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What does he mean to go on? Bell rung, jammed young, and have an HP.
Smalled himself off in 9-0. You'd need to do a lot better than that.
Zack has done well to close down this round, finds 2 on the entry of A,
and Starry might even finish things off with a pair of frags himself.
I think Starry also gave a couple of little love taps there to his teammates
running out mid when the chaos was caused.
So that one right there is a great start for Lin Vision.
Let's see if we get this forced by a follow-through for Tyloo,
who are trying to turn this 0-2 ship around.
I agree with the death sentiment of having them as my favourite.
Last time when they played...
...Pack of the... How would you say this, Alex?
Yeah, I'm over here.
Eucalyne, Pinnacle...
Eucalyne, Pinnacle!
...of battle.
Yeah.
As we all know.
Pinnacle of battle, right? That one, now.
You could have a classroom to pull there, so we have a completely different veto,
as far as the... Okay, is it concerned?
Am I right in thinking Zack is being a cool hipster and just doing the USP?
He's scavenged it off of the body.
Well, he's Mr. Orpah.
Yeah, I know, it's gangster move, though, isn't it?
It is retro. You don't see it too often these days.
It should just be an eco farm with this B stack unless...
They fluffed their U2 first one. Spotted Grave from Zoom.
Nice pre-game.
I think that's... One of the signs I'm looking for early in this game is how hard are we hitting.
Because I had the pleasure or displeasure of playing as Shani Sims back in my day
and the one thing that I always struggle with was how hard they punch me in the face.
It seems to be like their win condition.
Hit high.
Oh, Sue almost gets the ace in that one.
What's up?
Come on, stall on the end there by the West Mellon.
And so is Zaka gonna go for it?
He is.
Okay, wow.
So third round in.
It's such an odd purchase when you have
the two Mac 10s from the bonus and the all comes out.
And so you're gonna have to somehow be able
to make these work together.
Do you let Zaka pick?
Do you wanna use the Mac 10s for the space?
I'm curious.
Like, I could see a world where you boost him on box
and the Mac 10s kind of search up round.
It's so standard, isn't it?
You see that every pug?
Okay, well, over to what's belaying with three, Starrion and Amelia, the combo to take this midspace together, I'm just gonna harass them, make sure...
Zero and Jamion can't be jumping up, but look at the setup that Tyloo have opted for out the gate. At this CT side, having three man heavy lane action on the AWP towards B as boosted.
The question is, is if Mozia is considering the fact that there could be an AWP here?
Block now.
Could be the HE break, but smoke to block for now.
And this one's just going to settle in you can see how much you to Lynn vision still happen
They've established a decent amount of control be lame without getting harassed. They have cages in cave stage one and now they're working on this midspace
How's zero holding this pixel just out of curiosity, I'm just intrigued to see how he's holding a certain take a cave right now
Thank you. Thank you very much observers
Okay flash for the cave West bones already left. This is nice right there putting so much good info. It does free up
this a-hold to stay strong on that pixel and he's been very patient and then
throws a very solid block smoke hey gee it will be the a-split rotation heavy on
the way everyone's gonna be here for Tyler all right she's gonna be smoked off
forced onto the site obviously susceptible to a Molotov only one
available and that's on Amelia breaking their face beautiful from zero get set up
by G have you saved it has to be real I don't think you're given this one ago
And he didn't get to do anything. I mean, I'm I'm echoing. I'm stealing your opinion,
Jack. That's fine. I hear you talk about Counter-Strike almost every day of my life.
And you've often echoed or had the sentiment that T side orping on ancient is limited,
I think is one way you'd frame it. And the options you have aren't plentiful. It's not as
great as I see T side overpass or anything like that. There's a couple of players who I think
can wield it to great success, monocy. Yeah, that's the only name I've got at the tip of my
time. I would say Zywoo, but they don't play this map. Only once against Aurora.
And I think, you know, your name's that wonderful, etc. You can definitely get some
uppers who can find proficiency on it. But the type of fights that you're looking for
early are always going to be high risk. High risk, high reward, right? We've seen the mid-brakes
trying to catch players jumping up or even running out with a good spawn to take that
fight as the CTs are jumping down the stairs. Yeah. You can go towards a main and search,
But those fights with that little boost for big box, but it always feels quite cumbersome, right?
And at the same time, you could just easily be blocked and then it wants you're out all good
But then this is part of getting out as you highlighted, you know
It was with this weird kind of bonus where you had the Mac 10s and the Galils and an AWP
Which did lead to a kind of a empty round for Lynn vision. I think Tyler you handled that well
I mean, let's not forget zero blocked that was his smoke
That blocked him in donor and geez the one that blows it open and nails it
So they look at three kills and they managed to get around so not shabby
Oh, wow, look at jam young girl. He's gonna be ahead of the flash. Not really doesn't matter though. Don't need vision
If you can track him blind
Okay, jam young was a monster yesterday. He had almost 30 kills more than anyone else in his team over the entire series
Well, in answer to your question chat, I do think everyone's hitting hard and looking at that frag from West Mellon
hanging around
Flashed again is jam young and now smoke off. Okay, you have to respect that. I mean bullets do go through smokes
I'm gonna demonstrate
Very nice. So that's one when he was fully blind and one fully for a smoke hasn't seen anyone yet
But has got two kills. It was a wallbang next to more. Yeah, come check the set
Now there's a place first chat is it gonna be Amelia or do you kind of hope Sue gets some a bit more ground I
I think in this situation. Yeah, you're hoping for the CT regress that's coming out. It is coming
Are they gonna boost? No, it's a sweat. Easy pick up for Zachary. They'll trade from G
That's gonna pull us into a 3v3. I think Mosier is gonna be putting face to palm there feeling a bit silly
They want to pivot jamming still in donor 30 five seconds on the clock now they have to make a decision
He's got my cuz mister. It's fucked it. Well jamming feel safe
a is cool. So zero will partner up with G. Looks like they're ready to just take this
head on fight. She's spotting the ramp. Swing zero does well. Train tempts. Amelia can't
hack it either. Beautiful work on the M4 from zero and zero impressed us as well. Last
time we were watching them play, he was at the top of the tables. That was against Sinners.
That was a game where you could see Sinners having a little bit of choke creeping and
Tyloo they dug deep and brought back some tough score lines
It's kind of what kicked off this campaign because they lost to babe and MIBR in their first day best of ones
Then sinners they two word sharks went three maps yesterday
Whereas the road for Lynn vision it was a loss to M80 a win against heroic a win against sharks in the best of one
And then they kind of got owned by MIBR in the best of three yesterday
So while Tyloo are riding the momentum and the high of turning the zero to a rounds Lynn vision is still a little bit shaky
They've got their seal, or they don't have their seal eggs, excuse me.
So, just this AWP, and some upgrades of Nades, P250 for Westbound, a little bit of harass
utility, but nothing to really concern Zero.
I think for a major rookie, to see him having some, well, not some, a lot of multi-kill rounds
in that game, while under pressure, and shooting pretty damn hard.
Here's one of those options we were talking about, Elabel's starry to kind of try and
advance.
So if you can get out and get towards big box and side, Zaka could take a deep CT spawn line, but you are going to need to take down Jam Young.
His rotation is G, hedging over now.
Oh, I don't know.
Pull back and forth. I think he's going to jump spot for zero as bait.
B-Lane's clear. They know it's not B. I'm surprised no one's helping Jam Young right now.
Yeah, I mean, should be okay against the unarmed Glock.
or Saka with the AWP and here they come. Jam Young and Zero should be fine. There's Saka though.
He has found the first rotation and Jam Young hasn't found immediately Fality.
There's G in combination with Jam Young and a leg shot hit from Saka's
AWP and the bomb down. So he's already, it's ball through. Saka, that's ambitious.
Keep a faith there. I understand where he's coming from.
I don't think he anticipated so many bodies on his screen.
Alright, well, uh, Starry doesn't want to give him anything.
I'm just going to defuse this bomb, and he's just going to be holding onto the Glock.
It's all good.
He's going to get, uh, the Lost Bonus coming through.
The positive is he just didn't give them an extra 300 bucks.
So, uh, 3-2 in favor of Tyloo.
Rion on the trot, and only a couple of dents, right?
That one got a little bit shaky.
Zaka was able to find that kill on the rotating play coming through CT.
Didn't look perfect in terms of the way Tyler went to set up. There's a bit of back and forth between G and 0
But regardless they get the rounds and the guns are back out. Zack, it does not have an AWP this time
It'll be a glill
Emilia had the best mid spawn
My clash with Jamion here on the mid-hawk looks like he wants to 30 HP after the barrage of utility
Strafe's on out, gets caught mantling the box
ugly
Bonz lost under Jam Young's boots.
Zaka's trying to retrieve it, but that could be the end of him.
He's just going to walk away screened.
That is suicidal from Zaka.
Okay, that's one of the moves of all time.
Just similar to another one of these scenarios.
But this time, there's no need for
Tyloo to play forward for aggression.
You just set up in info gathering.
You just jiggle or have a teammate like this,
a two-man cave setup.
Once you get the info on where they are,
you retool the setup to deal with the information or the new information that you've been able to garner.
That right there over towards middle and I'm sure we'll catch it in the highlight package.
The fact that they both had the double HGs immediately. Normally when we're talking about
midline ancient, yeah, it's just a U-Tool time. You see the mollies, the flashes, the HGs, but
right there, the fact that there's two HGs out the gate, they really had a feeling that
LinVision were going to try and press their issue out the guts.
Well, it is sometimes that is like the panic button you hit when you've just had three rounds
not work out. You're like, okay, I'm going to take my spawn. You know, support me, I'm going.
hasn't worked out for them at all.
Westman's looked on in and actually, you know what, Trace not immediate, Mercury going down as well.
Can't get in this bomb bar. It's nice to make a bit of a dent and force out a couple of rebies to keep the finances limited.
Westman is going to be able to get away for the save.
Not towards the heavens and okay, he's out of there.
Interesting flavour for this one early.
Right, this isn't rock and sock and counter strike, it's not how I remember playing against Chinese teams, it's the thing when it's a domestic head-to-head like this one, there's a lot of the tendencies that are known between the crews, it is a little bit more tempered early, we'll see how it starts to unfold.
We have to be another lighter investment. Obviously they saved AK, but behind it they're just going to be opting in with a couple of Tec9s, a Diggle for Sue, a Habasmattering of U2, red smoke out the gate, a couple of flashes to try and set up Starry. He's going to take some room.
He's going to try his luck and it's the same kind of result 30 HP once you get through the flames in the nades
So that applies the pressure it removes the information for Tyler in middle
This is such a powerful deep line juice been set up on Mosier the stepping stool
and
It's a hard shot, but even on the jump spot, you know, there's a world where she hits that flick
Locked on cave, Mercury has delayed.
The key with this boost as well is you don't need to expend the smoke for it, right?
This is one of the keys of having orbs in some maps, so we sort of like a new boost,
for example.
It's great, it alleviates a lot of pressure.
You can just run double orbs setups and you can use your smokes to really funnel them.
You're singing decision, aren't you, and gee, is that the comms flowing.
He's actually been called to block perfectly timed.
hurry up and wait moment. Yeah, so another 20 seconds before we can really see Lindvige
and do anything, but it will be a B explosion. So Zach has a smoke and a couple of flashes.
What's wrong with one of his own? And then Starry has the HE. What kind of angles?
G on. I feel like that's a very tight line. Okay, yeah, we'll back away. Mist long smoke,
short. You'll have to play ahead of it. It's all going wrong. Mist Molotov back and a nice one for
G. Nice drive. Fight for him. Mostly pressure on the ramp side and he has missed his shot.
3 set up to succeed a media finds him though through the flame solid from
Double kill with his mother top. It's chaos. Hey, what are we witnessing?
That's got another unique marinade in the round. All right five to two three round gap. I
You asked me before we came into this what I thought it was gonna be and I just have Tyler. I feel like they
I didn't want to just have throw in answer hit harder
but they just, they don't seem as lost as often.
When I saw the Envision pop onto the scene,
this was many years ago now,
it was more through set pieces and quite explosive rounds.
When we watched them plant overpassed it the day,
they looked well put together,
or fumbled the run boost in middle,
jammed down will not be up to the heavens.
Little clumsy.
And Zac is already probing it's a cave,
so he's committed in.
One, three, one, and an optional mist.
Oh my god!
What is going on here?
Okay, well, you know they're entrenched in cave.
Both ways.
Cave?
Mercury cave.
No, you can get out of there now if you like.
Is it really gonna stay committed?
Well, I guess that is the subversion of the expectation, because it's 20 seconds later,
you would expect he's relocated.
He's just going to hang out.
Oh no, he's actually going to try and relocate as the smoke phase gets into the off angle.
They're playing so heavy cave though on the defense aren't they?
They really are.
On these rounds they're playing a block they just really want to follow the ramp.
Oh and that's beautiful, they actually re-aggress.
It's the CTs that bring the opening fight.
Get an opening kill and now grouping on A.
Zero's got a full belt of Utilt G on the midline donor.
He's in red, he'll make sure no one can go down in a second, it's most gonna fade.
Yeah, so he can hold Starry's luck.
And now, who's responsible for this main explosion?
Looks like it will be Zero.
They're having a big conversation, I can hear it now.
Moses writes that they have, like, they have all be laying mercury nose.
He's died now, sure, but it's 26, they have to go at it, they have to go at it.
And here they come. Zero. Eat the first flash, and there's more where that came from.
And Elyar needs to get...
Nice, there's 12 seconds!
Yeah, it's just looking like the round's over.
How on earth are you supposed to get on down now?
Oh my god, they're getting the kills though.
Wait a second, Geev removes another. There's no time to win the round.
There's no time to win the round! You're just gonna get the kills.
LinVision and the clock, it's a conversation that we've... we continue to have.
Yesterday, or not yesterday, but in that game versus Sharks, you referenced, it was, uh...
different in the sense that they kept pulling it off.
This time overpass. Yes, that makes a little bit more sense because it's a slow methodical map control
Scenario where you push them back toilet's clear. We've got connector. We've got short like ten ten seconds
You're leaving a man. You're not giving yourself much room for maneuvers
I know that domestic matchups tend to be odd, but this is such a weird flavor to start this series
Elimination on the line qualification is stage two. Is it I mean isn't stage one where we get the unique flavors
That's not like this.
No, yeah, you're right.
I'm having a hard time even understanding what a lot of the ideas that LinVision are hoping to achieve are in these rounds.
Right.
You know, as far as flavours go, this is kind of like a Sichuan pepper.
Your mouth is numb and you're confused.
I'm extremely confused.
So, 6-2, 4-round gap.
But if you want to keep the confused run,
Go and jab, they win with tech mines here.
That would be perfect. Yeah, that would be the way in. Yeah, the cherry on top red smoke that I believe is missed looks dodgy
Cave smoke that achieved its purpose, but
There you go. Hey, I'm gonna go check they pick this map, right? I
And I feel like for Lynn vision their entirety side has just been behind a smoke waiting for it to fade and here's another one
This is not what I associate with Chinese Counter Strike. It's a bit more like 4-1 in your face, explosive, taking jewels.
You're in so much trouble.
You don't know what's going on. Okay, the parving back, I like this. I don't like staying B lane.
Okay, the doors make the smoke fades. I think getting stuck in Polly's pocket or any of those positions overextending, never a great idea.
You can get flashed and overrun very quickly.
Shout out to Poly one time.
Mighty Max is best made.
Alright, any eruption. There's two players ready for this.
Flash and a spray down.
Hello.
And goodbye.
Well somehow they managed to get output.
or will be round I don't see Zach are winning this one seven or two
nice great flash from Jamion I mean you couldn't ask for a better timing on that
well how's the read on what they're doing every single round so I know we're
saying and you're saying this doesn't necessarily feel that similar to what
you're expecting but are they not following like ancient CT protocol
fundamentals like CT side is great yeah it's your side or not we're not we're
Not charging me but not really harassing heaven like we're throwing the utah loop one rounds of one of the first rifle rounds
Right there ran out middle and dive. Yeah, okay. This is a nice step. This is a more standoff
He's not even where that's meant to land exactly it's close
But it's not exactly where it's meant to go
Close enough a two in the smoke. All right, okay, he's looking right at him
My god
Oh my goodness!
Jumps into cave.
Two from elbow. The info is it...
He's not still fainting!
He even puts damage onto Starry!
What are we watching?! Call me Sue gets two aim duels on B.
Okay, the bomb's in elbow though.
The bomb's in elbow.
Surely you just reroute all the way through spawn, right?
There's absolutely no need to force any issues elsewhere.
Sue has all this control.
Well, they might be able to cut the bomb off here.
Zaka is instrumental to this.
Okay, he's missed the shot. They jiggle baited him through the corpse gets Emilia down zero
Activated as well has to stop starry picking up that bar. He says we caught with a maid out though. This is crazy counter
She should be a dead man and that's a lin vision round
Nothing like this I haven't casted anything like this before yeah, this is a brand new type of counter strike
We're watching that's a player an elfish guy and
I do this all the time
Can we talk about the exchange at the start? Yeah, this jump through but watch this watch this
Okay, here's him jumps Westman and reacts and
Then repeat and then the repeat
Okay, I'm gonna take a seat this one's this one's putting a lot of stress on me early
All right, there is a lot at stake
It's really interesting. Someone's major ends today.
It does. It does. And we're getting there in an entertaining fashion.
It's a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs.
Yeah, I think we've got some loopy loops as well.
Seven-five would be a recovery.
It would be. It would be.
So taking stock, it's only 1900 loss for the final round for Tyloo,
but they have a couple of players with extra cash.
So we'll talk about the buy when we get there,
but they should be OK for the final round, even if they lose business.
Linn vision the ones who have to dig deep, claw this back, so waiting for a
second timing mid control they've been able to waltz out they're not being
forced and pushed so they don't need those flashes that were being held in
spawn they just walk out silently, they set up being highlighted towards a main
it's an awful lot of info, Jan Young will call now that Donut is possible, G
they'll have to pick that up and zero, he gets liberated to take space over
towards A, so even though they've lost mid because of how they decided to open on
the CT side they're still in a decent position right now Tyloo so you're going
through this they're just gonna sink to I was thinking about it now they just
tuck in it's fading now blocked on cave instead and then mosey is gonna be
responsible for this fight mosey will spray down to and round done round
over well I suppose you're probably getting sick of just staring at smokes
There might be some sort of explanation.
I can't wait to hear what Ash has to say about this.
I'm going to go ask him right now.
Go back.
Okay.
He's going to shout across the room.
I'm not lying.
Chad has actually just walked off the caster desk.
I've never seen this before.
I bet I've never seen it.
I gave a counter-spoke.
Lead to my colour caster departing the casting desk to shout across the room at the analysts.
He wants answers.
Maybe you guys can give us some answers as to what we're witnessing here.
But yeah, that is a smoke walkie. So you can see that is undeniably what they were going for
Yeah
Eight to three. I can't get there. So it's too far away. We'll go ask him a half. Okay, so what Yanca thinks as well
Huh, this is this is a flavor. No, okay
Pace West Bella Molly K mercury respects
This is the most normal looking around yet. Yeah, I like it but there's 4b from the CTs out the gates
There is 4B from the seat and the gate.
G is perfectly in position for that fight. Westbound crouches into your peak.
One more of this.
Tyloo are just throwing them around now.
The only name in opening kills, that's not even close.
It's going to be a B finish as well. Jamyoung and G are going to go sweep through mid, call it clear and they'll probably be back in time.
9 to 3 in terms of opening frags in favour of Tyloo and they lost the pistol.
They're hedging A. I tell a lie.
Even Mosie is going to be starting to play more passively.
But they have limited util for the ex-q, it's coming in now.
Zaka missed this long smoke before, this time it looks like it's good.
Short's in as well, so the bomb can go down.
There's Molly's available for the plant.
There's a Molly B doors.
And I've still got the plant.
Mordred can break the smoke and they can fight.
It's actually perfect, because Zaka's trying to make it across as they smoke break,
but then the flash pops and saves him.
It saves him 35, get that one planted, re-smoke sure, and it's a post-blunt.
Man advantage for Tyloo, last round so everyone's gonna give it a go.
Jam Young has equalized onto Zaka, an easy one dipped back.
Emilia up for the claw back, finds it onto Jam Young.
Starry stands his ground, does well.
3 on 2 as Starry doing very well on the long fights.
Another man about to put his head in the vice-G.
Oh my god, nearly got caught picking up rifles.
and it's a clean close. Starry
gives Lynn vision a little
something to hold on to.
Apparently this is their pick.
They've got four rounds of the
first half will be right back.
I was never meant to stay It was you that pulled me in
Promise me that we'd be okay All of your lies I was believing
You were that much of a time But that was never good enough for me
I've been going out of my mind I've been going round and round like crazy
I had this face
Why is there always this love?
Oh, you said so
Oh, oh, oh, oh
You look like crazy
That you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Crazy
Way to be wasted on love
Way to be wasted
You could've been anything
But you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Way to be wasted
And we're gonna try and rest in our own
You always bring life home
You want me to be here forever
Remember when we used to be whole
We were so good together
Why can't we both feel the same?
Oh, yeah
Why do I need to explain?
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
You and I have lost all the time.
I've never felt good enough for me.
I'm going out of my mind.
I'm going round like crazy.
But I gotta hang in this way.
Why is there always a star?
You chose to walk like crazy.
Like crazy
That you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Wasting
Baby, wasted, I'm not done
Wasting
I'm taking me to the early age
That you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Wasting
I'm not done
Wasting
I'm taking me to the early age
That you were always looking for bad retention
Oh, wow, that's the first one.
He could get the double.
It's still too close.
He got no help on them.
13 and 3.
Oh, my goodness.
How did they do this?
How did they do it again?
Hi, I'm Cologne Major and the final day of stage one, the last few spots available in
the next stage of competition.
We've got a domestic derby in front of us, Tyloo vs LinVision, a 2-2 matchup, and the
first map has left us both scratching our heads.
A very unique, the word we've been using is flavor, but it's just a brand of counter-strike
and seeing it clash, that's left us all feeling a little weird.
Obviously, there's a lot of head to head between these two teams, it's not this year, right?
So it feels like many mind games are playing in some overthinking, and maybe a little bit
of stress in the scenario because Miss Utilt threw out, but it's a fast play, smoke red,
they're out for pressure, but the bomb wants to finish towards B. They're going to pass
through this red smoke with Jamium's flash, and he missed that.
Yeah, it didn't go deep enough, Star 8 falls back, but the space is completely orc.
I definitely feel like A's under scrutiny.
Amelia's in A main though, so far away from the split on B. Yeah, oh, Zac, it goes down,
and Mosier finding Westman, and it's a perfect pistol.
That's a guy who's looking for give post. Westmallow tries to deal with the slip and
then Sue up a river without the paddle. At that point, if you Sue, what are you meant
to do? I've just lost my ramp player. I'm getting flanked from behind. It's all over
Red Rovers. Amelia does get something for his troubles.
I really like that pistol. I think that's something you could definitely steal just
the idea because you saw how uncomfortable the B player was. He kind of has to give
those ramp players that fight. Like he has to make sure he's got some space if the flight
It's about to open up because normally when you see players playing through red, it's it's
I would say it's 10 times. Maybe two is the B split the majority of the time. It's going to be an a split
So you're high telling it back to try and plug that gap, but they'll grab themselves in on tyloo
Nearly gets the hold on to
The kev sorry nothing so
So we'll get to see if it's a force by or not.
We've got ASAP on the observing here.
So he's out of the tournament, but he's in the server with us.
I didn't know we had the technology at the major with the observer cam.
It's cool.
Yeah.
I saw a post on Instagram as well of like the 23 screens.
I didn't see.
Okay, well, they are going to force.
Famous for Amelia, 5'7 for West Mellon, scout for Zaka, and Deagle's for Sue and Starrie.
They are just starting for a it's fine on a force by because if they go be save you go against the next
Okay, logic, and again, I think a lot of this is tendencies of knowing one another
So there's the overthinking. I do find that a curious smoke from call me soon
Now he's only solo be right, but he's chosen to from long throw a cave smoke
I think if you don't play ahead of it like Mercury did then at that point it becomes a question mark on either side
So you instead of just one player being able to watch heaven and cave now becomes to players responsibility
that might lighten the load. It also buys time because it becomes a question, but Mercury
mollying and playing straight through, great response to it. This is where it could be
a bit of a blender. Jamming on taking this red control, the Tower of the Pack G, where
is he at? Mercury, not too far behind a zero in Main, so they are going to likely A-split
into this stack.
Okay, so maybe some calculations and preparations have led to this. Mollyback Donut confirms
their suspicions. You've still got Smoke on West Main, but you don't want to block them
here.
Ooh, what a shot!
Saka doesn't even get to pull the trigger of his scout, and wow, zero!
Oh, he's really quick!
It gets to Amelia and Westman and we're both trying to take that fight.
And the bomb's going to be...
Perfect.
That's just perfect.
You find a little bit of resistance, you win all the fights, and you make sure you get
to the other side to get that bomb down and avoid any possibilities.
So in starry...
Has it always been, you know, the Asian Counter-Strike conversation, been a question of, is it Tyler
or Lynn Vision?
much or am I kind of forgetting someone? I think, no, Rare Adam for a little while.
That's right. But I think that in the last couple of years, it's definitely been the
Tyler Rare Adam. They just kind of take turns of like having the stronger on paper team.
Well, this is the thing. It felt like this Lynn Vision roster's been together for some
time. Obviously, Starry left for a short period of time, then he's come back and the
G swap as well. There's been some oddness, obviously because we don't speak the language
and we don't know how he's unfolding locally for these guys, but I do know that Tyloo towards
the tail in the last year were looking for an upgrade for Attacker, right? And that's
why we have this one on your screen, Zero, who's a major rookie. A major rookie who seems
to be pretty serviceable. I did want to highlight what he's doing here is quite difficult. It's
It's like the same as on an admit to be split on Dust2.
If you go too early or too late, you can cause some issues, right?
If they win that fight, then they have main control.
Now, when you're coming through Donut, you're about CT, Temple and a main.
Right.
It's going to have to be an eco. It was 11.
It feels like a guarantee.
A couple of pistol upgrades. It's going to be three deeks.
Does look like Jam Young's incredibly comfortable against the domestic opponent as well.
That's had a strong fagging out.
It's 18 and 6.
It's a quiet 18, but it's been very effective.
This is yesterday, right? It's actually not as we came in.
The scores from his teammates yesterday.
This is over three map series against Sharks.
G was at the bottom 31, then you had 0 with 31, 32 for Mosey, 34 for Mercury.
Jam young 61.
It's crazy.
He's essentially worth two.
It's wild.
So Jam young put in a shift yesterday to give them this two to opportunity.
And I think if you're a Chinese counter strike fan, you're somewhat content
with this type of a matchup.
It means that you will have representation in Stage 2.
True.
Are they going to the stack again?
So at least,
Limpage and Know-Where the rounds are going to end.
They're just...
unequipped to do anything about it.
It's all five staying alive, as 11 is secure,
and it is just two more to seal the deal on map number one,
and then we go into Inferno, their map choice.
What's the call going to be, Mercury?
Zaka has his ult, can't make it 0-2, harass mid with nades, boost up so they can catch
Starry on the jump.
The red team react as their players walk up lane.
Suu blocked Mercury ahead, pressure on.
They know he's attacked on the box.
Now Molly's going to make life miserable for a Westman.
Can Baylor mouth?
It's forced out so much, you too though,
because they played ahead of Suu's initial smoke,
they've had to burn another, and the half-life of that...
How they didn't make it.
Oh, sorry, he's caught one there through red.
It's done well.
Yeah, caught jam young.
And they're very able to heavily rotate over towards B.
So they're in the right place for... what could be the finish?
Bombs on the back of G, Murkley walks straight into the crosshairs of Suze
and easy pickup.
Tyloo are looking to try and path in towards A and it is only Zaka here, not currently on the donut line.
At what point does he take this line?
Maybe just in time.
If it was any later than that he would have been in strife.
Yeah, Olly is going to nullify his AWP for a moment and maybe you get the plant from G.
Doesn't look like Amelia's willing to push that smoke, so yeah.
It's at 2 vs 5 on this plant.
I don't have a kit.
There is a universe where zero and G can become heroes, but I think it involved both of them.
The fact that West Mellon's caught G there puts it all onto the major rookie.
Zero versus the world and he gets himself the first two with a lovely transfer.
He did get dinged, not looking particularly promising now. They can surely just hit the
fuse, a 10 second stick and West Mellon provides the necessary cover.
Okay, so playing it by the book there, not taking any chances even though they have the big
number advantage after starry's opening kill on the jamming middle they shut down cave where mercury tries to path through and then zaka chips away at nosia
So we'll hand a bomb does go down again. It will be another buy. Don't you worry about that if you're a tyloo fan
So I think their second tactical timeout is oaking on the mic
Drops take shape on the other side of the server and MinVision are fully bought up.
They do have a kit on Westmellon, Amelia could grab one as well.
Zack has got one too, so...
Alright, well Zack did have one, he's all the back.
That's the first CT round we've seen from MinVision.
going to require a whole lot more of that to start doing some convincing that we've got a game here.
Otherwise, it's just going to feel like quite of an impending doom on this first map of the series.
It's felt in most these scenarios when a team has an advantage that's just gone on to close up the rounds.
They've been very dominant. It hasn't been scrappy and back and forth.
The opening kills could be a very key determining factor here and looks like Jamion's going to get one up.
Oh, it's Starry catching Mercury just as the flash pops.
So, as far as advances go, this one's a bit of a stunned deal.
Mosier, maybe? Hang on, Sue and Westman had a push down G-Ramp and he is tucked on the
box. Mosier finding the first, if he gets Sue, B's open. Oh, he has! Amiga's cheated
over, does he try and accelerate? Maybe Amelia gets a freebie here. Here's him stampeding
in and a free frag. You don't have to finish B. You can give G an opportunity to work because
there's so many gaps right now. Zachary acknowledging the A possibility. G, I have to take this
He doesn't know what lies on the other side.
He knows Zaka has typically been found
towards that temple line, but he keeps this movement
and it is enabling options for Zero.
He's playing for this re-aggress cave.
He's gonna get it.
Oh!
Gets the info on Amelia's leg.
There's the bomb. There's the bomb.
Yep.
But try and make it feel like it's gonna be that big finish.
And he's actually managed to find the kills!
Zero! Insanity! Turns around the 2v3!
Now G called A clear.
But he also threw a molly, so Zaka was staying A because G was puffing up his chest trying to sell a fake.
So Zaka's between two mines. Isn't A is a B?
Understandably, G didn't expect zero to just 1v2 in the cave.
Yeah, standing in a molly.
Yeah, crazy. That was insane.
And now Zaka's in the wrong spot.
Well, this doesn't meet our expectations.
As far as the opening kills, Starry starts us off at a 3v5 with a complete shutdown of middle.
Now, you've got an easy pick onto Zaka, clearing his corners and a smile creeps onto G's face
because they know they've done them dirty there. Shout out to Xero.
Continuing to impress, this new pick up for Tyloo is definitely an asset.
Okay, so I've been in the team for four months, right?
So when you look at the lack of officials for the teams from the Asia region,
either there's been a lot of domestic games, very few international matchups.
That's the same for LinVision, same for your FlyQuest, same for your Thunderdown Unders.
And he's only been in one team previously called Change the Game.
He was there for two years, from December to January 2024 to 2026.
So they found someone who definitely could shoot.
Oof, yeah, what's going on?
He's not happy with how that one unfolded.
Oh, that's an interesting camera, because, aha!
Zero saw Amelia.
Amelia didn't see Zero.
Flash of the leg.
I don't think Jack can quite believe what he's seeing unfold right now.
I'm sure, yeah.
He probably saw him in his chair when he gave up the opening death.
Okay, it is right there for the taking now.
You've got compromised by...
Looks like Mercury's parting might lead to Starrie's death here.
Yeah
Opening kill goes time they've been dominating in that department
It's set five opening kills of the map so far for linders. They have five rounds, right?
Otherwise that's gonna be 12. It's gonna be 13 of being frags in favor of tyloo, and they're just gonna farm this one up
Nice on the MP9 finding the trade
And they just run away from him
He'll get himself an upgrade
It's just media here and zero has been showing such great restraint on his a main left
Looks like we've got first map done.
Yep, I know where West Mellon was.
A long venture around the world.
With no kit.
An AK-73 HP, but smoke.
Tell you what I'm doing, I'm just trying to get a couple more kills.
Okay, you thinking about the stat line?
I'm just thinking stats.
There's...
Oh, there was.
Oh, I guess nothing for his troubles.
That's dominance!
Tyloo 13-5 their domestic opponent.
This odd game of Counter-Strike, both teams pick on the T-side pistol,
it was a big run of rounds on the CT side for Tyloo,
that really left a lot to be desired in terms of LinVision's approach.
Understandably, lots of heads to heads between these guys,
but only the second this year.
Mine games must be rife and, well, I can't read their minds,
so in terms of the Counter-Strike we saw, that was out of the box.
Let's throw this one down to the desk to see if they have anything to add.
I know domestic lineups and domestic matchups sometimes can be quite difficult to get a sense
out of, but this one as Chad said was quite postive to me, Janko.
It wasn't a beautiful game of cars ride, but if anything, a very efficient performance
coming in for Tyloo, were they pretty much exposed Lin-Mission for every single mistake
and mess up there?
I mean it was a very strange game looking at Lin-Vision's T side, right, like their approach.
I don't know if in the preparation, you know, they were really honed in on
Talu likes to smoke and then leave that area completely
So we'll just walk through it right and then they were getting punished time and time again
Talu had their number. I mean, it was surprising to me. They didn't even want the two rounds
they did on T side after the
The pistol right right but in that sense it was a very strange game and Talu will just take it
They played pretty much standard for the entirety of the game,
taking advantage of what Lynn Vision was doing on their side of things.
Yeah, for you, Ash, are you sharing that sentiment, a weird game of Counter-Strike?
Yeah, very weird. You can see the ideas that Tile had.
They wanted to get a kill and just let Lynn Vision kind of suffer, and they did, and not.
At 261 of those games, you kind of let them go,
did Tile even need to do anything other than just join the server?
Because this was a real mess.
Ash, I know you picked up on a couple of moments in this game,
you know, some back to back rounds where you get to showcase a bit of what you're talking about in terms of lindvish and, you know, not really getting to jump them.
Yeah, so I think for me, we've got to kind of understand the situation because I think this is mostly all stress. And I think we should remember
as much as we expect people here to be able to handle the stress, this is five human being struggling in the moment and they really couldn't handle this.
And I'll give you a quick example. If I throw a ball to you now and you would just catch it, no problem. If I said,
Hey, I'm going to shoot you in the face. If you don't catch this ball, suddenly it's going to feel a lot different, right?
So we're going to see some rounds where it's just weird decision-making going on and unfortunately for Limvision
This was almost every single buy around in the first 10 ones
They see here even here missed window smoke and jump in for some reason I haven't clear anything properly
Just jumping through smokes continuously miss windows smoke. I think happened again even the AFK in the spawn
I'm not really entirely sure what's happening. Why does every windows smoke have a gap either side?
You can kind of look around
It felt like almost every round had one of these weird examples and nearly every time it felt like it
directly in the entry frag and we know how bad as we had to start the show
Lim vision now when you're missing shops that is continuous this is your
star player doing this it was all of them literally all of them and what the
hell is going on here it's so can they recall from this I'm kind of funny a
little bit strange as well they took two tack pauses in this game one of the
match point and the other one they took on an eco and that's the one that went
in B missed all the utility missed along some missed the flashes what's kind of
going on there I want to see more from the coach as well and now can they
That's the scariest part about this game, because that tells you, he was fine with it, that tells you, that was the plan, like that wasn't his players doing something wild that he disagrees with, he's like, yeah, this is what we wanted to do this game.
I had the honor of covering them at the CSC tournament and I saw a lot of the same tendencies to be completely honest and I have a question for you Janko in that regard.
You spoke about the lack of practice domestically within Asia right now, the ping problems as well.
Is this a result of them getting away with stuff like this against opponents of a lesser scale?
And then when you finally face someone who's good at playing Counter Strike, you just get punished left-right in the center.
Honestly, I think this is them getting in their own heads a bit too much and over-analyzing Talu and focusing too much on Talu.
and how Tyloo likes to play ancient instead of just playing the map, right?
And playing a bit more vanilla, a bit more default.
Even the final, you know, it's a lot of these from house, they're not using their utilities.
Like, guys, you have a tunnel, why don't you just execute me?
Instead of trying to walk through a smoke, like, how about that?
And when they did it in the final round of the first half, they won the round.
It's like, you know, if you just did more of this,
I think you would have had a better time at ancient.
Speaking of Tyloo, there were also some some positive moments in this game, Janko.
You picked out a round eight that you wanted to show.
Well, I mean, there's a couple of rounds really that is just
more of Lin vision and what they were doing in some of these rounds.
Right in this one, we saw Zachar with that aggressive play towards cave,
trying to find an opening that didn't really work out.
Good job from Tyloo of understanding that there's space to be taken.
they re-aggressed cave, being proactive, find the kill on Vesmela, and now those pesky 4v5s, right?
Like the call is just to, okay, let's just go away, but they get blocked in A main, there's no pressure
anywhere else. I mean, you lost cave control and great job from...
It's the wind or something, it's going back, we just want to do something, but they're all just
stood there doing nothing, it's crazy. Yeah, it was great job from Tyloo, you know, to...
when they're not pressured, they're saving their utility. That's why Zero still has a smoke,
It's seven seconds.
They haven't pushed the sighting, and it's everyone there.
I mean, it's just really a slaughter, and you know, you left like scratching your head with what's going on.
And then round 11, the one that stood out for the casters, too.
We saw Jamyang punish this player earlier, so they do it again.
Like, he just did, they're so stuck on it.
And now, like, Zac, the first one with the bomb, you could see, he has almost a full belt of utility.
He's just walking, like, full of smoke.
What's the plan here? You didn't put pressure anywhere else.
You didn't do anything to make the TILU players not hold that smoke.
I mean, it was really bizarre some of the decisions that LNVision was making.
It seemed like TILU were prepared for it.
They didn't really have to break us right here.
Ash, is that something you've noticed as well when you're watching LNVision
that you can actually prepare for stuff like this and just sit back,
you know, and play default counter-strike?
That's the biggest problem you have when you're so set.
Is it how many ideas can you really have?
I felt a lot of time when I would do it before the Shanghai Major you're kind of going back a few months to pick around
You haven't done in a while because it just feels like everything you do is so obvious and when you do it things like this
It does there's just a trigger for everything
You know that there's gonna be a set flash come in here's mean whatever and he looks like in this game
They kind of just went okay today's game plan. We're gonna go for desperation plays boys
We're gonna walk through smokes and random when things aren't working and it looked terrible because it didn't work
Honestly, it was terrible. It looked terrible exactly because it was terrible. It's just awful
I'm not sure what they were thinking and I wonder if this is because they got the showy yesterday or something
They kind of lost all confidence in the game. I don't know but I'd like to say like play a good ancient
I want it's like we saw game leading yesterday
I was complaining because it felt like they were playing trick rounds and trying to find gimmicks
You meant to be good at ancient go and play a normal ancient. Why are you walking through smokes around?
Why we do desperation plays? How are we getting stuck a main 40 seconds and 30 seconds late was still there behind the smoke
It's crazy safe to say that they need a big mental reset heading into to the second matter
They want to stay alive at this tournament. That's going to be uninferno. I know that you picked out some some things
You wanted to show on behalf of tyloo in terms of you know the positive side of counter strike something they're doing well
Yeah, I think they're keeping it simple
That's for sure and we're going to see them kind of explode a little bit of I suppose utility
So this is again sharks from yesterday and I like this the the basic decision-making that they have and they're leaning on
Jamming a little bit which is nice because I mean he's in that kind of superstar category especially for this stage
So no no utility phone at all from the CT side drawings. Okay, let's go in
Let's do one of our little prep plays
I'm saying this play in a very long time double-nade interest right away
I see that Tyler no time wasted guys that's group up were going in B
I don't care how we're doing it. We're going in B and the quality of it is really bad
It's really bad. We're going the spacings Paul instead of going with free and physical to they both died
But because I can go in and trade it, you know this from max I dust to you can run in dust to on B
You can lose even three kills
But because you're rushing you have so much utility left that you can just smoke and smoke and smoke and you see now
I think shark saved this round in the 3v2
But they didn't really have a chance to do anything it's a clock just running so low
But then it happens also again in the following round or a couple of rounds later
Where tyloo have like it looks like he's a pre-planned a-pop anyway
But then the indication is coming because we see there's kind of like a lightning show going on in second
B when they're just all the flashbangs are coming in Germans at the bottom just admire it is like is it Disney World watching it in America
He's just saying boom boom boom boom we were going out disco going on and got some dancing happening and they're just ready to go
And it's just accelerates them and what I like here again
It's just explosive, but mercury as well. There's some initiative here. He's like the spamming the rotations
He's just gonna send it through here like he's kind of like the bonus guy a lot
They usually look at place last on this sort of era. He just goes in til in killer. We're just gonna be nice today
I think we just want to handle this but again because you go so fast
Tyler actually double smoke
They still have an extra one and they spoke again this 4v4 and they can't even go through them because it's explosive
So watch out for these quick entry frags into quick plans go in get a job done
And can you even go through that for these retakes?
That's very difficult
I feel like if they played that explosive and that fast jank run a map like inferno that should suit limishing pretty well
Yeah, I think the less they need to think about and the faster the game is they have a better chance
You know just to react maybe use some of their utility
But honestly with how ancients went I feel like as long as Tyloo doesn't get overconfident and takes this for granted now
I mean they have it in the bag for the side of linvision
Just throw your prep out the window man like just play my counter strike
Play counter strike play default play vanilla like you know you're one map away now from getting eliminated
You know try to go out fighting instead of going for these gimmicky silly plays
That's what we hope for and we hope for elimination to play counter strike on the second map of inferno
Now if they don't, they will be eliminated from IEM Colonies.
Do a die time now for LinVision.
We have Tailu taking on LinVision on Inferno after the break.
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He waited, he waited, he waited!
I mean, he finished off the job!
Oh my God! Inhuman reactions!
Now it's gonna come down to shots.
I've got a shot, it's a bloody shot, I'm a deal, I'm spitting out a shot, see, it's a gun!
They want to go all in, HECO comes here, they're not a killer, that's not so fun, see, they gotta move quick right now, then if you story have me, HECO, you're kidding me!
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It's a major that one of these two teams will be exiting at the conclusion of the series.
Tyloo one map up, taking Linvision's pick of Ancient and putting it under their belt.
We've already lost them, I hope, I'll say a big name, but we've lost some names.
Mold heads, you know, that are no fair gaming gladiators and sinners with the first two teams eliminated
Who's been added to that list since under and under Sharks and heroic percent home yesterday liquid sending home heroic
I think they've got some reshuffling to do over there the focus scheme on this one
You got three games today Talu versus Lynn vision live on your screen liquid versus fly quest and then energy versus big to round out
Your day only three of those names can progress and three of them will be going home. I
Think for my pickums I need
I think I need a big plan or a liquid to win, that's it, that's all I need.
But right now, let's see and focus on Inferno, it's going to be a T-Start for Tyloo and it's
going to be a slow pistol to begin.
Ash though on the desk bringing focus to the stress and it's not something that I would
say we overlook, I think we just assume that everyone's under it, it's more about how you
handle it.
I did like Ash's analogy though.
Oh, when I like to shine the head.
I'm sorry, you're getting shine the head indeed.
Young's playtime is cancelled. He's been put in the naughty corner. Restraint on the
blocks mode from Westmillen as well. And Sue's watch is like being baited in. Potentially
like Westmillen's going to try and act like he's solo beat. I think Sue's just going
to tell you if they start swinging. Oh, okay. Never mind. Sue's stuffed in.
Hang on, Sue. Can you lend him a hand? Does start to reveal himself now. The shot from
Westmillen gets his second Sue. Solid. On to Mosier. I don't think they're getting the
bomb down here. One thing that you and I have had the pleasure of watching when Tyler's
been in the server so far here at IEM Cologne is G just having these insane moments of multi-kills
on a rifle. So one on a Galil, there was one on Mirage where the AK almost 1v5'd. So G
has had some moments of almost greatness on the rifle. He's definitely been putting in
time.
It's a brilliant pre-ame, isn't it? I mean, because what all Jamion's doing there is trying
get free info and instead he concedes an opening death so really nice work and
it's exactly what lin vision needed right when you've had a map like ancient
a pistol I know I'm just speaking of platitudes here but winning the pistol
after you just lost a map really convincing fashion is going to help and
you looked out of sorts completely on that map right here missing nades just
think goofy type of maneuvers so this is their second pistol of the series let's
Let's see if they can hold on to the conversion.
Emilia balcony, snarry long, zack up, floating between the two.
It's five tech nines and a bunch of U-Tool and an A explosion on the way.
I do struggle to see how Tyler was supposed to win this one.
The running gun of the tech nines against the F9, I don't mind it.
That's fair.
But it would require some real fumble on the part of the CTs here on A.
Emilia's throwing the blocks while he can, and he's got nothing on the long side.
Emilia, hang on.
He gets flashed and they got some space.
Some kills this one's getting scary. Saka's gone down. Zero's hit it picks up the bomb. This is an open a site
Oh, you know, it's worse
Have in mind winning the pistol. It's losing the second round with all those advantages
You just accrued and they even give this one a look West Mellon probably won the 11 of what's that?
That's the thing. I don't think you give it a go right. He's going through apartments right now, but
He's got the key. He's got the smoke. So time not really the issue. It's just how you meant to breach into this
You don't really have info on the crossfire and going bulk like that's such an unfavorable fight
You have to win them all so rapidly right now. It's entry will help certainly well
It's gonna make life difficult for the MD9 gets a cover and wow zero again on the tech nine two impactful kills from him
Don't know if they're gonna get away from the bomb blast will they get to save that m4 on jam young?
That's the question. He's got kev
No.
As he gets it?
Yes, indeed. Okay, wow. So they get the round.
Oh, short lived successful in vision.
That's going to leave a mark. Your money already in the dumps.
Yeah, we've got Emilia on screen here.
And the fact that it's being highlighted here, the flash is coming into pit.
That for me isn't the key.
It's Mercury essentially selling the long raffle, the mid to B on his own.
Because Emilia is trying to assist his players that side of the map with a flash.
And by doing so, he creates the weakness.
He creates the gap and then he's caught out of position.
got out of position right so that's a flashing piece I'm helping you boys
next I can hold it back so it looked like kind of an empty silly death on
long but it did result in a breach and victory did a lot there with a little
right so force buying back the other way five sevens a diggle around sues
mp9 a break and Holly towards sandbag they go and we're still against the first
This is the trade there, sketchy. Zero look at it, for very low.
You can back off as they force the rotation of Zaka. Sue wants to press forward for info.
That's a good call from Sue.
Supported by Zaka.
It's a bit uncomfortable to have the bomb on G here. He's kind of in limbo, just hoping for a re-aggress.
I don't think you will expect this.
Never mind.
He's got the two of them.
Okay, we're definitely ready for that.
Gee, shoots aren't.
Just as we were talking about it.
And now looking to pivot back towards a Amelia entrenched in the apartments.
It's just him.
I mean, this is not looking pretty.
Once they clear out sight and pit.
Maybe.
Okay, she's going to run across this line.
Oh, great shot.
Just no idea, right?
Otherwise, they've got all that control.
Emilia caught off guard and now it's just Starrie over towards B with a D. Look at Zero's position.
It's going very, very safely. Not wanting to give over anything and I like it. It's going to be 2-1 start for Tyloop.
It's after the pistol loss. We discussed the losers, the teams that have been eliminated so far.
We did have Bait and Betboom on day number two going 3-0 and AD MIBR and Gamelidge also during that spot yesterday.
We'll start with an upgrade into an MP9, full build of nades, a defuse kit, it's not too
shabby to save.
Okay, so for LinnVision this just feels like you put yourself in a hole immediately, right?
The pistol I was thinking could be a bit of a fire starter, some momentum.
Instead, you're going to find yourself in a bit of a hole to start your CT side.
As far as the best thing you can get out of this one, it's going to be Starry hanging
out with his nades, going to try and facilitate the boys, just drop them across so he can
focus on the MP9.
Yeah, so it's going to be tough, right?
This is one of Tyler's comfort picks.
They were one of the last five in a row, two of them here in Cologne, whereas for Lynn
Vision, they've lost two on the trial in Cologne, one to M80, one to MIPR, right, so this is
never gonna be easy. The fact that they were a no-show on ancient Salisle mood even more
so. And that's even with quote-unquote footstaffed halves, being the pistol win. It's just the
follow-through that they fumbled. For Tyloo looking like a better team without a doubt,
it's just Sue over towards B. He's about to have an awful lot of utilities face.
More spellings coming. You got a flash. Make it two.
There's one. There's two. And they didn't play through.
So the chance to cause chaos on the way into the site has been removed. Sorry, has a HE.
I'm still going to give it a go and see if they can limit this.
They will be buying into the next round. So finally, a little bit of chaos should unfold.
Pistols. There you go.
That's the best, Pills.
This man gives it a go.
It just looks too casual for Tyloo.
Yeah.
You know, you can see the scenarios
that they're getting themselves into.
He's looking safe.
Knocked the backs off.
Sorry.
Still in ruins.
Could get mildly excited because of that kit,
but they're not even off to give a late second to fuse a go.
Or are they?
OK, hold on.
They are.
See you around.
tracks the one man with the kit in perfect. Perfect. I see him hanging around.
I saw what happened in the big game with game of legion and thought we don't want any of that nonsense unfolding. So handled.
And first rifle round to begin. Zaka could go glass cannon on the AWP, but he's opting for the rifle.
Everybody with an A4. Finally, in the big 2026, those two rifles have leveled out in terms
of usage. It's been Valve's dream ever since having a boat in the game. The other banalic
troller that goes up in the molly block room, logs, and an open up would suffer them soon.
kills tough for them on the first map of play. Yeah that's been a very quick find back though.
Westman just got bugged by a smoke break flash swing. Gee, down to 50 for the CMA.
And now what? It's just an equal division. A 2-2 split of their defensive resources.
Should give the T's an advantage no matter where they go if they group.
Pantsy a smoke just leaving the hands of Mercury now it's going to be on towards the
arch side so brackets can trust seized
someone's starry Zaka oh my god the walkthrough mercury this is outrageous completely unannounced
rounds the corner and just in time starry relay the information but never mind still
I could go down a mercury pivots find starry as well now too much for a media to handle what a round from Mercury
Back it up. So you have to save don't even come give it a look just hold on to the m4
That's gonna be for one mercury a massive move the gap Chad
That's so minimal. I mean it came down to starry screening. They couldn't react in time
We had lindvision try crazy moves walking through smokes and trying to find gaps on ancient and it didn't look anything like this
So out of sorts our lindvision
Tyler delivering in buckets and spades so far.
Super uncomfortable for the CTs.
Zac was half-heartedly jiggling for the smokewalk, but like we timed it to perfection.
So now you've got plenty of cash in the coffers. You've already got four rounds, T rounds under
your bell and there's more coming. Here we go. This is why I just heard the comms that
were erupt, sorry to scream. The fact that he's having a pivot into this and win the
fight should be dead to rights. But again, it's the pressure of that moment. And then
the fact that they get the third Amelia with way too much to do with a big smile on G's
face he's loving how this one's unfolding partial bite would be saved them for
love a top smoke mid top mid smoke
now he's gonna immediately like a moth to the flame use that to take some space
another fall one on ancient on the lighter buys the force buys they were
stacking the correct sites they just wouldn't I'm not winning out the jewels
Let's see if that continues here.
Call over to Synergy as well, swinging on the HE grenade.
So at least the M4 is over towards B.
But Su's playing more of a retake setup, and if you're playing over towards CT,
if you get the block smoking and then you're able to path towards site shore,
but you're on your own, so essentially, for Su, has to go massive.
We're talking 2 to 3 kills. I say 2. It has to be 3, right?
be three right two and a half a lot of damage has to be done right now to make
this one a possibility because the stack it's still over towards a we have 50
seconds the B finish is not a guarantee but they're lining up the nades now there
is a H on jam young I'll be able to break it if they want to just go on a
utah so there's another smoke it's not gonna count for much
and they're pushing he's picking to the first so it does start off as he means to
go on but space has been taken
That bomb will be planted, nearly caught on there.
There's a lot of ammo to seal on that M4, so they're gonna juggle it to a healthier member.
It's another scenario where you give it a go.
Yeah, at least I think you should.
Next round you got Max Lost Burners, you have a man advantage, the bomb's down.
Got two slimes?
Get stuck in boys.
Make things awkward for them.
For him for this.
Smoke does nothing.
Try to apply some stress.
It's so leisurely.
It's a 10 second defuse boys, let's get a wiggle on.
Here we go.
This is some of the most scared and timid counter-strike I've seen in such a long time.
Nobody wants to make him lose.
You're not going to win that round unless you try and make a play.
There's an unwillingness.
Maybe it's a lethargic start to the day.
Okay, timeout call from Gum.
That was another critique.
Nyanco saying, okay, with the timeouts or the lack of them, it kind of instills the point that what the game plan was going as they had discussed.
Or just accepting your fate, which is now...
That one is much worse, if that's the case.
If the game plan is just completely wrong and nothing's working in some of these mind games, and you're trying to do stuff out of the box and be tricky with it, it's not working. Okay, fine.
And I'd find it easier to build a case that they, you know, were feeling this kind of exception, accepting their fate.
it was like a crazy head-to-head this year where they played a lot and they
never could beat this team it's not the case
supposed to be you know a domestic head-to-head
with some ups and downs
right now it's all up for Tyloo
okay I like a Zakharov we're gonna get to see what he can get going on the CT side
you can see his spawn there on his screen gonna maybe go for a little pick on B
maybe you catch someone trying to take that early banana control
The question mark's whether my boo's zapper over this for a T stairs pick
There we go
Lovely
I must have unspotted that leap
The man disadvantage it
Doesn't feel too concerning. No, it looks like they're still going to be able to get banana control
It's a molly to the mouth, sandbag is their biggest problem.
You take your till ship to the lair.
That's an invitation, Jamion wants to go through.
It does. Thank you very much.
Starry's rotating over, he'll be three strong.
Wow, look at Jamion swing there as well.
He was ready to take the fire if anyone fancied it.
So that's forced him to block smoke.
There's only one left, the rest is out on the floor.
Well, this is coming back over he was over what's boiler is dropped out
He's rotating back towards banana for this finish
So even though it is three strong on the stack a solid execute with some well-timed flashes could be the difference maker Tyler could just breach in
Yeah, you know G's can be the one throwing those nades
Here it comes you've got your pieces in the right place. This one feels compulsory for Linnbish's major hopes
You must be able to convert here 30 seconds on the clock zero
The bomb is back and oh no
Westman is the first to fall zero on the double entry no trade. Maybe there is Janyun catches starry and your stack achieves
nothing
Hey, break
Zaka probably wants to try and make a move now because of just
Well that one round. Yeah, I know it's gonna save. Oh me. I mean that's just gonna make it so much worse
He gets the opening kill
We're so much style in middle catching murky running bench
Yeah, that was within the first 15 seconds of the round then you give them banana control
But, execute B, you get nothing. You get absolutely nothing.
6-1.
You've really, these matches, the 2-2s, this is where you hope that you get the back and forth, greedy CS, all the rounds, maybe even overtime, clutch heavy, everything on the line.
The disparity between these two teams right now is from different worlds, but they're from the same country.
And what's the purpose of stage one, like to feed into that logic of what the 2-2 game should be, is to sieve for gold.
Yes.
I'm stealing your opinion again.
Yeah.
You know, it's about fighting the teams that can hang with the stage two teams that do deserve to extend their major run.
And yet, you know, both of these teams are in the same category, two wins, two losses, and a Listerine face for Zaka.
And the opposite for Zero.
Er, for last minute, excuse me.
You need a fire start around, you need one that's like a shutdown, someone goes huge, multi-kill.
You've got a good read on the situation, it's a good call from the in-game leader.
Or it's a clutch, it comes down to a 2v2, and the boys, the comms are perfect, the flashes are there.
You know, that gets the people going, but right now...
Go on, Starry.
Yep, perfect, perfect! They're all lined up for him, Amelia's flash gets him too.
have to win this one. This is it. This is the one. The Fire Starter, the 6-6-1, they're
pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
Holy smoke, Ray. It doesn't work. Gee, actually benefits from it. Emilia holds on.
He's got Jam Young on the side. Not anymore. He doesn't. Does remove his head as well.
Just Mercury remaining in the clutch. And beautiful. That's Emilia's round to close
down. He was involved in all five of those kills.
Okay, there you go something that makes sense right flash comes in the swings there the multi-kill
Yeah, finally a nice looking round there from Lynn vision
Savage the CT half they've got to win another one of those
Well, it's gonna be a lot of those take a look at the cash that G has before he's invested. It was around 12k
He still got eight after the buys the next closest
Mosey, so they're not flush with cash, but they do have another buy after this at a minimum
so it can get something the mic gives it to
chance before the money break comes in. He'll be very happy with how this is unfolded. You
lose the pistol, you're gonna run a six, you lose one, you take a timeout. Think about
how comfy it gets to be for the coach, that's it. Hey boys, all good? Don't worry about
it. We've already got six rounds, plenty more to be played. Everything else is just
cream on top.
Try to bring that energy back. It's tough. Yeah, you are digging yourself out of a pit
right now. It's so hard to stop that thought crossing your mind as well as like, oh, I'm
in my bag, take the pipe.
Oh. Yeah, that's a lot of damage. Westmount's committed to this.
Oh, he spots him as one of the jump up mantles to the highest point, gets the elevation over
the smoke, jamming on edges forward. Sue's called for Starry's backup, but it feels like
they're just going, and we've already lost another. Down goes the sidehold, Sue only
One
Was the audible and so a three versus two in the post plan
There is
Amelia he's not gonna come through bananas. Let's keep jam young busy
Jam is gonna worry about Amelia that means all action will be on G
I mean an incendiary in this stage in the game as well. He's just it's gonna make it so much more difficult for a 10-second stick
Yeah, there's a smoke on Amelia. Does he choose to use it to close the gap though?
full bell that's gonna force the fight this is good good you tell the
fight star is perfect nails it on to G they need to get on that diffuse but
they don't have to do this with a story he's just gonna try to be send a
spam oh it's a head off now all the time no time jam young clutch is up
oh the shot where jam young is on this guy looks robotic right the rockling
progress of the man on your screen right now is in sight the style I was
talking about against the sharks we see on display just so calm right there the
crosshair placement bang first bullet dead
this opening yeah he hopped up as well right to avoid the inaccuracy there
he's just right on top okay this releases crouch as he jumps beautiful
bang incident headshot this one looks so stunning as well as the story of the
72, 72. Taking a pick in a second mid is Zac up. And the timer is up. This looks like
a set call. This could be, I don't know who made this, we were covering game
allegiance and they did it the other day, we also saw it in Atlanta, they did the
balcony smoke and the motor smoke deep. And then they pop out, they used the, there it
In line here you go
That's a good count and a lot of let him stop in but I mean he's at four dots up down
Sleep do you continue looks like they will mercury just puts his head in the vice sack at slams it shut a little bit of space for jam
Young
There's no rotation through the archway not to know that gee on the balcony looking for that opening and finds
Zaka crouching on site jam young's got a lot of room. Where's G gonna go if he dies with the bomb rounds over?
Yeah, but if you I don't know I doesn't know that they've pushed so far
Should have been the kill should have been the one of the B defenders, right? So, I mean west balance and T spawn
There's no getting that bomb to be
We're gonna have to consider the possibility of the flank through second mid
He's not looking at it now. No, he's not at all. Oh my god. G just in time just in time
Get to the headshot! This is actually becoming a winnable round!
3 on A! You can get the bomb to B! Jam Young's already called it clear!
Olly behind him, they can't chase him, they're gonna have to wait for this!
Well played! It's really well played!
The action's gonna have to be on Jam Young, right? He's so low!
If I'm Sue, I am feeling so silly right now. A kill I should have had.
And now the round spiraling, West Mellon as well.
I don't have a kit.
This is gonna be quite a greasious loss.
With Jam Young alive, I can't help but feel Tyloo have the advantage despite G's low HP and the number advantage.
G's not going to give him the fight. It's about the timing of his uncrouch. There's an awful lot of stuff for now, and Jam Young's not looking at my place, and never mind.
Little Invision, pull it off and wipe the sweat from their brow.
Okay, well done there from Amelia. Trying to put in the shift here on Inferno. No, it kills deep.
Yeah, he has saved them multiple occasions now.
Triple kill there. They get the AWP. They get an AK for their troubles and they get themselves their third round so seven of three
I mean, I thought that would have that would have been it
You know you lose around like that the fact that this yeah, this is the kill I'm talking about
G manages to adjust the fact that yeah, they didn't consider this parthing
So jam young it's always like I didn't have any banana, but had to acknowledge the possibility
It was just so quiet. I didn't have the intel G was solo HP
He didn't want to like get the info for jam young and so it resulted in a back turned
Okay, so we've had a back-and-forth for the last couple of rounds here last time they lost a round so Kings with a timeout
They lost another he's done it again. So I think he said boys. Let's make sure a to guarantee with love nine
But let's just take eight. Let's not let them salvage and make it a seven five seven five
We swap halves they can recalibrate in the break come back win the pistol games back on for them
If you want to put them away with limited stress book that spot in stage two. There's no day off
We start again tomorrow everyone's gonna be sitting and watching by for today's games to conclude
So we know the matchups for stage two kicking off bright and early
So we get our G2s our foots our spirits Astralis legacy
Starting to ramp up
So they've gone for something a little bit more of a pocket strap there right that's a set call from spawn they've
Motioned into it that executed it hasn't landed unlikely to see them go into that again
But they have been getting over the lot of banana space
They're giving it a go once more.
Looks like West Melon's going to be putting up a bit more of a forward fight.
There is a deeper banana smoke.
Philapse control early for Mosier.
They're very quick.
They're a 30 in FOILA, already controlling mid.
The fact he's doing that when there's a mid smoke up is also crazy, right?
Because...
Oh, hold up, fight.
Yeah, big fight.
West Melon has touched half wall.
They're going to put up a student.
Ready?
Whoa, just close, staring at the brickwork!
Comfortable pursuit, someone's sacker.
There's still so much time in this round, but don't forget about all that app space.
Looks like they're gonna return to middle. No one on brackets for the CT side.
Double pit setup though, it is hard to break, especially with Amelia and Starry both finding output so far in this map.
Rap? It makes it a little easier.
Starry has the AK, so let's see with him with the one-
He's meant to be Jam Young's equal on the other side of the server.
Yeah, yeah, okay, so we might get to see that head-to-head.
Has some flashy moments to Starrie, but nothing is consistent as a jam young
Zaka has the cross
It's gonna be enabling Amelia to worry about double smoke library arch go. Here we go
Cross charging through smokes G counted made and there's the head shot from Starrie
Clean on to Mercury Amelia activates as well. This is the test. This is the next G zero combined another fried Zaka core
huge from zero the bomb can't go down
Chimelia is gonna feel like he can't catch a break another double kill in
defense of his bomb site still it falls it's up to two
time ticking
he's gonna spend contact now can't find the headshot instantly the bomb play the
bomb it's planted default flash catches him he take off the bomb
He's played this well, not giving Sue what he wants, beautiful, using that knife movement
speed.
No flash of flash confirms his off it, and another round going the way of the T side.
Eight, two rounds on Inferno for Tyloo.
It is wild considering the score that Zerkin has decided to burn too, but both times he's
taken the timeout, they've been able to convert the round.
So whether it's just giving the extra 30 seconds for Mercury to call the shots, or he has an
idea. Regardless, the stat line will show that they were effective timeouts.
Sorry, did really have to do right. It is a good setup. It's the first shot on the mercury. He goes down.
But then it's all this chaos at zero, pivoting into that. And you're trying to catch the time in there if you're
zacka, but coming through the gray screen, you just see how puffed out you are.
That was a really nice, well constructed finish by Tyloo.
Oh, not a great buy for either team for the final round of the half.
Yeah, Sue's pissed, and it's not gonna get worse.
They just lumped down. I heard a giggle.
I did hear a giggle, too.
Sometimes it's like disbelief.
Like, I can't believe you tried that.
They're having a good go.
They go for a boost.
Well, that's nice. That works.
I've got two players unprepared, but she's gotten away with it with 17 points of health.
It's crazy looking at another nine, three, half,
and they've only managed four opening kills.
Wow. Yeah, so the output. I don't know who that's more condemning. Right? Yeah. It usually tells
them to trade work, right? But at the same time, some of these rounds, when you think about the
Merc, you're getting picked by Zaka towards Bench. Look, look at this. They've evacuated B.
This is like ancient, right? They're going for these craze. Oh, they're in our head. We're going
into the craziest possible thing we can. And then you get that sinking feeling when no one's shooting
you and you realize, oh, they could probably be in the open. You hear that sound of a flashbang in
in the distance. Okay, there is a bit of a mistake. They double smoke coffins, so they
could have re-smoked CT or re-smoked coffins, so they've wasted that. There is a kit on
Starry. Amelia is still in library. Alex, take it away.
Alright, folks. Tyloo, in it to win it.
He just missed a smoke in the retake. Look at it!
Zachary, back on with the flames, Westman and just throw his body onto the line, Amelia is taking his time, coming for this layup line of ult, oh my god he just lost an attack line at range, gee he hits the shots,
Oh, is he a down to Zachary's giving it his best shot. They've got the kid. They've got the chances should be four
Invision an opportunity
Geez I'm done of course he is Tyler I've got just four rounds separating them from eliminating vision from the clone major
I'll beat the bar, I'll beat the bar, I'll beat the bar
For back, the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne, 2026, and it's a major baby right now, Tyloo.
They are just a handful of rounds away from stepping into stage 2, and Jin's having a
good old time out there.
Ligvision, they appear to be shell shocked.
We can chalk that up to a couple of reasons.
Hey, the extra stress of a major, the other being this domestic rivalry, and maybe mind
games that we can't possibly understand, but it's been ugly.
are. Halu have looked good. Lynnvision have looked below average and what was a decent
start for them on day one is quickly simmered out owned by MIBI yesterday and looked to
be more of the same today. They got the pistol and they're not problems that they lost to
scouting rounds so you'll see if Lynnvision can get both pistols. Well it's gonna be an
execute. Zero with the dual brothers on the balcony G with the USP short side.
Milia with a long smoke lined up.
How many is Zero gonna get? How good are the flashes?
Things are gonna be fine. Yeah, how many is gonna get blind at all? His back's gonna be too
just nail the first and the second headshot and now G can activate draws their attention away zero
combines gets another gets four zero shots down the pistol tyler making this one quick
i keep the guy on the ice huh let him have it boys come on let him have it ah big smile on
his face right there beautiful word for a major rookie hanging he's had a lot of four k's over
the last couple of days of play he has again in that first half what was shocking was tyloo
by winning nine rounds only managed four opening kills and Jam Young won them all
but they still managed to convert nine so very good work from them and this is great from zero
foot shooting simple stuff and I think if you're in vision at least it's quick yeah I suppose
you know rather than a heartbreaking OT where you should have had it these these are tough losses
though because you wonder at what point did they go wrong was it the preparation is it the attitude
right is the mental i think it's the uh the ancient loss must have baffled them they might the
the reason you've picked that is because you feel like that's your strong suit even ash was saying
that he expected this one to go the distance go three this isn't even close not even remotely
Tiling we've got four players on A. Does look like an XK. Or at least for some black
at space. Oh, what? Just a smoke spam. Just a smoke spam from MoZio and the returning
fire gets him half health. That's all their nades, they have to go.
Now you flashed. Just hook you in and ooh, you hit a good headshot. That's what you do,
Zaka. Provide the equalizer on the aggress. Are they looking to pivot without any nades?
I guess it's relatively level in that regard, but you can't execute into a site. You just need to trade.
He's got a block smoke, so you're going to have 15 seconds and it's going to be flanked as well.
You're not going through that. I mean, you can't.
I think you have to go through that. You all jump through together.
Here we go.
Oh, and if you jump, you have just three. Casually, just three.
And that was the four, so they either take an eco now and buy with the score and a 12-3, or they force out the game.
Was that one of us wasn't me. Oh, okay. Someone down there needs some nasal spray
Okay, well they're opting for
The less exciting no, I guess it would be more exciting they're opting for the more exciting
Oh, okay, hold up. Sorry. She's got an AK before leaving spawns. I can said hold up a second sorry take this
So they're gonna go with that armor
Hey selfless king
We've got Glocks.
I guess it was a third option, right?
Eco, Force or...
Do something in the middle.
Do something else.
So presumably the idea is to do that we...
I have three smokes.
I'll jump across, you bait, you get some info, see something you want to see.
Oh, your AK just takes 20 damage to an ad.
Great.
Smoke's going to keep G's boots planted.
But 40 seconds doesn't happen yet.
And Jamion still has a block smoke, so if you just throw this now, you're going to have
the same thing you just dealt with before, there's no HE, you're just going to have to
run through a smoke.
At least there's something of a smoke for CT and Cossons, and then a flash, and a good
slightly better.
Jamion's empty.
Oh!
Nice from Emilia, finds Mosier, and it's messy on the spray, still adjusts nicely into the
second headshot now onto the USP runs out Emilia finds two with his Glock somehow
Bob will go down okay they're very susceptible to these this HG grenade on
Mercury could nail it Emilia is in pool on a scrap of HP
kids are available for Mercury and zero and the flash hits Zaka completely
We need a core out, nice work, just as early as down.
That's 12, folks.
Definitely feels like an impending exit
from the clone major for LinnVision.
Yeah, again, I guess this is the point
we reflect on the journey so far.
It's the last two that are glaring for me.
They lost to MIBR on Anubis, 30 to five,
and then on Inferno, 30 to two.
And then right now, they've lost,
well, 30 to five on Ancient,
and it's currently 12 to three.
This is how.
When you combine the run of their best of threes, it's been miserable for LinVision.
Whereas Tyloo, they started down in that 0-2 category and have been able to work their
way back up.
We have a synergy, sharks, and, well, in one round's time, LinVision.
I mean, that speaks to Tyloo's pedigree, the fact that you're doing a reverse sweep
in the major.
Once you get to the best of threes, that speaks to your proficiency as a team.
That's why we like the safety net right and I think with this level of teams, I know everybody wants best of 3s the whole way through but then we'd need a month and a half long event, maybe a little bit more.
But I think with this level of teams, it's fine with the best of ones, right? There's always going to be upsets. It's very difficult, especially when this last 6 months we have had very few head to head between, not only these guys regionally, but these guys against some of the other competition here.
So we're seeing what sticks. Okay, round 16, the guns are in for Linnvision.
3 up 2nd mid, 2 towards the stairs, quickly get this boiler in halls control, Zero wants
to fight.
going to have a bit of a flick to hit. And whistles will pass Starrie.
Flick on short.
0. Crouches in to Sue.
That's high shots.
Double entry. Find the foot down by Mercury and now pivots in to the side just in time.
Starrie catches him.
They're in.
Safe.
In vision 4.
OK, so everyone remember the score line. 12-3.
Yeah, take a picture of that.
If they bring this back, this would be a remarkable comeback considering the circumstances.
So this is the first of what needs to be many.
You can see we have FlyQuest and Liquid have taken to the upper deck of the studio right
now getting set up for their elimination series.
I am very, very curious for that series.
It is going to be an interesting game.
There's Hygiene's in the Vito.
The desk will get to it later.
Yeah.
It's both teams with a similar permaban.
Okay.
There's also yesterday FlyQuest sending home ThunderDunner and Liquid.
Have Liquid and FlyQuest played this year?
I don't know. FlyQuest have only played in Chinese tournaments.
Oh, that's right. We learned that yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Their year has been against your Chinggis Warriors, your Rare Atoms, your Alter Egos, your Tyloos, those bunch of teams.
I mean, I always love it when there's a high stakes match where teams don't have like a recent history against one another.
Yeah, I think what happens behind closed doors is the interesting part, right, in terms of the practice against one another.
And you have some history there, J.F.S. once upon a time, wearing the liquid jersey.
You've got a couple of those members on the other side, UltimateNaf.
And that is the final Tyloo timeout. So yeah, we took note. It was 12-3. They lost the round.
We burned the final timeout.
Every timeout Zerking has taken so far, up until this point, has been converted into a
round. So will there be three from three?
Okay.
He's shooting at 100% if his boys get this one done. That's a great coach stat.
That would be the best coach stat.
And it secures you stage two.
Yeah, and these boys, they have two M4s, one of them saves, a Famisford G, 5-7-0, and a Deagle for GM Young.
Okay, I see a smoke leaving their hands from spawn, it's going to be that mid smoke.
They want to fight banana, there's an extinguish by Mosey up.
Mosey's going to go and try and lay down the lore, Tux half wall pays quite the price.
Ramelia, oh, loses the head to head, he's got one HP in it, and now Mercury getting cheeky, frisky, around the smoke, Starrie anticipates aggression and handles it.
handles it. So mid, shut down.
They want to explode through this. They'd need a rally of you to like,
you'd want a long smoke in the sky and then a flash to make this possible with
maybe even a porch molly. But by the time they group that up,
this smoke sort of fading. Uh, G.
You can just sit in it and play for the fade.
Let's go down. And it's a flurry of kills for Lynn vision.
Jamming on the bee holder. So.
Okay, never mind. They call the bluff, they rotate over, they will be able to get themselves
a fifth. Jamion might just be looking for the save. You see, they're still being quite
cautious on the way, and they don't know if he's home. I think just put Zaka on the
end of the rod, let him run and clear everything out, and then bring the bomb and plant it.
Starry's dead man for free. He's not going to be ready for this. Jamion should have
the kill dead to rights. Okay, and they still haven't planted the bomb. So, at this point,
Maybe give it a look. He was worried about an A push, so...
I'm picking up what he can. He's found himself a kit.
And he's going to give it a look. A 1v3.
Round number 13.
Oh, he jumped over.
Okay.
It's the leg shot, but that'll end his attempt.
Let me smile on his face as well.
Oh, okay. Well, Jam Young's out of it.
I'll tell you why he smiled, because it means that the next round he gets an AK.
The rest of his team will be taking an E-Card.
So he gets to try and be the hero.
Okay.
Well, you felt like that at certain points for Tyler throughout this event.
Zoking doesn't get 100% on conversion, so off the timeouts.
off we missed it second smoke killer the major it all happened simultaneously with those
midfights so highlighted there just off the second smoke killer the major we've done both
of them one of them happened two stairs that was in the gamer legion match a little bit
earlier in the tournament well can get worse you can lose to a safe they can
essentially an eco yeah that would suck jam young however is already gonna have
to do it with 30 points of health 20 points of health as the cacophony of
grenades. Going out towards the car position. Flash in search, nothing in boil up. Long
smoke dotted in. Zero playing for info, the jump spot's going to have a heavy rotation
over towards B, so stacking. They'll be stacking on stacking. They bring a second man up,
yes, so they're going to look for elevation over a BXCute smoke, and with everybody from
Lindvision in banana, they might get what they're looking for. You'd love to have someone
side side though if you were Tyloo, no she's got the flash of the ready here.
She's just going to go for a bit of smoke spam. Jam young, primed and ready. Vision over
the top of this smoke could lead to a multi kill. Stars one low and you just didn't find
that instant head shot so shouldn't be too much more to be said.
10 your time to get that bomb planted, Mercury audible towards the ruin, time yet nails it.
So from 12-3, close 12-6.
At what point if you're Tyloo do you start to feel like it's no longer your game?
Probably 12-12, I reckon.
This is it, right?
Did you feel a little silly then?
They had a bi that was hodge podge, they just had a save day care in the eco,
the EECA and now they have the gunround again. I think even if you lose this one, it's not even a
full gunround in my but a full gunround is everyone has armour, they have their rifle of choice,
in most scenarios your AWPer has their AWP and you have full sets of nades and at least one or two
kits. So this here is still missing some of the bells and whistles, I don't have all the nades.
So you could call this an imperfect buy. Yeah, but in the modern game I kind of just call this
a buy round, right? So it just, and the reason it's important is utility gives you options and
And if you are lacking, then your options become limited, right?
It kind of changes how many times can go for a flash peek, right?
How many nade stacks can we do?
Do we have enough mollies to get the control?
And it's great now that you can juggle it around.
It does make things a little bit easier on the load, right?
You can stack the unit on one side, you can put the bodies on the other, see that on inferno
a lot with four ones.
I'm sure they're gonna have to get back.
They're not paced.
They're spalling.
Early banana control.
A luxury for the LinnVision side.
I say that as they completely concede it.
Looks like they want to take it back, yeah.
So you've lost that territory.
So much time, but so little you till right.
And understandably, so we said Tyler didn't have everything, but now the same for Lynn
Vision.
Just a handful of smokes, couple flashes, Molly and HG for the finish.
So at least they have this brackets control uncontested, which gives them a couple of
opportunities to try and pressure this site.
A library smoke, excuse me, three quarter.
mercury can either stay library or rotate towards arch breaks it open g comes over to have a look as well
we're gonna try to boost over this okay it's a nice idea oh not anymore i don't think it's a
oh he still gets it it gets away how has he done that
okay nice one back starry throws a very well placed a g grenade and now it's uncomfortable for the
g and zero defense no rotation over mozi and jackson still on bg cleared by amelia
Envision set to Galacta 7th.
Just slowly chipping back into this, so dink done, but zero goes down.
Mizzou and Jamming will save, the loss bonus starting to build.
2900 into the next.
So likely to be a partial buy around these two guns, and then into the next with a 3400, all the guns should come out.
I still can't believe they understand they get the kill off the back of it, but after
you make that noise, it seems crazy to go through the type of play.
You could have just left, gee, behind the smoke, and Mercury could have rotated towards
Arch and picked it up that way.
There's not the reason the round falls apart there, but so much damage was done to both
of them off of the boost, and they knew it was coming.
Surrounded a time for LNVision.
score was 12 to 3 now 12 to 7 and could very well be 12 to 8 because of the buy situation.
So Light in terms of investment around it can be 5-7s for the 3 that went down. They
all have a smoke. So just blocking and trying to channel this because the guns playing over
towards bees not going to try anything out of the box with this one hold some
boiler all theirs under control they don't know what lies behind the half wall
Long smoke, mild pressure, but because it's a lighter bay, you're not going to over-rotate
in the same way that you would, right, your city gun's a bit more.
So who's primed and ready if they were to swing?
Jammin' is just block B.
Oh, timing. She just looks away from that fight, so Zero catches, call me suit.
You've got 50 seconds, and Starry waltzes out of the balcony.
Oh no! Down, Zero takes him down. It was only a couple of pistols.
Recovered rifle. Zero, two kills deep, and our G is in the smoke with them.
He's behind them. He's played them like a fiddle.
a backstop from G to close and that is LinVision eliminated by zero the major rookie aces TaiLu to stage two.
Ah huge stuff right there we've been impressed we've always seen from zero but that is a stylish way for him to close it down sending LinVision packing one a Chinese team steps forward and that will be TaiLu they're going to join the bigger names into stage two I mentioned you get your G2's there you've got your spirits your legacies your
the table available later
today, but this wasn't close.
It did start to come back. They
were edging into this one, but
it was dominant. Reverse sweep.
You know, you go thrust out to
zero to day one and you and you
show your resilience if you're
tiny Lou. You lost a big M. I
BR and then it's three B. Oh
threes on the top. Look at it.
The smiles on the face is
obviously these guys knowing
each other very well.
very well. And Tyler, they do come out on top of this one here today, LynVision. Again,
baffling from our perspective, but maybe a whole lot more with the minds in the server.
You won't see the antics of Amelia. We will throw this one down to Trace on the sidelines.
GEG, I think is what they could say, at least what they just said in the server. GEG, congratulations.
How do you feel after that game versus LynVision?
Excited, I think, because our core major is 0-2 Begin, and we win 1 BO3, 2 BO3, and today
we win the third BO3.
I don't know how to say it, comeback for on the hill, fade up, fade up.
The comeback from hell, yeah, I mean it kind of is.
You're right, the BO1s gave you guys trouble.
The best of threes.
Why is this team different in best of threes, do you think?
Well, it's much, much different.
That's your sign of BO3, man.
I mean, first I want to talk about more map groups.
And I think we still need to improve our map groups,
our individual skill, especially communication
during the mid-time class situation.
and our M, and I think we...
I don't know.
状态很慢,要怎么说啊?
Slow start, yeah.
In B1, we slow start always,
and we lose a lot of peace to round, I think.
And I don't know.
Just keep living, yeah.
Keep believing miracle. Yes. Well, look, man, I think it's only appropriate. I've got this ice cream in pocket
Just kidding. I have no ice cream ice cream. I've got no ice cream. That's right. No, I think no
I don't think so man. I think you guys are looking big in the server. So is there anything that you want to say?
Chinese can't oh
You're not taking the mic. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry
Well, thank you very much for supporting our fans in China, CnC, and TianLu.
Every time we play, it's very late, and we even have to go to the semi-finals. Thank you for accompanying us to the semi-finals.
I hope we can take a better state, a better level of competition, and fight for a better future.
Thank you, Duncan, for talking to me tonight.
Thank you, Yao Qi, my boss Dong Maqiang.
Thank you, Ma Zong. Thank you, Xi Yi Ji. Thank you, Lao Jiu. Thank you, every one.
Thank you, MacAze.
No, no, no, no, thank you, thank you, Chinese MacAze.
You know, they are like MacAze, you know?
MacAze is their idol, I think.
So MacAze carry me, carry...
Not today, every day, I think.
Yeah, MacAze, no, no, no, no, MacAze, they are genius.
Yeah, genius.
So, thank you to the domestic fans, right?
and we will continue to advance forward, and then...
I don't know what to say. Thank you.
Thank you.
Going straight for the P-pop here, Ultimate shows his P250 far away, but they're just trying to storm out main, it's not gone well.
FlyQuest, lock the door, and Liquid have to pull back.
Four players on this B-bomb site, four FlyQuests, and they're only going to get aggressive.
That flash awkwardly catches Vexi, and so he can't confirm the kill, giving Liquid a second chance into the stack.
Goes about as well as the first.
Why are you shooting very hard in this pistol?
He couldn't ask for a better start there, right?
Five alive, all is said and done.
Pistol round secured.
A couple of multi-kills for a few key individuals.
And a hot start here to open up this all or nothing head to head.
a weird position to see a liquid in this game, not just because, you know, when you look to major
short, they missed out on Copenhagen, but this is a stage three of the last two majors, they were
in the quarter final back in Shanghai. That's when JKS was in this very roster. But I still think we
came into Cologne with such low expectations. We didn't even, a lot of people didn't even have them
getting through this stage. Well, now they're here in this deciding game. And you feel like,
what the hell, you're against FlyQuest. Like this is on paper, a very winnable match for liquid.
But at the same time, flyquests have more to prove themselves. Being the squad that
even three-odd, stage one in Budapest, went 0-3 in the next. But a team themselves who
have had relatively little experience in Europe this year. This is a team that was always
guaranteed that Australian spot straight into every top tier event. But as time has
gone on has been less certain. And this year alone have been milling about in China, really
on our screen. So my quest, we're going to prove themselves here in this pocket pick of
a new base to clean round so far yet to get a kill our team liquid.
Can we double PK for the next minute?
We've got that first come round coming up now though.
And if you think back to yesterday, 4team Liquid that had to head over Heroic,
the one they were able to take with a clean 2 and 0,
you and I were covering that one and we both remarked it was a very, very positive sign, right?
Kind of the most on the same page in Synergize, we've seen Liquid in a long time.
So, let's see if they can tap back into that today.
Nothing rip roaring out the gate in this first right full round.
It's a bit of a feeler here, looking for that control over the wards,
A main, Malbs and Allegia working it.
Half-meamage is patrolling outside of B here to hold on to the territory.
Bit of a default here to open things up for Liquid.
Yeah, today is a big question mark for Liquid for me,
me because I want to know what's that game against Heroic, you know, Liquid leveling up and starting
to look really solid and playing well off each other or was it just a game against Heroic?
Today we'll tell this FlyQuest, sit back with Limited Util, only one smoke remains in this round
and then on the clock and it goes down. So FlyQuest no more ways to delay Liquid on their
site hit this default as far as that concern has been successful but good damage what a grenade
down connector from vex site puts ultimate on his last legs in comes the first fight
oh that's clean for malbs close range there on the smg as he faces
that just dispatches of inns no problem now the rest of liquid set their sites on this b-play
Two players here in a retake setup for FlyQuest out towards CT.
Smoke can cut them out of the action entirely.
Oh, it was meant to, but lumbed by Ultimate.
He will manage to get the bomb down and enter into a low health post-plant.
Ultimate, the only guy in the site.
Malbs having a journey in a little bit later.
He will have the bomb to play around,
but you would love it if Ultimate could take one with him.
Not going to happen, and Story moves out quickly through the temple.
Let's see, look at it, Malibu's MD having a clutch up big, chased down by Story on the
rifle and that first rifle goes the way of FlyQuest.
Yeah, locking around for FlyQuest, well handled on that retake setup, right?
They didn't panic when Malibu gets the entry on A, nobody even adjusts position and they
sit back on B, help multiple girls here from NetTig and then coming together in clean house
well played from FlyQuest on the CT side.
These are really hard rounds to win on CT side Anubis, especially in a 45.
What are you doing?
You're getting nothing boys!
So it's already talking shit, like it's thundered down under all over again.
FlyQuest absolutely swept them at the start of that series on CT side.
Took a minute for the other Aussies to wake up.
Right now they're doing it to Liquid as well.
Mount Zero, AK.
It's some bobs for Liquid in this round.
Something more grouped
Story is on a tear
That feels very consequential. It's been a rough major for story thus far
Oh, I yet to really take control in any of their games here. He's ten and oh to get the ball rolling
currently sitting is the second
bottom rated player for fly
quest if he enters in a big way
in this must win match that
really is an X factor for the
Aussie squad. It's an upgrade
right? This is the replacement
to Rick Ali. It was you know the
Romanian or that had definitely
great flashes, but the floor was
quite low. We saw mistakes when
it came to utility and team
player times, but story is
second major is first in the
take this team to new heights.
Yeah, well-timed high performance, 10-0 right now on story.
Natic also looking solid.
T used to put up kills on this B site, but he's caught jumping out of position.
Big pickup from NAF.
Back to a 4v4, Liquid looking like they want to pounce.
Rotates have been slow to arrive here, so gonna need something big for Inns.
He's like the first man in and round him, but I don't think he's aware of it.
Thankfully, NAF never checked this corner and now Rotates come through,
JKS even makes it through that temple smoke, an extra player in the bomb site.
Stark, the flash gets him out.
Looking for this AWP, he's just had ultimate scope in and he knows better than to go down there,
just drops that smoke with a minute left. That's the bomb blocked off back in main.
No way, what do you really?
I mean, this is crazy, ultimate won't be expecting this, it's just right into him and that's the bomb
dropped. Liquid might have fought hard to get that entry. It won't come to matter and
clean up out of FlyQuest, keeping it very, very crisp past those initial entries.
Liquid aren't even getting to fire shots in these rounds. The only kill comes through
the edge of the smoke as NAFSEA's net hit jump up. Every other player barely fires a
bullet as they walk into a FlyQuest peak. It's Liquid just shifting into crosshairs right
now, and FlyQuest not afraid to make moves. That is the benefit, I think, of being on a
CT side of Nubis start like this. You feel like you've already won your half in a sense,
and so now they're playing a lot more confident.
Yeah, house money, right? That's just one of the advantages of winning the pistol, winning
that first rifle, having this big cash arounds and a chance to sweeten the deal here with
money in a weird spot for Team Liquid.
Love that play from the ends.
And the U2 was great as well, getting that smoke down, getting Ultima off the line with
a flashbang, Flycrush playing together.
Liquid again, put down our pistols and putting money in.
Still waiting for Liquid to look alive in this series.
JKS, here's incoming.
Our story's rifling was really looking good.
Let's see how the awe of his weapon of choice fares up against the pistols.
Well, but this goes very, very wrong.
Flashes connect and story caught out in the open. It's same story for JKS
It's missed that timing at smoke walks give a smoke walks take friends
And a shutdown on the low econ round it sees liquid it finally breakthrough
Yeah, just a group play liquid and a lot of default ain't tried to do splits on this be bomb site
It's been getting picked apart one by one
so something where they just pop together, use their numbers to their advantage and pistols overrun
FlyQuest on that A-bomb site reassuring round for liquid to get on the board on eco and they grab guns as well
that's gonna pump the numbers
So better late than never
So they're going to cross?
Doop.
Ready to face the push?
Yeah.
All right, yeah.
This has been FlyQuest's go-to map all year round.
I mentioned their runs out of Angelina.
We've also seen small lands in Europe.
I mean, they are 12-1 on this map in 2026.
It's quite the run.
And is it eight of those in a row?
Damn right.
It's not just a lot of recent experience, but a lot of success.
Messy push up on B here.
Feeds liquid a couple of kills.
It's the first time Flacres have done something out of spawn.
the most part they've been moving in the mid-round and so try to make a call has left them high
and dry. It's a good flash to get Story off the line but Malm's crossing in. Looks like
Story wants to hunt him down.
Nice try.
The teammates will beat him to the punch on that dark push.
They could have to go.
They start to arrive.
Two players down here.
Didn't get them all.
Or moving in to join them as well.
He finds good damage, bomb crosses in, but the first kill belongs to Inz.
You ready for just how many players are coming from this position?
You're all continuing to find good damage.
Inz with another.
As he's the spearhead on this retake and they clean it up flawlessly.
That's a 3v5 out of fly quest.
that skirmish out towards be you thought it had left them cooked
Vexite and net it fed to the Wolves, but the rest of the team have their back loving the energy
We're getting out of the fly quest right now Vexit Vexite still hollering every single round win at the moment
Sure, they didn't do this in the bo1s face him close ugly losses there
But he's getting warmed up against their country man
It's wet
So that's liquid right now, 1-6 down.
Why is she calling them to calm down?
Because this must be getting stressful right now for liquid.
Story with his orb hits the shot as well.
How often do you see orbs start a great game with a rifle and then they take the orb and
you almost feel like it's holding them back.
You hit a temple killer in that round and it should not be getting away with that though.
This chance from Ultima allows in to out under the scope, and he takes a 5v4 against the
captain.
I mean, said earlier on how this hasn't been like a great tournament for stories, the
second bottom rated player, the bottom rated player for FlyQuest is Inns, and he's also
putting in one hell of a shift right now.
Had a number of keymulti-kills, had a number of kind of turning point moments in these
rounds.
This one, no exception, it's a double push out towards Maiden, Inns will claim a second.
He's more than done his part in this round.
When your floor is so high, you're still in a penthouse.
Liquid go back.
A lot of cancel the plan, calls here for liquid in this T side.
A lot of things have gone wrong.
Back towards B is the weakest site.
Vexite has a Molotov.
Timing is everything.
If he waits for them to show face out on, he wouldn't get it in in time.
So early is better than never.
It allows Netic to rotate as well.
This is that Nade could have been high at damage down in that hallway.
Netic will follow up. Just holding Liquid back 20 seconds. They've got to make their mind up.
When they try and go, JKS has this flash primed to try and tee up his teammates.
Now peeking on the back of it, first kill belongs to Bexite and you're already running low on time here, boys.
Ultimate can't win this.
He doesn't have the time to get the job done, two players in front of him and he's not even
aware that Xite crossed on out of there, so a dead man walking 7-1, time out burned from
Team Liquid.
They're just hemorrhaging them now because FlyQuest have not slowed down.
We heard that little excerpt from Flashy in the last, or at least we saw it, right?
He kind of said to the guys, I want us all to calm down, but I want us to energize a
little bit.
You know, he wants a bit more energy brought to the table.
I think for him, he's probably thinking big picture here in the series, right?
In this matchup, in this map in particular,
flight quests kind of are the favourites.
It's their home map.
They've got a lot of success on it.
It's really underplayed for Liquid,
especially since they bring mobs into the squad.
And so, you know, you can almost forgive them to an extent
for feeling a little rusty, being a little vulnerable here.
What you don't want is for that to translate across into the rest of this series.
You can't get so shaken up on this first map that it throws you off heading into your pig
I'm so lonely gonna hold your mental together and part of that is just feeling like you actually get to play the game and right now
So we've established like a don't feel that that won't help in's runs of them out the window and finds a 5v4
He's even gonna get out you can just see how the playbook is really opening up for fly quest right as the game's going on
Then moves have gotten more and more aggressive. They're bringing the fight to liquid more and more
They start respecting them here and that can really look to drive home this dominant half
If you were to play a game that gets in your opponent's head, this is how you do it
It's just a robbery and then back to a passive 5v4 story here with the orb, but he's gonna cover from inns
Back in middle
First class delivery
comes down, they could start to scale the middle story, could get caught here as they're walking through this smoke.
Inns gets a spot, what could Story do? Get these combat shots, he'll take one with him.
Inns second in the round, captain standing tall as he looks for Nath as well.
Inns is on a ball right now, just triple kill, shuts down the round and they don't even react.
That's a fall by, just melted.
And Flashy sits back in his seat.
Liquid looking lost right now. I mean dude you would have come into this game as well thinking okay, right?
Let's take a look at kind of who's been the heavy hitters for fly quest
You know what do Jks like to do here? What does netting get up to how do we deal with Vexai?
Story and insom not really been super relevant in this major run for fly quest and they are the two tearing this game away from team
Collateral for Jks on the rifle as they line up for it out here in Maine from bad to worse
All out aggression and the dominance continues.
Now it's just disrespect, right?
Just running into pistols and getting out with barely a shred of damage from liquid.
These rounds are over before they begin.
Fexite just out on a highland right now fighting forward fearlessly.
Why stop?
It's going so well.
9-1.
Dude, it feels like this map is over.
it feels like liquid just need to conserve energy for inferno. They have not even been in close positions in this game. They have had just a couple of bomb plants. That is it three bomb plants in the entire map. I mean, dude, they've got 15 kills as an entire team. They're nearly getting outfragged by three separate individuals for the side of flight quest. We're 18 minutes into this map. And it's nearly over. There's so many reasons why this feels bad. When you actually look what's happening in the server to the brand.
to see us the flight quest of playing it's super aggressive it's in your face
it's disrespectful it's all the words it's all the rage because it's working
and it's just the most suffocating type of counter strike you could play you know
there's ways to lose a map but still feel good this is not one of them right
First bit of utility the liquid of throne for that teammate. It feels like coming out here and connect us stories holding on and it fails
You're joking me ultimate missed a missed flashbang and it costs his team his life
They chase them down of a site Vexi is here for a double
He's just gonna go through that doesn't give a damn perfect flash from Vexi
Triple kill alone in this bomb site and there is nothing left for liquid nothing in this map
I mean, come on. I'm sorry.
Ultimate one job. Absolutely
fumbles that flashback. I mean,
liquid look out of it, man.
Phelps is known for his fantastic
mechanics. What this guy is able
to do right bit of a kind of
modern day screen. But uh,
Haha, it's over, this map is cooked. What a game from FlyQuest.
Alright, they missed their mid smoke, they missed their mid, or their con smoke, but it's up in the sky.
I got the opener. Alright.
Shui's claimed another, they're looking for a second round on the half.
It's not going to do much to stop the bleeding.
And even then, it's not a guarantee.
Vexi is missing, and that 5v3 dissipates before your very eyes.
Vexi on a con push all the way behind enemy lines has just robbed this advantage,
and now there's an A-stack getting assembled.
Look, we need to try and dodge this.
They're going into a solonetic over at B.
You know this has been open, you know this route has been unchecked.
check to have an eyes on middle in this entire round net it needs to keep his
wits about and he's back in our back turned and won't get a shot off in time
liquid they're gonna get to see one post plot here before the half is over
it's on the back of shui right now he got all three kills in this round is he
gonna be the guy to give liquid their second round on this T side they'll take
it one way or another fly quest us still in with a shot
JKS 11 and 2. Vexxai has had a hell of a game as well on this B bombsite.
JKS is going to send him in and look to clutch up himself. Vexxai very low.
JKS gets a spot and he gets the shot. Damage done. Vexxai does get flicked upon.
And JKS, the clutch has begun. Nade might be able to find Shuie in this position.
It goes in deep and they swing together. So Shuie 4K pinches and finds a second round here for Liquid
that they are falling through the cracks right now as FlyQuest mounts a double-digit CT side.
I was never meant to stay It was you that pulled me in
Promise me that we'd be okay All of your lies I once believed in
You wanted most of the time But that was never good enough for me
Let me go and know you're my life Let me go and burn like crazy
See, we're not gonna have you in the way
Why is there always a show?
It's not your fault, it's not my fault
It's not your fault, it's not your fault
Oh my god, oh my god
Hey!
You're getting nothing boys!
Well, the big dog is in the house and his bark is just as bad as his bite.
are running away with Anubis.
Pure domination, liquid, not even looking alive,
not even looking awake.
Pissed around play, getting made.
They want to go out on their turn,
so a flash push here on the stairs might just feel something,
but of course blind shots connect.
Nothing can go wrong for FlyQuest.
They nail two headshots.
I like that. I haven't fallen
for this trap. Just full sent
into this bombsite. There's
still a bait and switch and
play. That's enough. Can
trigger the triple. Nice shot
out of now. Can that save this
round? I'm counting nothing out
of fly quest. Two Mrs three,
and we got a 1v1 stuck in the
middle in trying to force his
kill. The ultimate is just
having the worst day of his
life. GKS slips in backs turned.
And he's closing in, could end this right now.
Stops the shot on the dualies and Naps been given a second chance.
He's had to be a one man army in this round and his work is far from over.
Fanes the double fallback but Inns has not moved a muscle out here in middle.
Low on health, can't long out of fight.
Would just love to get it with the timing.
But again, how many chances are they gonna give to Naps like?
Oh, finally dealt with JKS comes through a
Pashui now a very tricky 1v2 ends on the wrap background of Maine
There's no where safe left to hide and he'll get finished off fly quest with that pistol and wind in their sails
They're looking for a dominant win to start this series
Maybe feels better than just winning the 5v3 straight up
They get the double entry NAF triple kill gives you hope
But then he leaves the A site to regroup with his captain and they get duke's don't they JKS multiple misshots from human
Inns none of the mattering this liquid can't capitalize
11 to 2
Save face on inferno because it will not happen here
It leaves got so deep and didn't see anyone.
But they're hearing him the whole time and so one peak is rounds over.
I think we're just look cooked.
Yesterday we were talking about the synergy on display how everything was working for them.
This is the other end of that spectrum.
Everything that could go wrong has.
Your individuals are not showing up.
And in spite of a couple of multi-kill rounds from NAF,
Shui hit that one nice one as well. That's been it.
There has been nothing in this for Team Liquid.
Leech, Malz and Ultimate don't even have 10 kills combined.
Hello.
One by one they crumble.
And NAF, the only guy on double digits.
in the game. Three K the
pistol in vain. Left in an
impossible situation. All's left
to do is save 12 to and fly
quest. I hear they do business.
They are here for that second
stage. Because as much as you
can call this, you know a map
only a few times and this isn't where my liquid would want their major life to be on the line.
At the end of the day, they don't even look awake right now. They don't even look like
they're in this series. And so to come back would take a massive show of resilience across
Inferno and well, it'd have to be ancient.
What a lifeline for flight quest and well earned as well.
Can they just finish it?
Here and now.
If they stop the A push, they've won the map.
Jokes gonna fall early story comes in playing clean up playing hero
And there's the triple that puts you on the fast track to dominate team liquid
Record scratch
And it's all over here on a new bus
Malp shut down in a moment's time playing it through that smoke fly quest absolutely demolish them
An all-game long, Vexat was letting them know about it.
They're talking shit. They're running away with this.
And that pup now, it's Liquid having to redeem themselves on Inferno.
The big question is, can you stay in this game
after an absolute dropping from FlyQuest on Anubis?
Just across the board, high to low.
FlyQuest, every single player showing up in spades.
What do you make of that?
That is a very good question. What do we make of that? Team Liquid unfortunately on the end, not showing up whatsoever.
Where's Flycrest? They're playing with a lot of power on the server, a lot of poison, and let's be honest, a lot of confidence coming up from Flycrest as well.
I don't know where to start here, Peter. Do we want to start with hand-rolling down on Liquid for not following up on what we saw yesterday versus Heroic?
Or do we want to start with the positive that is Flycrest playing? Well...
Let's start with the positives, right?
Let's go and talk a little bit positive about Flaklist.
A team that definitely wants to win.
That is one thing that they showed in the server, but you also see it out.
They're yelling at Liquid, they're telling that they're not going to get easy.
They can go home and everything. They're really getting in their head.
Mentally, they won. They also won the first map.
Right now, they're up 2-0 in that department.
I think that Liquid is a team that is again showing
that they can have individual prowess,
that you have NAV going with a triple kill
in the beginning of the pistol round,
they lose a 2v5, they lose the majority of the offense,
there's like a discipline, they're not communicating.
Fleshy's saying that they're not energized.
I mean, I could probably do like a whole table of concept
of things that is going along for Liquid right now,
but I'm trying to keep it short.
Liquid is not showing up right now,
and with a team of that caliber
and with those type of players,
it's just a massive disaster.
It is a massive disaster.
There's no hiding away from the fact
coming into the game. We poised Liquid as being the favorites in this matchup.
Worshipped Flyquist, everything had to go right for them to stand a chance.
Let's go back to first half, Ash. Round five, you know, let's try to dive into some of the things
that did not work out here for Team Liquid. Yes, well, I think I have to question quite a
lot of decision-making that was going on from Liquid. It looked really poor in the after-match
particular. I think the kill happens. I think they're never killing the site as well.
The lead is low. Nath is going through the smoke. Why are these two players not following?
a leash can follow through, mouths can come and trade him. The space he's taken by now, he's thinking,
guys, where are you? What's going on? They're both sat behind the smoke. All of it now has
him locked on me. I don't even mind at this point, shoot a couple of bullets there, see if you can
tag him, put pressure him out of the position or something. What ends in the position where he's
cooked is they won't make it all of the plays. He's not even smoked anymore. He ends up in the
end even jumping up and killing Ultimate in the side. Like, what's going on there? I think when
he was there and he got that first kill, he thought, well, see you later, guys. I'm out. And he thought,
I thought, wait a minute, is it A?
What's happening? Where is everybody?
So I'm very strange from...
Is that a lack of decisiveness coming in for Team Liquid here?
You have a lot of openings, but you're not turning on anything?
Yeah, just lack of understanding of the round,
but also they're just hesitating.
The thing is, they've already put down the smoke to go inside the bomb site,
they get the trade, and then the thing is,
Inz is stuck there, he's full alone, they should understand that he should be alone.
He's a lone guy that's stuck on the bomb site.
It's about hesitating going through this, but one has to sacrifice.
At this point, it could even be ultimate trying, you just take a deep angle to cover them from the side
and then go through the smoke to trade it out.
It's just like lack of discipline, but they're just hesitating, they're afraid, they're playing like they're scared.
I think even Flashy said that they're playing scared.
But the thing is then, they were told they were playing scared, but then sometimes they just also overpeak.
So I think they just can't find the balance right now.
They don't know what to do in every single scenario.
And it's just a team that is having no confidence whatsoever.
Ash, if we take a look at round 7, does it get better?
Well, I mean, if this is them playing more confidence, then I say, guys,
are you a bunch of rookies? Like, what's going on here? This is strange.
So Malus is getting cocked here on the side. He sees two people.
If it was a U2, one person kills him. He's not 100% sure what the last person is.
But I don't know about U2 when he used to play. If you knew there's two people left,
you know where one of them is. Normally, you don't go to position where you think they are.
And so we see here, they know there have to be two from Cave.
They throw the worst flashbang they've ever in.
He peeks, alleges holding position where he can die.
Ultimate Peaks, Shui Peaks, and three people from cave, the round is done.
Flykuss, why aren't you saving at this point, you know?
But somehow, they just go in and they peek, they push and they peek and they peek.
And I just don't like the way that they problem solve sometimes this lineup.
Is it just, guys, we need to play more aggressive, we need to play more confident.
It's like, this isn't Counter-Strike, I love them.
The flip side, Flykuss didn't play any aggression, really, they were playing.
Regression in the mid rounds, they were going together, they were just using Util.
I was trying really hard to criticise what Util Flykuss are using.
either use a Molotovs poly, or use a Smokes poly, but in general,
it looked like they were connected all over the map.
They were just making Liquid go where they wanted them to.
I loved the way they played and at the same time,
I don't know what Liquid are doing at times.
I kind of hate to say it, right?
I'm not too surprised that we spoke about yesterday, Peter, as well.
Liquid doing well against T-Rogue and you poised the question, you know,
that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to do well today.
You have a thing called Day Today form that I'm sure we'll speak more about later on.
But my issue here is, I guess I'm a bit surprised by FlyQuest
being so efficient at punishing Team Liquid,
Because we can all agree that what Liquid did here was not great, you know, problem-solving,
the way they play some of these advantageous situations as well.
But it also does take a good team to consistently pice them round after round after round.
And I guess my question is, are you surprised that Flacres were able to do that so consistently throughout the Nubus?
Yes, I'm surprised that they got it to work so well in the CT side, you know,
specifically with the Nubus being such a T-side at heavy map.
And I think they just really went on with the momentum, you know,
they got off to this really good start and they just kept going and they kept piling on them.
And with the issues piling up for Liquid, you just see like the confidence just oozing out of the they probably came in
Hey guys, we did really well against Terror yesterday
We're just gonna go in now
It's just FlyQuest and then you have FlyQuest showing up like this, you know
And they start thinking why are we not playing like we did yesterday and that is that is my my whole idea with a whole day to day
For my Liquid playing well yesterday now they look like a complete shadow of what they did
But but you know you also look at look at the map, right?
It's a map that FlyQuest have a hundred percent win rate on you know
They love to play in Ubers, whereas Liquid is lacking a lot of wins and Jinjo has a lot of grind.
They seem to have been pushed in a place where they're not confident at all.
FlyQuest, as a team, they just wanted more.
And wanting to win is also a factor that has to pay in when you're playing these type of matches,
because you've got to show up and Liquid just hasn't done that.
A lot of pressure, a lot of emotions, obviously at play right here.
We spoke about Shuei coming into the game as well and I guess if I'm not sure if I can label this as a positive
But he he finally got an opening kill but but not in not in the impact fashion that you'd like to so far this tournament
It's it's been a bit of a disaster for him. Yes. I mentioned at the start. It was a zero percent
Success rate had so far we're on the board at last and we actually found the exact start so far this tournament
This is stage one of the major results
We need to see
Significantly more from him on the individual side because he does have it in him and this was T side in uberus as well
And you kind of expect it to go to side one one for 15. That's that's abysmal
Right that is there at any point where you you know, let's say that you were his coach right now
Is there any point where you tell him like gotta hone it down?
You know you gotta you gotta find a way to be more efficient with it
Or you gotta find a way to stay alive and maybe even go away from what you normally do
I is it one of those scenarios where we often speak about
Regardless of you finding success and you have to do what you're supposed to do
I think you have to do is supposed to because you're in the middle of a tournament
If he feeds the guy making all of the plays and you go, okay, you're not making the plays anymore
You know what that's gonna look like right?
No one's going to do anything and everything's going to deal turns if he's dying around I know
But this is something that you've got to live and die with sometimes
I'm gonna hold it in a bit and maybe they can go like let's do some more set strats or something cuz right now
I'm just feeding everywhere guys. I don't feel comfortable or just books more trading
You know for example and make sure at least then every time you do die is a 4v4
Do you feel like they like doing static secures on that T serve because it did feel like at least at the beginning and they
wants to just do a lot of default-ish. Do you think that they like doing more set executes
when they're watching the working? Would that be a thing you would return to if you were
a coach like, okay, individually right now we're not really doing the things right, the
default is not working. Let's revert back to doing more set strats.
I think from the last couple of years, teams have become more ready for Shui the way he's
going. I think he's calling way probably too much on the default sometimes, unless in the
set round. I think actually the first round they won was like an A-pop to get together
with Tech9. That was a full set thing. I think that just in general, is the tempo quite
but we saw the start of the show as well, they're winning T-side rounds, they're not terrible on T-side rounds
and I would also say as well, this is a newbis, no one plays a newbis, these guys are a newbis merchant against Liquid as well
I think we shouldn't have to mention that, I don't think it's over by any means yet
but they need to bounce back and out big because that was really poor
I was just about to say, this was only the second time we saw Team Liquid play a newbis in the past three months
so safe to say that's not a map they have a lot of play action on
Now the positives were moving into Inferno, that is the map pick of Team Liquid, a map they won against Hero yesterday as well
as well, and I'm happy that I think overall we've been more positive when it comes to
Liquid. So Peter, do you share the sentiment from Asher that the game is not necessarily
over, or do you believe more in your own theory that it's called day-to-day form?
I believe in my day-to-day form, because when I just, like, Liquid could play any map, they
could just be allowed to pick, if they could just pick whatever map they want to play,
then they would still lose in my book. So I don't think Inferno is going to do much
difference for them. I think that Liquid, as of now, as a team, they're done for. I don't
there's any case where they will bounce back on this one and if they do then then I'm gonna be
very surprised because what I just saw was was one of those games where as a team he'll show up
it's gonna be hard to bounce back in such an important game. My counterpoint to that Ash would
be that I don't think Flyquist is good enough of a team to necessarily you know shut down Liquid and
put the foot in the throat so to speak where they have them right now. Would you agree with that or
do you think Flyquist are good enough to to basically make an end of Liquid as we know them?
I almost don't trust anybody when the high pressure's on in anything in any sport in any game.
pressure does weird things to people so we talk to the start of the show we beat Falcons and Dr.
Dupri out and retire and so the way guys not lose you kids ever again I know I'm done at this point
anything can happen. If anything can happen I don't have the most trust in Flaquist at this
moment because I regard an inferno to be a map of closing out rounds and being good in clutches
and so far when I've been watching them this has been their biggest weakness so there's definitely
room there but also if there's ever a map that Flaquist are going to go aggressive in these mid
around the CT side, it's Inferno and if Liquid have done their homework, there are punishers
for that.
We talked about the start in the meta, just stand still, don't do anything and let them
just come to you.
There's definitely still a way for Liquid to fight their way back into this game.
It is do or die time for Team Liquid, as we've pre-faced already.
If they were to lose it, they would have been eliminated from IE and Cologne and potentially
eliminating themselves as a Counter-Strike team as well.
Coming up after the break is Inferno, it's do or die time for Team Liquid taking on Flyquist.
Wait, my bad.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats, and turn on tracking to see all your games.
You actually full flashed him from long while peeking from Short.
Yeah, I actually thought I was sick too, I'm happy you showed it, because I even asked my team, like, did you guys see that?
Elise is here with me from Team Liquid, and we're going to be looking at a couple of your moments from the game on Ancient Alliance NIP.
The whole point of this is to, you know, lift a veil and see inside of your brain for a little bit
why you're doing certain things, because CS is not just about moving and shooting.
It's also a lot of decisions that you have to make that people don't recognize.
So I would start with, before we get into the clips, actually, if you really watch your own demos,
how do you treat a footage of a game, basically, if you're looking at it from Skybooks or POVs
into the game, what's your take on that?
If I'm watching my own games back, then I try to just look quickly through the VOD.
I mean, honestly, I really don't prefer 2D demo viewing that much.
So I usually go through the VOD so I can go quickly and just see what it looks like, confirm.
I think it's more beneficial for you to watch someone that's really good and take what you can from them.
We are going to go into your ancient game.
This is a situation where you do have a hero and four,
and obviously the dynamic of your gameplay has to change a little bit.
Can you guide us a little bit through what is happening when you have this kind of hero and force and what you're looking for in these rounds?
Yeah, so like for the beginning of this round, like pretty much like the way that you like even want to start this is thinking can I do something early, like do something fast, or do I have to find like an opportunity in the mid-round?
And if you look at our utility, like of course we have like some Molotovs, we have like two smokes, but we don't have like a lot, and I felt like from the beginning of this round that my best opportunity is going to be finding some aggression in the mid-round.
I wanted Ultimate to Molly behind the box, and I was going to try to find a quick kill on that.
But they ended up peeking me before, so it was kind of nice that they did that, and got this kill.
I think you heard this guy, because your previous engagement was with the guy up top, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And then when you were re-peeking, you were completely ignoring him.
And also, NAF is here to flash as well.
So the goal is to do a Molly at the box and a flash over at the same time.
So we're going to do a Molly plus flash check at mid.
Yeah, that's pretty good. I mean, it nets you an opening, even if you don't, it doesn't go according to the plan, but you're in a position to kind of
Yeah.
Wreck up multiple other, let's say, mistakes of NIP players.
And then, immediately, like, as this is happening, we already know, like, that there's numbers at mid.
They know that the hero gun is at donut, so I'm already thinking that they're going to be going towards B.
So we start rotating, they got stopped, because I'm pretty sure that, yeah, Mario smoked top of the ramp, so he was able to block, he seized them,
And as soon as they get blocked here, that's when we have to think, what are they thinking?
And I'm thinking, someone could be close house, I'm checking this for the rotations,
we're at a four jump squat. So I have a ton of information and I'm trying to be greedy with
my info. I'm trying to figure out where do they want to go. And I'm already thinking that they
are either going to go back to B, but I'm going to be one step ahead here. And actually the goal
is for us to double push a main. So because we're already three towards B, I already think that
that we're fine, and they actually have another smoke as well because Naph is there.
So I had an ultimate come with me towards A, and we were going to double push A main,
so we were trying to be super active, because that's the only way that we're going to win this round.
In the end, it was a correct call to go towards A.
You didn't even have a chance to push into A main, but you winning this though kind of seals the deal.
Sharing what you just shared is extremely valuable for people who want to improve Alish.
Thank you, and we wish you good luck in the tournament.
Thank you, appreciate it.
There's the flash, that's going to catch Grimms out, they're going to push off Grimms.
There's the KK, there's one, but Grimms with a straight up, he got kicked off the triple!
A fanatica, don't done yet!
Can you believe it?
FlyQuest dominated Liquid to start this series.
That was on their home map though, Anubis convincingly going their way.
We're moving in now to Liquid's map pick.
The big question is can they stay in this mentally?
It's the all-or-nothing game on the final day of stage one.
You either get through into that next stage,
get a chance to play versus some of the big boys,
where you go home very early into the Cologne Major.
Yeah, what a performance from FlyQuest,
something we've not seen all tournament from,
the absolute shillacking over Team Liquid.
Sure, it was a new this, but you can't take away the individuals
and lack thereof on the Liquid side.
It is going to be a mental battle as well as a counter-strike battle at this point for Liquid to stay in this series.
And so let's see what they've got come the second map. Have they been able to screw their heads back on?
Failure to launch on, well, at least three of the players of Liquid, but even across the board.
Pist a round on the T side.
Liquid come up here.
You would absolutely love to start this off, just remembering what winning feels like, right?
I think the last thing you want is to instantly feel like you're back on the Nubis.
So this pistol hits hard and so do the ones who fly quest.
Four kills in an instant for Inns and JKS.
And that leaves it onto the captain.
Shui, one versus three.
Through the long side, but now they've got the spot.
The reason for Inns to go down fighting here, just plays to contain.
Repause is nice here for sure, but it still leaves him going into this two-man hold. He should be aware of that.
Checking out middle-ends, repoushers, and sure he gets a chance, but it's a triple kill from the captain of FlyQuest, who certainly showed up in this series.
Liquid walk right into the setup, into the trap, laid by the Aussies.
And so if he's still without a plant, he's liquid on each one.
Look, if I'm honest here on my phone, I'm watching Malbs with a lot of entry because you said it on map one, though, there were maybe up to three liquid players missing, maybe even four.
Naph was the only guy really doing anything on map one.
I'm just kidding.
And I'm looking at Malbs.
You know what he can do here.
You saw it yesterday versus heroic.
He's able to get these kind of Nico-esque banana charge rounds going where his entries can win you the game.
someone like ultimate you know he's streaky right you know sometimes he'll
just go missing for a series it's not to give me now I think it's still really
rough but mobs I think is very much that the temperature check for if they
will be able to save themselves on inferno
why is that it's time to find out here guns coming out in this third round of a
clean sweep from FlyQuest losing one player and we're gonna need mobs kicking the
door down in banana if liquid are gonna have any hope of getting map control on
this T side expect to see FlyQuest continue their aggression not just
because they have SMGs but because they have a whole map of momentum in their
pocket. Orb for story immediately on this CT side. I'm sending banana with a pre-smoke.
Flyquests won't exactly throw themselves in. Neither will liquid. My team's hesitant.
And Reebok is ready to retake the top of banana here for Flyquests. And honestly, I kind of
I like that they're starting it off a bit passive, right?
Wait and see what kind of liquid you get coming into this map.
Are they in their heads?
Are they a bit downtrodden?
You've got time for those aggressive rounds to come up later.
Here, you know, I think if you start it off a little too
aggressive, give away some of the early control,
let liquid build up.
That could have been a big error.
So you even saw the quote from Azza heading into this, right?
Just keeping it calm.
Not letting that pressure build up.
And so it's a slow, respectful start from both teams in this first rifle round.
Liquid do get away with the banana control.
They take some damage from the Util, but Malbs gets his position up here at top B.
There's a stack on the other side waiting for them.
And Vexite now looks to get aggressive.
Perfect timing on that aggression.
Malbs goes for the chase.
actually gone past him into the site all alone. And that's a disaster for Team Liquid. They lose
track of Vexite. They get a bit of room, but now they're desperate for these entries and
Ultimates just offered up three of them. Oh, no business being in this round,
Liquid. How are they still here? But it's not done. JKS, no kit, time pressure.
But Ultima looking like he wants to just go for this fight, peeking out CT.
Crouch walking into this engage with a JKS ready. It doesn't look like it four kills from Ultima an impossible round
And liquid put it on the board early in this game at least
That was Vexite double up on the repush through the smoke finding a leech and
Yeah, Malvus kind of wanders into B thinking he has timing, but somehow Ultima just clips wings what a spray
And an audacious 1v1 attempt
Pushing right back in.
After the map he just had, with only two kills.
He was not the primary candidate to go and put that first round on the board for Liquid, but it's a welcome change.
I'm going to turn the heat back up here on this T side.
Double this kills from Renubis already.
Man, that's more like it for Malbs.
Do we have a game?
He's going to try and link up with NAF on this lurk in the apartments and he's misstory
aggressive out towards Boiler. Defense is split. But NAP gets this kill. Round is right
there and up for the taking.
They don't know where JKS is. Does he want to sit still or stay active? The latter would
lead him right into this AWP. NAP is coming back to regroup with Ultimate JKS. He can
tuck in here, he can just win the round off this position. That one's free, will the next
costume, Nath come close and that's the one-me-two for JKS. Right back to the pain, 14 liquid.
What a vex I had to say there, that was a whole mouthful coming out as JKS puts on this
clutch, may have missed out on that first gun round. Good head on his shoulders, just
commits to his position, doesn't let Nath's utility bait him to the other side of the
map and I gotta say a lot of value out of this banana hold here from net to get in say to a great job
when they could throw the whole kitchen sink at them and
the tub
Oh, I know you miss him
Remenges sweet
Oh
Look nappers look locked in to these games
I think he even saw on his face a little when he was getting yelled at at the end of that last round
Now I've looked a little pissed off. Yeah
What's the one guy who was out putting on the first map
This is wonderful. There's everyone close. He's been lined up, but it's initiated by flight class makes all the difference
For the chance and he doubles up tech nine
CT's players are on the wrong side of the map right now, so guns picked up and bomb
put down, puts liquid in advantage.
Oh, that's a wild shot for Inns, Malbs.
Tried to really cement that with a swing on the AWP.
Now it's left hanging in the balance, so Leige has found great damage here on this
spam but the nade gets rid of him. So Shui's going to do this alone. Both players alone.
One shot from the deep deals with either of them and he won't even get a bullet off. Round
it's stolen away. Now one peek from Malb's, the one that was meant to seal the deal on
the round ends up giving it all over.
Yeah, that's a round where you're in such a good position. You feel like you can't even
lose it, right? All peeking library, one shot. You want to take your chance on the head shot
that Inz is just holding for it. What a banger from him. Great utility placement as well.
Bolly, Smoke and HG all having impact on that retake there making things very easy.
And Shuri just could not connect the Deagle shot from the apartments. He had
chances. The FlyQuest just keeps stringing these rounds together. And game or not,
sure, expecting more from Liquid on this map, but FlyQuest have not chosen to slow down in
series ever wounded liquid and they are taking advantage of it right now we do
jks even throw up a little fist pump at the end of that round that's by his
standards that's very animated like screaming you know a very I would say
reserved individual not like some of his teammates he knows that they are still
on this track of dominating team liquid and you just don't want fly quest to be
feeling this invincible if you're liquid, right? The idea that they can do no wrong,
that's really powerful, especially on a map like Inferno where Saves is so prevalent.
If you're suddenly going for a lot more of these mad disadvantage rounds and you're winning them,
that's a big problem. This is the map in the pool you think of where one or two kills can just
decide the outcome of rounds. And that is not the vibe we've been getting here in these opening
couple. Double setup in the apartments, this can sometimes go really wrong but not here.
The AWP might not have to do a thing, because JKS has dealt with them both!
Ready for more.
More plates.
And every maid.
Feels like it's homing Liquid down as it was on Anubis.
Flash is ready for long side, not going to be required right now, liquid just trying
to find a dry pick in the apartments.
Story could be susceptible on a reposition, but right now he is safe and sound.
High flash, going to put him in jeopardy, JKS might have to finish what he started.
Now he's makes it down in a mini pit and Malibs needs this chase. It all just looks a little awkward right now for Malibs who's really not arrived in this series.
JKS, meanwhile, certainly has 11 and three topping the charts with a flight quest.
That one was all about the rest of the gang right strong start for story who opened it up ten and zero
Inns moved up there to join him and then so did those B site players
Here on inferno. This has been a Jks masterclass. He's had a 1v2 to his name already multiple multi-kill shutdowns
While one team is elated and celebrating with every round that passes the other just want to sink into their seats
they don't want to be here anymore. Luckily enough, that's a problem that just might take care of itself if things keep up.
Pop out middle here, liquid upping the pace, upping the ante.
Leg shot connects, his story's off with a shooting gallery right now, and shoot he shall.
Multiple pistol kills, just to put a bow on it, and not feeling the pressure to keep this up,
this up because Flycrack's in a 5 vs 2 feeling safe and sound, bomb at their feet and liquid
as well, 6-1 lead, not a casualty against that eco.
Fucking god, boys!
I feel surprised that we haven't had another attack time out, honestly.
This one's so rapidly getting away from you.
You're running at a T-side still to play.
Flycruisers just got such a great read as well.
Every round feels like Liquid are going into three players and back to B.
one is no different. They are setting up retake U2, Liquid look like they want to contact him right now.
I think they're going to get a free kill. I just have to commit, the execute will announce it.
Oh, Polly's a huge frontman, just cooking, they're burning alive!
Chewie is in the trenches right now, he is not getting out.
An absolute failure to launch on that execute, not even a player getting in.
Fucking spam. Delivers a kill, but there are two more backside peeps.
Flops in the utile to try and get the ball rolling on this, and that's a great catch.
And we're ready for Vexide, just out in the open and fighting though, and to trade straight back.
It's on to Elysse now trying to take the space away,
but look at who you've got to deal with.
Top performer, JKS.
Elysse gets past him nice and easy.
A site opened up.
Chance for Liquid.
One of these coveted T side rounds
that they've really struggled at finding.
Bomb makes it in.
They'll have time to get into this post-plant.
Let's see if finally they can hold on
to one of these bomb plants.
A site is only leaving P right now,
so this is going to ring over the roll.
He was hiding out back quad.
It's gonna have to just get a kill ASAP right now for flight quest.
It's given a bit of a fight, but it's this round really on.
Two shots in the oil, Vexai moves up, one play committed to Vexai's fight.
Oh dear.
He just gets a free kill. Knife out, they're sending it.
That info comes through, but Aleige can play the clock.
He can play the time, and that is enough to win Liquid.
Their second round on this T side.
Cracking kill back into that A bombsite does have consequences.
A lead, getting out at least as liquid survive another.
But surviving is the only one we can use at this point.
It's true, I mean 12 and 4 in JKS, but that frag did let Liquid back in that one.
Back to banana.
Now I'm still struggling.
It's grenade and D as well.
No support, but these flashes held back in the spawn.
Inns may not be expected here, but Vexo's got to get these nades out soon.
Now, it just gets fed to him. The Molly's even trapped in here, but you're all a little
bit fearful. No one's coming through looking for Inns.
There's the flash to try and make it happen.
Oh, they didn't believe it had him pinned in that entire time, but they just thought he would up and leave
I mean they got the Molly and they trapped him in position. You think they would trust it
Surprising to see
Liquid don't know what to believe right now
Kind of kill on the lurk once again open up this very difficult round
And last time there was only one player to worry about right, but this time around you
still got story ready to assist JKS in this hold.
He's watching on for a creep out through mid, 20 seconds left.
Are they just saving?
Yes they are.
I mean, NAF could have committed there for a kill, but Liquid would rather play with
their money in the next round.
The alternative is more pistols and that leaves Liquid with limited chances.
have not exactly gotten these Ecos close.
I mean, I can hear it in the room.
Play it.
This is great for men's again.
Just surprised to not see who expected that hiding out for so long
because of the flash, but at least.
I need him! Send him down!
Yeah, I gotta need him.
My Chris is having fun with it. Put a smile on your face.
This one is getting tense. Four Team Liquid.
Team looking for, well I'm looking for, but facing the worst major performance, Azarostar.
Whilst on there in the playoffs of a major, JKS was in this team.
It could look very different then.
Story has really been trying to put that up to use and he's finally going to get this
open and kill so lightens the load even more but aren't as conceded by FlyQuest but as
we've seen in this game their nades have just been pristine.
Wow that's all your lurkers cleaned up.
And that's not so many of these rounds have gone for Lickard as well be it on B, be it
on mid, you know, just two picks for Flipper. It's not really been the AWP, but just get
a couple of opening kills on Liquid. The round feels done. You've got to try this one, though.
It's so late in the half.
You also can't do the back-to-back saves, right, on this T side. You just start to run
out of resources.
So it's going to be an attempt to the 3v5. Two clean entries can make this worthwhile.
story is backside with the orb and I feel like Vexite is probably going to come through
this smoke. That's if they smoke it, yeah they will. You can go liquid with a Hailbury
approach. Vexite's got the flash to try and get the ball rolling on this one. Story there
for the first as this flash play through for Vexite and so reinforcements starting to make
their way over as well. The window is closing for liquid if they want to do this and with
Tony Aleige left, he's going to put on a clinic, he's got 20 seconds here,
player still out towards the conference trying to bait him in,
Vexai just takes the fight head on.
Beautiful round from Story.
He's not really been part of the story in this run for FlyQuest,
but showing up in a big way here in this final day of stage one.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you, I think if you gave anyone the choice,
You'd rather be quiet in the early games and then come alive right at the end when it really matters.
And that's exactly what story's done, right?
As Bo1 against Simmers was solid, but past that point,
non-factor and this promising young orper joining a plucky underdog squad of Australians.
Oh, wait, what is this?
Like, I still have a combo of an honor and it couldn't go better.
Quick entry comes in for a lead, though.
It's a very important trade. Now you can actually try and follow through on this B hit, flash play.
Fools was hoping to block, it's not gone through.
He found some damage on the spam. This is going to come down to a retake though.
Netek able to thin the herd, so the advantage for FlyQuest.
That bomb will go down. Liquid are not being given a lot of room to get comfortable.
These smokes will fade and then we're on.
Naf is so far away right now. He's going to have to play. I mean,
They're massing this retake as we speak.
I'm just going to have to start running at a certain point
because FlyQuest are right down on the precipice.
We need this first kill.
It can start to unravel if you don't get it.
So a big one from Shui.
He'll even follow up with another.
There's the backstab connecting on good timing.
But Naflai and that deagle cleans house.
It's something for Liquid to hold on to
as they look for scraps at the end of their T-side.
Three rounds secured.
And a chance at a fourth here with the AWP for Ultima, even surviving into this next round.
That's number two late, that's what you've got to tell yourself, looking for a four-round
half-time, best-case scenario, Liquid.
I've seen a variety of side-holds on this B-side, but it does feel like the way it is.
Even with now, still 3-11, they're going to try it once again, it gets tucked in.
This shot on the orb fully blinded. I could have chased that kill down, I found that spam through the smoke, he's gonna shrink back, losing confidence it looks like.
I does not want to hunt that kill.
Feels like a perhaps wasted opportunity here for Malbs.
Looks like a bit of spam but it's just taking the story out of this one.
Very active from a lead, sure on short, NAF is also walking up to parmments, so Liquid
are hoping for a kill to come their way, but, yes, it's not been in a giving mood in the
pits.
This Liquid do look to keep the pressure up on this A-side, the bomb joins them.
FlyQuest with a high-low set-up in banana, have a lot of information.
45 seconds, it really does feel like an A-Play.
Now I'm scared out towards B and with Story getting really sherry.
This could be a big problem, you've at least got round the off.
JKS still to deal with him without Smoke Spam connecting a bit of luck going a long way here for FlyQuest.
Things start to really shape up for the CTs.
They can't get past JKS.
It's the ultimate now getting boxed in there on all sides of him. It is an utter domination across the series for
FlyQuest. They are just rounds away from stage two.
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Steve is on his way, look he's going to play him!
Look at him trying to summon Dredd, he's a great opponent!
That's why he's just playing this, but he's getting more play!
Steve is on his way!
We're going down to play him!
What are you doing?!
Bycress are making a statement right now, a dominant 2-0.
And levied over Liquid here in this final day of play for Stage 1.
Its team went through 3-0 back in Budapest, and even though they had to look for it this year around,
it is looking beautiful.
Come this final B-0-3, looking like no way back into this game for Liquid right now.
We have multiple players, just sub-10 kills on the series, going into this second half.
Liquid, it is light out.
Yeah, Malbs has 7 in the series, Ultima and Shili have 10.
The only guy who's comfortably in those double digits is Naphena Leech.
That's just a failure to launch for over half the roster on Team Liquid.
It's not left them with a lot to fall back on here in this do or die series.
That entire first half Liquid got two opening kills.
Might get worse before it gets better.
Maus goes one for one.
Shui on his own in the back of the site.
Why wait?
I want to just get one, but instead the very first peak running from Inns on the Glock.
I'm now planted.
I'll try to snatch back the advantage, but Inns just isn't missing a beat.
Kemi into today, bottom rated player for FlyQuest.
He's had it absolutely unreal series.
It lights out, that's for sure.
are picking their way back into this round. 2v2 ensues, NAF gets close, it's NAF and
a Ligue, legacy players of Liquid looking to hold on to this one, but Inz is not missing
a beat, third headshot, comes in for the captain, doing it on his own, and as a Ligue runs them
down it is inevitable for FlyQuest. Pistol round, off the back of a 9 round CT side,
And this is Liquid's map pick going out of the window.
Just running out of ways of saying just how one-sided this series is.
And this is not normally how the final day of play in these stages go.
Yeah, these are meant to be the most competitive show that the pressures at the highest, but these are teams so close to that next stage.
You want it to be a brawl. You want it to be an even fight where they're all giving it everything they've got.
And they could just feel.
Empty.
I mean, they've not had two rounds in a row in this series.
Shouldn't surprise you with five rounds in the series.
But how can you ever get things going, get a feel for the game,
be your opponent on eco, any of the things required to win a series like this?
Another one for one.
My quest fearless, just popping up mid.
Cruisin' for a bruiser.
Alright, one back for a leech.
Here's the rest of FlyQuest closing in for his short.
His teammates are a long way away, however.
Thankfully, Story's the guy clearing out pins, so that is going to delay this bomb plant
for a little while.
It gives you a few more seconds to bring everyone into the fold, and so this retake
is right here on the doorstep of the A site.
How will FlyQuest win this? Another misbidder utility.
Hint follows up. He can back out as well, but he wants his fight right now. 16 and 4 will finally fall to the long side.
It's Story, strapping, Mac 10 pushes in, and Story tucks out on low health in this site.
Elise can win it, but he's going to win it quick. Chasing them down, Story has that cross and lost in the source liquid.
Just getting shouted down by young Vexai 11 to 3.
You can call a timeout, it won't change a thing.
No, this is just rough, isn't it?
Individuals not showing up, so much mist-util and on a new vis, you know, maybe you could
have given them the benefit of the doubt, feeling a bit out of practice there, but this
This is your mob pig. This is Dias Straits.
And we touched upon their struggle to win rounds. When you're working with less, all
the UTEL matters even more, right? It's not like you have infinite smokes to replenish
these. Considering we were crediting liquids so much yesterday versus heroic for how on
the same page they look, the synergy on display, there is absolutely none of that in this final
match of the group. FlyQuest, they can feel that this is their game, and it'll be that
Stage 2 team. The rest of it just a formality.
You can almost see the reddit comments now.
People saying this game could have been an email.
I feel like let's just take their time to guarantee a clean finish.
40 seconds on the clock, Liquid don't have a single grenade left in the round.
Pre-rotating B, Longsmokes come out, Aleige left on his shoulders to keep this series
alive right now.
He's got everybody facing him, Ultimate Falls after one.
Aleige does the same and he survived, no he can't, where he swing denied and a 3v2 as
As his bomb can just run in, that's a dangerous peek for Story, offering an opportunity the
way of Team Liquid, and they just have to plug that bomb down now, but two rifles in
this post-plan pose a question for Liquid, can they answer?
I've been a little overzealous in some of these fights, but in this game, play question
and feeling invincible, is this where it changes?
Oh, Bombi 2 and what a backside, and he's just off the mark, Malbs finally shuts him
down in awkward engagement, but a big multi-kill round for Malbs finally comes through.
You've been dead quiet across the entire series.
But at 3K there, Liquid lived to fight,
at least a couple more rounds on Inferno.
You know, you don't need to be an armchair psychologist
like me to see that Liquid don't exactly look like
they're leaving yet in the comeback.
Long way from that.
Just playing it out right now on autopilot.
Nice.
Orpha Ultimate is available. We've got actually four Eco here for FlyQuest, one pistol.
Go back to spawn. I mean, they have a bit of money, just no loss bonus.
Now take a Marsha's old team.
and jk s, he connects it, not much of a gun to pick up here, hand that over, great, thanks
sharing it round trying to figure out how the hell do we use this thing if they
win this round Harry I'm out of answers let's see mag 7 was it capable of no
trade yet the off of ultimate moves in he gets glock mag 7 does big damage
softens them up for the ins clock and now there's guns to be retrieved surely
not though this is glocks and a stolen shotgun this can't be around for five
This is a new low they've traded the shotgun off on the AWP. They had one deagle in this round. That is all they purchased
You are joking this was already gonna be a rough loss for liquid, but if it goes like this, that's a new low
Molly's a little off the mark next I'll have to hide out here. You might just go over looked at the back of the site now
It gets lower, it gets worse!
Delie the Vaude.
The floor is now a basement for Team Liquid.
It's in the core of the Earth!
Glocks!
On Eagle and Glocks!
And that's what put FlyQuest
on to match and series points.
Stage 2 points.
Oh no.
This might be the last time you see this liquid roster.
And dare I say that's justified. Yeah, I think, you know, backside's hit the nail on the head there. That's the prevailing feeling and I think it's been that way throughout almost all of this series.
That's the first time I've ever seen the Max seven entering on T side. And it's the last thing that liquid are going to see before their flights home.
They just look crushed, don't they? You can see on their faces there's been a number of rough rounds in this one, but that's the worst yet, maybe.
Just saw J.K.S. with his hands in his air, in the air, laughing.
Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy.
And for liquid.
And you know what Harry, after that round, despite the full eco, Liquid still haven't won two rounds in a row.
Cheeky boost throwing up here trying to net that open and there is a stack of top
Banana, that 5-7 finds some damage.
You're gonna need a lot more than that.
And many times FlyQuest have learned in this series, there is no limit to the rounds they can win.
There is no such thing as a bad spot, bad odds.
Every one of these rounds is winnable.
And so it's gonna take more than a bit of early damage on the 5-7 and put the fear in them now.
They're grouping for this banana here, Inz has found room out through the long side.
He can begin a flank or call them back.
And so they're gonna come back around with the bomb, try and make use of this room from their captain.
Pick up for a lead, but he's only good for the first.
It's the man hiding in apartments ultimate that's got a lot to do here.
Malus will get one more.
It's the MP9 having to drop that bomb.
Got it!
It just goes down in time. Inns and JKS get a try and get this one done with style.
Heavy hitters.
At stage 2 awaits, it's just 3 kills away.
They lose Inns.
What's JKS got for us? First kill connects.
There's the follow-up.
With a swing from NAF gets that trade. Liquid stick around for a moment longer in cologne.
One more round at the bare minimum.
It's the two clutches in the server of JKS and NAF.
Each team's respective and NAF will win it out,
but that was two kills deep for JKS, close, but no cigar.
Plenty more opportunities for FlyQuest to finish the job.
The last second dash back to that A bomb site.
FlyQuest feel like they have the room to take risks
and INZ certainly does walking through that long side smoke.
Orpheus changes hands right back to Ultimates.
Malphz throws himself into Banana one for one.
He's feel like the best bet we can get but that is nice.
A trade back for Shui.
He's big.
Oh, that's full shot.
I was it.
Got to get out though, he just jumped into the molly.
I guess they made it out in the top mid and the bomb comes around to join and they're gonna try and go for the photo finish in a
Again
There's time bit more time left on the clock
Deleted never even saw JKS you're looking at naff
Him and Elysia, but the other guy's doing anything for liquid
This is a tall order first shot lands can't follow up
Elysia 1v2 clutch being requested or else fly quest are going to that next stage
Closes in through the top of mid, but this is asking a hell of a lot from Eliege.
They're in a crossfire.
This is one of the trickiest rounds you could have to fall back on.
This is such an awkward 1v2.
The setup alone could be enough.
Eliege disrupts.
Plays that one perfectly.
And Eliege isn't ready to go down without a fight.
He's going out on his own terms, massive 1v2 for a lead, spots that barrel, and a second
turn the wrong way for FlyQuest.
He reads that last position, knows what is optimal for FlyQuest.
And man, I mean, they get themselves in a fantastic position there, shocked to see them
lose it.
Liquid ready to unplug.
But this is back-to-back clutches to keep them hanging on by a thread
And in the scariest round of all now what clocks it shouldn't have to be
Eagles throw themselves into the mix
Surely you like I am setting you a beta breath waiting for inevitable.
Have you ever wanted to kind of seriously entertain any type of a turnaround?
This round has to be clean and then you have to get a couple of clean rifle rounds in there
too because you can't keep depending on these clutches.
This one at least looks to hold up to that promise, not gonna fall down versus the glocks
this time around.
So no worries there, fire the live, you'll get full rifles in the next.
rounds between them and FlyQuest, but it still feels like such a mammoth undertaking with
how this series has gone so far.
As it calls a timeout just to calm everything down here, couple of rounds now finally in
a row for Liquid as FlyQuest have more than enough opportunities to finish this series,
but why make a meal out of it?
I'm trying to tame his team a little bit, as they have thrown some awkward situations
in these post plants.
It doesn't need to matter.
I have to come round here for the Aussies.
Nice.
Yes, the hit time out because you know that they lose.
I would just wear the hat and be a full bag guys.
Well you gotta believe it don't you?
Five rounds? What's five rounds?
I think liquid.
Flyquests are still hungry.
Just gotta be really worried about a grouped play coming your way right?
With so many chances to close this out, Flyquests can just try and play a numbers game
and that's exactly what they're doing here.
Fall 5-man assault flashes to try and get them out through the apartments.
Ultimate answers first on that all, but they've lost NAF in the downtime. That's out towards long.
Play now coming in short side, and they reach out in the open, dead straight away.
Could start to come on.
Now, Ultimate's gonna hit something they get past him.
You can't lose this.
Malb's 1v3, and this entire thing was kept alive with a string of clutches,
but this is surely one bridge too far.
One kill for FlyQuest and they're in that next stage. They give Malbs an early fight.
It's that reason to believe. Orp on the line, ready to peek on Vexite's contact.
And the need will get it done. Banks it around the corner. FlyQuest go into stage two with their heads held high, dominating Team Liquid in a series that is not even close.
You might have been ready to ride out fly quest coming into this stage
But I think these last couple of games have been gratifying for fly quest showing up in a massive way
Multiple players looking reliable inns the captain leading them to victory with a monstrous performance in this matchup
And into stage two they go for liquid. It is a new low a bottom performance
They're worst major placing since they didn't make it in Copenhagen
And so Liquid it is very much back to the drawing board as we see this roster exit early in stage one
What a way to end what was supposed to be a competitive series
What was supposed to be a good day on behalf of team Liquid it is on the other hand fly Chris stealing all the headlines and getting the job
Done not only beating Liquid not only eliminating them Peter
But doing it in a style where they lift no room for doubt whatsoever
However, they were the better team in this match.
Very confident throughout the whole day, specifically in Anubis.
Everything is interesting to be clear of.
The same can be said on Inferno's where they make very few mistakes,
but they also just get all the Volts to kill in every single time.
They win all the clutches, they play out the situation correctly.
And L'Iquid is just making too many mistakes.
And you know, it's mistakes in terms of micro-decision,
the player making the wrong calls, missing utility, having wrong, you know,
spacing between the players.
But when you play with that, you simply just not play.
As I said before, you know, it takes a good team to punish all those mistakes and doing persistently and we have one of those punishers with us here on the desk.
Thanks for the first and foremost, congratulations making Stage 2 the major.
Thanks man, appreciate it.
Yeah, I'll be honest, I'm a bit surprised by how this game unfolded. I think all of us, you know, had maybe Liquid being the favourites on paper.
One thing is winning and beating them, another one is dominating like you did right here. Are you surprised to be completely...
I mean, it's just all these at majors man, we're here to fuck pickums. That's what we do.
Well done in that case, yeah.
I'm curious, you started off with a very slim victory against Tennis and then you dropped
the games to both Heroic and Sharks.
I think this was probably the best we've seen you at this stage so far.
What changed for you guys and why did you come in so fired up for this one?
Because of Laker?
Was it because JK's history?
Can you talk to me about it?
We didn't play Heroic and Sharks, by the way.
That's what it's going to sound like.
It's something down under, they put it down under.
Yeah, I don't know honestly like I think I backs with us against the wall and
We had a bit attitude in that Thunder game obviously because they're Australian you had some I chewed
Because I know they talk some they talk some stuff and I want to talk I want to talk back
You know, and then I guess it sort of spills natural now, and I feel like it helps my team
So I don't know I'm just here to bring the energy and just shoot hard for the boys
I was thinking if we have actually balling around for you
I wanted to be to showing you where there's a little of chaos happening inside in front of where you decide to go
Whatever a crazy play I'd say with the three guys, but can you walk and tell me what what's the thought process right here?
Yeah, I mean, it's it's pretty simple
So we're at a position where we sort of feel like we need some information and we've already gambled towards beer and
I just more gone so
Actually, it's a bonus like it's a bonus time for us with our small guns. So I
Just felt like may look at some info
Cuz we have three guys there if I die, maybe they react and speed up into our team and then
Yeah, that's about it
Obviously, I think going for the second kill might have been a bit greedy, but that's the attitude, right?
You play confident, bro. You end up losing the round though. I mean, we got you end up losing this one
Because I mean like the play you did was was right, you know
It was a it was ballsy, but it worried out in the end and and how did you feel afterwards losing that round?
I mean after losing around like that
You sort of know that the game should be a bit more difficult because obviously that was an inventive scenario for us and
And from being fully honest, we lost composure.
It's as simple as that.
Like we had kills when people weren't looking at us
and we just lost composure.
But I mean, it happens, right?
We got a bit shaky and then we closed it out.
So that was it.
The two losses you had so far in this tournament
were slim losses and investor ones.
And obviously it's been hard for us from the outside
to kind of figure out where you guys were at.
Coming into this game, be honest with me right here.
Were you in full belief that you were in a good place
as a team?
We heard all the stories with maybe a bit of lack of practice,
et cetera, et cetera.
So I guess for us, following from the outside, it's been very tough to place you guys within the team.
Have you always been certain of where you're at?
I mean, I would like we've had a difficult, like we've had been struggling with visas, struggling with practice.
And our environment and the team has been pretty bad, but we're trying to turn it around.
Roy is trying to change. We're trying to be better.
And we've been struggling to click as a team, to be honest.
But who knows, maybe this is our tournament where we finally bring it together.
Like at the end of the day, we have good players on paper.
I was just wondering, do you feel a difference here?
Like, has anything changed so far during the major?
I mean, I don't know what to say, but the past two games, like, the Angie we're bringing, the belief in our voices, the communication we have, like, it's decisive.
Like, it doesn't feel like we're fucking around, you know, it feels like we're here to play, I'm here to compete.
I just want to say as well, like, who's deciding how you're playing on CT side?
Because I've been really impressed with the utility management, especially when you haven't been practicing as much as you say, like, you're good on position and struggling with the Vs and everything.
It looks like you're playing a really solid game, like, on a new base, it seems like the smoke timings are really good all the time.
and again here, you're not relying on gimmicky entries to win rounds, it looks solid counter
strike. So who wears this kind of coming from mostly?
I mean, I don't want to mislead everyone. We have had practice. We actually have like
a 15 days in Europe or 16 days in Europe prior to this tournament, but we've just had these
breaks like going back to Australia and stuff, we haven't been able to practice. And obviously
that impacts the team. We've had weeks off of CS. But yeah, in terms of the city side,
I guess it's just everyone contributing. Like, in Fernan, I'd say I have a pretty big voice
and stories got a pretty big voice as well.
In general, story helps in a city side quite a bit.
But at the end of the day, when someone's feeling the game,
usually they read it's also pretty strong.
Like, Inns also has some really good moments
and everyone has good moments to answer, city.
I just want to ask you one more thing.
This energy that we saw from you yesterday
gets thrown down under.
We had Inns on the desk here.
And he said he wanted to put pictures of the players
somewhere so you could see it and have that same attitude.
Today it seemed like we've not seen you have this before.
Suddenly you're sending it, talking all sorts of stuff.
Is it getting you guys fired up?
Because on the server, it looks calm and composed,
but you've seen what you really enjoying it at the moment.
I mean, to be honest, I'm just a sort of person
that has a bit of attitude, like in general.
And I think it just was really natural for me
to talk a bit of shit, but at the same time,
I didn't realize how much it would help my team.
And I can really feel, and I'm not even sure
if that's the reason why we're playing so good,
but like, I just, it feels like it's helping us
and it feels organic, it feels natural,
so I'm just gonna keep going while it feels good.
I think it's all like you said,
when the mood before in practice got bad,
you suddenly started shouting,
and it just wasn't happening before.
The energy's there, you know,
like you feel like there's some extra stuff there
before it was bad, and now it's still amazing.
Vexan, looking ahead at stage two,
you obviously don't know your opponents just yet,
but based on what you felt and what you experienced
here the last couple of days,
is that a stage that is frightening for you on paper,
or do you think that you have more in store for us at home?
I mean, I wear a lot, it'll be difficult,
but they're strong teams, you know, it's a major,
everyone wants to win this, everyone wants to be really good.
It's very prestigious, but I don't know
if we're just gonna try our best, compete, play our game,
and hopefully have some attitude.
Well, make sure to bring that attitude.
It's been incredible fun to follow.
Naturally, from a happy winner to a disappointed loser,
we had the stunner catching up with Elise
after Liquid were eliminated.
Sombra Tones is what we're gonna experience here,
at least for Liquid.
They are on their way out of the
Intellixtreme Masters Cologne Major in stage one.
Elise joining me post-match, Elise.
You've won in Cologne.
You've come second in Cologne.
You've done a lot of different things
of the course of your career.
Talk to me some of the emotions you're feeling right now.
Just disappointed that we could have beat them.
But I think that, like, mentally, I don't think that we were,
like, ready to win on both maps.
Like, I think that there was just kind of a feeling of dread,
I think.
Like, I feel like the first map.
And there wasn't as much trust, I think, like, during the game.
And, yeah, I don't know.
I think that, I mean, it's a major, right?
There's more nerves and everything, but yeah, I know.
I mean, there were questions about liquid getting
to this major in the first place, right?
There was a big community, sort of outcry or right at post,
or however you want to put it.
Then you guys come here, you have this result.
You've seen a lot of the game.
You're a veteran of this industry in the game.
What do you derive from this result?
I mean, just that like, a lot of things that we've tried,
a lot of things haven't worked.
I think that's pretty much like the main takeaway
from the season, like we've tried a lot of things,
even with nerds here and everything,
different systems, different way of how we want to do
the strats and just trying many, many things,
but I think just not even being able to make it
out of stage one is really tough.
I think that as TL fans and obviously as myself
and everyone here, we want to do better than that.
That's not acceptable.
And yeah, I think it's just problem solving,
what we want to do like after the major because of course the results are
unacceptable. 2,221 maps for you played in competition up to this point and it
is a quite a bit of counter strike overall but if you add one more from
that you go and play H it right here against Black West would you just
rather not have that one on there? I'd rather be there for sure. We have no
chance to win like if I think that if we would have like you know got a couple
more rounds if we won like a pistol like I think that if we would have won this
map like we could have easily won ancient so like it doesn't matter like how good
they are on it like if we were able to like win this map then we would have won
so I wish I wish that we would have got to ancient. Two last things to grab for
you first one the community is also talking about the impending changes
here the words or the names Crembo have been thrown out talks of math if he's
still gonna be in this lineup what the changes might be what you can allude to
if there are things that are on the horizon for liquid you're able or
willing to share with us. I mean I've said this in like other interviews as well
But I mean everyone's name should be you know question mark just because you know a lot like I said like a lot of things
Like we try a lot of things like haven't worked
So everyone should be like up for grabs myself included
So I think that's just like up to the org of you know what they want to do who they want to keep what they want to
Like what direction they want to like go towards
So we'll have to see it's not up to me. So yeah
Any final words for a good chat here?
I just apologize to the fans obviously stage one not good enough
We've definitely been trying a lot, so I know that it's not a great result for us or the fans, but you know we put in a lot of work, sometimes you don't actually get the happiness from putting in all the work, but you know we tried and it's not like anyone was slacking, we were playing a lot, doing a lot, we were in like five different contents in the last like five weeks.
So it's been a lot, it's been a long season, but unfortunately it hasn't worked out, but
thank you guys all for the support and hopefully we have a better next season.
Thank you for your time, Elish.
Thanks.
But these two squads have ended up in the dreaded all-or-nothing match.
Yeah, I hope we're going to have a loud series today, not just from us, Harry, because I heard
them shouting at each other during the warm-up for the last 15 minutes.
So let's see where this one goes as we get straight into the antics up top middle, pistol
round, rip roaring as Sonic and Osi tear heads off and big get out long, but at what cost?
Our plane has made it in, now Bombs coming over to join him.
But you're lacking manpower here, so need to level the playing field.
Dink is a nice way to get the ball rolling that will give you a bomb plant and a chance
to embark on this 3v5 post.
This can get messy, but another headshot connected by Sonic has been a bit of a beast in this
NRG run so far.
Him and Nitro clean it up with two apiece, and Biggs Pistol Woes continue the desk.
Mentor, they're coming in.
I mean, this is the bottom performing team in those pistol rounds right now.
Coming off with only 30% win rate.
Not ideal.
It's worse.
And our journey the other way have been one of the best teams so far at this event, Piki
and Pistols.
So no surprise to see them coming through confident, running up top middle and taking
the fight to big in this game. It feels weird how to see a pig pick dust two and not have
CSN here or at home. But I think you can agree that Gricks has been very impressive on E AWP
for this squad. Of course the import's taking a lot of the attention on this roster.
Just felt like in a lot of the games we got to see him and he was able to stack up really well
against his AWP and counter parts often ended up coming out of them feeling impressed by what he
He bought to the table.
And so you want him starting strong today.
Yeah, I think obviously this pick of NRG, a lot of big rather a lot of it coming off
the back of the fact that NRG are on an eight loss streak on this map.
That's a big number.
That's a huge number and not exactly close only one of those games getting to double
digits and it was against any competition, shall we say.
Those who will not be named.
What?
That was AK-Dink down mid for 99 damage through the smoke.
Tabson, he might be toggling on to try and get to stage 2.
I've never seen that.
99 damage AK shot.
I've never seen that.
I knew it was possible pit to site, but middle.
Oh, now JDC gets the entry, if you nitro here, you cannot believe what's happened to your
round.
That's shocking.
And all the entries coming through for big.
Well, hey, one way to do it.
Have you seen that?
I've never seen that.
I knew it was possible.
I've just never seen it.
Well, yeah, like, makes sense, right?
You can shoot there.
Players do cross there, but you just never see it.
It's maybe a body shot, but the dink.
through the smoke to just like there's layers to this
Wow nitro better save and dude if he saves Tapsen will never know he'll never know what he did
Gotta watch out for a stray bullet a smoke a
Strong breeze and Tapsen's gonna finish what he started so he'll never know
That is something else isn't it?
Wow, that kill was easy.
Tabson gets it on the board and three kills for Tabson puts Big in the game.
Need a new headset.
Tell me Tabson did that without any audio?
Check him PC.
Couldn't tell.
Oh, dude.
Oh, dude, that kid looks back like what?
What?
Like, genuinely, I've never seen that.
I've watched thousands of games. I've never seen this.
We've had two smoke kills in the Major, Harry.
It's getting spooky here in Stage 1.
someone please tell Tabsin later.
No, it actually wasn't Tabsin's headset issue, so we did have audio.
I don't know, that makes it less impressive.
Still checking piece.
I don't think that was an audio-based shot.
I heard him crossing.
I heard him crossing.
It's a fab and heads that swap out and won that round without him. I do like that just idea though
I feel like it's not done enough obviously there's risk with it
But just spamming a case on the cross you could spam just the doors with a case and you know not be as open
But it's obviously better when you've got the orb covering
So I think tabs on this you're boosting the you're having to try really hard to not pitch your negative theory
You know, I love the than they get a parry. It is like I think here's this
Here's the meta. Here's the future meta. You're on this map. Future meta. Future meta. You drop it.
If you're CT side, you drop it and spawn. You just leave it. Like you'd leave an HE
and save the T's to our mid to B or for a long cross smoke. And you happen to be in CT.
You pick it up, Harry. You put on some suppressive fire. Okay. All I'm saying is think about it.
It's good pressure. All right. Let's see if they do it in this game. It might happen.
It's not impossible to say never, right? We've already seen a 99 damage mid-dol's dink.
Anything is in the cards.
Okay, all on the cards.
Fast play down through mid for JDC as the tech pause comes to a close,
and Big might look for a pacey round here.
It's 4 over towards B, the AWP on the line.
Griggs is looking for a pick.
Might be given the chance.
Sonic has no reason to swing into the tunnels, not the gun for the job,
so just a block there, and the B hit plan gets disassembled by Big.
They're looking for JDC climbing up on two X-Box
And he's gonna win that opening fight one more man out here on short OC goes for the name and JDC can't get away from it
It's not a middle hand. I'm trying to survive these middoors have been ten years enough
I'm gonna sell something on this A site. Let's see if NRG are buying
I
Know in fact he just sends his team in blame F is of course on the lurk as
Big just storm feed as two players quickly trying to make it through this smoke
And it's clearing everything he can shots connect two kills and the round is done blame not required
On to and looking to stop these saves here is blame
And for the MP9 no surprise who wins that one
and so big. Back to back since the guns come out and looking for another clean round four
alive and both of these when you're getting built up and energy put down. Yeah, good punish
on the hunt for blame after.
moves everything from play for NRG.
I don't think PlayMath
gonna be under a bit of a microscope here, right?
Played a couple of rounds,
it'd have been very centered around his lurks
across this event,
and I would say those have been maybe low points
for big in their games.
What I have enjoyed is the way he talks to his team.
There's been a few clubs here even coming into this event
from some previous small rounds,
way that he, you know, talks to his squad and keeps him composed, keeps him calm. I
have enjoyed from a leadership side. Obviously, his style is very critiquable when it doesn't
work. But at the same time, they have, we have seen some really nice T-Bounds for big.
So, you know, it's open to interpretation. But the bad ones do look really bad.
Think about the Liquid series, some rounds on the Nuke T side.
I think it's Game of Leisure. There were a couple of trade attempts not attempted.
All moments where he was really out of the action.
Estanik even said it in that pre-game interview. Estanik coming in, he said,
BlameF is going to be hiding in corners.
And so NRG know what to look out for, but have yet to been able to stop it.
Yeah, I think it's going well.
You know, when the team are all playing well,
the lurks can work out really nicely.
It's when they have to depend on him
that they can get a little more awkward.
That's far, though.
The initial eye test on big is looking good.
An early lead here on Dust2.
He touched upon it coming in, but this has been a very tricky map
for NRG, eight loss streak.
And so that's always going to give you a bit of a nudge
if you're big clan.
Blame, cheap dates, 25 armor, but we'll not upgrade it.
Detail that often goes unnoticed,
and especially when you're trying to call the shots,
Blame goes right down middle in this round,
flashed up for Catwalk,
just as NRG are getting into position here,
two players with Oc lining up utility.
Still some fear of long way now,
but Big Ove not got any control there.
So, flash primed. Oc will send him in. It's a great flash bang, and Blame gets nothing
from it.
And RG, wasting some time, but two smokes remain.
Grim put in position. They're going to commit with this.
I have to see them accelerate once they see this mid to be coming through and so Sonic
is already doing that. Closing in, he's going to deal with play now. Can't follow up on
a JDC. He is still looming here. The site player's job is far from done. JDC used to
cause a ruckus. Jump for Fabin's getting blocked here by Nitro and suggest him being in this
position ends up disrupting the round. It's such an unorthodox position so I'm not surprised that he
doesn't realize what's going on but he was just jumping into his opponent and could not get himself
on top of that box. Really awkward. Now legally this is winnable but 1v3 in 10 seconds JDC has
got to go for it right now and Nitro will not let him have it so nice hold on this P bomb site
while controlled by NRG in unorthodox positions.
Big get caught off guard.
I like the aggressive move,
repushing off of Kat,
realizing after that smoke fades that,
hey, if no one's here, this lights in the round.
May as well go for it.
So, NRG do punish big.
Nice.
Nice, guys. Good job, guys.
Bro's getting involved.
JDC just handed him that one on a platter, the returnals play not spotted.
Now Bro's going to try to make his escape.
Oh, well down very, very low.
who gets out to maintain this 5v4.
They wanted to go for the ace split.
They've encountered resistance, but they are getting the room on Catwalk.
Now they're going to try and get out long
and leave them in the hands of Grimm, pushed up.
It's an easy double.
And so 2v5, but you've got this positioning out towards the short side.
He's still interested.
Flash for Favin, sends him into the action.
Sponsor player on the cross, doesn't know about Sonic floating around here ready to jump on up.
That can happen at any time and there it is.
Lash to set him up, Gricks might get one.
The round's just beginning, it's a 1v4.
Drops on down and two there to cover, that's one too many for that AWP to deal with.
NRG will let Big Tie this game up. They're not ready to give them the lead just yet.
Yeah, NRG looking very comfortable. Everyone holding their own in this round, Brim.
Difficult positions, still gets himself a double.
Bit of a lazy check for Big Coal, they can contact out.
Pay the price. And NRG right now offering a lot of utility to their team, so it's flowing quite
nicely on CT Dust2 as it will need to.
They've lost that luxury and OC getting set up in the middle for like NRG were in trouble
after they lost exotic on the AWP but OC has come through with renewed form surprisingly
to fill the shoes of what was a very exciting North American prospect. I wonder if we'd
seen the best from OCE already, but still has more to prove here. The major Nitro nice
kill, but they've still got this B site. Can they find frags before the cross comes in?
That's a big pick. It's still not favorite ground. NRG want to throw themselves through
the smoke. Molly is a problem. Bomb getting put down.
Oh, they realized there's a bit of a gap around this smoke, trying to boost up over the top
of it, but there's the replenish.
He's going to block off this vision, and now you lend a bit of time to Grim and see if
he can give you any sort of leeway here on this wraparound through the tunnels.
Got a strike hard straight away.
If he does, suddenly retake well and truly alive, because now these players in the site
are getting pincered.
Got to be looking over their shoulder, JDC out in the open here, a lot of time taking
off this bomb. Big decide now to make their move. Blynav up over into the action and ripping
heads off. What a turnaround for Big. They were getting collapsed upon.
Just at no point do you feel safe in a retake of that B bombsite. That is a 2v4 straight
up as NRG fling their players through the window, but the time is so desperate. They
waited so long for that flank. Now Blynav, perfect position. Here's that second player
come through the door and waits to strike. He strings those kills together. JDC clutch.
And a lot of hype from Tapsen. He's been getting loud in these games.
You see why we say that this is the most difficult retake in the game.
They make it look so. Oh, he saw him. Blame cancels that jump.
I'm realizing the flash actually didn't affect the cap player.
And so both teams call it off. This is a last ditched buy here for NRG, so AWP is a luxury,
but he needs to utilize. Boost gets good damage early, and he just spams a second. Two players,
half health. NRG still making plays, but this gets heard from lower.
Yeah, playmaps have been hanging around waiting for exactly this.
And actually you might try and collapse on him here, right?
They saw BlameF going up onto the boxes earlier.
They've spotted him now roaming down and lower, and they still have players pushed up on
shore.
They have a feeling that they've got a chance at a 1v1 out here in middle.
For now BlameF goes undetected.
They turn around and focus fire back to the bomb site.
Everyone is wounded.
Everyone is low.
And BlameF has just dodged capture.
When they pick him up, you look at the health, you're out of position, you don't want to
throw yourselves into this and lose everything going forward, so it's a right off-round for
NRG.
I love this.
They do it together as well, so they're going to guarantee lots of guns saved in this round.
No kit, almost no utility, low health.
Why risk it when bigger in strong post-plant positions?
So Greggs gets to save a scout, but OC still keeps his AWP for another go, so this is the
perfect call for NRG. They upgrade their one pistol and they leave with five rifles. Big
still take the lead right back out of their hands but NRG remain threatening late into this half
rather than just being put to pistols and letting big string rounds together.
I do agree. I love that they just hard commit to it straight away as well. I feel like so many
teams, they go for that little cursory glance in, see if they can get another kill and then ends
up making it expensive but no NRG you get another rifle round here on the back of that save
Big know this they're gonna supplement this round with a timeout
Still have that chance to take control over this first half if they're able to close it here and now
It's not been anything super complex thus far for big.
Had a couple of set moves, had a spawn, some slower rounds thrown in there, a few varieties
of pace but it's largely been these grouped finishes, maybe with a blame F-Lug thrown
in for good measure.
I'm not sure.
How are you told to deny any kind of opening aggression from NRG?
They really do.
They're diligence here and clearing lower. They've been burned by that push in the past.
They mullied the catwalk as well, they know they have a lot of room.
Now towards mid, that smoke is only going to sell you on this idea further.
That it's a passive round from NRG playing back in the bombsites.
Break on the smoke.
Oh, Sonic tried to get involved there, tried to force the opening.
And ends up on the receiving end of a JDC entry.
And RG now have a decision to make. They want to try and fight for this catwalk. They can
hear that Long's being taken. The two players hiding in this smoke. You dealt with Grim.
You weren't expecting Bro, but Favons got the cover. So when RG are out of this round,
dominantly so.
Yeah, this again forced to save and feel like you never even got a chance to play in. Everyone
just in that kill box on shorts.
Oh, that's ugly as well.
JDC with a huge round.
We've had different players stepping up every game
for bigots felt like, right?
We saw yesterday the high and low of Favon
from bottom performance to a carry on the second map.
Obviously it's not getting out of here.
And so JDC grabs it all potentially for his teammate.
Big pickup, despite Griggs being one and six,
he's now given a chance to redeem himself
the end of this half and Big could start to really run away with Dust2.
Great opportunity for it, mentioned NRG's ugly string of results on this map, yet to
be punished at the major on Dust.
Obviously BR1's, that's getting banned out.
But even against MAT, Insta removed.
Yeah, and I think you know this round shows a bit of an issue in kind of the
Fundamentals there right it was their own smoke on short for an RG after they lost Sonic and then they kind of realized
Well, we don't have long we haven't had info there for a long time. We actually need short
We actually have to play through our own defensive smoke. The alternative is you know, you're playing within the site
You're getting pincid from long and short. They kind of left themselves with no options in that round
You're not going to win this CT side if you give big too much room.
Problem is, it feels like that ship has sailed if you want it to be super aggressive.
What a weird move for Blay that phrase.
Some thought behind it.
He thinks the energy would have played cat in this round, I guess, but just shifting
around the corner with no flashback after he's announced it every other round.
It gives him a free kill.
It's not going to matter if they get this B split off though, because Nitro is low and
boxed in. And so I think Big have just saved themselves. His bomb cross is still scary.
It's very scary. It's now loose. That's a problem.
Tapsen's going to try and get this back. He's stuck pulling here.
Players on either side of him and it's Tapsen. Don't have the bomb, mate.
When that dup all, you'd like to think he's saved the round. It's only OC left.
His smoke is going to fade soon and Tapsen will grab that bomb the second time around.
No issues there for big even though it could have got weird around that mid smoke and the bomb drop it doesn't thanks to
Tapsen shoots his way out of that situation
You know, it's funny. I think the logic is a we condition them
You know where we've thrown you till to get a cat every single time this time
I'm gonna walk into a and get away with it
But energy a pistol so cat is one of the best positions they can play in that round and
Well offers up a free kill blame FC's numbers and he tells his team to pick up the pace and big do well
Tapsen's bought an extra orb because he has the spawn for B, so while Gricks is working near Tapsen's gonna go looking for that B-pig.
Okay, why not? Tapsen, not stranger to the AWP.
And they're just gonna go.
Right in.
Don't hang around, don't wait for that smoke to come down. They try and pressure the B site very, very quickly. Nitro.
Two shots.
Go down without a fight.
He's eventually removed, and that leaves it in a very tricky retake here.
You'd love the chance to catch players crossing break on the smoke was meant to provide exactly that
Big don't give you any
Type of a way in to this round sonics forced in by the utile and this one comes unraveled big
And a dominant T side of dust in less
Can't catch up
Tapsons gonna finish the job and he will shutting out grim from a close one V3
I
I
Big showing up in the server right now, German team representing it until Extreme Masters
Cologne Major and looking to survive another day and another stage. Stage 2 teams waiting
for those B01 Openers tomorrow and NRG might be leaving with their head hung low if Big
get that way it's dust to it's the first map and big I hate to play important
they were probably for some of us bad situations in the game we didn't I
didn't feel it at all okay keep it up guys we are fucking in it month it
cannot take this away from us no chance they cannot take it away from us Harry
I'm getting inspired yeah I it's absent has been inspiring here this event been
Very dialed in, been bringing a lot of energy, the old boy of big, still got it.
He's blocking smokes as well.
That's a great block, isn't it?
Yeah, that smoke was really obvious, unfortunately, so easy block as Tapsin shuts down his long cross.
He's just gonna pick him all up.
Double headshot for Tapsin, maybe more where that came from as big brutalize in the pistol.
I'll use his own quote, no one is going to take this away from them.
Pistol round secured and now you're on that fast track to the win on Dust2.
Oh, NRG looking dejected and can you blame them?
That was their ticket back into the map.
When you consider the pistol differential between these two teams,
one of the best two, the very worst big.
Hicking it up in this second half.
And Archie just read it and weep
blocks come out
And it just it makes this so stressful doesn't it for an RG right?
This is already a map they've had a lot of struggles on a lot of issues on either of a super solid feeling playbook
Or a lot of confidence here and now there's a tremendous amount of weight put on your first rifle round
They take the full eco here just to try and get those guns out as fast as possible, but
Really really rough spot to be in and there's no denying that
I don't want to read too much into numbers entirely right especially not at this point of the major but energy's pick
in this series is new and this year alone it's been a pretty shambolic map. They've won it three times,
they've lost it nine times, you know, a lot of this against lower tier opposition as well.
It's not looked great for them. They must have practised coming into the major because
a clean win over sinners in this stage, but with the exception of that, we don't really know what
to expect from NRG on a map like that. Knowing they're going to start T-Side as well when you
you consider their difficulties, it's really going to be an uphill series here from NRG.
We've seen good fight from this squad throughout this first stage, but perpetual stage one
team, when we look at these previous majors, Budapest didn't make it through.
Austin, same story.
So what is in store for NRG in this series? Is there anything in this second half?
They burnt a lot of their opening util here just to feign a bit of cat control out in middle.
A ruse that somewhat is worth, right? Big don't have the info that cat's open, but Playmash just blocked it.
And that's freed up Griggs to look long on this AWP.
plays ahead of the smoke and Grim is dead as soon as he rounds the corner now
they get blocked alongside. It's nice to feel like you're running out of options here
kill back on the spam for OC. There's only one smoke left in the round and you
feel like you've got to use it on the cross. You're committed at this point
50 seconds left three players leading over towards A4 big and the AWP is one
of them. On this long range, Griggs is right where he's supposed to be. He's got a big
part to play in the round and he's in the place to do it. Nails that shot on an OC.
Can't find the follow-up. Nitro will secure the trade. You get a bit of ground now out
towards A, and playbaps not able to steal it back. Cross makes it in. JDC just tucks
him back site. He's going to go for the fight. Maybe feel like he got spotted there. There's
a window of opportunity, but instead is left to Favon far out of this one, tucked back
and spawned. He's hoping they give him a kill, but NRG are not in a giving mood right now,
tucked into their positions, rooted, and Favon forced to save or go for it. Can't stay here.
So NRG, at least get that opportunity in the form of the first rifle round of the half.
Just wants to make it expensive, but Sonic denies and that's good to see, right?
Couple of nice moments from Sonic in this map, even though it's Nitro the kill count
leader, Sonic has been the guy to look to so far at this major for NRG.
Just had some incredible moments, heroic moments from Sonic.
In that FlyQuest game, a lone or mirage, you're an absolutely nuclear.
Same against Sinners too.
of energy are gonna win. Gonna need more of that from Sonic.
Big money. And a spot of bother. Only two unforeseen this round.
With that comes a bit of a gamble, leaving some concessions in place, right? You got
Favon out towards the B site, all the Lumberjadys is boosted down here in CT, that's to give him an angle over the smoke if there is this mid to B, if that's what NRG decide to run.
So, sure, B is a one man hold, but he has support nearby out towards middle.
Luxward lobbed in.
Favon well confirmed that no one's heading this way, and that allows Big just to hunker down, stay in place.
Tapsen on this off angle
Flash shouldn't reach him here and so he's got open sight lines for the double up
No trade comes through Sonic has provided an entry out through the short side
But it's the bomb here on the back of OC at those long doors. That's the big problem
Even though they're getting all these entries, if OC doesn't make it past Tapsen at the long
doors, this round's over.
There it is.
There's no winning this one for Bro.
Bomb lost and with it the round.
It's not even necessarily a mistake for NRG, right?
It's just awkward timing on that flash.
It does hit Tapsen, but it's one guy throwing a flash, and so Tapsen gets a second division
on that player out long doors before it pops.
This first one, there's nothing second one, second two slow, and that OC just stuck alone.
Almost impossible to win that fight.
Tapsen logs down long, and he is happy about that 18 and 6 on Tapsen, putting on an absolute show.
It's the legend of big.
He's not just, you know, bringing a great energy.
He's bringing a great performance in the server,
and he's really looked to embrace the new kind of shit talk meta that's come around.
He's loving it right now. I mean, Tapsen is also, if you think about history,
he's played for this organization, right? He was back in one of these
NA German squads all the way back in the day. And we are going back. We are going back, but...
I don't know if Tapsen remembers anything before Big. True.
In here so long, he's a part of the furniture.
Premium oak.
Strong as a tree.
Hubble couldn't do any more than that.
Flooded by all five players and it looked dire, but...
It's 2K more than enough to make this a comfortable round for big.
It does feel almost poetic that right now in the must-win match in the one that gets
you through to stage two, Tabson, the veteran big man is topping the charts.
Not live, not live.
What could be the final round of this map?
Such a solid showing from big.
I feel like the whole time I was kind of waiting for an Archie to get activated, they were
won the first pistol, got a couple of gun rounds in early.
Ever since that point, big happened.
There's been nothing left of NRG in this map, it's a real shame this is an NRG who back-to-back
majors lost this exact game in 2-2 in stage 1, this would be the third time running for
NRG to lose out in the final day of play of this first stage wanting more but never getting
it with different rosters, different form every time. And again, I think the expectations
were kind of low, but they had a couple of really solid B1s. But I think the map pool
looking like it's going to let energy down here in Cologne. This is just us two. This
is an eight lost streak map. But as I said earlier, even you can spend a ugly showing
for them this year. Yeah, I mean, that's where you've got to hope that in that kind
of month period between them playing it and the fact that they got the one win versus
sinners coming in that it was one of the maps they looked at under a bit more of a microscope
and have looked to kind of revamp coming into this major. But it's not like that's a known
quantity, right? We can't confirm that to be the case that the results will have to
show it. And I think even that can add a little bit of stress to this.
And then there wasn't enough already.
It's not like it's a mega tried and tested and true map for them.
It's one they've struggled on and even if they have rebammed it can be very, very different
when you get to the officials versus in practice.
Just more than impressed at Tapsen's output in this game.
Greeks has not even been really a factor on a map of Dust 2 or not required.
Tapsen, blocking down low on this CT side.
20 and 7.
Wheelback live folks, big NRG and the dying stages of Dust 2 unless NRG can pull something
out of the hat.
Gonna need some serious magic.
a rabbit won't cut it
oh she does have a pretty decent spawn for bees so a chance to go for that pick
on the orb if you want
flash off the line and they are peaking this
oh oh she just gets wiped clean they double face
into the tunnels early a risky move it's worked out for big
And now they can block. Try and slow this one down. Third player steals himself away. It's Blaine F lying in wait.
Force it is.
With Tapsen moving in, he can draw the attention away and that will allow Blaine F to hit very, very hard.
Grim's not in a position to win this. Got a 1v1 in the site, but that's the start of his struggles.
Bigger closing in. All put the window. Tapsen at the door and they're going to crunch down upon him.
Big dominate. On map 1, it's not even close.
They're about picked decisively in their favor and now up to a nine loss streak for NRG on Dust2.
Got a bounce back on that second one and Nuke numbers not looking good and energy as well lacking for NRG.
No single player standing tall on this first map of the series where Big are cheering,
delighted with the opportunity to take this German core and organization to another stage of a major.
Class Act from Big on the first map of this qualification series.
It felt like we had a game and potentially the first seven rounds, but from there on out, it was just big all over Dupree.
They really want to make it to stage two.
I think there was a lot of very good details from Big and it seemed like they were in just cruise control for the majority of the match.
You just got to be paying a little bit of attention to the details. We're going to be diving into that.
But it's a team now that has impressed in that department and it also just carries in all the finishing line.
I think they show just way better Counter-Strike and as just mentioned by our lovely casters,
it's a lack of energy on the side of energy that they're not really in it and they seem to be you
know lacking that extra gear but big has just shown up today and they're ready to make it to the next
stage. And all that without the Griggs even needed you know yeah he's just cruising right now he's
obviously having maybe below average game for his standards but all the heavy lifting by Mr.
Tapsen and then as well JTZ had pretty good rounds there so I think yeah they were completely in
control, Blame have also his typical lurking style just paid off a lot of the times, not
even necessarily by pure impact of kills, but by the impact of being there, being annoying
and then the rest of the team is just taking another part of the map.
Let's dive into one of the moments you thought was most impactful to Prey. What have you
got for us?
I got round 4 as that's the one that I really want to be diving into. It's relatively simple
but just very well thought and you can see JDC running down mid, getting a lot of mid
control is another way of getting it by rushing down mid. Second of all, he does find the
first frag into mid here by jumping on xbox and he eventually does get traded.
One of the things the detail coming into this one is what they're going to be doing towards
the B bomb site and you can tell by the looks of that energy have no info.
They're trying to get it by getting a flash and tiles.
Sonic clears it and actually makes noise close but you can see that the big players have
already decided to go B but now they know specifically from what happened that they
have just been flashed.
There is a guy outside B and there's a guy up close so they just decide to go for it
and just search out the duels very fast before letting energy go into reposition.
And it's not a big-brained play, but it just makes sense in the fact that they know exactly where two players are.
The two specific players that is actually covering the B-bombs have just given up both the position and Big just took advantage of it.
It felt very efficient in that moment, right, Stiko?
I mean, BIG efficiency, German efficiency, they're known for it, and obviously they're just piecing the puzzles together.
As the pre-side, the step close was hurt, and then the flash trajectory, everything.
When you're playing, when you're inside of the game, you kind of know where the flashes are coming from,
and they're just going to abuse it. They know they have low buy, they know that they just checked tunnels,
they're going to be probably leaning away, playing those long-range tools.
So, yeah, they just took a chance, and beautifully just took control of the early round.
Let's double the round count then. Round number 8, you've picked this up for a couple of reasons.
Bit confusing, very much interesting. What have we got here, guys?
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for you to buckle up, because I'm going to be drawing a little bit for you guys.
I'm going to be standing up a little bit here, guys.
So what's going to be happening now is that we actually do have a,
initially a 4v3 situation retake for energy, and at the look of this right now, it looks like that Grimm is going to go for a flank.
He's going to be pushing in, and you've got to be thinking he actually finds a very good timing onto Gricks here.
So he's going to go in, he's going to find the frag right here, and I'm going to be pausing for you right now,
Because what we're going to be witnessing now is some of the best decision-making that I have seen throughout Stage 1 as of right now.
What is going to happen is that we know for a fact that we have one guy, Grimm, has already been given a position by killing Griggs.
Then we see JDC, he's here at Xbox. He is now taking this fight in here and he is in a position where he has to go all in.
But his decision-making, which I'm going to be telling you about in a second, is going to be very instrumental.
Blemeth has already decided to go in his box. He is in fact hiding in the corner already, but it's a very smart corner at this one.
at this one. He is now positioning himself to now cover window only and he's also giving a little
bit of space by having this look which I know Martin wants to be talking about in a moment
and then we just continue playing the clip. Look at JDC what he's doing here. He takes the fight
then he decides to go to Xbox, isolate the duel from the guy coming window while Blemif, getting
the kill in the window which he's already covering, jumping down and then positioning himself in car
getting the guy that comes through from right from doors. It is a lot of good decision making
because the isolated duels and I think the guy that I want to be highlighting the most is definitely JDC
because he decides to go from Xbox and go into this position instead of fighting with this guy
he just allows him to just stay put don't let him fight you and it was just magical in some
ways. Martin take it away. Yeah we're highlighting the good players of BIG obviously but there is
this smoke that allowed all it to happen and blame of use that smartly for cover to isolate all these
these 1v1 duels, then JDC used it at the Xbox as well, and that is just a mistake from OC
to throw this like extension smoke through the double doors, and basically it's so late into
the retake that it's actually favoring terrorists, and this is just a little bit of a fumble in my
opinion, then they obviously cannot play around, they destroy any refrag potential for them,
and yeah it's just it's just not looking good, and we've been grilling OC a little bit in the
pre-match, and this is just such a small timing mistake that I cannot grill him for it's too
much but I have to highlight it because it allowed this 2v4 retake to happen
and eventually BRG just ran away with it. And from the side of beggars you were
highlighting to pretty incredibly well choreographed, didn't seem like they
panicked in the situation felt like it was fully within their control and I
wouldn't blame them for being in you know a very heavy man deficit situation for
freaking out a little bit and maybe letting NRG get away with this one. And
it's really in these situations where these type of decision-making is
very crucial but also extremely hard to be making because you're under a lot of
pressure and I think JDC is again highlighted for me as the man of the hour because he knows
that if he's going all in with the guy fighting in tunnels, he's going to put blame in the
shit situation. So if he decides to just leave him, he knows that Grim's not going to play
first because he's the one that's already been spotted. He's going to be jiggling in
tunnels doing nothing actually. So it's just extremely well, but also the likes of Blamey
have to get in the kill, then jumping up and isolating and then hiding car for the last
guy. You know, there's a lot of beautiful things to be in Whitsun, but this one is definitely
very smart indeed wasn't just an isolation though JDC having a field day on
Dust2 as well sticker doing what he needs to do he's on the crutches but it
doesn't feel like in any disability whatsoever he's feeling it he's
smiling his cheering and this is exactly the JDC that we absolutely need for
BIG to make it to the stage two so I'm very happy for the man I'm very happy
because I felt like we were kind of robbed of his tenure in Maus as well I'm
very happy that he's kind of found a system that it feels like he's working
Obviously tabs and we highlighted him before the game as well. Just speaking about his tenure
He's like the uncle all unks when it comes to the loyalty for this organization as well
Incredibly impactful from him to it just felt like it was almost going picture. Perfect fall decided big energy though
Like I'm left with a lot to be desired and going into that nuke
Yeah, there's there's a there's a lot of Christian monks right now for me looking at this energy lineup
Not only the way they play but we even had a quite a massive discussion about the whole video coming into this one
which unfortunately seemed very odd and it's like we're talking a lot maybe it could be because
of preparation they decided to go for the maps that they've decided to go to I think it's also
just in the details right now they just they lack that little bit of extra you know attention to
detail and I think the situation that I try to break through before was a good one that you know
deploying a smoke that's actually not needed giving more space not trading officially taking the
right path it's all these kind of small details that they that they simply just lack and and big
Because just utilizing those mistakes to their favor, and it's also why it's been so relatively one-sided so far.
Speaking about this veto, we mentioned that ViG are flexing 7 map pool, but I feel like an energy are just flexing 5 map pool.
I don't know what is their permaband essentially, but it's between Overpass and Dust2, they generally don't like to play those two maps.
So obviously there's like a punish pick on the silver player for anyone who is playing energy and well,
BIG took it and well, Dust2 was not even in the convention.
So I'm really worried for energy, but at the same time Nuke is one of the maps where well,
if they piece out together some strong T side because obviously BIG are going to be starting on the CT side.
I do think that there is a potential for a third map.
However, I personally don't believe so.
I'm just playing devil's network.
How much do you believe in?
To free?
There's definitely a case now that they turn attention to Nuggets.
It is one of those maps that they can play to a high level and also what they have shown before.
And I think still looking at how good Big showed up in this one, they looked very prepared and potentially also,
and from knowing Big as an organization, as a team, they loved to prepare for themselves.
So I don't think there's going to be much that energy could come up with that they're not going to be prepared for,
but hopefully for the likes of Energy and all the American fans, there's going to be a little bit up their sleeve.
you believe in at all, Stiko? It's all. It's over. It's over. Hopefully it is over, but I'm biased
because Pickham's needs to be saved. Yes, that's very true. I guess Pimp is here with us in spirit
some way. Somehow, we do need to throw things to a break before the action can be restarting.
And I know we say a lot, but this truly is due or die time energy. Now just one map away from
elimination here at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major 2026.
and one is cast it doesnt have to be cast
i have molly i have molly i have molly i have molly
im in the panning i play in Thanoson
Please smoke in the...
...above the window.
I don't see lower.
He boosted above the smoke.
Two guys there.
I'm trying to end here.
Left HE, left on BNL, nothing.
The infotainer, right?
Yes, I don't see.
Smoke, cool, left and right out, guys.
I have the other one.
I have one.
Up, peeking.
Copy, double flash B.
In B.
Car.
Car is...
I have side window in front of us, let's go!
Let's go!
Nice!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Awesome work here.
That was safe guys.
That's fine.
Fair nice.
I have side.
Let's cover the smoke with them.
I smoked a shot.
I have side peek.
On that.
Nice.
Maybe I'll peek close.
One more.
One more maybe.
Hopalive, hopalive.
Hopalive, hopalive.
Is there anything here guys?
I sent it.
No one here.
Opal's B boys.
They're showing you their mental really.
Yeah.
I think he will be doors. I will try to search him. Okay. I have scout
He's still window I pick him wait. Yeah, I'm not taking window wait wait for me don't guys. He's how much be
Important they were probably for some of us bad situations in the game. We didn't I didn't feel it at all
okay keep it up guys we are in this together we are fucking in it man they
cannot take this away from us no chance man wait don't peek just flash top right
and don't peek flashing top right and I break
He got me please.
We ready when we go through?
I'm on door.
We ready to contact?
NICE!
Of course, Rusha.
Oh, I think I'm back!
Hopefully Sony is gonna say maybe one or two words.
Anything?
I'm feeling thank you.
Chicken blocking the door?
I've not seen that before.
That's a close!
Oh my god!
There is one more spot left in stage two and right now big are a map away from it.
right the German based organization just a map away from that second stage and for NRG
they've got Nuke their pick but they haven't had the best results on heading into this event that's
what they're falling back on here it was a bit of a one-sided affair to get this series going
really in it were NRG back on dust two let's see if they can change their fortunes here
Yeah.
Big for the longest time we're a team that was pretty doing too much, but we're at least
the ways making majors. They would always sneak in last second, manage the qualify through
the RMR, but they missed two in a row. And now I've got away from this full German line
up, bringing in a couple of prospects from in different places, a Belarusian orper and
a Danish in game leader in blame. And still with this old German core, taps and a legend
of the game are looking to put on some of their best performances yet.
They were doubted by many coming into this stage, arguments of perhaps not having beaten
the best teams to qualify, playing small lands, playing online tournaments, but right now
they're looking to prove it against NRG and be that final team to qualify to stage 2.
Bigot played a great game on Dust.
Let's see if that transfers to Nuke.
my god hell of a throwing arm touchdown
just smokes off heaven it's gonna lead to
this outside wrap JDC takes the bait and
goes looking for that fight one man's
made it down the vents that is info for
NRG they actually hear the full body of
big rotate down. Thanks to Nitro late on the lobby lurch. He mops up to a big and out out of position.
It feels like OC's death actually helps NRG in that round, right? Big think they've cleared out the
lurker. They feel free to rotate down to follow onto that secret control. And NRG have options open.
They can commit B. They can pull back up. And Nitro calls a blinder, walks right into that A-side,
backstabs the big vent rotation. And this round is done no matter how you slice it.
2v4. The question energy on this map, the numbers were not pretty, but perhaps a bit
of Prague for this team coming into the major looking to pay off.
They took a clean victory over Sinners, looking to add big to the mantle.
And on a very technical map like Nuke, a few pocket strats can go a long way.
So NRG, a sexy pistol round to get this game going, because as impressed as I was, a big
back on Dust2, it did feel like NRG just had no life in them.
It's more like it.
I mean, in a way, for SNRG Squad, the fact that their outings and events leading up to
the Major weren't super fruitful.
Maybe gave them a bit more time to try and revise the map pool.
I'm talking about last place finishes out in Atlanta and CAC.
I gave them a pretty empty schedule on the run up to this major.
You can bear it's big, they weren't even getting to play events of that stature.
difference is they were winning them
and Archie they're getting very creative in these couple of rounds again the
outside wrap comes in beating blame on the famas and garage and they're faking
our secret control something has no intention of committing here
Steeper up in heaven right now, vent rotate spotted, thank you
Close the door behind you because big are not home
NRG have that sight
I'm curious how the rotates are going to look when the guns come out for big because we're early doors
But thus far they've been very very willing to shuffle bodies down towards lower
That's something NRG can try and exploit heading into these rifle rounds if big keep it up
Keep it up.
It's kind of what's seldom down the river in the pistol here.
The triple vent rotate.
Are you going to try triple boost rafters and get out of here through heaven?
Sure, why not?
Creative.
And that has been these first two rounds for NRG creative.
So much for no man left behind.
They just say good luck, Nitro.
You're on your own, buddy.
Just one man left behind.
But even he reunites.
Love it. Five surviving, the safest route out of A.
Big get one more eco with these saved pistol armor players.
So it all kind of works out.
the
duty of the only on the track this can be worried about you out
never making clear their intention of what they intend to do with it, that's why you
bit down on these heavy lower rotates
there's always an option
of one of these days, they try and use that, that thought against you right
the one round where you don't rotate bodies down towards lower, you can almost bet that that's when
NRG looked to take it. Love the second wave of Vito as well right, they do smoke, they
cross secret, then they throw the second wall, goes down towards Hell and Main and now look at
control that's conceded the big can't really fight for in a round where they
have pistols so they have to play their little hidey holes you are energy scale
above as long as nobody makes a misstep famine can't be certain we're up and
above still you've been telling your teammates the whole time this is a
possibility having gonna die to bro but blame F is not taking his eyes off the
Heaven wrapped around this entire time.
Neva's Griggs, his attention is about to go elsewhere,
though, with this main split ready to come in,
and actually set their sights on the topside finish.
One for Blame F on that deagle,
shanes together and up the blink of an eye,
it's one guy left, that is a tailspin of a round.
Frick's triple out of nowhere from CT,
but that 5-7 chews through the shocking round to win for Big.
That was just over, so like,
NRG didn't even have the time to realize
they were losing that round.
They just ended in seconds.
Three players, heaven, just gets destroyed like this.
Blaine connects the span, Deagle.
And what did Griggs do?
Just double up in main, turned around,
and perfect head shot to bro.
And it's not around you could account for.
NRG were in the perfect position,
and then Big hit every shot.
That really hurts for NRG.
You can't even blink before it's over.
It's just weird, like there's kind of nothing to be mad at, all these nades are going to
be long.
Oh yeah, back side, chest arched.
Alright.
Well, even that is fun, but you can tell NRG have definitely put work on this map, right?
In fact, they're pulling that out in round four.
Trying to give me a kill.
But that is going to at least put fear and big to play that position later in the game.
So if I have to avoid it, NRG show another trick up their sleeve.
They're pulling everything out right now. Their major life is on the line
Bro a little wide on those smokes spotted by the orb up in heaven
Oh, and this is so quickly gone wrong similar feeling to last time, right?
All these kills come through so quickly that even really get to register that the round is slipping away from you
That was three kills about a second apart
Excellent shots
And this is all the money for NRG so eco round following this
this. Bond lost out in the yard. It's going nowhere quickly. Good pick up for OC, but
what more can you make of this? You'd think nothing. 25 seconds. Bond picked back up towards
main, but there's a spot. The tabs and hold strong. Sonic 1B4 is actually giving it a
go, but it's not going to happen. Was it big? On lock on that top site, as we've just
learned the error comes from bro who is way too wide off those smokes looking for
that fight sure but didn't feel like a fight worth taking for an RG at this
point they knew the orb could be in play sometimes you're a little eager right
you're trying to force that engagement that's what it feels like happens there
for bro. Bro is that guy, though.
Tapsen's been a rock over here, Ramside. The few times they've tried to challenge him.
Is he up for dealing with the pistols that are about to spill his way? It's only glocks,
so you'd like to think Tapsen should have this in the bag.
players around the corner, takes one of the heads straight away. He's already done his
part in the round though and Tapsen now has support on its way over.
Oh, that's surprising.
Axtab's got it. Rims getting pincen, so living on a timer and that time expires.
Tapsen 6 and 1 after topping the charts on Dust2.
Yeah, great to see. Still got it in him.
They kind of doing their own Furia-esque roster moves, right? Bringing in a couple of imports.
Maybe feeling like the local scene wasn't deep enough to continue cycling players.
be even more so than Viria did big try to stay German for a long time. We're cycling
a lot of young talent through the academy. They've tried individuals from other countries
as well. Also after having their kind of best run
informed with the international version of big. Yeah. Thinking back to when Santares was
in this team, hell, you could go back even further. We could start talking about smoother,
I don't think we have to.
I'll wait for the playoffs.
He's no round these parts.
They had the decision to go back to full German stuck at it for a very long time
before settling back to their international ways.
Some say Owen still won't go heaven.
to be able to do that. That's
a dangerous for taps. I know two
players playing like they're not
here ready to swing at a moment's
notice. He gets tucked into a
strong position bomb spotted
there by the all down B. But is
this a commitment? Taps is getting
pulled into this position. That's
exactly what they want. He
spots them, but bro with a
down B is going to pull them into the topside. The danger is in heaven. Blame is waiting
bomb through huts. He can't stop it. I love the awareness from OC as well. You see tabs
in the feed. You're expecting ramp to be open. So now he's taking all this room chance
to try and collapse on this topside for NRG. Only two players here. Whether or not big
even attempt this round, well, it comes down to this defense. And if they're able to multi
kill their way to something, the catch for blame F timing there, OC flies up that ladder
And so just a cut down as a desperate rotate in for big gets denied. This is an extremely
well called tea side right now for nitroysk all over the place. It is so many small details
on you giving info and taking space back and not rushing your position. The amount of times
energy have gotten very deep behind enemy lines and haven't hurried it. This is a map
they've clearly been putting some work into. We were questioning why they would pick it
with the record they've had this year. Right now we're seeing some of the signs.
It's also just a very different feel, isn't it? Like, every round something new, they're not...
Like you say, like the pace is super interesting behind these rounds, feeling like you can leave it for the final few seconds.
Even the hunt there, just to remove everything from the arsenal of big.
Yeah, he's still buying, but that's... Yeah, it's not the cheapest mistake.
The fact that they're waiting red and main at 38 seconds
For that kill, they jiggle the bomb on B. I don't even know.
Oh, Blame got caught dropping in the aid.
If you're a big guy, I feel like you kind of have to do something about Yard.
And I don't think you can afford to keep giving it up.
That's why that whole round is stressful at the 30-second mark.
You're telling yourself they could be down secret.
And so, Blame F tries to come through with some aggression.
He's got two teammates backing him up.
That seems to be the bandage for Big.
want to have a bit of a say in these yard fights. Clash could be nice because well
NRG have outcourts around. Nick have shot harder in this series so I was saying till
bro hit that and so maybe big one up rule a little bit more it looks like it.
JVC is coming up. Farsery position into secret right drops down through ramp near
the start of the round gets himself here flash to try and team up for a peek
There's one makes it the double and now he's out of there
Want to know a quantity sonic crossing in a garage gonna collect a free kill as he plays it through the smokes
That levels the playing field and the stress is still on in yard cheeky for favin
Can he just tuck in can he hold back be a bit patient here?
We know NRG have been extremely patient on this T side so big don't need to hurry this next fight
There is gaps all over the map
Grimm is taking all connects to a lovely shot and Favon's patience of pay off here as Sonic moves forward
That feels like a bit too early when you consider Grimm's position and now they have the numbers to check their back
Grimm even eats an off shot up the ladder revenge is sweet but it is not quick enough for 20 seconds he is a dead man walking
Shame to see Sonic move there, he was in a strong position he had a flank coming in they knew there was a hell orb
was a hell or that would have almost certainly be being NRG in a 2v2 but instead he hands
the bomb to Fabin with that puts Grimm in an unwinnable position.
So some stress here for NRG finally as Big take the lead back and break the money in
the process.
Serious right now if Big stay true to that heavier outside start to try and play for the
info because this is an A rush. That's all the util purchase stuff is just trying to get you in and
JDC shuts the door on them ready to receive big did not bite down on back to back yard fights
they were expecting a change and they get given the exact play they were looking for.
All I can say is the flashes worked but it didn't really matter did it? JDC four blind spams door
So, this one's over, five alive, a big five rounds on the CT side.
I just hope we don't have a repeat of Dust2 where in the first eight rounds of the game
you think you have a competitive match and then NRG just shrink up and disappear.
I still think they've had some good ideas on this T side.
They've gone through with rounds without having to frag.
And so, attack timeout comes out from DAPS, chatting away, but this one needs to hit,
or suddenly we are looking at a strong CT side for big.
Yeah, you know, we're kind of really looking at the game outside of the game, you know,
the mental warfare wage between the captains here, it did take big a couple of rounds to
figure out how to undo this T side of NRG, but it feels like they figured it out.
You're getting more pressure on the extremities.
You're getting more yard fights and plays for information.
Big early on, we're down to try and trust the read,
trust the rotates and the protocols.
That wasn't working.
They were giving up too much room.
They've not been making that mistake in the last couple.
And so now that question goes back to NRG.
What have you got to change this?
That's a nice way to open bro with an entry
and a 5v4 for NRG.
It's consistently found value from the silo position,
hasn't he? Another cracking headshot from bro.
So here's the change for NRG. Just one man out in the yard playing with these smokes.
Everyone else back in the lobby. Once again, big of gone fishing to try and plug this hole
out in the yard. It just stops them looking over their shoulder all round. Sonic's gonna
go ahead and find himself another. Taps and rubs in Ramside. Needed a multi-kill. Offers
up two, but will that be enough? Advantage still sides with NRG and they've got a bit
time left to make up their mind as to where they want to end this one. So hard to just call out
that A would be open in this position but it is entirely. We've got Favon down lower and
Griggs re-clearing ramps and right now this gap is massive for NRG. They want to use the
lurk of Sonic or no, they just walk in and it's the right call at the moment. As soon as they go
the better because Griggs is speeding in on a flank as we speed, Kevin Utel blocking off Griggs
Will not be able to deny this bomb, but he can make that first incision to set up this post part nice shot from Sonic
To impactful kills to keep this round alive
And favard again thrust into another unwinnable moment
Up the vent feeling like a task too hard and so nrg
Stay in this game on the t-side
that was such an important round without it we're seeing big probably sweep this second map
big now learn as well that energy and more than just a one-trick pony right
move away from that yard control that's what big were playing for heavy down through secret they
get outmaneuvered they lose ramp plans in towards a that's where a lot of these
have ended up just taking advantage of the big rotations. RnRG.
Sonic's time to kill is elite. Nice. Nice guys. Okay. Staying focused here RnRG.
See?
Oh, see Zorb out again.
Looking for this back silo peek.
He's playing at back garage instead.
Greek's getting naughty.
Down the vent.
After a bit of a yard fake in the last round.
And Arjiggo back to it heavy.
Multiple players crossing down towards secret.
Greek's dispatched here on his Zorb.
Oh my, really? Two down there? I mean, Blame is caught, there's a lot of players in secret.
He heard, three guys run across, so this isn't the wrong call here for big, it's well informed.
Oh yeah, JDC comes as a bit of a surprise, but we'll deal with him after the first, Griggs.
Got away with the quiet performance back on Dust.
Here on Nuke is a requirement and he's dead in this round. Brush to side, double entry
for Nitro and that lower site wide open. Do you want your lurkers to play first here?
Are you just going to group for that lower hit? Because when you can see it on the minimap
there is no one home for big. And the Grim in the door, he can just control the rotations.
He's got no reason to fight here.
Yeah, it's just NRG getting their ducks in a row, right? You want to go window, get the
Utah in, Molly, smoke ramp, and then you can just go together, clear dark, clear site.
got the bomb down and you are back in. So here's a UTIL. Everything comes down. Nobody
home. NRG confirmed the round with a bomb plant. Just solid protocols in place here
for NRG. Absolutely justifying picking this map right now despite the whole track record
in 2026. And so up to five on this T side with the opportunity to still win the half.
Loving what we're getting. The winning rounds as a team right now, not as individuals. Like
When you look at the kill counts and the look at the scoreboard, I mean we have four players negative and they are 5-5 right now.
And they are winning gun rounds.
Sonic 3 and 7, Grim 2 and 7, OC 3 and 7.
Right now they are even with big.
Every player of which is positive.
It's not just coming down to the kills, it's coming down to the calls and the positions here from NRG.
Mid-rounding really well.
Nitro also just two banging kills in secret in this round.
He was the top performer back on Dust2 and while that was an indictment of the rest of
his team, well now it couldn't be better placed.
Holding his own up against Big.
Yeah, I mean, it kind of feels like a bit of a worst case scenario for Big.
They're punctuating this on with a like time to talk, but you feel like you pieced it together.
started to find some success on those yard fights. NRG show you there's a bit more depth to this T side
than just looking for yard and in a number of these rounds you've just been getting outmaneuvered.
They've been using your heavy rotates around against you and the one time they play into that
double lower situation they just break through it easily so not only have you kind of been caught
over rotating but the times where you've been in the right place you haven't been able to convert.
That's a nice opener for Griggs at least, breaking a bit of a silent streak here.
One more for Tabson Rapside of Blemeth, tries to support him on the rotation.
Now it falls to Griggs on this hole.
Wow.
Tabson holding on solo as his teammates get shut down, mollied off, cordoned away.
Tabson buys them some much needed breathing room in this round.
Is that enough of being avoided in this game?
Forced to save, forced out of position.
He forces those kills.
my walk into this swap. OC holds on and big don't go too far in this four versus two.
Merck smoked to keep the pressure on this top site. JDC is watching though,
and so big is still vigilant of this ramp position.
Greg's with another. Even though OC has this line, it's not easy on the jump shot. That miss
should be dead on this next swing he's got players closing in behind him and so
into that Greeks AWP they go three kills from it he gets the opener in the
round and then make sure Tapsen's efforts over towards ramp aren't in
vain that's a promising sign from a gricks that's been a little quiet in
this make or break series definitely been quiet but I feel like he's not been
attempting really any openings in this in this map at all right we've not seen
him in starting in you know potent positions looking for pigs it's not
but a part of Big's game plan at all to put Rix in position.
So he finally just takes matters into his own hands.
And he liked the way it felt.
He's just gonna start outside again, decides against it.
He's just been towards how and quite passive at that.
And these smokes have come down every round.
So if you're late on breaking on lucky timings, you're not finding kills.
And actually you've got a lot of focus in secret.
Rix is again heaven bound.
Looking over this smoke. Why don't you give him his kill yet again? Looks like OC wants to take it, though. Behind red.
Like the move from BlameF, they've been burned by these sonic walks in towards garage.
And so he's here just to make sure that any funny business can go down around these smokes.
Second wall.
He's going to allow the cross here.
Gricks breaking, brain F.
Why didn't he keep light, bro, he's close on main.
On the reload he's going to punish JDC.
It's all going down at once.
Blame behind the smoke.
Will not let bro get further.
And Gricks has picked two somehow some way.
They run back against the fence.
Big mistake and they pay the price with their life.
Gricks from heaven with two more kills and this lug means nothing.
have stabilized on the CT side and go up 7-5. A well-called T side for NRG, but a well-fragged
defense for Big. This one is looking close.
The first place is a trace, hit the ground there.
Oh!
What a shot!
Double-focus!
How does he do this?
Call the save, Luba Nosti, with the all-play.
Big put in a winning half on their CT side.
This is NRG's map pick, and Big now take to the T side of things.
They are put rounds away from stage two.
Let's see if NRG can stop them and prolong play.
Yeah, competitive map at least on the second one right dust who was an absolute smashing for big
But here we go on to nuke and it's it's a lot closer
I feel like NRG gave himself a very good shot in that T side
But we've still got a couple of players very quiet in this series grim yet to get going OC three
Fraggs and Sonic the same
Big of firing on all cylinders here they come into this A site
Home nitro just gets brushed aside nice and easy. That's a bomb plant secured
You've gone into quite a cushy little situation here 5v4 bomb plant it heaven smoked off
Flash for Oce and that could be nice with this heaven smoke just to block your vision on it
I'm gonna try and send bro in makes it back site, but for how long?
Quickly run down is blame effing tabs and play to contain and that's a pistol round for big
Look at the propel themselves towards the finish line and towards stage two.
It was meant to be, doesn't it, right now for Big just everything goes right.
Blame lurks outside, he gets spotted, Favon jumps out,
door closes it behind him and still gets his head shot.
Big just dry run out in a pistol round to lock in a significant lead now.
The team that was struggling so much in pistols, they were the bottom pistol team
Of the state of stage one coming into this series. They've split them with energy
Cannot complain about that right now can't be
They can't complain if they lose to us please can someone bail them out blame F double now the vent they go
Oh another dink another kill usp round about to come through unless fervor's got a 1v2 in him
You are not supposed to struggle in this round, NRG weren't even playing for it.
They were looking to bring out guns as fast as they can, but this golden goose of an opportunity
for Big might get away from them.
Good position.
Favon steals himself away.
A tall task now in front of him.
Can he strike one from the tally early?
Yes, he can.
Not able to flick down.
That is a full eco out of NRG.
just put themselves right back in the conversation. They forgot what round was the pistol round.
Those are the ones we're good at. Flat USPs, triple Dinks galore and OC triple kill to double
his frag count, pulls them back into this game. That is an absolute blinder of a round
to win. Big going into main before that smoke blooms and Griggs hanging around. He really
wanted an extra kill, but his value of being would have been so much more if he got down
of them with his teammate put
Favon into a rough clutch.
Would have loved to just see
Griggs join him there, but
oodles of mistakes are big round.
They will not forget easily.
That has led energy back in this
game.
They have to seize the opportunity
because this can go 8 8.
If they break this 2 a K by look
at OC or in the garage.
And third round of the half
Grimm's even gone for a
signature org.
They're going to have to
break this 2 a K by look at OC
or in the garage.
And third round of the half
Grimm's even gone for a
signature org.
They're going to have to
break this 2 a K by look at
OC or in the garage.
And third round of the half
Grimm's even gone for a
still need more from grim in this city side I mean 2 and 11 and it's not what we come
to expect from grim so NRG right place right time AWP on ramp
Oh, he falls back, grows to drop, they'll get the ramp room and that orbs, brush the
side, in comes Grimm, hoping to clean up on the Org.
That's at least going to stop them getting their hands on this AWP.
A follow-up kill for Bro who hangs around to fight for this ramp control.
I didn't see him.
should have been there for Sonic and he'll catch Griggs the second time around
Favon left in another clutch. Does have an MTA bomb site, chance at a plant here
Grimm's gonna try and plug this hole quickly he hears the scrambled rotate
knows that he's got one right there it's something he's brewing here for Favon
20 seconds left to play with and he's gonna go looking for the hunt trying to
backs down nitro. They've lost him, they've lost track of him. Swinging a miss and now
having it dart down the vent if he wants to continue, it'll get shut down. The Dan could
try on the rooting, right? Certainly made that feel doable. That's not worth anything
at this point in the game. It's about to close up and go AWOL.
Bro, drop down that ladder and literally less than a second left grab that AWP so they even
Keep that for this follow-up round, big, broken, full eco here on this T-side.
Just gonna run it.
There's sure some problems, gonna put your rifles in danger.
but nitro has got it since an RG no serious problems I mean they're doing
this all while two of the heavy is a very very quiet grim and sonic 10 kills
between them
Gonna be called upon in this CT side, no doubt about it.
Can't just cool your way out of the game, you are at the win.
Next CT side.
Break on the smoke.
OC goes unpunished.
JDC trying to sneak across out in the yard.
I hit it down over the ward secret.
Looking like the game plan, trying to get past Barrow over here, Rammside.
He hangs around to fight it, Favon rips his head off. Osees tried to get ahead of this
with an early vent drop, but he will clean up the secret component of this split. You've
learned the Orbs down here now. Does that put the fear in you? Because maybe it should.
Osees hit another. He has warmed back into this game from three kills in the first half
to that triple kill on the eco. Now his Orb is roaring to life, two versus four, and no
Silent way into this site now for Gricks. He has to announce his presence with a drop
Double doors corrupted as well. All this plot be allowed to the reason
Oh, I just gonna let him get away with it. Now we're into a predicament here
Big can shoot their way out of the situation. They've done so many times before
Two international components of this big squad at Gricks and Blame F
And trust it would see the 2v4 through that Nade wipes them out
But OC and Sonic are quick to apply the bandage
Get that one back under control. You were certainly nervous. I mean look at the health Sonic 1 HP
OC narrowly a little bit more at 19
That was two bullets away from being a losing round still NRG see it through if Sonic is a step forward on that
Stairwell that needs gonna kill him in combination with the damage nice try from Blamon Gregg's
felt like a
risky move for Nitro to allow that bomb bomb, but some big shots from OC's orb. Keep NRG here,
and now with the lead.
Big are really feeling the burn of that USP Eco-Win four round straight since it happened.
And bigger buying here.
This is audacious.
A little bit of money for later, but, oof, barely.
Blames in. Griggs does sell his rifle, so okay, they can buy next still.
Looking for a bottom line at their minimum to make things happen.
Charge on that topside, denied by Sonic.
And two opening kills here for NRG.
Leave the pressure.
and
bro's got the bomb ram side
and a teammate nearby to help him so no chance to recover this you'd like to think
Line up there, Grim, just has to finish the job.
So double digits for NRG, really started to find themselves.
This was always the worry, right?
The moment you lose to the pistols early on,
not only is that like a super frustrating round,
it goes without saying, right?
Losing to a full eco out of your opponents,
but you're on the T side.
This is a side that Bigger really struggled with on Nuke,
even in their wins.
You know, looking back at some of the games they played,
You'll see 10-2 halves, and very narrowly in their favor, off the solid CT side shifts.
T-Side nuke is a whole different beast.
Some of the best teams on the world still can struggle at times and just feel like you're running into a wall.
That's exactly where Bigger at. They've got another buy-round here, but they're running out of chances if they did want to make this the 2-0 into Stage 2.
Oh, it's messy on this topside, but Nitro has just been a hero on this game.
Double spray, still the entry's coming out of nowhere, puts us in a clutch.
Griggs on a rifle, don't underestimate him.
Quick shot to the face of Sonic, and Bro has got to save them.
Out through heaven, Griggs takes the fight head-on!
The rifle in the Opus hands, hitting hard as he collects the clutch,
to put Big back on the table, now one round between them and NRG.
It felt like they'd done enough on that hold, man.
What a spray from Nitro.
What a transfer to find that double kill.
It was messy.
Initially, 5v3, 4v2.
Shraze come back so quick.
Griggs puts the bomb down, and that puts the pressure on NRG.
A 1v1, they wouldn't regret taking.
Sonic gives it over to punish that planter.
And Brogess runs into the rake, hits him in the face.
Griggs at his first major making an impression was not a requirement back on dust
But here on you that is a clutch that might turn the tide that was five straight rounds for energy
punctuated by their young or per
Now he has just kept this entire game alive for big on that 1v2
And not only that, he's handed you a chance to capitalize on it.
An opportunity to try and reset NRG this late in the day.
JDC outside, a ramp crunch for big, but the AWP is here, while the flashes prevail.
Oh, he sticks around, but only for that one. Now he's out of there
That's well to still get away with a 5v4 cheeky
Goes the same for JDC though when I be aware just how much room he has here and he's not gonna clear up
He gets the spot as bro moves around to try and watch the ramp spill over
They're all clumped up in a they really got a boost heaven right now scary could be a player there already
Blame is getting into position this boost up couldn't be better time blame doesn't commit with it though and little does he know
That is the right cool
Nitro and lobby this is just about to be a bloodbath
off. Yeah, trying to get aggressive, spotting a dealt with
Greeks still on a heater, hot on the back of his 1B2. He's got hot
hands and he's just put them in the advantage. Grim, he's been
quiet in this series, not performing for NRG, shut down
with nothing done. JDC, monstrous 3K, starts with him out in
the yard, ends with him in at the top site and big will tie up
this game. And you just have to feel empathetic for NRG and
around like that. What a disastrous way for that to go wrong. OC5D4 on the ramp lives to tell the
tail drops down to B but it is big finding all the gaps. A purpose made smoke that gets JDC behind
enemy lines into garage and not only does Blymouth not go up the ladder keeping Grimms attention in
heaven they regroup on that main split clear every single position even when Nitro has a smoke behind
end of his door. NRG tried to get cheeky and big. Look over their shoulder. Oc dies
to the bomb. He is too deep in secret. He has lost that orb at 10-10.
Even that's just a massive disaster. If he saves that, you could have cobbled together
something interesting in this round. You would have three rifles, chance of four, you
know you would have been able to drop a Famicom over. That's actually crazy. That is no one
massive implications. No one dead coms to move. Nothing.
Oh dear. That is, yeah, horrible. I died of the bomb in a save, never feels good, but this one
It's massive ramifications
Hey John, I have goosebumps.
Oh Jock, oh no shit.
Goosebumps after that round, I don't blame you, it was a work of art.
Can Big finish their masterpiece here on this T side?
Hap in their step! JDC look at how quick he's here, 140 and he's crossing secret!
Or is he...
Looking for a fight outside, NRG going for a gamble, clearing lobby together, they've
done it silently, that's something!
They're up on T-Roof already, so early in the round and so quietly!
It's gonna let you down here
I fell maybe
Neither of these the gun for the job
That tells you everything you need I
Tried too slow to that one JDC checks the flank now big can just speed up B if they want but analogy of at least reacted quickly coming back down lower
stack in the site could they win a second eco all depends on when blame F goes
because he's actually about to clear the top site and if he gets that info ahead
of time which he's just doing now edging out through heaven he's telling them
guys maybe come up the vents maybe we change our mind on this coming up see
Graham it's a safer choice of two to 30 seconds grim there was a chance but those
a hard shot to hit. 5v3 and that gamble avoided. Blamef's luck pays dividends in this round.
Because they were about to walk into a stack.
They're just thinking to themselves, you know, not wanting to repeat the mistakes of all,
not wanting to fall down to this low econ round that they did in the second of the half.
They'd say to NRG, you only get one of those. We're not going to repeat that mistake.
And so now big in the lead. And the thing that's stressful about this position now for NRG is if they fall down in this next
rifle round, they're in dire straits. A bit of extra money for Nitro, but I imagine that might go to funding this O.C.
AWP that leaves you staring at an eco if you don't find success in this next
rifle round. I say an eco but I mean a force. The point is it would be an
absolute disaster. Money would decide the outcome of this game. And so it is
imperative if NRG want the chance to fight for stage two if they want to make
this a three-map series they have to win this rifle round if you get that
orb for OC captains dropped it over make sure his sniper is armed in this
pivotal moment Sonic gonna open up the round with a 5v4 there's the cover off
the OC or and things go swimmingly out in the yard 5v3 in an instant for an
What a way to open up here, the balls to make that call, NRG getting stuck in in round 22,
pushing outside and finding two kills from it.
Cross is scary but it is allowed, NRG are backed up, they're looking to fight elsewhere.
Pick up that secret control.
Information is the game for Nitro, just jump spotting, he has no needs to stop them on
their cross.
We'll likely just run into the B bomb site as soon as he sees a player make it past.
Warcrix gives it a go. Nitro straight out. And then before you speed up a little bit,
maybe realizing this isn't their best bet.
Orps moving in rampside, so you've got to deal with Nitro quickly.
And they're not able to. Bomb dropped out in the open, looking like a very clean round for NRG.
And that will brush aside these money worries as we enter the final few rounds of Nuke.
Make it expensive, Favon. There's still a goal here to accomplish.
Look for some kills to punish NRG later.
But if you get away with nothing right now, this is NRG poise to stay alive in this series.
Captain America triple kill and NRG are still here.
What a rollercoaster of a second map considering Dust2 was an absolute stomp from big.
This map looked like it was about to be.
it was about to be. NRG's eco has dragged this one the distance and they break Biggs
a little streak of three.
That's it. None of these rounds for the final two are a-gimme. Both teams gonna have to
fight to earn it. It's a fitting way for this map to end.
They count in the yard with JDC playing around these smokes alone.
A teammate in tow actually and they're gonna make their way over towards main.
They're looking for a split here. Sonic gets that spot and shuts down JDC, but he's the yard lurker
He's the guy you've been seeing out here on his lonesome
Rick's gonna find one and blame that tries to sneak off by they need to lend him some time with tabsome finding another
Now you slow it down. You hope blame that some magic Sonic shuts it down
I was a make or break luck for blame. How is Sonic ready for it?
Job's not done yet. Plant in it up. Griggs has a clutch to his name already in this top
site and this time he's got grizzled veteran of German counter-strike in Tapsin alongside
him. And Archie gonna group up in the heavens. They are all coming together from the same
place. Will this be a mow down for Griggs and Tapsin? Or can't Archie get on to that
point? You tell Paul they're closing in. Time for Griggs to try and deliver. Get's out with
double taps and they're fighting alongside him a big clam reply getting on to match and series point
stage two just around away in the face of danger big stay calm miss shots matter not they are on
to match point 12 11 locked in in another high octane clutch round and even though the blame f
luck gets absolutely nothing done it is the new boy of gricks and the old cool head of taps and
to keep them in this series. Big are looking for it. Looking to go all the way to that second stage
and looking to throw NRG again down in the first. And the fact that Griggs has now been a part of
these two really important rounds, he's topping the charts here. Slow start to the series
2 it's always relieving when a less experienced younger player has that in them right the ability not only to turn it around
But to actually go on and be a difference maker
JDC open out in the yard
And even follow-up damage there on a bro back in main ramp split in the downtime and nitro is the only guy at lower
They've just charged that ramp they kill bro in secret. They know it's open. There is nobody home
Nitro has to save them. He has no support burning alive Grim comes down the vent. Wait a second
This is getting hairy, and Grim spams him through the door, a 4v2 in NRG's favour, and it is falling into place.
Big have to earn it in overtime.
Nothing comes easily.
NRG dig deep in a man disadvantage, and they go on to play bonus here in Nuke.
What a rollercoaster.
What a map.
And Grimm's triple finally finding impact late in the game after a very quiet series.
Big got all the room. They charged it right in. They charged too far.
Nice!
Here we go. Flat rifles again for Big.
And can you blame the Rixx's rifle has been better than his arm?
It's just a very frustrating round, I think, if you're big ready, you get that 5v4.
It felt like you had everything you had all the room ramp and they kind of really tried to end it there and then on the push into the double doors.
They went window, they would have won the game.
They ran out the door.
It's one of those ones where I think, you know, if this goes to a third, it's something that you could just dissect forever.
But for now, there's a new task in front of them. Get it done in OT.
We've seen big of these late games really kind of struggle to get out the game a legion match where they pulled it all the way back from
10 for only to lose in overtime despite winning some ridiculous clutches
It would be akin to this match as well. They have won some rounds. They had no business
Still gonna capitalize on it though Grimm's pushing in there's two on the roof
Yeah, and when half your team lining up you tell here
There's just a huge gap out towards Lobby, NRG have moved in and taken this space away.
Now get to siphon the players in the site itself and it's a grim multi-kill.
Starting as he means to go on, it was his triple that helped get them into this OT
and he started it just as strong, JDC another unwinnable clutch.
Is this really a game that will leave big kicking themselves once more?
JDC 10 seconds looking for damage. Finding nothing. NRG. Slow yet steady, first round
in OT.
It can be really difficult here on the T side of Nuke up against four pies in overtime
and an orb and our G making most of that bounty.
Trucking go-boss, we're playing amazing, alright, let's keep it up, keep the gas foot
going, alright, we will beat this guy.
ADC trying to inspire, yeah, and we should see us change the pace here. Got the Grigsaw purchased up
ADC takes the fight, he just tried pumping up the gang, telling them to keep themselves in it
So they're playing really good and he is with an entry out in the yard, sprints across in the garage
Babin's even slipped the net back in the main
Catching Nitro by surprise, key trades for OC all across this round
He is everywhere right now and Grimstone is favored in these kind of fights on ramp with this org
is a brutal weapon to go up against one of the few players to really make it work.
He comes in, Grim converts the spray, and yeah, look at how gnarly this gun can be in the right hands.
Advantage taken for NRG.
JDC taking leaf out of NRG's book, going right up into heaven.
That bomb is stuck back behind red.
He's going to have to clear out the A site, but while he does this, NRG take control.
Sure, they're gonna have Lobby, but JDC is getting the info on where this bomb can safely enter.
Might be a testier retake here, even though you've got strong positioning with Lobby taken, players still down at lower.
Fear is door, and it's not unfounded either, there's no smoke, and the AWP is just taking the line.
Oh dear, problem for Grimm. Forced out, but it's appalled, that only worked perfectly. JDC has 20 seconds to remedy the situation.
the situation you're gonna think that's it this all puts on the line O.C. is here
every shot that's been required of him in this one but not that one JDC chance at
this clutch here's bro on the ladder
he's even native himself and amidst the stress in amidst the chaos commits to the
plant and chase him down clutch converted upon the miss shot or lack of
shot from O.C. doesn't come to matter NRG still collect that's two in a row in O.T.
Feels like a panic from JDC to be honest the fact that he does not get off that bomb
He heard not only his opponent come up the venue heard him running on the floor jumping around
I feel like you've got to take that fight even if you're getting faked out
You have to chase the door look at the punishment bro
He goes for this and JDC never even gets off
Hugh drowned from NRG O.C.'s trades not in vain
This one's got legs on it though big have another four by its gricks is scowled holding him back
And the closer smokes allowing the cross to be safer because Lucy is looking to pluck them again
He saw him right through the edge
JDC dead first
While Griggs gets a much needed upgrade
Do NRG know that big have multiple players down B?
There's kind of pros and cons to JDC being the first guy to die out here in the yard right sure
He's been a real force of nature in this position
But he is the guy you've seen solo lurk in a number of these rounds that pick up on a
faven certainly might make you reconsider that more players could have crossed in the
lower.
And if you're big, you're expecting resistance here.
You're not in a position to go quickly.
They do have the Util to lock Ramp out of the equation.
So you need someone holding on to Ben, someone holding on to Secret, and this Util is going
to come out now.
OC will be blocked on both sides of the ramp, so that bomb can make it in.
That's a huge opportunity here for big but they've got a plant really quick because energy are getting everything lined up to go for this post
Plant they've got a smoke
They've got kids on all and they're looking to go in through the ramp four players together late vent for sonic
They may have played late as well
Are you ready for four players out the ramp they can take both sides of this flash to try and set them up and taps it now
Sees a horrifying sight four players coming his way
It's so tunnel visioned right now on these ramp fights.
You overlook Sonic on that ventrop entirely.
Blame F1B5.
This one is not meant to be.
Blocked out back at the door and defuse held.
It's a flawless half from NRG.
Absolutely phenomenal resilience from NRG, right?
In this game, they were down in the hole
with a map against them.
They have not only pulled it into overtime,
despite Biggest efforts, they clean sweat their CT side.
Looking for this third map of the series, felt as good as done off the dust.
Mirage is on the side.
A one round of the next three will send us there.
And remember that T side? Sure, it wasn't as flush with rounds,
but it was impressive cooling from Nitro across the board.
And that was before some of these players were hitting hard.
We've had serious warm-ups from the likes of NRG,
and they're going to use their players to their advantage.
Grimm rushes the ramp smoke,
and they keep it as simple as NRG look to storm the board and take new as the advantage having all these rounds to play with right you can keep it a little more loose do something group they get that opener and this should be the beginning of the end desperate play of the desperate play for big but there's no plug in this hole 5v2 part in it lower
And you've got no chance of winning this full util left Fred RG in this five-man post plant
They've reblocked the ramp side. There's more that came from and
Blame it shut down breaks nose this one's got to get settled on Mirage
NRG with an impressive display of resilience as they take this one at the distance and get it done
and they've done flawlessly in over time. Can you believe that this was 85 to big with a pistol in their pocket after seven round first half and it was a full echo from energy that got them back in this game. They
themselves forward a valiant effort from NRG paying off here on new command they've had
trouble with but absolutely not today big kicking themselves as this series goes to distance
yeah NRG certainly turned the tides and we are going to a third as Hugo was just saying the
resilience paying off for NRG we thought it could be all over we thought the red carpet might be
rolled out for big energy they say no they feel very different teams coming from those two of
in that interview, it was a clear picture that NRG have prepared. A lot more for this one.
They had a lot of good rounds prepared, but you could see from player to player that they had
a better understanding of themselves, but also what they drew in the micro-situations. And I
think that's actually what gave them such, in my opinion, good teaser in the beginning. They got
a lot of good rounds, had a lot of good calls, and that eventually made them into the season
side where they did get a little bit, I wouldn't say lucky, but they were gifted a little bit of a
a very important throw from Begin, the 14th round.
And they also lost crazy rounds.
I remember that Griggs clutch and despite all of this,
they somehow struck the composure together.
And even, well, we will talk about it for sure,
but that eco that they won is kind of like all that really
was left and needed to bring them back into this game.
Because I honestly thought that after the half that B.I.G.
had in the first one and then the piss round,
this might be over sooner than we expected.
That's the thing, you look at the scoreboard,
you look at the way the rounds were falling,
you were thinking okay big this is yours to taking right let's go back to the
beginning though round one you want to bring up the pistol degree what do you
notice it I noticed or at least when we coming into the game I wanted to see
energy with a little bit of a better game plan some gimmicks coming in and
you do see a little bit of a nerdy smoke coming here that actually bounces off the
silo lens inside inside the heaven and you know that kind of usually shows
that this is like the tease wants to hit an in execute but this time I rear three
guys that snuck up to go secret OC spotting a lot of guys going here but
What I think the detail here is that Nitro finds himself in a position where he can lurk
out of hot, and I said catch his two players going back, and I'm very curious to see if
it was intentional from the get go that this was designed to happen, or if Nitro just comes
up with this massive mid-round call, then I hope that we can get a bit of a snippet of
how things were inside the teamspeak.
C bomb yet?
Keep going.
Dead big. Nice.
We're going down, we're going down. They saw bomb.
Yeah, they're going to be down.
Go back, go back, go back, go back.
Nice, nice.
One more, yeah.
Was that what you expected, Peter?
Yeah, I mean, I actually don't think it was natural's voice that I heard screaming that it should go back.
I think it was like a team cohesion that they understood that Osius information is that he spots two
But then three going into events and they already knew that they had you know
Rotated faster than they could actually make it to the lower bomb side
So it's the whole team just understood that they should just go back to minion and then wrap inside and then I mean
The cherry on top of the ice cream is definitely natural making it work and going out and catching the rotation
That's already actually managed to reach the players. Well, so very well played
ice cream with a cherry on top
But this is exactly what we spoke about before the game, energy and their pistols.
They are one of the better teams, even if the best teams are in this stage when it comes
to pistols.
And the crafty smoke, I've never seen anything like that.
The smoke is kind of in the meta right now for the a-hits and a-rushes, but they misthrow
it on purpose.
So it gives them cover going down secret, which was the original idea up until the point
where OC just puts three players and they're just coming back, eh?
Let's talk a bit more about that T-Sex.
You know, a little bit more tricky on Nuke, but what have you kind of pulled out about
how was your operation that first half?
I want to give you the context of the T-side that Nitro actually looked amazing.
The calls that he was making are insane.
It happened a couple of rounds that they just went into their ramp completely free.
It happened twice, A-side completely free.
It's going to happen again in this clip as well.
They're just suffocating VIG without any information
and honestly they're hitting the correct sites at the correct time
and honestly Nitro, even looking away from the score line,
I do think that this was one of his better games that he called throughout this whole major.
Here, Blamev actually was in a good position to somehow deal with this A-split,
but obviously juggling with the Nades is not going to help.
Obviously, this is kind of just a macro perspective on how they take the zones.
They give it up, they go back, regroup, and this is all coming definitely from the Nitro's kitchen.
It seemed very coordinated. I think that was also my idea of the T-Rounders.
It was, you know, they got a lot of space relatively fast throughout the round,
But they would just slow it down make big uncomfortable make them make some kind of decisions
And this was a good example of what night so also brings when it comes to mid-rounding because it is something that is hard on a
Lot of matters, but specifically hard on you so very well done
Then of course you move into the second half big win the pistol what happens next though to pre my favorite game
I mean this this is this is the round that actually brings energy back
I think winning the pistol round big was important to try and close up the game fast
But there's not much to break down other than the part that the smoke is a little bit missed
And they do actually end up going out door a little bit too fast before it pops
But you don't want to be losing rounds like this where they literally have like a full eco and at this point
You know famine actually has a chance of winning since there is no kid in play
But he decides to talk behind sidle and can't really buy that time that he it potentially needed to win in that after-pence
situation and I think he he may be stressed it out a little bit too much because he knows it is a full eco around that they
They don't have armor, they don't have a kit, but he's also stressing out of his smoking
out toxic and doesn't really put himself in a favorable situation, but I think he got
stressed out and maybe thought that this round was hard for him to salvage, but if he goes
back there's probably something that he could have changed, but in the first place, they
shouldn't even have gotten to it.
Do you read it in the same way, Stiko?
I do agree.
I mean, foul in a little bit over a quick death clutch, but if I'm looking at it, obviously,
if you plan to bomb against Fully, you want to go away from the side as far as possible,
to be like this tradeable guy because they probably don't have kit right but when I look
at this clip that we just saw we saw that I think Bro actually had a smoke so you don't
want to go too away from the site because well if they smoke the bomb it creates another
panic that you have to not only kill the diffuser but kill the guy supporting him.
So it's a double-edged sword but obviously it shouldn't even come down to that clutch.
I think Faven are honestly he's gonna be looking at this in the demo review in a team briefing
or whatever and he's gonna be thinking like I should have played this differently 100
times but well it is what it is this is what we get and it brought energy back
into the game and not only that into the third map as well. 100% you mentioned
Bro's name let's give him as far as for this map as well involved in 10 opening
jewels get away with eight of them on his side as well I remember speaking to him
back at I want to say it was Katavita 2023 when he was on Monty I believe and I
was kind of questioning him like hey you come from Denmark why not a Danish team
for some reason he was like I'd rather stay away from the Danes if you have a
cross paths with him Dupri like in any any facet? No actually not he's one of
these newer players that's come out of Denmark that I haven't really, I wouldn't say I've
paid attention to, but at least in terms of teams, I haven't really been seeing him as
a candidate for any of my teams.
Reminds me a little bit of how Chausen has kind of grasped his whole idea of moving forward
and joining an international team, because maybe that's where he feels like he can get
the best offers, because for a long time it's been a little bit stagnant in Denmark and it's
been a pretty close country with just Astralis being that one good Danish team that we have.
And he had had a stand in Astralis and I guess didn't really work out the way that he wanted,
so he tried to go somewhere else because he couldn't really go anywhere else.
But he's been there for a while and I think he's relatively old looked in that arena.
But I think most of the talks usually revolve around grim, sonic at point as well and then
also nitrous just because of his experience.
So he's a rock solid guy and that's quite, he seems to be doing a lot of the dirty work,
but this time around he was very important for their comeback.
100% should we take a look at the third map then because we were you know
questioning whether we would get it there or after what was a shabolic
performance from energy on the first map right we have mirage to settle the
score tell me the stats stika what are we looking at okay so this is pretty
equal ground I'm gonna be honest and you know as we head into stage one and we
say the best of ones are random and everything well two two matchups in a
sense are random as well and this is eventually just the best of one for
No, we're over the best you've ever had.
to be a third map in such a close game that we were witnessing so far?
I think there is a sly. I might really turn my attention to the fact that NRG has already
played Mirage once already. They did play FlyQuest where they beat him in 13-10, so it's
where it's big having played Mirage at the major yet. And I cannot look away from the
fact that, you know, playing a map at the major is just important for you to get in
the flow. Like, this is the potential last map that big can play at the major, and they
go up into a map that they haven't played yet. I think that speaks a little bit in the
favorite of energy also giving into the context that they kind of threw this
one away I think they kind of had it locked in if they would have lost that
that eco round so I think the momentum is definitely in the side of energy right
now but it's a very open matchup still but it's I think it's gonna come down to
whoever can get over like the nerves or the pressure the most I don't often ask
for predictions but it's a big moment no pun intended who we're going with who's
going through stage two just to be a little bit of it I'm actually gonna go
Well, it's time to find out exactly who will be progressing and who, unfortunately, will
be going home a third map to see who's heading through the stage two, but we need a quick
right before the action re-insues.
Oh, wait, my bad.
You suck.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats,
and turn on tracking to see all your games.
We can throw them again, you moron!
I'll never do this again!
Let's get you!
NEXT TIME!
I saw something there.
I'm going out, guys.
One at the secret.
That's JDC, normal guy.
Okay, drop, Nick, maybe.
Yeah, I'm trying.
One is half.
Under heaven, like.
One more dead.
Half dead.
Like, we're trying to be out.
I'm going to drop.
Yeah, I'm going to drop.
Yeah, I'm going to drop.
Reft us.
I'm walking down.
Okay.
I popped Sink, Nick.
Could be.
Alright.
I'm going to go back up if you want.
I'm staying lower. I'm gonna come up as all like and then you drop the floor, okay?
They'll hear it.
Take care, drop the floor.
I'm staying clear.
We got it, you stuck it.
Drop event.
Splendid towards double, guys.
I'm holding double.
I'm holding double.
He's fighting me.
Ready?
Left side!
Left side!
Left side!
Left side!
Nice!
It's your Mplayer.
I'm gonna go back, I will peek man soon, okay? I will kill him.
I will stop the big rest.
My Mplayer is not...
No, no...
I need some time, I will play slow, okay?
I will pass the round.
I will come man, we should split out here probably.
Fast!
Fast man, yes, go fast for man.
We're close, hard guys together.
I'm coming with you man.
He's still coming.
Wait for me in the house, he's not dead.
Yes, you can need to kill him, Tars.
I'm gonna be as well.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, it's still...
Wait now for me.
The Tars is here.
Tars alive!
Ape there missing!
Yeah, I'm busy as well.
No one T-Vent.
I have your van behind.
Tars!
Nice.
Last offer.
Tanting for man.
He was T.
He closed down DS.
I'll take out a Heavencash liquid now.
It kills, John.
Thank you, man.
I'll talk to you about this.
It is guys trying to hook every time.
Hey, John, I have goosebumps.
No joke. Only shits.
I guess I fucking had.
Flash.
It's blue.
Flash.
No one HP.
They just want me door.
I'm going through the front.
Nice.
One is heaven already, watch out.
I have a kill.
I'm picking him.
Slow play.
Can you flash heaven?
Yes, it can be main.
Can you flash heaven?
Yes.
He should be one HP now.
Seven.
One is smallbox outside of one heaven. You have no nades left anymore.
I have mine. I think I find like this.
I think there is smoke.
You can hold heaven with B-Hardish with the H-Rankle.
One is one HP. You have no mine?
Yeah, mine was one HP, but you can't be heaven.
You are standing good. Maybe they are waiting for something.
Oh heaven, at least you are forced to not burning.
Alright
I'm ready guys
I'm anti I'm anti in the windows windows. They didn't play it yet. They didn't play it yet
Yeah
I can flash out later
In the end, emo, in emo.
Ready? I'm gonna flash up the right.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go left.
Go, go, go.
Dead.
Single, single, single!
I'm gonna flash him.
Fun!
Emo clear!
Double, double!
Control, control!
C-class!
Right side, right side!
Get on it, get on it!
There's one at the right.
Okay, okay, I'm not helping you, fuck it.
Endure, endure.
NOOOO!
There's the flash, that's gonna catch creeps now.
They've got a 4-12 squad, FBK has won the Crips with a straight-up, they've got pips off the triple!
The fun hasn't got more fun yet!
Can you believe it?
Well, the final game for Stage 2 is certainly delivering big versus NRG.
Rages on to a third map.
Hell, it's a bit of tenacity showing by the NRG squad as they long out an overtime affair on their pick of Nuke.
And that brings us to the decider. It's Mirage
For big they're gonna be kicking themselves
It was them with the chance to close back on that previous map and you saw them looking a little bit deflated by the end of it
NRG in full swing
Last spot in stage two up for grabs
We've seen highs and lows from big across this series right coming out with a bang on dust
but I think they're really going to be kicking themselves with the way that new transpires,
not just losing to the full eco, but choking in overtime without a single round to their name.
NRG, a dug deep can big, is the question to finish off this series. A map both teams
have been keen to play. Mirage is a classic and we're into it. CT side star for NRG going to
We're gonna lose some heavy lifting here, this playmate has to call the shots.
They're fastened out towards middle. One man here in the connector, they've walked right by him. Sonic's based in the smoke.
Got behind enemy lines and now he has multiple kills, right here and up for the taking.
That's too quickly from Sonic, and that throws this whole thing in a disarray.
They try to chase it into the crossfire.
Now it's only Favre and...
...Bomb lost...
...under control of NRG.
Pretend it struggled in these pistols.
They've got this one, it's dead to rights!
Locked in.
We're gonna see a Brawley game, I think.
That much is clear here on Mirage.
Big looking to play fast.
And NRG...
...it's NA on Mirage.
bound to be exciting. Even a map they took over flight quest as well in those
B01s. For big it's their first outing at the major on this map and it could be their
last if things go wrong. We've got a force by in the second round with no
bomb bar. Set cool here for big. Is it desperation or preparation?
Smoke's going over the top, we've got a quick A-pop.
Oh, that's a good way for it to start, one to the dome for Grimm.
That forces you to be a bit more passive here, just giving up the bomb site.
This one's going to come down to a retake, a big try and play for CT.
This is their post-plant, and they're not able to get the space.
Locked out, break on the smoke, very well timed.
BIMF doesn't have time to get that bomb planted, no one did.
That's a big try to set themselves up to close the round out as spawn end up giving it away
It's what I mean when I say it's gonna be a broadly chaotic game right big force by with no plant do a set cool
Get the entire a site chase spawn energy don't even wait for a bomb plant
They force that site retake back in CT great flash and energy just playing catch up here on that a site
able to wipe the board that bomb gets lost in this fight in sport
So there was no way back into the round there for big. Yikes.
And the whole time in the back of your mind, you got to fight that feeling that you threw away your best chance on Duke.
This could have been done. Big could have been in a shuttle back with Stage 2 BO1s to think about tomorrow.
Instead, NRG are giving themselves reason to believe.
I gotta say, over the course of that second map, feels like we just saw so many NRG players
coming to life, right?
Slow start to the series.
But as it went on, a number of key figures started to emerge.
Hell, even as we hit the overtime's, Grim who had been quiet all day long and a number
of high impact rounds, I think you could even see it in his demeanor.
He looked so deflated earlier on.
There was a bit of sighing from him, just to look like he was going through the motions,
really.
Dialed in he's hyping up the rest of the team around him. This all becomes very achievable for NRG
We had multiple players on your three kills and such going into the second half of nuke
So just deflated where NRG three halves of pain
Well now a very different match up ahead of us a big four-by-round they have absolutely get it got to get off to the races
uh, mid scrap here, NRG, swing him from cat, and Sonic even gets out of under before
Blader comes down lower, so it's gonna be okay. Jenny, she forced to smi-
is again delivered an impactful double but big have the sight.
I think I have to Griggs orb in a post plant.
BlameF coming to terms with the fact that he's got to be the guy to get that bomb planted.
Get an AWP in the post-plant like this. This is where Griggs is meant to shine.
He's trying to bring the fight to market. This is what OC is holding for.
At least he was. Now off the angle. OC gets back on it in time.
And now we look at BlameF. Once he came full-off, shut down straight away.
NRG still flawless on the CT side.
I felt like Greg's made the right move to be patient in that position, but here's players fumbling through the market and it's that repeat into rifles where the orb takes him out.
Unfortunate for Greg's.
And yeah, you got to give it to Nitro again. This double kill on short, not an easy couple of fights, but he was the one guy who showed up on Dust2 and delivered impactful rounds.
He's absolutely put his best foot forward today, has Nitro.
I think of showing to have a bit of a problem in closing out games, right?
That's been the story for this squad.
That's how they even got to this position.
Number of close matches in there.
Ones that come down to the wire, come down to a couple of rounds, making all the difference.
And that's already sold them onto a third map.
This one's a non-starter thus far.
opening for NRG to work with. These type of openings, something that Grimm didn't start
providing right till the tail end of Nuke. Down after the first, but OC is going to make
up for it. Advantage maintained. Sonic nearly caught in the open. Somehow escapes death.
Oh, he's done it twice over. They just can't kill this guy.
Running around the map. Lightspeed, it's obviously still back in spawn with no smoke down. Big
have to cross past this office to back up. Wait for his team, Sonic swings out, they have
to trade that kill and a valiant move for Sonic to sacrifice.
Okay, Nitro as well on a big boy flank. Okay.
You don't feel so bad about giving up this bomb plant knowing that you've got this ace
up your sleeve. Nitro round the back, leaves it just gone, Favon, and he's seen it. They
know they've got him trapped. Nice and easy for Nitro at 9-1.
Yeah, sensory overload there for Favon. He wants to get out of position, and Nitro is
bursting him from ramp, keeping the pressure on. Captain carrying right now on CT Mirage.
This is a 5-0 star. Big, definitely getting shaky right now. Timeout comes in.
But man, can't help but feel that best bet was on Nuke.
That's NRG Storm ahead.
NRG have stayed very calm across this series.
At times it felt like they're detriment.
now keeping cool heads and prevailing in this third map to make it to stage two.
I think the other thing that just feels a little stressful here is not only is this a map that NRG
have had a good amount of reps on, they played it once at the major already for big. They haven't,
right? They've had reps on it leading up to this event, but it hasn't crept up for them at the major yet.
And even that can add even more uncertainty around this third map, the idea that you're
We're taking to it for the first time in Cologne.
Break on the smoke, another opening, but this one will get punished.
Quick trade for Fathom leaves it even.
I mean, they're really sure that they are going to get this breakthrough round.
They keep committing to the buys.
So something's got to transpire.
They head into this round, limited util, a little limited in terms of the firepower too,
with a couple of players taking the downgrade onto the Galil, because they're just desperate
to put something on the board.
Two smokes in it, few pockets full of flashes, that's what they've got to work with.
Now they're expecting that spot from Grimm to have led to a rotation, some type of reaction
out of NRG.
They are right in that. They're worth three players over at this A site, but his time's
elapsing. Biggest starting to, or NRG rather, is starting to have a change of heart. Bro
holds on for any attempt at a window boost to crawl in towards spawn. That's not the
case. It is this B finish for Big Clan. They're going into Nitro sitting top of the charts
for NRG. Almost wouldn't expect no one in apartments, but Nitro's got to keep his head
looking at that site, crossing in with a bomb. He drops it and he lifts it till the tail.
He sets up a perfect retake position here from NRG.
As big a left for Blame in middle, Favon's got to take matters into his own hands.
Massive frag.
No one's planting here.
Gonna have to get that bomb down.
Nars.
Oh, a shot from Nitro who will just not stop.
Where is Blame F when you need him?
Covering on short side.
Nitro's the shield.
He's the sword in this.
Nitro with a stellar 3k.
And look at that big beaming smile the captain with a couple of really high impact rounds.
Unreal to get this out of Nitro in a third map of a stage two but this is the experienced
player.
This is the Cologne winner, Grand Slammer, for NRG, and he's absolutely giving everything
he's got to take NRG further than this roster has ever gone at a major, never made it out
of stage one.
And just look at the position bigger in, right?
They've got the max loss bonus, that's the only thing they have to work with, so it's
just buy after buy after buy.
This means we're seeing Griggs without an AWP in these rounds, he hasn't got to wield
it.
Constantly hamstrung by the money, just desperate to finally get something on the board.
But there's a world where that never happens, there's a world where Griggs doesn't get to
play with his weapon of choice on this T side.
Oh dear, there's window smoke and the nade lands in blame.
No way he can't see it!
Running through Palace, Kim Grimm taking one with him, blow double up as they pop to a ramp, and Grimm is keeping pressure on, JDC is getting run at.
Welcome to North America, NRG, no respect for Big Clam right now as they gun them down here on Mirage.
What a shocking display from this North American squad.
Ready to write them off after Dust 2.
They are running it towards Big.
A few measly rounds away from that second stage.
And Big have nothing to show for Mirage.
They are over halfway there.
And it all happened so quick. 12 minutes.
That's how long it's taken to put NRG in this position.
Yeah, I'm what a rollercoaster of 12 minutes. It's been for big, right?
Just moments ago. It felt like they were going to stage two
And now that is all forgotten about it is brushed aside
You might have had all these plans all these ambitions
But just how far you could take this new look big project that grinded to get here and then it's all come
crushing down around you
Look at like another super clean round out of energy versus the pistols
multiple players sitting with only one death big have barely made a dent in this game.
Yeah, there's two kills on four players, three on Faven, absolute disappearing act out of
big Nitro is outfragging the entirety of big combined.
You can't be experienced.
Tabsin, taken second to the cologne,
Nitro's taken a trophy.
And right now, as they're barely fighting for survival,
here at the bottom of the first stage of this major,
it is NRG who are walloping big
on a devastating way to exit the major.
This would be for Big Clan.
I did it. If Nitro keeps this up, this could very well be one of his highest rated major maps ever.
12-1 and paramount to the success of NRG.
Remember back at Budapest when DAPS did exactly that as a stand-in for this very team?
Coach had to run it back, put on a master class.
Right now, Captain is back in NRG and he is making it known to big.
Every bone in your body is telling you,
Vatro can't keep this up.
There's no way you can keep this up.
Eventually, they're going to get something on the board, surely.
But it's just a clean sweep every damn time.
That's what's feeling so worrying here. It feels like the rounds are getting cleaner.
I don't even know that's possible even multiple five alive rounds on this street
And this one is another convincing shutdown this time
It's grimm at these turn in the limelight with a massive 4k. Everybody's playing right now
Everybody is showing up
I'm big
Who are just moments away who had it in the palm of their hand I had a 5v4 at
1211 and went too fast too soon
Yeah sometimes you get so caught up in the moment you go for that killing blow
you go to end it there and then you put your all put everything into it you're
having visions of being the winners being the victors and the reality just
doesn't match up with it and you're dead on it was too much too soon and boy does
that recontextualize the loss to the full eco back on the previous map as
well and you can't say they didn't have chances to get to that next stage
Oh, yeah, and they are well aware of that you can tell by how they look right now is energy
Storm the board
Beep-pop OC opens Nitro top of the charts not going down
It's got to be feeling all too real now
They finally dealt with the immortal man
Can they go any further than just a couple of kills? No energy double digits
in a runaway third map and why slow down now why stop why let big even get the
taste of victory 10-0 CT side of a large wires must feel like the most
consequential knife around win of your careers and here they go another gun
I'm round for big, another swing of the king.
This shot for Griggs, we waited, we waited so long to get this AWP back in his hands.
And that was his opportunity right there.
This struggle is contagious right now. Is there a hero in a big clan jersey or is Nitro
the final boss versus Tabsib? These two age old players and Nitro holds strong. He won't
stop. More damage done to Blaine. Finally put down 16 and 3. They go for B.
Oh, good flashes. Get OC off the line. You bore yourself a few more seconds of respite
from this AWP, but OC now, vision restored, and he's going to use it to start tearing
through the big ranks. Blame F and Griggs both wounded, both high, and OCC bottom the
water. He comes and knocking. Pro there to help him out. NRG round away from a flawless
It's half unbelievable scenes here. NRG more than earned on this CT side.
An incredible game of Counter-Strike. Big hitting the break wall.
And no matter how hard they try, they cannot break through it.
A speed run. Third map.
And Big go for one more A execute.
In what has been a roundless half of counter strike and it doesn't feel like it's about to change
He comes recovery needs to be studied by a guy who's missing all the way to the final few rounds of that too
Been a big threat here though hasn't he?
Bomb plop for big, but they're quaking in their boots
They know that 12 rounds for an RG is right there and they're a man down
down. Give it a bit of time to get comfortable. They'll get out towards CT, but as flashes
Nitro make sure of it. Hands one off to OC and tells him, watch this, set me up.
OC takes a look at the scoreboard, sees Nitro top of the charts and he's got a lot of faith,
sends him around that corner, left on a JDC, all alone. Time is up for big NRG 12 and 0.
to get to stage 2 with style!
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Look at the time this temperature gets the better one
They're trying to kill Grimace
But it's getting more grand
Steady fire on!
We get inside the point!
I call it, I'm holding wider
I'm holding wider
Flash, flashing in front
Burning, burning default
Flash in again, put your eyes on CT
Dead, one more box, it's rough
Holding him, missiles
Fucking go
inside the world, baby. Holy, I leave one round. Hopefully we can get it. How do we get it,
baby? Yeah. Big, ain't even dead yet. NRG ready to dance on their graves. Did you get
the 12-0? Only to fall down and give them a couple. Or is this where you go for the clean,
sweep finish? Looking for a flawless game to send them in a stage two. How do we get it,
say NRG well I'll tell you you got plenty of chances triple A setup here from big in this site to save face
but you ain't saving this major stage NRG coming in with this exec
you tell in smoking the way slows the roll tabson's gonna open for NRG the objective get the 13-0
So they're getting shut down convincingly. Grimm answers. Grimm's answered in a very
big way. Why is this possible all of a sudden?
A brief moment, 1v5, but JDC, you think he's got him? Favon beats him till it. Pistol round,
picked up for big. They get one more round at least in Cologne.
Yeah, that's it. They get one round on Mirage and NRG almost pull out the clutch of the
tournament right there to embarrass Big. Nice try from Grimm. It has just been the most
It's an incredible game from NRG, but now they're gonna have to sit back and breathe for a second and take the eco.
And come up with a plan to find that one round.
Team killing this one.
Give Big N anything they can take.
This is almost, it's got to be up there with one of, if not his best major game of all time.
We referenced Daps filling in for Nitro back in Budapest, getting his best rated major
map of all time.
That was against Fnatic.
That was against BlameF.
handing these lifegames over to NRG.
Four gun round now.
And here's the thing, with this much room, with this much of a buffer,
you're not going to get a respectful brand of counter strike out of NRG.
If that wasn't made clear from the first 12 rounds here on Mirage,
Sonic's going to get them off to the races and open her on a JDC.
That's been the voice of positivity for Big.
And he is brushed aside in what is fast becoming their final round at the Cologne Major, 3v5.
And nowhere left to run, nowhere left to hide. You need a big hero moment here if you want to try and embark on this insane comeback attempt.
But NRG slow in their roles and did Favon a keen double. He'll level the playing field with that.
So the game is still afoot.
Tapsen shrinks himself down over here at ramp.
But he's got a lot to keep an eye on and Grim is close by.
Playing with fire with these timings,
it's gonna come down to luck for Tapsen.
Telling yourself to play measurement to have your back.
Does he? That's the big question.
He's checking everything, including his own.
Trust nobody, not even yourself. Big aren't sure where this one's going because it's sneaking
up, up-connect, the smoke behind him, both holly. It doesn't tick. Taps his position,
unconfirmed. Nitro crossing in.
I'm not even considering it. Nitro caught out in the open. One back for OZ. Oh, don't
tell me fam's what decides it. Big damage exchanged. I'm going to get planted. Grim has
to nail this, can't afford to miss, and he won't. That leaves it a moment for the lineup!
2 HP, the difference between big time being over and then continuing to play.
Favon digs deep with a huge 4K round and a 1v2 clutch to boom.
Everything you could want from Favon from a 3v5 finds that stack kill lower, goes on to find the
clutch, Fabin keeps him in it, barely but the skin of their teeth by a line up as NRG
swing off that bombsite together. Thin margins. And no one NRG will regret yet. But it gives
big just one more chance. Real fast at that, Tabson dinked straight away, JDC
tucks himself in and might just go over look, might be ready to rob this round
away, no issues but JDC and Bro can't finish this.
Eagle, 12 points of health and he is sandwiched. He's got it, I think he's got it.
I'm scared. Screw it, why not. JDC might get the kill but the cash injection is
Welcome for energy. You won't complain about that. We have players spend below 2k. So it's actually a worthy plan there
Bit of fear coming in from big of course and how can you blame them with some of the things energy have done to them in this third map?
12-4 and
Everything to play with OC delaying the buy was considering the orb is going to go with the rightful
So we're looking for more sec calls here for energy
More pace more pace indeed
I pull it down to the AWP, NRG's shaking in their seats, just want to find that one
single round.
knowing that one mistake can cost you everything.
It's going to get tighter here for NRG, the deposit pro behind the boxes.
Cruel Nitro down lower, re-execute into middle.
Go back for an ace point.
To Big's credit, with all the fast rounds they've had leveled against them on this T side thus far, they've done well to hold onto their Util, man.
Minute left on the clock and you still have full belts on three players. Only just going to start working through some of that now.
This won't be some easy finish for an RG. They're going to be coming through Util, coming through Smokes.
Resistance to Plenty from Big.
And this is a rough position, 3v5, third man rotates over towards A. Just to pad it out
even more, you know that JDC's down here, he's made noise as he tried to reposition,
so I'm not able to finish the job on that one there, and so a clean up for big, a flawless
round.
Well, it would be, he's still believing, it would be choker the century, I mean no one
can deny that. It would be the impossible game to lose. So let's call a timeout, shall
we, and get our head strap back on screen.
1-0-1-12 rounds in a row on CT side.
I think it's losing from 12-0. I think that hurts more.
You're not really buying into this early, are you?
No, I'm not. I'm just joking.
No, no, there's always a chance, Harry.
Otherwise, why would they call the timeout?
Why are we still here?
Only Big can tell us.
Refusing to go down without a couple of rounds on their way out.
Five in a row.
Pick up in the guys struggling to close games.
Can't tell me they're the ones that are going to pull this off.
No, they'll lose 13-11.
12-0 down.
rounds to the good on this CT side but it is a marathon not a sprint in this
position first stretch won't come to matter if you end up losing it in round
23 you've got to be flawless on this CT side on a T side round has been won yet
in this series in this map sorry and I'll do you look to break that right now
with his aim pop Greg's miss shot that ramp control it's good couple of names here
but NRG are flooding out just late in the day every miss shot every miss of any
description whether it's with util whether it's with bullets that they all
feel like they matter you don't know when's gonna be your last chance to play
but that's a nice double from tabson at least keep things in check here CT
post plan for NRG strong position but a smoke down a slow this retake this is
problematic for big I'm shocked they're going through this they could have gone
jungle is this decision a regret coming in together nitro treats places in the smoky
the clutch nitro through as big position revealed by the span they can get on that
defuse right now this should not be possible the stick is on and favin's got that cover
so a triple out of him combined with taps is double big a halfway there
i mean six rounds ago i would have told you it's 100 percent impossible but they're starting
get you believe in six rounds straight only one of them getting close
and you are dead on at the halfway mark but you're never allowed to get comfortable they keep
the energy high jbc being the voice of that still all smiles for nrg they're laughing but you know
they're shaking a little bit right now this is scary missed the top mid smoke you said every single bit
it matters. And so as it lands in valley, big have that little bit more info. JDC, they've
walked out late actually, this is the logistically coupier, obviously crept out on this plane.
JDC thinks he's clear middle, so sure he's gonna get his kill and be, but look at where
that bomb is going.
Backstab the blame F gets rid of the B component, be dead on, it's the sneak up through connector.
ADC just got wind of it, however, and now B can start to rotate accordingly.
Looking.
One kill, two for Faven.
Swift responds here, out towards short, Nitro left in another unwinnable clutch, and the
gap continues to close.
I mean, I feel like that actually could be a purposely missed smoke at top middle.
Just to get NRG up connected, they would have loved a little bit more value from their
B fake there because not only does Blame flank under, JDC is a triple B to turn around and
check out middle so nice reaction from big they don't stay static staring to
dead space and JDC is getting loud now as big begin to believe again another
Tec-9 by but how many have we seen go nowhere for energy
well first time they've looked to really run into and test this B-side on a
faster timing the Favon has been super solid it was his clutch that massive
4k round. He's had a string of multi-kills.
That's the guy they're going into in this force or partial bite.
Hail Mary B.
Well, Favon handle this with grace.
For Rush, he hesitated there.
That could be problematic.
These tech knives can charge you down.
You see 4k, it recovers a shot.
They're up deep in the site.
That's the bomb down on E-box and JDC does fall.
Can they pick it up in time?
because Big are in an even fight.
Scout is picking them apart, shot by shot for OC.
Guns have been retrieved.
Gonna keep whittling you down, bro, adds another.
Big, it's been a commendable effort here,
but it hinges on seeing this one through,
the chaotic round leveled against them from NRG.
Still no bomb, those smokes will fade soon.
And when it does, you then gotta scrap,
you then gotta fight every step of the way.
It's Blaine F and it's Tabson for Big
to try and keep this impossible comeback going.
Your veteran players still in the picture huge smoke
What are you block gonna give you a bit more room?
Everything is tense Sonic catches one and now it's just
You are ready to write them out round after round this is eight straight for big
This is almost more impressive than NRG's first half and now they're feeling the burn
you have never seen a game quite like this with everything on the line at the
end of stage one in the final map after a flawless half for some reason big
refused to crumble
Big they start to hit that flow state man everyone on the team is believing that they
can do this because eight rounds ago I think you would just say it to yourself because
it feels like the right thing to do but now you've really bought in now you're believing
that this is possible.
Favlin, good catch on the B drop down, he'll make it another double.
And with a bit of help from JDC, this B site's on lock.
OC left as the last man, as the rounds just continue to go by.
NRG still no closer to stage two.
This is devastating. This is absolutely horrific right now.
This is going to be possibly the worst choke of all time.
If NRG cannot close this game,
You could not have more opportunities.
You could not have more on the line right now for this organization.
Big back at a major after missing the last two.
NRG perpetual stage one team.
Last two majors lost this very game into two.
And this felt tailor made for them.
A beautiful CT side of Counter-Strike from NRG to put them 12-0 up.
laughing at halftime as they should be and now it's feeling real.
Briggs has six kills and Biggest still doing this.
Rookie at his first major and they're showing him what experience does.
does. Can he hit his shots when the round calls upon him? Another B attempt for NRG.
These rounds are going quick.
Another opening, lips to tell the tale, JDC, his wingman in these B holds comes back to
help him. NRG just looking for that one round, that one round that makes this nightmare come
to an end. Oh, this be the one. Oh, no. Abbot and JDC don't seem to think so. It's another
shut down over a B and they just keep going for it. The madness continues over and over
again. These B hits in the same result every downtime. Double digits for Big is right around
the corner. Bro cannot win this one before.
Nitro is not in liquid anymore, but Big are bending him over and that ain't no Heimlich.
round straight. Bro has to save. Another chance for NRG to catch their breath, but have they
not had enough? JDC, phenomenal recovery. Him and Favon lead the way.
I did it so impressive from JDC this is you know, he's been the hype man
He's been the guy trying to get more first round but but bro like he's he's had some really rough games at this major
He's banked it all up and now looks to try and do the impossible no matter who loses this game
It's gonna be the worst night of your life
life.
They're not even celebrating anymore, because they know this job is not done.
They will only celebrate once that overtime comes through, because for now, Big have a
job to do.
That is three time outs down now for NRG.
more brakes in this train and why would big give them any more?
Everything has gone to plan.
These rounds have not been particularly close.
Came down to one 1B1 with Tabson and another from Favon.
Yeah.
I do.
That's the part that's so impressive.
Right.
You've had two pivotal 1B2 clutches out of big on this streak.
else has been super clean but there's been these two rounds in there where it all could have been for naught
and they've responded both times. They're winning rounds they're not supposed to.
They're in a position they were never meant to be in. They keep playing, keep fighting.
Greg's making a move. He's going to hop up into ladder room with that AWP. New position for Greg.
He's been back in CT most of this game. He's been mostly avoided.
Maybe it will be his chance to play into the CT comeback for the most part. He has not been a factor
Need a bunch of tech lines
That's bros not gonna rifle in that final round. I'll be running a galil and every little can make a difference here. So
Don't run. I mean they hear this given over towards me then yeah, they hear
It's cool blame f keeps his wits about him
anticipates that reaction and there's the follow-up to the blame that
gonna be a multi kills in these sightholds and making a world of
difference B or a doesn't matter bigger right there on the cusp of the
craziest comeback the most unbelievable game of Counter-Strike I've ever seen
12-0 up for an Archie and bigger about to do it right back to them the full 24
rounds they asked the question at halftime how do we get that one well
They still haven't found the answer.
BlameF has barely shown a motion in this CT side.
Hyper focused as big.
Pulled this all the way back, but was it all for nothing?
That nade is huge.
They're already nearly dead.
Half the team, brought down low.
In the round, that decides whether we see overtime or not.
This was a game that could have been over in about 15 minutes and now it's set to go the distance 5v4 secured as captain play math opens
They're looking lost. They're running around. They've got knives out and he can feast upon them
Only good for the first nitro responds, but still it's a lot of info from tab since push
Look at how the rest of big are all reacting
He said well this major rookie get his giant a chance in the limelight Griggs is the one guy in spawn on this site here
NRG are coming in his whole team have got him this far and his debut major
Griggs now has the most important part part to play all part towards the spawn
that shot sails on pass that's given them room
and he played forward big up until now I've been riding this crazy high this
ethereal high on the 11 round streak but this is where there is a tremendous
amount of pressure. They cannot fumble the 4v3. Backstab on the cards for Favon and as he plays
it forward, he's ready to rip this one away from NRG. Overtime is right here. No T-Sides on Mirage
for either squad as Biggo 12 in a row to lock in OT. The most unbelievable comeback of all time,
big from 12 a zero down this game was done but the German squad showed big dick
energy this has literally never happened before
and then I do they're gonna be cooked that's the thing momentum matters in a
game like this you're not gonna go on to the CT side and guarantee run back your
floor is half you don't have that respite anymore big they get the easy time the
plane on the side they're on they've got wind in their sails they are gunning
four stage two after all
opportunities or as a represent the legendary German organization the most
legendary German player we still have in Tabsin it felt like it was a fleeting
prospect after the choke on nuke. Well, there's a new choke in town. It's over time where
anything will change. Does this continue to be a game of only CT-sided rounds? Big hope
so.
It's a thing, it's like for NRG, you can't even make the case, you know, like for big,
they actually put themselves in a weird spot in that first half with a lot of force by
this right, trying to force a round through, ended up costing them, didn't get to see the
all for greats, didn't get to see a hell of a lot.
But you can't say the same for NRG, they had all these chances, they always played for
the money, they always played for an edge, they really took their time to try and build
this up.
And so do I think anything's going to change in OT?
No, big prove that.
taking that first round dominantly, time out burn for NRG.
They had gun rounds, right?
There were only three bomb plants in that first half.
It's not in that second half of NRG.
It's not like they were forcing.
They were tech nine by, tech nine by.
And right now, more dominant rounds for big 13 in a row.
A shocking show of resilience.
Doesn't it just feel meant to be?
And for the first time in this third map, Big have the lead.
It just, it doesn't feel real coming out of your mouth, does it?
13-12 lead taken after a 0-12 first half.
NRG must be crushed. There's no time to think about that. There's no time to care about
that. They've still got a game to play. Sonic, for what feels like the first time in forever,
has found an opening for NRG. Oh, but there's the response, playing that from Griggs. Instantly
pull it back. Big look to shut it down. That one opener meant to give you room, but there's
nothing past that point. Big is still flawless. They have outdone NRG streak 14 in a row.
From hopeful yells in that second half to now the dawning feeling that this is your game,
that this is your right, that this is your stage.
Big still keeping it flawless on this defensive half.
Hootin' and hollering!
NRG is silent in and out of the server.
OC's on a deagle in this final round of the half of overtime.
It is first to 16 and Big are gunning for it.
Let's not talk about that trial of finding the one T-side round.
But it will be coming.
You can't win a game on one half.
I mean, I agree with you in principle, but I think this is going to be a very different
second half of play.
Sure.
This is big with so much momentum.
how Mormon and the NRG ever had.
You lay down with an opening 5v4
and just getting absolutely mold.
All right, there's the reply.
Griggs, his time in the limelight now,
but he won't offer anything up.
Just the one and done.
Chance of the bomb plant.
Chance of that one T side round.
There's chance in a minute.
After a 14 round campaign, they might finally
get the T round they were looking for.
What's happening, JDC?
Both have had massive impact on this comeback.
These are the guys shutting down B.
Now they're retaking A.
15 and a lot of the big. Are you paying attention?
They could close this flawlessly with 16 straight rounds.
This ain't CSGO anymore.
Someone tell Big.
Dude.
I can't get ahead of myself, but right now, yeah, momentum matched and beaten, NRG broken.
Can they remember their first half of regulation? That's what sits upon them now. CT side,
Obmerage, big take a breather. How can you not be stun locked if you're NRG? This doesn't feel
real this feels like you're living in a nightmare from one of the quickest
halves a 15 minute game you called it you what you were done this was over an
energy squad that have not made it out of this first stage and they've had
chances they've had tries they played M80 in that 2-1 game for the battle of
of NA. But third time might not be the charm here at a major.
Oh, and this will be the worst one yet. This will be the most hurtful one yet. This has
never happened before. 12-0 up. Oh, no.
What's happened with an opening? I'm big. Don't get ahead of yourselves. I think they
know that better than most. They're going to keep it low, slow, composed because this
is their history-making win.
Nitro was the hero of that original CT side. He is the only man in a position to stop this
play. The Cologne winner, the captain of NRG, the guy who started this streak. Can he stop
big for making history.
Oh, let some more pass goes over.
Oh, you can't get anything from it.
That's a disaster.
And now we brought that bigger right on the precipice
of securing stage two historic fashion.
16 rounds in a row.
And oh, 12 down.
Every bone in your body said it was impossible.
No one had done it before.
And yet here they are.
This is a big that have choked their fair share of games
at this first stage, but not this one!
They do it in a skype fashion!
16 rounds straight!
Big Clannagos at a stage 2!
Counter-Strike is a mental game and big show us why!
Why you never give up, why you never stop fighting!
German team, German organization and legend in Tapsen
and they go all the way!
Couches from Favon, motivation from JDC
And Griggs' first major, one to remember, for NRG, it is one to never forget.
Yeah, an actual living nightmare on the other side.
You see the elation from Big, you see they know they're proud of what they've just done,
keeping themselves in that impossible task for NRG, a living nightmare,
and one that thankfully now has come to a close with their elimination from IEM Cologne.
One of the most inconceivable comebacks in CS2 history, the first time in major history
a comeback of this scale has actually been brought into reality.
16 rounds in a row from Big.
NRG 12-0 up, just one round needed to turn the tides of this game.
And I know it's my job to speak to Prey, but I'm simply speechless in this moment.
How on earth, if you're Big, do you pull this off?
I don't know.
have experienced I thought everything in my career but this was this was a whole
new level I mean I don't even know where to start the fact that you're down 12
oh you run one round away from being eliminated and you managed to claw your
way back to overtime but within 12 and out but also clinching the red like the
last four winning 16 rounds in a row what I think the first place we should
start is by congratulating tabs and holy shit that's all I really want to say
What's going through your head right now?
Sixteen, yeah, I'm just speechless
Really I have no no words
We can see it on your face. I mean at what point did you start believing right because you're down 12-0
What earth was said in that halftime like that must have been some words of magic to be honest like John
JDC had really good words. He said like, hey, we are a unit even if we would lose and we would go out of the tournament, we are a unit and we will have more tournaments to play and we have more upcoming tournaments, upcoming games, you know, and after that we just kept believing and, I mean, we just kept rolling as well.
really good reads on them, you know, like we had early really good reads, I think we
read them really well and we handled really well, we shot really good and we just stepped
up when it was the most needed.
And I'm just, to be honest, I was really, really proud and really happy and I have no
words, like, I'm just shaking as well.
I can definitely tell, I don't think, I've experienced a lot in my career.
I have not experienced something as crazy as this, I think, and you said they're playing.
When did you actually actually start believing?
One thing is like winning a couple of rounds, you know, making a little bit of a cosmetic
comeback as Jacob would have said, but when did you actually actually start believing?
You know, like for us in TeamSpeak it was not like, ah guys we got this, it was like
a really flow state.
We were really calm, like we were just grinding round after round, and after winning some clutches
as well, I think for me personally after I won this B-Clutch, I think after I knew,
Okay, we have it now. They were really scared and they didn't plant a bomb.
They overthought us as well and stuff.
And then after, I think we also really made good cards.
Benjamin had us really on composure.
We were really calm and everyone just did what we were supposed to do.
And I'm so proud that it paid off because we have played this map the most in practices before.
And getting smashed 12-0 on T-side was not on my card.
Can I put it out to perspective that Faven clutched 1v2 with 2hp at the beginning of that half?
That is crazy, like that is how thin the margins were here.
This is craziest, it's just mind blowing.
What you were seeing on your POV, to be honest, we were seeing on their POV for their full first half.
So this was exactly their medicine used against them and everything, as you are saying,
saying everything were you doing, every nade stack, like the amount of utility damage you guys were
getting like you probably know that from the assist but we saw that where these AGs were landing,
how you were spamming them through the smokes, how you were reading them, everything on freaking
point. This was beautiful to watch but only the second half. Everything that could have gone wrong
went wrong for you. Yes absolutely, like to be honest also like on the T side we didn't have a
really bad feeling because all to the first equipment round we went to the b side we had a
clutch afterwards like I think we should have won maybe some dudes where they had also the upper
hand but I mean it's just countless right and what a nice game no like just just amazing to play
this game to watch this game to just enjoy this game and I'm just so happy to be part of this you
know like it's so many emotions it's just amazing that's why that's why we love this game so much
I still have another question for you, Taps.
I'm just a little bit curious because, you know, this is the major.
We're in Germany.
You're a German call, you're a German organization.
You know, that's got to mean like a little bit of extra for you guys
since you're doing it on home soil.
How does that consider, you know, brings you into stage two?
You know, it's, you, this is probably the craziest game you've had in your career.
I think at least close to, right?
Stage two, coming up, what's your thoughts and what's your, what's your,
your gut feeling now that you've just managed to have such a massive
resilience to, to come back like this?
I mean, after that game, I think everything is now in our hands, to be honest, likely.
Also, I believe also against Gamer Legion we could have won the game, it was really even.
And also in the first game against Liquid, we started to play this tournament really shaky.
We stepped up when it was the most needed and for us right now.
Like for me personally, of course, it's a German tournament, it's the major.
Like, doesn't matter where it is basically, of course, it's like a really good taste to be in
But I guess the major ever wants to be part of the major everyone's to win the major and for us is just we do game by game and
My expectations is stage three like playing here in front of the crowd or whatsoever. You know having the support from them
I think this will make also the difference for us as a German organization German core, but
Yeah, we have now tomorrow again again, so we need to
Can shape and
Everything's open. Do you want to take a look at your opponent? We have the schedule ready all the Swiss system rather for tomorrow
So you are going to be facing up against Monty Monty. Okay. How do you feel about that? I think very good to be honest
Yeah, I'm looking forward to playing. I think they're really upcoming as well
They deserve to be on the second stage as well
They they play very well in the last couple a couple of tournaments. We were kind of close to them as well
We know each other really well and it will be a good game. Definitely. It will be a lot of fire like a lot of
Back and forth. I'm excited for that one back to Buster ones. Obviously we see spirits entering the fray seems kind of cruel
that they have to play against that. Oh, here's your reward for going 3-0 out.
That's not a sometimes way. Same with me as well.
Is Tabs and Spirit must be the clear favour? Is there anybody else that you kind of want to
throw into the ring as potentially coming in hot for this major?
To be honest, I think FOOT is definitely up there. I think they're a really, really good team.
But I think all of these two teams, I think they can all qualify to be honest.
Like there's really close-hats games. I think for example M80 was G2. I think it will be a really close game
Other than that, hopefully there will be some
How do you say like underdogs where they win the game, you know, that's upset. Thank you very much
So there will be nice games to watch and also I think just at home everyone enjoys the tournament as well
You know certainly giving us like probably the most entertaining game so far like that's mad
I just wanted to quickly pick a brain on we saw some news of crims retiring earlier
Which means it kind of affects your history is the longest standing active player for big
Yeah, I am but I'm also do some inside jokes that I'm going to be the next guy retiring
You know and everyone said no no no you have a couple of years
It's not it's not that bad
I mean if I would be you of course
Of course looking up to all these players who won majors or a couple of
notable tournaments so I'm definitely not done yet but I'm just really proud to
be wearing this jersey for this kind of time because it's not easy. It's
definitely not easy but that's life of a CSK and what you all know that and
sacrificing every day to be part of this year and it's definitely worth it.
Absolutely dream for you to be pulling off congratulations Saps and we'll be
seeing you in stage two tomorrow. Yeah congrats we'll let you get on your way.
Thank you very much. Yeah, give you a little, give you a fist bump. There we go.
With this juice, there's absolutely tea, and we are into the pistol.
T-Star for the underdogs.
Three sec.
Netic's tucked, break the tap, head down goes Asap, can't track the second, flashes there.
Lee has good for one, back onto Netic.
It's Vexi supported by the USP.
He's done very well on the Jill Barrettism.
Oh wow. He catches JKS, tries to slip through the temple into Platte.
Three sec. Alistair making steps, running away, but TJP is in E-box.
So if Inns wants to push forward and try and cut off this A rotation, that would be ill-advised.
Story will be able to go through mid and perhaps address this missing piece.
Yeah, right now it's just everything's simmering down.
It's heaps of time on the clock as Alice is starting to return for the B split, so action on in-game leader Inns.
Starts to back away as Ali approaches B mate. Story on the late flank.
Worrying about a flank himself. Gaps everywhere.
Oh, Alistair, that's a long-range clockhead shot.
Story's got the flank though, you're not expecting this.
You're worried about so many things.
TJP's gonna back up into him, trigger discipline, being exorcised.
And he's gonna be screaming, a clutch available for the import.
Ali's low, three kills deep, has he got another one in him.
He's gonna have to open, get away.
Oh, God, he's not gone away just yet.
He's running it. He's running it.
Should be able to get the bomb down here, Alistair.
This one will get him making a whole lot of noise out the gates.
The bomb will be planted. Story on a quick flank on this.
Alster has to worry about everything. Story cuts noise. Alster worry about heaven.
Camera and then eventually the flank as he tucks in towards heaven himself.
No kit for this. Story's gonna have a tough time.
You need to tap that bomb to try and draw him out and then Alster can call the bluff.
Time his greatest ally here with a 10 second defuse.
Look how deep he is. There's no way Story goes to clear this one.
He's got the sound cue. This is half of the battle.
Now, just, no, doesn't want to go up.
Story spots him on the jiggle.
And 10 second defuse is the question.
He's on it.
Why does it go to Ali comes up clutched?
Yeah, baby!
Using the clock as his best friend right there.
right there. The pistol round
And they do what was needed which is winning right the roll let out the death did point out this
He's second round sound be tough for thunder down under but
Because we played the majority of their events over in China. Let's discuss
This one feels compulsory
TAU have only got 25 to second version after winning the pistol
Okay, DJ Pete finishes off Jake against and finds a quick follow-up on to vex I swing an e-box
It'd expect more AMA as well because of that push.
It's a bit uncomfortable, isn't it?
Through the long range, NETIC.
Connects onto Alistair, down to 23.
TJP could have to find a double here on AMA.
Story and Inns playing it forward.
So, plenty of time.
A minute on the clock.
Bombs being scooped up by Dexter now.
Oh, TJP just locks away and starting their grouping.
With Nettik not playing active, the push needs to wait for some type of a sound cue, and he's
actually gambling away, worrying about middle, the possibility for the slip into this A flank.
And by doing so, they are going to lose the sign. Alistair lining up a smoke,
he needs to go down, but that will still land. The race is on again.
Yeah, the info flows as well. He's got clear intent there towards B. It's going to put
rifle into his hands. Next to plant four main. Diggle or Nettik, doesn't hit the first.
Just a warning shot, whistles past the ear of TJ Pink.
He's trying to contain spawn, it's just Netic here,
Inns and Story both coming from different approach
and that's a good eaglehead shot!
Make it two, Netic puts two heads in the vice,
now up to just Dexter.
Sure the bomb's down, but this one looks like it's going
horribly wrong for TDU, he's actually tagged him
in the smoke with that, Inns have finished the job
and another squandered conversion!
He wants a pistol!
Okay, that is a rarity. I know vex that's one of the louder boys, especially with the comms in the team
But it looks like he's gonna get stuck into this right?
Ozzy lands once upon a time the yelling matches just like the UK
See kind of akin to maybe not the level of aggression that you'd see of a called the Judy America plan
But definitely the decibels
Yes!
Boy, you won the pistol!
What the fuck?
Did we start an award and we can't win?
We can win, we're winning.
Okay, what last?
I think that there's obviously some bad blood between,
I would say the guys who were replaced on FlyQuest.
I think for TJP and ASAP at their first major,
not the same, right?
And Nettie getting an opportunity to go to Talon
and now to FlyQuest, they're probably more happy for their boy at once upon a time,
but a four-spy bat the other way, a boost over the smoke, TJP facilitates a slip through,
so Dexter knows he has the cover, has to worry about doors and hull.
And you've got this lineup from ASAP, which is going to cover for the split A.
What cover temple mid? Story could have well timed HE there on the contact for Alistar's ear.
Alarm ringing, but they can hit back, run down, story, there's the support, wow!
In this beautiful double kill, JKR stands his ground on A, and there's nothing more to be said
about this one. In fact, they know ASAP was probably the one throwing that temple smoke.
A little bit out of control there right with that slip and story going down, but sketchy
on the aim, Vexite finishes it off, and that is going to now be the eco for Thunderdown
under. It was a good opportunity to talk about some of these previous relationships, so one
of the issues with the FlyQuest rosters for the longest time was an AWPer. Ali's taken over
in-game leadership and AWPing for this Thunderdown under roster. You think Walker shouldn't be
Dexter who was in-game leading Maus at a major in-game playoff. But I think for Dexter, he's freed up a little bit, right?
He's been hyper aggressive in this team.
You got TJP and ASAP who are
Major rookies right there. We're in that rooster. We'd always see them come to EPLs. That was a fun bunch, right?
But they're kind of like the next jet. Exactly. On it up with the older guard. And here comes a second wave flash push
perhaps from JKS if he's feeling himself.
Be good for the first and there's three.
He does very well
It's important to get Dustin activated early as well
He does play these anchor roles
But he is the most experienced member in the server and the most accomplished member and he can play other positions
But they're using him for what he's good at
But if they can activate him and make him feel comfortable
He's importance is gonna come in the clutch right and we'll see how much that plays into today's game because the fact that there is no head-to-head
We don't know how this kid gonna mess. There's a clear favorite just based off of the support of the organization
But then after that once you get into the mental between these guys and the fact that the domestic game is not necessarily about have these guys played against
To the lights the familiar already of the players. Yeah, I know what he likes to do exactly
Yeah, I mean we know that that's something that's always been a feature in Counter-Strike
It's like you know X teammates when you clash you always have an understanding of their tendencies and how they like to play a clutch
How they like to open round simple things like I play who likes to stick to the fuse or not
Some of those little details. All right first
Full gun round coming into play, Alistair does not get the AWP.
3 man B start with Story, joining the likes of Netic, the Bianca and...
...Vexite, the E-box player.
Mainlands at the doorstep of 2 for some chip damage.
Oh, JKS is actually trying to find that extra damage, a little extra onto Dexter.
And now he's shitting away, thinks he's done enough there, but they are executing, he'll be locked out of this.
Okay, this is response. Replace forward, up through close-mort, ready for the head to head for TJP.
E-Tic flashes throw and bullets Dexter trades off the one and in slips through for the same.
It's Dexter double.
Smoked on camera, looks like they're going to try and scuffle a smoke and push.
Off the flash of Vexite, gives him some room on the staircase.
He has his, that relays the information. This is a retake, you till dumb, trying to make it uncomfortable on site.
Lee has, should have a safe haven.
So they break, Dexter puts up scourge, Lee has a Dexter combine, is still tipped for that.
Back and forth, it's Dexter that's finding impact and hops for the reload, back cake.
I'm ticking.
Here's as does Vexite.
Retake successful.
I mean, as far as what you need from an A anchor,
JKS gets one and a half.
It's actually the retake where they really make that look good.
I think the key here is because
the execute comes in solely within the round,
you see just the sheer utility dump
from the FlyQuest players to harass the site.
There was nowhere that felt comfortable.
Multiple mullies, you had plenty of HGs.
So if you've gone for a set execute,
not just a full rush, but then off the immediate beat,
And that's a loud fly quest to a fully strapped to come in and condition where they wanted this retake to go
So good stuff that for a fly quest to get their fault. This is the CT side of a nervous
You'd be looking for your lion share on the t-half
But I'm going down again will facilitate thunder down under into a partial by dexter in with the AK the rest with piss lock grades
And I'm sorry dexter wants to search towards B
Oh, that's it over jump from that. He could have been dead there dexter's clubbed it
Not saying it's an easy shot, but I'm saying there's an opportunity
Now the Nade again, so ASAP, it looks like JKS has made sure to study in the demos his timing's up towards rugs, he's been getting harassed by these HEs in a couple of rounds now.
Looks like he wants to go.
Vikius has got that second HE, and he starts to name on it down to 36.
It's a tough role for Vikid going up against JKS on the other side.
He's been playing A and Nubis for years.
I just think as well would have been someone that ASAP would have been modeling his game of watching a KS play
internationally and Jks has been in the majors since
2014 to him as as of the coach
the most experienced play up on the Thunder down under roster is liass who is
Retrio those boys over they can't a faction Jake and what's upon a time
So damage done early 50 seconds starting to walk into what is likely a B split couple of smokes couple of flashes and plenty of contact
in through E-Box on the way.
just so leisurely. Three kills from TJP. Can Lee has find the remaining two? Well,
Stakey has denies solid quick reactions from here. I think Lee has pulled the trigger first,
but unable to convert. Bomb plant something. A little bit clunky there over to Evox. No
bit to be playing anti, both Vexi and Nettik getting fully blind. So good output from Thunder
Down Under. Remember that was just a partial investment. They are going to go for the full
buy now and they've limited, I want to say the finances somewhat, but then you've got
story on 13 K got back side who had 13 before the buys. So they're sitting pretty as far
as the finances are concerned.
The game yesterday, we had the pleasure of cast. Well, depends on the training, but we got to cast
underdown under versus big and the desk highlighting it to start off today. It's great seeing Ash break
on the same things I did live. So I'm not going crazy. They lost so many rounds just for poor calls
or not calling off when they didn't need to. And that's tough, right? Thunderdown under have only
He's been playing domestically all year.
Oh, this is aggressive.
Yeah, he's bringing the fight to them, and they weren't ready for it.
He catches a bit of a flash, so Alistar's lucky to be alive, really.
That's forced their hand into something a little bit different, so a block over towards Evox,
Alistar Dexter, and Leia, searching towards B main.
Story's all biz here on the line.
He's going to be peeking in.
Oh, a story! Perfect!
He catches his counterpart, a trade provided by Dexter.
Captain can call from the grave here.
Vexai feeling a little cheeky as well, holding E-Box.
Deficit.
He's gonna be making his progressions, that smoke has faded.
Jakes has just played for InfoBasket as well, so it might either free up a push or a rotation.
Yeah, it looks like Inns might cheat back.
Here's the clash.
He gets caught, TJP goes down.
No sweep, they're both not looking, ASAP could capitalise.
He certainly could.
He's not elected too.
Still not considered?
Now he starts his move.
This is a nice pop-flash from Vexite, throws out the underhand.
ASAP is flanking.
Vexite's small, little jiggle confirms that E-box is occupied and all the bang in every shot.
Lovely little setup between Netic and Vexite, helping each other under the pressure and scrutiny.
Aliaz in a very tough clutch, 35 seconds and he can't get anything done.
Netic will silence it, the B defense stands tall.
It's a brick wall! Fuck! Fuck!
I'll pick him, then.
Medic will get there eventually, alright?
He's a bit of a shy guy. He'll get there and he'll work it out.
He'll work it out eventually. Just swear a lot.
That'll work.
That's a good start.
Oh, dear.
Get on that tactical timeout.
Colts, coach on the mic.
Fourth under, down under.
That's Viridian.
Nice!
Let's go, boys.
So that little reference to MC at the start of the death segment
regarding this one with Riddians and other who has played within the ranks of many of these players.
Also doing some observing work once upon a time.
Out of major, standing behind the boys and hopefully he can make a call here
to get some rounds on the board. Sure this is FlyQuest pick, it's going to be in Phono
up next on where the bit more comfort has been shown from Thumb Down Under. That upset victory
against MIBR. But both teams really once it wins so far that was the openers. It was the
sinners game for FlyQuest that was scrappy on Ancient. Since then I lost to Gamelidge
Ronin Foner and won to NRG on Mirage. The Thunderdown Under is a lost debate. It was
damn close and big where they could have been in it if they were able to convert their advantages.
Chance for story. Easy pick-ins. Sure, a headshot was hit, but you want one at two,
Alistair goes down. That's a name that is not at all brought into this domestic rivalry.
This is an international import who couldn't care what the name is on the other side of
the server. There's nothing personal here for him. This is just like playing a face
at poke with Uterus and the boys. Yeah, exactly. Just with a couple more stakes and just a
bit of a yellow. Elimination from the Major.
Realty again, sorry, still here. JP parting forward.
Catching an attic, still strong. Again, they test his sights, still finds
output. Lias, at least trading the shot, baiting the
AWP from him down. Lias, this is impactful.
He's got caught with the flank. JP has arrived in time, a dexter with his back
turned, in his catches from Temple. It is somewhat of a brick wall.
Fexides right everybody is delivering at the moment when asked for fly quest. No one's looking wobbly with the shots
They're hitting in trading looks like communication is good
We're actually playing really well, but we're just not winning the the final juice that's all
All right, I'll start trying to get a lid on it
Especially when you're starting on a map you're less comfortable on on the favored side
Like this is a great way to break them around early. I think this is a big problem. Okay, there's a
Oh, okay.
Ninja's been caught.
And they're perfectly pre-emitting the boost for the claw bag.
Lovely warping from story.
He's gonna play aggressive.
He's read them like a book, hasn't he?
Hangin' around and maintaining this midline.
They're just gonna rotate over.
They may have flashed.
Is J.K.A.s gonna have to address this?
He's not too worried just yet because it was a basket's flash,
so you know that they're not fully entrenched just yet.
story another frack back this opening kill from Alistair already goes the
other way he's safe on the half wall ready for the swaying flash does force
him off the line
in surprise reply pressure and that's a good one catch his story with an over
extension and it's up close so he can be the thorn in the side here I want to
stairs Dexter worried about a B push. 50 seconds, as Netic appears out the hole and
we're a sub-sponsor one connector.
Oh, too much for having a lot of info, at least onto two of the three.
It's noticed that they're still combining, right? They were there to be able to assist
each other off of the info, but mid, that's the gap Dexter wants to walk through.
JKS is rotated towards B. Oh, they're gambling completely on this B site. 30 seconds, there's
slipping towards A and there's decent U-Tool for Lee as it's gonna return get a bit of a jump scare
Dexter look in the wrong way. Oh my god, he nearly transferred into lias as well. He's just running
at him with a usp. What is this? What is this? Let it are you kidding me? Oh, okay. All right,
well, when the coach has a big smile on his face like that either he's hearing your joke. So he's
having a good time. Look at Asher, by the way, he's up in the perch looking down below. He's
Oh yeah.
He's reliving his coach days.
Honestly Chad, it's very Chad coach.
It is more fun to watch Counter Strike that way.
Yeah, no x-ray, just the POVs live with the mouse swipes next to it.
And you also get to pick up a little bit of the conch.
Yeah, look.
Right, and that's the, that's the juicy morsel, right there.
Can I 8-1?
This is no longer just a gap, this is looking like a landslide and I'm sort of dropping to
kick off the series.
Check this again, when he knows they're low money, he plays forward, it's not going to
the same result this time though, they're anti flashed, they learned their lesson,
puts a rifle into their hands and an opening kill.
Inns and net it already here, and send the area to stop the bird through the smoke.
Chaos, pandemonium on site, Asap, good for it! Solid double!
Plenty of money, could go fishing right now if you fly quest.
Yeah, thanks I will.
You're handful around, you should be all good in the hood, so you can at least chance this one.
Story on the break.
Asap's done it all!
He's been really quiet on a Nubis one kill. He got his first kill last round and now comes in with a quad kill on the partial for the round.
Just a second round. They've broken through the first brick in that wall Vexite's talking about has been pulled out.
If they can salvage the floor, it's not great. You know, if we're talking about this in the context of, you know, take the name plates off, it doesn't matter.
But they win the pistol. When that first rifle round, they can be back in the mix relatively quickly.
So is it just a consolation? Is it just a couple of extra rounds?
Sinkers getting caught off guard there, the kill's not flowing as nicely as the hand for Slycrest up to this point.
We'll be able to hold on to the AK.
Ali came in with no armour and a couple of nades and leaves with an AWP for free.
Yeah, so this is going to set them up nicely for the last round of play after this one, regardless of the result we're here,
but you really need to salvage this half under Valhalla.
I am slightly concerned Ali's forgotten to buy armour because he's just picked up the AWP.
Maybe he's making sure he's got enough money for an old next round as well, you know, he's created.
Do you understand?
Yeah.
Or maybe it won't matter at all.
Maybe it will rain at us, you know.
That's the way it could go.
No, he definitely should have bought armor.
Just you were bang on, he definitely should have bought armor.
I mean, it's a classic era. This is a perfect brilliant from him.
Let's guess exactly what he wanted.
Head to head with the Orpa Perfect.
Don't need armor if you don't get hit.
Now this mid rounds.
What's the reaction?
This is full contact, so how does JKS react to this?
Is he going to get shot?
Jewel Heaven, and they're already out.
Oh, yep, there you go.
Saaah, traded.
Important from ASAP.
Should I shoot the bomb in right now?
ASAP should be able to block this with smoke.
Important for Jewel 1 in middle as well.
Dexter, removing ins.
Vex, I will activate canal.
Bomb's just getting down right now.
What a boost.
This is going to be a flank interesting approach.
Dex is not ready for that, but info, a lot of info.
Alistair is well spotted. Bond's going down on A.
And he could ignore him right now.
Beautiful from Alistair again.
Finding impact and he was spotting out the remaining player in Vexite.
And he's life in.
I thought he was!
Decided to give him the frag.
Okay, Vexite.
Two of your teammates don't have much money.
Make it three.
3.
They're gonna go for the swing and that would be a mistake, Vexite is sharp.
He's got the 5 seconds to fuse back, they're gonna go for the swing, catch him looking
clear in the wrong corner.
3rd for DDU.
Okay, well they find their voice.
Oh, he wants to try it again?
She said the AWP is not gonna be there again, so Story try to call his own shot as they're
taking the time out just to get on the mic, settle them in for one more round before the
halftime break.
There is going to be a little bit of mismatch in the buy here.
Vexite have the opportunity to save.
That's what happens to good team play there, especially after Alistar's opener.
Just sort of gets his all.
That's all good. They worked it out.
There was an MP9 in the mix a moment ago,
But FBH would have used the extra time to calculate their pennies and bring it all in
So both teams fully strapped round 12 and at the first time for this elimination best of three series
What's the call gonna be the story really want to try that boost again? No, he's gonna be starting over towards a
It's the extinguish GKS throw to block smoke. I think he's in a anticipating early presence after the sound cue
He may push Alistair, the bomb has been dropped in B as well, so he's gotta be careful to
disconfirm.
That's why now, multiple bodies outside of B, no immediate reaction but searching middle.
Because stress is this A site getting clamped down upon because they don't have assistance
middle, I know INZ is there but it's not a strong spot, they could just be smoked off
very easily and then A site starts to very small.
They've taken back this mid-gap, so at least forcing more U2 out of TDU as they get baskets.
Both teams going to the notions.
He's caught on the boost.
A-Sup finds them both! Story and JKS fumble!
Now A's open, but the bomb's going B.
Oh, faker-y.
It's gonna pull Netic in. It's only Vexi on B. He's gonna be at the lone wall.
I don't know if he's gonna get high-clear here, Vexi.
I suspect he won't be. They're thinking they've probably sold it enough.
Dexter actually is gonna clear it. No, look for a way!
Oh! Vexi nearly finds three.
Look on the rotation.
Medic respawns through temple.
ASAP's still on A, essentially 2v2 right now.
Longer they wait, the more this flank can hit.
Well they have to go for it, and they get the time because the kits are in play.
Medic audible.
ASAP flank, it's close by.
An AWP though, it's a bit awkward.
Only one bullet as well on the gun.
We're going to find three box comfortable from TJP.
He doesn't have the time and TDU, a little labor surgeon.
Three on the trot makes it somewhat of a game.
Anubis, FlyQuest, pick and they're in it to win it.
Oh my goodness, how did he do this?
How did he do it again?
It's part of the boys, the Aussie Derby, here at I Am Cologne.
This one takes on the title of best Australian team at right here right now and these boys they haven't locked horns
First in the server and some bad blood between the two
The mental that's gonna be a whole lot heavier
On the fly quest boys then thunder down under you got the average Joe is taken on the global gym
Five guys in a dream up against paid professionals
fly quest can you really let this one slip as up during the halftime break
honestly boys we are playing really well I just want you to be more precise on
the communication okay captain your calling is really good right now keep
it up so praise to ince his calling is gonna have to be good if it's the T
side they want to pick up the pistol gravitating over towards this a snack
right now thunder down under I'm gonna have multiple bodies here he has got
the info but it's only half the battle you know what's coming but can you deal
with it. Alistar smoked off Heaven, Dexter dealing with the Molotov, the X-X in as is the first headshot.
Messi from ASAP on the second, couldn't quite tame the dual barrettas. It's net, it got closed with a
glock, the runs light on health, Dexter takes two down. Big push from Lias, finds himself a headshot
to JKS, just a stray bullet into the skull. It's only the import left, seven HP on story, should be
another pistol for Thunderdown Under. Not a right story completely out of this one,
but with the bomb down his HP, Alistair and Dex are very loud. He's tracking them through the
wall hoping to find a moment when they perhaps assume he's relocated. Exactly. Right. Someone
is going to have to worry about camera at a certain point. So he's just hoping he
can segregate them with the silence or he spotted round by Dex. The easiest you like would have
pivoted that from the story, but Dex that with a triple kill. And this is how the last half started,
didn't it? Yeah. So the desk ahead of time brought up our attention to the second round
conversions. It was like a 60% pistol win, like TDU were winning pistols. It was a 25% second round
conversion when they did get one of those. So we saw that happen in the first half.
Yeah, the T sides are tougher because if they get blocked it felt like they didn't have a second
plan or they didn't drop back or reset. The CT side, your individuals can't mess up.
And we've seen aggression into the mix immediately. Alistair just darts straight out of the new window.
Doesn't get what he was looking for.
Stornched by Dexter here.
Anti-flash.
And if they walk through...
Ah Dexter! Oh nothing!
He's on his own.
But there's M4! No trade potential whatsoever, he's just giving it up!
He reset again now. Flakers don't have to commit to this.
Leon's panicking, starts to spam away the smoke so he's had drawn attention as well.
Unless this flank...
Other trade.
gun.
There's another gun to be picked up here.
We're talking an M4 and MP9 and then, well, they've got their sidearms that they're floating
with as well.
And for TDU, do you want to group up, stack aside?
Do you want to play 1-1-1 and try and cover everything?
Either way, they don't have a good read on the situation right now whatsoever, starting
to reroute as ASAP takes a main control.
So at least they can call that clear.
That's a perfectly timed B main smoke.
I don't think they're going to want to brave through this.
And as ASAP pushes A main, he can get closer and closer towards E back.
Oh, they're going through, they're going through.
They are.
He's taking his Famas, doesn't track the bomb.
JKS makes it across now.
The swing of Vexite nails in with the pre-aimed.
Looking like it's going down the spot.
E in is giving them a little bit of an opportunity back in.
Lee has gets the info as well.
Bust the headshot, finds Vexite just in 6 HP.
They know where he was.
Lee has flies in to save him.
Second round converted.
Well, I can't believe nobody went for that Evox control there once they're in
side right the push towards tempo extremely audacious they could have just opted to play the
bomb as well by staying over towards b main so fly quest maybe uh playing with their egos in that
one as opposed to the book that's going to cost them the question becomes they want to double
down and force by again because they were in this one the decision to disrespect the b main smoke
that's what got them to the plant but the positions they opted for in the post
poor as it is just going to be another partial so titty you get a good opportunity right now to
to make this just a one-round game. Current score 8 to 6.
Incredible turnaround from ASAP as well over the course of this game. It was like 1 and 7, now top of the table is 12.
And it's no surprising he's a little bit shaky, right? Because while we have the international Aussies, that campaign with your renegades into your hundred thieves,
you had that next generation that was your Dexter's, your Inns, your Alistar's.
But then at home, there were still teams playing and competing, and that's where Brewster came from.
So for him to go up against some of these names, we would have been watching playing international counterstrap.
Just a moment to settle in. Nerves would be a bit higher in this one.
You're seeing certain signs of comfort.
Okay, B split with just one smoke.
So Nettik, what are you opting for here? Will it be Temple? CT?
Something a little bit more creative. I'd imagine it's just going to be a Temple smoke.
So, Lee-Az is responsible for the, like, E-Box pressure.
To say that is actually, TJP is going to take that from him.
It's just a very turtle setup without any info.
They're trying to avoid an explosion, but because it's going to happen late, well, I'm
trying to have a flash.
Well, we just guessed the opening kill onto Inns, but distracted is Lee-Az, gets his
head blown off by the Deagle again, pecs like fishes.
and some scorching headshots stories tech 9 has caught Dexter on the rotation and
now it's so uncomfortable for the rain to this has got to be a save there more of
what the desk was highlighting in this one this was a lighter investment I
think you as you've mentioned have to hold on to this is Jks in the back lines
that's the worry and he's just gone walking past what could have been
Alistair and the AWP so let's see what they can salvage out of this if they
can hold on to these two guys at least they have something to contend with but
the TDO. It's only going to be 1,400 loss coming into the next, which spells a pretty
ugly looking buy.
I mean, Vexite's already started his T-Sat campaign off with some impact to even add
a good shot at the second round conversion with some of his sharp shooting.
He's injured. I would like it if he would be like this more when they're playing against
international opponents. It doesn't have to be on a personal level, but just a bit more
energy in the team. That would be one of my critiques with FlyQuest is they have a lot
of placid personalities. I don't know if Vexite likes to chirp. Red, I know that as a fact.
I think for Inns, if he wants to stay locked in, that's all good.
Justin's not going to say anything.
I was coming out.
I was thinking it's going to be fun.
I could say, but now he's just going to be cool, calm, collected.
Justin Savage and yeah, those frustrations and the difference, right?
Once I was a wall, you know, there's a sieve.
So the five round scree has ended and the force, it could look worse.
Close saves, keeping it pretty.
They're passing past Alistair. He could be completely cooked by Vexite's early move here.
I know he's close now, you've heard it.
What's up? And what's the first?
Alistair aware of the close proximity of Vexite and he goes peeking into him.
That's aggressive orping.
Come on, A, your techs are coming over to help Middle right now, so maybe this gap, not expecting this.
Yeah, look, knife out. They're not seeing this at all.
No way. They're still having a conversation.
They're so much closer than they realize.
On the jiggles, we'll get the info safely.
Quick reaction from techs. The tucks on the box. Info on the bomb crossed.
Now the rotation's on its way. Don't give too much away.
Inns finding.
A pick with the fam-ass.
No flank. They're all coming into your camera or heaven.
Okay, well you've just been smoked camera up.
Nah, HE looks like it's destined for damage.
EG.
Oh, chunky.
43 though.
Vast is for the CTs on this reset. Not anymore.
JKS and TJP both finding themselves a kill.
No HP. Just fuck another bullet.
Alistar catches him through the pillar on the wall by hanging down there.
Tick and the clutch can't handle the effects of TJP.
Huge rounds, right? Their money's broken if they lose this one.
the fact that they scoop this up. This game's on, right? That is a signal of intent there that TDU,
they are here to compete in this. What was looking like a blowout score line has been salvaged and
it's just a two round game. There is money because FlyQuest won on a partial, so they will be able
to full buy again. It didn't look good for a moment there, right? ASAP and Dexter not expecting the
pop to come through. But not enough real estate, right? They weren't able to get entrenched. They're
on the back foot and that shot from Alistair, that seals the deal. There's even Dexter's making some
noise.
A chance to tie the game after this, they'll force him to an eco, if TD you win this.
Ali's going to start the AWP on A, hoping to disrupt any of the early basket control.
Doesn't look like it's coming, it's just JKS towards the rugs.
Hassim's story in the meantime is going fishing on the B side of the map.
This is incredibly aggressive from Alistair.
He has pushed out a main at the Scorts ASAP, so this is a lot of information.
They're emboldened by the Undetect, they've been doing an all tournament long, taking
their chances, taking their timings.
When it doesn't work, it looks terrible, but when it does, it could be the master stroke.
How are FlyQuest meant to break into this, they have to be aware of the possibility.
Inz looks like he's going to be peeking into the AWPer.
Ali nails his shot, gets the info on the first jiggle.
Looks like Nettix might fall for a similar fate, good Util, forces him away, but do you overlook ASAP here?
Do you expect Alistair to have escorted another through? Looks like Nettix considered it.
Alistair returns, trying to catch Nettix on the stairs.
The bomb's across middle though, I know we're-
Oh, look, Ignis not cleared!
ASAP makes up for it!
JKS knows two now, Vexite, springs into action towards A, taking space, good move.
Really nice move.
Okay, you've got pushed out of your main means I can walk in through middle
ASAP versus JKS JKS nails it
They did lose story though
So Vexites on the side with a bomb and Alistar versus JKS little standoff and he's played him like a fiddle with the movement
cheeky
19 seconds Vexites holding off on that plan once JKS to provide some covering fire
Now that bomb goes in JKS not known to be an author but on the low HP it's his best bet
Vexite playing around the edge of this smoke, hoping for that swing. They're going to try and synchronize. They're letting Lee-As work.
Here comes that first headshot. Vexite tracks Dexter easy. TJP back. Just JKS.
The ball in the clutch. One bullet. So low on health.
TJP, what have you got? He knows what's up. He's going to try and walk to clear him.
Doesn't manage to engage on the first jiggle. JKS is just dancing with him around.
Somebody come get him. He's rossing the clutch. So nice with it.
Does he have the kit? I don't think he's the piece of real time.
That's going to be a FlyQuest round of JKS clutch!
I can now look like I found a youth right there.
JKS secondary AWPer once upon a time.
It's only one kill that matters, but it's the dance, the groove, the shake, the secure 10 for FlyQuest.
Oh, mate. What an exciting round of Counter-Strike as well.
This staunch move, right? The fact that they pushed out, and FlyQuest had nothing to work with,
because they went for a B search early, they were passing over towards A.
Then they're coming back to get his territory. It was looking just like getting picked apart one by one.
So, Vexai, it's, for me, it's his move. As soon as they understand that A-Site is committed
water and Alistair is over towards basket, the fact that he surges in towards the A-Site
through middle, that right there is the difference maker. And this one right now could be the
back breaker. He has missed. Still slows, of course. Evox control. They've got so much
Charlie space here.
He's already tucked into e-box.
Is that a fumble smoke? It is.
You see both teams a little bit sketchy in the bi-department as well. Famous in MP9 on one side,
Mac 10 and two Galils on the other, and U2 already starting to run thin on the flat-press side.
Hey Seb, the fact that he's on the A-side on his own with just this MP9 is a tough task.
He looks like Dexter's gonna be vulnerable if not dropping out in perfect timing.
spotted something on that chigol. They're gonna come through this.
Yeah.
Dexter, fellas, his vision has backstabbed and one done. Quick trade from Vexite, important and integral provision.
Nice chip away there from TJP.
Catch, Swing's E-Box, Catcher's In's looking the wrong way.
Looks like it's A once more, ASAP on his own.
Playing storage.
Playing his life.
Cluster over the edge of the smoke, Catch's story re-emerging from camera.
Well, they might be able to get the other bomb down, isn't it, two that clutched previously?
Yeah.
I feel like ASAP could be in a position to do something here.
Jks didn't spot him
Might his time gets some input relays into the boys Jks on to Lee as though hang on
It's doing it Vex. I can't hack it Alice the converts
Okay, we're just getting started this is just a matter yeah
Such good energy it was a 8-1 run
I think we're gonna see it as a timeout here and this is desk
Especially yanko pointing out the fact that this would be an absolute disaster if your fly quest to lose now
This isn't the series. This is just the first map, but that mental will be carried through
I can imagine they're disappointed with the results of the year
But also the results of the major so far those were two games that they could have won if it wasn't for silly little mistakes
See it's time to get fired up they know that they're in and now and on the other side I
Don't say this is a concerned space because it can get more concerned
But this is not the smiles that they had in the first half in the 8-1 run
They are going to have to take an eco, so 10-8 the score reads now but should be 10-9
and we have had a bit of tip for Tat in the second half with Flycross only putting two
rounds on the board so far.
They had opportunities to win consecutive, breaking the money of Thunderdown under and
then closing the game, but the resistance for Alistair and his squad is there.
Nobody in the server is really lacking, right?
when called upon is hitting the necessary shots as this should be the
easiest round for Thunderdown under of the map so far.
The B-pop with Glocks.
It's comfy, couldn't go easier. Flash, rendered useless, all five stand
alive and that is beautiful. An extra cash in the coffers going forward for
Thunderdown under.
And this is where the pressure starts to become a bit more of a stress for flyquests because you lose this
It's all tied up and your lost bonus going into the next 2400
So you're in another partial by territory
The bomb going down feels like that's gonna start being an essential factor to keeping some competitive rounds down the stretch
But you get hot under the collar. You're sweating a bit now
I'm starting out
It moves okay
Oh my gosh, yeah, he had a bit of hangtime on that jump up.
Big push to TJP down as well, Vex size just racking him up.
Spam not far off, Liash is going to be holding Pudge closer to my smoke.
Oh, it's Core, Vex size having a round.
One hell of a performance.
He's the one that's stepping up the most out of anybody in this map so far, 2013, and
in the second half he's been hitting extremely hard.
just feeling it sometimes that extra you know dopamine leads to the extra focus
it's crazy I consider him the most aggressive rifle on this team and that
was his first opening kill so he's been rocking up the Maltese right that's
his eighth multi but that's his first opening kill right there
he's up an hour start looking for the save his fly quest find 11 and a product
of like quite a casual death from Dexter just spirals but it's true during
timeouts coaches do assist. Okay. Well, they can they don't have to. It's an option. Yeah,
they can talk or they could not talk. It's up to them really. I would advise the talking
option. I'd say that's probably wise and advised, but not all nice and necessary.
Okay, as it was time to focus and communicate better. This is that opening kill and a very
quick follow-up. Dexalofron, hey, duster, Jaster, that's what it did need.
Outrageous, that last bullet just on the fade away and then finds the next on the lias.
Well, they had plenty of cash for another buy regardless of their saves or not, so everybody
has the M4, they've got plenty of kits, plenty of utils, so this won't far from over if Thunderduner
can win it. Again, it's just being spurred to round, nothing consecutive, flyquests need to
break that if they want to convert and get it done, this is for 12.
Alistair started the AWP over toward to be disruptive to the B default.
They try and get across or try and search.
Alizorp is there. Looks like it's going to be a passive approach, though, because he
let it playing it safe.
Aliznop just goes and gets the Info Peeps on in.
Get spotted on the jiggle. Can't believe he's sticking around.
There's enough pressure that you wouldn't expect them just to be slinking in, so he's
freed up now to rotate and probe elsewhere with the AWP.
Looks like he's long beach rotation to join the a defense flash through ASAP feeling pressure here Dexter block smoke available
He's holding on to it doesn't want to spaff it too early
I'm gonna fight and they will they'll flash they'll throw an incendiary
It's not gonna spread though. So not optimal in this is still safe. They're on the line here. They come sweeping in
Okay, in's
They thought the incendiary done the job is all too easy PC it together nicely swing from JKS does well onto Dexter
Now they might have to save again.
Yeah, and Leslias quickly finds Vex that you might want to search further.
No HP on JK. Yes, and he would call her Lick of the Flame, the Nade.
Not quite on target.
Stories flank onto Leas will likely take this rifle away.
Leslias catches him.
Not ready. Oh, Story doesn't find the instant immediate headshot.
Now he goes to the trap top.
No HP, Story pulls it off.
And in the meantime, TJP was over to what CT,
but Rotetta back all the way through P.
Right, Lea's gets that kill, they could initiate and give it a go, but right now we'll just be holding on to this.
And the worst nightmare has come to fruition now for Thunderdown Under, it's just 1900, their finances not looking great.
Aston will be able to buy again, Dexter the same while they're all going to have to buy, right?
But it is just going to be lacking.
So finally consecutive rounds in this T side for FlyQuest.
But when you think about it in the context of their map choice and the fact that they're up 8-1, they have been made to work for this map.
I mean, it's just those those horrible like nuanced errors where your incendiary wasn't perfect
Which led to in's being overload like these this this is exactly what we're talking about Ali
Understandably feels like that that Molly was destined for that corner. That's what it was for and then the funny gets a double off of it
And then the death traded that's the route second tax for timeout course with thunder down under
So the only one is gonna be suffering a lighter weapon
will be lias and you can see here on our heads-up display that with the lack of
you two it might force your hand into doing something a little bit more
aggressive. This is an oeuvus, this is the CT side, it was already forced now
whether it's an out the gate jump out the hole and contest water or it's
saying more mid-roundy base of reaction. I know that if you just sit back and
play safe on the sides you're gonna slowly get suffocated constricted and
that'll be round. The T's can just have the push-pull through connector as well
as a main and gaps they start to appear everywhere. So Dexed up and ASAP right this is your mid defender
and your B defender between the two of them have two smokes and a flash and it's your
B defenders are TJP and Lias who have all the nades. So ASAP, this time I'm expecting
something a little bit more aggressive or something where they use the AWP as a crutch.
Okay so the B defence just too strong they have the nades to block they put the AWP over
to A to help out ASAP.
You can see the philosophy here is
hoping that you catch someone clearing or taking that
basket's control, pull the trigger on the
AWP and smoke to block the push.
You need to have
a lot of greed on the U-Till for these B-Defenders
and if you get tested in a mirror with a span
you can't just be dropping that smoke. You need
to wait till there's actual pressure because
every second is going to be vital in
milking this and allowing the rotations of your
teammates.
setting up for a B-split for the finish of FlyQuest.
in low HP partners up with JKS to Australian icons. Oh, good. How goes in's its dexter through
the smoke. They run in him as he starts to plant here. There'll be a lot of respect given
to JKS in this one. Fixing out not overstepping. A second fake. Oh, JKS is doing a dirty, filthy
start to the clutch. Quick follow up. Double fake. Now it's up to Alistair. JKS versus Ali.
safe and he's on the walk. Another fake. Oh, this Alistair's a safe one. Keeps it composed,
keeps it calm. Nearly a JKS clutch to secure map one. No noise coming out of the Thunderdown
under camp. They know that they are right there in touching distance. JKS, Mr Clutch almost pulls
that one off. That's up. Calls the timeout just to allow them to take stock because the fact
he's in the 1v3 to close the game means the round didn't go as planned.
And he very nearly still made it work. How many fakes?
Yeah, this is Justin Special, right? He doesn't want to get caught without an opportunity to take a fight.
You killed me when I'm planning that bomb. I've messed up.
He can't think of anything worse. He's going to try and draw out as many fights as possible.
The first two are beautiful, but no idea where Ali is, and he hits the necessary shot.
Mp7 and a Famous for the under CT side by complemented by two M4s and the AWP retains and have one kit keep that in mind
To glill the weakest on the other side, so you'd say the fly quest better by looking a whole lot better
I think Ali's actually timed that decoy well enough that it might sound like there's an orb towards Evox
You might doubt it when you start hearing a fire off multiple times, Vexite boosted
early window, Dexter responsible.
He's talking a lot, Dexter's talking so much, I think he saw him.
Maybe a shadow, yeah.
On the uncrouching...
Oh!
Oh, Vexite!
How's he hit that?
There was so little hang time!
And I think, like I said, I'm pretty sure Dexter saw him.
He's prepared for that fight.
He... Vexite's just a lizard.
I don't know how he's hit that shot.
That's enough, TJP.
You do it again, there's an AWP on the line.
Understand a bleeper as a block smoke?
They're last smoke.
Oh yeah.
Okay, so Outlook is bleep.
Looks like FlyQuest have got this one in the back, their pick in this elimination series.
JK searching A if he just dry walks into this AWP.
That's curtains for him.
Flashers are available, they're waiting for the CT response.
Not often anything just yet, I'll start setting up a mid-clear.
through jiggle from lia spots nothing here's the all exactly what he needs to
provide jks cut out of the round x i still hanging around and ace up gives it
to him very uncomfortable for ali turning flashes aggressive all pinky
can't hit the shot necessary net on the side see me in a grave a is open for
business is tjp and lias the b duo on the retake in a number disadvantage
Should be theirs.
Lea spotted out, the info now flows.
FlyQuest have got a perfect round to convert here.
Kit on Lea's, a little bit of hope.
FlyQuest not going to overstep.
They're not going to give you those unforced errors.
Into snail, this headshot, just TJP down.
And dirty, 13 to 10.
Map one.
They're made to work for it, though, FlyQuest.
It has to be said, the difference maker is Vexi.
The amount of multis this kit made on that second half,
It just put a dent that Thunder down under could not recover from.
The fact that they were down 8-1 and turned it on its head themselves, massive work.
Right, it's their map choice of Inferno coming up next.
And there is pressure on FlyQuest. This isn't going to be a walk in the park.
This is the domestic opponent that you could just get by.
There's a score to settle from Thunder down under, and they now know that they can compete.
Cropster ace up.
I'm not sure how early he started slow, but activated.
And we're going to throw this one down to the desk to break it down.
Yeah, totally right, tried Thunder Down Under, really trying to flip this one on its head,
but that 8-1 start for FlyQuest is paying off in dividends.
Was a little bit late, but at the end, there, Yanco, Thunder Down Under, maybe making FlyQuest
shake a little bit on that T side, but they get the job done eventually.
Yes, unfortunately, more of the same for Thunder Down Under, right?
Like we were almost foreshadowing it with the second rounds after winning pistol.
It happened again, Freya.
And even in the second half it wasn't necessarily the second round but still lost to pistols
and it just makes the game so much more difficult to play, right?
You're behind with the economy, the obvious one is, you know, which weapons do you have
and your opponent's having more money but it's also like the playbook becomes much smaller,
right?
Like you feel forced to go for plays, it becomes more difficult to predict what your opponents
are going to do because they have such a huge economy behind them and props to them for
making it close in the end, but it was too much to come back.
Is that frustrating for you to be watching us from like a coaches POV because you can
see those same issues just bring their heads again and again and again. And if they didn't
happen, we might be looking at a totally different school and a totally different result here.
Yeah, it's kind of a bit psychological for them to think of these low buys and you start
like this, the game just over, especially on T side and UBC. If you if you don't get
seven rounds at least really, you're already kind of struggling and they're just kind
of stuck in a little bit of a rut at the moment where just the economy isn't a mess. Like
said, CT side, their economy never gets going. So the second they lose around, just constantly
in the no utility, no warp situation where they can't do anything.
Should we take a look at some of those moments from the T side? You've brought out a couple
of situations and there's afterplant situations for ThunderDando. What do we learn from these?
Yeah, so to be a good Nubis team, you have to be good at these afterplants. You have to win the
majority of them. And this is actually an example of many roles that they lost in this half. And
it's just, there's just no real team play going on, decision making seems weird. But you have to
to be winning 2v4s, 2v3s regularity side. If you get 3v3, 3v2, there's no excuse of
all for losing these, and it just seems to be the same kind of problem from both teams
to be fair with. They're just kind of overpeaking, and you see now, like, if I just don't really
do anything, ASAP says, hey, I'm going to peak random time, and I'll get a bit lucky.
He dies here. This is, like I said, one of, I think, four examples that looks like this.
3v2 situation. Bomb goes down. 2v2. Okay, absolutely. Everything's fine. Make it hard for the CTs.
I think it turns into a 3v2 in a second as well. Why are they pushing CT spawn? I don't really understand what the thought process is here. And again the CTs don't have to do anything. They don't have to have the bomb time or going against them, running the clock down. They don't have to use utility.
some running the clock down, they don't have to use utility. It's just, hey guys, can you hit some
Beagle shots? Well, actually, yeah, I can. And someone would just like that. The round is over,
if you're not winning the ones that are in your favor, C-Side of Nubius is going to be very difficult.
Yeah, that final round, I get it that Alistar got shot by the players pushing A, but then I don't
know why they felt pressure to push CT in turn, right? Like, you have the advantage with the weapons,
they probably don't have a kit, you have the bomb set, you don't need to go that crazy, but also
So Netic had some good shots in that sort of a scenario.
And yeah, for these clutches, I mean,
Cole Zera used to say, his exact words are,
noobs always play, you know, in a clutch.
That's why he was the king of the clutch back then,
because he was just more patient than anyone else, right?
Like when you're in a one, we want a guy
who's gonna swing you at some point.
He can't help himself, right?
Even though you have to come to him,
you have to diffuse the ball.
It's like that uncertainty, you know,
as I don't know what could happen.
I'm just going to swing and then you get punished and I think we saw that happen multiple times to the
Yeah, I love that the last example of that selection actually perfectly illustrating exactly what you were talking about coming into the game as well
Winners person was not converting them if you were in the coaching situation for TV right now
They're outside having a break. It's not something that you would be bringing up and saying remember guys
We've got to make sure that we're actually, you know putting some rounds back to back in the situation
Yeah, because the two months to play now a new recent internal
probably the best two maps for clutching and if you're not good at clutching you just don't win
the maps and I think I would say to them guys let's calm down we have the advantages these
are good situations like I said I will be happy to be free in a lot of these on-sites to get a
good chance to win the round the rounds over so guys just relax a little bit take a breath and
from deathchats as well okay just everyone just relax you're in a good position right now just
just lower their adrenaline a little bit we did preface it with you know for the side of fly quest
too, that's what they were lacking. Some clutch ability in key moments, some maybe even individual
performance for someone to step up and we saw Vex had kind of do both in a lot of those rounds,
like he was alive and part of those clutches, just his output was incredible and even story in
some of those early rounds on the CT side, even though his entire game didn't look anything crazy,
but I think those early rounds were super important and impactful for flight press to get that momentum
to get to rolling. We say the
pressure is on them, right? So
not having to play from behind.
I think it's huge for them in
the series. Yeah, I love that
you bring up back so that
because he's always it is with
the name that we look out for.
I almost couldn't believe I
think Chad said it was brand
19 round 20. That was the
first opener he actually got
the entire map as well. And
we want to play that
aggressively. Usually, obviously
it was paying off for him in
this map. Great to see him
informed, right? Yeah, this
guy has been for a while on my
radar. Love that he's very
snappy with his infos like he
doesn't really ever miss that
first bullet headshot. I think
I think he's not almost polished like clearing angles understand the situation around him when he comes to just straight up gun jewels
He looks like a table player at times from the eye test. He's got the mechanics
So he's dangerous play to have there thinking at the best out of him send him into training everything
He's dangerous for everybody with plugins wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though for flight quest was it?
Yeah, could have been a cleaner close out to this one
Do you think that pressure was getting to them just a little bit honestly?
I don't think necessarily it was the pressure in this one is just where they are at as a team
they're not super polished at the moment. We see some of that rust from the lack of officials,
lack of officials against good opposition, so I don't think you should be going into
flyquests as games and expecting dominance and super clean CS, right? You're not going to get
that at the moment, but can it be good enough to win? I think so, right? And that's where the
individuals come in a little bit more. I think on Inferno specifically, it's going to be super
important just to be more active on their CT side like against game religion as well. There was
so much space for snacks to do whatever he wanted, right? And playing without info on a map like
Inferno is almost impossible. You either have to do a blind gamble or sort of play your opponents,
make a mistake. Yeah, I think it's all like I'm a little bit concerned about these mid rounds at the
moment for FlyQuest and all the games we've seen. It's the retakes, it's the after plans,
it's things that it talks about. They don't have practice and we can see in those rounds where
where the fundamentals needs
kick in. They look really,
really out of practice. They
get imponished, but maybe
today they've got enough to get
away with it, but an eight
one star on your map pick. It's
a little bit worrying to
refer that you got to the
map, but this is how the way
best of three should work.
Right? You pick your map. You
win it. They win their map. If
you play really well, you win
2-0 if you don't, you lose
2-0.
Well, that was the thing you
were talking about, right?
You expected a different map
for Thunderdown under to be
picking into someone, maybe
for anybody that missed out on
the pre-match discussion.
What were you expecting them
to come? Yeah, where are you
first of all? What were you
You can fly quest don't really play the map or another one their last game and I think
Turned on the lost the last two, but it's the map. They always pick
I think the eight and two on it as well going to inferno like game region beat them 1311
And like we talked about the other day
We felt like they could have not game play in the end kind of just the close rounds again from like West to get away from
Them it's a little bit scary this one to be fair because they'll have some confidence even though they lost the map
It's happened many times in my teams before in the past
You're happy when you lose some time because of the way you played and you keep the confidence even though the team might be vulnerable
I think they might have also been
Lured by looking at these inferno that flight classes played and thinking all right Alistair thinks I have an answer
How to play against that like I know how to play against that
I'm wondering if it would be nice to ask them after the game
Maybe it's the familiarity of some of the players
You know when it comes to anti-stradding a good part of it comes at looking at anchors and how they like to play and how they like to
react in certain situations. So maybe the familiarity is a factor with feeling like you can exploit
some of the players on the side of like, maybe for Thunder down under as well. They obviously
played a mobile beat on this one, but that required an insane performance race up coming out. Like,
I don't know. I'm still a bit perplexed as to why they've gone to this, this map. Do you think
it's going to be a punishment for them? Ultimately, do you think this one could end to zero?
I mean, it could. It's not, you know, they don't have a massive advance to the map. If you look
Look at it, FlyQuest didn't play it a ton with this lineup.
So maybe that was something that they looked into is, okay, the little that they played
it, we don't think it's super impressive.
They played it twice at this tournament, you know, picking a map, perhaps for them that
they haven't played yet at the Major.
Maybe you don't want to do that.
I don't know, but they picked it for a reason.
So I guess we see what they have in store for us.
Do you think it's over Ash?
Do you think this one is done?
2-0?
No, I don't think it's over.
I think they'll probably talk about after the big game, guys, we lost the three Ecos here,
otherwise Zinahan.
you can do a little bit too much coping we say oh if this happened and this happened then we win this
and then you're in the delusion steal but they obviously think there's something there in the
game plan i'm interested to see like these first buy rounds what they're going to look like and can
they finally fix these false points and win some of these until you go. I think everybody is praying
for exactly that to be happening but we do have to head things to a quick break before the action
can restart here the australian tharby where unfortunately it's only survival as a reward
elimination for the loser. It's going down on Inferno after this.
One round, total, let me pull up CS Stats.
Oh wait, my bad.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS Stats, and turn on tracking to see all your games.
The pounding holiday still beats them, they're here to come and eat some.
They're just going to smoke it and go, they want to get down to them, they want to start
fighting them and challenging.
And as that happens, Tyloo start to be closer to this A-Sight.
in fact they're bursting through top-middle already they're running up short they're
racing towards this A site and there's no one there to defend it yeah that's not
organized very well from sharts as well m4 entering its magazine so then they
can actually step forward and fight against max core with the AWP who is
well exposed gonna have to be a four and four retake three players are here
though sharts they want nothing to do with this they're just gonna back off
entirely yeah I don't know they go koala gonna back away and just a good
decisive call from Tai Lu and catching sharks out of position.
Yeah, I mean you kind of won that one with the call right out of spawn just by blind luck, right?
Both teams are sharks calling a tactic with nobody inside the A bomb site itself,
doubled up on the wrap side defense to harass any kind of bracket control,
but with the pacing that Tai Lu called, they run past that stack before it could have any impact.
And sharks not wanting to risk economy in the retake of the A bomb site in a four on four,
So they'll just try again moving forward. Tyloo, tie things up.
Ooh, cinematography.
See, the M4 is emptying its mag, right when Maxxcore is thinking the idea is to break that smoke so the M4 can actually have a clear line of sight.
But after he empties his mag and he's got a reload and the smoke's broken open, the T's like,
oh yeah, I'll step forward, I hear him reloading, like, I'm safe.
So a little miscue there from Sharks that has some big consequences with the second round for T'ailu.
Well, Max score goes to the early challenge in the middle, but he's stopped by a smoke and then the flashbang is lost.
He feels this retreat and spam battle beginning in banana.
Doc sends out the first bullets and he receives some back of his own, so 58 HP on Doc, 47 and 0.
I actually think with these saves, Sharks has done a really good job kind of shoring up their economy and keeping themselves off a breaking point.
CT side Inferno can be so precarious in terms of the money that you're carrying into each round, so...
I think Sharks has made the right call to make sure they can have some money to spend even if they have to accept some early losses.
Max score is off at the A-bomb site. Koala in pit.
RDN over on wrap side behind some smokes.
You've got Doc and Gafolo defending the B bomb site.
Tyler looking like they want to activate Jam Young towards Banana to at least cause a distraction.
Apply a little bit of pressure, make these defenders nervous,
but it feels like the main hit is going to be coming to the other side of the map.
G and Zero with the bomb up in halls. Mosea waiting outside Boiler.
Jam Young now adventuring around the other side of the half hole just to confirm it's clear, but...
I don't think you'll get anyone to shift if you don't commit anything.
Well, Kefolo's getting aggressive. She's actually cast Jam Young further back down Banana and you know, so
Gonna have to go up against three players here on this A side where the flashes are good.
That's cut off the offer. Great kill from Miss A. Koala gonna go down zero dead. Max core through the smoke.
Okay, Miss A is dead now and already got a suit inside of the site. Yeah, he blinded, confused.
And now dead as the site falls. A big mistake here costing the Sharks defense.
But Kefolo's gonna make out for it. Gets boosted on top of his teammate's head and pulls away Jam Young and puts G and Mercury into a 2v2.
Yeah, but look at the HP of these Sharks players.
If you want to go for this one, you have a man advantage that you could have pulled into it,
but you might lose everything. Good positions for the post-plant.
And Mercury Waste, they run into the side.
There's the first two kills for Tyloo, and Mercury's got the other.
Doc dead, and Tyloo into the lead.
Okay, having a real tough time on this ADF, the Sharks at the moment.
I mean, it's like deja vu back to Nuke, except everything's reversed.
It was Tyloo struggling to contain the upper hits.
Now Sharks is struggling to maintain these attacks on the A-bomb site.
of the game. It's the
Cologne Major 2026 and we've got
two Aussies locking horns. The
winner earns the title of best
in Australia and keeps their
Casting desk, Chad Sponge-Bertschild has competed at the majors himself, of course it was a
million years ago, but he's here.
On the 17th of June, it'll be 10 years since I retired.
Holy moly, an anniversary.
17th of June, write that down.
Hang on, where's my phone?
It's too far away.
We'll keep that one in the back pocket.
But this one right now, Flagfest take on Funder down under.
If they're able to get these conversions a little bit more securely, Thunder down under
in this, map number one, it got close, it got sweaty, but we're underway with aggression
down the guts all right they fancy the chances of bringing the fight silent
aggression silent but deadly oh actually no Alice to get the info it throws a
little underhand flash now you can contain and vex eyes found Lee as though
falls back in the side is lost you are boxed in fast you've lost Ali it's a
five on three post parv at least the bomb should go down a teacher he's
actually caught a freebie okay good space now to work with yeah he's got
ruins he's got the little bit of a claw back and you've re-smoked you got to go
I don't have a kit.
Here they come. Dexter, you've got to hit that first headshot. TGP can peek off of it.
And he's out with the crossfire. Dexter first bullet. Not finding it cleanly.
Eventually gets it done, but Netek just smacks them.
Quick adjustment into all three.
Okay, good stuff there from Netek.
Jeez.
Gets the defuse as well, and the bomb going down will allow Thunderdown under to opt in with a forced buy of their own.
That's a pistol round.
It's net-ic, teabagging and shooting some bodies.
Just for those of you who might be missing the action.
Sometimes the crouch key gets a bit sticky.
Almost onto Dexter there.
That's the teabagging.
The body spamming, that is.
Alright, well they can bring out some Galils.
You're going to have the likes in standard rounds.
When you see these standard rounds from Thunderdown under,
you are going to have Dexter and TJP as a combination
of an under control with the support of Alistar.
You have Leo's as your Hall's guy and you have ASAP as your boiler guy.
So that's the layer of the land as far as T-side defaults are concerned.
But in rounds like this, you can get a little bit more out of the box.
Three players second mid.
I mean, primary objective in the opening 30 seconds is don't lose all of your health to grenades.
Yeah, all guests spam should have smelt a little bit too big yesterday.
That looked a little bit clunky and then Ali had to go in the mic and said,
boys, if we're going to let these rounds linger, we're not going to win this game.
So that's setting up for an A-play.
JKS, Netic, and Story need to deal with this long smoke deployed.
Good player, JKS throws out an incendiary and there is a bit more flak from the HE grenade.
Are they trying to wrap or are they trying to mid to B?
They have two more smokes, they can smoke off towards Arch and Library.
The boost up, they're waiting for a re-aggress.
Inza's joined the party over towards A.
is netik asking for a flashback. gks has been given his and it looks like they are going to
swinch through the short side. boost up, he's safe, not having trouble, story will remove him
off the boost, this is uncomfortable now, alistair one back but look he's so composed,
is netik. he's got story to lend a half of the long side, another body drops and story's
rifle looking good. netik leaves with another two, story his first three. okay flat stuff,
i'm done doing this one but uh in a way it's better than losing that pistol, i win that pistol, lose
the force so I'm just gonna take a save now guns will come out into round number four as we have
a 2-0 scoreline currently for FlyQuest. Our Vexar was the man on a Nuvus. We'll see if he can keep that up on Inferno.
It's gonna be one of the B defenders on the CT side along that of Inns. Then it could be your
rotating rifle up sorry to fault so he's gonna do a bit of the same and then JKS for your A anchor.
three digs, two blocks, just hoping to soften them up a little bit.
The positive for the Australians watching at home, who I'm sure have their favourites,
but at least one of these two teams will get an opportunity tomorrow in a 2-2 game to try
and vie for that spot in stage two.
That helps out the perception of the region, which is in the dumps, right?
considered other than the everybody's, who are South Africans and the rest of the world
right that don't really have too many opportunities to play international events, Aussies are at
the bottom of the totem pole. And the fact that they're not the last in the major, right,
you've got Sinners and Gaming Gladiators going out first, shows that there are definitely
teams who can lower the bar in the south angle. This one should just be a farm fest with
They jump into it one back side of the MP7 up close and personal and he is the tags through the smoke the bullets back confirmed
But then
Take this one on the block as an M4 thing to scoop up and that is very efficient and effective round with just one casualty
Okay, just getting the AWP into the hands of story
It's the opener gonna beat from Thunder down under will it be a default
I'm just vying for standard controller. Do they want to try something a little bit more pacey?
I think it is just gonna be a default and it's your first rifle round. You've got all AKs of all the utile
Question mark smoke thrown top mid from alley
Story doesn't care takes the pit
Drops a nay decent chip damage done to two
Becks my springing off of his HE, look at the TJP, he finds two!
Comes a little too easy, first gunny and already you've just lost four banana control and two
of your team mates say stuff about swinging flashes was unable to catch the AWPer.
Nice one from Liaz on the way back in, he's actually taken down the A-Defense, JKS knocked
off the balcony, net and in behind that Moto Smoke.
I hate you to break, I want to try and boost, see if they can catch anything.
Pork? Niasz? Niasz? Got a lot of work to do. Neticus traded now. It's up to Ali. A close-on sight. Can't hit it.
Oh, yeah. You can see the frustrations on the camera there from Alastair. He knew that that was a winnable clutch if that first bullet does connect.
Yeah, history does see Ali, when he gets in these combat opening spots, he can heat up, right?
The biggest criticism to him was looking a little bit lost with the mid rounds, rotating with Nades in his hand, trying to support his teammates, getting caught out once upon a time.
Now, he's calling the shot. It means that he's going to have to best read on the situation because he's the one who's distributing the responsibilities of the troops.
But this one if he hits this he's in a very winnable one-on-one net egg
I'm excited giving him a little bit of something something just there
Can be a full investment here from Thunder down under might be galils required or are they just gonna bring okay
There you go. It was taken a little bit longer than I thought but yeah, they could have definitely full ball
So four AKs in a gollil
4-0 a scoreline. They'd love to start making a dent. But if we make one map one, right,
they're going to go back. So slow and steady.
It's got to be weird for the X-Rooster boys, ASAP, TJP, playing against Nettik. You know,
they get to feel like, oh, this kid really does have hands.
Yeah, obviously that roster with Chelyos, and they always had a revolving door of a fifth.
MC stood in for them a bunch in online games.
But they can't have him. We need him.
And slow again. You could tell with the take. One of the things I just quickly do, a sky
scrub of the way that ThunderDal under approach this. The banana control tends to be a little
bit slower, like it's not off the rip, it's after the first 5 or 10 seconds then they
take it and you can see Flak is ready for that. Flash forward, Vexite has the space.
Here in the steps and the spam, over towards half wall, now the AWP will worry about the
boost.
That's so perfectly pre-amped by somebody and Vexite's just caught a whiff of Alistar
in the smoke.
That one hasn't landed perfectly, but shallow on the CT side
They certainly has have gotten themselves a brackets control so there is room to maneuver
Need to be back in time
The motor or three-quarter smoke so in we'll have to worry about the slip in case it is a mid to be
Partial buy from Thunderden under now so something a little bit more explosive with tech nines likely on the menu
The facts I knew exactly what was coming so looking very well-handled the moment
I understand what Dexter's thinking because they likely hear those steps parting through
Maybe I yell something
I don't know how I feel about telling his teammates that I might use that guys I might yes
Is everyone okay with that? Do I have consent to yell?
Is that all right?
Oh, ASAPs has had his trainers knocked off.
I am AWP.
I have a soft spot for ASAP.
I will say there have been...
Well, now three players in major history have been from Perth.
Myself, Sniper and ASAP.
And we play on 50 to 80 ping in Australia all the time.
So the fact that he's been able to get himself in props to the young lad,
The young lad
Smoke his D, but sorry does he have an angle? No, okay thought he might want to cheat in front of it
It is just next site B. He told him
Come on banana boys. Now he's on oranges and it's on the way
So smoke in two flashes
I think this one's looking rather difficult to see.
It's explosive at least, it's not telegraphed.
Yeah, Vexite...
There's out his divider smoke, he's in room to manoeuvre, some flashes,
DJP down on the swing, nice play from Vexite for the first, he knows he's half booked,
double, looking for number three, but in the meantime, in to swing to make sure that's
his.
Not looking like that plant's going to be realistic, is it?
Nah, but Dexic can do some damage.
Damage has been done, takes another kill. FlyQuest 6.
He's got no bees closed.
That's the same as the Noobus, right? They're having a tough time being able to breach his sight.
And Vexi has been sitting on a heater today. He's 9 and 2 net, 9 and 0.
And the timeout called, the button hit. Just to point out it's not red.
Instantaneous. How cool is that? The technology is there.
This might even just be one of those ones where you just want to stop that sinking feeling
This the I understand why they've turned to this map
It's obviously comfortable because they have their win and the major on this against MIBR
So it makes sense from at least going in being confident that you've been able to do it here in Germany, but
Now that you're up against it you six zero down. What did you make of ash expecting nuke?
I look I think that it's going into the black box against like this. That's the problem at least there's a bit more
I say that there's hardly any tape on right at least against reputable teams
So maybe you did need a swing for the fence, but this is this is it
There's always the the mind games the veto do you want to play to your comfort do you want to try and punish?
it's
Someone just goes now. Let's play this and that's normally how you end up
Understandably, though, I mean the psychology of picking a map you've already won on at the Major when it's due or die, I completely understand it.
It's hard to look past that.
Things have used the glass break to try and master steps.
I'm not sure either way.
Finds it off the shot and flattles up into apps with a flash to support him.
In that MIBI game, they were on the T-Sack 2 and they managed 8 rounds.
It's not going to be possible this time.
But I mean, they bite your arm off for 6, never mind 5, I mean...
around would be nice let's see what they can get going here flashing in towards
that mid control in Taz rotated over as that third man there is a little bit of
a sliver gap that A-fab will profit from is he gonna try and so over up that
space I think he is investigating it is pulled netic away from the support of
JKS there is a little threatening smoke for an archer that pulls Vexi off sorry
has connected with the AWP the solar orb on B finds TJP
They used to play through this.
To take the five of Exide's perfect position.
Beautiful. Reposition from the player on B.
Dexter's going to try and wrap. Alistair Lee has likely up short side.
You know there's likely going to be that hit site set up.
Lee has looking for the breach.
Molly Pit not going to catch JKS.
Netic a barrel spotted perhaps. Did Lee has catch a whiff?
I don't think so.
Doesn't look like it.
Dexter down on the swing. Netic's absolutely nailed this.
just pulling them apart piece by piece.
Cutting in, JKS gets a back turn and two clean headshots
into the back of the spine.
Very simple stuff on display there, right? Not over-peaking.
Making them come into the crossfire with a number disadvantage, not over-playing the hand,
and now it's 7-0 and it's looking bleak out there.
It's mainly because of the killed apartment. Leo's is at the top end on 5,
then you have Dexter with 3.
What are you saying? This game is very similar to that MIB1 we played.
The punishment movements. We're getting good info. Let's go play tight and trade out. Let's clean up. Let's go.
You've got Ace out with two and then one apiece for Alistair and TJP.
Now they're going to take this one slow. So obviously Max lost bonuses in play.
I've been able to get some partial investments. Story feels like he has all the room in the world to work with this orb.
And there's stacks of cash for everybody bar in's on the fly quest side. So just icing out the time
It's very different from back
Ten years ago with the domestic rivalries we would have where we would actually play against the immunities of the world in qualifiers and
They would obviously just be looking at what we would be doing and just trying to get that to me
But the fact that these guys haven't played against each other that
Comfortability it just it's not gonna be there
This will be an A go.
Nobody playing pit, nobody playing bulk, it's going to be more sight centric.
Good time on that flash, TJP is going to progress, and their utility is in the sky.
38 on the clock
Has full vision just tracks TJP midair easy pickings for the two of them
Story even the third man shipping in and only one bag for TDU. This is going down fast
fly quest eight
To start off proceedings map to
pick of TDU I
Wonder if there was a mis-execute there because the library smoke came in but there was also a long smoke
But it looks the radar so was that meant to be arch and the dex is gonna wrap right there either way
I think the fact it's library and then long meant that story could play through the library smoke and get to moto
He wasn't too concerned second time to your time out
This isn't easy for viridian to find anything to contribute with right finding yourself in this situation
It's not going to happen back home
You're not going to be down 8-0 against any domestic opponents. That's not going to happen
The other rival you have down there is semper fi and they've brought in imports right they have two latvians
So, you know, their, at least grasp to the more European style is a little bit there,
but even still, it's not the type of resistance that Thunderdown under are used to.
And that's it's yet to die.
Yeah, the immortal.
He's had some good moments throughout and he was the one that I was a little bit concerned
with.
He's obviously a very talented player.
People saw that on Rooster.
He's playing more map control spots there.
Had that little talent project with as others, a couple of other lads in the mix there.
On to FlyQuest, when as a join, they moved his position, so it just wasn't a good enough amount of communication for the spots he was playing, Vexite more suited to that.
Morning shot for Story, Tom Banana, and they'd followed through very light damage, but this time they are vying for Banana control off the rip.
I'll apply pressure to this Vexite story, and now Inns hold over towards B.
He's got a flashbang, Vexite's gonna be wanting it.
Tom Vexite's called when he feels it's the time to go.
to go. Now, switch, TJP, BOOK! He's not even had his gun out, looking the wrong way.
And now, smoke off. You want to quickly... Dexter feels like he has to make a play in
this situation, but if you just run through the smoke die, then you're in a 3v5. The A-players,
ASAP and Leia's weren't ready to capitalize off of somebody going down. They do take this
mid control, but already rotate it back, so FlyQuest are pushing and pulling them exactly
by they want them just manipulating the offense having them dance to their tune
wheels are starting to come off now it's more and more sloppy and being able to
find solutions in the mid-round story just sweeps through catches a sad one
back net it tried his hand at short side next up versus in looks like that's the
head-to-head falls away though peaks on in and nails it in says played it well
Oh, the story's got short on lock, it's so hard to see a way in for this T-Side.
Oh, of course he hits that, somehow not a wall bang, Alistar's is.
And one versus three goes very quickly, 9-0 for FlyQuest.
Oof.
Oof.
This is dominance underscoring.
You heard what Inns said there, right?
What did he say?
He said, what the fuck are they doing?
He didn't even say it with that, like, donation device.
And you would just be just a flat flat
Calm composed and running this one is battle for survival
Dexter's given him something JKS can very quickly give them something better miss shot from story
Don't say that often and it's costing
Bomb is picked up on the back of valley. He's going to be able to get it in and get it down
So there is a change easy a sap and then he goes down through the smoke
The problem that was high by the death was them over peaking in post plant situations
Now this time they don't have the best weaponry, but they need to make sure that they play the bomb
So much you to on this retake smoke galore timing of Alistar that could be the difference maker
Yeah.
Yeah, but JKS is ready.
So well, clears him out.
40 had the timing off the U till now.
ASAP has well noted.
Fact turned, Lee has spotted.
What's he doing?
Just a sitting duck.
Easy pickings.
ASAP in a 1 versus 3, a tech 9, and low HP 5.
It's all he has to work with.
Just needs to get him off the bomb.
Oh my god, one more bullet would have done it.
So close to getting just the first.
Sometimes that's the hardest.
Are we really going to see a flawless half out of FlyQuest?
That was only their second opening kill of this T-Sat
so far. It was dexter to provide it. It was the chaos caused and it's just not enough
to hold onto. It wasn't a full buy. It's not the fight that Thunderdown Andei wanted to
be bringing. I think Anubis a much better example of what we grew to expect from this
head to head. You know, there is no head to head history just to reiterate. So we didn't
know what these two teams would look like when they locked horns. Anubis a whole lot
more competitive than this first half of Enchano.
Yeah, it doesn't say if Shander this one appears to be going out with a bit of a wimper. You
You can salvage two, you get the pistol, they could have definitely won the T-side pistol,
that was the retail with the fast-up banana, Valley hit that shot, that 1v1, and it had
to hit three bangers to be able to get in there and get it done.
And that could have started off with a whole lot of difference.
I'm going to fire, I'm going to set the new fire!
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what it was, come on.
Bring back the fire, I want to fucking feel it, I don't feel it now.
It's hard to keep the energy when you're not getting any of the rounds, but I know exactly
what he means. You want players playing with a bit of spice, right? The confidence. Story.
This is spice, but from the opponent. Aggressive or lying. Oh, okay, Leaz. Punishes the missed
off shot now. I head to have a JKS. He can't seem to win.
JKS worried about holes and boiler at the moment. They could be out here sneaking into
his position.
Oh, nice shots.
Lea has us done very well there.
Impact from your apartment's player and JKS gone early.
I'm down T stairs but they've got so much space on A and look at this from Alistar slipping
into arch.
You're not expecting this.
You're not expecting this whatsoever.
An AWP sweeping through CT spawn at a minute on the clock.
If he can make it back to library they can slowly squeeze onto Netic.
They have a good amount of nades themselves.
They have Lee hasn't boiler dexter brackets tjp now coming up middle with the bomb
Inns and vex I have just blocked over towards B. So this is all on nettik
If you return to that pixel or stays there Ali could sweep through this they can Molly pit
Yes, they can
Now they will nettik takes down Lee out was the Molly it's dropped now for Molly
It's on the floor gets awkward now nettik's doing so much work
Ali throws out a flashbang, a smoke will have to do.
Gives him time, that gives him a buff, he can play around this.
Hatches in, he will play around it, Dex is actually going to drop in.
This is a nice parting.
Not something Nettix can be likely expecting, so Dex is going to try and strike, just don't give him anything else.
He's considering it.
He is actually thinking about it.
Consider the possibility of Dex to just burrow the smoke and he finds him.
Nettix makes it a 2v2.
Surely not, Thunderdown under have had this opportunity.
opportunity net it just survives rots gets two kills Alistar's the one to put
him down but now he's gonna hit his last shot drops out the or picks up the AK
vexai versus Ali who's gonna take it will it stay perfect for fly quest
vexai running at him he's got the time he's gonna die it's another fly quest
round that's all medic that is all medic they're using the smoke against the
the fact he gets that kill on digestion the pit understand vexai is a tough
clutch in that scenario, but if Nettik doesn't buy the time for the rotation to get there,
they're not winning this.
There's a loan!
The timing on this is perfect.
Leannes is about to mollipede.
He thinks he's got it covered.
The smoke comes in, he plays around it, he gets the glimpse on Dexter first, he knows
exactly where he is, and then Vexi, it's tough, it's under pressure, sure.
And they snatch that one away, 11-0, final round, other half coming up, is it flawless?
That's a Semphas classic right there, that is a throwback.
There's a LAN call out.
Oh, it gets worse.
Ali tries to test middle.
JKS feeling himself now.
Little more aggression in his game.
Miss shot from the sniper apps.
He'll reposition, but already they're limping.
Oh, they're not limping at this point.
They've lost limbs.
Yeah, they've been absolutely shredded right now.
Scrooping for the a-finished long smoke comes in.
On the break.
Racking rounds.
Dexter fires off again.
Shoot down a shoot a smoke story with the AWP back, peered he could just shut this down
on his lonesome and they're just hovering in brackets.
Nethic's got a choice to make around this smoke.
Does Inz want to flash him through it?
Yes he does.
Nethic can take the fight, good turn, Apple punish it with a nice anti flash spin.
Pull themselves back into a 4 on 4, trying to keep into contention, just put a round
on the board next to your name.
On this team side, easy for JKS, just uncrouches and executes two, blows the head off a dex
star and another one to ace up, JKS just feasting.
On his compatriots, it is a 12-0 half folks, do not adjust your sets, this is reality,
elimination feels like a certainty for Thunderdown Under.
like FlyQuest, see the last day of play and the opposite.
They're hunted out under eliminations, just one round away.
And in fact, it could be a record.
And FlyQuest can win this pistol.
It will be the very first in a major 13-0 scoreline.
That was tough.
That is a bit of a pool of swallowing right there,
especially with how their major campaigns
started thundering under surprise in the world
with a win over MIBR.
But since then, it's been read in the column.
They've had some close games,
but that's not going to count for a whole lot around these parts.
The objective has changed now, Chad.
The objective has changed, just don't be in the record books for that reason.
Alistair wants to try and get some info towards 2nd middle, he does just spot 1 in the ins and the rest are piping up middle now spotted by Ali as well.
I'm enjoying the fact that he's still saying active and looking for fire, so if they just sat inside then we could have scrambled that 13R at the top of the screen ourselves.
So let's get a little bit of early info, but fly quest is not in a rush.
A decoy thrown out from J.C.A.S.
And P250 sounds off top banana Dexter and TJP, sit on the site as the A executes starting
to take shape. A rally of flashes, the fuller through a smokes, the watch is halving. Wrapping.
Wrapping. Alistar's got an opportunity here to peek out and try and track him, but they
were jumping as he peaked. Made it hard to track. Lee has as well on site, they're both
going to try and have to tip some heads and ASAP has done so net.
story. Just one man to put down and they'll get a round and avoid being in the record
books as the first team 30 node in major Counter Strike history. There we go.
They're having fun. You could see the energy. I don't even want to call it a shift, right?
But the realization of the scenario, they were having fun in the half looking over the
fence there. That's a good shooting from ASAP.
No! You can't fuck with me! You fucking god shit!
You know, that might carry them into a thing I've been ever researching.
It could be a run arounds here. It's a forced fight from FlyQuest.
Remember, second round. Thunderdown under Havbeen having a tough time.
Good point, yeah.
But now Corsair's thrown to the wind. You know, now it's a bit easier
To find those headshots to find that space to take that gap
Next to spotted a flash of the calf of netto con his jiggles
Flooding with the danger right there
Hey, gee extremely premature no one's even started parling towards half wall
They're just three smokes to block. There's actually very concerning if it is a B execute
Because you're if you get flashed
It's over right there if they're able to scale even if it is coming through the gray screen. So this execute while light
Has an opportunity to just seal the game right here right now
Tjp's got a second smoke and he's gonna be ready to throw it
And we'll do so just as they start to have your trades there comes the charge
Tjp eats the flashbang next to there to support though. He was anti
He's only got two though. Hang on the site is falling
The bomb is being planted.
He has the smoke. He can re-smoke CT.
Force-cavaged away for JKS.
It's tagged on the smokes, bam.
CT smoke will come through.
In's down to our stuff.
So, a way back in for this retake.
A compulsory retake.
Easy find.
Catches JKS pull.
Now it's just a 1v3 story.
Back new box. You've got the info.
And you've got the kill.
Another one!
No!
up to 11. Uh huh. Well, at
least it's delivering us
something. Okay. Well, they
breach the side. They get the
bomb down. They might just
take another one of these
investments like we saw them
doing a new verse. It's just
getting caught there. And so
did jks. So, Alistair was some
very important kills. They
didn't want to sip the site in
the back. He nine low HP
one round at a time. I don't like this type of buy from fly quest. I think they should
have gone, I don't mind a Diggle or two. I would have much preferred take nines. Just
gives you a bit more to work with. If you just get iced out now, you're taking, if they
give you fights like this, great. Right. If they're willing to be cheekier and take swings
to them fours then the Deagle's very deadly but up close once you need to start dealing
with these choke points you're going to have a tougher time.
Well that feels like a bit of an invitation.
As soon as Nettik picks the long corner line they can take brackets and then Inza's got
the smoke double flash.
Feels like a bit of a two for one here.
so just baiting out as much util as they can.
I think we flashed.
Ace up took his time with that.
Yeah, really wanted to be certainly besplined.
Dexter down.
Orc takes down Story and looking very comfortable and leisurely.
Yeah, this one down.
A whole lot easier than the last.
And the last was with those tech 9s.
You saw how close that actually got.
You got into the site, you got some space.
Yeah, it just was needle searching.
If it was overpass and we're spreading out towards A,
and we're taking longer-inch jewels,
I could justify dust to a little bit more. So it's just a couple of take-nights in the mix would be nice
But at the same time, they're feeling very comfortable. They just need one round on this tea half
It at the moment just feels like a matter of time
Yes
I think the score is gonna have to get to a point of 12 to 8 before you really start to worry and that point the question is
Sure, you starting to get more concerned like boys. We should shut this out. Oh, was I gonna get on the mic now?
He's nowhere near the button. No, it looks like he's restraining. So just there. So that's a face. I've seen before
fall. Flash in, it's the, oh yeah I know he is blind, alright, good flash. Alright, right
for round number one in the second half. Alley's got his ult looking for a mid-fight.
Dr the flash, can peek out. I like this, Peppity's step.
TjP is under a lot of pressure.
He really does.
He's going to throw out his U-Till and support flashes from Alistair if he goes in as a
look.
Commits and nails it.
Finds the claw back onto int.
Here comes Vex on the trade attempt.
He smoked the play around.
TjP hectic for him.
You can see there's panic, there's stress, there's pressure, and it's amplified now.
The flakwester did 5x sight though.
Bomb can be planted, it's a 3 on 3 retake.
Two more smokes to re-block CT and coffins.
This is gonna be Tath.
It's looking great for flakwester.
Throw the knockout blow here.
Jk spotted.
The last round, under down, under playing cologne.
On the way back in, you've got your space.
Alistar coming in from the ruin side, that clock is ticking rapidly.
be quicker than this. Back is exposed, JKS will find ASAP, it does look like FlyQuest will take him down, a 13-3 smashing map 2 and the elimination of Thunder down under. They joined the list of sinners, Gaming gladiators and are the third team eliminated here at stage 1 of IEM Cologne.
This one is going to be a bit of pill to swallow going home to your countrymen.
But the win against MIBR, that showed the potential, the close match against Bay on Dust 2.
That showed that they have the grit and the fight.
Big yesterday started to expose the flaws and they continue today.
But this is a team that has only competed in Australia all year long and still qualified for the Major.
They took a scout, they were everybody 0-3 and that's not where they ended up at all.
They fucked your pickings, that's for sure.
But they are still going home.
They will not be any score settled for the trio of Dexter,
Lee as an Alistair today.
But if they get some more opportunities,
chances to get some boot camps overseas,
it's going to be tough, right?
A couple of these boys that work in nine to fives,
they got the real jobs.
This is the side quest, but this is a fly quest.
They are going to go into the two-to matchup tomorrow,
an opportunity for them to make stage two.
They did last major.
It was a 3-0 for them.
This time round, it's a whole lot harder,
But maybe that grit that determination of being down in the mud means if they do make it to stage two
We could see more polished counter strike out of the boys
I think what we need to do is start convincing Vexi that every opponent is Australian
That's what we need to do because he's piping up
He's fragging up a storm and the desk are standing by to discuss flight quest surviving to the last day of state flight
Alex thank you so much. We do have ends here
So potentially we could pose that question to him, but first of all massive
Congratulations. That was a very convincing show in particular on that second map.
What are your emotions coming off that one?
I mean, I think most of all it's relief.
We didn't want to have to lose to them because we were considered like the top dog, I guess, of the region.
But it feels nice to get the win, especially after yesterday. I think we played a bit better today, but there's still a lot to improve on.
I know they call you Innsferno down under. Is that kind of infecting the boys? The other boys on Flyquest as well?
It seems that way. I think our city side was really nice. We had kind of the read on everything they were doing
So it was really hard for them to get into the game
I think. Were you surprised that they picked Inferno against you?
Ash was kind of fearing that they would pick maybe Nuke versus you?
I mean we thought they were going to pick Inferno just because I knew like that's their two comfortable maps Inferno and Ubus
And we kind of just like went with our guard and picked an Ubus because it's our best map as well
So it could have been Nuke, but we were prepared for that as well
I just wanted to ask you, what were the conversations like, you know, perhaps after yesterday coming into today, because you guys were in every game, you were supposed to win every single one, right, but some, you know, post plans not being the best, lacking some clutches in key moments, so how did you address all that coming into today?
I mean, I think especially in the NRG game on the T side, we kind of, we didn't take like space when we're executing the side, like everyone was kind of just waiting for someone else to do something.
So we kind of just addressed like playing with less fear and playing more calm in those post plans and just like playing off each other because that's what costs us some rounds a lot of the time.
And it was just similar in the game of legend game.
Any questions Ash? You want to pose any questions to ends?
You must have been feeling pretty comfortable out of Eto, getting a new Bistos 2 and some
Furno in there, right?
You're kind of surprised that he's very rare, you get like, these are probably your three
best maps right now.
How'd you feel about that?
I mean, we were confident in playing those three maps.
We knew it was going to be that way.
Unless they went for a Nuke pick, but I knew they weren't comfortable on that, like fully.
But yes, every other Vito hasn't really gone that way.
We've kind of like lost most of the Vitos it feels like, even in the Vito ones.
So, yeah, it was nice to play three comfortable maps.
Okay, I just want to know as well,
because I felt like there was a big difference today
in the way the teams played.
And for me, what's important is playing to win.
Remember, we had our teammate, Isaac Fallon,
who was legendary, saying all the time,
we need to play not to lose.
You've got to play to win.
What I think today, what I can show from some examples,
we've even found more of these.
It's just how active you guys were
in the City of Sarno and Nufono.
Can you maybe talk us through?
Is this maybe part of the game plan for you today?
I think for us, that's kind of what we're comfortable with
on Nufono, and you see a lot of two-on-tames
doing around now, just trying to be ahead of what the other team's doing, and for us I
felt like we played with full confidence today, and exactly what you said, like we didn't
play to lose, whereas in the NRG game and the Gamelinja game we kind of went into our
shells a little bit, especially when we started getting the lead on CT and Foner, we kind
of stopped doing these things, and the main topic for us was just playing to win, as you
said, and not going into our shells.
Yeah, I think it looked very uncomfortable. I think they had no answers for this to be
We've seen quite a few teams so far already this major being very active and a lot of success
And this felt like something if you can replicate this in each game
You've got to feel comfortable going to the next one
Can you maybe treat the next opponent like this is thunder down under because today was everyone's fired up some vex
I shout and everything how can you gonna approach the mentality of things going to the next games?
Yeah, I mean we'll just talk about it and
Say that we like how we how well we play together today together and maybe we can put some thunder down on the faces on the
in the world board there, maybe everyone will be hyped like that today.
I think also we talked a bit about how you guys finally had a boot camp in order to prepare but
you could still see some of the rust of playing maybe European opposition or good opponents.
Do you think now having three, four games under your belt that's enough to scrape some of that rust
off that you can put your best foot forward from this point on?
Yeah, I mean I think so. I think we had a long enough bootcamp to work on all our mistakes and
and get comfortable playing together again.
And I think we have no excuses, really.
I mean, it hasn't been the ideal season,
but we've done what we can,
and I think we're confident going into the other games.
So we'll see how it goes.
What do you make of the kind of community sentiment
around how you've approached this year?
Because I know there's some critics out there saying,
maybe they should be coming over,
playing some more European tournaments,
bootcamping in Europe a bit more.
What do you actually make of that sentiment?
I mean, it's just been really hard, to be honest.
Like, I think there's a lot of stuff out the back
people don't really see. A lot of visa stuff and we're working on that at the moment, currently
trying to get European visas for the three Australian players or three that live in Australia.
But I mean, there's always these online tournaments and stuff that you can play,
but it's very risky at the end of the day. But we were trying to stick with our garden
play with the Chinese ones and that didn't go as planned also. So yeah.
I just want to ask a little bit about the T side as well, because it seems like
you guys have got lots of nice ideas, maybe off-metal a little bit, I saw on the Mirage game the other day,
lots of like fake defaults, like solid peeking to the apps and then some fake utility on A and
sneaking through connector, even an A referring to that which I haven't seen for quite a while.
I've seen this quite on all the maps so far, I can remember on the ancient game against Sinners,
like throwing rush here, different timings, everything like this. Is this coming from
Pref? Is this something that you're kind of thinking about yourself, or do you kind of have
so much dry theory under your belt, so you're kind of just like, yep, this was a perfect time to do
do this one now. Yeah we have a lot of theory I would say and it's just about
preparing what strategies we think is best for that team. We have a lot of
strategies that we have out the back and it was just like against those
teams it felt like it was a good time to do it. There was obviously the A
Roshan Mirage that didn't go our way but I felt like at the time it was a good
call but we just didn't manage it like read the money as well as possible so
I'm not going to say as well one last thing for me is the biggest weakness I've noticed
so far on these T-sides are closing the rounds. It feels like there isn't like a designated
guy or look to him and go, okay, he's in the 2v2 or something reliable is going to win
these rounds. In this later stage, is this something that you're worried about will
be exploited? Because I think even today on the new base, if I've got a couple of situations
where I expect the T-side to win those rounds and instead of some overpeaking, some losing
them, how are you going to kind of improve this for the future?
I think it just comes down to like people willing to sacrifice to get the teammate to
trade them.
I think a lot of the time our trading is the problem on our two sides, especially in those
3vx's and stuff like that.
And I think, I mean we can talk about it, but it's kind of, in those moments it's kind
of individual based, to be honest.
We have Justin, JKS, who's pretty known as a closer and he's always alive, so you can
always trust him to close some rounds, but it's just about staying calm in those moments
really because a lot of the time we just like forget where they're going to come from and just
panic. That's how it feels. Can I just have just one more question because we were kind of reminiscing
about Australian teams at majors of old, right? And obviously, as a standing behind you, part of
that relegated hundreds of these roster as well. Been on the roster for what like about six, six
months now. How much has he been helping you like? What's your synergy like there? I mean,
he's helped me a lot. We became really close over the last six months. He kind of came in as
someone who to give discipline to the players because I'm not very like that
like I don't really get angry at people I don't do that kind of stuff so he kind
of came in to help me and take some some work off my shoulders because I was kind
of burning out a little bit doing everything it felt like so he came in
to discipline the boys including myself and just focus on that really.
Anything you want to say to the Thunderdown under boys?
To eliminate your own boys.
Sorry I had to do it to your boys love ya see you back at home.
Congratulations. We'll see you in that 2-2 match tomorrow. Thank you so much. Thanks guys.
Anymore counter-strike on the cards for us though. Later on we're going to be having Game
Allegiant and Big. That's going to be a qualification series going down at 430 if you're joining us in
European time. Next we are indeed going to be ranking some of those major underdog runs. But
before we get there, unfortunately, we do have to get some closing thoughts from Thunder down
under. It's Alastair with Trace. Yeah, that does do it for Thunder down under. It is raining outside,
but unfortunately they couldn't get the precipitation going here inside in Cologne.
Hey, let's talk a little bit about obviously Anubis was a fun time, 1310.
That quick 6-0 run up there for FlyQuest. Let's talk about Inferno.
You guys picked it. How did the wheels fall off?
I think it was just a lot of tiny details accumulating. I think we were getting the space
we wanted. They were kind of doing a lot of what we expected, but it was just getting caught out.
I felt like if you watched it back a few times we were in the correct positions,
but doing the little stuff wrong, maybe not playing anti-flash or not ready for that re-aggression.
And then all it takes is a couple moments like that, and then before you know it's like an avalanche,
and you're down 12 or at the half, you know.
Yeah, I mean, they're screaming at you guys. Can't come be, you know, as they're on CT side, you know, obviously.
Looked in the eyes, getting yelled across the aisle here.
It's a pretty known battle between the groups here.
You guys know each other pretty well, familiar with each other in terms of the game style and how you want to play the games.
Coming into today's matchups, you know, map go like that.
What are your thoughts?
How does it do emotionally at the major?
They're sad, of course.
That was our first matchup against them,
even though we've been around for a bit,
and obviously there are Aussie rivals,
I guess you could say in a sense,
but it hurts regardless.
I'm glad the boys kept it light towards the end,
props to them, but it sucks losing no matter what,
but 13-3 at the major, it's not good enough.
So anything you could say about your Aussie brethren over there, going forward?
I hope they keep carrying that form.
It's good to see them out of the struggle strait that they've been showing before this
event so it's good and hopefully they can keep it going and keep getting slots for the rest
of the Oceana.
Year after year it seems like the Oceanic region produces more and more and more and
more.
We've got Chad Spongeburt, we've got JKS out of the deal.
What is it that keeps driving?
you when you guys get down there and you get so separated from what feels like
the rest of everyone practicing Counter-Strike. What keeps you guys pushing
forward every time? You just got to keep plugging away. I think we all love the
game and we enjoy each other's company. You know we're obviously not a paid
organization so it's not like it's work in a sense it is but you know we we do
it because we enjoy it and you know we all get along and the chemistry is great
but for the love of the game that's why we keep going. Final words anything you
want to say thank you everyone back home seriously obviously we did fuck some
pickings this event so apologies typical that we now go one three so at least we
didn't come last that's awesome awesome much hashtag make it clap thank you all
the plugs hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag make it clap all right thanks so
much for that not really play the best of the best well this is one of the best
in this very stage and coming off of a hot streak in Atlanta as well we'll see
if bigger up for the job it's a fast pistol round straight down the guts
into a mid setup so snacks gets to play around this flashbang down a bee he's
got PR here to back him up and that's a good sequence here from PR's pistol
Big's mid here gets demolished and it's only their grizzled veteran in Tabsin
less standing. All right, PR triple. That's what I want to see. Starting strong on this
CT side is a player who we hold a lot of expectations to but hasn't necessarily showed up so far
the major. It's been on a poor run of form this year alone. You mentioned that in one of the previous
games. It's been a struggling time for PR. So CT side over past triple kill pistol. Expect to see
a lot more from this young prospect for GamerLegion, so big who, this is their most played map,
this is their go-to right now, it's been a huge piece of their major qualification run
and so excited to see why on a T side, a very CT side of map but big, I mean their win-loss
This is 50-50 across this T half.
It shouldn't be now though.
Just the Deagles on the imports, Blame and Gricks.
This big shuffle towards this A site.
Three strong here right now for Gameligen, trusting in PR and Torsten to have Beyond
lock and IPEX ready to block with this single bit of utility in the round.
This has missed these timings and that smoke ain't gonna help here but it won't matter
because the rifles chew through the pistols so no problems here it's just blame F left.
one to try and extract some value he got this dig and hoping they give him a fight
hey will and it's not the one blame f1 it just chased down by the smg so well handled there
flawless round out of game of legion always extract maximum value harry blame f knows that
you know you go to the buffet you bring a napkin and you throw some spring rolls in there for later
They're coming in with the bi-vo in round number three and Gamelige and getting out without a dent.
It's going to be a nice feeling.
What does this default look like right now for big? I'm not expecting it to part of the crazy in this first gun round.
Just getting the big control, beating the smoke and JDC with a bit of a pace.
It's going to be a flash in for this fight. Gamelige and Ordea Vade, they see all this util.
They want nothing to do with it.
If you push on long,
Rez and Hypex in position
and even Snacks forced to rotate.
It's a big gap in the map right now.
Big haven't taken it, but they do need to clear long first.
Rez convincing with that double kill.
That's also bomb dropped over here.
So a big problem.
It's a problem for Big.
Five, two players gone.
Bomb lost over on the long side.
In Game of Leagues, you don't even hang around a player.
Wasting U-Till, wasting time here looking for this trade on the long side, fully giving
up the room.
It's missed U-Till there just to slow it down even more.
Yeah, are they molly long?
No, just ran into the wall there, put the molly in.
Like you said, waste U-Till.
I mean, they've used everything to get this back, and there was no fight nearby.
Really smart move for Gamelige into completely reset the round and get out of there.
Nice grab.
An AK picked up by Blame, but still, Bigger got to get through this top site hold.
Rez repushing as Snacks rotates and he is on the ball here on the CT side.
Yeah, you don't have to be, you know, conservative with these rotates here, right?
You get the info, you get the spot over the wards long, you instantly bring an extra player up,
Bigger working within the final few seconds of the clock here as they go for this site here,
and they're going into a stack. More rotates are arriving by the second as well, so this one's over.
There's big 4K coming in in this first gun round as well. You know, we expect to see big looking
comfortable on this T side, but I think any team is comfortable on CT overpass. The mobility of
Gamer League are very impressive there. Resetting after dropping the bomb in a 5v3, they're in a
great position. They don't need to stand still and let big use utility against them. And then
then the repush to the toilet as well. Perfect. Look at how that backside play doesn't even
need to peek. Wait for Rez's contact. And so crossfires are really strong for Gamelige
and big uproke back to pistols. I mean, you've just got like the most phenomenal chance
at a strong start here, right? The idea that you haven't lost the players in any of the
last two sitting pretty with five alive and back to back rounds and now a chance to really
start to make some money. That's going to make you really hard to kind of dislodge in this first half.
Favon will try and throw a little bit of a fake towards B here to keep snacks as that
third player in the wrong place. So that gives an opportunity, I'll say, for Big to
explode on this topside. Oh dear, misutility and no follow up behind it. Even the game
manager is shaking for a second. They're going to pull right back up.
The rest has heard this call for the Rotate, but the entry will come through, but it's
space taken out here towards the top site.
And the Rotate's far away, what would have been shuffled a player out of position.
Utahl's nice, just to try and delay this bomb farm, the Blame F finds a little gap.
How's he done that?
Every second counts.
And in the beginning the goal was, you know, keep this as another clean round, but now
Now you just want to bring it home, not fall down to the pistols.
Sure, Snacks still comes through with the opener.
But he's planted back here for the bathrooms. Gricks lies in way.
He's got the whole team with him and the bomb to play around.
Got to move quickly here if you're game a leech and getting on that defuse.
Cover in from the AK.
Snacks is providing overwatch and that defuse is robbed.
Stolen away, big kills from Snacks just to protect Torsten on the defuse.
Yeah, Cricks absolutely would have hit that spray if Snacks didn't find him a second before it connects.
So what a massive pick up for Gamelige.
And the thing that they absolutely over rotated, right?
They moved not just one, but two players shuffling back.
They don't get anything done from their A player.
And then they even molly themselves off while trying to molly truck on that retake.
And still none of that matters. Perfect utility in this post-plan picks up a sneaky defuse in the smoke.
Paulson's still running this SMG from the second round.
That's Gamer Legion. Run away with the start of this game.
I like the set play for big. I'm shocked it works as well as it does.
I think, you know, when you're kind of at a lead like that, you know, your opponent's money's broken.
It was clearly like a bit of a read from Gamer Legion that the B hit was coming, at least in their mind, right?
I think it is just one of these low E concept pieces.
The fate worked well.
Gets you a bomb plant, gets the AWP out for Griggs early with Fully Util and everything behind it.
Alright, Res in a very nice position here.
He's been super active, hasn't he, to start this game off.
Ooh.
Crash coming back from B side.
That one's gotta be careful.
careful. Spam and it's all just a bait for Rez, a full blind spray, easy swing, it's
the Gricks orb that follows up. We're not ready for that. Down in the connector, so
Rez one for one and a week and day bomb site. On overpass, the question always is, where
is that rotator? Where is snacks? Now that's a question on most maps. He stays down on
be as the aggression. You should repush monster. They need to rotate now.
Oh, rough fight there for Fabin. And now with your big, you know, you're losing the window
here for the A here. He saw them.
I don't move quickly or else you're going into a stack.
I think. Oh, that's this awkward that gives room to JDC Miss shot on the off. I think swings back out. They play together, leaving this all out of the picture playing gets blocked off. And Griggs looks for a clutch one V three when it begins.
Rixie's foot knows you're under there, but the Glock is not the gun for the job, and with every missed shot, Hypex gets closer.
He finds himself three on the AWP, despite a couple of awkward misses at the beginning.
Hypex recovers well, and keeps this game clean for Gamer Legion.
Right now, Big can get their foot in the door, but it just keeps getting slammed shut, bruised toes.
Honestly, I think that's very impressive from Hypex, right? Because you get on it.
There were some really rough misses in there. Takes a lot to recover in moments like that.
How many times have you seen an AWPer kind of miss the first couple of chances?
End up getting a bit flustered. Hell, I even thought the swing with the P2K was exactly that, but
made it work, put on a stellar 3K, stopped the hit in its tracks.
Big's go-to map is off to a very worrying start. 0-5 down. Desperate to break through,
they call in their first tack timeout. Another one of these low-econ rounds.
And Damolidzhin, whenever the money's been broken for big, they've been paranoid about these B-side
plays. I think one thing that you can remember on this T-side is, okay, you could be 5-0 down,
you could be 8-0 down, but you just need those couple of rounds, right? You just, three rounds
is absolutely enough. You know, if you want a pistol on top of that, you're something back in the
game so on a map like overpass they can continue to remind themselves that it is never too late.
Oh cheeky play but Favons walk right past. Oh he backs up into it that's awkward there was a
huge opportunity on the b-site not to know. Nice run boost from Game of Legion puts PR in position
and then he's certainly picking up for his side of the bargain.
Have not seen big, really abuse B and that is the abusable site.
They continue to snake through the toilets here with tech lines.
So you're just telling yourself that eventually you're going to hit this
timing where you're not going into a triple stack, but it won't be in this round.
Snacks up close, no issues on that first, they are closing in as the AWP misses.
In comes Rez to offer a bit of support, but he's gone as well. Key set of entries for OmblayMef.
Maybe a bomb plant for big. We've had a couple out here towards A, but they've struggled in these post plants.
PR moves in convincingly with that double.
I didn't even give them a moment of respite there. Didn't let them get comfortable. Didn't let them play around the bomb.
Yeah, monstrous rounds out of PR right now. It's the aggression starts off and that aggression allows for a triple A set up.
Res catches them off guard. Big again. I feel like I'm leaving all these rounds again. Man, Big did a really good job at making a lot out of nothing here with pistols in a 4v5 into a stack.
a stack but again the score line still reads zero game a legion are sweeping this right now
all right let's keep our heads in the game the routes will come to us 100%
yeah stay focused the rounds will come and that's what it feels like a big day getting
closer just can't finish them off maybe a bit of pace here towards B could be the answer
with the spawn AWP takes the line
the game of Legion is a squad who are playing heavy up towards the topside so many times
well the B-Stack comes as a bit of a surprise
Torson's an in you expect to find here
Snacks has been spotted lobbing in this Utile
just gonna try and play the delay the Nade will find Blame F in the chaos
need to stick the landing on one of these post plans to big they're in another good
spot wondering where the hell the snacks go how did he get out but he just shifted across
in the open while they're throwing utility back up in heaven Rez with a quick flank smoke
comes down on bridge allows him to focus on Rez's position but he can still win this heads
up fight JDC takes his head off and now snacks a very difficult clutch indeed it's going
drop in they don't know yet and snacks needs to be sneaky find this first kill
for free maybe towards monsters an opportunity but no Tapsen denies with a
three kill around out of Tapsen big do get on that board that was you know
almost awkward timing for big they make the most of it getting mollied while the
orbs scoped up on short and they just send it luckily had a flash already
primed, able to trade out really nicely despite a heavy B-stack, missed shot from
Hypex, feeling consequential in this round. Yeah in the past he's been able to
kind of make up for it here he wasn't and you see the result of that. You don't
have the opportunity to get multiple shots off. Orbe wasn't enough, how about five?
On a short take as well, you tell us to try and compliment this, sends them right
Get into play math!
So the attempt to take your map control for Gamer Legion is handed big a man advantage.
A lot of room, right? You touched upon the 5 man B-Start for Gamer Legion here.
Now hard commit to that. A is wide open.
I need to grab it or they can.
Blame attempts to walk into B-Tour so we're still here.
Rez re-clearing, uncertain.
And he just knows that they could be in the site already, right?
If there was a lurker here, it could be pushed up deep, so can't go too far.
Sorry, I'm trying now, JDC. We'll respect it.
Waiting for a steam to get close, but that lies time for the CTs as well.
Look at these rotations. Even a flank starting to appear.
Good grenade out on long, but Griggs does have that shot.
As Rez tries to get into position.
Molly for default.
That bombs already going down. No, it's not Torsten denies.
Molly goes a little deep and so Snacks is positioned known,
but Snacks in a smoke as he often does.
Falling through, catching Tabson looking the wrong way,
and this is a really awkward round for Big to lose.
They can't afford to. Snacks down low.
Chase is that last player. JDC has been reliable in these moments
and catching Snacks over the top, puts Big back on the board.
a sigh of relief more than anything as they do break game allegiance bank
that's around big could not afford to lose
I like the energy from Big. I like the hype. Obviously, they have a lot to play for right now.
Just the fact that this team is a surprise to even see at the major, but the national pride as well.
Big at Cologne, great history, legends of the German scene, in tabs and play meth,
trying to rewrite his story as well.
And Griggs, a young player, looking to prove himself on a major stage.
There are so many reasons that Big won this.
And you can really see that in every one round from the squad.
Yeah, it's just the first time in a long time
I think they shot with a squad that you feel like can do damage to this event, right?
Let alone the fact that it's a major, this is one that...
Even in its kind of regular calendar slob,
Bigger boys had a bit of a rough time with always wanting to go far, but struggling to do so.
I feel like they have a lot of reasons to have good energy, right?
You kind of touched upon the idea that they kept getting to good positions in the early stages of this game,
just struggling to convert.
They would tell themselves that the rounds will come, will break through,
while these rounds are now coming through for big and putting them in a powerful position.
Chance to break Gamer Legion's money, keep them on the back foot.
Suddenly you could be looking at a very competitive T-side in a game you were 0-6 down in.
Absolutely, that's what we were saying.
It only just takes one to break in and yeah, now you're trading two rounds for the price of one. It's a great deal
and so big with an opportunity
to split this half here despite a very slow start is
Gonna be that easy though because game legion started this game with some really strong a side setups and they look to do it again
Triple a or denied a lot of information
This is all big faking out right now looking to end on this B bomb site
I mean the other thing that's nice right with the money being kind of honorable for game alleging is on this run up until now
They've been pretty free to take risks the idea that even if they did lose around they were fine
You're a lot less risk prone with your money on the line the whole half on the line and so
Bit more rigid no stack down towards be means these two entries are a big problem
Favons first kill of the game and it is high impact
hard cleaner on barrels just
sacrificing his life and some of these rounds letting blame trade him but these
two entries decide the outcome forcing to save and so okay yeah it's not a two
for one there's still always a chance for game a legion with three rifles held
on to the taps and is hunting this kill
feel safe for hypex on this position if you get out with three you'll have a
Fall by in the next good chunky utile as well. So very important all of these guns survive
It's not
Max lost
It's enough. It's amazing. We have a game here and yes, we do
Big on their map pig four rounds in a row on this T side of overpass easy said than done
game of Legion
time out. We said coming in how you know for big this has been kind of their go to it's
the math they've looked to play a hell of a lot. It's one they've got a lot of reps
on one they've had a lot of good successes on them with that if you are an overpass team
you know that these T sides as Tapsen just said four is already good four is already
very very solid on the T half. The idea you could really sweeten the deal here and now
the idea that big could have been 06 down only to go on a reverse sweep with a six round
streak of their own and it all comes down to this. They can't go anywhere, they're
not getting broken, it's going to be a grind for Gamer Legion if they want to deliver on
this strong half.
They've got everything they need to still redeem themselves with an 8 round CT side.
I think everyone's satisfied.
I like the AWP for high pegs has to start hitting, he was able to make up for some of
misses earlier on, but that's kind of changed. And Griggs, meanwhile, I know he's not topping
the charts or anything of the likes for big, but he has had some good impact on the AWP.
Just key trades, key openers. I bet it's been quite passive. He's just been playing on the
bombsite for the most part. We've seen some heavy B setups. This is the most aggressive he's been
all game. So a setup in middle, support from res, next holding connector. The numbers are here
of the game, Elegion. JDC thread the needle, so does he just walk right into this orb?
He is hyper-vigilant of this position. But eventually it comes to him. Court-throwing
nades, 5G3, as Snacks takes tabs and down a connector, and bigger in a world of trouble.
The aggression on A is allowed next to a man to go and pat out B on an angle.
Alright, it's swinging to miss my highpacks, but PR's gonna make up for it.
And a flawless round comes through for Gamer Legion.
Talk about a return to form.
Agro is set up out towards mid, nets them all those openings.
And it puts them one step ahead of B, able to maneuver everyone around, stack in the right place.
And you know, we look at maps like Inferno where you go 3 on 5 on T-side, you lose a couple of picks and you can win those rounds, you can get in a post-point, suddenly your favourite smoke blocks, push CTs into awkward choke points.
This is not one of those maps. Those rounds where you lose a man advantage, you don't get the chance to trade, let alone a 3v5, very hard to hit a bomb site, let alone get into a post-point, even then you don't feel favourite.
Aggressive end to the heart of the game, Legion. A statement made by Rez with high damage on the second as well.
Game of Legion coming, swinging to round number 12.
Remind Big who is leading.
Back to this B hit, two players in position.
Oh
Tossum is trying to get value out of that you tell but caught on the jiggle, and that's all the opening big needed
He is been solid all across this game
Now is to have his best round yet. They're coming his way into all site. We are just not moving
By his time for his teammates to come in and lend that helping hand and
And BlaineF who is tagged up right at the start of this round on the back of the long push, last guy standing and not for long.
GamerLegion will recover, they deny Big that 6 round streak on Big's home map, and they get away with a winning half on Overpass.
I
Bigger back at the Cologne Major, but for how long is the question as Gamelige and
to lap them into the second stage. They are up 8-4 on Big's map pick. It was a solid showing
on the CT side of Overpass with a bit of brilliance from Big in the middle with his pistol.
Feeling highly reliant on it now are Big with their backs against the wall.
First proper strong team that Big have had to face.
And it is game a lesion off the back of a grand final.
Yeah, look, you can feel, you can feel happy with an eight, four, half, four rounds on the T side. That is, if you win this CT pistol, suddenly you are well and truly back in the conversation. Without it, though, this is a very tall order for big.
So if there was ever a round you wanted to win, it's this one.
Oh, very late in spawn as Hypex doing the U-Tel, so this monster push that Gamer Legion
heard is weird.
Gamer Legion hiding in plain sight, hoping to re-clear this position and find nothing
or better yet, walk right in.
What is going to happen here?
Well, I tell you what, you might be ready for one guy here.
Don't know if you're ready for the entire team.
Brawl on the corner and Gamer legion sitting there waiting for the aggression get exactly what they were looking for
There's something right off the brain of snacks. If ever you've seen it. That was well observed. I don't think you can pick POVs there
Or V2 locked out our big. They're gonna have to give it a go, but there's not much to find
All this swing together though, and so Gamer legion
Get through without a scratch
simple is how he looks to do it. Simple solutions to complex problems, but oftentimes it's the
craziest one. Just sitting and waiting, comfortable in the knowledge that that fight could well
and truly come your way after the mist-clear at monster that they heard.
Yeah, they're rubbing their hands after getting spotted going into.
So that must win pistol round for big. Not only goes decisively against them, but they
They kind of lose it to the brains of Gamelige, and it's a rough feeling at the end of that pistol.
Yeah, it's going to be an uphill battle for the rest of this map, really.
Hypex spots them pushing mid, so Gamelige is ready to fight this, but I don't feel like
they have to force the issue.
big just gonna walk away they're out here for the most part
absence trapped what a big gonna do with this
we should clear the first and yeah everybody in mid together good luck
Torso wants his egos and he gets them.
Oh my!
Oh dear, there's armor on Gricks as well so he's a lot more dangerous now.
Glamath, you're telling yourself we can get one on the D.G.E.G.L.
This round is possible.
Two rifles picked up, but they'll cross him under the cover of these smokes and he'd
over the top for Snacks. Steals away any hope of winning this.
Snacks has been so pivotal to the success of this overpass,
not just running a great game, but playing one as well,
16 and 8, topping the charts for Gamer Legion
and a number of high impact kills.
Linging back to the first half, had a couple of key multi-kills
at that one where he's covering Torsten on the defuse here,
and completely bails them out of losing a 3v3 post-plot
by just getting rid of the rifles before they even get to be involved.
It's a it's a treat to see a classic player like snacks playing like this.
Yeah, what a renaissance from snacks as of late.
Not think we were going to see that post G2.
But he is certainly putting on some strong games in twenty six.
The JDC is surely dead here.
How do you get out of this?
Plus, he pushed himself forward into the toilet.
He does find a dink for his troubles, but Griggs,
not even given the fight in response,
game leads you're looking to go together.
Big in their recent games have been very reliant on Griggs on this CT side.
He is a very strong AWPer.
But I don't know if this one is salvageable right now.
I'm at the corner, squeezing out shots, him and Griggs combined.
Griggs follows up.
Big second shot. 3v2 here, but two of the three players on this top site.
Oh, he got over the orb.
He's not going to hit this one late.
You'd hope.
Well, once he hears the jumping, I might just bait him into this warp.
That's a big survive, a very important gun round, the first gun round.
prepared for the b-rush and he has read the money well game of the region with only cash on snacks
I'll be a big word paranoid about the be here but with that not coming through early
Really?
Gonna free up Blaine F to go elsewhere.
Only so long you can entertain that triple stack you feel like when you haven't heard
or seen anything down towards B.
Hello?
I've seen a shadow, Griggs.
looking good on his orb. This is just a chance to warm up the hands here long-range fight
versus the pistols it's no worries for big. Snacks. Just this D-Eagle. Maybe a chance
to grab one. Fall is seven done. Oh but that clear is well timed saving his teammate's life.
And yes, fire the live here for big. Steps in the right direction here. Blame that
and Griggs getting activated on this top site with a couple more multi-kills.
And there is a pretty notable, like, AWP diff right now between these two squads.
Griggs has had a number of very important, you know, double kills, trade kills, you name it.
Definitely.
Even thinking back to that last rifle round in the long here, right? The guy to kind of
regain the control there.
Definitely going to want to see a bit more from Hypex as this game goes on.
It's also just a diff inside of Big Right, Favon and JDC 2 and 5 kills respectively.
It's a big way to change that from Favon.
Right there for his throwing utility from CT spawn down over the map.
Oh, but he missed it!
That's a disaster, wasted smoke.
Taps is going to go looking for an ABA, like, are you sure?
I'm not finding that one, buddy.
You are, Gamer Legion, reassert towards B.
I haven't seen the big quad boost to go and get it back.
Walk in, over the ward, short for Gamer Legion.
Wrong major.
He's got the JDC back here in the connector.
That's a free kill handed to him on a platter.
Snacks is going to go looking for the trade, a fight he had to win.
The JDC backs up into him.
The hit looks to begin now.
Crossfire set up here.
Res, full blind and running.
There's Pass Babin.
Tapsen's going to hold on.
He's getting pinched.
They're around him.
It's an opener for Snacks.
2v2 secured.
As GamerLegion look for their breakthrough round.
Now get past Max and that leaves it on Rez.
He gets the spot, lives to fight another day.
That goes both ways.
Gricks closing in.
Flash to try and set him up for this and Rez doesn't dodge it in time.
Well recovered for big as this gap continues to close with a teammate.
Oh my god, what the hell is going on in that round?
JDC backing up when they had in cornered to Rez running and shooting for blind.
They both pull knives out together at monster. It's an awkward round that Rez can't quite grab
a hold of at the end. Bigger certainly making a case for it here down the tail into their CT side.
Three rounds straight since the guns came out. A 10-4 lead for Gamelinger. They just cannot afford
to squander.
No!
You're the good-sake!
I'm touching one.
He's just spanking us out.
T-Side overpass or not.
Gamelizian have some work to do.
We took what?
Ancient being a staple of their map pool, part of their Atlanta run.
This map was not one plane in that second place run, and it was a loss.
So maybe feeling some of the discomfort that comes with T-Side Overpass right now a Gamer
Legion.
Oh, and even Favons getting going now.
Not a good sign for these T's.
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No worries, no problems, yes he is.
And now he's just down to the rest of the big to finish the job, it's only PR.
He doesn't know where to look as he goes in a B.
He's down to a two round game.
That was just the eco with the hero rifle for Snag.
So guns are coming back out here for Gamer Legion, but this lead that they've been holding onto all game
is about to get called into question.
It's getting scary, isn't it?
Because look at the vibe shift, right?
We're seeing game legion hitting their face with their hands, looking very dismayed.
We've heard big kind of beat hype this entire game.
Even when they were 6-0 down, they were shouting,
guys, we just need to break in.
All round is coming.
They knew what that could have, what that means.
Four B rush right now for game legion.
Big test for Favon, man.
Had a really, really slow start here.
Couple of multi-kills to try and bring him back into the conversation.
But it's his and Tabson's bombsite getting tested now.
Oh, chaos, JVC moves in to help him and the stat gets here just in time for Big.
Grimes to a very awkward halt.
And even though you're being given a window to go back, that's not the answer here for Gamelige
and there's no good answer to this. 2 vs 5.
And so you might be allowed to leave, but what's that left you with in this round?
back for Gregson the cross and this should really be a done deal I mean you
should be thinking about saving but the argument against it is you don't want to
split your money up this late in the game like how much the two rifles going
to be able to carry you through that next round should you not just go for
damage a difficult decision to make the game a legion and what a crazy be hit
look at how deep they got into be we had snacks in the pit we had a player on
pass bridge before anyone saw their opponent. That's thanks to the flashbangs, but just crazy
game-a-leash and got so deep and those other three players got stuck at monster with no kills.
Space was certainly made, just not capitalized on and okay the gap is A right now, but Tapsen
can just relieve the pressure with a nice kill. That will take down Rez, leaving a low
hate a health hypex looking for a bomb plant and they will not let him cross. Big are a round behind.
From 10-4 down they've been shouting the entire way back into this game and on the CT side
with all the momentum with the better AWPer in the game right now everything is looking up for big.
Oh, that's a no, I wish I had really fired up. They were just hyping each other up the
whole game now. Tabsons letting them know and silence in the game of each of camp. Nothing
to shout about here. It's great to see Tabson display and that type of an energy man. This
is a guy who you know, the clone outing so big usually are used to seeing him kind of
They're sitting there looking a bit dismayed.
They're willing out to do the elimination interview,
talking about how he's sad that it's all over.
But this new look, big squad man with the grind they've been on,
the pieces they've bought in, it's looking like a real threat.
All right, Gamelige, just pistols here.
I'm just seeing a lot of frustration as well for game of Legion could have been a 5v4 right
there. Instead big sit back 3b or on a.
The Greeks hasn't had many opportunities on this top side, but he has nailed them when
game of legion have come his way.
Let's see how it looks against pistols look like a double smoke execute I flash Greeks
Pushed off and they're getting closer.
Wow, he doesn't miss the second time around nor the third.
Griggs solid really holding his own on this AWP.
It's half for high pegs, but no more.
Just gets triple swung big, bring the fight and do that.
I mean, Griggs just looks so solid.
Yeah, we were looking at high pegs in that first half.
Really struggled in some of the initial engagements.
had a few rounds where we were going to recover, but there were a lot of misses in there.
And Greeks has just felt so hard to deal with. Like when there's an opera in the A site that's hitting
his shots in his stride, it can feel like you just can't go to that half of the map.
Well, B hasn't really gone much better, but game of the legion will still give it a try.
One of the default round, three towards his B side, getting the short control
and leading the smoke. But Fabin finds a safe timing to cross to the right side of Monster.
Oh, JDC just walked right through that con smoke.
PR's coming through as well.
His barrel is bucky, his gun in the way,
but he still gets a flick off in time.
PR shocked at how JDC even got to this position.
He still wants more opportunity to bail out towards B,
but JDC is frothing at the mouth to take another fight.
I think he saw Torsten as well, but Torsten
doesn't want the smoke.
5v4 for big, and JDC is just unleashed right now
after a very slow start akin to Favon.
Blame it, I can't dive for nothing here
in a committed position with no support.
They need to trade this properly.
Oh.
Now knows what's coming his way,
doesn't make dealing with it any easier.
shot from Reds. That timing is horrendous for JDC.
repushes middle just misses that divider walk all in the meantime gricks is
holding for the A cross whatever could have gone wrong for big went wrong are
they going for the last second punch into this A site it got the money they're
believing in this right now two before hoping to rob it away at the final hour
this is a audacious for big
smoke it to work with oh my god are they gonna do it it's a room no way don't do
this tabson
this is their town that's what tabson said and then he stole the lead away from
gamer legion the biggest robbery in cologne it is the German squad sneaking
in and the two versus four and running away with the bag. How the hell did they get out
of that? That orb shot was so close. And if you weren't already crushed, that will do
it. Game of Legion worked so hard to finally get back on this T side. Their first round
since the pistol was right there and Big just ripped it away. Seven straight rounds without
blemish on the record. Oh my goodness. And of course it's Tabson. He can't believe this.
and all here for big there you go again
torson the hero of last round picked by
gricks big looking electric right now
they never gave up they were in the hole
yeah they never gave up at the toughest
of times they were believing while they
were on the back foot the whole way
through that first half and it's led them
now to pull up some miraculous rounds
Watch him go.
Briggs getting pressured over it long.
The flashes do leave him blind.
Blamef didn't reach.
Blamef could have bailed him out.
Look at him, bro.
That's crazy, I think.
You know Blamef has his style,
but that was an opportunity to at least trade.
Put things in a 3v3 or 3v2 rather.
Instead, he lets his teammate die at long.
And now, Big have nothing to show for it. All of the celebration could be muted.
The Gamer Legion walked their way into Bieber.
Tabson again keeps the round alive.
I think you can stomach losing another round like this if you're Gamer Legion.
And so you better hope you've got what it takes to close this 2v1.
He said after the Robb defuse from Tabson, they would be crushed.
They would be out of this.
Their path to recovery hinges on getting past Blame F.
Very wonderful. And he's already on for it.
PR reset. Do they know he's low? He's gonna recommit back monster side and Blame reads it like a book.
A perfect clutch. He may let his teammates down, but he does not let his team down.
I
My oh my big have not dropped around since their first buy
Yeah, up to eight in a row looking to go flawless to close this out
I mean you know in all facets this is crushing it's the fact that it's a huge
streak it's the fact that they got a sneaky last second defuse in there now
they want a 1v2 you've had all these good positions all these big chances to
save yourselves if you game a legion and the rounds just keep coming up for big
Snacks is net at number 5v4. Oh, oh my God.
My man brings PR down at just one point in health. He responds with a chunky nape.
And so, you know, none over yet.
But Gamelision have struggled with better advantages than this one.
That they have. But still, you'd like to think this is good. They're going back into A.
It's only JDC here. He's had some awkward timings in these last few rounds.
If they don't go long, it looks like they want it.
Rez, clear, JDC holds his own.
And Bomb can't really commit.
Do Snacks risk that package or can he wait for his team?
Double high flash is beautiful. Snacks hunt him down.
4v3, no excuses, Gamer Legion.
Cricks.
Been the guy to watch.
At this A bomb site, the AWP delivers the first, that's gonna slow him down and they don't have time to spare.
No health on PR, remember, he's at 1 HP.
Bomb creeping up on the long side.
They're moving.
Rotate starting to arrive.
Bricks won't get gun on in time, so the entry comes through.
You've got 15 seconds to get this bomb planted.
How to taps and a blame F wanna play this.
Both of them have had phenomenal back-to-back clutches for big.
Now they have to play this one together.
They've got money and you've seen that that's led to them taking more risks in these retakes.
Gonna try and give this one a go.
Tapsin sent to his death.
Hypex with the cover.
Gamer Legion, come looking for overtime.
Oh, just for relief, I think.
Relief for Gamer Legion that they can indeed close around on this T side.
That was getting way too hairy.
way too messy and man snacks the hero of this game right now for Gamelige and
sure they've struggled a closing rounds in the second half but he has once again
delivered a key multi-kill to get them in position that double flash on long
saved it
Gamelige in it right here around behind
right methods even a nade or something down low off the rip
and they very slow start to the round here for
T side being methodical clearing close
Not taking anything for granted right now
And they know round one of these corners sits the Greeks AWP and it has been a nightmare for them
Can they avoid it just the idea that you know, whatever you've looked for this a map control
It feels like you're paying a tax to be in every peak that you take
That's what they're burning you tell just to make sure that or doesn't have lines available trying to piece together where Greeks is
It's just a good spot here for Gamer Legion, they've got good map control, they've done
great damage on the Util, now they've got to put a bow on it.
It's just through everything they had on that B bomb site, a couple of reflashes on A as
well, they're not really sure where this one's going, but it's coming in quick.
Swing and a miss for the Hypex AWP.
Snacks plays it forward up through long, but the bomb's going down into this lower site.
Snacks sells the fake, 10 seconds, got to make it across with the bomb in check.
P.R. going to plug in the numbers and they get that bomb down with seconds to spare.
Three versus two.
I'm sure these rounds have gotten away from you.
This one can't afford to do so.
Hypex finally hitting a shot on this AWP.
And his playmate looks on the last man standing going in to hostile territory.
He is shut down.
Gamer legion course correct, right at the 11th hour.
I think this is overtime.
Overtime secured.
My oh my, what a crazy call for Snacks.
Pushes through that long smoke, sends his team down to B.
They were always going to, I think big burning all their youth early in the round,
is what sets that cool for the game legion. They realise we have gotten so much out of this team.
Let's go!
Guys, I'm so cooked, my head thinks it's over, I'm on no count.
I think...
Now you're there at least.
Pressure doesn't get easier.
I
Pipex back to rifling
As it looks like game a legion wants something more set towards his b-site
Faven and Tabson triple a sure you can get quick flanks, but you are a lion on multiple kills in this B bomb site
Warning shot
They're walking in
Tried to get gun on in time
So being made to look silly and now it's captain out of ammo down in the pistol. They're closing in and he can't escape
JDC first to arrive on the scene will great be as lucky down here in the connector
It's a no now. He's getting pincet trapped out over towards the shore side JDC's on a timer and res
the sides it's ran out. What a check for Rez. Hyper awareness that there could be
more in store down in this deep bomb site probably looking for blame and they
still haven't found him back down in spawn just trying to throw himself in. I
think the save is justifiable here. You need that money on this CT side but
blame dies and Gamelige and are back in the game. Some hype for hypex. Cook no
longer put some ice on it. As three rounds in a row from game
legion, can you believe it with the streak we saw from big on
this on this second half eight straight for them game
legion finally get back in the game.
Cheer up.
Heavy B-Start here.
Actually, I begs.
And it's bricks to connect.
You'll feel that in the morning.
But big don't want to concede this advantage, they put all their nades back down on B, they
block.
JDC makes a move in the mid-round, flame covers the gap on A, and there's a big flank coming
in available for big.
Well with where this looks like it's ending up, they've just got to hold this monster.
players the Gricks remained in position
Flash is good gets Gricks full blind and that's one way to deal with your favin feeling pressure
Bested by Torson and that flank from JDC takes way too long to get involved
He will be arriving on the monster side, but that bombs already down
So left to a retake here money on the line for big as well
That could open up the the route to a flawless T side
You're weighing up quite the decision here if you're big should save
Unless the kills come to you
Yes timing go for it. Oh
That's really rough
Playing that fish just walk right by them in the smoke trading places ends up behind awesome
Collects one for free, but can't piece together. What's just happened?
And now you've arrived at the worst case scenario if you're big
They're crediting them for the resilience in this map, right?
06 down to get things going.
They're able to get through that first half with four rounds.
Their name proceed to go on an eight-round streak
all the way to map point on their home map.
And that is a 3v5 as well for Gameligian.
Greg's got two opening kills with the offshore swiftly traded,
but excellent flashbangs for Gameligian.
Render big blind and render this one problematic.
Yeah, because now, you know, you know, team money can become a problem and that's exactly what's happened for big
T side rounds or whatever almost struggling to get both squads only managing four
The idea that game of Legion could go flawless now on this T side is huge
They don't know right now. Look how deep snacks has gotten his teammate gives it away
But they don't know snacks has put himself deep on the monster side
And he just waits for the strike
That's his. Got adjustment from Griggs at least to stop him from taking all the space away.
I need support. Blame F arrives.
It covers the cross. No one can make it in.
So now they're going to lend a bit of time to Rez, trying to clear out the connector.
This one's going back and forth.
It will end over towards the B site.
Everyone lies for big.
And so one round secured on this CT half low econ for big clan
And they managed to pull through again another big multi kill from their AWPer, but this time on the rifles
Yeah, it always gives them a bit of a buffer
But two rounds T side for gamer Legion after how much both squad struggled there. You'll take that all damn day
Yeah, I think a major realize like it's just a simple be here
been working for them but they just go straight out this time and so they have the numbers to
deal with them stacking that site is enough the biggest still in this game but we're gonna have
to make up from that really slow start in that initial half and show us more on this T side
Heading the smoke, there's no favours for Torsen.
Throw that bomb back, uncertain about their finisher, but we'll be taking it towards his
B-bomb site.
Siteware, only 3 CTs sit.
Oh, that's a lot of info.
Bombspotting and cock grenade are great, though.
Oh my! Third one will do it!
Alright, that's your red carpet. That's the invitation. Moving in now.
They'll get past snacks, tossing dead over towards Monster.
And so a clean finish for Big.
Double AWP as well in this round for Gamer Legion, so they really can't justify even giving this a look in.
That one decided very, very quickly on the back of the Nades to bring them in.
The rifles do the rest.
War of attrition on this B-bombsite right now as teams have just, both teams have moved away from doing these A-executes.
They have run into the stacks and the orbs one too many times.
Big don't even know this double-op is in place so could still be a shock in that next round
Nice call to triple head PR stand
Timeout's been called in on the run-up to this round for Gamer Legion and you
wonder if they want to go back to a bit of their aggression. It's what they did a
lot in regulation.
Campo Torps on A.
Freeze them up to start 3B with the rifles.
It's a boost in the mid-round down on B to try and siphon some info, but it will be this
a finish and the boosters at least allowed snacks to begin a rotation early still high pecs had some swings and misses in
regulation
Has to hit on the LEP now that one sailed past, but the no scope makes up for it
Leaves it to chance and it's a fine thing indeed for a high pecs
5v2 and this should just be a formality they're going into the stack
Cut down in these crossfires. What's Griggs got for us to connect?
He wasn't ready for the layers of defense there game of League just too many players in the right place
I've just lost count of the amount of impactful multi-kill snacks has had in this game again
Just two massive frags have stopped every clutch from coming through seemingly
Flies through the smoke spin on the money on his rotations every single time how is hypex given a second shot there?
I could not tell you
and big so much resilience so much hard work so much faith and it might all be
for nothing round 30 decides it go back to be sure with a bit of a pace but the
same call hit the game a legion as they just crushed them double push from both
teams double spray down monster maybe they're still hot
Taps him forced wide by the utile, boost up, takes place quickly out here on short, and
with PR providing cover, you're feeling like you're running out of places to hide here
if you're big.
JDC's doing what he can, but playing F, it's just too many players bearing down upon him.
So Gamer Legion, in a game that was rapidly getting away from them, they had a massive
Lee 10-4 up, had to drag it into overtime.
They're able to stay composed long enough on overpass.
JDC
now leaves himself in a doable position, got an AWP to get past.
Hypex has had some very awkward misses.
Can't afford to do so here, you don't want this to be a problem.
PR is moving.
It's a game of timing now, he might just have it.
JDC not even taking this into consideration he doesn't know it but the timer that he's
existing on is fast expiring and so Gamer Legion complete the turnaround what a rollercoaster
on the game this one was the opening map Big's pick goes against them and now Gamer Legion
sitting a map up in this series for stage 2.
That was gonna hurt for Big right the resilience on display is incredible what a comeback from
the next stage. That was an
absolute rollercoaster to be
opening up this qualification
series were on the T side. It
looked like they were all about
of it. Then we go into that CT
side eight rounds in a row for
them. But game. Allegiant managed
to push it to overtime by the
skin of their teeth. I just want
to get initial taste of the
Game of Legion managed to push it to overtime by the skin of their teeth.
I just want to get initial taste left in your mouth after that one, Janko.
Spicy. That was a spicy game for, you know, we saw a little bit of everything.
Good start from Game of Legion, big staying in it mentally, right?
And finding a way to make the first half respectable.
Then even with losing the second pistol as well, again,
getting back into it, having an opportunity to close out even
the map, but at the very last moment, Gamer Legion finds a way to take it into overtime
and then secures the win.
I felt like we saw a lot of different faces of Gamer Legion and this wash, would you agree?
Yeah, it started off hot and then he got very frustrated and then he got very gimmicky.
He went too much on the prepper thing, he went back to be normal and I don't know what's
kind of going on.
It's a little bit weird the vibes, like we noticed that it was very quiet, big with
shout and everything and the first time we heard Gamer Legion would just be for quite
a long time was when he got to overtime.
It was a little bit strange at times.
Yeah, a bit of a rollercoaster of emotions in that one as well. Let's go back to that first half though
Because you were picking out what was working really well for game religion and we got to see a lot of highlights coming out of them
Right. Well, they again these entry frags happened on the u3 of a day and this
Well today, it was just full disruption and saw that basically big couldn't play the game
like every single round some sort of
Maybe a little bit of trickery
I think that to be honest the feeling i'm kind of getting is that game religion at the most comfortable and overpass and they kind of
Relying a little bit more. Let's go get the 5v4s and then play them because we saw big on the other side
They were kind of sitting back and like give me to play and try to play in the mid rounds
Give me a little more focus more and let's go be some pushers. Let's do some boosts and flash plays
I think here and there and big just couldn't deal with it
I think we saw the same thing as well when I played energy on inferno a few days ago
Disruptive playstyle. It's enough for now, but it was a little bit shaky because it's such a good start
Yeah, and I want to give props to big because you know even having to deal with all that and losing some of the
post plans early on you know they didn't get deflated they just kept going at it
they stayed confident right it was their map pick after all and they were able
to win those four rounds in a row you know obviously with given that you're
having such a big lead they had a lot of economy they did a good job though of
saving when when rounds didn't go their way which in the end allowed them to win
the all-important final two rounds of the first half. And that's the thing right
you look at Beggar you go back if you just didn't have that slightly more of a
the first half. Maybe we'd be
looking at a school on the close
time regulation for them, but
moving into that second half.
So a bit of a weird pistol
strap coming in for game of
Legion was this one? Yeah,
there's usually very good
preference from a coach. This
is a big tendency. They must have
seen here because I've never seen
anything quite as pissed around
just every player all over the
map, just standing and hiding in
a corner, including the person in
T spawn. So I think whatever you
push and die here, you can pretty
tilted. So from this start, it
looked like the preparation side
preparation side was really on point. I mean, like I said, the entries, they come from somewhere.
There's some sort of ideas. I see some weaknesses and some gaps. They get those entries and then when
they win this pistol round, they're thinking, okay, great, our game plan is fantastic. Everything's
looking nice because this is telling, right? How often do you die like this? This is absolutely
crazy round over in a second. But I feel like what I didn't like about game legend here is I think
they went fully for the prep and they're winning 10-4 in this game. And it felt like from here
onwards until 10-10. They were playing set play, gimmick round where something to do
with prep where they saw some sort of hole. And here we've seen the second buy round. The
first one I think was also a gimmick. It instantly goes straight through the smoke and they just
find themselves on eco all the time because, well, I'm assuming they're thinking Fabin
doesn't go for this play very often. Mostly does a weakness. Let's go out there. So, I
was a little bit disappointed to not see them go guys with a better team right now, bigger
struggling. Let's just play some defaults and let's just beat them properly.
Yeah, there's a time and place for those rounds really, but it tells you I mean the the read that they had how
Dimensional big must be in their city pistols were in hypex in T spawn
He's there just in case they push monster and don't go too short and try to flank all the way two ways
He's only holding that and everyone else is holding for that water push
So yeah, it seemed like after that the game was gonna be over then a little bit of laziness from gamer legion
You know in the first gun round where they had a 5v4 and couldn't really convert it
But I think also I was really surprised by a couple of decisions from the coaches when it comes to timeouts
I mean IMD took his first timeout being up 5-0 on CT side overpass
It's like I get it. There's something you're not happy with probably right
But you're probably gonna be needing those you might need those down the line
And then she didn't have timeouts towards the tail end of regulation
Luckily for him the coach from Big Sen took a timeout after they got the last second diffuse
It's like why are you taking that you just won around you weren't supposed to win
They have no answers for your own bad point. It's like why are you giving them an opportunity to organize themselves?
Like this is such a shocker like you have to understand the IGL is thinking the round is one
I'm thinking about what I'm gonna call. Oh shit. We just they're going for it
And we lost around last second diffuse now it changes in your head
You only have 20 seconds of freestyle to come up with what you're going to do if it's gonna be a fast opening
right, then you have to call it within 10 seconds so everyone can know what they need to do if you need to throw utility from spawn
And that's when sometimes pressure gets to players and they just call a set strat because they can't
You know did they feel overwhelmed by what's going on to call a default and to figure something out
Is that they just go for something that's set and you took a time and you gave them an opportunity to organize themselves to give a
Breeder and they won the final two rounds to take it into I'm curious after you agree with yanko sentiment here timeouts
a little bit. We play from
both sides. I think when it
happens like this and it
doesn't work out, then yeah,
it does look a bit strange
sometimes, but you understand
why they're doing it and
think the adrenaline is too
high. The communications
probably a mess of game which
in the first half and when
they want to defuse, you saw
the players basically standing
on the desk nearly shouting
at the other team because
they really hyped about it.
Sometimes the players are
giving leashes was like a if
I'm feeling too emotional, I
want to take a pause. If
that's happened, I mean, it's
more understandable. Like I
don't think it's the worst
thing in the world, but it
definitely seemed like it
back to your point about the kind of gimmicky trick plays as well coming out of game. And
because it happened a hell of a lot, right? Why? Why were they going for this? Why weren't
they just going for more defaults? Do you think?
I think it's like I said, I think they don't feel comfortable on the map at the moment.
And I think also they probably saw so many gaps where they felt kind of invited to go
and punish them. And I think also like this is the kind of way that snacks was like to
call in general, like he wants to make some tempo for some trick around here and there.
But I think the balance here was wrong. And like I said, the first round, the end of win
on T-Site after the pistol and the conversion is the default round they do and they actually
lose the entry, they come back and they do a normal execute and they end properly with
utility and they outplayed them in that round. So I would just like to think the game situation,
let's apply it a little bit more, yeah we'll smash them right now, let's see if they can
handle the first 20 seconds of a round, they're probably going to make so many mistakes.
Yeah and to be fair, when they did play default in the final round of regulation, you know
they put together a great round really, right? That extended the game and allowed them to close it out in OT.
Yeah, we can get the example coming up here. Tell me what worked well from this then to get it to OT.
First of all, it was just a default and we pushed later, they get some map control and they're going to see the HEs come towards B.
So this signals to big, alright, they want to end the round B, right? Like they're doing this chip damage,
you want to force us away from this position.
But actually, they're already back towards A, snacks,
with utility from his teammate.
Just makes a play here, walking through the smoke.
Bit of a mistake with three players on A
for no one to be holding for that.
You can see it pulls everyone away from the B bomb site.
And even though the players are still there,
they're out of position, right?
Like they're not in water, they're not in barrels.
There are no position to play off of each other.
They're short or just, you could see,
they just stood their ground and hoped to get the spray downs.
But that's not going to happen very often.
And it was just a great call and a great play from gamer legion in that final round
I think it's all the timing of that call from snacks is really good because when the round is getting late under 30 seconds
Usually the fakes just general have more impact. Also when the game is 12 11, you're thinking you're always kind of praying like
Coming in the game guys like bigger thinking I get towards a I need to be there just in time
I need to be there to win the round when the game for my team was suddenly
Oh, I'm out of position. It's too late. This is sort of things we look back in the
the analysis would be like, okay, I should be maybe jiggling short checking to the back
then I flunked towards connector. My teammate can go instead. They both just knife out run
off. It's got to be a right through some utility. So there's a good call from snipe.
Rug just pulled out from underneath you. Let's talk about very quickly. I think we've only
got 30 seconds to go to break the ancient. That's the pick coming out of game. Allegiant.
We know that they look solid in Atlanta. Do you think it's two zero here or big or a chance?
I think they have a chance because game allegiance still a little bit shaky. Like I think if
they just play a bit more default. Don't overthink it, you know, understand that they're a better team.
They're the favorite. I think, yeah, in that case, we can see it too well.
Yeah, I'd like to trust the practice rather than the prep. Use a bit of the prep, but just go and beat them.
Show you about.
Well, let's see exactly how this one is going to fall. It's ancient, the map choice of game
and Legion. We know that there are strong team on this map, but can big battle back into this one?
We're going to find out after this break.
I had so many trades trading anything, your eyes are wide carried you take me one round
hold on let me pull up CS stats
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You suck.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats, and turn on tracking to see all
your games.
Yeah, flash pillar, what I see now.
3, 2, 1, now I'm right.
Water, one more water. I have underground.
I'm CT. I have underground, we're B, I'm planning.
One saving. One saving. I'm very close CT guys.
He's right now, truck running wrong.
Fucking nice boys, man. Very nice call band. Fucking nice.
Let's keep it up boys, we are in this!
Bucket nice combat man!
From 6-0 to 6-4!
That's amazing!
We have more!
They're coming!
I'm flashing!
Coming in, coming in!
One more!
One more!
You killed!
I'm going!
Hold my bridge!
Hold my bridge!
I'm flashing bridge!
They have it for you all, they have it for you!
What is it?
Swing boys!
Swing!
Swing!
I'm blind!
One more!
Fetch up!
Nice!
You can turn left!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm blind!
I'm in flash
Out short out short
Both both both
Water is short
Bridge is short
He is planning default
I'm inside short
We were on water hotline
No other short
I'm cheating on hory for me
Monster!
Who has the kit?
I'm in silver
I'm dead
I can go on top you can defuse or what how you want to it yeah one like when the
time is around like close up you just run out I think I need to run away
I'm holding a bank
I'm holding a bank
One is running away
3, 2, 8, 10, 6, 5
Hold on
Nice!
Fuck you!
What are they doing? They're not finding the bomb? No! No, no, no!
There could be actually no way! No! No, G2!
Holy shit!
This can't be real!
Oh my god!
Oh, it's happened, McCartland!
A new addition to the map, Paul Vartigo!
They need to find a way to get these kills and get on that bomb very quickly, and now it's all full of the fucking...
Oh my god!
Oh my god!
Oh my god!
Watch the events on Twitch, watch it online, and it's all disclosed.
It's not been easy for Game of Legion, it never is at a major, but here they are looking
for that stage 2 birth.
Yesterday we saw them get absolutely dominated by Bat Boom, and the beginning was happening
here as well by big a comeback on overpass that embarrass game a lesion with clutches and ninja
diffuses still none of that matters game a lesion are here with a map in the pocket an ancient up
next to try and find this two zero victory yeah right there looking for stage two the idea that
they ever come from that for them maybe giving a bit of hope here to game a lesion this one might
me a little bit easier. Not if big have their way, they'll be starting off in the CT side.
So the game a legion setting the tone of this first half.
Five by Dan, straight through the red smoke. I do like that.
that. Tabsin's gonna hear this. Steals himself away. Snacks three lines straight for him.
These blame F-double barrettas don't last long. Snacks is picking even more fights in
the back line. Proves to be one fight too many, but he's done a lot of damage. Left big in
an awkward spot.
Going to fight this? Oh my god, it works wonderfully. Everybody gets in the spawn and gets involved.
JDC offered with a chance to take a battle
and finally Gamelage and cut it off.
They've had enough.
Probably gets planted.
Torson 3 kills deep into this pistol flashback from Maw.
JDC used to grab this while he can, there it is, but now the clock is against him.
On V2.
And Hypex has got the swag, so Gamelige and Pistol on top of a map in their pocket.
Snacks keeps it easy and simple here in this second round. Go A.
What if we actually won't be?
Oh my goodness, Rez!
Where did that happen?
Elbow spray. Put some grease on big.
The rest of the map just feeling a little too quiet for Reyes.
Terrorists win.
Now the guns come out.
Slow round for Gamelige and they're not rushing anything here.
Sure, respect to the lane take. Not looking for the mid-fight. They've done some good early damage with the Util.
This is going to be a slower round still in spawn this one to kind of gauge what
big are gonna throw at them on this CT side and it looks like a lot of control
big clearing out of all of the lane pushing down as well I expect flash
around this corner, so gotta be very careful, Dustapson. Toxin.
They've just walked in.
Oh, if Avan knows that smoke's gone in a little late, steals himself away for a fight.
That's one hell of a turnaround. Torsen gets a double there.
And so now you've got 40 seconds to make up your mind. Do you want to commit to the original plan?
Try and follow through with this B finish or do you leave it to chance? Hope you've got the gap out towards mid.
He's supposed to have so heard the aggression from big gave them the info.
It's a blame F here lying in wait.
I think they have to control. They're holding for this swing. Rez has the cover.
And spot there on Griggs, dropping down in the middle. Gamer leaves and allowed to reposition
to play around this bomb. This is now a very tricky round. Oh, they give him a fight early.
Torsing goes looking for it. And now just Rez, low on health to B, swings out early.
doesn't have the health to play with here.
Greg's trying to force a fight,
but Rez just isn't giving it to him.
This is frustrating.
You've got to take the fight to Rez closing in now.
There simply isn't time.
Torso had to apologize for even putting
Stephen in that position.
But well handled by Rez knows there's no way
Greg's is going to stick that in the open.
That would be absolutely mental.
Huge comeback round here from Torsten though, I mean he's on a hitter, two big kills as they run through the heaven smoke.
That was a 5v3 forced by Falun.
I think it also just showcases the differences of those two players, right, Torsten, younger guy, aggressive player,
back to Zayn in that after the double the ball the back of the round the reds
just touch a class you know wins it with smarts
lots of native they've all been used now and no kill
It's a game of legion, go back to spawn, early assault on B, finds nothing, don't have control
taken and that's just easy avenue though quick since the one rifle he is in
position buffing up his chest giving big reason to believe is a rotate hard
okay religion tried to dodge the stack in doing so play into the Greeks M4
killing a JDC just makes you breathe a little easier here
Torsen of one health, he'd love to get out with anything, but it won't happen.
That surround is far from safe yet.
flank is really slow though, and if he walks and they wait for him, they're going to lose a lot of time, but no kit right now.
What smoke to elude those players with a donor.
He's going to have trouble. That's an incredible shot though.
2v4, stuck in the side, damage done, the hypex on low health just has to win these fights, his teammate back in donor.
another clutch here for Gamelige and in a post plan and it might be enough. He's off the ball man
I think it's been one year as Gamelige and walk it over the line snacks three kills and a 1v2 to boot just to make
Things feel nice. It's just always kind of doing what you least expect is snacks, right? Like I think a lot of players there
You set up with the post plan and donor, you know, it's a low-ecom round
You know, they don't have the kids but he hangs around on the angle looking for fights
And they think they're gonna have a lot more room right as they're crossing in there
Imagine they have to tap to force the fight out of him
It's one of those moves where like if this lets you down you're kicking yourself because you know, it's kind of the wrong thing
It's not the done thing. That's how snacks gets it done. Yeah, well, he knows what's expected and what's not
He knows how to subvert every single time
Ouch
All right, big. Can't be like overpass. Can't see them as slow to start.
Gamelige, I'm fine to be confined back in spawn again.
This one's gonna get convoluted because your motor snacks is outside of B with a bomb, so whatever you see, don't believe it.
in the lead you go for the intake. Olly is well time to hold the back.
Snacks just got spotted by the B as well so bomb the scrutiny might have to go back.
This is a really rough start for game of legion right there they're slow to get going they
wait for the big you tell the big map control to come through at the start I hope it existed
in the mid round but I mean look at the health. Snacks down low from the brawler ramp PR
dinked right at the start of the round. This one might be over. Yeah, I actually think it's a save call here for a
game a legion. I don't really blame them either. A lot has gone wrong. PR dinked early, mid control locked out by good
utility. And I think part of the plan was snacks to bring that bomb and be late. But because Tabsin had lane, he
spotted it really early on. So kind of forced the plan to fail here for game a legion and they didn't want to risk
their guns. In a haphazard play, so a reasonable save gun can be dropped over, we can get a
good buy in this round. But sooner rather than later, big R in the game. And just as
As much as game a legion, they'll be happy with a clean round.
So Andy was doing a lot of the talking, conversation.
game a legion because they don't want to let big back in to the CT side and up
until now they've been trying to do a lot of stuff in the mid rounds right they
haven't really concerned themselves with the early takes look to fight for that
lane control look to try and stop it haven't sent anyone out towards mid
as we need to listen because I was talking about 30 seconds if you don't
understand ask me for what we cannot be like this that I'm waiting and I'm
Ripping for the mapping.
Oh, hard work here from Snaggs.
He's even not listening to the call.
How's he here? JVC will flush him out.
So, he's going to dash towards B now. Gricks in the right position, but not connecting the shot.
Got a second chance for the major flying at his feet. He's got a conceit.
And I'll make it into the site.
No, you tell down. No, you tell to play with.
I've just got a plant and hope and Favon can stop that line-up found and the PR left, not for long,
and claps upon that B site for big shots. Game of Legion out of it.
Oh, if we just had Snacks Tilt and then we get that round, that's not going to look good for the Game of Legion vibe, is it?
They get lined up, plant to the bottom, very poor cover, good timing found by Favon on long, but
I think Game of Legion are going to be kicking themselves.
I mean, you know with the additional context of that being a misunderstanding in that previous one
That's kind of the reason why it never gets going
You essentially just wrote a whole round off right didn't get to play it didn't get to do whatever plan snacks was coming up with
And then that's your next round a complete shut down another clean round for big
Suddenly, you know, you're a
Your lead that you once had is gonna disappear and then bigger a huge threat all of a sudden
Yeah, it was one round of not understanding, but it's had implications that entirely shaped the early game
Snacks just runs it in on a clock and
Just no chance in this round here for game of legion
Situations like this that are gonna tilt you
you.
Chill.
But Quick Flank should be fine and so under the thumb of Big, but yeah, you compare the
vibes as well last map, right?
Sure, Gamer League can win it.
That ultimately is the most important thing, but the whole time we know Big had the energy.
They definitely had the energy.
They believed in the comeback.
They gave it a really good go.
We saw a lot of frustration from Game of Legion, but yeah, when you see the same thing at the start of this game, a 4-ereleaf for Game of Legion, big still with high energy for every kill they get.
Let's put some worry away of Game of Legion.
It's not every day we get a voice call like that.
All right, Fabin hiding out of the toolbox.
He goes unclear, it could be a huge problem, gets out with his double and the trade is
just seconds too late out towards me.
Oh, it hangs around, Fabin farming.
I know I left a turn in this for Gamer Legion, they need a way out.
This mid-fight could provide it, but PR takes a lot of damage in that skirmish.
Both are shot away from death here.
So as you try tip-toe your way out in the middle, bigger here to greet your clean shot for Hypex,
Dud does lend some intrigue to this.
Surely not. I mean, everything's got to be clinical for game allegiance.
You can't afford to miss even one of these shots.
And so, Gregg's reels him in. AWP proves to be a little overkill for the health on Gamer Legion.
What a shutdown from Father Man. He was at absolutely bottom of the server last map.
He was a liability at times for big and comes up with 386 damage in this round, drops three players, dinks the fourth.
Shut down. Just ruffles the feathers as again their plan is to put full rush here on this
A-Side now. Bricks is in position.
Yeah, and his AWP has just been so solid. Really matters in those A-Rushes that you
just get that first kill, you know, just make the first incision, don't let them close
in you buy an extra couple of seconds for your rifles to come and help you these
last few rounds have just flown by ever since that game Legion save big of run
away five runs in a row
money is out of control as well game Legion not gonna be able to break in this
half they are against full buys every time and they try again on this a rush
this just always gets his one you're always paying the gricks tax
and torsons a big scalp to find man he's been the most dependable piece alongside res of this
this game allegiance squad they've got to get through this post plant without him
and even now with big completely conceded in the fight right no one fall off to
that opener a starts to feel really claustrophobic when you're stuck in the
site when you don't have those post plants they go looking for the donut
control and they will get their hands on it something to play with something to
play around and now they can cover no they spoke to nothing spoke to bomb
They've lost!
Olly's gonna burn him off, charging through, no time to defuse this.
And so a tricky spot there for Gamer Legion.
But able to battle through, get into that post plant.
And no smoke for the bomb, proves to be a big problem.
I think they threw it at the same second.
JDC threw the smoke into Donut as the, I think the Hypex threw the molly on the bomb.
And so that was the one better U2 they had.
Smoking Donut there is crazy.
Yeah, look at the timing.
It's just throwing it.
Only chance you have to win is by smoking that bomb
and getting on that defuse right away, there was no time.
Big took so long to get through Temple there.
And that's rough considering they've had some really nice early kills.
They've got Griggs with the AWP 5v4 in the post one.
That is an uncomfortable position.
Favon came out Temple with one as well.
It's technically a 3v5 here for Gamer Legion.
But they had super strong positions.
I think it just hurts knowing the smoke that bomb you have a 50-50 whether they get you
off it.
Now four Galils.
Times are tough.
Favon has just been feasting as well in this CT side, so big with some comfort towards his B site.
Game of the Legion has been pretty execute heavy in this half, doing A rushes,
not really focusing on mid-control and this is why.
Because Grick's in position again looking for that early 5v4.
It's been so easy for him, he's just been given the dry fights.
Hey, removing res is massive.
That's kind of the backdoor player for Gamer Legion in a lot of these rounds.
The guy going to take in that mid-space with him gone, he almost forces them to commit
to this B-Player and into the stack.
You don't want to run the risk of going back in the middle, re-challenging that AWP again.
You've lost all the info there, so you need these cave kills to come through.
It's Favon time.
D-Mate starts to arrive, they're on the other side of CT.
Favon hides on, that's the blow!
So much damage!
and makes it nice and easy for Big.
Favon putting in one hell of a shift after a quiet map to start this B03.
He's now the top performer on Ancient.
He was so low and the bomb chases him down, he still just bursts it,
forces a team kill with his damage as well.
They line up in Cave.
Favon is not slowing down.
That is massive impact.
All game long from Favon.
Literally absent in that first map.
You could feel the difference when you lose by the margins, the big big big a surprising entry again from 4-0 down in this map
Looking to win the half
Resilience on display
All right, Rez, that's a crazy shot on the deagle.
And he's made it out all the way through red.
Everyone starts to feel a bit more constricted now with Rez roaming the backline.
You're going to be looking over your shoulder every step of the way.
You have no info on where he could be.
There's the spot and so JDC at least alleviates that pressure.
That allows everyone else to focus forward.
They can hear the drop down.
They know that this play is coming in over towards A2.
Here Griggs or never struggled at these openings, but that's a rare miss makes up for it second times the charm
Oh, yeah, just gonna play to evade leaves this one to a retake
Oh, not even required. They try guys blonde tonight Griggs comes back
There's big log for a winning half can PR change that
Nades himself one HP barely alive and time expires big lock-in
Kinn winning CT side performance in Amidst the madness.
There's the flash, that's going to catch Crimson out, they're going to push off through.
FBK gets one, but Crimson is way down!
He gets himself the triple!
A fanatic, I'm not done yet!
Can you believe it?
Can you believe it indeed?
Big are back and they're doing it well.
Seven rounds in this first half.
Showing up against game allegiance, on-day allegiance.
Big, big, looking ready to crumble and fall over after an overpass fumble in overtime,
but right now they're leaving the way and we're seeing a dismayed game a legion.
A quiet game a legion here on their map.
I mean, dude, just like recap from the round timeline, they were four and a lot.
Then they had that round that just peed it out and went nowhere.
Then we got the comms from snacks where he was a little bit angry at the rest of the gang,
you know, people not understanding each other, not understanding the call.
And it feels like it's just throwing them off the rhythm for the entire rest of the half.
They managed one round past that point.
Gotta believe now that their CT side can stack up.
Well, Torsen seems to think so.
That's a gnarly 3k.
Bomb lost and Griggs left it.
Well, what was a 1v5?
What's he going to do?
I've been given one fight, but that's how long for this world, Torsen was foaming at
the mouth, a prospect of four kills on those dual barrettas.
Shame to see it.
Shame to see it.
One man bans the ramp hold to win the pistol for Gamer Legion.
Shame to see it go like that for big because the logic is you're hoping there's a USP on
B, a couple of USPs, and you can jump through the smoke, you'll be fine.
That is the tailor-made gun for the job, or should I say guns?
Julie's rip through big and put them back the pistols are very quickly
Single deagle
Supply mef goes fishing
Here's deep cleared the ramp smoke down at the door as well, so
Rightfully, you're worried about the A here in high-packs down here is the footsteps
Doesn't need to overextend here has teammates nearby for mid just closing in they'll make this one quick
Follower the eagle indeed focused faces here for gamer legion as the guns do indeed come out for big
We saw a fair bit of aggression on big CT half right looking for a lot of control early
and for the most part, Game of Legion would find a sit back and let them do that.
Curious what kind of tone Game of Legion set on this CT side.
Nothing aggressive out of the gate.
That's a fair bit of room given to Big off the rip.
You don't have mid control, not fully, PRs hanging around Donut, but that's more for
info.
It's a big do-have runway to make their move.
The execute is very viable here.
I've been gonna walk back to middle.
This red setup, PR peeking behind the molotov, they're all down mid and you just can't see
them.
Finally, the flames down and PR puts one on the board, moving back into this A site as
BlameF tries to cause some chaos in the red room, but the rest of his team picked a split
A. It's a huge entry kill, but Rez has pushed ahead of his smoke, he's got support as well.
They're PR in here alongside him.
One-two punch gets disrupted.
That's a way in for big.
Trying to chase us next to the bomb.
That's going to delay the plant.
We can't get a kill from it, and so bomb goes down all the same.
It's Tolson really interested in this.
Mosey has a player trapped up close in the site.
Goes looking and well-fined Griggs.
That's the plant Adele with.
Tapsen and BlameF running a bit of a crossfire, but BlameF's missed this, and Torsen's allowed to sneak on in.
Gonna go looking, gonna go fishing for Tapsen. Shadow spotted, and he will get the better of him.
Now just BlameF left to beat, got a bomb to play around here, and BlameF just toying with him, playing with his food.
No defuse for Torsen, that's a clutch teed up for BlameF back there in Donut.
don't play for blame. Just gives him the perfect amount of jiggle to force him to fire every
time and still get him off that defuse in the end. So big. It's a stressful round. One
that Tapsen finds the most crucial killing to trade that front A site player. Rez was
in a very strong position for a second frag there and Tapsen, they wait for him. The bottom
of the board delivers an impactful frag, it's big back in the game, I never truly felt out
of it in this series.
Massive opportunity here just to apply so much pressure to game of Legion. It's a full spy for the CTs.
This is a chance to really put yourself in the driver's seat if you're big.
Good you told damage early on.
And Cave taken away with an open at a boot.
We clicker be well timed here.
JDC is not watching for this. He's holding for air aggression so they're gonna try and
climb on up. It's a boost to get you there quietly.
They are now behind enemy lines. They've got no idea.
Oh my.
Nearly line up for him but nearly isn't gonna cut it in this type of a spot. Good
dig for highpacks levels the playing field.
Let's see one more.
Trust your sight can hold, but they just walk through cave and torsion is not looking.
There's not a gun for the job, a single bullet's difference onto bricks, bomb-planted high-packs
saving.
Big one-by-one whittle their way through another sight hold.
And just another high-impact double kill for Tabson.
over towards cave follow up there onto the first site player
and I might be sitting down towards the bottom of the charts for big but last two rounds have
carried massive weight for big and now it's put them on a track towards a great t-side
money gone for gamer legion this ak is all they're gonna have to work with in the next
And it shards just to keep kind of hitting these these two for one type rounds
So long as you can keep this up
Okay, I'm gonna keep the heads on right now
Now, seeing some struggles on the player cams not looking too enthused either, Torson's
been the one guy really fighting.
Oh lord, this is crazy.
They're going in, there's just snacks.
Alright, full buy.
Gonna have something up their sleeve here, this is one hell of an investment around the
saved gun. Whatever idea you've just kind of cooked up there in that timeout,
whatever conclusion you've come to it better be a great call. They just know
they can break big money so to them it's worth the risk. Two very close rounds
here one how I big a game of Legion at risk it all here on ancient.
Nades do great damage.
They will secure an equalizer over here towards ramp.
I feel like blame you what was coming there.
Austin's following through with the aggression, but Hypex here to try and back him up!
Favons hit a blinder!
See the goats?
Stacks waiting back in the cave.
They seem aware that-
Why not?
Haven't cleared this there might be someone else floating around you're leaving nothing a chance at this point
That is the bomb caught moving in
Nate could be real nice, but just gonna fly over favin in this smoke
She's really a bit of stress from favin right cuz he wanted to walk through maybe hit that timing
Didn't feel like he could with the health and snacks his patience. Oh my god
hard. He's just walking around in a snacks wonderland right now. Backscab for snacks.
That is a high octane high impact clutch trigger discipline takes him into that one B2 and he
is just saved game. Allegiant is a snack special to on that swallow it whole big. He doesn't
care. Walks right behind you tracks you down. And a one B two from snacks. Absolute class
lights and such a such a calling card round for snacks. Isn't it just happened so quick?
And that was why they went for the buy right? Look, sure it's a messy round, but look what
they've done to Big Dave, thrown them onto the ropes.
We've got a Galil, Mac 10s and Tech 9s.
That was the risk and here is the reward for Game Legion.
Oh, my goodness.
It is just crazy, isn't it?
Like you might trust snacks and clutches more than anyone else on this team.
I mean, guys got a lot of them.
So how does he get in these positions?
Like, if that's you see him in those spots all the time.
Just let's walk right past him.
He does just have like phenomenal positioning, yeah.
Alright, B rush.
Big try and bring the pace.
Up and in.
They're taking down a peg there on the push.
They will manage a bomb plant.
Snacks offering up some damage on the spam.
Still winnable here.
The post plant's taken for big.
They've got room out towards Long and CT.
Rez is the only guy here.
He falls that's the post plan secured for big. He's playing pass and he's letting them flank wrap. They gotta go quick
Maybe the game for res is just don't die gotta go gotta go
Let's go down. They try to get a move on and res does not falter holding onto the back line
What a time ticked off this bomb
If I haven't been playing that both get theirs and that is the back line player dealt with
Barrelling through the smoke there is it time anymore and with the kit away from them gave a legion of to run for the hills that clutch
from stacks might be quickly forgotten about as B4 is to the rush. Yikes, that's a massive
round to lose. That's just a fumble from Game of Legion. I don't know why they're taking so long.
Why are they executing? You need to save that smoke for the bomb. They're blocking long,
but then they're just getting shot through that long smoke. You don't even want the smoke down
there. You need to fight. You have a 4v2. You need to trade out your kills quickly,
but instead they give big options to play through the smoke, to catch them off guard,
to use those lesser weapons to their advantage.
That is a fumble for Gamer Legion.
Big buy back in, and they break them right back.
What the hell is going on right now?
This just turned into a brawl, hasn't it?
You know, we're really late in the game.
Both teams are scraping the bottom of the barrel for money.
And so it's leading to these hectic chaotic rounds.
And these kind of buys as we've seen in the last two are often one or lost off of the opening move
And so big just crawling into an A site here is the perfect remedy unless it's a five-man stack
You're not losing this game. We should already saving I think unless they get the crazy smoke kill PR
Oh my god, he stinked another. Okay now game religion. They're gonna give it a go five before
But there's the gun drop and with no kit in this round big shouldn't lose
Nothing's safe! Nothing's seriously!
Smoking Spax is trying to save him again!
This can't happen. I mean, they've got a smoke for the bomb, but they've not got a kit.
Oh! Another deal with the downrange? Surely not!
Force by war is this late in the day? Is it meant to happen?
The Gamer Legion Swift response!
Ow!
And we are into the madness of this qualification best of three.
three back and forth we go still a one round game can't believe it I mean these
five sevens just tapping heads at range snacks smoke shot that CT player onto an
AK but but big of gone from that round differences now as well this one's a
lot cleaner than the last right the last win for game of Legion was the snacks
clutch you won that 1v2 that meant like money was still really weak going
forward they have a bit more staying power here three guns taken with you
you out of the round. The buy for big is not pretty. There's a lot more limitations this
time. They're good, you tell armor tech nines. This time it's one, sorry, two rifles and
one smoke. This one has been all over the place. Two AKs, three Deagles, hope and a dream.
Keep it up appearances with the four spy, but this one just doesn't have the same teeth
What is that last one?
We just gotta hope these two players can frag their way through.
Favon and JDC dropping over guns.
That's a shame for Favon, who's really had a great game.
Would love to have seen him on one of these AKs, but to share the wealth.
Chigol, playmef tries to hunt, but blocked again, and they go running out of time right now.
a minute on the clock, still two smokes, two mollies to block, and Rez is holding one towards
Donut as well, so big reroute here, they might just get locked out entirely. What is the
move? Back in Main, a single smoke. The bright side, they're going to get out here, PR probably
We won't be able to throw this molly in time. It's gone out.
Trying to throw his aim off, but the trade just wasn't there.
PR allowed a bit of a shooting gallery as a result.
Rez will get walked on through that smoke, and so they've got the room.
Hypec's going to take it away.
That's the bomb drop.
Tabson's going to get a move on and get it planted.
You have a tiny window here to try and take doughnut.
That's what Babin's doing, but he's bested straight away.
It's a tabs and clutch the old boy a big has to get it done on his lonesome
Can't finish the job and so gamer legion
Snatched away back-to-back rounds and that should be the breakpoint
This is where they should look to move into the lead big have to put their hands up and go fair play at this point
Right, we've had some crazy back and forth rounds, but they cannot keep these guns coming
Finally gonna accept the reality of their situation game a legion leads staring with dead in the face
And I fear I will leave this game again, a kid to overpass thinking what a nice try for big, but nothing more.
Because Gamelys are in the death center coming into this series, Gamelys have not been playing their A-game, they've not been playing their Atlanta game,
but it's still good enough to get them to this position, and it might be enough to get them to stage 2.
Big relying on their next rifle round.
Oh, there's some...
Oh, no, he was everywhere.
Crush is on.
That's just gonna take the route to escape.
are they going to try and boost over this?
that's exactly what snacks was hoping for, you've given them the exact fight you wanted
I've had them cook with this deagle, for sure.
That's all. A couple of kills.
So here comes the buy for big, a final swing, a game allusion, a map down in the series,
Two rounds away from that second stage, four gamer legion, the hottest anticipated team
I believe of this stage.
Can they close it easy?
This is the round that would let them do that.
Even though Big will wait for this by, you can see how incomplete it is.
Just this early staging, U-Till has left them with only one smoke in the round.
What a minute and 25 seconds left.
I'm going to use it to try and get past over in CT.
Oh, but then you've been blocked.
I can't go through that.
I mean, that's so frustrating. The whole round hinged on that one smoke, making it by.
Alright, there's an opening.
Griggs is provided.
Res has to move away.
Exits the red room and that's gonna leave these giant clothes on through JDC.
Best snacks on the smoke fade, blame F much the same.
And that block that looked when do the round actually caused problems for Gamer Legion.
Down at Easton with Res dead.
It's only PRF standing and not for long. He's got all the big looking his way
Considering just how wrong this round could have gone that opener
Onto hypex
Just giving them the room to commit to that a place scrambling the rotates suddenly the smoke in red becomes a problem
I don't believe the game Legion actually thought big work behind it inside that smoke right they
I think they panic a lot their res running away and snacks running through the smoke need to play a really considering that
Every step is getting heard and played against them
Nice aggressive move from JDC, but it falls like the perfect opportunity
I mean, we heard it from IMD back on Overpass, the idea that they've been overrotating a
little bit in their games, and the telltale sign of that and that one there, and it cost
them dearly.
That would have been the easy route to close this series.
Now you've got to do it the hard way, but that's how they did it on Overpass.
And Griggs has gotten all of that as well.
That being said, his rifle has been fantastic.
That entry on Hypex was a thing of beauty, but this push, PR, having enough.
And he's here so early.
Oh, they just missed each other.
And now we enter a very weird realm.
Indeed, PR with the backstab.
Blamef is not in a position to give chase,
but where he could find some successes on an a walk.
He's going to go back out middle and fair enough.
I mean, neither option is open,
but PR is actually staying in red just in case.
In the space on B.
It's right in that smoke.
playing to the crossfire Fabin with an important trade and that will allow this
bomb to go down. Blame F still far removed from the action right now.
Gamer Legion number three on two at the B site and Snacks denies that bomb plant.
It's not even here. I think I've got to get a move on. Blame F's got to get a move on
sneaking it all the way through red. They're trying to lend him as much time as
they can but you need big impact from Blame.
Nothing's being offered. There's the spot from PR and now you've lost the element of
surprise. Blame F shut down with nothing done. It's Greeks alone. Been waiting to bring this
all about, but it will barely get the chance to play a shutdown from PR's flank and it's
so valuable. Game of Legion on to match and series point.
That feels like blame after the end of nuke against liquid, right? Just sort of lost in
the source, not able to find his timing. The gap was on A. I don't think he realized that,
thinking PR perhaps hid in the mid smoke in the first place and that he didn't walk all
the way through on A because the timing was ridiculous. PR goes on to find a massive multi-kill
and it's great to see him standing tall here in this progression game for Gamer Legion.
Big picking up the pace in what could be their final round.
They're going into PR's bomb site. Doesn't hang around, doesn't go looking for that kill.
So this one's gonna come down to a retake. You don't have donut control either.
There's a chance for Big to get into some post plants here. It's down to whether or not they take the space.
Hypex! Dead on that swing with the AWP.
That's an advantage for Big.
Clostrophobic setup though.
Things do go wrong here, they go wrong quickly in this type of an environment.
Snacks with one, snacks with the double, and it's trade all across the board as
GamerLegion sweep the retake and sweep their way through into stage two.
It was not easy for GamerLegion, nobody can say that, they had to battle through this one,
brutalized by BetBoo Man, almost come back by big in both maps, overtime on
overpass and ancient in 24 rounds big showing resilience in this series today. The Gamer
Legion take the stakes, they take the headlines, they take their way to that second stage beautiful
game by the end of it for PR as well. He really showed up throwing some snacks, clutches and
porcelain on teesides. This is a Gamer Legion who can certainly on a good day take on some
of the world's best. We saw it in Atlanta, we might see it in Cologne again.
Yeah, and maybe find us some comfort right the idea that there's been some struggles here
It's still been enough to get them through stage one not entirely unscathed
But arriving in stage two all the same for big it's back to the drawing board
They'll get through to the final day of play the dreaded all or nothing matchups at 2-2
You're either so close to that next stage falling shy of it or you just clinch a victory big played well today
both maps being close, want to see more from this team in Cologne.
Yeah, there's some really good signs of big. I think the resilience, the mentality of these things are holding very strong for big across these games.
You know, falling a little short at the end, but players like Griggs really have impressed so far here at Cologne.
Goes on for 23 kills in this game, Faber with a redemption as well, just a shame to see the overpass slip through their fingers.
what this series could have
been if big to them at picking
took it a distance. I think
was definitely up for the
conversation for big, but we'll
go back to the desk after game
religion may get to the second
stage. Do Andy thumbs up around
from the side of game religion,
but it wasn't like they didn't
get tested by the side of big.
They had to close this one out
by the skin of their teeth.
Yanko. It's not exactly the game
get the job done and they guarantee themselves a next stage here in Cologne.
It's definitely not and it feels like we got a similar game religion today to what we got yesterday
but just the opponent was different and that boom absolutely punished them for you know some of
the mistakes that they would make and some of the space that they were gearing away and big
was almost there right I mean obviously an incredibly close series first map I think in
another time in second one going all the way to 13-11 but they just had just
enough in the tag game religion to close it out and book that spot in stage 2.
Yeah close but no cigar for the side of big plan they will get a chance of redemption
as we go into the final day of play in stage one tomorrow but we have to say
congratulations to our victors you've got Rez up here next to is a number one
fan in ash congratulations stage 2 secured how you feeling right now?
Great, thank you.
That's a good game.
Yeah, give me a little bit of a round.
Stressed for though? A little bit stressed for?
Yeah, I think we are not playing our best right now to be honest.
I think we expected more for ourselves, like a much cleaner game against them and the day before against Batboom.
So yeah, we need to get our stuff together for sure and to stage two.
Even in your first two best of ones, I mean you were able to get them in,
but they were very close maps, it wasn't super clean, so you guys showed a great level in Atlanta,
what do you feel the reason is for not showing the same level here at the Major?
Honestly, I think it's... it feels like it's nerves maybe, because of the Major and the pressure
and all, and we have all these expectations on us now, because people expect us like 3-0 and all
this and that we're gonna destroy everyone here in Stage 1, and I mean it could be that, I don't know,
But probably nerves, I think that's getting up to us right now.
Yeah, it's been a lot of frustration. I've never seen so many death smashes and everything.
And even when you got to overtime on the first map, it was probably the first time I heard
you guys shouting in six, seven rounds. Sorry, I forgot to do the thing.
What's kind of going on? You think it's just most of the pressure?
I've never seen you guys this frustrated.
Yeah, I mean, I think it goes hand in hand with our expectations because we expect ourselves
to play much better than we are right now and when we're doing these very very silly mistakes and
losing these must win rounds I think we get really mad and frustrated at ourselves and I think
that's probably why and yeah like I said I think we need to get this stuff together if we're gonna
might beat anyone in stage two in my opinion. Should we dive into in-game just briefly because
Ashley picked out something from ancient what do you want to show young Riz? Let's get your opinion
on the shrunk this was been pretty fun for you this one but basically what I'd noticed in this game
was big at a real game plan to go middle and he felt like game legend kind of gave up on middle and didn't really want to
Fight it. I'm sure you enjoyed this round though for you as a good one to watch your screen go
Why and then go read very slightly older? Yeah
But he seemed like big idea was come forward take middle and then just stay around the heaven position
And it didn't seem like game legend had any answers. They said it just kind of go B rush go a rush go for B
It's a kind of a weird feeling because I noticed over there
It's where you were 5-0 against that blue on T side
It would be a lack of confidence going on there because usually you'd be a loser middle guys
Let's go five middle and here was good luck for them eat some flashes and you're gonna go see your next round. I mean it was kind of
the idea like we knew they they are heavy mid-fight team and
We wanted to play the approach that we're gonna take it slow and let them have it and like let them waste all the util
And then we make a plan after it like that's kind of how we played against Navi like when we played them
And that was their plan for against big as well and unfortunately didn't work out and I mean that run right there
You see like I got tired of it
I wanted to fight something you know and you send it out mid and I get this very unlucky situation
But yeah, it was basically the game plan against big like we know how they wanted to fight me
then I think we struggled in
like the
The next part of the plan basically because I think it's a good plan in the beginning to like let them have it and
and waste all of you till there, and then fake them over and take some control.
We talked a little bit about an Overpass 2 on your T side, you know, a lot of openings
in the first gun rounds were pretty set, you know, some anti strats or things that you
guys prepped.
Do you feel like maybe some of the frustration you were talking about comes from the fact
that, you know, when those rounds go wrong, it goes really wrong, and you look a little
bit silly, and then just not maybe playing a bit more default, so you guys, the individuals,
players have more room to just sort of read the round and play off of what's in front of you?
Yeah, I mean that was basically what we, our conclusion, like after our timeouts, like we
we did a lot of set stuff in my opinion and you could see it as well like you said like in the
beginning on the half like we are like all the B attacks we had and then we felt like we need to
start filling the map more and like play on more on intuition and experience and I think that's when
we started to get them more like the rounds we really needed and I mean that's basically
more comfort like at least for me like when you start to feel the round and feel the map and
like listen to rotations and all that I think that's when you when I played the best at least
and I think that's why we were able to close it. Oh no ask like how's all of us been going in practice
because it from the look in from the outside it looked like there was a lot on CT side there were
lots of set aggression going for entry frag rather than let's play some five of our CS and that's
what big we're doing they were kind of giving them up and letting you play and it seemed like
set round, kind of set round like you just said, even the pistol round probably the hardest
hunting strap scene, all time I just, everyone hide in a shot a lot more fast. What was kind
of going on? Is this because there's kind of like a lack of confidence there in Overpass?
I know you haven't been playing in much either, but kind of set round T side, set round CT side,
like how's your feelings about this? Honestly like we didn't have much prep on this map,
like we played mostly like we what we had in practice and I think honestly like this pistol
round was not even at the start like something we did in practice once like
it's nice call it once it's gonna is really weird and we did it I couldn't
have worked out there it's sort of like say quit is for fun you know like throw
them off and it worked like I think this is the state of pistol right now it's
very random we can do this stuff and it works out but yeah like I think I think
that's why we struggled like you said the the set run part the seat as well I
think we we had to play more on like the feeling this kind of strike and I think
And that's why we struggled and it became so close.
Well, Rez, thank you so much for your time.
Congratulations.
We'll see you in stage two.
And while NA's other squads in MAE and NRG are battling on up in the 2-1 position, Liquid,
the premier NA name down here trying to dodge elimination, they're facing off against Heroic.
They've had their fair share of struggles as of late.
For one of these teams, the journey in Cologne comes to an abrupt close.
They had to do them like that, huh?
Well, what have Liquid got in this pistol?
It's a heroic top hit,
patient shot for ultimate,
but only one, and the rest of Liquid come crumbling down.
Heroic triple kill off of X-Floud,
and Naph is left alone on the flank.
I'm just gonna get put down.
Naph goes back up rafters,
but the smoke is in the way.
It's gray screen into the fight.
No kit right now either.
They give him nothing so it's enough save and a heroic pistol locked in
Is a heroic looking to bounce back in the BO3's day one was this more right to very close games
But two lost games nonetheless against sharks and limb vision
Not teams you would expect heroic TV losing against but it had a rough couple of months
to win. So, Heroic need to win three best of threes in a row in order to progress to
that next stage. This one is all about survival.
I've got what he wanted. He only got headshot on the way out, so it does get the cheap helmet
and upgrade here in the second round. Liquid put money in.
Eyes on ultimate today.
Heavy ramp setup right now.
The team Liquid...
They dismantle it somewhat away from that three-man hold.
It's because they get this boost in play.
have NAF available to quickly drop on down and go take control over lower if
ultimate so I'm gonna get any more info with this scout out in the yard that's a
great need from nafly and he faints the footsteps down
I've been sent into this stack right now you've seen two players on the ramp
all my scout even gonna find a kill in the downtime smoke blocks the line and
will send Heroic away from the danger of the ramp room.
For an A side finish.
Oh, at least she's pulling away, but the scout connects, softens them up for Shui,
makes his life a little easier, Malb's hitting shots on the scout.
It's a force by Fatim Liquid, and they're about to run away with it cleanly,
four alive, but all is said and done.
That's a dream force by on this CT side. They robbed three galils and an AK out of that round
I don't think you could have picked up a better bounty on this second round
I could leave with everything made from that was so neat 150 damage on the HE
She also nailed one in May like you till just wrecked Iraq in this round
Yeah, they took 200 damage from you till and then that scout in Malibu's hands ended up hitting like a
I don't care. Like the Big Sniper.
Alright, fast outside. Her run.
Pace change. Down secret.
The break comes in, but it's too little. It's too late.
Look at Cressen just gunning right now.
She's got to be careful. Good shot.
Christopher O'Rourke will follow.
But she will be still here.
Does he want to commit to this? Go down into the single side.
Because if he doesn't, we need a ramp rotation because Roek can just bust out on this deep side right now.
Should we spring across, getting closer, but he's not letting them in?
Inside of the vent comes support from Malbs, and that is a beautiful crunch from Liquid.
They don't lose a player.
Five up, business as usual.
And now Glocks here for Heroic.
I'm not sure if you can hear me.
Prison and Shuey, two bottom-rated players, out of... players still in the tournament.
That's all that I had to head in the previous round, Shuey, but a take-in.
He's off to a rip-roaring start.
That is a real X-factor for Team Liquid if he's firing on all cylinders.
That has not been the case for this guy.
Not even really just at this event, not even just at the Major.
Not exactly been a high-fragging powerhouse inside of this Liquid squad.
Ultimate has also struggled massively for Liquid as of late.
It's not far ahead of Shui on that rating.
So there's the Polish players having a microscope today for Liquid, but NAV has had no problem
on this anti-eco 4 kills.
His first 4 kills as Liquid just sweep this early game.
have lost one player in the last three rounds is that damn good start.
Greg, on their map pick, on their T side, now getting a full buy.
Yeah. And look at that. As you say, kind of been handed this dream opening.
They're set up for the next couple of rounds.
They're already approaching $10,000 each.
Like, there's a lot to be concerned about here.
If you're heroic, it puts a lot of emphasis on this first rightful round.
You can't afford to have another one go decisively against you.
like a bare minimum. Even if you fall down here, you've got to make it costly.
They could be big as well. No, just dogs behind the box, but
I don't get the smoke all outside and a legion looks to tassle with it.
It does have support, ultimate playing out by the AC.
And a legion was waiting for that exact moon.
Prison just walks right into his crosshair. It doesn't get easier than that.
and now fly down here towards lower start is round here gets away with a lot
of damage
that's gonna call more liquid players down right you get the spot multiple
players in through secret well leave it to chance ultimate patrols on the ramp
side it's not committing though so there is still an opportunity for a row if
they can get this bomb out and put it down the lack of utility is a huge
problem might even have to wait for this flank don't feel like they can walk
to be right now and take a one-for-one in such a disadvantage. So Susp begins to move.
Aleige and Ultimate clearing together. This is a nice move for Liquid and the timing is perfect.
As Susp looks at the other way, Aleige finds him. That will send them both back down B.
They know where Susp was trying to end up. Herorico opened both doors.
20 seconds to put this bomb down, but past that point, what are you meant to accomplish?
and you know the guy who's covering is a shot away from certain death hell even
one of these nades over the wards ramp would get rid of him and end his round
thankful the young star has been given some room here to get out of dodge and
put himself over towards the double doors it's a stronger post plant chance
to deal with them as they cross him but he misses the chance low HP for Nilo and
he was living on borrowed time from the moment that bomb was planted like what I
see from liquid there right they remain active they still search for
information ultimate doesn't over commit to be in like Alicia's we're all
together the reclear the ramp at the perfect time even if a leech got caught
their ultimate was ready to trade and then they all just flood back down on
the liquid looking good so far from these first few rounds
It's nice to see them playing off of each other.
We all went together, all together.
We're on curly timeouts because it's not going to plan. Pistol win was clinical.
They've not really been close since.
You just you can't end up in a position in this early game where you know
Liquid start maxing out the money
Only six rounds in and we're very nearly there like even now in these type rounds the pressure is constantly on you
Do damage the force reinvestment
Because you don't want to see T side that is unbreakable throughout the entire first half that turns this whole T side venture into one hell of a grind
3 AKs, 3 players, around 10k.
I think we're keeping the pressure on.
Shui, oh he's quiet about that, maybe they want to punch his A site right now, they got a gap.
Yeah, they hear him rotate down, they take that window that opens up.
Shui has flown back up the vent, but his teammates causing such a rockace out from heaven.
Chance for him to play, not even needed as Nath goes on attack.
I didn't finish the job single-handedly.
Should we just there playing cameraman, capturing that naff highlight out from heaven?
Yeah, like a sloth in a tree just dangling there on the edge of that molotov,
just sits still in the rafters and heroic come to him.
Well played by Liquid to deal with what is a very scary round.
Heroic finding a gap, mobs only going one for one,
and having absolutely zero support, Liquid just still throw bodies at the problem.
5-1 lead, another full-byte for Heroic, it has to hit.
Naf has been Liquid's top performer here in at the Major, he's been having a good time,
been having a good tournament, and he's pulled that with him into this best of three.
Ultima got cooped there and they heard that, but she was pushed in front of it.
I feel like I have got to be vigilant of this lobby take, Susp is checking it out from
T spawn but he's in a hurry, he's seeing a crossing outside.
One on the far side of main though.
So they're not exactly in position to go for a B hit, this might have to end A at which
point Susp will need to play.
They're around the world instead.
are going deep. Alleging such a powerful position, but doesn't want to reveal it yet.
With Ultimate Downseeker already, they could aren't feeling the pressure. They've still
got Shui and Lobby. I mean, they could have so much info. They've got to be able to figure
out where this one's going way too scared of a
absent heaven is the trigger man
heroic I am made with thirty seconds
and going into a lot of crossfires here man they're good you're so nervous
forty from players who will have gone on the main site at one entry to the
There's a follow-up swing at a nap fly, but it's a distraction back at the door
It throws this whole thing in a disarray and Susp doesn't have time. He needs the kills. He needs them now
Ultimate yep
Who's to give chase and doesn't play it forward time expires and so liquid get that one done to time
Oh, man smart from ultimate did not overplay his hand there would have banked on such sticking that bomb most people
It's gonna call the bluff entirely throws a nade goes back down the vent and
Suspense left unfortunately not in that clutch. I
Like what liquid do there though? They realize like okay fine
We don't need to play heavy rafters
We can just drop into the site and then they smoke heaven that that was the key
Malibus puts a smoke behind him knows the heroic can't do a yard split on that a play and ultimate had be unlocked the entire time so
So, Crossfire's NA proved to be fatal, a lead massive multi-kill.
Had a few players now from Liquid show up with big moments already in this game.
Are you assuring?
6-1 starts.
Crazy.
Ultimate health for that exact move out of X-File and gets rewarded.
They're coming towards Nath.
Over at the ramp, been a real force of nature thus far.
And he has one in the tank here, and with ultimate moving in to help him, also dead.
It's now Elysia's turn to try and step into the limelight.
He's here so early.
They've got no clue, and Elysia is no-goodness for all he can.
Cover him!
Oh, prison!
And that's Bale's heroic out!
Question now for Shuey.
Does he want to give this a go?
down here very very quickly at least both players out in the open flash is
good and now just chrisen left to beat give some a jiggle out towards the ramp
and it looks like a teammate come that over bomb planted for chrisen ramp side
but I have to cement this with a 4k and the pressure now on defuse tapped
chrisen commits to that fight and takes him down a peg
Haroai break the streak, 6 in a row for Liquid, finally one back for Haroai and it comes on the shoulders of their captain.
You pulled it out earlier, the two bottom rated players still in the event,
Chrison and Shuii, two captains of their teams and Chrison absolutely shows up in this round, huge 4K.
Winning the clutch against his counterpart as well, massive trade onto a lead, you could have milked out the multiple frags down in single.
Let's go, boys!
So, heroic. It's not too late.
Engine, the liquid money, is very hard to break through, though.
I don't know, I can't exactly healthy.
A couple of Mac-10s just walking into the hut right here.
Chris is up close, just getting sprayed.
Now, it's one for one, but now they know they're coming.
I'm sure he's just gonna try and hide.
Try and play into this a little bit later,
because that bomb is going down,
and for liquid, it's on to a retake.
I know right yeah smoke was held the whole time
And so a man down now a decision to make
You know that suspense somewhere around here out towards the doors
If a leash can deal with him retakes on sus pits a blinder fresh mist I think
And so that's it done deal I like with the third
A couple of steps in the right direction here and all of a sudden I see a wobble you could
try and break the money of liquid going forward.
A couple of saves at least keep things above water for a couple more rounds but none out
of the rounds of possibility here for heroic.
Teamplay, at least, that we're seeing from Liquid, calling for flashes for each other, breaking these smokes outside.
It was a nice try to flush us out of this corner, but he dodged the flash well.
It's an heroic, not just breaking the stream, but now building upon it.
Ultima getting involved.
It's a good angle. He connects.
What man made it in though?
Yeah, Oldman doesn't know. Barrel's been spotted. That's just a free kill for Nilo.
Do they want to seize the gap here because it's getting plugged by liquid as rotates arrive?
Molly is trapped a player in at the back of the heart. Will you get the spot on this from the rafters?
Shoe he does and shuts down young star trapped by the utile
This has been a good recovery thus far, but now you got to finish the job wrestled it back into a three on two
This is a very
Unified-looking liquid right now. I've just never seen this kind of flash assisting from liquid
They are nailing it every single peak getting set up every single crossfire established
playing off each other really, really well right now, and you know, we've all seen how liquid it was playing this year.
There's been plenty to critique.
I'm sure there's no wild beat of this, Rourke, on a downspin, but at the same time, Liquid are
making the best out of some of these rounds.
Really, ensuring
these 3v3 situations.
7-3 lead.
Heroic, if they lose this round, they are quits out for the last of the half.
We got a chance for Liquid to sweep Heroic's nap pick.
And now something new.
Oh, they know it's a fake.
He's going to try and pick up the pace, Nilo's actually taking the bomb towards ramp, and
so it's NaF who's going to get tested, Ultimate here to help him, upfires off, and now you
wonder does NaF get overlooked, he certainly does, Ultimate's feasting on the rest of the
ramp it. And so he missed that opportunity of the opener out of the yard. But boy, did
he nail it over in the ramp room. He's coming for more. And they got it. Liquid with ease
a five alive round, perfect position for ultimate. And it's not just position. He's barely missed
shot in this game. For an AWP that's you know we often talk more about his misses than his hits
as time's gone on right incredibly streaky but whenever he does kind of tap into that form
he showcased in the early days of Liquid and you're reminded what he can bring to the table.
God they they look so much better for it don't they that AWP just takes charge of the ramp.
There was a whole play here there was a bait and switch was meant to be him and NAF trading
contact not even needed. He was so quick to ramp considering that wasn't a fake like you say so
So that's just great position from Ultimate.
Back to Ramp again.
Hurray for just throwing themselves a liquid.
It's not gone well yet.
Could they change their tide in the last round of the half?
No realization about the ventrop has put
Hurray in a seemingly unloosable position.
But liquid have to try.
They have to give it a go.
2v5 now.
Another plucked by a silo.
Aleej has got the element of surprise on one.
Yeah, you think that was the secret rotate.
It's not.
Leige again in a spot to try and play the discipline. No extra kills available.
And close here, he's dealt with Nilo. And all the players spotted on the mini ramp and
Aleige can't finish the job, it's just Malbs. One versus three knows about Crisen, the other
two are a big question market, it won't get that far. Heroic low econ, salvage of fourth,
but it's their map pick and it's their major at stake. Liquid holding the lead right now.
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Liquid looking good right now, eight rounds on the start of this map.
Heroics pick in the series, elimination, hanging in the balance and heroic, bit of a rush to get things going.
They absolutely sent it on their T-Side in Nuke.
So let's see what Liquid have got in store for a second half to set themselves up nicely in this series.
Yes, they would just take one round at a time, boys.
It's just one pistol, then they start to feel the pressure.
Yeah, they're being a lot together, like a lot.
One pistol and they'll start feeling a lot of pressure.
It's words of wisdom makes a lot of sense,
but it does rely on getting that one pistol for that pressure to exist.
Suddenly, Nuke has passed you by in an instant, if you don't pick it up.
As you get on, the pace was high and there's final stretch of rounds.
I think it's easy to get caught up in the momentum of the occasion.
Let's just look out through this lurk smoke.
I know, I think they heard the tag.
Does team make it out over towards ramp in the downtime?
They're playing in a lower already and Naft gets his.
Weird round.
Everybody's here.
I mean, that's a hell of a middle finger from Chewie.
Oh, you want to try and get us out of the strong post plant position while you can't blocked by the smoke
That's gonna force them shoehorn them into the single door
It's been cleaned up at least and that opens up a ramp rotate ultimate sticks around and looks to try and thin the herd
More out through the single door and all of it just gets tapped in the side of the head
But time is quickly running out for heroic
Backstabbed by Malbs who looks to play around the bomb and there's nothing left in this for heroic. They can't win it
Now let's make sure of it. Pistol round secured, liquid in pole position and now set to run away with Nuke.
Nice pistol. I mean, NAF's presence in door keeps the pressure on heroic,
forces him to all rotate secret instead of vent. That slows things down and then liquid just have
the perfect remedy. Smoke in the double door, forces him into an uncomfortable post-plot position
and Kris and I think was just sticking the bomb. That was the only Hope Rook had. Liquid check it,
They lock it in. Who's feeling the pressure now? I wonder.
Heroic four-spy in that second round.
Youngstar, this is one of his best maps on the AWP on the CT side,
but he's not going to get many chances to use it one and 11 at this point in the game.
There couldn't be a worse time for it. He's had a solid tournament.
He's had some really good maps in there for Heroic.
Somewhere. He's had to be a difference maker in here.
He might be a difference maker, just not in the way that he wanted to be one and 11.
You're dead on just get teed up here though. Thanks for trying to get him back in the game
Just gonna run away now and hope the a leash gets pulled into young star. Oh
Would he would he check it?
Doesn't even need to his team are in no hurry and I'm scaling on secret right now
So all this could be in vain this double set of down secret avoided
Let's kill from Susp, there's the flank from Youngstar, double up!
And then Leech will trade, but there's more where that came from.
Oh, it's very loud here, and that's allowed Nilo to close in, they've got to deal with this guy and play it quickly.
It's right behind them, is Nilo on that SMG.
Alright then, it's gonna fall to a Leech!
One of NA's finest left in this 1B2, bomb planted!
Well they're giving the room to get out, yes they will. They were hoping to play it together.
He's faked crossing into the double doors. There's the Spar Xplow got it, now knows that
both players ramp bound and they'll swing him together. Running Ap9 just takes no prisoners.
Gunned down. I mean that's a huge buff for Heroic, right? They lose the pistol, they
come through with this force, it needed to have results. You shut out a leash of a clutch,
She never even felt like you had much of a chance there.
It's just a huge step in the right direction,
because that pressure that
was telling the gang about heading into the second half,
now very much on for Liquid.
They'll have to assemble a force by their own
as they look to go tip the tat with Heroic.
I always feel like you're back into a faster round here.
Well the ultimate has a scout so that can give Liquid a chance to look for a pick.
Gonna use it outside, crossing quick behind the smokes.
Look at the pace actually, right down.
Crossing secret instantly, there's Nate pulled right now.
X-File completely caught off guard and Liquid are in garage at 135.
Oh, that's a deagle.
We know Mavs has got it in him but...
That's something special, youngstar 3 and 13, headshot out of the round.
Liquid have lots of control.
More than Nilo's ready for up the ladder.
But he really doesn't need to fight as desperately as Liquid do to get this heaven control.
Timings on timings.
Chris might just get shot in the back of the head, no he's found the perfect window right
as they cleared out Rammshui, turns on a dime to deal with him.
yourselves now you just got to make the rest of this a formality follow-up tag
there is everyone for heroic is bleeding they're all hurting a little
can neelo apply the bandage underneath and the timing
abs is hit one sick deagle but this one would have to take the cake needs to
wait getting together
Oh, he's nailed it, Deague delivers for Malph's MD, but they're still going into this double setup, Molly forces them wide, and there's the cut down, Elise with his revenge.
Just love how Liquid are playing these rounds right now, they're just playing together, playing beautifully, lots of control taken, they slow it down, they let the round come to them, Cris and Gibbs there.
Liquid take another man advantage, and even Malph doesn't rush that head of control.
Not there, Maddox.
Lee's putting on a show.
You know what I mean? Here's the thing, while the individuals for Liquid are all shining pretty bright right now,
kind of questioning where the usual suspects for Heroic.
Chrison sits up top of the board, he's had a number of high-impact rounds,
but as we've said coming into this, he is not the guy you look to in this team to deliver them.
them. Susp was having a good performance after the first few days. X-Flight usually one of
the names we look to and same for Nilo. With the two kind of star rifle is missing, young
stars or might never get to make an appearance. And only Cris and offering up multi-kills,
There just isn't a lot of resistance out of heroic
I mean that was meant to be a free kill don't know how explode is the guy to win that
It's back and forth might just continue
liquid with pistol
And then two force buys with success
Now heroic look for a third
You like push deep outside if you're heroic
You just want to feel like you have the chance to play and if you want to feel like that you you need to keep this force by
War going you have to win this one
That's the only way you're gonna get to see the orbs come out the anyway
You're gonna have to see a proper CT side played by this squad on their map pig and so Nilo sitting here on the aggro
That's the worst feeling second player clears you
Look at someone to keep the advantage, but it could have been so much more you're dead on that clear from ultimate is big
X-Files low as well, and here's the guy trying to shore up the outside defense.
Even a jiggle peak is risky. I just need to lock in a position. They're doing exactly that on the A-Sci.
CT-Van X-Files holding Heaven climb. But there's no crossfires. You're relying on multi-kill.
Yeah, they've split the defense too, right? Don't know where Liquid are going in this round, so they've gone two up or two lower.
Oh no.
Flash wrecked Suspended Event and they've seen him, they close in quickly.
Getting past this four-spider, even here, Crisen on the ladder, so he's not gonna fly up here and get away with anything mad.
Bomb has been planted.
He is out though.
Youngstall's also got a gun. Two players back site should set up a trade.
Just gonna win this first fight clean.
Youngstall waiting for contact, Crisen moving in.
Maybe they can pounce together, distraction, nice shot, that follows up, he will die.
And Ultima has a Molly for that bomb, that might be the difference maker right now.
He looks over the tab, not sure, and Molly decides that he is off that bomb, and he can do nothing about it.
No kill given, bomb will do the job as Ultima hits the flick and guarantees 11 for liquid.
They avoid the force by continuation, as Heroic now broken down to 2k.
That was from a man disadvantage, every step of that round, 40 liquid.
And even though Heroic probably want to buy, because it's 11-5 down,
like, you've not had a rifle round in this game, in the CT side, you've just been forcing.
You've not had the choice, so this is just them wanting to field M4s in their second half.
Full eco, flash round.
Liquid here are coming.
Oh no!
Very important 3K, what with X-Flight going on to get two of his own.
He's at least been insurance on this round and that 3K should be enough.
I think X-Flight is very content on the prospect of holding onto a rifle.
It's like a little hair and it's giving away.
You buy next anyway, so I do hope they hang around especially with no bomb plant, right?
There's no instant reaction. Bomb was left out here outside of the lobby
And so you got a lot of reasons to still be interested in this if you're heroic
Oh, they just grab it and walk back outside. I mean a leech is in the last position anyone's expecting
X-Files just gambling on B hoping praying
But if they just walk main and combine with the Legion heaven, I don't see how chrisen can do this on his own
Have to be a miss shot from Ultimate or Bax turned. That's a great smoke.
Oh, okay. That will help. X-File's moving now.
Why not walk through? Giving it a try.
Ultimate turns around just in the nick of time.
And so on who X-Floud now in a tricky 1v2, little down from heaven and that will decide
it.
And Leige gets the need in to bring Liquid onto that point.
This is looking to be a dominant win on Heroic's pick.
They've got this one rifle round left to get through.
All smiles here for Liquid because just everything has gone right for the man.
Absolutely everything.
Heroic won that first pistol.
He won six rounds in a row, still on the half dominantly, despite the late resurgence.
And even when heroic won the fours by the second half, Liquid have responded with three straights, so you really can't complain.
Teamplay has been excellent, Ultima's been hitting his shots, looking at the perfect game right now out of Liquid.
This is just the type of CS you wish you could always play, right? It's clear, you're communicating well, you have to with how they've been laying each other up in these rounds.
Games like this are ones that can instill a lot of confidence in a team,
especially one that's been, you know, downtrodden, kind of like both of these squads are.
Missed main smoke earlier, but that's lining up the vent smoke.
It's like we do look like they want to go into this topside, that door getting blocked, my delay things.
Liquid not afraid of running a player through the vent smoke with a main flash.
Not be a bad move here.
So here he goes. Top up, Olly.
And Chris is forced to reposition.
He's just gonna walk the vent.
No way, right?
He's trying to beat me to it.
They're blocking each other vent side.
Chris will make you down.
And up he goes.
What?
Oh, shoot, he's walking.
I don't know if he means to be here.
He just walked through.
Explode dead maps with another entry and they all come through for liquid.
This was the advantage for Heroic. They thought they had them right where they wanted them.
But now their time on Nuke has run out.
And it's not been a long time. It's not been a fun time. This was their pick in the series.
And about as dominant as you can get, Liquid have run away with this.
Nilo left it an impossible clutch, and Naft will seal the deal. Domination from Team Liquid
in this elimination, best of three for Heroic. Time to dig deep, go back to the drawing board,
because they're not picked, sales by in an instant.
What else can you say about Liquid? That was just the best Liquid we've seen in a minute.
Absolute, storming the board, every player doing their job, and Liquid don't even blink
Getting through Heroic's map pick.
It's not often I get to do this lately, but I am impressed by Team Liquid.
There was a great showing, a great performance being in control from start to finish.
You had some of your individuals, spoke about a leash coming into the game.
You had Netflix stepping up.
Martin, this was a Team Liquid looking like a proper Counter-Strike team.
I was thinking when I was watching this map, it's not even that they will win this game,
but it's also how they win this game.
because it will give them this buffer for the next 2-2 stage.
Obviously, this is just the first map of the best of 3
and I'm predicting too much into the future,
but yes, this is exactly what Liquid needs to do
to maintain this form and hopefully get into the stage 2.
Peter, is this Liquid playing exceptionally well,
or is it also enforced by the fact
that Heroic didn't really offer much on the server?
I love you asking this question because I've always...
When I was asked this question by my coach,
I would always say that we just played mediocre
but the other guys were just shit.
I mean, I wouldn't say that, it's maybe a little bit too dire to say that Heroic played
shit, but they definitely also made it easier for Liquid.
I do think that Liquid had some very good rotations on the CT side, they had a very
good understanding of the rounds and also the economy and I think they've made very
limited mistakes and it also, you know, when you also have your individuals winning your
rounds and you get the opening skills, then you're set for success, right?
And today it was more of a Liquid that just showed up in a fashion that Heroic really
couldn't cope with.
I think it's only fair that we stay on the positive side of Team Liquid to begin with.
I said it's not often lately that we've been able to do that, Martin.
I know you picked up round six. You wanted to show us Liquid actually doing well.
Yeah, exactly. This is the round from Liquid where Heroic are actually attacking A-Set.
And I want to notice up radar number one is NAV.
How he plays passively against these pistols on Ram.
Because whenever this A-Hit comes, which is by the way a great hit by Heroic,
because there's literally only one player defending A-Hit, which was Malph.
NAV is already in heaven, together with Ultimate. They're both fighting together and because of this he gets the timing to beat that Molly and finish the round with a pretty nice triple kill.
And we've already talked about NAV obviously, that because of the underperformance of other stars, he's kind of getting into the spotlight.
And this is perfect that small things matter so much and it's small things like positioning that ultimately wins him a triple kill.
I think we saw it in the very last round as well Peter, you know the spacing for Team Liquid, the ability to trade, the ability to actually look like a Korean unit
to be able to move the pack as well as a unit. The trading game from Liquid was significantly better than it's been lately.
Was that something you paid attention to as well for them that they actually looked like a team on a server?
I was a bit worried coming into the second half because I do know that the stats of Liquid's T that has been just incredibly bad throughout the tournament
add throughout the tournament also if you go back a couple of months you know
that is that is why they have been struggling the most they've had a
hard time converting their 4v5s and even getting opening kills has been a
massive struggle and their trading percentage even at this tournament is
completely shit so it's good to see that they have least traded around for this
game specifically right but it was I think it came down to that they were
feeling it you know they were they wanted to close it out and you could
feel that everyone in the team was fired up and that also makes you play
better when you like mentally inside the game so a liquid that seemed more in the
same page and I think the best showing that we've seen from the team as of
this stage so far. Okay, I think we established already, Lippert played well,
did a good job, closed out the game without breaking a sweat, that's pretty
much all you can hope for if you team Liquid. On the side of Huroi though, you
alluded to Peter, you don't think they played a good game of Counter-Strike, we
also heard some of the cons from the coaching staff, you know, you know,
suggesting that they weren't prepared. I think it really just comes down to the
fact that, you know, Tobis took this time out where he wanted to talk to the guys
and say that we're not updating a child with the details, we're not updating things like
we're supposed to be doing and you know it's one of those things that if you're as a player
get too quiet and you don't give out those small things, you're not counting the smokes,
not telling you specifically what you're doing or what you're holding then that information
is going to be like lost in transition and that makes your teammate not real, they're
going to be doubting themselves, they're going to be doubting the team and then you make
different and bad decisions and it happens multiple cases inside this game that we've
had a situation where a guy gets surprised because all of a sudden there's a guy that
he didn't expect to be that fast or all of a sudden his team has rotated and it's these
things that you need to just be better at unless you know more clearly.
Well unlike the heroic players the production actually have your back Peter so we can listen
to some of those teams come from the coach of your work.
Under that that's fine.
And then I need us to talk a little bit more about spacing, what you're doing so people
can follow your lead, okay? You need to talk a little bit more like with these like micro
details. Yeah, okay. Let's go back. Let's go back here. Two beautiful rounds. Let's just
keep it coming. Okay. Let's go.
I like the the upbeatness in Toby's voice right here. If I'm a player on a team that's
struggling, if I'm a player on the road, you know, who got off to a bad start, if my coach
would talk with that kind of tone in the voice, I'd be pretty reinforced by that. I think
I think there was a beautiful look into a coach that clearly is trying to manage a struggling side without being too harsh on them.
I mean, you have the differences in the coaches as well, where you have kind of like a dictator shape, you know,
and they're going to be like showing it down your throat when it comes to like mistakes and how to really up the tempo and up the, you know, communication.
But this is pretty chill. Despite losing 3-7, I believe it was in one clip.
I think that it's a pretty okay-ish way how to manage the emotions as well, because obviously, the team is frustrated.
You don't want to add up and pile up on that in the post as well.
I don't think it would have been the case if he would have been angry or like
telling you, what the hell are you doing guys, you need to be stepping up.
I don't think that would have made her work play better for that matter as well.
Probably the right approach right here by Tobis.
Now we did touch a little bit upon it and have had a great game,
but Elish as well, we didn't have time to dive into him heading into the game,
but he's been struggling lately, right?
When he joined Team Liquid, I think all of us expected him to be there.
Potential, the catalyst behind this lineup, the guy that you could rely on,
hasn't really been the case as of late. He's been struggling individually. However, here on Nuke,
that was one of the first times in a long time we've seen Elis, you know, come in with the impact
that we, I guess, expect from him, you know, consistently. To scope out a little bit, I think
past two months, Elis has been in a giga slump. He's been for the positions that he's playing and
for the impact. Contrary to the worst statistical period he's ever had in his career, you know, as a
player. Wow. I wasn't even aware of that, but it looked like that on the server because clearly
Alish was not having the impact, the ideas were maybe there, but he was not executing them properly.
And obviously it's hard to establish that when you have a little bit of a roll swap in the team
when it comes to mobs and nerds, but obviously that is long gone and Alish just needs to put up numbers.
He's the staple of NA contract for such a long time that he simply must be doing better.
And this game, honestly, I've seen different Alish comparing to the previous games on the stage 1
and also CAC where they played.
Peter, from a player perspective, you've been there yourself, you've had good periods, bad periods.
When you're in a slump, can one good game, you know, a couple of good games, can that turn it around all of a sudden, or does it take more?
Yeah, it definitely can, but it can also just go south once you turn out for the next one,
expecting it to be as good as the one you just played.
So it's about stringing some more together, maybe having one good tournament, maybe two good tournaments in a row,
but it's also, it's a clear sign to me, looking at at least having such a slump, that the team is not functioning.
And I can see that whenever he's playing an individual, he's forcing...
First of all, he's always been a guy that's been forcing FF, but he's doing it even more now, and he's doing it on really bad terms.
And that also just shows in his stats that he just picks fights that's bad for him.
He's sometimes trying to overcompensate for his teammates making shitty decisions, or he's trying to make up some of the last space that they haven't really been getting.
And I think it is important for Lee to find at least close to his old form as possible to have Liquid move forward.
forward because there's a reason why he's returning to Liquid but it's haven't
really been the ferret here that he has been hoping for and that we have been
hoping for. Speaking of stringing together results we're now moving into
Inferno obviously for Team Liquid they hope to close out the series right here
stay alive where's for Herok they're fighting for the life so to speak at
the tournament. Statistically speaking history for Herok does not look great on
Inferno I know they got a W against gaining gladiators yesterday but everyone
could have done that I think the three of us could have put together a team.
I was just saying, you know, arguably one of the worst teams I was able to show about a major, but is that giving me, you, anyone here any confidence that Heroic can pull it back and come back into the Zeus?
I'm going to be honest, Liquid in the recent times beat Heroic on three different maps very convincingly. Inferno was not one of them. If they managed to do it even here, I think this is clear as they are just even tier better than Heroic.
You have a little theory going on inside your head, you know, and sometimes I would love to understand what's going on inside your head, but you spoke about day-to-day form yesterday, and you want to speak about day-to-day form today as well.
What you saw here, Nuke, is that something that's going to carry over to Inferno?
I think this is one of the best exams that I can give up day-to-day form, and just to briefly explain what I mean with day-to-day form is, and I think that's something we can relate to, and also the viewers can relate to that.
to that. When we turn on the PC and we sit down and play Counter-Strike, sometimes we
just have a really bad day at the office, right? And that also turns into pro-play.
You can wake up and you can just not get anything done, you can't hit your shots, your communication
is not flowing. And I think it really shines through in this type of stage with these type
of teams that you need to be individually sharp and sometimes you just don't have it.
And the team is maybe not functioning and that also shows today the way Liquid play,
I mean, they didn't play like Magic Good Counter-Strike, they just played normally and just hit their
shots day-to-day form they were just better on the day than than heroic and
I think that just speaks to you to that day-to-day form is so important in these
lower-ranked teams and it kind of hurts me to say that liquid is among these
types of teams but the further you go up the ladder the better you'll be because
you will have teams like Vitality, Falcon, Spirit where they are so drilled they
have the protocols and they had the ideas that they can rely on not being the
best individual but they can rely on us to be good as a team and these team cannot.
Well today is a bad day to have a bad day if you're heroic right now
You have to put everything into the mix in order to try to stay alive at I am cologne
2026 if they lose the next map if they lose inferno
They will be eliminated from the major and if you're a heroic fan you sure as hell don't want that to happen
Where's for liquid they can win a win secure another chance to qualify and progress to stage two tomorrow
A lot here is on stake. Let's head to a break and once we're back
It's gonna be with inferno between team liquid and heroic
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I get it, sir. We are back!
You actually full flashed him from long while peeking from short.
Yeah, I actually thought of the stick too. I'm happy you showed it,
because I even asked my team, like, did you guys see that?
Elise is here with me from TN Liquid,
and we're going to be looking at a couple of your moments from the game
on Ancient Aliens NIP.
The whole point of this is to, you know, lift a veil
and see inside of your brain for a little bit why you're doing certain things
because CS is not just about moving and shooting.
It's also a lot of decisions that you have to make that people don't recognize.
So I would start with, before we get into the clips actually,
if you really watch your own demos, how do you treat a footage of a game basically?
If you're looking at it from Skybooks or POVs into the game, what's your take on that?
If I'm like watching my own games back, then I try to just look quickly like through like the Vaude.
I mean, honestly, I really don't prefer like 2D demo viewing that much.
So I usually like going through like the Vod just so I can like go quickly
and just like see like what it looked like, confirm.
I think it's more beneficial for you to like watch someone that's really good
and take what you can from them.
We are going to go into your ancient game.
This is a situation where you do have a hero M4
and obviously the dynamic of your gameplay has to change a little bit.
Can you guide us a little bit through what is happening
when you have these kind of hero M4s and what you're looking for in these rounds?
Yeah, so like for the beginning of this round like pretty much like the way that you like even want to start this is thinking
Can I do something early like do something fast or do I have to find like an opportunity in the mid-round?
And if you look at our utility like of course we have like some Molotovs
We have like two smokes, but we don't have like a lot and I felt like from the beginning of this round that my best
Opportunity is gonna be finding some aggression in the mid-round
I wanted a ultimate to Molly behind the box and I was gonna like try to like find like a like a quick kill on that
But they ended up peeking me before so it's kind of nice that they did that and
Got this kill. I think you heard this guy because you were
Previous your previous engagement was with the guy up top, right?
Yeah
And then you kind of when you were re-peaking you were completely ignoring it and also enough is here to flash as well
So like the goal is to do like a Molly at the box and like a flash over at the same time
So we're gonna do like a Molly plus five check at that. Yeah, that's pretty good
I mean it nets you an opening even if you don't it doesn't go according to
You're in a position to kind of have multiple other mistakes of NMP players.
And then immediately, as this is happening, we already know that there's numbers on mid.
They know that the hero gun is at donut.
So I'm already thinking that they're going to be going towards B.
So we start rotating.
They got stopped because I'm pretty sure that Mario smoked top of the ramp.
So he was able to block.
He seized them.
And as soon as they get blocked here, we have to think, what are they thinking?
And I'm thinking, someone could be close house.
I'm checking this for the rotations. We are at a four jump spot. So I have a ton of information
and I'm trying to be greedy with my info. I'm trying to figure out where do they want to go
and I'm already thinking that they are either going to go back to B, but I'm going to be one
step ahead here and actually the goal is for us to double push A main. So because we're already
three towards B, I already think that we're fine and they actually have another smoke as well because
NAF is there. So I had a ultimate come with me towards A and we were going to double push A main
so we're trying to be super active because that's the only way that we're going to win this round.
In the end, it was a correct call to go towards A.
You didn't even have a chance to push into A main.
Yeah, we won.
But you winning this duel kind of seals the deal.
Sharing what you just shared is extremely valuable for people who want to improve.
Alish, thank you and we wish you good luck in the tournament.
Thank you, appreciate it.
Caught a save blue velocity with the AWP play!
Liquid looking hot right now after that first map of Nuke and Heroic are facing elimination from the Cologne Major.
It's been a bad few months for Heroic and it might just get worse unless they can dig deep here on a Burno.
Liquid's map pick and just a different looking Liquid to the one not only that we've seen in this tournament,
but to the one that we've seen in the last few weeks and maybe even months,
Is it just the one map bang or can they do it again? It's time to find out here on this second map.
Yeah, they were firing on all cylinders from the word go back on Nuke.
Let's see if they can keep up appearances here. They got a T side star on Inferno.
And a good chunk of UTEL for the pistol round. Three flashes, two smokes.
What should we cookin' up?
Susp is on his own.
With no block either.
So as Moto, the monster, comes out,
Put it on, a push is well timed, look we don't have to pick up the pace, they have to commit.
So here's them getting out, backstabbed in half as they get out through the apartments and out trading places.
Malib's just swinging, looking to close this with the fights out towards Short, bombs out in no man's land,
and so this might be the best way to go about it.
Nilo's under the door, Barrett is swapped, one shot's left.
And that bomb will make it in.
Albs got ruined down in the pit and he's just had a fantastic pistol round
Four kills from Malb's MD. That's liquid off to the races
He shouts him down as well. I love that from Malb's even gets a little smile at a Nilo there poor sauce
But I think he did as well as he could he realized he's getting baited by nap on that jiggle
So got out of position and was only given one chance to get a kill
It's now to go as a big mode with some well-placed block shots
It's a comedic swap of positions as they take that moment to decide liquid.
Looking good.
And a forced buy for heroic. Triple B. Liquid are coming in quick.
Is this just a send? It might be.
Looks like it.
Uh-oh.
That's kill for young star.
Uh-oh.
Chaotic here with the 5-7s up close.
Liquid trying to regain some composure with these entries.
They're gonna get them cleanly and they will get past X-Floud.
You can still recover this in spite of that ugly first look.
Why is he blind?
Crisps made it past NAF not for long.
Never given too much room to get comfortable here in the banana flank closing in.
Nilo's missed the chance, will make up for it.
And so again, you're looking at MalbzMD to be the difference maker.
Four kills in the pistol, but he can't get the 3K here.
Shut down for heroic on their four-spy and that's a Nilo
We expected what around from him that comes up with a quick flank almost whiffs it recovers his frag and then mouths in the open
Over the top of the side Nilo nails it much needed for the young man at his first major a
Lot of proven really had to talk about him too much in these couple of games that heroic have lost
But a 3v5 recovery attempt denied in the clutch here as a rogue thriving the chaos.
Big round of pick up.
Liquid made me feel like, hey, have we got a car without seeing a single player?
What are the chances they're stacked in B site?
They find out the hard way.
wait. Slow this back and forth to be determined.
I'm trying to cut off the info over the wards man they lobbing a long lurksmoke and while
that's down Naph is hoping to make an incision here just sell them on the idea that something
Something out on a and that Diggle will strike
Nilo dealt with in Crizzan core as they contact play in towards B
X-File dead and it's only a matter of time for Crizzan
That comes together beautifully for liquid. That was everything they wanted and more this nap Diggle just isn't missing
First one was sick and the second one just ensures that nothing can go wrong
Hear that tag young star whittle down
and a trade will secure it. Liquid. I think that's liquid management cheering along.
To one lead. And just as how the second half of mute went, the Rogue win their force by,
but it really doesn't matter when Liquid hit them right back with it. Here a rifle on
of this force.
They could take it a little slower this time, they've learned their lesson.
They're not just fresh in their minds how it fell apart last time, but you know there's going to be a little bit more in this force than the last one you were up against.
got some extra util and sloped in to try and block early
and this time chrisen is all alone over here at b
both sides feeling pressure though so no one's going to be rotating
Crissons hoping they walk into this aset, but
Khalil's backing up.
Will it dawn upon heroic? Or do they just lose to position?
Almost nothing Crisson could do on his own here.
if it refuses to fight middle and Karak allowed a save, nothing more.
So, right side is they get to go again.
I almost wonder if you feel tempted to do the same round star.
Yeah, but it's weird.
Maybe justify grabbing an extra smoke, keep Crizzan alone over towards B, have young star
drop on and just run it again.
the liquid and anticipate you do that
rocket 3 B
Malbs are gonna go.
It's just walking in.
I just hear so much earlier than you're gonna be expecting, right?
Good catch for Malbs.
Takes a lot of damage in that fight.
Oh, one more.
Don't get ahead of themselves here, though.
This isn't a comfortable fight before with so much damage sustained, getting top at
Ana.
At least they can relax a little bit.
their wings.
Haroak have a nice set of apartments but relies on liquid coming their way and they're trying
to force liquid into apps with the re-smoke on B but that is the last bit of utility.
Well, youngster doesn't know it but one well-placed bullet could have found a kill there.
Sarsap does go investigating in that free-sip rotation so suddenly Haroak have an opportunity
to do something massive.
Susp smartly not going too soon.
If he died, that would open up a fallback roof for Liquid. Instead, they're forced into the lion's den.
And Heroka hungry.
And Hilo here with the Hero Gun as well. Not in a position that's gonna get Molly'd.
It's really hoping he can put it to work, instead it's just Malb's no health in any
one of those fights, two quick entries and rounds over.
I mean, Eela didn't look blind, but based on his POV, didn't fire a bullet, so they
must have got him somewhat liquid.
Shake up the bombsite, and they lose one man in the whole round, Malb still gets a triple
kill on entry, low health.
Stacks a little work again. Yeah, he was he was sent in as kind of a sacrificial lamb
Meant to be the rest of the gang trading him, but he gets all the openers
Strong star at a team liquid. This is feeling tough again for heroic
Oh, Malbs is putting on a clinic right now.
One's enough for him over the wards, Banana. X-File gets that trade, Stellar's pressure
on Heroic. 4v4 might be even in the literal sense, but on Inferno, never feels that comfortable
for the CTs. And so a gamble has been made. Stack over the wards, eh? And they quit it
closing it on banana if they pick this bomb site if they go there they've won
the round on position alone you'd like to think
oh that a doubt it's just down to where the heroic do this quickly they need to
reclimb it and start to flank this site but enough to get the info and now
Lickard can just speed up they hear the CT rotation they should realize they have
a lot of room right now still gonna have to check this bomb site for a Joker player
but bomb can go down pretty quickly and heroic of a difficult question to answer
and no kills given their way. That was a swing fight for a lead. If he loses it, this round is on.
Instead, you could justify a save. There's no kit right now. It's a heroic walk away,
head in their hands. Five-one lead for Liquid. They have not been tested yet in this series.
No, and I think you can kind of see where the confidence is at in that all-or-nothing fight
from a lead, you know? Like you were dead on, kind of risking the round and going for it,
but at the same, you know, in the same vein, if you get that one kill, Brown's over for Heroic.
They can't justify it. It's a high-risk, high-reward peek.
Who else in the server would you want to take that fight? For me, it's a leech every single time.
Knows when to take it. Best aim in the server, puts it on display, liquid lock it in. 5-1 lead.
heroic time-outs. Time to do something because we haven't seen a string of rounds
from heroic across this entire elimination match. We got more of what we
expected from this squad yesterday, but remember that was against gaming gladiators.
And so not reading into it proving to be a good sign because this is the
Herok would have been seeing this season and unfortunately it's not looking like enough
to break through even liquid right now.
Shame to see when Herok are on they can be a very exciting team.
Oh, those nades are brutal.
Look, we don't yet know just how effective that Utah was.
X-Files is one of the three rifles in this round and this is already over.
He's bringing a real Niko look to this liquid T-side with these banana entries, man.
Tried to drop his Nade, he dropped his gun.
I think that kind of shows how they're feeling right now.
Alright, good trade for Youngstar.
Rifle picked up now and make his way down into the pit, Nilo just stealing himself away hoping
to play Joker back at the bomb site.
So tunnel visioned on getting past Youngstar that maybe that gives Wulho more room to play,
but he's missed a chance.
And the opportunity just couldn't deliver it.
Alps, it's got my style right now, you're right.
Quite a presence on the server tonight.
And more saving for heroic, because what else could you expect in this position?
Low health, no kit.
So Ultima's coming, gunning for it with the AWP.
Just a clinical game.
Yeah, I think it's fair to say Malbs struggled to fill Nico's boots in G2, but he's bought them into this Inferno game.
And he's wearing them with pride 12 and 4. So many rounds just decided on his entries.
It is flowing for heroic but they amount to much for by coming out young stars or
shame of nuke was we never got to see it on that CT side which is where he does
some of his best work because of the way those four spies went early game I don't
I don't know if I'm too smart or if they're just stupid.
The liquid are keeping it light.
Malm's having some fun.
I need to overthink it here for liquid just low and slow.
ultimate hold, but I can't play passive triple B with that orb.
Oh nice nade, that's like an anti orb nade.
This X-floud in my position, half has been impactful on the luck, ultimate picks X-floud,
they do lose the angle.
only a tag though and info comes with that young souls left alone at B
because of the two-man a-hold it's pretty passive here for the guys that
were left behind and we'll just get ahead of that utile and get into the site
with the rest of his team he hangs around long side set up with a flash bang
that's one hell of a turn for a leech and he knows the trajectory knows where
that flash came from. They're ready for Suss down here in the pit. Didn't make dealing
with him any easier. Very expensive getting past that hold and now for Nilo, two low players
in front of him. Just has to finish the job while he's barring him into a corner trapped
at the back of the site. But NAF too low can't finish his meal.
It's one for Nilo, but look what it takes, man. Absolute pressure on that position.
low players and just about squeezes the shot out while he keeps him back. Nice round from
a leech though. Dodge of the flash and how he gets away with it. Whether he heard the
pinball or something else called it.
I mean this whole series heroic haven't been able to get more than two rounds in a row
on the board so a streak has to start soon.
They need it, that's for sure.
Our liquid inner giving mood.
Spanning gates to give ultimate vision and the blind shot!
Just a random on the smoke you can X to X find again.
Last time four blind, this time smoked.
Oh, and Malph's is still here.
are sharp right now.
The tag.
You got wounded players on both bomb sites, under defended B site in front of you still.
Backdoor left open, thanks to your A lurkers. This would be a very tricky round to fumble for Liquid.
I don't think they're going to try and find a way because walking into B is the perfect remedy.
Elo is scared of the long side. It's been open this entire round.
Elysia just sat in the cubby.
They could have cleared B in the meantime.
Elysia gets that info.
Just slows down knowing his presence, his pressure, bomb plant.
Nafi's here to get the kills at the end of the round as well.
Him and Elysia have them boxed in.
Disaster strikes for Heroic. Not only do they not play for the round, they can't even save.
Now Flywalk all three on the hunt and he is putting them to bed.
I mean, these are just pitch-and-perfect round wins, 14 liquid.
Both maps getting off to just dream starts as well.
On Nuke it was a big streak of six in a row to get the ball rolling and that left them in a great spot just for the rest of the game really.
Inferno's looking like much the same.
And you know what we've been saying, we kind of got used to a feeling of disappointment with this heroic squad down there throughout this season.
At least their opening games were competitive.
You know they were able to offer up a fight. They still haven't won more than two rounds in a row here
This has been so one-sided
You can't scrape by with these one and done rounds
It leaves you with a lot of pressure your tournament life on the line your time at the major depending on this matchup
This is what the whole season was building towards for this team
Not having fun at any of the big events they attended
grinding through
The smaller events to make sure they had the VRS to be here
And it might just all come and done with a whimper
There's one with a 5v4 over the top on banana
We know what look would have been doing more half is just be the ultimate shooting them through smokes
You're joking
Third round in a row the ultimate finds a fully blinded shot
He has nothing
And still walks away relatively unscathed, liquid, 4v4.
And with how often they've gone B, can you blame Heroic for this stack?
No.
But it means again, Susp has no support on this site.
Oh, he just turned.
They've gone B and he doesn't know.
We just find out.
This is a 1v4 right now for Susp.
There's this fast flanking through banana, but they're gunning it up through mid and if they run too long this is gonna be heard
Didn't they start sneaking at just the right time so sus how many seconds can you lend to this quiet backstab?
It's a couple more and it lets X-File close in
Chewie and Elise left in this one a man down a very claustrophobic side-by-side in the bomb site
That smoke is good for them. They now cross into strong positions
Milo wanted to try and stop it ends up getting shut down
Should we try to break the smoke and I think that actually pushed the leaves into a very awkward spot when it died to his teammates Nade?
So it does get a little bit rough for them in the 2v2. A missed opportunity for Liquid, but a big one for Heroic.
Yeah, that smoke scared me there for X5. I think because he saw a second one on the floor he felt like he just had to use it.
but I let Liquid get into very close to positions.
They were both stuck on default right there.
It's not comfortable.
Established crossfires.
And yeah, that made for Shuri.
Definitely sold with a H.
Good job! Nice!
So, there's something for Heroic.
It's looking really hard.
I know boys, it's really hard to play here.
Now we just have to play a little bit more animal.
A little bit more aggressive here, get some rounds going here.
Because right now, they're just trying with us.
I like it.
And all I get in their face, double-nades down there, they don't commit.
The fighting of Banana has done them no favours in the CT side.
No, these Banana fights have just been openers for malbs.
And so they hang around, they try and listen to the coach, they try and go a bit more animal.
Raw.
They get put down at Banana, and now look at the room naffes seized.
Whoa!
Ow!
He turned.
Even the things that are meant to be bad are going right for Liquid, and there's another entry for Malbs up through Banana the Youngstar AWP here, all alone, and it's gone.
This is done this round.
Cris is too low.
Shot through the smoke.
Bombs put down, sure he's considering the flank, Susp coming in.
Got to clear this one perfectly.
Flash comes in, he's not even considering this right now, so easy pickings.
And what can heroic do but save liquid onto eight rounds on this T side? This is just a
Phenomenal day have run out of ways to say it for team liquid
Yeah, it really is just one of these games where everything's going right like we all saw that timing for now further on long
It was super awkward. It looks like he missed his chance
Just gets gone on in the exact millisecond that Nilo rounds that corner
And Liquid are playing with no respect for Heroic.
I love how punishing they've tried to make every one of these roundcloses as well.
Think about Nuke, think about how the economy kind of decided the outcome after those force
buy wars, the fact you never got to see a young Star Orb.
You know, you're just keeping your foot on the gas here if you're Liquid.
For letting Heroic feel comfortable or have much to work with, it's another round with
big restrictions here in the final round of the half.
Cachadades drop back down ramp as well so they can break these smokes if they want, but
it's abs, now here's the burn, and that sense of heroic back, plant cancelled, double
need in boiler, liquid, just trying to put pressure everywhere, it feels like they just
to go on this one and sure finally going into the stack finally the first
right-placed heroic setup but don't count your luck job's not done
get opening young stars gonna try and extend this catch you back turned all
on the warp can't remedy this so it's now fly alone heroic looking good for a
Another 4 round half, it wasn't enough to save their major lifeline back on Nuke, it has to be on Inferno!
I
You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, I'll be through you
I will hold your hand and I'll hold you
I will hold your hand and I'll hold you
Team Liquid locked in looking for a final day of play here at stage one of the Cologne Major.
Low expectations hung over this roster coming into this very major but they are here and
they are putting up a fight.
Survival on the line, Heroic not looking like they'll last the night, down with only four
rounds on this second map at halftime. It's liquid, look, let's just do the job and eliminate
Herok from contention, putting them into the final day of this stage.
Nath has played a great series, so no surprise to see him trying to get involved.
Headshot will keep him back, and somehow he just starts out of there.
In the downtime, look at Ultima.
Up to no good.
Now don't trigger discipline this shot, Ultima.
I've seen you with a pistol before.
Nilo checks this.
That is cheeky.
Who checks that?
Yeah, I did fully think he was going to get overlooked there, but no, Nilo does his diligence
and plays that cubby.
Advantage for Heroic, they can't afford to fumble this.
Spider-League's getting a bit curious out here towards middle, that's going to trigger
a fallback for Team Liquid.
Defense is split here, and you've got a wounded Naflai alongside a Leige to try and hold onto
A.
hard round to lose for heroic you'd like to think but that's how it starts a
leech deck after one now back sights 13 health smoke shouldn't matter that's one
how many more can you get shot away from death Nilo gets rid of him quickly the
big man mobs and he arriving with these dual barrettas and he's closing in fast
cover isn't there from suss ban in the pit still wasn't ready for young star up
Close, who closes it with a stylish 2K.
Pistol round picked up the Heroic and a chance to close the gap.
Pistol round just always brings energy.
It opens up a new chance, a new opportunity to recover your game.
Any score line winning a pistol can inspire the troops.
So what a hide from Heroic.
As Youngstar comes in with a big multi-kill.
It gives them a chance.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Liquid Force by...
Can snuff out that candle pretty quickly.
And as the forces on Nuke that really wrecked Heroic's day,
back and forth nature of that one just left them with no room that they...
Can't afford to have it happen again.
You've got to have learned some painful lessons from Nuke and keep your head screwed on here.
and I'm playing too quick they've seen nades come out for liquid and so
likely anticipate this force
I
See
And even though now for eyes on it. It's gonna be down to his teammates turning to help him out in this endeavor
Needs to keep his eyes on the apartments
Teammates gonna focus on middle. He looks upwards gets away with his and a leech stays alive on the short side
Big problem now for Heroic.
Bomb picked up, they will have a bomb plant, but a man down in this retake.
Leesh doesn't risk it on that fight straight away.
Notice that this decides a hell of a lot.
If you're able to flush Nilo out, what are you left with?
It's one guy trapped in the bomb site.
So Nilo's the player you want to remove.
The guy you want to deal with right now.
That's easier said than done.
done. Not sure yet of the round, but Mabz is crept in close. Nilo, is he ready for this?
Mabz hops, gives it a jump, doesn't save him. It's down to a leadge and time expires.
There's no winning this for Liquid. Heroic will win out over this four-spy and give
themselves a second chance on Inferno.
A huge victory when you consider the setup they go into there, three players looking
their way. It's just NAV caught on an off-time in checking shorts. Gotta give it to Nilo as well,
right? He really missed that timing on a leech and for the most part looked like he discounted
apartments but dropping off after one kill was the right move, just putting distance between
himself and Liquid and they don't have the time to wait. 8-6. Herok only rounds behind
and not much to play with here in this one for Liquid, that saved gun and a bit of armor.
That is it for Liquid in this round. No way to block or stop heroic.
Double boost.
I think Lil is here.
This feels almost too good to be true. It feels like a fake.
I can't even really see it. I don't think of this boost.
Try to walk together.
I'm hoping this is the real one, but as we can see, the bomb back to middle into ultimate.
Oh, he could walk through.
No, that is somewhere where X5 is out of there.
Oh, I mean, if he gets an AK, dude, why not?
Okay, there's one.
should be ready for players close by but as ultimate goes for a double dip
Crism will punish. So no worries here for heroic. Getting all the out of their hair
very very quickly and that removes any pressure on this round. So down to just the
two-round lead the biggest streak that a heroic have been on in the entire series
that's far on the back of this pistol round that's three in a row
but the easy rounds and now behind them and the guns ready to make another
appearance for liquid
I'll even have the choice to bring out the AWP from the get-go.
Elise gets that in play, dropping it over to Ultimate.
Last thing Liquid want is for this game to close up.
It's a one-round match, but they head into their first rifle round.
If they want to maintain this lead, this is where they've got to show that.
This time Hurok have looked threatening in this series and it's off the back of
converted pistol, their first three rounds in a row, more game-long.
Comming all the pannet.
I'm sure he's got a couple of nades here for the half-wall.
Oh, they combo perfectly.
Caps is stuck though.
Can we take one more with him?
Yes!
Beautiful!
Oh!
Mals pushing back through.
There's his one more.
5-7 lets him down.
A young start replying with a multi-killer of his own.
I don't know who's better than to fight and die for this trade.
He'll fall back and let them have this two on three.
Knee low closing in, long side, two players here, need this trade out of NAF and he's bought down very low but he will get it.
What's Youngstar got for us? 26 points of health, 1v2, knows where both players are and that the defences split up.
He's going with the lesser of two evils towards NAF, who's wounded in at this A bomb site.
I mean, of this for now, he's just missed it, but he's still got this flank. 20 seconds.
That's it. That books him backstabbed a security as team liquid do take that gun round. Heroic
can not hold their heads high for much longer, their money is now in jeopardy.
Huge shut down for mobs in banana triple kill as they appear through the smoke.
And now for perfect reposition to secure that round here for Team Liquid.
Look at the buy now from Heroic, Mach 10s and AKs.
Perfect.
I'm thinking after you often think of a guy who's not afraid to just kind of be rooted in place,
sticking around the last line of defense, but I think the brilliant shines through for him whenever he, you know, gets that kind of freedom,
goes exploring in the mid-round.
And there he finds the perfect move.
stops it before it becomes a problem left to a hit now for heroic and they're
moving in quickly a lot of damage done as soon as they round the corner and so
now you're all super wounded the only guy with health is young star and he's
whittled down as well Malbs comes in to try and finish the job but the rest of his
team started. Malbs collects with a big old 4k. Massive from Malbs and got a feel for
Heroic here. Just a quick pop and all eyes from Liquid in the right place. The Nades
connect, instant dinks, everybody's low. Heroic barely get a chance to fire back. It's Malbs
who smoke where he gets all that damage. And he is looking light out today, 21-11 right
now, in the right place, delivering liquid, salvation.
Youngstar's had a great recovery after a really quiet first map.
But he's not got much backup here on this T side.
I have to take an eco-liquid.
Extending that lead.
I'm playing with a bit of disrespect now.
Aggression up against the pistols.
A leash teed up with a flash.
heroic is sitting around trying to talk over
the most important round of their major run.
That's coming up next.
And they're not giving the time to do so.
so Liquid bring the fight to them. I love it from Liquid actually. You thought you were
going to use this as a little timeout? Nah, the round's already over.
You're going to get a chat. Such a sick move for Liquid to be honest. Flood the comms and
get quickly back into the game because now Heroic, their major life is on the line. This
round is that deciding factor. I mean liquid in this form absolutely could go
through to that second stage tomorrow.
Shot for ultimate but it goes unpunished in malbs again just on these
spams is getting away with murder. 150 damage from the malb span through
banana and boost up for ultimate. Gotta wait for something there but couldn't
quite finish it. No problem the second time around. 5v3 just sit back. And this
must win. Gun round is off to the worst of starts.
Sure, Nilo's in a nice position for a little bit later but you just hemorrhage
so many players. You need a hero moment. You need a big multi-kill. Can it come
from Nilo. He's the guy with a bit of room out here towards short pressure
getting put on by his teammates and as he wraps Moto, timing's gonna be everything
here. Tries to play it forward, gets past nap down in the pit, can't follow up on a
leash, it falls to Youngstar. 1v2 and Shui is closing in very very quickly now
he is ahead on the timing, leaves him alone in that fight. Youngstar was not
expecting it. And so Liquid many a chance to close this series live to fight
another day in Cologne. Just beautifully managed every player getting a
frag in their round. Every player in a one and done spots towards the end.
Ali squeezing that kill onto Neelo taking his best chance against a player
who doesn't know where he is. And after doing the same letting them just walk
to his crosshair liquid not feeling like they have to force these final kills over the line.
They know they have beat Heroic
and they look to do it dominantly.
12-7 and why make a meal of it?
Yeah and for Heroic now you know the tail end of what has been a rough season for them all
all their big event outings, one where they were on the VRS grind to make sure they made
it here to Cologne. Well that all might get left in the rear view mirror. And it doesn't
end with some triumphant battle where sure you fall down but you gave it your all. It's
series they got swept in. Good double opener for Crisen. 5v2, so a chance to extend player
a little longer, try and give Liquid a run for their money. Scrabbling rotates, both
players are here, Math and Shuey. Why do they look so interested in this? It's a 2v5.
That feeling invincible right now. Didn't feel like they could set a foot wrong. Math
comes through, gets shut down, and since Sanity will prevail eventually, Shui decides to head
for the hills.
There are limits.
And Heroica, able to find the final kill, so no save here for Liquid, and if Heroica
gonna believe they've got to be getting out with clean rounds and stopping Liquid's saves.
Cause one more of those will put Liquid on eco.
The meal is made
That's pop for prison taking matters into his own hands
I think you'd be liquid. It's kind of the last thing you expected, right? That could have been their final round of the entire event
I don't think you're expecting a contact little pop flash in towards top banana
Well, when you consider how well mouse has done a shutting it down these smoke spams
Take some balls from heroi to cool around like that
but it's back to something more standard for Liquid, just playing with their utility.
Ultima has just been so reliable.
In this series today, NaF pushes a smoke because Liquid
it's all laid out for them now.
It's not all in those examples from NaF as all where he makes a cheeky move
in the mid-round does so quietly trust his kind of reader the game that he would have
someone there back turned and prison has to go back for the bomb because it's in T spawn
right now in this three on five liquid trust in their orb and enough both of which have
held so strong in this series and that allows this triple B setup this should be the final
thing heroic see as they just walk their way into this bomb site one more block to hold
the road back as they get their ducks in a row. I did this man all the triple b
stacks so looking at Malbs here 23 kills deep is it gonna be him to deal the
killing blow he's gonna he's capped in here alongside him at least lopping out
supportive you tell from the spawn side but Malbs died straight away okay and
And this could get dicey. Shui has to take one with him. He manages that at least.
And the Leisure likes to wait. They're gonna leave this one down to a retake.
Youngstar's AWP now owns the line out towards Spawn.
Waiting for a jiggle, waiting for a fight, hoping that someone makes a mistake and gives something away.
Just anything for you to hold on to, but that shot misses. Second one lands.
And now the pressure is on Team Liquid. They've got to bring the fight to Heroic.
1v1, Crisen takes the swing, backs his aim.
Heroic is still in this!
Youngstar and Crisen with a 2v4, a 3v5 in the round from Heroic.
A ridiculous round. It felt like this series was over.
It felt like Heroic were out of the major and they just keep on kicking down the door.
Got to respect the resilience there, a very difficult round indeed, but not just
Youngstar hitting his shots, Chris follows up with a captain's clutch.
He's had a couple of impactful moments down the tail end of this match, but is there more in
store? Because finally Flashy has had enough, first time out called after 21
rounds because Liquid are letting it slip there.
He's been fine giving them all the run where they want.
He's had full faith in the entire team throughout this run because
well, they've been in full control.
There's been no reason for him to get involved or
disrupt what was already working.
But here at 12, nine,
why, she tries to weigh in with some words of wisdom.
Raga happy with the pause as well.
They get to catch their breath.
You're already breaking momentum at this point.
You're just getting letting everyone calm down
and Liquid will feel the pressure at this point because they are broke.
This round is gimme for Heroic, and suddenly you have one 4-by separating you from overtime.
The play this game has gone for Liquid
almost doesn't feel natural to COT,
but Heroic refusing to go down without a fight.
What a shock!
No one that's well aware of who their secret weapon is, trying to tee up Malbs at top banana
for a sequence on this 5-7.
There's a lot of players around this corner.
Someone's playing at it for sure.
Albs gets out with two.
Trade for Nilo comes a little bit late
and now Liquid starts to close in.
This was just pistols, heroic, still feeling stress.
It's only a USP and B.
Ali's gonna arrive back at the spawn site.
There's Spotnaf on this wraparound
and he knows now he just can't afford to die, can't go down.
He'll get blocked.
And Lee feels like the best way is to go right through and that is a crazy sequence!
This now becomes doable! Pressure's still on for Youngstar! This was meant to be the easy round, this was meant to be the beginning of a comeback and now it hinges on their standing player!
Youngstar keeps it in check! More service for Heroic for Youngstar and Double did it secured as he holds his own in that clutch!
despicable double kills on armless pistols, mouths with a flash plate and a
leech just through the smoke sickening stuff still not enough as heroic
continued to battle back against all the odds. It was never meant to be close
that round but they at least close it that's all that matters and heroic is
Still here, this final buy for Liquid.
Round 24 will be a force.
If Liquid want to end this easily, it's now.
But it's no longer feeling easy.
Now you gotta earn the win.
Thought Heroic were ready to roll over and die, give it all away,
but they've had a second life.
Malbs again, this spam has been so good for him.
Susp starts this round, a dead man.
Here comes the push, they're staking it all on Malbs and his ability to do the impossible
at top banana.
The Flash leaves him blind, it's a Crizzed entry that leveled the playing field.
Ultimate never fired.
They don't know this is here, they're trusting in it on its own, it hits the shot.
Reflash.
Not the ultimate repeak.
They're already out and past him.
Went looking for a little bit more and that's when Nilo rips his head off, B-side crumbles,
down to a retake, 14 liquid.
Ultima's been really good in this series, he's just not doing things like that,
re-peaking triangles on his own, but he's going to offer it up here,
maybe feeling the pressure being the solo B player.
It's now thrust liquid into a difficult position.
If Nades don't connect to kill, they've got a question to ask themselves.
Do we want to risk our rifles on this 3v3?
Unconfirmed damage on Susp,
and while no Nades sit in the hands of heroic liquid, just don't like their odds.
They want to go again in the next.
man
repeat from ultima
that will cost liquid
donkstar doesn't want the orc either
how can you blame him? T side inferno is rifling has been sublime in the second half
You're gonna have limited you tell here as well assuming you want to drop guns over with these three saving players
You want as many rifles as you can get your hands on it's gonna come with some limitations
Now the timeout getting burned here for liquid in the final round of regulation this was their game to win
Still shocking that explode. I mean, he's you know, it cuts out on his face. He's 4 and 18 right now
This is a hot entry man here for a rohawk
See, Chris had been going in first and getting double kills because XR is really just not
having a game.
This was 12-7, ooh, with five chances to close.
We are now at the final one, 14 liquid.
Bit of a struggle.
Let's see if they can handle the pressure.
There's been a walk in the park until now.
This whole series just felt like a wash, right, Heroic?
Just never found more than two rounds in a row until the second half of the second map.
And even then, their three rounds were off the back of... Ecos.
Sol and Steady is the call here for Heroic.
Making use of every bit of utility, giving themselves the best possible chance to win this round
Drag us into overtime, it will be a very different game then.
Liquid have choked the lead, but they haven't yet choked the game.
Two famuses, Kit and Nade, and Liquid are holding on to a lot of utility right now.
still have three smokes at a minute it could really squeeze a rug but they're
walking into the gap right now that's big opener for naff nilo dead 5v4 flash
over at long and this time ultimate doesn't overextend doesn't hang around
waits for that second flash bang and you'll get his two players in the site
ultimate still sticking around to fight out here on long drops this smoke that
might be his parting bit of assistance because he's gonna play on the other
side of it. Thanks around, make sure no one comes through. Now slinks back to link up
with Aleige. Heroic, this has been one hell of a grind to even make this feel doable,
but time is now the problem, and it's a big problem. There's 20 seconds left. If they
do want to win this, they need clean entries. They've got to get into this bomb site quickly.
Will anyone provide them? Molly forces a swing from Aleige, gets in trap. Now in the open,
He hits a blender of a transfer.
There's eight seconds left and there's the line up.
Time is up for heroic Inkelone.
What an effort to try and drag this one through an OT,
but when all is said and done, Liquid shut it down.
Yeah, those last few rounds for Liquid made you feel
the Liquid classic, the scare, the fear of the joke,
but Team Liquid still looks sick today.
A solid day in the office across both maps.
Mounds with some huge, huge moments.
Nafla and Leech putting on one hell of a series and ultimate despite that one round definitely held his own on the AWP
Liquid do shut it out in two. They do live to fight another day into that final fight of stage one
Liquid really had to fight for this time around but they do succeed in the mission that is staying alive here
I am cologne 2026 on behalf of heroic who's now unfortunately eliminated Martin
That was a close game, that was a very tense game at the very end of it, you know, I was smelling a bit of overtime, but at the end of the day Liquid got the job done.
Yeah, Liquid definitely showed a better face compared to whatever they were showing in the earlier stages of Stage 1, and deservedly so, are going into 2-2 cool, I think they have a pretty good chance now for actually making it through, because well, whatever they showed today is actually remarkably better than previous games.
It was a much better looking Team Liquid today and dare I say it, my MVP on Inferno right here, a player who did exceptionally well has joined us here on the desk.
Melch, congratulations first and foremost for winning the game and staying alive. How's the feeling inside your body right now?
It's good to lose, not lose, you know.
Yeah, do you ever get used to losing?
Not really.
Not really.
Kind of, but not used.
You don't want to get used to it.
Now, take us through this game right there. A hard fought battle versus a road.
We spoke about it on the first map. Nuke looked super, super good for you guys in control.
And I could be the best liquid we've seen all term and long.
Yeah, Nuke, I think Camille was having really good calls overall. And I think
Elise was taking over CT really good. Uninfernal is actually really, really them super good in
banana, both sides. And then I lost a little bit of control in CT at the end, but it was good.
So yeah, super happy to finally be the team we can be because we were working really hard to work on those like
Bad things we had and then I've well everyone felt like we just forgot it yesterday and that the game I can spend them a little bit
So yeah, it's good to be back a little bit. I
Had a little bit of a flashback when I was watching the game from a fryberg king of banana obviously
Can I can I say the prince of banana mobs? I have a little trophy for you
That goes from the snack room. This is yours now, and this is for your performance MVP performance like on inferno
I love that. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to vote to watch my POV from that game
And you had even moments in poses, right? We were saying like guys, I don't know if they're
What was it if they're stupid or I'm too smart or maybe both
Well both can work right?
Also, I'm curious now that you are the the newest addition to this lineup
It didn't really look too pretty for a full liquid before and it's still sometimes a little bit shaky
I think we can all agree to that. What is in your own word?
I think everyone has their assumption of what is what's what's wrong and what's not really work of you guys
But in your own words since you have like maybe a new look at it
What is what's your biggest struggles in liquid as of right now?
I think it could be
Overthinking a little bit because like the guys have been struggling for a while
and like it's been a tough situation for them and like once you get in that
spot of like a slump a little bit it's really hard to get out of it and I when
I got into the team I could understand a little bit what was happening with the
slump and all of that and I've been trying to help them as much as I can but
it's been a tough moment for them and I can I can say that and yeah I think it's
mostly that that they are just in a slump but that like individually we have
really good players and like we should do better than we are doing right now you
Do you also think that's that's one of the reasonings to why people are judging you guys so hard is that you looking on the paper
You have a lot of players has been playing at the highest age winning multiple trophies majors in everything that you're a very experienced squad
And you should be doing better than what you're doing right now
And also for an organization like liquid with such a big history. Do you think that also plays into why people expect so much of you guys?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure and that's one
And that's like another thing of why they're struggling, like the pressure of like, the
outside of us is like, people saying bad stuff about, I don't know, ultimate Shuhi.
And then, yeah, they get into their heads and they're overthinking and they're like,
they want to be heroes at some point, you know, and then they bring that into the game.
And yeah, because they just want to show that they're capable of playing in the big stages
and they're just overthinking also.
There's no doubt that it's tough to break out of that circle.
speaking of you personally as well, came from a time in G2 as well, and you spoke about how you
wanted to rediscover yourself as a player and get back to your roots. How is that whole transition
and development going from your perspective? Are you getting more and more out of the old maps
like we saw here in Inferno? Yeah, for sure. I think I've been grinding the game a lot like I
used to do back then, but yeah, I'm just trying to be like the guy, the sharpshooter and everything,
And also with a little bit more of experience, which is a really good addition for me and yeah,
I think I'm just coming back a little bit. Yeah, it's looking better and better.
Now Miles, before we let you go, I am curious to see and hear your opinion on who you're playing
tomorrow. I don't know if you're aware of what the matchup is going to look like,
but we can tell you and show you right here that you will be going up against Flycrest
in the second game tomorrow. Initial thoughts about that one,
winner goes to stage two, loser goes home. It's a good matchup actually.
Yeah, it's gonna be fun because we actually screamed them one time. I'm not gonna say the result but
Yeah, it's gonna be fun, but if you were to tell us to resolve, you know, what would it be?
I would just be smiling. You're just smiling. All right. That's back them. Yeah, okay
Time for some revenge also your initial thoughts on the other game five tylu versus lindvision nrg
versus big you have any
Lost yeah, unfortunately
Yeah, they won.
NIG is playing big just like you guys do to stay alive tomorrow.
Okay, so at least we're getting one Asian team through.
Which is good for them. And yeah, just rooting for energy and liquid, you know.
And they on top. Do you think NIG has what it takes to be the playmate for the big boys?
Of course, if we did.
Alright Melts, thank you so much for joining us on the desk.
We'll let you go and go celebrate with your team and get ready for the game tomorrow.
Thank you, we go live on mirage. You know plenty utility coming into this one for fly quest heaps of it for story and
Inns will see what they decide to do is fly quest go heavy towards B
Bro's gonna get up into the apartments. He's got the jewel barrettas at the ready
It's the bait set up with nitro as well
So nitro wants to take the attention sonic will have a fast rotation also from the window kill from nitro nice bait
Yeah backs away now sets up bro
Can you get anything done with the barrettas the answer to that is no JKS able to take him down
We've now got Vexite moving into the site and Nitro cut away from the defense a quick flank from Sonic around the backside
But this really feels like this is where the round lives or dies for NRG and now he's spotted
Yeah, he has to get a kill from this flank Ocean Grim gonna start making their move
But there's so many crossfires they're gonna peak out good shooting from Grim and we're at two on two
Yeah, brother is getting kills now Sonic pops out of the apartment. It's okay
Even though they know about Sonic
He still steps up with two from apps and Grim and Sonic get them back into the round for NRG to steal away the pistol
That's actually wild. How does FlyQuest not get those kills? Grimms goes untreated.
Sonic saves the day. That kill out towards the corner. Sonic is the crazy one, right?
Yeah, well, he knows. I think he realizes when he's getting into this fight, he's coming on this flank.
That play, well, let's start here, because this actually should have been a much cleaner defense.
Lightyear gets that kill at range. Man, when you see your duels play or close up like that in the position of Bro,
not getting anything done, you're really, really worried. But that kill is everything.
Because he knows Story doesn't want to commit to the fight on him quite yet,
so he takes that one window of opportunity that he has to have a quick shot and just drills it.
Lovely pistol, but that's early frustrations for FlyQuest.
Janko just mentioned, like, minimizing the mistakes you're going to make.
And that's a round that slips away from FlyQuest.
They absolutely should have had in their pocket.
Well, because they have some extra cash to play with after the first round,
they at least get a Galila and Tec-9s and Kevlar,
so they can go into this round with some potency available.
And they're going to be going directly to the A site with the two mid-smokes now fading away.
A lot of M4s on NRG, so you're missing kits.
There's only one of them available on Nitro.
You're gonna be missing utility to activate a retake if this hit is successful from fly quest and most of your attention at the moment
Is pulled towards middle
Well, all that mid utility is gone and now you'll start to realize that actually that nothing is there
That's gonna be a direct hit towards this a sight
So we'll see all those blue dots in the mini-map start to move back in towards this a defense and fly course
They've got it going now
So they pop out of the palace they drop into the site
They took flashes layer upon layer of them towards bro and that holds him back
Sonic's got the kill on JKS, so first blood drawn, that was the one player with the rifle.
So now FlyQuest left with just pistols to fight towards CT, and Osi's gonna hold that
range advantage and he's got the help of Bro as well.
Not even like it's needed because Osi gets all three and then Grim comes in for the final.
So NRG do not concede a player.
Yeah, nicely done from them as well.
No panic when the hit comes in, realizing they're out of position, also understanding
their plan retakes so nobody needs to try and do anything crazy.
Grim just holding on to stairs the entire round and Osi with the triple.
So you get the bomb plant, but I think you're feeling if you're a flight cost, it's not
entirely worth the investment of the armor of the tech nines.
Now you would have liked to have done damage at least.
Not limiting any economy from the energy side, that's a painful loss, but at least you have
the plant to kind of recoup some of those losses.
Yeah, plenty of cash built up here for NRG in reserve that should only get better here
of the level to keep casualties at a minimum.
And we're hearing Ash talk about it in the pre-show today, highlighting some of the games
for some of these teams in the opening, and the MR12, B.L. once when you start in a hole,
like Liquid did yesterday, it's so difficult to come back into the game. So if you're
FlyQuest, you pretty much have to win immediately when these gun rounds start coming out and
get some sort of foothold in the game, especially when you're letting NRG build a mountain of
cash up.
I think the thing with FlyQuest is going to be, you know, watching that game religion
game last night probably felt at various points like they should have been able to keep control
and actually win that game and outlast game religion and take that win to go 2-0 after
their overtime victory over Sinners. I think, you know, like you have a situation where
yeah, I think they can dig themselves out of some adversity, but missed opportunities
is the name of the game it feels like for FlyQuest. And we've seen the same similar
things out of NRG over the course of the past few months.
Slight block there. They smoke from O.C. so we can peer over the top flight of it as they're
coming out. So they'll begin to spray away with his teammate in bro. Together they've
taken the first three kills of the round, but net take, double-deed. Inside of middle,
damage, at least being inflicted. Sonic goes out, drops in, so it's all medic and then
he gets peeked by OC. We'll take his second of the round. That's five and one start here
for OC, four and zero for Sonic.
I like watching NRG at the moment. These past two rounds, and granted, they're up against
pistols unarmored in round three and armored in round two, but they're being very aggressive
at the point of attack. They're peeking, they're fighting, they're shifting over, coming up
with plans. That's like a mid-round mid-clear with four players kind of swinging from different
position, so I like seeing that in an NRG. We get the first look at the FlyQuest's offense
as the guns come out full by for both sides. Five AKs across the board.
A little bit of mid-presence and mid-aggression for the side of NRG. Sonic's got deep information,
Bro peeking off short.
And on timing of seeing nobody from FlyQuest swing top middle, they just kind of bail out
of the setup, so no harm, no foul, just some spent utility.
Think FlyQuest as well, maybe put a little bit nervous on the back foot to start this
round with that aggressive stance, seeing that smoke down underneath the window.
Wanted to back off and let the aggressive stance's fade away, but it's chewing a lot
of time off the clock.
I don't know if you didn't get any kills for it, but I mean this round is basically
and played at the one-minute mark now as flyquests make their first move.
I just gone through the motions, getting utility in towards connector,
and then boosting JKS up into the window room.
While that smoke is still up, but it fades away now.
JKS looks the wrong way, and that's gonna free up, bro.
There's Twin getting the kill, and our story able to find the follow-up at a 4v4.
35 seconds, Nitro coming forward, Inz gonna fall to nothing because he gets both kills and falls
Nitro and Bro in one fell swoop. So you've now got Vexite stepping in and much better here for
FlyQuest in the killing department. You've got Sonic now the only player that can do anything
about it. It does not deny the plant but certainly does damage onto the planter and then catch a
story under the wood. Information picked up on Inz and I think Sonic starts to realize just how
difficult it will be just to round this corner. So we know, he has just got the planter tagged up
up a little bit right that's who he's trying to flush out of the open I think
at this point it's not so much about going for the clutch let's get that kill
and see what happens afterwards
well of course the angle but he gets a cross gets by the scope and a lot of damage being done here by Sonic
he's got a kid on his back but no utility time ticking and we've got an angle
forward grenade utility all flies in Sonic gonna be forced off that diffuser
but keeps them pinned keeps them busy and takes a few kills in the way out the
door yeah not too bad of an attempt from Sonic making it a little bit dangerous a
little bit worrying but that's a nice run from flyquast I mean that's that's
I'm looking at that early aggression backing off a little bit and never throwing an execute
This is like was kind of taking space finding it
I mean losing a player but then just kind of sliding into spots right like the just walking up con
Traversing into its window room walking up short as well. This is a nice opening kill
But ends is the winner of this round just takes down the peep the follow-up kill is unbelievable
Bro can't trade it off as crazy ends gets away the second now
Now frustrating I think for energy in that round
But again without with the way that like was played if there was no indication of what was coming everyone was kind of silent on the
Flyquist side of things well great to see flyquist get that start that they were looking for once the guns come out was a
Little bit worrying when JKS in such a powerful position dies without a fight
But you've now gotten rid of all that residual cash the NRG built up over the first few rounds
So if you win this you can break them and start really settling into this first half
Nitro being put under pressure at this B bomb site
but he's just going to respond with some utility of his own
and FlyQuest are going to start retreating those players back.
Yeah, didn't want anything to do.
Just a two-man unit applying pressure to the B bomb site.
I think they recognize Bro sliding over from short here
in the footsteps.
Don't want to commit to anything.
Didn't get the fight they were looking for.
And FlyQuest readjusts back into something.
A little bit more default.
Again, right around the one-minute mark, two players
top mid, Story and Vexite.
Netic and JKS coming through the underpass.
Inns is going to be waiting outside of the A bomb site.
So it looks like Grimm and Sonic are going to get a little bit of love headed their way.
Oh, Sonic has that bottom con smoke.
He broke it open.
He has cover taken away. Story.
Gonna make quick work with the Khalil. Two kills picked up. Good peek out from Nitro.
But it's not enough to feel comfortable if you're NRG with the final 35 seconds.
The pack of FlyQuest players inside of connector in one inside of the ramp.
But Grimm has just traded position, walked right past him.
And so Wins is going to go down a strong position for Grimm.
But they're going to start looking towards him.
He's alone, he's the only player here.
He has to play his life, he has to stay alive
and make it uncomfortable here for FlyQuest.
They think he's gonna be on the ramp,
they think he's gonna be inside of a ramp
with aggressive stats, one for one,
but now the rotation is here.
Yeah, they're all towards CT,
so net's 18 cent forward, flashbang up,
doesn't need it for the first,
certainly needed it for the second,
so it's JKS against Nitro.
Nitro goes in, charging, not wasting time,
but JKS tracks those steps, goes into the fight,
but it's Nitro, two-winnin' into 1v1.
Nicely done from Nitro, Kalman composed, swapping out to the AK-47, good trade on Ose's death.
And the captain's going to step in for a big time clutch.
You mentioned it, this would have been a reset round, breaking the economy of NRG.
So a huge save from Nitro to step up here in Cologne.
Also Nitro is mentioning ahead of this game, the story for them has been losing the important
clutches.
And every clutch matters so much in these best of ones.
And so Nitro's just picked one up for his team against JKS.
would favor JKS in a 1v1 against Nitro, but Nitro confident moving forward
getting into a strong position. Yeah I mean it's I like the aggressive play too
he knows with the Bombing planted on the only eight seconds left it was likely
just gonna be a stick so make sure he pressures forward so that JKS can't go
anywhere can't leave those boxes the fight is he dictates that the fight is
gonna take place at the plant spot very nice for Nitro. 4-1. You've missed that
chance to break the CT money if you're fly-crossed and now you've taken the
economic hit so you're down to two AK-47s and pistols on three players. Not ideal is it?
not ideal in any way let's save it up a little bit of money for the next round
there's still money in the bank for fly quest so on some level a plant and
economic damage you would be great if they continue coming to this B bomb so
I really want to see OC have a nice route with the off off of short he's
gonna be able to turn and help nitro and nitro is gonna need that assistance
hey John, it's treatment with B-size, it's gonna be OC taking the first contact
JKS, Dagnetic also and OC's got a second finally vexed on ends getting involved
here for FlyQuest, but it's going to be difficult for them to actually get anywhere near the
bomb site with that bomb because OC is still here cutting off the apartments and they're
out of Util, they've spent it all, so OC can't get flashed, he can't get blocked and so he
gets a free kill, leaving Vex out on low HP and no bomb plant again here for FlyQuest.
Yeah, there's the round I wanted out of OC. Not nothing crazy obviously, like a nice pistol
rush, pretty simple. Oh, that sucks. Shot in the face. But just hitting the shots from
short getting that all warmed up and the support over to nitro is very well done
on backside can win this he's got time for now 45 seconds so HP man it's the
HP that's going to be really hard he's got a pre-fire Grimm's position it's got
the AWP and Grimm's already in the markets he's got up the angle here flash
into the market I think the tougher angle is actually dealing with bro here just
on that tight lap with the AWP and bro is just going to be in such a strong
position to close out that fight against backside so yeah I mean instead of
unfortunate for fly course not to even get the bomb plant so they're gonna have
by but that would have tipped them just a little into a better territory in terms of
being able to get more utility on story and Netic wouldn't have had to go do a collial.
Well that was, they were trying to double push to peak the angle of Cat that Osea was holding.
You could see kind of XI with the Tech 9 just barely seeing his shoulder but not getting a
clean look at it. So they wanted to at least force him off the angle to be able to get the bomb
plant but again Osea hitting some nice shots in that round with a triple kill. So punish them at
the end of the day. First time out for flyquests as they talk things over. They had that like
$1500 residual cash in the bank after investing in the previous so going to be able to bring out a pretty intimidating buy two
AK three AKs in an AWP Galil on netik
But this offense has yet to get
Cookin at any significant way one round win five to one four round lead for energy
Part of the conversation around energy as well over recent months has been their T side
So it's been pretty weak for them. They've been really trying to figure it out and improve upon it
I think for as you heard from my job
He's like we're just kind of seesaw it like sometimes we put all the time in the CT side and they look great and T side
It's like terrible that it's the other way so now we're just trying to find the Goldilocks zone
There's our balance we can find oh
So far so good on CT side 5 1 up. Let's see if like question get back on the board again
The number rounds where they've just thrown utility middle and sent no one there this time a lot more pressure being
put in some middle from FlyQuest, two through top, mid, two through the underpass.
NRG's tried to be disruptive in mess with this.
Mades, last round they tried to break open half the smoke for Grim to get a good peek.
They got a sound cue on the mallets off.
And now information on the inset top, middle.
So middle of the map firmly in the control of NRG, but will it last as Story steps up to the plate?
Oh, they walk around to call and say,
oh, see, into the scope.
Barrel spotted as well.
The silencer of Grim just peeking around that corner,
but it's pulled story into a false sense of security.
As he steps into the open, Sonic's ready for two,
racing his way to a double.
Now here comes JKS, trying to alleviate some pressure
from Palace, lands that shot towards Grim top stairs.
Now, Sonic has to come back into this with Nitro
and recover a 2v3.
Yeah, and actually they seem a little bit confused
on where things are going.
Sonic picked up the AWP, wants to get that shot,
Double scope just sees the top of the dome, but can't land it
There's the flank coming in through the apartments and still a long way off over in that B site
JKS inside of Sandwich Nitro
Slowly stepping towards clearing JKS into the open Nitro wins that fight net take has to hold on his teammate now arriving on the flank
It's the insurance policy Sonic is preoccupied looking down on the default
But you've now got Vexed out towards CT spawn and Sonic jumps up on top smoke is the factor here
He throws it down, he's going for the last chance on the diffusel, Cronin into the smoke.
Stonic gonna be taken down by bullets instead.
And the second round secured, it's close again from FlyQuest, but at least breaking through to the round win.
Yeah, now they've put actually NRG in a really awkward decision that they have to make because their money is right on the edge.
So they're gonna have to decide if they want to buy or sit one out here.
Please, I just want to give us time to break the momentum, give us time to breathe, okay?
I feel like it's getting a little bit hectic right now and stuff, so just feel pretty cool what you want to do, Josh.
But just take this time to breathe was it good. It's getting a bit hectic and whatnot. So, you know, take a sip of water over it
Aaron long-time or I should say long time teammate of JKS since Australia bludgeon I guess I would say
Coaching fly quest calming him down now. We have a fast hit into the A bomb said it's about to get hectic again
Very hectic because Sonic is just taking three kills in quick succession
Sonic is having a great game right now on Mirage 12 and 3 and he goes into the side of the smoke
Vexite, gonna be taken down Nitro with a CZ through smoke. Vexite dead, in to loan, has to pull off a wonderful clutch.
And he goes to the start of the smoke. He's still got his health, he's got another kill, and he's dropped that cover, but he took 90 damage through smoke again.
That's bad, NRG just trying to win the round right there inside that smoke, because you have an advantage. Why are we trying to just spam down?
Now Inz has gotten a crazy situation where he might be able to steal it away.
Oh, it's the damage that he takes, right? It's the fact he goes down to 10 HP in the last second, but he's picked up information on OC.
OC. Yeah, but it's all about timing now. Like
Now he's got a way to the B bombs. It'll have plenty of time to plant this bomb
OC's not gonna realize it's at the B bombsite until it's already gone down. Nitro's far away. Got nades too. Smoke goes down towards short. Oh
But he steps before the smoke and
OC's gonna love that. It was always gonna be tough
But yeah, that's a nice one to give over if you're if you're energy you're loving the ease of which that closed out
Because that clutch is feeling very tense for you in that moment. Well sonic again and another great round from him
He really has been a really strong player for NRG since he's returned and
12 and 4 I mean this is a massive step up
He gets all the three he plays some really scrappy positions as well
He's done a very good job who saw him in like in the mid setups the aggressive mid setups
He's that guy who kind of like swings between aggression right based off who takes contact looking towards underpass turning to fight top mid
Doing very very good in that role
Jake asked their head in hands six to two
Frustration for FlyQuest mounting as this lead continues to build, and Sonic's just chilling.
Oh, hero AK for story. Everybody going to be on Tech Nights here for FlyQuest.
Not really catching any wind here, which is very stop-start, and that's your own success.
You go story down middle, that's the one AK gone again, and Sonic just ripping the hearts out
of the chests. Nothing FlyQuest can do against this guy.
Yeah, he's one of those players I feel like has those games where like you see him like
when he starts having success with these kinds of pushes it just continues to build and continue
to mount for whatever reason. He's just so good at building some of that momentum. And
obviously right now it's a nightmare for FlyQuest to deal with because he's just, he's taken
two of you every single round at the very least.
Smoke fedding bottom con, Sonic ready for his next fight. Jiggled out, got the information,
He doesn't put himself up on his way, but Britain certainly does.
He puts himself in a position where he's completely exposed.
So again, it's Sonic you have to rely upon.
He's having a deal with fights on multiple fronts.
It's a decent job, it's challenging, but I'm able to get another kill out of it.
Always, it can't be like this.
Yeah, you're missing out on a lot of opportunities here, but it's still a 2v3.
It's doable.
As Nitro slips into the smoke, Bro comes out from short, platformetic, poor spam is coming
through and he gets it, but the head shot from Nitro at the last second will denial
his reposition.
So now you've got JKS, a 1v2 coming through, the M4 now picked up and he slipped in behind them.
They're taking so much time, the smoke is gonna fade.
Yeah, it fades away.
Bro considers looking towards the jungle, but JKS does not peek, he does not give away the info easily.
And now they're looking the wrong way.
JKS out with one.
Challenges against Nitro, but another 1v1 falling in the favor of the American.
Oh man, so many timings.
JKS plays that so well, had their back turned twice and just couldn't get the double spray down.
Nigel just moves behind the boxes.
I think JKS thought he might have got him low.
Might have got him into red to switch out to the Tech 9, commit to that fight.
But equally remember, bombs no longer planted for him.
So it doesn't want to get into that game of is he defusing, is he not defusing.
But another round that's so close that just goes against FlyQuest.
You can't keep missing out on these opportunities, right?
The fact that you're in this best of one territory and you're letting NRG pull away.
They're winning these clutches. You're missing out on these chances to break them.
I mean, this is one of those games that's really frustrating if you're FlyQuest.
Each of the past one, two, three, four, five, six rounds of play have come down to one or two players surviving for the winning team.
Every round has been close, and if you're FlyQuest, you're sat there feeling like this game is close, but the score doesn't reflect it.
You're just waiting for that one round to turn the corner, and the really angry thing is you had it earlier, and NRG won the four spot.
Well, this could be it. This could be the round again, because NRG had to call timeout ahead of this, and they don't have a lot of residual cash left over.
so if FlightQuest can get the break here, they can still make something of this half.
Five rounds still possible.
Okay, well, going back to mid four players, this time we're not getting that aggressive stance out of NRG.
Sonic's not swinging for any kind of crazy fight at the moment.
Just chucking nades into the smoke, but the timing of this might just wreck NRG.
Look at this position.
Inns just slid straight through jungle.
Sonic's surprise.
Inns couldn't double up, but Vexides right there behind him,
and now panicking the comp, I'm sure for NRG realizing okay, we've lost a lot of the map very quickly.
Nitro's got a backtrack and he does, he exposed himself to that story, all that's waiting for him and Grim taking off top wood.
So you have to rely upon Oc to go massive.
Now he reveals his position and just the one.
He's close to JKS, but Nitro wins the fight as story sticks around and look at the HP here for FlyQuest.
Nitro could clutch again.
This would actually be crazy if Nitro's able to come over and put this together.
Very very cool round from FlyQuest, but surely not another one with an advantage goes against them
And I think with a low HP playing this smart JKS hiding up in palace
And I chose gonna have to commit if he wants to clear that position Vexite disappearing into CT spawn
Both of them not even toying with the idea of taking flights with this HP
I gotta be thankful that those utilities go towards the wrong positions
I'm so low that I HG if it goes towards JKS the molly it removes him, but it doesn't so JKS comes out
All Palace eats the Flash but eventually gets that kill on Nitro and FlyQuest have finally broken through and brought that money down low again here for NRG.
That was much more akin to their very first gun round of this game where they just kind of walked into position and walked into map control without really indicating too much.
Here they're just throwing out utility a bunch of different places. I think there's a miscue here. Sonic watching Window, he's got a teammate up in the ladder room as well so both of them watching the same thing.
Nobody with eyes on con think it was OC's responsibility, and he got smoked off so he had to move position
So causing some miscommunication causing some mistakes on the energy side fly quest able to take advantage of it
And you've broken him again back to pistols. Well Sonic just nips in the 5-7 a quick opening kill even in these rounds
He's still a threat and now he has an AK-47
Nitro steps up next with CZ but spotted and will retreat
He gets back to safety. Yeah, I like that for the moment
I can't believe Sonic still wants to fight, playing behind the Molotov though.
Let's see.
Oh my god, Slayh!
That's nuts!
He gets away with both and perishes in his own flames, but that might just be enough to give his team the chance.
They haven't been able to get better weapons, but that's huge.
You still have to play it so smart if you're in RG because of the pistols, because of the utility,
but I think what you see right now, everyone hustling over to where Sonic gets that triple.
Plenty of AKs on the ground there, so who cares?
Let them take their time working into the A bomb site.
we're gonna have a four-on-two and we're gonna have a rifles
when we come in for the party
that's some action but we should write that for some of that that's not me he
knows if he falls back towards middle he's likely dead there's gonna be some
kind of like what's presence he's on armored with an a k forty seven of the
case now jason
criminal seat just picked up to a k forty sevens
this round is on
is and story plant coming through flight was half the big this up
sonic is about to be the nightmare
Yeah, but you still got to play this smart.
Oh, steps up first, Grim.
Alerts himself.
Here comes the palace play.
Grim goes out first, spacing.
Not great, so he's trying to spam for the wooden out.
Bro, he's got the USP, he should take the next fight here.
Inns just go down, USP's inns.
Gotta be story for the clutch and the CC from Nitro.
Silences, fly quest, and it's Sonic.
He's just a superhero right now.
Yeah, he's having one of those games, isn't he?
That's an unreasonable way to get a triple kill in a round like this.
Two force-bys that NRG have won. Flyquests have now lost two clutches to Nitro.
You've lost two rounds when you have rifles up against pistols. This one has no armor behind it. This is just insane.
You just don't ever expect it. JKS is chucking the flash for the end of the Molotov and he's just...
That is the craziest idea to swing into the flames for the fight.
Last hope, a 4 flight quest. A 4th round you can do something, but an easily 3 just seems
so unlikely.
MP7 for Vexite, tech 9, phonetic, the rest in 8k's.
Alright, that's broke. First kill's good. Vexite to trade it.
JKS woods inside smoke, body's taking tags, JKS on the hunt, trying to spam away but Grim's gonna win that duel, now Story's moved out into the site, Grim now gets eyes on it, can he win the fight? No, Story moves up. CT spawn taken, fly close into a 3v2.
Our Nitro is still here, OC, oh, behind in the middle.
You can see Dexite looking for somebody, OC's trying to hang on, Nitro connects the spray, brought very, very low.
But you still now have a 2v2.
U-Tilt, gonna go down onto default.
That AK is starting to throw and has to back away into the firebox.
Story with the rightful, low HP, OC finishes him off.
He's still got his health, he's still got the AWP, he can't connect the shot and Nettik will grab a fourth.
fourth yet to be seen if it's gonna be enough from flight quest but it is the South African that
to the spring NRG 2-8-4 lead.
Well, I was a little worried coming into this major with the results that NRG have had recently,
but things seem to be turning around now that we're here in stage 1.
8-4 lead over FlyQuest in the break.
Sonic a life game.
17-8.
This guy can do no wrong.
Everything he chooses to do inside the server right now is going his way, and it's ruining
everything for flyquests. Well it's M112 Jason and it's an 8-4 lead and now NRG
switched to the T side which they've been open about have been a bit of a
struggle recently so it's not over just yet but it's definitely can go the other
way we'll see if flight quests can get a pisterom to allow themselves that dream
of a comeback I'm gonna see NRG go heavy towards B just like we seen flight
quests in that first half. Let's see how how brittle or how strong flight
quests can be remember they've had some heartbreaks they've lost advantage
rounds they've lost multiple clutches but now they at least got the attack
coming right at this aggressive setup with Vexite and with Nettik.
Oh Vexite first off the chair, oh my god off the river it's gonna be broke taking that first headshot
Nettik gonna be taking down a bench and a very strong entry here from NRG that's
three kills clearing up the site and Sonic is definitely not slowing down.
Yeah he's having no issues is he? Happy to just step into every single fight
fearless he's been all day long all game long so a 9 to 4 lead the pistol
round victory on the t-side the economic advantage it started to look bleak
for fly quests oh yeah that comeback dream becomes a lot more difficult to
see happening now with this situation panning out losing two punches losing
two force buys or against two force buys it's been a very difficult game for
flyquests they've never got any kind of momentum sonic ends this piss around with a quad kill just
because why the hell not 21 kills now for sonic losing both pistols as well jayson yeah that's
what we're gonna we're gonna get there a lot has gone wrong actually now that i've opened tab
flyquests have yet to win two rounds in a row yeah it's all been just isolated and they've had two
breaks which is the crazy thing like you felt like there was moments where flyquests could have
could have gained control this match and kept it close or taken a lead and those opportunities
He's just slipped away the echo highlighted on the desk will bring it up again the team that makes the least mistakes the teams that you know
They isn't isn't causing the most areas of making the most errors. They're gonna have a great shot at winning this right now
That's an RG Sonic isn't making mistakes man
Now he's making mistakes. They're just it's fine. He's just getting that game
Yeah, you can make mistakes and still kill everything
Yeah, they aren't punishing well there's in scorned nitro over the top medic in a drop number five seven and spammed down by sonic, of course
It is unreal isn't it? He's going for 30
So story and jcast at the a-bomb site nitro is called two aggressive rounds in these anti-eco in the Santa Eco
Over towards the b-bomb site these guys have had nothing to do
We were recording one of our podcasts with flam had a listen. We're talking about energy and our expectations of them
He was saying you know sonic the problem with energy is sonic is the best player and he's not supposed to be
That doesn't seem like a problem right now. I have to say
It feels like a very good luxury.
Yeah, I mean, the concept is like he's like a really aggressive like space-taker, playmaker
that kind of sets up the guys coming in after him, but when you have a game like this where
everything works on the plays he chooses to make, it's like you don't need the guys coming
in afterwards.
So, he just gets to take all the glory today.
10-4.
Double digits for NRG.
rounds away from moving into the 2-1 score line of the Swiss bracket. NRG yesterday going
1-for-1, beating sinners, losing to Gamer Legion, FlyQuest as well, beating sinners, losing
to Gamer Legion. They've had identical first days.
In a way, yeah.
In a way. But day two, looking much better for NRG.
Yeah.
I got Sonic flying out, he's powered up.
I mean that's the next thing that just gets hard is like, how do you wreck his confidence
in this game?
How do you stop him from being willing to just hard swing out into the open and take
every single play?
We've only got really a couple rounds to do it.
And Sonic with another one, Jk is going to die, Burroughs got the other, and Sonic not
too far off dropping that, because he's walled through that smoke spam, I don't know if he's
with him.
And that will be 11 to 4 for NRG.
And not even inflicting a whole lot of damage in these two rounds after losing the pistol's flyquests.
So, money is going to be in a very happy place for NRG.
So, flyquests have to begin this comeback on Nightmare mode, where you've got to grind down the economy,
and you're going to be seven rounds behind when you eventually get started.
Yeah, I'm very surprised to see this game be as one-sided as it is.
I don't know what's going on, he's going to get caught by OC.
Not even allowed a piece of mercy.
It's the, it is, it is the missed opportunities.
It's like the gun round win for FlyQuest in round four, but then losing in round five in
a one-on-one clutch, and then breaking the economy and then losing to a forced buy.
And then two rounds later breaking the economy and losing to a forced round, and then losing
another clutch.
Like you've had, the moments have been there.
The opportunities for FlyQuest have been there.
Capitalization and execution is not.
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Flyquests have their buyout, but it has to begin here all in the hands of story and fours otherwise
is up short. It has to be reactions instead for Nettik, and certainly reacting fast enough.
Story combining, INS here holding out the apartment's push, and it falls to OC and
Bro, so a stronghold here from FlyQuest.
Yeah, really good hold. Not really a whole lot of clean looks for the energy side of
things as they shift back to the A bomb site. Bro and OC hustling on their way over. Story
INS and Nettik committed over towards B, so just JKS here playing TopCon. INS and Nettik
can have support from short. Bro needs to get this kill on JKS very, very fast. If you
can knock him out and have an easy avenue into the bomb site with that kill, you have
a chance but a smart play from JKS to drift away and play it safe preserve his
life
what off towards jungle flash towards the stairs ball plank gotta be coming in
here for OC dropers if you've liked Western and they won so in's and JKS
command and clean up the final two will be the further on security of the
fly quest and a very clean first gun round for a fly quest on the CT side
that'll give you a little bit of hope that they can make this work pretty
pretty convincing victory in this first gun round in the second half story gets
to keep us up upgraded to three AK-47 so defense is going to get a little bit
stronger you've chipped away at some of that money on the energy side of things
still gonna have a very strong by still gonna be able to drop a plenty of cash
But a little bit closer.
No access whatsoever inside the B bomb site.
Late play towards A and the 2v4 doesn't work out whatsoever.
So energy buy back up for round 17.
I'm just hitting the brakes at the time being here front, I've got three players positioned
outside of A1 in Palace, two of them.
I've given some time for the defensive utility to get chucked out and burned, letting kind
of milken out those nades on the flight quest side of things.
This is always, as you can tell, finished towards the A bomb site.
Bomb is dropped there.
Letting Burrow have some time to try and find a kill,
but that AWP scares the hell out of him.
Good damage dealt.
OC steps up next.
Yeah, Molotov's going to force him a little further back.
You just take a tag of this also.
Audio cue given out.
Seize the trajectory, though, from inside the bomb site.
JKS actually steps out bravely into the fight against OC.
takes an off shot but through those breaks. So J-Kess is able to take some damage on board
but remove the AWPer of NRG. Now with 35 seconds left, Sonic's come out with a headshot.
He's dead! Sonic's got another! And he steps out of the open, finally put to an end, but
Vexai has to step up and he does. He gets two, but he's still hiding away. Bro, searching
40s, got 25 seconds. If he gets this, it's a 1v1, but the CT rotation has arrived, making
this so much more difficult for Bro. He maneuvers it.
Big head shot is so close to netik
But just about standing tall enough to get another round here for fly quest
They save for netik fly quest building back into this and that's finally
I think the opportunities for energy to keep buying and keep challenging this gone to waste bro a very admirable attempt
Lovely shot into the bomb site, but cramped can't transfer over in time. Oh
Okay
Yeah, I mean they have the information that both players were low
I think OC recognized that he tagged JKS so they wanted to apply the pressure right there
Really hard fought to get into this situation, but a lovely clutch from Nettik.
Finally one goes the way of FlyQuest in a 1v1.
Yeah, it's good as well. He takes everything away from NRG, right? They're just down to the Eagles, so...
You'll see a seventh here coming in from FlyQuest.
Still such a long row back into it.
More buys, you gotta deal with coming up eventually here for NRG.
I'm starting to build up some confidence for the first time in this game.
You know, the heartbreaking thing is this is the best of ones.
You don't really get a chance to recover in the series.
But probably for the first time in this match,
I would imagine, we heard the time out called by Azur earlier
where he said it feels like things are getting chaotic,
it feels like things are going too fast, everyone needs to calm down.
It feels like this might be the first time where he feels like things have settled down
where FlyQuest can just kind of chill and play their game.
So, a lot of time being given for these debuts to find some clean looks, which gives plenty
of time for FlyQuest to chuck a flash and allow Inz to get a double kill.
Yeah, I get Sonic up into the window, but Inz is waiting for it.
Waiting for this pushout from Sonic.
Do some body shot damage to him, and just drop back into the murder vault, and that's
We start to pick him apart so two towards connector. I see a nitro both dropping. It's just so make it gets caught eventually by ends
Goes out to finish off his prey so three from in two from story and a seventh round from fly quest
Starting to feel like you're gonna need a second player in energy to step up along with Sonic now at this point
So it's a get this game over the finish line
He's still done some good work and some of your pieces and some of your executes
But you're gonna need a couple more one or one or two more guys to step up in those rounds to be able to actually secure the bomb site
11 to 7.
Grim towards the A-bomb site in Palace. Three players coming, middle, OC, Nitro, and Bro.
From FlyQuest, it's an aggressive round. They leave middle wide open, no presence whatsoever, because they want to activate Inns and JKS down ramp.
Grim is gonna hear that from Palace and call it out.
So Energy just falls right back to the A-bomb site to see if they can exploit the information that FlyQuest gained.
FlyQuest called nobody home and you can see in-storey Vexite all backing off towards middle without any presence from the T side.
They feel like the attack is going to come elsewhere.
Execution, flying through the sky.
It's all about how clean can you get through this smoke.
It's a much more direct hit from NRG. JKS starting to backtrack.
Burrow getting hit by Utility, but he's already out. 28 HPs.
He drops down to the site. JKS preoccupied.
So, bro, everybody get betrayed, needs a second, and he can't get it.
Insepping up now, really looking much stronger on their CT side.
Oh, see, he's gonna do what he can, but trying to slip out towards the site with Bournemouth and Hanonvex.
That had already moved forward to get the better position and FlyQuest starting to feel like they're actually in this game now.
It might be a time for a timeout if you're NRG. Have a little conversation, because these direct execs and hits onto the bomb site
don't seem to be working. They got mopped up at the B bomb site early in this half in the gun rounds.
Now a couple times they've tried to hit the A site on these 5 on 5 executes, and it's just not going anywhere.
Struggling to find some opening kills on them, and now might be the time where you kind of spread things out, play a default, look for some picks early on.
You have it, you've been doing that regardless, but there's been nobody taking initiative or being proactive on trying to find like a two-man play
to get some map control to find an aggressive player, someone from FlyQuest pushed up.
Everything has been pretty standard out of the first 30 seconds.
Pistols for NRG.
Tech 9's brought up with armor, deagles, a little bit of utility to try and activate
this team on a low buy.
They won two of these in the first half, but this is a different FlyQuest it feels.
They've powered up during this stretch.
It's been four rounds in a row for FlyQuest.
Oh, there's the peek out, Inns, Goodnade's landing towards Sonic, bro, also dead and FlyQuest started to get some confidence too, getting aggressive towards the ramp.
And I've just cut apart the game plan there of NRG.
Yeah, immediately up to fall back to Plan B and I just don't even know if they have that available.
No, not in the round like this, not with just these pistols.
Like, if you had a Hero AK, if you had an AK-47,
a couple of them you could maybe see yourself to claw on a kill back and forth.
But at this point with the pistols, you're kind of just going to have to commit in the 3D5.
And poor fights everywhere you look.
Grim waiting for the smoke to fade, and Palace Nitro's going to get flashed in by OC.
I'm sure KS all gets cleared. Good shot from Nitro. Good trade from Inns. Story waits
from Sandwich to Palace to kill a warring elf native EP and OC up next. Good shot on
the D-goal but there's nothing else from the D itself. It's landing towards him. We're
moving a good amount of his health if you're fly-closed. I'm gonna give him even a slight
chance at this eventually bringing him down is netting so a ninth round for
flyquists they have found themselves a way back into the match if they do this
if they can win this round they're truly here oh yeah I mean this this is
actually crazy I think you got to be really nervous if you're energy at the
moment this this comeback has happened so quick five straight and really dominant
not even really I mean four rounds in a row not even close to a plant not even
close to the bomb site yeah I mean it's just the fact that you highlighted it
last round the fact that these direct hit rounds where they're just hitting into
bombsites you're just getting broken the second you walk out the first choke
point and they haven't switched it up so it kind of feels in a way like it's all
they've got a case around now they're gonna pick up the pace towards middle
jumping right through the smoke that side is aggressive but I don't think you
realize is how old back side it's gonna be so frustrated about that jk is trying
to pick it up but sonic has come in and this change of pace if this chance in
middle has worked out perfectly nitro in the murder hole they're not ready and to
go down and we're talking about the comeback for a flight cost but they've
being upper chopped by this mid push. Wait, wait, wait, how they're gonna handle this situation?
They don't know where Story is, so Sonic is just gonna have to run far ahead of the bomb. I like
this. Low HP, he'll clear things out. OC's following it up to come to the B bomb site.
Doesn't pull the trigger. This could be the... Okay, spotted. Now they know where he is. No
reason for OC to spend any more time here. Alright, gonna shift that bomb and Story also took
damage from Sonic so he's just gonna hold onto the AWP. Yeah, but I was
worrying me a little bit. They had committed to that. Oh, that story had had
the trigger discipline let him pass. If Sonic hadn't seen him that could have
been real weird. That is literally a jump scare from Vexite like he jumps up.
Boom! That's right there. He gets a spot spot. The reaction shot from bro has got
to be nasty. He pinned him against the wall in the middle of the air. It's
That's crazy.
Nice switch up out of the timeout from NRG though, just cranking up the speed and the
pace that you attack with.
If your fly quest, the objective now switches to overtime.
Yeah, the nice thing, I mean, look, it's never going to be in a good position when your opponent's
at 12, but the nice thing is that five round run at least got them close enough to where
our three round run to 4 so it's believable
especially because the
the way nrg squeeze out another t-round is by the fast play in the middle of the
change of his catch
that shot
jaculous
always literally the last second is his head was going back down again
and then you get the line up is on you've just won the round with that
on my rotation you always feel like you have the time but when your mid defense
gets taken out so fast the way it did with the shot from bro with it with the
trade and at the top con you kind of lose the sense and the information of
that scaling of how fast they can get in towards window room and be prepared for
you at the murder hole so a chance perhaps the last chance for us to talk
to the team here on mirage in this best of one fly quest they have three chances
to force other time otherwise they fall to the one and two scoreline in this
Swiss age of the cologne major
There they go, on again, at least FlightQuest had plenty of money built up, so we're strong
by to give this a good go to try and come back into the game again, it's aggression
this time up middle from FlightQuest and it's working out, Inz has got the first, the second,
follows and Night Shill falls down, we've got storage on the hold on to this B pressure
They're already out the windows. They're already down into the site.
JKS is out of position.
And he gets back just in time from short to get that kill on frame.
So Sonic steps out. JKS has won this fight.
NOC has left alone 1v5.
So, Flight Force changed the pace this time.
NRG don't handle it. Their reaction is to try and get out towards the B bomb site.
And Flight Force had enough reinforcements of JKS coming back in on short to make an end to that attack.
It's the correct response from NRG to pick up the pace and go towards the B bomb site with that level of aggression.
and they had the room to work with, I think they were a little bit surprised at how fast
flight quests rotated and readjusted to close the gap, and I think they were expecting those
flights as soon as they hit the ground at the B bomb site, but that's where they were. Lovely
shooting from Inns, good layered utility in mid for that piece of aggression. This is it really,
friend, aren't you right? You've got a buy here, no money in the next, so this is the fight for
overtime, essentially. Flight quests can do this, have a great chance to close it into the bonus
rounds, then pressure again, fast up middle. Inns gets his gun out, smoke goes down, and
And these last few rounds have just been an absolute brawl.
This time no early deaths, just early damage towards Aintz.
Well, I mean, that's how it's worked on the T side for NRG.
The kind of more calculated strategic rounds have gone against them pretty emphatically.
When they've gone brawly, when they've gone just straight, fast, up middle, has been their most success.
Look at this from Vexi, he's pushed down through ramp.
He's got a good position early on into the round, too.
Now the question becomes for NRG is, do you have a game plan when you don't find kills off that very, very fast push down mid?
So, you're closing the gap because Netflix moved up into the apartments as well.
He's not super deep in apps, but he's got a strong position.
Inza is still in the window room who's not just leaving the drift over to B.
You've got an aggressive ramp place.
You've got early information when NRG decides to, if they want to go for a split.
Well, FlyQuest is actually playing without Intel at the moment.
They have some good advanced positions, as you're mentioning, but you have no idea in
the middle of the map of how they're grouping up and what they're kind of aiming for.
Here's the salvo of utility popping right around the 45-second mark.
shifted away from the B bomb site but now with Nettix pushed because of this
position now they have some true information they can act upon.
Inns is coming back to the murder hole and I'm already up bro in the window.
Oh this is gonna be tough for Inns to make anything happen here even if he gets
one kill. On Sona crossing bro should just peek out and back. Bro has a chance for both but
Inns quick reaction so important he finds that headshot. 44 flight crush trying to
fight on but Nitro's arrived towards jungle. Nettix from an essential kill but
The FxI has died towards ramp, Grim turns and fights towards CT spawn.
It's a 1v1 for the map.
Grim trying to close it.
And time just enough of it to put that bomb down for Grim.
Netic, can he save flight quest?
Can he give them one last chance?
Grim taps out, flash over the top and Grim will close it for NRG.
A 13-10 win for the North Americans.
That first half was so strong.
by a brilliant performance from Sonic. It looked like it was all collapsing in the second,
but not enough from FlyQuest as Grim closes out the 1v1 clutch.
Yeah, really nice. I think powered by Sonic is probably the key word there. He was a beast
in that first half, and you could tell they needed that kind of a performance today. Lovely
clutch from Grim to get him over the finish line at the end. FlyQuest, I mean, it's another
one of those things where it feels like talking about them in the second half. Admirables,
looking good, looking clean, building into the game, but the hole they were in in that
first half so tough to overcome and again all thanks to Sonic. All those 1v1
clutches as well from Nitro. Can't forget those two right. 2 1v1s, two
force by wins for NRG in this game, a couple advantage rounds that FlyQuest
let's slip away and that's the story for them is the missed
opportunities when they had them in this map they were not able to achieve it.
And if you're FlyQuest you had JKS in those clutches you had to play you
once in the 1v1s. Yeah you did it I mean look that's the way it goes those are
the breaks some of the days I think Nitro played them very well very confident.
I feel like individually NRG came into this game feeling very very confident with the fights they're going to have.
We got Stiko down with Sonic after his electric game.
So many congratulations first of all. I don't know, I don't have this confirm but this might be career high or at least for CDs at career high performance.
Tell me what is going on, why this happened to you today? Was just feeling it?
Well, I don't think it was my career high. I think I had a better half as Falcons.
Dust2, I think it was 21 and 5 against them, but yeah, it was a good game.
I think I owe it to the HLTV commentator.
He told me that he has a feeling something's going to have a live game, and I read that,
and I was like...
HLTV is always right, right?
I have to ask about this play in Underpass, which kind of swung the whole game around.
You burning in your own mode of, was this intentional?
Did you just mistime it?
Because while burning, full HP, you killed two guys, and those were kind of those important
kills that swung the whole round.
I calculated it because I knew I was getting pinched from mid because Bro was like in window
and he was smoked off and my other teammates were like pushing up would be, it's the call
I made.
So I knew I was just going to get pinched so out of feeling they wouldn't just, you
know, they would probably be fumbling some nades around if I had my Mali up so I was
just like fucking I'm going to die and maybe I'll just go out with a bang.
So that's why I didn't caught two of them.
It worked out really well but I have to say because India need to get pretty close and
And again, the same situation that NRG is being plagued with, those T-sides are a little
bit rowdy.
So how are we working on this throughout this tournament?
I spoke about it with Nitro as well, but give me your own opinion.
Are we going sticking to the game plan, individual prowess?
What is there?
You know, it's a little bit difficult because, you know, I think for us as a team, maybe
the individuals face a bit of pressure.
You know, some guys, I'm the kind of player, like I can't always stick to the book.
you know when you're playing against an opponent like you got to tweak your strategy a little
bit maybe like change your timing on the strats and stuff you know and when people are timid
they tend to want to you know just stick to the strap like on the book but that doesn't
always like work out in the end and you tend to look like you're playing a bit robotic
so I think that's a bit of the trap like we fell into this game you could tell like Flacro
said a very good read unlike where we were going we were running into the A stacks we
like, they're not playing the whole map out properly, you know, so, yeah, that was a bit
of an issue, but I think it's just a bit of nerves.
A lot of value from this interview.
Let's see what the desk has to do with that, and enjoy it.
Amongst all the difficulty that this Liquid roster has had, MIBR yesterday when we casted
their game, I felt like we lost the individual powers by like a really strict adherence to
strategy and game plan.
I'd like to see that change today.
Well, they're going to be going heavy towards B, so that is going to be a first call here
They're walking into a set up of Elish and now they're going to hold onto this B sign and Elish is out.
Oh my god, Elish has got three. He just ripped him apart and there's Pistor on his own.
That's damn quick. Team Liquid handle the B rush.
Look at it too. Like you could see he understands the situation.
So many times when you see a player there, they can't hold back on that first shot, the player jumping out window.
Elish just waits. He's like, there's a better fight coming.
It might be GG.
It might be GG. Is that the one?
Yeah, when Elish starts strong, that's the one. That's it. He's feeling good. Everything.
for step one's going well, might be over.
Listen, Liquid have a magical way of turning that on its head, but yes, I'll tell you,
as someone who's stood behind the Liquid team, when Alicia has a pistol run like that, it
made me feel a lot more comfortable as a coach.
Yeah, let's see how he keeps it up, or if he can.
For my DR, I think I commended this stage, and I think a lot of people did, with high
expectations of MIBR.
This is a team that a lot of people have had 3-0 after looking at Bat Boomin and having
to play with the stand. I think a lot of people went towards MIBR, maybe as a team they felt
more confident in, but yesterday they just looked so flat as you were highlighting. Like
we didn't really see that individual level that we know they can get to. We didn't see
Insani play very well and Clem show what he's capable of.
Yeah, I think a lot of that confidence in the MNBR came in the previous two events. They
played CAC and PGL Bucharest made the semi-final, or got fourth in CAC quarterfinals at PGL
Bucharest lost there. But outside of that, it's been mostly regional qualifiers and regional events.
I think people saw those two results and are like, all right, they've put it together after
this long season. But just seeing some inconsistency right now with a team that has probably language,
communication issues with all the different rosters gone international, brought in some new
people just four months ago. Good trade from Venom's Era, but with just the Glocks, there's
really no chance that anything passed a bomb plant, which does go down. That's very nice for them.
I love that.
Alright, it's a mixture of money, they only lose ultimate.
I mean, for Team Liquid, one of the weird things you see in Mirage out in Atlanta was
maybe some of the more inexperienced looking plays came from the likes of NAF, and that
was very strange for us.
I don't want to talk about that game.
Yeah, but that's the last Mirage I have in my mind of Team Liquid, so I'm hoping things
get sharpened up in between then and now.
Yeah, that was a brutal one.
That was the one where, I mean, they just,
that one against game religion in Atlanta
when Rezges walked out the B halls of the tech night
and just dry killed Nath and Elise.
And I was just like, those two players really?
That's how we're gonna lose this game?
Well, let's see if the fortunes have changed
as they head into the major.
AK's are out here for a month VR.
They're gonna go quite heavy towards middle,
four players towards top mid at the moment.
Ken gonna be supporting with utility.
Sending his players all around that top, Smoke.
Alan Z, the first to wrap it.
Go straight through the cloud, all the way down middle, his teammate's starting to move up through Short now as well.
Liquid's prepared for this, they don't have like any like crazy aggressive traps set up, but people in place to slide in to fight here for mid control.
Ultimate blinded, but Elysia over hold, that's a nasty clear from Venom.
There's two more kills coming in from Liquid, back and forth we go.
And we'll NAFTA on AP7, trying to position himself well enough to take a further fight,
but he just runs into the open and Venom handles that no issue, so
Team Liquid collapse on that B site, MIBR into a 3v2.
Smoke up in the window, ultimate Maltz sliding over.
There is a kit on ultimate, a little bit more utility to work with,
Flash and Molotov, but they're just going to have to make their play now,
and already been spotted.
And Ultimates at least in front of the smoke, but
he'll just cost him his life, out goes Maltz.
Oh really on a bullet small simply get it done two kills picked up. He has to go for the reload himself time is ticking
No, kid on his back. It's got this one few one against Breno, which he will not win regardless and Breno steps up for my
Beals one view one into the first round win
Yeah, it's a big time clutch well done from Breno. Just holding the line Molotov doesn't bother him
Whatsoever unfazed and drills the headshot very close round as my beer runs out of bullets down the stretch to make that retake possible
Leesha's gonna be kicking himself here feeling like he should have gotten at least one. What a snap from Venom Zera.
Naph under so much pressure, forced into the open, and Malb's unable to complete the clutch.
But another buy for Liquid, they've got the open ultimate's hands.
Bringing the energy early on with the first round victory from IPR, but they're gonna be going,
it seems pretty quick towards this A site.
They've got utility lined up ready to go, and this smoke shall start to fade away soon in middle at top mid smoke fading.
and now the window smoke to follow suit.
It looks like there wants to be a point in this round, or MIBR, once they get Insani
and LNZ into a comfortable position where it's going to start looking like that constricting
that split onto the A-bomb, say through Khan with LNZ coming, so our ultimate's opposite
position for the A-Ramp.
Well, they have got them into Khan with LNZ, at least no more to move forward to deal with
the ramp.
Right, he's only got the one.
Trade out for the clear.
AWP for Ultimate needs to chime in, and it's done so quickly enough there onto Brunno.
Now Insani has found a cap to move through under this B site.
Yeah, this is actually the next phase of the rounds.
This is actually going to be my BR going all the way back to the B bomb site.
NAF is just sliding over now, but if he tries to force himself out of market and is unaware
of the possibility, this could just be a free kill for Insani.
Wait, look to what?
He's not checking.
Not checking.
Missed shots.
NAF doesn't realize it, and now Liquid's got a scramble.
Three on three, no kits, and you're not going to want to risk the AWP.
See, you can't rely upon the rifles of Shuei and Elige.
And here she is here, that bomb is being planted now, you're still a long way off and you've
got no utility and you've got no kit.
And Ultimate's still hasn't budged from the A bomb site, he's starting to move now, but
as soon as someone goes down on this flank...
Yeah, you imagine, Clint gets one.
At least.
I mean, from the second, oh yep, he's going to pick up both Shuei and Elige, that's the
round dead.
And you've got to go save this AWP here for Ultimate, so he's going to march away.
carry that scope on over, but MIBR is a strong start from Flynn that he's going to be feeling
good about in a 2-2 school line now found for MIBR.
Almost too successful on that initial defense between Malbs and Ultimate at the A ramp,
because MIBR realizes they just kind of stuffed this attack, we can't get up con, two players
went down at ramp, we just need to back off and find something different. Nafa cheated
a little bit too far, they fully kind of committed to the concept that MIBR would be committed
to that A hit to the A bomb site and Insani finds the escape route. Really nice play from
him. Plan B in the round for MIBR and it saves the day.
Yeah, good to see Insani in the play to make plays, get space and find the fallback plan
there for MIBR.
You can feel again your looting just like yesterday. Escape it up guys.
Alright, ultimate with the AWP. The only weapon that Liquid will have in the round, smoked out in the window.
It's gonna get broken for him, but nothing to see on the other side.
And ultimate, really, the only player is a chance of turning this round for Team Liquid.
See where he chooses to get aggressive.
MIBR out of spawn has called a heavy lean towards the B bomb site, doesn't look like they're
interested whatsoever in changing that idea.
Bomb site's wide open, it's just NAF back in market, but the priority for liquid will
be keeping ultimates up on the board.
So no resistance really at this B bomb site.
the Utah flying into the B-bomb site, no resistance whatsoever, so MIPR can have an easy time of
things marching into the B-bomb site, then M-Zero now can be unleashed with a MAK-10,
then make himself some money, and that'll be MIPR taking the lead here on Mirage.
Yeah, three-two, very quick, since the gun rounds began. Rattle off three straight.
Money comes back for liquid, so around this op they'll have the M-4s,
and see if they can change up how they want to approach this and put a stop to this attack
from MIBR. Yesterday MIBR lost to Thunder down under in their opening game and then went
on to beat Tyloo in overtime. For Team Liquid it was beating Big in their first match of
the day but dropping a close affair on Dust2 to Batboom.
Well, a lot of go to Dust2 against Batboom, who?
I think teams are starting to learn that, right?
Yeah, they're looking pretty cool.
It's funny, we were watching that back at the hotel and we had just got done casting
Batboom on Dust2 and the question that Stiko asked him was, why do you think they're letting
you have dust too. You're really good on it.
I guess they're just also feel comfortable on the map.
It's one of the issues for Liquid as well. We just kind of laughed about it too, going
to Mirage. It's not like any kind of crazy win rate form. 56% win rate in the last three
months for Team Liquid, but it's the best win rate they've got in their map pool, which
just isn't really there. Still trying to find out what their home comfort is going to be.
Yeah. You know, second best there is Inferno, 50% win rate, and Dust2 at 36%. So Team Liquid
be taking quite a few losses recently. As we all know, Insani can be waiting around
the top mid smoke, moves out after that night break. In the meantime though, some utones
and players now dropping into this A site, you go to Venom, Sarah, who's left out of
the palace, stretch her and kill all mobs, so you've removed the default player and now
you've taken over the site. That plant's coming in, MIBR made this happen very quickly, and
ultimate couldn't get away, so he burns through a crisp inside a connector.
Tier flashbangs from MIBR in this round. Malz was so blind as well inside the bomb site, wasn't even firing bullets as they streamed out a palace, couldn't see a damn thing.
Ultimate so blinded he had to back off, didn't even realize he backed off into a Molotov.
This is a completely different style of game from MIBR than what we saw yesterday.
Yesterday I felt like they didn't have any ideas, they didn't know how they wanted to open up any rounds, didn't have any ways to get some opening kills or an opening play.
Now it's just been like grouped up timing aggressive hits.
Just sent off to catch a couple more liquid players with no more shieldings and have been
able to hold on to the AWP for the time being and he will carry it over into the next.
Dicey though, that smoke was about to get broken open and he was well exposed on the
other side of it so it gets out with the AWP but nothing else for Team Liquid.
Here's the flash that's being sent out, you see Malph is blind as you highlight Jason
and Clint's flash bank goes to be the god flash.
Yeah, I mean having those openings, that style of opening kill entering into the bomb site is just god tier.
That makes the hit so much easier to work with.
Now a timeout taken here for Team Liquid letting Flashy get on the mic.
Yeah, they need to figure things out quicker else they're gonna get buried.
We saw the difficulty that FlyQuest had kind of crawling out of a hole from the first half.
Well, this is Liquid on the CT side now getting buried by MIBR.
So again, you have that AWP that's brought forward. It's managed to survive the last few rounds of Team Liquid losing.
And at least in this round with some of the money built up and the losing bone has grown,
you can put some MP9s in the hands of Elysian NAF around at 5-7 for Shuie.
And you've got a few pieces that can work with that AWP to be dangerous.
Problem is that the style that LIBR is playing and the brain out here, again, remember, just staying grouped up,
Ultimate doesn't have any like real opportunities to get a pick and alleviate and make this easier for his team
It's just you need these MP9s now to deliver for you
You know all the leases get all stroll on either the cross out of Insani
Flash also at mobs going for P250 and molts has got both tries to get away, but his hard work is done
Ultimate's here. He is gonna step to the side of the smoke where the Molotov comes in to prevent that from happening
So it's got to be Shuei and that 5-7 rings out into the kill feed by in time playing his life
and Ultimate uses that distraction to devastating effect and puts Clim into a clutch.
Yeah, that is the exact kill I needed at a Shuhei to give Ultimate the courage and the timing to walk through the smoke.
Now he realizes that Ultimate is still there as well.
We've heard a lot about Clim. A lot about him. Expectations are high, hasn't necessarily had the opportunity to show it yet,
but now the clutch into the open and surely not.
Ultimate backs away to the top of the stairs he goes and Clim has to be precise, has to be perfect.
Now down to just two bullets, ultimate in the opening, and the Opera Team Liquid does pull through, does prevail, but Klim comes damn close.
They needed that clutch liquid. They absolutely had to have Ultimate deliver that to them.
After the heroics of Malm through the P250, Shuie under the balcony, everything falling into place for Liquid, they needed that win.
Perfect flashbang provided by Shuie, and then he relocates underneath the balcony, and Ultimate is able to step through the smoke, save the day.
Liquid right back in at three to four.
And all the way, Klim does look pretty sharp right now, and he's got his hands on the wall.
Sully's able to do with it now, heads out towards middle.
He'll be checking towards connector, but no one from Team Liquid coming to challenge him just yet.
Ultimate's starting to get mobile on the map, starting at the B bomb site this time.
Letting NAF stack towards the A bomb site, playing inside the cubby.
Hidden from the kill feed, Alesha is going to be on short.
And MIBR is still yet to make a move, make a decision.
Clement and Sonny are going to rotate back through T spawn, joining up at the A bomb site.
Again, it looks like another hit of this A bomb site. And it feels like at the moment, Liquid are kind of like more worried about the mid pressure than anything.
Mathis slid back to stairs instead of being in cubby.
So Malbs is all alone and isolated when the utility eventually comes in and this attack is going to be more focused on the players streaming out of halls.
You talk as in towards the A site, Bob is out, Malbs got the first nap on the follow up, strong start here from Team Liquid, Clem doing what he can but it's not enough to keep his team competitive in this round, 40 seconds left and Team Liquid at 4v2 and they've stalled out MIBR towards ramp.
Yeah, big difference now is the opening kills go the way of Team Liquid on these a-hits
They're the ones peeking in during the execute. So Clint's got a back off with the AWP caught in the open
Lnz was just about to shift back, but it couldn't get away. So 1v4 and Liquid about to tie things up
And ulti-murder just to peek out and get the final kill of the round and back to back
So that's gonna be 4 to 4 a timeout force from MIBR
Yeah, money's disappeared. Money's gone away for MIBR and there's two back-to-back round losses
So liquid have broken the economy give themselves a little bit of breathing room
Very strong convincing win there in round eight
And a chance for them to string three together build momentum and really solidify their stance on the CT side
11 kills on Klim, 10 for Malphs, those two players leading on the scoreboard for their
respective teams, and this time no one can get anything going coming out of Palace, jumping
out with the execute flashbangs, this time not blinding anyone, Naph is prepared for
the fight, stepping into round nine, it's a tie game, and MIB are going to be fighting
with pistols. No armor, just a couple of deagles upgraded.
These pistols move into the middle of the pack, sure they're not wanting to expose
himself to being peppered by a thousand paper cuts just stays behind the wall
yeah no movement from MIBR either we're just chilling we're hanging out
sure once again just peeking out from further some mulps from con will join
him and just play a little bit of damage towards clip it's been an enjoyable
starts to the game to be awesome both teams since being good individual
moments. I'm curious what MIBR is gonna look like in their next gun round right
like these now that liquids shown they can stop these hits they've stopped it
with a four-spy now they've stopped it with a full buy in the previous round
like does MIBR continue going with that or do they feel like it's kind of run
its course or they want to shift things up and change to something a little bit
more spread a little bit more defaults.
Malps out, rolling them down inside a con that's going to be three from Malps
He'll go again, and this time, Clint is his victim.
So, Mobs on the cleanup takes four kills.
He's 14 and five at the moment.
We're getting to see a great showing out of Mobs.
I'm going to do a man's year if you want to go again.
Okay, I was just showing John coordinating a little.
I'm trying to think of the last thing I saw them do together.
Like I see, we are just a bit going before the flash is.
I see we are tilting a bit.
Just go, stick.
Okay, so a little bit of tilt showing the other side.
I think Shuei and Elish, the last thing I saw them work in tandem with some aggression up middle, didn't really work out.
So Elish gonna be on short, Shuei's dropped down.
They wanted to swing and take a paired fight against anyone swinging out top mid.
Oh, a smoke frag didn't work and Elish never spotted it.
And a perfect flashbang, and at that moment Shuei had just left and evacuated out of con, so he wasn't there to fight with Elish.
I mean, we heard Latny talking about the fact that they may be going four flashes at the moment and yeah, that one made him feel good
Yeah, that one. That's one way. It was a good one
But also if you think back to probably the best round for my my PR so far was that execution with Clems flashes
And the flashes with the strength we were talking about for them
So I'm all bear just tighten that up there looking good in the flash department ready to go into the B bomb site
You've got ultimate who's backed off now to short this ice turn towards the apartment as he realizes they're charging in and ultimate
is picking two apart out of the sky to run my VR players fall.
55 seconds left.
Bomb going to be planted in Sony demand to confirm it.
And now a 4v3 with Team Liquid having to recover this
and retake this B bomb site.
I think they kind of know the position of Insani inside
the site.
They're saying one might have crossed over to market,
but all four Liquid players are here, I'm sure.
Blocked off by this Molly.
Now, it seems a little crazy.
So many players bottlenecked in one choke point,
but I might be able to never expect this.
Flash goes round, LNZ dodges it, turns back, crosshairs lands on Shuai, goes again, can't get the second.
It's gonna be NaF who keeps Team Liquid ahead on the player count, looking to clear out Insani as well.
NaF doing some heavy lifting, but Clam back into the clutch, time taken, it's gone!
Clam's won it on his own, out from Van, out to get on the deep fumes, an extra insult to injury.
It's Clam with their final headshot as well, down short.
He is really showing us what he's made off here on Mirage.
Big boy round, the time was so deep into the bomb that Liquid didn't have all the seconds they needed
to clear out every corner at every angle. They had to hustle to get that defuse started
and gives Klim exactly what he needs. Alish goes down, caught in the open, blinded as
he's committing to a spray. Ultimate does everything he can to bring this round back
into contention.
Naft, his two kills on the retake, you think it's looking like it's going to be enough?
They had to get on the defuse. The time was ticking so far. That smoke was blocking them,
which a long period of time, and Team Liquid run right into Klim, who takes two, but Ultimate
straight back to opening. That's gonna be Insani who stepped behind the top mid smoke.
It should be pretty safe behind that, but ultimate is just blasting it right through it.
Yeah, I think ultimate just took a shot. I think their window smoke was up as well.
He just fired one off.
Elise grabs the kill.
So three players left alive for MIPS. There's the swing from Shuei inside the flames.
He just wants to survive and get away.
NAF chimes in as the double up setup comes to fruition.
A much better hit than seemed liquid. You're now down to just Venom-Zero and Klim.
The round is basically just started but it's the opposite of proven very effective.
MRBR is baying.
I got, Clem is going to play underneath the window, but he can't do anything about it
so he's going to slip away into the underpass.
I want to see that from Ultimate's perspective to be honest.
Yeah, like exactly how that kill came out, maybe it got broken open.
So, 6-5, Liquid will take this lead.
Snap, nails it.
Oh, okay. Four kills on the AWP, send this around.
That's a good piece of information over at MIBR.
Unfortunately, I mean, well, maybe fortunately even.
Only on pistols, so against the double AWP, right?
Solution usually get into the bomb sites,
force those AWPs to retake into awkward fights.
I think when you go to a low-fi like this for MIBR
with all-tech nines and upgraded pistols,
you're kind of thinking you're going to go fast anyways.
They just took a shot.
Well, you're going to take that, aren't you?
So let's give Team Liquid the advantage, the lead of the game, 6-5.
They really should be taking 7-5 here. You've got MRB on Tech Nights.
I like this. I think this is the right call too. Get the Tech Nights, the Tech NAF.
Your secondary AWPer, not as experienced.
We can all pat the B bombsite usually.
It's going to be one solo defender, just the AWPer,
because they want that rifle to be able to shore up elsewhere.
So, NAF's got a lot of pressure coming his way.
Oh, he's sticking around, he really wants a loose one too, but Red is out.
And he is going to lose his life quite quickly. Fastest road hitter is a lose, he's right, but he's not in position, he gets overwhelmed.
And now you've got MRPR flooding into the B-ball, so I felt like the most obvious idea that MRPR could have thrown in,
but it's worked out very well for them and climbed down range with the D-Gall.
It's going to be 6-6, Ultimate and Malphs have to pull off a 2v4 retake.
Oh, that was the one, that was an opportunity there that they needed, and Sonny finds it, coming through the smoke.
That's the ultimate going down last.
A brawl back and forth battle between Liquid and MIBR ends tied 6-6 headed into halftime.
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We are the champion, King Champion We are the champion, crown number one
6-6, heading into the second half, M.I.B.R.
Liquid facing off. One of these teams goes two and one into the Swiss H. The other goes one and two here at the Intel Extreme Masters
Cologne Major 2026. This is a brawl between these two.
It really was.
Really. Both these teams fighting back and forth with the first half.
It was very clutchy. It was individuals popping off. I mean, Clim obviously leading the charge here from IVR.
But you had Lee step up in the piss around, then Mobs and Ultimate took over for the rest.
Look at the hard carry mode that Clim is in right now.
16 kills, next closest is 6 on Venom and Insani.
Yeah, it's crazy right now from Clem.
Speaking of a brawl, it's about to happen right here.
And straight away, in towards Shewate,
Elise gonna get the trade, but Insani's next up.
Elise gonna hand out a second kill in this piss-around.
Naph is out from Kalis,
and that was the combination that won the first pistol here
for Team Liquid as well.
Naph and Elise stepping up over towards B in the CT side,
now towards A on T side, and Elise is locked in,
but finally stopped in his tracks by Clem,
and then LNT under the open, Ultimate Hand's busy,
Maltz gonna get the trade, but he's now running away.
Back turn, so Klim once again,
could it be another hard carry to a round win?
He's up against NAF, who's hiding,
cowering behind the triple boxes,
as Klim has a shot at this.
Jules Barretta is tracking him,
as NAF has slipped away, but there's a smoke,
and the ball was not planted, but he walks into the open,
and the ball was not planted for NAF,
so he realized he had to be confident
and step into the open, and NAF closes out
the pistol round.
NAF needed to win that round,
Because that round might have actually just destroyed liquid if they ended up losing it.
And these are the kind of situations that I think have kind of capped how good this liquid roster can be
that makes it not reach the heights that it feels like this roster should be able to.
What are we doing? We just secured the bomb, so we've just forced the defense back.
We're in a four on three. We don't need to take this. Why are we aggressing?
Why is Ultimate out in the open dropping his smoke? Why is ALEGE pushing into his jungle?
Bullies, secure the bomb, so I get it planted and just play the angles.
All great questions, but that nap has just saved him
But I might be all with the damage they inflict they feel like they want to go for this and get a good force by out
So 3 on P 9 2 deagles arrived team look we're gonna go for a simplistic hit towards the site with the majority of the players
Well smokes are up in middle
The shoe a trying to join them from short so he's already up here with a mat 10
But he gets stopped by venom Zara LNC has dropped the leash and team liquid they're crumbling as they try to get out towards the
There's too many players here for the CT side. You've got to start carving them up
But it's Brennan who's on the booster position
This boost box is going to be strong until he's clear by ultimate the nap comes in with a headshot
I didn't look like we've recovered it, but again, it's down to 1v1. Can Kling win this one again?
It's against nap nap had a better of him in the pistol now looking for it again
Use the word brawl to describe this game. Well again, it's continuing into the second half clean getting ever closer
NAV just waits at bench.
Change the position again!
This time, Klim's down!
Klim wins it! What a recovery!
A 3k from Klim!
And that might just be the one that breaks Liquid.
You know, you win the pistol just about,
but that round, Klim is stolen away.
Yeah, I mean, you just run right into the stack if you're Team Liquid.
Yeah, you know, not even no finesse to it whatsoever.
This is exactly what MIBR did to you in the first half as well.
into this people. I've said a couple of times, especially on low buys, but you just get stopped
colds. Nav can't win this one. Clinton is a monster, dude. He hits the long range MP9
of ultimate as well, all the way up towards the back at the B halls.
A brilliant performance from Clinton, who, you know, I said yesterday, I hope this is
Clinton's breakout event. I hope the major will be his moment where he can show all the
hype that's been around him because he didn't have a great Budapest event. Obviously in
the Major last time when I was 0-3, but it's actually showing as much more as capable of
here against Team Liquid today. 21-10, he's got an AK-47, he's also the utility bearer.
Let's see what he can do.
They may not have breakout performance yet, but certainly eye-opening.
Doing the Liquid with Sonic just did in the first match against FlyQuest.
No aggression from liquid, stand far back with these pistols, it'll end up with an exact
towards the A bomb site.
MIBR at this point feels like they kind of have clued out the map and know it's happening.
Brenno playing BALC, Insani shifts into the bomb site, Clem is going to be in con.
40 seconds.
As Tim Lutko get ready to walk out into the A site.
It's going to be the majority of the thrust coming out through ramp inside the Unbrunno.
First three kills, make it four for the defences, putting it all on ultimate, a Tetris and Clems
is going to move out and take that final kill.
So MRPR into the lead of the game, Team Liquid do not get a bomb plant, they do not have
enough money for a buy in this next round and so they have called the time out.
Yeah, starting to get to that point where if you're liquid you want to see this offense
really good cruising, you want to see this offense give you like two or three really
good round so you can feel like you settle in, especially to recover from losing the second
round of this half after winning the pistol.
So Flashy wanted a chance for a talk, Shuei gets a time to align the team together.
We're going to have a talk this next round, not so much of an investment from Team Liquid,
likely just Flashy calming things down as they head into a round with only Glocks.
They had to concede the back and forth economic battle.
I want us all to take a deep breath and do a little water break because we are getting a bit frustrated for nothing.
It's the best of luck. We need all our effort into winning.
Alright, everything focused on the win and this best of one.
Too much energy being spent on complaining and being frustrated, being angry.
Um, we heard Azzar take an identical timeout on Mirage in that last game. We just seen him from FlyQuest.
You even heard Letny take one for MIBR at the start of the first half as well.
Emotions start to pile up here with Team Liquid.
I mean, you can understand that there have been a lot of frustrating rounds.
More intense moments, but this is definitely a breather.
Slow things down.
I'm going to turn to a state of calm.
And so, MIB Art will be taking a ninth round here.
I mean, this is wild, isn't it?
Like, look at that kill feed.
I mean, look at the kills.
You got twenty two on the clip.
Oh, it's it's no one else's double figures.
Yeah, yeah.
He's he's the engine.
Start to finish and I mean NRG needed a second player to step up behind Sonic to get over the finish line
It's feeling at the moment like Clem still keeping it up
Here's the move from liquid utility drops and it should be an easy shutdown for my BR from here
So we'll go into round 17 guns will come back out from team liquid
And we'll see what they were able to kind of work through in the timeout at the start of this round of how they want to play these rounds moving forward.
There's no AWP on the field for MIBR, Lick would be aware of that for the moment.
That will change moving forward, but for this one round 17 they have an opportunity to work the map without having to go up against the AWP.
I'll climb up into the ladder room.
I'm wielding that AK.
Sure way.
Flash into the top mid-blade, you'll get in behind the bushes just as that smoke fades
away.
A very quiet round so far, Elysia's in position, looking for a jump.
Lovely nade from Insani.
Now we start being proactive on the map, Renault and Venom clear on A ramp, see nobody home,
Nath is playing it very passively out of vision.
Mid utility for the next step for Shui Ultimate and Elysia.
trio meant to take mid control but there's a lot of bodies from MIBR coming for the fight.
Oh first two go the way of MIBR make it three oh it's so disappointing such a long build up here
for Team Liquid it's just falling flat there's nothing in the round mom's doing what he can
but it's just one and he's pinned in the corner of the apartments and the NAF will be on leash
but 30 seconds left and the bombs dropped the middle completely surrounded by the remaining MIBR
players so this round goes absolutely nowhere for Team Liquid.
Yeah, actually looks silly, but I mean that's due to the proactive nature of MIBR, I'm not
going to put it all on Team Liquid, I mean you go in and clearing out A ramp, you see
nobody home, you feel no pressure at A, you feel no pressure at B, it's quiet on the map
so everyone's kind of aligned for a mid-trap at that point and as soon as Liquid throw that
utility, the window smoke, the con smoke, that's when the CT flashes start raining over
and Liquid's making their play pretty much immediately in that first salvo of Util.
So everyone's exactly where MIBR expects them to be as they collapse down in the middle of the map.
There's Shui calling for a half-buy around the AK-47 of Nath.
I think you could see on the face of Elysia as well, liquid's starting to run out of opportunities, getting to the end of the runway.
Yeah, it looks like they might just crash and burn.
That's where it's taught middle to go.
Venom!
Oh, clean!
Headshots coming in from Venom!
Sprayin' down four!
I'm also puttin' an end to Insani, but Venom has dropped back without low HP.
The round's already won.
Once again, goes no one for Team Liquid.
Eleven it to seven.
Okay, Glenn just stands in the fire, confident to take the fight, he also survives.
Yeah, just took a breath and he's like, I'm swinging for this fight.
Screw it.
Whatever.
Time out for Liquid.
They're third and final.
Previous one just to try and calm the team down going into an eco rounds.
Now you gotta do something tactical if you're flashy to get this team to the winning ways.
Four rounds behind, Amabiar one away from securing overtime.
Cool if you're flashy to get this team to the winning ways.
rounds behind MIBR 1 away from securing overtime.
And you got all the resources you could want, AWP is going to be out in the hands of Ultimate.
You got 3 AK-47s full of utility, NAF is going to be back onto a Galil due to saving
the weapon previously.
Problem now is that you don't realize it quite yet, but the AWP is in play for MIBR 2.
There's the switch up for the CT side.
He's been rifling for most of this half.
brings out the big green for the close. Five rounds in a row for MIBR after losing the
pistol in the second half. Liquid have not shown up on this T side.
Not at all. The strong individual performance is as well that we got to see in that first
half. I've just died out completely. No one's here to save them. They even give you a glimpse
of hope
we just have three kills outside pistols
we have three in the first half, two in the second half, pistol
stuck on eight, that's not what you like to see
at least at my yard giving, team liquid a little bit of mid control to work with this time
so being so suffocating, at least team liquid will have that to work with
Well, I mean the last time we saw they gave him this kind of space, right?
It's almost like they wanted him to take it and then in the mid-round slid into that mid-trap.
Here they've kind of focused on the extremities, cleared an A ramp yet again, just like the previous round,
but that aggressive flash and peek from L and Z to kind of see what's happening at the B bomb site.
Now, Elise hears it and is going to at least go show some presence, make sure nobody's pushed.
This allows Insani to rotate back and play like he's going to be quick rotate towards the A bomb site.
35 seconds as Liquid throw out the next round of utility and start making their move.
Ronald forcing the open with utility mobs is going to take clean down mobs to an again
the second kill.
The third is one.
Mobs is just won the round.
All right.
Yeah, that's brilliant for mobs, I get.
I was just highlighting how there was no one there to save him for Team Liquid, no claims
of hope, and then mobs arrives.
Well, I did the execute when they actually started attacking in everyone.
I mean, Malph's gets the first two kills.
I think both of them are distracted looking elsewhere, looking for different fights, right?
But yeah, lovely to see him step in and just grab you three quick kills, make it as easy as possible.
Here's the first. You can see the AWPer trained towards Khan, Brenno fighting towards Khan,
Venom fighting towards Khan, and Malph is able to get three kills with nobody paying attention to him.
So, 8 now for Team Liquid. First gun round of this second half on the board, 4 players survive, they get to keep plenty of money in their pockets.
Fortunately for them, MIBR's got way more.
Yeah, they've got plenty of money. So, bye, coming up. Right about now. Get that all pellet for Klim if you desire.
I mean, if Liquid ever get that break, that economic break, it's going to be a really painful timing for MIBR, right?
depending on how like weapons are saved and stuff but they could break them at a
scoreline like 10-11 and then it's weird.
Let's just, I love that you're all contributing and calling guys, but we
need to stick with one direction. We cannot have four people calling different stuff, okay?
There's the other side of the pressure too. Some people shut down, some people
just start rattling off all the different ideas as they go. Everyone wants,
everyone feels like they've got the win in call. So LND saying I appreciate it, we
need it but let's keep it in check. AXEK from Team Liquid.
Oh, Brenno forcing me open again by good utility. It's once more. Malphs were
success towards the site. Now, we're gonna move out with a broken smoke. I'm
trying to connect to AWP, but he ends up just taking a lot of damage and being
forced back, so Naph steps out. He's gone through this time, and that's the site
taking, so I have to retreat. There's not enough defense. They have that same
idea that I have where it's just like the economic break would be an
absolute disaster if it comes to pass. So save as many of these weapons. You've
got so much money built up for my BR. Make it last as long as humanly possible.
Good support, NAF, all that experience, he's been playing Palace for what feels like over a decade now for his team, so he's just well prepared on when he's supposed to peek out to support the team scaling into the site, double kill for him.
And now Liquid's starting to go to work, closing the gap on the scoreboard, 9-11, Elysia wants to take some weapons away.
They've switched into a double-op setup.
Cliff was a beast on the AK.
Might want to get it back in his hands.
Two rounds that he's been using the AWP these last two, and both of them have been wins
for Team Liquid.
Yeah, hasn't been able to get involved.
I mean, this round he tries, you know, they have that smoke break towards CT, and it's
a good idea to try and pick away, but they were so ready for it.
And once they just sprinkle with them with utility and damage, you can't do anything
for the round.
Yeah, it's also chaotic.
You take that peek as the upper, you're also cognizant of as soon as you fire that shot,
that's kind of a signal to the Palace player for NAF to like swing out really wide and
punish you for being in the open.
Yeah, and also two rounds back to back now where Prano has been mollied out of his position
immediately.
I mean he hasn't really been able to get comfortable.
Venom's error.
I like this.
It's risky.
Yeah, well I'll go out on the limb.
Alesha's a really detail oriented nerf.
Oh, and he's blinded, and he's taken down.
Doesn't matter, yeah, if you can't see a thing.
Oh well.
Well, a two man advantage now for MIBRs.
They've gone out and hunted that down and been disruptive towards Team Liquid's T-Side.
It is finally starting to get going.
They've been doing...
Now they're handed a 3v5.
That's been a really cool philosophy MIBRs had throughout this half.
Just a lot of that disruptive play has been more geared towards a ramp,
double mating, flash peeking it, getting that information, mid-round traps over in mid.
in mid. This one is just brutal though. Liquid's starting to feel like they built some momentum
and just get annihilated in round 21. Three versus five, you're going to have to try and recover.
Blackly alive is the three players that have been doing something on the server. You've got NAF,
Ultimate, and Malbs. They've really been the only players getting a huge amount of impact,
so there is to be any 3v5 possible. It would be this one.
B bombside just got smoked out. Footsteps to run away. NAF and Ultimate are going to come back to
it which leaves mobs to his own devices in middle so how aggressive does he
want to be you have to make the decision if you're mobs to try and be a
distraction or just try and be a lurk for the lay around and it looks like he's
he's chosen lurk
get by the scope so mobs actually is in the latter room this shot from LNZ so you
may have two options they're not connecting they're not landing at all
ultimate will now for the head shot here's team one good pulling it back
That was Ultimate again, and it is a 3v5 that is happening right now.
Clem has come back over with his AWP, but he's missed the chance straight away.
And Sonny now arriving towards Short, Ultimate has eyes on it all the way down Shortside.
He lands the shot, and Sonny finally finished off by NAF, and Clem has nothing to do here.
He can't win this on the AWP, so he's going to start retreating, and Team Liquid with a massive 3v5.
That's unbelievable. That's actually come in.
That bombsite was stacked as well. There were three players there, one coming short quickly.
That was not an easy 3 vs 5 to win. They done it with style.
Everyone survived until the tail end and the double up setup that MIBR switched into
has now been what, three round wins in a row for Team Liquid against the AWP and Plym,
double up for two rounds straight and this time both AWPs miss critical shots.
That switch into the dual AWP has just, it feels, sold MIBR down the river these last few rounds.
few rounds. Still so much money to play with, still a buy coming in. But this will be a round they
look back on and wonder how the hell it happened. And a timeout that makes a lot of sense for MIBR.
If we thought they might have been frustrated and panicked earlier, a round loss like that is
is going to crank it into overdrive. So a conversation to try and chill them out in
a very important round right around the corner. The money for MIBR now after these rounds
stretched from Team Liquid 3 in a row has been brought low. A very strong buy here for
the MIBR defense but cash is gone after this I'm four players
flash blight into the ramp not gonna spot anything early on but team that
could here they come it's directs it's simple and it's straight towards the A
site early trying to get on the ramp so the overview on the right side of your
screen just watching how the smokes landed the site couple of offenders here
MIBR plays in front of the smokes they're gonna go into the open and they're
really doing a good job at stopping team liquid from getting out of the ramp
here they come now scaling over Tetris it's gonna be a leash taking Breno down
Shuwei's fallen without anything Venom, Zera and LNZ lining up a couple they've
spotted ultimate head into a sandwich they need a kill here team liquid and
they need it now and they just can't get it so MIBR do a good job at holding the
Wolf at the door and not letting Team Liquid pass Tetris.
I'm surprised Liquid executed just as MIBAR cleared a ramp.
They had to have known the defenders were going to be close by.
But I think MIBAR said you beat us here a couple of times earlier.
You've burned Brenel out a number of times.
He's having a tough stretch here at the A-bomb site.
Brings some extra bodies over.
So well prepared for this.
And Liquid never got a kill that allowed them to take space.
Every single fight they took is stuck at that same choke point
right at the top of the ramp.
MIBAR just keep them funneled.
huge relief as they get to mount point here at my PR at least confirming overtime at a minimum
oh there's gonna be ultimate that's a great opening frag here to catch clip
we're definitely slowing down since we pulled up at all yeah and those opening kills were
ther waiting gold at this stage of the game liquid after the first day towards the bottom
end of teams at finding opening kills and rounds finding entries and then he slipped in towards the
apartments an aggressive play forward against mobs is that smoke will soon fade away who is going
to react faster. Well, it's LNZ who reacts faster, his mobs is more accurate, and he
charges in though. Venom's a workout, both. He got both the leash and mobs up in the
app, so that double kill has flipped us right back to even odds again.
What a huge advantage, just hand right back over. Thinking maybe that with that
push from LNZ, they had shifted a fourth player to the other side of the map.
They saw four defenders at the A bomb site last round. Maybe that was the line
of thinking. Another tough recovery of a round. Breno slides into the bomb site,
off angle, doubles up. This time no utility to burn him out, so he gets to make his play,
and he gets to close it out. 13-10, MIBR shock liquid right at the tail end.
Yeah, brutal from Breno. The fact he's out from D4 multiple targets right in front of him.
Perfect accuracy. Breaking apart team liquid. Just a slow start in that second half.
Clem won some essential clutches from IPR and that was enough to give him just that little bit of an eggs that they're able to
Close out versus team liquid and they did need a second player to come step up with him
So a shout out to Venom's error in that second half really climbed up the scoreboard 21 kills for him to join up and help
MIBR sustain this victory tough loss for team liquid could fight for a number of times with the T side
Really sketchy early on they seemed like they were getting a hold of it, but just a little bit too late
We're gonna head down to the desk as Freya's ready
We are indeed, yes, stylish end-out to this best of one from MRBR,
cement them to one here at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2026.
As Dinko aptly said, kind of a slow start to that second half for Liquid,
ended up costing them, Janko.
Definitely so, that second round was just a disaster, really,
after winning pistol, you know, Clim, winning that 1v2 with a long-range MP9 first,
and he had an absolute blinder of a game.
I'm feeling good about my all-star team for helping with that.
And then yeah, it was a little bit deflating from the side of team liquid if you turn for that 3v5 sort of miraculous conversion
MBR would have just closed it out even sooner. Yeah, MBR now in that 2-1 point. We've got Anzi joining us up here.
Congratulations. Tell me about closing that one out. That was a pretty nice ending, right?
Yeah, it was quite nice to be carried today.
Very useless individually, but my team is there. They played very good. So I'm very happy to say that.
Were you just talking about the Clim clutch that obviously didn't happen in the first
or second pistol rather than the round after you managed to get that one we won versus
Nath? What was that reaction like in the comms?
That was a really good feeling to say in the playoff. I had a really good game, so I'm very
happy for him that I had this in a major, which is obviously nice for anyone. It's just a joy to say.
I just wanted to ask you before we dig into this game, yesterday you lose the opener,
right then against Tyloo, you have a big lead, it goes in to OT. How important was it that you
you were able to sort of not let that one slip away as well and come back and win it.
Yeah, just tell me about that.
It was obviously very important to bounce back on the title game.
We almost lost it in the end, like getting come back almost.
But I said to the guys that I think it was almost good that we got a bit smacked in the
face by the Australians, because then you kind of, you know, you wake up and you realize
like, you need to step the fuck up, you know?
And I think that was maybe the best thing that could have happened, you know?
And in the end it's only a best of one, and you have two in three games no matter what,
so I think it didn't do that much to us.
I just want to ask as well, that round near the end, I'm not sure the score was where
you had the B-read with three of you there, so I'll be hoping maybe going on as Isaac
would say.
What kind of, were you feeling after that round, because that's the sort of one there, the
game feels like it's won, you have all the information, the rotations were really good,
and then everyone was just missing the shots and the round gets away, what were you saying
to the guys after that?
He just said, it's fine, we played good, but we just fucked up their advantage.
Maybe gave them a bit too much space, almost leaving the whole map for them.
And then I just missed every shot possible.
And if you don't kill them, you lose.
So it's just simple as that.
So it didn't really bother us actually.
We resetted Insta.
These guys were pretty hot on your T-sides as well.
I think we can go into a round.
You've picked out Janko.
What have we got here?
Yeah, we can forgive some of the individual performance
because some of the calls we really liked them were really solid on the T-side.
You know reset round early on right you guys go for this sort of setup
I don't know if it's if insani has all the freedom to go wherever he wants in this round
But it turned out he just found a ton of space towards B
You guys have shown bomb on a as well in this round. So talk us a little bit through it
I mean we started with this default because we knew they didn't have all or actually they did but I think maybe the colors that they
Didn't
That was at least the initial thing and a lot of people pushed ramp in these rounds in this
meta as well so that was like the starter and then in the end we just kind of wanted to go
into an A-split and usually Insanya has this like space to do exactly what they did now
and it like the call itself wasn't what we wanted initially but it was kind of like an
adaption in the mid-round and then we we just said like to go back which worked out perfectly.
Yeah it was such a huge round right with the 3v4 and if you lose this like you're out of money
the round before that was 1v1 so like it just took a lot of initiative. It didn't have like the
most frags on the server but you know it's moments like like these where you don't see it all on
the stat sheet but that have a ton of impact. You were complimenting a lot Ash, you were very
fond of it right? I think the round we just saw then was probably the best round we've seen all
tournament on the T side like I like the way that the pivot around the bomb goes back towards B
in Sandi's activator then I think that was nice. Fashio in general I think the calling was that's
That's the best tea side for sure I've seen this tournament.
I don't know how if we've got the round ready,
but there's a proper kind of load was,
I think the first round was a mid exploitation,
like a prep round, we went to a B split,
the round we just saw there.
And after that, pivot straight into this execute,
went out, and I think it was a great timing,
but also love as well.
The protocols on the back of this,
I think it's coming up on screen now,
is it's just the space is taken really quickly.
So it's in Sani's in the middle here,
and I think he's the one activating you guys
until you went to go,
because I think the Molotov comes in the second one
and the second.
So I'm not sure if this is a call,
It's from him at the second, or when there's more to it than this now, but I love that it's just straight into CT spawn, there's no hesitation, the util's there set up for it, and the space is taken, I think in the games we've seen so far, this has been lacking this secondary part of the round.
Yeah, this thing was one of the things we had in the game plan, because we knew that they usually like to start mid and ultimately it's like rotting around to ticket, and then this round is perfect for that, and we can't expect the mobs to be alone.
alone especially with like what happened in the start of the game with the money going a bit back
and forth and at least that's for myself where I feel like I maybe thrive with my calling where I
can get a good feeling of like what will they actually do in this because with the economy if
you call your basing or if you base your calling around it it's kind of easy to read the game
because they can only do so much right and now we just went to like a straight AX second yeah he
was alone like we wanted him to be. It was a good time and I just want to say as well like you
You were having a pretty rough game, individual, how did that feel for you as a Colossex?
I know in general, when in-game leaders are kind of down, I think it was 0-7, maybe at some point.
Usually in-game leaders can go into the shell a little bit.
How did you kind of feel in that moment?
Because you were winning rounds though.
Yeah, it's something I worked on since I'm still kind of young and inexperienced.
It do happen sometimes that you get into the shell,
but it's something I worked on last year in Heroic for example.
This game, I didn't maybe feel it.
I don't get it calling wise, I get affected by it anymore.
But maybe this game is where you realize,
I don't need to do any good plays for us to win. I can trust my teammates to do it
And I may be focused a bit more on the on the supporting
You know, maybe don't try to take too much space from them
Which is usually what I try to focus on in a game like this
I want to ask you before we let you go, you know real quick. How has it been working with?
Let me my my old teammate as your coach
No, it's been it's been nice like we kind of now
built this like foundation together from the start because we were both new
pieces in the in the organization and we have a really good relationship and
it's really really easy to work with like I think he's it's very nice that he
wants everyone to be a part of like the part of the what you build you know like
everyone is contributing and he still has you know what he wants from everyone
but he's also very open to like you know what people are kind of feeling you
Which is maybe like some people are more strict like for example saw that I had this very more like strict
and that this may be a bit more like giving you space and
For us that's working kind of good because we're very young players
You kind of have to like you cannot play a full structured CS if you're not experienced players
I think that's suiting us kind of well. Obviously you've got an opportunity
We've got two opportunities to be making it through to stage two at the moment. We don't know your opponent, but there's energy
There's an envision there's big
How do you think your chances are now moving into best of threes?
No, I think it feels good still like we've been having a good uprise like the last a few weeks or the last two months since
Booker's so we feel very comfortable in this like level that we're playing now with all these teams like big and what you said
And so we're just kind of you know look into like grinder cells up and like prove that we're actually better than those teams
And then obviously we want to make it as far as we can and like try to get tested by the bigger teams
One last one before a thread of break. It's game religion versus Batboo coming up after this
Who do you think is going to be the first team to make it through? I think game leader. I think they've been playing very solid
Okay, you got an extra fan, you know, there we go. You're better in practice
I think actually game leader. Yeah, I don't think that one was played so good versus us in practice
But they've also been switching players a lot and I'm not even sure who is in the actual roster
Well, we're going to throw things to a quick rate before we let the action ensue.
And this is going to be a big one, a qualification, best of three between Game Religion and Bat Boom.
It's going down after the short break.
And so this, and I think that was able to shake a lot of people's confidence in them.
Then they got us two a couple of times and Stiko was saying, and now they find themselves here.
But absolutely, Game Religion should be taking the chance to go three and zero.
Certainly the advantage in terms of cohesion, in terms of game plan is going to be in their favor,
isn't it? But let's not doubt that Bat Boom individuals, because they can pop off.
Well, we got Rez already here with the USP. He's just going to be playing in front of that squeaky doors.
Two teammates lying away in the side trying to draw attention away from him.
So Rez will be able to make that happen. He's got the first, goes out for the second, nips him behind the CT vent until finally being traded out by Boomhitch.
And they fled into the site now with Bat Boom. They've got to deal with Hypex and Zortay. We'll do exactly that.
So brawling their way forward here, Bat Boom, but yet to get closer to the bomb plant.
Waiting for the next play as well, then OPR's up in heaven, they haven't really seen Snax yet, who's been biding his time over towards Midi.
And you can tell Zortay and Magnejas, they're still just like, we want to find out where he is before we commit to anything at all.
There's the peek, there's the information.
And there's the kill. Now you just leave PR, 13 HP and a 1v2.
I'm trying to get over the top, it's just the low HP of him on 13 health.
He should not really be winning this now, it's Magnejas transitions.
Just below him while he's distracted, and that's going to be Magnetjaer's winning out of the pistol, closing it for Betboom.
And a really important round picked up, a T-side pistol on Nuke.
Now these two teams played a couple months back in April at the stake-ranked Episode 1 out in Barcelona.
That was a win for Betboom over Gamer Legion, 13-5 on Mirage, 13-8 on Anubis.
And that was also with the stand-in. Flammas was playing for him, but he was playing for Dilladez.
was in the lineup so it's just one of the various BedBoom pug lineups that we've
seen thrown together. One of the flammest rounds. Yeah, one of the flammest lineups.
Yeah, there's always that.
Great lands on towards Hypex, 72 health. It's gonna be fun to watch him follow up
after Atlanta. I think Atlanta was a performance out of him that I had a lot
of people saying, okay, here we go. Now we're seeing some of the, no, sorry for
lack of a better word, some of the hype around him. Some of the excitement. Some of the
X-Factor, you might say.
You might pick a different phrase, maybe not.
Some of the high-packs factor.
But yeah, now we get to see if you can follow it up.
Now we can see if that was legit, if there's
going to be a follow-up, some consistency to that play.
That opening game was good.
You really showed up in that, so good to see you from high-packs.
Just making their way into the lower bombsite now,
but boom there.