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Walking static on the silvery
Eyes watchin', remembering the pain
The footsteps are calling with little light and night
I
When you fall on the floor
Asking to freshen up your heart
You trace my name in the ash on the floor
Still, I don't know who I'm aching for
Your hands were fire, but your heart was stone
Now every touch just cuts to the bone
In my mind, shall I second skinned?
Christ my soul, I am such a fool
No one's there to be found
I
I
I don't have conflict, you know. I put it in my head.
stuff manually. You think if I ask Art and he'll say the same nice story about you?
Yalla blue tibia, Yalla blue tibia toija. This is lobby. We're going to need some pro league
23 playoffs. Navi having just arrived of course. And wow, we've got a whole arena kind of to
ourselves at this point. So maybe we can catch up with someone. Make them feel cool. Who do
you want to, who do you want me to talk to? Say it in chat right now. What's up,
How are we doing, buddy?
Good, how are you?
Oh, you know, just another media day.
How's this setup working out for you?
Is it coming together?
Bad, bro.
Confirm, not say something.
Just something doesn't work?
Yes.
What is fine?
Get used to it.
What's your process of elimination?
Like when you find out, hey, something's off.
How do you figure it out?
I don't know.
I will not fix it for sure.
Like this.
I give any missions.
Okay.
Yeah, you got to try to make it fair.
reasonable. Okay so you guys were in a rush to get here I'm understanding how
was that this morning? It was good we woke up morning went for work we went for
eat we come here to finish media we have preparation after. And what will you guys
get into tonight? One more time? What will you get into tonight? What would I'm
getting? Yeah in tonight like what will you do tonight? Ah preparation and sleep
and be ready for tomorrow yeah. Okay so this isn't like the biggest arena you've
ever played in but it still is still ESL pro league so how do you think this
plans out like for the season 23 I thought he's gonna be like more big
arena somehow because I saw it in photos but it's good I like it it's like
better it's intimate you know it's like everybody's close yes but I'm playing
like this so it's fine it's got the pro league charm to it in there right
Yeah, it's like a bigger smaller than Malta, a bit bigger than Malta.
It is bigger and smaller than Malta at the same exact time.
Nah.
Nah, the studio was way smaller, right?
I think it was way smaller in Malta, yeah.
This seems like it's got a lot more, more, how you doing, how you holding up?
From outside, it looks so big.
We came inside, it's like, it's so small.
I've been lied to.
No, it's cool though.
I mean, you guys, you had this cool online era.
Everyone loves online Counter-Strike.
Tell me a little bit about it.
Yeah, it's a lovely that I have no words about it.
So what would you say would be,
do you think that everybody was playing
to their best ability online?
Do you think it was hindering some teams?
Do you think there were some poor performances perhaps?
You're speaking about everyone, not only our team, right?
I think it depends from the player to the player.
Like for example, the guys that are playing
like less last probably they are more comfortable
to play from home because they also like play some qualifiers, they can play some tournaments.
For us it's, at least for me, like, it was comfortable because it's home, but it's uncomfortable
officials.
Like it's different, like I can play from home, but it's so different from, like,
two officials, literally, because like, I don't know, I cannot explain it.
Are there any people that excel in the online portion of things?
Are there any people that do better online than, say, LAN?
I mean, I know there are a lot of new faces, a lot of new teams that come around, new players
that aren't used to this environment, but are any of them that jump out to you right off
the page that are better online, they are online?
I don't know.
I didn't look like into some specific players, but for sure there are some players that
play better online than LAN, and then whichever is like the other way around.
And yeah, like, we won't go like, I can give Longs as an example, he played way
better online than online for some reason but they also they're playing from bootcamp I heard. So
yeah it's like different. I don't know it depends from person to person.
I was basically just trying to get you to tell us who the onlineers are in 2026. Any ideas?
No that's not a question for me. Maybe it's a question for this guy because he's playing a
lot of face and stuff like this. He can see more people playing online than me.
He's got a big smile on his face when I ask it. So Mikazi.
No, I don't know any team that plays.
Yeah, he's like...
No, I swear, it's not any name on my head.
None of the jump out.
It's okay, it's like...
Oh, look how he's playing on face.
So he's definitely lying.
No, I swear, I don't have any name on his head.
You know, I can't blame you.
Because he's already said that he's kind of messed his own config up just to kind of give the other team a chance.
Ema, do you think that strategy pays out?
That he doesn't know how to...
All I know is just how to press the button to start the PC
It's pretty solid. I mean really what else do you need to know mccazzi? Nothing, bro. That's it
That's it, and that's that's me. I'm only you guys alone for just a second. I think you think of your time. Thank you
Slow start to the year, but this is a this is awesome playoffs now. So bringing in a new player rough one and crack out
Top four clues. Now you're here in the playoffs. So things in the right direction. Yeah, I think so
Yeah.
Big boy, big.
Sorry.
Yeah.
What else you guys got going on?
Was there a boot camp before this at all?
Did you guys do any practice in the back home?
Anything along those lines?
Back home, there's no practice, but like, with individuals, like, outplayers doing.
So, yeah.
And the online stage, I think, online stage, we did practice, like, at that time, sorry.
Can you give me something?
What do you like about CobraZero now that he's in the team?
You got a new teammate, you got to learn a whole new person, make a whole new
And what's he got going on?
What do you like about Cobra?
He's laugh.
He's laugh.
All right.
Does he laugh a lot?
Is he an easy laugh?
Yeah, he is.
He's laugh.
And he laughs a lot.
Like, yeah, he just laughs a lot.
All right.
Perfect.
Well, I'm going to try and get him to laugh.
I'm going to let you finish that now.
Excuse me.
Tech note, can I chat with you really quick for a little bit
before you get too deep into things?
All right.
Talk to me about just the start to the year.
New player in the team.
What's the environment been like in the team?
The atmosphere is good, everything going well.
For now, at the start we had a rough one.
For us from the outside, when you lose Senzu,
who was a star player and bringing CobraZera,
we're all thinking like, oh shit,
this is gonna be a little bit rough.
But you guys just picked up right where you left off
and it feels like you've had no significant issues.
Like you're still looking better now,
improvements already.
So did you think it was gonna be that easy
to bring in a new player and get right back to where you left off?
I think it's going to be the same like it was.
And also, Senzu gave the ball protection for him.
And yeah, I think it is.
Cool.
So everything's living up to it.
You guys got Navi as your first game.
You guys have played them plenty, beat them
in your last outing, they beat you before that.
What are you feeling right now?
You feeling like you guys have the edge on Navi
at the moment?
Yeah, of course. We will try to win and obviously I think it's going to be the top match for us, yeah.
Cool. Alright. I'll let you get back to it. Good luck this weekend.
Cobra, I've got to go and say hi. Hello.
Hey, I'm Jason and Moses. Nice to meet you. How is it in the team so far?
How is what's the experience been like for you as the new player in the squad?
We're good. It's great. Yeah, amazing. Yeah, yeah.
You've been killing it right out of the gate.
You've been competing with the best players, the best teams already.
Did you think it was going to be this seamless,
or did you think there was going to be a little bit more of a struggle?
You know, just good teammates.
That's all it matters. That's all you need in life.
Good teammates. Cool. Let's just set up.
Blitz, can I ask you one quick question?
If I have you turn over this way?
What, with Mara not here this weekend, just out of curiosity, what do you think is the
biggest thing that you're going to be missing with not having the coach involved?
I don't know. It's our first time here.
Okay, cool. That's all I got. That's all I have for it. I just want to know about Mara.
Alright, well, that's going to be the Mongols. We're kicking off the plows.
I don't have a conflict. You know, I put my stuff manually.
Oh, really?
So, every time I come in, I don't have a course. I put it manually.
What is it about some players these days that kind of, you know, they really believe in that system
like a lot of the newer players are different than the older heads who had their own configs
they had their own setup their own ways and what is it easier to just play it out of the box?
Like you mean if you put your config manually. I think it depends on you as an individual. I
don't have a lot of stuff to do so it's pretty easy for me and also I was sitting next to Zayu
you know I had config in the past and I feel like you just it doesn't have any
conflict you just do it manually and I think it does it manually I can also do
it manually and then it's actually faster like your five minutes and you
finish you just have to remember to do all the parts you don't forget anything
important for the game but I like it this way how many times you say you
have forgotten something before you got in the game would you say that's
ever happened you want to admit to that now like maybe the use button any
Any important factors and things that you probably forgot to set once upon a time?
Definitely there have been some cases. I don't think anything major like sense or anything
but for example, Crosse, you joined the server, fuck I forgot to put the Crosse.
And then you just go through each player and you're like, okay, what is good for me, you know?
Or FPS max for your number or whatever, you know? It's like...
Not the sensitivity, which is like, oh, fuck, you can see the play, but yeah, I forgot sometimes.
Which teammate do you go for the crosshair? Which one do you buy into the most?
So I check the enemies. I check the enemies, I just go one by one, and sometimes it's like, if I go to someone, and this crosshair is really nice, like, I like it, you know?
But it's like, ah, this guy is not so good, I'm like, should I use this crosshair, you know?
Is this crosshair cursed?
Yeah, but I'm easy to handle.
I just need a small crosshair, and it's working for me.
Thanks, Minks.
Hey, keep it up, man.
Whatever you've been doing, you keep doing it.
That's Spinks, of course, with Miles.
I'll just take my ref chair.
And we'll just slide on down one, because you feel good,
man?
I've been just told I'm good.
Oh, you're good?
I know you're good.
I've watched you play.
You're pretty good.
Yeah, like my new mouse, but spare goods.
Wow.
That's uh, how, where'd you get that?
How long you had that, buddy?
I'm good.
No, I just, I just got it because I left my mouse, but in the other, so.
Oh, so it was just like, uh, just for the time being.
Yeah.
Just temporary.
Do you miss hamburger?
Actually, the weather was pretty good though.
Yeah.
But, uh, yeah.
I think a lot of us have you guys as the
Well, I'll just say it now so that I don't jinx anything
We have you guys is like the favorites to win ESL probably this time around. What do you think about that?
Because I think I mean I think as a spirit I pretty likely to win the tournament and I think we also know like
We know it, you know, so
Yeah, but we are not really thinking about it
We didn't really talk about it, but I think it's just like if you look at the paper
I think it's likely that either us or Spirit are going to win on paper obviously, but as I said, we are not really thinking about it.
We are taking game by game. I think actually we have a decent opponent. I think FOOT is a really good upcoming team.
I think they are really young and I think they have a lot to prove. And yeah, I think it's going to be a good game.
Is FOOT a scary team like everyone's making them out to be?
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
I think also in Clues we played versus them and I mean we won 2-0 but the first game was
really close like we won in overtime and I think they had really good players, hungry
players that won 2-0 and yeah, I think they are pretty decent.
That's exciting stuff.
Well as usual, Mr. Torsey, I'll get out of your hair but have you had a good time
at ESL Pro League and are you excited to have Dorian back?
Thank you.
Enjoy your time with Miles.
I've always enjoyed my time with Miles.
Does Dorian enjoying being back in the server with you guys?
Back on land, rather.
I hope so, I hope so.
Dorian!
I'm enjoying the time with Hasbro.
Of course, he said of course.
I missed you specifically.
Fine, I'll get out of the chair.
We'll come talk to you.
I know you got stuff to say.
Hey Dorian, what's up, man?
What's up, bro?
What's going on?
Where you been?
At home.
Does it feel good being back with the band? Is the band all together?
Yeah, of course. I really miss the guys and playing games while you're not with the team
and they're all together is really rough to be honest, the energy wise.
But yeah, I'm happy with quality at 3-0 and I'm here now with the team, so I'm happy.
You guys still keep the same vibes? Because when I say same vibes, like when you're not at bootcamp, for example,
or when you're not at the facility, is everybody just joking around on TeamSpeak?
Is it a normal day in the office?
Yeah, if that was the same also in practice, we are always trying to make a good environment.
Of course, it's not possible to do 100% of the time.
It would be a shake, but usually we have good vibes, I would say.
Tell me about Flo real quick.
Flo, exciting team, a lot of great individuals.
I think they have a good system.
They do lack some experience in terms of understanding the game on a level of anti-strat.
And I think that's where we always are feeling comfortable against them.
Yeah, looking forward to play against them, so.
But it's land, it's on stage.
Yeah, on stage, but as you can see, it will block the crowd basically every round.
So I think it will feel a bit for them like a studio game to be honest.
We'll find out. Thank you very much, Orin.
Thank you.
Hello, this is Fuxi from Astralis and I'm here today to do the lobby.
So let's see if we can find our first victim.
Who should it be? Who should it be?
Can you answer?
We go with you. We go with you.
Okay, what is a good question for you?
You qualified for your first Arena game, but you did it through online, how does that feel?
I'm scared to play on stage.
What scares you? What stage?
People, man. I'm scared of them.
But they are there to watch you, you know. They are fans of you. There's nothing to be scared about.
They were more scared about their fans. They expect something from you.
But it feels good to be in the Arena for the first time, right?
Yeah, of course. It's nice going from online to Arena.
I don't mind.
reminded. Okay, good. Do you have any expectations now we play against Bert? It's been a tough
matchup for us, I think, in the past, but some close games. How do you feel about that
matchup? Yeah, I think we can win five rounds on their pick, and then if we take our pick,
third map is 50-50, so yeah, we'll see how it goes. Not bad, not bad. Good plan.
This year from the hometown, or not hometown, but at least home country, Hiro.
Hello.
What's the expectations for the first game?
Expectations, I mean it's always tough for a spirit, but yeah, I don't know.
Last time I played him it was close on this too, and overpressure had been even closer, so we definitely have a good chance.
Yeah, I mean your direct opponent I would say is Hiro. Do you have any thoughts on him?
I mean, he's low, he's just baiting, so like, I'm not sure if he's the direct opponent.
Like, probably I will have more duels versus like the guys taking space, like maybe Dunk, like these guys.
Yeah, I would think Shiro is more there to maybe punish you.
Maybe. Maybe, maybe.
We've seen some double-hopping from Dunk, what you've taken that.
I mean, you can play everything. It's very good, but I've also seen some double-opping
from you, especially Amrash. So, I mean, maybe you got him on that part.
We've talked enough to this guy now.
Okay, Javi, why are you looking at me like that?
Why? I'm just looking at you.
So, you recently started your gym journey. How's that going?
It's going amazing.
Can you elaborate?
No.
So, can you see any difference in the terms of how much you can lift already after, I think, two months?
Huge difference.
And is it due to your hard work or the protein shakes?
Both.
Yes.
You're so good at this.
It's really good answers.
hard to find any of the questions for you at all, I won't shoot anyone with anything
else and deagle this, you know, no, because we have this guy in front of me and he's
in fucking zing, okay, Danish tank. How's it feels to be called that? Weird. There's
a lot of different, you know, between me and him. Yeah, but that's your Danish
version. So of course it's different. budget, maybe budget tank. Can you say that?
I don't know, it's kind of the same now as the English time.
What will it take for Budget Dunk to beat the real Dunk?
Around 0.30 or maybe more.
And so what? What is our win condition since apparently they have the best plan in the world?
So, I mean, I think Dunk will have one good map.
He'll do a 0.30 or one less, but then we just win the ult, so that's the win count.
That's fun with me.
That was all from Straalis.
And, yeah, I hope that the rest of the teams will have just as hard of a time to do the lobby as we did.
It's Team Spirit on the way to the playoffs. They're a stranger to the playoffs, are they?
Tenir, what's good, man? How are you doing, buddy?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm doing all right, you know, I'm inside. It's kind of chilly outside. This is the place to be, you know, here for playoffs. How does it feel?
I feel good.
Oh, you?
This is like a normal day in the office. Spirit, another heavy favorite to come in here and win the entirety of Pro League.
Tell me what you're doing right now.
I'm just waiting to answer it from London. All good or not?
And that's from your setup, right? Because then you guys have to like...
It's my setup, I'm just waiting to answer it. My entity is working good or not?
Oh, maybe I'll use Hux, I don't know.
Okay, unfortunately. So, you guys are all online, kind of cool. How's it feel?
I feel good and it looks very comfortable arena for first time for APL.
It's probably the first time, yes.
I mean, for a very long time ago.
Long time ago, Tuneer.
I'm talking like 11 years ago.
We came here for a qualifier.
I didn't play more, yep.
Long time ago, though, you're right.
Things have changed.
The faces around here have changed.
And what would you say your odds of Spirit
winning the whole thing are?
So you can repeat that?
What are the odds of Spirit winning everything here?
The whole tournament?
I don't remember.
What are the chances Spirit wins?
Everything.
Ah, okay.
For real, I don't like talking about chance.
I want a living life in during quarantine.
It's kind of bad luck, what do you think?
Maybe yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, you don't want to jinx yourself, right?
And that's totally understandable.
But you know, a lot of people at home are saying Spirit
probably will win this whole thing.
Spirit, mouse, yada, yada, yada, right?
Because it's like bookmakers said for us very much,
it's very special for me, as it's a event.
And probably people also think like a bookmaker in love.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
So you've been on this team for a while now.
You've seen some of the changes within spirit.
Tell me, what's the vibe for you?
Like, is it fun?
Are you having a good time?
About changes?
Well, anything.
I mean, you're in a professional team
it is one of the best in the world. Are you having a good time?
Yeah, and what do you want to know?
If you're having fun.
Of course, if you're having fun.
If you didn't enjoy this game, you can play.
Yeah.
It's a very important point for a professional player, because if you don't like this game,
you don't enjoy it. You can spend a lot of time in this game, you can improve
yourself and you can't, I don't know, it's like second, it's like life for real.
It is. It really is. I mean this is, this is life for real.
Your last question I have for you is this, I guess, for all the people at home that want to believe
in spirit, you want to tell them anything? Yes. I hope they will cheer for us and
and also support. I very like everyone our fun and I want to say thank you guys. See you in blue.
Nailed it in here. Hey man, how are you feeling? Are you good?
It's good, yes. It's good to see you man. It's good to see you.
Anything you want to say? You remember to call over me and yell the blue to you.
Yella blue to be a toija.
Right. You're right. Yeah, so hold that. I'm going to come talk to the lounge first.
the most experienced member of the team.
How are we doing?
Good.
I'm good.
You're excited to be back here at the LANs?
I mean, yeah, for sure.
Since I started playing with them, it's like my dream came back to reality.
Like, this is my life, you know.
I always wanted to play on the big stages.
I wanted to be grand for the big stages.
So, yeah, I'm extremely happy for this.
We listened to an interview you gave.
I believe it was at Krakow.
Dinkona, when we were casting one of your games, and we loved it,
because you were kind of like, you mentioned, you know,
previously in your career you hadn't had like a,
team with like a leadership experience figure. So you're trying to be that guy now and trying
to capitalize on this stuff and then pass some lessons on the U-Learn. That's a really
cool angle for you.
It is but it's still hard for me right because I realized one thing in my past experience
in my past teams right, especially being this young, you really need to get to know
the people before you actually talk to them about the stuff mentally wise because some
people might feel the pressure when you try to help them right. So as I said
even I think when we qualified the pro league I said like most of the times I'm
not even talking that much before the games right like I'm trying to have them
in the game make them happy make them laugh so they can actually have a good
mood in the game not I mean for me like after the game I want everyone to be
focused I want everyone to be there like sharp and like completely in the
game and then in the game yeah I will keep talking I will make some jokes
I'll try to scream I'll try to hype them up and I guess it's not working I
will change it up a bit yeah how do you feel about this team compared to
some of your previous lives, this is, I mean, you got,
if you're feeling good about this,
you guys have had some success and all that.
So it feels like you guys are on the up.
I mean, it's like heaven.
Yeah.
I can't say anything else.
It feels like heaven right now, especially.
I mean, I don't want to say that I've been in failures
of projects, but I like looking back on it,
I don't know how people could create such a shine-ups
to be honest, but I'm happy everything is done.
I learned a lot from my past experiences.
And yeah, I'm here.
Awesome, man.
We're gonna talk to your teammates.
Good luck.
Have fun setting up.
So you're going to catch it right as you're getting started on the deathmatching.
How are you feeling getting set up on the stage here?
Feeling great, I don't know. PC is good.
We just had the audio test going, the music blasting through the arena,
you can feel the vibrations and everything, so it's a little bit different.
That doesn't concern you in any way?
No, not at all.
How are you feeling about the team? How's this team going?
Like you guys outside of Long's less experience across the board,
but you got to be pleased that this is probably the biggest achievement I would say.
Would you say the same thing?
Yeah, it's biggest achievement, first playoffs of SDR tournament.
Yeah, we're really happy that we're here and yeah.
Um, are there any concerns about like playstyle or anything like that
matching up against the big dogs? You guys are just ready to party?
We're just gonna play our game, we're gonna try our best and yeah,
we're just gonna see what's gonna happen.
Cool man, I'm gonna let you get back to you.
Crabbani, can I speak with you real quick before you plug in?
Is it Crabbani or Crabbini?
Crabbani.
Crabbani, okay.
How do you feel about the Crabbani?
It's a little bit of a nickname, because it's a good nickname.
Perfect.
Man, I guess I'll just say, we've all loved watching the year as it's rise.
I think a lot of the things that we give it to is you as an IGL
starting like really looking like you have good control of this team
and doing cool things tactically.
Do you feel like this is kind of like you have a winning recipe right now
with how you're calling the game of Counter-Strike?
I mean, yes. I think in team, what is the most important for me
It's important for me because everyone can listen to me every time, like if I say even some shit things like shit calls, everyone will just do it even though, even if they think it's bad.
So I like that I have the trust in team and it makes me do better also.
You have some cool weapons as well.
Demon with the rifle, I mean you guys have you guys have a lot of power on this team that can have a cemetery with the op is
Super fast so like is that is that fun for you as an IGL looking down the line and seeing you got a ton of talent on all your players
Yeah, it's it's good to see and because like whenever if someone isn't some flat situation or in some
Situation when I just watch them, I know but we can win this round because this guy's alive or this guy's alive
Because I know everyone is shooting very good. Very very good. Oops. Sorry about that
Cool. I'm gonna let you get back to your warm-up man.
Good luck this weekend. I'm excited to see what you guys can do.
How are you feeling coming into the big event?
I mean, feeling great of course, feeling happy that we managed to qualify to playoffs
and it's a good feeling to have an arena with people so I'm looking forward to play it.
Are you feeling any like, are you feeling, what is it right now?
Is it excitement, nerves, what you got going on now that, you know, you're gonna be in front of the crowd.
You're against the, you know, some of the better teams in the world.
You guys have made a rise to the point now where you're competitive against the top teams in the world
So new expectations coming in now for foot.
I don't have any expectations on this because I'm just setting up CSZ.
Tomorrow we'll know what's going to happen, but so far I think it's going to be some shaky start
but after I think I'll get used to it pretty fast.
You're facing up against Maus, any concerns there?
That a top team for a while really consistent, strong players, are you guys excited for it?
I mean, we are kind of ready for them. We already played against them in close, and I think it's going to be pretty interesting match.
What do you think? What do you think with the rise you guys have been on? What do you think is the biggest win you guys have had?
You beat Astralis a number of times, you beat Furia was a big win for you, and maybe Liquid are mixed in there.
I think a Na'Vi win is in there as well.
No, didn't play Na'Vi.
Yeah, I mean, probably the biggest win if you talk about ranking, it's Furia because he's the top one at the moment, he beat them or top two.
So, yeah, it's kind of the biggest one.
But I think everyone else is looking forward to play against Na'Vi
because we are the first Na'Vi Junior.
Yeah. That's a good point. There's a little grudge match there.
Alright, cool. I'll let you get back to it.
Alright, the man with the fast AWP.
Like a fast AWP?
Yeah, you got a fast AWP.
I have it, yes.
Who's the biggest competition as AWPers in the rest of the playoffs for you?
Any other AWPer you're looking at and you're like,
that's going to be a fun matchup for me?
I want to play with every team kind of...
as a metaphor.
Yes.
Cool.
You got torsion is gonna be coming up first as your opera you got mouse in there. Is there any we're building this from the outside?
It's gonna be it's kind of like you guys have the least experience in the playoffs right now
Mouse struggled with that an experience. Do you do you look at that and think okay?
We have to get over that inexperience like are you guys gonna struggle with that factor as well?
I don't think so. I think we'll show our SS will just
Try to do our best and it's it cool. I'm gonna let you warm up
I'm just excited to see you this weekend.
Good luck with the open.
Legacy, legacy, legacy.
That's what we're talking to now.
It's lobby.
Yo, man, this some what's going on here.
You need a admin?
Yeah, I need to put my CFG, bro.
They're working.
But it's 2026.
People are still using configs or what's that about?
Yeah, I see what's going on.
I need configs to play.
I'm not an FNX.
FNX doesn't config, but I'm not good at saying.
Well, he's not here, but you are.
So you made it to playoffs.
How's it feel?
It's amazing.
I think you were playing with Zazz.
then we're gonna show everyone.
Tell me a little about the team of Legacy.
You know, Art is the newest member,
but overall, tell me about what to expect
on a night out with Legacy.
I don't know, I think when Art comes to the scene,
he comes with like a good, I think of Sass,
and they show us a good way to play Sass,
and I think we're in a good way.
We came with the tournament easy.
The difference between playing online and here,
what are your thoughts?
I don't know, I don't think I feel the pressure.
I don't think anyone on the team feel the pressure.
I think we won't crack last year with the arena.
I think we'll be good.
Tell me about that online era just a little bit more, though.
I mean, I say era, because it was just an online season.
Are there any people that are way better online versus online?
And you can say their names.
We can just get it out there.
No, I don't think so.
I think because it's online, people play from their home
with different spings.
So I think some people have insane peak, another with very low peak because of the pings, but I think it's fine.
I don't find anyone too much difference.
Because really, I was just trying to get you to tell me who the onlineers are, right?
Like everybody wants to know, I want to know.
What about scrims? You guys play some scrims, obviously, or no?
Yeah, yeah, scrims is hard. Everyone on the screen is so hard.
People are insane at the game, but like, they're not here.
Yeah, it's true.
Well, I'll keep it going. I appreciate your time.
Thank you.
Hi, indeed you've said the magic word you activated me. How's it going man? Yeah, how good yes
Are you getting set up? So are you finding everything you need to? Yes, I'm finding my way
Sorry about that my guy likes to play musical chairs so
Finding my way as always, that's it yeah just putting configs and stuff
Yeah, so tell me about you guys come here off of an online sort of stretch
Does it feel good getting in here and getting in the trenches in the server?
Yeah, it's much better. I mean, playing on LAN is about everything everybody wants, you know?
And being playoffs and having the opportunity to play here is amazing.
What's bad is even better, you know?
Oh, yeah. It'll be pretty filled on here. This place loves Counter-Strike.
You guys love Counter-Strike.
When you thought about where you're sitting right now today a year ago, did you expect this?
I mean every tournament we play I expect to be in playoffs sometimes we have of
course some misunderstanding or something in the team and then it kind of
break down your expectations but for me just playing day by day I'm happy to
play country strike and should be here and I just want to progress with the
team and whatever is called is called means like consequence for us it's not
really a blow you know. For a reaction there's a reaction. Yes yes makes us. And
for you guys you have this guy sitting next to you his name's Art right he's
been playing Counter Strike a long time it would seem I think he has only
16 maps with you guys how's he fitting in does he fit in with you guys or not
you can tell me you can't hear you. It's feeling good because before I think
I think when he started playing professional, I had like 12 or something, we played together
for a long time.
And now, yeah, I was like 12 years old, and then we played a lot together, played a lot
of tournaments in Brazil, important tournaments, and I was 13 at that time or something, but
we played a lot together.
And now I had the opportunity to play now in a greater organization, you know?
And now it's just being fun and I think we're just on the same page, everybody, and I think
everything is coming in this consequence, you know, of too much hard work and too much
understanding and trying to be in the same page with each other, you know?
And that's it.
You think if I ask Art, he'll say the same night story about you?
A night story?
No.
No.
He's just out bush it, you know?
Yeah, you know that's the one thing. Yeah, he's a guy like who he's a guy who likes to play cards and stuff
He just spoke her. He tries to mind game everybody
Maybe you try some he'll try to tell you some lies and stuff just to hide his image, you know
Okay, let me try my luck. Let me try my luck. Let me see what happens. Watch this. Hey, hold on man
Don't let me hang in like that. Not on camera. Oh God. That was scary art
Look man, he had a really nice story
But already I just want to know about some of the trickery that he's talking about
Let's talk about some of those deceptions and lies and tell me about that
Everything he said was a lie
All right, you got about 16 maps is that about right at 16 maps with this team?
three minutes
I guess
Yeah, so
You come in here you find yourself sitting in the middle
How big of a project was it right out of the gate? Like how big of a task was it for you?
It's still a test undergoing, it's still on the wave because it's just like one more
for the new team, it's a lot of things to be done on our A-Skill, but I think the progress
was quite fast, that was a surprise to me.
Art, how much would you say that the game of Counter-Strike itself has changed since
the older times where you were rocking a Fury of Jersey?
Oh, a lot.
Yeah, a lot.
Back then it was different players, different mindsets, different game, different pace,
different ways of playing, I think it's all different.
I mean, your playstyle back then was,
everybody loved it, everybody loved it for a long time
and then people started to figure it out.
What was it like to reinvent yourself?
Yeah, I do think I used to play the way
I was supposed to play, the team I was,
the way things were.
Back then, I think I tried to extract
the best I could with the tools I had.
So I think that's the way I see game back then.
Now, the way I fit into the team,
I think I can pass into some rounds, the torch for the mall, maybe for LATOS sometimes,
even for SEDZIN, they like to push forward and press W sometimes, so I think we are fighting
our pace, but they love to do it, so they have great aims, so they do it very good.
Yo, R, you're no stranger to a stage, but when you guys come up on the stage, what
do you tell your team?
What do you tell them coming into a playoff?
I would say the mindset has to be having fun, having energy, enjoying what you are doing here,
look at the place you are and be grateful. I think those feelings are really helpful when
you play on stage. And if you think about that, you kind of let go some of the pressure,
let go some of the bad feelings. I think if you get rid of those matches, the matches are
easier on you. You can play your better CS. It's not nearly as stressful, right? Like when
when you're playing how you practice.
Yeah, I think that's kind of the mindset.
Yeah, everybody has to feel their feelings
inside themselves in different ways.
But I think at the end, if you're having fun
and enjoying what you're doing,
it's going to be easier.
The win is in the losses.
Hello, guys.
This is Major from Sweden.
And today I'm going to make the lobby with Team Aurora,
with my dear friend's teammate.
I don't know who you want to call that.
So I'm starting this lobby
And I have two young players new to me, I have Ocadia, and I will ask him a very important question.
But I have to think about this question first, like give me 10 seconds.
Do you like when it's cold or warm?
The weather?
I hate cold, I'm a warm guy.
Warm guy, it's very good.
And what do you think about the last update yesterday night?
Let's talk about skins because I know you like skins.
So you know there is a new gloves.
Did you already like see what glove that you want and you're going to buy it?
Actually after update I just see the gloves.
I never go into CS.
I just left after but there is some one or two gloves good.
I will buy them.
Yeah guys, maybe if you can't say the globe, the price will increase, you know, and you
have to buy it very fast.
I don't know the names.
I don't know.
Okay, so we're going to go to my second question to John Sulfly.
Let me think about my question again.
We get unprepared for this interview, guys.
First time in Sweden.
Yeah, first time in Sweden.
So let's ask for that.
So this is the first time in Sweden for you.
I already know that there is KFC here, so it's a good news for you KFC because Suflai really like KFC
So what about Sweden and the first impression?
Okay, in Turkey we have IKEA as well
And I really like to eat the Swedish meatballs, so I think the pronunciation is good
So I want to taste it in Sweden as well, so I didn't have that much time to travel around
But what I've seen is really good
Yeah, we just do SSD right now. Right guys, we go to the stage. What about the stage?
What about your impression about stage? We're gonna lose the first match and go all and go home again or you thinking?
Of course.
What about you?
No, this time we will be in one game and then after we go. We have worksick coming right now. You can see
You can see so I have to ask you a question, but I don't know yet the question
so I have to figure out. Do you have a question for yourself maybe?
About what? I don't know, find a question for yourself.
Are you gonna go to semi-final or final?
Okay, yeah I asked them, I asked them like, what about the stage, the overall month?
Did you like it? Did you enjoy it? Because we did the SSD right now, like 10 minutes ago.
It's a small place, but I think it's great to play in front of some people at least.
It gives you a stage vibe, but overall it's not going to be that much people I think,
but it's better than nothing, better than zero.
I agree.
So guys, this was my teammates, it was Aurora.
I think I hope you had some nice time with us and I'm also very excited to play in front of 20k people.
Big crowd, like it will be amazing and hopefully we will not choke and we will go and win this tournament.
Hopefully. Thank you guys. See you soon.
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It's that final day, grand finals baby for ESL Project Season 23, but before we crown
We're going to be handing out that third place the bronze medal up for grabs and two teams all the way from stage one
We've got foot versus Astralis
They have been turning heads and popping heads a lot of the big names not stepping on to that grand final stage because of these teams
I got coolio coach for foot joining me and we're just going to get a little taste
Of exactly you'll read at this opponent because this is a team. You've already played twice at pro league
You've had some incredible games. So probably my favorite and most entertaining team
ESL Pro League so far. So coming into the third match versus Astralis, what's
your read on them as a team? To be honest it's a bit crazy to play three times in
one event versus one team but it's gonna be a good match for sure. I think they
are kind of same compared to us like they have the energy they want to
win, we want to win. Like it's always like first time they won then we won
and like last time they won so maybe it's our time to take their
events again. I mean I'm hoping to see another entertaining one. I mean just
reading out the list of teams you've beaten on this path already you know
Maus, G2, even that Na'Vi game incredibly close there's got to be you know
even though this is the third place decider it's not the grand final you'd
have you'd have hoping for. Is there still an air of like progress? Does it
feel like this is a team that's just continuing to rise? It looks like that
from the outside but what about from the inside? For sure like I think every
every event we played, we have much better results, like in Cracow we ended up, I don't know,
exactly, but after we won one more game and right now we are in the play-off, we will
be top four for sure, maybe third, so it's really good, every event we are doing something
better, so we feel the progress for sure.
And seeing your younger players, that clutch from Cemetery, we've seen Jugs as well,
like they're doing this on the stage now, does that fill you with some pride,
fill you with some confidence?
I mean, you know, no stage nerves.
We didn't see many signs of that from your boys.
I think stage doesn't really matter for these young kids
to be honest.
I knew that if we're going to play on the stage,
we can do the same or even better,
because I think the pressure was to make it to the stage.
We really wanted to go for the stage in Cluj,
and then we couldn't, and here finally we could make it.
And I think it's just a bonus for us to be here.
We enjoy every time when we can be in the stage,
so it's really good that we can come and play one more time.
Thank you for your answers, Kulio, and good luck against Stralis. Cheers.
I'm excited for this one.
Now, Rugger, coming into this one, third, fourth place to side a match.
A narrow battle versus Aurora yesterday as well. Where's the headspace at?
I mean, I assume this is going to be securing you some valuable VRS,
locked in for the major in the stages that you're aiming for?
Yeah, I think like today, that's the main thing, right?
Like, we play for getting those extra points, and they're like direct competitor in the ranking.
I think they're one spot behind us. So yeah, that's what we need to fight for today.
Yeah, no, absolutely. And just reviewing, you know, the run from you guys, it's got to be filling
you with some serious optimism about this roster and its future. Taking down big names, you know,
a lot of people were expecting to see the likes of Mao's spirit. Neither of them could get
past you. And it's interesting to see, you know, the development and growth of this roster.
Is this on the timeline you were expecting or is this already happening quite quick?
I think a little bit of mix because you obviously hope that what you see in practice you can also
replicate and I think we have shown that our highs is really high but we also need to work a little
bit of on the bottom level the consistency and I think if we take yesterday as an example I think
it was a little inexperience playing on stage as a new team also to fairly like rookies on stage
and I think they just need to learn it like game by game and getting another rep today is
It's like super great for the boys and just last question. It's about this third head-to-head
You know you guys are stage one teams you've battled every single step of the way
This would be number three
Does that make the head-to-head interesting a bit weird when you've played so frequently against the same opposition?
Yeah, for sure. Like I think there's a lot of things we played them in every event besides the first one of the year
We played them in in Krakow. We played them in Cluj played them two times already here in Pro League
So obviously that's the mind games going in and out and I also see them stealing our pistols every now and then so
I think we watched a lot of each other's games and it also shows in the matchups that there's like some small mind games here and there.
Okay, we've got a budding new rivalry, Astralis Furt. I'm looking forward to it. I'm sure you are about this game, but thank you for your time.
Rugger coach of Astralis, it's about to go down battle for that bronze medal.
A
budding new rivalry, Astralis vs. Foote for a third place decider, and this one's got
the makings of a bang ahead to head.
Both these teams excelling here in the ESL Pro League Season 23.
both of them defying expectations and they run for one of them to take that bronze medal.
And it's an important bronze medal. It's not about prize money, Hugo. It's about VRS points.
They're both 10th and 9th in the VRS ranking right now. And that's very important as Astralis
made their way to the stage. Have you got them as your favourites today?
Oh, I don't know. We've been showing some serious fight. Astralis had a bit of a choke
yesterday against Aurora from the lead and Foote who have looked ferocious as well.
But you can't doubt Astralis in this game. They took down Spirit in the quarter-final.
They've had one hell of a season so far considering the new roster.
I just want to know what we're going to get.
It's a very interesting point because Estralis, although they had a great tournament,
they have been a little bit inconsistent against Aurora.
Yesterday they got blown out on Dust2 after getting Spirit on it as well.
They actually won 13-3 there, I believe.
So I'm not sure what Estralis were going to get today.
It didn't feel like it was the world class, world beta against Aurora.
And interesting, they're here from the side of Kulio to hear that,
hey, we weren't actually nervous on the stage.
We just wanted to get to this.
That's a good point.
Rasha was getting here, wasn't performing here.
And we saw that just the other day from this team, right?
The fact that they even took Nabi, the distance they took down Mowls in the quarter-final,
something that most teams can't do.
I think footer up for the job, I think they're confident.
And maybe Astralis will be as well, considering now they've got that experience.
A couple of matches, as we've ever said, one more just to wet the whistle,
and we're getting into things soon.
It's essentially, for me, a B05 of B03s, the fifth time that he's been faced this year alone.
Well then, it looks like we've got foot coming out on stage as well.
Harry, for an Academy team,
Making themselves into the top 10 of the BRS point right now.
What a remarkable journey they've had this year.
It's a team like the whole CS world is having to kind of set up a take note of, right?
From the moment you very first saw the new guys like Madge very early on in the rise of foot saying,
these guys hit as hard as any of the top teams.
And I think that's a statement he's been vindicated in time and time again, right?
Absolutely.
The deepest run you've seen from them, but it's only been getting better.
They've only been trending upwards and the teams they've had to face,
the teams they've played here at this EPL is so impressive.
Besting mouse in the court is close game versus Narvida find themselves in this position just falling shy of the grand final
There was nothing that could have led you to expect this right this kind of meteoric rise
But they are taking it in their stride and they're not gonna blast while they do it
They are a lot of fun to watch foot are very quickly kind of grabbing the attention of CS fans around the world
A lot of people are speculating whether they can perform on the big stage as well
They turn up in the quarterfinals and my god that they ever show up taking down mouse
The favorites of the whole thing. This is the end. Yeah, and they took them down
We've got players at cemetery
We've got players at craveni getting some of the craziest touches of the entire tournament on the big stage and there were huge
Comebacks and into multiple maps in that series. They were opportunities to choke the opportunities to come back still they win the series
I think there's something to be said for that
Of course, we know miles have had the issues in similar games
But not against teams like this and so first say they demand that you don't underestimate them there once again
and showed up and getting into playoffs,
getting a real run here.
I think their favorites for me today,
they're afraid to decide.
Did you catch that, Kravetti's scout club yesterday?
It's insane.
I've never seen anything like that in my whole career.
I'm not even exaggerating.
I don't think we'll ever see anything like that again.
Like a full eco, one scout, Glotz and Kevlar,
he gets five headshots.
He was getting aim punched as well.
I mean, how do you do it?
I don't know, but there it is, the old classic, Dust 2.
Oh, we got the brawlers' paradise here.
with Dust2 Ancient, do we have Mirage to close things out?
Oh, it's getting out.
What does Astralis have to do with it?
Get out of there.
That's one of their safe finishes, though.
Overpass is very strong for Astralis right now.
We have seen foot with a series of big games
on that map as well, but I think Astralis
have been making that a mainstay of their map pool
coming into this year.
To be fair, last time they played against foot,
they got 13-3, but as we've learned from this head
to head, this back and forth
as mentioned by coaches, two for Astralis,
two for foot, safe to say anyone coming today.
I'd love to pick a Dust2 as well.
As I said, Astralis can be very handy, and we saw them take down Spirit on that very map, but against Aurora yesterday, losing 13-2, the whole team couldn't turn up, and it seems that that's a bit of a curse.
You remember a couple of seasons ago, it was Nuke that really struggled, one specialist map for them, it seems that they have one bogey pink that doesn't seem to work out for them in each tournament.
Can't happen today if they want to take that bronze medal.
That's why the Spirit gave Spirit out so much, and sadly the Aurora felt like a bit of a regression to the mean for Astralis.
Yeah, Rostralis, you know. It was a fantastic sign, but not sustainable as we've seen.
And so now that this opening map of Dust2, it does kind of throw a really horrible spanner in the works for Rostralis
that they're hoping again for something like a Fuzi life game that would certainly go a long way.
He didn't turn up the same way yesterday.
No, it took all the way till map 3 and then the sad part of it was when Fuzi started playing his best CS
of the entire semi-final, the rest of the team went quiet.
So it ultimately ended up falling on deaf ears.
Well, here we go, BO3 for third place, for VHS points, two teams neck and neck in the rankings,
with a lot to prove in this head-to-head, the fifth time we've seen it this year.
We've got a BO5 final coming up in a few hours, but let's wet the whistle with a BO3.
Stockholm, are you with me this morning?
Oh, they definitely are, Hugo. They turned up in space. We appreciate you guys.
Let's get into it. Astralis taking on foot, just two, best of three for the bronze medal here.
We'll be a CT start for the Danish organization and the plucky underdogs the international roster former
Navi junior will be bringing two smokes a couple of flashes and trying their luck towards long
Hoogsies the guy responsible for this part of the bathroom. He's here all alone gets the spot off at least
Astralis you're getting dealt a very fast pistol round here
They've got to try and get ahead of this but the rotates when arriving time three players in the site
They try and force this one away
Demon finds that first incision, now dueling out through the ramp, it's Jude's taking contact, gets the spot on short as well, they know how to lay out of this CT setup.
Down to Krebbenian Longs.
Never discount these guys in a clutch scenario.
No damage taken just yet, the bomb needs to go down.
Krebbenian will find the equalizing frag 2 on 2, C4 planted and rotation from stair towards Long.
Big flank coming in quickly, he's running as long.
for Benny, he's up for the fight, Stead put down Lower Medial, misses it for the round, one shot, all it takes and he'll put it down,
foot with the pistol, explosive as ever, despite the early advantage, Chorus Rallis is traded out very well.
Absolutely is, he's looking so promising there, three on two advantage, no bomb planted, all of a sudden the round turns on his head.
As mentioned, these guys do not choke at that much, they've had so many ridiculous rounds throughout stage one, stage two and in the playoffs.
The Navi game was just so rife with clutch and plenty of pure, but I think foot getting the better of it, winning some unwinnable rounds, you would think.
I do know, one of the things that's so cool to me as well is just Krebbenny, not just that he's had some sick plays, some really stand out moments, but it's nice to kind of see an IGL you can get behind.
He puts in some phenomenal performance while he does it, you know, it's a high-fragging, high-power IGL.
Very calm.
Yeah, even thinking back to some of the performances in the online stage
he would be putting the team on his back doing it on his own.
Well, for now, should be an easy conversion here, round number two.
We just have the USPs, a classic Hooksy eco.
He has one flashbang.
Try and swing out with the default pistol and get a couple of kills here.
But it's long.
It makes a lot of sense with the weaponry they have available.
Going to be trying to make their way towards the A site.
Smoked towards the crosser from Hooksy's possible.
And it's a lot more than he bargained for there.
It's going to be our chance for a couple of kills demon down a full HP
Should be quite an easy finish up
Casualties for kills for long so we'll take that
I think I've ever seen a triple kill the night. It's pretty sick castle. I see us. I have a
joint somewhere in the archives. I've seen it
That's fun. Well a lot of firsts from this team. I'm loving it
first stage games for these guys first AWP Fuzi and he's only got big open no Kevlar
at what day do we get Friday Fuzi or Saturday Fuzi that's a big question for me because
he was remarkable against spirit but then you could just tell he wasn't feeling it in
that semi-final.
I've no armor in this round, look at the long control with a deep smoke it's respected
by Astralis.
Yeah, taking a lot of vision away from the long corner, deny access for a retake.
Gonna try and get symmetry into that pit.
Definitely a bonus round at symmetry.
Is taking heads.
It's gonna be Hooksy down early and Demon fighting towards upper B.
Right, you will find him, but still, great prospect for Krobeni here, making his way
towards CT spawn, spot one.
Oh, the Naid Paul, that's all the timing, but he might get nothing from it as a result.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm blinking in.
Smoke is missed on this long side.
They can cross.
Fuzzi missed shot.
They'll make it.
Stereo even breaks it to find another player.
A 2B poor, but these are the rounds.
A foot off and win.
As Fuzzi's got that AWP, but very fragile.
Needs to be careful.
Bomb to be planted.
And they have a chance to clutch the foot.
You should have long steps to right here.
Two players out through long cemetery.
Oh, he wins this all alone.
One more man on the long side.
Went unaccounted for.
Went unspoiled.
It's just an unfortunate timing.
And that double flank out through long gets the better of the clutch and Strahleis on the board
It's not a 2v4 with a bit of damage there for Furt and the bomb plant so the buys will keep coming. Yeah, that was their bonus round for sure
Strahleis
And during the scoreboard early loved any other gun for preventing that would have definitely taken one with him in the sport
Yeah, shoot the Mac 10 not ideal with that range
But here we go first real gun round now
Cemetery
AK's around him, round number four.
Fuzzi gets some Kevlar as well, so they'll be saying more confidence being able to be shown on this AWP.
Stralis, shriveled up on Dust2 yesterday.
Yeah, can't let that happen today.
Important. Bronze medal available. Many for the VRS points.
They're neck and neck right now. They are rival to this stage.
Gonna be Fuzzi to try and craft things open.
They're ready for a go. They're anticipating that maneuver. He does get the better of them though.
Hits a shot through the wall towards Demon. Takes him down to 21 points of health.
Going through the motions here, trying to battle for that short control.
These utility from Astralis so far, it's...
Who's he? He's posted WDWB times it well, can't hit the shot.
I'll meet up a group over here on short. They still have a player back in the lower.
He was just running into fear and he'll at least keep kind of a backdoor option open.
The fake out over here on short looked to go for that mid to be in a chance of the
drop down into the spawn here for Krebbeni. He loves it.
Exactly what's happening. Trying to keep those players towards A.
He's actually three CTs and this is out of the map.
They're pounding towards B, but Astralis have read it well.
AK 47 towards the car.
Completely blind though.
It's down to Yabi.
He needs to find multiple kills here.
One more available.
Semish is low with a bomb on his back, but smoked off.
That is his opportunity.
And able to find the advantage.
But still, they're going to go for this retake for sure.
It's a missed chance for Yabi,
but it does allow him to live and play this advantage.
So it's not too bad here for Astralis.
One Molotov declared a single position
and they've just got to fight their way through
on this post plant.
Please don't find nothing.
Smoke is still in the way.
Jukes tries to move out of position, spotted, but not connected.
Strahler's coming in. Got to go quick.
Yeah, a lot of time ticked off this bomb already.
No time to be cautious now.
You just got to run in and hope you can find success in these openers.
But the cost was too strong.
Between Cemetery and Longs, that one is a lock-in for Foote.
I mean, there's a reason it's the hardest retaking the game.
Right, right. It's two extremely tight choke points
with too many angles to clear.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that you're having that.
If he just gets one on the fade away while he's falling back,
it's a very different round.
There was such low HP as well, but the 4 on 3.
Man advantage for Astralis, falls apart for them.
They'll take their first time out here.
Finances get into a problematic states.
We're averaging around $2,500 per player.
So they need to decide, did they go all in,
did they take the partial?
It's kind of pick your poison.
There's no real right answer here.
The money's in a pretty desperate situation.
I think you can go with some 5-7s and some Kevlar, that is about it.
We've got Hoaxia 3600, Staira on the same.
I need to build up those resources.
I think one of the criticisms you can maybe level against the Strahlers
in these last couple of series in the playoffs
is that sometimes they feel a little bit too reactive in how they play, right?
Just kind of sitting back, 3-2s set up, whatever it may be.
We're getting a lot of this out of hoaxes. This is this is a little more of an indictment
but he was trying to pick a energy yesterday and say guys okay don't don't panic we lost
an eco bring the energy well speaking of eco so you go this one is nothing but you've
got one desert eagle that's about it well the lake boost is interesting did catch
player not looking but now revealed. It's gonna take a miracle to do anything with
this dead eagle. Montoff towards double doors, flush these positions out. Yabbi
noted, hooksy dropped and a couple of kills available before she only get one.
And it's four on the board for foot, looking very comfortable here on their
map pick.
Choosing the AWP once again. Took the full eco to have a nice strong buy
going forward. So actually the AWP has been best blessed with a very good B-sport. I wonder if
you see him just run in and post up on the play. It feels kind of too tempting, right?
So that's something you're going to have to contend with early on here. Don't want to get caught
on that opener to the AWP because then you'll be staring down a very, very quick B offensive.
New players in the site for Astralis and actually Centauri won't take the B-pick.
Instead it's a boost down here in lower. Fuzzi loves a short boost. I won't
No, though. He didn't do it once yesterday. Well, I mean, it was kind of a strong issue coined like that that right-hand side boost, right?
And
Largely started moving away from it. Whatever we've seen them on dust too. I mean at some point there is a level of predictability
Maybe trying to avoid it against Aurora. They fell into more uncomfortable moves
We're gonna talk about how these teams know each other now
Steal each other's pistols
They definitely watch tape plenty of quite enough maps
So there is a level of mind gameery, slow and steady so far but a beat finish looking
very likely to rear any Abbey to defend once again, smoke down CT spawn and get ready to
pounce through the tunnels.
Flash for Linda is nice and it's in 3-2 setup once again they're going to struggle to hold
this one up, same positioning as before, they got flashed towards that car position.
There it is, launch, open and secured, able to make it a double, and that is the round, over and done with.
They're not getting a good read on the game at all.
Well, that's, you know, we kind of saw this in the semi-final yesterday too, right, where they would largely wait for the opponents to make the first move,
and then just try and react to it, taking gambles out of spawn.
But there are times where you almost kind of want Astralis to try and be a bit more involved, like in this round, right?
You have the AAA setup, you have lock control taken for Hoocsi,
Put a bit of resources in there, taking the space away.
Okay, good. You get the info.
That mid's open the entire time.
So I just go walk it in.
Gitzes, you personally, I want you to say
everything you do for the rest of the game.
Say everything you do.
Why are you looking, why are you fleshed,
why are you holding everything?
Yeah, is that part of it?
Okay, sounds a bit stressful over there.
Talking to really-
I mean, you know, I think as well,
you want the comms to be flowing, right?
It kind of forces you to slow things down,
play the reactive style.
If you're not, you know, the proactive mindset comes with a lot of communication required.
And if you're not getting that, you might not feel comfortable to do it.
So I kind of like the hoax he's put in a bit of a squeeze on the guys who try and be more vocal, just forcing it through.
You know, you start by communicating your intention, where you're looking, what your cross area is.
Eventually, that's going to lead to more constructive conversation.
It's a shame because the setup there was good for Astralis. Rio was holding a flash for Yabbi and Windo,
but he dropped off and they tried to focus on the B site instead.
It was Longs who comes in on mid to B who gets the double kill that wins the round.
He's well with one right now, by the way.
Here's that boost coming up. We've been waiting for care.
Being a bit more proactive here.
Trying to find an advantage. Shut down whatever they're up to.
You can't just let them run their Strapok on the T side here and have full reign of the map.
Here's the boost and response server. He's on the other side, bear in mind.
We should flash this, but...
Perfect flash!
Oh!
I've got a teammate headbump!
It both ran away!
He stays up top!
Okay, that's rough.
Perfect flash back there. He's in a position to try and dodge that.
Exact maneuver.
We have got stair boosted and spawned though. Do they read us? I don't think so. He should be able to get a couple
As one does he drop off? Maintains the boost for now. The Molotov's coming through. We'll have to dismount eventually
Into the fight. There was nowhere to go
So that bash should be hit unfortunately
And they have no reason to go out mid here. They know the Bianca is dead. Yabby could be here
That's the fear but he boosted Fuzi earlier. So
So, cross their T's, dot their I's and play their positions as they take the round.
Oh, it's looking way too comfy.
He was his second death of the game, right, caught by the boost out in mid,
but he was 13 and 1 coming into this round.
There's not a weak link in sight for foot and the stars are shining bright,
so, yeah, a little bit nervous for Astralis.
I think it was always going to be a tough map for them.
I mean, they put so much down on the stage yesterday.
yesterday. It was a really intense long series. An emotional rollercoaster to try and bring
that level of intensity once again to the stage when you're playing to the third place. It's
difficult. You can hear that from the comms. Some players not locked in or feeling it. And
it's been reflected on that play right now as well. I don't have to read on the situation
for getting pulled around the server. And yeah, you're absolutely right. The stars
with foots are shining brighter than ever. The fact that they are super hungry
and still bringing this world class level is a dangerous prospect for as far as fans
right now. And I definitely are on real, I think in these kind of games, because he's
had some trouble, I think, in the land portion of the finals. Yeah. This guy was a rock online.
Look at that. In some of the games in the leader. And obviously in very important positions
where you're going to need multi kills out of him, such a wild way to die. I didn't
think you could do that if you were personally, you know what I mean? Like it's a one run.
accidental run boost you could say. Okay, another gun round available here and launch.
Unable to put a foot wrong right now. Goodbye, Hoocsy. That's a despicable entry.
That's a guy with 14 kills and just two deaths. Right? Red hot.
Can we get the Hoocsy reaction because that just feels like straight robbery.
Okay, they can bring this back there. Nice little reaction here.
The E.T. equalizer playing field is going to be stared at bringing it back to a 4 on 4.
All the meanwhile though, they're helping themselves towards a long area.
That flashbang didn't seem super effective, but the follow-up sprays suddenly is Yabbi.
Double headshot, binds a 4 on 2 advantage here.
Strahler desperately needed this round, and he might have done enough here,
but it is going to be Symmetry and Krebbenny thrust into a clutch right now,
and we know they can win these 4 on 2s.
This is what you need, great reactive CS, calling for things, offering tips.
Can you sense Yabbi out with the flashbang?
The last flash of Strahler's having to get him a double kill.
So plenty of time.
You can see what they're really going for here.
Symmetry will try and show presence towards Long-Aid, hold him on this side of the map
or if any hoping is he may can get a couple of kills, he'll plant on B and then try and win on 1 vs 2.
If we're called clear here with the orb, if he gets it, then suddenly we're cooking,
but if he dies for nothing, shouldn't be more than a bomb plant.
Fuzi on the cross has the shot, the crab there needs to go in now. Hope for the best.
Got a plant, buddy.
He's gonna have the room, then a very tricky 1v4, got a smoke to play with as well.
curious how much time he leaves before he puts that down.
They don't know just...
You can't go for a kill, Eleanor, surprise here.
There's just no one really in a position to do so,
he's got 20 seconds.
Does he get aggressive here?
Or is it just smoke and try and lock down a position?
Gathering info,
you wanna hold onto that smoke as long as you can.
Yeah, delay it, right?
He checked out mid, I think, for that exact reason,
just to give himself a bit of a picture
as to how quickly they can get here.
Now, what would be ideal for Krobeny
as if he can thin the herd before they go for the retake.
A kill could present itself back here in the tunnels, won't be able to get it,
and that clutch brushed aside. Astralis, alright.
Back on the board, it takes him a while.
Far more reactive in that round, setting each other up for the short take.
It all goes a long way.
It's a reassuring win here for Astralis, getting it done cleanly after Hooxy gets absolutely destroyed along.
I thought that might have been the round, but we talked about reactive play, stairs stepping up there,
and of course, Yavi, a beautiful double spray down towards Long. Needed that.
Races Morale, gets him back in the game before this one gets out of hand.
CT side is still recoverable here with a few rounds at tail end.
And I think it's one of the things as well about these third place deciders is like,
it kind of gives you a chance to leave the event feeling like you went out on a bit of a high playing good CS.
And I don't think you want to have the opposite happen, feel like you...
Two stage losses.
Right, like yeah, and just kind of peated out towards the end.
And you know, I will say we've had some pretty horrific third-place deciders over the last year or so,
but I think what makes the difference here is we have two teams who have something to fight for, right?
When you get the top four teams in the third-place deciders,
like a team that should be in the final that lost in the semi,
and you see in a mouse versus, you know, right, Falcons or whatever,
it's not as inspiring. These teams don't have as much on the line,
they don't have as much invested into this game,
but both these squads, neck and neck, with a point to prove,
having played at this event twice already, I think they both want this win.
They both know it's going to make a difference coming into a major.
A major that would be the first time for four of the foot.
There we go.
Boosie's found an opener.
He's already matched his orb kills from that game via Aurora.
Dammit, stats.
Let's see if he can keep it going.
Also just nice, like first to real time, you've tried to fight for this mid control.
It's been something for the past three, really, whenever they wanted it.
They've been able to go into mid to B's numerous times as a result.
Even that brown where Krebbenny was able to sneak all the way up through mid and if he didn't have a Mac 10
would have just been able to win the round on his own.
So a nice change here for Astralis and it's left foot on the back foot.
4v5.
Mid pressure applied.
Hoogsy with a bit of long aggression ends up playing right into their hands.
They're always so ready for it. It is a hallmark move for Hoogsy.
Every team seems to be prepared for this close position he likes to play.
Fuzzi a car and lots to do, he walks in, easy shot.
He can turn out this position, he's also up from cat holding his own. Fuzzi is flashed and burned.
I think he flashed himself as well.
He rounds to the left though, three on two. Not much utility remaining for Fuzzi, there's an HE grenade between the two of them.
of them, plenty of skill and determination. There's the AGM, she lands perfectly on Yabi
takes it down 26, 22nd remaining. Stare down towards Elevator and Yabi waits in close
moment to strike but he might not have to. Nice coordination there and now you can
see Astralis coming to life. This is what we want to see. I don't think the money
is broken just yet, there's one more strong buy for Foots but they are closing the gap.
Nice opening for Fuse as well, very nice to see that scare coming to life, it's a fantastic
tournament, great season for Astralis in general, nice, there's something to feel here now,
those are the comms you want to hear.
You see why Hoosie was on their case earlier, you're just watching the CS start to look
better in real time for Astralis.
boost again. They seem to be aware of that prospect. Nice little HE to open things up.
Might not seem like a lot of damage, but it does enable M4s now to get one tap headshots
towards Demetria. Launch. It's a great early damage gap.
Good play out towards Short. This is a double secured. Even as they claw back a kill on
Yabi, it won't come to matter. The advantage still rests with Astralis. And they're
I'm still keen to fight harder for mid Rio in a very committed position here
Guy that's also responsible for B. So you don't want to lose him in this mid fight as a result
He's not overstepping. He's got to slink away into the lower tunnels
You can see the confidence growing for Astralis and I'm looking so static anymore
What it's like that jewels and winning them as well very active on the CT side is how you need to play it
Rio of an opportunity of the AK and it was convert can hook see step up and find this kill
They love to push a smoke. He is wide open chap. So it's gonna be a difficult one to recover if they see it
Get in there scared of this fight
Dima knows he's been spotted. He goes back. He doesn't play the same position
Maybe being taken it. Let's try to have a lot of utility and it's not the same for food
They got one more re-smoke for the doors
On goes down pick your positions wisely
I've seen these B retakes get away from Astralis.
I'm scared.
Me too, actually.
Smoking at the door, window the only open choke point, and he missed it.
Missed it.
Missed Flash for Fuzi.
Second one goes in, hits the mark, Purchase, and Cery Tray ready to tear this one away.
And no purchase on these B retakes.
Fuzi can't win it.
Shut down at full foot.
You may think that this flash doesn't matter it did it absolutely did they're gonna go on the second flash the first flash to hit cemetery
For blinds him. He just takes a blind shot. He nails that opening kill
You need that opening kill of your Astralis if Fuzzi connects that flash
You're right. It's a very different round would have averted his gaze, and yeah, it blinds your team
It discombobulates the comms just shoots on blind. Yeah, I would have been the first flash
I would have been him at a commission as far as flooding the window
Pretty good point. Oh
Oh dear, it's the finer details, the smallest margins and a 2v4 one out in this post-bran.
Oh, they've absolutely fumbled it, still enough money.
It's half, could get out of hand if the last two rounds fall in favour of foots.
He's got to pick himself up and move on.
Five players out towards long right now.
In these sort of rounds, you're ideally parking your BAWP resetting,
going for the A-split, meaning they can't control the A-Ramp.
That's the dream scenario, but you have sacrifice map control.
You need to be aware of these sort of plays from players like Yabi.
It's not down towards double doors.
They need to be very aware that Lowell beat the end of their control.
At least kind of delays the impact that Yabi can hope to have.
He's got a time as well, though.
And you haven't really seen a lot of this type of aggression out of Astralis still.
And Hootsy lost the hands of time here.
20 seconds foot off, fine, to get that bomb down.
Damn, both bombsites.
Hootsy's got more players behind him than he does in front of him.
The bomb shouldn't die, and yet re-smoke just seals it.
He's dead.
Yeah, no surviveness for Hootsy.
Oh.
What's Krebbeni up to?
Oh, dear.
He's playing with his food.
Are we up to it?
No, no, no.
Don't try it, Kraviti.
Oh, that's what you get.
Yeah, we all saw what he was trying.
That's what you get.
Trying to show off.
No one's impressed.
It's too far, man.
It's way too far.
Now you've given him an AK for the Bottle Up round,
which could be very influential.
All these things out.
You can see he's coming.
Oh, that's a stinker.
Now they go for the knives on the big stage, boys.
Take it from me.
I like it, man.
I like that.
And it's a bit.
I'm pissed right now.
It's silly, but I like it.
Can you start walking back to A? I think that... Just take the shot.
Just take the shot.
What are you up to?
Oh, I am 9th focusing. You cared.
You actually might have thrown the next round now, at least.
You've given them an AK-47.
Oh, actually, did he recover an AWP?
No, no, I think he's dropped it.
I don't know, I think he might have...
Oh?
Good check. I'm on the server right now.
I kind of know these guys quite well. Let's have a look.
Where would...
I don't see him. I think he found the AWP.
Oh, yeah.
Don't even get back.
He went back to the A site, must have been there.
Oh, yeah!
He's given them an AWP.
Oh, yeah!
All right, yeah, giving them an all for this final round. That is an absolute blunder boys
That is a bit of a blunder that's a certified blunder certified blunder first in a series so far
Well second, I think like a big shot
After that flashback a second second one group the day one each
Okay, that's actually huge
See what they were never meant to have foosie win this round will he put it to work?
on the cross from the cemetery AWP that's going to soften up yabby
let's see if given this orb was a grave error
was it all fine for the sake of fun
at least they had fun
at least they had fun
they had fun
pro leagues all about I suppose
cemetery was lining up without orb shot on the corner
that's smoke comes back down, would have been very awkward if he's just fired.
Hooxy was in the open, Alpha go around the world, Hooxy plays close long.
Or it might not be a factor if they hit this site.
Only Ryu Hone.
Remember when I had a time, boys?
There's another B-split which has been working out very well,
but to be fair,
there will be the Orm.
That comes back to Biker.
Double-bombs to the ground.
Big kill for Yabi, he's got to help his teammate, though.
What's he make mid-lurk? Krebbeni getting away cutting down those players in
rotation. All is forgiven. Looks to be a very very safe score line here for Furt.
Strahler's just out of position and before they can even think about
beginning the retake they've got to try and deal with Krebbeni but he's just
making life hard for them. You know not overextending on this lurk but
keeping a lot of pressure applied. Now a re-smoke down here in lower. There's
no chance for Strahler's here. This is nine rounds as good as done at
4ft off to a dominant start on Dust 2. What a way to get the ball rolling foot in full control.
What's up stocker welcome back to Super Sunday here at ESL Pro League season 23
the battle for bronze medal is well underway and unfortunately for the
Danes they find themselves in the mud once again 9-3 down on Dust2 game
necessarily done but it's gonna be an uphill battle from here on out they
need this pistol victory Hugo. Yes indeed, Henry. Dust who looks so good against Spirit,
up against Aurora it was a different story. Story of this repeating rush boys. They smoked
doors early. We're going in. All right this one's gonna be guns blazing from the get-go.
Jokes for the first. Has a teammate here to help him out. It's Krabbeni, the crab
man on these doolies. Bit more support. Longstab, Bermud and the bear rushes. Shut
down. This long sky is unbelievable, right? Like we saw him for a while on Sprout on the
same team as stair back in the day. Yeah, right. But his just returned to form at the highest
level over these last few years has been something to marvel at joining up with a team, a team
that lost Macaulay team that lost their best player. So you thought and long since joined
it and immediately take the break. Mr. Double doors. No, they did. Oh, okay. Well, that's
If you don't know how to throw it, maybe don't do the B-roll.
Okay, we just...
Do my advice.
Mr. Crazy Kill just then.
Fusy...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Like shot on the cross with a scout.
Getting attention to the medicine.
Fusy Scout ace?
Oh, we got on it early.
Release whatever frustrations we have here if we want to play a good game.
I know it's frustrating, but it doesn't help that we get into our own heads now.
I feel like I hit this every game from a start.
It's to be fair like guys, can we stop tilting?
Guys, can we stop tilting?
Ah, it's such a shame the excitement of the B rush would be watered by a miss smoke.
The utility has been a little bit ropey for Astralis today.
Fuzi's flash, good for it.
Do you get it?
Overwhelmed after one, doesn't damage, Cemetery's going to come in for that.
There's something to say.
Come on Fuzi, let's go! Two kills to the good on this scout.
Is that a taste of their own medicine?
Well, let's see how many more Fuzi can find.
And it's crossing to the site and there's another chance for Fuzzi
There we go and falls to the dig of Ryu to pick it up longs shot top of the charts right now for foot close by
Ready to embark on this clutch Fuzzi takes him down
All right, that's better than winning the pistol technically
Get that second-round force behind your belt. You've reset the CTs now
They only get $1400 into the next round
but they are
Absolute animals in this force by foot. They are dangerous. You know, they're gonna be bringing
Everything they can out opening a couple of kills from foosie bring nice work from him and
Canceling the bomb time is the great call as well get that quick so you don't risk anything
Okay, good advice like a map okay diggles and a scalp of the crab man and he's hit the first shot
He can has a little jump down as well. Oh
This round like he tried
That will be pushed they've seen the long control they know what's going on
Stopping is a whole different ordeal here for pistols on everyone.
Okay, so we have gone long since we went to Team spawn.
Now be aware this is a day finish at the very least.
It doesn't help them unmassively, but they have got a couple of flashes.
They're deagles we know can be deadly.
Smoke and crossover, not denied by the block.
I just want to pull low back, nice and calmly here, no one taking any damage on routes, it's looking very comfortable, you might even consider saving the deagle, considering they've got the bomb site, they've got the plan, you're not going to win this round.
Just run it back in the next, right, chance to upset, Jude's going and grabbing that scout, it's nice for this reason, you could give it back to Krebbeni, he could play that kind of glass cannon like a small orb.
And so, Astralis stayed, they still have to be very dialed in, even in these type of rounds.
Planner container towards long, they don't allow them to remove anything, and if they
do come looking, you stand to sweeten the deal.
Interesting little boost down here.
That was time for everything, didn't quite work, actually can't see anything there
to drop off.
Looking to contain, if anyone dares exit the long door, you got no real reason
to.
You know, all they've got is pistols trying to take your weaponry away from you.
Hooks you well with that. Facts.
And along, Alanguist, Tarsko and Dusty begin.
They are in the driving seat right now.
They'll be up against more of the same though.
Desert Eagles and Kevlar.
Juge's will pick up the scout as well for Croubenny.
If he didn't catch it yesterday, and you're not aware of what we're referencing,
he had one of the craziest round I've ever commented in terms of a scout round.
and ace in the second and blew everyone away.
He's looking to replicate that sort of form.
It's always the in-game leaders that seem to favor the scouts.
I mean, Zaheer didn't used to scout. He didn't used to like it.
So Apex would always be second round scout on this map.
Nade stuck out towards Long. They didn't see Yabi making a cross,
but they're still going to deal with him.
This is a big problem for Astralis.
Pull down to the nades. It also makes it clear
what the goal was in the round.
Kravity scout can't live up to the hype
You may get away from them
But there is still a B player to worry about and when you've seen an 8 stack at long
You saw a lot of players there and them scrambling rotates
Stralis be diligent in their clear a beat you expecting them to have pushed into the tunnels
She's gonna close on his own careful doesn't have seven round the corner. It's not a necessary fight
going for a gun it looks like maybe just a save here for foots keep that armor
give it another go I mean yeah that's absolutely fine right you save them for
at an AK going forward that that's absolutely fine there's one more rifle
jukes could get it but might just choose to find Astralis saving they
should exit middle that's where they came from T spawn co-opted
Sounds like a loss bonus to get 2400 in for the next round.
Cemetery audio of Cavlar as well.
He survives.
He can actually purchase the AWP for himself.
He survives.
Ooh, he does not.
So you can still buy with a glass cannon at this point.
It's actually pretty significant.
They all go down.
They saved nothing.
I don't think that was worth it.
You really have to hold on to those weapons.
This was good fights to be honest for Furt.
But yeah, Astralis just hit hard.
So they don't get the sniper.
first and very important gun rounds. Tactical time out for foots. A second one so far,
realizing it's gonna be a challenging round for them. They have no kits,
barebones utility.
It's a four-round game, Astralis. After losing the pistol, I posted three in a
row. I failed to be rushed. Roll back to life.
It's cool here doing all the speaking in that timeout.
Oh my gosh, just hang it on the coaches every word here.
That's how important this next one is, because if it gets away from you, Astralis, very much
re-enter the conversation on Dust2.
This could have been a very comfortable win, and it still can be four-foot.
This round decides it.
Long take to open things up, just to deny that early space to Astralis.
wanted nothing to do with it anyway. This is when you're already getting movement
out of foot, right? They stationed three at long early, their flashes smoking at the
doors, Molly at the blue bin, denied that space getting taken and now they're
gonna go back towards short. Try and get the info here as well.
Playing for a lot of space at the start of this round, out of foot.
awkward with the flashes piled up victim who's he caught throwing nades
Fuzi's gonna hit quick shot up close and he does keeping Astralis in
advantage Fuzi going through going for the throw here
alright that's the best sequence yeah from Fuzi secures the round single
handedly three kills to his name and the bomb going down as well he's done
Absolutely everything
Instead of putting a strollers on their back
Forcing yet another save. Okay now we have a game on our hands
No option for the same these two at fours, but the hunt is on real
As by the same you can find a couple of nice shots it all be forgiven for the slow performance so far five and twelve
And he shut down the economy he gets the info at the very least long sitting towards T spawn
What a shot that was.
More time for quiet here. Takes a gush.
Oh, get out. Oh!
Everyone's hitting hard right now.
Just one set. Everyone's getting more up.
Fusey is not biting.
22 and 8 off.
Yeah, you've got to play for distance on longside.
You've just got to keep away from him with the form he's showing.
It is your best option.
Left out of that round. The nice shots.
Sure, they let him get out with an AK.
This was Danger Dodd. She had this beautiful sequence from Fuzi who's showing across events now that he's not afraid to leave it to chances with the combat AWPing.
And then just this series of one taps to close out that round.
Everyone's waking up now.
Yeah, right.
So, partial investment around the save weapon.
Operation stay the hell away from longs.
long 22 and a he's got an AK in this round one of the two guns in it surely you
don't look to NB talk about how familiar these teams are with each other right
you're vulnerable to the kind of nameplate counter strike as a result so
instead of here for Astralos expecting much resistance sending a solo player
It's dangerous, but Hooxy gets it look at the double goose. It's interesting, right?
This guy goes out fighting kind of
Just the sign that you've dealt with the goose player
Okay, but if a bait and switch here for foot what a full smoke to be deployed looks they might use them as well
But it would be going into the stack
Tunnels it gives you the other whether or not they're gonna take it
Let's say they put Hooxy in spawn if he jumps down it doesn't like that mid to be now
It's gonna try and cut rotates. They spawn. They're ready for this Duke's here to drop. He can shoot him in the back right now.
Who's here to watch the smoke? That's his whole job. That's okay. He looks away.
They're still gonna flood Duke's smoke. Miss chance for Fuzi. Remember, your breeze is about to appear and into Morgsley.
Go for no problem. The stair finds it triple. All right.
Throwing the round. I could have got out of hand. I could have got out of control, but stair keeps things clean.
All right, two round game now. That was the partial buy. Guns will come out once again.
Round number 19.
Only picking up three rounds in the first half, they've battled back up losing the pistol.
Not going down without a fire, that's for sure.
Fusy getting stronger and stronger as the series continues, it felt like he had a chance there.
Doesn't pull the trigger.
On top, down towards shop.
I deny access towards cemetery, he's looking for the boost, down towards lower B.
He won't get given it off at an angle to try and put your orb into.
He just goes and takes it lower on his own.
Looking for a late long retaking on the T side.
It's going to be deep in, alone in the pit, no back up, very vulnerable in that spot.
He's been quiet as peace as well for a fur in this map, so a lot of responsibility
in this round resting on the shoulders of Demon.
So much we need.
He might be able to offer flashes to try and help him out
and even throws his body on the line here out towards Long.
Moving in to try and help out Demon on the long side.
Demon don't need no help.
They are great backup as well.
The flashbangs set him up nicely for a double kill.
Five on three.
Down to the life.
Oh, he needs a couple here.
Long slow.
Waiting for his chance to strike
And he does deadly as Duke swings as well.
That's the bomb loose in middle.
40 seconds and an impossibility for Hoex.
He's spammed through the door, puts the foot on 11.
Finally getting back in the game on his T side
was an absent half after winning the pistol.
Five straight rounds for Astralis, broken.
Final timeout here from Rugger.
He knows this is due or die right now.
They have enough resources to fully invest in for this round
but they lose it.
But it is a mad point.
be financially ruined. They won't have any lost voters to speak of. $1900 is the next round
so it's win this round or GG. Double AWP set up now for Foots as well. Long 23 kills providing
that second rush knife up. Really nice holding the CT side here. Shutting them down. Clean
sweep behind the plants. And concessions, yeah. I said Australia's had one more strong
by the hook seat. Sacrificial as always. They'll go for tech nine only. Making sure they have
utile. Nice little shot from Fuzzi. Gives him the advantage in round of 20.
Well blessed with long spawns as well. They'll go and take this space early. Always feels
a lot more comfortable. You do have those long spawns to try and get out and just
Muscle is spaced away right off the top.
You saw the problems are going for it a little bit later
in that previous round.
This time they get Fuzzi set up in the pit.
And you've seen this one before, right?
Have the AWP control these long angles, these long sight lines.
Makes this A-Sight feel very claustrophobic.
Standard reaction is to go and take short control.
And that's exactly what foot have done.
They're even clearing out lower tunnels.
So at this point, foot have a very clear picture
and how this round is playing out.
Flash line taken, it's all head to head,
it's waiting for a chance and it takes the head shot!
Banger opening for Fuse, it takes his time to guarantee the kill.
He did that.
Signed a cross.
He's going to find out the hard way,
but Astralis are in the bomb site.
Flash high, he can...
Trying to lend a bit of a helping hand to Demon, the guy that could look to rip this one away, right?
Tucked into this corner.
It's an angle you're gonna have eyes on if you're a Stralis and he's fired off now.
Cornering the...
OHHHHH!
Demon!
That is out of this world!
Quick sequence and this gets torn away from Stralis!
What a transfer that was!
Too many targets you'd think for one guy, but Demon puts on three kills in the middle of the site.
We did say, if that round falls apart and there's no plan, especially that should be the GG moment.
That just, that's never meant to happen. D-Wing gets double peaked on a headshot angle.
Had to connect that transfer. He had a millisecond to do it.
Perfection.
An Astralis with a 5 on 4 with a long cross with everyone in.
Had nothing to show for it.
We've finally breaking in.
We've had some unbelievable moments to date.
That's another one.
Oh, another mis-smoke.
Not consequential, but just another symptom of the problem here for Astralis.
He turns like a man at times.
Honks does get humbled a bit on this mid-push, but he's allowed to get out.
And made for foosies, he could be devastating.
That's a shame.
It's so wild to get that dink, it's down to Duke's now.
No support.
That doesn't make any damage.
That doesn't matter.
And this one's all over.
We all know it, and even Ryu, fully aware, tapped out over and made a foot dominate on Dust2 down this stretch,
putting a stop to the Astralis comeback before it ever became a problem.
These guys are hitting hard, Astralis have their work cut out for them.
Chill chill chill, probably took chill chill chill.
I'm 10 HP, 10 HP.
I'm just going to spawn long, okay?
Yeah.
I'm flanked first.
Other guy was low.
I'm close to short.
10 HP short, bro.
Alright, just calm down guys.
Let's rush long together, both has to go side.
One 10 HP.
I'm smoked on short, yes.
Right there.
Guys, this guy, slide.
Hit one.
Hit one.
He's on the second floor.
Nice!
Shit!
I just smoked out later.
Okay.
I'm on the second floor.
You can do it bro, you can do it.
I'm holding for now.
Captain, no.
Close.
Window one. Two windows.
I'll hold window. I'll hold window.
Yeah.
I have windows.
Window one.
Two versus two.
AWP. Don't peek.
I'm not peeking.
Nice!
Nice, well played.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
They're going to get up.
They're going to get up.
I think, I think they're trapped.
One, two.
City and left.
Left, left, left.
Flashing, go.
Flashing.
Side, side, dead.
One more, one more.
Big clear, big clear, big clear.
Rotation dead.
Take this one.
Right, right, right.
One, long push, long push.
This last round, guys.
Left side.
Yeah, they will try.
Power is there.
Power is there.
Crap, he's checking.
Half HP, mid.
I will hold it out. I smoke, I smoke the other one.
Hit the city, you will go and be my hit, I think I am low.
South, go Zorka.
Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
Good job.
Flashing. Flashing, flashing.
Nice, nice, nice.
I'm picking you up.
Nice, nice.
One CT, one CT.
I smoke CT, I smoke cross and I'm on 10.
I'm on 10?
I'm front of the body.
I'm walking cross.
And I'll triple your ram, okay?
Yeah, wait a bit.
Ready?
Ready, set, set, set, set, set, set.
Think, wanna speed, wanna speed?
Nice.
I'm holding the smoke.
I'm holding the smoke, baby.
I'm holding the smoke, baby.
I think, I think.
Yeah, I'm holding the smoke.
Doc, zero.
It's over.
Ramp, have the speed.
Nice!
M4 site, go get traffic, guys.
Good fucking shit.
D1, two M4.
Nice, six shots, bro.
Oh my god, holy shit, I got this.
No.
["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"]
You're not clicking with the mouse, you know?
No, my number is cool.
Okay, you're lying on those.
It's aura.
I need some aura, you know?
First and foremost, do you do any launch options?
No launch options.
No launch options.
You don't have to worry about that, that's easy.
Nothing.
Alright, so you said you're playing Stretch, what's the resolution we're up against?
Oh, I play 960.
Yep.
Just 960, I play with it, basically all my career, I never changed resolution.
I just started playing with it since 2018, 17th century like this and
I think everyone at that moment already played with it, so I just copied it from time one and I always played with it
Lots of people use that. Do you play fullscreen windowed or fullscreen?
I play fullscreen, that's what I usually use
But fullscreen I use fullscreen windowed
Doesn't matter if you need that much
Do you change the brightness?
93, I think it's the default as well but 93 I always keep it
Okay.
It's the same with every monitor.
If I feel like the color is off or something, I change from the monitor mode.
Okay.
In-game, I keep the colors mandatory.
What about the video settings? Anything different in here?
Video settings, I think they're kind of basic, but I don't play with the low-latency mode.
I just put it disabled.
Asps Max, I put it 786.
Okay, why 786?
Which is the funny number?
It's a funny number.
Also, I saw some player put it, I can't remember who it was exactly, but I saw it from YamYam, something like that, not so popular player, but anyway, I saw it from somebody and then I was like, why not?
Then I got here, I got the 8x, very high, Shadow Golem's score is high, blah blah blah, then I put everything else is low, I love to use plus, I use it, but there's so much.
I think it's also medium on default, I'm not sure what it does to be honest, but just
default and all of these are also default out on just these two and yeah, this is everything
from video settings.
Anything with a HUD edge, I know some players like to bring it in, especially players who
sit closer.
Yeah, I tried it in the past but no, not for me, I keep it on default so everything
is like maxed out for me.
You cross there right here?
This one is the, I call it the Niko, Niko crosser.
Okay.
So it's just the size one, thickness one and GAT minus four.
Basically what almost everyone else is using,
but for me with crosser I think I change like every day.
Really?
Just the color or the size or what are we talking about?
Everything.
Everything, I mean I usually play with smaller crosser,
like not above the size of two.
Yeah.
But thickness zero, thickness one sometimes.
If I don't play with this, I play with size 2, Gap-3 and thickness 0.
This one is also really common for me, really nice.
Okay, so those two you go between tank along those lines?
They are like my go-to.
Ah, good morrow, my liege! We are about to go hunting for a luncheon! May I interest
you? We are not about to do anything. Don't listen to him. I know the most authentic
Fish and chip calzone in town. You are going to love it
Well, I'd love to I've got a meeting with a guy from the water company the water company
What is that? It's the people who deliver the water to all the homes and businesses in the country
Apparently they've detected
Race amounts of lead in the water
So they've got to send the guy is gonna make a whole song and dance about it
So, let me get this straight. You could no longer have lunch with your best friend because
some water guy is denying us access. I don't want to get a lunch with Trace.
I know, it's ridiculous isn't it? I mean, I'm not some nine to five Andy like you or
Trace. I'm the regional manager. I don't have time to talk to some deadbeat salt of
the dirt water guy. Oh, he's so important. The water guy. Coming all the way down
here to lecture me about our glorious office water. Now I can't spend precious team building
time with my employees. Oh, this guy's got some nerve. I've got a good mind to stick
a lead pipe right up his...
Hello there! I'm Alex. Sorry, one of my friends who was just telling us. He was just telling
Yes, about a friend of his, whose name was Walter Guy.
And he's a real annoying guy.
One of these guys are just singing it.
Yes, I'm the manager of this here establishment.
They weren't the ones just talking then?
What do you mean?
Dude, stop doing the voice.
What voice?
Why are you trying to deflect this and gaslight me?
What do you mean deflect this and gaslight you?
My friends was talking.
Can you just talk?
No.
This is my normal voice.
Okay, okay, I'm just gonna mark this promise,
fix it and go.
Oh!
Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft,
goodbye, what a guy.
Pleasure meeting you.
Ah.
Wow.
I know.
Wow.
I know.
Wow indeed, but you do know what this means right?
That there's lead in the water?
No, it means that lunch is back on the menu!
Yes!
Woo!
Yes!
Let's go guys!
So cool!
This enemy is coming in through the smoke right on the other side.
I need to be ready for this one.
He's coming!
Cut and place!
Oh!
Constant rotate.
Let's begin.
Recite your baseline.
I'm in the country
Constant brocade
Let's begin
Recite your baseline
Attempt black reticule begant to spin
I'm in the country
Alright, things are getting deadly serious Hugo
But I'm not just talking about the finals coming up later today
This third fourth place decider as well
I'm talking about colex fantasy
That's really what I care about
We're really, really close. Not just in the shot. I mean on the leaderboard. I'm at position 994. You're going down. Where are you at? 988 Harry.
We are six different. We're not even a point away from each other Hugo. This time. How didn't be closer if we tried. How are you feeling about your points here? How are you feeling about your placing?
Because four players eliminated for both of us. You're down to watch. I'm down to Mikaze. Navi have won this game before. How are you feeling about Harry?
I don't care about that, bro.
Now, he ain't winning it this time,
and that's what counts.
I have faith in my boy, Woxic, man.
He's got you right where he wants you.
Have you seen Aurora this event?
They're not choking anymore.
They've powered through that.
Don't talk to me about the fact that this might happen
in the final.
It would be the perfect place for it.
We're all thinking it.
But Woxic, Wokadia, I don't have him on my team,
but he won't let that happen.
Neither will Woxic.
It's nice that you talk about Wokadia
because you're talking about that top player, Verora.
For me, I know I have the top player of Na'Vi right now.
Macauzzi's been in good form.
Na'Vi have a deep map pool.
It's a B05 Grand Final.
Na'Vi have got the experience.
Aurora may have unearthed themselves from stage choking,
but to win a final, Harry, in front of a crowd,
something we get to see from this team.
Macauzzi nearly lost to his old team.
Okay, but he did it.
Oh, but he nearly did.
He did it. That's what matters.
Oh, but he nearly did it.
I ain't losing today.
I ain't scared of Macauzzi.
All right, all right.
I ain't scared of you.
Save it for the server, Harry.
ColexGG, we made our fantasy team.
We've made our allegiances clear.
Maybe you can do the same over that.
You're not each one of them, you're a colleague each one of them.
That's the double, if you get this shot down, it's not even worth it!
Something special to tell you that this is D-Gear.
That's it, sir!
Got it, sir!
We are back!
When I was 11 they said that I can be one of the best players in the world.
I chose to go full CS, just the sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
I think grinding phase really helps you when it comes to keeping your energy up.
The best advice is that you need to love the game, and then I'm going to be a good player.
There was a slight redemption up there in Dust2.
Henry V ran straight on the T side.
Absolutely.
Too hot to handle after that first half.
It was a slow start.
9-3 down, but they battled their way back admirably.
That man on the screen right there, the hometown hero,
he had some amazing moments.
They might have lost the first map,
but they're not dead in the water by any stretch
of the imagination.
They're a tenacious team, and they can certainly bounce back.
This is the best-looking Astralis
we've seen in about five years now.
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt.
I mean, dude, the thing is as well, you know,
sure, you lose map one.
But I think that that kind of tone that was getting
set to open up the comms being slow. No one willing to set each other up. You know, everything
getting off to a really ugly star. You largely shook that off. And I think that's so important
because now you're heading to ancient knowing what your shortcomings were, knowing that
you've overcome them, going to be able to give hopefully more of a run for their money
here on the Astralis map pig. We want a three mapper. We want this to be a brawl.
We want to see Fuzi on the stage just a little bit longer.
Why it looks that we're good to go stock um, Astralis last chance to loon, look at that
bronze medal, we're getting into ancient, can I get a hell yeah, let's fucking go,
I like that, ancient's gonna be a brawl, it's gonna be a bash, Astralis bring the pace
straight out middle in this pistol, they're going through the red smoke.
Foot are not ready for this, the ace site only has one player in it, you're gonna
try and plug this hole but cemetery smoke off. Oh dear looking now at Juge's who
is a mammoth task ahead of him. Can't shut down the red room it's a good flash to
get you through that choke point. Retake now very much on for the foot squad. It
longs arrives on these dual barrettas. That's man in but the first of all is demon a convincing
hold here out of Astralis. He might have to pop a fresh mag in that Glock but he's
got cover ready to keep fighting for this up a cut out of Astralis in this
pistol round and Jutes shut down Ryu starts strong and a ballsy call to open
things up Astralis get on the board early yeah both teams have four players
charging through a smoke in red works better for Astralis getting them the
position and Ryu's had a quiet series so far and a quiet yesterday shows up
with a big triple in the pistol gonna be an important play to watch out for
in the second half for Astralis, and nice to see him starting strong.
Not out of the woods just yet though.
We know, both of them are capable of all these four spy rounds.
Never discount them in these sort of scenarios. Heading towards B.
We know Hooksy loves to target this bombsite relentlessly, time and time again executing.
Here this one lands in his favour. It looks like the partner called Hugo.
Only one player here, looks at the round. Might already be done.
Three, four mollies land in this side. I don't think there's anywhere to play left for foot.
left foot. They've got to give it up. Okay.
It's every part of the course, but Trader's swift and cemetery blocked.
They've got to go here for a foot, but forward into this smoky site,
as well as block once more.
With that, should be lock and key on this post plant.
I have to give this one up. I'll have another go at it in the follow-up round, but the perfect
start now for Astralis. Four players surviving. I'll take three Mac 10s and an AK into the
following round. Two's going to be seven. I'm going to cut them down to size here.
Hooks, he probably goes down with a bomb blast. He needs to be quick. He's a high
will he get out? Just about 15 points of health.
And a convincing second round there. As I mentioned, Astralis going to see a lot of that.
He'll have to execute towards that B-bomb site.
But again, a dangerous round here. Deagle 5-7, SMG for Jugs.
Couple of smokes to work with as well, so definitely a lot of potential here.
Round three.
There's more of the same.
Looks to be more of a default situation here.
Fuzzi with the smoke down towards Donut.
Smoke red as well. They're going to be catalyzed.
Towards middle.
It's under their remit right now.
Going to park over you.
Get that bomb back towards B,
but there is a bit of aggression coming down that B round.
We have to defend it with damage from Fuzzi as well.
Pushing them back valiantly there.
That should be quite a comfortable finish
considering that's one of the most important things
a comfortable finish considering that's one of the safe weapons taken care of.
Some time getting bought, but no more U2 left here.
We heard the tics. Not going into the stack. Not supposed to be worried, it's largely only these
pistols. The clash is to try and get the ball rolling on this and there's Hootsy with
another opener. Back on three looking at comfortable for Astralis, no worries here.
Just saving Kevlar really, more than anything.
Where are they going to get found, but the strollers don't need these hunts that bad.
And they take all the many players down, that's the question.
The Hunters on.
Fending themselves well.
Team of the Deagle, low HP.
This is it, like Kevlar ideally.
Timae goes down and indeed Hooksy will find both of them.
We 0 on the C side, the game begins now.
Rifles are being brought down, no Orphe Cemetery available.
Goes for the M4 instead.
And a bit of a bonus situation, with MP9 for Hooksy and a Mach 10 for Yavi.
Suggest you will bring out a pocket strat here, an early execute out of spawn.
Now take a tactical timeout, in fact. Interesting. Keep the good times rolling.
I suppose so, like it's a complicated maneuver for that. Exact situation with
the fan we've got. Suisse SMGs here. I guess Ruggedd wants to keep things
calm. He knows how important the momentum is here on the T side of
Ancient and the good news is Japs. Two SMGs, one helmet on the CT side. This
is actually a very promising scenario, even with the lesser weaponry.
Foot will be aware those SMGs are out, Hooksy discovered a double with the MP9s towards
the end.
They've opted for a full U-tail instead of the protection.
Curious what the idea is, because initially, Hooksy and Noyabi bought up a lot of U-tail,
but that changed a little bit later.
Well, they didn't have any.
I thought it was just going to be a pacey around, right?
Sending the SMGs first, you're almost expecting them to die?
The timeout suggests maybe something a bit more complex here for Astralis. Let's see what they're thinking.
So, A finish by the looks of things here, showing presence towards middle, they spoke red and donor, and double smoke towards cave as well.
Taking a lot of vision away from the CTs, keeping on that side of the map, they might just go for the contact play in towards A.
Stare makes his way towards red, four teammates here, run through that assembly all day long, there's the helmet, actually saved Jukes.
And now they're in towards that A side. Stare to cut off rotations, can't hold on though.
He'll immediately back-kill E.K.O.
The Molly might push a player forward here,
so that smoke-span is a particle for Fuzzi Longst.
Hucked in, and they deliver him another kill.
Fuzzi clutches, he's up for it, 1v2.
Well, he's definitely up for it.
He's got a bit of a gap,
but if Krebbenny realises the match gone quiet,
he could go back to middle.
Might be Demon to check it out from red instead.
Fuzzi eyes on, this shot, headshot down low.
Demon doesn't need this fight.
Krebbenny is right behind.
Two bullets.
He's got this dead to rights
And so there we go
Rifles come out for foot and they put a stop to that fast a play out of Astralis
Very important opening round considering Astralis took the time out for that as well
It's that bonus still what we buys
Difficult position for Duke's because as you said run through that Molly the CT incendiary doing absolutely
Nothing to stop that charge from Astralis. You at least takes one with him
What's the bonus round though now you get to see the foosie AWP
Yeah, everything's considered
Bring decent rounds, put three of them down
Let's see what they can make up
Spam from Orc C, considerable damage towards Demon takes it under 59
The moments respite, as I mentioned they love hammering it home in this B bomb site
Time and time again, stare over towards A main
Or log potential for him, got to try and show something on that side of the map
It's a boost up, Boosie.
Look at that opener!
Give it to him, that's an absolute freebie.
I mean, he pre-aimed for the jump, he knew it was coming.
That's what we talk about when you say the prep done of these teams
and familiarity with their opponents after 5 DO3s
just a couple months into the year.
Gonna use that opening pick and execute.
Olly, he should spray, because then he gets a smoke, but he's going to run backwards.
Safe for option, leaves him low.
And Punish about to happen.
Big problem now, right? You've just seen Starr and Nain.
The only info you have is they all boosted on B and the rifle spamming, so...
They really have a great picture of where this round is hoping to end for Astralis.
I'll take a bit of a gamble here. Desperate times calling for desperate measures. All three players out towards his B side of the map.
20 seconds though.
There's many mollies either to burn anything out, right? And you've got the one hole.
You might get this rolling. Real nice way to open for Fuzi. Spam out of demon's good, but will it be enough to save you?
Okay, the bomb's down.
You've got to be ready to backstab too, you're not getting away with these guns, this is going to be an expensive round for Foote.
There's Hunt is punishing.
Sharp, from Stare.
Foote's getting crazy, running and no scoping the smoke.
And I like the idea that for Foote, right?
Krebbenny rotates out, he throws a molly, a mania and suddenly comes back to B.
Hoping that's enough to send Astralis into the stack, it was their best hope, but another really nice looking execute here from Astralis.
T side's coming up comfortable right now for one lead winning out the gun round
after losing bonus and breaking foot while they do it. I couldn't ask much
more from Astralis right now. We're looking very good towards the end of
gust 2. Sure it was a slow start with some mistakes in there mainly the
utility looks a bit off. Can't really poke any holes in this.
I'm not sure. A few rounds on the T side. Lovely boost, good read in the situation.
and this shot especially. Good God. Love to see that.
4-1, partial buy available for footsail, talking 5-7s.
Cemetery with the USP saving up his gold for the AWP.
They've got double H's at the start here. They're using it towards the middle, but no one on.
I'm hoping Sarts will be more combative there.
I'll be up in that smoke step. Nice open at that. Great teamwork.
Once again, popping up in smokes, finding kills on routes, should be the job done here.
Locking down the back lanes. And yeah, CT's. Nothing to be more say about this one.
Yeah, I think it's probably starting to look really dangerous whenever stairs off to a hot start on this map.
And he's just kind of the guy running into fear in a lot of these rounds, right?
Not always in with the pack, often kind of on the extremities just floating around.
It removes options from the playbook of foot.
Even in that rifle round, right, the aggression out towards A
through the whole round into uncertainty.
Here, set up out towards mid.
And he's very, very good at not kind of overheating, not overextending.
Now he's contemplating getting a kill, knowing the chaos that that causes.
Oh, ho, ho!
Alright, it feels like mid has to be the way in for foot, right?
It gives you some options. You'll be able to get the early fight potentially on a stair potentially on a real
Options there and a head-to-head and then you can try and battle for this lane control because you've been talking
I'm ready to know and about how Hoopsie likes to abuse this B side of the map
Yeah, I mean also look at that round right they take mid they have three players to get an elbow
They spam with a five sevens and what do astralis do they realize guys they started triple mid
Let's just react they go for a quick be hit breaking open the smoke. There's nobody home only one player and be so
danger is when you take mid you tell your team where you start where the gap
is Astralis. What a shot of confidence now.
Let's try a shot, eh? That might be enough to win the rounds, I hate to call it early.
Alright, one back and there's the AWP to lend a helping hand.
Cemetery, stop the spillover, that's the bomb lost. This was such a good spot for Astralis.
The thing now, am I all going away from them?
Now towards main, it's the two later players.
Fuzi and Hoocsi make their way in.
Molly forces a reposition.
That is a rough miss for the Fuzi AWP.
Can redeem himself.
Might just try and react as soon as the bomb tap comes in
and there's Krebbeni playing ahead of it.
Fuzi, two kills to the good.
Can't find a third.
A shut down from Fook.
A huge double kill from that cemetery AWP.
gives them a second chance in a round that felt foregone.
Absolutely true. Fousey just falls to the wall out towards middle.
I don't know if Astralis missed a smoke, because it was a deep one in CT,
but it was a CT smoke. Unless Astralis picked it up, I can't tell you,
but no smoke in his position. They're going to look to regret that.
They had the entire site in a 5v4. Absolutely true.
Nobody here. Oh, we're going for a fast A here.
You can see Hoopsy lining up the U2 from Spawn while running.
A attack coming in, a call from Spawn, he's down to Juke to defend.
Smoke's deployed, they land successfully, the Semishy looking to pop things open.
And miss is out on the first shot.
The point of access now for Astralis, she better get this bomb down quickly.
Spam can decide so much in these type rounds right here in this awkward five on five.
Still in the staging, it's Fuzi though to claim that first advantage.
Shant's there for symmetry, bit of thin old angle.
Cut out.
Or get in!
This is a high-risk move back here, I think Save is the right option.
Yeah, they already are.
Off they go, Yabby's on the hunt, on the prowl.
Looking to shut down the resources here at the foot.
Not like such a promising way to ordain the previous round, one that didn't work out for this one.
Out of spawn, the A rush.
Very successful indeed, four players surviving here.
and do they want to hunt for any more?
That's the clash of looks like they'll just be getting out of their lives.
Nice little change of pace.
Evan Robson, he talks about the tendency to go towards B
almost every round and now it's a straight up a rush out of spawn.
Works perfectly.
It's just nice as well because, you know, map one,
you saw Astralis kind of lacking the initiative, right?
Always playing catch up, foot having way too much room.
That has not been the case here on ancient.
Hootsie's done a really good job kind of conditioning
than to worry about the lane.
Set a couple of rounds ago, it feels like mid could be the way in for Furt.
And that seems to be Hooksie's read on the situation too, dealing them back-to-back A-plays,
hoping that those resources are dedicated to the lane take.
Back out now for a scrapping middle, stairs lined up a double.
Big problem for Furt, they've hemorrhaged the player early on and this triple mid-take reduced to just one man.
You don't get any info from this.
And if anything is shown for it, how does Stare make that look so easy as well, right?
Three players in mid, the Nades just obliterate them.
Stare doesn't take a point of damage from those first two.
And while Demon trades, mid is now lost. Nobody has it.
It's gonna say BXQ could be likely, but I think the contact plate is the perfect call here.
Don't give anything away, but the problem is you are walking into two.
Demetrate, one of those two players opens things up here, he's got backup from long as well,
but it's gonna be taken down demon
It's dropped in his cemetery. He needs a couple of kills here not gonna happen with any
Available, but looks he has a backstab shuts it down keeps as well as to their winning ways
Three players survived and you're seven two overall
And the money shut down as well as has to be partial by
Things done is get out of hand here for foots
Deagles five sevens maybe some Kevlar is there with double kill
I also just love that, like, Hooksy never made the effort to go and link back up with the pack.
It's risky in a way, but all game long, we've been used to it being stare in the backline, right?
When you see Hooksy alive, the last thing you expect is him coming in on that red room flank.
You think he's in with the pack, you think he's with the rest of the team.
Hooksy's doing a very good job of calling from the front and just constantly keeping me.
I don't know, hang on.
What if I clash out here towards me? This isn't around that foot is supposed to be winning.
to kill themselves at five on three, guns now retrieved.
Abby's got a lot of space out towards B.
But Krebbenny, here's this rotate back on the bomb.
This could be a big problem.
Oh, we can't catch them.
Looks like he's been spotted.
Yeah, Abby, shut down.
You don't have that B site anymore.
Damn, they was looking so promising there.
Astralis, right on up towards middle.
They thought it was clear, but the flash retake
coming in from the red room, the double kill,
recovering the AWP.
And now three AK-47s is a clean sweep
I'm pretty much an EK there.
What a great reaction for adapting to this mid-take that has just beaten them back to back
and cemetery sitting in spawn holding a high flash even if it comes through the smoke foot full commit.
Great flash.
They leave with everything on an eco round.
What a round.
Beautiful gun.
Resurrects this half for them.
Ton of money now and firepower as mentioned.
Three AKs on the defensive side.
Worth its weight in gold.
Still need these last couple to really be competitive.
Stroll is, this is their map, they're showing us why.
Double boost, only fell.
They're still doing this, both.
They're gonna put the orb up over, eventually.
Okay, it's all good.
Here we go.
Shuffle over.
Look at that jump again.
Risky jump, not punished.
Grenades, going towards the cave entrance.
One complaint about that. Made with the spam. Oh, that's impressive. Last couple of rounds here.
Manage. Even more so now for Astralis, 5 on 3.
Uxie's hitting heads. Yeah, for real.
Doesn't have a plan. Spirit again. Uxie's just popping off.
You can see them getting warmed up towards the end of Dust 2.
A little bit slow, a little bit ropey in that first half, 9-3 down.
A lot of mistakes, coordination comms are off, but this is the Astralis we love.
Getting stronger and stronger with this new Rostup.
Boosie, he's got like a...
...the boys are going to get one from the boost. There it is, fine cemetery.
Nothing to do here, unless a triple kill from Demon was available, but I don't know if it's converted.
I mean, you don't want to say, but it's kind of wild that Jews is even hanging around here.
Climb.
I'm trying to walk away, keep that AK for later.
Got money.
It just got no rounds.
And it's such a huge difference.
Australia's here on ancient compared to dust two night and day.
Can't stress just how important it felt like, you know, finding a bit of form coming out
of your shells somewhat on map one.
I think it's done them a world of good checking everything right now.
Every corner.
They know you can't be far away after throwing that native gun
and boxed in one site and a walking temple right now.
Surprise surprise.
They're not getting out of this one.
Eight rounds to Astralis.
Well, fortunately after winning that eco, they don't have to take any
concessions in the follow up round or have everything they need.
Foot that is AWP is there as well.
Yeah, very convincing once again the grenade and bottle of spout a thing of beauty to the Abibab great open up
Fuzi
See loyal to the boost as well
It's rewarded in the end
She can't believe it seal of approval. Yeah
Final round boys
See what I've got
but
Yes, we really need this one
back to a mid-take back to this
brawl out in middle and a foot take it
convincingly the second timings are
perfect
even the catch for symmetry on that
orb
boozy 1v5 requested I can't go through
this so we're just gonna have to wait
a little bit longer okay he's cooked ain't no winning this one now and he knows it
boxed in finished off they brawl for mid they scraped by with four isolated rounds on this CT
half astralis well and truly back in the swing of things
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Welcome back to Super Sunday live and direct from Stockholm Sweden. We weren't sure what kind of Astralis we'd get today
They've been a little inconsistent in the playoffs dust to a slow uphill battle for them
There's signs of life towards the end of it move over to ancient the second map their pick and they're in the driving
See and it's full speed ahead
They got eight four after their T side campaign, but they're not out of the woods yet boys
We know fucking hit incredibly hard especially with the AK 47s in their hands
Missle good, Primer come back here from first, so Astralis need to keep their paddle to the
metal on this CT side, 4p stack, a strong start, and his foot's set up.
There we go, opening kill through the smoke, Long's finding back, he was the hero of Dust2,
but he's taken down early and this is very convincing, looking comfortable now for Astralis.
In comes that bullet storm of the Dorborette's vintage, a save the day,
Juke's offering up some resistance, but very quickly might get left as the last man tricky 1v3 to navigate
You go crossfire sit up in the site a man at long as well ready just to swing on out and lend a helping hand
Juke's never given a fair fight. It's a straw list with the pistol
Fuzzi is the MVP of Astralis today. He has won so many important rounds with double triple kills in this entire match
massive CT pistol here with Australia starting 4B they essentially want it off
the call but tried to claw it back in a 2v4. Fuzzi says no more. Never out of it
though. Fuzzi will be forced by in the second. He won't. Force by is pretty desperate without a
pull. Oh yeah you don't win this one I'm afraid yeah you might be out of time
here in ancient so it's tech 9s helmets basic youth hill and an A finish
Looking like the end of any will hold towards a B round. They smoked up towards cave
Cube today name
Oxy just playing defensive counter strike here towards our K position
What's middle we go walk that I could just cross smoke begins to fade and the play gets spotted
Gabby in a lot of trouble, but jumping tech nice to take him down
Direct control as well put it here there and everywhere the foosies taking space back
Okay, looks like they're on a harm's way for now. That's forced by shut down, where would it go?
Double-digit early. Demon, just hoping to take a couple with him. There's one, can't have the seconds.
And that's for the eco coming up next, no bomb plant. 11-4 pretty much locked in.
And it's overpass close things out as well, very tactical map.
Nice to see Astralis looking good after back-to-back Dismal Dust 2s.
Here on Ancient they show more of what we've seen from this team across the season so far.
Overpass definitely feels like a nice place to end it for this dangerous squad.
I'm looking for another ace in this tournament.
Let's see if there's some damaged stuff.
I'm unable to hold them off.
It's down to Ryu now.
Whoa!
He's way down with that tech nine, but it looks like it's all under control due to all
the second kill at the round, but I'm not the forward audience.
Business.
Business is booming.
I think both of the passfields are inevitable at this stage, tactical time now.
Discuss your options, try and bring this one back to life, a resurrection required.
Cemetery will be providing the AWP at least.
Oh, I say that, he actually sells it, going for the AK.
That suggests they've got an idea, a set piece they want to run.
If you're not using the AWP, they certainly won't be running a slow default.
I think they're going to bring a pocket strat out early here.
here trying to set the tone for this half. Coach Coolio, who brought in me with the score
for three years. Been through thick and thin. That best result yet, that first time on the
big stage. Certainly been turning heads and ripping them off on the server.
I liked it. A lot of his mantra with the guys has just been, you know,
to savour these moments, trying to enjoy it, get a feel for
enjoying playing on the stage as far as he was concerned.
He never had a doubt that it, you know, they would crumble under the pressure.
He felt like they were well equipped to do so.
Wow.
Are they ready for this? Double A main push.
Lots of backs turned. Fuzi might just have a mow down on his hands.
his hands, fires off straight away, that lets them know you weren't ready for real.
As you play it forward, play in tandem with Yabi crunching down upon mid.
You could tell the rough hand to open this one up, longs down low, a man advantage for
Astralis.
And whatever the idea was for Furt, whatever they concluded at the end of that tack pause
is out the window.
The setup is really strong for Astralis as well.
to be still. You have to be playing for info towards middle and donor. Very assertive play
for Stralis there. Knowing the tactical timeouts there as well, you know they're recalibrating.
They're coming up with an idea. And if you can shut it down early, get stuck in and especially
find the man advantage. It's a very promising prospect as they get in a three on one.
Krobedy has done some unspeakable things at his tournament. Some of the best rounds
We've never seen, but this one looks out of his reach.
30 seconds, three on one.
Gets up the bomb in his back.
A plethora of utility, but he is locked in.
Yabby should be taking it down here.
That's if he goes towards the cave, though,
but he's actually making his way back.
Shouldn't matter, though.
Even if you find this kill to Hoopsie,
Stairs' position is unexpected.
Crveni isolates the site.
The stairs ready to swing, and Hoopsie
doesn't need help. Both players on default ready to receive it to team ace.
Here from Astralis and map point. Overpass on this side for this best of three.
Put you on the podium. Yeah, that's unfortunate. As I mentioned, if you're taking that sort of
time out, this sort of round, you know they're up to something. It won't be a traditional default.
There were gaps across the map. Astralis identifier.
Two man A push. Shuts it down completely. This could be the final round of ancient here.
Astralis, for the steam and performance here, they are not rolling over in this third place to side up.
G'lil, Mach 10, bare bones utility.
It is the hardest round to pick up, number 13.
We all know it.
Can they keep it clean? Astralis would love to get out of here right here, right now.
Move it over for the tactical affair that is overpass.
Lots of limitations for foot in this, it could be the final round.
Out in A, Fousey comes through with some very well timed aggression.
You're loving how Wolfpack feel this is for Astralis.
All of these pushes, it's always two guys getting involved, ready to play up with each other.
other type of synergy that just wasn't here at the start of this series it's
gonna be very important as well come the turn of overpass that's where
Astralis hoping to send us right now. Broken is A-take in half. One man already in
the site it's launched with a bit of forward positioning out towards
temple. Could come in real handy. Astralis aren't gonna jump the gun on
this retake they know they haven't had eyes on this site for a while. Spam is
good he takes very very slow they don't know about Krebbeny on a late look Hugo
you set a hardest round to pick up
yeah he's looking for a regardless 2v4 flashes a problem flying through the
donors while Krebbeny cut down the banger shot should put Astralis all the way in
In the third map, Overpass up next, they shut down for domination here on ancient, and Astralis earn more play on the stage.
I'm gonna flash.
Flash! Under heaven.
Can be heaven, guys.
I'm gonna flash.
I'm gonna play.
I'm smoking. I'm fighting.
Two middle. Only one more can be.
Two middle walls.
I have done it.
I'm gonna push this side, maybe cross.
I'm in corner CT, guys.
I smoke it, I got the temple, go see the two of you
I'm maling me on the corner
I got that blue increment
I'll play, I'll play and shoot it
Don't shoot your shot though
X-Walk, don't peek Dima
I'm peeking you
I'm not peeking guys
You were both there in cemetery
Who's there?
I can't say, go peek box, cross
I don't think it's close, let's peek Dima, let's see
One, two
Nice!
Nice!
I'm flash again
One down
One down
Flash in X-Walk
Flash in X-Walk
Malin behind, ZZ
They will care, be with them
ZZ up, ZZ up
I'm maling the one
I'm holding the one on the tip
I planted.
I have a sample.
I re-smoke CT boys.
Yeah, I hold CT.
Take the flash, Hoaxi.
Hold CT for faster timing.
Vigo smoked Donut now.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, no.
One sample.
Two CT.
I have a sample.
I have CT, not flashed.
I have CT.
I'm on a sample.
I flashed CT now.
Boom!
I'm on a sample. Almost now though.
Almost on a sample.
I'm backline, I'm backline.
They're saving.
Okay, cool.
Smoke short.
They're not looking.
Do you know how to do anti-clash that blinds short?
I'm not sure
Just a little bit more here
Careful, be careful
Just take the donuts line
There's money in the window
Now, do you listen to me now?
Help me in cave
Okay
Yes
Yeah, I will molotov
Yeah
Now you come down
And then you give me what I want
You hold here for a second
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Okay
I need
Eh
I can
You can molotov now
Yeah
Okay
Let's go
Holding
I'm coming with you B from mid
Close me again
Give this
This close
I wish for a good one
You can smoke short guys
I'm anti-plane
Come on
Come to the point!
One close! One close!
I can't upper!
Can we just...
I'm so sure, this is close, we're just trading.
We're just trading.
Close!
Yeah, I'm gonna come with you.
I'm ready to...
Yes?
I don't see.
Hold on.
I'll be at the other end.
I'll be close.
I have a gun now.
I have a gun now.
I'm fine.
I'm gonna use my health.
Yeah, hold short afterwards.
He's back.
I'm searching low.
Is there?
Yeah, I'm rushing him.
I'm rushing him, man.
Ah, I'm sitting down with three of these.
Both teams were their reasons to fight tooth and nail to take that one step closer to the trophy, but this series was no sprint.
We are so back.
I just been walking around the floor and we found some passionate fans and both Vitality
fans right?
cheering for Vitality today?
I think so yeah.
Yeah what about you?
Who are you cheering for?
FACE.
Yeah that makes sense, that makes perfect sense absolutely but are you enjoying your
time here?
We've seen you on the cams having a great time.
Yes, it's my first CS tournament. I've been a fan of Astralis since 2016, since their start.
And now that they have a Sweden on their team, it's perfect. Yeah, it's even better.
And I feel like they haven't been this good in many years. So I'm very happy.
And for you as well, how long have you been a supporting Astralis?
I mean, I think that's since Covid, pretty much. Yeah. And just since I came into CS,
we just went around Covid, actually.
How are you finding the atmosphere here in the Alex arena?
It's crazy. It's so nice, especially since they're playing still.
Yeah, right.
With the spirit gamers thinking maybe it's going to be a short turn in, but they're still here.
That's great.
And you're going to be sticking around for the final as well?
Yeah, absolutely.
Like, I will be sharing for Navi just because I wore a kind.
I'll be my favourite team.
But I wore a still great. It was a great match.
And I'm just happy to be here.
I mean, I think we all are.
Last question before we go in.
Who is going to be lifting the trophy today?
Who do we think? I mean, we know who he thinks is going to win the trophy, but what about you?
NaVi.
Is NaVi?
Okay, two NaVi fans. I wonder why. I wonder why.
Thank you for your time. Let's enjoy the games.
And that's what it is!
Listen to me now. Listen to me now!
That was a really, really good clip.
I like Hooksy, man. He's very demanding, but in a good way, you know?
He's doing all he can to keep him in check, and I think it's working out.
They started off Dismally.
Dust2 was rough.
They looked like they were missing a lot of grenades.
Coordination was off, you heard in the in-game comms, and things were low.
The vibes weren't bad.
After watching back-to-back staged Dust2, it just makes me wonder,
what the hell happened to Spirit?
Like, don't get me wrong, Fuzi had popped off in the game,
Astralis looked locked in, but it makes Spirit look really rough,
Considering both their games were just beatings from Astralis.
Yeah. What does that tell us about where Spirit are right now?
They need one more bootcamp.
One more.
Oh, that'll do it. Okay.
I like this, dude. It's a doppelganger segment.
Yes.
Henry's, the Alex's.
And we're the men in black today as well.
That's us.
That's us. This is my new shirt, guys. Isn't it broadcast safe?
It is very safe.
You can't mess with that.
No logos on the phone.
Absolutely zero logos.
What's that down there?
That's a little logo.
That's a little logo, but it's hidden.
I wouldn't have noticed it.
Did you enjoy the second map?
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Yeah.
I was preoccupied.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, just my morning routine, as it were, if you were saying.
Yeah, kind of had my coffee, had my late lunch.
OK.
Yeah, the lasagna.
Nature called.
Yeah.
So I kind of missed the whole map.
OK.
Well, he didn't miss a whole lot.
It was just so strahler.
He's getting the job done.
Fuzzi especially looked unbelievably good.
He's found his form on the stage once again.
It was off yesterday.
Yeah, we didn't think he'd be able to bring that level
that we saw on Friday.
But he certainly did.
getting boosted across the map. He had impact with the AWP and the rifles as well. That shot
especially really did save the half for them and it felt like foot never really got going.
Bakes the question as well. We go into overpass next, a very tactical affair and you definitely
favour Astralis with Hooksy over the hard hitting foot on that sort of environment.
You do. I definitely think we've seen great games from Astralis on this map,
especially great games for Fuse and Riu Riu who had some struggling games in this tournament,
But not in that map. I think the worry is this is one of the
Foot have beaten them on back to back now
They're 13 three them last time around and the one last they have to Astralis was 13 11
So foot actually a pretty capable on this map. They're taking that furrier as well
Sure got a series of good wins in their pocket. It's an Astralis go to but it's it's not a map
You know, you can catch a lot of teams off on overpass. It's not about the foot
Unfamiliar with by any means I did I mean, you know these you still place the side
Let's get a bit of a bad rep but I think for this specific match
I think it's really really solid like you get a bit more exposure on this stage
The stakes are a little bit lower, right?
You don't have the pressure of playing for the trophy anymore, but for these two squads, you know, you think of like a foot
This is valuable experience a chance to show some resilience what the pressure and there's also a tangible result as well
They're neck and neck in the VRS number 10 and number nine and if foot to Wednesday they overtake Astralis
So that that is something significant going forward especially into the major. Yeah, especially with the cutoff
It's like the 6th of April. I think which is coming up very soon
So essentially this is the last run either of them are attending Rotterdam
So it's like, you know, you get that one extra leg up and just completely absolutely secure spot in I think it's stage two
I mean at this point it's it's under VRS expert
Looking locked in it's really cool
Especially for your foot because they have four players who've never been attended a major very young team very inexperienced team
generally six months on this org, getting out of Na'Vi.
And firstly, I'll say it's awesome that Na'Vi have yet another generation of players coming through their Academy League,
thinking the players have come through Na'Vi Academy over the years, bit, monocly, the likes.
And now this whole team, McCarthy, and the main team.
But the fact that they got away from the Na'Vi org, that allowed them to propel into tier one, to play main events,
that's awesome. So it's cool for the org, it's cool for the players, it's cool for Na'Vi.
They make a bit of money on the side, and we get a bunch of awesome players in the next major.
So I think everyone kind of wins in this engagement. Yeah, I think it's hard to argue against that
In fact the fans win because we get another we get another map account a strike
We aren't just gonna be doing the song and dance show for three hours before they the grand final start point
Yeah, so everyone wins. Yeah, it does help for the time. Yes
It's my point you can't have it
But I am gonna ask you for closing thoughts fellas coming into overpots
You're about to repeat all of this when you go to the casting desk
That's true
So is there anything that you aren't gonna say on the casting desk that you're gonna say right now before we throw to a break?
I think yeah, I think foot have got this. Oh, yeah, I do
I know that was a bit of a rough showing they're getting slapped around on ancient
But I really like this team like call me Tarantino. I'm a foot fan. All right. Hey, I wouldn't say that
I wouldn't say that on the casting guys. Tell me thank you very much. Thank you very much
I'm gonna go over Strahlus. I feel like they bounce back having foosie's looking like he's in world-class form again
Hooksies managing to manage the comms and the attitude of the players really well
And I feel like they are looking hungry and winning the second map
It's gonna be a feather in their cap going to overpass. I don't know a ton of outfits overpass Hugo seems to be expert on that one
But yeah, I'm the VRS and the VRS as it's serious
The Astralis is gonna come down to the floor in this final map right do we have
The yabby life game or do we have them at the bottom of the board if the floor is life for Astralis foot are gonna beat them across the board
Yeah, no 100% I am just in true
I feel like ancient overpasses the last two maps it is the two maps that Astralis have to find themselves by
I think it's famous Astralis had echo your sentiment there Henry, but yeah
We're gonna take a break when we do come back these lot are gonna be bringing you all the action for that third and final map in this
Broms metal affair. We'll see you in a sec
Well, it was 11.
and they said that I can be one of the best players in the world.
I chose to go full CS,
just to sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
The biggest reason that I grinded the face was because I wanted to beat them.
The best advice is that you need to love the game.
In the end, I'm going to be a good player.
Tonight's the night
And even if you're feeling blue
It won't be all right
The other couples behind
And have no doubt
Don't you wanna run away?
The break of dawn, a brand new day.
Everything will be brighter, getting so kind of way.
But now, forget about that time
Tonight we're up to the night
We'll have the night and night
Oh, oh, what a feeling
In the groove of this feeling
Oh, oh, what a feeling
Turn it loose and you'll all come see you later
I think you can feel it
That this is a magical moment
And not every moment can be precious like this
So come on, here's something you don't know the most
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This third place decider demands a third place.
third map. Astralis in foot rage on onto overpass and Mappet's foot has had them in
the bag back to back games on. It's been a prolific rivalry across 2026 for B. O.
three's played. This is the fifth third at ESL Pro League, one in each stage. And now
the biggest stage of the events. Stralis leveled up back on ancient foot, destroyed
them on dust two, who takes overpass? We'll have to find out what you're saying.
it all comes down to this in a way to be a one now the bronze medal is available
for one of these two teams and it all comes down to where we'll pass ladies and
gentlemen the final showing here of Astralis in foot let's make some noise
let's get rowdy as we get into the T side stop Astralis one smoke and a flash
and we got cemetery looking for the first care everything gonna be amazing and
the crowd is supporting us like these people in front of you are trying to
to help. Like everyone is screaming, okay. Yeah? Is he right? Yeah, there we go. Alright,
no kills yet. Slow stuff. Rebeddy, last time he played against Stratus on this map.
Got 18 kills. We'll see if he can step up once again. It's demon to find the open
up and the face full of lead, but getting away with it. But now at least we will find
him and we go into a 4 on 4 with one minute remaining.
It was always gonna be B.
Can Fuzi sell something?
Our foot buying?
Is it B? These are all the questions.
We need answers. He's left.
The Abiyuki out towards monster sneaks in. You got up aware and...
Good catch for Demon. All right. That's the A-Play now. Sign sealed and delivered as Fuzi.
to get going. Does he have any more? P250 up close, teammates on their way, Fuzi finds another,
Fuzi finds a way, bomb planted for Astralis. And it's going to come down to this, Demon
needs the ace clutch, barreling through, put down. Fuzi provides an Astralis move in for
the pistol.
Oh, over the shop, hitting both sides at the same time, Astralis, pick up that pistol,
all important T side pistol these T rounds could be hard to come by oh they
certainly can but they are worth their weight in gold begs the question now I
think I already know the answer thought love to force by I will see if they
bring out the heavy artillery going forward long stretcher got an M4 somehow
assuming a couple of times what about Kevlar there's yet demon and cemetery
of no Kevlar belongs to the M4 has been on fire today especially in that
first map looking unbelievably good cemetery with the scouts unable to
find the target all the time. Hooksie progresses through the connector, pushing them back with the Molotov.
Nice coordinate as well. They'll do a lot of damage towards Grveni.
Hooksie, gunning for him. Mactan in hands. He has pushed the defense back towards the bomb site itself.
Smoke deployed towards the bathroom entrance.
Gonna get flashed in here. Tertiary Fuzi allowed to swing out of the connector.
It's a nice coordinated team play there.
Very important round.
Winners to the Astralisks, it's worth two.
I'm just getting three rounds early on the T-set of Overpass.
Makes things so much easier.
And you can end up walking away from it, feeling like a lot of the job is done.
Yeah.
It puts less pressure on these early rifle rounds.
Three is enough in total on the T-set.
Getting that with the pistol and conversion feels so good.
Let's have a look then. Taking it slow and steady right now. They are going to be walking
into a full B stack you go. This could be problematic. Taking damage on routes as well.
And they saw Yabi, so knowing the lurk is still active at 30 seconds might make you a little
bit nervous about this B bomb site. The four players currently here. Grimitty jump spotting,
taking a risk here are Astralis. It might just pay off.
Oh, Foot rather.
Oh dear.
Oh no.
Symmetry scout's open.
Stare dead as well.
Now they've learned about the M4.
This is very quickly getting worrisome.
Choose that on shot there to play clean up.
And Foot come in with an immediate response.
If you want me to sound the alarm, Henry,
because you say three is enough,
and typically I'd agree with you,
but remember that Foot have won this game twice.
Obviously, Astralis always start on the T side.
The last two games, they've gotten three rounds.
9-3 halves against it, there was lots of both times.
The only time it was enough was when they found a 5-round T-side start.
Okay, so same to say, in this game specifically 3, it's not enough.
I appreciate that Hugo.
Wow.
And that's made things very difficult.
That's if they get to 3 at this point, because now they've been completely reset.
No bomb going down, $1,400 in the follow-up.
Didn't really get close to the round victory there.
Very slow, very methodical, was looking comfortable.
Got all that mid-control pushing the CTs back,
And then opted for the B execution taken down by the scout the 5-7s are long to end for as well paying dividends
And then she had a couple of trades out, but the 5-7 lurking in the smoke of jugs
Shuts them down and we go one one day. I'm gonna have to answer back of a force by themselves
But it'll be a much weaker and the tech 9s P250s
Well five smokes to walk with in a couple of flashes seeing some frustrations for who see it's just so
So, one of the best ways to win overpass, you win the T-side pistol, convert that first
rifle round, you're able to take it, suddenly you're fiving it off, you know what I mean?
Like you've forced another Rico, you're in full control over the money.
It's the moment the CTs kind of get situated that it becomes hard to streak together
rounds, man.
It's a lot of one and done.
You're going to be scrapping and trying to pretty up this score line.
And so, really hoping they can find something with this force by our Astralis.
I think he's going to drop out of there. He actually hangs around. Look at a fight. This cemetery trying to cover
for Benny's eagle hitting hard. And even though it's wrestling back a couple, it won't come to matter. Nice double
from Fuzi. Him and Starr have been the standout players of this series. The only ones in the green for Astralis coming into
players of this series. The only ones in the green for Astralis coming into map number three.
It's been Longson, Juke's on the other side. You can see Hooksy talking a lot after that round,
trying to keep them around high. Moses, team can go quiet, using some frustrating rounds here,
but it has to be the full eco. Got to stay locked in, got to get the most out of it.
You can, sure, you won't be winning this round, but if you complete out all their utils,
slow things down. Every dollar removed. It's a benefit going forward. This is exactly what
I go for here. Just wait out the initial barrage of UTIL. Take some time, have a sip of water,
perhaps. Get it down here. A moment's respite. Get everyone smiling again.
have some fun that's what it's all about really it is a video game after all enjoy
yourselves this is why I think you should come into this for these type of
rounds were just a couple of jokes prep not us during the glock eco
shooting around the teddy bears that's quite fun it's a lot of fun in fact
What's the deal with the balloons?
That skill comes in.
Look, see, taken down. But as we said,
just using this as a moment to recalibrate, prepare yourselves.
I don't believe yourselves are like too long a time. You do all need to die.
Yeah.
I'm in a frenzy right now. Let's see.
Will you and Yabi remain?
It's a matter of time. Nothing really achieved, but we will need that going into it.
Time takes us all in the end. Let's try, there's no exception.
Pistol's gone, gun's back. We're foot in control of this map so far.
so far
run guys, when we get contact please
we're doing all the small things, we're hesitating, we're scared
it's bullshit
if I die from somewhere else it doesn't matter, you just fucking run
it's all a bruise, it's all bullshit, nothing's real
You can see the loss in her.
It's an essential crisis.
You can see that it's quite a weak buy.
All things considered for Astralis,
clutching at straws here, number five.
Couple of galerals, contact plate towards short.
Now though, detected on the other side.
Three CTs here, and Yabbi bravely makes his way
through the flames, and by the opener,
absolutely not, long to take it.
A little bit of double here as well.
It's gonna be juiced to be the sort of punch,
an advantage, but not for long.
Back to a three on three.
And more bodies here, still to bring through though,
a big double out of Krupp any leaves it just on stair one man snuck into the site. He's not ready for it. So blindsided
But peeling ahead in the early game
And who's he got his wish they played with pace they ran straight in wasn't enough right into that stack from foot
Yeah, they were more than ready for this both players
focusing that same angle
Where are the abbey's tendencies through the smoke the rest of the team have to come and sure a nice rebuttal a couple of kills
My time is still a comfortable finish for launch
Very serious from him so far
It's that deadly scout always in the hands of the in-game leader for some reason. We're not really sure
I
Couldn't really tell you why that's a thing, but it's always usually saving for money
I guess but I guess but it's still if you're gonna buy as the captain
I would say but
It's such a trend that can't really argue with it
it's like the one time ever the eyes yeah I guess that's why they're always
saying come on they hit in the next round it's fine it's pretty much for me
anyway I've my AK I'll drop you or whooxy against
And Krebhany no less, and Krebhany just clothes like to rake in the face.
Alright, no way, quick and strollless.
I'm a big fan of the Abbeydeagle.
Of course, we have to take it, we won't be doing anything this round.
I just want to put out on the right.
Yeah, yeah, you want that to be done.
I want people to know.
Later, I'll pull that back up, and maybe we'll see something that longs is not
get out. Not that I'll thank you all for the shoes.
This is beautiful.
It's a big problem for Astralis.
The wall is already up, essentially.
They've got a lot of money here on the CT side.
It's the hardest thing to break through.
You're worried that the Orbs always going to be making appearances here.
That gives you a lot of staying power for foot.
You're able to fall back into some pretty stacked setups as a result.
The B site gets that much stronger.
You can play cemetery alone with the AWP.
Just kind of playing for info over on the top side.
on the topside, it's a real powerful position, there's a number of problems to break through
and you've got to grind your way through this game now if you're Astralis, lost out for your
chance of streaks when you couldn't convert on the pistol.
So this is going to be a real tight matchup, aggression, down towards the short side,
hands out for foot, they're calling from the front, playing like favourites, come
through with an aggressive move, find the 5v4 and now they just ease back into their
bombsites.
It's Yabbi going down as well, 0-7, gonna be in his own head here, a slow start, difficult
game to recover, and it's gonna have to be the B execute I suppose, that's where we're
heading.
Get your smokes down here, then Molotov the barrels, there's the smoke heaven.
Flash over from Fuzi, hope they can find the entries, he's there to clutch things
up, hold off rotations, find the train, there we go.
No Molotov being deployed, just Yabba barrels, I'm sure he's coming in, there it is,
It's the Clash of Facts, just over the road, if that's why you want to see that from all
it's all, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Great entries there from Hooksy, especially, gives him a fighting chance here, but this
Clash is certainly going to be attempted.
I'm just thinking Heaven's pretty rough, you're trying to lend some time to Corbenny.
Okay, maybe he's not going any further.
So I think that re-smoke seals the deal on this one.
Astralis come through, and Hooksy's hoping to lead by example here, right, just
charges in, might be a man down, plays a real confidence on the entry, gets past that barrel's
player and causes a whole heap of problems.
So it's going to be a grind for Astralis. Money is still fantastic for Foote and the
save only helps that, right? You're getting out with the most expensive gun.
So no issues yet for this Foote squad. Still, they wanted this to go considering that
Opening move, the 5v4, you're not content with the fact that it gets away from you and you see a big smile for Hooksie
He did that desperately, things were getting out of hand
That's what we're pulling forward
I have to do that tactical time-out now from the international squad
young guns
Rearmed themselves plenty of money in the coffers as well
10k silver cemetery with the full buy coming in
But Astralis, recovering the 4 and 5 double kill from Hooksy, you're right, leading by
example.
In front of the pack there after Yabbi goes down, gets the job done, I need a lot more
that came from Hugo, has mentioned before, 3 rounds, they've posted that once before
against Foot.
Twice.
Twice in fact, was no good.
Need to be aiming for more.
Nice work from Hooksy here.
joining in as well. And as I said, it's gonna be a difficult one to recover from the Abbey mentally.
0-7, but a long tournament.
Gave it everything you had on the stage yesterday. Gonna stay locked in, gonna stay focused.
If you can't deliver in the fragging department, at least be there with the comms. The ideas.
It's...
It's pointed.
That double set up.
It's not easy for Yabi, so he keeps getting in.
Oh, and Russia.
You can see it on his face as well.
He's going to catch up on the break.
It's also, you know, yeah, he's down 0-7.
You know he's the guy roaming master in these rounds.
You know he's going to be that left there alone in a lot of these situations.
And so it's like, don't ever let him get comfortable, you know?
Keep abusing him.
The longer you can keep him in this position, the better.
Yeah.
I like that Furt have made it a real pressure point of this CT side.
They are definitely putting a lot of focus on their solo player.
They won from a 4v5 last time with a Swift BX and keep it right now quite strung out.
They need to make up their mind, they might have to do it with no information.
Spotting that jump spot.
I managed to recover that 4v5 X in the form.
There was the unable to equalize the playing field just yet.
But what is this, get onto my pushing monster. This is very active play.
They're back at barrels. It's a good position to try and shut this down.
They're caught in the open.
Two right there. Can't find them. Swing out from Hoocsi.
Happy with that.
At least secures the trade.
That's a lot of info too. That's Bomb spotted outside of Monster with 20 seconds left.
Oh, we're really going to try this. Fainting it. Play up through the connector.
They are committing to this. Bomb in tow. Time low.
man into the truck and try and make the difference. Stan needs this entry. Flash was meant to set
him up but Demon holds on. Time is so low. Hoogsy plugging in those numbers. From Fusey
on that orb. And against all odds, the last second rotate they end up in this post-plant.
2v1.
Shocking round to win for Astralis when you consider that Longs has all the info. Didn't
seem ready for that fight. It's all about that one kill from Stan at the connector,
The drive-by, the clothesline.
If he doesn't hit that shot, there's not enough time.
Even if it's a slower kill than what he presented,
sure he goes down, but then Hooksy with another double here.
Foosie to secure it with that kill towards a truck,
bombed down with seconds to spare,
and the third has been found for Astralis here.
Needed that desperately with Yabi going down early once again.
2.45s back to back.
Hooksy deserves a hell of a lot of credit for his input
across this series, right from the get-go.
He was identifying the problems
problems at the heart of Astralis, the comms weren't there, nothing was flowing.
He's got about bringing out of them in a really good way, and here on map 3 it does just feel
like he's the guy kind of setting the tone, setting the example that everyone's listening.
Right?
Like, your AGL tells you to go for a mad last second rotate up towards A. So he's there,
we really need this kill and he provides it, and then Hoocie sees them through.
That's the other thing, he is delivering in the kill department as well.
Hoocie's loving this.
me so still money in tow also hasn't like taken the bait of trying to you know
siphon resources away from the rest of the map to help yabby you mean he's left
that yabby on his own again yeah but I kind of like it's gonna get boosted on
they're gonna find him with a third trick probably dead he's not having a
good game it's a little more passive this time pray for yabby just living
is a win for yabby really that's true back to him later in the round if you
find himself a pocket to hide in. At any point they could re-aggress on random timing dry.
That's what they've been doing all game long. No early casualties this time. I mean let's be real
here. Astralis, if they win this round suddenly they're cooking. This felt like a pretty dire start,
but they would almost break foot's money. They'd certainly cause complications there. 3K,
2K, 1K. That's all foot have. And Astralis might be off to a bit of a streak on the T side.
This is a huge opportunity here for Hoocsy and the boys.
Back to this execute.
Hoocsy's selling with Stare.
That lurk smoke front, eh, but
Util being left for this port for minutes.
Stare trying to kick him a fuss.
Double wants to spot it.
Eh, he do look like they want to go.
Hoocsy's not ready.
Throws in the smoke and now come Astralis into this site.
Yeah, he's going to be front of the pack here on the charge
out through monster right in.
It's about AWP, but he does his job, sets up the rest of his strollers.
One more man still to find, and Stair's got him in a box!
You know what, we'll take that from Yavin.
Tip of the spear, not having a good game.
He's the cannon fodder at this point.
A bird from the cross, heads away from the pack, manages to get that space,
and his teammate step up.
Stair with another double kill, really coming to life now.
Get a lot of stages of this first half, gets himself a triple in the end.
And as Hugo said, they won't be completely broken,
the tactical timeout territory now for foot as they have to calculate their
finances going forward. Oh, they're gonna buy Henry. It's three rifles. It could cost
them a half. They could end up losing it. It's the risk you take.
Let's work.
They go back to the B Poneche on Yabi. They let him live this time.
Energy gal as Astralis, a piece to get the three rounds in a row on this T-side.
Not easy to do.
You've been causing such commotion over here towards B. Abbey's also been a constant pressure point.
You just leave him alone in this round and you go and take all the long space.
You know that for multiple reasons, really, foot are worrying about B.
This is nice call.
You've got so much room, Krebbeni.
Sure, he's cognizant the long's been opened, but you don't believe the stairs gonna be there so quickly
Cemetery now all pulling the line getting sandwiched here both sides of him in middle. It's busy to find him on that all
And this decision of by while it was a risk for for they've got to think about saving
They lost the ball and in M4 as well. So they're not even really saving too much
It's having a D. Go MP9 in an M4 a4
Astralis back on track here a desperate starts
But things were looking rough.
Gabby still hit the frag, though, as we said, like, he's more than happy to show presence
across the map once again.
Getting through monster, keeping CTs on that side of the map, where his team are ready
to pounce up.
He doesn't frag, but he certainly contributes heavily to giving them that free passage
in towards A.
It's going to be tubes upgrading the MP9, and he's finding a rifle here.
It does just feel like he can't catch a break.
Also a key double for Blom.
What the hell?
This is weird.
All right.
They're glad you have 3 AKs now.
Yeah, consider it what you were gonna say, this is fantastic.
It's looking promising now on the T side.
They definitely are cooking as a tactical time-up.
Stare.
The Talisman for them.
Run of their pack.
Having to crack things open.
Especially those high-impact kills that open up the bomb sites.
So, saving 3 AKs, money's actually not a problem.
not a problem, but for now, we'll have the AWP of Cemetery for two rounds to go.
You need to be winning this half, you're on the CT side.
6-6 fills like a bit of a death sentence.
His next two rounds need to land in that favor.
Time now coming to a close, both teams well equipped.
I almost wonder if this is the round where Yabi gets in support, right?
It kind of is what he did, like a bit of a trap in a way, right?
Like to distract you.
So focused on this 0 and 10 guy, the fact that you've been nailing him every time you've
gone for that fight, it's given Hootsy a tremendous degree of freedom elsewhere on the map.
If I'm Hootsy right now, I'm changing the pace up completely.
I'm going for something faster.
They've taken a timeout.
You've got them on the road.
You've got them uncomfortable.
Don't let them get comfy on this slow default.
It's fast.
This is for Yabi, down towards B. It's a foosie orb trying to open things up.
Ryu as well, out towards the monster side.
Yabbi looking to get on the board here.
There it is!
Finally! That's Yabbi! First kill!
Round 11!
The crowd at LavaNan! And right next to him!
Straight to strength for Yabbi!
He don't love an underdog story and he's teed them up for this round!
It's only Long's left!
Bomb B3, hitting in this smoke at the bridge.
There you go!
Arms connecting, Long's whittled down.
No rune for Error and caught out in the open, Astralis in the lead!
That was the biggest pop of the game for Yavi getting his first kill there.
And Astralis got a good credit here to recover from a 5-1 down on Overpass.
They won pistol, they lost to the force by...
It was an issue to issue with their B player on 0 kills
and they've recovered with B hit after B hit back into the game, now winning the half.
Charles is sweet in the deal here.
Huge impact in the Abbey. I know what happens in Final Fantasy 2 massive kills there
Yeah, exactly he's up there now with the very best of them
Money tight once again for foot. It's looking for a 7-5 on the T side would be a miraculous recovery
Veni's are them. No
This is three kills on a plate for any backstop could do huge damage
That could have been the round right there.
That would have been it over and done with.
Bomb lost over on Long.
Astralis still in with a chance.
It's a three on four.
They might be on the back foot, but you've seen them here already.
Abby's still alive, a chance to shine here on the board now.
You know, he had his team hyping him up.
You heard the crowd going wild.
Those kills, he knows who they're cheering for.
I'm not even joking.
I think he's going to do something cool here.
Here we go.
Block his noise.
Symmetry coming down with the AWP.
Reaggression at A should confirm what first suspect this B site is the object of Astralis's desire
Let's see it setting up with a flashbang. We don't it's the shot out of the orb. Yeah, he can't look at the wrong way
You two will get past in one man in the site that cemetery AWP nails Ryu and so it's only stare
Had a great game sure but an awkward 1d4 in front of him
Spot on the barrels player, but he takes a lot of damage in that skirmish and flashes here
They're just as slow his role, but move in they've got everyone in the site and so they will level out on the half
Astralis do well putting together a five-round streak. It's full competitive here on map three overpass hanging in the balance
I
Ladies and gentlemen, it all comes down to this.
The last half you'll see from Astralis and Foots, it's been a great series so far.
These teams have delivered all series long and I wanted you to join us.
We're going to try and give you everything we've got.
I want you to make some noise. I want to blow the roof off this joint.
And if you get ready for overpass, let me hear you!
Here we go! Off to the races!
Astralis pulling it back from a 5-1 deficit.
I put themself in a pole position though.
Ready to get that bronze medal.
It's important for the BLS points.
And we'll see whether they can win a pistol here
and extend their lead on the CT side.
Yabbi, all eyes on him.
And he gets aggressive towards Long.
Even though they're able to make amends with that slow start and we were all celebrating his first couple of kills of the game
Yabby this is where you're hoping he can hit a little bit harder moving on to the CT side
It's a nice way for this pistol to open stare who has been a front runner for a straw list throughout this entire series
Opens things up with a 5v4. Yabby on this push gets in behind enemy lines
Just ops to hang out here cemetery. No idea. You need something. This would be the ultimate tail
This is how he's back.
This door is locked in.
Well, there we have it.
It doesn't get cleaned in there, taking zero damage on Roots.
That is significant.
The players of Kevlar now get essentially free upgrades to helmets.
Rifles can be brought out.
It sets up their CT campaign very nicely indeed.
It doesn't get cleaned up on this stone.
Stare and Yabi working in tandem, look at these shots coming through.
A fantastic sequence, Yabi filling himself now.
No plant and no force by.
Glock's across the board, 8-6 locked in.
They've struggled against Ful on this map before.
But they've recovered this one.
Down to Ryu, look at you get his ace.
Oh, it's a lot of damage and in comes Yabi
to lend a helping hand will allow it kept him alive yeah that's a good point
money's gonna be very strong for them now first gun round coming in bonus
situation of course Rostralis meaning their two SMGs around number 15 up
against the rifles of foot
truly try and get stuck in on these SMGs right take a bit of map control you're
running a bonus round here. Only one man out towards that b-site as it's a bit of a
default here. Four-foot looking for Conn at looking for middle.
Slow-stine to this first rifle round. Triple setup over here towards mid.
Astralis actually looking to make it a bit of a brawl for this mid-control. A
A lot of squads are like to just kind of give away this area of the map for free,
but I think it's good to show the precedent you want to fight for it early on.
That forces foot to be more considered in these mid-takes moving forward.
Next up open here is the Smokes and Toilet.
That's a free kill on stair hung out to dry on the long side.
So fuzzy as well.
Fuzzy again. It's just missed this timing on the smoke push.
Oh, you know where they are.
I don't know. He's here.
Closing in on for a backstab right now. No one even looking at it. Fuzzi has a number of kills right around this corner. Not necessarily the gun for the job.
We'll cause a bit of havoc here on the A-play. Backstab MP9.
It's out with his and that's going to slow the take. Do they come back? Do they want to fight Fuzzi? Or do they battle forward?
They don't ask them to go get it with stack. Kruppenny, he did that kill.
Stac just getting picked apart now.
Astralis know the hit is coming. That smoke might buy a bit of room.
Flash misses. Demon does a double triple entry to secure the round.
They're still going into all of Astralis there.
And Foote get out scot-free of that round. Had it all, didn't it?
It looked like Boozy. If he had any other weapon with the MP9,
he gets maybe three kills in that scenario.
MP9 found the bomb, picks up the M4 on the end.
If he gets, I kill him for Benny as well, who had the bomb on his back, it could have been a very different outcome.
Great idea. Unable to stick the landing, the demon certainly did.
Fantastic work there with the AK.
But as we mentioned, the money is incredibly strong for Astralis by virtue of that perfect pistol round, a clean follow-up.
So they have everything they need. I said that, they are lacking a few grenades, but they have the author rifles.
They have been shot from Fusey. Wistfuls by the players of Foots.
There's Molly towards it. Divide up.
Stay hanging around on Long. One man up close. He's going to dodge this flash.
Ready for the fight. He's got Foosie here to back him up.
He's going to watch Fly on Jigs right now who makes a play out through Monster.
Catches a good timing on this. Hoogsy just left.
Are you going to go back to check for it, but you weren't ready for Juge so deep in the back line?
Bombs now moving back around as well to try and link up with this B-play.
Fixie coming down just in time.
time. A lot of space taken by Dukes. 35 seconds as teammates are joining through Monster. They've
got the bomb with them. CT's looking to retake from short. It's down to Yabbi here. Clashed
off. Onwards. Now needs a bomb to go down, no problem. Can't swing into the flames.
Ash, they're trying to set up Yabbi. It's all based around his contact. Then he can't
find a way in. Poozie's already here, so it feels like he may as well give it
to look in, connects on the Spam.
Sorry.
2v2.
I can't right now.
You have an aid to break this open.
Can Fuzzi find anything else from short?
The round, it lives and dies on this AWP.
Nothing open, Hootsie out through heaven, can't get it done.
And as Fuzzi makes a mad dash in, he's surely a dead man.
Two players out of the pillar, ready to play off of each other.
He'll get iced out, tie game.
But bringing the heat on the T side,
and that's money broken for Astralis.
And the lead about to get taken.
Yeah, that is really quite a problem for Astralis at this point now.
They lose everything there.
It was a desperate retake there.
It might have been better off taking the AWP in the right pool.
Had no kit there.
And I think the con from Hoosy got the dink.
He was hoping that both players would be low going with that USP.
Unable to find them.
And we're all tied up.
Almost certainly going to be foot taking the lead here on the T side as well
up against five USPs full eco once again. They stack themselves towards the connector,
but then he needs to be careful here. And he's not. Double headshot comes straight in from
the wall. They pull Astralis strat, stack out towards the connector. He's actually just
shooting fish in a barrel as they try and swarm mid. So no worries, in spite of that clean
opener from Fousey it's not a weird USP round.
Free kills to cemetery and foot take the lead.
I'm out here from Astralis because there's absolutely no denying it. The
pressures fall into them. It's well fine when they fuck on that bonus round
attempt to right they still have cash moving forward but they're in a very vulnerable position right now this is late in the game
CT economy not built up
Things can very quickly start to spiral this rifle round is of high importance
Hope for foosie makes an appearance. He's running it glass cannon
Which is fine in a map like overpass lots of long range endeavors available to him
He's got a good spawn there, looks like he's trying to try and take it, finds an action towards middle.
See what he's got up his sleeve here, off he goes, setting up the smoke towards the T-steps.
All on top of the playground.
Ah, but this one, Fusey's just gonna get left out of the action.
All the fur head down towards his B site, Yabby, thrown onto the boost, gets his a one for one.
Fast acceleration on the back of that contact. They try and go quickly into the B site.
Utah will slow them down.
And now you've got a bit of time to think here. A two on three presented at two foot.
And don't follow through with the plan, which was this B hit. They can go elsewhere.
Now listen to the foosie orb on upper.
He saw him there. Communicated along. Fuzi calls for a rotation.
You have to do it quietly, right? They want to give up the aim of the game here. That was
one-way information. So were you just sneaking in?
Two belts of Util.
Well, we need to make it uncomfortable out towards the truck. You're getting molly.
Boosie got a hang out, further on the angle.
Ooh, smoke misses.
Misses and it extinguishes that molotov.
That was meant to keep the pressure on.
It's real here that's the unknown quantity.
They never spotted him, never heard him sneaking up on that rotate.
It was meant to be valuable.
Krobeni's got it down to the 1v1.
It's a clash of the captains here to decide who takes this oh-so-important
round, money on the edge for Astralis.
Hooksy's been in good form, but Krobeni throughout this entire event
has been the IGL to put up big numbers, big performances.
Hooxie doesn't move a muscle.
Oh!
He did the lead for a baddie, shut down,
and a heart attack for Hooxie.
A very important round secured by Astralis' captain.
He had the reedy as knife-out as he walks down the tunnels.
A jump scare for both players, knife-out.
Trying to get an extra few percent of movement speed.
It comes back to haunt him.
He had the AK out.
He wins the round, hands down.
Yeah, Hooxie wasn't even looking at him
when he came around that corner. Unreal. Massive round there. As Harry said, Astralis needed
that to keep the head above water. It's just enough. His heart is racing now.
I mean that round meant everything. It's kept you in the game and thanks to, you know, just
a clash of minds. That's a proper leader's battle in that 1v1.
Well, there we go. Money not broken for foot just yet though. Their money is absolutely fine.
What a kill here and Stare goes down early. Hit the MP9 towards connector.
All the meanwhile though, the boys ready to go.
And that could be enough. The last three players are over towards B.
The Huffman says toward the A bomb site. Bomb pretty far away to be left.
And a chance still.
Demon dead out towards connector. Right now you're trying to find where's this bomb
because it still isn't perfect. That's giving you suspicions.
Laying around alongside Cemetery is to make it a cross.
If he dies with the bomb here, round is back on.
Estral is still in with a charge. He nails it.
Backstab for Yabi. He'll get his.
Bomb still isn't safe to cross in yet.
And as Yabi moves through, Hooksy shoots a teammate.
It's all getting wild. No way. Yabi's going to be the hero.
Needs the ace.
Cemetery shuts it down.
I think from your teammate to logged in.
From a hooksy nose, able their positions,
discombobulated the squad.
Still was a chance that the Abbey tried to isolate the fight
against the all by knowing his HP was low.
Couldn't hit the shot though.
Cemetery suddenly could such a ballsy call after that,
you know, deep breathe in a clutch after that,
you know, heart race of silence.
Krobeni just guns it up long and finds the entry into a site massive gap a
Great call
That really takes away any success Astralis were feeling off the back of winning that one be home
They have nothing to show for it. They have no money the game lead is against them. They have to echo this position
So despite the clutch you can't celebrate for a second foot. Oh, they both fire off as well. They both panic
Yeah, it gives away two positions so unfortunate that's why you want CL show team equipment on sometimes
Unfortunately, it does cost in the round
That one mistake could go back to horn them
He wasn't the perfect position he was walked right in cleared one out was about to check bang such a shame
USP now
11 rounds. Written on the walls.
Hook seat.
Next way towards connector is that stack once again in this position.
One down.
Now the transfer from Demon starts to do all over again.
Yabbi, AK retrieved.
Trying to put it to work, but the Nades decide it.
You've got to talk about a comeback for Yabbi, right?
Like to a degree, 11 and 18.
He was what, 1 in 10?
I mean none of that is gonna matter none of that is a fact that if when there's
follow-up gun round and break your strollers is money to find match point
third place point with podium points they could have justified some investment
but it went to the full eco meaning they actually have diffuse gets all the
util here a full gun rounds everything possibly need sacrifice in the helmets
That's sort of a problem against the AKs
Distinguishing the smoke is preventing making his way quickly towards that party position
So much space taken early. It's really risky, but expectation at Stralis don't want to fight for the round in party
Use the clock to their advantage AWP back in the bomb site
Don't play coming up good flash sets up stare with an entry
It's just gonna go straight forward. You feel like your hands are tied now, right?
You're already kind of committing to this speed play now that you've lost Krebbeni,
your best bet, just a battle on forward full flashed on Ryu. Nothing for him to do.
Yabi up close gets out with one by in time for Hoocsi to make his way on down.
Keeps him in with a chance here, three versus two.
And that bomb, trying to force a reaction and they get given it, Deven.
Providing the cover for wrestling this one back and Refusey dead.
But now I have three chances to walk this one home.
Don't know about that for Hoocsi pushing back in in the 3v2 advantage there for Astralis,
but not only is it a fake, even if it wasn't a fake, there was cover there.
Foote had player in monster to hold for the plant,
and Hoocsi forces a retake before it needs to go down.
Astralis is going to pay the price, all of their economy in the bin.
That could be all she wrote for Astralis here. Desperate scenario now.
We need a miracle to keep her head above water.
Three rounds in a row required, it all starts at the most difficult one of them all.
MP9's a scout at a 5'7".
Massive grenade damage to the staff.
Could be a double kill with June to get one, does damage to the second,
but Yabby keeps him in the round.
4 and 4.
We sit up until that connector.
It's nice, but it's too late to do anything.
Door comes off.
The box gets tagged by that scout.
Still a chance there.
Series points.
Foot take this series. They overtake Astralis and the VRS rankings.
Oh, that was sleepy from the longs.
Free kill for Stair. Not even a point of damage dealt his way.
Careful. It's invaluable here. Let's hang around in the toilets, right?
Doesn't have to backfill the way out to keep the pressure on.
The MP9 look real good.
How's he done that? He's not taking a single bullet.
Two kills. Second player, four health.
Group enemy finds Yabbi. You know that's not Stare.
It'll say the mistake he made.
Don't get ahead of yourselves here.
Oh, come on! Still going!
No way! He's got a fork in the chamber!
Stare saves the Stralis!
The least likely round
of this game.
There it is.
It keeps the Stralis in the match.
That's going to get under your skin, right?
Cash to go for a buy here, but it's gonna be lacking. It's not pretty final timeout burned for foot. You're buying this if they go for this investment
This is as good as it gets a stedge of save the game for Astralis because there's only gonna be three a case in this rifle round here for
I don't know if you remember we've seen foot plenty of times have map point and
Struggle to close it out time and time again. We saw it against mouse. They give it a very last round
Yeah, they were up 12 to 7 was an 8 rounds in a row
they lost again and if they got it done in round number 24 but they can't afford
to let's go to overtime it had too many heartbreaking moments
oh miss hot-hom as well allows dad to swing around but yeah it's struggling to
throw out games is one of the floors of foot they don't have many but see if
they can do it now we really is tight was really starting to see stare look
like a star in this Astralis jersey right he's had the star positions of
Sometimes there was a brief uptake, but now going international, showing up even better.
Advantage is wireless in terms of firepower and resources.
See whether it's going to be enough.
Let's take this to round number 24.
If they win this, you pretty much guarantee it's overtime. You're up against the pistols then.
What's the approach here?
Slow and steady so far.
That's just over to us long Molotov deployed. They've got mid control
Such a young team sure one that's been on the rise, but
Lack in the experience that last round is meant to be the one where you just feel like you've given up the game
Let's see if foot can continue to shock and overcome expectations
Struggles to get out with his one, but he's managed it
It's a gun to retrieve
rifles to pick up
Someone gonna harm themselves here Krebenecek and the flying juices in monster that we later for Krebenecek, but coming up is high-risk
Javi and Toyla it's gonna allow a triple B Fuzi rotating there's a big gap on a and they don't like it
Strahler's making that rotation is a high-risk maneuver. It might be down again to this B hits
You flashed in they dodge it they turn from that flash
They've got the purchase on this B site now who see has some support from Fuzi up in heaven, but he's been over ran
Looking at Fuzi the hometown hero and Yabi the guy who's had to have a resurgence in this third map
From 0 and 10 down. These are your hopefuls. These are the guys that have to hold on
If Astralis won the chance over time
Yabi's got his time running low and time is the problem
It's done. You've got no way to flush him out. Yabi from zero to hero
How do they keep winning this? How are Astralis finding these rounds?
This should have been over. Back-to-back impossible moments here from Astralis.
Stairs 4K into Yabbi's save on this B-bomb site.
And Astralis go for one more. This should be the easiest of them all.
breaking down the foot economy into just pistols at the dying stages of regulation.
Here are fired up they are OTs right there for the taking. Only these pistols
still to beat. This is not how you want it to come unraveled. Just got to keep a
a cool head on your shoulders here around Astralis, always supposed to win.
Flash player towards monster Ryu, flash.
That's a big chunk of damage supporting from Yabi.
And again it's him shutting them down, the master of monster.
Yabi, what a return to form.
You never saw it coming, you never expected it.
That's a firm high five from Huxti.
Yabi has earned it this recovery, something to marvel at.
0 and 10, he's now 19 and 20.
It is the most unbelievable return to form from Yabi,
the highest impact possible in some of these late rounds.
And the straws survive into overtime in this third place
decided
Going out of the bang here or Astralis do or die now the foot
Feel like they've squandered their best opportunity
Instant timeout from coolio chatting it over
One of the big things that foot of focused on is trying to enjoy the time on the stage and you know when you're the underdog when you're firmly
not supposed to do it. I think it's maybe easier to do that.
This was a game that was well within your grasp.
You had three opportunities to close it out and you couldn't do it.
And just like we've seen for multiple times at match point,
at match point have struggled to finish the job.
Sometimes it takes many, many rounds where you don't have that breathing room now.
now. He's back 20 and 20. You don't see recoveries like this often.
Oh, quick timing there for Fuzi, they're going to creep on past him.
Well, that missed timing.
Leave Astralis in a world of hurt.
It's only Stare in at the site.
That's a big spot.
Sees the AWP posted.
Players working their way in through the short side.
No rotation yet.
Out of Astralis.
For Benny, he's been allowed to creep in.
Stare is quick to shut the door.
And Fuzzi now tries to get activated on a backstab with this AWP.
Sted just hoping to buy some time.
Has Hoocsi arrived as support and stare more than buying time.
He's ripping heads off.
There's that backstab.
Foghead boxed in.
Demon clutch required and it never gets going.
Astralis convincing shutdown.
And Game is in their hands now.
While we've had resurgence from Astralis,
I feel like everyone has gone quiet for it right now.
No one is taking any kills back, any impact,
No multi-kills, Demons had a great game.
With these last few, he's been as quiet as the rest of them.
Cemetery giving them no opening kills here on this T side.
To be fair, Astralis are making it hard.
They're playing very passive to start these rounds, doing bomb-size setups.
Cruising again in toilets.
Smoke drop, takes his shot and cramming down first.
Astralis another step in the right direction.
I can feel so hopeless on this T side of Overpass.
Some of the best rounds we've seen have been those B hits.
Stas been called by this timing a couple of times.
Not in this round.
Gun on in time.
Cemetery with an important trade.
Still it's info, painting a clearer picture as to where foot are in this round.
Two players, the AWP being one of them out towards long.
And Fuzi has maintained this aggressive stance out towards mid from the get-go.
It's a high-risk position but it pays off.
They walk through the smoke, risks taken right back for foot and timing.
He walks in, he catches Fusey off guard.
A bit of a tag from the orb.
Fusey nades himself in the back of the site.
Oh no, don't have that, be the big undoing.
Fusey ups out.
That's going to give over a bomb plot.
They try and rush the plot and no cover.
Cemetery peeled away, and so it's paced.
That's the answer.
Yabi with another multi-kill.
22 and 10 since his 0 and 10 star.
I mean the crowd here we were ahead of the curve on that one right cheering in his first two kills
But a damn their flawless game from him since that slow opening zero 10 or 0-11. I don't even know but it was
absolutely
No way to be seen for yabby
And they can just laugh off the mistakes of this point right through these utility has been to one of his weaker elements in this team
especially around like that, but it doesn't even matter when Astralis just
wrap it up and look for a flawless half. AWP would love an opening kill here.
Cemetery has not been given that option and again they smoke him off. Fuzi won't
come into the fight. What an audacious position for an AWP. Fuzi, deep monster.
They've been flashing this spot.
Is he ready for some combat orping to close out their CT side?
His foot are coming in.
That's where you can make the most flashy plays in situations like this.
Get out of his way, get out for him.
Fuzi nails one on the orb.
Gun on in time, ready for the spillout through short.
More is required from Fuzi.
Foozie.
Fox is nowhere near the right now.
They're not even looking at him.
Stan moves in.
Only one man in front of him down at this B site.
Cemetery pumps the brakes,
but Stan's got a gap over this smoke.
Waiting for Longster to link on up with him,
and Stan commits to the drop down.
He is sure that this is the B play.
Bombs spotted out towards Monster.
Stan topping the charts in this third and final map
has been a force to be reckoned with
all throughout this tournament.
coming into his own with each passing game.
What's Stare got?
Rives now.
Swings out.
Oh!
His hand makes that look all too easy!
A flawless half out of Astralis.
For three opportunities to close.
And they couldn't do it.
Well, that pleasure now belongs to the Astralis squad.
How many times have you done the hard part
Only to fumble the end.
A team on the rise.
A team that shot far further than anyone could be ready for
and still might leave with a devastating feeling
on this very stage.
Astralis is just having a great time.
They've got three chances on the T side to close this series out.
Take third place here at ESL Pro League.
One of the things about these type of games,
You know, you can leave it a bit, fall in a little shy of your ambitions, but still feel
like you left it on a high playing strong CS.
You saw Astralis start this one slow, it's the regulation of the trial, helped them out
every step of the way, but here on map 3 they've locked in, they've dialed in, they're
playing great counter-strike and it's led to them overcoming three chances to close
and they might do it on the first try.
5 on 3, full gamble from Foote, it's the only option left.
Yabbi's crossed, they don't even know. Look at the confidence of Yabbi, he's walked out B.
Oh, here it is.
He's going to make it the final round.
There's the shut down, and Straalus, get it done.
Third place secured and a tremendous display of resilience.
Starr was very much an MVP throughout this entire series, but you've got to talk about
Yabbi and this recovery, I mean this is a guy who alongside the tour of him and Starr, they
were always talked about as struggling in the high pressure moments, falling off under
the lights of the stage.
Yabbi was 0-10 man, and here's the reason that this game goes to overtime is the reason
they end up in that position.
What a recovery.
Astralis, they can feel proud of this one.
You heard the stress from Hoogsy, you heard him having to try and hype up the gang, get them to want it, well boy did they, by the end.
They earned it as well, excellent game from the boys of Astralis for foot, it's another devastating loss here, a game they couldn't quite close,
an SMG from stair that kept Astralis in it, but a learning experience nonetheless for foot, they impressed and surprised,
They took their mouths in the quarter-final, they took Navi to the limit
and they can take their head held high at the end of this matchup, but Astralis
take their place today.
Yeah, you know, I mean, they are a very exciting team.
There's a reason they've caught our eye. You love the brand, the CS, the
squad's playing. You love the way they look, but yeah, here experience rains
supreme. And so now we get to hear from Hoocsi, a guy with a stressful day,
but it all ends in a victory.
Let's hear from him down on the stage.
Yeah, I'm joined by Hoogsy, and he's just said to me before we go in,
he said he called it, said overtime was coming.
It didn't look like it was a guarantee to throw out some of that game.
What replaying overpass in your head, how was that?
I was very stressful, first of all.
I think, also very frustrating at times, I think both the start of...
Actually, both sides was super bad,
but we had some mental resilience and we came back
and I'm just super proud of the boys.
Stockham, you enjoy that one?
Yeah, you put on a show at HFC.
About Yabi's turnaround as well, what a hero.
Turn it around, Impact, Fragz pulls you into overtime.
When he's down 0-10, should you give him a little pep talk?
I mean, he doesn't need a pep talk.
He will just resupply himself, which is something that he developed
since even I came here.
So, yeah, a lot of credit to him.
And obviously, a lot of other individuals also stepping up
with the Klaus and Jinn from there.
and just in general, yeah, insane.
Insane, and it must feel like a good kind of a chapter,
the fact that there is a third place,
there is going to be a medal around your neck.
You've talked about wanting to have a team
that you can build and develop,
and it looks like you found it.
Yeah, definitely.
We've been working so hard.
We haven't had an off day for three weeks now,
and I think it's great, so it's exactly what I want,
and I think these stage games
is super valuable for us as a team.
We don't have much experience as a team on stage,
so this kind of feel like a mini-final,
which is great for when we actually get into one.
So, yeah, just super happy about the whole experience.
And you talk about those three weeks, it's been grueling.
What is next for you guys?
You've got a couple more tournaments around the corner.
Is it bootcamp time? Is it break time?
I think it's like a mini break with a few days off
and then there's three breaks of practice
and then I think book a rest maybe.
Yeah, I think book a rest is up next for you.
I think we've got a medal for you.
Can we bring it over, Jackson?
Is it time to give this man his medal?
Yes, indeed, OK.
Stockholm, you're going to give it up for us, Charles.
Well it's third place, ESL Pro League season 23.
Before you go, any last words to the fans that have been cheering you on?
There's been a lot of Astralis jerseys in the crowd.
Yeah, I've seen them all and I think it's been a great crowd.
There's so many people cheering, I don't even care if it's far,
so anyone else is just super nice to play in front of a crowd again.
So thank you so much for the support.
Guys, give it up for Astralis and Hootsy!
Well, well, well, what a third place decided that was.
I wasn't sure what to make of it coming into the day, but that series delivered on every facet of canister you can imagine.
It had the storylines, the romance of the Yabbi comeback as well, and just a great display of skill and tactical prowess in CS.
I don't even know who to celebrate more, Stereo or Yabbi, because even though Yabbi recovered, I mean, that game was done.
It felt like when Foot had matchpoint for the first time, it was SMGs for Astralis.
Stereo has four kills, Individer drags that game back.
They don't drop a round from that point.
That is six straight rounds from Astralis from 12-9 down, great resilience, another foot fumble, that one's just going to hurt.
They can't close out these games, it's something that's going to develop in this squad for their feet together a long time,
and they always get to round up at 12 and the wheels seem to fall off.
It's something they need to find a remedy for going forward, but showing great tenacity here, I'm a huge fan of this new Astralis project,
and I think they've got a load more fans in the crowd now, and showing that they can be a likable and world-class team.
I mean, for the first time in years Astralis is likable, yes, because Fuzzi bringing all of energy,
and calm and they're putting on great games as a hook see, you know, we get all these
voice con listening and regardless of, you know, the vibe, it's always entertaining.
It's always interesting hearing what he has to say to his team. Yeah, you just get the
feeling as well that it's a group of players who will really get on, you know, they're
making jokes, they're keeping themselves in a good kind of space and who see what
he does, you know, give these guys a hard time when they're under performing.
I think it's because he knows what they're capable of when they're playing at their
And you can understand that, that kind of frustration.
He's seen them when they decimate Team Spirit.
He saw them lock in by the end of this series.
He's very, very demanding of this team.
But I think for a new look international venture,
that's exactly what you need.
Hooxy definitely deserves his props for this series,
because he was demanding from round one.
He was not tolerating the idea that they
were going to come into this slow or slouched over.
He wanted excellence out of the game.
It started with Dust2 as well.
We know Astralis have been up and down on that map
They've had some great results and some really disappointing ones.
Unfortunately today it was the latter.
I kind of felt like they wouldn't bring it back at that point.
It felt like they were slow to get going.
But once Fuzzi connected to the server properly,
once they got warmed up in ancient,
it felt like it was going to be a neck and neck series
and we certainly got that overpass for me.
That was so much fun.
And if I've got overtime with so much on the line as well,
normally third place decided we're saying,
well, it's a difference between another $5,000 or something like that.
This time it actually is significant.
Astralis stay above foot now in the VRS rankings
And that's going to be a real nice venture going forward into the major when you consider the Astralis organization missed five majors in a row
I know they have broken back in but you know for a long time
This was an org that went from lifting trophies to being completely irrelevant when it came to the major
Well, this team is again another conversation piece piece coming into cologne
I think it's also just nice is what I have like the hunger back within astralis
You know what? I mean like the old kind of versions of the scrub recycling players. That's a really old faces hanging around
It's like yeah, this is a third place Saturday where some squads it doesn't make a world of difference
Sure, we're talking about the VRS implications
But you know, we're all everyone down there as competitors, you know that they really care about winning when you can't win the trophy
It's sometimes hard to find that motivation, but a starless were hungry for this win
And that's exactly what you want from this squad and I still I think you who's it who's he?
Who's he sorry echoed something like that when this
International team got built because he talked about how it's nice having players who want to prove themselves and who want to earn it
I think towards the end maybe device perhaps loss of motivation is Jersey
You know with those cycling of players and with those same old same old results for Astralis
But Fusy is still very early in his career when you consider his complete lack of accomplishments
Yes, he's played in a bunch of teams in a bunch of regions and he's reached some decent points
But he hasn't reached the heights. He hasn't lifted the tier one trophies. He hasn't made deep runs at majors
So there's so much more to prove for a player like Fusy who shows some incredible form in this tournament
It's almost like, you know, coming into that, though, the vibe of Hoocse is it's like we haven't earned the right to kind of be lazy in a third place this idea.
And I love that he embodied that throughout the entire thing.
So it was it was a well deserved win for Astralis and still for foot.
It's a weird one for sure.
They lose here in the third place this idea.
It's a sign of the classic, you know, get to 12 struggle on closing.
I think they should still leave this tournament very, very proud of what they've been.
I think if you told them at the start of pro league, you know, finishing the top four, considering your mouth, spirit, Navi, Aurora at this event.
I think they'd buy your handoff and they've got to the big stage of that experience. That's massive
And no like our fluke quarter-final draw they'd be mouths. They'd be mouths and the whole you know
You can call mouse show because he tournament favourites call mouse what you want right by the end of day
It's still mouse on home soil. We're brolling in a quarter-final. They don't lose. I don't lose in quarter-finals
It's not like you beat Aurora and you can go like oh well
They've always choked these games no mouse are a lock in the semis
They were the tournament favourites foot took them down in a hard game and they closed despite a mouse come back
So I think yeah a lot of credit to foot. It had a great tournament
We're gonna see a lot more of them what I'm seeing and hearing from you guys
You enjoyed that third place play and fun for a rare third place banger guys. Yeah, so no more show matches then
Oh, well, you know bring out the cash is the cash is maybe maybe one day
We don't fire them now. It feels like it's done, but what's not done though. We have got the DHL mail bag
Would you like to have a rummage Hugo?
Yeah, so let's bring it up. Let's see what we've got
You're gonna have to read it out there. Oh, no, sorry. No, Harry Hugo. You're the one who actually see
He's not interested in EPL. He only reacts to the TV if there's a dog in it. Can you please
out some barks randomly during the stream to keep you interested? Henry, you'd love it wouldn't
necessarily be random if I did it now though. Yeah, I mean, it's a bit late. Yeah. Also,
but Henry, you love photos and pets. You love dogs. You love cats. I know the production
trying to rile me up, bringing out their trying to provoke a reaction. You know what?
I do like dogs in general. I don't think it's appropriate for the show. That's
That's all for now.
Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff.
Oh, Bingo.
Nice and random for you there.
Ando, lovin' that.
Not so random.
Yes, sir.
Crazy, witty guy.
If you want to get involved it is DHLMailbag at efg.gg.
And all that remains now, boys, is the grand final.
Hugo, tell us about it.
Yeah, it's Navi.
It's Aurora.
It's a B05.
It's a rematch from the Season 25 though as well at ESL Pro League.
But with a new looking Aurora, this isn't a tonal fire.
This is Soulfire on the stage.
to redeem himself from yesterday and a Navi who are here to lift the trophy. It's all coming up in just a bit.
You're not clicking with the mouse?
No.
My number is cool.
Okay.
It's Aura.
I need some Aura, you know?
First and foremost, do you do any launch options?
No launch options.
No launch options.
We don't have to worry about that.
That's easy.
Nothing.
Alright, so you said you plan to stretch.
What's the resolution we're rocking with?
Oh, I play 960.
Yep.
Just 960.
I play with it.
Basically, all my carry I never changed resolution.
I just started playing with it since 2018-17, something like this and
I think everyone at that moment already played with it so I just copied it from someone and always played with it.
Lots of people use that. Do you play fullscreen windowed or fullscreen?
I play fullscreen. This is what I usually use, but fullscreen I use fullscreen windowed.
Doesn't matter to me that much.
Do you change the brightness?
93. I think it's the default as well but 93 I always keep it.
keep it okay it's same with every monitor if I if I feel like the color is off or
something I change from the monitor okay in-game I keep it all as mandatory what
about the video settings anything different in here video settings I think
they're kind of basic but I don't play with the low latency mode I just put
it disabled as PS max I put it the 786 okay why 786
It's a funny number.
It's a funny number.
I saw some player put it.
Maybe...
I can't remember who it was exactly, but I saw it from a man.
Yum Yum. Something like that.
Not so popular player, but anyway.
I saw it from somebody and I was like, why not?
Can I go here?
I put the 8x.
The highest.
Then I put everything else.
It's low.
I love to use stuff.
and use it, but here's so much.
I'm with the question, I think it's also
medium and default, I'll just leave it.
I'm not sure what it does to be honest,
but just default and all of these are also default
items, there's these two.
Yeah, this is everything from video settings.
Anything with a HUD edge, I know some players
like to bring it in, especially players that sit closer.
Yeah, I tried it in the past, but no, not for me.
I keep it on default, so everything is maxed out.
perfect for me you cross there right here this one is the I call it the
Niko Niko crosser okay so it's just the size one thickness one and get minus four
basically what almost everyone else is using but for me with crosser I think I
change like every day really just the color or the size or what are we talking
everything everything I mean I usually play with small crosser like not above
the size of two, but thickness zero, thickness one sometimes. If I don't play with this,
I play with the size two, gap minus three, and thickness zero. This one is also like
really common for me. Really nice. Okay, so those two you get between, I think, a lot
of time. They are like my vote too.
When I was 11 they said that I can be one of the best players in the world. I
I chose to go full CS, just the sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
Of course, it's a huge deal to be high-aleon-fazed.
The best advice is that you need to love the game.
In the end, I'm gonna be a good player.
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You got Aurora sitting up tight for a grand final right here right now I've got Soulfly
and we're ready to jump into some of the action that's going on here but just right
out of the gate Soulfly three months in this team you're in the best of five grand final
how did you get ready for today?
I feel really ready because I'm in 3 months ago, I wouldn't imagine myself here, but now
I'm here and I need to get used to this kind of BO5 and I feel insecure and I feel really
good right now.
What about yesterday?
I know that yesterday is a totally different game, totally different set of dynamics
in terms of what was required in the server.
Let's talk about Inferno for you.
playing pit was it a little rough around the edges let's talk about that series
yeah I mean whatever I did it didn't work at all and on CD side especially
because in the game I'm trying to do some pre-setup without telling my mates I
know what he's gonna do and I I'm making my move as well but it didn't
work it's fine because in this stage or in my all carry it's gonna happen so
So I need to get through it, and I also try to help with my teammate, with my motivation
and with my voice, you know?
I didn't talk a lot, and I tried to make so much plans for my teammates, and I kind of
fall like a fish, you know?
I go first, and then they treat me, which they did really good.
But it didn't go into the scourboard, you know, when I die, when I go entry.
But people will talk only my two kids or three kids, which is fine, as long as
my teammates and my team are fine for that so it's okay and again you you're not
you know super used to the stage environment either right this is what
your third time yeah third I think yeah I mean that alone is enough to put pressure
on you so let's talk about the game today you have Navi in front of you who
is the biggest threat in the server on Navi there's no threat first of all
obviously I'm excited but as you said I need to get used to it. It's my third stage and yesterday was
kind of for I didn't make some good plans as well because because of the pressure. I have to know
how to deal with it but my mates helping me a lot with mentality side with the game side like
if I cannot create any plan they're helping me with it. So yeah there is no trade as I said
We're gonna play our game and we will see who's gonna win.
I'll let you get into the server or anything you want to say.
Aurora fans around the world watching on.
Beydar Bayanlar.
Inshallah, we'll win today.
We'll get our revenge.
Their revenge is my revenge.
I love you all very much.
We're new here.
Your support was very important to us.
Thank you. See you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you guys.
That's Mr. Alexi B to you all at home.
all at home. Mr. Alexi B, you got another grand final in front of you. It's a rematch
season 20, several seasons ago. Talk to me about stacking up in a server against Aurora.
I think the community knows, everyone knows that we played against each other plenty of
times now. It's always been close. I wouldn't say even though we have a good record against
them, the game matches have always been close and even the EPL final we won against
them. It was on narrow fashion. So we know what they're capable of. We know
that they like to do heavy anti-straps. They're a team that hits you with the 5-man unit and
you just need to be ready for them.
Let's bring it back a little bit yesterday to the foot game. And I do mean the game against
foot, not just the foot games that get played around here. Three maps. Let's talk about
Ancient.
So I think it was our map to be honest. I think that we did some crucial mistakes
losing against almost like a full block eco and ended up throwing our city side pretty horrendously.
But I'm glad that we, even after that kind of game, we managed to call our way back on Dust2
and show that we were the better team. Yeah, because that slow start on Dust2. It was rough at
first, right? But then you guys rally back. So tell me a little about preparing today when
you come to Aurora. What can you take from yesterday's games that you bring into today?
Just think the overall hunger. We are hungry. We understand that the elite teams kind of
messed up, not making it to the grand final. We know they're hungry for a trophy as well,
but we've been working so hard throughout the year and at the end of last year that we really
want to show up and we want to play a great final against them and hopefully lift the trophy.
Are we going all five, Alexi?
I hope not.
Maybe you're the only one. Thank you very much. I like to be. Thank you so much
It is Sunday in Stockholm, which means one thing and one thing only we get to crown the champion here at ESL
Pro League season
23 my name is for sbiz joined in my fellow gives a live episode talking counter. We got yanko. We got sponge
We got Moses. I'll be back on friend. Thank you so much. Yeah, I was gonna be commentating today
So you're kind of doing it all. Yeah, I'm having a good time
I like to stay busy like to keep active so I got the button up on yeah looking fancy just for the occasion
Exactly. Who won the battle early in the interviews?
Right, who are you giving it to? Alexi, Softfly, Aurora, Navi.
I like Alexi's vibe.
There was a couple of things in the Softfly interview when he was saying,
ah, there's no threat on Navi, but I did feel the pressure yesterday.
I don't...
It's honest, isn't it?
Yeah, he's honest.
Yeah, he was.
And I like his addition to the team, right?
And he's also, he's doing himself a service there.
It's not all about the stats.
If you're getting traded, if you're bringing the energy,
we all know Centaura's needs that energy right to keep him calm.
So, Softfly helping out the way he could in yesterday's games.
They were very entertaining semi-farmers.
Also, very entertaining third place deciding.
Yes.
I can't remember one.
It's all about stakes, right?
That's why these games can actually be exciting,
is because today's game was two teams who
are new, at least, to this environment,
and they needed the win for a lot of different reasons.
So we actually got a decent third place game for once.
Do you know what happened in terms of the BRS after that?
They were 9 and 10.
So they would have swaps.
OK.
They would have swapped.
But they did.
That didn't happen, all right?
No, because the strengths, I think,
was just ahead of them.
Just ahead of them.
OK, cool.
That makes sense.
A good stage experience for foot.
They need more of them to lead into the major.
I think they should be a sure thing for a minimum Stage 1, I'm pretty sure they will.
Yeah, they both feel 100% just, I think, pretty good position for Stage 2 as well.
I think more than anything else, it's about having that extra Stage game.
Like you talked about, both teams will really be benefiting from that, moving forward.
It's a different sort of environment, and not only the fact that it's on Stage,
but the higher stakes of playing for that third place also do matter.
matter. And it was a, I know, fluke that they managed to find themselves there, right? Like the
results that, but managed to post obviously taking that mouse, really pushing Navi as well.
Alexi saying, Jason, they feel like ancient force in the palm of their hands. It really was. And
then this was the moment that it all ended. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, exactly. But I mean, that's
kind of been the case of this little foot run that we had going on in here was it was it
seemed like mouths as well, probably felt like they had a couple maps in the bag also until
you have a comeback from foot. So those guys, I think, showed really good synacity. I think
the big point that we wanted in the playoffs out of them was do you have a response if you get
hit in the face and they did in their series that mccasey highlight there right is the round that
turned us to and that last kill to sit in the middle of a ramp fighting towards pit that's not
an easy fight he's got nowhere else to go does he it's not exactly but it's like that's a nervy
fight that he's actually stayed and continued to tap so mccasey had some massive moments for them
yesterday i think for foot yeah the fact that they have been able to deal with that
adversity and continue to march forward really strong size but you saw it here in the
in the third place to sign up that the pressure can still get to the 19.2 average age.
And of let that one slip there a little bit.
But yeah, at least we got the entertainment.
That's only going to come with more experience.
Exactly.
And I think they've set themselves up nicely for the rest of Train 26.
Before we get into the matter of a hand though,
we've got to give a shout out to IdiHLMailbag.
Okay.
HLMailbag at EFG.GG.
I would like to see some nice things.
I wanted a presentation today for you.
I wanted a whole breakdown.
I think you asked for maybe a little bit too much.
You think so?
And you want someone to make a PowerPoint?
Yeah, I wanted a powerpoint breakdown of how they think the grandfiles are gonna go.
Frey asked me what I wanted on the mail back today. That's what I said.
I should have wanted the cheatsheet.
Yeah, I wanted somebody else to do my work for me.
I wanted to invite the animal pictures back.
They just keep coming, though. You know, you don't have to say. Everyone's got animals, apparently.
I'd love to see how and what you're watching ESL Pro League with.
You know, perhaps it's kind of near dinner time. Maybe it's a Sunday.
You can have a beverage or three. What are you watching with? What are you drinking to?
It hasn't had a few already, I mean it's 5pm so you just know it, right?
Well, you know, gotta prepare for the game start.
Getting the mood for it then fine.
Behinds are better than anybody out there.
Gotta get that energy going, it's that nice billiards peak as well, a couple and then you hit great.
It's really what I am.
I'm gonna help you out for it, I'm gonna teach you how to do it.
Thank you, yeah, we've been feeling the wrath of this critique for sure.
On the other side of things, Aurora vs. Strahlys yesterday. Main takeaways from that one.
Yeah, look, I think this could have been a tour. I don't know about you. You were casting with Harry and Hugo
But in my opinion, I think that should have been a tour in favor of Aurora. They're another team who are suffering from the nerves
Right, we had that whole conversation for them throughout 2025. They definitely had some issues winning quarter-final games
Now they've been able to do it in what we're dubbing arena lights. There's about a thousand people here
I think the setup is quite nice
It has a good ambiance and they're winning in front of the crowd and now they're in another grand final this time
It's not a studio
So this is a real big positive for that of Aurora, and this is hopefully the turning point, because this team, look, they don't play the brand of Counter-Strike that you see from a Vitality or even a Navi who they're going up against, this is a very pack heavy team.
Matt just even said in interviews in the past that he can't call the way those other teams do, he has to keep them in a lot of 4-1 plays.
So this is a squad rival.
the game. You know, you're
still in the matchup that
there were no. Right? There's
a couple of moments that you
sit there and you have to
question. Okay, what's going
on? Yanko during that new
game that one they lost where
they left the bomb outside
lobby and they had the
heaven wrap and then the
end of losing this 25
situation. But there's
another one that I actually
wanted to get into. That's
is what I would say it feels like an unforgivable round. You've done the hard
work, score is 11-11, you just want to gun around, you force them on to eco. You see
the buyer for a straw is starting to take shape, they take a timeout for this. Now
they just have some pistol upgrades, some armor, a couple smokes. Check this, a
smoke dropped right there. That's important. Yabbi's going to drop another
smoke into the site. Hooks is going to smoke off-door, nade hut. They start
strong outside with three, they start topside with two, and this is a good
call from Aurora. Play lobby, wait for a push, don't do anything early. We
that they're on a lighter bite maybe there's a hero gun we're not sure maybe a
lobby crunch I'm gonna know exactly Yabi comes back he grabs that smoke now this
smoke is really important and this is pressure right the whole point I point
this out is Aurora they've done the hard work the pressure to be alleviated
but you're up against a partial bite that smoke that was left he picks up
ignore the cursor it's kind of annoying the way the demos work then he's
gonna get a nice little deagle kill over towards ran and at the same time
magis taking contact outside so there's a few layers to this Astralis
They started strong outside, they pivoted to strong top, now Yabi's blocked ramp, now he's just jiggling bank, there's that kill, they come out ramp, they clear it, they see it's not a stack, now Madro at the same time outside is taking contact, he sees Stare up Heaven, and this is where the round falls apart everybody.
That's his entire is going down in that Yabi kill we just saw, Madro stays loitering yard, his teammates don't continue ramp even though that was the call.
And I guess the idea for for the defense is try and funnel them into the upper bombs
I'll watch your blocking ramp watch this they all come at magic to deal with him outside
Right, so stairs here foes is about to run in through main and two players come up secret
Magic notes the players coming up secret the two players yard. There's a 3v5. They stream into topside
Yabi has slipped into a denies the plant now. It's a 2v5 situation
They're scrambling with no time on the clock and this is around you did the hard work
You won the gun round you forced them to a lighter by and you end up
up, uh, shitting the bed. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know. It's that, I think that's pressure
to is not clearing the back of the bomb site as well. Not the time and then because major
calls numbers outside, everyone's focused on preventing that attack from coming in.
Exactly. Yeah. Because at that moment, imagine those at least three players. He knew there
was one credit, one main, and at least one secret. And, uh, that right there is, is
around that you can't lose. If they win that, I think they win the series to,
but they still won. They could have also gone one hot to door, you know, in the
Why didn't they continue ramp?
After Yabi gets the kill, they cleared boost, they cleared close left, and they even had Hell Molly, right? Just go.
You have Yuto for under? Saifa?
I'm not sure, and I think you can see with Aurora, these rounds where it becomes more free-flowing,
and you can't have it all set up from the get-go is where they start struggling somewhat.
Like to piece it all together, or maybe players aren't just taking enough initiative,
Everyone's waiting on Majord to make the call and he was the lone player outside trying to figure it out and all of that.
But, yeah, Nuke wasn't really great, but they bounced really well.
And also in terms of the calling and the game plan, I think it was impeccable.
I was going to say, you treated about it, and then Majord even responded to you as well.
And he was kind of saying like the tendencies of Astralis, like we've known that they've been a little bit shaky in some of those moments as well.
So good for him to take full advantage.
She was happy to probably get a little bit of love on social media as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a nice of you.
I'm playing really well.
Yeah, he has been.
I'm slowly but surely trying to help my friend Chad Sponge Bertrel to get that help for the
year.
I am going to be coding the Turkish community throughout the year and then funnel all the
votes.
Yeah.
How was your Turkish girl?
Which I don't know.
You've been due a lingual?
Yeah, look, I don't want to break it out just yet.
Yeah, that's fine.
I will be waiting until the voting opens.
Yeah.
So even for the acceptance speech, that would really hit a part, yeah.
and Tharris's name today or? Absolutely not. I do not in any way want to try that. You nailed it I think though.
Should we dive into Mat Vito? Best of five obviously. It's only a couple bands and then it's the order
of the picks that matter. Yeah exactly right that's one of the keys and it's the coin toss to decide
who's going to be having that first pick. So let's keep it up to chance. This is the problem.
I think if Navi pick first they're going to pick Nuke and then no sorry Mirage and then Nuke
which will be their third. If Aurora gets picked first it's going to be Dust too and then Anubis
I think regardless Inferna will be the fifth.
I think one funny thing that I noticed is, you know, we talk about Aurora and their Anubis.
They're one of the best teams in the world on Anubis.
These series have been close every single time, although Aurora has been losing for the most part.
They've never won an Anubis.
It's crazy, isn't it?
I mean, I'm on Anubis every single time.
So that's like sort of wild, and they actually go for it over the last two years.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess, because I asked you about this in the lobby,
What you thought it was gonna happen because I'm always curious what the approaches from a team obviously
They've gone with pick the map that we probably feel the strongest on dust
You might be a bigger weakness for Navi, but they've gone for their own confidence
I think that doesn't make any sense based on what Yankee just said and it's not even a small sample size
It's five outings on a new bus that blade and a lexie have a good understanding of the way
Yeah, but you know players and teams they don't always think about it
And I would be surprised how many Aurora players do you think they know that they've never been on a new bus?
Well, now all of them think it's all of them. I don't think it's all of them
Even the ones that we're on the team exactly
I don't think any of them realize that they've never beaten Navi on it
So I think from their perspective, they're like, this is the map we feel most comfortable and we're just gonna take it
It's interesting to see them not switch it up because this is the exact same map like the last time they played
There's a team straight at their mappings. So you're going back to it even though it didn't work last time around
But yeah, we'll see I feel like it just leans into what software was saying though
Like we're not seeing them as any particular threat.
It's just all about ourselves.
Like surely if you feel the most comfortable and new,
but even if the record, even if history doesn't show that,
then you go with it.
Well, you have to base decisions in history, right?
That's the whole reason we have these heads to repeat itself, Chad.
We meant to learn things.
You don't have to.
True, you don't have to.
You could predict the future of Australia.
And then look at Australia, some dust to yesterday, Jason.
That one was well informed.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Do you like my breakdown of that?
Of Jason?
No!
No, that Astralis was just saving strats for when Dust2 really matters.
Ah yes, Astralis, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Such as yesterday in the semi-final.
It's a spirit.
How did that work out?
Someone like Spirit will fall into that trap.
I'm just glad they had their hero game, their God game right up in their D.
He could be so smug about this.
Spirit are gonna bounce back in Rotterdam in a couple of days' time.
They're gonna play good Counter-Strike, they're not gonna lose Dust2.
They're gonna play Liquid in their opening here.
Yeah, who are losing to OG.
That's all right. Jail standing. And he was their best player, which is kind of sad.
Shout out to Jail.
He's not doing a great time standing in these days.
No, not at all really.
He's just sitting as their best player.
Some people could argue he's the best analyst in Krakow.
Some people could argue that he was present, you know, when they went head to head at EPL season 20.
This was one of the best of fives of all time.
It was what Alexby was mentioning, very, very competitive.
And he hopes as much as it did go that way last time,
It's not going to go the full five matters. It was a banger final. Yeah, this was maybe the best EPL final out of all those Malta ones
Okay. Yeah, there was this whole crowd a very vocal crowd. Oh, not even one phase on the grand slam
Normally grand slams without a large crowd don't pop off as much as all right
So look there is the revenge conversation about this today and this was what you know three seasons four seasons ago
Technically if we're gonna use maths correctly, not my strong suit
But yeah, I think this time with the larger audience and some really positive steps being taken for Aurora.
For me, the pressure conversation is still on them, right?
It's still on them to show that they can do it, whereas this Navi call, we know it can win.
And honestly, it has to be remembered, this was a grand final at the time where Navi was the best team in the world.
I mean, they were on a tear.
And the fact that Eternal Fire at the time was able to put up such a good fight was a little bit surprising,
but also you felt really bad for them because it didn't seem like this was a great opportunity for them
and they left the trophies. If you take that into account, another player against Navi again who are not
the same Navi from a year and a half ago, you could argue that they have a better chance of beating them now.
It was the same year that they went on to get best team of the year, they won I am Rio afterwards,
but I mean since then for Navi, they won the star series event of the 10th of the last year.
They were, but not so much else.
Their major was a rough sick. The major was yes. Yes, that right. That's that's a positive. Oh, the major wasn't up
It was a major upset or uptick for Navi in the sense that even Blake came out afterwards
And I mean he said in an interview this year that the performance at the major is what gave them the confidence that they had
Enough within this team to keep building upon it and keep reaching
He said the major run was what showed him that you know
They had them at the material as he said and the belief and the confidence in the run that makes him think they
Can actually turn this team into something that can contend something that's a bit problematic
There was all this conversation about the map pool for Navi and how much it wrecked them,
the fact that the train got removed, that the Nubis got brought back and it's like,
I get it, but you had the same four players for like three years now.
Your map pool should be deeper at this point and even Mirage that was a staple,
it's a staple, then they lose to everyone for a while.
Now they're back, now it's gone again, and I think they just had to have been better
What happened to their Nuke? For a while their Nuke was pretty good, like they played at what, two times this year or three times or something like that.
So they really struggled to find consistency on more maps.
Like, let's say that the train is even still there, I think that would still not be deep enough for them to be able to...
I think maybe in the context of this final, it's like one of those things, because you have China top of it and then you lose ancient as well due to the veto.
So like if you're Navi, I think against specifically Aurora, the veto process hurts extra hard.
Aurora are happy with the Overpass now. They have those real struggles on the CT side right there, so I think that they're pretty content with how this one funnels in.
I know that the head-to-head is very heavily stacked in favour of Narvi compared to Aurora Slash.
Even Alexi said they were all close games. In reality, they came out on top every time, but they weren't stomping them.
That's true.
The most one-sided game was actually the one that Aurora won in Lisbon.
Did you see yesterday, Jason predicted Narvi to win the whole thing?
I did.
I predicted Aurora.
Yeah, was that when...
It was faded.
Adi, Salah asked us on Twitter.
No, we're doing awesome.
I said Na'Vi as well, it was on the show.
Yeah, you weren't here.
I think maybe you were meant to be here, Yanko, but you still said that.
Are you still with Na'Vi?
No, I was asked.
You're staying with Na'Vi?
It was yesterday with Top 4.
Yeah, I'm staying with Na'Vi.
Yeah?
Okay.
I have a lot more experience.
Are you changing your mind?
No, I'm sticking with Na'Vi as well.
Freya, you get a chance to change your mind.
Yeah, well, my guy's been in the Li'Ve Data.
Specs on the dog no more.
Um, I...
Are you talking about Roro?
Yeah.
That's like, okay, you're really pushing for that.
No, no, that's, he actually believed it.
I still believe it.
Yeah.
I even laid him up by picking foot
and leaving Aurora as their new option.
He was like, well, I was gonna do that.
And then you're gonna be on Jason's ass
because he said like that trial is just wanna beat spirit.
This is equally crazy.
Wait, you just said all the games were close.
Yeah, they were, but this is a grand final, man.
It's Aurora.
Are you crazy?
Cause it's the best player on the server.
You have to turn the corner at some point
and I'm hoping.
They don't have to.
You know that meme of a guy just digging, digging, digging, digging, and then he turns around before he strikes gold?
Sometimes it's not gold on the other side.
You as a plumber should know this.
I thought it was gold.
Sometimes it's just a pile of steam and shit.
And I thought we were going to be in the purgatory, right?
Of Maus coming in, being in the grand final, maybe even winning.
And we would have to keep that story about that boring team alive forever.
But now, this is the Nal and the Maus costing.
If they don't change roster now, we're not talking about it anymore.
anymore. They joined big conversation. Oh my God. You saw me.
Navi. How did he sell you? He just came at me. I kind of
actually just being competitive. Just a few regrets. I never
even got my chance. I'm going to chase it. I didn't get my
chance, by the way. I had things loaded up. I was ready to
party chat. You know why? Navi are going to win because as
you said, because a best rated player so far and after that
round on dust two, bro, he can do anything. This is a
First of all, I'm mid to A. Never see it. That jumping AK, insane.
And then it's the last kill for me. Like the jumping one's the craziest, but it's this one.
Okay, he knows this towards long. He's in the middle of the round.
And just the confidence, just to continue to tap.
It's always fun to watch aggressive rifles play.
He eagle-moked.
That last one, is that what the kids say these days?
Yeah, right there at the foot, we're just a maxing. I'm not sure.
Hello, fellow teenagers.
But look, because it's a lot of fun to watch, and I think one of the cool things is he
He doesn't overstep the bar, right?
He's happy to play in the confines of Blades system,
but knows when he needs to make the moves.
And when things are going well,
it emboldens Ima to be aggressive as well.
So it's nice, you know?
He doesn't have to be the solo man getting up to it.
Ima will join him in some of that.
But, yeah, before this round,
I thought foot will win in the series.
This is the round that changed the map.
Yeah, it felt like it.
From here, there was nothing after this.
That was a complete just gotta run through.
It's a cross of any scout ace.
Yeah, it even outlasted that.
But I mean also like how how would you feel if like a former teammate just rolls in and is just gases you in a critical round like that
To like that's gonna knock you off center for sure the last kill. Yeah
You have the advantage they're playing for pit and he still wrecks you. It's insane a man shout out a man second
Highest rated player. There's an interesting thing with it. His aim is not very impressive
Sure, he's very good positionally. That's really good because
Good for him because aim is the most overrated thing when it comes to tier one counter strike
Yes, you know, so you're much better off having not the best thing but really good game sense really good positioning
Then the other way around you just look at you. Why can't you have both? I mean, it was a flower and but there's you know, that's when you're
Fino, they're so so
That's when you're Nico. Yeah, don't but he got giga Chad
He got chatted. I hope you can chat it. Yeah, I was gonna say it. Well, but don't be back
I don't believe I'll have another bad performance.
No, I can't imagine he would too.
I'm not going to predict it any time soon either.
It's fantastic.
Get away from it.
Where's Zantara's at?
Has he hit the mark?
Zantara's, in my opinion.
I have to be careful because I want those votes.
You just say...
No, no, no.
The sentiment in the community.
Like, some people...
Yeah, the sentiment in the community of Zantara's
is that he's higher pressure games.
He doesn't live up to the namesake.
Is that your opinion though, Chad?
No, it's not.
Well, it is a sentimentality, there's some people in the community who say that he's a soft-legged shrimp
Can that name transcend multiple people or is that just me guys?
I think it can, why not? Why is it exclusive for Niko, right? Like more people can joke in big games
You'll have to ask China guy
Like honesty, it's not an exclusive
Oh wait, it's just they're all on one team
They like to eat soft-legged shrimp over there as well, but yeah, look, Zintara's for me
I think in some of these games when you want him to be the man to carry that output
He doesn't I turn to the wakardias of the world. Yeah, yeah, yes, you should I really like wakar. Yeah
I'm the major sometimes man. He just pops off and in that last series, you know
And obviously had four kills on the map that they lost right 13 9 or 13 11
So he can do better. He'll do better
I think even in the quarterfinal he had some really important moments to those in furno that I'm remembering
He had like two five seven kills kids of the AK gets another two frags
So maybe it was only 3k either way.
I still T side yesterday.
So yeah, Magia for an old boy is 35.
And I know the plight of his existence.
I feel it.
The fact that he is able to continue to get out there
and take it to the younger generation.
I think it's impressive.
Just physically, it's not easy.
Every time I speak to you guys,
it just makes me more scared to get older.
Is it really that bad?
It's not that bad.
It's that bad if you're a counter strike player.
I mean, you just need to pick something
that's going to help you deal with that.
Like, Trap plays face, it's all of Q,
so that's why he's miserable all the time.
Being able to touch your toes, apparently.
Yeah, but it's a big deal.
I think you're closest to Jason's remedy for...
Yeah, me and you.
There's a couple of bevvies every day.
Yeah, it's a...
Keep the blood pressure low enough, like stable.
Back to back to back to back to back to happy hours, baby.
If you're just tuning in, maybe we could bring up the veto
in a low third, perhaps, to get us out of this horrible situation.
And we can talk about it a little bit more.
That mirage, starting off.
What's your take from Na'Vi picking into that?
So, Janker brought this up, the fact that last time they played they traded map picks for these two openers.
So, you're hoping that the adjustments have come through, but I don't think Aurora's Mirage is that bad.
I think it's actually because it gets picked against them a lot, they're having to get practicing on it,
but it's the stylistic clash that's the issue for me today.
It's almost unfortunate that there hasn't been an extra day for these two teams to prepare for this game,
because they're both heavy, right?
and they anti-strat a lot in terms of trying to find some weakness.
Actually, let me put that in a different way.
Not the anti-strat a lot, but they have very specific game plans.
Okay.
Right? Like we saw yesterday on Dust2, it was a lot about
baiting rotations and putting pressure on mid to Bs on Dust2T side
to force the reactions of Cooksy pushing long and things like that.
And Navi, I mean, we saw in the quarterfinal at the Major
how they're able with a good game plan and some anti-strat
into a completely dismantled team.
So I think that's what I'm very interested to see in this matchup.
How will those T-sides look like?
What is the focus going to be from these captains?
I think there's a fun conversation for me.
The tactical side is going to be really cool.
But also I think the conversation around the AWPers is pretty big at the moment
because Wonderful is still under a lot of scrutiny.
We've seen him have some rough games here in the playoffs and some critical misses.
We know he can be good.
But the last time in that grand final they played in Season 20,
it was Woxic and Wonderful popping off on the scoreboard.
Those guys were two of the best players, but if you're going to go into a world where
Woxic performs that way and wonderful doesn't that's a huge issue for Navi and obviously same as vice versa
But the performance of the offers with so much attention on Navi in the off-season saying there's an upgrade that you could probably make in that department
I think this is going to be pretty interesting to watch how wonderful kind of handles that pressure because he's got it
Individually on his shoulders and the team pressure that he's dealing with as well
I think he's been under it for a while and then it's been spotty good performance from it
So it's just what's out of the bed as he working up.
And I think both teams have a bit of a tilt factor as well.
You can see when they lose some bad rounds,
they get very animated and not in a positive way.
It was interesting hearing Foot like say
they wanted to try and exploit that.
You don't normally see that out of like
the inexperienced kind of underdog,
but they're like, yeah, we know Navi has a tendency
to tilt and we think we can actually put him
in that area.
I think if you're a roar,
you got to be thinking the same thing too.
I think we're sure on the other foot as well,
what was it?
Walks again, the final rounds of another one.
Unintentional, of course.
the new class yesterday, right, that walk sequence,
molding off, and then you're going to dust two
and it's like completely coiled.
At least that can happen, right?
At least you're not toiling off the face of the earth.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, we were talking about it a little bit yesterday.
On some level Aurora almost needs it, you know?
They do.
Yeah, you know, they need to mess up, right?
They like to sit, they need to be a little bit angry
about it.
They need to mess up, like they need to be berated
somewhat, you know, in between maps
and then they'll sort of change it up and step past it.
I don't know, some people just like being, yeah, I don't know.
Okay, I'm not gonna go there.
Yeah, go down there, bro.
Let's continue that.
I think I'm good.
I feel like when I'm watching it,
it seems like so much of the emotion
is there to channel towards Zantares to keep him,
to keep it together, right?
Like, I see Wakadia, when anything good happens,
turning to Zantares and trying to g him up,
which is a little bit of a problem.
I'm dubbing him the Turkish Aleige.
Sure.
Okay.
Yeah, Aleige.
No, I mean, you broke Alex's brain with that yesterday.
This is where you're also just like, if you're on the series,
like, God, please let me be the one who gets one digged.
Sure, just not him.
Just I can handle it.
I can deal with it.
These guys aren't looking at my pages right here.
What the hell are you?
I suppose that I haven't written a lot with the nerds.
He's got tic-tac, 10-0.
It's been a long time since he's been an analyst.
He has to take notes.
Also, by growing older, you know, memories
and what it used to be.
So I don't need glasses.
I don't keep it in here anymore.
These guys had laser surgery.
But I did right here, it contained the chill.
Taking shots over here about my eyes.
Everyone has a weak spot to the strong spot.
Like you wish you had Jason's liver is all Zomsteam.
Do you want us to bring you those beers every three rounds during the cast?
You can all like that scene from the Wolf on Wall Street.
People think that's a lot of scenes in that movie.
Yeah, go on.
Which one are you going to compare it to?
And then every 15 minutes, bring us a new one.
I thought you meant the one where he was crawling to the car.
Yeah.
Even though you're going with an RV, do you think it's going to be a all five map?
Are you seeing that with the cards or do you think Navi have it under control to get this done cleanly?
I didn't come in today thinking we're gonna see all five maps
But obviously it's gonna like that. I think that first map is gonna tell a lot
The first map is gonna tell a lot about how the teams are playing but I I have Navi taken this in mid four
I'm gonna give a new bus over. I know they haven't won it yet
But I think I'm gonna give it to them that one's based off our gem
We'll put that one in the list that one's based completely off feeling
I think with the with the way last time I talked to major during the group stage
We asked him about like a new bus coming back into the pool and he was saying like it's we love it
We want to pay slid up. Yeah, what was frustrating
He said is like no one's playing it right now know it like not a lot of teams are picking it
So they don't really get a chance to actually play it
It's like turned into a veto for a lot of teams since it was brought out of the pool
So I think coming into this those guys I've got to be saying you know
This this is the map that we're just gonna win on gentlemen
It is time grand finals of ESL Pro League season 23 Navi versus Aurora. Let's welcome them on stage
And that's what it is!
Ladies and gentlemen, we don't know what's going to happen, but it's a perfect end!
This is madness!
Aurora first to be entering the arena today as Walksic said,
a little bit cast in playoffs if we're looking at some of their history,
but a chance to turn that tide today versus Nulture.
These are my boys, Janko, and they have turned the corner.
This environment arena-like is where Aurora can finally start to show
what this team should have had installed throughout 2025.
New boy Soulfly at the front of the pack.
Nerds unnecessary, it's just how he channels it.
And I hope that passion carries them through today.
If you want a corner, they'll turn, Chad.
It's this one at the end of the walkout to get into their booth.
It's going to be the same old, same old.
They're going to choke away map one, bounce back from map two.
And then Navi's going to close it out.
Big and rich, Navi ready to also be gracing the stage in Stockholm for yet another day.
Now, the silverware for them, it's been a while since they've had a two tier one trophy
in their grasp, and Neko, you're also great bringer today.
Yes I am, because we did talk about the team of the year in 2024, just the wealth of experience being competing at this stage of the tournament.
As the XCB put it out, some of these other teams messed up and all the trophies there is for the team.
I've got to comforted the heads ahead today. Not a problem going up against Matcha and his boys, but we know how close these matches have been.
I think the win is going to mean an awful lot more for Aurora's campaign, but Navi,
if they got what it takes to take this one to distance,
we're going to have a five-bapper between the two of them.
Who do you think is going to be popping off the most on this stage today?
Hey, Macazos had a great tournament, right?
Like, saved his team in the semi-final and I expect him to have a great final here as well.
Well, it's time to get into it. One more best of five.
It's Navi versus Aurora.
One DPL, we played the final against Aurora.
Just getting a flashback from the Navi in FBPL Season 20, I think.
It was 5 maps, so it was spicy. Now maybe it would be the same.
This time maybe we're breaking the curse. I don't want to say some big words, because I didn't say it till we come here, and I will keep it like this.
We'll see, we'll play our game, who is just deserving to get the trophy.
We've had a lot of tough games, every game making you stronger.
Glad that we've had this kind of long path.
We are much better than we were on the start of the game.
We will not focus on the turf, we will try to show our max potential.
I'm just trying to get overcrop all the bullets!
All the bullets!
We can't hear.
Oh, he's gonna round down with four!
Hello, stalker!
We have one more game for you.
It's been fantastic all weekend long,
but we've got a best of five that promises to be a banger.
Rematch from season 20's final, we have ourselves Aurora versus Navi and we're hoping Jason this goes to all five maps again
Yeah, just like that previous grand final would be absolutely excellent
I mean to both of these team making it to the grand final both of them seeing the opportunity
Laid out in front of them. They knew without some of the top teams without vitality
Without Falcons coming to the event that this would be a possibility
They could make a deep run of the playoffs
But then when you watch spirit get eliminated
Now let's get eliminated the quarter finals you're like holy shit red carpet's late open
And now it falls on these two teams who we didn't expect to see in the grand final
One of them is going to steal the trophy away. One of them is going to lift their first trophy in quite some time
Yeah, well you guys were split on the desk in terms of your predictions of which way you think this one's going to go
You've had a pretty flawless run so far Jason check in with Aurora to win this one
But I'm interested in you guys still come who do you think is taking this one?
We got any Na'vi fans out there today
Alright, how about Aurora? Anybody supporting Aurora in this grand final?
Okay, well, I think the crowd's edging towards Nabi as well. It's going to be a tough battle, obviously.
A lot of excitement and brawly between both of these teams. I don't know, I give Nabi the edge to the tactical nature, the structure that they have.
But man, the force that Aurora can bring to the table can overrun all of that.
So we're going to see them settle down into their seats.
These Grand Finals set to go live shortly.
This is an incredible opportunity for both squads.
Navi looking to kind of get past this idea that sticking with this roster
seemed the potential of it even with other people on the outside are doubting it.
This is a win that can be a redemption for them,
that can secure the fact that they made the right decision.
It's sticking with this, that there's more left in this roster.
And for Aurora, you're still battling those demons of being able to lift the trophy,
of being able to perform well on the stage in the biggest matches.
It's a question they have yet to answer, and they're hoping with Soulfly bolstering the roster. Now is the time.
Two teams, one trophy, Aurora versus Navi in the grand final here at ESL Pro League season 23.
We'll kick things off the Mirage. Navi starting on the T side.
And one last game here in Stockholm.
Right out of the gate, we're gonna get Navi sending all five players towards the A bomb site.
No messing around spreading across the map they've got utility two smokes Molotov and a couple of flashbangs
Set up an attack with bitten macaase coming out of palace. They're gonna try and flood into this eight bombsite walks it playing passive at ticket
Major and Zontar is in middle. They're gonna be playing con behind the smokes as they pop in
Good start here for walks a clean first
He's got another one off to the races and he jumps up on top of ticket
Maybe feeling a little bit too much you can forgive the heat check. Yeah
Fair enough, Joe Barretta is dropping down into the Sandwich, good reaction from Pete, and those early advantages the Woxic pickup have now gone back to even numbers.
But Navi Arora, when he comes to retake a tent up through CT, sometimes it's land at least shot natural, also getting involved putting in all the wonderful as Antares will drop him and Arora have to pistol.
Well, hopefully that's a taste of things to come. A scrappy pistol round, a brawly pistol round, some lovely shots from both sides.
It's those opening kills from Woxic, not only two beautiful shots, one tap headshots,
but you take the real teeth out of the attack.
You take away the guys who are meant to create space and make it awkward for the reinforcements coming in.
Once those guys are gone, everyone else from Aurora can shuffle in.
They've got plenty of room to work with, deep angles to take.
And Aurora start us out on top one to nothing.
We're going to get that forced by through from Na'Vi obviously getting the bomb plant out.
So three golels, a deagle from Mikaze and a tech nine from XCV.
Plenty of utility as well for Alexi, so opportunities here for Navi to try and even things out right from the get-go.
Let's see if they can get around the danger.
Eva's going to be coming up through the underpass to help clear middle and tandem with Alexi.
and wonderful, Mikaze joined at his shoulder.
Zontara's the closest point of danger.
You know that's going to be a real threat throughout this entire map.
Zontara's inside of connector.
Just back the way as that smoke fades, Navi moves two players into con.
Flash for Lexi B, not going to be used just yet.
I don't think they want to make their move yet.
I don't think they want to be like the hardcore aggressor just yet in the round,
still trying to feel things out.
Remember, they have a lot of deficiencies in terms of weaponry,
in terms of utility,
So they want to have a good idea of what they're facing.
Mikaze boosts it up to jump into the window late.
They still got to handle this defense.
And there's a great trade.
They're also finding success out of Palace, as he so often does.
Mikaze down, there's Natara's.
A threat that is not neutralized.
In fact, he will take two kills and really take everything out of this round for Navi.
So a ball and plank, give it in for Wonderful.
He sustained heavy damage though.
20 HP for this clutch.
Going to be very tough for Wonderful to get even close to winning this one.
Two players, doubled up inside the jungle.
jungle and Waxit will take him down on the MP7. So, two rounds of the row here for Aurora.
A bomb hand picked up here for Navi, but it doesn't really change anything.
Great composure for Zontara as well, playing in that little corner,
cubby and jungle. I mean, he knows the pressure's coming up, Conn.
He knows they're gonna scale on him, but keeping his eyes peeled over towards the window
for the follow-up peek before addressing the other situation.
And a pretty clean round after a five from Navi.
Three players survive. Aurora get a build-up money,
and Navi, even with the plant, gonna have to settle back on pistols still.
Good to see Zontara is early on in such an important position on this CT side.
He's a good start, 4-0. We know he's a player that really loves to play with momentum.
Can Gainz on hell a little bit? We've seen that happening to disappear,
and I just don't think Aurora can win a best of 5 without a big performance with Zontara today.
Yeah, we touched on a little bit. We have a little tech issue that we're going to get resolved
before we get back into the action, so give us a few minutes.
With Zontara, I came into it. I think it was yesterday and in the quarterfinals.
It was almost like some of those matches. You almost feel like there's a world
where you can get by without Zantars, but you're right.
Now that you're in the grand final,
now that your opponent is Navi,
you have to have your star player,
you have to have him step up.
Now, the lovely thing for Aurora
is throughout these playoffs,
you've had a great performance out of Ocadia
who's continuing things, but major as well
is the surprise factor.
Fifth highest rated player in the playoffs so far,
which is a crazy thing to say.
See, you're getting a boost in that performance
which is helping alleviate maybe some of the things
you're missing from other players.
Yeah, definitely an overperformance from a major
coming into this but fantastic to see for the Navi side of things. I don't think
they'd be here a really strong shot that they wouldn't be without Mikaze and that
big ace you had yesterday on Dust 2 vs. Foot. Yeah certainly in that isolated
moment he's also I mean you want to talk about the top players of the event
he's number one so incredible performance from him he's in a campaign
right now to lift his first trophy in his career and event of this scale so for
Mikaze a lot rides on the line here but you know they know that as well
the Na'vi side. I think everyone spoke and buried highly of his performance. Alexi gave
great words to say out of him and he even kind of mentioned you know,
Mikaze is critical to how we perform. He plays really important roles. He does a
lot of things. He's a playmaker for the squad and when he's not performing well,
Alexi can feel it. It's a point of danger for them when Mikaze is not
delivering on the kills and the impact. So he's very very quickly risen up
within this Na'vi roster to be a critical piece to their success.
Well, the tech team just working on Mikaze right now. Looks like everything will be good to go soon enough day
India is going back in last chat going forward
We're gonna go check in with anchor over in Turkey will take a look at the watch party
We've got four Aurora going on over that a lot of people that's filling out the arena watching over that
That's a great place to be. Yeah, awesome to happen
We're seeing this kind of scattering throughout last year where they were playing really well and making some plow
So cool to see it's still going on obviously tons of very loyal very passionate fans out there
So everyone making sure they get a watch a Aurora fight for this trophy at ESL Pro League
I'm sure they're hoping that event might come to Turkey at some point
Certainly looking like the crowd would be a fun one, but let's get into it then tech issue resolved
Money not a great spot for now. He just to remind you not a lot to get going here
You've got the Eagles coming out for a bit and wonderful alongside him up
But in all likelihood a 3-0 lead here for Aurora.
Yeah, let's see what kind of discipline they're going to rock with in this round.
Knowing they're going up against the pistol by knowing it's going to be an eco.
Obviously looking to preserve some weapons, so how far back do they play?
How many players do they end up losing here?
Sitting very far back on the map, Wauksic has his AWP.
That's the number four man playing in window.
So in a round where you know there's not going to be an AWP,
and likely not going to be a scout on the other side happy to take the angle
and keep information in the middle of the map.
Well, Mikazi taking an individual play onto his top ramp, hoping he can catch one on the deagle.
Yeah, it's information though, right? When Mikazi takes that little jiggle,
not really a high percentage chance he's going to hit any kind of a shot,
but he's also saying, alright, well, he's playing back at ticket,
so we have some room to work with, and I think that's what's causing Alexi
to bring the team back to the A bomb site.
Now, unfortunately, off that spot, the rest of Aurora slid over
And they've gotten way more aggressive so there's no longer a free route into the a bomb site right looking like they're ready to
Shut this one down. You've got bit waiting in Patlas, but he's gonna be smoked out
I should hit him on the foot though as well so they know about that
Oh what's it go getting absolutely deleted
All of a sudden Navi erupt into the a bomb site
You did not see those shots coming and now panic for Aurora somehow Navi have got the bomb down and they've got the
Open to wonderful hands. All right wonderful
What can you do with it? You have to feel like if you recover this off
This is your round to win for Navi. Wakati has found another just the two players left to hold off this retake
Well, there's been a lot of criticism about wonderful and maybe going missing in big moments
But this is a huge one picked up off his back
Three kills to wonderful started with the Deagle and Madra trying to pull this back for Aurora
Wonderful back away Madra chasing down bit. He will get that fright
But it's the time that is the issue does have a kit and wonderful Scott the deagle
Look at the smile break out of the space
That's gonna make you feel really good settled down a ton of the nerves and the pressure you feel in the early going
What an incredible round the opening shot from wonderful just destroys walks it
I mean yesterday. He had his
Head in his hands, right? There was a couple of moments where he looked like he was going to cost Navi
and crucial moments of the game, but coming into the final, that's the kind of round you pick up early on.
It'd be great to see some confidence from one to pull in this grand final.
Look, but it's done to the money and he gets aggressive again.
Look, Adia taking a little bit of extra time up on the railing, picked off.
And a five on four for Navi.
Great to see this start from wonderful seven and two now.
Will is now off in middle already getting the opening kill of the round.
Can't even really, I mean the crazy thing is you can't even really blame Loxic for that
whatsoever in the previous run. He just gets deleted. What are you supposed to do?
Mora going for the conservative approach to the economy here. Not wanting to throw everything they've got out there.
So make sure they have enough money for a really solid buy the next round.
You put under pressure, likes to be going to assist him in alleviating it.
And now we've got Mathieu just weaving inside the A site. P250 in hand and detected by Mikaze.
So Narvi have five players staying alive and money really starting to swap.
Yeah, let's see how Alexi B is gonna gonna pilot this T-Side.
First gun round coming in.
Wauksirk has the AWP back in his hands.
M4 is picked up for the Aurora side.
Timeout called early by Aurora.
Very, very early on.
I think more than anything, this is sometimes you could lean this towards
like a tilt factor or stress factor.
I think more than anything this is talking about the money and the resources that they're gonna bring in getting the all-out on
Woxic was a priority that's gonna put major back down to an MP9 is that's passed over to him walks
It couldn't afford the M4 in return
They're gonna be missing flashbangs and Molotovs across a few players missing kits across the team
So this time out is a conversation how they want to handle this round
It's a little bit of a busted by going into the first gun round and that never feels good for the CT side
Early pressure applied by Navi in the third round victory with the Deagles.
Alexi and Blade gonna look to build up some momentum off the back of it.
You've got some weaknesses like this in the CT side,
are you kind of forced to play something a little different than standard?
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean depending on your positioning with the MP9,
where you're gonna play with that, how long you have to hold on to smokes,
you have to be willing to call up Luffin,
be willing to fight a little bit more on contact,
changes all the timings that you work with.
You're trying to get some early information from that jump spot.
It's a couple of bullets or whizzing past him, but...
...retreats to play from the car?
Yeah, keep an eye on the... on the HUD, on the smoke that Major's holding onto is...
...how long does he keep that? Does he just replenish it immediately?
I'll find out right about now, yep.
He will just... continuously block the apartments.
For Navi though, no one in the apartments. They're gonna be going back for another A finish.
Woxic in the exact same spot back at Tick and as well that he just got destroyed in last round by Wonderful
And he doesn't have a smoke either so there's no ability for him to deploy the defensive smoke to create space to step into the bomb site
Aurora might get locked out of this by the utility and then have to play the retake
Woxic
Flashes up this time
No shot landing for Waxxit, but at least his head hasn't been torn off by a deagle immediately.
Navi filtering into the site because they're applying pressure already towards CT spawn.
Waxxit is going to feel this heat.
Yeah, without any M4s in the bomb site itself, there's nothing for Waxxit to do.
He's got to back away from this fight, and now he's going to be locked out.
Bombing planted and a very strong position for Navi.
And a tougher retake because you've only got one player with utility.
It's a smoke and a flash.
And no kits.
And not a single kit in play for Aurora, so...
Actually, you can't go for this so they get back away and no one dies in this round
So Aurora backing off to save their weapons, and we're looking at Navi taking the lead
Yeah, walks it brought down low
The rare unicorn round George is nobody dies everyone calls it even just a tactical outplay from Navi
And they are absolutely loving this in the Department of Money because look how much
Navi gonna have at the end of this round. Yeah, it's a bit of a nightmare scenario
but I think in the long term this makes a lot of sense for Aurora as frustrating as it can be.
All 10 players survive and Navi take a 3-2 lead. Now we buy backup. That's a perfect round for you.
It asks me about how utility is going to change the way you approach rounds because you can see at
the end, normally in those executes it's like the retake, you know, the CT side gets an
advantage because the utility for the T-sides used on the execute and then the CT is going
to use all their nades to retake the bomb site, but when you don't come into the round with
much, you don't have that advantage. Now while both times very effective neutralization of
Wauksik towards CT, first time it was wonderful landing a blind during the D-Eagle, now they
get rid of him with utility and pressure from Mikazi's AK. Wauksik going to be starting this
round, hearing through the top right of that smoke in the window, and not catching an opportunity.
So full retreat, we'll go back into his connector instead.
Conceding mid control, they have a setup that allows them to spring a trap in the
mid-round if they want to. Lakadia is playing on shorts, on towers, still hovering around window.
Loxac on the stairs can react to Khan very very quickly.
Wonderful with the AWP going to provide some cover as Navi start to slide out.
Alexi sees absolutely nothing. Him and Hima are going to work over in middle,
wonderful carrying the bomb, shifting back towards T spawned. So the first step for
Navi is getting Ema in position. Move him in towards Conn, let him play under
window however he wants it. He turns into a lurking pivot position for the rest of
the round. All smoke broken. That plant thwarted.
Yeah, great start here from Woxic. An opening frag in favor of Aurora. 45
seconds left and the response for Navi is once again looking at the 8 bomb
site for the finishing move. On soul slide because of his position is
detected it early, but Navi can always rely upon Bitt catching a good timing on a palace.
Softlight gets hard cleared, and once again, this A-bombsite defense does absolutely nothing.
It's over it. This round is done instantly as soon as Navi decide to go into this A-site,
and Bitt is the release valve.
This is the tactical prowess of Navi. This is the understanding. Enko mentioned out
on the desk how prep-heavy they were. Look how well they've neutralized Woxic
and how well they've just attacked into him for these past three rounds. First
they push him all the way back towards CT spawn, locked him out, then they
delete him with the deagle shot. Now you have a situation where they recognize
it's close up towards ramp, and Bitt just takes the opportunity to slide out
Palace and grab a free kill on Woxic. They have completely made his life
extremely uncomfortable for these first six rounds of play, and with Alpers
that can sometimes bury you for the rest of the half. It's just not if you
always have the next move available, you know, if you get blocked at ramp,
the thrush is there, they have the release valve of Bitt through Palace,
You very rarely see bit make a mistake from that spot just years of playing it finding a level of comfort that
Delivering consistent output for Navi the hunting man for Johnny only had an MP9 that gets saved over
But now we're looking at situation where you don't have enough to get the all-out again here for a lot
It's a tough spot economically
Very tough spot economically, but more so than anything tough spots strategically
There's there's no fight in these last few rounds the full five on five save now
You get destroyed with only one kill not even putting up any resistance to what nobby's bring into the table
We'll see if that starts influencing the tilt factor we know that Aurora has building up
Little bit of spam into the smoke, but once again complete mid control for Navi and haven't really had to work too hard for it
There's not the weaponry and the resources to fight back
With only MP9s. Yeah, just an MP9 holding this entire P bomb site
Really hoping it's gonna be an A-player because now we have been going there time and time again
So you can understand why Roro would commit as many resources as possible to this A site
But it almost feels like they want to break through this like break the smoke and go. Yeah, they do
Here's the smoke, see what's on the other side.
Mejra's no hope. There's no one nearby, so...
Once Navi decides to get out of the apartments,
Wakadi is now racing over, but he's gonna die from short.
So that's the B bomb site.
Wakadi is coming in for a last-ditch effort here for Aurora,
and he better pull off something special.
Spot it in.
Pressure put on, and wonderful clears him out.
So you can't really do anything anymore, and Imba's inside the middle,
ready to try and cut off rotations.
At least a good clearance here for Saltfly and AK for Zontara's,
and that is always scary when it falls in his hands.
Look at the flank. Look at the flank.
Walkzik's coming as well. Good kill from Mikaze.
Now aware of the possibility.
Yeah, he's looking for all these fights.
Mikaze is checking everything, but Walkzik did just move in.
Detected now, but Mikaze is low and finished off.
So it's all one bit.
He stepped up in the last round, coming out of Palace,
and now a clutch required.
This could be a great opportunity for Aurora.
There's the first kill.
Moving in! Bitch got it!
No problem!
Bitches hold on and makes that clutch look easy
Stepping up into an unfamiliar spot not even turning from the flashback. No one good
It's going past him ice cold in the clutch would have been a lovely round for Aurora to steal away to give themselves something to be happy about
It was coming into place, but bit is just too strong to experience and you can't get past them here
Now in three-round lead for Navi, but guns come back out for Aurora
Walksik's found very little success with the AWP, just parked at the A bomb site.
Does he want to change anything up?
Good movement from Wakadia, getting out of that boosted position.
At short, you can see over the top mid-smoke and taking wonderful out.
Opening frag here for Aurora and untreated.
Wakadia may take a lot of damage, but still he stands on 16 HP.
Tarr is mulling out a position, but moves out of the danger zone
and Walksik taking bit out of Palace, so a really good start to this round day for Aurora.
Aurora. Yeah, they're trying to take some initiative and spring a play away from the action. Hope that once again walks
It would be caught sleeping, but not this time.
Mugasa coming out, a lot of players to deal with never expected on top of balcony and now it's Eva's turn.
Getting caught and looking very good now for Aurora. Not a single player going down in this round.
Alexi B, you're gonna try and inflict as much damage as he can.
Shouldn't have too many opportunities.
Roar should be able to play this one pretty smart. Only Wakati is low. He doesn't need to get involved in anything.
I mean you can see Bit trying to make his way out of Palace again, right?
But for that to work quite often it does require them to kind of forget about it just a little bit.
I think Bit is very much present in the minds of Roar right now. He comes out of Palace, saves him earlier,
and now he's just clutched up a 1v2.
Look with the experience he's got within this team and the relationship he's got with the player has been here for a long time,
been working with Blade for a long time. He's gonna have a lot of freedom to sense those moments when he wants to try and make a play.
This one goes against him.
But that's going to stay up, that's going to be consistent throughout this half.
20 seconds left in the round as Alexei just trying to keep this AWP alive for his team
moving forward to pass it over to Wonderful.
Gotta feel good for Woxic finally being able to hold on to that A site.
Yeah, I mean, great round. Two good kills, senses the alert coming up Conn as well.
It's a second player he took down. He's still dancing.
Yeah, it's still a little bit of movement in that one.
The terrorists win.
Five to three as we head into round nine.
And Aurora, that's got to be around that they feel good about that sparks them moving forward.
So much conversation we hear from them is about that kind of attitude,
is about how they handle that pressure.
Something that Soulfly's been pretty honest about in his, what, one or two month tenure within this team.
Calm, sometimes get a little bit hectic, sometimes people get frustrated.
They're going straight into an A-hit, straight into a direct hit of the Z-bomb site, no lurkers whatsoever.
Well they've been showing a lot of mid control, so when they change the timing, change the pace, change the look.
Here they come, Mikaze out first, but cut down by soft flight.
In the response, they find Mikaze who is trying to be a threat inside of the Palace smoke, but he's out of there.
So Aurora have lost this A site instantly again and it must be a 3v4 retake if they want to win this round
And he was gonna control CG spawn
Okay, Zontara is better than the likes he'd be knocked over, but Zontara's hangs around a little bit too long
So Emma takes his head off and wonderful stank
Gets to that second as well great work for wonderful and not be not getting flushed to once on Tarras gets those two kills
Not at all. That could have actually thrown that round into complete chaos.
The great discipline from Navi to just stay poised, find the kill back from Ima, and wonderful with the final two.
It was wonderful to work on the performance. We were going to get out a wonderful today.
10 and 4 to start things off. Big impact round number 3.
Four kills, opening things up with the D.G.O.L. and picking up an AWP to save the day and reverse an eco round.
Force is a second time out of Aurora here.
As once again they have to talk things over, sent back and around like that.
Plenty of money from the previous clean win, but they're going to be out of cash after this investment.
They're looking to recover this half, three to six.
They can still tie things up, but a loss here might just make this firmly and dominantly in the control of Navi.
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moments of the group stages where we're here in a lot of nice ego is JC
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Aurora can respond with a buy. They've got an AWP out here for Wauksic
everybody on a right fold but Santar is dead first. The timing of that is
gonna is gonna piss Santar's off so much just as he slid into that play
it gets broken open. Navi feels like they have such a good read on how this
This team likes to defend the bomb sites, the different plays they like to make, they've been prepared for everything in this half so far.
The B bomb site, that's a little scary right now for the defensive. Roy just got walks like that.
Everything looks scary for a roller right now. You've lost a player, Soulfly's been brought down to 18 HP, he's calm to that so you know he's weak.
You don't want to rotate away from that weakness either, so you're trusting Woxic with his AWP.
Let's go up.
The angle here is short for the time being, but he actually looks up to the apartment,
Soulfly spamming down, assisting, dropping, wonderful.
So the AWP on the other side is gone, but Woxic forced into the open by utility, and
he likes to be nailed to this opportunity, and yep, they're held back, so Aurora's
going to have to retreat.
Two players in extremely low health, not enough help from the initial defense,
so it's a safe call, and Navi up to 7-3.
Yeah, Major took a leg shot as well on that scaling up short from Navi.
So when he's the first rotating man, like, you can't do anything once walks, it goes down.
You can't even step out and see if you can get lucky.
His half is starting to play out just in brutal fashion.
Aurora gonna have to...
Well, I was gonna say they'll have to save in the next round,
but with the bonus building up, with the Soulfly 2K, Major at 1100,
might be able to put together a strong by-action.
I think they're gonna have to, with the scoreline being the way it is.
It's got desperate on Mirage, pretty damn quickly.
Yeah, well, Navi not throwing everything at the hunt.
It's really helped Aurora out here.
He will save three rifles, keeps them at decent buy going into the next round here.
Two rounds left of this half.
Can Aurora somehow salvage five?
Here's the opening kill. Just broke it open.
on Tarz, the immediate turn, Woksek had missed the information of how many people were on short,
how far they had scaled, and just kind of comes out into the open to his death, doing everything
he can to protect his rotating teammate of Major, but Fals pray himself to the attack.
Roura winning the pistol, converting it in a single round since then.
It has been a dominant half of Counter-Strike for Nobby, and they're looking to try and
continue that into the final two here.
3 flayers start A for Aurora, Tsatars will not be spotted towards connector.
They're not having a great time there at the moment.
I think they're having a great time on this Aurora side on CT.
Not a single person is saying we're handling this just fine.
So Nabi's going to play this one slow, see if they can pull as much utility as possible
out of this defense.
They've got Ima in position underneath window, Alexi paired up with them just to make sure
that mid stays safe and under their control.
Mikaze just now shifting back from the B bomb site, wonderful is going to join up
with Bit at the ramp.
And then attempted split into the site as well.
What do Ema and Alexi B do?
You can layer this if you're not the Ema can come up con Alexi can remain the lurk over towards short.
Oh, nearly catching Alexi on that smoke break.
Zatars has been spammed down, he's low HP.
Walks like that again before the attack begins.
Taze coming out of the smoke, gets you got to kill on Zatars.
Soulflight, he's going to respond at least with one, but Big gets that kill right back again.
And we're now at the 25 second mark in the round.
Navi have the ball now moving into the A site.
It does not look like we're going to have
Riccati and Madra really getting into a position
to challenge for this.
So it's going to be an A try out for Navi's T side.
You know, Navi busted this A bomb site so hard, so early
that they've just been able to say,
whenever we want to round, we can go back to A.
And Wauksic has never been able to get
comfortable within the flow.
Sofly with his inexperience hasn't been able to get
anything done.
Navi is attacking this bomb site in just a ruthless
fashion.
And in so many different ways, right, so you can never really predict what's coming at you.
This is around when they have three players committed into the bomb site as well for Rora, and they still concede the site.
We've not seen it on a couple of players too. It was a bit earlier kind of popping through Palace on a timing to peer into the bomb site.
Now it's Makaze. I wonder if that's just something that they kind of pointed at and said.
When we do these a-hits, someone's going to be in the bomb site, is going to be available for this fight.
Wauksic's got to be so frustrated.
Taken down from the sides, Antares gets killed from this palace play.
Sofla can't stop it in time.
And this round just goes all to hell.
Final round of the first half.
How dominant is Navi gonna make it? 8-3.
Wauksic's just throwing bullets to the wall, running up towards top middle.
But he does retreat, not getting the fight he's looking for.
But Wauksic is hanging around, opening to get some impact here in this first half, in some way.
Just take some bullets to the back.
stays committed looking over the connector smoke but no one getting a pick
here for Aurora it's going to be wonderful finding the opening frag yeah
Aurora this round is on Tarzan and Wakadia are really trying to force the mid
fight they feel like they needed something some kind of kill early on to
give them an advantage in the round and just overextending over forcing it
sticking around too long and now they've lost one
He walks it, reacts fast enough, bit is going to fall.
100 minute on the clock, him getting caught back turned.
All of a sudden this round has turned in favor of Aurora, Mikaze.
This place being red, Madger spotted him, Mikaze goes down,
and so Navi falls just wonderful and Alexi B in pursuit of a ninth round on this T side.
Now go towards the B site, Alexi B taking Madger down.
has arrived in time of Wakadia putting wonderful in the 1v3.
All right, well, he's going to have Wauksic jumping out towards short.
He's going to have Soulfly and Wakadia coming market.
Can Wunderful put this together?
Incredible half so far.
This would be the cherry on top.
Getting aggressive.
There's the back turn.
There's one.
Now they know he's in the market.
Switches out to the AK.
Wanted to finish it off with the rifle, Wakadia.
Hearing that step, a wonderful, it's down to just one more.
Walksick, tapping, but not sticking.
Utility going in, and wonderful moves out.
He's got the cover now.
He put this one together.
Wonderful, and it was a wicked destruction in this half.
And wonderful, silencing the haters and giving it a 9-3 lead to Navi.
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It's been 518 days since Navi's last trophy lift here in these playoffs on the campaign.
To shorten that down to zero, they want to win this one and they've got themselves in
a good position on this first map.
9-3 up in dominant fashion, sparked by Wonderful right out of the gates.
14-5 as we switch sides.
Wonderful is leading Navi to a map 1 victory.
Absolutely, and a player that has gone under quite a bit of criticism.
He's got to feel good to be sitting at 14 and 5.
A player during halftime, saying every round we play is very important now.
Just don't give them the pisteron and we're close.
Easier said than done, though.
Jules Barretta has come out in full his bit and wonderful having to go with him.
So it'll be a little bit of an extended pisteron, so this aggression is going to be interesting.
Might decide a lot if they're able to pick off Soulfly or if in return Soulfly picks them off.
Doesn't seem like they want to move too far, but
At the moment, it's gonna end at the A bomb site. Players positioned in Palace outside the ramp to look for pushes.
You have Ocadia Major coming in with the bomb through mid, but that's dangerous.
Oh, wonderful.
Both been spotted.
Now he's got a tuck in the corner, but he does have Mikaze coming over, and he's a pretty good bodyguard.
He's ready to brawl, ready to fight for you, but not getting any of those kills going his way.
Now Walkstick, we get a reply. Wonderful. He's brought down.
Bitstruber let his ring out in the kill feed, but Ocadia makes sure Aurora stay ahead.
is still under a lot of pressure and he would be pushed from power somehow handling that.
No way he gets away with another one and thankfully for Aurora, Woxic does pick up that kill.
Okay, Alexi could be aggressive here. He's got a 1v1 while the bomb is being planted.
Might have missed that window. Now Woxic can peek off contact.
Let's see what Alexi can do.
Thanks to backtrack towards jungle. Got smoke. He's got a flash. No kid on his back.
It's going to be very tough to force them out here, Woxic can just hide, Wakadi is staying
deep into a CT, wants to be nose with his up against, but he can't get the headshots
just yet he will be dropped here by Woxic, a very important pistol round picked up here
for Aurora.
And a good bounce back from Woxic in this pistol too, triple kill with some very nice
shots on the P250 to be able to secure it for Aurora so Navi goes against what
blades advice was at the start of this. Here's those lovely shots with the P250, but for the
half he had on the CT side, constantly getting countered, constantly getting picked on, constantly
being attacked. Finally, he's got something positive to lean on, a lovely triple kill and
And a very important pistol to keep Aurora going.
Well they're going to be set up perfectly for this.
They want to be aggressive, they want to disjoint this attack.
This is where Aurora wants to play.
All the attacking utility thrown out, but so is the defensive utility to disjoint
this attack the point close up let's see if that helps him out I got another one
from wonderful Diggle but this time so fly jumping in behind with them with the
Max hand and the rest of the kills to me for the Turkish team so they take it
over the site of pit route collected here for Aurora that's both piss around
converted now as well for Aurora yeah nice clean and simple for more players
surviving so far bombing planted nothing really Alexi's gonna be able to
do so they'll get up to five and now just within four rounds of not
Navi moving forward. Just a nice easy set piece towards the A-bomb side. That might be
something we see a decent amount of. We had the conversation on the couch. We've known
it for a while talking to Aurora. Majors just kind of said we can't play the same spread
out kind of tactical, defaulty style that all the other teams do. I don't feel like
I have the players to do that, to be able to take the initiative and read the game
and make the appropriate decisions. So Aurora going to be a little bit more grouped
up it's going to feel the Navi now that we've switched sides.
We heard of likes to bees interview as well saying that they know what they're up against
in that department. They know they're going to come at them. A wall five players hitting
you hard. The issue is, you know, that sounds simple, but the thing is Aurora hit really
hard. Yeah, exactly. It's a big group of players that all shoot really, really well.
We'll see how Navi handles it when the guns come out. So round 15 should be an easier
one for Aurora to handle, not a whole lot of investment. Bladesoul hasn't called
the timeout. He's been able to use the two Aurora timeouts in the first
So he's gonna chill actually they might have called one but just chillin for the most part
Yeah, you can understand why because four out of the five rounds of Aurora have won have come from the first two rounds of each half
So for now he it has been dominant
I'm sure you'll give it at least one gun round here in the second half before we see that come through
Aurora chance here to build some money up on the T side got a back ten out for souls like
That's just around there lost in the first half, thanks to a wonderful eagle opening
up on Woxic.
I can't let the same happen again here.
Good name on the bid.
Yeah, dangerous.
That eagle's on point today.
Major's gonna back away, takes a tag.
Pistols are still dangerous.
Alexi still has the armor from the previous round as well.
cheeky kill and this could change everything in the round.
Ema's going to be the first Na'Vi player to have a chance.
That's the P-Count from Ema, okay, finishing the ball off, okay, that's a scary line up,
both players are very low.
Ema trying to go for it, body shots not landing, eventually getting one extra.
But wonderful, now set up, and you think there's a shot, but Zantara makes sure
He shuts out in his face before he gets one shot out of that D because the way wonderful is playing you believe
He had a shot and winning that one cool plan cool plan from Navi to crunch middle in that fashion to coming off short out
The window to trying to pressure from top con one flashbang chucked it actually so fly was the release valve for Aurora
Coming in from Palace able to harass them from behind force email into that play might have just saved the round
This is the first time out out of the Navi side of things on the CT side
So Blade's gonna have a conversation with the boys as he starts feeling after this
pistol round. Aurora's brought this right back. It once felt dominant but now they're
within striking distance and Blade is getting everyone on the same page.
Reinforcing what they talked about at halftime. The AWP is in the hands of
wonderful. Wauksa has it on the attacking side as well. Full M4s across the rest
of Navi. So all the bells and whistles they could want to start this
defensive campaign and try to close out Mirage.
That's just the moment in con where these two players are lined up and they're so low
you think maybe that Deagle can get a lineup that him a little frustrated couldn't get
them to connect but regardless the buy is in live scenes from Turkey.
Wanker walks it ready for aggression.
The question has arised, but I'm not able to connect onto B.
What a spot about that though, what it called it out.
Deeper flashbang, BITS not going to activate with it, but they maybe want Walksick to think they're clearing very, very deep on the ramp.
Sofly patiently waiting up in Palace.
Got a conversation on his addition to the team, and Joda's exit.
The conversation has been about Joda wanting a little bit more responsibility.
Sofly for his part said that the things they want me to do is exactly what I want to do.
Smoke breaking, Ima's got the frags and Tara is getting run down, actually a lot of pressure on him.
And Alexi B eventually getting that trade back.
Minute left, big goes down to the bomb site and Sofly drops out of Palace down into A.
Yeah, it's a quick rotation as well from Ima to get to this spot.
He's the player with high HP.
There's the swing, Ima down.
Wonderful good to get pushed here by Sofly.
Aurora looking like they've done enough here.
But Alexi B still trying to fight on the multi-kill that it's a really feel like is a great shot at this for wonderful
But he's just taking so much damage in the earlier stages of this round
Yeah, he's not going for this
He just wants to see if someone's gonna do something silly like push him in jungle
He can grab a kill turn it into one-on-one then maybe it'd be an interesting prospect, but get it back off
Arora break through and the very first gun round so this continues a streak of four to start the second half
Finally a streak, finally a stretch of rounds that Aurora could look at and be happy about,
be proud about.
Starting to gain a lot of control in this game, they're going to have an economic advantage
on the T side as well.
And now they'll be scrambling to get the defense started.
That smoke break, can we do?
Alexi be hunting down the trade killers, Antares trying his best to relax, he got some important
kills coming through.
It's a shame that that Ema's swing is all to get wonderful to be able to kind of swing
with him and trade off at least one kill and it's a shame.
Wonderful didn't feel like he could get the angle in time to actually pick off
the planter, delay that, give Alexi more time to play.
So it was a nice attempt, a nice idea. Didn't quite hit the mark.
And now Aurora's just two rounds back.
Anavi playing with MP9s on three players of 5'7 for bit.
Great opportunity to shrink this gap to just one round for Aurora.
Like CB freed up and quite aggressive through the apartments.
He's got a good space, but you're going to make sure he falls back.
He's forced away by those bullets from the AK.
Yeah, no new information gathered. Alexi would have known there's going to be someone watching for pushes like that,
so it's just confirming what he probably assumed was happening on the map.
This round is all about wonderful and how much production he can get out of the AWP.
Can he position himself in the correct place and he has for the moment? It's aggressive from wonderful, though.
Very advanced position for the AWP. Not a lot of falling back opportunity.
Going aggressive. Trying to get this Peiki. Well, he's got the information on the second player,
but that's it all! And so when you peek into that, Waukes, it's ready for it.
Yeah, I don't know what he thought was gonna happen with that one. Walksic's not missing that shot
I'm gonna rely upon him up. There's MP9's done well dropping down under the wood
He's got distraction and so because he comes in and these MP9's delivering a vicious round here for Navi
Walksic backs away bomb on his back 30 seconds on the clock exactly like it was drawn up
They spring at the perfect moment when not when Aurora's just caught in that choke point with nowhere to go
MP9's chew him up
One V2 20 seconds to do it as well here for walk stick trying to fake that he's left the side, but no one's moved
Haven't bought this at all. In fact, they've now hidden so this round becomes so difficult
For walk stick stepping out into the open either quick. Yo back turned and two empty nines ready to fight him
Around the Navi that takes the pleasure off and then the question becomes how deflating is that to the aurora side?
They just have that stretch of four rounds and it ends in disaster and catastrophe against a low buy from the Navi side
So if you're in the Aurora camp, there's frustration right now
There's a little bit anger that it has turned out this way
They weren't able to convert around and close the gap even further in fact things swing entirely
There's that positional strength that Yankee was talking about with him by you know staying up in pals with a quick
reposition getting out for a second kill a fantastic output for me about
Aurora looking to keep things simple
Going towards the A site. No mid presence whatsoever. In fact, there's gonna be contact out of the ramp ready to fight with no nades in the bomb site.
Creeping out. Finally detected. Now we realize what's up and can they deal with it? So fly the threat.
Ima dead. I'm bit. It's taking damage as well. So not feeling confident to stand up and take jewels at the top of ticket.
But now we eventually goes for it. Mikaze also finding success. And the smoke is just bad.
There's just a gap there for Mikaze and at least we're caught yet in a 1v3
Navi worked them apart and they stop this comeback. It is 11-7, Navi in control again.
And if that gap in the smoke isn't there, they have a great chance to win that round.
I mean, Wonderful's able to pick one off through that gap and then we saw Mikaze
playing from stairs just obliterating people and everyone from Aurora stepping into the
angle without realizing they're going to be perfectly visible around the edge of the smoke.
edge of the smoke everyone had faith that it landed as a small detail that has
incredible ramifications that might take away the ability to for Aurora to fight
for this map money is gone yeah they're gonna be able to get tech nines out here
if they go for the buy and I can tell you they are they're going for the
purchase here Aurora pulling up Mac 10s tech nines not looking pretty looking
like not if you're gonna grab map point and honestly looking like this
might just be the first map of the series. And it's been a pretty simplistic half of calling as
we'd expect out of the Aurora side with a lot of executes and around like this where yeah you
have some utility but no rifles I think you're gonna have to keep it simple again so a knobby can
still operate with that philosophy of like we know they're gonna come at us as a group and go
for the trade game go for the heavy knockout punch rather than kind of spreading out on the
the map and working things.
We're all sending three players into the underpass.
Cone might just land right at the top of them.
Gonna be Ima, smack it open, that window is smoking.
Not spotting the heads, but McCall's right, certainly in a position to do so.
So opening kill falls in favour of Na'Vi.
Now Ima coming back to connector, but there's a threat near the side of it.
And as on Tars is tech 9 that enters the kill feed, but this is just not going for Aurora.
Takes a few extra bullets that bit, but he gets the kill regardless.
And Na'Vi up to map point to Mirage.
Yeah, even with the benefit of an opening kill,
not enough to follow it up to make that round dangerous whatsoever. Nice and easy for Navi,
a very similar buy, a very similar round going to come out from Aurora here in the final one,
round 20. And Navi on the verge of taking the first map. One Galil this time on Woxic,
he's got 16 kills other than that, two Maktan's at Tech 9 and a D.G.O.L. So Aurora fighting
with barely anything at all to stay alive here on Mirage.
Not an inspired purchase whatsoever.
Let's see what a roar I can get out of it.
Alexei and Mikaze are so ready for this play.
Alexei with the AK, but he's caught by a flash.
Now Mikaze at least slowing things down, bringing it to a halt.
Mikaze is under a lot of pressure, but he doesn't care.
He gets two kills, the Deagle trying to finish him off, and Wokadia will do so, but way too
much to ask of Wokadia here.
17 HP.
To kick off this grand final, it will be a 13-7 dominant map victory for Navi on their
map selection.
Up next is Anubis, we caught the home ground of Aurora, but Navi have never lost to
them on it.
That's coming up next.
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You're all I want, you're all I need
All that I have, I wanna give
Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad
But if you just believe in me, I'll be the best you ever had
I know it's so hard to bring you trust in someone who let you down
But if you just give me another chance, I promise we won't work it out.
I'm gonna take the whole world again, if I had my key.
You're all I need
Yeah
Now let's stop making big, all you're doing things
Until some other time
You're what I see in my mind
Together we can fly
Don't fall apart
All that I want
All that I need
All that I have
All that I need to give
Sometimes it's bad
it's a
one of the
wonderful inform and
Navi on top despite
Aurora winning and converting
both of the pistols. Navi still
come back swinging to close this
one out 13 to seven might not
sound like the most competitive
not sound like the most competitive school on yanko but this was actually a very entertaining first
map right a lot of clutches coming down some interesting buys coming out of navi which we'll
get into and a great start for them in this yeah a lot of action and i think this is mirage has been
somewhat of a coin flip for navi lately like they can be really really good on it or things can
somehow fall apart they've been struggling to find consistency on the map but this is how it
looks like when they're having a good day right they were just in so much control in that first
half even on the T side right even in the rounds where they would have a disadvantage
just the control that they would get and the space that they would get was enough for them
to find ways to close out rounds.
We've already started differently than the last head to head though right you got to
clues as was the trading of the picks, Navi's out of strong, their map choice.
Making it look simple when it shouldn't have been right you pointed out the fact
that Aurora win both pistols that should be right obviously they're not easy to
win against the force fires but that should be as long as you get your conversions
in six rounds.
Yeah, I was 13 seven and they didn't even get those cleanly right and then on top of that in the 20 round game
Opening kills were favored for Aurora as well
So they had stat lines go in their way
The Zantara's was getting multi kills that were necessary, but this is it right
We're gonna play rounds three rounds 12 and then around 17 backs back
Yeah, coach fine to lose one of these type of rounds, but they've lost three in a game and
It this is the difference from winning or losing as reductives
That is that's that's the fact not to when both pistols will save you that was a disgusting shot
Beautiful. Like, Voxig did nothing wrong there and once he dies, you know,
Sofly's position is known because he threw that smoke and was spamming and
Makasa just deletes him and from that point on, right, very winnable for Navi.
After Wonderful gets AWP, he's had a blinder of an opening map here on Mirage.
And yeah, it's just for Aurora, sort of the worst thing that can happen after
winning that pistol and the anti-4. This was an equal.
Yeah, that's the problem, right? You did the hard work. You won the pistol. You won against the force.
This has been to be the easier, and this is where we talk about tilt, right? Being out of creep in.
So from that point, you're in a bit of strife. Now, you're having a tough half, right? You really have a tough half.
You only had one round since then. Last round of the half, you're thinking, okay, we're going to do the hard work.
We're going to claw something back. Imagine A4 half. You get the pistol, then you get the conversions.
It's a one-round game at that point. They put themselves in such a strong spot, right?
This eventually becomes a 1v3 situation, and they fumble this one as well.
7-2 down so you know they're doing a good job in the end so maybe they can get two more rounds and make something happen here, right?
But in this 3v1
It's ugly
I think the only way to frame this is ugly, right?
So there's no kid here on the retake at all the fact that wonderful is just given so much room and that he's able to isolate all
These fights as soon as this happens bang first kill comes in now
He's able to play over the water market dance around an isolate the jewels
But the rotation taking a long time to get there holding line with the ad of UP swinging out to get to the bomb
We're kind of thinking if I can get the bomb I can start diffusing and walks you can cover
But now you're in a 1v1 situation with no kit the Molly dismisses doesn't matter
There's no time at this point wonderful as all the advantages and that is a 9 3 half
So there's two bad rounds in the first half and then this is the one that yes call it GG
Yeah, you have to remember if that was 8 4 then it would have been 8 8 at this point
They wouldn't have had a tight game, right?
And what would have happened at the moment of that tight game chat?
Well, it would not have been very pretty, right?
This is the saved up and pistols against.
They get spotted here, and it's a 4v3.
There's 50 seconds left, and they just decide to keep going, right?
And then Iman, Akhaze, you know, the round completely falls apart.
Like, not really, I don't know how much utility they had left.
If they had, they didn't use any.
And in a man-adventure situation,
they just get mowed down by the two MP9.
Another shift swap for Woxif, right?
So in the 1v3, he's the last guy standing, now he's 1v2.
He's trying to fake steps to make them rotate over towards B.
That didn't work, and then just walking in and going down.
But we had questions about wonderful.
And again, I maintain the position that this kid is in honor of,
because people talk about, oh, he's under a lot of pressure.
But I think in Blade...
Who isn't?
In Blade's sister?
Who isn't under a lot of pressure?
I think in his system, there isn't consistency of any names.
Obviously, people might say McCarthy,
but I think different players in different maps
will have those moments for them.
I think that's what they're set up for.
They have this strong base of fundamentals or at least the foundation of how Blade wants to approach the game.
And then it's up to the player who finds themselves in those positions to deliver in any given game.
Well let's see how much pressure he was feeling in that round 17.
We've got the team comms lined up from Navi.
Me, I'll wait for you! I will flash dead!
I'm not flashing!
He's inside of me! I'm 28!
I'm back!
I'm back!
Let's peek together soon!
Okay, I'm peeking now.
Don't see him.
Don't check him.
Don't check, maybe he's holding you.
I didn't see him.
I'm checking one more time.
He's got me!
I'm on the ground.
He'll be full up, bro. I'm holding like close here on the bottom.
I'm going to get together now. I think he'll be all open.
Ready? Three, two, one.
He's there.
Nice!
Oh my god, I have him.
Good call from B.
Yeah.
Good call from B.
You can all see how easy it was for them,
even though they were 3v4 and I get it, right?
They killed the A anchor and they killed the AWPer,
so you're thinking, alright, shouldn't be anyone else nearby,
but you're going up against the half,
but there's a chance that they can gamble it.
Soulfly, unfortunately, he needs to be maybe a bit more patient.
He's the only guy from app so he needs to make sure he gets the trade if someone is playing close
Being a position to help his teammates he dies first and then they're just
Stuck in the crossfire kind of like the new plan that we break down right where things just can go wrong very quickly for Aurora
So that rearing its head early is a big problem
I gave you the script chat right the Roars gonna choke map one
It just that the scoreline wasn't really close, but it did choke on that one
Now they're gonna come back with a vengeance on their own map pick on the map
And they're going to finally win it?
Yeah.
They're going to finally win it.
That has to happen eventually, right?
I cried some numbers.
That's what we were saying about letality losing last year.
Like, someone at some point is going to beat that.
I'm ready to flip-flop.
I cried some numbers.
On land, since Wakadia joined, they played a Nubis 60 times.
Right? This is Aurora.
Aurora, Tunnel, Fire.
Right?
Oh my God.
That's the four plays.
They have 42 wins, 18 losses.
And we know that Navi make up five of those,
which is roughly 28% of their losses on a Nubis of Tanavi.
which tells me Blade has a very good understanding of the way they approach this.
And interestingly enough, Navi opted to start on the CT side of Anubis, right?
So we're still trying to work out where this map falls.
But I would say it has an ever so slight T by a still, you know, 7, 5, 6, 6 type of map.
To play Devil's Advocate slightly to that. I'm just looking at the history of those Anubises.
There's only been one, which was in 2025. Obviously, map will change as you add the other.
But do you not think this could be a new version of Aurora?
They played just a couple of weeks ago and they lost 13-9.
Yeah, but Major had 4 kills.
Like he's gonna die.
Oh, he had a bad map to see every time.
Yeah, like he's gonna...
Yeah, like he's gonna die.
No, like, I mean, I don't know, I think for Aurora, obviously, you could see with a lot of these rounds,
there's a couple of 5v4s in there, there's rounds where they have an advantage in.
Weapon obviously, the 3v1 against, wonderful.
Like that has nothing to do with the maps, you know, they're just...
Joe, fundamentals haven't been there, it's probably nerves of map 1, they're probably too sharp.
I told you, Fred, you just need it.
They need to be bad for a little bit, right, to map one, so they get it out of their system, right?
Okay, can we play now? Yes, great. Okay, we're going on to our map pick, and now they're going to tighten up.
They're going to clean those mistakes up, right? They're going to bounce back.
I'm so happy. It's over in three.
Wait, what?
It's over. It's over.
Are you sure?
Yeah, pack it up.
All right.
Well, I guess chat's spoken.
Have you had a good weekend?
Break time.
See you, everyone.
Damn guys, we almost had this.
Thank god that's over.
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Don't shit yourself. This isn't the quarter finals. That pulls through.
Alright boys, buckle up.
Our objective? To yonk Blades' strike book.
The crown jewel of strategic documents.
But where Blade goes his strap book goes with him to make matters worse. His hotel room is a fortress
Equipped with generational security
This woman was suspicious her hotel mirror was a two-way mirror and someone was watching her final catch at night
His room goes into full lockdown
That leaves us one window
Blades midday nap
Navi's performance coach has been bragging on socials about the team's sleep quality and, by the looks of it, Blade's out-cold for a solid 15-minute window.
Okay, so the plan is to break into this room while he's inside?
Hmm, sense, please. Sleep, please.
Don't worry, whilst Blade has Gen Z security, we have Gen Z stars.
Look at me slave, I'm the captain now.
Hook down the weapons.
You're not here to kill the guy.
Sorry boss.
Oh, and don't forget the juke. Good luck boys.
Sasha, please, please don't come back.
Please don't come back.
Sasha.
Boys, no fighting sleep.
Abort.
No!
Sasha, please.
I repeat, abort.
You're not here to kill the gun.
Look on the blade.
I'm the Captain now.
I really need some sleep.
What?
We got it.
Hell yeah.
to get past Navi despite finding success with it almost every other time. Tell you what,
that blade strapbook did work on Mirage, so there's no reason to think that's going to
change coming into this. You could just tell right out of the gate, it's felt like they
had a read on every way that Aurora liked to play that A-bomb site and obviously coming
into Aurora are going to be very, very familiar with how they play it here and Aurora is trying
to do what they haven't done yet which is finally, finally, well this map has always
been their home map, always been something that has lended itself and helped them be
one of the strongest teams we have in Counter-Strike, unable to overcome Navi on this map in particular.
It's a weird trend considering all the success and how important it's been to them in
past and today is another chance for them to turn their fortunes on it.
Well now they rely upon a new beast to get back into the series after losing Mirage in devastating fashion.
Those rounds that they lost obviously being highlighted in fact that you've lost too many rounds of pistols.
You win both pistols, you convert both pistols and it's not enough for you to even break double figures on the map.
Yeah it's a, I mean they highlight on the desk too like just the heartbreaking rounds and we all know that there is that level of frustration to this Aurora team that can overcome how well they can play.
can play and every time you lose one of those that little like stress meter builds
up a little bit further and if it hits that breaking point everything collapses
so that's going to be something that Aurora is going to try and put behind them
very very quickly very early on here on Anubis. It's time for the second map
Stockholm you still with us? Alright let's get into Anubis. Aurora have to
begin to come back into the series right now otherwise they're going to be
down two maps and have to reverse sweep this best of five. Very tough
Afkar and Shrek ahead here for the Turkish team. They're going to be starting on the T side.
Yeah, Madrid set out of the semi-finals as well. I feel like Revenge from the last time in ESL Pro League
when we lost to them in the finals. That was season 20. Revenge, it's at hand.
It's in front of them if he can take it, but they must win Anubis.
Waxik is going to be checking. He's the only player on this side of the map.
Just looking for information, looking for a push.
As Navi stand patiently waiting.
He's at the hole, and we've got Woxy going for the peek. He's going to get the information that Mikaze has pushed up into water, and Mikaze will retreat, anticipating a heavy attack, I'm sure, at some point, as Aurora getting ready for the B execution.
They're expecting something in mid with Alexei holding onto a pop flash to chuck over when the noise cues come in, but I think what's going to end up happening even a bit, could probably have to drop out the hole and join up with Mikaze to fight from Khan.
Wonderful is going to get the brunt of this attack.
Let's see if we can start the second map strong as well. He was incredible on Mirage, Joe Berete's at the ready and the first kill is in. Couldn't quite get the second.
lot of time to get that second frag as well.
So moment, the trade dictum in from Akadia Bomb is planted.
Miss shots from Akaze.
Naturally, the follow up here for Aurora.
Takes a lot of damage, so it's on Torres,
but the headshot still raining in.
The legs he'd be a 1v2.
It doesn't look like Aurora gonna let this pistol round go.
All he can do is be aggressive.
He has no kit, he has to come find at least one kill,
spots the legs running away, no information on the second player.
And he gets deleted by Woxic.
So every single pistol round picked up so far from Aurora, they've got to make the most of it this time, though.
Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a positive or a negative at this point, because they're still losing Mirage,
this play wouldn't both of them, but a nice start here on Anubis.
T-side getting off the right way, wonderful, limited to only the one single kill after his hot-maps on Taras,
is the star of the pistol round. Great recovery as Mikaze comes through, beautiful shot on the bit,
and puts Alexi in an impossible scenario.
Second round coming in. Navi going to invest.
Wonderful keeping some extra cash in the bank for an AWP. He's got a Deagle, three Deagles in the mix, an MP9 and a 5-7 for the CT side.
And even with the benefit of the Pissarot win, you can bet that Aurora is thinking about that loss to the MP9s on Mirage and that's running through their brains.
Don't lose this one. Don't drop this one to the low buy.
I'll cause it, burning all the sound cues you need if you're going to send bullets towards
him, but not many have been connecting, so Taro's making his way through there.
Pressing up to the double doors, smoke out camera, so a bit held behind the smoke cover.
Yeah, four men lean towards the B bomb site, wonderful, it's just going to shuffle away now.
Little piece of aggression through the smoke at A main.
There's the pop flash, and there's the spot.
They've been seen far back. There's no point in them continuing the aggression.
Major's in a good position to cut them off on the retreat, and doing lovely work.
One kill, and he doesn't need to risk his life any longer.
And the camera to go 30 seconds in the round.
He can do something with this deagle. Yes, he can.
There's the first stopper. Oh, damage done, and couldn't finish off Santar.
but Wonderful replaces him immediately from the same position.
And it was Wonderful's Deagle that won the round in Mirage to get them started.
Good composure for Wabsek to check till his camera is hanging off of that second frag as well.
And Major comes in. So Wonderful's Deagle still fragging but still a tough round ahead of him
backs off into storage and Major hunts him down. So gets that kill on the Mac 10
and makes sure this round doesn't go against him.
Yeah, triple kill from Major, one of the highest rated players at the event.
Had a very quiet map of one of these grand finals but a good one here to make sure that
Aurora never get into any danger of losing that second round, so it should just be pistols moving forward into this for Navi
And Aurora's gonna be able to kind of farm things up. Two Mac 10s in play
Zantara's is gonna play a big role in this half with how he is able to take middle and I can imagine that Navi
One of their primary goals on this defensive side is gonna be to neutralize that to limit how much control that Zantara's can create in middle
and avoid having that be just a launching pad for the Aurora attack so
that's gonna be fun to watch when the gun rounds come in
oh my god yeah picking up my cause eight and then backing away so there will
be a three and zero lead coming in here for Aurora and when we talk about Aurora
the fact that on the CT side it seems like they just walk off middle from
all teams that attempt to get it, Jason?
Yeah, they've got to, you know, in the older,
the older, in the eternal fire,
there's a lot of, like, playing containment in the middle.
They just kind of master the act of defending mid
from deep in the A-palm side,
which also keeps the A-palm side strengthened.
That'll be things we get into when we switch sides.
Proficient on both sides of the map.
They just got to show us here in these grand finals.
Round four coming in.
Wonderful's going to have the AWP.
Still have the two Mac 10s on the Aurora side of things,
so look for something fast paced.
Look for Major and Soulfly
to be a little bit crazy and aggressive,
to help create some space and break into a site.
First look at the real defensive for Na'vi.
Gonna smoke out the bottom of T stairs
and dive down and take water away.
So, the Rugs-Molly combined,
they've got full water control.
If Rora want that,
they have to fight pretty hard to get it again.
It's a lot of information very early on,
but there's information that Gavrid can obviously change.
Na'vi makes me aware of Rora's playing
very passive on the map,
so they still have all the options in the world
to go retake that ground.
It's not like Aurora immediately showing that they want to go for a full execution of the people on site right from the get-go.
You can see that defense of Navi shifting again. So you'll see the rotation coming in particular from wonderful AWP.
He'll go back to the A site. Bitt was about to be activated into middle, but he actually got caught by the flash.
Zantara is set up this time by his teammate, Flashbang. He goes forward, he takes down Bitt and spamming down for the second.
down for the second. So Zantara's with some heavy impact to kick off the round.
Yeah, that's a bad sign for Navi. They've dedicated two players to defend against just that.
They wanted to get the edge on Zantara's early due to Zantara's.
What they did to Woxic back on Mirage, which was just knock him out of his game in the first four rounds.
Obviously not the case. Doesn't bode well. And now Alexi, he's got to give up ground
at this bomb site. Same with Mikaze as the hit comes in.
And he gets one kill back here, Alexi B, but he has taken a lot of damage.
It slowed down Aurora because Antares is in the A site.
So he's got the information, no one's here.
So they're trying to get that ball back to safety
and imagine a position where he can cut off
those quick rotations.
Yeah, but you're going to lose the timing.
You're going to lose the rotation.
You're not going to be there in a moment to stop any of this.
So now I think wonderful.
And Alexi, I have to ask themselves the question.
How close do you even want to get?
Do you really want to go for it?
That answer is always going to come up no in this scenario.
So it's Aurora now that forced the save from Navina 3 on 2.
I mean, Santarra has been able to get two kills in the middle of a six and two start here on the T side.
Thank you, so many resources committed to trying to deal with the threat of Santarra, and he still comes out on top.
Yeah, because you're trying to say...
Oh, off to kill down here, and wonderful holds on.
You're trying to send a message that Santarra's going to be able to have success there.
Like this part of the map, this part of your strategy, we're constantly going to be trying to harass it.
I don't think Nabi's going to go away from it just because they lost there,
but you want to set that tone very early on. Instead, it's Santarra's who gets the double in return.
So for Navi, they're still feeling like that middle part of the map is going to be a huge pain point moving forward into the next gun rounds.
And they're going to have a decision to make. Wouldn't shock me to see a timeout here.
AWP on wonderful save. M4 and Alexi save. They can drop M4s over to teammates, so we might get another buy from Navi.
I think also the fact that BIT was just a little bit awkward, like as he wanted to go on the first peek, he ends up getting caught by a flash.
I wonder if he realized he'd take the Molotov because Antares heard that and was prepared for that exact fight coming in
I don't know if they would the flashbang if that would have kind of registered to him
Clearly put him on the back foot immediately
All right again just spread now to your Aurora, but a little bit more
President from a cottage it's always be main. He starts spamming into that smoke
This is the previous round two just to get a position towards the left right on the other side of the arches
be there again Nate does a little bit of damage and then Ima mirrored on the
other side of the wall
the 4 down to 55 HP
break open that smoke with Kasei just get jumpy headshot no way we're gonna get
away with that one jumping up on the spot that's the kind of game we're
going to get right now. Look at Major. Huge play if he steps through. He's got a freebie.
This is like getting us right there, but couldn't grab the lecture. Needs another one.
That's exactly what a lecture is going on. But as he's getting those kills, the rest
of his teammates are going down elsewhere. But he leaves bit 1v3 in a clutch that just
doesn't look all that doable here. This is the one kill from Major, but boy does
it crack open the defense. Everything from there is them just barely trying to hang
on the flood of Aurora members streaming in. And Xantar is even prepared for this.
And Navi have everything taken from them, in a 5-0 run for Aurora.
It's exactly the start you needed after getting destroyed on Mirage, coming out onto your map pick, onto Anubis.
The map you rely upon so often to get out with a 5-0 lead.
Again, putting Navi in a spot where they don't have enough money for a full buy here,
It could very easily be a 6-0 start for Aurora, and you start to forget about those frustrations from that first map.
Yeah, look at the smiles. Everyone's feeling good right now. Being Major's Colin is working. This is a map they feel extremely comfortable on.
And now we're going to pressure towards A main. Two players here, Ema and Bit, but they've got the world against them.
And Ema pushing up. It's about Bit's first contact. Then Ema was meant to be the second attack coming down on the peak,
but he ends up getting dropped by Woxic, and then they can actually cancel and fall back here.
trade setup still works Alexi he's gained a puncher space this is unreal yeah
look at the position of Alexi so quickly into the round it does leave a highway of
an opportunity available to Aurora if they end up just walking canals into all
unfortunately for Navi that looks like exactly what Aurora about to do yeah
that's why because it's because it's quiet at the eight bomb site wonderful
over there you're gonna see Mikaza and Bitt start moving as well but they're
not gonna beat this shift Aurora have this round so secured they're gonna be
So shocked I think when they come in and they're like actually nobody's home
We get a free plant and the why is no one here on the B bomb site?
Although use all the utility just to confirm it
They'll clear the bomb so I realize the platform is empty now
You have to take this opportunity if you're a roar to say we know they're coming for this retake
It's a four on three and they're gonna be buying in the next round regardless of what happens
So these weapons don't mean a lot to them. They got to be prepared
As on charge you can see ready to fight very if you will get the engagements coming this white
Alexi B, squeezing another one out, there's an AK on the ground, still staying in on this one,
couldn't get a soul fly off the platform though, and so with that Alexi not gonna be able to do
anything to change the outcome of the round, but three kills and an AK-47 looking to be saved
here by Alexi B and it will be that six and zero start from Aurora. Yeah this surely has to
be timeout territory for Navi, I wonder if Blaze is just gonna let him try and play
router if he's got any ideas to give him tough round but I mean they've had six
of those and Navi's losing all across the map they're losing middle they're
losing a main they're getting over run at the B bomb site as well this defense
hasn't been able to provide resistance and that sound is the CT timeout coming
from Blade and Navi as they talk things over because their initial plan has
not yielded any success or any results to speak of that idea of putting some
pressure on Zontars in mid didn't work and now you're just getting played and
toyed with across the whole map.
One thing Alexi talked about throughout this playoff run that has made Navi a
scary force through the quarterfinals and semifinals he mentioned he's getting
some flashbacks back to the Copenhagen Major where they lifted the trophy
due to the performance of IMA not just inside the server as a player but just
how vocal he is how much of a second leader how much of a presence he has
within the team. So you imagine at the moment any time out like this at a 0 to 6 mark is
going to be a coach telling everyone to start chipping in a little bit more, everyone communicating
with a little bit more energy, everyone being a little bit more proactive.
A quick tech issue though, the thumbs up comes in from Alexi B and we're good to go again.
Just out of that timeout blade wanting to get the CT side going now. Got the wonderful
AWP coming out. Saved AK is always good to have here on the CT side so Alexi
D will wield that. But I mean we're sitting here looking at immo with zero kills, Mikaze
on zero, that can't stay like that forever. So we're going to see some resistance melted
for Navi, it's just a question of is it now?
Yeah, when and will it be in time? Wonderful, it's going for that opening pick. Not fully
committing through the hole but it's got the angle if they try and progress up. Now
he takes up the position knowing that shot has just rung out. We see the foot here
of Woxic but can he get the kill? He's missed the gap so Woxic's actually moved
But it backsracks into it just as that grenade comes in and wonderful
He's still come out on top of that fight so open and kill in favor of Navi
I don't even know if he actually saw walks like he might have just shot because of the nade
Just taking the guests and boy does it work out now. He must got a completely different angle
But gotta be careful mid-control by Navi
All picked up by recording it. He's gonna have a go with it first significant obstacle auroras had to overcome
the four versus five rounds for the majority of round 17 and still having
Budge since Woxic got killed.
No, boosting Zhontara's. It's gonna be tough to come away with that. He actually got a
shot off at least. Quick reactions with Zhontara's but not enough
unfortunately to get that trade kill in for Aurora. So a very tough round now at
3v5. Yeah, I think Major's gonna have to be the instigator. I think he's
feeling like he's gonna be the one that's gonna have to go and leave this
charge into the B bomb site there's a smoke out need these kills very clean if
you want a chance it went in the round as the first fight against Alexi a lot
of damage done to Alexi but you really needed to kill and now as they slowly
drift into the B bomb site they're just being picked up by Naveed.
Mokadia's had enough of the sniper to the AK but all of his teammates are gone
and so Mokadia steps out into the open to die at the hands of Mokadia
He goes from zero to three frags in one round.
You said it was only going to be a matter of time because they deliver in fantastic fashion from up on the platform.
Triple kill and a tough hit to contain.
Aurora take their first time out pretty much immediately.
We've got plenty of money. No issues in that department if you're here for Aurora.
Plenty of money and things are going well so I don't think it's going to change anything.
Maybe we want to ice out Navi a little bit, maybe a conversation on what they want to do next.
Certainly the goal is going to be preventing Navi from going on any kind of a streak that lets the CT side get comfortable.
build up any money, let them feel a little bit of the safety net of the money behind them.
The ROAR is going to want to put a stop to this before it truly begins.
And then it becomes, the question becomes what's the call?
This round a little bit slower, wanting to control middle, wanting to get involved towards window and e-box,
but there's grouped up hits of getting control of Khan and being able to attack into the B-Bomb site,
of being able to pressure him from main as well.
Well, these are going to be very effective.
Baby, let's go!
Mikaze trying to make that the moment that this turns around for Navi.
And finally, off the Gusei Street into their first round win.
Again, pressure, Ima dropping me down into the water, getting his feet wet as he gets aggressive, running right towards Antares.
So, all the danger man out of the way for Aurora as soon as the round begins.
Yeah, Flashbang shut out by wonderful from deep in mid as well, completely blinds Antares.
He heard the footsteps, was ready for the fight, but back to back rounds, Navi's found a way to get an opening kill.
The timing of that was very scary with his back turned to the double doors. Very confident
he wasn't going to get played. And now lining up to move out of B main and get some information
on the map. It's gone quiet, so Navi have no idea what's happening and that's making
uncomfortable. Corksic's coming at the right time, but he can't get the shot to land for
lethality. So he's gone. Soulfly hoping he doesn't get checked, but Mikaze, he checks
him completely. But he's Soulfly going into the ground, and Mikaze, ooh, nearly getting
culminated in hand, but lined up just back at white, keeping his life and maintaining
this 5v2. Yeah, I think that's maybe Alexi behind him holding it back, so you don't
actually have to go for this. I'm here with utility, I can drop the smoke, we
We control the bomb. No reason to press the issue for a flight.
Caught his turn.
Heaven getting caught at a good time enough, a bit.
Crushing. Brown lost that a full Aurora.
It's going to be Navi keeping five players up,
and that money is starting to swell now on the CT side.
Yeah, with these last two rounds, it's Navi making the initial moves, right?
Navi making the plays, kind of playing the CT side a little bit more offensively,
and pushing forward to find the opening pick with the AWP of previous round.
EMA again activating in canals. So Aurora have to get that under control that's where you have to
kind of slow things down and say nobody died for the first 30 seconds we need to be able to
control the map let them do these aggressive plays and we'll be able to counter whatever
they bring to the table as long as we don't fall prey to it. And as an IGL if you're major
might be around where you just call some kind of a standard opening to watch for those pushes
and then just turn it into an execute to make sure a spread out team can't get harassed
and picked off.
Loxas got the angle in mid.
Centaurage is waiting for the time to
toss out that Molotov.
See the complete blanketed flames
around that corner, allowing Centaurage to feel comfortable.
He doesn't need to check that angle.
He just get up close to the mid doors now. We've got Mikaze
Reacting to losing mid control by trying to play a little bit more aggressively into the B main doors
Yeah, this is an idea. They've had the past couple rounds. We saw it a few before as well
Obviously an idea it feels like it was called out during the timeout that blade wanted to see a little bit more of it
So they could have information on the map here's the peak here's the kill
It's got two more and the bomb
Yeah, but in the meantime Santaris did actually pick up that kill on a most so this round is a real threat
And you need one to fall to like CP to be able to deliver and wonderful getting into the flames
but not getting his kill. So it's Alexi B getting hard cleared by major knowing
there was no threat elsewhere because he was completely committed to clearing the
angle and Aurora find success getting into the B site. Yeah, respect to a
wonderful steps into the flames to take that shot goes for the flick. He just
wanted that B a presence. He wanted to show a little bit of danger to not to
hopefully prevent Aurora from swinging on Alexi just like he did. Great did
Aurora been able to bounce back. Santar's getting that kill as well on
Ima really important
Intending his life and removing that quick rotation to help out to be bombsite
I mean at this time, you know the players that that aggressive kind of play out of the B bombsite for Navi
Could have been a pick in a fallback
But this time there were the bodies there from Aurora to make sure that kill gets traded and you keep things at an even keel
Much nicer round for major to play out and call as an IGL
Seventh round on the board for Aurora's
Attacking side on an UBIS we mentioned the money for no if you know problems in that department
So they're gonna be able to get a really strong buy again
Let's see if they can get back on track, or if Aurora really are going to be able to run this into a ridiculous lead.
And we've talked about the fact that Navi haven't lost to them on this map yet, so most recently playing it, they lost 13-9 Aurora, but
if they get a half or they're up 10-2 Jason from T-Side, surely there's no way Aurora will lose it.
Oh, you'd have to think so, unless there's some kind of epic collapse.
But I don't know if Aurora would let that happen.
possibility for 10-2 still on the table here for Aurora.
They switch things up as well, a little bit more aggressive to the A bomb site really early on,
feels like they want to burn out a little bit of utility from Bits so they can attack into the site a little bit later.
Grouped up with four people here, Zantara is the man playing away from the pack.
Emma set up for a peek with that flash.
Oh, barrel spotted, Emma. They know exactly where you are and somehow,
He's actually got away
Been able to back off to safety maintain his life. Yeah, that's a ton of damage though
I don't know if major can confirm that he's gonna be red, but they just gonna be happy
Forcing him back at the very least Ema rotates over towards B in the rest of the Aurora attack is shifting here as well
Early pressure from a main has had bit call wonderful over with the op that's gonna let the rifle be a lot more mobile
Moving around the map and rotating to the points of danger
Okay, ready to go into this B bomb site for the finish, Aurora.
Mikaze dropping back into a better spot here on the platform.
He's doubled up with Ima.
He was a low HP player, but Mikaze is the one standing and fighting.
Now Molotov is going to burn Ima out of position, so he's no longer a threat, but Mikaze certainly
will be.
More damage on the smoke spam, and the bomb implanted, Advantage falls away for
Navi.
3v3 retake. No utility, no nades, no smoke to block the choke point whatsoever.
Gonna be very difficult. Two kits in play for the CT side and Navi's coming for the retake.
And the lack of utility is a massive problem here for Navi, but that headshot steps them in the right direction.
Low HP on the two remaining Aurora players.
Magi waiting in B-men. You would love a smoke here for Navi.
You would love a smoke, but they don't have it and so Magik can just peek out,
But get the kill! The follow-up peek in from Wakadia!
Huppetam spit! And Wakadia's got it done!
Eight rounds for Aurora!
And they are building the energy!
And Waksy roaring there on the stage.
Yeah, he's loving it. And now you're getting finally.
While we didn't get it on Mirage, the Aurora players stepping up
and showing you why they've been so strong throughout these playoffs.
Lovely triple kill from Wakadia.
They have forced with his squad since he joined the team.
And he's continuing it here.
Clears out Makazah who had been such a nuisance.
This peek for Waksyk I thought might have got us all around a little bit.
taking the advantage away from Aurora, but still able to hang on over in Maine in a lovely clutch.
I mean, you highlighted the fact that going into that retake
it was going to be really tough with no nades for Navi, and that's exactly what we got to see.
You know, if you have a flash, if you have a smoke, anything to make that a little bit easier,
I think Navi would win that retake. Just the fact that Madge was able to peek out,
immediately take the bomb planter away, defuse all away, and leave himself in a
strong position. It's really looking good now for Aurora.
Played very emphatic during that timeout, and you can understand why.
Albies of this half isn't going anywhere where they were hoping it would.
What they planned for, what they were thinking, stepping into this.
Aurora's map pick has been very one-sided to the Turkish side.
And it's the last chance to make something of this half of Navi.
Two rounds up for Grabs.
If they fail to get any of them, it's hard to see a world in which Aurora don't win this map.
I might go for that mid control play again last time it was two Molotovs, flashbangs around
the corner obviously.
So Antares is hoping for a free kill on a cheeky peek with that boost, not going to
get it quite yet but now sliding into attack position.
Tar is walking right into WandaFoot, and is waiting arms to collect the kill.
And he'll go again, and this time he missed from WandaFoot.
Shot goes between two players.
It's okay, you've done your job in middle if you're Navi. You can actually back off this, although he must still deploy defensive utility to peek a little bit more.
Once the cherry on top, and he's found major, right in front of the smoke, segregated from his team.
And a five on three for Navi.
If you can find some early success like that from Navi, you know Aurora are going to go for an execution finish
and obviously weakening in this attack to just three players gives Navi a real chance at a third round win.
They can't afford to let this one slip. It would take something miraculous out of the three remaining players here for Aurora to fight their way into a round victory.
Well look, you get some clean kills coming into this B bomb site. It's doable.
That smoke is going to fade shortly. During all this time, the EMA flank is what makes this field more undoable.
Yeah, this is the big issue. Look at this.
He's gonna get at least one around the back.
That's the bomb as well. It goes to the floor.
And in fact, that just hits the pause button on this entirely for Aurora.
Woxic does get that kill immediately, so they can now focus on the site again.
And Soulfly has come in with a kill on Alexi B, so the round's not done yet.
Especially with Woxic still on that AWP.
The sniper chiming in.
But now he must do everything.
Two kills in the round so far.
Two bullets. Two targets.
But no chance. As wonderful.
takes him away from B main, gets to the deep fuse, and Navi up to three on the CT side.
Really nice effort from Woxig with the AWP picking a few players off during the chaos.
But wonderful, a little bit too quick as he slides into the angle. A triple kill overall on the round
with the AWP picking up Zantars to start and fighting the final kill as well.
I mean it was always going to be difficult but they did break in. Hard part is Soulfly
I had nowhere to go after the bomb play which puts way too much pressure on the message.
Final round of the first half and Aurora want to end it on a positive note because the rest of this half has been excellent from them.
Well, they're buying all that positive. They're going to go real 3-10s in the tech 9 going into this one.
So Navi have a real shot at taking 4 on the CT side all of a sudden.
It just felt like it's a one-way street in this first half, but for Navi to leave with 4 rounds.
Very unexpected. So, Ima's going to back off.
Wonderful put under a lot of scrutiny trying to hang around to help out his teammate, but his teammate is now gone
Wonderful utility just landing towards his face. They send bit forward with the right ball and he claims another life
I think I can't believe they wanted to fight that. I think a
Tarora is thinking the exact same way. I can't believe they wanted to press the issue there from camera bit grabs one more kill
That's incredible. I mean we just seen that in the last two rounds or Navi right a change up in terms of their
Ambition to keep the fights going inside of middle
There's no retreat even in the last round when it gets flashed into the regress like you think they're gonna fall back with the
Advances, but they don't they go for more and it's worked out back to back rounds here for Navi
Look how passive the defense is right now Navi
They haven't had to deal with a whole whole lot of late-round a hit
So they're kind of expecting it here, but because of that they play passive they get a lot of real estate over to Aurora
So once again a relatively easy bomb plant you're gonna have been wonderful coming
3 box on the flank.
Yeah, the difference is, Navi are going for a retake, but they've got so much utility this time.
The first fight is up, Softfly has spotted 2 targets, can he get to the second?
No, wonderful has dropped him, but in the pressure, Wakadia and Woksek to try and win this one out.
And they start to topple, and they will fall, as Navi fight their way back into the half, securing 4.
But on this must win map, it is Aurora with an 8-4 lead.
I
Aurora's never beaten Navi on this map, on Anubis no matter how good it's been for them in the past.
Now might be the best chance they have to do it, to get over the half, 8-4 lead as we switch sides.
Aurora's going to be playing on the defense, it's going to be up to Alexei Blade and Navi's attack to overcome this,
to bring it back and take a strong lead if they want into the third map.
But Aurora's looking good.
Yeah, giving them all something to cheer about, Nova and Turkey and Ankara.
Well, we get into the second half ready to get underway. Defense now for Aurora.
Let's see if they can stop. When off you're gonna throw with them.
You do not want to go 0-2 down immediately in a B05 Grand Final.
I'm curious what the reaction is gonna be for Major when he gets this spot on mid, right?
He's gonna find this and back away, but what does the rest of Aurora do?
The A players are standing the ground. Nobody's budged whatsoever, really focused on A main.
But this is always going to be a split towards the b-bombsite away from the stack major under pressure now swapping around
Zontara is going to be playing inside the site, but smoked off
Tuba Redis ready to go not the long range fight he was hoping for so Mikaze
Slipping into the net look at wonderful right behind them
You're going to fall and so the defense has toppled just in an instant with the racing back
Even letting this bomb go down before the fight began in Mikaze alongside
likes to be a wonderful taking three kills to Navi and put Zartales in a 1v4 so
finally Navi getting a pistol win in this series. During the group stage we have a
little chat with the Navi guys because one of the one of the tactics they had
called was Mortal Kombat and we asked him about it he said it's not it's not
really a strategy it's kind of a philosophy feels like that's a Mortal
Kombat round everyone in Navi ready to fight the retake coming in from a
roar they know the only chances to start getting it and chipping away at
the player count before the bomb gets planted but everyone from Navi
springs into action, fighting together, winning the pistol, 5 to 8.
No resistance coming the way, apart from a P250, so we'll see what Wakati can get done with that, but 8 to 6, incredibly likely.
And to be honest, when you're looking at that first half, it felt like there was a real possibility for Aurora to take 10 rounds in the first half of play.
So good work for Navi, just about scraping by, getting the fourth round out of there.
This is I mean, it's a very recoverable scenario for Navi T side of a new this lens
I mean obviously we know the old map used to be a little bit more T-sided
It's kind of stayed that way a little bit skewed more even
But we know the T side can put work in because you can put the defense in some awkward situations
Good first kill from the USP's
Yeah, a lot of team damage coming in but we're all good everything's fine. Well
I like she just hanging around the back ten is gonna get another kill
So, so fly not long to the world and he will be taken down by wonderful
So we get into the first round to it for Aurora
They're not gonna have enough money to pull out full buys
So we're actually gonna see them go for the MP9s now
They could have got all rifles, but if decided they want to get the all-pout
They want all the utility and they've gone for a purchase that involves MP9s and they're all for
Saving and picking up a 5-7. Yeah
Well, we affectionately called to the start of CS2 the Brazilian bias fury was kind of the first ones to break it out
and show us what the strength of it is, but yeah.
You could be dangerous in this round.
You've got enough utility to stall them out,
funnel them where you want.
The MP9s can just wreck people.
And then you've got enough money for the AWP
going into the next round.
That's the benefit of the lead they gave themselves
after the first half.
Little bit closer, if they're behind,
they're not gonna want to go for this.
This would probably be a force up with the rifles,
But because of that lead, able to take a breath and play a tricky round.
Well, it's quite the stack in mid, isn't it?
So, hoping that Navi are going to send some forces this way, but...
I'll be yet to make that...
And move. They're going to start making their way through middle.
Oh, it's going to be very scary to go around this corner.
Question is how much did they commit before they spotted out, right?
Yeah, you just saw Mikaze drop down, so only Alexi's here.
There they come.
Now, Alexey put under pressure, going to be taken away, so a better weapon available.
So Woxic, who was in a 5-7, now has a Galil.
There was no one on the map from Navi able to take advantage of that information.
Everyone's still spread out, everyone's still far away from bombsite, so no advantage gained
by Navi despite Alexey saying, hey, 4 in middle.
And that does allow all the time to Woxy reset and get through defense in place on this
B bombsite.
So four players over here for Aurora, this round could go against Navi very quickly,
and it is.
in the other way, and so Aurora keep one player dying,
four players stay up, and they've got upgrades
all across the floor.
This is a massive point of the game here for Aurora.
And Woxxix's gonna have the AWP.
They got everything they wanted in board.
You put an AK in the hands of Zantara's on the CT side.
Man, they're looking with three AK-47s and a Goliol
and an AWP, and they only bought MP9s
and a 5-7 into that last round.
Yeah, that's gonna be frustrating for Navi.
I think part of the reason why we're seeing that
is that they weren't able to gain anything off of such a heavy stack in middle from Aurora?
That's the conversation. I don't think anyone necessarily did anything wrong.
Just the timing of it, everyone was spread out in different positions, not able to kind of work an idea up on the fly.
Well, you can see the strength of that kind of decision to go for MP9s in a 5-7.
You can be very deadly in rounds like that.
Especially when you are able to recover the rifle, like immediately recovering the rifle, all the Lexi,
and then having all that time to rearrange your defenses and have players all that people on site as not we go for the final attack
Well, that was the short-term benefit now the long-term benefit comes into play round 16 about to kick off
3 AK 47s and AWP in the hands of the Aurora defense on the Navi side of things
Couple players relegated back to tech 9s just so they can get utility that'll be a luxury of emo
The Navi just used their last time out as well. It was not happening
Our other play was not happy with that whatsoever
Taking his AK over towards a main
We blocked out for now can't imagine he was too happy having to burn two timeouts on the CT side as well
Generally something teams want to avoid. Yeah
So they're on their own from now on unless Aurora decided to go for a timeout
Passive round from Navi, making sure there's going to be no pushes, no trickery across the map.
And not deterred by the stack in middle, the previous round looks like that's where Alexei
wants to make his opening move in round 16. Very passive on defenses on Tars,
just spotting in towards middle, towards camera.
Mokadia and Woksek defending the A-bomb site close up to A-main.
It's a 1-3-1 so Navi have presence everywhere.
After this mid-play they can choose to go where they want, they're going to commit.
Racing in, it's Mokadia's AK-47 getting closer to the scope.
Okay, Woksek wrecked and Mokadia now sending bullets through the smoke so Mokadia about
to be blasted. There's two players coming in from both sides, but he's handled this very well.
And Zantaro has arrived just in time.
But wonderful, still fighting on for Nafi and a 3v3, but the delivery factor is the time.
20 seconds, Mikaze saving the life of his teammate, wonderful.
They've got the escape route as well.
Ema's over in the middle, it's clear. They're going to stick around and fight a little bit more.
At the time, yeah, they have to stay to the site, which is with 10 seconds on the clock.
So, putting that bomb down in the middle of the site, they're naturally going to be held back by utility.
It's a real tough clutch ahead of him. This is a massive point for Navi.
The fact that they were thrust down to three rifles and two pistols
and have come out on top of this. You should get out. It's time to leave now.
Nobody's given you the flight. Double swing. Good kill. Does that bring you back for more?
Yeah it is. For now, I realize is he's not getting that follow-up peak.
Ned will go to the back of the site. Wonderful's got enough health to sink that.
And then Maxi won! Oh my god, he was damn close to that.
He went back in for a last ditch effort and so so close to taking down the low HP of wonderful
Ran out of bullets just as he got the recoil under control so close
That was wild a valiant effort from major a very very good attempt
That shot was in cro-box towards heaven, but yeah, oh, dude
so close
Yeah, he could bet some times would have liked to have seen that clutch out of his leader.
9-7, Navi opposed the gap yet again.
A huge call out of the timeout to win a round, but now we've got aggression from Aurora.
They want to push up, caught in canals, double fight, double swing on the Navi side as well.
We get a one for one and call a stalemate.
Fourteen kills for Major leading the way for Aurora.
It's eighteen on Wonderful who's putting together a great opening maps of this grand
final. Major again on her scrutiny. This time he's not going to be able to get two.
Just grabs the one and now abandoned Shinobi as the bomb gets planted and they're wrestling control away from Aurora
Look how far away we caught he is he's just in the water now
So racing back to position, but just not gonna be able to get themselves into spot where they feel like this is winnable in time
Yeah, you don't have the money to go for this
You're gonna want to hopefully try and drop some guns in the next round 2400 dollar loss bonus
It's gonna put we're caught up at 3600
So weapons available for a decent buy in the next run of Aurora really want to force the situation
But on the CT side, they are under that tough spot of, you know, the money, the economy down
the stretch is going to be a huge win condition, so the choices they make now can reverberate
as this game comes to a close, this map comes to a close, can be some real significant
issues later if they misplay it.
Well, hanging in there are nobby.
Yeah, I'm super impressive.
The clear struggles on this map to contain what Aurora has been doing on both sides of it,
this map started 0-6 from Navi's perspective as well.
The fact that they're still bouncing back and they're still in the verge of tying this
up at 9, it's incredible work out of Navi.
Especially because you have that Mp9 purchase that goes so decisively in the way of Aurora
and you think, okay, that might just be the one that breaks Navi here, but they
actually bounce back with three rifles and two Tec-9s themselves and they're making
the most of the situation.
and now Nalfi favored to tie this game up nine apiece.
I got bit moving into position today, mate.
No, but I like that he's taken this so quickly
and made sure they know he's taken it as well.
The insta-smoke is going to be a lot of pressure.
The utility and presence behind it
is going to make these defenders a little bit nervous,
so they're going to play the smoke fade.
And when this fade comes, they'll realize nobody's home,
but is there time left in the round for them
to react and rotate to the other side of the map?
Stop it! Stop it!
Stop it! Stop it!
Stop it! Stop it!
There's Natara's.
She'll be back through camera.
The control will be taken here for Navi.
Got it available to them.
They'll smoke out camera.
Balm is still back towards T-star, so...
Eventually someone's going to pick that up.
Yeah, Bitt's got a tough job.
He's got to worry about aggression from A main through that smoke,
He's got to be worrying about aggression from Canals, so he's having to clear everything and keep his eyes on a swivel.
Three players here for Aurora, but this was the A side.
This Alexi lurk in middle. If that can cut off Major's rotation, it would be everything.
But he's backing off for the moment just to make sure nobody's pushing the B bomb site.
This hit has taken a lot of time to come to fruition.
A fourth player close up as well.
You've got the players in the right spot, but is it going to be enough? 25 seconds.
Alexi B has taken that killer matchup, and all the rest of the frags falling in favor here off Navi until Woxic and Makadia putting up some defense.
15 seconds left. Alexi B is at camera. Wonderful. Just pick up the bomb, and it's gone! And the time!
That's the limiting factor here. Alexi B has to run down Makadia, who's just staying alive, not given in the fight.
Alexi B is going to be so frustrated as Makadia plays this 1-2 perfection and gets the headshot at the end.
A 4k from Makadia, and he keeps Aurora going.
Man, I can't believe Navi wasn't a little bit more coordinated than that.
I mean, Alexi's ready at camera to kind of peek out and secure that position,
but Wonderful's still looking in that direction as he comes in.
Maybe a little bit of miscommunication.
Maybe he didn't realize that Smoke had a bigger gap in it.
This round is traded very well by Navi.
Yeah, and you can see Blade.
So frustrated.
I look over at the screens right now.
That is a heartbreaking round to lose for Navi,
because it's put them down to weaker weapons.
They've got no timeouts left.
Yeah, that was the one.
You can see it's mounting now.
They can tell the team isn't playing nearly as well as he would like.
It's not super clean.
Major gets a kill, a tag on another, but he's brought down.
Alright, his tag's a lateral, but bringing two down on it.
At least Novi still have some fight left in them with 4v4.
Ball and plant gonna be picked up.
Novi need this one back.
Feels like if they lose this, that's gonna be the map.
Aurora coming back into this retake.
They've got plenty of nades available.
Couple more Molotovs left for the Novi players to hold this off.
Flash brings this as well to make it a little disjointed.
Can they keep them back? Wonderful.
I think he's gonna peek.
It's gonna be pressure on you to deliver 20 and 8 so far.
An incredible showing here in the series.
And the AK-47 in his hands.
Coming closer to Smoke. Wonderful.
Trying to catch his opportunity.
They're close to him. They're running through.
He's missed it. The kills are coming in.
And it's all on Wonderful 1v3.
They've actually tagged him inside of the Smoke.
But the time, the time they're not on the defuse. Wonderful.
Just staying alive.
Dishing out the damage and getting to it.
It's so close, but not enough time at all.
And that's going to be a 9-trump for Navi. They needed that one if they can see that.
That is likely the second map, but Navi's still in a nubis.
Hanging on by their fingernails. Such a close clutch.
It's a game they haven't brought their A-game, but the individual's doing enough to keep them alive in this.
This is the opening. Tags them both on the collateral.
But then Bitt steps up.
And this Aurora defense couldn't contain what followed a chaotic retake,
but just through the smoke, Wunderful's able to get it done.
Palm is an extra teammate in this situation and it wins Navi the round.
Timeout called immediately from Aurora. Time as well for Navi and Blade to have a conversation using his opponent's timeouts as well.
But for this CT side, these grindy rounds, this back and forth.
Such an emotional rollercoaster for Aurora.
And it's taken the money away. Is the real issue for Aurora? If they want to invest here, it's a big risk.
I think they have to drop down to just really save maybe a half by a small by only two rounds of alunus losing bonus built up
There'd be so many rounds you think that's the light at the end of the tunnel. They finally reached it
But for now for you somehow some way it doesn't matter what they've got. They're always finding a way to keep competitive here
And now they've got Aurora on the ropes
Alexi warned us all he said these games are always close these series against Aurora are always close and
Saying that from a position of someone who's dominated the series
Aurora giving a big test here in map 2 of these grand finals at ESL Pro League.
And we talk about Aurora being so good on this map, but having never beat Navi and you
have to admit Navi have not been playing their best game here.
There have been a lot of mistakes, moments that have gone against him that looked like
they should have been favored to pick up, but still the opportunity is open to continue
their flawless Anubis streak against Aurora. One rifle here for Zantares and
it's over towards B. It's boosted just behind that obelisk.
There's one series victory against Navi for Aurora. I should say the core of
Aurora back when they were eternal fire as well. One series victory in
three years. I had to hide that.
All of you are going to love.
This historically so far today.
And the stack is here on the P side. The bomb
could be going towards a and they're taking down the only
player that was anywhere near them. So we're caught here
no longer a threat Aurora going to be racing back, but the
bomb is now arrived here for Navi and him up in a position
to shut them down with a galeel and he'll have no issue
and taking down the weaker opponents.
Zantara is in the M4 and no shot at through in anything. He is going to go and save that right fall
And we have got a tied game again here in Stockholm 10 to 10 Navi with a real fight
I think considering how important the economy is this is an interesting scenario not a lot of money for Navi
So hunting is a little bit of a risk, but I think there's a lot of value that they feel and taking this M4 away from Zantara's
Not super aggressive on it not running around the map crazy
but wonderful starting to get close.
Alexi's going to be paired up with him.
Mikaze is going to come in through the B-bomb site,
but I think they're happy now to just say he's got it.
He can save it.
They're going to take the win they have, which is a 10
round, a 10 to 10 scoreline.
We're all tied up.
I mean, I want to bring it back to what Sponge was saying
on the desk just before this match started,
about wonderful.
We always had a fantastic first map.
But he was saying, you know, this guy is usually,
he's on or off.
You know, there's no real in between.
And right now, he's definitely on in this Grand Final.
You know, great first map on Mirage, 21-9 at the moment here on Amoobus.
Well, see, Navi looks so much better when their Alper is having impact.
And he's doing it on every weapon, really, so great to see Wonderful having a great Grand Final.
Yeah, delivering very, very well.
Love to have that hit.
Mikaze, wonderful.
Gonna make their move very quick on the opening play, quick under window.
Gonna go for the boost pretty much immediately.
because he wants that fight and he's got the win.
That's a great maneuver, that.
And obviously taking down Zantara is a massive kill
to pick up this early in the round.
Zantara was even called into the fight as well.
He was prepared for it, looking for the exact angle.
And if you're a player like Zantara,
you want to have impact in the most important rounds.
And you have to sit back there and watch your teammates
move on without you.
Woxig is just trying to position with the Lexi B.
Yeah, but if he makes a move and goes for a kill out window,
he's going to die.
The reaction from Lexi is going to be easy.
However, wonderful coming up late.
He's the one who might get caught next walks. It should have a throw, but Alexi's gonna have one in return
It gets nothing at all
All he is going to be so frustrated about that one
I wonder if just Alexi showed up on a screen at the last second just screw off his right there. Yeah
Pulled his cross there into a weird spot, but so fly
He's taking it. Oh my god back here, but like city is gonna catch him so fly walks right into him
And that's the B bomb site! That is the round!
Major was watching for that and just turned his back to shift over to A at the perfect moment.
A gift passed over to Navi. It's going to give an advantage in this map.
Navi looking like he found the way right at the end here.
I've had to do this with no timeouts left, digging deep, finding Resolve.
I know this comeback has been building but it still felt like Aurora was in control and doing okay
doing okay and in the driver's seat to win this map up until maybe last round.
It just switched.
Alexi's hit a really nice rhythm of calling.
And I'll be delivering now. This is three in a row, five of the last six.
Eleven to ten in a grand final series where they're already up a map.
And look at the money man here for Aurora.
It's not pretty, it's not the worst, but it's certainly not going to have absolutely
everything you could possibly want around like this.
You're going to have to go to an MP9 for Soul Flight.
Two kits in play.
Yeah, a little bit disgusted with how that turned out.
Actually, they managed to figure out they can get the rifles out and a decent amount
of utility.
play is gonna be on an M4. Now they're just gonna put a stop to it. Could have an
aggressive stance from Major, spotted one, a little bit of damage out of the
cause, but Bitt, oh he's got some play inside and Bitt doesn't give up that angle.
Good win, even more blinded. Yeah, we're caught here. Trying to get involved in that fight.
Soul flight, sticking in it, wonderful taken. That actually that actually could
compound the issue. That fight might sell the fact that, I mean they don't
Realized majors here and so fly being that presence. They get going right into them good trade and even better as soul fly peaks out again
Yeah, honest toe is ready to jump out
And get the advances once again here for Aurora minute 10 left
The likes to be in him up trying to piece this one together soul fly peeking out for information
And they're ready for that a main push coming in walks it now going forward the losing his life
But so fly held around posted by him here. That's gonna be a 3k out from connector
saving Woxic as well. High game 11-11 and now Nafi are the ones who are feeling the pressure in terms of the money being on the last line.
Really impactful round from Soulfly, newest addition to this roster taking the place of Jota. They've all spoken very highly of him in terms of his intelligence, his skills and how he's been picking things up as they've gone along.
They really like what he's brought to the table and the comfort he's showing within the roster.
Remember, no timeouts from Na'vi. They would have, I'm sure, loved one going into a round like this.
Most important round of the map. Money on the line for both teams. 11 to 11. The fight for map points.
Everyone has got the weapon they would like. The AWP is present on both the T and CT side.
Lexi's called a lot of these rounds, opening up, taking control of middle.
Harassing towards camera, smoking it off, challenging temple.
Him, Wunderful, and Mikaze grouped up again, while Pitonima take control of the extremities.
And Navi start to make their move across the bridge, a minute and ten seconds on the clock.
Get around that first corner. No one here, no threat from Aurora.
So mid control available for Navi.
Woxic is holding the cross.
Just got the scope up on the angle.
Yeah, but remember throughout this half,
like there's been fighting out of camera from Aurora's,
Antares has been there a couple times jiggling,
so the fact that there's no presence in middle whatsoever from Temple,
and there's no smoke up, there's no peek, anything from camera,
I think that's an easy sign for Navi to read and say,
okay, the AWP is at the A bomb site.
That deep angle is going to be very valuable.
A little bit of a fake thrown by Ima towards the B bomb site,
double smoke, and he has to push.
Yeah, Woxic blinded, but he gets back to the position in time,
Wakadia stepping up, Aurora in pursuit of map point here on Anubis.
Taurus has come around the back but he's just been spotted trying to get rid of him
but he's got another kill and Woxic delivering everything you need from your
Alper. Wonderful! No way! He's absolutely no way he can do this again.
Surely not. On for the ace as well needs all five kills.
Off to the AK and he will be dropped by Manchester so it's Aurora going to map point first.
Rebellion to attempt again from Wonderful.
But this time it will be no clutch.
Those are still valuable kills and a valuable bomb plant.
Bomb plant to give money over to Navi who are going to be fighting with fumes in this
final round of the map of regulation for the Aurora side of things.
It does a dent to the economy.
They got money to replenish.
Could have been very valuable, but almost pieces this together.
Lovely shot with the AWP, and he just continues having a phenomenal game.
Stop by Major in the clutch.
One single chance with Hellwell. Aurora has played in this map.
They've only got one opportunity to prevent overtime and take us onto a third map.
And look at the opportunity. You've got AK for a bit, a Galio for wonderful.
McTanz and Likesy, P.M. McCauze, and a single Tech 9 for Emma.
No better chance.
And it is the only one for Aurora in regulation.
Steps her.
Wakadia knows that Pitt is up in the rugs.
Awkward fight, but gets away with his life.
I don't know how much we saw that kind of aggression from Aurora in this half so much,
but Wakadia now testing it at a critical round.
Little bit of damage, little bit of information,
but doesn't give them any idea of what's coming next.
What's again this mid-focus from Navi and Alexi.
And you're coming to Zantara's and walks it and walks it's all a strong combo to try and close out this map for Aurora.
Four players in middle for Navi.
A lot of bodies to try and break in going to smoke off camera at Zantara's who's going to get challenged first.
Okay, Mac 10, gonna be racing towards Santariz, he's back in the corner,
Mikaze going down first, Santariz has got a second, and that is the ball,
spowing to the ground, finally dealing with the threat of Santariz.
A 3v3, 40 seconds left, and where did Navi go?
Where do they go with this one?
Well, Hima's outside of the B bomb site, so he's either got to make a play
and they join up with him or he makes a play and they use it as a distraction.
Moving in now, but he's only got a tech nine.
Aurora kind of believing it's gonna finish at the A bomb site,
but they'd be wrong. Major has shifted away.
It's Soulfly on this defense.
The newest addition to the roster, the rookie.
Playing on the stage, hoping he can do what matters
in this final round. 10 seconds left.
Utility coming out at the right time
as the plant secured.
Alexi B is going to burn, but he'll get off the spot.
Ema's not ready for this whatsoever.
In fact, Ema's stepped into the bomb site,
so no early information on the flank.
Woxic's waiting for aggression.
He's waiting for it and he gets his AWP into the right spot and surely that's it now!
They haven't been able to do it historically but finally!
Aurora will defeat Navi here on Anubis.
The grand final is well and truly underway. The Turkish have arrived in map 2.
I
I'm checking
Guys, I'm coming to you to check it
I'm behind this one
I will flash in front of default if there is anything
You will not get flashed
One is inside, they shot already
Stay inside, maybe stay inside
I'm only crossing
One is through
It's in front of me
Pillar be up
Pillar be on site
Pillar be on the guy
Come guys, stick city!
Temple! Temple!
I have!
I'm on the hill!
Temple! Temple! Temple!
Two guys!
That's right!
I'm peeking at the wall!
I'm not from the temple!
I have!
Just chill chill guys!
I'm visioning over there.
Nice!
Nice!
I see them!
I can molly, yes I know.
I can molly corner also.
I'm flanking here.
Go fight for the guy.
I'm flanking here.
I'm flanking here.
Quiet for the temple.
I'm flanking here.
Alex you have Galin here.
Telling you.
Behind, behind!
One behind, one behind!
One more default, I'm behind.
Nice kill, that was a nice one!
No!
No!
No way!
Bummer!
No!
No!
A much more competitive affair on map number two,
and Aurora finally able to break that Anubis curse versus Navi.
Chad, your slipflops, I told you.
I told all of you, you should have started with Aurora.
A good thing is I can flop back the other way.
What are they going to do about it?
They can't stop me, right?
No, no one can stop you.
the charm there on Nubis, they get it done. But I don't know about you, Yanko, seeing the
comms there from Na'Vi, right, the way that Bit acted after the map was lost, obviously
lost that night. I've never seen him with such a strong reaction on it. Yeah. And the comms
there were intense. But it was, it was pretty rough out there for Na'Vi. Those did sound
like typical Na'Vi comms though. They do, they do be energetic. I like how you have
a little bliat. Yeah. I've never heard that before. That's just a bit of comic
relief. Okay. Well, didn't end up working exactly for Nabi. Should we tackle this in a bit of a
different way, gentlemen? If you'd like. I've pitted you both versus the world over the last couple
of days. So I reckon I won. I don't think history would say that. This time, we thought you could
team up together for Yanko and Chad versus the world, the whole entire world versus the two
biggest brands. It's like another episode of Talking Colors. Yeah, Jason, aka the world. Yeah,
We're up against it, but I think we're ready for the task.
I'm going to do a little compilation of one of my other favourite EPL games, which was,
Were You Paying Attention?
So this is questions just about the map for Nubis that we saw.
If you're ready, we can get started.
There's no buzzer.
You can just chime on in.
Okay, but we're ready.
Together we are.
Playing together.
Together we are strong.
All the help you can get.
I'm ready.
For them.
Okay, we'll start off nice and easy.
What side did Navi choose to start on on this map?
CT side.
Ah, okay.
Yeah, CT side.
That is indeed correct.
Who was the first to hit double-digit kills?
Wonderful.
It's incorrect, which does indeed mean it passes down to the world,
which Trace has stand-by.
Yes, it is us, known as the world.
World, can I hear you make a little bit of noise for just a second?
Thank you. I just want to make sure you were also there.
Do you want the question again, or do you want to give the answer?
I want the question again.
Freya, hit it.
Who was the first to hit double-digit kills?
Uh, Santatas?
It was indeed Santatas!
Come on down man, get you something!
Yeah, get you something!
Take it away for you.
Good stuff.
Uh, oh yeah, your points get reset by the way, so, uh, here it is.
I don't know if the fan is worth anything, but I just keep playing.
Um, what mascot does Emae have on his desk?
There's a nice little mascot, what is it?
Is it a platypus?
It's a plushie.
Yeah, but it's, uh, it's orange.
Oh, I need to say what it is.
It's, um, it's his name.
It's pick a troll. Wait. No, no, no. It's not Pikachu. Is it Psyduck? Is it the Digimon?
Is that your final answer? I think it's Psyduck. I believe you on this. You did three. I think it's Psyduck.
You are correct. It is indeed Psyduck. Very cute little knitted plushie as well.
In which round did Navi get their first round win on the board?
Round seven. Six. Yeah, seven. Good one. Yes, round seven. It was indeed.
What did Alexey say to Mikaze after Navi got their first round win?
And Mikaze got his first kills.
What did he say?
You're finally on the board, Trin.
Shachiri.
Yeah.
It's incorrect, which means it does indeed pass down to the crowd once more.
Trace, who are you, girls?
Now, my competitors obviously have to compete over all these prizes here.
Do you guys want the question again?
Are you ready for the answer?
Yeah, the question again.
Question again, Freya, please.
Um, the call that you...
What?
What did Alexi say to Mikaze after Nabi got their first round win and Mikaze got his first kills?
I hope you're allowed to say this.
Oh my god. Trace.
Fucking back baby.
Damn straight. Give them a prize man. Get in there and get you a prize.
That's absolutely correct.
Oh dear.
Well, it's a well won.
Question number, I don't even know.
I don't even know.
Who was the hero of round 10?
The hero of round 10?
Who was the hero of round 10?
Round 10, Janko.
Round 10, Chad.
That's the all-in-one.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hold up, sir.
Wait, so, wait, wait, wait, wait.
It was...
So they were winning, and now they're winning.
So now we won the round, so it can only be one guy, right?
Wonderful.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm giving you a lot of time, here.
Who is that safety side?
The time is ticking down and the time is...
Wonderful.
It's incorrect.
I should have said something else.
It passes down to the crowd was more.
Do you want the question again, pal?
Question.
Yeah, do it, bro.
You know what to do.
He was the hero of Round 10.
Speaks from Makazin.
It's incorrect.
Love the confidence, though.
What was the score?
Half time.
time. That is correct. Right. This for all you English majors out there. How many vowels
total are there in the server on both teams? I'm not counting numbers in A. This is I'm
only counting actual vowels that we see a vowel is A, E, I, O, or U. I'm not counting
a Y in here. Both teams combined. Both teams combined. I mean, you wait, hold up.
You're actually going to a total of 10. The knowledge book.
9, 8, 12.
So it's incorrect, which means the world has an opportunity to take down Chattanyacco once more.
Wild wolves.
You see all those prizes over there, man?
I almost promise you you're going to win one here if you get this right.
I would ask you if you want the question again, but it's very confusing.
Do you want it?
No, no, I'm good. I'm good.
Okay, what's the answer to the question?
21.
21, 21, 21. Get to a prize, man! Come on down!
Eat that, Chad.
The world just knows. The world just knows more about us.
Is this a game for rigged?
Y'all need to go back to school.
How many times did Aurora plant the bomb in the first half?
I'm not talking about round wins because of the bomb.
I'm talking about how many times they actually got it down on the ground.
They punched in the numbers and they got it planted.
Well, there's 12 rounds in a half chat.
I think it is.
They won eight.
Yeah.
A couple of diffuses were in there.
I think it's six or seven.
No, but I'm busy again.
I think it is.
Yeah, well, which one do you like more?
6.
Just give us a 6.
It's wrong.
Crowds, it's hard to shine.
Every time.
Anything you want to say before we get this underway?
Uh, I think this was states.
I think you're right.
Get you something for free, man. Come here.
These people really were paying attention.
Well, they were the best minds and all the counter strike down there.
What's Jason's favorite navi?
Old-fashioned.
Lots of things.
Uh, Mortal Kombat.
That is correct.
Yeah, not a strat, a philosophy, it's a way of life.
Chad, you liked the approach of Aurora's Bayon round 15.
Which weapons were able to get kills for Aurora?
The MP9s.
And?
I guess 5-7.
Was there a 1-M4 in the mix?
No, it was the round where they did the half-Bayon, right?
The Brazilian Bayon, so it's the MP9s.
I guess it could be MP9s and MP7s.
Ah, it's wrong, which means crowd.
You get another shot.
That's a technicality then.
It's a technicality.
Crowd now extra proud to know this one.
I can assure you that. Do you want the question again?
No, I don't need it. MB93, Galeel 2.
Is that right?
That is correct.
How? How have you done that?
Well, I'm a pro.
You need to know it.
All right, dude.
I'm sorry. It is a technicality.
It's in our face, I guess.
It's in the cover of me, Chad.
I don't know.
Chad, you knew this one was coming.
You knew it was going to happen.
Please re-enact the noise that Xantara's made after round 16.
Those are towers?
Yeah, it was the towers.
Okay.
Three, two, one.
AHHHHH!
Hmm, wasn't quite good enough.
Crowd, you got anything better?
That's what I hear all the time.
Do you want the question again, sir?
Um, yes?
I'm sure this was the entire question.
Because, I mean, you did ask me for the answer.
I haven't been giving any answers away.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Freya, can you get us with the question just one more time?
Please, can you re-enact the noise that Xantara's made after round 16?
I don't know. I have no idea. Everybody be failing.
Faze describe it to him. It's like, it's like a fire. Fire.
Yeah, just like that. I asked. Oh, you got it wrong already, man.
Sorry about that. Final question. What's the next map
that we can quickly event our attention to? No winner takes all.
I don't even know who the winner is out of this anymore.
I guess the crowd.
Crowd 10 million.
Everyone watching.
Chan and Yankee, one.
Time to go to break.
We'll see you on the other side.
Fnuke, coming up in our grand final.
Got to break.
Kalevinsa! We are back!
When I was 11 they said that I can be one of the best players in the world.
I chose to go full CS.
It's the sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
I think grinding phase really helps when it comes to keeping your energy up.
That's advice, but you need to love the game.
In the end, I'm going to be a good player.
We'll go back to this old pro league season 23 with Aurora winning anubis we are guaranteed
at least four maps but now we go to nuke as map 3 in this best of five hard to call how
this one's going to go because historically there's been a pretty back and forth affair
on nuke between these two cores.
Yeah 2026 and 2025 they've kind of split it and Nabi's 1-1 Aurora has 1-1 as well
So the Grand Finals feel like it truly begins here as Aurora is able to tie up the series.
And on Nuke we're going to see who can take the advantage into the final couple maps of these Grand Finals.
And Aurora's got to be feeling really good the way they outlasted that comeback.
Overcame the obstacles. Navi gave it a real good run at the end of Anubis.
But finally Aurora breaking free of that curse of never being able to beat them on the map.
It's got to give them some energy here for Nuke.
I didn't feel like Navi were playing necessarily a great game there on a new list, but they
weren't finding responses, ways to stay in it, and just at the end, Aurora finally doing
enough to get it over the line.
It speaks to such a good tactical edge that Navi have in this matchup, is you can bring
it back even when the team's not playing perfectly, even when everyone's not firing
at all cylinders and the comms aren't as smooth.
Navi still finding ways to make the game interesting, good efforts from individuals,
another great map out of wonderful losing effort.
He's adding a spectacular Grand Finals.
We'll see if that continues on Nuke.
Because as we begin this third map,
it's going to be Navi starting on the T side.
Aurora starting on the defense on Nuke.
The easier side of things to get it going.
And Alexei, very early on, is going
to have to call them to break down this defense
and skirt together rounds.
Crystal rounds have eluded them.
Three in the favor of Aurora.
One in the favor of Navi.
We kick off with map 3. It's going to be Naughty on the T side and some utility to play with going into this pistol round.
And looking like it's going to be a quick hit towards the upper side.
Smokes in place. Main drop.
And the players on the A side ready to deal with Mzantara's.
Oh, Cardiott. Got the Chulbaretta. It's ready to go. Now, surrounded the fight.
Stolflight taking one out from Rafters. And all the kills come in here for Aurora,
putting a stop to this. Navi, Pistol, immediately.
Yeah, what a difficult defense to break into. Look how fast four players arrive at the upper bomb site for Aurora.
One up in the Rafters, one on hot, one on the ground, one behind vents.
So hard to break through if you're Navi and they get shut down.
Yeah, gotta feel good there for Wox. Okay, 3k to kick off the Pistol, great shooting from him.
And the T-side pistol is such a luxury on this map.
If you're able to win it and convert the second, it gives you so much freedom,
takes so much pressure away from having to win this on the gun rounds
when things get more difficult when the CT side has Molotovs and smokes.
Well, not only did they not win the pistol round, but they also don't get close to a bomb plant.
So you're not going to get that strong second round force by.
So Aurora are going to get off to the start that they want.
The 2-0 lead should be no problem here for them.
Yeah, they know the circumstances as well.
You can see by looking at the load, four MP9s across the board for the CT side.
the only rifle the only m4 the hands of zantara is outside to use the distance to good effect
us these two teams played against each other was towards the end of last year october at the
thunderspick world championships it was a 13 to 4 victory for aurora
Yeah, looking at a roars run those so far in twenty twenty six on the map
Lost to hot to to kick off the year kind of win versus game of each of the thirteen five and crack off it
1310 lost the pain and then they actually got a win back over pain at this very event and losing to a strawless motion recently on the map
So it's been a mixed bag for Aurora on Duke this year
It's the same for Navi like both that we know both these teams are gonna be proficient on the map
But if you look at you know kind of the history of the last you know three months of it on HLTV
like there's nothing impressive that's gonna jump off the resume at you right
there's no big win statement win or anything like that we just know they're
gonna be able to play it solid so fly with a couple of kills the rookie was
able to have phenomenal impact for Aurora down the stretch back on a
new bus he mentioned after they won the quarterfinal it said like I didn't
realize how what the emotions were gonna feel like when we won the game on
the stage like I don't know what I can't imagine what it's gonna feel
like if I'm playing well on the stage so still some nerves coming in but
Obviously being able to contribute in such a big way to a victory on that second map
Hopefully settles them down here for nuke
And now we get into the first by-round so the allp is gonna come out nice and early here for Woxic
Na'Vi can't afford one so they're gonna be all on the AK-47s instead a huge amount of utility here for Na'Vi
They've only got two flashbangs going into this round
So they'll both be on a lexie P. I have to imagine coming into this map
The conversation of Navi with Blade in between had to have been all about communication and focus
I think a couple times on a new as you could see the player slipping a little bit comms not there players not working together in every situation where they could have
That would have been a massive talking point for blade to make sure coming into nuke. That's all settled
Very slow round for Navi's first gun. Running out of utility as well. There's the smoke
walls outside and they need to do something while these are up because that's a lot of
resources being put to use. Smoke flash flashes all Navi has remaining for the minute left
in this third round.
Could kill from big, that opens things up, in fact, they're just going to drop off with
that.
Aurora haven't wrote to anybody in a strong position yet to deal with this threat, Mikaze
actually catching Madjuri as he pushes through the lobby, so it is only Wakadia down here
with an MP9.
Yeah, it's going to be a save as well, because on Tarzan walks to get anywhere close to
this bombsite, they're doing something wrong.
Wakadia is the only one who should be in a position that anything is risked, even
he should start thinking about maybe finding an exit kill at the end of the day.
NAVI have broken through a great opening kill here from Pete.
They didn't even really break through, just kind of walked through, didn't they?
Yeah, that's right.
Finally getting the first round of the board here on mute, as soon as the guns have come up.
And all five players staying alive as well.
Yeah, good to have if you're in NAVI.
In the next round you get to replenish all that utility, have a lot more to play with,
but on the flip side of that coin is going to be an Aurora who doesn't have a loadout of three MP9s against the AK47s.
are going to be there to provide resistance. You can tell just the mindset of Aurora players
when they have these MP9s, the heads-up fights aren't happening, they're looking for a little
bit more trickery. So stronger weapons in the next round is going to make this more
difficult for Navi. But they're on the board in this T-side early and very early on
because of the reinvestment. Aurora's money is going to be a little bit fragile.
Fuckin' good.
It's on a very calm and collected on the novice side of the early going, just three rounds of play.
The intensity not yet picking up.
Well, we got Woxic taking up the pace and going aggressively with AWP, looking for this kill as he is.
Look at this spot in the ramp room.
Actually, Soulfly is setting himself up. He actually threw the utility in and knew that it had turned.
And gets that kill, and Soulfly actually bailing out of this one. Both players get around the corner with no trade from Novi.
Yeah, really well done from Wox against Soulfly. That's well executed. Stepping forward, fighting the kill, and then being able to back off and survive.
Wox is even having to hustle to do it. Now with the man advantage, you get a boost up, and you can kind of forget rep room exists if your name isn't Soulfly.
Let him handle the business up on top of the boxes.
Mokaze, he loves you, but you know you're reloading there, but he doesn't actually make the most of it.
He comes back in, so he finishes off Santarys.
And then back into the upper bomb site, they go, but Woxic now spotted.
He stands, he fights, but he's lost his teammates.
Woxic needs a quick kill, and that's exactly what he's got.
But Woxic would lay it out into the front of the site, but can't flick down to wonderful.
Mokaze, a quick opportunity in behind, but Mokaze is trying to pick that kill up,
Pick that chill up and then ready for the fight at Heaven.
So, Mikaze coming in with a 3K and putting Navi up to a tied score line.
Yeah, Mikaze just a paroler in that round.
He was never going to let Zantara's get away.
Just slipping in and out of the smoke, perfectly played,
confusing where his next position was going to be.
And then he's the guy stepping in towards Minidope,
clear out the upper palm site.
Wauksic does his absolute best to control and bring that situation back
towards Aurora's favor.
It's just way too much to ask in the scenario.
So we're tied up at two and now money issues sprout up through the wall.
Scout in the hands of Wauksik from Austin, Wakati, MP9 on Zuntaris, pistols otherwise.
Oh, good kill from Wandaful.
So an opening kill here for Navi.
You can settle into the round now very comfortably if you're Navi,
knowing you've got that opening kill.
There's outside Smurfs in the club, but no one's going to be working with them.
Wonderful, had 46 kills in the first two maps of flight. We mentioned he was having a phenomenal finals.
Yes.
That's an incredible rate to hit across two maps.
I mean, we'll see if it continues. Sometimes they'll hop on T side, nuke and get a little bit...
It can lose itself a bit. It's hard to find the same level of impact, but a nice opening pick here.
Yeah, best five long old game, especially when we're going to be going to four maps at least.
Strong start, but can he keep it up?
No one sight has been taken over to his A, and no problems here for Navi.
Scout can't collect a shot, but it's keeping attention in this direction.
There's a little bit of a flank coming in from Wakadia wrapping around lobby now up on T roof.
That's found by Bit.
So danger averted, and Navi's not going to lose anything here.
They take a lead three to two early on.
You say, you know, you still win the pistol on the T side of you.
to have to do it on the gun round so far and I'll be doing exactly that.
Well now the question becomes, because you've limited their money, you reset it back down
to zero, right?
So Aurora have to work and kind of build that money back up to a point where they can
afford the AWP on Woxic.
We saw what kind of an impact that could have in the previous round on the upper bomb
side, especially the way Woxic was playing, had a good announess.
But if you keep that AWP out of his hands a few more rounds, it's at such a luxury
if you're not, but you don't want to play this T side with the AWP out on the
field.
Six the next gun round full-by for both teams
Missing kits on the CT side utility is there rifles are there
Looks like a lobby crunch is being lined up on a timing. There's the flashes in through squeak door
You know here's embossing out. He's like I want nothing to do with it
You guys can have lobby comment over to the team and let Alexi worry about what the reaction is going to be
It's back away, but look at Macaulay again. He's got the garage control that you're really looking for so a lot of space taken here for
Navi outside. Yeah, this I mean, this is excellent
It's counter to what I mentioned on a new bus when something similar happened a push was spotted
But they weren't in position to take advantage and gain the space now. They've got huge advantages on the map
There's Macaulay getting taken down though upon the peak from soft fly
You think one Macaulay get to the position that strong that early in the round
He's going to manage something and go blow for blow outside Alexey Pete left on 30 HP
And not if you're going to be frustrated it didn't really make much of this and now the ball may stuck a carriage on the back of Alexey
Yeah, it's Mikaze who's going to be the frustrated one. Alexey might get one back
It's always wanted to get some information and he just slips around the wall so fly following up very very closely on a timing
Walksic his teammate is downstairs
So so flies the man who's got to have impact maybe delay this bomb plan as long as possible
And now Woxic Molotov does land towards Secret Stairs.
Alexi gonna make his way in but Saw-Flight, here he comes.
Also was hot, they're gonna start spamming him down.
And Alexi B, oh, gets across, gets that bomb to safety.
They ain't gonna go through. Alexi is pretty low.
In fact, it cancels the plant and removes Woxi B, and then it might go into the open.
Okay, disaster strikes him for N'RV, and the only player that can save them is B.
And he's running back to get that bomb. He will pick it up, but Saw-Flight.
Why?
Here he comes, walking on out, strolling on in.
Soul flies so comfortable in the clutch.
They are saying there's no way the rookie steps through this smoke
and challenges me.
And it's exactly what he did.
Maybe he doesn't know any better, but he wins.
He beats you in the 1v1.
That's a massive round for Aurora
to get back to their winning ways.
And he does exactly what's needed.
Delays the bomb plant, sets Woxic up to grab a kill
of his own to play next, and then wins the clutch.
Nice!
Now it's on us!
Tied at three and now it's Navi.
Alexi with zero dollars in the bank, Ima down to 150.
Monty's a bit of an issue and look at all the damage they've taken early.
So much damage.
This early in the round is going to be devastating for Navi.
Yeah, they're just softened up so much. So many just like free kills straight bullet can handle can handle Mikaza
And he's been the one who's kind of your aggressor your initiator
I mean at least there isn't a whole lot of days left for auroras
You're not going to take the brunt the damage from those towards the end of the round at least but
It's really gonna be happy with how things have started the important thing to note is we can see the HP
That's all unconfirmed damage on the side of Aurora
So they don't realize that players are softened up good first kill from Ema and disappears back into the smoke
Yeah, take some damage himself, but at least getting that kill back
Under a minute on the clock.
Navi gonna start going towards Ramp Room, but look at this setup.
You've got two players waiting in here for Aurora.
You're never getting through this setup at all. They're gonna push into you.
On the setup might come to you.
So let's see if Navi can handle this.
Walking on in. It's gonna be Woxic taking that first life.
And now they know they're pushing into them.
So SoulFlight just stands. He fights and can't get more than one.
But Woxic's on the clean up. And after the job done, Woxic with a triple.
Excellent start. Look at him. Just fired up.
Trying to get the energy going here for Aurora.
Yeah, really putting some emphasis on it. It looks like of maintaining that energy and making sure on the winds
We're celebrating every single thing we get to keep the mood within the team the atmosphere in a positive state
There's the opening kill
But even if the setup just took that and used the crossfire with the HP available to Navi
They were never breaking through this too easy to clean too many players up
And they get a benefit of a weaker buyout of Navi to 8k47s
Try and do a little bit of economic damage, trip away at the money, building up.
Oh, there's a good start. That's exactly what you need in a round like this.
You get a clean entry and drop down into the B bomb site.
Now, Navi won a round like this earlier with a clean entry down to B,
but the rotations come quickly and Santaris has made nothing happen from it.
Yeah, the fact that those two players have gone down without any kind of kill coming for Aurora is a disaster.
That's Aurora, a shot from B.
Yeah, they're so ready for every fight. That's a real missed opportunity there for Aurora.
that for Aurora. You've let Na'Vi come into this round with a couple of AKs,
walk into the ramp room, take that opening kill, drop down as a Tars, taking the risk
going for the fight, losing it without a kill of his own, and this was a real
opportunity to build something beautiful here for Aurora, but now the money
pressure begins again. Yeah, and just, I mean, Na'Vi bouncing between like kind
of like taking these slower paced rounds and then scaling really quickly when
they get certain things. Every time they've taken a ramp room and gotten
that kill, they've pressed the issue down to the lower bomb site. They're
not kind of like hanging out and waiting and seeing if there's gonna be a
reaction it's oh we got the kill let's go. And Navi already in a situation on
this T side where you're now four rounds a couple more sprinkled in and
you're laughing you're having a great time. Yeah you're very pleased with this
half thus far if you're on the Navi side of things. If you flip that and look
at it from the Aurora perspective players the eyes will start to gaze up
towards the scoreboard and be like shit they're at four already. Yeah and you
don't really have much to combat that. And again like one of the benefits
I touched on earlier is with these kind of back-and-forth nature and
and winning a round like that, you're preventing a ruler from building money that can be an
op for Woxic. You're keeping him off the AWP as long as possible, letting your offense
cook and build up into this game without having to worry about a sniper who can shut down
parts of the map and just be a nuisance everywhere you go.
I think I have a good start to this map as well. He's heading forward at the moment,
so, yeah, limiting the opportunities. He gets the primary choice of weapon in
his hands and it's fantastic for an AWP.
Actually a little bit of a choice out of major to drop down to the MP9. He's got 1200 in the bank
He could have gone for a stronger weapon
But once obviously I think to to keep some cash there to get the op out as soon as possible to stop having a
Walks it playing on a rifle. He wants that weapon on the board in play for Aurora
If you're on the novice out of thing this time out, you got to know if you're played in Alexi read in the situation
That the money for Aurora is going to be in a tenuous position so a victory here can put them in an awkward place
A big swing round in round 9.
Who's gonna have the stranglehold on this map going into the final stretch? It's an upper boss.
That's real quick, yes. Well, all they missed to jump over the top, and it's actually worked out very well for Matcha.
He's got a way with a kill that he didn't expect, and we're caught here with two of his own.
How is this round called so comfortably in the way of Aurora?
You missed the one opportunity you had on the player jumping off of the hood.
If you was able to take him out of the sky, this is completely different.
But the kills go the way of Aurora on the opening, and the change of pace falls flat.
flat. You're really kicking yourself if you're not even around like those like
that. Wonderful gonna do as much damage as he can here. Damage still matters.
Not gonna get much of a doubt. Alright you made a lot of money there. You got MP9
getting the majority of the kills and both teams missing out on their
chances where it's like okay you've now put your team that you've your
opponent at the reset point you put them on the ropes and you just
haven't been able to knock them out yet. Yeah, that's that's the hard part of your
Navi. You have to kind of swallow that one and just take it on the chin because
you let him off the hook a little bit. They get a bit more... How is Magic going like that?
Yeah, it's a hard shot to hit as he's falling down, but obviously the rest of
his teammates also joining in. Top Hut, you know, amongst you know, you see a player
jumping down. You said there's no one top Hut. He's dropped down and there
actually is a player top Hut as well. Tough situation for Navi to handle.
Round 10. Deep smoke outside from the CTs makes Navi nervous. Some
aggression behind it with some Taras in red box.
Okay, Zanzaras.
He's gonna open things up with a kill right away on Maka'zak.
Blade not gonna be a fan of that opening kill going against Navi and around like this.
But now Aurora can somewhat breathe.
Take a moment because Navi...
Man, no rush to try and get that kill back.
Well, you've got Bid in a good position, right?
So what they're kind of thinking is if we're eventually going to join up with Bid, or if
we're going to let him activate to play next, we've got to do something on the map.
So Alexi's going to join up with his team.
But Aurora's not going to sit back on their heels.
They're going to be proactive, starting to push into it.
It's up clear out lobby.
Good information.
Great peek.
And now Walkstick is ready for the next one too, and that utility is only going
to help him funnel them back into Bacardi, but there's a second play here as well.
Okay, there's the lineup and can only get himself the single frag but ends up being a 2v3 here
Still tough for Navi to work their way out of this position
Yeah, Lexi who needs to let bit kind of play next and that's what he's calling out
It's your turn start making a move see if you can clear anything out grab some information
Let me know where I need to go because he's blind on this part of the map
Unfortunately, there's only 20 seconds left. They don't have the time in the world for a bit to take his
To be leisurely about this. It's gonna have to happen fast. If he doesn't win this fight, Alexi saves
It's hard to win this fight. There are so many angles you gotta worry about, but...
Soulfly's actually helped him out and let him know where he's standing.
Doesn't matter though, Soulfly on the cleanup, getting both of those kills and putting Aurora up to a 6-4 lead.
Yeah, now there shouldn't be any more financial issues for Aurora,
so if you're not, if you're not, you've kind of missed that opportunity to break that down
and kind of scrape together some easy ones at the tail end of the half.
It's you instead who have that misfortune of dropping back to Deagle's and having to kind of relinquish
any real danger in this round 11. 6 to 4 Aurora looking a strong advantage to get
up towards 7.
Celebrating every round victory in this 10-scam final. And there's Saw-Fly. All
right it's time to really come together now Saw-Fly 14 and 6. Wondering
what his presence inside of this Aurora team would look like. You know
losing Jota many thought they might drop off but soft flies come in and he's been
impressive in 2026. Yeah I think also he's starting to get the feeling on this
map like he's been targeted a couple times like when Navi's needed a round or to
find a kill that kind of headed towards him. Now I've always done a great job of
doubling up and mixing in some aggression but it's not like they've been
passive in Ramp Room right? That defense has like moved into challenge and
trophy challenging towards lobby as well. In every single round I think he's
got the sense that it's likely Navi come and challenge him over in Ramp
room so that round completely on point and prepared for it all right last round
of the half now be looking for five on the T side five of the last six rounds
going the way of Aurora CT side that are really strong stretches they've taken
hold of this map but not we can leave of what extra round deploy with they
get to be very happy with the output from their T side even though it's
look rougher points because on towers pushed up
it's a little less deadly when they're not occupied by garage so actually
crossing over towards what and Zantara is just getting the single frag so a bit
to drop it oh my god okay the hunters out of the heads are found there's
still two more players outside this is a lot of resources for Aurora this is a
A lot of bodies being dedicated to control outside of the pit-take- actually, it's all three.
Yeah, good exegesis stepped outside of the smokes and he steps into the open.
Woxic ready to drop in.
This last round of the half is going to be hard for it.
Alright, everyone wait.
Wonderful's got to play. He's got control of Ramper. They're going to follow up in that direction.
And it looks like they'll just drop in towards Ramper.
And so flies on a long flank, wrapping past T spawn back in towards Lobby right now.
Wokadia and Woksek playing outside mini nobody's dropped down to the lower bomb
site now Wokadia is getting the idea so is Woksek and this time Navi's taking it
slow and they won't have the timing they won't have the advantage
Woksek's shadow he knows he knows wonderful is about to step out there
but it's about soul fly around the back wonderful considers it just in time
Woxic can hear them just above him on the raster, 15 seconds bomb plank, and Woxic look at the deny, but is planted on the safe side.
So a retake it is.
Navi with a real chance for five rounds on the T side of Nuke. Woxic gets so close they don't consider, confirms the kill.
Ima tries to react, can't do it. And so it's all wonderful. A great head shot. But can he clutch up?
He's on low HP, and Wakati is moving to him.
He knows that, and wonderful!
So cool in the clutch today!
The fifth round secure for Navi.
And wonderful, continuing his strong performance in this grand final.
I
The Roars' defense really clamping down on that first half after a quick streak from
Navi to open things up, but now we switch sides.
It's going to be Navi's defense.
They scraped together enough rounds.
They're within striking distance.
7-5 lead for the Turkish side, and this is all about who takes the series advantage into Dust 2, our fourth map.
We're guaranteed to see it, but which team is going to have a chance to lift the trophy off the back of it?
Yeah, you know, you're not seeing Zantara's really have a great map here. 2-5 coming into this,
but it's Woxic and Soulfly who are picking it up.
You got 14 kills on both of those players, and you're seeing Soulfly yet. You're right.
First couple of rounds in that half, we see Navi really target the ramp room,
and he started to deliver and make sure that that was no longer a weakness.
felt that way but I like the idea from Aurora to really kind of give him some
help early on. A lot of pushes. Woxic was there paired up with him.
He's doing some things to make his life easier, his job easier on the map.
He'll play one of them to fire up and bring more energy and see creative
ideas coming into the second half. Let's see if Navi heat his words as we
get into the second half of play. You got that P250 on Woxic so look for some
kind of like a gladiator strategy of just kind of setting Woxic up to take
his looks outside, go for some peeks, some picks with the P250. No movement yet, a
roar doesn't want to pull the trigger, looking to see if there's any kind of
aggression. Nothing's coming as Navi stand pat. Wonderful and bit towards
ramp room, Alexi Emo the upper bombsite, Mikaze spotting outside, sees the silo
drop, grabs one kill. Yeah, you're gonna enjoy that opening kill, but Mikaze
going back for another you'll like that even more. At least Walksick getting a kill to respond but
it's still Navia 4v3 here as they are still trying to get that bomb into the site. Here she is,
Emma, waiting inside of Main. It's a strong position to have here and that smoke is going,
oh my god, quick reaction from Emma. At least Walksick responds but it's still a whole lot
of work to do here for Aurora. That P250 though is doing so much work, so much of the
heavy lifting done by Walksick in this pistol. Matt are trying to at least help him out
out by getting a single kill, but it won't be the case.
Woxic has to do everything.
Woxic kind of left him on his own and was like,
peace out, this one's all you.
25 on the clock, and he's going to try and quietly move
his way over towards Ramp Room.
It has no idea.
Still thinking it's going to be a finishing play.
So Woxic's created a chance for himself.
And now they understand.
Now they hear the noise cue.
Alexi and Bit going to drop in towards the vet.
Bombing planted right now.
How much time is Woxic going to have
to find a new position?
He has to get off that plank.
It's in behind the box.
He's just running him down.
He's got separate 1-2-1 fights, but eventually,
LXCB will take him down the plate well as they race in,
realizing they don't want Waxik to get to a good spot.
If they let him get into a strong post plant
to position himself in the rafters,
he's got a shot at winning that one.
Yeah, keeping the pressure on,
really smothering him in the post plant.
Got to say, though, another great round from Waxik,
even though his teammates don't do anything,
he's landing some great ones here.
Yeah, that's a sick trade to get,
a trade here over towards Mini as well.
Nice head shot there with the P250,
but nothing going, not enough success elsewhere.
Now, the big thing that Washington does there
is get the bomb plant, right?
Even though he lose the round, he gets the bomb plant.
So you were able to get a really strong buy out here
in comparatively to what you would have had without it.
So you're going to get an 8k.
You're going to get Mac 10s and a tech 9.
Yeah, anytime that play comes out on the pistol round
from the T side, the C T side going to immediately
be thinking, OK, be careful about that upper boss,
the Mac 10s and the tech 9s with armor.
Position outside, big gap in that smoke.
Oh, dude, that's a huge hit.
It's actually worked against him because you have Macauzi
completely fixated upon the cap, and his tower just flies over the top of it.
You know what, let's give him the credit and just say it was designed.
Sure, that's one of those moments where he would really want it to be designed,
because that would be very cool if it was.
I'm just amazed that he didn't hear the drop down, didn't hear the footsteps
running as well, maybe some communication. Wonderful on an island against four.
Yeah, look at the space they've got. Like, he's under so much scrutiny right now.
All right, wonderful. What can you do? Rifle's good for one at a second.
Gonna quite get the third kill, but wonderful at least setting off.
He up with a shot at this a 3v3 and bit running them down. So no bomb plant. It's gonna be a tough situation now for Aurora
Bits actually moved into dark as well. So he's able to play that spot
I don't think Aurora dedicated enough to actually control the bomb site
Well, I think it's starting to get that bomb plant and his teammates are nowhere close to being able to cover them
So like good luck, buddy. Yeah, that's living the dream. Yeah, then what oh my god, okay?
We're getting caught. We're caught here going back in and nearly gets himself a follow-up frag
But this would be the time to step up if you're Zantara's you've been quiet
You know you have been but time to go loud in the 1v2
Lexie be at the window and then Pete's walk from lower at the same time
So they make it impossible for Zantara sex you in that one. We've got a tie game again
It's high relief for Navi
That round looks scary from the start right they find themselves in pretty solid positions
I think Aurora lose this round more than Navi winning it just for the fact that you're right
It feels like they don't commit enough to actually try to get that bomb plant.
I think they thought after the initial kill of getting in on wonderful,
that they could just kind of, you know, get that bomb plant really, really easily.
One player went back to vents, one player was still kind of lurking outside.
Unfortunately, like the platter was kind of, the woxig was left all alone.
We're going for, well...
Oh, okay. Well, you found a nice little corner there for you, Wicati.
How has that happened?
Let's see if it works out for it.
Shouldn't change anything.
Hasn't really messed with the timing whatsoever, Alexi's still gonna be aware of the possibility.
Yeah, just waiting now.
Katia could have moved into that position.
You got Immo on a couple of kills, so Katia does eventually get a frag of his own.
And Soulfly, nice deeke.
Isn't really going to amount to too much here.
Immo with a 3k on the hold.
Another shot from Soulfly, okay.
Hold on.
Now we're given the respect to this.
The kills are valuable as hell.
Like you cannot overstate how important it is to get a couple of those kills for some of those rebys on the CT side.
It's just where the bomb is, Jason.
Oh, he's unlikely to win the round, but any extra kill he gets from here is incredible.
Like you're priming your team on this T-side.
Part of Nuke, part of the frustration on the T-side is, like, you can obviously get locked out.
We've all felt it playing T-side Nuke, but part of the goal is always to set up that CT economy
to just break when you get your first round win.
And that's exactly what SoulFly's doing with some of these extra kills here.
Yeah, just priming your opponent for that break later on.
But Emma was checking outside intermittently, but has moved in or now so won't detect soul fly
But they know they have that he has to come to that
So soul fly is going to eventually marches way towards the wedding arms of big and the nice thing for a bit is like he sees
Okay, nice. I see both of them. Yeah, but even at the bottom you're like well once he picks it up
You can only come to the upper bomb site. So it was really easy round whatever for bit
8 to 7 one round lead. Yeah, well the body is going to be coming in here for Aurora
It's gonna be full AKs, no AWP yet.
I'll see on the Navi side, I mean those kills, as I mentioned, super valuable.
Just these two at the end in a 1v4.
Taking some money away. Wonderful. Still gets the AWP out in the field.
Yeah, but it likes to be he's gonna have to play with an MP9.
Yeah, look at the cash reserves as well. A loss here for Navi and they're gonna have to drop down at save immediately.
Well, that's not so much deployed for Aurora.
No one actually going to be committing with him just yet.
It's going to confirm that for a longer, and the Molotov is going to hold him back.
I'm actually going to hold him down long enough for Aurora to start setting up for
the inner hit.
I've actually lost a member outside, so Madger's dead.
Aurora's going to be going into the round for him.
No one here.
Yeah, Wonderful's going to keep it on as he shifts back,
but not going to go too deep to check anything.
Just wants to have an angle if anyone swings on it.
Oh, he is going to go a little bit too deep,
but it's an opportunity, he just can't take it.
Yeah, but he's got information at the very least,
and they control outside in secret,
so they can drop down vents and have the quick rotation.
Ema and Bid are going to be the first players here.
Molotov going to keep them locked out for the moment.
You got big. Ready for that push forward for Zantares. Can't get the kills,
gotta be Ima to have to respond. And now he's under a lot of pressure because
that door swings wide open and there are three targets surrounding it. So Ima
not putting himself in harm's way. He's letting everyone else play first and
start getting in a position where they can't have so many eyeballs watching for
that push. Well eventually Ima does move forward. He likes to be getting the
trade kill but there's enough presence towards the window for Aurora to
get a kill back. So 2v2 here, wonderful trying to move in. He's got some
Mutility trickling that out into the side and the final two kills come in for Navi.
Alright, nine rounds for Navi, starting to get into position, where this nuke is looking better and better.
In some lovely shots from a wonderful in the round, two kills, the opening on major and closing things out with the final into defuse.
Requestion, we wondered, he had those incredible first two maps with the grand finals, would he be able to keep it up?
12 kills to help lead the way for Navi and impactful ones here in this round.
I wonder if he's having a great grand final, the novel is just so much more deadly when
their opera is online.
Timeout for Aurora.
No opera for them.
Yeah, it's gonna start likely feeling a little bit desperate if you're Aurora at this stage.
So in this timeout talking things over, another buy coming in, they don't want to relinquish
things just yet.
two rounds back, getting missing a little bit of utility, but for the most part they've got
what they want. They've got everything except perhaps a round on the board on this T side.
And now that Wonderful's AWP is on the board and heating up and picking you off across the map,
it's only going to get more difficult, so Major's job of calling this team into some round
wins is getting more and more difficult as time goes on.
It feels like a broken record, but it would be a great time for Zantara to come online here at this point of the map
Set on four kills
Shadow as on Tara is dead making that move again and hurt the footsteps of major
But it's just one set of footsteps that he's calling out two players silently crossing behind major
Yeah, we'll use at least got one pick back. It's already roasted it down. You're not ready for him
He's got a head. He's got info. See he's true place in that jump up
Do they really want to challenge further? Do they really want to do it now that they've
seen Bit kind of disappear into the bomb site and now he can be at so many angles and he's
got information, reinforcements could have arrived. There's no map control right now
for Aurora so when they turn this corner, when they open this door, I don't think
they realize what they're going to find.
Oh, as they speak as well, they're losing more and more map control if Navi continue
to push through the hut.
Spacing is everything for Alexei and Mikazi so they don't get doubled by Wakadia.
is everything. Makade is not watching it, they've just moved in. Oh they're gonna clear him. Oh no,
Makade ain't going down with nothing. And his teammates just got to the top of secret,
they were always gonna come back and now that you don't have that foothold this feels way
worse. 35 seconds, Aurora going for the last move towards the upper bomb site.
Makaze, waiting at the back of the site. His AK primed and ready to remove soul flight.
Up next is Woxic, the victim will fall and now 10-7, Navi ramping things up here on Nuke.
Yeah, 10-7 and that's their cleanest round win yet. Only losing a single player other than that.
Aurora had been able previously to take out three in each and every round.
And that was a buy that you forced up that felt right on the edge.
Now you have to sit back and it just gets worse. Pressure mounts, you still have no rounds on this T side.
Nothing to feel good about no indication of what's a strong opening move that can get you back into this game
Turkish fans not happy. Yeah starting to get a little worried. I'm sure over in Turkey
What about you Sweden? You are Navi fans earlier. You still excited?
Very much so. Navi giving them something to cheer about. Alexi B getting into the hut.
It's all fly, side of the smoke. Here they come. Zantara is going to be dead again and Alexi B just
holds down for that second player coming in. Zantara is just having a nightmare game at the
moment. Yeah, he really is. Can get nothing going. Wonderful missing the shot, but
They're going back into bit. Bit sweaty.
Walks and steps it up, gets the dink, but it's still going to be bit to stay composed and take that kill.
Even Wakadia charging through the smoke, he knows he's got a low HP opponent.
I think she hit that there. Okay, fair enough. Now Wakadia...
You're not going to win this round, but it shows where you can do it.
Not much more as he stacks into the scope. Oh, wonderful.
It's the last chance here for Aurora on Nuke.
It's the last chance here for Aurora on Nuke.
Yeah, I mean, last chance is the best way to put it,
because right now it's up to Major,
it's up to the individuals on the Aurora side.
They've got to do something that changes this game,
that changes the nature of this,
because Navi's having no issue
with what they're bringing to the table.
So you need some kind of tactic
that's just going to be emphatically just very, very strong,
like go to your go-to, whatever you need around,
or you need someone to step up in an individual effort,
O'Woxic, Zantara, O'Waccadia.
Hey, man, O'Woxic's been doing a good job with that.
I feel like he just needs someone else along the side,
and the two usual players in that department are Wacaudi and Zhentar, both of them having quad games.
At this event, it's Wacaudi at major, so let's add major to the mix.
It doesn't matter which one it is, one of them needs to give you something, a triple kill, a clutch,
something that gets the team fired up.
We saw it in the first half how much of an emphasis it was early on walks, it being loud,
being excited, passing that energy across the team.
It's gone flat because they've got nothing to be excited about,
and someone needs to create that.
Errol Solror is just going to fade out of nuke.
And we'll head to Dust 2 with Navi on Championship Point.
Not a bad chat.
It's not a bad chat.
That's pretty good.
More Navi trying to burn Ror on that flight.
Wonderful.
Watching out towards the silo.
Another break. Nothing. Over the top of the smoke bill, Woxic is looking for wonderful
to swing out a little bit wider. Third break of the smoke wall and absolutely nothing
seen.
Okay, wonderful. It's got to opener. Arora about to lose on Taros as well.
He hit that.
Yep, right to the top of the box though, so the damage is not lethal, Zhentaris can still fight on
He drops off me. Sound cue heard. Wonderful's gonna know that
And the NAZ are coming in, but wonderful, he's not missing much today
Another frag from the Ukrainian AWPer, but he's been flanked, they push through the smoke, Major's got to kill
Because Zhentaris has been taken away and they know where Major is
It was Zhentaris going down, there's not really a strength to this wraparound, right? Major's got the bomb, he's all on his own
He's gonna jump in towards the window. Oh, just spotted him. Yeah, it's gonna have a free one
You know you've got him locked away bomb as well. And what kind of you can't do anything really to help
Oh, your bomb is stuck in lockers. Yeah, he's he can't yeah, he can't move
That's one way to get out of it fight your way out of it
Do you want to commit straight away? So they slow on the ladder, but they've got 20 seconds
They have to go to the a setup look who's waiting for them because a LXB and they both went towards having the bomb
Rolls to the ground
Ignites with a chance he puts the bomb down at the back of the site and they so
desperately need a miraculous moment like this one I don't know if he
realizes he got into the hut he might but he's not looking for a life line
given to Aurora well we said they just needed it out of somebody somebody
needed to deliver a moment like that it was where cardio to step up dude that
is nuts and is able to pull that off. How do you break through that that set up
in the upper bomb site? Alexi inside the site? Makaze maybe one of the few shots
he's missed throughout this game? That's the one he gives up? It looked
unloosable for Naveen. Ima just thought he found a pocket of safety inside the
mall or inside the site behind the Molotov. It's not the case disappeared
entirely. Well you said that they need something to inspire them something to
get the energy going again. Hopefully for a run that is the round that
does it. They've got to go on a streak now. Well Cardi has bought them some time.
The issue is, Narvi's still a really good buy going into the next round. You've still got to deal with this.
And you haven't been able to get the all-power. And Zatars has been doing nothing. Nothing outside in such an important round.
You know, just nothing again. Just walking over the top, dead.
And I think that's why you can see someone like not clearing that corner in a complete way.
He's had a frustrating half and some of the details are alluding. And now you're picked off by wonderful
Success was short-lived.
Rukati had brought you a little bit of time.
Opened the door a tiny bit,
and Navi in the process of slamming it shut.
Yeah, it's just not a whole lot of opportunity now for Aurora.
Soap flight, grabbing a kill here onto Alexi B.
Takes attention away from outside, which lets major play.
Now we're back into a three on three.
Mid-round looking good for Aurora.
Yeah, good work. Really staying in the fight in this round.
50 seconds.
There's still time to play with here for Aurora.
Well, bit in the site, 30 seconds, going to combine with Mikaze, who kind of had a blunder
in the last round.
He's hoping he could be much sharper this time, and he certainly will be.
Bit going into the clean up, and Navi up to map point.
That's more like it from Mikaze, and a combo between him and Bit, getting Navi to the
finish line.
Yeah, defense has just been way way too strong for Navi in this half, an incredible run.
Seven of eight rounds played, all going in the favor of Navi.
The one round is the heroic effort out of Oricadia.
But not enough happening on the map for Aurora.
Alright, a couple of co-leaders, two Mac-10s and a single AK-47.
That's all Aurora have to try and stay in the fight of Nuke.
Now they're about to win their own map page.
Comfortably so.
Right to the toe, Major gets nothing done close.
Look at that nade as well.
Devastation, right to the middle of the pack.
It's a terrible feeling and what is definitely feeling like it's going to be the last round of this map.
it in that already scratching your head if you're Wokadia wondering how do you
even get into this round now all they've got left is an upper hit you don't have
the resources really to go outside again you can't create a smoke wall ramp
room that you can't imagine is gonna go well for you last round you went there
you got wrecked by wonderful as soon as you turn the corner send somebody up
to the roof to throw some utility hit the upper bomb site see what happens
This feels like the option available to him.
All four players from Aurora just sitting and waiting in the lobby.
And Navi's happy to let him.
Yeah, a certain feeling that this round feels over.
Oh, in the...
Okay.
Well, there's the killback.
You no longer have to play advantage if you're not the coming though.
It likes to be in the rafters, but when they follow up kill, Aurora with some fight left
in them.
Wakadia with a triple kill.
Zantara is still alive prowling around the A-bomb site with the AK-47, and Grenade
is good.
It's real good.
I don't know how, but Aurora found themselves in a 2v2 with a bomb down, but wonderful
has come through with it.
And Wakadia again.
He bought them some time earlier, he's got to keep them on the map again.
Both players low, moving towards him, wonderful, going for the clear and he's got it!
Narvi, one map went away from securing the title at ESL Pro League season 23.
I
I'm Molly. I'm Molly.
What's happening?
Hold rotation, guys.
Dead.
I'm Molly heaven.
I have him.
Main.
Main.
What's the...
Nice!
I'm clean!
Fuck, I'm nice.
Let's go!
I'm behind.
Single round.
You need to play for long.
I'm blind for long, yes.
Call in single.
Call in single.
I have long.
You have single, right?
Yes.
I'm holding double with you.
I'm holding double with you.
I'm holding double with you.
Left.
I will check it on site
Two out
Bomb for one
Nice!
Come on guys
Don't run
Don't run
Open
I'll go back
I'll shoot more guys
I'm not going
I'm not going
I'll go back
I think I'm coming to you.
I'm coming to you now.
Wait, you too.
I'm gonna flash.
I'm gonna flash.
But you need to peek.
Low, low, food blind.
I'm close to us.
We don't see it.
I think.
I'm close.
Nice, boys!
We need a new scout from Ziggs!
Oh!
Come on!
It's a perfect end!
This is coming home!
This is madness!
It's Navi to take Nuke and now just one map away from taking the trophy here at ESL Pro League Season 23.
A great second half from them would have been flawless if it hadn't been for a heroic moment from Wakadia.
Great stuff from Navi.
Yeah absolutely.
Their map pick teams unlike the last time they played actually converting their map picks
So that's good to see and yeah wonderful man. These are the sort of games like series where you're like
Just have to keep them. Don't we?
Assistant right, you know, he gets to go into the upper echelon offers. It's also isn't that second group
It's also like if it's just in the right tournaments
It doesn't matter it makes it easier for all the other players to write like so when he's on they can see they can be like
All right, time to start trying.
We can win this one.
And then when they see that...
They wait until Wonderful's playing
what to start trying.
Because you can tell and then when he's struggling,
you're like, all right, just one of those tournaments.
We're going to lose.
No point in trying, you know.
I could outplay him.
I'll do the minimum, right?
You know, like when you are on a project.
You can see where you've never been
a mental coach in your time, Jakob.
Not yet, anyway.
Any...
You know what I'm saying?
Any coaching really hasn't won.
Bang on about something.
Conserving the energy into the right times.
Then they're doing that right now
and they're fine, all right?
They're playing some good trades, right?
They could have had a 3-0.
I'm obviously joking, but it is when he plays well,
it's like I'm sure it instills some confidence and belief
in the rest of the team, right?
Because, I mean, not only is he the operator,
he's been doing so much work on the rifle
in terms of clutches and everything,
and it sort of elevates the whole team, really,
because Makazah has been super consistent for them,
and for the rest of the guys,
it's like, well, every now and then someone flashes, right?
Yesterday on Mirage,
we had, in my view, an incredible game.
Bit can have really strong maps every now and again,
But you know wonderful this whole
There's the playoffs like he's been super super dominant. Are you looking at my homework a minute ago?
I was trying to see but it's ineligible. How's this handwriting? The first thing says extended break. Yes, that's correct
So he needs a reminder for that so it's important to tell everybody in the audience right now
It's a very good time to get some food go to the bathroom get another beer people at home as well
Because it's extended break because the best of five players gotta eat right between maps three and four
They get a little bit more time to rest fuel up and get ready to lock in to continue the series
So like when we have you know the games of the stage you got 55 minutes to an hour between end of one series
The next you get a bit of time right you get you want to let them set up
You want to make sure that given their best the next I wrote was mid series check-in
You guys like numbers alright, I thought of two in terms of pistols in favor of Aurora
Aurora have 130 opening jewels
I think it was a nice highlight
moment, but that will be all
it is. Yeah, I think even you go
back earlier into the piece, right?
You get the pistol round win
for now. Be making it their
second of the series so far. The
four spike comes in, but that's
not going to be a big deal. I
think it's going to be a big
deal, but that's not going to
be a big deal, but that's not
going to be a big deal, but that's
not going to be a big deal.
second of the series so far. The four spy comes in and I think they're actually handling it pretty
well, right? Zintara's they they uh Navi throw a molly it puts a hole in the smoke wall Zintara's
comes over the top kills that player towards man they get the opening kill. Then they get the secret
space. Let's play it. Do we have it? Play it we have it. How do you know? I asked for it. Oh well
they might put it in. How did you get into it? What? 14. Would it be 14? Yeah is that how
maths works? I worry about a child like I do this for a living. Well this is the wonderful
situation right the fact I think he's only gonna get one in this position see it a moment there's
the incendiary out this is all the context that you were talking about right the tires kill gets the
m4 what also happens because he gets down man this is where you said it's over it should be over
how do you lose this round you like this you have bad spacing yeah and wonderful gets a double he
should only ever get one in this situation and then walk seek bit of a brain fade this also
this is the why does he go backside yeah yeah it's not a good move from walk seek there you
You have bent control so you know that likely nobody single-door back-vents side
So you should be able to plant safe and especially with Zintara is often no man's land
That pressure really getting to the old boy not having a great showing here on you whatsoever staff playing for the
Wind yeah on right and also preventing them to and also there's not much he can do
From his position to help them to go down be like he made the jump for me
He has the gun like what what is he supposed to do can't run maiming to land?
So he has to lurk in that situation. He is trying to just find some impact on it
Honestly in that round his team led him down, but in all the other rounds
That's feel like he sort of let his team down at four kills now
I'm a very player for them in the final. Yeah, but this is the thing. I was talking about the pressure beforehand
I don't think he handles it very well
I'm talking about his teammates especially in the semis really need to channel energy his way to try and pull
Out of the hole. He just a player who I think disagrees with the spotlight
Unfortunately, and that sucks because he's such a strong player at least
Have to play alongside anybody like that like easy or way out of the hole or is it just a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Justin didn't have any issue in this day. I think it was was probably me and then that is retired. Oh shit. So
You can go join like what is it emol on the streams? Yeah, well, yeah, eternal fire. Oh, no. No, don't do that
just find a way to get out of it.
Okay. Well, how old is he now?
Snap out of it.
He's easy to break that. Yeah, he's 30.
Do you think it's possible to teach an old dog new tricks?
I don't know.
Maybe he'll snap out of it.
That's Harry. He has a lot of dogs.
Yeah, okay.
Well, Dust2's up next, right?
I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself.
We have a while before we get there,
but we can see the timer on screen.
But Dust2 is where he needs to do some of his better work.
Right? There's no doubt about that.
And I think that's the silver lining for Aurora.
These two maps, like, they're no slouches on either dust or inferno.
So, yeah, they're a map down in the series, but I think it was always going to be a struggle on Mirage and Nuke for them, right?
Even yesterday we saw against the Stralis, like, things just get messy for them, there's lapses in communication,
there's gaps on the map that players are just unaware of.
Dust2 was incredible yesterday against the Stralis, right?
The game plan from Major, the execution, like the reset from a bad map loss.
So, they've done it yesterday. I think at the very least, they'll put up a much better fight on Dust2.
Well on the flip side of that right with the dust to win against full finnavi
They need the mccasey round just to get back in that first half and really get things underway
Then it was dominant from that point onwards, but they needed a mccasey moment
Otherwise, yeah around after the craven is called where they sort of yes
They win a forced back and for one the force you know flashing for long like that was the lifesaver
You know they immediately negated that crazy round. So
We'll see if
You can repeat that sort of against the road
Yeah, and then go back into the common we just have a nuke there right that for second round
They were on the round 14 if they win that one then that half is probably on right
You know you got up against the lighter by the next round you could win out the economy there
Then you can actually set yourself up for a bit more of a comprehensive T side and not just do a cardio clutch
It just we toss what wasn't pretty. Yeah, it was that like yeah sure that would have been great if you got that
But you were still seven five up and nothing to show for it. They were just
Dying at the start around you can get any openings any space
My funniest and favorite round of all of it when they were doing like a Tecnan top pop and Soulfly gets lost in the hutsmoke
He's meant to go first. That's the wrong way. Then Zantara's ends up going first. He dies
I didn't even pip this entire as tilt because he's meant to be going into the trade off of Soulfly and
I've been I really quite so he just died in the smoke
Yeah, he had a great map though, and I think he's having a good final
I think it's all fly. Yeah more so than he was yesterday
But I think for Aurora it's just to keep believing, you know, like not really
lose faith, lose hope, right, and just focus on whatever it is that you have planned on
that's to try to execute as well as you can.
If we're gonna look at like the bigger picture, because if Nabi win the next map, obviously, they take home the trophy
I'm not asking who should win here, but who is the pressure more on in your opinion to be taking home this trophy?
Oh, within the context of the whole story.
scheme of the series. Yeah.
Oh, I think that Navi are in a position where if things don't start having uptick and properly,
right, we see them constantly in playoffs and being able to win matches and maps,
then that's where the roster change discussion happens. Right. So now we're the lead into the
major cutoff being April 6th. I don't think either of these things have to worry about
not being there. It's about the performances they put in once they get there. Right. And
we know how last season when Navi had that uptick then, this would be a nice
sort of confidence booster for Navi overall. And maybe quell some of those
Ross to concerns especially with wonderful playing well Aurora just changed right so they've made steps at this event
So for me, I think this would mean more to now the both ways right if they wanted
I think it might open up the confidence if they lose it
I think it might you know definitely dampen proceedings for the rest of season. Yeah
I don't think there's pressure on either team in that regard. I think it would be worse for now
They they lost right because they beaten them almost every single time and now you get to the grand final
other teams messed up, you took care of business and you're here and then to fall to Aurora who
has historically struggled to make runs at tournaments and for Navi again team of the
year in 2024 they still have four out of the five players of the same roster so you've been a
championship caliber team and to not be able to beat Aurora to lift a trophy after I don't even
even when their last trophy was.
They didn't win a single one last year.
So, can I be?
Yeah.
They won a Salad of Slam.
They haven't won a single tournament with an NIP.
Right?
So, they're in the final.
They're in TWC.
They're not in turn on Mickey Mouse.
Let's play a new game.
I don't like this game at all.
They didn't even have the cry.
You asked the question.
I don't like the answer.
What's in the box, Chad?
Nothing.
Wait, move it.
It's a DHL MVP.
Let's check in with it.
Who will be the DHL MVP?
You decide.
You can participate in the DHL MVP vote as it happens.
Make sure to be tuned into the Twitch stream
and be ready to have your say.
It is time to check in with your DHL MVP contenders
and all front runners.
Spoiler alert, at the moment, it's gonna be three
Navi players.
First up, wonderful.
You made an obvious case for him.
Chadi's been popping off.
This is the wonderful I want to see and hopefully more consistent throughout the year as well.
I think Janko is back on it, but just at the right time, maybe not as he's saying,
if some events he shows up, then they try. I think in terms of the right moment,
it's wonderful to be able to apply himself in the server because we can see the glimpses,
but right now we're getting that. So that's what we should focus on here. And he's been
hugely impactful today on the AWP and in the club. So great stuff from Mr. Wonderful.
Probably in the lead. I mean, if you're looking at it right now in terms of the impact
and everything, of course, Mikasa is always going to be there with his sheer,
fragging output, still trying to be played. He did some of his best work yesterday on those two.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think that Mikasa's bigger impact has happened in the quarters and the
semis, and this is where the conversation, I guess, spills open. Because stage one and stage
two were online, I'm going to wait the stats of those players very, very lightly with online.
That is very certain.
Most of my focus in terms of what I'm seeing is going to be from the playoffs,
and it's going to be top down.
It's going to be how much impact did you have in the most important game being the grand final?
So this is where I would agree with the sentiment that somebody like Wonderful is at the tip of the top,
because this is the most important game.
Who would have bunkered?
I also don't know Chad, why do you keep diminishing my points about that they're going to try when
I'm not sure what you're doing, but we're trying to pick at this tournament.
So they're also picking and choosing and they're going to really try.
Okay, so, yeah, the one where, why can't we get G2, Triana?
It's not based on the way that the wind blows with Zywoo.
Well, that's the air quality, isn't it?
That's true. That's a great reference. Oh my God.
I couldn't make this photo.
We didn't have a job for you yet. We're getting one for the next season.
I'm not sure what you're doing, but we're...
Which office character would Yanko be?
Please use the DHL mail back to send us an email in and say who you think you're going to get in the border.
I'll put you in the warehouse.
Yeah, I'll be the fucking guy.
You're gonna mix the boxes out of there.
Darrell, right?
I don't know.
Yeah, shout out Darrell.
I'll be Darrell.
What do you say?
We've copied the television show to create a parody of some variety.
No, it's a pastiche.
But we play characters.
Listen, it's what people do nowadays.
No one can come up with anything original.
There isn't anything original.
We've worked, we've run.
I've come up with a very original game.
Oh, what's in that box?
What's in the box?
In the box is more DHL mail from the DHL mailbag.
Petpix, yes, the precession was more Petpix.
Yes, I do.
Oh, wow, lovely.
Pookie and Roxanna, Roxanna, sorry.
I guess Pookie is the cat.
Where is Roxanna?
We don't know.
But we consider they are watching this stream
because of the lower third there at the bottom.
Wow.
That's how we can confirm it, right?
Maybe more.
That's it.
Oh, wow, also beautiful.
This is Gunter Gimli.
Australian you you're Australian yep. Do you like cheese? I do love a cheezus. Yes. So does this guy. He's very handsome
I read
There's like five different talents in this description of the dog. I
Let you guys figure it out for yourself. Thank you
They do they have the email on cheese in the mail back from Australian from Jaffy and some boy. I don't know
Let's roll another one. I've been doing this. I'm just really. Ah, yes. This is a this is fellow is fella
It's so little guy that enjoys watching Cat of Strike and supporting Darby like me.
Well, he must be very happy right now.
He's getting on the keyboard.
Cat here in the keyboard.
It doesn't sound like a good time.
That's it.
And the person is obviously lazy.
He named the cat Fella.
I've heard a dog.
I'd name it dog.
Never get a dog.
Please.
Is the email from Jaffee here?
Okay.
Hold this.
It all just hits.
Maybe Bella.
And we'll be hating this.
It's about midday-ish, so no jokes to me yet.
That's very responsible.
Let's go. So I'm back home enjoying the time off kind of sounds like you should have drinks. Yeah great
Watching from my phone handle the telly. Oh a two two
You have to go from your little screen to your medium screen to the big screen
Okay, no day is complete Florida man not having a drink during spring break. Oh world is gone
Alex, please correct that but we love baby Bella. Maybe Bella's wonderful. Hey, look, it's me
Don't call you a dog again. I think I was just from that book with this is from the pop quiz wonderful
I really appreciated your round in that show.
It was so easy.
Yeah, it was great.
I got full marks on that one.
This gentleman, he was there with a bloke who has been living in Sweden for like, I think
he said 20 years ago, but he was originally from New Zealand.
Oh, wow.
He occasionally had a New Zealand twang, but most of the time he just sounded sweet.
What is the difference, just because I am uncultured in terms of the accent?
What are the words?
Can you tell the difference between Australia and South Africa?
Yes.
Yes!
Okay, so there's a distinct difference between Australia and...
Wow, she actually can't...
They say...
Instead of six, they say sex.
Sex? Okay, six, sex.
They would say push and chops instead of shish and chips.
Okay.
Yeah, so it's a bit...
If that can help you.
They're just my...
Yeah, okay, yeah, I think this is starting something.
Yeah, we let them fly over to Australia, but then, you know, we're basically...
No, no, that's the other way, though. That's crazy.
No, not really.
No.
No.
Understand.
Except Lord of the Rings fans.
Should we go back to the counter strike?
Wait, there was one. There's an email in the mailbox from Jaffe and Jaffe's coming from inside the house.
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.
So I got my phone here, so just let everyone know as you send stuff to the mouth bag, it will be coming to me until the end of time.
Uh, Scrappy Rounds, oh okay, so hold up, the title is, Is this standard CS high enough?
Uh, Scrappy Rounds, stupid mistakes, a lot of shitting the bed, how is World CS gonna respond to Vitality's dominance?
Because I don't think that they are anytime soon.
Jaffe here in the arena.
I mean, is it not entertain not not to start beef with someone in the audience?
But this is kind of entertaining.
It's kind of fun.
It is entertaining, but I think that the question they're asking is from a broader
ecosystem, right?
Are they going to be able to take it to vitality?
I don't think so.
No, that's OK.
They're not here.
It's fine.
Well, yeah, that's fine for now.
But I think in terms of the buildup for the major, right?
Because everything we're doing is on the road to Cologne.
It's true.
So are we going to see enough of a power up for these teams?
because we had a bunch of teams, well we didn't have a bunch, we had two teams who aren't here,
which was essentially your Vitality and your Falcons. Then you had teams who struggled to
qualify, Fiora, Paravision, G2, they all couldn't get there. Then we have the other teams who
had made it to the playoffs, you pinned your Forts, your Astralis, your Legacies.
It has to be Spirit, Fiora, Falcons, we know Miles isn't going to do it, so it has to be some
of these other teams. I don't think you can put Paravision in that conversation,
They can beat these other teams. I don't think they can beat my talent. It can't be spirit though. Jason said so
Yeah, he is always right. That's one thing I've learned here. It's silent, but it's true
That's two. What do you think it does to great map? So he's it going five. I think that's the question
Is it going five or is it going for how to stick to my script?
I told you guys before the final started, you know, I was gonna choke map one bounce back on map two
And then I was gonna take care of business on the next two maps
So I'm sticking with that you think it's over now. I think not even yeah, okay
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick I flipped and then I flopped and I'm back on the Aurora train
Let's go five. It's all the way to inferno last time they played inferno. It was over time
It's a sort of penalty now. I'm allowed to change my opinion
It's isn't what the desk is about anymore Chad, I know maybe back in your time
You were allowed to do this answer just allow anything back in the fun
Okay, you have to you know, you have to change your opinion as you information becomes available
Yeah, exactly as it changes who is winning you have to
I have to change you.
Exactly.
Are you saying that Freyja is not fun?
No, Freyja is.
Great.
And?
Yeah, that's too...
So you have middle, you have B-side, long...
Just get him out of there.
He's gonna break.
Mat4 coming up.
Let's see if Navi do it all.
Let's see if Chas is gonna...
Come on, Aurora!
...everywhere.
We'll see you in a bit.
You're not clicking with the mouse?
No, my number is cool.
Okay, you lie to others.
I need some aura, you know?
Usually what I do, I put the FPS1, it's the first thing.
I always use it, and what I do is...
Black Equalizer, like all of these settings are a little bit feeling-wise,
but Black Equalizer is usually 12-13,
Color Liprince is 14,
no blue light is always zero.
I don't really like it even though it's good
for your eyes what I heard of,
but I just, I never got used to it really.
Color temperature always normal as well here.
Picture, Dayak 2, I use premium.
This, I think it's just good.
I don't know, I never really tried to play without,
but Dayak 2 is what I use.
Brightness 100, contrast I put it to 50,
Shortness I put it to 10, and A and A, I don't know how to say this.
AMA. AMA. AMA.
I play premium, in the past I used to play it on high, but after some time I was like maybe I will use it on premium,
and I just can't do premium, you know, it's so, yeah.
DIAC Premium and AMA is premium as well, like I think these settings are the most important.
Do you ever play with these things often or are you pretty standard?
So what?
Do you change them often or do you ever think I should change it up now or is it something you keep pretty similar?
I mean sometimes I change the colors, maybe the color of my prints, sometimes I change like if the game is too colorful, I put it on down a little bit.
But the only thing I actually changed ever was the AMA, like I had it on high for a long time but then I put it on premium and since then I just played with it.
Okay, nice.
So that's how I do it.
I just go here, use my preference and I put it on performance.
You max out the strength.
Yeah, I do it. I saw many others with it as well but I've been doing it long time too.
Here I don't sense anything. 600 yards of course, I play maximum.
Here I use also 50, not changing much.
And then here I just put the full screen and GTO scaling and click this box and I think that's everything on Nvidia.
I don't really like to change much because for me I like when I set up and it's everything is like really simple.
I'm ready to play like really fast, you know, like I don't want to change to my settings.
And then I usually just put the green one.
Okay.
I think it doesn't do anything, literally anything, but I just like the green one.
And also when you are in CS and you like press tab or you buy something, you see it's green.
Okay.
I just like it.
Yeah, why not? Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls in the Twitch chat and here on the floor in Stockholm.
We have a very, very special guest in the house tonight.
Champions in a right of their own and a league of their own as well.
Tell me about your team.
Well, it's a long story.
It just came together one night at 3 AM.
It's really just a stupid joke.
But we have a lot of fun together.
Well, what's the joke?
Well, it's kind of meaningless, you know?
You can't really give it anything.
But it's just fun, you know?
But you guys are looking to play
in the upcoming Pro League season, right?
The SL Pro League season 24.
And I think that's what you're vying for.
That's what we were talking about, or?
Yes, it's just actually Cologne major.
Straight into the major.
We will be there, OK?
Okay.
You expect us.
All right, so you guys are pulling for Navi here.
Are there going to be Aurora?
Oh, yes.
For sure, for sure.
You're going to get it.
Navi Aurora.
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Navi!
Well, as long as you're confident, I got a shirt for you.
GG.
Alright, well you heard it there, Navi should win.
We'll find out.
When I was 11 they said that I can be one of the best players in the world.
I chose to go full CS, just to sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
The biggest reason that I grind a face was because I wanted to beat them.
The best advice is that you need to love the game.
In the end, I'm going to be a good player.
My map, thus too, is so beautiful when the sun is low.
At nightfall, the Elo Harvester's land.
Their cruelty to my people is all I've known.
May their most whip and splatter and a double kill it's all onto a Lexi
He's got 19 bullets everything he needs
My desert, my ill, my dust, you.
Offer fucks sake.
You're missing with any fucking bastard.
Map 4 Dust2 and Na'Vi versus Aurora here in the Grand Final, VSL Pro League Season 23.
You've heard from the guys, well we might expect.
Yanko, this one's ending, Jason, are you in the same boat?
I am, I'm on a bit of a lead at the moment towards the performance of Wonderful coming
into this fourth map of play across the first three maps.
64 kills averaging 21 kills per map and the AWP has just been on point.
He's won clutches, he's picking people off.
You bring it off with a hot hand like that on the Dust 2.
I feel like that's going to be such a strong piece of the
Navi puzzle.
I don't know if Aurora's going to be able to overcome it.
And we'll have to wait and see.
I mean, that's the thing about this Aurora team is that we
thought they might struggle yesterday, but it was the
Dust 2 that came back after they choked away new.
They came back into Dust 2, and it was Woxic that had
an inspired performance to get them right back into the
series.
And that's why they're here today.
Yeah, and he's been their top performer today in the
Grand Final as well.
So maybe he can do something a limit, wonderful, or
match the impact so that the disparity isn't quite there in the same way.
Yeah, that win over Astralis with 13 to 2 should give you a lot of confidence if you're
a rower coming into this that they can be able to challenge on the map.
It's going to be interesting to see how the bounce back is.
You had Nuke and that just felt like it never really got close for a rower.
Never competitive especially in that second half.
So again, another bounce back just as they did after map 1 is necessary.
Yeah, as a Tars is necessary too.
I mean highlighting the fact that they did a really tough second map there or
our third map, rather a new, not really shown us,
was Antares is capable of, he's gonna turn that around
on a map like D'Aussu, should be his playground.
So wait and see, the off-battle is set,
Wauksic versus Wanda4, and Navi are in pursuit
of their first top tier title since Rio in 2024.
We'll see if they can get it done today.
But if this is to be the last map of this competition,
then Stockholm, let us hear why we've come to Sweden.
When it gets into the pistol round, it's going to be Navi starting on the CT side.
It's going to be Aurora attacking into that on Dust2.
Smoke Molotov, flash for Major as well.
You've got a little bit of utility for this T-side pistol.
And right out of the gate, Wonderful wants to challenge and taking a free shot just
to get the jumping, just to get lucky, but showing some presence, backing away.
smoke popping. Catwalk Molotov to keep aggression back and allow Aurora to scale up towards short.
One smoke and one flash left on major. He's standing in the long cave at the moment.
So control of Xbox, control of short and Cat is there.
And this will eventually end in a split towards that AA bomb site and nobody is home for Aurora.
So they're getting curious. It's been quiet on the map.
He was about to get a lot of attention, but Bitt's already pushed up,
shrinking things, finding information for his team.
The attention's in him up. Can he get a shot off? Yes, he can.
Bitt says one, gets traded.
But look at Wonderful in behind.
Round the back of two players up on shore.
Can Wonderful step up here to Hatch, right in front of him.
And he's got both.
All right, Navi.
That should be the pistol round. Unless on Tarzan,
Softlight can burst up an Altea, but Mikaze puts Softlight in the ground and Zantare's required
P250 tapping away, but Mikaze with a double wonderful two of his own
and Navi starts strong on Dust2. Every time I see a swing like that out of Mikaze,
I got to imagine like the experience with the veterans and Navi, I've got to be like,
whoa, slow it down, but then he hits it one tap and it's good, whatever, all right, cool,
look at the shot. And well, Mikaze obviously, the big talking point yesterday in the semi-final
for Navi, when it was looking like they were in the hole,
everything on a test two, he gets an incredible ace on the T-side,
climbing up onto the top of the box and jumping AK.
Oh my god, okay.
Bit not allowed to cross safely whatsoever.
There was a ridiculous round from Kibbeni yesterday with his scout.
We'll see if Wokse can get something going with his.
That's wild, just pins him against the back wall.
There was a little bit of panic in the Navi side as well.
You could see Wonderful and Ima, they shipped it over to CT spawn real quick,
because it's not unusual to have a B rush off the back of that pick, and they were just being honest for it.
But things settle down and slow down as Aurora take this pacing.
Very chill, not trying to press the issue just yet, happy with the advantage gained by Woxic.
Now, Navi has no long control at the moment.
This play to gain short control,
they're going to want to secure it with a little bit of confidence behind it,
So we must get a step down the stairs. There's the brawl and it all goes in the favor of Navi
The weapons can't handle it. Wakadi has come out long, but it's already done
Trying to spass that long range giggle shot, but yep brought down by a lexie B
It's gonna leave walk stick
With a FAMAS 1v3. So he's just gonna wait up here on short
You know exactly where he is
And Navi will play this one discipline enough to not give it away
Yeah, and when Mikasa is the one who's gotta be a little bit cautious coming in for the flank
And he's playing it so so far back because his teammates are very low
He doesn't want to be in a situation where he leaves him in a weird place
Walks it creepy close. There's the wide swing Alexi hands us it
from us recovered
Na'vi up to nothing. Yeah, Roar not that money. You're gonna buy going here
So it's gonna be that three and zero lead here from Na'vi
I think this is gonna be this will be fun to see how a roar handles this
I want to go back to the pistol round a little bit
We didn't get to talk about it with this crazy shot at a walk stick
But the strike through that pistol round is obviously like the way they push into upper tunnels and kind of flank over towards short.
And that's like information gleaned off the map being very quiet.
And Navi's going to have those reeds throughout this, so the timing of when they make those plays is going to be critical.
If a roar is not aware of it or doesn't pick up on it or can't stop it, if you give Navi extra information to play with, they're going to run you over.
So when gun rounds come up, a roar has to be very, very cognizant of the fact of those long pushes, of those upper tunnel pushes.
Mirage had its clutch moments, an exciting place in both teams.
I would say the other two maps of Anubis and Nuke have been a little bit more contained.
Anubis was a close brawl though, right?
Not as much of the exciting crazy moments, but down the stretch it was challenged.
We're hoping Dust2 can bring some of the same mirage energy.
Oof. Coming out of the tunnels, could we slow down by the grenade?
Should be melted away here, but we'll see if Aurora can burst through.
McCasey waiting, and forward.
Just a slight off angle here behind the car, and he'll clean up three bits with him when bombed down.
Jornakid has moved out long side.
Hoping he can catch someone distracted.
Yeah, he was always just going to be a flanker if they for some reason got lucky enough to get that bomb planted.
He might be able to backstab one.
Give you an extra kill to turn the tides, but obviously not even close to that idea.
AK-47's coming in for Aurora, and much like Nuke, due to the investment of two scouts,
Wauksic's not going to have the AWP in this first gun round.
He really just hasn't had that all lot recently, has he?
So would love to see them prioritize that sniper and get it into his hands as quickly
as they possibly can.
Yeah, he had it on Nuke a few times, but when he had it, didn't get the impact.
He needed out of it, and then other times, it kind of eventually was just a weapon
he couldn't get back.
So they're gonna drop down onto that. Oh my body's done it again!
Alright, wonderful. Not too happy about that, but Walksick has just started things up.
Who needs an AWP? Who needs one when you got that?
Yeah, fair play.
A crazy one to hit. Two in three rounds.
In response, Navi doubles up on the defense at the double doors.
Ima close up, Alexi planted the CT spawn corner.
Oh, Ima knows, players just around that corner, tossing out utility, gets his cross out ready,
But it's gonna be Mikaze this time who was put under pressure around the corner
Usually position good for one and with the most killer middle a one kill would be fantastic
But Mikaze gets nothing so fly clues him out and now a roller. Well, they're accelerating
They're going as fast as they can out towards long and like to be gets flashed into the play
I like to be coming away with both but it still walks a fragging out with his scout and putting it all on big
Oh my god gap massive gap and bit is going to look to punish them for it
They're aware of it, they're tossing flashes but it doesn't matter because Bit is broken
apart, match her, and it comes down to Woxic, he's gone to the AK, he'll tuck behind the
car, Bit goes into the fight down and Bit comes out on top, massive moment for Bit and
he keeps Navi flawless to kick off Dust2.
I tell you what, if you're a roar on that perspective, you're really upset, it's
not the time of the game for a mistake like a giant gap in the long smoke to
kind of sell you down the river in a two on one, that will add to the frustration.
But all this benefit of Woxic getting these picks, taking these kills through the doors,
it's all going to waste.
Another 5 on 4 provided right out of the gate, and you can't capitalize.
Bringing energy to the team from the opening frag, the clutch rather than from B, but the
opening kill has gone the way of Aurora and followed up here by Soulfly because they
in the mix but dead and that feels like the round is done oh yeah it is now for
sure great shot from so fly great round triple kill three kills round just started
and closed take that but yeah yeah he's not getting away is he first round for
Aurora they crank up the speed metal to the metal and find a very very fast
victory and Navi still wants to be a little bit aggressive because they push
behind the Xbox this time Alexi got taken down out towards out towards long
right at the corner and my oh this is maybe where you do start to see that
impact come through because the damage that walks it was getting in the early
kills and all the damage that followed after that has left off you with not a
whole lot of money so a situation where they have to buy but they don't have
everything they would want with the buy and yeah they're gonna go for a time
out is called that's why the CT side so blade getting involved in having the
conversation off to MP 9s 2m 4s limited on nades no kits for Navi CT
I don't like what I've seen there for Madge who's just looking right at Xantara sitting right beside him and trying to hype him up
Get him involved in this game. They know how much easier this game will become if Xantara gets his head in it
Nobody feels the presence of a star player being absent more than the IGL the IGL always knows the tactics work differently
They don't have the same strength to it. So major desperately trying to get Xantara's locked in they need him on this fourth map
2 MP9's here, 4 Na'Vi, but they've still got the AWP out.
No way.
He's upgraded, he's got the AWP this time, and he doesn't take the shot.
They use the AWP there, they use the Nade this time so they can cross.
They've had to kind of change the strategy just to be able to play the game.
Well, you said you wanted Xantars to get involved.
He's found a very leisurely stroll down Catwalk.
He's going to turn the corner, a very fast timing that nobody from Na'Vi has spotted yet.
And he's just going to keep going. Just going to keep going, but he walks to his death.
And you have all that space and you think Zantara's might be able to make a play from it, but shut down instantly.
He's given a lot of freedom there by Major, probably saying, yeah, bro, I want you to go for these things.
I want this to be plays that you look for.
And when you get shut down like that, I think Zantara's might kind of slide further away from the plays that Major wants him to make.
to make. AK-47 recovered from Alexi.
He's starting to lose confidence that that's constantly happening to you,
the way it has been in this series.
I mean, Roars used no nades in this round, yeah.
Alexi B flashing the peek, gets information,
spots multiple targets around the corner,
can accelerate into a Zima, keeps his heads out.
Alexi B trying to rip heads off, but he goes down the soft fly.
Oh, follow up from Madge and Wikadia, how long?
And just like that, Aurora erupted into the A bomb site,
and Navi have no say in it.
just force themselves through beat the timing of the follow-up smoke back-to-back
round wins for Aurora and the money is devastated for Navi not even an idea to go
for this round they must save the weapons nothing fancy four versus five
after Zontars went down and you just stepped through the smoke as soon as
it fades find a really nice timing defenders aren't there to put a stop
to it, and they swung way too wide.
They're sending Wakadia over to the tunnels.
They'll be needing to hold on to these weapons
and see the lack of money left over in reserve.
I think they'd hunt if that wasn't such a convincing round,
right?
If they'd had to move out, but the fact the save comes in.
Oh, there's the orb.
OK, great shot from Wakadia.
That weapon is now unrecoverable.
Yeah, it's a one-man mission.
That's actually huge to take that away.
That's a big resource out of play
for the next round, round seven.
Yeah, great work from MacCardia.
All right, Aurora in the game now.
Really important round for them to flip in their favor
after that early death from Zontara's.
It's soft flying match, you have to step up instead.
Start feeling if you're Zontara's like no matter what you do,
no matter what fight you take or decision you make,
like your head is just like four times bigger
than everyone else's, you're just getting immediately
killed each and every time.
We'll see if that dissuades him as this half goes on
if it continues.
Wauksic's gonna have the quick anger with the AWP.
Nobody's swinging on the other side for Navi.
Walksick holding. Here's the B coming on out.
Team mate, come on. Stracted it out a little bit.
Looks like...
But that's actually going to get two out of this.
Oh, actually this is...
Oh, that's massive. He gets into the pit as well.
Yeah, well, he was going to go down because he swings next.
Two quick kills. That secures the route.
All the danger taken away. Bitt can do nothing now.
Yeah, just a wonderful USP.
Yeah, but if he hides inside the bomb site,
you know, like he's probably not going to win it,
but maybe you can delay things. Maybe something crazy happens.
You got Woxic on low HP.
Very close to going down.
And Wokadia's not committed, so...
That's one. There's the ult. Does it fall to his hands?
Yes, he has got it!
Okay! He had a shot down to no scope.
You've been able to pull that off, and we were absolutely on, but...
We're picked. They know exactly where he is now.
If you pull that off, the round might just be over.
I don't know how you would do to recover it if you're Wokadia.
It's gonna come out. No clue where Wokadia's playing.
Very strong position using the sound cues.
Wokadia surely has it. Nice and easy.
Four to three Aurora creep back in three straight rounds
Okay, the buy returns here for Navi all piss back in the house of wonderful
Yeah, this is the chance you know when you start missing this voice of your match you're letting that all
Let that realization sink into wonderful. Okay, I've got a show window of opportunity here to get the all power
second time up for coffee
From an incident of a new wrist where they had to burn a lot of timeouts in that first half
Yeah, really early on blade
I didn't like what it didn't like what he was seeing on a new base
I imagine it's very much the same here as a roar have taken control of this with the three round streak
So a conversation to settle down Navi still very very early on in the map to have burned two timeouts
Imagine the rest of this half will see without now be taking another one
He's talking quite a bit there to Mikaze, so I'm interested to see what his role in this round will be.
Well, he's been the playmaker, he's been an aggressor. Alexey talks about him being in very important positions for this team.
So it makes sense that Blade would point to him specifically and let him know what's going to happen here.
This is a P rush and Bits alone this time.
Okay, we heard Alexey be saying earlier today that you know Aurora are going to come at you with five players to win one bomb site quite often.
and here they come, straight through P, handling the pressure of the first kill, but not the follow-up.
They break in, they're in the site, Santas just got his kill and that's the round.
Yeah, it's done. Right out of the timeout. I mean, that's a great call from Major coming out of the timeout,
changing the entire nature of their attack. A lot of it's been fast towards long,
a lot of it's been in mid and moving up catwalk with some swiftness to it.
This time, all five towards B, Navi not expecting to get out of the timeout.
They're busy executing their own plan.
Allp is at the very least recovered.
But we're tied up oh so quickly a little bit of fight left in Aurora yeah I
really love the call you know you just have a blade timeout and then you just
get rushed to the B bombsite yeah you circumvent everything that they were
trying to think to do obviously a stack towards that a bombsite their timeout
was used to reposition the defense to focus over towards long over towards the
A site where most of the attacks have come from so major just a step or
two ahead this time around.
Looking good with the money as well here for a rod.
Gonna have plenty of buys left in them.
So, even if Navi start winning rounds again,
it's just gonna be a constant buy battle going against them.
Felt like Bit might actually be able to contain that
with the skills this guy has.
Gets that second kill, maybe he's able to do something cool.
Round nine coming in with the saved off
and a couple of saved weapons.
They are gonna buy back again, Navi.
This time they'll be sending a few more bodies towards the B bomb site and towards the middle of the map.
I think perhaps a wonderful one is a challenge in the double doors.
Going through the mid control motions here, Alarora.
Harder worried about getting peeped by an AWP, but for good reason because Wonderful's coming.
There he is, there's the kill. We're cutting it down and so we're looking at Alarora with four players left going up through short.
Yeah, well now they're going to barrel out and it's all on Ima who's playing over at rail. Wonderful backed off.
Yeah, well they know the AWP isn't going to be a threat at long side so they're going to be walking into right force.
That's still strong. Here comes the AWP now.
He must have done well. Wonderful time.
Sandman is down and so walks, it fires on.
Alexi B arrives just in the nick of time.
And Aurora tried to speed things up through short, but Navi stopped there.
Yeah, bit of a battle and the benefit as well.
That pick from Wonderful is huge.
Grabbing that fifth player, one less.
That Ima has to worry about as they swing off short.
This time doesn't fall nearly as quickly.
The shots on the other side aren't as crisp.
And he's got teammates chucking utility into the sky to help him out.
Fighting over on the ramp, it's chaotic.
The Na'Vi back to the winning lanes, they've stopped the run at full.
Yeah, but like I was just saying, the fact that Aurora has so much money, they're right back into a buy.
Oh, we've got Washington challenging down mid already. They've missed that shot on the cross, but look at this aggression from Na'Vi all the way towards top mid already.
That deepnade's gonna let Aurora know they were already felt suspicious, you could see Zontar is backing away, Wakadia now slides in, that's a tie.
Yeah, but this is all five, normally there's one, right? If you expect mid aggression, if you read that,
You'd leave one to watch for this push, but Ima has complete, I mean, freedom to turn the corner and ruin their day whenever he wants.
We'll see when he decides to activate it. In fact, they're coming back. They're coming back. He hears the steps. He knows.
He knows. Ima should get this. Give us the bomb as well. Ima with a really important strike. Can he get more? Yes, Ima!
That is what you need from Novi. Ima making the most of the initial aggressive play.
And now Arula have to go back and get that bomb.
This bomb is as close to irrecoverable as it can be.
Makasa is about to smoke off the double doors. What do you do now?
Oh, the round is done. It's just over. Ima has won it.
Sparing down through the smoke, there's the low HP. Makasa finishing him off.
And so a fly down left it long.
Nowhere to go. Navi up to six.
Yeah, man, that's a giant mistake from the Aurora side.
If you're going to play the game of taking long and backing away, showing you have it
and then giving it up and moving elsewhere on the map,
you've got to leave someone sitting back to watch for that kind of a push.
Ema just gets complete freedom across the map in such a tricky position and the first
kill being the bomb carrier is just icing on the cake for him.
And for good reason that force is the first time out out of Aurora, going to be again
a frustrating round that you got to deal with.
All that money we're talking about now with the last line.
So, Navi have got Aurora at breaking point in this first half.
This is where the frustrations start to seep in.
Lose this map and you've lost the grand final.
And how many times have we seen Aurora in a grand final
that they concede?
So often they get to the finish line
and just can't cross it.
There's not gonna be many opportunities
as good as this one in 2026 with Alexa Vitality.
Falcons getting better.
It was Uria.
It was the conversation of Alexi B
when he stepped into this Grand Final was recognizing the opportunity presented by the favorites
getting upset earlier in the playoffs. Both these teams would have sat here and looked
at this and been like, this is a gift we never would have expected to have. At the
moment it's Navi capitalizing.
Quiet slow mid-play again for Aurora, just marching up with the cover of the smoke and
double doors on Tars is found standing on short.
Gonna use utility to take control, wonderful far back.
every slight angle and gives it up quick.
There's five people in this crowd having a ton of fun.
That was about six now.
Alright Stockholm, let's channel that into something useful.
Well, you think Aurora's gonna win this game?
What about Navi? Is Navi taking the dub on Dust2?
All right, Longmore and Navi supporters right now.
But let's see, Emma giving them something to shout about.
He's got one over the top of the smoke pit.
He's taking one from Window.
And here come Aurora trying to march their way up the B-Ram
into the side, taken down by Mikaze.
And no way in, surely.
They're gonna burn Mikaze out, but he's still standing there.
And the fire is no problem for Mikaze, not forced out of position at all.
Southerner also Navi, closer, I'm closer to the trophy.
And they are looking like they're gonna grab an eighth round to you in the first half.
I mean, this last round is gonna be critical for Aurora, but more so I think is gonna be this half time break.
The conversation they have there.
Because it very much feels inside the server, even though the score line isn't any kind of a ball out,
It feels like Navi is completely comfortable.
Three rounds in a row, looking to grab a fourth here
in round 12.
And Aurora, come into this round with Matt Tynes,
a scout in the Matt Tynes, charging out first.
It's a good opening kill here for Zantares.
Yeah, he even forced Alexi B back,
but now you gotta deal with him and turn to the corner.
Yeah, well, they're separate off from each other right now.
Eventually the rest of Aurora running at them,
and Alexi B gets nothing.
Okay, Aurora.
Not around that they expected to find
all that much success in,
but one of them's coming back.
Nice shot on the awp.
Oh, the smoke is well wonderful, not spotting him.
Doesn't break all the way through.
Yeah, the clearance isn't fully there.
It spotted, it gets dropped, and now Mikaze, arriving with the rifle.
Had a crazy moment yesterday on Dust2 on his own.
Can he do it again?
This time on the CT side.
Dropping down, a little bit of a gap.
Oh, HP player on that right.
Mikaze can he take him down?
Yes he can!
Mikaze, are you about to mount some magic again?
This is where he did it yesterday. All these boxes. Five bullets. Five bullets.
One in dream and now one kill left. Mikaze is on for it. Going for the jumps again.
Mikaze in pursuit of E-Round! That's great! That's magical!
Magical for Navi! E-Round and Mikaze is marching towards the trophy.
Oh
Well that half ended with Stockholm chanting Mikaze's name, an incredible 1v4 clutch from
the newest member of the Na'Vi team without a trophy to his name. He brings them one step
closer to the championship at ESL Pro League Season 23, 8-4 lead for Na'Vi.
And a real, real, incredible bounce back.
Absolutely insane. It's incredible as his teammates just looked to him and wonder why
the hell have they not had him in the roster sooner. Where was this guy? This is incredible
showing again from Mikasa yesterday he got the ace but made sure they were in the
grand final and he might just have won in the trophy with that kind of play I
mean with a look on the Aurora faces it feels just like it he just knocked the
soul right out of him in round 12 pissed around and all important if not just to
get Aurora a little bit of energy make a swing happen and get back into dust
two. Soul fly, and we're taking down opening kill from Mikaze, continuing to
frag as they get into the second half. Navi riding the wave and it's gonna be a
nine to four lead, a pistol round collected and Aurora still on the back
foot here on test two. And what can Mikaze do? He was blinded. Okay. Okay, we're just
Stylin' on him now, it's time to shame, and at long range, secures the pistol round.
A five round lead, and a lead in every facet of the game.
Doesn't matter what he does, he's gonna get the kills.
The one before, a blind kill.
Aurora cannot contain the Navi team that stepped into the server today.
And Dust2 is starting to feel just as ridiculous and dominant as Nuke was feeling at the end.
Tataras is going to be hit back by the utility.
Can no longer maintain that aggressive position towards top middle.
Walks at Copic to connect some shots to the doors.
But just won't.
It's going to be a long hit, Matt is going to be tested just around the corner waiting
with the MP9.
This is where the little gun does its best work up close and personal.
Lexi B on the other side.
Back stepping, Matt gets one, gets traded instantly by Mikaze.
Here's the scout of Wakadia trying to chime in but B is ready for the repeat.
Zantara is dead at long and Navi is going to be looking for 10 rounds and they will
find it in an instant.
This is just going to crumble.
Navi is never going to let you off the hook now.
Good tag, good kill from Woxic.
needs tons more. They would call this pull in a Mikaze if he could do it.
And dead to wonderful as he jumps on up. Bwaksyk plucked out of the sky. Three round wins away for Navi.
And they will watch him in the front of the stage again. For the first time since 2024 at this level.
Also the angle especially if your blade sitting back with the way the last year ended and the
calls for roster changes felt like that Navi roster had kind of hit its ceiling the end
of the road and blade was just saying the major was a turning point they understood they
could build something with this with the material they have the energy the results
the potential and we're starting to see some of that here and who knows what a trophy
can do for this team the confidence gained the confidence gleaned from big wins across
That's all the playoffs.
Sticking with his court.
Move to bring Mikaze for JL.
JL stepping back in.
What a revelation.
Mikaze turned out to be.
I'm going to pick up his first trophy.
And I'm sure Navi will let him pick it up.
Tublop set up here for Aurora.
It's played just like casually making a smoothie in the background.
Having a great time. All right guys a couple more and then I just loaded up the Instagram for another post
It's been a while since he's had to do that
Sure, this one will be his best yet
Look how do you looking for that deep drop? Oh good shot from Woxic. It can't get to the corner in time a
Double-up setup brought out a roll of bring out the big guns early because they got no time to waste
Well good start to the round here, bit is dead, Mikaze on 12 HP.
You want to begin the combat strong if it is to happen.
Well especially with the double-op setup right, keep as much of it alive, it's expensive
to spend the cash on all this, so losing it, losing one of them really really hurts.
But both ops have provided you an opening pick so now you can sit back on your heels,
walks it's back parked in the 8 bomb site.
Lakadia deep on the B platform,
there are no position to be in any kind of risk,
any kind of danger.
I think Navi might just save this,
to be honest with you.
Mikaza's 12 HP, still far back at T spawn,
Alexi and Hima backing off.
One of the pushback, the defense on short if it were there, but there's really no good avenues, and I think Alexi is just writing this one off.
So they'll concede a fifth round over to Aurora. The next danger is losing weapons to Major, but that's not going to happen.
So three players survive. Both of us remain in the field of play for Aurora.
And that's the strategy they've pointed to and picked out and said, this is what's going to bring us back.
This is the only thing that can start this comeback.
Well, the AK is on Tarz's hands. He's actually just peeking out that confirming that they're being watched it long.
So I'm going to allow those three AKs to be taken over into the next round here for Navi.
Okay, so an AWP is coming through.
Just a quick test. Just a little appetizer for what Aurora's defense is going to look like.
to look like and now that Blade and Alexi both know that the double off set up is
the chosen strategy I'd see a little bit more aggression towards the bomb sites
three players towards upper beam because they're joining up with them a little
bit late Alexi in middle they want to break in and walk the offs out but
That smoke kind of ruins their plans.
So we adjust.
Alexi's been brought down low in the meantime, 23 HP.
So he might spend this round being more passive,
watching flanks, watching for lurks,
commanding from the rear.
They've got mid control, nobody's peeking.
And they've got all the advantages
in terms of utility.
3 defenders at this B-Bomb site. Wakadia's all-back platforms on Taraz at car, Soulfly
pushing up behind the smoke. That leaves Major and Woxic alone over at A. Woxic's been excellent
in the series with the AWP. This is a lot to ask for. And they still haven't moved.
Aurora can assume they know what's coming. It looks like they have a good idea, but nobody's cheating.
There's the grenade going around the corner, and blasts SlyCZB out.
Madge on the hunt for a second and a third follow-up!
Madge just cuts out Na'Vi in this round.
Yeah, that's actually relatively... Okay, nice shot. That's fast from Wonderful.
That felt very sloppy for a Na'Vi round.
Ema's gonna try and open things up for Purple instead.
Hold on.
Hold on, Fall Apart. There's 12 seconds on the clock.
only one B player. They're coming to Soulfly. They're coming at him right now. Oh, wonderful!
Scott DeRee! Soulfly, hold on! So it's wonderful for a clutch. This would be the ace.
It's an incredible grand final. He knows he's got a chance, but it's the time, it's the problem.
He couldn't get the kill and made sure that he stayed hidden inside of the site.
Soulfly does a great job at staying composed there and not exposing himself to wonderful.
Yeah, that was that was critical. Really well done from Soulfly. You know, I'm not
sure what the call was. It felt like when that third Molotov came out, they were like,
like, alright, there's just a lot of people here, screw it, we'll fall back and unfortunately
they're just completely exposed to major while they're chucking out this fake and trying to
emergency drop into a mid to B split.
But Aurora will take each and every one of those rounds.
It doesn't matter. No matter how ugly, no matter how easy, no matter if it's a mistake
by Na'Vi or a win for Aurora, they just need rounds at this point.
Also in the D-1 to the lower tunnels, Riccardia handles.
You might without issue
Can you sure that it's wonderful to fall next?
Navi just collapsing in this round
Trying to stabilize so that money is what here for Aurora
When does this start getting too close for comfort if you're Navi 11 to 7 right now full round lead
This round you'll be able to buy and get the op over to wonderful if Alexi wants to pass it on
and he will
Timeout for Navi, the final timeout in regulation.
I don't think it's Panic yet, I think it's the final timeout to prevent that mode, prevent
that from feeling closer, right?
Blades like, I'm going to call it right now, we have four rounds to play with.
I don't want to call a timeout when we're already in trouble.
Wants to prevent them from getting into the situation.
No more double up on the CT side.
Wakadia never picked the second one back up, so it's only Woxic.
But these last two rounds played on the T side for Navi looked sketchy, disorganized, and
Aurora had their way with him.
So out of the timeout, Alachi's going to put Blade's plans into action.
AK-47s are surrounding the AWP going into a full buy of this CT side.
Aurora's comeback feels well and truly underway and a good tag on the cross.
up, Sawfly weakened. Instantly some favourable damage for Navi. Tentative for the time being,
no one moving their way into the middle from either side. Eventually Navi going to start
moving that way with the Molotov to prevent any aggression towards short.
And now taking control with utility.
So I'm sorry, here's this.
The sound cues of cat control.
Rotates back a little bit of a Molotov to delay things, but
Mikaze is already going to be past it.
And the myriad of fakes trying to pull the defense in different places is coming in mid-to-be smoke takes Santar's off the boxes
Which gives Mikaze the freedom at least close up to make a play
He's got the all better deep angle and that Molotov's gonna force him forward. Oh perfect flash
Mikaze gonna dive down and now a threat towards CT spot. It is the time here for Navi 30 seconds
I'm assuming Santar's heard that.
He's coming to check for it. Oh, McCarty's got his kills and Taurus taking away Bit also following up so the pressure is a walkstick at the
Capitation inside of the site going back to the long fight
But he's missed that one and now we're cardiac and saw a flight trying to prevent serious point from going against him
There's just so fly that can do that
He's coming back through short bit has got three kills already
And he's still got wonderful right beside him
But soft flight has put himself in a winnable 1v1
Yeah, that that smoke from wonderful is really really weak kind of ruined bit's day
But it was the Navi the newest addition in Navi at the end of the first half
Now you got the rookie the newest addition to a roar who's gonna have a crack at a clutch
He's lurch beat went is wonderful think that he's repositioned up towards the spawn and now he started with anybody
Navi have reached tournament point
12-7 here on dust 2
Plenty of chances for Narvi to close this one out.
Oh yeah, that timeout from Blade puts a really good work, good effect.
Tough for Woxic, just the worst timing for him to go and try and help Santar as out towards CT spawn.
As soon as he slides into the open, the hit begins, and then he's scrambling to recover the situation.
Once again, when a round is needed, Aurora switches into the double-op.
It opened up this half with the win,
And the Turkish shot is praying it's going to keep their dreams alive.
Walksake with the advanced angle, dropping Mikaze, sending out the hurts straight away,
good flash match, and spraying away but taking down.
Look at the damage he did to both of them without getting a single kill.
Dinksema brings him down to 10, does damage to pit down to 18.
Still up in the air for this round.
Got the information the soft flies pushed into the tunnels.
How did Na'Vi deal with that? So, Soulfly's actually backed away, so Wonderfull's going to get that information.
I'm interested how Bit's going to play long at the moment, just kind of creeped out at Blue Box, so he's going to stay patient, look for the re-aggress.
But at some point, does he turn into a lurk? Does he want to take some attention and be the aggressor to activate this B hit?
First things first, they got to get by Soulfly, and he's going to drop a Molotov. Ema can't run through that.
Oh, but he's got picked off!
Navi! Oh! Wonderfuls actually killed him. A team kill in the mix. Is that a sign of life here, Wokadia?
Right through the wall bang.
Okay, you gotta wait for Bit to play next.
Yeah, he has. From the back. Takes his kill.
Let's walk Stick down.
And now it's Ataris and Wokadia trying to keep their team in it.
How do you connect the pieces?
This is so much time that Wonderful has to play alone.
Yeah, these moves, Denny. He heard the jumping.
Up towards window, missed shot. From Wonderful.
And bit is so far away from this one.
Needed to land that one for Wonderful.
And now with the time and the bomb dropped inside of the site, it's a fortress that bit just can't penetrate.
Yeah, you can see he's just looking out on the ground for any smoke, any need that's been stockpiled.
And Op as well is recovered, so Bit gets out of here, making the best of a bad situation.
Almost a very cool round as Wonderful felt like that Op was going to bring it right back.
And Major desperately trying to get these guys all lined up for one last push
Once again the double-up setup buys him a lifeline a single around here
12 to 8 in the round 21 and for Navi it's an app on wonderful that was saved and pistols no money in the bank
Well, Aurora gonna hear that all pouring out.
I wonder what have Navi managed to put together here?
What kind of buy will they bring to the battle?
Aurora keeping their double off setup.
Mokadia was looking towards mid.
Just his wonderful steps into the angle.
he moves off. Zantara is the man hoping that he can shut this gap in mid.
Yeah, if you're Navi, you can use these pistols to bait, take some attention, you want wonderful
Zop, he has had the hot hand all day.
I cross into the open, Zantara is going to be taken down and yep, that's the wonderful
lock chime in him.
And that's the exact trade Navi's looking for, you can have the Glock player with
no armor. We'll take your M4 and CT spawn.
Ema and Alexi looking for the reaction out long.
The typical reaction that long player swings a little bit when the mid to B is pressured.
Now they're going to cross, but the smoke is fading.
They've got to make it in quick.
Yeah, we're caught here.
Got caught out of position.
He's got a USP.
He's going to go down.
All of a sudden, he's soul-flying.
He's only got an MP9.
Wonderful.
Take him.
Walks it down.
And a Na'Vi done it in this round.
35 seconds.
They didn't spot Major on the flank, but here's the footsteps.
With an AWP and pistols.
Na'Vi.
Wonderful!
They're back in it again here, Laura, Soulfly holding on in the likesie bee.
He's just got a clock, and Soulfly will bring him down.
So wonderful, nailing shots, just not the one that mattered there.
He had that one in the previous round where it felt like it was a shot.
He was going to hit, that's back-to-back rounds, but he's had an otherwise stellar day.
Just weird seeing him miss the ones that felt, feel easy.
That kill on Major would have ended deciding, deciding killing this round, I feel.
but Major gets away with one.
12-9, a bi-return here for Navi,
but this time they do not have the wonderful AWP.
It's gonna be four rifles, one of which are Galio,
and a Mk10 for good.
It's not ideal for Navi.
No, but I mean, look what they just did with an AWP and pistols,
you know, you could scrape it together here.
The Mk10, almost able to find a kill,
brings Tantara's down very low,
and Mkaze doesn't want him to get away.
He'll take the Molotov damage
for the chance of just cleaning up the kill.
So 5v4 for Aurora.
Win this round, and off he won't have much money.
And this will likely fall to the final round of regulation.
Aurora staying in it.
But they're coming at the B bomb site.
They're coming at Soulfly.
He's going to be waiting on the back of the platform.
He can call for Wakadia to come help him with the AWP.
But once again, it is the rookie tested.
Lurk smoke, trickles on out, utility at the ready, and here come Navi, battering down
the B bomb site, Wakadia is committed into the bomb site, so flies dead, can Navi do
it here and now?
Wakadia feeling the pressure, losing team meds and Navi are into the site, seconds
away from the trophy lift.
and Maju have to pull off a retake
But once again it is heartbreak in the final for this Turkish squad but two big goals for Maju and now wonderful
How fitting
The player who's been stepping up all day long the final care
Making the most of this opportunity
a new title lifter in 2026, and Navi make the most of their chance.
Well, they said at the end of the year they felt the potential in this lineup, and they're
awarded here today for this moment and a big hope for Mikaze, MVP level performance across
the entire tournament, and his first trophy of his professional career.
The newest player of Navi was the driving force behind this victory, and for a wonderful
brief moment of respite. From the criticism because today he stepped up. He was a monster,
a force in the server. And Navi, they bring yet another trophy into the cabinet, one of
the most decorated organizations in Counter-Strike. They remain at the top.
It's been a long time since you've seen Navi lift a trophy. But for the first time since
It's 2024. Navi will return to the front of the Tier 1 stage.
Your ESL Pro League Season 23 champions, it's Navi!
Okay, no mentality, easy win.
Do we need to say any more? Make some more noise here! For that it's been seared!
Mikazi, tell me some of that emotion man. You've got confetti flying everywhere. There's people in here screaming. They love watching you play. How do you feel?
Well, I'm feeling insane good.
Yes.
Tell me about playing against Aurora today. Did they put up the fight you expected?
Yes, they play good, but we shoot hard also. It was our day and we just destroyed them.
And that is the way it goes sometimes. Bitt said there's no vitality here.
Bitt, I'm going to ask you this, man. I know you've already prepped your next Instagram post.
I know it's ready to go. It's already drafted.
Tell me, how do you feel in this moment? Are you proud of your boys?
Amazing. Yes, I'm really proud because it was important for us to get everyone some win.
because for a long time it's our trophy and I'm really proud that we finally have a positive sign in our past.
You guys like Blaine?
Damn right you do! Champions!
Gentlemen, is there anything you'd like to say? You're the victors.
Nope? Hey, there's a quiet type over there. Let's do just that.
Mikaze, take the honors. Go sign that lens for me, buddy.
The champions of ESL Pro League Season 23!
Mabii!
and that they have 518 days to be exact since Navi's last tier one counter strike trophy.
And from Mkazee, the new gun on the spot, his first trophy at tier one level and a crazy
performance, Jango, here tonight.
Yeah, absolutely so. Navi taking care of business, bit-setted, vitalities in here.
Some other teams were though, but they also sort of didn't live up to the expectations,
the likes of Maus and Team Spirit and the absence of all those teams.
Now he goes through the ranks and got the job done.
In fact they come in from online, they're in a 2-2 game, right?
They had to get past 3D Max just to get to this portion and then able to run through
the Mongols foot and then Aurora here in the grand final.
Very fitting to have wonderful close things down there in that almost match attempt
on that B-Ritae.
Wonderful was clutch all day.
That's the level of performance that you hope to get out of this keep time and time again
And I love that sentiment from blade as well
The fact that this is a trophy that they need to be brilliant still in confidence going towards range 26
Sure as we've talked about no vitality no Falcons at this very tournament
But you can only beat the teams are in front of you and this was a great display for me
That's key right season the opportunity Mouson's spirit couldn't do it
They came into this bracket
It's meant to be wide open for that grand final and now via played some class counter strike throughout
And I think you take a look at something with Mikazi coming from the Academy roster
Come straight in he's been what eight months within his team and they found this level of success
Sure, it's gonna come with those caveats. We just discussed but he plays like a top-tier player
There's no doubt about that. Yeah, and I think it's important
You know caveats aside two things first of all wonderful had a really strong playoffs and an incredible grand final
Right and if he can be somewhat more consistent, it's hard to determine. It's last year to you know
the Major, Cologne was good for him, right? So that would mean a lot in terms of the
firepower which is something that Blade was vocal about too as something that is perhaps
holding them back and second of all just being able to with the pressure of the playoffs and
you being the favorite in a lot of these matchups to sort of justify that and win still with
pretty good margins. I think it's important for this Navi team.
I know it's key about the margins here. You look at the series overall they lose
I feel like they could've won that match, so they had to draw it back, but the other three are pretty dominant and the scoreline down the end here.
You can see Majo attempting to try and bring a little fire into the team with round after round. They were winning, but all in all, it was Navi's to close.
But they almost won that eco with the same AWP was telling just how tense it was for Aurora on the other side.
A bit looking like a bit of a ball, so they were to throw a few over his shoulder.
But yeah, you hope this is what unlocks them now because we're looking at a scene that needs to find itself being more competitive to take down that on vitality.
on Vitality and if Na'Vi can put themselves in that conversation probably adding another name
to that list which is at the moment I would say dwindling. Yeah absolutely it's problematic right
and it's up to Na'Vi who have always been a team that's been able to do more with less right like
they do not have the superstars you're not how it is one of those teams they're tired as a team
that plays very good Counter-Strike fundamentally sound tactically very sound and it's just
able to, has a very high floor and is able to grind out some of these games to come out on top.
It feels like with Mikazi over the jail roster, I understand position changes,
but they have a more consistent pro bar. They have a man who loves to get stuck in with the
aggression, but he's not over peaking, he's not taking, the fact he was that 1v4 clutch as well,
right? He's put himself in the shot window, not only as an opener, but as a closer,
and it's great to see that class level chemistry as the celebrations come in.
So congratulations to Navi, they add another EPL trophy to that list.
I'm really happy to see him back
in winning form as well because
if you're just a pure
counter strike enjoyer that's a
kind of bit you want to see it
feels like the franchise player
over there, right? So everyone
floating with all you know,
roster changes here, roster
changes there. Bits one that I
think the number you're going
to make sure they keep their
hands on and I great to see
the celebrations there, but on
that other side of emotions from
Aurora. They were doing their
best to try and stay in it,
but I think they're going to
have to be able to do it
They were doing their best to try and stay in it,
but this is a tough battle for them.
Steps have been taken, but Navi are your champions.
Well, we all have our suspicions in it.
It's time to find out just who will be our DHL MVP.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls across the world,
your DHL MVP is Mikaze!
Yo, Mikazi, you keep trying to take this trophy,
before it's time man why I'm excited it's my first understood so you're the
DHL MVP you and Navi come all the way to a grand final there's a lot of
question marks about Navi this that or the other but you guys do it here how
do you feel I'm feeling good and thank you are just good just good just good
All right, cool. Let your DHL MVP. It's Maccazi
Yeah, he's gonna be feeling damn good in this
EVPs to his name but this is his first MVP taken home with him and yeah a huge step in a
Direction for the newest player from Navi who we didn't know exactly how he was gonna fit into the roster
But you're so right chat. He's not a liability
Incredibly gifted play. It's a funny row. It's just how green he is. Yeah, I'm excited
you know it's cute to see because some of these younger faces they're coming out on these stages and they're just doing the thing
They love was your play counter strike right and there's not a lot of bravado necessarily in the interviews
But there is in the server and that's what we take away from this right how to for these players handle themselves
He's with an experienced roster a major winning team
He's come up from the academy right and he's able to beat the star player to lift a trophy like this
And when you put yourself in the shoes and you think how that must feel. Yeah, I'm sure it is good
I think there's probably a lot more words he wishes he could use to express himself there, but yeah, congratulations. They've been very good
I think obviously it's been a meteoric rise for MacAze right even in the Navi junior days
He was the standout performer then moves over to the main roster and has impact pretty much straight away, right?
Which culminates here at TSL probably with an MVP
Performance and yeah that Navi Academy man. They're they're onto something. Yeah, it's monestee
to be, Mikaze, right? Not so shabby. 100%. For the likes of Aurora on the other side
of things, you touched upon a jab when we saw the medals going around their necks, Mikadea
immediately taking off that second place. This has got to be a really tough moment for
you because on both sides of the equation, we were saying this is set up for either
to be taken the trophy, but yet again for Aurora, so do the fingers. All these moments
where these players take off these medals, man, it's like how many more finals you
You think you want to be in Riccadia also?
I understand the moment, right?
I understand the moment. It's like everyone was frustrated that you didn't win,
but whoever did this, I simple did it first, of course.
Which is like, you know, makes sense for him and for the situation that he was in.
But these players need to maybe think it through a little bit more before they go for it, right?
Like you should be appreciative of the run that you've had and how deep you've been able to go
in the tournament in their case, specifically with the roster change and everything.
They put up a good fight. They just were outmatched today,
nothing to be ashamed of.
He has been in that situation a lot of times.
Well, not in the finals, right?
This is especially in this environment.
They give out medals from 5th to 8th.
This is where you take a look.
In the moment, you can understand.
Yeah.
You can understand the emotions
because these are competitors that we're talking about.
You either win or it's nothing.
You want to be the best of the world.
Exactly.
So in the moment in a series, they're in the best of five.
They had some chances,
but they also had a lot of clutches that they lost.
A lot of situations that I think in review, you would win.
But you talk about the pressure and the pressure is the stress and the stress
Right, it's gonna make you make choices and lack of choices that you normally would be having with ease
So extremely frustrating in the moment and one for Maga. I think for an in-game leader
He's level of output and that the grounds he's helping them win is great
He's also trying to be that emotional Tasman for the team
Whereas you have to really look at the star of Turkish counter strike for all this time and look at the last two
Maps and think where was he?
I think it was 12 kills over two maps and he's meant to be the superstar from that region and in games like this
This is where you make a name for yourself. And that's where you really reinforce
What you're meant to be and and this is obviously disappointing for Aurora because sure we go 30,000 feet
We take a look in a couple days. You sit and go these are great steps
They had some wins on a stage that did it in the environment where they traditionally struggled and now they met
It's the grand final. They had some good wins some gritty wins
But right now it's gonna
I can argue I mean dust to they lose both pistols and centaurs as a frags right like and they lost on one before to Macaas it
But that's it. That's the map for you. So I can then you can look back and say oh if we just played a little bit better individually
If he had a slightly better start
We might have been able to take this into a fifth and we were talking about the maps
It was always going to be a struggle and mirage and nuke for them
Against Navi
I'm hoping that something like this win for Navi and even the step-staker from Aurora starts to elevate them within the
top 10 and I don't mean rankings, I mean in terms of competitive pecking order.
Now Vitality's at the top, I think Fury is still somewhere in that conversation
even though they've been on a bit of a downtrend, but Maus is starting to slip
further and further, right G2, okay now they're in a different orbit, they've
just had a roster change. So the status quo is shifting and you wonder if this
marks the pivot point in the season. Blade spoke about it important to get
a win like that to show that they are growing, they are evolving and when we
spoke about Maus or Spirit having to take the opportunity to win the
trophy while Vitality's not here, those teams couldn't do it while Na'Vi could.
So is this the opening of the door for Na'Vi in the season to be much more competitive?
Do we see them in more finals?
Only time will tell.
But if they play Counter-Strike, we're wonderful as looking clutch,
and Mekaz is on point, and you get that third string.
Maybe it's an Emma map, maybe it's a Bitmap.
There's opportunities for this team to be much more competitive throughout.
It's need a deeper map to be really able to contend.
I think that's what's holding them back as well at the moment.
And I don't know, for these contenders, it seems like they just take turns
Who's gonna be good at one tournament and all the other teams won't it was fury a who did it in crack
How right and inclusion was no one really
Barrage and all kind of right, but everyone else didn't show up spirit wasn't even there
Kind of didn't even arrive here really like that's a that was five weeks between land matches for spirit for them to be super deflated
Why did they pick to be teammate in the veto like tell me these things like all these geniuses out there?
You know for telling you
Somehow you make it about that in this very moment. I love you anchor never change
Either way Aurora going home with the silver medal so let's get a few closing thoughts because he imagined trace
It's the unfortunate part of the show where we do say goodbye to Aurora
They will be finishing ESL Pro League in second place behind that of Navi a major so graciously joining me here at the end of the road
But let's talk about it, Major.
What happened in the series, and you're on one?
I think we lost two maps that, generally, we don't play very good, so it was normal for me.
I told my boss after 1-2, we lost Mirage and Nuke, and for me it was okay,
but we have to win Dust2 and Inferno.
But I feel like after losing Nuke, the team, mentally, we are a little shut down.
We have not the same energy on this too and the body language and the face maybe you can show it from outside
I try my best to
fire up everything but I didn't have energy enough because I was also focusing on myself here good trying to good
Calling extra so I tried to do my best, but I've broken you
Lotta tough situations in the game. You know for your lineup
they're not held as like one of the longest standing longest running everybody
should know exactly how they work in the server or not work in the server you got
young guys like Soulfly who are just making stage appearances right so tell
me a little about the growth that you see with Aurora at this point yes when
when you talk about big pictures I think we're doing better and better but
like I feel like they have you you know but the first time it's it's hurt but
this time it's more I don't know why
and that's all I can say I think because if there's a time to beat Navi it's
probably right now I think if there's a time to beat Navi it's probably about
right now right that's probably why it hurts it was it was I think the
biggest chance that I have to win a trophy like against them generally but
I really give everything I have but it was not enough and thank you for my teammate also.
We all give our best, but sometimes don't happen, you know, and that's nice.
Major, this is that part of the show where you can say whatever you want, man.
You know how it goes.
Yeah, I'm very sad.
We're broken also because my family, my kids, was watching and my wife and all my family.
I'm sorry for them.
I love you guys, thank you so much.
I appreciate the words as always coming out of Majer there.
Just to go back to his first question as well, or the first answer, would you rather,
just in terms of having to do it all, it sounded like that's what he felt like in this game,
managing the guys, having to carry that emotional level, having to call the tactics as well.
We touched on it at the start of the series right and I feel that a lot of emotion at least in the positive senses spent trying to gee ups and
Taras and when he has to absolute sink is back to back
You could see it on wikadia right not the metal being taken off but coming into these games
He's after pistol round lost up ahead in hand and and I think right there the mental was signed that we have definitely discussed a lot of with Aurora
What are we clapping yanker under applause for team liquid and sixty-five hundred dollars in prize money for every little helps 18th place in the tournament
At least they're losing here, has them changed roster, that's a positive.
How many times is Aurora going to lose a game in the playoffs
before they realize they cannot afford to be emo after loss during the series?
Like how many times am I going to be in a series?
Yeah, but...
Oh, it's fine, like we're sitting here saying it's okay, like it makes sense for them to lose
Mirage and Nuke, Major knows it, you're still in the game, you have a decent chance,
that's true, on Inferno.
Oh, but everyone got emo after Nuke.
It's like people didn't have good energy for Dust2.
These two maps you actually have a pretty good shot on.
Like you can be still competitive in this final.
And then like we run out of energy.
Aurora, you do not have the luxury of not having energy,
having bad vibes.
Because you don't have superstars who can bail you out.
Like you need to do it as a team.
You need to have that camaraderie in the lineup.
Like you need to be picking yourself up,
hyping each other up,
because you need to be more than the sum of your parts.
And they haven't understood that by this point, they never will.
I don't know if they have a mental coach, right? I think that's one of the things they would do.
They need a mental team, right? But this is it. They need to have somebody outside.
They need the Avengers or sports psychologists.
This is so obvious to see, right?
There's teams that wear their harm, their sleeve, or the body language,
just telling of the atmosphere within the server.
And that right there...
It's so tiring, man.
Yeah, I know.
This is not 2016 anymore, right?
Like, where players are just, we'll do whatever we want.
will not talk to each other during the game and still somehow win the game right and do mental stuff like that
It's a you need to be professional need to understand what it takes to win
Especially for players that have been around for so long like major voxic and zantara's have been around for 10 years now
It longer than that longer that for magia for sure
But this is what it's like. Okay, so that's the tool factor sets in a few things are happening
One you get more half some parts are blaming each other the other people are shutting down and not communicating
Yeah, right and either of those things take away from you being able to play your C game
Let alone your your B or your a game right and then you have on the other side in terms of emotions and all of this
Winning an event like this the flip side. They won the event. I know but on bookers not like this
Nothing change. No, this is the thing though
The biggest thing was them taking steps on a stage and this is arena lights
They were able to win some games, but you bang on that mentality in these games can't happen for Navi
We've seen them
You know be down in the dumps and pick themself up
But they also know what it takes to win in an environment like this or bigger
And that's why for them the emotional side is not about okay
Like there's gonna be lots of learnings from this you look at the run
It's not the most impressive in world Counter-Strike, but the confidence from winning
Right how does that set up the rest of season? That's my biggest question and one that we can't really answer
Is this graphic just production telling us you're wrapping up?
I'm running out of things to show like 900 emails in my inbox.
Yo, straight into that phone, you all, Chad.
Yes, if there's a way I can like back.
You clear out your inbox.
Can you just do reply all and say, guys, I expect you to vote for me at the...
That would have been a great idea.
I didn't think about that.
Yeah, look, I'll see if I can come up with...
Yeah, all right, we'll see what we can work with.
Yeah, yeah, we'll draft that.
All right.
We'll draft that.
Thank you so much for joining us up here, Chad.
I know like I get this once a year that you're I don't know. This isn't like a traditional
Right, it's just not it's not a test, but it is a desk. Yeah, it's great. It's great. I thoroughly enjoy it
She's not an analyst is a pundit. Yeah, yeah
Thanks, Tom Eric. Uh shout out to him one time as uh look it's always fun doing different things right doing interviews the other day
It's always true. It's fun. What's been your favorite part of this EPL Chad?
What does it mean?
Well, I think a plan rats.
That's why Henry said it was his favorite style.
I'll take him there.
No, I think when we did the quad cast setup, what we started to do with that was it was
a, it's just, you know, a group of friends on account having a chat about counter strikes.
You know, expanded from the try cast to the quad cast.
So that was fun.
Different dynamics going on there.
But I think if I'm going to be honest, the biggest improvement of this season of
EPO is being back in an environment like this.
Counter strike getting what it deserves.
He's played on land and has played with fans watching going nuts having some beers on a Sunday. So that's what it's all about
So, yeah, I think that is the mic drop moment. Honestly
There's been a great
Whatever we do we cannot have ever six people casting at the same time. We're about 12
Not a good bit my least favorite bit. Thank you, Yango for just being here, I guess
Thank you to everybody watching out there. Thank you to everybody who joined us in Stockholm.
This was lovely. This kind of reminded me of how I first got into Counter-Strike with this kind of intimate land settings.
It was amazing. And I've always, thank you so much to the production crew. You've done a fantastic job.
As always, we'll see you very soon. And I'll be in Rio.
Bye.
Okay, first of all, let's take a mic test just quick, Vigo.
Yeah, what's up, what's up?
Love.
Yeah, what's up?
Uh, Hux.
Yeah, what's up, what's up?
Jacob.
Yeah, what's up, what's up?
Gutiust.
Yeah, what's up, what's up?
Alright.
Hux, he doesn't need a muscle.
Wraith in the ring for a baddie shut down and a heart attack for...
If Astralis won the chance, cover the tie.
Yabi's got his time running low and time is the problem.
There's the shut down and Astralis getting done.
Third place to check.
You can't hold me down, no, you can't hold me back
I am a butterfly burning, a light of the land
This will be the cherry on top, and then you press it
There's the back turn, there's one for Waccadia
Hearing that snap, wonderful! It's down to just one more!
He put this one together, wonderful!
Nice!
Nice!
Nice boy!
Oh boy!
Come on!
He just peeked out, gets the kill.
The full one peek in for Mokadia up against Fred, and Mokadia's got it done!
Eight rounds for Aurora!
And they both look to his half of the bombers to the ground, but Mokadia ignites with a chance!
But he's not looking for the wrap-around in Makazia!
That is a big moment!
A lifeline given to Aurora!
One kill left!
Makaze is on for it!
Going for the jumps again!
Makaze in pursuit of...
Oh, that's a lie!
This kid is re-entrical!
Re-entrical for Navi!
Oh!
Get it! Get it!
And now, wonderful outfit.
The player who's been stepping up all day long.
The final kill!
And wonderful security!
It'll be Navi making the most of this opportunity.
Man, maybe next time, right?
Anyway, Chad looks nice today.
Yeah, Bits said there's no vitality here, no problem.
I mean, he's not exactly wrong here.
Let me just hop right over here this way.
Hello, everybody.
It's me again.
It's the end of the ESL Pro League's 23rd season, and we're going to take this opportunity
to talk to the people that will be.
Give us a picture you're taking.
Oh, no, I have...
Oh!
Wait, sorry.
That's our lovely analyst, Martin.
Okay.
you share the trophy congratulations how do you feel thank you very much I feel
sleep deprived and I want to go to sleep instantly okay extremely happy that we
won it was tough against food especially today we have a really good prep so I'm
happy to go to the fifth map and that's it
thank you for the sport guys
to everyone thank you
Alright guys, I'm ready to start looking over the demos and how it is to get started on
something.
What's your opinion?
It's going to be fun.
I don't know.
I can't read.
I can't read.
That's the joke.
How do you feel?
Wonderful.
You're good?
I'm wonderful.
I like that.
It's true.
You are wonderful.
Congratulations, man.
Anything you want to say?
I like that.
I like that.
Wonderful. Congratulations, man.
Anything you want to say to the people at home?
Yeah, just thank you for the support.
That's all.
Thanks, hon.
Sorry.
Oh, I didn't see you there, Mikaze.
Hey, Mikaze.
Congratulations, man.
Feeling thank you yet?
Yeah.
We were here.
See, I've been waiting on this whole time.
Ema, it's always a blessing, buddy.
Congratulations.
Very much congratulations.
up was this you don't want to speak with him oh yeah in fact I think only good not
thank you just good that's what I'm seeing hey so let's talk about our fun a
little bit you know a little pressure here on Navi to perform in the server a
lot of expectations in the Navi jersey so tell me about maybe the finals here
and winning.
I mean we spoke about it like whenever we started this season that we like to look like
a contender.
Obviously Vitality was not here but apart from them like they were very good teams and
they got upset by some teams and overall I think we did a very good job and then
maybe this win will help us put some like good fights in other tournaments with Vitality
there.
Putting the weight back in the Navi side of things because you guys had this major
run right we got three four things get a little weird again then there's a run are
you looking for consistency yeah we are looking to to get back in our 2024 let's
say and then I think the only thing that we were missing sometimes was
confidence and for sure this tournament will give us confidence you're the
victor you want to say anything you're the winner of the tournament you
know I don't know if you they told you yet but you're the winner of the
tournament you want to say anything yeah easy cut fuck you haters yeah we talked
to everybody on the stage now it's time to talk these guys yeah what do you show
me that for you know only pixel yeah anything you want to say to only pixel
right now. You should have just hold on to it. You know. Only snooze you lose. He fucked
up. And if you don't know, now you know. Please, next, next, what we got going on down here.
Navi fans? How you feel? It's good, it's nice. Perfect win. Better into the weekend
than Aurora winning, right? I didn't catch that. Perfect. How many deep are you?
How many you got?
Hold, Lavi, except for wonderful.
So I need everybody.
Yeah, you almost have everybody.
Huh.
Oh, you only need wonderful.
All right, yeah.
I'll tell you what.
Let's do just that.
Wait one second.
Yo, yo, wonderful, wonderful.
Wonderful, we need a big signature, man.
Please, please, my big fan.
Big fan, literally anywhere.
Right there next to SoulFloor, man.
You played great today, wonderful.
We appreciate you.
Thank you, thank you.
Nice, thank you very much.
And that's the end of ESL Pro League season 23.
I'm gonna go get this back to its rightful owner.
And right here, right now, I think it's that guy.
So I'm just gonna give it back to him real quick.
Thanks for watching.
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So nice.
So nice.
And cats.
I don't know how to listen to this.
And that's what it is!
That is a meme!
I'm never gonna win!
We don't know who's going to face the top!
We're the way!
It's a perfect end!
It's a tough end!
This is madness!
When I was 11, they said that I can be one of the best players in the world.
I chose to go full serious.
Just the sacrifice that I wanted to make to become the best.
Of course, it's a huge deal to be high-aeron-faced.
The best advice is that you need to love the game, in the end I'm going to be a good player.
First steps are calling the flood like night
Girl, some more blood to tarry to fight
And I knew I had my shack second skin
Crack my soul, I am silent, singing
No one's there to be found
Glad it's me, just the truth I'll show
You trace my name when they ash on the floor
Still I don't know who I'm aching for
Your hands were fire, but your heart stoned
Now every touch just cuts to the bone
In my mind, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a second skin
You