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Excuse me. Good morning. Good morning. Well, you appear to major, so you got to do the early media days.
That's just the rules. But how are you feeling? You know, you're out of major, a clone major.
It's like a double whammy. You get a huge event and that's also a major. So what's your feelings coming in? It's great
It's great first time in Germany. Yeah, so it's being great already
Yeah first major as well lots of firsts there so um, yeah, we'll hopefully do well
Hopefully get some wins in and other than that. I'm just enjoying it for my team doing the media day
Yeah, so in terms of preparing for the event of you how are you feeling nervous? You're excited. What's the most dominant feeling you're feeling at the moment?
Well, we've done all the prep we need to do in terms of the game, and that's the most
important thing.
All the confidence comes from that, so we've done all of that.
Some feeling pretty confident overall.
Obviously, when we get into the game, there'll be a bit of nerves like they'll naturally
be.
But we've been working on a lot to kind of suppress that, play with the pressure and
embrace it.
So we'll see how we go.
What about you personally?
you realized you were coming here to the Major? What was kind of the first few
thoughts that went through your head? Yeah, let's go guys, I'm getting sticky
money. Yeah, were you happy with the changes? No, no. What's happening? What's the first
major? What's happening? Come on boys. The change is just for you. But you know,
coming into the event, can you tell us a little bit about what volunteer have been
up to? How did the tournament for anybody that hasn't been following you guys?
And you know, what can we expect and what have you guys been doing on the
lead up to the major?
Well, you can expect a lot of creative ideas probably.
We've been, also, we have some strong fundamentals.
We've learned a strong system, both from both T and CT side.
That mean the, me and my coach, Kakathri, has been working on.
Legend over there.
So, yeah, I'm very confident that we'll be able to show some good games here.
Some good quality Counter-Strike,
and hopefully it'll be entertaining for the viewers to watch.
Yeah, we'll look forward to it, but I guess we'll go talk to Kikafu now and Kikafu
Coming into Germany. I mean his first time here, but obviously not your so how's it feel to be playing in the homeland?
You know like what they were the squad sending behind them for a major?
Yeah, just to clarify I'm from Austria not from Germany. Oh my goodness. That's a big mistake
I was a feel to be in a country where you speak the same language
No, but I mean obviously like my roots are coming from big, right?
Everybody knows me from from the time we played the Cologne final 2018 here
That was a huge success, so I'm always happy to be here.
I got a lot of support from the German fans, it's also very close by, so I hope for a lot
of Austrians also in the arena if we make it, so very happy to be here.
Yeah, well, looking forward to seeing you guys, but we heard Gizmy was talking about
some of the preparation you were making, some of the practice you guys were putting in,
so what was the main thing you focused on leading up to the Major here for Malte?
I mean, the main thing is that our basics, especially our communication is on point.
We had our first tier one tournament in Astana for like two weeks ago.
So we're very new to this LAN environment with the team.
We have very young players to be on the big stage.
So a lot of about communicating and how we want to present ourselves at the tournament.
And that's going to be the main factor and that's what we train for.
And you know, you got a bunch of young players here as well, you know, it gives me talk about
his first time in Germany, even not, never mind a major.
So in terms of the preparation for you,
realizing you've got a young score with young players
who have inexperienced what was just a different level
of preparation that goes into that,
you know, trying to prepare their minds.
I think it's a lot of the same, a lot of the times.
It's not too much about the mind game
because the more you could focus on that,
the more they will think about it, right?
So it's more about, okay, let's keep it at the same level.
Let's keep it like very casual.
Let's try to really replicate what we did
at the like smaller tournaments,
these like Dracula and you know the the BC Masters and stuff so we try to just replicate what we did
good in the smaller tournaments also here so we don't do any like big changes so they're not getting
like nervous yeah I mean obviously when you go into the game it might be a different story but
you know there we go look at that all moving pieces here um and you know I like that it's the
chaos of media day but for you we know it's been you know going to a big event and then you go off
if you do these tier two of tournaments,
smaller tournaments.
So is it just great to be back at the event
of this scale for you?
Yeah, I mean, it's just a different vibe, right?
You walk around, you see like the biggest names, right?
In the hotel lobby and you just feel that,
that this is where you want to be.
And this is like the end goal
and you want to keep on being here.
And that's, I think where everybody's like working for,
to, if you want to make the spot that you keep it
and then you keep on working hard for it
to be here regularly and, you know, be a contender.
Over the years at majors, there was always the same story,
like the top teams would always play against each other leading up,
and then coming into the major you would get some of these tier two underdogs
who would come in and they'd pull off big upsets.
But I think over the recent majors, we've started to realize that
these tier two teams are really sick, like the upsets aren't that surprising anymore.
But you guys have had a chance to go down and you've been playing in these tier two circuits.
So from your opinion, what is the main strength of these smaller teams
that are coming up that you've noticed?
I mean, the first thing is that we play way more games, right?
We have way more data on our official games.
We we have a lot of, you know, maps played.
And I think that's, I my opinion, like probably the biggest thing.
And it's also like that we don't have to travel that much also,
like now maybe hopefully more, but the bigger teams just need to travel a lot.
They have a lot of different obligations also outside of the game, right?
A lot of like media stuff to do.
So I think one of the strengths of the two teams is like more maps, more data on ourselves
and just to know lesser travel days, so that means also more practice, right?
And obviously the pressure to perform is like there when you reach it, but in the beginning
it's more, okay, let's freely show what we can and don't look at the outside what they
think, so that's I think the biggest ones.
Alright, well thank you very much and I'm sure we'll be going to call you German.
I appreciate it, I'll see you around the studio today.
We'll talk to Afro now.
Every time I go to a player in this team, it's such a different nationality.
It's a nice mix, but for you, coming into this team,
what has been the biggest transitional period for you?
Have you changed as a player since your previous rosters coming into Monty?
Yeah, obviously I'm getting older and it means that also I know myself better.
Also, I'm surrounded by very nice people.
You look to give me, that's good. No, you don't. He sounds like a nice guy.
It's just that I'm getting more space in the team, I feel like, and I'm listening to a lot,
which is very nice for me as an opener. I need to have my space and feel confident about what I do.
And in this team, it's okay, so I'm obviously performing better.
And obviously every player is going to have their own individual practice routine leading into a major like this,
but coming into the clone major, what was the main thing you were prioritizing practicing coming into this?
Honestly, just practicing the fundamentals because you can't really practice the special moves
because it really depends on the opponents you're going to play.
But yeah, I think we didn't take it too different as the other tournaments to not build up on the pressure.
So I think we just take it as another tournament,
but obviously like coming back from a center
where we didn't have the best showing,
I think we are very like hungry about like
showing a very good face.
So yeah, so after Astana, you know,
looking at yourself as an individual,
is there anything you noticed in Astana
that you wanted to improve on coming into the major?
Can't say.
Can't say, yeah.
Okay, interesting, interesting.
You know, obviously a great chance here in Montaigne,
you guys are surprised everybody with the level
you've been able to get to at certain points throughout this year.
But you guys have been mainly playing at these tier 2 events, these smaller events,
so has that been a struggle or a strength for you guys, do you think?
I mean, playing the tier 2 tournaments obviously gives you a lot of experience
because you play a lot of games, as Kaka Fuseta have heard,
and it's very nice also because the tier 2 tournaments are evolving a lot now.
It's like almost a one environment.
So obviously, you get used to the pressure, get used to the environment,
which is good. And also, like, yeah, the only thing very different in tier one tournament
is obviously you play against tier one teams, tier one coaches, tier one analysts. So it's
a bit harder to like play your own system, your own things, because then obviously, like
they understand very well how to counter what you do.
Yeah, I spoke to a couple of our players, you know, ones that play in North America,
etc. Like, and they were talking about how when they're playing their own regions or
against these Witcher teams, they don't get punished as much for playing like common angles.
So for you, when you go from the tier two tournaments to play in the tier one events,
Is there anything different specifically for the AWP role?
I don't think I'm getting punished or anything.
I don't feel like that. I feel like I'm more getting avoided.
Which is very different than when you play tier 2 or tier 3 teams,
because they just play out their own system.
But in tier 1, they just understand that maybe they just want to avoid me
because I'm playing active or something, or maybe not, maybe I'm wrong,
but it's how it feels.
I always feel like I'm just going somewhere else or really go.
Is there anything that you go into the game and work out like how can you can be a little bit more unpredictable?
And you know a little bit more dynamic when it comes to changing your positions
Yeah, I can say okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'll keep in the secret. I like it
Okay, well, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys perform here Monty definitely a surprising team of certain points out this year already
So let's see how they do with the major. I'm gonna grab looking for a zoo
Because I can't believe I'll say to you after I can't believe your French player
Did you ever think you would be playing with so many UK players on your team?
No, I hate them actually, but it's all it is.
That's fair, there we go.
I've started the infighting already at Monty.
We'll keep that in consideration for the pickups.
How are you guys doing?
You just hit social media content.
It seemed pretty fun.
But one of the things you said, Bimus, was that it gives me, it doesn't care about money.
The first thing I asked them today was like,
what was the first thought that went through your head when you qualified for the major?
And he went, stick your money.
So, you know, coming into this team,
As soon as you guys have such a good vibe, what does this team feel like compared to some of the other teams you've played on in your career so far?
Yeah, probably one of the best things is the vibes in the team. We're all very good friends, not only in the server but outside as well.
And the banter is great. We have two UK guys, we have a Frenchie, it cannot get better than this.
And this is the website.
The end of German.
Yeah, I called him Austrian today.
I'm sorry, German today.
I'm Austrian.
Yeah.
I mean, all Austrians don't like to call themselves Germans, but for me, it's the same.
I don't mind who I say my name for.
It's just a joke.
Well, we spoke to Afri, I asked him, do you ever think of the Frenchman you'd be playing
with two UK players on your team?
He said, no, I hit them.
So, anything you want to say back to him?
We all hate each other, so.
in a loving way, but as you obviously come into a major, it's Cologne as well. It's like
a double whammy with like big events. So what's been your general feeling like leading up
to the tournament?
I mean, it's also incredibly exciting. I think this is going to be one of the best majors
of all time being in the Cologne Cathedral. It's always legendary. So just looking forward
to getting started. Like it's just every day is getting closer and it's just waiting until
it happens.
Well, for your career, it's been called the journey so far.
I mean, you were like M point, then you went to like Seoul.
We were playing with the Portuguese guys.
It was like a weird roster over there.
So did you think when that team kind of fell apart that you might have to sit back for a while?
What was like your feelings after Seoul?
I mean, obviously, I knew I like after Seoul, I would have to basically drop down a level.
And it's what happened when I joined Monty.
We was like top 19 in the world.
So to make it already to a major is like one or two seasons, two seasons, I think.
So it's been quite an amazing team to rebound in.
Yeah. And, you know, coming into this tournament, I was asking a couple of the other players, like, of their preparation.
So like for you, you've been asking, coming into a major, you're one of the more experienced players on the team.
You've played some big organizations, but it still feels like we're yet to see your full potential, like as an individual player.
Would you would you agree with that?
Yeah, only 22.
features had on the eye. I really do believe that I'm improving each year and you know all
all parts of my game like communication and taking initiative is one of the
primary ones that I'm improving way more. I used to be way more quieter before
so yeah experience helps in that. Yeah and you know going back to like the phase days and like
when we first seen you really break out as a player and people were super excited about you
what is like your biggest change as a player do you think overall like in the server and then
and outside of the server since those days.
More local.
Yeah, and as I mentioned already, I believe,
yeah, I'm just talking more, taking more initiative.
Being not only the guy that shoots hard,
but trying to help the team in other parts of the game.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
OK, we can just come walk and we can rejoin your team,
I believe, is this way.
I think we are about done.
Oh, my goodness, we've gone too far on the building.
OK, we have to go find him, we have to go find him.
Yeah, this building is an absolute maze.
It's my first time in here, and it's like,
I feel like I'm in some old prison room or something.
Yeah, down in the media room, it looks like a dungeon.
Yeah, I was like, where are they taking these players,
like the torture chamber downstairs?
But coming to this event is like,
you have a lot more media obligations, everything.
You guys have been going to like tier two events.
Can you tell me what that's like,
from maybe like a perspective of a player
going to these other tournaments,
What is the big difference between here and there?
I mean, it's just doing it in the first place.
Like in the tier two tournaments,
you might avoid an interview after the game,
but you're not gonna have to like,
in the calendar, like scheduled media, you know?
So it's more on the fly though.
Yeah.
I mean, you, as you will,
like I feel like coming into this tournament,
the fact that you're playing with another UK guy,
it's like, I heard you guys mentioned a message
during the social media as well.
Like I used to watch him back at ESL Premiership
and like these small teams.
You knew it was definitely the best player, but you didn't really ever see a world in
which anybody from the UK was going to suddenly become a part of the best team of all time.
For you, is there actually a level of inspiration from as you're seeing that it's possible for
UK players, no matter what, if they started smaller teams, suddenly you could get an offer
from Vitality and you can work your way up to the very, very top of Counter-Strike?
Has that been a motivation for you?
Yeah, definitely.
The UK CS has always been a joke.
the top one team like without a doubt as a UK player I think it's an amazing inspiration for not
just Osborne or everyone in the United Kingdom. And you know a similar career story too like played
in the endpoints roster went into some smaller tier two teams like internationally so I mean
obviously that's got to be the goal for you someday in your career as well. Yeah I mean if I
can do what Messi did I'd be happy. I mean luckily there's so many teams in the major right so a lot
of the fans only follow like the top tier team so for you guys as multi like how would you describe
your team so like someone who's never seen multi play who's never like senior players on the server
how would you describe your team they're very explosive we can we can you can play very passive
we can also just rush b3 rounds in a row i feel like we can be very uh what's the word we can be
unpredictable. Yeah, that's the world I'm looking for.
Big things are happening. We are here in Cologne. We are here for the major as well. And you
guys have a pretty good streak lately. I want to ask you what is happening inside of the
team? Why are we seeing legacy that is just out of this world? You're kind of like peeking
at the right time just ahead of the major. What's happening?
Yeah, I'm very happy with everything that's happening. The last results were very nice
for us. We got so happy in Atlanta to get the third place, to put the medal like it
was a good feeling for us. And also in CAC, like getting the trophy was amazing, my MVP
over there. So yeah, I'm very confident with my guys. We are very excited to play Colón.
I will soon go to that MVP that I just mentioned, Mr. Lato. He's there waiting for me patiently.
Before we go there, I want to ask you not about the teams or players that specifically impressed you in Stage 1.
Obviously, you must have watched the Stage 1, but Opers, you were an Opers.
Anyone that you particularly was thinking like, damn, this guy is actually pretty good.
What Opers would you highlight from the Stage 1? Maybe they made it through or didn't? Doesn't matter.
To be honest, I was watching one guy.
Not in the major but in the past.
Okay.
Greeks from Biggie, for me he's a very good player.
He grew up a lot.
I remember that we were playing in Uroic and now in Biggie he's playing very good.
I already played some facet books with him and it's always fun to play.
We always want to gather and have good things.
So yeah, for me he's the guy that we're playing very good.
He's playing very nice.
What are the, in your opinion, the goals for legacy for this major?
Are we talking stage three or are you even aiming for top eight finish or something even
higher than that?
Because you're talking always in these interviews about growing the team, obviously like integrating
art into the team and you've had the coach change recently as well.
And this growing part is going well so far.
So what's the goal for legacy and Sazin in general for Cologne?
I don't want to jump like three steps, but to be honest, for us to go, it's reaching the playoffs.
Like in the Austin, we lost one game to Gatt and we lost to ModsFords.
It was bad feelings, but for us it's a rich playoffs.
But of course we have to win the first game on stage two, second and third, and Gatt to stage three.
So I don't want to jump getting bad karma, you know, game by game.
I think we have to think about our first game and growing the tournament.
I'm baiting you for the answer.
Obviously, you go game by game, especially in Best of Ones, obviously.
This is kind of painful and in Stage 2, we will still have Best of Ones.
In Stage 3, we are not going to have Best of Ones anymore.
Are you more comfortable in Best of Threes or Best of Ones as a team?
Against, let's say, a better team, some players actually prefer to play Best of Ones
because it's like they're underdog and stuff like that.
For you personally, are you more of a Best of Three player and a team?
Yeah, I think we have to be prepared to play best of one, best of two, best of three, so...
Best of two is a wild thing.
It was all the time, I remember that time as the time, yeah?
When you play it.
It used to be in some online leagues, you had to play like a back-to-back.
It was like best of one back-to-back.
It could have ended one-one and then you split the points,
which was wild back in the days, but you know, we're past that.
We've been best of ones in best of three territory.
So for you, probably best of three is something where you're feeling more comfortable, is that right?
Yeah, I think the best of two is always better, but like I said, you have to be prepared for the best of one.
Major is like that, stage two will be. So yeah, we have to be ready to all the maps.
Thank you very much for this and I wish you good luck. I will see you. How are we doing? Like this or like this?
Like this. All right, this is better. The dab was good.
Boys, listen to me right now, okay? Cut this fucking tool shit out, all right?
I know we fucked some rounds, but we need to connect to each other, okay?
These f**king rounds right now, these last few rounds, our connection has been absolutely f**king dog-sh**, okay?
I've got Johnny tilting, I've got Justin tilting.
Boys, stop f**king tilting.
Get it together!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,5,7,9,10,11,12,12,8,12,12,8.
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Welcome to I am Cologne
Spray down to just the last!
He squeezed a 14th round!
But I think it's too late.
They're gonna run ahead.
Oh! He caught up there!
That look good?
Yeah?
Let's go.
Let's go.
Fuck you. I love you so much.
Over ten years of history have been carved into the walls of the Cathedral. Colonies
see many players try, but sadly most fail to get their name on this very trophy. And
some of those players still remain today. Some inside the server, some outside the server,
Just like our all-rounder, Siko, you tried a couple of times to get your name on this
very trophy.
What are your memories?
Yeah, memories are fading away slowly.
One time I was actually standing in for Cloud9 in this very event and one time it was with
Apex.
We came here, beat BIG and then packed our bags because we went home.
Honestly, the first day or like first couple of days of stage one, I was actually, my muscle
memory was started packing because it was like, well, three days in clone, that's it,
we're going home.
But no, I got promoted to broadcast so I stay here all the time.
So that's how long the event is, right? Sadly for some teams here in Stage 2, Elimination already beckoning, I want to ask about that 8 vs Gamelision in that lower bracket. Are you surprised to see those names there?
Yeah, 0-2 is a tough start for both of these teams. Both in Stage 1 played pretty decent Counter-Strike, but here they're just unable to pull it off. Gamelision feels like they're falling apart in the most sense, and Bait also didn't manage to convert on that best of one greatness that they're known for.
I'm surprised that I see these two teams battling it out and one of them will have to go home today.
FlyQuest versus Payne as well, the other elimination match in that 0-2 pool.
Are you more surprised, less surprised to see those names there?
FlyQuest not really, Payne a little bit, but something is not clicking there either.
Both on the server and off the server, you heard probably about the drama with the Vita system
and they kind of failed to pick the side and they had to start overpass the side.
And because I actually mentioned it, it got into their heads and it was tough to call for the in-game leader.
So, you know, it's weird how weird mistakes are happening
and they're happening again.
Well, if they want to bounce back,
they're going to have to start that redemption arc now.
It's truly do or die time
at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne at 2026.
There is no stopping him!
He is inevitable!
The King of Counter-Strike!
day 2 of stage 2 of the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne and things are certainly heating up.
My name is Fred Spears, joined by Ash and Janko for the first couple of best of ones
today.
Janko, there's nothing quite like waking up knowing you've got best of threes on the
horizon and it's kind of just hit me that we're clawing ever so slowly closer to that
arena as well.
Yes, indeed.
Right.
Well, first we have stage three waiting in the wings and the best teams in the world
joining us, but I think you could already see sort of the level of Counter-Strike rise
from stage one to stage two surprisingly few upsets, I think as well for the most part
right. The favourites taking care of business, perhaps, you know, 9-Z being already in the
2-0 bracket catching a few people off guard. That's pretty impressive. We should bring
up the Swiss bracket to see exactly how they managed to make that feat possible just yesterday.
A couple of names I was mentioning was Stiko earlier, obviously in that 0-2-4 on the brink
of elimination today. But just in terms of your favourite moment, your favourite match
maybe from yesterday, Ash, what sticks out for you? I think the footbait game was for
the best game that we saw. It was very close. It came down to a low buy in the end. So that
That was nice, and also the Bet Boom Spirit game looked like it was going to be a banger,
and then dunk, dunked all over, and that kind of ended pretty suddenly.
Spirit no hiccups without a coach behind them, or actually should I say, with Yab Yab
Hitch behind them.
That was the captain's name.
Exactly, and I think also the Monty G2 game, I mean that was an incredible series, but
it was a triple overtime, quadruple overtime.
In the end that it took to see who the winner is, and that game just had everything, you
you know, high pressure moments, individual prowess, and it was a peak major entertainment.
So you're saying 9-Z, that is the biggest surprise for you to be in that 2-0 pool?
Yeah, I think out of the 2-0 teams, you have to say so, but seeing as how in the 1-0 game
they had the Stralis, which I think, I don't know, that's the thing with the Stralis, we
weren't really sure which Stralis we were going to get, and 9-Z showed some really
good games obviously in Astana making the playoffs there so did great work in the
best ones. We'll have the toughest of tasks today against Team Spirit. Yeah
might have had a little bit of a smoother route but I don't think
playing Sailing is going to be on the horizon for 90 versus Spirit later on
today pick them so that's why everybody always asking are they in the game?
Well you kind of laughed it when we got to do it you know and you were getting
five
It's kind of over it's kind of over already for a lot of people like everyone's help everyone missed under zero threes
But the thing is high question zero two and they picked dust two against 90
Yes, and the legacy what's going on there? They're ruining our pickings. I'm not sure what's happening because I mean that's fantastic
So both of them so yeah completely disaster there Monty against big first game
We thought big, you know, maybe there's some momentum happening from the last stage having have that insane comeback. It's energy
They say no, there's no women and their boys lose to monster away and everyone's instantly lost there
So yeah, there's zero two knocking so good
I was giving props to you friend to chat for the tactic of terrible times that played each other put them into zero three
Well, they both managed to win a game yesterday Monty almost in the two zero brackets themselves
It got pain didn't they and pain of us eight out of nine best of ones now. So it's
Why didn't you put them as 0-3 there?
Why didn't you put them as 0-3 there?
I was expecting them to get every easy game in the whole tournament.
Maybe the worst tactic of all time for me.
My 0-3 team is 2-0 and my 3-0 team is 0-2.
You just couldn't read, right?
It was a bit confusing.
It's pretty hard.
Coin flip strategy didn't pan out.
We obviously also...
Exactly, yeah, unpredictable.
Please change your format for the next major, please.
And we obviously had great cash right going down yesterday, but we also had some smack talk going down as well
Things getting very loud in the arena over on the B stream to we're gonna roll a couple of clips
We keep our microphones open so we can kind of react to them as well. Apparently she's got it in him too allegedly
He was feeling spicy
Loud very loud yesterday. It's good to hear I could see because he's been a little bit missing against his best teams
I love these doing his own language. No kind of fire in his own teammates off that they can understand him
It's also surprising, usually, like, they do get hyped, but to talk trash feels uncharacteristic
for Chinese players, so...
Actually, G is so nice as well, but it's good because he knows the other team doesn't understand
them, and his teammates can laugh about it, and that's the nicest thing sometimes, you're
saying random things, knowing that it's not any, like, malice or anything, they're just
making some fun in the game.
Exactly.
How do you feel about trash talk, Ash?
Because, I mean, they had to get the two British guys up on the desk, obviously, to
we're talking about this. We're
known for being a little bit toxic.
You talk back in the day. Yeah.
You can't tell.
It's a little bit of time. So
I'm coaching like shouting and saying
things like what are you doing and
stuff. I think you need to use things.
You're trying to make it a fun environment
for your own team because people can laugh
about things and at the end of the day,
so much tension and pressure. You kind of want to create
environment and I think the main thing is not
taking it too seriously. This is part of the game
And if you can, it's a win condition at times.
How about you, Yankee? Were you kind of an ex-coach with Shaolin?
I was, honestly, I had so much to think about with my own team.
Like, I did not have, you know, energy to spend on the other team, really.
I left it up to the players. I had always, I mean, always,
I had players at times who enjoyed a little bit of trash talk and getting loud and...
But even without that, it was more, for me, always focusing on ourselves.
right and making sure that everything is in check you have to have the players for it and the composition of the team for it
The worst thing is when you don't have it to try to force it
Oh, that just feels unnatural really don't want to use about cringe, but yeah
Yeah, a little bit cringe kind of footwork loud and proud yesterday for good reason see find themselves in the the 2-0 bracket as well
This is like they won the game. So they just won a round. This isn't trash. This is
Just hyping yourselves up, you know, I
I think it's the how much do you feel as to the decibels matter, you know when you get like
Does it get sometimes you're thinking like what are these dudes do like, you know, this is like
Insanely loud like why are they getting this loud? It's kind of annoying
I mean the only thing I can think of is maybe after the event if they do well
They have to do team karaoke or something. I'm thinking let's ruin my voice and I can't do it because that this is so loud
Do it all go in depth. I'm at the volumes on maximum as well
I mean, there's a little bit of a kill, but it's three of them consistently doing it.
It's got to bring some good energy, good vibes.
You got me a team karaoke, Ash.
If you ever do that in any future teams, hit a girl up and hit this guy up.
He can sing pretty well.
I can pass the microphones.
Obviously, the Aussies as well that we saw going down in stage one.
They had a little bit of smack talk going down as well.
We got a little bit of a teaser up to this, too.
They were very adamant that they were going to be talking about each other's jobs
and just getting incredibly loud.
This is very similar to UK culture, I feel like,
because the Australian one,
this is my favorite game on the stage, you want to think.
Yeah, and I think obviously for native English speakers,
is where the best trash talk comes out,
or if you're just doing it in your language,
and it's not an English-speaking person,
because there's a fine line to walk with trash talking,
right, or stuff like,
you know, you're going to lose your jobs,
or like, look at me, all this sort of things, right,
where it's like funny, it's banter, it's good,
like it's good trash talk, but you're not going to do it.
you're not crossing any lines. That's the worst thing that's been there. You can say
extra things, I mean that's what was well when fans at home, sometimes it's not as serious
as it seems when your person is saying this, your favourite player seems to have a favourite
player. They go afterwards and they go together, we sit together at the hotel and they mock
each other off the ball and so that's why the ball is not that serious. Yeah, it's
just romantic. You've got to be able to take a bit of banter. You've actually unearthed
some historic trash talking clips for our Shanko. What have you got? Well, I mean, I
had a few from when I was coaching, right, and I said sometimes I had players, this
This is whole Zera, right?
Like this is one of the early days where we had the face-to-face set-ups and just standing
up and shouting at Liquid, you know, like when he came in first, this was unbelievable,
right?
Like that's great trash talk and then maybe not so great.
This was a controversial one, I remember at the time.
Yeah, but there's always like a line to be had.
It feels like if you're like straight up just insulting people like that's not trash talk
That's just like you have to get more creative than that
But cold was doing it in Portuguese and he like stood up was pointing at liquid and the Julie leads all
Shouting it down like you guys are weak you guys are weak. You know, it's like that's just so good
You can see everyone on the team is sort of like laughing. It's lifting everyone spirits up like it can be definitely a positive thing
for the team. It's a vibe booster for sure. Okay, from our top trash talkers to our top
five players to watch now, Ash, this is kind of a genius idea, right? Because we're coming
into this stage. Everybody, of course, always has their eyes on Donk. Who wouldn't? So you've
come up with this concept of top five players to watch that aren't Donk. Janko, you're going
to go first. Yeah, because I went a bit of a different time and you didn't go for like
the best five players in my opinion. I'm like, why would you need to watch these players?
And I think for different reasons. Stare, of course, is playing incredible. And you need
to keep an eye on him because he keeps playing like this while Astralis is playing the way
they are. He's not going to be in that jersey for much longer. Like he's going to get plucked by a
tier one team. He's a guy who's done it all in his career. He had to change roles as well. And now
in these like more star positions is doing such a great job. Some pious. If G2 goes out and says
we're taking offers for Klim, they must have a lot of faith in this guy. Right. And I think that
I don't want to say adds pressure on him, but like it's a big statement from G2 as an organization
with how Klim has been playing, you know, to say, we don't even consider keeping this guy on the roster.
That's a really fun angle. Why to watch him, yeah.
I'm going to skip to Mayer next because he has such an interesting arc.
Like, I don't know if people remember, like he was a part of MIBR,
when MIBR still had Fallen, Fer, Taco on the roster.
This was pre-COVID toward the tail end of 2019.
He was only 17 years old back then, right?
and didn't really pan out. He was on that team for six months and in the meantime he changed to an all-
AWPing role and had to check if he was the same guy. It was very confusing.
Exactly. He's the highest player for 9-Z after day one, but he's had like a one rating for this year really.
So he's definitely playing above average and he will have to if they're going to, I think, make it into Stage 3.
stage 3 and the last two guys being Insani and Lato, like two incredible players from
Brazil, definitely your picks if you're making the best Brazilian team at the moment.
For Insani it's about, you know, obviously after the game against Spirit they didn't
have much fun losing 13-1, but in the opener against Legacy he had incredible impact especially
in that pistol round and he's gonna have to keep playing on a high level.
If he does that, MIBR is a sort of dark horse to make it into the next stage and...
Is Ibiko in your Brazilian res?
I've heard his name a lot for you.
I mean, maybe, just maybe, but Lato is my guy.
I've been flying that flag for a long time, him and Dumal, and like the tournament he's
had over at CAC right before this MVP of the tournament, that grand final against Falcons.
He was absolutely unbelievable and you want to see him sort of...
Doesn't have to be the exact same level, but needs to keep playing on a high level for
legacy because it's getting tricky in these best of ones, right? You remember how
Budapest went for them, you know, their guys will need to show up for them to
make it into the next stage.
You were happy with what happened at CAC, Janko? Really? Was that word just uttered?
I don't know. It's all a haze, Freya. I was dealing with food poisoning at the time.
I was like chained to my bed, so I don't know.
Could you give us your best happy face?
Wow. I've never seen this face before. Never do that again, Janko.
Ash, who have you picked? Who have you picked?
I've kind of done the similar vein. So kind of maybe not the best place to say what the ones are kind of look out for
And the one that I was watching the most like when it's came to the povs by the way, a nice picture of donk
He looks absolutely miserable
But yeah, lucha was watching him in the game. So that's why uh, why am I is he doing so well?
Actually, he looks like a really really good well polished round plays his decision making was good
But also his mechanics were absolutely fantastic. He was against falcons astana. I think and he had absolutely
Incredible games in there. I was very impressed. I think that if if for example
Furu and end up making a change in the year. I think he looks at the quality to step up there.
So we're interested to see how he kind of goes, Dumau screaming all the time. We're going to have
a bit of a headache from him. But his T side always fantastic for some reason at majors. He always seems
to be really, really good. And I went for the same reason. Some bias, I think that if saw originally
went to some bias and said, Hey, come with me to G2, we obviously value something that he's bringing
the balance of the team as well. I think the need a more supportive or there's not enough room really
when they have all these aggressive rifles. And I went for Jaby and Flammus as hard-hitting T side
players with that AK, both very good players and also Flammus kind of just, he plays everything.
He probably could be team manager at the same time. You get the food for the team. So I don't
know what else he's got to do next. Is that a Jaby pick, a little bit influenced by what we saw from
him yesterday and times in his form and that first buster one? No, I think that he's just been doing
a really good job for a really long time. And I think on this team, he's kind of needed to be
the star as well. I can see the side. He has quite, he has like a mixture of roles. Like
he is kind of the star and he's kind of a little bit of an anchor in my tea side. Like
I said, he's a bit of a lurker, but then when the team comes together, it's like that,
that, um, I forgot. And then flamesy. So I'm wrong. I forgot who he was. He goes first
on all the time. He goes in and he's really, really good at it. So I feel like you could
take him, put him on a team that could just instantly win trophies, which unfortunately
stress aren't quite now. And he could be a player that would slot in there and be really
good. If you want to see a little bit more of Yabi all star, if you're following, uh,
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I managed to catch Kagafu ahead of your game.
I always see you in a good mood, in a good spirit and smiling around.
So tell me about yesterday.
Are you happy with Montes showing so far in stage 2?
Yes, I have to say we worked a lot on Mirage and we always had problems against G1.
G2. I feel like they're a very good coach team. That means they have not too many leagues.
And it's hard to play against them. So overall, I'm happy that we showed a good face. But
yeah, in the end, obviously, we didn't win the overtime. And that's what I'm sad. But
I think the showing was very nice.
I mean, you felt a convert a little bit of those couple match points, but I want to talk
about something different because you made a tweet that you are getting a little bit
of a punishment from tournament organizer for something. Can you explain to the viewers
What is happening here because obviously the admins have to be strict and the coaches cannot really talk so this is Valve's event
Yeah, so so basically it's only the major rule that
The coaches cannot show emotions. So for example, I cannot like throw like this or I cannot say yes
Or I cannot not clap because obviously after the coaching scandal
They're very strict about you know cheating
So they said, you know, it could be that if I'm cheering and the player could see me for example
that means maybe Rush B the next time.
So Valtteri is enforcing that rule very strict
and obviously ESL has to apply.
Yeah, so that's why I did the tweet.
I think that maybe then it's better to do it
like in Valorant or even I heard in League
that they have coaches in separate room
and then I can just watch it
and then give the timers like this
because I think without the emotions behind the team,
it's like, I'm just sitting there
and why should we be sitting there behind the team?
So I think maybe they can think about the rule,
but I understand if ESL has to enforce it.
Rules are rules and obviously every coach has to abide them.
Even we had that 12-0 comeback from BIG earlier on
and they just cannot show emotions.
It's tough, it's tough, but it has to be done.
But there was another thing, a fail, I should say.
I don't know, there was another thing about the veto, right?
Can you explain what the hell is happening with you?
Yeah, so this is my first time happening to me.
Basically you have the app where you veto
and in the end you choose the last map
and then you have to choose the site.
And basically, I guess I was excited
and was already talking to, you know,
gives me about the maps and then I left my phone
and just forgot to choose a site.
And then basically I'll select a site
and that what happened.
And yeah, like, Mihail,
the head admin is very strict on this one too.
So there is no way coming back from that.
And yeah, I think it was just funny
because it actually happened to pain also
against big, unoverpassable, I would even say,
it's more huge.
And yeah, but it was a fail of my side.
So no bad blood against CSL.
I mean, obviously fails happen, but they hopefully will not happen today.
This is the last best of one for Monter in this match, whatever happens.
Instead, you will not have any best of ones.
Are you feeling confident today going ahead to the legacy?
Yeah, for sure.
We played against them in ESL Pro League.
There they could make the win, but it was close.
Yeah, we feel confident.
I think a lot of things can happen in the best of one.
You win one equal.
You have maybe one good like force by and then everything can like turn.
So I think it would be an even match.
We will see we need to match their their passion.
I think that's always when you play against Brazilians,
they they play with a lot of passion and they want to really win.
And yeah, if you can match that, we have a good chance,
especially in best of ones, you need to scream your lungs out
because there's no energy to basically say.
Yeah, not you.
We will see how this one goes and thank you for the interview.
Good luck. Thank you.
We got Monsi versus legacy on our next one one match up.
when I'm glad Kakafu can see the funny side of what went down yesterday, the loopsy on
his part, of course. I've got to ask you, Ash, would you actually rather be in a separate
room like Kakafu's saying? Would you rather not have to stand behind the guys for these
roles?
I did not think much about that. Yeah, I did that once in a Starbucks playing in Arama.
So I was like, best of them. But I would prefer to still be behind the team. I think
actually it gives you a different perspective because you can actually see the body language,
you have to show no emotion. It
helps you become a and everyone's
kind of a monster. So you can
kind of think a little bit more
clearly sometimes as well. I
think when you're in another
room, you're probably going to
have some staff there and stuff
putting you off a little bit and
talking to you kind of want to
fully focus. See like who needs
some help. I mean, the cameras
always on the place all the time.
You could see more of stuff. So
I hope still prefer behind the
players, even though it's the
biggest event, the hypers event
of the year and it sucks that
you're going to sit there like.
Nothing showing nothing.
Absolutely nothing behind those
Janko, you were coaching. Before this rule was enforced, we've got some B-roll of you.
What was it? The course of London Major? You were popping off here.
Yeah, I mean, this one down. This was the first, yeah, this was like two months after I started coaching.
Maybe I went to the Major and remember this was the 2-2 game probably against NIP.
So to make the playoffs and you know, you're stressed.
You have a team that making the playoffs is a minimum, right?
We've lost to Tyloo in one of the best of ones. It was all over the place.
But in the end, you know, we were able to get it together.
And there was a lot of rounds towards the end where, you know,
you're just like, there's no more timeouts or, you know, your team
or you're playing CT style, like there's not much really to do.
And then you're just trying to hype the players up, hype the team up,
give them energy. And yeah, I cannot imagine having to just sit there.
As I said yesterday, you know, it's a rule that really should be amended.
We're professionals have professional.
That's what the referees are for.
You know, make sure there's no cheating.
then, yeah, hopefully it gets reviewed at the very least.
Yeah, as you've been there before, you've been told to pipe the hell down as well.
We've got an example of, I think this is back at the RMR as well, where you're
getting a little bit too hype. And then...
Yeah, I actually did that fully silently as well.
I just fully... No noise at all.
And after the game, we had a huge lead.
We threw harder than any game we've ever seen in life.
And we lost the game.
And the first thing I heard was, do that again, and you're pumped.
Oh, my God, it sounds so ominous, doesn't it?
I mean, it's very hard in a situation where, I mean,
I feel so sorry for Calculary Wright because you look at his game yesterday versus G2.
You would have to strap me to that chair to not show any emotion during what was such
an incredible three overtime affair.
Let's dive straight into it because we had these back and forth moments.
There's so many moments where each team was on match point.
Let's dive into it.
G2, match point first.
What do we see in here?
Yeah, I like the opening here, right?
Like G2 playing confident, aggressive.
They call Nerdyz's number, right?
The latest addition.
It's a B split where he is just supposed to call some chaos in connector right gonna flash him through passes by Afro
It's gonna find the entry kill here and just from this point on as you see maybe it's just anyone with the last name of
Kowatch that struggles
With these rounds because it's just gives me on that B bomb site
And he does this is what you kind of have to do when you are the only player here is got a multi frag
You've got to buy time and then here the UK CS and him kicks in and he just buys such an amazing amount of time
it even finds a kill. That gives enough time for Afro to come over and he finds an extra one.
And I think if he just goes down there straight away, the game is just done.
Not only that, he buys enough time so that the A anchor is in B apps as the bomb gets planted.
And actually, even though it's a 3v2 rainmaker, it's going to be huge here that one kill really
enabled for his teammates to get that trade on Hunter and extend the map.
So Monty, they equalize it, they push it to overtime, they go on to spree themselves,
It's their time for match point. So what happened, Jaco?
Well, it's um, it's going to be an a default going on here and um, I can see that it's probably not
Planned to be this easy to get around from spotted on much point, but it does happen
I think it just becomes very disconnected very quickly because be honest doesn't see anything out here whatsoever
And in a second, you'll see now gives me back in T spawn not ready
He's apart playing in palace even gets smoked off
So the lurkers are going to kick in at the moment
but he felt like the space is there taking too much of it and you see Zulu now at the same time he's involved in the lurk.
Unfortunately, he gets spotted by some pious and that completely changes the complexity of this round
because he doesn't know that that prompts nerfs to go underpass because now they're worried about
Monty coming back to B. See, Heavy God is like expecting the Zulu, but he still finds two blinders of a kill.
Yeah, and it's crazy because here's the A-play. He's already got B-bomb side, double kill in and the
boat is chilling there. I think that maybe timed out. Keyboard disconnects, I'm not sure, and he just leaves Gizmy to go.
Well guys, we have a bomb site with the B bomb site.
I worried what we'd take away. Someone help me somewhere.
Man, it's crazy that him having the C4 as well, maybe you can leave that behind.
But it was just a very difficult round to piece together.
Like there was action happening all over the place.
And I think some players having that information really threw a spanner in the works for Monty.
Like if that didn't happen, I think they would have been able to piece something together.
That's just a rough moment to happen on match point for Monty, right?
But they do get another one.
What happens next then?
Well, they get three of them.
Yeah, so it's a good start from after.
I think he's very underrated players and performing a lot online.
He comes to the ground pick, fantastic, and he looks to reset.
And I think this is a very educational moment here for people watching.
And Beerus is in the light of the room.
He gets more talked out and he has to just buy time.
And at this moment, he's cooked, he's done.
There's nothing he can really do.
The bad habit that a lot of younger players have,
is try and save the president.
And unfortunately here, it means sacrificing his own life.
Maybe, you know, Yankee, what you liked about this map?
For me, it was about like this round,
game of faith that G2 will make playoffs.
Because what you saw there as well from them is Molli, Vimas, they know he's there.
This is them having to defend three map points,
first round of T side on Mirage, right?
They're in a 4v5, they Molli, and he smokes himself.
There's no panic, they just waited out.
You could see some players holding it,
right, their patient, then they get, you know, the freebie on Azubu really in the way.
and they just keep mulling him again and you can see how they know with that molly
there's going to be an angle for some pirates to get the kill and he gets another one gives me
the great job with the 2k and even the tail end of the round sort of the awareness of both heavy
god and hunter you know they're mulling Tetris flashing it knowing that rainmaker could be and
probably is playing close and then just hunter getting that kill really felt like it sealed the
deal for them and yeah I think it was just really a sign of a super confident team that the team that
But didn't start panicking even though, you know, they had to defend three match.
Even felt like they got better as the game went on a little bit.
The details there are incredible to be like 4v5 and take your time that much is difficult
because that multivariate threw, it burns every little inch of that ladder room and they know
it and they just use that information and then the heavy go come out and multivariate
in double flashing position.
He doesn't even know exists.
It looks like once you're going to win the game now in the back of it gives me 2k and
he just kind of goes away from them and from there on G2 long away.
Yeah, obviously, going to that third overtime, that's where G2 end up seeing things out.
But in terms of the composition of Monty, obviously, there's a couple of names in there,
couple of kind of throwbacks as well.
Beamas being one of them.
You had a little bit of time coaching him on FaZe, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I think there's also this miscosession that I saw even on HLTV, where we signed them and then we benched them.
Like, that was never the case.
We had them as a stand-in because all of retired mid-season and we need someone to finish the season out with.
and we went with Beamas and I was really impressed more than anything else with his sort of attitude
and approach. He was so eager to learn and to listen and to receive feedback, very hard working.
His mechanics were strong, right? Like he had a really good aim even back then. I had high hopes
for him. Bounce picked him soon after that, but they put him in lurker roles and I always felt
he would be best used as sort of a flames in the thick of it, use his mechanics because to really
be effective in the lurker role in tier one you need some experience too which okay by now he's
accrued but yeah it's just great to see him on this stage right playing at a major because it's
been a rough period somewhere in there in the middle and just the perseverance and
continuing the grind and keeping at it you know always great to see a player get rewarded.
That's a really good explanation because his name is always kind of on the tip of the community's
tongue and it's always like where did he go right are you more happy with with how Monty are
using him in terms of their composition of this team.
Yeah, he looks when I was watching, he looks like the most reliable that comes to decision
making. And he's kind of shown how he always games out to change from to come back. He
kind of did just vanish for quite a long time. But I like the way he's used now. He seemed
like he can trust what he's going to do all the time. He hits his shots. Maybe he's lacking
now a little bit of that star player mentality of just taking more initiative. That's what
I've noticed so far. Anyway, I think the person I'm kind of most looking forward to
seeing on this one is Afro, who is on screen right now, because he's also kind of going
player who he was there and then he vanished and he's had to come back and actually found a lot
consistency and I think his game is even elevated a little bit. On the other side of things of course
we have legacy and they've got to be coming in with quite some confidence. Janko they win
CAC just going down prior to the major they take down some pretty decent names and then you look
at that grand final and they managed to beat Falcons in a best of five. That's no small fee.
Yeah without a doubt and I think obviously when never Falcons play there's a lot of
hate watching in wall and people just like to see them fail and there's like so much focus
after that game on Falcons and not nearly enough focus on legacy because they played a great game
they were the better team there wasn't like this guy's super missus and no they just straight up beat
Falcons in that final Lato as we said the MEP was incredible but across the board every player
had his moments they were leading the way it was a team effort and that was probably legacy playing
their A game, right? And that is what you're hoping to see. And that's what gives people
hope, you know, that they'll, there'll be three zero here or that they will go into
stage three, maybe mess up someone else's chances of lifting the trophy.
Yeah. I think the balance of this team is what strikes me. Like the, the R2 is kind
of willing to go in like you, this guy never, ever, ever goes second and trade some money.
He's always going first whenever the group and up, but do now on the T side, he has
lots of space to do things. Lato on the CT side, just really, really good player. The
The main question I had about legacy was actually the best of one form. Isn't that good? But
they're almost getting through this now. I think another win here against the best of
three is like, I think this is a really underrated, well-rounded team that is good on a lot of
maps and is, it's a soft team you don't want to come up against when you're a big favourite
because you don't want to give them that underdog, the mouse screaming in your face and going
deaf as well at the same time. It's going to be difficult to play against these guys.
I think I would really expect to see some good things from them in this match.
Yeah, of course, I lost out to MIBR on that first best of one. I managed to beat FlyQuest
in the second one going down yesterday. I do just want to return to you a little bullet
about art, Ash, because obviously we saw him way back in the day, maybe being aggressive to a vault,
right? Some people wouldn't be so keen on his playstyle. Have we seen that being reeled into
a bit more of a reasonable level on this legacy, do you think? I mean, a little bit. He's still
the same guy, but he plays less around himself now. I say that's the main change. I think before
he was like your kinder on steroids a little bit, just almost trying to just be annoying,
walk through the smokes and catch you until you know he's more, I think he's using more of an
experience and understand he isn't the star player as much now and let the other guys shine,
here follow me, we're gonna do stuff so it seems like a better balance.
Yeah, he relapses every now and then but for the most part like he's got it under control.
Freya and yeah, we talked about it a little bit in Atlanta, you know, I think the whole
fluxo experience humbled in two. I think he understands his main role on this team is just
to be a leader, right? Like be a captain and a leader for some of these younger players and
and he's embraced that and he deserves props for it. I mean, obviously on the server too, so far he's been their highest rated player at this tournament.
So I think that helps like Ash pointed out in the best of ones, where maybe there's more stress involved, sort of to lead the way in that manner and alleviate some of the pressure from the younger guys.
I know you said you had a little bit of a, what I was going to say, fever dream. Fever night there, when you're watching the Falcons legacy game, a little bit of a through poisoning in the mix.
I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about what you took away from legacy in that moment, right?
Because we were kind of in Atlanta saying, is it a good decision for you to be grinding this much,
going into Cologne, obviously, starting Stage 2, you get a little bit of a break beforehand,
but were there any kind of takeaways that you want to see continuing here?
I think just the way they play in terms of they're super decisive on CT side also,
they're one of the teams that's really active, that's always going to be in your face,
that's not going to let you, you know, just execute your game plan.
You can't count on that when you go up against like this.
You have to count on, OK, how would you maybe try and shut down their aggression
and just be ready for some scenarios where you're playing 3v3, 3v4,
you know, that situational conflict.
We get to see the maps rolling in.
Of course, we still are in the best of one phase.
So that does leave the map that we're going to be playing as a nice little bit
of ancients in a lot of this investor ones.
Does that make sense for you, Ash?
I mean, I'm glad that Monty didn't let this go to one of his best picks, anyway,
because Overpass, Murad and Dust2 was looking scary, so to get him off that,
I mean, this could be, I'm not quite sure how good Monty are,
and Ancient could be one of those ones where it's the best of one,
both teams end up on the fourth best map, so we end up with a weird game going on.
So we'll have to keep an eye on that one.
Yeah, a big part of Best of Ones is which side will you have to start on, right?
That's why we don't see a lot of overpasses, even maps like New Kinder,
because having to start T-Side like things can go wrong for you and Ancient is one of
those maps similar to Mirage, similar to perhaps that's two where you're not as worried to
get something going on T-Side.
You both picked out Demau and Lato independently for this top five players to watch.
You know, Janko, rest your case.
What are you going to expect your boy to be doing here on this Ancient?
I mean, this was the map that he almost single-handedly beat Falcons on, right?
and it's just such an all-around player on CT side,
great at rotating, putting himself at the right place on the right time.
So I think this is where he needs to step up and, you know,
art has done enough so far for this tournament.
And we need to be stepping into the game.
It's Monty vs. Legacy, going down on Ancient.
The very last best of one.
Monty and Legacy, going to be locking horns.
What do you reckon, Charlie B?
Is this another one of those 50-50s you have been presented with
across the course of the major legacy is a heavy favorite in this one. It's nice to be
concluding today with the best of ones, right? And then the best of threes around the corner.
We can now get into the lengthier format. And I will reiterate that maybe a couple of
people that news has missed stage three, best of threes. That's kind of what we're dancing
around here. It is a very exciting change for this major. Can't wait just from the very
beginning, even with a crowd, a crowd. That's it. We got a couple of people going to come
join us here in the Pilate in a couple of days time. We've got this one on the A stream,
Chances versus Taliyah on the B stream coming up later that boom and 80 might be our big
Bested trees from here on out. So let's get into this one
Legacy right the ship. That's the question in these 1-1 games. Who's gonna give themselves the extra life?
For me when I look at this matchup
It's a bit of a fire and ice because when we covered the Monty versus big game
It was very slow as take stage one way to pick the push within the route
Well, we know the legacy like to push so let's see if it's the same
They're starting on the defense though, so things will be a little bit different for Monty
As we went gives me over towards be nice deep naive
Hello, I mean couldn't be more simple if it's just gonna be a follow-up
You've got two smokes that's it's gonna Molotov. They've blocked them ramp though be must doesn't want to give too much away
Obviously cognizant of potential lurk in mid. This is playing it passive
We're gonna have to go
Flash has come over the heart breaches. Okay. Oh is it clears out copies of the box in space
But he wasn't expecting a zoo to go swinging out the short smoke. Why?
Okay, okay
Gives me just top two heads for a smoke. Okay, the gizmodo dragon there doubles up
This is kind of lost space on a and he's unnoted rain waker is aware. It's a possibility, but doesn't know how entrenched
Satsons also been able to
Quickly rotate in and plant this bomb on a so retake will be on I refuse to believe that this is a TV 5
I'm not even going to take it there isn't a kid
Sadzing gets donut control and this is staying side. He's going to need to get a multi to make this possible
And it's going to come down to the clock
Just swing together, well hit the head shot. Sadzing is going to be under some screw to mean he's lost near sim as well
Just the one for Sadzing to the USP
No one's diffusing yet. I would like to see that commence. Is he going to be able to get the angle on that?
There's plenty of bodies blocking you can see to protect the president and the diffuse will come through
So shout out to Gizmy one time through the smoke the two Brits with a pair of frags each
Yeah, when we got to cast them, there was a couple of these names, Aphros, a very fun one to watch.
I think that G2 game yesterday as well, put all of them in the shop window.
Beamus is back with the vengeance at the mages and he was hitting hard as well using Donk's crosshair, apparently.
So apparently that's a good omen for everybody.
I don't know, man, I use that and it's not up in me.
This swing from Azumu actually inspired the fact that Art kind of was under the impression
no one's going to be pushed through those smokes.
He thought he had the space and then gives me obviously secured it with the spam.
I would bring up the fact that, oh, you know, this pacing's bad.
Where's the follow through for art?
But it's legacy.
Art's going to be the head of the pack, right?
He's leading the way.
He's Rudolph.
His nose is not red, but he's the one who's at least shining
the light of where legacy are going to find their moves.
And then the rest of the reindeers usually come on through.
My favorite one's Dumau.
He's the loudest.
Yes, the loudest reindeer in the pack.
This one's the sharpest.
Well, he wasn't sharp on our last leg.
No, that was a little bit strange versus MIBR.
Do we put it down to domestic matchup? I think it's very easy to dismiss it like that. If it doesn't
happen again, then we will. I think on the other hand as well, it was stage one team versus stage
two team. But in saying that, there was only two stage one teams who won their opening game yesterday,
Tai Lu and Amabia. So for the most part, the stage two teams showing why they are stage two teams.
Plenty of counter-strat to come your way today. Exciting end of the day on the air in the B-Streams.
G2 vs FtnSpirit vs 9z qualification games for stage 3. Is it Yab Yabbitch?
I believe it is. Yab Yabbitch. Or as I like to call it, Mr Yabbitch.
Mr Yabbitch, of course. He's really made an impression in Cologne.
Have you seen his stats? I mean, just 100% win rate so far.
Fresh face. I think we have a bait vs game a little bit later,
baits coach Manin here. So we'll see if they can bring in maybe the brother, the cousin,
or the rival of Yab Yabitch to take to the seat.
Might be Bam Bamitch.
I've heard he's in the halls.
Oh, this one's technical.
When the tournament management is getting under the table.
I want to know how Afro got a kill if his PC was this extremely broke.
Like, he got a kill on that pistol and then immediately it was tech.
Kind of the important one as well, so the diffuse came through.
So good job to Afro there.
Can't mess with that.
But it does give us an opportunity to kind of take stock of not just the day,
but like yesterday as well.
I'm kind of looking over some of the the matchups that stood out to me. I just look at the stat page the stat page
Okay, let me see like a clean page and go
Here is he oh, yeah
Well, I do like that. He's kind of you know, he's law-accurate. Yeah, you know, it's not like we because we all big him up
And I sometimes I still why sometimes I sit down I go like maybe I'm over doing it
You know like I'm going counter strikes most devastating where but maybe this is a bit much guys
Maybe I'm over cooking it and then he comes up and drops a 2.0 rating
I'm like, okay, no, he is kind of going hard.
I've seen on the interwebs, people are questioning,
have I told these in stage three?
How come spirit are in stage two?
And it's like, all right, guys,
you might have missed the late resurgence from spirit
with this old Saltfic Alley scenario.
Imagine he's coming into his own little bit more
of the team taking responsibility
and starting to play a good Counter Strike again.
But they, being spirit, are showing the world exactly why
they're meant to be a stage three tier, right?
And I would say for them, it's quite a positive
because they can come in warm up,
get their land legs about them,
And then when they go up against the big boys coming to the next, the biggest issue they have, and I'm sure the desk will be discussing this at a certain point, is, let's say they're 3-0 today, well then they're going to take on the highest seed from the next stage.
Well, didn't Donk say something? I saw it, I've read it, I've read a million into it.
And then Apex tweeted LOL. So I don't know if it was in reply to the top, but he did just tweet LUL.
Maybe it was lots of love.
Lululemon clothing. Yeah, all the sporting he does because he's a fit man
Yes, he goes on walks and hikes and stuff lifts and weights
Takafou, he's
Part of this. I'm glad we got the interview though with steco
Just clearing up all of the hijinks of yesterday. What a day. What a day. What a day
Yeah, for people who aren't familiar we there is a
are more restrictive rules placed on coaches at ages than at traditional events. They're
not able to make as much noise. They have to stay extremely restrained.
And it's all, you know, some people ruin it for everyone.
Yeah, that is true. That does, it does go back to when the coaches during the online
era because of COVID cheated. I was going to use a different word, but it seems like
the best one for it.
So I mean and bear in mind they were on thin ice anyway because valve have always kind of
Exuded this theory of like we want the major counter strike to be as close to the counter strike people are playing at home as possible
And the people at home don't have a coach in the sixth slot. I'll give a coach slot
I'm there's always that one guy in just room big this time. It's not my turn. You stream keep on your stream
I've heard of one of the fairest methods. Okay, you have too many people for your lobby, right? You've got it
You've got a straggler. Let's say you don't you try to work out as an awkward six
Someone rocks up and you're like, oh, okay. So what you do and it's cutthroat. It's cutthroat as hell and it promotes baiting and I call brawl
No, oh you play the match with the initial five who were there present. What I'm trying is out
It's replaced for and it just the cycle repeats. Yeah, okay, I see
I like that. It's brutal. No, but it's kind of I mean it's gonna lead to everyone being locked the fact
You know at least a baiting it's exactly what you might know it does. I would be a master at that craft
Maybe they need HLTV's eco-adjusted stats. So anyone who's hunting the EECs, right? It's like listen. I like that
So we're getting quite deep deep in the swamp now
Yeah, but as you guys could see there was IT brought in with this concern. I think this is serious
Yeah, the fact that there's multiple people we've got reported LAG. That's lag
Just thought I'd spell it for fun. We've gotten plenty of time. Yeah, I figured out
Slows things down. That's SL
This is Counter-Strike, that's COG-30.
Yeah.
Should we play a guessing game with people in chat about the famous bandits in our hotel?
I don't want to dox them.
No, you shouldn't dox them.
We'll do it after they leave.
He's got a little monkey on his desk, because our fro looks cute little Petit Song.
I believe in French, that's the name.
Oh, okay.
Well, oh, again, he is French, right?
Everyone, just in case you're wondering why Alice is doing that, our fro is a French orper.
He is.
And he's got a very French name, Orélia.
Oh.
Doesn't get more French than that, really.
I don't think.
It's like a diablo.
Is it?
Is it a monkey?
It's got a long tail.
Monkeys have tails?
Yeah, okay, you're right.
You're right, okay.
They hang off the vines, don't they?
Yeah, some of them do.
It just didn't look like it had like the
vine climbing capacity.
I don't know where the monkey came from.
It's not as cool as Yab Yab, bitch.
That's all I'm saying.
Yeah.
The frog is taking over.
Any Trotschkees on this, uh...
Trotschkees, sorry.
It is.
Look at him.
Cute.
Do you ever have any beanie babies growing up, Jeff?
Beanie babies?
I was under the impression like I thought I bought Bitcoin in 2007 like I had all of the
Going on a couple of vacations to the United States of America
They were definitely picked up on the way home got a couple of beanie bags
And then what ended up happening was what became beanie baby walls with my sister where we were destroyed them as hard as
Possibly good. We did the same thing. He said instead of beanie babies. We used my sister for Christmas got a
Like you know make your own necklace jewelry
So like plastic beads in a box and we were just hurling them at each other safe
Not the best idea. No no one got blinded, which is good
Just to give everybody an update on what's going on and why we might be taking a longer walk down random lane
Yes, one of my favorite lanes, but so we've just got a report might take a little bit longer than expected
So just hold with us. We'll keep it in the realms. Oh, I had a whole beanie baby. So well, let's finish the baby
Beanie baby, so I'm sure people will lie and then we'll get back in the ground
Well, here's a here's an interesting one
You know like we had different styles of play my sister and I obviously I'm like reading about medieval siege weaponry and
She's giving her beanie babies school like every day
She would line the lesson and she teach them for hours. You never guess what she ended up doing as a job teaching teaching believe it or not
The writing was on the wall
She's teaching her beanie babies. I'm learning about the trebuchet
Great weapon. We can see we're getting a preview here. There will be an interview coming up later at Stika and death
Okay, interesting, a little St. Pete.
I can't, you guys wouldn't have got that if you didn't say that.
Thank you.
If you're an audio owner.
So you want to talk about Counter Strike, you can guess me.
Sure.
There's a great Reddit thread title here, Alex.
I want to go into this.
So let's do a dissertation on this.
What do you guys believe is the difference between Scream and Donk?
Probably about 20 years.
Yeah.
Start there.
Scream.
It's gone virtual.
He's a...
I like Scream.
He's a big man.
Big man.
He complimented me in the gym.
Whoa.
Wow.
Yo.
is more comprehensive in his play style.
That's a good answer, good word.
Whereas Scream obviously was very flashy with the one taps.
I'd say he is one of the players with the most defined style.
Sure. He leaned into that style,
even if it may have cost him, you know, competitive capacity.
Yes. He was trying.
Is he coming back with his brother?
Nivera. That's actually quite high.
Yeah, they give him to the crack.
Yeah, Ucher on. Ucher the modern in the tier three realms.
Did he go to Valorant for a while?
Then he's come back to us. It's great to have him back.
Hey, sometimes, you know, the grass isn't as green
as you thought it was.
But yeah, I mean, I think Scream definitely,
I loved his signature style and some of his clips are insane.
When I see him pop stomping these days,
you know, he's still doing it.
Yeah, he's, he had a,
I'm a big fan of watching POV from like pubs and stuff.
Like demos and stuff.
And he had one pop up for the death,
he was on a Nubus, that Lin POV channel
is one that I watch a lot.
He's just tap, tap, tap in head still.
I, yeah, well, you know, the aim,
the aim hasn't gone away considering.
So I brought up Twitch chat just because
We want to make sure we connect with some of the brightest minds.
Are there any Beanie Baby collectors in the chat today?
No, I'm having a read on this one.
StreamerView says, correlation between a coach's shoes and their team's play styles.
I'll be honest, I don't look at coach's shoes.
No, I don't think I could name a single coach's shoes I've looked at.
Yeah, OK. I'll help you there. I'm sorry.
Someone is an old school individual, so they have to be around my age.
They said the old SK screen.
SKScreen?
They're talking about their Swedish screen once upon a time.
I'm too young, that's me, I'm so young.
That's what I always describe myself as.
But yeah, if you guys are wondering what the hell is going on, it seems like it's one of the more extended tech pauses.
We've been very fortunate so far.
We haven't had any of this funny business, but it does look like Afro was having an issue with his game.
And we're allowed one.
Yeah.
This is the one.
This is the free bit.
It's one per cast a pair, this is our first.
Okay, nice.
But we can also direct you towards that B-Stream with Jason Moses at all and Dinko Dinklage
You can't that's his official title. They're doing the tyloo game. I love Australia's the battle of the red logos
And they're actually playing cams track right now. I do Astralis keep playing nuke
In best of ones that's a question that I don't have an answer for
I maybe never will what's wrong with their Luke?
What's right with them?
I'm looking at their stats right now. It's a 57% win rate. They've beaten teams such as foot and foot.
I think I'm historically scarred. I understand if I go in the deep history, obviously they were very good at it once upon a time.
I just remember there was an EPL where we kept doing their new games and their T-sides were very rough around the edges.
Okay.
So that's me and the time machine right there.
Wafra is disconnecting from the server again. He was back in temporarily.
I will say it is actually quite effective against a team like Legacy who are someone, you know,
This is a team that we immediately wanted to shake off that pistol loss and just go straight in with like all right force by
I'm gonna do this
We're gonna do that rat strat and and the problem is even though you can see what's going on
You're the ones who in a bit more of the the darkness as far as the information like all the aphorist teammates are right there
They can see what's happening now understand and then they want this fixed with legacy
They're gonna be a little bit more eager to get this one back on the way
100% all right. Is there anything good coming in in the twitch champ realms? Oh
Oh, a full PC replacement. That's the official word.
Yeah, so they're going to have to build it first. So it's motherboard, then RAM.
I actually don't know the order of building a PC.
Someone said, Skye says, did you try restarting CS?
That's a great question.
I'm not sure if they did, but he has left the server a couple of times. So I would say yes.
I'll tell you now, I think one job that I just don't think I would be able to ever
like keep my head, keep a cool head on my shoulders in is like the tech support,
Well, you're trying to like, you know, when you're like, I'm when I'm trying to help my mom just use the television
And I already lose my call. I'm like imagine doing it over the phone with a stranger
You're like, is it? No, but is the is the power light on is the power light on it is your is your router plugged in
I had one with with my grandma once upon a time where she had one of the scam calls
Oh, gosh, I'm terrified of that. She did and I just had like it happened and she called me
She said I had a call from these people and they did this and they remoted in I went, oh, just unplug your router now
Yeah, yeah, it's just like, uh, so I'm not sure exactly what manifested from there
Did you get an update?
It is a long time ago, I was just doing 15.
Yeah, but I mean with all the AI stuff now,
tell your older generation focus, give them a little warning.
Even me, I need it sometimes.
Some of these emails, you wake up first thing in the morning,
you have an email from PayPal,
it's like, I don't even use PayPal,
but I still freak out.
Yeah, of course.
I've saved up all my money.
Yep, it's gone.
And it's gone.
Shout out to your mum's dad.
Just Perth represents Sponge, Perth represents.
Hey!
Add up to all four people who live in Perth.
Someone said, Ruta.
Uh, I understand I said Router.
You must be British.
Yeah, we call it a Ruta.
And that's okay.
That's okay.
Me and Chad have learned to get over it.
Yeah, it's fine.
You know, he says,
Potato, I say, Potato.
Or whatever they say.
But when Jason says something wrong.
Oh, never.
We never let the Americans off.
Absolutely not.
Just butchering our language.
Our language, right?
Mm-hmm, yeah.
What is it running the twitch I think of the new haircut from sad tonight?
I understand he was already a bit of a buzz cut Andy, but now he's what would you say is your number two?
He's good as number two with his rock there. I'd say you're probably right. Yeah
I've actually recently started getting a full a straight one on the on my on my cheeks
Okay, and I'm thinking as far as like lengthwise. It's probably the same as my beard. Maybe a one and a half. All right, okay
That's any good topics it just throw him in
someone said north or south of the river this means nothing to the majority
of people watching around that guys but I'm from north of the river what river is
that this one river oh get some geography
the Aussies are playing later for elimination against pain how did they
came yesterday go was that one was can I just use the word a little bit
Disappointing. Yeah, that's two words. That is two words.
Chatter to 7DXSH asking why tech pause just a couple of issues
with Afro's PC. We're just sorting them out now. We've
done a full PC swap. So we should be getting it back in
underway shortly. If everything's
uncutory.
Okay, so we've got two feedbacks on the sadzen haircut. Okay,
yo, les noobs. So Dustin writes in the chat. Okay, he says
sadzen scary looking and termo pain says haircut be tough. So I
I think they're kind of both.
Yeah, they're the same vein.
Same vein.
Sabzin in the backline with those glasses on.
Yeah.
Like I'd be worried.
I wouldn't peek big doors against that guy like that.
Is he looking at them?
Is he looking at them and us looking at him?
I think he's, we've got a staring contest going on.
Yeah.
Oh, he gave up.
Here's a question I have for you.
Yeah.
In your ventures at the hotel so far.
Yeah.
Today is day number six.
Yes.
Who is the player that you've walked past the most, that it's getting a little bit strange?
So every time you always see this you kind of on a similar weird schedule
Yeah, you go to the left or in the lot you always see the same player because that mines yabby see yabby a lot
I haven't seen once well he his pracharums just down the hall from me. Okay, I've seen a lot of the Aussies obviously that
Probably won't be seeing too many more of them
Whoa
hotel a lot that was
I think that I have a similar case when I've got the the pracharum near me. Okay. All right fair enough
But they be gaming
Okay, so you just just you're saying Aussies in general in general. Well, I like I would I would have named a specific Aussie
But it's all been kind of equal, you know, so you know what I've been seeing a lot of is Jason Moses at all
Okay, is that because the magic together it is because imagine that's fine. That's fine. It's taken over and that's okay
It's keeping you guys out of trouble. It does
Okay
Okay, we're bringing out the big guys
I just saw you know, we are bringing out the big guns.
We have got word that it's not looking good.
That was verbatim, actually.
It's not looking good.
Not looking good.
So...
What does that mean?
It means you and I are actually going to have to go build his PC.
Okay.
Afro said exclusively that if Chad and Alex don't build it,
I kind of want to do what Doomount's doing right now,
taking power now.
Well, maybe we can.
Yeah, we're fine.
Afro can hear us right now.
Could put the camera back on Afro.
Is he going to set it off?
It's Afro.
If you can hear us blink once.
He's genuine.
No, thanks so locked in. I mean, I'd understandably be a bit, you know, focused on the whole try to play the
one-one match at stage two.
You get yourself into a two-one bucket with two vested three opportunities to get through the stage three.
And the big boys are top priority.
And being, you know, a major rookie, you're rocking up. Not that you haven't been competing.
Not that you're not familiar with, you know, setting up your pro riffs at this point.
You know, certainly seasoned in that aspect.
It's first major.
The fun stuff, they're having fun stuff. I kind of meant it a little bit facetiously there.
there, but there's certain things that have happened in the past where you just have these weird like stutters or lags
And I'm talking about personal experience and I just had to wipe my whole config and redo it again
And that's really annoying especially he's already played two games
He's already played two games, and he hasn't had any issues
So this is it's just the bugs of the system right and they were playing against G2
That was a multi overtime game
There was a banger and they won against big where and both matches this guy's been very fun to watch with his
Orping style so we definitely want to make sure everything sorted. I'm curious people want to be watching the game. We do too
Yeah, when you talk orping style
It's more aggressive. It's more up close
How would you categorize is there a parallel with someone perhaps another orper that we can kind of you know help to easier
Convey the way our approach is the orp
For me, it's I would say it's a stubborn orping style
I kind of go with Macca because they both like to be in positions where if you don't hit the shot, you're dead
Yes, I understand that you know monosy is much more flashy and flurry in that way
I would say you know a bit more with the Moldodoi, you know bucket whereas afro
It's it's just this stubborn style of like I will be here and I will shoot you
Yeah
It's just so confident in holding some of these angles that might not be the absolute best
But ladies and gentlemen boys and girls everyone tuning into this matchup
We're going to throw it down to the desk led to you by Freya Spears.
There'll be a Yankov, Yankovic and an Ash Ketchum to catch them all.
So we'll be back when the game is ready to go.
Yes, Chad, Alex, you need to go handcraft Afro's PC, please.
He's the only person apparently trust to build a PC.
Now, you've built a PC yourself, Yanko.
I don't I don't believe I did.
Really? No, the best the best I can do for you, Freya,
like when I was upgrading let's say the GPU and something else maybe CPU maybe
something so it was like just taking out what was in it and replacing it and
even for that I needed some help. Maybe like a little bit thermal paste in there as well
that old classic. Light I did that once. I thought I could just use it with paste.
Oh I'm trolling. I don't think I ever used thermal paste. Maybe one time this guy
when he was trying to help me out with it maybe he pasted it up a little bit I
I don't know. Either way, Ash, you can attest to this more than myself and Yanko. What's it like
with being a coach in these situations when the other team is an issue? Obviously, that's fair.
You've got to solve the issue, right? It's not fair for anybody who's playing on equipment that
isn't quite right. What do you do in these moments? You can't talk. Well, to be honest,
I think you have a big annoying disadvantage when it's the other team that's a tech post,
because you have no idea what's going on. They genuinely have no idea. So you're thinking,
like, is it our problem when they were coming back? Is it any seconds? You kind of stand by?
Yeah, you're not getting those updates, are you?
I mean, maybe in this situation, maybe that means I'm not using it.
Maybe I'd ask the admin and they might say something,
but you're kind of just keeping your eye on the team,
see what's going on. Obviously, they know all the details.
I think the weirdest thing is you're kind of just going to sit there in silence
for a really long time and you've got all the prep that you've just gone through.
You play one round and you worry like,
do I need to take a pause or something straight away just to remind someone?
I think there's a lot of different things that go into it in a way, right?
One of the things, and I think it's better than it happens immediately.
Imagine if it were like 10-10, and it happens, and there's like a lot of intensity in the game,
and it's a close game, and a lot's been going on, and then it's just deflated.
Like this is almost like the game didn't even start properly yet, right, in a way.
But I think this stuff with tech pauses, obviously, for people at home, when it's a tech pause,
you're not allowed to, you just get muted in TeamSpeak, so you can't speak to each other,
you can't hear your teammates either coach as well it's so that teams can't
abuse tech pauses to basically take a tactical timeout which is what happened
in the early days but at some point there needs to be like because just having
to sit in silence on your own with your own thoughts Freya for 15-20 minutes
is there anything scarier than that some people call it like yammer it's like
Meditate, mediate, mediate, it sounds crazy to me, right?
You alone with your own thoughts?
Couldn't be me.
How about like, alone with your own thoughts?
But you know, craziness next round is going on.
And we're in for one wild tea side, let me tell you guys.
You know, it's not allowed to like, put your music on or anything.
No, you can't do anything.
You just, I didn't think much about you need the bathroom or something, not allowed to go.
And you could be there for a very long time.
They can play paper scissors apparently, they'll get hold of soon though.
But I think at some point you should because it is like just kind of crazy to expect people
to sit there for 20 minutes, you know, so at some point.
Okay, quick update, SSD swap might be a little bit longer, but hopefully they've identified
the root cause of the issue for pro and Afro on the other side.
What did your guys used to do on Game of Legends now?
Just a few experiences.
Was there a little bit of meditation going on?
Was it looking through the strats?
Was it just purely zoning out?
What were they doing?
I think not focusing on the game was the most important thing.
I don't overthink it, Chael.
I remember we'd used to play Nauts and Crossers with PR quite often.
That was a worry in because it was a worry in lack of draws going on, which should be
a draw in this game.
But yeah, just playing rock paper scissors, you're just sitting there waiting and there's
nothing worse.
even be cluster's human rights abuse now to have to sit there in silence nowadays in 2026.
I'm not sure so it's uh what it's just boring. How do you feel about I was thinking about we
banned these notes like players are not allowed to have notes on desks. Very hard to about that.
I think you I think you could I think you're just kind of lowering the level maybe a little bit.
I think you should like people aren't using them like they're only using them for like remember
certain parts of the rounds we don't have a strat worse everyone forgets to smoke and then
And Chad loses mind upstairs screaming and shouting, and we're thinking it's just a terrible game.
So usually it's just like, oh yeah, Nistra, I do this, it's like really basic.
So I think that it's just, it cleans parts of the game up.
Like I said, I was watching these 2020, sorry, 2013 demos.
My God, it was horrible.
No one knew any lineups or anything.
Sometimes you might have to take a screenshot of a smoke if you can't quite remember it.
You put it on the paper.
Is it Cluster's borderline on ethical to do this?
You know, it's also make for better counter-strike if the coach could talk all the time.
Yeah, should be allowed that remember those days remember those days you screwed that over for everybody by the way
I have no idea. Is it Navi?
Starex. Yeah, the first ones to do it, but oh no, it was because I think Navi made a roster change
so that
Starex could call rounds for them and they didn't have a proper captain
They just had like five fraggers right and he would be the ones telling them what to do and I was like
That was cool. That was cool. We love a pair of trucks.
This doesn't feel like, you know, how the game is meant to be played.
We're going to put the stop to this.
I remember the whole discourse at the time is talking about,
I'm not a sports person, shockingly, but American football,
I do run on my own. I don't do any team sport.
Maybe that's a better way to put it. I don't really watch any team sport either.
But in American football, correct me if I'm wrong,
the coach can chime in at some point.
I don't know how.
But that's great because the quarterback on offense and one of the defensive players,
they have a headset, a helmet that has a headset built in it.
And the way it works, the sort of play clock or the freeze time is 40 seconds, let's put
it that way.
And at the 15 second mark, it cuts off.
So for the last 15 seconds, your coach can't speak to you anymore.
So basically, and that's why for me, it was a cool idea that the coaches can speak in
freeze time because it would be similar, right?
The coach sends the call to the player, but then the player sort of there in the huddle,
he gives everyone the play, but then there's also an audible that he can make a change
to another play once he sees the defense, right?
Because you know, you can't just blindly call something, depends how your opponents are
playing.
That's kind of how it would be in Counter-Strike.
Your coach can tell you, hey guys, I want you to do, okay, you could call something
straight and just do it from spawn, but even in the D, you can say, I want you guys to
do this opening, I want to have, let's say, banana control, right? And then do a B execute.
But now the round starts, the coach can't talk, and then it's down to the IGLO. They
did something aggressive, and now we're in a 3v3, and he needs to come up with it on
his own. For me personally, that would be a nice balance. I don't see necessarily a
problem with that. It's not like the coach would have to make a call every single time.
Yeah, of course.
And it would maybe be somewhat chaotic, because now he wants to talk, but someone else is
also talking like it's also some protocols in the company as well. I can just make it quiet. I think to
find it's fantastic nearly every team nowadays, the coach does so much for them. But then when you
get to the tournament, the coach ended up in the game with the least amount of work you're in the
doing all year round. It's some strange, you know, like this is the thing you play for your practice
for and you sit there and then most of the time you monitor in because you only have three pauses,
you make sure people aren't tilted. You remind them a few details. Maybe there's a tactical tweak
in there, but it's not like it's 100%. It might be 50%, it could even be less some
games. So I get that. For me, I love American football because of that reason. It's like full
set play every round. There's like no defaulting going on in that game, but it makes them,
it's so organized and it's just nice to watch like the amount of trickery and things that
have on the coach is a little big and put on the timings and design and everything.
Lin Vizion also big fans of the F, but 95% of your job as a coach is done before the game goes
life. A lot of it is just creating good habits, instilling discipline, having protocols, and
how you do things in practice. When it comes to the Counter-Strike itself, it's a lot of
repeating the same until it becomes second nature for the players. That's why sometimes it's,
oh, what could they do differently? What is the problem here? Something like Team Liquid,
there's no changing this once the tournament starts. These are just all bad habits that have
Grab their way in ever since they got together
You know, this is something when if you're flash or you shoot like from day one like as soon as you join
Which sometimes maybe it's difficult for someone who's new to the role. I don't know or maybe isn't
Someone who it comes natural for you to be super strict
To the players, but it's like you need to nip this in the bud like it has to be known from day one
I don't care
What openings will have what is I just know that when you guys are in a 3v5 you're saving right like no one's going for it
You know when we're in a 5v3 we're not taking timings
We're not trying anything fine like that you need to start with that like Ash said the fundamentals the foundations because those are things
That's happened on every map on every side like doesn't matter
You know whether the map is T side at CT side at whatever like situational counter strike
You need to have that down to a T really if you expect to be
Competitive in today's game just to give you guys at home a quick update as well
I've just heard from production the ssd swap has indeed happened. It's looking better. So match fingers crossed may restart again
Imminently, it always sends everything now she shouldn't usually be that long and they want to test things
I'll put a live as well for a while. What are the odds that do now is actually I would say 80%
percent. You seem very relaxed almost too relaxed.
Imagine waking up and going, oh, counter throw time. Okay, back in the game. Ash, you said
Tick Tock earlier and I've got a bit of Tick Tock brain rot, so give me a day in the life
of Ash as a coach back on the day of the game of Legion, right? You're saying when it's
in the game, that's when you're doing the least work. Imagine it's a, you know, a regular
one best of three day for you guys. You're playing, I don't know, maybe the second game.
It's roughly four o'clock, maybe a perfect time.
Late game, late game, okay.
What did you prefer, actually?
What was better for the boys?
I mean, like I said yesterday,
for us it was better because we're in good habits
and we can get up early.
And like an 8 AM start was actually not that hard.
That's ideal, okay.
It's kind of bad when you fly two times over
from the UK and you start at 8 AM.
And then you're up at basically like five AM
in the morning, so that's a little bit weird.
But yeah, we were pretty good at those times, in general.
Okay, so you've got your optimum time game.
got maybe the first game. Let's say that. What are you doing? What's the what's the
regime before, during, and after the game?
So if it's the early game, we'd probably do operation in the evening, the night before,
which would be hectic because then you have less time to do all the prep. You go through
things together. You wake up in the morning, you go for breakfast together. You probably
go for a walk.
You're on the same table as well. That's important.
Very important. Very important. It's a playoff as far as we can. Every other team. If you're
from Poland, you're gonna sit with a Polish people. And they sit together. We'd probably
It must have been very lonely for you then, for a long time.
Nowadays it's not so bad, but for a long time, yeah.
And then we go for a walk, just to get some fresh air.
I mean, obviously when you're here on the PCs,
it's very stuffy and you don't get, like,
the high quality and it's first thing in the morning
and everything.
We do that, then we go outside at some point,
kick a football around with some of the worst footballers
I've ever seen in my entire life,
which struggled to get to five keepy-uppies.
It'd be a nightmare, I'd be losing my mind.
That's the reason I'm bald as well,
pulling my hair out, playing with keepy-uppies.
We do that for a while, we go through the papers again,
back inside of a team talk.
Finish play the map and after
the map would have probably
a post game meeting or
something. Watch the games
back. Do the prep for the next
day in Groundhog Day. I'm also
curious. Sorry. You know when
you get those seeding matches
where like in the old I what
not old I am format the non
major I am format. You have
top six, which means if you
top your group, you go straight
to semis. Um quarterfinal
opponent will be decided on
that Friday. Right? How do you
guys watch that Friday game?
live together. Is it something you go back and watch in hindsight, maybe through Skybox
or something else like that? Like, what's the, what's the kind of routine when you have
that quote unquote off day away from officials and you're waiting to find out your opponent?
I think mostly you probably just not focus on counter strike that much because it's
such like an intense period when you're away, just constant 100%. Your work mode, you don't
think about anything else. Everyone obviously a lot more pressure as well. You kind of want
to unwind a bit until you know, and I think then it would be more on the coach, the assistant
coach the analysts to start thinking about what's going to happen like you play this
team we're going to play this map let's watch our own map back change a few things ready
just in case and as soon as you know you're kind of a hundred percent working do it as
fast as you can try and get a little bit free time and then when everything's done you bring
the team back in so actually normally like there's been multiple times where the team's
in the pool or something and where upstairs at the pcs I can remember the Paris Major
the team every night was walking to the Eiffel Tower it was like an hour walk or something
I think I never left the hotel at any point. Just sat there and prepped.
Oh no.
Hashtag worth.
I'm curious, so if you have a late game, if you're playing a late game, do you play
a scrim during the day or no?
Normally no. But if it's a really late game maybe. I don't think, I don't find any like
value in it in general. Sometimes people say they want to feel warmed up, but then like
you come here, you stand around for an hour, you do nothing, you set up, you do nothing,
then the game goes to a third map, you do nothing. I don't find it much value.
Even if like, you know, you know the map then make your points are going to pick a map
That's like your fifth, but you know, it's just the matchup isn't good
And they're like gonna pick overpass and you're not great on overpass. So maybe you want to get one in there
That'd be situationally. So it's something like that. Yeah, I think one of the best examples of that is when
Both teams have the same ban and you think we're gonna be alpha today. We have one in that
We're prepared. We're prepared to play cobblestone simply brought into the map pool in the middle of tournament
We're ready for that. So I'm not playing my practice then. I don't think I was fooling anyone in practice
groups where I would say, you know, is looking for vertigo, you know, because we're playing
another team that perma bands it and just don't do anything. I mean, I've had it both
ways. Sometimes we would play. Sometimes you wouldn't. I think we stopped playing because
you do this one map just sort of to maybe go over things or you want that extra rep to
prepare. Maybe you added some new things to the playbook for that game. But then maybe
your opponents are gambit youngsters before they became gambit and they're just wrecking
you and running around and then everyone's losing confidence and everyone's getting
tilled during this one map of practice before the actual game that you have later on, they
were like maybe we'll stay away from these screams on match day.
Fingers crossed I'm hearing should be good in a minute, maybe less to be getting into
games, that's good news, we get to see a Demi was awake also, that's great, we get to see
the stretches too.
Do you think Afro ever had an Afro at any point?
Yeah, what does that name come from?
Siko, if you're hearing us, please be man on the ground and get the answer then.
Well, excuse me. I think he always wanted some.
Oh, sorry, it was, it was after your time, Rana.
I'm still alive, so I don't know what you mean.
You've ever crossed paths with him?
No, no, never. He was, I think he was in an academy team, I think he was.
Yeah.
But he kind of came up from nowhere a little bit, I feel like.
He was in the university scene. He either is, or he'd go to Lancaster Uni.
Yeah, it's 22, so maybe you should graduate.
I don't know he was telling me on media day that he carried his team in
Some uni tournament where the grand prize was an all expenses paid trip to I am crack out or I'm kind of eats it
Yeah, they won, but he couldn't go because he had a yeah
Is jack once preckles yeah your nickname that is it's me like you you could have done so much more with that
Do you know anything about him and his, uh, like, was he ever on the road off of you Ash at all?
No, I mean, he wasn't really an in-game leader until very recently.
No, it was kind of just a fragger who was okay.
I think it was, was it Monty? Oh, he's a Monty now.
What am I talking about? I think it was Monty for that long.
He was there as, oh, he was a Monty Academy, I think.
Yes, he was.
As a player.
And then he came up, he didn't do that well, and he's come back as an in-game leader.
That makes sense.
Okay. I understand though.
Yeah.
No, I don't remember.
I mean, people are saying like he's quite good, but I never really felt that he was good enough as a fragger,
as a fragger, but then in game leading actually looks like it's been pretty good so far.
That's pretty decent. Takes inspiration from Apex, I mean, obviously. You worked now in
this heyday of Apex.
That's a different meaning in the down there. It's crazy, like he set the meta really in
a way of having a in game miracle placed our positions, who's not like a mega fragger.
We hear analysts stop talk, so we stop talk and we give it back to the commentators. It's
time to get the action back underway.
We are finally back underway. We appreciate your patience. We're allowed one as it was
an extended tech pause.
Oh, look at this. They're even going to recap the pistol for us. B execute, stalled out
by a blocked smoke, double killed through the smoke from Gizmy, the man they were just
discussing the in-game leader. Two players from Legacy still able to invocate. A, get
the bomb down, and now that we're back in play, that's why you're going to see them
in with a duty-looking four-spy. Demow's no longer asleep. AK, Foulado, Demow with a
glill, and we're rushing. A, that's a fast donut smoke in the hands of Sads. And Rainwaker,
He's playing toolbox, he's getting here.
Okay, so is he gonna exercise some Trigger Discipline?
He's gonna let them past.
Art parting forward, could clash with Afro first.
Trigger Discipline, important, integral from Rain Waker,
but they're far behind, and he's a dead man.
Oh, he's still a just one to do now.
It's good info, Art causing chaos in Donut,
but Azulis stops him from finding a second.
The bomb is planted by Sadzid.
He's been breached, and you've got the bomb down.
After winning the pistol, Monti feel like
they have to convert this one.
Don't see a kit.
You're on a bite on time already.
He takes the headshot fight with Nysim and a quick click on the galil.
Looking very good. Looking too easy. Clean from legacy.
They had plenty of time to think about the call.
And it's a pacey eight to completely nullify the pistol win from Monty.
That's coming to cover off a little topics there.
One of them being just sitting and being iced out.
We've got four major rookies on the side of the server for Monty.
for Monty. So coming out of that straight into what is an A rush, you don't even get a moment to
breathe, even though you just had probably about, I wasn't keeping tabs, but maybe 10-15 minutes at
that. Maybe more. But that one was very in your face and fire and ice with the pace of Monty we
saw against Big a little bit earlier in the tournament with the way we know legacy play and
they're doing a repeat call, rushing A again, the exact same round. I mean it's just the perfect
call, no one's here. This time no tall box play from Rain Waker. Oh, two opportunities on the
the deal from our flow we won't get many more. Yeah well if you miss your CT smoke we're
going to give him over those chances but as they say still replace it and it doesn't
look great for this full investment you might want to save and I think that's exactly the
call just try and have a second bite of the cherry here into the fourth round of play.
This is going to piss you off a little bit if you're Monty you win that pistol you were
just hoping to keep carrying that momentum through and now it's just been taken away
from you. This is possibly the worst way things are going to best of one. And now if you really
wanted to ruin the atmosphere. You make a remark that pins the blame on Afro for his PC not working.
That's how you really sour the mood. I don't think Duma has that nuance in his roles. They
tend to just be loud. Nice PC, Afro. You know, something like that. Yeah, that would probably
annoy me. Well, to get to this point, we had Monty Taitao big in that opening game on Mirage.
They had the barn burner against G2. That was 22.19 in favor of G2. Also on Mirage and Hunt.
No, it's not going to find the final. So they do get to carry through an M4 legacy to this point opening game lost to MIBR on nuke
They they aim they just went hitting as hard as they traditionally would on the legacy side of the server
MIBR coming in warmed up from stage one and then fly quest
Okay
My hands hurt after that one your hand is hurting and that's a take a pause
Okay, the other we have is a first restarting his game. He's adding his launch option. So this is where
The mental side of Counter-Strike becomes the conversation that was the key word I think
The options don't really do much
No, but they do for the mental. Yes, but everything is the same as it would be if you're playing in the environment of your home
I mean even just playing with a skin. You're not used to you can get into your head. You know, yes
So he's got a rickus here
He has he's gonna have to reconfigure everything get everything right tickety-boo and and the thing is he was trying to fix
whatever the problem was and
Then he's fixed them and then had to jump straight back in and this is probably still weighing on his mind
Well, everyone else sure has just been sitting idly by a little bit more in the dark
It's it's gonna have a bigger impact on Monty than it is on legacy. Don't you worry about that? Is that there's no like
There's no easy way to shake this off.
Well, you can't leave.
You can't go outside, watch your pace, reset, go in the sun, have a chat.
This is it.
You're locked in for now.
Like 20 press-ups, you know?
Just reset the physical and the mental.
But this is when you're at the mercy of what's going on in your head.
And it was a hard skill to master.
It's not something that even some of the very best have full control over.
It's something that it can just get the best of you, especially the best of one in
You know, like it's losing a second round for us by that's already kind of putting a mark against Monty's chances of winning this ancient game
This was was relatively clean
Obviously if they denied the bomb going down in that situation then they would have gone up against an eco or I'm sure they would have found
Something to drop to art to be a little bit crazy with but it would be too much easier situation to handle and now with all the steam taken out of the room
I
Obviously the games just started but it feels like it's gonna be tough to see Monty recover from this
I hope they do as mentioned they had that banger against G2 yesterday
And this is where you know if you had a super vet on the team like Bemis is the only one that's attended major before
Like I don't think he can fall out. Yeah, that's a coach then so maybe
Cacophony needs to make a take take a time out
I like that go straight from tech to tech and I mean I wouldn't necessarily put too much into it
Just like a 10 seconds of like guys
It's like that you understandably are frustrated all your feelings are valid
But if you hold on to them and carry them into ancient we are going to lose you have to be able to reset
It feels like this is more than launch options if I'm going to be honest with you
I don't think you need it and tournament management member to assist
So we might get the desk back at some point not right now. I can see that Moses and Dinko
Heading back to the green room to potentially restock
So that tells me that the game on the B stream is likely done with Astralis versus Tyloo
So I can't even tell you to head over there to check that out
I don't want to spoil you the result, even though the producers just said in my ear.
Oh, Alex and I, we don't do it. We play a large noise. Alex, the noise is...
Wee-hoo!
Wee-hoo!
...stolen that one from Karrigan. Hopefully, he does allow us to use that.
Actually, that's more of like a machine variant on the Karrigan, you know, it's like...
No, it's a remix.
Yes, it is a remix.
So, the desk was talking about obviously not being able to talk during these situations
and being iced up. We obviously know that the coaches are under more restrictions in
terms of the emotions that they can show.
the fun, fun story. Um, so my favorite kind of many men and I've told this story before
you will have heard it. Okay. So it's just for the new years really. So back in back
in ancient history, uh, we were playing a, this is when the major course qualification
system was miners and the minor was in South Korea. Uh, and coaching was still, I wouldn't
say it was in infancy, but it definitely wasn't as prioritized as it is in the modern
game and our coach at the time, we had PK and we were in these large booths that we were
playing in and they had connected the coach to TeamSpeak via a laptop which was wirelessly
connected. Now we're in a booth, so obviously there's a lot of things between.
Yeah, like obstruction.
Exactly.
For the signal.
So that game had an awful lot of technical timeouts because what would happen is when
we took a timeout to talk to the coach, which was a different format of timeouts back then
too, you'd have, you know, different, different timeout rules.
Yeah.
It would end up having his voice come through all at once, and it would happen sometimes
like mid-round and stuff.
So we talked very lengthy timeouts because I'm sitting there thinking to myself, I'm
not going to, you know, have their tech issues affect our game.
And then after they introduced a rule where you couldn't talk to each other.
Oh, that was the origin.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to report it looks like the round four of our opening best of one on the last best of ones is going down right here and now.
I just...
It's gonna be tough for Afro. He's gonna need a good round also to pull him into the game.
Even just like a double D USP here on the eco.
That might fill you with a bit of confidence that everything's kind of working and functional.
Fred Wake is dead.
There he is.
to get to any damage. Melted to death. This one is just going to be a farm fest. It's
going to be the guns coming out into the next. If your legacy is not hugely important to
keep it clean, but if you want to make it a quick game, make sure money doesn't become
a problem. And if it's very alive as possible, as the zoo was hands away with the 5.7 doesn't
connect the dots. Afro picks up that M4 and BMS is over towards CT spawn. So Afro is going
me to find a safe haven, but we'll call this a three one start in favor of legacy.
If you're coming into this, I would have had us to say heavy favor.
Yeah, I mean, that's what we did.
Heavy favorites.
Heavy favorite.
But then again, I would have had G2 as heavy favorites and they went into like
what double OT or whatever it was.
It was crazy.
Cause I'm watching that game, that first half of play, even though it ended up,
I believe seven five.
It felt more like a nine three type of half.
So Monty did very well to push a close game and they were in very winnable
positions once it got extremely late.
Gives me going for knife kills.
Yes, yeah that little spaffer is about to burn in.
I don't mean to amuletab, I mean internally.
Oh god, that's a dark way to go down.
That's a horrible combination of different stimuli.
Yeah.
It would compound, I think, unless you've got, I don't know, a steel brain.
So he's not going to be able to bring out the AWP going into the first rifle rounds.
Legacy not impacted at all by these stop-start timeouts.
It is going to be M4 heavy for Monty.
There's no timeout called either. I would really as a coach just want to get in there even if it's just some
reassuring words
But cacophoon might be confident these boys being able to dig themselves out. I mean give them the first gun right?
I suppose let's see right okay guys. We just had a fucking push you should unlucky
Yeah, they felt very quick when you came back to the game again, but we need to reset instantly here games and
Unfortunately, we lost this round. We move on. Okay, it's we're still we're still in the fucking game. Okay guys, like let's go
Let's get the right words from gizmy. It's more about the belief right you need your team. It's actually buy into that
Okay, nice little protocols for a lane at take
I've got some info and it's channeling them in towards be massive. Just trying to replenish the donor smoke
Do they want to walk through that?
You've got one in a main and very little
Form of guards on a rain waker taking down doom out and getting away is a great position with being a see
They're gonna try and back to art in red. Yeah, okay. He's a dead man
Lovely productivity from Monty. The bonsai is lost. They know they might be in Donut.
This one has a smoke. Where's he going to use it? Is it CTO Donut? Donut would be ideal, but he doesn't know that.
I'll take the headshot instead. Damn, a dink from Naffro though. Soften them up for the rest of them.
Deep Donut smoke.
This one onto Rain Waker confirms that Zulu's in temple as well. This one feels like they're losing their grip.
They did fake the plant though, Sadson's going to go for it, an easy one for two,
where the four, two hard, Latto's done well, as has Sadson, Bimas, saves Monti.
Combs a little bit off there for Legacy, because Sadson worried about Temple when, oh maybe
the kill came in and they weren't quite sure where Bimas found the first, but either way,
Monti an important one to bounce back in the early stages, without a kit in that scenario
you're thinking, the longer they take you in this, it's going to be another round for
Legacy, but they do just keep it to a one round game, there's plenty of money for Legacy,
legacy to come back in with the buys. Rainweaker does well there, considering he overlooks
the player on the flames in red. Doesn't see what he was hoping for. Listen, warding
them away from Temple with multiple kills. This flash comes through too easy for a Zoomer.
Probably was good for the second. And this was the science that, oh no, Lado knew, so
the comms just a little bit late there so they're not clicking immediately and Afro
letting out some noise. So if they can stabilize them when this one will give them, well, maybe
not a better buy going to the next game. Are they going back to a fast A play?
It's got a different variance.
It's gonna peak here.
Break the smoke.
Nothing pressing forward yet.
Second break.
Beatmus will respect it.
Swings as their smoke.
Once again masks his vision.
Full B lane control right now.
That's valuable.
Oh my god.
Straight through the smoke.
Lato has just completely smoked.
Spam Gizby out of the round.
Well that's unfortunate.
They still have the territory regardless of the death.
the death the problem is I wasn't said rain waker was still looking like he's
cheating towards middle he's wary of this possibility replenish of the smoke
and thinking that no one's crazy enough to walk through this well there's one
man who might start in the dark back now is art juggling the u2 art making this
mid-round call with a minute on the clock but it looks like this will still be
the a finish BMS worms his way into donut and waker is gonna now dip into
temple and he'll get there in time so the shadow shouldn't cause him to me
issues can he get out to the big box that's the question smoke fading now
Now, just in time, just in time, Rain Waker drops in, now he will have flames at his feet
to contend with, dips away from Sansen's scope.
Four-five man commitment, eh, meh.
Just Rain Waker, and he's gone.
Sansen takes him off, off that temple line.
Beam ass ahead of the donut smoke, but yes, him up and over in an arc, swinging with the
flash, he's a very well-structured user.
Flash, who now covers him?
Let's see if I can control this away, boys.
Oh, plant's not dead yet.
Can we get him off the bomb now? 15 seconds.
He has something to work with. If you can keep it hectic,
Dooma's going to try again.
Looking for a safe place to plant CTs.
An option to spam.
He has to get the bomb planted.
No one can knock him off Aphros in CT.
Good grief, they run it down.
And they might even start hunting now.
Look at the radar, bodies moving.
Trying to rip this out of the hands of Aphros.
who's just looking for a safe haven. Diving over towards B. Sliding down to B.
That happens. Pretty bit full. Let's do him out. We'll confirm. They've wiped the board
and it's gonna have to be a partial now for Monty 2-4. There's that first
tactical time that we were discussing. Kakafu's probably gonna be saying more
the same as what we heard from Gizmi. Just getting everybody mentally right.
They know that this won't be a buyer of your purchase coming into the next with
the loss bonus. That 2400. That's even tougher for him, right?
that people might have seen on Twitter here taking out saying listen I've been warned for showing too much emotion we discussed this a little bit earlier
Yeah, so I just
Reinforcing the rules that Valve have put in place
It's a Valve sanction event. We're gonna do it their way. That's why we have 10k overtime money for example
Where otherwise we could work from 12 and a half
That's the way she goes
Now this is ancient and even if you end up with a 6 6 half or even a losing half in the best of one of a 5 7
Still think you're okay with the pistol conversions, right?
Okay, a strong group.
I have translation for everybody there.
Come on, pack for a link.
Well, there's a stack over towards B, just rain waker on the A side.
All you need for this to become the Monty stack is you have to win a pistol round with it.
Let's see how this goes. They're gonna get some contact
Found it
Africa gets one and Azumu another so the jig is up and a third kill from Azumu's USP
Or rather a second from Azumu for the Monty rain waker caught out by Nism's patients
But Azumu with a recovered AK and a huge one
That's it
Oh, he's hit him with the glock headshot
An opportunity did present itself a smile creeps what does that in space? He knows he got away with some in there
Yeah, it might look casual at the end of things, but that's damn dicey. That's very good output there on the USPs at good eco
Is it enough to call it the Monty stack? Well, of course the Monty gang
I'm happy with them standing a 4-1 and actually extrapolating something there
But I also understood that as soon as legacy spot the USPs in the standard like we're just gonna kill them
Right, let's not overcomplicate this but as soon as it gets down to that 2v2 the reroute necessary for legacy after it does get
He's all okay first all of the CT half-round eight second time
We're seeing legacy attempt this right to set up but saddened playing deep in the elbow corner as opposed to on the line to catch them
So doing it on a little bit of a later timing, but they can see no one's jumped up
Oh, who was still able to snatch away the first? That's outrageous
So it's that Afro catches up gives me gonna be walking on down the ramp as well
That's who seems to be well aware of this play loses control
Perfectly return his crosshair after the empty flash swish the mouse got a lot of space here as it was above him
is it worth possibility? Well here's now Rainwaker will farm that one up and now it's just Nysim
a one man and a dream and a 1v5 with a minute and 10 left on the clock. How much damage can he do?
This is where all those kills on the USPs in the previous starts to make a dent in the money of
legacy. I'll still be able to buy into the next. It's about hopefully taking that away before the
lost bonus complements where the money's at. This will be that third unless something goes very wrong.
It's been just want to head over and pick this one up see if I can make it a teen ace
It's so fast and so we're shooting from a zoo. We're still
Might be able to take a look at a future round if we can grab it in a pip of how this guy moves his mouse
It's it's quite a odd orientation
As you will take him down so there you have it
Sick boys, let's go.
Nice and queasy.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
It was that.
Zoo with proactivity on cave.
I love this.
I mean, very early doors.
Notice he has the double nape break on elbow.
Again, he goes hunting for it.
Fine sats him through the smoke.
There's a lot of money to go around for legacy,
but Art has still opted to ship in here with a Mach 10.
He definitely could have had an AK.
So let's see, I would say, action on Art in terms of pace.
He's just going to run out middle here, potentially.
Okay, I'm just going to test the Util to approach Kors, Gizmy and Beemas throwing out their HEs.
Art 50 HP, he's got the class he wanted. Rain Waker and Beemas bleeding. Do now trading.
Pushing Red Smoke off the Flash, but Gizmy couldn't stop Beemas from being caught out.
Lato's already starting to apply the pressure on A with that corner CT smoke.
And if you get your ult towards Temple Line, that's going to really nullify Donut.
Look at Sabs, he already scoped up on the line.
Who is Likes when I'm interested in?
A good point, yeah, he is on his way.
Can't stop the plant.
A little late on the flame.
Lattice holding for this.
Oh, a Zulu!
Rex House!
Quick double!
Awkward façade's in surrounded.
One from every vantage point.
They're closing in on him.
Afro on site.
The uncrouch could be the death of him.
Nice shots.
Quick on the draw, and it's Monty for four.
Beautiful stuff there from the Zulu.
Just the pace on that flank, right?
The brawling in mid, it gives me as well.
Just him running through the red smoke.
It was always risky, but he mops up the mess in middle.
And you can understand that call coming out from Art,
because in the two rounds where they send the AWP of Sands
into pick and look for the Heaven fights,
nobody was scaling.
So Art said, well, if they're not going to try and block the choke,
let's take the space.
This one here as he pops up, and shoots Sands on his arse,
and we're very well done.
I'm liking the fact we're seeing Monty recover
from what could have been a very dark day.
I'll get the Maktan again.
They are starting to break through this big bank of cash, and they tie things up right here, right now, Monty.
You will win out the financial war. It's been a long one, but it's only 2400 for legacy going into the next.
If you can deny that plant, you set yourself up for a potential server.
And what a recovery it will be. In the halftime, the amount you begin up the boys with the problems that persisted in this one.
And Afro is not an anchor, I don't mean that in position, I mean in terms of dragging the
team down, he's been able to find contributions here, all posted on Cave.
Oh, that's in two mines.
Double HG, Molly and Afro.
I don't know, he wanted to stick around for it, but that's half health.
Even the cave space do mount in Red Room, being as responsible for the slip.
They've gone for a rather deep ramp smoke there.
Look at the U2 to finish for legacy. We have about 45 left on the clock. It's just a handful of smokes, a flash, a HE.
Sadzen rotating back towards middle, loudly to respawn.
None of them have lane control, so he can't be heard. Rain Waker pushed in main.
Love this angle. I absolutely adore it.
It can be difficult if Nism's loud.
He's actually pathing close. This is the perfect counter. What awareness from Rain Waker?
Waker, at least the info flows, but it still favors legacy for getting that bomb down.
Arts on site.
Doom Alming goes to cut the rotations.
He did miss that smoke, it's making life difficult for Sadzin.
Ah, but Aphro is sticking around to catch Doom Alming.
Nice catch from Gizmin, catches him on the way out.
Now, they're kind of boxed in.
You don't feel safe in Donut because there's someone through mid.
You try to find him.
Gizmin, just by surviving, makes it so uncomfortable for them as the main body of the assault comes
in through CT.
Mag 10, one and done. Just the two of them both in donut, Gizmy taking his time.
Speaking of, that time is ticking. Kits are present. It's a nice shot from
Sads in back. Catching them removes Afro. Gizmy's gonna have to close the gap now.
Lato responsible for one side. Gizmy versus Sads and on the other,
B must completely overlook the idea of Lato and Gizmy down to Lato to close.
Legacy takes six. That was a hectic round with a lot of moving pieces.
the key there is Lado's position not being noted. Red defy detoxing, he doesn't take
a peek there. Only know about Sads and Endona. They're so worried about him potentially being
big box or main thinking they're just going to play the bomb and then peek out after the
fact. So Lato just by not showing himself and using the bomb as that sixth man is the
unknown that wins the round. You could just see Beemus had no idea where the last member
was. Not even hindsight, from X-Ray we see exactly what's going on but lacking that information
was Monty.
Wow, that's a good shout-out.
That's enough for the best move, it is not playing.
The zoo will be getting fresky early.
We're going to pop up here now.
I know that they've got second timing mid-control, so this B site is free.
It's brilliant.
What a horrible feeling, forgive me.
He's just got two smokes either side of it, assuming the cave does.
Manage to remove R easy.
This thing's going to try and relinquish some of that cave space from the CTs.
There's a large of flashbangs, and the bot's still not planted.
Dumau catching flat from the MP9, another fake path from Santa pulls out the incendiary from Afro.
They've got their man advantage, but these smokes are fading.
Look at a bit hectic now.
Santa punching in that toe, the wallbang.
Oh, brilliant!
Gizmy actually finishes off the job, but it was Beema as they did it.
A lot of the damage.
Beema's on the Lato.
Okay, Dumau.
Nothing really he can do apart from go for a wallbang. Hail Mary.
This would have to be huge.
It's just an open plan. Now they know where he is.
He's running down here. Rain Waker will find the final, and that is a TMA, so everybody contributing to make that one possible.
It would have been an assist if it was being massed. Excuse me.
Yeah, he was planning open side.
So Gizmy's just USP'd him just four or five bullets to the body.
So just a one round gap now. Monty, again, it's all about the recovery from them.
Timeout call from Legacy ADR on the mic.
with another Mac 10. You can get that call as well because of what legacy are
identifying in the way that Monty have been approaching middle or not
approaching middle, it's how they're able to make some of these calls. But if
they're going to take this second timing mid control, which we just saw them go
for there, then it's likely that the B side of the map is going to be weak. And I'm not
talking cave, right? I'm talking up the ramp. If teams want to play full press for
mid and they're playing heavy cave, heavy mid, it's normally just one man tasked
with holding on to B. And in this case, it was just a Zewer from cave who does
very well to chip away with the first one two three four five good stuff there
from the other couple of nice skills of the USP to a smoker in that same
position so now the buy is compromised for legacy the fact that they were able
to not eco this entire half is a bit of a luxury this one is the worst buy we've
seen from legacy of the half it's a galil that's the top end it's a p250 that's
the bottom this is gonna seven it's gonna feel like a victory for Monty if they
They can lead with a 6-6 half.
He's spotted R.
Spots Lato controls the spray, Dumau trades.
That's a big one back.
Azuma was trying to accelerate in.
Now it's Afro versus R.
And now pressure has been spotted.
Running up the ramp is Dumau.
So uncomfortable for Afro.
There's not much he can do, but Tracksat's in!
And the chance of block comes alive.
Rey wake attacked up from the spam through the smoke.
Dumau will finish off the job.
Feel like Dumau has been getting a lot of these,
these like kind of trade frags in the chaos.
He's gonna be in Trac, Tim.
This is one of the rounds.
Yeah off the back of the legacy timeout. Oh, this is for the half looks like seven is all they need is
Oh, this one goes down. He's me the 1v3
Really do anything about this
It's picked up the upgrade of the corpse of Afro things are going. Hey because didn't spot them on the side
Returning business music for our seven to five. Okay, legacy have the lead but Monty have recovered a very frustrating and difficult
To mulch you a start. It was a five to two score line. That's relatively recovered
There's the flash, that's gonna catch creeps out, they're gonna push up through, FBK gets one, but creeps are just waiting up to get down the triple!
A fanatical not done yet!
Can you believe it?
Okay boys, this is the fucking major. The mental shit cannot be in front of us, okay? Please reset. Rain, we got you, okay?
No, what's the problem? We're throwing the fucking cake?
It's okay, it's okay. Rain, we got this, okay? Relax. You need to reset right now. It's the major, okay? It's the major reset. We got this, okay?
Everything is fine. Listen to each other. Play with each other. That's the only thing we need to do here.
But we need to be here for each other. Let's enjoy the fucking moment. It's not over. We can win this. Okay?
Let's go. Come on. This is them. That's the time where it matters
They'll sneak peek there from cacophoon just given the boys exactly what we were talking about
Someone needed to kind of shake them and make sure that they didn't lose the mental battle
I don't like to talk back rain waker, but I do like the sense of it
Even though people might say that's just a bunch of platitudes
Cliche's he's bang on right? He's matters in the now
No point bitching a moment you deal with what you got and you give it your all
That's an intermain, the juggling user for an A fake, that's a spot of this early, he didn't see the bombs, they don't know the commitment, there's still 3 strong on B legacy, do now with red control, so they have a lot of information legacy.
And it's nearly crashes under the crosshair of Satsyn to provide an opening kill.
It's a swift kill, that's gonna lead to such reactions, look at do now, making a move, you till dumbed, don't let smoke, CT smoked, it might pull even more.
They're not buying it, they're not buying it.
Oh, you're right.
Your mouse played ahead, he knows it's a fake. Just the round change now.
I don't know, you spot multiple bodies, you start putting more damage down range, maybe Art does start to move, maybe Latto recedes from the site.
The fact that there were multiple bodies, it's got them in second guessing.
They haven't planted yet, that's what's concerning right now.
Mism can still win the round from this position.
Yeah, he's tucked on Kirby, you can't operate it, the assumption is completely gone.
There's a clean click, Doomouse found both of the players on A, it is comfortable for Latto onto Rain Waker.
That is a sinking feeling in the stomach of Monty.
Okay, well the confidence there not to fall for that even after losing sads and in main just not seeing enough right?
It's just as you were taking that fight on his own and then as do now plays through
He doesn't get all the information right? He doesn't see the bomb. Well actually by not getting all the information
That's kind of all the information
Dude head over and mop up the mess and then they win the fights on both sides
So you can have them both you're not getting the bomb down and now you're gonna be taking an eco with just a flash
So sticking to the guns there and not over-rotating
That's the key to successful legacy and that one is warming out middle. They're ahead of the smoke now
It's just these glocks. It should be a mow down between the likes of I was gonna say nissan and doomow
But no, it's just rotated away at least for the time being and for any spots them all and little cops of dick for his troubles
He's under a lot of pressure as they run his way. Nissan can't shave anyone off the pack
I'm still not worried about this.
Yeah, if anything, Art's just licking his lips for that MP9 to farm up a couple of them.
Doing some good damage with the Glocks.
Yeah, two of them are low.
I mean, a bomb plant's not out of the realms of possibility if you can finish off Doom
out.
Ow!
What a shot!
One bullet, all it takes to remove Azumu.
That's an M4 into the hands of Beemass.
I guess this is economical damage if you can find a couple more.
Needs to be precise on the five bullets.
Oh.
You know, R is low, and likely to play first is R, and especially wants to have that Intel
fifty-six of them on the box, but now he will need to get that reloading.
Just two more bullets, and definitely, so, well, Emus goes down to Lado, the M4 scavenged
back, and considering how much space those blocks got, legacy will be happy just with
one casualty.
Now, the gun's out for Monty.
It's tough when you're a coach, right?
Because all you can do is, he's saying all the right things, he's saying all the right
things.
Yeah, a lot of the coaches tend to be, you know, 10 years older than the players, you're trying to ground them in reality, right?
You deal with young men who get very frustrated. This game, I understand it's not just the mental.
It's about what you can actually put in the server, but the mental, if it clouds, yeah, it can take control.
This is looking very B-poppy, so just going to establish lane control first,
making sure they don't get a barrage through a broken heaven, smoking a fight their way, and now into item ladder they go.
Okay, okay, smoke off the ramp and B-mass.
Huge entry.
Really nice headshot for moving art as well.
Put some on the back foot here, but it's Rain Waker funding Doom now.
And with Matto, putting up a bit of a fight on the long side,
he's making life miserable for them, gives me going down as well.
Beamers though.
To the edge of that smoke and Satin's got him up close.
Nice shot from the sniper, puts us into an advantage.
Once more for legacy, a recurring theme.
We're gonna have to fight.
It's going to fade in.
Swing it on the flame, but Satin's posted up.
As soon as we would be a dead man if he swung.
This is the key to this.
Yeah, up the ramp for the seal of the deal.
Like a one, hang on, missed off shot now, Nysim.
The key to all of this is a 1v1.
Azubu wins these.
And Nysim's going to understand the situation here.
He's just trying to cut him off at the pass.
Oh, Azubu going red.
Spotting up.
Oh, the info gets a bit of damage onto Nysim.
It's a 1v1 with 45 seconds, but it's just a bare knuckle brawl
in middle.
Six bullets on Nysim and Azubu.
He saved Monty from conceding 10.
That's massive.
And that is a huge round. And the fact that he has decided to take the heads up fight in his mind there, he knows that Nyssen has to read on the most likely play.
If he just runs into the site, Nyssen's going to get to Donut at about the same time he's planting and then as soon as the bomb goes down, he's going to feel like he's trapped in the default box.
So instead, he takes the heads up fight, not exactly what Nyssen was ready for.
And Waker, that's a very important kill there on T2 now.
So he's able to deliver a juicy multi there, and Azubu absorbs the deal.
Money. There you go. That is a round to get excited about if you give me.
Yeah, just don't fumble against this cobble together by.
These are the harder rounds.
More options when there's lighter weaponry, more risks.
You've heard a P250 and an M4 cave.
Well, they've got their net, right?
Rainweather worried about the AMA, push, BMS in combination with the Zulu for the mid-control.
Gives me working on the cave space.
So they are connecting and then Aphra just has to worry about the ramp.
This is Retake Cave Utility. This one will land lane, they flash for, they take the flight.
This is completely blind, beautiful setup to regain control of the cave position and
smoke balloons and you scavenge for Galil. This is lovely team play. Utility, well utilized,
completely obscured from the HG as well, just tucked on the wall.
Look at the nades now for legacy. Excuse me. Oh wow. And we only have 55 seconds.
How uncomfortable.
This is now just becoming a contact play. You're gonna have to group up and hope you
trade out. Sadzen, with all of the A main space, means that even if you do go donut
to A, you're gonna have to worry about so many different angles and possibilities.
So, silently trying to sleep over towards that side of the map, Rainwaker putting up
a bit of a fight, doesn't want to just be bullied by Art's spam.
Nice and floating CT, worried about red.
Satsen coming back to help A, he's just clear depay mate.
Like you highlighted, this is...
effective way to get the bomb down without the nades.
Bats him.
Nice, he's in the perfect angle.
If you expose your head, he'll get a freebie onto a Zulu.
Now hectic, Satsen and Afro.
So, hang on a second.
Just enough time to get that bomb planted.
Three versus three, but you want worse for where you eat the flash.
Afro's gonna get swung upon our...
Oh, Vision just restored in time.
Stands his ground, do him out next up, and they've got him.
What a recovery.
Incredible turnaround.
Really looked like Legacy were going to make it really difficult with Nysim's position.
He learned how to roar again if he gives me just one of the financial battle in this second half of play.
Like, Saturn in a main, and Nysim CT, it looked like you were cooked.
And with the amount of time on the clock there as well, so some very important kills coming out from Monty.
One goes the wrong way in that scenario, they end up losing this round.
So legacy applied the pressure. They had a good move
But outmaneuvered
Seven posted on the board from Monty now
Probably goes down with a ship but his second completely blind there over towards that default box
Thanks production we were so close all we need to do here is
Turn the page, all right. Well, we'll find out together. This one. Yeah. Yeah completely blocked
It's a great camp for this. And just as the flash fades, he hands the vision,
Art swings out and removes. So, stable stuff there from Afro.
He didn't panic. He didn't go, I'm blind, I'm gonna run, I'm gonna be a headless chook.
He just said, if you want to kill me, you gotta take me out of this spot.
He's clear.
They haven't forced around it, but Art has a swag.
Of course he does. Alright, Azul.
Watch out, there's a shotgun coming your way.
He's got support from Gizmy, but not anymore.
The Mag7 does feast. Get to himself one.
I think with the way Azul has been playing, Gizmi would gladly lay his life on the line for that trade.
And if you want to fight again, Azul is in the perfect position.
Flops out to the pistol, unable to handle Lato's trade.
That's an again in deep, eh, man? We've seen this a bunch of times.
Now, the bombs scooped up from Afro, they're looking to pivot back in towards his A-split against.
The biggest issue for Afro is if he does go A-main, he will have to clear out Sadsen.
Does he want to try and hedge through middle, but then he'll need assistance to do with Heaven?
Afro vs. Satsen here and it should be our easy pick-ins for the AK-47 advantage.
While the timing there favouring Afro massively sads and essentially caught in no-man's land without push,
for Dumount and Lato, they might just want to consider the save with this.
Understandably, they are going to go into the buy for the next one 2400, but they will be lacking.
So these two guns, we're worth an awful lot in terms of util around them.
Well, maybe not. I thought that they just want to hold on to it, so...
Backing their aim.
Lato, he acknowledges the presence of that AK and probably wants to pick it up, but...
...he's behind the Tetris box.
You got a HE, BMS, so you're not tempted?
Double HE in behind the box?
I just don't think they know who he's gotten off to.
Yeah.
I didn't have enough vision to know if he had scampered away.
Rainmaker would love an upgrade as well, off of the Galil, and now Lavin starts to play.
He'll get one, and...
...on your instruction, that HE could just do the job.
BMS wants to deal with the bullets and will.
So sure, it becomes a little bit costly, gives me can get a drop from one of his teammates,
likely Bemis, who has 4k after the YouTube comes in, but we do have just a one round
gap.
So Monty have really called them back into this and this is their biggest spree of rounds
so far, three consecutive on this tee side.
Now AWP available for legacy.
Let's start with what looks like a staunch defence mid.
Dumau and Nyssen piling forward.
Molly H.E. Combo to stall the play.
He's missed the boost there, Dumau.
Okay, look at this.
They're just on his screen.
He must get some hangtime onto the frag.
Controls the spray, removes Nyssen.
This is an A-play.
Gizmy's already out.
Can't really take him to space.
How much really he's got?
Look at this.
Just stampeds out a maze.
Sadson will not be ready for this.
He's hearing Sadson as well.
Yep.
He's going to be able to relay.
One towards B.
Just like Gizmy play.
Right at the moment, he said, boys, just chill.
Let me take the next contact. Then you can explode out. Amen.
He can clear the sign on his lonesome right now.
Just pause.
Dumas coming back.
Gizmy.
This is both.
I think he times up.
Oh!
They're out of their heads. Two for one. Special.
Gizmy's proud to be in.
That was stunning.
Got all the intel he needed from his teammates,
that legacy we're fighting middle, right?
And when you tend to do that,
you're either playing 3B or 3Middle, right?
When you're going for that type of press.
So they get the info, the other fights,
that they win out that fight,
and it gives me just takes all that space.
What a play from the in-game leader,
and this is to tie things up.
Hammers to have been a horrible jump scare for Legacy.
Had no idea someone could have gotten behind enemy lines,
and this is a hunt now.
They are trying to take it all away.
Makes your next round so much easier.
They are encroaching,
creeping and crawling to take it all away
from Lato and our Legacy.
lose it all a nine nine scoreline and a broken bank balance right they said
those two guns they like to go with the option where okay we got the two
safety and force to take a part by before buying to the next now you don't
really have any way right this is where we could have the classic art move
where he goes hey listen someone dropped me an M4 recently crazy but with the
time out coming through the second legacy so far there's a knockout blow
highlander yet. Shazen has absolutely no idea how that's possible.
Insane from Von Spreckelsen.
So it's likely, uh, we do see a legacy just take a light investment.
They get the max loss of 3400 into the next and those upgrades, well they're actually pretty deadly, right?
The 5.7 up close and personal. There's a beast and aren't in with the shotgun again.
The key for me is not just the upgrades, but these smokes
So Monty when you get blocked you wait it out. What do you call their bluff break with an execute coming behind it?
Me as he made there he gives me
I'm a shotgun flash for
That's what I got really wrong. They missed their molly. They had to run through that
They are very fortunate to get away with that one
Oh dear, do my court, yeah, just walk in, in the open, easy thing for Afro, but yeah, there was ways that could have got a whole lot worse for Monty.
Gotta admire the commitment, if Gizmy's committing so does UwU.
Sadz is gonna get his AWP next round at least.
So that is something to keep in mind.
It matters as we've seen him with a 5-7 in A main.
It's actually ridiculous within this half, but that's what happens when you've only got two to your name.
And it was the pistol under conversion.
But this one's just about putting it in.
Simple stuff.
Short smoke, long smoke, site molly, and away they go.
As it will activate later cave.
Rainwalker walking up into the site with the assistance of Bemis.
And we know this one is done.
So how does an Enysim get them an upgrade? Can they
chip away, grab an AK,
carry that into the next just to give themselves a boost from the fire depth power department?
This round we've got a mark.
Five consecutive from the T side of Monty.
And the first time I've seen him in the meat.
Enysim?
Yeah, he's getting cheeky around the smoke.
Very diligent stuff, I will say, from Monty.
when they executed sight there they were clearing everything out before going for the immediate plant
so they don't want to give over any opportunities and now as well saving together right they're all
evacuating for the save save point i know that sounds ridiculous but these are the basics that
you want to see it's we know when people talk about polish it's like you had a man advantage you
didn't like rush really nearly into anything you didn't get caught out i think the understanding
needs to be that even though each of these rounds are played separately they all have
flow on effects to one another right and if you give anything over if you give
anything extra it can be used against you I guess let's see if you're right
don't think they're gonna fight mid does that mean he wants to yeah this is one
of the things ready you could take it off of a second timing they're still
gonna like these where the elbow smoke and get the uterine will cacophoon maybe
thinking a little bit differently or maybe the call needed a little bit more
time so cacophoon the mic just giving them the 30 seconds and I think this is a
very good time to call it. You still have one left in the bank balance. If you win this
round, you're up to 11. They have max loss bonus, sure, but at this point, right, they're
scrapping everything. They need rounds. They're really struggling on their CT side legacy.
It was the pistol, it was the conversion. The conversion was against an eco, all right?
So you didn't even deal with the force. That's why we're on this run of five. And the last
couple of starting to look a whole lot more convincing. It seems unlikely that Gizmy's
going to be able to get away with that space again, but that's likely why he's thinking
they're not going to fly mid in the same way. Or at least the orb has to start. Or a rifle
us to start a to tether that and I say has to this is where the mind games come
in it's like okay do we really think they're gonna have a loose piece that's
gonna take the space if we fight heavy mid control again and this is counter
stabilization from a very frustrating start monty in the lead we'll make you
good up though only find a sixth in consecutive fashion so light on this
be late so much space for a zoo would have to take on into the line and he's
heard be miss towards the elbow
rent smoke and then you can have an orb clash afro peeking into saddened
favers the Brazilian orp heads up easy begins for saddening opening kill on to
afro then do now with a smoke break Frank finds the head of be miss so now
operating at a disadvantage are Monty. So I have a good amount of room, I have a happy
lane to set up and the only U2 is on Gizmy at the moment. How are they going to connect
with Rainwaker? And the ground likely changes, it's maybe no longer more about winning but
more about doing damage.
in cave art doesn't choose to take the fight responsibility falls to latto
very passive here letting monty make that first move
latto audible oh they find him a zoo we could on the follow-up hang on a second they've breached in
it looked impossible it certainly was improbable but now we've got a 2v2 post but this is
So very very winnable sat in on the all on the retake gonna be parting through cave side
So he's got the kit. He's a zoo. We're gonna go further. I'm just gonna park it. He is pushing for towards the cave flank
This is ambitious from a zoo who?
Rain Waker can't go down
Sat's around me kill sad since a dead man has who was proactive push does result in a win round
That's Monty another one on the track a three versus five turn around
incredibly, impeccably put together.
Legacy on the ropes and we might catch it in the replay.
It gives me a miss through his molotov.
He missed through it and it actually worked.
It was meant to go deep towards CT,
but it's broken on the wall above the player
who was close to.
And it flushed him out and they found him.
So, fortunes in Monty's favor right now.
That's interesting.
So little details and this one,
not landing as expected, but still getting the job done.
One awesome frustrations for Legacy side.
Wow, it's more than frustrations now.
We're talking about a massive run arounds
and this is a best of one stage two
and Legacy were one of the favorite teams here, right?
We've obviously got Spirit.
You get your G2s, you get your Fort.
Well, Legacy also part of that conversation
with the CAC when there's the MOLLY.
And then they hear that sound, can you see it?
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
So what are you meant to do if you have Legacy in that situation?
They're missing their U2 and it's still working against us.
It's a crazy turnaround.
That is a crazy turnaround.
Can't be losing 3v5s.
Oh, and a best of 1. Not an a best of 1.
And they have the law and the last double triple they achieve takes down a sumu.
Okay.
Rain Waker spots.
Sands it on the jiggle and the smoke to block.
It's impressive stuff from Monty.
Like in what I'm seeing.
They're not playing like an underdog at all.
No, and they don't look flustered.
And I think that they should be, right?
And that's not at this point in the game.
And that's because of the way the game started.
Now down a man, this would be one of those rounds that start...
Start giving them hot under the collar.
I know what's cool is that Smoke has led Art to actually want to play in front of it, which puts him further away from B.
I think he's realised that's a bit of a vulnerability, even though Lato is on a jiggle smoke defence.
And they're pushing a man against but have the info.
You're blocked.
You tell Dumbed.
dumped.
Rattation is still miles away for the CTs.
Oh, then it's the cave flash.
Yeah, that would have slowed them down.
Now they're going to continue to path in,
trying to synchronize with Rainweaker on the rampside
through that smoke.
That's out, down and out.
The spam from ARC gets gizby low,
but the site is falling.
Despite that opening kill, hang on,
that's bomb.
That's rope.
Oh, he catches sadz in a necessary frag there from the sniper.
No one's landed their nades right now,
but it doesn't seem to matter.
It's chaotic.
Doomow's found BMAS on...
Really, three.
Back, back, they wake up losing health, Dumau does finish him off through the boards.
That's who won. Back turned! Turned easy for Art, he forgot about it.
Afro in the clutch. Legacy surely have this one in the bag.
So uncomfortable for the sniper, jiggling around, bait the shot, Dumau closing that gap.
Afro feeling so claustrophobic. And now hearing that diffuse gets anxious,
they get a double swing in, not ideal for an AWP. Dumau and Art comparing for five frags.
They finally put a stop to this run of six straight rounds on the T side and they do it on a partial just to stop Monty from getting the 12
I had the dig deep there that opening kill that nuke of nades over towards cave takes down a zoo where to kick things off and
Then from there it looked like they were out rotated. He's the nades, right?
And this is they know that as you was taking this cave space to pass into him or gives me and the nature's come from everywhere
Mid and cave in their face the wall bangs. I thought the rotation was out of place
And a very important time-out now called...
By Kukufu as we catch the over-the-shoulder camera after seeing how much pressure he's under.
So that was a partial, there will be everything legacy need and more going into this next round of play.
Kukufu, while his boys still have that, wants to get on the mic and see if they can just close it right here, right now.
Sure, they have a 4x6 straight rounds, of course, but their high end going to the next is about these 3.2.
So with the loss bonus, most of their players, 3 out of the 5 should be good for a buy.
We'll talk about the financial implications if we need to get there.
So this is two consecutive rounds where Legacy have been able to find the opening pick.
One was Sadsons or the other was the Nade Barrage right there.
Can they make it a third?
You're probably going to be deterred from anything, Pacy Cave.
Keeping it simple stupid, it's going to be a B-play.
Okay.
All 5 heading there, no mid harass, nothing.
I think it's just I'm not on the slide right now how fast is where he saw him in one of these to get the space they set up
They execute and they're in
Everybody swings into a zoo lose crosshair and that is a death sentence. He's having a great game 20 a frag and there's gives me
Finding our flat lines the captain of legacy and all of that for another Monty round
I look at Lado and our boats just sitting back in the chair. What are they gonna do a zoo?
We're here's five and one in opening kills
clutch earlier in the half against Nism in that 1v1 right you think okay we're
gonna have some back and forth but it's been a bit more of a landslide since
then. Clutchies opening kills I mean respect. I'm gonna make 12 first.
Monty you've got hands and they're swinging for a heavy blow to Legacy's
Let's see if they can close it in regulation. No timeouts left for either team at this point, so in-game leaders are going to have to call their way there.
Sads and Doom out.
Some of the ones with extra cash. Art will be able to buy himself. Lado will need a gun.
He needs to be hooked up by one of the survivors.
Here it is from Azul's B.O.V.
Way too easy, didn't it?
Little too leisurely. I think Lato had thrown a flash.
But, uh, I assume it was anti.
Interesting, so two smokes leaving from spawn.
Now you're gonna have the t- just your typical Mr. Troubles back here.
The wheels are coming off the legacy.
No one out. Indication is to bedroom occupation.
Gotta worry about everything you legacy. Oh, wait, there's a gap earlier in the half that they took on a other ever just pop in B with five
Everything it's a leaky boat right now the CT side
Now miss them that's the worry about me demas lost vision
But remember they're worried about the potential for the aid that they were hurt with earlier in the half
And it's in one donor spotted out by Bemis
Satton has a HE. Doesn't need it. The smoke on red has faded. You'll start to do a sweep with Dumau.
Rafe from Dumau.
Huge information back.
Rainmaker and Beamer. So they're going to sell a Fade.
Pressure on B at the same time.
I think they're actually going to fake B.
That friend's moving the bomb away.
So all action will be on Nissan if this is an A-split.
His rotation is Dumau is the closest and he's a country mile.
They're going for info play. They're going for an info play. Flash in cave.
And now you just go, hey, that'll shore it up. You know that they're searching Francis elsewhere.
Nissem, you got an all to do here.
It's one man versus five. Nissem and Donut getting cleared, hard cleared by a zoo.
Side of their head gets his ears pierced.
Another opener.
One back through the boots. Good one back from Beamer still. They've got to respect the flame.
14 seconds. There's no way to stop Rain Waker from punching in the code.
Disadvantaged retake for Monty to take this win down in the dumps.
Satsyn's managed to find the equalizer.
Beamer's brought aggression into the mix.
Look at this from Gizmy.
What?
Double flank?
They could just diffuse.
Is he just going to call a bluff?
No, he's going to go slay it through.
Confirmed.
They're off it loses his life.
This is legacy holding on.
Satsyn on the peak doesn't get the shot.
Awkward fights now.
Rain waker in the donut needs.
Oh, I can't handle it.
Now a clutch for Gizmy.
Can captain come up clutch?
good. Looks real good up against
the. It came down to milliseconds,
but gives me just got in his head
there and I'll put a bullet into
it. Swing from being us. It felt
like they were calling him to go
for that play because his swing
felt half hearted, right? That
flash came in. He peaked with it,
but it felt like he didn't completely
believe that was going to be the
You can see Monty overthinking the situation.
If there's a smoke, if we get locked off, how are we going to contend?
We're all stuck in Donut, trying to make a little extra space.
And now, one round for Legacy to push us into overtime.
It's been a good game so far.
You can sound me.
I see those extra rounds after all.
It's an A-play.
Yes, him audible in the Donut.
Do not make his move to lend a hand.
block and send the arrow all by time for Dumal to find his safe boost.
Now they've been blocked, they're gonna go through there off the flash, Dumal is
positioned to land a hand, loses his life, another Oozoo will open and kill, can't
get the double canissium. Again the A site has shown his vulnerability and again
Monty get the bomb planted. Trying to end this in regulation, Aphra is on the line,
Lata would have to pick up some momentum, find some velocity, otherwise he's a dead
man, if he walks around that corner, a jiggle, a bait, pulls the shot out of Afro.
Blocked on top, that's great, now if you charge through, he's gonna hit you, Lato's gone.
It's looking like this is a Monty game, finishing it in the final round of regulation from tech
issues, 15 minutes in silence, a tilt that they have to shake off, and now just two kills,
all that separates them from the W. Gives me dancing around the big box, there's simply
no time. Sartin goes down and Monty takes the win.
Oh what a sick win that is for Monty Kakafi. He can show the emotion now. The game is done.
It's dusted no longer restrained by those coach rules, but this one's all about the Brits
for me. Azulu, what an absolute crowbar this man was. 7-1 in terms of opening kills. 7
Maltes to his name and gives me with some great calling in this second half. 4-R, he's
thinking everything's a gap. We can't win if they pop B. They're taking space on A.
They're getting mid when they want it and they're out manoeuvring us
That was class from Monty to pick this one up 13 to 11
They'll find themselves in the 2-1 bucket a best of three away from stage three with a big boys a weight for legacy
It's gonna be the hard way to best threes required on the trot one to avoid elimination the other in a 2-2
And that's if they can get there
Putting the shoes on before the handshakes come in
If you can understand why he's so happy with that win his boys they looked at they were down in the dumps
We had that listening as we came back from halftime brainwaker not happy with how things kicked off in the first half of the rounds and
Afru Afru from smashing test to changing PCs
To get his head in there and contributing the boys they take the win
Sue and gizmy definitely big shout outs to them and they're not only
Contributions, but keep it a cool head on their shoulders Freya sending by with gizmy
It's one to be taking that series off of legacy of Gizmy down here for a few words first of all
Congratulations. That looked like a very well orchestrated T side. Talk to me about the cooling
from that second half. Yeah, I had a good game plan. We targeted B to begin with and then just
played a half from there when probably their CT side started to get a bit confusing for them.
So yeah, I was reading the flow of the play pretty well. Overall, we also were shooting really hard
on the T side. I think we warmed up into the game as well. Obviously, on the CT start, we lost the
the anti-eco after the longest tech pause. So very happy with how it all turned out.
So a quick question on that. Obviously, nobody likes the tech pause, but how do you make
sure you're not losing focus during that? Because obviously you're not allowed to talk
to your teammates during that as well.
I don't know. I was just like, I was just AFK like in the meds, you know. I wasn't even
thinking about the game. Just just like looking at after he's really cute to look at. So it's
like, that's all I need to see in my life.
keys of victory clearly you mentioned the b-side and kind of taking advantage of that on your
t-side of things I think it was round 20 you guys were left in a 3v5 you're exploding out
onto the b-side you fall in the process but tell me about getting away with that one because that
looked like that was legacies round through and through yeah to be honest the the start of the
round like uh what wasn't so I think I made a bad call that was that was one of them um and we
yeah went into a bit of a trap but yeah made a quick decision to go over towards b and uh
Yeah, it was just really quick.
We just made a really fast decision to play out of the Mollying Flash.
We all burst at the same time,
we got the kills and then Azul and Rain played the TV2 great.
A lot of composure, which is really nice to see.
I think a lot of the stuff we've been doing in the practice,
leading up to the majors,
been paying off and we see it here with the composure.
For example, we've been cracking or almost
screaming T1 teams and official like games in practice,
which has helped us keep our calm.
you know, be able to win these xvx moments that really sets like the tier one players apart from the tier two
I felt like you were very composed in that moment
Just one final question best of ones are done for you now throughout the duration of the major best of threes
Though only one separates you from that stage three. How do you feel about that? Do you think it gets easier?
What we move to the best of threes?
Um, I think our
It's just like fine. I would say it's the same to me. I actually quite like best of ones
just because I think there's quite like an art to the V2N of the best of ones.
But yeah, best of these three is just like normal, you know, we bull, we just do our usual stuff and see what happens.
It's been looking excellent. Once again, congratulations, Gizmy. That's Monti three to the two one pool.
Wow, what a close series between Monti and Legacy, another upset today in the best of ones.
Legacy a lock for many to go through and for some in the 3-0 bracket.
are down to the 1-2 pool and they'll need to win two best of threes if they're going to make it into stage three and
Just in the end some really good mental fortitude from the side of Monty
I mean lost a couple rounds that maybe they weren't supposed to and we're still able to close out the game
It looked for a moment like things were getting out of their hand
And the attack pause I think it was on a full eco which is kind of unusual just to really talk through
Kind of the importance of the manager and try to get people to reset and in the end
It looks like it's something that came back in that second half and gives me a particular
Mizzuru.
It really got him on the line.
Yeah, if you're on the side of legacy, that's going to be a tough pill to swallow, but
it gives me a saying, you know, we're talking about that T side, his calling, the fact that
they kind of came out on top in a lot of those situations, Janko, that always looks unwinnable
at times, really good stuff from them.
For me, it's at the highest pressure tournaments and then environments where you really see
the worth of IGLs, right? Because in online games, in tier 2 tournaments, in the group stages of big
tournaments, you know, everyone's feeling it, everyone's gaming, everyone's confident, everyone's
taking initiative, but when the pressure is on, like that's when players can close up,
be in their shell, everyone's afraid to make a mistake, no one wants to go make a play,
and all of a sudden you're 4v5 at 11-11 and you get, you know, 0-2 or something like that,
And that's where IGL stepping in with calls, but also with micromanaging with sort of keeping everyone's spirits up
Just the tone of their voice the the confidence the command of the situation can really mean a lot even for some of these teams
You know that are on paper weaker
Than others right that can really make up for the difference potentially in firepower
When I was just standing by there waiting for the interview as well
Because me seems so calm and all the information he was giving and you would forgive him for maybe being a little bit flustered
you know the rounds are creeping up on them potential to be pushed to OT but that didn't happen round 16
What are you pointing out here? Yeah, I think for for this round what was interesting was the reset rounds then the bias obviously not great for
side of
Legacy right like they get the first kill and can see this means shoulder-peaking here
But this one flash forces in completely away of the angle and it was only limited utility for the side of Monty
And I think what I really like here is that he seems like want to realize first off that he was smoked
They see a weakness look probably he was jiggle peeking because the smoke came down. It seems time is strange
I want you to thread the gap like this one player a main
He's keeping all of the CT defense towards me because he has a main the chances done of them all continuously going through the same position
It's extremely low
So the call in this situation gave him practically free bomb side that went in and adjusted enough to win this one
Just crazy to me one flash the work it did it was half random in a way
If he could have stayed on that angle with the smoke, they would have been completely
shut down in the round, but that just buys them enough space.
Nissen Natt then has to be worried about Med.
He goes for the safer option, and great job from Gizmi and wanted to find that gap.
Obviously, post a question to Gizmi as well, that round 20, the 3v5, they managed to get
away with.
Put some logic to this, guys.
That was nuts, and you talk about pressure, and here it feels like it maybe got to legacy
a little bit, because they do a good job here.
We see the early exchange of utility and made no one's really fighting for it.
Monty understands that.
Sardin finds the opening with AWP, Dumau, breaking the smoke, finds another one.
Now in a 5v3, you think like, oh, they should have this on lock.
Yeah, and I think it's the protocols of the seed side, which were actually very good.
It's still on the T side.
They were very controlled.
They were never panicked.
But here it seems strange because they're kind of playing committed A and committed
B. I think Art's staying in the bomb site actually baits his teammates to convince them
So that one's up in his weird position where he like catches the uterine has to dodge it because he's trying to help out
And if asking this position he has to get one you thinking at least 1.5 minimum kills in this position
Usually you see people with advantage just sit back together
Let them come in try and see if they can plan like playing behind this put this bomb site this pillar
It's almost impossible. Sometimes you get spammed you can get Molotov
So very strange to see that decision from him
Maybe just kind of feeling the adrenaline or something wanting to be involved in the game kind of straight
I think I kind of tilted the map away from them and it seemed like they were going to get it off the line
Yeah, kind of understandable and all that. I think we should check in with the team comms out for that round 22
Okay, listen to me. We're gonna kind of rush in, okay? I'm gonna molly left side deep
I'm gonna flash long, I'm gonna flash short and ready to keep long
Flash long, molly missed
Short in the...
Nice!
You too guys!
I'm planting.
Yeah, I'm going.
I'm on the flank.
You can do me.
Yeah, I'll cover up.
Yeah.
I can sit here.
They're up.
One was an open view from the flank, but I burned Kavena.
They're up.
Nice!
I think I like that core, bro.
Fucking nice, Jack.
Good fucking exit.
How would you rate those gondash?
What are you making them?
Maybe a little bit hectic, but I think I like it.
Just the idea from Gizmy was...
was it seemed like it may be a little bit rushed with the comms, but it seemed really basic and it was
nicely done and I think in general like he's doing a really good job of staying calm, giving good
calls on his t-side, but I've got a point out as well. Azulu was probably being under the most
pressure of nearly any player this entire stage, he's been really struggling a lot. In this game
here, he felt like he was just entering non-stop important kills, even in 2v2, flanking behind
the k position. That was a huge risk that could have backfired, he left his teammate isolated
it was long and he paid off it's good to see him and the UK guys
I thought it was impressive from Gizmy man
yeah sure maybe a bit too fast with the delivery
but he had so much authority
he has so much command and confidence I'm like I'm taking my I'm dropping my
file for this guy you know like please I'm leaving this is gonna work I'm
feeling it you know and then they get it and just
immediately in the 2v2 rainwaker saying you can leave me right and I can play from this position on
my own just that sort of gives the timing to Azul to go for that flank and everything works out
perfectly for Monty. Very impressive stuff for Monty that does indeed seal themselves a place in
that 2-1 pause. Now only best of 3s remain for them and we are about to dive into our final best
of 1 of the entirety of the Cologne Major that's between Betboom and MAT. It's going to be going
down after this quick break.
You're baiting every round, talking about playing.
I had so many trades trading, and even your eyes are wet.
I'll carry you.
Tell me one round.
Hold on.
Let me pull up CS stats.
Oh, wait, my bad.
You suck.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats,
and turn on tracking to see all of your games.
I managed to catch MAAT coach ahead of this game.
Well, I want to use this a little bit differently.
This is like a check-in and use this as a profile for you, because I didn't get to talk
to you that much.
And MAAT for me, surprise of stage one.
And I think you are the biggest factor in that.
So can I talk to you about your coaching style?
Can you describe it a little bit for the viewers?
Because to a lot of us, it's kind of unknown.
Um, yeah, I guess I'm kind of I kind of stay in the shadows a little bit. I don't do many interviews
I'm not really on the social so much
But I can't take credit for what the guys are doing in the server
Recently we just got a new analyst
Munster from passion you way for this event only so far and he's been really helpful being able to
Between maps like the amount the quantity of maps that you have to play the major is like really been helpful
but
We're strict game plan. We try to stick to the game plan as much as we can and then also asking in the in the prep
What the players want to do we want to make them feel comfortable
So I I guess I'm pretty strict, but for the most part I want to give these guys some room to to be players also
I feel like I surprised you with it that you're the biggest factor
The thing that why I'm asking this because we have access obviously to snippets of what you're talking and we see the body language on
The camera it feels like you are for the lack of better words
Yes, strict like a direct coach like you're exactly giving orders to your troops. Is this something that you called from someone else?
Is some other coach in inspiration for you when you look at the tier one teams?
Yeah, even when I was a player not an IGL on other teams. I was always a big voice
So I think it's just carried through the 10 plus years. I've been playing I really love that the timeouts that I can be tactical
I
Much prefer that over the timeouts that I have to be more emotional side
I'd have to encourage them to do certain things so if we're if we're flowing and we're feeling the game and I can be pure
Tactics like that's when I think I'm the best as a coach
This is your last best of one of this major for sure because in stage three
We are having only best of three's ahead is bad boom and they were really good in a stage one
They they basically zoomed through it. So can you give us a little bit of a thoughts? What do you expect from this game?
Yeah, so we I was watching actually some bad boom games. They looked really impressive
But I think what might have happened to them, and we'll have to see today, I don't want to jinx it.
But I think they brought a lot of nice stuff for Stage 1, and maybe it's not enough to get to progress.
Like they surprised the guys in Stage 1, but now that we've been able to watch them on Skybox especially,
I think we'll be ready for what they have to throw at us.
And I don't want to spoil the map, am I allowed to?
No, I think you're allowed to. I think you're allowed to.
Okay, so it's this too, and it's one of their favorite maps, but it's kind of a sleeper pick for us, because we were pretty bad at it, so our win rate looks pretty bad, but we're five in a row against some decent teams, so I think they might underestimate what we have today.
Wow, that's true. That is the map that BedBoom was actually coming into the Major. They were one of their strongest LAN maps, and they actually carried them through that Stage 1.
So let's see how this one goes. I'm so excited. MAT are doing great job, so let's see how this one pans out.
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
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also. We're looking at both of these teams and looking at the individuals on each side.
And there's one that kind of sticks out from the bedroom, right? Obviously a little bit
complicated with the roster and the stand in situation. But Flamas, he's been a name
you've been looking out for, Ash.
Yeah, for sure. And in this game, I think he only has seven frags in the end, but nearly
all of his kills from the first half of the game, it felt like bedroom was settled to
just run away with this one. They built so much money. And in these buy rounds, he was
just annoying. It felt like he got lots of quick kills on these like low positions, which
He hasn't really been playing before and he would say I think there's a quick double kill going on
So I think for me
He's going to be the one to watch because if you can do this against spirit early on this set bet boom off to have a really good
Half and unfortunately like I said in the pregame
Donk was dunking all over after this body see a lot of initiative playing off the back of room
It's he gets the kill picks a good time and he can hear the rotate
I think in the second also comes out and it's just a quick
Execution so for me today
He's the one to watch and MAT, we've talked about having the lack of individual players.
Flameless for sure is red hot and I think he could be one to watch out for here with just some really quick aim.
And I think the pressure is going to be heavy on the anchors from MAT, right?
Because you could see a lot of this where there seems to be chaos all over the map
and there's pressure on B and A at the same time, right?
And you could see even the Spirit players a couple of times focused more maybe on mid
maybe on mid and thinking that's where the brunt of the action is happening and then
Flamuz just rolls out of a apartment and finds some duals so I think you're gonna have to
be concentrated even though if you're in MAT a lot of action is happening maybe not at
your bomb site and on the other side of the map like there might be a guy just looking
to capitalise on that lurk aggressively and you have to shut that down early.
And through no fault of Flamuz's own is that a bit of a complicated career history?
What's your whole take on that the VP situation ash? Well, it's just not worked out from all. I think he's kind of gone there
Like I said to the day with the promise that they would give him a lot of time and he could go in that line up
Don't worry about things. He said as well to me
Personally that he felt like he wasn't ready for a step up to VP
They he told them specifically he wasn't going to go and then they came back and said, you know
We'll give you lots of time to step up
So this is him as a stand-in versus playing as a full-time player in VP and he went there as kind of a rotation
location lurker entry sort of guy and in no time he was playing absolutely every position you could possibly think of him for me
I think I
Understand it wasn't working with VP, but I look at VP right now and the barely in the top 50
Why is he here?
What what's going on? Why is he playing as a stand-in for betwood team that's beat of vitality and looks really good?
And you think it's just against weak players
This is him against top 30 players online and he's sandwiched between some pretty good company here. Yanko. Yeah, definitely. So
some prospects like Raz and Kaspersky and also some of the heavy hitters, right?
like Twists and Rain Waker of course but yeah, Flamos has always been
interested in doing his time with you on game religion, right? He's shown a lot of
promise and I think it's also a lot of these young players man they just need
to be in the right situation and VP isn't the right situation for anyone, right?
Let alone Flamos, so he's better off in Batboom and I don't want him to go back
to VP, I want to go somewhere else or stay in Bedpoom or something because I think once
he has the right environment and it's a good fit, yeah, you can see a lot from him.
Speaking of good environments, M80 finding that versus Bait yesterday, what did you pull
from this particular best of one, Anish?
Well, I found around here that was interesting from Slux's POV, I think, everything's kind
of good and you can imagine.
So he smokes himself here in the sandwich position, everyone's coming out.
And he's always gonna say, no, I don't care about you, he jumps over his head, comes over, kills connected player, comes back, and now we just see everybody just fully spamming the smoke, running around in circles,
I think we're gonna jump over his head again in a second, and I think we're just gonna see some crazy counter-strike potential in this game.
I don't know what was going on, I don't think they knew what was going on, the shoe in each other, you see almost going over each of his heads again, and somehow it turns into 1v1, and every single person died in the same area within like 10 seconds in this round.
I mean they get away with it but I guess it's more of a what not to do.
It's great to play the Benny Hill music I guess right because it probably fell hard around this one
we killed one guy we know where the other is then it's all falling apart got a little bit ahead of themselves right so
M80 being in a position where you know you're playing a bad boon with the standing and you could be in the 2-1 bracket
I mean that says as good as it gets it feels like for them all things considered the V2 did get spoiled in a way
And and and that's to being the map that's brave if you were a mate. I mean I get your form and everything
But it's really a mix sort of a mixed team
Russians running around and that's to
Because look as all swisher was struggling on this rotation the a bomb psyche
He was kind of a lurker and now he's running around
I kind of regard swisher as a guy that it feels like he has the rock side been where he wants to find all the fancy off
Angle all the time on little tiny tricks
But when you play a rotation on this too, it's hard to kind of do that. So I'm a little bit worried on the CT side
They might just get kind of run over if they even get a chance to play CT side because back boom
Potentially could show that it sounded like definitely a few tricks up his sleeve that can that come into fruition
It's going to be going down on Dusty
Yes does to and it does mark the last of the best of ones the last batch
That boom an MAT. Any clear front runners for this one? We've just had the underdog upset in Monty previously Chad.
How about this one? What do you make of that boom versus MAT?
For me it's that boom, I just think the individuals should just get it out of China, maybe in this one, but...
I echo the sentiment of the desk as well about the territory. It's a ballsy call to go to dust too when these guys can shoot as hard as they do.
I started three long with the support of boomers, so essentially 4A.
Okay, well there's that. Muscle on display, Flammeis and Dilladez.
Oh, that's perfect. We have the flashes ready. The aim was there and they shut them down.
So we're going to try and hightail it to see if they can get the bomb planted. JBA needs
to take the space. Magnajez ready to deal with this, but will be smoked off for now.
JBA's getting tricky, but Magnajez is only the sign of things. Okay.
Our bomb might get denied. Yeah, I think Slax is a dead man. Magnajez
is actually in the plant. So they get the plant and now perhaps JBA can do something
special and spicy. You're not expecting this. It's such a number disadvantage. There's three
players that are about to be on his screen. How does JBA handle this? It's a very quick reaction
from Boom. And a quick one back from Zorty to secure it. So, M18 making the best of that situation?
Yeah, the bomb going down, he should facilitate a better looking force by going into the next round
of play. Def saying this is a bit of a sleeper pick for them, saying that they're five on the
trial and they beat some pretty good teams. I'd imagine the pretty good teams he's talking about
is that Monty Wildcard and the liquid which it doesn't sound pretty good. I would do average teams.
So we'll see what they've got in store.
Forced by something to take shape, Zorty has been facilitated the AWP early by Dillardes and
I think for Betboo, they know that this has been an odd year with the Beezer issues.
It's seven men who are either being or out of the team at any given time.
No offense to Siren, but I think the firepower with Fyra Centilidus is a little bit higher,
even though in a bank of conversation we'll say that for a different setting.
So here's the force. It's an AK, two Galils, tech nine and a Deagle.
And you try swing, you're very lucky to avoid the Azortior, and oh, a second opportunity
goes awry as well.
He's not feeling good.
It feels like he could have already won the round if you hit either of those shots.
Blake's gonna go take a fight, he's gonna be swinging here, this is brave.
Blake is trying to brute force it into Flammus, and he's able, he's got health as well.
Look at Flammus!
Four kills, just burst fire into the head, Magnages puts the cherry on top.
That force by falls flat.
I don't want to call them a pug team, because they're not, they would be a high level pug team, right?
And I think that the bonus that gets put in their favour is, they're all, everyone can shoot, right?
There's a high caliber of play up. And on a map like Dust2, whenever they're playing pugs at home, you can just play it spawn based.
So it allows a lot of flexibility in their setups, right? They can do something different every round, and it will have an idea.
will be relatively easy for everyone to understand and I feel that that's gonna
give them a lot of options and if they're just setting themselves up to you
know not just take dry fights but to take strong fights you can all deliver
and Smoke has missed towards the top door so that one is just gonna spill over
and Zorty will maintain his vision on the whistle's vibe and Chas on the MP9 will not
make the same mistake because only this Deagle on JBA to have to be concerned
with. A 3-0 start will be here in a moment. Now obviously if you are just tuning in and
you missed some of the earlier games today we had an extended technical timeout in the
Monty vs Legacy M out first. Extended technical timeout here at Ironclove for 2026, but that's
why we're behind. Over there on the B stream they should be kicking off an Elimination
best of three very shortly with FlyQuest and Payne. We'll be bringing the action for Bait versus
Gamer Legion and then later today to finish off this Sunday with the big names Lock-A-Moms
in the spot in stage three. Moe down, forced scavenge back and almost spotless there to
confirm the 3-0 start for that boom. Alright this is the first rifle round and
Well, Slag's can bring out the orb.
He will do.
There'll be no armor to go- oh, he bought it, he sold it back.
Does he really want it?
Okay, A-case.
So AWP will have to wait.
There's double orbs on the other side that's the concern.
It's a perfect weapon for this long control, he can stay close doors.
You know, I'm worried about the boots, so Flamme's diligent stuff there is.
They can JBA go through the motions to get this lower tunnels present.
They want to test long.
Flamme, how many are you going to get here?
They're not doing the door flash.
Oh, perfect timing.
Do you call it off?
Perfect Tommy do you call it off and it looks like the right decision
So sin will immediately have to make a new plan it could be wait out the smoke we go again. Oh
Yeah, okay
Was worried like a misty smoke there that would have really hampered things but it does enable them to kind of
Retool the one in the eco didn't matter this one also won't have implications, but doesn't fill you with confidence
Don't hurt that. I know that there is a player in bedroom
So, I'm just full anti. He is full. Boomage, just, this is perfect.
Let's just pay him in with the Nade as well. You know, you can clear him.
Oh, the second fully blind catch is Swish trade attempt.
This is coming together beautifully into the first buy of MAT.
They haven't even seen the double orbs.
Now, it might just be the safe. It has shades of flakless versus 9Z's start.
Right, obviously, we're still very early, but a little bit clunky with the U-turner
down, then players going down, and the trade potential very limited.
At least someone swung out long there as the awful putt one in late goes down
And it'll be the same for JBA and slacks are very very slow start
Maybe at least get the info off of Lake's death at magma jazz has an all yeah, so
That will facilitate
Hopefully a little bit of information in the next round of play
Hearing from death as well in the pregame interview with stiko and some of things are going well
And he doesn't have to worry about taking the timeouts to deal with the mood
He can get the most out of himself when it gets to be tactical
I'm interested now because I just seen him get out of his seat. He's just pressed the button
It's great when we have this view here on the a stream
You can see everything that's going on for at least two of the teams and presumably this one will be more strategic
Unless the energy is in the camp could completely off. I think early just wiping away any of the concerns with the little details
it's also
Give them a bit more time to discuss what's possible in the bi just in slacks invest all of his cash for extra
YouTube. Sin is in the AK range as well at 4.2, Swisher and Lake could operate with the
glils and still get nade, so they can get a decent buy. And if they did take note of
that MagnaJer second AWP and assume exactly what it means, but this is way too easy. And
the reason I said it was great from Boomage, think about the layering. Okay, so the smoke,
and then they wait the smoke. Then Amoli comes in, and then he comes back and he even throws
the HE. It wasn't all on top vision, one after the other, perfectly timed.
That's the long guy. It just seems insane that he timed every single piece of that perfectly because they were setting up the pop smoke comes in.
Molly comes in, forces them back and then the HE did damage. While they've taken the spawns, they're out long.
Okay, that's huge amount of space, so won't be similar feeling.
I do like this though because the last round I thought they just got iced out. The pace changed in getting the territory. That's a positive.
Lake knows the upper tunnels push is a response to this. So he's on high alert here in the upper tunnels.
I think the plan is just trying to spot if they're smoking cross.
We'll throw a block smoke.
It's curious, right?
Because from that position, if you wanted to, you could smoke off the doors and they
could go for a retake option.
But just playing the block and Dillard there's doing the same on B. This is simple stuff
from Dillard as I like to see it.
So he'll just go for this jiggle as soon as he catches a lick of information, drop the
smoke and give his teammates time to rotate over.
He plays on shore, should be forced back by this molly if it lands as intended.
How can he bring it from the room? It's all 40 pushes ahead.
He's in the shade.
Shot on the side of the head, sin provides an opening.
Well, at least you know it's less likely to be long now.
Cross won't land out here from swish, so I want to...
Just thinkin' about it.
Hey, Split.
Good. Very telegraphed, Silti. Catch you soon.
Okay, okay! Zorty Mantle's up!
Sure, Magnetius goes down.
I win this.
You have to.
He's got so much pressure from the long side as well,
so he makes the right call, he'll back away and flamme a shot.
Flamme a shot.
So easy, JBA's gone down.
Barry uncomfortable with 14 seconds left.
I don't even think it's winnable.
You gotta give it a go.
Getting stuck in here, can't save.
Oh, God, how hectic!
Swish is looking for the bomb,
and it's just flamme us picking him up.
a nice couple of shots, but there's no time for this one. Zorty's found cover. Nice idea,
nice attempt. Five-zero start for that boom. Yeah, if Zorty hung around and spawned there,
dropped down two seconds left, the bullet to the dome could have been the round, but the AK
is retained once more. Def just at the time-out, and a subtle shake of the head there of disapproval.
This was very well done from Zordik.
The fact he goes for WPG, I mean it's some aggressive warping.
I think it's warping.
Okay.
That's a bit odd there from Swisher.
Looking to challenge long again.
Doing the older variant of the hinged smoke and 10 points.
I thought he can break this.
So is there more uterus to tell of when to throw it?
No, just pops his first.
And it just has another.
Oh, he has another as well, cached away there.
And now they accelerate.
Here comes that third break.
And gets all the info.
No kills though.
A little bit of damage onto slacks has him limping.
I'm not going to hit the flick either on that stragglers.
Just look at the setup on 8th and the bait up for a moment.
I know there's a bit of a scuffle going on, but they're not playing long, they're ready
for this.
If you've any better positioned, MagmaJer is able to play this headshot angler.
He struggled to finish his meal, but no problem.
No problem for Betboom!
A clean shot down, you can see what it means to boom it as well.
Just keeping the sheet clean and keeping M80 in the dirt.
I see, when you're not playing anybody long, you've got one round, one goose and that rotation
there in time as well. You've got a great read of the scenario. Death, second tactical
timeout in six rounds of play.
But you can't understand where it's coming from.
Eh, I haven't really felt that they've had too many opportunities in these first few
rounds. It's been a bit of a landslide. We're talking two kills a piece for Slacks, Lake
Sin and JBA. So we should get going. On the other side, Flamus is currently sitting at
13 frags. That was something that the desk was talking about, just how good of a player
Flamus is. Well, he's owning them right now.
Super sub.
This is it ready as well as that because you're playing in a roster that has been constantly changing. That's your norm
Yo, I didn't catch that the first time that's not the first time that's going on these new single
It's boom it with sit the fuck down. Yeah, we could put that some auto-tune on that. I
Don't like the fact that we're six rounds deep seven technically and slacks hasn't had an orp yet
I would have loved the glass cannon just to get the guy going.
He flew over the idea, didn't he?
They're trying to find Dillard Des on his jiggles, he's not there.
It feels way too casual for that move right now.
That's a myth.
Like they're just...
Oh, it seems like it's quite dismissive, but it feels like they're just kind of playing a pug, you know?
As far as...
They're just taking their spawns, holding their sights.
Usually, they run on into a bit of a meat grinder.
Yeah, they're not being strung out with rotations doesn't feel like they've been forced to work and right now boom
Which has called them into a three-man V stacks of the in-game leader
Here's to have a great read on the scenario
Couldn't be better really what with four members of an 80 congregating towards the doors
Magnetja's gonna be jiggling the window for info. Yeah, maybe you're chasing their tower right now. They've been have them bought
So what a what a fake great feeling when you've got that extra third man?
Here they come sound goes to pop flash is connect. It's brutal
There's nothing for you here!
M-80 Agusag 7 rounds in.
That's like, I know that you probably want to hold on to this AK, but I don't know if
you're going to get the chance.
Flamas is starting to track you down, Zordy might do it first, and right there, just pulls
the trigger fire the light.
Oh, dear.
Holy.
They did just our player, big time one opening kill is all they've gotten so far on the M80
side of the server.
They've juggling the U2 on B just before this happening you see the flash assist in the
feed right there, swish up.
Okay, swish on one's defaults.
Can't do that with T9s.
I've seen once a bee pop.
Magnetjes.
Hacking his aim, isn't he?
Just my suicide.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh, DERDES this time was closer to the HEs and doesn't like they're going to swing into this.
Make not ready for Magnetjes just standing in the open.
Perfect.
Couldn't be better.
Oh, no it can't.
It can't.
I'm corrected by Magnetjes.
There is he finds JBA's head.
Okay.
A Donk's friend is starting to heat up now.
Can't be man.
Can't be his nickname
You need to kill him and he just just get one
And let it be switched
Nearly happen. It's like we'll have his orb next round. That's good
The bigger concern at the moment for death and sin and the team in general like switch going on
We need a default more guys. You have four rounds of chemistry left in the half
Yeah, yeah, so being able to establish that is gone and
The way to try and remedy the reeds of boomage with these stacks is to try and do something a little bit faster
But then you're playing heads-up counter strike against aimers
So nothing sounds like a good option so far
They will be able to get into a and get the bomb down or they should be able to get into a and get the bomb down
So I will wait until there's actually been planted
Okay, I'm stuck 5v2 retake the A side two players are low, but it still shouldn't be too much of a concern
Looking well oiled at the moment, is that boom?
Snipe's good luck and Alpharim, 1 vs 5.
Flamme is on the long side, cleans house.
Opening kills at the moment, 4 for Flamme, 3 for MagnaJazz.
The other one's in, as I mentioned a little bit earlier on.
And MagnaJazz, the fact he just stands in middle, I mean I understand why Lake's not expecting that, it is a little unusual.
I did a lot of orthodox, but no one's there to pressure it.
No pressure top mid, no molly lower, or doors farther.
There's double orbs about how the Bat Boomer slacks by his first.
That's like going through the motions is how I would describe this from Bat Boomer so far.
Looking good while doing it.
Looking for resistance.
Is there any to be seen from M.A.T.?
This is not a traditional default.
Normally it's a bit more of a 2-2-1, starting heavy top middle, so Lake, who's the lower tunnels player.
This is a good call in the sense that J.B. is playing outside of upper tunnels, so if there's a pushy,
should have the better of the fights, but they don't know if anybody's entrenched in low up.
Even though that orb sounded off, I feel that there was a gap of time.
Lots of mollies to slow this control, and they will...
Double block, one short, one long, simultaneously as a mid to B.
Throwing out from M80.
Pitchers is pushing.
That's the AWP, so he can just hold this line.
Roodle.
Illides might actually just be escorted further forward.
This is what JBA's been waiting for.
Controls some damage, doesn't fight them and kill them.
Oh no!
Nice and AWP overlooked, didn't anticipate, but at least you get the info that there's both of them there.
And it will force you into A because you're very limited on options. Zordy can get here to assist with this
They've only got one smoke on stacks for the execute
And he's gonna flash so they're just gonna run out with the flash. Okay, well Zorty's here. It should be a very comfortable round
Oh, that's late just sits the Orpah down
Okay, that's an important entry provided by late flammers in support of boomage
They're gonna go swinging and there's two on his screen and not any more boom makes them disappear
Sin with one back, turns the flash, nice follow up as well.
Slacks' position now no to 14 seconds as they hunt down Magnajus.
Dillard gets spotted, a one for one, he goes for the nose go.
They keep it down to a 1v1, but still, boom prevail.
The jump there, trying to just pin down Dillard as the bomb slipping out.
The time is running low, 9-0.
Oh dear.
Well, that was their closest in a while.
So well obviously the support of flamas so multiple times this is the bomb slips up a hand here and then
Peers up the all ten seconds left nose a am I really gonna try to get that bomb get it down till it does can play with me
Now this is Germans
true
And we have seen them come back not these Germans but other German other Germans in Cologne. That's true a record breaker. So
So so you're saying that perhaps
It's not over yet
So narrative mechanic to keep the viewers here. Yeah, cuz I'm probably checking out that B stream if it's on
It's a bit of an on-starter this one and maybe they are geared up for a B split they've
They've just partial bored in this one.
Fly close, paint has just begun.
Okay, you can wait, I wanna tell you that one's for elimination.
First team sent home from stage two.
Okay, not gonna be the B split, just the B pop.
So, likely he's throwing doors,
a couple of good flashes from Sin.
I'm just, Dillardez is gonna have big hits.
Perfect position.
Oh, come on, he gets two attention drawn.
I have a lot of sprays through the smoke.
You didn't even see them.
No, don't need to.
Don't need to.
There have been four rounds in this half of play
that are flawless.
So that's all five staying alive.
I mean, the most dominant we've seen.
This is just horrible for an 80.
You add three more, so that'll take us to seven
where they only took one casualty.
Two rounds that got a little bit close.
Yeah.
And the pistol that M80 salvaged a plant.
Apparently we've been going for 20 minutes, it doesn't feel like 20 minutes.
Speedrunning their last best of one in Batboo.
They're defaulting right now, M80.
Okay, nice.
Down to level.
Poor Lades just cut 2-8 cheese with his name on it.
to operate on 29. Slacks is called boom it's doors.
Second opening kill of the half from 80. Hell, Sin just tries to take the fight head
on with flammers. It's the most comfortable of clawbass.
Swisher has the bottom on his own long doors.
And he's walked out long on his own...
It's caught flammers. Beautiful.
The risk, absolutely. Could have been round-ending.
Split A.
That's what's his feeling. A little bit of pressure. A whole lot of pressure.
JBA takes his head off.
Well, you have to convert this. That goes without saying.
But maybe just faster than a long flank.
Swisher still don't hit in the bog with a rugby toss.
The Magnajes are so quick on the draw.
Catches Swisher just glancing towards long.
That's an equalizing frag.
Dillardes coming in from CT.
Do another window flash.
But looks like Slax is posted for this.
Full of blue vision.
Well positioned.
It's Magnetius.
Last seen long.
Here's JVA.
Ooh, has a chance.
And 80 breakthrough.
There's something to bring through into the second half of play.
A single round.
It's a whole lot better than the 12, but maybe he could even leave with two.
That's just his first kill as well.
So he gets on the board.
and it's an impactful one. So, leaves a mark.
So, they can make it to Star Ball. Zordy with the first, then the Flansy.
Zordy's gonna go down here.
This is good heads-up play from Slak, just cutting off the rotation.
See, it's with the flashes coming from nose, magnetizes long, so constricts the rotation.
And, okay, well, they're celebrating.
They can get two, and then they win the pistol in the second.
A bit of a speech from the coach. Beep-hop.
Cool off. Okay.
You can see like waiting for that HE the boom which has been religiously throwing this time
And the damage has almost 400 utility damage this half.
This is, or at least was, about to be under a bit of pressure, but they're pivoting back
now.
So what is he gonna go for a regress?
It's just crazy to sweep it now.
Yeah, it's just gonna be parked it on Goose.
They went to go long again and then they smoked again and they've called it off once more.
They really want to try and target this long play, but you're forced elsewhere.
You've got 38 seconds, it can't be long now.
So it has to be the A-split soon, late, long, the other four up short.
Okay.
I mean there's not too much in the way of the defense it is just sorties all
here
dropping in parting forward lake trapping the fire off the flat
40 times tail strap from Pernich gets in low and sortie will finish the job
flammers down that's a big lay lurk long from sin access to the site granted
M.A.T. looking to just resuscitate Hope with two on the trot to wrap up this half.
Pails in comparison to, of course, Bet Boom, but a lot better than a 12-0.
The flash is in the swing, Magmajez down to swish.
Get himself a second kill before the halftime break, and it's still coming up for debate.
And the second, there we have it, M.A.T. 2, Bet Boom 10.
It's just three rounds, is all Beppu need, we'll be right back to see if there's anything to be said about M80.
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Well ladies and gentlemen, it's rather one sided affair and yeah, Bat Boom's been piping
out.
Boom, it's in particular.
It's having to sit down.
They're sat.
Truly sat.
They've got two rounds at the tail end of the half, otherwise it would have been a 12-0.
They've got something to work with and it goes without saying, Chad, that they've got
pistol conversions all of that good stuff feels like a necessity.
Alright, well during the half-time break for the coach fierce, we started to cut corners
because of the score. Please control yourself, your teammate, your display, etc. We will
finish the game in the same spirit. That's great.
Yep.
And it makes sense. It started getting a little bit complacent when you're owning it that
bad. That was pure domination. Flameless and MagnetJess combined had nine opening
kills. They were great.
And it looks like it's going to be a long-centric focus with the Pongan towards Catwalk though.
Flameless just puffing up his chest with the support of Zorty.
Well, and they only started with a B stack, so they're rotating over now, but I hear the cat presence, they're in trouble.
They are in trouble, they're in a compromised position already, and oh my god, Sin just goes pushing through the smoke, easy pit for Zorty.
And, uh, it feels like the same as the first half.
Never mind, it's just the one, there's JBA, a necessary trade, we've got a 3v3 here.
Oh, block smoke on short, they've got everything.
Must feel like these guys have got infinite smoke grenades.
Flash and go, that's all you can do.
catch his boom nice little pop dropping different elevations but boom
it's just managed to remove the head of Lake JBA is putting up a bit of a fight
he's got two to contend with it doesn't find that immediate head shot that he's
so desperately needed boom find 11 and yeah this one seems like a certain T the
one to two match the best of three coming in 80s way ASAP yeah just a little
bit of stress in that situation right because they think it's a fast long and
then once they hear the short steps Lake's wondering what to do with the
flash and since like well just flash me through the long smoke but by the time
it comes in they're already closed and the flash doesn't work as desired you
can see they're just way too easy so first by m80
death knocker this one not far away don't let me tell you that can they make
this at all interesting or is this gonna be one of the more dominant school
lines of stage two actually in turn by slack so fortunately doesn't get to stay
They're alive, late for the helmet and play can't double up.
Flying high ten did not...
Okay, J.B. that's not the range for that F.E. 9 poor guy.
He's got 16, slacks 11.
I think they're going to have to try and find the gap by pushing long, but it's already being considered.
Just hitting the pause, this is good from Betburn.
It's so good, isn't it?
It's like they just know the... they know F.E. 80's next move before they make it.
That wasn't sin.
I think it gave me time to explain. He's normally the long anchor, so ready for the possibility
in game lead up. There you have it. Nameplate Counter Strike. JBA the B Defender. So look,
I understand in these rounds where it's forced by, you do things a little bit more out of
the foxes, same as pistol rounds. You don't really play to your positions or you don't
have to play to your positions. You don't even have to play to your positions at all.
It's just in the gun rounds, you get a bit more of the similar approach. It's these
rounds that have more flex.
Everything's a little bit more all over the shop.
It doesn't stop them from pressing tab and being a little bit more cautious about long
because you are educated.
Yes.
And our managers will have bleach on JVO.
Oh, oh, oh, his coach is happy with that.
His coach is very happy with that.
I'm very surprised to see that.
They just get it done and dusted right there and then
absolutely not.
All right.
Well, I guess you don't want to give them the glue but 12.
Even though it's not at the top of the scoreboard just yet, I guarantee you that one is confirmed.
And they're allowing Flannis to work through the upper tunnels, so...
They've listened to the boss man's orders, and they're delivering.
Maybe a Michael overlooked Flannis. Does he head backyard instead?
There he is. So he'll get to retain the MP9.
Okay, well congrats, you got an MP9.
You played hide and seek and you won this round.
Well, no you didn't, but...
Get away.
Get away.
In a way.
A dominant score line from Bear Boom.
Yeah, it does already feel like the rap doesn't it?
So we haven't seen anything too inspiring from M80 that would get us excited.
They do have this slight gap on the oscillation of the smoke so Slacks gets a stepping stool
and whistles off a shot.
Yeah, unable to connect it there on the movements of that boom edge.
The one Aids on JVA does significant damage and looking like they're going to head out
long, I bet Boombie can see it highlighted. Zordie has the kind of layer of the land with
the X-ray. You can see everything that's going on the map, but long is the gap.
Swish is just jiggling that from the single box. That's how that smoke was meant to look
in the first half. And Magnetjez seems bigger than one man right now if you're looking at
it from M80's perspective. 50 seconds, flashes an ounce of the presence out long and is this
That final blow, bet them.
Looking good.
Crazy slacks, scout highlight. Go.
Go.
30 seconds.
Thanks.
We're getting one way, Magnajus already finding Swisher, and he's looking like the stomp.
For that first half, did dictate, one back from late, unable to handle another on the follow-up, it's just JVA here.
Bed Boom, tightening the noose bomb on Flamas' back, and no need.
13-2, I mean just 15 rounds required, Bed Boom secure themselves into the 2-1 bucket, put them just one best of three away from Stage 1.
I'm surprised they're able to keep it up here within this stage, you heard from Deft there in that pregame interview saying,
to be able to do that. Yeah.
I mean, I think we're going to
get to the next one. Hey, yeah,
we looked at what they didn't
stage one, but do they have
enough depth to take it into
stage two teams? Well, clearly
too good for M. 80 was saying
didn't want to jinx it. Well,
maybe he did. That's a very
dominant school line right
there. So a whole bunch of
counter strike to go today to
work out who's going to join
them in that two one bucket
for the best of three coming
into tomorrow. So we don't
know exactly what's going to be
going down with this one, but
we do know that this series is
It sounded like Death had a plan, but not really much time to execute it when you're going up versus Betboom as exactly what Ash and Yanko were kind of worried about happening.
If you take this map to Betboom, Yanko, you're in for a bad time, and that's exactly what we saw for an A2.
Yeah, I think, though, it was a really bad day in the office, and things just going horribly wrong from the start, and then it ruins your plan somehow.
how, listen, if we're talking about a team losing 8-0 on the T side of Dust2 and you're
getting smashed, and that's the first time you get your upper and up in Round 9, like
something has gone horribly wrong, like you've lost all track of what's going on, track of
the macro, you know, what's important as well, and that sort of paints the picture for me
I think it's kind of important
is that we've been tested so
far. They were to be a game
leading the best of three to
play spirit the other day as
well. I think this is kind of
the tested team versus the
untested team plus a bad start
plus you've got all the best
players. Yeah, the pendulum
really very much being a
pet boom server as Alex said,
obviously now in the two one
pool and only one best of three
could separate them from the
stage three. But let's dive
into this one a little bit.
them from stage three. But let's dive into this one a little bit. It kind of felt like anything
that MAD had to throw at Betboom, they were kind of already very well prepared for it.
You always say it sounded like in the pretty much interview that it was death that was feeling
confident about the prep, but actually Betboom seemed pretty solid. And you see they're going for a
long pop, the time is around 1 minute 20 when they're going for this, and they get delayed,
and then they get delayed again. Boom, which comes back, I think even re-smokes this in a moment.
Oh, sorry, died, sorry. And they go for this long pop, and just happens this situation,
flammuses here ready for them. It's also really important like the trajectory of those nades makes
them unsuspecting of flammuses' position and I mean he just gets a double kill there and on top of
that sets up magnifiers and tells you how good it was going for bad boom. They're in the first
gun round they had the double up out already and not something that you know M80 would expect
definitely. Yeah totally it felt so fluid for the side of bad boom in that one then we move forward
to round seven same situation here Ash. Yeah it just seemed like maybe they were in team speak who
they've got some among us imposter going on in there something because they seem to know
everything that was going to happen and even when they didn't know they've pulled out some
just magic moments so you're going for a B-pop, B-split sorry and I think this is with Takpaw's
here, Dev said they need to play with a bit more passion in the game, we'll put it nicely
and yeah it brings with 3 man B-stack with Saffron in early in the round, Flash comes
out and they're just all here and usually someone just hides when this is happening
but they're fine to just have a Flash assist and two kills happen at the same time, lots
of confidence, I actually feel at the moment this team potentially could make it through
the next stage because I've seen a lot of it, a lot of good stuff from them, they seem
well prepared, the individual is all popping off. This fellow could performance today,
they could have caught a lot of teams. I think yesterday the dunk effect made them seem not
as good but they're dangerous teams to play against. A little bit as I think can come down
to the matchup in terms of the maps, if they can get some of these more simple free flowing maps
like Dust2, Mirage, albeit they had a ton of success on Anubis as well when Flamus was standing in for Dilhides.
I don't know how much now him standing in for Siren, is that going to have an effect on their Anubis?
Their nuke has been solid too, so I guess we'll have to wait and see if it comes to that.
But yeah, with the form they've been in, in Cologne, looks like they're going to be tough to stop from getting into Stage 3.
Just to go back to your examples there, Ash, I mean, there was more throughout the course of the map as well, right?
I felt like that boom just it's almost like they'd read the strap book of maybe before they'd even begun the game
How frustrating is that when you feel like okay?
We've got an opportunity here
Maybe we've got a strap that we can pull off and the other team are already 10 steps ahead of you
That must be so frustrated
I mean it is frustrating but at the same time you want to end around with quality in a matter if you go into that
Three on B stack you want to at least go in there
There's some good flashes coming in good space and everything like make sure you get some trades
Okay, they come out unfavorably maybe a loser around like that or the long pot comes in
It just feels like they're unaware kind of for things, but also it doesn't help when we see Magnus from the window
just deleting two people instantly. The Flums MP9
instantly deleting the second guy, then the chance to trade. That's the kind of more frustrating side of things because at least then
okay, yeah, we lose a kill to MP9, we get a guy dinged, but we get a kill back, we can still play their own.
When this happens, the game just feels like you don't even win the game.
It comes from the bad start because you know what we saw in that first example after the Magnus OP kill, the last two players save.
I hate early saves on T side because what happens two guys have rifles
Then they actually bought all out, but now you don't have an op you have some galils
You don't have all utility playing against double op like what's your call going to be against double op with note not full nades
No op what are you gonna do on T side us to write like there's not like really a lot that you can do
Okay, now you've lost now you have to go with pistols nothing has worked
Okay, let's go back to that beast plate
We never tried it and then then so that's what makes it easy for bad booms sort of to go for these calls
Right, it's what's happened up until that point
Yeah, and maybe get a hate to see that one coming
But speaking of two teams that are in even more dire straits already
That is going to be going down after the break because if you can so believe your eyes
It's bait and game allusion that are already on the brink of elimination
We're gonna bid you farewell and leave you with the second shift to be guiding you through our first elimination series
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I'm gonna do drop with this, okay
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Two X seconds, twenty seconds.
Yeah.
Mike, you have site, Molly.
Yeah, I'm flashing entry, flashing entry now.
Bang.
Molly, excited.
Long.
Long and base, flaming me.
Blind.
Blind.
Maybe go...
Long off, long off!
Long off, long off!
Dead.
Clear, goose.
Get ready for some shit.
Goose clear, blinds.
Right, goose clear.
Stay short, blind.
Ready for short.
I'm ready.
Just follow this.
I go back to low.
Yeah.
Heal this as long as I know.
We have any slash?
No, nothing.
I'm going up, flash.
You can fight towards site though.
It's fine.
I think so.
Yeah.
Mike, come like single.
One close.
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Double.
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And Alvarez, Alvarez.
Alvarez, Alvarez.
Chill.
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Good shit.
Let's go guys.
I can hear it in people's voices.
Like everyone's nervy.
Like we don't make decisions fast enough.
We don't believe in ourselves.
Fucking believe in yourself.
Gamer Legion vs. Bait. Elimination on the line. Rez here. No stranger to crunch time scenarios.
I mean, I've been in this situation many times. I think throughout my years in the NIP and Gamer Legion as well.
So I think we're used to this and I think since we have this experience, I think we can do it this way.
There's a bit of a comparison we could draw there. The NIP were favorites, you know?
And then there was Gamer Legion coming into the Major as some of the favorites to make a deep run here.
How do you respond?
We're not repeating history this time.
This time we're going to 3-2.
Yes, we're running all the way back.
Well, let's talk about the single-digit losses to Bed Boom and Astralis.
Rough ones, what could game religion take away from those losses?
Obviously, they try not to think about them.
It was a really, really rough game for us.
And we did stuff we regret, basically.
mistakes and we walk through them, we talk through them and we analyze them and hopefully now it won't happen again.
So today when you look across the aisle at another team that had a lot of expectation about them coming into this major, what do you think it takes to beat Bait today?
I mean I think they come in as a really solid B1 team, they crossed in stage one right and now they're getting a weak start in stage two.
this is a time that we can beat them for sure and obviously both of us are 0-2 and we really
want to go through to this major and we're all hungry and I think this is going to be a brawl.
Even Snacks is hungry? He's always hungry. Always hungry. Any
correct me we're not in North America if we had to let him know anything you want to say?
No let's go. Let's go let's do it. The Intel Extreme Masters Colon Major 2026 is brought to you
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Welcome back to I Am Cologne, this is when it gets a little bit more spicy.
I am joined by Dupree and Styko on the desk as we head into the first elimination game we have here on the A-Stream.
You have two teams who I suspect would do slightly better after having a relatively decent Stage 1.
You had Bait going 3-0, you had GamerLeading being one of the main favourites to go 3-0 and also making it 3-1.
Now all of a sudden they find themselves in this 0-2 position where Martin in maybe two, three hours, one of them would be eliminated.
It is really strange how we have a big disparity in the results from their Stage 1.
Obviously it's not a position that I can envy either of those teams. This is a really big crunch time
And especially in this zero to expect to have like a little bit of a lesser opposition
But no bait are playing game religion. They're both really really good teams
But I have to say something is falling apart and we might dive deep into that throughout the segment overall because well
Gimbalism and bait even though bait had like close losses. It is still
Not the not the look that we are used to from
How surprised are you, Pina, to see these two teams now battling it out to survive at the Major?
Yeah, I think both teams have been struggling throughout both stages.
I don't think it's been pretty clean, even to the fact that Bate, when 3-0 in the first stage,
they just came in yesterday and looked like a team that was really disconnected in many ways.
And I think the biggest drop-off for me has to be Gamergy.
I think it's a team that has lost themselves coming into the stage,
and they also looked a little bit lost in the first stage, but it's gotten even worse.
I think it's for both teams. They're looking at each other now thinking we shouldn't be in this situation
But that's the reality right they do find themselves fighting for for a way forward and trying to avoid elimination
But but overall it's a matchup that that that can get very spicy also to the fact
You know that it's about their lives at a major. Yeah, Peter
I know you know as much as surprised we are to to see them
You also found an example as to why you believe the game are you in a strong and you have around five just to illustrate for
the viewers at home, what's not working out for them at the moment?
I really hope that this is one of the rounds that Russ talked about them going through in
the practice zone, didn't really go the way because turning their attention to Nuke when
they played against Bed Boom, you can tell from the side of Bed Boom that they have one
up saved here.
And for me the issue with this round is just their decision making and also the fact that
they're just not doing anything.
Pretty much Pia just get picked off in lobby, Sota can then rotate freely and try and actually
should have killed Snakes here, but they end up going rampy and you can see that on the
that Snacks has vacant his secret and against pistols just going back to Ramm
then the Paternal Stack with no info since they were 4 guys lobby
they don't even wait for Snacks to go back lobby and that results in them getting flanked
there's just so many things in this round that they should have done different and could have done different
they even waited half a minute before like when Sordi was spotted trying to kill Snacks in secret
they had 30 seconds to do something because they know where the op was
but they still waited 30 seconds to just allow that flank to happen and try and wait for Snacks then
That's just poor lead style and just something that we should expect more out of being a game
engine.
Martijn, I know Janko has made the point that Gamer Legion is a team that seems to struggle
a little bit playing as the favorites and he's made a couple of good examples as to
why that is.
It's also evident that some of the individuals are not turning up the conversion rates as
well as you just saw on your screen.
I feel like no matter where you look within the Gamer Legion camp, there's a bit of an
issue going on.
So is it just, you know, the culmination of the entire thing not working out for Gamer
Is there anything specific you're like if you just fix this maybe that could unlock the rest of it?
Yeah, this is a conundrum that we will likely to you know have to solve today somehow and as we saw something that the game
Region was exceptional at coming into the major. Well, they're below average right now here at the major
It's obvious that opposition got stronger and they're a little bit more prepared
But yeah, it's tied to the fact that the individuals are just not having that great of a time like we've had multiple times where PR
went completely missing, someone that is so reliable in this trio of engines with high
pecs, res and PR, and well, if one of the guys is like that throughout the whole event,
it gets progressively more difficult, and I've asked PR what's happening, I tried to
avoid interviews with him because I liked the guy, I didn't want to put him on the spot,
but I had to do it yesterday, and he said honestly, he couldn't point the finger on
the mistake or on the weakness, he said honestly, some of the games were unlucky and it's maybe
snowboarding him through this stage overall and it's just rough seeing PR in a shape like this.
From a player perspective Peter, can you recognize that feeling where you head into a tournament,
you've been doing well leading up to it and all of a sudden when you hear you're just not hitting
your shots and you're like what's going on? Yeah I've tried it actually multiple times you know
and funny enough it happens a lot at the match and I think it's because there's
so much more on the line and I can recall Sonic saying in my take line, my tactical pause is
and saying that we need to free up a lot. We need to free ourselves up a little bit.
Like, you know, we need to play a little bit more loose, like, let the rounds play them
out, you know, play a little bit defaultly, see what we got to work with. Let's next
go into the mid-rounding that we know that he's so good at doing, instead of relying
too much on our prep and trying to have this master plan of how to break down our opponents.
And I just don't think that has been working for them. And I think it also just comes down
to that the players, the worst they get at the Major, and in the games, the more mistakes
they make, the more hesitant they start being, the less space they start creating for each
other. And I think they just get afraid of making mistakes. And that's also why I think
they've been playing so poorly because it's not only the individuals, but it's like as
a team that just looked so disconnected. And that also just spirals into the individuals
playing worse. So like it's a very, you know, downwards conspiring in many ways.
Well, they have to figure it out now. Otherwise, in a couple of hours, they will be eliminated
from the tournament. Now, changing focus towards beta as well, we established the game leading
are not in the best place as of right now. I don't know why, but I feel Bait is coming into this
0-2 game a little bit different. I know losing to M80 was not a good look for them, but losing 13-11
against FOOT, that's a result that I can somehow respect. I think FOOT is one of the better teams
we have here in Stage 2, so do you share that sentiment that you're not as worried on behalf
of Bait as we should be with GAMERLEAD? Yeah, I think when you look at the shape overall,
I think Bait are coming a little bit better, a little bit hotter into this best of three. Obviously,
the recent losses are close and as we know Bait are always playing these close games. I think
every single game apart from one at this major so far we're just 23 plus rounds so they like to be
this like kind of like late round team late match team but you know it's it's worrying on the other
hand with NPL as well ahead of the major he was one of the best players on this on the server
whenever Bait was playing in big events he was pretty much hard carrying them but when it comes
comes to this major, he's finding himself, he's still struggling and it's kind of a
repeat story from what we just mentioned with the PR just a minute ago.
It is and that is a big issue because I very much agree with you, I think the catch-up
is behind Bait is NPL.
Peter, as you remember, they started off the year playing not their best brand of Counter
Strike, struggling a lot, you know, rusty changes in and out, NPL was struggling as
well in the beginning of the season, then all of a sudden, as you said Martin, he hyped
it up, you know, stepped up massively and all of a sudden Bait become a reliable team
again.
Bet is struggling, is there a direct correlation between NPL not playing well and Bate losing?
Yeah, there has to be something to it.
And I think the whole thing that he gave up the in-game leading role to Alex to get more
freed up and maybe he has also been a little bit too chaotic in some moments.
I think that that's also put a little bit more expectations on his own shoulders, but
also for us that he is supposedly to pick up big enough since he doesn't have the high
gear, so he hasn't to lead the squad as well.
I think that, for Bate, I still think that, as Martin said, they have played better than
Gamelizion coming into the game.
And I think yesterday was maybe more of an off-day than it was them playing poorly,
because I do think that they have what it takes to actually make it to stage three.
I think it's a team that is still on the rise.
I think the one big question for me is still Sissy a little bit, the fact that he has such
a vital part in the team playing the AWP, but he still seems to be so up and down.
He had like one good game against M80, where he really pulled through in overtime.
But it's like, this is where it's gonna come down to, like, if you can step up in this game, where he's probably needed the most, then I think that they're gonna be taking this one.
Well, obviously, no game without no video. We gotta figure out where these two teams are heading into, Martin.
Is there anything you expect from this video, or any potential surprise you could see being picked out by either bait or game on a game?
I'm not sure about the surprises. Obviously, if you're on the elimination, the hopes and the ropes, you kind of wanna lean into probably your strengths, and maybe you don't want to overthink it with analyzing mistakes of enemies.
How do you see these friends of Game of League right now?
That's a great question.
Do I have to say ancient, when in reality it was the Astralis just beating them,
flat out in the best of one, it's rough.
I think then turning their attention to Inferno, that makes sense,
because they played it twice here at the Major, they haven't lost yet,
and turning their attention to B, you know, going for Miraz, that is their bread and butter,
that's the one they've always wanted to pick, that's the one they played the most.
feel very comfortable that the good or the crazy thing for me is now the fact
that we do get to see Nuke which is a map that game has been completely
demolished on throughout this tournament so if it actually turns into a third
map I would be very worried if I was game-religion. I like the ancient band from game
religion my final thoughts are there. Alright alright safe to say that we
have a pretty cool game at our hand in case you just tune in now it's the right
timing because we're just about ready to get the game started let me just remind
you that this is an O2 game it's an elimination game whoever loses this
best of three would also be eliminated from the Major. So safe to say the stakes are high. Let's get it go.
By the way, Stiko put it as well. You know, you've got elimination hopes and they're on the ropes for
both Fate and Gamer Legion. Jessica set the scene fantastically. Loser loses out on an opportunity
for a longer Major. If this was a 2-2 game, it would make a whole lot more sense. Yeah, the 0-2,
the best of ones just not being kind to either.
And Game Allegiant have looked extremely rough around the edges.
Tucked in safe second mid.
Understandable CTs, they'd love to cross the boiler jump spots
if they can catch any early whiff of info.
Well, not gonna start that way, Game Allegiant.
They're gonna start four strong on A.
They said that we'll have a combination of high pecs
on the long corner, with Rez tucked in on the pocket.
Snacks under the balcony.
Well, he's starting to search.
MPL's target Alex is going to be spotted out with the bomb as well.
MPL comes bringing the fight, great work.
Profits off of the early info and the early excursion from snacks.
Here comes that Utah flash completely blinds off rares.
This is technical and MPL's been brutal.
Three kills off the rip into the desk.
Put him on the spot, Liar as well.
Keep your eyes on him and his performances.
MPL at the top of the table, typically correlating with the win.
A PA, he's had some tough performances this major, looking to bounce back in stage 2.
They're coming his way, wow.
Now we get a chance.
Alright, well, Towson announcing his presence over to Wardspit, the bomb will get planted,
and they're actually springing to action to deal with Towson now.
He doesn't even have any armour.
Alright, not gonna matter, Kenzie's ult rips that one away, and what a spotless start there
for Bayonet.
Easy stuff, he's sent through, kill.
Doesn't really matter.
No, and if anything, you know, it's one side, it's inspiring the other.
It's very deflating for this to be the way your series starts.
I was, you know, listening to the desk there and talking about some of the game in Legion
Wars.
The way that they've been conducting them, like, is snacks calling to compensate for
the lack of comms or initiative being taken, are the calls putting them in the tough spot.
It doesn't really matter.
It's just what we're seeing.
And it's definitely not the most convincing counter strike.
It's not a team that was just in the grand final of IEM Atlanta a couple of weeks ago
against Na'Vi.
I'll tell you that much.
So the rules have come off in Cologne, it's about piecing this machine back together.
Because both of these teams can make it 0-2 run.
I'm extremely confident in that statement.
No coach for Baby, I'm not unable to be behind the team.
And they haven't put a stuffed animal in the chair.
No, not yet, I guess that came late.
late. Stage one, they thought we don't need it.
We just didn't know the matter. They didn't realize.
The coachless...
It might not have got the same fanfare as well. Spirit, get it for free.
Well, their intention to block half wall did rock the clock a little.
We get to that minute mark as the HE from PR looks like it's going to do some
chunky damage to MoTalEx and SanTheop.
Does Rez start to cheat over towards B?
Right, if you have to stack in the right place, you start to think to yourself,
Okay. Well, they might have a chance in this otherwise snacks and PR need to do an awful lot
If you can block them and they respect it, but that might not be the case. That's how they're gonna go
Can't he's always coming as a hey cheese the late piece this res will roto over in time last route and they're charging
Mac 10 bound into the site snacks controls with his 5-7 res as well able to offer up just a one make it to
He's got sissy on the smoke spam and they're not quick to plan this gets tough now 20 seconds
especially in like a start pushing you making this as uncomfortable as possible.
Kensa's are fake plant with 14 seconds on the count.
Now this wins.
Time for this. You ain't got time for this.
10 seconds. Kensa's just can't hit his shot. Res can.
Three kills deep. A second round conversion up against the force by the four flat bait sent back to spawn.
Yeah, that's tough because without that bomb going down, they lack the extra 600 bucks.
Well, atmosphere appears to be a key. You just see, well, at least we do.
Towson being quite jovial after that, so that's a huge round to win.
And the kill comes to resident annotation there, but very well done from Pierre and Snacks.
Like the HE softened them up, it makes it a whole lot easier for these 5-7s,
and Hypex also gonna bring some energy, we know this man can be clutch.
So this force...
lacks any real bite from Bait.
I mean, Hypex was the only one putting in a shift in their best of one versus Bat Boom.
He was doing everything he could.
It's just odd to see them disappear to such a degree.
Yeah, especially when expectations were high. Perhaps that's a contributing factor.
Community started to put them in their...
pickums.
A burden of additional pressure.
The bomb has been left, he stares, and everybody's gravitating towards top mid.
So even if they do get the kills...
They can't explode.
Yeah, so...
Well, wait, MPL's heading back now, so this is definitely a mistake.
This has been left, and now the bottom banana smoke's faded, so...
Fortunately replenished.
Oh, and the bomb spotted!
Hello?
Well, that's gonna give you some sort of info.
Res going down with empty hands. His M4 gets nothing.
He's splitting.
Sissy wants that, yeah.
Yoink.
Okay, they're in spawn.
Good find from Snax. Catches Alex, who was trying to borrow into CT.
Interesting, the bottom banana players don't activate off of the Info, they only saw one.
Snax clear in the middle.
the rats in the system.
Bombs got a clear path.
Well, Sizzzy goes down here, yeah, exactly.
Even if Sizzzy dies to PR, the B-Players can start to activate.
But clear intent, we're in Sizzzy's movements.
Like CT?
Deep one.
Oh my god, long range. Fair play.
PR's done well there.
They're trying to be too tricky there.
And they're pushing through.
I'm on the plant, they don't have the bullets.
They're gonna find the USP?
Isn't a fair fight, MPL.
Moves the first of the 1v3 and not going to be able to get away.
That's how some chases him down,
again the Legion will convert and secure themselves what should be a bit of a gimme.
Okay, so I guess calming the position that Pierre gets the kill from and being specific with it is hard
because it's not a spot that you're often fighting.
It feels like MPL's understanding of the situation is that player is further aware on rotation.
Otherwise you just drop a stand at CT smoke and guarantee you get the bomb down and set something up in the side.
The fact that you're getting is free kill.
There's still 20 seconds left.
If they're taking a pause, get the smoke in, maybe a better opportunity in that one, but now it's just going to have to be the eco.
And I have to respect PR for not, you know, immediately kind of magnetizing to the M4.
He instead goes and looks for the fight on the cross and does catch them with their pants around their ankles.
Fight mid off the flash, doesn't look like anyone's going to be too exposed.
Alex was the only one susceptible and just a bit of chip damage on that HE.
PR.
Provides me forward and instead has just gone down early to an MPL Tech 9.
That's already super uncomfortable for Snacks.
It's definitely forced a big rotation, but you're still confident in game legit at this juncture.
They have a lot of utility to block with. They're here in case there is the explosion.
When you're dealing with unarmed opponents, these are the tough fights they can essentially have to be given to you, especially that we're talking about a couple of Deagles in the mix here.
So starting the reroute.
Imlegant, they don't really have a choice. They kind of have to stand in the diagonal,
but because it is this eco, this type of a setup is not the end of the world.
Hypex wanting to play for some info there, you can see him attempting to live forward,
but he needs to sit back because if Towson's under pressure, he's the only man that can
support and vice versa.
Staying active for this arch-wrap.
Oh my god, hey, it maids out.
Put him away!
Hypex goes down.
It's just Towson here.
This could be a horrible round to lose!
NPL's taken off Snacks' head in rotation.
Towson vs. the World gets triple swung.
Kens is all comfortable and I can't believe how comfortable that looks for bait.
They were in control the whole time somehow.
I'm saying it shouldn't be any issues. They're playing an okay setup and right there that looks miserable. What?
That pincer that happens to high pecs there, right? The fact that there's a player over towards apps as well
He's really unable to move just gets stuck between a rock and a hard place and sure game
Allegiant they win a force by earlier in the piece
But this is essentially an eco victory MPL putting a shift so far up to six kills
Too more impactful once we're feeling the flow of the game
And I thought we were just gonna get back to regular scheduled programming into the next round of play
Himalays are the ones who are now gonna suffer a bit more of a stinker in the buy department
If I and he wants to get on the mic early
He's out of his chair
And he's waltzing over to the button bang all right. Well, he's pressed it
I mean probably something he wants to just
just correct. I think that this for me, you're unhappy with how the last round went, but
forget about it because you saved the M4, Rez had enough money to drop another one. So
at least you get two M4s going and then how else can we piece this together? Because the
worst case scenario in this situation is you lose this next one after fully investing and
then you take an eco and then now they have a two round lead, right? So you want to try
and mitigate that as quickly as you can. So I understand this time out and I think it's
well placed. Hypex did initially invest with a scout, but I think he's been sent in a different
path. He comes back in with a 5-7. Trying to make sure they facilitate a little bit of
utils. And this is the one, right? So Alex, in apps, the fact that he limits the position of
Hypex there. But Hypex takes the contact long, thinks he's going to have room to take the fight,
can't back up, pinned, swamped. That's the kill that really makes the difference. And then they
have the rotation. Just a couple of pistols and a smoke grenade. That shouldn't be that easy.
We'll see if it really counts though. Both teams winning some low buys early on.
Yeah, let's see if they can pull this one off. A forward-out set up for Towson and Hypex.
It'd be belated cheers for Bate. They win this one. They know what it means. So a very
important round now is the stack heavy on A. They have sold the B bombsite. And I like
this type of call as well, whether or not it works. If you lose the round because you've
Rolled the dice incorrectly, that's okay, you get a double dip of this, it can still be competitive as opposed to having to deal with the eco into the next.
Towson pushing, spotted.
Yeah, okay.
He can still see him, I don't know about that.
They haven't got the B space yet.
Uh, but Towson's push has facilitated a heavy rotation, both M4s will be here and blocked.
Wow, just in time. Just in time.
I have a hate you to break this if they'd like, but it's always dicey against the four spies.
Especially 5-7s up close.
How good are the flashes?
Can they do it again?
They already want one of these.
Towson's coming down.
Back to town.
Just as Kenson's allux.
On loop.
Sissi's lost the bomb.
Do you go forward until you get back?
You know they're coming to the infos.
30 seconds. Gotta make a choice.
They're running at Towson.
If he can just run with the MP9, he goes running and gunning for another onto NPL.
But there is a race on.
Hypex will be there in time.
He's had his knife out, we'll tuck into the site, here's them coming,
can we sense his suspicions? One is enough.
A powerful position here, hoping to be overlooked,
the tension's gone by PR, and that's the kill.
Kensen's always gone.
Gamer Legion, they're making it work on the pistols.
Okay, the stack worked, the rotation was there,
Towson's push not noted.
I thought that Kensen's always...
What was that for?
Well, we did...
Yeah, X-ray.
Killer terrorist win.
It makes all the difference.
Alright, well this is starting quite nicely with the back and forth.
Snacks there, good understanding of the economy. The fact that they did win the eco, they should have a full buy year here.
That just chirped out of the mouth and yeah, this was a race right there.
It's awesome. I also love the fact he says proactive there and just swings into them.
Hypixel gets set up by PR and he delivers.
Time out calls and not by the coach. There isn't one behind, babe.
Does someone have to kind of wheel their chair over to the button?
I guess they're still able to type it in.
I suppose I guess you have to have some type of a...
A competition? Yeah.
He's kind of get out of the chair and take his headset off.
Can't be doing that.
Well, the same thing I just said regarding the game allegiance timeout now applies to
the bait timeout.
So we're in a bit of a tug of war right now.
Nobody's won out on the finances truly, even though game allegiance technically did, they
were unable to convert against that eco.
It's okay, I think game legion should be terrified because NPL's got to take nine.
Hey, it's only the best work with a pistol so far, hasn't he?
He has.
Oh, I think because you know you're going up against a bi, you're just going to approach this more standard if you game legion, which means you probably fight for some banana control, and they're starting three strong.
Wow, early chip damage connects. Three players worse for that. Blocked by the incendiary as they progress middle.
I think a cent feels just misty smoke there banana. It's bounded back towards him
Up middle within our care in the world
I'm sure hypex has learned his lesson he calls for the flash from Towson and confirms no one's home
Get to control this early is a nice boon for bait gives them some wiggle room considering they haven't contested banana just yet
It's like sitting back over to deal with the mid to beat.
Possibility in res, pokes his nose in from library.
So what's called that clear as PR continues to send damage down range banana, showing
that hey we still have this full information.
Says he comes back with your can he catch PR on a jump spot?
I wouldn't put it past him.
This kid's quick.
Just like that on the jump spot PR sat down.
Looks like acceleration on the cards.
The Snacks are going to play silent in the back of the side or try and stuff him in the choke.
Yeah, he didn't have the block smoke, so he's just going to try and tuck on new blocks and hope it's not Molotov'd.
It's rotation miles away.
It's just Snacks. Up against the entire squad.
Hypics can flash, but not yet.
Looking the wrong way, catches the perfect timing.
The Snacks, here comes that flash.
Perfect team play. Hypics sets up Snacks.
He's still alive in the back of the site.
Stopping in defense of B and that clock is ticking.
kentz is all finally fells in but with 10 hp left he's susceptible to spray
i scanned scissor on the follow up
got a plant 10 seconds applied flight from npl catches res but doesn't find it cleanly
and gamer legion will win out the tug of war
okay that one's tense isn't it snacks are so well they're back at the side he's got two choices
i either just try and mow them down at the choke point of the mouth the banana and buy time for the
rotation or a hide and the first one he has to do on his own hypex was still just darting through ct
spawn. This is great for the season. We know we can hit these type of shots. They start skyrocketing
towards that B site. It's the correct call. This flash comes in, well timed. The fight is already
being taken and bang. The sentiel goes down and so does the round. You could put that round in a
counter strike textbook. You really could. Just the fact that Snacks, he catches the moment that
they're clearing dark. His back is turned and the teammates flash for number two. Beautiful.
Well, they lost to Niko before.
This is even less.
Yeah, exactly. So we have a hard time seeing this one going against Game of Legion.
And even more so now.
Kensi Zortle is out top middle.
Displaying some of those frustrations just takes the fire on his own.
He can chip in with the Diggle, but it's high-pex to take another.
And this will be a 2-5 scoreline in a couple of kills time.
If you look at the Stage 2 results for Game of Legion, those results display domination.
Elimination now that's against them whereas the bait theirs were pretty close definitely winnable games
The foot result coming into this I think the problem with foot is you're dealing with major rookies, but at no point this year have they
Played like inexperienced characters. They're new on the screen. Oh
For sure
Well, they look like they've been doing it for a while and that's when you look at the Navi Academy and just the amount of
officials and reps. That's not including practice all the time. They're a family over there.
And that bait foot game, I'm pretty sure that was the last round where Foot just called a straight B
rush. You know, like bait were so close to OT and just got B rushed into a 13-11 score.
I really look forward to this G2 Lursens foot game later today.
I think that's definitely the most anticipated game of the day.
And there was a bit of back and forth on Twitter between I think the 9Z owner and Overdrive. So
So the Spirit vs. 9Z game, that was a couple of weeks ago, but still, I saw a prof out
there on Twitter today, stirring the pot.
Classic.
We do like our beef.
Medium rare and Counter Strike.
Okay, well that's now three on the truck for game.
A legion as the guns come out says he does not have his AWP this time.
Sent you on the main task on this bait side to deal with the banana control.
But, uh, game legion smoke kind of nullifies the T smoke that was thrown further forward.
If you dare.
Looks like they want to try and just pounce into A, so when you're making a call like this, if you're Alex, you're assuming they're starting 3-strong B.
Whether it's out the gate for just a quick dump of utlum sprawling down, or they do like a second wave.
And, they're somewhat right. Snacks is in two minds now, just in the courier of utility.
And while this is happening, they are slowly taking this space.
Unannounced, bracket control.
Smoking the air from Alex.
Two of them.
Snucks is gonna burrow in side-side and PR's now rotated to deal with Long, but he's gonna be smoked on.
So likely see him push through this when action begins.
Kens is all blocked as well.
Short moves first
Easy pick up, 1,000, 1,000 traded by Kansas or looking good on the balcony slays another trigger discipline from Rez
Oh, Rezioz! He's done a little too much there. Ascent you just caught a whiff
NPL gets a freebie and this one is going baits way for a third
Yeah, you better run the high pecs they're coming for you NPL wants this off
He doesn't need to carry this through and he's gonna get his way
and they snatched another one.
Three rounds now, nothing consecutive, and that's what they need to break the finances of game allegiant.
And Rez is going to be feeling a bit hot under the collar after this, because Tauss and the pit player does his job.
Rez goes overlooked, and then Asentheal going to Graveyard.
An odd spot considering the nerf
And we've seen a lot of that from PR all made too long
Oh, what?
Okay, well five bullets and Sizi the AWPer dead through a smoke
Might be the first time that's done that. He's definitely gonna be feeling hard done by their Sizi
So, I think advantage granted.
I think that's making up for the previous round for Rez.
I think you're right. I think you're absolutely right.
Yeah, that's the redemption right there immediately.
Lady Luck thought you got a little bit of a bad side, yes?
In the previous round.
Smoke break. Okay.
Boosted. I kind of like the idea.
Didn't pay off.
Essentially still up there, though.
I say that as actually PR forces him down.
Pushing in. Snacks loses his head to a sentiel despite the health discrepancy in the exchange.
Good output considering the circumstances.
Solid.
Now they have a decent amount of utility for this B finish.
Bomb smoke to block for now. At least keep Towson busy.
High-pex's AWP is in pit.
Rez, shooting back over towards A because of that pressure.
So, this is all on PR.
No, you two.
I'm killed so far by PR's name.
I need a rezzak.
I can't even help him with a flash.
Just use a smoke spam, a little bit of ship damage, nothing to report.
And don't get anything...
Oh, he's got one onto a sentiel.
I can still caught something on the cross as well.
A spam from Rezzenthausen did connect a little.
They do have a kit and a smoke on Hypex,
but he's the last man to the party right now,
and they've just been blocked over towards Coffins again.
Time is going to be the deciding factor in this.
Babe, can you hold on?
Henses was hearing all of their relocation, retooling.
P.L. and Hypex tasked with the defuse.
That bomb is ticking at a rapid rate.
N.P.L. still hanging out on the banana side.
They're going for this late smoke with that World Block N.P.L.
He might have to play on spam first.
Alex spotted towards dark.
Not clearing fences or overlooked completely.
All too easy.
Hypex 1.
That's around.
Bait, take the B site.
Alex's gonna go down with this shit, but he'll take a fourth round with him.
Well, we know it's a tough side to retake, everyone.
Has a hard time on this map.
The fact that GamerLegion don't consider the save, it's because PR chips away at that kill
onto the cent fuel.
And then with the man advantage, you're going to give it a go, but a lot lost there for
GamerLegion.
Could you reiterate what led to PR being so alone on that site?
Because it was a-
A long smoke comes in, they're playing hypex, hypex pit on his own, right?
And they don't really have a lot of information.
They didn't have eyes on brackets, and they're not sure if anybody has that control.
And at that point, also, if they come flooding out of apartments into high-fixes in pit on his loans and ran, that's not a good spot.
So it's also one of these things which is... aggressive.
They've extinguished the smoke and he's got this full control.
Yeah, where are the possibility they're gonna flash him back? He rattles off a shot and that's information.
Yeah, I don't know what Rez is supposed to get done here. The Zeus up close. Will Kenseth's door really get caught out by this?
I don't know if that's the world we live in.
Yeah.
The management of his angles to keep the distance from the close wall nice shot from PR's Desert Eagle a sentile charging towards him as well
Okay, kensis or
And now you hunt you know that high-packs has this all and if you try and take this out of his hands
It's 2400 loss going into the next round of play
So you move this it's a choice he's gonna have to make some save simulator for high-packs. What've you got here?
Sizzing kensis or on the way
I don't know if Hipex heard that. I think it was a bit too far away. Maybe.
Ah, easy, easy. Mark says he's B-laner for that AWP. So, look, Hipex with the lost bonus
isn't in the position to buy an AWP, but it's inferno, and I think he's going to have to
prioritize utility. So, it means that he won't have an AWP in this round. It means he's going
have to go M4 with Nades because the money's just not there. So the choice has been made.
He has equipped Silenced M4. We're all tied up 5 apiece. Three rounds back consecutively
from bait now. It's a very nice T side at this point. A good T side haul could be more.
I think the biggest issue right now for this A-Defensive Gamer Legion is the fact that they
seem to be taking Halls and Boiler and then Brackets before they're even worrying about
Banana Control, which is putting so much more pressure on Towson as your anchor and then
whoever his rotation player is with their Type X Rez, sometimes Snatch cheating back.
of this utility flies fast a
never very well will be it's just
house and he's got a monitor for his feet
does get a chance to reposition that's a
good blockage they want to call this
up and go through good smoke they're
gonna try kensas was fully blind easy
pickings my slow down yeah you can see
them receding he chose to commit alex
has the bombing apartments they're gonna
test rest he's in the perfect position
the off angle sways just gets the two
gets the three of them racks them up
Five alive for Gamer Legion, four there, six.
And Clunky there, I think Kensethal gets team flashed as he's coming out of apartments, dropping into pits.
So he's going to be mildly frustrated about that one because that's the difference between him getting the entry kill and being a silly looking, open death.
But it happened so quickly and here it is, yeah.
So the flash lands on the lip of the band, he drops in pit, counts an easiest kill, he's going to get all game and then res.
Well, he makes this look like the easiest kill, he's going to get all game, beautiful stuff.
Just playing the off angle on arch and we've got the final round of the half.
I'll take off you.
I can only keep this one tight, it's been leveled throughout, both teams winning lighter
buys, both teams looking solid in their approach.
Let's see what round 12 has in store for us.
Looks like they are preparing to take the fight half wall.
Flash them snacks and PR just takes the sentiel out of the ground.
PR's thinking finally I actually get to take some fights with Banana, that's his first
Just only kill of the half.
Alex, out of the half health off the back of the HE.
Piston up, there's something here.
Yeah, we are down and out, Alex 666.
Finds a necessary frag back.
Looks like Kenseth's always trying to smoke, walking snacks is red him like a book.
Don't, don't, don't make it.
We don't need the snacks antics now.
This is a zero two game.
This is for survival.
This is your map choice.
Get yourself a seven five half big man.
It is only res here.
So if they get him cleanly, never mind.
He's handled it with poise.
Gamer Legion 7, bait five.
It's tit for tat.
It's back and forth and it's still all up for debate.
But don't forget, end of this series.
Loser goes home.
This is just to be the only body, cause everybody's gonna need some body, this is just to be the only body, cause everybody's gonna need some body.
We're live, Gamer Legion's pick in a dual-die affair.
Stage 2 ends here, the Major ends here for one of Bait and Gamer Legion.
Not the teams I would have expected to see in a 0-2 match.
And now we're ready for our second half.
It's Gamer Legion's pick, and they did manage to wrestle for a 7-5 bid.
This is one of the weaknesses in Bait's map, Paul.
You take a look at their top heavy, right? They love their Mirage, they love their Ancients.
Oh my god, Mirage coming up next, their home turf.
They won the pistol in their first half thanks to MPL.
in some crispy ones. He had six kills in the first four rounds to power them for two of those first four.
Let's see if they can make it two from two in the pistols. That's a whole lot of numbers, but
a reactive pistol set up on the T side from Game Allegiant. So, Hypex is there with the
flashing case. They get challenged. That decoy towards half wall to try and flush anybody out,
playing close with Jules Barrettas. It's a passive stance from Bay on B with the Sanctuary,
Sizi and Alex it's the a defense that brings into question Kensi's on MPL on the long side if they get smoked off
They lose the site and maybe they're round with it. That's exactly what's coming
And Bodo spent from high-packs
well
So gonna play through this is kind of crazy
One spams one hits what's on to hit it and now no one's looking at Kensi's all
Doesn't hit it Towson saved by the bell
Oh, thanks MPL for those two kills because now the retake is possible.
Yeah, it certainly is.
At least the bomb goes down for Gamer Legion.
How is the question of if you can turn the tides of battle here?
MPL probably not done.
He's elected to just hide out Moto, let his boys group up,
and in the chaos, he'll emerge, hoping to catch someone, not looking.
It's PR that's starting to survey the Savannah.
He's going to have a flash in his face from Alex.
And essentially for clear out, Talcim still gets one, not bad output, same from Rez, catches MPL, the Glocks are hitting their shots, just Sissi on site, can't seem to find the headshot required, he's got one point of health and no time for this, Rez will close it down, that is not an easy round to win with MPL finding two on the entry.
And that means that Kenzie's all with, really does come back to cost them, I think MPL's double, you think okay that's gonna be enough, it doesn't matter that Kenzie's all couldn't connect the dots right there, but now in the grand scheme of things.
This is the double kill. They know their mid is just peppering away. The fact he gets a double that's jumpin trying to avoid this
They've run into site Tawson gets one immediately try to MPL gets a third for the round and I'll tell you what that means
It means Kenzie's all gets an M4 in this one
Sure, high pecs let's add a roar and that's Kenzie's all having a bit of a mare right there
But he can make good on this immediately. We've already had some force by wins some eco wins
and I love his decision there. He shows the M4 gets the kill and then immediately rotates
to be in case of a reaction. It's kind of treating it like the orb of the round. There's
going to be time for him to rotate and forth now that Sizi's blocked top mid. So this is
working quite nicely. They've shown presence. Top middle and they have more
Util over towards B. Senthiel can block with this smoke if you'd like but maybe
you were hoping for an invitation. Alex with the flash. Senthiel tucked in close
and Kendi's already to mow them down. The Util being lined up now for game
allegiance on this execute. The MPL and Sizzy flank can be fast. They know top
mid's clear. This is all on B.
Second wave, they wait for this one to be up, and they're gonna have to just laden the site with flay.
Sent your force into the fight, and it's just-
OOOH! That's that hero, M4!
Living up to the prefix!
PR back two!
Finds and denies, kens is all with more.
Hitchcatcher's two backs turned.
Well, just Hypex remaining.
It's a 1v2, it is winnable, but with 20 seconds, it's high stress.
NPL coming in from the banana side, he's gone for the fake point, gets the info.
Now he knows.
Now he knows, 17 seconds and counting, NPL scavenges a kit and an M4.
High picks wouldn't just hold it, would he?
Fakes the steps. Swings on out, MPL, you beast!
Nice.
He's doing that without the armor. He's the man to drop the M4 there.
That one, that one's on a tightrope right there, and the smile's on the face of Sissy.
Kenzozor makes up for the mare on the pistol,
and we have similar scenes to the first half of play.
We exchanged the pistols, we've exchanged the forces.
Again, Sissy, I think he was red in the face after the pistol.
I thought, nah, that ain't happening again, not on my watch.
But I love that as well. It's just those little actions. The fact that you said no worries, mate.
Here's an M4. Show us what you got.
Shakes it off immediately. Very cool.
Good to see the, uh, fate ranks have got trust in one another.
They really don't actually want to get involved in the force by wars.
But that does mean they're going to have two rounds that look very similar.
So right now they've got five deags. They're going to allow all the utile to be siphoned through
and then just search for headshots, but then into the next round with only 1900
loss, I'll let you guys do the maths. It's not enough for a full buy. So they can
have two lighter investments, or maybe they've got a crazy pocket strap into
the next, maybe some glills. We'll have to wait and see. We'll count for everything.
Slow and steady, the deagle.
Mate, I don't feel lucky to be alive there.
I have to buy some stocks in wine barrels. Yeah, I think so
They're made out of kevlar
That's to the taste
Optic stickers on that scissor M4 there. It's probably gonna be the highlight of this round
All peppered away. I place gets something. Yeah, and if kens is all puts his head in the vice a chance presents itself like how you pecs
He was unable to make good on it
You just got snacks as recovered in four.
That kensis war.
Lovely.
Okay, well six kills for kensis on the last two rounds of play.
That one was an easy one.
But you can see what I mean with the money now.
We've got 3.7 on the high end for high pecs.
It's 2.7 on low end for snacks.
So this is not bi-territory.
I just want to see some nades, you know, like it can't just be another one of those
Deagle rounds.
I think Deagles, we mentioned this earlier in the tournament, I think, especially on
a map like Inferno, if you're going to be light buying, I would prefer to see Tec-9s
even P250s as opposed to D.G.L.S. because a lot of the time you are just going to be
looking at smokes. Right. And this one's even lighter than the last so what
was five D.G.L.S. previously is just two and some flashes so you got your wish
with the nades. Off the second flash they'll go. I said you can have yourself a bit of a
far-fetched partner's up with his teammate. You can clearly get it all shut down cleanly.
It's just snacks that eventually gets something in the kill feed for
game a legion. This buying pattern from game a legion does mean that this is a full buy
without any compromises. Everybody has an AK, you should have full sets of YouTube Towsons
just missing a couple of flashes in the HE, but we're not dealing with Galils, right?
There's no concern that you're floating around with weaker weaponry than you should have.
However, that's allowed bait to have two very strong rounds back to back and build a big
nest of cash. So they've got a residual buy.
Banana smoke from spawn it looks like this one
It's gonna say is
Reactive because we started 40 stairs only one second mid the privy they're expecting
T hands Alex actually
Continues to stick around pommel snacks that softened him up for the MPL he
Teamplay look that I'm starting visibly for babe
Alex is still the walking wounded. His support network is MPL who's cheating over now.
Sizi's pushing apps. Beautiful. Better looking. Gile Dean.
Kanz is rotating over as well, so...
Since he with the audacious play, I'm surprised he doesn't just stay second mid to make sure they can't go back air, but maybe they're certain for this B finish 50 seconds. Here they come.
It's unlikely Alex is going to get too much more done, even loses an extra point of health from the impact of the grenade.
There's that flank.
Whoa!
Yeah, it commits to the...
You've got Nades, Chief, just block him in!
And they are forced forward.
A horrible feeling for Gamer Legion. How do you get out of this one?
Raw Rain.
Smoke phase.
And a headshot from Hypex.
Equalizes.
Now FBL catches them and we're back to turn, but there's another trait from Hypex and it actually looks like Gamer Legion have done enough.
off. Sissy was last seen banana. He's gone round the world and booked by high
pegs for number three. I don't know how they've done that.
Oh, you can see it's starting to come out of players who historically, you know,
keep it loud, but keep it a bit more to themself. It's coming out of everybody.
The type of environment where you can see your opponents between the rounds and
they're awfully close to special players who are on the end. But this is very poor
from bay in terms of a finish they had all the information the stack was in the correct place
just unable to hit the shots and feels like they're doing it individually then sissy the
span behind it's kind of like the kens is on the pistol round situation so okay it shouldn't matter
they've got a maid right in your crotch
so both teams losing some rounds that they shouldn't
That's setting us up for an exciting game. 9-8, one round gap.
Maybe Sizi can make good from that mare with his signature weapon. He's got the AWP in hand.
So MPL rotates over to B to be three strong with Alex and Senthil.
I've given a lot of room to be able to organize themselves, I game a legend.
Waterball dismount there on the half wall, so a legend are not in a rush, they're expecting a sweep behind that smoke.
Soon they have nobody brackets and we're at the 45 second mark.
PR is merely just presents.
They let him surge to try and find the way out first in case.
30 seconds now, NPO's close on this rotation, has a flash to alley you.
Just blocked.
Oh, PR finding something.
Do you rotate?
You've got time if you go right now.
It looks like they're mine.
Are they going in?
Are they going in?
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
They're going in.
Snakes too many targets. Two little-
Oh!
I got a second!
PR's going to get the bomb planted.
An ace clutch available to him. A masterful spray down.
Two bullets.
Two bullets into the 1v1.
Did he spot him?
Did he spot him? I don't think so.
Kansas was worried about dark.
Two bullets.
There has to be that one tap.
Kansas is playing it.
Oh!
Guys, what would have been incredibly heroic.
P. R. You're doing awful lot of damage there. He knows that clutch. It was in touching distance
Tenzy's or just picking up all the govins from that one that every nine. We're tied up here
Another round we're baits. Okay. Well, you shut them down you they've executed into your stack
Even though you lost one on the other side of the map
And a timeout called from IMD. Okay, okay
Taking stock of the financial situation while PR gave the bomb down and getting all those
kills he has 4k. Snacks and Townsend are in Galil or AK territory if they'd like. I even
feel you could justify a hero AK on PR. Or even a hero Galil if you want it to be safe.
Oh they're shoving. Okay they are going all in. They understand that coming down to a 1v1
means that Bates finances are a great point. Sure they're able to invest here
as we just the mode and the gray stream and this is simple stuff.
It's all about the money right that's likely why game
Allegiant have shoved here because if they win this it's 1400 loss for Bates
and we are late in the game tied up at 9.9
An awful lot riding on this, then.
Again, that is likely why we see this pace, but in the previous...
Sure, PL was able to get the brackets controlling at the kill, but it also came late.
He only started to make those moves for about 45 seconds.
Look at this sweep. They know there's no warp on the other side. They're taking their chances.
their chances.
The Sentils just want to go middle, and they're not looking.
Towson nearly goes down to NPL with some composed taps, and is baiting in a sentry with a block
smoke.
You're going to operate under the assumption that there's absolutely no chance of the HG.
MP9 gets nothing.
They're wounded.
Gamer Legion do have the man up, though.
Get a little information that there's plenty of body seats downstairs, and still more chip
damage done to NPL.
Tickles a few as they now take this banana space.
or rotating away which is alex on the jiggle
locked at 40 seconds the last few rounds bait have had the reading have been in the right place now
they're in a two-two as kenz on meander's back over execute lines up alex on first orange kenz
is all with that little flash and swing through the smoke plate it's all about the time he's not
not rotating to help.
Triple Molly, here we go.
All put for Alex, finds a safe haven behind second orange.
Kensizoi just tries to unload his mag,
but then there's a flash, beautiful.
PR able to spatch Kensizoi, it's just Alex666,
and he's traded.
Towson provides, and the site is lost.
It'll be a save now.
Sizi and MPL cannot risk going for this
with the loss bonus of 1,400.
Sizi can drop an M4 into the next,
as long as they hold on to this,
and right now when the penny drops,
the sacks want to call them off the leash
to go for a little bit of a hunt.
I mean, you really highlighted how important that hunt could be.
It doesn't look like they're moving, right?
They don't want to give anything away and allow way back in for
bait to just snatch it.
Silly round.
So they're going to pick up what they can and they're going to walk away with
double digits first.
This has been quite a back and forth game.
The longest streak of rounds we've had is three.
At Kansas or so, it looks so desperate, right?
Because the YouTube comes in, he thinks they're definitely committing with it.
He plays ahead.
just standing in the open spraying an easy target for PR to take down.
Yeah, I do actually, I really admired that.
Like, there's three steps to their BXEK.
It's the smokes, then they wait, they plume, then the mollies,
then the flash for the person that's just slumped.
This flash right here.
Oh, Kendi's going to be absolutely spewing with how that's unfolded.
And the save being called there. That was the better of the options. Okay, so Sissi drops an M4, they save one, and they have the AWP.
It's MP9s for Alex and Kenzie's AWP, setting three strong B. With that AWP, Sissi's going to look for a pick.
Coming through.
Oh, they've been front of flash, Tim. Snax is already up, Carl. Sissi could be caught out by a white swing here if he's not.
Careful! Oh, yeah! Bugs by the flashbang. Snax picks up the frag.
the frag, and sent fuel, alone, on the coffins, and a nice pick up, and move snacks his head.
Homestown T says they can reroute, they don't have to commit to this. That happened so quickly
I think they thought they'd just find the knockout blow, but while this has happened
in Banana, Kendi's always been liberated, he's pushed all this way.
There's no way PR's gonna consider this, it's such an early juncture. He's hearing all of
this huge amount of information relayed.
Let's be careful with these movements, cannot give a last step.
Flank, backs a turd, so much information to read.
Gets the late piece of high-picks on Banana.
Now uncomfortable, the flash is there, NPL just the one.
Still a sentiel able to scurry into the site in time.
That's what position for this, he's likely to be overlooked.
How's the cover? Wow, PR!
Great awareness, sweeps through the site, ensures it's clear.
Bloc Smoke Moto is this abs push from Kensizor that's just been spotted by PR.
They got the info, they know where both of the CTs are coming from.
They've got a crossfire established.
Everything dictates this should be game allegiance 11, flying into the site is Kensizor.
Alex666 with the odds stacked against him.
And PR just taking heads.
Wow, that's an impactful round out of PR, turning his game around.
Wow, that's an impactful round out of PR, turning his game around.
16 frags now for the Ungun.
Well, I'm just going back to see if I can catch it.
Just not connecting perfectly.
Our bait.
Look at this flash that's thrown.
That's what flashes MPL.
I'm glad the replay team had that covered.
I just have to go back and double check.
He's flashed MPL in a position to take the flight.
They're just trying to not win the round on their own,
But they're taking chances and the comms aren't flowing so that is a very costly flash
And now the score 11 and 9 to have to take an eco dish should be 12 for game allegiant
Yeah, should be in the operative kens is always decided it might not be
Desiree you had shown to PR
To slow your roll you can't just keep trying to win these rounds on their own
Obviously, this is the eco with just the pistol upgrade. You need a little bit more heroic
Since he's turned.
He peeks now.
He's got snacks on the screen and he's got him body shot in.
Gensis or the follow up.
Fine type X trying to surge forward.
This one slipping through again.
Can't lose to Ecos.
Rez has found Gensis or...
Okay.
NPL going forward at this.
He wants to just wait ahead!
Towson was on the back pedal!
The audacity from NPL.
MPL!
They've hit some bangers, sure.
Oh, Rez, he's the higher fly right now. 21 kills 1v2, this one.
This should have been a gimme.
Exercises.
Bit of patience here, hoping for overreaction, no overstep.
But now he's letting those seconds take fire, and the longer it goes, he will be committed to A.
Here it comes. Here it comes. MPL's pushing forward.
His next turn!
Gets a sentiel looking for the next one and it's a deagle bullet to the belly
Bait of pulled it off. They've bailed themselves out. They've got kensas or an MPL's double kills to bank
I don't know how you keep the mental in it now. You've lost two ecos to one
That's one map in one not talking fool with just glocks in the USP's
But I'm talking unarmed opponents and MPL has been instrumental in some of these forced by victories throughout with us dropping M4's are hitting bangers
That's a big round
Time what should have been the 12 that should have been 12 every day of the week you cannot be losing those that is
Inexcusable and the fact there have been multiple within one map sure both teams have won four spies, but that's different
There's weapons. There's smokes. There's armor. You got five sevens on the CT side
This is just a couple of upgraded pistols and a whole world of destruction
You think the mental bait there a young team that's dizzy
You think this kid's gonna be feeling a lot of pressure he's 16 at his first major
GamerLegion, sure, still some fresh faces on that squad, but they should have more experience
and be able to hold on to a round like this, now they're the ones in the financial woes
and Kenzie's eye shows he can make some noise.
Mate, they can snatch this away in the final throws of Inferno.
And it's ugly.
MP7, Galil, tech 9, it's all higgledy-piggledy.
This has been different from the other Stage 2 games for GamerLegion that have looked
Clat landslides this one.
They're looking more comprehensive while still a back and forth game.
Look at the opening stance here from Bait.
Not running down banana looking for the challengers,
not giving an opportunity top mid at the start of the round.
And the restraint on the U2.
That's the key.
The fact that we are at a minute and ten and they still have four smokes.
You're just gonna get blocked here.
It's gonna have to be brute force.
There's one of them at one minute, the first half wall block.
Retake U-Till.
Channeling them into A with this.
There's three smokes so they can just go long.
Moto and go.
Double smoke, long.
No Moto smokes.
Yikes.
Towson's going to throw it late.
No he's not.
The wheels have come off it.
at the dump in Utah though, at least they've avoided that salvo.
Belt a little equal now.
Block smoke on short.
30 seconds. You are screwed.
You got to go through this.
It better be the world's best flashbang.
P.R.s coming from apps, Towson late long, hang on a second, Sizi, onto snacks.
19 seconds, Towson onto Sizi.
Hang on, maybe there's a way.
Maybe there's a way.
Just an MP7 on res,
Parthing into the site and a dead man. Easy pickings.
Kensa's all done enough.
Bomb is loose and it looks like they will be taking 11.
Just like that.
You can see bait.
There's still a mystery on the board.
The fact that two players are staying back
to be the entire time.
They're not feeling enough pressure and presence,
but they're sticking to their guns.
They're not over rotating.
They're not cheating elsewhere.
They are having faith in their setups
and their individuals to deliver.
And you're going to force fight out the game now
if you're game-allegent.
Whoever told them to hold their U2 that round is a genius, I mean, you could just see how awkward that made the game of Legends round.
They just hadn't, they never chanced.
Staring at a smoke with, with what?
Ah, now they're gonna try it. Clever on time. It's gonna be likely just a B rush here.
They're going pre-extinguish into this.
Here we go.
Caution to the wind. Flash connects, forces them back and tech 9s are accelerating.
You're not going for an incendiary. You're gonna try.
Snag's trying to forge a path. Trying to get hectic.
You know he likes a smoke push, but Ascent feel knows all too well and he's done well.
USP to finish, P.O.S. a dead man, another from the USP and Gamer Legion are in trouble.
It's going to be the same again in terms of the buy, whether or not it's the same call.
They're losing that second eco in this map, the tilt, they are falling off the edge of the planet.
Well, the desk we're talking about, how Batelover close game, it doesn't get closer than this.
They've lost a 13-11 and a 13-10 to put them here in this elimination match,
and now perhaps the 13-11 is theirs to start off proceedings in this elimination best of three.
That's their map choice Mirage up next and they're going for something poppy towards B again.
Snacks leading to charge once more.
Just try it again. We're just going to try again.
This one's a little more tempered.
I did hear the typing and no damage was done there. I think that's what likely the admins
We're just quickly looking for fortunately no damage was done. Oh
Dead mouse. Okay. Yeah, you can see that plugged in so that immediately
So I don't know how long you get so if he has to play wired but right now we need to bit more cable
You're not gonna be able to play with that your swipes are gonna be causing a did you bring a bunchy from home?
That's not gonna matter in this case is that he's gonna have to work on why I'm so the this lose made if you're already mad
They're adding this into the mix
Oh, gosh.
That's the thing. That's your responsibility, unfortunately.
Okay, well...
I mean, you know, I've got a lot of time and a lot of respect for Snacks.
If he can rustle his team into overtime, I will be in awe.
Both teams have had some rounds where they definitely should have won.
There's a couple that stand out for bait where they had flanks, they had them locked in, they had man advantages.
But the problem is the ones that game alligion lost what gimme's right a couple of landslide rounds off the back of those
They did the hard work against the lighter buys the forces. It's a different call last round. They were gonna be heading towards banana
This is a bit of a different look
So given a moment to
Come up with a new plan
Snacks has had second thoughts
Sissy's orb end of apartments
This is a long side, three man B-stacks, I'm gonna take space top banana now.
They're going second wave, they're gonna call banana clear.
That might force the hand of game a legion to go ahead of schedule.
Sizi scoped up in the apartment, they're gonna double swing him.
A tight line that works out, pays dividends, PR down and out, another opening death for him.
He has to watch now, as his team try and fight to extend play on Inferno.
And now they're 4A.
They've got all the bodies they need, Chad.
Bate on the game allegiance pick, holding on by their fingertips and one back.
That's all!
It's a consolation prize, just Towson versus the world.
One versus three, forces Sizi off the line, does well to remove the AWPer.
Anticipates.
He's trying to find the bomb.
He's doing it with a wide mouse.
Alex on site.
Swing's on him.
Overlops completely!
Bate take map one!
a crazy series of events there, but it was up and down, economy two from far back and
forth.
It's the Ecos that will haunt Gamer Legion, no doubt.
Yeah, that one is going to leave a mark on the mentor.
It's already been tough for Gamer Legion in stage two.
I lost to Astralis, I lost to Betfirm, and maybe, just maybe, I lost to Beta Bruin here
in this 0-2 game.
One that they were in, one that they had chances, but those rounds are unforgivable.
I'm going to throw this one down some desks.
Yeah, we're back at IEM Cologne 2026, what an action packed day of Counter Strike.
Later on we have G2 taking on foot, coming up we have Mirage between bait and game illusion.
But before all that, we got to talk about what happened here on inferno.
Guys not a pretty game of Counter Strike.
Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
At the end of the day bait and sub winning is that the outcome do you think Suku of what
was a very hectic game of Counter Strike?
Honestly, until the last round, last moment, I did not really know who's going to get this over the line because, yes, it was indeed Mestika strike.
Similarly to what we see in Inferno between Bait and M80 earlier in the tournament, I feel like they're not feeling this map at all and we've had a couple of snippets from the comms as well where, yes, they're confirming it.
Inferno is just kind of cursed for them and they should be really happy that they get it over the line.
You can almost feel that both teams are a bit nervous right here, Peter. You know, fighting for their lives, fighting to stay alive and maybe that's a result of the kind of sweat we're seeing on the server.
It's just, it mistakes piling on top of each other for both teams.
No team is playing flawlessly at all.
It doesn't make it out of my criticism that it just seems very questionable.
As a team, they make some very bad decisions,
and they don't even play off the crossfires, they're pushing smokes,
they're trying to make individual play to be the hero of the round.
It's just a game of nerves.
It's a game of two teams fighting with their lives to try and stay alive in this major.
And so far, at least, Bait has looked, I wouldn't say it looked better.
I don't think I can go for one team has looked better than the other but you know
Bait teamily managed to cross at the pass at the finish line here
I think it's fair to say that game religion in the first half were somewhat in control
I think they were a bit more composed and and they kept up
You know a relatively high level and got off to a decent start to go second half to around 14
You know they win the pistol second round in the second half
Completely blowed up absolutely. I think the pistol itself even started with like MPL getting two kills
but it will come influential into this because he get to a fourth and four for cancer
We have here be hit and actually this be it comes after a nice play that
Essential actually blocked be before and he baited them into this m4 cancer or gets two quick kills and eventually PR
Actually clears the side then we have a 5-7 here
Hiding at the triple getting one kill now and bill you can look at the radar number four
He's hustling into b side right now and he will actually pick up his own m4 that he gifted to Kansas or he will win
1v1 with that and this is just a beauty like beautifully structured around because in the end
They were stacking B and they were blocking them at the same time with a smoke, but it was a bait smoke
It was at the timing where gamer legion were still kind of like, okay
We will end up B and we will have a good time
But yeah, well guess is or was there and that double kill will seal the deal and arguably, you know
It speaks to to to what we're talking about right now with game elite in the big fragile, right?
You're up 8 to 5 you have the chance of growing 9 to 5 10 to 5
you know with the save coming in Peter then you lose this round and I guess
that's a result of where gamer legion is at right now they do feel a bit fragile
it takes one round to throw them off course. Yeah they're very fragile and
losing you know the conversion round is always tough specifically like they
looked in control coming into this game in this round specifically and
it's just a small mistake it's like one guy running through a CT with an M4
against Kenty so running through getting a double kill like where's the player
dodging like where's the guy that supposed to trade this guy even I don't
I don't know if he misses out the duel or what happens since he gets a double of it,
but it's also just whenever they get their afterplant, it just seems like it's spiraling
with Troll and I feel like the last 1v1, he gets too much space, he even gets to run
in for Banana, pick up the info and you know, just win out the 1v1 and it's just game
with him playing.
I wouldn't say it's scared, but at least sometimes just without too much structure and maybe
even sometimes it feels like they don't even know what to do.
Speaking of spiraling out of control, Stukku, it kept on getting worse and worse and worse
as we regressed into the second half of the game when he didn't round 20 and followed up by 21,
I guess key rounds in this game that decided the outcome.
Yes, and those are again, once again, scrappy rounds. We had insane push from Kansas,
or he actually messed up movement right there. I almost didn't notice it,
but he had an influential push through apartments. Now he spots three guys coming out middle.
That's a C4 as well coming towards A. He kills the last guy. Now he flashes mid.
He knows information about all players, and he decides to fight middle. If he loses this fight,
It is completely open, and he gets actually team flashed from his teammate down in the middle,
which is such an unlucky way to just die, and this is just piling up on all the frustrations,
a really messy counter-strike all in all, and they actually lost that round.
They actually lost it, even though they had information on every single player, they knew
exactly where they were going against Zzor, all that push for nothing.
And then, 21 beta.
And if you thought, you think you saw something crazy, then 21 is not going to get any better.
And you know, once again, Gabriel Ligiting on the receiving end of losing a eco round,
And at this point, you know, especially just like a couple of Deagles in the USP, massive
shot he onto PR, and I even think he hit the table, he got pretty frustrated with this
one.
But then again, I'm turning my attention to why are they going absolute?
That's the most potent area for pistols to go.
I'm wondering why they decide to do this.
Can you just keep fighting this for you?
Like, take a break, bro.
And then eventually you have MPR thinking, hey, I'm going to do the exact same.
But at this point, it seems like the unexpected, right?
He pushes in, catches another guy here, and from this get go on, it's just game of the
and again, turning away from what works for them.
Use some of your utility.
Use your guns, use the advantage, but you're not.
You're just putting yourself in shady conditions
again and again and again, and I don't know why.
Like, where is the leadership in this one?
I mean, like, snacks, you have a ton of experience.
Whether it's snacks, whether it's someone
in the team that's coming up with,
hey, let's try and go apartments, I don't know,
but they're not using a single piece of utility
around where they have a full bill of fire players.
I don't get it.
And just to summarize, right, we saw an example
game a legion being up 8 to 5 against a rather weak buy they lose that one we see them up 11 to 9
against more or less a full equal just a couple of digits in the max they lose that one as well
is it safe to say that as much as we want to give big credit right here it is game a legion
dropping the ball on the own map pick yes absolutely I think it's extremely tilting to lose the way
they just lost especially on their own map pick where they had pretty much the rounds in their
control but the economizers didn't let them to pile up a snowball the lead into somewhat you know
effective scale because obviously this was game religions map to lose and they did it in a pretty
brilliant fashion. Now if I have to find one positive in all this madness for for game religion
rest stepped up massively and I think he was a big catalyst behind why they even got into these
leading positions Peter. How important is he you know moving into Mirage as well and and trying to
save and make sure the game will stay alive here? Very important I think he's already showed what he
can bring to the table and he is the one that we usually highlight on the game of this life because
He is one of the hardest hitting persons, and I think that he also showed this game what he can bring to the table.
I even feel like he had that one round where he got a little bit too greedy and didn't actually kill the guys in pit and then got himself killed.
But that didn't really shock him off. He still puts up a massive triple kill in this round as well.
I think Rez is also the fact that he brings firepower, but I also think that he's going to go on now and say,
I've tried a lot of things throughout my career, and I've tried being in this position before.
We just need to get our shit together, but you know, I guess they've tried to have this conversation a couple of times throughout this major hasn't really been paying off for them yet.
But that's that's the one bright side you can look for.
Game of League and they need him also moving into the rush.
Well, that's the thing where the fact remains now that game.
All you can find themselves in a position where they're one map away from being eliminated, going 0 3 in stage two while they were one of the big favorites coming into the stage.
Even, you know, in terms of where they're placed 10th in the world, coming first of our grand final in Atlanta.
You know, heading into Mirage right here, you speak of rest, the experience, you know, him trying to keep them alive.
Is there any hope left in your body right now, Stukov, for game-leading? Have you seen enough?
No, I think there is definitely hope left. Don't get me wrong.
Like, game-religion, as we all know, like, they are not really feeling the game right now,
but I can guarantee you that the talk that they just had outside was not pleasant, but it is very much needed.
Whenever we had interaction with the coach or we get to listen in on their timeouts,
It's very vocal and I can guarantee you that whatever was just said outside by Snacks throughout that experience, for example,
it's just, well, we have to start enjoying this game because the body language and the frustrations are just keep piling up and,
well, individuals are not like it. We mentioned PR a couple of times already and, well, this wasn't even like the game where he shined again.
So I'm not worried for the game region, just yet obviously one map away, but I think they can perfectly turn this around and reverse with this specific.
I'm not going to lie, Peter. I am slightly worried on behalf of Game of Legion right now.
Do you share this instrument? Do you think this is it for Game of Legion?
Have you seen enough or do you think there's a chance to fight the way back here?
I don't think there's much left in the Game of Legion game. I think they threw this one away.
Bate shouldn't have won this one and right now it feels like it's two teams that's fighting to
see who can play the worst and that's why it's still been Game of Legion and Barass just speaks
in favor of Bate in so many ways. It's the most played map. It's the map they usually want to go
for when you do play PS3. So right now the card is not looking good for Gamble Legion,
but we have seen what can happen on Mirage, but I think it's looking pretty grim for the
likes of Gamble Legion. It is looking pretty grim for the likes of Gamble Legion right now.
They find themselves one map away from being eliminated from IEM Cologne 2026,
which would be a massive surprise considering where they come from. They have to win Mirage,
and that's exactly what's coming up after the break.
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The pressure for an RV to match the 3-0, and they're looking for another overtime, can
and Vitality recover from an opening kill.
Tywoo seems to think so.
He thinks he can end it now.
Big nice, Wards, bombs him down to 19 points of health.
Captain Smedley's wigging, but Spinks and Zywoo hered it.
Bomber is back.
Players above him and he can what a headshot from Spinks.
That's a leap in the right direction.
Oh!
Counter Spinks!
It has to be wonderful!
Redemption on the menu if he could just hit one more shot.
He's got an eight, Spinks is low.
This could be enough, he has to not overcook it, Spinks versus WandaFolk, he's thrown out his knee,
swaps to the AK, he's nervous, Spinks looks calm, ready, hoping that the stress gets the better of the young gun,
drops away, WandaFolk, oh this is his chance!
The fake plant, Spinks, does he call the bluff?
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In this time, they played very fast the first bird.
I think the first few rounds on CT are going to be really important.
They're not comfortable on the map, so they just rely on the game plan that coach prepared.
That's what I assume.
Nice!
I think he's CT or Ruins, go by walk, okay?
I'm holding, I'm holding, I'm holding
I'll Ruins first, I don't know
I think Ruins, chill chill chill
Chill now, chill now
There is two smokes and stuff
You go A, they don't have AWP
You should go search for smoke and stuff
One guy stay with smoke and you will do smoke Milan CT soon, okay?
Yeah, I can do it
Go three mid
Let's do it
Careful two mid setup
It is smoke B
But I will do it anyway
I'm going to go to the other side
I'll take you in 5 seconds and then you'll be able to smoke it now.
He's smoking at us.
I'm leaving.
He's coming, banana, banana, pust.
He doesn't know about you.
You guys should go away.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Go short, go short, go short.
No one should be here.
I'm here.
Go, go, go, go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Side, side, side, nice.
I'm behind, I'm behind.
You have smoke on top.
Close short, maybe pushing.
Smoke it, smoke it.
smoke it smoke it
smoke it smoke it
I have good angle
no V2 guys still
I have short
sound?
absolutely
I have short
flashing short
I'm holding apps
we have good as a crossfire
watch the machine here
I'm holding only apps
flash flash flash
apps
short test
crossfire
I'm in pretty good as a crossfire
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There's the flash, that's gonna catch Cribs out, they're gonna push off through
MVP KK has won the Cribs for the straight out and they're gonna keep that on the triple!
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Can you believe it?
And that comes was the last round, Gamer Legion 1 on map 1
Their pick of Inferno goes the way of bait and as you even heard you actually learned everything
You've got it like mini-desk from Gamer Legion there talking about how that was not comfortable map for bait, but they won it anyway
Yeah, that was a desk breaking it down as well
That was that Gamer Legion's to lose and well that's what manifested now
We moved to Mirage the map choice of Bay and their own turf
To Gamer Legion their last couple of outings on this map have not looked good. They have lost to legacy
13-3 and
Sonata 13-3 and they're also yet to play it here at the major so
What have they worked on in the time between Atlanta and now?
We're about to find out together. Let's see if they've got what it takes to dig deep.
It's all about the mental.
You're on the ropes now.
One map, separating you from packing your bags and your major being over.
Two Stage 1 teams in a 0-2.
And Stage 2.
Not the ones we'd expect either, right?
Especially when we had Tyloo, FlyQuest.
And that results in us coming to its conclusion.
And away we go in the pistol round here, connector smoke.
Excuse the vision of Snaks and we'll window dart it in as well.
Two entry underpass, two out top mid.
And Rez on the line.
Yeah he's gone down. Wow Alex able to find that from the
underpass quickly and now immediately setting NPL up for success. Snaks is
tending to this.
And he's not. Oh I found it cleanly.
I'm running into Snaks. There are still three bodies here now.
Highpecks on to a Senfuell.
2CT and PR should be over.
Nice B-click!
Can't deny, but there's a nice one back from Highpecks.
Long range from PR activates.
And Towson puts a lid on it.
Okay, the stack pays off.
Just walks straight into that there,
even though the opening success came their way.
Desk-High letting Rez had a very good performance on map number one.
We'll see if he can keep it up here into map number two.
He'll be the short player for the defense of this.
I mean, it's a good way to play.
Second place, though, you can see
that great reaction from I pex yet
is lock headshot hit. So able
to stabilize. And again, that's
how they started map number one.
Towson bringing some energy, trying
to be a bit goofy. I mean, in a nice way,
maybe not the modern zoom away, but
it's about holding onto these.
We've already seen them lose some very
rounds and this one is going to be eco so I want to say no chance that with
Mirage as well Rez is there nice way to play on the CT side of this map this year
it's nice to with the way that the majors are now instead of doing last three
months which was I think the default for stats I think it's nice to summarize
things by the season so where you're able to kind of piece it together and all
five there. That's an echo bash ace for Pierre. I wish I'd get more excited about them. Well,
not really. That one particularly wasn't anything to write home about, but it is important if you
put it into the player's perspective. Sure. You just, you know, let's not forget they lost two
Ecos, lost against two Ecos in the first map. You're just being able to like, oh yeah, we can do that.
Let's go for the stat line. Great for the stats as well, which is something that Pierre could use
use a little help with.
Oh, he's jumping out mid, yeah.
OK, looking to find his game.
I mean, there's no better time than on the precipice
of elimination.
There is a second wave of flashes coming from Sizzly
that look like it will have PR's number.
Waiting for Kenseth or an NPR's crawl
before these flashes get released.
OK, I think the internal timing PR
realized he would be vulnerable to this.
And well, timed, H.E. puts Kenseth or low.
I do like that opening because it's
showing some confidence, and PR's the A Defender, they started in middle for a fight.
So using that sharp tool,
see if he can win out a duel for an opening incision and just a barrage of utility.
Four AGs.
That guy's his AWP.
And he's bell-wrong, we're from the first one, has just slowed that roll.
Window's smoked now, as they will be able to get this mid control.
Well, no, they can't. Snacks.
Don't mean kill.
They're locked on the short side, snacks goes down to MPL,
an easy pick-ins he catches PR, hunting him down, it's MPL again opening up the account for bait.
He did it on the first map as well, Tassel's been spotted out now and it's easy for Alex.
Ah, what's happened there? It looks so good, the mid-hold was great, they get the opening kill,
they're harassing with the U2, and Blink, can you miss it? That should not have been that easy
in favour of bait considering the circumstances.
It was the one where MPL looked up onto PR that looked funky, I guess one's sure.
They kill onto high taxes as well. What's happened there, Ray?
Is that just a spam to the window smoke?
I think he's going to jump through it.
I understand MPL gets the multi-dab, but there's pressure alleviated by that scissi-frag.
That's happening. We're clean.
Camelager, they're not forcing.
PR, because of that ace has some extra money, he's going to use that to...
invest in.
See what he can find again, saying assertive and, well, just lining up an A execute right now, a bait.
It's an open runway and there's nothing the Hypex can really do about this.
Oh wow. Perfect time on the engagement, just pure smoke spam.
At least one. It is just that inflaring PR and overlooked is Snacks. How's he got two?
Yes, MPL down as well!
Awkward for Kensys, or surely surrounded.
Sizi's the only man that can stop him.
Snacks with four kills!
He starts with just a Desert Eagle,
a lazy clear, no one even looked at him.
Never mind, it wasn't a clear at all.
Oh, well then, celebrating and having a good time again.
It's funny, this is a rollercoaster of vibes on this game allegiance side.
But I will say that Snacks isn't cracking his usual smile.
That's a man that's focused on surviving here at the Major.
Hello.
I think that is one. I understand there was an M4 in the mix of the opening dent, but yeah, MPL having a bit of a meltdown here. That one should have been easy. The fact that they're not clearing their corners costly.
costly. Since he gets his AWP, Hypex the same.
The full buyback will counter back in towards an A-Play.
Alex selling standard in mid with the window, the cat and the mid molly,
and they try to slink out this ramp into PR's territory.
So a well timed smoke will hold them at bay.
On the fade. Is that the go?
PR has been called over to B or is he gonna cheat in?
They are, they're gonna sweep middle, they've just given up the site.
Perfect.
If they still break up in the smoke, there's a HE, he's still worried about middle.
This is a retake now, you just have to accept it.
This is what I thought last round was gonna be.
Okay, well now we get to see Gamelige's retake protocols.
I mean you've got four AKs in an all-perfect setup, are you gonna throw it all into this?
Yeah, you have to, you've got the U-Tool for the retake, it's just how well they can
piece this together rescue molly back side there it is
what a second flushed into hypex is off there's your pig
flash high smoke for the bomb flood in
says he put it on the ramp there's kenshizor and MPL put it up a fight putting
up a storm or resistance they're losing all of their guns just hypex
scampering away to save his AWP and that's not even a guarantee
Maybe?
Spilling the smoke, he's gonna hide, isn't it?
I don't think they're gonna be able to do it in here, so Hypex fortunately gets to retain this.
So just, this timing on there mid clear, I suppose in perfect timing from Dave.
I suppose this is gonna be a game plan focus, right?
Okay, well they showed something in middle.
PR's called to come back towards window to help clear into this.
The molly's a good first step.
The fact that there's no smoke to even act as a bridge,
They definitely had a smoke or two in the mix that would try and make things a little bit easier on the cross, but opting not to use it.
Both teams fully bought out round number six.
Says he's snatching.
You see the response in the setup.
Piers like, well, I definitely have to make sure we have somebody side, he's playing.
Towards the balcony, so at least they have somebody in case of another A-execute, but now they're just going through the motions for this mid-control.
And if Rez is not careful, there's an AWP on the line. I think he just tried to shoot the smoke grenade there.
MPO knows that short smoke in the buffer and what it can mean, and Rez is hanging around.
He's just going to get in the vent room, so safety first.
I want Suzy now heading back to B a minute on the clock.
Towson's support will have to be Rez, who's going to have to pipe his way up short to
assist with this, but Towson's also giving up the side as well.
Again, they're trying to play for the mid-clear, they might just lose B completely off of this.
30 seconds. Execute lined up. The eruption in a moment.
If Alex plays too soon, he might just give him enough time to focus on me.
And I'm up behind all the covers there just in time.
Okay, all could now for the 20 seconds.
Sizi's gonna stay on that short line, Hypex however, in the markets found Kensizor.
Bomb spotted on pan.
Essential tasked with the plant, FBL to clear out touts and necessary headshot provided.
Buys them time, buys them space, and buys them the plant.
You still have numbers here, but another retake for GamerLegion.
And oh, this shot from the AWP, hanging on a second, a team kill, but at least he found MPL.
You've got Resley apps, which could lead to the death of Sizi.
Ascentil's considering that on the approach, distraction from the mark, incendiary, distracts, and now he-
Both! Beautiful! Just in time, Res arrives on the flank.
Okay, well, the fuse comes through, they had the kit there.
There was no sweat on the brown regarding the clock, and that one will be secure.
So, Game Illigen go up to four, but that was touch and go.
Again, Game Illigen finding themselves in the wrong position as these hits are coming in.
They're fortunate to be able to stick the landing there.
I mean, very fortunate that Towson, no one, went down to Alex 666.
Snacks kind of saved him.
This TK, you're gonna have to do it, right?
The trade, more important.
The Reds just eletes the two of them.
Just clear him on that edge.
Shot onto a 70, that must be like almost eco-location.
He just had a good idea as to where that head was gonna arrive.
They can buy again somewhat here babe, but this might have to be more grouped up
They don't know as much you tilt to do a default window smoke in top cap the same
Prez up in the vent straight away and they're looking for strong through middle with a centium on that apps low
I try and turn this into an a split up through con
Alex leading the charge
Haven't seen one of these yet
Hypex he's the one to respond to this from con not looking now he is
Heesh, gets away. Covered from PR as well, chipping in with 1-0 to LPL.
High-packs, I think he hit a leg, no he didn't.
Get the hell out of here. Ooh, caught off by Sizi, adjusts and removes the bomb from his grasp.
He's just kensis or doing some swift movement to get himself into ladder room.
Towson, cognizant of that. Should be nothing to say about this one.
Towson secures it. Another round on the board. The CT side is holding strong.
strong. Yeah, and one of the keys right now is just the sheer amount of opening kills
that are able to manifest on the CT side. So good reaction there. Hypex peeks in and
he was ready for it, right? It wasn't that he's lazily picked in, expecting, oh, how
could they possibly be there? It's an important opener gets himself a second opener for this
one and PR has two, snacks has two, and now Hypex joins the fray. You see the well aware
of a sent field, Strix, he's the A lurk playing through Palace. The highest red to play on
two sides of this map this year. So keeping tabs on him, they should have secured themselves
a sixth.
Some of the issues here for Townsend, he does have the support network of Reds not too far
behind and he's even going to take some of this space and stuff against the Deagle in
a couple of blocks. So Mike is going to get his ECO bash and while he goes for the ace,
I think it's just to give
themselves a breather. You can
see sometimes with these teams
that don't have coaches. They
don't use them because it's like
well, they're aware of it to
talk all the time anyway, but I
still think if you have them,
you may as well use them,
especially if you're in a tough
spot like this. This is your
map choice. You're down four
rounds. You're back into a buy,
but again, it's not perfect.
He doesn't have the all the time
you need to be able to do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
You can do it. You can do it.
if you're in a tough spot like this.
This is your map choice, you're down four rounds,
you're back into a buy, but again, it's not perfect.
So he doesn't have the AWP, there's not full nades,
three AKs, two Galils.
Then you have to start responding to what you've seen
in terms of the defense so far from Gamer Legion.
In some big multi-kill moments
from a couple of players on Gamer Legion so far,
the Snacks one for me stands out the most.
Sitting pretty in the buy department, our Gamer Legion.
They have residual cash for another buy,
regardless of what happens to this one.
They've even got four kits, four belts and aides, and they're sitting pretty there in that very strong position.
They're convincing half a counter strike.
Again, same open as window and cap, making their rounds look and feel the same, the key.
They've got high-packs on tickets.
Yeah, and that's a key point because the execute just is the smokes on a sent deal.
So, unlikely the high-packs to be smoked up, it has to be flashes.
He's gonna have full vision. Better be a good flashbang.
Solid HE to start.
And a swing that, oh, I-Tax has been unable to convert upon. Never mind, PR's got the double nade.
This is what his first nade starts. It breads there for necessary trade.
He moves MPL from connector, but here comes that final clamp down.
But he got the bomb down quickly. Smokes are fading. Replenish there.
Since he's still on Tetris, he's still got the- gotta get that bomb across.
Alex is back for the round looking for his Galil. He's found it now in the smoke.
Taks, eat that flash. Easy, easy, frag for Alex.
So now it's a two on three with resin Towson.
Still need to connect to get the bomb across.
Worried about a flank because of the Bianca still being alive is Sizi.
So this is Dicey, not other woods just yet.
Just wishing I said you had the bomb, huh?
He made it across.
Flash stairs.
Alex vs. Towson. Position now noted.
Bomby plant at a central target.
Covered fire, great read of the situation for Towson.
Catches the swing of Alex. A nice one back as well onto a central. Just puts it all onto Sizi.
Does he have the...
What opportunity to get the crosshair onto Towson? He goes up!
Was not ready for the elevation and you can see how much that means to Towson in the camera.
That's a very well played round by the Dane and the Swede there combining and making sure that they're working off of one another.
off of one another. Towson goes and takes the first contact. As soon as he gets some
info, then Rez can chip in from Con. The Molly comes in, they're stressed on the site, and
they just chip away at them slowly. The slash was nice. Snacks is in the open. Sure, I think
Alex, during this, was looking for high-packs as often as he could in the smoke to see if
he could get a little something, something stronger. But it was hard because the bomb,
it never crossed. There was Jungle, there was Connector, and CT that had to worry about.
He's trying so hard he's gone Danish.
Yeah, and look, never go Danish.
Never go full Danish.
Unless you're Astralis.
Oh, Kents is all eastbound.
Click to this.
Surely he's going to capture by surprise.
Stax is here, too.
On the channel!
Easy.
Hunts him down and a horrible jump scare for Snaks.
Towson ready to react and punishes.
A dink was hit.
He's got to operate on a low HP.
Will players save?
Ascentile slips into B in the chaos.
NPL is bringing that bomb across.
How does the bomb get across?
Towson's on the line right now.
Good question.
We've just given it up.
Great question.
Okay, well, that's an answer.
But now he's in a position where you can just deny that plant.
They're hitting the brakes completely.
MPL's waiting for this flank.
Oh my God, Pion's gonna...
Look how unready he is.
Leisurely, waltzing forward and...
Head shot!
Oh, he's the one to provide it!
Okay, nice little reaction test.
Yeah, I was looking great.
This map 13 and 4 right now, they're trouncing him.
Towson loses his head.
Ascentos, warden, it's noted.
missed shot from New York nearly got problematic missed shot now from PR
Ascent you always got a little new lease of life a new opportunity just two
frags so far from here in the 10 rounds of play it's gonna stay that way
high pegs catches his back exposed on the tight line I could see that there on
the radar that high pegs had that in case you wanted to try the cross it was
never gonna be easy but now the full investment eight to two this one's up
and damn quick.
I've got to acknowledge and admire that the English have shaken off their map loss.
I thought the mental was going to be in the bin after the way map number one unfolded.
And with the stakes as well.
I mean, that's not to say Bay of, you know, in slouching.
Gameplan itself there was nicely paid off, Kenseth will be maybe a bit of an overcooked
running into market like that, but he hit the head shot.
So the only real bad round that they've lost this half is the PR hero M4 with the Stax
4K rather than the Deeks.
So that one there is the mayor.
Game of Legion have just looked much more polished.
Especially they haven't played Mirage throughout their major run so far.
So both the games in recent history being lost was 13-3.
Back in Atlanta.
But this is where you have that tendency to see teams kind of let off the gas, you know?
Like maybe you go for an over-aggressive peak, you give bait an opportunity to make it aim for.
Yeah, you hope that's not the case considering the circumstances.
I certainly hope to see this as it continues to remain as polished.
Since he goes searching, finds nothing middle, they really have like these A executes and
they have been able to get ground, it's more about the post plants.
So not surprised to see them return to this again.
Sizzies missed his window swipe.
Well, there's nobody poking their nose through windows, so that's okay.
It's actually a bit of a bee-lean from Game Elite, but here comes the A-Play.
The AR's got work to do.
Keeping it restrained, Sizi's trying to cut rotations as well.
Snacks in Con, PR, type-10 bombs going down.
Smoke break, Snacks vs. Kensis, or Snacks Rains Supreme in the 1v1.
F**k it.
Frank's back and forth. It puts fate in an opportunity to convert.
You've just got to get past PR and Towson. Will there be another? Number disadvantage retake.
Smoke makes life difficult for the law.
He spots the barrel there. PR has a good idea. Wow, and a great shot.
Head gone. Fakes the drop off, hoping to catch a backpedaling.
F**king bodies.
There's got no chance here. There's just simply no time.
Okay, I'm gonna back off and try and retain this. Okay, that's gonna be a third now for bait
Went to the orb to defend his honor
Take one with him. But sir needs to run that radius. This is you will confirm that a
Couple of extra glock bullets for good measure. So again the weakness on the A site with the executes looking good
I think at this moment if I'm and yeah might call something that is
Aggressive towards Palace to take some early space or go for a two-man creep up on the ramp
Maybe get high pecs is all posted deep. I get that right through a PR alongside so at least you can secure that territory because they're just operating now
With that weakness on the A side
At least perceived weakness and that right there was another opening kill which has been coming in non-stop
This is the similarities between these two maps is one team was very dominant in that department and right now that's game
Allegiant
Only for going hoping that once
One around the half, double orbs, one for Townsend, taking it over towards B.
Quick connector, window smokes in that out already.
One to the A execute will it?
They are striding through middle quickly.
And that's what they've played for with this setup.
They have played for another A execute.
And then you progress.
MPL gifted another smoke to play around.
Falls out of the HG early.
Not gonna get any info off of that.
Another one where that came from.
This time you are exposed.
MPL spotted on the staircase.
Get out of there and they can reset,
but the U2 starts to become the problem.
They're slinking up cat while the smoke's still up.
Ooh, opportunity for more.
It's their own smoke.
Swinging in.
They blocked themselves.
There's a way up cat now into Towson.
All too easy.
Towson's secondary or he's not able to get the shot.
Tracked as he drops off, lucky to be alive.
Only for a moment longer though, surely booked by the Kenses ornate, bowls it in.
Snacks stubborn.
Finds himself one onto Kenses or needs a whole lot more where that came from and just gets side-swiped.
Not a favourable one for these two, but they'll have to give it their best shot.
Bomb planted, clock extended.
Hoping.
Begging for an overstep.
And it looks like MPL wanted to.
Sissy's got that cross on lock.
This shot! Ooh, same for Hypex.
It goes both ways.
PR won't make that mistake on the re-peak.
Sissy overextending gives them an opportunity in the 2-on-2.
I've got time for this.
Sissy on MPL.
If they want to try and close it on Mirage, a fourth feels necessary.
Time to do the perfection.
Alright, they've got four.
Gamer Legion 8.
Their major life on the line.
This is a must-win mirage and it is far from their best map.
We just passed.
This is so safe.
Wow, that's solid.
Just ignore the bad guys.
What?
Oh my god!
I'll give you the reactions!
One of these two teams season ends at the end of this series.
Season that comes to an end on a sour note for either Bates or Gamer Legion.
It started very dominant, an 8-4 half after two on the truck from Bate.
A couple of frustrating moments there in that first half of play for Bate.
I had some number advantage snows, but they weren't easy to work their way out of a game of legion.
They're not going down without a fight.
PR 17, frags deep.
Snacks not too far behind on 11, both having some impactful moments.
Oh, I'm having an eco ace.
Right now.
In game body language. This one's going to be an A execute.
Smoke for Rez. Snacks with a full belt.
What does the setup look like for bait?
Leaving spawn three.
Start towards A, just to send you over towards B, an MPO window.
window. Two sets of dual breaders under the balcony, ready to shred. The setup is strong
to deal with what's coming their way.
It's going to come down to the mechanics of it. Who hits the first shot?
Sissi going forward. Brie is holding for this. Neither of them hits their first bullet.
But Alex has. What was that? We just heard it. Brutal destruction of skulls. Sissi with
two back as well. Shots down Palace. It is a clean shutout.
Yeah, well that right there is game legion executing expecting that they're gonna play retake and the reason I say that is that extra smoke
That was left over. I think that was for the second wave
But the fact that they're not able to get at the choke points right they go for the standard U2 set that you see is beautiful from Alex
Wow to swift clicks and that's easy. Well, maybe not as clean, but definitely as deadly
The 16 year old major rookie contributes to shut down that pistol and it'll be the eco now for game
Allegiance all five of them are head towards to be to search
Stegal on Snacks, I'm sure he's going to opt for the pick to see if he can find this
jump spot of Ascent deal.
And if he gets the kill, the site is actually open.
So one chance, Snacks.
Can you hit it?
No.
Ascent.
Just a flash.
And he gets his info, throws his block smoke.
This is good restraint for everybody playing at home.
He knows that they're likely on a lighter buy.
He didn't have any support and still really doesn't.
So if he jumps again or takes a silly risk, that's the avenue in on Niko around like this.
Okay, I will say if MPL goes for this kind of fight, yeah.
With an MP9, that's enough.
They are still keeping the information flowing.
Because he spots that underpass, they still don't really feel the need to cheat over and help out a sentry who's taking a bit more of a passive line on B.
But they are hoping something comes their way and while the clock ticks down, the utilt gets expended.
And they will have to reinvest that.
So either way, the economy game playing into things is still on his own.
Kenzie's all be able to help him from short, but how many can he get before he goes down, if he goes down?
He's the hell. Perfect. Bring the heads to the window, jump out.
So I got a bomb.
This is all I have, well it's, and they get the bomb plant.
I'll take that.
Ooh!
A cover.
Rez has used Max's Deagle to great success.
So a couple of kills and a bomb plot on essentially an eco, just $700 invested into one Desert Eagle.
Yeah, so a little bit more than they were worth in that scenario.
They do scavenge back the bigger weapons.
The Diffuse comes through, the 6th round notched on the board,
and the 2nd round gap as they now know they're going up against the buy of Gamer Legion.
MPL is in a position right now to drop Sizi the Orb.
Hypex because of that eco and then the plant.
He had enough to buy one of his own as well, but he's coming in right now with an AK.
So rifle heavy for game of legion.
Sissi has a good window spawn, but likely just to be in some smoke.
So I know if he wants to get out of go.
He's going to start the orb over towards B by the looks of things.
Get boosted up in a B apartment.
There's nobody home.
So he'll have this line for free.
It does alleviate pressure on this B site.
Give an awful lot of information to bait to be ready for the fight that's coming their
way.
A split, wearing into action slowly now.
Interesting, that's actually a scissor he's going to rotate off, and Senfield pushes up
instead.
Now, NPL, Tuk-Tung-Kong.
A boost over the top could have led to a little exposure of Kenseth's head, but he's thought
better of it.
Say that as friction between the two of them, tries to chase him with a grenade, and they're
not looking!
Okay, trade from snacks.
Gamelige is still going to maintain the man advantage, and don't forget how disconnected
Ascentule is, he's only now starting his flank for a late ramp.
My question is where Snax is going off to.
Is he going to try and head into B to see if the side is clear?
Because if so, I might force the rotation back into Ascentule.
So they cut Naut, he's in pause, blocked now by the smoke ramp.
Ascentule is going B.
But if they try and go back, they're running into Ascentule.
I pecks aware of the possibilities at least glancing man. How much does he really believe?
Easy now
Snacks his presence. He has to flank snacks now needs to flank the a defense
There's no way back for game a legion. They have to go away. This is gonna get weird. This is going to get weird
Oh, and a sentiel catches another way to my cat's PR force forward
Oh, it sent yours had around an active B push
Leads to three found on the flank and nothing snacks can do I can't quite believe that gap
but that all started with what we're on board with.
Sizi getting boosted up, Asentheal with the deep end sentry.
Sizi has the line, Asentheal pushes,
and that's why he has that earlier timing.
What was looking great for a game-allegion round
that you've got snacks chasing ghosts, finding gaps,
but they're the ones who are stuffed.
Horrible round for game-allegion to lose.
That one's going to kind of linger in the mental, I think.
The fact that Asentheal gets not only one
with the element of surprise, that's kind of a guarantee.
It's the other two, Towson and PR going down to him as well.
That one you need to forget about quickly. How many times can that possibly happen?
Like this one, I'll give you.
Yeah, but then after that, right, and he's on his lonesome, he's just standing and delivering and understands the situation very well.
Partial by behind the save they case, we get back into play.
You need to get something going in the second half. It's a stretch of five now.
Even if it's just getting some casualties getting the bomb down keeping the pressure
out.
NPR gives away an opening.
Ah, that's very nice indeed.
Shrugging with those.
Got one rifle and it happens to be the fight the Snacks was hoping for.
I can quickly turn it to two.
More three.
Alex has lost his two.
Canceled all.
Just keep hiding.
Hang on a second.
High-pitched.
He's low and coming.
Easy pits.
Second has cost him his life.
Well, they have the info on all the players.
They know both of them were back mid.
You're absolutely right.
OK, so Ascenti, what's your reaction to that?
Sizi, understandably limited with the AWP.
OK, Sizi's going market, so he can just stay here
and watch the B apartments.
Is Ascenti on another push?
Sure, on lad.
They're heading into underpass.
They want to get some better weaponry.
Both of them have Kevlar, no head arm at short.
These are two Amos, Rez and PR.
This is going to be a real funky mid round, isn't it?
There's just so many possibilities that, uh, Ameliejan have available to them, Ascentiol taking him away again!
Does he catch PR?
I have PR hold his nerve here, he's got the perfect pre-aim!
Yup, clean execution onto Ascentiol.
Finds himself the upgrade, Sizi, in the clutch.
Rez has heard this.
Rez knows exactly where he is.
Oh.
PR's coming back.
Why is he bringing the bomb?
Sizi's gonna hit the quickscope, PR!
Running at him?
Sizi gives him room. 15 seconds. PR's gotta hurry this up. Sizi in pursuit. Shows out a
flashbang with nothing. Bomb planted safe on default. AWP vs AK. Okay, it's all up for
debate. PR is swinging for the fences! Ambitious or dacious. 1v1, he's having a game and he
finds his 20th frag in a 1v1 clutch.
He can understand the thought process there from Rez when he hears the steps.
He's expecting that Sissi's rotating through the hole over towards B because the Stemfields
died in B-Aps.
They know that's the B defender, right?
So at that point they're thinking to themselves, okay, well they're probably going to play
into the empty site.
And we've heard the rotation.
So they try and lose all the gap in through the underpass.
This one got down close.
The PR bowels them out and gets their first round on the board.
Now they're trying to execute.
Sissi close ramp.
They're already crossed to his right hand side.
He's there.
He's there.
Right where he needs to be. Nails the head, chop a Sizzly right back.
Overrun out, Palace, they're coming out!
They're charging at him. Sizzly's under so much scrutiny now, dancing with him, trying to fade the shot.
Now he's fired up at all, but let one through the bomb. P.R. what are you doing to him?
Now Kensuzo's gone too.
Quick from a Senthiel, swings through CT, Talcet unprepared. We got a two on two.
And it's an MPL flank. He's gonna be here real quick. Sax isn't gonna be ready for this.
It's way too quick.
Snax is still lining up. Naze trying to help P.R. pick up that bomb. P.R. is on an AWP.
Senthiel's given room for this flank. That smoke's just missed.
Surely MPL's flank has won them this round.
It's an MP9 though.
Not an easy fight versus snacks and he's got the reactions.
Yep, Matt is not going to find the kill.
Ascentiol spamming smokes with a foul, isn't able to do it.
It's not pretty.
Ascentiol finds himself an upgrade 19.
Bollocks!
And an orb trained on his position.
Okay, game will lead you to have given themselves a leg up now.
Their first 2T rounds and it gets into those hectic 2V2s.
And it's enough to humble the money of baits.
So, it's just like on Inferno, they're in the driver's seat.
It's just about converting against the eco now and there's not as many opportunities for bait to invest into this one
Have upgraded their pistols and with only 2400 last I I think they should have taken the Eq I don't
Get him here or just get him?
Yeah.
I think he got a team damaged.
Yeah, because high-packs haven't fired a bullet, so he's been knifed in the back.
Yeah, I think he...
Yeah, go and do the hole, I suppose, okay.
Well, there's frustrations coming home to Roost right now.
I was near the pressure, it's gonna get to you.
You're a map up, you're on your pick.
You're against game religion on a weaker pick for them.
You can't help but feel like the writing was on the wall for you to survive the day
since he caught just by a...
alliance spam.
I dunno, well they putt this one in.
At least they're saving themselves the red face from...
similar scenes on Inferno, two Echos lost as...
Well they are starting to trundle up Kat.
Something would have to, uh...
have player the tournament.
Yeah, okay.
Don't think that's on the cards.
However, finding the first clean leader is pure.
You're about to see into the next round what I was talking about with these over investments
on these pistols.
I can say that it will go a long way, but this is still going to be such a tough game
to get back into now and he's actually gravitating towards the site, so maybe wanting to do some
more damage.
Now for bait at this point, it's going to have to be flawless from here on out if they
want to get it closed in regulation.
I'm about to secure that 11th round and I think just the amount of opening kills that have been flying in the West
Especially in that first half of Kamelegion made it some cycling for bait. There it is
Alex I
It's very hard to justify him just not going for the hard save there
I'm talking about damage, but I'm reaching at that moment because when you see the buys take shape on your screen
sure they have M4s, but
They do lack a lot of utility, which means that you're either just going to have to hope that you get the multi-kills now or you do an all-in move on the CT side where you're a little bit more aggressive.
Yeah, you've got a grand total of one flashback for your entire round.
So, they're just limiting the amount of options available in this one. He's going to have to be through the bullets, and Hypex gets chipped away out through the smoke, unconfirmed damage there onto Hypex.
Feels a bit ambitious, doesn't it, from Hypex? He's suddenly near, just goes for it. So does PR, swings into Sizzys crosshair.
You don't need nades if you're gonna get opening kills
And then walks through this oh my god res was
Absolutely not ready for that
I see they double block there expecting because they saw more but it's going again. No way he's going again
Now you had a two-man advantage. I should be laughing. It's very serious
That one
yep and now they're back in it okay 3v3 okay NPL coming in for that this shot
from high-packs okay you got a 3v2
Towson does managed to make it into sight opportunity versus NPL but he finds
a very precise head shot snacks for a while since we saw a snacks one be
free with these kind of stakes what you got
Sentence brings the smoke and yeah, just doesn't find that instant headshot.
They shooting hard and Sizi with two.
Yeah, very ambitious in terms of the decisions that he opted for there.
I mean, I can't believe Rez doesn't kill him there, but that's probably because your app, like, that's the last thing you're expecting is so I could just walk out this ramp smoke.
That's absolutely insane. It's a timeout taken from Alex.
So, they want these 30 seconds before they get underway.
Maybe it's trying to assess the vibe,
because if you take a look at this second half,
it was three straight out the gate,
and three back, and then just one now chipped in.
I think you're right, yeah,
because, you know, typically,
you've got a little bit of coach support as well.
I think they know if they don't win this one,
the game will fall apart with it,
because they lost Burners in the 1900,
and they know that's the same fact for Gamer Legion,
who have fully invested into this round to play.
Three AKs, two Tech Nines, enough U-Tool to get them space.
Highpacks lining up the insta window.
At least he was.
Make sure everyone's got their game plan settled in.
And where it goes, a heavy lean over towards mid and B
to start this round, Rez.
Smokes under, Molly's under window, excuse me.
I'm going to take a look at this.
Enable safe passage for snacks.
There's no need to wait too early.
Nobody home just yet.
Three out top mid once through the underpass PR.
The
utility implies they're further forward than they are.
Now they start their cross.
Snacks makes his move.
Kenseth's all thrown a block.
Smokes short.
But it also covers him from helping on the confight.
Fused over.
Any lime?
Any infight?
Smoke break.
Smoke break. They're all hidden.
Flash from Hypex. They'll have a go.
NPL through the smoke.
Got a lot on his plate.
Towson takes him down cleanly.
Two here.
Sizi on the default box.
Alex CT.
He's been spotted.
Hypex is taking on Kinects.
It's good from Ascentiul and Alex.
They combine.
It's just PR and Bres and they're ready for that fight.
But Sosa, Ascentiul, he just slaps on up and dunked on by PR.
Hey!
He had a banger!
One hell of a clutch from PR, puts Gamelige on 12.
Just Krab walks into the perfectly pre-Aim cross there.
He's got 26 francs PR when Gamelige needed him.
Has arrived in true PR capacity.
He's heading towards a 30-30 in regulation.
Yeah, that one right there.
This is Bate wanting to take the fight, right?
And this is great. They catch them snoozing as they're trying to par that.
It's just a lot of damage being done, but not wanting that bomb to go down.
Alex walks into this stylish-
Yeah, he ain't missing nose, the time on the clock for coming to concern.
Oh, that was a stylish clutch.
Throws the Nade, already got the crosshair on.
Alex bringing the fight.
Easy pickings.
Doesn't need to see his opponent.
He's not around this time, it's not-
That should be dead. Oh, never mind!
Gaines is all gets caught on the smoke.
Time takes caught him.
Sizi's got to get away.
NPL activates.
Finds res-committed middle.
On planet B.
Yeah, and look at Snacks.
This gets weird.
I don't even know this guy, does it?
This is something weird.
They've got no idea.
Now the pennies dropped.
There's no kit for the retake.
You got a piece to see at it quickly, babe.
Yeah, Sizi on this bench.
Fire with P.E.R. does connect one through the bricks.
Snacks trying to cut rotations.
The Molotov will slow them down,
and Snacks should have at least one here.
The tail end catches a sentiel, reveals his position.
Has a good idea of where they're coming from.
Very short-centric.
Through the smoke would be a death sentence.
Perfect position from PR tracks the head of Alex trade from MPL good back and forth into the 1v1 snacks has done enough
I think the time against them a chance. No chance. We need a third in this two or die affair
Game a legion find the win on Mirage
Holding on to this one. It had it back and forth to that first half
It was a master class 8-4 could have been even more and they're gonna be happy with that
We turn to new third and deciding map of this series need that team that wants to go home being eliminated here in stage 2
Another map of Counter-Strike coming your way before we get G2 vs. Ft.
But that one definitely started to heat up and you bang on about PR.
He had some big impact, the same as Snaks, but we'll throw this one to the desk.
Finally, we get to see the best of PR and finally we get to see Game Religion winning a map of Counter-Strike.
I wouldn't necessarily say convincingly, but in a fashion where they were the better team,
They left not much room for doubt to be completely honest right here PR had an amazing show in game
I'm avoiding disaster dare say Martin
I think that's the best and biggest takeaway we can do here the game again remains alive
And this is such a crazy game of mistakes and weird rounds and chaos and it would do it that you this
Injustice if it didn't go into a tournament, which I'm kind of happy about because
You asked me before this map started and I believed in game origin honestly
Honestly, they were looking way better, both emotionally, motivation was there, the body language itself was kind of like on a good side as well.
Sure, they had a couple of rough rounds, but whatever, we were going into third.
I don't know, less fragile than on the first map, you know, a couple of mishaps obviously, but it didn't seem to affect them this time around.
I just think that Game Legion, for the vast majority of this game, played better than the Skola actually shows.
I think it was actually a pretty tricky game for them, because they just didn't want to let them break you know, they kept pushing it.
And also in the XVX, whenever they had advantages or disadvantages,
Bay would just constantly look for info.
And there was multiple occasions throughout the game where they actually were
made up with a flank where they had to either, you know,
think out of the box and try and figure out what to do,
or just play a tricky situation where they were boxed in.
And I think they solved that pretty well.
I think Snacks had just like one round where he maybe overcooked a little bit too much,
where he decided to try and flank B and get one going.
But overall, I think, GameLegend made a lot of better decisions
and they didn't throw in her week around this time around.
Not this time around.
It surely is heating up here at IEM Cologne.
There's so much action taking place at the same time.
Now naturally, we have a game a legion taking on Bait.
That's heading into a third deciding map,
which we'll dive into in just a moment.
We also have a big game coming up between D2 and FOOT.
That will be after this game as well.
The winner of that one will make it into stage three
as one of the first teams qualifying, which would be massive.
I have a high hope for that game, to be completely honest.
D2 has arrived inside the building.
FOOT has arrived as well.
They're about ready to set it all up now. We have to arrive and look at this game as well in the context of okay
We have a 1-1 scenario right here
We have a bait who played better on the first map so just be got these gathered over the finish line
Couldn't get it done here on their own map pick of Mirage and Martin
There are a couple of reasons as to why it started off pretty well in the first half round 5 is one
That you want to bring up here a bait winning around but not necessarily doing it the convincingly love with the follow-ups
Yeah, I want to break up this round because it's a base round to win obviously and we have light mid pressure coming out of them
You see the window smoke you see the top mid smoke and immediately going back to a hit but PR somewhat
I don't know why he decided to rotate back to window and the plan for game religion is to retake middle when there is no one as
This is happening look at the radar. Everyone is executing a everyone is taking so much space
And honestly, this is kind of like weird round to do such so early in the hall because this is clearly
This must be part of the prep. This is still round five. This is something that well
Gamer Legion needed to know like if there's any mid-president we have to go for a retake
But PR started in tickets, so he was not even in the position
It took too much time for him to rotate into window and overall just gave pretty much free way back for baits to come into this
Mirage obviously hand side 20-20 didn't make too much difference
But the fact that it could have is kind of a worrying sign and hopefully these
When we look at new these rounds to begin with all these house
They need to be a little bit more polished. I feel like they need to be a little bit more
You know like be on the same page
I feel like it's safe to say that there's room for improvements for both teams
But as we spoke about Peter as well and to everyone tuning in at home right now
This is a game where the pressure is at its highest right both teams are aware that if they lose this one
They will be eliminated from the tournament. That would be the major done and dusted for them
Do you think all these you know mistakes and questionable decisions that we are watching in these games?
You know the cardic scenarios is that a result of that pressure and maybe also, you know
I assigned that these two teams as of right now are not really built to deal with that kind of pressure
Yeah, both years and no in my opinion. I think it's
There's definitely a case that that this is an elimination game and both teams probably didn't see themselves in this situation
but it's, you know, I think both team has been playing pretty pro throughout the tournament.
So it's not only because of that, it's probably a reasoning to why it's happening right now is
because of the elimination that is maybe piling up a little bit more, but some of the mistakes
is like very fundamental. Some of the mistakes that's being put on the table right now is something
probably shouldn't be happening when you have players that at least have been playing for so
many years and with a relatively high experience, even though that it's still a little bit lackluster
when it comes to majors, but you know it's it is what they practice for throughout the year, you know,
and specifically when you hear like a team like Beta, I think they really emphasized coming into
the tournament that yeah we've been working really hard, we've been ironing out a lot of these mistakes
that we constantly do and we've been working hard, just really show off right, and then from the game
we decided it's more about the latest result on Lennon, that's why we kind of expect more of them,
so it's definitely still a game of who can make the least mistake, and I think that's also what's
What's going to continue in 2-3?
One of the biggest talking points we had so far, you know, for GamerLidion throughout
this tournament has been PR and his performances.
And I have a little quiz for you guys, actually, because I feel like if you've been watching
all the games and you see his highlights here as well, I feel like everyone is saying that
he's having a rough tournament and is not really PR doing too well at the moment.
Here's my question for you guys.
In the last six maps he's played at this major, what do you think his average rating is at
right now?
After this map as well?
Yeah.
I would say 1.1, just 1.
1.1.
No, no, no, just 1.
1-0-0.
Ah, he's still below 3 in my books.
I think he's like at like an 0-90 or something.
See, this is where it gets funny, right?
The last six maps he's played so far, he's at 1.23.
Okay.
Yeah, he did exceptional well against BIC,
he did well against Astralis,
he had a rough game against Bed Boom,
and so far in this game against BATE, he's...
Impressive.
Yeah, he's been pretty impressive, right?
So, as much as we talk about PR struggling,
as much as we talk about him not finding his impact,
Naturally here Mirage, we saw PI in full-forsional. That's the PI we would love to see, but
a remote maybe over-accelerating a little bit, his lack of impact, and is this PI, you know,
slowly but surely turning it around? And could that be a key factor to kick-starting
game on Legion so we get to see the the Atlanta game on Legion and not the Cologne game on Legion?
I think this was by far his best map that we've seen in this match. And I was so happy when I saw
him, you know, getting, first of all, a good start to the map that obviously, PR always says that when
when you have a good pistol round, you always can snowball this into it.
But all in all, we're just expecting more from PR in-game religion.
And when I look at Stage 1 as well, there were a couple of T-Rounds where he just didn't do much.
He was just neutralized completely and, well, he told it to me personally.
Like, it is happening that he's being maybe anti-stradded, maybe unlucky, it doesn't matter,
but he's not coming into this with the hot form.
Right now, though, what we've seen on Mirage, if we take it in isolation,
That's a huge anomaly in my eyes, but still very good that PR is actually coming alive, even though it's a later stage of the tournament.
Well, if they make it through, obviously for them, it's not going to be a later stage of the tournament, you know what I mean.
And that's where we have to change focus now.
Peter Nuk is coming up.
It's a map we've seen in the game where you can play twice at this tournament against the same opponent in Bedboom.
Haven't looked great at all on Nuk.
There are two very clear losses, but I guess the counterpoints of that would be Beta as well.
They're also on a bit of a lost streak, you know, heading into this tournament, have lost it three times in a row.
So, we have a map that's going to decide whether or not one of these two teams or which one of these two teams will be eliminated.
Neither of the two teams are coming in in great shape. What a game are you expecting now?
A game I've lost mistakes again. I don't think that GamerLegends Nuke has looked very sharp, specifically also from the games against Spetboom.
I think they did progress a little bit in the second game, getting nine rounds.
And I think that talks to a team that has been trying to look into the mistakes of what they did in the first one,
and then casually trying to improve them.
But it's not something that's going to be fixed overnight.
But I do think that if we look at both teams side by side,
I do think that Gameliz in some sense would have the upper hand.
The fact that they've played it two times at this tournament already,
despite losing it, gives them an idea of what they should be working on
and what is the reasoning to why we're actually losing
if you can just maybe look out of an isolated example of only playing Bedboom.
I think it's definitely going to come down to the individuals again on this one
Because as a team, I think both teams are playing so bad that there's going to be too many macro decisions that's going to go wrong.
I don't like doing this to be completely unimagined, but your gut feeling about second map was right.
So I'm going to give you the courtesy of asking you once more, deep inside your gut right now, what is it telling you?
Do you believe more in Bait or do you believe more in Game of Legion finally getting the wheels turning?
So I'll share a little bit of an insight because we don't hear the concept, but we hear the transcription of the comms when it comes to time out, etc.
And Bait are showing the signs of frustrations, and it's happening on the map 1, which they won,
then on the map 2 as well.
I don't see them until thinking the map 3, so I think this is playing a huge role in why
Game Religion is having upper hand for me.
And another fact that we didn't mention, Bait here are without a coach due to visa issues,
so there's no figure behind them to calm them down and strategically steer the shape or
anything like that.
They're just taking these timeouts to literally untilled.
Well, Bait's second youngest team in this major, behind FOOT, is not going that well all of the time, so...
Game of Legion for me.
You're signing with Game of Legion Pito over there, what do you think?
I mean, I think the mental game is just so important, and it gets even more important than the major.
And I think Bait looks very tilted throughout the garage, it's by a lot of control for them, and I'm curious to see if they can bounce back on this one.
I mean, the statistics doesn't really speak that well for this term specifically for Game of Legion, but it's a wide open one for me.
and I think whoever gets off the best, that's going to win.
So...
So...
Just to be a little bit upset, I'll go bait.
Alright, there we go.
Safe to say it's an important game of Counter-Strike.
Safe to say that right here, right now, the pressure is mounting on both teams.
Nuke is coming up between Gamer, Legion and bait.
Loser will go home.
Winner will have another chance tomorrow.
You're baiting every round talking about me.
I had so many trades trading anything, you're mine for a leg.
I carried you.
Tell me one round.
Hold on.
Let me pull up CS stats.
Oh, wait.
My bad.
You suck.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats, and turn on tracking to see all
your games.
The pounding heart of Easter eats on the new record of Easter.
And if you don't believe it, get this job done!
Made for it!
Something special to tell you is to be done.
It's over!
You are the mountains!
God of it, sir!
We are back!
4, 3, 2, 1, GG!
We've been called there in a 1 on 4.
Looking fresh now, getting connected.
Oh, and he gets a third as well! Surely he's not going to fall as well!
Oh, Caldera! The man! The miss! The beat!
Could be really rough for Simba to actually get through this. He's going to throw the A to the B.
Oh my god! Simba, what is happening?!
$5,000 dollars to lose.
Timmy, are you serious?
Stop. Hang up the phone, Timmy.
We're not a gun! Just snacks.
He does find one. Let's not leave him out of this.
He's back in port between the box! What a stupid symbol!
Oh, Guardian! Bye-bye!
Don't let him find me! He's trapped in my big gut!
No! What in God's name is that from Skix?
Good shot, GDM. Look for another. He's got this down to one versus two.
Another is getting it taken down to the monster. What is that from GDM?
The ace. What should we stay alive?
Weapon out. It even matters.
Cray! All of the bullets, this gun!
This is so far. It's huge.
One major, I don't know where we are, and I, one major!
I don't see top mid guys, from under, come here.
I'll go to the short.
I'll see you on the left, I'm going to the front.
Maybe.
I'm going to the right, I'll go to the CT.
I'm out.
Coming out of there, coming out of there.
Yes.
I'm coming to CT as well, I'm coming to CT as well.
Let's go to CT, I'm coming to CT, I'm out.
We're going to fight inside.
We're going to fight inside, I'm playing through us.
Close, close, close CT.
Wait for me and we run out.
Nice.
Nice! Nice!
Wait! Swing! Swing! Swing! Swing!
That's... one HP!
One HP! One HP!
NOOO!
Ohhhh!
Kill them bro, let's kill them.
Fucking wrong.
I was just running around, waiting for you.
So he shoots me and...
You were just standing together, yeah?
I'm shot now.
I would... do feed one to Adrenaline, but I can't.
Ticket up?
Ticket up?
Care close run then. I think he's close run.
Might be pushed.
We're not fading, so...
I mean the mainland, yeah, I'm doing.
I'm going to ramp.
I can flash up off you guys as well.
Do it, do it.
Flash, flash.
Stashing.
Jungle one.
I'm going to tetris.
Low, low, low.
Short.
Short, short, short.
Short, short, short.
I need to pick short.
He's gone, he's gone, he's gone, he's gone, he's gone, he's gone
Nice
Let's go, let's go, my boy
What is the op, kurwa?
Nice, nice
Bait vs. GamerLegion up against the ropes.
The loser of Nuke ends their season on a sour note.
It would be a debilitating 0-3 exit in Stage 2 that would put a bit of a dampener on either
team.
I think when you take a look at both of them coming from Stage 1 into Stage 2, I had higher
expectations but this is the way that the chips have fallen and elimination on the line
for one of them.
You have to dig deep, game a legion on Mirage, just have that only two game losing streak
but they were both dominant losses in that column.
Now we turn to Nuke, the final map of this, and this one is going to be a tough one for
Sizi.
Right, so now this year, we've played it a bunch of times, and as you're rotating
piece, you're going to be everywhere at the right time.
This is a ramp rush.
It is a ramp rush, and it is essential trying to track a very wiggly Ki, does well.
Finds it, Sizi kicks on in, loses his life after the one-house, and scubbin' what!
Gets Alex on the fade away.
Hensel's down there already, they spent you two for this.
Yeah, NPL's working on a flank ramp.
They hit the pause, they're waiting for a fight.
There's that fight, they've confirmed. Okay, he's pushed lobby.
It's Kensel's all the unknown entity.
Let's channel them into B.
How does he play this?
Opportunity goes awry, doesn't hit those first few bullets, bomb enabled to go down, snacks playing close to the door, trying to just rub, he loves this.
Loves to play the door-stuck game.
Here's an NPL arriving as well.
Both channel towards the window side.
Ipex is still going molotov.
Where is MPL going?
Where is he off to? There's not going to be time for this.
And not any more bell rung, this should be round over.
Audacious move to just like stand in the cusp of the flames right there, but...
and another pistol to the tally, that's going to be the third for game allegiance, so we've split them up into this point in every map so far, we'll see if it stays true on Nuke, we'd love it for the competitive nature of this one, but it was way too easy, especially with all that util that they didn't lose, forced by in for bait.
Scout, couple MP9s, 5-7 and it's ramp again, really want to test the sentiel early in this game.
Just a man in an MP9.
No, it's a ball.
DK47s has just got a dip.
Got to get out of there.
They've already lost MPL from the snacks.
You can see Great Cart.
You can see he was hanging out around the smoke on Squeak.
Yeah, it's just making sure that that rotation point down the vent is cut off.
So a sentiel even more on an island now than it could have been.
Snacks is going to try the luck again, but gives away his life.
So now we're in a 4v4, overstepping the mark.
There's only one man down here and it's that round player, a sentiel.
How much is he meant to do?
He would need a multi to make this round a conversation.
Yeah, shouldn't have too much of a voice in this round.
Clear hesitance from Gameligion. Making sure the new till's in place. There's an opportunity!
Oh, he nearly got another!
But he's called the dinks, I'll give it a go now.
Yeah, they will. Kenseth's on nose. He's gonna bolster to give it a look here.
And yeah, distraction. Alex swings open the door in unison, catches PR, and now Gameligion are in trouble.
You've got the pistol with these second rounds. They're so difficult to convert.
Those pesky SMGs making life miserable.
They need to talk. They're gonna get a fight. They're gonna walk past him.
They're both in it.
On the fade.
Over the edge of the smoke, Alex dips back in for the cover. It fades now.
Sissy emerging from the rampside.
House unnoted.
Alex should have a favorite fight here.
Townsend doesn't finish his meal. Getting weird. Only one bullet.
You've got to get out of there.
Hypex is the bomb. Not anymore.
Spews fourth. Alex has found another frag.
Three kills. His first three contributions.
revolutions and it doesn't matter if you don't get the pistol you'll hoover up some AKs and you'll take it in the second
Okay, well this series had an awful lot of that in terms of these lighter buys eco wins force buys in the mix and snacks
He gets that opening kill into MP other over stays the work on this one
Ascent feel I said he needed a multi to make this one interesting
Well, the dick is enough because the chaos is caused and this is crazy as soon as Alex passed through this smoke right here at this point
Sizi has been communicated to that. There's a chance they could have gone back up secret or up the vent towards a so he starts rotating away
But they're just waiting in the door
Cross-byte with 1400 for game a legion tech 9s deagle and P250 to Towson smokes are in the air
Turning to force the rotation with this
That's noisy so no someone's cross-secret
rotation down the vent, Alex drops and blocks.
NPL's the yard defender, finds himself in main this round,
needs to combine with SZ for the information,
and there's a little bit more.
Snacks are still hanging around.
Flashing to main to set up Towson,
but NPL's relocated towards CT vent.
Yeah, their setup is potent.
Yeah, your best bet is trying to breach B.
Well, at least round, here's a sent-
It's whilst the shoulders of the double peak again dips down where it worked out for him twice.
Sizzian support.
Anticipating this is res gets caught as he battles off and now Hypex with the trade puts
a rifle into his hands.
He needs thousands.
Ooh!
Hit a banger and he has!
NPL just gets clothesline by the P250.
Now Snax is getting naughty.
Not ready for this!
Salyx loses out!
A golden opportunity for Snax squandered.
Can they win this force by a backfix?
The ladder.
Scentil will react. Up to heaven. This is the perfect opportunity.
Scentil just in time because of sweep.
Hypex not looking. They're trying to go fenced.
Townsend was unprepared and Hypex steps up.
Trading blow for blow. Three kills from Hypex.
We trade back.
Back and forth we go here. Okay, now it's the CT turn with the tougher buy situation.
Can they pull it off again?
This is just steady. The ship right there and I didn't know exactly what this means.
thereby coming through it's gonna be bad if we can convert this one it's worth
two and that would be four rounds on the T side of Nuke to kick off the third
deciding map with the pressure mounting no coach to help the bait side of the
server these are young men need everything to really align for bait
Sizi's brother average age down I don't exactly remember what it was last major
but Hedrick is a whole lot older than 16 Sizi crazy brings him down to 20.6
Oh, crazy.
Towson's had a round there.
HG just following Alex down the vents.
And that P250 headshot on MPL.
OK.
Scout spotted.
Res Balaclava.
I think you might as well just treat this one
as a gun round if you're a game of leeching, right?
Obviously, you're going to be worried about a little bit more.
But if you treat it with the same respect
and maybe similar openings, the utility
The crucial advantage is the key part of this, because it's a forced buy back from Bate,
they don't have the util to break over the smokes and get the information on you crossing,
so once you put up this smoke wall, oh, lobby push!
Yeah, he's gonna be able to get the first, and he's got support as well.
Did Ipex choose not to shoot?
Yeah, he didn't fire a bullet, so they can see the lobby space.
It's an important frag from Alex.
I feel they have to play into Warehouse and go for heaven and hell control, so that information
given.
Alson's round gets harder, especially now he's lost Rez, NPR's found a headshot, looks
like Talson could be the next victim of this 5-7, Snax has bailed them out with that one
on the Mac 10.
Oh, we hit that!
Nails the headshot, Talson quicks to it though, trade provided.
Omzin Lobby just come down the ladder, Hypex has a bit of a gap through H.
Walking forward, Alex takes Lobby, they trade places.
If Towson get in heaven, this is going to be very strong, right? They can plant for heaven,
use the molly to restrict one of the rotation points in, and then the high ground for Towson is key.
Ascent fuel still down on B.
Bomb goes down, 40 seconds begins now.
Is Alex going to wait for Ascent fuel to join the fray?
He starts to probe.
Makes his will move.
Hugging that wall.
Hypex peeks out, catches him looking the wrong way.
It's just Ascentiol.
Towson the insurance policy.
Hypex is going to try and rock the clock
as he dances around that bomb site.
Info flows.
Hypex tries to engage.
Ascentiol drops down, looking for flight.
And it's Hypex that brings it three to one.
Game of Legion are laughing.
OK, the eco will come forward from bait now.
So as you highlighted, what?
That's 40 rounds on nuke in a dual-die affair.
Very strong start.
You take a look at Bait on this map this year, they've played it 10 times, they've only won 3.
This one's against Astralis Wildcard and Heroic.
I see a red.
And 3 losses on the Troll.
Same can be said for Gamelige on this map, 2 losses to Betboom in this very event in both stages and they've looked out of sorts.
They've been toyed with, made to look foolish.
Snacks are stretching his legs and Deagle's spam. He looks like he's just running at it.
This is that smoke the guys. Runs it in on the last bullet. Alex goes down. That's comfortable.
That's to remain that way.
Now the gap is everywhere because it's this eco. They will just be able to waltz out ramp as a pack.
So Snacks searching as the in-game leader, garnering this information and a little bit clunky there on the YouTube,
but it's not going to cost him at all. Snacks has gone down.
9px has got the flank covered.
Ascent fuel has rotated down to B, but he just has a USP.
MPL donating the Mach 10, and he hears all of this.
Okay, they're not making this a secret. PR, late arrival, rewarded.
Captures MPL, trying to get tricky with it.
Some scuff timings there, but going both ways as PR grabs another and Ascent fuel.
Poxy's nose up secret. He's gonna find himself an upgrade and then it's just gonna have to be about damage in this
Or is it okay now the Mac 10 could go to one of the top defenders
He's the ramp player
Maybe he just wants to guarantee some kills on the way out to keep them softened up on this T side
So early stages financial damage could go a long way especially if after this you get straight back into things and start winning rounds
I mentioned Sizi being the all parent being so young and then you have the scoreline of ten times played this year on these three wins in that column
We's here in the rotation back. How many can you get a cent? You know how far do they press the line?
Weird so gets the first there should be traded and there it is appear
I used to keep your AK's it was like a little maybe a little bit frustrated with the death
But the way they'll get that back in his hand so Sizi can bring out the all but this is the tough part
I think this kid's definitely one for the future.
Yes.
He's shown some real brilliance on the AWP,
but he is still inexperienced, very young, the youngest man
at the major.
And he plays one of the most pivotal roles on this map.
If you can be everywhere, like the greats on the AWP,
on the CT side of Nuke, you can completely ruin
the lives of a T side.
So a lot on the kid.
See if he can then keep you on n00b with a bang.
This is a very meta smoke right now, they can flash through it, limits what Alex can
contribute tucked on Tetris.
Maybe not.
Tausen's gone down to Kensizor in the opening, it's res barbing overlooking, nice headshots,
double in fact from Hypex and Res in combination, NPL kept humble and that's the site cleared.
Kensizor going down.
Sector Centiel will have a look and it results in a clean headshot from Res's AK.
I think this is where the coach would be great to be able to, oh this is her, this is a kill,
You're dead. See a later 5-1 running away with it now
This is where having the coach I think could act as a point to tether the individuals to say hey
Let's take a little bit more responsibility. Let's not just try and win rounds individually
We have to do this as a team
Taking fights when rounds are already lost instead of saving guns with the lost bonus starting to build to give them more opportunities
And that's just the unfortunate layer the land that they found themselves in as they take their first tactical time out
up. But at this point, let's say we swapped ours with 7-5 even in favour of Bay, game
alleging they'd be happy. With 5 to their name, now it's about icing on the cake.
And this 30 seconds from Bay is also an opportunity for game alleging just to find a way in which
you could maybe have more than 5. Because they're trending that way.
Yeah, especially with the Bay, it can't be a full shove right now from Bay that it's
just going to have to be some light investment to set the deal with the shotgun. Pistols
for Sizzly, Alex and MPL, and Hypex bringing the energy.
Kenzie's all chips in with an M4, we saw him with a hero M4 on Inferno, wielded to great
success.
He is one of the A defenders alongside of Alex, this time starting yard in lieu of MPL.
They're going quick ahead of the smoke, Kenzie's always caught, he was trying to mantle up
and he thought he had more time.
Hypex has provided an opening, 10 kills deep is Hypex, this guy is a talent.
He doesn't want to end his major here and now, fighting for his tournament life, tooth
and nail.
Did Snacks spot him on the jump up?
I think he did.
Yeah, we'll pick that one up comfortably and this one is going one way fast.
Whether he did or the radar did, either way, the result is the same as P.R.
Playing everyone's favourite cat and mouse game.
Up you come.
That's it, let's go it up with right set.
Sometimes it'd be like that.
And Alex will try his luck now as well.
So six rounds confirmed.
The gun's coming into the next and we might see Bait just try and really force the hand
by going for like a yard control setup or maybe something where they want to react into
lobby based off of yard smokes, but I like the call there from GamerLegend, bit of pace,
they put their aim on display and some boots have been spotted going up that ladder.
He's going to try it.
Well, at this point, you may as well just try and play for a couple of kills.
Now, he's going to be covered now and Rez confirms that all five stand alive, the cash, it's
brimming at this point and game a legion
Such a strong position to close this like this you can just heck. There's just such a shared focus, you know in unity
We're not over celebrating. We're not getting ahead of ourselves. This is game a legion knowing that like
Things can go crazy in Counter-Strike and on the other side just starting to see a couple of these dense starting to show now
Kansas all can operate in top site with just an MP9, but he went for the hero before he got nothing done
They don't ever diffuse kit right now
Alright, something has to change if they want to stay at this major.
Just want to see them try and connect with each other.
Don't let it go down like this.
Keep the team element of Counter-Strike alive regardless of the score line.
Oh, wow, Townsend nearly found Alex666.
Just on the spam.
NPL can confirm if there is another wall.
And now the smokes have faded.
Sizzy from Lockers.
So the two of them, to have a good bait and switch setup available to play off of one
another.
Here comes the other wall.
They won't force any reactions off the back of this.
But Snack's being on top of Main.
Is he just going to be a real late lurky boy?
Is he going to drop in and try and turn this into an ace split?
Well, his team appear to be parling towards Ramp.
And that's what says he finds himself with the AWP.
With snacks still on top of main, they can pivot back to A and he can clamp in.
He can drop down into main and kind of scoop up the mess.
They are parting back now.
Alex being top hot, extremely powerful.
This is good.
This is shaping up nicely for a second round here.
Kenseth's all still with an incendiary 25.
If they try and push hot, he's going to throw it.
Still back exposed.
Alex does go down.
They're through the flame, getting awkward now.
He's helped.
Kenseth's all down.
There's one.
No, doesn't even finish it.
PR hits the shot in time.
He saves snacks.
One more bullet, one more millisecond, and he's a dead man.
I know they need rounds, but you have to save.
You can't go for this.
Oh, you can lose it.
Oh, Sizz, you can't lose the orb.
14 HP after his engagement with PR and that will call it off now
They have to say you cannot give this a go you don't have a kid
Got a hundred bucks in your back pocket is sure the loss bonus is in your favor
But these type of rounds I understand you want to get something on the board
You know that this is gonna be a very weak CT side
But these are the rounds that if you go for you're gonna make it even worse very weak is
Yeah, one way to put it so MPL tucks away Sizi down in secret snacks on low HP has extra cash
He's gonna try and see if he can snatch this away announces the presence outside with the steps the flash and he's gonna jump in
It's easy. He's above him and they go down to the ball. Oh, he's lost to you
Shard and Freud are for that one. That's rough
Do you see this demeanor still completely focused you off you're racking up an insane tally on this tea side of Luke
And everyone's contributing right Rez had that massive first map
He was a little bit more quiet on the second quiet here, but if res isn't needed. That's a great sign for game a legion
And look like he was gonna go down with that low HP. That's our snacks ensures it
Here we go, we got some pays looks like they want to walk through this smoke
It's a bit of a blind spot for kensizor. He's not active on that. They're already into the site
Little does he know they're right outside back turn from Chousen MPL good for it. Hang on looking good
The CTs just need to find snacks and res and there's just snacks
NPR's had around there and snacks both goes down for the fourth
NPL quad kill to get bait their second they try and turn up the heat try and go for some pacy poppy play towards the top site
And I think that's gonna probably
Temper the pace into the following. I take a time out fires and yet there it is
Okay. The reason I say that is make sure that you don't run out of cash. Sure, they were stacking it,
but a couple of those rounds, there was a few dents. And now after the buys, you can see it here on
the heads up display. After the purchases, the high end is 5.3 on PR. So with your loss bonus,
bottom of the barrel, because you've been having such a great all time on this tea side,
you want to make sure that this doesn't turn into a recovered half and bait start believing.
Because right now, they're probably not right. I understand the game's not over till it is,
But at the moment they're getting ragdolled around the server having to pull out some tough rounds and the thing is they won that force
If they had found the conversion off of that, this would be a completely different half
Both these teams really struggling with second round conversions or even sometimes just against
Ecos with a few deagles and tech nines in the mix if you're game a legion
But right now if Verna it feels like a lifetime ago
But how you handle the Montmarrage, you could have had this done in a 2-0 fashion.
Just a repeat call.
Thank you, this time Alex is eating the flashbang fully.
Down the vent with the bomb.
Oh god.
No one can respond to this, the sentiel rotated up the ladder.
There's no counter play.
Unless you get the spam on the smoke in the run.
run and you've got these lurks snacks in lobby hypex outside the other three just
into batten down the hatches
way was clear in his corners gets in for one another towards yard Alex should be
able to have this one clean okay fine as the head shot Sizi could be
susceptible to PR on this headshot angle blocked on one side channeled into this
power for this power. Look at how many nades they have on the CT side so they're not going to be able to use them. Sizi down and out PR makes it so.
safe if you can which you can't this is turning the screws right now that this
really stings I can't believe he's called that you have so many nades left
they just event drop play event then dive with so much at stake right now
they just keep racking them up Tassen goes down with the ship short
kensizawa and alex survive with a case what an insane call and money's not a
problem right now it's rounds bait will be able to drop some guns they get
Sizzly back to your everybody should be good in the hood maybe one MP9 in the mix, but
They're just getting trounced at the moment out, babe. This is not the way you want it to go down
You see this is while the restraint there game really didn't get lower to the three players
But what they do is they funnel the smokes on their perspective left side to force only once I pick they could just have used both
I mean that oh shit. We need to make sure we secure the site was just boys
On display right now. Is it wrap brush? Hypex is just taking down Alex main
Okay, cancels all, stops PR in hut.
Good smoke.
Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
All right, they can stunt this one out for now.
Res doing a sweep of yard.
So hit the pause.
Have lots of you two hoping
that bait are looking for answers.
But they've shorted things up quite nicely.
This forward position of MPL does alleviate a lot of pressure.
This is extremely committed and really relies on kensis or not letting them out that door.
Hypex eye to the scope.
Oh dear, juggling you till now. You don't know what's coming.
This is looking to be forced off.
Drops down 20 HP, a bullet from Towson, he's dead, yep, easy.
Oh, and Snacks through the smoke, a nice MPL follow-up.
He only gets the one, now we drive Ventson, there's no one home.
Sizzy however, oh, had a chance onto Towson.
Senthiel's trying to get there, he can address the problem.
It's not looking good.
Power position's adopted, Snacks can lend a hand,
trying to bait and buy time for Sizi to find something on the flank, but it cost him everything.
And that's an iron.
Gamer Legion are putting in a shift to survive another day of play.
Looking to throw the knockout blow to bait.
Yeah, you just look at the details there. So Sizi's trying to throw the smoke.
Well, Kensil has requested the smoke, so he can block the door again.
And think about how potent that would have been considering what just unfolded.
But he misses the toss, lands on the ground, they make a sound cue,
And then they just get overrun a moment later.
It's just the tiny details.
This is looking like an extremely dominant half.
One more for double digits, one more before the break.
Will there be anything to hold on to?
A nice kill from Anthony L, he's been doing his best.
A trade from Rez keeps him humble.
And a lot of room on yard.
Alex is sick of losing to these vent dives, he's gone down himself
and Hypex is waiting from to poke his nose on this tight line.
Okay. Confirmation of CT occupation.
So paranoid about every angle, is he?
Good position for this.
She gets a leisurely Towson bomb on the radar as well.
Yeah, but expect him to be swarmed and his right rez is close by.
It's going to have to be some combat AWPing.
Oh, sound cue made.
Rezz...
Oh, doesn't find the key, Carol.
Sizi gets a couple of chances, but now a three on three.
They're in lobby.
Rezz is perfect. Molotov will deny any access through Hutt.
And now they confirm Kents is all toward the door.
Still, PR goes down.
M4 well utilized.
High-fix getting awkward.
Still manages to find the belated trade.
He'll escort the bomb in.
Rezz has got a good angle for this, but if Alex comes through as well,
well it's going to be a weird fight they're clearing the rafters expose one tap from res 1v1 hang on a
second hypex just goes swinging in a bit of a hail mary bait will secure themselves something
three is all they have to work with as they swap to the t-side of newt the writings on the wall
are baits, bags packed.
Oh
First place is the Dremmys, gonna hit the ground there.
Oh!
Run and stop, we double from the call!
You're running to the goal, you're running right now!
How will you do this?
Call the save, Lipponosti, with the off-play.
It's looking rather condemning, coming into our third and deciding map with elimination at stake.
Bait in stage one, picked themselves up the 3-0,
gliding into stage two, motivated and ready to dominate.
Instead, they find themselves now just four rounds away.
if GamerLegion have their way to a 0-3 exit.
Wins against Tyler Thunderdown under and M80 got them here.
Losses to Foot and M80 while in close fashion have condemned them to the 0-2
and GamerLegion wants to pack their bags and send them home if they can't turn this half around.
And understandably seen as a bit of a mountain to overcome.
On the attacking side.
Faking top rush ramp.
Okay, PR here's the coming and hasn't found that immediate headshot they have.
He's down to 3 HP and high-pitched because he's unable to find anything. Snacks can, dips in, and over-dips.
Comes for a second peek and says he-
I keep coming!
There's more where that came from.
Rez, trying to take his fives, can't hit the headshots.
PR just won and oh my god!
What he's got three!
They're running and gunning!
Base hopes and dreams.
Hanging in the balance is up to Alex 666 to give base something to hold on to!
There it is!
A pistol.
It's a little something, a little something that could be the start of something bigger.
Peter, I'm getting the kills there on 3 HP. I think that was absolutely insane output there,
but your bang on Alex, the in-game leader, holds on and keeps the game flowing.
I mean, that that is unnecessary.
It is three kills on three HP.
It is three kills on three HP.
That's a bit of a device, high ramp, top play from once upon a time.
Doesn't mean anything thanks to Alex.
Okay, well, I mean, 10 to the high.
We know MPO has some venom in him.
Just ask Pimp.
Let's see what happens on this second round, huh?
We've had this series.
Second rounds have not been.
Perspective, not as safe as houses.
No, far from it.
Three up and down stock market, I'd say.
Have four.
So game legion are giving Bay a way back into this game.
Does mean they have to convert this and look at the smoke chips away goes down.
Alex backing his aim.
He was aiming for that one dig headshot.
Thank you very much.
It's not where I wanted it, but it's accessible.
A little waterfall there.
Whereas we'll path out a man and gets behind unbreakable.
There's the support of PR from Lockers and IPEX is coming over.
So setting up a bit of a shooting gallery in case there's
pathing into what's secret or warehouse.
Well, Lockers is blocked.
Don't say them equally low.
As Hypex thinks he's going ramp, he darts down towards B, so Kenzizor, if he just heads
in towards A can plant this bomb, but if he drops down the vent, he's going to be running
into the den.
The HG will signal the top plant.
Bomb gets punched 40 seconds on the clock now, and Hypex, this becomes so difficult
on the retake.
You know you've tagged Kenziz short, but he could be absolutely anywhere.
Clock out.
Why is he ready?
Why is Hypex and Kenzizor about to clow?
Oh, he's missed it!
Well, this is hard to get another round.
OK, holy moly.
That's a crazy miss.
I think I picked something.
Where is he going?
I mean, yeah, I understand you're not ready for that fight,
Kenseth, or in a 1v1, an inspired rotation
or a crazy risk, either way, it pays off.
The Nade, the 5-7 combo.
Double up from Rez.
You think that's it, but it's a big clutch.
And Kenseth's eyes keep them in it.
He gets another bullet.
He gets a jump scare for Hypex, so Sizi laughs it off.
Crazy.
Crazy side of the best.
There's a lot of greats to get past here.
It's not the forced chore, but this isn't just a USPE coach.
I mean, this is 2-1-v-1s in this still-or-die affair.
This is the way Backino is talking about, because 6, even though it's not a guarantee,
they are still heavily favoured in this round, and then it just becomes a 3-round game.
And that belief in a free back in.
It's next Peppertot range by Alex again
So you've kept the pressure on if your game really just not as bad as it could have been right you could have
Just been run over in these rounds and feeling a little bit helpless in this CT side, but you know you're right there
I feel like those two won't be once the fact he won them. It's a bit of a fire starter
I think you win the first rifle rounds game on yeah, it all comes down to the next round to play assuming that they convert this and
The open run way over towards ramped house and down towards B
It should be good to get in and get the job done.
Oh, he's not going to spread. That's what we'll be saying.
Now this is just about keeping the bodies alive if you bait. Alex goes down to the entrant.
Surely not anyone else oversteps the mark. Boys, you got your knives out again.
Thankfully, I think he'll just drop into dark. Why is no one holding this? Okay, I'll help my cancer's all.
Because that Molly was there, they weren't expecting anybody to be on that type of timing, but surely enough seconds had subsided as damage was going to be done.
As mentioned, you want to keep the bodies alive if you're bait. So you have taken so many casualties in these rounds, you kind of need the cash, especially if you want to make this comeback possible.
possible. Rez Galil doing more damage not letting them get away with anything. He's the one
to go down as they save Galil and an AK. So they do salvage the best of the bunch.
I'm going to let her still believe in the calls being made.
Alex gets in with Galil. Sizi, the AWP, the same for highpacks but this is the first
Let's rifle round for Gamer Legion in this half of play.
They just put this one to bed now.
They did all the hard work on their T-Site.
This is just about a couple of CT rounds.
It should be easy.
Very quick from Alex.
Here we are, Cross.
Or the Bolt PR.
Orpana is ready for him.
Orpana is ready for him.
Orpana is ready for him.
Can't afford an Orpana's here.
Orpana is ready for him.
Can't afford an Orpana's here.
Orpana is ready for him.
Orpana is ready for him.
Highpakes provides the opening.
It's hard to make the call quickly off of that, you're blocked elsewhere.
And we'll test ramp.
Is it wide open?
Snacks is on his way.
Oh, okay, that's a lot of info safely.
You've already got Highpakes down B and Rezzers joined him.
No, this is a perfect angle to stunt them on the way down.
And bait no, this is a crazy move through hell.
This is, especially because Snacks will shoot your... boots.
Get's the info they're coming hell.
He's playing this safe, playing it passive.
Let's him have the room, informs his team.
He asked the man who might be able to mop up this.
Rez is well coming up secret, the tool can activate.
Oh god, P.O got caught off somehow.
Easy pick for Snacks though onto Ascent fuel.
Kept up day by the flame.
They have to find the finish, they've got 30 seconds and they're nowhere closer to a bomb site.
Even Towson flanking them now.
That potential hang on, Rez.
Composed on the spray, finds MPL and Sizzie booked in yard.
25 seconds for Kenseth to get the bomb and get three kills.
No chance.
Unless he starts running now, how's he meant to win this?
He's not even playing for the round.
Playing for the safe.
10 rounds for Gamer Legion.
Just like that.
Rez.
Yeah, he came out, I mean he came out swinging.
I suppose maybe they felt like they'd killed one.
Weren't ready for number two.
Well, Kendi will get to retain this, it looks like he's gonna...
given the good graces.
1, 4, 3, 2, 1, and this round is done.
But because of how close these rounds are being up until this point, there's really no money for them.
They weren't able to have clean rounds, every single one of these is being damn close.
The ones that they won, they had one place alive, or just two.
So the damage has been done.
Namely, they should have chipped away at them, and this is it, coming through the flames.
Not expected, MPL goes down the second one, just has to steady himself against the AWP and the grin on the face.
Yeah, that's cheeky.
Because the moment they throw that molotov, they worry about everything else.
Attaches them unprepared.
This is what they're able to buy around the same day, okay?
To colloid some pistols.
Soakly.
And then runnin' out of chances.
Still powerful angle went up against like a Tec-9 pop.
Snacks up to the same yard antics has all the room and those that these top players can be prepared for the pounce.
You see they're playing strong for ramp and strong for top because snacks had all the outside information.
So they know exactly that this cannot be a yard play.
Another smoke was in the air, sure.
But it's gonna take some time before they can cross and get down secret.
So does Hypex get pulled away? Does PR get forced to drop under?
He's got support of Hypex as well.
Top fake.
This is it. Snacks up heaven. Held by Alex. Looking for another kill. This is three kills
deep from their captain. Pulling bait back into this game.
Yeah, no choice but to save here. And I'll be honest, my audio is pretty low in terms
of in-game volume, but I'm almost positive Res made a step there. That's why Sizi was
ready for him. And then that's why they weren't ready for Alex coming out of the squeaky door
on the topside. So the margins they hold on.
He now retains this M4 Shawl.
Does he?
I'm just gonna take it safe. Alex goes down with the ship but he's the man who got the
multi putting in a lot of hard work. This second half is Alex, but the round like that.
If you if your tout said you are furious, the fact that you just died out to a tank
nine finding a gap, your team may walk past him in the smoke. Yeah, just like that perfect
camera. This is the guy is there is the step as well. Right. So, so says he was prepared
and Alex put house and I'm prepared. I mean, that is it. That is the how the round is one.
So this isn't a force right now from Game of Legion, they're going to get 2900 into the next, so they've partially invested behind the safe, there's another M4 on the field, and a couple of pistols.
So bait, they didn't win the first rifle round, but they have one-one that could be worth two, if they can convert against this, get past the land mines.
Who thinks that's over the smoke?
Anticipated by Alex!
Yeah, he even pulled the trigger first, he spotted them setting it up.
setting it up.
He's been the man finding a lot of impact in his second alpha play and he's gone down
first here so it has to be the puppet master from the grave.
Yeah, and as far as checklist goes for winning a round like this, it's one of those rifles
throwing first blood.
No one swung off that flash and Pierre gets something off of it.
has held my two unarmored pistols in Towson and Hypex.
Towson has Kevlar, excuse me.
And beyond the rapid.
Hypex not ready for that whatsoever, just gets wrapped and hits it in and that should be round.
Towson's gonna come through this, he's gonna give it a go, why not?
Why not?
a moment there almost lined up for him could have just unloaded with the five seven now snacks is going to give it a look through heart one
V4 situation and he's just going to hold on to this so
At this point is getting very serious right you win that first half in such dominant fashion and nine to three
You think in the hard works done, but now it's a game now
It's just two rounds now this one's close and you're starting to feel are we doing our best energy impression
I mean the ball was set up three right, you know sporadic
One of them being the second round after losing the pistol bait
It didn't feel like enough three CT rounds. We thought okay well that bar is set in an incredibly attainable level
Good chip away again from snacks something that they have done well in this second half is continued to limit the finances of bait not
Allowing them to start build a bucket of cash right and this is gonna put pressure on them in every freeze time
Someone is gonna have to manage the drops where that's being game leader
You're calling for your own but there has to be some extra comms taken there before you can start making the call
Just a level out the buys it won't be a problem
but it just means that even if they go on a run, they're never feeling comfortable.
And then you have to always run the risk of being broken early.
And that's the third time out from IMD used now.
There is nothing left in that department for game allegiance to call.
And there's still some debate.
If I'm Alex at this point, I don't take another.
I don't let the coach chip in.
We don't have one.
We don't need it.
So handling that even after Alex is opening death, and bait, not dejected, not given up,
are still in this.
I need to step up, who's comes from the restaurant, we don't, because we are not asking you questions,
because we are not saying what we are doing, yeah, this is the only reason.
We know, focus on the fucking comms, okay?
Well, while that comms glips up and there at ramp and down-seek.
If I want to communicate that, PL's lost his head.
Yeah, and he is frustrated as hell.
Okay, high-fax, good find onto Sizi, emerging, aggressive.
There's a whole lot more where that came from. He's still concerned about vent dive.
They have so many nades, they can flush this out.
Get your smokes, get your mollies in.
Pressure applied from ramp.
Talcent trying to keep MPL busy. Bond goes down. This is the patients from
Alex, who has unprepared for such an angle.
Bait again looking to collect. Gameliz and Khan afford to go for this. What did it
call? What did it say? Call just a fast yard to get the secret control and a ramp
plate and PR. He's out of position, goes down. Hypex tries to peel something
away but they might lose everything here. Alex playing ahead takes another gun.
Snacks and HyperX, the Poles having a counter hit. Back to T spawn, they go.
Fighting for their major lives. They've been here an awful lot with these saves.
Incredible. I mean, it's 1v1, 1v1, 1v2. Every round is 2s and nails, but it's one round separating them now.
That's their most convincing round so far of this T-haul. They are pulling this back and in style.
and that was the last time out of game alligion called
They're fresher that you saw the immediate body language appear once he goes down the way that they've opened is not what they're expecting
At least the saves do get them another bike
They'd are having to do this the hard way gun round after gun round
easy. I think MPL's just opened up the account onto snacks with the info relayed by Sizi.
Gonna try his luck on a smoke break here, anti flash does explode, but MPL's real quick.
He ain't given up without a fight charging to try and run down high pecs. He wants the orper. He wants him dead and he's made it so
pre-on to
Everything to play for
Towson responsible for a
Drops into the site is PR that's keeping containment of the yard from hell
Bombs making his way contact into the wide open be bomb site. This is perfect
Well, they're searching for info they are taking the space that's wide open PR's coming through to comb this he might take
Oof, not clearing credit.
So if he waltzes past, if he goes down secret behind him, MPL will not know about this,
but if he goes into main, he's dead man walking back turn, back spotted.
P.R. doesn't pull the trigger.
That's so now.
MPL will move from the pack.
P.R. audibly returning towards main as the sound is made and the bomb is planted.
Dropping in! Death sentence!
What do you expect a second?
Cancel's all wood?
It's all tied up now! That advantage you thought you had with a 9-3 half is disintegrating before our very eyes.
They remain focused, skiff up a lip.
They're buying in again here, game of the legend. I'm talking about how they have money because of these saves, sure, but this will not be around with the Hypex AWP.
I don't even think they could afford a defuse kit because they're prioritizing the firepower and with the coach unable to step in with all those timeouts gone
This is where the frustrations really start to brew. There's no way to stall this out, bait
They're the ones believing what gamely just starting to feel this is hopeless. Remember coming into this match
They had two terrible matches against Astras and Betbin where they were made to look silly
Now those cracks are being exploited
I have to terminate
Stax is main, Pypex is in the rafters, and Rez is secret, so they're relatively strung out here.
Well Rez's position is the solution to anything yard centric.
He pokes his nose up and there's nothing to report, little does he know, it's coming late.
Bad information right now.
Oh, he re-peeks into Alex!
I'm not missing it right now.
Snacks has managed to rotate in.
He'll be here.
But it's one man versus three.
Just contact walking this whole way.
What can you do?
Nothing at the hands of NPLs AK.
Another body drops.
Maybe PR can step up. It's just the two.
Hypex with empty hands.
And an empty skull.
Towson 1v3.
Does he even have a chance?
Kenshizor gives him the fight.
He softened up for the nade. Towson dips back. Not gonna kill it.
Kenshizor just stands and bangs.
Someone did a death slam down there after those deaths came in.
There's only two more rounds required now and the money is in the mud.
Don't wait for a miracle. Do it yourself.
Well, that's exactly what Bay are doing on this comeback.
I thought there was absolutely no way.
Again, this team has an average age of 20.6.
They do not have their coach with them.
They were down 9-3 on the CT side of Nuke
and they are turning this around with a masterclass of a T-side on their own.
And they aren't missing. I think you said it best.
That's a water bottle that's caught one there.
Sissi's accelerating. PR's gonna turn that flash, his MP9 primed and ready. Hang on a second.
Little bit of a fire starter if Rez and PR have kicked up enough of a stink
that no one's looking at Towson's 5-7. Starts to the perp, finds one.
Dips away, you've got a 2-on-4. You've got the hard work done.
Don't give him away back in. Hypex finds cover. Supported by Rez. A headshot angle. Look at this,
Samuel. Hits it. If you don't hit that first bullet right now, bait will win.
He's Molly. He's off to spread. He's okay. He's safe.
Okay, okay.
But Gensis is all sweeping through the rafters, might even consider the possibility, he sees it didn't land properly.
One little jigger from Hypex and he's a dead man.
Ramps being flanked.
Sentiel back turned.
Looking good for game allegiance 11th.
Gensis all in the clutch, gets caught, jumping down.
Okay, there's something, that is the second CT round we've seen in ten rounds in the second half.
Not right, there was a partial buy.
They have just won their second round in this half on a partial buy.
Wow.
They decided to really lift the tempo with this ramp rush and they were stalled out.
Rez, he catches, Alex trying to go down the vent, it's over to what's ramp, they get stalled
by this combo and then Assenthiel, he's trying to connect with Kenzizou, he's gone the long
way around as soon as he gets the ramp in before he tries to drop in and PL lets out
a roar.
There's the second time out for bait, they do let IMD on the mic and the pressure somewhat
I'm not alleviated for GamerLegion now.
Two rounds, one way or the other and we get this done in regulation.
One, a piece, split it down the middle and we're going to overtime.
This is the counter-strike you want to see at a major when elimination is on the line.
Young talents on both sides of the server.
As soon as this game is over, so is your season.
Don't leave Cologne with any regrets.
Put it all out there.
An 11-11 scoreline, third maps, 0-2 elimination from the Major at stake.
Smokewalk.
Burn out early.
I think someone's on the off-down beat, so considering the pace of which they've crossed
in other rounds, he won't be able to go and poke his nose up secret unless he's crazy.
So you can see where he's drawn the line in the sand on the x-ray here.
I don't know if anyone's gone fast and Alex has had some of these rounds where he's just
erupted across.
Now the second wall.
Cross the bar with another HE.
Snacks have got such a large cache of them that it's been unable to ascertain any information
He's ready for that push, it looks like Alex is going to be caught out here.
Oh, flashed info, yep, snacks, quick reaction.
Tips behind the red box, that's an understanding now, it's very little amount of information
but it's informed snacks' position and now perhaps catches them both.
How good's your clear, how good's your parthing?
Not good enough.
Oh it is, just enough!
In combination they do get past snacks.
Kill us in top split now through Heaven, you have to push Lobby for this fight.
I also need space.
Coming out of the door with the bomb.
It's vulnerable.
Here's them coming out door.
Res responsible for Heaven, he has to find the molty here.
25.
Pressure amplified, another headshot hit.
Beta doing it!
Looking good! His case has all shut them down!
Oh, Hypex is body language there.
He's still alive and he's dipping the head and PR's losing his.
It's just Hypex looking to save this.
They take 12 first? Are you serious?
And they've kept all five alive in this round.
Alex is calling up a storm on his T side and he's hitting hard 18 kills kensas or 21
You have a three CT round and you're keeping gamer legion to two
The Marge of error was fine, but this is bait says he showin some real
Denied that AWP and high pegs will hold on to it fighting for his tournament life
OT or Bust, OT or GG.
And Game Allegiance Major ends with heavy heads.
Both of these teams, they were on our screens the start of the year, the Big Boy events, right?
For Bate, it's a little bit different. They come off of Stage 3 over there in Budapest.
They get rid of Head Trick, they try Segu Kawa, he's not the one backing Krakow, they're bringing Sizi,
and they dip away, right? They're not on our screens of the Big Boy events, but both of these teams have had a resurgence in the late stages.
It's Game Allegiance in Atlanta, Grand Final against Narvi.
That made a whole lot of people a believer in a major run for them, not ending here.
The Pickens. A lot of people had high expectations.
Gamelige themselves had high expectations and it could end the end of round 24.
Hedgehog hit again from NPL. He nearly had him, but Alex has found another through the smoke.
Look, it's looking over!
Game only you don't have to turn it around, a two-man disadvantage!
Bates are about to complete what would be an insane turn around in the third map.
A ten-round teahall.
Just three kills away.
Feels like he needs to take some space, whereas searching into Lobby.
Well, everyone's on their way back to Lobby.
Sissy's coming back with the bomb. I sent the other Taylor list. They've just parked Alex outside
They have to be wary of this possibility if anything you'd expect it and or just as game legion expecting sector clear
As is he gonna get caught with the timing
Seems inevitable looking the wrong way. They're in lobby his back is
About facing time since he's got the shot B. They've done it
Bane with 5 alive, a T-side calling masterclass from Alex666, and for GamerLegion a 0-3 exit.
How is that their reality?
A lot of people had high expectations, and their season will end in dismay, in misery,
at the hands of Bane as they complete their comeback in regulation, and it's sent your
waves to them, goodbye.
And it's same comeback from a team that is aged 20.6 average and this is shattering for
Gamer Legion. They did not come to play in stage two. It is not the same team that we
saw taken to the server out of sorts. Thought that they would turn their fate around with
the performance on Mirage. They lost in front of that was their map. Multiple eco losses
will be keeping them up at night, but compound that with a 9-3 tee half on Nuke, baits and
Gamer Legion hard.
From being up 9-2 on the final deciding map of Nuke, Gamer Legion failed to close out this
series against Bait, which means they have been eliminated from IM Cologne 20-26.
You could almost hear it in the voices of Alex and Chad right there during the cast as well.
They couldn't believe it.
We couldn't believe it.
Least but no least, game of legion, you know, the body language, they couldn't believe it.
Martin, what on earth were we just witnessing?
Was this a definition of a joke in a way?
It looked definitely like it.
The game that was inside of the palms, inside of their hands,
and they let it slip, non-delays on CT side of Nuke.
I'm speechless how this all went, especially after 9-2, you know, everything seemed to be
working well and they don't was checked out but until they did it I'm a little
lost for words you know like I think it's it's disappointing that with the way
the game region go out specifically looking at with what they would you just
did in Atlanta like and then they never really seem to recover from from what
happened in stage one I think they I wouldn't say they got lucky making the
stage two but the way then the level they showed and stayed through they
carried that one over just in into this one and and that just you know it was
just not good enough and even if you're up 9-2 and you can't really make it make
account when you turn into the CT side I mean there's there's even a point where
you just want to be trying to gambling a little bit like you can probably feel
that is slipping out of your hands and you're losing you're losing a lot of
manpower by by dying one by one you couldn't really get the trades going and
the reach for just also a little bit off at one point maybe just try and gamble a
little bit like you have such a massive lead that you got to be trying
something you know try at least try and break your opponents like you know
composure by stacking and then you know get the going from there on you know
it's it's just there's just too many mistakes and and then throughout the
majority of the series you know it was the equalizer that haunted game
religion and then when they finally seem to be showing up and actually winning
the clutches and starting to make some of the right decisions you know that
they fall back into this you know dark spiral where they can't play off each
other and they make too many mistakes and just gets too individual. I feel like
there's a lot of different ways you can attack this naturally game religion
super disappointing. They also have the experience to be able to or should be able to handle something
like this. On the other hand, Bait, we spoke about them after the second map on Mirage. You know,
body language wasn't great. We spoke about them tilting a little bit. We didn't believe that
mentally they were quite in it. You then see them go down 9-2 and you kind of describe it already
as the doctor, right Martin, that there's no way that Bait with their current mental state of mind
would be able to come back. But they seem calm. They seem composed. And that T-side, you know,
as much as, yeah, the game only didn't play well, that was clinical from Bait.
It's almost, you can see the pattern where whenever Bait is in position where he's just
going to be like, oh, this game is done. Even in that MAT overtime that they had only for
now, Alex said in the post match, like, bro, we were just throwing out the playbook, we're
just having fun, and it kind of shows here as well that they were already maybe thinking that,
okay, this is clearly done, they're having very little chance to come back. This is where they
they started performing pretty well. Everyone started hitting shots. It was like the pressure
is off at that point and they're like, let's just have fun. And holy hell, it again works
for B8 and they snatched the victory out of Gamer Legion.
Peter, we often speak about experience, you know, and it's one of these things that's
very hard to quantify. When you're sitting at home, you're like, what is experience
worth in a scenario like this? When you compare bait to the likes of snacks, to the likes
of risks to GamerLeading as a whole, you'd argue that GamerLeading have significantly
more experience coming off the Grand Final in Atlanta as well.
So why is it that we see a young team, as Chad said, you know, we're at 20.5 years of
age on average, why is it a young, inexperienced major team like Bate can pull off a comeback
against what should be the more experienced side like GamerLeading?
I think there's a lot to it, right?
And you know, I kind of like just Gamer for momentum and you could also just tell by the
fact that GamerLeading started picking up pace, you know, they were having a great time.
But whenever you start playing well and you start making a couple of mistakes, the closer
you get to victory, the more nervous you might get.
And I think that maybe also got into the heads of game allegiance.
You could see throughout the game how they were just confident, all the peaks, the individuals
were making a lot of good decisions.
But as soon as you started getting a little bit more close, they turned their attention,
like when Bay turned their attention to Tisa, it just got too individual.
Momentum is a hard thing to break in Counter-Trike.
You definitely can use tactical timers to do so.
the stacks that I mentioned earlier to try and get in your opponent's head, try and be
a little bit more proactive instead of just allowing them to be more in your face.
And Gimli didn't at least feel that they were trying to be, they were a little bit too hesitant
in what they do.
Maybe they should have thrown in like a lobby aggression.
Something that Bait wasn't actually going to expect, catch him off guard, try something
a little bit out of the books, it gets a little bit too default-ish and I think Bait
were allowed to just go out and do whatever they want and they got so much space and they
could play around with the rotations and they did all get some crazy kills through the smokes
and they could get a lot of, you know, diversions but as a whole this was more like Gamer Legion
not really adapting well enough to what Beggar's throwing at them.
I think it's safe to say that it was never the major that Gamer Legion would have hoped for.
We had Trace catching up with Snacks after the elimination.
A little bit of somber tones over here in the G2 camp. They are eliminated from the Intel Extreme
Masters Cologne Major in 2026, snacks, veteran of the industry, veteran of the game, in your
own words, what happened here in that second map?
I mean we can talk actually what happened for the entire tournament and I think from
playing from stage one and stage two we didn't show ourselves how we usually play.
I mean you could see it clearly, I don't know, maybe pressure, maybe stress and we didn't
just play like we used to and I felt we were memeing a little bit in the team that it was
like kind of a bucket on the head when we are talking about the information we are giving,
we even know like what is happening and we are like not registering you know the information
we got and I mean it was tough tournament yeah but I mean it's an experience I would say still
even though this major sucks for us the journey what we had from starting from Miami in December
to being here and even some people put us on as favorites at some point in stage one and stage
to go through, didn't work, still a lot of work to do, but overall about the major I'm
not happy obviously, but about the hall, the way we played for entire season it wasn't
that bad.
You had some highlights there, we look at Atlanta, but then I think the question mark
is everything goes away, it goes south.
It seems like there was a lot of people believing in gamer league and up to this point.
Dropping the ball, not necessarily fun, but it's a lot of counter strike.
How would you diagnose it?
I mean, it's hard, because if I knew the answer, I would be the best in the world.
I mean, I can just say that it felt like we were not listening to each other, and I would
say it was a pressure, maybe, from the results we did in the USA.
I mean, it's a final and semi-final we did there, so we are kind of confident, and maybe
we thought that every win will come easily to our hands just by playing the game, and
I would say we did enjoy playing this tournament and I mean I felt like other teams were chasing
the teams to be as far as they can and we didn't and obviously that's the thing we need to work on.
Snacks, I think it's countless number of majors you played to this point.
Is there anything you want to say as we say goodbye to you for this one?
I mean nice I'm gonna go to home to my wife, I want to spend time with her, I want to have a
a little bit of a break after such an exhausting season.
I'm happy overall, like I said, I mean, not about the matches,
but overall, the team has the development that we did and so I'm here.
I want to thank all the guys who cheered for us
and thank you to the people who watched us.
I'm sorry, but unfortunately, we lost.
Fjuta.
The Polish team.
The Polish team.
Always a class act in a very difficult moment for Snacks and Game Elite.
and I very much like what he's saying, you know, overall this season, I think
Gamer Legion has done more than we thought they would, you know, the Atlanta Grand Final,
obviously being the highlight, doesn't take away the fact that it's super disappointing to see them
go out in this fashion at the Major, but do you agree that overall for Gamer Legion, the first
six months of 2026 has been okay? Yeah, we've been pretty harsh on Gamer
Legion because we're zooming in, we're on the analyst desk for this specific game,
but if we zoom out, just like Gamer Legion and Snacks did in that interview, yeah, it's been
pretty good season overall for them. I mean they have at the beginning of the season if you remember
PR interview that he hoped that he will be poached by other teams and something good will happen to
him but like no he stayed in game religion and they did the best they could with the with the
performances and with the tournaments that they attended that atlanta run pretty impressive but
at the same time as snack said it's putting target on your back when you're coming here to the major
because people can prepare for you they can snatch a lot of VRS points off of you because you
essentially farmed a lot of them back in America. So yeah, it's been
it's been good season, bad major, good season, what Snack said perfectly summarizes it.
Bad major, good season for game a legion. I think that's the way we summarize it for now.
But we also do have another big game coming up. Instead of talking about elimination,
instead of talking about going home, this time around, we're going to send the team
into States 3. We have foot taking on G2 in a game I think could be a banger. So stay tuned after the break.
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And that's it!
Got him himself!
We are back!
You need to break them, okay?
Let me check.
Let me check, I'll do it quick.
I'll do it, I'll do it. You should play now.
Yeah, I'm already done.
Remember to break them.
Yeah, I'll shoot it. I'll shoot it.
Let me break them.
Let's go down.
Swammy, swammy.
Swammy, swammy. Go down.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go
Oh yeah, I'm a little heavy, we can stay
I don't know, go down
We go down, you come with me
I'm going
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I have it, I have it
I have it
Smoke's on you, say friendly
I'm going to bounce the flash but I'm leaving him for the run
Yeah, already, left side
I'm holding it from there
They're overgrab us down, hey, they overgrab us down, hey
Can you hold my secret?
Oh, we cannot, we are fighting around
No, I'm holding secret
I'm holding secret
I have it
Ah, nice, nice, nice
Let's go
I'm pushing safe.
I'm staying here.
Under heaven.
They're coming.
I'm leaving.
I'll wait for you.
Can we go?
They're coming right behind you.
I'm flanking heaven.
I'm flanking heaven.
I'm all on main.
I'm all on main.
They're all on main.
I'm coming.
Careful, they are under heaven now.
They are molly, that's again.
They are under heaven now.
Nice.
They are under heaven now.
I'm not peeking, Fred.
Nice one.
Nice push.
Nice group.
Careful, like you can reach through here.
Nice, basic.
Foot kill is ready.
Big one right here in front of G2, they're looking to take on foot and a B03 and one
that puts them into the next round or the next stage here at the major.
Some positive feeling, man.
How's G2?
Feeling good.
What about G2?
How does G2 feel?
Feeling good also.
It looks somewhat like they're feeling good.
Tell what Hunter was doing back there.
Anyway, we'll swiftly pass that.
Let's talk about the 35 and 27 result you personally had versus Matille Mirage, big
overtime game, 22-19 is how it comes out.
How does it play out for you?
Talk to me about that game.
I mean it was a close game, tough game, I don't know, it was really close, every round
mistakes from them, mistakes from us, entry from them, for them, entry from us.
I don't know, we had mistakes, we didn't take enough space, we talked about it after
the game and yeah we played better, we improved.
We need to focus on the day by day basically because we can't win or lose today also, tomorrow is a new day.
So nothing matters. Here is the major stretch to improve and you try to be focused on what you need to be focused on basically.
Yeah, for the major for G2 for you guys that can give you a little bit of composure.
It can give you a couple different things. You can learn from games like that, they're really close, correct?
So when you look at foot across the way today, are you anticipating a little bit of the same thing?
I'm anticipating them to shout to us. I'm anticipating a bit chaos match. I think it's going to be a crazy match.
You never know against them. Their firepower is really, really high. I'm just looking forward.
Like, no matter what happens, I will be happy.
You and your personal performance in Pius, what would you say is the best way to describe your personal performance here at the Major?
I don't know. I didn't check.
How do you think you're doing?
I think I'm doing okay outside of the game and taking good atmosphere for the guys and
in game and trying my best.
I don't know how is it going but I'm trying my best and I'm doing okay I would say.
Anything you want to say to the G2 Nation?
There's a bunch of them.
Everybody's a G2 fan sometimes I guess.
I hope so.
I hope they keep supporting and vamos guys.
Vamos.
Gracias.
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The game I've been waiting for all day long.
D2 taking on foot e-sports.
And the reason being, not only the fact that we're going to send one of the teams into Stage 3,
also, I think this is a matchup that could potentially be a team of one of the two teams
being one of the play of contenders heading into Stage 3.
I have high hopes for foot.
I think they're one of the most exciting teams on the circuit right now.
D2 has been a little bit under the weather leading up to the Major, but there's no denying they have a lot of cool players within their line-up stick.
What are your initial expectations for this matchup?
I'm really happy for FOOT being here with 4 rookies making this, you know, well into the tournament of the Major.
Their meta-rig rise, we cannot underestimate that.
Obviously, they are looking to even potentially be kind of a dark horse of the Sturman for me when it comes to the playoff appearance,
which is obviously nice when it comes to foot and so far they're turning in a day one yesterday close wins against both
Thailu and B8 probably teams that you should be comfortably beating but in best of ones anything can happen and the important thing is that
They're getting it over the line
So I'm happy to see them in a 2-0 pool because they clearly deserve it
What's your assessment of foot so far Peter?
You know leading up to the tournament there was a little bit shakiness with a bootcamp or lack there often in America playing with a coach
etc etc but yesterday they got us to a good start. Do you think Fruit right now is a team that we can
expect to go toe to toe versus the likes of G2? Yeah, I think it's just as you mentioned Jacob,
it's one of the most interesting teams that we've got right now that is sitting you know
around tier one maybe like a tad below but you know it's a team that everyone seems to be
respecting and it's a team that can bring so many different things like you can see on the
in the World Ranking Graph, you know, there's a team that wouldn't have exploded off nothing
since October.
A small dip now coming into the Major, but you know, that's what it is, they've also
come out of Tier 2 where they've just won everything there, then you know, they're progressing
into Tier 1 where they've actually looked pretty solid, I'd say, and I think it comes
down to that they just have so much firepower, they have so many different gears, and I think
Longs put it out perfectly yesterday when we had him on the test, that they're madmen,
They don't know how to stop and that is their strength, but it can also be their weakness.
And that also showed yesterday, I think, in their games against specifically Tai Lu, where I think Kulio, the coach of foot,
he had to take a timeout saying, guys, we're actually underestimating our opponents a little bit right now,
like making a lot of unnecessary decisions, repeating too much.
And for me, that is also like a syndrome of a team that comes into a major for the first time with no expectation,
No experience, sorry.
Playing a little bit, maybe a little bit too loose, but they got it over the finish line.
They won, and I saw everything from football yesterday. Great rounds, some stuff they threw away.
They made bad tactics, they made good tactics, so they kind of got the full penalty yesterday.
Safe to say they're playing with a certain fire whenever they're taken on the stage.
Now, going up against G2, a team where a lot of the names on the paper, so to speak, are high-provalific names.
You look at Sun Payers, you look at Hunter, Heavy Guard, Nerds.
We're talking players that throughout their careers have had the label that maybe they're almost...
Well, Starsh, they're almost up there in the highest category, but we still haven't seen the best of Nerds.
We still haven't seen the best of Heavy Guard, I feel.
We still haven't seen the best of Sun Payers since he was in Enns.
How close is G2 to finally realizing all that potential that is in within them?
Or is it just a slightly better version than Team Liquid?
I like how you didn't mention Maltese at all.
My boy is getting under pressure in my opinion, because for a role player, he's one of the best ones out there right now.
Obviously, when we're looking at G2, it's pretty good package, what you're having.
Obviously, with the anchor like of Heavy God, which is in my opinion one of the best anchors, maybe outside of Vitality.
Very little resources that is needed for him to perform really well.
Hunter obviously slotting into that agile role quite heavily, but sometimes for me, surprise of day one.
He's been incredible and I cannot wait to see him perform in the best of three to see if that was a normally or not.
Neither can I. I think it's going to be a super super interesting game.
Obviously we have to find out where we're going to play as well. No inferno, no nuke, peter, any expectations in terms of where this video is heading.
I'm curious if you're going to see a nuke with Cindy like, well we do actually see that one, you know, a little bit unexpected.
It's not a map that that foot has been played that much, but I guess it's a bit of an attempt to punish pick G2.
They only sit at 20% win rate and they have played against some really really strong teams on that one
But they're not really making an account and then G2 picking overpass is I would say also very confident pick for them
But foot has been playing overpass and they know how to get that one working and both teams really like to play ancient
So I mean there is a there's a great chance that we get to see a third one specifically because I think an overseas might going in
The way first I was just about there right the fact that they shake hands on ancient
Both of the teams are very capable of playing ancient both of the teams were able to pick ancient up against each other or against any other
our position, but the fact of the matter is, Stukul, we have two teams right here who, on paper,
I guess as of recently, is similar in terms of skill level, similar in where they're hitting
right now. I feel like we have an equal game that also shakes hand on arguably both of the
team's best map on Ancient. So is there any reason to think that this game is not going to be competitive?
It's going to be competitive and that Ancient will be played in my opinion. It's very likely that we
will see a three-mapper, which I'm so excited for, because these teams, both of them deserve to be
be in stage 3, the more we see them play, the better.
Alright, so let me just rephrase this question once more, Peter, and you can say whether
you agree with me or not.
I look at G2 as a team with an enormous amount of potential.
A European team with so much skill and heavy guard and matters for that matter as well.
Nerds, Sunpairs, you know, if Sunpairs is a weak link within your lineup, you have a
pretty stacked lineup to be completely honest.
Is it fair to say that G2 haven't gotten enough out of the material they have to work with
throughout this season so far?
I think it can spiral in both directions.
I think there's happened a lot in the squad because of Hunder also picking up to be the
Ingemeade.
I think that takes a long time to go from never being that you then set yourself in a
role where you need to be leading, but also still want to try and cope with some of the
firepower that you know you can bring to the table.
I think the all-brow in some pious has also been questionable at times.
I think he had a good day yesterday and I think leading into the tournament was also
decent from his own wording.
He's trying his best, but trying your best is not always going to make the cut in professional
counter-strike.
But I think the only one in this team right now that might be a little bit in jeopardy,
if we look a little like a head, that might be the uproar, that might be someone that
could go in and have more impact than Sampias has right now.
But overall, looking at the roster, I think it's a roster that should be doing really
good they should be making in my books a potential top-8 finisher at the
major and I'm looking in that regard because I do think that they have an
amazing coach in SAW but as Marcin also mentioned I think heavy guard he's
one of the if not deepest anger outside of Messi right now. I think that's fair
to have those expectations for a team like G2. A lot has been invested into the
lineup you mentioned SAW as well I think the whole coaching duo between SAW
being you know I could be the more experienced counterpart to Cullio is
It's interesting as well. Kulio, one of the up-and-coming coaches, gets a lot of credit for why FOOT are where they are right now.
Martin Anubis, to me, quite an interesting pick coming in for FOOT, to be completely honest.
They've had a bit of a shaky, you know, stat line on it. They had a period where they lost it six times in a row.
Then they picked it out for Pro League where they won against Bate, they won against Passion UA.
But they haven't played the map a lot. They've played it only once in the last three months.
So do you think this is something they've been preparing for the Major specifically, or is this a straight-up potential punish pick towards G2?
It's definitely a punish pick. I can tell you that much and the reason why we're not seeing
Anubis that much, even at this tournament, is very simple. The map itself is very
chaotic, it's very hard to get a good grasp on it, it's heavily T-sided and the recent changes
doesn't help. I spoke with actually Yekendar at the past tournaments and I asked him what he
thinks about Anubis and he said, with the amount of travel and the amount of tournaments, there's
very little time to actually put a good amount of practice and Anubis is one of those maps where
if you don't run out of the spawn on CT side without a clear plan and maybe even a set round.
And I highlight this on CT side because on this side obviously you have defaults and set
strats but on CT side you have to have a clear plan of what zone are we taking because it's so
much more difficult to play this map on CT side especially if you don't have a good economy.
That's why people are avoiding and shying away from this map to more of a comfort pick in whatever
we said Mirage and Dustus and all those kind of maps that are kind of a little bit easier to play.
No doubt about it, Foot have decided to go for the Polish pick of Anubis,
which will be the first map in this series between G2 and Foot.
We have to find a team that is entering Stage 2,
sorry, Stage 3 at the Major, advancing right here,
and we have to find that team right here, right now.
We're about ready to go live with the game on Anubis, between G2 and Foot.
Yeah, the hour grows late, but we gotta wake the hell up,
because this BO3 sends one of these squads into Stage 3 flawlessly.
one side G2 a household name
full of household names. And on
the other foot, one of the most
exciting squads of 2026. Full of
major debutants only long since
I've been to a major before that
was back in Rio in 22. There's
so much to say about this young
team and what they're here to do
and to do it at their debut
major flawlessly in the second
stage will be quite a statement.
pick a punish map of Anubis. I feel like they've been keeping it in their back pocket for major time
as the desk established. No one likes to play this map right now. There is no clear number one
Anubis team in the world. And so foot coming in with a punish is a perfect time to do it.
This is a squad that back in the Navi days, the four man unit of this team did play a lot of
Anubis. They did have a lot of success the first time it was in the map pool. So footer
to hit the punish and G2 better watch out. Do not underestimate this young plucky squad,
the youngest team in the major. Bates weren't even eliminated earlier. This squad, not even
average age of 20. B hit for G2, what have they got?
They are running into a triple stack and the door barrette is here on the back of demon.
Alonks is going to open and then those doolies get to be involved.
He's just gone on a tear.
Finally gets dealt with by some pyre.
Sue will chain together a double.
Suddenly G2 might be on to something here.
Need to cover this smoke push.
They play right front, plant denied.
That's fumbles the shot and put go on to close one of the most energetic teams in Counter
Strike right now. Some players said it in the interview. It's not just going to be a chaotic
game. They're going to shout at us. So G2 know what they're walking into right now. Smiles
on foot faces as they lock in a very important pistol. Punish pick or not. This CT side pistol
is going to go a long way. See a lot of teams struggle on this defensive half on this map.
I
Let them know a full eco here for G2 maximizing gun rounds
Question for G2 is knowing that this is a weak part of their map pool. Have they put work into it coming into nature? How much work?
Because I the thing that I find crazy about a new this right now is every team is just hand shaking it right there leaving it to the second
ban. Nobody's punished picking. Nobody's even floating it for the third, you know, whoever
is forced to will have to second ban it. Whether it's least confident, but it does feel like
there are ways in, even if it's a team like Vitality, who sure, I'm not going to doubt
them on any map in the pool, even ancient, but we haven't really seen many squads look
to challenge them on this map. That's something that Beth Boone did very recently at Atlanta.
Look at how well it worked out for them. They stole that map away in an upset. They
they won the series and so it is definitely exploitable.
It feels like even though it's a very underplayed map,
it's one that could be decisive in how the major pans out.
Absolutely.
Especially when you consider BO5 final.
Hell, even the BO3 stage three.
Absolutely.
You know, while rather correct myself back to him, we'll get back to it.
There's more vitality later.
They're in stage three.
That's what we're trying to get to.
Foot clean on the anti-eco, dealing well with G2's glocks.
And then we've got the gun around here.
So Captain Hunter with a lot to do on this very T-sided map.
FGT, you want to come out with something strong out of the gate, so what's it going to be?
Alley on three players out here just to go and hold on to this A-control.
but aggression from demon leaves him in harm's way teammate here to help him out
they both go down on that push out through dark this idea to just scrap at
the start of the first gun round it's not done either for still put pushing the
boat out flash on a main jukes won't commit he didn't see anyone right off
him to back up because G2 have two players here waiting in the water so
nothing happens here G2 just sit back in a fight and fight
Crebeni will get traded and so G2 are more than fine with that and here's where
foot know they have to roll the dice gamble on this B site my players moving
in they know they have a small window to push into this bomb side but as they do
G2 are going elsewhere so it's either stand still and save your guns or stay
active and give yourself a chance for going for the former will leave them
out of position. This is G2 on the board. I think it's just a nice way to kind of get
into your groove on this T side, right? You deal with that early aggression foot on a
bit of a bonus around there, running a couple of famuses still. Try to come through with
that early peek you're able to withstand it. Just feels good at 4G2. Gifted a set of entries
on that water control. It's curious for how aggressive they plan on being on this CT side.
I think that's a good tone set for your first gun round but if you're just making plays
off of spawn instantly. G2 are just going to be vigilant and deal with it. So I'd imagine
for looking for more mid-round moves in this map than necessarily just insta-water drops
and conswings. But they want to see if they can get away with it, right? There's a team
that love momentum, a lot pushing the boat out. They have an advantage. Why would they
they stop. So a confident showing here but let's see if we get something more standard
as the bonus is done. Two players start con-side. Cheat dude kept out of A main. And something's
happening here alright. Yeah it's one of these crunches again trying to run it back.
Wow nails the spray and we've come up from demon. That's how that double dark push was meant to work out last time for foot
Grimini know what a not a quiet IGL by any margin
Really does like to throw himself into the action and with that transfer not hard to see why
Contender for the best fragging in-game leader in the world right now at this level
There's a couple more names in that pot, and I think this major is all about foot proving
it.
Wow, this is a crazy place to clear below.
Yonk?
I'll be stealing that one.
Yeah, I think everyone will.
So G2, they're a bit of a lab all week.
Can they shoot their way out of this?
That's a start.
the aggression from the crab man out through middle. Getting him behind G2, meant to extend
their advantage, ends up walking right into Hunter who keeps his wits about him. You've
seen a very aggressive tendency from foot to open this up and so knows to keep his
eyes on.
That's when it gives and it takes, right? They get the entries, but they get shut down
in this 4v2. There's 10 seconds, G2. Are you going for this? You've got a bloody run
right now. I don't know if there's time. Heavy God's going to just try and stick that
bomb in the open he's got it oh just about it but barely smoke there makes
you a little nervous this heavy god feel trapped in this he doesn't know where
demon is and so maybe thinking that smoke is why he gets the bomb planted
it's a very restricted post plant barely able to move a muscle in comes demon
heaven side mr. clear on this position first time around but now drops in eyes
He's on, just solely focused on flushing him out of that corner.
Good awareness for Demon, and a round stolen straight back by Foote.
Yeah, just a great read from Demon.
Smoke kind of gives it away, doesn't it?
Happy God stuck, maybe com'd.
He was low as well.
Foote, they caused a lot of chaos in this round.
There's still a 2v4, but G2 made very, very close, though,
giving himself their best chance.
No!
But my god, my god, bringing the energy this evening.
I'm thinking a match that's running late like this one.
That's very important.
They try and keep the energy high from the word go.
Look at them go.
They're going again.
Rush down, middle, full send for the pistols.
They clear that corner and we got didn't fire off.
Hope they wouldn't check him out.
But double dip for Dukes and he's got a 5v4 and they just amass the site.
I mean, they're not just an exciting team because they've shown they've been able to
hang with some top names.
It's also the brand of CS on display.
It's very aggressive.
This is a very tricky round, though.
They've lost their side players, rotate through spawn.
Now, here's all of this important pickup for cemetery.
Still, you're having a scrap for very early control here.
What would that deep take?
Huge smoke.
And now blocked in this position.
Am I just decided smoke falling, blocking two players out of the retake, foot right this one off.
That's a fair enough call here for Foote. They do get caught somewhat out of position.
G2 pounce after they see that initial mid-aggression, you've got to be calling at least three players there, right?
And so G2, they have to take space elsewhere.
They do so very quickly, Foote swinging into the AWP, probably an AWP they didn't expect to see in this round.
And that kill gives G2 the sight.
Retakes can be difficult on this map.
And so, Foot will have to walk away on that one.
G2, strong reaction in this round, but obviously a lot of the attention this game is already just on the CT side because Foot are making all the moves.
Coolio coach and also a coach who beat vitality on a map back in Fort Worth.
It took Dust2 off of the world number one without logs in the server and with captain
or coach Coolia rather, was shocking to say the least, but it was also part of their
poor America run, back-to-back events where we saw this team get grouped. And so people
maybe had them on, had lower expectations for coming into the Major, but they so far
dispelled that they looked to do so again today in this 2-0 game. This is what they've
have been waiting for.
We finally see an end to the super aggressive early rounds for
foot. I don't think we're going to say goodbye to that aggression
aggression entirely. Just going to come a little bit later in the round.
G2 are basically forced to play slow on this T side because they have to start every round
with watch out. You know, they could be running at you through mid through B into water. So
G2 can't really call much off the rim. They have to react. So may get exchanged for worse
end of it. G2 can get con control as well despite being smoked. Trading you to a middle
Hunter's in a great position. Can he really call his troops? When he's this deep, this
alone. Where will the G2 pieces go?
No mini-XF leveled against this B-side, but it's just a one-man lurk of heavy guard and
he dies straight away. It's a quad stack over towards B, though, and Sir Duke's really
as to keep his wits about him only has a 5-7 a fall back on smoke is blocking main but
g2 are coming through it now hunter looks to try and control these rotates hangs around
out in the open miss shot from some pious hemorrhaging players and time really starting
to work against g2 gonna scramble for that bomb plant if it want to try and go early
look at that bomb getting planted they'll commit to the gunfights they come through swinging
to get that bomb planted. All
right, reductive analysis, but
G2 missed their shots. They
call a great round. Hunter puts
him in a strong position. Sure
that entry out B doesn't come
through. They try peak the orb.
That's really awkward. That
makes the round very hard. But
look at the mini map at that
point in the round. There are
four foot players on that B bomb
site and the five seven is alone
with just a Molotov and a fading
smoke that still feels like a
possible round for G2, but Hunter
with into temple. Some pious
some pious missed all shot and then G2 just caught in the open getting run out of the bomb
plant. Sometimes you just got to hit your shots.
I don't know what to do with it.
It's going to lose the weight.
It really is the man who never knows when to quit, huh?
Here's the running past in the smoke.
And it's the last thing they expect.
He's got a double kill and a platter here.
Nade's pulled.
The trigger just for a moment that will cost him a bit much, but I like he's got the confidence for it
However, it's like G2 in with a chance they're giving Mattis an AK as well
Made to least rattle him down low same for nerds this dark component of the B split
Now super wounded can't really play the entries are gonna have to come from elsewhere
So you're looking at heavy God feel like he's gonna have to muster something up here
This is a very hard round to win now for G2 with low health.
Gonna trade some guns over and set some nades on this B bomb site,
but Logs is looking vigilant over this position right now.
I don't know if he spotted the cross from Heavy God.
Trying to back up his teammate here in Conner.
They say clear out the water position. They can full focus on this B bomb site.
Exit coming in. Foot's are ready.
Even now in the 4 on 4, just remaining active of Foot.
And it's given them the gift of information, they know that much better, where this hit is coming from.
Team Flash a little bit awkward, but Lorx isn't punished at least, won't be able to get gone on in time, heavy god.
One entry, all he is able to provide, and now Sunpires getting sandwiched on a smoke walk.
It's costly for Foot, but they get the round, that's what matters.
Yeah, walking through the smoke and you're seeing the danger of this early conditioning here from Foot.
foot. It's making G2 have to play really really slow. These last couple of rounds have come
down to 10 seconds on the bomb plant or the fake. And so G2 is just feeling the burn from
the time right now. That's what's doing. That's on account of the early aggression.
And so great grenades in this round who high damage down connector forces G2 back to be
And even though it only longs for a moment, it does a good job of delaying, taking on
with him.
I'm seeing a very impressive CT side foot looking comfortable, G2 anything but, and
saw this first time out here.
these foot players. It's always been interesting to me, you know, one of the credits they were
getting early almost just about how hard they hit, right? And at the top level of CS kind
of goes without saying, everyone's pretty good mechanically, pretty darn switched on.
But when that's kind of the identifiable bit, a lot of the praise they were getting from
top teams early in their rise at 2026. I think it just goes to show how the aggressive style
mixed with some very mechanically talented players, is a threatening package for any squad.
They demand a lot from you.
G2, feeling a bit out of it right now.
Money broken again, and all that early conditioning that you talk about, forcing some very slow rounds through.
That's a good chunk of concern here on Footsmap Pig.
Monifers are a little bit short here in the middle.
So all by design, they want to run through it with pistols, and be trying to catch foot
of God, but it's a passive orb.
So mid, have it, we don't want it, save foot, up against the pistols, they let them cross
that code of damage.
Man, it's just lucky, right, that smoke falls, sorry, that maid falls a little too short.
Oh, changed nothing in the grand scheme, they're pushing in together.
gravity has teammates in his bombsite as well so
i like the foot that they don't overplay this they know it's pistols in middle
rasher is on g2 and wow that's awkward timing on that flash
ruins heavy god chukes follows up and it's a matter of time at least dropping the orb for some
damage but foot are coming in with this kill no matter how you slice it
62 and just indomitable on this CT side.
He's just staggering how often Krobedy finds himself up top of the board.
Yeah.
Look at this.
That is awful.
Team Flash gets him.
And Juke's just turned away because he hurt the pin pour as well, so...
Oh, what could have been?
Great replay.
Summoner Tree's not missed a beat on this orb either. It's definitely been a player critiqued at times
times for not hitting the easy ones, but on this CT side has just been a safe pair of
hands.
All right, Juke's misses that first spray, and that's gonna bring G2 out towards this
A site for many feeling pressure as they are all around him.
Guns now picked up. He's not long for this world.
This was full pistols for G2.
After their force didn't pan out in the previous.
Is this really where they break through?
Demons didn't want it to happen, and he'll close it out.
For Minnipal on that rotation, they don't hang around.
They don't give G2 a bomb plant to play with.
They rush those players before they can get set up,
before they can arm themselves.
It's a big problem for G2.
I love that, no respect from Furt, just keeping the finger on the pulse, chasing down G2.
I'm letting them make the most of that situation, if you play scared against the pistols here, you can let them get set up for the bomb down.
Suddenly you're gonna retake, you're not favoured.
No! It's nice, Neymar! Nice shot, man!
So they are just running at G2 right now, we've got another gun round here.
G2, it has to hit, or this map is starting to feel like a wash.
Something more standard now for Furtz. No plays getting made. Cemetery supporting in
middle of the orb. Solo A player. You'll notice Furtz's proclivity to play double in
Conn haven't really been putting too much attention on B main. It longs backs up into
plat and so as g2 get to con demons here to block
oh that made one in that would have been massive
it's fine good damage two players hiding out the match of the site here in a
prompt to boost lobbed in four foot demon peeking over the top doesn't have an
angle. Yeah. It was off the
target. Things get chaotic. How
much time do they want to lend
to Krabeni on this main flank?
Oh nice and heavy God hitting
that hard. Everyone else dies.
Krabeni might arrive. With this
whole team dealt with there is
no winning this for the captain
of foot. If you went, bro, no
one's looking. No one has even
headshots. Adam Mattis and heavy God here to save the round for G2. Those smokes for
foot in their face do just buy time for G2. We foot really needed a kill just to stem
the bleeding and give them some more room in that bomb site, but no one can rotate out.
No one can get off the plat. There's just too many bodies in the site for G2 and everybody
connects their shots. Nice round out of them. Do you feel like if Demon got that nade and
con could have really given them a shot to find some low g2 players but it's not the
end of the world for foots. It's that front flat smoke that causes a lot of problems.
G2 with a chance to find five here at the half, this round could break the money of
foot. And this one's looking to be something a bit faster and a bit more direct. 4G2, they
finally looked to have a say in how these rounds are playing out. It's aggression from
Krabeni that opens things up. And if you do want to go B, you've got to go now. They play
right through that defensive smoke, focused on Dark Demon 4. And Krabeni move in for
the shut down. And that's the problem. It's very, very fine margins on hitting these gaps,
hitting these timings. Foot are a team that moves swiftly and decisively. And so you've
got to be even quicker if you want to beat them to the punch.
I love the water control in this game, right? It's nothing out of spawn. They're not just
running out the window. They're doing it together using deep, a main aggression, throwing mollies,
throwing flashes, Krobeni finds his timing. And I thought nerds getting burned there would
It helped G2, right, just making a bit of audio cue, giving away that G2 player was in water,
maybe taking eyes off that B bombsite. It was a big gap, like you said, as G2 went in for a faster round,
but then Krabeni just breaks the timing, clears water entirely.
And at that point, you're all saying, watch B, watch B, because there's no way NA hit can come in right now.
For, have multiple players in the connector again.
And they're rotating so smoothly on the CT side.
We've not seen players panic through middle, have to run back and forth between A and B.
They're using water as their point of rotation.
Yeah, and it's just speeding everything up, man.
It's kind of lubricating the CT side.
And it must feel invigorating, you know, like one second of hesitation is met with immediate punishment.
Oh, mini boost down here for demon. Oh, yeah, get his angle Mattis spans it through
Nox is too far forward if he was further back demon could have jumped and he would have seen that close player
Hit his head on the roof and gets his legs taken out
So has gone a little bit wrong here pear shaped in the final round of the half
When has I ever stopped Crobani?
Oh, no way. No way you're ready for this. Oh, he's got the spot. Doesn't matter. Have
he got his keen with the Diggle? And so 5v2 G2 are telling themselves we just can't mess
this up, right? Looking for four rounds on the T side of a new bus far from a pre-score
line. And they're going into the loan at Cemetery Orb. First shot sales on pasta. Now they
they make it past the AWP.
Just gonna be hard for him to find a way back into this now.
Utah starts to force him back.
Demon's nearby, out here towards camera.
But a smoke in his way.
And the odds heavily against him here.
Aids picked up, it's a bit of an airstrike on Mattis still.
Demon has no road left to run.
G2 will scrape by with four rounds on this T-half.
There's no ignoring that foot are hitting hard as Krabeni helps the ship.
Oh
I want to prove that I need a clue, and I need a clue.
Don't talk about who I see as you, I want to prove.
I want to prove that I need a clue, and I need a clue.
It's Chris first major and they're here to impress, here to make his statement red in
the face right now as they sit a half closer to that third stage.
Yeah, they're getting very, very loud on the back of an 8-4 CT half on their pick of a newbis.
Oh, my God, did G2 know about it?
But I will say, speaking of the G2 captain and one of our roundtables a little while ago,
we actually had the conversation about energy, how he's not one of these captains that gets
super animated, gets super loud, doesn't necessarily buy into the hole, you know, trying to come
in at a level 10.
talked about how he gave tires quite easily and actually looks to conserve
energy till the pivotal moment so for G2 is this kind of a slow boil looking to
close it out across the series conserving what they can in a one-sided
affair of anubis. You got to turn on the stove if you want it to simmer right now
it is ice cold for G2 and this pistol looking locked in from position big
flank available the foot want to get tricky smokes come down that's nice but
Demons clearing an empty site and four players from G2 on this flank is not what you come to expect
They are getting flanked themselves by a very late to the party demon
Devilish difference between demons and vampires is this guy doesn't need an invitation
He's showing up anyway in through the back line closing in on this backstab
His teammate's getting overran but in comes this flank and it's a real nasty surprise smoke on the bomb
It's getting claustrophobic. They try and stick
But it doesn't pan out
pistol round both of them
picked up for foot on an Ubers
Longs is just letting them know isn't he nice try from G 2000 predicament wasn't it 444 on a
Flank smoked off and they just stormed in together
That's a very nice try. It had to get on the bomb straight away though trying to squeeze those extra kills out
Let foot get closer from heaven
Fin margin but enough for foot to take it away
and a T side now on the very T side of map
Should be simple so you want to talk about conserving energy I mean part of that is
is like accepting when you see this map come up like, okay, if they've game plan properly
for this, if they're going to run away with this map, we need to win it in three.
It's not necessarily giving up, but it's accepting that save what you've got for later because
your pick is up next.
I mean, it all feels like it happens a lot of the time with this map.
I've even taken back to Paravision in Krakow right at the start of the year where Jane
literally said to his troops, look, we haven't prepped for this.
Let's just keep our heads in it.
Don't tilt for the following maps.
Don't tilt for the rest of the series.
Let's see, you're trying to pay yourself
for the long task ahead,
because Foothold, all the cards right now,
they're on the better half, they won the pistol.
You're having to cobble together a force by here
at a desperation if you're G2.
If you were gonna win this,
it's gonna have to be in a series that goes the distance.
And hasn't Crebenny caught a blinder
in just these two rounds of play?
He's avoided the stack on the pistol and against the force as foot run in they're going to realize nobody's home
G2 can make an argument for this round the longer foot take to plan that bomb the closer G2 get
But we are talking about a post part with guns versus MP9s and no kids
Absolutely no shame in writing this off if you don't like what you see
But you've got everyone knocking on the door of this retake you are going to give it a look in before you write this off
to get going, but it all starts
on the back of this double flash
out CT side kills fly in for
foot. There's the response
caught out in the open is demon
and foot end up giving it away.
Oh dear. That's a disaster.
Demon I thought he had that on
the money puts matters on to
round to see G2 win. They take their time and arrive right in the nick of it.
Defuse with no kit on the force by round. And so while foot avoided the stack, put themselves
in the best possible place, arguably a bit too much fighting in B main, but you know they do it
together. That's multiple rifles facing side by side. You feel like they're good for that round.
It's the kind of thing that's going to be judged by its outcome here.
Can you really blame Foot for taking the fights with the game they've had?
Well, G2 thanked them very much.
Got five rifles versus the one on daemon.
This is just a bit of posturing out towards mid-crabbony on a...
attempt to keep attention misdirected 4G2.
They've not forced back this double mid setup. G2 still have all the info thanks to Hunter in the window.
And he's even gonna start to clear this now.
This is a Krebbenny type of move, right? Aggressive in the mid round, walking it through middle, on for a backstab.
And Hunter has calmed down the line. What's happening in this round from that push?
Jumping out through this smoke, but rifles waiting to receive. Nurtz, triple kill is lovely and some pyres is quick to rotate.
So G2 don't let foot find any comfort in that bombsite
This game is now closing up and we'll get closer after a full eco from foot G2 giving themselves a
Charts here in this first map of a new base
A map that has laid them this year alone
It's been the same for foot though
That's why it's so exciting to see them keenly picking into it this
series because it makes you question whether they've been prepping it for the
major specifically. They've only played it once in the last three months. If you go
back to the start of the year they lost it six times in a row to open up. Perhaps
not a map that longs fell too comfortable on when this team was in
Navi Junior, they were really really good at this map. But then they just
kind of stopped playing it.
Line up.
That's when the guy at the back.
That's always how it feels.
I think it's almost a scary thing here right in this CT round now for G2 if they do want
keep this comeback rolling in you've got to be ready for anything. Likely a
pacey grouped round out of foot who still have a lead to play with.
You know that when they do make their move it's gonna come very very quickly.
So here it is out through main flashes to try and send them in. Matt is
convincing shut down here as he dances around behind the bombsite. He's more
and done his part in this round. Cover from the spawn side. Heavy God lights them up. We're down to a
one round game as G2 put up a stellar defense in this second half. That is a nasty multi-kill on the
B bomb side. Absolutely shut down a foot. They don't get through the door right there. So G2 making
a compelling case in this CT side and already making little plays as well. That inter-smoke
Heavy God threw was not for stairs. It was down in water to let Nerd push up behind and get under
underneath the window so G2 are foot on the only ones who are trying to make plays out
of spawn. G2 have got a couple tricks up their sleeve that are now pulling through in a paramount
time. That is just, dude, a stellar hold of this site, he's going to have to do it again.
Just a B bomb site show, foot determined to break it down and they will come in with a
double entry. A man down for G2, be hesitant to write this one off knowing that it is this
eco for foot. Spam connecting brings them back into the conversation.
All these forcing players out of the open and a bit more chip damage done there on the spam.
Next fight is con-sided, heavy gods got it.
Smoke to lock out Krabeni and he has a moment there to make up his mind plays it right through.
Launce gets iced out and this time they've got kits, double smokes.
There's a lot going against the captain here, as he tries to clutch up.
It's locked now.
He's praying that these shots connect.
Tag 9's spam won't find a thing, as Hunter's got the cover. G2 tied up.
Oh my goodness, they win that round when Foot get the entries as clean as they do.
That was two Tag 9s taking heads off on the B rush.
The goal of Foot to go for that pop after they just got shut down.
And we saw G2 cycling Nades and moving Molotovs around.
They're caught off guard completely. They do not expect that play. They still win it in a three versus five
Very impressive resilience in this game for G2. We're talking about conserving energy
Talking about this map like it was done and they should look to their pick in the series. Well right now they are
fighting back five straight CT rounds here from G2
Maybe that whole hunter mindset. Maybe there's something to it. This is a
well put together comeback right now and you're starting to get a bit more vocalization at a g2
As they are now
Back in the conversation on a new bus with some keen CT ideas to boot
Which besides been able to withstand the early pressure right that's been the real object of desire for foot
They played a number of these fast-paced rounds over towards be are we finally gonna see something a little more standard because it's not
Been panning out. Yeah, we're gonna see depth here on this T side for foot
Right, we're going to see them using the middle of the map, trying to fake G2 out, put them in the wrong positions, and then execute.
Because right now all these pops have been denied in the post-plant. G2 have won a couple of nice retakes, a couple of rounds where they haven't even let the bomb go down.
So, how deep is the playbook here for Fertz?
This is the round where you need something magical.
I think the philosophy for G2 almost can be boiled down to no game is won in the first
half so why bother getting too fired up there?
Bombs still outside of B checking the perimeter, it's not committed yet.
It's waiting for G2 to commit to their positions.
Can they force them to an unfavorable stack?
This map, a lot of the time does come down to where is that third player?
Is he on B?
Is he on A?
Hunter's hanging around.
Info in middle.
Some pyres put in the open position.
He's surely going to get a chance to get a free first kill right here.
Get some off the angle, will he be able to get away? Just makes it out into heaven and his teammate will fall as a result.
Team shots for Demon on the entry and G2 get locked out a slower round for Foote.
First time G2 have had to encounter it.
And they can't put a stop to that split.
good utile there right because
you were dead on about some
pious in position for a free
B flash knocks him off the
angle. And even though he was
able to reposition you saw the
impact it had it came at the
cost of his teammate. Not in
position to deal with that
spillover effectively. He was
worried about main worried
about the split and so you had
to be open on one of the
angles. Just leads to this
domino effect of players being
Yeah, G2 is still super vigilant of Middles.
They have 30 seconds on the block.
They have two players dedicated to Middles.
You've got to give it to them there, right?
They're aware that the foot could still
be coming through this part of the map.
But the fact that foots are able to weight out
all of G2's util is why they don't have full mid info.
They don't know if four players are walking up camera side.
They've bunked all their smokes or their mollies.
They just have to go back into leading into bombsites.
And that's when foot hop in, a great flashbang,
D-Bomb a beautiful double entry, have you got a main and some pyres back in CT so
save that round there for foots.
And are they just going to go back for the Hail Mary? The knockout blow, looking for this B-Pop.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you probably don't like how comfortable G2 have felt on this side of the
map. You want to evoke more of that fear about B and these B rushes. And with one entry coming
through one of the solo site player that may already be enough.
Save sounds tempting, doesn't it?
Just when the site here comes that quickly, that early in the round so cleanly,
with just one kill to decide it, you know they're going to have resmokes,
you know they're set up in their post plants.
It's that fact that leads to you just writing this off, you'll try again in the next.
I love it double flash goes over high and let's launch just swing on to jail and
Almost every position in the bomb site is spotable there
Got a smoking corner smoking temple. No supportive players here for matters. He is hung out to dry
He just found the orp as well
G2 get it back
G2 did not get that all back that's annoying it's gonna be expensive they can afford it
But that's back to back grounds now for foot after a streak from G2 and foot remind them. Hey, again, we can pop be whenever we want
So yeah, understandable you use your last time out here feeling the pressure because if you lose this round the game's over
I see that there's a bit of money left for G2 all things considered
you do just feel a little silly though right about giving that kill away think
you saw it written on some pious's face heading into this time out just removes
one gun from that next round if they lose this not a fight he needs to take
right like there's no value they'd already written the round off one kill
wouldn't have made you know world shattering difference to fur oh we
didn't find it. That's awkward. Well, got to make do with what you got. Foot up by two.
Back to back, T side rounds. An entry being attempted here for Cemetery. Had himself a
midspawn when looking for that early pick. G2 are here and looking to come through this
smoke. Bit of aggression from them. Late in the day, but holding on a foot. Waiting for
That exact move didn't look to help them.
Heavy God's got out with a double.
Very impressive escape for Heavy God living to tell the tale.
G2 were also flash pushing B at the same time.
So they kept the pressure on all over to find that 4v3.
Up to some antics here on the CT side.
Both teams have been.
Is that enough to put G2 in a position
to close this round though?
I like the position change from Mattis, right?
Definitely felt in that last V hit when he was here solo
in a position that was maybe too committed early in the round.
Four.
But him in a safer spot allows the stack to come in elsewhere.
And with this crossfire over in middle,
it's a nice, easy round for G2.
Great one from Heavy God in this one.
Triple kill, committing to mid,
and Nertz even swings in to help.
Because that looked like it was a chance for foot
isolate 1v1s, g2 make sure they can't. Leg shot on the orb. And juke's 1v4. With no bomb,
this is just an elongated save. As he looks for a kill on the way out to keep the money
pressure on, some pyres will not make that mistake again, he goes to the other side of
map. G2, I just love that call. I'm shocked they get out so well when foot have multiple
players holding the middle of the map. The B flash push didn't really draw anyone out
and foot stayed with eyes on the mid smoke but still heavy god triple.
Just a very ballsy call to make, isn't it? Right, we were remarking about how, you know,
if they lost that round there, they're a rifle down as a result of the player dying.
They're right at the tail end of the game as well, so would have had implications,
but you still go for the aggressive move.
Have you got an hunter or all smiles at the end of it?
Back to a one round game.
Throughout this entire thing, it's been G2 playing catch-up.
They've always been the team on the back foot,
yet to take the lead from the moment the map started.
Cause there's finally where that changes.
But I've really worked on taking the pace out of these rounds while it was a barrage of B hits to get their T side rolling.
They found a lot of comfort in the mid-round here, so trying to go back to what worked.
So, I love you, Tilt, Sumpires. No flash on that one, so he gets himself an easy kill.
It's the round he wished he had a couple ago, right? Chance to put that off to work. Nice
and early on.
He's still so fair towards middle, but Sumpires just completely disappears. Goes back towards
A. Hunter's gonna come through the smoke on his own. And Footdoe still have a player here
to worry about. Longs waiting for later. Hunter getting set up again. G2 just keep on probing.
40 seconds to go to 5v4 and they feel like they've cleared middle. So back to their bombsites.
Foot do have a chance here in this 4v5. Longs is here. He's mid timing.
They hit the Utah coming in. Hunter wants to get the spot just in time and that lets them get
gun on. Hunter still kills Spiral through 4 foot. Hunter's the first on the scene,
But he's the only man nearby feeling a great deal of pressure here
The orbs worked its way into the site his rifles are closing in on main side and so with that one kill
No, I left to turn for cemetery
Gray stuff for hunter not in an easy position there was the captain
But not only that very important spot on the mid player that got heavy gone to turn around
Then just buying so much time for his main players actually deals with the only guy that was in a threatening position
To the main side out on fountain
and puts them in a gray spot to close that in a very comfortable 3v1.
It's had a gray CT side hasn't he right? G2 have been in position on every single one of these side hits.
They have not been out of the action. They have not been lacking the info of where food are going even when we see very late pops.
The couple rounds foot have have come from your surprising B rush the G2 weren't ready for and
And that mid-contact walk this time, walks gets nothing from it.
And that's the part that I think's been so impressive.
G2 being able to remain in control over when and where these fights happen in spite of a
real variety of looks out of foot.
It's not been some one-note T side where they've been trying the same thing over and over
again and it's let them down.
That's a bit of a wild pick attempt for some pious and just out in the open.
I don't know why it...
Crebenny will not think twice about that opener.
Here's the orb fire, I guess. Thank you very much.
That is a really awkward way to die in round 23.
Gonna need someone to step up.
Hunter trying to fill some pious's shoes.
Don's that orb in middle, puts it to work.
The captain's clash and Hunter wins it out.
Have you got it on his own here, though?
Hunter's gonna reposition back on B.
It looks like they wanna make the play, but the sooner foot go, the better.
Both teams are pushing smokes right now as Foot come in on AMA.
That's a good block for Hunter.
He's still going to have to win a fight in defense of this position.
Demon not yet lurking mid actively.
Looking to cut rotation, relying on this side hit.
Heavy God against the wall.
Oh, nothing found in his solo sight hold.
Hunter next on the chopping block.
His teammates are still so far away.
Considering when that main clear came in.
Oh, we're on.
You thought they were going to be a little bit closer, but Mattis has delivered one on the backstab.
And that also leads you to stop looking over your shoulders. You feel a bit more comfortable about middle now.
And you have to worry about the sight itself. Longs in an aggressive position.
No commitment to a big backstab. Looking for a late in the round retake, RG2.
I shot for Juge's but he's got Mattis trapped behind this box. There is no time as Juge finds two, three in the round. Hunter just fighting forward. Can't do a thing about this. All the kills, none of the glory.
Cemetery survives and G2 have to run away. That is foot onto map point on their pick. A massive comeback for G2 that could all be in vain come the end of Anubis.
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
G2 so many nades, but so little time to use them.
And this is what it all comes down to.
Oh, Holly is very deep, have he's got it?
Meant to push here, cemetery between the two flashbangs finds that kill.
Just another one of these key entries provided.
Boost now, Hunter's going to get caught by that, and so this comeback, it's been a very
respectful effort out of G2, not meant to be.
with key entries in back-to-back rounds this time, a boost locked in for good measure.
Nice little gimmick just to take the edge in this final round of play.
Ready for everything off-foot and G2 completely caught off guard.
Aggressive A-play shut down mid-boost for the first time this map,
and it couldn't come at a better time,
because foot are here and they are making a statement.
One map to the good, a new miss in the pocket,
and they are looking to go to stage three flawlessly.
Yeah, which would just be a massive achievement right coming in here very exciting team a lot of eyeballs on this squad
When they're hitting hard they can beat the best in the world
They have to get past G2 if they want that flawless track record all the way into stage three
Promising sign with the new best going their way G2 gonna have to dig deep and bounce back on over pass
We did not lie when we said that we thought we're getting a competitive game of Counter-Strike
However, after the first half and basically the first 15 rounds, I thought to myself,
okay, this is not as competitive as I would have liked it.
This is a foot just running all over G2, however, an admirable effort from G2 to fight their way back into the game,
just to come up short. Anyway Martin, we have promised a competitive game at Counter-Strike. You got it.
It was, it wasn't bad. It was pretty good. Like both of these teams clearly, you know, went into this new base a little bit, you know,
shaky I would say, but overall I feel like the game plan was there, the individuals were shining through,
we had a couple of weird rounds, but it just comes hand in hand with the newbies and on that
city side I'm going to be impressed, like both teams were doing pretty decent job at like
trying to get space and entries and trying to be a little bit more annoying and FUTU was getting
away with it for the pretty much the whole first part of the game, but this was good in newbies
Yeah, as you were about to say, Peter, are you surprised that it was the CT side that was actually the catalyst for both lineups?
You know, both for G2 to make the comeback, but also for FOOT to get us to a strong start.
Normally we speak about an U-S being heavily T-side.
Yeah, but it's always the CT side. It seems to be the struggle for teams, but maybe that's also where you put the most effort into maybe preparing
and trying to find a couple of gimmick plays, but also how to approach your opponent.
I think that is at least what you want to be trying to go for.
to go for and I think it was interesting to see that both teams you know had a lot of interesting
ideas thrown into the mix but also the amount of bulging frags that both teams seemed to be getting
whenever they were hit with the B pops or the A pops I think that's what really stood out to me
that that multi kills was that was really the big factor in this game that that you know an
uber system where you need to get those multiles a lot more than you would do on other maps because
it's so combined the rotation is kind of hard to to foster. That's where I was missing Mr consistent
in heavy guard. Normally a player that can rely on an encounter. But more about that later.
Fernando, let's dive into the positives for foot round four. Getting off to a strong start.
You have foot doing some wonderful stuff. I just wanted to bring out this round to show that foot
have so many things to their playbook. This is like an orchestrated thing, getting out spawn.
You have the cemetery throwing utility to then set up Cabini finding two massive frags,
but also Jukes pushing out A-man. And you can see when the fallback from Cabini is there,
you have Demon coming out covering his retreat as well and that's really good.
Unfortunately it does turn into a 2v2 situation and I actually do think that
Symmetry at this point actually makes a small mistake of peeking with only 9 seconds left
on the clock, putting Demon in that part. A little bit of a tricky situation to try
and clutch it out also the fact that he was so far away from the bomb side at
first but overall a really structured and good sign from Foot that they also
have these very orchestrated rounds inside their playbook but a little bit of a
slip up in the later stage. You know what I love the most about that Clavus?
It's the first buy-round in the game. It's the first buy-round in the game that will, you know,
whether win, secure your spot is stage 3. You have this, you know, almost full of rookie team foot,
and the first thing they do, as you said, Peter, out of spawn, call CT side. You have Caberni, you know,
deep inside behind enemy lines, 20 seconds into the round. Clearly, Stiko, they don't give a damn, you know.
Clearly, they're coming in and they're playing their way of Counter-Strike, and whether that's gonna be good enough or not,
the results will show for.
Whoever prepared the game plan right there made a clear, you know, indication that let's be in their faces and let's be in on their throats and
Put the foot down
pun in pun intended, right?
But you you get to see that that all city size you just have to make these plays and you have to get it to be aggressive
especially first gun rounds and first kind of like bonus rounds that we're having as well
So I'm actually glad that food is not playing scared. They're not respecting their opponent in a way that they are letting them do whatever
they won't, but they respect them enough that some of these rounds when they're post plans
and after plans, they're actually playing pretty disciplined construct.
However, they were put to the test in that second half, they were struggling a little
bit by closing it out.
I know you picked out round 18, around you want to show for, I guess, a showcase of how
competitive the game was overall.
Yes, and I do believe that it started with the fact that we're hitting this B-side and
It's kind of like a pop of
Technize coming into it very quick frags two frags that are getting
Pretty open sights to be honest and I want to talk about the
Retake part as well because it feels like they're getting just three kills back to G2 when they're trying to take a lot of space
They're also here the Kroben is very smartly pushing through the smoke where he just needs to take some space away from them
Here, always the Krabinian is stuck in an unavailable position, he's behind the smoke, there's another smoke being put down, all he has to hope for is to go for these kind of like Tec9 spams and Hunter just finishes the job.
I do think that one of these rounds is, if it went a few days away, I do think that we will be having a much cleaner game, but we're already used to it from day one.
Food likes to play some close games.
They do and I feel like whatever clip we're showing from this game
It's always in your face counters like Peter. It's cribbing, you know
Seizing the opportunity walking through the smoke, you know reacting instantly
I feel like sometimes when you're watching, you know teams like gamer legion instead of who we just saw was eliminated
It feels like they're hesitating a little bit, you know, they're not as quick in their reactions
But when I saw foot play right here and credit you G2 as well for applying pressure
But foot seems like the most reactionary team we have so far at this stage, you know outside of spirit
They're so quick in their thinking and they're doing on the server.
I absolutely love what I'm seeing because they're just not hesitating and it looks like they don't care, you know.
Of course they do care, but they don't care about the consequence.
They're so committed to what they throw at your opponent that they do with 100% confidence even if they're on the back foot, right?
And it's not even, it's both on the seed side, but specifically also they have these very poppy bee plays that really got them a lot of the good rounds, you know, the openings.
And they're playing with such force, such firepower, and such pace that, you know, it's, it's definitely hard sometimes to, you need to be extremely sharp to, to even be in a position to take them down, right?
And, and they are madmen.
Like they don't, they don't know when to stop.
Like they don't let your opponent's breath away.
If it's a retake and if they have to go through a smoke, it's not just one guy that goes, goes through.
Like they, they just go together as a force.
They try and spread out, you know, they want to win the round in the first 20 seconds instead of allowing the opponents to get in too many good positions.
And that's a big trade for them. That's how they play and they make it work
And if you're not ready for it, you'll get punished and I think for the first part of this game
That was what G2 had issues with you. They were not ready for what they were thrown at. They were constantly surprised
They played with a lot of pace and and and that's near them a lot of rounds in the beginning
The amount of pressure on B side and those popes were quite deadly and they were hitting perfect rounds
where Mattis was there alone and there was like a big economy swings
They didn't default that much in those rounds, but you know, Anubis is a map where on T-Side you can both default in just Google for heavy strat executes from the get-go.
And you know, that B-Side was kind of like a catalyst for a G2 outset.
Not the fact that whenever we speak about foot, you know, it doesn't matter what player we highlight.
You know, everyone has something to offer. This time around, Krabeni had a fantastic showing.
You know, sometimes it's Duke, sometimes it's Longs. It does feel like a very homogenous team where everyone can step up in the right moments.
Moving into the second map on Overpass, I feel like that is needed, right?
It's G2's map pick, it's a map that, again, both teams have played before,
both teams have some data on it, but would it be fair to say that there's a reason
why G2 have picked Overpass against FOOT?
Do you see that as a punished pick as well, like we saw with the Noobis,
or is it a bit more even playground?
It could be a little bit of both, where they saw as well the footplay against Tyloo yesterday.
And even though they had a really good start, 9-3 into the game,
in the end it eventually ended, I believe, 13-9.
And there were some mistakes and some questionable decisions from FOOT, but I do believe that G2 are generally more comfortable on this map.
I do think that the opposition that they faced lately, I think they have some decent results and you know, overall, I think, pretty good overpass team.
I think Hunter loves the map. He loves to call the map.
It seems like G2 loves the map. I'm just looking at the results to have five wins in a row on overpass.
Peter, I'm just mentioning some of the names here.
Bedroom, Gentlemates, Astralis and Vitality. Exactly, the Beaton Vitality. So as much as this may be a bit of a punished pick towards foot
It's also, you know, a home ground map for G2. It's arguably the strongest map to have in the pool right now in terms of reasons it buys.
I think if you can just, you know, flex that you've beat Vitality on any map, that should be enough confidence to bring it out into a
Intervester 3. I think it's definitely a map that they feel comfortable on right.
And I don't think that foot is a... they don't necessarily like a bad overpass
team at all, but you're also just looking on the on the G2 side. They just have a
lot of confidence, they have a lot of big wins, and also some confidence, you know,
comfortable wins, sorry, where they've just been looking really solid. And I think
it's a clear picture of a map that a lot of teams have also struggled picking up.
You know, it's been left a little bit in the books by some teams focusing more on
and the other one maybe having it as a paramedic.
And even the team that do play it,
it is a very hard map to play at a very high level
because there's so many depths of level to it
and you have to be so super, super sharp.
And yeah, G2 going through this one does a really surprise me.
Quickly, both of you, does it end here
or do we get a third map?
I hope we get a third map, yeah.
All the pass goes to G2.
All right, we think we hope that we're getting a third map.
I would love to see Ancient.
Not so sure if Foot loves to see Ancient.
I'm pretty sure they would like
close out this game right here right now and book a ticket into stage three. Joining us after the
break you'll be able to see overpass between foot and G2.
Oh wait, my bad.
You suck.
Settle your debates, search your profile on CS stats, and turn on tracking to see all
your games.
I'm holding, I'm in a bit.
You can run and take it.
One more should be middle.
I have a main.
I left middle.
Yes, I will go sit this one.
Can be one temple.
Can two people be?
One flash, look for Shkari.
One more main.
I'm holding main.
Puppey, Puppey!
Come on, come on!
One more, one more!
One more, one more!
Nice guys, good job!
Let's go!
Good kill, Kreben, or who killed him?
What you would have, guys?
Don't take it as a punishment or something, but I have to say it, okay?
We are doing the rounds wrong.
And why I say that?
Because I want you to read the notes before we start the round.
It can't happen that we miss some type of smoke or we don't know what we have to do, okay?
We did it.
Can you stay in front or you cannot?
I'm playing inside the camp.
Okay.
Nothing with it.
Get on 3B, DLN.
I'm okay, I'm okay.
3B, 3B.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
Let go of the smoke
Peel up at 2am guys
I can't touch over you
I can't touch over you
I can't touch over you
Flashing over you
Flashing over you
Flashing over you on site
Wait, wait
Peel up at site
Nice, nice, nice
I'm just going with you
No, not that way
Nice
Go Licka, go
Guys, let's go to the goal
We can beat this
They're fucking broke there
Just go
We don't have time
It's 11 now for G2
Let's see how he's doing this
I'm not done yet!
Two-way, two-way, two-way, two-way!
One minute to go!
Another P-doll!
A P-doll!
Multiple kills out of this world, and we go!
F-ing stop him!
I'm not done!
G2 do not give up!
This team do not die!
F-ing!
F-ing!
F-ing!
F-ing!
D-go!
I'm not done yet!
I'm not done yet!
I'm not done yet!
I'm not done yet!
I'm not done yet!
I'm not done yet!
Come on!
Oh, well, there's a first-boss right.
He can get a double.
There's still two players left.
He got no help on them.
13 and 3.
Oh, my goodness.
How did he do this?
How did he do it again?
Foot deny G2 the comeback on Anubis, and now they sit a map away from a flawless Stage 2 run.
Overpass G2's pick in this series one the foot themselves and no strangers to playing
This is a foot who made a simple work of the Bo1's taking down bait with a bit of revenge for Atlanta
Went on to find Tyloon. This is a G2 playing a great
Brand of Counter-Strike and footers still taking them out
13-11 close game nice comeback
But this is where G2 have to show the difference the experience the statue
of this squad and on their pick they go quick straight out once they into B.
I think we might have a bit of a hold, gets out with a double, keeps foot in this pistol round and rotates now arrive.
This is going to slow the roll of G2.
Trying to cross on out, trying to get out of this kill field, out towards B.
They lose one more man, so now a man down.
It might have made it out with the bomber they saw him backtracking.
And so how did you two want to try and recover this?
Sampias still hangs around, lurking over the ward short, lying in wait.
Nurtz is holding for a backstab.
You see some of the fear of Foots aggression still lingering on this second map.
with noise made by some pious foot might be able to piece together that this
bomb is hoping to rejoin him now they've got the spot they've got the info
needed that trade on a third cemetery will do one better than that what a turn
around in this pistol 45 down after the B entry foot come through swinging can't
say that some pious didn't have a chance to put that into a 1v1 there but some
sick USP shots coming down the demon cemetery from as you say a 4v5 foot with a pistol and
this is a G2 and a 5 win streak on this very map right? They've only let one of those five
teams get to double digits and that was team vitality but G2 still won it so certainly
got recent success in their pocket. But we know that Fulton probably expecting this pick.
And as a result, I wonder what they've got prepared because it was nice to hear the
comms from Corleo even after the 8-4-1 half of Anubis saying, guys, we haven't done everything
right. We have missed some smokes. We have done some things wrong. So be careful, read the notes
and stay aware because you can always do better.
And when it comes down to a 13-11 after an 8-4 half, I'd say it's pretty good advice from a coach to keep you in it.
So trying to minimize mistakes in this round because I've got a 5v3, but this is not unloosable with two players on low health.
health it's it's it's exactly what you want to hear isn't it from coolio like
uh I think for its own worst enemy can very much be themselves in a sense right
you have a group of young hungry talented players you don't want to let them get
ahead of themselves you need to keep them dialed in all right this is a nice
execute for after make a decision we want to play behind these folks or go for
Boost up is a nice middle ground.
Oh, what an angle, but only a dink.
Just panic spraying right now.
We want to spam back.
Oh, it's also low.
This is a mess right now.
G2 putting the bomb down in this madness,
but there's no way Mattis is getting out of this one.
Surely not.
That was a third tag as well
after two headshots, but it is still foot's round.
Got a nice boost there on back of Swat.
I mean, that's a high-stress situation. Isn't it? But I like, you know, always down to employ
a little gimmick, a little trick to try and turn the tide in these rounds. Hell, it was
even a fixture of the final round of play on an Ubersole. Mid-boost lobbed in for the
first time all game.
Oh, G2 like what they see. They're buying again. This is Galils. Five of them. And, you know,
you're not expecting this if you're fun.
Yeah, I also think T-Sat overpassed. You're always chasing the streaks wherever possible,
right? So the idea you could go for an early game reset is very, very tempting. A bomb
plant giving you a bit of extra money, but that early spam damage already leaves a bad
taste in your mouth Matt is softened up. I'll just be dead as soon as he rounds the corner
Krebbenny doesn't fire a shot off bit of mercy show in there by the captain. Symmetry not
feeling so forgiving nails his shot on the orb.
They could spam damage on Mattis earlier as well as G2 the walking wounded in this round.
Only one battle but you tell still in play. That's on hunter
Feeling desperate so back to be they go these rarely work out
No be control no short info a smoke double flash to just get through monster right now and
For have three players in the bomb site
I need to react to this.
Whoa.
Open it for Mattis.
Low on health.
Flash to try and see it.
He walks.
Needed that double kill, and that regains the composure down on this B site.
He'll deal the killing blow as well.
Very well handled.
So a demon sitting there waiting with his flashbang.
Perfect move just to counter that last second B hit.
That was so close as well, because G2 were also waiting for a high flash,
flash and that's what stops them at the end of the woodwall. If they go ahead of it, they
would have probably caught him back turned from his flashbang. So tiny little margins
here, but Foot able to run away with that round with a beautiful spray out of launch
triple kill on the B hold. So Foot 3-0 G2's risky force does not pay off.
Yeah, now if you're foot, you're kind of rubbing your hands together, right? You've just seen
the back-to-back four spies you know this is going to be a huge boost to your early CT campaign.
You're telling yourselves you need to extract as much value as you can out of this CT half.
Awkward stuff for Crebeni down in the connector. Did not think Hunter would recommit there.
There are still armor pistols in this round so G2 feeling threatening again. Even this is stressful
You let heavy into B in case they committed to a low-econ B rush.
You let Krebbeni down the connector who was meant to be the guy like farming the information meant to tell you
What was happening out towards a if anyone was trying to run it quickly?
So when he dies having a shuffle the setup now moving to something a bit more standard to to but this leaves you pretty blind
You're now playing very reactive to G2's moves as you smoke coming down at the right time here G2 are getting set up though on B
It's not going to play active on this lurk. He knows it at moments. Notice he could just be peaked and
Rotation well, it's the right course giving a gap for nurse to backstab. No, it gets room
Does he commit to the beef flank?
I'm not waiting
Gonna go early ahead of nerds on his lurk and in to a double setup crossfire setup and no issues
Four foot. Oh, I'm just cool back to a there's a player connector behind him. No, it hasn't cleared everything right now
So this is a threatening return to this top site. It's not going to happen. That's needs to die
Yeah, they should have waited
Frank and so he will offer up that frag
It's a shame, you know nurse doesn't know
That he has that room until they've already run in if they wait five more seconds and he gets to dice
Maybe he calls guys wait and I have a good I have a good timing. There were 30 seconds. He could have done something but
His team were already committed to that. He had
In that timing, Foote had moved their third player down. That is another lovely multi-kill
out of Long's on this B-side.
Two, three Ks to keep Foote in great standing.
He longs being the closest thing you have to a super experienced piece in the foot jersey.
What is a very young team, only guy not making his debut at this major, promising that he
He looks good early on in this high-pressure B03 to go flawless.
Important trade for Demon.
Heavy God never felt like he had a chance, did he?
So much Utah rating it just to make life easy for him.
Double flash.
As soon as he looks back off to the first flash, that's when the second one pops.
They've had a lot of faith in cemetery in this topside.
Always down to throw in a little cheeky boost, aren't they?
Just like a laser beam that kill.
Have no time to react head pops up. You're already dead
Yeah, they got faith in right he's four and zero. He's still alone
They pushed the monster smoke and pull back
So you're gonna need to see a rotate here from foot on this top site. There's no support right now
Two smokes coming in know that the players that threw them are gonna be a little bit slower to the party and so Nert's dead first
First, then it's time to Craveni to begin this rotation.
Sampias gets rid of him.
Cemetery's got shadows to work with though.
And as Sampias tries to get away,
it's just an effort to save this AWP going forward.
Ah, that's why they trust him.
Safe pair of hands.
Gets his two shots.
And you notice that it didn't re-peak on the 30.
He wanted to go in with a deagle.
And it might have worked.
Sampias was actually running away,
but he doesn't want to offer up.
to the round. So it's very,
very reservation seeing like
the difference, right? C. T.
side of an U. V. So super in
your face. Super aggressive
here. Sure. They've been a bit
more aggressive down towards
be it's where they're playing
with their numbers, but it's
nice to get these more passive
looks out of foot. Guys like
symmetry. They're not over
extending, not just throwing
himself into the fight. And
they're not really being
aggressive. They're just doing
little cheeky boost and doing
flash setups on monster and
playing off each other's
contact. There's no be sure
boost off spawn, they're not desperately searching these kills and that's the value of CTO overpass,
you don't feel like you need advantages. Anubis is very different, you need to
brawl early, take some T's out of commission to give yourself the best chance because
if T's just execute a bomb site and get that bomb down, you're in trouble.
Here on overpass, you have a lot of faith in your sight holds and when Longs is giving us the
triples he has and Symmetry is hitting on top site, there are not many ways in for G2.
I would also question how solid a read you have over the start of these rounds for foot, right?
We've seen it. We've got the minimap to look at.
They've been playing quad Bs a hell of a lot with symmetry alone on top,
but because he's always fishing for info, always looking for it,
you feel like you are running into a two-man setup in these a-hits.
And so here's a bit of a change. Foot heavier out towards A.
That gets in the mid-util, trying to have for Benny get aggressive.
Oh, he got mollied into that. Didn't want a full commit, but at least takes one with him.
Cover these epistols for G2.
And so every kill, arms your teammates.
So Benny's normally the man floating around connector.
I wonder if you overlook Long's in this position.
That's true. It's been sat on B pillar this whole game.
G2, they're going to clear this corner.
Maybe it will come to them.
A lot of fear towards B-Short, but Long still looks interested in taking the connector
right back.
It should be a trade at worst case, but even there, because it's clear, not properly matters.
Easy pick.
And so, impatience punished.
And finally, G2 in a stable man advantage.
Just felt like he needed an edge, right?
Like looking for something, trying to find a gap, catch a player on a ways, but it's
given away the advantage and forced to gamble out of foot.
You also had no support.
So it felt like there was a timing where a player could clear him from toilets
from middle symmetry backs up, goes to play B.
So I feel like G2 won this round if they just commit with this control.
For our full gambling, surprisingly, so it doesn't feel like they need to
with the money they have where they are in the game, but giving themselves
their best bet to stop the B pop and doing so leaves them out of this A site.
And when you consider that Symmetrius hit all his shots,
surprised to see this call.
But even with a miss smoke,
if a G2 is not going to punish,
bomb goes down, foot goes to save.
Surprising rotation, but not the end of the world.
Really rough round to fall down to as well, right?
You had to save the AWP, sure.
But other than that, it was just these pistols for G2.
You tried to bring the fight to them.
You were just remarking about how it's been
a pretty passive CT side, right?
With only these little boosts in the mid-rounders,
The real way of gathering info, looking for picks.
You finally try and hit them with something a bit more aggressive, and you end up losing the pistols.
Wonder if that will shape the rest of this half of the foot.
Because that was their most aggressive round start yet.
Ochitsu do a very good job of getting that round at the port of all of them.
Over past T side, you can get by with a lot less than anywhere else, so the money is not
susceptible yet here for foot.
Let's see if G2 can put together a couple rounds in a row to take the edge off.
AC here, have you got going straight into water? Even on the boost, but they go right below.
Early boost here for first.
They're going to assemble one of their own by the looks of things.
Watch out.
I wonder if you overlook this?
Does it just feel like you got a bit of a clear onshore? Have you got to miss the opportunity?
Very slim margin on that attempt at the entry.
And Nades on D4 is good. Oh, it goes a bit far though.
Here's this Quad B-Stack they've been running a lot of the time.
They're a standard round star.
Look how passive Nurtz is.
What, you two really gotta go for it? They need this kill before they commit.
Nurtz is nowhere near them. He doesn't really have any control either.
Well, Molly from Sumpias will clear out this close angle on the left.
Mom's that in now.
Let's miss the mark a little.
Yeah.
A couple of misfits here, you tell on this map right now for G2.
All this posturing down towards B, two players still in the toilets, so...
You've got options open, but with 30 seconds left, you've got to start picking that end destination.
Two guys that are going to arrive a little bit later, relies on Mattis entry, some players helps him.
And now B's got their name on it. 20 seconds left as they begin this push.
Demon and Krebbeni try to get set up in the site to repel this.
They can't line it up. Demon's gonna do it alone.
Makes his double, leaves it on cemetery.
Deagle, Paul, that's a cracking shot on Hunter.
But off the orbs, Sumpias has got it.
And G2 starts streaking some rounds together.
T side beginning to take shape.
Three frags from Sumpias certainly makes up for that misutility.
is a nice pop there from G2. Foot were even rotating their fourth player down before G2
got into the bomb site, but I love how they pause there. In that site, they wait, they count it,
three, two, one, everybody swings delayed and out short as well. So G2, best foot forward,
punish that full stack on the B bomb site. Excellent entry work. Our monster,
A position that has led to long multi kills round after round, not today, swings right
into that AWP.
Corleo calls his first time out.
As foot know, their money is in jeopardy this round, while winning it only stabilizes the
game.
Losing it has dire ramifications.
It puts G2 in with a chance to fight back to back rounds.
I'm going to essentially complete that T side in the first few.
No, I can't, I can't.
I'm searching over the spawn shots.
I went and tested it the other day.
It works with every gun, the AK, the M4, the Scout, the Nagev.
Obviously the AWP is one hit kill, but I mean, I'll still get significant damage.
Okay, at least he collects it.
to get the hell out of their teammate drops in a smoke to allow his escape like the G to the adjustments been leaving it to the mid round right if they're going to play for these rotations if they're going to be shuffling around a little bit later on the side of foot leave them less to go on be very active on all side of the map try and take space where you can that's exactly what heavy gods doing here.
All the way out through monster and if he crosses into this corner, this is a powerful position free kill
No awareness for jukes now caught out in the open
G2 have made the perfect adjustment to this tee half
And they're looking all the better for it less of these group plays bit more working all across the map
And a long sketch of that B site G2 will absolutely jump on it because he has been
well him and Symmetry have been the standout players who have a foot on this CT side.
Great move from Hunter.
Or heavy girl rather.
and so g2 job's not done for you save couple of guns
This is starting to feel like a comfortable T-side brewing now.
Nice.
So actually going to try this small move back again.
I'd like to see it.
I feel like if you're doing it every round you're going to hit it, aren't you?
This is so free.
Dice roll together, 5v4.
I've always been looking for this room on the extremities whether that's players sneaking
out monster like heavy god in the past this time it's nerds all the way up long already
and that orp was hanging around looking for that party fight some pious gives it to them
Window on this round is closing super quickly if nerds gets this next kill. It's already over
No awareness for demon with nerds so deep that kill just falls right into his lap
Just feel so free to walk up long when some pious finds the orper
You know no one's jump spotting you and can just crouch peak the corner and find that entry where you walk up the long side
Just creates so much freedom there for nerds to lurk and he's been pretty passive in this map and series
That is a nice calculated bit of aggression to straight up win the round off the back
of some pious's entry.
So G2 win a five alive, at least for the moment, and Futter just on save patrol round after
around. I'll position here by G2 on their map pic. 50 lead. I always hope we see foot
commit a little bit more to the B fights right now that they're kind of staking the early
aggression on these mid engagements and whoa what's okay you know you go in the
middle it's usually the kind of heavier stacked area for g2 right playing with
the multiple players there a bit more common be lurks in these rounds of
often in one or two guys I feel like there's fights you could look to isolate
there it's kind of a the one vulnerability of a default on this map
You spread very very thin
Wouldn't say no to something like a short take in one of these rounds try to ice out these beelerkers and make life a little easier for yourself
Nate does great damage to get this round rolling
What's up way with the Deagle's good cover though with it demon whips a head off
They're swinging together nice trade out foot using their players together to find that advantage that short aggression
you wanted Harry well consider it locked in he doesn't need to give that away and
so given a second chance just to bow out of the fight he will take it nice is
keeping him trapped though deep on long
Krabani's not aware of this there's been a big gap behind him the whole time
but Matt it should just have a freebie to collect here nice levels the playing
field removes a bit of stress from g2 and nerds providing an entry out into this B site
jobs already feeling done juke's might be here on the rifle in this round
but a smoke to deny in vision
slow and steady for g2 both players are still here and juke's looks to move in he might catch some
umpires switching off the orb throwing in utility confirms the destination g2 all three players in position matters
How's that cover?
Jukes can't swing up and stop the plant
It's on the other side of the pillar nerds
Dangerous fight to take
Jukes a second away from swinging into unsuspecting players. There is that fight taken
Gotta get the reload off right now because there's no kit. They've got it gotta move quick
Nert's trapped out behind the pillar, nails that trade on Duke's and cemetery, not enough
damage done for that scout to kill him, one Nerts with a massive 3k, starts with the entry
out through monster, the guy to open the round and the one to close it.
It's getting very stressful now for Ferdinand, they've found themselves yet another advantage
but Krebbeni reveals his position along dozens, fully departs, offers G2 a kill back in and
they just regroup and hit this B bombsite and they've done a very good job of recommitting
to be late in the round.
This time at least we'll have the guns for it, but G2 have already essentially won their
half it can really sweeten the deal here in the last couple seeing nerds find
more impact more value in this series now on these extremity lurks
Oh yeah, look at this. All five out towards B, blistering pace.
Risky.
Double entry for Mattis and long since he looked to come in and deal with those low players
gets mobbed up.
Just like that.
left is the sole survivor and his objective is just to hold on to this orb.
Nightmare here for Fertz.
Five in a row to start this map to now six straight back for G2.
Remember how solid those B-holds were when G2 went for similar plays in the first five rounds?
with me. Oh dear, just walked into your longs multi-kill spraydowns on Pillar and on Monster.
And now G2 are walking out the smoke, losing the first fight, and Masters 6 hits an immaculate
double headshot.
It feels kind of awkward to say, because you know the aggression is such a part of the
DNA of this foot team, but it was the moment they went for their first aggressive move.
They've kept that up in the entirety of these rounds. It doesn't feel like it's done them
them at any favours.
We don't want to push but we don't want to push, we want to fight but we don't want
to fight.
Like let's agree on one fucking thing and let's try to follow it please, if we want
to fight let's fucking fight.
Damn!
I'm kinda feeling that right now!
Half in, half out.
Furt getting nervous, getting shaky, getting traded for V3.
I mean, two entries out here towards a spot. A third guy long. Don't know if you'll expect
the cemetery or but he's loud as he rounds the corner. It's a hunter's got eyes on what
an excellent recovery in this half of G2. They were down 0 5 T side overpass. Not exactly
a game over from that position. G2 stay solid, keep their heads on straight and they've
gone on a massive streak here on their map pick, stabilized and winning the half in a
clean fashion. There is so much on the line here and G2 don't just want to be a footnote
on the footrun to stage 3. They want that spot just as much as anyone else. Whatever
juke's has got it is not enough now everyone in position to play around this bomb no kit no chance
seven rounds in a row for g2 it starts with tech nines on a low econ round and past that point
nothing else comes down four foot ct side well and truly gets away from them and so now on g2's
map pick, they move over to the tougher half trailing behind.
reaction
let's try to reset guys everyone is still and everyone is frustrated like I don't
want to see that
that's something we agreed on before we come into this stage
we don't want to be frustrated even we are losing I want to see that we are
fucking fighting okay
yeah okay
Inspiring words from Kulio here are the coach of Fertz trying to un-tilt his team in this high-pressure match-up
And the pressure is heating up G2
7-t rounds in a row on their map pick footwork moments away from a celebration when now they've got to earn it
Gonna start off with quite the pace
Entry for long since they go looking for the B control the G2 have got numbers here ready to repel it and more on the way
Nertz is arrival on the short side signals this one falling apart for
foot. Krebbeni left all alone as the captain and he's walking into very
hostile territory. Man up in the heavens to cover. Nertz holding a crossfire with
Hunter. There should be no way back into this for Krebbeni.
Trains off for the USP needs it if he wants to take this long-range fight.
And there's Nertz, swinging out from the short side on the contact, perfectly played, well handled by G2.
Heavy God, it's just such a pistol beast, isn't he, for G2. He is so reliable, he don't even need the jewelies on Heavy God to get out with a double kill there.
He's got players jumping in front of him with flashes landing and he still takes two headshots before all is said and done.
I shut down from G2, just a full send B rush here, from foot.
And nothing to show for it, reality is setting in right now, since G2's mapped for a reason.
Anubis was competitive, it was close, but G2, absolutely cutting the mustard on overpass.
Ancient odd decider, bound to be a brawl if G2 can get us there.
Keep in mind this is the squad that Maccazi was once on, so you know, foot of fans on
that third map.
You two say, we'll do you a favor, we'll send you right there.
I was thinking, you know, we were talking a lot about energy on map one and the different
mantras behind this team.
I think you're seeing the advantage of Hunter's way of thinking, right, striving for stability,
unnecessarily looking to blow all your energy right at the start of the series
we said you know even with the pick of a new this you were kind of mentally
preparing yourselves for the long road ahead but put a lot into map one it was
screaming the whole damn time I think it makes these moments where things get a
bit more tense you're not all on the same page it stands out a lot more you
know even g2 are aware that you guys are feeling a lot of tension right now
because you were yelling at them, you were screaming at them a map ago, celebrating every round, every kill.
Now it's dead quiet as frustrations have set in for Foote.
Not much to cheer for right now, and G2 just throw themselves around that corner.
I love that bait combo thrown by Auntie, through his molly and flash to add like G2 pushing short.
Meanwhile, they're deep on monster. It's a nice shot for Juge, but it's a 4v4. Awkwardly, smoke does fall.
So G2, uncertainty around this B bomb site, just re-block and re-clear.
I don't have flashes, that's going to make this site hit really hard.
They've got triple molotovs, almost not really helpful at this point.
I'm going to try and get into this B site nonetheless, trying everything they've got
at G2.
I wonder if Hunter is getting spotted on the cross.
It's a bit more stress on the heavy god.
Oh, apparently not.
And that is a convincing shutdown, Hunter and heavy god.
Safe and sound down on B.
They clean that one up with no problems.
Really starting to pull away now.
This is one hell of a streak out of G2.
All 10 rounds in a row.
Can they really go on and close this flawlessly?
Why not at this point, right?
you said there's been no energy front foot, no belief, no rounds. And Krabeni, who went
from top to top on our first map, is at the bottom of the server right now, 3-11. Of course
he's just a captain. I'm just relying on one man, but there is no one here to bail
foot out. None of these rounds have been particularly close. Oh my god, it's just brutal. Eco going
nowhere. You can't even find that D. There it is.
Damage will make almost no difference at this point of the
game. G2 are surging forward 11 straight rounds looking for a
third map this evening.
No energy needed from G2. This is just stable.
Yeah, just keeping it very composed, very focused, right?
And you're hearing that all throughout the comms.
Hell, even down to how they're winning these rounds, it's reflected in the gameplay.
It's not these crazy chaotic pushes.
It's a little slower, it's a bit more swamp, it's in the mid-round trying to find gaps.
and entry here for foot 5v4 and one that wasn't contested, one that wasn't traded, G2 slink
back into far more passive positions using boosts down on B to try and siphon info out
of the round.
No info out towards middle for a very long time.
This whole area of the map has been open longer than the Pickham's.
But there's some pious with the spot.
She hangs around to try and fight this.
Maybe a little surprising, teammates on the way, but he is in this fight all alone, locked
out by the util.
pieces in a world of hurt. Oh wait. Good name. For sure. So bias through an HG up into
the sky there. It was a flash bang. So getting a little cooked on that top site. For one
last ditch execute to break this streak to at least not give G2 the 13 rounds in a row.
They go on to finally do something in this map after a 50 start finding their sixth very
late in the game. Is it too late? Only time will tell. But at least for it to go out feeling
like they've done something like a worst case scenario. Taste of victory once again. 5 alive.
to play with. G2 all the same.
I think the scary thing for footer to come back to this magnitude is, you know, some
squads are known for being risk averse.
These guys are risk prone and their style very much hinges on feeling switched on.
And they've certainly suffered a serious blow with 11 in a row for G2 to the confidence.
Gonna need to see that return
Before you start repping foot in this comeback
First round there was a step in the right direction, but it was also one where they found the gap
Now they're gonna fair when they enter a stack and across fires three players out in this topside for the G2 squad
Ready to receive an A here
Oh, he pushed for Hunter, but oh, he's got a dog, he's got a bailout, surprise, he's
got a shot, that buys time for Hunter to line him up and knock down, they will be 1v4 in
the blink of an eye and Nert is waiting to deliver that final kill, he can't do it, but
G2 certainly can, a 3 on 1 with bomb control, time against Juggs, he goes back through the
toilets, that just gets closer, a 1v1 off it up, but the slower he is, the closer heavy
God gets and this kill looking over his shoulder matters got that spot they know
exactly what's going on heavy God tracking this final player as you
desperately looks for the kill it's some pious triple in this CT side to put G2
on that point very reassuring game from G2 they must have felt crushed at the end
of an UBIS that was a comeback from G2 on CT an UBIS bringing some great place
great ideas, all only to lose 13-11. With some players peeking on his own, dying at
11-11 in the open. He's redeemed himself here in the second half. G2 late in the
evening show up in this series.
Team that is looking for a stage 3 buff, I'm looking to do it without a blemish.
One nerd saw something. Look at him talking. They're both dead. Everybody's shouting right
now. Nerds, what a spot. No idea.
That's a freebie. There's another. Nerds on a tear. Finally shut down. It was cemetery
with the bomb at a desperation having to seek out that trade you couldn't let
this ease back into a five on three. Thankfully he hits the shot and so foot
arm without a chance in this round. They're gonna look for the regroup. All
they have now is to try and play together. No chance to run a default in a
3v4 and it's in that gap the hunter makes his move and a pretty passive G2 CT
side well they're certainly bringing the fight in this round aren't they hunter
arriving on a perfect timing for the backstab G2 zone smoke could be a bit
of a problem it was meant to slow the hit by hunter more time instead it leaves
him with no angle might just have to go through this doesn't really have a choice
but no one's even considering this yet for foot.
Bonplot gets denied
and Hunter is giving them a massive opportunity to close this right here, right now.
Flight committing, he's just walking up closer, he's gonna hide behind the box.
He's coming in for a clear hunt.
Oh, he can't show. What a step up for the captain.
Cross both maps, but this is still map point on the line.
It's good!
Chasing him down with the HE,
survives another terrifying round
and Foote refuse to go out with nothing on this T side.
That's all that's default.
A very scary round indeed, Hunter keeping the threat up the whole time.
And you heard that from Hunter there, right?
He just kind of says, let's default.
Go back to what was working, came through with the aggression,
tried to take a swing and end it quickly.
He didn't like the way that that one fell and it does get away from them.
So he's going to play a more standard round here for G2.
No, let's put them in a strong position.
You've got to say, you've got that double killer middle to start off the round.
It's a three on four when the trade comes in
Desperate swing out monster shut down by Fertz
Even though the smoke block sidelines it allowed hunters again to put good position
Very nice try
Okay
What's 5 rounds safe foot?
Doing this late in the second half on the T side of Overpass that would be shocking.
G2 have looked so reliable here.
Every player...
Now they're starting to make moves and risky ones at that.
Supplement of other boost matters, take short.
That consmoke is scary, something to consider.
Demon has not been quiet about his position either.
Clear as the connector, his team move up long.
Last time it was going into this AAA setup right after a round win that spelled disaster.
Crossfires proved to be too strong and the Sumpire Saupers a real problem.
This time running a double setup out here in the toilets.
They're changing their mind in the mid-round, going clear deep on A, put the fear in G2 on that half of the map, be loud in your approach and all your clears.
And then regrouping with Jigs out towards Monster.
Demon's been waiting down here and connected for a very long time, but Heavy God brings the fight to him.
Nurtz dispatches the lurk up on A. Is this the beginning of the end?
Or is it just the end?
20 seconds, three players out monster moving together.
And Heavy God has that cross. There's no smoke in the heaven. Some pyres get to shot off.
He's got a rifle next to him. Hunter will fall.
Now don't give it back up with 15 seconds. This headshot is everything.
missed chance. Mattes might just come through here to punish the block. They
boost up and over. Nice shot from Heavy. God, they line up and he knocks them down.
Heavy is the God who wins the round and G2 map in their pocket. We go the
distance in this best of three. Yeah, and what a streak it was man. All the way.
G2. Hallibur turn around 0-5 down. Not blessed with a hot start. Then they go on
a streak together. What was it? 11 when all is said and done.
Couple in there for Foote just to try and uplift themselves but Grax
starting a show in the first squad the score will be settled stage three
decided on ancient. Yeah we really gotta give it to G2 who finds a way back into
the series versus Foote being down 0-5 was no problem for G2 as they took seven
in a row heading into the second half getting the job done in a rather
up convincing fashion. Stryko, be honest, hand on your heart, when you saw footwarp 5-0,
you had Salt taking a time mark, do you think that's it? It's over, foot is gonna win this.
I cannot count them out like this, not my voice from G2. I didn't think so. I honestly
think that G2 are such a solid CT-sided team, and I was actually surprised that they streamed
out together so many rounds. That was pretty impressive, I didn't expect that, but I definitely
I think they are deserved to have much more rounds than what it looked like, I think they
were playing better construct and FUT, well they kind of fell flat on the overpass.
Obviously impressive by G2 Peter, getting 7 in a row on a very tough T side like overpass,
that's one thing, one side of the story.
However, on the foot side we also got a bit of a snippet from the coach and the voice
comp, you know, not really being happy with how they committed to the fights, he felt
like they were sort of caught in between fighting and not fighting and weren't
on the same page sort of were you disappointed in in food not able to
capitalize and the fact that you have 5-0 on a T-side like Opus?
Yeah, I think it's when you get such a big lead and also a minor lead in that
and I think you should probably get more rounds five rounds as a beginning and
going on 5-0 that that's very massive but it seemed like the coach wasn't
really too happy with it and I think that was also a little bit what he tried to
tell the guys yesterday when Tailou when they did play overpass that
that it's a little bit too much in between.
The thing is when you want to go for fights,
you've got to commit 100% instead of doing it 80%
because if you hesitate a little bit too much
when you're supposed to swing off someone's contact
or you need to be making mid-round aggression,
if you don't do it faster or forward at the right moment,
then it's going to be feeling a little bit in between.
And I think that's what started slipping up.
And I think they lost a bit of confidence
throughout that CT side, you know?
And it's like, when they look at the score,
hey, we're on 5-0.
And then they slowly, they grind their back
they're like damn now they're in 5-5 but now it's in the 7-5 and if you get 7 rounds in the T side of
Overpass then then it's gonna be tough for you because you know you gotta be calling a one hell of
a T side so overall yeah a little bit rough and we have a graphic as well with the time
timestamps of pauses down there and we can notice yes as you said that 5-0 the timeout was called by
G2 but actually FUT had a kind of influential talk into the in that because Kulio said that he
proposed to go for more re-aggressions mid-round and he kind of pushed the
FUT players to kind of go for a little bit of a you know
Breakthrough plays or kind of like be fearless and that actually cost them
I would say because up until that point they were kind of you know solid and and they had enough information, but until that
50 force buy from
From g2 they actually crumbled and it was the round that basically rolled out the carpet back into the game
Yeah, I'm kind of you know always impressed when I see the body language as well
We saw saw take a timeout when they were down 5-0
We have pictures of hunter with pictures of the players and they seem pretty calm pretty composed
You know as you said as well not out of it by any sort of the imagination
And then they were able to to make this comeback round seven is is around you wanted to point out
Which is kind of kick-styling this whole comeback from G2. Yeah, so this is the be hit that
G2 are in my opinion pulling really really fallacy here
Mathis actually bates out the Molday out of lungs and Jukes flashed, he reveals his position by shooting
and Mathis immediately organizes this B-play by asking for a flash, letting Sampas hold the guy on the left
and basically this crisscross approach to the monster take nets them two kills that break the side wide open
and it's not the fact that they snowball off of that into Domino effect and just take the side immediately
they take their time and work with those entries in a way that the traits are immaculate
And every time someone died, he was traded immediately.
This was one of the coolest rounds, and I guarantee you Maptis was the kind of like a brain power behind it,
because he'd get free information on two players and a few of the guys,
they just refused to move because they didn't have monster smoke, they couldn't move away, so they were locked in that position.
I want to play the round just one more time, or the beginning of the round actually, and I want to point something out.
And maybe it's me who's old, you know, it's been a long time since I played Counter-Strike, so both of you feel free to correct me.
We see the molotov go down here, we see Jux also getting blinded.
He starts spamming into the Molotov, right?
The Molotov is down, him getting blind in that position, Peter,
isn't his only job at that point to not shoot, basically,
and just bang on the fact they're not coming through.
At the end of the day, he's giving up his position,
and he's making that defense significantly weaker.
There's a Molotov in front of him.
Otsa, anyone coming through that, are very, very slim,
especially at that timing in the round.
I feel like that's...
I wouldn't necessarily call that inexperience
and be like, you are inexperienced,
but to me, that seems like a little bit of getting over-eager
on a position like that.
You have to play calm.
Yeah, I think he's definitely the one to play anti-flash at this point, like with the guy jiggling,
but I think the reason why he decides to shoot is because the molotov is quite shallow,
so there would actually be a case that he could be seen from inside the pipe.
So I think that's the reason he's doing it.
And I also think that he probably up until this point, I'm not sure if we saw it,
probably did play anti-flash, and then as soon as the molotov drops,
that's where he probably turns, and he probably expects people to come through,
because his teammate spots him so late inside the round, right?
So I think it's a it could have gone both way. I don't think it was too bad
I mean it's it's it's surely in the details, right?
But I think it was a good point from from from Martin to say that you know
He did give up his position and that was also where G2 they capitalized on the information and
Throughout this game, I think G2 play with a lot of patience and they played slow and played very well off each other
And this was just like the beginning of when things started to snowball for them
So a very good round
I think shooting there was not a not a mistake that we need to highlight the micro mistake
but the fact that they didn't do anything after that and they just said in the same positions without double-swinging or asking for a flash from a rotation
I'm not sure if there was any but
Just being stuck in those positions. Well, it's a contract if you're holding angles like this
You're just asking to be punished and especially with Mattis asking for a flash from some fires
Well the man delivers and he cracks his head open. It's always you know paying attention to the detail as you said the monitor was a bit shallow as well
It's not to single anyone out, you know
But at this level that's also stuff that will get punished eventually now speaking of getting punished
Nertz was having a great, great game, a form that we hope he can take into ancient, I guess,
if we want a competitive game here. We spoke about it coming into this matchup. Ancient,
a map where both teams feel like home, a map that both teams have a habit of picking in against
other opposition as well. I know we prepared a little bit right here, Stukko. You looked at
around at the game against Bait, round nine, I believe, just to showcase the viewers at home
what we maybe can expect from food coming into ancient. Yeah, when you look at the team like
food and you expect four rookies, well, this is going to be just the aim first and they're going
gonna rely only on their aim well this is not the case especially here this round
we have a little bit of a delayed mid-take with a double HE from Donut to the cave
entrance with which perfectly counters Sizzy by the way on a low HP and then
delayed flashes from window to allow Jukes to grab a like pretty swift
double kill then Krabani gets a kill in cave on that soft enough Sizzy it's a
pure pure master class and what happens in a 2v5 situation we have to block the
extremities Longz here. Filling up his responsibilities, perfect play in his
role position to block top ramp immediately with a smoke, not allowing
any counterplay because T's know that somewhere CTs are weak. B site is that
place and Longz doesn't allow any counterplay to happen whatsoever. I love
seeing this and F3D, I'm pretty sure they have a lot up their sleeves on
ancient and that's why I'm pretty worried for G2. I wonder how this will go.
It's gonna be close game. Believe it or not, I also came in prepared to this segment
You know newly that we're gonna play agent I want to show around 22 and I think you Peter
You're gonna appreciate this because to me this is kind of what food is all about the fact that they're willing to risk it all
At this moment
This is from the best of one opening game against bait 11 to 10
It was 10 10 before this and Peter they go into a straight B rush
There's a Mac 10 and play a lot of utility flying in to me
This is what food is all about the willingness to take the risk if they feel that B rush is the right call to make
It doesn't matter if the scoreline is 4 to 4
It doesn't matter if the scoreline is 11 to 10 or maybe even would have been 12 to 11 at this point
You see the attitude from Kravini here as well
That is what food is all about to me
And I think personally if they can bring that kind of energy in against G2 right here
Then Asian should be a map that the most definitely can win that they need to right and it's it's one of those things
That makes it so hard to play against foot because they when they decide on something then they do it fully 110%
Like they're not gonna back off and they're just animals
They're going forward and they're not gonna be stopping and I think you know this round specifically was also
in their first game and you know it's good to see that a team with Ruggies they have
the guts to go for it in the moments where it's actually needed because it's when you
have this change of pace and also in the crucial rounds when it gets really close that you
gotta be daring to make these type of decisions and a massive call.
I mean like one thing it could be coming from preparation that Krobeny and Cooley has been
doing but it's also about feeling out the game like you usually as a player and as a
team you go into a game and you create this narrative of how you want to be approaching
with your game plan and everything, but you also got to be looking at how the game flow
is happening, right? And you need to be thinking a little bit about like how did we play the
previous rounds, did we play it slow? And then all of a sudden you do like a snap of
the finger, you do a little bit of a pace change, and I think that's what we saw here.
Make no mistake here, G2 is a formidable opponent on the Internet as well. The win history
they're having is very, very strong. They only have two losses recorded on the map in
the last, I think, 13 or 14 times they played it. One against Spirit, 13-11, one against
There's not to be laughed at at all. Nerd's highest rated player on the map as well.
So I can definitely build the case for G2 here as well. Martin, it's time again to consult your God feeling.
We've been trusting that throughout the day. What is it saying by now?
There's no God feeling. I need to save my pickhams. So G2, please get it over the line.
Are you doing for the pickhams? What about you, Peter?
Let's go pickhams. G2!
Let's go pickhams. Let's go G2. I'm super, super curious to get this game on the way.
As said, we have G2 taking on foot on Ancient.
ancient. To those of you tuning in right now, depending on where you are in the world, this is
the final map in a best of three series where the winner will advance to stage three at the major.
So everything is up for grabs right here for boat teams. We're at your break and once we're back,
it's with ancient. Do it our time for boat teams.
I had so many trades trading in here, I was like, tell me one round, hold on, 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
in your games.
I'm behind the turret bro, I'm sorry.
What?
Don't push to do things, just...
and let's play how we have the setup.
Yeah, but we need to be a bit more ready overall.
They know we are 3 on A, they will pass.
Yes, but if the hit B, it's fine, we have good setup.
It's good.
They're all...
Just move, just move.
I'm all go...
You can go after me, I'm all go...
One more!
I have resmoke also, I just need the illus. You control bridge, you control water, okay?
I'm coming now, illus. I have resmoke side, okay?
I have Xersion and Skir, okay?
Short is Skir, I have Short.
I'm gonna give you a bait, okay?
I will give you one, I will give you two.
Hold Hatchot, what is it?
I have go.
I'm planting, I'm planting for Heaven.
You?
I have Hatchot.
I'm leaving Hatchot now.
I'm leaving Hatchot now, I'm leaving for Manga, Manga, Manga.
I have Short, Manga now.
I have left side, I'll walk in your water for me.
I can.
Water out, Water one.
And second guy is Monster or Vteam?
He's not caught, okay?
I'm going to go Aitong.
I think I'm Short.
I'll go help you son, okay?
Nice, nice guy. I'm on.
No gun, no gun.
I want to push, but we don't want to push.
We want to fight, but we don't want to fight.
Like, let's agree on one fucking thing and let's try to follow it, please.
If we want to fight, let's fucking fight.
If we don't want to fight, we don't fight, okay?
Like, just be fucking confident.
Bye.
Let's try to reset guys.
Everyone is stilled and everyone is frustrated.
Like, I don't want to see that.
That's something we agreed on before we come into this stage.
We don't want to be frustrated even if we are losing.
I want to see that we are fucking fighting, okay?
Yeah.
Okay.
Come now, Rally Nikita.
I have a banana fiscal tag, wait.
I have a banana.
I have a banana, sure, there.
And come.
Banana day one.
Get him Rally.
Rally, Rally.
I have long. Nice.
I move Nikita.
One more, one more, banana, one more banana.
Symmetry and a carry big guy alive.
Nice.
That's the dukes.
I have long.
This big guy.
Long.
He's on him again.
He's on him, he's on him.
Still deep.
Nicky come join me to the barana
I am here
Still long
I am here
See, see, see
He fall back to toilet
Yeah, Nicky I have toilets
Uh, front barana
Yeah, I will pick off you
He is to the cold toilet
I fall back
I am back
I am running back
You can stay here
I have barana
I have barana
I have barana
I have toilet
I have toilet
I have toilet
He is stepping banana
Service
Alright
Good job boys
Nice, nice
Take, take, take
Nice, all the way up
Alright, take all the way up
Let's go
Well, Foot came in fast to this series. They took their first map of the Nubis, although
it took some work and G2 showed up big time on Overpass, winning 11 straight rounds and
shutting it down. All in the end, we end on Ancient, a nice middle ground map between
two very strong teams, two very worthy teams, and to be honest, two teams I expect to see
in that third stage. The only question left is who takes it today and who goes there flawlessly.
Tonight we find out. Coolio on your screen just saw him trying to un-tilt his team as a foot came
in very loud to this series, but they have been humbled. They have somewhat crumbled and they
have gotten quieter as the game rages on. Yeah, tensions were certainly high back on that previous
you saw frustration setting in
some rough mistakes. Just
looking at a little rougher
around the edges. They started
on such a strong foot back on
an UBIS right playing off of
each other. Well everyone on
the same page and as this has
gone on that condition
deteriorating full foot G2
meanwhile it's been stable
throughout this entire thing
nearly the unlikely comeback on
map one after a massive deficit
quick turnaround on overpass.
Now the score settled here on ancient stage three right round the corner for one of these teams does indeed feel like you to a
Favorites when you just consider the experience across this team like this is foots first major for four of these young players and
Well, we know they can be explosive. They took their first trophy this year as well
We still have
Limited expectations when it comes to these high pressure scenarios
knows. Can they break through? Come the end of the night, Jukes is here, holding his own.
Boosted player, Deven gets one, but then there's a Jewish knocked off and heavy god on pistols.
We've already seen a lot of that this evening. He'll keep it up.
I'm just handed off a flashbang. I'm going to try and use that to set him up out in the
and that's a beautiful sequence, a very well-laid plan for G2, and now using some of
foot's own util against them. Cemetery chasing ghosts as Hunt Edge plays to evade. What a
perfect repost from Hunt to get to that flash row steam, not even used, and then just walks
away in tempo, wins this round from staying alive. Love that recommit back in CT in the
post-plant G2, still pull it moves out and hunts a big smile on his face.
We've been speaking a lot, you know, about composure, about kind of stability, looking
to be the goal for G2, and I think that pissed around was a really good showcase of that,
right?
You get the double entries out of heavy golf, but it's by no means a done deal at this point
in the round.
Still, it emits the bomb plant, it emits trying to get set up in their post-plants, hunter
hands off that flashbang and goes on to do this.
Yeah, G2 have been really good at pulling back 3v5 super quick in this series, sure, you know, two fast trains, they're not exactly a normal 3v5, but you don't have those disadvantages, hold them back.
I'll play in post-blast.
And pop through the smoke while that one got as much.
That is ugly for G2.
CT smoke in their face.
They try and jump through.
And like I just said, a 3v5.
Now even again.
Yeah.
And where the last one was all about quick trades, you know, these are entries on completely
different players.
You've gotten away from those two guys that climbed up heaven, and now Heavy God gets out
behind enemy lines.
They don't know.
He's going to collect a couple more
Can't quite finish his meal longs at least with the trade
But G2 now have info to play with second player spotted low health for longs
It's this fight worth all the marbles and Crepenny
He's missed this timing
Just cleared it deep out towards the spawn
Second shot of redemption. He's dealt with nerds on the scale
Oh, dear, not considering it's all the Sampires could come back up from Spawn and one shot
is all it takes.
Can't connect it.
Bomb committed, longs three kills deep, but he's going to have to get tricky to win this
clutch because a straight up aim battle would be Sampires' surely longs doesn't have anything
going for him here.
smoke and cause some chaos. That's your hope. But a war bang could even finish the job.
Sunpires holds on. Long's uncertain as to where the Spaniards disappeared to. And there's
a war bang. It's close, but it's not quite on the money. It's back on the bomb for a
fake again, but it's just damage here belongs. He cannot win this round. Sunpires converts,
And that is a straight up 3v5 out of G2.
I am shocked that Foot don't realize
heavy gods crept into the bombsite.
He found a close A main kill and started moving.
But they think he stays in main.
They don't re-clear big box.
Shocking to see.
It's going to cost them everything here.
That could have been an early upset round.
That would have got Foot screaming if they found the force.
And they're getting frustrated, Harry,
because it's a rebuy in the third.
Yeah, it's a very frustrating round to lose, isn't it?
Ooh, it's delayed it by a second,
and that nearly costs him his life.
Lucky to still be in this one,
up against another force per foot.
You've at least got the info.
I almost wonder if that was the slowdown, right?
Because it is weird to have gone for this force by again.
He saw that smoke down at elbow, though,
and it gave him a moment of pause.
Now you know what you're up against in this round at least.
This is a huge opportunity for Fertz to break G2's money
in buying up after losing a 1v1.
But it also comes with such risks that we could be seeing Fert 4-0 down
on the CT side of Ancient.
If G2 can just hit this execute right.
So Smokes come in.
Longs his rifle here.
Good catch. First man in, dealt with.
Number 400 is able to get rid of that sight player.
And now teammate Shuffle in, Matt's back turned.
Cleared in the cave, Krebbeni playing it forward on the SMG.
Bomb dropped, Krebbeni just towns him down.
Key double for him on the...
It's fucking wrong.
MP9 and launch there to help him rifle out of the long side money broken 4g2
Just risky gamble with the force pays off love to see Krebbeni coming in confident and running at them
He has now matched his frags from over past. We've seen three rounds that really paint a picture of how dire
That previous map was for the captain of third off to carry back on a new this
So huge show time here from Krebbeni
And that money is broken from G2, so why the wait?
I think, you know, weaker performances for captains often come when frustrations are getting high.
You're having a micro a little bit more, you're having to manage everyone else less time to focus inwards.
Krobeny was the source of issues back on Overpass, but we were crediting him up,
one saying he's one of the best-fragging IGLs we've got.
Oh, long steps, one hell of a shot to open up.
The long side gets assembled quickly and Krobeny's dealt with K.
Short G2, good positions here, chance at the bomb plant but far from comfortable, these smokes are up right now.
You've got a couple of seconds to try and get yourself comfortable.
Have you got Armistigo back behind the site, they're going to stop scaring you and Mattis feels like he has to peek through that smoke.
and so have you got looking for a lineup or for a smoke they spam him through have you got trades places
Disappears in the mist fake on the bomb looking for a kill off this diffuse and now they start to stick that second player
He's also locked out and this wall bang is doing nothing
Forts just stick it in the site and some pirates has to walk away. It is foot back to back
back. One foot after the other. Longs looking solid here in this third map.
very keen and he has absolutely redeemed himself in this third scary juke's blocks donuts
of this one and four revealed in middle.
Looks like foot want to try and make a bit of a move here.
There were three strong over towards B, but only a few more eyeballs to go check on mid.
They try and trade the map control out.
Sure, G2 have middle, but we've got ramp.
Double setup here.
Have you got lurking in red?
Either in positions to try and cut down rotations or they plan on rejoining him a little bit
later out here in middle.
Miss timing.
Jude's got whiff of something there the second time around still, Heavy God's been able
to escape.
It's the ramp player taking contact next.
This crossfire is brutal, I don't know how you're meant to get through this, trying to
come out cave.
Maybe you're not.
will help. Crosshead's drawn back. They don't turn to back side. Krebbeni gets away with
murder in B. Four kills from the captain showing them how it's done on this CT side. Nobody
looks. They killed two players. They thought the side was clear. That's G2's undoing,
They can ride it off.
They lost the money control early in this game.
Now they have guns back.
Yeah, looks like it just took too long to adjust after getting past the alms.
All the attention of both players coming out cave side fixated on him.
So an early time out, saw getting involved.
It was on the back of his time out that we had the turning point for G2 on overpass.
Now he's going to use the full breath of the clock, no one else saying a word, it's time
for the coaches to talk here on map 3.
Alright, both teams have guns, the middle just got a lot more exciting.
Jukes gets a full molly down in that corner, but a jump on mid from G2, focused on B,
Watch both sides of this lane.
Executioner, where are they gonna go?
Well, they've not left much to the imagination here, right?
So, a lot of Util, a lot of players spotted by logs.
Good smoke spam for Hunter, but there's Util here to try and buy a bit of time around this bomb plant.
Long smoke in a phase, E2 are looking for the space here trying to play for these post-plans.
Heavy God, he did that real estate because now this site gets really, really small.
Sampires rush down and Nert's left out of the action on a backstab, the bomb away from
him and only 50 seconds to work with.
Oh, rough for Sampires, poor guy.
He gets mollied off the e-file, tries to plant back in the open, then they need the long smoke.
He has to get off the bomb, look for the fight, all while Fudda putting pressure on and then
everything fades and no bomb plant can be put down here for G2. They would have loved that
money with the lost bonus building, but Foot just keep the pressure on the entire time on that b-hold
and pushing back in on Cave. Heavy God tried his best, but Demon two fantastic kills on the smoke fade
and Foot go up to four. Just kind of can't highlight how impactful that 2k was from Demon,
right if heavy gods able to get past him suddenly they've got long control they have a post plant
suddenly nerd says way more time as well to work his mid-lurk and would have been in that post
plant with heavy god as suddenly becomes a really tricky round so a super impactful double kill at
a demon. Oh, he's happier than that one.
Honk's lovin' watching his captain right now, 9 and 3.
Showing up on this CT side.
Despite pistol for G2.
Short lived celebration.
Not much mid control in this game, G2 do it silently this time, they just walked out the elbow smoke, good read, but foot on,
foot on, they're quite risky there, again just jiggling in doughnuts, offering this position up,
trading it for info, he just throws everything in the middle.
They ready for a punish through the smoke, it won't come.
Surprisingly lacking on Utel here for foot so early in this round.
Oh I love this.
The double setup to get past and the line-up for Krebbeni, the bait and switch not even
needed.
Long just sits there and watches his captain snatch this round away from G2.
Miss timing there, heavy go gets out with one on the deagle, how much more costly can
he make this.
to be lined for that all demon won't let him get it.
What a turnaround for Krebbenny, you're getting map one Krebbenny all over again.
Just absolutely disappeared.
Coming back with so much impact, calling shots as well.
I think that likely speaks as well to a bit of a better vibe within the team,
right? You're seeing them energetic like they were in the beginning.
Ideas flowing, looking on the same page.
You know, whenever your captain's putting up big numbers, it always just feels like it improves their read of the game.
Yeah, well, self-fulfilling, isn't it?
Winning makes everything better.
So, feeling it right now.
Find a big move.
That's all quiet, but it doesn't matter.
Nerds misses the shot and Duke's right under.
On the smoke, looks for a second.
Heavy God finally has said it. He's had enough.
Three on three.
Hey considering this was you know kind of nerds his map. We really leapt off the page and made a name for himself back in the day
He's been getting wrecked out towards middle really struggling to find his impact
But I set now on this a play and foot are out of position
Very scared is symmetry and they could be anywhere right now. They're out a
Smoke down. It's no longer playing temple. So just trying to delay font plot with that Molotov
Heavy God's low, he must wait.
Oh, careful!
Heavy God just about dodging it.
G2, Flash for Longs.
Do they wait for Demon?
They certainly might now.
Two flashes coming out and Longs now looks to play it forward.
Low health for Heavy God, he was living on borrowed time.
Some Pius 1v3 being asked for.
Worried about doughnut.
Worried about CT.
where everyone is, but that does not make this clutch any easier.
Foot on a sixth round CT streak, holding their own in these retakes as well.
Yeah, piecing that together so nicely. Every bit of UTEL purposeful.
The final player trying to find a one-on-one quickly and
some players giving nothing. Suddenly three players on his screen.
Foot just trading out so nicely and demon. Those two retakes where he is
That double kills has absolutely changed the game.
Footfall control, six rounds in a row here.
No sign of them stopping either.
I've seen G2 really ball in middle foot.
The same story.
It's not gamble on me.
There's G2 threw a lot of U2 early through a cave smoke,
make it look like a rush, but what matters, war banging,
football it off.
They send Dukes back.
And this is only a fake out right now, demon.
If he dies for nothing, foot you're in trouble.
Hear that, you tall demon, spotted on the jump.
Might not even hang around to fight this, Mattis.
That double could have ended the round, before it even gets going.
Now onto a late retake, that's what Foot are gonna have to attempt, with Preveni so far out of the action.
to save the next for that bomb,
but it might never make it that
far because heavy God nails the
first two players around that
corner. It's a six round streak
broken. On the back of this A
I
Got a love what heavy gods giving you man everyone else kind of struggling right now to find their footing in this game
But not that guy
High-impact double kill ends the round in its tracks. Oh my god disrespect
I'm way to
Oh, that's a good up here. I should want way to rob a kill away. I
Wonder if they're gonna throw that same cave smoke that was just part of the fake last round
It forced a force rotation for the third, but if G2 do throw it, I will footreact.
Too strong a bit of a start.
G2 just go for it.
Yeah, straight through the Util.
Nade finds good damage, but now you need the rifles to deliver.
Lying up for Krebbenny.
Longs his turn, doesn't get anything done.
Cemetery as he began this rotate. I'm gonna pluck one out of the herd, but now he's feeling pressure.
Has some relief as Demon moves in and these rotates have just been bailing each other out.
It's Heavy God though, the big threat, the big man. What's he made of?
1v3 as this one gets going.
Goes back.
Smoke dropped in his way and Heavy God gets iced out.
Feel like he has to be the hero right now for G2, just trying to buy time for the rest of the team to get switched online.
Very nice try for G2, they just eat utility in this hit, the HE bonks him, the flash full
blinds him from any of them that he expires, he has multiple kills on his screen, and of
course heavy god, they throw everything at him, double smoke as he tries to go back for
the bomb, no way to win that round on his own.
Yes you did, but it all worked out.
G2 Timeout here is Foot Responds their single gun round in this game.
What a level up from Foot, consider how demolished.
They just got on overpass.
Past the 5-0 start, it was a...
feckless game.
If you're right now, you've got to be telling yourselves, you know, keep your head screwed on.
Don't get ahead of yourselves. This isn't the time to be taking any wild risks.
If you win this one, G2 are broke, and you've solidified a very strong half.
Well, Krebbenny is a nightmare to deal with right now.
He's 15-5, he's pushing through his own smoke in the cave.
I've also got the orb. Oh, no, just looked away. What's trained in on heaven? Careful. No one's here yet
But they're about to all start swinging together. They line up in the tree
Krabani comes through on heaven and it is poetry in motion right now for foot
Four kills in the blink of an eye
What looked so wrong went so right?
Have you got to be the only guy without put 15 and 8 doing everything you can just to
keep G2 in the conversation impossible but you look at the mini map you tell yourself
this is one clutch too far shut down in mid as soon as the smoke fades and now looking
like a very strong half a foot in this third and final map.
Cannot believe that, the perfect counter.
And Nert is shocked.
G2, down a heavy hand here, come the end of this first half.
Foot of absolutely banged them out. Is there any salvation in this tea side?
I feel so much predictable but not deferred. They're very scared of middle right now.
G2 have done a good job of drawing their attention. The AWP isn't even on this. There's three players in red.
Sure, these rotates will be quick. Right now there's no one here to stop them.
G2 are in!
How long does demon hold this fork as Mattis is waiting in that smoking donut and might just cause chaos?
He's just heard players run on past him. Orcs and demon get their entries.
good luck that's now you're pinned in you are stuck in the site starts to feel
so small when you're trapped in these positions battling back it's heavy god
looking down the barrel of a 1v2 much needed but he can't get a grip on it
foot mop up nine rounds on this CT side a runaway half and now just rounds away
from a flawless run into stage three.
What the youngest team at this major looks to make an impression right now.
Third map of the series and it is a washed foot on the CT side of Ancient, showing up
in a big way right before midnight and sending G2 to bed.
This is a 3-0 game, winner straight through to the final stage and can you believe it?
the major debutants doing it in style that they are this is after having to
come back from a dominant turnaround on overpass getting wrecked in that head
to head
Kulio trying to keep everyone on the same page not necessarily telling them to
reel it in, but telling them to do it together.
Whoa!
Almost a fourth, right there for the taking.
Huntress had a phenomenal series as an individual
across all three maps now, and that is one way to reignite.
Captain shows of how it's done once more.
Triple kill headshot from Hunter and G2, reason to fight.
And heavy gods likely just happy to have some support
in this as well, right?
Finally another teammate entering double digits, it's Hunter with a big moe down in the pistol.
Without that, this series was gonna be over.
G2 would have gone through to play tomorrow, but now the chance reopens an opportunity to try and save themselves on Ancient.
I see this force of a lack of time.
That is a backbreaker.
And after the win in the pistol, you're finally feeling like things might start looking up,
but boy, do you get slammed back down to work.
They've just done it again, haven't they?
That's why this team is so exciting.
That's almost nonsensical force, right?
Getting a gillil in round two, getting four tech nines.
They didn't get that previous particularly close.
And foot forced up, they run out middle, they find a double entry off demon.
the hell of a statement. That's both pistols in this third map for G2 and footwind force
by it makes a lot of sense to want to be exploiting mid right now.
Nurtz has been completely missing throughout this entire game. Couldn't find his impact.
T side had some of these lurks get off when foot weren't playing for the mid control really
struggled to do much with them in the rounds where he did face combat the rounds where
he did get stuck in a midfights never panned out for him. I think you want to be taking
full advantage of that usually nurses such a force to be reckoned with in this part of the map
but not now not in this game. I mean show me that double entry was that just full speed out
middle first timing with flashes from jugs and demon gets two kills like it's nothing g2 not expecting
that. I don't even know how he makes it look so easy. What a fearless team this is. Doesn't
get quicker than that. I'm thinking you miss it this is for three rounds away.
Also, the G2 around the saved guns out of necessity, but as they lose, opening fights
on every end of the map.
Ha!
They're in full control.
Oh, there's no respect right now from Ferts.
Krebbeni is 20-7.
Gaiman's 17-7.
And now it's his dangerously close to having to remember the name of the team that get him a frag movie.
He will break the curse. Second kill found.
But it will just be a save here, you'd like to think. Other end of the map, bomb going B.
Out of position.
And so this rifle is all G2 we're going to have to work with up against 11.
He is still committed to his timing on the backstab.
Yeah, if they offer up a quick kill here, he can run in with it, but needs that prerequisite.
And it's not his game, is it? Walks right into the angle, longs on the line.
11-4. G2. They want both pistols here on entrance. They have nothing to show for it.
third round force from foot remember the back-to-back they got them in or they do
it straight away on the T side I do that this type of a school and gets away
hopefully I would you take that into account both pistol rounds one rifle
round in this game for G2 huh and you put it like that
I think at the beginning we were not in this series, but a few months ago we were worried
about foot in these high pressure moments.
You know, when they choke, when they crumble, they prove they had it in them at EPL, managing
to play in front of a crowd and give us good games.
Winning out in the quarterfinals there, shocking mouths while they did it.
They went on to Bucharest, took a trophy.
Yeah, I mean, that is why this team was kind of so hotly anticipated.
That's why they've gotten so much attention in 2026.
Just the idea that, you know, some squads, it can take them years even to build up
into those moments.
Sometimes it's not the same set of individuals, right?
That started a run as the ones to finally break through and close on one.
but with foot it was just straight away an adjustment to being able to hang with
the top dogs in high pressure moments and so this is an earned victory shut down
out in middle a series that went the distance one where foot gets swept and
frustration was setting in in that second map big questions on if they could
bounce back from it but boy did they looking like the team that started this
series by the end of it and that's put flawlessly through into stage three.
Just a phenomenal run from this team, the youngest team at the major, their first
major on four players, they forged a path through the major stage into stage
three. This is a squad and a corps that has been together for over two years. It
has been a grind for foot, not just making it to a major but making it through
into the top 16 a phenomenal story, a phenomenal uptick in performance across
this year and a phenomenal shutdown of G2. Come this third and final map when you
factor in Anubis in the pocket of this team clearly prepped for the major they
are starting to look like a serious threat. Yeah for G2 you see some
disappointment at the end of this one didn't have the fight in them to take it
the distance and so now even though they're meant to be one of these safe
bad teams for stage three they'll have to keep fighting and earn that spot.
They will indeed have to fight and earn that spot however Thut in this game made no doubt
whatsoever that they were the better team over the course of all three maps. Not gonna lie I
expected a more competitive affair on ancient we built it up as a map that both teams likes to play
but at the end of the day Martin there was only one team on the server. Only one team on the server
This third map decided, kind of left us a little bit, you know, in the heartbreak, in the whole best of three.
It was just way too one-sided. Some individuals decided to take a break from G2, and I'm looking at UNIRS,
but also some players took matters in their own hands, and Kravheny was just stunning.
And obviously we have another guy slowly coming in, so we will see who has any say about it.
Speaking of stunning guys, first and foremost, congratulations Jukes on the qualifying and progressing to States 3 at the Major.
Major your first major ever and already a bit of a success. Yeah, feels good, bro. Feels good. Yeah
Honestly, I think the three of us that labeled you guys as one of the most interesting teams to follow right now
Your young team you're full of rookies at a major, but but you're playing like you've been here before right?
Are you surprised by how well you guys are doing or is this just business as usual for ford?
I think i'm not surprised like we prepared good for this tournament and we're not taking it as
something special so we don't have the extra pressure. So it's fine. How's the voice?
A bit tough, but it's fine. Perfect. You get to recover a little bit from it. I have a couple of questions because obviously a lot of the players will be tuning in for the major.
They will see you guys play for the first time. It's a new name, it's new players, and you guys are rookie. So to get to know you a little bit better, can you compare your style to any other tier one player?
someone that you're like illustrating as a kind of a hero or someone that you're
like kind of watching his demos a lot of someone who inspires you as a player.
Tobenas, I don't have a guy.
You just have your own style.
I watch everyone.
You watch everyone, whoever is good on their position so you're
don't like coping but you're like taking information from every single one.
This is pretty good. This is exactly what food actually gives me like a vibe
that you're just pathing your own way because you know we were talking about
about Krabani as well as the highest-fragging output IGL.
And it's just so rare to see nowadays in a Tyron construct, something like that.
I'm curious with Overpass, because you had a 5.0 lead,
and if everything looked good, what changed?
Why didn't you get more rounds?
So basically, we started hesitating a lot.
Like, we went into a setup, then we switched it, then we did something else,
and that's how it went, basically, after the 5.0.
And then, coming into Ancient, you guys looked stunning.
you all you really perform and it just looked really good. Did you have any
have any special talk like in between the maps like did you just say that hey
guys it was just a one-off now we're going to engine everything's good or did
someone say something special to you? No it was nothing special just our coach
said that we just reset for the next map we're really good on ancient we
practice it good and yeah we just went in we showed our CS and we fucked them.
I'm curious you know the Anubis Pig as well first map you said that you are
well prepared for this tournament. Obviously had a good practice leading up to it. And
Nubis, is that something you've had a lot of focus on? Because you haven't played it
that much, you know, up until now?
Yeah, yeah, we practiced on Nubis also a lot. And we also saw that G2 are not that
good on a net-pack. We didn't play all-side, I think. So we just picked it, yeah.
Yeah. And you felt comfortable from the get-go on Nubis?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We practiced quite a few days on Nubis.
Part of few days. All right, you went 3-0 here. You know, you are a major rookie. You're
yet to lose a game at a major. I'm sorry to tell you. I'm sorry to break it to you.
at some point you will have to lose a game.
What is that going to be though?
Like you're heading into stage three now.
Do you think from your point of view
is competitive enough to be challenging for the playoffs?
Well, is that the goal or are you at right now?
Yeah, so I think I will lose my first game in a major,
probably next major.
Okay, he's good all the way.
I like the confidence.
That's great.
This is good.
He's on the hunt for your five majors now.
That's fine.
I have another guy that's closer to me,
so I got to worry about these guys.
Don't worry, he will beat them.
Yeah, that's the thing with all the new players coming, you never know if they're going to be like this massive style that's going to win more than me, so I hope so.
17 years old, one of the youngest players of the banter, so this is huge already for you.
The experience you're amassing in the past couple of months with events that you're attending, trophy in Bucharest as well.
So this is something that a lot of players at your age only dream of and you're here competing.
So again, big congratulations to you and FUT.
I have one last question that I want to post to you, because this is your rookie major, it's the first one.
And I think we've talked a lot about pressure, we've talked a lot about expectations, you know, with a lot of young guys coming in, playing their first one.
Do you personally feel that this tournament is anything different from all the tier one tournaments you play? Can you feel that it's a little bit different?
No, like honestly, no. But the first game when we played, I was quite nervous, let's say.
But after that, I talk to myself and yeah, I just feel that I need to play the game, that's all.
Can you elaborate? What did you say to yourself?
It's just a normal tournament.
This tournament just happens twice a year, that's all about the tournament.
That's what makes football so unique. It also clearly shows in the server we've seen how you play.
We also want to pick your brain a little bit because we do have a schedule I believe coming up on the Swiss system now.
Obviously you made it through. You don't have to worry about playing anymore. You have a couple of days off where you get to practice, you get to, I guess, chill maybe a little bit and calm down, you know, rest your voice, which is much, much deserved.
We also have the games on the screen for tomorrow right here. Astralis taking on Payne, Monti versus Bedboom, G2 versus BIC.
Any of those games that stands out to you? Are you curious to see which teams are going to follow your footsteps to make it through?
I think Astralis will win tomorrow, I think Monty will win also, and I feel big will be G2.
Really? Wow, that's interesting.
I don't know, we played practice against them, they played pretty good, they also have really good confidence right now after the comeback from 0-0, I think they will beat them.
Alright, you've got a clear, hard hitting opinion, sometimes I have to drag it out of steam, I like that clear answer.
We also have the B-stream schedule ready for you, so take it away, Jux.
MIBR versus Bait, who's going to win that one?
MIBR.
MIBR, Tyloo versus 90, Ospot in stage three?
90.
90, yeah, they look great so far, huh?
Yeah.
MAD versus Legacy?
Legacy.
Yeah, Legacy, I feel like Legacy is a team that everyone seems to respect.
Have you practiced against them?
Right now, no, but I think they're pretty good.
Like, when you watch them, they're pretty good.
Okay.
I have one final question for you before we let you go and get some well-deserved rest.
We asked a lot of different players about this. Obviously a lot of practice leading up to the
Major. There's always that one team in practice who's insanely good. There's always the practice
heroes, you know, the one that does well in practice, they go to the tournament and then they crumble.
Has there been any team in the league up to the Major where you're like, why are these guys beating
us, you know? I think we lost to Senors. Yeah, all right, all right. Where's Senors now,
In the airport.
Before you go, how are your pickhams?
I put food and spirit with zero.
It's full. This is really good.
I got also one correct pick on zero three.
He's good. He's cooking.
Jukes, thank you so much for joining us.
Once again, congratulations for making it to stage three.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Well, what a day of Garneswijk. It's been so far.
We had food advancing to stage three.
to stage three, I'm very confident.
Jokes as well here in the first game,
he's gonna lose every other major,
he's gonna be the next major, he says.
I'm not quite sure if I believe that, Peter,
but I very much do admire the confidence.
Give us the current standing right here
with the Swiss format as well.
Foot make it 3-0 together with Spirit.
Let's be honest, Spirit didn't break a sweat.
Kind of what we expected,
but nice to see them delivering for foot to go 3-0.
I think people had a feeling that was possible,
but for them to do it in this fashion,
you know, relatively impressive, right?
Definitely, spirit didn't break us away.
The only thing that we want to be mentioning is that Dong had a 2.26 rating or something coming out of the games here, which was mad.
I'm surprised to see Astralis sitting in that one.
I think that's a little bit disappointing taken into consideration how well they were doing.
And I'm curious to see if Jukes is right about the whole thing that Monty is going to beat Bedpoom and Ping is going to beat G2.
I think that's a wild assumption.
But you know he probably knows better. I was just about to say I think outside of foot going 3-0 here
The team that has impressed me the most has been Monty to be completely asked the way they played
They had a very narrow loss against G2 in an overtime game
They probably should have won when they were up 18 to 15 and and a bit of nothing in the back of heavy
God we won't forget that apart from that. They look super super solid. They beat legacy as well
I know it's only been best of one, but I don't know about you Martin
I am super super curious to see what they're like in a best of three scenario because let's be honest
A lot of people at home may not be familiar with the names, may not be familiar with Monsi, but what they show on the server is Stella.
Yeah, I think multiple stocks are rising today and yesterday especially.
It's not that they're doing like a flawless run through these best of ones, but it's the fact that they are having clear issues, clear weaknesses and they're fighting through them.
They have a lot of tactical poses that we get inside and there's some players tilting and they're immediately tackling them.
They have some kind of gap, they're immediately tackling that.
So, they're coming with pretty good game plans into these games, and honestly, for Monty, they're a pretty solid team.
A lot of the viewers actually put them 0-3 in the pick-hams that I've saw, and that's cool.
What's that, you?
Yeah, me too. I did them extremely dirty.
I saw there were two British players, and they were like, nah, they're not going to make it, so I'm sorry, England.
This is huge bias, but honestly, Monty is playing pretty well, and today they're the only pro players, so I'm curious to see how they fare in Best of 3s.
One final note before we call it a day, it's been a long day of Counter-Strike, front day of Counter-Strike.
He also did say that he thinks G2 will lose to BIC.
I find that statement quite interesting. Do you agree with that?
Do you think G2 is at a point now where they can basically lose to anyone?
That's a cap. I think G2 are taking 3-1, no matter who would they face in that pool.
Apart from maybe 9-Z, that would be a pretty close one, but I think G2 are going to win tomorrow.
And if not, they deserve to be in stage 3, so I definitely see them going through.
Yeah, I've seen nothing to do. They will make it as well. I think they've proven that they have what it takes to make the next stage.
But beating big should be a fairly easy thing for them to do, I think.
And one thing I've learned in my life is never to underestimate blame F to be completely honest, never to underestimate what happens at the major.
With that said and done, I think it's time that we call it a day before it actually becomes tomorrow in roughly 10 minutes where we're sitting right now.
Thank you so much for tuning in at IM Cologne 2026. As said, we'll be back with more Counter-Strike tomorrow.
It's ok, it's ok, we got this, relax, you need to reset right now, it's the major reset,
we got this, everything is fine, listen to each other, play with each other, that's
the only thing we need to do here, but we need to be here for each other, let's enjoy
the fucking moment it's not over we can win this okay
looking for something anything he's got the first kill now dangerous
And then he gets the Dink on top of our way.
And that's gonna help us down with the grenade.
And there's Hooksy Fyrena.
This is Legacy holding on.
Sattin' on the peak doesn't get the shot.
Awkward fights now.
Rain Waker in the donut needs.
Oh, I can't handle it.
Now a clutch forgives me.
Can Captain come up clutch?
Looks good.
Looks real good up against Archie.
The battle in time, all is safe, the...
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Two of the kills, USP gets the job done, he had three shots and still delivers!
Okay, why is he bringing it?
Why is he bringing it?
Depends is all about to growl!
We missed it!
Well, this is all allowed to get another round!
Okay!
Time is for what we're trying to do
We don't belong here, let's not go
Come on, let's go!
And I still remember the moment we walked beside
Voice is dry, city and control
Time is for what we're trying to do
We don't control, when the light is gone
Take down one piece that is full
Vices rise, when the air comes from
And that's both flawlessly through into Stage 3.
Were you expecting a little bit more in the server from 9Z today?
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