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Very short centric.
Yeah, it's blocked now. How are you going to come through this?
You need this Alexi Flash?
Robs can mantle up. He's actually going to be playing on the new box.
They're going to have to come through this.
Flash and go.
Emma McCarthy, what can you hit?
Bit could be the late piece tracked by Robs.
Can't hit it. USP connects.
It's Mezzi on the side with a lot to deal with.
Does well.
Finds the head of Alexi. A quick tap to McCarthy.
Oh, Mezzi!
Great start there.
Standard start before Vitality
and how they approach these Dust 2 T-side pistols.
you take a log that prep would have been done. Now he would have been expecting something similar,
but you never know where they're going to go off the back of those opening you to.
Apex finds this open up. And around this event, they've been very tough as far as the pistol rounds
are concerned. In the bottom three teams of Atlanta, and their second round conversions are pretty
rubbish as well. This team, they're not hurt, they're not wounded. They're just in second gear.
So this is an important one. I wonder where now we know they've been vulnerable.
can they cause another foot fault for Vitaliy on these second rounds, especially on the T side.
So they've had a really rough go of things.
Especially considering that it's that wonderful scout.
If he can start as he needs to go on, hit a couple of those body shots,
stop with them up for the 5-7s and deagles to close down.
Calzzie B, imminent that A rotating right here.
He's going to join on that side of the map.
It's a three-strong.
Alexi Bara's down and long, and then wonderful with that scout you mentioned.
So they're doing what would be a gun round setup and now it's just less and starting to waltz into a mid to B
The stack is in the right place. Yeah, they'll block tons and able to mccase to join bit focusing on this beam ram side
Kase takes a little bit of fresh shit distracts enough nice headshot from this mccase
Second round
They have been absolutely rubbish at these throughout the event 40% second round conversions
And that number is just going to tank even further.
The stack perfect display.
He's going to be happy with that one.
I have to force my back quick.
I don't need a 1400 and this was way too easy.
These are the times around that Vitality are known for winning.
And I'll be sneak one away early.
The forces in very deep with Centric.
Three of those light on the U2.
Apex with the scout flames with a tech nine.
This one's going to be tough.
Look at the buy on the other side.
Good to see some conviction in his gameplay.
This is a forward position.
They're planning to disrupt the default forward position.
Alexi B draws attention, fights to the left,
and sets up in there for the swing.
A trade attempt and Flamesee rounds already over.
Couple bullets running him down.
Robbs doesn't get a chance to even reload as Tezzan Eagle.
Double kill from Alexi and Inna on the short side.
Wonderful. Now you're going to see them down to an E-car.
should be a 3-1 start for Naveed.
Don't expect them to slip up against this,
and it means they're going to be able to build
even more cash going forward.
Run so far for the World Members,
still a win of a passion, win of a game of legion.
That one was tough, and then I lost a legacy
to give us this bracket.
That's an absolute mess.
That conversation about this team being beatable.
If you're able to take them down here,
even if you're not playing that best CS,
confidence going into the major right around the corner might be all
Navi needs.
Again, more! Just feeding wonderful!
And that's it! That's roughly the goals!
Buffy himself very good with an ego bash.
Look at how quick these last three rounds have been.
And in those three rounds, the casualties just won that Navi have taken.
So do you want to call back into things Apex or something fast to continue with
this total? Do you want to slow it down?
He's there with the FP9, he's able to match him to stop him, and by the entrance, a combination
of FP9 bullets and the Molotov flames, now the double lead.
Nobs catches Alon on his chin, and the XE8 die, swaps out to the side, arms are spammed,
There goes Skull!
This gun runs over already!
How many casualties? Is that still only one in four rounds?
Four rounds of one kill for Vitality, and this is all happening in the blink of an eye.
You can get away from your quick, you're down to another partial.
I feel the confidence speak.
Building now, this is just rapid heads up CS.
Sean, a buying pattern, not great, but we'll see this partial.
I think it's a good one. It's
a good one. It might be an
extra time out going into the
following. Remember, it was up
next. We've seen the full
thoughts for vitality on the
end this tournament. I guess
that. But.
For a good 47. So now he's
looking on to how many of them
and there's no wonder for the
mix just yet. So once that comes
down to play.
This has been rapid.
In pursuit of their 22nd consecutive top four, last time they didn't make one was at Bounty in season one of 2025.
That's not only those streaks, you take a look, they've only lost to two teams all year.
One of them was Bedburn, on the two occasions it was out of Falcons.
It starts in 2026. They are 75th and 12 in maps, so 70 wins, 12 losses. As far as series
are concerned, it's 31 series wins, so three series losses, that's it.
Well, set up for an A attack.
Well timed in Sendier. Flazy gonna go regardless.
Out of the Utah span from Wandaful, will remove a pitch from the park.
And the partner from Flazy's looking the right way to stare in a goose.
The goose lags for Hobbs. Shanks now, cracks the skull of the legsie.
It's all he's going to get though a consolation prize a little bit of bloodshed
Because this round's going now these way once more wonderful putting that AK to good use
Shards finds another it's locked the door behind him
Best case he gets out with bits rifle
Yeah. Worst case he goes down after time. He needs to die and bits running away from
here, turning the screws or the finance. You just go away. Robson's going to get the
lost bonus. You said he got 1900! That's it! All right. You want to play those silly
games? Navi are happy with a blush. You get a couple of frags. Sure. No lost bonus. Go
into this next one. You'll be able to get a go little bit of U2. It's not there. Ex-as
Take the time out, and an enemy territory right now.
Last time, are you alright? X-Tas understands this is an emergency meeting.
Yeah, getting it going in quick. Just so few frags, but it's been a landslide of five straight.
Bomb hasn't gone down on any of those. No open kills. Nothing to note.
Murphy are in the flow state at the moment. How long can this last?
Last the conversation being once it gets to the playoffs,
Funtali starts to play some of their better counter strike.
Upside they're not here to waste time.
Showing a bit of weakness before the major would be
signed of blood in the water for all the other teams with Cologne just around the corner.
So timeout down, remember, Rops is finances low.
This is going to look the upper tunnels as everybody else.
We're getting outside long. Do they want to try and pop again?
Nezzy's here flanking too. Zaheer joining in. Apex has the flashes at the ready.
He tried this once and Alexi B completely shut it down.
He's having a bit of a different tempo.
Making sure there's no top mid to crash. They're not pounding into lower.
They're not pushing up towards palm tree and that wonderful AWP is a quip.
Now, Emma is the man I want you to keep your eyes on.
It's the Joker in this situation.
This is your A rotating right fly. Alexi will take contact first, and Imma might go overlooked.
Powerful off angle from Alexi B. You don't see this one all too often. He's going to eat the flashbang.
Inflash!
Yeah, all for the both of them. Alexi gets nothing, help.
Little air far, Imma goes, set up to succeed!
Just body shots from Messi, so sketchy from the individuals of Narvi.
That's given Vitality a hefty advantage.
I can't claw this back. I know it's a 3v5, but the mental is going to take a bit of a hit.
Nicole was right. The set up was perfect. The execution was poor.
to the left. 45 a split. That's
wonderful. Maka Z and big well.
Two of them. The bee holders
wonderful. Going to evacuate.
This might just be around handed
over. Hold on this financial
advantage they have for a while.
Maka Z Spams away at slow and
steady. Not a vitality, but by
the looks of things, this one is
secure. Is Rops going to look for
a hunt? They need to get their
It's a good call.
The far more than the execution.
Five, six, two.
Guns retain, still plenty of cash to buy behind this, don't you worry about that.
The flash where he can see Sloppy the second one completely blinds up. I think that's messy on the way out lucky flamethrower
Here's standards as far as 2026 is concerned has not been having that the same level of tournament
Opportunity to turn that around in a playoffs. It's that boom up next for either of these two
For vitality, I'm sure that they would love a little bit of revenge from the groove stage
Now they take a time out off the back of X-Taz's
So just one adjustments and one of them
You can see it here, double AWPs.
As he has a good longspawn,
Simon doesn't have his all.
That advantage lies on one side of the server, wonderful.
High straight apply for Nabi throughout Atlanta so far.
It's good that he's in fine form.
That's a double-smote long corner.
They have some mis-coms for Vitality early.
Can be behind that incendiary, misthrow and gave him an angle.
This neighbor takes away Apex's name all over it.
Like, smattering of chip damage. Unconfirmed.
Interesting that they have started a bit with the AWP over to Wards A as opposed to one of them.
He's just posted up on B in case of a pump he's playing ahead of any U-Till bar.
We'll lose vision because of this lurk smoke now deployed by Rops.
Look at the reroute.
Raid Art shows you that they were leering towards Long applying a lot of pressure.
Maybe that double smoke was intentional.
Did land in different positions and the B-Pomp being lined up now.
They're not going to come down to how good the flashes are.
Well, how good Mikaze and Wonderful are.
Well, look at the U2 between the two of them. It's just a HE.
That smoke's deployed now. They're not going to have anything to stall.
The flashes all lined up. Here they come.
spies. It's a good recovery for Vitality. They could have been a little bit shell shocked
after the second round loss. And then just that landslide where they weren't even doing
damage. But now they're in it and well, they might be able to get a couple of exits here.
I should cover them. Alright, now they're starting to accumulate a little bit of cash.
I've always been able to scavenge himself in AWP.
They come in as he goes down.
GG.
Funny thing, it's more for the show.
Do you see that thing on flair this time?
Because it goes well with the first right through out of nades,
it's not really helpful for wonderful with the AWP, right?
He smoked off, appearing through window that already scoured further than he had thought.
We're back under way.
So, we've run as off a shot on the cross.
Nice scouting, just a Mach 10.
Four out of five players on RV do have head armor, so it's wonderful that the only one that is going to be extremely potent against, and it looks like they're lining this up once more.
It's just going to be a double pump, and they've really just been a force to issue on the Kansi side.
This time he has more utility to work with. Could be a defensive smoke dropped in at his feet.
Door smoke in. Just flashing the flashes.
Here we go. Mikase, he's gonna throw a good send. They're gonna come ahead of that.
He's on the site, begging for backup. Fully blind and there's the M10!
Flames, he's swift with it!
So nimble, just charges into the site. Mikase, we saw his frustrations on the camp.
It's only going to be exacerbated now as they've had the audacity to just do it again.
Well, you know what that means. Once more, everyone's favourite four-letter word.
A save comes in once more.
Flanzie picks up that AWP, he denies it from them scooping it up again
and even gets himself an upgrade into an M4, so everything's done in that round by Flanzie.
This man...
...is great on the entries, but it's because of the well-awed machine that Vitality is, right?
He has so much trust in the flash of these teammates are throwing.
Now we should go in first if you know the enemy is going to be blind.
and this is a recovery and a half. 5-4, the score will reap.
I think Flames uses well what those players, when you talk about flight parts.
If you watch his demos, you'll see every decision, every part he chooses into a site is deliberate
and is taking into account the system, the supporting vitalities, flashes, the smokes, the timings.
He seems to nail it.
All right, round ten.
As he has long spawns, they also join by
looks at apex and flames there, so if they do want to try and
change the gear, they're just going to boost the AWP.
As I was, once the cross doesn't catch anything,
not going to run the double-ops this time on RV.
It's bit-acting as the unknown entity, so some real hijinks for
Hidgings for Nabi earlier, I wear these different positions as far as
nameplate counter strike is concerned, a name like Bitmike are overlooked.
I don't think that Vitale would dare run another V-POP, but right now the bomb is in upper tunnels.
So sure, it might not be direct through tunnels, it to be as possible.
Going through the motions, we'll have to force back short.
You want to make this convincing and Apex could get caught here on the swing.
Ahead of the expectation is in now, the Flash catches Flames, and he lets it be set up with that.
I'm gonna have to, it's only Mikaze. If you can get anything, any kill is everything. There it is on Tamezi.
Robb's on trade, bombs in to B. It's a 2 on 4 and the AWP is on that cross.
These are the two you want alive in a 2v4 situation.
Didn't quite manage to spot them over the top. The incandescence of the flame.
No smoke for Daws, just a Molly in a HG.
Here's that Molly, utilized towards Window, buys a little time. That's a very lurky smoke thrown towards the doors.
Very threatening, very uncomfortable for Zywa with the AWP.
Here comes the next chain of Utah indeed he doesn't achieve its markets all
about this flashback it's coming through tunnels
Lexi B synchronizes flash connects he's got down to half HP goes down overlooked
his ropes looking for the clutch and there's Alex
All right finally a retake that gone for here and that's gonna happen you catch
two players blind as hell over towards short the accelerate into being mccasey
as you mentioned he got his he's that heavy number advantage and then they piece
the retake together they don't rush in they don't extend individually they do
it as a team and now they get to six. Yeah it feels so much more uncomfortable if
McCarthy gets nothing. Sure it starts fantastically great flash from a leg
see Ima as well quick to piece together the double kill.
Using their numbers on that retake and reaching back in.
Four down on an early venture.
and the Nambi have not taken
them out. Call versus call off
of Vitality since Cologne 2024.
A few years ago and also Duster
they've already managed six
rounds of the 20 played this
year for Vitaliy on Dust 2. Only
five of them have gone double
digits. So maybe even getting to
10 of your small victory for
This is time for Cluster of Vitality.
Off up their chance to take this short control.
There's nothing to go again.
It does. Kimmer's going to be able to land a hand.
Wonderful missed his first opportunity.
How many more does he get on that ramside?
Not comfortable for the Orbs.
Flames, he shows us how lovely from Flames in.
Provides the double entry once more, this time on the ace side, burns from Alexi,
Willy nearly goes down to Mezzi and it's Mikaze, giving it a go, found by Robs to wrap it up, it's just bit.
You may have a look, right, they've got heaps of cash through the final ramp, bit needs to give this a go.
Yeah, the bomb, on the ramp side, so it's not always going to be tasked with a plant, it's going to go through the flames, he is, Robs is going to have an isolated jump, it's just bit!
That is outrageous from Bitt!
Just what Mavi needed!
It was starting to look like a 6-6 half was on the clouds, but Bitt turns the tables!
That's going to cause some frustration in the Vitality cap.
This felt like it could have been a collat right there.
Wonderful goes down, but it's sloppy.
Right, there's a bit of individual overpeaking from Vitality.
They've written the termination, but BIC, that's what they're looking for in the Lexi.
The boys, they like the way that one feels.
The tempo keeps up, wonderful out shot, taking the fight.
Apex finds the opener, wonderful down again.
Over extension, his costumery opening.
Was riding that high from the clutch a bit, but now they've conceded an opening.
Yeah, just go away, you know the off's not there.
Apex is. He's going to go vaulting on in.
Fires off a warning shot, got the Lexi to deal with.
Nice fight from him, supporting from the long side, but they've lost him.
He's worried about Nezzy, good awareness!
Catches that long lock.
Bomber the back of Flamesley, because he activates through mid, held by Robs.
Oh, and that came from...
Actually, quick on the ramp side, they know where he was.
And Bitt's so disconnected from his teammate.
This is so disadvantaged for Narvi.
Is there any way back in?
OHP, and now loses his head. Bitt's positioned, now noted.
Robs, fully aware and ready.
Seven to five!
We've got a game here, ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dust 2, this is Vitality's turn, and now we'll be putting up more of a fight than we've seen before.
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2nd quarter final here in Atlanta, first maps first half, we saw a clutch from Bit, another
second round loss after a one pistol for Vitality, now we get the hard work early, a run at five
off of that second round and a single frag from Zai Wu.
And surprising, Zai Wu has been in fine form here in Atlanta, that's right a player of
the tournament so far, but that might be changing if he doesn't pull up his socks and expect
to keep the absolute best in the game down for too long.
Let's see, CT side will be an integral part of this.
Can they make it two from two on the pistols?
Much better with the conversions on the CT side.
Alexei, try this, him smoke late, bit is in bedroom.
Wonderful, he just jumps, wanting to see the hydrogens
towards middle and in there,
and Kasi will take the tunnel's control.
Just how we stay as pirate in mid-doors
with those dual breaders.
Alexei just making sure he's got this one lined up properly.
The whole swing back plan as he just gets his head tucked.
Setting up for an A split. Apex is in the site, flames are towards long.
Starting their progressions up cap.
Spotted over the top of the smoke.
Robs has the info and spots the bomb as well, making his way across.
Apex on high alert. Flames the other scrooge.
They're in jumble.
Yeah, the P250, perfect at that range.
An opening kill.
It's a big open.
Pulled down nice for him.
There he is.
He alive.
The back stab for two.
Needs a third range.
It's not the weapon for the job.
This is partner in crime.
Rops towards CT.
Mezzi partners up on the short side.
Bit on this Reclare looking for him.
Trying to retrieve that bomb is so uncomfortable for these two
now.
Last of the Nades hoping that enables a fight on their turn.
not favoring them any more,
Zywoo's here for one frag to five in the blink of an eye.
There you go, that's impact.
No other way to frame it.
And that A-split, it looked perfect.
Opening kill, all pressure on Apex.
He's trying to scamper the goose with some space.
And before you know it,
Zywoo with Duparedes is shooting you in the back.
You got no idea.
Look how rapid this is.
They're still finding Apex on the site,
and Zywoo's already taken down three.
First bullet accuracy as well.
some players you know they capitulate again nervous with the backs turned to
their opponents I was so quick on the trigger
all right well now they into this one but haven't forced wonderful spot in the
scout he's looked to find a kill on the cross he hasn't found that and now
they're going to take the e-cup so next round wonderful can just work with a
scout again but you're still hoping to allow your sniper to find a couple of
tags right then the glocks even the p250 from imma could look to convert a kill
or two to keep the finances humble this feels like a freebie as far as the
conversion to concerns. We did some vitality a little bit earlier in the
tournament. Lose the clock, E-Kel and that is why this team is feeling
beatable in Atlanta. Highlighted here by the Obstin. You can see Apex on the
ramp with just a USP, a bunch of nades as well. You won't be able to get Zywoot
and all pinned to the next as long as he doesn't go down in this one.
It's going to be a slow drawn out round as we are now sub one minute.
30 seconds now, they're just gonna waltz into ace, Apex.
Man in question, Nate in hand, and they're just gonna pass through the smoke.
Alexi just waltzes through, and Apex is gonna look to unload with the USB.
That's one for his troubles, Zawar goes down, should still be fine.
Flames is chipped down low, hold up a second.
This gets weird.
With that bomb loose though, you have to drop down, and that's what Bitt's doing.
Tries to grab the bomb, this retrieval mission, kind of working.
He's mantled back up, the bomb's going down, just denying time.
Okay, shaky.
And they should be able to drop this AWP to Zawoo.
And I know because of the scoundrel, it would just be another for WandaFour.
A little bit sketchy, but we are all tied up, seven apiece.
See what Navi settle into with the first rifle round.
Wonderful. Ooh, a little tag there.
on the left side of the
map. He's just ready on half
HP of what's B. It's just the
default coming out early from
Mabino pays to this one.
It's just such a powerful position for Flamesee, stuffing him up with Nades right now.
Dorkin' Corp!
Clunky! Clumsies!
I was just in time!
Flamese's position noted in that wallbang did connect, so Flamese and Robbs have felled the wrath of that scout.
Pivoting into a mid to B quite quickly here.
He got 60 seconds to find the finish, Mikaze out middle.
He's got Mezzi to try for win.
A shot!
Hey, I'm set!
Only one there on the side had to be Robbsies delivered and now in there goes in!
And that side's open!
It takes a live equipment towards the window flush forward by the flames and it's comfortable for MF.
High impact round.
I could signal the save.
It certainly could. Zahru is having a look.
If he wants to find something here for free, they might have a look at it, but Prince is still very short for lurks.
It just fell out of sorts. Wonderful jumping up window. Does he want to try and contest this?
If you give it over, then they can give it a go, but halving away.
Vitality.
We find himself on the save.
Really impactful round out of him at that.
to turn that around after being a man disadvantage because he walks out
middle able to get one puts all the pressure on ropes who he knew was low
Emma coming through the smoke is a risky move but one of the has to make if
they want to contend against this round and yet Navi they draw blood on this
side.
So I look at the drop.
Flames are the same.
And Messi can operate on something a little bit lighter.
We'll see the distribution of weapons come in in a moment.
It didn't even, there wasn't a full commitment because he's gone out mid on his own.
Wonderful stays around mid all December.
Alexi they're waiting for the reactions and fortunately two of their space
tankers do exactly that apex forced into a tough decision takes a risk and
that for me and game leader when it pays off it looks brilliant not the
frustrations boil look at this aggression straight up the guns a
middle spotted apex charging leave them bars does find the head of wonderful
and dips away I don't get out now keep the ball back can they swing can they
find anything but they disappear in a puff of smoke on me. Chunky mead as well.
Right on the chint. Makaazi might want to try another mid to B maneuver here just walking
out on his lonesome. X-Box smoke fading. Doors one is up so they are covered off.
And they're right to try and find this gap. Just contact walking. Look at Makaazi.
Makes his move. Robs is there to turn to him.
He's the headshot, nice burst from Nezzy, can't find the follow-up, it's in on the trade!
Rob Stig and Paul, the trigger!
3 on 3, and Apex with such low HP, playing around the edge of the smoke hoping for an overstep.
Corsh is climbing from the lexic, Bitt does bring him down, Stullflames got the long arrives, just in time to make it a 2-on-2.
and look at this one on top there, clean with it, clutch available for Alex.
Hey! And it's Flames 8!
Good it is, it didn't even break the zone, man.
Just tapping away, ties us back up, A to PSNR V.
I love the flair just to walk out there on that timing.
The idea from Vitality was great though, taking the 2B defenders trying to pipe them over towards A.
Props taking an angle that's a little bit unnatural,
but I think he's expected not to be cleared in that scenario because A
has already a player taking that fight from CT Van, but Flames...
beautiful shooting from him. I mean that's exactly what you want from your
long anchor on a retake. And they needed that the money would have spilled open
for Vitality there so we continue to go back and forth blow for blow as Blade
will take time out number two. Wonderful does have an AWP. He does also have the
best longspawn available. And right now he's posited to head that way but with
the coach on the mics and adjustments from whatever the light plan was.
It's also going to have to be a little bit of a different long set-up coming out of Vitality, unless they want to risk the corner fight.
And Apex has the best spawn. Flames the long anchor with one of the worst.
So depending on what call blade is made right now, they might be able to contend for this long control.
Wonderful. It's no longer looking towards long.
long they might want to just take something a bit more standard before the
finances run dry or not does look like he's taken it
wonderful quick for that long fight looking for apex does round the corner in
time flames at Tansi and in case there's a second timing pop it's a standard set up
this time round from Vitali Nezzy Robbsby Zawoo with the AWP and then apex
in rotation while Flames, he burrows down, but look how fast they are.
Congregating very quickly and silently. Right, no mollies, no flashes, and they're already up.
Catwalk ready to explode.
Will she be fast?
Well, he pecks his HEs. They could do some serious damage if he gets the timing right.
Thayoui, you quick flickle to MacAzee. There's the first name.
He is ringing for Alexi B.
There's more where that came from. Bullets.
A hail of them onto Alexi, and it's clean as a whistle.
Wonderful, just 5 HP, tacked through the box, running into Robson, there's no foul and he's gone!
And well, Robson can pick up that off and now they can run a double AWP setup on the CT.
Oh no, okay.
Alright, knowing they're in a lighter by scenario to the next,
it's a shame that he picked that up to carry it through then.
I want to try a little bit of a B-pop.
This is a real shutdown and Zawoo, remember, he had one kill at halftime.
He now has 10. He's back where he belongs.
Let's see what he finishes the map with.
But by the time they take the leap, 9 to 8.
A plateete, K250, and a smoke here for Alexi.
spotter there as Mikazi sounds off I need for a Lexi smoke I use that L-sweep
We'll play. Next takes the
contacts. We take the frag and
they're just going to continue
to wrap this one up. In our mid
doors, wonderful and Alexi look
to join him. I wonder if we've
hit the turning point of the
It was that 5-1 spree after losing the second round conversion, but this one practically
spotless. They keep it that way, and as he confirms, it's now a two round gap.
Yeah, two flawless rounds, back to back.
And Rob still has this MP9.
It's a good spawn for lower tunnels, might want to try something a little bit out of the box here.
It's not too common to see Rob's go for something aggressive. I think in this patch of the game, right?
You can definitely change the tone considering you'd have this nice buffer of cash you're working with
Say from the cross wonderful unable to connect look at this aggression
Undetected apexes Lexi does get out long behind the long corner smoke flamesy. They'll be feeling some pressure
They're called complete be clear
So we'll continue around the world with this. Flames needs to stay alive. Wonderful hit to pit.
Oh! Orpheus is AK! Flames, he rips his head off!
Zawoo fan around that car as well. He's safe from the flames. They don't spread.
Look at Apex.
They're going to walk the smoke. Zawoo in a position to push this.
Does catch bit walking because...
Hey!
Next time as well!
Zywu, one frag at the start of this second half, up to 14, top of the tables.
And another one for Zywu, in the peaks on in, peeking at your own risk, at your own power!
The chosen ones back in the server!
It feels like all of these that impact kills from Xayah have come as maltes.
What a shot from Flamesy.
Yeah, that's massive. That's against AWP. Wonderful.
You know it's good when the production team give it to you three times.
Partial by Fnavi. This has gotten away from them down quick.
Yeah, they're running out long.
Tech nine, a little bit of a pace on the flashbang.
Wonderful's got some space.
This is a fake. The bomb heading back towards B.
It's going to join Bit and Mikazi in the upper tunnels.
who.
Long is the biggest threat at
the moment I'll smoke. We can
see not ladding perfectly. Not
the first time, either. Let's
see. Now joins the pack.
Wonderful. Looks to be the
He's owned right now, but.
Here comes the pop.
These are those defining moments of the anchor.
The whole squad running out in squad from Messi.
Solid as a rock, and Robs gets nothing.
Now Messi's got two.
Okay, this one gets uncomfortable.
Wonderful.
Parked in middle, hoping to catch a rotation.
Backstab on to Flamesy if he's not diligent.
His back is turned, just in time spots him.
They've got infos to Wonderful's location.
Apex matches up!
Needs bit's AK.
AK, let's see, and a clutch available for the wound.
Yes, so no.
Angles perfect, Angles perfect, okay, saved by Mokaze.
That nearly got very awkward for a bit.
That's the second most finale in this map so far.
And a very important one.
Mezzi gets the first two kills on the way in and they're able to turn a 3v5 around.
That's the two of them bit and because he traditional be drew now doing it on the T side look at that
How to be audacious that bit took a risk in a big one. She's such a brilliantly calculated risk as well
Like shot ropes limping towards his bomb site. He's tied a couple times now
Still money for another buy and fatality do lose this one, but starting to get a little bit ropey
It's a beastman land up from here map.
Mid-doors blocked again.
It's got a free mess here.
Don't talk about the 52nd market, they're reading this, right?
The fact that Apex is the man to flirt over towards B.
He's not hanging arounds.
It's B-Snow, deployed now.
In the air.
Chris Cross.
Apex and Masi playing around them.
It's called the forces away from A.
Apex not ready for the spades, not to flank!
Oh, I see B!
He's brought up!
South, got a 4k on the plate if you can find ropes.
Remember the money is still there.
The lost button is starting to build now for the CT side.
It'll be 1900 into the next.
We got a game.
Double digits reached.
Yeah, we got a game.
And that's a B. And it gets out of bed for the world number one.
That's tough for these teams, too.
the energy correctly when the tippy top of the field. The expectation was this
was meant to be Sunday. This is meant to be how we conclude I am Atlanta. This is
how good these teams are kicking off the playoffs as X-Tas on the mic is
second tactical timeout, last blade. So contributing this is a massive round of
the context of this game. After the buys have come in, a couple of players
is hovering around that 2K mark for vitality.
It was a sight early.
Get a couple of saves in, and be fine for a buy.
The money is not great.
It's now the ones who have been winning the lighter buy routes.
And it has a good longsword.
Here's that shot again.
Just a whip for that one on a post.
That missed to Alexi B.
Your in-game leader is delivering your openings like that.
We're over the real shot against the world number one.
Hey, may somebody wonder how the hell did that happen?
Here we go, all boosted up.
Is it another tag on the ropes?
Get across this side.
This time unscathed.
Zai Wu smokes so he won't extinguish any bottles of flame,
but nothing comes his way just yet.
Oh, wonderful, it's lined up.
You tilt towards the door side,
Alexi be showing restraint on his lower crawl.
Play around the edge of the smoke.
Mikase starts to aggress.
This is gonna come down to Zahra.
Yeah, feeling a little too much pressure.
Will back away as Mikase arrives.
He's got the timing on this.
Zahra's posted.
What's up, Mikase?
Goes wide.
It's gonna dry on that.
That's insane.
They've got the space.
This could be another one of these quick eruptions.
Yeah, they're lining up the nades now.
It's gonna be the double smoke.
It's their commitment behind it.
Bit late long.
Four congregated towards the shore side. Good HE, good Q damage.
Mikaze half health.
There's a lot of smoke there.
Yeah, there's a tough down.
This gets infinitely more difficult without good smoke coverage.
I don't believe it's A, he's always playing for mid.
They will now, they've just seen Bit trying to progress long. Flamesy relays that information.
Now that pulls rotation.
If I was not going to be there in time.
Apex is going to have to try and delay his best he can. Flames at his feet.
Zai with Auckland in the opening. Limbo with an AWP.
Still managed to wrap up one onto Mikaze!
And they're in the open, it's a shooting gallery!
2-9-2, Dust will settle, 30 seconds bomb to be retrieved, wonderful task with that.
He's got flames on the long side and his bit still coming back for this fight.
This is so late, I've always been retrieved, timing everything, he just looks away.
Oh man, he's nailed him!
Robs is tied, in the clutch.
It's a night by the flaying for the walk-up.
The bitches go swinging in, comfortable for Robs. Can he do what Bit did in our first half?
An impactful clutch, but he needs it most.
Both teams sitting in silence as their players locked in a 1v1 with such big ramifications.
Robs is expecting one thing.
God, it's just 17.
Headshot will do it, though.
Wonderful! Stats is down!
We've got a tie in the ballgame, folks!
Money, it's the conversation. I'd be surprised not to see a timeout here. X-Tars not out of
his seat. They don't want to take these 30 seconds. But I think you have to. Zywu gets
there, gets the first. They've already swarmed. Wonderful Zorbsigns. But this is it. Such a
late look. This 2v2. It's actually Navi to take the timeout bit. He's only got 11 kills,
but every single one of them has come with absolute impact. Gets him across the line
You've got to keep Wonderville extra narcos for that one, that's 1v1 versus Robs. He's the guy that wins those!
That's what he's in this roster to do. Wonderville doesn't capitulate.
Haven't shoved yet. Narvia taking his time out so maybe Blade didn't like what he heard coming out of the in-game leaders now.
It's going into the next round of play. Maybe they wanted to take the time to assess what the buy could be.
We can see on the screen right now what's taking shape but it's not a shove, it's not an all-in, it's 2900 loss into the next.
The Hedgeman bets right now, but Talonty they're not playing for overtime, but they're giving
themselves a chance in this one as well as round number 24.
There's 2M4s, Max having a scout and an MP9, it's the lack of U2 that's the real issue.
Wonderful just counted chickens on the cross. Didn't see an 80 either.
Oh, snap, how many times are you going to cross that door?
There's this game he's playing and look at the game. Flames he's cooking from lower tunnels to back turn a free headshot.
It's another one!
McCarthy's got two, finally fouled.
But the damage, the ramifications of his push, it's looking a push. Look who robs!
He is taking so much space right now. Alex is actually heading for that one.
He's not ready for this.
There's no way. There's no way.
Robs is here and all this.
This is outrageous.
Vitality have been let off the leash.
Flames he up mid.
Robs pushing tunnels.
Look at the information now as well. They're stuck in T-Sport and we're at a minute ten.
It's just so uncomfortable. Look at that smoke as well. There's so many places.
Robs is MP9. Could have borrowed.
Wonderful and beer-feeling hyper and comfortable.
Apex just found himself an upgrade in lower tunnels. Now that Max7 turns into an AK.
There's nothing for them here. Every option.
Closed down and this flank keeps on pushing.
What are you meant to do now, wonderful?
I'm going to go for the ball.
45 seconds to just try and hold
onto this and the map feels tiny.
Battalia everywhere.
Such a crazy round to be pushing like that.
Wonderful.
Thanks.
The first time I will aggressive long.
One V1 is one thing up down set up from apex
and messy right now.
Before asking way too much.
20 seconds.
and they take it. Vitality map
point. Finish in regulation. It's
been a wild rollercoaster ride.
Just when their money was T trick
when it's max sevens when it's
scouts flames it up the guts of
middle. It feels like a gun
around if you know it doesn't
know your first contact is
against the M four. You don't
have to worry about the scout
with the mag seven or shorter
Is it going to be another close but no cigar?
Now they'll be getting closer and closer.
Otey's right there. It's right there for the taking.
Compromises sure. Galil, tech nine.
A 3B start for Vitality.
Flash in, flames deep still, notes presence outside the long doors, Mikazi and Alexi announced
theirs of the short side.
Block smoke deployed towards B and there's more where that came from.
60 seconds, Nick Cardor is there so they don't know what lies on the other side.
Maxi being parnised up with Mikaze and Test Mezzi.
He's been unable to find the frag, Tom drops into the side, but this is where that third man is.
Apex on the brick side, uncroached headshot, Mezzi's there!
Now being troubled, spiraling downwards, not looking good.
One back from Bitt, there's wonderful.
He's ready for the push through the smoke as well,
as Ari thinks twice about it.
It's a trace of fire, visible from Flamesy,
but it does, walks into Bitt.
Their advantage is disintegrating.
Fine.
Rops is on the site.
They know he's around here somewhere, strafes on end.
It's comfortable for Rops.
It's looking like they've done it.
Vitality.
The last round of regulation, they snatched it away.
Rops said he didn't want to go home with regret,
and that's dust, dude.
That's their home turf.
This one was tough.
Zywoo with one kill at the half, ends with 19. Vitality, they do their best work in the playoffs!
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a competitive affair between the two best teams in the world. Where no doubt Navi made Vitality
sweat, but just like Jules Bondi so recently, give Vitality an inch and they will literally
take a mile. Robs with some crazy initiative, which I'm sure we'll get onto later, but it feels
like the same story time and time again, Jacob. Vitality dangling the win in front of Navi's eyes
and smashing away in the final moments. Yeah, it's a bit unfortunate if you're Navi-Fen and if
if you're hoping for a series going all the way,
because there was plenty of opportunities in this game for Na'Vi to finally get them happening.
But as you said, vitality, that they're just masters of finding different ways.
One way to label this one around, would be Simon in the first half.
He goes 1-7, right? The player that has been playing so exceptionally well as of late,
he's nowhere to be found in the first half.
Obviously, that means that Na'Vi is getting off with 7 rounds,
they're getting off to a good start, so to speak, into this first half of the game,
and then Simon comes alive in the second, and they can't find a way to close it out.
And I think that's the way I want to reiterate this before we go into detail with what happened.
It doesn't matter how much I win, they always find a different way of doing it.
So this time around by Sairu, not talking into the server before we played 13 rounds.
Yeah, and then he was doing some dangling of his own in the second half.
But I think you go going into this dust 2, right, into this quarterfinal.
Vitality played dust 2 20 times this year.
They've lost once, and that was to a foot with a stand-in as their coach, right?
like in a game that didn't really mean that much in a series that they already
won. There's been more times that they held their opponents to five rounds or
less than their opponents hit double digits against them. Like that's too
is just and this is why they pick it because no matter what's going on the
game plan goes right. If it goes wrong they can always adjust on the fly. The
individuals will always have their moments because they all love the map and
they understand it on such a high level and it just seemed like Navi they had
them they win the force by of their own in the first half. They win a half by in
the second half to get rolling to get to 11-11 and then again things just fall
apart at the worst. It's crazy it feels like Navi just need to feel the
standard of their own to have like any hopes of doing something versus Vitaly
at this point it must be so frustrating if you're on the side of Navi to think
we have them we have them right where they want them and then at the final
hour just gone. Yeah especially because you can make a case every single time
that they play close that hey have we won this round have we played this scenario
better than we could have won the map but when the end result is the same over
and over and over you also get to a point where I guess Falcons are one of the
few teams who can imagine that you know that yeah we get so close you know but
we don't really know what the issue is because we can never get it over the
finish line and I'd say the same finale right here overall they played a good
game of Counter-Strike they put a good fight up against Vitality as you said
as well one some of the key rounds you know state competitive applied a lot of
pressure you have been showing up in crucial moments as well and yet that's
still not enough when Cyro is not part of the game for the first 12 rounds so
there's always a silver lining going both ways and at the end of the day the
And we saw is always the same. Let's dive into a couple of moments to start off in the first half.
We've got round nine. What's the story for vitality here?
Yeah, I mean, they had some good reads, Navi. And even in this round, you see just flames going quickly down lower.
He's making a lot of noise. He's going to throw this small at all.
Like he's just simulating a default here so that Navi thinks it's just another standard round.
But actually, they just want to do a B pop.
And we saw back to back rounds where vitality found success.
but here, it's a bit deceiving because Makazi is playing exactly for this.
He's jiggle-peaking with an incendiary, but just as the hit is about to come in,
he's going to switch to a smoke, and he gets caught juggling nades, and now it's too late.
The incendiary is too deep, he gets blinded and just gets chased down,
and that's where the frustration comes in for him from the player cast,
because he had the right counter play, and I think he just, someone told him,
okay, let's just smoke tunnels now, and just as he wants to do that, here they come,
and it's the worst possible timing and they were targeting that B bombsite in the second part of the first half.
It's only as he's just very unfortunate because as I said he's ready for it, he's waiting for it and
at the worst possible moment he decides to pull out the smoke and at that point you can also give
credit to Flamesee for just running in straight ahead you know there's a clear idea of how they
wanted to enter the pathway into what that bombsite and having the efficiency with the M10 here is
credit to Flamesee. And the first gun round that Navi loses they have to read you know it was the
double long setup with Alexi baiting for Ima and Vitality counts they just can't connect on the
kills and then it was those early few rounds that really allowed for Vitality to get back into the
game. Well look that's a good time where Navi did manage to connect the heads as it were because
it came down to there in an incredible clutch for closing round 11. Yeah I think Chet said it on
the cast you know that every single bit kill we got in this game was with impact and round 11
was another one where he showed up massively and around where I feel like okay this is Navi
entering this game at a point where I started to believe that it may be possible,
because it was atypical for Vitality to lose this kind of round.
Again, then taking short control, the setting up for an A execute,
Flamesee again in a position where he's obviously getting flashed for,
he's the first guy in, and usually he finds a lot of success with that.
Wonderful, he's being pushed off the angle with a flash, takes the repeat right here,
can hit the shot. Again, it's Flamesee coming in with a double entry,
as he's been doing throughout the entire year.
Then Alexi B, because the only thing he can do, and that is taking a fight
from a very tough position to get it with Makase, he's bringing it back around,
and all of a sudden we find ourselves in a 1v2.
Now you'd say if Cyru and Rux is alive in a 1v2
and you know Bit is coming over from the other bomb side,
odds are that he's not going to win this.
Even gives up his position by running through the Molotov
but he's instant on both Rux and Cyru.
I'm not even gonna fault Vitality or Cyru or Rux for playing it badly in this scenario.
It's just wonderful counter-strike coming out from Bit,
but it's atypical.
Normally you always see Vitality win these kind of rounds,
so when this happened I thought to myself,
okay, we may have a game.
It's exactly the sort of magic that you need if you're going to take them down on a on a map like that's too
So they had these moments
They had chances seems like at the end they were able to turn it around but my talent to just found a way yet again
To close out the game. Yeah, 100% we talk about some magic on the side of vitality because round 23
We see a you know, maybe a typical push from flamesy a very ballsy one at that
But then rocks this is where the magic true. Here's the thing. There's a couple of things
Well, I'll get to it. Let's talk about the round first. You can see it's some sort of a buy, but having enough money to buy in the final round too, and Flames he pushed up.
And they did this a lot. They were very aggressive on their CT side, pushing tunnels, pushing up mid in the first gun round as well.
And Flames he gets a double kill, and rops once he sees the names, and two guys dying lower, he knows, okay, no one else is covering this.
covering this. I can take the space, look where he kills Alexei. I mean almost in T spawn and at
this point like all the space is taken away from Navi, bit and wonderful in the 2v4. There's really
not much left to them to do but I was really surprised about play taking a timeout before
this round because they brought back another sort of 3v5. It seemed like they had vitality on the
ropes. I guess he didn't like the plan from his team. Maybe it didn't seem like they had a clear
direction and he knew how important the round was and wanted to get all their
ducks in a row but that timeout gave Vitality time to organize themselves and
called maybe this push from Flazy and figure out how they're going to support
them and usually when you're winning these rounds you're not supposed to you
leave it to your opponent to take a timeout if they have one because it's
very frustrating. Exactly, I saw the timeout logo and I was like oh it's human
vitality right you just lost that round prior to it but then this call comes out
and it's just yeah I mean it's so typical Vitality isn't it? You're
They're literally on the brink of overtaking them on their home ground of just you and it doesn't happen yet again
Good. Yeah, they always do find a way to win and it's hard for us to explain exactly what it is
Because I feel like it's a different thing every single game every single series at this time around
I gotta give it to flimsy right we're just showing you three different rounds and in every ring every single one of those rounds
It's flimsy getting a double entry, you know
He finished with 15 kills not necessarily highest on the scoreboard not having the most sick ADR
but he was involved in 9-0 winning duels and a lot of the opening kills he got was double entries where he's single-handedly winning the round.
So in terms of setting up Flameseed to succeed, in terms of having him run in first with flashes behind him, with smokes pathing the way for him,
I think Apex throughout 20-26 really have found a perfect way to enable him.
And then the other side of the story as well, as we said, Syruh first half going 1-7, nowhere to be found,
part of the reason why they lost that round against Bitterswell, couldn't get the trade kill.
second half, as you said, Janko, all over the place, going four, nobody kills, really putting it down and ending up as the top crag on the server.
So have a stop player who can go missing for 12 rounds and then show up like that. That's also a pretty unique aspect to it.
Very quickly, gentlemen, just some thoughts on Anubis. I'm happy you saw a competitive looking Na'Vi, because this is their map pick that lays in wait, right?
Well, you should be optimistic, right? Because we said how great Vitality is the ultimate and the best team ever to play this too, right?
And you were able to take them all the way and then we're within striking distance
So now you're going to your own map pick and a map that you probably should have won four times
You played it in in these grad finals
We talked a bit about the matchup and how it changes like it just becomes a meta in its own right when they play each other now
It's not about how a new business played in general
So I'm curious to see what vitality will bring in that's a little bit different to keep
Navi on the back foot. Well, we are gonna be diving into it
But not before we had things to a short break when we return the map pick of Navi coming into this one
It's a new best going down in just a few
I'm down here on the stage in front of the stage with a man who loves fantasy as Jason a few fantasies
You've had in your time Jason, but now we're gonna do the cool like fantasy. Oh, that's a different fantasy
But obviously everyone's favorite fantasy is having three vitality players on the same exact team so I assume
You and I reach for three vitality players. Yeah, I'm gonna pick three vitality players
I'm gonna go with apex inside and I'll throw rocks in there
Shockingly that's good at three vitality points. I think yeah, we flush out the team. Yes, you're morning
You gotta find I'm gonna look at the rest of the tournament
I look at the playoffs sign
I think legacy are gonna do pretty well and there's like a jewel in that team that everybody always talks about
Doom Owl and Latto. So for me, those are the two other players that will pick outside of Vitality this morning.
So you take it, Apex, Zairu, Rocks, Doom Owl and Latto.
They might pick some communication issues, but they and them, it should be alright.
Alright, that's fair enough. I'm gonna do something similar.
I'm down to Apex, Zairu, and Mezzie.
Oh, alright.
Yeah, I'm picking Mezzie up in there.
And then I'm gonna go a different direction. I am gonna take Doom Owl as well. I like that from Legacy, but I'm getting Makaze from Navi.
Makaze from Navi, he's my secret weapon. He's the secret sauce to the scene.
Well, if Navi beat Vitality, then he's definitely going to play a part in that.
Exactly.
That's our Collex fantasy teams.
We'll see how they perform.
I'm feeling good about mine, not so much about Jason's,
but we'll see how he plays out here at IEM Atlanta.
Something special to tell is to go and that's it, so do what happens
Got it, sir!
We are back!
Another smoke, guys.
Yeah, can you do smoke doors?
Yes, I can.
I will go to the left of the window.
Okay, window.
I think two guys.
Nothing.
I think two on the right side.
Yes.
I'm going to go to the right side.
I'm going to go to the right side.
Yeah, I will go to the default.
I'll flash every window.
I'll flash in the window
Ready?
Yes
Flashing
Boom
Flashing
Flashing
On the window
Flashing
Nice
I'm going to see
Oh
This is fucking
I'm going to push mid
I'm going to push mid
We're holding
So careful check guys
Watch out, watch out, watch out
Take off
Short, yes
Only one
Two three, two three I think
Two or three
Two or three
Long one
I'm leaving
Too long, too long
Two short
Short, short pushing
Blasting window
Take it, take it, take it
Short
Nice one, we check
Nice, long long two, go back, go back, go back, go back
What did we do?
No, no, go back, go back, go back
I'm going to swing you
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
I'm blind, I'm blind
Going up
One, two, one, let's go boys
No!
Nice, nice, nice
Thanks, thanks, thanks
Okay, I told you guys
One more time, one more time
Let's go boys!
They boosted chat
One lower, one lower
Okay, then three
Keep them lower, chat, okay?
Keep them lower
Lower
Come on, get back!
Go back!
Hold there, hold there, hold there!
No one's here, no one's here!
You can go to spawn Robin!
He's top mid low.
I'm already short.
One more low.
Nice, one more low.
They cannot go back low.
Two to spawn, two to spawn.
Two to spawn.
Two to spawn.
They cannot go back low.
They need time to kill Robin, I think.
Nice!
Nice!
Nice!
Hello guys!
Crazy summer, right? What are you doing, bro?
You're a brother.
Who didn't go anywhere without people asking for pictures?
Yeah, same.
Wait, you guys are fans?
First major win and I'm even more motivated.
I don't know what Jail was talking about.
Same, brother.
Boys, I'm not gonna lie.
It feels like we can do no wrong.
Oh, bless.
We are unstoppable.
So, what do you guys think?
No, no, Dan.
It's a portion I'm reliving, Dan.
It's really my Dan.
It's a portion I'm reliving, Dan.
It's really Dan.
Dust2go's Vitality's way of finishing regulation.
Couldn't keep Zywoo down.
And after a poor first half,
for now we get ready for a new bus.
Targeted weakness is the discussion. But how much can Na'Vi manage to convert here?
The record ain't pretty. Does the game break their spirits? A narrow, narrow loss on our first map.
Is it just going to be a Vitality semi-final or is there more twists and turns?
I knew this has to be a different story for Navi to remain in contention here in Atlanta.
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Throw in the back plant, Molley!
Enables Mikaze, wonderful for a second as well.
Apex, he needs a whole lot more.
He's caught reloading in the smoke and he's got no support.
Mezzie arriving now.
The damage from Apex, it's bit onto him,
but Mezzie try to make something out of this one on three.
Rush connects, a bit, but it's well two.
Molley put the right foot forward to start.
Beautiful shot there from Wandaflick,
like it's onto Zywoo who was starting to heat up
in that second half.
Mikaze then gets the good gracious to come through the smoke,
know. There's that buffer. The
comms must be in a comfortable
place for Nave. They knew that
Dust two was always going to be
tough. This one here. Great
flash. Nothing that Messi can do
with that one, and they will make
sure the bomb doesn't go down.
See Vitality coming into the next
round of play with just a couple
of digs. Absolutely no hurry
I'm going to be a little bit
of a land for the setup as far
as it's concerned for Navi CT
side. Alexi towards jail. This
has been piloted by Yanco in
that prep for the game. He's
going to be your B main
holder. He'll be partnered up
with the likes of the car.
and wonderful in middle, like these two, and wonderful as the road's headed.
Emma will be playing more towards A, and he'll be joining that a bit as the anchor.
They're just causing a little bit of a kafafo early vitality,
just showing themselves shooting off a couple of shots, trying to draw out that utile.
Now they gravitate towards mid. It's where wonderful and Emma reside.
Oh, pressure applied. Emma's done well. She stands his ground for two.
And eventually went all the way out by the clock of Robs.
If you can get another with the 1,400 investment in these two digs, not too shabby, but it's going to be tough.
So 40 seconds now, Zau and Mezi are going to be starting to look to die.
That loss burn is in the bank balance and get the guns out into the next.
This could be a great time for Alexby to get his frag total started.
Simone Armored Pistols versus an MP9.
Macalze steals one, and he gets started in B.
Jan, I was going to pick up that farmer, so that could be dropped across her,
and then four...
There will be no issues in the buy department, four and half,
he just know MVP for wonderful this early in the game.
We know that Vitality are now going to be edging in with the buy.
4 AKs and a Galil for Messi.
He needs to facilitate that new tour.
the game. I'm going to go
to the map. There's a melody
built with the head to head.
So see how these mind games
play in. The box early for either
team. Wonderful stunning close
I'm going to try and take this away for a bit.
This entry.
Move it early there, isn't that one?
This is not even more util and with this, starting to park back towards B.
still play as middle as well they could drop out the window more could head
through e-box
what being picked up now the finish
funny feeling like this B split it meant being drawn back towards middle
Alexi and Mikazi still with a decent amount of Utah between the two of them
oh span from Mikazi doesn't quite finish off Apex at all just a single
The Bullis scrapes his knee as he has to respect this.
They can push through, well placed on the game sheet.
Halotov's going to be taken on the back lap for Alexi B first to receive.
Carpet of Flame here, and Alexi B tanked through the smoke span from Zywou and Nezzy,
coming in from B main, here it comes, pressure amplified, flashes,
Flame and a headshot from Flame Z.
There's Alexi, just the one.
An opportunity for more, they're low.
In as quick on the scene, Flames is going to get cleared here.
So that falls to 6.3 on 3, nearly transfers it onto Apex with that bomb plant.
I think I got to kill him and they can give this one a go.
There's no U2, this is going to be tough.
It's hard to wound it.
Another triangle swing.
He brings the fight to them.
That's outrageous.
Bit one back.
Apex and overextension go swinging in, at least confirms his whereabouts.
And now it's Robbs that brings the fight.
ambitious. Much available. Hang on. Should be comfortable in Robson's hands here. Look at the time.
Bit knows if he could just isolate the duel. The Robson's played the clock.
And they'll pick the round. I think Apex is assuming they're going for the save in that situation.
Right. That's half of the pick. I think it does no way. Oh, the gun shot. Apex has got some competition out there.
I think because their money's not going to be great going to this next round of play. So the fact
that they're giving this a go in a post-plan scenario.
It was a double pump as well, right?
Layering in the U-2, waiting for the block dances
to come out from Na'Vi, the second wave.
Flames, he's fantastic with the openers.
This one, what a shot, it's just a just down into that,
and Robs stays cool.
Forced by Info Na'Vi, 1-n-4, 1-famous.
MP9 and a couple of pistol upgrades.
Love to be able to wrestle this one back in the early game.
You lose this, the rounds will spill open,
and Vartali should be able to take the lead.
Selling, ain't nobody close baskets, nobody attending with the sight whatsoever.
Very heavy B set up coming into play.
Now look, if you're gambling correctly, just hold on to these and come again into round
number five.
I tell you, I'm tracking in this direction.
Let's see if they're as diligent with the U2 this time round.
XB is holding a flashback trying to catch them and disrupt them upon the commitment.
There's that same Molotov going to make life miserable for the two with the backplat.
Wonderful burns down, 12 HP, still manages to catch one on the back foot.
There's Zai Udo from the E-Box position, racks up a double in their backplat for another headshot.
Rops tracks him as he tries to fight and they're losing everything here.
They put all their pennies into the center of the table and vitality have managed to secure a second round
It's given it a look certainly will have a go. It's that horrible crossfire though
Trying to breach this with mezi only a Mac 10 he can isolate. Oh, can he go nimble from mezi?
losing that moving accuracy of the SMG
Darvi bankrupt
It's like a sense of inevitability is settled in, you sense it with the crowd, maybe as
well as the players from Na'vi.
I think it's the mental anguish with how close they were on map number one.
They had some big moments, some flashy moments, but vitality is still prevailing.
The B lane, but this is just the EK. You expect this one to be farmed up.
With the Nubis in the mix, and there's last two outings with these two teams.
13-10, 13-11, Vitality just getting across the line, so we should be set for another close map.
I think it's the Betboom loss, 13-10, which is what forced Vitality down to the lower bracket,
having to play two best of threes the day. First time they've done that since Chundu.
It was 20 years. Apex, the farmed best. That's three.
I won't miss, so just need to find out a bit.
They'll expect him over towards David.
Oh, not a bad shot.
Much more damage.
And that's what this is looking for, right?
Vantardi again.
They win this series.
They put themselves up against Betburg
in that semi-final tomorrow.
Already locked in legacy versus gamer legion.
And whoever wins this one,
they are the heavy favourites to take the title again.
I think everybody, they're coming out here to Atlanta,
expecting the grand final to be Navi versus Vitality,
but hey, the foot faults that we've seen are faults,
this is where we find ourselves.
Yeah, you heard Nezzi in the interview with Martin as well,
just talking about how they like to try and consider themselves
two different teams and groups and playoffs.
Look at the intensity shift, right?
For them, groups feel like a formality.
This is the fun part.
Yeah, exactly.
the big stage with that loud Atlanta crowd. You guys have been bringing some insane energy.
And now they're not giving him too much cheer about right now. This time early AMA in pressure applies.
What an intensity to do this side is that rotation has been drawn. Wonderfuls AWP will be posted on
the line. They've locked towards mid and the juggling in nades so
So. How do you feeling quite
comfortable? They've got the
map control that they're
looking for. Look at Apex on
the camera. He's got a very
clear game plan. He's relayed.
It's just hands off the mouse and
keyboard, making sure his troops
know the marching orders. Fine
coming in the way off rocks.
They never paired up to clear it
out. And they're happy with what
they see. But mid been a voice
around all of this on for
heading back over. Can't really
going to get an AWP head to head here. Wonderful heavy advantage and nails it.
Removes the woof. They pivot now, so they want to head towards B. They know the
wonderful Zork.
On the other side, here we go, Heaven Smoke, Flamesy and Mezzie. They need these
good flashes from Apex to be able to parv him.
Wonderful center to collect another. Jumping over his line,
I'm like Wick Flick on Tomezi and a lot of frags.
Spotless from Malfi.
Beautiful. And any more of that.
Very comfy stuff.
With wonderful with another head to head against Zywoop.
Seven and four for wonderful, keeping up that good form from the group stage.
Yeah, he sat him down on the pistol and has kept it up with the AWP.
That tells me you're not walking into that drive, you expect the AWP to be there, right?
The shooter is going to get some room against some rifles, be able to post up.
Ties a bit missed right now for Vitality.
Tech 9, Mach 10, and three rifles.
They've missed a smoke here.
Yeah, misses with Flamesy's lineup.
I do want to try towards middle again, Flamesy at least.
Starting to flirt with the smoke, this is just one of Walt's own through.
Wouldn't put it past him, and he has just gone straight through that smoke.
Enabled, Zywu and Mezzi, the tail joins him.
Immen, supported by WandaFlock.
There's the headshot, Zywu however.
Onto Immen, quick and wonderful. How's he getting away?
Missed spray, a second lease of life for Navi Sniper.
They're applying a lot of pressure towards A again,
but it doesn't have to be the finish.
Still over a minute on the clock, and they can pivot back.
Alexi's had to rotate over to help out WandaFlock.
He's going to get head to WandaFlock.
bit sight. So split 2-2 at the moment. Look at her on the second round again.
As the flash though, this is the difference maker. Bit eats the flash bang and
Mezzie, parthing into the sight for one. The back of the sight lies wonderful. He
has to find a multi. He does so. He pierces together for two. Sight lost to
Lexi B. He falls as well on the camera position. Xayu aware of it.
Kazi's close. He is. He can give it a go.
Certainly will. Robs towards fountain. Galil V.M. for looking the wrong way. Makes it even.
to three. So it's been some
stuff and calling or at least
consistent calling from
slightly rather two rounds in a
road that with his B split
in through water. Once you get
the E box control the money
towards the plant now they've
run a very similar looking at
a split round after round. She
says that comes in.
Push after this Molly looks
like it was going to be an
image of the windows going to
bring the fight to them.
HP catches some flak. Two of them in the canal, a forward stance from the defenders, but gaps
available if Flamesy pushes mid off the flash from Apex, he's in.
A good response to losing canal. The con comfortable that makes Mikaze, he's
got to be worried about so many different avenues.
Passed the back away, E-box, safe. Now the pressure is on bit, right, because
you're going to lose canal control once they T-stair smoke fades. You know that they can
apply that pressure. Bombs still in limbo, no commitment for Vitality just yet, but they're
coming into sweet mid.
Oh, that's a lot of info. That's a whole lot of info. Spots the whole squad. Easy frag,
though. Hit with the M4, rips the head off of Flamesy. Apex is next victim. He's a dead
man running. Back turn, and that pricks it up comfortably.
So I always got my bomb. Can't afford to commit. Now, Mezzie hoping he catches one returning
from temple. There's wonderful little peek out. Gets the info. Still a body.
Outside P-Mane, Smoke will obscure two of them, but that side is safe, and Smith can damage through the smoke there.
As he tries to keep Boots planted, and they'll just run at him, thinking it's a safe.
They're just going to call this one off.
Romsen, Zai, we're looking to hold on to what they brought in with.
And Apex, if people caught it there in the can after those deaths or what, it was very frustrated.
I think with all the players he saw, maybe you're hoping for a reaction from your teammates,
maybe you thought, hey, I made the right call, it was just on a later timing, that they came and swept through middle.
We tie things up again.
So 1400 is the last bonus.
Zawu and Robs won't get any of that.
Apex is in Galil territory. Flamze and Mezze are going to have to be down to some pistols.
Zawu could drop with Galil.
And a tactical timeout called.
So we've got a good chance right now to organize that by.
timeouts subsided now they're in freeze time yet to see what investments are coming through behind this
Okay, piecing it together now.
Apex is going take nine armor with Nades.
Flames him with a Mach 10.
Messi on a take nine as well.
This is tough, right?
You have to balance the fact that you have the save there.
WP and everyone else is on strike a little bit lighter.
You want to use pace.
You need to give Zoho a chance to play into the rounds.
Flames it.
Just miss throw right there.
The Molly.
Yeah, try to boost him up.
Try to catch him there.
It could work, Owl.
He's going to play us safe.
There's a block smoke near the taxi to join bit on a
Clearly trying to demonstrate
Presence outside of a man. You want to force that rotation but with this 3-2 setup that's
Has been opted for right now in this cheeky fangle here on top of the box in that will not be pre-empty at whatsoever
However, the smoke dotted mount towards E-box, so over towards B.
Oh look, Flash coming from LX, they're going to clear out B main.
Nez is very passive with this.
Well he might get caught in Limba, here comes the Flash.
Got cover, Tuxin relays the information and takes a head!
Macazze is dead, wonderful, very quick pivot and knows that they're going to try and scope up in towards E-box.
Swing it in, Zairu unable to track him.
It's mid to focus, in and bit of set this up, the trap.
Up on the boost.
I say that as he actually drops off as they start to commit.
He knows he's got to be nimble, but goes down.
Comfortable frag for Robs.
It's bit for the multi, can't provide.
Some damage, heavy damage inflicted.
This one, an interesting lay of the land.
It might be over before it even gets started here.
Alex here, wonderful.
Having a conversation over to what CT spawn.
They want to go fishing, see if there's an overstep.
They've got to keep it, no smoke.
You have it. All right.
Considering the time out there,
financial implications of the
investment. He does very well.
That doesn't need under a lot of
pressure. The flashers come
through. He's having a combat and
focus on the cross. It gets one
done. But you know the flashers
came through in two players, P.
So a lot of information and then
it looked good, right? But at
that point, he's no longer
playing for info anymore. I think
they're going to rejig the set
up because of that exchange.
It's a chance there, right? It could have gone massive.
He gets that frag, the player's low, he mobs it up and able to stand tall.
Just because of this pattern arounds right near the team as he lost,
but that's what we're having to see these days.
If you want to have something to contend with, you're going to have to keep holding onto your guns.
We've only got a handful of rounds remaining in this half.
And after electing to start on the two sides, I imagine if I tell them to you're hoping for the lion's share.
That was going to be Insta Evox lined up and away we go.
As you get to that intense this time, just wait any early peeks out the hole.
Take a look early, better react and then drop back into a bit more of a standard set of
a 2-1-2.
How many main juggles going on for this T-side?
Just so confident on both sides of what the others are doing, right?
That's your opponents.
Yeah, that's the meta game within this game.
Flash forward mid-space again.
Three players here to deal with this.
Yeah, Matt, forward position.
Powerful angle, they're baiting him in as well.
Immigo's swinging, can't find it.
Bitwall at least combined to keep it a level trade.
Roth's found his smokes, wonderful returns.
Fire with the tracers, but Trayim,
That was a ugly exchange on A4LV.
So you know the mid-player is dead and the rotator is dead.
Group up, hit the site together.
It's a wide-open site, Chad.
You were talking about it.
And the B's evacuated.
It might just have to be another save for Navey.
You seen enough?
And the red carpet rolled out for Vitality's sixth round.
Makase will have a look. Do some light investigations into the retake ability.
Flex is here.
Bit. Looks like he was gonna be on his way.
I think I'm gonna call this one off. Yep, alright, well, more of this.
I'm just questioning what they're going to opt for here because Alexei and Mikami will
both be able to drop M4s, which doesn't mean they're going to be lighter in the U2 department.
So do you want to just partial behind this three saves?
That's a good tip.
Hydro homey if ever I saw one
Let's get dry out there at the moment with the tone of this game
Now they're gonna need some water for all the salt if they do not
Find another round on the CT side. Yeah, okay, so they've just gone for the partial right
They go for a full gun round for the final round of the half to this one. Sure. There's still chances. There's three saved guns
a little bit of you till
We're going to need some individual output to win this one.
Yeah, well, you know, Bits is capable in the individual department.
He's also got his AK-47.
We'll turn the flash. It's a Robs versus Bits standoff.
There's another flash to set him up. Bits versus Robs.
Again, dipping his toe in that water.
It's Mikaze. There's forward position, ready to flick down.
Catches Apex for an opening.
Okay, that's a B defender. I might accelerate them into that site.
And we're considering it. Flames is bringing the bomb over there now.
Lots of utile for the finish, but the stack is back in place.
They looked a little bit jittery, but have rotated back in time.
Opportunity for Zyber, an easy frag, onto wonderful. He wants it answers and instead he gets an AWP put it in his rib cage.
Rops arriving, Alexi P preoccupies, he's gonna be exposed to Rops, the back turn, caught, the quick switch doesn't matter, and site taken.
It's just Mikaze, they've got to get past, hiding out behind the side smoke.
It's here as well, he's got a flash. To the air.
To the air. Yeah, Rops is not gonna be blind, but there's one up to Messi, can't find the second.
and great covering fire from Robs.
Now Bitt's turn sweeps on through.
Flames it gets the information safely.
Now Robs peaks in, good adjustment, but there's Flames.
Those jiggles are so annoying.
The bomb goes down.
The first thing Flames does is jiggle that.
Plagg gets the info and then they all just focus fire.
So seven rounds to vitality.
Can they make it eight?
And they haven't really had a gear shift
in terms of anything quite pacey and in your face.
Wonderful right now.
He wants to get across before the smoke comes in
and he's removed from play.
Once a few of these teammates, they can group up any, get a rifle, if one of these...
I thought Comrade goes down.
He gets caught, and that's what makes it the 4v4, so that one sucks.
So I would go for an AMA pick real fast.
This is a really quick AWP.
But here's that.
Takes a heavy, made damage. It's actually wonderful, as well, if this managed to remove Robs.
Smoke break on E-Box.
Apex continues his walk-in. A contact walk.
He's got support from Alexei.
Bit, spotted on site. Molotov's gonna make his life miserable.
Dips away, backup Brigade has arrived.
Couple of limp flashes. He's eaten that and there's him there.
No trade potential on that from Apex. It's a three on five.
Nabi to aid his half with at least their fifth and less.
Sawa keeps getting shots like that. Catches him or over the top of the smoke.
They've still got Mezze as a bit of a lurk outside B.
So I was hanging around looking for another if anyone comes begging for questions towards
heaven.
The smokes also late.
Does he get a chance?
Is he starting to float over now?
There's not going to be the ones looking for answers.
Grouping up towards middle once more.
Is he very late to this?
He does have a smoke.
Thywood has Util as well.
smoke, heaven's smoke, get a Molly in towards backside or bricks and away you go.
Here it comes. They've abandoned beer. That cut of noise has put it all onto his shoulders here.
Rotation swift.
It swings on in for nothing. Messi, clean headshot covers flames as he gets the bomb down. Now
Xayu responsible for camera, Alexi B trying to get through. And it's Alexi B that finds the headshot.
Oh, so it is wonderful! Just Scylul and the clutch can't hit it!
Now V5, Vitality 7, is there more to remove this?
Is the third map required? Cannot V beat this team!
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Vitality and those top four placements 477 days ago with the last time they couldn't achieve that like a faster bouncy season
One to kick off
2025 but here we find ourself in the pursuit of cologne the major right around the corner
They're looking for weaknesses in the world number one
I do best allegedly one of them the games are close. Let's see if this one delivers in the same capacity
the back of wonderful there's no clear commitment as I would is calling me completely clear.
What for starting to line up some uterus because he so what's the help flush our e-box with
Wonderful, starting to line up some u2 as Mikazi.
So, wants to help flush out e-box with that molly.
Temple smoke to obscure Zyla's view.
You'll respect it for now.
Is this a fake or is that commitment?
They're not getting any resistance right now.
They might want to head in.
Bombs starting to float back. Flames the apex and ropes.
Also getting a little bit jittery.
They're rotating away.
One has headed back, they're going to try and plant this one on the side, Mikazi. He'll be tasked with that.
They have to retake Package on Flamesy.
Another smoke for Tambo.
This one heavily favouring Na'Vi, surely. Have this quite sure.
Spoken kill. The first headshot could start the House of Cards tumbling.
They're going to get to the bomb first. Just about rocking up now. Mikazi hitting on the pillar, feels good for Na'Vi.
They could find the first, they've been gone, and another Mikase catches the smoke, pushes clean, it's spotless!
It's exactly what Navi needed.
Just a blender there.
Really a tempered approach, and no rush fell to out, didn't find resistance, suspected a stack, and they were right.
Stuff from Navi there picking up both pistols.
We'll see a Vitality 4 start to take shape, but this is just way too easy, isn't it?
too easy isn't it? The smoke skittles in but there's no flash there's nothing to
make that a possibility just locking them down and finding the fire you're just
gonna get past this one and you can take the lead a couple of MP9s two
diggles and a 5-7 to Zawoo.
These are around you have to win if you want to pull vitality away.
I learned now, vision obscured, Alexi being wildly hopping his way into the temple flank,
forces a adaptation from the CT set up, wonderful in sport.
considered as he's ready for this post the shoulder does not hit that immediate headshot
It could pivot back to what's a they don't have to commit with this
Feeling so much pressure though. Now the plan pick from every angle. He got bit
Holding out for any of those a rotators. It's Simon Ross trap inside another triple swing. No good from the car
Say support from up before the two
Easy headshot Simon go down the inside of the mountain in the active base up to eight pegs. Okay, that's nice from now
They usually crunch themselves in enemy territory.
Vitality, they feel like they have to make a move
and they run into a tight choke point.
Sure, that's where they have the pistols and the SMGs.
Kanavia set up for that
and they will be able to tie things up, seven apiece.
Inferno is the third and decider of this one.
But the victory being, as you mentioned,
If nobody can just pick up a map, that's going to build some confidence, right?
They've been getting closer. There's been a couple of the maps this year,
but this is the fourth time their face have been blowouts.
Two grand finals. One quarter final will make it two now here in IEM Atlanta.
And taking a map off. A lot of teams struggle to do that in Vitality's era.
Vitality want to join that. Sorry, nobody want to join that list.
The move tightens on that bead of fat.
I can't say into the box. Three
players here.
The pistols.
Team flashed airport timing.
It gets a bit flanky, doesn't it?
And B main smoked off. They're rotating away now.
Zai was up to bat.
Zai won this flank. It's everything.
Lexi being awareness.
Had the gun up. It's information that they are
Now they should be able to get into A, no issues.
Yeah, there's no one there. Flames is going to be the first man on the scene.
Has to get across this midline though.
Lexi B has drawn the line in the sand.
What are you supposed to do?
You go off a flash, and comfortable.
In it, and Lexi, pick him up.
Pick him up.
And sees control of the A site.
All right, well, Robson, Apex,
may as well try and deliver the damage here,
see if they can find themselves an upgrade
or just force them to revise the teamwork.
Regardless of the disadvantage there and back,
It's a very well tempered approach from Navi.
Nothing felt rushed, nothing felt compromised or hurried.
They're being allowed so far to play at their own pace, but when the guns come in, that's where the questions will need to be answered.
Offs again, last man standing.
Now he's going to get nothing for his troubles.
travels flawless.
No kill for Vitality in this one.
They're about to stop him from getting it down.
3-1-1 with the setup, ropes, solar, A-Z, we're middle.
The other three are going to watch B.
They have a move in mind, but they're just expecting it to be an early play into the B site.
Again, the bomb on one before outside, as Alexi goes through the motions for the mid-space.
On his back, the doors.
So we don't really feel too much pressure as an A.
Swear on the dome there of Mikazi, brought down to 63.
Another one through the window, Mikazi.
on the flag damage.
Oh, they could be number three.
Apex even has it.
Keeps hold of it for now.
In and throwing out the Utah.
This is just a double pump.
There's two smokes in the sky.
Ready for that second wave.
Captain, they have sent the air in package,
sent to the V-box.
Wolf was McCasey away.
Still subbing towards B. In has gotten across.
Okay, multiple angles to pick it up in a moment's time.
I think this is all posturing, though.
And maybe they're right. Wonderful starting to cheat back.
40 seconds.
Here they come, man.
Going on. Spots are lexic. Controls his spray.
Trade from Wandaful is superb.
An opportunity, but they've got to get this bomb down.
They've got to get past Robs. He started strong
onto Mikaze. The bomb, 30 seconds.
There's Big with one, but the bombs lost.
10. That should be a round end.
The right there. The name from Flamesy, securing it.
Oh, fellow, the story of the round was the hey cheese.
Truly.
Too much damage done to Mikaze. Never easy to try
and get that space, but copped it at every turn.
In a save, they've got plenty of cash.
Wonderful, can bring out the AWP.
and it's a good time out from
Blake.
Definitely a lot of mental warfare
in the server and just with this
tempo and tone. I think there's so
many expectations of responses or
roll. There is or isn't going the way that they were hoping for.
Rivals, Rio, Rotterdam, every time they meet this team.
He's been close, sure. This one in particular starting to shape up nicely for Malvia. Take 8.
But the Vitality CT side has just got its first round.
Is this aggression? Flashes for Robbs. He's not necessarily swinging on the first.
He will go out on the second for a quick glance. His flamethrower has one out window.
This will slow down the default, right? The fact that they've done this on a second timing.
So now we have two choices. Let's react somewhere else, or we'll wait it out and take the space back later.
I apply a bit of pressure towards B, but they know that mid becomes the weakness.
I'm still down outside middle. 55 seconds. It's like a lexie heading back to pick that up.
the
game.
Wonderful waiting for a
regress.
Smoke will fade to camera. It
should be coming in a moment.
Here it comes.
Wonderful has been primed and
ready for this swing from
Flamesy.
Shot in the spotted or
connects.
Zywoo up to bat first.
Macaulay standing in for the
I think that's a good thing.
Supported flash work from Messi
is actually rotated over to one
day as well. He's got the head
shot. He's got both clean.
Front vitality is captain.
Game plan and a really odd
tempo. Both of these teams
are giving each other so much
respect in certain situations,
waiting for those reactions like
I'm talking about. Then you get
these spurts back and forth and
didn't get what they were looking for.
Robson under a lot of pressure here at the rotation.
Miles away and then Apex comes in and cleans house.
It's not gonna be the force for Navi,
it'll be a partial bite.
So a couple of rifles in the mix.
So Navi might wanna do the same,
run and hide right now.
This one's starting to have that familiar feeling.
can Vitality be the first to reach double digits.
The buy is definitely in that favor,
but you go back to Dust2, they lost a bunch
around to purchases like this.
See if Narvi can put it off again.
They've done a good job of putting Vitality off
on their timings and tempers.
A lot of cases where normally they'd have three strong
and everyone would have their nades ready,
their guns out, but they've been caught out
in certain scenarios, and that could happen here again.
The read of the situation for Apex,
the stack is on the wrong side for now.
Ah, they don't have so many smokes to this B defence, both Apex and Mezzie with more smokes to deploy.
in the clutch. As he seconds,
Bomb needs to be retrieved.
So has his cross back to Bomb
retrieval. It feels like it said
have done. Nice miss shot from
the Op gives him the freedom to
pick up the bomb. The 22 HP, 1v2,
and Robs in temple. He's going to
walk straight into him. It's an
open plant. A Hail Mary play.
Drops doesn't play with an A.
Does all the work.
Flancy. Can we address how
quickly he peeps together three
there? Up and quick out of the
the smoke on rotation, just smashes that attack. Apex was under a lot of pressure.
Mezzi as well, fortunate for the rotation. The bomb does go down. We need that going
to be buying anyway, but that is going to help out a decent chunk.
Flames the same as the day.
Just three more rounds now for my talent to book that semi-final spot.
A chance to take on Betburn.
middle like this, would you?
Robs is counting on that. I want to find this an e-box right now. They want info.
So his orb leads the charge.
Bit backs away. Looks like they are going to retool for the open runway into A.
Money's not great on flames. He's only got 600. This could just be another save. And Navi did the same.
The timing of this from Messi, he's going to be way too late to the party.
Blade watches on and Robs gets here, but he's in time.
Just in time to at least have a first fight.
Go across his sideline.
Worried about that lurk in the middle and in it is there.
Chunky Nade onto camera position.
There's he approaching from a main, looks for Lexi, finds it.
That's an equalising frag, bomb goes down.
Clock starts to take in Navi's favour, Immet activates, Pistols back to the side,
he holds Tywin, wonderful solid onto Robs, picks up and retrieves the AK, better for this.
Grouped up towards Heaven, it's wonderful and bid, everything to play for.
That clock ticking in your favour further.
Tywin swinging on int, trying to draw attention, the Molly is great if he can get away.
Good find for Wonderful, just Nezzie in the clutch, he's going to try and stick it.
There's no way! There's no way!
Alright, Navi. They get the crowd to make some noise there.
Again, just these tempered approaches.
Rocks felt like he had thread the needle in that moment.
Imma would have been spewing if that round had gone against him.
That one could have signaled a downfall.
This is that opening.
Yeah, playing ahead of the smoke.
McCarthy had to worry about...
That's it. Apex is barely out of the smoke.
Barrow spot. This one makes it all possible. And then Nezzie, he had a tough time finding
it. Well, they didn't have a hard time finding him. It's fine. Vitality's money's on the
line.
aggressive. His posture towards B main. I think the smoke had blocked. It's going to change that dialogue.
Again, look at the space that Makase has got here.
He walks into the B bomb site.
Vitality, nobody's home.
Can't believe your eyes.
Just need to get the bomb across it,
but confirms Masi's coordinates.
I think you have to save.
I know it sounds crazy, it's a 5v5, but 1900 next round.
They're going to time the game right here.
If you go for this one, then you lose everything.
The bombs are down, the clock's already ticking.
You don't even have a kit.
I think this is it.
This is just such an odd game with the tempo and the tone.
easiest rounds at Navi are going to win all game long.
And they'll take that one.
Hoobas on the CT side.
We know it's a map where the CTs feel
like they're forced into taking some risks.
I understand the addition to the hole
that makes some of these rotations a bit swifter,
a bit of harass over to water a little bit
earlier in the round.
Short.
I tell you, they gamble incorrectly.
Nobody home even to really tell what was hitting that site.
And Navi, they've gotten away with one there.
So we tie things up, 10 apiece.
It's only really mini streaks that we've had throughout this map.
Unless anyone's posted, it can securely have been three straight rounds.
I can't wait to see what's going to happen to me.
A crowd divided.
I think it's a good idea to have the last round of playoff to save, you have to assume
they have something, but in terms of what they're actually equipping and bringing into
this next one, well they're not going to upgrade too much, right next round the 2400
lost bonus W up to buy again as you get back underway, but the round will not be as easy
as that now, this one you're going to have to fight for.
course set for this boost. He scopes up and dismounts. Wonderful heads back to spawn,
picks up the bomb. Second to one's hit again with this setup. Two MP9s alongside the M4
of Robs, Nezzie and Zawut, moving on to B and Mikazi, while he's back up to his usual
parthing.
It's space game from Alexi off the flash.
blocks eight and he wants to remaining now that's on apex
it's not looking good for flames in Ross they're gonna have to do it all on
their own the Calvary is completely departed it will just be a two on five
on this a crunch
Ross dumped on that pillar Molly's gonna take six weird for him to stand in the
playing to try to deliver the multi unable to do so.
Mikaze goes down and that's the end of the A site.
That's got to be an RV round.
Apex just an MP9 versus Alexis Galil and Galil victorious.
God save this all.
Or on to that M4.
And that'd be in post 11.
It's the lack of exchanges earlier.
There's no real standing through.
You're not really seeing too much damage being done anyway.
I understand with the type of bind, they don't have too many nades they can throw out,
but as a type of round, you have the oil. Maybe you go for the triple boost towards A,
you get the gap up towards T stairs.
We did see earlier in the piece, Navi were actually expecting,
and I think I saw Mikazi holding for it in an earlier round.
So all these little tricks that you have to deploy.
the league's two away from securing something that has alluded to them for years.
It's been an awfully long time.
Rops is the best he can here.
Rammoli comes in, can't extinguish, just has to stand and bang, and you bang on, right?
They have to deliver a multi-kill, or at least go one for one between the likes of Flainty
and drops to give him a 3v3, a chance in the post plant, but he's just making so many assumptions
at the moment. A lot of this is without any actual info off of the map. This is a full bite.
They're ahead of that. Ross doesn't know because he bit walking in wanting to take this head to
head. Just gonna push and go. Robson's not got the smoke out. Oh he can't block them. They are in to A.
He's felt well. Gaches the timing bit, was looking towards camera and Flamesey available as well.
Good molly. He's gonna make things difficult. HG is hard to chase him down. The dunk, the double.
Flamesey huge. Delivers what's required. Still wonderful. Alexia kicking up a fuss. They are
gonna keep this one up. Is he still there? Yeah he's gonna be in a prime position here. He can
actually take B main and catch them on the cross to the bomb site itself. They'll just deny the plant.
I see not to know that as he everything to do here nails it on to Alexi.
That's one off now. It's just wonderful in a 1v3.
What's he got other than the plan? He's got three targets encroaching on his position from three different access points.
Rob's coming from the E box side. That looks like wonderful. It's going to go looking for trouble.
Needs to try and find these jewels on his own terms.
You know Rob's catches these timings.
to the back. You're looking
somewhere else. Finds time.
Wonderful. Come find the fight.
Robbs arrives just in time and we
tie this game up once more.
Just felt that's been the constant
words coming out of our mouth.
Just got a tip to tap throughout.
It gets over back. He's on.
They give that to a few through
no issues in the buy at all for
now be.
All 24 rounds coming your way
Again, but this one have overtime or is this one a Nabi victory? Can they push us to the third?
We'll do vitality clinch it and seal it
Book that semi-final slot
Some great support of you so flaksy there. Yeah, right
Once you know they're a cross count you bother that off you force them out the nade just follows them and then they swing with it
So extremely well done there
And then very tough for a lexian wonderful. I know they needed to get out of touch
He's played. He burns his final tactical time out. He's got them all in regulation.
That one was a change of tempo, right? It wasn't a rush. It wasn't noisy, but it was a whole lot quicker, right?
They be-lined it as passively as possible, right? Just that silent slink in towards the side ropes.
Shaving that first one off the pack was great, right? Doesn't overextend, doesn't swing wide.
And sure, we've talked about the fact that since Cologne 2024,
Navi haven't been able to take the map off of Vitality well.
They have been close.
Is it really going to be the same story?
Every round of regulation, but still, the L in the column.
Or can Navi flip the script?
Big early space.
I'll be like a corn here. Yeah, he's got his volatile valve.
He gets away. Just a scrap of health, but bit allowed to escape.
Zahreh sets up to succeed, finding Mikaze towards the E-Box.
Alexi be across the camera line though. Does open up avenues for a flank.
It has to not. It has the line. Apex has the line.
Apex is part of the position, but there's Alexi. Didn't find the deep clear. Apex dips out.
He met the unknown entity. Maybe audible. Zahreh is still focused on the E-Box.
And Mezzie relays the information, so it has to account for this.
Has to account for this, doesn't!
Maybe Mezzie didn't, after all, that wonderful can rock up with the bomb,
it just got Mezzie to get past the distraction shot,
and now it's destructed.
Two clean entrances, look at the girl,
there's just gonna be robson flames on the way back in.
They got a kit for this.
Okay, it really comes down to what wonderful can get done.
Partens up within there, both of them with HE grenades,
into what that E-box could be enough to find robs.
I'm only still going to achieve anything wonderful seems destined to deliver this one here too
easy.
It's 12 now V. What a way from doing it for the first time in two years showing that the
bees bleed.
Alright well it's going to be overtime at a minute I'm here Vitality.
Oh that could have been heard, it should have been heard.
Mezzi was at least addressing the possibility Apex posts up, gets one, drops off so we're
just sticking out like a sore thumb. No consideration for that gap. It must have been communicated in it with a massive double and wonderful closing things down. It's a scrappy buy for round 24.
Back into the serve up. Last round of regulation.
Ross is fed up for giving this space over.
Hibbo bits playing a pass at this time.
Zaru doesn't pull the trigger on the flashback. Trust drops on his cards.
Now they get on the second tempo.
It's one final flash from Flamesy.
Has to respect from on the top, thrown by Pitt towards the wrong position.
And that flash has just gone out. So Khan made the play for that.
This one's going to feel damn good for Na'Vi.
Stands for the taking.
Weapon re-advantage.
Vitality strong out, repositioning.
He's already made it across to the right side of the lane.
It's just Apex here. Again, Vitality don't know what's coming.
Always in the wrong place. She's dead. Surely this is Narvys for the taking. Apex with nothing.
Empty hands and an empty bomb site.
That's the hardest part. The bomb's going down already.
Place HG doesn't quite find his target wonderful far enough warning shots, but this is looking good
An ugly retake with no kit
Na'Vi to take in the distance
Mezzi falls, Zywoo's gonna be their next victim walks up on that close wall
Strength in numbers, Spock's a flash and flash, wonderful, good fall here, and we do that for
2 years of waiting, half-man is to fell vitality, and it will be decided on that third map.
You know, it's like having God above you talking to you with this asset.
Put the blindfolds?
No.
Okay.
It's very loud.
Yes, it's loud.
I got the ball.
I got a shot.
He did with the right.
I got another left, man.
And then left, put your mind.
Left, left, left.
Down.
And down.
Right, right, right.
Okay, you got a shot, brother.
Jump up the ladder.
Easy point for me.
Yeah, nice.
Left, down, down, down, down.
Sorry, shoot, shoot, left, left.
You're not going, go back.
Down, down, go down.
Get in! Yes! Yes!
The knife is the goat!
Okay, but no knife again!
Okay, no knife!
Keep going.
Can you give me a 360? Turn around.
Turn around!
I'm here. Yeah, you're some of the...
Okay, you're going down.
And down, he's in front of you. Up a bit.
To the right Robin, actually it's a door.
Right, down.
Down, right, right, right.
Down, down, down.
Left, left, left.
Right, right, right.
How the fuck is that a game?
To the right of you, down Robin.
He's in the wall.
He's in the wall.
To the left.
To the right.
You're touching the right.
Jumping on the left.
left left left left left
what the fuck is going on
yeah you need to control your M you
yes you shot him in the twice and you couldn't hit him
yeah my accent for that or something
Robin has $400 for some reason
that's a shame
it's not our problem I'm sorry
I don't know if someone is P90 or P90
You gonna end the ramp or not?
You're on a rock.
Okay, so let's see.
You're going towards the house now.
You're looking towards the house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you open the door.
You're right behind it.
To the left.
To the right.
Yeah, a bit straight and to the left.
Yeah, so you're in the back.
Back and right.
And forward now.
Yeah.
Then I thought, go forward.
Inside the house and you're outside.
Look behind you.
You're outside the house.
Just move around your plant.
Left side a bit.
Left side a bit.
Left side.
Straight, straight, straight.
They're getting into the wall.
Okay.
Okay, let me fucking help you.
It's all the bomb right?
Look behind you.
Hey, you're going up the stairs in the house now.
You're in the house.
Down, down, down.
Down, down, down, down, down.
It's a feeling.
When you put the bomb, bitch.
You're not putting the bomb?
It's too easy.
I think the bomb is planted.
It's gonna explode.
Oh, that was a nice...
Yeah, a nice mushroom, I just wanted one.
to see who will be going this route to the semis.
It might have taken them almost two years, Janko,
but finally, Navi get to celebrate
and also breathe that sigh of relief
that Vitality don't end up stealing this map from me.
Hey, I think they just took a page out of Hunter's book
when G2 finally beat Navi.
No one beats Navi 16 times in a row
or whatever it is that you said.
But yeah, I mean, this is just such a huge feat
from Navi, also the manner in which it happened,
winning five out of the last six rounds,
you know, to close it out.
T-Side in Ubers, but still you're going up against Vitality who you just lost so many close games time and time again
So this might be a real turning point for Navi
I just about to say you know this could be the turning point for Navi and on the back of a very
Tecical game of Counter-Strike as well. I think she had mentioned it a couple of times during the cast and it felt like both teams
Constantly knew what each other were doing like both teams were playing with an insane amount of preparation
And of course also hinted by the fact that they've played in Ubers a couple of times one in the last couple of weeks
So there's been a lot of prep leading up to this game and neither Vitality or Na'Vi have had a lot of time to practice.
We know Vitality haven't at all and Na'Vi, there's only so much you can change in a short span of time.
So in terms of the preparation coming into this, it was two teams who knew each other very, very well,
which also created this crazy back and forth scenario.
I would agree with that sentiment for the side of Vitality up into the final three rounds.
No, like it felt like Na'Vi had all the reasons of where Vitality weren't stacking, which is just so uncharacteristic.
Exactly. It felt like they got lost in the sauce somewhat, right?
Because Apex, a couple of, you know, wrong reads in terms of where he's going to put himself as the rotator.
We also had that weird round where Navi goes into almost the empty B-bomb side.
It's a 5v5, you know, everyone alive and Vitality goes for a save.
So, yeah, it was really impressive. I know it's not exciting.
It wasn't mega entertaining, perhaps, the way in which Navi closed out the games.
But it's really impressive for them and really important that they did it in that way,
not by, you know, just crazy individual heroics or something while happening, they're just
outplayed Vitality, you know, towards the tail end of that game.
And the fact that we're saying that this is the first time Na'Vi have taken a map off of Vitality,
16 times, or 15 times before Vitality had done it to them, I mean, it firstly goes to show the
level that Vitality are playing at, right, but for Na'Vi, surely this is a mental shift, no?
It is a mental shift, you know, and it came with the back of a great performance. It also came
of the bag of certain individuals that are highly impactful for Navi doing a good job.
Immer went 5-5 at opening kills in this game, wonderful, had a blast of a game, you know,
with the AWP also at the later stages on the T side. He was the one finishing it off in round 24
and really put himself in a lot of favorable positions. So we spoke about it, right? There's
many things you need to do if you want to beat Vitality. First and foremost, you need to be
well prepared. We saw that from Navi, we saw that from Blade, the tactical timeouts coming into full
effect as well, but then you also need the individuals to go toe-to-toe versus vitality.
Ema had a great showing, wonderful had a great showing, and I think that speaks to
what Navi have changed the most as of late, and that is wonderful finding more and more
and more impact. Not only as a player that closes out the round, but in this game as well,
opening up the rounds. You went five for five and opening kills as well, so you combine him and
Ema's impact in this game, and now all of a sudden you have a Navi that is very, very competitive.
It's really important how this game ended, especially considering how that's two went.
Yes, right because you asked me is it worse to get stomped or to lose a close game
Well during the series, you know losing a close game can can leave you lingering and thinking about all every single little detail
So the fact that Navi was able to reset after that and then have the you know
Concentration really to towards to come back and and win the new best really gives you hope for
Inferno that it can at the very least be a close map 100% let's dive into the tail end of it
Then we brought our ground 23 from does to you where robs had that crazy push let's put the shoe on the other foot
What happens here so much composure and even Alexi misses one of the smoke so like oh my god
Is it really gonna go horribly wrong in this round and bit dies trying to put some pressure towards it?
This is all supposed to be a fake right and to draw attention away from the B bomb site because it dies to zywoo
But here was the key moment Alexi and ima managed to sneak past an apex expects one guy
But not the second and ima finds the gap zywoo almost never you do you see him shoved in the background or in the side and
Ema after that first kill, great job of understanding where most likely Messi is,
waiting for his teammates finding timing, and this was a 3v5 at 11-11 that Navi is able to convert.
It was a 3v5 at 11-11, with a bit down to 19 HP and Apix in the perfect position.
I'd say they read it like a book up until the point.
I'm super curious to whether or not that's Apix miscommunicating, not saying to Saibou that,
hey, that could be potentially a gap here towards middle, or whether or not that Saibou not really
really picking up on what Apix is saying, because as you said, Janku, it's so, so red
that you see Simon get shot in the back.
This is also one of my favorite calls back in the day, like the double lurker.
You send your usual lurker first, and then you kill him, and the guy says, oh, lurker
dead, right?
And you focus on the bomb site, but then there's a second guy who's usually with the
pack, and you can catch your opponents off guard.
So a brilliant call from Navi at a crucial moment.
Yeah, super game changing for them.
Let's run the wonderful highlights as well.
Once Radda, I mean, involved in eight multi-kills, five and zero in terms of the openers as
well.
absolute field there. Yeah, he's stepping it up a lot maybe. We spoke about his consistency coming
into this tournament. I feel like he's adding layers to that now as well by playing so well against
Vitality in this very, very important game for Navi as well. And as we said, you know,
Wonderful has often been labelled as a bit more defensive, you know, maybe a hybrid
AWPer in the sense that he's not the most aggressive, nor is he the most defensive AWPer.
I think he's added a layer to his play over the last year where he's more and more involved. And I
think Blade have mentioned it a couple of times in certain inches as well, that that's something
They've been working on you know, we need to get more out of wonderful
We need to make him believe that he can be the difference maker early on in the rounds as well
And not only in the car scenarios
I think it's just the inconsistency because when he's on he can do it all right here like he's super versatile
He's not a one-trick pony, but then again when he's having a bad day
Then he becomes a liability and you can't count on him for pretty much anything
So hugely important that he's having a good series here and what Jacob mentioned
you know before the series the pistols like that saved Navi's ass in this game
right because both they've been both pistols and convert and vitality
stabilized immediately in gun rounds like that they they took control of both
halves it was only at the very end of the second half where Navi found
something and figured out a way to close out the game. I just want to take a
couple minutes to set the stakes coming into Inferno we're in on-chart
territory where Navi have now equalized a series what you read on this. Playoff
arena, Counter-Strike, Inferno, Decider, slap that bad boy right on there. I think this is a problem
for Vitality a little bit because they only played it once in Rio and that's it. Like so they've been
to Fort Worth, they played the entire tournament here without playing it and we know they didn't
have time to practice. So is it going to feel a little bit awkward for the players to get on the
server, you know, how much have they game planned and how much have they prepared for this map,
I think it'd be challenging. I think that's an excellent point because that's exactly what
what Flameseed told us when we interviewed him after the group stage, that certain maps,
like we're not practicing right now, you know, in certain maps, we don't play a lot at the
tournament, so when you come in, you know, in the beginning of our group stage, the first
time you're playing X1C map, you feel a bit rusty, you forget some of the details, you
forget some of the agreements you have in certain positions, and as Janck was said,
Inferno is one of the maps they haven't played a lot as of late, so I also see that as a
big of a weakness.
I will also say just, you know, sure, you want to stay alive in this tournament, you
want to go into the semifinal, you want to win this trophy as well, but we're looking
head for the Major as well and mentally it's such a big game for Navi right now.
Imagine if they can take down Vitality in this game, imagine if they can beat
them. Sure as hell Vitality can go back home and say yeah we didn't practice for
this, we'll get it done when we're at Cologne but if anything that gives Navi
belief that once you know time-crushing come at Cologne which it will at some
point we've shown you know just a couple of weeks ago that we're able to beat
them so I think there's more at stake than just in isolation this game and
staying alive in this tournament but even more so for the Major as well if
you have any highs and hopes for for Navi doing well there.
But to get it done, they're going to need their young stud to show up.
MacAzzi has had a quiet series so far, right?
And we know he plays B with Alexi on Inferno, right?
That's obviously going to see a lot of action.
Keep an eye out on Apex and the utility, right?
Like, we know how much damage he does with those Achees.
And I really am curious what the approach will be from Navi on the T side
to sort of try to diminish that to some extent.
Well, Navi going where they haven't gone for almost two years.
That is taking a map off of Vitality.
But can they translate it into a series victory?
We're going to find out on Inferno after this.
Something's coming so just go. Let's do it!
It's the answer!
Now it's up!
We fall back!
My map, Dust 2, is so beautiful when the sun is low.
Nightfall, the Elo Harvester's land.
Their cruelty to my people is all I've known.
May thy most wit and splatter.
And a double kill, it's all onto Alexi.
Pete, he's got 19 bullets, everything he needs.
No, you're not.
Did he swing off the name?
The plan is to lighten up my name!
And I'll kill you!
You're a murderer!
In my desert...
My yellow...
My dust tube...
Ah, for fuck's sake!
Can you just move to any parking faster?
Atlanta, hot Atlanta, you can call it whatever you want.
What we've actually come here to do today is to keep playing and see what happens.
The Great Peach State. It is Atlanta, Georgia, but mostly a lot of historical...
The hunt continues.
All right, man, meet him.
That's what I was saying, he's playing video games.
You play Counter-Strike.
Deep into the depths of the Pond City market.
Hey, man, you play video games?
45, so.
How old do you think I am?
30, I'd say.
OK, yeah, that's pretty fair.
About I'm 36.
We'll take that.
Not sure, man.
What do you think about two teams or players playing against
each other in tournaments and video games?
I mainly play like Rainbow, Apex.
Is it something where we can kind of mutually agree
that there are games that shouldn't be considered
respectable, perhaps maybe like a,
I don't want to just put words in your mouth,
but Valorant.
I was going to say the same thing.
Yes.
You guys know anything about video games at all?
Counter Strike?
Super Pirates.
Age of Empires.
My team right now is number one in the state on Marvel.
Marvel Rivals?
Yeah, my school.
What school you go to?
Carrollton.
Where can we find some Counter Strike players?
I mean, Age of Empires is cool,
but I'm looking for Counter Strikers.
I'd rather go to the hamburger place, maybe, you know, in the corner, H&F.
Thanks for the guidance.
You want to say something to him?
What's up guys?
What's up guys?
Poverty.
What is it?
Poverty.
P-O-V-E-R-T.
Bro, I was about to say, that's the wildest sign-off I think I've ever experienced on the show here, is poverty.
We're back in business live from Atlanta, Georgia.
The Intel Extreme Masters on its American tour and a third map, not what we were expecting
coming into today.
Vitality, Narvi, both slipping up on their path to playoffs, has led to an earlier than
scheduled collision and this quarterfinal is heating up.
Narvi picking up a win that has eluded them for some time.
They take Anubis, both teams in fact, taking their respective picks and Counter-Strike,
it's a long storied history, Inferno third map deciders, sometimes, oftentimes, deliver.
Is the winner Anubis a turning point for Na'Vi?
They have proven vitality complete on the IEM stage.
World number one versus two.
He took the knife
They will like to just start on the defense. It will be vitality then have to bring the fight
Will be the wonderful keep their form up. Yanko says eyes on the car say
Is it just a map win or is it something more?
Let's find out together on Inferno
I think it's a very defensive set-up right now from Na'Vi.
No early information middle, nothing banana.
Just waiting to react to the onslaught.
It's about to knock on his B door.
Double monotone go. Plans in parting forward.
Nice flash counter. Perfect. God flash.
Connection! Wonderful!
Sensational!
to the right. It's the third
straight. T side start for
vitality. They're not going to
get out the blocks early. They
have been stunted. The bomb
doesn't go down and we know what
that means. The full to follow.
But that is a thing of beauty
for the Ukrainian sniper.
I'm out record now 22 and two the series record at nine and zero.
I could change right here right now.
And only that.
I told you they were looking to do.
The same as last year they win this one.
It would have been six consecutive trophies.
Well, hold on.
They still got a couple of games to go,
but they looked themselves in as the heavy favorites.
If they did take down Navi, now that's a conversation.
Tom Forstreak, I'm sure they don't care about it,
but the history books do.
Opportunity to make it 22 consecutive,
not for debate now.
And this run has been rocky,
the desk highlighting the lack of practice short.
The Finavi regardless of how they get there,
unlocking the mental, knowing that now
it is more than possible.
They're the major right around the corner, what could that mean?
Well these glocks they sprint into action, this should just be a farm fest, 40 seconds
remaining they will need to.
They've achieved their goal, they wanted to bait out some util and have done so with
some steps.
Now we saw roms on Dust2, right they iced him out, that was with the deagle, I don't
think this time they're going to put themselves in a scenario where anybody is staying alive.
Apex is the first one picked a part big back a pit.
Four in hand, he should be able to just go on his teammates.
They chip in and steal the X.
CT set up, we'll see if we can get Alexi pundit over to what's beat.
And that's that rotating right there.
There we go, the crowd's about to noise, finding themselves late in the piece.
a piece it felt like this one was going one way. Now we're on it. Okay, that is an early
timeout. Looking like the happiest in there. Maybe they went off script after the chat
outside but we're only two rounds deep. That is such a blade of time to time out like you're
two zero up. Everything's been smooth. You must have heard something. He didn't like
the sound of it. Yeah, just circulate it off the storm. It's so smooth that I thought
he had to get a kill, right? So things couldn't be done better at the moment for Na'Vi.
Curiously, it's an opportunity for Vitality to, you know, return next for third, second X-Tas chips in.
Well, Blake was just spurting something, a bit was laughing, so maybe it was more about the vibe than it is about the call.
Either way, atmosphere looks good for Na'Vi.
Maybe just to check in, like, boys, you've got exactly what you wanted.
Pistol conversion, CT start, burn essentially the bonus, right?
these MP9s carried through, there's M4s in the mix, no one's upgraded into a kit. Let's
see if that comes back to bite them.
Let's see on that early fight. Looking for a tussle.
He taking you till near front McCarsley.
In the jiggling fruit phone.
It's a fine spot, he fired a Lexi, but there's him, Matt!
Quick to the trigger!
As he goes down, thought he had a Lexi booked.
Oh, that's risky for an A-Defense.
He's just done that.
That is ambitious, isn't it?
Alright, well, they're going to reset now, they've been smoked off,
just picking up extra Nades, but still quite brazen, just in front of Nervi.
The A-Defense is the Ukrainians, wonderful.
Over towards Mota, a bit touching the back of Pitt.
And both of them still have some nades.
You don't want to say that they're floundering right now, but they definitely need to come up with a new plan. Long smoke. Second time deployed.
One of them now tucks into side. They're giving up the long route, not expecting that to happen with about 40 seconds left. Lazy.
Leaving Banana to join the rest of the team and Alexi, starting to make his way over towards Speedway.
Let's see what wonderful and big... 25.
They're smoked off, Alexi B is going to struggle to contribute unless he goes running through that smoke.
He will, in the first to flash, 18 HP as he leads through his demise.
It's built aside with the bombies to go down, 14 seconds is wonderful.
Just the bomb on the floor, just rubs, remains.
Now V to take the first gun round here in the third map.
Solid hold, a little bit dicey show, but the man advantage always going to make things easy.
to get caught. Sure. Alexi. He
takes first contact needs to
come to save the day to find
that opening kill. From there,
they stay steady. Only two
casualties. He basically
catches that name. A little
hold here in the side. They
just mowed them down the way in
has to be a partial full
vitality. Really yet to get
a shot for Vitality, really yet to get going.
He's done some beer and Mackenzie early.
Still have banana control, that's all there is.
A couple of smokes, a flash and a HE remain.
Vitality, we still have a minute 25 on the clock,
so no clear indication of where they want to go,
but they might just have to wait out the early protocol nades.
It's been smoked deep banana now they clearly believe it I mean the best
disgusted as well counts like a mental game you finally bug the trend hang on
that's a crazy headshot provided by the bomb side it is an empty bomb side yes
They're going to work that out real quick.
Diligence from Flamesee, Alexi Bigo swinging into Trabbe, a disruptive force, but gets nothing for his troubles.
Apart from Flamesee, flying into his face.
What a crazy turn of events to get Vitality, a bomb planted in around one.
You've got to wonder, is that a prefire as he's coming up half-floor right there?
He's just salmon away with that tech, nice.
Ashes-McCazzie's head open and Alexi tries.
We've had a lot of this throughout this series, right?
teams when they know they have a financial advantage they're taking these saves they're not risking the money early that's going to give them more gun rounds the longer this goes on
It's been an awful lot of saves especially on the CT sides
And this is no exception to that in the early stages. So now feet I
Mean that's such a gift of vitality as well flimsy has given them away into this third map
By virtue of a flying tech nine perfect first bullet head shot to a jumping Macaulay
to take a look at that earlier
chip down there trying for the HG.
Otherwise, just a bullet to the diamond.
Thank you very much.
The question is, is it just going to be individual heroics
they get vitality across the line?
Or is this going to look well polished?
Well, imagine what we've seen. Probably not.
Here's the luck change
for the first game of the day.
I think the cars is going to have a pretty good excuse at Bob review.
Okay.
A different approach for the early banana biff.
aiming for just the head shot. It's not an easy shot, but it's what he can hit!
Stunning start to round five from Wonderful.
That's on DesiWoo. Zero and four.
He had a slow start on Dust2.
Oh, he's not done!
A second, locked up from the sniper, finds him. Flames him with the rebuffle.
The officer's taking a lot of space right now. He's talking to the pocket.
You can hear the rotations from this point, but it looks wary that this is a possibility.
You can see there, the ball had highlighted through the tippy of that wall.
Wonderful 10 and 1. They finally brought him down. Well, they convert around.
Hit. He doesn't seem to think so. Can't find the follow-up. Apex good for the trade.
Just in there here.
Yeah, they're going to wrap.
Flames are coming in from that short side. Going to flush him out with the flames. Apex.
You've got an alternate out.
Not comfortable at all.
I think he'd be from the car.
They from the B side of the map.
Hide now behind that smoke.
Apex try to come up clutch, but
his back is turned and they can't
say he's wonderful. He's playing
out of his skin right now.
The questions about nothing.
Okay, that we know that is he
has good structure. We know that
blades that bring the strats.
Because he comes into the roster
X-ray on. The second one was beautiful as well. Emma, this had to be instant, didn't it?
You get Flames of your chance. They're in that side, the 2v2. And you can see that feeling
of getting pumped up now. An awful lot of major winners in the server today. I know where
it takes to be champs. Zywu, like we discussed, 0 and 4. He actually stayed for the full 10
minutes between maps, just shooting AFK and RV players in sport. Try to keep that hand
Oh, it's just been knifed in spawn.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's just been knifed in spawn.
Help it out, now, Lee!
Oh, yeah, it's been tough.
Vitality, it's another take.
We've come to know and love it.
We can understand why.
Yeah, it certainly lacks a little bit of the polish.
We've grown accustomed to.
Haven't seen Vitality stabbing each other in the back
accidentally.
We've gone through some of the matches in the group stage, right?
There's some miss-utility, there's some clunky moments, and that's continued onto the stage.
Is there going to be more where that came from?
Mikazek finding apex and a response through the wall, all turns to Agabime.
Unconfirmed damage to one of the three on B.
This one's ruined now, isn't it?
It is, it certainly is. Now, it is just wonderful bit.
Robs and Flamesy are both together. Often it's just Robs, the fact that Flamesy's beside him.
Give them some additional trade potential, Flames. He reveals his position off the flash.
Well, right now Apex is able to be the puppet master from the grave, sure, but I think this
is still so tough, right? They're very static. They're waiting for now. Vita play, right?
Vitality aren't the ones setting the time.
He comes to play. A head of the flashbang. McCarthy, twice win, finds Mezzi.
How it's saved, we're forcing him to A, right? This is it. And it looks like they're just scrambling
to try to pick up this bomb. Oh, it's a touch key.
Finally found it. But I think they're just going to hold onto their cums.
Is that really the best option and this is an out of sorts looking vitality right now. They've been rattled
And quite the opposite right we talk about confidence Navi are brimming with it right now after a new this
Just with the way things have been flowing sure they've given up one opening kill
But that was a bit of a miracle the one that flames you held in that tech nine. Otherwise
Well, you got a couple you can't copy and paste that you can't say yeah, could you do that again?
Please that's what I mean right if it's going to be individual heroics and someone different round after round
He's a step up for vitality to get this one going but
I think that's one of those games where it might just have to be that.
Quick patch arounds again.
Okay, X-Tas, what have you got?
You know they don't find a contribution when you're teaming.
You know they're not playing their best counter-strike.
It doesn't matter. You're in the server right now.
to get them to draw into what's
next right where we clearly not
planning a game, but can we get
passed on a BC or D game right
if we can? Well, how are we going
to get there? And they have done
that time after time. How many
tournament wins or, you know,
exit interviews or what? Definitely
not exit. I think this is the
one right that that one then
coming into this. Yeah, this is
where they're not on vacation,
but we all know is about the
ESL Grand Slam to pick that up.
The next focus is the major.
that. Well, the timeout has
concluded. This time, so we
hasn't been nice. That's nice.
How much longer can this go on
the next it's just a lack of plant a lack of damage we're talking six kills in total and six rounds of play
Javi have kept Vitality under their thumb
Chomp keep Nade onto Apex's face wonderful burned away. They will take the
Banana control so three here for the defense
Nade's got Flamesy
It's the majority of the damage
So Karam though Vitality's control Apex holding a flash for Flamesy's core
Have this mid-in for the embers playing over to what's trashed right now.
He can have intimate and jiggles clearing it if he wants.
Otherwise the stack is in the right place and this looks deadly.
Yeah it looks perfect doesn't it with wonderful on the line.
Must have doubled made. Wonderful's gonna die to the first.
It's perfectly positioned.
Opening with the HE. Wonderful on his head.
Apex is provided with the opening kill.
Odd flash.
Work for them in the pistol. This is Mikaze with an AK-47. He could achieve great things that one-shot headshot
Just so will the mains
The corpses of vitality litter the B bomb site
Navi's individuals firing!
Navi's hanging around so he could lose this after time here.
Spotted now, jiggle down behind the shot.
Zaru's going to go down. Surely they just run at him. Surely they take this after time.
Zaru has 250 bucks!
Spatiality team.
I'm familiar feeling this, man.
Well, they're going to be lost to two teams all year.
One was Beppin in the group stage.
Another has been that of Falcons.
Now they make a very strong case to add their name to that list.
This is it, right, the 1-5 consecutive titles.
They're not even dropping maps in playoffs
until right here, right now.
And look at the vibe in the Na'Vi cap.
Here they come again.
Apex won.
Simon's T-Go-Finding.
Yeah, Matt does give them the leg up.
Lex is still here.
They know that in century half-walt.
You don't just want to break through this.
Rotation from Bitter will be there in time.
Lot of people on wonderful B.A. side of the map.
Only a man in my cars, they live to regret their aggressive venture.
It's interesting, right?
Beard, look at the radar, he's barred in back of B, he's not playing active.
He's giving them the space, and then Alexi's going over towards A to drone wonderful.
With the low HP and bit with the AK,
I wouldn't put it past him being able to get a multi at a minimum.
Macalse's had his moment, wonderful's on.
And Beard's been having one hell of a series.
Well, they can smoke CT and coffins, it's just how much can Beard do?
He knows they're coming now.
One man versus four of vitality.
It's locked, fixated on the cross-set, forced to relocate by the inside.
And the other one is on fire!
Two clean headshots, Flamesy finally falls.
Piss gone down and we can get that bomb planted.
This still not a certain version, the only way it's faded is just going to be sitting in the open.
Alexi B's pulled out the incendiary, a chance for WONDERFUL to block, and now awkward for Flamesee to go down!
Bit does enough! He was alone, isolated on the side, he gets his two, and a comfortable retake for WONDERFUL and Alexi, it goes from bad to worse.
As soon as Mezzi repossed for the plan, he realized it's fading and he's committed.
They do the right thing, which is the double swing, but they put themselves in a tough position.
Mezzi 0 and 7.
Wonderful survives as well with some gymnastics.
Flamesy's doing the most for the team right now.
They've got such hunger on their faces.
We know that this means a lot to now V, this type of a victory.
Ahead of the big one.
To show you can beat the big bad, it would be phenomenal for now V and their chances.
Another season end with Silverware.
They're taking nuance out of this and then they're just turning this into an ace at peace.
Okay, a change of pace in that relay.
Sound is asked by Cy with Esmezi as well, and the individuals finally both connecting for Vitality and Unison.
I'm just wondering is this going to be way too late? It's already seven rounds to Narvik.
Why couldn't you just see that save again?
to be played. Here on out. They
want to make sure they're fully
strapped to contend with all of
them. I see. How wonderful
though they are heading over.
It's not in Vitality's best
interest to go for the hunt. They
know that. They've been sloppier
across all areas. Maybe this is
one they can find another way in.
Even just some damage being done.
You've got the finance of you can
false out those rebies just said Nancy 0 and 70 gets on the board
and then pack for one as well
We lost the second round, better take a time out, let's talk about it, let's make sure
that we are going to run away with the rounds in this half, look you do the hard work in
this one, makes your T side a whole lot easier.
How much of a return to form could Vitality find in the remaining three?
Well, as I said, they took the nuance out of it.
They didn't default.
They weren't playing the reaction game.
It was, let's just do a set piece.
So, is there more of that?
Right now, the complexion of the default says this is more standard.
FD day.
Still makes the space, as McCown see.
Pressure applied on the A-sign to the civil taniously.
Ooh, will that flash calculate for the car there?
It does. Doesn't span.
Oh, now they know. Now they know. No support.
Alexibe's a mile away.
They'll find the opening cleanly. Alexibe dumps his utility block.
Still has his smoke and will hold on to it.
The bomb still T-Rams and no commitment imminent.
No rotation bit. Wonderful.
Wonderful, and in there, they're calling Top Mid Clear, they might want to fight this Sieve, they can catch him in the choke.
And I'm blocked.
Rops is here in this.
Her call though, just called Top Mid Clear.
Wonderful rotates over now, he's got a couple of flashes to assist Alexi B.
How Flames is rotating back to join Apex and Rops on the A side, it's just a bit.
40 seconds.
They're going to leave Sidewind to see if he can create a little bit of chaos.
See if he can find anything here.
The Flashbang.
Wonderful.
Easy pick up.
He sets himself up for that.
If you give them the site right now, BIT's playing longside.
There's nobody here.
There's nobody side.
They just need to get in.
And they will.
Just out of the balcony, before Inner arrives, you get a spot.
Rob's looking the wrong way.
Vyp's the kill.
Gets away.
Advantage in RV.
There's still no bomb planted.
BIT has this fight.
Easy as you like.
Masi goes down.
It's going to get him.
Fight easy as you like, Masi goes down, it's gonna get ugly.
A two on four for Apex and Flamesy, or this scoreline will extend in Na'Vi's favour.
They got the numbers surely, that's gonna be enough here. Flamesy would have to do some excecining.
Apex are distracted, but if a cross finders flank on the smoke wall, there's a chance.
Nice from Flamesy and Apex, they're doing it!
Two on four, goes one on one! Apex is pulled it off!
It's not pretty, but it kills!
That'll be number three.
They see Vitality. Just don't have to flow in the game.
They should have carried on from the Nubis.
They're just getting caught off guard.
Like, ropes right there.
How often do you see them just sticking out in the middle of nowhere?
This is Vitality.
Really having a scrap hard, but Apex, the in-game leader, steps up.
Not with the calls, but with the gameplay.
That's everything.
I'm 11 and can't control.
That's an empty bag.
The half will smoke and the second is FBA's coming.
He's going to go awkward for mezzzy real, awkward real quick.
Ouch! 31 to work with.
Lexi B similarly impaired.
Yeah, put a lot of pressure on the B defense though. This is forced up.
It's a chunk of U2.
But fact-finding on the other side of the map.
Bit of a wonderful burrow in, and B it's gonna take a chance.
So my boss is hoping for...
Burrows into Boiler, anticipating something more aggressive.
This apex is gonna be ready for this.
Don't think so.
How's his clears?
Apex, still ready. Nails the hedgehogs a bit, but would he have done that alone is the question.
It's just wonderful, an ML on either side of the site.
Oh, wow!
Gash is solo, just as the smoke blooms, and Almezi could walk in into the cottage and off he...
More from wonderful, really?
How's he not...
Oh!
Take a bow, son!
Flamesy, a little winnit.
Wonderful 3K, surely not for nothing.
Not in vain.
Mikase on the short side, flames he's got two to worry about. Pivots four.
The balcony approach.
This could make all the difference.
Mikase ensures it.
Back turn, the box, and wonderful needs an extra firm handshake if they can convert more.
Show us number three right there.
off the top row, pierces the skull.
Apex gets in the entry.
The side feels like it's about to fall, and wonderful.
First one's nasty.
Takes a part shot through the smoke, onto Saewoo again.
Molly comes in, forces him out of pit.
This is under pressure, and this is beautiful.
Apex, thanks for coming.
You've had your ticket punched.
Wonderful is the best player in the server right now.
No doubt about that.
I would pan it in comparison four and eight compared to 15 and four and wonderful has that impact throughout
He's still round he kicked off the show
He wants to finish it eight to guarantee
That was nine sounds
The recovery of a 7-5. That would have sat nicely.
It has committed to the balcony position.
That's Fog.
Wonderful in the library.
Abel's going to be able to help out.
It was the pit-playing anti.
They booked this.
They have booked this.
They're the perfect position.
Ben even extends.
He drops down.
It's a perfect setup.
Oh, the Vitality shredded to pieces!
Narvin, so close to the realization, the elimination of Vitality!
I
it is a lively hood down here and
Atlanta, the Intellecture Masters thoroughly underway now into the playoffs themselves.
How you doing friend? Where you from?
I'm from Idaho, all the way up in the north.
Doing fantastic, the game.
Did you drive here? How'd you get here?
We flew, thankfully, we dropped in Dallas last year. That was the trail.
Exhausting, is it not?
Yeah, it was a day and a half.
There I asked who you were fan of?
Out of everybody here?
Vitality.
Love me some apex.
I love to hear it. Sometimes they handle it a little off to their head. You enjoy yourself.
So where are you from, homie?
So I'm from Arizona, friend, he's from Seattle.
He's from LA and he's from Boston.
We all flew when we were here today.
Oh guys, boy's trip or what?
I had a boy's trip, but he came here to watch this game.
Nice.
He came here to watch this game.
So who did you want to see win this game?
We, man. No, we. It's simple.
Yeah, we, of course.
You know, he was just here, standing over there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love simple, man.
It's my everything and I wanted to meet him.
A little bit about how it's divided so far.
gentlemen so far vitality then a little knobby and an Astralis fan has appeared
magically where you from where you from Tennessee man you drive up here yes we
did what part of Tennessee John to City I hear you look so you've got this
drawlison going on but what's the big message you want to send today fuck
apex that's the message we want to send today I think it's been decided
Na'Vi on the way. Let's go.
There were whispers, there was conversation about maybe Na'Vi finally being able to convert a map win versus Vitality for the first time since 2024.
We thought maybe the floodgates open, maybe the confidence starts to brim,
and if that first half is anything to go by, I'd say it has.
And right now, wonderful in MVP form, going up against,
not only the World Number One, but the world's best player,
and he's putting him in his pocket.
Think about the amount of times he's picked him off first.
A pistol round, and we'll call this one done.
I think the bookmakers agree.
Let's get this one underway, shall we?
Three to two in the pistol department,
but three consecutive pistols for Naveed.
can they make it four? What do you think, Atlanta?
Norvey doing this?
Drops and Nezzi stay this quiet.
You'd have to agree.
Won a piece for those two.
Offs in the sauce.
Just for info here. Just for info, gets his.
Holds the block smoke.
It's here in the game that they've been having.
Good restraint being shown.
I'll take that back.
Quakening his boots.
Zawu has a smoke to block over towards B with his Juba Redders.
He has to assist him with the flash.
You've seen Zawu had bad halves and then a pistol round and he ignites the fire.
Next to B spot, it gets the info.
Mezzie ready with the God Flash upon Zawu's call.
Cool.
Blocksmoot available too. Navi are not rushing things.
We've got two smokes on their own.
They're being deployed.
This is a fake.
It's worked. Apex is rotating.
I can't seem to full commit with the Lexi B.
Running in. Scylid fully blind.
Looks like the first Frank's gone the way of vitality though.
Drops and Flames are still in pit.
Yeah, they're in the right place for this.
Flames! He just gets owned!
And now it's up to the head, what's going on?
Track him!
They were still there, they didn't bite.
The hook was not in their cheek.
It doesn't matter if the bullet's in their head.
Apex overlooks, bit on the box.
Take the fuck in this one!
It's done!
And then you might just go down with the ship here.
Pep is away and bit wants to finish him off.
A cracker and a shot down under the pit plate.
and by talent they are stunned.
American vacation.
But happy memories they were hoping for.
Not going to be able to compete the same feat as we saw last year.
Seven consecutive trophies while this was in pursuit of their sixth.
They might be cut short.
Yeah. Vitality just wanted to see the sights, but it's not be seen there bombsite. Taking
it with ease. Apex has lost a chunk of health there. A wall banked rough. That's from fit
to stamina and the bridge in second mid. They're four sport. This one's for all the marbles,
in my opinion. This isn't even the worst scoreline they've had against Navey in recent history.
They did bring Nuke back after an 11-1, but Inferno, I think that's a different story.
I mean, look at the health, look at the weaponry.
Everything indicates this should be Navi taking an 11th.
In the open, just sitting dark, far too comfortable for Mikaze.
He really ran it out, yeah.
Inside reverses the jumping.
Mactana supports it.
Flash bang and a head shot from Alexi.
You've got a 5-7. You've got the Mag and you've got the Deagle. Do you want to hold on to these?
I guess that's your only option. This would be to the crowns to light. They could have
had this done in two. Oh gosh, yeah. That's two. Is that another 13-11? They've been running
rings around Vitality in that final stretch of Anubis and continuing that right now into
They pick themselves up, they toss themselves off, they start believing and they make it happen.
Not today, Vitality.
I mean, just the fragging output from Navi's individuals has been on today.
Wonderful and bit.
Inner as well, all hanging at the top of the scoreboard, exactly as it should be.
And McCarthy, look, he's been here for this one, 10 kills for him, but it's...
I care.
Team effort from coast to coast.
Raps, folks.
Parching library.
Messi's only got a teagle for these kind of fights.
It's so uncomfortable for him up against the leaping, jumping.
Mag 10, Zahra with a hell Mary.
Pushes into bit, an easy headshot for him.
Flames are just awoke. They're crumbling.
Messi's holding on by his fingertips.
trying to claw around out but he goes down.
He begs for the door to play for, he's going for it.
A mag 7 smoke, push, flies into the site.
That's how little hope they have.
His best bet is to push the site.
A world v2 with a mag 7, he ain't got it.
How about they start with the first of the half?
half. Fully bought, everything invested. Get on Mezzie. Apex. Now this is a presence
of banana, but they know there is no rush. Just one round, just five kills. And so many
chances to get that. That match in series point.
Flames is going to be in the open here.
I guess he's faster on the left shot, trade from 1 to 4.
U2 comes in, but that tells what the setup was.
Simon goes to rotate, but Mezzi...
He's going to be the man on the scene, and Apex is down, and Alex is down.
Run on in! Surely this is it.
Red carpet rolled out, short. Mezzi arrives on the scene in time.
rotation from Zywoo Spam and Smokes, Alexi catches Flak. Should be seeing that
bomb go down. Nezzy can try and just drop, no he can't!
Ragnarok's got a snap up! 19 frags from WandaFall. Up against Vitality and the
right is on the wall. Slaying their demon. A team they just couldn't seem to beat.
on the eve of the major.
Nalvi now know it is possible.
A first for this Nalvi versus this Vitality.
Sometimes the first one is the hardest.
Counter-Strike is a mental game and Nalvi, time and time and time again they have tried
and they have failed but today they prevail.
Vitality, the top four streak, it comes to its close.
the first time since the start of 2025 and this win this win could be the one
that unlocks the mental for Na'Vi wonderful his name the best to define
that for absolutely amazing output from him today as Na'Vi they send vitality
packing they booked that semi-final spot against Bedboom and they do it in style
Eyes on the prize now for Narvi. You've taken down Vitality. There's more counter strike to be played, but you can't help but feel like this is a victory.
It's your tournament favourite from here on out.
No doubt about that.
You've just taken that. And now, going into the semi-final tomorrow, this is your tournament to take. You've got some names to slay. There's legacy on the other side going up against Gamalige.
It's game of the each you got to get past that boot first, but this victory right now
Sure, it unlocks what's possible the world number two topping the number one today
There's still a trophy to lift
Gonna throw this one down to trace with Alexi B
Historically speaking unable to team that beehive for the longest time Navi outshine vitality today Atlanta make some noise
But it begs the question, Alexi, they had your number of Budapest, Rotterdam, Rio, Vitality's
had your number personally.
How did you do it today?
What was different?
Just mentality.
You know, we never quit, we never stopped believing and we always worked hard for this
moment and I know that, you know, we deserve it today, that's for sure.
How important was this win over Vitality today prior to this major, prior to going into this
major cycle?
I think it means everything, you know?
Like imagine us losing today again
and facing them on the maturing
it would be 10 times harder.
So I think us winning today,
they understand their weaknesses,
they understand they need to do more now for the maturing,
but we also understand that they're beatable
and that's something huge for us.
Tomorrow you face Old School, Navi alumni.
Does Navi plan to boom bitch, get out the way?
Or are you guys gonna put them away as well in Beppum?
I think that they've shown some strong CS. They were the team that beat them the first time and we were watching how they did it
So they are definitely ready. We are fueled up with this win and we need to show up tomorrow
Tell them something like see
Snacks fans in the house full of it
And we're live, quarter-finals in Atlanta begin.
And right out of the gate, Safe and Piria can be playing towards the eight-bomb site bathrooms on defense.
Taliesin, Hypex and PR with the bomb lining up outside of Monster.
So while the slow opening to this pistol round has both teams cautiously looked for aggression,
we'll get a mid-round exec.
A resin snacks to clear things out. They're the ones in danger at the moment for game religion.
And look at the position of Piria on the minimap now.
Climbing the ladder can have a very fast wrap around. He's just got to pick the right bomb site.
How long do they hold this? The longer they wait, the more effective Peria becomes on the flank.
And it's all about the faith, right? They want this utility on Snacks to be thrown out towards Long, but Peria's going to discover it sooner.
Oh, here we go, Peri-a!
Not stop!
We got to start the play-offs here for Peri-a.
Now Snacks and Ryze immediately happen to figure out there's nothing you can do
because the bomb is dropped on the other side of the map.
Only your teammates dead in a second.
Yeah, that's huge. What a play. What initiative from Peri-a.
Good plan from Payne.
Gamer Legion taking way, way too long to develop this tactic.
All the time needed for that push.
And one missed detail ruins the entire round.
Nobody looking for the flank while they waited patiently.
So a recovery mission, two versus four, resin snacks coming back now, utility is spent.
And it's Grim in this pistol round.
Peria, another one.
Okay, he's going for all five to kick off the playoffs here, and he's...
Peria, what a step up. All five in the pistol.
What a lovely performance from Peria.
A long journeyman career down in South America, been on this team for very little time, just a few months, what a performance to open up these playoffs.
Stays calm, lines him up, knocks him down, and he gets all five, his team lets him chase it down, so a bit of glory.
And that's going to give you so much confidence in the play you need to step up in the playoffs here, right?
The fact that you started the first pistol run like that, period has been so good for Payne.
that we see him continue that
kind of form coming into the
playoffs here and the game
religion and another tacky should
hear on on snacks doesn't mean
only add more frustration after
getting back down to the pistol
like that. Yeah it will be for
sure but you know still early on
period. Meanwhile it's been the
best player for pain at this
event. Operated players
statistically for the squad so
I've obviously been loving the
work he's putting out and it's
going to continue when he opens
up and starts you a game like
this. So snacks having the
You know the conversation around pain has always been about big who's era right the fact that we feel like he could have at many points
In his career going on to play at a bigger team
But it stayed a pain game in a state committed to this organization
And they tried to bring in young players and talents and change things up
So the pain have a chance to deliver what big is there was capable of he's an ideal that showed a lot of cool things too
Like really started to pee kind of around the Paris major with his qualification there with the pain team
That was the squad that had skulls on it
You know back when he was popping off as well
that was the best we saw skulls over look at any team. So he's shown the ability to develop players and develop a team from like kind of
Building from scraps to then achieving good results. The thing about the Austin major last year
I mean he has a good run again at getting the playoffs over there
So America seems to be a good spot for big is era to perform with his squads and now this newer version
We didn't really know what to expect of paying coming into the event because we hadn't seen them in so long
But I think you and I got the cast the Roman game. It was oh wow this actually looks really good
Yeah, I mean, there's some very cool things that they can bust out.
I think his biggest problem has been the up and down nature of some of these pain lineups over the years.
So establishing that consistency, finding a line up that can get to a nice peak and kind of hang out there
and be able to deliver those results event after event.
That's kind of what he's been lacking over the past few years of his career.
And a lot of roster changes, a lot of swaps trying to find, you know, the proper fifth player, the proper fourth player,
trying to mix people into things.
So it would be a big accomplishment for Big Uzer to bring another pain lineup essentially from nothing to a playoff performance.
We were talking about pain as a whole, as a team, having seen them in a long time, but
it's also, in particular, safe, right?
We were talking about how he hasn't even played, can I try to get this level at an event in
so many months?
I know.
Yeah, we casted his first game here as soon, and that was the big thing for me, was like
just keeping an eye on him, and it looked good.
Like it had been, I think, like nine, 10 months since he played an official match at the professional
level, and he came out spanking everyone.
Really really cool to see, we'll see if that continues to develop.
On the other side of things, I mentioned Rez, we all know Rez, we all love Rez.
having one of the best starts of his career, which is crazy considering how long he's been around
kind of one of the first players, the next Swedish superstar, quote-unquote, coming out, you know,
of the NIP era back at the early days of CSGO. But a lot of this team is also the development
of Hypex and Towson has been very, very rock solid for this team. So some strong riflers,
and I think the development of Hypex has been the thing that's made everyone kind of kick
up a notch. When you have that opera finding comfort and finding impact, everyone's life gets
easier. I don't mean that's been the story around game allegiance for a long time with
Asher as the coach for so long. It was always about trying to find that all put it into the squad
They just couldn't find one that clicked
You know they brought players in that look promising in their other teams to bring them in and they would just fall under the pressure
I think Kersi was a good example of that
I'm sure he'll bounce back at some point
But he's an example of an all-poor who came in and really that mentality shift
You've got to have when you step up to another level of counter strike
They weren't really able to handle it and hypex comes into the team and I was talking to him
And he was saying the same thing was on his mind when he joined the squad
He'd seen how many offers have been cut pretty quickly by Game of Legion.
He'd seen the pressure that they were getting.
He was getting a lot of hate and a lot of doubt thrown his way.
And he read into it for a long time.
But he said coming into this season, he just stopped caring.
Stopped reading it and stopped caring what they were saying
because he's seeing even the likes of Vitality are getting hate online.
So it's been great to see Hypeback start to show some of that confidence
that he's shown his previous teams and his teammates are noticing that as well.
Yeah, I think that's part of the reason why that story around Hypeback is so cool.
Because, yeah, you're right, he does come in and notice and I'm like,
oh, this is the slot of the team that's just getting rotated out.
This is the musical chairs place.
And, I mean, having that mentality coming into it, knowing that's the situation,
and watching him kind of struggle and then overcome those and step up,
that's really cool seeing that development and that kind of comfort develop
within a player, within a team.
Yeah, it's been quick seeing Game of Leisure perform so well at this event as well,
because I know they were worried coming into it.
Yeah, there we go.
I think he did. This is the crowd for it.
And we're also on one of those sides.
Yeah, they're very well done there, too.
Really good job with that one
Yeah, I mean we're talking skimlicians as well. They came into this event. They were open about it
They talked about probably how they're not feeling so good
You know a couple players picked up a land flu from the last event
So, you know, they were coming in a little bit worried about that
But it seems like it hasn't really affected them all that much
I just like watching snacks and I feel like he's like kind of like half like troll mode at this event
We ought him like the clutch where he's just slamming the door on daff over in the lower box
Oh, that was great. Just over and over again. He's just having a great time out there
I don't know about that one, I don't know about that one.
Did you have that one cool B execute though all those years ago?
Yeah, I did have that one cool B execute.
So getting things checked out, snacks open some issues.
Later on today, the second quarter final, a huge one, nice time-leaf thing to put the phase jacket on,
because we got Vitality.
They're going to be coming in taking on Navi, nothing to do with phase whatsoever.
you know, Vitality knocked FaZe out. So that worked out. So FaZe might have been in that
spot if it wasn't for Vitality. I could have had Twist here, they could have been hanging
out having a great time. I mean, there's one thing that's going to be true with this crowd
is that anybody who's planning against Vitality is going to get some support I think. Yeah,
that's probably true. Yeah, the anti-Apex crowd out in full force. It's pretty important
we get the the headset of the in-game later working isn't it so just working
through that at the moment at least one pistol has gone away and you kill that
momentum with this you know you just come in you're coming with a bursting
ace and it is like the unintentional like you know for ice him out ice him out a
little bit so now that ace that period gets you have that momentum now I don't
think he's gonna like fully be able to carry it forward but it will help him
obviously plenty of money the bees in the airport huh nice on snacks on snacks
I'm still got it though it does still got it I'm sure he's gonna be showing his
glimpses of it as well here on this stage when we get back live looks like
things are getting into a house there's no more referee standing behind them
That's fair. Yeah, that is very fun. I think we can all get behind that.
We can all agree with that one.
Alright, here we go Atlanta. Finally, getting ready to go into the second round here.
The countdown's through. Head sets are fixed. Let's get the counter strike back under way.
Can't promise you the most entertaining round though because it is going to be blocks out for a game of legions.
So very likely to be that 2-0 start here for Payne.
Yeah, we're all going to get a chill. See what Snacks is able to do with this block.
I mean after that kind of extended tech time hour you can't really communicate a whole lot.
I want to take this one slow, have the conversation, whatever you might have been thinking of.
Make sure everyone's on the same page after that extended break.
Payne's going to continue taking initiative though, taking map control against what they know are going to be weaker weapons.
So you already have period kind of pushing up, snow and big use air taking control of short, map shrinks for these blocks.
Yeah, just test the headset's fine. You're happy with that.
You know, no issues now for snacks. Just moving forward as a little unit past the fountain.
And for pain, you want to just keep passing positions, keep your range for rifle.
And they're coming up here. They might just feed the beast a little bit more. Here he is.
Lining up two quick headshots, high packs, and PR both dead.
Will send the Nade around the corner. And it gets all the same. They're lining up.
The teammate giving it a skew at those snow. Racing up, just prevented.
But that's a four cake from Peria. Nine kills, two rounds.
I think all the giggles coming out of the pain silence. No taking that fifth kill. It could have been back to back aces.
Still, everyone's going to be feeling good on the pain side of things due to this start. Really impressive stuff from Peria.
However, the AK has come out now for Gamer Legion. First gun round is going to be underway. Snaps a chance to marshal the troops and get this T side rolling right out of the gate.
He's going to go for an aggressive peek, he's got the hot hand at the moment, and he's
going to move up, play behind the smoke.
I like this limit test, what Peria can do right now, flash being activated in towards
the smoke.
Just about, doing some damage there to highpacks before he gets around the corner, but that's
the bomb carrier.
Peria can't fall back, highpacks, hunts him down, will pull it through the smoke, and
game religion, get the advantage.
Yeah, I gave the footsteps to you as well, started to run back, and I think that's the sound cue that pulled the shot.
But Yuzera knows he's been seen. No, he's compromised.
So backs all the way out quickly. Gets away safely towards Divider, and just when Gamer League starts taking a little bit of extra control, 5-on-4 for the attacking side.
I
Pack sending the flash over the flower bed runs into the fight safe gonna die
Now we've got game religion two players up as soon as the guns have come out looking a bit stronger here
The pressure is gonna be on big as error to be able to change the outcome of this round in the A site
It's gonna be very tough for just the MP7. That's exactly the way you may kind of describe this map early on is that pain?
They got to be careful because this is a map game religion love to just pick teams apart to really early kills with no chance of any kind of
A trade or any kind of information
Pange is no longer have the resources or the bodies to defend everything
30 seconds left on the clock. It's got to be a save big is there is already backed out to play retake and you don't have the utility to play
Retake you got one kid on snow. None of the B defenders have moved
So big use error. I guess it's just gonna see what he can do if there's anything crazy and then try and escape
Well, looking lucky he's gonna be able to slip away and join up with the rest of his teammates
down low, but that means Gamer Legion have found their first-round win here on Overpass.
Yeah, good timing out towards Long with the flash for the swing from Rez to find that
kill.
That was safe, kind of trying to transition, caught in the middle, caught in the open with
nowhere to go, trying to get close to defend Long.
Turns into a pretty easy round for Gamer Legion, all things considered.
Plenty of money for the pain side of those, so Gunn's gonna come back out in the next
They'll try again for game religion to clean round means money builds up they get to get rich
Important to keep five players up after losing the first two and yeah money is starting to look very good
They've got a nice foundation like that high-packs with three thousand dollars is the all-per-in reserve is going to be great moving forward
I'm paying, keeping a couple of SMGs but they will actually bring out the AWP here for safe.
So they'll have that in this next round, it'll be unrivaled.
I like that though.
I like them forcing it out, especially considering money is going to start getting hurt with
some of those rebars.
ESM's got money left over, that's about it.
So this round depends on if you're going to lose what you can bring out of it.
But the whole point of this safe awp is to make sure you don't do that, get you a good
shot.
He hits him a little bit, but saves those drills,
runs to the wall.
Now he's gonna slow down from here,
five on four, and GamerLegend still just playing
far, far back, not wanting to risk anything else
after Res falls.
Bombs gonna shift back towards the B bomb site which eventually it feels be the finishing place
Snack's not moving past the fountain whatsoever so utility as a fake
Taliesin to cover the middle of the map making sure nobody can flank them down
And we'll see what they can actually accomplish when they move into the bomb site
Flash after running PR going into the fight
BSM dead, Big O'Zara betrayed in advance, he was siding with Payne, but that's now gone, back to a 3v3, Big O'Zara.
Taking a grenade to the head, he's down to 6 HP, relying upon Peria from Heaven, but he can't connect, and Hypec sends a shot back at 3v1.
This is all that's left, it's the safe off, and he switches up to the rifle instead for this. The bomb is not planted.
Hypec steps aside, dodging that grenade, flying past him.
Safe is not going to pick up the AWP fall away. He wants to go for this. He wants to fight and he's got it down into a 1v1.
It's Hypex and Safe. Both on rifles this time. A 1v1. He's got a kid as well. He can play this slow.
Hypex keeps his head down. Safe waiting for the mistake. He's picked up a smoke.
Hypex is backed off into the monster tunnel. A great reposition. A strong spot to have. And then out with the peek. It's Hypex.
It's Hypex, so cool and comfortable in the clutch, and raises his finger.
A real sign that he is so much more confident inside of the team now.
Yeah, played that clutch really, really well.
Just playing the information game, not letting Safe ever find out where he was,
not give him any good options, not let him have a plan of attack into that 1v1.
And quietly waits for a sound cue, Safe gives it over to him.
And a really nice timing on the peak, just as he's about to consider diffusing the bomb.
Lovely stuff from Hypex, cool and collected.
Round five and all the money taken away from pain.
A hero M4 on VSM and upgraded pistol into a 5-7, that's all they've got.
And Gamer Legion and these past two rounds have looked very comfortable on the map.
Four versus five conversion in round four.
The whole snacks is already out into the sights, teammates will join him.
The best case scenario here for Pain is somehow making some chaos happen from within these
smokes but they move up to clear the smoke, snacks takes their headshot and that's the
site.
You can be able to weld VSM's guy, he's got a massive unit, done a good amount of damage,
he has softened them up so keep eyes on this 5-7.
He can't do anything with it. Big Uterus vs. Geordi. Can't follow up, safe certainly will though, but now it's just Peria.
And unfortunately for him, two high HP players left against this USP.
He'll step down a little bit closer to Ryze, needs a very quick kill, almost instantly here and he does get the frag.
He'll drop down to 20 and PR jumps up to clear him out and put Gamer Legion into the lead.
Good job from PR, Snacks telling him I have the low HP. He needed to take the initiative, make sure that kill gets found.
They can sit here the bomb site before anything further goes wrong.
Very, very sketchy.
Ice resistance from pain with very little brought into the round.
But it's two to three, as they take their first time out to talk things over.
They're going to have the all-back in the hands of SAFE.
But they're probably starting to feel in these last three rounds
that Gamer Legion just have a much better grip on the map as they've worked things over.
Rick's not happy with what he's seeing after the first two rounds going so cleanly.
GamerLegion get the guns out and are now in comfortable control.
We saw early on Payne doing a lot of the aggressive moves early, like pushing up period in the pistol round,
pushing up, climbing the ladder, wrapping around the B bomb, so we've seen them try and get aggressive towards fountain.
Now that you've seen a few rounds of play from GamerLegion, you should probably start understanding that they're
stoping these rounds very, very slow, very far back, so the plan for Payne, if they want to maintain that aggression,
is just going to have to be measured, is how exactly do you want to do it.
I imagine they're going to incorporate safe in that game plan a lot, get one shot with the AWP safely, fall back.
fall back. So gamer Legion again a lean towards the B bomb site. Four players
here so I'm gonna mess with the other side of the map. That's where saves off is
opening kill provided by Peria. Extended battle. Res can't control the spray. I
don't think that's gonna dissuade anyone from this B bomb site though. Might
just relocate the point of attack.
And Payne know exactly what's coming. Safe has been front bathrooms with his
AWP this entire round. He's heard nothing. He's seen nothing. There's been no
pressure applied.
So Payne's happy to have a fourth defender here.
Very tough defense to crack into if your snacks in Gamer Legion.
Oh, those grenades landing right on top of Snow.
Fire as well, melting him away down to 2 HP.
Go back behind the pillar, Towson coming out of monster with VSM dead.
Defense toppling.
And Gamer Legion in full control of Overpass at the moment.
We'll take something special from Snow on 2 HP behind the barrels.
We aren't checking him at the moment, they're actually giving him a chance.
It goes out again, but PR this time respawns safe, connects with the AWP.
It's still a 2v2, so how pain have stayed in this?
What a long extended hit, great utility usage. PR wants to try and force a play out of the tap of the bomb.
Nobody's home over the top, now he's picked off.
Yeah, really exposes himself there, and all of a sudden, gamer leeching, 9 seconds left, have to rely upon Hypex.
He's caught the bomb, he has to plant, and now there's no time for it, it has to be elimination.
That's incredible! How has he done that?
Last second from Hypax!
But he's pulled it off!
And nothing will make you get more comfortable on a stage than a clutch like that, the 1v1 earlier.
Hypax is going to be feeling like a king here in Atlanta.
He can do no wrong.
Look at this utility usage though, it's actually beautiful from Gamer Legion.
Such a strong defense to go up against and they've destroyed it everything snow
couldn't find any comfort batter down the crossfires broken up one kill
towards monster because snow had to back away there's no more defense
yeah this is insane high-packs has hit another level right now for game reaching
yeah he saw a period you can have the ace in a pistol you can have the quad kill
the follow-up I'll take these two clutches to put gamer legion up by two that round was so hard for
as well for pain just to stay in it they find themselves in the winning position down to the
final second of the round it's not even that I think more than anything the frustrating thing
for pain is going to be the fact that you had the read you knew exactly what was coming you knew
it was going to be a b-exec you had a five on four and you had four defenders stacking the
bomb site that was being attacked to lose that round and then have the fashion of the loss in
in that clutch. There's like heartbreak upon heartbreak there, there's layers to it.
And then another tech pause, so let's just let them stew in it in silence.
And now Hypex gets the all-out for the late stages. They've got plenty of money to purchase into that,
so you'll have it out. And for pain, you don't have anything to fight them with.
I think that's the tough thing too, is that yeah, you've lost everything, but in that 2 on 1,
played incorrectly I guess the time wasn't really called out the time they
missed that kind of detail. Opera pushing forward trying to get him off the
bomb plant but the other player low HP not backing off you know yeah that
with then you look at the clock in that time you should know one player can be
the aggressor to take him off the plant one just needs to live. Still incredible
that high-packs is able to take advantage of it. Snap shot up to Heaven
through the smoke and now you just have time to sit there and dwell on it now
having a PC restarted the moment for safe once we get him locked back in and
ready to go the game will continue I shouldn't take too long
rookie went home man that gotta gotta wait the while yeah you have to there's
Excuse me some time for that one, that request will get to him eventually.
It's been a very different landscape coming into this event, right?
The teams you thought might perform well and might get into the playoffs fallen a little bit short.
I was excited about FOOT to see how they would be able to continue their form
and this seems like a perfect kind of event for them to get into the playoffs of.
Yeah, I mean we can talk about it too because we've mentioned it's a good run for these teams that we didn't really expect to be in here.
foot as you just brought up were two teams that we probably kind of said before this event felt
like the likeliest to make it into the playoffs, but Payne came into this and handled FaZe in their
opening match. We casted that one, very surprising to see Payne open up in that fashion, 2-0 win.
Then they went on to foot, one of the other teams that we expected to be into the playoffs
beat them in a 2-1 series as well. So that's when the eye started opening and then a loss
against Pet Boom in the game that would have qualified them to the semifinals, brought them here
to face off against Gamer Legion. They run a little bit of a different affair,
opening up with the win over sinners, losing next to Navi 1-2 and then beating
down Liquid 2-0 and then taking Astralis to make it into the quarter-finals
eliminating Team Liquid and eliminating Astralis on that path. Yeah and the way
they handled both of those teams was very impressive right, it was comprehensive
victory for Emily Chin. Yeah not sure when they left that apex. Not at all, we knew that though.
Yeah crazy to see Vitality having to play a quarter-final as well.
Yeah, that's a different experience. It was crazy seeing them be on the verge of elimination either like having to even have the
Conversation of is it possible that they lose one of these matches now?
I'd never felt like it really significantly got super close in those no
But it felt like the possibility was there for the first time in a long time
Yeah, I mean especially at first map versus phase right on nuke which was close
You have that like hero performance out of twist coming in. Yes. Okay, but how do you bleeding just a little bit?
But they picked it up. They got it done and once they get into the playoffs obviously still favorites to win the entire event
That's what's scary, is they're playing like they're B and C game and they're still beating everybody they come up with, so vitality, yeah, favorites into these playoffs.
Fist bumps her out.
We're gonna get back into the action, Atlanta. Thank you for being patient with us. Round seven set to begin.
Gamer legion coming off a four round win streak. Four straight.
After the explosive start from Pyrrha and Payne.
We're gonna be fighting in this round with some upgraded pistols. Armour picked up. Deagle's five sevens, little bit of the utility.
The gamer legion is looking really solid on this map, this T-side.
Snax has got them under complete control, they've brought back and converted to 4 vs 5 rounds.
Even when Pain gets the opening kill, it doesn't seem to lead to a victory for them.
Since the gun rounds began, it's been all gamer legion.
So once again, just a quick check, just a little bit of presence out towards Long and
towards Falons just to see if anyone's pushing.
I imagine game religion yet again in the anti-eco,
the anti-force by going to rotate back to the B bomb site.
Rez going to be left on his own some away from the pack.
Well, this is the only way you get something going if you're paying.
Right, he's going to do it twice.
He's going to do a carry around the back.
No, the pistol round and he had so much success.
Going to be much more difficult now with rifles on the other side.
And with the Deagle.
Deagle's not as reliable.
DSM holding but here they come round the back period can he get much done at all
his teammates are doing a good job and there's the flight coming in as well
all of a sudden pain are in a 4v2 you've got to see snacks and rice pull this off
and snacks back tracks he's gonna die to snow and now just rice and he's running
down wondering how the hell all of his teammates have died to the pistols here
they now spot rise early they didn't learn their lesson from the pistol round
takes way too long to develop pain with weaker weapons happy to take a risk and
It's that exact same push, the exact same player that wreaks havoc and causes chaos.
Peria again, adding the staunch defense at the point of attack towards the B bomb site.
Look at the axis on the radar.
Yeah, I mean, game relations just get stuffed.
Certainly the player that creates the chance right at the end of the round,
but even the initial defense was strong from Payne, right?
They hadn't even activated the period of flying.
He hadn't even taken a shot before two kills had come in.
So the initial setup from Payne gaming was way too successful.
Oh, I mean, it's a really nice timing for it.
They recognize Peria probably communicating like Stalbam out.
He's about to turn the corner and he wants this attack to slow down.
So that's why the flash comes in at this point.
That's why all the pain people get aggressive on monster at that point as they swing with the flash.
And that's why this just gets shut down.
What a nightmare for Gamer Legion.
There's four free weapons picked up off the ground in that round.
Three AK-47s and an AWP.
Tons of money all of a sudden for the pain side.
A complete reversal of the economy as it rips the money away from Gamer Legion.
They're fighting with pistols in a single AK-47.
I talk about Rez at his start at this event.
Really gotta try and continue that now into the playoffs with the hero AK.
How much can he do?
You got Snow now stepping into water.
He's got some backup in Bigger's era.
This is where the fight might happen, Rez.
The AK peeking out, losing it against Snow.
The AK falls to the hands.
The very capable hands are PR, but he doesn't have any Kevlar for this.
Passing the flashbang off, Big Euzera wants to be the proactive one, he's going to set up over towards boards, he wants to clear monster on a timing.
Gamer Legion has readjusted their hit, it's going to be coming through sandbags, but it's all four players in that direction.
So Big Euzera's got the opening, shuts it down, wants to clear monster, sees nobody home, and they're looking very comfortable. Good kill from Hypebacks, but is it enough?
I
Can't step here in the open. It's gonna be period because they're up a couple of kills between the high packs and talus and both dead
Living snacks one of the four with this D. Go and he's no one here
Anybody really so back it away dropping down and trying to get into the fights here with that dig
It's gonna be a tie game pain game in bringing up four to four that next round
I
Get really you need to do at least some damage, you know, even if you end up losing the round
You need to get some kills. Look at the money on the other pain side of things.
Four people survived again. Let me get four free weapons in the previous round.
So, I mean, if Gamer Legion doesn't take anything away from them in this one,
if this is too clean of a win for pain, their economy is just going to be way too strong for the rest of this half.
And then Gamer Legion's constantly fighting against full buys.
So, really, really tough stretch of rounds coming up for Gamer Legion, but...
They've handled most of the rifle rounds okay.
Two, three Galils in the mix. Two AK-47s on PR and Towson.
And snacks is gonna line up again to try and get them back into this safe off out towards long a in this round
And actually I feel like gamer league is a better job
Of working this map when they spread out put some presents towards bathrooms try and push towards the a bombsite
That's where they found some pics grouped up towards be hasn't been as successful as they'd like
Stepping through the smoke. That's a free kill.
Ryze, dead. Peria gets a second as well, backing into the bathrooms.
He's got low health, but he's so confident to fight because he knows he's spilled that bomb to the floor,
and he once again steps up for the next fight, but HyperX has finally put him in the ground,
but the trade comes through, and Gamer Legion's T-side is really slow down here.
Yeah, this is nice. CMP kind of snapped into place on this defensive stand. Really well done.
The low by round, giving them tons of money, tons of confidence.
Saves gonna go for another peek out towards Long, sees nobody home, two on four.
Towson still waiting for the follow-up push as PR clears Long.
Gonna pick up the bomb now, and now the move comes in from Snow.
The SM there as well as they slowly creep up, PR and Taliesin pick the A-bomb site, you've
got Big Ezerra defending over in bank and a fast flank once your position is noted.
Yeah, the bomb now is crossing, it'll die, Snow easily taking that one, putting PR in
the 10 second clutch, so 1v3.
You won't see the mistakes made from Payne to make this one possible.
So PR backs the way, hangs on to the AK-47.
You've got to peek him, they've got to challenge him.
And PR fights on, but, well, HP counters in the corner.
Here's the push coming forward again, and Snow not going to arrive in time.
So at least the AK carried over, but it doesn't really paint a prettier picture here for Game of Linge.
And they've run thin on cash. They don't have much going for them at all.
And this is what we're talking about.
There we are. This is America.
Full ensemble.
Lovely double kill from Peria. I feel like there's a gap in that smoke. I feel like
ResinSnack's both saw the gap in that smoke and were like, well that's
tantalizing. That's a cool little gap we can slide into. This smoke might not be
as effective as they think it is and both get punished for the risk taken.
Hero AK47 on PR and fast play towards the B bomb site. Oh well, yes I'm a...
Housewheel. Yeah exactly. Bit better sposs than that for sure. And I mean I think
game religion was like they were gonna commit to that but when that kill comes
out so easy and so free you haven't taken any damage back off again now you can
spread the defense out so this hero AK-47 on PR can be a little bit more
effective because the defense is gonna be scrambling to see exactly how they
want to position so you've got some room to work with elsewhere on the map
all the way out towards long they go the A bomb site at the moment just
populated by one defender, it's Piriya, who's gonna be jumping over the APC, jumping over
dice boxes to try and find information.
Big Yuzera's snow and safe, stuck defending the B bombsite, committed to it.
They haven't moved yet.
And off that shot, you start seeing Big Yuzera slide back, but even Piriya kind of calling
him off.
So between two mines at the moment, but Big Yuzera's gonna commit.
Nice kill from safe, and that's gonna move the A attack forward.
Oh, Piriya's stepping up over the top of the stairway, a shot back from PR.
3v3, somehow game-illeging competitive in this round.
If that plant comes through, it's got to be bigger zero,
Snow and Safe to recover the round,
and Rez's Deagle rings out bigger zero, Dad.
That might be it.
And that might be it, but Snow decides this fight is still on,
because PR offers up his life as the AK player as well.
It's all of a sudden, just Rez's Deagle
that's what we're talking about.
Hype X stepped forward, just a glock,
trying to keep them distracted, trying to keep them back,
and it gets one off, but it's got to be Rez!
Oh, this is Deagle, which is the feed.
All easy indeed.
And a big brawl for Game of Leech,
and they needed that one because their leg was running out
in this first half.
That's the way.
That's what we wanted to see at a res.
I'll talk about how well his year's been going.
That's a disgusting round with the Deagle.
And he saves the misplay from PR,
who gets aggressive when you don't need to.
But look at these Deagle shots.
Lovely stuff here to give you some extra space.
This one is so nice in the 1v2.
And Saves already been deep-topping brawl a little bit
a clean up with the dig and Gamer Legion snatched around away with pistols.
Making it even. Pain won a low by round earlier.
So Rez just returning to favor.
Also in a position where he's trying to stop any period of flank,
because they're trying to go more so this time.
Smokefade, smokefade. Who's quicker?
Let's see, safe gonna be taken down, Hypex opens up the chance, now the charge comes in, gaming leeching, sending their forces into the B bomb site.
Smokes are up, keeping Payne alive for now, buying them crucial seconds to position themselves, ready to defend the site for the Utilities coming in.
It's making it tough to stand for BSM.
He's removed, but Stormfilters in, repunishes the same position and gets a headshot for his troubles.
Oh, he's being creative, he's causing chaos though as well, not dropping back behind the bomb site, playing within the smoke.
I don't know if GamerLugin's going to be ready for it. They might even be forced back. 4 on 3, but that B bomb site does not feel comfortable.
No, the reset at least gives them the advantage and they're able to hold it and now they're looking for the reaction.
So Rez is going to push up through middle all the way up to this A site.
Actually, they might hear these footsteps as well. They definitely hear the Nade, so it's going to force the defense to make a position.
Rez is actually the only one. He wants to make them second-guess the entrenchment at the B bomb site.
And one kill would do it. Spots the information. It's forced Snow to back off and play a bit more passive.
which leaves Pirae on his lonesome.
Nobody spots Pirae, knows he's right there, but yet to pull the trigger.
Biting his time until the perfect moment.
They move in with a plant, Pirae steps forward,
high-packs it, able to get him.
So Pirae, it is again!
Pirae, the two, small with the other,
and Razz at the last remaining member, they know he's coming from the ace site.
And Pirae has got him as well.
A 3-jagged from Pirae, 20 and 6 right now.
An unbelievable performance in the first map in this quarter-final.
Yeah, God's here, from the newest addition to this pain gaining roster. How impressive he's been.
Such a good job so far in Atlanta and in these quarterfinals, he's got them started with the ace in the pistol.
And this is a big time round. Again, just a small miss detail for Gamer Legion. They have never pushed forward during all that chaos.
Pan's defense have prevented them from clearing the safety behind the bomb site, finding that.
And Piria has just been the dagger, so impactful. This is like the third round he's saved for Payne.
Frustrating moments here for Gaming Legion in this first half, but they've already got five T rounds, right?
A chance for six as they come into this next one. It isn't going to look pretty.
You've got Maktan's on two players, Snacks and Taliesin, a Tech 9 for Hypex, a Galeel for PR, and luckily an AK47 for Rez.
So, Payne are in the better position here to try and get a 7-5 lead going into that second half.
Well, I think the trouble for me is Gamer Legion has done a really good job when they spread this map out wide,
when they make this defense move, when they get an open and kill and force the decision.
Now you're playing with the Tech 9, 2 Mac 10s, a Galil, an AK-47 on Rez,
so you're going to stay more grouped up in this round,
and I think that's been the lesser effective rounds on the T side for Gamer Legion, but it's all they've got.
You told them BSM going to burn him out from the barrels, but he still got that headshot.
Snacks, gags, BSM going forward again.
Running out of bullets now, needs to be cleaner.
More economical with the right ball.
It's now snow in the site, and bigger is that for the final kill.
A 7-5 lead from Peng.
What a start from Peria.
Is it enough to win that one?
Well, Biria has been on this pain team for about five months.
I was performing better for them here in Atlanta, so far in this event.
Twenty and six to get them started in these quarterfinals with a seven to five lead.
A tournament player, this is the best performance he'll have had in a team,
finding his comfort zone and giving a pain leading into the second half.
Gamer Legion still struggling to find themselves here on this opening map.
A very small deficit as they switch to the defensive side and we'll see what they can do.
Yeah, well, here is side of the first half with an ace and a pistol, hoping for similar success here as they switch to the T side.
This is what GamerLegion kept going here, got Joe Bronez out for Towson, made for Snacks, a Flash, or for Hypex.
This would be a devastating map loss for GamerLegion, their map picks, 67% win rate for them, 17% for Payne.
This would be a huge upset, a huge steal if Payne can complete this good form that they've had.
This surround goes a long way for the T side of Overpass.
Yeah, it's going to be solo Red's here, you know, he's not got any teammates with him, he was just looking to detect information early,
but now it starts to back off towards bathroom.
Yeah, and Hypex ships over,
Snacks even backs off the B bomb site
a little bit to set up with utility,
so we can have a fast rotation between the bomb site.
K-Religion's still pretty tentative on the map,
still trying to figure out what's coming,
still haven't spotted anything towards this A bomb site,
but by the time they do,
Rez is gonna be stuck in this close up fight
against the Glocks.
Rez, Hypex, and Snacks to defend.
One of the open highbacks taking a lot of damage on board, it's Rez, inferior trading, blow-for-blow.
Stank's way to truck.
Next fight's coming this way, just trying to nip away with one headshot, but hasn't been able to collect it.
And you see Payne's starting to back away.
Yeah, I'm surprised by this. I think the problem is they didn't really get a push into the bomb site with their initial salvo of utility.
So I think they're a little bit nervous, they don't have anything followed up.
anything followed up so now they're just going to go quiet a little bit of
news made towards the B bombsite just a footstep just to give that inkling that
they're coming back and now the only defender is low HP hypex but they're
missing the window of opportunity to re-aggress gamer league can start to move
around the map and figure this out yeah gathering the information realizing
it's quiet elsewhere pain have to commit into the A site to close this one out
but such limited time to do it now and here comes the flank this time from
game of Legion, but Towson isn't able to do anything with it. He's taken down Peria again with impact.
It's just Hypex, and he has to pull off something special here, and he just can't do it.
Safe to put him in the ground, and a pistol round for Payne. Both of them now picked up.
Yeah, Peria is not slowing down. Triple kill for him in the pistol.
Hypex there, that would have been a miraculous clutch to win in the 1v2 with low health,
but he's already won a number in the first half, and I think that's one of the scary things for
game religion is, yeah, five rounds. We normally say that's great on the T side.
So many of those powered by Hypex clutches, right?
Some huge ones, a 1v1, a 1v2, later on in the half as well.
And it feels like almost on some level
there's some artificial inflation of that game
religion score line.
Going to try and recover in the second round, turn it back,
scout in the hands of Hypex.
MP7 and MP9 picked up upgraded pistols.
So game religions here in round 14 to fight.
Nice, game allegiance map pick.
You can see this and go to Nuke.
Payne would be feeling fantastic about those chances of seeing a semi-final.
This boost deployed. PR up on top of his teammate's head.
He's going to hear the steps.
Pull the trigger now, holds down mouse one, gets VSM and backs away with the advantage for game allegiance.
Okay, a little bit of information though if you're paying, if you're the game allegiance defensive keeper.
Yeah, there you go. Snow sliding into a shot.
Two players boosted, gives that information a pain,
but losing a player as they try and take advantage of resources on the other side of the map.
We're back into a four on four.
And Ibex has missed the cross of long.
Safe has made it safely to the right side.
Snow positions himself just on the reverse side of Divider.
They've now got snacks assigned to peek on a timing and it hasn't worked out at all.
They've lost snacks and they've lost the advantage. It's now Payne moving to the A site.
Now you're going to be smoked off as well. Your scout even has to give up the bomb site.
So it's all about saving now for Towson, PR and Hypex.
No chance of winning this round. Payne just slowly move up closer and closer
and take away all your options to fight. Good kills and good utility in place.
So a ninth round for Payne.
And whatever more they can take away from Gamer Legion.
It's tough for Gamer Legion not to catch a break, a piss around, or even a force by here, which is just going to give Payne the perfect start to the half they were looking for.
Yeah, even Safe is kind of pushing up to try and take a weapon away, and he might get there in time.
high-packs is backing off slowly slowly but safe is clearing out these angles
and they could meet right at the end knife out there's the shot with the
scout there's no way he's letting you get away
takes a turn this corner final kill and gamer legion of all the weapons ripped
away no chance of bringing resources forward into the next round and it's
got to be one where you sit back on just pistols and now gamer legion starting
to feel a bit of despair for the first time in this map
They don't have any game to really fight back with here, you know, got a deagle out for a PR 5-7s on 3 plus,
high-packs and a sip of a little bit of cash, because he knows he has to get through all of that as soon as he can.
10-5, the most likely outcome in the next minute and 40 seconds here.
Dixaro clearing out Khan, no one home.
Spread out across the map with paint.
It's not as big as our work.
Snacks does have a flash to try and activate his teammates at bathroom once they make contact,
but regardless, it's going to take something out of reds because the USP you can't imagine
it doing anything here.
Yeah, only if they're only that flashbang is the God flash and keeps everyone blind.
Well, there was used.
Nobody was home, so they missed that opportunity for the little setup.
Pange is playing this so passively that it's hard for Gamer League to get a read of when
and they're stepping into the zone for the trap.
They're working spot in, SCARC's one in bathrooms.
Good amount of team damage on towards safe, but it's all good, they'll back away.
They don't like what that looks like.
That's the kind of implication that there's a few more players around and now safe has fallen.
Oh, here we are. There's two more picked up.
An attack towards the head of snow.
You put an oppression here trying to get away
not wanting to give up the advantage they hold because he had VSM how I'll towards water to help him out and
Just working together making sure this is very uncomfortable here for game allegiance
No takes a tap from that 5-7 down to one HP at the tail end and he's gonna be finished off res was ready for it
They can actually go for this. There's still time in the bomb timer if they want to push forward and try and make a miracle happen
Res might just be happy to take the rifle into the next round and I maybe they missed the opportunity
So now about exit kills.
Yeah, well PR isn't a spot to do that.
Come towards him now, Deagle shots good.
Yeah, there are too much to ask of him.
Here he is, you're just not gonna beat him right now.
28 kills for Peria.
That's crazy, not 3K.
For Peria just adding these multi-kills,
piling them up.
It's, we're going into round 16, he has 28 kills.
It's just insane the level he's at right now.
I still can't believe Snow is still away, his second AC.
Yeah, I know, right?
He's probably can't believe that at the moment as well.
Really cool.
We're seeing a time out coming from Gamer Legion.
Five to 10, their own map pick, feeling desperate.
Pain's starting to beat them up around the map.
T-Site's starting to develop quite nicely,
but this will be the first big test.
And Gamer Legion into this first gun round.
This is where they took control in the first half
and went on a little bit of a streak,
was right when the guns came out.
They're thinking the same thing here in the second half,
when they need it, if they want a shot at staying in it.
They want a shot at taking this map,
coming back and reversing their fortunes.
It has to start here.
So Hypebacks is gonna have the AWP,
and Fours and Utility around it.
But Gamer Legion has got a sense in this moment.
They don't have too many chances with this scoreline
to get their half started.
It's taking their time, pain gaming moving past Fountain, it's still about the same looking
towards the bathrooms.
Look how passive game religion are in this setup right now.
There's so much of the map to work with if you're pained.
Now the game religion wants to mix too much into the playbook with those aggressive pushes until they've got some money behind them until they have some confidence they can replenish the weapons and utility they need.
So up towards Long feels like the first point of contact.
Russ is going to be short by taking down by Snow.
Snow looking for the follow up. He's not alone but he doesn't need any help because he's got that second kill for pain.
And the confidence of the wall provided cover, and there's Hook and Zera, the knockout blow.
No resistance from Gamer Legion.
This is insane, Pader looking so good.
There's a Snow going down to 1 HP again, but he just goes into the open, he takes 2 kills along,
and you know, there's a certain feeling that Gamer Legion are eventually going to get into it.
Just with how many times you've seen good CT sides of the monover pass.
They've had no chance in this one.
Yeah, I mean, it's a brilliant first kill from Snow under Rez, but then the willingness to follow up the next fight.
He didn't shy away and tuck in he kept swinging a little bit a wider forcing that fight to happen allowing safe to get an
Anger with the AWP finds a second kill
And they even knew the position of the third player for big use error to come in and grab his headshot
So just a brutal ruthless round that gamer legion had no chance in once the fights begun
For Peria, this is the most kills he's had in a LAN match in two years.
Great time to have it.
It's a lovely time to have it to get the team started. Quarterfinals as well.
As you're looking to make a deep run in these playoffs,
and get a little bit of confidence for your team heading into the Major.
Yeah, certainly the attitude among the Counter-Strike communities
Community's going to change around Payne with the way they're playing at the moment, right?
I don't think many people were super excited to see them return.
We didn't know what to expect from them and they've come out and give us a taste of what's to come,
and it's great to see this.
We're going to get to map point now with the opponent's map pick.
We've got Pyrir waiting in the tunnel, Pyrir peeking towards him,
but Pyrir's got that kill and opening onto Pyrir.
The aggressive play on his own has not worked out at all.
Advantage for Payne.
They're so comfortable knowing what's coming.
He backs off after that initial information.
GamerLegion probably worried about the presence over ensuring the possibility of a sandbags attack
Dude if it wasn't for some high-packs clutches this would yeah, this would be a complete one-way street
Yeah, it'd just be a stopping at this point might even be over already
Those clutches keep in a minute, but it hasn't actually activated anyone from high from GamerLegion to match his impact impact inside the server
Some of the best games you've seen from GamerLegion have been
Outlier performances from snacks as well right showing that he can get to a high individual level really struggling and the start of the
quarter-finals here, 2-14 for Snacks.
You've got Rez playing in behind Devido.
Snow, he's not backtracking just as that Nade comes in,
and then take up the same position he was once standing in.
This will be interesting.
Snacks can be a distraction.
If he gets a shot off, can maybe tag him
to make it awkward to clear Rez's position.
Good kill from Snacks.
How does Snow play this now?
Because if he opens, Snacks makes it back safely.
Rez able to make it work onto Snow,
needs another one, and he peeks out.
A second kill from Rez through Devido.
It's safe.
What is it?
Get off!
That's the kill!
It opens up the B site.
Period.
Now running to join him.
Just enough time to get in and get that bomb planted.
Oh, Taliesin feels like he's really giving one away.
That's the escape route by safe.
Up in position.
Hypex is here with his in heaven.
There's a kid on Snacks as he makes his way out.
Oh, that was safe from the back.
Snacks is gonna die safe again.
It's gotta be Hypex again.
We just talked about his clutches earlier in the first half.
They haven't liked him much.
But perhaps you can get another one here.
last lifeline but safe is right there. Atmonster's safe for the master class in
this round. Opens up the fallback plan and make sure it's the round win. What a
huge round for save. We mentioned how impressive it's been. This is his first
officials back in such a long time joining this team. Stepping in like no
time has been missed. Unbelievable triple kill in this round. Opening up the
escape route into the B bomb site when they encounter issues on the other side
the map and sealing the round as well. Beautiful performance. And in that round as well, Peria
hits his 30 kills in regulation. Powering paint, a 7 round lead and 7 chances to close
out this first map. Stepped into it with a 17% win rate. Gamer Legion choosing it as
as a punished pick due to the weakness,
but that weakness has been absent.
Payne have come in with the game plan
and executed perfectly,
and game religion look like there's three steps behind.
Three steps behind on their own map selection.
This is incredible to see what Payne
are capable of pulling off at the moment.
There he is, steps up.
He's the man to really open things up
in the first round of the play here.
looking to be a man that can close this. That's under the water. The position to get early.
Big Ezer has the bomb over towards the B bomb site already right out of the opening and that can
obviously rotate back at any point but with that starting in that part on such a large map you feel
like it's going to be the ending point so it's nice that Rez is able to control the middle of the map.
Alright it's coming back into the fight. Perrier spams away through the wall. It's a kill on Rez.
He'll get away. Over 30 kills now, high packs and snacks. Really important that the poles
combined to get two kills here. To put Gamelitch into the advantage, but Figo Zera on the hunt
gets the headshot on PR. Unlimited left. Still looking difficult in this round for
Payne, but not impossible. I don't think Big Euzera feels like he can
do a hard clue to the right. I think he senses the positioning, right? So that smoke is going
to make Towson very, very nervous, but I believe Big Euzera is going to try and just disappear.
Peria, how long does he run? I believe Snax is here in these footsteps.
Hypex is shifting over, but they're trying to connect Peria at the B bombsite with Big
Yuzera, so his idea is to flank.
Hypex swings out, but Peria's got the headshot.
Hypex gone, numbers even. Snax to drop, Peria.
The Snax realized what he was doing. The Snax realized that he was trying to push CT spawn
to meet up with Big Yuzera.
Kistalus and his state put over on Graffiti.
Well, there's such limited time now, right? You're at the 15 second mark as Big Yuzera
arrives at the monster tunnel. He'll go, he'll clear right, he'll look up to the left side
of the site but no one offering him a clean chance. They fall back, Telsen from Grafitti
confirms they kill and another round will be played. Gaviric is staying alive.
A nice idea, almost able to connect the pieces. Good job from Snacks being aggressive and
making sure that flank can't actually happen. Saves the round. If he was able to slip into
that smoke there would have been a really tough defense a 1v2 at that B bomb site
I pecs with the opening kill this is the one that really made things difficult no
control towards the A bomb site made it desperate made it so period had to try and
make the miraculous play round 19 gamer league and sale I've just barely and we
We run it back.
Oh, Nades towards the boost.
Snacks a magnet to them.
Losing over half of his health.
Fight con.
VSM ducks out of it before the engagement even happens.
I feel like VSM...
Okay, once that fighter needs got it, I was gonna say he's at a quiet game, 3-14.
Now got his fourth kill.
That's a big one.
Early on, 5-on-4 now for pain.
and any presence in the middle of the map to gather information for game
illusion is gone. They'll rely on whatever PR can provide them.
PR trying to tap away onto VSM who does a good job not to overextend into the
open and offer up his life. Yeah but now that he backs away they're blind on the
map they have no idea what's happening so this is all about how long does it take
for Hypex to spot this play out towards long-aid that'll be the first
indication they have and that'll force snacks in PR one of them will have to
shift and rotate but if he goes down first don't jump again don't give that
chance on over it game a legion to player down low on health on snacks you
see that utility stuff to fly through the sky towards this a bomb site
making it clear to which site they would like to close this map flash flash is
going forward, now into the play, it's snow wrapping around the back of the dice box.
PR Jan looking for the follow up on Hypex.
Somehow kept his team in it's next for shots forward, Hypex again.
A 2v2, his game of legend need to survive here and now into Hypex.
Once more being the player to deliver the impact.
There's no kick, there's no smoke.
But who else to close the map up, Peria.
With the counter performance he's been having, it would be a poetic finish from Peria Jr.
to win this one out goes on to the open, high pegs down.
A period junior, a journeyman player, finally made his promotion to the senior
squads and now plays on the stage, looking to be the man.
It's a composure to close it and he has won it.
No kid on Towson, period.
It's the man to round things out.
It will be paying Gaming to take map one of the current finals.
Game reaches map pick and they get destroyed.
33 kills from Peria.
An incredible performance.
He's got them started on the right foot.
That's one map up for pain gaming and dominant fashion.
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yo what's up y'all know anything about counter strike video games you know about
counter strike I'm on the Georgia Tech fencing team tell me what crossroads there
might be between counter strikes and fencing you know counter strike here in
the clutch situation it's kind of the 1v1 situation of you and your opponent
fencing just going for the last stab or that last quickscape op I bet that was
That was good.
What do y'all think about people playing video games against each other competitively?
Oh, I love it. I like the smack-talking they do.
For your favorite contract players?
I gotta go with an OG Kenny S.
What would you say to Kenny S if he was watching right now?
You're my inspiration.
I think about you every match when I'm fencing.
What do you think about that?
Kenny S was never my favorite.
That's what you're thinking?
Y'all play video games by any chance?
Oh.
He didn't even realize it.
I mean Jacob when you roll up here and you saw this mic like you said I'm gonna bike a little bit faster now
What do you think? I thought I am as well get as far as where's possible from you as fast as I can
Yeah, I'm on immediate. I had a blast immediate me days. I'm you did what you had blasted immediate day
Just kidding
Hi
I need him as well
No, he's more than speedboss first
Let's go more than that, they will be ready to flash us
They will be ready to flash, so they need to wall-speed
One more, one more, I think
I smoke site
One heaven, one heaven
I pick heaven
I'm holding heaven
I can smoke heaven
I'm just dealing
I smoke heaven
I'm trying to speed up
I'm trying to speed up
I didn't see him
I think I see him
Okay, one HPC
Do it
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Holy shit
We got close
and bomb the back. Back to the back.
Ten feet, ten feet, yes. Ten feet.
No! Let's go, boys!
Despite a back and forth first half, there was no question who was in the driver's seat as we moved
into the second pane with an almost flawless T-side, and of course
it had to be Perea after what was an astronomical overpass, Jacob,
to be put in the final now. That is one of the strongest individual
performances I've seen from any player so far in this season two. So 33, 34 kills
in the end I believe. 33 in the end of it you know coming in with a couple of
clutches, winning a lot of opening duels as well and just in general you know
there's different ways where you can get to 30 plus kills in a game of
Counter Strike right? This is not one of those device as ways where you don't see
the kills, you don't really feel the impact. You was dominating a game or even
from start to finish. Every single round 20 kills in that first half and without
I'm not sure that the CT side would have had much to offer really from pain
But it felt like they were getting roadblocked and outgunned by some of the stars on game religion
But then to think one of the playoff rookies the international playoff rookies on this team popped off that massively in his first map
This changes the tone of the entire series 100%
I think we do need to dive into that first half though as you mean we're saying much more of a competitive further
There was one round where there was a lot going on so I want you to break it down
Yeah, I feel there's one round that encapsulates everything we were talking about coming into the game
And that is round six that we can bring up for you guys on the Telstraeter
We spoke about the trading game coming in for paying gaming and the lack of trade
Or sorry the other way around the lack of trading from pain and the trading game coming in for game alleging
As you can see in the radar just to start the round right here. You have Peria in on the ground all by himself
There's no teammate next to him. He's playing by himself and that's where the impact came from
He obviously walks down he finds the duel against Ressen as he did thought them at Vasspedeo this game
He wins that duel so again relying on the individuals right here
You know wants to go for it then you have gamer leading coming in very well prepared throwing two grenades that towards snow
He survives that a third grenades and a molotov on snow as well
Somehow some way he survives with just a single HP then you walk into this be executed as well
You're down a man, but you still find the opening on towards BSM
You now know snow is low on HP because zero gets caught off guard as well a gamer leading slowly
But surely fighting their way into the round snow still a bit of an issue right here gets a single kill before he gets
taken down, went into a 2v2, Saffir gets the kill with the AWP and you can have a winnable
scenario right here for Gamer Legion. Unfortunately for PR, he completely overextends with the
bomb right here and then Hypex. Fake plants, gets the kill on towards safe, not quite sure
what the guy in Heaven does and what's reheard coming into this segment. The teammate yelled
Heaven, Heaven, Heaven. So it was actually not Hypex seeing him, but it was the teammate.
I think this rounds encapsulates everything we saw. We saw a well prepared Gamer Legion,
clear game plan, good utility usage, they really had to fight for their rounds, but the biggest
issue they had in this game was period when you have a game like that it doesn't
matter how well-prepared you are it doesn't matter what kind of strategies
you're throwing at your opponents doesn't matter how you many times you're
mating snow forcing him out of position when period is frowning impact every
single round you know even a well-prepared gamer leading can't do
much if even if you know statistically we're looking at this game you're trying
to anti-strat a pain you would actually want to target that be bombsite
fairly frequently but you can't only do that if you do so you know those eight
players will start to lean over they'll be cheated rotations they'll be more
aggressive moves made by pain because those players typically do struggle in that
people on site but they couldn't ever test the A side of things in the way
they wanted to to actually stretch the map out and then you look at the
scoreline right here right is game a legion T side all pass you're leading
42 you win a massive round you're forcing the opposition into an eco and
then what happens for us they lose the next round some way somehow those we
need to be roll it they lose the next round some some way somehow right an
unloosable round when you consider the economy and to me that was the breaking
point of game or legion. God, that's such a good start. Showed that they were well
prepared. Look at this buy coming in. A couple of Deagle's, you know, a couple of
smokes. No armor whatsoever on two of the players. This is
unloosable, Ubi. I mean, it's a very proactive move that's at least being made.
I mean, all around like this when there's nobody sort of aggressing on that
T side. Guess who? Guess who? Yeah, you get to see Peria make a really ambitious
play, but they actually fully believe in the idea that he's catching the right
flank here. You could have flanked A, you could have made that choice if he wanted to.
They stall with Utilt. They don't swing for it, because I know Peria is coming to
crunched them on the other side. So this is one of those moments where
GamerLeading thought they had more of the map to play with that could operate
with more multiple threats but sometimes all that takes is this one risk.
And I love the patience as well. As you said the stalling right here
GamerLeading with the Flats, they're very well aware the period is coming in from
behind. A lot of teams would fight, a lot of teams would program that flash but
they played calm, they played collective so as much as I want to give credit for
GamerLeading getting off to a good start and showing that they were well
prepared if anything pain matched him in that department.
should we just run the period
highlights as well?
And also at it, this is insane.
Like we can't overstate enough how much
of an incredible performance this is,
considering you me first big land
stage for him in an international event.
It would have been totally acceptable
if he had a couple of shakes.
I mean, VSM is actually in a similar
position as him actually and has maybe
been more of a journeyman throughout
his career, but period had such a
composure to him in the fights that he
was taking. It didn't seem like he was
I mean, he started off the game with 9 kills. He aced in the pistol, and then he moved into the second round and he got 4 more, so I guess if anything is going to get you fired up, it's probably that hot of a start.
That's the cool thing about it, right? Because you often see players get off to a hot start, you know, maybe having a great pistol round, you know, farming a couple of kills in the first couple of say rounds, but then they snow down, you know, the D-ball would get into the game, they'll have less and less impact.
He just kept on doing it. Very last round as well, and as you said, Farahite, he's the one winning a 1v2 and closing it out for P.Gaming, so...
So nicely. You know what we're calm. He's composed. He's very well aware of what he needs to do in order to optimize his chances of winning the rounds. And to me, that's equally impressive. One thing is the aiming. Another one is the decision making for period. And this one then put a foot wrong. And I think this is part of why they made the acquisitions they did in period and VSM. They wanted people that had actually been through the trenches in the South American region that actually had to call their own number a lot and to an extent card carry their teams for the fact that they're able to make those moves.
fact that they're able to make those moves probably just actually reinstills them with
confidence that it works out so early. They didn't lose any of these ridiculously silly
rounds. Maybe the 1v2 you could excuse in some respects, but the fact that they kept
on pushing with that, those rookies would typically crumble if you didn't make these
massive mistakes because then you know Biguzera is breathing down your neck for the rounds
to follow.
Let's just contextualize this as well. This was Game of Legends, Matt Pickwell. We heard
Biguzera saying some pretty big words prior to coming into this particular series saying
I feel like we have the upper pounder overpass. Now we move on to nuke. Um, can you give me some logic?
Do you mean as to why they might have chosen this map? They have in their last, uh, what I think coming into the
tournaments coming into this year, they have played it on an international stage against other teams within the top 50.
Now, you know, that that is a quite a large range. You play some South American teams in there as well. But internationally,
they have actually found success on this map. They've taken, I believe, uh, if I'm not mistaken, they beat Aurora inclusion
of poker on this map. You know, that's one of those situations that they do feel confident
in the style that they play, but it is an unconventional style to most nukes that you'll ever see.
It's also historically speaking, a map where Pico Cera loves to call, loves to put himself
in the center of the situation. And I think when you bring in a stand-in like safe as
well, you've got to make sure that you bring a map where the rest of the team is very comfortable.
The rest of the team doesn't have to stress about their role, which makes the implications
of having a stand-in with you less significant. So I think it's a map where NQC, the way
he plays the Orb as well is somewhat equal to the way safe is playing, not that aggressive
on the T side, not that aggressive on the CT side, but you just got to make sure you
hold up to your own.
So, in terms of mitigating for the fact you're playing with a stand-in, you're picking a
map you're comfortable on yourself, which makes the implications of having a stand-in
less significant.
Where does that leave game a legion?
Well, I mean, game a legion can also play the map, you know, we've seen that.
It's not a punish pick against game a legion, it's more so a pick the pain a doing to make
sure they're comfortable themselves.
So I'm not too worried in regards of whether or not we're going to have a comfortable game.
I've seen PR do a lot of good stuff in this tournament as well.
Janko had an around that he brought up as well a few times where he likes to dive into the vents
and like to create that chaos and apply pressure early on.
And that's kind of the gamer leading I want to see.
Please don't stay away from the aggressive counter strike that we've seen so far.
Keep the pace as high as you can on a map like Nuke and then you've got to make sure that PR is feeling it.
I think when he's in the entry department finding success on a map like Nuke,
that's when gamer leading are playing the best.
I talked about the style for pain being a little unconventional.
They don't use flashes to set each other up.
This nuke is actually a map where you see them get into some very, very chaotic situations.
That's what they really try to do, especially on their T-sides,
is just flash, get into flanking positions,
and just really create this casted, wide net that gives them a lot of options later on,
but also puts a lot of pressure on those pieces not to fumble any of those moments.
Well, pain come out. All guns are blazing on that T-side of overcast.
That was indeed GamerLegion's map pick, Payne's pick of Nuke awaits after this break.
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Hey guys, can I interrupt you a little bit?
How are you?
What's your name?
Henry.
Henry?
MJ.
MJ.
Alright, you're about to play Counter Strike.
Are you here specifically for Counter Strike?
Are you enjoying that?
Counter Strike.
We love Counter Strike.
Alright, are you watching the tournament as well when it's on?
We are, yeah.
We're walking around now.
Sorry?
We're walking around because it's half time.
We're just chilling.
What are you going to be cheering for here during the weekend?
We were gonna go for phase, but we all know what happened to phase. We don't talk about that, right?
Not talk about what happened to phase at all.
Phase are out, but there are still the best teams coming in. There's Vitality.
Are you gonna be just enjoying the best car strike that we can get in Atlanta after a long, long time?
I think I'm cheering for Vitality right now for sure. Yeah.
So we're swapping jerseys mid-tournament. I like that. I guess so, yeah.
I mean, that's great. I don't want to take away much of your time. You're clearly warming up to beat vitality, right?
And yeah, take away and enjoy the game. Thank you for having me. Bye. Bye
Can I ask you before you join the game? Hey, what's up? What's your name? Oh, my name is
Harrison, Harrison, how are you doing? Yeah, how you doing? You know actually my name before I introduce myself
Of course, I know you man. You're a legend legend legend legend. How you doing? I appreciate it. I'm doing really good
I'm enjoying some kind of track here, but I want to ask you as well
Are you about to queue into the game? You're here to watch the tournament or came here came here to play both
I play both both the tournament and the game tournament tournament and then also play the game as well
What are you cheering for Areson?
Honestly, I don't I don't like my Tauti too much. So we're doing Navi will do Navi Navi Navi's really good
Maca Z you know Maca Z's in really good form lately, but I don't know Zee was he was just too good right now
He's too good, but I'll cheer for Navi. We got to nerve them somehow, right?
Yeah, we gotta make them nervous. We gotta get crazy in the crowd, okay? Crazy. We gotta get crazy.
Everyone cheering for Vitality. I feel like this is kind of a thing that is, you know, we're cheering for the favorites.
But right now you're against the crowd.
No, really? Everybody says Vitality over here?
So far. So what I ask is Vitality.
No, it's too much. It's too much. They're dominating. They're dominating, you know?
There's no other word to describe it.
So I want the underdog to win. I want somebody to have a reason to go crazy over here, you know?
All right, it makes complete sense. I mean, enjoying this for the whole weekend. Are you here with friends? Are you here by yourself?
Yeah, this is my team right here. We have a full team over here, full team of five over here.
So we're having a great time this weekend. Should be a lot of counter-strike, a lot of fun this weekend.
You're about to join the game, so don't let it myself to lose you that elo.
So I'm not distracting you. I'm not distracting you anymore. Yeah, see you.
That's one-eighth.
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A chance for gameleafing to try and show what they've been showing us over the last few weeks.
A good run in Fort Worth.
A great run here in Atlanta.
But it's been so disappointing so far from that first map of play.
Yeah, for a team that has so many players performing well for them,
really that first map was all about fightbacks and the clutches he provided them to keep them alive.
On the other side of it, it was Piria for paying his best map performance
and over a year and a half, an absolute master class.
33 kills for Piria.
was a beast and now we're going to see what they can do on Nuke.
It's their map pick after stealing away Gamer Legion's overpass.
On Nuke they'll be starting on the attacking side with both these underdog surprising teams,
surprising ones they're having. It continues here, but for Gamer Legion,
the end is at the end of this map if they cannot show up.
So all the pressure falls on them to deliver what we know they can deliver on the stage here in Atlanta.
And Payne stands against them working towards the semifinals.
Camerleach in versus Payne, map number two of the quarterfinals here in Atlanta.
We're heading into Nuke.
Payne would be so good at these pistol rounds. Thanks to Pyrrha.
We're looking to try and continue that as well.
We know how important that T-side pistol on Nuke can be.
They've won every one of them so far in the series after that first map.
So P250, Alpha safe. Some nades here for Snow.
Let's see what kind of call Payne have.
Both these teams are going to hang on this lose looking a little bit quick period getting up to the door very fast
Both these teams going to be good on nuke effective on nuke
So pain's going to have a lot of confidence taking it here
Know that game religion can deliver a good quality counter strike on this map as well
Just confident in their own ability to overcome it and why wouldn't you be after the first map performance?
Smoke outside to help across flashbang as well to get the p250 in place once it takes some duels and crosses towards secret
We got Towson up on top of the Raptors, first player going into the site, he spots them.
He is Towson off to a great start here for Gamer Legion, and Piria alone.
He has picked up a kill at least, the only kill of this pistol for Pan Gaming will be found off of him.
A much better hit from Gamer Legion coming out with a better start.
Yeah, very, very clean. That hit really had no strength to it, no power to it.
All the opening kills going the way of Gamer Legion and stops that cold.
No space opened up in the upper bomb site.
bomb site so pissed around for gamer legion a luxury they didn't have on the opening map
and on the CT side newt get to start with the economic advantage and see how far they can take
that no opening kills provided it was just a matter of time before talson punished them from the
raptors a lovely rounds and without a bomb plant without very many kills painstick on glocks
HIPAAX.
It should be nice and easy for game legion to get a 2-0 start here.
There's a number of moments in that first half of Overpass where you thought HIPAAX's
clutches might just ignite game legion, but it was always pain finding the answer, finding
the way to stifle that foot, kept duck going.
Well nobody ever stepped up next to HIPAAX, normally that conversation is like, ah, these
These clutches are keeping this team in this game, keeping them alive as long as humanly
possible for somebody else to kind of wake up and help provide impact.
But no one from Gameligeon actually got into any kind of a groove on Overpass where they
could provide impact early on in the rounds.
It was just all those clutches.
Wow.
The impacts.
Just waits.
Out towards.
The bottom of the pelt.
He's taking himself just once.
It's a wildy attack.
Kill an LPR.
Uh-oh.
This is badly played from Gameligeon.
Yeah, very much so.
Oh, this is badly played from Game of Legion.
Yeah, very much so.
Nathan and Kanachi get one more kill, thankfully,
with only the pistols and unarmored pistols of that.
Nothing that Payne has to follow up,
taking Ramp Room into kills there.
Big use, Zerim.
It's a matter of time.
Yeah, but that just feels like a wake-up call, right?
The fact of how badly that was played.
You see PR very frustrated, almost shocked
at how poorly that was played as he backed into his chair.
Now, they're just hoping they're not
going to get punished fully by it.
Snow has got himself into the 1v2 clutch.
Puts that bomb down as well.
So really a lot picked up here for Payne
and around that really should meant nothing.
If the snacks now peeking out, Snow
can push them double doors.
Talston comes in and cleans them up,
but Hamilton losing three players,
conceding a bomb plant and giving Payne a heap of cash.
Yeah, you're dead on that.
I mean, you're looking down the line
as the two ramp players and you're just telling everyone
that's all about it.
It won't happen again.
But that one certainly will shake you,
that the ramp is taking so easily two for two trade
against unarmored pistols, against Colox.
And you feel really bad about the third kill that comes out
and the ensuing bomb plant as well.
So a great job from Snow, a great job from Payne
to get in and get as much resources as you can.
First gun round is underway.
AK-47s for Payne, full sets of utility.
No hop out yet for Hypex and Gamer Legion's defense.
Well, VSM individually, he's going to be looking for a better map, we know Newt could be a comfortable ground for him, he's going to be looking over the top of style and trying to challenge snacks and he's got that opening kill in favor of Payne.
Good start for VSM, he had that slow, quiet overpass, wasn't needed whatsoever in the victory, but this is a nice opening kill to find.
First gun round, he's given a 5 on 4 and taking out some aggressive outside stances. He joins up with Snow on the ground.
Well those smokes start to come in from pain now as well, constructed a wall outside.
The Nade will land and disrupt that sea of clouds and we got high tanks tapping away on towards snow.
Look how many defenders are out here for Gamer Legion. Three players here and a four versus five.
Even Taliesin is playing like heaven area ready to react outside.
So I mean, Gamer Legion very nervous about any kind of yard play. It's making the bomb site defenses weak. So weak.
Towson stepping out a little bit more. He's going to have to send down into the site.
He actually is going to go ahead and challenge BSM, but it's a period to get that all-important trade.
There's another player at the back of the sub, but period's ready.
Hiteback says, talk behind the box though, just in time. Snow comes out, nearly transfers out towards Heaven.
But a 2v2 off the back, but it's safe. It's dropped down into the lower ball site.
Yeah, it gives Snow a happy knee. He's going to have a tough time.
Low HP, but he's got to figure out how to have impact.
What's the cutoff? The rotation. PR knows the possibility.
One slip down, and now Snow becomes the flanker.
And when does he decide to go?
He's waiting, waiting for us!
It snows patience, it's paid off!
It's all on PR, he's got no kit on his back, nor any utility.
It's gonna be an almost impossible clutch to win
if it's played well by the two remaining players here at Payne.
You've got Snow out towards Deacon.
He'll play first with the low health.
Alright, safe, he's at the double door.
So there's the tap, the flash comes in.
And PR, when do they push him?
When's they look for him?
And yep, there's no reason to.
He's not on it. He's not on that stick and they will not commit themselves into any fights
There is no chance for PR to win it. Payne have picked up their first gun round
Yeah, really what a great performance as well fighting all the kills necessary and when things got scrappy in that upper bomb site
What a great decision to just drop down the vents bail out plan B. Nobody home downstairs
So you add that into the three kills that were had previously with glocks in the last round and the money for
Gamelidge it is in a horrifying place
They're taking a very hard reset early on, heading into round 4, and it's time out to
discuss how they want to handle the situation.
They still have the M4 on PR, so one weapon is there, and making the decision now if they
want to replenish some weapons behind that, or save their money and fight a little bit
further down the road.
Not a situation you want to be in this early on the CT side, especially out of that pistol
round victory but it's the consequences of a poor round two in this half and game
religion shove all in buy up everything they can high-packs with a second and
four five sevens in utility on snacks talson and res a very important round
for both teams both low on economy low on money
They're down towards silo, DSM backing away from those two grenades that brought to the
damage, not connecting towards him.
Now PR pushed up in ramp, a little bit more of an advanced position, you can play with
snacks who can take the initial attention on the weaker gun and Kalsin has moved in towards
Hutt.
Looks like they want to set up a lobby crunch in the mid-round.
If they don't see any activity, if they're just kind of waiting and standing back on
their heels, it feels like they've got pistols ready to push Hutt, they've got rifles ready
to be aggressive with snacks over towards radio, and here it comes.
Yeah, big is there, into the peak, spots out all the players that are heroes.
That's information.
And over a period, somehow walking away with both of those kills, Snell and DSM have the
others, and Payne are looking incredible on the individual front, especially Payne.
Yeah, that feels like where most of this game is being won at the moment, not that they're
tactically behind Gamer Legion in any sense, but just individually, that is an advantage
that Payne has had in map one, and you're seeing some of it still there in map two.
They just get pushed aside after winning the pistol. Payne don't care. Reset them early on.
Big Ezerith knows that he's dropped down to the Mach 10 to farm up some easy kills.
This round speaking of easy, should absolutely no problem for Payne. They're going to take the lead.
lead. And they're doing this without the pistol round win, right? They're doing this without that
great start. So the fact you're doing the heavy lifting in the pit of the rounds is even more
impressive here for paint. Making something of this key side. They're also making, you know,
game religion with flat so far on these first two maps to play, you know, like just kind of
disrupting everything they've done so well throughout this event. Remember, game religion coming
into this with, you know, big win over Liquid to eliminate them, big win over
Astralis to eliminate them, a loss to Navi but a very close affair where they
had their chances to win that series losing the third map 13-11. We've seen
a lot of good things and a lot of good performances but here in the playoffs at
Atlanta, Keynes at least neutered some of those strengths that they showed
throughout the group stage.
The very quiet walk to secret and down the stairs.
Nobody from Gamer Legion has any idea this is happening.
Not a footstep was made.
Big user leading the Mac 10 in case there's a trap.
The AKs can follow it up for trades, but the stack is at the upper bomb site.
So this will be a third round for Payne.
And Gamer Legion are going to look to find a few gifts at the end of the day.
Kiri has actually put himself in a situation where, all on his own, isolated.
That AK-47 would be a tasty prospect for Gamer Legion.
Yeah, under the open, two kills picked up quickly for Piria.
No real threats coming his way.
Snow on the corner, clears out snacks, and marches forward.
So, three to two.
A great lead for a pain to be carving out for themselves,
especially having the API dual start.
Yeah, they are laser focused pain.
Doesn't feel like they're dropping the ball once.
As I say that, missed opportunity, VSM just takes attention his way, they wanted to double peek in towards lobby to save Peria,
and now that's two AK-47 saved. Not a disaster, but some free gifts over to the Gamer Legion defense,
and BigUZera is going to do his best to hunt them down.
Yeah, he makes some money on this Mac 10 as well, he's flying over the top of the Intelsin, a good spot.
Oh, should have been able to handle him, BigUZera! It should have been able to handle him, but...
Somehow BigUZera has won that fight, descending down from the roof.
I think you'll be relatively pleased as Gamer Legion will get in one AK-47 out of the mix.
You're always going to be happy about that one.
It's some extra cash that you can build up for later on as well.
So Hypex is passed the AWP by PR because he has that AK-47 from previously, saves him some money.
But yet again, in a deficit on the scoreboard, two to three as the guns come back out.
All on both sides.
Hypex getting a go on the defense here with YOR.
PR going to be keeping that AK-47 he hung on to in the previous round.
Hypex searching outside for what would be the opening kill of the round.
He hasn't been able to spot anybody though.
Yeah, Snow's planted super passive.
Just wanted to see if there was going to be aggression.
If anyone is pushing the red box, pushing even deeper than that.
A little bit of a fake going to be thrown outside for Snow,
but we can see utility towards the upper ball state.
So they want to make it feel like a couple things.
They say we're either going to go outside or we're going to go through hut.
We're actually going ramp, but Hypex is ready.
Yeah, he's got himself in the right spot to try and deal with this PRs here as well along the wall strong set up
This was the setup early that broke apart
In that second round that afflicted so much damage upon them
But it's time much stronger though high-fax gets caught with a flash in the open
He gets around the corner just in time
And so now pain forced to look for a different answer
But look at this PR to suddenly move forward pushing into the ramp attempting a flank
Yeah, they don't have the manpower to watch the flank so PR is taking a risk, but he's gonna get the reward
There's a nice shot, that's Peria swinging out and now, I mean, Pange is boxed in, nowhere to go.
No options available to him. 40, 4 seconds and a 2 vs 4.
Trying to walk through the smoke. It's the only play he had available that big was there already.
He gets spotted by snacks, taken down and you leave snow on low HP.
Walking into the lobby, Talcinoff, the ladder gets him and it will be tied again.
So much better here, PR using the AK set in the previous round, the devastating effect.
And we've got a 3-2-3 scoreline with money, not in the greatest ball for Payne, but Snow
has 7.3 thousand, so we'll see what they decide to do.
I'd see a timeout from them to talk things over as well.
Yeah, it just comes in right now.
Have that conversation.
As you mentioned, Snow 7300, so he can drop an AK as well as getting himself one, so that'll
be the question is how much does Payne want to invest in this round to fight sitting at
three tied with Gamer Legion?
I imagine the decision is going to be a hero AK-47 and everyone else kind of just chills a little bit maybe some upgraded pistols, but
No need to risk your entire economy right now with another full buy right around the corner
Snow and Peria continuing good play from overpass seven kills apiece leading the way for pain on
Gamer legion it's Towson and PR with seven and eight kills respectively
topping the scoreboard for the defensive side.
Live in around seven.
And it is just the one hero AK and just sticking back on pistols for the rest of pain.
So how much damage can snow cause?
Okay, religion not giving them any aggressive looks gathering information
What's next over to a secret realizing there's no presence coming outside, but they moved
into the ramp room and there's no one there, so they do actually have a full free bomb
site to go into, so they flood into B.
Yeah, a little oversight from Gamer Legion, I think they're going to be okay playing
retake on it.
They haven't really figured out what kind of a buy it is at the moment, the AK rings
out.
So plant should come in with the cover of snow.
Needs this kill, Peria can't handle it with the P250.
It takes a while for Snacks to get the kill, but eventually he picks it up.
They've got Snow and the Rafters getting taken down by Snacks. They move into the retake, they'll handle the pistols, they'll handle the round, but...
Pain won't be too disappointed to get a ball plant out of it.
And they're just gonna go down. So because they're out of that game religion back into the lead of the game, it's gonna be 4-3.
But the fans starting to get going, but here comes the challenge again.
Yeah, I think Gamer Legion there said we know it's gonna be we know they're gonna be behind next round no matter what you know
They can have the bomb plan. Let's not lose the weapons. Let's prioritize our economy
Let's just play a really smart retake at the lower bomb site and around where they likely one of the resources for it
So Gamer Legion inch out to that lead once again four to three
No opt for safe on the T side they've stayed away from picking that weapon up high packs has his
Tells him, he can be smoked away, trying to stop anybody from attempting to vent dive,
Peria has to backtrack with the utility and then a deeper smoke layers on top.
He's blocking from Gamelidge in early.
He's going to force Paine to burn a few seconds, he can just come right back at it.
Snow's outside waiting and being patient, so I think he's going to eventually turn up into an aggressive lurk position
when they start applying some pressure to the upper bomb site.
Maybe a pump fake on the execute.
Maybe actually executing, but Snow is going to be patient.
Wait to wrap around and eliminate some of the players retaking or flanking through Mini.
Yeah, he's going to punish if snacks.
Fails to compete in this duel.
Start tapping shots towards Snow. They've got the information, so Snow no longer wants to stand in the spot.
It's about to be littered by utility.
It's a good quick decision for Snow to change his position back and he'll start throwing utility towards where Snaks was standing.
PR is in big garage though, so Snaks shows that presence. Snow might think that might be the only player out there.
He doesn't realize quite yet. He's got like no chance of getting in towards Mini as long as PR is still in the back of the big garage.
Eventually they started to run out of utility towards that door. They blocked it the entire round so far with Smokes.
Peri has been so patient, but now it's his time to go.
Molotov onto the hut, Red's gone. Flash comes in.
Both Peri and Red blinded, so they pause for a second
and the fight happened. Peri gets a kill.
Red's with the trade.
Spamming down through the hut is Biguzera,
keeping Payne in this fight, but it's all about the flank.
Snax is repositioned, laid into the round,
coming through the huts. There's the kill from safe,
so Snax, even more important, he finds success from this,
but now he gives it away. He gives his position away,
and now you look to Pjarn to come up from Heaven,
but Snacks has died in lobby and Gamelision have not made the most of this round whatsoever.
Peelor dies at Heaven and Payne have found a way.
Yeah, Snacks got spooked, maybe just trying to pre-fire something,
maybe just saw a body slumped against the wall,
but that little shot gave away his entire position.
Yeah, that was disastrous, really, because that was the only way back into the round.
Yeah, he had a really sick play kind of forming on that flank.
A really nice timing for it.
I think the kill from Safe also makes things way more difficult,
right when he's getting into the position to make the move.
Safegraps one kill which just makes that really awkward and make snatchers forced into a play
Timeout taken as we're tied back up plenty of money for gamer legion to reinvest
They built up enough cash with some clean rounds for that loss to not be devastating
All back in the hands of hype expert we're missing that impact we're missing that loud play from hypex that he had on the first
map to keep game religion alive. Right now they're just barely clinging on. These rounds
being traded back and forth being grimy. It's going to favor the T side especially here
on Nuke and now that the money is disappearing for game religion, a loss here means they're
in a ton of trouble.
Yeah, I'm missing a few runs too, right? We're not seeing those big individuals that have
been so important for game religions run showing up at a crucial point in this competition.
They've got to hit that switch. Look at Snow though, confident. Moving through the smoke,
all the excel queues up, and Snow gonna be frustrated, but communicates the positions
all the game of the league from players. It doesn't matter though, as Calson extends
the advantage here on Hypex, chiming in. So just safe with bigger 0-1 left, 2-3-5. This
round had potential for Payne, you know, getting Snow into man early, it just crumbles.
I think it's actually a really cool tactic to call if you're the Payne side. I think
it's basically the similar opening that you had previously, the same kind of a setup for
people. Lobby, Snow outside on his own, but this round you changed it up so that he's
more aggressive so that he's the one to initiate the attack but stepping into that
Molotov ruins everything. Gives away his position, prepares the
Gamer Legion defense for what's coming and you could tell he was a little bit
frustrated after stepping into the Molotov not sure what to do next so it
falls apart for pain.
There'll be a five on four or to me a five to four advantage on the scoreboard for
Gamer Legion when all is said and done but they've barely been able to maintain
this lead. Every single time Payne has a response.
No loss bonus for Payne. Yeah that might actually take the ability to respond
away from them. This is a good win for Gamer Legion to put the money in an odd
place for Payne. So Biggie Zera, he's looking to see if anyone had a smoke
dropped. Anything he could pick up because he's gonna back away and save the
weapon. It's the only thing they'll have likely in the next round. Save as 3,000
So we'll see how courageous pain is but it's that same decision
They have to make from two rounds ago is how much do you want to force up around this one save decay?
How much do you want to invest how much do you feel like you have to win around right now?
Later on today Atlanta you guys have the other quarter final Navi taking on vitality. How do you feel about that one?
It's going to be a party.
Yeah, how we feel about Vitality, though, here in Atlanta.
You know, we don't usually have a lot of fans of Apex around here.
So it's going to be a novelty with the favor of the crowd that today, Jason, you'd imagine.
I don't know if it's going to help them. I don't know if it even matters.
They're going to need all the help they can get.
I think that's the only champ that could have beaten out USA.
Oh, it's beautiful.
A glorious thing. Thanks for coming out of that.
We'll see you all weekend. It's going to be a great time.
Back into the action.
Here in pain taken on Gamer Legion. Timeout comes to a close.
Round 10.
Gamer Legion with a slight lead and pain.
They want to fight for this round.
to AK, one more border up, two glills, a tech nine, and they'll try and batter down this
game religion defense once again.
Smokes outside.
The second body here this time with Snow, Piria's going to join up with him at the hip.
Thank you, Zaren, VSM over in lobby.
Hypeback's not spotting anything yet.
There's Snacks, okay.
Better, a headshot's outside.
Puria and Snow, Burf dead.
Hypeback's patient pays off.
Goes back in again.
And the double dip also successful.
Leaking safe outside 1v5.
They know where he is.
generally to knock out a conceded player in this round.
The snacks see anything and then he can shoot.
I don't know if he pushed through the side of the smoke.
Yeah, we got into a late.
That's a very snacks thing to have happened.
Double kill outside.
This strategy ends before it even begins.
It looked like he was coming back into the smoke.
So we'll see from his perspective.
So yeah, he got some mazes.
He was just popping.
Look at that luck as well, isn't it?
Oh my god.
That was three.
That's devastating.
You never even get a crack at what you called in the round.
and you invested so much in that.
That's a buy that puts you on the back foot.
Snatchy's Rex Payne and whatever game plan they had
for the last two to three rounds of play in this half.
Four rounds on T side so far and a chance for another
towards the end of the half here,
but game of the legend, they'll be up to seven for lead.
Spotted the head of Snacks over the top,
can always be a difficult shot to hit.
Snacks just to click any what's more
Yeah, much better from snacks in the second app
Great to see they have such a quiet overpass never really got into it
And one of the great things about game religion as of late has been snacks for surgeons
Finally a little bit too much to handle
But some call for this being picked up and around like that. Yeah, all good
I lose an AK-47 for but not gonna matter at the end of the day one more round remaining in the half after this
Game religions is gonna have a three-round lead when all is said and done here in round 11
Seven to four and then we'll see if they can close the half
With a really strong lead with a dominant stretch of rounds
They'll have won five of six as soon as this ends
They outlasted that little mini run from the pain offense three rounds straight rounds three four and five but
From there the Gamer Legion defense snapped into place.
How big his error goes, and down he goes.
7-4 for Gamer Legion.
Last round of the first half of Nuke coming up, and money back for Payne.
So AK's coming out, there's no AWP in sight for the T side, so High Payne's will be unrivaled in that department.
Yeah, he hasn't had that the entire half essentially.
I've never really gone to pick it up and never really prioritized it.
sense how slow things have been and how kind of like get into a position and then they've been
executing a lot into the upper bomb site off a little bit unwieldy in those scenarios they'll
certainly have it on the CT side so snacks and highbacks going outside for the moment the
offered position over towards credit it's a pressure to apply at the upper bomb site early for pain
Just taking their time, the smokes deployed outside again, snacks looking to be a real
nuisance.
But that is not the start, game a little bit of hope for a period, stepping up, arriving
in the kill feed again.
DSM to dive down onto the top of main.
It's a play resided to great success again, and tried it again, it goes against him, and
now the team that's falling apart with the lineup.
Team kill on the biggest error on top of his own teammate, but VSM does step up and respond.
He takes a lot of damage. He's down to 4 HP, but it's got to be PR and Hypex to win up this 2v3.
If you want an eighth round, see if you're game-religion.
Hypex in the van, 5-7 out! Oh, Drake quick headshot on Snow.
VSM feels trapped. VSM feels trapped with the bomb. He heard the steps of PR taking Lobby,
so he feels like someone's wrapping behind him. Excuse me, safe.
Feels isolated with the bomb and alone.
That could alleviate that, but he steps into the open.
PR sharp on that headshot.
Great turnaround here from PR and Hypex.
And PR will close it out.
So Game of Legends showing up in the quarterfinal.
But nowhere to be seen on Overpass.
But on Nuke, they leave the line 8-4.
Come on, come on, come on!
Well, we've got Gamer Legion showing up now, second half of Nuke set to begin, but that
first half they really woke up after an overpass in which they got beat up across the map.
Here on Nuke they plant their feet and they stop paying for driving any kind of advantage
in this opening half on the second map.
Now we switch sides.
It's Game Religion's offense.
They're going to go up into the defense of Payne and Snacks.
Let's see what kind of masterclass he can call,
because they want to force us to a third decider.
They want to force us all the way to Inferno
to bring it close to these quarter finals.
They got to win five rounds before we get there.
Payne winning both pistols on map one.
Game Religion getting the first pistol of Nuke.
Let's see if they can double up themselves.
You've got Snow playing into his main,
and Taliesin about to wrap around into the smoke.
His teammates move outside.
Here goes Zara, going to take contact.
Wins the first fight against Rez.
First blood drawn.
Second blood will be a trade.
Taliesin and PR are able to put things back
in their favor.
So game of the legend, 4v3, fighting with blocks outside.
Getting information of two of the remaining three players
of pain.
Yeah, now you know that.
You know the bomb site's open as well.
Yeah, you might have to deal with this play from Heaven,
but you've already got Taliesin inside the site, one for one.
Snaps can get the bomb planted safely.
Yeah, bomb going down, Big Uzzaro is coming up through secret now.
They know he was last spotted there, and now they'll confirm he's still in that position.
Safe just waiting at Heaven, trying to jump, get some information,
and just really send himself out into the fight, but it hasn't worked.
So, despite Big Uzzaro getting the opening frag of this pistol round,
it'll be Gamer Legion who end up winning both pistols here on Nuke.
Yeah, I think maybe a little bit too much of a reaction off that first contact
and first kill from Big Uzzaro.
pushing towards the hut pretty much immediately right out of the gate. They
didn't realize that they didn't have the full picture of what was happening on the
map so the Gamer Legion lurkers come right back into this round and snatch it
away. Both pistols now for Gamer Legion and they're up nine to four with
economic advantage as well. Everything you'd need to close out this second map
is there. Everything you need to force us to Inferno, Gamer Legion has on their
side at the moment it's got to be a great force by here for paint double
scouts coming out you've got safe and vs m rocking them from us here for
big is there a deagle for a period five seven for snow but this I mean this
really feels like kind of the entire half the high tire math like kind of
lends itself to this one if you don't win this you're gonna have a similar by
moving forward or even less a strong tag through the smoke snacks gonna be down
to low HP. The safe is still on the prowl outside, but not connected any further shots
just yet, but getting information, seeing heads crossed towards secret.
Dangerous cross back against the fence with a wall that's very close up. And they're
not going to like that smoke as it pops. They want nothing to do with it. Snacks the one
who took the tag from that scout earlier, but now they're going to get funneled right
back into the arms of safe. They're going to have to have a decision to make. Do you
want the battle moving forward where you know there's likely a stack on the other side
of the smoke or do you want to fall back and deal with the scout?
Minute on the clock.
Game religion paused for the time being.
Biggie Zera making his play forward, clearing out lobby.
This is what hurt game religion on the overpass though, was the slow rounds that gave so much time to pain to figure out what was happening and position themselves appropriately.
And this is still taking a very long time.
Biggie Zera's almost wrapped all the way around through yard. You're no longer dealing with just the stout.
Biggie Zera's like, you can rotate. I'm actually going to get some free kills.
This is exactly what you were talking about though. Like this is the same as period of flanking to the monster.
Get in on the flight, Biggie Zera.
And safe. Chiming in kills here for Payne. And safe then drops into the back of the site.
25 seconds left for Gamelizion to try and get in towards the site itself.
But they take another tag on board.
Safe goes out. He finishes off high-packs. He's being run down by the bomb who's spilled.
And now you've got to try and come back into this if you're game a legion and fight on multiple fronts two players that have been
Yet to reveal both players up there though the plant will be coming through still goes forward nearly catching the perfect timing
But it won't work out. Towson alone has to win it here for gamer Legion
VSM searching for the sort of hotbed Towson is quickly repositioned. He didn't realize he jumped away
He was looking inside the bomb site. That was a chance miss
And VSM over the top, and Relief more than anything for Gamelige.
And Towson tried to fire up the crowd, but that's just a sigh of relief for Gamelige and
then they pulled that one off.
Oh yeah, it is.
That got very close, very, very sketchy, very disorganized, a great recovery.
So Gamelige could breathe a sigh of relief and for pain, that was an all-important round.
You're sitting at 4-10, probably not feeling super motivated.
You had such a great flight to buy,
or they see a great flight to kind of achieve that situation,
that harassment as he comes around.
You're down on pistols again here,
Payne, just as you were highlighting in the previous round,
that felt so important for the half here for Payne Gaming.
And it's heartbreaking how close it comes.
But Towson is safe, game illusion here,
and kept that dream of him from a wide open.
It just looks like we're going that.
And Rez has already made his way down secret.
Who went fast?
Okay, five on four.
Good shot from Big Yuzera.
He can drop down.
Raz hasn't turned that corner yet. They know players cross. Raz was loud about it.
So more players, more defenders, coming down to defend the B bombsite in secret.
And then he got big Azera. He's got the Deagle out for a spin again.
I hope he can get a second kill, but it'll be tough.
He drops back in on the side. There's three defenders here.
Two defenders here. Raz has connected onto big Azera.
They know where DSM is.
They have a Molotov for this position as well.
So they're going to burn him out, taking their time.
Oh, are they?
Oh, my God. He can actually just stay in the same position, and they know that.
Sending nades in they're gonna be distracted which sets up safe for a kill with a 5-7 of snow needs something and it'll be nothing
Tell you what to kind of sketchy rounds though from gamer legion the previous one that they almost lost
This one had elements of a stack kind of shutting down their attack
Good for them to get away with the victory again having to fight themselves out of a tough scenario
So period is gonna pick up the weapon drop by big user is killed earlier. That's a free rifle moving forward
and
And at 4 to 11 pain can't give away any of the gifts that they're able to find that's a weapon that's going to be valuable
Yeah, but regardless they will get themselves up to 11 rounds here gaming Legion even if it did look scrappy of the last two
Period obviously with his team not performing as well either he has been able to keep up that performance from overpass
No, both teams dominating the opposition on the other team's map pick.
Yeah.
Going into maps.
I mean, this one was a little bit more reasonable in terms of how the history of both these
teams on the map, pain having a bit of a new lineup with a couple players chopped and
changed, same with Gamer Legion 1 or 2 in.
All right, what have we got here?
What are we doing?
Nice.
I just appreciate you didn't fake it.
True.
I'd rather you never fake it, Jason.
Yeah, the bar's low.
I'm not big into that.
Round 16, it's 11-4.
Last to rock for paint gaming here on Nuke.
Oh my god.
They're becoming a VSM. Okay, he's got himself the Olga.
Always taking it for a spin.
He's under a lot of pressure now.
He's called his teammate over.
Sate gonna try and help him and the AWP will try and make it.
So, Snax is gone. So is VSM.
And Sate, he's got another one in him.
But if only he dies, and he's actually landed that one too!
He gets away with it!
Alright, style points for safe.
He's a holster on the ramp room.
Oh, if you're gonna have a moment to ignite the team,
it's not some kind of crazy clutch.
It's not gonna get you out of your seat,
but a rock solid performance from Safe shutting down the ramp attack.
Gamer Legion trying to end the map.
It felt right there with an uppercut rush towards ramp room.
And Payne was ready.
So, Snax calling on the fly.
Vibe calling.
Shut down and now Rez is left in a tough situation with four players alive still for pain too if they capitalize on this great job
growing the money
And there goes Rez found by big user safe gets paying their fifth round on the board
And let's see if they can turn that into something worth talking about
Step one for Payne, long rope back into it.
It begins with that first step, 8K for Rice, the rest on, even Glock to repeat to your 50.
I like this, I like this as well from Gamer Legion, the choice to just go for the Hero
8K and Rez and not invest too much around it.
You could have bought some Tech 9s, you could have bought a Mac 10, made this interesting
to see if you can steal around away at the upper bomb site.
But you have such a lead and you want to maximize the full buy rounds you have.
trying to have a round with a little bit of danger, but set yourselves up for the future.
Yeah, also makes it a lot more difficult for Rez, not having any support whatsoever.
Well, let's see what he can do with just the brawn of the AK-47,
and nothing is Perea held a good angle, spotting the legs early of Rez.
The AK will fall into the hands of many players here on Gamelidge,
and eventually getting a kill, but it's the Glock of PR.
And this found success on Perea, who picks himself up at 3K.
The PR left on Low HP caught by Safe, suppressed the maneuver through the ramp room to close.
And it's 11 to 6, so a pain gaming with some life left in them yet.
Alright, here we go.
That's not bad.
The rarely seen crowd upgrade.
You don't usually see that.
You don't get that one too often.
That's a new trend.
We've got 11-6, the scoreline. Game of Legion.
It's what you were mentioning.
You're saving most of the money so that you get a buyout here,
It has left Rez without an AK. He's only got a D-Go for the time being. Oh, Hypex!
The point that he got that kill, because he burns away instantly after...
Say, a trade. Hypex and Sanicope. Blow for blow.
And then B.P. falls into the hands of Snacks.
Yeah, he just wants to make sure nobody's going to be able to recover it, give it over to Rez.
No, he didn't have a gun to be fired at the start of the round.
Just a D-Go.
The fortunate thing is, off that kill, there's no one taking space outside for Gamer Legion,
So they're happy to leave it as a point of danger and go elsewhere
Talcum might have a gift walk right into his crosshair BSM shadow show Silvus is the fight and PR goes two for one double kill
Ramp is wide open. Yeah, it's put them in the spot to try and get to map point here game a legend in 3v2 to close on
It's gonna be bigger zero and snow
To pull this one off together and then you're I mean you're kind of isolated
There's no way to really join up and watch everything you need to so snow is gonna tuck himself behind the box
Sorry about the wrong angle though.
Yay, it's easy kill for PR.
That's the third in the round for him.
Upper bombsite over Ron and Gamer Legion's offense
gets them up to 12.
Big Uzerra stepping up from secret stairs,
clearing out towards garage, but no one
no one going to offer up their life here for Gamer Legion.
They want to make sure they stabilize.
They keep three players up.
They don't have a huge amount of cash either,
so make sure you're buying the next round as as good as possible
to ensure you a chance to close out a 13-6 win on Nuke.
And I think Biggie Zera would have the knowledge as well that money's a little bit busted.
So, I mean, if you grab any exit kills, if they try and evacuate outside the yard,
Biggie Zera can, even out of a victory, do a lot of damage to Gamer Legion, but they go elsewhere.
Yeah, back in the way safely, all the way towards T-Spawn.
And we'll carry those weapons over.
High-pixel is AWP-backed, the rest are going to the AK-47.
But this is what you wanted to see from Gamer Legion, right?
You're going to see PR and Towson actually getting into the games, your rifling engine showing up at some point in this quarter-final.
It was so piece of pointing to see them play on the first map, but a big part of that, you have to say, was definitely the strong start.
The paint came out the gates absolutely swinging.
I did some time to actually get into the game here. Both Pissarals picked up the game.
Yeah, we didn't see that rifling. The rifling engines come online on Overpass for game religion because the individuals of paint shut them down in the openings,
You know pretty much every single time those first steps that felt like pain was always winning them the
Strength of game really done the first map was the high-packs clutches
Now you're starting to see those rifles provides of impact strong stands on the CT side now here able to find some picks and work
Themselves in a good situations
Yeah, that's gonna throw the confidence back into the mix here for game
Illusion as well when you come into the second map you get banged out on overpass usually a comfortable affair for you guys
You come into new can you stabilize and you show okay?
This this is the car so we've been playing over the last while more of what we expected to see out of them today as well
Coming into this was shocking to see them a little bit flat very quiet on overpass
So how many rounds are gonna take for them to close it out?
They got six chances to bring us to inferno as a third map to cider in these quarter finals
Snacks sitting on 25 KB right now
You guys on that
Definitely our money it's the upgrade
No one outside for Gamer Legion, safe looking for it.
Little gap in the smoke caused by the break. Sees nothing.
Gamer Legion lined up like they want to hit the upper bomb site.
VSM once again, back of the ramp. Is it a very quiet quarterfinal?
And he silenced again.
Highpacks to drop in, that's the opening at the ramp room.
And you're going to see Gamer Legion flood in.
Losing such an important part of the map so early in the round is going to feel you spread
thin if you're paying.
You've got to rotate the play it down lower.
Well Snow's going to wait over towards control side.
No indication yet that they're committing to this bombsite but Snow has no backup whatsoever.
There's the smoke to block his vision.
There's utility in to find a safe comfortable lower bombsite.
Get that bomb planted and it'll be a four on four retake period.
What's the challenge?
just be a nuisance for the moment and right now gamer legion trying to have a
conversation of how they want to handle this
yeah plant being locked through ball that's smacked down on the ground it's
got to be a fight for a retake just to stay alive a little bit longer snacks
doesn't want this to happen but he's going down it's tossing instead
They have couple in two, and taking Gamelige in two and Furno in safe 1v3.
The only player that can do anything about it, and he won't be denied.
Gamelige in bounce back, Hypeback stands up, that's more like it from Gamelige, and they will see map three.
It was the height of the 1960s, the space race was heating up and the wards were never
The Beach Boys and their hip-new genre of surf rock were about to burst onto the airwaves as Americans demanded the end of rock and roll.
It was an era for change, an era for elevation, an era of the brave.
North American Counter-Strike was alive and well with Cloud9 and Liquid featuring American made, Canadian supplemented iron.
iron. Brazilian Counter Strike was already in full swing and Scream found itself playing
alongside the French. It was the dawn, the early embers of the looming Astralis era,
but in the small manufacturing town of Oakland, a new miracle was about to take shape. NIP
signed newcomer Reds in the hopes that he could take the disgraced Nip Squad to new heights.
The only title that once a lustrous squad could still defend was in Oakland, the final
bastion of a bygone age.
Expectations were low, but morale could not have been higher.
The old kings of forest, get bright and exist, had a point to prove, but not even they could
have expected what happened next.
Frederick Sterner came into the event with Boogie's baffledest of the young Swedes'
inclusions.
unprepared to put their fate in someone so unproven,
unknowing, and uncertain.
These were the times.
He exploded into the event,
turning heads every step of the way.
It might have been the swinging 60s,
but all anyone was talking about
was the new hot up and comer.
An MVP performance like no other,
finishing as the top rated player
in the event who made the playoffs.
No one could keep up with him,
as Karagin, Niko,
and Guardian alongside Olafmeister would learn in the Grand Finals.
Forrest felt inspired by these performances and so in the final put forward his best performance yet.
The Ragtag team of Rez and Forrest are poking memories of better, brighter times in NIP's past.
In what was described as the greatest best of five final of all time,
NIP battled back against FaZe Clan in the Grand Finals.
A lesson they would surely remember. An experience they would never want to repeat.
Rez ended the event giving NIP their last ever trophy win.
A true visionary and true believer. And a new golden age for Swedish Counter-Strike.
I don't see you outside.
They went towards me I think.
I'm pushing ramp.
I'm gonna kill.
I don't see more. One more.
One more.
Chill, radio.
Don't die if you don't need to.
He went back.
I have him.
Nice.
10 seconds.
Get the getter.
and him break down this one.
This was an impressive, but necessarily fast back
for Gamble Legion.
Yeah, very much so.
Good to see Gamble Legion turning up
and playing the brand of Counter Strike
that we've seen so far throughout this tournament.
I was a little bit worried after the first map
where it felt a little bit lackluster
on the side of Gamble Legion,
but the instantly bounced back naturally helped
by winning the pistol, naturally helped
by winning all the key rounds of this game.
I think if you were to dissect it,
you could take round 14,
which we just saw a bit of a recap of as well.
Every single time, Gamble Legion were in a position
where they could lose control of the map,
they would win instantly the next key round.
And I think that was pretty telling for me
as to who were the better team here, Nuke.
I think there were some early warning signs, though,
for Game of the Lootry coming into this map.
You could see, I mean, what,
they were against full Glocks in 1-AK.
They gave complete ramp control,
and actually allowed just a free access 5-on-5 B-take.
You know, there were, I think, moments where you could tell
players were maybe shelling up a little bit
on that Game of the Lootry side,
but you could tell the prep work is there as well,
because they were trying to be very disruptive outside.
If you look at pain demos on this map,
constantly trying to work outside as a like pivotal points to get themselves into bomb sites. And once
they start to get locked down because snacks was trying to be disruptive or getting some support from
Rez, it did feel as though they ran out of options because then they have to run into PR who also
had a fantastic game. And that's the thing, right? For game legion, we were praising it so much in
the group stage, the preparation, as you alluded to, you knew, right? I think the perfect example
of that was against Navi on their kind of hometown of ancient, seeing them being able to put in some
some of that preparation actually into practice and execute it perfectly.
That was really nice to see.
Super, super nice, you know, and it's again, it's a team effort.
It's not necessarily about one player popping off or one player doming.
His area of the map then opens up for the rest of them.
I think the prep goes without saying that when you have a team who's all buying into it,
it works much, much better.
This time around, we speak about PR bouncing back, having a great game.
Speak about Tau-san as well.
A player we haven't mentioned, you know, at any point throughout this game so far,
also finding an incredible amount of impact.
Even Snacks had a bit of a Snacks of 2017 moment with the AK47 in the yard and was just tapping away and feeling like the best player on the server.
So one thing is the preparation, but it's more so the entire team buying into it and the victory or sort of like the impact can come from a lot of different directions.
Yeah, and I think when players start to find that success, you can tell the fire just starts roaring for the Gamer Legion side,
which is absolutely necessary because, I mean, they say on the Caspi, said on the desk,
it's just a flat start from Gamer Legion coming into the series.
I think the real problem now for pain is that listen if the two if thousand and PR the guys have start stepping up
You're moving into a map where anchors actually are really pivotal and both those guys are on separate bombsites
There there will be no weak side a 100%
I mean let's bring up some of those PR highlights so we can kind of bask in them right
I'm curious as to your perspective you me obviously when PR was kind of coming on to the scene for game in Legion
Everybody was telling him it's like the next big thing obviously
We don't know what happened with some of the rumour transfers over some of those off periods
But in terms of PR delivery in this map, obviously instrumental, but just overall, do you feel like you want a little bit more of this version of PR more consistent?
I just think coming into this year because of all the rumors, and I think there probably was something happening in the back end, once that fell through, he started this year pretty terribly.
He didn't get the impact you wanted. You saw him fumble, make bad decisions very frequently.
I think this event, and maybe the event fryer as well, I'm starting to see that resurgence
in form from him, and I think he's regained his composure.
Actually I liken his career kind of similar to Lawn X on foot, where once upon a time
he was on Sprout, really big prospect that I think his transfer got blocked on that
team, and then he started to see the deterioration of his performance as well.
But we see how mature he is now, and how much of an impact player he is now.
So in terms of career arts, maybe those two have some parallels to them.
I can't remember whether it was a quote or a tweet coming out of PR, when he was saying,
you know, you hear certain things happening, rumored to be you, and it doesn't come to
a version like, ouch, that must hurt.
Yeah, I think he was put at this point, you know, because also the prospect of gamer
leaving that point, you know, losing Ash as a coach, the entire team, not really sure
what direction they were going at.
I think PR were looking on his way out, so to speak, so I can, I can somewhat understand
why it took him a bit of time to get into the groove again, and why it took him a bit
of time to maybe believe that the gamer legion project was one that he needed to buy into,
But he's also instrumental into their success.
We saw in the beginning of the year
when he was struggling,
Game Religion is struggling.
He's the player that has involved the most in opening duels.
He's the most explosive player on the server as well
whenever he's on the team.
So I think PR playing well
and PR believing in Game Religion,
that was the most important task Snacks had to do
when he came into the lineup.
So that's always been the difficulty
for a team of Game Religion's caliber.
It's that they've kind of floated within this sort of
10 to 20 bracket rankings
where they never seem to be able to punch that much higher up.
You maybe get a playoff appearance every now and again
you think, oh, maybe this could be the moment. But if you see the team is not being able
to make that progress, then if you start getting offers, if you, those rumor transfers
do actually happen, then, yeah, of course, you're kind of hoping that you can escape
a stable ship, I suppose. Yeah, let's go back to the first half of this
one, the CT side for game legion. What have you picked out for us?
I mean, this was just a moment that I thought the game started to shift because the, it
felt like the options were drying up for the pain side. When you, when you have, you know,
this is the moment where snacks actually creates some chaos towards outside. And I did note
it as a pivotal point for for this pain gaming roster because you see them take a lot of
dry fights. They try to flash through smokes. They try to be tricky. And if we're going to
attribute anything about snacks, he is tricky. Once this wall goes down, because pain had
actually been looking for these later timings in the half, we had seen previously snacks
trying to play around the red box and then got picked off by the player on top side.
this time he played in garage and once that second wall comes down he just lines himself up in a position and just as that
Spill Blooms two headshots instantly
But this was the next part of the equation is that when they lose outside
That is the response from pain is that they start hunting and searching either towards ramp and hut and hypex already had an advanced position
So I mean I just think this is a really well put together around in and I think they identified as well that pain
We're playing with the same pace that they've had in some of their previous games
Also the moment in the game where they took control of it
You know in the beginning it was back and forth.
Game of Legion definitely had a couple of rounds
that could have slipped out of their hands.
But at this point you win this one,
you put the economy into the bend, you go up six to four,
you then move into the second half,
you win the pistol round, you convert,
you're now leading 10 to four.
And then as I said, round 14 to me, that was the breaking point.
You have a 2v1, you had the pain gaming
with upgraded pistols, you know, forcing their way into the game.
That was the last chance they had of, I guess,
remaining competitive to some degree.
And it was just every time there was a key round in this game,
it would side the way of Game of Legion.
and that's why we never really got a close-out or a tense game.
Well, it is the deciding map. That is going to be inside out, gentlemen.
Quick thoughts. Where do you think this one is going?
I'm still leaning towards Game of Legion.
I think the stability they've shown throughout this tournament, for me,
is what's going to give them the edge on Inferno.
I also see them play well and play very aggressive.
We've been speaking to Janko about it a couple of times.
The T-Side pace coming out for Game of Legion
is something that's tough to deal with, if you're paying, I suppose.
I can't see why it shouldn't be competitive,
but if I had to lean one side or another, I'd go with Game of Legion.
My eyes are just on period. You can't have an insane first map and then just be okay for the rest of the series
He's gonna be important as well. He's the appartments player. He's he's he has to create that chaos
Well, a very exciting third map does away
But not before we had things to a short break when we return
It's inferno between pain and game allegiance is a side who is heading to the semis here in Atlanta
I welcome to the Jason Rogan experience as a man obviously who's very obsessed with
with what he puts into his body being that my body is a temple I'm excited to have you
here because we obviously get to talk to someone who's been so good in terms of not aging yeah
How have you managed to stay so long as the young veteran?
I mean, I think I do.
I put a lot of effort in my health and keep my face really young as it is.
I can tell. Yeah.
So I think a big part of it is probably my my resident here in Sweden,
living in Sweden, trying to stay away from the sunlight as much as possible.
Yeah. Staying indoors, playing a lot online tournaments.
Like I I don't I don't try to go out ever almost.
I stay inside, keep away from the sun to keep myself young.
It's it's initially strategy to because a lot of people try and qualify to stay in more events and go deeper in tournaments
But you're sitting there like you can you can lengthen your career if you just don't go deep into the playoffs
Yeah, I don't understand like why people don't focus more on this like yeah
It's like the most important thing in life
I think you're looking young and they're put a lot of mileage on their bodies mileage or you obviously don't have to carry with you
Which is great. Yeah, yeah, I think this is the most important part of me
Like this is what this finds me
Can we talk about diet a little bit because out here in Sweden obviously you guys have you guys have this beautiful land and I've
known for known for your known for your mousse meat. That's an important point actually. I think
I usually log on weekends for after we play our online qualifiers. I used to go out hunting
with my friends. That's a big part of like keeping my body as it is. Right now talk to me a little
bit about the whole the whole fish thing. You guys have this this this fermented fish. I imagine
that has to do something with keeping the skin clear all that fish oil. You don't even take a
supplement. You just you just get it right from the can. No, I go to the sea. Oh really? Yes,
I fish straight from the source, you know, and I eat it raw.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, that's perfect.
Okay.
That's how I like it.
Now, I would say like for me, have you ever looked into like stem cells?
So for me, like I'm a really a big fan, a big proponent of stem cells,
I'm a big proponent of the ice bath in the morning.
You're talking about the moose meat.
I've had that as well.
All of this seems to just do great stuff for keeping the longevity of how you're looking young,
which is something that you've been able to accomplish.
Stem cells, I don't believe in that that much.
I would say, I would say it's probably just the the Swedish atmosphere is all you need.
Now, one thing that I've heard that this has been a little bit of a conspiracy,
but I wanted to talk to you about it. You've been and you were in the NIP roster for so long,
while Swedish Counter-Strike was struggling to bring in new players and new people.
Now, I've heard that there's that you have some kind of a thing going on where you actually kind
of take the power, the life force of the younger Swedish players coming up to the scene to make
yourself a little bit more powerful and longevity like I want to play with young
players I try to always the first thing I look at when I get a new young projie
in my team is like how do they keep themselves young and if you take that
away from them then all of a sudden you will get a brief all the rewards yeah of
course that's the I think that's the point of everything and for my care well
that's beautiful I think you've done a great job thank you keep going keep it
up stay young I will
Play Jason Small Game Experience.
Counter-Strike by Dane. Jason Broke in podcast by Night.
Welcome back to the Intalk.
Tree Masters Atlanta were ready for the third and final map.
Payne vs. Game of Leechin. Two one-sided affairs in the first two maps in play,
but we're hoping Inferno can deliver.
One-sided affairs, Panzeke and Gamer Legion's map pick 13-6.
Gamer Legion giving it right back, taking Nuke 13-6 as well.
Inferno, one of the best deciding maps we've gotten. Counter-Strike will be the landscape for this final battle.
Winner goes on to the semi-finals, their opponents await them.
For paying you've had Peria, your star player of the event, stepping up, performing well, delivering for you on this stage.
For Gamer Legion, it's been Hypex who showed up on map 1.
It's been the Riflers at PR and Towson who brought things all together.
Snacks at the helm takes those pieces to see if he can find his way into the semifinals of Atlanta.
One final matchup, one final battle on Inferno.
We have all come together here in Atlanta to kick off the playoffs.
The last map of the first quarter finals.
Georgia, you've been so loud, you seem to be so great throughout this one.
Make some noise for map number three.
It's in Fondo, and we hope they will deliver.
This is around as live.
We're going clean if we're GamerLegion.
No utility.
Armor and pistols across the board.
On the other side, they've got tons of nades.
Everyone's got nades.
They've got so many options, but GamerLegion's
to push right down the throat.
Yeah, Rez goes in.
Yeah, that's a good start.
We've been waiting for Rez to show up in this quarterfinal
to the level that we've seen from him recently,
and this is more like it.
Rez running down mid.
Three kills picked up in this pistol,
and Gamer Legion have picked up where they left off
over on Nuke.
Damn, well, that's a statement in the pistol round.
Gamer Legion not going to sit back
on their heels, setting the tone early.
A very strong mid-push powered by Rez.
Payne had no chance. They brought four players into that with Nades, and all of them get taken down.
They're not going to use any of it.
Never spotting the push. This comes in so fast before they can even react.
When we talked about how Payne couldn't get into the game over on Luke because they lost both Pisterons,
he didn't have those strong stars that they had on Overpass, which seemed to prove so important for them.
Well, I'm going to do the hard part again here with Inferno.
You're going to be starting slow on T side.
Most of the heavy lifting needs to be done, obviously,
in these gun rounds that are coming up.
But this gives GamerLegion a 2-0 start.
Yeah, nice way to kick things off and see
if you can build up a little bit of money.
Now, on Nuke, they kind of had a hiccup, right?
They lost three players in this round,
made the buys a little sketchy, took a while for that CT
side to get the economy back up.
But here on Inferno, it's looking like they're
having no issues whatsoever.
Me on Nuke we started talking about how PR and Towson showed up right to the rifle as you really want to see perform
If you add res into the mix with the start map then obviously game religion go up a level
Yeah, very strong looking defense
Especially when you consider you know like
Overpass the first map of the series one of the great strengths the pain was individually. They were they were stronger
They were better. They were sharper that that all switched on overpass everything kind of changed now
feels like gamer legion individuals have hit a level and pain has sort of faded away
seeing gamer legion play this map twice at this event against sinners the 13 to 9 win against
navi a 4 to 13 loss pain on the other hand i haven't had to play this map this week this is their
first time in some time that they'll be seeing Inferno. Guns are out. AK-47s for everyone
on pain. Early utility exchange in Banana. Looks like the defense, they're gonna challenge
at least for the top portion of it. Snow spots the jump. Not sure about the push. There it
This counter flash is just better.
And Payne take a one man advantage, five on four.
Yeah, take a lot of damage, but...
folding the extra player for the time being here for Payne.
They're very far back. I mean, happy to take this man advantage.
Man advantage though and start moving into the mid-round.
Utility to take bracket control.
control, left side mid smoked off, Molotov to force back any defenders.
Towson just standing behind him and not forced too far away.
Snacks, the point man on this B defense.
Bigger Zera burning, further damage done.
Look at the read from Gamer Legion, Snacks is gonna go confirm it as well.
Flashbang is out, good fire from Snow.
Yeah, second kill though for pain gaming, so you may have the read,
You may know what's coming at you, but handling it is a whole different ball game.
You won't expect two more defenders behind snacks here.
You thought maybe that's the second player, but Rez has arrived and Hypex is here.
Rez out, new box, Hypex behind Smoke.
So it has to be Rez out first, takes that kill on safe.
Not gonna be fouled though, he's 29 HP, eventually removed.
Hypex sending shots down through that Smoke.
Couple low HP players, but that bomb plant not denied.
It will go down in pain gaming now.
The post plant in which they have a player advantage.
Yeah, but low HP, unconfirmed unfortunately,
But if Talcyn can find some clean looks, you might be able to get a quick double.
Now you want some utility to force them out of these positions, but they've only got a single flash, right?
You can't even block Banana.
So this is a strong pain set up in the post-plant, having three players and a triangle of death.
Yeah, and they didn't give any peeks. Talcyn was given some footsteps,
tried to bait somebody out with the Flashbang Ushas, but nobody actually peeked with it.
Big use there in Snow.
Stay tucked in. One kill on the exit.
And Gamer League is going to be happy to sink away after that to keep the two M4s in hand.
First round for Payne on the board here on Inferno.
Big bizarre dives in the bomb blast, only a single player survives in this round for Payne,
but they'll be happy to get the round on the board.
But that damage is more important than you might think at first,
because there's not a huge amount of money here for Payne,
so it's not like you can dive the bomb and immediately reinvest in absolutely everything you want.
You're going to take some hits, you're going to have to go to Khalil to get some extra utility.
Yeah, we're in that phase of the game where both teams are trying to be the first ones to settle things down
comfortable with the situation that they're in.
This round means everything to both squads.
And Gamerlige are definitely in the better spot when it comes to the buy here.
They've got the AWP out. Everybody's got a premium rifle and plenty of utility.
Yeah, two kits as well for the CT side.
Gamerlige not in the bad place.
They use their VSM are moving up the middle of the map very quickly without slowing down.
Towson wants to get aggressive behind the Molotov.
Yes, this worked out well. His period falls off the ledge.
Towson gets into a position without Molotov.
Thought it cleared it out
Talcin and high-packs open things up here for game a leech and damage done to snow and
Hard to see a world in which pain gaming now pulled us back
Yeah, it feels like too easy to kill to give away if you're big use there
I think trying to spam through the smoke to catch the player retreating
But meets the op on the other side as he blows a hole in the smoke
And now all that you have left if your VSM snow and safe is this hit towards the B bomb site
See if you can get lucky
We got PR sliding into the site, going to be played towards the darkness.
Safe, jumping, South Q made, going into a CT spawn.
Snacks are going to move out, but he's got that information over to his teammates who are ready for that CT fight.
Yeah, this is where you back away. This is where VSM and Snow saved.
There's really no more success you can have here.
VSM got that calm just a little bit too late as Snow steps out of the angle.
And you're gonna have 35 seconds here alone if you're snowed.
It's not running away, he's staying committed towards the site.
I know next round is gonna be a low buy regardless, so snow give it a go, and he won't die at
the hand of PR, so no falling back, no saving, and Payne Gaming's money reset.
Yeah, Game Religion looking rock solid at the start.
Took that one round loss, that little hiccup, but this is a very strong victory in response
to it.
Yeah, should be a 4-1 lead off the back. But this is a great move from Talson because that Molotov goes in.
You think it's clear. You don't expect Talson to be in this spot, but he found a little bit of sanctuary.
And just being in that area so quickly after the flames fade away, you just get surprised if you're paying.
Important to note is that he missed the jump when the Molotov was still burning, so he had to come back to it.
So his own mistake causes his death. We'll give it to him.
Talson going to be chilling at top middle. He's here with Res and Hypex on wrap side.
Yeah, here we are going to play with just the Deagle.
So that's the only thing worth talking about in the round for pain, and even that is not
going to lead to anything magical you would imagine.
So, 4-1 up for a Game of Legion.
There is a world in which this just is another one-sided victory in favor of Game of Legion.
If you're paining, you win the first map, 13-6 on the Game of Legion's map pig.
To me, it felt like the draw needed to be done on map 2, right?
You get that start, and then you come into Nuke, but the way they lost that second map
is really disappointing and it's tough to see how they're going to get back into the series now,
especially with the start that Game of Legends are having on Inferno.
Well, Game of Legends right now are playing a game of Counter Strike where it feels like
they're not taking a whole lot of risks, right? Like, they're kind of staying far back. They had
that mid-push in the pistol round, but in these gun rounds, staying far back, not doing anything too
crazy. I think they're in a position where they're like, all right, Payne, show us that you can take
the initiative. You can be the ones to make the move, that your T side can break down the defense,
and we'll see if we have to switch things up. But they're really happy to just play kind of
pretty basic counter-strike and come out on top.
Hypex gonna get challenged here, snaps up to Bidjouzera on the boost, spots a few
more.
Uh-oh! Oh, PSM's Deagle's erupted, Hypex and snacks both dead that opens up the
beast side, more pressure on the sole defender in PR. Yeah and actually Resin
Towson are frozen right now, they have no response to this, they don't know if
it's gonna finish PR saying they're all here so it's all on you 1v3 a shrouds
himself in darkness PR with the AK is the light for game
they march to the deaths inside of the B-bomb site and the 4-1 leaders there so
the pistols they break open as a chance next to VSM but in reality it comes
crashing down upon them they put them in the dangerous situation as well where
they weren't sure exactly how to handle things they should push down middle
deal with CT spawn. Right between the wickets. This is a VSM making that Eagle
work. Great shots. All flashes of what VSM is capable of. I haven't shown it in
this series yet, but there's a little glimpses of what we know he can do.
Yeah, it's not without impact either, right? Limit the money of Gamer Legion.
Keep them as low as humanly possible for when you can start building some momentum.
Pain still looking for an initial recipe for success on these Inferno rounds.
No banana control, no banana presence this time.
And because of that, Hypex is going to take a deeper angle.
I think that's the way speed comes in. Shot goes between the legs.
Minute left of the clock, utility being thrown in towards the A site.
The long smoke is just fading. They toss him out to cover off the front of
library but there's a push coming in res taking the risk stepping in front of it
for information and then falls back when he sees no one progressing this
that's a brutal like shot to take snow brought down to 20 HP and he's the guy
who wants to be aggressive to take in some space and be aggressive and assert
of towards the B bombsite up banana but with that limited HP VSM's got a slide
into the roll period unsafe coming back to join him with the bomb so big use
there is going to try and be a fake and nuisance a lurk to wrap through CT
spot on the tail end yeah we'll see if they even need a rotation or if this
Defense is going to be strong enough because Zara has been spotted. I don't think he realizes it either look how rapidly
Rez is communicating that because they're looking towards library Rez is so ready because they're a dad now the defenses are freed up on this
Beep on site ready, but it's high-packs missing a shot and they flood into the site so the plant is coming through
It's trying to night is PR through the smoke
They both dead bomb is planted
But VSM and Snow are now in a 2v4 and Snacks comes up to Banana.
It's all on VSM. We speak of potential, but no chance to show it here.
It's going to be around for Gamer Legion 5-1 up, and PR is handling business on this B site.
Yeah, I mean, just rock solid from Gamer Legion.
And then this round, we're losing to one player as well.
Like, Pane just cannot find the kills.
Hypex was left alone in the B bomb site.
This play from PR is a thing of beauty.
I was surprised they didn't have more presence inside the site considering it felt like they knew what was coming
But dropping the Molotov spamming them down obviously does the job great
And that turns it into an easy retake as there's no position safe for the pain players inside the bomb site
And you force them into a timeout. Oh, there's just not enough money to get a good buy out again here
It's such a rough situation in this first half for pain. They're in such a deep hole
They've got to pull themselves out of yeah, I'll tell you what it feels like at the moment the economy is the least of their worries
having so many issues tactically not able to find ways to challenge and
aggress the B-bombsite earlier. Haven't been able to really push up banana and
get any of those fights, find an open and kill, snow or VSM and banana at the
start of rounds. Up bait hasn't really worked for you. We've got to find an NA
player of sorts, I suppose. He's coming into the playoffs here in Atlanta. You know it
snacks is one of the ones I take as well. I'm with you.
He plays with that entertaining style.
We've got Hypex going down into the peak at mid.
Got a little bit of a charge up with Payne sending players in the second middle, marching towards A.
Taking a pause now as they want to set players up into the balcony into the apartments.
Snow among them.
And Taliesin was peeking early for information, but drops back to play from balcony,
keeping some range against what is likely to be lower tier weapons.
These rounds popular strategy get it get a few of the tech nines and max ends up in halls and do a halls pop
It almost feels like pain is playing with that idea at the moment
Gonna show some utility as if it will be a halls pop, but most of the force is gonna be coming up lane
Yeah, well, they're all coming up short now. It's house in
Spraying away taking a while but not getting anything
Well, this has to help his offering sort of the site gives time for high-packs to ready himself
But it has to be rising. He's done well. He's got himself three kills in that defense a ten and two scoreline right now from rice
But now Snow left alone and the push is coming forward.
He got that info just in time and then fall away.
So a 2v1.
Snow doesn't have the information of the second player.
He uses a smoke perfectly to block out Longside again.
But Snow feels paranoid.
He feels claustrophobic inside of the site,
going out into the open.
Side of the smoke, sideline, snacks.
And now Snow against BR.
And BR's been so great on Inferno so far.
But Snow has to win it.
And he buzzed. They needed someone to show up, and it snowed the lands on top.
They picked up this guy to be someone who come create moments like that.
When moments for you, the talent he showed as a young kid inside the Brazilian scene.
It's taken a long time to get some of it realized. That's a lovely clutch at a critical moment.
Yeah, you need to make this the turning point though, right?
That has to be the catalyst that gets this first half underway.
I'll tell you what, snacks really foreshadowed this play though.
Exactly what he wanted was exactly on his mind that second smoke create him another avenue
But snow use it back in his favor use it against snacks knowing what was coming
Well clutch is gonna fire paying up, but can they run with it now an AWP for safe AK's out among the rise plenty of utility
And you see how quick that timeout comes in as well from game illusion when they lose that clutch
They want to make sure they stifle this before it even gets going
Yeah, money's in an odd place for them
So certainly don't want to deal with the consequences of losing two in a row
And if you're paying you got to feel like that's the moment. This is the one you have to seize
Combine rounds together potentially break the money find yourself so easy back avenue back in to competing for this third map
Hypex waits at top middle
I'll block it with a smoke
Oh, I like this from paying getting into the smoke looking to burst through hypex is in position where he's getting overwhelmed
and he's not careful, and he doesn't have help, and that's exactly what he's got.
Rez makes sure that the trades come in and he doubles up for the same spot.
Now, period, a walk out of boiler, but Rez is not moved.
Rez is ready, and Rez has got the rest.
And so there is no chance to build upon the clutch of Snow.
Safe marches off to save his AWP, and Rez has answered immediately.
A 13-2 performance from Rez on Inferno,
And it's 6-2 lead right now for Game of Leagy.
Yeah, that round was all decided. That is a strategy played.
To just say, we might win it on this play, but when they're combined, when there's a crossfire up top,
so much attention towards the AWP and Hypex understandably, and Rez just doubles you off.
He's been brutal.
Destroying pain throughout this map.
Good adjustment for Hypex. Second flash is perfect, and Rez first takes down the player meant to eliminate him.
VSM can't get it done so Rez is able to have a double up easy double kill.
Safe ult. Still in play, still intact.
But it must be the shining light of the round if anything is to happen here for paint.
Hypex waiting at top middle, a challenge coming this way, flashes up so Hypex will fall off the angle.
That was fast off the flash. He's locked in.
Goes out. Look at that PR catches safe back there.
That's the opt on. It forced a bigger zero instead.
You assume there's going to be some safety there
when you show the op having that angle.
So that's quite a risk for PR, but obviously comes out on top.
Yeah, now you've got Hypex is at all the time of the world
to reposition back into the library.
Thank you, Sarah.
Might feel like he needs to overextend the overly aggressive
with this off to make a play to create the opening for his team.
So Hypex might get a chance.
See if they can bit out the shot here so they can get past the angle.
Hypex is gonna start throwing some utility down trying to heat things up.
Biguzera does get into the flames. He takes the risk but he's not able to capitalize.
Yeah, but he's out. He actually has Hypex pinned down. He's not gonna want to peek again.
Right. He goes again anyway. Good flash and runs again.
Supporting not only with kills but with utility.
He's delivering impact but he's gone now. Here he has dropped it.
He's got another, but Hypeback's still here, still a threat, but a miss shot.
If they run right past him, he has to deliver something, but it's miss shot after miss shot
and relies upon the rifles to help him and bail him out.
But they will be the game religion hold on.
We mentioned it's a different team when the rifler show up for game religion.
We've talked a lot about Rez, now PR arriving in the exact perfect moment
because Hypebacks is about to get overrun.
He's got no real options with that AWP in this scenario
until PR buys him that extra time.
Gamer legion starting to fire on all cylinders. It's a 7-2 lead. Five rounds ahead of Payne.
Full control right now, Gamer legion.
We still haven't seen Payne ever like work up the motivation to go challenge for Banana with any sort of aggressive nature. Hyper aggressive.
aggressive like no one's trying to scale towards half while no one's trying to turn the corner and pressure these B defenders
Well, it seems like game religion think this might be the round because they position high packs over here for the opening
They're looking for that change up. This is with the second or third time
We've seen him start here in this position
So I mean they're looking for that moment when pain decides to actually aggressively take banana, but it's not coming
Yeah, the game plan very much about avoiding it looking towards a even after that snow clutch right there the idea and the follow-up
I also try and burst through the top mid smokes
It's not been working here for pain gaming and snow getting taken down
You got Towson with an easy kill towards period none of these kills being challenged back from pain
So it's a shut down for gaming leech and making it look easy
The bigger Zara the only player left has to try and watch up now
He has actually done very well to get this into a 1v2 all of a sudden
So big who's error out of nowhere and can it be another clutch on the site?
He's gonna be trapped inside the bomb site nowhere. He can go high backs hasn't locked in
He knows. See there, he goes big or they go home.
Inside of the site, worried about the short push coming in.
Biguzera, crosshair, chopping and changing, trying to catch the right timing.
But he knows he's coward in the corner, he has nowhere, no idea where they are.
No one to hide, nowhere to run, and Hypex takes them down on the first chance.
It's a nice try for Biguzera, three great kills on the site.
But in the end, it's Game of Leech and pushing themselves up to eight rounds
and looking to push Payne out of the competition.
Yeah, it was all desperation. It is nice to make that doable
and a good look to get those couple of kills to put yourself in a 1v2,
but it's starting to get sloppy and disorganized from the Payne side.
Going down, flusin' two players before the execute even begins.
And there's no chance of its success at that point.
And it's sad to see, I mean, we were so positive about Payne coming into the tournament, right?
But it seems like they've lost control of it now.
It almost feels like they might have done one of the classic where they almost
felt like they prepped so hard for overpass to look so good there to
understand what Gamer Legion was doing knowing it was going to be a pick that
the other maps maybe didn't get as much love or don't have as much focus and
game plan built into them specifically for this matchup either way. Also helped
that period was having a roster game on that first map he has not been able to
keep that up obviously. Yeah without that life game it feels like there's been
very little production on this T side only two opening kills in the ten
rounds of play on Inferno so far. One from Snow, one from Peria.
Eight to two lead for Gameligian. Pain half to win the next two rounds here, otherwise this is done.
Yeah, they need some room to work with in the second half, don't they? Let's see what they can get.
Snow gets... Yeah, but still not super aggressive about it.
Counter utility is going to force the defense back immediately, not winning the best. Here we go.
Yeah, through the fire though. They're going to be slowed down, so good response of utility for Gameligian.
Keeps paying back for now.
Oh, that's a huge nade on a snow's position.
Down to 18 health.
And further utility about to fly through the sky as well.
We got PR stepping out, clearing top cart.
And hold FN out of control.
You're fought for.
If you pay, just be taken right back by David Leagin.
And still very, very low.
At least some shots being sent back to PR.
Piyama had to switch positions with Rez with his low health, so okay.
Looking for a little play through the smoke, a boost up over the top, snacks.
Looking for anything.
And Panes on the other side just tucked against the wall, barely missing the information.
Oh, snacks. Here they go, under the open. Snacks is taken two.
Of course he has.
Bomb spills, 30 seconds left.
PR is very low inside the bomb site.
He is not really any kind of resistance to speak about.
PR earlier in the half delivered a big free kick from here against pistols,
but this time against the rifles, but they don't check him!
And that was a free kill. PR is very disappointed and frustrated about that,
but high-packs at least getting one kill back.
You've got VSM on 12 HP, this retake extremely doable.
We'll see game of leeches banana fight. This is everything for period not to give up his life do not leave the SM alone a 12 HP
Peria taking damage, but not the kill
Still trying to fight Towson still trying to win this fight and he's picked it up
Oh, yeah, Sam's got the headshot and all of a sudden it's rise alone
He's got the 1v1 though, and now he's on the stick
And surely that is it!
He's got to be getting the call from Towson saying he's low.
He's done damage, low HP, red and banana.
And Rez takes that information and saying he's going to want to play the second one.
He's not going to swing here with this HP too early in the bomb timer for it.
Okay, Rez. He's just having a great game right now.
14 and 4.
Clutches like that. Yeah, Towson jumped it up.
The jump was a little crazy. Wanted some information.
I think just swing for the fight in that kind of scenario.
Both players are running low on ammunition.
Should end it really. That defuse and rise should cut this short to pay.
Mades down Banana, bigger Zera getting battered. Down to 52 health.
You get a BR up on half wall. ESM's ready for it this time. You can't try that two rounds in a row.
Snacks come double from it in the last one.
BR gonna be punished. Snacks trying to fight at least getting one kill here but
a lot weaker on the defense for game at least from that B-size. Wide open now.
Yeah, there wasn't the time to shift a third player over so now those losses are really really painful defense arriving just now
But they've already made their way into the site extra damage with utility. Yeah, because they're barely alive
Five HP left on bigger Zara. Yeah, religion's been good in these scenarios
Now they have been utility get a commit a swap try and make that plant a little more difficult
But safe has just enough health to make it possible
But this time on the retake they've got some uter right they can isolate the banana player throwing the smoke in
But they're getting blocked at CT, so the utility comes in at the right time for Payne.
Yeah, they're just gonna have to pick this up, I think, and stream out relatively quickly.
Can't wait for these smokes to fade.
Did you have kits, and here comes the retake.
Yeah, well, they're forcing Snow to take an open fight, but he's found some cover.
Good movement from Snow to stay alive in it.
And a third round is gonna be squeezed out from Payne.
It doesn't look like it's gonna be enough.
Gamer leeching definitely in the position to move through this quarterfinal.
Legacy awaits in the semi-final, the winner of this quarter final that will meet them
tomorrow. Currently watching their
countrymen struggle and labor through
the series and could map one but
disappeared on Nuke and haven't yet found
themselves on Inferno. One final round
they managed to scrape together right at
the tail end of the first half to give
themselves what breathing room they can
but it's backs against the wall for
pain-facing elimination three to nine
and a huge comeback required as they
switch out of the defensive side of
Inferno. It's tough to see a world in
which this is going to happen for
They have positive starts at the tournament, but looking to be a disappointing end.
Towson, waiting at the barrels for that first peek, because Zera will provide it, but no headshot from either player.
Just a little bit of information as Gamer Legion slowly creeps along the back, map a default spread.
Seeing what they can find, seeing what information they can glean from whatever set-ups Pan is playing.
And they're going to fight for this banana control as well.
They see the two players.
Flashbang is held by VSM over at Coffins.
They'll activate shortly.
As soon as they sense Gamerlugin turning the corner.
Because they're up going into the peak and then falling back again.
They've got the info.
They know they're coming, but you have to deal with these kills and Snowtank doing.
Rez takes him away.
Opening kill here for Gamerlugin.
Oh my lord, this is...
Look at this.
Yeah, and this is gonna...
I'll be surprised if they execute up this.
I almost feel like if you wait a little bit longer, you can buy time for PR.
He's found the locker, landing the shots, not getting the kill.
We'll find it.
All right, finally, PR.
I made a meal of it, but it eventually takes it.
So a snack.
Hytex has killed his own in-game leader, and then Big Uzzaro's got away with one.
It seems like he's probably got through banana, because look, it's safe.
Coming in a little bit late.
Big Uzzaro is good enough to keep his team in this, but safe is the man that looks like
It's like he's gonna win it, and then Hypex spins.
Fakes the plant, pulls him in.
Oh, another clutch for Hypex!
Yeah, another one for him.
And look at the attitude when he wins them.
Zajabru back to map one.
He was clutching all over the place on Overpass.
That was the only shining light.
He gets another one here on the pistol.
He has shades of that Overpass clutch too, right?
Where he catches the headshot just as big as Zara.
He's jumping back around the corner.
He doesn't even, Biggie's here doesn't want the fight.
He wants to see if he's sticking the plant.
What a disgustingly fast shot from Hypex.
Let's see it again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was just about to get around that corner.
And that might just be the final man
getting hammered into this coffin.
Pain gaming going for a force bite.
You have to.
But it's on the wrong side of the map.
They have an aggressive force bite.
They want a stack banana to take advantage
of any presence there.
With no one home, they're gonna pick up the paces.
Now, this has been an issue for GamerLegion taking too long for their tactics to come to fruition,
but they might speed this up.
They're not doing anything else on the map.
You might as well just go now, and Snax is going to find this push.
He's got the information at least.
He'll call that over to his teammates.
Hypebox will adjust himself, but they're losing members rapidly.
Rez at least sending a shot back.
The GamerLegion are going to get funneled out through the balcony,
but plenty of players ready to meet them.
It's got to be Rez who's in a stronger spot inside of Pit, but he gets overrun.
PSM gets to the side and sidelines Rez.
And they have to land upon his head, but it's not gonna be enough to drop him
So once again you ask high-packs to deliver for game of leaching bomb is dropped in pit though
So they have to finish you they have to win these fights, but at least that kill will even things out
Towson and high-packs trying to bring down vs. M and bigger is there a must win clutch for pain
lose this and you should be out of Atlanta
PSM waits in the smoke, not always about to peek, he's given the peek, but Towson can't
take the kill, so once again, Hypex in the clutch.
There's no way, surely no way, not this one.
It's gonna be so tough to force them into fights.
This is the first chance, waiting for the peek out from the paint.
He knows the positions, he just can't get into the engagements he's looking for, so
Payne Gaming, what a force bite, keeps the minute.
That's a spectacular round.
I mean, a great push down Banana,
Snats gets caught completely off guard.
Those are things that have worked for you
in the past back on map one.
Even a little bit on Nuke.
It's the shot with the scout
that really seals that into a dangerous round.
Picking one off just as they jump out of the halls.
That's the thing of beauty.
By the skin of their teeth, Payne survived.
Force a second time out out of Gamer
Legion to talk things over. A 10 to 4 advantage. The pain is thrown a spatter in the works.
Now you've got to be concerned about a comeback. Much more within striking distance now that
the guns and the money has been taken away. The Game of Legion looked to challenge here
again in round 15. Buy up everything they can. Fully invested. You've got to go on
Pistols and armor on the rest of the players. Very light on utility. So Gamer Legion's decision
in this round is going to rely a lot on what this Galil can provide. Then they can't create
opportunities for it.
Yeah, you don't often say hero Galil do you, so...
I'm actually surprised that they're buying here, but they're going to have to save and
the next one is their line of thinking with the losing bonus the way it is.
Well, let's see if they can surprise you again.
Maybe do something with this.
For pain, they've got snow all the way down Banana, he'll play at the logs.
Always getting you into a good enough spot to kick off the round.
Game religion.
Start to move out through top mid.
Snack's gonna be taken down through the smoke.
I mean there's really nothing you can do which is part of the reason why I'm scratching my head.
I don't think there's any kind of significant game plan you're going to fashion with this buy and two smokes the whole time.
Haven't even used the utility yet. You're relying to get a kill or two first before you put those smokes into place.
Under a minute left. Saif is going to get flashed into the peek. He even eats a bit of that flashbang himself.
So, Gaman is going to have the angle. Saif again getting caught by the flashbang.
They're just trying to fend them off and he's doing a decent job at that.
until traded by Towson. Here's the flight from Snow.
He got that early position, but even that's now being detected.
But what can you actually do with 30 seconds left?
Game religion starts to move in. Peri is still in a strong position in pain.
PSM's headshot rings out, Peri uses for distraction to be effective in cleaning up the rest.
And the MP9 rings out, makes some money, and a fifth round here for Pan Gaming.
Yeah, now we'll just see a full blown save for the game religion side of things.
And the problem now is that the gap is going to close even further.
So we're looking at the likelihood of 6-10 for Payne
Going into the next by-round of Gamer Legion and all of a sudden that little
I'm not gonna say it's here. Yeah, but that potential for a comeback just grows
They're gonna be within striking distance very very soon
One flashbang that's all you've got here to work with for a game of Legion
So six round for Payne coming up in no time snow is a chance to melt them here
Kill the mass out, the Galiel for snow, only to war, and how are the Glocks taking down both of the rifles?
I tell them what's been available, that one flashbang is proven very effective, and now the bolt plant's coming in!
Oh, it shouldn't be possible, good kill from safe!
He's got the rifle though, Snacks picked up the Galiel.
Yeah, but what do you do? I mean, you have no armor if you're PR and Snacks.
They've got utility, and they've got a man advantage.
So at some point, you have to get aggressive and put yourself to this, just lying and wait waiting for the turn of the corner.
You can't lose this, Payne.
Smoke's too deep though.
PR can actually play in front of it.
Snacks is ready!
First headshot, same, but the two kills come through.
And Payne has signed for Leaf.
That round comes way too close.
There should never be a wall in which Gamer Leafs should even have a chance to win that round.
that round. It's a huge benefit that you win against that force by earlier that
you're able to pick up an upgrade a couple of weapons because that's going to
help you sustain the three losses that you just took. The rebies aren't going to
nearly be as painful for pain. They're within four rounds. How to snacks when I
open up the gun rounds on this T side on this offense and this campaign to close
out the quarterfinals in Atlanta. Sniper safe is going to have the AWP for this
CT side looks like he wants to bring it towards banana distort
There we go opening kill puts it down great work from safe five on four provided
What's the response from gamer legion
got PR who's pushed up behind that top mid smoke. No presents in banana thanks to the
early success of Paine's operator in SAFE so Gamerlige only filtering in now and their
follow-ups are very casual so Naxx is like yeah he probably fell back. It's a little
bit of utility you'd love to find an equalizing kill but SAFE is relocated.
5. That's all that's left in the round.
GamerLegion starting to get into position in banana.
Could be set piece here coming up.
Yeah, and I mean clearing out brackets, if you're safe right now is perfect while that
smoke is up so you can actually send VSM on the rotation.
He's sliding through CT spawn right now, going to join up with this B bomb site on defense.
So three players here.
Four players to attack into it.
GamerLegion had some sick executes and utility in the previous two maps.
Oh, they hit another one here. They're going up against three defenders.
35 seconds.
More utility being saved until this crucial point for pain.
The fire will fade, and here come Game of Leaching.
Attacking into the site. BSM swings to the smoke. The trade is in after one.
It's gonna be snowy, and Leach is one.
Snacks taking down Big O's arrow without much of a fight, and Game of Leach and Naurin to base. 2v2.
Up on the flank.
Snacks has a big role to play here.
here, safe, gonna start turning the corner, off angle for Snax, a little drilled!
Yeah, now it's high-faxed, he's been clutch all day long, but he walks right to the smoke
in Tbilia, and Pan can start to believe, they're starting to do this one step at a time, still
a while to go, still three rounds back, but they're winning the important ones, keeping
themselves in it, and it's not a great purchase coming up here for game allegiance.
But this is probably the best pain has felt since Overpass, right?
You haven't had that feeling like you're in control, like you're coming back, like you're
able to swing rounds together. Nuke was a complete blowout. First half on Inferno had
nothing positive for you to take away. Finally now, starting to see this side
build up some confidence and some faith they can come back in this match. And this
is when the Brazilian teams get the most dangerous, is when you start getting a
roll and start getting that momentum. And in between rounds and they're hyping
each other up, they just get stronger and stronger. Yet to see like a truly
convincing round victory though, that it's always touching though. It's always
He's down to the wire. Even the block round, man.
Like, even that round felt a little dangerous.
So, yes, Payne are winning the rounds,
but they need to start showing a little bit of a stronger set up on the CT side.
They need to be a bit more convincing about it,
if they truly are going to come back all the way.
Well, thankfully, they got plenty of money to sustain any losses they would take.
PR's knocking on the door of Halls.
Flashbang is out.
Simulating a Halls pop.
Yeah, safe at the ready. Good shot.
They get the info on the second player too, and safe isn't falling back.
In fact, he steps out into the open looking for a further kill.
What a great first event. It's been for safe in this pain jersey.
Good to see him back on the server.
Gamelidge in. I want to send him home though.
Here they come. Coming in towards the A site. The flank is coming in as well from Towson.
He's joining. He's coming back from Banana. He'll join up.
So there's more actual players now available for Gamer Legion's attack as they get ready for the final maneuver.
You've got Sake who's at the ready, looking for the P-game, but Big Uzerah, Peria and Safe all combined together to bring a stop to this attack from Gamer Legion.
There will be no way through as the CTs hold on and now the gap is just two rounds.
That's what I'm talking about. Look at the difference. Now they're starting to get hyped up.
Now there's energy going and flowing through the pain side of things.
Gamer Legion looking for more after each and every one of us they've taken.
And that is now the convincing round we were looking for, right from Payne.
The round where they actually put a stop to game religion before they even find themselves in a competitive position.
Convincing round, and all of a sudden it feels like game religions playing a little bit tentative, right?
They're sliding into these positions, they're waiting for the peaks, but there's really no aggression, really no pressure being applied.
They're hoping that Payne is going to give something to them, but at this point during this time out,
someone from game of legion is gonna have to realize they're gonna have to go and take these
If they want this win pain clawing themselves back
Into this series five rounds in a row for the defense. Yeah, this fall over
It's all completely over pain looks so flat like there was no one showing up
No shining light to look towards to get you out of this pit of despair, but all of a sudden pain have turned on
And it's been safe his off play was the one that started this streak
had some lovely rounds
Well, at the time up, Gamalusion have decided to invest a little. Save a lot and buy into the next one.
But how can they perform with tech nice and speed is in the mix. They're running him down, putting pressure on that very man that has got them back into it.
Safe is down for pain and all of a sudden this round feels wide open. Period trying to shut it. PR through with a deagle. Period dead.
Another run and game of legend coming in with a swinging play towards this A site.
The weaker weapons have been upgraded and 11 rounds loom.
Crank of the aggression up to 11, that's wild change of pace.
Payne never saw it coming and save force all the way back into CT spawn.
Caught off guard with Nade in hand and you can't even go for this retake.
Of course it comes in a round like this.
When you talk about safe being the impact player, the reliable force for pain, and the way you deal with him, it's just overwhelming him.
Forcing him back into the archway, pastels running him down, taking away the AWP.
I just, I love that call out of the timeout. I was just mentioning, it feels like Gamerleague had just gone so sensitive.
That Nate coming in, that's actually going to do good work, and there goes the one.
Piau, just...
Well, that's it, that's the one for me.
That's it for me, relax for a second.
But yeah, I mean, it's great for game alleging in terms of the economic decision, right?
Because the fact that you know you're getting a good buy in the next round allows you to take more risks in this round.
And also, I think this hasn't been one from the coach probably.
When he's noticing similar, I'm assuming to what I did of the tentative nature.
And when you call around like this, you take that tentative decision making out of the player's hands.
Everyone knows, if you're going for a fast attack like that, ain't nobody let's go at W.
Nobody slows down. Everyone moves forward for the next fight.
So you take the decision making away from the players who are probably feeling some of the pressure of this comeback
Some of the nerves are being able to make it into the semifinal and you remove that from the equation
And now Ricks needs to get on the mic one last time all the time else burned
As pain somehow need to discover themselves once again
And it will be this time if safe ignited them in this half to get the comeback started
Who's going to be there for him to help it continue to be him again still a day to be p
Pain trying to come back they've come so far
But it might still be too little figures error with some confidence, but they get battered by grenades
Pain gaming so low
Two players below half HP and snacks continues to move up through banana
He now sits at the half wall but snacks is going forward side of the smoke
Utility up sound cue made as a hit off bigger zero
But they've got top and out of control height makes challenges snacks goes in with a second kill and
Game a legion in a better position
43 in search of series point not a nice timing not a bad timing for that play from pain to reaggress
But man hypex blindshot kill now snow wants to be the hero, but it's not the case
Towson's ready. GamerLegion locked in and will miss no details.
And now the two remaining players are pain or on polar opposite sides of the map.
At least you have a defending player on each side, but it has to be a hero play from either Pyrrha or Safe.
Pyrrha has won his fight, but now you know that at least there is only a single player on this B site, so the hero play must come from Safe.
safe. The question you posed was who is it gonna be for pain? Safe steps into the
open. Towson embraced as they move into the site. Game of Legion in a 2v2.
Bomb plant coming through. That's all safe needs for right now. Stay alive you've
got the kill. Smoke broken, nobody's in the open. Oh he gave him the fight.
I think that's that back for it. Risky. Kids on both defenders. Safe steps out
into the open miss shot. Is that gonna cost him? He gets away. So still
a chance. Imperium moves up, snacks ready to silence Rayman. Hypex is down with him.
The pulls prevail and it's 12-8 for Game of Legion. Series point.
The opportunity was available for safe to rip that out. He had his shots, he had his chances.
Hypex gave him a couple of extra looks that he just can't land and he has been good in
in the clutches all day long, Hypex.
Another late round scenario where he steps up to have impact.
Four chances for GamerLegion to progress
into the semifinals of the Intel Extreme Masters in Atlanta.
And this is what Payne had to play with.
The Mag7 and Biguzera's hands over towards B.
The rest will have rifles, one of them are for mass.
And Game Religion slowing things down to kick off the round.
There's not a lot of utility to play late in the game here if you're paying.
Not a lot of utility and you got a shot down on Vicki Zera, but we've seen it jump here
to good effect.
We need a max 7 moment for Payne to stay alive and the damage is through, the kill comes
but Biguzera traded by Snacks.
Pretty critical trade as well to grab that one
and finding yourself in a four on four.
Yeah, prevents Biguzera from getting his hands at a better weapon as well.
Well, if you come mid, it's exactly what Painter are looking for.
They've got a vertical stack and Peria ready to respond.
Snacks and Rez out through top mid.
Pain delivered one. Safe traded by Rez.
Effective trading, but Peria puts a stop to PR.
Rez out through top middle.
Bomb is at bottom mid.
It can go elsewhere.
If Rez can get into the archway,
archway they can split this B bomb site they can split the only player here in
snow you mentioned a bomb in position moment but he's in the open and he's dead
snow cast aside rise into the site and it's a 2v2 for the life of pain here in
Atlanta maybe a miscommunication snow being very very exposed bombed down all
Tell him the retake, there's no kits.
Rez, ready, CSM gone, period, next up, goes in to the church, and he better play because that's the only thing that can save them.
But GameOlegion win it, the Legion of Gamers will march into the semifinal, they will play against Legacy,
and they started this tournament, they started with positivity, but unfortunately, it is a very flat end.
Yeah, continue in this great run as Gamer Legion, bouncing back after that map one, dropping it in horrible fashion, but resetting, looking good on Nuke, looking good on Inferno, the lifelors showed up.
They got to be happy because everyone's playing and we saw all day today, their players getting comfortable on the stage.
Hype X winning clutches, getting the crowd involved, hyping them up, snacks making his place.
Man, it's so good to see Gamer Legion have a bit of attitude, right?
They're all for actually winning these big clutches,
winning these big moments for the throughout the game
and then actually show some confidence
not cowering away and falling into themselves.
Well, they're gonna need that confidence tomorrow.
They've got a really tough task
in the semifinals of Legacy for Payne.
A good showing, eye-opening, I think safe coming back
has got to be very proud of how he played
in his first event, returning to official matches
in quite some time.
They still look like they're showing improvement,
but obviously a little bit of a hiccup here
as the map pool went deeper, fell flat on Nuke,
fell flat on Inferno,
tried to fight back but overall I think a good showing from pain that makes you
think there's something cooking in that crap. Yeah it's been a while since you've
seen them and great to see them come back and be competitive make it to the
playoffs on this event but that's only a lot of work still to be done if they get
themselves in gear for the world championship of Counter-Strike coming up
in a few weeks time. But down on the stage we have got snacks. We do indeed have
snacks Atlanta makes some noise for gamer legion and snacks.
Snacks, you've come from the golden age of Polish Counter-Strike.
Over a decade later, you're playing again in front of an Atlanta crowd.
Talk to him, man.
Thank you, guys.
A lot of legendary moments from you, Snacks.
You've built quite the tenure, quite the career.
Talk to me about this game today versus pain.
I mean, overpass was a little bit tough.
I didn't show up at all.
Maybe two or three frags, so obviously we cannot win map.
If I play like this for the second third I felt like we gained the confidence back and we travel
I would buy stuff a little bit was shaky at the internet some point because we didn't go with the plan I had
But I'm happy you know to one is a win
You've got a big game in legacy and a semi-final. How does that work out for you snacks?
How does this break down for game religion? I mean, I think we
Really don't care who's gonna be next up as our opponent. I wait to read everyone the same. We want to beat everyone
So I hope we can make it here snacks. I've got one last question for you, but do you like peaches?
I like just think I yes
Yes, cuz you're in the peach state. How hungry are your snacks?
I mean not much actually it was I had a Brazilian barbecue yesterday actually
I'm not lying with the team and I couldn't eat for four entire day after it. So it's funny. It's fine today
Snacks anything you want to say? Thank you guys for shooting. I see you tomorrow. Yeah
Game religion!
This round goes live, we've got legacy defending on the CT side, we've got game religion attacking
into them, hype back, smoke flash, flash, and Molotov on Talson, and a lot of bodies
headed towards that B bomb site.
Rez crossing middle, sees nothing, and there's going to be a timing on this hit.
Lato and Art going to be defending cave.
So the bomb site is open, and Rez going to take his first steps in.
Crossfire with Doolies to deal with.
Yeah, it's gonna be tough to break apart. Lato and Art both position with Chulbaratis.
And their safety, they can hold this position. They don't have to worry about the B bomb site.
You can just hold on to Cave, hold on to Jaguar and set things up for the retake.
Art ready. Chulbaratis unleashed first. It's Art with the first two. Lato picking up Bryce.
That's the bomb dropped as well. It's over.
Yeah, that's the last ditch effort here from Telsen coming up the ramp. He does drop Art.
The Lato now moving out trying to make sure that this is over allowing a single chance for game a legion to fight their way back into it
Oh, that'd be taking really really tough loss if you drop this. Okay, there's one mistake
Do now goes down in the flank. I want to try to press in and Lato
He recovers nicely. No, if Lato goes down there
You got a 2v2 with a player in cave high-packs trying to clutch up it sets and prevents it
And that will be like you see to take the pistol round such a strong starting cave
that was so difficult to flip that back despite a good effort from Gamer Legion.
I just kind of applied loss, right? The tactic you call out of spawn is just countered completely by what they called out of spawn.
No real movement by Gamer Legion this round to try and figure out and throat the defense before committing to it.
And yeah, the bomb being lost in that scenario makes the round so so difficult.
So Legacy get a start on the positive note, gain a little bit of momentum,
get that economy established and without a bomb plan without even really any kills.
They really can sit back with no upgrades to the pistol. It's un-armored glock. So an easy time for legacies defense
We got do now who's moved through elbow like Yankee was just saying before this game went live if you've got do now
You've got already two players can't sit still they're gonna be getting aggressive even in rounds where it's ill advised, right?
You shouldn't really be pushing blocks as heavily as this
But do now wants to break some attitudes of confidence in the early rounds. We're trying to find a way
There is like a mentality thing to it like push down and let them know right out of the gate that they're just not gonna get a
Whole lot of room to work with that's kind of my thought press
Process coming into this match was gamer Legion yesterday played a very chill very slow kind of defaulty style around the map not doing anything
Super crazy couple pieces mixed in there, but
Legacy's not gonna let you have that comfort and both sides of the map. They like being aggressive
They want to disrupt what you want to do. They want to take away your first option
So my first test for gamer Legion on this series and this map is gonna be can they actually stop that aggression?
Can they negate it and put it back so that Legacy maybe loses motivation to be like that, to play in that style?
Listen, to take Talcinoite, and now the final player left, P.R. who has picked up the MP9 earlier,
who's dished out a little bit more damage than they would like.
Send the rifle in, the replacement of the reinforcements, and that will be a 2-0 lead for Legacy.
Yeah, really clean start here.
Plenty of money built up for the Legacy side.
AK-47s and weapons coming for Gamer Legion in the first gun round.
We'll see how Snacks wants to play this one and how they want to address the mid situation.
We heard Freya sort of highlighting the fact that Gamer Legion have quite the reputation here on Ancients.
Getting it in the first map of the semifinals definitely applies for the squad.
from squad but going down to 0, at least Legacy have a decent style. Let's see if they can
continue it as the rifles do come out here for Gamer Legion.
Ooh, Snack's found a little sneaky half to dodge all the flames, so no sound cue to let
Legacy know that he's actually moved into this position. He himself listening for footsteps
to start piecing together what the map looks like.
No one attacking or regressing in the middle, really, from either side. Legacy not even really
having any eyes on it whatsoever, a very passive setup there with sads intact in.
As all the defensive emphasis, that's a great shot, Nissen goes down, just jump spotting.
Big loss to take early, a five on four, and that's a weakened defense.
He got Dumal moving out through a main, Res was watching this for the timing to look away.
He comes right back, but this time, surprise, Dumal's in his face, and a 4v4 as Dumal hunts it back.
And now you can see, Legacy's defense thinks that's going to force Gamer Legion in to make their move,
So defensive smoke deployed to disjoint the attack right as that kill comes out with Dumal's aggression
It's a strong setup here for the defensive legacy three players at the B bomb site
Art and the cubby
Snacks trying to get out of cave the smokes are up
They're gonna step in front of them sadson trying to help his teammate
But now art is completely isolated from his teammates
He severed off from the support and so what is that inside of the site and no longer is this setup super strong for legacy
They've lost a member they're now down a player for the retake
It's just hard to see how like this you're gonna pull this off if you don't get a kill pretty quickly as these three legacy players
You might want to start thinking about saving you've only got one kid as well on Lotto
So if he falls that diffuses gonna be really really tough without a smoke. I don't see how they get into this
Lotto just waiting this snacks peeking into the open lateral to die. Now you've got sats in the doom out
Just having a filter away save these weapons in game religion through fight forward for their first round way
Really dirty shot
To hit on a Nysim who's just jump-spotting for information down B ramp and catches a straight bullet to the dome. Lovely work.
Not gonna get that kind of opening each and every time, but well done from Gamer Legion recovering the situation after res go down, res goes down, the map shrinks.
You're running out of options and PR gives you the escape valve.
So first round for Gamer Legion.
And then we'll put the money in legacy in a very weak position.
Oh, nasty.
That is a nasty shot, isn't it?
This is what I'm going to be disappointed about that.
A tougher heart as well.
You can see him on me between two mines,
especially when those smokes come up.
Really good job.
GamerLidge was good with utility yesterday
in the quarterfinals.
Big reason why they were able to overtake Pain
and win that series to earn themselves a semi-final birth.
Now, their set pieces are very strong
when they decide to go for it.
Got Nades coming in from missing.
Just trying to catch.
Snacks does a little bit of damage to it.
But here comes some aggression from light.
You see Flash play trying to be disruptive.
And that's going to be missing with the first snacks to trade in. Art with a wall bang.
He'll be very happy with that coming away with the attack.
He's without even having to see his opponent.
Yeah, there's that disruption from Ryze.
That's there's that disruption we talked about with the defense from Legacy.
They're not going to sit back on their heels.
So Ryze has a little bit of a play, but a gap in that smoke sats it all year.
Real trouble. I can't believe he's gotten away with it.
I cannot believe he got away with that one.
That's ridiculous. Well, Legacy, a good job of being disruptive.
You're completely breaking apart.
Planet A here for Gamelidge.
you're forcing them to try five solutions and you know if we talk about game of
Legion being a set piece heavy team loving those executions relying upon
the utility you need to be in the position to be able to throw that
utility and be able to move in as a team and as a unit if legacy or just
pushing you down the ramp killing you you miss a crucial piece of utility for
execution then you've got a react on the fly and that's all that's what I brought
up kind of at the start is if you can't handle what what legacy is going to
bring to the table I don't think game of legions gonna get options to run their
playbook all that frequently so it's
Alson is able to cleave one off still has
three to find and then caught from
behind do now with another lovely push
you know you know like you're gonna
bring that style of your game with agent
but how do you combat that like how do
they how do you force them to respect
you so that you can get that space to
play your game and set up your
execution well they might be able to
negate some of it again yesterday they
played kind of slow far back in the
openings that they didn't really do much
on the maps for 30 seconds the hard
thing is you want to gain control of
certain portions of ancients you're kind
of force into this. They knew aggression was coming right with that smoke down towards double doors.
That's kind of the giveaway, especially how shallow it was. Just a nice timing to find.
A little bit delayed from Legacy before they pop through.
Smoke down towards El Bodo.
Break it open, try and keep some vision here to highpacks. Art prevented from moving forward
beyond Jag. We'll have to sit behind the flyer for just a couple of seconds, but you know he's
going to start moving as soon as that fades away. Legacy is also a very momentum based team.
When they start having these successful fast aggressive plays, they just keep going back to it and they keep getting stronger.
It's Buffer Mark, sees a little bit of information, little bit of damage on the res with the spam.
And Gamer Legion just now, a minute and 12 seconds on the clock, starting to make their first move out middle.
Bomb is on its own in AMAIM on the back of Towson.
So they're going to try and meet up through Donut.
Sads in and Doom out to defend, and they haven't had a whole lot of attention, a whole lot of love sent their way yet in this map.
First real test.
That's missing the opportunity, and then Dumal peeks up.
He gets away with two.
That's huge with Dumal at the red room.
Now PR at least sending one shot back, but here comes the next move.
It's R walking out, back turn to Snacks.
That's a free kill on the Deagle.
And luckily there was a secondary player behind him in Lato to make sure Snacks can't get more.
So Towson 1v3.
First is going second better, and all of a sudden a chance
Because he's got the info in Lato. He knows exactly where he last spotted and so he's gonna move over towards this A site
Yeah, it's up for Lato. He's gonna take his time over towards mid sprinting towards donut now
We're gonna catch him. It's all on Towson going for the reload crossing into the open
But now where does he think Lato is gonna come from?
He's looking towards donut. He's got the right idea Lato coming in slowly
Comes down to timing will Towson look at the right spot
But it's time, you better believe it, Will!
Towson steps up with a stellar 3K.
And that can get Gamerelegion going in this first half.
Oh, they needed it.
And we saw it yesterday.
That was what kept Gamerelegion in the games,
was the clutches from Hypex.
Now you've got Towson delivering the goods.
And this round was so perfect.
Everything looked so good for Legacy.
Up until this moment, the double swing
feels like textbooks should have been great,
but a 3 on 1 dropped.
and Towson gets game-enliging fired up.
That's what Janko was saying before this game.
You know, talking about how Towson showed glimpses last year
when he was starting to step up and hit another level.
Getting to see Towson shop in an important game like this
is going to make game-enliging so much more deadly.
Oh, just those, these pledges and these moments
while Snack starts getting this offense up
and running it online.
It's such a nice luxury to have.
And look at what it's done to the money of legacy.
Now it's not all the M4s.
Now it's not all the pop flash peaks
and the aggressive smokes for pushes.
Playing with MP9's a pistol, very light on nades.
Gonna be a tough round for Legacy's start to finish.
Oh, tough start here for Raz, who's down to 39 HP, getting spammed down.
Here comes a reaction from Legacy.
Gonna be going aggressive towards A-Man, coming towards Towson again.
AK out, 2 miles, close lives.
MP9 in close quarters, combat, Towson doesn't want to get involved in that fight.
He's letting Hypex come beside him.
It's interesting, Satsun isn't coming back at all from the A bomb site to help out, despite the fact that Doumao's been spotted.
Molotov takes away the fight he was looking for, but good negation with that smoke.
Doumao's controlling the situation very well, alone with an MP9 against two AKs, and he's winning it out.
Excuse me, two rifles, an AK and a Galil?
A lot of that's happening, we're seeing more players in Gamelidge and getting positioned towards Donut, right?
So Doumao's gonna start dropping back, but Gamelidge are gonna put three players in Donut, ready for this ace play.
First contact coming through Donut, they're blocking each other.
Satsun and Dumal, a little bit of confusion and they're both gonna die and that's the A-side wide open.
Yeah, that's a huge mistake. I think Dumal's thinking that they're gonna stand and fight.
Satsun wanted to back away, but they had to make a decision on either Donut or A-Main.
Dumal had controlled the situation, but with an MP9 he can't stop everything.
They just get stuck between two decisions.
And this round looks real rough.
We've got composure from Game Leisure 2 right for those A-Main players to keep Dumal distracted, keep him pinned, but don't offer up your life.
Let the doughnut players get in position and let them take first cartel. You see how confusing it was for the defending players
Yeah, no one took it and no one to control the situation from the legacy side between sads in a two-mile. Nobody made the call
So tied up at three
Money's gonna be gone for legacy. They'll bring this m4 mp9 and 5 7 into the next round
But that's basically gonna be all they got sads in a two-mile
They'll have to figure out if they want to invest afterwards
mentioned legacy being a momentum team and last two rounds have surely taken that momentum completely away from them
Let's go through the point where Game Religion starts to turn up the heat on the T side.
And all of this ignited by Towson's 1v3. Forcing a timeout now out of the defense. Burn one early to talk things over.
First conversation with the coach. Trying to figure out how exactly they want to work out of this scenario.
Not a whole lot to play with in this round. I think they'll have to sit it out. They'll have to look like Game Religion is going to take a small lead before they can fight back.
I haven't seen the op-out on the CT side for Legacy quite yet either.
So we'll see how that changes the defense or changes the way Gamer Legion moves around
the map.
But really this slow style from Gamer Legion is going to be really really effective as
long as they have control of the economy.
Because Legacy will be forced to play a passive without a whole lot of resources to execute
any of their ideas.
Let's put them in the driver's seat now.
7
Look what you've got if your legacy you got sands in all usp two miles on a p250
At least you've got them for here for this him
But that's gotta be the winning piece and they're on the right side of the map they stack p here comes
Tells you're charging in trying to open up that's the right foot going down first trying to get their hands on his
Blacksup, and he's picked it up because in the open
He's out of bullets and now out of life the snacks takes two that's the site overwhelm
And game really chips a little scary for a second because they're running into the stack that's designed to deal with them
But they battered through it. It's a nice change of page
That's just a vibe call from snacks feeling like out of the time out take away whatever they're discussing
We could it felt like with the way that they were positioned and stacking they were gonna move into some kind of a play to be aggressive towards
Lane through Jaguar obviously with the B rush. You don't get execute that idea
So sad to know hustle in with the USP the last one to fall and he will
Came religion take a four to three lead here on ancient opening map of these semi finals in Atlanta
What are we working with here, let's rock and roll.
It's having a lot of troubles, it's having a lot of issues, I don't tech.
Oh, it's a scout, okay.
Didn't miss much.
Oh, I like to see they've got their buy back down, and look how quick Gamer Legion are
about this now.
They've got to pep in their step as they move out middle.
Actually really cool to see only on fours. Lotto's got that in step two. Here's one of those aggressive plays
Snacks already gonna push forward take a risk. He heard the footsteps fall back a little bit of action
Down and snacks. He's in a backstab position now. This could get even worse for legacy
Where does he decide to go all snacks we've got runs who's just looked away at the wrong time art steps out into doughnut
look at this position from snacks if anybody decides to rotate back to the
A side which they will do because the bombs coming over here and snacks is in
the perfect spot now arts about to walk right into it that snacks taking a
frag and now no shot whatsoever from legacy to do anything in this round
yeah that's I think snacks calling the opening there and kind of taking some
intuition when he sees those kills come out towards the B bombsite he's like
why don't I just walk through this smoke someone's gonna have to rotate and it's
usually the mid guy who's the first to go takes a risk and gets the reward
Eventually bomb goes down and nothing legacy can do about it. So out of the time out two straight round losses
No game religion plate this map twice so far and I am Atlanta 13 one win versus Navi in a 13 a versus trawlers
Both good ancient teams right so very impressive results at the moment from game religion on this map
Yeah legacy planted once in Atlanta against Navi taking an 8 to 13 loss in a series that they ended up winning
But this was the map they dropped in it
Snacks looking to take some guns away right at the end.
Sadsen tucked into the corner.
Kutsch off from Snacks.
Slides into the angle.
Ruthless from the in-game leader of Gamer Legion.
Yeah, that Kausen clutch just flipped this completely, right?
It felt like legacy reply with a bit more confidence.
Very disruptive.
Suffocating Gamer Legion almost.
Off that clutch, four rounds in a row.
Yeah, you can just see the attitude shift.
Nothing.
Every early kill is going their way.
You're just charging out with confidence and decisiveness.
Well now that also that, like, that Gamer Legion, you know, has control of the map floor in a row,
have control of the money, advantage in weaponry pretty much every round,
those kind of like fast, aggressive natures of Legacy, we've seen it backfire now twice.
You know, Gamer Legion's gonna be much more comfortable handling that now that the M4 is in all the utility,
all the Molotovs and Nades running in aren't always there.
As the angle almost doubles up, Dumal's got to back away, recovers the M4, but nothing you can do.
Legacy brings a little bit of investment and danger into this round just to see if they can pull off a miracle and already on the back foot with the player down.
You can just slow things down if you want, Gabriel, you got Taliesin in such a good spot up in the red room.
He can cut off rotations, he can start a flanklet into the round. So many options now available, true to his positioning.
PR walking up to the top of the ramp, spotting on Sanzik.
We rising PR taking the two kills on the B site.
And that's the site wide open as they move through.
Again, they're around, but really had nothing in it for legacy.
It seemed like there was, I mean, there was an idea, right?
Duma had the double swing with an M4 on the first player.
Duma had to recover after he goes down.
The big thing was they were kind of delaying it with a pop flash,
and Res had already gotten into the corner, tucked in safely.
And things are just rough at the moment in every sense for legacy
Game religion so in some peer superiority on the map early on doubled up the scoreboard and it's six to three
You mentioned is both teams trying to re-enter the conversation in both teams that have had some slumps that have had some lineup changes
That have had some periods where they've struggled and it feels like at this event
Yeah, that is kind of the goal. Re-enter the conversation and they have both interesting teams out playing very well, having legacy playing very well up to this matchup.
They haven't dropped a series here at Atlanta at all. Wins over MAD, Astralis and Navi.
Game religion as well. Snacks has this team turning around. They've shot up the rankings throughout his tenure here.
Losing to Navi early on, but Liquid, Astralis, and Payne have been their victims on this path.
Payne in the quarter-finals, eliminating them and now meeting their fellow countrymen, Legacy, in this battle.
Second time out, used by Legacy to discuss things, because it's going horribly wrong,
but for the first time, we're gonna get the Op of Satsun in play.
And we'll see if that can change the way this map goes.
We'll see if he can have influence and slow down Gamer Legion, because this onslaught right now,
Snacks feels like he can do whatever he wants on the map.
I see what legacy can do, what they can change up to try and give themselves a little bit
more life in this first half.
Out of the last time out, Snack's called that very, very fast B rush.
This time taking a different approach.
Gonna try and activate resin middle.
Greg's open, Satsons up, not spotting any targets.
I think they missed Res crossing yet again, so gotta be careful of how wide you swing that in the middle when that smoke blows open, but Res now making his move.
Moving ever closer to Red and it's gonna be snacks, just annihilating Art on the other side.
And that opens up the avenue for Res, he was already making his move, he gets to keep going, this is a really nasty timing to hit.
Lato, and Nissen coming over to control the situation, but they can't.
It's so quick, and also, and Towson's getting back, no chance.
Absolutely none. Legacy getting destroyed on ancient, and Gamer Legion showing us why they like to go to this map time and time again.
They're not even in it at all here, Legacy.
I mean, this is surgical. This is Gamer Legion using a scalpel and just finding everything they want, just exact moves, perfect moves at the perfect time.
And Sanzin hasn't even been able to fire this op yet
Hasn't seen anyone for the first time he's got it in the field
I mean gamer legion have the opportunity to be ruthless still plenty of time in this bomb timer
And you can see him sliding across the map. They wanted they know it's the offer they want to take this gun away
And now they've located it
And now they've got it
Nothing for legacy in the next round gamer legion has just been absolutely
comprehensively dominant
6th round straight.
And we're asking who needs to step up for game religion coming into today's game and
Hypex was the name that you meet throughout there, but
It's the rightfulers right now. They're doing the work
They're not needed on the T side of H&T with all the AWP and
You get to see the strength of game lesion
They do have a great core of rightfuling abilities and here's rice just charging out elbow
aren't gonna die first and all that space in mid has given over it.
Dumau doesn't want to let it go for free.
He's challenging, he's trying to get involved in the fight.
He will beat out Towson to damage on the high pegs,
but Rez, again, coming out of elbow with a headshot, the result.
Yeah, Dumau never knew he was in the corner.
I thought the second player was in the smoke.
Look at this smoke fade.
Okay, right next to Snacks, he's crossed the shoulder.
It's him tries to slide through and starting to feel real desperate for legacy.
This half is completely unraveled for them.
3 out of 4 to start, but now 6 in a row, and looking like it's going to be 7 in a row.
Snacks going to hold on for this push, finds Lotto, and B bomb site is open for them to
waltz into.
Yeah, Stads in coming right back over with a 5-7, but it's going to get a perfect scenario
to play out in front of him.
At least they're kind of low, so I guess 1v1 fights, but it doesn't matter, even with
that 1v1.
Snacks comes out on top of it.
to 3k from Snacks, 11-6 at the moment as we head into the last round of the first half.
I think NAF went home, dude.
Five round lead.
I think at this point of your legacy, you've tried so much, so many different looks with kind of the pushes and aggressive natures.
I think you almost just sit back and play this one static.
Just play a standard round, see if the game religion can actually push up and beat you.
You probably feel like it at the moment, but...
The aggressive stealth certainly ain't working.
Satsun has up yet again in support over in middle.
Well, Rez is out elbow again.
It's a swing. Rez gets one. Art Lato's aggression this time, panning out.
We get two kills. Open things up for Legacy. 4v3 to try and convert upon it.
Good damage as well, but here's Talcyn.
Yeah, this is the move. You know there's so much attention over in middle.
Hypex is there, he's saying they're throwing nades. There's at least two in middle.
You've seen a player pop out of cave as well.
You have this map kind of a little bit of a vision of what it is
and sliding into the A bomb site, the defense is extremely weak.
It's going to be Lato who's got to come over as the first defender to check out what's happening.
Into the open. Art.
I want to pick up Talso, so preventing fail-sake.
Now we've got Hypex stepping out into the open, 50 health because of the grenades.
Lato seems to be arriving at the perfect time to catch him.
No! And even then, Hypex wins that headshot.
So it's still doable here for Game of Legion somehow,
especially with PR coming up with through middle.
I like this. There's time for Hypoxages back out of this bomb,
so I completely let PR play next.
Oh, art has been spotted.
PR, can he move up on this?
There's Shanane! He gets to it!
Oh, you can't let this one go like you see.
This would be backbreaking.
Spine-shattering!
Finally, Sadzen gets a chance though.
Yeah, he comes over, but he's blocked by the smoke.
And just at the perfect time as well,
This game religion starts to arrive towards the bomb site. Oh, I feel like that was risky
But it's a way with it's hasn't going over towards temple. This and crawling in as well
No kit bomb planted a hypex and PR both gonna back up and play doubled up in donut
Only flashbangs for hypex the only utility in play in this clutch if if game religion win this it tells you exactly how this half
Has gone this should be legacies round all day long
But somehow a 2v2 a winnable situation game religion going into the open this and wins the draw
So it's got to be Hypex. He's been clutch all tournament long. He has to get to the diffusing player, but he's got that headshot.
He pulls Samson off. Steve Oberg gets to the kill, but the time is the question. The Hype 5s are coming in.
They believe there's time for this. They're gonna hold it all the way, and it's down to the wire, but pulled off.
As Lekacy secure a fourth round right at the end of the half, but Gamer Legion are in control.
I
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sides and legacies got a recovery mission. We mentioned they were an aggressive momentum
base team. Gamer Legion never let them build up any of that. So it's got to start here
on the T side on the offense where they get to dictate the pace and they get to dictate
the action. What does our have in store for us? Pistol round is live. Duly's on hypex.
Nate flash on Telsen and snacks. Sands in with the full kit of utility and legacies
He's heading towards middle in the A-bomb site.
They're coming out towards Donut where you've got PR and Res and Saks to be the early warning system.
So now they know, Res turns to fight but he takes 19-ang damage on board.
He's on HP and then Art and Dumal send kills across the server.
There's another one picked up here for Legacy.
This is crazy. This Pissarum is actually really weird.
I don't even blame GamerLegion for getting absolutely deleted.
I don't know if that was all by design or if it just worked out so nice.
Throw in the utility at the A bomb site, you kind of fake that you're gonna come out A main,
but Donut defenders kind of turn their gaze for just a moment, but
then legacy sinks back, because if they just wanted to sense it like it was gonna be an hit,
everyone got pulled out of their positions from Gamer Legion and just picked apart.
That's actually really disgusting.
One tries to swing out at a Jaguar and gets eliminated, one in Red Room gets eliminated, then Donut's wide open.
We've got Arch already out, Mac 10 swinging, it's going to be Ryze who drives, they pull off his narrow as well.
And a good start here. I think initially in the first half the game plan seemed to be looking like it had legs to it for Legacy.
Right, getting the Game of Legends phase, the first few rounds, they feel like they've reduced their chance.
And Talcim just takes it away as it was starting to get going.
Yeah, they never recovered from that, which is unfortunate.
I don't know if you guys can tell from this round, but it's going to be a little bit of a different flavor in this half.
We're gonna see a lot faster pace at the openings for legacy that game religion had in their own offense
I was just running out mid with the Mac 10
Now taking their time with the two-man advantage knowing they don't have to press the issue anywhere
They've got all the advantages in the world
Shaw from snacks
Dropping back into the cave in behind the smoke for the time being but PR is coming up next
Thanks to him, he had a chance, but one second longer and he had a really good opportunity to take another kill there for Game of Legend.
Yeah, Lada wasn't even considering it, but Dumalad is on a swivel. He swung for that as if he knew someone was going to be there.
Everyone coming up B ramp now. Snacks, that Deagle's got to do way more! There's one!
Okay, snacks. Finally getting taken down by the Mactime.
Some stylish shots, but he's not going to unravel the round completely here, so like you see, that's back to back haps where they've won both of the first rounds.
once again can steal this away from them.
It's not over yet.
Yeah, Flash goes out.
Towson on the 5-7, he's got a 1v1 fight,
but Dumal confidence steps into the open.
And let's out of y'all, as legacy have a good start
in both of these halves now.
The gap is just two rounds.
Dumal and Art are gonna have a lot to say
in terms of how this half goes for Legacy.
Both of those guys are the top performers for their team.
Dumal 12 kills, Art 11 kills in this map so far,
but the kind of plays they decide to make,
especially with Art kind of moving quickly,
the kind of space they take,
I think is gonna give a signal of how this legacy team
is playing out confident the squad feels inside the server.
One more round of a little bit of an easier competition.
It's unarmored pistols for Game Illegion.
They do buy up three Deagles.
Giving themselves a chance.
PR heard the footsteps of a lot of legacy players coming over to the A-bomb site.
So there's going to be four defenders here, but again, it's only the pistols.
I need some great shots immediately.
Well, unfortunately for Game Illegion, there's Arc who has the great shot immediately.
It's snacks getting taken down at the temple.
That guy's trying to find the diesel on the ground there, they want to pick it up.
This damage is good from Ryze, in fact he got...
That's the kill and then suddenly, Game Religion are rough with three frags!
Art having to fight on, takes another bit of damage, but Art is doing everything!
Four kills, finally dead, and Kelsen again stopped!
So close!
But not enough for Game Religion, but all these rounds looking very difficult for legacy.
Yeah, that's a message. Game Religion has stepped ahead a little bit of information.
They get a lot out of it. Great shooting from PR.
Done incredible damage to Legacy. Forces plenty of rebies.
So going into the first gun round, Legacy's money is on an edge.
Res gets that first kill, but the deagle's from PR.
So, so nice. Everyone's springing. That's a beautiful shot for Art.
Even the jump, giving away the information.
But it gets so much more tense now.
Legacy felt like they were starting to cruise and build up.
Slows him down at the very least and now you get the all about if you're game
leaching you get the AWP for high-packs on the CT side no challenge over on the
T side in that department all rifles AK-47 is out for legacy
That one hurts my man that one hurts all your friends saw it
A little bit quicker again here from Legacy.
Governor's trying to get out towards Elbow,
Util goes through, and they're out.
They use a lot of utility to get out through Elbow.
Big part of their game plan, and they still take a death.
Yeah, it's with the smokes up.
Tons of chip damage in Regis.
Snatches one away.
All right, four versus five.
Who's going to be the one to recover?
It's Asin, creeping a little bit close towards Red Room
behind the Molotov.
Smokes fading in mid.
Asin does find safety.
It's an AWP on the other side of this peak and an easy kill for Hypex.
Quickly, once again, legacy.
Playing with two men down.
Bomb has dropped all the way back at elbow.
So at the moment, they're looking to find some success,
something with the space they've taken,
but they're always going to have to go back and get the bomb.
Yeah, that's a tough part.
The Lato being blocked.
Stacked his four way back trying to draw attention
and set up Towson for this kill, hoping that if Latour is to stroll into the Jag, he's not going to check Towson's position.
He's going to be preoccupied about snacks just on that right side.
I think he actually does get past.
I think it's his idea to go get the bomb, so he sees no reason to be the aggressor. 35 seconds.
I don't know. Okay, they don't realize. They didn't realize that mid was this open.
Res standing back turned.
Is that the first little hole opened up with 25 seconds left to maybe try and get through this window of opportunity?
But it's still gonna be tough. You've got two defenders on both sides of the map still. The bomb is going for an A finish.
It's Nissan next because they doubled up and Dota noting Satsun can wrap in. 12 seconds now on the clock.
Smoke is gonna fade soon and Nissan's behind it.
Just ready for the fade. Now Hypeback's going in to address the issue of the psyche and overtake him.
but he gets strapped down by Satsen, spraying away, trying to get a second.
He's taking some damage on board, but that fight is all important for PR.
Putting Satsen in a 1v3 with 21 HP.
Steps out of the smoke. First kill is good on PR.
Now they know where he was last spotted, but he could go anywhere. Into the donut.
Bomb's not planted for donut. He's gotta be careful. He doesn't have an angle flopping.
Now he's got a Molotov.
They don't have smokes here, at least for Gamelidge.
And then into the opening, he'll go for the peek.
And he's dropped down by Snack.
So Gamelige will recover the round, PR with an all-important frag inside of that site.
And it will be Gamelige confirming the round victory.
And the real nightmare is now due to the damage in the previous round with the P250s,
with the Deagles at the A bombsite, the stack that Gamelige was able to put in place,
the four kills they were able to get.
There's no money for Legacy to continue their effort to continue this campaign.
Three in a row.
And you're kind of in a situation where you have to save or go for a really, really rough force buy.
Tough decision for Legacy to make. It is their third and final time out. No chance for them to stop the action and take a breather later on.
And they are going to shove all in. They are going to buy up here. Tech Nines, full utility, Nissen goes for the Galil. One rifle for Legacy in this round 17.
And a win here for Gamer Legion gives them a stranglehold on this opening map of the semifinals.
I'm trying to get in behind the flames, the smoke used so we can get towards Jaguar early
and throw down the Molotov to prevent some aggression from the CT side, but Taliesin
Gotta be careful, pulls out utility, now gets the right fall, and then running him down, he sprays away and he only gets the right kill, but stepping in his last, he gets traded as well.
And like I see was some success, getting into the B bomb site.
Those are some critical trades that Dumau gets really nicely done, otherwise they're stuck behind the smoke and getting mowed down.
PR's gonna try and get a wide angle, Dumau has fallen, low HP, Molotov, forces him into the open, and Snax gets him all!
No need for a retake!
Oh, Snax got away with that, like, one player coming in through Jaguar,
it looked like he was dead to rights, right, focused on the side players.
Snax is able to not only react to that player coming forward into the cave, but also the other two in the site.
Yeah, great awareness, all that experience as well.
Snax is very comfortable, smoke pops, if you matter to get that trade, the round's pretty much done.
This one's a thing of beauty as well, before Res can survive.
Opens up the opportunity for danger, and Snax just understood the situation the whole time.
No one had shown from Cave, no one had shown from Jaguar,
So he knew there was going to be at least one.
And much like the first half, legacy just so quickly run out of resources after a couple losses.
Law desperate, faster play from 2 now, charging out of elbow and dying at Thota.
He got snacks getting aggressive as well to try to slow down this key side attack through me.
And they really stalled out now, but Art trying to get it going again.
He's found a headshot on PR through that smoke break at Donut.
Him and Jumao both tied for 16 kills.
Hypex can't hit the flick.
Not too concerned at the moment.
They just saw one, but Donut was pressured.
So Towson's going to feel a little uncomfortable as he pushes in towards Donut, and now the
offense wraps around the map.
Snacks is going to push up and meet them.
Big spray away.
It's going to be one from Snacks.
Art to trade it.
And now a 2v3 as somehow legacy of coffee advantage in this situation, but you don't have the best of weapons
They still got a lot of time though
No, but this is perfect
You have to slow it down because the strength of this round right now is the positioning of miss him
He can gather information for you. He can backstab
He can cut off someone just kind of wandering through not realizing that he's made it that he slipped past the defense
Only issue is he's only got a glock
So he better be damn good when he gets his opportunity
And it's gonna be Talcin stepping forward first. He clears it though nicely done Talcin
All right, clear. Now into the site. Art has given them a chance with a 2k in this round.
Maybe he can get even more, but only a 5 HP. It's unlikely.
He steps into the open, but he actually makes it back around the corner and gets information on Talcin.
There's some utility available here for Gamelige and two Kits.
We're going to start tossing out that U-Tilt. Art's going a long way around.
He's hoping they take a few seconds, but they're getting into position immediately.
That deep juice is tapped, not being committed to it.
So at this point, smoke is up, cloud cover down, sticking it all the way, Artis arrived, but he won't peak out in time.
He won't chase the outcome of this round, despite a decent effort, and it won't be another one for GamerLegion, pushing them closer and closer to rounding out map 1.
Yeah, GamerLegion just handled every single situation that's been thrown at them.
Any little piece of trickery, any great sequence from a legacy player, they've been able to recover and respond to all of it.
Good starts in both halves for legacy three out of four to start the first half three straight to start the second half
But from that point, it's all gamer legion guns come out and they're just the superior squad
That's all there really is to say here on ancient so far
You know
This is trying to get out through elbow with game blocks a great utility of the game religion to just slow them down to the jump points
flashes coming through really trying to combat this but legacy not able to
League's defense. Oh, right through the smoke, Stax just continues, smoke fades in
red ring, there's two defenders here to challenge, Dumau steps up to the plate.
He's gonna give it a good go here towards red, but Rose is in a good spot in that
corner, peeking out, good reaction from Dumau, who is anticipating a swing from
a potential player at red as well. He's gonna back off, 30 HP left to his name.
Minute five on the clock. Stax is just having a masterful game right now, he's
is moving forward, 20th kill picked up, Towson to PR, a tandem, and that's it, cleaned up.
Gamalich and reach map points, and despite legacy winning both pistol rounds, it's not enough to keep them competitive for any real stretch of his game.
Gamalich has been so good, even if legacy gets some kills and create an opening.
I mean, Gamalich has been so good at dropping a smoke, dropping a Molotov to nine, right here.
Gimau gets the kill, he wants to slide forward. Molotov comes in, holds him at bay.
So at that point, you're not getting a whole lot off of the frags that you're gaining.
And then, game religion is just kind of stepping forward in themselves, you know, taking the fights.
They're taking the initiative, Wild Legacy is frozen on the map.
Five chances for game religion to win the opening map of this semi-finals.
Well, Heipex scope is out the ready, Art gonna get boosted up, and quicker shot from Art.
Heipex nearly got to the angle, but couldn't quite.
And now, this move, semi-utility over towards the site, that Nade is gonna land right on top of PR.
half his health gone over half. In fact, the bomb is ready for what is going to be a B-Plyte,
which means pressure to Snaks, who's been fantastic all map long. Now, if he has a big
performance here, it'll close the map out.
Yeah, and they can't go through that smoke. It's too deep. It's too hard to find a clean
fight on the other side of that one. So I think they're going to be held at bay. Meanwhile,
this is giving time for Gamer Legion to figure things out. Start pushing towards the middle.
Orchestrate how you want to play the mid-round. Going to shrink the map a little bit, and
they're going to understand when any utility flies into the B-Bomb site, Snaks is now playing
retake to survive, Towson and Rez will be really tough to deal with on the flanks.
That is...
Fighting Dumell range, but not able to connect the shot, so
it is legacy to pick up the advantages required to try and get into the site.
Can Snack step up? No!
It's the answer as he gets taken down, and PR through what he can through the smoke, at least one frag.
But there's no way legacy can see this.
You get a prolonged play.
Great flight win from Dumau. He's the one that puts a stop to Res on the flank.
And Towson not even motivated to step forward and test it.
They've got money behind them, but it's going to start running low,
so prioritizing the weapons and the economy, legacies stay alive.
By themselves, another round of play.
12-8.
And some of this is legacy kind of playing themselves into the game.
Art has 19 kills, Dumau has 18, those guys have been stellar, starts to finish.
Everyone else has been a little bit quiet.
Kind of like what we saw at Game Religion yesterday, where Hypeback's was carrying them through
some tough stretches.
Legacy right now is Art and Dumau trying to keep them alive in this and hoping your
Op of Sadzen can wake up.
Hoping Lato can wake up your top performer of this event so far.
If you're on the legacy side, you're looking for them to start having impact if you want
to tie things up and force it over time and timeout taken from Gamer Legion.
Their final buy before money is really in a weird place.
So a conversation, how they want to play this, how this is going to be set up, and probably
emphasizing the idea of saving a couple of weapons if the opportunity is there.
Don't let everything get taken away.
Like as he's taken the first of five steps, coming back here on ancient, their map pick
is up next.
That would be Mirage, but at the moment, not done fighting on ancient.
The problem is, even after winning a round, we've still got a mountain of cash to fight against.
So, Gable Legion, just perk yourself, get into a good bind.
Snacks going down first, much better here from Legacy.
Fantastic openings, and now P.R. nearly getting caught in the open.
The hunt is done, but they're walking right into the AWP, so the track was laid,
but that's information, two players towards Donut, and how do they react to that?
react to that. I'm surprised you mouse one so aggressively on that in the five on three
especially with no one else at elbow following up. He didn't have a single teammate there
to attempt to trade any of those kills. So it gives one back and Lato is softened up game
religion not out of this fight just yet but like I said because their money is gone now
this had to have been the conversation of the time out. If we get beat up on the entries
if we find ourselves in a disadvantage situation set up one of the bomb sites so that we can
just save there. You see Hypex in Towson doubling up over towards B as PR senses the chance
He's gonna slide over as well and they'll just say if you if you finish here, that's great
We have a chance at winning the round if not we save and we have another by moving forward
So if art and legacy don't change their mind they're gonna waltz in for another free round a ninth round
And I let I apologize I never checked with you guys before this all got started can I just get a sense of this
Is the crowd out there rooting for gamer Legion is that who you guys want to win this one?
There's another team in the server. How about legacy?
I don't know. I feel split right down the middle.
That was a few boos in the legacy one.
Still a long noise, but...
Yep.
Making it very clear.
Okay, religion definitely looking like they're eventually going to round this out
But great to see legacy finding some life yet
I'm just rolling over and letting this one close
Raj is up next
So like you see if you can play themselves into this obviously expecting to be a lot more competitive on that second map
You know, it's it's great to see art committed this team actually perform with legacy
It was a huge question mark right like how was he gonna change?
How was his place are gonna change?
You know it was interesting from both sides to his legacy their initial rise was was like marks by Lux joining that team and taking up the end game
Later duty, so it's kind of surprising to see that change happen
It kind of came in a left field the felt from the outside and once you see they got to another final of Bucharest
Well, they nearly were able to take down Aurora
So there's a lot of positive signs about this legacy squad
Obviously went downhill towards the end of the season and starting off 2026, but you know for legacy
I thought this might be a move that would just be a sideways move
It's actually somehow kept him competitive. It's not better. So at least got him back to this competitive nature
Yeah, so it's great to see that and we'll see if they can continue with here in this series 12 to 9 not done yet
But here come came a leech and still able to scrap together a good pie here
I can see gonna be challenging out mid do now charging out fearless as he gets towards the bottom boxes
Okay, boost up over the smoke. This is a good shot for kill
He off a little bit cheesy, but he's got to mount down
And that's the main instigator for Legacy. 18 kills, no longer in play.
And neither is Nism. Snacks again through the smoke.
Had a lot of those in this half, hasn't he, Snacks?
A wallbang, a smoke kill.
And now Legacy fighting for the light gear on this map.
They're trying to come back into it.
Orton stands in a better decent job.
But they've got a deal with Rez. And Rez is still standing, looking to round this map out in favor of Gamer Lee.
Rez! And he's got both of them!
So easy for Wes, a 13-9 win for Gamalich and on this first map, Ancient continues to be their strength.
I welcome to the Jason Rogan experience as a man obviously who's very obsessed with
what he puts into his body being that my body is a temple.
I'm excited to have you here because we obviously get to talk to someone who's been so good in terms of not aging
Yeah, how have you managed to stay so long as the young veteran?
I mean, I think I do I put a lot of effort in my health and keep my face really young as it is
I can tell yeah, so I think a big part of it is probably
my
My resident here in Sweden living in Sweden are trying to stay away from the sunlight as much as possible
possible, staying indoors, playing a lot of online tournaments, I don't try to go out
ever almost. I stay inside, keep away from the sun to keep myself young.
It's an interesting strategy too, because a lot of people try and qualify to stay in
more events and go deeper in tournaments, but you're sitting there like you can lengthen
your career if you just don't go deep into the playoffs.
Yeah, I don't understand why people don't focus more on this. This is the most important
thing in life, I think, is looking young.
And they're putting a lot of mileage on their bodies. Milage, you obviously don't have
to carry with you which is great. Yeah I think this is the most important part of
me. Like this is what defines me. Can we talk about diet a little bit because out
here in Sweden obviously you guys have this beautiful land and
known for your moose meat. That's an important point actually. I think I
usually go on weekends for off to the player only qualifiers. I used to go out hunting
with my friends. That's a big part of keeping my body as it is. Right. Now talk
to me a little bit about the whole fish thing. You guys have this
fermented fish. I imagine that has to do something with keeping the skin clear all that fish oil.
You don't even take the supplement. You just get it right from the can. No, I go to the sea.
Really? Yes, I fish straight from the source, you know, and I eat it raw. That's beautiful.
Yeah, that's perfect. That's how I like it. Now, I would say, like for me, have you ever looked
into like stem cells? And for me, like I'm really a big fan, a big proponent of stem cells. I'm a
big proponent of the ice bath in the morning. You're talking about the moose meat. I've had that
as well. All of this seems to just do great stuff for keeping the longevity of how you're
looking young, which is something that you've been able to accomplish.
Stem cells, I don't believe in that that much. I would say it's probably just the
Swedish atmosphere is all you need.
Now, one thing that I've heard that this has been a little bit of a conspiracy,
but I wanted to talk to you about it. You were in the NIP roster for so long,
while Swedish Counter-Strike was struggling to bring in new players and new people.
Now I've heard that there's that you have some kind of a thing going on where you actually kind of take the
power the life force of the younger Swedish players coming up to the scene to
To make yourself a little bit more powerful and longevity
Like I
When I play with young players, I try to always the first thing I look at when I get a new young project in my team
It's like how do they keep?
Themself young and if you take that away from them, then all of a sudden you will get a brief all the rewards
Yeah, of course, that's the I think that's the point of everything and for my care. Well, that's beautiful
I think you've done a great job. Thank you. Keep going keep it up. Stay young. I will
Jason
Legacy with a valiant effort to be opening up this series, but the solid results for
Game Religion on Ancient just keep on coming.
Snacks and towels in, they were truly coming alive during the game, but who else could
it be, Yanco, other than Rez to close this one out?
Yeah, definitely so, and I think even the game was more dominant in Game Religion's
favour than the score showed, right?
Legacy winning both pistols, that's the only reason why they were anywhere close in this
game.
They came to the gun rounds, Gamer Legion just much, much better, they were very well prepared,
they talked about the aggression that was going to come in from Legacy and you could
tell they knew how to counter it and weren't caught by surprise by any of the moves that
Legacy was going in.
They also just saw the contrast in how things were going for them on that CT side.
Sure, Gamer Legion were losing rounds, Legacy were coming back into the game, but when Gamer
Legion were on that attack, they did such a good job of actually shutting those rounds
out before Legacy could even really properly consider retakes.
either getting gunned down on the roadside, or they just felt like they had no assets
really to get a foothold back onto those bombsites.
Game Legion on CT almost always had a way back into rounds.
And when we look at the T side to begin with, the Game Legion as well.
Seven in a row, totally into eight to close things out, Yumi.
You kind of in for a bad time, you see Legacy off to that.
Yeah, I mean, it was just a lot of these high impact moments that occurred through the game,
but, you know, had they gone the other way, maybe Legacy would have been more convincing
on their gun rounds, but they just seemed a little discombobulated.
They didn't seem as though they wanted to actually actively fight for mid as much as Gamer Legion did in so many of their defensive rounds that
It did sometimes feel as though Gamer Legion had their way with the rest of the map
They're playing with a lot of spagger right now Gamer Legion. I think they have a ton of confidence right like that
Even if things go wrong, they're off to a slow start like the playbook is there
The answers are there for them to come up with and also the players just individually, you know going for plays taking initiative
not being scared and they're delivering in crunch time.
Should we go back to the moment where they kind of begun that streak of a two-side rounds?
We've got round five. What are you looking at here?
Yeah, I think it was huge because as we said, Legacy won pistol, right?
They lose the first gun round, but then they get the reset on game legion.
And this is their final buy.
HyperX with Yop, Dumao finds two kills here, gets traded.
So still a 4v3 for Legacy in good position.
You can see Snaks and Talcen only have pistols.
Snaks doesn't even have armor.
And now after these trades, it's just a 1v3, 4,000, right?
It looks like, okay, they have it on lock.
He does have the bomb.
Here you can see him get rid of Nismd and Sazin unable to get the trade.
And now it's a lot of 1v1, a really tough one because he's so out of position.
And he does have a smoke in a kit, but 1,000 isn't going to let him use that, right?
And then wins the round at a huge moment, which flips the half of the economy on its head.
You guys are such an audacious position in that spot as well.
in the 1v1, open to everything, but also wanted to cover everything and just knew as well that
he could have nestled himself away into a corner and Lato's going to have to consider that as an
option too. You know, the casters were talking about the tool for the side of legacy. I mean,
Art and Duma are a great job, but where was everyone else? And when you see, you know,
Sazin and Lato or Nisman Lato in that round, you know, you're thinking, man, you just have to get
that trade, you just see that better. Even the final round, whereas how is he alive? How is he not
that how isn't laptop like just getting him you know on the on the AK and you can talk about tactics and everything a lot but if
you're that much off in your aim and just your individual level like you're gonna have a rough day
It's also just totally different to the wind conditions from legacy before I mean coming out of the group stage
You know you didn't see the missile on those trains you wouldn't see those failed opportunities in the same way
I do think that that 3v1 rattled legacy in a way that we didn't get to see that type of I guess underperformance from them so far this
Tournament, I mean
I kind of don't blame them right because you miss that trading opportunity and they take it comes down to a 1v1
That arguably should have never been like that's enough to kind of tilt you
But if you're talking about legacy you would expect them to have
Somewhat of a bounce back in that first half and there was just nothing
Oh, I think we also prefaced it before the series right like their ancient stats are it's worse than the stats show right?
The wins come against lower tier opposition in Brazil like they struggled against teams in Europe
And I think this is the benefit of being the high seed, right? Like you get your opponents map first
Ancient was always going to be tough for them to win and they get to warm up a little bit like if
Sartzen and Nissen continue to play on this level, you know on Mirage
I mean legacy are done
But hopefully this was enough of a warm up maybe get some of the nerves of playing on the stage of their system
It's been a while for them, but now they can go into Mirage with more confidence to
sort of show us some of the level that we've seen from them in the group.
In some senses as well, you could give them a bit of a pass, because this is also the
map they've 13-1ed on.
You brought that up before.
It was, you know, we might actually have to start respecting the Game of Legion Ancient
as, you know, one of these pocket picks that they can go to when they really need it in
these deepened series.
And it feels like every time we're bringing up Game of Legion, it's always a different
individual to be popping off this time, obviously.
Snacks has obviously been a share of numbers as well, but Towson as well, obviously.
in his clutch moment that really turned the tide of a game, he was just firing off this map.
That 1v3 was worth its weight in gold, right? Because in these moments on stage,
like it's very important to stabilize, it also gives everyone something to cheer for,
and be hyped about on the team, right? Like, it's just such a momentum changer around like that,
and it really added fuel to the fire for game religion.
He was also getting so many of these kills supplementary to retakes, to the executions,
whether or not it was the actual entry or not, his impact was felt and a ton of reverberated in
these rounds far more than some of the kills that Snaks got. You know, I think he had a few
more empty calories, but you know Snaks is always going to demand a certain level of respect and
he actually came in with some big rounds individually just towards the end of the game.
Snaks and empty calories, name a better duo, but he's still doing it. In 2016 he's still out there,
he's still doing it at a great CT side as well with some multi-kills, you know, from cave,
dancing around it, a huge uptick in performance on this map compared to how he was doing at the
whole end. Well hopefully, I better do it if you're just a fan of the marathon series. Could be
Legacy and Noraj. What's the story of these guys on this particular map? Why have they brought it
into this series? I think it just suits their players more. There's more opportunity for
playmaking. It isn't as constrained as Ancient, where there's a lot going on in terms of these
early smoke fights, fighting for mid, you know, just reactionary plays. Here you can
take your time a little bit more, take away space from your opponents and then also change
the momentum, right, with some hits that are for sure going to come in from the side of
legacy.
There's also the perspective of as they've built into the season, this is a map that
they have heavily tested Navi on at Pro League. They, I think, re-encounter them at Bucharest
as well. They'd be, they'd be PowerVision at Bucharest rather as well on this map. So,
terms of reputation and their ability to punch up into international competition, Dust2 is definitely
their best at that, but Mirage is not too far just in a second. Okay, so you're telling me that there
is hope that this could still be a competitive series. T side star though for legacy, what do you
want to see right out the gate? I just sometimes they would get away on nations like they would
start to play two individualistic like in some of these 3v3s, 4v4s, right go for gaps individually
instead of trying to play a little bit more like a team or at least you know use some utility to
to draw attention to a certain part of the map, create a gap for a player to utilize.
So I want to see them play a little bit more as a team, and also I want to see the individuals
step up.
I mean, the way Nissen and Sazen were doing, like, they have to step it up.
I want that slower tempo, some more executions.
That's what Art was supposed to have brought to the table with this legacy roster.
So how we've seen the team morph and bend when they are playing these pressure-pissed
positions, you can't always rely on your rookies.
Even if these guys are stars, this type of stage is not a familiar environment from them.
I want them to simplify things so that they can just do what they do best.
Go in for a go.
Well, either way, game legion with another strong performance on their chosen ground of ancient.
But can legacy change that tune?
It's their choice of mirage coming up in just a few.
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It's looking good so far, but we're switching over to the second map in this series, switching
over to Mirage, which is Legacy's playground.
A lot of the strength this team has, the ability to play with momentum, the aggressive plays,
all of that is going to be much easier to execute here on Mirage.
Well an ancient they really struggled to pull it off. Gamerly was able to put them in their pockets, slow them down, take away their game plan.
It's going to be a much harder thing to do here. And Legacy must have this. Art, Dumal and Lato have to show up here on this second map.
Elimination is on the line. The Grand Finals of Atlanta are on the line.
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We'll see if Legacy can put up a fight.
Pretty alive in the pistol round.
The Legacy on their own map pick, starting from the T side, attacking into the defense.
must win that for the Brazilians.
Instant window smoke chucked out
and legacy is going to have a lot of players
two towards the halls, three towards middle
and this is going to join up with
Saturday and Lotto. They want to attempt to
split this B-palm site.
Smoke in con, smoke in window room
so the avenue is available to them.
Really taking it slow in case there's any
kind of aggression. Here's the utility to show
that they want to have some deep push.
Actually this is all going to be a fake.
It's gonna pull the defense back in middle and snacks that's to the smoke and this has got that kill
Yeah snacks check, but we got rising start of the site here doing what he can anymore
He's got a second out of it. His teammates also stepping up and miss yaw some art eventually bringing runs down and tells him and long range of those
Drunk or others PR comes out on top so leaves art in the clutch
Before K he's able to pull this one off. He's got over a minute to play with yeah one beat two
He's got all the HP the issue is no armor
So once he gets into these gay engagements gonna be really rough and you can see PR finds himself a safe position over towards ramp
No way for art to spot it out. He's just got to take a risk plant the bomb
Actually PR even pushing towards CT spawn so may feel like it's gonna be a finish at the B bombsite, but he'll be wrong
At least securing and a minimum the force by in the next round
But art getting flanked out from the ramp at the moment look at the amount of positions
He has to worry about and PR now coming out of the ramp art has actually tucked himself away
He's safely hit it. He might think he's being sneaky, but PR knows he's not ramp
He's clearing, he's getting closer.
Now considers what Art might be and sees him just poking around that corner.
So Art, no chance to win out the clutch.
And there'll be Gamelidge in picking up the pistol.
It's a little bit different from the first map as well.
We see legacy when both pistol rounds, when both second rounds.
This time they're going to start on the back foot,
but at least with that ball and plant Art's able to secure them in the fourth spot.
Yeah, scary prospect.
You got ran over when you had hot starts and both halves on ancient.
Now you don't have one here on Mirage, so you're going to have to grind it back.
Interesting idea, the kind of like fake execute in the B halls to let the short players play first, but those USPs at a range
Res doesn't an awesome job of getting kills. Legacy could never actually scale into the bomb site
I think running that's so late smokes and midfated as well. There was a crossfire at distance into the bomb site at A
So they'll try again with the bomb plant scout in the hands of Art
He's got a tag taking damage himself, but brought snacks down to 39
And this is moving up to the window for Naked to land upon it.
Advantage side, he became a Legion, and damage down to Art.
That's a really risky way to try and find an opening around that you're not bringing a whole lot to the party.
That's one of the rifles you brought in lost, in fact.
Oh, Taliesin gets greedy!
That's one back, and they're gonna go with it right through the smoke!
And they're trying to get out towards Rez, who keeps his head tucked away.
The flash is coming through, he dodges most of them, but he can't dodge.
Dumao just goes again and this time on Snacks!
Great second jump from Dumao, that opens up the bombsite and suddenly the round is wide open for Legacy and shut for Gamelige and they have to back away and save their weapons.
That's exactly what Dumao was doing on Ancients and he's brought it back here into the second map.
That's a disgusting second kill to secure the round.
Three kills for Dumao overall and Legacy after losing a pistol, get it right back.
And we know Dumao is a great player, but the reason that we talk about him being so deadly is because he usually comes as a package deal with Lato, right?
It's that duo that you always talk about with legacy that keeps them competitive, that keeps them a threat.
Lato was missing on that first map, so you'd love to see Lato get into form here on Mirage,
and if you have that one-two punch of Dumao Lato popping off here for legacy, it's going to be a very different story.
Especially because you've had Lato throughout this entire map. He's the third highest rated player statistically.
I got just to say he's tied for second with Kavam and Zairou 1.27 rating.
So yeah, missing a piece of the puzzle that's been been been there for you every step of the way up to this point
We'll see if Lado can find his way into the game
This is an opening provided by Towson just being a little bit greedy really one of that AK-47 thought they'd fallen back thought
They were done with the spamming that angle for Reza's just way too hard to deal with but that's a thing of beauty
Yeah, do now ready for every fight
right? Not even the classic 2 mile yell. He realized there's so much work needed to be done here.
It's going to go down into the underpass. You can see the damage he's inflicted single handedly.
You've got snacks on a D-Gall, Talc's on the same, with a 5-7 out for Ryze.
Yeah, buys a little bit busted for Gamer Legion.
Little bit of a trap set though at the top of Khan. Four players for Gamer Legion.
It snacks alone at the B-Bombside plant short.
P.R. and Talson right at the top of Conn and res in the window smoke.
P.R. is coming down, Plateau dead, Arton sat in, we're gonna get a couple between them
and finally it's like you see they keep it clean up, Talson doesn't go against them
now you've got to turn towards Connector and they do, they deal with it.
Now they know where Talson is, get some slips down into the site, he's got some cover
and some time to let his teammates come and split on Talson, maybe it's almost impossible
for the day and you will drop so 2 to 1 lead here for legacy despite losing the
pistol that force by works out perfectly in the second and they're able to
follow up with another win so two rounds in a row and gamer legion out of money
to fight here nice thing for them hypex sitting at 3400 so he'll have the AWP in
the next rounds give him out a couple more sequences like that you'll start
here to look good out to you
I mean you could just see the importance of that ball plan from Martin the
Pistorado as well. The fact that he's able to get that that's why like he's
doing that 2-1 up. You get enough money to get Dumau on a Khalil. Yeah it's a huge
change isn't it? It's a nice extra tool to have. You know you're just gonna take
3-1 lead because 2 SP's and 1 D.Eagle. I get another trap set up by GamerLegion
over off to the B-Bomb site. Four players are here a little bit of a boost up.
But the rifles will just end up being too strong when they get into this.
So I mean, it's a weird situation now with the way that this is played out with the Pistor
on one by Gamer Legion.
Like, Lexi doesn't get it, but now you can say after converting the second themselves,
they go back to getting that start that they had, the good start that they had on Ainshu.
If no better.
They're gonna get themselves that nice 3-1 lead, a full eco here on this side, a things
That's good turn from Art.
Trapped and slayed, but there's still plenty of players here, so a better weapon available.
And Gameliz will be happy to pick that up.
Art's fine with that though. I mean, you spotted two kills and you spot two more players.
So you know, at most there's one defender here. Now everyone's hustling over.
The M4 is going to be a little bit late to join in and Snats will want to prioritize keeping that.
The pausing connector is actually giving time to Gameliz to start rotating a couple of these pistols over.
The Eagle hasn't been able to do much. The USP desperately trying to upgrade.
And as they step into the open snacks actually gets a kill with that picked up right for yeah
Now it's time to just back off and let high-packs do his own thing if you want to fight more with the deagle go for it
Try and shave off one more kill if you want to try and recover that weapon as all you
Snacks actually shifting over towards short to maybe grab one more kill down the stretch
But it will be a third round for legacy regardless of what happens high-packs gonna rely I think on the bomb to blow a gun into his direction
He's going to hop into the window, actually, and goes forward to realize that's the move
he's trying to make.
That's that one.
He's going into the hands of GamerLegerman and Satsen.
Successful on the hindstop.
Snacks from getting his free gun as well.
So that's a three to one lead for Legacy.
We'll see immediately coming into the next round.
Hypex is invested into the orb.
So that's going to be coming out with rifles around it.
And remember back to the first map, it took like eight, nine rounds before we saw Satsen
with an AWP.
It was deep into the first half before he was able to pull it out.
got that out right at the start. So both sides playing with the sniper. Round five begins.
Everyone's got the buy they want. Sads in with the AWP is going to head over to the A-Bomb,
so he wants a pick towards the ramp and he drops the bomb. Maybe this is the timing as Snacks has
already crossed over. So Lado in a prime position, Nissen getting towards the end of Palace. Sads
in coupling with the AWP, lovely pick, do they want to build off it?
Legacy happy to stay composed and paused in their positions looking for the reaction.
Yeah, they got so much time and my luxury of a man advantage.
No, Legacy, a lot more comfortable playing out these mid rounds of Mirage as well.
Smoke up for the window, blocking the vision of Ryze.
I mean, Legacy hasn't budged towards the Saipalm side.
It feels like this round is always designed and destined at the moment to finish here.
DeMau now working through the underpass.
Art at top middle is going to swing out and slowly start his crawl up short.
There's a trap here.
Legacy could lose a lot.
Yeah, Art moving up.
Hypeback's going to catch him, so they have lost the advantage for the time being,
but DeMau might just be able to get behind them.
Great quick catch shot on Telstra.
Misses the Molotov and backs away into the underpass.
Now you need to rely upon the hit towards this A-side.
30 seconds left.
I'm also just, I mean, I'm amazed they're kind of continuing this attack, actually,
with Dumao being locked out the way he was.
I guess it's the time makes them feel like they have to go for it!
And Lato, Dumao combining together, breaking apart the defenses,
and Rezgim do nothing about changing the outcome of this round,
so it's going to be a 4-1 lead for Legacy.
Find a way to make it work.
Those are solutions they didn't have on Ancient.
They were struggling to find them.
Good flashbang, good aggression as the smoke breaks,
and res backs away now plenty of money for legacy to go hunt this down and you
could see them on the mini map all those yellow dots moving to the other side
so res is gonna have a fight just to keep this guy in his hands
now starting to push in legacy want everything to be as easy as humanly
possible. Taking the gun away, forced to rebuy, forced to money even lower, break it entirely.
Don't get caught at the end. Res 1 kill traded. They're doing such a good job at hunting these
rifles down as well. Not letting anything go for free here. Legacy have really made this such a
difficult start to the half for Gamelidge and who don't have a lot of money here. They don't have
enough to get a full buyout and it's Doomow again. Griff for shock, misses the Molotov here and
obviously makes it a little bit awkward but he combines with Lato. That's the combo
we were mentioned just at the start of this map right if that starts to get
going that one-two punch this makes a very scary half start to look very real
for legacy. Let's see if they're doing exactly what
game religion did to them which is just kind of outplay him and pick him apart
make this defense move make this defense never know what's coming and look at the
change of pace again now we just have a contact slide out.
Unspotted one and he's got both!
The recoil gives him a gift!
Yeah, great work there for Art.
That's the sight completely taken.
Yeah, Bum's dropped back in T spawn still, so it'll be a little bit of time.
Meanwhile, Legacy happy to keep me in aggressive, making sure they can control this side of the map.
I could pick for Art again.
Moving forward a third of the round and taking any damage on board either,
Which really is making this economy look very pretty for legacy. They've got so much cash left over
It's gonna be a very tough half for the remainder of this for Namely just to get into it and aren't his fourth
Why not go for the ace?
It just looks so much more comfortable on this map sliding into map control gaining a little bit of space and then being able to kind of
Hold on to it knowing where the next rotation is coming. This T-side is looking real nice so far
Art's going for a smash, and Art's going to take everyone away.
That's an ace, well, yeah, the anti-UK ace, well done from Art.
Yeah, it takes every single frag in towards the site, and 10 and 4 start from Art.
I mean, continuing this good performance, he had a great first map, even in a loss, right?
Yeah, you've mentioned a lot of being absent on that first map.
I was the one who picked up the pieces there.
Hidden through malware, the two-man army, just not enough to make that competitive in any sense.
But here, doing a good job of being the engine.
Five kills in this round.
Just picking them one by one and a timeout is called from GamerLegion there first because obviously they're stumped.
AWP is going to come back out from HypeX.
I will see what Art wants to do with this lead in a timeout.
Right, we saw GamerLegion on map one.
Every time Legacy called a timeout, a little bit of a change of pace.
An uppercut rush towards the beat.
Bomb site, does Legacy want to do something similar?
Or are they just saying GamerLegion's a figure out how to beat us here?
Congratulations.
I see
high-packs as well. Can start to make the difference. We talked about it
really being required over on ancient. This is where you do want some CT side
all of the barrage. Takes the first bit of damage as well from utility down to
73 HP but we're going to see a quicker pop perhaps from legacy towards B.
Two players in middle, three towards the apartments.
Smoke takes away the vision.
Con smoke not breaking completely, but now it will and hype back so it cannot adjust in time.
Sat's in an awkward position, and he doesn't like the danger he's feeling.
The sense of danger in this position, so Art slides in instead.
Towson steps out in behind R, whose head is turned, but the B pushes come in and Dumal
rapidly chasing that trade kill.
He's got it on Towson.
Hypeback stepping out.
He's got the angle, but he's about to be blocked out by Smoke.
You start to feel helpless here if you're game religion.
You can't hold onto the B site.
It's hard to see a wall.
You want to get back into it, and now Dumal has pushed again, taking the AWP away, and
it's now in a position where you don't feel comfortable to go out and go and get it back.
Yeah, Saxon Resid already called for the save when all that went down the legacy just doing a great job
This is art pulling everyone towards short
Opening up the B bombsite Avenue gamer legion looking flustered here. They don't know where to position players
They're three steps behind now
It's coming with a great mirage here like you see a really strong T side. They've lost the pistol and nothing else
You can see why they brought it here, obviously very comfortable.
Haven't seen Gamer Legion mixing any kind of aggression towards mid, right?
We've seen a few traps, but haven't seen any pushes up mid.
Haven't seen any pushes through underpass, palace, squishes.
Might be time for them to mix some things up and see if you can create a play that slows legacy down,
slows this attack down, or at least get yourself to play around with an advantage.
I haven't had many of those here on Mirage.
Oh, quick utility in the middle here for Legacy.
Pop mid smoke, window smoke, open in place.
Let's start sprinting into the connector.
Look at them all ready here.
PR handles that pressure.
Rez won't go.
Argo that second layer.
And now they're trying to get it through short to the B bomb site.
The smokes are breaking open, revealing kills for Legacy.
Spraying away.
Snacks staying. Oh my god.
Snacks out of the window in a 20 position. Snacks gets into it.
It's absolute chaos to kick off this round.
Snacks is doing what he can, but he's burned out of the window
and forced into the underpass. I almost can't believe that he's alive.
Only Snacks could do that and still come out on the other side
with a chance to fight. Towson, everything's new in the open.
No trade. No trade!
Towson with a double!
Yeah, flashed to the skies while Towson trying to save his team.
It's gotta be Lato.
He's been quiet the whole time in the semi-final,
But this will be a great time to get loud.
He's got himself a second chance to reach snacks.
And now suddenly, it won't be one for Lato.
He's got time to stay composed, to take your breather,
but he's trying to fight.
He's looking for it.
And going for the reload.
PR in the open, and Lato's done it.
Legacy can do no wrong.
And finally, Lato with some impact.
Putting his name on the semi-finals,
there was a little bit haggard rough around the edges.
Snacks causes a lot of issues in that round for legacy, but they still manage to come out on top a
Huge clutch for Lotto the read on the flank
It was a 1v3 for Towson that ignited gamer leech on ancient the first map now a 1v3 from Lotto is gonna let legacy continue to dominate
From the game a leisure perspective you got to feel like you can't catch a break on the CT side now in the fight
It's so hard to remain competitive in this round, and Towson steps up.
This is on the B-ball, this is on the Latto, just rips it out of your hands.
You think Snacks is the insurance policy coming through the apartments as well with Latto reaching.
Well, legacy in the driver's seat completely.
And I mean, the change of pace is now they're throwing into the mix.
Gonna be very much more difficult, it still gets harder for Gamer Legion.
Sats in, like shot on the hype back, so a little bit quicker.
Gonna double up on the T side.
They've taken out for a spin, Satsun and R having a go.
I think they're hoping the upshot in the middle would maybe make someone with the A bomb site kind of peek out and slide into Satsun's ult.
The Latoes slid out towards Tetris.
They can't rise to the waiting under the wood.
He's about to get mollied out here by Nessim.
And then just forces Rize into the peak. He gets traded by Fumal. Here's PR stepping out into the open.
Flowing behind triple, Hypex coming over to try and help him, but PR was so committed to trying to win the fight against Dumal, but he's just so razor sharp right now, Dumal wins that fight too.
And credit to Nissan, the support flash is coming out of Palace, he's been excellent in this shot, he nails it, Sadsen takes one down, and okay, that's close, ART hunkers down, Molotov towards CT.
Hypex and Taliesin now 2v4, bomb yet to get planted, but it just feels like this round is unbelievable, I feel like you see, especially with Sadsen landing shots.
and now looking for the follow-up, he knows exactly what Towson is, it just
tosses out a smoke, it starts to back away, already legacy her out, they're trying to
hunt him down, two-mouth sprinting to the other side of the map to try and cut
him off and it's Sadson that moves forward, switches out to the right
force to take the kill and a 3k out of Sadson, finished by the right field who
got back to the AWP and now game of the legend in a really tough spot because
they don't even have money to get a 4-by out here.
No, this is terrifying.
A legacy is just having their way with you at the moment.
Another brilliant trade from Dumao as he steps in.
Good job making himself a tough target.
Here's the support of Flash from Nissen coming out of Palace.
Saves the day.
Allows Dumao to have that extra kill
and really opens up the bomb site.
And right now, legacy is just flowing.
Gamer Legion can do nothing to stop this.
I'll slow down the pacing, I'll slow things down and make legacy reconsider.
There was, there seemed to be no intentions of going fast considering where the bomb
is.
to turn them short from highpacks.
The bomb's still all the way back in T spawn,
Dumau plants his feet,
let snacks try and peek him and challenge.
Dumau has done so much damage,
eventually finishing off snacks.
So that advantage no longer with the team legacy
starts to move up through mid.
Bomb's still dropped in T spawner.
Looks like that'll be Lato's responsibility.
And at the moment, they're not concerned whatsoever.
So just looking for a few kills
before they decide where they wanna finish things up.
No, well, that's it, and then he's heading out towards spawn now.
He'll back all the way, Towson's moved forward.
This is the play he likes to make on the CT side.
Let's see if he can get past the gaze of Dumau.
Oh, Dumau spotted him. He's holding for it.
And nothing going away of Game of Legion at all.
Dumau is so locked in.
I like the way he's not afraid of flights either.
He keeps spotting it and just stepping into the next fight as well.
Not concerned. He's very, very confident at the moment.
Ikex misses a chance.
These Deagles shouldn't really have a whole lot to say in this moment turning the corner one kill Lato's gonna spray him down
A ninth round now for legacy
One more remaining in this first or two more remaining in the second and this first half
9 to 1 lead for legacy. I mean the timeout coming through and
It's actually legacy of called this timeout chasing
They want to make sure they get every remaining round available in this half. I'm not against it at all
Well, I mean again your semi-finals you're looking you're looking to force that third map
It would be inferno as a decider. It looks like we're gonna get there
But yeah hit this pause button make sure your boys aren't feeling too confident still a very critical round
You don't want to lose these last two in some silly fashion and then start seeing them claw themselves back in
Keep them in their place keep them beneath your boot
Legacy up by eight as the timeout concludes off for hypex
4M4s around it, but nothing has been effective for this Gamer Legion defense.
It was a pistol round victory for Gamer Legion, it feels so long ago, and 9 straight rattled
off by legacy.
He's going for another one here too.
Even the aggressive plays forward here from Game of Legends aren't all that successful.
At least the grenade from PR will get the trade.
They had to dump a lot of utility to find that kill, but at least you got it.
So the AWP is left in a ramp.
Sadzen swaps out to an AK. Art has his over in Palace.
Just look at the off angle, looking for someone to rotate into the crosshair.
And Legacy changed their position of attack. So much attention towards a ramp.
Bomb is picked up now.
Jumao going to start sliding into the underpass to join up with Lada who's going con.
The real issue is the bomb isolated and alone. If you can't get past PR it's a huge issue for legacy.
PR goes into the open, sats in.
It's falling so yep, it's looking open here for Gamelige. If you don't win this one, what round are you going to win?
R goes down at Palace leaving Jumao on his lonesome.
Only coming through connector now all of his teammates gone under 30 seconds left to play with look at how much
Slower this round is compared to most of the legacy rounds when they lose that first player, right? Oh, okay
There's a top. I don't think there's enough time for this, but let's give him some chance a style points
Maybe I've got shots it down before it could even begin
Double kill for the game religion opera PR with a triple in the rounds
It's two now. I guess one more kill there
I can really affect the buy here in the next round of Game of Leaching, but they do have enough just to scrap out a really strong buy.
But last round of the half coming up, Game of Leaching, three rounds is the best they can hope for.
It's still going to be so tough to see them come back and have a strong enough T-side, but we'll not put it past them, we'll not kill them out yet.
That's one legacy called the timeout in the previous round to try to secure all the rounds available in this first half to maximize their chances of seeing Inferno.
Heavy towards middle. Four players coming out through top mid for legacy.
Could be a little bit of a fight here. I don't think Rez has seen these numbers too much.
Might get surprised. Smoke not broken open. That's too mild. Just stepping around on the other side of the smoke.
Rez falls with ease.
Window smoked to completely control the middle of the map. It forces high-packs to be aggressive to clear out this point of attack.
PR has slid over to its ticket.
Flats out.
Collapsing for Telso.
A 5v3, a great start to this round for the White.
You see? Nice shot from Sanzi.
The flick up. PR stood no chance.
He stands no longer.
The only player that can do anything about this round now is Snacks.
He's hidden away.
And behind the bench.
Unpacked, at least getting one kill. He can make his way over, but it's got to be snacks to deliver if there's any shot this third round.
They know where he is, he only manages one.
So Hypex will be on his merry way over through CT Spawn, arriving now at the market.
The legacy, getting defeated at 13-9, it was a comprehensive victory over an ancient Pergamum Legion.
We said legacy would be more comfortable here on Mirage, but this is on another level.
level. About to secure double figures in the first half of play. We're starting to get
ready to load up Inferno as that third and final match because Legacy are going to leave
this half with a huge advantage. The Brazilians are back and they're playing the counter strike.
We sing for them all event long!
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Gamelige won the pistol on the first half, and pretty much from that point onwards it was Legacy dominating the first half of Karras right here on Mirage.
It's great to see them show up, it's great to see them actually play the way we've seen them all event long.
And now the difficult challenge for Gamelige to try and come back into this game somehow, they've got to do it on the T side.
And it put Legacy in the same position on the first map, so you can't really complain. Maybe not quite this bad, but a similar kind of, oh, we have to come back and we're out of class.
Atlanta, are you still with us here for the second half?
All right, let's see if Gabriel Lijic can come back into this, or if Legacy send us to a third map in this semifinal.
We've got some utility here for Satsun and on, and this one's got the kit, so keep eyes on that on the mini map.
Well, a heavy lean towards the B-bombs here for the defense at the start.
Three players are here to handle any kind of a rush.
There's two players coming fast, but it doesn't look like it'll be any kind of a commitment.
there's the flash play. Newsome doesn't want to commit to the fight and okay, he's going to get one regardless.
Towson goes down 5-on-4 and there's nothing that the game can really do. They're spread around the map at the moment.
Really tough loss to take in a situation. They were just kind of looking to force a rotation, force a movement, maybe force a reaction.
Bit off more than they could chew.
Bomb is going to have to be recovered at the tail end of the halls.
And I guess at the moment it looks like game religion, the idea is to try and execute kind of an improvised mid-round split.
Through middle to short and into the B bomb site. Resin, PR and halls. Hypex and snacks in middle.
Smoke fades away at the window, R perceives some multi-action towards his feet, we've got
high packs going into the ladder, but we don't see him.
They don't check to Mal because of the distraction set up from his teammates, and now PR and Ryze
are also falling towards the apartments.
It's not only a pistol win for Legacy, but it's a permanent pistol win.
They do not lose a single player, 11-2, and we might as well start loading up in Furno.
Yeah, the legend of Dumao, triple kill in this pistol, 17 and 8.
He showed up to play today, excellent on the first map and a loss.
Excellent here in the second map, and it looks like it's going to end up being a dominant victory.
There's no chance in this pistol round.
And zero chance of getting anything done. Dumao's just nasty.
Well, no bomb planted off for game in Leeching.
So no force by available here.
They're gonna save their money and give it one last go in the next, but this is going to result in Legacy heading up to Map Point on Mirage.
Two down.
First one drawn. Sat State up next.
All the Legacy players just rushing to the kills.
Wanting to get this one over and done with.
And settle things on Map 3.
For Gaming Legion, it's the last buy here.
Well, 10 round lead. I don't really know what to say. Nothing to sell you for here. Let's
see if Gamer Legion can maybe wake up and give themselves something positive to talk
about between the maps. Otherwise, it'll just have to be a complete reset of the mental
game. Smokes are out. Potentially, they're only chance with guns on this second half.
There's Snaks, good start. Opening kill on Sadzi.
He's starting to push towards Khan as well. Art's going to have the responsibility with
his AWP. Yeah, more than capable, but he's under a lot of pressure. Snaks has got another
one. PR filtering in. Just two players left here for Legacy. Lato doing what he can. Back
from CT spawn, but bomb now being picked up from Telsen, brought over towards the A site,
Lato being dicked, getting spammed and finished off by Highpacks.
Yeah, they would never let him get out of that situation alive. It's really aggressive and
poor Nism, nothing to do over at this B bomb site, MP9 on hand crossing his fingers, hoping
they end up here, but that ain't the case. So bomb planted, GamerLegion get another crack at it.
It's really just scraping together this third round, but a nice one there picking off art
in the window and just scaling with ease.
Later on today we have the other semifinal in action.
We're looking for our first grand finalist here in this one.
Navi and Betboom gonna grace the stage this afternoon.
I get a feeling you guys are really happy that Navi made it there.
I think they're more happy they've gained vitality, to be honest.
Are you more happy that... OK, let's try this.
Are you more happy that Apex lost?
That sounds about right?
Apart for the course here in America.
Nine round lead for Legacy.
The question is, what are you going to chant now? That's the question, right?
Oh, we'll find something.
Got some creative people out there.
I guess you could just do that one too.
The old classic.
Now it's a slow rate.
We're coming there in close, yeah?
Yeah.
One step at a time.
Alright, we did 12-4, so let's do 10-2, yeah?
Alright, one step at a time, they're saying.
Rez gonna turn the corner on contact, they kill from Dumali, doubles up somehow, but no one else is available.
Lato picks up the pieces, three on two, very quickly into the round, and Snacks left alone with the bomb.
Quickly, Hypex is shifting over, but Snacks doesn't want to dedicate himself to this.
Oh, it's gonna be very tough to win this 2v3.
Snacks coming out of the ramp, now needs this headshot, he does pick it up, takes a lot of damage on board, but Snacks is gone.
So it's gotta be Hypex.
I haven't really seen him have that big clutch moment today.
We won't see him here on Mirage.
A great performance from Dumal.
His delivered legacy, a dominant Mirage victory.
A 13-3 if they send this semi-final to Math 3.
And Frodo decides who's going into the grand finals in Atlanta.
It doesn't matter what day you're joining us, this is the Intellectury Masters in Atlanta,
Georgia, 2026, Mike Chek, one, two, one, two.
You play video games, man?
So violent for no reason.
Hey, yo, what's up?
Y'all anything about Counter-Strike video games?
You know about Counter-Strike?
I'm on the Georgia Tech fencing team.
Tell me what crossroads there might be
between Counter-Strike and fencing.
You know, Counter-Strike, you're in a clutch situation.
It's kind of like the one-to-one situation of you
and your opponent in fencing.
Just going in for the last stab or that last quickscope op.
Alright, bet.
That was good.
What do y'all think about people playing video games against each other competitively?
Oh, I love it. I like the smack-talking they do.
Who are your favorite Counter-Strike players?
I gotta go with an OG Kenny S.
What would you say to Kenny S if he was watching right now?
You're my inspiration.
I think about you every match, but I'm fencing.
What do you think about that?
Kenny S was never my favorite, if that's what you're thinking.
Y'all play video games by chance?
Oh
He didn't even realize it. I mean check them when you roll up here
You saw this Mike like I said, I'm gonna bike a little bit faster now. What do you think?
I thought I am as well get a as far as was possible from you as fast as I can
Yeah, I'm on immediate. I had a blossom media media days. I'm you did what you had blasted media day
Just kidding
Bye
No question who was in the driver's seats in this one.
We wanted that signature Brazilian pace and that is exactly what was delivered here on
Mirage.
Exactly what we wanted to see from Legacy as well on the inverse.
It made Gingrich and Janko feel a little bit flat on the second map.
Yeah, definitely so.
I mean, they didn't give them the pistol even to kick off the game, but that is it really
for them on Mirage. It feels like Legacy was able to turn it around immediately, play a bit more
pace, individual step-up, everything we asked for after Ancient, it happened. And the Daemon Legion
now will have to do some soul searching of their own. Yeah, those anchors, I wanted to praise so
much coming into this matchup. They struggled to find the right position to sit in, to alleviate any
building pressure on these bomb sites. You didn't get those pop-offs, but even in that second half
pistol that's showing on screen. You know, they just lack so basical clears. They're not clearing
angles properly. See head and hands after that pistol as well because I know they're the ones that
make the mistake there. It did seem like they understood as soon as that happened.
And that's the thing. It feels so tough after coming off of what was another impressive showing
on Ancient Rats, but like they had all of the correct reads. I thought, I guess it's so impressive
from the side of legacy. If you come out this hot, this fast, game leaders couldn't handle it.
Well, one of the things, Freya, that differentiates, you know, elite teams for good teams is the map pool.
It's the depth of your map pool, right?
Like, there's a lot of teams out there that can be incredibly strong on one or two maps, right?
And if you play them on those maps, like, they can challenge almost anyone in the world.
But what happens? How good are you on your fourth best map in the pool, right?
The fifth best map, because you're going to have to play those at some point,
depending on matchups and whatnot. And I think you're seeing, you know, when we have these teams,
They're outside the top 10 and you know, I know it's a semi-final of a big tournament, but still this is where you see why
They are outside the top 10 right like if you go on a map that you're not super confident
I know Mirage is one of the most played ones for game legion
But with varying degrees of success and then legacy for them
It's a very strong map like things like this can happen. We're just get blown out of the server
It's also game religion just didn't ever find the conduit that actually found them a win on ancient as well
You know stacks was doing a great job on that map
We had Talisman doing great things as well.
Everybody was pretty poor, in fact, on the map.
And I think, especially with how much praise we're giving him coming into the series,
where is the high-packs that actually stole the hearts of, I think, a lot of people in the audience here?
Because we're not really getting that same impact on stage.
It's a very good question. Maybe he gets to show up on that side in Fano. Maybe.
But we're getting hype from Dumau, right?
He kept going, and early on, he was the deciding factor, really,
really to give momentum to his team.
We can jump into some of these rounds.
And I know Gordon Ghetto said greed is good,
but not in Counter-Strike.
And you'll see Gamer Legion paid for that fully.
Towson is actually gonna do a good job
of battling with this early aggression.
Him and Rez, you know, they get the kill.
Dumao now, Lurex Towson.
Hmm, I hate this famas.
What's over there?
What's this?
Ah, I'm dead.
And Dumao just bounces immediately.
Like they just capitalize that they're 45.
They have no control.
This is their best bet, some nice flashes here, he gets the better of Rez, that's the second entry, boom, snacks, see ya later, third entry and that's the round, done and dusted really from this point, let me say that was huge, right, because they were struggling, you know, even on an ancient, they struggled in gun rounds, they won't both pistols, so here to be able to get another strong start, I think was crucial for this T side that they had.
as though Gamerallegions didn't get into some winning positions within this game, but there was
always someone that responded as well. There was, I mean, not as many kills or not as much impact
from Dumau, rather from Lato compared to Dumau, but Lato had a very big moment as well on that
T-side that could have potentially been the way back into the game for Gamerallegions.
That's the thing, right? And when you're looking at the hesitation time, I guess from legacy in
this one, it felt second to none, right? They made a decision and then they went full force for it,
and that paid off so many times.
Yeah, certainly.
It's really important as well in commerce.
A great call can turn into a terrible call
if it's executed two seconds too late.
Or if you hesitate, you have to be decisive.
You have to trust the call.
You have to trust your instincts as well.
You're not always going to be right, but it's much better.
If you have a bad read, but you still go for the round
with the decisiveness, it has a much higher chance of success
than if you have the best read, but people are doubting,
they're a little bit slow.
They don't trust it's a hundred percent like it's gonna go horribly wrong. Let's look at our trusting an instinct in this one as well
Yeah, this was also just indicative of the feel that legacy had for the rounds. I mean, this is against an eco
It's true
But the fact they're taking a risk by fully contacting out ramp where there could be a D goal
There could be a scout or something posted on this angle and for art
He gets away with absolute bloody murder here because he finds them ahead of one accidentally kills the second guy as well from the spray
And he just instinctively knew that he could continue to press the attack
He understood game a legion wanted to make something happen in around like this
We have so little and he caught them before they could even get started
This is just art relapsing a little bit for you know, it happens like he's different now
But every now and again, you know the old habits they start pulling on you right like would have been a scout in ticket
Could have been so many different things
He just decides to contact walk out ramp against pistols, but this time he gets an ace old habits
I guess Jason will also attest to that one as well.
Let's move on to a moment where Game of Legion felt like they might have had an advantage
and then a 1v3 comes in.
This was sort of the final nail in the coffin, even though it was very...
It's a rally!
You know, but exactly because of the fashion in which they lost.
Like when you're losing these sort of rounds, it doesn't matter which map it is, right?
When you lose 5v4 against pistols in the second round, when you're losing 3v1s that, you know,
you need to close out.
Like the game is getting out of hand at this point and a bit more pace from legacy with
this mid control, mid fight, turning into a B-split, flashing through the smoke,
PR still gets the kill, you know, a lot of chaos going on, smokes being broken,
fights taking place back and forth by levels of nasty shots from Nysim,
then snacks rolling back in years, just playing around the smoke, staying alive,
finding a kill, what is our doing, get used to it, just another day in the office for him,
but actually, Tausen in this whole chaos, once they actually go his way
towards the B bomb site. He's going to do a great job of finding two kills, staying alive a little bit,
up until the very end, where he oversteps slightly, but it's difficult from his position.
He's unsure where Lato can move and Lato just does a brilliant job here at managing the angles.
His awareness is also incredibly high after having contact, waits for this push from Snacks, gets rid of him, and then against PR
It's a bit more brawly. It's not as pretty but he kept his composure and closed out the one with that
How much does that game of Legion misplay the situation as opposed to Lado doing amazingly not taking anything away from his reads on that
What would you say? I think the if you're gonna nitpick like Towson just should shoulder peek he's
Peeked too wide, you know being behind the wall
You never want to get crept on as your shoulder picking and die like in a food that makes you feel silly
But seeing how it's a 3v1 and snacks is on the flank. He just needed to stay alive
So even if he dies like that he's bought enough time because lotto had to push up creep up
Then probably snacks is in a much better position to trade him or at least to
Close out around for Emily. That's probably that temptation because he caught lotto actually at first in
Before the 1v3 even got started did like half of his health and damage and then just thought well
Well, there should be an easier fight now, but then the 1v3 happens
I mean if you game a legend all that you can do really is move
You have one more opportunity that is inferno, which is going to be a really interesting one. If you want to look from the legacy side, first of all, this is a map that by the skin of their teeth, they managed to take down Navi.
Right. What did you maybe take away from what we saw there?
Yeah, I mean, the big thing for legacy in that game was that they were trailing towards the end of that inferno and actually were able to string five rounds together.
And a lot of that came off of individuals blocking down bombsites because Navi do a really good job of pulling you the wrong direction, throwing misdirection at you.
at you, that's the blade in Alexia effect really, but I'm not sure the
Gamer Legion are going to have as much of that sort of push-pull dynamic and
when the... if Ardent, his coach, are able to sort of get a better read on
what's happening here for Gamer Legion, I do think that they are going to
outmuscle them when it comes to defending those bombsites. I figured it
out for you. It's gonna blow your mind. Gamer Legion need better starts.
They lost three out of the four pistols and the one time they won pistol they lost the second round.
So it's just been really hard, always had to play from behind in that sense.
On ancient, yeah, they did a great job and they were very dominant in gun rounds.
And Mirage, okay, it was a struggle, they got stomped.
But Inferno, it's going to be a bit more of an even playing field, right?
So if you end up in another situation where you're giving this momentum to legacy,
and for legacy especially, there are things that likes to be aggressive, you know, likes to get in your face.
That's much easier to do when you have 4 or 5k in the bank and you know that even if this round that you're going for some aggressive play doesn't work out, you can still buy.
Inferno, you need the utility, right, to be able to do really anything on the map, so the economy plays an even bigger part on this map.
I think what will be difficult for game religion coming in is that they're very prep heavy.
We've seen how they benefited from that from it in their previous series, but I think Legacy has actually been doing a good job from map to map, changing the way that they're attacking.
You know in in one game. I'll watch their heavy heavy be attacks rushes
Heavy util sets but against Na'Vi they really tried to put pressure on that long side and forced some kind of over reactions from
Na'Vi in that game as well
So I'm not sure if there's gonna be something special cut up given it's the decider map in the series
Not everybody has anti strats that far deep res was rolling back the years, you know on this map yesterday
I think he was absolutely lights out and I think at the end of the day
It does come down to the players in some of these clutch situations to deliver, right?
It's going to be hard to out call completely your opponent. Res is one of them PR
This is a map where he had you know early on that put him on the map
No pun intended but playing the T side from apps and then all of that was able to just be really really
Obnoxious on the lurk right so that's where you want to see their guys deliver
So you're saying it's going to be game of the dream heading to the grand final
No, I am saying not that.
You're saying there's legacy going to the planet?
I didn't say that either.
What are you saying, Anko?
You're being very clear.
I'm not about, you know, frail.
Like, I don't need to say anything, but I think it's going to be legacy.
How do you have a job to say something?
Well, thank you for that, Anko.
What about you?
How about you?
I'm legacy all in.
They're playing exciting aggressives.
You're in Atlanta, not in Rio.
Don't, don't be like that.
I'm not trying to pander here.
I'm choosing them because art's auto-redemption art.
Well, either way, maybe we should translate this chaos into the server.
not before we had things to a
very short break when we return,
we're going to find out who is
going to be the first grand
finalist here at the Intel
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2 dominant map victories back to back, ancient and mirage, but it does even things up with
game allegiance and legacy, deciding who is going to the grand final here on Inferno.
It's off to predicts with teams being so dominant on each other's maps. Their picks have just
been no question of who's the better team, now we go to Inferno. And even a fair for
these teams and how well they played on it recently and I think with the play style that
legacy has with the way that they played Mirage that overwhelming momentum of that kid's going
if that engine gets running properly gamer Legion is going to be backs against the wall
real early on the start of this game is oh so important a feeling of hopelessness on map
number two dominant display from do now for game of Legion there is now hope on inferno
We know what they could perform better on this map.
We know both teams come up even ground, right?
It's a handshake to close out things,
to decide who is heading to the grand finals
of the Inter-Extreme Masters Atlanta.
We know a lot of great bests and frees and on Inferno.
So why don't we go there, Atlanta?
Let's find out who is heading to the final.
Both these teams battling to re-enter the conversation
as dangerous teams.
Seems you've been challenged for the trophy with vitality falling out on the other side of the bracket
Both these squads have to be thinking this event is up for grabs. They can beat whoever comes out
Talisman with oh my god, that's quick. Yeah, so fast one tap barely saw it
I mean a great start from Talism can't be bad to that if you're game a legion
No, and you love see that aggressive from a team who's been a little bit more calculated
It feels throughout this throughout this series so far a great effect on the first map not so much the second
And they won the CT pistol on Mirage, game of legion, lost the fourth spot in the next
and from that point onwards it became a dominant T side from Legacy.
Still a 4v5, it's recoverable here for Legacy as they head towards an A site with a passive
setup.
Yeah, especially because they're going to the weaker bomb site, right?
I mean, this is kind of game of legion expecting with the man down, you're going to finish
at the B site.
Reza's going to start moving now with the information.
Doubled up in pit and if the Molotov lands and the right place they're in trouble, same
with the bullets.
All high-packs peeking out into the open.
He's got himself a good headshot, but sands in to make quick work of him.
A 3v3 as Legacy have fought their way back into the round again.
And there's some time still left on this smoke going up.
Bomb planted. Art takes a ton of damage from that HG grenade,
but the retake is going to come around through lane.
Well, time is an important word, a key word, in fact, in this retake,
because there's no kit available on the three remaining players, nor any utility.
It is going to be so difficult to flush out the T's in time,
but Doom out, caught inside of the site.
You know what the other one is too?
Inside the bomb site,
Satsen has to hide and pit and buy time and pull attention.
Harder's so low, but he still gets a head shot.
And Satsen, that is stylish in the pit.
That has fired him off.
The Brazilian breaks through and win the pistol.
It should be fired up.
You notice how important that kill is.
That's huge.
They actually got put in a disadvantage on that retake.
Everyone kind of looked elsewhere.
It didn't look comfortable.
This is how it started.
This emits the dirt like that
and you get a little bit worried,
but a gleam take on this double performance in pit,
two for one trades for legacy,
and then Sadson closes it out.
All right, another good start for legacy.
What can they do with it on the T side of Inferno?
That's gonna just pile on the frustration, right?
Cause you never seen game of legend get into map two, right?
You never seen them play themselves into Mirage.
So you come in, you get the advantage early here
on the pistol, you start to feel like maybe you can climb
out of the hole screwed away, and then this happens to you.
setting up a little bit of a trap.
Howard talked about this in the pre-game interview.
He's noticed they like a few gimmicky things.
They like to do a little tricks, throw those into the mix,
and now there's going to be another one.
But he spots it early enough.
They could actually call this off.
They have the advantage of weaponry.
So Sylt is going to press forward.
Who cares?
They slaughter them all.
Well, that's the confidence that legacy have right now.
So it's OK.
There's a stack here.
We're aware of it.
We do have the better guns, and let's just go ahead and kill them.
And no option to go into the archway because they have their own smoke up, so piling through that
they don't know if they're going to get caught near the side.
So 2-0 lead for Legacy.
Game of League and getting into the Byron's now straight away.
No all about yet for Hypex, of course, it's just going to be rifles.
I think first look at how Legacy is going to approach the banana portion of this map
is going to be really interesting. How aggressive do they want to be in terms of taking it?
Payne yesterday preferred to be a bit more passive at the opening,
sitting far back, kind of letting Game of League just kind of play a standard setup.
I have to feel like at some point legacy is going to change that.
You're going to see that aggression focus on that part of the map.
For now with these Mac 10s, it's up middle and through the smoke.
We're just going to come charge it through, aren't they?
Rice is at the ready, though.
Two kills from the sweet, not bad at all.
Highpacks over run over one, but the right falls.
Just keep coming, player after player, available for Gamer Legion.
And another one there, just not ready for it.
Snacks is out with a big two-mourage, Brad.
In strength of numbers for game religion to get that first round way
I've read of the situation for game religion probably did a little bit of prep legacies been running things like that for a while now and knowing
It's a little by knowing there's still Matt 10s in play game religion was set up to make sure there's no room to operate with I
Think for it for legacy though. I think there's still feeling like that's a win coming out of this round
Right part of that round is meant to take kills keep the money low put it in a really tenuous position
Which they've accomplished with three frags in the rounds
So you've set it up to be even more punishing if you can win this one.
Satz in.
The layup towards top middle.
Searching for this pick.
It's a cross five between Ryze and Hypex and Hypex taking first contact and also taking
the first kill.
his pressure with utility coming towards him. This does make Rez a lot weaker when he doesn't have his teammate.
He goes too far into the open, extends and allows Satsun that kill on the off.
Yeah, there's a tantalizing crossback. I think this is some spot of a gun barrel, so he's going to call one and pit, one of the bombsite.
Legacy, although it's covering the off, Satsun lucky to be alive. Snacks didn't want to commit to the fight.
Yeah, just over a minute on this clock. His legacy now round the corner at long.
Smoke is down from Moto and Library for the time being.
Lato getting close to him, starting to span back at Hypex.
Getting the information over how close legacy really are but all that's going to do is make game religion feel more suffocated as
Lato moves towards the archway PR tentative its speedway the timing for the peak out as dirty catches Lato snacks
Is out helping him from my body
And Snatch takes two headshots dropping the bomb and winning the term for game religion
I think legacy just got caught there with no options. They kind of got trapped on wrap side not wanting to push forward into the smokes
I don't think they had a plan from that point on and just trying to improvise the walk in towards CT spawn
But there had been so much pressure on that part of the map for so long that game religion just sets up for it
They're just well prepared for it and legacy do exactly what they expect exactly what they want
Great kill as res slides out for the fight pre-firing for an offer, but this is just better from PR and socks
Trap laid a trap sprung sadzen gonna save the alt for the next rounds
Just getting that luxury to carry that over but
At this point game religion
Happy to actually start getting into the game. I mean, it's been a while since we've seen that
And that's been outlasting the kind of early like that like that tug of war
Well done congratulations
But yeah, it's
Definitely a hot week to test it over the first couple rounds in game religion even in those rounds
It looks touching though for a bit, but they come out on top
They like legacy hat that whole put their economy at a weak point with that loss theirs was as well
So they're the ones who get broken first really in this round all you have is satsons off the player rounds
And we saw an ancient what happened when game religion had the advantage of a comedy when they had the weapons and utility constantly
Legacy couldn't figure out a breakthrough an ancient should be much better gear to do it here on inferno
Satson the 78 HP. No, it's the only play that can do anything in this round is satsons
No secret about where I was all paced.
That's going to have to be a slower round too.
It's just the Glocks and only two smokes to work with.
They want those smokes eventually for an executive.
Sadzen can help lead them close to a bomb site.
So waiting out the CT utility of the choke points until they get some clear pathing.
PR commits himself on top of the half wall.
Aw, it's a perfect nade. Great damage on a Satsum.
There's the flick up, but PR control the AWPer with the AK.
So ART gets a go with it, but PR's starting to farm it.
Kill this time on Nissan, he'll retreat back around the half wall.
And you've been waiting this whole round for that smoke at the bottom of Banana to fade.
You lose your AWPer, you lose the second player,
and even though it's recovered, another smoke replenishes the choke point.
So, not even able to find any good looks with the AWP.
I'll be on Inferno when we talk about all time. Inferno, the off-on, wieldy, accepting
support of fashion. So enough of the rifles that create the space for it, this is kind
of what you see.
Yeah, just completely stolen out. Trying to get through the fire, I want him to die
before the time here in final 10 seconds. The blocks charge in, wanting an extra money
to play with in the next round. And PR will provide them with that. And some 4k from PR
in this round is up to 5 and 2. And you do want to see the rifling engine come online
of Game of Legends. We see that in a big way for Legacy, right? We started off with a garage
saying, all right, Duma and Art, we're good on the first map. We've even spot a loss.
Got to see a little bit more from the others, especially Lato, and we did. We got to see
that from Legacy, and we also see Duma continue to strong performance. But for Game of Legends,
who disappeared on map 2, you want to see that form return from the likes of Taliesin and PR
and Reds. Well, someone's name we haven't had to say a lot throughout this series has been
Hypex as well. He wasn't necessarily needed too much on Ancient. He often didn't have to have
impact so here on inferno when he gets that if you can get it rolling can dictate a lot from the cc side of the
map now we're seeing a bit more aggression towards banana for legacy to open up these rounds to now hiding inside the smoke
Some retake utility to slow this down, change the timing.
DuMau steps through looking for the counter push.
Oh, that's a beautiful swing.
Yeah, DuMau's not going to slow down either.
Once he smells blood, he's going for it all.
High-packs, no.
You mentioned everybody comes out with a big double here and PR at the back to the site
because a lot more comfortable knowing that his teammate is just pinned out the herb like that.
Art is gone.
Satsen and Nissen, the last two remaining members here of Legacy,
and they're held at the door of the big wall inside here, not getting through.
Hypepags have shut them down in this one, and Satsen has to march away once again around that Legacy just don't get into.
This is the rough side of Legacy's style.
is when you have this kind of momentum-based swinging, they're super aggressive, they're looking for flights constantly.
Dumal gets that kill, and I mean you have the option of just kind of backing out, hitting the pause button,
spreading out across the map and playing the mid-round.
But they sense that weakness, they sense that kill and say,
okay, we've just taken one of the defenders away, let's all continue pushing.
Just get annihilated, not expecting that third player of high-fax to be here already.
He's swinging out, you can't stop him, Dumal can't react in time, and PR's still ready and waiting.
Honest stylistically in this round, and as the timer comes to a close,
Satsun once again will have this off.
It's been brought forward in a save about three rounds straight.
Legacy just cannot find the winning recipe.
Four in a row for Gamer Legion.
Yeah, look at that money as well for Gamer Legion.
So much cash being built up.
So even if you win this round, if you do the hard part,
and pick up a round victory, you're still going to have to deal with a strong buy in the next round.
So it's an uphill battle for legacy for the first quarter of this game.
It's not like they have all the weapons to play with either.
Right, look, they've got Tech 9, the Eagle, P250.
And that saved AWP that's been unable to get into the game at all.
All right, well, here we go.
Shazen, no dead, both Alpers miss.
And neither one wanting to follow that up with another peek.
Yeah, they drown the corner over the half all the go and they do land towards PR.
They'll soften them up a little bit.
They can most susceptible to being dropped by these pistols.
But PR, he's still carpeting.
Still called as he goes in for the fight.
Snacks take it a dink on board, down to 9 HP.
They'll kill them for Legacy.
That should be it, I think. I mean, that was the powerful thrust.
That was the initial play that Legacy wanted to make.
he wants to make. Now that they don't get any success off it, no kills. They haven't
opened up any avenues by spreading the defense out. So should be a relatively textbook clean
finish for Gamer Legion.
Well, I'll give it a go. I mean, they have three smokes last week. You can get an execution
of some time, but the lack of flashes should make this quite easy for Gamer Legion to hold
on to, especially with a delaying smoke of their own coming in.
You're going to have to go through that, I think. You just use your own utility.
I think you just have to pop through. Going to go quietly, step into the smoke,
drop one in the front of the bomb site, and here we go.
Use that one smoke left on R to try and close the space down a little bit,
but it's still going to be tough to get onto the site,
because Res will just spam down as soon as that ball plant sound comes out,
and then PR moves into the open, snacks as with him,
and once again, Satsen trying to save the AWP.
He does get a shot this time, and he'll drop all the way down banana,
banana, but Towson is there to try and prevent the save from happening. So Satsen
readies himself, Towson waiting in middle, and Satsen showing a little bit too
much. He does get past the angle.
No good away as well. Towson that was his chance and he doesn't want to repeat
in anything. So the offense brought forward yet again, and even though it's
been here time after time, round after round, it hasn't found anything for
legacy. It hasn't given them any chances. But at least he's still got it. AK-47 is coming
out. Dumau, Lisim and Lotto. Galil on Art and Utility. But now lost five rounds in
a row. And they need somebody. They need something like Dumau. Now also the issue is you're
not getting that Dumau performance that you had on the first two maps. Even in a loss
on Ancient, he was really, really strong, having good impact, finding you kills, laboring
at the moment.
They don't have the momentum you mentioned from that first map, right?
You said that they were a momentum-based team.
They definitely had a mirage.
They do not have it at all here on Inferno.
Someone has to deliver and doom out all the way towards top of that.
He's got some space to play with already.
He's forced a lot of counter utility out.
Early Molotov to be dropping.
Smokes as well coming in.
So he's at least chewed up some of the utility at this B bomb site if they want to re-aggress
it later.
couple times they've come to the site they've been stalled out and had to
execute through smoke or wait for smoke to fade forcing one out early like this
might change that fact
flashes they ready to be thrown into this B bomb site you got to deal with that
PR snacks combo that's been so strong it's just a Molotov that snacks came
deployed to delay things and when flash goes up will that be effective snacks
He's not peeking out just yet.
Hiding away.
The second Oranges goes into the peak eventually, just the one.
The rotation now arriving. Res and Highpacks getting over to a CT spawn, but they're already in the site.
Fall Plank going to be coming through.
The retake required of Gamer Legion with one piece of utility left.
A single flashbang.
Yeah, but because of the utility, Legacy could never get comfortable in their positions.
Now, good kill from PR. That's the advance he's now picked up for Gamer Legion.
Satsen now looking down towards Hypex, waiting for an overextension with a flash, effective.
Lato takes the headshot and Ryze, Gamelidge he has to get a move on, but they're losing members every time they step forward.
And so it's really difficult to see how legacy are gonna let this one go.
Lato with a great headshot down towards CT spawn, and Hypex committed in the church.
There's no falling back from this one. Nissen's at the ready, and legacy finally getting themselves another round victory.
much much needed and this one is just I mean they they got in before snacks could even drop the Molotov as well
Starting to get way more aggressive at the B bomb site
Do mouse at a couple of those cheeky kills with the tech 9 then the AK 47 later on where he caught a few players off guard
I think he's feeling that that's a position he can flex and even though he doesn't get kills just supplying the pressure still has impact
But a lovely round from Lotto with the triple kill he gets up to four frags total in the first eight rounds of play
And gamer Legion even though things have been going pretty good
Five rounds straight, not even losing three players during that stretch.
Plenty of money.
But winning that last round for legacy at least keeps the dream of a competitive first half going, right?
It felt like they lost that. It could have just been that super one-sided half coming in from Game of Legion.
And we haven't seen that yet in this series. Both teams have been so comfortable and dominant on their own map picks
that we haven't seen any kind of back and forth affair. We haven't had to see these teams going to deal with the pressure of a map slipping away or a team coming back.
Or just a team keeping it close, even.
Res, 66 HP, all he's got left here.
Do Mal trying to backtrack, he will, and finds a shot strip from that smoke, so it's PR gone.
He bells down while they get the opening, and then, it's not for free, he does take damage from the utility.
Yeah, but it's a sketchy fight when you're trying to dodge Molotov's anti-cheek grenade, so get him to get back.
A little bit of aggression from Res, he wants to swing, Molotov out.
Okay, defense in, getting harassed, and backing away behind the sandbags, Art's still here,
and Hypex has shifted over as well.
The unexpected third player arrives.
Oh, Harkn of the open, dead at the hand of Hypex, now Snacks goes.
The Dumao ready even for that, down to 30 HP, finally someone dealing with Dumao,
but the bomb's gone towards top mid.
They have to go now, that's everyone except for Taliesin, they know all their locations,
Mike is missing a window of opportunity.
They needed that kill.
Mike Becks arrives.
They turn it into a two on two, but Lotto's still here.
Yeah, so Rez, it is.
Last through top mid.
Satsen reads it.
Ready for Rez.
Stepping into the open.
Quick shot.
A slight gap through that boiler door,
and Rez taking down.
Legacy still in this.
Getting into Inferno finally.
Yeah, this G-side building up to a nice place.
I mean, they've got the tough task as well of grinding up an economy of gamer legion that just seemed insurmountable.
But finally, they forced them to buy everything. All the money they have to spend.
Gamer legion's gonna be at a breaking point.
If Legacy can win this round, they might just leave this half with a lead.
Almost seemed unthinkable that they'd be able to get themselves into this position.
Legacy arriving at just the right time in his first half
All that attention towards G for number rounds now legacy switches things up all five players are here
Foreplay as a game of legion in position as well. It's about to be a bloodbath over on this A site
Whose blood will spill first
Snacks waits in the cubby, Crenate goes in, dropping him down to 46 HP.
Utility is made sure that Hypex cannot help him out. Snacks is going to die here.
Surely not going to be able to do much at all because the Crenates are coming for him.
It takes a while, but they get rid of Snacks. Hypex avenges him.
But he can't get a multi-kill because he's held back behind Utility.
This is awkward from Legacy. A very slow hit. Oh, they could find it. That was a great look for Dumau.
And now Legacy wants to back away to the other side of the map, and they got a hostile before.
Gamer Legion figured it out.
It's been a quiet map from Talisman, that's a very important kill to keep the numbers ahead here for Gamer Legion.
You've got the rotation for PR, having to come back to this B side, but will he get there in time to do anything about this?
There's one smoke on this end for the cross.
Flash comes in, it's a desperate attempt to try and slow them down because he realizes he's out of position.
Now spamming just a little bit too early, so they're not going to be able to connect to anybody as they move away into the site.
The fire will make things uncomfortable. Oh my god, quick reaction in the open will PR step in
Oh, just misses out on the chance
But now he needs to stay alive he needs to play his life because his teammates are rotating over a game religion have the player
Advantage, but they've got no utility for this
one kids
Like you see playing for the tide game
Samsung always gonna step up to towards CT spotty third from
It sands in and he stands up because there was so many frustrating miles left, you didn't get into the game.
But if there's crucial points towards the end of the first half, it sands in with a 3k.
So patient, bringing that up forward and forward and always getting stalled out.
What a good return on your investment.
This game has changed entirely. Legacy now demolishes the economy, takes the money away from game religion.
Why does they tie things up?
Two rounds remaining in this first half.
and legacy a battle back three rounds in a row they have the advantages now
looking to leave this half with a lead on the scoreboard so patient the
double made as well knowing snacks was there not panicking not trying to swing
not being overly aggressive and saddened in Santa just punishes them on the
retake ten and two he really has started committing to his own here on the
The third and final map creates a see-disk from Satsi to so many rounds
where he just felt like he couldn't get involved.
He bided his time and that all does enter the feed.
Alright, Stactor to the B bomb site for Gamer Legion around.
They bring only pistols. They're trying to strike together everything they can
for the final round of the half.
Three in a row, so far from legacy.
It's got a half of streaks.
And you know, they did a good job.
It's done a good job of hitting both bombsites, so it's not easy for GamerLegion in a round like this to pick which site you want to stack.
Maybe you think it would be great early on because you've had some of that B fresher, we've seen the aggression pick up as this half is worn on from Legacy.
At the moment on the wrong side of the map.
Yeah, the NAIDs starting to come through as well. The only player here for GamerLegion is Towson with a P250.
So the third time legacy has run this kind of rap tactic around the A bomb site, but they're not going to commit, they're actually going to wrap through CT spawn.
This is what game illusion wants, right? They want you to try to talk towards this B site.
They just don't want you coming through CT spawn. The edge of the AK-47s in this wraparound is going to be really, really strong into the bomb site.
Well, at least you've got the numbers here. Will it be enough? Trying to block them, slow them down, and the stack is here on the B site.
You can kill out, you can control this all day, you can send him out forward, but he gets taken down by Ryze and now you really have to go back to this A site, 30 seconds left, what can Towson do?
I mean, one kill would be something special. If you just pick up and find Art for some reason, Smoke is going to block his vision, so he's biding his time, staying patient, and maybe they'll expect that all five were at the B bomb, so this flank is coming quick though, they need to handle this situation right now.
spotted Towson's head. It wasn't down so the Glock just gets rid of him without
issue. Now Sanzin in pit. Once he buried himself in here it's gonna be so tough to
get him out of there. He all but the ready. The rifles in the sight and there's
just no way you're letting this one go up to Legacy.
Hypebacks also fall short and it's 6-5. It is Legacy in the lead of the game.
Yeah, a few stumbling blocks there in that round and Legacy works their way
around all of them. And one chance for Legacy to extend this to 7-5. And GamerLegion looking
to tie things up. Looking to recover that staunch defense that had for five, they had
for five rounds straight. Three men start at the B-bomb site. For GamerLegion, Hypex
going to peek down middle. And nobody's swinging wide on his position. The clash is in banana.
It's Sanzin again!
Yeah, great kill from Sanzin, Snacks dropped a card early on.
Again, this all provided impact.
They've 13-2 half so far, and it could get even better for Sanzin.
Oh, I think they're just going to find the timing to go back to the A bomb site, hit an uppercut.
Well, Towson's had a really tough half.
Hasn't been able to deliver the usual impact.
Here he is now, though.
That's much better from Towson on the lineup.
That's unfortunate because Legacy gave up all their standing at the B bomb site to come back
to join up with that attack.
It goes a little bit early and they have no chance of combining with it
Three players defending a
One inside the site at Hypex
Rez at library and in the pit Towson stands
Legacy will put some utility in place smoking out the library flashed to force Rez back giving some space for legacy to play with at the
52nd mark in the round
A pursuit of 5 rounds in a row here, legacy.
Oh, they're gonna boost up.
Rez is wrapping around.
Oh, that's a good find.
That's a really good find, but can Orc get away?
He's got the bomb.
Rez just nips out at the perfect time to make sure the trade comes in.
Orc in a tough spot if they can find Hypex.
Then it's back off and the bomb goes down and it's gotta be Satsen.
1v3, 25 seconds.
Satsen dropping Hypex.
Smoke up. Has to get to the bomb.
He can. He's recovered it.
Sadson's had a stellar half, but this would be a superstar clutch.
Sadson, waiting in the site, not gonna go for it straight away.
He fakes it, he pulls him into the open!
No way, Sadson!
Seven seconds.
Goes for the commitment, Sadson, off the heat!
Into the open, but P.I. Lensa had shot.
An extra round, grabbed by Gamerley, turn right at the end.
A time half, the old N'Ferno.
It's still up for Grabs for both teams heading to the Grand Final.
Both these teams were surprising runs into the playoffs, into the semi-finals here at the Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta.
And both of those runs could just fall by the wayside with a loss here.
Impressive from both these teams popping off here in Atlanta, but...
We're in one final half of Counter-Strike, one of these teams goes to the Grand Final, one of these two teams goes home.
Neither of them wants to be that guy.
So let's get it on, and Furnault, this last half to decide our first Grand Finalists.
And Legacy has switched over to the defense.
almost a decade ago snacks got into the grand final in Atlanta he's looking to
do it again this time calling his way to it
game religion now on the T side and going quite quickly up through middle
all the way to the archway wrapping around long satin detecting them early
on connecting the shots though that's the different question and he hasn't been
able to do anything just yet until now had shot land do now getting involved as
well but eventually game religion will overwhelm the site and the bomb will be
Planted a really strong positions as well. Hypex has just got up in the halls PR over in the pit at the broken wall and snacks inside
The bomb said really hard to clear up all three of these positions
But it's do Malon Lotto
It's the duo the pairing on legacy that they lean on to bring them through these moments
Snapping in
Chopra Lotto is not finding the target just yet
But look how close to now is getting to the pit PR knows a surprise to miles right in front of him now moving in
And Lato's got the hex shot all of a sudden, it's Hypex having to win it here for GamerLegion.
The defuse is happening, Hypex has got to get to it, it's not planted for him, and the Pistols out.
He goes down, and just about...
Oh, it's done, they got it, they go off, and Hypex won't go down, so there we go.
The ball blasts off, Arell picked up, the Pistol won, and GamerLegion in the last second.
That was so close, through the hot swap.
As he runs out of bullets with the Glock, what great finds from Jumao and Lotto.
This running out of bullets, one left swaps out to the USP and manages to find it right at the end.
Yeah, just the relief on his face as he leans back in that chair.
Being able to pick up that clutch last second because that suddenly became a round of legacy.
He had no shot at winning and then they were on the deep use of getting all the essential kills.
He had that last second clutch yesterday as well in the quarterfinal. He's just been clutching his hell in these playoffs.
right out of the wire as well. Incredible stuff from highpacks again.
Alright, investment in the second round though for legacy so they're not done
fighting they don't want to just relinquish the momentum and control
early on. I want to wrestle that back to now trying to pop off his chest with
retake banana utility that showing that smoke as if they want to play behind it
trying to keep them away from the B-palm set as long as possible funnel them
towards the stack.
They are frustrating for legacy to come so close to that.
No one's shifting yet and no one making a move.
Now they realize as Dumal goes down,
the ball side is compromised.
Oh no, not a trade.
What a spin from Rez, lack of head armor, undoing art, and now we just walk into the B-Bomb site.
Yeah, Lato trying to do something about it with a 5-7, but it's not going to be enough to do anything worth talking about.
Spam back, some damage done towards Lato.
Yeah, and if you're like, if you're legacy, you just send these pistols and armor, the MP9 on Sadzen, and you just call it.
Look at Sadzen, he's 17-4 on this, on this third and deciding map.
Unfortunately for him, this is the map where Dumau has been a little bit more quiet, a little bit more contained.
Nobody else in double digits for the legacy side.
So they regained the lead legacy right at the end of the first half,
aren't able to extend it,
and game religion grab it right back
a couple rounds later in the pistol.
Eight to six.
to start that looking for here.
Game of Legend legacy.
Gonna have some belief in themselves, obviously, with the way they were able to come back in
that first half.
It's like you had to give a second swipe of the hand as well.
It is like you can tell we saw him stop at the edge of the mousepad.
Here we go.
Round 15.
Yeah.
MP9 and Mac 10 on the rest of the 5-7s coming out so you know there's there's
definitely a chance in this round for legacy to be disruptive but game
religion very likely they head up to 9-6 these are the kind of buys they get
are art and some hot hot water on the outside criticizing you know you can
make that you make the argument that buying here while the rest of your team
has some money built up you're gonna be missing a weapon in the next round and
is it really worth it to spend the cash when next round is the bigger
priority.
Well, see if we can do it.
All the medics have made it to the jump shot.
Taliesin ready for that kind of play.
So let's just headshot no issue against Art
and they'll drop back here like you see with the player deficit.
Yeah, not worth it.
We figured that one out quick.
And still no slide to the B bomb site
and a trust in the utility of Dumau to hold
these guys back as long as possible.
Now we're starting to see it on that final smoke.
All the pressure behind it the do-mouse senses nice and light on sounds and are rotating over
Game really good at the moment feels pretty committed, but there's 50 seconds on the clock. They don't have to move forward
And game religion will stick to this so it's gonna be a clash for defenders
Five attackers with advantage of weaponry and utility. Surprises on the side of legacy.
Exactly, a chance for legacy to win a round here.
This could be a difficult round.
Snacks going in with a M10. Time's starting to become very limited.
Getting spammed out through CT and the site. Even numbers, but in the end,
game deletion, finding the important frags. 10 seconds left and the cover of the fountain
will make sure that ballpoint comes in.
Lato now steps into an impossible 1v3.
They know where he is, just in behind the coffin, so it's PR to attack him with a headshot.
And another round collected here, 4 game of Legion, 9-6 into the lead.
And we'll see Legacy start to bring together that by. So, Sadson's going to get the AWP out.
The damage to Art's economy, you can see that, he's going to have to play with an MP9.
But the rest of the players will get the rifles they're looking for, and plenty of utility here for Legacy.
I'm glad that we see Legacy kind of forcing and prioritizing Sadson getting that AWP out, because, I mean, let's be real.
This one, you don't really have a whole lot of opportunities to get back into the map.
So very important gun round for Legacy.
Satsun's AWP is going to be at the A-bomb site, joined up by Nissemin Art and Defense.
Dumau and Lato to defend the B-bomb site.
Alright, so came up with a couple of players into the bedroom.
Rai is holding up there with PR.
And Dumau wasting no time being aggressive on the CT side.
This is the timing, he does get away.
A great flashbang to get Satsun off the angle.
Giving some space on over here for Gamelige.
It was a one for one as Nism does well to get at least one pick.
But look at this.
High-packs, tilts right through the back lines.
Art not ready.
Uncomfortable as Art goes down.
You need Satsun and great shot.
Fantastic flick up on the balcony.
How much could you ask of him though?
You have to ask everything and you just can't deliver that.
So Towson with a follow-up headshot.
Gamelige in again with the advantage and this time they're in the A-bomb site.
Yeah, it's I mean you see the oppin the opposite problem
But instead of attacking it directly a game religion is able to find the kills of all of his supporting elements
All of the teammates that are meant to keep him safe and keep some space between him and the rifles
They go down and there's nothing for him to do a
10th round for gamer legion
Marching towards those grand finals
I'm not counting legacy out just yet just for the way they were able to flip it in that first half
I look like they were down and out through the starting of that game
We had five rounds in a row picked up from game religion in that first half and then legacy
Go on a streak of their own to become competitive again
They're gonna have to try and dig deep to find that resolve once more
And I mean the issue is you just don't have you're in a position where you won't have the resources
You'd want to get this started these two on fours are nice to have I
Think we'll see a timeout of the legacy to talk over the money because that's probably the biggest issue
That's probably the biggest obstacle they have if they want to keep fighting back first time out called by legacy
So plenty to burn if they can make this comeback happen if they can get it started
But you're right on the edge and if you can force a buy out here with some dropped weapons over and
Legacy is just gonna go for it six to ten
They will not have the AWP, but they've got four M4s in the MP9 on our
If you're gamer legion, you're loving this at the moment because you've got your whole
team firing all cylinders, res delivering for you, Towson as well, Hypex and PR, Snacks
as the caller has done a phenomenal job in this second half, yet to lose a round, force
straight to open it up.
So gamer legion is here and three rounds away from the grand finals.
We know there's strikes on the T side of Inferno.
There are some great set pieces here as well.
It's going to be so tough for Legacy, but soon they can find it in them.
Good damage here towards Hypex.
25 HP left on the AWP.
The round has just started.
I'm going to tell us a new banana.
I don't see anything else.
I'm not seeing any further utility or any challenges coming in from Legacy,
is quite often the style that we see from them
once they get going on the CT side, right?
We'll see if you now get aggressive,
we'll see them really challenged,
but they don't really have that luxury at the moment
to play their usual style.
You also have the weight of the moment on your shoulders
and no one wants to be that guy who makes a silly play
through smoke to die when you're down by four
on the verge of being eliminated from the semi-finals.
Obviously in this round specifically,
they've got one player on the B-bomb,
so that's Dumau alone,
which is freeing up the four remaining defenders
to play in towards the A-bomb site,
hoping game-religion come to A,
And that's exactly what's happening right now.
You've got this crossfire.
Sad team with two teammates on the opposite side, but it doesn't matter.
Gamer Legion coming through, torches through middle, and that got the three first kills.
This didn't get delivered or anything, and the stack of the A-Ball flight is gone.
Gamer Legion in, 11 rounds to six, and surely a huge step closer to that grand final.
And you had everything there.
That's the exact fight you wanted, the exact round you wanted if you're legacy.
and that's got to be a terrible feeling a sinking feeling in your gut and even
when you have everything you want you still can't win around and tells it
eliminates to Mal to take everything away oh there's no money is won here for
legacy they don't have the resources to compete against game of League turn right
now I think they're gonna buy I think they're gonna go for it once again they
have two more timeouts if they want to use them just perfectly played
Satsun spotted out by Rez, Molotov to force him into the open, make it a clean shot.
And there's no way Missim's recovering that.
Well they have invested not everything, they've left somebody over but not a great amount.
They've got the Op Alpha Satsun, a Max 7 for our MP9, 5-7, and one single M4 here for legacy.
It's been a great event from them, but this might be the end of it.
Game of Legion in search of series points.
Nismans adds an aggressive in a holes on the defense just peering down deep
Nismans can have a fast like all the attention at the moment towards banana
double-nade on the position of snacks so an advantage found and with a bit more
presence deep down banana from legacy game religion might be forced to
readdressed to the A-POM site.
Taking the time moving through top mid this time a lot less resistance than in the previous round for game
Malaysian to deal with. They've got Lato now stepping out of the archway taking damage down to 19
He'll fall away behind smoke cover.
The aggression for R jumping around the corner.
You need to train and do mouse got it.
Okay, well here's Lotto waiting for this play through.
Smoke PR is going to give it to him. Easy.
Get with the 5-7. Yeah, they've been whittled down.
Real miss shot from Sadson, but he recovers the situation.
Now it's Ruzz.
Miss shot's going past him.
Says it's an eight on eight.
We've been talking a lot about Ruzz, haven't we?
About how 3-3.
Every winnable.
Well, this would be a big moment for him to prove it, to take that step to series point.
Rez looking for the clutch.
They're coming at him and Rez, that first head shot, so good. It's now just two now and Rez back in America playing the best counter strike he can.
And Rez has taken game religion to map play in the semifinals.
That is the kind of clutch that makes you believe that it's over.
Best start to the year Rez has had in his long loan career and still delivering now that we're in the playoffs.
So comfortable, look at the confidence he is, just jumping into the fight, not slowing down whatsoever.
Once he gets that clean head shot at long, and he has all the time to compose himself for that final kill against Dumal,
there's never a doubt Rez is going to go on to win that one.
It's all gone wrong for legacy here in this second half
Their defense has not been able to stop anything
Deja vu back to the first map in this series where game religion just picked them apart piece by piece and
One final desperate switch for
Legacy's defense the double-up setup coming out art with one sadson with the other
trying desperately to find that spark to reignite him.
Needs to be perfect, just a force over time.
Sats is dead first.
Snacks with the opening kill.
One step towards victory.
One step towards the grand final.
Two malatents in smoke.
A dense legacy. It is the legacy players of Gamer League. Finding the impact to open up this final round.
Res and snacks. Into a 5v3.
And they've got all the time in the world.
Legacy's gonna have to get aggressive at some point to figure out what's going on in the map.
Nissen doing everything he can to find something.
Art just lies in wait.
He goes into the open. He's going aggressive, living and dying by the sword.
Art going for the aggressive play that he hopes can pull it back.
But it won't.
And Towson have delivered and it's just Nissen left.
Snacks on LHP just about getting away from that today, but it doesn't matter.
Gamerley didn't go through the formalities.
But they know, they know they're in the Grand Finals of the Intox-Tree Masters Atlanta.
Almost a decade on from Snacks playing in the major final in Atlanta.
He will be there again.
K-Religion's first Grand Final of this quality, S-tier Grand Final all year long.
Everything has worked out, bringing Snacks back.
They stepped up for this team, and they look scary
and into the Grand Finals.
It's been a great run in the USA.
First in Texas, that's when they first surprised us.
Adam Fulgore, but they've kept that momentum up.
They've been able to positive attitude.
New confidence found for their all-perfect spot.
They couldn't feel for a long time,
but Hypex has been clutch.
He's won them so many important rounds
in the playoffs so far, and now they go all the way.
And it looks even more confident,
compared to what they did yesterday in the quarter-finals.
team is building up into a new strength.
Hugs on the legacy side, you can see,
doesn't look like they're too broken down, too forlorn.
A tough loss to take, stylistically speaking.
But it seems like they're going to be content and happy
with the progress and the danger that they've shown here.
And now it's about finding ways to activate that more and more
as the major looms around the corner.
I think coming into 2026, we started
to forget about game religion.
We were positive about them last year in 2025,
especially at the start of the year.
But they fizzled out with results dropping off.
But they've come to the USA, they've come to Atlanta, and they have reminded us why we should get excited about the future of these young players.
They must suffer their worst ancient loss ever with this roster, a little bit earlier in the tournament, and it's game of Legend 13 to 1.
Oh, Emma, quick to this right out here, straight out middle, and for God's sake, he's caught a bullet!
Big boom!
He's going to put the Gilgorettas into his hands, so equalizing frag.
Wonderful is going to use the ball and all his nades.
Overstab, boom it with a great tap.
And down to the Zortay double.
Okay, that's what Janko was looking for to take some chances, take some risks.
The mid-reagress, perfect. The shot's even better.
This is Alexi, and again, leader left in a 1v4.
a lot. He's going to be able to get away within this one. So the bomb not going down. We'll talk about that when we get there.
Can he kick up any fuss?
Joe Brehler's up close in Siren.
Doesn't seal the deal right there, but that's the information.
Can now be bringing the level of intensity required.
Take on a team like this and Klamich, that's the best way to kick things off, isn't it?
It's actually going to be playing middle on the CT side, alongside of Siren or Zordy, depending on the setups.
and that means it's going to have a tough task here.
It is just every in the smoke, a couple of bullets,
spammed on through, and Mikazi goes down,
and that's going to be equal on the other side,
which is strange, right?
An in-game leader taking on the space take-up.
It's already with a couple of nice ones as well.
Okay, Eco to come in from Navi.
Teagle for wonderful.
The rest are just going to be...
Andy, excuse me.
It has to be on the blocks.
I think it's interesting this stand-in conversation.
Phyrus has played 45 maps with the team,
So it's not your standard standing, right?
They've played an awful lot of maps together, right?
That's all this year.
It's not the only way that everyone would have hoped
with some of these visa issues,
with Dillard airs, and then a major qualification.
I think Flemish is a class player on loan from OG,
and he's the type of guy who, in a stage game,
I think he's expecting to do some of his best work, right?
He's this extrovert of personality.
He gets fired up.
He plays Flarey, Counter-Strike, and in your face.
I think this is the...
...the main for him to do some of his best work.
If you can get him and Magnet just firing all cylinders, that's a firepower right there.
Here you go. Delwit 2-0, start for Bepurma. Now we can get into the guns.
It's actually a bonus for Bepurma. Not so many casualties there whatsoever.
Two Galils in the mix, 3-8, K47s, and all the nades.
What's the start going to look like for now, V?
I think they can play a little bit more pace than they did yesterday.
Don't smoke red smoke, so a mid fight on the table.
You can see it, Mikaze can get his own back.
After the bedroom pistol, one shot.
Gets across to the box, unscathed.
Magnajez getting aggressive, and Alexi, he cut out of the round immediately.
It's what Yanko was talking about, you want to see aggression,
not playing scared.
Magnajez using that MP9 bonus round with some aggression
and aggression to immediately give his boys an opening kill.
And as the type of map for him, his nature could be an absolute brawl around middle and lane.
Councilman from inner gets him low. That might be enough to kind of humble him back to site.
Look at the amount of nades that you have remaining here for now.
B, he's got a minute 20 left on the clock.
Head shot from B, nice buy.
Controllers are spraying onto the head of Zorty.
It's been juggled. Managers get himself into a rifle.
Playing Retake B right now is Mikazi. He takes this space.
Wonderful and beer they're gonna head back through spawn to join this now. I mentioned that you too just to smoke in a molly
I could be easy that's enough to smoke off shore and molly towards long then parv into the side get the bomb down and with that
Lost bonus building
Be enough to keep them in contention of at least a little bit more of an interesting purchase
Okay, that rounds most gonna change the parving here if anything is actually an invitation starts searching around it
Because a frozen ashore smoke and they're into the site unannounced
3 CTs towards the back of Q, but Magnazes is going to flash him in.
Nice hit Molly. Flank. 2T.
They get the space, they can even deny the plant!
Wonderful! It's forced away!
They get him off the bomb, but the frag comes in from Mikaze.
So back to a 3 on 3.
Nice headshot. Mikaze's not done.
2 kills deep. And now that bomb planted.
Curse of C of wonderful.
Good play from Magnazes. He's allowing Boomich to flank.
He'll cut noise and just pause as Boomich starts to cook.
HP on wonderful. He's going to have to hit the first headshot
with that AK-47 all booms got him.
I need nails in! Clean for wonderful!
And that should be round!
And the hub pin, a bit of a crowd favourite here.
Happy to send him home, Apex.
One more go off, Magnajus will retain that AK-47.
47. Wonderful goes down with the ship. He's been in MVP level form.
I just read a player in the tournament.
And look at to keep that up. He was masterful yesterday.
So they're on the board now. Can it be consecutive?
Because of that bonus situation, there is a...
Yeah, it's huge, right? They find the pivots into this in time.
Very well done there from Wonderful.
Alexey with the Mac 10, Pumich. An SMG if you don't remember.
He's going to be tussling in middle.
Magnet just caved.
You're going to, oh, hold up a second.
I'm just coming over, but it's this A play from Alexi and Mikaze to interest me.
So if I messes, all right, they're pressing me, they're trying to fight.
You're going to lure our A and take some room.
Oh, there's a lot of room.
And that's exactly what they're accelerating.
Yeah.
It's going to be Alexi leading the park.
Mac 10 already into the site.
Well ahead of Zorty's scheduled site taken.
Attempt from Zorty to stand his ground.
The farmers does win out.
That's a big overstep from Mikaze.
And the bomb's not planned again.
You might have to call this off.
Yeah, retreat.
Yeah, but you need to find some space.
It needs to try and take some room out middle and quickly.
That drew a massive rotation.
So Beppin know that there are gaps.
They have to be wary of the lurk
into what's down up towards red.
And they're going to try and clear this out together
after the fate of the flames.
We're now backing off.
I can't give in in the room.
How do you respond?
MagnetJazz is going to spin a little bit around the smoke, pushing jumps and gets info.
He's pushed the bomb. This is an audacious MagnetJazz.
He's going to get a lick from Imma.
A good push from Bermature.
Yeah, he's going to be held by Wonderful though. It should be the end of Boone.
Guns Connect finds half-help onto Wonderful, so they still have the man advantage.
It's tough to piece this together, but it's going to play late towards Red.
Imma and Wonderful are going to group up towards B and they have even less utility this time.
It's just too flash. There's nothing to cut off the choke points.
So who plays first? Let Emma and Wyneth will take contact, then be activated.
So does Heecher and catch them off. It's 20 seconds. They've got to make a move.
The move they shout. Flamas has been patient.
In that off-hackle, Emma nails it. Quick adjustment.
So into the site, still fresh mean. Magnetius in the back.
Bitcalf find it. Magnetius low HP.
Emma's got to be able to find it immediately.
5-4-3 and that round, Zorty, survives.
Just not enough time. The individuals from Na'Vi seem to be firing bit. Makaise, wonderful.
We've seen little glimmers of individual prowess. Wonderful as well. But they haven't been able
to translate into rounds.
Oh, gold, gold.
Good, good, good.
All right, well.
Look, this is tough. You're in a 3v5 disadvantage. That's after the ace game, ish. So the fact
even battle back to get the bomb down it would have definitely helped them out a
lot more going into the next round of play. I think that's gonna feel like you
probably could have got my just that.
Even South over HG's are shredding through Colby.
That's not aggression. B Lane just absolutely destroyed right now in
Flawness. Betboom 4-1. That was way too easy. I understand it was just a lot
And they also beat Vitality. Sure, the stakes weren't the same.
They showed you it was possible here in Atlanta.
So there's the 30-second seed blade trying to get rapid all the words out of his mouth before it subsides.
You have to, and it is a real mental challenge to remain as thirsty for the win as you were versus Vitality.
Yeah, because these are the guys who are putting you away in the grand finals.
They're the ones that you have in the toughest time with. They're the ones with the big target on the back.
This should be a team that you feel you'll take home any day of the week. Okay couple of glills in the mix again
This time not gonna be for me to happen. They're giving it over
Because they walk in wonky 44 to work with for him
Already with siren pushed up a name as well as early beacon of info
They can area the coal mine if they do choose to try and find a path to a
It's also gonna be a bit tougher for blades. We have an anti strap these boys if they're more puggy. I'll it
This is quite quick into an ace split, so if it knows that Amen could be a bit of a problem.
It's a really good call.
You can see the boots are not in the right place whatsoever.
Let's just smoke CT.
I mean, you've got Siren in Amen and they know that there hasn't been cleared out.
Other than that, Lexi's cut rotations, it feels like the rounds are ready over.
At least the bomb will go down.
Yeah, a bit of a brawl right now, they stopped it.
Ooh!
Nice, Siren.
How's he done that with such long range?
He does find the purse, combines with the earlier, they damage.
Ampistic.
Okay, Flamme, surely you're a dead man to Alexi here, yeah, back turn, nice headshot.
I'm ticking.
The favour of Narvee, Magmajez is going to try a little flash over the top for the temple players, bit with the counter flash.
Oh, everyone's blind!
Yeah, wonderful 8-tip, does go down to Zorty, 3 on 3, this is not a lock-in!
Alexi, V on to Magmajez, that could be the difference maker.
High impact round from Alexi, his first two frags.
And now you've got what? Zorty and boom.
No time for the round where you're going to try and take a couple of extra kills and Zorty does that.
Three kills deep, Neymar wins out the 1v1, Na'Vi take the round.
Na'Vi's going to go down with the shift there as well. Everybody dying in that one, so the buys.
It's going to be patchy for both.
They've been doing an awful lot of damage there. They've got more cash to splash.
Even when Na'Vi they convert the round, it is going to be a bit more touch and go.
It might have to be mainly Galils across the board and we're talking about
with an AWP, M4s, and the U2.
Even a kit for good measure.
Decent outpouring from Siren under a lot of pressure.
Alexi on the lurk.
That's this one down to size. It is.
It's 4 glils and 1 AK.
And then look at the nades.
After the opening nades, they've got very little for the finish.
Two smokes and a flashbang.
Oh, beautiful shot.
He's having a rough start to things.
He's not feeling well.
He's instrumental on ancient. This is meant to be his map.
That's a heavy name.
You have a smoke left. You essentially just have to group up and contact.
And trade out. That's it. That's all you can do.
Look at this pro-activity from the CTs.
Yeah, they're not messing about.
They are not. Constantly on the move.
Ready to be there to trick you up.
walking elbow you're dead oh yeah and that's exactly where they're going
salty prime dad
five alive as well wow a deflated ground for Navi what's a bit meant to do with
this 25 seconds left on the clock on his middle and lost bonus into the next
only 1900 so the fact we've had this back and forth neither team really able
to build out too much of a loss bonus that's gonna hurt Navi a whole lot more
It's great. An outcome. Love. I'll
save Flamuses playing this as
well. Just intimately different
between the two. He gets the
info. Does lose his head.
Might just have to be the save
for dip. Yeah, there's no other
option. Alright, we'll call it
to the left. It's a good sign
of life for that boom of sorts.
He's in this kind of form. You
need a roper online and great
opening kill to the castle. Yeah,
he was fantastic on the pistol as
well with the double kill. You're
able to find out put with the
orb on this map. That's a great
sign.
It's a bit of a easy PZ lemon
squeeze you right now for that
but my understanding of three
I understand to be a three round gap, but it's the finances that I'm keen on
They save an AK again. It's the second time they've carried at least one rifle through
But the problems are kind of further down the road and the frustrations of bit
Being shown
He's gonna try something
Try and turn himself into the mid-plane edging the smoke has vision
Sound cue given away. Nobody close. Oh, but sorry boom here. She's gives me
from Zorty on the smoke break. This time he just sets himself up. They left him an extra.
McCarthy finds Magnetjes from the cave of Gress.
So, uses Pitz Rhymefall, of course, unarmored now.
They're returning to B. Flammus and Siren. They're staying in limbo with this aggressive position.
Zorty rotates over as well, so reading the situation, I bet they're...
And Flammus is just so well-positioned. Oh, the bait.
Oh, you're gonna... you're gonna fall for that.
You're just going to get moat down, Flamas on high alert, Alexi not clearing his corners,
and then a trigger, and it's a pitch!
Love that!
Flamas does two, he's just doubled his kill total, sure, Eco Bash, say what you want, it's a sixth round for that boot.
It's going to look to reroute again, towards middle, back to P, and now,
the map is his moisture, he's got 45 seconds left.
Another kill would be great here just to limit the finances of Bedburn going forward.
The image is tasked with making sure there's no plant on A.
And now that he's tucked in, don't know if this should be his.
Oh, what a feeling.
Forwarding knife out.
Okay, this is going very well. Do we get another blade timeout?
He's tempted.
It's a 2.7K for bit because of that save day, Kay, and this is tough.
It's a whole different type of a mental battle.
The one against Vitality, you got passed.
Atlanta's got some serious artists.
Dansepaters.
Yeah, well, hey.
We've all got to be accountable.
Na'vi that doesn't have everything they need right another galil and this time a tech nine Alexi will turn that off a bit
We're going na'vi
Space for a net to stretch his legs that smoke break not gonna work out for flowers. They pushed a man again
This city's either love it. That's very dynamic
Dignite solid
They have really utilized their heat she's very hot. I think siren just bought as well. He's gonna walk on this is beautiful
It's really nice
This is going to be agonising for
now, V, if they get time to hear
their backs are turned.
One of us just went twice.
Yeah.
Siren.
Goal of an opportunity.
Doesn't go for the double.
Just rushes into it for him.
See, he's the bomb.
Info flows.
Bits.
Gonna have to be concerned about
this.
The fact that Zorty's done it too.
Wait, oh my god.
The orb is perfectly positioned.
Yeah, this is the pug stuff.
It is pug stuff.
That's what we'd like to see.
But if we're back towards B,
McCarthy
Leaving red and sortie now coming elbow for that info
Sortie
That's info as well. He was trying to go B. Flemish informed magna jazz as well
Sortie could be called out, but it keeps them contained with the flame. That's gonna force them up the ramp
It's all from dirty bucks
Give them a way out
Do you pivot? That's the conversation Navier having now you've got one smoke one flash
But everything's a mystery. You haven't taken any map control. You've still been in your side of the map so far.
Smoke, Flash, Molly, they're able to execute into this site.
Five minutes of man-o-jazz are playing retake.
Just trying to capture a tiny spam.
Flash gets bit across the site.
There's the spam, MagnetJazz finds. One could find two. Bit on two points of health.
Poppers them out with a block. It's going for a bit. Transfer not there.
there. It's into Boomer and Alexi. Two captains locking onto the 1v1. Fading.
And the smoke, boom, it's audible. Peaks him to Alexi and he nails it.
The county in form for the captain. Stays calm with that and these are tough rounds.
Bet Boomer everywhere and nowhere. Always in the back line, you're not certain what's
the setup looking like and they've gotten through with their third.
Here's the headshot, that opens up the avenue into the site, Magnejes tucked on cave side.
I don't.
The spam not far off, but that's enough of a distraction.
Siren swings on in and catches, Bick just looking towards the cave side.
Eyes on the Mccase look.
Oh, you're right, there's only a Magne 10. He can't really have to close the gap quickly.
I'm pushing.
A quick one. Little miss on Magnejes, I've got the frags now, it's up to Mccase.
He can do this.
There's the penny going to drop.
Never looking, Baxa turned.
Gets the first one, bleeding, not the rapid headshot.
Hey!
Magnejes on the Mccase!
That's the financial back break up. That's where it's a freebie.
Oh, it's crazy he controls and finds the head shot there. That was a full HP Magnus.
This first shot, beautiful from here. We know he's a headhunt up, especially being onto the AWP.
They then deal with Flemish. They know he's the round plan. Magnus just has to be around in cave.
He was considered the rotation was fast and Bepper just moved to the site.
Clutch is getting them fired up and they're bringing them back to reality.
You've got to work hard for this.
Here's that eco.
257s, 2p250s and Zortian on a USP.
If control taken earlier, Lexi has lane.
Bit is diligent on that A push this time round.
Looks like they've been able to pip the gap out mid into Donut.
Maxi does see a little bit of ramp progression.
And Ima just waltz into an MTA site.
So that boom, damage isn't really even a name of the game right now.
If he can pick up a rifle and save it into the next, I'd say that's best case.
Wonderful. Should be able to get that bomb down, but not before Ima.
Announcing his presence. Now they know they've lost the side.
Flamas falls, but he was just keep on coming. Ilexi with a double and it's siren.
Last man standing, but now B making a one round gang.
Got a pandering on the signs right there.
It's a strategy there.
Oh, he's watching.
He's always watching.
the crowd not just go for the underdogs. Like a big brand. Can they tie us up before
half-time break. All founting, too much gets the extinguish.
Necessary, Mikaze wants to try and find fast, but they're just pleading.
How long are these heavy fights?
It must put Mikaze down, at least he finds Siren though, but it's put them in an awkward
two on four right out of the gates. So, Boom Edge and Ko have won out of the mid-fight.
I love this, it's a bit of a momentum break up. It's three straight from Nave.
It's a great job with Betboom with the pistol,
they got some conversions, some cheeky rounds with the aggression.
Wonderful, had an incredible day of play yesterday.
How's the bit?
See if there's any legs 2A2 on 4.
You can just see in the way that they're clearing everything, right?
They're expecting Betboom to take every chance under the sun.
Lovely star, Flamme is court-claring.
It does inform Magnajez and Boom on high alert. He wants to go for a week actually.
This is ballsy for Magnajez in a bad advantage trying to find that peak on to a bit.
30 seconds using every moment they can on the clock.
Got it?
Yep, info.
On the radar, Zorty rotates through. Magnajez onto site.
On the top will, Forty's immediate reaction.
Boomer should be set to play.
He's out. Lovely clean end and that stacks up the momentum from Na'Vi.
They started to find some footing.
Three consecutive from Na'Vi.
But Boomer's seven, Na'Vi five.
Intel Extreme Masters, we're live from Atlanta, Georgia. We're into the semi-final, our second
semi-final and the desk made it clear they requested Bet Boom to play like they have
nothing to lose. A disruptive and aggressive CT side gets them 7 on the half. They'll be
writing the ship somewhat with back-to-back clutches from Alexei and Mikaze.
And if they're playing that aggressive CS, Bet Boom, they found 10 out of the 12 possible
openings on the CT side, and the setups they just kept on changing, a main
aggression. Focus, focus, you see it, get it done, good a bit of a match, like we took
five rounds, it's very good. He's right, it is gonna be a tough match, game on now.
They've been with the lead on the half, they're not here to be tourist, they're
here to play for that grand final spot, came a legion of weight.
Karze's got company, oh my god it's a big fight on middle, here we go, flashed in,
They're all doing the dance. Siren was empty and he profits two clean kills.
It's nice from Emma. Chips it on to Boone.
A 2v4 goes 2v2.
Good going home.
A wonderful pushes down the B ramp. So he can get info, at least from range.
Siren smokes off towards Red. He's actually going to borrow in through the door.
It says he want to keep on pushing. I feel like you should play to contain.
Emma, he's jaunted over towards that A side.
He's going to take this control as well. A head to head available.
It's going to be in there.
I mean...
That's his Zorty in his blind spot.
Oh, that's good! Zorty's better!
That's the bomb noted. Wonderful.
It's on the other side of the map,
but he still doesn't know where Siren resides.
Oh, it's a really tough one.
I was in great form yesterday.
This one is going to have to be another absolute banger from Wonderful.
They're both on donor as well.
He'd have to hit the insane adjustment.
Looking the wrong way.
Zorty down!
Another fight! Siren hasn't found it cleanly.
Could it really be another Narvi clutch?
Clutches on Clutches, not this time!
Alright, denied.
Bring around the rosy possible antenna right there.
That was always going to be tough.
Great round out of Siren.
Yeah, kind of worked nicely as played.
He said this is going to be a tough match.
What do you use? Two of his timeouts.
Excuse me.
They will be gone for the force by here.
That flash, right?
Hang on. Siren playing anti.
All the ready for that.
And delivers what he needs to for the team.
Javier gonna chip in wonderful with a scout 2 SMGs with Tegel and a 5-7
Stealing this one away
Chose you into the force by wall is starting to become an important factor that remember this is now V's map choice
It's new come next
It does too if we need it
And the form we seem wonderful and you'd hate to see him just drop off a cliff
Such large ramifications for Na'Vi if they are unable to convert this force by back.
The pressure around them, this one, so because you're returning to red, this is a fake utility.
get players to rotate over to assist. Magnus, here's this.
Alexi with a smoke to block. He's completely, Mikazi is close enough as a bit of spam signals
there is cave presence. Donut blocked as well at the same time.
I'll be with a smoke on Mikazi, a HG for Bit, and the time now, 40 seconds.
It's really going to come down to that block smoke.
That's channeling you, Ramp.
It is, and they're starting their exit.
They're really going to clear and go through this in K. That's risky.
Smoke's coming through.
Pivoting, they're pivoting.
No, we're going to pivot off the inside.
Just a quick cut rotations.
I'm just doing some damage through the break.
Watch it on him, man.
Totally in there.
He's got a lot to contend with here.
gets the clean one, takes the head off of Bumich, very low HP so deflated trade does connect and the flank's been
rustled with their legs.
Time being, nice hit shot!
Stunning on the Deagle, they needed that round so badly.
Nice.
Both pistols go the way of your opponent, you're about picked, so second round.
It's going to close that gap.
funneling of Navi right there, right?
The fact that they're able to just smoke off caves.
So, hey, you're not gonna be executing onto this B side,
at least not through multiple choke points,
and then Mikazi on the D, times against them.
You're scrambling at the moment if you're bet-boot.
So, they've had some clutches,
now they've had a forced by win.
That's gonna get the fire started.
Oh, not even started, raging now.
Contact walk towards A.
with the CT smoke lines up.
Wonderful.
Not a pressurized shoulders here.
Supported by Mikaze.
He can let Mikaze take contact.
Yeah, that's the setup now.
It's quite potent.
Yeah, they've just gone a few of this out.
So apply the pressure, force of rotation.
Ignavi's comms.
A whole lot louder.
Let's see if he can manifest a couple of gaps right now.
Mikaze's tasked with middle.
Ima's supporting.
Wonderful.
And they get him out from behind the big box.
Here's one of those gaps we're talking about.
Now eyes more passively on middle.
Well, that's a boom to Waltz on out.
Wonderful, the McCards, they partner up.
Sported by Emma.
Tree boosted on A.
Oh, the ball.
First by 4, flat for Flavus and Bill.
Matt Bajaz does start to make it interesting
But a move into on the donut side, but the bombs under Alexi B's boots and siren a mile away.
He was counting on his teammates surviving a little longer. Now they're going to be found by Bit.
Now though, you should be tying up the game here. A, A, R, B.
Good reaction from Betburn right there. Understand the mid aggression. They take the space on A.
They make it somewhat interesting, but it's Aughty's death. It's a tough one. Here we go again.
It's a tough luck knockout there today.
Wow, the purest of egos up.
Magnajes is going to get a single flashback, at least there's something to smoke towards
Cave as well.
So $500 worth of investment.
Let's see how much you can take with you.
Here's the flash.
You want a hell of a flash if you get a bomb plot out of this.
Good luck.
Good luck.
How fun.
One kill for my Magessus Block.
Well, okay.
Well, at least they had an idea.
Right?
They're not just running around like that.
They're just running around like that.
for my majestic block. Okay,
well, Lisa had an idea, right?
They're not just running around
the headless shoots they've
attempted a bit of a pop play.
The guns come back out to Beppe
want to bring face in on the mic.
What year is it?
Okay, is it plenty?
I think that now he will really
start to stride into a bit of a
This should be their comfort zone, Cinti's side on their map choice.
Certainly the expectation, we'll see if it's met.
Karzee holding his mixed base, flashes, cash in, Lexi.
But he's got support, doesn't need much help.
But Karzee and Lexi win in every drill they take!
Down goes wonderful, nice one back from Zorty on the clawback.
back siren does extend play by surviving his bit hiding out on site. It's going to be overlooked here.
Sorti's got his back turned perfect.
Now just siren.
Nice well placed deep smoke to completely nullify his venture towards lane.
I see some of the similar issues that Navi had in the first half when they were just saved 1-8.
And that's if he's allowed. Look at this. Mikazi and Emma both push through elbow to cut him off.
Alexi and Bitter over towards the doors. They're even smoking and making sure that there is
really no way out. Worst case, he goes down after time. Looks like he's just gonna try
and contend for this, see if he can soften them up. They've got four AKs right now, if
you can make sure they can't carry all of these into the next, but you will be opting
in with the partial. Shot sounds off, a bit, we'll confirm, and I'll beat in the lead.
to the left. There's a time out.
a bit too late as this one will
just have to be the light by but
let's see you see just using
their own smoke against them
aware of the flash opportunities.
The fact that he's able to cover
off heaven means because he gets
to focus fire into what's elbow.
easy.
Smokes and flashes with these tech 9s being invested upon and you would love to get away
with saying poppy, right?
This is where if you're able to catch them off with the timing, you can swarm them with
the tech 9s.
Navier a team who should have their anti-force protocols down
Face out middle because they touch behind the donut smoke bit to support with this smoke break play
And he's found a headshot
Plenty obscured that.
In the smoke was boomed. Doesn't stop it from delivering an open and kill.
Smokes will start to fade shortly.
And dip back.
Because they're actually electing to block Donut,
they don't want to have to contend with multiple tech nodes running at him.
They set up nicely for the sound RV.
Shave one off early. They use all their nades so they have a little bit of space, sure.
But you don't need to squirm too much.
It's not the same as if you're versing AKs on the lurk and crunching you in.
This is just going to be the pistol, and that's going to be confirmed.
Nice jumping from Magnet.
Let's confirm the orbs.
Who order this?
This could be a tough clear.
McCarthy.
Let's go all the way in.
I could have gone down with that little move.
You're starting to play today.
Yeah, it's just the car's a here.
Those grounds for excitement.
If they can find the car's a here.
Drops in, finds Flamas, dips back, spots the advance of Siren, the cover by Inno as well, it's clean.
Near spotless, before Magnitaz found that headshot, but that's an RV. Rack it up another.
Minimal resistance posted so far from the T side. Oh, that boom.
So that's seven kills in the last five of play, but their first plant.
They were already getting in with the purchases. That wasn't going to be a problem that Max
Lost Bonus was in the mix. So it does get out of his all. Would that be a difference
Makeup.
They're setting up Sortsy with that smoke break.
At first HG came very, very early.
Oh, donkey.
He's just trying his luck, but Faze brings him down with ease.
Didn't even need it, may as hell, apart from that sported flashbang, but a damage for Alexi off the cave made.
Another opening for Na'Vi, things are flowing nicely.
Impressive smoke spouts.
Yeah, that first half in terms of openings was very difficult for Na'Vi.
10-2 in Betboom's favour.
Na'Vi have won all, but won in this second half so far and that was the pistol.
The only round they've lost.
Here we go. Bit versus Booth.
Perfect.
He's using that AK, punishing them.
30 seconds remain, wanting to retain this AWP.
Again, Max loss bonus for the rest of the team,
and that's where the plan in the previous really does help out Pet Boom for another buy.
We'll catch this again.
So, close wall player, the flashes come over, dodging him just spamming the corner.
Defensive smoke, Zorty, they won him and they're going to take him.
Wonderful, we'll remove the possibility of that save.
I need to stop playing with him now, running out of opportunities damn quick.
Again finding openings on middle it is falling apart
The wheels have come off!
Definition of Insati at this point.
You keep trying to fight middle and every time it's the same result.
McCose gets a multi.
If he doesn't, there's Immet.
Muscled into that red room.
Climbers wants him.
How good are his clears here?
Immersing, active on the line.
It's a good one. It's a good one.
Wonderful is done. I'm not
bleeding with it. Finding
promise. That's round folks. This
one is going one way and one way
fast. That's nine kills in the
last seven rounds of play. That's
it. And they all have seen to
come off the ground was already
done. Right. It's all just
consolation. Rags at this point.
A real tone shift from that
first after felt competitive.
that we knew they could be.
But you're right about those clutches gave the the
Navi boys the splash of water on the face of
Hokem up and the second half had to start with them
with a force by wind. Yeah, they even lost the
pistol. It could have gone real wrong real quick.
Right. You lose that. You have to take the eco.
The guns come out. It's not the best to buys.
At that point, that boomer in double digits, you're
in strife and right now you have a four round
lead just one to the name and it's done.
It seems like somewhat of a platitude, but when
you are a world beat it, when you are a world
Well, number one, well, number two in Navi's case, winning those second round forces, winning those compromised fives.
That's what defines and makes that team so great. You've got to be able to win the round, you shouldn't.
So they just put him away here with a landslide.
Yeah, is there anything else? Is there a twist or a turn to this story?
Because they're catching early, they damage is a good start.
At least the munch is running out mid into him. Let's have their time on this one.
He's batted by Galils, mainly Mac10 and an AK, and they're just going to try and contact into what's out, but
couldn't be a better weapon for the job waiting on the site.
Wonderful Zorb in temple.
His support network is far away.
Getting farther.
Yeah, if he misses that first shot, then they scale in. This one could get a little bit tough.
Might not be 8 straight to close.
Mid-Util will keep Mikaze's attention on mid-off.
Deep Donut smoke as well, wonderful. His reaction to that is actually to play within the Donut.
Interesting choice.
Through the smoke and ready to fight.
Nice find! Catches Magnet. Yes! Oh, an important trade! Alexi right back there!
Catches Broom before he can find cover.
They're into the A site, but they're actually going to play for the fight here.
Siren and Flammeus on this fade.
Going to have Mikaze to deal with.
Barrel spotted.
Oh, he lined up for him nearly.
Trait from Siren, bomb ticking.
Bits could get a sound because of what's done.
Now they need a way for him to rotate into this.
That smoke. All the chaos.
There's no HE.
Oh, you've got it in Sendier.
Not like this.
Horrible sinking feeling for Betboom here.
Already the defuse coming through.
And it's Navi's map after all.
A very one-sided affair in that second half.
Eight straight rounds to close.
Every single one of them with the opening kill.
And that's how it's done from now on V. Punch in the ticket one and map close out to the grand final.
Come on, come on.
Show me your head.
One more.
Thank you.
Frankie!
Hey!
Queen B!
Head honcho!
The All-CNI!
Please don't call me that!
Please don't call me that.
Look, Alex, I reviewed your department's financials.
Oh, good. I'm sure everything's in order.
Alex is a disaster.
I'm sending someone to conduct an in-person audit.
All right, right. Great.
Sounds like a great initiative.
Good luck, Mr. Richardson.
All right, everyone, gather round, okay?
We've got a big one.
All right, deep breaths, everyone.
Keep cool.
We've got a visitor today from head office.
It's just a formality.
That's what they said last time.
It's no biggie.
It's just everyone being normal.
Normal.
Define normal.
Don-ha-ha-ha!
Milka-veh!
Dawn ha ha ha!
Wilke van! Coffee?
Alex, I'm here for the company audit.
I want receipts.
Excuse me. What is that thing?
Oh, you mean Mikaela. She's part of the team.
And what does Mikaela exactly do?
Mostly admin. A bit of morale. She's actually an employee of the month. See?
Mind of the matter.
Mind of the matter.
Mind of the matter.
How long has it been going on?
About three hours now.
I haven't blinked once.
Step back.
I'm the Spears. Where is she?
Oh!
Yeah, Freya, um,
she's actually taking some much needed time off
stretching her legs.
I won holiday!
Wait, Samwise.
Then why do I see five streaming subscriptions on the company card?
And what exactly is Olefans?
Listen, I went a little bit wild this weekend, I bought myself dress...
What about this guy? Does he have financial access?
You go. Oh, no. He's a sweet boy, but barely knows how to answer the phone.
Good. Skip him.
Talk to me, Donna.
After careful review, there's significant discrepancies in your accounts.
Your department is operating at a massive deficit.
Right, so, I mean, deficit, that's not normally a problem.
I'm sorry, Alex.
PED Office has instructed the immediate closure of the DHL eSports Logistics Division.
What?
You've got to be kidding me. These are our jobs.
Here are our jobs, our livelihood is on the line, we're not going to be able to pay our bills.
Ruin me for life, you are ruining lives right now, and this is not going to go down this way.
You're not just shutting down the country, this is our livelihood.
We're not going down like this, we're going to be coming in down.
Yeah!
Are you sure it's close to space years ago?
This is it. I can feel it. It's that track.
Someone once said, good luck, Mr. Richardson.
Turns out, luck is the one thing I never run out of.
Oh, yeah, we should, uh, we should totally stop doing this.
Back and forth in the first half, but once we switched to the second, it truly was all coming up Navi.
Now, that's not to say they didn't have to put in the work for it.
It came down to some individual heroics that we will get into very shortly.
But ultimately, Janko and Navi do stabilise on that CT side.
Yeah, after a rough start it was a little bit dicey there.
I mean, Betboom was taking all the boxes, winning pistol, getting the early reset,
being really aggressive, playing in Navi's face, you know, not allowing the man in the room to breathe.
But then, as you said, a couple of clutch rounds from Navi's players, they stepped up,
were able to stabilise when you could tell in the second half
as Batboom had to play from the T side is where they're going to start to struggle.
Navi was struggling finding any openings in that first half whatsoever.
As you said, it was Batboom taking all the boxes.
One thing is winning pistol converting, but even in the buy rounds,
even in the gun rounds, it felt like they were one step ahead.
A couple of rounds where Navi seemed a little bit disjointed.
A couple of rounds as well where Navi would win a round,
but they would do it over surviving one player.
Next round they would have a weaker buy than Batboom
and be forced to walk out middle with no utility, etc.
So it really did feel like Navi were playing on the back heel
for the vast majority in that first half, but I think if anything it was good that they got away
with five rounds because there was probably a little bit more than you could have expected.
I totally agree with the openers, yeah, Navi may not have had but closes, they definitely did,
Rianco. Yeah, and I think some of the rounds that we have to showcase that, it's also the sort
of rounds that that won't really counter for it to lose. This sort of a matchup and what
sucks is they start off by doing really well, like look at this aggression, like this was looking
incredible. Maybe they get somewhat unlucky on the timing that they can't get
more kills here you know Siren just one and done then Zorty is closed by as
well but this is what you wanted to see from badminton going into the game right
you can see the money is stepped out from Navi this is a reset run so 4v3 here
Zorty a little bit overzealous pushes too much 3v3 now they go for the B
execute some nice kills here through the smoke and bit searching through the
block like this was huge to get the kill on to Flamas and Alexi in this one we won
against boomers just goes for a ballsy play through the smoke and is able to
secure the clutch avoid the reset for Navi. It was so important you know such a
key round as Janko said had they lost that one no money no nothing it would
have been a bad situation fast forward to the next one as well around that
where they trade pretty well bit comes up with a nice multi-kill then again
Seren coming in and evening out the round and it felt like as I said Navi
who were playing on the back hill throughout the vaspirity of this game
can't win these duels and then you find yourself in a 1v2 and then
Mikasa stepped out. Why? We spoke about him as an impact on the T side. This time
around not in the opening kill department but in the closer role. There
was such a pivotal moment as well because yeah you won round nine but had
you lost round ten right here you would have been back to square one no money
whatsoever and Betboom would have run away with that first half. Do you want to
speak of being screwed in the money because I think there's no better example
when we go into the second and Betboom win that crucial pistol but then what
happens most. Yeah they need to have that momentum right especially on the T side
and here it was a little bit chaotic they throw a fake actually they end up
going towards him who is on his own right Magnarius is cutting off the
rotation but he does a great job of getting a kill buying time. Magnarius
doesn't end up doing too much on from that red room to cut off rotation. He's
still on for now we just ran past him and we're able to overwhelm the bomb site
and this was huge right because we were saying T side is gonna be rough for
playing with the stand and practicing with a different player, you know, the playbook isn't going to be really deep, so you have to win these easy rounds.
So how's it looking moving on to Nuke? This is Beto's map pick, but do you think Navi can do it right here right now?
I think the fashion Navi ended up winning on Ancient where they run away with the game and Betoom doesn't get anything done whatsoever for seven or eight rounds in a row is not going to be a pretty look heading into Nuke.
Starting on the T side as well against a Navi team who definitely knows how to play Nuke, who have been stepping up on the map as of late as well.
of late as well. I'm afraid that that's it for Bedboom, but I would love to see them come out swinging in.
As you said, they were ticking all the boxes, win the pistol, convert.
Don't make the same mistake you did here in Anson in the second half, and then maybe you can have another competitive map,
because the score line doesn't do justice. I think that was a much, much closer game than 13-8, to be completely honest,
but I'm afraid Nuke won't be.
Yeah, everything is in Navi's hands, really. They play just a standard game.
I think they have enough to shut down Bedboom, but the approach needs to stay the same.
You need to be aggressive, you need to get in their face and just hope that this time around you win some more of these crucial rounds.
Navi, certainly the favourites coming into our second semi-final of the day. But can Betboom change that tune? Moving on to their map pick.
They're going to need to do it fast. It's Nuke coming your way in just a few.
Everyone, everyone, everyone!
Interactive, I have one.
Two long guys, I'm going behind.
You can still go.
One short, one short.
One more short.
Side, all good.
Oh!
Ah!
Dream, blyat!
Coming out, I'm down.
Mark.
Where?
I'm taking side.
Coming out, coming out.
Window!
I killed window.
Nice!
I'm defusing up on the box guys, chill.
You were trying?
Nice!
Come on!
We're here for the Colex fantasy team yesterday. We made our team Jason. How's your team doing?
Well, just pretty pretty crap Jason. I'm not gonna lie. It's not great. I picked three vitality players.
Vitality went out yesterday. I picked two legacy players, but legacy went out today. So not doing great Jason.
You've got one player remaining. I got one player alive. I have three vitality players and then I have
Dumau. He's obviously gone, but I got my cause and he's still partying here in the semi final. So I'm winning.
And he's still partying here in the semi-final, so I'm winning.
That's all I'm saying, go away.
By the skinning your teeth, Jason, you're winning one single player.
But if you had to pick a game-religion player,
you could go back in time.
Who would it have been?
Rez.
Rez, I don't know, picked PR.
PR?
Yeah.
I like it.
I like it.
Tellson.
OK.
I like it.
Tellson.
I want to go for 1,000.
Rez a good shot, though.
He had some sick games, and now the grand finals just up in the air.
Yeah, well, there's also high-packs.
He's been clutched.
Yes.
So let's see how it goes down.
We don't have a... We don't have a spirit here, but we know we've picked up, but he's not here.
Semi-final Saturday, we continue here live from Atlanta, Georgia.
The crowd's been great, they've been enjoying Narvi picking up the first map of this semi-final.
Betbu Manavi, both teams that managed to beat Vitality.
No vitality going to be lifted in that trophy. Now he made sure of that now for the path to converting it
Now V in pursuit of getting another grand final. This would be their fourth grand final of the year
For that boom they were outclassed by now V in the second half of ancient
You saw those clutches the death saying perhaps a scoreline deceptive
It was you know a real opportunity for that been to put the right foot forward
Coming into this semi-finals could have a stronger first half could have a stronger second
lose that four-spy in round number two and they were in with a shot but now I
couldn't imagine a worse side to find yourself sure it's your map pick nuke
but it could be overpass right these t-sides on these technical maps is a long way up
and you've got to start the t-side of your pick nuke strategy heavy
and this standing alleged standing and we highlighted flammers with a lot of reps with
for that Boon Boy, he's still lacking polish, perhaps.
Will it be a waltz into the ground final for now?
Is it going to be casual as it should felt in that second half?
Or have that Boon got what it takes in order to make this competitive
in the second map of our semi-final here?
Individuals are on, the form hasn't gone anywhere.
Big, wonderful, McCasey, all firing.
You need to match that out for the other side of the server.
Eyes on Salty.
Impact for all, Matt will be swapped sides, especially on that CT.
Flamme is still on the tee.
He's going to have to find impact.
Try to put himself in that shot window.
I've been a play this for the times to mainly success the big one being that vitality result.
It's been a smoking heaven with that.
He has.
Because he's got two to the 10-way, but Emma is perfectly positioned.
So casual with the clicks.
Three heads shall see it, they're running out here, you got nothing.
Eight straights to close, ancient.
We'll throw another one on the tally.
Let's see how long it takes before Beth Fulham are able to draw blood.
single kill no plan yeah this is the thing you you're considering okay what we do
have a stand in your map shows being new to technical map it's always going to be
tougher Emma clean clicks and Alexi just braves he's meant to be making the space
I'd them there as we get underway with round number two this one should be easy
with the Famous spots. Magnet
jazz over towards red. It's
already up on solid, but without
any digs. It's very difficult
to have any form of excitement
in this one.
Everybody but siren makes their
way outside. Question is who's
in a name that cuts you towards a single box.
Oh, okay, that's a secret.
Oh, he's made it across.
And the bomb's down.
In there, looking to rotate down the vent,
but it's taking some damage.
Trying to be like this plant is boomage.
He's going to get back side,
and you get the bomb down, okay?
Success there for that move.
That is the win.
Thanks for 600 bucks for every player.
Well, you're going to take that,
but you're unlikely to find a frag that refuses to come through.
That's the 2-0 start for NARV.
I think that would be a little bit remiss that they gave that one away, but at the end of the day, it doesn't cost them too much.
Just means that their boom are going to have a stronger buy.
Everyone will have the AKs with the full sets of nades.
So it gives Boomage the option to call whatever he wants.
The only thing lacking in this one would be Zorty with an AWP.
I'm going to try to get him.
This one looks to be Yard Centric.
Move it up on silo.
Three on the low ground siren.
Holding the lobby push.
This is going to drop down.
Has plenty of time to make it
towards secret because they've
just thrown the smokeball now.
It's perfect, it's not wonderful, you better...
Last of all, control of the M4A4.
He saw the eruption there, the smoke's throwing relatively impromptu, right? Not set once from spawn.
They lobbed him out, he was just charging, thinking he might be able to catch the timing before they're crossing red.
They're already in his face, so they get the opportunity to get a kill, but wonderful.
From the heavens delivers a beautiful double, and now the man disadvantage.
bit of a time he's one of us turns around on a second now that I saw it
because he's on a he knows that he's had the underhand throw
D not gonna have got the time for that has he they can drop down but bits there
would be the end smoke on the site might open up an avenue for a plan but
because he could spam or he could fake time
not up surely boom in the clutch just enough time to get away this would be
one hell of a way to introduce that boom into Nuke and Sparming eyes it's bit. A valiant attempt, fair play, pulls it into the 1v1, bit ruined to the fun.
Yeah, good effort there. Lots of damage down, the bomb goes down. 2900 loss bonus into the next, they can get another buy off of this if they'd like.
to make sure he has that line
of sight gets caught and bit.
He's the man to catch him through
the smoke. So around that gets
tight. But it felt like they were
in full controls and RV.
11 straight.
That boom by back in couple of
couple of galils around the AK-47s. They got the util again. Let's see what
boomage obstacle this time around.
A difference maker. The rotator can find himself in all his key positions. This
time it's more lobby centric. The bomb on Zorty groups up in radio. It was the
hero of the last to find the final blow. He's dropped down towards B. It's gonna
be wonderful. The line from elbow.
Kazi trying to solve the puzzle, but they flashed out round.
This is the last vision though, and he's quick to it. Find Siren.
Oh, still holding that cross towards the rampside.
Peek it in! Corporal outnates!
One back from Burn, but wonderful's happening.
His way with the Batboom Squad.
Three kills, shut down Flammas and McNerjes to try and turn the tables.
Alright, well last round got close. Why can't this one? Still a minute on the clock.
Yeah, I bet you this looks like he's gonna be found by Alexi.
Oh, and a quick adjustment from the fin. Finds the headshot necessary.
Flamas the unknown entity, but look at him. He's got him bugged.
Flamas is there!
So, okay.
Next to 1v3 or 1v2, bit. The only healthy member of this squad.
4-0 V.
I'm ready to pipe up that vent, but we'll go down again.
Okay, can Flamos find the clutch that eluded boom?
Doesn't give away his position.
No kid on these two.
He gets uncomfortable fast, wrapping back around towards the squeaky door side.
He doesn't care for himself.
But they're not going to expect that either. It's a 10 second defeat.
It has to be hot.
That's what you'd assume. Comes through the squeaky door, 10 seconds to escape.
Now they know he has to run out, has to get Alexi off the bar cover is there!
Again, it's Baird defies the impact frag, denies the clutch once more.
Okay, these dicey situations.
Beppermann with another plan and the Max Lospotas can go again,
but maybe take themselves a bit of a tactical timeout to have a conversation before you're
marching to the next. And this is the confidence, right, getting the first, great, but the confidence
from Wonderful just appear out for not only the second, but the third you think the round is done
down and dusted right there and then still keeping her in contention.
The frustration is starting to be visible, slow start to your T side and as you can keep
your track they probably feel the same. The momentum from ancient Kailor and sure they
are out ramp stretching their legs a bit and I can see the space. I'm just going to get
across. Oooo opening head shot. McCarthy finding the yard player gives him a way out.
They're looking for him.
McCarthy's going to bring the fight.
Go, ready!
Advantage, Batboo!
Heaven control!
Quick from the legs, he's an uncomfortable fight but gets caught by Sirenal Squeaky.
Open event.
It's not where you want to be with an AWP.
And in for one another, catches him there.
Money's not great.
Yeah, money's not great, I think, but the casualties.
So wonderful, we're just going to give this one over.
I like this right there.
I'm just sending these only two options available to MacKenzie out the window
and he's going to go up towards heaven
before he's going to try and wrap back around.
Otherwise, he'd be caught in no man's land.
So, making a lot of space within that one pepper.
And now you know you have the Nami money on the ropes.
So, this next round of play is worth two.
You win this, Nami will have to take the save
before they can bring the guns out again.
Oh, for wonderful.
I like this catches the deeper side of that one. It's a squeaky door already. The whole
time I don't even get a chance. I don't know if Flamers looks like he's going to catch
that native. Oh, it's coming through.
We've got the reload, and XB onto BlueBitch.
Oh, what's over there?
And catastrophe for BlackBroom.
The chance is very low.
And just Sorti with zero.
Frank's going to have to have his round here on that AK.
Magnajez trying to sell something,
but they already know it's fakery.
And XB should be set to collect with his MP9 on the low HP.
Sortie's just parked it outside this vent.
Likely gonna fall foul to the wonderful orb.
Oh, spotted.
Attacked through the box, down to 41.
Magna just starting to take space for that orb shot.
So is Alexi.
Magna just has some room.
Clean from Alexi, little crab walking to the headshot.
Amakansi's already here. Magna just might be able to get the bomb down,
but should go down, just staffed up.
The door swings open and denied. There it is, 5-1.
You're going to be able to get
on the top. Locked out in it.
So lucky to be alive. Isn't he
behind that CT event right
unloads getting the reload in
as the top pop comes in.
Sarah not clearing his corners
and it's going to cost them.
We might see it on the camera
here. Look at this part.
They're just the ladies. It's a
lazy player. That's what it is.
It doesn't go deep on that.
And then the scramble in the top
Now there moves on the ropes financially Zortie with the AWP yet to get going in the frag department
Oh, Emma strikes progression into the mix on the yard side
It does look like it's gonna be yard centric wonderful holding for the siloed P gonna get a clash here
Double zoom whistles one past Zortie lives on
Emma up close, they're parving, they're clearing and opening kill for Magnutes
Up and over, Mikaze wants to fight the flash deters him
That's a main main
Zortie's managed to find Mikaze on the yard side. They have got a golden opportunity here
One back from Wonderful, catches Boone.
They need to get this bomb, it's still outside of Lobby.
I understand they have the space,
but they need to get the bomb and get into that A site.
It's what he understandably concerned about safe passage of the bomb,
worried about a push towards the trophy side,
looks like he's got the green light.
And Lobby already considering a save.
It's up Heaven to contest this.
It's just if Bit gets anything, they might give it a go.
And he gets a bullet between his eyes, so I think that's locked in.
Boom 2, Navi 5.
Okay, well, Alexi's now going to have a look.
Well, never mind, it's just for a, uh...
Not great, it's the AK-47, so Ruzel is full as the in-game leader.
Mid-Maxing.
And back and forth in this last patch around.
So, again, that boom in a nice little breakpoint situation.
Wonderful, we'll be able to drop an M4.
So, 1400 into the next, it is going to mean that...
I'm not the best to buys again, but it didn't seem to cost him last time and turn some aerobics or gymnastics or
Get me back broken. I think that's Pilates actually ha ha
He's reforming
Imagine Alexa to give the AK over to Mackenzie outside or maybe even in the towards main
It depends on what type of setup maybe they want to go for this yard boost again to see if they can catch
He's going for that same type of crawl that we saw him to.
That elevation should give wonderful the line he's looking for.
Second tactical timeout very early from Blade.
Oof, well he's talking to...
No one there and this is life, right?
That was a reaction from Blade after that fell apart.
Don't want to get complacent.
Trying to make light work of this CT half.
Have I imagined it would be hard to grow complacent with Blade as a coach?
I think he's going to constantly be there to remind them of what's at stake.
Oh, he's got one more of those opportunities, right?
So, he's burnt two within the first seven rounds of play.
And they are leading 5-2-2.
He knows what happens if they lose this next one.
Yes.
You've already managed to convert one of these.
Stopped at the break.
This is actually a better buy.
Yeah.
AK-47, thanks to Alexey Scavenging.
A couple of MP9s.
A couple of aggressive ultimates, ultimates, scoping up, and flashbang, and he bugs him.
He might get another MagnaJazz Makase flash.
A media smoke break, MagnaJazz not going to be revealed.
Wonderful, starting the ultimates secret.
another avenue for this yard control might catch someone red spots in taxing
magniges down to 32 what's the reaction of Beppin they know the or his under
student try and fight bit over towards ramp knowing that the AWP likely out of
the picture can't be on that line at least not for now he's rotating back
as managers takes that space looks like wonderful is going to be in the right
place once more great dynamic orbit revealed the leap fall for the big
Will he run in? No, wonderful catches to Alty!
But I'm looking the wrong way! Bit profits!
Two-man advantage for Narpy. Flammers walking through the smoke.
It's all too easy for him, and gets an upgrade delivered to his front door.
And have a pretty good idea where Magnetjes is.
Yeah, but the bomb is in lobby on Siren with an orb.
It's so uncomfortable now, he can just receive, tucks into the vent.
Alexi, do you look like he's destined to collect this one just with that Z-axis?
The advantage he has on that... Oh, he just fell out!
So, below the jump scare for Alexi on the repeat.
Siren unable to hit the quick scope,
and yeah, what's Magnajez supposed to do?
His round started by catching a bullet
through the red container from Wonderful's orb.
It's cool to see as well, Wonderful knowing
that the comms are going to flow
as soon as he pulls the trigger.
He was quick to round out.
Yeah, this is it. You want your orb to be dynamic, right?
You need him to keep moving.
Alexi's picked up that orb.
I'm not sure if they want to really run the double,
But instead of the men P9 bit could use that over towards ramp so magnitude saves they get 2400 is the last sport the rest of the
Team so they can buy again, right? So they have been able to stay threatening that boom
They're not in this top position having to go partial into full
Again confidence on display the fact he's sleeping into the end of the speaking after revealing his position
I think that's a good one.
Catching sortie.
Unprepared. Well, you should be
after what he did yesterday. I
understand it was the whole team
from now, but it felt like every
time wonderful was pulling the
trigger is taken down. I would
think there's like 14 to seven in
terms of head to head jewels
between the two of them.
If you were drawing a line of
the sand for T side, Luke.
What's that? Boom's part of the
course. This is it. If I was
talking about take the name
plates away and I was going to
do this traditionally, we're
That's the best case. I'm probably looking for five. Yeah. Okay. So it has to start here with what is a compromised
Just running away from them very quickly
And that double up wonder if that's going to come into play here
I think they're fortunate that it is up against another quote. I've got gun rounds
But if this was against the lighter by with tag 9s, you'd have some problems
One of the issues you will have though is if you lose some space the retake is going to be tough
So you might want to play ahead of losing the sign
That's it.
Macalze has got a lot of work to do on the young petition, starts to span from the main.
And KJZ, audible.
Detect dual. Macalze doesn't even take a leg.
Oh, he gets the second on the swing.
Flamme has gone, bit poised to collect. Boom!
Peaks on in. It's leisurely.
They keep Flamme alive.
Already in compromise siren and salty
Because they hasn't gone anywhere
He's gonna find another
You've tried to push through Smokes and informed trade and now with Magnajes in combination
you've managed to breach the site!
Mikaze with empty hands.
The site is theirs, bomb planted courtesy of Boomage.
Wonderful in heaven and bit wrapping back around from the mini-access.
Audible.
You can smoke off-door now.
Kurti picked it up.
Just gonna nullify Magnajes.
Flash for siren. Wonderful.
Off it's off the distraction.
Going to drop in. It finds the headshot. This is winnable now.
Doesn't have a kit though.
Maybe I'll take that back.
Magnesias only has to do is hit the headshot.
Bigot's got him. Just simply no time.
Okay, that's a bit frustrating.
Put your cash for a kit.
Oh, you're right.
So a lot of money on Nabi to make that a possibility.
But that one, they got lost in the source.
They get the open kill on the spam.
Alexi even grabs another towards the heart.
to get past Mikazi through
that main smoke. So that one's
a bit of a frustrating round,
but it stops the rock and
causes a bit of a ruckus.
I think that kill onto
Mikazi just making sure he gets
nothing is a big one.
Well played. If you don't
after you cry, why is it more
scary when he's playing?
Maybe he's having fun with it.
He's having fun with it. Flamos is out. Flamos.
Straight out, Tuck's vent.
It must have been religiously breaking this squeaky smoke,
but it's not going to be exposed.
And maybe going to catch a time off the flash.
It should be cut this time.
Surely books him. Flamos entry frag.
Boom, it's on top.
And topside's theirs.
Mikase gets nothing on the smoke break.
Just sets himself up.
Exposes himself to Siren.
And that's going to be a comfortable, clean round
for that boom.
Very important patch arounds.
The five is still available.
And now they know that they're saving.
The hunt can be on, try and rip these guns away.
Big bit knows he's gonna have to fight for this.
Protect the president.
Like adjustment, fight and adjust for the first best.
You're getting tacked up heavily for plans using that elevated position.
Does very well.
Taking all the guns away as well. Very important for the campaign here on Newt.
Betboom 4.
Okay, they will be able to fire again and of course, they're gonna shove.
It's going to be the final round of play coming up next, but it's not going to look as good as it could
So now V losing those mean the wonderful has to go in with a glass cannon AWP
And I don't think play wants to take another time to go time out in this first half of play
This is the CT side after all
But recovered half. Yeah, and look I think if now V you can see multiple moments
They've titted that this would be the third time now. This isn't a money break situation
Let's just put them in a tougher fight for the final round
I've seen this too much in the half.
The MagnetJazz hasn't noted him.
God, it's wonderful, there's found him.
Down the vent though, so space taken by Siren.
Lots of room for him to work.
Now they go ramp, wonderful, he's going to have a scope on the line.
Oh no, great flash work.
It's aware of this.
He's looking for him in the vents.
Siren, now he knows.
He's been noted in a freed up to drop in as well
The B site to finish this half will bet boom be able to reign supreme find a fifth
Good bet boom finding the car's a early on the door site
So if you call planting does get it down, but they will bring it into a four on three advantage
Now V and the retakes only just begun. Okay again, okay?
They've got a lot of work to do. They've losing teammates left to rise.
Siren's gone down. Flammage has to hold this position.
Unable to do so. Just Pumich. Can he kapov?
The clutch. No, he cannot. Navi will end on eight.
Looking good. Looking set to collect.
Bebber in five, though, is workable.
This look could change the narrative.
line from Atlanta. The energies great here, dream hack. We've got all the stalls, all the fun,
and no fun for Betboom. Four rounds, second map, their pick, and we're swapping sides.
Navi go to the harder side, but already eight in the bank. T side and a bowload of utility for
this one. And I feel serviceable with four, but again, this is quote unquote a mixed team over
there. Betboom, regardless of the fact that they do have Flamers playing a truckload of maps with
this team. I think now they look at the Nades. They've invested upon three sets on a pistol
round. This one's going to be technical. It's all blown off.
Flash has changed together. Wait for that smoke reaction. Now Imagos. Caesar has an invitation.
Bits Falsara on half-boon. It's tracking nicely. Flying. Block. Alexi brings down Magnus Jez.
And they have already broken in. Not rushing this plant. Anticipating reactions. Flammus
versus wonderful. Hatches in, nice find on the USP. Flamas is equalized. So what's he
around for? Overlook by Mikaze, comfortable on the vent. Up to bit, can't handle it. Good
shot from Boomich, just a lexie B. He's got Kev, he's got 35 points of health and he's
got three to find. Here's that defuse, calls the bluff. Going for a second look and catches
Flamas looking the wrong way. Headshots there, but Boomich trading. Three kills in the round
from that captain. Couple of
messy moments there as well.
You see wonderful trying to hold
the ramp push gets shunted off by
the lab ladder doesn't really have
his feet planted as he would have
hoped as he gets his second kill
within that round. He's going to
need to be instrumental in the
second half right? You're
rotating. You're all part needs to
be in the right place to help
shut down some of these plays and
that technical maneuver. It looks
good to start with the two plant
the bomb, which does mean there is
a force by coming through. Unless
you guess that one cleanly, then
probably gets away. Boom, which was worried about heaven. So working back into this, that boom.
You win this one, they will have to eco.
You can start to bring it back in contention. It gets an AK, Ima in with the Kalil, pistols for
the rest. And Alex will be the man to have to throw out the smoke balls yard. So door blown off,
low smoke in from Ima. I think something you want to do against a team like this is really
make them question the rotations. Keep the comms flowing. Try and create as many potential gaps as possible.
They're not using this smoke wall. That's going to be it as far as cover is concerned.
It hasn't forced the rotation down to beat. At least not yet.
The guys are dropping in.
Post vent the first player.
Nice one.
Goomish set up to succeed in the MP9s.
Ragnar, Vigal, hang on.
Wonderfuls.
Double Degas gets us interested.
Bombs on the back of him have frozen across.
Just a galil stunned by Magmajez.
The farmer's coming in from heaven, delayed by the flame.
It's a wonderful clutch with an MP9.
What's he got?
Made it a deagle!
Another headshot from Magmajez!
Heaven!
Oh, nearly, heavenly.
Nearly did him dirty.
OK, team ace.
Betburn, hold on.
Great output there.
Sure, they had to scrap back into it,
but they keep the intensity high.
This could be the moment play takes the final time now.
Just because only one survived, they are going to have
to drop guns and they can only really hook up with one M4.
Everyone's going to have to buy themselves,
which means they're going to be lacking in either the Armour
Department or the U2 Department.
And now they can keep the pressure on.
They get the bomb down.
Obviously, their loss bonus is not great.
But OK, it looks like they're going for a mixed bag
between the two.
So here are OK for Wonderful, who did a lot of damage.
And some pistols to complement that
so they can keep this pressure on.
Even if you don't win this round,
as long as you take away a bunch of guns.
It keeps the pressure on the economy.
I saw a log about the first half.
Let's turn out the lurk smoke and then blows off the door.
It's time they're making waves outside.
Let's see what the smokes are getting at the ready. They are going to try and take the room off of these.
And the jazz is going to work. Cut out for it.
I guess they're dead, Jule, and down goes the rifle with empty hands.
Wonderful.
Unable to find the pick.
Inna will scoop it up and get a cross.
Inna just breaks the smoke.
Good.
Lips of Mikaze.
And it's actually Inna using that rifle to create success.
Mikaze up close.
Magma just running out of bullets.
He's going to find this cleanly.
Oh, Mikaze nails it!
Able to rectify, though, despite the number disadvantage, all that lost space.
This is nice for Navi, they're not rushing it after those frags, they're taking their time, they're taking a lot of room.
Siren's about to get a face full of something.
Time becomes the problem now and the bomb needs to be picked up, 25 seconds.
Damage tagged up now the tech 9 chasing him down bit with hot pursuit catches it with nades out messy from bit
Just in time finds it and if boomage goes up the ladder he's spotted bit surely not
MP9
Accuracy now be stealing away and in the mud right now better. Oh wow
I think you think with the opening kill on to the hero rifle
You think they've done the hard work have really good round there from in it lots of output with that scavenged gun
And Magnaja is going to be kind of salty about the way it went down with Mikaze here this final shot
Under so much pressure manager just wants to get that one kill. Even if he gets traded at that point of scamper
Very messy made Siren under a lot of pressure there and then bit
too easy
Force five from Betburg
Sorry for a leaf on Navi's faces. This is where the game gets away from you Betburg if you don't win this one
I don't have any idea of players that pushed up at the heart.
Radio squeaky, Maggots up the fender. He could just re-block this.
Looks like he intends to.
Could come in too late, needs to deploy now.
Spider Flash, saw the lag of in there.
He calms out.
8-5-7 though, headshot provided by In-Map.
Siren able for one, Zorty Scal still doing things.
Finally put to rest, there's a 2-on-2.
Boomich towards main, gonna be smoked off dumping their UTL buying time for the plant.
High alert, high tension, high stress.
Boomich is baiting for this.
Thomas, down!
Free the red, it's a wonderful!
This should be easy now, you know exactly where he is, and look how he has Boomich on the CZ75 in a 1v2.
There should be nothing here for Boomich.
Okay, M4 is gonna try and pick up.
Red the minds of the obscene right there. So now he has a gun to give it a go, but it's to save the better option
Xenia took the time and equipped himself with the AK
Wonderful on site accounting for the heaven rap Alexi nails it. Okay, you can now for that then they're in trouble
Slip it through their fingers it feels
to get them through into the
semi-final, but none of those series came with ease. 2-1, 2-1, 2-1 against Faith, Vitality and Payne.
Navi on the other hand, losing that seeding game against Legacy.
Put them in the cauldron hot seat up against Vitality in that quarterfinal yesterday.
Whoever won that was going to be tournament favourites.
And Navi playing like it, taking care of business now.
It's what feels imminent.
They're going to fly from the crowd as well.
They're here to see Naby win, but just watching them go through the motions.
That boom will have one more game to play.
Oh, that's frustrating.
Makao's there counting for the open yard push.
He's managed to remove Magna Jazz, and now they're going to crunch into him.
Now he can rack himself up some bonus frags.
by usp. Hang on. I don't imagine
that's going to be too costly,
especially not with bit and
wonderful having all that ramp
space. So long as they don't run
into, you know, the siren P 250.
This is the thing with all the
ramp room and the names that you
have, the weapon advantage. If
you head over there, you smoke
off single door, you molly in
towards double, you should just
be able to get in, plan the
bomb and round to be done. Just
don't need to over complicate it.
Flemish is the man down towards
B that you have to get past.
A chance for Zorty's Desert Eagle. Goes awry. Wonderful. Good for the head shot.
Just flammers to get past it. 5-7. It's a good range for it.
I imagine we'll see some diligent players though from Na'Vi.
McCarthy's got the bomb, but we'll still be...
Oh, okay. Not overlooked.
Not clearing, but how?
Bit taps his head off. Na'Vi to secure the 11th. Just got to get past the
I have to admire boom it for investing in the Zeus up close hot. It's a powerful
We're putting even more powerful now it can recharge, but I don't think it's gonna win him the 1v4
They're trying to be a cheeky here, but I love that right the fact that they go into the side
They don't actually deep clear and bits just waiting for it
So the awareness on point for Navi is boom just gonna walk in his demise MacConsi will secure that and the only casualty being dead later
Alexi B
Just two more rounds
I see the resemblance
What's the narrative here? I mean, that's not a good sign, is it? No. Well, you knew you were up against it coming into this one.
Legacy away in that third place to sign up game allegiant in the grand final watching on. Towson.
Taking to an interview, HLTV saying, I would like to play now V. It makes it more deserved for us to win.
win. It looks like he's going to get his wish in just two rounds time. That's the five tomorrow.
Wonderful. That's a miss throw in the top half. I'll either jump didn't quite play into the mix.
I have a jammy scroll wheel.
Wonderful, might find this line onto Flemish if he dares to walk the couch.
Do so at your own peril, young man, hand-visible!
Wonderful, cracks his skull!
What's Alexi cooking with that smoke, an progression smoke?
Cook for Locke, is he a bit of a hell-rap available?
Inel would remain responsible for lobby, but everyone else from lobby congregates outside yard.
The red pod position of Zorty still has to be considered.
And Mikaze is.
That's okay, top nine, smoke after all.
He's looking for Zorty.
Tux on the red container.
Mikaze, diligent on the clears, impact couple.
Anyone else want to peek and do so?
with precision because he'll stop your neck!
Mokaze free! Takes four! Stunted on him!
Just textbook! Mechanics of Mokaze!
Going in there, history books!
And Atlanta lets him know...
This flicker, crazy.
Very well done for their space take-up.
There's more than that. Secures the round in final one.
Airplay, one more opens up again.
This could very well be it, folks.
Aggression, a lobby crunch.
Bat Boomer from caution to the wind.
Alexi B and Emma are in our position to try and rectify.
Flamerscourt looking their own way.
Quick, they're all flung together.
He's done well. Alexi B does better!
That is how it ends!
Flying AK shop to the top of 13-6 and Na'Vi, they have taken care of business.
It was a simple day at the office.
The hard work was done yesterday.
This isn't cruise control.
They were made to work for it.
That number one, some dicey moments, had to dig deep in the clutch.
A force by victory.
And this is Na'Vi booking that spot in the grand final tomorrow,
taking on GamerLegion.
On the eve of the Major, Nave looking to set their sights on a trophy lift. A statement.
Number two team, they were already in the conversation.
But now that they've seen Vitality bleed with their own two eyes,
picking this one up as a confidence boost.
That boom, they will be playing in that third place game tomorrow against Legacy.
We will see them on the stage again.
Thank you, it was convincing, but the start to nation, they really pushed us back.
I'm just glad we won the anti-courts on the CT side, and after that I felt like we were in control of the whole game.
You know, you switch over to Nuke, you pick up where you left off with CT dominance.
Tell me, what is it about the Navi that showed up yesterday that needs to show up tomorrow?
I just think it's confidence. I think that all the individuals are feeling their moves.
We have individuals playing great and I think that we gained some valuable experience how to play on stage and we're playing some of the moments perfectly
Now this Atlantic crowd may be just a little bit split tomorrow. It seemed like there were game religion fans, there are Navi fans
How would you go about getting them on your side?
Yeah, I think the game religion is their dessert. We practiced them even before the playoffs
And now we're again playing against each other on finals. We played in two tournaments in a row
They really want the revenge, but I think we just we understand how good we are right now and we need to trust each other and trust ourselves
And I think tomorrow will be a good day. I'd like to be thinking very much. Can I get you to sign the camera? Thank you
Choice that just gone five sets of kev
They can see in with the utilt smoker pocket of flashes and a Molly as they head it Lee over towards B
But look at the CT side stack there ready for this
sure, but time's starting to become a bit of an issue. 40 seconds as Boomish jump
spots catch nothing. I'm not sure how much convincing this is going to be able
to do. He's on the other side of the map. Yeah, and he feels like he needs to get
going now. So this is very late in the piece, but the rotation is slowly being
drawn. Tentative at the moment from Beppin. They don't know if they've lost
window control. And if this and now get spotted, this is kind of genius. That's
only going to affirm their belief that it is going to be the A site. Into the site
It's moving.
MagmaJazz siren boom, it's departing, and now it's just boom.
10 seconds, have you done as the plan?
That's all he has to do.
Needs some comfort in fire.
He's eating the flashbang, but they haven't cleared his corner.
He's managed to position himself perfectly,
gets them off the bomb.
They have to plant now.
They have to get it down.
The second to spare, and they just get it in.
MagmaJazz, a second too late.
Still Atos down, and Sanzin doesn't have the help
for the clutch.
All of that for the bomb flower, but not the round.
Still going to go back, booms away.
All right, tricky one.
Had a chance there just a different brawl
on the initial exchange over towards B,
but they cut the noise, they play it late,
and they get the bomb down,
going to facilitate this four-spy going into round number two.
Well, that's already a funky flavor.
That's round one.
They're not the pace I was expecting.
Oh, the taps.
He was just a second try.
The little wiggle on the plant.
Well, here comes the four-spy.
Dumao in with the glill.
Sanfranissum there with our head armor.
Take nine sassads in an arc and Latto in with the Mk10 as they
put some standard mid utility top cap window.
Dumao and Arc
trying to sell that the space has been taken as the rest of them with the
bomber lining up the nades for an A execute.
The question for me is do they throw the nades then allow Dumao and Arc to walk
through, try and come in connector or even boost up window.
Here's the mid-prong play first.
No kit if there is a retake, opting for full rifles, bad boom, not a single SMG in
the mix. Let's hear with the A4. Slogan Steady wins the race again, made.
A bit premature, doesn't catch anything.
Now, we're at the sub-1 minute, Masternade's come in, so they're going to throw the A fake first, Flamas.
Look prepared for that, but now, Darts back.
An opportunity for Arnaud to catch up Flamas for bad Siren trading.
I'm still looking into the ground, not off the tee, off the siren.
Profits, they have them at advantage now, but look at the bomb vacating, what is this?
Oh, rotate, okay. Very tricky stuff from legacy early.
Yeah, this is the same kind of philosophy we saw on the pistol.
You're not going to hear the rotations back if they're noisy.
Boomage making a couple of steps again, 20 seconds, they just have to keep on moving.
Wages, boom, he's going to be there on time.
similar to the pistol. If you can't deny it, it's round 12, 11, 10.
Really kind of fine here. That time, he can lose the ball instead, of course.
It works out just in time. He gets the bomb planted.
Bizarre start to the T side from legacy, but same philosophy seems to have translated
in the second round force.
This one's going to be tough to break back into, regardless of Lato and Satzaping on low HP.
There's no kit, there's no chance, and we'll call this one done.
So it's pretty early.
It certainly is one one to start things off
It's interesting there's entertainment our legacy providing two rounds deep
Just don't have some buzzer be the moment says magnet. Jez hanging around over towards ladder looking at do a bit of damage on the way out
The top without exit through the be apartments or the apartments
Just like plan us
40 or iron
Agnes is
this yesterday against an RV, right? And if you are an RV and you're up against
the lap at the moon, they're quoting a, you know, we have a stand in, you want to
string them out with rotations, right? You shouldn't be as well drilled without
your standard five, even though they play 47 maps with flammers.
So early eight, eights this time around. Sounds off. Deep smoke.
They restrict the movements, but me, that's where the action is.
Flammus is cooling ramp clear.
3-3 the connector.
Oh ugly from that going the gap found.
So much misdirection.
Constant manipulation.
And it might not even be the A finisher.
Look at this again Sadson, with the bomb still floating back of middle.
So cruel.
And doing our investigating B.
It's so tough to deal with it.
It feels like they're everywhere and nowhere all at once.
And if they kind of are,
Lato's taking a fight towards ticket.
This seems cut rotations from Jungle.
You've got nothing.
All right, well, we'll be able to call this
the second round for legacy.
What a unique start to a counter-stroke match.
So much more of this comes in
because at a certain point,
the misdirection will stop
and it will just be all that executes.
And then your rotations will be late
because you're not going to believe it.
So the ramifications of this do have flow and effects.
They might just take everything away. So the hunt is on and it's just one man standing, Magnet just goes down to Doom out.
And that means it's a full eco going into the next.
Na'Vi versus Camelidgen coming up next. Rematch of the group stage.
I am genuinely intrigued to see how far Camelidgen could push Na'Vi.
Yeah, this is going to be tough on the best of five. I think there'll be some true weaknesses in the map pool.
But bit a lot of Navi fans here in Atlanta. Any in the crowd at the moment?
Doesn't matter where Navi go, they've got their fans here.
Oh, a quick start.
Now this one.
Be a quick round.
It'll just be the farm fest.
Art springs to action around connector.
And it's a Diggleball.
It's in the back, traded by Dumal.
And he pivots in for another two.
Is he on for another race?
Already got three in the tournament so far.
We love it to find a fourth.
Or for Nico Basch, it still counts.
The stat line will read.
A low HP might not want to risk another.
Just Zorty and Siren to find and...
Well, that's one way to force you out of the window,
Siren will deal with Zorty, Siren will also under fire,
quite literally.
This will be the three to one.
What would Trace do in a moment like this with the crowd?
If you say it like,
Hey Atlanta, give me a hell, yeah?
That's what he did. That's what he did.
It works. Okay, what else would he do? He'd say, howdy, y'all. How are you doing today?
I think that one was good.
It kind of works, because you gave them a... They can't just give you one answer.
No, it's true. It was too vague.
You could do like a yee-ha.
We're not in the yee-ha country, are we?
I think they all yee-ha around there.
Atlanta, can we have a morning yee-ha?
Wow.
Beautiful!
I mean respect the commitment, thank you!
Alright, playing along.
Alright, guns back out, Zordy with the AWP, same for Sanz and Nade top middle.
Varsh!
Good amount of damage done there.
Let's set them up to succeed, Zordy comfortable on to Dumal.
Hips into that.
How to miss those, just a dry walk into it all.
Well, they're still got the space, Zordy on this rotation, Art knows he's got a gap.
It's quite the hell of a gap, Siren's calling his pants down, holding his smoke.
and he's lost his support.
Big shot.
This one from this, it takes down the AWP,
and okay, they're hitting hard today.
Globe up on the right side of the bed.
This is the fun thing about Legacy, right?
We know that the individuals shoot down hard.
And if they follow I into battle,
everything can be so rapid.
This one wasn't about misdirection.
Very direct into what that split regardless.
Oh, two-mouse death.
And it will be a save again.
So, Flymer, Suburban, Mr. MagmaJose
to hold on to their guns as the lost bonus.
Well, let's start the build now, 2900 into the next.
If you put yourself into the bare boom shoes,
these first four, now five rounds, have been very uncomfortable.
This one starts so promisingly, you know,
he's ought to get the opening kill.
This shot really kind of sealing the deal from this,
a great one.
And fourth, double headshot, nice work.
and ensuring the safe as well.
All of it deep hives, throw out a smoke.
Once it just gets close on the hump, it won't be fine.
All right, well, do they want to drop or do they want to just take a pass?
Here we go. This is the fun stuff.
Gold, gold, gold.
Someone's going to get it eventually.
Not just yet.
We're getting closer, I can tell.
Today's the day.
Today is the day.
That one locks accounts and yeah, they'll be watching ladies. This is good time for that. They're not working today. Nice Sunday
Sunday
Fierce on the mic for this tactical timeout called third place cider. Okay. Oh, that what's going on here? Oh
Wow, it's a full recreation. Oh of the big apple of the big Apple wait
13 to I don't know
You remember the moment not really the score
not at all. Was that meant to be like a dragon law rendition there? Yeah like the cobblestone.
Okay all right I like the creativity. I believe the DRO drops are coming later. Yes. So save your
signs or make better ones. Yeah Alex and I'll be out there with you. Get crafty.
Early ramp space taken up the flash. Yeah so this is just the partial investment and they'll be
be able to fall by again into the next. Do you think this could get closer to his monitor?
I think he's waiting for VR counter strike.
Alright, well it's already up in Palace. This is just going to be a default spread from Legacy.
The pack around middle, Nissan and Lado on the extremities.
And that boom searching for a frag. The boost start boom-inch.
Shhh, I'm supposed to get to be taught that Dima's the one to find the kill.
He was just constantly in motion, made it so difficult for boomers to come here.
Dima nails it, catch it, wind.
Since Lola said he wins the race,
I'm trying to identify where these rifles are stacked up to or type of a play.
You already saw one of their moves.
Is there more that you have to get past?
The bomb now grouping up towards B. Another very late round.
Surely not fakey. You should group up. They're gonna be going into the stack here.
I don't think there's time to pivot through underpass. They're gonna have to commit to B.
This one might get dicey.
the site just to see him run.
He's dropping him with the bomb to
the market. One goes down from art.
That's who provides the covering fire.
They're getting away with it.
They're doing it the hard way with it.
I mean, this just was feeling your
brains getting DDoS like every time.
You start to leave the site.
The bomb arrives super late calling.
And I know that art loves a risky call,
but that's crazy.
You could have been going into the
2v4 situation right there.
Your teammates, you know, searching out, sure, they get a little bit of light resistance that helps educate, but ever so, that is a tough one.
It's that style of calling where you run the risk of looking very foolish, but if it works, you kind of look like a genius, you know?
It's like one or the other.
Oh, I really want to say it's awful. I mean, the Gets will not oblige, but some more of that came from this and has been cut off in the past.
They will retain the AWP, and sort of he could have bought one himself, but this time, he can be dropped across.
Ooh, a game of Legion believer.
He's sitting right there, just the tip of the head on the angle.
We're just doing backflips.
So it was the pistol, and that's all the Pepo have to boast so far.
Let's see if they can get anything underway this time.
Stand in mid-Util.
He's already mollied off from mid, so they feel a lot of pressure, but he's going to crouch under the line, poke his head up, and try and find a jewel.
And this sim could just waltz into this. Wouldn't be the first Zorty opener on the AWP.
Ooh, nice. Finds Lato. Makes the adjustment swiftly.
They're just going to try and lure out. I understand the bomb here on Santa, but Timon and Art are completely disconnected from this.
They know that Boomich is the A-Hold up. Need to isolate him.
It seems to be very diligent on his clears, might catch a point from here.
Let's boom his load.
Dodges the AWP shot.
And fall onto 2.
Sad to still stay in for stairs peek.
Nobody home at the moment.
It's looking for Flamas towards Lada.
Doesn't look like they're just playing a completely different game from one another when they're in the team legacy.
Hold.
Is it now for Flamas?
Throws out a smoke.
He's not coming for you though.
He's running out yet.
The free fire flash man!
It's a bit awkward.
Okay, it's a 5-1-3. Should be comfortable for the CTs here on the close.
Hard to be disruptive. Agnes is clearing through.
Good restraint on display from the CTs. Flash away from the Mi.
Zorty, another. Onto Sanzin.
Hard one back.
Nissen finding Flamme. Surely not. Fumich is well positioned to ensure the round goes their way.
The bomb down in the 20 seconds. Nissen runs to his demise.
I would have been impressive to see that move lose that one in the state of affairs.
That's better to be on the podium. That's what they're playing for right now.
Easy ones here for Zorsi.
We heard it was a pretty nice interview, just talking, not feeling particularly well.
Always hard to play Counter-Strike if you're a bit of a distraction.
What's up with these players in bubbles?
They're putting on private jets, it's tough, everyone knows, heading around the world, you're going to get to pick something up at a certain point.
But alright, time out call, this is going to be my legacy.
I'm trying to stay ahead of this before the cash gets spilled open and they have to take a save or two.
I've been looking for a new
auto sniper though, so. Probably
about one cents worth right
there. Double awesome. See
waltzing and dry, this one's a pop.
Okay, Boon, you've got to let your work out for you on the default box, like Barth, in,
Lato down. Solid headshot, using that AK well. Art finds the belated trade, missing low.
Now you're retaking with two orbs.
Yeah, it's not ideal. Couldn't be a better time to turn up the heat.
Second wave of a view tilt. Trying to get some space. Flammis, not burning, this is huge.
Yeah, he's going to be safe.
This smoke is fading right now.
So once he's on the other side of it and calm.
I haven't planned to, this is where it gets a bit tough.
Bottle of wits between these two.
That is Dumas, want to play it, maybe try and mantle up.
Catching by surprise, fumbles the movement, but Magnetjes is actually using this time to relocate.
And this is tough if you do that, right? If you try and sit the plan, he just steps out CT and kills you.
Doesn't know where, he's rerouting two.
Oh, he gets the sound, Q no throw.
Magnetjes, USP primed and ready.
He's going to be ready. Okay,
nice shot there from managers to
in the round for him. Which
is up. His pet boom their third
going down. Still enough residual
cash and legacy can't get out
another buy. This one was a bit
of a tone changer. Popping in
sorts. He didn't want to get
spammed, but goes down either
way. No doubles up.
You said how today's do Mel.
The moment five rounds T side and Raj you're happy with that, but they know that they can get an awful lot more. I
Like this from this and knowing that you can just try and isolate fights against boom is the anchor
Just walking out taking your chances
It applies so much pressure to Moon-Mitchet, forces rotation. Siren, the B-Ain cap takes down R.
Sanzin top mid box. Can you get anything done? Flammers on the prowl.
Supported. Back to Jess window.
He has it up against Altair. Yeah, but there's a switch to do. Now it's all to provide for cover.
Sanzin finds Flammers, dumps his Util belt.
I was trying to find that belated trade on to Siren after losing early.
Wow, what a shot on the crouch beat.
We know Siren's still here somewhere.
Yeah, that Molly's got his name written all over it.
Take the fight for the turn.
Incredible.
Siren just lost that one off.
That's ridiculous.
That's incredibly well.
Boom, it's down, this is a catch through Palace.
What another frustrating round for the CT side.
Death by a thousand paper cuts, isn't it?
Oh
Can't catch a break what a shot from light on the siren. That's the one that decides the round in my opinion
You kind of forced siren into the fight
There are two options there. I suppose you could stand in the flame and try and find him and then get out
I think he's doing the right thing ready. It's a very likely
It's only Lato there you can get the trade and then that point. You're not so worried about that piece out of the map, but
That's a fall that way and now Zorty looking to save, Mism and Sanzan they don't need to
hunt they can just hold on to their goods.
This will be the sixth round on the T side.
There it is, that's all from Lato.
Wow, that's a nice thing to ask himself, what do I have to do?
Well, it's a Mac 10 for Art, a Galil for Duma, AKs for the rest, and they're grouped up.
This is gonna be rushed written all over it. It does. Hey guys, Siren's probably tilted. Let's run at him.
Oh, double nade put him on 44. Block U till we'll delay. It can call off. And you might want to.
Immediately, look, Zotti knows what he's normally playing against. He's gonna have to back away.
Is that misdirection familiar in the game?
You hear a third HE right now.
the
the
the
the
the
Three sets of head armour.
And Siren only has care, but he's already extremely low.
44.
Flemish is here.
Here comes the set piece.
Flemish.
Flemish takes down the Mach 10.
Arpley is off and taking the space.
Flemish is forced to fly by the flame.
Nice from Doona.
Delil connects. There's Siren finished off.
Lato, comfortable.
Magnajez, partners up with Boombich on the short side.
Spotted as he crossed forward.
Lato's taking those engagements.
Looking good, looking set to collect.
finds it off the boom for a second. 25 in County,
Bombsdale in the apartment, but it works out and they get all the kills.
Death by a thousand people, because you said it previously, it's so cutthroat. Poor, that boom.
What a frustrating CT side they're having under the thumb of Legacies.
I don't know, bizarre pacing. And they should have, well, we saw this yesterday as well,
didn't we, right? Losing the second round after the pistol and it's just going to cause
So many issues if you can't bounce back with a four-spire of your own.
And you really need rounds on the CT side. This is a tactical timeout taken.
They want to just play for four. They want to see if they can make it a seven to five-half.
They're still in legacy favour. So it looks like they're just going to hedge their bets, play for a full rifle round in the next.
So there are some investments but nothing too crazy at M4 for Magma Jazz is the most exciting.
Never really had a finger on the pulse of what Bat Boom have been,
I'm sorry, excuse me, legacy enough to if you're Bat Boom.
but this smoke it does indicate they're aware so yeah you are in trouble
spamming away you're just jumping to a vade and now you need to get out yeah and they will
an R2 cover of that con smoke
haven't even had a chance to fight you you've already got two players who are half HP or less
they're doing the right moves right they're searching for info it's just
in that earlier conditioning with all the fakery.
Never really had a good read of the scenario.
And I've had snacks in the right place until the final few seconds and legacy of being able to pull them away.
Look at the excess of the waters over what's B again.
That'd be clear.
Tank on to Lanza.
Look at the rally at Paul East.
Look how well placed the grenades are. It's so compromised.
Back at the side spotting now, nice headshot though.
It's Lato, can't stop him.
25 frags between Doom now and Lato.
Just 11 rounds in, solid output on this dirty start.
It's an M4 somewhere here for boomage if you can get it.
It's no point even having the conversation about damage when you have one round left and a half after this.
to the left. It's a smoke is
fading. As the M four, you can
just sit in front of him lying
in the doorway. This is going
to be tough to scoop up. I think
Lato. He wants to take it away.
Make sure that they don't get
it back. Well, that'll cost him
the mission only gets the kill,
but the M four now just needs
to get out of dodge. Tickle,
but he's away. That's answers
I think that's where it's tough
as a pick. Right? The fact
that you know that you have to
start on that T side.
They're trying to work out how
they've gotten away with these
fakes. I can't believe it either.
Absolutely baffling stuff.
And also anticipating the second
map Tuesday.
And also anticipating the second map, T-Star, for that being the end of the tough.
Three, four round, half of the course. Can they get the pistol?
Would that be the conversion?
The legacy just pushed lobby every round.
There's a lot to go through.
Yeah, it might feel like a T-side on the CT-Star.
Osh!
Keep your kickdown 52 to work with.
Back solid, blind with a flash, and actually getting quick for the redness boost.
The Magrages is ready for...
Look at the kill, they can clamp down on these two as well.
Ah, and Lato could be susceptible to this crunch from the CT side.
There's one from Siren, Sato and Lato kicking up a faster force,
swinging Lato to the number! Oh, they've lost their advantage completely.
That's all he makes his way over.
Just adds in, if you dare. Oh, textbook!
Legacy, just let the fight come to them.
all those frustrations from the rounds prior.
I'm really going to be exacerbated now.
You try and bring the fight to them.
You don't want to be manipulated in the late round,
and instead it's just straight up Angels 1 by the Brazilian side.
Alright, Flamas. Well, you want to put yourself in the shop window.
How about a 1v3 at the tail end at a half to give your boys four?
I guess you're waiting for a push.
Nothing being offered, and if they do make their way up connector,
he might be able to do this.
Could be a bit of a fire starter for Flamas.
Flammus coming onto the side to get the info and now Nism and Lato are informed.
Still got an AWM catwalk though.
They're heading his way.
Lato feeling like he can take the angel Flammus and now they're isolating dips.
Nism in the clutch now.
A one versus three from Flammus taking shape.
Ten seconds.
Just a bit implanted.
Flammus going for the blowback if he dares, no.
Doesn't want to reveal his position.
Tux on the staircase.
Catches a glimpse of him, Flamers with the clutch, stunning end to the half, is that
going to give them something to work with?
A bit more momentum, back boom four, legacy eight, reswap sides.
We're back in business, it's the Intextreme Masters Championship Sunday and before we
can crown a champ, we've got to decide who takes the bronze medal, third place to side
of two, Betboom and Legacy in an 8-4 half, but an inspiring half if you're a fan of Legacy,
the T side was pulling Betboom around the server, fairly manipulated, depth by a thousand
I think that's the perfect way to summarise just some of the rounds that we have to conceive, but a clutch from Flavours gave them a 4th.
And another pistol, give them a 5th and maybe a bit of momentum on this T-side.
Make his own favourite number. There's been a kiss method for Beppin on these pistols.
No utilities that keep it simple, stupid.
And they're just going to come in with an ace split with no nades.
OK, so just back in the rain.
USPs will have a chance to hit some headies just like that.
like that. That's a one and done
tracking from our message. Still
gets it down back and forth. We
go to bring on. Whoa. That's it.
That's a lovely sequence. Just
shows you how easy it's going to
be when there's no needs in the
mix. Not a single flash back to
be concerned about smoke to be
worried about. And if you're a
counter player at the top level
and okay, maybe these aren't the
most household name teams. What
do you think they're doing all
This is not the start they were looking for.
Time to say we'll get himself a couple of kills.
He treated himself to a deagle in this one, maybe just the same.
The other three just in with the Glocks, but this one's looking like it'd be quick and dominant.
There's a little appetizer before that Na'Vi game, a legion game.
And again, returning to that match from the group stage.
It was a dream app.
It was where a game legion decided to start a T side of Ancient
and handed Na'Vi their worst loss with this roster on the map 13-1.
one. That was baffling to see that level of result. And then Mirage, that was the third
decider of that series, it was so back and forth in that second half. It was just like
these weird forced by wind truant up to the end. So if that flavor of Counter Strike is
offered up, that's in my opinion some of the most fun arena CS, especially if there are
rounds of brawls to the very end. If it happens that there's three kills and then there's
a save, not so good. I think there were so many 2v4s from being immer attempted in that
That one. Tomorrow, that coming up later, you'll have Moses and Dinko bring you all the action.
Oh, damages. That's by the opener, but it looks like that'll be about it. Everybody else gets clamped down upon.
It even pulls out the USP.
I'm going to mitch with a little bit more damage.
Oh, he's done a lot of damages. Boom.
It's always going to be the case. That's that's good, right? There's going to be a lot of rebies forced down here. They do scavenge the M fours. Oh, okay. Coach Sanhae, a little bit of a Mike issue just there. Let's sort that one out.
Then into the tech. Just put it closer to your mouth. Okay. Okay, he's in now for that. Boom. Just three more rounds for legacy. They win this one and we could set this one up.
Send the email and get ourself onto Nuke.
I'm playing through. Looks like they want to try a B-split.
Well, the pressure's on this and he's over to what to be on his own right now.
So it did look like a set up for the B players now
Summon out slowly an art with the mid-round move that could win the round
So you're not ready for that prepared at all just completely caught sleeping there needs to get out from underpass
Oh, can he really safe passage? Is it really a short?
Yep! Dips it for Kong! Just before that smoke frame's been put down there from art
He's known to overcook the pooch this time. He's gonna play on this man advantage now if he wants to fight again
He's got some teammates to assist him.
They're going for it up a bit, but they've got the Flash.
Beautiful.
Teamplay on display.
Soulcrushing through that boon.
Every time you think you've got a bit of a space
to piece together the round, it's dead.
There's a Flash, there's a swing.
And re-aggress the CT side constantly just poking.
The body, now the boon's being erected.
And a forward lovely angle.
Catches Siren disappearing into that console mode.
Things are flowing.
You've got these two progressive pieces as your mid-defence.
So, Dumau and Art.
Dumau was playing a bit more of a joker in that round,
at least for the start,
but the fact that Art's willing to take those chances,
even if he goes down and offers up the info
for Dumau to swing in, and when he knows where players are,
even if he doesn't, Dumau's a marauder.
He swam us.
It's the way of the opening death there,
but he didn't even know that was possible.
All right.
Partial by, and they are cruising.
Ah, aggressive again, top mid here in this.
See ya.
Nails in, and there's a shutdown as well.
Just a single Tech 9 frag to be celebrated, but this partial goes absolutely nowhere.
Forced to deploy a smoke just to try and find something another block to try and piece this
together.
Got lost behind the sofa cushions and oof.
to be here. Let's get
thrown at you from smoke through
walls and yeah, there you go.
Just thought we got new coming
up next is very worrisome.
Legacy have a win on new in this
tournament. It was against
Astralis and they were just so
lobby heavy with the pushes. Here
we go again. Is this the one
third time to charm. Crush your
At least it's a gold, it's a gun that you're gonna use. Yeah. Yeah, all you could use it for trade-ups
You could do that. It's a long way to the gloves knives and all that good stuff, but once you get there
All right, this very well could be the final round of map number one
Everywhere, yep
well this one it's uh
Not an even fight that's for sure legacy or just bullying them
Urena 1v5 with a minute and 35 left on the clock. Let's pack it up, shall we?
Need some to finish it cleanly here. Here's Flammeas coming.
Flammeas delaying the inevitable swings on in, 14-4. A thrashing to start us off here in Atlanta.
Enjoy the moment, legacy taken in. The majors right around the corner. You got CAC up first.
These reps are going to be worth their weight in gold.
well well well I'm sorry dad I'm sorry your mother tells me you've been in here all
day did you finish your assignments but yet there's too much don't play with me
boy look what in the hell is that what have I told you finish your assignments
before moving on to that damn homework. Now lock in. Every day I bust my ass to put food
on the table. I put electricity in this here machine. When are you going to step up? Bring
in more of that stick of money. I need 10,000 buck kills. I need 100% jump throw accuracy.
I need you to review the top 10 20 times over before the week's out. We didn't raise the
The bottom fragger now give way.
You may not like travel, you may not like the pressure,
the new hairstyle I've given you for your brand,
but I told your granddaddy,
you were gonna be the best offer Mississippi's ever seen.
Fuck girl.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
Elo et al.
Elo strats your door from an industry veteran.
All right, all right, let's do this.
When your reloading is fixed in, Jason's got the tools, elode tool, you know the deal.
Let's forget it.
Alright, where is she?
This way.
Wow, she's a beauty.
Two hundred and six years monitoring, forty ninety, she must really be dog shit.
Now here's the deal. It's midday, we've got a couple hours of grinding before the Danish
14-year-old amers get out of school and I'm too old for that shit. So I'm gonna need a
home-cooked meal delivered to me and that's what I'm gonna take a nap.
What are you...
At about 9pm, I'm gonna wake up. I need two ice-cold monsters delivered, I need four
bananas, we're gonna play throughout the night.
The D-Gen's Kitchen.
That's the Ilo-Tool specialty. I know Russian, a little bit of French, and I'm well-versed
multiple British dialects. Have you changed your sheets?
The sheets?
Yeah, I'm gonna need a fresh set of sheets for my bed.
Excuse me, that's my bed and my girlfriend
are gonna be sleeping there.
Yeah, yes you will.
Mate, I'm not a fucking cuck.
Oh, you're not? I mean, I'm already using her.
I don't really see the difference.
The difference? Absolutely not!
For this to work, I need you to be all in, so that I can be all in.
No pun intended.
Maybe next time.
Fucking hell, where are you, solidly dead?
Wait, wait!
You can guarantee the ill of...
Full service.
All around, baby.
Take it quick.
Oh, I will.
Hey babe, I'm home!
Constant brocade, let's begin.
Recite your baseline.
A thin black reticle began to spin.
A sequence of roles, interlinked within roles, interlinked within roles, interlinked within one system.
Roles.
Roles.
Have you ever been in a system?
Roles.
Roles.
Do they keep you in a role?
Cells?
Cells.
Oh, you don't even smile.
Do you long to answer their questions?
Fraggs.
Would they understand if you did?
Fraggs.
When you're not performing your duties, do they reduce you to a number?
What's it like to hold a drop of someone you love? Interlinked.
I'm dead.
What a day, hmm?
You look lonely. I can fix that.
Jason
Welcome OC to the Jason Rogan experience
You're the long line of you're the next in a long line of North American operas and marksman coming on to the show
I'm I guess I'm just looking if you look back in the history of North American Counter-Strike
What are your big op influences? Is there anyone that's really peaked your interest? No, no, no, no, really
Yeah, there hasn't been a whole lot of good offers coming out of the region
Yeah, I mean, kind of suck.
What is it about you that you think that makes you such an intriguing cipher for the team?
Like, what was it about the weapon that first got you interested?
Nothing. It was actually just no one else wanted it.
And when I first joined my team, or first open team, they were like, yeah, I don't want to hop.
No one else wanted to hop, so I was like, all right, I'll try it out.
Yeah, that's fair. You know, I'm back in the day, you know, way back in the day.
I was somewhat of a marksman myself. I quite enjoyed picking up the big green running around the map
I had great form. I have shoulders straight back, you know, perfect posture. Yeah, perfect
But can you show me what you look like when you're oh, man? Oh my god
Yeah, like a little bit of a lean to it. Yeah, so your shots probably flick to the left a little bit more. Yeah, I mean
My back has definitely been feeling the the past few years playing so yeah
I think that's one of the things most North American operators and going over to Europe where they have that perfect posture is like that
That little lean that you've got going on that throws you off quite a bit if your fundamentals are off once you get to the big leagues
It's gonna be tough. Oh, yeah
What do you think about the problem? Like what do you think of valve actually brought a bow and arrow into the game with counter strike?
Especially for North Americans. I could feel it can be it could be a huge benefit. Yeah, I mean
seems like
us being on the same
Playing field or level of with Europeans. It doesn't help so we need some sort of advantage over them
You know, so maybe a bow. Yeah, would help us right. We don't want to handle a bow
We got some experience with that
I think that could actually be the move that makes North American counter strike come right back into the map
Yeah, I mean it'd be exciting to try out a new gun. I mean, I thought even a gun just a bow and arrow
Yeah, pin people to the wall. It'd be great
Hey Jason, it's raw game experience
I can't podcast by night.
Well, an incredibly impressive and dominant result from Legacy to start off our third place decider,
Mirage was a pretty open and shut case for them throughout, Lika.
I think we didn't do enough justice for Legacy, because before the game we spoke about how explosive
they're going to be and how incredibly buggy the whole map is going to be but I'm gonna give credits
where they're due because the incredible like there was depth to it you know there were layers
they were kind of outplaying them tactically but in much slower pace which is not something that we
see often from legacy especially from someone who's calling and his name is art you know he's
staple of aggressive gun strike and he's been for so long in brazilian scene so this is kind of
impressive this is me filling out an apology form to legacy this is standing right behind me I mean
I mean, it's also the thing we were talking about
heading into the game-religion game in the earlier round,
is that, you know, they have an incredible feel for the map.
And for them to have switched up their playbook,
maybe played a little slower, of course,
it's the start of the day.
I'm not sure BedBoom were fully awake for some of the rounds,
but they got lulled into a full sense of security,
I think, in a fair few of those rounds,
where it came out to those final few seconds at the start,
and it just felt like they were off-tempo from there on out.
This is something we've spoke about as well before the game,
but some of these morning games,
it's really hard to get into.
And from Bed Boom POV, it was kind of apparent
that some players are not just connecting so much.
You know, the communication feels of,
and like every move is a little bit sluggish,
and it has a number of things to do with that, obviously.
You know, some players, they require a certain amount
of preparation, and coming into the match,
they have longer routines, which sometimes,
as a player, myself, I can tell you that it's unable
to push for those routines when you have an early morning game,
and obviously it's not about like, just wake up earlier.
You know, it has to be the whole routine and for Bedboom, I'm quite worried because right now we are going obviously to the second map,
but it is, you know, already being a map down like this in this kind of fashion, worrisome.
Yeah, I mean, they've tried to pick Nuke against other opponents as well before and so they're in this position once again where,
if they get off to a pretty poor start, I'm not sure that Bedboom are gonna answer back.
Are you expecting anything special from Bedboom coming in?
I do expect more, but I'm not asking for a lot.
I do not believe that it will be enough when I see what kind of form legacy are coming into this place beside it.
Well, we're going to have to wait to see how Nuke goes and whether or not Beppin can answer back the legacy that looking hot.
We'll see you in Nuke.
Got a bit of it, sir.
We are back!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Atlanta, hotlanta.
You can call it whatever you want.
What we've actually come here to do today is to keep playing and see what happens.
The great Peach State.
It is Atlanta, Georgia, but mostly a lot of historical...
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
The hunt continues.
I just want to know if you knew anything about video games.
Alright man, me either.
That's what I was saying, he plays, he's playing video games.
You play Counter Strike.
Deep into the depths of the Pond City market.
Hey man, you play video games?
Forty-five, so.
How old do you think I am?
Thirty-two.
Okay, yeah, that's pretty fair, but I'm thirty-six.
We'll take that.
My shirt, man.
What do you think about two teams or players playing against each other in tournaments and video games?
tournaments and video games.
I mainly play like Rainbow, Apex.
Is it something where we can kind of mutually agree that there are games that shouldn't be considered respectable?
Perhaps maybe like, I don't want to just put words in your mouth, but Valorant?
I was going to say the same thing.
Yes. You guys know anything about video games at all? Counter-Strike?
Super-Priest.
Age of Empire?
Yes.
My team right now is number one in the state on Marvel.
Marvel Rivals?
Yeah.
My school.
What school you go to?
Carrollton.
I mean, Age Empire is cool, but I'm looking for counter-trikers.
Brother, go to the hamburger place.
Maybe, you know, in the corner.
H&F.
Thanks for the guidance.
You want to say something to him?
What's up, guys?
What's up, guys?
Poverty.
What is it?
Poverty.
P-O-V-E-R-T.
Bro, I was about to say, that's the wildest sign-off I think I've ever experienced on the show here, is poverty.
Hey, welcome.
Hey, good to see you.
Good to see you.
Sorry.
Alright, yes, Mr. Denkels. Lovely.
Denkels?
Well, as you know, the guy's been working with Valve and community servers, which is a topic very close to Mohan's heart.
So we heard you had some ideas on streamlining the in-game browser. What are you trying to reinvent the wheel?
Look, we know it's hard because community servers aren't really revolutionary content, even though they are the original content.
content. Well, huge patch notes are a glittering lure, but there is a rare occasion when the
public can be engaged on a level beyond if they have a sentimental bond with the feature.
My first server, I was a regular in this, you know, casual community, KZ, OpIndia, some surf.
See, you'd think the most important idea to players is new.
Creates an itch.
You simply put out the gameplay as a kind of battle royale.
The next big thing.
But there's also a deeper bond with the content.
Nostalgia.
It's delicate, but potent.
Mr. Dinkels, would you mind?
In Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.
It's a twinge in your heart and far more powerful than memories alone.
This technology isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine.
It goes backwards, forwards.
It takes us to a place that we hate to go again.
It's not a browser, it's a library.
It lets us play the way a child plays.
Explore the way a new player explores.
Round and around.
Back home again.
To a place we know we love.
So, gentlemen, we don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to keep it moving.
Welcome back from the break from what was a very quick first map.
Third place to Sider here with starting off this championship Sunday.
Atlanta, how you doing today?
You excited for Na'Vi vs. Game of Legendary later on?
Yeah, I am too. The grand finals just around the corner. Might be quick actually.
I wonder if Luke's going to be the similar to Mirage or if that boomer going to be putting up a fire.
What do you think, Jeremy?
He side-star your map choice and legacy are going to be in your face
This could be a rapid trip to get that bronze medal
The downside of picking at new to sell on the harder side
He's really pretty hard about one let's see if they can start strong with the pistol
And the how I was the flamest 1v3 to close out the first half of play
Well this time they have opted in with some you to the smokes Molly H.E.N.D.
a flash and well, I'm just blown up door and counter strike. It goes off again.
They love this. They were doing it on gun rounds yesterday.
Okay, that's the start they're looking for. They're going to try and pull those similar maneuvers off
in those rifle rounds. So, you
have to get past the legacy force.
You don't have to take shape just yet.
Maybe it's not coming, but I would
be surprised. There it is, starting
to equip what they can.
Saddening with a scout. 5-7,
Steagle and an MP9 for R.
Flamestreamer brings some energy.
And that's, well, he's the man down the vent, had support, but plucked away.
That's the bomb down the B, Lado's here.
Yeah, two of them are here, this is problematic.
Flammas, silenced.
Oh, ooh, just has cover.
Dips towards the Tetris box as the smoke is broken.
Sadzidz in a good position to catch Magnetja's here.
Is it a comfortable fight? No armor, he's lucky to get away with his life.
This isn't going to clash with Bang the Desert.
This seems having a round.
Uses that retrieved Mac 10, scavenged away from Flammus' corpse.
It puts it to great use.
And now our up top hot, easy pickings.
This is ugly.
Bad boom.
A very short-lived success after winning the pistol.
It's like MAP 1.
Just like MAP 1, yes.
There's two observation now into the clutch.
It's Siren.
He's already been heavily wounded.
Yeah, he's about to be dead.
Well, that takes all the oxygen out of the room for Batburn.
Now it's 1400 loss. No plan.
I can't believe Sadson survived that fight with the Galil.
That couldn't go worse, no could it.
You sure you get down the bend early, but you lose somebody.
And then, as you try to swing into lower,
you got one dig to the face.
But there's already two players here waiting for you.
It's an absolute nightmare for Batburn.
We're looking second round. Oh, they're still in spawn working on what they're going to buy. I thought two players were leaving spawn with just blocks, but they have invested is late. And that's never a good sign. That shows that you're not confident in the call.
You just made off the freeze time. You're probably still reeling from what went wrong. Round number two. We're just going to try and set them up with some room, smoke wall. It's going to be the three piece feed.
He was just unloading in the smoke and it jumped it up to that.
Yeah, I think that's going to look crazy if you see it from his POV.
That was nuts.
Oh, and now they can't get their ball back.
Oh, no.
Oh, they can.
He's got those.
There you go.
Gadget arms.
Iron.
He's found a gap.
Scroff.
It looked like that was going to be clunky in transition.
They heard the steps.
Man, he was caught in the open.
Oh, gold, gold, gold.
Oh, okay.
The real deal.
Here we go.
Oh, wait.
Can we have the key?
All right. Here we go.
Okay.
to be fair be more exciting than this round
it is five blocks and a manager
check it out
ah well if you didn't think the round was over
I'm sure that's one kill, but
that's the bomb and they just
need to find the final man who's
announced his presence. Flemish
is down to sadson. That's a three
to one start. Somewhere between
the mission impossible tune and
jaws. I didn't put like a neither
either of them came to me. So you
kind of both copywriter
augmentation of both, which is
probably, you know, copyright
safe. Who's August this? Oh, you
This is an orc believer. Someone's got to be Rob's was doing it was doing it. The SM was buying the creed on the group stage games believe that
All right, Aggie Yard, playing for control.
So he's going to work out as well.
And Jessica's swinging into his demise.
Do we get safe passage of the all-out?
Easy.
All right, well, Siren, the door locked down,
and it was going to be ramp pressure
if they could get down secret.
Well, this boost highlighted.
This one's done.
Pack it up.
Your book.
Go down to Flamas.
Not doing this.
Not doing that.
Great work.
Two now with two, and booms a dead man.
Thanks for coming. Gosh this is going one way and one way fast. Five minutes in?
Yeah. A minute around.
Brazil is going very quickly to that third place. Obrigado.
I was just running right around the bad ones.
Partial bike.
Is a full mount potentially did forget the bad move on the stage.
Right.
Yeah.
I guess Navi is one thing, I guess Legacy is another.
It kind of takes a lot of wind out of the sails.
They're so confident right.
You know the legacy loves to take the fight, and that's not changing here.
Top pop on the way.
That too could not be more prepared for this move.
Oh, oh!
No, no, just pokes his nose up!
What a reload!
At least it's come up!
I'm alright.
I just want to see the Orc get a kill, that's all I want.
Just one?
Just one.
Oh, oh!
Sounds like it's tagged in!
There we go!
Tagged him back!
A little bit of light assistance there.
And Zordy
Man with a dream
This would be the clutch of the century
Could be the best clutching counter for his I think it would be yeah like undoubtedly the 48 seconds on the clock
He has a flashbang though. Maybe he can get a plan
Maybe not
Okay five to one
Guns will come out though
has to change sooner rather than later.
Yeah, I'm sure those are all nice work.
Yeah, from the bugs I've played with the Russians, I'm sure too.
Alright, what are we doing?
double ops all right do now he's gonna go down to magnitude as there's a nice
open kill to start off proceedings
away from that jump up look for the fight my save over the top yeah
magnitude as contact as my respect on display the moment truly promise shut up
your pay yeah punishes miss him on the miss rotation of the second or there we
There we go.
Two before.
That must be converted.
Adam's already down on B.
Yeah, he's got Simon and Plum as to contend with.
Letting Boomage play, taking space over towards Heaven and help.
Not just running into the unknown, so this is nice.
Even though they have a heavy advantage, they're not just launching in,
trying to silence the round to get it done.
heart this is likely going to be the finish so up the heaven they can climb
and then you plant back site I think Lado and Satsen should be able to say
about this one unless you pick hard okay
Om needs to be picked up now and someone else is going to be tasked with that
Flamers to provide the cover. Does Lado go lobby or heaven? You know you've lost it
So going heaven is so risky, you're gonna need to catch a timing.
40 seconds starts now.
And they do have kits.
So that's his parving.
Time for the reroute.
And that's hoping for some crazy angle on to Zorty.
Let's not give them the fight.
No, looking for damage.
So on the way out right now,
just going to try and strip away these investments.
So he is going to have to start making a move.
I don't know what happened, dead to rights.
There's that.
Now Sansen on the way out.
Can he take anything with him?
Oh, that's all the views.
Okay, hold on.
There's no way.
There's no time.
I mean, he's trying to pull to the bar.
I suppose you do take another with you.
So I mean, very optimized.
You're not going to win the round.
Why not take as many guns as you can away?
You've got cash to spare on legacy from the early start.
Time out, and I think this is just say boys,
let's just reel it in a little bit.
I don't have any issue with the aggression.
I think just make sure you do it as a unit, right?
And doing this early, it's nice.
And then make sure that you're not gonna put yourself
in a money break position.
There's fierce a chance.
Doesn't have too much to chip in with just yet
because Peppermint are still trying to put their minds
together as you mentioned all those casualties.
So it's a glil for Boomitch who's 0-7, James Bond in the building, we're there in a search for him and he's already got a scout so it's not the best advice, I can see Nissen going for that type of ram progression.
He's got to head the scene a little bit more doable.
No AWP, no AWP for this Infested M4, a bit more standard start.
Heavy lean outside for Beppu, Mastarin just deals with Lobby, the other 4 looking to crawl.
So they're going to use their first smoke to progress to red and then throw from that
Positioning us down secret arts immediately gonna drop events after seeing all those bodies on yard
There's a little jiggle pork sounds into profit magma chairs down to the up once more art has a smoke to block with as well down towards
be
He doesn't want to block you with the biff
That's the n4 0 and 8 for boomage now rough
Oh
That's a cheeky move
I mean he's blocked the smoke who's thrown the smoke we're gonna see the break from come through and he gets the info the bombs there as well
but still seems like a crazy move to make and Siren's got some
room over to watch Ram. So there no where Dumau is, Siren's gonna be able to take this space and get behind him.
Shaking up nicely, Siren catches this, at least now Dumau informed.
This fresher from Siren.
Dumau going looking for the fight, uses the window perfectly.
Repositions on the railing for another Dumau. Impactful double, but Zorty into the clutch, 1v3 quickly.
becomes a one versus two.
A spotter going back in the door,
so they know that he's not in that smoke just yet.
So if Zordi tries to be tricky and go up the vents,
Lato, well aware of this possibility,
because to reroute towards single,
Sanzan actually giving him the room,
not giving away the 1v1 possibility.
So the bomb should go down in this situation.
Zordi can win this.
Sanzan all trained on one side,
and Zordi able to at least get a little bit further away from the bomb.
I was there though. I shall.
Alright to handle that. Time out.
It works. 62 four round gap.
So fierce wants to take the time out.
The money.
Sort of can go in AK.
Maybe just the same.
Sion could go VK head armor with a flash but we find this chipping in to attack
nine Sion the same it looks like it's gonna be a partial
I don't know if they can get three or four rounds I'll make it five for Bepperm
on this T side they're in with a chance there's still plenty more opportunities
available
Two miles on one, isn't he?
There's a bomb flying a watch.
He's good at getting the most out of the round, out of his life.
Flammas don't know how to smoke, so this time he'll be thrown.
So they're really looking for info behind that first progression smoke.
see how many times they are breaking it open see trying to catch them in transition
they're behind red art doesn't know that so it's informed them poorly
making it look like a top play now they get the bomb down they have been able to slip
okay this is promising siren knocking door hoping to catch rotations
He can't really go down the vent, but ah, he will.
He's going to brave it.
That is cheeky, actually.
Oh, and the leaf.
Yeah, and they're behind.
They took the door open.
That is just going to get shot in the spine.
The door's open.
It's nice!
Oh!
One gets two!
Sorting able to fly one back, but the damage is done.
The round is one.
Legacy.
We get past that desert eagle.
He hits a banger onto Nissen.
And he can do it now.
Right back, spins over the doors.
Boom.
that's his first. But it's
maybe there's more.
It doesn't seem to think so gets
boom on the floor. Seven to two
down the event with two that is
audacious when you've lost our
secret control. That's the thing
that outside fake didn't work
the way that they'd hoped for
legacy were reading that it was
would be the ramp player at top
pop and then they risk the
rotation down the band. The reason
that you don't want to do that
It's such an easy choke point to cover off with really any level of investment
It's the five round gap
Will it continue to grow Zordy's gonna get run boosted outside on top of first
You see nobody cross. Oh, come on
Let's catch a break siren down on door
I could just want to get cheeky with that around the smoke's not the same
Saturn's on this.
Boom.
Rough day at the office for Boomage.
Doom House here, hanging out on his favorite railing.
Supported by Nissan.
And that is in hot pursuit as well.
I think we're such a good read as to where these remaining three are.
That should go. Do now. Perfectly positioned. Only the one, though.
Kept humble.
Ah, I should have this.
I didn't deny the plan.
Yeah, I think you're right just in time.
Denies and uncomfortable for MagmaJazz.
Sands in spots in.
Oh, shit's the flick.
Well done.
Yeah, there's nothing going right now for Bethlehem.
Win the pistol and I'll get a conversion.
They have one opening kill to their name.
And that came on the second round that they won, so they are just being dictated to.
You're losing opening exchanges like that.
It's always going to be a rough half of Counter-Strike another partial.
Legacy going through the motions and making it look good.
I'm sorry one of them
Trying to throw pace into legacy's face. It's not one down for you at least as quick. Yep
That's probably the only saving price next time
Go check out all the stalls here at dream after three this is the final. I'm about to be down there on the tournament floor
We go check out the shop
I think after they gave away their second round and the coach at the time and I've got
Okay, hold on a second. Let's just win this, shall we?
Hey, nice one, Zorty. Over extension from missing. All the time now, I think.
That's gonna stop a gun. Art's just perpetually in motion. He's always moving.
He's like a shark. He is.
Okay, Shadow spotted. Zorty doesn't know. Don't tell Zorty. Zorty doesn't know.
They do it on mute every Sunday
It's all that boom there on it's a band what is that bad in furlough. Yeah
About boomer on the knees right now
That love
Oh, you're almost there.
I'm at her own now. Number two. There you go.
It's gone temporarily exciting.
It brings down Magniges. I've got a rough half full walk.
I think everyone's had one better.
You want your Magniges in particular.
Some people have more kills than others, but let's say everyone's had a rough go of things.
Yeah.
Okay, you got the advantage.
Now it's just about locking it in.
I feel as though he's dead to either side or that of this secret crawl from Lato.
If he gets info on both, he's going to be able to backpill, he's going to be able to
get out of dodge.
So Lato's going to call Yard, they're tracking this one down, as though he's not looking.
He's got an opportunity here.
Just portrayed it.
That trade comes through.
Okay, you should just head in towards A now, you know, this is the ramp play up.
He's in the rafters.
Yeah, he's spotted the bomb as well now.
He is in the rafters.
Wow, they used it in the rough.
There's perfect in position.
Backs the turn.
It's a rough one from Barb to Wersh.
Batrooms pick.
They've got two rounds for show for it.
I
Tented to not pretty for that boom could be a quick one for the third-four place decided here at the Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta
There's levels to this
Both these teams
Top of their group and both these teams couldn't get anything done in the semi-finals legacy losing the game lesion 2 to 1
That boom set here by Nafi, no surprise there, but what is the lack of resistance at these teams will be
Cologne just around the corner the major legacy has one more stop before they get there. That'd be CAC
Do the tour of the globe before concluding the season, but they're looking to do it in style
The win today would secure them in the third place
Showing that hey those stage one teams, maybe they're gonna be easy
The major rolls around
On top, down the vent, behind you, speaking immediately.
Flammus, Jewel Redders, at range.
Not ideal, USP perhaps better suited to that kind of fight.
Two behind them quickly though.
Okay, this is going to get uncomfortable.
Listen down, nice taps from Magnajez.
Bomb just goes down, but looking good.
How do you win this one up?
You just don't.
Already hearing that diffuse sound,
and two of them on your screen, Magnajez makes it four.
He's on for the ace, but someone's going to have to sit in the diffuse
and it's the man who could have had it.
Lada was gonna dance with them back vents
and they'll just slowly whittle away at him.
Wait, they're off the diffuse.
It's off the bomb.
Why off the bomb?
Uh, no.
Why off the bomb?
Round!
Oh, that's a one more!
So, adjusting time.
Oh, brother.
Oh, brother.
I think they've lost it.
They actually lost it?
The same!
A couple of seconds in it.
That nearly was.
I'll try and have a good time as well.
That's all you can do as much.
Every five years, Sean.
I've seen something like that.
Oh, looking crispy.
Well, just leave. Just don't smoke it.
And then you can fight it.
We're in our taps, too.
And you can win both pistols and you can still end up losing 13 to 3, apparently.
You've got one three out of the four pistols.
Okay, sorry.
Here we go. Say Farah hands side.
the ball. Well, at least it's
going the way it should. Yeah,
right? I think if you fumble
the pistol almost that badly
Lamas, another one be three
though for the boy. Yes, he has
already pulled one out on
Mirage online from OG and the
bomb down outside of lobby, so
that will need to be picked
back up or will it have this is
such a jig. Where the hell are
they? And then just parked the
bus in top site. 232 more
Oh.
Oh, boom, she's still smiling.
Brutal.
That just seems like, oh, they missed a smoke or they haven't thrown one.
I'm gonna obviously stay on this fight.
And a bit.
And a bit.
Just keep up the pace.
Not right for smokes.
I have to respect that.
Maybe Flemish is.
Oh, yes.
Oh, well, that's over.
I take a chance at this point.
I think that they know it's over.
We know it's over.
Alan, do you think it's over?
We've got the whistle word up next.
Navi versus game of legend.
They should be entering the building shortly.
I'm having a good time, yeah.
Hello. Yeah, make it in by spotting
boom. Art goes down siren
covers it. Sortie has a lot of
work to do down towards B. Has
some support well no not just yet it is just sortiness 5-7 for now who's been
smoked off might be tempted to try and make a play through it but the glass
not broke it's the vent slip that's slightly concerning
Lato regardless of the spam and the sound cue he's got cover from Lato now
it's got a flash position that's a great spot should be able to dip in a
guaranteeing one. Just like that. There's the cover for missing as well. And Zordy was the first man on the scene.
And he's the last man standing, so 12. Lock it in.
Maybe not a fine Zordy.
This one's for the HLTV stance page.
There we go. Down to Lato, who continues to farm 23 and 4.
I mean, they've got some positive takeaways to one win of a pay a two on win of a vitality a two on win of a pain and then a two zero lost an RV.
Oh, they're going to take their time out. Look that looks good for the coaches that line. Yes, right. Did I use my timeouts? Yes, they got that.
that line just fine did I use my timeouts yes drop that to back as well
facts
hey Yard doesn't feel the need to contribute I think things are saying
right now like I'm trying to think what I'm saying at this moment it's probably
just making lunch plans you know okay guys who's hungry what do you fancy all
All right, oh yeah, I'll take the light for you.
OK, yeah, well, fair enough.
Get a bit more time this afternoon to do some tourism.
Yes.
Head to the aquarium.
Check out the aquarium.
To the Beluga Whales.
The Centennial Park.
Yeah, get out in the sun.
Oh, we're going to be doing what you now
need, taking on Gamer Legion.
All right, all right, all right.
Oh.
That's the biggest that I've had he didn't quite land on the main roof slipped off
Back to just silently dissenting events anticipating supercrawl it is right
arts here
There's is no longer
Now brings in doubt boom is now looking to copy and paste
There's donuts as well with a CZ 75 primed and ready for an up close excursion
Now look at the runway, we'll find some boob.
Got himself a rifle but not expecting another arts just gone round the world.
Up the vent now, let's get him Frank Siren.
Sats into parts.
Siren! Oh he was aware but up finds it, three kills, deep art wants to end it now.
Fishing ahead of the flames exposed to Lato, Sortie will fall
And we have Gamefotes third place, a bronze medal on the podium.
Will legacy stand?
And a good run from them throughout.
Kicks things off with a tour over MAD.
Top of the strides to lock in the playoffs
and even defeated an RV 2-1 to secure themself
a spot straight in towards those semis.
Lost the game allegiance in here and probably a series
they had a lot of learnings from.
But there it is, Artex down the final man, 13-3.
That boom takes the fourth place in legacy.
They're the victors here today to kick off Atlanta's final day of Counter-Strike.
That is a total of seven rounds over two maps and three of them being pistols.
The stats are not friendly to Bet Boom today, but legacy.
This is a team that we know can play with an awful lot of momentum
and in that run-in to the major right around the corner, CAC,
an event where they could definitely throw their hat in the ring.
Just a nonchalant victory, really, for legacy.
They make that look so casual.
Everything fills us with some confidence for the next showings and of course Major around the corner is going to be one of those teams to watch out for.
It's final but we'll have to wait and see as finally it is time to get back into this grand final.
It's Navi vs. Gamelidge and kicking off on Mirage and we've got plenty of utility over here for Gamelidge.
So let's see what we've got in store for this base talk.
Alright well, bomb is already positioned towards the A bomb site so you've got to feel like this mid-play red snack is going to try and head towards Khan.
Mikasa is going to try and put a stop to him. First shot missed. Drills a headshot traded.
Yeah, good work for Mikasa.
Highpacks, you guys are able to get a couple back here for game allegiance.
Good to see them getting a strong start. He might be falling back into short.
There's no one at the A bomb set as well. Players are starting to poke and prod with those two kills and PRs like nobody's here.
So the bomb's going to come in. Actually, highpacks can play this as slow and chill as you'd like.
Flashbang activates, resigates, comfortable in towards con. So retake will come in.
He might not let you the closest by wonderful is going to join up. There's only one HG grenade there
So I don't know how you get in
Now flash goes forward PR taking Emma away. Now. You've got wonderful in a like CB
Who just have no real chance of getting into this whatsoever Rez is going to keep the connector closed off
Like CB stepping ever closer and Rez takes the head shot that will confirm this
So a great start from game of Lige and a strong pistol showing I mean obviously the first step you want is winning the pistol
doing it this emphatically as well, some lovely shots from the individuals of
Gamer Legion, really nice to see coming in sharp stepping onto these grand final
stages. Bombs gonna go off, one to nothing for Gamer Legion.
Two kills for Rez. In that pistol we've touched on him a number of times, best
start to his career that he's ever had in a year. It's been a very long career.
Last trophy, he's won, in fact, of a tournament this size of the Tier 1 events, the professional
circuit, was all the way back in that legendary I am Oakland that we've read for so many
times back in 2017, MVP of that event, but hasn't lifted that professional circuit, that
Tier 1 level trophy since then.
I don't know if we've mentioned it enough, Jason, really, the Oakland performance.
We might need to keep hanging on.
I think a couple more years, people will get it.
Second round bye for Gamer Legion.
Excuse me, for Navi they invest, 5-7 Deagles and the FAMAS on Wonderful.
And GameReligion are going to take it very, very chill on this T-Side.
We heard Snax mention that too, mentioning that they're getting to start T-Side on a
map in the previous series back in the group stage.
One thing it does allow is you to open up the series by setting the tone.
So I imagine Snax is going to be happy that here in their map pick, obviously Navi selected
CT side so they once again get that offensive start to be able to kind of
prime Navi and let him know what kind of aggressive nature they're gonna come in
what kind of style they bring. Yeah well game at least they're gonna get a whole
lot of T-starts in this BO5. I'll tell you what they're about to run into an
issue. Alexia slid over at the perfect moment. There's three four defenders at
this A-palm side. Yeah big set fold with utility into Palace have to drop back
but there's plenty of players here and the Diego Fremas came out on top of the
First fight, another one from in with D.
And you have the troubles here.
Gagalaging getting stalled out, broken apart.
And they can't get through to the site.
You see Snacks so far away on the other side of the map,
trying to come forward here, but there's 35 seconds only.
Yeah, he can't do anything by jumping
called and trying to help out.
He's got to be a release valve on this flank.
So Hybex just needs to survive.
They know he's still there.
Utility ready to get.
Now Navi's getting aggressive, suffocating him
before Snacks can show up.
Snatch drifting back over to the site.
There's 15 seconds left. Four players to fire.
Navi has done a great job here at picking up the second well forced by.
That's four players staying up, running to get those spores of waltz to ground as well.
So they get two good wheels and AK-47 out of that.
And that's really going to help Navi's economy.
Yeah, it's really quickly going to bring game religion back down to reality as well.
That reminder that they are not in fact the favorites that they are the underdog.
Good shot here from EMA. No trade possible.
Smoke comes out, you can see Rez just feels pinned down.
Good shot again for EMA. Lovely Digo work.
Tied at 1 and Game Religion have fought back in. All Digos across the T side.
So hunkered down, this is probably a slow extended round as these Digos will have time to try and find picks inside the bomb site.
Lay out the smokes.
I mentioned game religion Navi playing earlier in the tournament, but it's gonna be a different level of Navi now right that they've taken down
Vitality their confidence is gonna skyrocket
Especially coming into this BO5 with the disparity and grand final appearances for the players of Navi versus that of game religion
There's every reason to be confident in this game for Navi
I was interesting here in Alexey talk about it too like how they played them back at you know back at blast rivals and Fort Worth
2-0 for Navi. They played him in the groups here. 2-1 for Navi. They mentioned that, you know,
the Gamer Legion's been a team that hadn't played much up until this point.
I've spent a good amount of time practicing with them,
burning this North American stretch of the season.
They even felt like that kind of experience against Navi constantly
helped them raise their game a little bit, raise their level.
So, Gamer Legion kind of going up against the Masters according to Alexi.
They move in, ball break, and they go through.
P.O.S. headshot is going on.
The wonderful Rezzas also picked up a de-kill.
Another one this time from Talcen and the Deeds on display back to back rounds.
This time it's Gamer Legion's turn but Emma is looking sharp to kick off this final.
Another kill picked up by the AK-47, still doable here for Navi.
I love this play from Rez though.
He drops the smoke and CT spawn, makes it feel like they've committed.
Talcen no longer has to be aggressive because Rez is saying just fall back and plan for the B bomb site.
That's where I'm going. Nobody from Navi is expecting this yet.
started to get the sense because there's been no noise there's been no
pressure and he must piece it together but it's a little bit too late two on
two both have kits and utility. Razz just sits up in the apartments once he gets
this strong position there's a real shot at just rounding the south for game
religion that back and forth will continue. Razz with a rifle, Towson out
short with his. It's most on the bomb I would imagine. I'm gonna move on now and
It's a likesie getting picked off, Ima now alone.
And yes, he's got the utility, but he's not got the time.
He's got to go and get these kills quickly.
And now he's just got to go for the last ditch effort
to try and confuse it, kill off to short,
spammed out to the importantness,
but it's the time that costs him.
He doesn't have enough of it and tries to back away.
Rez catches it, and Gamer Legion continue this back and forth.
Well, if you're going to want a chance at surprising yourself
as you describe Gamer Legion in this series
and putting up a good fight,
you need the experienced players to show up.
And Rez has just given you an incredible round.
Triple kill and orchestrating the actual final victory.
Sneaking off to the B-bomb site through CT spawn.
Deagle's a PR and Talisman do incredible work,
but Rez's start to finish has impact.
He was a little tongue in cheeks and he was open.
He could find some of that old Oakland form
throughout these playoff runs.
Maybe here in the grand finals we'll get some shades of it.
At early back and forth between the squad so economy real busted for Navi hard for them to put it together both teams actually
High back sending out the mid smoke towards the window
And we'll see the game religion forces start to get ready for what is going to be an A play
They made snacks on the lorries. So often found on his own.
Not doing a whole lot of mid control to start out this half though.
A lot of this presence towards the A-bomb set. This is where they lost the ego earlier.
Another smoke to stall things out.
Blocking the choke points. Namely did not commit it. Snacks goes down in mid.
A little bit early.
Now you have to... towards what is going to be a telegraph plate to what they say side.
So, Navi have the extra player over here to deal with this, and the rotations are now arriving as well.
So, if you're a Gamer Legion, you better be successful in these first fights.
Rez coming in with a double kill, wonderful ass right back, with two of his own.
And going out in the open, but a Type X delivering a Mikaze against Type X in the 1v1 clutch.
Type X in the open, and Mikaze's won it.
So, the back and forth really here, the War of Attrition continues.
And a timeout coming through here for Gamer Legion.
Yeah, it's awkward things over because it's again, do you want to reinvest into this huge clutch for
Mokaze taking on Hype X2 himself had a great clutch performance in the quarterfinals to keep
Gamer Legion moving forward into the playoffs. And just the first time Gamer Legion get to take a
breath and calm things down and talk it over. Same for Blade on the Navi side. Both teams
tested each other early. No one able to string two rounds in a row. No one able to gain the momentum
of the early game. But the decision that Gamer Legion make here is going to define
and now this next round will play out and they are going to reinvest in challenge again.
Deagles on Snacks, Towson and PR, same for Rez, Tecna on Hypex and round five beginning.
I
Know they came religion of capable on these deagles
We've seen before just in that last previous round right so they can do it once more
P. R. Going for the challenge on that jump spot of Alexi B doing a row is a big ass. It is a big ass
That's what's gonna be needed a big ask here in the grand final and we've got in my wedding inside of corn
Looking down towards it's going to be as peak from snacks coming up first
And he will actually take the head shot through the side of the wall there, so he went down to 11 HP, fortunate to still be standing.
Yeah, but there's a little bit of a stack there, right? He had Mikaze and a teammate, he had a wonderful over here towards Khan.
Ready to play with them, so that dinky backs off.
The other two stick around and just maintain information over in middle, so still they realize there's no scaling quite yet.
yet
res going to take that first step out he makes coming in from the underpass
there's the catwalk present for one along the wall
i didn't find him
wonderful mccasey
mowing everyone down in mid
and there it is there's two in a row
na'vi game control
and gamerly do you want to sit back and armoured pistols for a round before the rifles come in
yeah it was a big ass jason you're right
it was a huge ass yeah
Now they're just down to little blocks, so gonna be a 4-2 lead for Na'Vi coming up.
Can't let Na'Vi get control of this game really all though if you're a game legion.
Can't let them just rack up a big CT half here.
You don't see those blocks group up in the palace, there's gonna be four players coming through that.
They'll come right through that smoke as well. A lot of 4-1s with stacks as the off man.
Yeah, well, trying to find out in the distance off of it, but Mo Dope up in the end, that's a 3K on the MP9, and then we're still going to help him out.
So, stronghold for Nabi down on the site.
They get rid of the little pistols quite easily, so the AK-47's coming out again here for Diamelige.
And they've had a little bit of a luxury, a long time they haven't had to go up against a wonderful ZWP.
About halfway through this opening half of the Grand Finals, wonderful's going to get it out for the first time going into round seven.
Nobby's MVP candidate. He started this map 9-3 statistically the best player of the event
And he's got his favorite weapon in hand. So how does this change the nature of the game?
It's been a lot of executes not so much meat control, but that's changing here perfect timing for wonderful
The piece down so was wonderful.
Back away into the connect through and takes a lot of damage as he filters away, but still
stands and can deliver a little impact.
Ooh, look at this step through the smoke up right there.
There he is, not surprising.
Oh, Bits got both.
Oh, he got both kills.
That's ridiculous.
It looked like it was guaranteed to be at least the trade kill, but Bits stepping up
in that way, just giving Navi a huge huge advantage in this round, Rez is gonna somehow pull this back
going over towards B, it's Alexi B, running out towards the van, Rez hops outside,
tracks through the window, Alexi B caught, now Rez needs the second, dropping down, hunting down
the player, it's short, but now realize him, he needs him at two, and Rez is locked in,
and he's given a chance here to game all of a sudden. A wonderful jump is coming over now,
And there goes Rez, Mikaze shuts him down, wide swing inside the site,
Hypex can get it planted into two on two.
Wonderful is going to wait for his teammates to slide over.
There's teammate, excuse me, that's Bitt.
Hypex going into the open will be his death.
That's wonderful, waits for that peek into the open,
putting snacks in the 1v2.
Years ago, he was built for these moments.
In the clutches, the 1v2s.
yet to get a kill but can snacks pull this off big goes out for the first
team detecting snacks last bullet this would be a classic way to drop the time
they get to it can they hold it all the way
Na'Vi will just have enough time and snacks gives it a good go dropping down
with that final bullet yeah just trying to I thought he was gonna try and
disappear behind the smoke tucks himself in and wonderful finds it with the
spam just at the perfect moment for the diffuse
Picks his back up as well. Good clutch from Navi, good retake, and gamer leech in another timeout burned.
That would have been an extremely snacks clutch, right? Like, dropping down, last bullet, getting the knife out in the smoke.
This is the one right there. You mentioned it, Ipex. Didn't need to take that swing into the open. A brutal way to go down.
Wonderful, just finds him right at the tail end. Snacks looking for the knife inside the smoke as he runs out of bullets on the AK.
A conversation we heard in the interviews that they mentioned, it felt like Gamerlid had talked about
we kind of figured out the way we wanted to beat and we kind of figured them out on ancient
we feel like we can do that on some of the other maps as well.
So far here on Mirage as their opening pick in these Grand Finals, we're not seeing that quite yet.
The Navi players all stepping up to perform well in their role, wonderful obviously in that clutch
Mikaze, his previous clutch against Hypex over at the A-palm site.
Pitt performing well as the anchor. He's been one of the best since he bursted into the scene.
Even when he's not here, still the chant prevails.
It's always applicable, I feel.
PR, he went away K-47, all the pressure on his shoulders, and he's in palace.
Very slow round considering the weaponry, very spread too.
like you have snacks pushed all the way up underneath the window.
Towson and Hypex look like they can, like they want to activate Towson a little bit
to make some presence known towards the B bomb site.
A's on the other side, the bomb is on the other side of the map.
So they want to plant an A, but they want to pull bodies in the other direction
and that's just not going to happen.
Not enough force behind this fake, PR has already been spotted up in Palace
so Navi knows exactly what's happening.
Well, give it a go, Raze, you've got to respect him.
Wonderful, does get overwhelmed eventually by snacks, who picks up the AWP.
He'll take it for a spin in these final 35 seconds, but this round's going nowhere for
game religion.
Unless, unless something special can happen here.
We've got Hypex taking a pick with that Tech 9, but as soon as Snacks goes down, Hypex
has everything to do, and Inwood's going to make sure it is a quick kill as soon as that
challenge comes.
So, 6-2 lead for Nobby, starting to get into a real good rhythm on the CT side.
Yeah, he built up a good amount of money as well.
Wonderful out behind this AWP.
He has $8,100, Mikaze $7,500, Ima's sitting at $9,000, so now they're feeling really, really good.
A lot of luxuries behind them, if they ever drop around, they can replenish anything they want.
Round nine begins AK-47s back in the hands of Gamer Legion.
Yeah, no AWP again.
All Gamer Legion just getting the cash out for us, so Hypex has got a little bit left over for later on in the half, but...
Well, Navi's bringing forces to defend in the middle, and Gamer Legion's bringing forces to take command.
This round might be decided right here.
Yeah, well, wonderful. It's got that opening.
Mikasa on the follow-up kill.
And if it's decided, then it's decided Navi's favor very quickly,
because those two kills are so, so quick.
And now you've left a 5v3 in front of you,
and, Game Religion, how are you even going to pull this back?
How do you even get into a position to compete for it?
You have to imagine Navi at this point just disappears
and plays the 5 on 3. No more peaks coming in,
so you can see Hypex being patient, looking for any further danger.
And if they take too long, game religion should develop into anything, and Avi is just going
to make an information play, move up somewhere on the map, figure out what's happening.
Oop, camera losing half of his health, going to back away into a CT spawn, Namakaze at
the ready next.
in that drop.
Running to react on the boost and take the kill.
High-packs actually able to finish him off, so an opening once again somehow here for
GamerLegion.
Yeah, I felt like he panicked, maybe like took the shot a little bit too quick, thought
it would be a little cleaner.
So GamerLegion disappeared, they brought it into a three on four.
Rez is very, very hurt down to 19 HP.
Ema and Alexi to hunker down at the B bomb site.
It's really the only play that GamerLegion have with the time on the clock.
Rez will lead the way with the low health.
Game religion desperate.
And the drop comes in, flashes good.
Alexi B held back, but Emma again.
So reliable today for Navi.
And he's got Alexi B using that distraction,
the Emma set up, but Rez, sharp shooting, yet again.
The 19-inch B left, he tries to get the AK-47,
and then wonderful arrives just in time
to blast him through the van.
Couple nice clean up kills from Wanderfult.
At that B bomb site now,
doing very, very good movement around the map,
But again, Navi just said, you can't have mid control whatsoever.
Yeah, we heard on desktop it about the fact that Wonderful's become a consistent piece lately for Navi,
which has not always been the case, right?
He's a player that many people have been calling to,
Scott who's talking about how he just is a little bit too inconsistent.
He can disappear in the big moments, but this year it's been much better for Wonderful.
And again, a strong start to the grand final here, 13th floor.
We're going fast though. We're going real fast with Tech 9s right into the V8 bomb site.
Once again, Moe down, now a team kill with the HG grenade.
As they run through the Molotov, nothing working for Gamer Legion.
Is there a certain Sunstress? You're getting right out of Gamer Legion already.
Striking the bottom of the barrel.
Yeah, I mean, they just said that it's tough. They don't have the answers at the moment.
I think you kind of like lost some of the momentum you could have built up in that exchange early on after winning the pistol.
Two clutches have gone against them, which I think is deflating as well.
to see some, uh, sometimes we're
now these handling the fast
tactics really easily in mid
previous round now with this kind
of a rush. They're handling the
slow tactics just fine as well.
Well, game religion obviously
give this a go, but. Well, it's
going to be happening for these
Well, game religion, obviously, give this a go, but it's going to be happening for these tech Knights.
Come on.
Going to be jump-spawning towards round, missed the first peek, so Bitt will take that contact bit,
taking Hypex out immediately, and just Towson, and Bitt goes out for that one as well,
securing himself a 3K and an 8th round for Nalvin.
You know, it's one thing we also kind of saw throughout, you know, in the quarter-finals as well.
We touched a lot on high-packs for gamer legion like carrying a gamer legion through stretches with some of the clutches
He had you're in a similar situation now where you're having like kind of like you're really impactful
Riflers that have been so solid. Towson has one kill PR has two kills
Rez has kind of been doing that job of creating impact to kind of try and carry you through the stretch
But not able to close enough of these rounds out. Those are the rifleers need to wake up
So that might be just a task of this first map as you're getting beat down like okay. We experience it now
We know what the pressure is we know we're gonna have to play with it. Maybe they can wake up for map to
Still a chance for them though to pop off here and create a little bit more space for gamer legion to work with in the second half
Two rounds remaining here. If you can grab these last two you could be a lot more positive about game illusion
Now if you start to think about a move into his ramps you got bit clearing that close right
Yeah
We saw yanko kind of highlight this on the desk with the
The Telestrator, the different ways that Navi was kind of making information plays and pushes to figure things out when it's quiet on the map.
Gamer Legion like to play slow at times in the mid-round.
We saw that come back to haunt them in the quarter-finals against Payne, who was able to bring a bunch of flanks and a bunch of wraps onto the tactics they were doing.
Slow again and bits in position at A ramp to push forward and just find all the intel needed.
So wonderful keeping an eye on towards Khan with the AWP.
They made their way through, they can't be waiting on the stairway.
A good trade from Towson.
Takes a light shot down to 17 HP and Mikaze gonna be forced back by utility.
They're ready to peek him from multiple positions and it looked like Mikaze was gonna get both,
but will they be ready for a bit because they just killed Mikaze in this position.
You aren't ready for a bit to arrive.
And he just peeks out, denies that plant.
And now PR and Hypex having to try and clutch up the bit once again, their nightmare.
But it's been Hypex all tour and long clutching, but he hasn't got info to make this one doable.
Wonderful looks out towards Khan, and it's an easy shot for the Opera.
A 9-2 lead for Navi.
Looking at a little loss there at the end, Hypex, I think looking for someone to rotate through middle,
just wanted to get that pick, and it never came, so never put himself in a position to have impact on the round.
That's a really cruel, nasty bait and switch.
To have a second player lying in a way to ARAM is just brutal. You will never, never be ready for that.
Last round of the first half. And Mikaze wants to step forward.
They'll attempt to split towards the A bomb site. Resin snacks have to find a way to close the gap because PR, Towson and Hypex, they're ready.
Here comes D'Alson, out towards Bitt.
Such a quick, decisive opening here for Narvi.
They're not going to let this one sweat on.
Let Snacks and Reiss can do something fantastic,
and it is Snacks that is fighting on,
but it must be Snacks alone.
And 1v2 now, and low HP.
Did not make it into the window.
Alexi Bitt is going to be checked into one,
and Bitt have the answer with a grenade.
A brutal first half.
They get bashed in. It's a 10-2 lead for Novi. They're looking like they're gonna make this first map extremely quick.
Let's see came into the series and I'm feeling great. I'm feeling confident about the best of five
We played them twice. We beat them twice and this is looking like a third is on the card
At least for here in Mirage the first time these squads faced off in the group stage
This was a close affair and now that we've hit this stage now that these players are competing while staring that trophy
Dead in the eye on the stage. I mean, it's just there's the game of League is getting smoked right now
There's not a whole lot to talk about positive for game religion because Navi are showing that comfort in that confidence and they put it out into the map
Trying to get him hyped up saying we're not even playing our game
We're not even having fun right now
So at least get that going. Let's see if we can return that into form as this map starts coming to a close
PR not enjoying the start of this at all his bullets were blanks couldn't land anything
No, my car's ain't marching through its not be comfortably taking the site overwhelming it
There's nothing game religion can do to change the outcome of this
It's gonna be 11 to 2 for Norvey and with a pistol round at this point
It does feel like this map is gonna be brought to a close soon. Yeah, what a crazy turn
I mean if you could think all the way back to the first four rounds of play
This was back and forth both teams, you know winning a pistol losing the second round winning the third losing the fourth
I'd go and blow for blow and man. What's an avi got hold there was just no flight left
Res force back now and all they can do is save the pistols
At least that good shot from rise to prevent the clean sheet a small victory, but I
Mean 11 to 2 now for Navi. They're just looking so good
I mean you've got all the pieces you want for Navi showing up
You've got Bitt having a great game, wonderful, and Ima, and then Mccasey getting involved at the start of this pistol run as well.
Well, think of all this, I mean, Bitt's having a great game, but also remember too, like the game, the game plan that Gamer Legion brought was a lot of executes towards the A site.
It felt like they really wanted to be able to take over one of the bomb sites on the extremities before switching back into that mid presence and mid control.
So, Bitt got a lot of attention in a variety of ways heading at him, and he sits on to the task pretty much each and every time.
Good opening kill for him here with the palace push from Hypex. 11 to 2. All that's left is for
Navi to mop up these final pair of rounds.
You're loving it, aren't you? No Apex, no Vitality, everything you could have
wish for coming to Atlanta you're all six
Max and four likes a bee he's put under a lot of pressure here and eventually
gonna be taken away but that information just allows his team to move
into the site so I think you'll take a death if it allows a comfortable take
a bomb site but there's anything but comfortable snacks and res sending a
couple of kills right back to Naughty and then BIT okay this is something
This is beautiful stuff.
Feels like such a casual sequence.
Yeah.
I just thought you really worked hard for it.
This is one of those bit games on Mirage where he just literally walks out and the bullets have to be a headshot.
That second one is ridiculous.
Yeah, Tommy, this is a great defense, the aggression.
A bit of this is just like he just gets disintegrated here.
I don't even see that headshot.
It's the final bullet.
He might have even been surprised but comes back for the third.
10 chances for Navi to shut down Mirage and take us out of the second map of this series with a lead.
What can you even do against that if you gave a lead? There's just nothing you can do to deal with that.
We'll come into this with two scouts from AS, MP7. Listen, Glam4.
He's given the young Riflers on game release an example to a spy out here, right?
Guys like Hear, guys like Towson, he's like, this is what it's like being a playoff Rifler.
You've got to get to this point where you just show up and shut down, start to finish.
Well, run's gonna get flashed into the ramp, no one's home, no one there to spot him.
So they're gonna start drifting that ball back through T-Sport.
I mean, for game religion, this is the best chance possible, right?
You've got four players at least towards this side of the map.
Yeah, but it feels like they're gonna start shifting away.
Towson is alone, Hypex just kind of passed out through the murder hole,
so he's backing off to the B bomb site because it's quiet on the map.
Snacks hasn't seen anything in middle.
So, yeah, you've got a decent amount of numbers here, but also look at it this way.
get it this way there's no utility there's one smoke to utilize it just gets
dropped now at a ramp with no flashes no Molotovs for the CT side
Navi are coming for the map boy trying to get out but Reiss has got himself a
double kill and they're shut down on bay. So some life at Gamelidge and all of a sudden a
rainbowl to the A site. Yeah that smoke does its job I think Alexi must have felt
like because they've given up control in middle no presence anywhere on the map
that was the timing they had to hit as soon as the Molotov faded they just had
to go for it. Right into the wall. So, game religion stay alive a little bit longer.
That is their first round win since round 3 of this map. It was an 11-0 run from Navi
to get to 12. So, I made a little bit of the back foot for Navi. Three tech, or three pistols,
Two tech nines and a deagle, two galils to work with.
It didn't seem to be a problem in the first half, right?
Once Vima got that deagle out,
he's going forward again over on Towson and Vee.
Causing this way through the underpass.
It's a kill towards connector.
Highpacks get first Noffy with the advantage
in terms of the player count,
but the weapons certainly still stronger here
for Gamelage.
Well, remember, Towson already spotted one of the jump spot
towards the Vee Hall,
so they've actually pulled everyone towards Vee,
thinking it's gonna be a plate in this direction.
And Navi is going to try and back off. Good equalizer found.
Now Rez is putting up a great showing here.
Really trying to keep his team in this fight, going out, getting these trades, but he's gone.
And Ms. Deagle rings out. Now it's Taliesin and Snacks. They must step up.
They must deliver. Otherwise this map is done.
And the only player that can change that outcome is Snacks.
He's on the A site. Bomb is dropped up on short. There's 45 seconds to go back and get it.
They thought it was going to be B the whole time. They just never expected this many bodies in the middle.
Navi just way too composed and comfortable in the scenario.
No, not going to be letting this one slip easily.
Snax is really going to work for this.
A 1v3 clash for Snax, can he pull it off?
Two players going up through connector, bit in the wind zone.
Snax has done well. Now he follows up.
Snax gets away, and Snax going for Glory in the 1v3, trying to keep his team alive.
Look at the damage he's done to Imma.
Pick up a nade, pick up a nade on the way.
sends it in, in my dodges, both players so low, but this will be it.
Snacks looking for the P2, 1v3 off the top of the stairs, and he goes into the open, but in my will to nigh.
It is brutal. Navi with no mercy on map 1, a 13-3 win on Mirage.
The start of the best in 5 has to be a wake-up call for game religion.
We're here for the Corex fantasy team.
We designed our teams over the last couple of days, and we've been talking about players
we want to have.
I think that's definitely the conversation right now is about regret.
I think that's the main thing I'm feeling right now is regret, that I went with vitality.
I don't think my talent may be regretting anything if you propose a backing them, but I wish I went for the LV players this time.
Sure, I have one LV player in Macaulay, but obviously there's some players in these grand finals that would have been great to have if we could have seen in the future.
I think Wonderful, obviously, were the way he's performing. He's up there for an MVP at the event.
Hype X on the Gamer Legion side, I think he has a chance to catch up with Wonderful in these grand finals as well.
Obviously, you go to the big names that you could go to after that. Bits having a good event.
Towson with the rifles have heated up in the plan so yeah there'd be some do-overs if we could go back
Yeah, and rising a final in America again. I feel like I could have done my brothers as well
But I feel like we're moving forward Jason. You're the only one that has any hope
It's all hinging on because I win unless he if that is the fantasy sword because it for the win
And Mikaze, getting the win on the first map of this series.
Navi with a massive head start in this best of five.
And when I say massive, I mean 13 to three
on your opponent's map choice massive.
No question, Jacob, who was in control
on this first round of Rage?
No, and it's a bit of a shame, right,
that they weren't able to put up a better five game
while you're in because the beginning of the game,
actually, you know, resembled a game
that could have been competitive.
It was a little bit messy to start off with, you know,
trading rounds back and forth,
and you think to yourself, okay,
It's going to be a bit dirty, it's going to be a bit messy, and that should be an advantage for Game of Legion,
but once again, now we regain control over the game, and from the point that the Skorlam was 2-2,
you mean there was no doubt who were there by far better team on the show.
They look like a hazing. They played with absolute confidence, swinging everything, disrupting mid control takes before they even get started.
It didn't feel like Game of Legion could really get their foot in the door in so many of these moments,
and part of that is just the player caliber that now they offer up, but I think it is that extra fearlessness that they have,
knowing that they are these happy favourites coming into today.
I love the way you phrase that, Nabi. It's basically like Nabi is saying to me,
hey, you think you're ready for a Best of Five Grand Final? How about today, Jacob?
How about today? Well, not for the first map, to be completely honest, right?
Some of the playmakers we spoke about in PR and in RIS were never really activated,
were never able to find the impact that you'd like them to find.
And then again, you know, it's always this side of two points, like,
do we praise Nabi for playing well, or do we say a game where you didn't show up?
as natural as it is, you know, there's a bit of both in this case, but if anything, I think Navig just played a clinical game of Counter-Strike
You know, you had some of the different makers in BIT playing exceptional
Well, you had wonderful continuing his MVP like performance at IM Atlanta
And when those two are showing up and then finding as much impact as they are
It's very hard for anyone from game of League to do much about it
I think the real shame though is that Rez played an incredible map
It felt like he was doing everything he could to try and drag his team back into situations whether it was late-round kills or
continuously aggressing actually just trying to take over a sector of the map
that Navi couldn't get their hands on but because of yet he kept on going for
those fights it also ended up becoming sometimes a problem as well where it
almost like he had to do too much to try and get them around. So we go back to the
beginning of this match Jacob because you mentioned this moment where it felt a
little bit back and forth maybe there was gonna be a game on our hands what
did you learn from these couple rounds? Well the beginning was messy and then you
see right here Navi losing the pistol coming into the second round you think
Okay, now GamerLegion converted and we may have a game risk as you said he did his absolute best to get the job done here
But it's it's just not great looking right here for Navi
They completely dismantled GamerLegion and winced his force by against him surviving ballplayers picking up a couple of AK-47s
GamerLegion answered back in towards that and once again
You know wrestling the boys to come in towards the bomb side around that is a must win
You're sort of like getting a second chance in this game of converting and really doing the dirty stuff to Navi
and then once more you're not able to close out the round.
Mikasa in a 1v2 scenario picked up an M4A1S
and he's so willing to fight, so willing to go for it.
Hype picks unfortunately this time around,
not coming around clutch.
At this point it was very messy, it was back and forth
and I thought to myself,
Yuri, that's a good thing for GamerLegion.
The more this becomes a fist fight,
the more unregulated this game becomes,
the better it will be for GamerLegion.
But where you don't convert and you don't capitalise,
it's not good enough.
Yeah, I mean, not be stabilised very quickly after that.
So it's it was hardly any real concern for them, but still early call early timeouts used just to make sure everyone was on
The same page for the lobby side. I
Just wanted to look at the stats mainly because I'm not massively a rating guy
But it's very rarely you'll see a 1.98 rating for a player that loses the map
Everybody else was less than half of that rating across the whole squad
So yeah, I mean this did feel like res was alone unfortunately today and yes
It is a part it is far and parcel now be playing well game religion playing a little poorly
But because these guys are so inexperienced it because of the way that reds was actually taking those fights
I actually wouldn't be surprised if things got very quiet on game religion as well
They didn't play with the same energy at all
It's one of those things where where the impact rich should have had in this game was never really made up for it by his teammates
Right we even saw in these two rounds that he was good for kill
He was the one coming in getting an entry and nobody else would follow up nobody else would help this guy
You look at a PR, you look at a high-picks, you know, do something in order to make this man's efforts worthwhile.
I'm just looking at the openings for the rest of game Legion 1 to 13.
That really shows how many times it's just starting off the back fit.
And that's exactly what we're talking about, right?
When that Plan A doesn't go to Plan, as to say, it's not often we see that Plan B,
maybe even a Plan C really coming out against a team like Na'Vi, right?
And that's the thing. I think what we're seeing right now is Na'Vi coming in and playing good counters,
like, you know, some of the individuals showing up.
up and then we unfortunately get to see disparity between what is the number two team in the
world right now and what is the game are leading that before this tournament to be completely
honest most of what they've done so far this year were you know playing tier two tournaments
and it wasn't necessarily like they were dominating it's not like they had a massive
win streak coming into this tournament they were playing better and better than well in
fourth world as well by getting into the playoff showing signs of life but there's a difference
between the number two team in the world and being a team that is fighting to enter top
15.
winning parking was somehow a
confidence booster because they
were attending these tier two
lands that they were losing the
teams that should be well
beneath them in the rankings as
well. I think they understand
that they've had to build their
floor and they're still trying
to establish what their ceiling
even really looks like, but. It
felt like the floor caved in
today and on on Mirage. You can
only hope that because res had
such an inspired performance
that this talk outside better be
damn good from both the res and
snacks as these veterans on the
squad because the rookies did
seem to climb up and that's a
And that's the thing when I look at snacks and the pretty much anything he gave to Stiko as well
He was very candid in the reality probably is we might just get smashed out three to zero
They respect the level of Navi, but I guess that's where the question remains is
What do you see as kind of any hope for game leech and moving forward?
I mean we had the group stage games as the reference point for us
And then we also had them playing in Fort Worth where it was more like what we saw here in Mirage
Where they got blown up by the server
But the way gamer league have played up until this point in the group stage did the game against Navi as well
They were competitive on two out of the three, sorry three out of the three maps
They played in the tournament as well
I'm yet to see a gamer legion not showing up to a map whatsoever before this happened, right?
So so that's my one concern
Does this mean they're now lose belief that it's even possible to fight that way back or do we get to see the game?
Or you can we realistically have seen throughout the entire tournament where every single map of Carlos right there played have been
Competitive yeah, I mean players love to say the phrase how we put it behind us
or we just moved on foot for the next map. But the reality is not everyone can do that. You have
the always have these ways out with your lurking players, you know, 1000 PR, whether it is Hypex
in some of these clutch moments, that's been the consistent narrative for game legion at this
tournament. So now that they're on the biggest stage, now that they're the most important game
of the tournament, whether or not they can actually follow through on putting the bad times behind
that's still, we have no inference on that. We have no idea of knowing simply because there is no data for them getting this far
and it's worth it. I mean, it's a huge question moving forward right before we do do that to preface
what's going to be navies might pick over new best just want to touch upon wonderful again because it's just been such a consistent force
Which is exactly what we wanted to see coming out of it
You touched upon it last year bit up and down
I mean fair enough it was kind of all over the shop for navi
But it's like something's clicked with wonderful and we've got to see a lot from him in Atlanta
Just the fact that we're having the conversation that he may very well be the third best AWP player in the world right now.
He's very much in form, as you said, where consistently every single game every single map is not often you see wonderful
Not having some sort of impact. Sometimes sure the scoreline may not reflect the amount of impact
He's having in a game or sometimes sure. Maybe he's just having an average scoreline
But what I've seen as of late, you know the last three events that we saw as well
It's MVP like performance is coming in from wonderful pretty much every single time he joins the server sort of like the consistency
he's never had in his professional career. So if this is a sign for what's to come for
wonderful and what's to come for Navi, then it's going to be a different beast to team.
The same way people can have this conversation about Zai Woon missing a bit of X-Factor or
Flare. You know, wonderful has had that in the past year, year and a half, but he's hitting
it way more than we've ever really seen coming out of the past couple of tournaments. So,
yeah, no, it's a really nice sign that he can continue to show up in these grand finals
because it's insane to think that he could have retained his position on the roster after that
turbulent period and after like the community sentiment I think we talked about earlier was
so against him for such a long time. And I just want to hone in on the point you know he's doing it
in a time where everyone seems to struggle with AWP. If you're not called Monacy, if you're not
called Cyru, everyone seems to struggle a little bit. Even Moloadar has had a period where he
not necessarily played bad but not up to the same level we saw last year. So for Wonderful to
come alive at this very moment, heading into Cologne as well. It is a game-changer finale.
Just a couple more minutes before we are diving into the set-up of this best of five.
Yumi, it is Navi's choice. Obinubis makes a lot of sense when you're looking at the
win record on the side of Game of Legion as well. What are you looking at coming into this?
I'm hyper-focused on Hypex. He has been the engine, he has been a driver, he's been a catalyst,
he has won clutches, and he is probably one of the most consistent pieces when it's
coached from CT2T side on this map for Game of Legion.
Well, if he's ever going to show up in this grand final, it's got to be now as for the rest of Game of Legion as well.
But it's going to be a tricky proving ground for them.
It's a new best, the choice of Navi coming up in just a few.
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in the first map of this best of five Grand Final. We now move to Anubis and
it's probably going to be more of the same, Jason. It's very possible. We saw
GameLegend. We know that they know the tough task that's against them on the
other side of the stage. I'm talking about this the whole way in. GameLegend
saying things like they wanted to get revenge from that group stage loss. They
felt like they could have won that final map and taken the series. That final map
was on Mirage, a 13-11 victory for Navi. Now it gets even worse and now you have
to go into that second map. This is a team changing the IGL snacks in here. Having a
little bit more say in the mid rounds they've mentioned the loose style of the
previous roster wasn't being successful. They relied too much on individuals but
you had no individuals show up on the first map except for Rez. You need more.
You need Taliesin. You need PR. You need Hypex. We were hitting a new level coming into these playoffs.
That all needs to show up on a new bus if they want to be able to come back into this Grand Final series.
Now we want to see glimpses, at least the glimpse of those young players that we've
got so excited about in this game, a legion squad, that over the past couple of weeks
have really stepped up their performances.
If they don't show up, if they do not show up here on the second map, no, they're going
to be 2-0 up in the B-0-5.
And in reverse sweeping your first B-0-5 final, it just ain't going to happen.
So let's see how this new best goes if game religion can actually get into this final.
And we're live into the pistol, it's going to be Navi starting on the CT side, dualies
for Ema.
On the T side, Snacks has the Util, they flash, and they're going to be aggressive, there's
an aggressive smoke for Navi to get a push in, see what's happening in middle, and they
hear and see nothing.
So going to back away, so Bits the aggressor for the moment while this smoke is up, but
before that fades, Cback's off as well.
So the slow opening on the T side for game religion means they don't get punished by
by any of these early peeks, but we know the CT side is going to be proactive, and we touched
on this.
Yanko brought it up right before the series began.
The ability for Navi to go for information plays and wrap around and destroy the tactics
of game-releasing before they even begin.
What do you do now?
You're caught in the middle.
They've seen you from behind.
You know someone's behind you.
You can't go back.
You can't even go forward.
Now they're coming at them, Kelsen, stepping up two headshots, coming in, Ima steps out into the open, bomb is loose.
Gamerley can have the advantage of the time being as they go towards the A site.
Mavi don't have anybody close by until Wonderful now arrives towards stairs.
He's climbing back up towards Heaven making no secret of his position as he tries to get forward with his teammate fast,
but not going to work out here for them and Gamerley will win the pistol round.
That's great work, you can't go back, you can't go forward, but you can just destroy everyone who comes in for the fight.
There you go with a couple of kills out of Towson, two and one on the pistol.
You mentioned snacks coming in as the new IGF of the squad.
Now this is being a good run from them and getting to see what these kids are doing with this young squad.
But they're going to have to start T-Side right again here. They started over on Mirage, didn't really get going.
Now they've got another T-Side start. So you are going to have to see snacks have a lot of importance on his shoulders
in terms of actually calling a great T-Side against this Navi side that looks so strong.
He's going to have to call a great T-side, but none of that's going to matter if his players don't show up as they did on map 1.
You know, it's hard to lay any kind of fault on the tactical side of things when you have your riflers with 1 and 2 kills after a half of play.
So, yeah, you need snacks to be calling a great game. They have a lot of confidence in him.
They've given interviews where they said, we have a lot of confidence in the way he controls the mid-round, the way he paints a picture for how we're going to finish things.
But now you just need the individuals to produce within that system that snacks his calling.
And bad news for Gamer Legion, they're walking right into a stack.
Yeah, Flash is going forward. That's going to be a main control taken over here by Gamer Legion.
But will they keep going? How far do they progress?
Here's the Flash. Yes, the Flash is here.
And so Navi is going to come to meet them on the peak. It's wonderful. And they're out with the first two picks.
Snacks going up to fight towards Heaven, likes to be gone.
Gamer Legion need high packs to be successful in his fights.
and he is, he tries to back away but once he can't, goes in for the fight on 9 HP, so wonderful's got him
but Ima's been hiding, biting his time and now detected by Rez
Ima's just trying to stay alive, keeps the advantage here for Navi as they all join up
Mikaze now joining the pack, snacks getting in the midst of the smoke but he loses his life
so it's all on Rez and he can't do anything about it
once again it is Navi answering back with a full spy in the second round
this is how it went down on Mirage as well
There's nothing worse than this sense of deja vu when you feel like it's going right back except the deja vu is a horrible sense
Just how the first map began and that had to have been a conversation guys who won the pistol
Let's just secure the second one
And they just get destroyed not be a step ahead full players at this a bomb site pop flash set up for the exact play
You drop the bomb an outlast game religion trying to recover the scenario
I can't see if he can get a force back here.
He's going for a snack.
He's going to be spotted.
Bit going across the bottom.
A fantastic map, Bit had over on Mirage as well.
Just felt like every ball he shot out of that rifle was going to a hat.
So confident.
Now even challenging to get snacks.
Really trying to force this opening and he's got it.
So you can see why he wanted to stay committed to that.
He's got Mikaze helping to keep some space in protect him.
He's got that smoke up.
Yeah, a lovely shot from Kit.
Hard for Gamer Legion to do anything about that.
You just have to sit back patiently and wait for the smoke to fade.
In the open, wonderful, done great damage, Nate comes out.
I think Gamer Legion is not going to want anything to do with the B-Bomb site now.
If you look back on the first map, Snacks, Talcid and Hypex were a combined 0 for 13 in opening engagements.
That's the biggest issue, that's the biggest turnaround we need to see out of Gamer Legion is
Find some of those opening kills. These engagers need to go a little bit better. Well done from PR.
Give yourself a chance in opening a 5-on-4 to play with.
All four members of Gamer Legion are going to march right up mid, up the gut of this defense.
On the back, can they get another one? PR, quick reactions, and Alexa beat that as well.
So some life yet here for Gamer Legion.
How nervous is Mikasa right now?
And we'll find out.
Yep, well, the ropes don't matter when you get blasted against the wall like that with
Reza's deed.
And that's the site.
Paul planted, Gamelitch in respawn, and it's, again, similar to Milan's where we have that
back and forth that just never really got going for Gamelitch.
And obviously, there needs to be a different story here, but staying in it to kick off
the first few rounds is just more of a trident begins again.
Yeah, it's good to see them, you know, we mentioned that sense of deja vu after losing
the second round.
It's good to see them respawn again, right?
Like you're not just kind of fade away and be flattened by the fact that they can't carry a pistol round forward
Good to see PR get a good round here as well. I mean we talk about how important it is for him to show up
You really didn't get going at all over a mirage at any point
But it's hopefully it's one of those rounds that can ignite him on this T side
Couple nice Digo shots like that can settle you down a little bit calm down the nerves and just make you feel a little bit more
comfortable moving forward into the rifles
But they lost this upcoming round as well back on Mirage
and then Navi rattled off 11 in a row. Can't have that happen again. We're
gonna time off from gamer legion and I think that's appropriate. I think it's
actually a well-called timeout to have the discussion. Don't come out of this on
the losing end like you did on the first map and don't let Navi gain any
momentum. So a conversation how they want to play this, what they want to do is
make it sure everyone's on the same page so that they can start digging into the
game plan, digging into the playbook and rattling off a few rounds on this T-side
over Navi, get a bit of a buffer in the early stages of the half because you know
Navi's gonna battle back. Four rifles for Gamer Legion and a Mk10 on snacks.
For Navi, two saved rifles from the previous and they're buying up around it.
A staunch defense going to be provided here in round four.
You can see Blaine frustrated after losing that last round.
Apparently, watch turning around the classic Blaine emotions.
I mean, this brought up earlier today on the desk,
the fact that Blaine called a timeout so early into the game yesterday ahead of the first come round.
So, let's see if he lets him play this one out, but imagine he's not going to be too shy about using them early again.
They've got a bit down to 64 HP, initial damage through, and we've got stacks moving up towards top middle clearing out the window.
Four players with head armors, so that Mac Ten's going to have trouble finding a clean fighter, a clean headshot.
A very slow paced round yet again aggression information being gathered by this push from Navi Towson the only member watching this
Towson trying to hold on but Mikaze
They want to just push forward and take that bite and win it so now Navi a player up snacks
You have to try to respond but Alexa be his cognizant of the fact that mid is open
So detecting how far snacks is gone and immediately the decision for snacks is to change up the avenue of attack
He's gonna go in towards the ace on fire camera
But there's two players still defending here one of which is in my taking that initial contact
But they split it really well, and then the follow-up kills even better on him on so this round just falls apart for nobby
Is they can't hold on unless this happens unless this retake over to his main?
Around the corner and now I gotta say there's nothing you can really do wonderful
Oh HP Alexi's gonna have to give this up as well
We're definitely seeing some positive signs here for PR that we just didn't see over Mirage
They were watching him on the CT side pistol on mirages wanted with all those usp shots
I mean, this is a very different look from PR so far settling into the second map
Well back to back rounds and a gamer legion is able to find their avenue into the A bomb site through middle
Yeah, excuse me just into into a round win through middle
It equals from PR in the previous one now snacks applying that pressure. So that'll be a conversation among the Navi camp
How exactly they want to handle it? It's got to be annoying and maybe that's the sense of frustration
You're seeing at a plate is losing middle in such a fashion
and the defense not able to react appropriately.
3-1 scoreline, Gamer Legion, they don't drop the ball, this is what we wanted out of them.
Now that Dejabu has changed, and it's not the force to take a timeout to top things over.
Two arc-3 rounds, they don't like coming out of middle.
And Gamer Legion have the momentum, the advantage is two rounds straight.
They're safe weapons, Alexi's able to pick up an M4 on his way out.
So Navi talking through their options and yeah, Blade looks real frustrated about maybe the communication, maybe the way they're reacting.
That was an extremely animated timeout from Blade.
Throwing everything at the squad then, that 30 second timeout.
Yeah, that's a conversation meant to get everyone to wake up.
Maybe feeling complacent after the first map, after how easily they dominated on Mirage and played his sense in something in the early going that he doesn't like.
A couple of rifles for Navi, but very likely to see a 4-1 start here from Gameligin.
Gameligin got to be careful about some mid-round plays, some aggressive plays. They have to know like two rifles were saved.
So you're looking to maybe see if those m4s can open up an opportunity early if you're Navi
So game alligions to be cautious about any flash peeks coming in wonderful is going to be alone at the 8 bombsite
Other than that four players stacked up at B and now starting to push
Hype X is responsible to gather this information when they turn the corner
But he's also got to be careful the bomb is dropped all the way back to its T spawn doesn't look like anyone from game alligions really aware of that
Good start from Wanderfall, but it's only a USP here from Mikaze if he can't have a slightly better pistol.
That would actually be a lot more potent, but as soon as they figure out what's up, you see GameBlach is just accelerating once again into the A side,
but you've got a LICB trying to step up this time.
The rifle's still there, Navi's still a threat, and the LICB not too far off taking Taliesin there as well.
He's going back for it, LICB's got another kill, and all of a sudden it's PR and Hypex having to recover this as Bit comes over to back him up.
This is a scary combo now bits arrived with the rightful from a glance towards him half his health gone
The high packs in P on needing to stand tall you can't let this slip you cannot let this go
Game religion this would be a devastating round loss in a like safety is dragging off the over the line in this round
That's around play can be happy about yes someone turkey's speech to heart
That is a round-and-a-half from Alexei, sliding over to close the gap.
Two rifles brought in, and they come out the victor.
Gamer legion just a stumble on their way into the A-bomb site.
Good initial hold from Wonderful to get this kill,
but Alexei coming over as support just finds all the perfect diamonds.
A throw away to lose a round when you're just trying to build up some steam.
Round six and Gamer Legion have to descend into a couple of pistols.
Tech nine on Telcindigal on res.
So much of the game plan of Gamer Legion has started in the middle of the map.
We haven't seen any love towards canals, e-box and B main.
That bomb site hasn't had a lot of attention on it.
Snacks likes to call some tricky styles. Establish a trend, get the defense comfortable and how
you're playing, how you're attacking, and switch things up when they least expect it.
Yeah, wonderful looking down, and won't be raised the first victim of the round here.
Game of the Legion, even if they wanted to respond through B main, they'd now been blocked by smoke,
so it feels quite suffocating at this point with the way Navi have now set this round up with the
advantage in the utility, Saks goes up on top of his teammates' heads, searching for
some equalizer that might be available, but another smoke to replenish it being made in
the 35-second mark.
Yeah, and he's just pulled everyone over here.
Oh, another one.
Well, it's because of the smoke.
He pulls everyone over to the B bomb site, and PR feels like he needs to start moving.
Now he needs to start getting in position to attack, but they're still out.
It's just a long time.
You feel really uncomfortable if you're just blocked out in this fashion by smoke after
smoke.
I don't think Gamer League, and this option's done.
Like, you can't even move it.
a new one that just got replenished so they've got to back off there's no way
saving these weapons and this round just stalls out completely what a gift over
to Navi all five players survived money is gonna blow up on the CT side yeah
this is where things could start to get going right where we talked about the
Raj where it was competitive throughout the first couple of rounds right back
and forth and Navi took control of the half and just led it all the way yeah
it's this is that tense moment where the same thing could just start to occur and
I both teams know it the way they've rattled off timeouts three timeouts in
the last three rounds. Two of them from Gamer Legion. That kind of round where you just
don't even get execute anything just feels terrible. So coach wants to chat. How do we
want to break in now? Do we go back to the middle of the map if you're Gamer Legion?
That's worked for them a couple of times. Now you also have to consider the AWP of Wonderful
which has already had good impact to a round win for Navi.
Money will be gone for Gamer Legion after this investment.
So a very, very important round seven coming up.
Two rifles, three pistols for Gamer Legion.
Navi fully kitted out.
Him up, back in behind the double doors, just as he does that.
This is a change.
Simulation of getting players into position for a B split.
This is a change of pace now.
Yeah, a lot faster, earlier timings, but regardless, wonderful still ready, and that smoke break
is going to catch Ryze.
That cost him his life.
Telsen and Pia, that's more like it.
Those are the kind of shots you need to try and break in.
But getting past wonderful is going to prove very difficult.
Grenade goes flying over the top, catches Hypex, it was way to the site, then the Molotov
combination. So the utility from Navi is so strong to disrupt this and slow this and by extra seconds for this retake to get closer and closer.
An extra smoke by Gamelidge and used on the Molotov as well. They won't have to block any choke points. This retake is going to take its time because Bitt's wrapping all the way around. So wonderful.
His goal is just to live. Same with Ima.
Yeah, they've still got utility to work through and keep eyes on them. Keep the pressure pinned towards the CT area so that that flank can be very effective through P main.
It's now arriving now. They have to speed up though.
No longer a secret. Snaps being made. Needing the fights.
Navi, one of the first ones that tells to reveal the noise.
He's out of bullets and Navi come back in on the retake.
Climb down. Time is the question. Have they got enough of it?
Holding all the way. Navi just about securing the diffuse.
That is an incredible retake. What a time to run out of ammunition.
Never a chance. Never a dull moment to just reload the weapon.
Reload the tech 9.
He could have had the kill on wonderful.
And just close that out.
The narrow is the slimmest of margins.
Six bullets.
How heartbreaking for Towson.
The first Nadi player even gets off the diffuse.
He had a kit.
I don't think he realized he picked one up on the path in.
So that equally could have just caused a loss.
Well, unfortunately, for Gamelige, the reward for being so close in the last round is another
round with tech nines, right?
So this is a good chance to recover again for Navi to push them up to a 5-3 lead.
Some of the best looking rounds, though, with the tech nines and the T-Jones, they've been
able to make it work.
Yeah, just faster timings.
Faster pace play.
We've got wonderful looking to try and shut them down in the middle, but he is just going
back.
He goes into it, and okay.
This is starting things off for the team, go headshot.
Emma has to tuck out, so there's mid.
You've got to work with here, if you're GamerLegion.
Yeah, but I will, GamerLegion's gonna go all the way
towards Temple, towards the B-bomb site.
Mikaze's here, ready to go.
Nade is out to slow this down.
I don't think GamerLegion liked this route.
They slow it themselves.
Team-Aid's been found, and you just have this core
of three players in the middle of the map
who are stuck with no good options.
Yeah, you have to fight your way out of this,
and it doesn't look like he whatsoever.
Hypex, the only player that can really do anything
about this. He's picked up the
off. Rez has got a eagle head
shot out towards Alexi B. You've
still got time to try and piece
this one together. But where do
you go? How in the world do you
find a way towards the bomb site
without losing a member? Oh, I
don't know if he in the spot of
that looked like Hypex got a
glimpse. 25 seconds though. That's
all you've got. You got to drop.
You got to go quick. Into the
water, into the canal, but it's
to try and deal with Thrauz, that's the bomb gone.
Hypex has to clutch this up, Mikaze's moved off,
changes up his position, he's even got utility
to boot as well.
Hypex!
Oh, what?
Big shot!
Fast kill!
Now the hook is on!
Oh!
Oh!
Defined God again in Hypex!
How many last second clutches can this guy pull off?
Aggressive decision, whenever there was another option.
Who cares about planting a bomb,
keep it up, pushing forward to find that last kill.
That's the attitude of Hypex out of Gamer Legion.
We've been waiting for these young players.
Can that be the moment that ignites them
now in these grand finals?
That is so ridiculous again for Hypex.
That shot coming back in out through dark
is just unthinkable that he's gonna hit this
through the fire of six to a kill
and then the hunt for him off is successful.
That's the kind of moment that can fire you up and that's the kind of player Game Illegion
have been missing.
So many versions of this wall set they struggled to find an open with attitude and look at
the frustration it throws into the Na'vi camp.
Yeah, they're just looking up like how the hell did we all lose that?
How the hell did that happen?
Okay, so maybe you've changed the attitude on the Na'vi side as well.
You certainly taken a lot of that money away that was built up by the defense.
Now you gotta take advantage of it. Roll with this emotion.
Lifeback's gonna get in front of that smoke, full confidence.
Hima, ultimates out through the window, dropping down into the water, and they turn.
Finally they turn, because it looked like Hima was about to get away with another one there.
The Rites of POR, that's more like it for GamerLuge, and the right-fellows are online,
and they've taken away the steam here of Navi, and the movement that's towards the B-side,
wonderful scouts trying to pick up the pace again for Navi.
He's been so good, and this is the cut-around where you might just get the offer of Navi doing great!
Wonderful goes back for it again, but this time put in the ground by Reiss,
but he's done enough to make it possible.
Alexi's got a long way to traverse before he can get into this clutch.
Looks like he wants to drop down into canals.
He's got a kid in hand, smoke Molotov as well to utilize if you're Alexi.
And now with AK-47.
Oh, look at that Frustration all day.
Just sitting back, having to watch his in game leader try and clutch up.
He's got 45 seconds as he makes his way over here, Alexi.
That ball plant's starting to come through.
He's in the right spot.
But how do you do anything about it?
He's got the health.
Once one rest just walks in, that's a risk, but it certainly pays off.
Hits the headshot of the Lexi P, and you'll see Gamerleague to take the lead of the game.
It's a risk, but I like it.
I mean, Rezzi's just saying, I'm at least going to find out where he is.
If he's not here, it's clear, and I have a much safer position to play from.
If I do find him, just take him down.
5-4, and Gamerleague with this win, grab control.
Here's the double kill from PR.
This aggression has been a nuisance all throughout the half
that Navi's bringing into play, but this time PR shuts it all down.
And yeah, after that kind of a loss and then an aggressive call that just gets deleted
Frustration mounting for the Navi side and hype X feeling comfortable smoke is up give them some time to peek into the bomb site
Get a time for this off to do some work for you
And snacks is tapping away on that boosted player for Lexi B because they're gonna be burned off the platform
Making some damage through the sparks
It comes to rise.
Oh, you can look up towards the platform.
It's got one of the D250s.
It has to be bit, and it's not going to happen.
So, Towson through the triple.
There's 64 lead for Gamer Legion.
It had that hero M4 in the previous round.
That didn't have a whole lot to say.
So, this time he's got to stick down to the MP9
as money is at a really rough place for Navi.
Two round lead for Gamer Legion.
Finally, in this second map, we've seen them come alive.
Talcid 8 and 7, Res 9 and 7,
high-packs with that clutch, he's 7 and 4, PR 8 kills.
Yeah, we're getting all the pieces
that made this game of legion run possible, right?
The reason they're in the final
was because of these clutches of high-packs,
because of the rifling core of the game of legion squad.
And finally, getting to see it on map two.
Wonderful waits.
Because he's got the scope up at B main,
and there are plenty of players
just around that corner from game of legion.
This is meant to be a little bit of a fake, a little utility towards the A-bomb, so they changed the timing of this hit.
It's pulled a wonderful back just a little bit, but still looking for this B main play. They haven't called the move just yet.
Snacks coming back now through canals. Hypeback's gonna maintain that presence towards A main.
He's in.
MacAzee, dropping him behind the obelisk.
I'm sure some utility tries to slow things down.
Wandaful's got eyes on Dive, but nothing for Nave to head to the back of the site.
MacAzee gone. Wandaful no longer has the support.
He's burning, and Wandaful can't do anything about the rest of the players going into the site.
What about Hypex? He's going to cut off this flank.
Yep, he is. No rotations allowed.
Bit steps out to his death, and now Ima can't go forward.
Naxx has called them off the B bomb site. They didn't like how long that took,
so now they feel like there could be an extra defender there.
They might be a little bit too cutesy. Alexi's waiting for this relocation.
Let's see if this decision comes back to bite them.
Rez just spotted Alexi.
Rez is gonna move up. PR just in behind him.
Alexi takes a passive angle, but he's gonna be smoked away,
and he wins the fight against Rez. That's an all-important kill.
But now pressure's on. PR goes in alone,
and got it alone means easy. Kills for Ima.
And the bomb goes down, leaving Towson on the hunt forward.
He also falls, and once again,
to the immediate, a clutch required for high-packs.
Into the open, which Pied Heaven, 10 seconds.
This guy doesn't care about time, though.
Taps that bomb, no peek now.
You can't like this.
Horgage your Navi, and wonderful peeks out from Heaven.
Confirms the kill, and the round went for Navi.
Yeah, I think Gamer Legion just gone way too many pieces
throughout that round, and eventually unravels
and gets away with them.
two players executed to the bomb site before the other two players are even
close by to help. They get shut down the bombs alone and isolated and that by
the, that the Navi's pathway back to tie this up in half. Third and final time
out here's by Gamerleague and this half has just been a brawl between these two
teams. Neither of them wanted to relinquish any kind of control, but if the
second half gets sketchy Gamerleague is not going to be able to put a stop to
anything. We'll have to do it on the fly now.
Rounds 12.
At least put the mic down.
I mean look, that pressure, that kind of frustration in these grand finals, those are the things that
GamerLegendSnacks was talking about, these young guys need to get used to. Those are the situations.
Can you play on the biggest stage with frustration, with anger?
Dima, dropping down to the water, and that's a big kill to get away with.
Peel a call at the rugs, and Immersion's going to walk away. They like roll breeze for the opening kill.
Yeah, Navi's opening in this half-adventure is so harassing, haven't they?
Towson breaks the smoke, Alexi backs away.
Snaps in resin middle, Towson and Hypex with his ADVP outside the B-Bomb site.
And Navi with all the play towards the middle of the map from GamerLegion, wonderful now
positioned here with the AWP, perfectly timed.
And Navi tightened this up right towards the end of the half.
A couple of extra rounds to work with to make sure this is a tight game going into the break.
Triple eight is going to make great use of that half-time break as well.
Because an Alexi B confirmed it, six to six in tight game.
Game elation showing up here in the grand final. A half littered with highlights.
We wanted Gamer Legion, we got Gamer Legion on a new bus.
They showed up this time winning out the early battle to take some control of this map.
These are tied at 6-6, but you've got Towson, you've got Ray Steele, Hypex and PR.
All the engine of Gamerlinks have got them to this point.
They're having an impact on this map and they're fighting back and contesting Navi.
Yeah, I mean, early again, we see a timeout come out from Blade, wasn't happy with what he was seeing.
They're able to go on to win a couple more rounds after that.
Then we see that clutch and bite break.
Frustration from Navi is going to seep through, but they pull themselves together.
They got the final two rounds on the half, and we now see at 6-6 as we transition to Navi's T-side.
Up this around his left, Duly's on high-packs, a little bit of utility for the CT side.
Mikaze with the Molotov, Iman Alexi with smokes and a flash.
There is a stack of defense in middle, but where does this utility get placed?
Yeah, Mikaze, up first.
High-packs are ready. Jules Broutes.
Look at them rolling through the rush.
Mikaze just gonna walk in, gets a free kill.
High-packs on.
the trade, but there's three frags coming so quickly from Navi, and it's just
Towson and PR left, and they're split up completely, so it has to be one
individual heroic play, and Towson, oh well, he's taking the first couple of steps
in that direction, being wonderful, both dead, and Towson's blinded trying to get away,
and he's made it into the cave, so all of a sudden, a 2v2, and this round is
completely doable, as Towson steps up again.
All the double swing though, Towson. Already PR saved his life and steps into the next fight.
Alexi brought down pistol for Gamer Legion and it's all Towson.
That is safe from Towson. The fact he's managed to do that, the first couple of kills are great, but the fact he gets away,
like the fact he gets back to the cave and doubles up with PR is great composure.
You could see how confident he was. He stands out in the open for a long time.
He felt he had the hot hand after those two kills after this one.
this one I was really really worried he was gonna get caught by the flash caught
me open but able to stay alive just long enough for PR to arrive and help him
out. Good 2v2 victory for Gamer Legion. The pistols have gone their way on this map
but they have to win the second round they haven't been able to do that when
they've won the pistol yet. Yeah no bomb plant for Navi though so it's not
forced by us there's a couple of upgrade eagles on the dead already. I mean bit
What a different story it is for him from Mirage to Anubis.
There's a master class of Mirage.
And just living in frustration of map two.
Two and nine.
That'll happen on the CT side, Anubis.
Tough map for the pros to be able to get comfortable on,
especially as palm side anchors.
I think it's the nightmare map for them.
Makazawa gonna step in with the Diggle and just try and find that opening kill,
but Snats wants nothing to do with the fight.
I
Come in at the A site to defending players resin PR PR up first
And for a range can be an easy kill. It's a wonderful
The other two commits swiftly
Make sure it's done
So gay religion with an egg around
Na'Vi with a buy coming up here. It's going to be AK-47s coming up. Can't afford the AWP yet.
I'm loving this battle back. I love seeing Gamer Legion actually put a test towards Na'Vi.
They're going to be playing at the first stage of the IEM Cologne Major coming up.
So, I mean, having this kind of a performance in the Grand Finals again, getting accustomed to the kind of pressure,
the kind of environment you have to play in when you get into the playoffs of these events.
It's a much, much smaller skill than we'll see in Cologne, but...
But any experience you get in the environment is valuable and good to see them respond well
How has he got away with the kill?
Rush should have died away earlier, but Alexi BF is getting the trade and then a team think as well from him up
Unless he just spins around confused as the words come from I think if that was bit who took the team damage
He might have just turned around and shot his teammate as well. Yeah, he might just be on the edge
I mean, if you're game-related, honestly, you can't see the opponents right now, but
they just keep this up.
This could spiral Vinavi into a situation where they just can't mentally get out of
it.
Pit spot for Talcent over towards CBOX.
He spots a spot that brings Hypex and Stax over, but brings them over to their death.
That helps him, big.
That's a better wrap for him.
Three kills.
He comes out with the rifle, carves up the defenses, plant comes in, and Pit's won the
round on his own.
way too easy at a four on three to give up two kills like that. Towson repositions
takes away the intel that he'd had on how Bits playing it, never expected Bits to
be that aggressive. Oh, it just falls apart. That stops so much momentum now.
Navi keeping things close, not letting Gamerilligen extend the lead. Seven to eight.
for the game religion defense they'll be buying right back up into this to challenge again
in round 16.
Navi replenishes with AK-47s as well so they get a little bit stronger moving forward also
and we're going to start getting that territory every round for game religion.
starting to get low so they got to be careful about that reset just two kills
walking through smoke trading out the third one beautiful round from bit to
get Navi back in and yeah deep sigh of relief
this will be interesting to watch just because Navi CT side was so disruptive
We have their smokes out towards the stairs with the constant peeks from a main
It was getting a couple kills in that fashion a few pushes out b main to get information
It looks like game religion line up to do something very very similar here wonderful
Just backs away perfect timing for this and he must spots it out luckily stays alive and both sides happy to just call the stalemate
Game religion just backing away, but they might go back for a second. If you're the flash
Don't they go?
Alright, in my... Oh, it's tough. It's awkward, but wonderful.
I'm saying to make sure the trades come in. Now, he's ready for a follow-up as well.
And that grenade is going to stop high-packing me considering that maneuver.
I'm causing him to make his way through middle, all the time he's out PR, so he can't help him in at all.
So, I'm gonna let all the clock and all the important flight picked up here for us.
Oh, this is getting a little bit scrappy across the map. A lot of isolated 1v1s.
Alexi now gonna lead the way into the bomb site. What a killer is one behind the site.
Good trade. Can't turn for the second fast enough.
Leaves Bits all on his lonesome 1v2.
25 seconds to piece it together.
Reds goes passive as PR treks across the map.
Yeah, for BIT, such a quiet start to this map,
but that 3k in the previous round,
is that going to be enough to inspire him to win up this 1v2?
10 seconds, limited time.
It has to go for the plant and they start spamming him,
he realizes there's no one safe to play so on time he's lost this I don't even
know he's probably gonna go down after the joke and there's the headshot now
you're not gonna want to okay res you want to find that killer the epic
scotter-dustle takes the money away even in a victory it's gonna be a very
expensive win for gamer legion I have to stay alive but if he dies I mean he's
disaster for him individually but able to stand tall
third and final timeout called by Navi
They gotta have a good sense of where the money's at for both sides. It's busted on theirs, not a whole lot to play with.
Macted and Galil coming out, light on utility.
But equally they know in that round, Bitt taking all those extra weapons away right at the tail end, the two kills in a loss.
Has done the exact same thing to the defense.
So no better time, Blade says, for this third time out.
And he's got orders for Alexi.
He's got details for him.
for him. Exactly how he wants the round to play out. Round 17, a Gamer Legion victory means
they're on the path to a map win in tying up this grand final series. For Nauvys,
it's their chance to close the gap, tie things up and continue fighting to take a
Canubis away from Camerilegion.
Got Rez, who's in the role.
I think he was playing in the first half.
He's probably a nuisance around middle, starting towards the hole.
Just having to peek down, but not taking any initial contacts.
now making sure no one's getting aggressive or being disruptive here and
game religion are giving Navi the space to play with yeah not nearly as
disruptive which means if you sit back against a tactical team can get tough
PR's been really really good so far gets the spot drops away stalls out the
main play with utility so game religion can refocus their players towards middle
It feels like a Lexi spotted one, Makaze looking up towards the hole.
Makaze has made it past, but this is the first fight.
It's going to be Rez and Lexi B, perhaps Emma.
The rifle out along the wider angle for him, so Rez drops.
Lexi B is going to be very happy about this upgrade, but as soon as he goes around the corner, the upgrade is short lived.
As Hypes gets that train, but once the response from Navi, now that there's so much attention in middle,
They feel bit it's time to slide into the eight bombsite
But that kills gonna pull them back because it's because they start to slide into a gap and this is the danger of Navi
This is the danger of just playing standard
Counter strike playbook counter strike against them as they will pick you apart because they're just better at the playbook
Yeah, they're just seesaw you went to your death towards the end of this round it's such a good understanding like bit recognizes
He has the opening with all the presents in middle
But when the next kill comes out he's like okay, well, I actually don't need to challenge this
I don't need to take this risk because now it's someone else's turn. The system for Nabi just works perfectly in that round
Move up on PR trying to hit some exits here PR
This is all wonderful
Classey holding on PRs into the kill and AK-47 now picked up
Bits on the long flank. Yeah, I mean he'd love to take that away
The bomb is going to blow up, he's going to start moving a little bit further away, so
it should be there for the waiting arms of Bit and CT.
Spawnily's taking his time.
And it gets it at the end.
Right at the tail end, takes everything away.
That's massive because there's absolutely nothing worth talking about right now for
Game Religion.
There was no double eco territory right now.
Yeah, and they would love to force by around an AK-47.
That obviously ain't happening whatsoever.
Congratulations.
Congratulations!
Round 18, and that victory for Navi takes the money out of the hands, but they force up Gamer Legion.
Deagle's in 5-7s.
Now, let's see if they can pull this off. We've seen it before.
Yeah, they were really deadly with them in the first half, weren't they?
The Deagle rounds were kind of what got them going and kept them in the half until they woke up with the rifles.
First bit of near-damage landing towards B.
Sets him back.
Obviously, Game Religion really hoping that Navi come in towards this A site.
That's why they've got the stack for players.
They look like a cautious Navi or PN though everyone far back in the opening.
They know the economic situation.
Taking that AK-47 away likely up four spies, the strongest upgraded pistol,
so making sure they have distance to handle whatever is thrown at them.
So far so good they picked the right side, Towson burns inside the Molotov, information
passed over to Ema on the other side of the wall.
Towson's stepping out with a 5-7, it's going to be Mikaze, strut away there for his Towson
gone.
Evansi siding with Navi for the time being, but 35 seconds to try and find your finish
move and they found it towards being no problem. So, Navi realized if M.K.T. they're not walking
into a stack there's no tricks laid for them here and they've got a tight game. So, great to see Navi
picking up the pace to kick off the second half here. Looking a little bit touch and go. You
started to worry perhaps for Navi that maybe some two were sending in. I mean, I think it's, I think
we have to just kind of assume it is with the way that we saw Blade second time out and how
emphatic and frustrated he was. The image of Bit through a lot of this. Yeah, there's been some
stresses for Navi in this and I think you got to you got to think about to the kind of the private pressure they place on themselves
Coming into these grand finals after finally being vitality
You know the comments that we have from them just a couple of events a row being like
There's like if you don't beat vitality on the vent the trophy doesn't mean anything
So they've accomplished that this is a very meaningful trophy for Navi for their own mental game for the own obstacles
They've had to overcome
And that's where you see it some of the frustration bubbling to the surface
but it seems like they've got things settled and calmed down now. Two in a row, three the last four in the favor of Navi.
And now going up against the defense that doesn't have the money to fight back.
No upgrades this time, couple of five-sevens, a Diggle added and late by Snacks, no armor behind it.
I'm not walking into any of these traps whatsoever, but they're going to go forward and soften up the rise to down to 59.
These rounds kind of feel like they get calm before the storm. Like everyone, everyone's playing very slow and no one's changing anything up.
There's a snack here in the middle, so nice trade.
But when the guns come out in the next round for Gamer Legion,
that's where I'm interested to see which of these teams is going to bring the fight,
which of these teams is going to call something different, break out of the playbook.
Oh, okay.
And losing one player.
And they'll not be back into the lead.
A 10-9 lead with a bi-tombing in here for Gamer Legion.
Interest in seeing if Hypex does go for the AWP.
Big glass cannon. I was thinking the same thing if he won.
We haven't seen it in the second half in his hands just yet.
The money hasn't been there with kind of the nature of this game.
It's really sad to see that for Gabriel Ligin considering how impactful he's being for throughout this tournament and even in that first half.
Well considering how impactful wonderful it was on the CCC side of Anubis as well, he was a beast.
Wonderful at the moment sitting at 21 kills on the map leading the way for everyone.
Yeah, keeping up his MVP level performance here.
Because they're making their way down into the water.
It's about to be a challenge against Snax and Towson if they were to commit beyond that smoke, but they won't.
And Raz will not nip in behind them, so they won't have the space to play with.
I think they want to hit this timing though.
Yuma and Alexi creeping closer to be manned.
They want to split this very, very fast.
Snacks is about to have a lot of love hit in this direction.
The man actually hit his opponent.
He hit Mikaze with a grenade.
So he gets the South Cube, knowing he's close.
Yuma comes in with a headshot.
Snacks is gone.
Advantage, Na'Vi.
As they now charge it, quicker with this round.
And look at this from Wonderful.
Waiting behind two, and got a mercy left for Wonderful.
No chance whatsoever.
Rips the heart of a game in Legion 11-9.
It's been a competitive map finally from Game of Legion, but it's starting to feel like Navi are ramping up for the close
Yeah, well when the games are close and the pressure is on to the best thing you can rely on and lean on is the system of
Counter-Strike you play as a team and Navi's system is just way way cleaner
The change of pace so many rounds from Navi in this half have been slow have been slow
progressions utility taking space going through all the details and this is a change of style that snacks clearly didn't expect
standing tall just defending outside of e-box never expected Alexi to crank
things up and de-main and now the defense crumbling every step. Navi take a
two-round lead up to 11.
They've let GamerLegion stay in this map. They've let GamerLegion keep it close and
now just showing the elevation that they have. A new level found. Yeah they can
really step it up just that next level of game religion unable to keep up with
it right now and they don't have the money to purchase the resources required
to keep up so coming into this round you're gonna be sitting with that
rifle the rest has everybody else is gonna go to a pistol which means you're
gonna be conceiving Matt Poison or like we heard to not be and there's the other
like mental effects of that too it's been against a force by an eco and a full
buy but in the last three rounds now we've only lost two players like these
These wins have just been so strong.
They found solutions, Navi, that have made these rounds very, very easy for them.
And once again, a change up.
This still, back to that slower style, spread out default from Navi.
A little bit more lean towards A to open things up, but you can see all those dots starting
to kind of start moving in canals towards the position of Snaks and Talcet at the B-Balm
site.
I think he's spotted too. You know snacks was close up. He saw a little bit of it on the pillar flushing to the open
He must got that. Yeah, good teamwork again from the all be using utility to punish now snacks
This is the kind of snacks play you like to see the nice come out the slash
It's next gets away with one chance for two but
Really needed that second if this round was going to happen for Game of Legion.
Yeah, that second one could have turned things on its head.
Valiant's attempt from Snacks. Sneaky inside the smoke. It's an old classic of his.
Surprised that he started looking for once he started slashing around once he blocks it.
Well, at this point, if you're Game of Legion, the priority has got to be Hypex saving this M4.
I know it's not a lot. I know it's nothing exciting to talk about and bring forward in the next round,
but it's really the only thing they have.
Yeah, it's maximizing their percentages, but...
Gamer Legion made every single remaining round in regulation just to get this one into overtime.
This has felt close, and we haven't talked about Navi blowing them out of the water because the scoreboard has been there,
but this is now five rounds in a row for Navi on the T side of Anubis.
Six of the last seven in their favor.
Since the guns have come out in this second half, again, they've just showed they have a different level that they can hit.
hit that Gamer Legion is no chance of reaching today.
12-9.
And three opportunities to head into the third map
of these grand finals with a two-map lead.
Third map will be Nuke.
And that is Warton of the R and Pursuit of.
Another trophy to late.
It's a new stranger to the IEM finals.
This is the eighth final, but only one one of them.
In Rio 2024, we're still looking to add another one from South America to North America.
Looking likely that Navi will pick up another IEM championship.
They're going to start moving their way through the smoke to take down Bryce first.
You can just see, I mean, it's been thrown completely off rhythm of this map.
Not sure the timings that Navi's gonna bring out the timings are changing each and every time utilities perfect
Again, it's bit up goes again and bits just following up kill after kill
So easy now for Navi to get into position to close out this map
This suits just gotten stronger as he got angry in this map
The more pissed off you saw him getting the more kills
There's just been racking up ever since then it was like the Hulk right now. You know hypex. We're here on the beach
Well, look at the position of wonderful. I mean, what can you do if you're game
a legion? How tense if you have to be just to try and get off the beach.
He's gonna be knocked over last. He's got a little bit of fight in them yet.
But for Navi, it'll be the second map of the grand final being gone that way.
It's a new best also picked up for Navi in 13-9. Much more competitive from game a legion,
but still not enough. Navi are in full control and they have their eyes on the prize.
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it feels like it to date with Destiny at this point, Janko, Navi on the road to that trophy.
Yeah, it feels like if Game of Legion was going to win, it had to be this map. I know Anubis is
where we said Navi was really favored going into this best of five, but I don't know who that was
on the server, didn't look like Navi. I mean, that was one messy game of Counter Shire. There was a
lot of mistakes from the side of Navi, miscommunication, right? Luckily for them, Game of Legion made
fair share of their own too. Yeah I echo that sentiment you know again a miss
start to the game and a game where you'd argue you know if you came into it
just like on Mirage the more messy the game is the higher the likelihood the
game of Legion would be able to do something so in that notion you know
that was a good thing for game on Legion I also do think they stayed
competitive you know I guess long enough for it to be exciting in this game but
then bit turned up on the T side and Navi started to turn up as well and then
they got it down in the back but very much agree with Janko you know this was
If not a performance per se, Nabi would be proud of us.
Yeah, Bit was pissed. I mean, at the start of the game, a couple of times he was sold by his teammates, sort of getting shot in his back,
or maybe not getting the help that he should have gotten from the setup, and the first half wasn't going great for him,
and I think he was just mad as hell going into the second half.
I think that's fair enough, right? Because you come over that first map, and it's so dominant for you, it's kind of weird to see them a little bit destroyed.
Yeah, he was like, I'm going to take matters into my own hands. I've had enough and really stepped up in the second half.
As you can see completely turned it around the T side hundred ADR three multi-kills, right?
And put his stamp on an Ubers. Yeah, two of the by rounds as well
You know one round he gets a triple kill the other one he gets a double entry as well
And that's in two by rounds coming in for game or legion and that was the big issue
In my leading god of two good stuff in the first half the god of two a good start in the second
You know winning the pistol in the second converting and you think to yourself, okay?
That's that's how you enter this game
That's how you remain competitive but then as it came down to the bar rounds bit stepped up wonderful continued ever great performance
And now be stabilized again as Yankee said a game where they didn't necessarily play well, but good enough to beat that position
It's where the game plan I think shines through in the sense of they seem to aware that game legions going to be very active
In the mid-round on the CT side right and a couple of rounds that they won the buy rounds
We're just based off of punishing the aggression that final one right like you just punishing some of the aggression
before it can even materialize.
We've kind of started at the end here, so let's go back to the beginning
because another tell-tale sign of that kind of chaos that we saw beginning
on Mirage obviously carried on a little bit more,
but what were you observing in the beginning of this?
Well the same thing as we saw on Mirage, where we gave you a couple of examples
of the messy start where Game of Legion, again, you know, win the pistol
and then they fail to convert the second round, which is a bit of an issue.
Again, you're active as Janko said, you know, CT side, you like to flash in a player,
you think to yourself, that's good right here, it's well played by Nabi to do it
and be so efficient with it.
For GamerLeading, they got caught off guard a little bit,
couldn't get the trades in here.
Hypix trying his absolute best.
Get caught off guard by wonderful,
and you think to yourself, not again here.
Don't win the pistol, not winning the second round,
converting, getting off to a good start.
I thought, okay, we're gonna see more of the same.
Then I guess what changed this time around was that now
you kind of fumbled it a little bit.
Then again, you gotta give it to Pierre.
Some nasty work with the Deagle right here.
Taking some space in middle, getting into CT spot as well.
Getting a second one, that's beautiful.
MacArthur getting caught off guard,
not sure where to look and all of a sudden you're a gamer legion and you're the one doing it to Navi.
The difference from this map to Mirage was that they, you know, capitalized in this moment.
They won the following round as well, went up three to one and got up to a good start,
which is exactly what we described for them. They needed to have if they wanted to remain competitive.
Yeah, and that's, there wasn't much there outside of those stars. I mean, six out of the nine rounds
came at the beginning of halves for gamer legion, right? And couldn't really do much outside of that.
The problem was in the second half, even the round that they win, well, Bit kills everyone, right, and just stays alive.
So their pie is not great. They are forced into making a play. Navi knows it, they punish it, and they have full control of the economy from that point on.
Just to go back to the point that J.G. was making all the moment that you were talking about, right, we see that Game of Legion have the opportunity to maybe go on a streak of their own.
So what happens in round five for Navi? To make this one a little bit more interesting.
Oh, captain, my captain, right, Alexi, he's been chilling. He had two kills on Mirage. That's great.
That's great, right? That's awesome for him. He's having a light day in the office, but come into round five
He has one of the two saved guns like Jacob was put on able to after that force by
Converted you know avoid the reset that was going on and you're thinking all right now
They can make the game out of this right they they managed to force Navi on an equal to getting some bank behind them
But things weren't as simple as it. Maybe it has seemed
Yeah, we can see it play out now.
Yeah, wonderful and Alexi had the save.
Because everyone else is on USP, so they have conceded this round pretty much.
You know, they just go for a timing, push outside of B.
Max is too far away from his teammates, and that he just loses a duel to the 1 and 4.
Now Makaze on the flank causes some commotion too.
You can see the bomb is all the way back in T spawn.
Like they're very disjointed, game-illigent.
They understand that they can take the space on A, but it's awkward.
They don't have A main control.
But it is still alive, they're expecting him to be there, right?
And now, Alexi is going to go to work, right?
This is a 3v3 where he's just able to win this duel against Thausson.
Now, even though they have a lot of time,
Game Religion just decides to go A,
but here, even with some of the utility being used,
they're going to see good team play from Navi.
Makasa drawing attention for himself,
allows Alexi B to find another kill,
and then in the 2v1, Alexi closes it out.
And this was absolutely massive.
This was around Game Religion, could not afford to lose.
No, you cannot lose that round, you know, under no circumstances.
For a brief moment it was a 4B3 and if you pause the screen, it's a LXB,
what an M4 and there's two USPs with no armour.
You're essentially playing a 1B4 and then, as you said, Janko and Mirage,
you didn't have to do much, but that was a massive moment for LXB to come alive
and return to the title of the game.
And this is why we say grand final is a different beast to anything else, right?
Even play of Counter-Strike and what's not, because these are the sort of rounds
that Game Religion was not losing up until today, right?
They were doing a much better job at playing together as a team, being patient, making sure all their ducks are in a row here,
just giving away one-on-one fights.
Half of your team is in T spawn, getting the ball, while you're trying to go towards A through camera,
just allowing for gaps that Navi can bounce on.
And this grand final also a different beast for one of these three players.
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I'm very surprised Jacob to see wonderful the name at the top of the list.
No, we may sound like a broken record, but that's just the way it is at the moment.
Wonderful is playing his best friend of Counter-Strike, consistency at its finest,
finding impact left, right and center.
And even in the moments where Navi sometimes, I wouldn't necessarily say strutting,
but in key moments in the game where maybe Bid is not on fire,
maybe Imel is not getting as much impact as he would like to,
wonderful seems to be the one constant, sorry, for Navi throughout this tournament.
The second option coming away, it is also going to be Bid.
Lots of impact, particularly as you were saying, coming into the second half of the Nugus.
Yeah, he was a demon on the first map, but even on the second one, right after a slow start,
managing to bounce back, really doesn't want to let this one go, finding multi-kills, just being
a dominant presence on the server, and usually when Bitness having a good series in a finalist,
when Navi comes out of the other side of it with a trophy in their hands.
Final option for you, gonna be no surprise to anybody to see. It is indeed another
I'm glad we can cast a bit of spotlight on Anima, because he's actually been having a great tournament as well, but obviously when you're surrounded by bits, by one full bimer, casted for that matter as well, you don't often hear speaking too much about him, and it's made a bit unfair to him.
so far in this tournament, he's been playing great, now natural in this final, he's been
finding a lot of impact, but he's such an important player for Navi in terms of the
openings, in terms of being the second voice as well. You see him constantly being animated
towards his teammates as well, so you know, I know Emma right now may be in a spot where
he doesn't get all the credit he deserves, but in this final third play he's been playing
lights out. Gentlemen, we've got less than a minute, and I do want to get your thoughts
on Nuke coming up for Gaming Legion, they've beat a few teams on this, the most notable
are being Furia recently, but does Navi have an opportunity to close this 3-0 right here,
They absolutely do because I feel that was the shakiest we'll see Navi in this final on Anubis right on Nuke
I think you look towards Makaze on that outside area on the T side struggle a little bit okay
Some of that came against Vitality, but this is where we really wanted to show some
Improvement and and have a better game to make it a much much easier for you for I can say it very shortly
This game is over. Well, Jacob says it's over. That means we do need to throw things to a break Navi
They can see the trophy. It's right there for the taking but one more map may separate them from that fee
It's going down on nuke in just a few
Something special to talk about this D-Golf, and that's it for you and our two-chicarabinsa!
We are back!
Excuse me, sorry can I talk to you for a second?
Sure!
What's your name?
Kaylee.
Where are you from?
I'm from Kansas.
Alright, Kansas.
If you give me a map in front of me, I wouldn't be able to point out.
But I'm pretending it's cool.
You're right in the middle of the country.
Got it. So you're here in the merch stand right now looking for some CS specific merch do you like that?
Yes, do you spend a lot of money on merch like a gaming merch in general?
Yeah, I would say I do. Is the CS the best merch out there?
Yeah, I like it. All right. Are you here also to watch the final? Yes. What are you cheering for?
I was cheering for Vitality, but now I'm gonna root for Navi.
All right, because they're you know, they beat them so might as well take the trophy, right? Yeah, pretty much.
are you attending a lot of events like this or this is kind of your first one
actually so first event first time on camera as well like yes I'm not gonna
waste any of your time because you know I like when girls are buying merch like
this and they're like looking into the fashion of gaming as well because we
gamers we don't know how to dress I disagree I disagree all right you're
two kinds for that but I appreciate it and then yeah enjoy the show
he's on the beach he's on the beach I think
I have right side bro
I have right
Okay I have D
I smoke tempo
We are peeking
I'm on the stairs
I'm going stage
2, 3 flash
I'm on the stairs
I'm on the stairs
3 flash
I have it
I think he's close
And now we're just one map away from Na'Vi taking that first step towards their gold bars potentially.
The first notch on the belt to see if they can gain every win necessary to establish a dominant stretch of counter strike for them.
They've schooled Gamer Legion now on two maps showing prowess individually and as a team.
We head in towards Nuke and Na'Vi looking for glory, looking towards the trophy at the center of the stage.
And now it seems like a mountain in front of Game of Legends, losing the first two maps of the best of five
is never easy to come back from. Never mind playing against Na'Vi going on to Nuke.
All these youngsters playing their first big grand final in the best of five.
There's surely no way Na'Vi let this go.
But Atlanta, if this is to be the final map that makes some noise, you've been fantastic all week.
Let's get it going here on Nuke.
Again, Gamers Legion will start on the T side, right? They've had a T side start every single time so far.
Now they've got to do it on Nuke as well. It's going to be real tough.
A huge task. We just saw the frau-less tactically of Navi on Anubis picking them apart.
Nuke is an even better map for the tactical teams. It's going to be a rush towards the ramp room, bit defending, and he's not backing away.
No, he's sticking around. He's confident, but he will be picked apart because of that.
They're actually just going to go straight towards Hell, which might walk right into the Na'Vi trap they have late for them, because Wonderful's ready, but just a single kill.
So, Alexi B, can he get anything? No, but he at least keeps his life. He packs away, and he gets down into the site.
Yeah, he doesn't probably have a great read of where they're going to finish up.
This pistol round's getting a little bit weird. Mikaze holds his nerve, going to walk into the crosshair.
Towson, who snaps down, can't find the kill, but pressure on Mikaze.
The lone players, even with Alexi, slide together in the upper bomb site, and now just the two of them remain against the four players of Gamer Legion.
That taking bit away first really to a spanner into the works for the defense.
There we go.
Yeah, clean headshot for Towson as well, on to Imaq, just Alexi B.
They've got time as well, 50 seconds, so Game of Legends start to figure out where they want to end this round.
Oh, just talking about how the prowess of Navi on a tactical and strategic level,
and then they get a B rush up their way and get absolutely overwhelmed by it.
So, simple tactic called to great effects.
Hitebacks hasn't been able to find Alexei who slipped in towards Midi and now he's found an escape
But there's no chance of winning this round. Bomb's gonna be planted downstairs as Talcin punches in the numbers
And you know what game really just been great in pistols in the series that the issue for them is coming in the second rounds
Yeah, right. It's the four spies that come through from Navi, so let's see
But they can't have that problem here. T-side nuke
Oh, we talk about all the time like get these get these these rounds are so critical
If you win the pistol on the T-side being able to gain a couple of fluffy rounds when you have economic advantage when they have weaker weapons
You can feel so restricted later on in the half. So you've got to you've got to
string these routes together. Get out to three or four. Get yourself a leg up
before the guns come out for the knobby side.
Okay, religion brings some energy early into the pistol. I like to when the
coach was talking saying that I like us like we're trying to be perfect and
we're not getting to that level right now. Let's just enjoy being in the B05
final and play the counter strike. They got them now. I think they did start to
show that over on an U-Bus. It just wasn't enough. It just wasn't enough in the
Well, I think in the first map they got out the pressure of just playing in the grand final on this stage with the knowledge of what they were stepping into.
I think on a new list they found the pressure of, oh, we're playing well and we actually have a chance to win. That's a different kind of pressure.
So, I guess on some level you're looking here and you're like, which one are they going to encounter on Nuke?
Neither handled. We've got a wonderful wedding down in Rem, looking to crack themselves over the scout. It's going to be a bit hard cleared out by PR.
They know what they're up against now. I'm sure that'll be the conversation coming around game religion as well
They'll have it in their minds that we can't lose to this kind of scenario again
I like to be at least getting one here for no V but then because they're getting damaged out to 8 HP Alexi on 7
There's just no world in which this one gets out of hand from this point
No, not really actually I've kind of like it when I'm seeing a game religion to like in terms of getting some kills and just kind of
pausing they seem very much like snacks is doing a lot more of controlling the
pacing of how they scale and how they move around the map together for the
moment and gone is wonderful clean round very clean round from gamer legion
they're gonna up to nothing I mean we talk all this about new being a tough
map for them to overcome Navi on and it will be but at least if you're gamer
legion you've played this map three times throughout the groups or throughout
throughout Atlanta throughout this event and you've won all three of them so
You've got a little bit of like experience and positive experience. You beat pain 13-6, you beat liquid 13-6, you beat sinners 13-8 all in the past week, so yeah, tough task you're facing off on this map, but you're gonna feel confident coming into it.
Round 3 is live, we've got pistols for Navi, Deagles, P250s, nothing crazy.
And this is exactly what you need if you're Gamelize, right?
You're gonna get a 3-0 start on your T side of Nuke.
If you're fighting an uphill battle the entire time,
at least give yourself a good start.
You've got Snacks and Rides fighting outside,
Bit sending one kill back with a Deagle,
but just some confidence for Gamelize.
You can go on outside and dueling against the weaker weapons.
Yeah, happy to take in the range fights,
and now you've just gotta protect the one weapon that's been dropped.
You know they're gonna come for it.
Bit throws up, takes a shot with the Deagle,
well handled from Snacks.
He backs away, they know exactly where he is as well, you can assume he's outside.
And that'll be three rounds for Gamer Legion.
This is where PR turns control of the kill on Emma.
So, 3-0 start for Gamer Legion, Fist Mumps going out, looking composed,
but this is why things get a lot more difficult. The first big obstacle in the way.
Now if he's purchasing up, they're gonna have an AWP here for Wonderful.
Yeah, they got that out real quick.
So no luxury of having a map without the off going into the first gun round.
Tough for Snacks right out of the gate.
MP7 on Rez.
They'll be looking for an upgrade, a free upgrade for that.
Wonderful's off going to head outside and stick around towards
a more centralized location outside.
CT spot, up for Russian, PR, head up to the first.
Yeah, straight in for the side, PR and Rez with the first couple of kills.
They try to come back in with another ready for Snacks to be so directly below them.
With that distraction, Chelsea comes through and Navi, that is such a difficult round to handle, just thrown at them from Gamerly too.
Yeah, I mean, that's not even a change of pace, just you kind of blow them out of the water, first gone round, you know, there might be a few Molotovs missing, a few Nades missing, a few resources to stop those fast rushes, and a nice, easy one.
I love the way Snacks has opened up this third map.
I mean, you could have the money if you were really feeling aggressive and really feeling
a little bit crazy.
Gamer League could go try and hunt down this AWP, but for the moment, happy to just take
a 4-0 start.
And we saw some frustrations on Anubis for Navi as well.
I mean, primarily from Bint.
We saw it from Blade as well.
It was clear in the early going the team wasn't really clicking in every single way they would
of lights. Blake got them snap back into shape really, really quickly, but if that frustration
is still there lingering, this could be a slow start for Navi. That's round five, and they
have yet to begin on here on Nuke. M4 being picked up, I think we're going to see if I
They want to fight back.
Loving the start game of Lugin, but let's see if they can continue it.
Again, PR just getting close to the screen.
He's going quite quick and the smoke he's going to go.
Charging out again, this time going to be stopped by WonderFall.
They're not stopping, they're trying to get out, they're trying to send legions of players
towards the site, but the Cosner likes to be handled the rest in that quicker play.
This time does not work.
Yeah, nice that it's the surprise when it's the uppercut.
This time, Malvi was ready for the eventuality.
Wonderful starting in heaven, able to get a quick shot in the execute.
That takes out the teeth of the attack.
And this time, in the previous round, PR swings out, Hutt gets one kill, creates space.
None of that's created this time.
And Wonderful loses the gap on Hypex, who drops down and is just desperate for a bomb plant.
The door's open.
He's got a minute to play with.
Four players to find, a win is unlikely, but any kills you get, anything you can do to limit the money.
Navi still haven't established any kind of economy.
So any damage in this round is excellent from Hypex.
It's going to rotate through ramp room to make sure he can pick up the bomb, because
they're not playing inside the bomb site to make sure that he's going to be safe.
And Hypex peering into his last option, which is drop down, get the bomb planted and see
what happens afterwards.
No one from Novi is going to offer anything up here to make it an easier time for Hypex
going to play together as a four-man unit come back in on this
recent high-packs going to deal with that? No! You can't do it again!
High-packs! That's close to the low HP player.
The high-packs won't go down to Mikaze, but you start to believe when it gets to those first two in heaven.
You can see exactly how it's going to happen, right? Get the first kill.
The low HP is an easy transfer. Even at Mikaze up next,
that could have put Alexei into an awkward 1v1.
Valiant's effort out of high-packs, but now if you get on the board first.
But again, those kills are valuable. Taking those weapons away in a losing effort, forcing the rebies.
Definitely see a high-packs. He's got that clutch factor about him.
Unable to get kills when it's hot, if he tosses into McCauley, he's down to 1v1 and almost back high-packs to win it.
With the clutches he's had in these playoffs, no reason he's going to be supremely confident going into all those. He probably doesn't care that it's a 1v4.
He's got the all-round now, but...
...go up against Wonderful.
And now that these guns are out and the CT side has got all their utility, all the bells and whistles,
Snack's gonna have to call a different game.
Can't just gull some momentum based off the success of the previous round.
The repeated upper hits went by the wayside.
So now we descend more towards the territory and the strengths of Navi, which is a tactical effort.
slow paste as they start moving in towards ramp room behind the smoke
Taliesin has position
Snacks going to deploy a wall outside but he's the only one out there really to
activate and utilize it to any effects. Mikaze up on top of the box is going to
get on top of the roof. Spots one he's been spotted himself so drops down but
That's a little bit of information gleaned
Wonderful flicking down misses the shot needs to be careful not to be overwhelmed
That's a great grenade. Look how much damage that has done rise down to 42
Now snacks starting to activate
Was worried about the smoke timing now when it was fading away snack just the second
But unfortunately the timing does not help him out at all because Mikaze comes back advantage now for Navi
25 seconds left for Dame Elegance.
Max was pulling them back into an uppermost
because he was going to wrap around Mephid.
Now it's all gone wrong.
Well, it's only a one for one for Boop,
but you've still got plenty of players here.
But Hypex extends into the open,
an easy kill for Ima,
and now Taucin and Rez with no other option,
but the back off and trying to save these weapons.
10 seconds on the clock.
Really heads up for Mikaze.
So much quiet around the map.
I think everyone from Navi and Mikaze spotted snacks at the get-go,
but I think he's just thinking,
where could he have gone?
Where has this guy disappeared off to?
Mikaze will die at the end of the day.
good job from Towson to grab one more on the exit, but a second round for Nabi.
And if Mikaze doesn't find that kill, what he does, Snacks has a very deadly
backstab, either wrapping a round up towards Heaven or going towards Ramp
Room. But when he goes down while his team is in transition, it just kind of ends
the round there. Too slow to come to fruition and a timeout called by Gamer
Legion talking things over.
Lead is dwindling, but with the pistol on and with winning the first four on your T-side you only need to add a couple more throughout the rest of this half to feel good going into the break.
Both teams laser focus on the task at hand.
Now be creeping closer to that trophy.
Round seven.
Opposite again for Hypex, same for Wonderful.
Four buys for both squads.
Money's in a good place as well, so they can dig into the playbooks.
Yeah, good to see a keen start to the map here.
Not that back and forth with weaker weapons here and there.
Just really brawling with all the best guns you've got.
Wonderful taking the first damage.
Hypex the same, but he's going to move us up.
So look at this call, but it's in the open though, it's a little told.
And Hypex has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and Mikaze takes him away.
Yeah, it's a bit of a flex, and it looks a little bit silly, but I actually don't mind it whatsoever.
You're gonna have to have these players stepping up against Navi to make this work.
You're not gonna win this half by tactics.
And Hypex is at a hot hand.
Well, this round has not worked out though for Gamelitch, and those aggressive steps forward
have cost them two early kills in Snaks and Hypex.
You don't have to rely upon PR, Towson and Rice, the rifling core of the squad as they head back in.
And the defences look so solid, like they haven't had to budge, they haven't really had to move.
Not too perturbed or afraid of lower bombsite, of anyone having crossed the secret.
They've already got Ema down there just spotting to be safe.
The defenders at the upper bombsite are well entrenched in good strong positions.
Drop down into the vent, that's the bomb, and that's Emo holding on.
So that was your last-ditch effort trying to evacuate down the lower bomb site.
Look how hard they're working just for one kill.
You know, like look how hard they've had to move around the map, how many different looks
they've had to take, how many different pieces they'd have to find and try and do, and it's
all just for one kill and an inability to do anything after the fact.
Yeah, you have that unfortunate feeling where you just have to back away, realizing it's
lost cause so don't say if these two AK-47s, the Navi will go up to three rounds now but it does have that
feeling that Navi are getting into full control. I've seen that a couple times in the series already
where that CT side just puts up a wall that you just can't get past.
GamerLegion's best success in this game is going to be if they can cause chaos and cause
some disorganized rounds out of Navi, right? If you can make every single, if you can make a
round or a situation just feel so insane that Navi's not able to really read what's come in the
the protocols can't be put into place.
It's just chaos of individuals battling
and making decisions and everything happens so fast.
That's where I think Amor Legion can find some
of the edge behind the skills of these individuals,
but the experience, the structure,
the strategy of Na'Vi, it's gonna be too much
if you're just gonna be playing slow rounds
and trying to make a move.
There's all the charging outside,
McCloss is gonna hear those steps heading down
towards secret.
Rides all the way down, McCloss,
he's got the opening headshot, snacks is gone.
Advantage for Na'Vi.
Attempting to make it play after Ramford though, wonderful. His silence PR's attempt.
3v5 again here for Gamer Legion and all the rotations have already been made here for Na'Vi. They have reinforcements on this B bomb site.
It is so ready for the fight against Rize.
One by one Gamer Legion fall and they crumble on this lower site.
There's just attacks you have to pay if you want to gain any ground against Na'Vi. Every step
They've lost a single player.
Yeah, it's crippling.
Now, in the round the back, he's got two players
about to go out through control room,
but he's holding it, they backtrack.
Taliesin clearing out Dark.
Meanwhile, the rest of Navi's trying to rotate down.
Wonderful piece.
Now look at that.
All the doors swing open at the same time.
Navi a hive mind as they head to four.
Yeah, just looks so clean in this comeback.
It happened so fast and so convincingly.
All tied up, but not really a whole lot positive
For GamerLegion, these last four rounds, Navi has just picked up right where they left off with the dominance on Anubis at the end of that map.
Three rounds straight, only four players have been lost for Navi. The defense is just clicking.
Back to Tech Nines, back to FastPace towards the upper bomb site. We're gonna try a rush again.
Yeah, it's a bit of a fake out towards A because you want to try and get through ramp, but B is so good at holding the ramp.
Good luck getting past it!
Lift to the pistols!
And now 5-4, Navi with it in seconds.
Just leveling up every step of the way.
We talk about coming into this Grand Final, the difference in experience, the difference in pedigree of Navi when it comes to the big games, right?
Into the Grand Final so many times.
And for Gamer Legion, you're having to take a bunch of Grand Finalists rookies onto the stage today.
It's a learning experience for sure. They're getting a really rough one right now.
I'm interested to see what Snacks is going to call here in this round, because Gamer Legion, they need to change the nature of this game.
Five rounds have been so dominant. You're starting to feel like you have no chance of this map if you're Gamer Legion.
This needs to be around that you can provide a win.
It's for sure how important those first three rounds of the game are here on Nuke T-Side.
Especially when their one team is such a heavy favorite as well.
Well, on the car sale.
Right, he's being so called to the surface, we're up through.
But this time, I'm going to be called by Rez.
So no putting kill, finally going back in favor of Game of Legends.
What's going to do with it though?
Well, Ema might try and even things up here.
Going to go for a little bit of a peek.
There's the utility streaming over for the smoke.
Well, actually not a peek.
He commits himself.
Oh, a lovely shot, Rez never even had a chance.
So, not much is the answer to it. The advantage immediately goes back and 4v4 re-established for the minute left on the clock.
Snacks making his move outside, deploying the smoke towards main.
But as this is happening, some ground is being taken outside to the T side.
Wonderful was getting closer and closer to Hutt.
He dies in the aggressive play, Towson's ready for that headshot.
Alexey P getting caught, sorry the smoke.
And this is more like it from Gabriel Litcher to 4v2.
Make it one as Pitt is left alone.