on-form a team is looking besides Spirit on two maps.
Yep.
Well, again, remember, Furia hadn't won a series 2-0 since the Major.
Two months of competition in this season.
And they hadn't been able to do that.
So they changed that with the pain 2-0.
It's a long summer.
In their opening day.
And now they're looking for consecutive 2-0s.
Which I want to say hasn't happened since that major.
So Furia showing form.
They are running out of events to win with Fallen.
You know technically that was always true.
Yeah.
But now we're 90% of the way there.
Yeah.
And I'm sure if you go back to that season of success where they strung trophy lifts
together, they would have thought like even if Fallen was retiring at the end of 2026
that surely we'll get at least another one.
It's been a dry spell.
They've had chances.
It feels like with Spirit not being the perfect team, with Vitality having to stand in, I
This is a great opportunity, Porto.
For Furia to challenge for that trophy again,
if they're gonna show resilience,
if they're gonna show convincing 2-0 form.
And Caserato keeps up these numbers.
On top of that, on Monday,
At 11 a.m. European Central, we would have Spirit vs. Furia ahead of the playoffs as well to decide who starts quarters, who starts semis.
Playing so well.
They're holding on to B, they're taking A site. Okay, great kill from Sin. This is one thing that gives them a chance that they run out of his 3B stack.
JBA holds his nerve, it's falling down, pop up from the platform and it's Lake now on the receiving end of the shot.
Another chance to walk in round right back.
This has been missed.
Yep, Sin has missed the timing.
Player on site can catch him.
But oh, there goes the block.
It's actually now irretrievable.
Even with the K Serato trade, they need the frags.
Very awkward fizzle out in the final round of the half.
And Adi will grab a fourth.
Celebrate what you can.
They've got themselves at least that to work with.
But this entire half is felt like Thuria
are leading their way to playoffs.
15 to the clock. It's another close call coming out of Furia in round 11 off finds the pit kill
Somebody's got a clear brolin out of this corner and here comes Surtian
Sprinting in through the moto smoke to send the curve ball through a plan again. He could play it again
Just enough time 1v3 queued up for Molladoy him versus Torsi
And he looks the wrong direction does he get wind of it?
Oh, it's a great day for the peak but Molladoy still hiding and Torsi doesn't know
He takes the no-scope to the chest and it's another clutch from all adoy his second of this half alone
Round number 18 furia
five kills away
From the big stage at the moody center
They just need to complete this round and it starts well
Cacerato has slaughtered Flemish as he tries to burst through the smoke here.
Nice jump up, but Cacerato is still out there.
That M4 doing all the work. It's a massive quad kill.
And he already had the, he almost had the ace earlier.
This time he's going to try and see if he can really complete it.
The USP out and he gets it. An ace to get to the playoffs.
He said Ford has been quiet on Inferno.
Well, he can't afford to be quiet here in round 22.
Do they do a contact?
Is it really going to be destroyed? It is into the orb.
Shadow activates if he's necessary. Now the Nade does chip damage,
but still that bomb is under their control, and a Fallen steps up,
delivers what his team need the most, a triple kill on the orb,
down goes Rekord A, and the job is done. The round is 1-11-11.
I know what Fury are wishing for. Another one of them from Fallen.
Four kills in the round.
Fury has stacked those rounds.
Monacy uses that moment to establish an angle on Hut, but first shot misses,
And there's a lot of movement for Buria Outer. They write off this threat. Kicks hand can't get his.
This is your Kandar just trying to charge it down multiple bodies still. But he doesn't give a damn.
He's not done yet.
Oh, he's just parrying right through everyone.
He's a bulldozer.
Miko, last man standing here inside of the site.
It's a quad-powder for your Kandar.
He will stare them in the face and step up to the plate.
What a monster, your Kandar.
Take a look. Nothing that he can see, but if he continues on this journey, he could have caught them off guard.
Molledoy though, all the wiser.
Magazines out. They are training him.
You get Molledoy. They are training him.
Sunpai has found a kill as well towards A. Molledoy is able to get one.
Three on five. Get the 4k. There's one.
Makes it all the harder. Four shots. Four health.
This is a crazy play. Sunpai is looking for him to go up above.
No kid here for Sunpaius either. He's wasting critical time on this, but he does manage to get out another miss shot here for Molotov.
Oh, the last shot closes pistol. It almost looked like G2 would take it.
But the 5B3, Molotov, the sole survivor.
One last lifeline for M80, the fact that they've picked up all three pistols so far this series.
This series gonna need another one as they face an eight for fury a lead down a map this one for guaranteed playoffs
Launders
30 bomb and a Serato 34 and 15 in first halves today. That's kind of insane
34 and 15
80 damage HE by the way a shot one shot headshot
Be a great time for fury to pick up their first pistol
It feels like it could just be the beginning of the end if they do that
They didn't clear them clear them at all. Mollidoy able to get a kill. It's gonna reopen the door for falling to come push
You got kinder and falling low, but Mollidoy kills another
Sin slips the net. Mollidoy nice adjustment
Lake may have just opened up the b-site. He'll take his time and teabag dead bodies while the bomb is on the other side
Yeah, champagne out of third place right now. Unfortunately
Celebrate the little wins, okay, that's a start actually is falling as 10 HP so what
about come on I love that they you know may have to wind up using case Serato is the final
boss who better to stop Lake from finding this pistol round ace yeah fallen will do it from
inside pit tough job there without bomb knowing he's got to exit through the door so furia
to pick up a pistol win in the series
and secure a ninth round with it.
It is just that it, you know,
it's not the most dominant half by the numbers,
but it is one where clearly Fury
have feel like they've already won.
That's what we saw in the first half.
They look so good now.
It's the first time I feel like I've actually been confident
in one of the top teams in terms of like them actually
living up to their form.
Like, normally, basically any other part of this year, you'd look at Furia and M80 and say M80, they're a good scrappy team, but they're not going to win this game, you know, they might come close, they might pick up a map, but until the end of Cache, just felt like more of what we've seen so far between the bounty and now, it's a lot of upsets, a lot of sort of unexplainable dips in form, and at first we blamed online, at first we blamed the beginning of the season, but it's not bad anymore.
there. Nowadays it's real. Fallen opposite tuck into car. This is two MP9s on the cross
and four M80 players inbound. Ah, they don't check him and the smoke's perfect for Fallen
to get away here with the triple kill. Comes back wide into it and that's the bomb dropped
in front of him. Slacks still relegated to the other side of smoke and the last man's
It's been found out here bottom mid.
Feeling like Furia can do no wrong in the face of this force
buy, so it'll be a save up next for M80.
That'll be a guaranteed 11-4 score for Furia off this one.
And that's why they're playing so loose,
because right now, I'm probably starting
to feel untouchable as this game's gone on.
Hell, not just feeling it, looking it.
The fact that Furia know they can do this without pistols
already have two. Perfect smoke to mitigate the MP9 problem. Time to perfection. Cut some
off one by one three Desert Eagles m80 tough place to be nice all right good
find. All fallen had was a tech nine. No, wait, no, it's not
should have been. Think it would have been the MP9 from last
round. Yeah. What's on the ground, Jay? It's a tech nine.
Ain't that funny? What in the world? It's like a prank. Yeah,
it felt crazy to say out loud, but yeah. I've never seen that
floor given to you what CT second round having a tec-9 after winning well he
died at the end of the round so his teammate supposed to just give him a
sidearm you know this little prank see ya mp9 making money ace no sir denied by
slacks you go under the ace site go ahead you got an m4 in front of you
Deagle and Ham, chance to plant, money could maybe start to turn this game around if there's going to be anything of a T side in store.
But that could shut up by the beast himself. K-Sorado 16 and 8 shut it, sit down. There's that guaranteed round I promised you.
It's not with majority alive, but still two players up.
The counter-counter balance it by winning with all the MP9 kills as well. So much extra cash.
It honestly really does matter that on rounds like this you run into the rifles, you know,
pistols, ops, hopefully.
But that's not really the top of their list at the moment.
So a little time out here just take the opportunity as seriously as you can.
Yeah.
in really begging for time to speak right now because it's crunch time.
All of us may have been pretty lighthearted as that half went on because it just felt
like Furio were sprinting to the finish line, but obviously M80 no.
They got a fight in them.
I really love that they can be losing this badly and still just be like…
Try to lock in.
Yeah.
I don't want the lightheartedness of this second map to take away the praise of M80
back on Cache.
That was actually such a good game of CS, on cash, for them.
But you didn't close 12-8.
And you lost control of the situation from there on out.
It's an M80 that already showed us real grit in their ability to bounce back versus Navi down after getting stomped map 1.
And it is an M80 that will have to fight Aurora for their tournament life,
Assuming Furia closed this out like it feels like they will.
What a bit of great find.
Sin just talking about shorn and the attack pausing.
Head Moledoy.
Ow.
He gets out mid alone.
When he slips the net through CT spawn, you kind of are missing the timing.
Yep, completely.
Could have happened sooner, but he doesn't know.
And you got Molotov over here on the CT cross.
He's probably cleared it.
Yeah, he didn't see anything else.
I feel like with the smokes you can see the path that he couldn't have taken.
And you can know the kind of guy that would have made a move like that from Lake.
It's true.
So, of course he considers it, clears it out and then really takes the wind out of the sales for M80 who would love to have had at least the kill to work with.
Don't Molly, just to say to you.
Frag will soften him up, and swish her down to half.
Slacks covers off the CT arrival. Second player there. Slacks eating flashbangs.
Those CTs so quick to bounce. JBA fights his. One and done. Swisher answers.
2v2, and Slacks with the cover is keeping his post plant alive.
Yuri on the scene.
Labored effort to try to get that M4 damage in,
so it's the USP that'll get it in the end.
Now it's smoke for the defuse, and he's got the kit,
and Slacks does not have a need to open this.
No.
Slacks is going to switch to the AK, sprays him off it,
and M80 gets squeezed on site, but by God, they pull that off.
At the very least, a fifth round win.
I love Slacks taking that deep angle in the CT,
and needed to take some kind of risk.
Comes a six round game because of it.
And I do feel for late because he was also looking around at the same time.
But I don't think there's a chance of that.
You can hear it in the hard clear of.
And they're grateful.
Any win they can get.
Yep.
Any chance back into this game they'll take.
That's why we just threw the first half, because M80, give it a chance to lock in.
And right now, locking on to this target, CT's stuck behind the B site box.
Whatcha gonna do, Yuri?
I think Slax is thinking, man, if they're not smoking tunnels or anything, we could have been literally scaling up into this
for so long.
Could have actually walked out onto the site. He calls everyone over.
Kindark, clearing the MAK10 out of this round.
How did he pull that off?
Lake's gonna tiptoe his way through, has to dive into the smoke in case the CT1 got popped.
Oh, just... I would say just be, you know, kind of quick about this.
Luckily for them, Furia don't actually put any additional pressure down through that spawn, so Yuri's just locked in back site.
LAKES! No way he's missed it!
Pussycruary! Yuri with the double!
What a disaster.
Even then finding 40 damage on his slacks, you would have thought that LAKE clears back site, and this is all free space.
Instead, Molo-Doy holds that cross-off, and it's gonna be JBA 1v4 instead.
Challenges door, dies to the blind case, LARATA.
The rado and now it feels like fury. You just can do no wrong man. I Yuri didn't move that entire route
Yuri didn't check window either until this one time. Yeah, I mean mid was open for so long like no
Hi Paul's about to fall out of his head. I
Can't believe it gets a skill to have no trade. He's just sitting here. He's sitting there right there. I
Guess cuz the Molly to say he's not gonna be in that spot right? Yeah
I mean and slacks had seen the smoke grenade thrown from in sight, but then they put that solly there right?
Lending into the wall
Thumbs in dude
Yeah, you know as much as it kept the energy up after a loss like that. Oh, it's that one. Yeah, that one stuff that one's
Almost as gut-wrenching as the five verses three and twelve eight that I keep on referencing
Maldore is good to deliver and Furia will win back-to-back 2-0 series, showing a real hot start to their form here at Blast Open Porto.
Furia a guaranteed presence in the Superbock Arena.
to be able to do that.
A 204 fury in it here. We are
not going to be seeing it. Map
number three of Mirage at all
because dust two was definitely
a comfort for them there. They
knew everything about it and
despite us wanting to give a
little bit of hope out there
for the M 80 fans, it just was
not the day today when you're
coming up against the team like
to go to an O, but I mean that you know, they still have a chance.
They're still in the event.
They aren't eliminated quite yet, and I think that they're a very solid
showing, especially on cash.
Yeah, hope died in the 5v3 loss on cash round 22, where Cacerado just
destroyed everybody.
That's where that's where M80's hope died.
Yeah, well, we've got the man himself who crushed that dream.
So I hope he's going to sleep well tonight.
I think we need to have Brazil in Porto, right? Portugal and Brazil, they have a long, long
start a relationship so I'm feeling good that we can show ourselves so the
Brazilian that lives there and also the Portugal people so see you there. Yeah it
was a really great fight you guys had though on cash especially battling back
into that one what did you think of M80's cash? Yeah they're playing very good
actually it was tough some rounds they hit hey when we had the only one or even
with two was hard and also they play very good after plants so yeah but I
I think I fucked them right yeah, I
Mean you said you said it on me. I mean, but yeah, no that that performance you had individually was just ridiculous
I mean you didn't let them have a chance any round that you had a fair fight against them
What do you how do you think it's clicking for you and cash other than maybe just that map?
well, I don't know I just changed my crosshair so I
Think I'll keep this one for for sure actually have a play for spirits, right?
You still have the ball, you qualify 2-pointer, but for seeding and things like that, you still have that best of 3-0.
Yeah, let's see how's it go.
How important is it to you for this Fiora team to go straight into the semi-final rather than losing the spirit and you end up in the quarters?
Well, it's important because it's like one last match. Actually, Sunday will be the quarterfinals, right?
as well. So let's see what happened. The spirit, they have long and we have me.
I'm glad you said it was just you. I want to know what does it feel like though to be
in the server when you have two IGLs? You know, we've talked, we've heard about and
talked to Yakendar about the fact that you guys swap up on particular maps. Does it lead
to any confusion? Really, what's just the general feeling when you're in the server
like that? No, not actually, because back then we had
the Arten Fallen in the team, so for me it's normal and also like back in the days I was
the second caller so for me it's I feel free you know just go kill.
Could you point out any differences between the way the two of them call?
I think Maddox is more like he knows like gimmick shit.
I think they play more FPL than everyone in the team so Fallen is more like his low rounds
and all the stuff and more like readings.
I think both of them are very good,
but I don't think Madis can be the ideal for all the maps.
I think it's too much.
I actually want to pick your brain
because you mentioned art right there.
I mean, Legacy's been on a big uptake also,
so I just want to get your perspective on art,
getting a new roster, and finally,
I mean, finding some serious success with it.
Yeah, I think I played very good.
It was very hard to play against them
on the third place on Ipari.
So, yeah, in overall, I think they have a good squad.
I think Lotto is playing very good.
Also, Dumau, Trey is Santiago, is an amazing helper.
So I think that this roster they had now
is very important for Brazil's scenery
because we can reach the top again.
I remember quite a while ago,
you were asked about going international
and you said you want to bring Brazil back to the top.
You want to be on that number one Brazilian team.
Do you think you accomplished that at the end of last year
you still need to showcase that.
I think we are showing this for a while already, but it's good to see like
legacy also 90 from South America, bringing back also tournaments and
playing very good and eliminating also good things.
So I think the overall Brazilian wins, you know,
there's something that when I was talking to your kinder before this about
the map, he said he was a little bit surprised about it.
And I want to know like now that it's obviously played out now that we could talk about it a bit more
What part of it was surprising and do you also have that sentiment where like maybe you guys weren't ready for cash?
If I can make that assumption you're ready for crash
Actually, it was our pick so they picked the first
So yeah, but I think we have a really map pool right now. We can even play ancients. Yeah, I see it
So I think we believe ourselves in all those maps, you know.
Okay. Anything else for you guys here?
It's fucking hard to hear, no?
Yeah, I was gonna say, I can check your sweatings,
but I didn't want to keep you too long, but I feel like...
Oh my god.
I also had the second one too.
Is it not that hot over there where you guys are playing?
Oh, it is. Oh, yeah.
But it's hot here?
It's like an oven.
Is the weather panel standing, or is it hotter when you're sitting down and playing?
Playing because the computer is underground, so...
See, I was trying to have this internal debate.
I'm like, ah, the talent, we know it's so hard for us.
So important to me.
Is that point?
Like in the second half of the shoot,
I took her up my sleeve because, bro, what's he saying?
What's he saying?
I get it.
And I won't keep you any longer than K-SER.
I'll let you go outside and read you in the team.
Congratulations.
Of course, you still have your best three against Spirit,
but I'm excited to see you guys playing Porter.
Thank you so much.
He was going to do a shout out to the fans.
I'll do it for him, but we are going to see them again,
So, very well get many more chances to shout out the fans, thank them for following along as well, supporting them.
See, I know what it's like to be a player. I've heard them say this many times, but I was always curious about the heat.
We actually haven't asked them, and I know whilst I'm here in jeans and a long-sleeved t-shirt, it is actually really warm right now in Copenhagen,
and so I always wonder, like, where is that effect going to be? So, I'm glad Kasey Rader brought it up.
He must have liked it, because I mean, just dorm it. Just dorm it. Just dorm it.
That's it right. There's a little place that go it needs to be called up some go
Oh, it just needs to be one more for case around it needs to be sweltering apparently for him to get an almost and do more
No rating. I mean Brazil is a pretty hot place. He's doing only only really makes sense there
Maybe that's why some of the colder guys like the Nordic players haven't been having the best time at this tournament
It's an unfair competitive advantage
Okay, relax out there
I mean, like I said, he's
really good. I mean, he's
really good. Honestly, I feel
like a lot of players do
actually want it to be a
little bit warmer than
colder, though, because if
they then have to bundle up,
they have to wear a hoodie.
Sometimes that slides
across the table, especially
around their forearm. But
Caster auto. I mean, like he
said, he just adapted to the
situation. That's a land
player. Okay, that's a land
player didn't make an excuse.
Still kick bass took off the
sleeve. He said, you know, I'm
just going to play regardless.
And look, it was a great
show. We know just from him,
that's happening for themselves and the way that they were able to get a very good tour by the way
just quickly he mentioned they wanted cash like he was implying it wasn't m80 picked by the way
in the video it wasn't ready but he was implying like that's where they wanted to go anyway even
if it wasn't picked by m80 i have to wonder if navi thought the same thing when he picked anubis
and they blew them out of the water i go i wanted to pick that i wanted that man thank you appreciate
m80 has been pretty tricky in these videos not that it really worked with their pick versus
Na'Vi, although they won the series.
I feel like that's now two consecutive series
where you see them go for these kind of wild card picks.
And it is catching people off guard in some sense.
I mean, if they had gotten blown out on cash,
I would be questioning it.
Yeah, yeah.
The fact that that was a very good cash game
makes me think, OK, maybe they have something to it.
Because the Anubis on against Na'Vi
looked like they purely went for surprise value.
Surprise is sometimes the advantage that you need.
Unfortunately, it wasn't today for M80.
we saw that bracket updated
because today's been a cra
was the first one that we'
here in that double alibi
stage and we did end up s
up against dendly. So it'
straight off the bat. Aro
journey here and it was a
but it was a hard fought
map number two. You can s
down on the side of Aurora
at any moment, then they
Unfortunately, they didn't enter that journey ended early today. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Maui predicted that then delay
We're gonna wipe the floor with Aurora. I
Said that there would be a humbling
I did say indeed there would be a humbling and
To even bring it that close
I think in some way Aurora was humbled because they thought they were in a win more convincingly
You're trying to fit a circle into a square right now because I do not see
I said they would have been humble.
Nobody would back at me also predicting the exact same thing.
Well look, something that I definitely didn't predict was a 2-0 in favour of Spirit.
I definitely knew Spirit were the favourites here.
I was really hoping for a map number 3 there because that's the one thing you want to see in the upper bracket
when it's a qualification for a slot and a position at Porto.
You want to be seeing both of these teams on an even playing field and push the limits.
I think this is a spirit that's really solidifying themselves on cash the way that falcons should be solidifying themselves on cash
Okay, they are dangerous on that map right now
And our third series it was pain and Navi going up against each other again to keep their run and their dreams alive here at Blast
Open Porter because both of them in the lower bracket
It was Navi that continues on for themselves confidence confidence confidence
I felt like every single person we spoke to on the side of Navi
the same story for themselves,
and I'm hoping that this 2-0 was
the starting point because I would
love to see Navi get out of the slump
and back into the trajectory that
we know this team can be.
Talking about confidence like that
is like when you're told to smile,
it'll make you feel happier subconsciously.
They need the confidence so they
talk about the confidence.
So eventually they will be confident.
I mean they win the game 2-0,
but that did not feel 2-0 ish
in the way they did it.
No, they definitely could have
lost Mirage there.
That's my biggest concern.
That's my biggest concern with Navi is that once again,
they go for a map pick and yeah,
they break their four map streak of losing their own pick.
But at the cost of now almost losing it to a pain team
that is floundering, I'm really concerned about Navi.
I have already hit the panic button.
I am panicking on their behalf
and I think they should be too.
Well, don't panic too much
because I still need some more opinions from you guys.
All right, over at Polymarket,
there's many things that you can have predictions on
And we have done the stock standard of who's going to win Blast Porto here.
But more importantly, something that Voo loves doing at every Blast event is talking about what is going to be Donk's rating.
Is it going to be above 1.4?
I have to say, Donk has dwarfed the number of events that Zywoo or Simple have ever had at a 1.5 plus rating.
1.4 is light work for my game.
What what did you predict to plus bounty again? We don't need to worry about the time that he didn't
Record better than this is the one where he will break the rating record. This is the one
I don't know about a rating record, but for a 1.40
I would easily predict that he's gonna do higher than that
He's got a 1.7 something right now. I couldn't tell you the final digit there 1.78. Okay 1.78
Thank you Nat. Your memory is ridiculous on those kinds of things. You just memorize ratings numbers
like who does. Yeah, more. Actually, what's my honest? He's
rating at this event right now. Yep. Catch you, lady.
Well, either way, I think he's got it. I think it's not the
one point. It's almost like it's up to him. If he feels like
having a one point four rating, that's an easy day in the
office. I think you better curse him or not because that's
what happened to plus. But he said this is it. He's gonna have
the highest rating ever. Question is does I will hit a one
1.4 zero in any maps at this event. Oh, I'll give you a number. Yeah, we got this in the green room earlier
Yeah, one point seven eight Zai Wu is zero point seven eight. There is a one point zero zero rating differentiating
Rating differential between the goat and some French opera Wow
That's some quick maths any math right there. I love it for you do good work
I might not be able to remember all the numbers though, but I can remember that we have tomorrow's schedule on head
Yeah, I don't actually remember this schedule
So instead we're going to show you guys what is going to be played because we focused up on group a today
So it's going to be all about group B
We're going to see some more
Eliminations for them and it starts up with 90 up against vitality for elimination
It's they're going to be in a circle up against mass to see who qualifies for Porto back down to that lower bracket foot up against
Linn vision and Falcons going up against legacy to also hopefully secure themselves a spot in that arena Falcons are going to get their revenge
They will be humbling themselves. Oh no, no
I see Falcons winning this one. I got him
No, no, it's gonna take three. Yeah, this is a tough series legacy or no slouches. All right legacy or good team
It's just that Falcons have Kerrigan. He is my I
Fragging IGL. Wow. Wow
You just got a little too liberally that I'm gonna go back to school and give you another definition of guy
You need like some synonyms or something.
Yeah, seriously.
First one though, that's my match to watch.
Ninzee, Vitality on a slump with JL.
You might actually see Vitality finish in last place.
That is on the cards.
Ninzee already beat the full strength Vitality
at the last major in a B03 series, stage three there.
Luchov will humble JL.
Clip it and ship it.
I don't think there's a note that we could end on
any better than that one.
You guys will have to tune in.
it is our first series for day number four. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a lot more Counter-Strike action.
I don't know what I'm doing here, but I'm just going to try to get a little bit of a better idea of what I'm doing here.
I'm just going to try to get a little bit of a better idea of what I'm doing here.